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Academe in the Age of Trump
This is the third week of an effort to turn over this blog completely to the circulation of work by women and especially women of color. Calling this "reading out," I've laid out the rationale for this redirection here and here.
This week, a special brief edition on academe in the age of Trump.
The election of a serial sexual predator and white supremacist took universities by surprise, and ran counter to the modest reforms begun over the past few years. It also helped to consolidate a range of ideas and thoughts about how to confront both "racism without racists" (to borrow from Eduardo Bonilla-Silva) and also bomb-throwing white supremacists increasingly papering the universities with recruitment materials and much worse. Or how to confront, in turn, the most caddish manifestations of patriarchy, the catch-all of "rape culture," and the most horrific and graphic sexual predations.
The work starts with new data. For me, one defining piece of writing in this moment is Chronicle commentator and mentor-for-hire Karen Kelsky's piece explaining her use of an informal survey (a public google spreadsheet) to capture anonymous data about sexual harassment and abuse in and out of the classroom. Every workplace is a danger zone, but tenure, rank, and other forms of institutionalized privilege make the university's expression of patriarchy and racism more durable and more troubling. So, too, does an absolutist conviction that "free expression" of any sort must be protected. Kelsky knows all of this, and has been talking about it for a long time. What I like about this particular piece, though, isn't her outrage and her anger, but her reflection, in passages like this one, on the root of the problem: "Part of being socialized in a patriarchal society is a mechanism of internalized gaslighting in which women are conditioned to second-guess themselves, to doubt, to minimize, to do the emotional labor of both defusing situations and reinterpreting them in such a way as to exculpate their harassers — by squinting in just the right way to make plausible deniability, well, plausible." This is an amazing bit of research – a collaborative effort by hundreds of women in academe to comment and email – but it is also Kelsky's central question that should haunt us: why do sexual predators continue to be hired and promoted in academe?
Kelsky's survey results are grim. So, too, is Silke-Maria Weineck's appalling – and entirely unsurprising – story of having her co-authored book be profiled with a gold-standard interview on NPR's "All Things Considered," only to learn that her own contributions to the interview had been erased. And that she'd been whited-out, as well, as the book's co-author. Weineck's account of her professional vanishing by the "University of the Airwaves" is glib, funny, and deadly serious. And, in a turn that will remind readers of Rebecca Solnit's foundational, "Men Explain Things to Me," it seems like NPR worked extra hard to pack the segment with men with British accents, so that Weineck had to repeatedly listen to some guys tell and re-tell the conclusions of her own book.
The story reminded me of how important it is to actually collaborate equitably, to be fair to your writing and research partner, so that there is never a moment where one's myriad significations – the markings of race, gender, sex, and class that render some bodies hyper-visible and privileged – are working against that principle of equity and shared collegiality. Weineck's partner stood by her, but NPR didn't care. She made me think about my own writing partner – the extraordinary, Caroline Field Levander – and our ongoing efforts to be honest with each other and (this is the hardest part) to keep the world honest, too.
Weineck's piece also put me in mind of this older bit by Darnell Moore and Monica Casper, who insist that these partnerships reflect a kind of political determination worth celebrating. Togetherness, they confess, is dangerous and powerful. "Lovelessness," they write, "is the epicenter of oppression, and from it emerges the various tremors and tsunamis that devastate our shared world, which move in the form of state-sanctioned violence, settler colonialism, bloated prison industries, rape culture, genocide, xenophobia, and so much else. And yet, we believe that love in the time of racism is a radical act that can lead to broader political/social formations and solidarities where "difference" is not policed or expunged, but acknowledged and celebrated."
Cross-gendered writing partnerships, Casper and Moore remind us, are acts of radical love. The very practice of writing, thinking, and dreaming together can be revolutionary. Especially when it happens outside of the fantasy of color-blindness and gender-blindness.
And though we love the romantic duet as an art form, that love can have major consequences. And what emerges from the position of radical collegiality, as Kyla Wazana Tompkins and Tavia Nyong'o note, can be fierce, and fiery, and on point. I love this piece on incivility for its elegant construction, its 11 point structure, but also for its muscular commitment to making trouble, to opening doors, to leveling floors, to blowing through ceilings and walls, and to imagining a better house for all of us to live in.
Of course, within the walls, there are still familiar challenges and possibilities. One thinks of the Harvard and Stanford historian who hosted an entire conference at the Hoover Institute with scarcely a woman on any panel. "Flaps like the recent conference," write historians Allyson Hobbs and Priya Satia, in their Washington Post rebuttal, "damage Stanford's efforts to recruit women and people of color and sabotage earnest efforts elsewhere on campus to fulfill the university's larger commitment to greater inclusivity and equity." Indeed they do. But even more than that, by showcasing the need for more "Great Man history" the conference blew dust onto the ongoing effort of two generations to change history itself, to include voices lost or forgotten, voices of women, people of color, refugees and migrants and criminals. It justified a retrofitting of a tired old philosophy of history – the nineteenth century narrative of Great Men making change – that is pitched to the MAGA crowd, whose disorienting historical confabulations provide a symbolic backdrop for Trump's galactic-sized, sociopathoic egoism.
It takes scholarship to poke holes in all the lies; it takes something more than scholarship to do more than just spotlight the truth. Women Also Know History, a crowd-sourced database of expertise, is a different sort of response to the patriarchal shenanigans at the Hoover Institute. It is meant to be a clearinghouse of scholars who should be first-read, first-called, and first-quoted in this moment. Like Kelsky's database, the site is a reminder that we just can't completely op-ed our way out of this problem, and that organization is going to be a part of the solution. Let's hope the next British dude who gets a call for a quote from NPR merely passes the phone to a better scholar.
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Warren Buffett – Chairman and CEO, Berkshire Hathaway Inc. – Email Address
Warren Edward Buffett is the chairman, CEO, and largest shareholder of Berkshire Hathaway[4] and consistently ranked among the world's wealthiest people. He was ranked as the world's wealthiest person in 2008[5] and as the third wealthiest person in 2011.[6]In 2012, American magazine Time named Buffett one of the most influential people in the world.[7]
Berkshire Hathaway Inc. is an American multinational conglomerate holding company headquartered in Omaha, Nebraska, United States, that oversees and manages a number of subsidiary companies. The company wholly owns GEICO, BNSF, Lubrizol, Dairy Queen, Fruit of the Loom, Helzberg Diamonds, FlightSafety International, and NetJets, owns half of Heinz and an undisclosed percentage of Mars, Incorporated, and has significant minority holdings in American Express, The Coca-Cola Company, Wells Fargo, and IBM.
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MAIZALL coordinator, Benno van der Laan was a guest speaker at a conference on biosafety in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia on April 24 and 25, 2018. The conference organized by the International Food Policy Research Institute and the African Biosafety Network of Expertise brought together many African stakeholder organizations active in agricultural biotechnology.
Since 2009, several biosafety service providers with a focus on agricultural biotechnology and biosafety have held regular meetings to exchange information and experiences from their work in sub-Saharan Africa and to work towards stronger collaboration in countries. The process was initiated by USAID and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. In recent years the focus has been on countries that were making active progress in establishing regulatory systems and/or actively involved in biotech R&D, including field trials.
Mr. van der Laan gave a presentation focusing on MAIZALL's activities and pointed out that agricultural biotechnology and plant breeding innovations such as genome editing are among the tools necessary to increase production sustainably. New and better products are constantly being developed, and MAIZALL's farmers were committed to using them as soon as their effectiveness and safety had been fully assessed and confirmed. Mr. van der Laan added that MAIZALL's farmers were ready to share their experiences using these technologies with African farmers, governments, regulatory agencies and other stakeholders.
He drew attention to the difficulties encountered in trade flow which occurred when countries had inadequate or non-functioning regulatory systems which led to asynchronous approvals between markets. This created unnecessary trade obstacles at the expense of farmers, exporters, importers, livestock producers and consumers. In some countries no systems exist at all or GM production is simply banned.
To address these trade disruptions, MAIZALL engaged with stakeholders across the agri-supply chain and with governments around the world. He said, MAIZALL worked hard within each members' country to cooperate on the scientific risk assessments of new biotech products. We've had some success as countries in South America have expressed the political desire to do so, and in fact Mercosur has created a Biosafety Commission (composed of the heads of the member countries' biosafety agencies) which is working on a system that would ensure the sharing of safety assessments to establish LLPs. |
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Recording Instructional books
Thomson 1592005411 Logic Pro VII Powe...
Thomson 1592005411 Logic Pro VII Power (BOOK/CD)
Thomson Delmar Learning SKU: 1-59200-541-1 PSSL ID#: 58269
If you're a Logic user, and you want to learn how to get the most out of this powerful digital audio sequencer, Logic Pro 7 Power is for you. This unique guide explains simply and thoroughly everything you need to know to make music using Logic Pro 7. You'll gain an in-depth understanding of the philosophy behind Logic and why it works the way it does. The comprehensive introduction to digital audio, MIDI, and sequencing in Logic provides you with a solid foundation for working with the software. You'll then proceed on to the many advanced features of Logic that become important as you create more complex compositions and build a more involved project studio. Written by a Logic expert and longtime user, this book will make a powerful difference in your music creation and audio production, and it will continue to serve as a useful reference.
A revision of the successful Logic 6 Power (1-59200-128-9), this book provides comprehensive coverage of the latest version of Logic Pro, Logic Pro 7.
Get in-depth coverage on recording and editing audio with MIDI, mixing your own songs, using automation in Logic, synchronizing hardware with Logic, working with video, and working with audio instruments.
The author offers step-by-step explanations as well as tips, tricks, and visual walk-throughs that will help readers understand this complex software.
Readers will appreciate the extensive index and the cross-reference of Logic's menu commands in the appendix.
Written by an experienced computer musician and professional audio writer who is also a moderator for the Logic User Group, an online community of over 13,000 Logic users. |
<?php
declare(strict_types=1);
namespace ZendTest\Expressive\Tooling\CreateHandler;
use Mockery;
use Mockery\Adapter\Phpunit\MockeryPHPUnitIntegration;
use PHPUnit\Framework\Assert;
use PHPUnit\Framework\TestCase;
use Prophecy\Argument;
use Prophecy\Prophecy\ObjectProphecy;
use Psr\Container\ContainerInterface;
use ReflectionMethod;
use ReflectionProperty;
use Symfony\Component\Console\Application;
use Symfony\Component\Console\Command\Command;
use Symfony\Component\Console\Helper\HelperSet;
use Symfony\Component\Console\Input\ArrayInput;
use Symfony\Component\Console\Input\InputInterface;
use Symfony\Component\Console\Output\ConsoleOutputInterface;
use Zend\Expressive\Template\TemplateRendererInterface;
use Zend\Expressive\Tooling\CreateHandler\CreateHandler;
use Zend\Expressive\Tooling\CreateHandler\CreateHandlerCommand;
use Zend\Expressive\Tooling\CreateHandler\CreateHandlerException;
use Zend\Expressive\Tooling\CreateHandler\CreateTemplate;
use Zend\Expressive\Tooling\CreateHandler\Template;
/**
* @runTestsInSeparateProcesses
* @preserveGlobalState disabled
*/
class CreateHandlerCommandTest extends TestCase
{
use MockeryPHPUnitIntegration;
/** @var ContainerInterface|ObjectProphecy */
private $container;
/** @var InputInterface|ObjectProphecy */
private $input;
/** @var ConsoleOutputInterface|ObjectProphecy */
private $output;
protected function setUp() : void
{
$this->input = $this->prophesize(InputInterface::class);
$this->output = $this->prophesize(ConsoleOutputInterface::class);
$this->container = $this->prophesize(ContainerInterface::class);
}
private function createCommand(string $command = 'handler:create') : CreateHandlerCommand
{
return new CreateHandlerCommand(
'handler:create',
null,
$this->container->reveal()
);
}
/**
* Allows disabling of the `require` statement in the command class when testing.
*/
private function disableRequireHandlerDirective(CreateHandlerCommand $command) : void
{
$r = new ReflectionProperty($command, 'requireHandlerBeforeGeneratingFactory');
$r->setAccessible(true);
$r->setValue($command, false);
}
private function reflectExecuteMethod(CreateHandlerCommand $command) : ReflectionMethod
{
$r = new ReflectionMethod($command, 'execute');
$r->setAccessible(true);
return $r;
}
/**
* @return ObjectProphecy|Application
*/
private function mockApplication(string $forService = 'Foo\TestHandler')
{
$helperSet = $this->prophesize(HelperSet::class)->reveal();
$factoryCommand = $this->prophesize(Command::class);
$factoryCommand
->run(
Argument::that(function ($input) use ($forService) {
Assert::assertInstanceOf(ArrayInput::class, $input);
Assert::assertStringContainsString('factory:create', (string) $input);
Assert::assertStringContainsString($forService, (string) $input);
return $input;
}),
$this->output->reveal()
)
->willReturn(0);
$application = $this->prophesize(Application::class);
$application->getHelperSet()->willReturn($helperSet);
$application->find('factory:create')->will([$factoryCommand, 'reveal']);
return $application;
}
public function testConfigureSetsExpectedDescriptionWhenRequestingAHandler()
{
$command = $this->createCommand();
$this->assertStringContainsString(CreateHandlerCommand::HELP_HANDLER_DESCRIPTION, $command->getDescription());
}
public function testConfigureSetsExpectedDescriptionWhenRequestingAnAction()
{
$command = new CreateHandlerCommand('action:create', null, $this->container->reveal());
$this->assertStringContainsString(CreateHandlerCommand::HELP_ACTION_DESCRIPTION, $command->getDescription());
}
public function testConfigureSetsExpectedHelpWhenRequestingAHandler()
{
$command = $this->createCommand();
$this->assertEquals(CreateHandlerCommand::HELP_HANDLER, $command->getHelp());
}
public function testConfigureSetsExpectedHelpWhenRequestingAnAction()
{
$command = new CreateHandlerCommand('action:create', null, $this->container->reveal());
$this->assertEquals(CreateHandlerCommand::HELP_ACTION, $command->getHelp());
}
public function testConfigureSetsExpectedArgumentsWhenRequestingAHandler()
{
$command = $this->createCommand();
$definition = $command->getDefinition();
$this->assertTrue($definition->hasArgument('handler'));
$this->assertFalse($definition->hasArgument('action'));
$argument = $definition->getArgument('handler');
$this->assertTrue($argument->isRequired());
$this->assertEquals(CreateHandlerCommand::HELP_HANDLER_ARG_HANDLER, $argument->getDescription());
}
public function testConfigureSetsExpectedArgumentsWhenRequestingAnAction()
{
$command = new CreateHandlerCommand('action:create', null, $this->container->reveal());
$definition = $command->getDefinition();
$this->assertTrue($definition->hasArgument('action'));
$this->assertFalse($definition->hasArgument('handler'));
$argument = $definition->getArgument('action');
$this->assertTrue($argument->isRequired());
$this->assertEquals(CreateHandlerCommand::HELP_ACTION_ARG_ACTION, $argument->getDescription());
}
public function testConfigureSetsExpectedOptionsWhenRequestingAHandler()
{
$command = $this->createCommand();
$definition = $command->getDefinition();
$this->assertTrue($definition->hasOption('no-factory'));
$option = $definition->getOption('no-factory');
$this->assertFalse($option->acceptValue());
$this->assertEquals(CreateHandlerCommand::HELP_HANDLER_OPT_NO_FACTORY, $option->getDescription());
$this->assertTrue($definition->hasOption('no-register'));
$option = $definition->getOption('no-register');
$this->assertFalse($option->acceptValue());
$this->assertEquals(CreateHandlerCommand::HELP_HANDLER_OPT_NO_REGISTER, $option->getDescription());
$this->assertFalse($definition->hasOption('without-template'));
$this->assertFalse($definition->hasOption('with-template-namespace'));
$this->assertFalse($definition->hasOption('with-template-name'));
$this->assertFalse($definition->hasOption('with-template-extension'));
}
public function testConfigureSetsExpectedOptionsWhenRequestingAnAction()
{
$command = new CreateHandlerCommand('action:create', null, $this->container->reveal());
$definition = $command->getDefinition();
$this->assertTrue($definition->hasOption('no-factory'));
$option = $definition->getOption('no-factory');
$this->assertFalse($option->acceptValue());
$this->assertEquals(CreateHandlerCommand::HELP_ACTION_OPT_NO_FACTORY, $option->getDescription());
$this->assertTrue($definition->hasOption('no-register'));
$option = $definition->getOption('no-register');
$this->assertFalse($option->acceptValue());
$this->assertEquals(CreateHandlerCommand::HELP_ACTION_OPT_NO_REGISTER, $option->getDescription());
$this->assertFalse($definition->hasOption('without-template'));
$this->assertFalse($definition->hasOption('with-template-namespace'));
$this->assertFalse($definition->hasOption('with-template-name'));
$this->assertFalse($definition->hasOption('with-template-extension'));
}
public function testConfigureSetsExpectedTemplateOptionsWhenRequestingAHandlerAndRendererIsPresent()
{
$this->container->has(TemplateRendererInterface::class)->willReturn(true);
$command = new CreateHandlerCommand('handler:create', null, $this->container->reveal());
$definition = $command->getDefinition();
$this->assertTrue($definition->hasOption('without-template'));
$option = $definition->getOption('without-template');
$this->assertFalse($option->acceptValue());
$this->assertEquals(CreateHandlerCommand::HELP_OPTION_WITHOUT_TEMPLATE, $option->getDescription());
$this->assertTrue($definition->hasOption('with-template-namespace'));
$option = $definition->getOption('with-template-namespace');
$this->assertTrue($option->acceptValue());
$this->assertEquals(CreateHandlerCommand::HELP_OPTION_WITH_TEMPLATE_NAMESPACE, $option->getDescription());
$this->assertTrue($definition->hasOption('with-template-name'));
$option = $definition->getOption('with-template-name');
$this->assertTrue($option->acceptValue());
$this->assertEquals(CreateHandlerCommand::HELP_OPTION_WITH_TEMPLATE_NAME, $option->getDescription());
$this->assertTrue($definition->hasOption('with-template-extension'));
$option = $definition->getOption('with-template-extension');
$this->assertTrue($option->acceptValue());
$this->assertEquals(CreateHandlerCommand::HELP_OPTION_WITH_TEMPLATE_EXTENSION, $option->getDescription());
}
public function testConfigureSetsExpectedTemplateOptionsWhenRequestingAnActionAndRendererIsPresent()
{
$this->container->has(TemplateRendererInterface::class)->willReturn(true);
$command = new CreateHandlerCommand('action:create', null, $this->container->reveal());
$definition = $command->getDefinition();
$this->assertTrue($definition->hasOption('without-template'));
$option = $definition->getOption('without-template');
$this->assertFalse($option->acceptValue());
$this->assertEquals(CreateHandlerCommand::HELP_OPTION_WITHOUT_TEMPLATE, $option->getDescription());
$this->assertTrue($definition->hasOption('with-template-namespace'));
$option = $definition->getOption('with-template-namespace');
$this->assertTrue($option->acceptValue());
$this->assertEquals(CreateHandlerCommand::HELP_OPTION_WITH_TEMPLATE_NAMESPACE, $option->getDescription());
$this->assertTrue($definition->hasOption('with-template-name'));
$option = $definition->getOption('with-template-name');
$this->assertTrue($option->acceptValue());
$this->assertEquals(CreateHandlerCommand::HELP_OPTION_WITH_TEMPLATE_NAME, $option->getDescription());
$this->assertTrue($definition->hasOption('with-template-extension'));
$option = $definition->getOption('with-template-extension');
$this->assertTrue($option->acceptValue());
$this->assertEquals(CreateHandlerCommand::HELP_OPTION_WITH_TEMPLATE_EXTENSION, $option->getDescription());
}
public function testSuccessfulExecutionEmitsExpectedMessages()
{
$command = $this->createCommand();
$this->disableRequireHandlerDirective($command);
$command->setApplication($this->mockApplication()->reveal());
$generator = Mockery::mock('overload:' . CreateHandler::class);
$generator->shouldReceive('process')
->once()
->with('Foo\TestHandler', [])
->andReturn(__DIR__);
$this->input->getArgument('handler')->willReturn('Foo\TestHandler');
$this->input->getOption('no-factory')->willReturn(false);
$this->input->getOption('no-register')->willReturn(false);
$this->output
->writeln(Argument::containingString('Creating request handler Foo\TestHandler'))
->shouldBeCalled();
$this->output
->writeln(Argument::containingString('Success'))
->shouldBeCalled();
$this->output
->writeln(Argument::containingString('Created class Foo\TestHandler, in file ' . __DIR__))
->shouldBeCalled();
$method = $this->reflectExecuteMethod($command);
$this->assertSame(0, $method->invoke(
$command,
$this->input->reveal(),
$this->output->reveal()
));
}
public function testSuccessfulExecutionEmitsExpectedMessagesWhenRequestingAnAction()
{
$command = new CreateHandlerCommand('action:create', null, $this->container->reveal());
$this->disableRequireHandlerDirective($command);
$command->setApplication($this->mockApplication('Foo\TestAction')->reveal());
$generator = Mockery::mock('overload:' . CreateHandler::class);
$generator->shouldReceive('process')
->once()
->with('Foo\TestAction', [])
->andReturn(__DIR__);
$this->input->getArgument('action')->willReturn('Foo\TestAction');
$this->input->getOption('no-factory')->willReturn(false);
$this->input->getOption('no-register')->willReturn(false);
$this->output
->writeln(Argument::containingString('Creating action Foo\TestAction'))
->shouldBeCalled();
$this->output
->writeln(Argument::containingString('Success'))
->shouldBeCalled();
$this->output
->writeln(Argument::containingString('Created class Foo\TestAction, in file ' . __DIR__))
->shouldBeCalled();
$method = $this->reflectExecuteMethod($command);
$this->assertSame(0, $method->invoke(
$command,
$this->input->reveal(),
$this->output->reveal()
));
}
public function commandCreatingTemplate()
{
$substitutions = [
'%template-namespace%' => 'foo',
'%template-name%' => 'test',
];
return [
'handler' => ['handler:create', 'Foo\TestHandler', 'foo', 'test', 'foo::test', $substitutions],
'action' => ['action:create', 'Foo\TestHandler', 'foo', 'test', 'foo::test', $substitutions],
];
}
/**
* @dataProvider commandCreatingTemplate
*/
public function testCommandWillGenerateTemplateWhenRendererIsRegistered(
string $commandName,
string $className,
string $templateNamespace,
string $templateName,
string $generatedTemplate,
array $expectedSubstitutions
) {
$this->container->has(TemplateRendererInterface::class)->willReturn(true);
$command = $this->createCommand($commandName);
$this->disableRequireHandlerDirective($command);
$command->setApplication($this->mockApplication()->reveal());
$generator = Mockery::mock('overload:' . CreateHandler::class);
$generator->shouldReceive('process')
->once()
->with('Foo\TestHandler', $expectedSubstitutions)
->andReturn(__DIR__);
$template = new Template(__FILE__, $generatedTemplate);
$templateGenerator = Mockery::mock('overload:' . CreateTemplate::class);
$templateGenerator->shouldReceive('generateTemplate')
->once()
->with('Foo\TestHandler', $templateNamespace, $templateName, null)
->andReturn($template);
$this->input->getArgument('handler')->willReturn('Foo\TestHandler');
$this->input->getOption('without-template')->willReturn(false);
$this->input->getOption('with-template-namespace')->willReturn(null);
$this->input->getOption('with-template-name')->willReturn(null);
$this->input->getOption('with-template-extension')->willReturn(null);
$this->input->getOption('no-factory')->willReturn(false);
$this->input->getOption('no-register')->willReturn(false);
$this->output
->writeln(Argument::containingString('Creating request handler Foo\TestHandler'))
->shouldBeCalled();
$this->output
->writeln(Argument::containingString('Success'))
->shouldBeCalled();
$this->output
->writeln(Argument::containingString('Created template ' . $generatedTemplate . ' in file ' . __FILE__))
->shouldBeCalled();
$this->output
->writeln(Argument::containingString('Created class Foo\TestHandler, in file ' . __DIR__))
->shouldBeCalled();
$method = $this->reflectExecuteMethod($command);
$this->assertSame(0, $method->invoke(
$command,
$this->input->reveal(),
$this->output->reveal()
));
}
public function commandCreatingTemplateWithCustomName()
{
$templateNamespace = 'custom';
$templateName = 'also-custom';
$generatedTemplate = sprintf('%s::%s', $templateNamespace, $templateName);
$templateExtension = 'XHTML';
$substitutions = [
'%template-namespace%' => $templateNamespace,
'%template-name%' => $templateName,
];
return [
// @codingStandardsIgnoreStart
'handler' => ['handler:create', 'Foo\TestHandler', $templateNamespace, $templateName, $generatedTemplate, $templateExtension, $substitutions],
'action' => ['action:create', 'Foo\TestAction', $templateNamespace, $templateName, $generatedTemplate, $templateExtension, $substitutions],
// @codingStandardsIgnoreEnd
];
}
/**
* @dataProvider commandCreatingTemplateWithCustomName
*/
public function testCommandWillGenerateTemplateWithProvidedOptionsWhenRendererIsRegistered(
string $commandName,
string $className,
string $templateNamespace,
string $templateName,
string $generatedTemplate,
string $templateExtension,
array $expectedSubstitutions
) {
$this->container->has(TemplateRendererInterface::class)->willReturn(true);
$command = $this->createCommand($commandName);
$this->disableRequireHandlerDirective($command);
$command->setApplication($this->mockApplication()->reveal());
$generator = Mockery::mock('overload:' . CreateHandler::class);
$generator->shouldReceive('process')
->once()
->with('Foo\TestHandler', $expectedSubstitutions)
->andReturn(__DIR__);
$template = new Template(__FILE__, $generatedTemplate);
$templateGenerator = Mockery::mock('overload:' . CreateTemplate::class);
$templateGenerator->shouldReceive('generateTemplate')
->once()
->with('Foo\TestHandler', $templateNamespace, $templateName, $templateExtension)
->andReturn($template);
$this->input->getArgument('handler')->willReturn('Foo\TestHandler');
$this->input->getOption('without-template')->willReturn(false);
$this->input->getOption('with-template-namespace')->willReturn($templateNamespace);
$this->input->getOption('with-template-name')->willReturn($templateName);
$this->input->getOption('with-template-extension')->willReturn($templateExtension);
$this->input->getOption('no-factory')->willReturn(false);
$this->input->getOption('no-register')->willReturn(false);
$this->output
->writeln(Argument::containingString('Creating request handler Foo\TestHandler'))
->shouldBeCalled();
$this->output
->writeln(Argument::containingString('Success'))
->shouldBeCalled();
$this->output
->writeln(Argument::containingString('Created template ' . $generatedTemplate . ' in file ' . __FILE__))
->shouldBeCalled();
$this->output
->writeln(Argument::containingString('Created class Foo\TestHandler, in file ' . __DIR__))
->shouldBeCalled();
$method = $this->reflectExecuteMethod($command);
$this->assertSame(0, $method->invoke(
$command,
$this->input->reveal(),
$this->output->reveal()
));
}
/**
* @dataProvider commandCreatingTemplateWithCustomName
*/
public function testCommandWillNotGenerateTemplateWithProvidedOptionsWhenWithoutTemplateOptionProvided(
string $commandName,
string $className,
string $templateNamespace,
string $templateName,
string $templateExtension
) {
$this->container->has(TemplateRendererInterface::class)->willReturn(true);
$command = $this->createCommand($commandName);
$this->disableRequireHandlerDirective($command);
$command->setApplication($this->mockApplication()->reveal());
$generator = Mockery::mock('overload:' . CreateHandler::class);
$generator->shouldReceive('process')
->once()
->with('Foo\TestHandler', [])
->andReturn(__DIR__);
$this->input->getArgument('handler')->willReturn('Foo\TestHandler');
$this->input->getOption('without-template')->willReturn(true);
$this->input->getOption('with-template-namespace')->shouldNotBeCalled();
$this->input->getOption('with-template-name')->shouldNotBeCalled();
$this->input->getOption('with-template-extension')->shouldNotBeCalled();
$this->input->getOption('no-factory')->willReturn(false);
$this->input->getOption('no-register')->willReturn(false);
$this->output
->writeln(Argument::containingString('Creating request handler Foo\TestHandler'))
->shouldBeCalled();
$this->output
->writeln(Argument::containingString('Success'))
->shouldBeCalled();
$this->output
->writeln(Argument::containingString('Created template'))
->shouldNotBeCalled();
$this->output
->writeln(Argument::containingString('Created class Foo\TestHandler, in file ' . __DIR__))
->shouldBeCalled();
$method = $this->reflectExecuteMethod($command);
$this->assertSame(0, $method->invoke(
$command,
$this->input->reveal(),
$this->output->reveal()
));
}
public function testAllowsExceptionsRaisedFromCreateHandlerToBubbleUp()
{
$command = $this->createCommand();
$command->setApplication($this->mockApplication()->reveal());
$generator = Mockery::mock('overload:' . CreateHandler::class);
$generator->shouldReceive('process')
->once()
->with('Foo\TestHandler', [])
->andThrow(CreateHandlerException::class, 'ERROR THROWN');
$this->input->getArgument('handler')->willReturn('Foo\TestHandler');
$this->output
->writeln(Argument::containingString('Creating request handler Foo\TestHandler'))
->shouldBeCalled();
$this->output
->writeln(Argument::containingString('Success'))
->shouldNotBeCalled();
$method = $this->reflectExecuteMethod($command);
$this->expectException(CreateHandlerException::class);
$this->expectExceptionMessage('ERROR THROWN');
$method->invoke(
$command,
$this->input->reveal(),
$this->output->reveal()
);
}
public function testAllowsExceptionsRaisedFromCreateHandlerToBubbleUpWhenRendererIsRegistered()
{
$this->container->has(TemplateRendererInterface::class)->willReturn(true);
$command = $this->createCommand();
$this->disableRequireHandlerDirective($command);
$command->setApplication($this->mockApplication()->reveal());
$generator = Mockery::mock('overload:' . CreateHandler::class);
$generator->shouldReceive('process')
->once()
->with('InvalidTestHandler', [
'%template-namespace%' => 'invalid-test-handler',
'%template-name%' => 'invalid-test',
])
->andThrow(CreateHandlerException::class, 'ERROR THROWN');
$this->input->getArgument('handler')->willReturn('InvalidTestHandler');
$this->input->getOption('without-template')->willReturn(false);
$this->input->getOption('with-template-namespace')->willReturn(null);
$this->input->getOption('with-template-name')->willReturn(null);
$this->input->getOption('with-template-extension')->willReturn(null);
$this->output
->writeln(Argument::containingString('Creating request handler InvalidTestHandler'))
->shouldBeCalled();
$this->output
->writeln(Argument::containingString('Success'))
->shouldNotBeCalled();
$method = $this->reflectExecuteMethod($command);
$this->expectException(CreateHandlerException::class);
$this->expectExceptionMessage('ERROR THROWN');
$method->invoke(
$command,
$this->input->reveal(),
$this->output->reveal()
);
}
}
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An imposing landmark, BINTANG MEGAMALL is strategically located in the heart of Miri Central Business District and Bintang Jaya Commercial belt, an area already renowned as the Fourth Divisions premier retail icon. A prominent and strategic location that is easily accessible from all parts of Miri Metropolis through a combination of excellent road links and a comprehensive array of public transport facilities.
