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Detective Raimy Sullivan is stunned when a voice suddenly crackles through her father’s old, long-broken ham radio – it’s Frank Sullivan, somehow transmitting over the airwaves and through the decades from 1996. Separated by twenty years, father and daughter have reunited on a frequency only they can hear, but can they rewrite the story of their lives without risking everyone they love?
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It is often said that when one door closes, another door opens. But the phrase, it seems, can sometimes work in reverse.
As Apple launched its iOS platform on Thursday — including a new BlackBerry Messenger-like app called iMessage — the sound of a door closing behind the brief boom of group messaging apps was almost audible.
GroupMe, Fast Society, Kik, Beluga, Glassboard, Yobongo, Hurricane Party, Betwext, Brightkite, CloudTalk, HeyWire, PingChat, TextPlus, GroupedIn, Mogwee and the others we routinely forget about — it has come time for us to say goodbye.
We fondly remember the long hours spent squinting at some of your feature lists, trying to find something to differentiate between you as you copied each other’s features at a rate that made it impossible to choose one or the other. Together we moved from group text messages, to push notifications, to conference calling and photo-sharing.
How we enjoyed the bold twists some of you added to the game. Sure, we thought to ourselves, let’s chat with strangers. Let’s start a party — using group messaging.
Learning more about you kept us buzzing until we were blue in the face at South by Southwest. "Who would win the horserace?," we asked ourselves. It was so exciting. We were convinced we had found the next Twitter.
But in the end, you were too good of a too-easy idea to make it on your own.
Apple joined the game that BlackBerry Messenger (BBM) started without paying for a startup to play. It does most of what you do, but it comes loaded on our shiny new iPhones with iOS 5.
We can send messages back and forth between ourselves and our iPhone-owning friends using Wi-Fi or our mobile networks — without using up any text messages. We can make groups for real-time chat. And there's even a feature that tells us when our friends also have iMessage, so we can use it instead of sending a text message.
Now we won't pay for text messages or download your app.
We don’t think it’s fair either, but there’s still time to pivot. Integrate social media accounts, become in-store customer service chat or give us something completely new.
It's not too late for a bit of a resurrection.
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An Exclusive Weekend of Song at Hedsor House
Hedsor House is an exclusive wedding venue in the English countryside and was the perfect setting for this wacky wedding weekend filled with song, dance and obviously parachute shots.
“I honestly don’t even know where to begin. Hannah is phenomenal. Not only is she fantastic at her job she is also great to work with. From the moment we met her we knew we were in good hands.“
I’ve never had a couple keep me more on my toes than the lovely Becky & Jamie at Hedsor House. There wasn’t a week that went by without a call or a message with a new thought or idea that they had come up with for me to take note or make happen, and it was so refreshing!
They knew what they wanted and when they wanted it, but most importantly they knew that their guests had to feel looked after and for them to have the time of their lives for the weekend.
Every little detail in this wedding was thought through and the guests were at the forefront of their minds for the duration. From the polaroid name cards with a personalised message for each guest to espresso martinis handed out on the way to the dance floor or the homemade hangover kits for each guest towards the end of the evening. No detail was left out.
Jamie had hired a choreographer for himself and the groomsmen to perform to Becky (Beyonce of course), which swiftly led into the first dance. This was followed by a shower of shots falling from the balcony in the Centre Hall to really get the party going!
“At 11am on the morning of the wedding I realised we didn’t have a sword to cut the cake with, obviously super important(!). Our transport was picking us up at 12 from London to take us to Hedsor House. A friend called Ant who was with me said don’t worry I’ll sort it. After phoning 6 antique shops he found one that had a sword for sale that was on route. We stopped off on the way to buy it and somehow ended up with an antique gun as well…!” – Jamie.
The team that made this fun-filled wedding weekend happen at Hedsor House;
Venue: Hedsor House
Catering: Caper & Berry
Design, styling and planning: Hannah Snowsill with Bespoke Events London
Photography: Pippa Mackenzie
Flowers: Emma Soulsby Flowers
Hair & Make Up: Sarah Yeo
Wedding Dress: Suzanne Neville
Design & Production: Bespoke Events London
Videography: Blooming Lovely Films
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A lesser-known attraction to the world famous Old Havana is to be found in Jaimanitas, at the northwestern edge of the Cuban capital, where Cuban artist José Rodriguez Fuster has built a fantasy world, by the name of Fusterlandia. During the course of 30 years, he set out to remake not only his home - where his studio workshop resides - but an entire neighborhood.
Upon arrival in Havana, stepping inside Casa Fuster is a surreal experience, not too mention unexpected to what is otherwise known about the Cuban capital. Reminiscent to Barcelona’s Parc Guell, Casa Fuster bursts as a pop of color and creative display of mosaics, as far as the eyes can see, in an otherwise gloomy neighborhood. Walls, doorways, pillars and arches, stretching for blocks around the epicenter of the studio enclave, are adorned with brightly colored sculptures and mosaics. The motifs are numerous: mermaids, fish, roosters, palm trees, red hearts, guajiros, as well as crafty stenciling of the Cuban flag; quotes from Cuban writers can also be found, along with noticeable slogans Viva Cuba (Long-live Cuba!). All in all, more than 80 neighbors have allowed Fuster to use their homes as his canvas.
In the eyes of the community, he is known as the “genius,” but in the eyes of the Cuban people, and the world, the prodigy artist goes by the “Picasso of the Caribbean.” The moniker is well deserved. In an interview with Havana Cultura, Fuster recognizes the great Picasso as his spiritual father. He follows in his footsteps by pursuing similar subjects - joy of living, musicians - and giving them life using his own vision. But perhaps, even more dominant in the community art space is Antonio Gaudi’s influence.
The motivation behind the extraordinary project was simple. Fresh off a trip in Europe where he had seen the works of Gaudi in Barcelona and Brancusi in Romania, he envisioned creating a studio, and implicitly a home, where he could live within art. And so, what initially seemed an impossible task to replicate in Cuba gradually became a reality. The small wooden house he had moved into decades ago slowly transitioned into a wonderland.
"It seemed impossible to me to do anything like that in Cuba. But all dreams get realized over time," Fuster said for Havana Cultura.
Despite his modest upbringing in Caibarién, a fishermen’s village on Cuba's North coast, the artist boasts exhibitions all over the world. Following his studies at the Escuela Nacional de Instructores de Arte in Havana, his talent attained international success, a gratitude that Fuster enjoys by giving back to the community. He spends some of his earnings from his work as an artist to improve his neighbors’ homes, redecorating their houses - a luxury most of which would never otherwise have the chance to experience.
For more of Jose Fuster’s work, head to the Center for Cuban Studies in New York City, to the Museo de la Cerámica Contemporánea Cubana, located within the Castillo de la Real Fuerza Havana, and to the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes de La Habana.
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Warner Bros. Home Entertainment spotlights first footage of Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, Part 2 and premiere screening of The Batmobile documentary at New York Comic Con
Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, Part 2 and The Batmobile documentary will be the spotlight offerings from Warner Bros. Home Entertainment at New York Comic Con.
Attendees of the Con will be the first to see footage from Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, Part 2, the highly anticipated epic animated conclusion to Frank Miller’s landmark story. On Saturday, October 13 from 12:15-1:15 p.m. in the IGN Theater at the Jacob Javitz Center, executive producer Bruce Timm, dialogue/casting director Andrea Romano and special guests will discuss the making of the next DC Universe Animated Original Movie and show some tantalizing clips. Also anticipated during the panel is the announcement of the 2013 slate of DCU animated films. Produced by Warner Premiere, DC Entertainment and Warner Bros. Animation, Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, Part 2 will arrive from Warner Bros. Home Entertainment in early 2013.
An autograph session with Timm & Romano will follow the panel at 2:00 p.m. in the DC Entertainment booth.
No vehicle has ever captured fans’ imagination like the Batmobile – and New York Comic Con attendees will be the first to see the entire one-hour documentary, “The Batmobile,” at a special premiere screening on Friday, October 12 from 1:30-2:30 p.m. in the IGN Theater.
The film gives a riveting, in-depth examination of the Batmobile – from the impressive history of all of the vehicles to the construction of this iconic character. The documentary features a distinguished array of Batman experts and filmmakers including Adam West; George Barris, designer of the famed 1966 Batmobile; respected producer/author Michael Uslan (“The Boy Who Loved Batman”); Andy Smith, builder of the modern-day Dark Knight “Tumblers”; Tim Burton, Director of Batman (1989) & Batman Returns; Joel Schumacher, Director of Batman Forever and Batman & Robin; Christian Bale; and Christopher Nolan, Director of The Dark Knight Trilogy. “The Batmobile” documentary is directed by Roko Belic and produced by Tara Tremaine for Warner Bros. Home Entertainment. | <urn:uuid:1320bae6-ea32-4aa7-9a6c-0058b003c650> | CC-MAIN-2021-10 | http://www.conventionscene.com/2012/10/05/warner-bros-to-premiere-the-batmobile-documentary-plus-screen-footage-of-the-dark-knight-returns-part-2-at-nycc-2012/ | 2021-02-28T09:34:00Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-10/segments/1614178360745.35/warc/CC-MAIN-20210228084740-20210228114740-00474.warc.gz | en | 0.874894 | 487 | [
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Many of the crops we enjoy and use daily like fruits, vegetables, grains, and even cotton rely greatly on insect pollination in order to reproduce. Bee pollination plays a critical role in maintaining plant communities and ensuring the production of seeds.
How Does Pollination Work?
The transfer of pollen from the male parts of the flower to the female parts of a flower of the same species results in fertilization. Pollination ensures that a plant will produce full-bodied fruit and a full set of viable seeds.
More on Pollination
Bees depend on pollen to live. Pollen is a source of protein used to feed their offspring. Pollen sticks to tiny hairs all over the bee's body as the bee carries pollen back to its nest. Not all of the pollen brushes off the bees body though. When a bee moves from flower to flower, pollen on the bee's hair gets brushed off onto different flowers. This is called cross pollination.
Are Bees in Trouble?
In recent years, bee populations have been drastically declining. This is thought to be a result of pesticide use and urban population increase. With more urban development , finding a reliable food source and nesting area is becoming harder for bees. Scientists are hard at work to help save these tiny pollinators. In 2014, the Pollinator Health Task Force was implemented which is used to protect bees. To get a glimpse of what your grocery store would look like without bees click this link: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/06/17/store-without-bees_n_5500380.html
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TOKYO (Reuters) – Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s decision to step down on Friday because of worsening health will formally put an end to his “Abenomics” strategy, which tried to revive the world’s third-largest economy after decades of stagnation.
So how does Abenomics stack up?
Reuters surveyed 18 experts to gauge their perceptions of Abe on five areas: ending deflation; fiscal reform; labour-market reform; encouraging business and investment; and deregulation.
Respondents were asked to rate each topic with “achieved”, “partially achieved” or “failed”. Below are some highlights from their comments, gathered before Abe announced his resignation.
Q: How do you rate Abe’s attempt to reflate the economy, create jobs and end deflation?
“Outside of a tighter labour market, but with no real impact on wages, the economy is way short of that 600 trillion yen (GDP) target and inflation continues to hover near zero.”
“Before COVID-19 hit, Japan had enjoyed several years of strikingly tight labour markets and solid growth (for Japan). Inflation had edged into positive territory, while well below the BOJ’s 2% target, but other developed economies have seen a similar difficulty in raising inflation despite solid growth, so we should not view Japan’s recent record too harshly.”
“Japan has been through a long period of deflation, but because of Abenomics the Japanese economy has gotten out of deflation to a very low but still an inflationary environment
“At the same time, for the BoJ the offshoot target for inflation is the same as in other countries – which is 2% – and the current level of inflation is far short of that target.”
Q: How successful was Abe in fixing Japan’s finances and reining in public debt?
“While the current COVID situation has shredded Japan’s fiscal situation like so many other countries, I would agree with the notion that he has largely accomplished what he set out to do – raising consumption taxes while keeping corporate taxes shielded from higher nominal rates.
“This policy, which has continued in various forms for decades, ensures that domestic consumption will remain stagnant.”
“The flaw in Abenomics was the reflationary policy shift at the BOJ, for which PM Abe gets full marks, would establish the necessary conditions for the Abe administration to push ahead with the plan to double the consumption tax rate… The problem was that this fiscal tightening was inimical to the reflation objective.”
“Prime Minister Abe should have delayed hiking the consumption tax (to 8%, let alone to the eventual 10%) until at least the BOJ had achieved its, and the government’s, aim of sustained 2% CPI inflation.”
“The government was right to favour recovery over fiscal balance. Hence it made sense to move to fiscal expansion, but it pulled back too soon.”
Q: How do you rate Abe’s ability to push through reforms to boost productivity and generate sustainable wage growth?
“The large increase in female labour force participation was a significant policy success.”
ERIC STEIN, CO-DIRECTOR OF GLOBAL FIXED INCOME, EATON VANCE (Comments reflect pre-COVID environment)
“They’ve gotten a fair amount done. The latest statistics I’ve seen (show) female labour participation is up pretty significantly. My sense is that the labour market is getting reformed. Some of the rigidities in the labour market are improved.
“I’d say achieved but still more work to go.”
SAMUEL TOMBS, CHIEF U.K. ECONOMIST, PANTHEON MACROECONOMICS
“Structural reform, or the third arrow, has been the declaring failure of Abenomics. Even the government’s signature immigration reform last year was much ado about nothing, in practice.”
STEVE COCHRANE, CHIEF APAC ECONOMIST, MOODY’S ANALYTICS
“Efforts have been made. Women’s share of the workforce has increased and the government has worked to ensure day-care is available for children to allow women with young children to enter the workforce. Some industries have been opened up to foreign labour, but not all.
“More importantly, a rising share of workers are hired on a part-time basis without traditional paths to advancement and career development. The liberalisation of the labour market still has a long way to go solve the problem of a shrinking labour pool.”
4/BUSINESS & INVESTMENT
Q: How successful was Abe in making Japan a more attractive place to invest and visit?
“Excellent. The corporate governance reforms, combined with the stewardship code, have made Japan’s system – on paper – as good or better than that in the EU or U.S. Of course it is not perfect in reality, and there are always scandal cases, but that is true for all systems.
“If you look at the numbers… you see that 50% of Japanese shares traded at the TSE are now held by foreigners and institutional investors. Moreover, in the period of 2017-2019, Japan has attracted more private equity investments than any other country, and Japan’s M&A activities are second after the U.S.”
“Japan as a market remains unattractive for obvious demographic reasons, including the oft-cited labour rigidities. Japan’s tax rates are uncompetitive with neighbouring countries, hands down, as they pertain to the services industry.
“The efforts regarding (corporate governance) and stewardship were sincere and indeed commendable, but like so many such efforts over the decades there is little enforcement and virtually no penalties for non-compliance.”
VALENTIJN VAN NIEUWENHUIJZEN, CHIEF INVESTMENT OFFICER, NN INVESTMENT PARTNERS
“Changes in corporate governance through the unwinding of many cross-shareholdings and tearing down walls that protect companies from activist shareholders are steps in the right direction and are making companies more independent and profitable.
“However, many of these aspects are embedded in (Japan’s) corporate culture and take time to change. But we are slowly but surely seeing the effects of this with improving overall profitability. This makes the equity market more attractive to invest in.”
Q: How much success did Abe have in removing barriers hampering innovation in health care, energy, agriculture and other industries?
“Abenomics created preferential tax treatment for angel investors. It promoted investment into promising start-ups by giving a kind of government guarantee.
“Start-up investments grew at 20% per annum since then. Thanks partially to COVID-19, deregulation in such areas as telework and telemedicine were carried out.”
“There has been some progress but it is limited so far. I get the sense that politicians continue to talk about it but are struggling to implement it in all the areas necessary.
“It has had some success in areas such as electricity, so it has proven that it can deliver, but the vested interests which prevent big-bang reforms mean that there is a lot still to do and future progress will depend on whether Abe’s successor is as reform-minded.”
RAJIV BISWAS, ASIA-PACIFIC CHIEF ECONOMIST, IHS MARKIT
“Japan has made important energy policy reform achievements under Prime Minister Abe, towards reducing carbon emissions in line with global targets under the UN Climate Change Agreement.
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An exiled Salvadoran performance artist working in a disciplined, improvisational art form known as The Telling, which was originally created by Toltecs in tenth-century Mexico and preserved throughout Latin America by drifters who told crazy stories to the children. He has developed the Telling into a form that provokes in its audience uncommon emotions, strange cognitions, and ways of seeing the self that are not easily defined. Having studied philosophy at the graduate level, He approaches his art of The Telling in the spirit of the ancient philosophical tradition, disarming the mind and the personality in such a way as to release the being from the domination of habitual thought.
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Hasegawa 1/32 P-51D Mustang w/Rocket Tubes Kit First Look
|Date of Review||October 2016||Manufacturer||Hasegawa|
|Subject||P-51D Mustang w/Rocket Tubes||Scale||1/32|
|Kit Number||08244||Primary Media||Styrene, White Metal|
|Pros||Easy build||Cons||See text|
|Skill Level||Basic||MSRP (USD)||$71.99|
The P-51 Mustang is well known as one of the finest fighters to emerge from the Second World War. It was ironic that those Mustangs that were issued to the RAF under Lend-Lease were usually pushed off on Commonwealth squadrons because the Mustang was originally developed for the RAF. Before the US had entered the war, the British were trying to get various US aircraft companies to produce the Curtiss P-40 Warhawk for them. When they approached North American Aviation, that company offered a better design using the same engine and would be built less than four months after contract award. While the aircraft lived up to the company's promises, the engine lacked performance above 15,000 feet which curtailed both the P-40 and P-51.
RAF engineers took one of the early Mustangs and replaced the Allison V-1710 with a proper Merlin engine and the results were so good, North American revised their design accordingly and incorporated the Packard-built Merlin 66 (V-1650) engine into the P-51B/C. When the Fw 190 debuted with its distinctive canopy for all-round visibility, the RAF soon created the teardrop canopy for the Typhoon and a similar canopy design was introduced with the P-51D/K. After the war, the Mustang would soldier on through the early stages of the Korean War until the fledgling jet fighters could effectively enter the fight.
Here is a historical kit reissue from Hasegawa. This P-51D kit was first released in the 1960s which makes this model over 50 years old! The kit has been regularly reissued by Hasegawa over the years and in this case, offers some new-tooled parts for this version. The kit is molded in gray styrene and presented four parts trees plus one tree of clear parts, one set of low-pressure injection-molded parts, and a set of white metal parts. Among the features and options in this kit:
- Fair cockpit (aftermarket options are available)
- Optional pilot figure included
- Positionable canopy
- Packard-Merlin engine which can be detailed
- Removable engine hood to display engine compartment
- Ailerons/rudder/elevators/flaps posed neutral/centered
- Wing gun bay doors are positionable
- Gun bays have guns and ammo belts
- Includes white metal DF loop antenna
External stores options include:
- 2 x metal drop tanks
- 2 x paper drop tanks
- 2 x 500lb bombs
- 2 x bazooka rocket launchers (new white metal and plastic parts)
Markings are provided for two aircraft:
- P-51D, unknown, 2 ACG/10 AF, 24, India, 1945, 'Little Indian'
- P-51D, 44-63822, 47 FS/15 FG, 150, Iwo Jima, 1945, 'Li'l Butch'
The decals also provide a nice set of airframe stenciling.
Given the age of this tooling, it is no surprise that the model offers raised rivet details which can be quickly erased with a sanding stick, especially on the wings where there were no visible rivet details. This kit attempted to introduce some scribed panel lines on the fuselage and wings, but these are too exaggerated and are best filled. Another common mistake also in this kit are the wheel wells - they are boxed-in where the full-scale aircraft have the wells open up inside fore and aft of the openings. There are aftermarket fixes for this glitch should you opt to update your model. You'll want to find an aftermarket cockpit set for this kit as well given that there are some impressive sets available that would enhance this model. The Mustang lover will want to address other details that are also needing update and you can search online for some of these other suggestions.
Given the age of this kit, I am really surprised that Hasegawa hasn't retooled this subject. Granted that there are at least two modern P-51D toolings now available in 1/32 scale, the P-51 and Bf 109 are reliable selling subjects and given the great work Hasegawa has done with their updated P-40, Bf 109, and A6M toolings, isn't it time to come back to the P-51?
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AngloGold Ashanti announced it would spend $500million (R5.83billion) to reopen its Obuasi mine in Ghana. Picture: Bloomberg News
AngloGold, which currently employs approximately 8200 people, has commenced a consultation process with employees in line with section 189 and 189A of the Labour Relations Act, chief operating officer Chris Shepherd said yesterday. He said the reduced operating footprint in South Africa necessitated the move.
“These are overhead jobs and there are some on-mine jobs too,” he said.
He said AngloGold’s operations in South Africa had been reduced to 13percent of total production, which had prompted the company to cut its costs related to non-core assets. He was speaking after the annual general meeting of the Chamber of Mines, which was yesterday renamed Minerals Council South Africa.
In a statement yesterday, AngloGold said restructuring would affect employees across the different categories and levels, including executive committee and senior management in South Africa.
The company said it had signalled to its stakeholders in June last year and through its first quarter market update that the restructuring of the asset portfolio in South Africa was still under way “to ensure that both the on and off-mine cost structures are appropriate for the size of the smaller production base in the country.”
The company said it had reduced its production in South Africa by about 50percent, through the sale of the Kopanang and Moab Khotsong Mines and the closure of the TauTona mine. AngloGold Ashanti sold Moab Khotsong to Harmony Gold Mining for $300million (R3.77billion), while Hong Kong-based capital management company Heaven-Sent Sunshine Investment Company bought the Kopanang mine for R100m.
AngloGold’s remaining South African assets included the Mponeng underground gold mine near Carletonville, west of Johannesburg, and a surface operation, “both of which have the potential for long lives,” the company said.
AngloGold said its all-in costs of the South African business in the first quarter of this year was $1361, compared to a gold price of $1330 an ounce in the same period.
It said the consultation with unions, facilitated by the Commission for Conciliation, Mediation and Arbitration, was aimed at ensuring the overall viability of the company’s remaining assets in South Africa, while minimising job losses.
The company said it had notified the Department of Mineral Resources’ mining sustainability and employment committee in terms of section 52 of the Mineral and Petroleum Resources Development Act.
The National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) yesterday confirmed that it had received a Section 189 notice from AngloGold Ashanti to retrench 2000 mineworkers in all its operations in South Africa.
“The NUM is shocked that AngloGold Ashanti is likely to retrench such a huge number of workers. This is the same company that took a decision to retrench 849 mineworkers in January 2017 and also in June 2017, where they took a decision to retrench 8500 mineworkers,” the union said.
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The in-plane instability of U-shaped bellows is analyzed. The in-plane instability critical pressures of bellows which are subjected to zero, tensile and compressive deformation are measured experimentally. The in-plane instability critical pressure of bellows under compressive deformation is seemingly less than that under zero deformation, and therefore the in-plane instability critical pressure of bellows under tensile deformation is higher than that under hinged bellows expansion joint.
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The representatives are the wall thickness of the pre-form tube, the pressure applied during the tube-bulging and therefore the die stroke for the folding stage. In this paper, a finite element analysis technique is applied to the tube-bulging and folding processes as well as the spring back stage. The explicit time integration method is employed for analyzing the tube-bulging and folding processes. Meanwhile, the implicit time integration method is employed for the spring back stage. Combination of these two different time integration methods is widely accepted for simulating the hinged bellows expansion joint in gujarat.
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Seton Hall Law’s Institute for Privacy Protection and Gibbons Institute of Law, Science & Technology will host an online event on “Privacy and Intellectual Property in the Age of Coronavirus” on September 17 from 12:00 - 2:30 pm EST. Speakers will include legal academics, practitioners, and government officials who will discuss the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on privacy and intellectual property.
The event focuses on two crucial balancing acts in the age of COVID: charting a path between the potentially conflicting interests of privacy and public health and fostering innovation in cures or treatments without making them cost-prohibitive.
Professor Gaia Bernstein, Director of the Institute for Privacy Protection and moderator of Panel One, stated: “The Coronavirus Pandemic created a pivotal moment for privacy. How do we protect privacy in our society when reducing protection is likely to save lives? There are no easy answers when you balance public health and privacy. But it is important to have an open discussion about what we can gain and what we may need to give up.”
To that end, the event’s first panel will focus on the impact on privacy rights of patients, those at risk, and the general population. It will include topics addressing: What are the duties of healthcare providers to report patients' COVID-19 information? How should governments track infected individuals and others at high-risk? How secure are databases containing COVID-19 information? The second panel will address drug innovation and pricing. Patenting drugs and vaccines incentivizes new drug development, but patents increase prices and affect availability.
Professor David Opderbeck, Co-Director of the Gibbons Institute of Law, Science & Technology, who will moderate Panel Two, highlighted the importance of the issues: “For many years, there have been debates about how patents affect prices and access to essential medicines. Do patents, on balance, provide necessary incentives for applied research and development, or do patent rights ensure that only the most affluent have access to treatments? These questions are even more pressing as the world races to find vaccines against coronavirus and treatments for COVID-19 related conditions.” Professor Opderbeck’s panel will discuss the options of patenting COVID-19 drugs and vaccines as well as other alternatives pertinent in times of health emergencies, including compulsory licenses, voluntary licenses, and patent pools. Additional details regarding the distinguished and diverse array of panelists, the agenda for the virtual event, and registration are available through this link CLE credits are pending. | <urn:uuid:faf370fd-1d5e-4893-a99b-015c347eae57> | CC-MAIN-2021-10 | https://law.shu.edu/news/privacy-and-intellectual-property-in-the-age-of-coronavirus.cfm | 2021-03-08T14:01:59Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-10/segments/1614178375439.77/warc/CC-MAIN-20210308112849-20210308142849-00474.warc.gz | en | 0.910461 | 537 | [
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Hypnosis for Behavioral Change in Chronic Pain Management
Presenter: Mark P. Jensen, PhD
Wednesday January 30, 2019 from 2-3:30 pm PST (4-5:30pm CST)
This is an ASCH-ERF sponsored live webinar with Mark P. Jensen, PhD. The webinar will provide a brief review of current research and a description and demonstration of the LESH strategy (Listening for Effective Hypnotic Suggestion) and two additional strategies (open questions and reflective listening) to identify the helpful and less helpful self-suggestions with demonstration.
Mark P. Jensen, PhD has been studying chronic pain for 40 years and is one of the leading experts in this area. For more information go to www.asch.net and click the Jensen webinar link under the education tab.
Participants will register through the ASCH website.
ASCH member cost: $35, Non-members $45
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Al Jefferson Pushing Charlotte to Maintained Credibility
Like two other teams in the Eastern Conference, the Charlotte Hornets are only a half-game back of the Boston Celtics for the eighth seed in the 2015 NBA Playoffs, which start in just a few weeks. Unlike Indiana and Brooklyn, however, Charlotte is an organization that has struggled for credibility since the minute it got off the ground as an expansion franchise back in 2004.
Since then, Charlotte has made the postseason only two times, and only once before last year. Now, they have the opportunity to inject themselves into the postseason picture for the second-consecutive year, which would be the first time in franchise history that their players could consider themselves members of a perennial playoff team.
Signing Al Jefferson in the summer of 2013 has been a big reason for this organization’s turn toward credibility, and he knows it. In fact, helping them shed their old losing image was a tremendous motivation for his having signed with Charlotte in the first place.
“That’s most definitely the reason why I came here,” Jefferson said. “I saw the young talent that this team had with Kemba Walker and [Michael Kidd-Gilchrist] and Bismack Biyombo, but the main reason I came here was the coach. When Steve Clifford got the job, just sitting down talking to him on my visit, I knew that he was coming here to turn things around.
