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Your system will will only be accessible by the Check Inn System high security App.The App will be able to affect changes to your system automatically and instantly; covering important operation tasks such as providing new access codes, deletion of old codes, one off visitor code grants and more.
Business owners can control the coding of their KA7 keyless entry system from anywhere in the world via SMS. The beauty of this advancement means that if one-time visitors, tradespeople or new guests require immediate entry to your venue or guesthouse, this can be remotely arranged in less than a minute from any mobile phone or computer. The upgraded KA7 keyless access system with SMS capability epitomises efficient venue operation; impressing guests with smooth, secure entry at any time of day without concern for lost keys.
The staff at Check Inn Systems can install a SIM card in existing systems in minutes. Your remote coding feature will be operational straight away once installed.
Whether you currently use a lock and key model or an older style keypad, the professional team at Check Inn Systems can plan a swift changeover to suit your schedule. The system is easy to self install and only requires access to power nearby.
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Sales and Use Tax - Conducting the Sales and Use Tax Audit | Taxation | Online and Mobile CPE Course
The primary objective of a sales and use tax audit is to determine, with the least possible expenditure of time, whether the business selected for audit has paid the correct measure of tax. This interactive self-study course addresses how a taxpayer would prepare for the audit by educating the taxpayer on how the audit is selected, how the state notifies the taxpayer of the audit and explains the period of time the sales tax audit will cover. Next, the course walks the taxpayer through the initial audit conference and the audit plan that the state will employ. In addition, the course explains the sales tax audit tests and procedures utilized by the state sales tax auditors. Finally, the audit closing conference that the state will hold with the taxpayer and how the taxpayer protests tax assessments by the state is discussed.
Upon successful completion of Sales and Use Tax - Conducting the Sales and Use Tax Audit, the user should be able to:
determine the financial records the state and local sales tax auditors request to conduct the sales and use tax audit and the responsibilities of the business to provide records, space, and contact personnel for the auditor;
identify how to prepare for the initial audit conference and understand the types of information that will be requested, as well as, the audit sample methodologies and sample agreements the auditor may use during or as a result of the information obtained at the initial audit conference;
recognize what the audit workpapers should include, the purpose and goals of an audit exit conference, and the remedies available when a taxpayer does not agree with the auditor's findings.
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Established in 2014, Tipple Box delivers cocktail and premium small-batch spirit boxes to your door allowing you to overcome the challenges of cocktail making at home by providing everything you need to create the perfect drink.
Named as the UK's number one cocktail kit by The Independent, Tipple Box aims to build upon its recent success with the launch of a Crowdcube campaign.
The company is seeking funding to support the growth of the business, allowing the introduction of new products and adding essential team members.
Tipple Box is aiming to raise £80,000 via Crowdcube, the world's largest equity crowdfunding platform.
Investors can join the campaign from £10 up to £10,000 to invest in one of the UK's most exciting and innovative businesses.
Each level of investment features various rewards, ranging from cocktails for life to Class A shares and voting rights.
With almost 10,000 boxes delivered across the UK, Tipple Box has tripled the sales of its first year of trading within the first nine months of the financial year.
Speaking of their Crowdcube campaign, Tipple Box Founder Sonny Charles said: “I've grown Tipple Box almost by myself up until this point, but now it's time to expand. None of what we've achieved would have been possible without our amazing customers and supporters who have helped us build something really special. We are still growing and I want to take Tipple Box to the next level as I know we can build something extraordinary.”
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Selfie Mirror is a smart mirror that lets users take photographs of themselves, popularly known as ‘selfies’. Produced in Russia and shipping worldwide, Selfie Mirror also boasts functions for salon and events businesses.
Okay, so ‘love’ might be a bit of a strong word in this instance. Selfie Mirror is a smart mirror that essentially lets its users take photos of themselves (selfies) without having to use the infinitely more famous Selfie Stick. Complete with capabilities for beauty salons and events – apparently the kids these days like taking photos of themselves in photo booths at parties, rather than socialising – Selfie Mirror is the most obvious innovation that could have come out of generation Y.
The Selfie Mirror is intrinsically millennial; it comes as no surprise that the narcissistic generation (of which this writer is a member) has developed a more modern way of more efficiently focusing on themselves. The plus points here go to the fact that Selfie Mirror has established some pretty decent marketing techniques in the process.
Beauty salons – particularly the small, independent business types – can use Selfie Mirror as a differentiating marketing tool that puts them one step ahead of their competitors. Clients in these salons can now share photos on social networking websites the moment their treatments are complete, simultaneously recording their location at the same time. For an investment of just $400 per unit, that’s a big win for any small – or come to think of it, large – business.
Of course, Selfie Mirror is also one of those things where if a child/parent/sibling/whatever came home with one, you should disown them immediately. Selfies are a blight on the internet, as are the people who take them. Encouraging such levels of self-devotional behaviour on an industrialised scale is terrifying but, in all likeliness, Selfie Mirror’s target audience of young teens and celebrity wannabes probably couldn’t care less.
But good luck to them. If there was even a slight chance that developing a product could make someone millions, they would be mad to miss out on it, right? Even if it was a 21st century opening to Pandora’s box.
Most of us in startup land look at Amazon as the ultimate success story: An insanely successful company which, with the right amount of work and luck, we too have a shot at creating. In addition to being the case study version of a motivational poster, Amazon has an arsenal of tools that startups in any stage of development can use.
Yes, Amazon’s cloud drive is pretty useful, (hopefully this isn’t breaking news to you), but one of the coolest tools from Amazon is their crowdsourcing Internet marketplace, Mechanical Turk, which promises, “Artificial Artificial Intelligence.”
I didn’t totally get the name at first – in fact I found myself going all freshman sociology major in asking myself if it sounded racist. Apparently it is not racist, but in fact a reference to a Colonial era prank in which people played chess against an unbeatable chess-playing machine called “The Turk,” (which was eventually revealed to be an elaborate hoax involving a chess expert in a robot suit).
Where am I going with this? Great question. Although Mechanical Turk looks like a technological marvel, it’s actually just an illusion in which real humans are doing all of the work, (much like its namesake). In this case, the “work” consists of answering questions and completing simple tasks for a wide range of research endeavors.
MTurk is a researcher’s dream. But for some reason, the majority of media coverage it has received has focused on it’s potential for academic use. It’s true that it has been a bit of a game changer for many a PhD candidate and research professor, but it has potential to be so much more…
There’s a lot to like. It’s one of the fastest, cheapest, and most effective ways of getting data from human subjects. Which is cool enough, but maybe not that applicable to startup life, right? WRONG! It is an untapped of treasure trove of marketing data. This could actually be an important development for people outside of academia too. Think about it – you no longer have to choose between coughing up a ton of money for marketing stats or just winging it when it comes to building up your outreach strategy. You can now get real numbers, that mean something, and you can do so quickly and affordably.
It’s not a perfect system. The people performing these tasks or answering survey questions get paid very little (most of the time, literally just a few cents) but the upside is that you don’t have to pay very much to get what you want. In essence, what you have is the opportunity to create a survey, post it on the marketplace, and get hundreds of responses for under $20 .
How legit is the data? According to some sources, the population of “Turkers” is more representative of the general population than college kids (who normally constitute a huge portion of survey takers). It seems to be popular amongst academics, and the material generated by using MTurk data seems to be received well in most circles. Even so, there is some criticism that the method is too easy, and that it is difficult to control who answers your surveys.
That being said, there is something incredible about democratizing this kind of research. It may not be the best fit for every project, but Mechanical Turk is an amazing starting point for many a marketing endeavor that requires a little bit of research.
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Do what makes you happy and if the friends and family love you they will support your decisions. Go after who you love and live life regret less and regardless. Don’t wish or want, try.
I have learned that being selfish is the key to happiness. Until you are happy you can’t make anybody else happy in reality. Do what makes you happy and you will see life start to attract good things in your life because when you are happy in what you are doing than you will attract others who are like minded and share your interests. ~ Kevin Truesdale
Obviously, you have to have some way to hear the audio that you play back from your DAW. The sound devices we just discussed are an important piece of that puzzle, but after the audio leaves the audio interface, you have to send it somewhere. There are a couple of different approaches you can take in setting up your audio monitoring system. In this section, we’ll be talking specifically about monitoring through a stereo setup. If you’re running some sort of surround-sound or other multiple-channel setup, the techniques will be essentially the same—you’ll just have more outputs, cables, speakers, and so on to connect.
One way to get the audio signal from your sound device to your speakers is to run through a mixing console (mixer). A mixer makes it possible to control the volume and equalization of several separate audio input devices (your audio interface, a CD player, and so on) and send that signal to the same set of speakers or other device.
In a setup with a hardware mixer, the audio comes out of two output jacks on your sound device (one for the left audio signal and one for the right) and into two channels on your mixer. The audio then routes through to the mixer’s outputs and from there to an amplifier. The amplifier sends an amplified signal to your speakers. The amplifier might be a separate piece of gear, or it might be built into each speaker you’re using. Speakers that provide their own amplification are referred to as self-powered speakers.
If space is an issue, or you just don’t want another piece of hardware to worry about, you can do without the mixer. And, as I mentioned, if you have self-powered speakers, you can eliminate a separate amplifier, too.
This setup significantly reduces the amount of desk space you need to control your audio. In essence, your audio interface substitutes for the mixer, while the speaker’s built-in amplifiers substitute for an external amplifier.
This is the way I prefer to have my studio set up because I need the extra space that the mixer takes up. If you’re contemplating this type of setup, I suggest looking into an audio interface that has a few extra features that provide the control you’ll be passing up by eliminating the mixer.
Choose an audio interface that has a control on its front with which you can adjust the volume of the device’s main outputs. Since you don’t have a mixer, you’ll find this hardware control on your audio interface very valuable for easily changing the volume of the audio playback.
Since you don’t have a mixer to control your audio input sources, you’ll need to send those sources (like your electronic keyboard, your microphone, and so on) directly into the inputs of the audio interface. Since you’ll probably be changing the devices you plug into the audio interface, it’s unbelievably inconvenient to have your inputs on the back of your audio interface where you have to be a contortionist to get to them.
You’ll also want to make sure that the inputs on the front of the device are universal connections that can accept either a quarter-inch plug that accepts line-level signal (from your electronic keyboard, for example) or an XLR plug that accepts a mic-level signal directly from your microphone.
It’s also helpful to have at least one instrument-level jack on the front of your audio interface that can accept the signal directly from your guitar. This is especially crucial if you’ll be using amplifier emulation software to achieve the sounds you want on your guitars (as opposed to playing through an actual guitar amp and recording with a microphone).
You’ll really appreciate an audio interface that features trim controls on the front for each input channel. A trim control (usually in the form of a knob that you turn) enables you to adjust the volume level of the input source. We’ll talk more about input level in Chapter 5, “Creating Your Guide Tracks,” but suffice it to say for now that it’s critical to set your input levels properly to achieve the best sound quality while you’re recording.
You’ll want a device that supplies phantom power through the XLR inputs to your microphone and an easily accessible switch to turn phantom power on and off. In a nutshell, some microphones require power to operate. The power can be supplied by a battery that you insert into the microphone, or often by the gear into which you plug the microphone (in this case, the audio interface) through phantom power.
You’ll want a device that enables you to monitor the incoming audio signal. Again, we’ll talk more about input monitoring when it comes time to record in Chapter 5, but basically this capability enables you to hear what you’re sending into the audio interface. For instance, it enables you to hear yourself singing while you record your vocals. A way to control the mix between input monitoring volume and computer playback volume is a nice touch, too.
It’s convenient to have a headphone jack and headphone volume control on the front of the device. In fact, this can be critical to successfully doing the type of recording we’re talking about in this book—that is, the type of recording that happens at 12:30 a.m. when the neighbors, kids, or roommates are asleep.
In addition to its Application URL tab for linking to your application, Tellme Studio also has a Scratchpad (see Figure 2) for running one-page VoiceXML documents. Here, you can enter VoiceXML code directly into the editor, click the Update button, and immediately call Tellme to run the code.
Studio's code validator, text interface, log viewer, and other tools are integrated into the Scratchpad and Application URL tabs. From those screens, you can invoke these tools from a row of buttons beneath the tabs.
Using the VoiceXML Terminal, you can interact with your application and respond to text prompts on the terminal with text input.
In addition to standard web-based features, Studio offers Record By Phone and Grammar Tools. Record By Phone allows you to call Tellme and record a message. The audio file is then emailed to you attached as a file.
Grammar Tools includes several useful tools for building grammars. The Grammar Tools IDE is similar to the VoiceXML interface, with grammar-specific menu buttons for the following:
ParseAllows you to enter phrases and find out how they will be recognized using the last grammar you validated.
Tellme support includes reusable source code modules and documentation in addition to its web-based IDE and standard support methods, such as a FAQ, newsgroups, and release notes. Tellme's libraries of audio files and grammars are very useful.
optional exam track - Delegates will receive a copy of the OBASHI reference manual from UK. The track includes a UK certification exam.
Must-Have Skills for any IT staff and anyone dealing with business systems. The course with the most ROI for you!
There has always been a noticeable gap between the requirements of the business and the perceived ability of IT to deliver on time and on budget, to the satisfaction of both parties. We are now in the transition stage of the evolution of IT and business. This problem must be tackled, and we need to do it NOW in order to remain relevant.
Modeling is the basis of all kinds of analysis. Think of the ubiquitous spreadsheet (eg MS Office Excel). It is used by almost everyone to do "what-if" analysis on numbers. For example, "What if I increase my selling price by five percent; will this result in higher or lower expected profits?". We just don't normally think of the task as modeling. Business analysis also perform "what-if", although it will require a lot more tools/techniques than the spreadsheet. How do you know that you have considered most, if not all, the user requirements - especially if they did not tell you most of it? Modeling! We need to be able to ask, and to answer, questions like "What if we put this application on the cloud; in what way will our systems need to change?". or "If we go ahead with the proposed change in company policy, what work is required by IT, and what is the impact on the companys business operations in terms of people and bottom-line?". This sort of ability taught in the course will make you very comfortable in dealing with senior management and cross-department colleagues because you can now provide them with quick answers to their questions. And you too can ask the right questions at the right time. Business Systems Models are representations of various aspects of the business, both IT-enabled and manual, that allow us to test out alternative answers to these types of questions, safely and quickly. As an IT professional, or a business change leader (e.g. Project Manager), you will be able to increase your effectiveness many folds, by knowing, and applying the main system modeling techniques taught in the course. All the modeling techniques taught are Best-practice, mainstream, used and proven over many years by people, organisations and methodologies.
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takes into account the best of the old and new, to get you up to speed as quickly as possible. What models are. How to tell if it is a living model or just a diagram. The Zachman Framework for Enterprise Architecture. The total range of information that is possible, for any complex system. The Secret - What they never told you at university.
How to see beyond the obvious, to solve the “no time� problem as described in “The Paradox of Time� (see the In-Tech published article by Simon Seow).
 Differences and similarities between Business Analysis and Systems Analysis. Entity and Data Models; Process Models; Event Timing Models, Object Oriented models, Service Oriented Approaches, Use Cases.  Coordinating Analysis and Project Management Governance issues and your role in it. Discovering/showing relationships between Owner, Business, Application, System, Hardware and Infrastructure. The OBASHI methodology. Creating Blueprints for Corporate Mission and Vision statements. Outsourcing decisions and planning. Identifying Risk and Security issues. Improving Process Improvement capabilities.  Quality improvement and management.  Addressing issues of alignment and integration. How to define your role in your organisation and how to help your organisation to improve interdepartmental coordination. Audit and Control issues.
Moving from Analysis to Design, and other parts of your SDLC. The place of analysis in different kinds of standards and methodologies, e.g. ITIL®, PRINCE2®, Agile, SCRUM, TOGAF® etc. Case Studies from different industries. Documentation the realistic and effective way. Requirements Specification. Enterprise and Solution Architectures. Where to look for opportunities. Communicating with management and other stakeholders.
 Any IT professional - Managers, Systems Analysts, Developers, Integrators, Support, Project managers, Architects. Any staff involved with systems - Auditors, Quality Assurance, Risk Analyst, people responsible for due diligence and strategic decisions. Negotiators for IT contracts.
New Projects need a solid analysis of the business user requirements BEFORE any design and development work is started. Irregardless of the lifecycle method chosen - waterfall, iterative or agile, must do analysis because business requirements are the reason for the IT project. Maintenance Functions also need analysis because there is a need to understand the immediate impact and future implications of the option chosen to solve a problem. Audit and Quality Improvement A fundamental principle is that you cannot audit or improve what is not made explicit. Analysis techniques will enable you to probe deep into the business or IT system to verify or challenge defined processes and data. Strategic Decision Making Whatever your job, if you have to make decisions that will impact policies and directions, then you need good analytical skills to ensure you have covered all options and know implications of each option before choosing. Any role that is thinking based rather than automated More and more, machines are taking over routine, fixed procedure type work. This means that the only jobs available will be those that need some initiative
Simon has had more than thirty five years of industry and mentoring experience in different countries and cultures. He is a Councilor in MNCC and was founding member of the EDP Auditors Association (now ISACA) chapter. He was an Examiner for the BCS (British Computer Society) System Analysis Examinations Board and Regional Moderator for the NCC, UK National Computing Centre, His latest certifications include PRINCE2, Advanced MSP® (Managing Successful Programmes), MoP™ (Management of Portfolios), P3O®, ITIL®, OBASHI, and he is an accredited trainer by the PEOPLECERT. People whom Simon has mentored can be found at all levels in organisations, from senior management to supervisory to technical and operations, in Industry, in Government and in Academia. His passion is to share his insights into the on-going changes and the critical skills that will be needed now and for the near future. His informal, approachable style helps participants to quickly grasp difficult concepts and immediately apply them.
Today, few things are more useful for your career and your organisation than you learning how to better integrate IT with Business knowledge and skills.   This is the one course that will start you on the way to being able to comfortably deal with both business management/user and IT management/staff, no matter which side you are currently working on at the moment
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He who owns the information, owns the world – said V.Cherchill. Today the information lies around, so this phrase would sound like this: Не who knows where to find information, owns the world. Therefore, to answer the question how many ml in a shot you need to know where to find the answer to it.
Today, there are many calculators for converting one value to another and vice versa. At the touch of a button, you can find out how many ml in a shot. To do this, you need to write in the search box (for example, google) how many ml in a shot and add to it an additional word: converter or calculator . Choose the calculator you like. And with his help find out how many ml in a shot.
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STEPANAKERT (Panorama)—In the 13th edition of “The Collection of Materials to Describe the Terrain and Tribes in the Caucasus,” published in 1892, G. Israelov penned an article dedicated to the village of Kasapet (Kusapat), Artsakh, founded by the descendants of the Armenian dynasty Hasan-Jalalyans in the Elisabethpol Governorate of the Russian Empire.
The author begins the article with a few interesting versions about the origin of the name of the village. As the most popular version has it, a devout bricklayer built a church in the village for the salvation of his soul. However, after learning that the inhabitants of the village intended to pay for the work, he ran away leaving the church half built. Hence the name of the church, “Kisapat” (“half wall” in Armenian), that is, half built.
According to another version, the village takes its name “Ku(y)sapat” (“Monastery” – ed.) from the many Armenian women’s monasteries around the village – Egin-Aghbyur, Dadvor, Chiknaver, Hripsime and Gharibkhach. It is said that a nunnery called “Kuysapat” used to exist on the place of the old Kasapet Church in ancient times, and that the name of the village “Kusapat” derived from that word. Later, Russians altered it to “Kasapet.”
The locals preserved the following legend about the village’s founding. When Karabakh was under Persian domination, Atabek (early 15th century – ed.), from the House of Hasan-Jalalovs, won a Persian sovereign’s favor due to his braveness and energy, and asked to let him return to his ancestors’ estates in his homeland beyond the river Araks,. “The Persian sovereign permitted Atabek and several families to choose a place he loved in the estates of his ancestors, Hasan-Jalalovs, in the territories between the rivers Terter and Khachen and settle there. At the beginning, Atabek settled down in a gully, now called ‘Hin Shen’ (‘Հին շէն’), that is ‘Old Village,’ with his and other families. Eventually, the inhabitants of Hin Shen resettled to the place where the village ‘Kasapet’ is situated now, a quarter of verst (266 m – ed.) from Hin Shen,” the author writes.
As a result of continuous destructions and devastations caused by Lezgians and Tatars, who attacked Kasapet and other surrounding villages, it was deserted in the late 18th century. After Agha Mohammad Khan invaded it twice, the inhabitants of this Artsakhian village abandoned it to seek a new shelter in Georgia and Russia. “Meanwhile, all the remaining villages of the area called Jraberd (‘Water Fortress’) were deserted, too,” Israelov writes.
However, one of Atabek’s descendants, Hovhannes Yuzbashi, later known by the name Van Atabekov, followed his ancestors’ example. He did not wish to abandon his homeland, which is why he took his family and servants and left Gyanja for Kasapet.
“Living in an area between the cities of Shushi and Elisabethpol, a theater of war between the Persians and the Russians, Hovhannes Yuzbashi continuously rendered important services to the constrained Russian squad under well-known heroes in the Caucasus, Colonel Karyagin and Major Kotlyarevsky,” Israelov points out. He cites N. Dubrovin’s “The history of war and domination of Russians in Caucasus,” and notes that the event took place in 1805.
Later, Hovhannes Yuzbashi refounded the village Kasapet on its former ruined place and brought twenty families back to Kasapet from the village Snkapat, where they had resettled during Agha Mohammad Khan’s invasion.
In 1812-14, after receiving the title of Melik, Vani Atabekov, “brought newcomers from all the parts to the village Kusapat, so that the number of homes on the village grew to 150 in a short period of time.” A few years later, he resettled the newcomers from the village Kasapet to other old and ruined villages, establishing settlements there: Ulu-Karabek, Kichik-Karabek, Magavuz, Lyulasaz, Gyul-Yatag and Jan-Yatag.
The reason why some Kasapet residents left the main village and went down Kasapet gorge to settle by the main road, is that the main village was far from the plough-land, which made it difficult to take agricultural products to the village.
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Just some bits and pieces from various projects; whether private, small, or rejected, I'd like to share them with you.
Although what I finally delivered was a more simple, graphic approach, I still really like my initial 3D design.
I got to make a bunch of fun doodles in the beginning stages of a CW Seed project. These were my favorites.
some graphics used in WWDOP x Fruit of The Loom's tv spot. The graphics package they had was fun to work with.
Nick's future Slime Cup campaign won't feature these designs, but I had a lot of fun designing a trophy and team badges!!
May 25, 2014 January 18, 2015 jadetheobscure Obscure poetry book collection, Book Titles, creative thinking, creativity, library, Literature, Obscure, Poetry, stacks of books
The idea is fairly simple – take some books and arrange them into piles using their titles to make up the lines of a poem. I thoroughly recommend giving it a go if you haven’t already.
I came across the idea while at work casually browsing instagram on my lunch break and decided that I would make my own the second I got home. As soon as I walked through the door that evening I started taking books from their shelves. I’m normally quite a neat person, but I threw caution to the wind, not even bothering to remember which shelf had housed which book.
I didn’t choose books for any one reason in particular, some titles just stood out to me, or were phrases I thought would be useful. I don’t think particularly matters, I just went with what felt right. Once I had a good selection of books I started to arrange them, trying to make lines fit together and when I was happy with my ‘poem’ I took a picture.
When I’d made a couple I decided to try a constructing a political poem using a selection of my old text books, and a few stolen from my boyfriend’s study:
I had such a great time trying this out that I passed the idea on to a friend who’s currently working overseas in Canada and feeling a little bored. She loves trying out new ways of stretching her creativity, so I gave her the task of taking titles from the public library and sending me the pictures to use alongside my own.
It can be quite therapeutic to try out, and if you have a lot of book titles you will be surprised what you can find. Sometimes the poems will just come together on their own – as was the case with last poem here, which uses a few titles by the same author.
This little activity got me thinking about the process of writing a poem. We didn’t really ‘write’ these poems, they already existed, and just needed putting together. So I started to wonder, how else can poetry be created from ‘found’ words? And, what other unusual methods of creating poetry are there? With this in mind I’ve decided to do some research into interesting techniques for constructing poetry, rather than writing it, and I’ve set up the ‘obscure poetry’ section of my blog in which to do this.
If any of you have any suggestions feel free to comment or drop me an email, ideas are always welcome 🙂
“We went down into the silent garden. Dawn is the time when nothing breathes, the hour of silence. Everything is transfixed, only the light moves.” ― Leonora Carrington
Set in the witching hours between midnight and sunrise, Murakami explores encounters throughout Tokyo during this silent time. At the centre of the story lies Mari Asai, a young college student sat quietly reading and smoking in a 24 hour Denny’s, her sister Eri Asai a fashion model has been mysteriously sleeping for two months. Mari is troubled by the distance between herself and her sister, physically and emotionally, and is choosing to stay away from home. Mari is drawn out of her night time sanctuary and into the lives of the people who frequent Tokyo at night, Takahashi a jazz trombonist who takes an interest in Mari, insisting that they’ve met before, Kaoru the rugged female manager of a japanese “love hotel”, and a Chinese prostitute savagely beaten by a night-shift businessman.
Murakumi follows Mari and her counterparts, drifting through the city like ghosts. Mari learns about the lives of all whom she encounters, Takahashi, Kaoru, the love hotel staff, and the prostitute.
Marukumi also traces the evening of the mysterious businessman who attacked the Chinese prostitute – Shirakawa. Working late in the office of his company ‘veritech’, Sharakawa seems plagued by what he has done, what he ‘had to do’, and the thought of returning home to his family. On occasions he comes dangerously close to the furious ‘owners’ of the prostitute, literally within an inch of his life.
On several occasions the reader enters the room of the sleeping Eri Asai, who is sleeping ‘so very’ deeply, in the room ‘we’ adopt the view of what seems like a security camera, and are given strict rules to adhere to, ‘we can only watch’, although it is not apparent where exactly these rules come from. Slowly it becomes apparent that the TV in the room is on, and a man in a silicone mask inside the screen is watching Eri, Eri is transported in her sleeping state, awakening inside the TV. On the floor she finds a pencil with the word ‘veritech’ inscribed on the side, we are made to believe that Eri’s sleeping state is somehow, mysteriously linked to the businessman. By the end of the novel Eri has left the TV and is inside her room, sleeping once again.
The story is obscure, and extraordinary, on two occasions character stand and look in the mirror, only to leave their reflections behind when they walk away.
I can’t pretend to have fully understood what Marukumi was trying to express when he wrote this book, I imagine Marukumi to be the type of author who is never fully understood by anyone. His style of writing seems very abstract. I am tempted to have a look at more of his work in the hope of understanding it better.
The writing style is difficult to get on board with at first [partly, I assume, due to having been translated from Japanese], but once I got past the first chapter or so I found I had happily adjusted. The detail more than makes up for any difficulties with style. The reader often takes the position of some kind of security camera, and everything is taken in, Eri’s eyelashes as she sleeps, the glass of beer in the love hotel, Shirakawa’s pencil, the reader sees them all. For me the description seemed to go beyond the level you would normally see with your eyes. The best way I can find to describe it is like audio descriptions for the visually impaired on a DVD.
Overall while I don’t proclaim to have discovered Marukumi’s message behind this book, I definitely think it is worth a read, and I will seriously consider looking further into his work.
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The new members I spoke to were really pleased that we had called. Let us see how many become active.
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Ah nuts, I had this post ready for yesterday. It talks about my DD lightbulb moment from a few nights earlier.
I wanted to share it, but wasn’t quite sure if it was ready to be viewed. I also was not sure what the reactions would be, and I am a little insecure at times.
What is so funny, is that I am sitting here this morning, in a COMPLETELY different mindset. I am crabby, and tired. I desperately want some attention from my husband. I feel like manipulating him into a “discussion”. I want to go shopping, and spend some money frivolously.
So, I am taking my own advice from the post below. If I re-read it enough times, it may snap me back into my “good space”. 🙂
Hubby came home last night to a house of quietly giggling, well behaved little girls, and a pleasant wife cleaning up in the kitchen.
I had even gotten the house back in some semblance of order, had done my hair, put on a little makeup (not much, we both prefer the natural look), and was wearing a cute skirt and top instead of my normal sweats and t-shirt (and frown).
He told me how nice I looked; how much he appreciated coming home to a happy wife; and how pleased he was with my efforts to get the house back in order. (We had just come off spring break, and the house was a wreck!)
Then I realized what he was saying. My actions last night were not THE NORM. Being happy and calm, taking pride in my appearance, and taking pride in our home, were something he noticed as atypical. That was a shocking realization for me. My husband should not have to come home, and be surprised that I am in a good mood. Granted, being home with little people, and being tired, and slightly hypo glycemic, does tend to make one a tad ornery. But still, it shouldn’t be the norm. At least, it shouldn’t be OUR norm.
I also see this in our DD relationship. When I am agitated, or looking for a fight, I want him to take me in hand. But if I do this too often, he won’t want to because it has become burdensome to him. It seems like a never ending cycle of bad moods and attitude adjustments. It never ends, and probably seems hopeless. So, why bother?
While I get frustrated by his inconsistency, I can also understand, that sometimes he gets tired from all of it. Especially, if I have been crabby every day he has come home from work. He doesn’t want a crabby wife that surprises him by being pleasant. And I don’t want to be that wife. There has got be a happy medium, some common ground to stand on.
So last night- after all the pleasant chatting was over, and he had had a chance to decompress, hubby was able to step in when I became frustrated with our little ‘bed-time negotiators’. My passive aggression kicked in, and I made a few snarky remarks towards him. Since this had not been our norm for the evening, he immediately saw it for what it was. He was able to see this new development, this snarky attitude, as unusual, something that needed to be altered.
He called me over to him, pulled up my night gown, and administered 5 very hard swats to my back side. I apologized, and hugged him, and prayed that no neighbors had been walking past our house, since the front porch light was not on.
Then my internal light bulb went on. I realized how much easier it was for him to take care of these smaller situations, when he wasn’t over-inundated with almost constant needs for correction. I realized that my manipulations and pushiness towards discipline and attention, actually pushed him further away from being able to address me.
And a husband should not have to come home and be surprised when his wife is in a good mood. LOL, this will be tough for me to do sometimes because of the stressors of little people handling. But it will be worth it in the end.
This entry was posted in The DD side of things and tagged DD, domestic discipline, honesty, manipulating, normal, punishment, pushing, relationship, respect, spanking on April 12, 2013 by katherinedeane.
Wow! I love these light bulb moments! They really make great shifts in our relationships. They are also nice indicators that all the work we have been doing on ourselves and in our marriages are working!
As far as your struggle today, we all have these back and forth moments. It’s a cycle of struggle, light bulb moments, peace, struggle. Each time we take something new away after those light bulb moments and it gets easier every time to get back on track and make healthy choices. You’ve had a long hard week. It’s understandable that you are feeling depleted. So, hopefully you can fill your tanks again while not giving into the temptation to back track. Being upfront and honest with yourself and Greg along with taking some moments to yourself today or tonight will go a long way to restore balance. {{Hugs}} I’m so happy for you for your light bulb moment and I know there are many more to come. You are an amazing wife and mother. Never forget that.
I really needed to read this today – it is spot on with what we have been going through lately and I never had that lightbulb moment so thanks for having it and sharing it!
Sometimes an easy way to shift out of the “neediness” is to switch yourself into service mode. If you think about serving your man (I’m sure you can think of some, um, creative ways) it feels just as hot as being taken in hand, and then you feel like an accomplished good girl instead of the “brat”. Just a thought!
Service mode, might give me a good chance to feel validated in our relationship, when I am not in the proper frame of mind to fully accept his authority. I can submit to him, but still feel empowered. That’s a very good point. Sometimes, I don’t need the power shift, but I still need his attention.
Of course, other times, I really do need him to take control. But that’s what “discussion time” is for. 🙂
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The 2017 Pink Sox are not at the moment and under no circumstances will be a staff members that wins upon the back again of its lineup. As wonderful as it would be and as made use of in direction of it as we all may possibly be, that specifically not the path this staff is intended. It very clear that countless are nevertheless not made use of in the direction of this, which is good and easy to understand, still the pitching is what moving towards generate or crack this staff members inside of Oct. Of training course, none of that will make it any much easier toward view Whilst they are in just a negative direction, and furthermore there is the natural way a guaranteed stage of general performance in the direction of which they have to have in direction of dwell within just purchase for the personnel toward gain no matter of how nicely the pitchers are undertaking https://www.redsoxgearstore.com/Andrew_Benintendi_Jersey. 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The place contains been....nicely, anything at all. He not hitting the ball properly, he not hitting the ball in just the air and he not making use of the comprehensive market. His floor ball value of 62 per cent is specially agonizing https://www.redsoxgearstore.com/Robbie_Ross_Jr_Jersey. At this actuality, it turn into obvious that electric power is an vital section of Bradley offensive sport, nonetheless it Very unachievable towards strike for electric power While something is strike upon the floor. Maybe simply just as in between is that he pulling the ball more than 48 p.c of the year, the utmost price tag of the time for him. He normally been at his easiest at the time he taking the finish marketplace, and considerably and absent his simplest creation within 2017 is made up of been in direction of the contrary industry. If youe searching for a explanation Bradley batting typical is consequently very low immediately at present, glance no added than this. He is a hitter who is shifted rather constantly, and it goes with no proclaiming that it a whole lot a lot easier towards enjoy protection versus a hitter who is likely toward seek the services of just one facet of the market 50 % the year. Winslow Townson-United states of america At present Athletics The catalyst towards all of this is not a unanticipated one particular and it one thing that incorporates looked in the direction of plague a person Crimson Sox hitter at a single simple fact or an additional this calendar year. Pitchers are bettering their consumption of breaking balls towards Bradley as the period includes absent upon, and he easily can transform. This incorporates led toward all of the troubles defined previously mentioned. It sales opportunities in the direction of the strikeouts due to the fact he can deliver get hold of. It qualified prospects in direction of the absence of walks and the swings upon pitches out of the zone considering that he just can lay off All those pitches. It far too sales opportunities in direction of the terrible call, as his floor ball value from breaking balls is at a whopping 90 p.c this thirty day period, for every Brooks Baseball. It furthermore sales opportunities in the direction of the frequent pulling of the ball. Any time a hitter, in particular a person as streaky as Bradley, is within just a negative direction we generally check out them not able in direction of hesitate upon the breaking ball and allow it order deep into the zone. That prospects in direction of those people bad flooring balls that are became in excess of in the direction of 1st and instant foundation as a substitute than waiting around for it toward consider deep inside the zone and hitting it upon a line the other direction. Wee discovered this kind of variety of roller coaster rides in opposition to Bradley prior to, and the Crimson Sox may well definitely employ the service of an uptick inside of overall performance. He an Very significant hitter at the backside of the lineup, and him currently being upon foundation for the best of the lineup (specifically Even though that neighborhood is balanced) is what potential customers toward massive chunks of operates. The negative information is that year is functioning out for him towards get hold of upon a very hot streak with considerably less than a 7 days remaining in just the year. The Wonderful information is wee recognized that it basically normally takes 1 or 2 highly effective swings towards Bradley towards receive upon 1 of all those tears. 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This is step 8 in a 10 step process uncovering whether Owner Building is right for you. In our last post we covered an owner builder’s role as project manager. Now that you’re pumped up to take on the job, let’s dive right into the five stages that make up the building process, and look at what you’ll need to get accomplished at each checkpoint along the way.
Stage One – Base Watching 20% of your overall budget head out the door and not having much to photograph other than a concrete slab can be frustrating, but set-up and infrastructure cost money. As an owner builder, though, you’ll have peace of mind in knowing that the Building Contractor’s not taking a cut! Before calling in the concrete trucks, prepare your site for building. Most councils require 1.8m high temporary fencing, and sloped sites require barriers to prevent run off. Don’t forget to ring up the electrical supplier to arrange a temporary power supply, and unless there are other facilities available, rent a portable toilet. Mother nature will call. Next comes excavation. Clear your site of rubbish and vegetation and peg out the sewer if one lies beneath your land, by this stage you should have already contacted your local water authority to find out if a sewer lies beneath you. Depending on the distance from your proposed home to the sewer lines you may require approval from the water authority prior to excavating. Once approved (if required) you can bring in the heavy equipment for the “cut and fill”, which is essentially leveling the area where your house will go. If building on a slope, construct any necessary structural retaining walls prior to the dig. Before pouring the slab, site drainage and all under slab work needs to be completed. Slab construction may require base foundations such as, concrete piers, a sand/gravel base, and a waterproof membrane. Your foundation may required the building of your forms and installation of waffle pods. Then you can get your concrete guys to cast the slab.
Stage Two – Frame Weather permitting, framing generally begins just a few days after your slab has been cast. This is where the fun begins and when your house starts to take form. Exciting stuff! A good crew should have the wall frames and roof trusses up in right around a week for a standard one-story home. Adjust time expectations depending on the complexity of your blueprints and the size of your team. Next comes the “roughing in”, which means running the cables and pipes needed for gas, water, and electrical services. Anything that’s meant to be hidden in the walls will be installed at this point.
Stage Three – Lock up The name lock-up derives from the fact that after stage three is complete, you’ll be able to physically “lock up” your house as the walls will be complete, with doors and windows installed. Whether you’re using bricks or another wall material, it’s a good idea to externally protect the structure by using a building wrap such as DuPont’s, Tyvek. Wraps prevent drafts and allow moisture vapor to escape from the insulation. Along with building the walls you’ll have the roof clad and install gutters, fascia boards, and soffit boards (should you have eaves). Your house will now look like a house! But don’t be deceived by perceptions, once you’ve hit lock-up you’re only half way there.
Tip: If you’ve selected a very expensive front door to showcase the entrance to your new home, we highly recommend you consider installing a temporary door during lock-up to minimise the risk of damage.
Stage Four – Fixing Fixing will transform the rough interior of your structure into something that looks more like the home of your dreams. Once the insulation is in and the plasterboard up, everything really starts to take shape. Kitchen cabinets and bathroom vanities are installed, as well as major plumbing fixtures such as baths, showers, basins and sinks. The wet areas of your home are waterproofed and any tile work required on the walls and floors is completed at this stage. Now you’re hitting the home stretch, but your home is not quite ready to live in just yet.
Stage Five – Completion If you’ve mostly been hands-off during the first four stages, here is where even the most unskilled DIYer can get involved and get their hands dirty and pitch in. I mean, everyone can learn how to paint! Complete Plumbing – Install internal taps, mixers, shower fittings and screens, and toilets. You’ll also need to finish the spouting and fix external taps. Complete Electrical – Fit all light fixtures, outlets, and light switches. Any other electrical devices are also installed at this time (climate controls, telecom installations, etc.) Complete Carpentry – Hang room and cabinet doors and drawers. Window sills, wood skirting, and moulding are attached to the walls. Complete Flooring – Floating timber floors, carpets, or vinyl laminates are laid. All that’s left now is to clean up, lay down the driveway, and move in!
So many stages and only so much money. Owner builders often begin this quest in the hopes of saving a dollar or two (hopefully tens of thousands of them), but it’s always tough to know when to cut corners and when to stay the course and shell out some clams for quality. In the next post of this series we’ll give you some pointers on both the right and wrong ways to trim expenses while building your own home.
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I created this card a few weeks ago for a CASE study challenge. For this one I paired 3/4″ x 3 1/4″ wide strips of different colored blue Bazzill cardstock were adhered to a slightly bigger white base. Clouds were cut out with Flat Bottom Cloud Die-namic dies.
The layer was adhered to the card base, a 3 1/2″ x 11″ piece of Neenah Solar White cardstock, folded in half. The bottom corners were rounded. A sentiment from Simon Says Stamps On Edge stamp set was stamped underneath the colored cardstock layers in Tuxedo Black Memento Ink.
White cardstock was cut with the Simon Says Stamp die Always and adhered right on the edge of the colored cardstock edge. Black Doodlebug Twine was tied right under that edge and topped with a button. Faux Stitching was added to the colored cardstock with a white gel pen. Three rhinestones from a Sleek Strips Silver Rhinestones finish off the card.
I get to share another card on the Spellbinders Blog today. It showcases the new Shapeabilities® Die D-Lites™ Whimsical Tree. I hope you have time to check out the entire post.
Since last week’s little die give-away went so well, let’s do it again. I still have the Create-a-Flake Two die set. If you go to the Spellbinders blog and leave a comment, come back here and leave one on this post and let me know. That will enter you in the raffle for the Create-a-Flake Two die set. I will pick a winner on Friday with the help of random.org. Make sure to check back to see if you won.
On Wednesday (20 June) Whimsy Stamps released this month’s new rubber designs, new Shapeology dies and new Shape EZ by TLC. From then until 26 June the Whimsy Stamps DT and Special Guests are showcasing these fabulous new goodies with a daily mini blog hop and I am part of today’s hop!
To be entered into today’s mini blog hop prize draw, be sure to leave a comment on ALL of the DT’s posts listed below by 12.00PM EST tomorrow. All winners will be announced on the Whimsy blog on 27 June.
I stamped the new Fluffy Hanging in There in Tuxedo Black Memento Ink on Neenah Solar White cardstock,. It was cut and embossed with the largest Classic Square Nestabilities die. The image was colored with Copic Markers (Fluffy: E40, E41, E42, E43, R00, R21, W3 Flowers: Y35, Y38, E97 Stem: YG41, YG45 Basket: W00, W3). The image was adhered to a slightly bigger black cardstock layer.
A piece of Lily Bee Designs Handmade Patterned paper was stitched to a slightly bigger piece of black cardstock. Sheer white ribbon was tied around the layers and topped with a pink button. The layers were adhered to the card base, white cardstock cut and embossed with a Grand Scallop Square Nestabilities die.
A sentiment from Everyday Sayings Notables 4 was stamped in Tuxedo Black Memento Ink on a piece of white cardstock, cut and embossed with a Standard Circle Nestabilities die.
Wednesday’s tutorial on Splitcoaststampers was written by the wonderful Holly McMillen. She showed us how to create a Frosted Window look. For my video sample I chose the Sweet ‘n Sassy Stamp set called Poppies & Greetings. The image was stamped twice in Tuxedo Black Memento Ink, once on Neenah Solar White cardstock, once on Vellum paper. Both were colored with Copic Markers( cardstock: Poppies: R08, R27, R39 Leaves: G21, G24, G28 Poppies Center: C7, C10 Sky: B0000, B000 Vellum: R05, G21, C5). The vellum image was adhered over the cardstock with dimensionals.
A 2 1/4″ x 4 1/4″ strip of MME Lost & Found Union Square Patterned Paper were adhered to a 4 1/4″ square of the same paper pack. The layers were stitched to a 3/16″ bigger piece of Neenah Solar White cardstock and a window was cut into the center with a Standard Circle Nestabilities die. The image was adhered behind the window.
A frame was cut with the largest Tear Drop Circle and a Standard Circle Nestabilities die out of black cardstock. The frame was adhered around the window and Baby Bling Rhinestones were added to the frame. Parts of a Finesse Rhinestone Swirl were adhered to the upper right and lower left corner of the layers. A bow was tied out of White Organdy ribbon and adhered to the upper left hand corner.
A sentiment from Poppies & Greetings was stamped in Tuxedo Black Ink on a piece of Solar White cardstock, cut and embossed with a Standard Circle die. The raised part was colored with Copic Marker B0000. The layers were adhered to the card base, Always Artichoke cardstock cut and embossed with a Grand Scallop Square Nestabilities die.
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Amy came in the room and calmly said to Emma, "I don't like to get up some mornings either. Just think of all the interesting things you will miss if you stay in bed?"
"You and your brothers and sister could show me around the grounds. Take me on a guided tour of the house and grounds," Amy suggested.
Emma had several dresses to choose from. Amy chose a dress and some matching hair ribbons for Emma to wear that day. After Emma was ready, Amy went to George's room.
She changed his diaper and put clean clothes on him. She wanted to give him a bath, but he was a little too big to sit in the wash basin with its matching pitcher. Amy had just grabbed the soiled linens off George's bed when Marianne came in the room.
The other children were ready. Marianne said that Amy need not worry about the sheets and such, because that was part of her job. Amy left the linens
Lady Pellew took one look at Amy and announced to her, "Maybe you should have a new dress or two now. That dress is too formal for your work. I will have Trudy take you to Mrs. Rappaport's house for a fitting tomorrow."
Amy did want a new dress. Preferably one that buttoned up the front. She had seen a lot of movies where the ladies wore dresses with buttons on the front of their dresses. She now understood why the buttons were on the front. Amy took a seat at the table and put George on her lap.
Lady Pellew told her, "You don't have to keep George on your lap. We have a chair for him. I usually don't keep it in the dining room. I will have Megan retrieve it for you."
Amy wondered why she didn't think of asking about a high chair for George before. It certainly made things a lot easier for her.
She worried about what to do after breakfast. How was she going to teach four children and keep an eye on the fifth one? She took a deep breath and went upstairs to the nursery.
She stood in front of the blackboard and stared at all the smiling faces. She wasn't sure where to start first. Reading? No, that could wait until this afternoon. Arithmetic? Amy never cared much for that subject. At least
"Are we going to learn all those plants and flowers? Papa got us a book. I can go get it and we can go to the garden now. Why wait?" Paul announced.
Amy's head was beginning to spin. All their voices seemed to blend as one. She looked at the ground and didn't see George. She had put him down beside her, now he was gone.
Amy rushed towards the door and saw that George was crawling near the steps. She bent down and grabbed him just as he was about to tumble down. She swung his body in her arms and said, "I am glad you don't walk yet."
"He walks, Miss Amy, he is not any good at it. He likes crawling better than walking," Emma told Amy.
Amy went back in the nursery and closed the door behind them. This way, George would stay away from the steps. She breathlessly said to the other children, "I would like you to get out your slates and put your full name on the slate. I want to view your handwriting."
"I need to see how well you write. If you and Paul have good handwriting, then you don't have to participate in the handwriting lessons. I will have you two do something else," Amy told Julia.
"How is this, Miss Amy?" Paul said as he showed her his slate. He had written Pownoll Bastard Pellew.
Poor child, Amy thought. With a name like that, no wonder he would rather be called Paul. Amy looked over at Julia's slate and noticed that she and Paul had good handwriting.
Amy took a look at Emma's slate. Emma was right about something. She did need help with writing, but she did pretty well for a five-year-old. Amy took a look at Frederick's slate and could not understand what he wrote. It looked nothing like Frederick.
Frederick interjected, "But, Miss Amy, that is my name. I was named after Papa's mentor's too. My name is Fleetwood Broughton Pellew. Mum just calls me, Frederick."
Amy saw George doing something he should not do, so she picked him up. He squealed in protest. Amy tried to conduct the class over George's whines. She told the children, "I will be teaching Emma and Frederick their handwriting and I want Paul and Julia to learn how to spell."
Paul took offense and shoved his sister off her chair. Julia let out an exaggerated cry as she fell to the floor. She got up and hit her brother, who in turn, hit her back. Amy shifted George to her left hip and got between the brother and sister.
"Stop it! Really, now! Paul, you should not shove your sister. Julia, you should not push your brother!" Amy told them.
"I don't mean "push", push. I mean egg him on, show him up, ah . . . Don't make fun of his shortcomings," Amy said trying to find a phrase they would understand.
The children looked at her like she had two heads. Slang was hard. She took it for granted in speaking. In writing, she knew she should not use it that much. But, how was she going to get through life without using her 20th Century slang?
Amy shook her head at the children. Both of Amy's parents were teachers. She knew that the one thing she didn't want to do was to be a teacher. But, she was, teaching children. What would she teach the children? She could not tell them about the Civil War. Did the British learn about the American Civil War? She could not even tell them anything about the War of 1812. None of that had happened in history, yet.
She knew about the Revolutionary War. She knew the American side of the story. What did the British think about the Revolutionary War? What did they think of Americans? They seemed to like her well enough.
She had to look over those books that Paul talked about. Maybe later this afternoon or evening, she would take a look at them. Maybe she could read one before bed. That may be fun. Amy liked old books. Well, these were not old books in this time -- they were new.
The rest of the morning went without any incidents. At lunchtime, Amy asked the children, "How do you handle lunch? Do I go down and bring it up to you or do we all go downstairs?"
"You have a lot of different ways of saying things where you are from, don't you? We call the noontime meal dinner and dinner is called supper. Unless it is formal, then I have heard it called dinner," Julia told Amy.
Frederick spoke up and informed Amy, "Our old governess used to have Marianne bring up a tray from the kitchen and we would eat up here."
"I will get the food from the kitchen and bring it up here. I don't want any of you doing anything wrong. Julia, will you please watch George for me?" Amy asked the children.
"Don't worry, Miss Amy. If anything goes wrong, I am sure that Freddie will tell you about it," Paul told her.
Amy smiled at him and went down to the kitchen. She noticed that in back of the house, they had another small building for the actual cooking. The room that they called the kitchen was used to prepare food and served as a dining room for the servants to have their meals.
"How may I ëelp you, Miss? Are you ëere for the children's food?" One of the servants, who had a thick Yorkshire accent said.
"Yes, Miss. We ëaven't been properly introduced, my name is Willa. Let me introduce you to the rest of the table. That is Elderidge, the coachman, Jenkins, the gardener, Trudy, is the Lady's personal maid, Eleanor is the cook and she is over there and you know Marianne. Megan and Butler are ëelping the Lady with her dinner. Mrs. Stowe, the ëousekeeper, doesn't like to associate with us. She thinks she is too good for us," Willa said.
Trudy told Amy, "Lady Pellew told me that I was to take you to Mrs. Rappaport's house for a fitting. Elderidge can take us to town in the carriage, tomorrow morning. Marianne will be handling your duties for the day. Meet me in this room after breakfast."
"I look forward to the trip into town. I will be seeing you later this afternoon. The children and I are going for a walk in the garden," Amy said as she took the tray of food.
"Miss, this trip tomorrow will not be a shopping trip. We have business to conduct," Trudy told Amy.
"No Problem," Amy said as she left the room. Her problem was walking up two flights of stairs in this dress and a big tray of food. She did make it up the steps and only spilled a little milk. Amy was proud of that accomplishment, but asked the children if they could perhaps have all their meals downstairs. It was agreed that they have their dinner downstairs.
After lessons were over, it was time for their walk. Frederick asked Amy, "Do you want us to show you the whole house or just outside?"
"This is the nursery, out there is the stairs and the servants bedrooms," Paul said with a sly smile.
"Thank you, Paul. I will let you be the host of the tour," Amy said with the same smile that Paul gave her.
As they walked outside, Amy noticed how well groomed everything was. She loved the ornamental garden and the stables. Amy noticed that the Pellews owned more than one carriage. There was the covered carriage, the one she had ridden in, a convertible four-seat carriage and a wagon. She assumed that the wagon was the equivalent to a truck. Every man wants a truck, she was sure that men in the 18th Century felt the same way. The stable was also had six horses and two ponies.
Amy went in the kitchen building, but didn't stay long. She didn't want to disturb Eleanor and Willa while they were working. The gardener had a whole bunch of tools in his shed. That is probably what he used to make the garden look so beautiful. Just outside the garden was a bench. Amy, who was getting a little tired of holding George, took a seat on the bench.
The rest of the children played in the garden, while she sat with George. This, she liked. It was peaceful and calm. Unlike, the rest of the day had been. Amy could not wait until tomorrow. She wanted to walk through town. She knew Trudy told them they were not there to shop. They didn't have to buy anything. Amy just wanted to experience all that Plymouth had to offer. Who knows, may be she would get to see a certain sailor again. That would be nice.
An elegant country villa nestled in the beautiful Tuscan Countryside is secured by a large wrought iron gate at the end of a driveway in the Province of Siena, Tuscany, Italy.
A grand Tuscan villa, nestled amongst its gardens and lush green surroundings, can be seen in the distance from behind its wrought iron gate.
The Region of Tuscany is home to many grand villas, some of them are permanently inhabited, while others are available for rental to tourists on a week-by-week, or even a month-by-month basis.
The term 'Tuscan villa' is now applied to pretty much any large house located in Tuscany, but originally a villa was a Roman country house, built for members of the upper classes. They were used as country homes for the residents of Rome to escape the oppressive summer heat of being in a city.
Villas were often completely self-sufficient, as owners had enough slaves living in and around the grounds, that they could grow their own food and even grow their own grapes for wine, so villas were often located so far apart that they were not easily accessible to each other, because they didn't need to be. ... continue below the picture...
... The idea of this seclusion was attractive to wealthy members of the upper classes, and tourists today still rent villas because they represent the magic of being able to 'get away from it all' for a while.
Closed gate at the entrance to a driveway leading to a villa in the Tuscan countryside, Province of Siena, Region of Tuscany, Italy, Europe.
I photographed this photo with the digital SLR camera model Canon EOS-1Ds Mark III, aperture of f/6.3, exposure time of 1/200 sec. on ISO 100, as always I used a original Canon Lens, the focus lenght for this picture was 70mm.
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So I've been on a clean eating spree lately, inspired by Katie and Megan over at Prescribe Nutrition. If you've been hanging around this blog (or in person) lately, you've noticed that it's pretty much all I can talk about. A couple of weeks ago, they led an online course called New Year New Rules (NYNR), which is two weeks of professionally guided clean eating.
Here's the deal: I won an entry to NYNR, and I thought, what the hay, I'll go with this. What I didn't think is, wow, this might just change my eating life. But, holy food, it pretty much did. Was I already a decent eater? Sometimes, yes. Cupcakes and sodas were occasional foods, except when there was a large batch of something hanging around on my counter. Then the occasional foods turned into eat-this-as-fast-as-you-can-so-you-aren't-tempted-by-it-anymore foods.