A significant fact of the locality is that BINTANG MEGAMALL is sited on a 10-acre plot which is one of the few available pieces of prime properties in this prosperous precinct in the thriving Golden Triangle area of Miri City. |
The memory of Michael Jackson will not only live on through his music but the King of Pop will also be immortalized in a pair of headphones by Nokia that pays homage to the great musician.
The memory of Michael Jackson will not only live on through his music but the King of Pop will also be immortalized in a pair of headphones that pays homage to the great musician.
Unlike any ordinary headphone, this one has a quirky 'Thriller' concept to it. The head-strap of the 'Thriller' headphones presents a montage of a graveyard, with slime-green grass, gravestones, and a dead tree with a creepy owl perched atop a branch. At either end of the strap, where it meets with the phones, you have zombies emerging from graves. The phones themselves have moldy wooden doors pasted on either end where a werewolf Michael Jackson (from the Thriller video) is bursting the through the door.
Nokia has only made one working model of this headphone. Easily this is one of the most innovative concepts ever.
Needless to say the headphone is yet to go into production. And since Nokia isn't making a big secret of it either, you can expect to strut around town sporting one of these, listening to Jacko's Thriller, in a few months time at the most. |
I am running ROS Kinetic, on a Turtlebot3 Burger with a Raspberry Pi3.
The goal here is to remotely control the Turtlebot from another Raspberry Pi. The remote controller Pi sends movement information over a socket connection.
I have delay problems when publishing into /cmd_vel (60 seconds delay) and again delay of 60 seconds from when the Twist message is echoed in the topic /cmd_vel to when the Turtlebot starts moving. I cannot locate why this 2 x 60 seconds delay occurs. I think that I might be pushing the raspberry pi too much.
Everything works fine no delays.
The messages get into /cmd_vel with a 60 seconds delay. The Turtlebot3 starts moving after 120 seconds delay.
The messages get into /cmd_vel with a 0 seconds delay. The Turtlebot3 starts moving after 35 seconds delay.
Here is the post_office.py running on the Turtlebot3.
while not rospy.is_shutdown(): #checking the rospy.is_shutdown() flag and then doing work. You have to check is_shutdown() to check if your program should exit (e.g. if there is a Ctrl-C or otherwise).
Any ideas to why I get these delays?
Browse other questions tagged mobile-robot ros raspberry-pi or ask your own question. |
Marine litter has become one of today's most serious environmental problems. As a result of pollution of beaches, the water column and sea bed, the North and Baltic Seas are increasingly losing their protective function for the climate. To counteract this, we are supporting national, regional and international action plans and initiatives, including the Marine Litter Round Table, which now comprises around 130 experts.
Another example is the Fishing for Litter Initiative. In Germany alone, 120 fishers are now collecting waste from the North and Baltic Seas. They are given large sacks for the waste they catch in their nets, and these sacks can then be transported to the port, where special containers have been made available for them.
The Fishing for Litter Initiative is becoming increasingly popular among fishers and at ports. The knowledge gained about the composition and origin of the waste also helps tackle the root causes of marine litter.
Initial successes as part of the goal to make seas clean, healthy and productive by 2020 are also being recorded elsewhere. For example, plastic particles made of polyethylene that are used in cosmetics have been reduced by 82 percent. And most toothpastes are now free of microplastics. |
Lady Gaga is getting ready to kick off her "Joanne" world tour, which means she's looking to make a big splash on the road. And that means making some changes at home, first!
So what does that mean? Apparently ... rainbow-colored hair!
The diva posted a picture of her latest hair style on Instagram over the weekend, and all of her little monsters (also known as fans) went wild for the blue-and-orange shades.
"[L]ike something you'd do with Kool-Aid at camp (in the nicest way, because it looks awesome)," Glamour quipped about the color combo.
She may also have gotten her hair cut — it looks shorter to us — but the jury is still out on whether she got a lop as well as a change in her locks.
We're also in love with those red sparkly lips!
Gaga is known for changing her hair color frequently; she's been seen as a platinum blonde, as a dark brunette, bright orange (for filming "A Star is Born") and most recently with pastel "peach" hair.
And we love all of them!
The "Joanne" world tour (the title is a call back to Gaga's non-stage name, Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta) kicks off in Vancouver, Canada on Aug. 1. |
•https://doi.org/10.1364/OE.14.008578
Recording different geometries of 2D hexagonal photonic crystals by choosing the phase between two-beam interference exposures
J. W. Menezes, L. Cescato, E. J. de Carvalho, and E. S. Braga
J. W. Menezes,1 L. Cescato,1 E. J. de Carvalho,2 and E. S. Braga2
1Instituto de Física Gleb Wataghin,Universidade Estadual de Campinas,Cx.P. 6165, 13083-970 Campinas, SP, Brazil
2Faculdade de Engenharia Elétrica e Computação, Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Cx.P. 6101, 13081-970 Campinas, SP, Brazil
J Menezes
L Cescato
E Carvalho
E Braga
J. W. Menezes, L. Cescato, E. J. de Carvalho, and E. S. Braga, "Recording different geometries of 2D hexagonal photonic crystals by choosing the phase between two-beam interference exposures," Opt. Express 14, 8578-8583 (2006)
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Phase compensation
Phase shift
Wavefront distortions
Holography (090.0090)
Optical design and fabrication (220.0220)
Microstructure fabrication (220.4000)
Interference (260.3160)
Original Manuscript: July 19, 2006
Revised Manuscript: August 25, 2006
2. Simulated patterns
3. Experimental procedure and Phase Control Method
2D hexagonal patterns can be generated by the superimposition of two or three fringe patterns that have been formed by two-wave interference and that have rotations of 60° between them. Superimposing three exposures solves the problem of asymmetry in the cross section of structures, which is caused by double exposure. The resulting structure, however, depends on the phase shift of the third fringe pattern in relation to the previous two. We propose a method for controlling the phase shift, and we demonstrate that three different lattice geometries of hexagonal photonic crystals can be recorded when the phase is chosen.
The projection of interference patterns is an interesting technique for recording periodic structures because the interference pattern is three-dimensional. Thus, volumetric structures with dimensions of tenths of nanometers can be recorded, simultaneously in areas of several squared centimeters [1,2]. This technique can be associated with etching processes or molding in order to fabricate 2D [1,3,4] or 3D photonic crystals [5].
Although the direct interference of multiple beams has been largely employed to fabricate 3D [5,6] and 2D photonic crystals [2], in a recent paper [7] it was demonstrated that the multiple exposures of two-beam interference patterns is able to perform 3D photonic crystals, with remarkable advantages. High contrast patterns can be generated because the two interfering beams may have the same polarization [7] and the phase between the interfering beams can be controlled through a phase shift actuator placed in one of the interfering beams [4,8]. Besides this fact, homogeneous fringe patterns, with low distortion, can be obtained in large areas [1].
The double exposure of a sample to the same interference pattern, by rotating the sample by 90° between the exposures is a simple technique for generation of high contrast 2D patterns. This technique has been successfully employed to record 2D cubic photonic crystals [2,4] as well as for arrays of silicon tips [9] or sieves [10]. Hexagonal lattices, however, are more appropriate for fabrication of photonic crystals because they present photonic band gaps (PBG) for a large range of filling factor and refractive indexes [4,11]. The recording of 2D hexagonal lattices is possible by superimposing two interference patterns rotated of 60° between them. Such process, however, generates asymmetric (elliptical) structures that reduce the range of filling factors that present photonic band gaps [4].
Such asymmetry can be solved by using the superimposition of three interference patterns, rotated of 60° among them [7]. The resulting 2D pattern, however, depends strongly on the relative phase between the third exposure and 2D pattern recorded by the former two exposures [12]. In this paper we present a method to control such phase and we demonstrate the recording of three different geometries of 2D hexagonal crystals using such phase control.
For multiple exposures of the same two-beam interference pattern, the resulting light dose in the photosensitive material is the sum of the light intensity I Ri of the interference pattern multiplied by the time of each exposure (Δt i).
(1)ER=∑i=1n(Δti)IRi
assuming that the absorption of the photosensitive material is negligible for the exposure wavelength (457.9nm). Assuming that the interference pattern is formed between two plane wave-fronts with equal irradiance I 1=I 2=I, and that the sample is rotated of an angle α Ri around the "z" axis, between the exposures, the resultant irradiance I Ri of each interference pattern can be represented by:
(2)IRi=2I{1+cos[2πΛi(cos(αi)x−sin(αi)y)+ϕi]}
with Λ i the fringe period of each exposure, α i is the rotation angle of each exposure in relation to the x axis and ϕ i the relative phase of each fringe pattern.
Figure 1 shows the simulated iso-dose light patterns resulting from the superimposition of two sinusoidal fringe patterns with de same period (n=2 and Λ 1=Λ 2=1µm), same time of exposure Δt 1=Δt 2, assuming α 1=0° and α 2=60° for the first and second exposure, respectively.
Fig. 1. Iso-dose light patterns resulting from the superimposition of two single interference fringe patterns rotated of 60° between them.
Note that the use of two exposures generates a hexagonal lattice, whose cross sections are rectangles that evolutes to ellipsis instead of the circles. In this case, any phase shift ϕ 2 introduced in the second fringe pattern only shifts the whole pattern, but do not change the shape of the iso-dose curves. Thus, to this simulation we assumed ϕ 1=ϕ 2=0 in Eq. 2.
If we consider now the superimposition of three exposures (n=3), with the same fringe period (Λ 1=Λ 2=Λ 3=1µm), with the same time of exposure Δt 1=Δt 2=Δt 3 but rotated of 60° among them (α 1=0°, α 2=60° and α 3=120°), the resulting light pattern for three different phase-shift values (ϕ 3) of the third exposure in relation to former exposures (ϕ 1=ϕ 2=0) is shown in Fig. 2. In Fig. 2(a), ϕ 3=0, while in Fig. 2(b), ϕ 3=π/2 and in Fig. 2(c), ϕ 3=π. For the case of ϕ 3=-π/2 the resulting pattern is similar to that shown in Fig. 2(c), with a rotation of 60°.
Fig. 2. Iso-dose light patterns resulting from the superimposition of three interference patterns rotated between them of 60° for a phase shift ϕ 3=0 (a); ϕ 3=π/2 (b) and ϕ 3=π (c).
Using the resultant light dose it is possible to simulate the relief profile recorded in the photosensitive material taking into account its nonlinear response [13,14]. In the case of positive photoresists the nonlinearities alter substantially the relief profile of the gratings recorded by interference [14], however it does not change the top view geometry of the structures that are defined by the light pattern. Thus, assuming a simple linear development condition we can obtain the top view geometry of the structures recorded in photoresist that are shown in Fig. 3. Note the strong variation of the geometry with the phase shift ϕ 3. For the case ϕ 3=π (Fig. 3(c)) the photoresist structures are circles, while for ϕ 3=π/2 (Fig. 3(b)) the photoresist structure presents a triangular base and for ϕ3=0 it appears a graphite like structure [15] (Fig. 3(a)). In the case of a triple exposure, obtained through a rotation of the sample around the same axis, the presence of a previous double exposure determines a reference point (at the maximum and minimum of both light pattern), thus, each phase shift of the third exposure results in a different superimposed pattern. In the case of three-dimensional patterns obtained by rotation of the sample around orthogonal axis [7], any phase shift ϕ3 introduced in the third fringe pattern only shifts the whole pattern, but do not change the resulting iso-dose curves.
Fig. 3. Top view of the simulated photoresist structures corresponding to the light patterns shown in Fig. 2(a); (b) and (c) respectively, for the same dose and development time. Each contour line corresponds to the same height of the photoresist structure.
In order to record the hexagonal patterns and verify the phase shift dependence of the recorded geometry, films of the positive photoresist SC 1827 (from Rohn and Haas) were spin-coated on glass substrates forming a 400 nm thick film. The samples were pre-baked and then exposed in a holographic setup that employs the line λ=457.9nm of an Ar laser. The normal to sample is aligned with the bisector angle between the two interfering beams.
This setup is provided of a fringe locker system that warrants the high contrast of the interference fringe patterns [8]. The fringe period may be chosen with any value between 0.45µm and 2µm. In this experiment we have used a fringe period of 1µm and a dose of 200 mJ/cm2 in each exposure. After the first exposure the sample is rotated of 60°, and exposed again to the same light dose.
After the second exposure, an outside ring of the sample (as shown in Fig. 4) is developed in AZ 351 developer 1:3 for about 15 seconds, in order to obtain a two dimensional grating that will be used as a reference. The sample is then repositioned in the interference pattern at the same position of the first exposure (interference fringes aligned with the first recorded grating).
Figure 5 shows the transmitted diffracted orders when the entire sample is developed (not only the ring). Each incident beam generates a hexagonal diffraction pattern around the direction of each transmitted wave.
Due to the simultaneous incidence of two beams onto the sample, in each diffraction direction, there is interference between two diffracted beams, forming a "Moire-like" pattern [16, 17]. When the grating is perfectly aligned with the interference pattern, the "Moire-like" pattern period is maximal [16, 17]. The maximum "Moire-like" pattern period is also a measurement of the distortion of the recorded grating in relation to the interference light fringes. In order to have phase control of the interference pattern, it is necessary to take care with the interference fringe distortion. A quality of the interfering wave fronts of λ/10 determines a maximum distortion of 1/10 of the fringes along the same area. Thus, the distortion of the fringe must be much smaller than the desired phase shift to warrant the right phase in the entire area. In our case we can warrant a wave-front quality better than λ/10 in the whole area of our sample (about one inch squared).
Fig. 4. Photograph of the sample holder showing the angle α and the outside reference ring.
Fig. 5. Photographs of the Moiré-like pattern formed at the diffracted orders. The sequence shows the alignment of the grating with the maximum Moiré-like period corresponding to the best repositioning of the sample. The small curvature of the fringes indicates a small wave front distortion and for the best positioning of the sample that the same phase difference occurs along the whole sample.
Due to the hexagonal symmetry of the recorded pattern in the photoresist, the "Moire-like" pattern occurs for three positions of the sample in relation to the light fringes: a) when the interference fringes are aligned with the first recorded grating, b) when the fringes are aligned with the second grating (rotated by 60° in relation to the first grating) and c) when the sample is rotated by 120° in relation to the first grating.
Any phase shift in the microscopic interference pattern produces the same phase shift in the "Moire-like" pattern [17]. Thus, by positioning a photodetector, in the "Moire-like" pattern, a signal proportional to light intensity of the interference of the diffracted waves can be measured. By using this signal in an analogical feedback system [8], it is possible both to compensate the fringe thermal perturbations during the third exposure and to choose the phase shift between the interfering beams among the values of 0, π or ±π/2 [17,18]. As such phase shift is the same of light fringe pattern in relation to the recorded grating, if we can control such phase we can choose the phase between the third grating and the former recorded hexagonal grating.
In our system, the phase compensation during the exposure is introduced in the interferometer through a mirror supported by a piezoelectric actuator, located in one of the arms of the interferometer. The same actuator introduces in the setup a high frequency low amplitude reference signal, in order to allow the use of synchronous detection techniques [8]. By using two lock-in amplifiers, the first or the second harmonic of the reference signal can be simultaneously measured [8]. If we use the first harmonic signal, as an error signal, to feedback the piezoelectric actuator, the phase between the interfering waves in the "Moire-like" will be ±π/2 [8], depending on the plus or minus signal of the first harmonic used to feedback. By the other side, if we use the second harmonic as an error signal to feedback the piezoelectric actuator, the phase between the interfering waves in the "Moire-like" will be 0 or π [8], depending also on the plus or minus signal of the second harmonic.
After the third exposure, using the desired condition, the samples were developed in AZ 351 diluted in deionized water 1:3 for about 25 seconds. After coating with a thin Au layer the top view of the center of the samples were photographed in a SEM.
Figure 6 shows the top view of the photoresist structures, recorded for three different phase conditions: 0, +π/2 or π. Note the good agreement of the photoresist structures in comparison with the simulations shown in Fig. 3 (a), (b) and (c). The same geometry observed in Fig. 6 is obtained along the whole sample of 1 inch of side squared. This occurs due to both: the good quality of the wavefront and the good alignment of the recorded sample in relation to the interference fringes. Note also that in Fig. 6(c) the resulting photoresist structures present a circular cross section while the basis of the photoresist structures shown in Fig. 6(b) are triangles. Figure 6(a) exhibits the graphite lattice geometry as in the simulation shown in Fig. 3(a).
Fig. 6. Structures recorded in a positive photoresist on glass substrates using the superimposition of three exposures with rotations of 60° between them and phase-shifts of (a) ϕ3=0, (b) ϕ3=π/2 and (c) ϕ3=π.
The superimposition of three interference patterns, generated by two beams, allows the recording of different geometries of 2D hexagonal photonic crystals. The first hexagonal lattice presents structures ("atoms") with a circular cross section, while the second present a triangular cross section for the structures or atoms and the third geometry exhibits a graphite lattice. In particular the first two geometries may present new interesting photonic properties.
The geometry of the structures is determined by the phase shift between the third exposure and the previous two-dimensional recorded pattern. The phase shift control uses the diffraction of the two incident beams in the grating recorded after the first two exposures, as a reference, and a synchronous detection feedback system. Such method can be used for fabrication of these geometries in large areas; the limitation is the quality of the wavefronts of the interfering waves.
We acknowledge the financial support of the FAPESP (Fundação de Amparo a Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo) and of the CNPq (Conselho Nacional de Pesquisas).
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Gradually, in selecting the shower door and curtain for the living room drapes. You need to make sure that one you prefer. Having the shower curtain or merely leaving with all the crystal clear glass door to the shower. A shower curtain can create your carrying bath more secure and comfy. On the other hand, the crystal clear glass door is likely to make your living room feel much more spacious. The idea of beach style with alcove bathtub, shower combo with white cupboards and grey tile will be ideal.
Towel rail: Towel railroad has many types are based on the amount of bar. The most typical type of this towel racks are towel rail with two or four bars. Towel rail features a massive area. Thus, we can set the towel dry it all at once.
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Small living room drapes design pictures can be seen in a few sources in an easy way. The living room is just one of crucial rooms in your house so individuals will utilize this area more often than once a day. You must be cautious to design your small living room in your property. You shouldn't take the wrong decision because you will not feel comfortable in your living room when you select wrong design. That is the reason why comparing some living room design graphics can help you to choose the best layout for your living room.
This faucet provides the sanitary hands-free in turning on and off the water. It is controlled with movement sensor and also adjusted the water flow and temperature. These touch-sensitive control faucets can turn on and off water just by just one touch. This is very useful when your hands are so dirty and you don't want to have the dirt pay your own faucet. |
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NO shortage of transfer rumours in the daily papers – so let's check out what's hot and what's not…and rate them accordingly.
Both Premier League clubs are interested but don't rule out AC Milan who are prepared to make him the highest paid player in Serie A on £180,000-a-week.
Seems like the Gunners have run out of patience with the injury-prone midfielder they loaned out to Bournemouth where he got injured…again! We are told Sampdoria are interested.
Just get on with it, we're bored with this story now. De Gea wants to go, so let him go. Kasper Schmeichel will be a more-than adequate replacement.
All of which contradicts yesterday's stories that he was going to sign a new one-year deal with Manchester United. Make your minds up, please!
Nothing concrete in this one hence the phrases 'look to have completed' and 'seemed to confirm'. Will be surprised if there is anything in this one.
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Justin Deeley
by Erik1714 · July 31, 2022
Birth Name: Justin Todd Deeley
Place of Birth: Louisville, Jefferson, Kentucky, United States
Date of Birth: February 1, 1986
Ethnicity: English, about one quarter Irish, one eighth Austrian, some German, remote Scots-Irish/Northern Irish, Dutch, and French
Justin Deeley is an American actor and model. His roles include 90210 and Drop Dead Diva.
Justin's paternal grandfather was Emil John Deeley, Sr. (the son of Michael George Deeley and Thelma Marie Kissell/Kinsel). Emil was born in Louisville, Kentucky. Michael was the son of John M. Deeley, whose parents were Irish, and of Margaret Downes, who was an Irish immigrant. Thelma was the daughter of Irvin/Irving Kissell/Kinsel and Lillian Beck, who were from Kentucky.
Justin's paternal grandmother was Carolyn June Purcell (the daughter of Charles Mathis Purcell and Minnie Ann Blain). Carolyn was born in Louisville, Kentucky, and had deep roots in the U.S. Charles was the son of Charles Brown Purcell and Sarah Katherine Mathis. Minnie was the daughter of Thomas Bernard Blain and Lydia May Goodlett.
Justin's maternal grandfather is named William Joseph Simpson.
Justin's maternal grandmother was Charlotte Marie Killeen (the daughter of George Joseph Killeen and Anna Victoria Bodner). Charlotte was born in Jefferson, Kentucky. George was the son of John J. Killeen and Margaret M. Woods, who were born in Kentucky, both of them to Irish parents. Anna was the daughter of Austrian emigrants, from Kärnten, Thomas Bodner, from Pattendorf, and Anna Prünster, from Obergottesfeld.
Sources: Genealogy of Justin Deeley – https://www.familysearch.org
Obituary of Justin's paternal grandmother, Carolyn June (Purcell) Deeley – https://www.highlandsfuneralhome.com
Obituary of Justin's maternal grandmother, Charlotte Marie (Killeen) Simpson – https://www.legacy.com
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Q: How does a key knob by scenebuilder how can use this controller "Knop" in my project ?
It is located in an interface scenebuilder ??
A: You can use a control from the SceneBuilder Kit, a library that is used by the SceneBuilder App.
If you go to Gluon's SceneBuilder download site, you can find the SceneBuilder kit jar, and the following info:
Scene Builder Kit is used by IDE developers and people involved in creating tooling. It allows for Scene Builder to be embedded into these tools in a cohesive way, such that it becomes part of the tool. Most users will not want to download this - stick to Scene Builder itself.
So you can download it from here, or from the Gluon public repository if you use Maven or Gradle ('com.gluonhq.scenebuilder:scenebuilder-kit:8.4.0').
Once you have added the library to your project, you can find the "knob" in the com.oracle.javafx.scenebuilder.kit.util.control.paintpicker.rotator.RotatorControl class.
A very simple use case:
@Override
public void start(Stage primaryStage) {
RotatorControl rotator = new RotatorControl("Rotate");
Scene scene = new Scene(rotator, 300, 250);
primaryStage.setTitle("Hello World!");
primaryStage.setScene(scene);
primaryStage.show();
}
By the way, the knob itself is a pair of buttons with some css styling, so you can also learn from how is it done in the class source code.
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Radiation from past nuclear testing can detect illegal ivory sales
SALT LAKE CITY, July 1 (UPI) -- Tons of illegal ivory are still sold by dealers who claim it was taken before a worldwide ban, but a new procedure can tests those claims, U.S. researchers say.
Poachers who kill elephants and dealers who sell tusks and ivory are up against a new weapon in the form of a test developed by University of Utah scientists.
By measuring radioactive carbon-14 from atmospheric nuclear bomb tests deposited in tusks and teeth, the method reveals the year an animal died, and thus whether the ivory was taken illegally, a university release reported Monday.
"This could be used in specific cases of ivory seizures to determine when the ivory was obtained and thus whether it is legal," geochemist Thure Cerling said.
International agreements banned most trade of raw ivory from Asian elephants after 1975 and African elephants after 1989.
The new test uses a "bomb curve," a graph showing changes in carbon-14 levels in the atmosphere from U.S. and Soviet atmospheric nuclear weapons tests in Nevada and Siberia from 1952 through 1962.
Although those levels peaked in the 1960s and have declined ever since, they are still are absorbed by and measurable in plant and animal tissues, the researchers said.
"With an accurate age of the ivory, we can verify if the trade is legal or not" when the age is combined with existing DNA analysis to determine if an elephant is from Africa or Asia, lead study author Kevin Uno said.
"Currently 30,000 elephants a year are slaughtered for their tusks, so there is a desperate need to enforce the international trade ban and reduce demand," he said.
The study was published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
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www.humanmemorychip-com.webnode.com - Describes what is one of the best innovative ideas of the century- the human memory chip!
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5. The Gaia Hypothesis
Darwin's perspective on the origin of species is useful to us because it is non-deterministic, non-teleological, and ecocenteric. In Darwin's "tree of life" Homo sapiens are not at the top of the pyramid but on the same evolutionary level as other life forms. In fact, from an evolutionary perspective Homo sapiens are yet to prove their fitness the same way sharks or other species with much longer history have.
The Gaia hypothesis (names after the Greek mythology supreme goddess of Earth) proposed by James Lovelock, provides further context for reflection on Our Place in the World. A British scientist, in the 1960s Lovelock served as an independent consultant for NASA in planning for the Viking mission to Mars. NASA was interested to learn about how best to determine if there is life on Mars.
Lovelock realized that one does not need to land on Mars to know if there was life on it. Atmospheric conditions on Mars (carbon dioxide 95%, oxygen 0.13%, nitrogen 2.7%), stable for very long time, precluded existence of life, as we know it on Earth. Lovelock then asked what are the preconditions of life on Earth? Using a chemical model of Earth without any life forms (no photosynthesis or respiration), he found that carbon dioxide would be 98% (currently 0.03%), oxygen barely detectable (currently 21%), and nitrogen less than 2% (currently 79%). Furthermore, such a lifeless Earth would be very hot at 554F/290C with atmospheric pressure 60 times of what exists today.
Lovelock defined Gaia as a complex entity involving the Earth's biosphere, atmosphere, oceans, and soil, the totality constituting a feedback or cybernetic system, which seeks an optimal physical and chemical environment for life on this planet.
Columbia University ecologist, Shaheed Naeem, explains it in simpler terms:
Lovelock came away with a sense that there was something truly remarkable about Earth, a sort of meta-life or gigantic global biological system in which the sum of the parts--all the plants, animals and microorganisms--made Earth the habitable planet that it was. He speculated that it was an autopoietic system, meaning (roughly) that all its species actively contribute to the functioning of the biosphere in such a way as to ensure their growth and regeneration, which, in turn, is what governs biospheric functioning. This is a complex idea, but essentially he felt that life actively holds the conditions of Earth's surface within a range conducive to the persistence and perpetuation of life, a homeostasis similar to our bodies' regulation of core temperature to a constant of around 37 C (98.6 F).[1]
The Gaia hypothesis was initially ignored or ridiculed by some as some kind of neo-pagan New Age religion. Renowned scientists such as such as Doolittle, Dawkins and Gould criticized it on various grounds (click here).
However, in 1980s the Gaia hypothesis received positive recognition by scientists and a number of scientific conferences have been held to develop and implement it as a research agenda.
Climatologist Stephen Schneider who organized the first Gaia conference in San Diego in 1988 proposed that the Gaia hypothesis includes a range of possible claims. Naeem summarize these as the Weak Gaia Hypothesis that says life is critical to Earth's environment, and the Strong Gaia Hypothesis that says that the biosphere is autopoietic. He notes:
Though the jury is still out, the bulk of the scientific evidence is against the Strong Gaia Hypothesis. One of its strongest critics is Dawkins, who sees no way that evolutionary or ecological processes can generate an autopoietic biosphere from a seemingly unstructured confederation of species whose fates are determined by their individual fitness or stability of the community, ecosystems or biosphere they reside in. Nevertheless, life is what makes Earth habitable, so the Weak Gaia Hypothesis is undeniable."[2]
While we wait for the future assessment of the Strong Gaia Hypothesis, the consensus on the Weak Gaia Hypothesis offers materialist and scientific grounds for a view of "web of life" in addition to Darwin's "tree of live". Life on Earth is inherently interdependent. This validates ethical principles of Deep Ecology 's Eight Point. It also offers a framework for rethinking Marx's vision of de-alienation of humans from nature.