“I just wanted to be a part of that. I feel like we did become a playoff team at that point, and I think we’ve got a chance to continue to be a playoff team.”
It hasn’t necessarily been an upper-echelon season for the Hornets, who are 10 games under .500, but the fact is that they have done enough to stay in the Eastern Conference playoff hunt despite some struggles and injuries. Jefferson believes now is a great time for them build some positive momentum leading up to a potential first-round matchup with the top-seeded Atlanta Hawks, for which there could be upset potential.
“I just feel like when we are right, when we are doing the things that we are supposed to do and are playing the way that we need to play to win, I think we have a better chance [than the other teams fighting for the eighth playoff spot],” Jefferson said. “It’s a fight, though; all the other teams are good at what they do, but we are a top defensive team, and when we play great defense and rebound the ball well and get back on defense, that separates us.”
It can take years for an organization to transform into the sort of team that strikes fear into the hearts of competitors each and every year, and Charlotte may finally be knocking on the door of that credibility. An offseason rebranding, with a rejuvenation of the “Hornets” mascot, has really put the team in a positive light for Charlotte fans.
“Changing the name was for the city of Charlotte,” Jefferson said. “They deserved that because it started with the Hornets back in the days when the team was here and there was excitement in the city.”
The team, however, didn’t necessarily see it as a fresh start for a team that has historically struggled. Some may have expected a fresh color scheme and new uniforms to rejuvenate these guys, but Jefferson said that really wasn’t the case.
“For us it was just continuing to have the same mindset,” he said. “It was better for us because we knew that the city was excited for the Hornets to come back. We still had the same mindset though: continue to build off of last year.”
Jefferson’s entire career has been a process of building. He’s played for four different organizations, was traded to Minnesota for Kevin Garnett early in his career, has battled injuries and after his rookie season in Boston didn’t even see the postseason again until last year, his 10th in the NBA.
All of that, he says, shaped him into the player he is now – someone who can help will a team into the postseason every year.
“Being in Boston and then going to Minnesota and the three years in Minnesota were brutal,” Jefferson said. “We had three different coaches in three years, and I think we averaged 18 wins a year. It was tough, but when I got to Utah it was a different environment, and they kind of taught me how to win and what it takes to win. That area I think got me here to the point of being able to come to Charlotte and help change this team around, and help change them into a playoff team.”
Jefferson tweaked his knee six games ago and the Hornets have gone 1-5 since, falling behind Boston for that final spot in the Eastern Conference playoff picture. Coach Clifford believes Jefferson will be at less than 100 percent the rest of the year, according to Rick Bonnell of the Charlotte Observer, so the Hornets could have a hard time fending off the other teams fighting for that last playoff spot.
All this does is prove just how valuable Jefferson has been to Charlotte in his two seasons with the team. With him at his best, the Hornets are a perennial playoff team. Without him at full strength, they’re a young team in need of veteran leadership.
Hopefully he’s healthy enough to lead them to the postseason because they’re too close to their first back-to-back playoff appearances to fall short now.
D’Angelo Russell Rising on Draft Boards
At last April’s McDonald’s All-American game, all of the chatter was about Jahlil Okafor and Cliff Alexander. They were expected to be the top two picks in the 2015 NBA Draft. In addition to those two, there were plenty of media members hounding the likes of Myles Turner and Tyus Jones and Emmanuel Mudiay as well.
Despite so much attention on other players, Ohio State recruit D’Angelo Russell was there, too, and while he certainly was a well-respected young talent, there wasn’t quite the same sense that he’d immediately rise to stardom the way some of these other players would.
We all know better now, as Russell just wrapped up a regular season in which he averaged 19.3 PPG, 5.6 RPG and 5.1 APG for an Ohio State team that was knocked out in the second round of this year’s NCAA tournament.
Heading into college, however, Ohio State head coach Thad Matta wasn’t sure where he was going to play this positionless hybrid guard.
“In D’Angelo, I saw a guard,” Matta told Chris Mannix of Sports Illustrated. “He wasn’t a true point guard, but he had such an understanding of the game. You just knew it would sort itself out.”
It did, obviously, and now NBA scouts are humming about his prospects in the NBA, a league where guards exactly like Russell are seeing massive amounts of success. He may have once appeared to be an odd fit in the NCAA game, but there should never have been any doubt that he’d thrive on the NBA level. Now it’s just a matter of seeing how high he ends up drafted this June.
One GM told SI that “he’s the total package. His awareness is as sharp as any freshman’s I have ever seen,” and many smart NBA people believe he’s a shoe-in for one of the top five picks in this summer’s draft. Behind Okafor and Kentucky’s Karl-Anthony Towns, Russell sure looks like the next most exciting prospect.
“He sees how a play is going to develop before it does,” an NBA scout told SI. “There are not many NBA point guards that can do that. It’s a Chris Paul-type skill. And he has got it.”
Of course, his ability to score the ball is what makes his game so translatable to the NBA. His court vision and leadership added to that scoring ability could make him a star on that level, too, while his rebounding skills would also put him in a pretty elite group among his NBA peers.
He wasn’t the center of attention as a high school senior, at least not in terms of future draft status. Draft Express didn’t even include him on its 2015 Mock Draft last April, likely more a sign that Russell looked like a player destined for a few years at college than someone who couldn’t have at least been a second-round pick as the #18 prospect in the country that spring.
As a college freshman, however, Russell has separated himself from the pack of potential draftees and now looks like he’ll almost certainly fall in the three-to-five range when teams make their draft selections this summer. It’s a big leap for a kid who had no such hype a year ago, but there’s at least one of those players every year. For the 2014-15 NCAA season, that player was D’Angelo Russell.
NBA Daily: Should the 76ers Make a Splash?
Midway through the season, the Philadelphia 76ers sit atop the Eastern Conference. Still, if the 76ers are serious about competing for a title this season, they should look to add one more piece.
Against the Utah Jazz, Tobias Harris entered overtime with just nine points. But, at the behest of Joel Embiid — who is himself in the midst of his own MVP season — head coach Doc Rivers chose to feature Harris and fed him in the post.
And, for their trust, Harris rewarded the Philadelphia 76ers with multiple huge buckets to close out a season-defining win.
There was plenty to take away from the game, but those last five minutes stood out. In recent seasons, the 76ers have struggled to close out games consistently, especially on the biggest stage. But, during that most recent game (and through much of the season’s first half), Philadelphia has looked their best when it’s mattered most. They sport the league’s seventh-best offensive rating and fourth-best field goal percentage in clutch minutes, per NBA.com. When faced with a top-10 defense, they jump to fourth in offensive rating, per Cleaning the Glass.
While the regular season data is auspicious, it might not mean much. Particularly in this weird season where a lack of offseason conditioning and empty arenas have led many teams into a lull to start the year. Additionally, the clutch data on NBA.com can be a bit unreliable; for reference, the 2017-18 76ers finished fourth in clutch time offensive rating before that number collapsed in the playoffs.
That said, there are certainly differences in this team to be encouraged by.
For starters, Embiid has clearly taken a leap. He’s hitting 53 percent of his long twos and 41 percent of his threes this season, per Cleaning the Glass, while his face-up shooting and post-up game have been as efficient as ever. Arguably his biggest step this season, however, has been his fitness, which would now seem to be at the point where Embiid can stay on the attack for an entire game.
While a bit more subtle than Embiid, Ben Simmons has also improved. While he’s still a non-shooter, Simmons has been more far more aggressive on offense, particularly over the last month. He’s also improved his free throw percentage to just over 70 percent in that span.
The play of those two, along with a rejuvenated and motivated Harris, has been enough to carry the team to the top of the Eastern Conference this season. Now, the question for Elton Brand and Daryl Morey is simple: do they believe those improvements are enough to push the team through the postseason?
Like every contender, the 76ers could and should make some minor additions and adjustments before the trade deadline. While they lead the East, Philadelphia’s net rating is three points worse than both the Brooklyn Nets and Milwaukee Bucks, the conference’s second and third seeds, respectively. In fact, the 76ers’ plus-3.1 number is just eighth in the league. The disparity between their record and net rating can be largely attributed to the fragile construction of their bench; when Embiid and Simmons share the court, Philadelphia is crushing teams and posting a plus-15.1 net rating, per Cleaning the Glass; when either of them sits, the number plummets.
As currently constructed, the roster is akin to a house of cards: strong and sturdy when everyone is involved, but when one piece is removed the entire structure collapses. The struggles sans Embiid and or Simmons have been well-documented, but it goes beyond just the two stars. When Seth Curry missed time due to COVID-19, the lack of spacing was near-detrimental to the offense. When Shake Milton missed a few games, the bench went to wrack and ruin without a solid ball-handler to generate offense.
With that in mind, the 76ers are likely to be in the market for at least another ball-handler and a floor-spacing big man. Delon Wright, George Hill and Nemanja Bjelic, three players that would fit and shore up the team’s shaky reserves have been floated as possible additions.
But, was Philadelphia to go on a deep postseason run, those additions would only ever provide spot minutes. If they truly want to make a run with their current core, the 76ers must aim higher.
Morey, more than anyone in the team’s front office, should know this. With the Houston Rockets, Morey went all-in on Chris Paul as James Harden ascended to superstardom. In seven games, they came just short of an NBA Finals appearance, felled by one of the greatest teams the NBA has ever seen assembled. But, had Morey not pulled the trigger, the Rockets probably never get that far.
If they do look to add a big name, the pickings will be slim. The clear need is in the backcourt, particularly someone with range that can create out of the pick-and-roll.
Of course, that’s arguably the league’s highest-valued skill set. Bradley Beal and Zach LaVine, the two that best fit the bill, are likely unavailable, with both of their teams aiming for a playoff berth. CJ McCollum, another name frequently brought up in 76ers’ trade talks, is injured and just as unlikely to be moved.
So, who is obtainable and could get the job done? Kyle Lowry or Victor Oladipo likely represent the team’s best-case scenario.
Lowry, a soon-to-be unrestricted free agent, is the heart and soul of a surging Toronto Raptors squad. But the door is open, as parting ways would seem to beneficial to both parties. Unlikely to compete for a title, Masai Ujiri and Toronto could cash out their aging star before his eventual exit and build around Pascal Siakam. Meanwhile, Lowry, 34, might want to compete for another title, with Toronto or not, sooner rather than later.
As for Oladipo, Houston would be crazy not to move him. 28-years-old and also an unrestricted free agent, Oladipo should be the furthest thing from a fixture in the team’s post-Harden plan. Unlikely to re-sign, the Rockets should recoup what they can from a team that might not mind losing Oladipo to free agency.
Lowry would be the more expensive of the two. But, at this point, he is the better player and the Raptors have more reasons to hold the face of their franchise. That said, almost any deal, even if it were to include a young player like Tyrese Maxey or multiple draft picks, would be worth it for a player of Lowry’s caliber. Oladipo would be a decent consolation — and cost significantly less — but he may not be enough to push the 76ers over the edge.
Beyond those two, the right fit is hard to find. Buddy Hield would be nice (and is a rumor mill fixture), but the Sacramento Kings have shown no desire to trade either him or Harrison Barnes. Evan Fournier is another name that could work but, while it seems as if he’s been on the block for years, Orlando has yet to move him; is this the year they finally cut him loose? Given the emergence of Terry Rozier and LaMelo Ball, Devonte’ Graham could also prove a cheap but worthwhile addition as well.
Regardless of their target, Philadelphia must seize the moment. Embiid has played like an MVP, Simmons a Defensive Player of the Year and Harris is in the midst of a career-year as well; to let all that come and go and not so much as sniff the NBA Finals would be a major missed opportunity.
There are many reasons to feel good about the current 76ers roster, but they can — and must — think bigger.
Nuggets, Analysis and Predictions for This Year’s All-Star Festivities
Bobby Krivitsky shares his analysis, noteworthy nuggets and predictions for this year’s All-Star festivities.
This year marks the 70th edition of the NBA All-Star Game, an event that began in 1951. Atlanta, for the third time and first since 2003, is set to host the festivities; one of the league’s more memorable All-Star games, the Eastern and Western All-Stars combined for more than 300 points as the East prevailed 155-145 in the lone double-overtime game in the contest’s history. Despite the awkward circumstances surrounding the event, here’s hoping the 2021 iteration can be just as eventful!
So, without further ado, here’s a primer on this year’s All-Star Sunday, featuring noteworthy nuggets, matchup analysis and predictions.
Slam Dunk Contest, 3-Point Shootout and Skills Challenge Predictions
Let’s start with the festivities taking place before and at halftime of the All-Star Game, beginning with the Skills Challenge. It’s always fun to pick a dark horse to win the obstacle-course competition that tests players’ dribbling, passing, agility and three-point skills — of the group, Nikola Vucevic of the Orlando Magic and Robert Covington (the lone non-All-Star participant) of the Portland Trail Blazers best fit that description.
But who has the best chance to come away with the award? It would seem Luka Doncic, the Dallas Mavericks’ wunderkind, would be best suited to take home the hardware versus the field.
Later, the Three-Point Contest is expected to be a flurry. Among the participants is a former champion: Stephen Curry, who won the contest back in 2015. Jayson Tatum and Jaylen Brown, the Boston Celtics’ two young stars, are entrants this year, as is Donovan Mitchell, who’s shooting a career-high 38.2 percent from beyond the arc this season. With Devin Booker, another former champion, expected to miss the contest due to a left knee sprain, Mike Conley has been tabbed to replace him. In a crowded field, Curry, inarguably the greatest shooter the game has ever seen, is deservedly the favorite. That said, this writer is backing first-time All-Star Zach LaVine, who’s shooting a career-best 43.5 percent from three — the highest mark among this season’s participants — on well over eight attempts per game.
For the Slam Dunk Contest, which is set to take place during half time of the main event, the three participants are all taking part in the event for the first time. New York Knicks’ rookie Obi Toppin evokes comparisons to Amar’e Stoudemire, thanks in large part to leaping off two feet to throw down the thunderous dunks when he rolls to the rim after setting a screen.
There’s a difference, however, between being a powerful in-game dunker and one whose pageantry can captivate the audience and earn the top spot in the competition.
Trail Blazers’ guard Anfernee Simons stands at six-foot-three, making him the shortest participant in this year’s contest — some might argue that an advantage, given the added excitement of jams from smaller entrants. That said, Indiana Pacers rookie Cassius Stanley should be considered the favorite; Stanley registered a maximum vertical leap of 44 inches at the 2020 NBA Draft Combine, tied for the third-highest mark since 2000. And, at six-foot-five, the elevation he gets on his dunks will still stand out – case and point:
- The Phoenix Suns are the fourth franchise Chris Paul has been named an All-Star for; the only other NBA players to accomplish that feat are Moses Malone and Shaquille O’Neal.
- LeBron James is making his 17th All-Star Game appearance, the third-most behind Kobe Bryant (18) and Kareem Abdul Jabbar (19). Odds are, three years from now, there will be a new record holder.
- At 20-years-old, Zion Williamson will become the fourth-youngest player in league history to not only participate, but start in an All-Star Game. Bryant, James and Magic Johnson are the only players who took part in an All-Star Game at a younger age.
- LeBron wisely chose Giannis Antetokounmpo with the first pick in this year’s All-Star draft. The two-time league MVP has the highest scoring average in All-Star Game history, producing 27.3 points per game over his first four appearances. By the way, LeBron’s 385 points are the most in the event’s history.
- A record six European players got selected to this year’s All-Star Game: Antetokounmpo (Greece), Doncic (Slovenia), Rudy Gobert (France), Nikola Jokic (Serbia), Domantas Sabonis (Lithuania) and Nikola Vucevic (Montenegro).
- There are a record nine international All-Stars, while five were voted starters, also a first: Antetokounmpo, Doncic, Gobert, Jokic, Sabonis, Vucevic, Joel Embiid, Kyrie Irving and Ben Simmons.
- The Duke Blue Devils and Kentucky Wildcats are the two universities best represented at this year’s event, with three alums from both schools earning a spot in this year’s matchup. The former Blue Devils — Tatum, Irving and Williamson suit up for Team Durant along with former Wildcat Julius Randle. Booker and Anthony Davis, the other Kentucky products, are both out due to injury. Six All-Stars — Curry, Sabonis, Kawhi Leonard, Paul George and Damian Lillard — did not play at a Power Five school.
Unfortunately, Embiid and Simmons join Davis and Booker, though the Philadelphia 76ers duo is out due to contact tracing, per Adrian Wojnarowski of ESPN. Their health — and the health of the greater All-Star group — is what matters most. But how could their absence affect the game?
On the surface, it’s a devastating blow for Team Durant, who will now play without their starting center and defensive anchor. Expect Team Durant to experiment with units exclusively composed of guards and wings. Expect Williamson, who was moved into the starting group in Embiid’s absence, to play heavy minutes at center, too. On offense, expect Leonard, Irving, Bradley Beal, James Harden and Donovan Mitchell to shoulder the load.
As for Team LeBron, expect more of a group attack. James’ group is made up of the NBA’s elite facilitators — Doncic, Jokic, Paul, etc. — and should be able to easily find the open man for the easy basket. Further, James snagged some of the league’s best from distance, including Curry, Lillard and George. Antetokounmpo, meanwhile, is a matchup nightmare himself; expect Team Durant to have their hands full with him.
Team LeBron projects to be more cohesive and dynamic than Team Durant, which is why they should be considered the favorite.
The Return of the Elam Ending
Last year’s festivities sparked a new trend where the fourth quarter is untimed and, in honor of Kobe Bryant, 24 points are added to the leading team’s total after three quarters to establish a target score. It made for a thrilling final frame and, to little surprise, the Elam Ending is back this season.
Nick Elam created the alternate ending in 2007; the idea was born from a determination to see more action at the end of games rather than the trailing team fouling to extend the contest, the leader stalling to protect a lead and or players launching low-quality shots out of desperation.
Who Wins the Game? MVP?
LeBron James is 3-0 since the NBA switched formats to have the two All-Star captains draft their rosters. Sizing up this year’s respective rosters, he seems poised to earn his fourth-straight victory.
James has put together what should be considered one of the greatest passing teams in the event’s history; he’s flanked by Luka Doncic, Nikola Jokic and Chris Paul. Meanwhile, Antetokounmpo James’ first pick, has the highest scoring average in the history of the All-Star game: 27.3 points per game. Adding to his team’s dynamic composition is a bevy of lethal three-point shooters such as Curry, Lillard and Doncic. When it’s time for the final frame and the intensity ramps up, Team LeBron would seem able to get a bucket by any means, a fact that should easily position them to emerge the victor.
As for All-Star MVP, James taking over in the game’s final stages is a distinct possibility. The same could be said for Antetokounmpo, who has yet to earn the award in his five appearances. Doncic, dazzling with his passing and long-range prowess, or Jokic, delivering dimes with surgeon-like precision and scoring from all levels of the floor, could also come up big and earn the honor.
That said, the prediction here is a hot shooting performance from Curry should earn him the award for the first time in his career, while also leading Team LeBron to the win.
NBA Daily: Sixth Man of the Year Watch — March 6
With the All-Star break upon us, the Sixth Man of the Year award would appear to have a heavy favorite. Ariel Pacheco examines.
With the All-Star break upon us, it’s a good time to take a look at the candidates for Sixth Man of the Year. In comparison to other award races, the race for the Sixth Man is a lot more clear-cut in terms of the favorite and their competitors.
There are certainly plenty of players that are having great seasons off the bench but, due to a variety of reasons, are out of contention for the award. Still, their play is deserving of recognition: Terrence Ross is averaging 15.5 points per game for an Orlando Magic team that has fallen out of playoff contention due to terrible injury luck. Montrezl Harrell, last year’s winner, has seen his numbers dip significantly with the Los Angeles Lakers this season — he’s still productive, but his 13.8 points and 6.4 rebounds per game just won’t cut it this season. Tyrese Haliburton has been a surprise, but the rookie and his 13.2 points, 5.4 assists and 43.3 three-point percentage off the bench has been a bright spot for an otherwise bad Sacramento Kings squad.
That said, while they’ve performed well, none of those players — and many others — have a real chance to compete for the award. In fact, barring a major mixup in the season’s second half, the race to the award might come down to just three individuals.
3. Eric Gordon, Houston Rockets
The Houston Rockets are in the midst of what is currently the longest losing streak by any team this season. They’ve lost 13 in a row and have completely fallen out of the playoff picture. Houston’s poor record hurts Gordon’s case, but the 32-year-old is still putting up big numbers and, despite a hefty salary over the next few seasons, may even be a guy teams look to add at the trade deadline.
Gordon is averaging 17.8 points per game, the second-most by any bench player this season. He hasn’t been as consistent from beyond the three-point line as in years past, or when he won the award back in 2017, but Gordon’s still more than capable from distance and has been one of the league’s best at attacking the rim. Gordon has also provided some excellent on-ball defense.
Gordon has become a perennial candidate for the award — and for good reason. Still, at this point, it’s hard to justify him over the other two candidates in these rankings.
2. Chris Boucher, Toronto Raptors
The opposite of a household name prior to the 2020-21 season, Boucher has burst onto the scene and been a revelation for the Toronto Raptors. His play has been a needed spark for a team that struggled mightily out of the gate but has since turned their season around. So far this season, Boucher has, by far, been Toronto’s most consistent and important big — and he’s been so despite the fact that he plays just 23.8 minutes per game.
Averaging 13.6 points, 6.5 rebounds and 1.9 blocks per game, Boucher has slid nicely into a role similar to what Serge Ibaka and Marc Gasol fuflilled a season ago. And, despite a janky-jumper, Boucher has made his presence felt on the outside, hitting 44.5 percent of his 3.8 three-point attempts per game and clearing major space down low for Toronto’s offense.
In almost any other season, Boucher would have a strong case for the top spot on this list. But, as it stands, may not even garner any first place votes for the 2020-21 iteration of the award.
1. Jordan Clarkson, Utah Jazz
Because Jordan Clarkson has just been that good.
This year’s runaway favorite for the Sixth Man of the Year award, there just aren’t many arguments that stand up to what Clarkson’s been able to do this season. He’s scoring the most of any candidate and doing so on great efficiency. Further, he’s proven the offensive fulcrum for the bench of the best team in the NBA.
Clarkson is averaging 17.9 points with a true shooting percetnage of 58.1 percent. He’s been consistent yet forceful offensive punch for the Jazz and their second unit, scoring in double digits in all but one of Utah’s games this season, including a 40-point outburst agaisnt the Philadelphia 76ers’ top-tier defense and 10 games with 20 or more. While All-Stars Donovan Mitchell, Rudy Gobert and Mike Conley deserve a lion’s share of the credit for the team’s success this season, Clarkson has also played an integral role.
Were the vote cast today, Clarkson’s selection for the Sixth Man of the Year award would likely be unanimous — again, he’s been that good. Utah recently gave him a four-year, $52 million deal and, if Clarkson can continue to play at this level, he’ll prove that deal a steal for the Jazz in short order.
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After two years of being WDF's moderator, John Thackara now joined the World Design Forum team as creative advisor and...
We are proud to announce this years World Design Forum moderator, Isolde Hallensleben. She will not only moderate this years forum, but will be our creative associate in the future. Isolde Hallensleben is producer and presenter, working primarily in the field of art, culture and science. For NTR Isolde produces and presents, amongst others, Vrw. [...]
Can our economy – both on the private and the public side – become more essential than it is at the moment? And what might be the role of design in this process? We will search for the answers at WDF: Design and Essential Economy. We believe this constitutes an urgent question for our times: [...]
The WDF team, represented by Frank Bosboom, Jill Lauret and Maarten Konigs met with Wouter Kesseler (Mastercircle), Lenny van Klink (Rebel), GertJan Fernhout (Rebel), Heleen Herbert (Heijmans), Steven de Waal (Public Space), Mark Hartevelt (Philips Design) and Hans Robertus (Capital D/DDW).
We proudly present the full WDF report (click here to download). The report includes an introduction by John Thackara, a full review of the seminar, keynotes and discussions, an overview of our media-coverage etc. On this website you will find more media, e.g. a series of pictures, film registration of the keynotes Thackara, Camps and [...]
Opening WDF 2012 by moderator John Thackara. Opening keynote by Theo Camps. Keynote by Brian Boyer
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We are looking back at a very succesfull third edition of World Design Forum. An edition full of innovations. Literally and figuratively. We were proud to be the opening event at the enchanting RoundHouse at the Klokgebouw, Behind the Curtain. A special 360-degree presentation space, in the heart of the Dutch Design Week, a perfect [...]
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PORTRUSH, Northern Ireland (AP) — Shane Lowry won the British Open for his first major title.
The 32-year-old Irishman held on through a wet and windy day at Royal Portrush to beat Tommy Fleetwood by 6 strokes.
Lowry entered the day with a four-stroke lead. He shot 1-over 72 and finished with a 15-under 269 total.
It was the second time Lowry went into the final round of a major with a four-stroke lead, but he ended up in a tie for second at the 2016 U.S. Open after shooting a 6-over 76.
There was never any major scare on Sunday at the first British Open in Northern Ireland since 1951. Fleetwood got within three strokes after the first hole but never got any closer, finishing with a 3-over 74.
NICHOLASVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Jim Herman rode President Donald Trump’s putting advice to victory in the PGA Tour’s Barbasol Championship.
Taking advantage of playing partner Kelly Kraft’s two late bogeys, Herman finished with a 2-under 70 for a one-stroke victory at Keene Trace. A shot ahead with three to play, Kraft bogeyed the par-3 16th and par-4 17th in a closing 70.
Trump’s regular golf partner while working as an assistant professional at Trump National Bedminster in New Jersey, Herman changed to a conventional putting grip and clubhead at the president’s suggestion following a recent round. The putter cooled off a bit Sunday after Herman opened with rounds of 65, 65 and 62, but he did just enough to edge Kraft — who shot 61 on Saturday — for his second PGA Tour title.
MIDLAND, Mich. (AP) — Cydney Clanton and Jasmine Suwannapura ran away with the Dow Great Lakes Bay Invitational on Saturday, shooting an 11-under 59 in best-ball play for a six-stroke victory.
Clanton and Suwannapura took a five-shot lead into the final round after shooting an alternate-shot 63 on Friday at Midland Country Club in the LPGA Tour’s first-year team event.
Suwannapura won her second tour title, and Clanton her first. They finished at 27-under 253.
Clanton earned spots the next two weeks in the Evian Championship and Women’s British Open.
Jin Young Ko and Minjee Lee closed with a 58 to finish second. Sisters Ariya Jutanugarn and Moriya Jutanugarn tied for third with Na Yeon Choi and Jenny Shin at 20 under. They each shot 61.
COOPERSTOWN, N.Y. (AP) — The chants began even before baseball’s greatest closer stood to make his speech.
“Mariano! Mariano! Mariano!”
The former New York Yankees reliever paused and smiled.
“I don’t understand why I have to always be the last,” Mariano Rivera joked at his Hall of Fame induction Sunday. “I guess being the last one is special.”
Rivera and fellow closer Lee Smith, starters Mike Mussina and the late Roy Halladay, and designated hitters Edgar Martinez and Harold Baines were feted on a sun-splashed day in Cooperstown. Taking the podium last as he had predicted, Rivera delivered a speech that included a brief thank you to his native Panama and the fans there.
NEW YORK (AP) — Mark Reynolds was cut by the Colorado Rockies two home runs shy of 300 after hitting .170 with four homers and 20 RBIs in limited at-bats.
The 35-year-old infielder returned for his second stint with the Rockies in March, agreeing to a $1 million, one-year deal. He had just 135 at-bats in 78 games and was designated for assignment on Sunday in a flurry of roster moves by Colorado, which had lost 13 of its past 15 games.