Beyond that, I didn't have much direction. In general, I tried to avoid purchasing the super sugary cereals, and I at least brought home the big tubs of greens from Costco every trip. But I didn't feel a real purpose in my eating. Sure, I ate to not feel hungry. Oh, and also there was that time I ate to majorly carb load. Food fail. If it was delicious and easy to make, I was all over it. Also if it was not delicious and easy to make, I was all over that too. Pretty much I was not into devoting a lot of time to food.
So here's what I learned in my two weeks with NYNR: it is worth devoting time to food! Do I want to spend hours in the kitchen every day? Still a big no. But if I spend a little extra time prepping foods that I can eat over the rest of the week or the next few days, my clean eating job is easier. And the major/major-est thing of all is that if you are trying to eat clean, you will get out of it what you put into it. I'm talking about the energy you gain from feeding your body with things that don't drag it down. For every good food choice you make, you will feel better.
I was discussing this with a friend of mine from my middle school days (gotta love the Facebooks), and she brought up the amazing point that she has spent tons of money on face and skin care products that don't do as good of a job as clean eating does for her skin. I would say the same for energy-boosting products. You can spend tons of money on Red Bulls, and you still won't feel as energized as you will with clean eating.
So now that the official two-week program is over for me, I'm sticking with it because I'm hooked on the way it makes me feel. Will I eat this way forever? I'm really not sure right now. For now, my goal is to stick with it until the end of the month. I have a huge month planned running-wise, and I know that my body is going to need every little extra ounce of recovery fuel I can give it.
One huge thing for me is food costs. With four kids, we can generate some huge grocery bills, and I was positive that this plan would make my food bills higher. There are definitely things, like ghee from Whole Foods, that are much more expensive than I usually lay down for a groceries, but because we're eating so much less boxed food, we are actually coming away spending less.
For example, we tend to buy lots of bars, like Cliff and Z Bars, at Costco. But this week, I finally tried out this make-at-home grab the gold recipe that I've had pinned for about two years (slight exaggeration). Have you heard of Grab the Gold? They're amazing. The kids loved the homemade version, and it was cheaper. Winning all around.
Also, I made a huge pot of the lemon-y lentil soup that was one of the crowd favorite NYNR recipes, and it lasted all week (I have the amazing talent of being able to eat the same food over and over again and not getting bored). Plus I froze two bags of it for later. See, it can be easy with a little working ahead, and because it was already prepped, I wasn't tempted to hit the drive-through somewhere.
Here's another one I threw together post long run last week. After long runs, I am at the height of tired and don't want to mess around in the kitchen. Quick meal: leftover grits with sautéed onions, mushrooms, spinach and tomatoes, topped with avocado. It took just a few minutes to throw all the veggies in a pan and sauté them because everything was already chopped (or came in small pieces like the tomatoes and spinach).
To summarize, because I am supposed to be resting up for a long run in the morning, I hearted NYNR big time. More than some people love Ryan Gosling, which, according to the use of his picture in internet memes, is infinite. So I asked the girls over there if I could hook one of you guys up with a free two-week course.
4. Question-and-answer forums, where no question is lame and you will get a quick, thorough response
If you're interested in signing up for the program, go here to find out more about registration. The dates for round two of the program are Feb. 18 - March 4, and the registration deadline is Feb. 15. Cost for the program is $149. Get 20% off with the code NYNR20.
This giveaway will close next Monday, February 11th, and I'll pick a winner via random.org. I hope you win!
Prescribe Nutrition is providing the free program entry. All thoughts and opinions are my own, and I was not compensated for this post.
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You may have noticed that things have changed around here. Especially yesterday when the blog was looking a bit wonky.
When I found out that I won a blog design from Jacqui at Wacky Jacqui's Designs, I was so excited! While I loved my sunflowers, I was itching to try out something new.
I used my birthday money (thanks to my in-laws!) to purchase an istock image and Jacqui ran with it. And I love the final product!
Jacqui has some mad skills! She can do designs for Blogger and Wordpress. And her prices are really reasonable for all of the features that you receive. So if you're looking for a new design, or just need to add a few touches to your blog, you should check her out! She made the process very easy and had everything installed all in one afternoon. You can check out some of Jacqui's designs here. You can also find follow her on Twitter and Facebook.
You know that song from Sesame Street..."I've Got a New Way to Walk, Walk Walk...." Ever since I saw my blog, this popped into my head except it was changed to "I've Got a New Way To Blog, Blog Blog..." (Can you tell I've been around a baby a lot?)
If you are a blogger, you will definitely want to check out MyBlogSpark. It is a fun program that gives you the chance to get the inside scoop on the latest products and sample them for yourself. You can also host giveaways and connect with other bloggers through their events.
It's easy to sign up! Just provide your email address and they will send you a survey to find out a little about you in order to send opportunities that will interest you.
Rebecca St. James' new album I Will Praise You hits stores tomorrow April 5th. It is her first studio project since 2005 and is well worth the wait!
I have been a Rebecca St. James fan for a long time. I love her beautiful voice, her personal testimony, and how she has been a wonderful role model for young women.
Her latest album is a collection of worship songs that she calls "her most personal recording to date." She co-wrote 5 of the 10 songs on this project.
"Shine Your Glory Down", the first radio single, was co-written with Jason Ingram(Tenth Avenue North's By Your Side). She also covers Jennie Lee Riddle's When The Stars Burn Down (Blessing and Honor, "I Will Praise You").
I love the Celtic flavor to "The Kindness of our God" and the beautiful lyrics of "You Still Amaze Me." These are songs that will touch your heart. Rebecca's voice reflects her sincerity and passionate desire to bring others to a deeper relationship with God. It is an album that I will continue playing during my quiet times .
Rebecca said, "Listening to the songs now that the album is completed and thinking on the meaning of some of the lyrics—themes like joy in the midst of pain, God redeeming challenging seasons in our lives, surrendering all to Him, opening our hands, how He’s making all things beautiful in His time, I realize the very threads that run through I Will Praise You are all very poignant and personal to me through the journey of the last five years of my life.”
You can preview Rebecca's album and share it with friends and family at Rebecca's Listening Party. To find out more, you can connect with Rebecca on her Website, Twitter, and on Facebook.
This giveaway ends: Monday April 18th at 12:00 Midnight EST and is open to US Residents 18 and older only. Winner will be chosen randomly, emailed, and will have 48 hours to respond or another will be drawn. This prize will be directly shipped from the sponsor.
Disclosure of Material Connection: I received one or more of the products or services mentioned above for free in the hope that I would mention it on my blog. Regardless, I only recommend products or services I use personally and believe will be good for my readers. I am disclosing this in accordance with the Federal Trade Commission’s 16 CFR, Part 255: “Guides Concerning the Use of Endorsements and Testimonials in Advertising"
Thank you to Safety 1st for providing me with an UltraMax Air 360 4-in-1 Car Seat for review. All opinions are my own and you should try out the product for yourself.
One of the most important pieces of equipment you buy for your children is their car seat. I have had various car seats over the past seventeen years as a mom of three. The main things that I look for in a car seat are: safety, comfort, affordability and longevity.
I have spent lots of time researching specs and making lists to compare seats in my price range over the years. Today's technology makes it less intimidating and time consuming, since now they are making seats that can grow with your child. That means only needing one seat for each stage! {I wish they had this when my son was born}
I was recently asked to test out the Safety First UltraMax Air 360 4-in-1 car seat. It can be used from 4 to 120 lbs. It can be used as a rear facing seat for babies 4 to 22 pounds, an extended rear facing seat for children from 15 to 50 pounds, a forward facing 5- point harness car seat from 22 to 65 pounds, and as a seat belt positioned booster seat from 40 to 120 pounds (and 57 inches tall). Simply put, this seat is amazing!
As soon as I got it out of the box, I was impressed with the construction of this seat. Its steel reinforced frame is a bit heavier and wider than I am used to, so my hubby installed it for me. Installation was fairly easy and didn't take much time at all {especially since hubby is now a seasoned pro at car seat installation}.
The heaviness and bulkiness of this seat does make it difficult to take in and out of the car. If you need a seat that is more transportable between cars {or for field trips} that might be the only down side to this convertible seat.
There were a few simple adjustments in head height and strap height that we made to fit my toddler. The head rest lifts up and down with one hand and the straps are also easily adjustable. The seat is deep with lots of padding for comfort. "Cushy" is the word my five-year-old used to describe it when she tried it out before we put it in the car. {She's a bit jealous that sissy gets the cushy seat!}
One thing to note: the safety strap pads come off a little too easily; little miss has already taken them off several times since they have small velcro to attach them. You may just want to remove them altogether if your child keeps playing with them like mine does.
There is a really neat feature with the ClickClean™ seat pad/cover; push a yellow button to lift it off, and voila, you can throw it in the wash. We haven't had any messy spills yet, but you know how dirty car seats can get. This is an awesome feature for a busy mom who doesn't want to wrestle her car seat to get the cover off! It also has two cup holders that are removable and dish washer safe. AB likes to use it not only for drinks, but for holding her favorite small toys as well.
Most importantly, this seat has been tested for safety. The Safety 1st UltraMax Air 360 car seat has 360 Protect™ for 6 layers of proven safety. These seats go through rigorous safety testing and are crash tested at every angle. These angles include rollover, front impact, rear impact and side impact testing. Knowing that my precious cargo is protected from every angle definitely puts my mind at ease!
While the cost might seem a bit daunting at first, the longevity of this seat is well worth the investment. We are very happy with the design, safety, and features of the UltraMax 360!
We're eagerly waiting for When Calls the Heart season 4 to arrive on the Hallmark Channel. In the meantime, you can watch season 3 all over again on DVD. The third DVD for season 3, When Calls The Heart: Heart of a Hero, is now available.
New arrivals bring excitement, love and danger to Hope Valley. Pastor Frank has been reinstated following the revelation of his criminal past, but the arrival of his old cohorts, the Garrison Gang, are making life - and his relationship with Abigail-very tense. Bill Avery has his own debt to settle with Jake Garrison, and Jack intends to stay Bill's hand from killing the man. Meanwhile, Lee's foot injury brings a pretty nurse, Faith Carter from Hamilton... and soon after, her possessive fiancé. And Jack rises to the defense of new settlers on Gowen's land when Gowen abruptly raises their rent.
Things are pretty tense in Heart of a Hero for many people in Hope Valley. The Garrison Gang brings an element of danger for both Frank and Jesse. Both have to choose to do the right thing, whether it puts them in more danger or not. Bill Avery decides to settle the score with Jake Garrison, but Jack intervenes.
The tension eases a bit as conflicts get resolved. I can't tell you what happens, but you'll find that it comes to a satisfactory ending.
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I kinda feel bad… I feel like something is wrong with me. Why don’t I feel this? Where is my outrage? Everyone else seems to be feeling it. What the hell is wrong with me?
That dreadful Saturday in Charlottesville, Virginia, will be etched in history, and rightfully so. A group of conservative right-wing demonstrators gathered and marched on the University of Virginia campus to protest the removal of statues honoring figures who fought for the Confederacy during the American Civil War. Trumpeting the noble cause of preserving history, these demonstrators marched with the message that removing said statues was tantamount to erasing a part of American history worthy of preservation.
Truly — so goes the ploy — this group set out to exercise our constitutional right to peaceful assembly and protest. However, unlike other peaceful demonstrations, such as those under the humane cry “Black lives matter!” or those occurring on NFL football fields this season, this demonstration was anything but peaceful. Why? Because brandishing weapons, particularly military-grade assault firearms, makes violence an essential component of the event’s DNA. The guns in this rally were not symbols of defense and protection, just as they were not symbols of defense and protection in 2009 when individuals strapped with firearms showed up outside town halls and speeches of then-President Barack Obama. These guns are wielded as a threat; these are symbols of assault, violence, and fear. Add to this the lit tiki torches and the slur-ridden chanting and you have quite a demonstration — a violent one.
Surely — we assure ourselves — the police would be present at such a gathering. Surely, they would be in riot gear with their militarized weaponry (like they are as soon as the humane cry “Black lives matter!” is raised). Better yet, the National Guard would be present! Yes, of course! This is a college campus — a public one — so this is undeniably under their jurisdiction. They were dispatched to help de-segregate schools in Virginia and other places, coming forth to protect vulnerable students, so surely they must be dispatched to this situation, seeing as how students’ lives — young, promising students’ lives — could be endangered. Surely!
But there were no police. There was no National Guard. There was no militarized force at all attending to this inherently violent, definitely not peaceful, demonstration.
So let me get this straight: The presence of military-grade guns and fire-and hate-filled chanting is not enough to bring in police but one prophetic cry — “Black lives matter!” — is enough and then some?
To my great dismay, I was not surprised. Nor was I was enraged, shocked, or frankly, even appalled at the blatant displays of white supremacist ideology. How could I be surprised? Enraged? How could I feel a surge of such powerful emotion when this felt like nothin’ new under the sun?
Consider that for me anger — rage — has been a bosom buddy for my entire life. As a young Black man raised in a very socially — and racially — conscious household, church, and community, I have always been more than aware of my people’s troubles and the cries that have repeatedly been muffled, usually in an effort to protect white sensibilities. (“All lives matter.”) For as long as I can remember, it has made me angry. But I had to suppress it just enough to function, let alone succeed, in spaces dominated by whiteness. Thus, my anger and I learned to dance delicately. We have always danced in a manner reflective of a near-perfect symbiosis, we have danced a dance of energy and passion restrained just enough to be “tasteful” or “palatable” to onlookers. But the passion, the fire, was never lost; it was merely channeled. And as I matriculated in my manhood, my Blackness, and my discipleship of Jesus, I began to lay claim to righteous indignation, even to sanctify it in my own heart, as just as much an expression of God within me as the Holy Spirit and a love for my father’s grits on a Sunday morning. This rage is and always has been a part of me, and it is a part of my God as well.
I was curious, nagged, confused. But not shocked, not outraged. I had to take stock of what others were saying and doing.
Many of my friends seemed to feel what I was not feeling, at least according to multiple social media posts. Many of them articulated their feelings — their sorrow, their shock, their rage — so well, so powerfully. I felt strange and alienated not feeling any of the rage that I saw expressed by others. Perhaps I felt some sadness about the events, but not much. What did bother me, increasingly, was that a fire was raging and it seemed I could not feel any of the heat.
The lack of law enforcement in the face of an overtly threatening demonstration led by white supremacists felt familiar. It seemed that to be surprised would mean that you’d been lucky enough to be blind to what it’s like to be Black in this country, to carry and live the weight of Black history and Black present. Perhaps, well-meaning and justice-oriented though it may be, white shock and outrage at the happenings, the news coverage, the photos, the rhetoric, just made me think of another repetition without change. It made me think about the similar reaction from white allies when civil rights marchers were violently attacked on Edmund Pettus Bridge on that Bloody Sunday of 1965. Much has changed, sure, but much has remained the same.
Although initially it seemed the shock and horror reaction was pervasive, in the days that followed my Facebook feed began to reflect Black people (mostly my age, thirty-something or close to it) expressing the same thought that dominated my psyche: Now you are surprised?? Why?? Black people have been speaking this reality for generations (no, not years, generations)! Here is yet another instance that left me saying, “What if there were no video?” Those of you who acted or felt surprised, did you think we were making things up? For generations?! No, wait, I get it…you musta actually believed that all lives actually matter — why else would the prophet’s cry of “Black lives matter!” be so offensive to you? Somehow this event moved you, whereas the videos of Philando Castile, Eric Garner, Walter Scott, Sandra Bland, and others did not? Now you are moved?? Why?!?
The conclusion I came to is one of those that some folks might find “unpalatable” but it is too damned familiar to deny it, and it’s been denied and avoided and elided as many times as it’s been confirmed — more times than can be counted. Why did this demonstration incite such moral outrage on behalf of so many? Was it the affront to Black personhood? Was it the outright celebration of violent suppression of Black lives? No. What was it then?
A white woman was killed. A white female counter-demonstrator was struck and killed by a car that was driven by an enraged white man sympathetic to the original demonstrators (how quickly did the Mentally Ill Card get played in defense of white male terroristic behavior this time?). That’s right: the fire of public (white) outrage was quickly fanned into a blaze when a white woman was killed. Though not calloused about this young woman’s death, I cannot help but see the public outcry as representative of the long-tired truth that white bodies are regarded as intrinsically more valuable than black bodies.
I have lived long enough to know this narrative: The white woman (especially young and pretty) has a body — I mean, a life — considered more valuable than anything else, especially to white men. Leaving aside the deeply problematic elements of patriarchal ownership and control often inherent in the valuation of women’s bodies, these bodies and these lives are still regarded as most worthy of protection in the present system, dominated as it is by white male interests. Protecting white female personhood and progeny is paramount.
Though not surprised, I am constantly amazed by how strongly society protects white males and defends their behavior. Whether a brawl on the NASCAR track or a “good, Christian young man” slaying moviegoers in Colorado, we have perfected the craft of explaining away certain behaviors if a white male commits them. Hence, a situation of white men in open and armed defiance of the U.S. government in Oregon can end in peace but peaceful demonstrations of Black people are treated like there are “wars and rumors of wars” (Matthew 24:6) — yes, this is a peace that surpasses all understanding, because it doesn’t make any sense. Returning to Charlottesville, even the father of the deceased young woman spoke about the perpetrator as if he were merely a foolish, misled young man, not as a murderer and a terrorist. (Ey yo…did they play the Mentally Ill Card in defense of white male terroristic behavior yet?) I guess “(white) boys will be boys” is still, and will continue to be, more acceptable than “Black lives matter!”
I guess that is why prophets of the latter are forced to be the “voice crying in the wilderness” (John 1:23) while the pundit of the former gets to tweet comfortably from the White House.
I do wonder, though, did folks go out of the way to humanize this terrorist like they did the Aurora, Colorado, movie theater shooter? Remember how this young man was described as a quiet, humble, Christian young man, active in his church? Do you recall that this was mere days after he massacred twelve people watching a Batman movie in Aurora in 2012? Remember how many still designate this as a “mass murder” and not a terror attack, despite guns and bombs found in his home?
Oh? Charlottesville was different? They did not try to humanize the terroristic white male this time? Why not?
It is nearly impossible not to view it in the light of race, in light of whose bodies matter: a young white woman with no children was killed. This is paramount to everything else.
This song and dance is not new to any who are oppressed or marginalized: Labels are applied differently depending upon who is involved, depending upon who the perpetrator and the victim are. If there is anything that seems to irk white America enough to avoid sympathizing with awful, even terroristic, white male behavior, it is the killing of a (young) white woman. That seems to be the line, that seems to be what sparks the outrage, that seems to be the determining factor. It is not whether the alleged perpetrator had a gun or not — certainly, it isn’t whether there was a child in the car or not — it is whether or not white men, and certainly white women, are harmed.
I was not enraged by the happenings in Charlottesville because I was not surprised by the events in Charlottesville. Neither was I surprised by all of the outrage and explaining away that soon attended the whole fiasco. By now, I know very well how this society works. I did not need to preach on Charlottesville the next day because I had already preached on such things and I knew I would eventually preach on such matters again — likely sooner than I would prefer. Unlike some others, I did not feel an urgent need to cry out about this matter on my social media status, not because it is unimportant, but because like an ancient prophet I am perplexed about what words to use and what good they would be. Like Isaiah, perhaps, I was lost, asking, “What shall I cry?” (Isaiah 40:6). What have I to add? We already know well how Black voices are a threat but white voices are welcomed — even when brandishing guns, hiding behind flag idolatry, and voting in a 53% majority for the sitting U.S. president.
I get it, I done been got it a long time ago. I been knew that white liberal outrage is selectively fierce and fiercely selective — I learned that as a graduate student at Harvard. I knew before all the subsequent “peaceful demonstrations” that bastions of (white) liberalism would have folks squad up (i.e., rally together) to counter-demonstrate while continuing to comfortably abide in racist cities with an abysmal imbalance of power. I knew that as a nine-year resident of Boston, a city that is so racist and lopsided that its own paper pointed out in a recent series of articles that even though the city boasts a majority population of people of color, the power, access, and money still sits in white hands. I was not fooled in graduate school, I was not fooled in Boston, I am not fooled by much of anything. And I damn sure was not surprised by anything regarding that Saturday in Charlottesville. I may not have grown up in the Confederate Battle Flag South, but I have been in enough spaces, north, south, east, and west, to recognize when white supremacy merely enlists a new crop of soldiers.
So, no, I am not surprised. Why should I be? And if I am angry, it is more at the theatre of social outrage. Because all it did was put it right under my nose that people still don’t get it. All it did was remind me whose lives actually matter. (Big hint: it’s not all!) That fateful day was one of preaching to the choir, and the sermon was old, and the hearers continued to wallow in their sin. So I will let the prophet move me but not Charlottesville enrage me — it can’t.
Reverend Marcus Toure B. McCullough is a pastor of the African Methodist Episcopal Church. He is a graduate Morehouse College, and has earned masters degrees in divinity and sacred theology from Harvard Divinity School and Boston University School of Theology.
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This last Tuesday when I met with our noon men’s discipleship group, we wrestled with this question: Does the Bible support the contention that Jesus Christ – the Risen Head of the Church – intends to so powerfully work in and revive and purify His church before He returns – – that cities, states and even nations will be transformed by His power and grace? As you think about this question, please understand that I am not saying everyone will be saved; nor am I saying that there will no longer be rebellion against Christ. I am asking if there is any reason for us to believe biblically that the Holy Spirit might work so powerfully in our coastal region before He returns that everyone who lives and works here would at least know about it, whether they choose to participate in it or not? In other words, might we experience here before our Lord returns, what we read about in the book of Acts, and what we’ve read and heard about in reports of revivals and great awakenings that have happened at various times in human history?
Well in the nine or so minutes I have left, allow me to share why I believe we need to believe God for this.
1. Proverbs 29:18 reads, “Where there is no vision (or it could be translated “revelation”), the people are unrestrained…”
It is my contention this morning that the enemy of our souls, the devil – lives to rob us of the vision and revelation of God and His purposes that we so desperately need . Without a steady supply of this expectation, it is very difficult to please Him and to effectively and consistently resist the temptation to settle for less – otherwise known in scripture as sin and unbelief.
Nothing sets us up more for under achievement and for settling for going through the motions spiritually than having an inadequate revelation of the purposes and intentions of God, not to mention faith and confidence in His ability to pull off His intentions and purposes in and through us. Jesus Christ said, “I will build My church, and the gates of hades will not overpower it.” The apostle John said in his first epistle, “The Son of God appeared for this purpose, to destroy the works of the devil.” In spite of those declarations, many people in the church today have more faith in the devil to deceive and destroy, than they do in Jesus to revive and purify and perfect His people.
I believe one of the things the Head of the Church is doing in our region in these days is restoring vision and revelation to His church of His intention to display His glory and power in a region shaking way here before He returns, and not only His intention to do this; but His ability to pull it off with the likes of us’ns.
2. Surely one of the things that motivated the apostle Paul to pour out his life for the sake of the Gentiles and the church of Jesus Christ was his vision or revelation of the glory of its Savior and this Savior’s lofty intentions for His blood bought church. No where do you see this more clearly than in his letter to the church in Ephesus.
In chapter one, Paul goes to great lengths to help us see how great this salvation is that we have received through Jesus Christ.
In chapter two after reminding us of how great and merciful God’s saving intervention was – at a time when we were helplessly and hopelessly lost in our sins, he then begins to help us see how our Prince of Peace has begun to weave the believing gentiles and the believing Jews together into one glorious body or people or “temple in the Lord” or “dwelling of God in the Spirit.”
In chapter 3 Paul speaks of this glorious mystery that he has been entrusted with to reveal to all of us regarding God’s intention to make known His manifold wisdom through the church to all the watching angels and demons throughout the universe. Only a risen Savior could bring together in growing unity and oneness these two diverse groups of people (Jews and Gentiles) who for centuries have hated one another, and had nothing to do with one another; and this same unifying miraculous work also applies to all the divisions we have in our society and communities today. Then Paul, knowing that only the Holy Spirit can truly open our eyes to God’s glorious intentions for His church – – stopped midstream in chapter 3, and recorded the prayer he often prayed for the church in Ephesus as well as all the churches in all the other cities where he ministered. If I could sum up his long prayer, Paul prayed that Christ’s church would be filled up to all the fullness of our triune God – so that we could accurately and powerfully reflect His glory and majesty on the earth. Then for all of us perhaps who have been a part of the church for a while, and who know how far we are from attaining to this fullness – – Paul seeks to get our focus off of us, and back on to the one who said He would build His church, in ch. 3 vs. 20 “Now to Him who is able to do far more abundantly beyond all that we ask or think, according to the power that works within us, to Him be the glory in the church and in Christ Jesus to all generations forever and ever. Amen”!
In chapter 4:11 Paul begins to discuss the special giftings or offices (apostles, prophets, evangelists, pastors and teachers) He has given His church to help equip and strengthen it. The crucial question to ask at this point is: Why? What is the intended purpose or result of all of this equipping and building up that vs. 12 talks about? Is it to help us hang on until Jesus returns and rescues us from all this misery? Well he didn’t leave us “hanging” ….. so to speak. Listen to vs. 13: “until we all attain to the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a mature man, to the measure of the stature which belongs to the fullness of Christ.” In other words – Jesus Christ fully expects us to become fully like Him in every way – so that we are in effect walking mirrors or representations of the glory and majesty of the Son of God. And He wants everyone of His present day disciples in every region to attain to this.
Some of you might be thinking at this point, “How in the world are we going to pull this off? We can’t even keep our marriages together!” Well I find it very interesting that in the next chapter – Paul – in the longest passage in the Bible about marriage – tells us – that the very model or standard that husbands have been given to learn how to love their wives is by meditating on this passion our Lord has for His church’s perfection, completion and/or maturity or fullness. Listen to vs. 25-27, “Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself up for her, so that He might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word, that He might present to Himself the church in all her glory, having no spot or wrinkle or any such thing; but that she would be holy and blameless.” You might say, well what Paul means is we are going to be that way when He returns for us and transforms us in heaven. But if that is what he means, then what help or encouragement to we husbands is that? Instead what Paul is saying, is as we husbands meditate on Christ’s passion for His church; and His passion to make us a united, loving, Christlike people; as we meditate on how He seeks to pull that off – – and how He loves us to holiness – – then we can begin to see what it means to love our wives.
When Paul sought to encourage the church in Phillipi to fight the good fight; and not get discouraged or to think God is somehow limited by Paul being in prison, he assured them of his absolute confidence that “He who began a good work in you will perfect it until the day of Christ Jesus.”
Can you find a letter of Paul to any church where he starts off saying, “Now you Christians need to do this and do that and not do this, and get this program going, and quit bickering with each other, and have your quiet times – – remember it all rides on you and your performance…”? No! To the contrary, in every letter Paul first seeks to build our faith and expectation in the greatness of our Savior, and His power and His ability to finish what He has begun, and the sufficient resources He has given us in Christ and through the Holy Spirit and in one another. Then he shows us how this should look in our every day character and behavior.
The order of William Carey’s famous dictum is crucial folks! “Expect great things from God; attempt great things for God!” Without the expectation of God’s great work in our day in our region, there will be no great attempts to fulfill His great calling on our lives.
I leave you with this short story of an account of revival some hundred years ago in a very improbable place. Charles Finney, the great revivalist, relates that in a certain town there had been no revival for many years. The church was nearly run out. The people were unconverted. Spiritual desolation reigned. There lived in the town an old blacksmith who stammered so greatly that it was painful to hear him speak. At work in his shop his mind became greatly exercised about the state of the church; his agony was so great he locked the door and spent the afternoon in prayer, prevailing with God. He then obtained the reluctant consent of his pastor to plan a meeting. This preacher had no hope of any attendance, but the room filled to overflowing. All was silent for a time until one sinner broke out in tears and begged for someone to pray for him. Others followed, and it was found that people from every quarter of the town were under deep conviction. All dated their conviction from the hour the old man was praying in his shop. A powerful revival followed.”
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Brunch. My favorite. Especially when there are these Canadian Bacon, Egg & Asparagus Breakfast Quesadillas on the menu. Join me, won’t you? #BrunchWeek 2018 is just getting started!
The odds are *stacked* in your favor that you’re going to love these Canadian Bacon, Egg & Asparagus Breakfast Quesadillas for #BrunchWeek 2018. LOL! See what I did there?
You’ll need fresh eggs (I prefer Egglands Best), fresh asparagus (I prefer Michigan Asparagus), 4″ round flour tortillas, American cheese slices, Canadian bacon, butter, salt, and pepper. That’s it.
Of course, if you’d like to add additional ingredients to your Egg & Asparagus Breakfast Quesadillas, by all means, do. Here are a few add-on ingredients I think you may also enjoy.
Fry the eggs in a little butter in a hot skillet to your desired doneness. Season with salt and pepper. Slightly precook the fresh asparagus to soften slightly and assemble the Egg & Asparagus Breakfast Quesadillas by layering the flour tortilla, one slice American cheese, egg, asparagus, another slice of American cheese and another flour tortilla.
You're going to love these Canadian Bacon, Egg & Asparagus Breakfast Quesadillas. They fast, easy and delicious!
Fry the eggs in approximately 1½ tablespoons of butter a skillet over medium heat. Season the eggs with salt and pepper
Add additional butter to the skillet and brown each quesadilla on both sides (flipping carefully) until golden brown.
I Hope you’ve enjoyed today’s recipe for Canadian Bacon, Egg & Asparagus Quesadillas as much as I’ve enjoyed bringing it to you.
Written by Renée on September 16, 2018 in Biscuits & Rolls, Entrees, Ethnic, German, Sauces & Dressings, Sausage
This copycat Oktoberfest Knockwurst Sandwich is my version of a terrific sandwich I’d had while on vacation in Northern Wisconsin.
I loved the knockwurst sandwich I had SO much; I had it twice during the six days we were on vacation. And after that first bite, I knew I wanted to replicate it as soon as possible when we got home…so I did!
My Kudos Kitchen copycat version of their Knockwurst Sandwich is just as delicious as I remember the original sandwich tasting, and now I can eat one whenever I want, without having to travel 6 hours to get one!!
Just for fun, below is the photo I took at the Northern Wisconsin Pub (Otto’s Beer and Brat Garden) of the Knockwurst sandwich I had. I don’t always take photos of my restaurant food unless I’m on vacation, or unless it’s something I want to try and recreate. This time, this sandwich ticked both of those boxes!
In the above photo from Otto’s, you’ll notice they served their sandwich with super crispy kettle chips, and a side of thousand islands dressing. I wanted to mimic the entire gastronomic experience, so I did the same. Sadly, I forgot the pickle spear. LOL
The ingredients you’ll need to make your own Knockwurst Sandwich, Kudos Kitchen Style are as follows;
By all means, substitute any type of sausage you like. Bratwurst, smoked sausage, Polish sausage, and even hot dogs would be a great substitution.
I suggest, however, if using bratwurst to cook it first, slice it lengthwise and then pan fry it to get the maximum flavor, just like with the knockwurst.
You can, however, purchase knockwurst sausage through Amazon.com, and I’ll make sure to leave an affiliate link down below so you can purchase some if you’d like.
Well, since this sandwich is all about Oktoberfest, I would suggest you only add a tiny bit, and then get over it. LOL
OR, what about coleslaw as a substitution? It will be a completely different sandwich as far as taste, but still tasty none the less!
**The following affiliate links are some suggested products I’ve chosen that will aid you in the making and serving of this recipe for Oktoberfest Knockwurst Sandwich with Sauerkraut & Munster Cheese if needed. By clicking on the item photo, you’ll be taken directly to Amazon.com if you’re interested in purchasing any of these products. You are in no way required to do so, and you will not be charged in any way unless you decide to purchase one of these products through Amazon.com. As an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases.
Slice the knockwurst sausage in half lengthwise and fry them in a skillet with until browned on both sides.
Top the sandwich with the pretzel roll top, and serve with the 1000 islands dressing, and chips if desired.
For additional Oktoberfest inspired recipes I’ve shared in the past, please click on the following titles for;
Below is the printable recipe card for today’s Oktoberfest Knockwurst Sandwich with Sauerkraut & Munster Cheese. If you’ve enjoyed this recipe and look forward to making it (or have already made it), I’d appreciate if you’d take a moment to give it some feedback by way of stars near the comment section at the end of this post. Thank you so much!
This copycat Oktoberfest Knockwurst Sandwich is my version of a terrific sandwich I'd had while on vacation in Northern Wisconsin. I loved it SO much; I had it twice during the six days we were there. It's that good!
In a small bowl, stir together the mayonnaise, ketchup, pickle relish, horseradish, smoked paprika, and black pepper. Chill until ready to serve.
Spread the softened butter both sides of the pretzel rolls and sprinkle with garlic powder. Bake in a preheated 350-degree oven until golden and crispy (approximately 7 - 10 minutes). Remove.
small bowl, spoon, measuring spoons, measuring cups, large skillet, chef's knife, butter knife, baking sheet, baking rack (optional).
I sincerely hope you’ve enjoyed today’s recipe for the Oktoberfest Knockwurst Sandwich as much as I’ve enjoyed bringing it to you!
Holy cow, this sandwich looks phenomenal! I loooove knockwurst, and the flavors here sound amazing. It looks really hearty and scrumptious, I’m excited to try this one!
Now this is my kind of sandwich! I’m going to try it with bratwurst since I happen to have some in the fridge (along with sauerkraut, because of course!) but I will start looking for knockwurst too next time I’m at the store!
WOW this looks amazing!! I don’t know what I’m more excited about: that cheese or the pretzel bun!! I can’t wait to try it out. Thank you so much for sharing!
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A student of the school and friend of Dolapo, Olatunji Oluwadamilare, shared the story on Facebook. He wrote;
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Fellow Akokites, we are writing exams and our brother is at the moment in police custody for reposting a picture on his Facebook page. Our school authority are now demi gods that should be constantly revered.
All attempts to bail Dolapo Olusesi has proven futile as the policemen claim they have been asked by the school management not to release him to serve as a lesson to others. A call put through to the DSA has proven futile as the DSA has asked that he be left there. Dolapo Olusesi is a 300 Law student.
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Soda Tax Debate Calls Attention To Health Issues In Local StoresA city councilwoman wants to give small store owners an incentive to stock healthy drinks.
News, Politics and Entertainment with The Chris Stigall Show | May 19Chris discussed Ed Rendell's apology for calling women ugly, the reaction to Megyn Kelly's interview with Donald Trump and Councilwoman Blondell Reynolds-Brown's alternative to the soda tax. He talked with Carrie Severino from the Judicial Crisis Network at 7:20 about Donald Trump's list of Supreme Court candidates, Richie Ashburn Jr at 7:35 about tonight's benefit dinner for the Richie Ashburn-Harry Kalas Foundation, CBS 3's Ukee Washington at 8:00 about their upcoming story on DNA love tests, and Pennsylvania Senator Pat Toomey at 8:20 about running on the same ticket with Donald Trump.
Minority, Women-Run Businesses Get Inside Scoop On Landing Major Contracts In PhiladelphiaWith the Democratic National Convention coming to Philadelphia next year, there's a renewed effort to get minority and women-run small businesses access to decision makers on city contracts.
Bill Inspired By Walt Disney Aims To Reduce Litter On Philadelphia Streets, SidewalksCorner stores in Philadelphia will soon be required to put trash and recycling bins out front, thanks to City Council...and Walt Disney.
Phila. Councilwoman Wants Voters To Make Mayor's LGBT Office PermanentNow that this is Mayor Nutter's last year in office, councilwoman Blondell Reynolds Brown fears that another mayor could eliminate the LGBT office he created.
Phila. Candidates For Mayor and Council Get Ballot Positions For May 19th PrimaryBallot positions for the May 19th primary were determined in a very low-tech way: the candidates chose numbered balls out of a coffee can.
City Officials Offer New Proposals Aimed At Combating LitteringA city councilwoman, along with the Nutter Administration, want Philadelphia to take a 'Disneyland approach' when it comes to litter.
City Council Will Look To Add Hate Crimes To Philadelphia CodeCity council members are introducing a bill that adds hate crimes to the individual conduct portion of the city code.
Philadelphia Groups Back Effort To Clarify EPA's Role For Clean WaterEnvironmentalists and activists gathered today at Boathouse Row to tout the importance of new rules clarifying the reach and control of the Environmental Protection Agency and the US Army Corps of Engineers over major waterways and the streams and creeks that flow into them.
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When Paine’s Park opened in late May, skaters rejoiced. Local residents, however, don’t seem to notice nor think its attraction has a negative impact on the neighborhood. “I think it’s good for the city to have it,” said Doug Gordon, who lives on the 2400 block of Fairmount Avenue. “I don’t think it affects the […]
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Nonprofit Technology Resources (NTR) located on the 1500 block of Brandywine Street strives to provide low-cost computers to Philadelphians while also changing lives. A couple years ago, Melvin Bonilla, 24, of Kensington was a stressed out individual who quit his job and turned to drug dealing to pay the bills. A giant leap from where […]
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MANILAThe Philippine government (GPH) has started engaging the Communist Party of the Philippines-New People's Army-National Democratic Front (CPP-NPA-NDF) in informal peace talks in Europe, MalacaAang said on Tuesday.
Presidential spokesperson Harry Roque said that Presidential Adviser on the Peace Process Jesus Dureza and Labor Secretary Silvestre Bello III have informed President Rodrigo R. Duterte about this development during the 25th Cabinet meeting on Monday.
President Duterte was briefed last night after the Cabinet meeting by Cabinet Secretaries Jesus Dureza and Silvestre Bello to inform him that the efforts to resume peace negotiations with the CPP-NPA-NDF are underway with backchannel informal talks now taking place in Europe, Roque said, reading from the statement from the Office of the Presidential Adviser on the Peace Process.
Roque said Dureza and Bello have also informed the President that his clear directives are being relayed across the table, and are now the subject of discussions in the ongoing meetings.
Our team is now in Europe, and we are informed that there are initial positive results so farthis, according to Secretary Dureza, Roque said, reading Dureza's statement.
Roque, meanwhile, said that according to Bello, the team will return home soon to personally brief the President of the outcome.
We are doing our best to meet the deadlines set by the President about the resumption of talks within 60 days, Roque said, reading Bello's statement.
Last month, Roque said the Duterte administration may withdraw its petition to declare communist rebels as terrorists but only once formal peace agreements have been signed.
Duterte himself said that he is willing to resume peace talks under three conditionsabsolute ceasefire; no collection of revolutionary taxes; and no coalition government.
Should peace negotiations resume, Roque said that the government could file a manifestation to hold the petition in abeyance, pending the outcome of the peace talks. The petition stays until there is a final peace agreement signed.
I think it will be withdrawn if there is a final peace agreements signed. But while the peace talks are ongoing, what we can do is keep it there, Roque said.
Roque confirmed that Duterte also vowed to assist members of the CPP-NPA if they agree to his terms.
Well, he will find ways and means to assist members of the CPP-NPA by way of providing them livelihood and housing if possible; provided that they cease and desist from collecting revolutionary taxes, Roque said.
Duterte started formal peace talks with the NDFP shortly after he became President in 2016 but canceled them in November last year amid continued attacks by the NPA on government forces.
He issued a proclamation classifying the CPP-NPA as a terrorist organization in December last year. (PNA)
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I was part of a panel at a seminar - "Collections and the Web: Audiences, Content and Technologies" - organised by CAN (Collections Australia Network) on Tuesday, 27 May: "Future Trends". I began with a short presentation in which I attempted to plot a number of future possibilities in terms of probability and desirability:
The total collapse of email, as we now know it, under the weight of spam. While this would undoubtedly be a major disaster, it may have at least one beneficial consequence:
Smart commercial links (in which success depends on how useful the user perceives it to be) to also increase.
Semantic web to become more pervasive (content not just for human consumption but for also machine consumption, making mashups possible - eg: US Presidents) But, perhaps more importantly...
Semantic web to become easier for non-tech people (MIT's Simile project is a step in the right direction).
Visitor-generated content to increase. (But there needs to a move towards quality visitor- generated content.)
Copyright restrictions to decrease (at least for the museum/cultural/non-profit sector). This is more of a hope than a prediction!
This tech note outlines the main differences in advanced Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) support between Cisco® NX-OS Software and Cisco IOS® Software. Sample configurations are included for Cisco NX-OS and Cisco IOS Software for some common features to demonstrate the similarities and differences. Please refer to the NX-OS documentation on Cisco.com for a complete list of supported features.
BGPv4 is a standard exterior routing protocol defined in RFC 4271, commonly used to exchange network reachability information between autonomous systems. This document discusses route reflectors, confederations, peer templates, route-map policies and the prefix-lists feature.
When configuring route reflectors, the route-reflector-client command is assigned per neighbor under the neighbor-specific address family.
Cisco NX-OS does not require a manual reset for a neighbor when its routing policy is modified. Cisco IOS Software requires a hard or soft reset depending on the neighbor capabilities exchanged.
The following list provides some additional facts about Cisco NX-OS that should be helpful when designing, configuring, and maintaining an advanced BGP network configuration.
Peer and session templates define neighbor attributes such as security passwords, timers, and transport options.
Multiple policy templates can be assigned per neighbor. Policy templates are executed in order based on the configured sequence number.
Policy templates are inherited by a neighbor through the neighbor and address-family configuration mode.
Route-map polices can configure BGP attributes such as as-path, community lists, community attributes, dampening, local preference, metric type, origin, and weight.
The following sample code shows the configuration similarities and differences between the Cisco NX-OS and Cisco IOS Software CLIs. The configurations are very similar with the exception of the hierarchy used in Cisco NX-OS.
show ip bgp community no-advertise show ip bgp community no-advertise Displays BGP routes not advertised to peers
show ip bgp extcommunity <word> - Displays routes with a specific regular expression for extended communities
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If the models mentioned above are exclusively for residential use, the Singer CG590 is a commercial grade machine designed for large scale sewing. At a rate of no less than 1,100 stitches per minute, this is a speedy and high quality machine that every professional should have. It has 18 built in stitches along with a free arm capability, it comes with a drop feed capability as well as a free motion quilting. At the same time, the bed plate is made from stainless steel and it also has an exclusive electronic food control for consistent speed and without any jump starts whatsoever.
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The number one on this list is the Brother Project Runway CS5055PRW sewing machine that comes with 85 built in stitches and an automatic threading feature, everything for only $162.82. It comes with different decorative and heirloom stitches where each one has multiple stitch functions – it can be used to sew stretchy fabrics like elastic or fleece.
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A meteorite crashes on an isolated part of a mountain. Meanwhile, at a nearby town in the Mexican lowlands, a young couple in crisis struggles to find themselves but cannot avoid destroying each other in the process. Something out of this world will come to alter their lives.
The Untamed is not available at this time. Instead, check out David Cronenberg's Shivers, which is currently showing on MUBI.
Possession + Japanese hentai (tentacular erotica) + Under the Skin + David Cronenberg. With lots of Mexican spices.The English title is vaguely abominable: they should have kept the original, LA REGIÓN SALVAJE. All things considered, The Untamed is an unforgettable cinematic experience.
Despite the bold sex scenes, The Untamed occupies the same place as Under the Skin, another film that fails to arouse emotionally, and felt rather apathetic in its storytelling. As here, the dual storylines don't properly blossom or grip, nor do they compliment each other. Both films also should have used traditional storytelling techniques since their looseness renders them a fruitless attempt at intelligence.
There are kind of two movies going on here, neither fully fleshed-out, their coupling never quite solidified. THE UNTAMED never convinced me it needs to exist. I was very impressed w/ some aesthetic choices (and the phenomenal sound design). The closing credit 'in memoriam' shout-out to Żuławski makes sense; the movie cribs from POSSESSION. And everything that is impressive, clearly owes something to Carlos Reygadas.
lots of great stuff but lacking something. ALSO that shot of all the animals fucking was NOT necessary
Relationship drama grounds a parallel narrative of supernatural and spiritual exploration. Neither of these two channels are developed fully, however. 77/100 - Very Good. (3.5)
An amazing and inspiring cinematic experience, paying homage to Zulawski and Possesion. This is what I go to the movies for. Absolutely fantastic allegorical film.
If you take away all the references to popular culture you're really talking about dangerous masturbation. Like auto-erotic asphyxiation. And yet these people come back changed by something unnamed. Which puts it more in the category of a drug, and an addiction, and how that can spiral out of control.
Slippery and sly, The Untamed boasts some originality. In spite of that, the extra-sensorial extraterrestrial fiction that Escalante tries to sell becomes more subfusc than scary as the film moves forward. (2.5 stars)
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In five years, the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) has become synonymous with commercial lawsuits against consumers. It has filed an estimated 30,000 to 35,000 lawsuits against Internet users it suspected of sharing song files online. Everyone probably knows someone who had a family member or friend sued in the campaign. A Weird Al Yankovic single famously satirized the ethical difficulties of the RIAA’s war on music listeners. The RIAA might have spent a quarter of a billion dollars on legal fees. Yet it never won a case.
Now the RIAA says the lawsuits are over. But the move away from lawsuits does not mean song-swappers are safe. Instead of taking people to court, the RIAA will try to persuade Internet service providers (ISPs) to cut off access to active online song-swappers.
The RIAA hopes to target millions of file-sharers with its new scheme, which it says will be more “productive” than litigation. If so, the move is not likely to make the RIAA any more popular. Cutting off millions of people’s Internet access — or threatening to — doesn’t look any more friendly than dragging thousands of people into court.
The RIAA was already shrinking year after year along with the major record labels it represents, and recession-related budget cuts may have forced its hand. This thought has led some observers to speculate that the RIAA’s talk of cutting off music fans’ Internet access is more bluster than substance, a face-saving posture for an organization not wanting to admit defeat. And since all the same administrative burdens are involved — the RIAA could be dragged into court if it targets anyone incorrectly, something that is bound to happen with some frequency — it is not clear that the new program will be any less expensive than the old one. So this move might just be, as some observers suggest, the next step in the decline of the big music marketing organizations.
A flaw in the Internet Explorer 7 browser, and “potentially” in other versions, has allowed malicious web pages to install key logging software and other malicious software on about 2 million computers, Microsoft said today as it released a critical security patch.
The exploit, known as the AZN Trojan, became publicly known last week, but had been around for a week before that. It was a particular concern for Microsoft because the number of infected computers was increasing at 50 percent per day. Microsoft prepared the security fix in just six days, which it says is the fastest it has ever developed any software for release.
When Sun originally announced Java 13 years ago, it said the new programming language would be good for rich web applications. But a series of software incompatibilities and security holes have led most web developers and Internet users to steer clear of Java. Sun, meanwhile, spent a decade turning Java into a server-based development environment while Flash took over nearly all client-side web applications.
And the truth is, Java was not originally designed for use in a web browser. It was created for embedded applications, such as thermostats, and was only awkwardly shoehorned into the web environment.
But Sun hopes to correct all that with the release of JavaFX. This new version of Java adds components, such as a web media library and a scripting language apparently modeled on Flash, to make it ready for the web. JavaFX promises to be more compatible with web platforms on computers and telephones and to make it simpler for developers to create applications.
The JavaFX launch is off to a rocky start, with multiple glitches on the web site, but Sun says it is confident that JavaFX will be a profitable product by next year.
Guns N’ Roses really did it. Their new album Chinese Democracy was released last week. And it lives up to the hype. BBC called it “an uncompromising, fully-focused, hard rock monster.” The album is said to have taken 15 years and $13,000,000 to record.
Rick Aster’s first entry in the crowded self-improvement field went to press last month. The book Fear of Nothing highlights the costs of clutter and a busy schedule and argues that a more spontaneous approach to life and work is more productive. Fear of Nothing is scheduled for a January 1 hardcover release.
RemoteSpy and its web site were pulled after the FTC got a temporary restraining order against the spyware maker. The program is designed to remotely install from an e-mail message and log the keystrokes of an unsuspecting user’s computer in order to capture secret information such as passwords and credit cards.
Melissa Etheridge has recorded a Christmas album that emphasizes the ideas of peace and spiritual awareness. A New Thought for Christmas includes Christmas standards along with a few new songs.
Presidential candidate Mike Huckabee has become a talk show host on Fox News. The show, which is not heavily news-oriented, might signal the cable channel’s move away from news toward more general entertainment programming.
Sun Microsystems is cutting 6,000 jobs, 18 percent of its work force, after economic conditions have slowed sales of its most expensive hardware. Sun hopes to show that it can make a profit on its well-known low-end and industry-standard products.
Sun plans to make the cuts in 2009. The job cuts could save the company $1 billion a year, which could make it profitable again if it can figure out a way to boost the market presence of some of its high-volume products.
The new edition of the Cheap Trick Live at Budokan album released today goes far beyond any of the previous ones. It includes the “complete concert” (pulled together, as before, from shows on two nights) on two CDs, along with a DVD with a one-hour film of the concert (the April 30, 1978, show), previously seen only in 1978 on Japanese television, plus the soundtrack of the film on CD.
Bonuses on the DVD include two songs filmed at Cheap Trick’s more recent concert at Budokan in April 2008.
For vinyl collectors, a limited-edition 10-song LP of the concert, along the lines of the original album from 1978, was released two weeks ago.
U.S. electronics giant Circuit City today announced it was closing 155 stores, or 21 percent of its stores in the United States. Circuit City has been hurt by an aggressive upsell strategy in its stores, in contrast to the more customer-friendly atmosphere at competitor Best Buy. It is also facing a liquidity crisis because of a delay in receiving an $80 million income tax refund. All electronics retailers have been carrying thinner inventories in recent months because of the loss of lending liquidity in the banking system.
Circuit City will also delay or cancel some planned store openings and attempt to negotiate lower rent on a few of its existing stores.
Google says it has settled its book copyright lawsuit with the Authors Guild and several large book publishers. Google will pay just $125 million to settle billions of dollars in copyright violations.
When Eminem said he was retiring, most fans wondered why. Now he’s back with a new album titled, appropriately enough, Relapse. The album could be released before the year is over.
Ulteo is now offering OpenOffice.org applications online at http://www.ulteo.com/home/ooo. The service is similar to what users may be familiar with in other online office services such as Google Docs, but is based on open source software and uses standard office document file formats.
The new Burton Cummings album Above the Ground includes a one-hour documentary showing the making of the album. It is his first new studio album since 1990, and the first album on which Cummings wrote all the songs himself. The Carpet Frogs are the backing band on most of the album.
Ten years after it started, MTV’s TRL is winding down this month. The larger-than-life finale will air Sunday, November 16, 8 p.m. ET. TRL is the most-watched live show in the history of MTV, which otherwise has been relatively reluctant to broadcast anything live.
It seems like just three years ago that MTV thought online music videos were a good way to use its brand influence to force music fans to buy certain kinds of computers. Now that MTV no longer has any brand influence to speak of, it has finally launched a serious music video site. Online today, MTVMusic.com is a streamlined, fully functional site for searching and viewing music videos.
The presentation is cleaner than YouTube, and so is the sound quality. In recognition of MTV’s more distant history, maybe you could start by watching “Video Killed the Radio Star.”
Lala’s original CD-swapping scheme was killed off by postal rate increases. Its attempt to build a kind of online music community never quite caught on. So now the site is trying again, this time as a music download site with 89¢ songs and some extras.
Once you buy a song on Lala, you can play it as many times as you like on the web site. In theory, this saves you from having to carry your music collection with you.
Lala says it has 6 million songs. It’s easy to search, so you can easily find out which songs and albums they have, and in many cases, they are aware of the albums and artists that are missing. In some cases, they have the CDs available for sale. The web site may not be pretty, but it’s quicker than Amazon or iTunes.
TV Guide magazine has been losing money recently, but with 3 million subscribers, it’s not ready to shut down yet. So its publisher Macrovision has sold the magazine to a private equity fund.
The terms of the sale may actually cost Macrovision about $1 million in the end, but apparently that’s not too much to pay to have the new investors take over the debts and obligations of the print magazine.
Macrovision got TV Guide in its January acquisition of Gemstar-TV Guide International. Macrovision is happy to keep the web sites it acquired in that deal while getting the magazine off its hands. The magazine had revenue over $140 million in 2007, and with additional investment, it ought to be profitable, according to its new owners at OpenGate Capital.
The Guns N’ Roses album Chinese Democracy, originally announced back when Bill Clinton was president, will finally be released on November 23. The unusual Sunday release is designed for the convenience of Best Buy, which will sell the album exclusively for an initial period of time.
A blogger was arrested in August and charged with releasing tracks from the album without permission. At the time, the band issued this statement: “Presently, though we don’t support this guy’s actions at that level, our interest is in the original source.”
The album release is not yet confirmed by Guns N’ Roses, and no touring plans have been announced. Guns N’ Roses’ last tour took them to Pacific countries in June–July 2007.
Oasis fans will be glad to discover that the new Oasis album Dig Out Your Soul sounds just like the band’s prior work. The band’s occasional duds have occurred when they have strayed too far from their basis premise of post-Beatles thunder and jangle. Noel Gallagher wrote only six of the eleven songs, with the other five written by the other band members. The result, critics say, is a pretty good balance between cliché and innovation, but without straying far from the band’s musical comfort zone.
Dig Out Your Soul was an exclusive MySpace release last week. Today it is out in the rest of the world.
The U.S. Copyright Royalty Board (CRB) decided late yesterday not to increase the song royalty for music downloads. The royalty continues at 9.1 cents, equal to the rate for tangible products that contain music recordings.
There had been some concern that the CRB would raise the rate to 15 cents and record labels would be forced to withdraw most of their catalogs from online music stores, particularly iTunes Store, which uses a fixed 99 cent retail price for individual music tracks.
The rate for ringtones was set at 24 cents. This rate is higher to reflect the expectation that ringtones, which are widely used on mobile telephones, are played so many times.
The National Music Publishers’ Association (NMPA) called the decision a positive step for music creators. NMPA president David Israelite said in a press release, “These events will bring clarity and order to an environment that for the past decade has been hampered by litigation and uncertainty on all sides. In the end, songwriters and music publishers will have incentive to create and market music, and music fans will reap the rewards.”