[1] Naeem, Shahid. "Lessons from the Reverse Engineering of Nature," Miller-McCune/May-June 2009, p. 60.
[2] Ibid. p. 62. Naeem does not here note Lovelock's response to Dawkins criticism, which is based on complexities in evolutionary process associated with non-linear systems.
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4. Darwin's Ecocenterism
The intellectual roots of Deep Ecology are found in ecocenterism and social criticism of Henry David Thoreau, John Muir, D. H. Lawrence, Robinson Jeffers, Aldous Huxley as well as George Orwell, Theodore Roszak, and Lewis Mumford. Cultural history of primal peoples, ecocenteric religions such as Taoism, Zen Buddhism, and writings of Saint Francis of Assisi also influenced it. However, there is a curious lack of attention to Darwin's ecocenterism. And yet, Darwin's evolutionary theory is truly revolutionary in that it has provided a solid materialist and scientific basis for ecocenterism.
For centuries, religious belief and philosophical reasoning had placed Earth at the center of the universe. It also took more than 150 years of controversy and confrontation spanning most of the 16th and 17th centuries, from Copernicus' De revolutionibus orbium coelestium in 1543 to Newton's Principia in 1687, to revolutionize cosmology. These efforts led to present-day view of an expanding universe that may have millions of life-supporting planets in our galaxy alone.
Darwin's evolutionary theory laid the groundwork for overcoming centuries of anthropocentric views of life on Earth preached by organized religions and influential philosophers. Naturalists had conceptualized evolution for centuries before Darwin. Greek philosopher Anaximander had suggested that all life-forms evolved from fish in the seas and went through a process of modification once they were established on land. Carl Linnaeus published the first volume of Systema Naturae (1735), which laid the foundation for taxonomy. He later suggested that plants descend from a common source. Darwin's contemporary evolutionary thinkers believed that evolution unfolded like an ascending ladder in which each lineage of plant or animal arose by spontaneous generation from an inanimate matter and then progressed inexorably toward greater complexity and perfection.
Darwin rejected this linear progression in favor of what is now known as branching evolution, in which some species diverge from a common ancestor along separate pathways with no prior limits to how far this process can go. Darwin sketched a "tree of life" to illustrate this in his book Origin of Species (1859). But how this evolutionary change unfolded? Darwin's great insight was the theory of natural selection. Taking a cue from Thomas Malthus, Darwin recognized that populations tend to grow quickly thereby exhausting natural resources. From the vast hereditary diversity within a given species, natural selection blindly weeds out those individuals with less favorable traits. That is a design without a designer. In fact, if two populations of one species remain isolated from each other in different environments they may evolve over a very long period into two different species.[i]
The modern version of Darwin theory benefits from the field of genetics that Gregory Mendel's research on inheritance (published in 1865) founded, and the discovery of DNA by James Watson and Francis Crick in 1953.
Thus, Darwin provided us with a materialist ecocenterist view of life. The prominent evolutionary biologist Ernest Mayr offers a good summary of Darwin's contributions to modern thought:
"… [H]e established a philosophy of biology by introducing the time factor, by demonstrating the importance of chance and contingency, and by showing that theories in evolutionary biology are based on concepts rather than laws. But furthermore - and this is perhaps Darwin's greatest contribution - he developed a set of new principles that influence the thinking of every person: the living world, through evolution, can be explained without recourse to supernaturalism; essentialism or typology is invalid, and we must adopt population thinking, in which all individuals are unique (vital for education and the refutation of racism); natural selection, applied to social groups, is indeed sufficient to account for the origin and maintenance of altruistic ethical systems; cosmic teleology, an intrinsic process leading life automatically to ever greater perfection, is fallacious, with all seemingly teleological phenomena explicable by purely material processes; and determinism is thus repudiated, which places our fate squarely in our own evolved hands." (Mayr, "Darwin's Influence on Modern Thought", 1999).
The benefit of Darwin's contributions to Deep Ecology and Marxian theory is immense.
[i] This paragraph is a summary taken from "Darwin's Living Legacy" by Gary Stix, Scientific American, Volume 300, Number 1, January 2009.
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"Waiting for Godot" has become one of the most important and enigmatic plays of the past 50 years and a cornerstone of 20th-century drama. The story revolves around two seemingly homeless men waiting for someone--or something--named Godot. The result is a comical wordplay of poetry, dreamscapes, and nonsense, which has been interpreted as mankind's inexhaustible search for meaning. |
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Examples of things that could be interpreted are: uid, gid, syscall numbers, exit codes, file paths, socket addresses, permissions, modes, and capabilities. There are likely to be more in the future. If a value cannot be interpreted, its original value is returned.
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Medium-and large-sized vertebrates play a key role in shaping overall forest functioning. Despite this, vertebrate interactions, from competition to mutualism, remain poorly studied, even though these interactions should be taken into account in our conservation and management strategies. Thus, we tackled the question of vertebrate co-occurrence in...
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Impacts of climate change are already evident in ecosystems worldwide. High-latitude and altitude regions are at greatest risk because the effects of climate change are greater in these regions, and species from these areas have limited ability to track their climate envelopes. The Caucasian snowcock (Tetraogallus caucasicus) and the Caucasian grou... |
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Fire officers at the scene of the fire in downtown Port of Spain on Tuesday 29 December 2020. (Image: ABRAHAM DIAZ)
A blind man made a daring escape to safety after being caught in a fire in East Port-of-Spain believed to have been deliberately set.
65-year-old Angelo Joseph escaped through a window and made his way to the roof, before getting assistance from a neighbour who helped him get to the roof of another building, away from the smoke and blaze.
The blaze occurred shortly before 2pm on Tuesday afternoon at a "commercial historic building", on the corner of George Street and Independence Square, Port of Spain, according to the acting chief fire officer Marlon Smith.
In an interview with Guardian Media at the scene, Smith said when he and his officers arrived, some people were trapped inside the building; however, they were eventually able to get to safety.
Two Venezuelan children, ten and seven, were among those caught in the building.
Firefighters were able to contain the blaze to the upper floor of the building; however, tenants say it was deliberately set following a robbery that took place at a small business place located inside the building on Monday night.
Fire services are also concerned about the residential occupation of the building, which is listed as a commercial property.
"At the entrance of the building, there is a clear sign that says, 'commercial building'. So clearly, if residents would have been inside it would have been contrary to what was stated outside the building," Acting Chief Fire Officer Smith lamented.
Police described the living arrangements inside as similar to "dog kennels" because they are small and cramped.
Investigations are ongoing.
This story will be updated as more information becomes available.
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Names and titles define the person. Simon earned "Petros", the rock, well after Jesus gave him the name. Jacob became Israel after contending with God all night. It's not lightly then that I call myself a Bohemian. Yet, what is a bohemian?
The term was originally French, to describe Gypsies who roamed the countryside (some appearantly carried papers of safe passage from the King of Bohemia). The French then reused the term to describe the post-World War 1 artistic class that migrated into Paris drawn by the bohemian lifestyle already practiced there. The Beatnics of the 50s were next to be described as bohemian.
I like to go back to the Parisian definition of the free spirits mixed a bit with the Roma that inspired the term. While the libertine lifestyle of some Bohemians shouldn't be emulated, there are some characteristics that match the desired Christian lifestyle.
The church (like Israel before it) is called to be seperate from the world. "And [the children of Israel] admitted that they were aliens and strangers on earth. People who say such things show that they are looking for a country of their own.... Instead, they were longing for a better country - a heavenly one. Therefore, God is not ashamed to be called their God, for he has prepared a city for them." [Hebrews 11:13b-14,16]* Also, Peter tells us: "Dear friends, I urge you, as aliens and strangers in the world, to abstain from sinful desires, which war against your soul." [1 Peter 2:11]
We are also going to be hated by the world at large. Jesus himself tells us, "If the world hates you, keep in mind that it hated me first. If you belonged to the world, it would love you as its own. As it is, you do not belong to the world, but I have chosen you out of the world. That is why the world hates you." [John 15:18-19].
We must be ready to leave here at a moment's notice. "Therefore keep watch, because you do not know on what day your Lord will come. But understand this: If the owner of the house had known at what time of night the thief was coming, he would have kept watch and would not have let his house be broken into. So you also must be ready, because the Son of Man will come at an hour when you do not expect him. [Matthew 24:42-44]"
Finally, we are not to accumulate large amounts of wealth. "Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy, and where thieves break in and steal. But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where moth and rust do not destroy, and where thieves do not break in and steal." To quote my son, why would we put so much effort in this life to collect building materials?
The wall was made of jasper, and the city of pure gold, as pure as glass. The foundations of the city walls were decorated with every kind of precious stone.... The twelve gates were twelve pearls, each gate made of a single pearl. The great street of the city was of pure gold, like transparent glass. [Revelation 21:18-21]
I don't mind trying to be a Bohemian.
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I knew a Bohemian Evangelist,... He was a church planter in the mid-west,..planting house-churches in Missiouri, Kansas, Oaklahoma, and Wyoming. He worked doing odd jobs, carpentry, managing Hotels and Apartments (a free house and access to many people, as he used to say),. In 1983, he earned $3000.00 the most he had ever earned in a single year. The same year I earned 38,000 and could barely pay my bills. He lived a thrifty and frugal life and he and his family made do with very little. His witness and life led me to the Lord and now years later to the mission field in Asia. He was a humble but powerful man of God. He refused to go with the cultural flow,..no TV, one old car, work a little here and there, and picking wild fruit, or fresh produce at a discount price and hunting for meat,..he ate a lot of wild rabbits and of course deer in season, etc,.. He was the most godly man I ever knew! May God rest his soul and raise up thousands more like him in our country.
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Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi attended a function for Demonstration of Retrofit Electric Bus at Parliament House in New Delhi on Monday.
The Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi attended the demonstration of the first prototype of a diesel bus converted into a battery operated electric bus at a function in Parliament today.
Speaking on the occasion he said that pollution has become a matter of grave concern in our everyday lives and finding a solution to this problem is a major challenge today. Referring to the recently concluded COP 21 meet in Paris, the Prime Minister lauded two of its major initiatives aimed at promoting green energy – one on innovation and the other on the Global Solar Alliance of 120 countries.
He said the cost effective, environmentally clean electric buses are a significant step in the direction of combating pollution. The Prime Minister called the retrofitted electric buses a new gift from "Make in India" and called upon the youth to come forward to make cost-effective, long lasting batteries to promote the making of more such electric buses which can be incorporated in our public transport system.
The Prime Minister presented the keys of the first retrofitted bus to Hon'ble Speaker Smt Sumitra Mahajan who was also present on the occasion. The bus is proposed to be used by Members of Parliament.
Speaking on the occasion Minister of Road Transport & Highway Shri Nitin Gadkari said that the cost effective, pollution free and import substituting retrofitted electric buses demonstrate the government's commitment towards Make in India and its resolve for fighting vehicular pollution. He said ISRO is making Lithium –Ion batteries which will cost only Rs 5 lakh as against the Rs 50 lakh cost of imported batteries. He called upon Parliamentarians to make maximum use of the retrofitted buses and make them popular.
In order to fight the growing pollution that results from harmful emissions from diesel buses, the Ministry of Road Transport & Highways has taken up an initiative of converting existing diesel buses into non polluting electric buses. Electric buses are considered to be the most environment friendly form of public transport in urban areas. Procurement of new electric buses is on the agenda of various State Transport undertakings. In this context the converted buses would be very useful as they would cost about one-fourth of the cost of a new electric bus.
The converted buses are part of a pilot project of Central Institute of Road Transport (CIRT). The project will demonstrate the Government's commitment to reduce vehicular pollution while opting for strong environment friendly mobility solutions. The prototype has been developed by by KPIT, Pune with consultations from CIRT. The technology has been wholly developed in India. Ten more buses are proposed to be retrofitted for use by State Transport Undertakings by March 2016. Large scale conversions of diesel buses to electric will be taken up after evaluating the success of the pilot project.
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Dreadful Tales book club members are still finishing up Zippered Flesh: Tales of Body Enhancements Gone Bad! and discussing the collection in The Mortuary April 2012 book club thread here. Some of the contributors, including the editor Weldon Burge who put this wonderful anthology together, have stopped by to see how well readers are enjoying the book.
Greg Lamberson's Carnage Road (Print Is Dead, 2012)! This is a short zombie road novella, so if you're buried in books like most of us are, this would be a good one to read along with the group.
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My dad passed away on this date, three years ago . I'll admit that I still have a hard time with it, knowing that I'll never see him again or talk to him in this lifetime. You always hear that time heals the heart, and the pain has faded some, but you never truly get over losing a loved one. What I am left with are the memories, for better or for worse. In my head, I can faintly see his face, can almost make out the sound of his voice among the the many others that have stayed with me through the years. Sometimes I try to remember certain things he said, and when I can't, it drives me crazy. There are things that I have wanted to tell him since he passed, but can't. I have questions about things that only he would know the answer to, but I am left wondering now for the rest of my life, with no access to that answer. I've ran into trouble with a car engine, or air conditioning unit, or electrical panel, and my life- line that was always just a phone call away, is now on the other side of forever.
The other day, I recalled a time in my life when we were particularly close. For just over two years, my dad and I worked together at a plant that made textile machinery. We were on the maintenance crew together, and eventually, I was appointed to be his "helper". It was aggravating as hell sometimes, but I did have the privilege of spending eight hours a day with him. We got along pretty good, even though he was at times overbearing, taking me back to those times when I was a kid playing little league. He was always there to tell me the right way to do something, which was a good thing, but when it came to actual work-- especially something dirty or labor intensive-- he let me take over.
Everybody in the plant knew him well. He took me around the plant on the first day and introduced me to as many people as he could. He was proud that I was working where he had for so many years. Growing up, what little we had came on the back of that company. There was a familiarity for me that you just don't get with starting a new job because I had met most of the people he had worked with, and had heard all the stories that he told about them. I was familiar with the plant because he would take me with him on after hour calls. I felt like I had been there my whole life.
I also found out quick through some of those friends and co- workers that he wasn't nearly as heroic as he made out to be. I was working on a piece of equipment for a lady, and she seemed impressed and happy with the job I did. When she said,"Now you ain't nuthin' like your daddy!" I knew that she meant that as a compliment.
Our boss one time, found me working and asked where my dad was. There was an emergency, and he needed us up on the roof. I told him that I had no idea where my dad was, knowing full well he was hiding around the corner, smoking a cigarette. Deep down, I think my boss knew. After the job was 75% complete, my dad called to the boss on the walkie- talkie and asked if he was needed up on the roof, that he had been busy, and had just found out what was going on. I heard my boss reply, "No, Tom. I've got Josh. I needed somebody that would come up here and work!"
There were dozens of instances, just like that, but there were times when I was proud to be in his presence. He knew chilled water systems, refrigeration and electrical like nobody's business. He could solve almost any problem from his years of knowledge and experience. He knew the plant's HVAC equipment like the back of his hand. He could tell you what he did to a particular unit twenty years before. He was the man they would call to keep them cool in the summer, and toasty in the winter. And I was in training to do the same thing.
Often, he would help people with their air conditioning problems at home.When I was younger, I remember riding with him to a co- worker's house, and we'd stay for hours until it was fixed and they were comfortable. We'd go wire up somebody's panel box in their workshop or garage so that they could have power in a pinch. We ran gas lines and drain pipes and even fixed toilets. But what impressed me the most, was that he would never take a dime. I watched that man turn down money so many times. He'd wave them off, and poke the money back in their shirt pockets, even throw it back inside their house sometimes. Even though our family could really use the money. Even though his truck was on it's last leg. Even though we might not make it out to the highway without running out of gas. We'd eat cornbread and milk for supper, not because we wanted to, but because we had to, and my dad, he wouldn't take their money. When I was a child, that perplexed me. I didn't understand why he did things for people, and things were left undone at our house. I knew these people were his friends, but he would work for them sometimes for hours, and when they'd offer to pay, he'd refuse.
He made it clear to me, from a young age, that these people were his friends, and that he had to work with them every day. He had a certain integrity about him when it came to those kind of things. No matter how he carried on and argued with people, he had a heart of gold, and was always willing to help a friend in need whenever he was able.
When I got layed off from that plant, my dad was crushed. We both knew that with economic trouble and the ongoing decline in the textile industry, it was inevitable, but never- the- less, we were surprised. I'll never forget the day it happened. My dad called me as soon as he found out, and I could tell by his voice he was crying. He was so worried about me losing my job. He felt bad that he had encouraged me to go to work there, just for me to lose my job. He was furious, but he was heartbroken. Partly because I had lost a job, but I think mostly because what we had-- working at that place together, sharing our lives, spending all that time together-- was over. I'll never forget that phone call. I'll never forget that feeling. I'll never forget him.
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Un lugar en el Caribe es una película hondureña escrita y dirigida por Juan Carlos Fanconi, protagonizada por José Zúñiga, Gabriela de la Garza, Lali González, Rodrigo Guirao Díaz, Daniel Zacapa, Ana Clara Carranza y Gastón Pauls, la película se estrenó en marzo de 2017 y es representada por la Agencia Internacional de Ventas Shoreline Entertainment.
Argumento
Gael Castillo (José Zúñiga) es un famoso escritor latinoamericano, casado con una mujer de California. Viaja a la Isla de Roatán, Honduras para terminar de escribir su última novela y es así como encuentra el amor a primera vista. Conoce a Camila (Gabriela de la Garza), la novia de su mejor amigo, un mujer bella y aventurera. Ambos se enredan en una experiencia de amor prohibido.
Al mismo tiempo, Sofía (Lali Gonzalez) y su padre pierden su crucero y se ven obligados a alojarse en esta isla. Sofía conoce a Paolo (Rodrigo Guirao Díaz), un joven dueño de uno de los más prestigiosos Hoteles de la zona. Se enamoran de inmediato, pero Sofía no esta dispuesta a embarcarse en una aventura casual. Marcelo (Daniel Zacapa), su padre, conoce a Angela, una mujer bohemia, propietaria de un restaurante de la isla. Ambos experimentan una aventura única y sin compromisos. Tres historias de amor en torno a este maravilloso lugar en el Caribe.
Reparto
José Zúñiga como Gael Castillo.
Gabriela de la Garza como Camila.
Gastón Pauls como Fernando.
Lali Gonzalez como Sofía.
Rodrigo Guirao Díaz como Paolo.
Daniel Zacapa como Marcelo.
Jamie Bernadette como Sarah.
Ana Clara Carranza como Ángela.
Fermin Galeano como Sammy.
Boris Barraza como Ángela.
Maria Elena Vindel como Victoria.
Locaciones
El Rodaje de Un Lugar en el Caribe, utilizó locaciones tanto en Roatán, Honduras como en Los Ángeles, California. Las escenas del Caribe toman vida en Roatán, Honduras. Se utilizaron en el rodaje las playas de West End y West Bay, las instalaciones del Hotel Verandas, Henry Morgan, El Faro, Hotel Grand Roatán. Localidades en Coxen Hole, French Harbour y Paya Bay. Las escenas de Los Ángeles se rodaron en su mayoría en la zona de Santa Mónica (California).
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Películas de Honduras
Películas en español
Cine de América Latina
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The Best Music of 2012: "Everybody's Brother," by Cody ChesnuTT, is disarmingly honest
Dave Herrera
| Best of Denver |
Dave Herrera | November 15, 2012 | 10:30am
Okay it's that time again -- time for us to start reflecting on our favorite albums of the year. Hey, if the radio can get away with playing round-the-clock Christmas songs already, I think we can all justifiably start comparing notes about the year's best music, right? As we start pulling together our year-end lists over the course of the next month or so, we'll be weighing in periodically on the tracks and albums that have truly stood out to us this year, beginning with songs like "Everybody's Brother," by Cody ChesnuTT, from Landing On a Hundred, ChesnuTT's new Kickstarter-funded album.
See also: - Ten best concerts of the summer - The thirty best concert photos of the fall...so far - Master Blaster: Cody ChesnuTT profile (2003) - Cody Chesnutt on his army helmet and what it's like being the coolest dude in the history of ever
Although all of ChesnuTT's new album is great, this track in particular is the most memorable and stirring. A sparser version of the cut appeared previously on the 2010 EP Black Skin No Value, but it's been reworked here magnificently.
Without fail, every single person who's been within earshot of me playing "Everybody's Brother" has posed the exact same question -- or a variation of the same query -- by the end of the first verse, either "Who is this?" or "What are you listening to?" But while I've always found ChesnuTT's voice to be utterly beguiling from the very first time I heard it on Headphone Masterpiece and it's certainly equally as compelling here, it's the words he's singing on this song that stopped me dead in my tracks:
I used to smoke crack back in the day I used to gamble rent money and lose I used to dog the nice ladies, used to swindle friends But now I'm teaching kids in Sunday school And I'm not turning back
Whether it's his own past that he's reconciling or he's simply channeling the travails of someone else, only ChesnuTT knows. Regardless, he does an admirable job of exposing the inherent and abhorrent narcissism of addiction. No justification or glorification, just concession and personal reparation. The unvarnished candor of the words spur a sense of vulnerability that's disarming. What's more, the subsequent conviction in ChesnuTT's voice as he repeats the refrain, no turning back -- bolstered on both the album version and here on the sparser rendition below by a distinctive gospel undertone -- manages to be uplifting even as it is regretful.
No one could sell a lie quicker than I No one could shift the blame better than me I used to walk out on my family with an intent to sin, Rejecting all accountability Lord, I'm not turning back
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Sometimes, Christmas still has that sparkle. The snow fell pretty heavily yesterday morning, leaving us to the warmth of lamps, blankets, and instrumental carols to complete the picture. By noon, the pajama-clad children are all napping on the couch, one on top of another like puppies, surrounded by empty boxes, stray wrapping paper, and all of the newly discovered treasures. There is just something magical, even surreal, about the Christmas festivities.
I was thinking about all of the gifts exchanged and received, and how much there seems to be in the moment. One gift right after another with barely time to look at them before they are scattered amidst the boxes, bags, bows, and packaging that hid them: between gifts of clothing, tools, toys, books, snacks, gadgets, and novelties, it suddenly feels like everything in your life is new, as though this is the first day of a life defined by different things than the last year. The thought made me stop and count what exactly my gifts had been this Christmas. I don't mean to reduce how thoughtful they are, or how much I will enjoy them, but realistically, a few sweaters and scarves, a tote bag of snacks, and a novelty lamp will change very little about my day to day life once the glimmer of this charming Christmas day has worn off. I will enjoy them, but I will still have to come back to the firm reality of the world and admit that these things are just amusements. I had some very significant time with Jesus this Christmas, but I also came to realize how whimsical so many of my expectations of a "good" Christmas day are.
Another thing that stood out to me this year was in giving gifts to my friends at work. With the month of December being so busy, I only put together small gifts this year, but the response I got surprised me. Nearly everyone to whom I gave a gift hesitated at first and asked "Is this for me?" I teased some for being surprised ("No, I just wanted you to hold it" *wink*), but their voices really did sound affected. A stranger might ask such a thing if given a gift, but there were friends and co-laborers with whom I work day in and day out. Did it actually surprise them that someone was thinking of them?
The roads we walk are often hard. Jesus is always there with us, to pick us up when we fall, and to refresh us when we are weary, but I underestimate how often He does this through His family. The whimsical gifts fade, but anything with a hint of Jesus in it lasts, in as much as He is in it. I have known things even as small as a smile that touches the eyes or a good-night hug to have a realness, a solidness, to them that all of the "real" material things seem to lack. Those glimpses of Jesus are the things that keep me anchored during the difficult times. From the moment that they are given, they may be as small as seeds, but they can quickly become the roots that keep us stable in the midst of the harshest storms.
It can be a struggle to keep scattering seeds when we often cannot see the results, but it is something that is starting to spur me on to love more actively and directly. It may seem silly to invest time and resources in people who don't seem to need the attention, or who don't seem to want it, but the seeds God gives us were meant to be scattered. Whether they will face heat, thorns, or be eaten by birds, so that we never see where those seeds come up, is for Him to decide. He may move us on to other fields before we even know which patches were the good soil.
Is that not to our benefit? We would be so quick to decided what "good soil" looked like if the Lord always let us see at face value the results of our devotion to Him. His words to us were "freely ye have received, freely give." What if we could move past our fears, and love and serve others as often as we feel the need to be loved? The thought that "This is for me?" could mean that I have given someone a seed in the midst of a hard time makes me long to give away everything I own to bless others. What might I be keeping that could be used to bring hope to others? When might my timidity be keeping me from reaching out to someone in public who may need a friendly smile or a kind word? Christmastime has its whimsical charms, but I want to see Jesus Himself. I pray that I will love more freely in the New Year.
I keep coming back to Tai's post about the Highways to Zion. Something about a real city, a physical image of the kingdom community, goes so far to help me understand what it is like to know and to come close to Jesus as a real person, a real God, a real King. That is what I thought when I saw this Christmas card. The baby King was born away from the people He loved, out in a little stable, or a lonely shepherd cave, but this manger cradle is tucked into a doorway. It made me think of the city of Zion, and Jesus' own words, that He is the door. He didn't just grow up to be the door. He wasn't even born to be the door. He has always been "God with us," the example we have of what our Father and His Father is really like. And this is how He first comes to us; later, it will still be meek and riding on a donkey, washing feet, and with death for a coronation, but at the moment this new and glorious morn breaks over a weary world; a world that lies in sin and error pining, mourning in lonely exile; at that first moment, the reigning King comes as a person probably not even ten pounds, and not even able to lift His own head.
How can Jesus love us so much that He wanted to be so helpless in such a broken world?
I think of how often I can get caught up in everything that needs to be done, and everything I can try to do to make myself better; how I often worry about waking up at the right time, whether or not I know my Bible as well as I should, and always trying to know the right things to say at the right time. We so often weigh our closeness to God with how much we can carry. Then, we come to this little door: the way, the only way, to come to the Father.
It is such a sweet thing to hold a baby, to memorize the features of a sleeping face, or watch brand new fingers take hold of your own. One precious blessing is that you cannot be overburdened with luggage and hold a baby at the same time. As we come to this perfect door, we must put down everything else. Sometimes, it is as though everything else just melts away in His presence. Other times, it is a fight against our nature, and the belief that we now have to find a way to balance all of the cares of our lives and our Christian obligations, and still find a way to carry a baby too without hurting Him.
It is quite impossible, and it is meant to be. The first and hardest habit to break is trying to protect ourselves. Can you trust that the Lord will hold back the anxiety and the fear, and protect you from every enemy thought while you spend time with Him? We shouldn't have to be looking over one shoulder when we are in His presence; we aren't meant to. It is the place of absolute trust. Trust He showed us by example when made Himself vulnerable to every mother's worst fears, even before He was born. He showed us how to become little children in trusting His safety to His Father, even during the time of such violent kings on earth.
Christmas does not need to come with any expectations. The anticipation of beauty breaks our hearts when we have rested that success on ourselves. Those expectations are meant to be trust given to Him; fears He will erase when we come face to face with His innocence: a purity that has outlasted the darkness of one thousand generations. I pray that He will again be the light of your holiday this year.
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Satō Kei (; geb. 28. Oktober 1906 in Ōita; gest. 8. Mai 1978) war ein japanischer Maler der Yōga-Richtung während der Shōwa-Zeit. Er war verheiratet mit der Opernsängerin und Carmen-Interpretin Satō Yoshiko.
Leben und Werk
Satō Kei wurde in Ōita geboren, wo er die Mittelschule der Präfektur Ōita (heute Ōita Prefectural Ueno-ga-oka Senior High School) besuchte. Während seiner Schulzeit entschloss er sich unter dem Einfluss seines Zeichenlehrers Yamashita Tetsunosuke, Maler zu werden. Ab 1926 besuchte er die Abteilung für Westliche Malerei der Tōkyō bijutsu gakkō (東京美術学校). 1929 wurde sein Bild "若き男の像" (Wakaki otoko no zō: Porträt eines jungen Mannes) für die Teiten-Ausstellung in diesem Jahr ausgewählt.
1931 machte Satō seinen Abschluss an der Kunsthochschule in Abwesenheit: er war im Herbst ein Jahr zuvor nach Frankreich gegangen, wo er sich bis 1934 aufhielt. Während dieser Zeit zeigte er seine Bilder sowohl im Salon d'Automne in Paris als auch auf der Teiten, auf der er 1932 einen Preis für das Gemälde "ル クルン" (Ru kurun, Le clown) erhielt. 1936 beteiligte er sich mit Inokuma Gen'ichirō, Koiso Ryōhei, Wakita Kazu und anderen an der Gründung der "新制作協会" (Shinseisaku-kōkai, Neue kreative Vereinigung), wobei er sich von den staatlich organisierten Ausstellungen trennte. Von dieser Zeit an stellte er als Mitglied der Vereinigung vor allem dort aus.