A 13-year veteran, Reynolds said he will return home to assess whether or not he’d attempt to continue his playing career.
HOUSTON (AP) — The Houston Texans have placed star defensive end J.J. Watt and wide receiver DeAndre Hopkins on the physically unable to perform list.
Also going on the PUP list was wide receiver DeAndre Carter.
Watt, a three-time Defensive Player of the Year, reportedly had knee surgery after last season. He shook off two years of injuries after he’d played just eight games total and earned All-Pro honors when he had 61 tackles, led the AFC with 16 sacks, had 25 quarterback hits, 18 tackles for losses and forced a career-high seven fumbles, which tied for the most in the NFL.
Hopkins hurt his right shoulder in the first half of Houston’s loss to Indianapolis in an AFC wild-card game. He was second in the NFL with a career-high 1,572 yards receiving during the regular season
LOUDON, N.H. (AP) — Kevin Harvick raced to his first NASCAR Cup Series victory of the season Sunday, winning at New Hampshire Motor Speedway for the second straight year.
Harvick held off Denny Hamlin by 0.210 seconds after the two made contact coming out of the final turn. Harvick won for the 46th time and the first since November at Texas.
Harvick led the final 41 laps in the No. 4 Stewart-Haas Racing Ford. He has four victories at the mile oval to tie the record set by Jeff Burton.
Hamlin led for 113 laps, but could not catch Harvick after pitting on a caution after Kyle Larson blew a tire on the 265th lap.
NEWTON, Iowa (AP) — IndyCar point leader Josef Newgarden led 245 laps of 300 laps and won the weather-delayed race early Sunday at the Iowa Speedway, his fourth victory of the season.
Newgarden’s run resembled his dominant win on Iowa’s short oval in 2016. Newgarden led a series-record 282 laps three years ago in Newton.
Five-time champion Scott Dixon gave Newgarden a push after benefiting from a late caution and rallied to finish second. Dixon was joined on the podium by James Hinchcliffe, who won in Iowa a year ago.
Simon Pagenaud was fourth, followed by Spencer Pigot and Alexander Rossi.
GWANGJU, South Korea (AP) — Ariarne Titmus rallied midway through the final lap to upset Katie Ledecky and win the 400-meter freestyle at the world swimming championships, denying the American star a record fourth straight title in the event.
Titmus led through the first 200 meters — dipping under world-record pace on the first lap — before Ledecky moved in front with 250 meters to go on Sunday night.
The American was still ahead turning for home. But the 18-year-old Australian pulled even midway through the last lap and surged to the wall first, beating Ledecky by 1.21 seconds.
Titmus touched in 3 minutes, 58.76 seconds. Ledecky was second in 3:59.97 — well off her world record of 3:56.46 set at the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympics.
Adam Peaty of Britain has become the first man to go under 57 seconds in the 100-meter breaststroke. He won his semifinal heat in 56.88 seconds on Sunday night, bettering his old world record of 57.10 set last August in Glasgow, Scotland.
Peaty is seeking his third straight world title in the event. He also won the 100 breast at the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympics.
OCEANPORT, N.J. (AP) — Maximum Security captured the $1 million Haskell Invitational and, unlike the Kentucky Derby, survived a steward’s inquiry Saturday night.
It capped a long day that included a major delay triggered by intense heat and the safety concerns for the horses and riders that led to the cancellation of six races.
When racing resumed around 6 p.m., the six stakes races on the card went off without a hitch until the Haskell.
Maximum Security got to the finish line first, outlasting trainer Bob Baffert’s Mucho Gusto by 1 1/4 lengths.
For a minute, it seemed a clear-cut win. However, the stewards posted the inquiry sign. Videotape replays showed King for a Day had to check when Maximum Security and Mucho Gusto stormed past.
However, it was quickly dismissed, unlike the Derby when there was a 22-minute delay before Country House was elevated to the top spot and Maximum Security was dropped to 17th place. It was the first time a horse that crossed the finish line first in the Derby was disqualified.
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Manny Pacquiao knocked down Keith Thurman in the first round and persevered for an exciting split-decision victory Saturday night, adding a third straight win to his career resurgence after turning 40 years old.
Pacquiao (62-7-2) dropped his previously unbeaten opponent with a combination late in the first round, and the Pac-Man dominated the opening rounds with a combination of flair and power that recalled the incredible prime of the only eight-division champion in boxing history.
Thurman (29-1) showed remarkable tenacity in rallying through the middle rounds, repeatedly testing Pacquiao’s chin with big shots.
Two judges scored the bout 115-112 for Pacquiao, while Glenn Feldman scored it 114-113 for Thurman. The Associated Press also scored it 115-112 for Pacquiao.
LONDON (AP) — Dillian Whyte survived a ninth round knockdown to beat Oscar Rivas in a unanimous points decision and claim the WBC interim heavyweight title on Saturday.
It was Whyte’s tenth successive victory, following his only loss to Anthony Joshua in 2016, and the Briton now becomes the mandatory challenger for Deontay Wilder’s WBC heavyweight belt.
The 31-year-old dominated the early rounds but his victory looked far from certain following a dramatic ninth round when his Columbian opponent landed an uppercut to send Whyte to the canvas.
OXON HILL, Md. (AP) — Doctors say boxer Maxim Dadashev had surgery at a Maryland hospital for swelling on his brain after collapsing outside the ring after losing a match.
Doctors told reporters early Saturday morning that the Russian-born boxer had surgery in a procedure that took about two hours.
The Washington Post reports that his manager, Egis, Klimas, and his strength and conditioning coach, Donatas Janusevicius, were both at the hospital, where he is expected to remain for days.
Dadashev collapsed after a loss to undefeated Subriel Matias in their 140-pound (63.5 kilogram) bout at the Theater at MGM National Harbor in Oxon Hill. Trainor James McGirt stopped the fight before the 12th-round bell.
NEWPORT, R.I. (AP) — Li Na has broken new ground at the International Tennis Hall of Fame.
The 37-year-old former Chinese star became the first Asian-born player to be inducted on Saturday.
She was enshrined along with Mary Pierce of France and Russian Yevgeny Kafelnikov.
Li became the first Asian to win a Grand Slam tournament, capturing the 2011 French Open in a final that was watched by an estimated 116 million people in her country.
She also captured the 2014 Australian Open after being runner-up twice.
The 45-year-old Kafelnikov was described on his plaque as “one of the most dominant Russian Players of his generation.” He captured the 1996 French Open and three years later won the Australian.
Pierce, 44, lived her dream by playing the French Open. She did more than that, winning it in 2000. She also captured the Australian five years earlier.
NEW YORK (AP) — ESPN is reminding employees of the network’s policy to avoid talking politics after radio show host Dan Le Batard criticized President Donald Trump and the network itself on air.
An ESPN employee who requested anonymity because the person was not authorized to speak on personnel matters said Saturday that the reminder went out Friday to all employees, including Le Batard.
ESPN is not commenting publicly.
Le Batard called Trump’s comment that Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar and three other Democratic congresswomen of color should “go back” to the “places from which they came” deeply offensive and un-American.
MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Peter McNamara, an Australian tennis player who won three Grand Slam doubles titles and reached a highest singles ranking of No. 7, has died. He was 64.
His death at his home in Germany from prostate cancer was confirmed by David Law, a family friend and tennis commentator, on behalf of McNamara’s wife Petra.
McNamara formed a successful partnership with compatriot Paul McNamee to win the Wimbledon doubles title in 1980 and 1982 and the Australian Open title in 1979.
The right-hander also won five singles titles, reaching the Australian Open singles semifinals in 1980, the Wimbledon quarterfinals in 1981 and the last eight at the 1982 French Open.
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Sage Intacct (SI), a cloud-based Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and accounting software, has released many great new features that non-profits everywhere will find extremely helpful. Bank feed is a fairly new feature that allows us to connect the accounting system to your bank or other financial institution.
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On Thursday, Nepal had a total of 453 confirmed cases and three fatalities. Most of those testing positive were asymptomatic or are mild cases. Nepal has so far avoided a major crisis, but public health experts say the country cannot be complacent. It only took two months for the US to report from first 100 cases to 1 million.
Public health experts warn that the next four weeks will be crucial, and special attention needs to be placed on the border after India partially opened the lockdown and allowed public transport.
With the funeral complications for the first two COVID-19 fatalities over the weekend, the government has issued funeral guidelines in case there is a big increase in the number of deaths.
All three COVID-19 deaths also brought home a reminder of Nepal’s pre-existing burden of disease. The new mother who died in Dhulikhel appeared to have suffered post-partum sepsis while the returnee from Mumbai in Nepalganj had a severe case of diarrhoea.
The 41-year-old teacher who passed away in Gulmi on Thursday morning was admitted for liver cirrhosis. Comorbidity is going to be a challenge in treating COVID-19 patients.
At Bayalpata Hospital in Accham, healthcare director Bikash Gauchan says the lockdown has lead to a dramatic rise in maternal mortality in the country. Nepal saw 53 mothers dying at childbirth in the past month compared to 0 fatalities in the same period last year. The reason appears to be a rise in home deliveries, and the difficulty of getting to a hospital in time due to the lockdown.
Gauchan spoke with Nepali Times on phone just after performing an emergency Caesarian section, and said: “We have made some progress in preparations for future COVID-19 outbreaks in the past two months, but it is not enough. This is on top of the challenges of attending to pre-existing conditions which have become more acute because of the lockdown.”
One positive impact of the lockdown in Nepal’s urban areas has been the decline in the number of patients suffering from respiratory ailments aggravated by air pollution. COVID-19 has also made most Nepalis aware of the importance of hand washing, wearing masks and physical distancing which will prevent other chronic infections like tuberculosis and typhoid.
The dilemma for Nepal, as with all governments around the world, is to balance protection of public health with public welfare The World Health Organisation has warned that the virus is here to stay for years, but most economies will not be able to endure more full lockdown.
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The Chiefs have turn one of a best teams in a National Football League when it comes to red section defense, a large reason because they’re off to a 2-1 start.
In addition, linebackers Anthony Chickillo and Jarvis Jones were forced to leave a diversion with injuries and a group announced that both of them would not return. Judging from Sunday night’s game, a Chiefs aren’t plain adequate defensively to control a diversion on that side of a round opposite a high-quality opponent. “We’re looking forward, and we consider we did that tonight”. We have a ton of room to urge – absolutely. So holding a Steelers to one TD was incredible. Kansas Citys defensive efforts have translated to a scoreboard some-more so than a Steelers.
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Here we go Steelers!
“So most of that is only expelling a seams in there”, he said, “because they’ll only try to lift we apart”.
“Until we stop things like that”, Steelers linebacker Arthur Moats said, “it’s a copycat league”. And first-round collect Artie Burns battled on several coverage plays, including a diving pass dissection on a low ball. Both missed countless tackles in Philadelphia. Le’Veon Bell will be behind in a brew this week after a three-game suspension, and while DeAngelo Williams (5-9, 207) has looked good in his stead, Bell should be prepared to assume a complicated workload. Chiefs CB Marcus Peters has dual interceptions in any of final dual weeks.
This is a third true deteriorate a teams have faced off opposite any other, bursting a final dual meetings with a home group entrance out on top. But his far-reaching receivers Antonio Brown, 28, and Sammie Coates, 23, will certainly be constant targets for him as usual. On a subsequent play, Roethlisberger strike Brown for a touchdown. The Chiefs have played good via his career with him and have had even some-more success recently though him.
Oh, though that initial game: The Chiefs gave adult large chunks of yards to Gordon and teammate Danny Woodhead in descending into a 21-3 halftime lead. The Chiefs returned dual of those for touchdowns and unequivocally put a check on a Jets ability to do anything successfully on offense.
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It can be seen that most men suffer from sexual problems and the most common is erectile dysfunction. Due to the lack of appropriate information, they often misunderstand and use synthetic drugs that have harmful side effects. These male enhancement pills are abundant in the market and attract people with their attractive advertising. But you may be thinking among all these drugs, how can you choose the most effective and the most harmless? It is not very difficult; Trust VigRx - the best known name on the market.
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Smoking is a common cause of erectile dysfunction
Sex is very important in relationships, so sexual problems can become a real disaster even for couples in love. But if they are treated timely and properly, severe cases of erectile dysfunction can also be treated.
Inability to get and maintain a normal erection is the most common sexual problem in the United States. Although erectile dysfunction is diagnosed in over 30 million men each year, most cases are not reported. ED was recently recognized as a metabolic disorder.
Studies have shown that harmful habits such as smoking and drug addiction trigger erectile dysfunction in 25% of cases.
It is generally believed that erection problems are caused by poor blood flow, since erections occur when the blood reaches the penis. Anything that disrupts the process is a common cause of erectile dysfunction. Smoking damages not only the lungs, but also the blood circulation. It is known that the carbon monoxide in cigarettes binds to hemoglobin in the blood, reducing its ability to transport oxygen. Carbon particles cause heart valve deformation and decrease the number of red blood cells. Together with cardiovascular problems, these factors cause hardening of the arteries (arteriosclerosis) and limit the blood supply to the peripheral areas, especially the genitals. Smoking is responsible for erectile dysfunction, loss of libido, low sperm count and high sperm mortality.
If erectile dysfunction is caused by smoking, it is impossible to completely treat it with medication like Viagra. The condition could worsen if a smoker has heart problems or diabetes. The most effective way is to quit smoking.
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Building and Using a 2020 Status Page with Uptime.com
A hosted status page gives you the peace of mind that users can always answer one simple question: is it up or down. Hosted status pages work because they offer third-party confirmation your services are up. If your site goes down, the third party is likely not down and you can use them to refer to your status.
Status pages are your personal 24 hour news cycle. Regardless of if you’re up or down, customer service fields fewer support tickets, and users praise your transparency. Even if your server room is on fire, you can take solace in the fact that everyone is well informed and the situation is being reported on.
Our new status page reporting delves deeper and allows DevOps to answer the classic question of, is it down, but also a slightly different, albeit more important question: how much of it is working?
What is a Status Page Anyway?
A status page is a stage for presenting information on the state of your site and services; one that offers transparency and builds trust with your userbase, gives information to your stakeholders, and creates a platform for:
- Incidents and scheduled downtime
- Your past history and uptime percentage data
- Referencing metrics and data regarding components and services
All of which make a status page a valuable piece of real estate.
Table of Contents
Status Page with Uptime.com
Let’s get back to the question of how much of it is working? To answer this question, we will explore each of our three status page options in greater detail for insights into their advantages and performance.
Types of Status Page
Public Status Page
Most useful for: Flexibility.
You can use your Public Status Page to create components that don’t exist within your infrastructure or Uptime.com account, such as third party resources or even internal personnel. It’s a powerful customer-facing communications tool for incident management.
Most useful for: Customization
Public SLA Pages feature check-driven metrics and alert data. It is best utilized when you want to show the status of only checks within your Uptime.com account, and its power lies in its accessibility. Show history and prior incidents for accountability, or enable performance metrics for user insights that go deeper than is it up or down.
Internal Status Page
Most useful for: Discretion.
Internal Status Pages are, in some ways, for your eyes only. They can be public facing, but their full capacity shows best when tracking your infrastructure with methods that encourage communication across your organization. If your team has ever had correspondence internally about whether your services are up or down, the Internal Status Page offers a space for syncing and communicating action.
Status Page Key Features
Components are the bread and butter of your status page, representing the databases, websites, servers, and infrastructure that make up your application. Components can take many forms depending on the type of page you’re using. For example, you can group your support staff together into a component group named “IT staff.”
Status Page Tabs
When we talk about how much of it is working, we can get granular through components and your Status Page tabs.
The Current Status Tab displays:
- Overall System Status
- Active Incidents
- Component Status
- Upcoming Maintenance
The History & Incidents Tab displays:
- Past Outages
- Scheduled Maintenance Windows
- Determine metric for calculating uptime
Between these two optional tabs, you have control over many parameters for setting and displaying status.
Look & Feel
- Add Custom CSS to style your Status Page
- Custom CSS/HTML for your header/footer
- Add Google Property ID
Combined Status Page Use Case
This is all well in good, but what does it look like in practice? Let’s take on the role of devops for an enterprise SaaS company, a familiar role for most of our readers. This use case will walk through the value of each Status Page type.
You have just made a major release consisting of a new product and updates to existing features. Shortly thereafter, a major downtime incident occurs that affects multiple aspects of the company’s site services, including some of the newly released features.
The company needs to be on the ball, able to quickly communicate with their service users and newly acquired clients as well as the company’s global team. Transparency is not the only virtue at stake, a lot depends on teams coordinating quickly to resolve the incident.
Meanwhile, project stakeholders also need to know a resolution timeline as soon as possible.
First, it’s good practice to run through some gameday exercises so you’re prepared for these events. Since we follow best practices, we have designated exactly one employee to update the company’s status page throughout the downtime: Bob.
Internal Status Page Updates
Bob first adds an incident to the company’s internal status page and pushes a custom notification with some pertinent information. He needs to notify a few select people, as well as support teams, customer service, and managers that may not have received check alerts when downtime initially occurred. This page is not public, and only relevant team members are subscribed.
The internal status page is like a billboard telling everyone in your organization what they need to know about the incident, including what services could be affected.
Public Status Page Updates
Bob’s edit to the Public Status Page is going to include some of the same information, but is primarily customer-focused. Here, he is most interested in adding an incident description and maintaining updates. Users are seeing red on the Status Page, and Bob’s role here is providing information.
He can manually or automatically change the status of affected components. Because subscribers are enabled,he is able to duplicate his Public Status Page incident report and easily send it off to them, complete with the same company branding used on his Status Page.
Protip: Be like Bob! Bob has customized his SPF record to control the send from address for incident notifications.
Bob has also enabled the History & Incidents tab on the Public Status Page. The tab is a record of past incidents, maintenance, and global uptime percentage. Visitors seeking information about the outage can also review the company’s history and duration of past incidents. As the company has a good track record of prompt incident response and low downtime percentages, this data is reassuring to users.
Short for Service Level Agreement, Bob’s Public SLA Page creates a direct link between services he is monitoring with Uptime.com and a public-facing status page. Used primarily for accountability, Bob can freely distribute this report when prospective new clients bring big business and want to be sure of the service reliability.
When these new clients come on board – attracted by exciting new features – Bob’s SLA Page features components specifically related to the products these clients use. With subscriptions enabled, these users can stay proactively informed of downtime, planned maintenance, or other incidents that might affect availability.
We know that the number of incidents doesn’t always sink you, but downtime duration hurts. Our findings indicate those caught slow on their feet tend to get hit the hardest. The difference between 99% uptime and 98% uptime is only about two hours for the entire year. One 6 hour outage can be devastating to your SLA obligations.
When you customize an Uptime.com Status Page, whatever the type, you gain a robust reporting tool that improves transparency and response within and around your organization. Everyone from your customer service and marketing teams to executives and customers benefit when you dedicate effort to incident management.
Minute-by-minute Uptime checks.
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April 25, 2016
This Press release is in rebuttal of the half page advertisement that Texas Central Railroad High Speed Railroad placed in most local newspapers last week.
Texas Central (TCR) High Speed Rail claims in their recent ad in numerous local newspapers that “Even before the trains start running, the communities along the route will begin to reap the economic benefits.” The arrogance of TCR to think that the citizenry is that ignorant to not see the truth! The real truth is the opposite. The lands where the rails are to be laid the property owners are currently losing values. And with no train station how can there be any economic benefit, except lost revenue and taxes from destroyed businesses and agricultural land.
The latest news is the Texas Central Railroad, High Speed Rail will require local dirt, gravel and sand to build a 25 foot high and 100 foot wide earthen berm. We have been informed that TCR will legally have a 4 mile wide construction path to condemn local land owners property then take the earthen berm materials , which for Ellis County requires a minimum of 17.6 Million Cubic Yards.
“Texas Transportation Code § 112.053. § 112.053. Condemnation of Property: When Railroad Company and Owner Disagree. (b) A railroad company may not, under this section, condemn property that is located more than two miles from the company’s right of way.” That is 2 miles on either side of the rail corridor.
Visualize the four mile wide construction site with large heavy equipment, trucks, and vehicles moving local fill dirt and railroad material as needed. Then add the alignment of city and county roads to achieve fewer underpasses resulting in more private land taken by eminent domain, including the high speed rail (HSR) path requires an access road (more private property taken) to be added alongside the 100 foot wide rail line. Further, include the easement rights on private land to accommodate new power lines (every so many miles from the Electric Utility Corridor to the HSR) for the electric run trains, then add construction equipment and thousands of workers.
Finally all the land that has been ravaged by construction equipment taking dirt, gravel and sand from local property, and you have an economic and environmental disaster that is almost beyond comprehension. This path of destruction would make an F- 5 tornado path look like a bike trail in comparison. That scenario could dramatically reduce the economy for each county affected by estimates of up to 25% or higher.
To clarify, the viaducts that TCR has advertised are elevated with concrete pillars (as seen in others countries) are very expensive to construct and are only required for wetlands or environment protected land not for rolling or flat farm land.This HSR is an environmental disaster that will destroy the economies, communities and rural family lifestyle that are the heart of Texas.
Add the loss of revenue from business and agricultural, including the loss of property values and lost taxes, etc. Schools, emergency services, county taxes, to name a few will suffer greatly. Every HSR in the world is subsidized except in Greater Tokyo, that means no tax revenue or any funds for Texas communities.
TCR is hiding behind the protective claim of a private company to deny open records by the public, while receiving public funds and government assistance and recently asking for state and federal government guarantee loans. They even refuse to release their ridership analysis. TCR had their legal team conceal documents that appear to tell a different story then what the public is being told, that is why the recent law suit by Texans Against HSR request to have the records opened for public access. TCR is in partnership with a foreign company who is a major stakeholder in the HSR and will have eminent domain rights over Texas property owners. Why is the environmental friendly main stream media silent, even in the face of growing strong public opposition to the HSR?
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1. Protect the Environment
Professional car washes use sophisticated technology and specially designed equipment to conserve and recycle water.
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Do the things you’d rather do and still do the things you should do.
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A good finish on your vehicle means a higher resale or trade-in value.
4. Take Pride In Ownership
Your car looks better clean rather than dirty; if you don’t care for it, who will?
5. Preventative Maintenance
All vehicles, regardless of the finish (clear coat, acrylic, enamel, etc.) require regular washing throughout the year, just like a good maintenance program prolongs the life and performance of your car.
6. Rain Doesn’t Mean It’s Clean
When no cleaning materials are used, this rain water can actually trap dirt and sediments to a metal surface, allowing the oxidation process to occur more quickly. It ultimately causes rust and corrosion.
7. The Clock Is Ticking
Time is a contributing factor that can harm your car’s exterior. The longer an attacking substance is on the vehicle, the greater the probability and extent of damage.
8. Heat Damage and Sun Burns
Temperature accelerates problems. The acids in bugs, bird droppings, tree sap and leaves become more active through heat. Metal retains this heat and increases the chances of permanent stains. Extended sunlight exposure, with its ultraviolet rays, accelerates the aging process and diminishes the gloss on your finish. Protective coating and sealants are necessary to provide a protective barrier while enhancing your exterior’s gloss and shine.
9. Clean Wheels
Road grime and brake dust cling to wheel well, rims and hubcaps. If not removed, they can actually permeate the metal, causing major damage.
10. Feel Good
Washing your car is like brushing your teeth or taking a shower- you feel better afterwards.
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Before you read this post you might want to brush up on the whole quantum immortality argument.
Okay, you know how the Large Hadron Collider had to be shut down because of of a helium leak? Well, what if this is evidence that we're about to witness a successive chain of events that will result in the LHC never having the opportunity to destroy the Earth as we know it?
It's a classic case of anthropic principle meets the Many World Hypothesis. We can't observe our non-existence; we can only observe our ongoing existence, no matter how improbable or absurd.
Given that the LHC was only recently ignited, can we already make this inference?
Well, leave it to Anders Sandberg to crunch the numbers and do an analysis: "Bayes, Moravec and the LHC: Quantum Suicide, Subjective Probability and Conspiracies."
And it looks like Eliezer Yudkowsky and friends are having a similar conversation at Overcoming Bias.
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The wood of antique rustic bench should choose wpc, also can choose antiseptic wood of course.
Compared with the ordinary antiseptic wood park garden bench, the plastic wood park two person outdoor bench are insect and termite resistant, which can effectively eliminate insect disturbance and prolong service life. Plastic wood strong wooden garden bench does not crack, does not expand, does not deform, does not need repair and maintenance, easy to clean, save later repair and maintenance costs. Waterproof and moisture-proof. It can be used in the environment where traditional wood products cannot be used.
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|Material||Solid wood/wpc wood/steel/stainless steel/mesh steel etc for option|
|Finishing||Powder coating(Akzo Nobel) /Thermoplastic coating/Hot dip galvanizing etc for option|
|Mounting method||Flange surface mounted, free standing,embedded|
|Production time||10-30 days after receipt of deposit|
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Choose Insurance Agency in LA Before Your Gateway on the Motor Home
Whether you are a proud owner of a vintage travel trailer or a brand new luxurious fifth-wheel, you need to protect your motor home on the road. Before hitting the road, you need to make sure that your dream machine is protected against all odds like theft or accidents. This is the reason you need to purchase the right insurance for your motorhome.
To get the right insurance coverage, instead of running from one insurance provider to another, it would be best to contact a reliable insurance agency in Los Angeles. The agency representative can show you a list of various rates and coverages offered by top four to five insurance companies in Los Angeles. These companies provide customizable, comprehensive insurance policies to safeguard your investment and lets you travel all across the US with mental peace.
What is a Motor Home?
A motor home is usually classified into three types – Class A, Class B, and Class C. Type C are the typical motor homes that you can attach to a truck. Type B is a bit more conventional and comes with a raised roof. Type C is the most luxurious one. Whatever the class is, each comes with specific amenities and features and comes to you with a handsome investment. So, it would not be wise to let go your hard-earned money and the dream motor home down in the drain, if any unwanted event takes place. This is the reason motor homeowners look for a reliable insurance agency in Los Angeles to protect it with the necessary coverages.
Whenever you are planning your weekend trip to the beach or a getaway to an exotic place with the family, the right financial coverages would ensure 100% protection for the dream on wheels. Once you choose the insurance agency in Los Angeles, you can ask them to show a list of programs that cover RVs (recreational vehicle) like travel trailer, motor home, or fifth-wheel.
Important Coverage for Motor Home
Some basic coverages for your motor home are as follows:
=> Comprehensive: If your RV suffers damage due to vandalism, theft, or fire, then this coverage can give you financial protection.
=> Collision: This covers the damage or loss to your motor home if the cause is a wreck.
=> Property Damage Liability: If you cause damage to some other person’s property with your recreational vehicle (which sometimes happens while parking) then this coverage would cover the cost of the damage done.
=> Bodily Injury Liability: in case you meet with an accident with your RV and cause damage to a person or even yourself, then this would cover the medical expenses.
Apart from these basic ones, the insurance agency in Los Angeles can also guide you to purchase some extended coverages for your RV like roadside assistance, vacation liability, emergency expense, full-timers coverage, and so on, depending on your specific needs. Contact a reliable agency and plan for an enjoyable trip in your RV. | <urn:uuid:832e31a6-e556-4c87-a007-c50bbdf9724d> | CC-MAIN-2021-10 | https://starcoinsurance.com/choose-insurance-agency-in-la-before-your-gateway-on-the-motor-home/ | 2021-03-05T10:59:06Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-10/segments/1614178370752.61/warc/CC-MAIN-20210305091526-20210305121526-00514.warc.gz | en | 0.942441 | 601 | [
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A marvelous and eclectic assortment of pieces for woodwind quintet - from Beethoven - Haydn - Mozart - and others. Includes Haydn's complete Divertimento No. 1 in B-flat major with its universally loved 'Andante quasi Allegretto' (St. Anthonius chorale).