The U.S. Congress’s Internet servers are not keeping up with demand as millions of citizens seek to register their complaints about the proposed “Wall Street bailout” legislation. Some legislators say they are receiving the most messages that they have ever received opposing a specific piece of legislation.
Congressional web servers, such as house.gov and senate.gov, were responding only intermittently to requests.
The Senate web server was restored quickly, but the House web server remained effectively unavailable for most of the afternoon.
Elsewhere, the servers delivering free downloads of the Michael Moore film Slacker Uprising are only now beginning to match the demand for the movie. The movie was released two days ago, but because of the demand, it was very difficult to download for the first 48 hours. “We’re being slammed” with demand for the download, Moore explains on the movie’s download page.
The new Michael Moore movie Slacker Uprising was released for download at midnight in the United States and Canada, but after 12 hours, servers are still unable to keep up with the demand.
The movie about the 2004 election and the importance of voter involvement is meant to reach voters in time for the 2008 election. Michael Moore says he wants to “help get out the vote,” and perhaps by tonight the first wave of downloads will be complete and the rest of us can start to download the movie.
Warner Brothers filed suit to stop the Hari Puttar movie release, but ended up delaying it by only two weeks.
Hari Puttar is a comedy about a boy who moves from India to England and uses sci-fi gadgets to foil a plot to take over the world. Warner Brothers objected to the similarity of the title to its Harry Potter series, but no one would mistake Hari Puttar, a character that somewhat recalls Kevin McCallister from Home Alone, with boy wizard Harry Potter.
In dismissing the case, the court noted that Warner Brothers had known of the Hari Puttar film for three years and could have filed its suit more than two weeks before the scheduled release, assuming it had a case to make.
The court also considered the intellectual nature of the Harry Potter stories and concluded that Harry Potter readers would be unlikely to confuse a slapstick sci-fi story with the deadly serious wizardry of Harry Potter.
Puttar is a familiar word meaning boy or son in two languages in India, and people have to stop and think about the sounds to relate potter and puttar, much as an American reader might not connect cotton with captain until the similarity between the two words is pointed out.
The most hotly anticipated new video game of the year, Spore from EA has alienated fans with a copy protection scheme described as “draconian” by industry observers.
Hardware failures and system upgrades are not uncommon occurrences in video games, but after just three of these, your copy of Spore will no longer function. For a typical video game enthusiast, this would theoretically mean buying a new copy of Spore about once every year or two. An unlucky few might see their copies expire in just a week or two.
Observers say the huge number of illegal downloads of Spore indicates that even customers who buy a legitimate copy of the game are downloading unauthorized copies so that they will be able to keep playing the game after system failures occur.
The response echoes the response of music fans after a troubling form of copy protection was added to Shakira’s Laundry Service album. In that case, the copy protection prevented playback in many devices, including car stereos and DVD players. Many music fans who bought the doctored Laundry Service CD ended up downloading a copy of that album in order to be able to listen to it, and in many cases, they never went back to buying CDs. If Spore is a similar catalyst in the video game world, it could mark the beginning of the end for the video game business.
This summer, Yes’s Close to the Edge and Back tour had to be postponed when singer Jon Anderson was physically unable to perform. Now, the other members of that tour are planning a short fall tour, as a sort of a warm-up for a Yes tour that could come as early as next summer.
The In the Present tour will start in Hamilton, Ontario, November 4, followed by dates across the United States. The U.S. dates have not yet been announced.
The band includes Yes members Alan White, Steve Howe, and Chris Squire, along with keyboardist Oliver Wakeman, who had been set to play on the Yes summer tour, and Canadian singer Benoit David, who has a history of singing Yes music.
Meanwhile, Yes singer Jon Anderson continues to recuperate from a severe asthma attack he suffered in June. He released a statement yesterday, “Just to let everyone know I’m getting so much better . . . I look forward to 2009 for the ‘Great Work’ to come.”
Are Metallica rebels or what? The heavy metal band are eschewing the usual Tuesday album release date to get their album in the stores tomorrow, Friday, September 12. Some may see the Friday release date as another sign of the decline of the old-time record business. Others may see the album release, simultaneous with the release of tracks for the video game Guitar Hero III as a sign of the growing importance of video games in music, while others will say Metallica is just a band that never could fall into line.
Whatever the explanation for the Friday release, Metallica is certainly due for a new studio album, and based on the advance snippets, fans may be rushing out to buy Death Magnetic tomorrow. Songs like “The Day That Never Comes” are perfect examples of the foreboding attitude of Metallica at their best, and if the sound is a little more punchy than before, that just means the band is more in your face when you’re listening.
The Guitar Hero III tracks will cost $17.99 (for the PS3 edition), about the same as the price of the album. As far as we know, it is the first time an album and its video game tracks have been released simultaneously.
The half-canceled Republican National Convention struggled to draw a television audience — until the candidates spoke. Dark-horse vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin drew a record RNC audience for her acceptance speech. This was topped ever so slightly by John McCain’s speech the next night.
If anyone thought the partial cancellation of the Republican convention was out of respect for the suffering and loss of people evacuating New Orleans and lower Louisiana in Hurricane Gustav, the Republicans dispelled that notion by playing an extended violent movie, borderline between PG-13 and R, exploiting the suffering of 9/11, prior to McCain’s acceptance speech, and by Palin identifying herself as “Hurricane Sarah.”
Instead, insiders say the partial cancellation of the convention was a scheduling trick to prevent the current president and vice president from attending the convention, as the nominees seek to distance themselves from their party’s record.
McCain and Palin drew television audiences nearly as large as that of Obama’s record-breaking acceptance speech a week before. Obama’s total U.S. audience was much larger, though, as the television viewing audience for the conventions was largely over 55 years old. Many viewers under 55 watched on the Internet instead, and watched Obama’s speech in much larger numbers.
After the convention, Palin has disappeared from public view, apparently intending to avoid talking to the press. She has reportedly scheduled an appearance on the Oprah Winfrey Show, but will not be available to tape that show until after the election.
The Republican National Convention was going to have trouble drawing a television audience today anyway because of the Labor Day holiday. With a major hurricane striking the Louisiana coast, the party has all but canceled its nominating convention. It cannot risk the image of partying it up during a disaster, and hundreds of delegates cannot get to the convention or have already begun to leave. The convention will conduct its official business in a low-key manner, and may adjourn early, according to party officials. At this point, it appears even the nominees will not be attending. There was some thought of postponing the convention, but there was little to be gained; the Republicans would lose much of their target television audience to football if they delayed by more than a day.
The summer tour has lifted Journey’s new album Revelation to #1 on the Billboard Top Independent Albums chart. The album is #29 on the Billboard 200. It’s true what the band said about new singer Arnel Pineda — he has to be seen to be believed.
The new David Gilmour album Live in Gdansk will be accompanied by a one-day U.S.-only theatrical showing of the movie, on Monday, September 22. The concert includes the Polish Baltic Philharmonic Orchestra.
Until about three years ago, nearly all Internet data flowed through the United States. Geographically, this never made much sense — the United States is not located between Morocco and Spain, for example — and in recent years it has been seen as something of a political risk — do you really want your sensitive business transactions flowing through the National Security Agency’s filters? So in the last three years, countries have been building more nearby connections, and by the end of this year, most Internet traffic will be completely outside the United States. U.S. spy officials see this as a loss, but for countries like Egypt and Japan, the result will be a more stable, less expensive Internet.
Publisher Chelsea Green is promoting its new book Obama’s Challenge as a pro-Obama book, even though it takes a very skeptical look at what Barack Obama could accomplish as President. So what better way to get it off to a fast start than by handing out discount coupons at the Democratic National Convention where Obama is expected to be nominated next week?
Well, not so fast, say bookstores, who are very unhappy that the publisher’s coupons are good exclusively through Amazon in advance of the book’s mass release.
Many bookstores, including Barnes & Noble, have canceled their orders for the book, complaining that it will no longer be a new release by the time they get it.
The publisher defends its distribution approach, saying it is doing everything it can to get the book in readers’ hands quickly. But that is not the way the book industry traditionally works. Most book releases are planned more than a year in advance, and bookstores would rather see a carefully coordinated release of a book, even if it means the book has lost its relevance by the time it comes out.
However, the controversy may have little effect on the book’s sales. Independent bookstores now sell an estimated 6 percent of all books in the United States, so they do not have much weight to throw around. And the publisher can gain publicity by claiming the book is too controversial for most bookstores.
The bookstore boycott of Obama’s Challenge recalls similar moves by record stores in the late 1990s when record labels tried similar gimmicks to launch new records. Record stores rarely boycotted a release outright, but often took only token copies, just one or two copies of a major release, as a way to protest. Bookstores might want to take note of what happened to the record stores. Most closed between 2002 and 2006.
Sony is set to buy out Bertelsmann’s share of their joint venture in music, Sony BMG. Sony will pay nearly $1 billion for Bertelsmann’s 50 percent share to become the sole owner of the record label group.
Sony BMG will drop the BMG from its name but continue its operations with no specific changes planned. The new Sony Music Entertainment will include the Columbia, Epic, Legacy, Arista, and Jive labels, among many others.
Rick Springfield’s biggest hits came after his original stint on General Hospital. He’s hoping history repeats itself to make his new album Venus in Overdrive a hit.
Alice Cooper’s new album Along Came a Spider is a concept album that enthusiastic fans have been comparing to his first concept album, Alice Cooper Goes to Hell.
John Fogerty’s June 24 Revival Tour concert at Royal Albert Hall was recorded for a holiday-season CD release.
Lindsey Buckingham’s new single is “Did You Miss Me.” A 10-song album, Gift of Screws, will follow in September.
Billy Joel played the last concert at Shea Stadium July 18. It was the same stadium where the Beatles invented the stadium rock concert in 1965, shortly after the stadium opened in 1964, and Paul McCartney flew in at the last minute to add a few late-night songs to the concert. Shea Stadium is being torn down as a new baseball stadium is being built.
Two days later Paul was in Quebec with his band to celebrate that city’s 400th birthday with a huge free concert. Organizers had planned for 50,000 people and had to set up video screens around town when over 250,000 showed up.
OpenOffice.org 3.0 is a small step forward for most users, but a whole new world for Mac users. The industry-leading office suite is now Mac-native, no longer relying on the Unix-like X11 interface. And it’s still free.
Cuil is today’s new search engine. It is pronounced “kool” and looks cool but is not quite ready for the public.
Cuil shows magazine-style results, with columns and embedded picture thumbnails, and it claims to have a more complete database of web pages than Google. Unfortunately, common search terms are missing from its database, and the photos displayed are often irrelevant.
Cuil’s glitches are no more serious than those found in other popular search engines when they first launched, so we expect Cuil to turn into something useful in a matter of months. In the meantime, Cuil can be used as a cool new game, as you try to find the most comically irrelevant photo in a Cuil search result. For example, next to the entry for the official web site of the rock band Rush, Cuil showed a photo of the “Welcome to Palisades Interstate Parkway” sign. Can you top that?
Mamma Mia! set a new record for the opening of a movie musical, grossing $27.6 million in its U.S. opening weekend.
The soundtrack album, featuring 17 Abba songs (a few more appear in the movie), made a splash, hitting #1 in the U.K. charts and #7 in the U.S. in its release week. This is a better debut than any Abba album.
At the same time, the Abba Gold compilation reached its highest chart position ever. Gold contains the Abba recordings of all but four of the songs in the movie soundtrack, along with a few others. Gold is #6 in the Billboard Pop Catalog chart and #5 on the U.K. album chart.
At least three other Abba-related albums are hot again this week: the similar Abba compilation, Number Ones, the longer compilation The Definitive Collection, and the 1999 London cast recording of Mamma Mia!
As part of the cutbacks that see Starbucks closing 600 U.S. stores, the coffee giant will also be shuttering its record company, Hear Music.
The record label was an impressive success for Starbucks, with well-targeted marketing for albums by big names such as Sergio Mendes, Carly Simon, Paul McCartney, and most recently John Mellencamp. In all, Starbucks has been selling more than 4 million music CDs a year.
But Starbucks is in a cutting mood, with hundreds of failed initiatives of recent years to cut away, so Hear Music has to go too. According to Starbucks, they are cutting back on display space for music to create a more focused customer experience — basically, they don’t want their customers to forget to buy coffee. One report says that each Starbucks store will display only 4 CDs.
Instead of CDs, Starbucks’ new emphasis in selling music will be its deal with iTunes Store to sell music over in-store networks provided by AT&T.
The new John Mellencamp album Life Death Love and Freedom may be the last Hear Music release. The fate of a dozen or more pending releases is uncertain at this point.
IPhone 3G is out today at Apple stores and AT&T stores in the United States and in dozens of countries around the world.
The cellular phone is available only in stores. Apple did away with online sales for the 3G model after discovering that many people were buying their phones to resell or were reprogramming them to work on networks other than the one or two cellular networks that it officially supports (depending on the country). This time, you cannot buy an iPhone without taking the 15 minutes to sign up for the two-year service agreement ($1,680 in the United States, more in Canada, less in most other countries).
Lines were said to be shorter in New York City than at the original iPhone release a year ago but longer in Pennsylvania and other places we checked. There were long lines in Tokyo and Singapore, some of the earliest places to open. Rumors of shortages caused lines to form overnight in Australia.
The lines in the United Kingdom were not so long, but the launch was slowed by delays in cellular provider O2’s back-end system, which crashed this morning because of the high demand. It took O2’s IT staff over two hours to get the servers running normally. In the meantime, thousands of customers who had hoped to pick up a phone before work went away disappointed.
Lines are moving slowly at various places in the world because of difficulty in the new activation process for the phones. At U.S. stores, many customers were sent away with inactive phones. Customers can hope to activate the phones at home after the iTunes server farm recovers somewhat.
The iPhone 3G launch in Canada has been marred by cellular provider Rogers’s vague statements about pricing. A consumer petition has been circulating to protest reports of high prices for very limited cellular service. Last week there were reports that Apple was allocating just 10 iPhones per store in Canada, but so far there are no reports of shortages at Rogers stores. To deflect criticism, Rogers lowered the price of one low-end plan for a promotional period that runs through August. Rogers is the only Canadian network with the capacity to support the iPhone 3G, and it required a three-year contract typically at C$70 monthly. Despite the controversy over the pricing, there were lines overnight for the selected Rogers stores that opened two hours early this morning for the launch.
A new version of iTunes shipped yesterday to support iTunes Store’s new iPhone application category. Many iPhone applications associated with specific web services are free; most others sell for $9.99, a bargain compared to the traditional price of a computer application.
With the new iTunes came new iPhone software which allows the new iPhone applications to run on the original iPhone and iPod Touch.
The new disk looks just like a DVD or Blu-ray (BD), and like a Blu-ray, packs 25 GB in each layer, an innovation made possible by the use of blue lasers. The difference in the new Pioneer disk is the number of layers. With 16 blue-laser layers, the new disk can hold 16 times as much data.
Pioneer says its new device can read so many layers because of signal-processing enhancements that allow it to more accurately separate the layers.
The new Pioneer disk is otherwise the same as Blu-ray, so Pioneer hopes to be able to make players that can play both its new disk format and Blu-ray.
The biggest challenge for the new high-capacity format could be finding digital products big enough to need the extra capacity. If one Blu-ray holds three seasons of a television series, will one 400 GB disk hold 48 seasons? One way or another, expanding the capacity of the familiar 12-centimeter optical disk should help keep the idea of a physical digital product relevant.
It’s about time for a new Night Ranger album, and Hole in the Sun is in stores today. Bassist Jack Blades promises fans will “recognize our dual blazing guitars and vocals, and big choruses and melodic verses” on the new record, which comes 25 years after the band formed. Night Ranger is touring the central United States all summer.
Relatively few loopholes remain for those who want to buy a fully functional computer running Microsoft Windows after Microsoft yesterday officially dropped Microsoft Windows XP. Still no word on a replacement. The move comes just after the retirement of Microsoft founder Bill Gates.
Four months after surprising the world with functional Mac-compatible computers, Psystar is selling a range of bare-bones Mac-compatible systems priced from $300 to $2000.
The second-generation Apple iPhone, shipping in quantity in mid-July, costs more than the original because it requires a more expensive 2-year plan from AT&T. But the big plus is that it can run add-on applications. Competing cell phone makers who initially dismissed Apple’s pricey entrant in the cell phone market have sounded more worried in recent months despite Apple’s modest sales numbers to date.
There are now more than 1 billion computers in use worldwide according to the industry analysts at Gartner.
Yahoo apparently decided it can’t compete with Google — on domain names, that is. New higher fees ($35 a year and up), starting today, will likely deter most customers from registering or renewing domains at Yahoo.
Madonna’s new higher ticket prices ensure that everyone who really wants to see the new tour can get in. Only about half the shows sold out instantly when tickets went on sale.
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“Creative destruction” initially described the periodic crises that cleared the ground for the creation of new wealth. More recently, the term has been interpreted by finance capital as the ability to profit at the expense of the majority and their livelihoods. The exhibition reclaims the phrase in order to emphasize the potential to reconfigure and rebuild from pre-existing language for different political purposes. The artworks take aim at how these signs perpetuate a constructed yet naturalized state of inequality. Similar to many of the recent global protest movements, they collectively engage in a critical analysis of the existing socio-economic and ideological order.
Creative Destruction is curated by denisse andrade, Liz Park, Tim Saltarelli, and Kristina Scepanski
and is done in relation to the Helena Rubinstein Curatorial Fellows of the Whitney Museum of American Art Independent Study Program.
Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance has been shooting this week in Cappadocia, Turkey and Marvel Movies! has been collecting images from the production. Some of the brand new shots are featured below, showcasing the rocky sets, a white-masked motorcycle driver (possibly a stunt driver who will be replaced with CGI), a charred motorcycle and some sort of group of robed figures.
The film, a sequel to the 2007 Ghost Rider, is being directed by Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor and will see Johnny Blaze (Cage) recruited by a sect to take on the devil (Ciaran Hinds), who wants to take over his mortal son’s body on the kid’s birthday.
Behind the scenes of Jenna Bedsole’s documentary on an Alabama legal pioneer who braved porch bombs and burning crosses
In 2011, the Alabama State Bar Leadership Forum asked its alumni to create a three-minute video on an inductee into the Alabama Lawyers’ Hall of Fame, and the one that intrigued Jenna Bedsole was Nina Miglionico.
“I started researching her, and soon I found I couldn’t stop,” says Bedsole, who chairs the labor and employment group at Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell & Berkowitz in Birmingham. “Three minutes just wasn’t enough time to tell her story.”
So three minutes turned into an hour-long documentary, Stand Up, Speak Out—The Nina Miglionico Story, which examines the accomplishments of the civil rights-era firebrand.
“She practiced law during a time when there weren’t many women in the field,” Bedsole says. “Her strength and courage really inspired me.”
Miglionico was born in Birmingham in 1913 to Italian immigrants. She graduated valedictorian of Howard College (now Samford University) in 1933 and went to law school at the University of Alabama. Early in her career, she became an activist for social justice. In 1963 she won a seat on the city council, which she held for 23 years.
“Her biggest achievements were voting to repeal the segregation laws and advocating that women be allowed to serve on juries in Alabama,” Bedsole says, referring to White v. Cook, which granted jury privileges to women and African-Americans in 1966.
Miglionico’s unflinching stance on integration made her a controversial figure, and a target, in the city then known as “Bombingham.” In 1965, just before her first re-election to the council, 60 sticks of dynamite were left on her porch. When she became the first woman in Alabama to be nominated for a congressional seat, the Ku Klux Klan burned a cross in her yard.
Miglionico, all of 5-foot-2, also worked to improve prison conditions; revise the probate laws that denied women inheritance; and eliminate the poll tax. She was lobbying for equal pay as far back as 1964. She kept up these reform efforts until her death in 2009. She remains the longest-practicing female attorney in the state’s history.
The documentary weaves in Miglionico’s words among interviews with other pioneering Alabama leaders, including the first African-American woman elected as a judge and the first woman senator. Referring to her as “Miss Nina,” they talk warmly about her trailblazing achievements, while the son of her paralegal recounts how Miglionico paid for his college education.
The documentary screened at the Sidewalk Film Festival in Birmingham in August, and it likely will air on Alabama public television. “We’ve also been contacted by a distributor in New York who sells films to educational institutions,” Bedsole says.
One of Miglionico’s most lasting contributions, Bedsole says, was mentoring dozens of young women at Cumberland law school.
“It’s great to be the first—to be one,” Miglionico once said, “but it’s the two, three and four that come after you that is the telling thing.”
1981 Retires from city council; persuades colleagues to revise City Hall sign from “Cities are what men make them” to “Cities are what we make them”
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“You run like a girl” or “you throw like a girl” are common insults we’ve all heard or said at one point. Always, the leader in global feminine care, is launching a new campaign today to change the negative perception of the phrase and make “like a girl” a declaration that means downright amazing. The global campaign aims to help girls, especially as they enter puberty, feel proud and confident when they do things #LikeAGirl. A new Always-sponsored survey by Research Now found the start of puberty and their first period mark the lowest moments in confidence for girls.* Harmful words can add to that drop in confidence. As part of the new #LikeAGirl campaign, Always partnered with award-winning documentary filmmaker Lauren Greenfield to conduct a social experiment to see how people of all ages interpret the phrase “Like a Girl.”
“In my work as a documentarian, I have witnessed the confidence crisis among girls and the negative impact of stereotypes first-hand,” said Greenfield. “When the words ‘like a girl’ are used to mean something bad, it is profoundly disempowering. I am proud to partner with Always to shed light on how this simple phrase can have a significant and long-lasting impact on girls and women. I am excited to be a part of the movement to redefine ‘like a girl’ into a positive affirmation.”
The Always social experiment, captured on video http://youtu.be/XjJQBjWYDTs, clearly shows how people of all ages interpret the phrase “like a girl” differently, particularly younger and older girls. Young girls between the ages of 5 and 13-years-old launched fearless karate kicks when asked to throw, run or fight “like a girl” respectively. The older girls fulfilled the negative stereotype – a 20-year-old marathoner flailed her legs and mockingly expressed angst about her hair when asked to “run like a girl,” a 19-year-old with toned arms flapped her hands to demonstrate “fight like a girl,” and a 14-year-old volleyball player lamely flung her arm when asked to “throw like a girl.” The experiment also demonstrated clearly how a little encouragement can go a long way in changing girls’ perceptions of what it means to be a girl.
Always has been empowering girls through puberty education for over 30 years, reaching between 17 and 20 million girls globally every year. With this new campaign, Always continues to champion girls’ confidence by taking a stand to turn “Like a Girl” into a phrase that represents the strength, talent, character and downright amazingness of every girl. Always is raising awareness about the confidence plummet that happens to girls at puberty, spurring conversation to help rethink and redefine the common words and phrases used in society that imply girls are weak or inferior. Always wants to drive thoughtful consideration of how these hurtful words impact her confidence, particularly at one of the most impressionable times of her life.
“I am proud of the Always commitment to help girls build their confidence at puberty and beyond, especially as a father of three young girls,” said Edgar Sandoval, Vice President of Global Feminine Care, Procter & Gamble. “I’m touched by our new #LikeAGirl campaign, because every girl is capable of greatness and we must continue to empower them to grow into strong, amazing women tomorrow.”
• More than half of girls (about 1 out of 2 or 56 percent) claimed to experience a drop in confidence at puberty.
• Lowest confidence moments for girls were when puberty started and when they got their first period; a close second were starting middle and junior high school.*
• Hispanic females cited the largest drop in confidence at puberty (60 percent), while fewer African American girls (50 percent) claimed to have a drop in confidence than Hispanic or Caucasian girls.
• Girls who saw a drop in confidence during puberty are more likely to claim they started puberty either before or after their friends.
• The advice most females would give to their younger selves is “you’re not alone” and “you’re not as awkward as you feel.”
• The majority (89 percent) of females aged 16-24 agree that words can be harmful, especially to girls.
• More than half (57 percent) of females think there should be a movement to change the negative perception of the phrase “like a girl.”
• Four in five (81 percent) girls would support Always in creating a movement to change the negative perception of “like a girl.”
The Always Puberty & Confidence Study was conducted using the Research Now Panel that surveyed 1,300 American Females aged 16 to 24 years old. There was a nationally representative sample group of 1,000 females as well as an additional boost of 150 African American and 150 Hispanic American females. The survey was implemented between the dates of May 22, 2014 through May 28, 2014.
*Of 13 other milestones. Milestones include: “when you got your first car”; “your first love”; “at college”; “when you started working”; “when you got your first boyfriend/girlfriend”; “in high school”; “your first date”; “when you hear people being teased with ‘like a girl’”; “in junior high school”; “in middle school”; “when puberty started”; “when you got your first period.”
The National Association of Television Program Executives, better known as NATPE, has added three execs to its board and confirmed its January conference in Miami will feature the first public remarks by the newly minted co-chairs of NBC Entertainment. The new board members are Susanne Daniels, Global Head of Original Content at YouTube; Kathleen Finch, Chief Lifestyle Brands Officer at Discovery; and Brett Hansen, Head of Alternative Television at UTA. Their addition to…
A study released Thursday says the U.S.-led war on terrorism has killed about 507,000 people in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan during its 17 years and is showing a 22 percent increase in deaths in the past two years. The death toll includes U.S. and allied troops, civilians in the war zones, local military and police forces, as well as militants, who have died from war violence, according to the report by Brown University's Costs of War Project. The report said the number of indirect deaths was several times larger than deaths caused by direct war violence, bringing the total death count to well over 1 million people. Fatalities in Afghanistan, as of October 2018, stood at about 147,000 people, including Afghan security forces, civilians and opposition fighters. The figure also included the deaths of 6,334 American soldiers and contractors, as well as more than 1,100 allied troops. The report said that war-related violence had killed 65,000 people in neighboring Pakistan, including 90 American contractors, nearly 9,000 local security personnel and more than 23,000 civilians. The rest of the casualties were anti-government fighters. The rest of the deaths, between 268,000 and 295,000, occurred in Iraq, where the U.S.-led military intervention began in 2003. "Though the war on terror is often overlooked by the American public, press and lawmakers, the increased body count signals that, far from diminishing, this war remains intense," the report said. It also lamented that the U.S. wars have displaced millions of people in Afghanistan, Iraq and Pakistan. "This update just scratches the surface of the human consequences of 17 years of war," the report warned in its concluding lines. While the casualties in Pakistan have dropped by more than 80 percent in the past few years, intensified hostilities in Afghanistan continue to inflict record levels of casualties on civilians and pro-government forces. The year 2018, observers say, appears to be the deadliest so far since the conflict began 17 years ago.
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We all love to think about the possibilities in the future, but what are the trends in automotive design? TheCoolest.com posted an article that we thought provided a deep look at what is coming in the future of automobiles.
There’s a problem among wholly electric vehicles that engineers are still working to solve: battery capacity and charge times keep drivers within a limited driving range. Some solutions are in the works, but they remain several technological generations away. A widely-accessible, affordable solution isn’t likely to be available in 2020, but there is a vast network of diesel fuel pumps available to distance drivers.
Link is powered by a plug-in electric and turbodiesel drivetrain, the former providing 300+ miles per charge and the latter facilitating high-efficiency driving on longer trips. Manufacturers like Tesla, who have opened their patents to use by other car companies, will work to increase battery capacity amongst the generation of vehicles available in 2020. Meanwhile, car companies like BMW, Mercedes, Audi and others have emphasized diesel as a high-efficiency fuel for freeway driving. The BMW 328d for example averages about 45 mpg on the highway, and we expect this to increase as engine technology and fuel quality increases toward 2020.
A combination plug-in electric and turbodiesel hybrid is a new concept, one recently announced by both Volvo and Subaru for forthcoming vehicles. It’s sensible and sustainable, offering an electric option for local driving and an efficient diesel backup for longer trips. By 2020, advances in algae biodiesel and other advanced alternative fuels could make diesel driving the best option for legacy combustion engine vehicles. While most drives wouldn’t require the diesel backup, Link drivers can rest easy knowing that the fuel they use in those instances is clean and efficient compared to 88 octane gasoline.
In recent years, manufacturers have worked to improve performance and efficiency by cutting curb weight to improve power-to-weight ratios. Others have focused on lower, wider and longer body shapes to improve aerodynamics, interior space and visual appeal. In Link, we’ve emphasized all three, designing a broad, low and lightweight body for performance, comfort and efficiency. The broad shape improves interior space, the low ride height improves aerodynamic performance and the emphasis on lightweight construction improves the drivetrain’s power and efficiency.
These points of emphasis are not new — they represent a growing trend in automotive design. We visited our friends at Cadillac at the Detroit Auto Show for the reveal of the 2015 Cadillac ATS Coupe, and they strongly emphasized their design focus of “longer, lower, leaner”. For parallel-parking urban drivers, we avoided an overly long design, but the focus here is a common cause for forward-thinking car companies.
A common element in recent concept car designs has been panoramic roofs, roofs with expanded sunroof panels or windows that expand onto the roofline. We played with the idea of a panoramic roofline for Link, as shown in the early sketch above. Using current consumer options, such a roof line would be impossible, since rollover crashes and other impacts would make this option a serious safety hazard. In recent years, however, glass technologies have evolved quickly. Driven largely by mobile phone and tablet computer demands, glass and high-impact plastics have been designed to handle heavy use, shocks and impacts without failing under the stress. The panoramic roof of Link will include state of the art glass technology that will allow for extended visual access above the passenger cabin. Its support comes from the doors and a central column that expands into the center (translucent supports shield the car in case of a rollover). It’s designed to be shatter-proof, much like Apple’s latest iPad, so it’ll absorb impact like any other body panel.
A compact size is essential to this design, but that doesn’t mean its driver should give up the functionality of a four door. Link has the shape of a coupe but the full functionality of a five door vehicle, thanks in part to its swing-out double doors. Recent city cars like the all-electric BMW i3 and the Honda Element featured similar swing-out double doors. This gives Link four-door access without taking up the body space and additional weight of a traditional four-door vehicle. It’s becoming increasingly commonplace in the concept car circuit, and something we expect to see more of by 2020.
An aggressive headlight design is the mark of a well-designed sports car. Some brands like Audi have connected this trend with an emphasis on efficient, high-output lighting technology. Link shares these traits, with an aggressive set of headlights that use high-efficiency LEDs that provide as much output as they do attitude. While traditional headlights help consume a good amount of fuel on long trips, lights like these sip power while providing a necessary amount of light for safe evening travels.
Braking expends a lot of kinetic energy, as thousands of pounds in momentum are brought to a standing stop. In the past, engineers have discovered ways of harvesting this kinetic energy and storing it for reuse. This technology is called regenerative braking, and it has been used in trains, pedal assist bicycles and some cars for many years. Today, only a few electric cars use this, including all Tesla models, but it has yet to be widely implemented. Link is designed to feature regenerative braking, reflecting a belief that such technology will be commonplace in the electric vehicles of 2020.
Driverless cars cannot operate on software alone. An array of exterior cameras and sensors are necessary to provide the car’s computer with the information it needs for automated driving. Such technological evolutions are far from science fiction — they are being designed and built into forthcoming vehicles now to be ready for future software systems. We mentioned the 2015 Cadillac ATS Coupe above, and it features this trend too. Cars like the ATS Coupe and the Mercedes Benz S550 both feature a complicated array of cameras and sensors which provide roadway awareness for the driver, and even some automated driving capabilities. For Link to be compatible with evolving driverless software, it features an array of cameras mounted in the grille, the side mirrors and the rear end to capture information about the road from every viewing angle.
The visual real estate on the interior of the windshield is a prime location for information display. With Heads-Up-Display (HUD) technology, a driver can see information about the car and the environment around them without taking their eyes off the road. Everything from speed to navigation to safety alerts can be shown on the windshield to inform the driver in the safest way possible.
This isn’t distant-future technology — there are systems in place today to provide such information. However, as vehicles become more automated to the point of being fully driverless, HUD technologies will become more useful. Link is designed to feature a HUD system for both active driving and passive, driverless settings. It can be turned off completely for traditional motoring, switched on for driving assist (with navigation and safety information on screen) or entirely automated with a full set of screens and apps. To keep the passenger safe during driverless modes, Link’s HUD goes transparent as soon as the driver touches the wheel.
This year, Apple revealed CarPlay for next-gen car operating systems. CarPlay brings Siri to the automobile, providing a voice-activated speech-and-response system for controlling the car’s media and navigational environment. By 2020, such systems will be designed to do more heavy lifting. In the case of Link, voice-activated systems will control most of the car’s functionality. A driver will have verbal control of the vehicle for all non-basic functions. When driving, commands such as “hold speed at 55” will suffice for cruise control, “brights please” will activate high beams, and, in driverless mode, a passenger can speak an address and the car will navigate to that spot under its own control. Basic media and navigation systems can already be controlled by voice, but by 2020, some cars will be navigable and functionally controlled by voice.
Driverless technology is closer than most of us realize. In fact, many vehicles that are available today have drive-assist systems built in. Far beyond cruise control, some current commercially-available consumer vehicles can maintain set speeds, stay between highway lines and brake at the pace of other cars. Many manufacturers are already building sensor arrays and cameras into their vehicles for the 2015 model year. By 2020, such sensor arrays might be standard for the majority of new vehicles produces in the US. In the near future, driverless systems could be pure software technologies that use a hardware standard shared between manufacturers that grow and evolve by version just like today’s mobile operating systems.
Link is designed to be “driverless-ready”, featuring the camera and sensor arrays that will be necessary for driverless systems. Yet the interior is not designed for the “driver” to turn his or her back to the road. Cars in the distant future may be built without traditional windshields and steering wheels. Link, however, is the car of the future that bridges the gap between this generation and the next. It’s designed to allow its driver and passengers to have a traditional driving experience with all of the functionality necessary for driverless transit. Its driver can tune out for a long commute, but take the wheel in a moments notice should they want to take over.
What do you hope to see in the car of the future? These 10 trends represent a clear shot toward the cars we might be driving in 2020. While driverless technologies and next gen powertrains will evolve quickly, we see a vehicle that will bridge the gap between our automotive past and our automated future. We call it Link, and we’d love to know how you’d shape the car of the future in your eyes.
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Hunter education is available as either TRADITIONAL or ON-LINE courses in the states of Washington and Oregon. Oregon also offers a workbook option.
Instructor-led courses are considered the best option for students under 14 years of age and/or for individuals having minimal hunting experience.
These 13 to 18 hour courses provide students with the highest level of interactive, hands-on training from experienced, certified, volunteer instructors.
Course curriculum includes firearm safety and handling, hunter ethics, wildlife management and conservation, survival and regulations.
Students must also attend a field exercise which includes a final examination, live-fire and safe firearm handling.
Students will be evaluated on their class participation, exam score, field exercise participation and safety during the live-fire exercise.
On-line courses and Field Skills Evaluations are provided by the Department of Fish and Wildlife in the states of Oregon and Washington through HunterCourse.com. All questions and inquiries concerning that should be directed to those agencies.
Scheduled hunter courses may be posted on the club's event calendar. Please check the links for the latest available course scheduling.
This is a two prong approach to a situation I'm looking at for the place I work. Like many industrial/commercial OEM's you have to cater to the single phase end of things as well as 3-phase. I want to get away from single phase motors and stick to 3-phase. No start windings, no capacitors, no extra mechanical bits. In terms of reliability, if I can remove all single phase motors from my shelf (but still cater to the 230V crowd), I will be a happy man.
My question is, is there a "barebones" VFD/Driver on the market that essentially only packs a handful of features:
Handle from 1/2 HP to 5 HP capacities (should just be a heatsink and internal component sizing at that point?)
I've been looking for sometime reputable with a ultra-simplified feature list but had no avail. At this point, I'm ready to build one from scratch if that's what needs to be done. I figured if anyone will know it will be you folks here...I've looked through ACTech, ABB, Siemens, Mitsubishi, etc...but no luck. If there isn't anything terribly cost effective on the market, what are we looking at if I wanted to hire someone smarter than myself to help tackle getting one put together?
Are you looking for something basic just to try to keep costs down? I don't think you can do much better bang-for-buck wise than the GS1/GS2 drives sold by Automation Direct, which are simplified siblings of the GS3 Durapulse drives. (I'm sure you can get drives that cost less to buy, but the support and supply chain behind the the drive has to be factored in as well. This is also an important consideration when thinking about rolling your own.) Even the GS1s have more features than you asked for, but you can certainly set them up with basic start/stop controls, ramp up/down, etc. The only part I think you're going to have trouble with is single phase input at >2HP.
VFDs cost money, it’s as simple as that. Don’t try building your own unless you need many thousand per year. It will take ages and you won’t get good economies or scale. Also, if you pursue the cheapest possible drive you’re probably making some sacrifices on reliability/lifespan.
You may be able to find motors with integrated drives. These are quite easy to deploy and may be a useful option.
On the EMC front, you also need to consider a) fitting EMC filters onto the drives ($) or b) getting drives with filters built in ($) or c) using screened cabling from the drive to the motor ($). It’s $ all round, I’m afraid.
One possibility for getting people to try VFDs is to talk up the soft start, soft stop and variable speed features. These features can really help with the mechanical side of a process (e.g. don’t need dampers, cut down pressure spikes in pipelines).
Please note that almost all VFDs have big DC capacitors inside which will suck down big inrush currents, and most VFDs will generate harmonic currents (especially with single phase supply).
A 400W driver will be very different from a 4kW driver, they should be different products, is not only matter of bigger heatsink, the cost and performance differences are too big to have just one model
All drivers have some kind of overload protection. Or in case of FOC inverters they don't overload, they just regulate the speed/power to the maximum possible without overload
Depending on where you live you will be required to have power factor correction on single phase for more than 200W. Even if isn't required, it is very recommendable
EMC is a world on itself. It isn't as easy as buying a filter (if you want to do it properly) and it depends if you have to comply with an specific EMC standard
It is VERY different if you just need 10~100 VFDs in total or if you need >1000 per month. If it's the first, just buy something already done, unless you want to learn and you are ready to spend more resources than what those drivers would cost.
Thanks for all the insight on these...appreciated. It's certainly on the scale of 500+ a year but even then, yes they are going to be a cost. I definitely understand that...after watching a few tear downs I certainly have a new respect for what goes into one as far as controls/brains go. I didn't even think to look into Automation Direct for them, so I will give a couple a try on a trial basis.
@Jbb Agreed, they are costly and for good reason. Certainly you have to know when to draw the line on "too cheap" just buys you headaches in the future which nobody likes.
Ever wonder how you would get your companion back if they ran away and got lost? We can provide microchip implantation services so that you will be contacted if your companion enters an animal control facility or veterinary clinic when they are lost. The information contained in the microchip can be linked back to you and can help to reunite you and your companion.
FABRE TP aims to support stakeholder involvement in the set up of a partnership led by industry to tackle major issues concerning sustainable animal breeding and reproduction in Europe, and taking into account what is happening in the developing world.
The Animal Task Force is a European Public-Private Platform which promotes a sustainable and competitive livestock sector in Europe. It is a leading body of expertise, representing key stakeholders from industry, farmers and research from across Europe.
The European research project FISHBOOST will advance European aquaculture to the next level by developing balanced and sustainable breeding programmes to improve breeding programmes for the six main fin fish species. For more information visit the FISHBOOST website.
SAPHIR aims to develop vaccine strategies effective against endemic pathogens responsible for high economic losses in livestock in order to strengthen the profitability of food animal systems, improve animal welfare and reduce xenobiotic usage in farming with a One Health perspective. Check http://www.h2020-saphir.eu/ for more information on the SAPHIR project.
GenTORE – “GENomic management Tools to Optimize Resilience and Efficiency” - is a H2020 project that aims to develop innovative genome-enabled selection and management tools to optimize cattle resilience and efficiency (R&E) in widely varying and changing environments. GenTORE will improve the ability of the European beef and dairy cattle livestock sector to become more resilient and efficient by translating innovative breeding opportunities into practical solutions at farm level. For more information visit the GenTORE website.
IMAGE is an H2020 project which stands for Innovative Management of Animal Genetic resources. It aims at enhancing the use of genetic collections and upgrading animal gene bank management. The ultimate goal of the project is to demonstrate the benefits brought by gene banks to the development of more sustainable livestock farming systems. For more information visit the IMAGE website
The European FP7 project PROHEALTH aims to contribute to our understanding of the multifactorial dimension of animal pathologies linked to the intensification of production and to help provide effective control strategies to reduce the impact on animal welfare including health.The project will address the production diseases of pigs, broilers and egg laying chickens and turkeys in a wide range of intensive systems across Europe. For more information visit the PROHEALTH website.
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As a new professional, I find myself allowing my occupation to consume my life. When I wake in the morning, I am already formulating a plan to make the most of my day for my students. By the time I try to sleep at night, I’m already focused on what tomorrow is going to bring within my hall. My co-workers have become my family and friends, and Muncie, Indiana my new home. Fortunately, the power of symbolism helped reinstate balance to my life.
Recently, a dearly missed friend mailed me a key. This was no ordinary key, however, as it is the only key remaining to what used to be my childhood home. By receiving this key in the mail, I realized I had been neglecting some of the most important people in my life—my family. The people who have always supported me and never doubted me I had let fall onto the backburner. I had become so consumed by my work that I had forgotten some of the people who meant the most to me. This simple key had long expired and no longer held its intended use; however it still had the power to bring me home.
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While I will continue to wake up in the morning excited for the day at hand, and during the evening my thoughts will continue to be focused on my amazing students, I will no longer take those who mean the most to me for granted. And to think, all it took was a simple key.
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This volume forms part of the on-going publication of the collections of terracottas in the Museo Nazionale Romano in Rome. Focused on waterspouts and protomes from lateral simas that edged the eaves of tiled roofs, the work comprises a catalogue of 501 examples, subdivided by subject type and mould sequences. Appendices include a marble panther-head waterspout, and eighty-one additions to the previously published catalogue of antefixes (P. Pensabene, R. Sanzi Di Mino, Il Museo Nazionale romano. Le Terrecotte III, 1. Le Antefisse, rome 1983). A large portion of the pieces come from the Gorgo collection.
The waterspouts include 189 examples of lion heads, 2 of panthers, 292 protomes of dogs, one boar's head, 44 Silen heads/theatrical masks and one human head. The majority range in date from the first century B.C. to the first A.D., primarily in the Augustan and Julio-Claudian periods, and come mostly from Rome and Latium.
As pointed out in the introduction, after the abandonment of the great centers of production of architectural terracottas such as Orvieto and Civita Castellana, Rome became the home of workshops whose models and types were of Greek origin, but soon developed an individual style that became common throughout Central Italy. Characteristic of these workshops are the so-called Campana reliefs, palmette antefixes and lateral simas with geometric and floral motifs, almost always using waterspouts with human and animal protomes. Their employment was mainly on houses and villas, particularly in the atriums and peristyles. Their numbers indicate an intensification of building activity in the first century B.C., with an expansion in the utilization of architectural terracottas to include not just sacred buildings but also civic and private structures.
Because the examples come mainly from old collections, there are mostly no archaeological contexts with which to date them. Therefore, the discussion includes comparable examples that come from datable buildings such as the Temple of Diana at Norba and the Villa of Livia at Prima Porta. Close parallels for the canine protomes come from contexts in Pompei, but these have never been properly studied or published in detail.
The waterspouts were mostly produced in moulds, and then re-touched while the clay was still damp, particularly for hair on the dogs and on the manes of felines. Generations of moulds were created through the production of new moulds from actual examples, and many different types may have been produced from a single prototype that has been re-worked. Some apparent spouts are not actually functional, particularly the canine protomes, which often are not pierced to allow water to escape through the channel designed between the forepaws.
Of especial use are the general discussions of each type of waterspout that precedes the catalogue. For the lion-head spouts, pages 19-24 are devoted to the historical and typological background for the pieces in the Rome collection. Signaling the two diverse architectural traditions that co-existed in Italy from the Archaic to the Hellenistic period, that of the Etrusco-Italic regions and a second of the area of Magna Graecia and Sicily, Pensabene gives a succinct summary of the styles and their origins, often tracing them back to mainland Greek prototypes or those in major Hellenistic centers such as Didyma, Samothrace, and Priene. Equally valuable, though brief, is the discussion on the use and decoration of the simas, pages 24-27. Regrettably, there is no speculation on the origins of simas and waterspouts nor discussion of some of the earliest examples, such as that on a workshop roof at Poggio Civitate (Murlo, near Siena), datable in the second half of the 7th century B.C. The lion-head spouts in the Rome collection date mostly to period between the first century B.C. and first A.D., with one example of unknown provenience dated to the 6th century B.C., three examples datable to the 4th/3rd century B.C. and ninety-two pieces from the 2nd century B.C. Sanctuary of Diana at Norba.
In the section on the origin and symbolism of the canine protomes (pp. 47-48), the most numerous category of examples in the collection, Pensabene points out the rarity of the subject in Greek architecture compared to the popularity it enjoyed in Italy. The Temple of Artemis in Epidauros, however, employed waterspouts of dog protomes and this had widespread following in Campania and Latium in the second and first centuries B.C., particularly in compluviums and peristyles of private residences. The author attributes this popularity to the symbolism of the dog in the Greco-Roman world, originally valued primarily as a hunter and, as such, the indispensable companion of gods and particularly of Artemis. But eventually the dog assumed the role of guardian and companion, and obtained apotropaic powers. Ancient authors attributed dogs with the power to forewarn of the arrival of danger and recommended their use as guardians of temples for this reason.
Dog protomes in Italy were used almost exclusively on private buildings, as witnessed primarily in Pompei. Sacred contexts are not altogether unknown, such as in the Sanctuary of the Great Mother on the Palatine, where they may have decorated colonnades during the Augustan phase. The period of maximum usage is, in fact, during the Augustan period, and the areas in which they are most frequently encountered are Latium and Campania. Unlike the feline waterspouts that depict only the head of the beast, with water expelled through the open mouth, the canine spouts include the entire forequarters, with an opening between the paws for draining the rainwater from the roof.
Boar's head spouts, by far the rarest type, may have been used only at the corners of simas, as was the case already on the Temple of Artemis at Epidauros and can be verified also in Pompei as well as with the example in the Museo Nazionale Romano (cat. No. 439).
Among the waterspouts that depict human-like heads are Silens and, more rarely, maenads. Occasionally, the Silen heads are depicted as theatrical masks. Pensabene associates all of these with an originally symbolic significance, connected to the cult of Dionysos. Possible confirmation for this is found in the decoration on the lateral simas using this type of spout, where scenes of Cupids on panthers also refer to a Dionysiac cortege.
Special mention is made (p. 65) of the exceptional and well-preserved corner tile decorated with the head of Achelous, found recently in the excavations of a villa near the via Flaminia. The piece is variously dated late 5th or 4th century B.C. and has the opening for the spout below the beard of the river god.
The catalogue forms the bulk of the publication, comprising pp. 75-262. Each piece is classified according to type, and each entry records provenience, where known, a good description, measurements, and bibliography, if published. Unique pieces receive a fuller discussion, fitting the example into the larger picture. Photographs are mostly good quality, though some are poorly oriented and no scales are used.
Altogether this is a careful and scholarly publication of the material and a worthy successor to the volume on antefixes. These volumes will serve as a manual for excavators in Central Italy to determine the type and date of the examples they find. One of the most interesting points that emerges from this book is the fact that lateral simas with lion-head waterspouts, a type that forms the hallmark of the roofs of Archaic and Classical temples in Magna Graecia and Sicily and of stoas in Greece from the late 5th and 4th century B.C. on, are relatively rare in Central Italy until late in the Hellenistic period.
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A 21-year-old man suspected of at least two armed street robberies in Palo Alto could face a "three strikes" sentence that could put him behind bars for life if convicted, a Santa Clara County prosecutor said Friday (Jan. 7).
Vilivuni Fono of East Palo Alto faces two robbery charges -- one felony charge each for hold-ups of residents on Oct. 27 and Nov. 5 2010, Deputy District Attorney James Demertzis said. Fono is being held on $100,000 bail in Santa Clara County Main Jail in San Jose.
Court documents show that Fono was previously convicted when a juvenile of carjacking and making criminal threats, both felonies.
The U.S. Supreme Court in April 2010 upheld the authority of California judges to count felony convictions of juveniles as strikes when determining if an adult felon should be sentenced to life in prison.
In California, if the adult was convicted of a serious or violent crime when 16 or 17 it can be considered a strike.
Fono and another as-yet-unidentified male allegedly approached a man as he was entering his Fulton Street apartment complex on Oct. 27. One of the men is alleged to have pulled out a small-caliber handgun and pointed it at the victim's stomach.
The two men allegedly robbed the victim in the complex's lobby, taking his iPad, a gold and jade necklace, a messenger bag, wallet and earphones, police reported. The victim identified Fono as the gunman in a photo lineup, according to the police report.
During the Nov. 5 robbery, Fono and a 16-year-old juvenile male allegedly approached a man on Forest Avenue near downtown Pslo Alto. They allegedly took the man's wallet after pointing a gun at the victim and pistol-whipping him.
The victim sustained a swollen black eye. He later identified the juvenile suspect as the one who held the gun and pistol-whipped him, according to the police report.
The juvenile has admitted his part in the Nov. 5 robbery, according to a police report. He led police to a black replica 6 mm Airsoft Desert Eagle pistol hidden outside his family home, the report stated.
Fono's girlfriend, Ana Loiloi Umufuke, 24, also of East Palo Alto, is charged with one count of robbery -- she was arrested Nov. 23.
She has admitted to being the driver of the getaway car, a red 2003 Dodge Durango, according to police reports. Umufuke has denied she knew what the two males were doing, officers wrote.
Fono is scheduled to appear in court in Palo Alto on Jan. 14; Umufuke is scheduled to appear on Jan. 26.
THIS, hopefully is the "deterrent" part of Punishment that has never come to light. Perhaps finally, now it will.
It seems as if we have created so many criminal and anti-social people in society and the world these days that those who are or want strive to be good are so overwhelmed by having to deal with them in so many ways.
I think there are certain things that when people do they show that they are not fit to live among civilized people. Like the guy who kidnaped and raped and then slammed that girls head against the concrete in Palo Alto ... it is a insult to all people to allow these people multiple chances in society.
Harsh as that may seem, and I know there is no good way to measure it or determine sometimes, but there are some you just know when you read about.
I don't think it is unreasonable to characterize someone who decides that a lifestyle of robbing other people by threatening them with violence, injury and possibly death as not fit to live with human beings in the world. I don't believe in solitary confinement or inhumane conditions, but such people should be put in a safe clean minimal environment and given chances to do something positive, but the rest of us need to always consider such people will sometimes anything to get another chance to express their evil in the world.
Sorry to hear that you threw your life away. You had a second chance, way back when, lots of people saw to that. I really believed in you and thought you would make something of yourself. Guess I was wrong, in the biggest way. Robbing people? Really? Who gave you the stupid pills and when? DId you ever picture any of us who cared about you as you were terrifying people and stealing their belongings? Did it ever occur to you that you were hurting people? I remember the sweet boy with a big smile, but he's gone, replaced by a thug in a mug shot. People will hear your name now and think "Thank God they got that creep off the streets." If there is a shred of the old you left, do your family a favor and try to let the little ones know that following in your footsteps will only lead to life in prison.
A quick thank you to "Maya, a resident of Another Palo Alto neighborhood" for such a thoughtful and sincere comment.
A two-alarm blaze that displaced up to 120 people in East Palo Alto caused more than $320,000 in damage, fire investigators said.
The April 28 fire at an apartment complex at 1 Newell Court was not intentionally set, Fire Chief Harold Schapelhouman said Monday (May 16). The fire caused $300,000 in structural damage and at least $20,000 in loss of personal property, he said.
Due to smoke, heat and fire damage, the blaze razed one third-floor unit and portions of the hallway. Investigators said the fire was accidental and was caused either by a malfunctioning wall heater or combustible items stored near the heater.
The fire broke out at about 6:05 p.m. in the three-story complex. An 18-year-old woman had been working on her computer in the apartment she shared with her mother when the fire broke out. One of the apartment's newly installed smoke detectors alerted her to the fire, according to the Menlo Park Fire Protection District.
The daughter found the fire burning against the bedroom wall and quickly woke her mother, who was sleeping in the room. Both were able to safely escape.
Firefighters had relatively good access to the structure and were able to aggressively stamp out the flames because the unit where the fire started was located on the complex's top story and was adjacent to West Bayshore Road, Schapelhouman said. The complex was not equipped with a sprinkler system.
Amber Lane (3) scored 12 points and had nine assists as the Menlo College women's basketball team opened Cal Pac Conference play with an 82-67 win over La Sierra on Friday. Photo by Brian Byllesby/menlooakssports.com
Laurel Donnenwirth scored 20 points, leading five players in double figure scoring as the NAIA's 13th-ranked Menlo College women's basketball team opened the Cal Pac Conference season with an 82-67 victory over host La Sierra on Friday.
Amber Lane fell an assist short of a double-double. She scored 12 points and recorded nine assists as the Oaks (1-0, 12-3) won their 27th consecutive regular seasons conference contest.
Vanessa D'Amico and Aaliyah Sowards each added 15 points and Jacki Bateman had 11, including a jumper that tied the game at 11 four minutes into the contest.
Bateman's jumper was part of a 7-0 run that put Menlo ahead to stay. D'Amico followed with one of her three 3-pointers.
The Oaks scored the final 10 points of the first half to take a 40-28 at halftime. The Golden Eagles were scoreless over the final 3:26 of the half, missing their last four shots.
Menlo shot 53 percent from the field and held La Sierra to 36 percent shooting. Donnenwirth and Bateman each grabbed seven rebounds as the Oaks outrebounded La Sierra, 43-32.