1941 bereiste Satō im Rahmen des Armee-Pressecorps Zentralchina, wurde dann aber 1942 auf Wunsch der Marine in die Philippinen gesandt und fertigte dort Zeichnungen an, die das Kriegsgeschehen dokumentieren. Nach Ende des Pazifikkriegs kehrte er zu seinem zeitgenössisch-modernen Stil der Vorkriegszeit zurück. 1952 ging er wieder nach Paris und blieb in Frankreich. 1956 waren Werke von ihm im Salon de Mai zu sehen, 1959 hatte er eine Einzelausstellung in der Galerie Jacques Massol in Paris.
Satōs Stil entwickelte sich im Laufe der Zeit in Richtung Abstraktion. Auf der 13. Biennale di Venezia 1960 zeigte er Arbeiten wie "凝結土" (Gyōketsudo, Gefrorene Erde; 1958), "睡眠化" (Suiminka, Schlaf; 1959) und "風化" (Fūka, Wetter; 1960). Als er 1978 Japan besuchte, um seine alternde Mutter zu sehen, starb er plötzlich an einem Herzinfarkt. Er wurde auf dem Familiengrab in Beppu beerdigt.
Anmerkungen
Literatur
Tazawa, Yutaka: Satō Kei. In: Biographical Dictionary of Japanese Art. Kodansha International, 1981. ISBN 0-87011-488-3.
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Satō: Bilder im City-Museum Oita
Satō: "Angriff auf die Clark Air Base", 1942
Satō: Das Piano
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Contains implementation classes for Apache Ignite.
### Ignite Components
All internal Ignite components implements [GridComponent.java](GridComponent.java) - interface for
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The Fragility of the Western TravelerTime to (Un)pack the Colonial Baggage
by Bani Amor
Published on July 20, 2017 at 10:45am
Illustration by Subin Yang
This feature, on the continuing destruction of colonialism through exploitative tourism, is the fourth in our monthly longreads on the topic of Fragility. Every month through December 2017, we'll publish a new must-read perspective on the subject that we hope you'll read, share, and make part of your routine.
For now, though, get comfortable and get ready for part four: It's time to unpack your bags and rethink how you travel the globe.
Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6 | Part 7 | Part 8 | Part 9
"How Lucky Am I?"
The first image we're drawn to is a white man. He is positioned at the center and looking straight at us. To his right stands a Native Hawaiian woman in all her bobblehead glory—the flower in her hair, a burnt orange lei around her neck, and a hula skirt that looks to be made out of leaves. Her bright red lips curl into a subservient smile, her eyes creased in his direction as she adorns the man's outstretched neck with a lei. To his left is a white woman resting her jaw in a hand, pensively watching the exchange between the man and the Native Hawaiian woman, and being situated between the two, the man wears a dopey look on his face, as if he's asking us, "How lucky am I?!" An island surrounded by blue water beckons from a distance and above it reads ALOHA FROM HAWAII.
"In this little grotesquerie, the falseness and commercialism fairly scream out from the page," writes Haunani Kay-Trask in Lovely Hula Hands: Corporate Tourism and the Prostitution of Hawaiian Culture, a takeaway we can apply to the image described above, and really, could be ascribed to the countless images that look just like it, for there is little variation in the marketing of a place like Hawaii. And there exists no other depiction of Native Hawaiian women outside of this static Western prototype. "Thus, Hawai'i, like a lovely woman, is there for the taking," sums Kay-Trask.
The Promise of Women's Bodies
The use of women's bodies—and specifically, the promise of sex—to sell any and everything under the sun has long been the subject of beef between feminists and the advertising world, but what happens when the product being sold is a place? The marketing of women's bodies, namely, those of color, as destinations to be consumed, lands to be penetrated, or as accessories to the (masculine) tourist experience has remained a largely uncontested norm in travel ads, from vintage depictions of the Hawaiian feminine to the mainstream pimping of Brazilian women's bodies by brands like Adidas and Kia Motors during the 2014 World Cup. In examining these depictions through an intersectional feminist lens, and factoring in the consequences of such depictions on the lives, lands, and bodies of women of color, we can then decode their lasting message: that mass tourism and colonial occupation are often one and the same, and POC bodies, cultures, and lands are the exotic dominion of the settler. So what does tourism's dehumanization of women of color tell us about the fragility of the Western traveler? What role does patriarchy play in selling place? And what does—or doesn't—constitute a feminist travel narrative?
Ever since European colonization gave birth to the Western travel narrative, the "traveler" has had a tendency to gender the land before him and even the vessels who bring him to his destination, using cliches of "virgin forests" waiting to be "explored" and "wild" (read: Indigenous) terrain unacquainted with the poke of flag, assigning himself as the active male do-er while the land and its passive people are being done unto. Kay-Trask continues in this vein, writing, "Hawai'i is 'she,' the Western image of the Native 'female' in all her magical allure. And if luck prevails, some of 'her' will rub off on you, the visitor." Wilderness is then very much a white supremacist concept, a fantasy land void of people and their resistance that the settler can escape to when the travails of civilized life grow too taxing (#FirstWorldProblems amirite). The flowery rendering of "exploration" inherent in the tradition of travel writing, from the Doctrine of Discovery to Anthony Bourdain's Parts Unknown, is all about thinly veiling his insatiable urges to make a place his bitch.
In feminizing place, patriarchy demotes it to the realm of the female, that is, not valued but valuable, and when we add capitalist imperialism to the mix, she is ceaselessly plundered for her resources by settlers. And in many ways, today's Western traveler is a descendant of the settler. There's an uncanny resemblance between the way the settler treats the land and how his society treats women of color. To sell a place, that is, to advertise to consumers that it is available for ownership, it first has to be objectified, and since white men in these ads signal action and ownership, the women of color are easily sold with the product. A relic of colonial nostalgia that would get Hemingway hard, she's coded as more "traditional": not yet influenced by the likes of (white) feminism. At a special meeting of Women Ministers of Culture in Iceland, Dr. Annette Pritchard gave a presentation calling this product a "remarkably durable imaginary, which is routinely recycled in the gendered, sexed, and racialized cultural iconographies of the travel industry." In order to tame women and to tame the wild, he must depict her as tame. In using one to market the other, they "both continue to be framed by colonial myths and fantasies," she continues, "so that these leisure landscapes are feminised and eroticised" in order to justify occupation. He came, he conquered, but in the context of settler colonialism and tourism, he never left. Like a cheap souvenir, "Hawai'i itself is the female object of degraded and victimized sexual value," sums Kay-Trask. Considering this, travel media can be understood as the very narrative behind domination dressed up as leisure. But leisure for whom?
Passports of Entitlement
Leisure travel is all about escape and indulgence, which, to the Western tourist, can seem rather harmless. But consider the dichotomy between what is being escaped and what is being escaped to. "From the mid-1800s through the 1930s, the acceptance of wild landscapes inhabited by Native peoples as being natural evolved into an idealization of uninhabited landscapes," writes Carolyn Finney in Black Faces, White Spaces: Reimagining the Relationship of African Americans to the Great Outdoors. It seems that the white settler can not enjoy nature without conquering it or without objectifying the land and relegating the rest to nature for ornamental relief. "Implicitly," she continues, "it is informed by a legacy of Eurocentrism and the linkage of wilderness to whiteness, wherein both become naturalized and universalized." Heroes of the National Park and Reserve system like John Muir, who was very anti-Black and Native, worked from a place that destruction of nature for development was okay, just set a little green aside for us to vacation in. As Kay-Trask clarifies, "Tourists flock to my Native land for escape, but they are escaping into a state of mind while participating in the destruction of a host people in a Native place."
Likewise, to the fragile Western tourist, indulgence is deserved, something they are entitled to. Just challenge them on this and you'll see how fragile they are. (One butthurt bro wrote a whole article in response to my work: "[Amor] rejects the idea that holidays are about fun and freedom." He has a point, though. I am wholeheartedly anti-fun, and GET THAT FREEDOM AWAY FROM ME.) In his lecture at Massey University in New Zealand, Ripping off the Brands: a Rough Guide to Anti-travel, writer Scott Hamilton said, "Travel has become the 'other' of work. Because we are often so busy at work, we choose to be indolent on holiday—to switch off cell phones and brains and lie on a beach. We can be selfish and demanding on holiday."
In travel ads and media, images of women lying on beaches communicate indulgence to the tourist; a report on gender in tourism marketing found that "body shots describe the destination as a place where the tourist can indulge him or herself." In wanting to be taken care of, the tourist infantilizes himself without considering whether or not his host deserves a break, too. "Every native would like a rest, every native would like a tour," Jamaica Kincaid expertly explains in A Small Place, "But some natives—most natives in the world cannot go anywhere. They are too poor to go anywhere. They are too poor to escape the reality of their lives; and they are too poor to live properly in the place where they live, which is the very place you, the tourist, want to go—so when the natives see you, the tourist, they envy your ability to turn their own banality and boredom into a source of pleasure for yourself."
Indulging in "uninhabited" landscapes takes on an interesting life when embodied by white women. As Mary Fillmore writes in Women and Tourism: Invisible Hosts, Invisible Guest, "A tourist destination is where men of one class can enjoy the privileges of men of another class, and women can enjoy the privileges of men." White women, that is. She continues, "Someone else will cook their meals, make their beds, clean their toilets," but how does that differ from the norm of women of color laboring for white women here in the States? It doesn't, but for white women, indulgence itself is what constitutes feminism.
Hostess with the Mostess Oppression
From the wide world of travel writing by white women to the ones in my Twitter mentions responding to my question, "What does a feminist travel narrative look like to you?" there's a general consensus that feminism is (white) women simply doing whatever they want, including going on vacation. Fillmore advises us to "consider what the tourist seeks" in order to look "at tourism through the feminist lens. The tourist's desire is usually to be indulged like a child…being free to indulge one's appetite at will, to play all day" and have someone else (spoiler alert: WOC) clean up the mess. These host communities end up playing the role of the Mother to the infantilized tourist. There's nothing feminist about taking selfies with Maasai women struggling to hold onto their dignity in the face of exploitative tourist practices—that's some colonial Mammy shit.
Clearly, this is indicative of white feminism's shtick of employing the tawdry guise of "female empowerment" to assuage their white guilt. But even when laborers in tourism are conveniently erased from mainstream women-centered travel plots, patriarchy's prints can still be found all over their reels. Take the (very few) travel-ish films starring women, for example, Eat, Pray, Love, Wild, Aloha, How Stella Got Her Groove Back, Last Holiday, and Under the Tuscan Sun. Cishet romances drive these stories, telling us that women travel to either get over a dude, find a new one, or both. Let's use Amy Schumer, and her latest movie, Snatched, as an example. After she's dumped (check) on the eve of an "exotic" getaway (check) to my home country of Ecuador, she takes her mom instead, and they both get hilariously get kidnapped (check) by random natives in the Amazon jungle. Basically, two white women bond over farts while wild men of color prey on their fragile femininity on Indigenous land. In making their disposable film, they've rendered my people and place disposable, too.
From the Black Mammy trope to that of the Singapore Girl, Spicy Latina, Pocahontas, and China Doll, women of color are deemed to exist to serve the whims of the white settler, whether that be sexual or domestic. (The current boom in sex tourism by white women to the Caribbean and Africa says enough about the white supremacist hypersexualization of Black boys and men, but I digress.) They're either depicted as sexless or hypersexual, which, in denying a woman's agency over her body, are both objectifying. Kay-Trask breaks down the consequences of a Western tourist gaze on women's sexuality, writing that hula dancers are to "behave in a manner that is smutty and salacious rather than powerfully erotic. The distance between the smutty and the erotic is precisely the distance between Western culture and Hawaiian culture." Travel media preserves the colonial origins of so many stereotypes about women of color, which Dr. Annette Pritchard elaborates on, saying that they "recycle not only hetero-patriarchal but also 'colonial' myths and fantasies, so that gendered and sexed representations of women are used to exoticise and eroticise" the Global South and East. This extends from advertising into travel writing and TV shows, which "all play a part in mapping the sensual topography of land and skin so that the women and the landscapes of the Caribbean and the South Pacific become analogous."
Borrowing from Rape Culture
Much of the lingo used in travel writing and marketing consistently employs the language of rape culture. In feminizing place, tourism marketing has also sexualized it, showing just how creepy this obsession with owning the Other is. (Colonial dudebros really know how to put the "lust" in "wanderlust.") Let's start with a brochure from the Jamaica Tourist Board that promises that "tempting sunsets appear as girls with cinnamon-coloured skin walk the beach wearing bikinis the size of butterflies. This is your Eden. Welcome to Negril." (Italics mine.) One male traveler writes that India "awaits you. She is an indescribable and unforgettable land [where] every whim will be gratified." (Are these writers or wannabe pimps?) Another male travel writer describes Tahitian women as "dusky, voluptuous village girls" who "tempt tourists" with their "long hair, velvet skin [and] fragrance." But it's not just creepy, it's a marketing ploy. And isn't that even creepier? Dr. Pritchard writes that the Tahitian women here "represent the enticing and inviting land to be explored, mapped, penetrated and known by the male traveller." She is a symbol for the brand that is Tahiti vying for the gaze of the tourist, the consumer. Her boss.
Consider the relative ease with which Western cis male tourists are able to travel. Travel writing, blogs, and memes overflow with entitled, thoughtless language like, "Spin the globe. Where it lands, that's where we'll go," and "I was not born for one corner; the whole world is my native land." They generally have more money to spend on travel, more time to take off from work, less responsibilities to family, powerful passports, and few barriers to acquiring visas and are not criminalized by the TSA, are less vulnerable to policing and sexual harassment, and besides not having to worry about being treated like a human being wherever they go, are treated like rock star royalty in the developing world, where their dollars triple. And when traveling is a cakewalk to you, feeling entitled to it naturally follows. Travel marketing fuses travel "destinations" and the host women into one brand, so that the tourist is not only entitled to the land by design, but to its women. "In [tourism advertising] we will see that stereotypical gendered, sexed and often racialized images of women are in many cases part of the tourism product itself," summed Dr. Pritchard. This is part of what makes sex tourism, trafficking, and abuse by Western male tourists more rampant and commonplace than any mainstream outlet has given it credit for.
In an industry where women are the face of the product and not the business, where they are over-concentrated but invisibilized and working menial tasks for less pay than men, they are made dangerously vulnerable. Especially as hotel and other travel brand owners are either foreign whites or national elites, and tourism laborers are usually non-unionized, the substantial power differences therein shrink the woman and her rights, making her prey to the potential attacker. A 2003 report from the International Labor Office finds that women in the tourism industry aren't just vulnerable to male coworkers and bosses, like other sectors, but to their clients, as well. Citing the report, Dr. Pritchard writes, "Factors such as late working hours, service of alcohol, dress codes, racism, negative attitudes towards service staff and the uninhibited, sexualised nature of tourism and tourism promotion contribute to a high-risk environment for women and younger workers, as well as ethnic minority, migrant and part-time workers." (Italics mine.) In a similar United Kingdom study of graduates in the hospitality industry, 44 percent said they had experienced some type of violence, and 50 percent of those respondents say it was directly due to their gender. "Overall," the report concludes, "respondents in non-managerial occupations reported customers as the most likely perpetrators." Not only do many men travel specifically to engage in sex tourism, mostly in majority-POC regions, but they're also afforded more opportunities to harass or attack women, as they are more likely to be their flight attendants, maids, waitresses, bartenders, and sex workers.
Eat, Prey, Loot
But what of the ripple effects of mass tourism on women of color, regardless of the tourist's gender or intent? A major one is displacement, when gubernatorial or corporate powers (or both) seize local land in favor of resorts, displacing local people and replacing local industries. Studies by Tourism Concern show that "forced displacement and loss of livelihood due to tourism development in" coastal areas historically inhabited by fisherfolk "has caused disenfranchised fishermen to turn to drink, which is often a forerunner to domestic violence against women and children, and even abandonment."
Overconsumption of resources and environmental degradation are also effects of mass tourism that directly impact women of color. In Invisible Hosts, Invisible Guest, Mary Fillmore writes, "It is a local woman who must pay the price for the tourist's luxuries." Inflation follows growing tourist demands for imported items. "It is she who must go farther and farther for smaller and smaller amounts of water, who must carry less over greater distances." Traveling further for water is known to raise a girl or woman's exposure to violence. "She is the one who must make do with less in cooking and in washing herself and her children." The tourism industry is real good at overusing water in places where access to drinkable water is scarce, especially since resort tourism is typically done in developing countries. "Her working day, often already overextended to include paid as well as unpaid work, is lengthened further." Notice a pattern here?
While it's no news that women's labor, especially that of women of color, is devalued around the world, it is either erased or glamorized as a part of the tourism product. Like a free gift tossed to the bottom of a cereal box, she is molded to attract the attention of swinish boys expecting the product to match its advertisement. "It is as if everywhere we go, we become someone's private zoo," wrote Trinh T. Minh-ha in Woman, Native, Other. The thing about women though, and the places they come from, is that neither are static, ageless, or free of resistance. That image was brought to you by colonization, a process that necessitates the devaluing of land and its people by creating a system of difference with which the white man could prop himself up on. And travel media refuses to discard of those stereotypical scenes that carry the vestiges of imperial rule to today, because without them, they wouldn't have a brand, much less a product to sell.
In an industry that would cease to exist if it weren't for women of color: "They are among the most useful pawns the industry has to move to the front of the board to attract the Northern male tourist," writes Fillmore, "depicting them as compliant, submissive, and ultimately accommodating." But if you tell this to a white travel writer or just a Western traveler, that just as women don't exist for male consumption, their lands don't exist for tourist consumption either, their fragile sensibilities will buckle before you. And that's because he needs to believe that he is propped up by nature and not by design in order to keep Eat, Prey, Looting. Cool story, bro.
Check in next month for the next piece in our series on fragility!
Bani Amor is a genderqueer travel writer who explores the relationships between race, place, and power. They're a four-time Voices of Our Nation Arts Foundation fellow with work in CNN Travel, Fodor's, and AFAR, among others, and in the anthology Outside the XY: Queer Black and Brown Masculinity. Follow them on Instagram at @baniamor.
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Settler images in travel
Meredith Baker replied on Tue, 07/25/2017 - 12:20pm
Very disturbing story & brought up issues most of us travelers have not thought of. The white settler image is so true. Outside Magazine on Twitter: "Thru-Hiking Goes International with These New Long-Distance Trails Inspired by iconic American long trails, a new generation of pioneers are creating paths for hikers and bikers the world over."
Relevant: The Fragility of Silence
by Jenn Jackson
Sometimes silence is broken and exposed as the most fragile of things when someone steps forward with enough courage to end it. |
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SAG Nominations: Helped and Hurt
The SAG Award nominees were announced this morning, and I found the selected group to be pretty interesting. There were a couple surprise nominations, and also a whole bunch of folks who got left out in the cold. Here's a look at which actors benefitted from SAG nominations, and who was hurt by snubs.
10 Who Were Helped
1. Glenn Close
Without this nomination, Close would have been all but out of the race. She just became a contender again.
2. Leonardo DiCaprio
DiCaprio's film may have been ravaged by the critics, but SAG nominating him (and his co-star) shows that there is still a lot of support for him. The Academy loves big, glitzy performances, so he could definitely still make it in. He's two for two with BFCA (Critics Choice) and SAG now, which is more than a lot of actors can say this year.
3. Melissa McCarthy
She's got the Critic's Choice nom under her belt already, and she's likely to get a Golden Globe nomination, too. That would mean that McCarthy hit all three major precursors, and that almost always equals an Oscar nomination.
4. Nick Nolte
Branagh, Plummer, and Nolte are the only three actors who have hit with BFCA and SAG. Nolte's buzz refuses to die down. This is the kind of performance that could do well at the Globes, and if he gets that nomination, too, that could put him in a very good position.
5. Tilda Swinton
NBR, BFCA, and now SAG? Swinton is a quiet contender who could easily sneak in for an Oscar nomination (especially with Olsen's chances floundering).
6. Berenice Bejo
She's another one who hit the BFCA, and now SAG. She's definitely becoming a stronger and stronger contender.
7. Jonah Hill
Hill has been a quiet, fairly steady presence during this awards season. He's still a bit of a longshot for an Oscar nom, but SAG will really help his chances.
Hey, Armie Hammer! You're back! I threw my support behind him this fall, and just when I thought he was out, he goes and gets a SAG nomination. I don't know if this will be enough, but Best Supporting Actor is such a weird category this year, you never know.
9. Janet McTeer
This is helpful to McTeer, who missed out on the Critics Choice nom. The fact that her co-star is getting more support will also help bring attention to McTeer.
10. Demian Birchir
In all likelihood, this won't evolve into an Oscar nomination (a la Noomi Rapace last year). But it's interesting to bring another contender into the race, however slim his chances may be.
12 Who Were Hurt
1. Elizabeth Olsen
People have been declaring that Olsen is out of the race for a while now (due to her lack of presence early in the Awards season). I had held out hope, but I think that this is the last nail in her coffin. She did get a Critics Choice nom, but her chances at a Golden Globe nod seem slim. This was a key nomination for her, and without it, I don't see her getting recognized by the Academy.
2. Vanessa Regrave
People have been raving about Redgrave for a while now (The Film Experience even lists her as a "lock" for the Supporting Actress category). But so far, things haven't really been panning out for her this awards season. Without the BFCA or the SAG nom, her chances don't seem good. There's still the Globes, but will they care about Coriolanus? I'm not counting her out yet, though, since Laura Linney in 2007 and Maggie Gyllenhaal in 2008 prove that it's possible to score an Oscar nom with none of the three major precursors.
3. Michael Fassbender
Fassbender has been a critical darling since Shame premiered at the Venice Film Festival (where he won the Best Actor award), but his film may be too dark and racy to get mainstream awards attention. He did get the BFCA nom, but his chances with the Academy are even shakier after this SAG snub.
4. Gary Oldman
Oldman's support has been inconsistent this awards season. And that just continues with this snub. Maybe he's not as safe as many think?
5. Carey Mulligan
Like her co-star, Mulligan needed this nomination to become a serious contender. I don't think she's getting in.
6. Shailene Woodley
Woodley is definitely not out of the race because of this, but this snub worries me a little, because it reminds me of what happens to Andrew Garfield last year. They're young, supporting players in a big Oscar movie. Like Woodley, Garfield received a lot of good reviews and early support. He even got a Golden Globe nomination (which I imagine Woodley will, too). But he missed out on the SAG nom, and, eventually, the Oscar. Is it a case where audiences really like them and their performance, and just want them to be nominated?
7. Albert Brooks
This was a really surprising snub, especially considering that I just talked about Brooks' "reign" this awards season. I don't think it'll hurt him too much, but this just shows that he might not be the impenetrable contender that he was starting to look like. Also, it might bode not-so-well for his chances at actually winning the Oscar.
8. Charlize Theron
Theron's been on the cusp of the Best Actress race for a while now, and this hurts her chances at getting in. Swinton is starting to look like a more viable contender right now.
9. Max Von Sydow
Von Sydow has been absent so far, but in a lot of cases, I don't think his film had been screened for voting groups. (Anyone know if it was screened for SAG?) He's a big question mark at this time, but it's starting to get late for him to enter the race.
10. Patton Oswalt
The Critics Choice nom was huge for Oswalt, but this is definitely a setback. The Golden Globes will be telling for him.
11. Michael Shannon
This just cements that Michael Shannon is not going to get an Oscar nomination, no matter how much individual critics like him.
12. Andy Serkis
Serkis is a wildcard, and I don't think he will get an Oscar nomination. This snub certainly doesn't help his chances.
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It depends on ncurses-dev (Ubuntu) and clang3.8 (uses gcc for code coverage report generation)
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On MS-DOS (that's right!), all it depends on is CWSDPMI.exe
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Are British girls having enforced 'holidays' in Africa for female genital mutilation?
POLICE are looking into whether a planeload of girls heading to Africa from London could have been travelling for horrific female genital mutilation.
By Rob Virtue Rob Virtue
PUBLISHED: 00:00, Sat, Jul 18, 2015 | UPDATED: 13:35, Sat, Jul 18, 2015
Baroness Tonge was onboard the Ethiopia Airlines flight last Saturday when she grew concerned
Baroness Tonge, a former Lib Dem MP, raised the alarm after an Ethopian Airlines flight she was on had "far more girls" onoard and nearly all of them were the target age for the barbaric practice, which is banned in the UK.
In a post on social network Facebook, she said: "The flight was heaving with mainly British-Somalia families returning to Somalia for 'the holidays'.
"Innocent enough, except having spent a lot of time this year on the problem of FGM, I wondered if that was the real purpose of the trip for the girls. There seemed to be far more girls than boys all just about pubescent."
The House of Lords member asked followers whether she should have confronted those she had suspicions on.
She said: "Should I have asked directly and then told them it is a crime in the UK to take girls out of the country for FGM? They must know this.
"I did not say anything. An aeroplane is a very public place and well, let's face it, I chickened out. However I intend to ask about Ethiopian Airlines when I get back.
"Maybe we could check up on the reasons for travel, as the French do, and then follow up on their return."
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Maybe we could check up on the reasons for travel, as the French do, and then follow up on their return
Baroness Tonge
She later revealed she had spoken to police from Heathrow about her concerns. Officers are understood to be looking through the passenger list to see if any match records of being at risk of being forced into FGM.
Baroness Tonge was heading to the Ethiopian capital of Addis Ababa for a conference.
A Met Police spokesman said: "The information has been passed to specialist officers from the Specialist Crime & Operations Command."
Latest figures say more than 66,000 women in the UK have undergone FGM - also known as female circumcision.
Police believe another 60,000 are at risk of having it done to them.
The maximum sentence for carrying out FGM, which is traditional in some north African cultures, is 14 years in prison.
A UK Government supported app has recently been launched by Coventry University to ensure encourage more awareness of the crime.
'Police are failing these brutalised FGM victims'
Freida Pinto attends summit to end female genital mutilation
Horrific 'breast ironing' cruelty infliicted on girls in UK
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From the November/December, 2009 issue of Touchstone
The Origin of Aesthetics by Charles Taliaferro + Jil Evans
The Origin of Aesthetics
Looking for Beauty & Justice 150 Years After Darwin's Classic
by Charles Taliaferro & Jil Evans
In September of 2006, a philosopher and two visual artists were ushered into the office of a major curator of a leading museum in Amsterdam. The three of us had secured the appointment to discuss the genre of menagerie paintings. The artworks we were interested in were seventeenth-century paintings of the natural world, depicting a rich, diverse abundance of animals and plants.
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The overall mission of our little group, of which this visit composed a part, was to consider the artistic treatment of nature before and after Darwin. Our initial hypothesis was that the pre-Darwin menagerie paintings, influenced by both Calvinist and Catholic thought, displayed a vision of a restored or redeemed natural world. These works showed nature at peace, both beautiful and just. We were enchanted by what we saw as the confident celebration of the goodness of the natural world as God's re-creation, and we were keen to see how the natural world was re-envisioned in the visual arts in light of Darwinian evolution.
The meeting, however, was quite awkward, because while the curator confirmed our hypothesis, he showed little interest in the menagerie paintings. He referred to them as quite common and said they were considered merely decorative in historical and aesthetic terms by art historians across the globe. "These works are simply unimportant," he declared.
Fumbling for a way to pique his interest, we took turns offering possible ways in which the menagerie paintings could be seen as significant: They might involve a fascination with the exotic, or they might depict a return to Eden through Christ, or perhaps, since they portrayed many of the animals brought back to the Netherlands by explorers and colonists, they marked the heightened social status of their owners. "Yes, yes, these are all probable readings [of these incredibly unimportant paintings]" was the impatient response. While we furtively searched our notes for something, anything, that might redeem the appointment, the curator suddenly asked: "Are you interested in black people?"
The three of us and the curator were Caucasian. Although startled by the question, one of us managed to say, "Oh, very much indeed!" The curator then directed us to a recent museum-published journal, which contained an article documenting what is believed to be the earliest portrait of an African man in the Netherlands, dating from the sixteenth century.
Slavery & the Moral Imagination
Later that night, after trying to recover from our appalling performance as scholar-artists, the three of us began to wonder about the meager representation of black Africans in Dutch artwork of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, which was during the height of the Dutch slave trade. This was a striking omission because, while it is largely assumed that the Atlantic slave trade involved mostly the Spanish, Portuguese, French, and British, the Dutch actually dominated the global slave trade for a brief time in the seventeenth century (and were also the most expansive European power trafficking in slaves in the history of Southeast Asia). Moreover, when the British finally outlawed slavery in their territories (in 1834), the Dutch settlers in southern Africa persisted in holding slaves, moving their farms to the margins of British influence.
The Dutch persistence in holding slaves and in seeing black Africans merely as assets was sometimes "justified" on the grounds that these Africans were biologically nearer to animals than human beings. While some simply argued that black Africans were an inferior human race, others actually contended that they were closely related to apes.
This kind of reasoning, horrific though it is, actually gained ground in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and historically came to eclipse the case for slavery based upon the apparent biblical condoning of slavery and the so-called curse of Ham (Genesis 9:20–27 was used to justify enslaving black Africans on the grounds that they were descendents of Ham).
Well, we reasoned, if black Africans were considered so closely related to non-human animals, why weren't they depicted in the menagerie paintings, in which the whole realm of nature is redeemed and restored?
We conjectured that one reason why it would have been problematic to place them in these paintings is that doing so would have rendered explicit the difficulty of actually believing that black Africans were inferior or that whites were entitled to enslave them. Picturing black Africans in an aesthetically rich, redeemed nature would have been difficult to square with the degrading and violent ways in which they were actually treated.