Quintet (from sextet, op. 71)
Suite for Winds, op. 57: III. Finale - Allegro leggiero
Woodwind Suite in E-Flat major
Divertimento No. 1 in B-Flat major, HobII/46
Suite for Winds, op. 57: II. Allegretto scherzando
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Posted Friday, October 13, 2006 10:13 AM | Contributed by Jeff
Workers began demolishing buildings at the former Whalom Park Tuesday, tearing down the roller skating rink and the ballroom, according to Carl Pearson, vice president of Global Property Developers Corporation. The merry-go-round, two historic cottages and a historic house are the structures temporarily saved from demolition under the bylaw.
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Friday, October 13, 2006 1:49 PM
Sure, we knew this day was coming for a long time....but now the final saga of the century-old park is written. Sad day indeed! :(
Friday, October 13, 2006 4:48 PM
Yup.. no surprise here! Not good news though!
Saturday, October 14, 2006 10:03 AM
Hope the condo development fails.
Saturday, October 14, 2006 2:08 PM
Goodbye Flyer Comet. :(
Thursday, October 19, 2006 10:28 AM
Pics of the coaster coming down:
Saturday, October 21, 2006 2:10 AM
I feel especially bad for those who grew up in Whalom Park; it was a park unlike the urbanized parks of today. You could ride the Flyer Comet over and over, and they would just ask "who wants to stay on?" They also had some pretty unique rides there, like the Tumble-Bug and the Rok and Roll, It's a shame they couldn't establish themselves a National Landmark or something. R.I.P. Whalom Park. | <urn:uuid:cb96517d-0099-4f0f-b020-c72ada0db4e8> | CC-MAIN-2021-10 | https://coasterbuzz.com/Forums/Topic/developers-demolish-whalom-park | 2021-03-08T19:17:40Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-10/segments/1614178385389.83/warc/CC-MAIN-20210308174330-20210308204330-00514.warc.gz | en | 0.945789 | 329 | [
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Calaveras Road. Absolutely no word. Are the seismic issues anywhere near being resolved? Who knows. Calaveras is closed 24/7 to all traffic for the indefinite future.
Redwood Road. No word at all. On the Valley Spokesmen listserv there has been mention of members circumventing the K barriers and then getting ticketed. If you need to get through Redwood, then take the Brandon Trail, which connects with Marciel Road, to get around the closure. The Brandon Trail is a road bike friendly fire road and it’s short.
Alhambra Valley Road. The repair is underway but there is no recent update and the only word is “end of September”.
Palomares. Work on the landslide is proceeding but slowly because of the hazardous conditions. The latest word is repairs will continue “through August”.
Canyon Bridge/Pinehurst. The City of Moraga will be receiving Caltrans/FHA emergency funding to construct a temporary one-lane bridge. But the timeline for funding/bid out/start date is unknown. Don’t hold your breath. The ad hoc diversion through East Bay Regional Parks land just might get you a ticket if the rangers are around. If you must ride Pinehurst, consider using Skyline/Redwood instead. Update here.
Morgan Territory Road. The repair is underway and consequently the road is closed to all traffic through mid-October. There is a diversion, Leon Drive, but it is technically for residents only. You need a pass issued by the Sheriff’s Dept. to use the diversion because the road crosses the Detention Facility. Use at your own risk. For more info go here or here.
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An unprecedented number of public disputes have erupted across Canada in recent years about meeting room bookings and speaker’s events in the country’s public libraries. Most disturbingly, critics have ignored, disparaged, and frequently rebuffed the time-honoured commitments of Canadian public libraries to freedom of expression and unfettered access to library services. Prominent disputes and accusations have targeted:
- A public lecture by Sir Salman Rushdie, initiated by Edmonton Public Library as part of its “Forward Thinking Speaker Series”, who was accused of distorting history, maligning and blaspheming sacred personages, and spreading hate propaganda and Islamophobia;
- A “day of reflection,” booked at a Saskatoon Public Library branch, whose anonymous sponsor was later discovered to be the Campaign Life Coalition of Saskatchewan for an anti-abortion meet-and-greet campaign event for Saskatchewan MP and Conservative Party leadership candidate Brad Trost;
- A memorial service for librarian turned lawyer Barbara Kulaszka,well-known for defending more than a dozen free speech legal cases involving far-right extremists such as Holocaust-deniers Ernst Zundel and Jim Keegstra, booked at a Toronto Public Library branch by long-time self-described white nationalist Paul Fromm and founder of the Canadian Association for Free Expression;
- A public lecture by Joseph Boyden, initiated by Edmonton Public Library as part of its “Forward Thinking Speaker Series,” who prior to the event by several months had been accused of cultural “misappropriation” and misrepresenting his ethnic heritage, and whose speaking engagement had accordingly been cancelled for an earlier event sponsored by the City of Edmonton, Winter Cities Shake-Up;
- A children’s event “Over the Rainbow Storytime” led by drag queens at an Edmonton Public Library branch during the City’s Pride Week, who were accused of indoctrinating small children to be “trannies,” pushing “civics for Liberal morons’ children,” destroying children’s mental health, showing adult entertainment to children, and sexualizing children;
- A film booking at the Ottawa Public Library by “ACT! for Canada,” of an anti-Islamist documentary “Killing Europe”, whose cancellation by the Library on the grounds the movie was likely to promote hatred prompted the sponsors to apply for a judicial review;
- A public lecture by George Takei at Edmonton Public Library, also as part of its “Forward Thinking Speaker Series,” who had been accused by another male on social media just prior to the event of groping without consent more than 35 years before, in 1981;
- A talk on “gender identity ideology and women’s rights,” booked at Vancouver Public Library by self-proclaimed radical feminist and anti-transgender advocate Meghan Murphy, pilloried for “misgendering” trans women.
Speakers booked at other Canadian institutions have also triggered public outrage demanding that they not be allowed to speak.
While public controversies at other institutions raise serious questions, demands that public libraries deny third-party bookings of meeting rooms, cancel speaker invitations, and censor the use of library space for author talks, programing, and displays and exhibits merit particular attention. As publicly funded facilities and services for all members of Canadian society, libraries are founded on a commitment to intellectual freedom, freedom of expression, and social justice. Deeply polarizing subjects have long challenged and tested the core values, institutional roles, legal accountabilities, and time-honoured credibility of public libraries across Canada. Public libraries have been proud of how they have successfully met these challenges and upheld and progressively strengthened their core values. But in the present context, as in the past, critics are ignoring or assailing the interdependence of free expression and social justice.
My focus now is about those meeting rooms, speaker bookings, and the use of library space. The goal is to encourage awareness of how much there is to learn about the institutional accountabilities and the legal imperatives of public libraries as Canadian organizations, and what constitutionally protected speech includes and excludes.
My perspective is informed by the long and painful struggle in Canada over LGBTQ+ equality rights and a public voice. That struggle was not possible without the slow emergence of our freedom to be heard, and the power of our speech and our literatures to compete with and against the public cacophony of discriminatory and hateful discourse that for centuries had dominated public institutions including public libraries, medicine, especially psychiatry, faith communities, politics, policing and the courts, education, the corporate world, and, above all, the media.
LGBTQ+ voices eventually became strong enough to push back, defy, and drown out the babel of hate and lies and “othering.” Social justice triumphed through the supremacy of expressive rights, not in spite of them. We insisted on more voices, not fewer.
Accordingly, it behooves the public library world – by which I mean all library leaders and staff together with library governance boards, volunteers, staff unions, and users – to be knowledgeable about and promote awareness of the interlocking societal, cultural, demographic, professional, institutional, and constitutional and legal parameters within which public libraries function as accountable and transparent institutions dedicated to defending and ensuring access to constitutionally protected speech.
Effective advocacy on all aspects of library information policy depends on a thorough understanding of these complicated challenges. In particular, public librarians ought to do more to champion their institutions as facilitators, promoters, and defenders of Canadian civil liberties. Public librarians can play a critical role in raising public consciousness over the intimate link between public libraries and social justice in Canada. This is a link not well understood because very few public library leaders articulate and promote expressive rights as their unique brand. Once-a-year publicity around Freedom to Read Week is not enough.
The various arguments against controversial community and event space rentals by Canadian public libraries reveals an incomplete grasp not only of core values and library missions but also of the Charter and Criminal Code frameworks within which these institutions are statutorily governed and free speech is regulated. While public libraries in Canada and the United States share core values, American jurisprudence is distinct from Canadian law and tradition. In fact, the legal limits on free expression as they have evolved in Canada are poorly understood.
In Canada, public libraries are subject to the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. Public libraries further operate within the provisions of the Criminal Code of Canada, the Canadian Human Rights Act, and their respective provincial human rights codes. While many of us believe that public library boards are the appropriate governing mechanism, public libraries (and their boards) are not fully autonomous and independent entities answering to no one.
Institutional decisions, including those related to intellectual freedom are ultimately answerable to Canadian courts. The expression rights of all persons in Canada are at issue, and the library world must be informed, transparent, and accountable in the defence and promotion of our legal framework.
Public libraries also have an obligation to support, defend and promote the core values and ethical precepts inscribed in the foundational statements of the library profession’s national organization, the Canadian Federation of Library Associations / La Fédération canadienne des associations de bibliothèques.
CFLA / FCAB statements are not legal imperatives because librarianship is not a regulated profession in Canada with the power to impose penalties for breaching its rules of conduct; and accordingly, membership in CLFA / FCAB is purely voluntary and its avowals are non-binding persuasion and consensus building.
However, this does not mean such declarations and aspirations are irrelevant and meaningless in the policy landscape of Canadian public libraries. The Association’s foundational document “Statement on Intellectual Freedom and Libraries” acknowledges the primacy of Charter protections for free expression rights, and enjoins libraries to safeguard and facilitate equitable access to constitutionally protected views including those that some individuals and groups consider to be “unconventional, unpopular or unacceptable.”
Further, the “Statement” stipulates governing principles for community use of meeting rooms in publicly funded libraries:
Libraries have a core responsibility to safeguard and foster free expression and the right to safe and welcoming places and conditions. To this end, libraries make available their public spaces and services to individuals and groups without discrimination.
This and other CFLA / FCAB principles are adhered to by most public libraries in Canada, and are reflected in each library’s vision, mission, and value statements.
And in a companion interpretive document, “Position on Third Party Use of Publicly Funded Library Meetings Rooms and Facilities”, CFLA / FCAB addresses best practices and offers “ethical managerial propositions for the guidance of individual libraries and librarians.” The document reiterates the library “does not advocate or endorse the viewpoints expressed in meetings or by meeting room users” and that “the free expression being exercised [in the meeting room] does not necessarily reflect the views of the Library.” Moreover:
- CFLA-FCAB affirms controversial expression is supported in the library. Equally so, challenge to controversial expression is supported. CFLA-FCAB does not, however, endorse the exercise of prior restraint as a means to avoiding controversy in the library.
- CFLA-FCAB is mutually committed to intellectual freedom and to zero tolerance for discrimination, believing the two principles are mutually reinforcing.
The interpretive document also states that: “CFLA-FCAB recognizes there is a wide range of measures available to libraries to minimize and correct violations of the law, expecting libraries to exercise due diligence and avoid being wilfully blind to illegal behaviour while ensuring their fundamental commitment to intellectual freedom.” The American Library Association has a similar statement.
The term “hate speech” is often used as grounds to demand prohibiting an event that critics find disagreeable, offensive, or detestable. They may point to the prior reputation and personal histories of speakers or their affiliation with an extremist group, or to Twitter banning as justification. Sometimes they may condemn speakers and event attendees as “unsavoury types”; allege the motives of those who book a meeting room are primarily to push the envelope of public tolerance or garner free publicity; or claim an event violates the library’s social responsibility and inclusivity obligations and is therefore discriminatory and denies individual civil rights.
They also may argue that a particular view exposes marginalized groups and individuals as well as library staff to incivility or a potential risk of threat, violence, and harm, either verbal or physical, and therefore creates “triggering”, targeting, microaggression, and safety concerns causing that library to have become an “unsafe space.”
They may claim that unsubstantiated allegations of cultural appropriation, ethnic misidentification, cultural inappropriateness, or sexual misconduct are sufficient grounds for cancelling events..
They may claim that the grounds for meeting room rentals must meet the same standards and criteria as the public library applies to its acquisition decisions governing collections development.
Further they may condemn the public library as “materially supporting,” “endorsing,” or “legitimizing” unpopular views and speakers by allowing meeting space for them, or as having been compromised and “bought” by acceptance of a rental fee.
None of these, in themselves, are grounds for compromising libraries’ commitments to intellectual freedom.
The term hate speech has been used so casually and carelessly by critics of recent bookings of public library meeting rooms that it can reasonably be perceived by many as simply name-calling. Careless and unthinking overuse has rendered it an ineffectual label dissolving into imprecision and bombast. Where is the line between strong dislike and hatred? How can the intensity of expressive opinion be segmented into the acceptable and the not-acceptable? When does an offensive, repugnant, even hateful opinion become “hate speech” devoid of constitutional protection?
Critics may be extremely uncomfortable to learn how high the bar has been set by the Charter and the Criminal Code for pronouncing a verdict of wilfully inciting hatred – no matter how badly these frequent exhortations of hate speech fail legal tests and evidentiary thresholds, no matter how slipshod the popular press and some politicians have been in the use of the hate speech epithet in denouncing unpopular views and speakers.
As Chief Justice McLachlin wrote in R. v. Sharpe, "the conviction that the best route to truth, individual flourishing and peaceful coexistence in a heterogeneous society in which people hold divergent and conflicting beliefs lies in the free flow of ideas and images. If we do not like an idea or an image, we are free to argue against it or simply turn away. But, absent some constitutionally adequate justification, we cannot forbid a person from expressing it.”
Freedom of expression, however, does not permit hate speech, which is illegal under our Criminal Code. It specifically disallows advocacy of genocide, public incitement of hatred, and wilful promotion of hatred. But the Code and the courts have set a very high bar for what qualifies as hate speech. For the advocacy or promotion of genocide, it is fairly straightforward: calling for the destruction of an identifiable group by killing its members or inflicting conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction.
Public incitement of hatred must be communicated in a public place and be likely to lead to a breach of the peace. Wilful promotion of hatred must be communicated other than in private conversation, need not be likely to lead to a breach of the peace but must be intended to promote hatred.
As Chief Justice Dickson wrote in Keegstra:
A dictionary definition may be of limited aid to such an exercise, for by its nature a dictionary seeks to offer a panoply of possible usages, rather than the correct meaning of a word as contemplated by Parliament… in my opinion the term "hatred" connotes emotion of an intense and extreme nature that is clearly associated with vilification and detestation. As Cory J.A. stated in R. v. Andrews, supra, at p. 179:
Hatred is not a word of casual connotation. To promote hatred is to instil detestation, enmity, ill-will and malevolence in another. Clearly an expression must go a long way before it qualifies within the definition in [s. 319(2)].
As a further assurance that the hate speech provisions not be used casually to supress free expression, a hate speech charge under the Criminal Code can only be made with the permission of the province’s attorney general.
The law does not authorize or compel public library leaders to make such judicial interpretations as to whether an utterance meets the legal threshold of hate speech. In recognition of the value Canada places on free expression, prudence demands that the criminal prosecution of speech by the state be always regarded as the option of last resort. What we can do is familiarize ourselves with these statutory provisions as well as with relevant case law, so that our institutional leaders are able to intelligently exercise due diligence when they become aware of clearly illegal behaviour to ensure they are not negligent in dealing with it.
The complexity of this issue for librarians came to the forefront in a controversy about meeting room rental for the Toronto Public Library in 2017. As Vickery Bowles, Micheal Vonn, and Danielle S. McLaughlin have written detailed blogposts about it, I will not repeat their arguments here.
Many of the justifications for cancelling meeting room bookings invoke the dogma of pre-emptive action. This is prior censorship, applied in order to prevent public awareness of something: What someone is alleged to have espoused in the past; what someone’s prior reputation is alleged to be; what someone’s affiliations are; what social media someone has been banned from; that someone is an unsavoury type; that someone’s intent and motives are suspect; that someone’s action is discriminatory; that someone’s action is comparable to another’s, in this case a room booking akin to murderous tragedy; what someone’s safety concerns are and fears of violence and harm; if someone feels threatened or targeted; what someone’s ethnicity is, or isn’t; what someone deems inappropriate; what someone alleges was sexual misconduct; that everything and everyone and every viewpoint represented in the public library is endorsed by it.
To act pre-emptively to ban speech and speakers on such grounds invokes, without clear evidence of intended illegal behaviour, the doctrine of prior restraint, resistance to which evolved from John Milton’s famous 1644 denunciation in Areopagitica of the English licencing system for printing, and today forms the fundamental freedoms of individual expression and an unfettered press. Prior restraint is the most extreme form of censorship.
Who would exercise this most ominous power to restrict the public’s right to access, sanctioned viewpoint discrimination, on the right to expressive freedom? As the Roman poet Juvenal asked almost 2,000 years ago, who will guard the guardians? Within the recent past, Canadian public libraries have been embroiled in at least the following controversies over meeting room rentals and library speaker invitations: abortion, hate speech, cultural appropriation, ethnic identity, anti-Islamism, drag queen children’s story time, sexual assault, and transphobia. Presumably, a list of prohibited views as well as speakers would have to be drawn up and approved by governing authorities, which in many Canadian jurisdictions would mean either provincially created public library boards or senior public servants in government departments. What Canada does not need is more formalized dictums against unpopular views.
Safe space is another slippery term that is in danger of losing any coherent meaning through overuse and overbreadth of application. Recently it has been stretched from its original meaning of protection from physical violence into psychological and emotional realms, encompassing “trigger alerts” and an asserted, but essentially imagined, right not to be offended or to have one’s feelings hurt or to feel threatened. Safe space is not conceptually synonymous with social justice and social responsibility. Feelings are not ideas.
No consensus exists on what a guarantee of psychological safety might mean in operational terms for public library policymakers, administrators, and staff, not to mention library users. In this vein, the president of the TPL Workers Union, Maureen O’Reilly used the safety issue in slamming TPL management in the harshest possible terms for allowing the meeting room rental for a memorial service for a lawyer, Barbara Kulaszka, who had represented white supremacists, to proceed. In part, her adamant and very public opposition was motivated by concern that the meeting room event, as quoted in Our Times, “may challenge the safety of both the staff and the patrons in the library. And the fact that the library brought in a police officer offer and security guards and that the manager was going to be on site (managers don’t usually work in the evening) would suggest to me that there was a potential for a health and safety issue.” Again, prior restraint was advocated here instead of acknowledging and endorsing TPL’s meticulous preparatory planning on very short notice to ensure both staff and library patron physical safety.
Moreover, the public library is not entitled to cancel pilloried meeting room bookings on the grounds it can not guarantee physical safety except in the most extreme circumstances. Surely it is the primary responsibility of the local police services to ensure public safety, at public expense, in and around all public facilities, whether or not they are deemed agencies “independent” of government, including public libraries. This is, and should be regarded as, a civic and legal imperative.
Here’s the brutal reality: the inflation of projected harm with feelings of fear, outrage, and umbrage will not meet an evidentiary bar for the exercise of prior restraint by public libraries. The world is inherently unsafe and threatening and volatile. We prepare ourselves better if we acknowledge how unsafe it is rather than overestimating individual ability to make it otherwise. A guarantee of psychological and emotional safety is not a sufficient guiding principle for public library policymaking and decisions about meeting room rentals.
Critics have to become more comfortable with the uncomfortable. But that does not mean more acceptance of antagonistic views. As Oliver Kamm has argued:
The notion that free speech, while important, needs to be held in balance with the avoidance of offence is question-begging, because it assumes that offence is something to be avoided. Free speech does indeed cause hurt – but there is nothing wrong in this. Knowledge advances through the destruction of bad ideas. Mockery and derision are among the most powerful tools in that process.
Almost every argument about safe space and social responsibility is motivated by protection of the fearfully perceived vulnerability of others. Paraphrasing American critic Joseph Henry Jackson’s question about book censorship: Did anyone ever say, That speaker should be prevented from speaking because I might hear them, and it might be very damaging to me?
Attacking public libraries for their rented meeting rooms instead of challenging the pilloried ideas being promulgated in them is a misdirected and ineffectual focus. Safe space does not – must never – mean psychological and emotional safety from ideas and controversies and criticism. Such entitlement by critics to have the power to muzzle offensive ideas does not exist now and would spell the end of expressive freedom as it has evolved over hundreds of years. Only when there is clear evidence that illegal behaviour has occurred or will likely occur should access be refused.
Much has also been written about the issues of library neutrality and objectivity and impartiality in the provision of its collections and services. Critics decry public library neutrality as if it were an absolute dictum. Public libraries are accused of not living up to some notion of omniscient neutrality, and at the same time of abdicating responsibility for social justice. Historically, it is true that the mantle of professional and institutional neutrality in libraries has been misused to defend the status quo and extant power structures and social inequalities; services and collections about/for black, LGBTQ+, and Indigenous communities are egregious examples of past systemic discrimination in many public library operations.
To my knowledge, the library profession has never regarded neutrality as an absolutist doctrine but as a guiding principle to attempt to facilitate access to a diverse range of legally articulated ideas and perspectives. While respect for this principle helps to avoid content bias and discrimination in collections and services, public libraries have always advocated “partisanship” on core values. In this, they are inherently political spaces defending the public interest and the common good. As discussed in the CFLA / FCAB Statement on Intellectual Freedom and Libraries, libraries defend and promote their intrinsic contributions to citizenry and democracy. They support, defend and promote the universal principles of intellectual freedom and privacy; uphold the fundamental freedoms of conscience and religion; thought, belief, opinion, expression; peaceful assembly; and association. They affirm that all persons in Canada have a fundamental right to have access to the full range of knowledge, imagination, ideas, and opinion, and to express their thoughts publicly.
Instead of focusing on an abstract ideal of omniscient neutrality as a (failed) guiding institutional value, we need to shift our attention to the concepts of viewpoint discrimination, censorship, and prior restraint. Public institutions are required to be content neutral in their services and operations; for example, Elections Canada has no power to determine which individuals or political parties are permitted to register in an election on the basis of their stated views and policies. Similarly, for public libraries, collections and services must be provided according to established institutional policies and professional conduct standards. Moreover, critics of the neutrality principle also overlook institutional commitments to protocols for public complaints and reconsideration of current holdings, as well as for suggestions to add materials to extant collections.
With respect to the relationship between public library standards for acquiring materials and criteria for meeting room bookings, invited speakers, and other uses of library space, this is an interesting and provocative issue that deserves closer scrutiny. One justification for banning the Kulaszka memorial service, for example, was that if TPL collection standards had been applied to room bookings, the memorial would never have been permitted at a TPL library.
However, a simple search of TPL catalogue holdings does not support this claim at all. At the time of the 2017 controversy itself – and in the greatest possible irony – one item in the TPL collection, Did Six Million Really Die?, was a title to which Barbara Kulaszka was identified as “Contributor”! The TPL collection also then included Mein Kampf, in paper and multiple e-book copies; The Hoax of the Twentieth Century; The Dissolution of Eastern European Jewry; The International Jew; and 22 years 1980-2002 of electronic issues of The Journal of Historical Review. In the 1930s, Ontario public libraries reported Mein Kampf was their most circulated title along with Nostrodamus and histories of British royalty. More recently, Library and Archives Canada acquired a 1944 book by Heinz Kloss that had been owned by Hitler entitled Statistics, Media, and Organizations of Jewry in the United States and Canada. LAC’s position was that “it’s up to archives and libraries everywhere to educate and advocate for the most complete historical record possible, no matter how controversial or contentious,” and, paraphrasing, it’s not the role of libraries to choose only those records that portray past events in a positive light.
Another rationale for room cancellations revolves around public perceptions and optics. Some critics have charged – without evidence – that the general public assumes libraries endorse all groups availing themselves of their meeting room facilities. For example, a review of groups who booked Edmonton Public Library’s meeting rooms during a randomly selected one-month period reveals the following entities: Alberta Amphibian and Reptile Conservancy; Alberta Lepidopterists’ Guild; Alberta Muslim Public Affairs Council; Alberta Mycological Society; Alberta Ship Model Society; Button Collectors; Catholic Social Services; Chinese Christian Missions Canada; Council of Canadians; Edmonton Buddhist Meditation Group; Edmonton Low Carb and Intermittent Fasting Awareness; Edmonton Star Trek Society; Oriental Cultural Community Service Centre; Society of Edmonton Atheists; Vital Grandin Chaplaincy; and Yasodhara Yoga Edmonton.
There appears to be no evidence the general public believes EPL has “endorsed” each and every one of these groups in any fashion whatsoever, or that the room bookings somehow legitimize their presence or existence. To claim, as fact, the mere speculation of institutional endorsement and legitimization is not worthy of further commentary unless and until empirical evidence of public perceptions is collected. Moreover, if empirical data were found to support such a societal view, it would behoove public library leaders and the library world in general to draw up comprehensive plans to generate a more accurate understanding.
In summary, none of the stratagems and rationalizations critiqued here solves anything, and the public learns nothing from silence. Shutting down open debate from public library meeting rooms doesn’t protect anybody in the long run from harm, oppression, and discrimination. It does not advance social justice. John Stuart Mill observed in On Liberty in 1859 that:
The peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is, that it is robbing the human race; posterity as well as the existing generation; those who dissent from the opinion, still more than those who hold it. If the opinion is right, they are deprived of the opportunity of exchanging error for truth: if wrong, they lose, what is almost as great a benefit, the clearer perception and livelier impression of truth, produced by its collision with error.
One unintended consequence of silencing dissent is that it goes underground, these days on social media, which makes no one safer nor ensures that free expression is healthier. On the contrary, repugnant views flourish in dark places, unbothered by public debate and counterargument. And remember, at their extremes, right and left are indistinguishable – think Stalin and Mao and Hitler and Mussolini. As Margaret Atwood observed in her article, “What Would a World Without Public Libraries Be Like?”:
There are an infinite variety of tyrannies and dystopias, but they all share one trait: the ferocious opposition to free thought, open minds, and access to information. Where people are free to learn, to share, to explore, feel and dream, liberty grows.
Other unintended consequences are false martyrdom and free publicity for pilloried speakers and their ideas. Protests and criticism in the press and on social media garner thousands and perhaps hundreds of thousands of dollars in free publicity for them and their causes and perspectives. The result is the absurdity that prosecution – and even public library cancellations – greatly enhance the promulgation and the reach of hateful ideas. As pointed out by Mark Lane, “It is a sad truth of public life that when a decision is made mainly out of fear of controversy, controversy usually ensues.”
The worst damage inflicted by public library room cancellations is that the general public becomes confused, alienated, and sometimes more curious about a speaker. Some members of the public will be especially resistant to calls for banning, and all the more resolute in keeping an open mind. In defending the right to free speech, they will even be perceived to support hateful propagandists. In great majorities, the public favours freedom of expression over censorship unless and until a criminal line is crossed. In the case of the three contested Edmonton Public Library speakers, Salman Rushdie, Joseph Boyden, and George Takei, reversals would have deprived – and, I suspect, angered and frustrated – almost 3,000 Edmontonians from listening to these internationally acclaimed leaders and subsequently coming to their own conclusions; and in rejecting another call for cancellation, over 100 children and adults would have been deprived of the uniqueness and hilarity of experiencing drag queens library storytime.