Jordan Collier had 10 points and 10 rebounds but Menlo College fell behind early and never recovered, losing to host La Sierra, 76-67, in the Cal Pac Conference men's basketball opener on Friday.
The Oaks (0-1, 1-14) conclude a two-game road trip with a nonconference game at CSU San Marcos on Saturday at 3 p.m.
The Golden Eagles went on an 8-0 run to start the game and never trailed despite Menlo's best efforts. La Sierra shot 46 percent from the field, while Menlo was at 32 percent.
The Oaks drew within five when Tyler Evans hit a 3-pointer with 15 seconds remaining, but La Sierra made its free throws down the stretch.
Joe Lonsdale, the co-founder of Palo Alto software company Palantir and a partner at the venture capital firm Formation 8, has been accused of sexual assault, sexual harassment, and other charges in a civil lawsuit filed on Jan. 27 in San Francisco.
Elise Clougherty, whom the lawsuit describes as a former Formation 8 intern and resident of Vienna, Virginia, is named as the plaintiff.
According to the lawsuit, Clougherty and Lonsdale began a romantic relationship in February 2012 after becoming connected in the High Technology Entrepreneurship program at Stanford University, where Clougherty was an undergraduate. Lonsdale is a Stanford alumnus.
The lawsuit alleges that the relationship became abusive after Lonsdale "continuously and systemically subjected Ms. Clougherty to repeated and incessant sexual assaults and abuse, employing psychological manipulation and coercion in order to confuse, isolate, and otherwise disorient Ms. Clougherty from appreciating the true danger of her situation," the complaint claims.
As a result, Clougherty became "damaged and injured physically, emotionally, and financially," and suffered from "pain, anxiety, depression, severe emotional distress, embarrassment, ridicule, and PTSD, as well as loss of health, future relationships, income, employment, and future career benefits and earning potential," the lawsuit reads.
In February 2013, Clougherty and her family reported Lonsdale's actions to Stanford, and the university retained an outside investigator to look into the allegations, according to the lawsuit. The outside investigator found that Lonsdale had "engaged in conduct meeting the definitions of sexual harassment and sexual misconduct under Stanford's Title IX policy, and that it was 'more likely than not that (Ms. Clougherty) expressed to (Mr. Lonsdale) that she did not want to engage in the sexual conduct in question, but that (Mr. Lonsdale) did not comply with (her) request,'" according to the lawsuit.
As a result of the investigation, Stanford banned Lonsdale from the Stanford campus for a minimum of 10 years, according to the lawsuit.
"The lawsuit is a vile collection of lies and a transparent attempt to destroy the reputation and good name of Joe Lonsdale," Kristen Dumont, Lonsdale's lawyer, wrote in a statement to technology-news website TechCrunch. "For nearly two years, Mr. Lonsdale has been eagerly waiting to tell the truth and to fight these defamatory and outlandish allegations. Sunlight is always the best disinfectant and we welcome this fight and our day in court, where facts trump fiction."
Clougherty, who is represented by Hutchinson Black and Cook in Boulder, L. Lin Wood in Atlanta, and the Liu Law Firm in San Francisco, is seeking a jury trial and monetary damages of at least $75,000.
The lawsuit does not involve Stanford University, said Lisa Lapin, associate vice president for university communications. And with respect to the university investigation, federal privacy laws prohibit the university from commenting on the situation, but Lapin said, "Generally ... when the university conducts any investigation, our process allows both parties an opportunity to be heard and to present relevant evidence. In all cases, we endeavor to be fair to both sides."
Thank you to Clougherty and her family for speaking out. This brave action will make academia and the technology industry a safer place for women.
"Clougherty, who is represented by Hutchinson Black and Cook in Boulder, L. Lin Wood in Atlanta, and the Liu Law Firm in San Francisco, is seeking a jury trial and monetary damages of at least $75,000."
If all the accusations are true then Ms. Clougherty should be seeking monetary damages worthy of her education, employment history and earning power. She is quite young and has a whole life in front of her that she will undoubtedly need therapy [portion removed.] Psychologists have researched and determined that PTSD is far worse for sexual harrassment/rape victims than military combat or drone fighters.
There is a lot of unseemly things swirling around this nexus... but if I get specific, I will be censored.
@worth noting -- the PA Online story did not really miss it. In the middle of the full article is a link to Lonsdale's statement, wherein your cited link is a sub-link. As you say, the truth is opaque at this point. Objectivity is likely to be in short supply.
The Stanford Daily Web Link is often a good primary source for news related to the university. Their online article contains the full 27-page Complaint for Damages and Demand for Jury Trial.
Warning: R-rated material, probably what @Palin alluded to above as censorable. TMI as texters say in shorthand. If this does go to trial, it will be interesting to see how the media handle the testimony.
Sorry, missed that on my first read, but I had read the Stanford Daily story, so had noticed the link.
The girls from the Stanford Water Polo Club will take plenty of valuable game experience from the 2015 National Junior Olympics. What the program won't bring home from Orange County, however, is a medal.
Despite some solid efforts on the third of four days of the world's largest water polo tournament, the Stanford WPC girls will come home empty-handed in terms of medals.
In the 18U Championhip bracket, the Stanford A squad split its matches on Saturday at Capistrano Valley High -- defeating Foothill Red A in a shootout and losing to Elite, also in a shootout. Stanford (4-3) will play Huntington Beach Orange A on Sunday for 15th place in the Platinum Division.
The Stanford 18U B squad also split on Saturday, losing to SHAQ A in a shootout before topping Oregon Empire Water Polo by 7-2 at Saddleback College. The B team (2-4) plays for 17th in the Gold Division on Sunday at 1:40 at Saddleback College.
In the 16U Championship bracket, Stanford A dropped a pair of matches at UC Irvine -- a 9-6 decision to Rose Bowl Red A and a 6-5 decision to Diablo Black A. Stanford will face SOCAL Gold B for 11th place in the Platinum Division on Sunday.
In the 16U Classic Division, Stanford B (4-4) fell to Diablo Red B, 6-4, and then was edged by CHAWP Blue B, 7-6, to conclude its tournament at Tustin High.
The Stanford 14U B team split on Saturday at Ocean View High, topping the Santa Clara Swim Club, 6-3, before losing to Viper Pigeon, 12-4. Stanford (1-5) will play Puget Sound Polo on Sunday with no place at stake.
In the 10U Co-Ed Division, Stanford fell to South Bay United WP, 12-2, before beating Admiral Water Polo Foundation, 5-3, and Laguna Beach B, 9-6, at Woodbridge High. Stanford (2-4) will play Irvine Kahuna on Sunday for seventh place in the Gold Division.
Menlo Park fell to American River, 6-3, and to Bakersfield Water Polo Club, 4-2, at El Toro High to drop to 1-5. Menlo Park will wrap up its tourney on Sunday by playing United.
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Has anyone else picked up on the things Dino has mentioned? "push the wood but not touching the blade" and "EZ1 and 2s".
Sounds like some substantial product changes are in the works. I wonder how you can push the wood through the cut and still follow the deadwood concept. Will the EZ2 have a slide?
I've been trying to think of a way to incorporate an EZ-One type of approach with a table saw t-fence running parallel with the track. That way you'd have the convenience of the quick cutting length setting of the t-fence and the safety of the EZ-One system. I've seen several after market table saw fences, but they generally require 2"x3" steel channel to ride on. All that adds considerable weight and cost.
Now, with the EZ-One selling for $750, I doubt it'd be worth my time to rig up a system like I described. The stops on the EZ should provide similar results, but probably take longer to set.
It's fun to guess, but I'm thinking deadwood for big heavy panels. Otherwise, use it as a safe TS since time and time again everyone always mentions how much quicker it feels to just use their TS. Give the people what they want, but with no risk of injury. Everyone wins.
When I first took possession of my EZ-1, I immediately set about to incorporate a fence system like you described. I quickly realized that doing so would have limited the adaptability of the EZ-1 for me and the way I work.
For some EZ-1 users, having a mounted fence is an asset to them. Having a fence semi-permanently mounted on the EZ-1 would have limited me to always needing to reference my material off of the fence. Sometimes, a project is easier done being able to reference the material off of one, or both,or, no sides.
Today was a good example of that: I was playing catch-up on a varied list of projects. Sometimes, I needed to reference off of the stops on the right side of the track; other cuts did better off of the left-side stops. Throw in using the SSRK, and by the time I was finished with all of the tasks, I was very happy to not have a mounted fence.
What works best for me is shown in the pic: a moveable fence (1/2" baltic birch) that can go right, left, angled, completely removed, whatever. Notice in the pic that the 'fence' is up against two stops. I set the fence distance (right-side or left-side) using a simple story-stick (shown in the pic). The end of the story stick indexes off of the track ridge; the fence is then moved up against the 'collar' on the story stick, which I'd set to the desired measurement. Set one end of the fence; set the other end; recheck the first end- it's nigh unto perfect. Very fast and accurate.
Many thanks for your generous offer, Dino, but I actually prefer the foam beam design, especially due to the fact that I don't move my cross pieces. They are permanently held in place by the wooden inserts I've installed between them- perfect for me! I've used the newer EZ-1, and, while it offers potentially more versatility than my version, I still prefer the set-up I have.
Thanks for the ideas and the pic. I guess setting both ends takes a little longer than a TS type fence, but I can see more flexibility with it. . . A couple of the reasons I dumped the Festool tools I had were the extra setup time on sheet goods and the tediousness of trying to rip thin pieces on the MFT. I can see the EZ being less tedious with the stops being on the right side of the track. I guess that's due to many years of using a TS with the fence on the right. Also, you can cut 48" on the EZ vs around 25" or so on the MFT. Aside from the initial cuts on sheet goods length wise, most of my sheet good cuts will, of course, fit on the EZ whereas a lot of my sheetgood cuts couldn't be done on the MFT. Maybe I was just building odd sized cabinets. Actually, the sheetgood cuts I'm making for the cabinet I'm building right now couldn't be done on the MFT. I had to use a job-site table saw I have. And, yes, I had a minor kickback just making those few cuts. Anyway, I'm becoming more and more sold on the EZ route, especially with the sale on the EZ-One.
Just when I start to wonder if we are kind of a bunch of table saw fearing wimps (no offence intended) and wondering if I should buck up and get a table saw to supplement the EZ ... BAM!! You get a minor kickback -
Anytime! It was a pretty minor kickback, but enough to remind me they can idiot proof a TS only so much.
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Celebrating its 25th anniversary in 2018, the United Kingdom Society for Trenchless Technology ( UKSTT ) is a registered charity involved in the development and promotion of Trenchless techniques.
Since its formation in 1993, the Society has based itself in the promotion and education for the effective use of trenchless technology. Membership is open to, as well as being a benefit, to any company or individual with an interest in ‘no-dig’ methods. To find out more, Premier Engineering sat down with UKSTT Chairman Matthew Izzard:
“The chairmanship is a voluntary, two year elected position. We have a main council of 20 people responsible for the running of the organisation. My role as chairman is to oversee the running of the society, both in its entirety and its sub-committees, in an accountable manner. I also represent the UKSTT at different events throughout the world.
“The society has certain legal responsibilities to meet and we also have a Strategic Plan and Risk Mitigation document that guide the decisions that are made.
“I am halfway through my term as chair at the moment. Dawn Greig will take over as chairman in 2019.”
“We were formed in 1993, so this year is our 25th anniversary. The absolute base of what we do is about the promotion and education for the effective use of trenchless technology and the benefits this has to the environment, increasing safety, reduced disruption to the public and reducing the financial cost of civil engineering. We seek to assist companies and organisations in applying it in areas where it’s not at the moment, developing future markets and providing education to our future engineers.
“Our showcase event is the biennial No Dig Live exhibition – now the largest event of its type in the world which is supplemented by Roadshows and MasterClass events. We also offer various different technical events to companies. They are free sessions where we will get one of our representatives to come along and talk about a particular subject. It could be a general overview on a market area – such as water rehabilitation or it could be something more application specific such as horizontal directional drilling.
“We also represent the industry on relevant International Standards committees, work in conjunction with other organisations on Government Steering Groups and have recently agreed a support program with the Department of International Trade to train their Trade Representatives in trenchless technologies to develop export opportunities for our UK manufacturers and suppliers of equipment.
“The UKSTT is an Affiliated Society of the International Society for Trenchless Technology (ISTT) where we have an active voice in working alongside other societies from around the world in promoting, educating and developing the industry.”
As well as being your 25th anniversary, 2018 also saw the return of No-Dig Live. How important is this event to the Society?
“The No-Dig show, held at Peterborough Arena is the largest single focus event we hold, run by Westrade Events. Is is a three day exhibition attended by about 2,000 people. By holding a ‘live’ show this means that people can come along and physically see the equipment working. They’re not just walking past static events. This is supplemented by seminars and presentations and culminated in our Gala & Awards Dinner, recognising the best in our industry.
“Every interim year we then do two or three regional roadshows. They are just one day events rather than three days. They are static exhibitions with series of different conference papers at those events as well. In 2019 we have events planned in Dublin, Scotland and Bristol.”
You are also quite active in education, looking to inspire the next generation. Tell us a bit more about that?
“There are various, different activities that we do but the main one is the university Outreach programme. We offer lecturing services, again free of charge, to universities that run civil engineering courses who wish to include trenchless technology as part of the module.
“In addition to this we also run a successful placement program for member companies wishing to expand the knowledge experience of younger professionals as well as our “Young Professional Award” which carries a £2,000 bursary for the winner to enable them to travel and gain further knowledge by visiting international seminars.”
Is a lack of engagement with young people one of the biggest obstacles facing trenchless technology?
“I’ve never yet met anyone at a school or in higher education that’s said they really want to be involved in trenchless technology! Everyone seems to end up in it by accident. However, once they’re in it, there does seem to be a hook because people tend to stay in the industry for years. It’s one of the nicest things that although we’re a niche part of the utilities industry, there’s a strong bond that exists within all the different companies and organisations.
“We’re trying to be dynamic and are very much focusing on addressing this area and engaging with people. Like a lot of industries these days, we’re losing a lot of experience just through people getting older. We’re trying to go through that transitional stage at the moment, bringing the society up to date and making it more relevant to younger people.
“Anybody under the age of 25 can get free student membership for the UKSTT . This gives them access to things like a dedicated YouTube channel with all the different presentations that we do.
“Accessibility to the society is important on a level members feel comfortable with. Increasingly demand is for ‘instant information’ in small bites, We have therefore increased our digital media platforms, are in the process of re-developing our website (www.ukstt.org.uk) and have a series of webinars in the pipeline. The ISTT Grant funded YouTube Channel has allowed us to broadcast presentations made at these events and membership also allows access to an international library of over 1,500 technical papers.”
“I feel it is very important for the UKSTT to be pro-active and be outward looking in what we do. We are here to work for our membership and listening and understanding their needs is pivotal to the direction the organisation goes.
“Not all members are taking advantages of the benefits of membership. We try to ensure they are getting as most out of this as possible, including free publication of articles in newsletters and social media, discounted advertising and trade show rates, opportunities to be involved in steering groups and presentation sessions and in providing networking platforms for discussion. We also get project enquiries come through our website which we pass out to our membership. Last year we actually got over a £1m worth of projects given to our members through that enquiries service.
“By providing a more dynamic, proactive society this has been reflected in record membership numbers which is very encouraging for the future.”
And finally, with approximately a year left of your time as Chairman, what do you hope to achieve with the rest of your time?
“First and foremost, it’s to hand over a good society to Dawn – to make sure that it’s functioning properly and that it’s going in the right direction. Our main focus at the moment is that drive with the young professionals.
“After the success of the No Dig Live show our team are already planning the next Roadshow, scheduled for Dublin in March, dealing with membership enquiries and at our next Council Meeting have some exciting ideas planned for discussion to provide the best service that we can.”
Global seal and gasket manufacturer VIP-Polymers Ltd began 2018 receiving a commission to supply its VIP-Weco internal seals to repair leaks to a hydro-electric water pipe near Inverness.
Joints at eight locations along the 1.5km pipe were not water tight to the pressure standard demanded for the 1.35MW power project.
Business Development Manager Jim Shaw said: “Our VIP-Weco seals achieved the desired results with complete success and minimum disruption to the operation of the hydro power scheme.
“The defective joints had been caused by settlement of the 6m pipe sections within the trench infill, located along a 100m stretch of the pipe, which began 80m from the entry point. The partners involved in the hydro project urgently wanted a solution that was quick and cost effective to deploy, and they certainly got that with VIP-Weco.”
Sleeves made from EPDM or NBR rubber are applied to the inner wall of the pipe, then held in place by stainless steel retaining bands to create a safe, durable and low-cost mechanical sealing solution.
VIP-Weco seals were installed at five locations (the quickest installation time being just 16 minutes) where the GRP pipe was 1600mm in diameter and two points along a 1400mm diameter polyethylene pipe.
A final seal was installed where the pipe stepped down from 1600mm to 1400mm, with a section of 1600mm ductile iron joining them. A bespoke seal was manufactured, with an extra retention band, to accommodate the 200mm variance in diameters.
Minimising downtime was essential to the success of the pipe rehabilitation project and each metal retaining band was supplied in two sections, making them easier to transport into and along the pipe.
UKSTT provide representation on BSI Working Group B/505/13/01 which under the direction of BSI B505 Wastewater Committee is responsible for providing active participation in the work of CEN Technical Committee CEN TC 165/WG 13 Renovation and Repair of Drains and Sewers.
BSI B/505 Wastewater Committee under the direction of BSI CB/50 Infrastructure Committee, is responsible for the development and maintenance of standards in the engineering aspects of wastewater collection, drainage and treatment, up to the point of disposal. Subjects covered include pipes and fittings, manhole and other access covers, gullies, separators, pipe laying technology, waste outlets and traps, renovation and repair of drains and sewers, drainage systems inside and outside buildings, sewer and drain cleaning operations, positive and negative pressure systems and wastewater treatment plants. This is done in liaison with the B/504 Water Supply Committee.
The membership of B/505/13/01 Working Group comprises of several experience UK and International technical consultants, water plc senior engineers and system practitioner engineers under the chairmanship of Don Ridgers. They meet on a regular basis to provide input into the development of new standards. This can involve reviewing and providing comment on draft standards prepared by CEN Standards Committees or other EU Standards Committees as well as active involvement in developing new standards for adoption by CEN.
1) Assembly of UK comments and on draft standard Specialist Mortars for Sewer Construction and Renovation. This standard is being developed in the following three parts – Part 1 General Performance Requirements, Part 2 – Performance Requirements Particular to Cementitious Mortars and Part 3 – Performance Requirements Particular to Polymeric Mortars.
At present the Working Group are reviewing a draft of part 1 which has been prepared by the German Working Group and is based on the GSTT Bulletin Mortar specifications for Sewage Pipes and Public Drainage Installations. The UK review involves considering the various technical performance parameters and properties of mortars for different applications and test methods to establish compliance to the proposed standard. The initial comments are due for submission to CEN by the end June 2018.
2) The Working Group has provided input into the development of the draft revision of Standard EN 15885, Classification and characteristics of techniques for renovation repair and replacement of drains and sewers. This was circulated to National Committees in April 2018 for approval to progress to publication. This Standard provides an overview of trenchless methods used for renovation and repair of drains and sewers, and for their replacement on the same line, regardless of the material used. In respect of sewer renovation techniques using plastics materials only, it reproduces definitions and other information (but no requirements) contained in EN ISO 11295. Due to their continuous development the most up-to-date information on these particular techniques may be contained in either this document or EN ISO 11295, which ever is the latest edition.
3) BSI Working Group B/505/13/01 have also provided input and comment in recent years on the development of following standards which are currently at draft outline stage:
BS EN ISO 11296 Plastics piping systems for renovation of underground non-pressure drainage and sewerage networks – Part 1: General, Part 2: Lining with continuous pipes, Part 3: Lining with close-fit pipes, Part 4: Lining with cured-in-place pipes and Part 7: Lining with spirally-wound pipes
BS EN ISO 11297 Plastics piping systems for renovation of underground drainage and sewerage networks under pressure – Part 1: General, Part 2: Lining with continuous pipes Part 3: Lining with close-fit pipes and Part 4: Lining with cured-in-place pipes
These standards still require the addition of structural design information for renovation systems. UK Working Group Member, Dr John Gumbel, is liaising with both German and Austrian representatives to prepare these standards. ISO have indicated that they would be interested in participating in this work with the aim of creating ISO EN standards. Initially it has been considered prudent to focus this work on gravity sewer applications although there is support in ISO for a standard on the design of pressure systems.
The UKSTT are represented on the B/505/13/01 Working Party by Council Member Norman Howell who will be pleased to provide members with further information on request through the UKSTT Secretariat.
When Scottish Power Energy Networks (SPEN) needed to install a 180mm electrical duct at a busy roundabout junction and under tram lines in Birkenhead, they were told by other engineering companies that it just wasn’t possible. With a number of existing utilities in the way it looked like the only options would be to trench, or abandon the plan altogether.
Luckily, this is exactly the sort of project where Mole Utilities come into our own. With our background in civil engineering, 30 years of experience and specialist equipment, we identified a possible route and completed the work with minimal disruption.
The challenges included a busy road junction which couldn’t be closed to traffic and existing pipes and cables at various depths. To install a 180mm duct we scanned the site to carefully plan an exact route and drilled down to a depth of 4m to be certain not to intersect gas and water pipes. There was no room for error but with scans of the ground completed and continual tracking our team were confident.
The path of that the cables needed to take passed directly through a major road junction which provides access to the town centre, ferry terminal, local collage and business park. Understandably the local council would not give permissions to close any part of the road – with over 20,000 vehicles using the road each year the disruption to traffic, even for a short time, was not an option.
Restricted access at all of the entry and exit points meant that the route had to be meticulously planned and followed to the inch. Our small scale drilling rig meant that just a tiny space needed to be cordoned off from pedestrians and our trained operatives hit the mark every time.
Kilbride Environmental Services are based in Gateshead and provide a wide range of innovative cleaning and inspection solutions for potable water, wastewater and industrial pipelines and related structures. They are the developer of the award-winning Typhoon High Pressure Water Cleaning System that provides outstanding cleaning results for a wide range of pipelines. It offers a long-range solution from a single point access, utilises water recycling to minimise water usage and can be used in both urban and rural environments. Since its introduction in 2008 over 150,000 kilometres of pipeline in the diameter range 300 to 1800mm have been successfully cleaned.
Kilbride were recently commissioned by United Utilities to clean sections of 400mm diameter unlined ductile iron pipes which form the outlets from three second stage filter tanks at Mitchell House Water Treatment Works located in Accrington.
The pipelines were located within the Treatment Works building and had a complex configuration that included several bends and upstands together with in line valves. These pipes contained a build-up of scale as well as other debris and Kilbride used the Typhoon Cleaning System to remove this material and provide an exemplary clean to this pipework. Access to the building for the jetting and suction hoses was gained through a pedestrian fire door with access to all the pipework from the three tanks being achieved by the removal a 90-degree bend. A recycling vehicle was sited outside the building adjacent to the access doorway and provided the jetting and suction capability for the cleaning work.
All the works were successfully completed within one working day and demonstrated the versatility of the Typhoon System to clean complex sections of pipeline situated within confined locations alongside its ability to clean long lengths of large diameter pipelines.
Originally founded in 1983, PMP Utilities has over 35 years’ experience of safe working in high risk confined spaces; providing bespoke engineering solutions, often working in confined spaces and at height. We are renowned for our ability to generate new and innovative solutions to often complex and difficult mechanical engineering problems, with a view to minimising the disruption caused by traditional access methods and solutions.
PMP’s 16,000 sq ft headquarters in Burnley contains an engineering machine shop and large fabrication floor areas which enable us to fabricate our own temporary works and plan our work methods around the most practical and cost-effective approach. The building also houses mobilisation, training areas and storage for the rope access and confined space rescue equipment, as well as modern welfare areas for the 30 strong operational team.
PMP is the UK’s sole agent for the AMEX® -10 Pipe Joint Repair System; a WRAS approved mechanical seal for the internal repair of leaking pipelines.
These seals offer a No Dig / Trenchless Solution, minimising the need for invasive access, for internally repairing leaking joints and radial cracks, as well as isolated damage in pipelines.
AMEX-10® seals provide a new water and air tight seal which spans the leaking joint and surrounding area. They are fitted from pipe to pipe, which allows for movement from articulation, elongation and rotation and can be used in pipelines of any diameter where safe man access is achievable.
With the ability to provide our own dedicated teams, including rescue, we offer a single interface for the client to manage, that integrates the specialities, greatly reduces risk, cost and time compared with managing several independent subcontractors.
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NAPF response outlines the impact of the proposals on DB pension schemes, sets out the NAPF's views on the current approah to pensions accounting, sets out NAPF's views and recommendations on key proposals in the ASB's paper and responds to the ASB's specific questions.
For some individuals, footwear is an imperative part of musculoskeletal wellbeing. Shoes that are exhausted or composed without the requirements of the human body as a main priority – for instance, high foot sole areas – can cause joint pressure and postural brokenness after some time. For sprinters and different competitors, the significance of proper footwear is considerably more noteworthy. Worn shoes can expand joint pressure, and an absence of lower leg support can build the danger of lower leg rolling.
What sort of running show is best to prevent damage? This is the theme of some verbal confrontation, and the degree to which a unique running shoe can avert damage has as of late been raised doubt about.
Padded running shoes are accepted by some to help avert wounds by better engrossing stun. They fall in a long queue of propelling shoe innovation, which incorporates movement control shoes and rocker shoes. These last two were advertised as damage reducers, yet inquire about repudiated those cases.
On account of a current report, padded running shoes may join the positions of fizzled shoe advancements as far as lessening damage hazard for sprinters. The investigation partitioned 247 sprinters into two gatherings, appointing one gathering a hard shoe and the other, a delicate, padded shoe. The analysts looked at running-related damage rates among members in the two gatherings over a five-month time frame. To their own shock, the analysts found that there was no noteworthy contrast in damage rate between the two gatherings.
It ought to be noticed that a five-month duration might not have been sufficiently long to identify any positive effects padded shoes may have on running damage hazard after some time. It’s as yet conceivable that joints may encounter less wear and tear throughout the years when padded shoes are utilized. Consequently, the takeaway from this investigation ought not be that the advantages of padded shoes have been disproven. In spite of the fact that, the possibility that sprinters are at high danger of joint wear regardless might be a confusion; in a long haul ponder directed by the Stanford University School of Medicine, specialists took after 500 sprinters and a comparative number of non-sprinters for over 20 years and discovered practically identical osteoarthritis frequency between the gatherings. See more on this at http://med.stanford.edu/news_releases/2008/august/running.html.
The takeaways from the investigation into padded shoes ought to be: 1) Don’t anticipate that a shoe will tackle every one of your issues; and 2) the examination distinguished other defensive elements, in particular, customary running and standard interest in different kinds of game movement. Keeping a solid and adjusted body is the most ideal approach to counteract running wounds.
Everywhere you look, there is technology and not only does it make life easy, but it also helps save on resources, not to mention enabling you to maximize on your business potential. Many small businessowners have a misconception that technology is only meant for big businesses. Every business owner big or small, will benefits from technology, but it begins with choosing the right technology partner.
A company with specialists in one place will serve you better. Just because you see your competitors using a certain technology provider doesn’t mean that they are necessarily suitable for your business. It will save you from wasting time when you have to consider the advice from different experts which may at times be contradicting.
While negotiating, do it with the long-term goal in mind. Technology keeps changing and you can bet that what you invest in today may not be relevant tomorrow. Instead of going to companies that offer one-time solutions, go for the ones that agree to grow with your business. Having a technology that accomplishes your objectives will enable you to be profitable and relevant in the market.
Ensure to go for companies with many experts. Innovation continues changing with each passing day and the technology that suits your needs at the moment may not do so in the future. Rather than going to companies that only offer or sell you what you need now and then they are done with you. When all of them sit down together, they will come up with what you need much more quickly and easily.
It is important to keep your business targets in mind when choosing a technology partner. Your technology partner needs to be in a better position to provide friendly advice whenever you need. Any technology provider should be able to provide technology that does the job correctly and is easy to use. Suppose you want to start selling products online, your customers buying experience should be as easy as possible. They should also be people you can rely on with all your technology needs and not just the simple bits.
Lastly, don’t go for a company that charges way more than you are willing to pay since there are many providers who offer their services at competitive rates. You should do careful research into the quality being offered and the services being provided in comparison with their rates. Always ensure that you consider most of these things so that you can get a good return on your investment
10. Your stance is demolishing your joints! Believe it or not, your knees and feet most likely hurt on account of the way you sit and remain for the duration of the day. In the event that your stance is horrendous (it is, believe us) you will put included weight your back and bring down furthest points on the grounds that your spine isn’t in appropriate arrangement.
9. You may have joint pain and not know it. Numerous experience the ill effects of joint torment all finished parts of their body in view of rheumatoid joint pain and osteoarthritis. As per the CDC, 46 million Americans experience the ill effects of joint inflammation. Additionally, one of every 250 kids are conceived with some type of joint inflammation. See a specialist in the event that you believe you could have joint pain.
8. There are characteristic substances that can help you. Omega-3’s, glucosamine, MSM and Hyaluronic Acid have been deductively demonstrated to help repair joints and lessen torment.
7. Your lifting could be murdering your joints. Truly difficult work and inappropriate behavior all through the rec center has prompted a genuine increment in joint-related agony and in this manner, an ascent in the buy of joint alleviation recipes.
Be cautious when performing lifts. Try not to put included weight elbows, knees and the back when weight preparing. We suggest procuring a NASM affirmed fitness coach as a result of the accentuation put on appropriate frame and restoration.
6. Extend AFTER your exercises! It’s alright to warm up on Cardio and complete a brisk extend before an activity, yet extending a frosty muscle will decrease drive creation and could make damage joint connective tissue. Extending has been a wellspring of disarray for a considerable length of time. Be that as it may, look into indicates static extending is best done after an exercise, when the muscles and joints are warm and prepared.
5. Hypersensitive to shellfish? Try not to take glucosamine. Joint equations that incorporate glucosomine and krill oil might be valuable for easing joint agony, yet you ought to stay away from these mixes on the off chance that you have a shellfish sensitivity. Most supplement producers get these recipes from shellfish. What would it be a good idea for you to do? Pick Omega-3’s to grease up those delicate joints.
4. Your shoes are slaughtering you! The truth is out, your shoes are most likely ailing in curve support and pad, which could be causing strain on your knees, hips and back. Investigate a wellbeing shoe store for a shoe particularly intended for your necessities. Or on the other hand, on the off chance that you loathe faltering looking shoes, get an insole, which can help bolster those hurting feet and give your body alleviation.
3. Is it accurate to say that you were let you know have fibromayalgia? Do you have joint torment? This creator was told he had fibromayalgia for a long time until the point when he was effectively determined to have joint inflammation. Fibromayalgia is frequently analyzed when the torment can’t be ascribed to anything particular.
2. Move far from the painkillers. Specialists recommend Prednisone and NSAIDS (non steroidal hostile to inflammatories) frequently without respect for the long haul symptoms. Ibuprofen and Aleve can prompt stomach draining and intensify joint agony in light of their commitment to broken gut. This is where microorganisms in the stomach related tract spills into the blood steam and can store in joint tissue, expanding irritation. As opposed to depending on painkillers and steroids, attempt characteristic against inflammatories like Omega-3’s and circumin.
We wind up amidst Olympic Games fever by and by. Our best competitors are contending at the largest amount and take a stab at top respects in their picked fields.
The greater part of the more seasoned will recall the elastic soled plimsolls that were customarily worn in PE lessons all through most schools in Europe. These were accessible in any shading you loved as long as it was dark or white.
These have been supplanted via air padded, gel filled cases with predominant specialized execution. They arrive in an assortment of hues, shapes and frames and are acquired as much for their appearance as their execution.
The pivotal assembling system that permitted the improvement of the plimsoll was called vulcanization, which is as yet utilized today. This procedure utilizes warmth to merge elastic and fabric together. Sulfur is utilized amid the procedure.
Plimsolls were progressive at the time as they gave comfort, were lightweight and enabled the client to move around quietly. Plimsolls wound up known as tennis shoes and were sold on a mass scale in America as ahead of schedule as 1917.
In the a long time since the last Olympics in Athens innovation has proceeded onward to some degree and has unquestionably proceeded onward since the plimsoll days.
Mentors and attire has advanced to be lighter and more grounded. Yet, what part has innovation needed to play in improving the execution [http://nike-trainers.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=21&Itemid=2] of our Olympians?
Coaches and game shoes have developed, we have diverse shoes for every occasion and each match of shoes is produced from an assortment of number materials picked on account of their individual properties to put quality and adaptability where it is required most. Materials, for example, Kevlar which is ten times more grounded than cowhide, calfskin or canvas which is both thin, stable and of a low thickness, froth blown polyurethane which gives a shoe additional padding and thermoplastic polyurethane which make a shoe both solid and malleable.
As innovation has advanced researchers have grown new composite materials which cooperate to create a superior execution than that of the a few separate materials.
Varying materials offer diverse properties, for example, security; offering protection from curving and twisting. At the point when weight is connected to a material over some undefined time frame it will crawl (level out and spread).
A few materials are utilized for their versatile properties, the capacity to flex and twist when constrain is connected and after that hold its unique shape when the power is evacuated. At long last, a few materials are decided for their thickness which can be clarified as the measure of issue in a question has per estimation of room, these materials are for the most part utilized for stun assimilation.
Shoes are worn to ensure the feet which are clearly a vital piece of the body. Any issues in the feet arrive us up in a significant chaos. So purchasing the correct sort of shoes is critical for all. We get an assortment of shoes for various purposes and for all ages. They are impeccably intended to address the issues of each sort of client.
Be that as it may, it is maybe most critical to take mind when purchasing a couple of games shoes for the children and youngsters than the upscale party wears. The feet convey the whole weight of the body. Each walk affects the lower legs, knees, calves, legs, bears and back. Since the body is still in a creating stage, it has an impact over the long haul if the best possible combine of games shoes isn’t utilized. There are various types of junior games shoes accessible for various games. For every single game about, the development of the shoes contrast. The football shoes are not quite the same as the lance shoes or the cricket or table-tennis games shoes. So it is frequently exhorted that minding guardians ought to counsel the expert shoe supplier before purchasing sports shoes for the youngsters.
Different focuses to note about these shoes are that you ought to know about your kid’s foot history and the sort and the fundamental prerequisites to get the ideal match for him/her.
You should pass on the subtle elements to the assistants at the store so he can give you the right match.
Go for buys when the feet stay most extended with the goal that you can purchase the required size.But dependably keep some space for development.
Try not to go for contrivances or design of the day. It is totally vital that they are agreeable and well made generally there are odds of the gaming action being in question later on.
Shoes should be attempted on with the socks that are worn with it. The fit must be ideal for ideal execution. Influence him to move around or keep running about a little to check whether it approves of him. Be that as it may, never send your youngster with another match of games shoes for any last occasion. He should get accustomed to it and get an ideal hold to bear on his accomplishment.
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This is very tasty, especially on a cold, blizzardy day. (Computer does not recognize blizzardy). What does it know. Chilly morning here today. I need to rephrase that statement--It is damned cold here this morning! We have kids coming for Christmas lunch today. Home chicken and noodles on mashed potatoes with fresh sourdough bread. Don't know what there is for dessert, but It will be good also. May have to have dessert later.
Since I woke up this morning, the world didn't come to an end overnight. I hope not too many indulged in a kool-aid drinking frenzy in anticipation.
We make that same recipe, make that, I make the recipe. We call it hamburger soup and love it with homemade bread. Comfort food for cold weather.
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So, last weekend I drove out to Fort Wayne, Indiana, to attend the 2014 Appleseed Comic Con. My buddies Jim Rugg, Ed Piskor, and Tom Scioli were attending, plus who were the Special Guests? None other than both PETE BAGGE and JIM STERANKO! So I'm there.
The trip wasn't too bad, once I got out of Chicago. I made it to Ft. Wayne early enough Friday afternoon to quickly hit all the comics shops in town. I managed to pick up like ten 1970's Marvel Horror Comics that were on my list, and I was ridin' high.
Checked in to the hotel, and stayed up way too late talking about comics with Jim, Ed, and Tom, three hardcore comics enthusiasts.
Next day I got up early to set up for the show. The Con was held in a gorgeous new Events Center, right in the heart of downtown. Day One went well, met some cool people, including, for the first time-- Pete Bagge. Then I lurked around the Steranko table a bit checking out all his cool old memorabilia (old Marvel black light posters from 1973 etc). When I tried to take his picture he said "No Pictures!" and held up his hand. The guy has class.
Managed to rustle up six or seven more comics I was looking for, and had lunch at the King Gyros next door.
That night we all went to dinner downtown and sat at a long table-- Steranko held court at one end, and Bagge at the other. Two generations of Classic American Cartoonistes, wow. Got out of there and went back to the room where we stayed up too late talking about comics again.
Day Two was slower than Day One, but that only meant I got to shoot the breeze with cartoonists more, and dig through more longboxes. Afterwards, we all met up for a final calzone-fueled goodbye. The Con Fatigue miraculously wore off, and I realized how much fun it was just hanging out with these guys.
Yesterday, Stephanie and I took a walk out in the Nygren Wetland Preserve, but hung a left at the old train tracks instead of continuing around the water. We'd never gone that way before and it'd recently occurred to me that in that direction laid the confluence of the Rock and Pecatonica Rivers. One of the first things I did when I moved to good ol' South Beloit was purchase a map and study it for potentially interesting things. If you're me, the confluence of two regional rivers counts as a potentially interesting thing. Yet I had never figured out how to get there.
On our way around the open water we noted several nesting orioles, plenty of goldfinches, warblers, two swans in the water, a white egret, a lone cormorant, and the ubiquitous honking Canada Geese. Red-winged blackbirds began their annual scold, chatting at us from the trees overhead and spreading their wings to make themselves look ferocious.
At the turnoff, we followed a gentle old oxbow lake through prairie. Not too much action but the blackbirds and a pile of turtles making the most of a tiny log in the lake.
Eventually we came to a stream and headed east. This was the end of Raccoon Creek, which starts up in Wisconsin and winds its way slowly down to the Pecatonica. Eventually, yes, we could see the river across the creek, a low floodplain between them, filled with birdsong. Two young catbirds eyed us curiously and there were rumblings of a Pileated Woodpecker, but no sightings. Finally the Raccoon emptied into the river, and it was just us, the prairie to our left, and the slow, muddy, sunny water to our right.
The path tightened and we were there-- a short walk through woods, dropping the bank onto a gravel bar, and there was the Rock on our left. We could walk all the way out into the confluence on the gravel.
The Sauk and Fox people of the area called the Rock Sinnissippi, which means "rocky waters," and here one could plainly see the contrast between the muddy, murky water of the Pecatonica, and that of the clearer, gravel-bottomed Rock.
If you look closely, you can see the clear water of the Rock, on the left, merging with the muddy water of the Pecatonica, on the right.
We hung out for a bit, amid the honking geese, swallows, and robins, then headed back to the car, along the old railroad grade, and home.
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It seems that our analogy of the retail customer experience being a game of snakes and ladders really struck a chord with many of you. Thank you for reaching out.
Having your retail sales leaders and teams understand the customer journey and where they are falling down (snakes), or where they have opportunities to fast track the buying process (ladders), seems to be a big gap across different retail industries and sectors. Many of our recent conversations with retailers have been to help them fill this knowledge gap and improve their Retail Customer Experience results.
Retailers are often over-focused on new technologies and improved store layouts, hoping to support and improve the customer journey. However, these changes have not always had the desired effect and it still feels like, as a customer, there is a disconnect between brand aspiration and the end result we experience.
Unless your teams and store leaders really understand the customer journey and all of the touchpoints they can influence with the support of technology, then the interaction will just become transactional. Opportunities will be missed to achieve your key metrics – conversation rate, average order value and basket size to name just a few (see our earlier blog on this topic).
As we have said before, getting a customer into the shop is the hardest thing to do. Once they are inside, we need to be able to deliver an experience that helps them buy (and one they will remember). We believe that a great Sales through Service approach is simply about knowing how to take a customer through their buying journey. The snakes and ladders gameboard/tool provides retail sales teams with the understanding of key touchpoints, ensuring that they have a good conversation with the customer, helping them during the selection phase and supporting the buying decision. All of these will effortlessly move the customer towards making a purchase. The tool is tailored for each customer and we ensure it is supported by psychology and techniques that store leaders can use to really help their teams connect sales metrics to the customer journey, and influence customers’ decision making.
To bring this tool to life and give you, the Retailer, the opportunity to understand where you may be falling prey to the snakes and not using the opportunities to climb the ladders to better customer buying success, we invite you to Imparta’s game of snakes and ladders.
To give you more context, at the end of 2017 we partnered up with Cate Trotter, Head of Trends at Insider Trends, to collaborate on a report highlighting the top 50 retail experiences. After the popularity of the report, we decided to bring the report alive with an event:
This exclusive breakfast event will explore how we can use the insight from the report to drive amazing retail experiences. Chief Product Officer, Nigel Webb, will discuss how to avoid disjointed, revenue-sapping customer experiences that take place when retail teams are not trained to work seamlessly with new technologies, with a game of Snakes and Ladders.
This event is ideal for retail and CX leaders looking to make improvements to their organisation’s retail customer experience. Is this you? Join us on 9 May at 9am at the Museum of Brands, London.
Located in the city of Bhuntar, the Kulu Manali airport essentially serves the state of Himachal Pradesh. Also known as the Bhuntar airport, the runways of this airport are nestled in a deep valley surrounded by exceptionally high peaks, which makes take-offs and landings at this airport a daunting task, even for the best of pilots.
This challenging airport received a new terminal in the year 2008, complete with an extended apron that has the capacity to park 2 aircrafts at the same time. Owned and operated by the Airport Authority of India, the airport is slated to undergo a massive renovation, the cost of which is expected to be close to Rs. 250 crores.
Currently, the airport is served by Air India Regional which offers direct light services to Pathankot and New Delhi. In addition small, regional airlines also offer scheduled flight services to some other destinations of importance such as Chandigarh, Kolkata and Dharamsala.
Kullu to New Delhi is one of the most popular routes from this airport, with a total of 13 weekly flights.
The first flight to leave from Kullu is Air India Regional 9806, which departs at 7:40 AM to New Delhi.
BOSTON, April 12 (Reuters) - Activist investor Barington Capital Group LP has launched a fight for two board seats at machine industry company Xerium Technologies Inc., according to a regulatory filing made on Thursday.
The New York-based hedge fund, which owns 5.05 percent of Xerium, nominated two directors to sit on the company’s eight member board. It named Jared Landaw, the firm’s chief operating officer, and Michelle Applebaum, a former steel market industry analyst, on March 13.
On March 19, six days after Barington nominated its candidates, the company said it would explore strategic alternatives. One day after making that announcement, Xerium’s chairman, James Wilson, met with Barington representatives.
On Thursday, the share price climbed 2 percent to $6.57. Since the start of the year, the stock has surged 51 percent.
Barington is urging the company, which makes products used primarily in the production of paper, to consider selling itself or to find a way to refinance its $480 million of 9.5 percent senior notes.
In February, LyondellBassell Industries NV agreed to buy Schulman in a deal valued at $2.25 billion.
James Mitarotonda, who runs Barington, tends to invest in industrial companies or retail companies. Barington, along with Shah Capital and NuOrion Partners, reached an agreement with Avon Products Inc. last month to put Mitarotonda on the board. (Reporting by Svea Herbst-Bayliss; Editing by Bernadette Baum)
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Compliance is one of the single most important programs that is woven throughout every facet of our company and its operation. We maintain a deep and comprehensive compliance program that not only meets, but in some cases, exceeds, the recommendation of the United States Office of Inspector general (OIG). Our clients take much comfort in knowing that our company maintains high standards of practice and compliance in the generation of claims to state and federal entitlements programs and to commercial carriers as well.
Compliance at our company starts at the very top of the management structure, with our president and CEO, who is a Certified Ambulance Compliance Officer (CACO), overseeing all aspects of the compliance program. He is the chairman of the compliance committee which reviews compliance practices, makes recommendations, conducts routine audits, coordinates continuing education for the staff and in general insures that the company follows its existing compliance plan. The compliance committee is made up of the president and CEO (Chairmen and Compliance Officer), senior level managers, coding staff and rotating billing staff to ensure transparency, objectivity and inclusion.
Top down approach to compliance by the certification and designation of our president and CEO as Compliance Officer;
The development and implementation of regular, effective education and training programs for all employees;
The maintenance of a compliance hotline that can receive anonymous reports of compliance complaints;
In addition to our compliance plan, our company provides significant support to our clients through comprehensive patient care report (PCR) documentation training. Our president is a Nationally Registered Paramedic (NRP) with 35 years of experience in EMS who remains an active paramedic on a part-time basis.
Bacchus is the Roman name for the Greek god Dionysus. This effeminate god of wine, madness and ecstasy often appears in scenes of revelry and licentiousness. In his Bacchus, Caravaggio shows the god as a seventeenth-century Italian teenager, offering the viewer wine, spoiled fruit and perhaps something more.
The basket of fruit in the Bacchus is sometimes interpreted as a vanitas. A vanitas is a type of still-life painting especially popular in Dutch and Flemish art of the Renaissance and Baroque, which is intended to remind the viewer of the fleeting nature and meaninglessness of earthly life. Common vanitas symbols include skulls, timepieces (to show that time on earth is running out), bubbles (for their fragility), and, as here, wilting flowers and rotting fruit.
This is also reinforced by the fact that after the painting was cleaned, a tiny portrait of Caravaggio working at his easel was revealed in the glass' reflection. Also, Bacchus' reflection is evident on the surface of the wine in the glass he is holding.
Whether intentional or not, there is humor in this painting. The pink-faced Bacchus is an accurate portrayal of a half-drunk teenager dressed in a sheet and leaning on a mattress in the Cardinal's Rome palazzo, but far less convincing as a Greco-Roman god.
The Bacchus was most likely commissioned by Cardinal del Monte the year after Caravaggio entered his court. Cardinal del Monte commissioned around 40 paintings from the artist, many depicting relatively effeminate, sexualized young men.
Given that the Cardinal was also known to throw dinner parties where young men would dress up as women, today many suspect that del Monte had homosexual tendencies.
The subjects of this period in Caravaggio's career were mostly adolescent boys, as in The Young Bacchus and The Musicians. These early pictures reveal a fresh, direct, and empirical approach.
As was generally the case with Caravaggio's works, Bacchus is striking for the artist's careful attention to realistic detail.
One of art historians' favorite topics when discussing Caravaggio's Bacchus is the still-life of fruit in the foreground. The artist's early years painting fruits and flowers for the Caveliere d'Arpino definitely paid off, as the Caravaggio's mastery of still-life elements shines brilliantly.
Like the dirty fingernails, many have wondered if this basket of bruised, overripe, wormy fruits could also have a symbolic message, such as a warning of the fleetingness of youth and the eminence of death, or if Caravaggio was just painting what he truly saw.
After the Bacchus was restored, conservators discovered that Caravaggio even painted in a tiny reflection of himself on the carafe of wine. Once again, the careful observer can spot the familiar face of the model who is probably Mario Minniti, who can also be seen in The Fortune Teller as well as several other early paintings.
Although the purported subject of this painting is a Greek god, Caravaggio makes no effort to uphold the illusion. The model's vaguely antique toga is recognizable as a contemporary men' s shirt pulled down over one shoulder, and the artist even shows the dirty mattress peeking out under a none-too-clean sheet.
Caravaggio has carefully depicted his model's "farmer's tan": the skin of his chest and upper arms is pale and white, while his face and hands are ruddy and red. As in many other paintings, Caravaggio shows even the dirt under his models' fingernails.
Some have interpreted the Bacchus' dirty fingernails as a symbolic warning of the consequences of physical pleasure. In the wider context of Caravaggio's oeuvre, however, it could just be realism plain and simple.
Famous art historian Donald Posner was the first to publish an in-depth study on the homoerotic implications of Caravaggio's early paintings, including the Bacchus. This has proved to be one of the biggest quarrels amongst historians when discussing Caravaggio's works: in an age where sodomy was a crime punishable by death, would any artist in his right mind execute an overtly homoerotic work and would a patron actually pay for it? Are we mistakenly seeing this late sixteenth-century painting through modern eyes?
Regardless of the critical debate, any objective viewer would be able to pick up on the erotic overtones in the Bacchus. The young man (who, of course, is intended to represent the god of drunkenness and debauchery) gazes knowingly at the viewer while his garment has fallen flirtatiously off his shoulder. He proffers a glass of wine and thus, by extension, may be proffering something more.
Even acknowledging the potential homoeroticism of the Bacchus, however, no ultimate judgment can be made about the sexuality of Caravaggio or of Cardinal del Monte.
In 1595, Caravaggio's career received a boost from the influential Cardinal del Monte as he welcomed the artist into his court. Caravaggio executed paintings for the Cardinal and took advantage of his connections to garner prime commissions from Rome's wealthiest patrons and collectors.
Caravaggio's works at this time focused on effeminate young men, as seen in Bacchus, although he also started to create religious scenes. His paintings were complex and became darker during this period.
Caravaggio was as controversial for his revolutionary artworks as he was for his infamous temper and lengthy police record. He ignored the rules that artists from the previous century had followed and instead developed a love of realism and his emotional directness was unrivalled.
Caravaggio's paintings constitute some of the most stunning works in the entire history of Western art. Observing the evolution of his style from his early works such as Bacchus to his last paintings is a chronicle of his life.
Caravaggio played a key role in defining 17th century Italian art. In the 20th century when emerging artists were adopting his techniques and imitating his style. Caravaggism had profound effects on the art world and artists that were directly and indirectly influenced by Caravaggio include Rubens, Hals, Rembrandt, Vermeer, Velazquez and Bernini.
The Baroque style originated in Italy and its pioneers include great artists such as Michelangelo and Tintoretto. Baroque art focused on impersonal and generic works with an animated and energetic mood. The success of this art genre was promoted by the Roman Catholic Church and the aristocracy, the latter of which saw Baroque art as a means of demonstrating wealth and power.
Caravaggio is a pioneer of the Italian Baroque style that grew out of the ruins of Mannerism. At the end of the 16th century, the artist was exposed both to the artistic reforms of the Counter-Reformation as well as to a new interest in scientific naturalism flourishing in northern Italy, due in part to the influx of artworks from northern Europe.
Out of this context, Caravaggio developed a style of unflinching realism, unprecedented approachability and a direct appeal to the emotions that had no equal among his peers and helped to mould 17th century Italian art.
Italian Baroque art was not widely different to Italian Renaissance painting but the color palette was richer and darker and the theme of religion was more popular. There remains some mystery surrounding the true derivation of Italian Baroque but some argue that the word 'Baroque' comes from the Italian "Barocco".
Caravaggio's influence is evident both directly or indirectly in the paintings artist such as of Rubens, Bernini, Jusepe de Ribera and Rembrandt, and the next generation of artists profoundly influence by Caravaggio were labeled the "Caravaggisti" or "Caravagesques", as well as Tenebrists or "Tenebrosi" ("shadowists").
Bernard Berenson agreed: "With the exception of Michelangelo, no other Italian painter exercised so great an influence".
• Gilbert, Creighton. Caravaggio: his two Cardinals. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1995
• Hinks, R. P. Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio: His life, his legend, his works. London: Faber & Faber, 1953
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Kyloe House School is an inspiring learning environment that provides a caring community where everyone is encouraged and supported to achieve their goals. Our young people are keen to learn, and want to achieve their best.
The education provision is based within a secure children’s home in Northumberland. The service provides accommodation for 12 young people who are supported by a highly trained, dedicated team of social care managers, staff and teachers including healthcare practitioners.
As we strengthen our core support team we are looking to appoint a dedicated and caring Higher Level Teaching Assistant. We are looking for an individual who can advance pupils’ learning in a range of classroom settings, including working with individual pupils or groups and whole classes where the assigned teacher is not present. In liaison with the class teacher, activities will involve planning, preparing and delivering lessons as well as monitoring pupils, assessing, recording and reporting on pupils’ achievement, progress and development.
You will need to be highly motivated to the care and outcomes for young people, have experience of working with children to support their learning and ideally will have HLTA status (or be willing to complete within an agreed timescale).
An inclusive school where we collaborate share and support each other to make sure all young people achieve their very best.
Adam Waito is an illustrator, musician, and writer, based in Toronto via Montreal via Thunder Bay via Manitouwadge.
It perhaps isn’t big news that Northern Ontarians like to drink beer. But up until relatively recently, nearly all of the suds consumed in Thunder Bay came from down south. That was until Sleeping Giant Brewing Company came along and brought the beer game back home.
Pre-2012, a local beer available at a local restaurant was unheard of; today you actually have to search pretty hard to find an establishment in Thunder Bay that doesn’t offer Sleeping Giant. If you look at the local-centric, youth-led, foodie renaissance that’s been unfolding over the past several years in Thunder Bay, it’s easy to see Sleeping Giant Brewing Co. positioned at the vanguard of that movement. “You’re on an island up here,” explains owner and operator Matt Pearson. “It forces us to entertain ourselves.”
How do you convince a dyed-in-the-wool corporate light lager town like Thunder Bay, whose inhabitants love their Labatt Crystal—and don’t get me wrong, I too love very much a Labatt Crystal, preferably at camp—to consider converting to something hyper-local, perhaps a bit more robust in flavor, and even a bit, dare I say, artisanal? First, you create a damn good product. Enter 2012, and phase one of Sleeping Giant Brewing Co, the original three: the year-round 360 Pale Ale, the Summer Elevator Wheat, and the winter-only Skull Rock Stout. Each was uniquely delicious, but all three captured a particular Thunder Bay essence, a specifically Northwestern Ontario terroir that many locals didn’t even realize was missing from their beer. And Thunder Bay took notice in a big way.