Art Influencing Ethics
In his book Humanity, Jonathan Glover has persuasively documented the ways in which violence against groups of people is systematically preceded by a denigration of them through language and art. The converse may also be true. A current movement in philosophy holds that the key to moral development is what Martha Nussbaum calls the moral imagination. According to Nussbaum, a disciplined ability to see and picture the world from the standpoint of other persons is foundational to ethical reflection. This is not a radically new insight—arguably, the Golden Rule invites this use of the imagination—but Nussbaum's work draws attention to the importance of the arts in stretching people's sense of values and helping us achieve an expanded sense of moral community.
In The Problem of Slavery in Western Culture, David Brian Davis has pointed out that the positive conception of the beauty of human persons, as advanced by the seventeenth-century group of English philosophers known as the Cambridge Platonists, helped build a case against the exploitation of black Africans. Their Platonic Christian aesthetic contributed to the emancipatory moral imagination.
The eventual overturning of slavery in the West involved many factors, of course: religious, moral, political, economic, scientific, and so on, but the aesthetic should not be overlooked. Aesthetic dimensions came into play not just in the advancement of humane, positive portraits of those being demeaned, but also in the pictorial display of the horror of slavery. One of the most effective instruments in the abolitionist movement in Britain, for example, was a mass-produced drawing of the slave ship Brooks in the eighteenth century (documented in the compelling book The Slave Ship: A Human History by Marcus Rediker).
According to the view of aesthetics and ethics celebrated by the Cambridge Platonists, our innate sense of horror and beauty, of justice and injustice, is seen as a God-given instrument by which we can discover God's provident will. But what happens when, as in Darwinian evolution, aesthetics and ethics are no longer understood as purposively created to be normative guides to the beautiful and the good? Did Darwin himself give any weight to aesthetics and ethics? Did he consider them normative—that is, authoritative standards of correctness? If so, was he able to account for their normativity?
Darwin's Aesthetic
Darwin famously claimed to be uninterested in poetry, and it is tempting to think that, in an age of Wordsworth and Coleridge, this meant that he had no aesthetic. In fact, however, aesthetics can be seen to have played a vital role in both Darwin's science and his ethics.
In his scientific work, Darwin compared himself to a machine "grinding general laws out of large collections of facts," and he claimed that "a scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections—a mere heart of stone." Yet, as the three of us came to explore the Darwin papers at Cambridge University and to spend some time in Darwin's house in Kent, and later, when the two visual artists among us shadowed Darwin in the Galapagos Islands, we became increasingly aware of what might be called his aesthetics, his sense of beauty and ugliness.
Darwin's professed coldness in his scientific inquiry can itself be seen as evidence of an aesthetics or sense of beauty in scientific facts on his part. In preparing for what was to become On the Origin of Species, he wrote: "I am a Croesus overwhelmed with my riches in facts and I mean to make my book as perfect as ever I can."
Our group was also struck by Darwin's many drawings of what he referred to as "the tree of life." As Howard Gruder has argued, Darwin's use of this imagery was not merely a matter of cognition and theory, but also a matter of art and aesthetics:
It may be argued . . . that Darwin's diagrams are only conceptual tools for theoretical thought and have no aesthetic significance. Then why the evident pleasure in the actual drawings, the constant search for the right metaphor, the emotional excitement conveyed by his punctuation and frequent resort to a high-flown style? There is exactly that combination of feeling with concern for form and content that we have in mind when we speak of an aesthetic act. As well say that anamorphoses are not art, or that Dürer's use of instruments or Leonardo's studies of human anatomy have no aesthetic significance. Only if we presuppose a divorce between art and scientific thought would we be tempted to turn a blind eye to the aesthetic side of Darwin's imagery.
Darwin's aesthetic response to the natural world was integral to the development of his theory of evolutionary biology. His doubts over theism were motivated (in part) by his sense of the ugliness and waste of some parts of the natural world. His desire for a nearly "perfect book" accounting for the natural world can easily be understood as a longing for an ideal reading of nature.
Darwin's Ethics
As for ethics, consider Darwin's view of slavery. While he was far from free of racist ideas and attitudes, Darwin shared with other abolitionists a moral as well as an aesthetic outrage over slavery. Famously, during his five-year voyage on the HMS Beagle, the only time he quarreled with the ship's captain, Robert FitzRoy, was over the legitimacy of slavery in Brazil, which Darwin passionately opposed. Darwin was clearly repelled by the ugliness of slavery:
On the 19th of August we finally left the shores of Brazil. I thank God, I shall never again visit a slave-country. To this day, if I hear a distant scream, it recalls with painful vividness my feelings, when passing a house near Pernambuco, I heard the most pitiable moans, and could not but suspect that some poor slave was being tortured, yet knew that I was as powerless as a child even to remonstrate. I suspected that these moans were from a tortured slave, for I was told that this was the case in another instance. Near Rio de Janeiro I lived opposite to an old lady, who kept screws to crush the fingers of her female slaves. I have staid in a house where a young household mulatto, daily and hourly, was reviled, beaten, and persecuted enough to break the spirit of the lowest animal.
Darwin's response here is not one of disinterested, detached judgment, but of palpable rage at what he sees as profound injustice. This is not to discredit disinterested, detached judgment, but simply to point out that there was also a visceral, deeply aesthetic, response by Darwin to what he took to be ugly in slavery.
Challenged by Wallace
Given the role of aesthetics in his science, and his employment of aesthetically fused moral judgments against slavery, combined with his rejection of a consistently benevolent, meticulously provident God, it is no surprise that Darwin faced in his lifetime a challenge about the sufficiency of his theory of evolution to account for aesthetics. Could his theory alone explain the authority and reliability of aesthetics in morality or science? A substantial challenge on this matter came to Darwin from his contemporary Alfred Russel Wallace.
In the debate that followed Darwin's publication of The Descent of Man, Wallace posed this question: How do we account for the human creation and exploration of art over against its absence in the natural world? Darwin sought to locate proto-aesthetic impulses in the natural world in the area of mate selection and reproductive success, but, as Wallace argued, such explanations fall radically short of the kind of aesthetics of beauty (and ugliness) we find among human beings. As Anthony O'Hear writes:
We hear no stories of animals admiring some aesthetic feature of their environment reflectively and disinterestedly, or of connoisseurship before depictions of goddesses. And even if we were able to discern rhythm and melody in the song of a bird, it is far from clear that the birds do. Even less do they treat their songs aesthetically, using them as material to develop musically, as, by contrast, the composer Messaien tried to do.
The Authority Problem
But the problem of beauty that Wallace raised goes even deeper and becomes intertwined, in fact, with the problem of ethics. Simply stated, it is this: Given the Darwinian view that all purposive activity and consciousness is, at base, the work of blind, non-purposive forces, why give any transcendent weight or authority to either the aesthetic sense of beauty and ugliness or the moral sense of right and wrong?
Consider the following passage, in which Darwin notes that, according to his evolutionary theory, what we think of as evil actually leads to reproductive success among some creatures, and yet, being loathe to accept the implications of this for human behavior, he seeks somehow to account for the development of a conscience:
If, for instance, men were reared under precisely the same conditions as hive-bees, there can hardly be a doubt that our unmarried females would, like the worker-bees, think it is sacred duty to kill their brothers, and mothers would strive to kill their fertile daughters; and no one would think of interfering. Nevertheless, the bee, or any other social animal would gain in our supposed case, as it appears to me, some feeling of right and wrong, or a conscience. For each individual would have an inward sense of possessing certain stronger or more endearing instincts . . . an inward monitor would tell the animal that it would be better to (follow) one impulse rather than the other . . . the one would have right and the other wrong.
But even if "social animals" were somehow able to attain an "inward monitor," how would they know it was trustworthy? The problem persists, for both aesthetics and ethics: Without a benevolent God of creation, there is no guarantee that either the moral conscience or the aesthetic sense of beauty and ugliness is proper and should be given any binding authority. We may feel the ugly shame of slavery, and this sense of its ugliness and shame may be perceived as wholly fitting, but if all such responses are wholly determined by non-moral processes, why trust them? If we persist in the notion that blind, non-purposive forces drive the natural world, what foundation can we develop for the authority of either aesthetics or ethics?
The Darwinian Michael Ruse observes, "Morality is just an aid to survival and reproduction, and has no being beyond this." But don't we need something "beyond" to avoid the problem Darwin identified? If, for example, survival and reproduction required murder and slavery, wouldn't murder and slavery have to be justified in evolutionary ethics?
Two Alternatives for Aesthetics
The worry about the soundness of Darwinian evolution in providing a full account of cognition, reason, and ethics is well known. (In fact, the general argument about accounting for the mind in terms of mindless forces has a rich history from Plato to Plantinga.) Our group's intent in participating in the debate over Darwin and contemporary evolutionary theory is to explore the consequences and challenges of this theory specifically for the aesthetics of beauty and justice.
We suggest, at this stage of our inquiry, that there are two alternatives about art and aesthetics: One is that artistic responses to the natural world may signal great, transcendent values, as (on our reading) the menagerie paintings do in depicting the concord of justice and beauty in the natural world. The other alternative is that even our greatest art is something that has value mainly and fundamentally in terms of reproductive success. Anthony O'Hear offers the following, succinct description of the current state of affairs:
Either . . . art and aesthetic experience really do point to some transcendence of the material world; in which case, evolution cannot give us a full account of human life and experience. Or, alternatively, art is a purely human creation and aesthetic experience has no transcendent dimension. In which case, something like an evolutionary explanation of these phenomena would in all likelihood be called for, even if we are at the moment far from any such account. At any event, any sense of transcendence aesthetic phenomena evoke would itself be illusory.
Illusory Force?
As an agnostic, O'Hear is in the position of being unable to fully affirm the first alternative: the transcendent power of aesthetics and art (as well as ethics). And because of the Darwinian opposition to theism, the second alternative requires even the "sense of transcendence" to be deemed illusory. Yet, as we noted at the outset, there remains the fact of such judgments as the perceived ugliness and injustice of slavery, for example, being made by Darwin and many others who hold to his theory. Hence, there is still the problem of how Darwinists can fully ground these judgments.
One who holds a theistic point of view has little difficulty in recognizing and accounting for the normativeness of aesthetics in science, ethics, and art. But one without such a view is hard-pressed to regard the concept of an intrinsically valuable natural order of the world as anything but an illusion. This conclusion says nothing either way about evolutionary biology itself, but only calls into question the sufficiency of evolutionary theory to provide a normative aesthetics.
The menagerie paintings portray a natural world of fecundity, richness, and inherent value. We have suggested that these paintings also provide some evidence of a guilty European mind unresolved as yet to explicitly and comprehensively oppose the slave trade. But however one reads these pre-Darwinian depictions of the animal world, he is looking into a world where beauty and ugliness have real authority and moral force: The just world is truly beautiful, and human injustice is genuinely ugly.
In a post-Darwinian world, aesthetics still plays a substantial role in morality, art, and science, but it is not at all clear that, even for Darwinians, an evolutionary framework can fully account for this role. •
The Dirt on Peacocks
One way to highlight the larger point that Darwinian materialism fails to ground beauty and ugliness as fundamental parts of reality as opposed to mere epiphenomena of some blind evolutionary process is to point out how Darwin's theory utterly fails to account for extravagant beauty in nature.
Take, for instance, peacocks. The huge tails hardly make for a more nimble bird. They're like giant "eat me" signs for lurking predators. Why would nature select for them?
Darwin's answer? Sexual selection: The pea fowl really dig those big colorful tails.
Yes, but this explanation just moves the problem; it doesn't solve it. We can see why nature would select for pea fowl that like faster peacocks, more alert peacocks, peacocks that can run off the other peacocks using their bigger pea muscles. But why would nature select for pea fowl that prefer peacocks with tail feathers so large that they slow them down? Perhaps because the large tail feathers indicate health and vigor? But again, this response moves rather than solves the problem. Why would nature select for a branch of peacocks that necessarily exhibit health and vigor through tail feathers so large that they slow them down?
Dirt under the rug is still dirt. Darwin's theories of natural and sexual selection fail to explain extravagant beauty in animals such as the peacock.
— Jonathan Witt
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Samurai Bioethics
on a Noble Defense Doomed by Darwinian Materialism by John G. West
The Aura of Science
Flight from the Absolute: Cynical Observations on the Postmodern West, Volume II by Paul Gosselin by Louis Markos
23.6—November/December 2010
The Mythical Conflict Between Thomism & Intelligent Design by Logan Paul Gage
30.6—Nov/Dec 2017
The Greatness Commission
Christ, Individualism & the Meaning of Cultural Diversity by Anthony Esolen
22.7—September/October 2009
Science Fictions
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Liberty, Conscience & Autonomy
How the Culture War of the Roaring Twenties Set the Stage for Today's Catholic & Evangelical Alliance by Barry Hankins |
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Premise
We Baby Bears follows Grizz, Panda, and Ice Bear as babies searching for a new home in a magical teleporting box.
Voice cast
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Max Mitchell as Baby Ice Bear
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Celebrity guest stars include: Anjali Bhimani, Rhys Darby, Janeane Garofalo, Young M.A., Jason Mantzoukas, Stephen Oyoung, Willow Smith, and Bernardo Velasco.
Production
The series was first announced on May 30, 2019, which was slated to premiere on Cartoon Network in spring 2021 but was delayed to January 2022. A trailer was released on November 25, 2021, and the series premiered its first 10 episodes in a marathon on New Year's Day 2022. The series is rendered in an anime-esque style and features the bears going on various adventures in their magical box. Manny Hernandez, who served as supervising director on the original series, serves as the showrunner while Daniel Chong is involved as an executive producer.
The series had a crossover Halloween special with Summer Camp Island, which premiered on October 8, 2022.
Episodes
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Sarah Blake lives outside of Philadelphia, PA with her husband and son. Her poems have appeared, or will soon, in The Kenyon Review, The Los Angeles Review of Books, and the anthology, The BreakBeat Poets. She received a grant from the National Endowment of the Arts in 2013. Her first book of poetry, Mr. West, is out now from Wesleyan University Press. It's an unauthorized lyric biography of hip hop superstar Kanye West. She's editor at Saturnalia Books and co-founder of Submittrs, an online tool for writers.
In the poem "I No Longer Have To Look Up Dates Like Your Birthday, June 8th, 1977" you address Kanye, saying "Who doesn't know you?" Can you discuss the public vs. private personae celebrities inhabit, and how that informed the writing of the poems?
I still think about how I haven't ever seen Kanye West in person, have never been to a concert. I have only ever seen him on screens—computer, TV, phone. I know it's not totally unusual. Poets have written about famous people that they only have access to through books at this point in time. But every time I catch a paparazzi photo of Kanye grabbing dinner in NYC, I catch myself thinking, I could've been across that street tonight! I could've seen him! (Even though I'm rarely in NYC.) Regardless, the book is about these public and private personae, about which we embrace as the whole truth, as the person. The book keeps pointing to how it's not that simple. Kanye is unknowable. Every person is. My in-laws know a slightly different version of me than my high school friends know, than my husband knows, than my parents know. For a celebrity that list just keeps growing. …a slightly different version of him than how he speaks in a radio interview, than how he performs, than how he interacts with paparazzi, than how he acts on TV, than how he is with his family, etc.
The book's design is stunning. The hardcover gives it an elegant heft. From the highly-stylized cover art to font choices, it's visually quite unlike most collections of poetry. Can you discuss the stylistic choices you made? I can't help but be reminded of Kanye explaining the time he spent doctoring his official wedding photo: I was like, 'Okay, I still want my wedding photos to look like Annie Leibovitz,' and we sat there and worked on that photo for, like, four days because the flowers were off-color.
Thank you! I love the design too. I had very little to do with it actually. I got to pick the photo for the cover (a picture of Horus on the Temple of Edfu). Two designs were sent to me and I suggested we combine them. The fonts were based off of the cover design. When I found out that all of Wesleyan's poetry books have a first print run that's hard cover, I asked if we could do a case stamp. I was so excited when they said yes. I suggested a graphic Horus and loved the first design they sent to me in response to that. But I didn't even know what color the book would be! Or if the case stamp would have ink or just the impression. I was thrilled with every choice they made.
As a lifelong rap fan, I'm interested in why someone who didn't originally consider herself a "hip-hop head" would undertake such an immersive project. Did your musical tastes change during the writing of Mr. West?
Well, by the time I wrote the book I'd been listening to hip-hop exclusively for about four years and I would have considered myself a hip hop head. But that means I didn't really start listening to hip hop until I was 21. So I was late to the game, but not in terms of the book's timeline. Mr. West definitely made me a bigger fan of Kanye, but didn't affect my already full blown love of hip hop. The book started because I was so excited about hip hop (and jealous of it). I loved how it was political, personal, funny—all of these things I felt I'd been avoiding in my poems. I wanted to show myself. Perhaps it's especially funny then that this impulse led me to a biography!
I made the mistake of reading the comments section of a piece that the Philadelphia Inquirer recently published about your book. Commenters lambasted the book's concept, assumed your status as a 'superfan' and, strangely, expressed concern about your husband and home life. You seemed to take the vitriol in stride. Has this project helped you grow a thicker skin? Are you a believer in "no press is bad press?"
Definitely, I have grown a thicker skin. Reading comment threads about Kanye West and thinking about how upset I'd be if Kanye took them to heart is in the back of my head now as I see these absurd comments flung in my direction. I'm not sure about "no press is bad press." I doubt any press could negatively influence sales, which is I think what people mean by that, but there could be bad press in other ways, emotional ways.
How would you respond to critics who might view this project as "gimmicky" or an attempt to ride the coattails of an artist with quite a back catalog of both albums and personal escapades?
It is gimmicky, but that has a bunch of negative connotations that it doesn't need to have. I never forced a poem or rushed a poem. These were the poems I was inspired to write going about my every day life, when I filled that life with music, videos, and news about Kanye. As for an attempt to ride Kanye's coattails… that's interesting to think about. My first response is, to where? Fame and fortune? That's laughable, right? But let's say, yes, it leads me to fame. I can't think of the world as a worse place for having a famous poet that wants to talk about compassion.
West is clearly a polarizing figure. Some tout him as a musical genius, some, like President Obama, have called him a "jackass." Can you speak to this dichotomous public perception? Do you hope/expect Mr. West to change minds, or at the very least, allow detractors to feel more tenderly toward him?
You know, sometimes I forget this about him. So many people in my own life either love him or don't care about him that I forget about the far extreme. I was recently reminded with those comment threads you mentioned earlier. Part of me hopes Mr. West will change minds, but I also know that detractors won't be reading this book. What I've actually seen happen so far is with the people who don't care about him—they do by the end of the book. Or they see why I do. I love that word "tenderly" in this question. I think the book is building tenderness.
Do you see any similarities between your career's trajectory and Kanye's? What about your personal lives? Was there a specific parallel incident/s that might have sparked the beginnings of this concept?
Yes, there was a very specific incident that sparked the beginning of the book. Kanye's mother, Donda West, died when my grandfather was dying (he died a few months later). In another interview I said: "When Kanye's fourth album, 808s & Heartbreak, came out, I had a small collection of poems about loss. When the reviews of 808s & Heartbreak came out, I was very glad no one else was reading my poems. Seeing how grief could be experienced publicly and privately in America struck me." Two years after my grandfather's death, the poems began to come out. There aren't many similarities about our personal lives. We're both married and we both have a toddler. That might be it! And you'll have to ask me many years from now about our career trajectories. Maybe my fifth book will be named the number one book by every magazine out there. (Is it weird to do a winky face emoticon? That's my impulse right here.)
Anna Claire Hodge is the recipient of a Tennessee Williams Scholarship to the Sewanee Writers' Conference, and her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Prairie Schooner, Mid-American Review, Hayden's Ferry Review, diode, The Collagist, The Journal, Vinyl Poetry, and Copper Nickel, among others. Her poems have been anthologized in It Was Written: Poems Inspired By Hip-Hop, Myrrh, Mothwing, Smoke: Erotic Poems (Tupelo, 2013) and Best New Poets 2013.
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It's been two weeks since the new dark grey Promaster was delivered. So far, all the planning is in my head. I wanted to have a separate site for the plans, materials and work that will get done. And of course, our travels once it's ready to go!
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I'm very excited to share this news with you! There's a new van in town, and it's going to be converted into a camper van!
I've travelled quite a bit, but not a whole lot around the U.S. This van will change that. Starting later this year, on the east coast, then expanding towards the west and those national parks that are calling.
I hope you'll decide to follow along, I've decided to make a new blog for you to follow along. Because, well, some are following here for my art and travels and some will follow there to see what is being done to "Grey Matter", the name we've given to this lovely hunk of metal.
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Dear CyberParent, I recently read your article on Verbal Abuse and, sadly, couldn't help but to relate it to my own life. I have a son of seven months whose father I have been separated from since I found out I was pregnant. I am finding myself in the situation where his parents, of course, do not believe their son is capable or even is being verbally abusive. Like many other women or men in this situation, I am finding the hardest thing to do is to admit to myself that I am being verbally abused.
However, I am now picking up the pieces of my life, while trying to raise my son to be compassionate to others, rather than to be vindictive. I want to thank you for your wonderful article educating others on verbal abuse as it is, unfortunately, common.
I am in Texas, in my mid-forties, married to a professional man. I suspect there may be some emotional abuse in my relationship at home.
I am fighting, tooth-and-nail, to return to college, after living very isolated for about ten years. I am grateful for being able to stay home with the children when they are young. They are now teenagers, and I have to have something for myself, now that they are older.
I am doing very well at school–I have extremely high grades, have made plenty of friends with fellow students and professors. Going back to school has really boosted my self-esteem.
I have had stress from home, and then my dad died last semester (out of town) and I had to take care of his funeral and business, in addition to college. I looked at your checklist on emotional abuse, and most of these are happening in our marriage! I have recently been diagnosed with spastic colon (colitis) and I feel it is due to stress! Due to your webpage, I may seek some emotional support in the form of counseling. I printed your webpage for a reference. I thought it might make your day if you knew how much your webpage helped me.
P.S. My husband has also followed me to college "to check up on me," to be sure that I was where I was "supposed to be." Maybe you should add to your checklist "follows spouse everywhere and wants to know where she is at all times–makes her accountable to him every minute!" He has also intercepted my e-mail at his office!
I would like to offer a bit of feedback. Verbal abuse is a real problem in that there are no laws regarding it, no real penalties involved. There is a lot more of it than most people would suspect.
While I appreciated the information presented, I feel there is something you have overlooked: the fact that verbal abuse can come from a woman just as easily as a man.
You want to see it in action? Pick up your remote and watch "Cybill" or "Murphy Brown" some time. Great comedy to watch a woman hack down a man's ego, huh? |
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R.S.C., 1985, c. S-15
Special Import Measures Act
Version of section 77.1 from 2005-12-12 to 2017-06-21:
Marginal note:Definitions
77.1 (1) In this Part,
American Secretary
secrétaire américain
American Secretary means the secretary of the United States section of the Secretariat provided for by Article 1909 of the Free Trade Agreement; (secrétaire américain)
appropriate authority
autorité compétente
appropriate authority, in relation to a definitive decision, means either the President or the Tribunal, according to which made the decision; (autorité compétente)
committee means an extraordinary challenge committee appointed pursuant to section 77.18; (comité)
definitive decision
décisions finales
definitive decision means
(a) a final determination of the President under paragraph 41(1)(a),
(b) a decision of the President under paragraph 41(1)(b) to cause an investigation to be terminated,
(c) an order or finding of the Tribunal under subsection 43(1),
(d) a decision of the President under subsection 53(1) to renew or not to renew an undertaking,
(e) a re-determination of the President under subsection 59(1),
(f) a re-determination of the President under subsection 59(3),
(f.1) a re-determination of the President under subsection 59(1.1),
(g) an order of the Tribunal under subsection 76.01(4) or 76.03(5),
(h) an order of the Tribunal under subsection 76.01(5) or 76.03(12),
(i) an order or finding of the Tribunal under subsection 76.02(4) respecting a review under subsection 76.02(1),
(i.1) an order or finding of the Tribunal under paragraph 76.1(2)(b) or (c), or
(j) an order or finding of the Tribunal under subsection 91(3)
that applies to or in respect of particular goods of the United States, but does not include any such determination, re-determination, decision, order or finding that is made for the purpose of giving effect to a decision of the Federal Court of Appeal or the Supreme Court of Canada relating to those goods; (décisions finales)
Minister means the Minister for International Trade; (ministre)
groupe spécial
panel means a panel appointed pursuant to section 77.13; (groupe spécial)
rules means the rules of procedure, as amended from time to time, made pursuant to Chapter Nineteen of the Free Trade Agreement; (règles)
Secretariat means the Canadian Secretariat established by section 77.23. (Secrétariat)
Marginal note:Inconsistency
(2) In the event of any inconsistency between the provisions of this Part and the provisions of the Federal Courts Act , the provisions of this Part prevail to the extent of the inconsistency.
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FORT VALLEY, GA - Betty Faye Ogletree, age 74, of 66 Woodhaven Rd., Fort Valley, GA, formerly of Oglethorpe, GA passed away Thursday night, July 12, 2012 at her residence. Visitation was Saturday, July 14, 2012 from 6 to 8 p.m. at Watson-Mathews Funeral Home. Funeral services were Sunday, July 15, 2012 at 3 p.m. in the chapel of Watson-Mathews Funeral Home with Rev. Bryan McPherson officiating. Burial followed in Oglethorpe Memorial Gardens. Serving as pallbearers were Randon Whittington, Joshua Ogletree, Cody Ogletree, Matthew Ogletree, John Cummings and Booby Atkinson. Mrs. Ogletree was born on October 27, 1937 to the late Willis Carroll Bloodworth and Susie Paige Bloodworth. She enjoyed cooking, crocheting, and crafts; and was a member of Tharpe Memorial Baptist Church in Fort Valley. Mrs. Ogletree was preceded in death by her son, Rufus Ogletree and her brother, Roscoe Bloodworth. Mrs. Ogletree is survived by her husband, Carlton Willis Ogletree of Fort Valley, Ga; a sister, Lillian Jones, of Perry, Ga; three daughters, Susan Taylor, Carlene Ogletree, and Collene Ogletree, all of Fort Valley, Ga; and two sons; James Ogletree of Spartanburg, SC; and David Ogletree of Fort Valley, Ga. She is also survived by eight grandchildren, Cindy Whittington of Warner Robins, Ga; Mary Cummings of Fort Valley, Ga; Jennifer Dixon of Gray, Ga; Pandy Atkinson of Warner Robins, Ga; Laura Borders of Perry, Ga; Joshua Ogletree, Cody Ogletree, and Mathew Ogletree, all of Warner Robins, Ga; Fifteen great-grandchildren, Randon, Kelsey, Austin, Savannah, Dillion, Chris, Jazmin, Jake, Donovan, Shane, Suzannah, Riley, Kaden, Zoey, and Olivia. In addition, she is also survived by a host of nieces, nephews, cousins and other family members. Friends may express condolences to the family and view the video tribute on the funeral homes website at www.watsonmathewsfuneralhome.com. Watson-Mathews Funeral Home in Montezuma, Georgia was in charge of arrangements.
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In the summer of 2003, I started working on a research project with Andy Andrews, Marshall Ganz, Hahrie Han, and Chaeyoon Lim studying the Sierra Club. Our initial question was what made some of the Sierra Club's local groups and state chapters more effective civic associations than other ones (here's the answer). As we talked with Club members and staff, it quickly became clear that local leadership needed to be a central focus of the study. The more than 400 groups and chapters were governed and run by teams of elected volunteer leaders. There were more than 3,000 of these leaders, all over the country—and there wasn't a household name among them. These were the everyday leaders of the Club and of the contemporary environmental movement in the U.S.
We focused much of our data collection effort on those leadership teams. We asked leaders to fill out 15-page paper surveys (yes, that's right: fifteen pages)—and more than 1600 of them did. As we analyzed that data, a second fact became clear: leaders did a lot more leading when they led together. Our analyses suggested that otherwise average leaders on teams that really worked together on their activism ("interdependent work" was the term of art) would give about two hours per month more to their leadership activity than leaders on average teams. Similarly, average leaders on teams that most-fairly shared the amount of work they collectively did also gave about two more hours per month than average. And that interdependent time was valuable. As our initial research had shown, interdependent leadership teams led groups that engaged more members, developed more new leaders, and became more recognized contributors to their local political scenes.
This finding wasn't a shock, of course. Ganz had identified similar dynamics in the United Farm Workers in the 1960s (a story he fleshed out further in his book) as had Aldon Morris in his classic book on the Civil Rights Movement. Still, the size of the impact of leaders on one another in settings that were much "cooler" than the heated movement periods studied by Ganz and Morris was pretty remarkable. We estimated that a Sierra Club leader who had all the personal characteristics needed to give lots of time to leadership but was on the worst possible leadership team, would give about 8 hours per month. A leader with the least-likely personal characteristics on the best possible team… would give 44. When leaders lead alone, they don't do much leading. When leaders lead together, they lead a lot.