Challenging Repugnant Ideas
What I have not observed in any of the public library meeting room controversies is talk of how to counter repugnant beliefs in the larger societal and cultural contexts of Canadian education, politics, and media. Critics should find more effective ways of challenging unwelcome ideas and ideologies than by trying to silence them through denunciation of public library meeting room policies, a grave and ominous distraction in the larger arena that turns activist energies inward and ultimately makes them irrelevant. Accordingly, I would ask critics to consider focusing their energies, passion, and ingenuity on the views of the speakers, not on the public libraries permitting their appearances. Outrage needs to be channelled more cleverly and usefully.
Raise awareness of issues, by all means, by injecting more, not fewer, voices into the public arena and letting society at large decide. Thousands of years of history demonstrate that protection and safety through censorship are illusory. There is no safety net against bad ideas other than better ideas. Epithets and labels shut down dialogue and debate. But there are teachable (and learnable) moments in public ambiguity.
What the library profession needs is better informed critics and advocates about the core values of intellectual freedom and social responsibility and their interconnectedness. We must start with the view that constitutionally protected expressive freedom is fundamental to social justice; they are not opposites, not binaries, and never achievable one at the expense of the other. We must recognize that those who try to restrict free expression must show it is harmful; that the legal test of harm reduction constitutes the legal constraints and limits on state intervention.
Two urgent advances would be especially positive for critics to regain a degree of credibility. One is for the accredited Canadian graduate professional programs to offer stand-alone courses on intellectual freedom and social responsibility; to my knowledge, only the University of Alberta Master of Library and Information Studies program does so, a situation that has always frustrated and perplexed me personally. In the fast-changing digital age, the increasing complexities of intellectual freedom issues and government policies at all levels demand immediate immersive educational initiatives in both our graduate professional and technical post-secondary streams.
The second initiative is for Canadian public libraries to be more proactive in promoting free expression as their brand. For example, intellectual freedom should be referenced in job ads. Edmonton Public Library has been doing this consistently for at least a decade for all staff levels except for shelvers; applicants are enjoined to commit to upholding two CFLA-FCAB position statements, the foundational one on “Intellectual Freedom and Libraries” and a companion one on “Diversity and Inclusion.”
But that’s just a start. Public library leaders should hold in-service workshops on intellectual freedom and social responsibility issues on a regular basis. More intensive explorations are also needed periodically, such as the 2018 all-day all professional staff speaker panel and staff roundtable discussions on the topic of “EPL Leader in Residence: Intellectual Freedom in the 21st Century” – a first in Canadian public libraries, to my knowledge.
In the final analysis, the library profession operates within overlapping frameworks: to society, to the library profession, to institutional core values, to legal frameworks, and to individual opinion. But these frameworks are not coterminous with each other. In particular, the personal can never pre-empt institutional, professional, and legal responsibilities. Accordingly, it behooves us to explore and understand their similarities and their singularities. Noam Chomsky has asserted: “If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.”
But fleshing out what intellectual freedom means beyond sloganeering, means courage and patience and trust. Paraphrasing Ken Roberts, in his inaugural address as president of the Canadian Library Association in 2008, it means that:
We are the only profession whose value to society resides in a faith that people have the ability to make personal decisions that are good for them when—and if—they also have free and open access to all of the information that they might need….
[O]ur belief in the ability of people to form their own opinions trumps everything that we might personally think. This, to me, makes us remarkable.
That is a powerful claim. There’s no “But” in it, no equivocation. It’s also a powerful risk. At minimum, it’s a claim to a balance of probabilities.
In my book “Fear of Words,” I wrote: “In the last resort, it is not the force of law but only the force of free intelligence that can save a people from its own folly. In this light, I believe it is better to err on the side of more access rather than on the side of less.” Although that was a quarter century ago, I continue to hold to the categorical imperative of freedom of expression. By no means is it an absolute dictum. But as a universal aspirational ideal, it’s the best we can strive for in a democracy.
We have to take the long view. Paraphrasing Nicolas Kristof in a recent New York Times column, we have to be mindful that to win an argument you have to allow the argument. Informed public library policy review is the place to start, and I urge all library staff and trustees to undertake this urgent work. It is not predicated on distracting denunciations of the intersectionalities of power, privilege, speech, heritage, education, beliefs and religion, ethnicity, skin colour, religion, gender, age, sexuality, gender identity, class, income, and so on and on. It is grounded in the interlocking foundations of free expression and social responsibility.
For the public library to silence a voice is to deny public choice, to take away the right of people to decide for themselves what they want to learn about and what they want to take away as new conviction or simply new awareness. In the court of public library judgments, accusations and allegations do not rise to the level of threshold evidence for banning. They must be subjected to the legal precepts of presumed innocence and avoidance of prior restraint and to legal tests for constitutional protection. Only then are they taking a principled approach in serving the public good.
Public libraries must protect the right of people to be mistaken. Accountability and transparency in vision, mission, and value statements as well as in leaders’ judgments demand it. To continue honouring their commitment to intellectual freedom in the face of outrage over unpopular speakers, public libraries must err on the side of a plurality of ideas and perspectives, on the side of more voices and greater access. | <urn:uuid:639ce277-1853-4118-ad63-216844ad9dcd> | CC-MAIN-2021-10 | https://cfe.ryerson.ca/blog/2019/08/can-public-libraries-maintain-their-commitment-intellectual-freedom-face-outrage-over | 2021-02-27T07:58:34Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-10/segments/1614178358203.43/warc/CC-MAIN-20210227054852-20210227084852-00234.warc.gz | en | 0.945109 | 7,604 | [
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Having problems with your 2006 Ford F-150 ?
2006 Ford F-150 Brake, Running, and reverse lights not working, the third brake light is however working..... i suspect there was damage of some kind done to the tow kit's wiring.... i've checked everything, replaced a fry'd brake switch and 2 fuses. is there anything im overlooking? by the way - dont let people borrow your stuff.
Check the ground at the back of the truck. There is a single ground lug that includes the trailer tow adapters. Easiest to drop the spare to get to it.
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The season of promises
31 January 2019 | Opinion
Yes, the season of promises has started, and you best buckle up, because it’s gonna be a hectic ride into the land of sunshine, rainbows, ice cream cones for each of your hands and of course, continued adamancy that this or that party or politician is the answer to your prayers.
Look, we accept that this is part and parcel of the political game; politicians promise jobs, houses and a chicken in every pot for every night. And if you happen to think “wait, I don’t want to eat chicken every night”, they promise you a cook book on how to prepare chicken 365 ways or simply throw in lamb, pork and beef.
We really can’t win with politicians. Somewhere during the course of history someone, somewhere had this ‘brilliant’ idea of having a social contract between the ruled and the rulers, and now we are stuck. This rut manifests itself in a fairy-tale dance every five years in most countries, where politicians open their mouths, tell us everything and anything under the sun their spindoctors whisper in their ears, and then expect us to slurp it up like that soup Esau sold his birthright for in the Bible.
Hey, we’re used to this; nothing surprises us anymore. We know we are going to be promised all sorts of things, and then once we cast our ballots and return to our shacks, villages and poverty, which is the continued fate of the majority of Namibians, we get that final dose of delusion during acceptance speeches after the champagne is popped and the winner is announced, be it a party or president or both.
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I live and breathe classical music.
This came very naturally to me from my mother, Helen, who was a highly accomplished classical pianist. Before entering kindergarten, I had already learned that listening to classical music has the power to take us on a powerful emotional journey with just abstract sound — without the benefit of words that are the basis of dramas, plays and novels.
Over my career teaching the listening skills that help people connect with classical music, I have seen countless students, professional educators, classical novices and even seasoned concertgoers transformed into more confident, empathetic, and creative individuals by tapping deeply into the power of abstract music.
The secret is that it doesn’t take a complicated educational process or years of private lessons to learn. These deep listening skills can be taught to young children in our schools.
That’s what I shared with an audience of educators at Using Arts-Infused Instruction to Enhance NJ’s Learning Standards, a three-day conference presented by New Jersey Principals and Supervisors Association and Foundation for Educational Administration. Held at Princeton University in July, the event provided all of the artist-speakers with an opportunity to advocate for how their art form can be used to advance the core curriculum standards of New Jersey’s public schools.
I owe my approach to teaching music listening to Dr. Saul Feinberg, a teacher at Philadelphia’s Abraham Lincoln High School during my student days there in the 1960s. While musical performance activities at Lincoln were excellent, it wasn’t the school’s two concert choirs, chamber choir, two a cappella vocal quartets, two concert bands, marching band, jazz band, two orchestras, and the annual musical that set Lincoln High apart — it was the way Saul Feinberg taught music listening.
Rather than focus on teaching musical performance — the curricular emphasis at the time, and even today in most schools — Saul adapted the two-year ‘general music’ requirement of two 45-minute periods a week for eighth and ninth graders in all Pennsylvania public schools to teach aesthetic music listening skills.
How should we teach music?
Music instruction offered in schools would ideally mirror the three basic musical behaviors: creating (composing or improvising), performing and listening from an aesthetic viewpoint.
In a perfect world, all students in school would receive instruction in composing/improvising, performing and listening. Each year, from kindergarten through middle school, very specific standards could be set for each grade level. For example, by the end of first grade, every child should be able to: improvise in song or playing an Orff xylophone a simple ostinato (creation); sing a simple melody transmitted in Kodaly hand signals (performance); recognize a simple ternary form (listening).
Such a curriculum would, over time, produce a musically literate society.
Wow! Now there’s a thought…a musically literate society. Individuals trained in this fashion would be capable of performing, reading and inventing music. And, as listeners, they would also be able to emotionally connect with the greatest music human society has produced regardless of genre: classical, jazz, pop, folk or world and regardless of when that music was created from the earliest times to the present.
But we don’t live in an ideal world. And in the very real world of school, many music curriculums are entirely performance oriented or nearly so.
Music education in America means: little children with violins in hand; kids singing in choirs and playing in marching bands; and performing in the annual Broadway show. And all of that is very important, and not to be taken for granted where it exists — given the cuts to arts programs that we have experienced in recent decades.
But short of offering a comprehensive music education encompassing all three musical behaviors, might we at least consider adding the teaching of aesthetic music listening to all students, performers and non-performers alike? This is what I proposed to my audience of Principals and Supervisors in Princeton. At The Discovery Orchestra, we have some follow-up planned. Stay tuned.
George Marriner Maull is the artistic director of The Discovery Orchestra and has reached millions of viewers nationwide through his Emmy-nominated educational Discovery Concerts for American Public Television. The Discovery Orchestra’s new eight-part series for American Public Television, Fall in Love with Music, began airing in late March 2016 and episodes have already received nearly 1,000 broadcasts on PBS affiliates. | <urn:uuid:a536bd4e-51eb-420f-9502-496510b8a5b3> | CC-MAIN-2021-10 | https://blog.grdodge.org/2016/09/26/discovery-orchestra-how-shall-we-study-music/ | 2021-03-02T11:07:55Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-10/segments/1614178363809.24/warc/CC-MAIN-20210302095427-20210302125427-00234.warc.gz | en | 0.951173 | 935 | [
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By Ashley Burchett
Recently, as I began to participate in the realm of blogging, I realized very quickly how terrified I am to blog. My initial take on blog writing style is its conversational, casual tone, oftentimes replicating a stream-of-consciousness method of writing. Blogging seemed a daunting task to set upon, a task which I felt ill-equipped to complete. The concept that anything goes paralyzed my academic soul.
Needless to say, my confidence in writing exists in the realm of academia where the blogosphere exists on the far outskirts of the land as apparitions of my fears and insecurities in a style that was foreign to me. That is, until I realized that I’d been participating in a type of blogging all along: journaling.
Indeed, the way that journaling asks one to seek introspection and translate that introspection into words on a page seems very similar to blogging. In a way, this process is what writing in general asks one to do.
Now, I’m by no means an avid journal-writer; I’ve definitely had an off-and-on relationship with journaling since elementary school. But when I’ve participated in journaling, I’m a better thinker and writer for it. Here’s 3 reasons why you should consider journaling as an outlet to grow your writing and thinking:
1. Journaling strengthens authorial voice.
You can explore your voice within a low-stakes, private environment without the pressure of a public one.
Through the introspection journaling encourages, you can truly dig deep in order to reflect on your personal voice.
Journaling aids you in expressing your own opinions which can help improve oral communication in time.
2. Journaling stimulates creativity.
Stimulates is a key word here because journaling helps you explore and further develop the creativity you already possess. The growth of that existing creativity can often be squelched by not allowing yourself outlets that engage with your creativity.
Journaling provides the freedom to explore any thought, question, etc. in any form you decide to create.
3. Journaling provides documentation/categorization.
Journaling can be a way to document thoughts quickly.
Whether recorded in electronic files or notebooks, journaling can help you maintain a place to organize your thoughts, ideas, and interests.
Journaling can be the threshold of future writing projects. Thoughts you jot down today can transform into that best-selling book years from now.
I’m optimistic that my newfound participation in the outlet of blogging will challenge me as a thinker and writer. What will you do with the valuable outlets available to you? Will you remain writing and thinking only within a realm of style that is comfortable to you? Or, by experiencing various invaluable styles, will you choose to enliven your writing and thinking? Journaling can be one of the many outlets that can offer much to you as a writer and thinker. Existing not only as an outlet but also as a valuable experience, journaling will offer as much as you invest into it.
Ashley is a graduate of The College at Southeastern with a Bachelors in English and in Christian Studies and a minor in Writing, Rhetoric, and Communication. She hopes to pursue a Masters in composition and rhetoric in order to teach English/composition in the future. Ashley enjoys helping others grow in their ability to communicate through writing and believes that the written and spoken word are tools from God that are used to effectively communicate the Gospel and to create beautiful art. She desires that the words of both her mouth and pen invite others to behold the beauty of Christ. | <urn:uuid:2c621bdd-9cd3-4048-ab75-aad5afe73580> | CC-MAIN-2021-10 | https://slamsebts.net/2016/03/22/first-blog-post/ | 2021-03-02T11:11:21Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-10/segments/1614178363809.24/warc/CC-MAIN-20210302095427-20210302125427-00234.warc.gz | en | 0.9491 | 759 | [
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A taxi boss has said he will no longer allow customers to ask for a white driver after his Asian employees went on strike over the policy.
Stephen Campbell, boss of Car 2000 in Heywood, told the Manchester Evening News he made the decision after learning of the cabbies’ protest in the town centre last night.
In 2011, Mr Campbell’s family took over the business, which was formerly called Eagle Taxis, and which employed two of the nine men jailed a year later for grooming girls.
Earlier this week, Mr Campbell revealed his staff would provide customers with white – or ‘local’ – drivers on request. But today he said the firm would no longer offer this service.
Mr Campbell, 34, said: “The drivers were all aware we did this and said they wouldn’t want to pick up a customer that didn’t want them as a driver.
“But, as soon as they raised this as a problem, I have immediately changed it and have done what they wanted.”
Mr Campbell described one occasion when one of his Asian drivers had been to pick up a customer who refused to get in his car – and this had left the cabbie upset.
He added: “I don’t operate a company that makes people feel bad. I was trying to protect them. But I suppose in protecting them I was contributing to people’s racist beliefs.”
Mr Campbell, who employs a total of 80 drivers, said all his 55 Asian cabbies were on strike today over the row.
He is set to meet with some of them this afternoon to iron out the problems in a bid to get them back to work.
Mr Campbell previously told the M.E.N. that, out of 12,000 calls a week, around 60 would request a ‘local’ or Asian driver.
He said: “Our operators have now been told that no one can do that again.”
Dozens of furious Asian drivers who work for Car 2000 gathered in the centre of Heywood last night to protest about the firm offering white drivers on demand – blasting the service as ‘racist’ and ‘discriminatory’.
They were concerned the policy would reinforce negative stereotypes in the town and described how their cars had regularly been attacked following the grooming scandal.
One driver, Abdul Hafiz, said: “There were some bad men who worked as taxi drivers in Heywood and now they are in prison.
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Drawing Banners to Title Cluster
So let's talk about drawing banners and using text and and titles are end alphabets together, so sometimes we might have a bit of a longer title and we so instead of title here let's use the example tile goes here and so we want to have it take up not a lot of visual way because goes here wouldn't be very exciting, but it is part of the title, so we're going to add a banner to our title cluster that's going to be a shape so that we can use text with our title now to make it really dynamic we if we just put it on top of everything not very nice we just put it underneath everything it wouldn't be very nice either, so we can just like we did with the ribbon we can pull it on top of some letters and pull other letters on top of it so that it kind of messes in with our letters and then let's make it white um let's notch this banner like we did on the other one. So I know that I talked about when we were talking about papers that it's important to make sure that your anything that you want t...
o have a banner has a direct middle point so it's like exactly two inches so that you know one inches of direct center but if you don't have that option, you can also clicking got a click and drag a guide down to the center of something and now you know that that's the direct center of that banner, and you can add the anchor point to it on both sides because we're going to notch in on both sides and again, we wantto convert an anchor point because it's curved right now and then we can drag it in a little bit, holding down shift so it drags on the straight line, and now I'm gonna show you what happens if you don't convert that anchor point, you can see it's curved, but if you notice that that's a problem, you can always convert it afterwards, too. So now I'm just going toe goes here, and now you can mix your favorite text fonts, her texter, stamped fonts, even with your title what you find with this kind of titles, um, typically I used typewriter fonts for this kind of stuff for things that go on banners. I like the typewriter fonts because let's say you were you were using this fund specifically, it kind of mimics the title farmed, and so it it doesn't give enough variation, so if we go to typical writer again, instead it gives you a lot more variation then before
Learn how to make your layers lovely in Layering in Adobe® Photoshop® for Digital Scrapbookers! Traci Reed will teach you how to assemble papers, photos, and embellishments so your scrapbook pages look professional and polished, not cluttered.
There are so many fun elements to work within digital scrapbooking, but making pages that are pleasing to the eye can be a surprisingly difficult task. In this class, Traci will teach you how to use basic Adobe Photoshop tools to improve the overall look of your layout.
- How to create realistic depth
- Enhancing using the dodge and burn tool
- Designing with lighting effects
In Layering in Adobe Photoshop for Digital Scrapbookers you’ll learn how to layer from the ground up. Traci will show you how to lay the perfect foundation and how to finish it off with advanced final touches like painting and stitching.
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I have two distinct reactions to exhibitions. I either love it so much that I immediately come home to write about it, or I sit on the experience and let it ruminate in my mind for weeks. I went to the Urs Fischer exhibit at MOCA a week and a half ago, and I am still thinking about it.
The artist defies a cogent description. All I knew of Fischer prior to the show was that he had a gallery show in NYC where he excavated the gallery space. Within 2 seconds of walking into MOCA it is clear that Fischer likes to destroy and morph every aspect of his exhibition space. From slow melting wax sculptures and suspended fruit to blown out holes in the gallery walls, Fisher eschews stasis.
Weeks later, I still struggle to mentally synthesize the raindrops in “Horses Dream of Horses” with the “Bread House” (yes it was a house made of bread which certainly curbed my craving for carbs for a day or two). What I saw was quite remarkable. Every inch of the gallery space provides an opportunity for commentary, from the slick black vinyl floors to the sloppily whitewashed walls.
MOCA’s triumph with this show is that they chose to go “all in” with Fischer and opened up the Geffen Contemporary to “Yes”, a collaborative project that transformed the Geffen into a claymaking studio. Over 1,500 people were invited to mold clay in the museum with the results now on display. Here’s a great video of the process. This is one of the best curated shows I’ve seen at MOCA in a long time. | <urn:uuid:a7d5717d-0d6d-4204-8937-e73f9f7c7499> | CC-MAIN-2021-10 | https://cshockart.com/2013/05/09/urs-fischer-moca/ | 2021-03-05T15:31:18Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-10/segments/1614178373095.44/warc/CC-MAIN-20210305152710-20210305182710-00234.warc.gz | en | 0.967279 | 350 | [
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Udupi: The world is not ruined by the activities of bad people, but by the inactivity of good people, said Dr Devi Prasad Shetty
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Important events impacted alcohol in the 18th century. European countries expanded their activities establishing colonies around the world during this period.
In addition, there were major scientific discoveries, political revolutions, and social developments.
Alcohol in the 18th Century
- The use of alcohol in Europe as a medicine was very high throughout the century.1
- Alcoholic beverages played a major role in European diets, especially in providing much needed calories.2
- Winemaking began in Australia (New South Wales) in the late part of the century.3
- By the early 1760s, a London publisher was selling a cellar-record book for listing wine purchases and consumption.4
- Hard cider served as a currency in the North American colonies.5
- ‘Housewives in the northern colonies [of what is now the US] brewed beer every few days, since their product had a short shelf life.’6
Cir. 1720-Cir. 1750
- The colony of Georgia tried prohibiting spirits. However, it failed failed in the Oglethorpe Experiment of 1733-1742.7
- The English Parliment promoted gin production to use surplus grain and to raise taxes. As a result, very cheap spirits flooded the market. It was at a time when drunkenness had little stigma. The growing urban poor in London sought relief from their problems.8 Thus developed the so-called Gin Epidemic. In 1685, consumption of gin had been slightly over one-half million gallons.9 By 1714, gin production stood at two million gallons.10 In 1727, the official (declared and taxed) production reached five million gallons. Six years later the London area alone produced eleven million gallons of gin.11
- Parliament passed legislation in 1736 to discourage consumption. It prohibited the sale of gin in quantities of less than two gallons. It also raised the tax on it greatly. However, peak consumption was seven years later. At that time, the nation of six and one-half million people drank over 18 million gallons of gin. A small minority of the population in London and other cities drank most of it. People in the countryside largely continued drinking beer, ale and cider.13 After its peak, gin consumption quickly declined. From 18 million gallons in 1743, it dropped to just over seven million gallons in 1751. Then it fell under two million by 1758. It generally declined to the end of the century.14
- A number of factors appear to have converged to discourage gin drinking. These include quality beer at lower price. Rising corn prices and taxes. This reduced the price advantage of gin. Parliament imposed a temporary ban on distilling. Stigmatization of drinking gin developed. Criticism of drunkenness increased. A rising standard of behavior criticized excess. Coffee consumption rose. Piety increased. And industrialization valued sobriety.15
- ‘In the late 1700s and the early 1800s, several navigators and explorers [to New Zealand], such as Marion du Fresne (in 1772), noted that the indigenous people, the Maori, were not fond of liquor and reacted in surprise and disgust when they tasted it.’16
By 1700, sparkling Champagne had become very popular. In fact, it sold for twice the price of the best still wine from the region.17
Portugal established the oldest appellation system in the world, the Douro Valley.18
By 1714, gin production in England reached two million gallons per year, double that of 1696.19
The first large-scale vineyard was planted in northern Mexico around 1717. The government imposed prohibitions against other vineyards. That was to secure a Spanish wine monopoly.’20
The profits of vintners in France increased as the demand grew for both inferior and good wines.21
Rising rural prosperity in France enabled peasants for the first time to drink alcohol daily in grape-growing areas.22
To control drunkenness, Parliament passed the Gin Control Act of 1729. It raised taxes on alcohol retailers.23
In London, William Nicholson invented the hydrometer. It measures the alcohol content of beer, wine or spirits.24
They could take their daily ration of alcohol as a pint of wine or a half-pint of rum. That was instead of the traditional gallon of beer. 25
- In Holland, gin production increased 400% between 1733 and 1792.26
- Parliament repealed the ineffective Act of 1729.27
Parliament passed a harsh new Gin Act. It increased the taxes on gin greatly. That was to discourage poor people from buying it.28
A group of drinkers in Bern, Switzerland, formed the Golden Louse society. Its member vowed to becoming intoxicated every day of the week.29
In Holland, there were 100 brewers employing 1,200 people.30
John Wesley included a prohibition against drunkenness in the rules of the Methodist church.31
1750 to Early 1800s
Various Native American tribes formed sobriety circles or alcoholic mutual aid groups. Some circles later become the bases for temperance societies.32
In most French boarding schools, wine provided the third largest source of calories.33
There were about 700 inns that served alcohol in Stockholm. This meant one inn per 88 residents. Today there’s about one restaurant per 700 residents35
Arthur Guinness established the Guinness brewery in Dublin.36
Frederick II, king of Prussia, imposed a high tax on coffee. That’s because he wanted to increase brewing. And the reason? He got much revenue from brewing.37
Catherine the Great (1762-1796) of Russia established a system of alcohol monopoly franchises (otkupa). The goal was to increase taxes to the state.3
Wine growing came into California from Mexico and wine making became its oldest industry.39
The Wilderness Road was the northern route over the mountains from Virginia. It had whiskey for sale at strategic points along its length. ‘[S]tills were the largest, most complex, and most valuable man-made objects to be carried over the mountains.’40
The U.S. War of Independence effected drinking behaviors. Trade with the West Indies, which remained British, ceased.
So there was a demand for rum substitutes. The areas west of the Appalachians produced whiskey from corn they grew. Rye whiskey became more popular and Kentucky began to make Bourbon.41
In Basil, Switzerland, a commission investigated the damage caused by abusive drinking.42
George Washington wrote to John Hancock. The ‘benefits arising from the moderate use of strong Liquor have been experienced in all Armies and are not to be disputed.’43
Vintners first used corks as a common stopper. This made wine bottle aging possible.46
Rising nationalism in the post-revolutionary years led American drinkers to switch alcoholic beverages. Rum depended on supplies from Europe’s Caribbean colonies. So they switched to whiskeys distilled from domestically produced grains.’47
Dr. Benjamin Rush published his pamphlet. An Enquiry into the Effects of Spiritous Liquors upon the Human Body, and Their Influence upon the Happiness of Society.
Rush’s idea was that alcoholism is an ‘odious disease.’ His recommendations were ‘whipping the patient severely,’ blistering the ankles, bleeding, and purging with toxic substances.
Parenthetically, he also promoted his belief that being black was a result of a curable skin disease. Rush called it negroidism. Intermarrying, he argued, helped spread the disease.48
The first convict fleet carried grape vines to the New South Wales colony.’49
- The Reverend Elijah Craig, a Baptist minister, distilled the first Kentucky whiskey.50
- After the French Revolution, the government confiscated the vineyards of the churches, abbeys and nobles. It divided them into small plots and for many owners. French law divides property equally among heirs. This additionally subdivided vineyard property into ever smaller parcels of ownership. In Burgundy this led to the the rise of negociants or wine brokers. They buy wine from many owners, blend it, and then market it under their own names.51
- The fourth president of the U.S., James Madison, proposed a law on beer. It was to encourage ‘the manufacture of beer in every State in the Union.’52
Folk hero Johnny Appleseed (John Chapman) began wandering the northeastern U.S. planting seeds from apples. Being sour, the apples were not for eating but for producing hard cider.53
Parliament made it illegal to pay wages in liquor.54
- A licensing reform allowed grocers in England to retail spirits.55
- The Distilled Spirits Tax of 1791 (the Whiskey Tax) imposed a tax on all distilled spirits produced in the US.56
- The New South Wales Corps began exerting control over the importation and distribution of alcohol in Australia. By 1795, they had a monopoly. And by that time alcohol had become the medium of exchange. People could buy labor only with spirits.”57
- Swiss Dr. Pierre Ordinaire produced the first absynthe.58
During the Whiskey Rebellion, federal troops established the U.S. government’s ability and willingness to impose its power. It arresting those who refused to pay taxes on their products.59
England passed the Sale of Beer Act. It prohibited anyone convicted twice for selling without a license from ever holding a license to sell alcohol.60
Every signer of the American Declaration of Independence, without exception, drank alcoholic beverages.63
Late Eighteenth Century
‘Alcohol was virtually unknown in Australia until Europeans began arriving in the late eighteenth century.’61
End of the Eightenth Century
Absinthe began as a tonic in Switzerland at the close of the 18th century.62
We’ve looked at alcohol in the 18th century. Now it’s time to see what happened to alcohol in the 19th century.