From the start, Sleeping Giant made it their overarching ethos to focus on local first and foremost. And while their beers (they now produce six varieties) are now available all over the province in LCBOs, grocery stores, and some Beer Stores, the company’s energy is still focused very much on the local. In fact, owner and operator Matt Pearson says that 90% of their volume is still consumed within 50 km of their brewery. And while they certainly have an interest in (and great potential for) expansion, keeping the real action close to home just feels right. And it’s been the key ingredient to their success.
Ingredients-wise, local only makes sense. With the world’s largest fresh water lake, Lake Superior, in your backyard to supply your water, and Canada’s largest malting company—a big local employer, the appropriately-titled Canada Malting Company—a five minute drive from the brewery, there’s no reason to stray far for ingredients.
But above and beyond the actual components that go into the beer, this is one company who go above and beyond to prioritize their local community over all else. Pearson explains that “you can be a great local company, but if you aren’t keeping your money within the community, then people don’t get behind it as much.”
For just one example: when Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was famously spotted on Instagram repping a Sleeping Giant Northern Logger tee, the brewery channeled the inevitable hype-fueled windfall of orders back into the community by donating all proceeds from the shirts to a local Boys and Girls Club chapter. Further, in 2017, Sleeping Giant launched its Grass Roots lager, which through a partnership with the Staal Foundation (led by Thunder Bay NHL golden boys, the Staal brothers) would raise over $14,000 to help children with cancer in Northwestern Ontario.
These high-profile examples of philanthropy aside, you need not look further than the Sleeping Giant Brewing Co.’s shop to catch a glimpse of their commitment to the local community. The brewery’s shop is chock-full of interesting products that represent collaborations with other local businesses, farms, and orgs. To name a few, there’s 360 Ale Beef Jerky, a partnership with Bay Meats Smokehouse; there’s bagged Beer Bread Mix, a partnership with Brule Creek Farms; several varieties of Beer Jelly, a collaboration with Head Acre Farms; Beer Soap, a partnership with Lovely Body Products, and the list goes on.
Even their manufacturing waste goes back into feeding the community. In addition to a plethora of edibles and snazzy beer gear, the shop also features a number of products that make use of repurposed spent grain, a by-product of beer brewing that would otherwise be discarded—spent grain can comprise up to 85% of a brewery’s total by-product. You can buy spent grain dog biscuits for your furry friend. You can even buy beef from local cattle that were raised on spent grain feed donated to farmers by Sleeping Giant Brewing Co. I’ve heard of “farm-to-table,” but “farm-to-brewery-to-farm-to-brewery-to-table”? Hey, if beer’s involved, sign me up!
With their gorgeous tap room, excellent selection of beers for all tastes, and unwavering community spirit, Sleeping Giant Brewing Co. is a must-visit destination for beer-loving visitors to the region. And if you can’t make it to the brewery, you’ll have ample opportunity to try their beers—well, basically everywhere. Thanks to Sleeping Giant Brewing Co., the beer game has officially come back home.
Adam Waito is an illustrator, musician, and writer, based in Toronto via Montreal via Thunder Bay via Manitouwadge. His 2008 lo-fi indie rock concept album about Thunder Bay—Amethyst Amulet by Adam and the Amethysts—was called "the pop hit of the summer" by the Toronto Star. His illustrations appear in Vice and elsewhere. Check out his illustrations at adamwaitoiscool.com
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But I also love NPCs. They're the engine that drives great and memorable campaigns for the players. In the kinds of narrative and dramatic leaning campaigns we play now, these characters offering sounding boards, connections, and windows into the setting. I've written about how great and important they are in many, many, many, many posts.
But sometimes....sometimes they drive me crazy. I want to clear the deck, kill them off, and tear the game down to players, plot, scenery.
Let's start with a basic problem- keeping track of the cast. I run six campaigns, and remembering all of the characters between them, is hard. I usually have to scan through the list before each session. And of course for the longer running campaigns, we've an assembly of personalities to rival Game of Thrones. I can usually remember the who and why of characters, but what I lose is the name. Which makes me feel stupid at the table. And I don't like going through my notes while I'm running. I get especially frustrated if I've done a particular 'voice' for a character and I can't remember it- either cadence, accent or tone.
A friend of mine ran a game with a large cast of NPCs. He's a good GM and does an excellent job of creating interesting characters. Each of his players had an affiliated group. However some of his players didn't get along- there were arguments between them and conflicts of agendas. As a result players played less and less with each other, and more and more directly with GM. That created greater fragmentation of the plot and annoyance among the players when the GM actually put the PCs together through the NPCs. I've seen that in my games, where some players will ignore everyone else and go off to talk to NPCs by themselves- deliberately ignoring plot hooks or even short circuiting the arc in order to have the table to themselves. Essentially the player uses the positive of the NPC to justify a kind of selfishness at the table. I like to give players individual scenes and moments, but I like it even better when I can put two or more players together in a scene.
The even greater danger arising from this we can call Mr. Jealousy. In this case players decide to consider certain NPCs as their own. Some do this from attachment, some from paranoia, and some as a way of taking control of the table dynamic. Players who operate this way become hugely defensive when other players attempt to interact with "their" NPCs. I've seen players get actually furious at the table when other players have suggested talking to or bringing in an NPC they were attached to. In other instances, I've seen players use those reactions to bully other players to keep them from stepping into plots they believed they own. In one case, another players became furious when we talked to their character's family, despite their being at the center of the adventure and despite the discussion being fairly innocuous.
I know some tables handle romance fairly well- and that's an element in many of our campaigns. I'd say the play more echoes anime more than anything- light and stereotypical. It is more about affection and misunderstandings, or offering plot complications. But sometimes players will start down the road of romantic sub-plot and then suddenly a shinier or more interesting NPC will catch their eye. Or more likely the NPC doesn't precisely validate their character's self-image, doesn't fawn over them the way they want, or actually presents some obstacles to overcome. Then the player decides to drop that NPC and wants to completely ignore previous developments in favor of a new tact. If you've spent any time as a GM on that, or have built any plots on the relationship, it can be maddening.
I've played in games with omnipotent NPCs- or Mary Sue NPCs that take center stage. So I try to avoid that, but I also want to demonstrate competency and have characters in positions of authority for real reasons, not just goofs with a title. And some players react badly to NPCs in leadership positions. That's fine and something I can usually work past. But sometimes players assume that the NPCs are omnipotent and won't even attempt to engage with them. They just get angry. Ironically, in most cases that's been the reaction from players who GM and have those very same omnipotent figures in their games. Because that's what they would do, they assume an NPC will be invulnerable or unassailable. So a NPC who ought to be an interesting foil or interaction suddenly becomes a stumbling block. You're left with the choice of bending over backwards to show the agreeable or useful nature of NPC or just dropping the thread.
Having a large cast of NPCs, especially ones the players really like mean that as a GM you want to offer a chance to interact with them. That's fine if you have a static campaign setting, like a city. But for classic fantasy or exploration games, it can be a bigger problem. You have to plan around those NPCs showing up or the players returning to the NPCs location. If they're spread around the setting, then you want to make sure each player gets time with the NPCs they like which may mean more travel or strange coincidental devices. The Gm doesn't have to, but once the door's been opened to this kind of play, the group may expect it. An obvious but even more problematic solution is to bring the NPCs along, effectively doubling the group size and creating more things for the Gm to worry about. If you're at all considering the struggle for survival in dangerous environments as a theme, a host of camp followers undercuts that quickly.
And of course bringing along all of those NPCs leads to a logistical problem. I'll admit combat's where I'm weakest at the table. I get flustered and I want to race though as quickly as possible. I cut corners but I tell myself that's in the interest of maintaining the pace. As well, I'm just not a tactical thinker. When I pit my forces against the combined skills of a table of gamers, I'm at a huge disadvantage, even with "all the points." I want to balance winning, providing a challenge, and making it feel fair. So the last thing I want is to have to deal with extra characters. With allies, I'm suddenly responsible for defeating the players and helping them at the same time. The details I have to track and worry about expand- in detailed games like Champions it becomes even more difficult. Its why I don't usually allow pets for characters either- one more thing to track.
I dread that moment in a combat when I've just got the rhythm going and I hear a player say "What about Sir Dorkus, he hasn't gone the last three turns...?" If I forget about the NPCs, then the players may think that I'm cheating them or that the NPC's just useless. The former only comes up with bad players or those in really tense situations. But I've also had players get angry at NPCs for not really 'being there' in combat, something not in the NPCs character but more in my desire to focus on the PCs. I certainly don't want to swing the other way and have the NPCs steal their thunder. The problem gets more complicated when you have a detailed system- one with plenty of combat options, styles and maneuvers. I don't want to track those options for NPCs. But that runs the risk of making them seem more incompetent than they are on one hand, or more powerful on the other if I completely wing it. I don't want to be asked afterward how X NPC was able to do Y thing that they players can't. I could spin a story about it, but I've already stepped on the players' toes there.
Here's the other thing: players like the idea of their NPCs being in conflicts alongside them (for utility, to show off to them, to deepened connections) but they hate when those NPCs get damaged, seriously injured or killed. I can certainly understand that, but on occasion they flip out. I suppose that ought to be a good sign- that the player or players have an emotional connection to the NPC, but every once in a while it can create a problem. We had a session years ago where one of the PCs effectively got an NPC killed and some of the table lost it. As a GM, I have to asses the cost benefit of targeting those NPCs- knowing that players will scrutinize those actions even more tightly for "fairness."
For my first six points I don't have any quick solutions- beyond monitoring and balancing. For actual table play, I have come up with a few approaches. These may be obvious to veteran GMs, but I hope someone will find them useful. You'll note that I avoid giving players the actual NPCs, fully-statted, to control. I don't like that option for a couple of reasons. First, it means having to write up other sets of characters. Second, unless everyone has a 'buddy' then some players don't get the cool advantage. Third, when players control more than one figure in a combat, it feels less like an rpg and more like a tactical wargame.
1. Get the NPC Off the Table. If there are support tasks or things which can be done elsewhere (finding the winch to lower the portcullis, getting someone to safety, hacking a console) then say that the NPC will do it. A couple of caveats on this approach. First, those tasks shouldn't step over a player's role. For example, if you have a Rigger in the group then they should be the one to hack the electronics. Second, if you want to use this tactic, then don't screw the players with it. If you as the GM suggest that X NPC can move someone to safety, then they should get that person to safety. They should not get captured as a plot device. If you do that, the next time you make a suggestion that an NPC could do something off table, the players won't trust you. On the other hand, if the players suggest that an NPC could undertake a task, then the gloves are off. You haven't pushed them and they've made their own decision.
2. Trade-Off: This works if you have the players facing hordes or overwhelming odds (which you can, of course, engineer). During the first round or so, offer to have NPCs tie up a certain number of mooks or minions for the fight. The players can say where they want the NPC(s) to operate as crowd control. Essentially pawn neutralizes pawn. Don't roll for resolution or track damage, just let them keep a position secure. Again you're offering the players a benefit in exchange for making your task as the GM easier. The NPC should be effectively off the table in terms of attacks, at least until the stakes get raised or the situation changes.
3. Support: Pair up NPCs with PCs and give them a straight bonus. The NPC effectively vanishes into that bonus. The bonus or effect may vary depending on what the NPC does. If you don't want to directly pair up, say that the NPC serves as a floating bonus one player can use each round. A player can't use the bonus again until everyone has used it.
4. Advanced Support: As with the idea above, but with more complexity. This takes a page from FATE and HeroQuest, where NPCs can be aspects or abilities. You could, for example, pair NPCs up with PCs and have them offer a benefit- but they can also be sacrificed (K.O'd) to do other things, like prevent damage, use a special ability or give an uber-bonus. Another option might be to say that any NPC offers a power which can be called on by the players. However, once the players opt to do that, the NPC becomes 'at risk' and can then be targeted by bad guys or taken out as a consequence. This puts that choice in the group's hands.
Of course, I'm exaggerating on most of these points. I can’t imagine a campaign without some interesting NPCs, especially recurring ones. Most of my campaigns are built around a cast of NPCs first- and I get a real delight when players become interested in their stories and ideas. But every once in a while, they do lead to frustrations. The vast majority of the time, they add to the campaign. But I do have to watch some players to make sure that they don't fall into bad play patterns with background characters. I've played in campaigns with zero NPCs. Or at least all of the NPCs were exclusively "roles" or "questgivers," like early computer RPG characters. I played with a GM who never introduced a female NPC, mostly because it never occurred to him. I played with a GM who put the only interesting NPC into a coma. Strong and returning NPCs are huge part of a solid story- in a tabletop rpg, a computer rpg (any Bioware title), television (Buffy) or elsewhere.
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Wall Street analysts expect International Seaways Inc (NYSE:INSW) to post earnings of ($0.78) per share for the current fiscal quarter, according to Zacks Investment Research. Four analysts have issued estimates for International Seaways’ earnings. The lowest EPS estimate is ($0.87) and the highest is ($0.74). International Seaways posted earnings of ($0.46) per share during the same quarter last year, which suggests a negative year over year growth rate of 69.6%. The firm is scheduled to announce its next earnings results on Thursday, November 8th.
According to Zacks, analysts expect that International Seaways will report full-year earnings of ($2.33) per share for the current fiscal year, with EPS estimates ranging from ($2.49) to ($2.13). For the next fiscal year, analysts expect that the company will post earnings of $1.13 per share, with EPS estimates ranging from ($0.42) to $3.32. Zacks’ earnings per share averages are an average based on a survey of sell-side research firms that follow International Seaways.
International Seaways (NYSE:INSW) last posted its quarterly earnings results on Wednesday, August 8th. The transportation company reported ($0.71) earnings per share for the quarter, missing the Thomson Reuters’ consensus estimate of ($0.62) by ($0.09). The business had revenue of $56.91 million during the quarter, compared to analysts’ expectations of $46.74 million. International Seaways had a negative return on equity of 6.07% and a negative net margin of 67.42%.
Several research firms have recently weighed in on INSW. Zacks Investment Research raised shares of International Seaways from a “sell” rating to a “hold” rating in a research note on Wednesday, October 10th. Jefferies Financial Group began coverage on shares of International Seaways in a research note on Monday, October 1st. They issued a “buy” rating and a $30.00 price target on the stock. Finally, Stifel Nicolaus began coverage on shares of International Seaways in a research note on Tuesday, September 25th. They issued a “buy” rating and a $25.00 price target on the stock. Two analysts have rated the stock with a hold rating and four have issued a buy rating to the stock. International Seaways has an average rating of “Buy” and an average target price of $28.00.
Shares of NYSE:INSW traded up $0.47 during midday trading on Friday, hitting $21.51. The company’s stock had a trading volume of 153,643 shares, compared to its average volume of 110,339. The company has a current ratio of 1.99, a quick ratio of 1.94 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.75. The company has a market cap of $627.64 million, a P/E ratio of -74.17 and a beta of -0.92. International Seaways has a 12-month low of $15.23 and a 12-month high of $24.78.
In other International Seaways news, major shareholder Paulson & Co. Inc. sold 125,000 shares of International Seaways stock in a transaction dated Friday, September 14th. The shares were sold at an average price of $18.15, for a total transaction of $2,268,750.00. The sale was disclosed in a filing with the SEC, which can be accessed through the SEC website. Also, major shareholder Bluemountain Capital Managemen sold 163,155 shares of International Seaways stock in a transaction dated Wednesday, October 3rd. The stock was sold at an average price of $21.98, for a total transaction of $3,586,146.90. The disclosure for this sale can be found here. Insiders have sold 2,007,103 shares of company stock worth $41,475,756 over the last ninety days. 0.90% of the stock is owned by insiders.
A number of hedge funds have recently modified their holdings of the business. Frontier Capital Management Co. LLC raised its stake in shares of International Seaways by 49.8% in the 2nd quarter. Frontier Capital Management Co. LLC now owns 1,288,592 shares of the transportation company’s stock valued at $29,818,000 after acquiring an additional 428,321 shares during the period. Dimensional Fund Advisors LP raised its stake in shares of International Seaways by 22.3% in the 2nd quarter. Dimensional Fund Advisors LP now owns 1,259,965 shares of the transportation company’s stock valued at $29,156,000 after acquiring an additional 229,499 shares during the period. Northern Trust Corp raised its stake in shares of International Seaways by 2.6% in the 1st quarter. Northern Trust Corp now owns 336,593 shares of the transportation company’s stock valued at $5,924,000 after acquiring an additional 8,488 shares during the period. Schwab Charles Investment Management Inc. raised its stake in shares of International Seaways by 21.0% in the 2nd quarter. Schwab Charles Investment Management Inc. now owns 175,977 shares of the transportation company’s stock valued at $4,073,000 after acquiring an additional 30,579 shares during the period. Finally, Bank of America Corp DE raised its stake in shares of International Seaways by 7.2% in the 2nd quarter. Bank of America Corp DE now owns 122,703 shares of the transportation company’s stock valued at $2,840,000 after acquiring an additional 8,284 shares during the period. 85.39% of the stock is currently owned by institutional investors.
Brokerages forecast that McKesson Co. (NYSE:MCK) will announce $3.28 earnings per share (EPS) for the current fiscal quarter, according to Zacks. Six analysts have issued estimates for McKesson’s earnings, with estimates ranging from $3.13 to $3.39. McKesson also reported earnings of $3.28 per share in the same quarter last year. The firm is scheduled to announce its next earnings report before the market opens on Thursday, October 25th.
On average, analysts expect that McKesson will report full year earnings of $13.31 per share for the current financial year, with EPS estimates ranging from $13.19 to $13.40. For the next year, analysts expect that the business will report earnings of $14.35 per share, with EPS estimates ranging from $14.00 to $14.65. Zacks Investment Research’s EPS averages are a mean average based on a survey of research firms that that provide coverage for McKesson.
McKesson (NYSE:MCK) last announced its quarterly earnings results on Thursday, July 26th. The company reported $2.90 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, topping the Zacks’ consensus estimate of $2.89 by $0.01. McKesson had a negative net margin of 0.18% and a positive return on equity of 25.19%. The firm had revenue of $52.61 billion for the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $52.91 billion. During the same period in the prior year, the firm posted $2.47 earnings per share. The firm’s quarterly revenue was up 3.0% compared to the same quarter last year.
A number of brokerages recently issued reports on MCK. Standpoint Research raised shares of McKesson from a “hold” rating to a “buy” rating in a report on Tuesday, July 10th. Royal Bank of Canada lowered their price target on shares of McKesson to $158.00 and set a “market perform” rating on the stock in a report on Friday, June 29th. Morgan Stanley decreased their price objective on shares of McKesson from $175.00 to $142.00 and set an “equal weight” rating on the stock in a report on Tuesday, July 3rd. Robert W. Baird downgraded shares of McKesson from an “outperform” rating to a “neutral” rating in a report on Friday, July 20th. Finally, Citigroup decreased their price objective on shares of McKesson from $160.00 to $2.86 and set a “buy” rating on the stock in a report on Friday, July 20th. Two research analysts have rated the stock with a sell rating, seven have given a hold rating and eight have issued a buy rating to the stock. The stock currently has a consensus rating of “Hold” and a consensus target price of $151.99.
NYSE MCK traded down $0.31 during mid-day trading on Monday, reaching $132.39. 1,905,400 shares of the stock were exchanged, compared to its average volume of 1,368,775. McKesson has a 1 year low of $122.49 and a 1 year high of $178.86. The company has a market capitalization of $26.51 billion, a PE ratio of 10.49, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 1.42 and a beta of 1.23. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.68, a quick ratio of 0.57 and a current ratio of 1.00.
The business also recently disclosed a quarterly dividend, which was paid on Monday, October 1st. Shareholders of record on Tuesday, September 4th were issued a dividend of $0.39 per share. This represents a $1.56 annualized dividend and a yield of 1.18%. This is an increase from McKesson’s previous quarterly dividend of $0.34. The ex-dividend date was Friday, August 31st. McKesson’s dividend payout ratio (DPR) is presently 12.36%.
In other McKesson news, Director N Anthony Coles sold 1,350 shares of the stock in a transaction on Friday, August 31st. The shares were sold at an average price of $128.69, for a total transaction of $173,731.50. The transaction was disclosed in a filing with the SEC, which can be accessed through this hyperlink. Company insiders own 0.87% of the company’s stock.
Institutional investors and hedge funds have recently bought and sold shares of the business. Fort L.P. purchased a new position in shares of McKesson in the second quarter worth about $110,000. James Hambro & Partners lifted its stake in shares of McKesson by 141.6% in the second quarter. James Hambro & Partners now owns 877 shares of the company’s stock worth $117,000 after buying an additional 514 shares in the last quarter. Flagship Harbor Advisors LLC purchased a new position in shares of McKesson in the second quarter worth about $118,000. Reilly Financial Advisors LLC lifted its stake in shares of McKesson by 506.8% in the third quarter. Reilly Financial Advisors LLC now owns 898 shares of the company’s stock worth $119,000 after buying an additional 750 shares in the last quarter. Finally, Mount Yale Investment Advisors LLC purchased a new position in shares of McKesson in the first quarter worth about $138,000. 88.25% of the stock is currently owned by institutional investors and hedge funds.
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Back in 1995, when most podcasters were just starting to log on to AOL, a group at Apple Computer’s Advanced Technology Group was hard at work on a new technology that would eventually give rise to podcasting.
They were building something called RDF site summary to help web users keep up with new content. The problem was that in the early days of the web it was hard to find the best content and dial-up connections were really slow. RDF eventually became RSS feeds which was a way for people to have new content automatically delivered to their RSS reader or email inbox.
Now people could keep up with new content on multiple sites without having to check to see if anything new had been uploaded just by checking their RSS reader. Nearly ten years later, this technology was used to deliver audio files and the first podcasts were born.
Podcasts are built on these RSS feeds so that new podcast episodes are automatically delivered to your listeners’ computers and iPhones. The feed is really just a type of XML code that tells your podcast app that there is a new podcast available, where your app can find it, and a bit about the episode.
Sometimes you’ll hear people talk about their podcast feed, and that’s the same thing as the RSS feed. Typically, podcasters will include things about the podcast itself (it’s name, artwork, description, etc.) and some information about each episode (episode name, description, artwork, etc.).
Most importantly, as a podcaster, your RSS feed will tell your listener’s apps where to find the episode. You see, your episodes aren’t in iTunes, they aren’t in your RSS feed, they are somewhere else . . .
Your podcast episodes are actually being hosted somewhere. If you read about podcast hosting, or if podcasters tell you where they host their files, what they are really telling you is where those podcast episodes are located.
Your podcast host can be a professional company, a free service, or your own server. But the main purpose is that the episodes are actually made available somewhere on the web so that listeners can download them when they are available.
Some examples of podcast hosts include our company Buzzsprout, or our competitors Libsyn, Podbean, and Spreaker. There are also alternative hosting solutions like self-hosting and using Archive.org which we’ll discuss later.
I speak to a lot of podcasters who want to how to upload their podcast to iTunes. We all know iTunes is one of the best ways to find new podcast, but iTunes actually doesn’t host any podcasts.
iTunes is something called a podcast directory and there are actually a lot of them. They are just places where you can list your podcast for people to find. The best analogy is that iTunes is like a phone book; while a phone book tells the world which number to call to talk to you, iTunes tells podcast apps where to find your RSS feed.
This doesn’t diminish the importance of iTunes in the least. Just as it use to be critical for businesses to be listed in the Yellow Pages, it’s critical for podcasters to be listed in iTunes.
A lot of podcasters use to use a feed redirect service called Feedburner to give them more control over their feed. Feedburner is a service that sits between your podcast host and your podcast listings. The main benefit for Feedburner use to be that you could redirect your feed to a new host quickly and easily.
Since then a few things have changed. First, nearly all of the reputable podcast hosts will redirect your feed for you without any questions. When you’re looking at which host to pick, be sure they will allow you to redirect your feed – you don’t want to get stuck with a host that overcharges you and then won’t let you leave once you’ve grown your listenership. Second, Feedburner is a Google service and they haven’t been investing much into the service for several years now leading some podcasters to speculate that they might shut it down eventually.
My recommendation is to avoid using a service like Feedburner since it just adds an additional step of complexity into the process. You can read more about using Feedburner with your podcast at the Audacity to Podcast.
To make your podcast available in iTunes or on your own website you’ll need to host your podcast on a server somewhere. You can go one of three routes: self-hosting, free work-around options, and managed hosting options.
I’m a large proponent of using a managed hosting solution. In my view you want a simple and robust solution so that you can focus your efforts on your podcast, rather than building an maintaining your own hosting platform.
You can host your own podcast on your own server and generate an RSS feed to distribute your audio files. This is an option that provides the absolute most flexibility, though it can be expensive and time-consuming. Adam Mulholland, creator of the AM Podcast Network wrote a good post of how they manage their own hosting.
You can write your own feed or use something like Podcast Generator to help create the XML for your podcast feed. If you do build your own feed, use the Sample RSS feed from Apple to get started and make sure you use the correct RSS tags for Podcasts Connect.
There are a group of new podcasters that use work-arounds to leverage free file hosting services to deliver their audio files. This is only recommended for really small podcasts since it could be blocked by your file hosting service if you’re using too much bandwidth.
If your budget is really tight, and you just want to test podcasting for a month or so, these might work for you. Check out these posts on hosting your podcast on Google Drive, or with Archive.org.
With a dedicated podcast host, you’ll be able to quickly upload your first episode in a few minutes. You can also feel confident that your podcast is secure and compliant with all the RSS specifications. Additionally, your host should be updating their feeds to match any new developments in the podcasting space.
Reliability – How long have they been in business? Are their any complaints about downtime for their service? How many podcasts do they already host?
Feature set – Do they provide a basic website for you? Can you post embed players on your own website? Are they compatible with your website builder? Do they automatically tag your podcast episodes with ID3 tags? Do they provide statistics about your listeners? Etc.
Pricing – Does the host charge your for storage, bandwidth or both? This can be one of the trickier points since many of the hosts bill on different terms.
Redirects – Does the host allow you to redirect your feed if you ever decide to leave? This is a big one. In the past there were hosts that wouldn’t allow you to leave, so you wouldn’t be able to move your listeners if you ever decided to leave. Most of the reputable hosts do this now, but its definitely something to double check.
On Buzzsprout, you get all of the features I just mentioned and more. You can upload an episode in just a few minutes, and can even start your podcast on a free plan to make sure podcasting is right for you. (For podcasters looking to start a podcast, signup at Buzzsprout.com/50 and you’ll get 50% off your first month of podcast hosting. Plus, if you have any questions along the way you can reach out to me at [email protected] and we’ll be happy to guide you throughout the process.)
After selecting the hosting option that best fits your needs, you will also want to submit your podcast to the various podcast directories for broader reach. Popular options include iTunes, Google Play Music, Spreaker, SoundCloud and YouTube.
Now that you have your hosting figured out, it’s time to start—or get back to—recording! Record a conversation with anyone, anywhere (and on any device) and get crystal clear audio on both sides when using RINGR. RINGR is an essential tool for top quality podcast interviewing and recording. Download RINGR today and give hassle-free interviews a try.
Alban Brooke is General Counsel & Director of Marketing for Higher Pixels (Buzzsprout, Tick, and StreamCare). Find out more information about Buzzsprout, the easiest podcasting software for hosting, promoting, and tracking your podcast, at http://www.buzzsprout.com
When Jenny VanDeHei left for college to study business, she thought she had picked her last stone and fed her last calf. She loved the family farm she grew up on, but she saw her future as an accountant, in an office building in the city, far from the country fresh smell of cow manure.
Never once did she think her life would come full circle back to farming nor that she would be so happy it did.
Jenny has found herself once again discussing combines, manure pits, grain trucks, and other vocabulary she’d learned firsthand listening to her parents discuss the farm around the kitchen table. After earning her degree at the University of Wisconsin–Oshkosh, Jenny started her career at SECURA. She began underwriting insurance for farmers in Wisconsin and has now taken on a leadership role as Supervisor of Farm/Ag Processing Services. She and her team of Customer Service Representatives send all of the insurance documentation out to agents and policyholders. She also spends time on project teams for the company and the farm division.
Jenny grew up on a small family-owned and run dairy farm in Seymour, Wisconsin. It was started by her grandparents, eventually taken over by her parents, and still thrives today. They currently milk 75 head of cattle twice a day in a stanchion barn and care for 100+ Holstein heifer calves and dry cows while working 765 acres of land. They also had a custom harvesting business, which they sold a few years ago.
“Running a farm with your family is no easy task,” Jenny said. “But when it’s all hands on deck to make sure all the work gets done, you become closer than most.”
From an early age, Jenny was responsible for cooking meals for the family after getting in from night milking and running hot and ready bag lunches out to the field using the old farm truck.
From April through October, Jenny spent most of her time driving tractor during the planting and harvest seasons. When she wasn’t doing that, she stepped in as a substitute milker, calf feeder, barn scrapper, and feed pusher. Like many farm kids, she was a jack of all trades and filled in wherever needed, whenever needed.
One of her favorite memories is picking stones—a non-negotiable chore—with the neighborhood kids. They would gather together and spend the entire weekend in the field picking stones wondering how on earth there was always more stones to pick, year after year.
Living and working on a farm instilled many life lessons Jenny values in her life off the farm. Farming taught her the importance of teamwork, and she learned the value of hard work and determination. These are values Jenny applies when trying to reach common ground on a project or to show appreciation when someone goes the extra mile. When she’s not supervising farm/ag processing services at SECURA, you can still find Jenny rolling up her sleeves on the farm—picking stones, driving tractor, or cooking meals for her family and the farmhands.
The knowledge Jenny learned through her firsthand experience combined with her years with SECURA make her a farm insurance expert for our agents and policyholders. For many of our Farm-Ag experts, training began when they were barely old enough to walk, and Jenny is no exception.
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The brand new album, Hillside Avenue has been anticipated for some time, and now it is finally here!
For people who have had the pleasure of listening to Erica and Friends live, this album lives up to their best work. The pieces are familiar, their favorites; the arrangements are new but well-polished. Erica Hockett and her ensemble are perfectionists and the album is excellent all round! You will be happy to buy and enjoy it many times over.
Erica has always had a sweet, clear voice and on to this excellent album, it is better than we have ever heard it before. As we listened to Hillside Avenue for the very first time last Thursday, August 30, 2018, we had just been watching Senator John McCain’s services in Arizona, and Senator Joe Biden’s stirring eulogy. We appreciated these lovely old ballads all the more for the context. Celia really was brought to tears by Erica’s rendition of Garden Valley and its remembrance of a ‘Gallant Laddie,’ and as she thought how appropriate it was in the context of the day.
On Bonny May and Game of all Fours, Lee Corbie-Wells joins Erica with her sultry contralto for two lovely and well balanced harmony treats. Here is a sample: Game of all Fours Sample Video
Troy Dillinger has a wonderful touch with his piano accordion and it added greatly to the upbeat pieces. The band’s Chris Hammond on guitar and Anne Bingham Goess on fiddle, and whistle, all comport themselves with skill and style for a full instrumental sound that accompanies song, jig and reel to perfection.
Erica grew up in the English Cotswolds listening to the English folk band Fairport Convention, and we were expecting at least one of their hits, but were very pleasantly surprised to hear Erica’s rendition of Farewell, Farewell, written by Richard Thompson and first released in 1969 by Fairport Convention.
Tony says, ‘I was an impressionable young college freshman when I first heard this song, and I don’t think I have ever heard it done better.’
We especially like the carefully crafted new arrangements for these traditional ballads, jigs and reels. These new settings will give even the most jaded traditional music aficionado’s something new and pleasing to hear.
Sound engineers, Margrit Eischler of Absolutely True Sound and Gawain Mathews of Gawain Mathews Music Studio (who also plays loads of instruments on the album) have done a fantastic job on this one. The mix is great – not too much compression or reverb, so the presence is just the way we like it – every word is audible, yet so are all the nuances of the acoustic accompaniment.
You can see and hear Erica and Friends live at the Scottish Games and Gathering in Pleasanton this coming weekend, Labor Day weekend, Saturday and Sunday, September 1st and 2nd, 2018, at the Alameda County Fairgrounds. They will have CD copies Hillside Avenue for sale as well, so you can keep enjoying their music. We’ll also gladly look forward to their future albums!
In past 18 months, Santa Cruz collaborative Charmas has successfully used Kickstarter to fund their albums, Songs of the Sea, which proved to be a landmark collection, and now Stark Raving Celtic. Stark Raving Celtic features twenty Central California musicians, wielding an astonishing variety of folk-, rock-and percussion-instruments, who are give the album exceptional creative variety. The result can be heard on Charmas’ brand new album Stark Raving Celtic, which features original Celtic music and performances by 20 past and present members of Charmas as well as notable guest performers.
Stark Raving Celtic includes several lovely tune sets, but there are not many Scottish/Irish/Celtic bands who compose original songs about their life experiences in the traditional style, and although we liked all the tunes and songs well, for us, these four original songs stood out.
We’ve been to many Scottish Highland Games, and so we especially appreciated the humor and liveliness of The Highland Games Song, by Elise MacGregor Ferrell, and the extra vocal effects of the lads singing it. It should be the theme song of California Highland Games in general!
Speaking of Scottish Games, the bagpipes there can be overwhelming, but the bits of bagpipes that Elise plays in several tracks of Stark Raving Celtic fit pleasantly with the instrumental arrangements and medleys.
The Dreaming Tree, composed by Elise as a elegy for the authentic and tragic life story of ‘Kathleen of the Great White North’, is made all the more poignant by the distinctive voice of emerging star Lee Corbie-Wells. Keep your eyes and ears open for more from Lee.
Brains S.A., written by guitarist Jim Powell about an evening at a pub of that name in Cardiff, Wales, brought to mind a couple of memorable visits to a pub we used to know in St. Paul, Minnesota, as well as an old song by a long-ago favorite British group (‘The Inn of the George and Dragon’ by Herman’s Hermits). I couldn’t help but smile when Jim mentioned the Welsh dragon breathing fire down my back.
Jonny Hardie’s Tumble, composed by Elise for Old Blind Dogs fiddler Jonny Hardie, was a lovely tribute and a rollicking tune, made exceptional by the wonderful, rich tenor-baritone voice of lead vocalist Aaron Clegg. Aaron is among the best we’ve heard. His natural, strong voice is accompanied by emotion, especially humor, you can feel, and his excellent enunciation stands out over the accompanying instruments.
Check the Music Players for all Charmas recorded Celtic music on their website at https://charmasband.com/charmas-full-band-for-stage-showsfestivals
Charmas performs traditional and modern Celtic ballads, drinking songs, sea chanteys, comedy songs, instrumental dance music, and Celtic rock. For more info. and Charmas audio samples check
Connla is a new, young Northern Irish band, which has been called ‘the best new trad band’ from Northern Ireland but is much more than that. It is gaining recognition in the U.S., with rave reviews from such entities as the ‘Chicago Irish American News,’ as well as winning awards in Ireland. It is comprised of four young people from Derry and Armagh; Ciara McCafferty (vocals), Ciaran Carlin (Flute/Whistles) and Paul Starrett (Guitar) Emer Mallon (Harp) and Conor Mallon (Uilleann Pipes/Whistles). Connla was described as a ‘must see’ group by ‘Songlines Magazine,’ a magazine out of the UK that covers world-wide music and has taken over awards presentation from the defunct BBC music awards.
We listen to a few dozen new album’s by various, very good, groups every year, and recently listented to Connla’s newest album, The Next Chapter just released last Friday. A few of these really stand out to us, and this is one of them — even better than Connla’s 2016 album, River’s Waiting.
Although the band considers itself ‘trad,’ it has a generally modern presentation that is refreshing. Connla’s music also includes touches of Jazz, Pop, a fair amount of Latin or Spanish influence, especially in pieces where guitar dominates, and even Americana. The song ‘Julie‘ about a U.S. Civil War period relationship between mistress and a long-time slave while the Union soldiers are approaching, is unforgettable. Both album’s have an interesting mix of modern and traditional ballads, and traditionals and more modern instrumental music. The instrumentalism is excellent. I really enjoyed the guitar-dominated pieces. It is so seldom one hears virtuoso melody guitar.
‘SS Baychimo‘ was truly special. It reminded me of some fine classical performances of Spanish music like ‘Recuerdos del Alhambra,’ or ‘Romanza.’ and a good reminder of how many Irish went to the Spanish speaking countries after 1641. Wow!
Ciara McCafferty’s voice easily rivals the best of Nashville female singers. It is young, sweet and strong. The ballads she sings tell stirring, poignant tales that catch your attention also.
If I have one complaint, it is that Ciara would enunciate her consonants and the mix better balance her voice when she’s dropping the volume for dramatic effect. Sometimes she’s crystal clear, even above the instruments, and other times, the ends of words disappear a bit, especially when her voice is dropping while the instrumental music is swelling, as in the very end of ‘Julie.’ Over time, I’m certain this will only improve.
Connla is touring the western U.S. in September and will be featured at the KVMR Celtic festival on September 29 and 30 in Grass Valley (east of Sacramento off Highways 49 and 20). In the preceding week, they will be in the Bay area (in Berkeley) and we hope to find them a gig in the South Bay area as well. AmeriCeltic readers should get out and listen to them, where and when they can! They are well worth the prices of the tickets! We’ll publish all their dates and places as they develop closer to their tour. Meantime, we can recommend their album as a lovely diversion during our long bay area commutes.
Wake The Dead is a cadre of multi-talented musicians lead by Danny Carnahan that has been moshing Hunter/Garcia’s malleable and durable songs with traditional Celtic jigs and reels for better than three decades. On this latest album, The Deal, they add songs from the Youngbloods, Buffalo Springfield, Bob Dylan, the Beatles and more.
The performances, by Maureen Brennan, Celtic harp, Cindy Browne, double bass, Danny Carnahan, vocals, octave mandolin, guitar, fiddle, Kevin Carr, fiddle, uilleann pipes, pennywhistle, Sylvia Herold, vocals, guitar, Paul Kotapish, vocals, mandolin, guitar, jaw harp, Brian Rice, hand percussion, are all wonderful, but then every one of these are masters of their art.
The tracks are likewise incredible. Note how these classic songs are carefully paired with Celtic traditional tunes like a fine wine with a great entree!
Surprisingly, my personal favorite is Bob Dylan’s Just like a Woman, because of the sensitive treatment given by vocalist Sylvia Herhold, but overall it’s another great album and a MUST for any 60’s folk-rock fan.
Another great track is the first, where the rollicking country-bluegrass-rock fusion number, Cumberland Blues by Garcia and Lesh is paired with Mind the Gap, an original tune by Danny Carnahan, and together, they blend beautifully into a classic old-time anthem.
You can listen to samples at www.wakethedead.org/product/deal/ and purchase a download right from the site.
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STREAKS, STATS AND NOTES - Vikings swept season series last year, first time since 2009. ... QB Kirk Cousins 20 of 36 for 244 yards Frederik Andersen Jersey , two TDs in Vikings debut last week. ... RB Dalvin Cook had 95 total yards in first game back since knee injury in Week 4 last year. ... WR Stefon Diggs has 18 catches for 271 yards and three TDs in last three games vs. Packers. ... WR Adam Thielen had 102 yards receiving last week, eighth career game over 100-yard mark. ... TE Kyle Rudolph has four TDs in past four road games. ... DE Everson Griffen has five sacks, two forced fumbles in past six games against Green Bay. ... S Harrison Smith has four INTs, eight pass deflections and 1 1/2 sacks in last five divisional games. ... First-round pick CB Mike Hughes had three tackles, three pass deflections and 28-yard INT returned for TD in debut. Hughes was first Vikings rookie to return INT for score since Smith in 2012. ... Packers QB Aaron Rodgers has 19 TDs, four INTs and 111.8 rating in nine career home games vs. Vikings. ... Rodgers only player to have four games with four-plus TD passes and no INTs against Minnesota. ... RB Jamaal Williams averaging 72.7 yards over past three home games. ... WR Davante Adams has TD in last four games against Vikings. ... WR Randall Cobb tied for ninth in franchise history with 22 receiving TDs at home. ... Jimmy Graham's 44 receiving TDs most among tight ends since 2013. ... DL Kenny Clark had career-high two sacks in last meeting. ... LB Nick Perry with four sacks in three career games at Lambeau against Vikings. ... S Kentrell Brice led team last week with career-high nine tackles and had first career sack. ... Fantasy tip: Rodgers threw three TD passes in fourth quarter against Bears after returning from knee injury despite being limited to pocket. Expect him to play as Packers face another formidable defense, though Rodgers is masterful running no-huddle attack with quick, precision passing.
The Minnesota Vikings have secured yet another core player with a long-term contract, signing wide receiver Stefon Diggs to a five-year extension and moving the star of the "Minneapolis Miracle" pass into the NFL's top 10 highest-paid players at his position. Diggs has yet to post a 1,000-yard or 100-catch season, but his ability was on full display when he turned a sideline catch into a 61-yard touchdown as time ran out to lift the Vikings to victory over New Orleans in last season's playoffs. He formed a prolific tandem with Adam Thielen last year, helping Case Keenum stabilize the passing game after Sam Bradford was injured, and over his first three seasons has been one of the biggest steals of the 2015 draft.
"I love it here. I truly do, and I'm just happy I'll be here for a while now," Diggs said after practice Tuesday. "That's why I want to play for them for selecting me in the fifth round. It was a bumpy road that day, and I just remember getting a call Nazem Kadri Jersey , and they gave me a chance. They believed in me, and they won, and going forward they pushed me to be where I am now."
"What I most like is he loves football and loves to come and work, because as a quarterback it can be miserable if you're out here with someone who is here to just get a paycheck and leave," Cousins said. "He wants to work."
"I've been a part of some locker rooms where by 9 o'clock, some of your guys are sleeping in the back row, not taking notes, not paying attention. They're basically checked out, texting or whatever," Cousins said. "That's not him. That's not these guys."
"He's been a good person off the field. He's been a good person on the field as far as that," head coach Mike Zimmer said. "When he messes up, he knows. One time I had him in my office Jay Beagle Jersey , and I asked him ... a question, and he said, 'Now, coach, you know you knew the answer when you asked the question.' He's a smart guy."
Since Cousins signed his fully guaranteed $84 million contract in March, the Vikings have signed linebacker Eric Kendricks, defensive end Danielle Hunter and now Diggs to multi-year deals. The Vikings now have Cousins, Diggs, Thielen, running back Dalvin Cook, left tackle Riley Reiff, right guard Mike Remmers and center Pat Elflein all under team control through at least the 2020 season. On defense, the same goes for Hunter, Kendricks, defensive end Everson Griffen, defensive tackle Linval Joseph Authentic Gustav Nyquist Jersey , cornerback Xavier Rhodes and safety Harrison Smith. That's a lot of star power to squeeze under the salary cap, with linebacker Anthony Barr the only prominent player with an expiring contract this year.
"Continuity, to me, is very important, and it's not a luxury we have in the NFL these days," Cousins said. "There is a lot of change year in and year out, so I've come to expect that and understand you can't use that as an excuse."
"I'm happy that I can look at my mom and smile and tell her that everything is going to be OK," Diggs said. "I'm just very thankful for everybody involved."
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Hundreds of University of Texas students flooded the campus’ Main Mall on Tuesday for a chance to win tickets to the Grammys from Ellen Degeneres. The catch? The student with the best Beyoncé costume gets the golden ticket.
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I'd be more interested to play an adventure game rather than an action RPG, which I've never been very fond of.
I wonder if it will have some sort of social link system? I ask because I have seen the same indications of a calendar, like from Persona 3 and 4.
Actually, I'm hoping the "sexuality" aspect of the character doesn't get in the way of any serious character-building.
C huh? Either that fretting over an AO is truly unwarranted or Japan is just that much more lenient in sexual content. Well, the latter should hold true whether or not it gets an AO, since it'd undoubtedly get an M.
Sexuality, and even deep level relationships, still aren't handled as well as could be in most video game scripts. It's like how early comic books didn't take heroes' love stories beyond an innocent/superficial kindergarten-crush level, even when they were teens or adults who, by virtue of puberty, are more sexual beings.
Why can't sex and sexuality BE a part of serious character building? Hey, when it comes to relationships, people put stock into how many partners their boy/girlfriend has had. If they're a virgin or promiscuous (depending on how you perceive their numbers), it affects what you think of their character. Often deeply. The nature of sex, sexuality, and its effect on the human experience is deep.
Hey, when it comes to relationships, people put stock into how many partners their boy/girlfriend has had. If they're a virgin or promiscuous (depending on how you perceive their numbers), it affects what you think of their character. Often deeply.
Catherine's promiscuity could go both ways with regard to character-building (no pun intended). If she is portrayed as promiscuous, a flood of stereotypes come to mind, and that could be the extent of her charcter building. On the other hand, maybe she'll have had a tough upbringing... maybe swallowed by Leviathan and forced to live with monsters in an alternate timeline, resulting in her whips and chains fetish. That makes you promiscuous too, maybe.
I have faith in the Persona team to AVOID stereotypes; especially the way P4 brought out more of... opposites in what we were presented with.
I suppose I'm a bit use to J-things keeping stereotypes consistent. The sexy-girl of a series stays sexy through ANY and every situation.
the more and more I look at this game the more and more I know this game is being made with a localization in mind. Don't worry about it not coming here, I'm 100% sure it will, and very likely uncensored(if there's any censorship its likely to happen before release).
concerning that promiscuity thing holding back character development, I think it seemed like she was flirting in a similar way to Chizuru from Kanokon, and for a game like this with "serious and darkly-toned" written all over it, that could be a really bad thing.
I'd guess she is probably a result of those dreams he has and is a fantasy (like a wet dream) made real.
*In a completely joking manner because I think that's probably better than staying and getting KO'd* ,, Wimp! Leaving the fight as soon as they hit you back! ,, Anyway, my rolls, for the record: ,, [stargaizer] 7:32 pm: Toughness save vs. DC 28 Stargaizer *rolls* 1d20: 1+13: 14 2 degrees of failure: dazed until the end of My next turn (only free actions and 1 std action) and a –1 to future toughness checks (effectively +12) ,, [stargaizer] 7:41 pm: Will save vs. DC 20 Stargaizer *rolls* 1d20: 11+11: 22 1 degree of success
But we do have a portable snow-cone maker... it walks, talks and wears an advanced metallic suit. ,, As for other stuff we could've been doing... there's only so much we can do before we need ST intervention. By doing what we've done, we've been able to keep posting and interacting more with each other without sitting idly by and waiting for an ST post. I've purposefully stayed away from skill checks for that very reason.
Fine with either. About 49% option 1, 51% option 2. So, yeah, slightly more interested in option 2, but I'm fine with RR'ing this back on track.
Jordan, you know, I thought about that. I have no answer as to why he's not in there, but it just makes sense that he'd be at least mentioned. Maybe he's been replaced by Falcon; I don't know how much room they have for non-super super sidekicks.
I like Jordan's idea. That sounds cool. ,, Dr. Northlight, with Gatekeeper around, I don't know that we'd think about it that much... but after this we just might.
Well, my guess would be that since your sorta playing Superboy, and you sorta have a wolf teammember, that you would get a sorta sphere that could sorta turn into a flying motorcycle. I'm thinking an egg or a cube that turns into either a bicycle or car. ,, Just my guess.
Agreed with those above. Jumping us through the fight to us having to explore a little bit might be good. ,, -OR- ,, I'd be happy waiting through the rest of the initiative and have us finish the fight. It's up to the temp ST.
I've always said that my family and I enjoyed AoS. We still do. Though I have to agree with Jameson... having watched the big fight for SHIELD on AoS before we watched CA:2... it gave us a head start on the intrigue front. ,,
Ummm... Since Paul is neither girl nor gay I guess I make lucky #7. A guy surrounded by women... I can actually RP that from experience... and keep it completely platonic (also from experience).
Ok, got powers, the majority of a backstory, and an in costume look. Just gotta put it all together and out of the excel sheet and into a readable format. Don't know how much time I'll have tomorrow, might have to wait until Monday.
Dragos Industries (new game from the people who did Ancient Aberrant) - Trinity Continuum RPG - RPG Post
Myself, Pendaran, BcAugust, and metaphysician of the Ancient Aberrant group have started a new high-power nova game to go alongside with that, with meta DM'ing. It's a 2008 start date modern-day campaign, with very high level novas (we've always liked shaking the pillars of heaven). So far we're two sessions in and hope to have more, although our eternal nemesis -- scheduling conflicts -- has already started again.
Justinian Dragos -- Pendaran's character, Justinian Dragos is a young Greek billionaire CEO with all the money in the world. His nova powers are magnetic control, enhanced intellect, and all the mega-socials at a ridiculous level. Having erupted as a teenager, after a brief career as a regional defender he inherited his father's corporation and rapidly powerlevellled it into one of the leading megacorporations on the planet Earth, rivalled only by DeVries International and Project Utopia itself for size. While DV of course monopolizes the elite market with a strong minority in natural resource exploitation, and Utopia is Utopia, Dragos Industries does everything else, and does it everywhere the other two aren't always welcome.
Justinian's current objectives are to find out the secret history of the world, and to safeguard and protect novas from whatever threats might try to manipulate or use them without screwing over the rest of the world in the process. He sees both of these goals as the path to his life's dream, uplifting the world by the potential of all such that dwell in it.
Justinian also had a brief dalliance with -- he describes it as 'a very hazardous extended undercover operation' -- into the Teragen, as he felt it necessary to investigate their claims into having a cure for Taint. After learning what he needed to know, and finding out it wasn't what he hoped for, he left. Technically Justinian Dragos is a Pantheon member, because he has successfully attained the Chrysalis and guided a minimum of one other person through their own Chrysalis... although neither Justinian himself nor any member of the Pantheon would ever actually agree that he was.
As you might guess, his relationships with all the other nova power blocs are complicated. However, as he has sufficient resources to be a power bloc in his own right (no, seriously -- its a very high-level campaign and the player paid for multiple 6-dot Backgrounds), he remains as yet unmolested.
John Holland - my own character, John Holland is a man with a mysterious past. (Cipher 6) His nova attributes are maxed-out mega-dex, respectable levels in all the physicals, maxed-out Intuition and Psychic Shield, maxed-out Mega-Wits, minor mega-intellect (with tactical and investigative prodigy), moderate mega-manipulation, and high mega-perception. He also has Quantum Blast 5 bought with the custom limitation 'must be firing a gun', defined as the ability to quantum-charge ordinary bullets with dark energy/phantom mass so that when fired they hit like railgun slugs. He can put an ordinary 9mm round lengthwise through a main battle tank, and he's quite likely the greatest nova marksman in the world as well as highly skilled at pretty much all normal special-operations type skills.
Publicly, John serves as the Chief Security Officer for Dragos Industries. Not-so-publicly, he is Dragos' personal assassin. Not that Dragos often uses such methods, but competition at this level pretty much mandates an elite response from time to time.
Which admittedly isn't a far cry from what John did in his pre-eruption life as one of the pre-N-Day world's most experienced baseline freelance hit men (which is exactly why he paid for Cipher-6 -- his eruption changed his physical age and appearance, and his prior persona is on record as having died in the Sao Paolo blast, so nothing can connect the man he used to be to the man he now is), although since his eruption cured his borderline sociopathy and gave him a newfound empathy for the suffering of innocents he at least does it for far more ethical reasons now.
Dr. Rose McGowan -- BcAugust's character. Dr. Rose McGowan, M.D., is an experienced Warper, one of the most powerful healers on Earth-Aberrant, and a highly talented biochemist, administrator, and PR person. The scion of a politically-well-connected and wealthy family in the US Northeast, she was the out-of-wedlock daughter of the family's 'black sheep'. Despite her eruption in medical school and its opportunity to return to the family fold as a major and valued family asset, she entirely spurned involvement in her family's business to instead embark on a career of volunteering for charity operations in Third World countries. She rapidly graduated to running those charity operations, to the point where 'Dr. Rose' is now first-among-equals/nova spokesperson/unelected queen of Doctors Without Borders, Amnesty International, etc, etc., etc, and all the other charity and humanitarian NGOs that haven't been dragged kicking and screaming into the Utopia umbrella yet.
Her admission to Dragos' inner circle is a recent thing, as the campaign opened with said NGOs realizing that Utopia simply wasn't going to suffer their competition in the 'save the world' market sector for much longer and that they couldn't hope to compete with a nova-backed megacorp on their own. Fortunately, Dragos was looking to expand into not just large charitable donations but actually having Dragos Industries have a major charity and humanitarian foundation of its own, and Dr. McGowan was just the person to be made the director of it.
Lynn Ijiri (Ally on Dragos' character sheet) - Chief Operating Officer for Dragos Industries, she is pretty much the Pepper Potts to his Tony Stark. Her nova powers are being a super-administrator... and also an invisible, intangible ninja if need be. Sarcastic, pragmatic, and infinitely patient, she is the person who actually handles all the day-to-day details so that everybody else can do the work.
But don't let that girl-next-door facade fool you. When push comes to shove, she can be more ruthless than John Holland.
Ismet Arslan (Ally on Dragos' character sheet) - Chief Technology Officer for Dragos Industries, Ismet is one of the world's greatest nova geniuses. Having originally erupted as highly Tainted, his unbelievably brilliant mind was essentially incapable of communicating with anyone except another nova mega-genius, and he was in distinct danger of going insane. Ismet is the person Justinian Dragos has taken through the Chrysalis... which did have the benefit of removing his mental aberrations and leaving him a sane, functional personality yet again. Of course, it also mutated him into an 8-foot-tall red-skinned giant spouting bone spurs from his major joints and with a giant wild mane of hair, but you can't have everything. Personality-wise, Ismet is benign but largely detached from conventional morality, and maintains primarily out of gratitude to the man who saved his sanity and continuing interest at the endlessly complicated puzzles and challenges that being both the chief of R&D for a world-spanning megacorp and the chief science consultant for the man trying to penetrate the veils of secrecy around the various nova conspiracies of the world can bring.