Han's 2014 book How Organizations Develop Activists (extensively discussed here) extended thinking along these lines. She also studied local chapters of national associations (a health advocacy group and another environmental movement organization) and found that chapters that effectively engaged members and participants were ones where the practice of leadership was focused on building relationships. Leaders in high engagement chapters did personal outreach to recruits and held lengthy one-on-one meetings with potential activists. They crafted teams of budding leaders and gave them compelling reasons to work together over time. Perhaps most importantly, as leaders rose through the ranks, they were trained on how to do this kind of transformational, relational work so that the organization would be continuously refreshed with new connections and the collective motivation that comes with it. (In another book, Han and Elizabeth McKenna show how the Obama presidential election campaigns did this kind of thing as well).
This is not to say that all local chapters of movement organizations are chock full of leaders practicing collective, interdependent, relational leadership. Far from it. Plenty of the groups in our study and in Han's book had people who occupied leadership positions, but did virtually no relating (some of Han's interviewees call these folks "lone wolves"). These people are titular leaders, but analytically, they're far different creatures. And the ways that these loners interact (or fail to interact) with other titular leaders in their organizations will have impacts on themselves and on the others around them.
Unfortunately, implementing these suggestions will probably be harder than it sounds. They imply getting data about many people within many organizations and independently assessing what those people do and how they interact. Independent assessments of people and interactions are usually best done by skilled observers—but we don't currently have great methods for getting detailed observational data at large scales. Perhaps we'll need to invent some. I'm working on one approach (here's a preview) but there are undoubtedly others (check out some social movement data thoughts here and here).
In short, leaders do many things in movements, but they almost never do it alone. Arguably, the core of what effective social movement leaders do is build relationships and build relationship builders—and leaders who do not do those things, are probably barely leading. Let's build an understanding of leadership as a collective, relational enterprise into our research work not only as a rhetorical point, but as a fundamental analytic approach—no matter what techniques we have to cook up to do it.
I see the point in your article but I would like to pose a question which refers actually to step before. Do movements have leaders? McCarthy and Zald defined in 1977 a social movement organization as a hierarchical structure, while other scholars have incorporated in the definition of social movements parties, interest groups and other forms of formal organizations. So can we really consider these organizations as movement organizations? And most importantly can we find movement leaders in social movements that took place in the last 20 years in western democracies? I would really like to hear your thoughts on that because both in terms of new social movement literature as well as every form of pre-figurative politics imply a horizontal procedure and thus contradicts these acounts. Although I still believe that some people are more influential than others, I would certainly not define them as movement leaders. |
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There have been some really really great feminist offerings in the YA scene recently. Exposing young people to feminist ideas through fiction is an awesome way to spread further understanding of the topic, as so much of the media we consume filters into our everyday conversations and reactions. These are some of my favourite recent feminist young adult fiction offerings, and I know there are plenty I have still yet to read. After writing this post I realised Holly Bourne, author of Am I Normal Yet?, featured below, has written a guest post of Queen of Contemporary with her Top 5 Feminist YA, thankfully the whole list isn't the same! It's a great list, check it out too! Also, all these book are by female authors!
A feminist commentary set in a dystopian future, which is an unsettling reflection on out current reality. Body image issues, living for the pleasure of men, female friendship and rivalry, queerness and breeding boys, this book covers a lot of bases. Louise O'Neill's second book Asking For It, is out soon, and tackles the issue of consent. Review here!
The focus of this story is on Evie's OCD recovery process at a new college, but the backdrop of figuring out feminism with her new best friends is great. The Spinster Club is an inspired idea, and while not all their ideas are spot on (here's a little bit of a trans-exclusive chat) the point is that they create themselves a space to talk it all through and figure it all out.
Frankie attempts to take down the patriarchal old-boys-network of her prestigious boarding school from within, by anonymously taking over an elite secret society. Her chats with her older sister on the phone, who has gone to university and discovered women's studies and feminism, are brilliant and provide a chance for Frankie to sound out her own thoughts on the topic. There is no doubt in the readers' mind by the end of the book, that Frankie is going to continue trying to question everything, and tear down to patriarchy. Review here!
Not an overt feminist young adult offering, Lorali is a story of a mermaid who comes to land, of the pirates on her trail, and her new friends on land. The feminist undertones lie in the matriarchy of the mermaid community, deep in the sea, the male pirates who are meticulous in their beauty regimes and tailoring (stereotypically feminine concerns), and large part of the narrative narrator by the female voice of the sea. Little twists like Lorali feeling confident to make the first move, because that's how it's done down in The Deep, are perfect. Review here!
Set in 2012 in contemporary Nazi England, lead character Jessika Keller leads a life a total submission, just as she and all her peers have been taught. Through her outspoken and rebellious friends Jessika begins be more aware of the constraints on her freedom as a women in the setting of The Greater German Reich. Power, sexuality, patriarchy, and censorship are al explored in this great feminist YA offering. |
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If you're still using Windows 7, you probably already know that Microsoft recently threw users of some of it's older operating systems a bone when they issued a rare, emergency security patch designed to better protect their systems. Unfortunately, there's a problem. According to the UK security firm Sophos, and backed up by sporadic user reports, installing the new patch creates conflicts on startup with a number of antivirus programs.
This is causing some systems to freeze on restart, getting stuck at about 30 percent into the configuration process.
Microsoft has acknowledged the issue in a bulletin, which expands on Sophos' findings. The bulletin revealed that what the company is describing as a "glitch" also impacts Windows Server 2008 R2 users and the patch causes problems for users who have McAfee Endpoint Security Threat Prevention 10.x, McAfee VirusScan Enterprise 8.8, and McAfee Host Intrusion Prevention 8.0.
Sophos reports that they're working with Microsoft to resolve the issue, but to this point, no time frame for resolution has been given. Although at present, the company has not listed the problem as a known issue on their site.
This puts Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 users in a tricky spot. The recent security patch is critical. It closes the door on a wide range of high severity security issues, making it much more difficult for hackers to gain unauthorized access. On the other hand, if it doesn't work with the antivirus programs you're using, installing it might give you pause.
Microsoft has offered no guidance on this point, so each business owner and department manager will have to weigh the risks and proceed accordingly. Just know that the company is actively working to resolve the issue, and when they do, you'll have at least a bit more protection. Although again, if you haven't already begun making plans to migrate away from your older operating system, the time is now.
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Ford prepares for new energy credit system
By Li Fusheng | China Daily | Updated: 2017-08-28 08:06
Peter Fleet, president of Ford Motor Asia Pacific, and Jin Zheyong, chairman and president of Zotye Automobile Co, unveil a new chapter in new energy car cooperation. [Photo provided to China Daily]
The United States automaker looks at joint venture options to boost production
Ford Motor Co is in talks with at least three Chinese automakers to produce electric cars, in preparation for China's plan to introduce a punitive new energy vehicle credit system to encourage higher production, according to a person familiar with the matter.
Last week, Ford announced that it had signed a memorandum of understanding with China's Zotye Automobile to build a 50-50 joint venture to develop, produce and sell electric passenger cars.
An industry insider close to the matter said the move is primarily to brace Ford for the credit system that is designed to stimulate the development of new energy cars.
Speaking on condition of anonymity, the source said Ford intended to build such a joint venture with one of its two existing partners, Changan Automobile and Jiangling Motors, but they had not yet reached a consensus over the details.
"In fact they are still in talks, so the memorandum might also serve as a maneuver by Ford, like: 'If you do not work with me, I can readily find another partner.'"
A Ford China spokeswoman said she could neither confirm nor deny the matter, but said the understanding with Zotye will expire if they cannot sign a definitive agreement by the end of the year.
Whoever the final partner is, Ford may have to accelerate its pace, as the authorities have expressed their determination about the credit system.
At a news conference in late July, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology said the policy, which among others evaluates carmakers' new energy car sales, is undergoing the necessary procedures before promulgation and will be released soon.
As stipulated in a draft-which is widely believed to vary little from the final version-the credits an automaker earns from selling new energy vehicles should account for 8 percent of its total sales in 2018. As one electric car will be calculated as two to five units depending on a number of factors-including their mileage on one charge-that means Ford, even if assessed based on its 2016 sales of 1.27 million cars, will have to sell 20,000 to 50,000 electric cars in 2018.
If Ford fails to do so, it will either have to buy credits from other automakers that have exceeded the 8 percent requirement, or will simply face a fine. The task will become increasingly intimidating, with the percentage growing to 10 percent in 2019 and 12 percent in 2020.
Earlier this year, Ford released an ambitious new energy car plan, saying that 70 percent of all its vehicles sold in China will have electrified powertrain options by 2025. But, it has not yet introduced its new energy cars to China.
That makes Zotye, although infamous for copycatting designs of popular models from Porsche and Land Rover, a reasonable pick.
"To be frank, there are few good choices out there… and Zotye is doing a decent job in terms of electric cars," said the Ford China spokeswoman. It was the fifth best-selling electric car seller in China, selling more than 16,000 such vehicles January through July, growth of 56 percent year-on-year.
Yale Zhang, managing director of Shanghai-based consulting firm Automotive Foresight, said he believed that as its job is to produce as many credits as possible, the potential joint venture would very likely produce low-price small electric cars, because they are more likely to attract buyers after the government cuts its current subsidies policy for such vehicles.
Ford would not be the first international carmaker to do so. German carmaker Volkswagen signed a memorandum of understanding with JAC Motors in September to produce electric cars.
A final contract was signed in May, in which it is stipulated that Volkswagen will enjoy the priority if it needs to buy credits from the joint venture.
The 50-50 partnership's first model is expected to roll off the assembly line in 2018. Similar to the small electric vehicles Ford is likely to produce, it will not bear a Volkswagen logo. Daimler has also signed an agreement with its current partner China's BAIC Group to produce Mercedes-Benz-branded electric cars by 2020 via their joint venture Beijing Benz Automotive.
It is almost certain that more such partnerships will emerge, but some argue too many of them may not be good for China's fl edging new energy sector, which the authorities hope to take the lead worldwide within 10 years.
In a commentary, the magazine Automotive Business Review said one or two such ventures could produce the catfish effect, forcing local car manufacturers to better themselves, but what if there suddenly come a shoal of catfish?
China has been the largest and also the fastest-growing market in the world for new energy vehicles since 2015. Statistics from the China Association of Automobile Manufacturers show that 250,000 such cars were sold from January to July, 21.5 percent growth year-on-year.
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RL Kapur
Prof RL Kapur had been associated with NIAS right from the beginning of this institution in 1988 along with Dr Raja Ramanna, the founder Director of NIAS, Prof Kapur played a crucial role in the formative years of NIAS and was directly responsible for organizing the first series of courses for the Senior Executives of the country as wished by JRD Tata -- the visionary who set up NIAS as a unique organization for this very purpose. Prof Kapur who was in charge of the library of the Institute in the early years was responsible for the unique collection of rare books on a variety of subjects that the NIAS library is proud of having. During the period 1990 – 1991 when Dr Ramanna was away in Delhi as Minister of State for Defense, Prof Kapur was appointed as Deputy Director of the Institute, a position he continued to hold till 1996. Prof Kapur was a psychiatrist and was internationally well known and had held visiting positions in several prestigious institutions in UK and USA. He was Head of the Department of Psychiatry at NIMHANS in Bangalore during 1974 – 1983. He used to visit almost every year in summer, high altitude stations in the Himalayas to interview Sanyasis and Sadhus to find out the real motivation behind their drastic decisions to change their life style to Sanyas from normal family living. Based on his findings he has written several articles on this subject. At NIAS, he pursued research on psychology of violence, nature of scientific creativity and a new look at spirituality and psychotherapy. He was also interested in classical music and theatre and had undergone systematic training in yoga. He pursued more seriously Indian philosophy and hoped to draw upon these philosophical and folk traditions to reflect on contemporary issues. He died on 24 November 2006 and he was 68.
Qualifications: M.B.B.S, Ph.D. (Edin.), D.P.M., M.R.C., F.R.C.
Professor Emeritus, NIAS
Professor of Psychiatry, NIAS; October 1988 -January 1998
Deputy Director, NIAS; 1990-1996
WHO Consultant in Mental Health for Somalia: WHO Eastern Mediterranian region, Alexandria; July 1986-October 1986
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Professor of Community Psychiatry, NIMHANS, Bangalore; October 1975 - April 1983
Head of the Department of Psychiatry, NIMHANS,Bangalore; June 2, 1976-March 3, 1983
Director (officiating). All India Institute of Speech and Hearing, Mysore; January 17, 1979 - March 3, 1979
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Psychiatric syndrome with special reference to cultural context; youth psychology;
Yoga and Mental Health.
Kapur R L (2009) Another way to live: A psychiatrist among Indian ascetics (M. Kapur and Dorothy Buglass eds.). New Delhi: Penguin.
Kapur, R.L. ed. (1979) Mind: approaches to its understanding. Bangalore:NIMHANS
Carstairs, G.M. and Kapur, R L (1976) Great universe of Kota: stress, change and mental disorder in an Indian village. London:Hogarth Press.
Kapur R L (2002) Can Indian spiritual practices be used in psychotherapy? In: Proceedings of the Conference on application of oriental philosophical thought in mental health, NIMHANS, Bangalore. NIMHANS Publication No.47, pp 9-20
Kapur, R L (2002) Relief from suffering: western psychotherapy or eatern spiritual practices?. Psychological Foundations 4(1): 1-7
Kapur, R (2002) Becoming self-conscious: a psychological perspective In: Science and metaphysics: a discussionon Consciousness and genetics (S Menon, A Sinha and B V Sreekantan eds). Bangalore: NIAS. pp 375-383
Sonpar, S and Kapur, R L (2001) Non-conventional indicators: Gender disparities under structural reforms.Economic and Political Weekly xxxvi(1): 66-78
Kapur, R L (2001) Families caring for the mentally ill. Health Action 14(4): 15-17.
Kapur, R L (1994) Violence in India: a psychological perspective. Indian Journal of Psychiatry 36(4): 163-169
Kapur, R L (1994) Community involvement in mental health care. National Medical Journal of India 7(6): 292-294.
Kapur, R L (1994) Yoga and the state of mind. Seminar 415: 30-34.
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Kirstin Blaise Lobato is a Nevada woman who was exonerated for the July 2001 murder and mutilation of Duran Bailey, a homeless man from St. Louis who was living in Las Vegas at the time of his death. At her first trial in May 2002, she was convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to 40 to 100 years in prison. In a 2006 retrial, she was convicted of the lesser charges of voluntary manslaughter and sentenced to 13 to 45 years. Lobato's case gained significant notoriety due to the publication of new evidence, which some believe points to her innocence of the crime.
On December 29, 2017, Lobato was ordered to be released from the Nevada Department of Corrections. It was reported on Jan 2, 2018, that Lobato will spend another year in prison for an unrelated incident, yet on Jan 3 the same judge who had ordered Lobato's original release, ordered her released on that unrelated matter as well, citing time-served.
Lobato was released from the Clark County Detention Center at about 2 pm on January 3, 2018. After being imprisoned for 11 years and three months since her pre-trial bail was revoked following her convictions on October 6, 2006, Lobato told reporters she wanted to go "shopping" and "get coffee."
Accusations
Beginning in late May 2001, Kirstin Lobato, then , began telling numerous friends in Las Vegas and her hometown of Panaca that a large black man tried to rape her at a Budget Suites Hotel on Boulder Highway in east Las Vegas. Lobato was consistent in telling these people that she fended off the attempted sexual assault by using a pocket knife she carried for self-defense, to try and cut her attacker's penis. From late May to July 4, 2001 she told at least nine different people about the Budget Suites attack.
On July 8, 2001, the mutilated corpse of Duran Bailey, a homeless man, was found on the opposite side of Las Vegas. Lobato was charged with the crime more than ten days later, after one of Lobato's friends informed police of her account of the sexual assault that supposedly occurred two months before. During a police interrogation, Lobato acknowledged stabbing a man in the groin, and police believed this constituted a confession to Bailey's murder, while Lobato claimed to be describing her attack.
First trial
While prosecutors expected Lobato to plead not guilty by reason of self-defense, Lobato denied committing the crime entirely; she even refused a plea deal offering a 3-year prison sentence on the charge of manslaughter. She insisted that she was at home in Panaca, Nevada, nearly 200 miles from Las Vegas, on July 8, 2001, and her family confirmed that. Her attorneys also attempted to discount her supposed confession. However, prosecutors contended that Lobato was a known methamphetamine user and that she killed Bailey during a dispute over sex and drugs. During the May 2002 trial, Lobato testified to her innocence, and her attorneys brought in experts who also stated that Lobato could not have committed the crime based on physical evidence, but Judge Valorie Vega suppressed much of the experts' testimony. In their closing statement, Lobato's attorneys compared her trial to the Salem witch trials. After deliberating through the night, the jury convicted Lobato of first-degree murder. On August 27, 2002, she was sentenced to 40 to 100 years in prison.
Appeals, second trial and ongoing litigation
Over two years after her conviction, on September 3, 2004, Lobato's conviction was reversed; the Supreme Court of Nevada argued that her attorneys were unable to cross-examine a prosecution witness, who was a woman whom Lobato was incarcerated with while awaiting trial. Her case was remanded for a new trial. On October 6, 2006, she was convicted of voluntary manslaughter and sentenced to 13 to 45 years in prison.
Lobato's appeal of her conviction was denied by the Supreme Court of Nevada in October 2009.
In May 2010, Lobato filed a writ of habeas corpus petition that asserted 79 grounds for a new trial. Among those was her claim of actual innocence based on new evidence discovered after her trial proving she was in Panaca, Nevada, during the time when Bailey was killed. Judge Vega denied Lobato's petition in June 2011. Lobato appealed that ruling to the Nevada Supreme Court on August 1, 2011.
In February 2011 Lobato filed a post-conviction petition for DNA testing of crime scene evidence. The Innocence Project agreed to pay for the testing if Lobato's petition was granted. The petition was opposed by the Clark County District Attorney's Office, and denied by Judge Vega. Lobato appealed that ruling to the Nevada Supreme Court, which on January 12, 2012 dismissed her appeal on the basis Judge Vega's ruling was not appealable under NRS 176.0918.
After Lobato's DNA testing petition was denied, an online petition has called for the Nevada courts to test the crime scene evidence in Lobato's case, claiming it can prove she is an innocent person.
A book about the case, entitled Kirstin Blaise Lobato's Unreasonable Conviction by Hans Sherrer was published in May 2008 by the Justice Institute, and a second edition in November 2010. As of March 17, 2015 more than 53,000 copies have been downloaded at no charge from the website, Justice Denied.
Retired FBI agent Steve Moore, noted for his advocacy on behalf of Amanda Knox, has referred to the case documents in the Lobato case as, "...complete and utter bullshit."
Retired FBI agent Moore believes that Duran Bailey might have been killed and mutilated sexually by another woman instead, who had claimed one week before that Bailey had raped her.
After having been charged with misconduct and publicly reprimanded by the Nevada Commission on Judicial Discipline, Judge Vega, the judge in both of Lobato's trials, did not run for re-election in 2014 and stepped down from the bench in January 2015.
On September 9, 2014 the Nevada Supreme Court, sitting En banc, heard oral arguments related to Lobato's habeas petition. The case has been "Submitted for Decision. En Banc", and the Court's ruling is pending as of April 1, 2015.
On December 19, 2017, Judge Stefany Miley, a District Judge in Las Vegas, granted a new trial for Lobato.
On December 29, 2017 Chief Judge Elizabeth Gonazalez ordered Lobato released from the Nevada Department of corrections. It was reported on Jan 2, 2018, that while in prison, Lobato had been convicted of conspiracy to commit sexual contact with a prisoner and instead of being released, she was to be transferred to the Clark County Detention Center to serve an additional year in jail on those charges. On Jan 3, Judge Gonzalez ordered Lobato be released immediately, citing time served.
Lobato was released from the Clark County Detention Center at about 2 pm on January 3, 2018. After being imprisoned for 11 years and three months since her pre-trial bail was revoked following her convictions on October 6, 2006, Lobato told reporters she wanted to go "shopping" and get "coffee."
See also
Exculpatory evidence
False confession
Innocent prisoner's dilemma
List of wrongful convictions in the United States
Prosecutorial misconduct
References
External links
Justice Denied's Kirstin Blaise Lobato webpage
Living people
American people convicted of manslaughter
Wrongful conviction advocacy
Prisoners and detainees of Nevada
Year of birth missing (living people)
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Rayonier Reports Second Quarter 2011 Results
Reaffirms Full Year Guidance
JACKSONVILLE, Fla., Jul 28, 2011 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Rayonier (NYSE:RYN) today reported second quarter net income of $56 million, or 67 cents per share, compared to $39 million, or 48 cents per share, in the prior year period.
For the first six months, net income increased to $115 million, or $1.38 per share, compared to $96 million, or $1.18 per share in 2010. The 2010 results included a first quarter gain of $12 million from the sale of a portion of the Company's interest in its New Zealand joint venture. Excluding this gain, 2010 year-to-date earnings were $84 million, or $1.04 per share.
Cash provided by operating activities was $195 million for the first six months of 2011 compared to $356 million for the prior year period. Year-to-date cash available for distribution1 (CAD) was $134 million versus $303 million in the first half of 2010. The prior year period included the receipt of $189 million related to the alternative fuel mixture credit (AFMC). (See Schedule D for more details.)
"We are very pleased to report another quarter of strong operating results, further supporting the recent announcement of an 11 percent increase in our dividend and a three-for-two stock split," said Lee M. Thomas, Chairman and CEO.
"In Forest Resources, we sold more volume from our coastal Washington timberlands into attractively priced Asian log markets, driving improved operating income despite losses from recent Southeastern fires. In Performance Fibers, we continue to sell all available production to meet strong global demand for our high purity cellulose specialties."
Second quarter sales of $57 million were $8 million above the prior year period, while operating income of $12 million increased $3 million. Year-to-date sales of $105 million increased $9 million from the prior year, while operating income of $23 million improved $6 million above the prior year. The improvements in operating income occurred despite a $3 million loss in the second quarter of 2011 for damage from forest fires.
Prices for logs in the Northwest United States and New Zealand continued to increase in the second quarter as Asian demand strengthened. The strength in these regions more than offset the losses from forest fires in the Southeast and lower sales volumes in the Atlantic and Gulf regions as grade markets softened.
Second quarter sales of $12 million were consistent with the prior year period, while operating income of $5 million increased $1 million. Year-to-date, sales of $26 million were $20 million below 2010, and operating income of $12 million declined $9 million. As expected, non-strategic timberland volumes declined for the 2011 periods; however, higher rural prices and volumes offset the decline in the second quarter.
Performance Fibers
Second quarter sales of $233 million were $31 million above the prior year period, while operating income of $71 million was $26 million higher. For the six months, sales of $484 million were $82 million above 2010, while operating income of $147 million increased $57 million. Results in 2011 reflect higher cellulose specialties and absorbent materials prices due to strong global market demand, partially offset by increased input and transportation costs. Year-to-date results also benefited from higher cellulose specialties volumes.
Corporate and other expenses were $7 million for second quarter 2011 and 2010. Excluding the 2010 New Zealand gain on sale, corporate and other expenses were $15 million for the six months ended June 30, 2011, $2 million above the prior year period primarily due to the receipt of an insurance settlement in first quarter 2010. Interest and other expenses were comparable for the 2011 and 2010 periods.
The effective tax rates for second quarter and year-to-date 2011 were 15.4 percent and 18.7 percent compared to 13.4 percent and 12.4 percent in 2010 reflecting higher 2011 earnings from the taxable REIT subsidiaries. Included in the second quarter of 2011 was a $4 million tax benefit relating to the exchange of the AFMC for the cellulosic biofuel producer credit associated with the production and use of black liquor in 2009.
In July of 2011, the Company received a final IRS examination report regarding the Rayonier TRS Holdings Inc. 2009 tax return. As a result, a $16 million reserve relating to the taxability of the AFMC will be reversed in the third quarter.
On July 22, 2011, the Company's Board of Directors approved a 3-for-2 stock split as well as an increase to the quarterly dividend from 54 cents per share to 60 cents per share on a pre-split basis, or 40 cents per share on a post-split basis. The additional shares will be distributed on August 24, 2011, to shareholders of record as of August 10, 2011 and the dividend increase will be effective starting with the third quarter dividend. Refer to the accompanying presentation materials for further details.
"Our businesses continue to execute well, creating strong operating cash flows. We are affirming our earnings guidance of $2.85 to $3.10 per share, excluding special items, and we still expect CAD of $285 million to $310 million, substantially above our increased dividend," commented Thomas.
"Expansion of our timberland holdings is our top priority for strategic capital, and we are seeing more opportunities for acquisitions in the Southeast. In Performance Fibers, the recent decision to convert our absorbent materials line to produce an additional 190,000 tons of cellulose specialties is a key part of our strategy to remain the global leader in this high value segment," Thomas said. "We are executing our strategy to create superior value over time for our shareholders by providing an attractive, growing dividend and by investing strategic capital to strengthen and expand our business."
A conference call will be held on Thursday, July 28, 2011 at 2 p.m. EDT to discuss these results. Presentation materials and access to the live webcast will be available at www.rayonier.com. Investors may also choose to access the conference call by dialing (888) 790-3052, password: Rayonier. A replay of this webcast will be available on the Company's website shortly after the call.
Complimentary copies of Rayonier press releases and other financial documents are also available by calling 1-800-RYN-7611.
1 CAD is a non-GAAP measure defined and reconciled to GAAP in the attached exhibits.
Rayonier is a leading international forest products company with three core businesses: Forest Resources, Real Estate and Performance Fibers.The Company owns, leases or manages 2.5 million acres of timber and land in the United States and New Zealand.The Company's holdings include approximately 200,000 acres with residential and commercial development potential along the Interstate 95 corridor between Savannah, Ga., and Daytona Beach, Fla. Its Performance Fibers business is one of the world's leading producers of high-value specialty cellulose fibers, which are used in products such as filters, pharmaceuticals and LCD screens.Approximately 45 percent of the Company's sales are outside the U.S. to customers in approximately 40 countries. Rayonier is structured as a real estate investment trust. More information is available at www.rayonier.com.
Certain statements in this document regarding anticipated financial outcomes including earnings guidance, if any, business and market conditions, outlook and other similar statements relating to Rayonier's future financial and operational performance, are "forward-looking statements" made pursuant to the safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 and other federal securities laws. These forward-looking statements are identified by the use of words such as "may," "will," "should," "expect," "estimate," "believe," "anticipate" and other similar language. Forward-looking statements are not guarantees of future performance and undue reliance should not be placed on these statements.
The following important factors, among others, could cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed in forward-looking statements that may have been made in this document: the effect of the current economic downturn, which is impacting many areas of our economy, including the housing market, availability and cost of credit, and demand for our products and real estate; the cyclical and competitive nature of the industries in which we operate; fluctuations in demand for, or supply of, our forest products and real estate offerings; entry of new competitors into our markets; changes in global economic conditions and world events, including political changes in particular regions or countries; the uncertainties of potential impacts of climate-related initiatives; changes in energy and raw material prices, particularly for our Performance Fibers and wood products businesses; impacts of the rising cost of fuel, including the cost and availability of transportation for our products, both domestically and internationally, and the cost and availability of third party logging and trucking services; unanticipated equipment maintenance and repair requirements at our manufacturing facilities; the geographic concentration of a significant portion of our timberland; our ability to identify, finance and complete timberland acquisitions; changes in environmental laws and regulations, including laws regarding air emissions and water discharges, remediation of contaminated sites, timber harvesting, delineation of wetlands, and endangered species, that may restrict or adversely impact our ability to conduct our business, or increase the cost of doing so; adverse weather conditions, natural disasters and other catastrophic events such as hurricanes, wind storms and wildfires, which can adversely affect our timberlands and the production, distribution and availability of our products and raw materials such as wood, energy and chemicals; interest rate and currency movements; our capacity to incur additional debt, and any decision we may make to do so; changes in tariffs, taxes or treaties relating to the import and export of our products or those of our competitors; the ability to complete like-kind exchanges of property; changes in key management and personnel; our ability to continue to qualify as a REIT and to fund distributions using cash generated through our taxable REIT subsidiaries; changes in tax laws that could reduce the benefits associated with REIT status; and potential legal challenges that could reduce the benefits associated with the alternative fuel mixture credit and the cellulosic biofuel producer credit discussed in the Company's most recent annual report on Form 10-K.
In addition, specifically with respect to our Real Estate business, the following important factors, among others, could cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed in forward-looking statements that may have been made in this document: the cyclical nature of the real estate business generally, including fluctuations in demand for both entitled and unentitled property; the current downturn in the housing market, the lengthy, uncertain and costly process associated with the ownership, entitlement and development of real estate, especially in Florida, which also may be affected by changes in law, policy and political factors beyond our control; the potential for legal challenges to entitlements and permits in connection with our properties; unexpected delays in the entry into or closing of real estate transactions; the existence of competing developers and communities in the markets in which we own property; the pace of development and the rate and timing of absorption of existing entitled property in the markets in which we own property; changes in the demographics affecting projected population growth and migration to the Southeastern U.S.; changes in environmental laws and regulations, including laws regarding water withdrawal and management and delineation of wetlands, that may restrict or adversely impact our ability to sell or develop properties; the cost of the development of property generally, including the cost of property taxes, labor and construction materials; the timing of construction and availability of public infrastructure; and the availability of financing for real estate development and mortgage loans.
Additional factors are described in the Company's most recent Form 10-K and 10-Q reports on file with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Rayonier assumes no obligation to update these statements except as is required by law.