Resources: Alcohol in the 18th Century
Brennan, T. Public Drinking and Popular Culture in Eighteenth Century Paris. Princeton: Princeton U Press, 2014.
Brown, P., and Schwartz, M. Come Drink the Bowl Dry. Alcoholic Liquors and their Place in 18th Century Society. York, Eng: York Civic Trust, 1996.
Dodd, A., and Moss, P. Gloucester Alehouses. A Light Hearted Look at the Inns & Taverns of 18th Century Gloucester. Gloucester, Eng: Trio, 1985
Kellner, E. Moonshine. Its History and Folklore. NY: Weathervane, 1971.
Meacham, S. Every Home a Distillery. Alcohol, Gender and Technology in Colonial Chesapeake. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins U Press, 2013.
Salinger, S. Taverns and Drinking in Early America. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins U Press, 2004.
Sambrook, P. Country House Brewing in England, 1500-1900. London: Hambledon, 1996.
Stewart, B. Moonshiners and Prohibitionists. The Battle over Alcohol in Southern Appalachia. Lexington: U Press of Kentucky, 2018.
Schmid, S., and Schmidt-Haberkamp, B. Drink in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries. London: Routledge, 2016.
Taylor, A. Bacchus in Romantic England. Writers and Drink, 1780-1830. NY: St. Martin’s, 1999.
- 1 Porter, R. English Society in the Eighteenth Century. London: Penguin, 1982, p. 30. Lucia, S. A History of Wine as Therapy. Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1963, p.8;
- 2 Aymard, M. Toward the History of Nutrition. In: Forster, R., and Orest, R., (Eds.) Food and Drink in History. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins U Press, 1979. Pp. 1-16.
- 3 Lukacs, P. Inventing Wine. NY: Norton, 2012, p. 162.
- 4 Lukacs, p. 110.
- 5 Cohen, N. The Comeback of a Colonial Beverage. The Allegheny Front/NPR, Nov 10, 2010.alleghenyfront.org/story/comeback-colonial-beverage#transcript.
- 6 Blocker, J. Kaleidoscope in Motion. Drinking in the United States, 1400-2000. In: Holt. M. (Ed.) Alcohol. Oxford: Berg, 2006. Pp. 225-240. P. 227. Good coverage of alcohol in the 18th century.
- 7 Austin, G. Perspectves on the History of Psychoactive Substance Use. Rockville, MD: NIDA, 1979.
- 8 Watney, J. Mother’s Ruin: A History of Gin. London: Peter Owen, 1976, p. 17. Austin, G. Alcohol in Western Society. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC – Clio, 1985, pp. xxi-xxii.
- 9 Souria, J.-C. A History of Alcoholism. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1990, p. 20.
- 10 Roueche, B. Alcohol in Human Culture. In: Lucia, S. (Ed.) Alcohol and Civilization. NY: McGraw-Hill, 1963, p. 174. Good source on alcohol in the 18th century.
- 11 French, H. Nineteen Centuries of Drink in England. London: Nat Temp Pub Depot, 1890, p. 271. Samuelson, J. The History of Drink. London: Trubner, 1878, pp. 160-161. Watney, J., ibid., p. 16.
- 12 Mathias, P. The Brewing Industry in England, 1700 – 1830. Cambridge: Cambridge U Press, 1959, p. xxv. Souria, J.-C., ibid., p. 21;
- 13 Watney, J., ibid. Doxat, J. The World of Drinks and Drinking. NY: Drake, 1971, pp. 98-100.
- 14 Ashton, T. An Economic History of England. London: Methuen, 1955, p. 243.
- 15 King, F. Beer Has a History. London: Hutchinson’s, 1947, p. 117. Covers alcohol in the 18th century. Younger, W. Gods, Men, and Wine. Michael Joseph, 1966, p. 341.
- 16 Park, J. New Zealand. In: Heath, D. (Ed.) International Handbook on Alcohol and Culture. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1995. Pp. 201-212. P. 203.
- 17 Seward, D. Monks and Wine. London: Mitchell Beazley, 1979, p. 142.
- 18 Portuguese Wine. Corks and Forks website. corksandforks.com/portugal.htm
- 19 Ashton, ibid.
- 20 Rey, G. Mexico. In: Heath. Pp.179-189. P. 180.
- 21 Duby, G., and Mandrou, R. A History of French Civilization. NY: Random House, 1964, pp. 356-359.
- 22 Austin, G. Alcohol in Western Society. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-Clio, 1985, p. 310. Good for information on alcohol in the 18th century.
- 23 French, H. Nineteen Centuries of Drink in England. London: Longmans, 1884, pp. 285-286.
- 24 Murphy, B. The World Book of Whiskey. Chicago: Rand McNall, 1979, p. 172.
- 25 Sutherland, D. Raise Your Glasses. London: Macdonald, 1969, p. 16.
- 26 Forbes, R. Short History of the Art of Distillation. Leiden: Brill, 1948, p. 190.
- 27 Austin, 1985, p. 307.
- 28 French, 1884,pp. 286-288.
- 29 Jellinek, E. Jellinek Working Papers. Popham, R. (Ed.) Toronto: Addict Res Found, 1976, p. 83.
- 30 Kellenbenz, H. The Organization of Industrial Production. In: Rich, E., and Wilson, C., (Eds.) The Economic Organization of Early Modern Europe. Cambridge: Cambridge U Press, 1977. Pp. 462-548. P. 537.
- 31 Austin., 1979, ibid.
- 32 White, W. Slaying the Dragon: The history of Addiction Treatment and Recovery in America. Bloomington, IL: Chesnut Health, 1998.
- 33 Frijhoff, W., and Julia, D. The Diet of Boarding Schools at the End of the Ancien Regime. In: Forster, R., and Ranum, O, (Eds.). Food and Drink in History. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins U Press, 1979. Pp. 73-85. P. 79.
- 34 White, ibid.
- 35 Nyberg, K., and Allebeck, P. Sweden. In: Heath. Pp. 280-288. P. 281.
- 36 Mansfield, S. The Search for God and Guinness. Nashville: Nelson, 2009, p. xxvii.
- 37 Ukers, W. All About Coffee. NY: Tea and Coffee Trade J Co., 1935, p. 42.
- 38 Cherrington, E. (Ed.) Standard Encyclopedia of the Alcohol Problem. Westerville, OH: Am Issue Pub, 1930. Vol. 5, p. 2331. Good treatment of alcohol in the 18th century and earlier
- 39 Ford, G. Wines, Brews, & Spirits. Seattle: Ford, 1996, p. 17.
- 40 Gately, p. 216, p. 17.
- 41 Sournia, p. 29.
- 42 Jellinek, p. 82.
- 43 From George Washington to John Hancock, August 16, 1777. Nat Archives. Founders Online. .archives.gov/documents/Washington/03-10-02-0622.
- 44 George Washington: His New Nation’s Larest Whiskey Distiller. .
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- 46 Ford, ibid.
- 47 Blocker, 2006, ibid.
- 48 Katcher, B. Benjamin Rush’s educational campaign against hard drinking. Am J Pub Health, 1993, 8(2), 273-281.
- 49 Gately, p. 331.
- 50 Grimes, W. Straight Up or On the Rocks. NY: Simon & Schuster, 1993, pp. 52-53. Lender, M., and Martin, J. Drinking in America. NY: Free Press, 1982, p. 33.
- 51 Taber, G. Judgment of Paris. NY: Scribner, 2005, pp. 26-27.
- 52 Beer History website. beerhistory.com/library/holdings/raley_timetable.shtml
- 53 NPR. Johnny Appleseed Planted Stories of Myth, Adventure. April 17, 2011.
- 54 Magee, M. 1000 Years of Irish Whiskey. Dublin: O’Brien, 1980, p. 76.
- 55 Magee, ibid..
- 56 Simon, S. Alexander Hamilton and the Whiskey Tax. TTB website. .ttb.gov/public_info/special_feature.shtml.
- 57 Gately, pp. 204-205.
- 58 Gately, p. 334.
- 59 Hoover, M. The Whiskey Rebellion. TTB website. ttb.gov/public_info/whisky_rebellion.shtml.
- 60 King, p. 119.
- 61 Kirkby, D. Drinking ‘The Good Life’ Australia c. 1880-1980. In: Holt, M. (Ed.) Alcohol. Oxford: Berg, 2006. Pp.203-223. P. 212.
- 62 Baker, P. The Dedalus Book of Absinthe. Cambs, U.K.: Dedalus, p. 7.
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Berenberg has been indulging in "counter-cyclical" hiring for the past two years and has been bringing in some senior research analysts as other investment banks pare back in this area. It is planning to increase its current team of around 100 analysts in the UK and U.S. to around 150 people.
Dirpes is the second research analyst to leave Goldman Sachs for Berenberg in recent months. Conrad Bartos, an analyst who’d spent three years at Goldman Sachs since joining from University College London in 2012, made the switch from IBD to research at Berenberg.
At large investment banks, meanwhile, most firms have continued to hire senior analysts in the build up to MiFID II's implementation in 2018. MiFID II requires banks to separate research costs from other trading commission charges, so the logic is that senior analysts writing high-quality research is more likely to lead buy-side clients to shell out.
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Of fibre and loom
by National Institute of Design, Manohar Publishers & Distributors with support from Development Commissioner (Handlooms), Ministry of Textiles, Govt. of India in Ahmedabad, New Delhi
Written in English
Includes bibliographical references (p. 281-288) and index.
|Other titles||Fibre and loom|
|Statement||Lotika Varadarajan, Krishna Amin-Patel.|
|Contributions||Patel, Krishna Amin., National Institute of Design., India. Office of the Development Commissioner for Handlooms.|
|The Physical Object|
|Pagination||308 p. :|
|Number of Pages||308|
|LC Control Number||2008324744|
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Of Fibre and Loom: The Indian Tradition Lotika Varadarajan and Krishna Amin-Patel Published by National Institute of Design in association with Manohar, New Delhi, India ()Price Range: $ - $ About the Book Of Fibre and Loom: The Indian Tradition, is the product of collaborative work between a designer weaver and an ethono-historian.
It is through this joint research that the full range and depth of the textile tradition of the subcontinents brought to view. From the wool weaving traditions of Kashmir, Kullu and Kinnaur to the Deccan horizons of Kanchipuram silks and from the Paithani repertoire to the Jamdani woven on the Yongkham loom of Manipur, this book is Of fibre and loom book in range.
Of Fibre and Loom: The Indian Tradition, is the product of collaborative work between a designer-weaver and an ethno-historian.
It is through this joint research that the full range and depth of the textile tradition of the subcontinent is brought to view. The loom-based instruction is minimal at best and doesn't cover even some of the bare bones of tapestry weaving such as hemstitching.
There are some interesting fiber crafts (such as making a teepee with ribbon) presented but they are the most very /5(82). Fiber Loving Children’s Books I love books and am always on the look out for great books, which includes books with great stories and pictures for my children.
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Expanding America’s broadband connectivity is critical to our nation’s economy, and a top priority for President Trump and the Department of Commerce. Today, we join with our partners in government to announce the American Broadband Initiative (ABI), a comprehensive effort to stimulate increased private sector investment in broadband.
NTIA is proud to share leadership of the ABI, in partnership with the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), and the White House Offices of American Innovation, Management and Budget, Science and Technology Policy, and the National Economic Council. In a report released today, over 20 federal agencies set out strategies for streamlining federal permitting, leveraging federal assets, and maximizing the effectiveness of federal funding for broadband.
We congratulate the Department of Interior on the launch of the new Joint Overview Established Location Map, which pulls data related to federal lands and assets from multiple agencies into a single map. This map will help the broadband industry more easily identify the location of available assets. It is an important first step in one of the Initiative’s core priorities: making it easier for the private sector to leverage federal assets to promote investment.
NTIA also has begun work on a map to update nationwide broadband availability data, initially partnering with eight states – California, Maine, Massachusetts, Minnesota, North Carolina, Tennessee, Utah, and West Virginia – to give policymakers a deeper understanding of which parts of the country lack broadband access.
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St Patrick's Day myths and legends busted
Drinking and parades may now be holiday staples, but neither tradition hails from old Ireland
People around the world will don green regalia and raise a pint of Guinness to Ireland's patron saint today, but many of the traditions associated with St Patrick are relatively new.
Colour me misinformed
An association with the colour green is relatively recent, reports Time Magazine, which says the knights of St Patrick actually wore a colour known as "St Patrick's blue". Modern academics also note that blue features prominently on many of Ireland's ancient Celtic flags.
The use of green as a symbol of Ireland didn't really become widespread until the end of the 18th century, when green banners were hoisted by the United Irishmen during the Irish Rebellion of 1798. The same period saw the shamrock adopted as an emblem of Irish nationalism – an association that continues today.
Green is now inextricably linked with Ireland and its patron saint. St Patrick's Day parades, both in Ireland and the rest of the world, are awash with green costumes, flags and floats.
Booze, glorious booze
Another misconception surrounding St Patrick's Day is that it has always been an excuse for a round of drinks. But although the occasion became an official public holiday in Ireland in 1903, thanks to campaigning in Westminster by Irish politician James O'Mara, public houses in the Emerald Isle weren't allowed to open on 17 March until the 1960s for fear it could promote excessive drinking.
Since the repeal of these restrictions, drinking has become an integral part of the celebrations, giving pubs and breweries around the world much cause of celebration. More than 13 million glasses of Guinness are drunk around the world on 17 March – double the amount sold on any other given day, says the Daily Telegraph. In what might come as a surprise to some, the biggest market is in Nigeria, where Patrick is also a patron saint. In the UK, the busiest Irish-themed O'Neill's pubs can get through 16 barrels of Guinness in just one day – the norm is just half a barrel, the newspaper reports.
If you're planning on raising a glass – or three – to celebrate, popular Irish toasts include: "May the roof above us never fall in and may we friends beneath it never fall out."
Rain on the Irish parade
Though unofficial St Patrick’s Day parades were commonplace in Ireland throughout the 19th century, the first official parade didn't occur in Dublin until 1931. In fact, the St Patrick's Day parade as we know it today is a largely American invention.
The first parade on US soil took place back in 1762, when Irish soldiers serving in the English army celebrated the holiday by marching through the streets of New York. By 1848 this parade was an annual city event, and today New York's procession includes over 150,000 people, and attracts nearly three million spectators.
But while New York has the St Patrick's Day parade, Chicago invented its own tradition of dying the Chicago River green to mark the occasion. In 1962 sanitation workers realised that the green dye they used to check for illegally dumped sewage could double as a St Patrick's Day decoration. The city has been greening its waterways ever since.
Nearly 35 million Americans claim some sort of Irish ancestry – that's seven times the population of Ireland itself, and according to Philip Freeman, "St Patrick's Day is basically an invention of this Irish American contingent... Modern celebrations really have very little to do with Irish traditions, or St Patrick himself."
St Patrick and politics
The Americans also fostered a link between St Patrick's Day and the civic and political life of many big cities, especially on the east coast, which had attracted big Irish populations. Police departments and fire brigades employed many Irish migrants, and became active participants in St Patrick's Day parades. JFK, himself of Irish-Catholic stock, said the celebration was "as purely American as it is Irish, recalling for all that ours is a nation founded, sustained, and now preserved in the cause of liberty. None more than the Irish can attest the power of that cause once it has gripped a nation's soul."
St Patrick: the man himself…
St Patrick was neither Irish nor called Patrick. According to history.com, despite his relative "celebrity" among religious figures, St Patrick still "remains somewhat of a mystery".
Born at the end of the fourth century to wealthy aristocratic parents in Roman Britain, St Patrick's real name is believed to be Maewyn Succat, but his life took an unexpected turn at the age of 16 when he was kidnapped from his parents' estate by Irish raiders.
Shipped to County Mayo as a slave, he spent the next six years working as a shepherd with only his faith to sustain him. Growing steadily more devout, St Patrick eventually managed to escape with the aid of a mysterious voice – a voice he believed to be God. Legend has it he walked a staggering 200 miles to reach the coast at the behest of the voice, returning to Britain as a stowaway on an Irish pirate ship.
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My book "Answering Our Urgent Need to Adopt an Eco-Sustainable Eating Model" provides you with awareness about why the USDA Eating Model has been called "flawed" and "inaccurate" by one of our nation's top nutrition educators.
My Eco-Intelligent Eating Model™ Info-graphic illustrates for you: 1) what organic farming is and how it protects biodiversity, 2) the earth’s first foods, 3) why and how to recycle food waste and reduce food packaging, and 4) how to save energy in the cooking process, and eat in harmony with the seasons.
My 4 Eco-Intelligent Eating Model™ Farm to Table Info-Graphics illustrate for you: 1) an "eco-negligent" approach to farming and eating 2) how it ‘starves’ the eco-relationships which govern your personal and planetary well-being and 3) an "eco-intelligent" approach to farming and eating, 4) how it ‘nourishes’ the eco-relationships which govern your personal and planetary well-being.
My 10 Tabletop TUTORS™ Info-graphics illustrate for you, how you can support the earth’s health through practices such as composting, permaculture, and avoidance of chemicals, as well as gardening in a way that protects seeds and honeybees from extinction.
My 13 segment podcast features: Learn about the history of both the USDA Eating Model and the Eco-Intelligent Eating Model ™ including their impact on the environment. 2) Learn why my eating model caters to both plant and animal food eaters. 3) Listen to me share insights about the whole foods that are featured in the Eco-Intelligent Eating Model™ and get insights about their history, culinary uses, and health benefits. 3) Learn about “who” supports the sustainable eating model that I’ve created, and consider how you might use it for teaching purposes in your home or community.
My 25 Tabletop TUTORS™ (which double as dining table placemats) offer an easy and fun way to learn about and teach others about ALL of the foods that are featured in the Eco-Intelligent Eating Model.™
These colorful text-rich graphics teach you about whole grains, legumes, sprouts, nuts and seeds, fruits and vegetables, herbs, spices, healthy salt, green super foods, organic meats, and dairy products, fish and sea vegetables, non-dairy milks and seed/nut cheeses, wholesome sweeteners, and pure drinking water.
Note: Bonus graphics are included, which address the health issues related to eating unhealthy fats, sweeteners, and factory farmed meats and dairy products. And, you will get quizzes that support you in personalizing what you learn!
My "Top 10 Grocery Shopping Hacks" Report offers you my tips for making organic food affordable.
My Crossword Puzzle Game, “‘Farm Alarm” gives you a fun way to learn about the hazards of growing and eating GMO foods!
Be on the cutting edge of nutrition education, and join a growing food movement that is committed to promoting health, longevity, and sustainability in yourself and all living things!
Note: This course is a mini-version of my Eco-Intelligent Eating Advocate (Certification) Course. The certification course offers a more in-depth version of the farming and food issues than what is covered in the yellow covered booklet. It also features 50 cooking videos and several other valuable learning tools, plus a consultation with me and an endorsement for your resume. Both training options are great! You get to choose which one suits your needs best! Questions? | <urn:uuid:bbf333b5-9a28-4007-92b0-20851c4fcd09> | CC-MAIN-2021-10 | https://www.ecointelligenteating.com/learn-teach-nutrition | 2021-02-25T21:56:28Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-10/segments/1614178355937.26/warc/CC-MAIN-20210225211435-20210226001435-00274.warc.gz | en | 0.930389 | 1,133 | [
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This last Monday we launched “The Daily OT” listening plan, which takes you on a 929 day journey, listening through the Old Testament. Today’s reading is in Genesis 5, which contains the fascinating verse above.
You may have never heard of Enoch. He’s name only appears in a few genealogies in the Bible, once in Hebrews, and again in Jude. But his story has evoked a lot of interest and commentary. He was the seventh generation from Adam, the father of the oldest man recorded to have lived (Methuselah), and—the most interesting part of all—he never died.
“Enoch walked with God,” and then “he was not.” What does that even mean? And more strange still, “he was not, for God took him.” Truly a strange passage of scripture, if ever there was one. The “hall of faith” in Hebrews 11 records, “By faith Enoch was taken up so that he should not see death” (v. 5).
There are many things that we could speculate about Enoch, and his story. But the full details we’ll have to find out when we connect with him in eternity. But aside from all of those fascinating details we may one day learn, one thing we know for certain is worth thinking about as we head into another weekend, under the shadow of the Coronavirus.
Hebrews 11:5 gives us this important point; the reason for which Enoch’s name is listed in Hebrews 11: “before he was taken he had this testimony, that he pleased God.” How did this man of God, who walked with God and was not, please the Lord with whom he walked? The author of the Book of Hebrews answers the question for us in verse 6 …
for he who comes to God must believe that He is,
and that He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him.
– Hebrews 11:6
The last 7 weeks have likely been a challenge and test for your faith. But if you simply believe that God is, and that He is the rewarder of those who diligently seek Him, then you too will be pleasing to God. And you can have this sure and steadfast hope, that as you walk, pursuing God by faith in this life, you will walk with Him in His presence forever. | <urn:uuid:81cb6011-c7e6-439b-867f-bf6b1a64f673> | CC-MAIN-2021-10 | https://pastormiles.com/2020/04/enoch-walked-with-god/ | 2021-02-27T09:59:42Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-10/segments/1614178358798.23/warc/CC-MAIN-20210227084805-20210227114805-00594.warc.gz | en | 0.980843 | 514 | [
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Bonus - We'll send you a copy of an old newspaper ad from the Oakland
California Tribune advertising this design back in 1973. The ad says
"From the evocative Curtis Jere collection ...welded-metal wall hangings
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Earlier this week, we passed along a report claiming that Apple was looking to open up a new research and development center in Beijing. The news made sense, considering that on Tim Cook’s recent visit to China, he was seen talking with high level government officials.
But according to a new report, which cites people familiar with the project, the R&D facility is actually going up in Shanghai. The campus, which Apple is expected to announce later this year, will feature three 6-story buildings, with over 100,000 square feet of space…
“Apple will announce the opening of its R&D center in China this summer, but instead of being located in Beijing as rumored, the center will be situated in Pudong, Shanghai, an unnamed insider source told CNET today.
According to the pictures provided by the source, the center consists of three six-story Baroque style buildings with total floor area standing at approximately 10,000 sqm.”
According to the report, Apple began the plan to build the research and development center in China between 6-7 years ago and plans to move into the facility this summer. The total annual rent for the three buildings is said to exceed CNY 50 million (or 8 million USD).
China is currently Apple’s second largest market, but it will soon overtake the US. Tim Cook visited the country for the 2nd time in 10 months last week, and in addition to speaking with officials, he also saw the head of China’s industry and information technology, Miao Wei.
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Geriatric Care & Healthy Aging
As we age, we can develop one or more related medical problems often referred to as geriatric syndromes. These usually have more than one cause and may involve various body parts and systems. One geriatric syndrome can contribute to another, which makes medical care more complex. Doctors with training and experience in the care of older adults play an important role in diagnosing and managing geriatric syndromes.
Older adults can have unique health challenges that fall outside the standard American single-disease treatment model. For example, adults over age 65 have a higher risk of falling due to postural problems, balance or gait impairments and the use of multiple prescription medications (polypharmacy) or sedative-hypnotic medications. More than half of older adults have three or more medical problems and may be taking medications for each of them.
Common health problems for aging adults
The most common health issues for older adults include heart disease, diabetes, rheumatoid arthritis, Alzheimer’s disease and hypertension. Other common older adult conditions include:
- Difficulty swallowing
- Sleep problems
- Vision problems
- Hearing problems
- Bladder incontinence
- Dementia & delirium
- Dizziness & fainting
- Difficulty walking, gait problems & falls
At Norwood Medical Associates, we focus on caring for older adults with a variety of geriatric syndromes. Our goal is to help our older patients overcome or manage these problems. With the help of our internal medicine, preventive medicine and primary care physician (internist), geriatrics can continue to live a better quality of life.
At Norwood Medical Associates, we can help you avoid common health problems among aging adults such as heart disease, diabetes, osteoporosis and many more. Discover the many ways we can help you get and stay healthy as you age. Call Norwood Medical Associates at 781.769.3113 or use our online Request an Appointment form to arrange your consultation. Our geriatric care patients come to us from Dedham, Needham, Norwood, Sharon, Stoughton, Walpole, Westwood, Wrentham, MA and surrounding towns. | <urn:uuid:ce1b838d-e2e6-4912-81cb-5b8dbf58da2c> | CC-MAIN-2021-10 | https://www.norwoodmedicalma.com/services/geriatric-care/ | 2021-02-27T08:59:42Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-10/segments/1614178358798.23/warc/CC-MAIN-20210227084805-20210227114805-00594.warc.gz | en | 0.912877 | 459 | [
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PHILOSOPHY AND PURPOSE
The PLUSS (Providing Links for Unlimited Student Success) Program is offered at Mount St. Mary Catholic High School in order to provide remedial methods for students who have been diagnosed with learning challenges or other health impairments. This program will provide students the opportunity to develop specific learning tools based on their diagnosed learning difference. PLUSS will encourage students to acquire skills that are critical for their academic success
Students entering this program will be required to complete the regular Mount St. Mary curriculum. Students will work individually with a learning specialist or in small groups for one class period. The program offers extended testing time, monitoring of subject grades, as well as organizational, test-taking and study strategies.
In addition to standard Mount St. Mary admission requirements, PLUSS requirements include diagnostic testing and a personal interview. Students accepted into the PLUSS program incur an additional $1,000 fee per year.
Failure to include diagnosed learning disabilities or testing will result in waiting until the beginning of the next subsequent semester for accommodations, if they are needed mid-year.
A copy of current (within the last 3 years) psycho-educational testing MUST be provided to Mount St. Mary Catholic High School to complete the application for admissions. Psycho-educational testing can be completed through private testing or through an IEP with your public school district.
Please list the contact information of one teacher or administrator from your current school to receive a recommendation form that will be completed and sent to Mount St. Mary Catholic High School.
Mount St. Mary Catholic High School will request the following documents from your student's current school:
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This week we caught up with Ruth Hare, from Raglan Theatre Academy, to hear about how she has been keeping the academy going throughout the lockdown.
At what point did you start online sessions for your Drama Academy students?
Straightaway. Everything was pointing that way, on the Sunday I sent a message saying we are moving online the following week, and then the next day the lockdown was announced. I actually didn’t think anything other than that’s what I’m going to do, although I’d never taught drama online before. All I could think of was that in times like this, connection and laughter was what we needed, as well as keeping some sense of consistency for my students during this time.
What did you need to do to prepare for this? What were your challenges?
I needed to prep the technology side, which ended up pretty user friendly. I did a trial run of a class with a couple of friends to test drive the tech and some of the activities. Once I could get an idea of what works online you kinda just can go with it, some activities and theatre games can be directly adapted for the online classes. I’ve enjoyed the process and am always learning.
How has the experience been? What was the outcome? Any unexpected benefits?
From the moment class starts, and seeing everyone’s faces online it’s easy to forget the current situation.
With the online classroom, students can still work on creating scenes in groups with online options such as ‘break out’ rooms. We have found we have a new performance space, and it’s been fun to work within the parameters of the screen and our individual ‘screen boxes’ to develop work from, with and together. Our ‘stage’ may be different, but we are embracing this new medium with a positive outlook.
How are you finding lockdown on a personal level?