As you might guess, a major theme of this campaign is that the players like the idea of what Utopia should be, but don't like Utopia, so they're going to try and do it themselves. Add in that Dragos & Holland have done enough investigations to at least hear the name 'Proteus' and have dark suspicions (while none of the PCs have much use for the Aberrants, Slider was a personal friend of Holland's and everything the Aberrants have turned up in their investigations, Dragos made sure to get a copy of via friends of friends), and, well, there you are.
And, I did my own character backstory as my usual 'copy the style of the Aberrant setting books fluff text' thing, so, here is.
So, just got back from the Vancouver house show tonight and it was the usual mitoid jobber parade mostly. The only things of note were La Arana pulling off their usual 5460-degree flying spin wrecking combo almost directly in front of my seat, and the debut of the XWF's latest undercarder, John 'Thunderhawk' Holland. Looks like your average 20-something white guy in a generic costume designed for him by the XWF stage staff. He's definitely a for-real nova – the mitoids never can pull off that no-body-fat-ultra-toned look a genuine nova has – but unless he's saving them for a surprise coming-out at the upcoming PPV he doesn't seem to have any flashy powers. Just the usual 'stronger, faster, tougher' package. You can see from the photos that he's got a more gymnast or runner build than a heavyweight's but when you're riding the quantum express your muscles and your strength don't necessarily have anything to do with each other, witness Melinda Guzman looking like an anorexic ballet dancer but still able to bench-press a Toyota. Holland's debuting in the Silver Circle, but from the size of the punches I saw him take without bleeding they'll probably be moving him up to Red once he gets some wins. If he can bulk up a little he might be a solid tournament contender; he's pretty damn fast.
Holland didn't draw much pop, but it takes a while for these guys to learn how to perform to the crowd as well as fight. From the way he moved, it looks like he was a martial artist of some kind even pre-eruption; I've seen enough newbs on the circuit flailing around on pure quantum-augmented speed and agility but no science at all to recognize a guy who's actually had training when I see one. However, he doesn't seem to have been a nova long; a couple times it looked like he threw himself off-balance a little with how powerfully or quickly he moved, and none of his moveset looked set up to take advantage of nova-level mobility. Dude's probably just getting used to the new body, so, we'll see how he develops over the summer season.
Boss, Holland's just not selling. It's not because he's kicking in the traces; he's a lot more willing to sit still for costume changes, name changes, and so forth than most of these guys are, and he sticks to the script we give him. And he can seriously deliver the wins; so far he's lost only three matches ever, even after we fast-tracked him to Red. One vs. the Red Circle champion, one vs. the Upset Queen, and one in an inter-circle exhibition vs. Superbeast of all people. Guy started out already able to fight better than most of the new meat, and he's been learning and refining new moves by leaps and bounds week after week. He just can't pop. If we were in the business of making nova martial arts movies he'd make a great stuntman, but we're not in that business, we're in the wrestling business. And in the wrestling business, he doesn't have what it takes to put asses in seats.
We've put in a whole development summer on this guy, and two makeovers, and the graphs are barely trending at all. The technical fans love him, but the other 90+% of our demographic are strictly take-him-or-leave-him. We'll keep trying new angles for the winter season, but if he hasn't started to catch fire by spring 2004 we'll have to recommend not renewing him after his rookie year.
It's a pity. If I could bottle his attitude and inject it into all the other yahoos we're trying to bring along, half our handlers could retire. Holland always shows up on time, does the work, doesn't drink, doesn't use, and doesn't cop an attitude; he's as professional as any employer could ask for. He just isn't good at show business. Maybe see if DeVries would take him for a nice referral fee?
Today was the best day ever! I finally got to quit my horrible job at the wrestling show! John, who is seriously the nicest guy working there if always sorta quiet, had told me that he thought Mr. Jerkface Parker was cheating me on my contract, and it turns out he was! And then he snuck around somehow (I wonder if he used to be a P.I.? He definitely has that whole 'punch people like I do it for a living' thing like the P.I.s on TV) and got the evidence for that, and then he gave it to Mr. Dragos (who is so totally the nicest rich guy I have ever seen, not like that jerk owner of the wrestling show Bartlett at all.) so he could give it to his lawyers so there was a whole lawsuit out of court thing and I could finally legally quit my job! No more 'contractual obligation' because no more contract, I'm free! I'm even getting some of the money back I paid in "agent fees", so I'll have something to live on while I look for a new job.
Minor bummer, Mr. Dragos said I probably couldn't get my old job back at Hot Topic. Well, I could, probably, but it wouldn't be like it was before because people get all weird celebrity-stalkery about novas, even novas that don't actually do anything, so it wouldn't be a normal job anymore. But he was really reassuring and pointed out that there's lots of good jobs specially for novas that don't actually require you to dress up like a stripper and get punched in the face in front of 50,000 drooling fanboys every night (seriously? What was I thinking when I signed up for this?), and most of them are quiet and let you set your own flexible hours and wear regular clothes. Hey, even if its just loading heavy stuff on a loading dock, I'm up for that; I mean, I worked in a store for a living. You lift lots of stuff for close-outs and restocking. No big, right?
But that's tomorrow. Tonight, I'm going to wear the baggiest old thing I own, and go to the mall and just sit in a movie theatre and watch the latest DiCaprio thing and not have anybody bother me about not working evenings or not showing up for media stuff or taking time off or anything. Because I'm not a stupid wrestling show person anymore, and that's the best!
Oh yeah, and John said he was quitting the wrestling show too. Well, he's a smart guy and a hard worker, he'll have no problem finding a new job. I think Mr. Dragos is maybe gonna hire him, they were talking to each other even after I left.
General Carrington, I just got back from our latest attempt to headhunt re: the Holland case. Our efforts were even less successful than usual when trying to poach out of Dragos' stable, which means less than zero.
As a recap: John Holland first showed up on our radar mid-2004, when our recruiting division noted him as an unusually technically proficient fighter on the XWF circuit. While we normally don't recruit out of there as there's no shortage of quantum-powered showboaters walking in our front door of their own accord and most of those at least understand the basic reality of combat, we're always willing to poach a few XWF-ers that look like they don't have their heads completely up their own jockstraps and he was definitely one of them. Our analysts pegged him as having exceptional physical potential regarding speed, agility, and close-quarters technique; even as a newly-erupted nova he was delivering hand-to-hand effectiveness on par with some of our veteran instructors, and the projected upper limits of his potential with enough experience and quantum development were quite frankly ridiculous. Some of our wilder analysts went so far as to say that in less than four years' time he could potentially be matching Kleisner. I know, right? What are they smoking?
Still, even half of that would be a huge win for us, and he wasn't doing well at the XWF anyway (technically great, but didn't seem to like the showbiz aspects at all), which only looked better for us. The initial recruiter approach back last fall was getting polite reticence, so they kicked it up to head office to ask us for an authorization to offer more signing bonus. We thought it was going to be a 'shoot ducks on water' situation because word was the XWF was about to let him go after his rookie year rather than renew him, but just as we were putting together a gold package Justinian Dragos swept in on one of his periodic Santa Claus runs to bail out some idiot girl XWF jobber who'd gotten herself caught up in a rigged contract or something, and since Holland was a friend of hers he came into touch with Dragos. Dragos must have liked what he saw, despite his usual policy of not horning in our market share, and took Holland with him when he left.
We let that sit for a few months, but when Holland seemed at loose ends just taking grad-school courses and doing pieces of security contracts here and there, we figured he was ripe for another approach and so put together a platinum signing package and took it to him. More money, more perks, faster promotion, way more action, who could lose, right?
Apparently us. Despite his background being obscure (to the point we suspect he had it washed clean before first coming out as a nova; well, he wouldn't be the first) our psych profilers swore that the guy has to have a military background pre-eruption, had likely seen serious combat before, and that he'd find low-end grunt work as boring as hell. We figured the pitch to come join the best of the best would be a slam dunk. Instead, we hit a stone wall. He wasn't rude, but he clearly wasn't interested. Even if he did seem to be a guy still looking for what to do with his life, he made it politely but firmly plain that being a DeVries elite would not be it.
Well, this was the third strike, and we're out. Despite his desirability I recommend no further recruitment outreach efforts in Holland's case; if he ever changes his mind he's got our phone number, but until he does change it we'd just be pissing into the wind.
It's official, Justinian Dragos has finally opened a black ops compartment, and its this guy. Our Japanese branch confirms that his bodyguard John Holland was the operator that did the sanction-and-extract on the nova traffickers in Hong Kong last week, and turned up the rather surprising information that not only was it handled in-house instead of via subcontractors but that Holland did it alone. As you might recall, the Kowloon incident involved the deaths of three pretty serious Heaven Thunder novas and over thirty baseline shooters, and zero noncombatant casualties. (detailed after-action analysis attached)
Holland's background has always been problematic (because he doesn't freaking have any that we can determine, and isn't that alarming), but clearly it includes military or covert operations experience of the nontrivial kind because the only thing this dude's done as a nova is some pro wrestling, get an MBA and some security school refreshers on modern techniques and gear, and run some routine investigations and retrievals for Dragos - and yet he just came back from doing a black op that Anya Ilyanovich would envy. This guy has some serious stealth, speed, agility, and hitting power, and an extensive baseline skill set to back it up. Not that we care how many soma traffickers end up violently dead, and its always a good day when innocent children are rescued from having their brains carved up to make more narcotics, but the capability displayed here is alarming. Dragos was always a significantly powerful rogue element but he was limited in various aspects by what sort of elites were available to be hired. And elite hiring has its own built-in disadvantages, and is trackable besides. But now Dragos has a first-class elite operative on his permanent staff and Holland just showed themselves to be a walking iceberg; what we've seen all along is only the barest fraction of what was actually there.
Of particular note is that in addition to his known physical attributes Holland appears to have some kind of focused telekinetic attribute that only works to accelerate bullets or amplify their penetrating power – forensic analysis of the corpses he left behind shows that he was somehow able to penetrate the skin of Heaven Thunder nova operative "Chang Shih", who is confirmed on-record as having been able to stop .50-caliber BMG rounds without injury, using nothing more substantial than standard 10mm pistol ammo. So, just because Holland doesn't use BFGs or exotic weaponry, that doesn't mean he can't do serious damage to even our hardened assets.
Worse yet, chatter indicates that Dragos is going to be promoting this guy to a senior executive position in his corporation soon; he's not just going to be a hired gun but a command-rank position of some kind. While we doubt Dragos is going to pose an open challenge to Anna DeVries in the PMC and security services contracting sector, he's clearly feeling the need for developing an in-house extended asset capacity.
Whatever the surveillance priority on old JD is, we need to up it again. He's either digging trenches and preparing for heavy incoming, or getting ready to eventually declare war on someone, and either way means bad news.
CEO and Chairman Justinian Dragos announced today that the head of his personal security detail, John Holland, would be immediately promoted to the newly-created position of Chief Security Officer for the Dragos Industries combine and all subsidiaries.
Until now the rapid pace of acquisition had left security functions for our expanding corporate family being handled on an individual subsidiary level by local managers, with our Chief Operating Officer Lynn Ijiri handling coordination between separate detachments as an adjunct to her normal duties.
John Holland combines extensive pre-eruption experience with the fields of executive protection and operational logistics along with an impressive record of hand-to-hand competition victories as a nova, and almost two years of distinguished service as a personal bodyguard and security operative for Justinian Dragos. When asked about Mr. Holland's unusually rapid promotion to a C-level corporate officer of a Fortune 500 corporation, CEO Dragos replied:
"Rapid advancement is a hallmark of the nova age. Our capabilities are new but constantly expanding; the simple fact that N-Day was only eight years ago means that there are virtually no novas with an extensive decades-long resume in what they do for a living. Talent scouts have to evaluate us based on our capabilities and not just the size of our CVs. To draw an example of even more rapid promotion from our distinguished competition, Dr. Rachel Alinsky was a struggling 20-year-old MIT undergraduate when she erupted and less than two years later was Chief Technology Officer for DeVries. John is a highly talented man with varied and rich experience, exceptional aptitude, and an intense personal loyalty. I've unhesitatingly trusted him with my life, and now I don't hesitate to trust him with the lives of all my people."
As Chief Security Officer Mr. Holland will have final oversight over all matters of physical security, security training, risk assessment, loss prevention, disaster recovery, and occupational safety compliance for all Dragos Industries commercial properties and subsidiaries. Responsibility for digital data security will remain under the auspices of the Chief Information Officer, in coordination with the CSO.
"I am both humbled and encouraged by the amount of responsibility Justinian has chosen to trust me with, and dedicated to not letting him or the company down. I've inherited a good shop full of good people; all of our subsidiary compartments and detachments are doing something well. I see my current responsibilities as bringing that all together, encouraging us all to learn from each other, so that eventually we're all doing everything well, and can each draw upon the other for support so that none of us are struggling alone. And to everybody else I might have to encounter in the performance of my new duties… people, just don't. It wasn't easy for you to try us before, and its definitely not going to get any easier for you now."
These photos from the New York City Star Lord's VIP luncheon section earlier this week show that Team Tomorrow's poster girl Jennifer "Slider" Landers might just be revisiting old haunts. The elegant-looking gentleman in the $100,000+ eufiber suit shown here is John Holland, who dedicated fans might remember was a hot XWF rookie prospect back in 2005 and also the hot-n-heavy romantic partner of the delectable Miss Landers for several months during the same time period. I guess even Utopia's Sweetheart goes through a bad-boy phase every now and then, hmmm?
While their fling came and went with the passing of summer, now that Mr. Holland has traded in his jeans and cutoff t-shirt and XWF undercard job for an expensively-suited position as chief of security for Dragos Industries, one of the world's largest megacorporations, perhaps Slider is re-evaluating her prospects.
Insider gossip says that Mr. Holland is a quiet, polite, and refined sort of gentleman, even though he clearly loves to roll up his sleeves and cut loose on the mats.
Is love in the air once more? Or is this merely ships passing in the night? Only time will tell! Stay tuned!
Overall, the security standardization and centralization initiative begun by Dragos Industries last year continues to show marked results. Under the leadership of new CSO John Holland, the Dragos combine has finished a full security systems modernization program for all core and the vast majority of extended assets in an unusually short time. A slight de-emphasis on networking and decentralization has been accepted as a price for reducing vulnerability to cyberkinetics and wireless-enabled intrusion attempts, with more focus being placed on "air-gap" systems, wireless-blocking mesh, and internal satellite links being used to safeguard high-security data transfers and storage.
Site security has also been significantly revamped, with a higher than average rate of personnel turnover due to heightened and more rigorously enforced physical fitness standards and training certifications. Personnel replacements have been heavily scouted from ex-military and ex-law enforcement personnel from several regions, with a slight preference towards North America and Central Asia. Security 'reaction teams', composed of the most experienced tactical personnel, are kept at each high-priority site and encouraged (with generous travel benefits and relocation expenses) to rotate between sites on a regular basis to prevent complacency and to widen experience.
Dragos Industries has not substantially changed its hiring policy for security nova assets, still giving preference to factors such as background and temperament over magnitude and breadth of nova abilities or ease of availability. At least eight novas (profiles attached) have been confirmed as of this writing as being assigned primarily to security or extended operational duties as Dragos Industries employees, as distinguished from the multiple other novas employed in industrial, scientific, administrative, or entertainment roles.
CSO Holland's executive security management team has also headhunted several unusual specialists such as forensic psychologists, an internal marketing consultant, a terrain analyst, and in-house forensics analysts, in addition to the more standard administrative and investigative personnel.
Although the security department's substantially increased budget has affected profitability over the past fiscal year, overall Dragos Industries remains solidly in the black due to the success of their ongoing corporate expansion and acquisition plans. The budget situation is expected to revert to the mean in future fiscal years now that substantial capital improvements to security infrastructure are largely completed.
After the Landers sighting in downtown San Antonio, Texas this morning (thank God for fanboys who whip out their smartphone and tweet every time they think they see their fave celeb incognito in a crowd) we prioritized facial-recognition scan time on every wirelessly-accessible camera in the local area, and got a hit at 1027 local time off of a traffic camera. On noting that subject was in an amateurish disguise of bulky jacket, ball cap, and sunglasses, and was sitting and apparently waiting in a fast-food restaurant, our analysts drew the conclusion that she was there for a prearranged rendezvous and we assigned the highest priority to the immediate dispatch of an asset to perform live surveillance. Unfortunately, since Landers' own nova abilities would make it problematic to use Teleport or Warp anywhere in her close vicinity without immediately drawing her notice, even the most rapid dispatch could not ensure the arrival of an asset on-site in less than 23 minutes by which point Landers' meeting had already concluded and both she and the second party (identified from video imagery as John Holland, Chief Security Officer for Dragos Industries) had left the scene.
Our asset followed standard procedure and, posing as an FBI agent, discreetly debriefed all available witnesses and then pulled recorded imagery from every useful camera POV in the vicinity. Unfortunately, there were no available sound pickups, and image quality rendered even the most computer-assisted reconstruction and lip-reading of only partial use. What follows is the best, if incomplete, transcript we could compose.
JOHN HOLLAND: (Holland was seated so that no camera had a clear view of his face, so we are unable to give any lip-reading of what he may have been saying.)
HOLLAND: (unintelligible) (leans forward, places hand on her forearm momentarily in apparent calming gesture)
HOLLAND: (momentarily flicks his gaze several directions, without turning his head) (Analyst's Note: He was almost certainly using nearby reflective surfaces to scan the entire surrounding area for suspicious-looking individuals, without visibly turning to look. We're actually fortunate that our asset didn't get there in time with this guy in the picture - he's known to have significantly heightened nova perception and is a highly trained security operative.)
(Holland will continue to repeat his unobstrusive scan of the surrounding area for the duration of the conversation)
LANDERS: (unintelligible) (agitated) – don't know! (pauses to gather herself) There's something wrong with the drugs. Adrenocilin. Moxinoquantamine(?). It's causing sterility(?). Utopia will- (unintelligible) –cover-up. I've written down some notes… (hands him a USB drive)
(At this, several other patrons and one of the servers turned to look at the conversation. Holland and Landers rapidly seat themselves.)
LANDERS: Do you think I'm stupid? (visibly upset, places hand on forehead) I've tried to tell so many people, and they all laughed at me, and now you swallow the whole thing right away?
LANDERS: No, you think I'm crazy, and you're just humoring me. You probably just want to take me to one of Dragos' nova doctors to get some nice safe pills and a head-shrinking.
LANDERS: (more calmly) Look, I know you're just- I wish I could come with you. I do! But I've had people I've known a lot longer than you already try to- I just can't take that chance.
(At this point Landers reaches into her purse and gives Holland her smartphone, and he types in several short text messages, possibly contact information. He hands it back, and she replaces it in her purse.)
According to external camera footage Landers immediately Warped away to an unknown destination from the alley behind the diner, and Holland drove back to the San Antonio office for Dragos Industries, where he had been conducting a series of local contact meetings)
After-Action Analysis: Jesus Christ did we dodge a bullet here today. Can you imagine the size of the problem we'd have had if she'd actually left with him? Justinian Dragos is one of the absolute last people in the world we want putting a full-court press into keeping her hidden and safe while he debriefs her of everything she might possibly have to tell. It's bad enough that she was able to pass on an unknown amount of her notes and conclusions to Dragos' #1 gun, but its not like we had anything available locally that could possibly have taken it away from him against his will.
But the problem is that they're clearly going to remain in touch – a professional like Holland must have a hundred electronic drop-boxes she could use - and after Dragos gets finished reviewing whatever information is on that USB drive they're almost certainly going to reach out to her again and ask her to come in. And we know just how persuasive that Greek bastard can be when he puts his mind to it.
We're on a clock here, Director. We have to find a way to silence Landers, and we have to do it soon.
John Holland has been the chief of security at Dragos Industries for two years, and was Justinian Dragos' personal bodyguard for over another year before that. A soft-spoken dark-haired man in his middle 30s with the good looks possible only to the quantum-enhanced, he looks more like a Hollywood character actor than a man capable of flipping over an armored limousine, outrunning highway traffic on foot, or fighting two terrorist novas to a standstill with his bare hands. Fortune magazine was fortunate to have him available today to answer some of our questions and share his opinions.
John, what's it like to go from obscure beginnings to suddenly being one of the most influential men in the world?
I wouldn't know, because I'm not one of the most influential men in the world. Justinian Dragos is; I'm just one of his support team.
One of President Wilson's most famous remarks was "If you want to make enemies, try to change something." Justinian's spent his entire adult life trying to change a lot of things, and you're right, that makes for a lot of work for the people looking out for him.
We first met towards the end of my rookie year – my only year, as it turned out – in the XWF. He'd shown up to attend one of the shows, and we bumped into each other through a 'friend of a friend' type situation. My contract was up in a few weeks, and he was looking for a new member of his security team, and since I had prior experience in the field as well as being a very good nova-level combatant it was a natural fit.
(chuckling) As hard as it seems to remember sometimes, history actually did exist before the Nova Age began. I'm referring to my pre-eruption career.
I worked more in the security consulting and penetration testing fields. But I'd also worked on executive protection details, yes.
Becoming a nova meant that my body didn't remotely work the way it used to. Everything was different; my balance, my timing, even my perceptions. I know that DeVries has an excellent training program but I've always learned better through self-study. So I went to one of the best environments to learn nova-level hand-to-hand combat and athletics "on the job", as it were, and I did.
That was one of the options I was examining. But any decent position as a nova pays you more than enough to live on, especially if you're not extravagant; I anticipated having ample time and opportunity to play things by ear. Then I was fortunate enough to find an opportunity with Dragos Industries, and here we are.
Cliché as it sounds, the best description would be "varied". Although 'day' is itself a pretty flexible term; both me, Lynn, and Justinian himself have the sort of quantum-enhanced metabolism that's entirely sleep-optional, so the executive team usually runs a 24-hour business cycle. I actually have three assistants that work in shifts, and so do they.
Despite my nova abilities and the mental images they raise, my average day is largely full of administrative duties. Every Dragos subsidiary has a security department, every building has a security team, and they all have to come together at the top and they all have to be managed to work together without friction, crossed wires, or waste. The buck stops at my desk; any problem I have to bring to Justinian had better be a problem for more people than just the Security department, or else I'm not doing my job.
The right-hand man of Justinian Dragos is actually a woman; our Chief Operating Officer, Lynn Ijiri, who's far more indispensable to the operation than I am. I just try to watch their backs while they work; she's the one who actually manages it all for him.
(chuckles again) Now if you're asking about our executive compensation scale, let's just say that I have absolutely no complaints.
I would imagine that the vetting to become head of security for one of the world's largest corporations would be intense.
You wouldn't be wrong. Justinian and Lynn both handled that vetting themselves, using the full force of their quantum-enhanced intellects. By the end of it, I think he knew more about my past history than I did. Still, that's the sort of security you need to have when operating at this level; I certainly can't complain when my boss takes security as seriously as he should. The usual complaint of people in my position is when their employer doesn't.
Outside of what has already been released, I would prefer to keep that private. In fact, part of my signing package was Justinian's help in that regard. Let's just say… I am not the only person involved in my past, and I would prefer they not be dragged into the nova limelight simply because I was. Next question?
Really, we don't plan to do much except what we've always done; do well by doing good. Anything more specific, I can't really say without getting the Securities Exchange Commission upset at me; there's an entire category of regulations for news releases that might affect stock prices.
With sorrow and loss. She was a good friend. We'd actually dated for a little while during my XWF summer – that's public record – and while that didn't go further, we stayed friendly afterwards.
You are an elite-level nova and have access to significant investigative resources besides; do you personally or does Dragos Industries have any plans to join the manhunt for Corbin?
I might have joined if I had been sufficiently convinced of his guilt. But I don't think the current evidence is conclusive and Justinian himself is still evaluating the situation.
Then in my professional opinion either they have knowledge of the case that they have chosen not to share with the authorities or else their conclusions are premature.
I was at her funeral, remember? His behavior was certainly very odd, but grief makes people do odd things sometimes. I'm not going to condemn a man just for not being up to public speaking after the violent death of someone he cared for, and I'm disappointed other people did.
It is a matter of public record that Andre Corbin and you have had your differences, so why defend him now?
Because I did not become chief of security for one of the world's largest corporations without learning how to separate my personal feelings from my professional judgement.
Very Cool. I've only added excepts/headlines like yours to a few characters (some of the versions of Bombshell, Sonja Bahaar, and maybe Sean Cassidy IIRC), and never as extensive as yours. Nice shout-out to Boom Box, she deserves more love.
Just a few questions I'm curious about - is this game played at table top or online? And playing such a high level game, is rolling dice kept to minimum, since with such powerful characters, unless you are facing an unending number of equals, it would seem to be needless? I've tried playing in high-powered games, and after a while, it just seems to grow uninteresting to me.
Actually, by high-powered, going by your descriptions, are you guys at Q6+ with Level 4 powers, or just have a breadth of powers and maxed-megas with Q5, can't really tell from your descriptions. Just curious... kinda missing having a PC in an Aberrant-ish game.
Tabletop, and die-rolling is at a minimum. And we're broadly maxed-out q5s... John, in fact, is still a q4.
As per our campaign rules, John Holland was built on 200 starting nova points. 6-dot Backgrounds from Adventure! were allowed.
His invulnerability is something me and Pendaran worked out between us: basically it's the same as 'Combat Luck' from the Champions RPG system by Hero Games. So long as he has freedom to move and the attack is something where dodge would be an applicable action, he has extra soak. It was a compromise on my part between the fact that concept-wise he's not supposed to be a tank, but mechanically any nova engaging in regular combat at this power level needs a shit ton of soak or else they will soon die. (Even Totentanz, the original speed and agility fighter, still also has a crapton of Mega-Stamina and Force Field to keep him in the game).
Ah, Champions! I got a fair number of the books, but never got to play a campaign using the system. For some odd reason, my long time friends that I get together with once a week for most of the last 20 years for table top gaming don't care for Superhero/super-powers games - been mostly D&D of various editions and Shadowrun, with some Rifts (shudder - great setting, shitty system) and Rolemaster.
I really liked the idea of Champions, system-wise, but man, that was a lot of math to make a character.
I hear you on wanting to make the finesse character who doesn't want to be pasted by one hit in a fight. Once made a flawed version of Hypermovement that didn't increase your speed, but just gave the PC the extra difficulty to be hit in the first place.
Pendaran put together a briefing document for the DM and his fellow players going into more details on Dragos Industries and Dragos' own relationships and contacts. Here it is.
An astronomical outgrowth of his father’s Dragos Investments (which remains a prestigious subgrouping within the company, of course), Justinian took what was essentially something of a well moneyed venture capital cum mutual fund and transformed it within a few short years into one of the most powerful corporate entities on the planet. The company stands alongside DeVries, ViaSoft, and (from a certain perspective) Project Utopia as one of the first megacorporations previously thought to be the stuff of cyberpunk fiction.
When otherwise attempting to outline the particular spheres of influence and, well, industry in which Dragos Industries has at least some foothold, it is vastly more productive and time efficient to look at the ones they don’t.
Mercenary services. That’s about it. Certainly Dragos Industries has its own private security, but the company could not quite be said to control anything exactly approximating a private army, nor looks to have any interest at the moment in exploring such avenues. This is not to say Dragos doesn’t delve into military defense contracting and research (though there’s a light joke within the corporate culture that such things are part of the “John Holland needing to blow some motherfucker away” fund), but as far as actual boots on the ground, nova or otherwise, Dragos Industries generally stays out of such affairs.
Considering that the corp, either directly, or by owning a company, that itself owns a company, is involved in everything from software to banking to cosmetics to heavy industry to farm equipment to children’s toys, that singular absence is a curious thing, to some.
Certainly the desire not to get in some kind of pissing contest with DeVries is a satisfying enough motivation to some. To others, the fearless, ruthless, corporate raiding adventurism of “the Alexander of the Boardroom” having any kind of exception is entirely bizarre.
Truth be told, and though he’s able to keep any sense of it out of a periodic friendly brunch with Anna herself, the elite industry and culture disgusts Justinian (he makes an exception for Argus and Peacekeepers Inc, given their mission statements). Seeing novas as a critical part of building towards a better tomorrow, an industry that encourages them to waste their lives, wasting each other, is an offense stepping on his dreams. This has not stopped him from, if truly nothing else suits them and it is ultimately their wish, helping a nova establish themselves within the elite world, but he certainly gives convincing them otherwise a vigorous try.
Otherwise, through investment both audacious, yet tactically optimized, quality products, a genuine dedication to a staggering customer base, sometimes vicious corporate raiding and liquidation, and a general effort to overcome rivals by simply rendering their efforts obsolete, Dragos Industries continues on in an aggressive pace of expansion. The every so often hostile takeovers should seem to give a more negative reputation to Justinian and his organization alike, yet as he likes to quip with a grin “yes, but they were all bad people.” There is a measure of truth to that in the main, Justinian largely targets corporate entities with some shady or unfortunate aspects to their practices, when deciding the time has come again to have fun, at someone else’s expense. And jobs are found afterwards for the deserving, at least. Still, his every so often indulged habits in this arena have lead some to call him “the Omar Little of the corporate world.” To this he has offered a rare, more genuine smile and a wink.
Usually shortened to The Dragos Foundation by most (though not by Justinian himself, who is outright obstinate in always referring to it by its full name), the Foundation is an R&D center, think tank and philanthropic organization of staggering proportions, run generally at a loss, and supported thereby from the every so often cutthroat shenanigans of Dragos Industries, along with general very flush profit from other endeavours. This is not to say the occasional insanely lucrative discovery, pathogen cure, vaccine or patent does not come from within its depths, but Justinian has made clear he does not give a good god damn about project cost effectiveness or profit alike as far as its doings.
Alternative fuels, pursuing breakthroughs in psychotherapy, cheaper building materials, medicine, decreasing soil salinity, even diplomacy, social work and philosophy are but a sampling of the initiatives pursued and refined at the Foundation. Though the Foundation’s particular notoriety comes from its work with novas.
While no one ostensibly equals Utopia in the field, the Dragos Foundation has managed to pursue the study of novas to a remarkable degree all the same as far as analysis of the nova condition, their abilities, such stresses and drawbacks as they seem to suffer, and paths that might mitigate them. To Utopia’s mild annoyance, alternatives and refinements to their own medications related to quantum channeling are pursued besides (“Friendly competition gang. Friendly!” *wink*)
The motivation for such a specific pursuit comes out of a mingled lingering grief over the events surrounding Dragos’ father’s death, and in a more publically offered way, Justinian’s belief that novas and humans can come together to aspire towards and realize a better world. That to do so requires understanding. Both of each other, and of the self.
While that sort of pie in the sky thinking is mildly appreciated by Utopia, disdained by the Teragen and eyerolled at by those feeling it to be some bit of PR, Dragos has all the same garnered a degree of broad goodwill across the nova community from the works in that philosophy’s name. Which is to say, while a rare thing, novas get sick, and novas get hurt. And when they do, treating them in any meaningful way can be ridiculously difficult (particularly for a pathogen strong enough to affect a nova). From drugs, to surgical techniques to tools, the Foundation has made a series of breakthroughs that have managed to lessen that difficulty. Astoundingly, Dragos did not even bother to patent such things (“Just use them. I have spectacularly compensated the responsible parties. Just use them.”)
Generally speaking, all such sort of research is done with the aid of volunteers, and on a somewhat grottier side, the occasional nova or family thereof who agree to donate (or in some cases that has made Justinian grit his teeth, “donate” for a clearly reasonable requested and certainly not at all ghoulish to ask him of fee) their corpse to science on death.
Part of what gives Dragos a positive enough reputation to allow for such agreements to have happened is of course..
This is both instead something of a personal sideline of the man in charge and a fully-fledged corporate division of itself, under the heading Ad Astra. Perhaps again born out of pain at the stilled potential of his father, Justinian seems to have a personal dislike of beings essentially made out of potential, not being free to realize and explore it. Besides, to make that better world, people must be able to choose it freely, or it will have no staying power.
The man uses some of his resources thereby to keep abreast of the lives of the community as a whole, at times simply by being himself socially active within it to keep tabs on rumour and attitudes. He will sometimes thereby approach the newly erupted, or those who have otherwise betrayed some dissatisfaction or misery with their ongoing lives, even those he simply picks up a particular vibe from. And over the course of establishing trust and a friendship, if possible, he will offer them aid, in whatever form he feels would be of genuine help to them.
This has lead to him doing everything from covering legal bills, to arranging art lessons, to teaching meditation, to, with a slight, quieted sigh, arranging with some novas to have a sit down with Anna DeVries herself (it should be said, Justinian’s once or twice having served as what amounted to an elite recruiter having worked out wonderfully for DeVries has left Anna with a relatively positive impression of Justinian as a contact of hers. This aggravates him on a profound and spectacular level that gets vented in private sparring sessions).
He otherwise has ended up with a wide network of nova contacts for whom he has done everything from help find a mint copy of Action comics 1 (“Sometimes it’s just the little things people need to get by” *wink*) to, in many cases, secure gainful employment in a field of their choosing. Or at least, tolerable employment to let them pursue what makes them happy otherwise. (Oh, Ashley Winthrop? He bought out her contract some time ago, with a light touch of behind the scenes rumoured leveraging. A few hours of her time in a week at high risk excavation, demolition, path clearing, or even forestry where baselines cannot go easily subsidizes what Justinian grouses to be something of a venal existence otherwise these days, but hey, she’s happy. And he hooked her up with a reliable investment manager, so she should stay that way for some time.)
That the most he has done with all that as far as the sheer favours and influence it could garner him is but ask such people to help out another nova that might be struggling, leaves some leery to no small degree, yet such personal efforts have continued to remain what they are.
In a more official sense, Ad Astra employs several teams of lawyers, agents, managers, accountants, therapists and facilitators, maintaining contacts across worlds corporate and otherwise, managing novas affiliated with Dragos Industries on either a freelance or more formal level (the company represents a few city defenders in their arrangements with their home cities). It is the closest the company comes to the elite industry, and Justinian himself finds DeVries’ attempts to broaden their own corporate culture in that direction to be something between a shot across the bow and slap in the face (he’s idly pondering working to purchase Argus and Peacekeepers in a “no, you all keep your jobs and run your things as you have been, but goodness, look at this ridiculously increased resource base you now have backing your dreams” sort of way. If nothing else it would send a “stay in your lane Anna” message.)
Originally run from within Ad Astra, but now a discrete initiative of its own, the Sanctuary Program exists to live up to its name, with regards novas and a world that seems to demand as price of their power an almost constant attention and strain.
Making use of everything from non-extradition countries to international waters to simply inhospitable territory, the Sanctuary Program is everything and nothing more than the name implies. The sanctuaries are refuges with essentially automated services as much as possible, where specific amenities can be arranged on request. They range from what could almost be publically acknowledged (if location withheld) spas to secret private underground bolt holes. Time in them is obviously arranged in advance (both to make sure any guests of the Sanctuaries that might have some issue with each other are not placed in the same location, and also, less politely, so Justinian Dragos can reply “you murdered a child, fuck off” as needs be from any investigating into the request).
For the most part, despite the occasional attempt at sinister rumourmongering, these are places largely used by novas looking for a break from it all. With that said, they have certainly been used as part of such escaped Chinese nova smuggling as Dragos Industries occasionally trucks in. Justinian is also certainly aware that nova agents of the Aberrants, Teragen and Directive alike have made use of the Sanctuaries as places to lie low while some particular bit of heat dies down (Utopia and such darker adjuncts as it may or may not have, are highly intend on avoiding these places for some reason). The trick is to never directly acknowledge that they do, even to them, while also keeping them isolated from each other while they do (All involved parties are certainly aware this is all happening. All parties highly benefit from pretending to ignore that it happens). Also helpful are armies of lawyers and a smile that in relevant times feels like nothing so much as that of a shark.
Justinian toys with vastly expanding the program, twinning it with the notion of the obsolescences of his enemies, or at least existing well beyond their relative reach. He sketches out the occasional diagram of a space city, his closest employees roll their eyes, he grumbles about stepping on his dreams and alternates with moonbases or martian domes. All very nascent ideas regardless.
If by some chance it is critical to provide someone highly trusted with the most concealed and secure of refuge, Justinian simply makes use of the sub levels of the mountain itself.
Allies 6: Aside from the various novas in direct employ of one division or another, or those represented by DI agents, managers, lawyers and the like (from entertainers to city defenders), Justinian’s company is known for the personal circle around its CEO, consisting of John Holland, Lynn Ijiri, and Ismet Arslan.
Lynn Ijiri (taken with two dots out of the free five for stat equivalency) “What exactly is her job?” “To run this whole thing if I ever get killed.” “She seems to already do that.” “Shhhh, she’s too busy to notice that.” “Or she noticed that several years ago.” “I mean, yes, probably.”
Lynn is on paper the COO of Dragos Industries. She is more accurately somewhere between confessor, sometime field operative, chief administrator, personal assistant, co internal affairs and every so often ego check. It helps that like the rest of Justinian Dragos’ sewing circle, Lynn doesn’t tend to sleep and has several different teams of staff that alternate to her schedules.
Lynn is also something of a pre David Dragos Foundation success story for Justinian, and a reminder for him of having a purpose beyond his personal issues. A high school valedictorian of the sort that had headed up every extra-curricular club and charitable effort that could possibly be squeezed in (and founded a few, “she was intense, but it was the good intense”, commented a fellow student), Lynn’s family were celebrating her multiple scholarship offers with an extended summer trip (her parents were academics that could take the time, and her family extremely close). Lynn’s eruption was a deeply traumatic one, occurring Turkey, in reflexive panicked response to an oncoming out of control car. She seemed to simply vanish out of the way. And if some sort of act of teleportation was the underlying state of affairs, this would be a far happier story. Instead, her family, looking on in shock, then saw her slowly become visible and tangible again before their eyes as Lynn fought with her nascent powers. Saw her come back layer by layer. Blood, muscle and bone. Veins and organs. Looking down at her own body to see such grotesqueries, and hear the screams of horror with expressions to match sent her running.
Small coastal towns make for lack of photo documentation, but rumours spread, people can be interviewed, and “Ghost” sightings around the area can create a pattern. The event occurred during Justinian’s Invictus days, which helped him find her first. His capacity for interaction as much as an evident empathy he radiated for the traumatized allowed him to reach her and he very carefully worked at building enough trust with her over time (while preventing any otherwise damaging interference) to bring her back to something of a growing compound, throwing money around to find her the finest therapies the world could provide, from physical to psychological. Mercifully her issues were of the fundamentally (relatively) conventional sort, as opposed to what Justinian was already idly terming in his personal notes (“and on your crazy hobo board of too far ramblings”- Lynn Ijiri) as “quantum backlash”. Fueled by his own intellect and capacity, Dragos would contribute as much as he could to the process, helping him develop and conceptualize the services his company would come to offer.
It both helped, and also held a measure of irony, that when both healed and stripped of anguish to go with being able to remove a sense of herself, what Lynn found would always linger was a spiritual core of pure iron. Justinian would later claim she only needed a bit of a nudge to pull herself back together. Lynn would outright stick out her tongue as her value judgement of the wordplay. Unfortunately, it was of no help with her family. They were ecstatic on the face of it to get their daughter back, but she could always tell that just in the corner of their gaze, just on the edge of their words, was that fear, was the sight of her as a horror. She had been perceptive as a baseline after all, how much more now as a nova, and particularly after months of silent, invisible observation of the wandering world around her? That her youngest siblings would sometimes cry and flinch from her made a distancing inescapable.
The offers poured in all the same of course as months passed, if from completely different venues now. Nova watchers had managed to piece together the identity of “the Ghost of Istanbul” by this time, and even if the rumours of her abilities were true, her value was inestimable. Dragos Industries was starting to be a going concern by this point, and a lack of its own recruitment pitch was conspicuous. And for Lynn, perhaps slightly offensive.
So it was that she walked right through the door to Justinian’s then office, dropped a sizable file of offers onto his desk, and inquired where his was supposed to be. Justinian’s honest reply invoked the notion of concern over an undue influence on her, given his personal role in her therapy. Lynn simply pointed to the unopened door she had just emerged from, returning that she could go wherever she wanted, if she wanted, she was choosing to be here. Noting the steel in her tone and gaze, Justinian opted not to belabour an argument and simply asked her why she was choosing to be here then. “Because I don’t want anyone else to have to go through what I have. Because families that love each other, shouldn’t lose each other. Because I think you’re my only real shot to change the world that way. And because your ‘personal role in my therapy’ is how you know this isn’t a line meant to play into your personal history.” She paused, and looked sincerely apologetic when he quirked an eyebrow to that. “And because I always do my homework. You were the only one that came close to passing my employment standards test.” “So I failed, is what you’re telling me.” “But you came really close, that’s a good start!” “Room to grow eh?” “Exactly. I’ve prepared an outline of some key areas, starting with your staff being astoundingly permissive of a woman just phasing right into your office. Don’t you have cameras in here?” “Well, they’ve seen worse.” A pause of his own after the joke. “Also I have a ‘no, it’s fine’ body language metric protocol.”
Lynn has been with the corporation since almost the beginning, her loyalty to the company, its vision, and Justinian a force as relentless as her drive to keep all such factors operating effectively. Her personal life is a bit spare and intensely private, consisting largely of classical music appreciation, pottery, meditation, rhythmic gymnastics, and a truly and astoundingly filthy collection of yaoi. The air about her is usually functionally unreadable self-possessed and politesse, though she can veer between cold disdainful fury, snark and gently firm yet energetic encouragement without missing a beat. She has something of an off hours (such few as could be called “off hours”) friendship with Athena Boyd after a nova manipulator attempted to put the two into each other’s path for a laugh and hope for sparks to fly. After a joined and appropriately discouraging bout of retribution, the two meet for drinks every now and again. They pointedly avoid talking about work.
(OOC: So I can fully stat her up as desired, but mostly I’m picturing Lynn with density decrease blinged out and possibly reflexive, invisibility, psychic shield, high wp, mega manip, perception, and wits to high degrees, enough mega stamina to let her get away with her schedule, a dot of mega dex, several mega int, a whack of abilities, relevant enhancements, so forth. She’s an excellent ninja-type, she’s incredibly difficult to get one over on, she’s an astounding administrator/organizer, but not much in the way of offensive oomph)
Ismet Arslan, head of R&D (1 ally dot from the free 5, so, 100ish nova point type or such as I recall)
Newer members of the more shadowy parts various organizations with a measure of initiative and energy will every so often put forward an opinion that Ismet Arslan is an otherwise exploitable weakness in the Dragos Industries monolith. More experienced figures have so far managed to take them aside and dissuade the idea, noting that it would take whatever problem Justinian Dragos represents from that of an bright ambitious egomaniac putting his mark on the world, to a cold, calculating remorseless sociopath bent on their ruin. They’re not exactly right about that conclusion, but neither are they exactly wrong.
Ismet was foisted on Justinian, more or less. He apparently erupted during a weekend long cram session at the family home for a university calculus exam involving took much caffeine and amphetamines alike. An initial rush of sheer brilliance gave way to fits of gibberish, mania, seizures and self-harm. It was early days still for Dragos Industries, but Lynn’s own history was something of a matter of public record at this point (“Thanks N!” said no one at Dragos Industries), and a desperate family at wit’s end was hoping for a similar miracle. Justinian very gently made the family understand that miracles, while the way things ought to be, were not always possible, but he would do his very best.
He managed to make some currency out of being one of the few people that could decipher patterns in Ismet’s gibberish (Arslan was in fact inventing new languages wholecloth from one fit to the next, and then ontop of them using them to communicate largely via math or riddles and word games. There was a subtle musical harmony sometimes underlying them that occasionally made Justinian weep) and craft replies to them, but it became clear that Ismet, while possessing a mind in several ways beyond even Justinian’s own, was decidedly suffering from “quantum backlash”. While Justinian and his initial science teams managed to come up with a rough Ismet to Turkish translator (the computing power required for this was.. not small) for visits from his family (who were moved in to the growing compound and community, with jobs found for them), it was evident that Ismet could not be left unsupervised/unmonitored, without some measure of sedation, or in range of tools.
Dragos was at first vehement on making no use of the young man for corporate affairs. It took Ismet himself blazing past everything Justinian would initially provide to occupy him intellectually, and begging in his lucid moments for something to let himself feel productive and not just a charity case. He was reliably 60/40 up on Justinian at chess at this point anyway, and had no desire to spare the seconds to learn Go. Arslan had his hand in a variety of breakthroughs as a result, and Justinian found himself as something of a facilitator between Ismet and the rest of R&D.
The years were still deeply troubled ones as they passed, and while they managed to arrest Ismet’s condition from deteriorating any further, neither could it be improved. And then Justinian finished his dalliance with the Teragen and emerged from explorations into the chrysalis. After Dragos personally prevented yet another suicide attempt on Ismet’s part, Arslan simply collapsed into Justinian’s arms, wept, shook violently and begged for help, crying that he didn’t want to die, not really. Justinian sighed in a very soft and aching resignation in reply. “There might, perhaps, be something.”
Ismet Arslan is the only nova Justinian Dragos has guided through the chrysalis, and he intends for things to remain that way. The experience only further cemented to him the fundamental lack of value in it as a broadly applicable solution for the difficulties of the nova condition. His mentorship was a very careful one, engaging the two in the distant vistas of intellect and accomplishment.
When Ismet emerged, Justinian was there to see him weep in joy at looking out to the world with an unclouded mind at last, thanking Dragos profusely. Justinian just smiled a sad smile and nodded. Where once was a slim, slight young man, there was now a hulking, eight foot tall red skinned giant, a shaggy mane of crimson hair around his head (he’s since grown a neatly trimmed beard to match), spurs of bone from his elbows and knees, and where his eyebrows should be. Arslan is heedlessly uncaring about such changes being the price of his blessedly clear and brilliant mind, and even enjoys being some measure of a brute force powerhouse (that he is absolutely far from nimbleness to go with it has meant for a lot of ergonomic adjusting in his workspaces). Justinian’s particular approach to the chrysalis at least has not distanced him too far from the idea of humanity in a psychological sense, but Ismet was always something of an introvert even beforehand. He manages well enough with project teams in matters of pure science, he still spends time with his family (who are too busy being joyous that Ismet is sane, and grateful to Justinian to a point of almost worship, to find trouble in his new appearance), but he actively shies away from human interaction beyond that, preferring the company of high intellect novas the few times he feels social, or animals in natural surroundings (he also has a few pet cats). He is largely quiet and polite, and his look distantly thoughtful, but he can get highly animated and energetic when inspired.
Outside of the benefits his scientific work can bring, Ismet’s main tie to the outside world is various pieces of anonymous musical composition that various performers and orchestras have made stunning results out of. There is a certain curiosity as to who “A. Non” might be.
Justinian once asked Ismet on a vacation in the depths of the Amazon, if he even really believes in what the company is doing. “Oh! Well.. certainly as far as your work with novas, very much of course! And very much so as far as the intellectual challenges! But… overall.. no, I suppose not really. But, sir, you gave me back my mind, and you gave me back my soul. I am your man for eternity. Were you to send me away, I would still find a way to work ever to your benefit. I do not believe in your agenda, but I believe in your belief in me.” Justinian just sighed, smiled, and clapped his shoulder.
The bond between the two is an obviously paternal one, and Justinian is, for his part, fiercely protective of Ismet to a level of outright violence in a way he is not of anyone else (it helps that he’s pretty sure Lynn could survive the planet blowing up). He has informed Orzaiz (see below) that if he ever so much as starts to think that someone from the Teragen are trying to get their hooks into Ismet, he will kill them. Not he will have John kill them. Not he will arrange some careful bit of manipulation to have them distantly killed or ruined. He will kill them. Yes, he is well aware that various members of the Teragen are certainly more personally powerful than himself. It does not matter. He will find a way. He will be the last thing they ever see in the unimaginable pain of the last short moments of their lives.
Orzaiz knows his friend well enough to have simply nodded to this. Though he then smiled ruefully and shook his head, adding it was likely unnecessary anyway. From the already voiced perspective of Scripture for instance, this was simply an example of your approach to Teras as a member of the Pantheon, and the way you guide members of your faction through it. Justinian did not speak to Orzaiz for three months after that. (Raoul had to send him an apology power suit.)
Justinian does have his friends outside of his immediate corporate world, particular stand outs being..
Lynn, who has just a bit of a viciously catty streak about personal ties Justinian will build with people she disapproves of, sums up the friendship of the two as “Raoul and Justinian’s excellent snob-ventures.” “We’re not snobs Lynn.” “You bring out each other’s inner snob.” “It was Paris and Fashion Week.” “You talked about suit tailoring for three hours.” “Well, you know, we had to cut it short for a party.”
Justinian and Oraiz have proven a measure of exasperating to monitor in their exchanges. Near as can be determined, they are very honestly and with a sort of classy energy (and sometimes critical snark) talking about wine, polo, horse racing, various mediums of art, fashion, opera and other performing arts, history, art history, travel, liquors, parties, high scale dance clubs, party planning, upper crust social gossip and occasionally the world cup. At least they’re charming about it. (Directive Agent: “I think I actually like polo now and I just bought season tickets to an art nouveau theatre festival. Get me off this assignment.”)
Their ties predate the modern nova condition, as it so happens. It’s said that an Orzaiz befriended a Dragos while the former was travelling on the Grand Tour, a handful of centuries ago, and the bond endured across the generations since. A Dragos and an Orzaiz probably even married at some point across the sweep of history. Their families have retained a certain closeness, and Orzaiz being a bit too young to be a contemporary of David’s, and a bit too old to be a contemporary of Justinian’s, slotted into something of a younger brother/older brother sort of place. He particularly liked Justinian, and enjoyed playing the role of the disreputably elegant cad who would regale him with trouble and scandal a boy might not otherwise know from (Justinian’s self-possession meant it only went so far, but it was amusing all the same to watch him cough around his first cigar). He was close enough to the family to attend the funeral of Justinian’s mother.
The news of Justinian’s eruption was a delight to him, Orzaiz had found the notion of giving the Dragos’ a lesser place in his social circles saddening. He was less pleased to hear about the particular circumstances of Justinian’s early nova days, but he quietly spread through his own people to avoid making mention of the idea that having come to the Teragen could have spared it. It wouldn’t be worth the headaches.
Much of their current close friendship is based on each man finding the other a genuinely engaging sounding board for ideas, even if they are very different ideas. More important than that, that they can honestly converse about matters of shared inconsequentiality (“Well. A proper sense of style and taste can be entirely consequential.”- Justinian Dragos) without finding their extremely developed capacity for social interaction getting in the way. They can even work it in naturally without running into problems. And they both throw lovely parties. They did also once own a racehorse together, but that ended disastrously, and filed away as something never to be spoken of again (“Under the surface control issues Gotterdammerung” “So, when you make that kind of reference, you’re not being a snob, but..?” “Cuttingly incisive.” “I can’t believe I let you plan my social calendar.” “Your friendship with Orzaiz does suggest a certain specific history of poor decision making, yes.”)
Raoul takes some flak from his brethren for maintaining a friendship with Dragos, but at some point, the total flak he takes from them becomes a bit of white noise as a whole. He honestly warned them not to admit the man into the group, even as he facilitated Justinian’s deeper introduction to it. He told them Justinian would never join a group he did not found and could not control. He laughed when they admitted him anyway, he laughed even harder when Justinian was taught the chrysalis, and he laughed so hard he had to wipe away genuine tears at the press conference where Justinian repudiated the organization as a whole. If pressed in a rare and private way he can’t socially dodge, Orzaiz is one of those who believe that Dragos’ path through Teras was simply to actualize what he already was (in some moments the two men will discuss philosophy. He’ll bring that up then as well, but very delicately).
They’ll otherwise talk shop, as it were, when necessary, but in much more controlled and careful circumstances than their more idle jaunts.
Justinian occasionally takes flak of his own for the friendship, but he’s defended it ably enough (or just eyerolls at Lynn, who is one of the few he allows for taking shots at him over it when opportunities present themselves). As he likes to say “Our families had a bond that stretched across generations and empires. I could tell you that to throw away a genuine friendship over philosophy and politics would be cavalier, or disrespectful to that memory. But truth be told, I couldn’t bring myself to abandon a close friend anyway. It would just feel a bit too inhuman.”
(“When you say things to the media like that, I can feel the ‘ting!’ effect off your smile from here.” “Really? Can we edit an actual one in to the footage?” “It was a live interview.” “Damn.”)
A Lynn Approved Friendship ™, though she does find the whole thing a bit tragic. Peter was just coming into his nova career around when Justinian was winding down his stretch as a regional defender. There was enough overlap to notice each other, and work together a couple of times on larger incidents. They appreciated the shared sense of a sort of daring professionalism. It was enough to build on, at the very least. And while Thorn was savvy enough to know there was probably something going on behind Justinian’s public hero workings, that the man was genuinely risking himself and his works were accomplishing real good provided a respectable balance (this is yes, possibly an analogy).
They kept in touch, though their social interactions were generally quiet sorts of things. Each man was pleased to see the other ascend to forefronts of their respective fields, which doesn’t stop them from lightly twitting each other about the things they feel are more openly compromising about their positions. Thorn also likes to opine that Justinian could be doing just as much good in Utopia, if he could accept that they’re not going to change the name to “Project Utopia: A Division of Dragos Industries”. Justinian amuses himself by outlining the international crisis intervention team he would create around Thorn, right now if he agreed, with endless funding, no bureaucratic oversight, no UN politics, his own say on membership and operational policy, and look at that! He brought a folder detailing the whole thing.