RAYONIER INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
June 30, 2011 (unaudited)
(millions of dollars, except per share information)
June 30, March 31, June 30, June 30, June 30,
Sales $ 357.4 $ 357.7 $ 312.2 $ 715.1 $ 622.4
Costs and expenses
Cost of sales 262.8 257.5 242.9 520.3 475.8
Selling and general expenses 16.0 16.4 15.1 32.4 32.1
Other operating income, net (a) (0.5 ) (3.8 ) (2.1 ) (4.3 ) (18.7 )
Operating income 79.1 87.6 56.3 166.7 133.2
Interest expense (12.6 ) (13.3 ) (12.2 ) (25.9 ) (24.7 )
Interest and other income, net 0.3 0.2 0.4 0.5 0.6
Income before taxes 66.8 74.5 44.5 141.3 109.1
Income tax expense (10.3 ) (16.1 ) (6.0 ) (26.4 ) (13.6 )
Net income $ 56.5 $ 58.4 $ 38.5 $ 114.9 $ 95.5
Net Income per Common Share:
Net Income $ 0.70 $ 0.72 $ 0.48 $ 1.42 $ 1.20
Adjusted Net Income (b) $ 0.67 $ 0.70 $ 0.48 $ 1.38 $ 1.04
Dividends Per Share $ 0.54 $ 0.54 $ 0.50 $ 1.08 $ 1.00
Weighted Average Common
Shares used for determining
Basic EPS 81,128,442 80,946,697 80,104,004 81,038,096 79,923,790
Diluted EPS (c) 84,127,616 82,863,638 81,092,703 83,512,325 80,903,470
PRO FORMA EPS (d)
Pro forma basic EPS $ 0.46 $ 0.48 $ 0.32 $ 0.94 $ 0.80
Pro forma diluted EPS $ 0.45 $ 0.47 $ 0.32 $ 0.92 $ 0.79
Pro Forma Dividends Per Share $ 0.36 $ 0.36 $ 0.33 $ 0.72 $ 0.67
Pro forma basic EPS 121,692,663 121,420,046 120,156,006 121,557,144 119,885,685
Pro forma diluted EPS (c) 126,191,424 124,295,457 121,639,055 125,268,488 121,355,205
(a) The six months ended June 30, 2010 includes a gain of $12.4 million from the sale of a portion of the Company's interest in its New Zealand joint venture.
(b) For the six months ended June 30, 2010, adjusted net income excludes a gain of $0.14 per share from the sale of a portion of the New Zealand joint venture interest. Adjusted net income is a non-GAAP measure. See Schedule D for a reconciliation to the nearest GAAP measure.
(c) The increase in dilutive shares for the three and six months ended June 30, 2011, is primarily due to the potential dilutive impact of the Senior Exchangeable Notes due 2012 and 2015.
(d) On July 22, 2011, the Board of Directors approved a 3-for-2 stock split in the form of a stock dividend. The additional shares will be distributed on August 24, 2011 to shareholders of record on August 10, 2011. Pro forma EPS, dividends per share and weighted average common shares have been adjusted to reflect the August 2011 3-for-2 stock split.
CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEETS AND STATEMENTS OF CASH FLOWS
(millions of dollars)
June 30, December 31,
Other current assets 291.0 259.8
Timber and timberlands, net of depletion and amortization 1,129.3 1,137.9
Property, plant and equipment 1,540.1 1,506.7
Net property, plant and equipment 408.4 385.3
Investment in New Zealand JV 77.5 68.5
Other assets 141.4 162.7
$ 2,361.8 $ 2,363.7
Liabilities and Shareholders' Equity
Current liabilities $ 302.8 $ 244.9
Long-term debt 581.3 675.1
Non-current liabilities for dispositions and discontinued operations 76.9 81.7
Other non-current liabilities 97.8 110.4
Shareholders' equity 1,303.0 1,251.6
Cash provided by operating activities:
Net income $ 114.9 $ 95.5
Depreciation, depletion, amortization 62.9 76.5
Non-cash basis of real estate sold 1.7 3.4
Other items to reconcile net income to cash provided by operating activities 14.8 (1.3 )
Changes in working capital and other assets and liabilities (a) 0.6 181.7
Cash used for investing activities:
Capital expenditures (65.2 ) (71.3 )
Purchase of timberlands (13.0 ) --
Change in restricted cash 8.4 (10.1 )
Other (1.0 ) 4.9
(70.8 ) (76.5 )
Cash used for financing activities:
Borrowings of debt, net of repayments and issuance costs (76.7 ) 59.8
Dividends paid (87.9 ) (80.0 )
Issuance of common shares 7.9 12.2
Repurchase of common shares (7.8 ) (6.0 )
Excess tax benefits on stock-based compensation 4.9 4.0
(159.6 ) (10.0 )
Effect of exchange rate changes on cash 0.2 (0.1 )
Cash and cash equivalents:
Change in cash and cash equivalents (35.3 ) 269.2
Balance, beginning of year 349.5 75.0
Balance, end of period $ 314.2 $ 344.2
(a) The six months ending June 30, 2010 includes a $189.1 million refund related to the alternative fuel mixture credit.
BUSINESS SEGMENT SALES AND OPERATING INCOME (LOSS)
Forest Resources $ 57.0 $ 48.2 $ 48.9 $ 105.2 $ 96.0
Real Estate 12.3 13.5 12.7 25.8 45.7
Cellulose specialties 192.3 194.0 162.6 386.3 319.9
Absorbent materials 40.5 57.2 39.3 97.7 81.8
Total Performance Fibers 232.8 251.2 201.9 484.0 401.7
Wood Products 18.0 15.8 21.6 33.7 37.5
Other Operations 38.5 30.4 30.3 68.9 47.4
Intersegment Eliminations (1.2 ) (1.4 ) (3.2 ) (2.5 ) (5.9 )
Total sales $ 357.4 $ 357.7 $ 312.2 $ 715.1 $ 622.4
Adjusted operating income/(loss)
Forest Resources $ 11.8 $ 11.1 $ 8.7 $ 22.9 $ 16.9
Real Estate 5.0 7.4 4.1 12.4 21.5
Performance Fibers 71.1 75.7 45.0 146.8 89.9
Wood Products (1.0 ) 0.5 4.3 (0.5 ) 4.3
Other Operations (1.0 ) 0.7 0.7 (0.2 ) 1.3
Corporate and other (a) (6.8 ) (7.8 ) (6.5 ) (14.7 ) (13.1 )
Adjusted operating income $ 79.1 $ 87.6 $ 56.3 $ 166.7 $ 120.8
(a) For the six months ended June 30, 2010, Corporate and other excludes a gain of $12.4 million from the sale of a portion of the Company's interest in its New Zealand joint venture. Adjusted operating income is a non-GAAP measure. See Schedule D for a reconciliation.
RECONCILIATION OF NON-GAAP MEASURES
CASH AVAILABLE FOR DISTRIBUTION (a):
Cash provided by operating activities (b) $ 194.9 $ 355.8
Capital expenditures (c) (65.2 ) (71.3 )
Change in committed cash -- 9.9
Cash Available for Distribution $ 134.3 $ 303.2
(a) Cash Available for Distribution (CAD) is defined as cash provided by operating activities adjusted for capital spending, the tax benefits associated with certain strategic acquisitions, the change in committed cash, and other items which include cash provided by discontinued operations, proceeds from matured energy forward contracts, excess tax benefits on stock-based compensation and the change in capital expenditures purchased on account. CAD is a non-GAAP measure of cash generated during a period that is available for dividend distribution, repurchase of the Company's common shares, debt reduction and strategic acquisitions net of associated financing. CAD is not necessarily indicative of the CAD that may be generated in future periods.
(b) Cash provided by operating activities for the six months ended June 30, 2010 includes a $189.1 million refund related to the alternative fuel mixture credit.
(c) Capital expenditures excludes strategic acquisitions. Through June 30, 2011, strategic acquisitions totaled $13 million for timberland acquisitions and $4 million for the Jesup mill cellulose specialties expansion.
ADJUSTED OPERATING INCOME AND NET INCOME:
Per Diluted
Operating Income $ 133.2
Gain on sale of a portion of New Zealand JV interest (12.4 )
Adjusted Operating Income $ 120.8
Net Income $ 95.5 $ 1.18
Gain on sale of a portion of New Zealand JV interest (11.5 ) (0.14 )
Adjusted Net Income $ 84.0 $ 1.04
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'Balance is what I look for when making a praline' – Tom Vanthemsche, The Cacao Tree
January 27, 2017 by Ivan Brincat Leave a Comment
Tom Vanthemsche always dreamt of being a chocolate and ice cream maker. With The Cacao Tree by Tom, his boutique shop in Rhode St Genese, just outside Brussels, he has fulfilled his dream. He works with fresh ingredients particularly those which are in season and he prides himself of using fresh farmer's milk which he picks up himself and 60% fruit in his sorbets which is highly unusual.
"Some think our sorbets are ice-cream because they are very creamy. This is because of the percentage of fruit we use." Tom told Food and Wine Gazette in an interview that he prefers to use fresh products rather than unusual spices or ingredients that might shock but don't necessarily work. "For me, finding the right balance between sugar and acidity is crucial. I will add a bit of texture to the chocolate, make it creamy but what I am looking for is balance. For me that is fundamental."
He is constantly on the look out for new chocolate. "When I set to create a new praline, I will taste the chocolate and depending on its flavour will decide what to add to it. I think that inspiration sometimes comes from knowing what works and what doesn't and having the discipline to say no to what does not work."
Tom said that he always tries to use fresh products and ones which work well together without going to far because there is a tendency these days to try and use special spices, to have chocolate and caviar and even one with sausage which he thinks is disgusting.
He also tells me that he does not make pralines with alcohol. "I only break the rule during Christmas festivities where I have a champagne truffle but otherwise I believe that chocolate and alcohol don't go together. Some are happy to use alcohol because this increases the shelf-life of the product but this is not something which interests me or my clients," said Tom.
"I look at what other chocolate makers are doing but I try not to copy. I always try to give my touch in what I am doing. Ideas come from trying new ingredients like fruits and seeing what works. Travel for me is also important because you discover new tastes and flavours and that is also a source of inspiration."
How did you come with the name The Cacao Tree I ask him. "At first I wanted to create the Chocolate Tree but the name was already taken. I opted for Cacao tree. I've used an English name because although I am Dutch speaking, I am a commune which also has many French speakers and this is neutral and keeps everyone happy," he tells me.
The artisanal approach is really important for him. "I believe that people want quality. They are not afraid to pay a bit more and move away from industrial products. I think people are starting to realise that industrial production is not the same. When you replace butter with other types of fat or you use aromas instead of real fruit you do not get the same flavour."
Tom tells me that he makes pralines every day and they are fresh. "When you come to our shop they will never be older than a week. In some cases, when we are speaking of industrial chocolate, they might have been ready for three months before they reach the shops," he said.
How easy it is to become a chocolatier in Belgium, a country renowned for its chocolate, I ask him? "It is definitely not easy because you need to have a name and that comes with awards. The fact that we have been selected by Gault Millau means that we start to become known. We have also been twice to the Salon du Chocolat so people start to get to know us. What is most important for me is word of mouth. People try the chocolate and if they like it they buy it. We are starting to get known in Brussels like this. My aim is not to have adverts but rather for people to try and chocolates and then tell their friends about them. When a product is good, news spreads just like when its bad," he said.
He has always dreamed of making ice-cream and chocolates but why are more and more youngsters attracted to chocolate making I ask him. He tells me that time is a very important factor. "First Belgian chocolate is well known around the world so it is an easy product to export. You can also be creative and the working hours are better than being a baker or patissier or else owning a restaurant. Having a bakery is extremely difficult. You can still do well but it means that you work all nights starting at 11pm and ending around noon the next day," he said.
He dreams of one day becoming a household name in Belgium for his chocolates and ice-cream. "I would love to have more shops but I want them to still be making chocolate and ice-cream on the spot and wouldn't exclude exporting his chocolates even though this would not be to the detriment of quality.
His inspiration is not a Belgian chocolatier but rather a French chocolatier who has a shop in Place Sablon, Brussels. "Patrick Rogier is an amazing artist apart from a chocolatier," he says.
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As of June 16, 2018, the climb was in good shape. The snowfield at the start is rapidly shrinking, although you must climb over, under, and around some for the first 100 yards or so on terrain no harder than easy 5th. The layer of dirt discussed in some other reports was present but mild. The proper gully has a small waterfall with a gentle flow, which was very pleasant as the wind would provide us with random mists which smelled of sage from below. Hard to beat that!
We followed the main gully and found mostly good rock. For what its worth, nothing came screaming down at us at any point from above. The loose plates were certainly present, but we found them quite easy to climb around. Our path eventually lead us up and over shattered red turrets which provided relatively solid rock for the vast majority of the upper slopes.
We descended the north ridge, which we found direct and mostly pleasant, although the lower slopes certainly become a slog.
I would echo what others have said: leave the rope in the car. We soloed the route, but I am certain a rope would have been a liability. Wear a helmet and pay attention to your surroundings.
I found the climb to be an amazing experience, and believe some of the horror stories of choss oceans were overstated, as far as our path, at least.
Saw a cool looking rib on the approach and decided to try it. Turned out to be a super fun scramble with good ridge climbing, exposure, views etc. Made a mountainproject page for it.
Climbed this 10/20/10. Started at 8:15, topped out at 12:15ish and back in Mammoth by 3. Follow the trail past the John Muir Wilderness sign until you get to the creek bed, it will be very obvious. I found the route pretty straight forward, but headed right because of snow on route. Getting back to the car took forever. I didnt follow the ridge, because I found it easier to just run down the snow. Finally found the gully system and scree surfed forever, then did a bit of bushwacking and before I knew it I was at my car. Fun climb, did it solo, probably would have killed anyone below me with all the rock I sent down.
Downclimb the N ridge of Laurel towards Convict Lake, staying directly on the ridge crest as much as possible. The downclimbing here is mostly class 2-3 and has better rock than the upper portion of the climb. Stay on the ridge, don't descend too early. As the ridge flattens and character of the rock changes, traverse right onto the steep, sandy slope. Hard to describe the best place to drop in, use your best mountain judgment. The upper slope is very loose, but funnels into an amazing, narrow scree gully. One of the cleanest, easiest scree-sprinting descents I've ever seen. The scree chute eventually peters out into a bushy drainage, follow this back to Convict Lake Trail. I was able to get from summit to trailhead in 1 hour 40 minutes.
A few years back, winter conditions were just right. Prefect neve and some great water ice. If conditions are right I would highly recommend it.
do, what a slog at the top!
We had a great time on this route yesterday. The lower part still had quite a bit of snow. The lower canyon section was fun with quite a bit of water flowing. A rope was useful for hauling up packs. Less useful for climbing though. The compact nature of the rock meant that there was practically zero pro on the route. We had a few problems with dirty slabs (still early season) and rock fall. The slabs are heavily scarred with obvious rock impacts.
The "long but easy" decent route is described as 4 hours and 10 miles. You would have to be running to do it this time. It's a beautiful hike, but it is a decent length day hike. The bridge crossing the river in the section below Mildred Lake is washed out. In this flow crossing the river at this point is not an option. Continue down the true right bank until you can cross via dead trees in the more mellow section. Add significant time for poor terrain.
It's a very long fun day out.
I climbed this route yesterday. It isn't much of a rock climb at all. It would either be a 1-star climb or a 3-star scramble. It's a beautiful location, great summit, easy approach... but it's also >50% choss and scree; and only about 5% climbing. It's like going up one and a half North Dome Gullies.
Don't even THINK about going up behind other parties. It's impossible not to knock stuff off of this route. If you have a partner climb side-by-side or close enough together that the rocks can't pick up too much speed. And for goodness sake check the weather.
That said I have nothing to add to the beta, which was good. The route is bone-dry right now but quite warm. I was glad to be descending by 10am. By the time I got to my car I was hot and cranky and surrounded by fishermen's wives who were obviously astounded that someone so close to fresh water could be so dirty.
BTW, I had Cingular service on the summit. Called my girlfriend. I guess I'm not much of a soloist.
Soloed the route 8-18-06, my first solo of this type of climb. I thought the route was really fun, and while there was plenty of bad rock, there was plenty of good rock as well. The climbing was very casual, and I don't see how bringing a rope would help as few places for pro existed.
The Supertopo beta was perfect -- no problems at all during the ascent. Definitely take the time to scope the route from the parking lot. I got a bit off-course during the descent, which was rather unpleasant (extremely loose scree/sand gullies forever). I think I descended the wrong gully, or crossed over into the wrong one from the correct one.
The base of the route had some patches of snow and ice, but they were easily avoided by climbing around them. As for the top, past the large red rock vein, stay to the left of a red dike that runs parallel to the gully and you'll avoid the 5.6R slabs/false summit. WEAR A HELMET. A few times I though I was in a shooting gallery as loose stones whizzed by.
Just completed this route yesterday (Oct 27). It was raining and snowing all day with a few inches of accumulation above 9000 ft (esttimat). Ok, this route is very canyoneering like for the 1st 1/3 of the route and and fun. Most of the rock on this route was wet with water actually running down it (the weather played a factor BUT it is obvious that water routinely runs down the lower 1/3 of the route). The 1st section of 5th class rock at the very beginning can easily be ommitted by ascending the ledges to the right BUT I found the 5th class section to be only 2-3 moves of wet 5.2 that was fun. After that was the canyoneering stuff for awhile which was also fun. the section obove the redish rock area had several options. Going to the gully / gullies to the left worked good for me. Talus is abundant for a few hundered yards.the very, very far left gully will give access to very obvious ledges and a relief from talus. the ledges were fun BUT more exposed toward the top than the other 5th class section (wet of course) and NO places or options for pro. I seen this section described as "solid rock". WHAT A JOKE!!! There is NO solid rock oN this mountain. do not wast time and bring anything but slings if u decide to bring a rope. One could also take the gully next to the very left ledge gully which is just a continuation of talus to the top ridge line. Either way as long as u stay to the left above the red rock area either the far left or the one next to it are cool (talus vs fun exposed, rotten 5.3) and as long as u curve or traverse right toward the top of either of these gullies than you will hit the ridge. From there u head obviously left ond walk up talus to the top. The snow on the top ridge was up to 12 inches and still falling down which supplied some relief from the talus. Descent of the ridge all the way through manzanita type bushes was not to bad. Round trip with taking time to explore around was 8 hours. Oh, rockfall is an issue and i took a baseball size shot on my forearm which was covering my face. Close call but no injury. Expected for a MTN full of rotten rock. Overall a real fun climb.
Climbed with H.H. on Saturday 8/21. Beautiful weather, perfect morning. Supertopo directions made the approach easy, though we went cross country at the first small creek bed, instead of going a few more turns up the trail to reach the wide dried up river bed. A bit of snow at the base of the gully, but as it is late season the route was mostly dry (a few slick spots but not a big problem).
Found the route easy to follow, good fun on the slabs high up (sticky approach shoes helped). Trekking poles made the approach and upper scree slopes go by quickly. Good warm-up for Agassiz the next day. All in all a fun scrambling weekend.
Descent- we stayed below the ridge line until the cirque was visible, then regained ridge, dropping down about 100 yards after the rock turned grey.
climbed this route on 7/10/04. we did a variation above the second red band, and climbed a few pitches of 5.6X slab.
despite the looseness of the scree and talus, we found the slabby areas to be solid rock. overall, I thought this was fun climb. the descent sucked though.
Made a 2nd attempt on Laurel on Monday, July 5th. About half-way up the route (near the huge band of red rock), a storm hit. My partner and I made the decision to retreat, and we were happy with it. We had to leave some slings for a couple of rappels, but that was all. Retreating probably takes as long as climbing the route -- at least it did for us.
In any event, this is a warning to wear a helmet on this climb. We happened to be off-route (about 100 feet east) at the point where the storm hit. On the actual route, a refrigerator-sized boulder fell a long way and broke into some pretty substantial pieces, falling straight down the gully. Obviously, a helmet is not going to do any good against such a large piece of rock, but it may have helped with some of the smaller pieces. Getting hit by any of those pieces without a helmet would have been certain death.
We were lucky. Had the storm hit 15 minutes later, we could have been back on-route and in that area.
The climb is a good one. The snow at the base of the gully is melting; it's soft enough for approach shoes by 8 or 9am, though there are a few steeper sections that made us step a bit more carefully.
On the retrea, we built snow bollards and rapped off of them on the retreat, until the angle eased.
Last weekend, I set out for what I thought would be a casual solo. It turns out the gully still had a significant amount of snow in it, which makes route-finding much easier. No problem, I thought, I'll just climb to the (climber's) right of the gully, directly alongside the snow.
I wound up climbing hundreds of feet of, say, 5.4 - 5.7 (with no real opportunities for pro; since I was soloing, it didn't matter). The climbing is not difficult, but downclimbing it, of course, would be much tricker. There's some good rock, but also plenty of loose stuff, and some gritty sections.
The reason I bring this up is that it if there's snow in the gully, either bring crampons to avoid sections of climbing more difficult than 5.2 -- or be aware that you may face up to 5.7 (loose) rock. The left side of the gully might have been easier -- I don't know.
Fortunately, I had a big margin of error, and I take responsibility for my actions. I just don't want anyone else to find themselves in over their head.
The instructions and photos in the SuperTopo eBook are fantastic, particularly given that this is such a tough route to describe.
there is some beta on the Forum on this site. Just hit the forum button, then search for "laurel". Paul.
The route as seen from Convict Lake. |
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Elsa is lots of fun at the moment and wants to be part of everything we do, so I was excited to stumble across the good people from My Little Sous-Chef on Twitter. I know, this sounds like I've become one of those blogs you like that suddenly starts not-so-subtly pointing you towards Rumbelows for all your TV rental needs or something. Well, MLS-C haven't paid me a thing*, I just thought their 'cookbook for parents and kids' idea was kind of ace.
Have you tried cooking with children (no, not as ingredients)? How did that work out? What are the best recipes to cook with kids? Leave your comments below.
Make sure you subscribe to the *BD YouTube channel and you can find more about My Little Sous-Chef and their crowdfunding to create the recipe book by clicking the link. They are also on Twitter, like all the cool kids nowadays.
Thankfully there was no need to resort to this dad's methods to get his son to eat his lunch, you wouldn't want to hear me singing on video. Trust me.
*They can buy me a mansion made out of diamonds when they are rich and famous. |
Washington, DC—Dentons, the world's largest law firm, announced today the launch of Driverless Commute, a blog geared toward the latest news and analysis on the autonomous vehicle (AV) industry. Authored by Dentons' Autonomous Vehicles team, the Driverless Commute interprets emerging innovations and implications facing the AV sector. It is an extension of a popular, long-running weekly email digest of the same name that will allow for a more nimble publishing of legal and policy analysis of the fast-changing automated car landscape.
Driverless Commute provides insightful analysis of the current regulatory environment, monitors public perception of AV technology, covers the global race to market and highlights pilot programs, including shuttle buses, package delivery vans, robo-taxis, shared-fleet vehicles, truck convoys and row-cop tractors. As the industry is dynamic and new terminology quickly comes to the forefront, the blog includes hyperlinks connecting readers to outside articles that provide advanced industry data, market research, policy papers, proposed legislation, legal opinions, and information on events and government grant sources.
Leveraging the Firm's experience serving the automotive, technology and renewable energy sectors, Dentons' Autonomous Vehicles team was launched to act as a source for companies navigating the rapidly evolving landscape of laws and regulations relating to the development and deployment of AV technology. Dentons' Autonomous Vehicles team is made up of attorneys and professionals from across the Firm's Public Policy, Corporate, Energy, Litigation, Insurance, Intellectual Property and Venture Technology practice groups.
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Dreams Underfoot, Charles de Lint, Tor, 1994 (c1993), ISBN 0-812-51621-4, $4.99, 459pp.
No matter how much one reads, there's always an author or two that always seems to manage to slip through the cracks. For me, it was de Lint. I had read some stories by de Lint in Year's Best volumes, but never had picked up a novel or a collection. Spurred on by continual references to his writing on Rondua, and a recommendation from Alexlit (do you get the feeling that these two resources have been ruling my reading list lately? you'd be right), I picked up this collection of stories set in the fictional but familiar city of Newford.
The term used to pigeonhole de Lint's stories is "urban fantasy," in that he places the creatures of fantasy–goblins, faeries, etc.–into a realistic cityscape. This differs from the magic realism approach because many of de Lint's human characters are astonished to see the magic; in magic realism, the fantasy is taken as a given–as if it were normal. His major characters are a ragtag assortment of artists: Jilly Coppercorn, a painter and savior of strays; Christy Riddell, writer of fantasy stories and possibly de Lint's alter ego; Geordie Riddell, busker (a street musician) fiddler; Meran and Cerin, wife and husband duo of harp and flute.
I liked the stories, but had an initial unfavorable reaction to the entire book by the fawning introduction by Terri Windling, who also edited the book and did the cover art. It was lucky that the story containing a reference to Windling was halfway through the book, giving me enough of a taste of de Lint's true style. If the reference had been in the first story, I would likely have tossed the book across the room. In a case such as this, I think it better to let the stories speak for themselves, or maybe the introduction would have been better as an afterword. To belabor the point, there's a real danger in this almost incestial relationship between editor and author, writer and artist, creator and critic. Already walking a fine line by having a near alter-ego in Christy Riddell, the reader begins to wonder how much of this the author believes as fact or fiction himself. Self-referential comments are almost too precious, threatening the suspension of disbelief barrier, or at least, jarring the reader with the realization that they are reading, as in a film when the microphone boom dips into the shot.
The fact that de Lint overcame this problem is all due to the stories. As I read them, I kept saying to myself, this is nothing special, this is nothing different. They are fantasy stories, pure and simple. Take an old tale, graft it with an urban setting, and voila. Except that the characters start living in your mind. You start to know what Jilly will say, or look forward to seeing Geordie step into another characters' story. You start to feel for the characters, wanting the story to end with a happy ever after for them just like in a normal fairy tale, yet knowing that this is a different type of story. People get hurt, people suffer loss, people die.
The two best tales here are the ones original to this collection: "In the House of My Enemy," a story about child abuse, and "Ghosts of Wind and Shadow," a tale of belief and self-knowledge. The ones I liked least were the ones that had been written for theme anthologies. De Lint was good at keeping the flavor of Newford in these stories, but each still lacked something that the ones not written to meet a certain theme had–something organic, as if he had needed to force or bend the theme stories slightly, making them a little out of wack compared to his others. Although I enjoyed the collection, I am looking forward to reading a novel by de Lint rather than more short stories. His is a style and manner that can easily benefit from the longer form, and I am anxious to see exactly how true that statement can be. |
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Milky Way magnetar likely source of fast radio burst
6 November 2020 Astronomy Now
Astronomers have detected the first fast radio burst ever seen in the Milky Way and say it likely was generated by a magnetar.
Artificial intelligence used to find undetected fast radio bursts
12 September 2018 Astronomy Now
Artificial intelligence algorithms found 72 previously undetected fast radio bursts in a source 3 billion light years from Earth, demonstrating a powerful new tool for radio astronomers faced sifting through enormous amounts of data.
Dutch MeerLICHT telescope on the lookout for exploding stars
28 May 2018 Astronomy Now
A new optical telescope featuring a 100-megapixel camera will work in concert with a large radio telescope to precisely locate supernovas and other transient high-energy events that show up across multiple wavelenghts.
Fast radio bursts may be firing off every second
When fast radio bursts, or FRBs, were first detected in 2001, astronomers had never seen anything like them before. Since then, astronomers have found a couple of dozen FRBs, but they still don't know what causes these rapid and powerful bursts of radio emission.
Mapping the cosmic web with fast radio bursts
Fast radio bursts, or FRBs, are mysterious flashes of radio waves originating outside our Milky Way galaxy. A team of scientists, jointly led by Caltech postdoctoral scholar Vikram Ravi and Curtin University research fellow Ryan Shannon, has now observed the most luminous FRB to date, called FRB 150807.
Fast radio bursts born in cosmic cataclysms
Fast radio bursts (FRBs) were first discovered in 2007, and in the years since radio astronomers have detected a few dozen of these events. Researchers have found that these mysterious "cosmic whistles" can release a billion times more energy in gamma-rays than they do in radio waves, rivalling supernovae in their explosive power.
Fast radio burst "afterglow" was actually a flickering black hole
Fast radio bursts (or FRBs) are brief yet powerful spurts of radio energy lasting only a few milliseconds. They were first identified in 2007 and their source has remained a mystery. New research shows that the radio emission believed to be an afterglow from FRB 150418 actually originated from a distant galaxy's core and was unassociated with the FRB.
Repeat fast radio bursts detected from same sky location
3 March 2016 Astronomy Now
Astronomers for the first time have detected repeating short bursts of radio waves from an enigmatic source that is likely located well beyond the edge of our Milky Way galaxy. The findings indicate that these "fast radio bursts" come from an extremely powerful object which occasionally produces multiple bursts in under a minute.
'Fast Radio Burst' sheds new light on origin of these extreme events
3 December 2015 Astronomy Now
Fast radio bursts (FRBs), brief yet brilliant eruptions of cosmic radio waves, have baffled astronomers since they were first reported nearly a decade ago. Though they appear to come from the distant universe, none of these enigmatic events has revealed more than the slimmest details about how and where it formed, until now.