Like the ebbs and flows of life. What helps me is maintaining a sense of routine, like an online yoga class, and a daily walk in nature. I feel blessed to live where we do and have access to nature so readily at our doorstep. Watching comedy really helps, and limiting social media! Although I may not win everyday, there is no other option except to trust that everything is as it’s meant to be, as strange as it may seem at the time. It’s also made me aware that we need to be gentle when we come face to face with ourselves through this process – be very gentle, and also to be kind to one another. We can’t ever forget our humanity in this process, now more than ever we need each other. | <urn:uuid:3f951292-9268-42b4-a2f2-fc9adece495a> | CC-MAIN-2021-10 | https://www.raglanchronicle.co.nz/the-chronicle/2020/04/qa-with-ruth-from-raglan-theatre-academy/ | 2021-03-01T00:06:30Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-10/segments/1614178361808.18/warc/CC-MAIN-20210228235852-20210301025852-00274.warc.gz | en | 0.975369 | 558 | [
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Improving Family Gatherings
January 23 & 24, 2021
Saturday 9am -12noon, 4-7pm, Sunday 9am – 1pm. $175
Do you feel drained after a family get together?
Regain your voice and own your power with the members of your family. Recognise unsupportive relationships and maintain your dignity within them. Learn to set and keep healthy boundaries at home.
Available on line Zoom or in Person
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The lender has announced the appointment of a former Commonwealth Treasury, IMF, RBA and APRA representative to its board.
ING Australia has announced the appointment of Dr John Laker to its board, effective immediately.
Dr Laker holds over 45 years of experience in the finance sector, which includes roles in the Commonwealth Treasury, the International Monetary Fund (Washington), the Reserve Bank of Australia (assistant governor, financial system) and the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (chair).
Dr Laker currently serves as chair of the board of the Banking and Finance Oath, deputy chancellor of the University of Technology Sydney, a member of the External Advisory Panel of the Australian Securities and Investment Commission and a director of Cancer Council NSW and Cancer Council Australia.
Dr Laker has also been appointed an Officer of the Order of Australia in 2008.
ING’s latest announcement follows its appointment of Glen Gibson to the role of head of third-party distribution.
Mr Gibson assumed his role on 5 November and reports to Melanie Evans, ING’s head of retail banking.
[Related: ING appoints new head of third-party]
The central bank has made its official interest rate decision for...
Commercial property settlements continue to fall, with FAST’s l...
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Endel is a subscription based music app that creates personally generated sounds. It doesn’t sound (no pun intended ?️) exciting, but it’s something I never thought I would like. I’ve started using Endel in the second semester, a few months ago. I mostly use Endel while studying and using public transportation. Sometimes it even helps me to meditate for a while before going to sleep. In this quick review, I would like to show you how I use Endel and why you should try it out. I would like to explicitly say that I’m not getting paid to write this review. Here’s a quick introduction video that will get you going.
User Interface and Design
I am a massive fan of a good, well-thought user interface. I believe that an excellent user interface is crucial for an app to do its job. I think that Endel’s interface is exceptional and easy to use. It might be a bit confusing at the beginning, but you get used to it reasonably quickly.
I love how this interface is also well designed with its complementary art in the background. While the main point of the app are the sounds, the pleasing animated lines in the background are an excellent addition. You can also tap and interfere with the music and animations by pressing anywhere on the screen. It’s a unique concept, but I don’t find it useful. While I’m using the app, I mostly listen to the sounds, and that is probably the main point.
So Endel is an app with personalized sounds to help you focus, relax, and sleep. There are currently four modes to use, each having a different taste. The sounds are also created based on an algorithm with different inputs. In the settings, you can allow access to various things that will help improve the algorithm. The sound adapts to different inputs that are based on time, weather, heart rate, and location. I don’t know what are the companies privacy policies, but since this is a paid service, I believe that they handle our data correctly. Since this app also works offline, there’s also a possibility that no data gets sent to the company’s servers. Those are my speculations; I would recommend contacting their support for more information on this topic.
I mostly use Focus and On-the-go mode. I’m a massive fan of On-the-go, and I mainly use it while riding with a train. I use focus mode mostly when I’m studying or solving some programs. I don’t use the other two modes too much, but Relax mode is excellent for when reading. I’ve been reading quite a lot lately. However, I need to remind myself more to use Endel in that scenario.
Are you a fan of a book Flow by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi? Endel claims it 5.5 times involvement increase by Survey methodology: The Experience Sampling Method provided by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi. On Endel’s website, there are some numbers about concentration increase and anxiety increase.
My opinion is that yes, the app helps you to concentrate and stay calm. It’s great to have some background noise when writing, studying or trying to relax. I recognize some positive effects of the app, but I don’t know if that’s just a placebo effect or something that has to do with other factors. I also realized that I’m less productive if I listen to music since I usually start singing.
I’m love when a product is available on different platforms. I use an Android smartphone and elementary OS on my laptop. I’ve also bought an iPad recently. Endel is currently available on App Store, Google Play and Alexa. On their website, it is stated that Endel is also coming to Web, tvOS, macOS. I can’t wait for the web version. However, I would love to see Google Home support. I want to cast or say “Hey Google Play Endel” to my Google Home, but I’m afraid that this functionality isn’t coming anytime soon. They also have some great posts on their Instagram profile.
Subscription via Google Play Store is 12.99€/year. I believe it’s a fair price if you like the app. There is a one-week free trial. I would recommend trying the app before purchasing a subscription for the first year. A few months ago when I paid for the subscription, I got a 75% discount. I don’t know if that’s still available. Of course, your account works will all supported devices, so you have to pay for subscription only once.
I use Endel a couple of times a week. I like this product, and I believe it will only get better in the future. I want to support new startups, especially once from the EU. I’m not a massive fan of subscription based models; however, 12.99€/year seems reasonable for a product that I use almost daily. I need to express that just because I like this app doesn’t mean it’s for you. I think that you should try this service for yourself and decide if it’s useful. If you are someone who likes to try new apps, give this one a try. Let me know what do you think about this app in the comments below. | <urn:uuid:89730073-8509-4fe3-b594-bba86bf1a0a3> | CC-MAIN-2021-10 | https://zheanoblog.eu/endel-app-review/ | 2021-03-02T13:09:09Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-10/segments/1614178364008.55/warc/CC-MAIN-20210302125936-20210302155936-00594.warc.gz | en | 0.955516 | 1,149 | [
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Anti-Social Behaviour (ASB) – Taking on a Case – Case Management Principles
As a professional working on the anti-social behaviour frontline, it’s crucial that you understand the role that good case management has on resolving anti-social behaviour reports. This module will help you to expand your working knowledge of how to effectively manage a case, along with other key principles in case management, such as investigating and decision-making skills.
After completing this module, you will:
- Understand investigation methods in response to reports of anti-social behaviour and nuisance
- Be confident in your knowledge of using effective case work practices to investigate and resolve reports of anti-social behaviour
- Be able to identify appropriate investigation techniques, including evidence gathering, appropriate diary allocation, and good record keeping
- Understand the importance of risk assessments, action planning, and using good judgement and decision making
- Be able to effectively identify a hate crime
1. Taking on a Case / Case Management Principles
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Huawei launched two new laptops today, namely MateBook X 2020 and MateBook 14. Both laptops are equipped with the latest Intel or AMD processors. Huawei hopes to launch different versions of the device in October.
The new version of Huawei MateBook X has a 13.3-inch display, while the MateBook 14 is equipped with a 14-inch screen. MateBook X weighs 1 kg and is 13.6 mm thick. The touch display has a resolution of 3000 x 2000 pixels and a brightness of 400 nits.
MateBook X with i5-10210U & 16 GByte RAM
In MateBook X, Intel Core i5-10210U or i7-10510U are used, which are supported by 16 GB of LPDDR3 RAM. The device also has a 512 GB SSD. In addition to Wi-Fi 6, it is also equipped with Bluetooth 5.0, 42 Wh battery, headphone jack, NFC sensor, and two USB-C ports.
MateBook 14 with AMD Ryzen CPU
Compared with the new MateBook X, MateBook 14 is not equipped with an Intel processor but is equipped with a Ryzen chip. Depending on the model, use Ryzen 5 4600H with 8 GB RAM, Ryzen 5 4600H with 16 GB RAM, or Ryzen 7 4800H with 16 GB RAM. The size of the internal memory is between 256 and 512 GB. Windows 10 Home is pre-installed on the notebook computer. The display has 2160 x 1440 pixels and a brightness of 300 nits. Due to the 56 watt-hour battery capacity, the laptop weighs 1490 grams, which is slightly heavier than the MateBook X.
The MateBook X is available from 1499 euros
The MateBook X can only be purchased in a silver color variant in this country. A green version is also available in other regions. 1499 euros are due for the notebook. Huawei wants to start shipping on October 7th.
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¡Hola Year 4!
This term we are going to learn how to talk about sports in Spanish.
Are there any sports that you really love?
Please watch the video below that teaches you some new sports words in Spanish. You will find it useful to watch it a few times because there are lots of words - pick your favourites to learn.
TASK: Please make a poster, powerpoint or mini-book of your 5 favourite sports from the video. It could look a little like this picture below:
¿Cuál es tu deporte favorito?
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Congratulations to Hancock County Deputy Sheriff Jeffrey McFarland who was named Deputy of the Year by the Maine Sheriff's Association.
Hancock County Sheriff Scott Kane submitted the following in support of Deputy McFarland's nomination
On April 29, 2019, Deputy Jeffrey McFarland was working a night patrol shift along with deputies Christopher Sargent and Zachary Allen. Deputy McFarland was notified by the Hancock County Regional Communications Center of a request from a Maine State Trooper asking for assistance in the Town of Brooklin. The Trooper was dealing with a suicidal male who had climbed a tree threatening to kill himself. All three deputies responded to the location to assist with the male who was known to law enforcement as having mental health issues.
Upon arrival, the deputies met with the Trooper who was trying to convince the male to come down from the tree that he climbed and attached a belt around his neck and the tree threatening to jump. Deputy McFarland, who was very familiar to the male and his family having dealt with him several times in the past with success, took over the conversation with the male.
The conversation between Deputy McFarland and the male lasted for a lengthy period until trust was established between them. Deputy McFarland calmly and professionally continued to talk with the male and eventually the male agreed to remove the belt from around his neck and climb down from the tree. The male was taken into protective custody and transported to a local hospital for an evaluation and treatment.
Deputy McFarland's knowledge of the young man and his mental health issues helped resolve this situation and get the help the male required. Many years (30) of working as a patrol deputy in the area gave Deuty McFarland the knowledge and trust helpful in these types of situations.
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Friday, December 5, 2014
With the launch of CRY UNCLE in the UK (is it the last McNnee? Its certainly the culmination of my five book plan) I've been reading the damn book all over Scotland. Crowds (or at least two people) were present in Gilmerton, Dundee (three times!) and Glasgow have now heard the opening chapters to the book (Including my impressively bad Hungarian accent, which caused me to corpse terribly during the Glasgow event). Its been great fun, reading the book. It always is. I like reading. I like (badly) acting when I'm reading. But I know that reading isn't for every author. I limit myself when I do read because, frankly, I tend to lose track of author readings at the best of times. I much prefer someone talking with passion about their book or about anything.
But it has left me wondering about events. Are single author events worthwhile? The most fun I had these last few weeks - and they were all fun - was pairing up with other authors. Jay Stringer's impromtu quizzing of my knowledge of Mel Gibson's films was great fun. Realising that Chris Brookmyre was the new Shakespeare at Kirkcaldy was a highlight. And I think it adds atmosphere to an event, too, when writers with good chemistry pair up. It becomes more of a show than someone talking about something of interest only to them.
I also started to think about the mechanics or reading your work. Its strange to see your own words there in front of you. I find that - for my own amusement more than anything - I start to edit or adapt as I'm going along; changing small lines of dialogue, speeding up and slowing down sequences. Its part of the experience of writing for me; a book is never finally finished. It gets published, but if I was allowed to, I would tinker forever at the nuts and bolts of sentence structure and word choice.
Author events are strange things. Authors are not natural performers, but I think that if we are going to go out and talk about our books in public we should be. One of the nicest moments this week during a solo event was a librarian, after I was done, saying she hadn't had readers laugh quite so hard with an author in a while. I know I write hardboiled crime, but honestly, that one moment summed up everything I love about doing live events: its a show, its entertainment, its supposed to be interesting and entertaining. And entertaining doesn't just mean funny. It means it has to be interesting to the audience, it has to grip their attention the same way reading a book does. If a live event doesn't do that, then, really, what's the point?
Wednesday, December 3, 2014
Short post today since I got a new filling about an hour ago and have you heard I'm moving in two weeks? Lot stuff to do.
But in the midst of all this chaos I bought a book I want to tell you about. Novel Interiors by Lisa Borgnes Giramonti with photographs by Ivan Terestchenko marries two of the things I love most in life: books (of course) and beautiful interiors.
I'm not going to get too geeky with the interior design stuff here because I know that's not my audience, but if you or someone you happen to know is into literature and pretty pictures of lovely rooms, then I think this is a perfect gift.
From the Random House website:
For those who have ever lost themselves in the stylish worlds of novels like Sense and Sensibility, The Age of Innocence, Wuthering Heights, The Picture of Dorian Gray, and countless others, this design book embraces the fantasy of time and place, showing you how to bring some of those elements into your own home.I like that line--"embraces the fantasy of time and place." Isn't that one of the reasons we read books? Because they transport us other times and places? This is one of the main reasons I wrote the Mistress of Fortune books. I wanted to transport the reader to a time and place in history that I love, the way I've been transported by books over the years.
Okay, so Novel Interiors isn't going to change the world or anything, but it sure is nice to curl up with it in front of the fire with it and browse through pictures of beautiful rooms. I'll admit the book is just the tiniest bit pretentious but honestly, not as much as I thought it would be. Although it kind of shames me because I've only read a couple of the books it features. It's another painful reminder that I'm not nearly as well read as I'd like to be.
But that's the subject of another post.
Tuesday, December 2, 2014
At a recent Bouchercon panel the writer Ken Wishnia made the comment – after a complaint that cops aren’t presented realistically on TV – that no one’s job is presented realistically on TV.
High school teachers watch Glee and say they don’t break into song nearly that often, delivery guys watch Law & Order and say they’d stop unloading the truck for thirty seconds while talking to homicide detectives, and I’m pretty sure zombies watch The Walking Dead and say, come on, we’re not that easy to kill.
But this is a blog about crime fiction so our concern is how crime and criminal investigations are presented in fiction so—no wait, that isn’t right. This is a blog about fiction so our concern is storytelling.
The distance to which the characters and events in fiction stray from the realistic portrayal has everything to do with story.
Everything serves the story.
So I think most of the time when the criticism is that the characters aren’t realistic the real complaint is that the story isn’t working.
And for me, what usually causes the biggest problems with the story is when I’m not completely clear on exactly what story it is I’m trying to tell. Part way through writing a novel I usually get lost and end up throwing a lot out as I make my way back. And sometimes, I guess, I don’t make my way all the way back enough.
Anyway, after meeting Ken at Bouchercon I read the first of his “Filomena Buscarsela mysteries,” 23 Shades of Black and now I’m going to read the rest of them.
They’re very realistic.
Sunday, November 30, 2014
I'm going to say right off the bat that pretty much any dribble I come up with after Jay Stringer's post about Joelle Charbonneau's project to donate books to the Ferguson Library is going to be tagged as #goodproblems #firstworldproblems #whinywriterproblems.
In fact, I would actually suggest you go back and read Jay's post rather than this one. Here it is:
So, you've been warned.
This is about some of the differences I've found in begin a published author and the sudden request for friends on Facebook. (Stop reading now if you like.) I'm going to continue in case anyone has any suggestions.
So, here is the deal:
A while back I converted my personal Facebook page to an "author" page. The day it happened, I panicked. If you only have an "author" page you basically exist in a black hole. You can only see pages you "like" in your newsfeed and if you have friends who aren't authors or don't have professional "pages" they are invisible.
So the next step is to set up a personal page.
I did so mainly to keep in touch with my friends IRL (in real life) and my family across the United States. I also have a few friends that I've interacted so much with on social media, I felt like I knew them even though we had never met in person. So, I was pretty happy with my personal page, and focused all my attention on my author page and then checked in on my IRL friends and family on the other page, but rarely posted on that page.
Cue six months later. I was a total wimp and approved, oh maybe 100 people as friends on my personal page that I had never met, and several I had never even heard of. As a result, I shied away from more personal posts, including pictures of my two daughters (If you question why, you obviously haven't read my first book.)
Well, yesterday I cleaned house. Anyone I hadn't met IRL or anyone I hadn't had significant social media interaction with was deleted. It seems fair, right? I'm sure many of them are awesome and I would love them if I met them in real life, but since we haven't yet met and I'm never on that personal page ANYWAY, I unfriended them. Makes sense, right?
So, why do I feel like such a bitch?
I do. Absurd I know. Like I'm not some special person that everyone is dying to be friends with on Facebook and yet I'm shining them on, but still.
It made me feel like a heel. Like a snob. Like a jerk.
All because I only wanted friends on my personal page that I had met IRL or who I had significant interaction with on social media. Is that wrong?
Will everyone I unfriended tell all their friends to never buy my books? Will I lose out on the chance to make a great new friend at the next conference I go to because they are irritated I unfriended them? Am I worrying about something totally absurd and ridiculous when there are so many other things in this world and this life to even spend time thinking about? Well, yes.
So, my question to my fellow authors is how do you handle this delicate dance?
Because on the one hand it is ABSOLUTELY FREAKING AMAZING that strangers want to interact with me because of my BOOKS. NO FLIPPING WAY. Seriously the coolest thing ever.
And in fact, many of my "new" IRL friends I met at Bouchercon, were ones I had "met" on Facebook. But these are the ones I would've kept as friends even if we hadn't met in real life because we've had significant back and forth social interaction and I feel as if I know them.
I want to be able to have a personal page where I can put up pics of my kids and personal details to share with my family across the country without feeling as if I'm sharing private moments of my life with people I've never met and may never meet.
And here is a whole different side issue to this: how much do you as authors post about your family and private life? If you have kids do you have qualms about putting their names and faces out there or is it just me because of my interactions with the worst of the worst pedophiles?
I welcome any thoughts on this.
Again, this is labeled GOOD PROBLEMS. THINGS THAT ARE ACTUALLY RIDICULOUS TO WASTE BRAIN POWER ON. And so on.
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I am not quite sure why I do this. I work really hard for several months. Make good progress on my goals. And then, I just stop trying. It almost feels like someone flipped a switch and I just stop. Then I lose the progress I had made and it takes me forever to find a way to start again. The last two months I have undermined everything I was trying to do and gained back 10 of the 20 pounds I had lost. I wish I could find a way to stop this cycle.
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New political space, old tensions: history, identity and violence in Rakhine State, Myanmar
By Adam Burke — Adam Burke, PhD (SOAS, University of London) is an independent consultant and researcher working on conflict and related concerns in Myanmar and across Southeast Asia.
Violence in Rakhine State of Myanmar in 2012 and 2013 caused up to 1,000 deaths and forced the long-term displacement of entire communities. Using evidence from interviews, media coverage and secondary literature, this article explores recent events and considers contextual factors behind the unrest. The conflict is a symptom of long-term historical tensions between Rakhine Buddhists and Muslims, and contemporary political changes that reinvigorated anti-Muslim sentiment across Myanmar. Rigid ethnic classifications that are enshrined in Myanmar’s laws and political system have encouraged territorial attitudes and furthered discrimination against Muslims and others perceived as migrants. This environment generates incentives for local politicians to strengthen group identity and present themselves as the guardians of their electorate. Raised tensions and a background of violence made it easier for Rakhine politicians to promote identity-based voting and to ensure that most Muslim voters in Rakhine State were disenfranchised, paving the way for some local success in the national elections of November 2015. Following the elections, Aung San Suu Kyi’s new government indicated that past policies would continue, rapidly disappointing those hoping for rapid change and demonstrating the entrenched nature of Rakhine State’s problems.
Repeated violent attacks and arson campaigns perpetrated by organized gangs targeted Muslim communities in Rakhine State of Myanmar in 2012 and 2013. The attacks came after decades of tension between the Muslim minority and the Rakhine Buddhist majority. Many Muslims —mainly those often known as Rohingya— in Rakhine State are effectively stateless, having failed to attain any form of citizenship.1
Campaigns against Muslims in Rakhine State, who make up around one third of the State’s overall population of about 3.2 million,2 have been described by Human Rights Watch as “ethnic cleansing”.3 In 2012, groups of local Rakhine activists razed communities to the ground in central districts of the State as part of a concerted effort to change the area’s ethnic composition. Further violent clashes have been attributed to perpetrators from both the minority and majority communities, but reputable sources agree that the main aggressors were affiliated with Rakhine Buddhist networks.4 Casualty figures are unreliable, but up to 1,000 people, the majority of them Muslim, are thought to have died in inter-communal violence during 2012. In two waves of attacks, most of the Muslims living in central parts of Rakhine State were displaced from their communities into relocated to isolated camps. Their freedom of movement remained restricted after the violence subsided.5
In most instances, a similar pattern of violence evolved. A specific and emotive flashpoint, such as allegations of offences committed by Muslim men against Rakhine women, was seized as a rallying call for a violent response by groups of mostly young Rakhine men. Tensions remained high and in 2015 most of the 140,000 Muslims who had fled from their homes were still confined to camps.6
Individuals associated with the 2012 violence appear to have close ties to ethnic Rakhine politicians such as Kyaw Zaw Oo, a political activist who published an outspoken revisionist tract alleging that Muslims in Rakhine State were aliens. Despite having been arrested for his role in the communal violence of 2012, he stood successfully for a parliamentary seat in Sittwe, the capital of Rakhine State in the November 2015 general elections.7
This article explores the reasons behind the outbreak of violence in Rakhine State in 2012. It considers patterns identified in comparative analyses of communal and ethnic violence, and identifies the main factors that affect this specific case. The research approach uses primary data, consisting mainly of interviews by the author with key informants in Rakhine State and Yangon during several periods in 2013 and 2014. Secondary sources were also consulted, including media coverage, official government statements, reports from humanitarian agencies, online blogs and published academic work.8 Taken together, these sources cover the circumstances and the wider context of the violence in Rakhine State at that time. The findings also take account of the outcome of the elections of 8 November 2015, an important landmark for politicians in Rakhine State and for all of Myanmar.
In addressing the reasons behind ethnic conflicts, researchers have considered specific aspects of violence, focusing on identifiable political and social factors that can be observed across recent conflicts. Empirical studies suggest that the risk of violence is greater among populations with high levels of stratification along ethnic lines whereby certain ethnic groups are more privileged than others. Frances Stewart’s work builds on earlier literature addressing multi-ethnic societies and finds that disparities between ethnic groups or “horizontal inequalities” increase the likelihood of conflict.9 Michael Mann states that in areas inhabited by different ethnic groups, a high level of nationalism defined along ethnic lines tends to justify extreme standpoints, enable leaders to create scapegoats out of minorities and reduce the scope to manage inter-group tensions. Relatively recent and rapid transitions from authoritarian to democratic government create space for “ethnic entrepreneurs” to drum up and exploit group animosities.10 Other assessments have considered at length the importance of government responses to local conflicts and the instrumental role of local politicians in provoking violence.11 These sources draw on case studies from India, Indonesia and other multi-ethnic countries of Southeast Asia that share some similarities with Rakhine State.
Rather than isolating a single factor or theory, this article emphasizes the specific context of the case study, encompassing the multiple causes and complex interactions that lead to violent conflict. Any single incident of ethnic violence stems from an interplay of economic, social and political dynamics that lead to immediate actions and define underlying causes.12 The aim is to avoid reducing a complex reality to a narrower set of factors that may further comparative analysis, but then risk obscuring the subtleties and contradictions of real-world situations.
The term “ethnicity” is employed here in the constructivist sense, recognizing that ethnic groups are socially created. Their ascribed properties and the boundaries between them are chiefly the result of human interaction.13 Definitions of, and the boundaries between, ethnic groups are flexible, yet they often endure over many generations. This definition avoids a primordial sense of ethnicity, in which the term takes on a meaning far closer to that of the word “race”, implying permanence grounded in physical difference or immutable cultural properties.14
However, the widespread and persistent —even if inaccurate belief— that ethnic characteristics are somehow indelibly embedded in genes remains a significant factor in many societies. Ethnic identity is typically defined in Myanmar and across most of Southeast Asia in primordial terms, playing up the rights of a defined group of people (or a supposedly pure “race”) to ancestral land.15 State nationalism, and many independence movements, are built on a similar basis.16 The term “race”, or its equivalent in different languages, is still regularly used across Southeast Asia, for example on citizen identity cards.
The following sections explain how the violence in Rakhine State that flared up in 2012 can be linked both to broader trends across Myanmar and to the specific circumstances of the conflict-affected area. Information is presented under several subheadings: the historical roots of ethnic tensions; the minority status of both main groups of antagonists; recent political changes and their impact; local political processes; and international elements.
Historical Precedents, Ethnicity and Religious Nationalism
Recent violence in Myanmar builds on the past, including the legacy of colonialism. British imperial authority was gradually extended eastwards from India during the 19th century. Many Indians —Muslims, Hindus and others— followed in the same direction, moving to towns and cities across Burma. The colonial civil service, the police and the army were largely staffed by Indians.17 Largely as a legacy of this colonial history, contemporary colloquial Burmese ethnic classifications do not distinguish clearly between Hindus or Muslims, or between those Muslims whose families have lived in Myanmar for generations and more recent immigrants.18
Even before independence in 1947, Burmese nationalists looked to assert the dominance of ethnic Burmans.19 In 1930, anti-Muslim and anti-Hindu riots in Burma killed hundreds. Racial categories applied by colonial authorities were adapted to suit the needs and vision of post-independence rulers in a multi-ethnic state; they have been barely altered since. Common sentiments of identity are based on an ethnically defined concept of nationalism: 135 ethnic groups are accorded official status and grouped into eight indigenous “races”. People perceived as descendants of migrants rather than indigenous are not recognized as a category, and mixed heritage is not included in the classifications.20
After the 1962 military takeover led by General Ne Win, around 300,000 Indians and their descendants fled the country.21 A 1982 law formally restricted citizenship to people whose descendants lived in Myanmar before 1823, effectively disenfranchising many Indians who had remained. Muslims in northern Rakhine State were also affected by local and national travel regulations that limited their ability to leave their local township.
Ethnic identity is central to Myanmar’s subnational politics. The country is organized into seven regions, in which ethnic Burmese are the majority, and seven states, each of which is associated with the ethnic group considered to be a majority in that area. Smaller areas where an ethnic group makes up the majority, yet does not have its own state, have been classified as Special Administrative Zones. Minority populations beyond a stated threshold are also entitled to special political representation within state and regional parliaments. Resistance against the government of Myanmar has been waged for over 70 years by armed ethnic groups, most ethnicities being represented by one or more of these groups as well as formal political parties.
This complex system and the long legacy of conflict have enshrined ethnic categories in the political system. As a result, population estimates and concerns over how ethnic groups are classified are highly contentious. With the advent of more open democratic competition, such a system is likely to generate major political tensions. Unsurprisingly, compilers of data for the 2014 national census decided that information on religion and ethnicity was considered too sensitive to release until tensions subsided in Rakhine State and nationally.22
Those people outside the 135 recognized ethnic groups are regarded as immigrants, have achieved only limited political status in Myanmar and commonly attain only partial citizenship status. In particular, many people of South Asian descent, and Muslims from all backgrounds, are widely perceived as a threat to the Myanmar nation, not only by hardliners but also among the general public, Buddhist monks, politicians and social activists. Attacks on local Muslim communities over several decades have often been associated with political leaders appearing to encourage violence.23 Deeply bigoted anti-Muslim sentiment is commonplace. For instance, many people in Myanmar believe that Muslims in all countries have large families, thereby exacerbating their own state of poverty. They fear that this will threaten the status of Buddhists as the majority. In reality, Myanmar is overwhelmingly Buddhist and Muslims account for only a few per cent of the population.24 What is more, the birth-rate of neighbouring Muslim-majority Bangladesh is similar to that of Myanmar.