Neither man is very seriously trying to recruit the other. Justinian understands how deep Thorn’s sense of dedication to his purpose (and to such as he will view as comrades in arms) goes, it’s part of what Justinian likes about him. Thorn similarly comprehends Justinian’s ten thousand mile wide independence streak and that it is part of what has driven him to accomplish such great and admirable things. More to the point, and in very quiet, very private moments in which Justinian will bring something from R&D on which they will try (and usually fail) to get terribly drunk, they both personally understand deeply traumatic loss and conflict, in their own ways. Justinian and Thorn are a survivors’ encounter group of two. That they don’t work together is part of what facilitates this. Justinian knows the names of the Wolfpack, and Thorn has been to where Dragos’ father died.
Their friendship is not particularly flamboyant or extravagant, but they’ll talk, and meet up somewhere once a month or so, somewhere sedate and out of the way (that as it so happens, Justinian does love German beer resulted in one of Lynn Ijiri’s only, though very brief, giggle fits pre or post nova-dom, and the immediate changing of Justinian’s ringtone).
The old school VtM coterie flow chart interaction description of his friends, sans chart because I don’t know how to make those
Justinian is a good friend, in the different ways being a good friend would mean to different people. This does not exactly mean all his friends like each other. Lynn finds Orzaiz and the Teragen as a whole basically deplorable as regards her own worldview, and gives a wary eye to any influence it might work over Justinian through his beliefs in the potential of others. Narcosis and her ilk don’t concern her in that sense, though she finds her employer and patron perhaps a shade too confident about his capacity to move entirely untouched. She is not even quite so worried about Scripture or even Mal. Justinian having a guru would require Justinian relinquishing some kind of authority over his spirit to someone, and she smirks at that idea. Orzaiz is a problem because Raoul Orzaiz is his oldest friend, that puts the hooks right in. She had hoped Justinian repudiating the Teragen would take care of things, but nope, the suave bastard shows up for coffee without missing a beat. While politely friendly in public, she snipes about him in private as opportunity permits (but then Lynn can define ‘politely friendly adjutant’ as a matter of course wherever she is, with a pleasant veneer that discourages reading too deeply, and encourages putting her out of your mind happily enough once you’ve moved on to something else.)
Orzaiz is socially adept enough to understand the situation, but since Lynn has never pressed the issue, he makes no hay of it, and only tries to be particularly charming to her (he’s entirely aware of the futility, and more importantly, he knows she knows he’s aware of it) if they’re both feeling especially shitty to each other that day and are looking for indirect socially advanced ways to express it that Justinian can’t technically object to even if right there. Justinian generally tries to keep their interactions to a minimum, with a fair bit of success.
John is more straightforward in his dislike of Orzaiz, for reasons of recovered morality, but John has similarly reached an understanding about pressing the issue too hard, and generally doesn’t find himself to have to be much of a presence at Justinian’s social outings where prolonged interaction with Orzaiz would be a thing. Orzaiz, knowing John is following the tao of “if you don’t have anything nice to say, don’t say anything at all” doesn’t goad, if largely for Justinian’s sake than anything else. John can’t dance the dance like Lynn can (he can dance in some ways a much worse dance, and that’s not worth pressing either). John’s kept to a cool dislike is hardly is as wrought with frisson as the situation of two people, each with deep emotional ties to a third, and those two people disagree about almost everything of note.
Ismet hasn’t really met Orzaiz, or if he has, he honestly hasn’t really paid much attention. Justinian has declared Ismet off limits anyway.
Thorn takes enough shit for “palling around with Justinian ‘the rampaging egomaniac’ Dragos” that he doesn’t feel a need to stress his life out even harder by developing ties to his staff. They seem like perfectly fine people in their various ways (like knows from like as far as the sense of past violence around John, but he trusts Justinian, so whatever is going on with Holland, it’s probably not an issue), but it is what it is. Lynn actually approves of him from a distance, but she’s content with the distance. John, while nominally fine with the idea of Thorn in theory, after recent events has to slot him more into a category of someone he has to be wary of and ready to kill if Thorn either makes the wrong choices or turns out to be involved in certain events. Distance makes that easier too. And Thorn and Orzaiz obviously have no regard for each other whatsoever.
John and Lynn have managed a fast (for them) friendship that is talky when it needs to be and quiet when it needs to be. It helps that they float on basically the same level in their work environment and have in some ways similar approaches to work and problems. Lynn trusts John enough to occasionally float her (semi-) theoretical ponderings of killing whatever threat for a talking out, and John trusts Lynn enough to acknowledge that he’d be capable of that while otherwise talking the matter out. The pair have a very solid understanding of what they’re capable of. John sometimes wavers between appreciating Lynn not flinching or judging about such understanding, and wishing she would have perhaps just a little (“You do that kind of thing to yourself more than I ever possibly could even if I wanted to John, what would be the point? And you know how efficient I am about my own resources, emotional or otherwise.”) Also, when Justinian is being a more frustrating than encouraging presence every so often, it helps to have someone to vent to, sometimes while practicing judo (she founded a club in high school because of course she did). She occasionally makes idle efforts to get John to have a more active romantic life, but with Slider’s death, has relented from that.
Outside of his immediate family and the son/father bond he has with Justinian, Ismet mostly keeps himself to himself. He certainly likes John and Lynn enough in his politely, amiably unfocused way, but the venn diagrams of their worlds really only intersect for him at very narrow points called board meetings, or John attempting to train him to fight, or Lynn presenting him with project material or otherwise smoothing something over between Ismet and his science teams. Being mentally whole again simply lets him get some enjoyment out of tendencies towards introversion. Both John and Lynn otherwise acknowledge the way Ismet has chosen to move through the world and keep things friendly and professional, both are perhaps mildly concerned about how verge of violence protective Justinian is of him, but it has yet to be an issue. Lynn has attended a concert performing some of the music Ismet has composed. She openly wept and took a personal day afterwards.
Justinian Dragos’ web of acquaintances, not quite close friends, friends of friends, friends of friends of friends, people he smilingly puts up with, people who will regardless agree to meet with him despite mutual personal feeling, and that perfectly lovely person he met just yesterday running a food cart, runs a wide and dizzying social gamut. While Justinian is deeply relieved to be able to delegate intelligence/counteringelligence to John, a general complaint in that world was that when running operations against or defending from Dragos Industries, you were not just taking on Justinian, you were taking on his friends, their friends, the servants of their friends, that street busker over there, and every other son of a bitch he shared a smile and a handshake with.
Justinian will get to know the busboys and hang out in the alleyway to smoke with them, because the conference was frankly just that boring. Justinian will find himself in an elevator with a janitor after a late night meeting at some company or other, strike up a conversation, and end up scoring them world cup tickets after extensively debating their all time all star teams. The janitor’s nephew will then be a member of a gang that an acting out daughter of someone appropriate is dating right now.
He finds it tiring, but when he has to, Dragos will intricately, arcanely and ornately manipulate his tangled, tangled webs of contacts for purposes of intrigue. There is otherwise, wherever he goes, someone, on some level of something he knows (and possibly done a bit of something for), or someone that he can get to know through a friend (or friend of a friend, or..) that knows them. He both makes and leaves a good impression, and it tends to pay off.
He’s met most of the important figures of the world at least the once given his own station, penchant for travel, and social fluidity. While their opinions of each other might range from benign to murderously poor, he can at least arrange meetings when he needs to. He’s even found himself at a brunch with Luciano Camparelli, that one time. He and Vladimir Sierka like to play chess just every once or twice, both to laugh at the obviousness of doing so, and to debate which man made the best choice for attaining power.
Justinian and DeVries: As noted, Justinian has a basically low opinion of elite culture, with a handful of exceptions. This does not stop him from lunching with Anna DeVries generally every couple of months (they’ve otherwise run into each other at functions). He ensures such things are a pleasant enough experience, and that her appreciation for the handful of novas Justinian has (with some hidden grudging feelings on the whole thing) introduced her to feels genuine tends to make for him showering a few times afterwards.
He has also dated Constantina Zarinovich (“Yes, we dated for a year that one week”, as he puts it). While he views her as an artistic hypocrite (and to a snob, even a benign snob that mostly keeps their snobbiness in check, that is the worst sort of hypocrite), it was important as far as his mega social dance around Narcosis that keeps her from joining the groupings in the Teragen that want him dead, thus contributing to keeping the Teragen largely off balance in his direction. “If she can at some point just tell herself that it’s because I’m so self controlled I’m a borderline eunuch who otherwise only makes cool pragmatic assignation choices, she can move on. She’s not an idiot. If on the other hand it always seems like there’s even a small chance that she just hasn’t managed to get me to take yet, well, I’m a high value challenge, and the dance continues.” It was just around the eyes, but he looked deeply weary when explaining that one.
Still, it was an explosive breakup, and he knew it would be when he rolled his eyes to an angry hour long rant about global politics with “Yes darling, but you’re the on contract hired art gun of a shady multinational corporation. Your assumptions on the fucker to fuckee direction as regards you and ‘the power’ are very off base. I mean case in point.” Things were thrown with mega strength, autonomic reflex force fields kicked in.
It was also why he asked Ismet in advance to run some algorithms on the likely ways Zarinovich would attempt to parody him in art afterwards, have them all made first in appropriately close enough styles and trademark them to hell and back. He then later on quietly mentioned to Anna, as a favour, the degree of odds in his favour vis a vis suing her latest pet right back to the stone age, that with blood in the water, the long, long list of people Zarinovich had either infuriated politically or discarded romantically would come eagerly rolling out of the woodwork. He added a slightly umbraged note about keeping better control of the hired help. Of course she had to have seen them, why, they had spent some time at Dragos corp hq where she was left unsupervised, and this was the woman who managed to escape a blindingly furious China on her lonesome. It’s sad that she wanted to pre empt Justinian wanting to have a sense of humour about himself, sad. You don’t suppose she was sleeping with him this whole time as part of some extended ‘fight the power!’ nonsense she can’t otherwise find ways to express, now that she’s taking your money, do you? All involved works have gone off the market. Some never even made it there. While DeVries is still of course expanding into non-combat areas, it’s slower than it could have been.
Yes, this entire sequence was cold as ice. Nothing forced Zarinovich to attempt to culturally smear him by way of breakup payback. Nothing forced her to sell her soul and integrity to DeVries, while still talking like someone who did not work for the company whose best known face is a gold skull death mask spattered with blood. Nothing forced Anna to start expanding outside of combat applications.
Justinian Dragos and the Teragen: Justinian views the Teragen as a high risk, extended undercover operation that could have killed him at any moment, physically or spiritually, that he barely got out from intact with what he was looking for (“You know how I never seem scared? Yeah. That whole time. Just buried so deep it couldn’t touch me or be noticed.”) Having done so, the Teragen are now only relevant to consider in so far as they might stand in his way about something, how they can be made irrelevant as needs be, or how they can be made use of in the face of some issue or other (and also in that rare, quiet, alone, small hours of the evening sort of way, where he cannot help but think of his father and wonder what might have been).
For the most part (with significant exceptions either due to pragmatism or a particular viewpoint on how Justinian Dragos expresses Teras), the Teragen as a group view Justinian as, to quote the Apostle, “an abomination somewhere between apostate and heretic.” (Justinian immediately had the term “Apostates and Heretics” trademarked up and down, and asked Lynn to find some novox rockers looking for a band name. They’re doing quite well for themselves these days). The idea that someone could experience the chrysalis, then leave the sect, repudiate them, and the chrysalis, was simply not thought to be possible. Even the most hateful, scheming, murderous, introverted, insane Terat, still stays in the group.
This makes it extremely awkward that, like the Directive and the Aberrants, the Teragen also make use of the Sanctuary program. Orzaiz, his people, Narcosis, or, interestingly, Leviathan, will quietly handle such arrangements.
Technically Justinian could walk into a pantheon meeting right now. He’s after all both been through the chrysalis, and showed someone else how to do so successfully. What other metric is there really? Aside from the stress and strife of such an action, he’d simply deeply prefer as not.
Justinian and the Pantheon: He approached the Teragen as an already potent nova who controlled a multinational corporation. He was never going to be slumming it on the lower end of the Terat totem pole. So yes, he has interacted with the Pantheon at length, and while, Orzaiz even aside, he could still consider some of them as contacts, he is on the whole happy for that whole sequence to be over.
He finds the Apothecary to be an insane, scientific dead ender whose methods are clouded by his own lunacy (Zia just finds it sad Justinian is no longer regularly available to chat up about science. The boy had some solid insights!). He’s met Synapse and was capable of enjoying on a level of pure intellect messing about the OpNet with him (in some ways it gave him some guidance in how to later deal with Ismet). Said more accurately to a man with vastly enhanced mental and social capacity being confronted with various fake identities by someone who only has the former and not the latter, he’s determined Synapse’s identity and his story depresses the hell out of him. Alex is not much younger than Justinian, and the world has been taken away from him. To Alex’s still confused horror, Justinian walked up to a security camera around where his warehouse and simply held up a note “there are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamt of in your datastreams. This is not unfixable. You could experience all worlds. We could try, at least. If you ever really want to try, let me know.” Synapse vigorously puts up a veneer of disinterest about the entire Dragos situation in response.
Shrapnel, the Confederate and the Primacy hold Justinian in deep, angry contempt, and the feeling is largely mutual. With the Confederate, it was even mutual at the time (Shrapnel he just finds depressing). Justinian is mostly indifferent to Geryon, Geryon views Dragos somewhere slightly above Andre Corbin. Geryon grates whatever is passing for his teeth at the time about Dragos being just useful enough to hold back from just trying to smash through his corp HQ and try to pulp him. Geryon’s flair for public commentary has all the same lead him to earnestly curse Dragos out at frequent clip.
Justinian went through all of Leviathan’s hazing in catacomb and sewer depths with an unflinching shrug, then enthusiastically pulled one of his followers into an embrace (“She was fun. She had a sense of energy.” “’She could do exciting things with tentacles’” “You are the last person, considering your reading habits, to make those sorts of jokes Lynn.”) He dated her for a month during Justinian’s Terat stint (the breakup was mutual and amicable for the record, neither of them really wanted any sort of deeper relationship and it was heading in that direction).
As for Leviathan, well, he’s Leviathan, right? Justinian is well aware of Leviathan’s proclivities. Yet all the same, Leviathan gives a fuck about his people, perhaps more than anyone in the Teragen does. He’s in it for them, not for his own agenda. He’s also an inhuman monster, sure, but there is an integrity to Leviathan Justinian respects, and there is a grudging respect back in his direction. It couldn’t be said that they talk regularly (they rarely talk at all in any regular sense these days), but they maintain a respectful awareness of each other, if nothing else.
The Apostle decries Justinian as the equivalent of the Teras antichrist. Justinian had a t-shirt made, he sometimes wears it on casual Fridays. He found the Apostle hilarious at the time, he finds him hilarious now, he simply made it work for him then (others hate Delormier as well after all). He certainly acknowledges the man is dangerous, but if you can hold yourself intact through his bullshit, he is, to someone like Justinian, wall to wall hilarity all the same. Santiago is lingeringly bitter over the entire Dragos experience, for having viewed him as a welcome pragmatist, as a lesser version of himself perhaps, here to help him make the sane, careful choices. Justinian certainly played into that as thoroughly as he could, alloyed by the understanding that Santiago would not acknowledge the capacity for someone with a similarity to himself to make choices he did not make. How could they possibly? “I did everything correctly with regards that boy!” the Mathematician stormed at a meeting after Justinian’s repudiation of the Teragen. “I’m sure Pompey said the same thing about Caesar,” quipped Orzaiz.
Justinian is deeply wary of Tarik. He would go so far as to have him killed if he thought he could get away with it. That is how wary Justinian is of Tarik. Five seconds into meeting him he realized he was looking at someone doing the exact same things he was, for far darker reasons, and doing anything about it would blow his cover. He’s fairly sure in that sense that Tarik viewed him in a roughly similar way, and did nothing for similar reasons. Technically Tarik and Justinian are now completely irrelevant to each other. For Justinian, that just makes the whole worse, particularly since as regards anything Tarik might do to or with the Teragen, he is now looking in from the outside. He has in recent years screamed warnings to Orzaiz in that sense, who will infuriatingly shrug, clap his shoulder, and smile. He feels like Tarik Ibn Mahmoud is a 52 car pile-up about which he can do nothing but slowly watch happen.
Narcosis is a long, elegant, pointless dance for Justinian Dragos. He flirts when they end up at the same parties, he acts with appropriate “scandalized charm” when she crashes his. He is politesse and sexual tension in varying measures and just the tiniest teasing hints of mutual adoration when needs be. He feels none of it (well, the sexual tension he supposes), but it’s important to dance the dance. It keeps her from committing to any conclusion about him, which helps keep the Teragen off balance in his direction, and thus, most importantly, out of his way. It’s difficult. She is good at what she does. He has engaged in entire other relationships for no other reason than to keep drawing out theirs. He has to remain a high value challenge with a huge reward of “vast mind boggling influence” if the challenge is beaten. He has of course, as related, never taken her to bed (“How do you know you haven’t?” she once teased. “Darling. We both know we’re going to live for centuries at least. Do you really want to carry for centuries that the only time you could get into my bed was by pretending not to be you?” They kept dancing. Literally in that case. It was a very grabby, grindy experience. Lynn refused to let Justinian back into corp HQ until he disrobed, she turned hoses on him, and then lit the suit he had been wearing on fire.)
The Dragos Industries Players Present Justinian and Bounty: A Love Story. “My god, you’re so fascinating!” “So are you!” “We both care so much about things!” “Let’s have sex and babble nonsensically for two months!” “You got it baby!” “Did you say babies? We should definitely have babies! So many babies!” “I’m sorry, you’re talking to the dust cloud outline of me that has been kicked up from how fast I just ran away. I am actually on Mars now.” Lynn and John are still not fired.
Justinian has met Scripture several times and Mal a grand total of thrice. He’s not particularly happy about the encounters. There’s something there, and he can’t really deny that. A genuine wisdom of some sort, an understanding. The two are conundrums, the second far more than the first, even to him. He’s certain that Mal at the very least had to know what he was doing, but he let it happen anyway (and really probably Scripture as well). He can only move forward on a path that in his view, makes all of them irrelevant to each other, and that seems the best way to handle the situation.
Justinian Dragos and Utopia: Major organizations that are basically legal certainly have official channels through which to get in touch with each other. But that doesn’t mean they see remotely frequent use, particularly when the competitive tension between Dragos Industries and the Project is leagues beyond that between Dragos and Devries (which even with Anna’s recent tentative expansions, really only goes so far. Dragos has met everyone that you’d be likely to meet at the higher end of the social and political scale, from Larangione to Geisha, but largely in a sense of ending up at the same function or conference.
Lynn’s friendship with Athena Boyd is religiously apolitical (and who would question such women on such things?) so Thorn is basically the grudging means through which Utopia might send Justinian a less than official message.
An exception is Maria Villareal. While the Villareals are not close in the way the family Orzaiz has been, they all moved in the same aristo world past a certain point. Justinian’s father dated Maria for a short stretch (no, he was a widower by that point. Justinian had developed enough snark to note to him that if they ever married, he would emancipate himself). This allows for them to interact on a basis of familiarity and with a lack of personal tension, romantic or otherwise. Justinian cheerfully makes use of that Maria knew him when he was twelve and just a bit still thinks of him as the same charming tween prodigy child. She’s still the head of Utopia PR of course, they hardly see each other with any frequency, but the pleasantries there are at least not a veneer over disdain.
Justinian Dragos and the Directive: Having a major corporate headquarters in London would alone put Dragos and the Directive on each other’s radar (the country makes a whole thing out of spurning Utopia, it was fairly easy to slide in and offer an alternative under a tolerably comprehensible corporatist banner). That Dragos Industries is the megacorporation that it is, in the way that it is, makes the Directive something that requires policy and response. Mostly they dance around each other very carefully. There are lunches with someone appropriate just to keep lines of communication open and polite, just every so often. Justinian has even once or twice been asked for his unofficially off the books opinion on something Utopia is doing. But it’s a dance.
It’s certainly nice that Justinian has repudiated the Teragen and positions himself as a rival to Utopia. He’s still a considerably powerful nova with global scale influence. On the other hand, Justinian Dragos has repudiated the Teragen and positions himself as a rival to Utopia. Pragmatically, that is at least useful. So information and warnings sometimes every so often flow in either direction, as if a somewhat more positive version of the “enemy of my enemy” relationship the Directive cultivates with elements of the Teragen. And the Sanctuaries are of course useful in their way. It’s still a dance.
Justinian would like for matters to settle into something more reliable and less aggravating than a dance, he dances enough already. He views his avenue into this as finding a way to displace Kuro-Tek as the contractor for the Directive (yes yes, “unofficial contractor”). That company nauseates him anyway, he views it as a corruption of the drive of humans and novas towards progress. He’s not thrilled that they do it out of fear of novas at the end of the day, but the Directive is accomplishing solid strides towards global unity almost despite itself (again, out of fear, yes, but it doesn’t mean the infrastructure that results couldn’t be useful). He’d like to have more of a say in how they do that, he’d like to show them humans and novas are in this together. It would be easier if he could do that from within, not without.
Justinian Dragos and the Aberrants: They use the sanctuaries in the same unofficial ways various others do, he has the channels for meetings if he needs them. He felt Corbin had a certain ludicrous rough charm, the few times as they had previously met. An attempt to define what secrets Utopia hides should be right up his alley. But Dragos is ultimately personally standoffish about the faction, even if some of them have a sense of promise about them as far as his habit towards mystery archaeology. He is aware of the notion of Sophia Rousseau, but even without her, he looks at the organization, the degree to which it has coalesced, even loosely, in short order, and he ponders to himself “What if, for some reason, I, or someone at least as capable as me, decided they wanted a secret nova army within the current climate? What steps would I need to take? What would it look like in the beginning?” He considers the various possible answers, he looks at the Aberrants, frowns slightly, and takes a step back. Perhaps he’s wrong. Perhaps he’s overthinking it. But then again perhaps not.
Dragos Industries Corporate Headquarters: While prominent branches and corporate campuses include London, Detroit, Taiwan and Belize City, the heart of Dragos Industries is at the rebuilt Mistras, in Greece (“why Belize?” “I threw a dart at a map of Central and South America” “.. seriously?” “No, but I had fun in that split second where you pictured it.” Justinian had in truth via the David Dragos Memorial Foundation negotiated a lasting peace and treaty between Belize and Guatemala, and massively rebuilt the infrastructure of Belize City along with the equivalent of storm walls to lessen the impact of hurricanes. It was one of his early prestige charity projects. He’s quite proud of it, even if globally it didn’t get a lot of play. He’s basically a living god in Belize though.)
Mistras is both the beautifully restored and inhabited Byzantine era palaces that function as a UNESCO world heritage site, the large, bustling, high tech community that has grown up around them (though the décor is very age of the empire, it is as if one of those “the ancient society lived and developed supertech” stories), the port that serves them, and the mountain itself. An art style referred to as “Neo-Mosaic” is highly popular locally, and receiving some traction in the wider world. Justinian has in fact dug deep, deep into the mountain “deep enough for if they try to nuke us anyway” “they?” “you know, they” “… sometimes you and John are poor influences on each other”. Given his family ties to the area, he has indeed built many mansions inside his father’s house (his father is also entombed within the mountain. There is a public grave outside it as a “see who would try to desecrate it” sort of thing). The truly secret projects, sanctuary chambers, and his room of file cabinets, white boards and mysteries are buried deep, accessible largely through shafts that require Justinian’s powers to move metal rooms or discs along. There are certainly many public labs, libraries, offices, the like, and really almost all of what Dragos Industries does on site as a corporation is fit for public view (though obviously for reasons of corporate propriety, one keeps what one does to oneself as best one can until ready to unveil or discuss it). Both community and mountain are designed between soothing ergonomics and ornate Byzantine panache, working to integrate the two. Domes are fairly popular. Monorails run along mass mosaic decorated rails. There is a richness to Mistras even to its smallest place, in a sense of the lushness that permeates it, that even a waiter might feel they are a palace unto themselves.
Session one had a mysterious nova warp into a business meeting at Mistras corporate HQ and beg for sanctuary, immediately before being struck down by an implanted suicide device that utilized bio-organic technology on a highly sophisticated level. Immediate crisis intervention by one of the world's greatest nova physicians was barely sufficient to stabilize the unknown nova, and could not rouse him from his coma or repair the damage to his memory.
Someone then tried to kill the unknown nova by opening up a Warp portal directly above the Mistras atrium and firing an anti-tank missile through it. After dealing with that problem Justinian Dragos ordered the faking of evidence that the nova was dead, to forestall further attempts. Pooling all our respective talents together had us create evidence with a ridiculous # of sux, making it a flawless forgery.
We then went to the Directive and traded this data, warning them of the rise of a major new unknown threat that was apparently enslaving novas with mysterious blacktech cortex bombs, in return for their aid in tracking down the threat and identifying the completely unknown(!) nova.
A side topic was raised of Utopia's new ravenous acquisition intiative in the humanitarian and charity sector, as well as the mysterious upcoming release of Triton Biomedical. And then the Directive representative informed us that their own intel-gathering efforts had ID'ed what was coming.
In several weeks, Utopia (in this world) will make the announcement that they have had a breakthrough in overcoming nova infertility, and that while the treatment is still long-term and uncertain, there is hope.
To be quite frank, I am legitimately in awe of the sheer supervillain genius of this move. In one single stroke it completely rehabs Utopia's PR crisis, makes Slider look like an even more incoherent moonbat than before, reduces teh whole Aberrant crisis to insignificance, reduces the major Teragen recruiting drawing card to zero ('Wanna have kids? Come see Bounty. Nobody else can do this for you!'), and majorly ups the # of novas willing to hitch themselves to Utopia. The cure doesn't even have to work -- so long as a selected few novas are cured, everybody else will gladly get in line and wait for their chance at the fertility lottery. After all, research continues! The odds will only improve!
They just bought years of extra time and turned a gaping minus into a plus. Metaphysician's version of Proteus is clearly like a billion times smarter than the canon version, and I am now legitimately worried at just how tough the opposition is gonna be.
I liked a lot of things about Aberrant, but the metaplot and the way Proteus acted was not one of them. Nice to see them seeming competent and effective instead of descending into ridiculous supervillainy.
* Dr. McGowan met with her family -- her problematic, politically ambitious, somewhat connected to organized crime family -- to reconnect and bring them up to speed on her foundation's joining with Dragos. Of course, they immediately started trying to leverage her to take advantage of that. We also found out that her (baseline) sister Charlotte just got elected to the US Senate on an anti-Portman, anti-Utopia platform, and is looking forward to trying to leverage that plot complication.
* Meanwhile, Justinian Dragos hied himself off to the fanciest penthouse restaurant in Rio de Janeiro -- the sort of place that had "exquisite food, menus with no prices, and staff who would be offended if you tried to pay for your own meal as opposed to having your people settle the bill later", as the DM put it, along with seating sections for their guests' entourages -- to meet with his (edit) old friend Raoul Orzaiz and sound him out on various things. One of his inquiries was regarding the exotic hardware that we were attacked with, and Synapse's possible aid in running it down. As a favor, he clued Orzaiz in on the upcoming Utopian fertility revelations.
(Player's note: I'm particularly amused at the subtlety here. So long as the Holland/Burrows hand-off remains unknown, which it almost certainly will given the sheer paranoia setup in that back channel and how briefly and invisibly they met -- in a bank vault, no less -- Utopia's counterintelligence will finger Dragos as the origin point of the leak, not the Directive. So their internal mole hunts will be looking for the wrong person, in the wrong place. And this doesn't put us any further in the hole than we already are, given that Utopia and Dragos Industries are already very very leery of each other. So the Directive is getting the word out to cause trouble for Utopia in a way that totally can't backsplash on them or compromise their source. I'm still not sure if this was deliberate on their part or just serendipity, but either way, works for us.)
Much less sanguine was Orzaiz' observation during this convo, and his own estimate of how future events might or might not develop:
"[I believe that] This will be coordinated with a push for greater Utopian influence over all aspects of nova life, especially any that are truly independent. If they are abandoning their effort at population control, long term they will need to have control of the population, so to speak."
As a random bit, I found the gamelog wherein Pendaran described briefly some of what is on his secret conspiracy tracking whiteboard kept in the hidden room in the hidden section of the hiddenmost depths of the mountain fastness underneath Mistras.
The interior is like something transplanted from a Victorian era museum, as far as the decor and use of brass fittings and glass cases, along with the style of the many, many file cabinets and bookshelves. There's a workstation, on which currently rests something that looks like nothing so much as the Antikythera mechanism, disassembled into pieces. A particular corner of the room is dominated by massive particle boards with article clippings going back decades, maps, and thumbtacks with red threads going from one to another and looping back in a dizzying and ornate and not exactly sane seeming weave.
There is, suspended from wires, what looks like a fender from a 1980s public bus with a handprint in the steel. An affixed sign in red states "1982!!!!" A sign affixed to the sign states "These exclamation marks are for emphasis!"
Some of the cases hold contraptions in various states of age and ruin and notes of indecipherability.
There is a stand with a framed, faded photograph of a group of people labeled "The Aeon Society for Gentlemen, circa 1923" There are blown up images of the picture around it, with various circles, question marks and notes on the figures within it.
There are a pair of notched old west handguns in surprisingly good condition and a rust covered steel target marker with various shots on it and a note of "documented accuracy impossible to reproduce under any condition not involving enhanced gunman".
Dominating everything centrally is a whiteboard, with several adjoining whiteboards, on which there are many notes and arrows.
Speculations on modern conspiracies, assassinations, political manipulation, hidden science, magnet fastened up photos of various modern figures both noteworthy and obscure with notes beneath them and arrows going off from them, various of the arrows will in some cases point to a word "Proteus?" or "Proteus." or "PROTEUS!"
And, our gaming has been irregular as hell since then but we've had a couple more sessions. The highlights...
* The trail of Tiego Prestes, the man who died at the start of the game and who we just got the Directive file on, ended at his last known employment -- two years ago, he worked for a Brazilian nova druglord named Vitor "O Jaguar" Diaz. Since Dragos Industries can absolutely not afford to be spotted following this trail, and the people who killed Prestes already knew who he was, we had to find a way to talk to a powerful nova criminal in the heart of his own fortress in the Brazilian favela without anyone knowing. And by 'we' I mean 'John Holland, this being part of his job'. So, one moderately difficult ninja mission later that involved using a eufiber wingsuit to BASE jump off a Rio skyscraper and glide to the roof of Diaz' mansion, I waited for the guy inside his own secure office and had a chat with him. A perfectly civilized chat with total underworld courtesy involved on both sides. Very John Wick atmosphere.
* Prestes was apparently a baseline then, who attempted to betray his boss to the Heaven Thunder Triad, got caught, and had to flee. And was caught by men hired by Diaz under conditions that should have been fatal, but he somehow escaped. It's theorized by us that this was the circumstances of Prestes' eruption . So I now John has to follow the trail to the Heaven Thunder Triad. Who hate him and want him to die.
* Dr. Rose got the Christmas party invite from hell -- from her sister, the US Senator-elect. So, high-end US political swamp creatures abound! That Dragos is probably going to be her sister's date is only complicating things.
* Meanwhile, back at Dragos HQ, the weapons used in the attack were indeed a DeVries design... but the missiles actually shot at us were apparently pirate knock-offs made in a factory ultimately owned by Rashid bin-Muhammed Al-Nasir, the patron of the Janissaries. Dragos had to trade a favor to the Teragen to get Synapse to run down those clues for us.
* And then came the distracting news -- a sudden N! media push about sightings of 'the notorious nova criminal Dr. Worm sighted using Dragos' Sanctuary program to hide from the law'. Given that Dr. Worm in our continuity has no outstanding warrants in US jurisdiction, we figured this was a distraction/spoiling attack against us -- after all, we can hardly prove Worm is not using one of Dragos' Sanctuary safehouses except by opening up the records of who actually is using them, which defeats the purpose. Our hasty investigation, however, revealed that Dr. Worm fell off the planet several weeks ago, which puts a much more suspicious turn on this sudden media push.
* Which is why Justinian Dragos is now setting up a ultra-secure meeting with one of the last people on Earth he enjoys talking to - Sophia Rousseau. The sort of ultra-secure meeting only nova demigods can set up, the kind where meeting arrangements are made via totally anonymous burner phones through seven proxies and involve both parties Warping out to a random set of GPS coordinates at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean on ten minutes' notice to avoid being followed, tracked, or monitored.
So, as the GM, thought I might poke my head in and mention that, the game has continued, and a lot of stuff has happened. Some highlights:
-A "sidequest" involving Rose's friends in MSF leads to Rose and John rescuing some elite warfare watchdogs from a kill team in Africa
-The meeting with Sophia Rousseau went. . . well, it went. Leading to a meet up with Dr Worm, that did not go so well. It involved Dr Worm being wrapped in several tons of structural steel and being dragged into the sky above NYC
-The party got to meet several of Rose's relatives at the charity banquet. It was not love at first sight ( well, okay, for Senator Charlotte McGowan, it probably was once she got a look at Justinian, ahem ). Her grandfather in particular drew Justinian's carefully calibrated megasocial ire, for being a more or less complete monster.
-The biggy: At the party, an agent of their unknown enemy was caught spying on them, and captured. This lead to an exchange of secret messages that started with threats of doom, and ended with pleas of forgiveness. Things got more depressing once they interrogated the prisoner, who seemed a nice enough woman underneath the fanatic dedication and/or absolute indoctrination. She really seems to want to help and reach out to them, there just are some things she can't say or even hint at because those secrets matter more than her life. But hey! They just received what looks to be a secure communications device from their unknown enemy! It seems like he(?) wants to talk more substantially!
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At this London kebab restaurant, your standard donner is a thing of the past. With their 'Royal Kebab' costing $1350, this isn't your typical Friday night hunger buster. But just what goes into such an expensive kebab? Diagonal View takes a further look.
Teetering 2519 feet above sea level, and 1312 feet above the floor of stone forest valley near Beijing, this is the world's largest glass viewing platform. The breath-taking observation deck opened to the public on May 1, 2016 and has quickly drawn the attention of daredevil tourists. This attraction is set to be a very popular tourist destination, both for those looking for a thrill or a way to remedy their vertigo. The bridge and platform are both made out of glass , leaving many visitors feeling a little sick. The platform is 4,470 square feet in size as it protrudes more than 107 feet over the edge of the cliff face it's set against. A glass-bottomed walkway leads to a circular viewing platform which is often windy. Some visitors are so scared to look down and clutch their hands to the railings, unable to let go of their grip. Others would rest on the platform or even do push-ups. This transparent walkway is both scary and exciting! Footage shows that this breathtaking platform hangs over a rocky cliff with lush mountains ranging as far as eyes can see in the background. Watch as some tourists struggle to walk on the platform, while others cannot get enough of the transparent floor and stare down the vertical rock underneath their feet. Known as the "flying saucer" this attraction provides those brave enough to confidently stride across. It is offering visitors with incredible, bone-chilling views of nature. Would you dare to climb up this platform and look down?
In the suburbs of Kawasaki, Japan, there is a hotel just for corpses. Family members can visit the corpses while they rest.
Company Designs Tails For Humans English company GreyWorld have come up with a new inventions that will surely get tails wagging. Why? Because they have come up with a tail extension for us humans. How bizarre.
When life presents you with a large cardboard box, do not throw it away immediately. You can simply recycle it or use the tons of interesting ideas recycling enthusiasts share daily on the Internet. Such is the inspiring project these guys have been tackling with for a while now. They have built a functional houseboat made 100% out of recycled cardboard; the best part is that it floats! “The foolish man had built his house on the sand, but had it washed away.” These guys made their house out of cardboard and expect it to float. It took months of work scavenging hundreds of cardboard boxes thrown out by businesses around Stratford, England. And the result is a house made 100% of recycled cardboard. “There are hundreds of laminated cardboard ribs. You can see this table top is an offcut of one of those ribs. It contains five sheets of cardboard that we glued together. There have been 150 pounds of PVA glue.” It comes complete with two bunks, a portable television, a wine rack, a card table and even a bubble-wrap flag. Unsure of whether the boat will float, they coated it in varnish to waterproof it and they were hoping for the best as they were unloading it into the London’s River Themes. Amazingly, it looks like all the hard work, cardboard and varnish has paid off. As always, it is true what they always say: whatever floats your boat!
So many of us have loved playing with Meccano as children, but these guys taken taken the toy to it's extremes by building the Biggest Meccano structure in the world!
Whilst most four-year-old boys are content to play with toy cars and only learned to walk not so long ago, young Katiresh is already driving a car. “Once, while I was driving the car, he asked me if he could drive the car, and the very next day I started to teach him how to drive a vehicle. On exactly the 29th day, he started to drive just like a very experienced driver. He can drive anywhere and everywhere, and without anybody’s help”, says Katiresh’s father Vijaykumar. Katiresh can drive at the speed of 43.5 mph or 70 km/h and has driven approximately 20 miles (32 kilometers). What is the next stop for Katiresh? He wants to be a Formula 1 racing driver . This video proves that all drivers can be taught to drive if adequate methods are both applied by the mentor and followed by the learner, even if that learner is only a four-year-old boy. In our case, Katiresh started getting driving lessons from the moment his eyes could reach out from behind the steering wheel, sitting on his father’s knees. Let us hope that he will continue driving at all times under the mentorship of an adult and that this boy’s dreams of becoming a Formula 1 racing driver will come to fruition one day. Do you have any fun and interesting stories about how you or someone you know started driving? If so, do share them with us in the comment section below.
This article serves to remind you of one of the older and rearer makes of automobiles. This short film shows us a most interesting microcar called the Peardrop, which is dated as having been filmed during 1952. Follow along and watch as it is being demonstrated darting around on the busy streets of London. The novel little egg-shaped, three-wheeled plastic microcar with a hinged two-piece windshield top appears to be powered by a small one cylinder air-cooled engine. It is noble, eye-catching and comes with a sunroof. This is the Bouffort Peardrop, named after its constructor Victor-Albert Bouffort, a French car pioneer who was an aeronautical engineer in Paris during WW2. He applied those principles in several one-off vehicles from the late 1940's up to the mid-1950's. The Peardrop was also known as the "City-Car", and featured a Sachs engine. He made a doorless roadster based on the Peugeot 403 in 1957, followed by the Transville in 1959, and the Enville in 1961. He made a tour through Germany to sell his design. After he made a few other cars, out of which none reached bigger productions, Bouffort stopped car building. There was a lot of interest, but nobody took out a license. He must have inspired some, because it didn't take very long before Brütsch and Tourette came up with very similar vehicles, which they claimed to be their own idea.
Spinning people round with their hair? Breaking stones with their bare arms? Meet the Syed brothers.
Is it a bird? Is it a plane? Actually, it's both. Presenting the robotic SmartBird that looks and flies just like the real thing.
Frenchman Henri Rechatin balances a chair on the edge of a 44 meter-high building. Let's hope it's not windy.
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Server management interfaces stink. They are inconsistent both between vendors and within their own product suites. Ideally, Vendors would agree on a single API; however, it’s not clear if the diversity is a product of competition or actual platform variation. Likely, it’s both.
Redfish is a modern intelligent [server] manageability interface and lightweight data model specification that is scalable, discoverable and extensible. Redfish is suitable for a multitude of end-users, from the datacenter operator to an enterprise management console.
I think that it’s great to see vendors trying to get on the same page and I’m optimistic that we could get something better than IPMI (that’s a very low bar). However, I don’t expect that vendors can converge to a single API; it’s just not practical due to release times and pressures to expose special features. I think the divergence in APIs is due both to competitive pressures and to real variance between platforms.
Even if we manage to a grand server management unification; the problem of interface heterogeneity has a long legacy tail.
In the best case reality, we’re going from N versions to N+1 (and likely N*2) versions because the legacy gear is still around for a long time. Adding Redfish means API sprawl is going to get worse until it gets back to being about the same as it is now.
Putting pessimism aside, the sprawl problem is severe enough that it’s worth supporting Redfish on the hope that it makes things better.
That’s easy to say, but expensive to do. If I was making hardware (I left Dell in Oct 2014), I’d consider it an expensive investment for an uncertain return. Even so, several major hardware players are stepping forward to help standardize. I think Redfish would have good ROI for smaller vendors looking to displace a major player can ride on the standard.
Redfish is GREAT NEWS for me since RackN/Crowbar provides hardware abstraction and heterogeneous interface support. More API variation makes my work more valuable.
One final note: if Redfish improves hardware security in a real way then it could be a game changer; however, embedded firmware web servers can be tricky to secure and patch compared to larger application focused software stacks. This is one area what I’m hoping to see a lot of vendor collaboration! [note: this should be it’s own subject – the security issue is more than API, it’s about system wide configuration. stay tuned!]
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I’ve always been a big girl. My mother frequently referred to me as “pleasingly plump” and I remember shopping in the “chubby girls” section of the local kid’s store.
In high school, I was kind of average, my favorite lunch a bag of barbecue chips washed down with a chocolate milkshake. I played tennis and field hockey (yes, I know it’s shocking, but I did participate in informal team sports) and that probably helped keep the fat at arm’s length (but clearly waiting in the wings).
In college, I walked everywhere and when I was a cadet for LAPD, I had the distinction of being the first female in that role – the spotlight and pressure of trying to get into the academy requiring some running and semi-regular workouts. I wore a size 9. That didn’t last long.
When I got married, I remember thinking that I was fatter than I wanted to be, but I was concentrating on being happy. Kids came along and I gained and lost baby weight, losing nearly 50 pounds after my youngest was born because my employer brought Weight Watchers onto the studio lot. But the weight came back.
I hate gyms. I hate the culture, the sweat, the pain, pretty much everything about them. I don’t run, don’t lift, don’t spin or Zumba. (For the record, I tried salsa dancing on a cruise once, which is just like Zumba, right? Damn near killed me.)
I do like singing and dancing and when I was in musicals, I felt pretty good about the dance workouts I was getting with the rest of the cast. Bless those choreographers who overlooked my clumsiness or worked that lack of coordination into a comedic dance break. But I haven’t been in a musical for a few years.
Being a reporter doesn’t require a lot of movement, and meals are eaten either in the car or at your desk, usually on deadline. Twenty years of that and it took me a little longer to sprint to the front desk – who am I kidding, I’d send an intern – than it did when I started as a columnist.
I’m at the age where groans mean more pain than pleasure; I completely understand the concept of ”warming up the engine” before making any drastic moves. I take caution when stepping up a curb. I have rented a scooter – once – to get through a day at Disneyland.
It hurts when I move sometimes and I’ve been brought to tears more than once when I had to walk a long way, gasping for breath, my arthritic knees screaming for mercy.
And there was that time when I got kicked off the carousel on the Santa Monica pier for exceeding the weight limit. I thought I was hiding it well.
My self-image is an old picture and when I look in the mirror, I just don’t see the extra me in the frame. I’m amazingly good at justifying my fluffiness by looking at people around me, noticing their fluffiness and thinking that I just blend in with the herd.
But lately, I’ve decided to come to terms with the situation and what I can do to fix it. I look harder at the 61-year old woman staring back from the mirror, perplexed, but determined. Things have to change and there is no day but today.
And there’s that little Squishy that I want to play with, encourage, inspire, see graduate and get married and welcome her own little Squishy.
My doctor suggested surgical intervention a few years ago, but I rebuffed that idea. I could lose weight and watch what I ate. But I argue with myself and find reasons why things won’t work and sometimes, it just seems like my brain can’t handle working hard on trying to lose weight while I have so many other things going on that need my attention.
There were a lot of other things going on in my life. Kids were getting married, I was going back to college, there were financial challenges, we were trying to establish ourselves as artists. I was trying to learn new skills that would keep me solvent in the job market. It was just overwhelming.
But when I went to the doctor again and again complaining of aching muscles, painful knees and being short of breath, he would make sure my heart was fine and remind me that my weight could be part of the problem. Losing a significant amount of weight might remove stressors on my bones and muscles (which completely makes sense) and if there really was a problem, it would be found much easier without the extra pounds.
So I started asking around. I had friends who had undergone bariatric surgery and were living better lives because of it. I found a mentor who has been an amazing angel of encouragement and support, answering my stupid questions (because they seemed idiotic to me, but she answered them patiently). I found Facebook pages with people who were either pre- or post-surgery and read their suggestions, successes, challenges and advice.
And I started the process. My insurance company required a six-month series of classes that covered nutrition, psychology, movement, life changes and the surgeries we would have to choose from (the Roux-en-Y gastric bypass, vertical sleeve gastrectomy and gastric banding). Every month, I would go to class, meet with people facing the same demons as I in a non-judgmental, safe place that offered a real solution.
But the solution, they warned, did not come easy. There was a lot of work and commitment involved. I was ready.
I chose the sleeve gastrectomy (veterans say they’ve been “sleeved”) because it offered fewer side effects and allowed me to retain the traditional absorption of nutrients that a complete bypass would eliminate. In about a week, I will undergo laproscopic surgery that will leave me with six tiny “battle scars” and a smaller receptacle for any food I consume.
One of the questions they asked us repeatedly in class was how we would respond to those who suggest I am taking the “easy way out” of my weight problem. Let me tell you, this is not easy. I have been restricting my portions for the last several months, which has resulted in the loss of about 30 pounds. I am almost through the first week of a two-week liquid diet, which is bringing about more weight loss (the purpose of the two-week liquid regimen is to shrink the liver, which sits on top of the site where the surgery will work). The surgery will be followed by four more weeks of liquids and soft foods, as my smaller stomach and I make our peace.
I have the potential to lose 100 percent of my excess weight, which means my evil twin could indeed disappear. I’ve been carrying her a little too long…
I think I’m going to do well, because my appetite has significantly decreased since I made the decision to have the surgery. I think that’s partly because of my senior status – both my husband and I have smaller appetites since we’ve crossed the sixth decade bridge. It will help me avoid foods that are bad for me anyway – fried foods, while they might taste great, are really everyone’s enemy. After the surgery, my body will not tolerate them, so best for us to say our goodbyes now.
I will miss carbonated water – not soda so much, because I hardly drink any of that, but I do like a Perrier and have had to mothball my Sodastream machine. After the stomach heals, I will be able to eat what I want, but just in tiny portions. I will never be able to finish a restaurant meal again, but that’s OK. I have a card that I can show at restaurants that explains my new stomach status and asks them to allow me to buy smaller portions at a reduced price (aka, kids or senior meals).
My hardest change might be my habit of eating at my desk – something that is just convenient since I work at home. I will try my best to take a break, move to the dining room table and make myself concentrate on my meal.
My mentor told me that when she started on her weight-loss quest, she didn’t want to exercise or move because it hurt. Once her weight was gone, she wanted to move because she could.
I’m looking forward to that. I will be back in the pool doing my water exercises and will walk a bit more (and a little bit more and a little bit more as my endurance grows). I will try (but I know age and gravity might be against me on this one) to work on my flying squirrel arms. Saggy skin is something I’ve been warned about, and I’ve got plenty of time to figure out how to deal with it. I’m not going to worry about that now.
At any rate, I plan on sharing this journey so others might know it’s OK to talk about it. Obesity is the biggest health problem in America right now and if this solution would be the best for you, then let’s help each other. Everyone is different, but we can all be healthy. I’ll try and write every few days for the next month or so and let you know how I’m doing. Thanks in advance for your support.
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I have always admired you! And this decision does not seem to have been made lightly, pardon the pun….I look forward to seeing less of you and more of your big heart! I love you mama rock for sharing this hard journey….
The war rages on! Old school death metallers, MEMORIAM, are set to unleash their second album, The Silent Vigil, on March 23rd, 2018 through Nuclear Blast Records. Just one year after the release of debut album For The Fallen, the band returns with an authentic, raw flood of old school Death Metal destruction!
“Following the success of working with Dan Seagrave for our debut album For the Fallen, we decided that we had to get Dan involved for the next album cover. Initially we used Dan as we were all very impressed with the art that he has created for bands over the decades and Scott in particular wanted to have an album cover designed by Dan Seagrave, as part of the things he wanted to achieve with Memoriam.
“Dan really encapsulates the Old School Death Metal feel to the album covers that he creates; they are full of detail and very atmospheric. We gave him a brief for the For the Fallen debut cover and he did a great job.
“We briefed Dan and asked him to create an image which followed on from the first album; the first album features a funeral procession, the coffin of the fallen leader paraded across an ethereal battle scarred landscape.The Silent Vigil represents the next phase of the journey where the coffin is lying in state with the followers standing in silence almost like terracotta soldiers. The cover has an overall solemn feel to it, with the ravaged landscape in the background and burnt out wrecks of military hardware in the foreground.
“The tree in the centre of the album cover is symbolic of life – that continues on. We are really pleased with what Dan Seagrave has created for us once again and we are proud to have his artwork on our album cover. We already have an idea for the next album cover and we hope that Dan will be able to do this for us too.”
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I have a tape backup set that I wished to transfer to new media. However, the source tapes contain one particularly large snapshot which is no longer relevant. So, instead of copying the entire backup set with the Backup Set Transfer function I used the Snapshot Transfer function. I added all the snapshots except for the one I did not require to the source set catalog file, selected them all, and initiated the Snapshot Transfer operation. The operation completed without errors. 34 snapshots were selected and transferred. However, I noticed in the logfile that for some sources. while I had selected all available snapshots on the source tapes for that source, Retrospect decided that for each of these snapshots "No files need to be transferred". Since there is no overlap in the files in these snapshots and those from the other sources on the source set, and since the destination was new media, something had to be wrong.
5/8/2018 8:33:05 PM: Execution completed successfully Duration: 00:00:19 (00:00:11 idle/loading/preparing)
5/8/2018 8:35:43 PM: Execution completed successfully Duration: 00:02:38 (00:02:30 idle/loading/preparing)
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If I look at the destination set there are no "sessions" recorded for these transfers but there are snapshots. However, if I try a restore, I can select any one of these snapshots, but it contains zero files. The files are most definitely there on the source backup set and I can restore from them as expected, so they should have been transferred.
What kind of media are you transferring to? If it is a disk backup set, you could use a backup set transfer and then delete the unwanted snapshot to save space.
If it's around ten (rather than a hundred), you might want to try to transfer them one by one (with the exception of the one you don't want copied).
2. Contact Retrospect support. If you don't have a support contract, you can upgrade to the latest version (which includes support for a short period of time) or buy a support incident. https://www.retrospect.com/au/support/phone
As mentioned in the original post I was transferring 34 snapshots. I am now pretty much doing as you suggest, except starting with a full backup from disk of those partitions that are still online. Now that's complete I am about to manually add the remaining snapshots I need.
Given there was no error reported in the original attempt, there has to be a bug. Either an error did happen, but it was not reported, or, it simply didn't function as advertised. My money is on the latter.
I figured it out - and it's a little embarrassing. When I came to transfer manually the additional snapshots I discovered that the Snapshot Transfer window somehow had a selector set, presumably from some long past activity. That selector said to exclude files with "volume name matches c". Now at first sight I though that was harmless because nothing had originally come from C:, but of course it's not a complete match, but matches anything containing the string "c". Sure enough all the sources which transferred zero files contained the letter c in the volume name. With that selector deleted, things are looking up.
He started off at lightweight and went to welterweight. He fought Jose Aldo and got KO'd but no shame since that was prime Jose with the leg kicks and all. I wonder looking back, how do you guys rate Manny?
Also, had he fought Conor, could he have given Conor a loss due to his swarming judo/grappling style?
Conor would have KO'd him in the first. Also he probably would have been the TUF 5 winner had he not dislocated his shoulder. I think he's coming out of retirement though (according to wikipedia)
I was hoping you could help me track down an image. I once saw a set of our beloved guild’s dice that had been altered to where the pips and logo looked like molten metal a la furnace’s sword. Has anyone else seen this image? If so I would appreciate it being dropped below in this thread if I don’t find it first myself. I’m planning to do my dice this way and could use the reference pics.
Sorry man, couldnt get the pic to download, but i painted mine and i am please. I did white then red-orange-yellow then a small bit of white.
Hello. After reading a current thread regarding a Grado mono cartridge, I've decided to look into owning one. I'm fairly new at this and have a few questions. I can't afford an expensive mono cart and was thinking about purchasing either the Grado MC+ or ME+. When listening to mono now I usually combine the L/R channels using the old double "Y" cord trick. I've had great success using this method. Are the Grado mono carts manufactured differently for mono playback or are they like a stereo cart (same construction) but wired for mono? I don't want to purchase a mono cart if the only difference is the wiring and not the way the stylus performs in the groove. Also, anyone have experience with the Grado MC+ or ME+ and can explain the difference or make a recommendation? Thanks for the help
No, I called Grado specifically about this. They are proper mono cartridges and constructed intrinsically differently than a stereo cartridge.
There are is a Grado in the Prestige series that is a mono cartridge that is affordable, though you haven't stated your budget.
I have also been considering mono cartridges. See below for the cartridges I have been considering, specifically the Spirit model. These are true mono cartridges.
I've been thinking about getting a mono cartridge also but haven't decided yet. I've been playing a lot of old mono 45's and a few mono LPs lately and was wondering if the mono cartridge would improve the sound much if any.
Is there going to be an improvement in sound in using a mono cartridge instead of using a mono switch on an amp or the "Y" cord with a stereo cartridge as mentioned by bayen? This is my main question before I take the next step in buying any new hardware.
Will a true mono cartridge damage a stereo record? I understand about the change in the sound of the recording but will the stereo disc be physically damaged?
Is there going to be an improvement in sound in using a mono cartridge instead of using a mono switch on an amp or the "Y" cord with a stereo cartridge as mentioned by bayen?
Yes, but you have to define what you mean by inexpensive. For some, $1000 is inexpensive, for others, it's $99.
Thanks Puma Cat. I think the Grado MC+ and ME+ are part of the Prestige series. The MC+ is around $90.00 and the ME+ close to $150.00. The ME+ comes close to what I'm willing to spend at the moment. Good to know that the Prestige series carts are constructed differently than a stereo cart.