Mysterious energy bursts provide new way to chart the cosmos in 3-D
In deep space, some unknown astrophysical phenomenon is causing mysterious bursts of energy that appear as short flashes of radio waves. In a University of British Columbia study, researchers propose a new way to calculate cosmological distances using these fast radio bursts. The method allows researchers to position distant galaxies in three dimensions and map out the cosmos. |
In this episode, local news focuses on the San Antonio mayoral election, top schools in the city, and a special fiesta event that brings in 500,000 people every year. The Spurs update focuses on the matchup ahead with The Houston Rockets. Then we go live at Mad Pecker Brewing Co. with a conversation with local legend and hip-hop artist, Carlton Zeus. We close the episode with an event calendar for the week to come.
In this episode, we chat about the millennial "movement", the future of The Alamo, and the bill known as HB2107 aka the future of medical marijuana in Texas. Then, we sit down with San Antonio's favorite instrumental shoegaze band, Bright Like the Sun. Is this adios forever? San Antonio Beer Week kicks off Monday, May 15th. Are you thirsty?
In this episode, we talk about the stability of the new SAPD recruiting class, a wild night for a district 2 councilman, and the beginning of tubing season for Texans abroad. We also sit down with Geronimo Lopez, the executive chef at Botika. To cure your summertime blues, we conclude with a fantastic calendar for the week to come. Happy Memorial Day! Music is provided by The Rich Hands.
In this episode, we talk some local news about how the "can ban" on the river is going to effect your summer, free week at Tigre de Papel (Paper Tiger), and the impact Beto O'Rourke is having on Texas politics. We also sit down with singer/songwriter Josh Glenn at Alchemy Kombucha and Culture. This episode also includes craft beer reviews of some of San Antonio's finest. Then stay tuned for a song/band review that will get your booty movin'. We then wrap it up with an event calendar for the rest of the week to come! Enjoy! Music provided by Josh Glenn and Booty Feet.
In this episode, we talk local news and how the "alt-right" movement is closer than we think. We also have a sit-down interview at Chisme with local living legend, musician, singer, guitarist, songwriter, Nick Long of the locally popular band, Lonely Hour. Cheers for Local Beers is also back with another episode showcasing some of the best craft beers San Antonio has to offer. We top it all off with an event calendar for the week to come. Special thanks to Nick Long of Lonely Horse, True Indigo, Chisme, and Big Hops The Bridge.
In this episode, Kloe and Alex discuss the relief impact that Tim Duncan has had on the U.S. Virgin Islands. In our main interview segment, we sit down with local entrepreneur, Ezra Hurd from Imagine Books and Records and discuss the present and future local band scene. It's also time for another episode of Cheers for Local Beers! We finish off the new season with an awesome event calendar for the week! Music is provided by Volcan.
In this episode, Kloe and Alex discuss local news including the importance of a contemporary festival like Luminaria which starts November 10th. We also sit down with local business owner of Jandro's Garden Patio, Alejandro Perez to discuss the significance of the St. Mary's Strip and what the future holds for both his business and the surrounding area. Then we got to Big Hops The Bridge for another episode of Cheers for Local Beers with "special" guest Aaron Mendiola aka Beer Metal Dude. We then close this episode out with an event calendar for this weekend. Music in this episode is provided by Levees. Thanks for listening and enjoy!
In this episode, Kloe and Alex discuss the importance of reversing the pollution problem here in San Antonio. We also have a sit down interview with local legend Michael Carrillo aka Mikey Vibe from Ventura, Deer Vibes, and other ventures. We then bring you another episode of Cheers for Local Beers with FLOOD Distribution Rep, Nathan Martinez and his take on Mad Pecker Beers. To wrap up this episode, we have a jam packed event calendar that will hopefully make you rock your socks off! Music is provided by Deer Vibes and Michael J & The Foxes.
In this episode, Kloe and Alex sit down and discuss the anti-Texas halftime show that the Stanford band delivered at this year's Alamo Bowl plus Brad Pitt, Spurs fan? We also sit down and have some delicious beers with Jackie Romero from Girls Pint Out in another edition of Cheers for Local Beers. To conclude this episode, we have a great conversation with San Antonio/ Boerne transplant, Rene Villanueva from Idyll Green and Hacienda fame. And who knows, maybe Dave Terry stops by? Music in this episode is provided by Ernest Gonzales.
In this episode, Kloe and Alex talk about Julian Castro's run for the 2020 presidential election and the importance of medical marijuana in the great state of Texas. We also have a sit down interview with Chris Cullum from Cullum's Attaboy and Attagirl Chicken Shack. We then go to Big Hops Shaenfield for another episode of Cheers for Local Beers with new owners, Chris Cooke, Brian Orosco, and Big Hops legend and founder, Rob Martindale. Music is provided by Pop Pistol.
This is a two part episode! The first part of the episode includes local news with Kloe and Alex. We then go to Barbaro to have a sit down interview with local restaurant and business owner, Mr. Chad Carey. Music included in both episode parts is provided by Mr. Garrett T. Capps.
Part 2! In the second part of Episode 6, we head to the north side of San Antonio to drink some GREAT local craft beer with TJ and Holland from Ranger Creek Brewing and Distillery for another addition of Cheers for Local Beers! Music in the second part is also provided by Garrett T. Capps.
This is our fiesta episode which means this episode is filled to the max with San Antonio flavor. In this episode, Kloe and Alex discuss the mayor's new plan for public transit, San Antonio's big green success, and how much San Antonians actually spend on alcohol. We then have a special edition fiesta calendar from the sisters of Let's Binge. We then go to Con Safos Cocina y Cantina for a sitdown interview with our State Representative, Diego Bernal to chat about where this city has been and where it is going. To close out this jam packed episode, Rey and Alex head to Kunstler Brewing to try some of San Antonio's best beers with owners, Brent and Vera Deckard for another edition of Cheers for Local Beers. Music this week is provided by who else? Diego Bernal.
Can you guys believe it? Season 3- Episode 1 is finally here! And its our biggest season so far. In this episode, Kloe and Alex talk about how a new international corporation coming to town will bring in hundreds of millions of dollars into the city's economy, the revealing of the pride rainbow crosswalk, and will The Spurs biggest asset leave San Antonio? We then go to Floores Country Store out in Helotes, TX for a great interview with San Antonio's big band on the rise, The Last Bandoleros to talk about their past, present, and future endeavors. Rey and Alex then go to Southerleigh Brewing Company and sit down with Head Brewer, Les Locke for another edition of Cheers for Local Beers. Music is provided by The Last Bandoleros. Make sure to check them out on all streaming services! Cheers!
In this episode, Kloe and Alex discuss what The San Antonio Food Bank is going for kids this summer, the conclusion to The San Antonio Spurs trade drama, and things you should never say to a San Antonian. After our new segment, we head to Mad Pecker Brewing for an interview with San Antonian artist, Ray "Tattooed Boy" Scarborough to talk all things San Antonio! To end this episode, we head to Road Map Brewing to get a sneak peek of what Dustin and Hannah Baker have in store for the local craft beer scene. Music is provided by D.T. Buffkin. His new album, Saturday Night, Sunday Morning is out now. Hope you guys enjoy!
In this episode, Kloe and Alex discuss how city council plans to regulate the recent trend of electric scooters in the Alamo city and as one San Antonio Spur decides to call it quits, a new one is making a splash around the NBA. We then meet up with Chef and Restaurateur, Jason Dady about the importance of having a diverse San Antonio food culture. After talking with Chef Dady, we head to Big Hops The Bride to meet up with the guys from Volcan to talk about their upcoming single release show. We also include a sneak peek of their new single, Bim Bom Ba later in this episode. To close this episode out, we head to Adkins, TX to visit Dustin and Erica Teague at Cactusland Brewing Co. for another edition of Cheers for Local Beers, Music is provided by Volcan.
In this episode, Kloe and Alex talk about San Antonio being the first city in Texas to raise the tobacco buying age, how Texas ranks dead last in voter participation, and last but not lease, we talk about San Antonio's perfect score on the municipal quality index. We then head to Faust Tavern to talk to Danny Delgado, owner and operator of such San Antonio classics like Hi-Tones, Con Safos, Faust, and many more to talk about the past, present, and future of San Antonio. To wrap up the episode, James, Jackie, and Alex head back to Kunstler Brewing to chat with Vera Deckard about all things beer and about the impact that San Antonio had on this year's Great American Beer Festival in Colorado. Music is provided by Stegosaur. Their new album, What The Fever Left is out now!
In this episode, Kloe and Alex discuss the importance of decreasing air pollution by turning off your idle vehicle, the departure of Scott Metzger from Freetail Brewing, and will Beto O'Rourke run for office again in the near future? We then head to head quarters for one of San Antonio's most captivating and intriguing photographers, Mr. Josh Huskin, to talk about the art of capturing a memorable photo and more. To conclude this episode, Jackie and Alex head to High Wheel Beer Works inside Dorcol to chat with head brewer, Randy Ward about planes, trains, and alcohol. Well, maybe not planes but you do hear a lot of trains, and we drink a ton of good beer. Music this week is provided by St. Dukes. Their EP, 58 is out on Spotify and other streaming platforms NOW! Thanks for listening!
Our first live show of I F**KING LOVE SAN ANTONIO took place at Ventura in San Antonio, TX on January 24th, 2019. In this episode, Kloe and Alex discuss will Gregg Popovich be back for another season? Does our city have a border wall? And will the next president of The United States be from San Antonio? After the news, you know what time it is! It's time for Cheers for Local Beers. Jackie and Alex got to sit down with some of San Antonio's best brewers from Southerleigh, Kunstler, Roadmap, and Islla St. Brewing. A special thanks to the bands, Demon Sweat, True Indigo, and The Holy Knives for the great tunes that night. Also a special thank you to Cullum's Attagirl for the amazing eats, Jeremy Banas for the trivia on San Antonio beer history, and Angel Rodarte for the awesome visuals that evening. We hope you guys enjoy!
From open mics in dingy bars in 2009 to the last EP, Death to our Death, Nick Long's music had an impact on every listener that has come across Lonely Horse and Nothing Chief. By being a part of this eclectic music community, Nick was able to let his beautiful locks down and do what he was meant to do: Groove. Through all the trials and tribulations that are life, Nick put his heart and soul into his craft which he shared with us at Kunstler Brewing.
In this episode, Kloe and Alex discuss the tragedy of one of our towns entrepreneurs, do millennials and healthcare mix, the demise of the AAF, and we give a shout out to one of the nation's fastest growing breweries which is located right here in the heart of SA. Can you guess which one it is? We then meet up with musicians, film maker, author, just all around good dude, Mr. Frank Weysos. We then go back in time to Big Hops Shaenfield's one year anniversary celebration where we got to talk to the owners about what it's like to own a bar one year later plus we are joined by some special beer guests! Thanks for listening! Music Provided by The Hawks (Of Holy Rosary) and Young Dreyfuss. |
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Getting ready is the secret of success!
I have had the privilege of working with many very accomplished individuals and getting to know them in a personal and professional way, I have been able to observe some of their habits. What I have learned is they all have a few things in common that support their ongoing success. The habit that sticks out to me is they all keep a diary, journal, calendar of events to keep them on track. And, they all plan ahead — they set themselves up for success by organizing their priorities. They schedule their workouts and self-care routines. They organize their work schedule to ensure they take the time they need to care for themselves.
In the spirit of learning for others — I encourage you to prepare, plan, and plot ahead, as these are essential elements that contribute to your success in any endeavor that you embark on. Setting yourself up for success is part of the commitment to your health ~ meal planning, grocery shopping, pantry cleaning and food preparation is vital to a successful Living Fit Lifestyle. Understanding the Program Practices, how to create a Living Fit Meal and the daily scoring process will serve as your guiding light in this game.
When you wrap your head around the requirements for a Living Fit Lifestyle it will be much easier for you to support yourself and your team to success. Organize your SMART GOALS, define your plan of action and enlist the assistance of your BFF's, your tribal counsel, your spiritual board of directors and your team and you will magnify your success. |
Plastics. Its president is Bill Ford (Ed's son). Gerald Ford is the sales manager.
models. They marketed these toys under the name Tru-Miniatures.
turning out 12,000 miniatures a day.
The line was so prolific it would be a monumental task to attempt collecting one of each item made.
The examples shown on the following pages are merely a sampling of the PMC offerings.
thanks to the Ford brothers for making such a fine line of toys.
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I was planning to build a website where it takes several arguments such as source which means from where the request is coming so that i can authenticate if it is a valid source, destination the location where the payment application should redirect once payment is completed successfully, destination_failed the location where the payment application should redirect once the payment is not successful.
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Nora Burnett Abrams has been MCA Denver's chief curator for the last 10 years
Michael Ciaglo, Special to the Denver Post
The Museum of Contemporary Art announced Nora Burnett Abrams as the new Mark G. Falcone Director Monday, Aug. 19, 2019 in Denver. Abrams succeeds Adam Lerner, who stepped down earlier this summer.
By Ray Mark Rinaldi | [email protected] | The Denver Post
The Museum of Contemporary Art Denver announced Tuesday that Nora Burnett Abrams will become its new executive director.
Abrams is a familiar face at the MCA. For the last 10 years, she has served as the museum's chief curator — basically its No. 2 leader on the creative side of the operation — working under Adam Lerner, who departed the top job last month.
The appointment is a clear vote for institutional continuity on the part of the MCA's board of trustees, who selected an in-house candidate after commencing a national search to replace Lerner when he announced his departure in November.
Abrams, at 41, will be on the younger side of contemporary museum administrators in the country. In an interview last week, she said it was an honor to take the helm of an institution "where I really have come of age professionally."
Abrams, who began her career at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, has organized more than 30 exhibitions since arriving at the MCA Denver. Among the internationally famous artists whose careers she explored: Ryan McGinley, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Tara Donovan, Senga Nengudi and Adrian Ghenie.
She also took deep dives into Colorado artists such as John McEnroe, Joel Swanson, Monique Crine, Laura Shill and Kim Dickey. In many cases, she was the first curator to do the high level of research and contextualizing that established their reputations as viable, career artists.
Some of her most respected work has come in the form of her writing skills; she contributed to more than a dozen catalogues and other publications that have accompanied the shows.
That work, and her efforts behind the scenes on projects such as the MCA's successful art lending library, called the Octopus Initiative, earned her the respect of the board.
"Her distinct curatorial approach has proven time and again her ability to bring adventurous and compelling stories to light and to uncover previously unexamined facets of artists and their work," said board chair Mike Fries, via a media release.
The standard museum setup across the U.S. is for just one nonprofit contemporary museum to dominate the presentation of work by living artists in each major city. The MCA does that job in Denver.
But the local museum has carved out a unique niche nationally by supplementing standard exhibitions with off-beat and unusual public programs. Under Lerner's leadership, it became known as much for showing painting and sculpture as it was for offering a "Failure Lab" for teenagers; a gym-inspired "Art Fitness Training" course for adults; and its "Mixed Taste" lecture series, which combines talks on two separate and unrelated topics on the same night. The events routinely sell out and serve as the museum's only contact point with many Denver residents.
Abrams said museum fans can expect the variety show to continue. "There's not going to be any dramatic sharp turns in terms of the direction we're heading," she said.
She noted that Sarah Kate Baie, the MCA's current director of programming and the person who oversees its more adventurous moves, will stay on the job.
"We're a museum who knows who it is, and I think I know that better than a lot of people because I've been here so long," Abrams said.
As for future exhibitions, Abrams' own work should be an indicator of what is to come. Her personal niche as a curator is to highlight small, often unrecognized facets of an artist's output. The Basquiat exhibit, for example, focused on early work that most people had never seen. Her Nengudi show was centered around a series of groundbreaking, 20-year-old sculptures that had nearly been forgotten.
"What I like is finding those quirkier and unexpected moments that don't necessarily fit neatly into the narrative about an artist," she said.
That curatorial work has helped to revive artist careers and to make the MCA a player nationally. Several of the exhibits have been picked up and remounted by museums across the country.
It has also helped the MCA's bottom line. According to its press materials, in the last five years, the museum has seen an increase in attendance by more than 200 percent.
Abrams credits that uptick to a combination of serious exhibitions and the institution's willingness to have a little fun.
"What I'm excited about is growing that within the city and within the field," she said.
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Other than the topic, there is not much relation to Accidental Blogger's post. However, I'd recommend you check out his post before reading mine by just clicking here.
In this post, I'm merely hoping to share what I'm insecure about.
It's nothing about physical condition, money or social status.
I'm insecure about who I am as a person.
Everyone around me has a fixed perception of who I should be. Thus, I'm continually struggling to make myself fit into the image others have of me. As a result, I'm insecure about myself as an entirety. I lack the confidence to portray myself as who I want to be because I know what others perceive me to be. I am already comparing myself to in a sense, myself. I'm comparing myself to the image of myself that others have painted of me. On the outside, I'm just a hard working individual who is looking to learn coding which is more practical and realistic while I'm writing a blog on the sidelines in secret. Of course, this is just a small comparison. There are many differences between what others perceive of me and my "actual" self. In general, people perceive me to be more capable than I actually am. However, having been insecure about my "actual" self, it has started to fade and I'm becoming more of the person others want me to be. Or at least, on the surface, it seems that way. Only regressing to my pitiful self when alone and no one around to expect anything of me, no one to force me into action.
Exactly what do I mean by pitiful self?
I mean someone who does nothing but stares blankly at his surroundings, doing nothing, thinking nothing, saying nothing. It's as though my "self" has merged with other's expectations into one. There can no longer be one without the other.
I hope you guys don't mind that my posts have been pretty short lately, been a pretty hectic week and will be pretty busy the coming few weeks as well due to an annual audit coming up in camp (cause I'm currently serving national service).
What are you guys insecure about? Can you relate to my problems? Or are you pretty confident of yourself as an individual and seldom feel insecure?
One should never be insecure about being different. Everyone is busy trying to be someone who they aren't. They are losing their own identity.
While you're someone who is different & you aren't trying to be someone else.
I think being different is strength & not insecurity.
Sorry, I think I got carried away cause I just finished writing Wednesday's post and thus my comment leaned towards the mood I got into writing it.
Just gonna leave all that there cause I feel it'd be a waste to just delete it all.
Anyways, I guess being different, in my case, deciding to write instead of doing other mainstream things like coding, medicine or law and such can be considered a strength (hate using this word to describe myself tbh) since I'm doing something many would see as impractical to do and likely not support. However, with the amount of time I invest in this, I wonder whether I'm making the right choice. Am I investing too much time in something that would ultimately be unable to help me in the future? Or is there a possibility I could make this blog something more?
Honestly, I can't help but be unsure of myself since this is something most people do for fun and there are only a select few who can make a living off blogging in the whole sea of bloggers. Those that make money make in-depth content and things that people want to read about. Mine is nothing like that. Just thoughts. Just my thoughts that I cannot bear to just come to mind and disappear without seeing the light of day.
Stop stressing too much! I think you're doing great here. You've a great thinking power . I like it.
All you gotta to do is keep writing with a positive attitude. Try to gain audience on your blog & maintain interaction with them.
Also , I'll like to suggest you a book to read called "The secret".
I'm sure it will help you.
Will definitely check out the book, is it by Rhonda Byrne? |
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Three Bodies Found: Is It Business As Usual?
By Fishel Jacobs
As we write these lines, the worldwide media has just announced the unsurprising news. The three innocent teenage boys who were kidnapped, eighteen days ago, by local Islamic punks were just found. They were dead.
That was clearly going to be the case. No one I know is surprised.
It has been a tense eighteen days for everyone.
What is important now is that it must not be business as usual in Israel.
Five minutes after the horrific announcement tonight on the news, the arguments began. Who is to blame? The police operator who received an emergency call from one of the boys as he was being abducted – but did nothing? The Shin Beit for not being able to locate – until this very minute – the kidnappers, though Israel theoretically controls all the land, sea and air?
Business as usual must be changed.
Now, Israel needs to be apprehending and punishing the perpetrators. Security forces have been cautiously questioning the parents and siblings of the kidnappers for two weeks. That was out of fear for the well-being of the young men who were kidnapped and presumed alive. Now, those families should be under the most intense interrogation imaginable. The boys are dead. There's nothing to endanger now. Everyone in Hebron who knew about the crime – and that is everyone – must be punished with long sentences without the possibility of parole or freedom in subsequent "peace settlements." Their houses must be destroyed, now. Those who knew but can't be sentenced should be deported, with no possibility to ever return.
Israel knows, intimately, the cells of friends and accomplices who helped hide these abductors for eighteen days. We have brave men on the ground infiltrating and living in Hebron. Every one of these collaborators is an accomplice to murder. They all need to be picked up, interrogated, and sentenced in courts of law.
Today, Bibi and his entourage will be wearing dour "this is a great blow for the Jewish State" faces. The high-profile memorial services will be aired worldwide. In Hebron and Gaza, there'll be public celebrations, fireworks, music blaring, animals slaughtered and barbecued, partying in the streets.
Clearly, Bibi's recently releasing over a thousand terrorists, most of whom had murdered innocent Jews with their own hands, for absolutely no return, was the greatest green light possible for this present abduction. Why not? Even if they're caught, and sentenced, they'll be out in a few years.
Even Bibi can understand. You don't win wars by mourning your dead while the enemy celebrates. Business as usual doesn't have to be.
How about if Bibi forgoes the cameras tomorrow? The world has seen enough of him on TV. Let him spend his day with security forces, rounding up everyone connected with this latest cold-blooded murder of civilians.
Bring them to court. Send them away forever, with no possibility for parole. Deport them. Break their terror cells.
It's business as usual in Israel. The mourning families will take time to recover. They'll collect all the photos of their deceased loved ones, make family movies to remember. Things will be dedicated – here a Torah, there a new charity fund. All of our families have gone through it.
The poor civilians of Israel – down whose throats politicians have shoved "only strong people know how to suck it up" – are by now expert in sucking it up.
A long time ago, there was no room to suck anymore.
It doesn't have to be business as usual.
Where is the righteous indignation? Where is the public demand for punishment? Collective punishment? Yes. When entire communities like Hebron are accomplice to murder – planning, concealment, abatement, support – it's called accomplices. There needs to be a mass detention of Hamas terrorists, in the hundreds, from Hebron – tonight. Sentencing without parole, and without possible release in future "peace deals," and deportation with no possibility of return.
Releasing over a thousand murderers from prison was directly at fault for these three deaths. The abductors, rightfully, concluded that they had nothing to lose.
But it does not have to be business as usual tomorrow.
It cannot be business as usual tomorrow.
For if it is, what have we accomplished today?
American-born and educated, Rabbi Major Fishel Jacobs worked as a staff officer in the Israeli Prison Service for over a decade. His memoir, Coffee Melts Bars - My Israeli Prison Career, is available on iTunes. Jacobs is now retired and spends his time writing and speaking worldwide on his books. |
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Lutheran Hospital, a part of the Cleveland Clinic in Cleveland, Ohio
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is gossip interfering with the fashion industry?
With rumors of Hedi Slimane's next move getting prime page space in the fashion media, Anders Christian Madsen wonders if the influence of industry gossip is getting out of control.
Spotted: Hedi Slimane meeting with fashion investors in Doha. Or was he? The story came from Women's Wear Daily last week, and only days after lawyers for Slimane, who just left his creative director position at Saint Laurent, sent out a statement denying it. Good morning, Upper East Siders, and welcome to 21st century fashion where rumors aren't limited to Gossip Girl-like blogs, but dealt with by the high fortresses of industry journalism. "Could Hedi Slimane be looking for an investor to back his namesake fashion house," the WWD story opened, practically begging for Kristen Bell to narrate it. "The designer, who earlier this month parted ways with Saint Laurent after a four-year tenure, was recently spotted at the Mayhoola for Investments offices in Doha," it continued in gossip lingo you kind of had to love.
Of course he wasn't, and as his lawyers pointed out, "Slimane has never had in the past, let alone now, the intention or desire to launch a brand under his name, and therefore denies rumors (including in WWD) of alleged encounters with investors, in Paris or Doha, where Hedi Slimane has in fact never been." (If you ever want to try Paris though, Hedi, it's lovely in the fall.) If the story was ridiculous it was made hilarious by the fact that it obviously never happened. First of all, designers may be stars but they aren't exactly trailed by paparazzi. Secondly, it's hard to believe someone in Doha happened to be outside Mayhoola when Slimane walked in, and happened to be able to recognize him. With his new haircut people hardly recognized him at his own show!
One person who wouldn't find the daily gossip funny would be Slimane himself. Since the insane games of designer musical chairs went on loop at some point over the past ten years, the fashion industry rumor mill has grown into a beast that won't be tamed. Every week it seems a new rumor is making the rounds, usually involving a hugely talented designer and a massive fashion house. It's great for the brands — all hype is good hype —but you wonder how it affects designers such as Slimane when the mill starts spinning. Where does it come from, they must ask themselves, and will it affect their reputations, hireability, or any early-stage deals they've got in the cards? Great opportunities that could change their careers? As American teen television has taught us time and again, gossip is mean. And it could be dangerous.
Every week it seems a new rumor is making the rounds, usually involving a hugely talented designer and a massive fashion house.
There was the story of a designer — who shall remain nameless so not to feed said gossip cycle — whose rumored hiring at a big fashion house set Instagram on fire. The person received flowers and well wishes from key members of the industry and congratulatory Instagram posts from friends, only there wasn't any truth to the rumors. They'd been started by some random blogger on the other side of the world. In this case it was taken in good spirits, but you never know what festers in the mind of the industry. Will some subconsciously feel like the designer in question lost out on that position, even if the person was never in the running? As a designer you inadvertently end up disappointing people — by sheer unwilling association. Of course there are designers who court that gossip, but that's a dangerous game to play with the fashion conglomerates, who now rely on hype and surprise designer announcements to keep their houses in the limelight.
Not that it always works. News of Hedi Slimane's departure from Saint Laurent this April — and Anthony Vaccarello's arrival — hit Paris way back at the men's shows in January. The hiring of Demna Gvasalia at Balenciaga was a rumor about a month before the announcement was made last October. We all knew something was going on at Ermenegildo Zegna before Stefano Pilati announced he was leaving, at Brioni before they told us Justin O'Shea was arriving, and at Berluti before Alessandro Sartori left and went to Zegna. Last week gossip started circulating that a designer more illustrious than all of them together is leaving a very big house in October to be replaced by a younger one. And it's not the Chanel rumor, if that's what you're thinking.
That, of course, is a different one, as pointed out by Hypebeast in relation to the false Slimane spotting in Doha. "If Slimane signed a non-competitive agreement with the Kering Group and then signed with a competitor," they speculated, "he would require criminal defense. To add further fuel to the fire, current Chanel boss Karl Lagerfeld chose to wear a custom sequined Saint Laurent jacket for his victory lap at Chanel's resort show in Cuba. We know this because @choupettesdiary — aka the official Instagram of Lagerfeld's cat, Choupette — mentioned it in a caption." Said cat caption read: "There might be more to Daddy @KarlLagerfeld's Hedi Slimane for @YSL jacket than meets the eye. #HediSlimane to design menswear at @ChanelOfficial?"
It seems that when someone whispers something in our ear months in advance, it usually only concerns the good news—or at least the neutral stuff.
Industry rumor always had it Lagerfeld's team ran the Choupette Instagram account, but they would hardly go that far. Would they? With the power level of rumors going around in fashion, however, you wonder how often they're put out by the powers-that-be themselves, securing their houses vital tension-building and letting the hungry fashion hordes simmer in anticipation. Because it seems that when someone whispers something in our ear months in advance, it usually only concerns the good news — or at least the neutral stuff. We didn't know Alber Elbaz was leaving Lanvin or that Raf Simons was parting ways with Dior before those announcements hit us out of nowhere. And come to think of it, neither of those rumors would have benefitted the houses, who would have had to deal with public opinion before the deeds were done. Public opinion would likely have called for both designers to stay, even if Simons left of his own accord.
What's scary about the rumor's increasing power in fashion is that it's too damned easy to affect the game. Last year, yours truly ran out of questions to ask a designer in a brief interview at an event and said, "I've got to ask you about the rumors."—"Oh, I don't know," the designer smiled secretively. "Let's see what happens. It's still early days." Only, there wasn't any rumor, not that I'd heard of anyway. I just tried my luck, and bang, there it was. Needless to say I could guess what the designer was referring to — associations etc. — and it's what you'd call good gossip. Honestly, I didn't spread it because that night I thought to myself, what if my rumor killed this person's chances? Of course I'm no 24/7 saint — I gossip as much as the rest of them — but as the rumors get bigger and the stakes forever higher, I wonder if the industry's collective Gossip Girl mentality is headed for a meltdown.
With every esteemed fashion journalist joining the Instagram game where words are easily more gossipy and less formal than in the media, the lines between informed journalism and cool, hard gossip begin to blur. Much like when a royal family member gets a new girlfriend or a presidential candidate picks a VP, we chase no stories more than those which involve the fate of another person's life or career. And in an industry that's basically structured like the world of Game of Thrones — fashion houses as kingdoms and designers as warlords — we are becoming desensitized to gossip involving designer departures and arrivals. After all, we mustn't forget we're actually talking about human beings here, whose lives are deeply affected by these musical chairs, and the rumors that keep the music playing.
Text Anders Christian Madsen
Photography Jason Lloyd Evans
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