Communal violence in Rakhine State is affected by tensions across the rest of the country. In 2001, Muslims were attacked in towns across Myanmar, including Sittwe and Maungdaw in Rakhine State.25 In March 2013, following the unrest in Rakhine State, anti-Muslim riots erupted again across central Myanmar. In repeated cases, government security forces stood by as attacks took place. Further outbreaks continued into 2014, when riots shook central districts of the city of Mandalay.26
Long-held negative stereotypes have been reinvigorated since 2011. Nationalist, identity-based movements led by Buddhist monks including the 969 Movement and the Association for the Protection of Race and Religion (or MaBaTha) encouraged boycotts of Muslim-owned businesses and repeatedly depicted Muslims as a dangerous threat. They promoted their cause widely, using mass media and the internet as well as political connections.27
A Minority within a Minority State
Both Muslims and ethnic Rakhines feel that they are persecuted minorities in Myanmar. The Rakhine, like Myanmar’s other ethnic minorities, complain of longstanding discrimination perpetrated primarily by the central state and particularly the military. Leaders express concern over human rights abuses, arbitrary land confiscation, restrictions on language and cultural expression, economic marginalization, and lack of political control. Poverty is widespread in Rakhine communities. According to a widely used estimate from 2011, Rakhine State is among the two poorest states and regions in the country with a poverty rate of 78 per cent, compared to the national average of 38 per cent.28
Ethnic Rakhines were prominent in the fight against colonial authorities. They continued to challenge national leaders after independence and Rakhine ethnic armed groups maintained an insurgency for many decades.29 Over time, this struggle increasingly shifted to focus on the concerns of the Muslim minority. The widespread belief that immigration and higher birth rates are rapidly increasing the Muslim population fed what has been described as a “siege mentality”.30 Many Rakhines fear becoming a minority within their own state, just as political reforms have finally generated opportunities to gain some authority over their own affairs.31
Rakhine activists can point to separatist claims to territory made by Muslims in northern parts of the State, where Muslims comprise a majority of the population. These claims date back to the 1950s, when Rakhine separatists were also seeking territorial control. The government of Myanmar suppressed both groups.32 There is no evidence that any separatist group —or international terror cell— has existed in recent years within Muslim communities in Rakhine State, but the historical memory feeds current Rakhine fears and sustains propaganda.33 Ethnic Rakhines and others across Myanmar also refer to a massacre allegedly perpetrated by Muslims in 1942 following intense ethnic polarization amid anarchic local conditions during the Second World War.34 ## | <urn:uuid:37ede765-44ce-4372-8a98-9fc8cddb5f95> | CC-MAIN-2021-10 | https://rohingyakhobor.com/mdocs-posts/new-political-space-old-tensions-history-identity-and-violence-in-rakhine-state-myanmar/ | 2021-02-26T00:54:20Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-10/segments/1614178355944.41/warc/CC-MAIN-20210226001221-20210226031221-00634.warc.gz | en | 0.958908 | 2,916 | [
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Veeam 9 Released – What’s in it for Service Providers…and their Customers
At the moment there upwards of 7000 VCSPs around the world and much like the VMware vCloud Air Network these partners represent a ready made network of like for like platform targets for which customers can extend their onsite Veeam solutions to a VCSP of their choice. (Zettagrid is on of those providers and is Cloud Provider of the Year for the ANZ region) With Veeam 8, Cloud Connect was announced and released and has proven to be a popular service which started picking up significantly in the last half of 2015. With the success of Cloud Connect, which provided a great offsite repository location for clients it was no surprise that Veeam extended this functionality in v9 with Cloud Connect Replication.
Veeam Cloud Connect Replication:
The extended functionality will give service providers the ability to provide clients with RaaS (recovery-as-a-service) in the form of Veeam Cloud Connect Replication for Service Providers. This builds on Cloud Connect which made it easy for existing and new Veeam customers to extend their backup infrastructure to cloud based repositories for offsite backups. Cloud Connect Replication features includes:
- A reserved set of compute and storage for DR with networking resource allocation from a service provider to dramatically simplify setting up replication jobs to the cloud
- Full site failover to a remote DR site from anywhere with just a few clicks through the secure web portal (see pic below), and partial site failover to instantly switch over to selected VM replicas only
- Built-in network extension appliances to simplify networking complexity and preserve communication with, and between, running VMs regardless of physical location
- Failback to an existing or new infrastructure to restore normal business operations
- 1-click failover orchestration for quick failover execution, and site failover testing for failover simulation without disrupting production workloads
- Support for file level recovery from cloud replicas in case there are issues with local backups
- Multiple traffic reduction technologies including built-in WAN acceleration, BitLooker
- Single port connectivity via a secure SSL/TLS connection to a service provider with traffic encryption
Cloud Connect Improvements:
- In addition to being included in the Enterprise Plus edition, this feature is now also included in the Enterprise edition for backup copy and replication jobs to Veeam Cloud Connect service providers
- The ability for users to limit the maximum bandwidth consumption by each tenant on the service provider site to help protect all tenants using the same Cloud Gateway from a “noisy neighbor” problem has been added.
- Switching the logging level for cloud service no longer requires the service to be restarted.
In addition to that Veeam have introduced full support for vCloud Director 8.0 and also have committed to future long term support of vCloud Director in light of the recent VMware announcements. There is a new Per VM Licensing Model to support VCSPs reporting structures and make things easier for reporting and billing of licensing and there is now full support for RESTful API for Service Providers in all product editions with that Per VM license.
While it’s easy to see how awesome Cloud Connect Replication will be for VCSPs to productize and offer true replication based RaaS there are some features that are available in the general v9 Backup & Replication engine that are not available for Cloud Connect just yet:
- Scale Out Repositories
- Per VM Backup File Chain Feature
- vCloud Director Support
Those additional features are on the horizon and in my opinion can’t come soon enough…it will elevate Cloud Connect Replication even further. But overall another great update for the VCSP and I look forward to developing an offering around Cloud Connect Replication as soon as possible to go along with the existing Cloud Connect for Veeam. | <urn:uuid:31f30673-d0fd-4518-8420-81e11a0f901d> | CC-MAIN-2021-10 | https://new.sliemalabs.com/veeam-9-released-whats-service-providersand-customers/ | 2021-02-27T15:23:04Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-10/segments/1614178358976.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20210227144626-20210227174626-00314.warc.gz | en | 0.936849 | 802 | [
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So what is the message of Parsifal ?
Thoughts on the Meaning of the Opera
t was recently pointed out to me that nowhere among the thousands of words present on this web site was there any clear statement about the message of Parsifal or what Wagner meant by his last major work. This page is an attempt to fill that gap.
Above: The Grail Temple in Act I of Parsifal. Harry Kupfer's staging for Finnish National Opera, Helsinki.
was puzzled by Parsifal for about twenty years after seeing my first performance of the work. In 1996 I began to study Parsifal in depth. This investigation was prompted by the experience of attending a performance of Parsifal at the Bayreuth Festival of that year. After four years of studying what had been written about the work, not least by Wagner himself, and what Wagner had been reading in the years preceding his first sketch for Parsifal I arrived at some conclusions. It was clear to me that most of what had been written about this opera during the last 100 years was totally wrong, and that with very few exceptions, commentators had only scratched (and in some cases defaced) the surface of Wagner's text. I sought understanding of what Wagner was trying to convey to his audience through poetry, music and dramatic action. After visiting the Zürich garden in which it had been written, I attempted a (rather speculative) reconstruction of the lost "Good Friday" sketch. The three most important messages that I have found in the opera are summarised below. Each of them derives from the philosophy of Arthur Schopenhauer, to whose works (and in particular his essay, On the Basis of Morality) the reader is directed for further insight.
Seek the Path of Deliverance
he primary purpose of the drama is to convey to the audience the importance of compassion -- which is the only true basis for morality, according to Schopenhauer. This teaching was accepted by his disciple Richard Wagner. It is through compassion for the suffering of other beings that the fool acquires wisdom and becomes a sage. It is through the perfection of wisdom that he is able to bring salvation.
here is a Schopenhauerian metaphor in the work that is so explicit that anyone who has read Schopenhauer will have no difficulty in detecting it. Her name is Kundry. She represents, on one level, the human predicament in relation to what Buddhists call saṃsarā: the cycle of birth, suffering, death and rebirth. In the first act she is wild and restless, striving for (but unable to find) a balm that will cure suffering; as Kundry confesses, she can help nobody -- not even herself. By the third act, however, Kundry is calm, peaceful, quiet; she has almost escaped from her cyclic existence by the denial of the will. Here is the metaphysical message of Parsifal: stop striving, deny the will, accept that suffering is an inevitable part of life and that desires can never be fully satisfied.
ertain passages in Wagner's text clearly were intended to communicate Schopenhauer's ethical doctrines. So the ethical message of the work is:
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This is a printer-friendly version of an article from Zip06.com.Article Published October 14, 2020
I support State Senator Norm Needleman (D-33) for re-election. As a senior in his district, I have benefited from his regular updates about the COVID-19 pandemic and his availability to his constituents. His reports have provided essential information about travel, assistance programs, the availability of services and the openings of public buildings, emergency funds for communities, and grants to pay water bills.
Most recently he sent out alerts about the coming flu season, along with a list of flu shot clinics in our local towns. In addition to urging preventative measures during flu season, he has consistently demonstrated a concern for the health and safety of his constituents. During the special session of the legislature, he supported absentee ballot voting for all eligible voters, to ensure safe voting during the pandemic.
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Here is a confession that will come as a surprise to nobody: I am a rule follower. Up until very recently, I earnestly followed recipes, measuring each spice and seasoning, setting timers, and not allowing myself to riff too much on what was written.
Not that much has changed. I’m still a rule follower… in so many ways. But somewhere in the time lapse of so many meals cooked and enough cookbooks consulted, I have internalized a larger set of rules that are helping me break away from the written recipe scripture.
Now I know I did not discover this equation — clearly this is a natural law with which people have been engineering for some time. Still, it felt like a revelation when I finally was able to spell it out myself:
grains + leaves + protein + seeds/nuts + vinaigrette = YUM.
The equation gets even yummier if you toss is something roasted, some fruit, and/or something cheesy. This is what I did. I put the “recipe” below, but really, you can do this without it. But all you rebels out there already knew that.
Roasted Butternut Squash and Farro Salad with Apples and Blue Cheese
Created by Megan Knottingham. Yes, she googled it afterward and was not the first to dream up some of these things in combination…nonetheless, this is her version.
- 1 large butternut squash, peeled and cubed
- 1/2 of a large red onion, or 1 whole small red onion, cut into large wedges (these will melt down dramatically, so you want to cut them big)
- 1 cup of farro
- baby spinach
- one large apple, cubed
- toasted pepitas or sunflower seeds
- blue cheese, crumbled
- balsamic vinegar
- olive oil
- kosher salt
Preheat the oven to 425°. Toss butternut squash cubes and red onion wedges with 1 to 2 tablespoons of olive oil, two big pinches of kosher salt, and some pepper on a large rimmed baking tray. Roast until the squash gets some crispy brown edges and the onions are melted and caramelized, about 60 -75 minutes. Stirring about every 20 minutes to ensure even browning. Let cool slightly or until room temperature. You can also roast your veggies ahead of time — the first time I made this, I roasted the squash the day before, and heated it up slightly in the microwave before combining it with the other ingredients.
Meanwhile, prepare the farro. Rinse the dry farro. Add it to a medium pot with 3 cups of water. Bring to a boil. Cover and reduce the heat to a simmer. Cook for about 15 minutes, until al dente. Drain, then put into your serving bowl.
Whisk approximately 1 teaspoon honey, 1 teaspoon mustard, 1/3 cup balsamic vinegar, and a pinch of salt together. Whisk in olive oil until it tastes to your liking (I filled my container up to the 2/3 cup mark).
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The majority of modern science’s founding fathers were creationists (Newton, Boyle, Kepler, etc,) who believed an Intelligent Designer would have put rules in place to govern His Creation; rules which we could discover.
Yet today we are told if a person holds to creation they are “anti-science.”
Have you ever wondered why Secularists spend so much time attacking Christians and Biblical concepts if they do not believe they are true? Why do they care so passionately? It is because their foundation is billions of years of time leading to mankind through a Darwinian process and if God’s Word is true the Secular foundation is false.
See how far today’s scientific establishment XXXX and educational system XXXX have strayed. Read THE COSt to gain an understanding of how science, God’s Word and the observable evidence fit together like a hand in a glove.
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We have previously presented a hierarchical pyramid/neural network (HPNN) architecture which combines multi-scale image processing techniques with neural networks. This coarse-to- fine HPNN was designed to learn large-scale context information for detecting small objects. We have developed a similar architecture to detect mammographic masses (malignant tumors). Since masses are large, extended objects, the coarse-to-fine HPNN architecture is not suitable for the problem. Instead we constructed a fine-to- coarse HPNN architecture which is designed to learn small- scale detail structure associated with the extended objects. Our initial result applying the fine-to-coarse HPNN to mass detection are encouraging, with detection performance improvements of about 30%. We conclude that the ability of the HPNN architecture to integrate information across scales, from fine to coarse in the case of masses, makes it well suited for detecting objects which may have detail structure occurring at scales other than the natural scale of the object. | <urn:uuid:d8191934-8ebb-494d-a9a2-d2174f05931c> | CC-MAIN-2021-10 | https://liinc.bme.columbia.edu/publications/multi-resolution-neural-networks-for-mammographic-mass-detection/ | 2021-03-02T20:29:13Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-10/segments/1614178364764.57/warc/CC-MAIN-20210302190916-20210302220916-00314.warc.gz | en | 0.950829 | 195 | [
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When Donald Trump invited Sarah Palin to endorse him in Iowa last year, the former governor from Alaska and one time Vice Presidential candidate was visibly giddy with excitement. While no one really understood her very lengthy speech, it was clear this was Palin's ultimate dream. Becoming part of "Team Trump" meant VIP visits to the Golden Trump Tower in New York City, and hobnobbing with, as Palin wrote, a real "blue collar billionaire."
"As my dad can testify, “He's one of us...but with a yuuuuuge balance sheet!”" she went on.
It was a real life love story, almost on par with Sean Hannity's intense man crush and unwavering devotion to the orange real estate tycoon. Palin was Trump's gal, and she went to work activating the millions of mean spirited, intellectually limited Americans she helped rally for John McCain in 2008. Palin stuck with Trump through thick and thin, defending his pussy grabbing and going to bat for him when his campaign looked to be at death's door.
Sadly for Palin, the love story was short lived, and when Trump won, she was left out in the cold as ruthlessly as Trump's ex wives were when he found a newer, younger model. After stringing her along with the promise of a cabinet position, Trump dumped Palin for Rep. Ryan Zinke. Initially, Palin lashed out at Trump with a scathing op-ed accusing him of 'crony capitalism'. It was an astonishing move by Palin that almost certainly did not go unnoticed by Trump's people. Palin clearly realized she had miscalculated her influence in the radically transforming political climate, and went radio silent for a few weeks until re-emerging with a renewed sense of loyalty to her former sugar daddy.
With no political career in sight, a failed online TV channel and no prospect of another reality TV show featuring her family shooting animals for fun, Palin has turned to churning out clickbait content for her website SarahPalin.com and another conservative content mill built to game Facebook's newsfeed algorithms. Here are some examples of the 'content' she is propagating her Facebook page with:
A cursory scroll through her newsfeed shows article after article after article with headlines like the ones above, all of them linking to poorly written puff pieces littered with cheap ads and with enough key words to show up in Google searches.
This business model, perfected by the likes of Buzzfeed and UpWorthy almost a decade ago, is fast running out of steam. Facebook and Google are moving to prevent the proliferation of clickbait, and Palin's websites will no doubt be feeling the effects. To combat this, Palin and the people she is working with are simply producing more of it, meaning fewer ad dollars per piece, but likely enough to cover the bills -- at least for now.
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Plantation Construction Accident Lawyer
Leading Accident Injury Attorneys Help Injured Victims In Plantation, Florida Secure Full Compensation For Their Construction Accident Injuries
Being around a construction site poses risks, whether you are a construction worker or an innocent bystander. Large, heavy machinery, ladders and scaffolding, electrical equipment, and moving vehicles all come together to make construction work hazardous.
When an injury does occur, the Plantation construction accident lawyers at Lawlor, White & Murphey are by your side to protect your rights and recover full and fair compensation for your construction accident injuries.
Common Types Of Construction Accidents In Plantation, Florida
Construction work poses risks to all involved in the work, as well as innocent bystanders at a construction site. Some of the more common types of construction accidents include the following:
- Scaffolding accidents
- Building collapse accidents
- Fire accidents
- Roof collapse accidents
- Explosion accidents
- Crane accidents
- Chemical burn accidents
- Electrical accidents
- Chemical exposure accidents
- Forklift accidents
- Machinery malfunction accidents
- Ladder accidents
- Falling debris accidents
- Welding accidents
Accident lawyers at Lawlor, White & Murphey have years of experience representing Floridians who are injured in all types of construction accidents, with a proven record of success in recovering just compensation for our clients.
Construction Accident Victims In Plantation, Florida May Recover Compensation For Their Accident Injuries and Other Losses
When a construction accident occurs and someone is injured, the first step toward financial recovery requires determining the cause of the accident. If a construction worker is injured on the job In a construction accident, they may file a workers’ compensation claim to recover benefits. In Florida, injured workers may receive any of the following workers’ compensation benefits:
- Cost of medical treatment: workers injured in construction accidents may receive coverage for any reasonable and necessary medical treatment that stems from the workplace injury
- Temporary disability benefits: workers who have sustained an injury on the job that leaves them unable to work temporarily may receive compensation that replaces a portion of the wages that they lost
- Permanent partial disability benefits: if a worker sustains a partial disability that is deemed to be permanent, the worker may receive benefits that vary based on the specific body part that has been affected
- Permanent total disability benefits: workers who suffer a workplace injury or illness that is not expected to improve with additional treatment may receive permanent total disability benefits
- Expenses for vocational rehabilitation and education: workers who are injured at the workplace who can no longer perform their job duties may receive benefits for vocational rehabilitation and education so that the worker can pursue a new line of work
If negligence caused or contributed to the construction accident, then the injured party has more options regarding recovering compensation. Personal injury law provides a mechanism to recover compensation for injuries sustained in accidents that are caused by negligence. By filing a personal injury claim, the injured party may seek to recover compensatory damages that include any of the following:
- Cost of medical treatment
- Bills for hospital stay
- Cost of prescription medications
- Surgical bills
- Cost of rehabilitation
- Cost for in-home living assistance
- Cost of future anticipated medical expenses
- Lost wages
- Loss of future earning capacity
- Loss of life enjoyment and companionship
- Emotional pain and suffering
Personal injury claims may be filed against any at-fault party. However, if a workers’ compensation claim has been filed against an employer for a workplace construction accident, the injured worker is prohibited from also filing a personal injury claim against that employer or any co-workers to recover additional compensation. In this situation, a personal injury claim must be filed against another at-fault third party.
Arrange For A Free Case Evaluation With An Experienced Plantation Accident Attorney At Lawlor, White & Murphey
The Plantation construction accident attorneys at Lawlor, White & Murphey focus entirely on personal injury law. Our skilled legal team brings a depth of knowledge, years of experience, and personal dedication to each personal injury case.
Deciding whether to file a workers’ compensation claim or a personal injury claim can be a difficult decision. Let us help. The accident attorneys at Lawlor, White & Murphey offer a free consultation — we will answer your questions, review your case, and discuss your legal options.
Schedule your confidential consultation with a member of our team today.
About Plantation, Florida
Plantation is a city located in Broward County. Home to 94,288 residents, the city of Plantation is a part of the Miami metropolitan area. Plantation, named after the prior partial owner of the land — the Everglades Plantation Company — enjoys beauty in its natural environment and boasts world-class recreation facilities, tree-lined neighborhoods, and a strong business community. Construction projects currently underway in Broward County include the expansion of the Broward County Convention Center and the addition of a new headquarters hotel.
Frequently Asked Questions About Construction Accidents In Plantation, Florida
In addition to the benefits you can receive by filing a workers’ compensation claim for your workplace construction accident injuries, if you file a personal injury claim against another third party, you may be able to recover compensation for loss of future earning capacity, full replacement of lost wages, and nonmonetary losses such as emotional pain and suffering and loss of life enjoyment. Keep in mind that if you file a workers’ compensation claim against your employer, you will be unable to file a lawsuit against that employer or any of your co-workers for additional compensation.
In Florida, workers must notify their employer of the workplace injury within 30 days of the accident. In the case of some workplace injuries, the worker is initially unaware that the injury or illness is the result of the workplace accident — a condition may present and worsen over time. In these cases, the worker must notify the employer of the injury within 30 days of the time they learned that the injury was a result of a workplace accident. The petition for benefits must be filed within two years. | <urn:uuid:6e6ff41b-473c-46c9-9be0-0c7845167657> | CC-MAIN-2021-10 | https://www.lwmpersonalinjurylawyers.com/plantation-injury/plantation-construction-accident-lawyer/ | 2021-03-02T20:32:50Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-10/segments/1614178364764.57/warc/CC-MAIN-20210302190916-20210302220916-00314.warc.gz | en | 0.94208 | 1,254 | [
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The Volvik Vivid golf ball is catching the eye—and not just because it comes in a variety of bright and fluorescent colours.
For starters, the balls are starting to appear on Tour after Bubba Watson signed a multi-year agreement with the South Korean manufacturer. He’s used the S4 range in a variety of colours as well as the striking Vivids too.
At the time of signing the agreement, Watson told Golf Digest: “It comes down to the fun factor—how could you not want a coloured ball when you have a coloured driver. The companies I want to be with are the ones that let me have some influence and be part of the decision-making.”
Having a face like Watson—a major winner and a player already using a pink driver—behind the brand will undoubtedly help it grow. The Vivid might well start flying off the shelf for more than just the fact that they look great in a variety of bright colours including yellow, green, red and blue.
Other players are playing them too, including Tim Petrovic and Craig Stadler and female stars on the LPGA Tour like Julie Yang and Jennifer Johnson.
Volvik produced balls before the Vivid, but none have attracted quite the same attention as this particular line. Thje colors and matte finish of these balls make it look as though they don’t have dimples—but that isn’t the case. A close inspection will prove just that.
The colours also mean you should lose less golf balls (or they should be easier to find at the very least). This will be a significant attraction for higher handicap golfers who may have a tendency to lose a greater amount of balls compared to players with lower handicaps.
When it comes to performance, the Vivid comes out well when compared to rivals. This is especially true when it comes to distance and spin levels. The spin levels are pretty similar to the Titleist ProV1 and—although slightly down on distance on that premium product—you’re getting good value for money from the Volvik Vivid.
Volvik advertise the ball as being ‘best suited to players with a swing speed of between 70-90mph’. It is those players who will find the distance most compatible with other balls, rather than golfers with faster swing speeds.
The Vivid ball also has a good, soft feel around the greens when chipping. It equally gives confidence with the sound and feel off the putter face, whether you’re putting from long or short ranges.
Overall, the Volvik Vivid is a fairly impressive golf ball. It won’t be for everyone—some golfers will still want to play a traditional white ball—but if you’ve got nothing against playing a bright green or bright pink ball, then you’ll actually get a reliable golf ball that stands up against more renowned products.
The price sits very well. The Volvik Vivid comes in mid-range in the sector. But when you factor in the likelihood of losing them less often thanks to the colour, they actually become even better value. If you want to add a bit of colour to your game, why not give them a go?
See also: Kirkland Signature Golf Ball | <urn:uuid:a6ee6869-1948-44e7-9d05-195e39d1e129> | CC-MAIN-2021-10 | https://essential.golf/volvik-vivid-golf-ball-review/ | 2021-03-04T08:47:21Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-10/segments/1614178368687.25/warc/CC-MAIN-20210304082345-20210304112345-00634.warc.gz | en | 0.952149 | 678 | [
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Arnold Tucker is one of the four “voices” the reader hears when reading FLEET FILES.
Despite having recently been elevated to the corner office at the Fleet Police Department, Chief Arnold Tucker lives a life of consistent loneliness. As an only child, his parents soothed his troubles with food; Arnold never overcame the habit.
Here is an excerpt from FLEET FILES:
The lobby at Fleet Police Department was decorated for Halloween. Arnold insisted it be so. He saw the mid-fall holiday was the only one the police had any entitlement to intrude upon. Between setting the hours for trick-or-treating and posting warnings about the dangers of embedded razor blades, the police were – in Arnold’s opinion – the indisputable protectors of a good time.
Arnold loved Halloween. The tiny candy bars were easy to hide and readily available in the break room thanks to the strictness of many modern parents. Arnold’s parents hadn’t been like that; they even let Arnold have the homemade popcorn balls which came home in his pillowcase, despite not knowing the house of origin.
Tomorrow, if Arnold were feeling weak, he’d go by the grocer where the candy packaged in Halloween wrapping would be waiting for him under the fifty-percent-off sign. From late October until spring’s jelly beans were consumed, it was six solid months of temptation and indulgence. He knew there was little he could do in the face of this cultural norm. And in so thinking, he decided he shouldn’t be blamed for his weight gain. It would be unreasonable to think he wouldn’t put on another few pounds.
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Choosing the right school for your child is an important decision.
Why not request a tour of our college by contacting us on 02 9854 3100.
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Sunday March 3, 2013 – Quiet time with God is an important part of our relationship with God. Develop the priority for quiet time daily and have a specific place for it. Be persistent and passionate about your quiet time with God.
Your quiet time is supposed to be engaging. – Pastor Dwayne Terry
Back to Basics, Part 01
Genesis 3:8a – “Then the man and his wife heard the sound of the LORD God as he was walking in the garden in the cool of the day.”
Exodus 33:11 – “The LORD would speak to Moses face to face, as a man speaks with his friend.”
John 4:23 – “Yet a time is coming and has now come when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for they are the kind of worshipers the Father seeks.”
- Our quiet time became too quiet.
James 5:16b (NKJV) – “…The effective, fervent prayer of a righteousman avails much.”
Psalm 119:103 – “How sweet are your words to my taste, sweeter than honey to my mouth!
- Our quiet time became too formal.
Matthew 15:8 – “These people honor me with their lips, but theirhearts are far from me.”
- Our quiet time became too impersonal.John 15:15 – “I no longer call you servants, because a servant does not know his master’s business. Instead, I have called you friends, for everything that I learned from my Father I have made known to you.”
Bringing Back Quiet Time
- Develop the priority of quiet time.
Psalm 5:3 – “In the morning, O LORD, you hear my voice; in themorning I lay my requests before you and wait in expectation.
The only thing Christianity cannot be is moderately important. (CS Lewis)
- Develop a place for quiet time.
Luke 22:39 – “Jesus went out as usual to the Mount of Olives, andhis disciples followed him.”
- Develop a plan for quiet time.Luke 11:1-2 – “One day Jesus was praying in a certain place. When he finished, one of his disciples said to him, ‘Lord, teach us to pray, just as John taught his disciples.’ He said to them, ‘when you pray, say: Father, hallowed be your name, your kingdom come.’”
Mark 1:35 – “Very early in the morning, while it was still dark, Jesus got up, left the house and went off to a solitary place, where he prayed.”
- Develop a persistence for quiet time.
Luke 18:1 – “Then Jesus told his disciples a parable to show themthat they should always pray and not give up.”
Galatians 6:9 – “Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up.”
- Develop a passion for quiet time.Romans 12:11-12 – “Never be lacking in zeal, but keep your spiritual fervor, serving the Lord. Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction, faithful in prayer.”
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