Good to know...I should play my Toshiba/EMI Blue Notes and Speaker's Corner mono remasters with my stereo pickup, then.....save the mono cartridge for my "real' monos...
Good to know. Most of my mono lp's are pre -1968 but if you didn't mention this I would have most likely played my Beatles 1982 mono's with a mono cart set-up...thanks for the tip!
Well, after reading this post plus the other current "mono cart" post and a few posts on other forums, I've decided not to jump at the Grado mono cartridges until I understand a bit more on the subject. It gets a bit confusing...reading about the number of coils a true mono cart should have..the difference in stylus tip etc. etc. I'll check back, thanks
Also, I wasn't planning on playing stereo records with a mono cartridge. I was talking about playing one by accident.
Back again. Here is the main thing I'd like to know (I may post the same question on the other thread), will the Grado ME+ sound better than comping the L-R channels with the double Y cords? After reading some info this afternoon I'm beginning to think the Grado ME+ isn't a true mono cart...compared to vintage true mono carts. This has something to do with the number of coils used, the stylus tip and a bunch of technical stuff that's a bit over my head. When using the Y cords for mono LP playback any noise is centered and less noticeable. If the Grado ME+ is constructed to perform like a true mono cart and extract information from the groove differently it should sound better, correct? Thanks
I'm not sure, but I thought I read (perhaps in the Music Matters' threads) that it was ok to use a modern(or perhaps non-conical?) mono cart with later mono lp's cut with a stereo head? Could somebody confirm or deny this?
This has been addressed, fyi. 99% of modern mono cartridges should be fine. They have stereo-sized needles (.7 mm) and so work fine on stereo grooves. I think EMT is the only modern company that makes an original mono-sized needle (1 mm), which should only be used on original mono records, cut before (if I recall correctly) around 1967. Music Matters are cut with a stereo cutter-head, but your modern mono cartridge should be fine with them.
I recently mounted a Miyajima Premium BE mono in my system and am incredibly pleased with the results. I think you would be happy with the Miyajima sound. I haven't done any comparisons to other mono cartridges.
I recently mounted a Miyajima Premium BE mono in my system and am incredibly pleased with the results. .
People, one more time, be careful of the mono cart you install. Make sure it can play a stereo groove without damage. Over and out.
But just to be a nudge, Steve, and to continue on a couple of earlier posts, is there any reason to think that a modern .7mm stylus on a modern mono cart would cause any damage to a stereo groove on a modern mono lp(such as those cut by Music Matters, AP, etc)?
Probably not. But every time this subject is brought up with Kevin Gray, he shakes his head and closes his eyes.
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Great base race! Though if I were in GLA's position I would've tried to tech up back to buggies ASAP to prevent Russia from having the expansion supplies or oils and spent the Combat Drugs GP on Sneak Attack to maintain the immediate pressure on Russia. By getting more and more kills overtime, it would get GLA faster to Anthrax, which he could use to decimate the army since there were practically 0 super heavies in Russia's army composition and more or less light vehicles with the exception of Kodiaks. Regardless, well played by both players.
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"20th Century Boys" by Naoki Urasawsa is a phenomenal manga series comprising of 22 volumes. The story is largely character-driven but there's still a great story to unfold. I would class the manga as 'psychological sci-fi/adventure/suspense/thriller' but as with "FMA" it includes elements belonging to other genres - specifically drama and humour. I'll be reviewing the English translation.
The English translation is well done and includes minimal spelling and grammatical errors. Still wondering if it would've been better for the translators to leave the sound effects untranslated, as the English equivalents don't make much sense.
Not stylish but realistic and incredibly well-drawn. Lots of close-ups of people's faces, allowing for an incredible subtlety of emotions. Easy to tell the differences between cultures eg. Japanese and American people. Urasawa's artwork is cinematic and suspense-ridden. He knows what to reveal and what should be left to the reader's imagination. Characters are distinct and this is important when the story contains such a large cast.
There's a myriad of characters. Children, cooks, convenience store owners and assistants, musicians, soldiers, homeless people, scientists, politicians, terrorists, citizens, cultists, priests, criminals and even the pope - amongst many others. All are portrayed with depth. Our 'hero' is a convenience store worker called Kenji Endo. But there are more than one hero in this story. The main characters, of which there are many, are so well-developed the reader feels they know them. The main villain is cartoony to a degree but also very, very human.
The series surrounds a group of children, mostly boys and the events that happen one Summer in the late 1960's. What happens during this Summer affects their lives as adults. Jump to 1997, their childhood games are coming back to haunt them. The childhood/adult aspect reminded me of Stephen King's book, "IT" (of which I've admittedly only read half). The scope of the story, variety of characters (likely and unlikely) and some of the themes therein, remind me of King's "The Stand". There are many echoes of the Cold War. Elements of the story are torn straight from the pages of the Bible, particularly the book of Revelation. And yet, despite all that, the story is largely unpredictable and very, very suspenseful. This really is one series where the reader will need to turn the pages to find out what happens next. Many themes are covered, including but not exclusive to - community versus the individual, the desire to belong and believe in something, Truth versus truth, family and friendship.
Urasawa is an incredible storyteller. Some readers may find the story slowly-paced (and it is) but this allows time for a real exploration of characters. It's remarkable that such a complex story remains so consistent. That said, I found the ending to be a little anticlimactic, rushed and confusing. Also, it leaves the reader with many questions. All in all, a highly enjoyable manga series.
To those who've read the manga, does "21st Century Boys" answer any questions left by the first series? I felt we didn't get a proper payoff for the characters. I guess I wanted a half a manga wrap-up like that of "Fullmetal Alchemist". Thanks.
2. I've read the manga, would love if you went into more depth with this. Your 'story' and' 'final thoughts' are..... beyond bare. This series is over 20 volumes, isn't there more to say about it than two incredibly short paragraphs?
It could be that W4J is unable to post reviews because the system is still broken in some parts. (I've gotten reports that some members are unable to submit reviews into the system on titles)
Though, in case you can post reviews, Warrior 4 Jesus, I would appreciate it if you could submit your 20th Century Boys review here: http://www.christiananime.net/reviews/c ... iew&id=130
Otherwise, even though you post your review here, it will be buried in a matter of weeks, hence why it's better to put it in the reviews system.
Atria, thanks. I'd be happy to discuss the story further, I just didn't want to ruin anything by spoiling the suspense and gradual unveiling of the Friend etc.
Mechana, thanks, mate. That's good to know. I can't wait for VIZ to publish 21st Century Boys in English (roll on April 11).
Goldenspines, I'm new to writing reviews here but yes, you're right the system wasn't working for me. Sorry, I should've taken that issue to CAA staff. Again, I apologise. Should I do the same for my Fullmetal Alchemist review (post it where you linked?) Cheers.
Warrior 4 Jesus wrote: Goldenspines, I'm new to writing reviews here but yes, you're right the system wasn't working for me. Sorry, I should've taken that issue to CAA staff. Again, I apologise. Should I do the same for my Fullmetal Alchemist review (post it where you linked?) Cheers.
No worries. The system being repaired in currently in limbo, so if you get an error trying to submit a review (to the extent of "not having privileges to review" or something) leaving things like this is fine for the time being. Hopefully we'll be able to get this fixed soon.
I already linked you to the 20th Century Boys entry, but in regards to the FMA review, just make sure you find the title submission for FMA in our system (in the manga/green section in this case) and submit your review there.
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(1892–1986) shared the Nobel Prize in medicine and physiology in 1943. Doisy discovered the chemical nature of vitamin K. His work involved synthesis, isolation, and characterization of the K vitamins. Doisy received two U of I degrees: a Bachelor of Arts (1914) and a Master of Science (1916).
(1901–1978) won the Nobel Prize in chemistry in 1955 for his work on “biochemically important sulfur compounds, especially for achieving the first synthesis of a polypeptide hormone.” Du Vigneaud received a Bachelor of Science (1923) and a Master of Science (1924) from the U of I. He served on the University faculty from 1929 to 1932.
(1922–1993) won the Nobel Prize in medicine and physiology in 1968 for his work determining the precise structure of nucleic acids. He received a Bachelor of Arts in chemistry from the University of Illinois in 1942.
(1923–2005 ) shared the 2000 Nobel Prize in physics for his part in the invention and development of the integrated circuit, the microchip. Kilby received a Bachelor of Science from the University of Illinois in 1947.
(1918–2009) shared the 1992 Nobel Prize in medicine and physiology with Edmond Fischer for their discoveries in the 1950s concerning reversible protein phosphorylation. Krebs was awarded a U of I Bachelor of Arts degree in 1940.
(1911–1993) shared the 1955 Nobel Prize in physics for his work toward precise measurement of the magnetic moment of the electron. Kusch received a Master of Science (1933) and a Ph.D. (1936) from the U of I.
(1931– ) shared the 1972 Nobel Prize in physics with faculty member John Bardeen and postdoctoral fellow Leon Cooper for their work at the U of I on the theory of superconductivity. Schrieffer received a Master of Science in 1954 and a Ph.D. in 1957 from the University and served on the physics faculty from 1959 to 1962.
(1944– ) shared the 1993 Nobel Prize in medicine and physiology for the discovery of split genes, which proved that genes can be composed of several separate segments. Sharp received a Ph.D. in chemistry from the U of I in 1969.
(1931– ) shared the 1978 Nobel Prize in medicine and physiology for “the discovery of restriction enzymes and their application to problems of molecular genetics.” Smith graduated from University High School in 1948 and attended the U of I from 1948 to 1950.
(1904–1971) shared the 1946 Nobel Prize in chemistry for contributions to the preparation of enzymes and virus proteins in pure form. Stanley received two U of I degrees: a Master of Science (1927) and a Ph.D. (1929).
(1921–2011) shared the 1977 Nobel Prize in medicine and physiology for the discovery and development of radioimmunoassay, a technique that employs radioactive isotopes to detect and measure the levels of insulin and hormones in the blood and in body tissues. Yalow was the second woman to win the Nobel Prize in medicine. Yalow holds two U of I degrees: a Master of Science (1942) and a Ph.D. (1945).
(1908–1991) won the Nobel Prize in physics in 1956 and 1972, the only person to have won the physics prize twice. He shared the 1956 prize with W. H. Brattain and W. Shockley for research on semiconductors and the invention of the transistor at Bell Labs, and the 1972 prize with L. N. Cooper and J. R. Schrieffer for the theory of superconductivity, developed at the U of I. Bardeen served on the University’s faculty from 1951 until his death in 1991.
(1930– ) shared the 1972 Nobel Prize in Physics with faculty member John Bardeen and alumnus John R. Schreiffer for their development of the theory of superconductivity, usually called the BCS-theory. He was a research associate at the U of I from 1955 to 1957.
(1928– ) won the Nobel Prize in chemistry in 1990 for his “development of the theory and methodology of organic synthesis.” Corey served on the faculty in the Department of Chemistry at the University from 1951 to 1959.
(1929– ) won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1969 for "his contributions and discoveries concerning the classification of elementary particles and their interactions." Gell-Mann was a postdoctoral research associate in 1951 and a visiting research professor from 1952-1953.
(1917–2008) shared the Nobel Prize in economics in 2007 with Eric S. Maskin and Roger B. Myerson for "having laid the foundations of mechanism design theory." He served as a faculty member at the University of Illinois Department of Economics from 1949-1951.
(1929–2007) shared the Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine in 2003 with Sir Peter Mansfield for "seminal discoveries concerning the use of magnetic resonance to visualize different structures." Lauterbur was among the first scientists to use nuclear magnetic resonance in the studies of molecules, solutions, and solids. Lauterbur joined the U of I faculty in 1985.
(1938– ) shared the 2003 Nobel Prize in physics with Alexei A. Abrikosov and Vitaly L. Ginzburg for "pioneering contributions to the theory of superconductors and superfluids." Leggett formulated the decisive theory explaining how atoms interact and are ordered in the superfluid state. Leggett joined the U of I faculty in 1983.
(1912–1991) won the Nobel Prize in medicine and physiology in 1969 with Max Delbruck and Alfred Hershey for discoveries concerning the replication mechanism and the genetic structure of viruses. He served as a professor of bacteriology at the University from 1950 to 1959.
(1933– ) shared the 2003 Nobel Prize in Medicine with faculty member Paul C. Lauterbur for “seminal discoveries concerning the use of magnetic resonance to visualize different structures.” Mansfield was a research associate in the U of I department of physics from 1962 to 1964.
(1923– ) won the Nobel Prize in chemistry in 1992 for contributions to the theory of how electrons are transferred between molecules—work that helps explain such phenomena as rust and how plants draw nourishment from light. He served as a faculty member in the U of I Department of Chemistry from 1964 to 1978 and completed much of his prize-winning research at the University.
(1918–2003) won the Nobel Prize in economics in 1985 for two major theories: one on personal finance and one on corporate finance. He served as a faculty member in the U of I Department of Economics from 1948 to 1952.
(1951 -) shared the 2012 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Science for his work in market design and matching theory, which relate to how people and companies find and select one another in everything from marriage to school choice to jobs to organ donations. Roth was a member of the business faculty at Illinois from 1975-1982.
The 2007 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded jointly to Al Gore and to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) for their efforts in building and disseminating greater knowledge about man-made climate change, and to lay the foundations for the measures needed to counteract that change. Eight faculty members and research scientists on the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign served on the IPCC and were acknowledged by the organization for their contributions to the Nobel-earning work.
(1923– ) won the Nobel Prize in physics in 1977. He shared the prize with John Van Vleck and Nevill Mott for their “fundamental theoretic investigation of the electronic structure of magnetic and disordered systems.” Anderson graduated from University High School in 1940.
(1918-2002) won the Nobel Prize in economics in 1981. Tobin’s work provided “a basis for understanding how subjects actually behave when they acquire different assets and incur debts” by his statement of the “portfolio selection theory” of investment. Tobin graduated from University High School in 1935.
(1964– ) received a 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting as part of a team with the Tampa Bay Times that reported on conditions in Florida's state-funded mental hospitals. Anton earned a 1986 degree in journalism.
(1949– ) received the 2002 Pulitzer Prize in International Reporting for his coverage of daily life in war-ravaged Afghanistan. Bearak pursued graduate studies in journalism at the University of Illinois and earned his Master of Science in 1974.
(1932– ) won the 1978 Pulitzer Prize in Music for his piece, Deja Vu for Percussion Quartet and Orchestra, which was commissioned and premiered by the New York Philharmonic. He received his University of Illinois Bachelor of Music degree in 1956.
(1929– ) received the 1968 Pulitzer Prize in Music for Echoes of Time and the River, commissioned to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the University of Chicago. Crumb received his University of Illinois Master of Music degree in 1952.
(1920 – 2009 ) has twice won the Pulitzer Prize in Biography: in 1961 for Charles Sumner and the Coming of the Civil War and in 1988 for Look Homeward: A Life of Thomas Wolfe. Donald pursued graduate studies in history at the University of Illinois, receiving a Master of Arts in 1942 and a Ph.D. in 1946.
(1942–2013) won the first-ever Pulitzer Prize in Criticism in 1975 for his work as film critic for the Chicago Sun-Times. Ebert graduated from the University of Illinois with a Bachelor of Science in 1964.
(1902–1980) shared the 1950 Pulitzer Prize in Public Service with fellow University of Illinois alumnus George Thiem. Their work exposed the presence of 37 Illinois newspapermen on an Illinois state payroll. Harris received a University of Illinois Bachelor of Arts in 1925.
(1952– ) won the 1981 Pulitzer Prize in Drama for her play Crimes of the Heart. Henley pursued graduate studies in theatre at the University of Illinois in the 1970s.
(1924–1986) shared the 1974 Pulitzer Prize for Local General Spot News Reporting with fellow University of Illinois alumnus Arthur M. Petacque for uncovering new evidence that led to the reopening of efforts to solve the 1966 murder case of Illinois Sen. Charles Percy’s daughter. Hough received a University of Illinois Bachelor of Science in 1951.
(1957–) shared in the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Local Reporting for a series of reports on a spike in infant deaths in Minneapolis day-cares that led to legislative action strengthening regulations. He earned two master’s degrees from Illinois. One in geography in 1982 and the second in journalism in 1986.
(1950–) shared the 1993 Pulitzer Prize for Beat Reporting for coverage of management turmoil at General Motors Corp. He earned a Bachelor of Science degree from the University in 1972.
(1929–1967) shared the 1967 Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting for his part in exposing the connection between U.S. crime and gambling in the Bahamas. Karmin received a University of Illinois Bachelor of Science in 1950.
(1974– ) shared the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for Local Reporting (Chicago Sun-Times) for his photography in an immersive documentation of violence in Chicago neighborhoods, probing the lives of victims, criminals, and detectives as a widespread code of silence impedes solutions. He earned a Bachelor of Science in advertising from the U. of I. in 1997.
(1992– ) was the data reporter with the Tampa Bay Times team that received a 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Local Reporting for its series on the Pinellas County Schools. Lash earned his journalism degree in 2014.
(1890–1971) received the Pulitzer Prize in Biography twice: in 1933 for Grover Cleveland and in 1937 for Hamilton Fish. Nevins earned his Bachelor of Arts in 1912 and his Master of Arts in 1913, both from the University of Illinois.
(1924–2001) shared the 1974 Pulitzer Prize for Local General Spot News Reporting with fellow University of Illinois alumnus Hugh Hough. Their work in uncovering new evidence led to a reopening the 1966 murder case of Valerie Percy. Petacque attended the University of Illinois in the 1940s.
(1909–1995) received the Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting in 1945 and 1957 as a reporter for the New York Times. He earned a Bachelor of Science in 1932.
(1910–1998) won the 1959 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction for his book The Travails of Jaimie McPheeters. He graduated with a Bachelor of Arts from the University in 1933.
(1897–1987) shared the 1950 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service with fellow University of Illinois alumnus Roy J. Harris for his part in exposing the presence of 37 Illinois newspapermen on an Illinois state payroll. Thiem earned a University of Illinois Bachelor of Science in 1921.
(1885–1950) won the 1939 Pulitzer Prize in Biography for his book Benjamin Franklin. He graduated from the University in 1907 with a Bachelor of Arts.
(1894–1972) received the 1940 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry for his work Collected Poems, 1922–1938. He received a University of Illinois Bachelor of Arts in 1914.
(1980- ) shared in 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Reporting with staff of the Los Angeles Times for coverage of the San Bernadino terrorist attack. Westfall is a 2002 journalism graduate.
(1931-) shared the 1971 Pulitzer Prize for Local Reporting as a member of the staff of the Akron (Ohio) Beacon Journal. The paper was honored for its coverage of the Kent State University tragedy on May 4, 1970. He received a U. of I. Bachelor of Science in 1953.
(1933– ) shared in two Pulitzer Prizes in Investigative Reporting (1976 and 1988). Gaines joined the University of Illinois faculty in 2001 and was the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation Chair in Investigative and Enterprise Journalism until his retirement.
(1944– ) shared the 1995 Pulitzer Prize in Explanatory Journalism for his work on a family’s struggle with poverty, illiteracy, crime, and drug abuse in Washington, D.C. Dash became a University of Illinois faculty member in 1998 and is a Swanlund Chair and professor of journalism and Afro-American Studies.
(1941– ) won the 1977 Pulitzer Prize for Commentary for his work as a syndicated columnist. He graduated from University High School in 1958.
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3Department of Bioengineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois 61801, USA
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Massachusetts roofing contractor again exposes workers to fall hazards A S General Construction Inc. faces $188K in OSHA fines for 16 violations | Occupational Safety and Health Administration
Massachusetts roofing contractor again exposes workers to fall hazards A S General Construction Inc. faces $188K in OSHA fines for 16 violations
ANDOVER, Mass. - A Framingham contractor with a history of safety violations has again exposed its employees to potentially fatal fall hazards at one of its worksites, this time in Woburn.
Inspectors from the U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration found employees of A S General Construction Inc. risked falls of more than 26 feet from an unguarded roof and an improperly constructed and erected ladder-jack scaffold at the 51 Pleasant St. job site.
"The danger to these employees was real and present and known to this employer. Not only did A S General Construction not provide required fall protection, it did not train the employees to work safely on scaffolds and had the workers climbing damaged and improperly set up ladders. The result was that these workers were steps or seconds away from deadly or disabling falls," said Anthony Covello, OSHA's area director for Essex and Middlesex counties.
Additional hazards found at the Woburn site included lack of safe access to the roof and scaffold, not inspecting the scaffold and its components for defects, failing to remove nails and debris from the work area, and lack of head protection and safety glasses.
A S General Construction has a history of OSHA violations. Several of the violations at the Woburn worksite are similar to those cited by OSHA between 2011 and 2015 at worksites in Dedham and Windham, New Hampshire.
As a result, OSHA cited A S General Construction on Jan. 22, 2016, for two willful, seven repeat and seven serious violations of workplace safety standards at the Woburn site. Proposed penalties for these violations total $188,760. The citations can be viewed here*.
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The company's latest violations led OSHA to place A S General Construction in the agency's Severe Violators Enforcement Program. The program focuses on recalcitrant employers that endanger workers by committing willful, repeat or failure-to-abate violations. Under the program, OSHA may inspect any of the employer's facilities if it has reasonable grounds to believe there are similar violations.
The company has 15 business days from receipt of its citations and penalties to comply, meet with OSHA's area director, or contest the findings before the independent Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission.
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DENVER, CO – The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has cited EnviroTech Services Inc. – based in Greeley, Colorado – after an employee died due to lack of oxygen while cleaning the inside of a railcar. A second employee who tried to rescue the co-worker was also overcome, but survived. EnviroTech Services Inc. faces $64,857 in proposed penalties.
OSHA cited the chemical manufacturer for failing to provide respiratory protection; properly ventilate a confined space; implement a permit-required confined space program; and have an emergency rescue plan in place.
“This fatality could have been prevented if the employer had complied with confined space requirements and provided protective equipment,” said Herb Gibson, OSHA Denver Area Office Director.
EnviroTech Services Inc. has held an informal conference with OSHA’s area director to discuss the citations in an attempt to enter into an informal settlement agreement.
I remember my first post before I ever snapped the shutter on you guys. I miss it all. Thanks for letting me be a part of it all.
It's been a year this morning since Joey died. I just want to thank all of you who still send in messages etc about how much you miss him. It is so comforting to see that. If he only knew how many people he had an impact on, how many people he helped and how many considered him a real friend. At his funeral not one person who spoke to me said that they were a fan of the band. They all said "I was a friend of Joe's". Thank you... yes, he was a special person.
Sometimes I get there early before practice with the band, I go in the big room all vacant, I sit, and I think.
I think about every amazing time we had over those years. Being around Osiris and everyone always made me feel immortal, and we all WERE just that.
Hell yeah!!! they circle my bed every night waiting for me to sleep so they can slit my throat... but I won't let them because I am too smart for that
San Antonio metal scene blows big donkey balls... I am bringing the Cult's music to Texas and no one can stop me!
hey its johnny just leting people know that hellbound is on its why to makeing its first songs and getting ready to make some noise.. so when the time has come to make some nosie lets make some noise
Joe u brought so much to my life in the last 2 years of knowing you.. its funny .. you brought such grate music to my life so it in my honer that i make HELLBOUND joes 3ed band. i love you and one day we will make music agion.. until then keep watching my back.. God has it out for me ...
Diluting The Gene Pool is the best album I heared since Pearl Jam's Ten. GREAT!I'm listening Osiris' every day like some suicide energizer to live in today world's miserable reality. Paradoxal, but it's truth. Yours sincerely BJ
I saw Pantera Behind the Music last Night. I don't knowe, it didn't get me thinking, cause I don't need any of that, but it did sharpen things a bit. The months drag on and on. How to fill the Void? I wonder sometimes, (slight laugh), if I can (slight cheesiness coming) do this **** without Joe. We were in Osiris together for almost four ******* years, and Vile Feast for almost two. And... Ha... AND, everytime I get on the ******* internet to write about this ****, I find myself devoid of the words. Now I am hiding in my apartment like a ******* coward. Shunning my friends that are still here physiickally, I have ignored everything Osiris, rather than helping to keep it alive for Joe, because I am a coward, because I can't face it, because to see Osiris or hear it or see Joe makes me weak in the ******* legs, makes my heart beat too fast. I was never, ever weak like this. This is not the first tragedy to occur in my life. A few of you knowe my past, before Osiris. And never have I been this... Disoriented, WEAK. Joe said that he couldn't do Osiris without me. Now fate has left me in Vile Feast and I feel I can't do it without him. This guy, on top of it, was alwayes there for me. I mean, ******* literally, this dude would never let me slip into one of my infamous comas without constantly calling, or trying to come by my place. One time, he basiickally lived at my house whilst I was gone everydaye and Night, no one knowing I was getting hammer'd downtown somewhere and wandering the streets like the beggar I am. I never thank'd him. He was one of the few that never changed his opinion of me. No matter what I did, how I act'd, he never sold me out. He believed in my talent alwayes, more than I ever believed myself. I never thank'd him for that. Most people don't knowe, even Mike and Joe, that they (Mike and Joe), probably saved me from a lot back when we start'd, especially from, let us saye, myself. See, when Osiris form'd, I had just come out of a tragii
Hey Babe!! Has been almost 3 months since Joe is gone.And I still miss him so much...You can imagine how much..I always think about that day and I pray a lot for you and your family even for myself.Because is not easy with out him,he was so special with me in particular with our little one Jessica,you know he was so proud of her and he love her so much.I always remember him and is going to sound funny but specially last sunday,when I saw a frog "a sapo" and you know what I'm talking about...
Baby I'm so prod of you because you are so special and so strong because I know for you is not easy this life without Joe.
The time has come to give away some of Joey's things. If someone would like some of his large shirts let Paul know. These are shirts that can be worn to work. Or if you know of a homeless shelter where his clothes can be given please let me know.
Hello Brian. It's been a while since I seen/heard of you. I am very sorry about the loss of a close friend. Keep your Chin up. I figured that Bob Dylan said this best: (for Joe)
I send my love to the family . I remember Joey as a loving kid. Always happy. I know he will be in Paradise one day.
My little Joey is gone. Oh, how I am going to miss his hugs, like being hugged by a bear. I call his cell phone just to hear his voice. None of us should have to carry this pain in our hearts. Joey's mom
I just want to say I will miss so muchhhh Joe,I will miss the times when he use to go home and he say " hola Yanitza ,como estas"
also with mi little one jessica,he was so happy with her and so proud of her,also my little one,she love her uncle Joe. I know he can image how much I'm going to miss him and how much I love him,he was so special.
I have only met Joe a couple of times and was a very pleasant person to speak with and a very nice guy. My deepest sympathies to all who lost a good friend.
I've known Paul since he was 12 years old. I knew Joe when he was a cute 5-year old kid who thought I was funny. I simply cannot wrap my head around the fact that Joe is gone. "Little" Joey Arthur who was such an unassuming and talented kid. We all make mistakes in life, but should Joe have to pay with his life for one? Sadly, it seems, that answer is yes. I know Paul will miss Joe with every fiber of his being. My heart aches for him and his family and I offer my most heartfelt and sincere condolences.
Whoever it was on this guestbook that said I suck and that I playe like Poison should come to a ******* showe and saye that... You showe me a drummer that can outmaneuver me on a kit and I'll showe you a guestbook user who is lucky they have fingers to type with... You ******* trendy ****s come around every few weeks and **** on anything that distorts your ******* radar... What should I do? Laye off the fills? Tune my set down? Suck a dick before a showe? For that matter, it's a shame that I sat right in front of the WP table in Orlando on Saturdaye and not one **********er approach'd me or my singer. Who get's into a fistfight with a record label you ask? Not Osiris... Nah, not when WP is running the showes like it's "the streets..." Everybody goes yeeeeaaaahhhh... BASH. I hear ya Mr. Plant.
seriously though,congats on everything.ive pretty much watch u guys start from nothing and end up accomplishing your goals.took long enogh for me to get a cd, but it was worth the wait.the clarity of the music came out perfect.
Unkle Tom...no...no idea::glances to the back of the trunk unkle tom is in:: ::Kicks Midget:: Did i say that he was in the trunk outloud? Am i thinking or typing? Hello....Hello....
Im bored and sitting in first hour and i feel like being a weird person.... So i figured id come here and i went throught all the guestbook comments. Can you beleive that? All of them? hahah...joe dont be mad at me...but you sure are loved in this **** guestbook. if you dont know what i mean...go to page 3... hahahaha
Hi guys...the two shows coming up, are going to be SICK!!!!....awesome to rock head to head whit OSIRIS RISING!!! see ya!
It is a sad daye, yet a happy one, as with the entrance of little Jessica into this world, so VoR departs for the next one. Yes, as was noted many months ago, it was decidead that little Jessica, upon her nativity, would replace VoR on the drums. Well, she was borne, seven pounds of cuteness and primal energy, and so has already taken to the drumset and indeed "kicked Vor's ass across the verdant meadow on the drums." It has been confirm'd that Vor has been also kick'd out of the russian trip-hop trio "The G~Nomes" for "savagely thrashing his wife with a midget and a popsickle stick." This midget, now nick-named "Haagen-Daaz" has become the pre-eminent S&M master in South Florida. When Papa Middy was ask'd how he felt upon the birth of his daughter he replied jovially, "The force was strong with this one," to which Uncle Joe Leviathan betook himself to the arduous task of "finding the buzzing." Indeed, it is a joyous time for Osiris. Congratulations to Papa Middy, who is changing his name to P. Middy and beginning a rap career... Seriously congrats and hails to Paul and Yanitza on becoming parents. And to little little Jessica for handling her birth like a pro. Paul couldn't have done it better himself. We're happy for you Brother...
Trial and Error... I tried wwwwwww.osirisrising.com. That didn't work. So I just started subtracting w's.
Congrats, PAPA Middy. God ****, I'm taking that whole nickname meaning two things thing way too far. But seriously, congrats. Baby Jessica has some very interesting 'uncles'...huh. ;)
Hey guys. I got to say your CD kicks ass...I listened to it 4 times already and every time it kicks ass. Keep it up and see you guys soon...
hey guys i heard the turn out of people was great despite the weather mother natures such a ******* ***** anyways i also heard you guys were ******* great im very proud of you guys and im very happy you guys finally got the album out Poe sent me the album throughEmail but i am planning on buying the album from you guys anyways just cause you guys are really awesome and really great friends not to mention the album blows me away ive just listened to the whole album very awesome quality and very good music thank you so ******* much for making the south florida scene what it is you guys are ******* awesome by the way im moving officially September 20th so look for me at shows anytime after that and also by the me and my girl friend will also be having a house warming party and you are all invited BYOB cause we will obviously be poor as **** lol ok guys im out spread the moving news Belial will wreak infernal havok on south florida once again
Hey guys im gonna be missing in action for a little while because my computer is completely ****ed i just wanted you to know if im not back by the 9th that i hope your cd release show goes well and have lots of fun ill be there in spirit may the metal gods shine on you
Bravo...Bravo.You've gotton even better,Better!you've pollished that solo down to a "V".I can't help but to remember our days in ...
or as the story is told.All I know is , that I am entralled, with pride, to see your mug on the stage again.(Shared only with that small,bitter-sweet feeling of jelousy; As if one had seen an ex-girlfriend if you will){that evil coo}~ Run with it Brian...Run~
Hey guys it's me Rich....Just wanted to say hi and how are things going??? Apparently they are doing good. got the new cd coming out which is awesome. I am going to try my ******* hardest to go there for your CD release. I'll let you know man. Anyway I hope i see all of u guys again.Email me with your # or something so i know where to go...TTYL. By the way awesome job with the website.
Happy birthday Mike and Joe sorry its late but thanks to Ali i know so happy birthfay and cant wait till the album comes out im very excited alright guys take it easy im out
Those new wallpapers are awesome. If my computer wasn't a POS That needs to function in safe mode, I'd definatley have one. Especially the one with that lead singer on it ;)
Hey, just figured I'd post a Happy Birthday to Joe on here, for yesterday. And I wanted to also post that it was Mike's birthday on the 7th. So everyone should wish them happy belated birthdays.
Mike, keep up it man. Things are going to turn out just fine. You know I have your back. Catch you later man.
mike, i luv you! sorry i havnt been around for any shows I am in Tampa at the moment but I miss you and you are still my number one favorite local band. oh yeah, also i have a present for you. I will tell you about it on the phone though. its sorta a promo for your band. ;)
no but i know Tom Thumb hes a prostitute that sells acid to 7 year old girls in hopes of corrupting there minds and turning them into an army of sluts for you and I
Im afraid of midgets so circus midgets are discusting little creatures that are abominations of humanity with crap jobs
this is Brian as im sure youve already read whats up guys i miss the band and watching you crazy Fuc*s on stage fuc* it up hopefully when i move back to florida we can have a party and fuc* the place up or at least get trashed aight just wanted to say my peace and by the way the questions on this thing are ridiculous keep the humor coming its the only thing reminding me im still alive.
Mike aka Abraxass: He is our hero, Spongebob. Aloof, spastiick, loud, everyone's friend or worst enemy but alwayes funny.
Paul aka Papa Middy: He is Mr.Krabs. The eldest of the group, more "well-mindead" with money, sometimes edgy, but good-heart'd under the hard fvckin' shell.
VoR aka Belphegore: He is Squidward. Cyniickal, sarcastiick, but so self-demeaning that no one notices how much of a dick he is.
Watch the showe and think about each character as a member of Osiris, and let the laughter and mockery ensue. South Florida is Bikini Bottom.
Got drunk last night and tripped over a cable and grabbed the desk for support which led to clicking the mouse and scrolling down my favorites, amoungst the sea of porn and conspiracy sites I got here
Hey monkey...u should give ur yellow shirt to John soo it matches his shorts! Lol! anyways i commented are u happy? lol J/k....Go eat a banana...or have u already...lol...im trying to find a big enough box to send Wheels in ur little retarded lover ...i will throw a midget in as well...for fun lol..
Lol...Give john ur yellow shirt so it can match his shorts LOL! anyways u told me to leave a comment so heres ur comment...Im glad noone takes pics of me when i pass out...
Indeed, There are too many Arthurs in this band so I am opting for the midgets. Our CD release partay is coming up in the next few months, but there is no certain date set as of yet. Everyone'll knowe well in advance though... Hope that answers any questions, because if it does not, well, It just means that I don't knowe Shiite.
Mike I should kill you. Would you care to guess why? Actually I should kill you and christie. But just remember what they say "payback is a ******** as you will soon see lol. That is not actually what I wanted to say I forgot what I was going to say.
Vor, im am sad to here that you are leaving for a band of musical midgets. However, i am quite interested in meeting the new Arthur of the band. i am planning to make a trip down south in the next 8 months. i would like to schedule the trip around one of your big shows. any advice as to which one would be the best? thanks, sarah
Hey everyone, I am now self-employ'd, I manage... my hair. If I fire myself, I can work in the field and raise... eyebrows...
dick****cunt*********jerkofftitasshell****bitch************... I want to see which bad words will not be censor'd by this guestbook, that I maye use them in my qwest for Bravenet Domination! **** stars. **** 'em.
So there are THREE Arthurs in the band now? Did this all happen during one of my blackouts? How come Vor always gets to hang with the midgets? :(
Announcement: Our upcoming showe which has not been announced is cancell'd, but I suppose it matters not since it has not been announced... Well, it has been announced NOW, so that would negate what I just stated about it not being announced therefore it is my conviction that I rechristen it the "Showe that has been announced is being announced as the previously unannounced showe that is cancell'd announcement...
Anyhow, in Osiris news VoR has decidead to leave Osiris and join up with a russian power trip hop trio call'd the G-Nomes... It is comprised mainly of midgets, none in corsets, therefore making VoR the tallest midget in existence. For their stageshowe, VoR's drum solo will feature a midget lodged in his bass drum, to which the midget will have a mic for which to hum the melody of "The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia" as VoR taps out the drumbeat to "Slave 4U" by Britney "midget*****" Spears... Osiris has announced that they will be replacing VoR with Papa Middy's as yet unborne childe, who, from the womb, has announced that they "Can kick VoR's ass across the Mason-Dixon Line on drums." Unconfirm'd accounts from the VoR camp have detail'd obliquely that "VoR's health is in decline due to overconsumption of beardead clams and pickle juice." A spokesman for Osiris has stated that "The condition for which he is in is in no waye the responsibility or result of any Voodoo dollery or Black Magiick from any single member of Osiris." In unrelated news, a very "top heavy" female of undisclosed age has post'd a picture of herself on VoR's myspace profile, featuring the words Osiris on one breast and Rising on the other. Whether or not this is actually VoR's mother has yet to be ascertain'd, as it is a boobshot only. Also, VoR's band Vile Feast has hit the top of the charts todaye in Guyana with their splendiferous hit "Thoughts of a Brainless Man." And the Midgets rejoice...
Whats up Sarah? Go to the news page, scoll down until you see a pic of Vor, and look for the text "Weiner!" in red letters. Click on that for an MP3.
Yo it's DanV from Headdrive. I just wanted to drop you a quick note to say thank you for playing the Skatezone show with us. You guys sounded Amazing. I'm apologize that we had to leave before you finished your set...A couple of the guys had to get up really early to go to work. Thanks again.
Hey, it is VoR once again, come to spread smiles across the faces of disenchant'd Youth. Hey, thanks to Russell for the compliments! We look forward to seeing you at the showes and welcoming a new friend to our group.
And I sawe that Rich wrote to us! ****, we gotta send that guy anEmail and some flowers... Hope he's doing good... We miss him. (Tears). Hahahaha... What's his fiancees name? Jill? hehheh... We miss Her too...
Hey guys, I asked Ali where I could leave a feedback because tonight when we came in to see u reherse i was amazed. I really liked what i heard. I'ma try to get off work for ur next show and go but the problem is im always working. Anyways yeah just wanted to leave a comment that i appriciate u playing for ali and i at the last minute. It was awesome! im alreayd lookin foward to my first osiris rising show :)
Yes he is the one who got butt ****ed by uncle chuck while his little sister is on her knees waiting for his peanut.
Hey guys it's me Rich (Insaniyat). Just want to say what's up and i am glad you are recording your ****. Now i just need to hear it but i can't ******* download it anywhere. **** YOU!!! Anyway hope you guys are having a kick ass time and i wish i was there. TTYL
I don't know what to say. I just feel someone needs to comment on how much you guys rocked last night. Congrats on playing Diluting the Gene Pool for the first time.
Ah, we here at Osiris never take time out to read thro' this guestbook except when making fun of one another... I want to thank the beings that have sign'd this guestbook recently or fairly recently... Your kind words have been more than appreciated and indeed inspiration to us... You guys ******* ROCK. Thanks again sin-****in-cerely...
You guys rock ^_^. I can't wait till the cd is out so I can buy it and listen to it on repeat driving my housemates insane (They're too sane as it is). ^_^
Not even kidney stones, a bladder infection, and a fever will keep me away from seeing Osiris Rising...
This may be a rumor, but I do recall hearing someone shout "Osiris Rising in 2005!" at the Lox... let's see it happen! ;) You guys rock, Happy New Year (again).
hey, nice to see new songs up, if my **** computer at home worked i'd probably try and sdownload a few. any plans on touring? you have a place to stay and drink in orlando.
I was told to give criticism... But I just can't do that... You guys rock, Good luck with the band Man... :)
I love the site, its awesome, especially the sound bits on the bios of the members. Great music, loads of talent, you guys keep rocking and I'll keep my eye out for you!
Cool! Very cool! I was in allot of pain or something. BTW I'm very good with photo processors, the 'hair photo' was completely dark so very little could be done. No one would have known it was you.
"The Camera" ::CoughPaul:: if you're going to go to the trouble of trying to get ME at LEAST up the constrast or the color.. speaking of good photos... Here's one I thought you might like to have posted.
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Since 2008, SEE-Change members have been involved in a range of projects that enhance open space and urban waterways, provide food security, community education and connectedness such as the:
City Farm, Turner (The former SEE-Change Executive Officer and other SEE-Change members were active in establishing this site)
Canberra City Farm (Members of SEE-Change’s Board were key to setting up the site adjacent to Jerrrabomberra wetlands and continue to play a role in its governance and operation)
Jerrabomberra wetlands – a project officer (funded through SEE-Change) runs regular working bees at the wetlands
Banksia St, O’Connor wetland (the Inner-North SEE-Change group worked with the ACT Government on the community engagement process for this wetland and were instrumental in organising the community fair on the site in 2009).
Dickson wetland (members of the Inner-North SEE-Change were involved in the community fair at this site and the current SEE-Change project officer volunteered at wetland working bees and for Water atch).
In 2017, SEE-Change received an ACT Environment grant of $43,000 for the Birdscaping CBR: bringing back birds, butterflies and bees. The grant was supported by Professor Kate Auty, the ACT Commissioner for Sustainability and the Environment. In her letter of endorsement, the Commissioner said “I regard this proposal as commendable ….. the work will deliver environmental outcomes and the alignment of such opportunities is beneficial to the broad Canberra and ACT community as well as the environment”.
The aim of the project is to revegetate sections of urban open space along Sullivans Creek in O’Connor to attract small insectivorous birds and pollinators into the suburbs. Although Canberra’s urban open space has many mature trees underlain by mown grass it lacks an understorey to support smaller species and favours larger more aggressive birds.
Once the project is completed it will serve as a model for other community groups to continue to revegetate urban open space to create either linear habitat corridors or pockets of vegetation that link our waterways to bushland reserves. We have discussed the possibility of replicating the Birdscaping model upstream at the community run project, the Lyneham Commons.
SEE-Change endorses principles raised in the ACT Government’s February 2018 information paper on the Living Infrastructure Strategy, in particular: “…. Living infrastructure will play a key role as the city adapts to the impacts of climate change.”
This is one of the key challenges that our city faces – dealing with a warming climate and enhancing natural systems within our cities while continuing to develop.
In the rush to redevelop there is a lack of innovation and an emphasis on maximum return on investment. There are exceptions of course, the New Acton redevelopment is a good example of new built form which integrates vertical gardens and some exciting landscape associated with restaurants like Mocan and Green Grout and A Baker.
Along Constitution Avenue, attractive rain gardens have been installed. But these innovations are the exception rather than the rule.
Unfortunately new developments, like the multi-storey Nova apartments on Antill St, Dickson lack street trees to provide summer shade and are composed of built materials that contribute to the urban heat island effect.
A Living Infrastructure Plan should demonstrate how we link home gardens (which comprise a significant proportion of urban/suburban habitat), to our streetscapes, parks, waterways (including our lakes) and nature reserves. The Living Infrastructure plan should be a series of live documents that are updated and adhered to.
In line with our cities leadership shown on renewable energy, SEE-Change advocates that the ACT becomes a partner city with the Biophilic Cities Program. At present there are 15 partner cities worldwide including Fremantle, Portland and Wellington. This platform allows cities to showcase innovations and learnings and can ensure Canberra is a liveable city in a warming climate.
Setting a target to becoming a biophilic city would spur a new way of thinking about urban development by design professionals and students, developers, builders, ACT government and the community.
“Biophilic cities are cities of abundant nature in close proximity to large numbers of urbanites. Biophilic cities value residents innate connection and access to nature through abundant opportunities to be outside and to enjoy the multisensory aspects of nature by protecting and promoting nature within the city.”
SEE-Change has the capacity to lead a transformational change in the relationship between the ACT Government and community to help them deliver the cities living infrastructure strategy.
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Jennifer Stuart has engaged the minds of young children for over 25 years as a preschool director, teacher, and homeschooling parent. She studied Child Development at Brookhaven College and Liberal Arts and Photography at SMU. She was one of the first teachers at the Dallas International School in the early 1990's. She served as Executive Director of the non-profit preschool she founded and operated in the 2000's, The Community School of the Park Cities, which she grew from ten to over seventy enrolled children in the school’s first year. The next few years found her actively involved with The Robert Muller Center for Living Ethics in Fairview where her daughter attended elementary school part time (combined with homeschooling and unschooling). The school's carefree spirit and child focused curriculum would inspire her future. She introduced Farm to Market Workshop in 2014, conducting children's weekend and summer workshops around town. Requests from parents for a more permanent program led to the development of Seed Preschool.
Jennifer has extensive non-profit experience including being part of the founding board of the Dallas Children’s Museum in the mid 1990’s (the museum was later absorbed by the Perot Museum of Nature and Science). Over the years, she has served on other boards and has guided the formation of non-profit organizations. She has also had experience in radio and television media, real estate investment and acquisition, and retail sales, management, and buying. She was part of the founding management team at Gecko Hardware (now Rooster Home and Hardware).
Jennifer practiced a green lifestyle long before it was the trend, in fact it is a way of life. She tends her backyard farm with chickens and a garden of vegetables and native plants. She is an active certified Texas Master Naturalist. She enjoys yoga, knitting, reading, writing, and time with daughter Claire who is a graduate of Booker T Washington High School, now attending Texas A&M University.
The Hinterriß Nature Park House is one of the many jewels in the midst of the fascinating mountain world of the Karwendel Nature Park. Opened in 2009, it houses an impressive museum with an innovative concept that is sure to astonish and delight. Countless entries in the guestbook testify: The nature park house inspires.
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Hey hey! The Cubs offense exploded again on Thursday as they downed the Dodgers 11-5 to secure a split of the four-game series. Addison Russell drove in four, Anthony Rizzo drove in three, Albert Almora drove in two, and J-Hey & Javy each drove in one.
The North Siders return to the Friendly Confines on Friday as they host a weekend series with the Twins.
Today I am joining Susan at Thoughts from Over the Rainbow for the first of the Christmas Parties..Please go over and see the festivities…
So are we all tripping over boxes and bins of decorations?? What a mess..plumping wreaths and fluffing bows?
And those lights…why do some of them go out after I have wrapped them in and out?? I keep saying I will just throw them away, but then dh has to see if he can find the problem. Many cusses later, some are saved, some are tossed!
The second is a musical Nativity I gave my mom for her 65th bday. I remember buying it in VT. at a gift shop in Santa Land…It plays Silent Night… Her birthday is the 2nd…if she were alive she would be 96..I have wonderful memories of a very strong woman, widowed at 49, with a daughter in a wheelchair to take care of..and me, which wasn’t easy..:)
The third is a crystal one made by Dansk I have had for many years…I place it on the hallway table on a mirror surrounded by a lighted wreath…It is hard to get a good pic of it.
I am going to have to practice on that pic more! Christmas Eve when I put the fresh flowers into the mantle arrangement, I tuck fresh Baby’s Breath into the greens..
Dec 3rd is my 1 year Blogaversary…I wonder if Mike will remember…LOL He doesn’t get the whole Blog thing!
It is also my youngest gson Declan’s 2 nd Bday. :) To celebrate a year of blogging I’ll have a give away…It’s Tablescape Thursday too..
Mary was featured on Houzz.. Read the interview with Mary and view pictures of her lovely home…Congratulations, Mary!
Thanks so much for all the good wishes and prayers for my dil. She is on her way to recovering after emergency surgery , and I hope she will give herself time to heal. I know with 4 little ones it isn’t easy, but she has to put her health first for a few weeks!
We all have recipes that were passed down from someone, or made for a special occasion and have a story behind them . Hop over to her blog and find out the details, then link up..
My oldest sister, who had 5 kids, asked me for the recipe for the cookies after I brought them to her house..
As a joke, where it said to fill the thumbprint with your favorite jam, I replaced the word JAM with TOOTHPASTE.
About 10 years later she called to say she finally got around to making them and HA HA..! I guess I was still the bratty youngest sister..
Dip each ball into the egg wash and then roll it in coconut. Place the balls on an ungreased cookie sheet and press a light indentation into the top of each with your finger. Drop 1/4 teaspoon of jam into each indentation. Bake for 20 to 25 minutes, until the coconut is a golden brown. Cool and serve.
Last call to win a beautiful Lenox Teapot over at Pat's Mille Fiori Favoriti...she's celebrating her 400th post.HURRY!
My merchandise this week is a gift I bought on HSN..Of course I linked through www.Mrrebates.com, so I got a percentage back, and 4 flex pays..
I bought one a few years ago, and I love it. It has 3 individual burners with separate settings..you can cook on it or keep things warm. I often use it for 3 different soups. It can be plugged in outside for chili, etc..You could put 3 omelet pans on it for a brunch omelet station.
Very useful during the holidays for serving. The pots are 3.5 qts and clean beautifully. So if you entertain a lot this is well worth the price. Performance Gold Buffet Server.
I saw these napkins on a forum where I participate. The original napkins had embroidered designs..I haven’t mastered that yet! Looking for a place to teach me how to use my machine.
I will be on the lookout for some interesting fabric. We are fabric store deprived out here, so this was the best I could do!!
A few years ago I found these plates..I loved the face on the Santa..but they had nothing in any other size…
I don’t have Thanksgiving at my house, I am a guest. There are usually around 30 for a sit down dinner. We get assigned 4 things to bring. The hostess does a lovely job setting things up..furniture has to be moved etc. Ah youth!
I usually do make a smaller version for us here, and this is the table I did last November, pre Blog..so new to you. My friends at Holidays have seen it..
These sweet little pheasant salt and peppers are from Pottery Barn Outlet. They are porcelain, and of course, a great price..They would have flown out of my cart if they weren’t ! I don’t have the white Target birds though!
I put a faux wreath between the pumpkin soup bowl, and used brass letters stuck in a foam pumpkin for the place card.
Centerpiece is a caged bronze pumpkin with a candle and leaves..Small Lenox cornucopia , have a mint?
I hope to see you for Foodie and Flashback Friday..I have a cute little craft to show you if I get it finished.. When I was over at Blondie’s she talked about a Tues. event at Kathy’s Cottage where you show your home made Christmas gifts…Looks like fun!
OOPS...Kathy says wait till Tues to show the craft..her McLincky ends at midnight and I am not finished yet!
Today on our way over to Riverhead, I stopped to take a pic of this Long Island landmark. For years, kids have lined up in front of the duck to have their pic taken.
The Big Duck is a building in the shape of a duck located in Flanders, New York, on Long Island. It was originally built in 1931 by duck farmer Martin Maurer in nearby Riverhead, and used as a shop to sell ducks and duck eggs. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1997.
The Big Duck is a prime example of literalism in advertising. The building measures 18 feet (5.5 m) wide, 30 feet (9.1 m) long and 20 feet (6.1 m) tall to the top of the head. The duck's eyes are made from Ford Model T tail lights and the interior floor space is confined to 11 feet (3.4 m) by 15 feet (4.6 m). The wood frame, wire mesh/concrete surface building was designed in the shape of a Pekin duck in order to house a retail poultry store.
Owner Martin Maurer had The Big Duck building constructed in 1930 and 1931 on a prime spot on the busy Main Street in the town of Riverhead on Long Island, New York. The builders Smith and Yeager completed the concrete finish work on the Big Duck which was featured in Atlas Cement's 1931 calendar. Merlin Yeager noted that most of the duck is actually finished with Portland Cement, but they ran out and finished with Atlas Cement. The Big Duck was also featured in Popular Mechanics magazine.
In 1937, Martin Maurer moved the building four miles (6 km) southeast to Flanders, where it occupied a prominent location near the duck barns and marshes of Maurer's new duck ranch. The entire area, including Flanders and Riverhead, was the center of Long Island's well-known duck-farming industry. By 1939 there were about 90 duck farms in Suffolk County.[3]
The Big Duck's unusual building and prime location helped garner much customer attention until it closed in 1984. In 1988, Suffolk County acquired The Big Duck and moved it to Route 24 on the edge of Sears-Bellows Pond County Park between Flanders and Hampton Bays on the eastern part of Long Island. The building houses a gift shop operated by the Friends for Long Island Heritage.[3] The duck was returned to its original location in on October 6, 2007; nonetheless it is still called the "Flanders duck" for the intermediate location. Suffolk County continues to own it, maintains its interior and pays for staffing; Southampton Town maintains the exterior. The original 27 acre duck farm was purchased by the town in 2006. [4][5]
A sweet homemade apron with big pockets, a lovely hand stitched kitchen towel, a great hot pad, and 2 cookbooks that are such fun to read..
After trying to make Julia’s ruffle cake the other day, I used some of the chocolate cake batter to make my version of Black Forest. Julia has to lighten up..way too many instructions!
I think it was Cathy at Wives with Knives who made Pea Soup with yellow peas…I had always used green. I had a ham bone and ham left so I tried the yellow..She posted her recipe…I just do some of this , some of that!
Just a simple weekday night dinner table..featuring my 3 crows which were a gift from my friend Bonnie.
I sat them on an upside down ramekin on top of a low cake plate..surrounded with leaves and candles that look like fall vegetables.
Susan is having great give a ways this week..please join her at Between Naps on the Porch for other entries to Tablescape Thursday…
If you do any online shopping, I want to remind you to go to Mr. Rebates first, and link through to where you are going to shop.
That way you will get a % off ..no cost..they keep track, and when you get to $25.00 they will remind you and ask you if you want a check.
I have been doing it for years, there’s no catch. You have to sign up first, but then that’s it. But go there first..check to see if the site you want is listed..
For example, our son told us to pick out a new TV as a gift. QVC deal of the day was good. So I went to Mr. Rebates first, and linked through to QVC. Almost 50 dollars back..
A tribute to Julia, from her book Baking with Julia..the ruffle cake. A few of my sweet friends decided to try a recipe.
I only used her cake recipe..and I failed at the ruffles. I will try them again when I have more time ..
This is from the Julia Childs new series and book, Baking with Julia, and was done by Alice Medrich and is in her own words. Its long and detailed, but it has every step and tip youll need to make the cake. Ruffle Cake Equipment :* 8-inch round cake pan, at least 2-inches high :* 8-inch round cake pan with removable bottom or 8-inch springform pan :* untreated heavy-duty jelly-roll pans :* rubber spatula, offset spatula, and flexible 8-inch metal icing spatula :* decorating turntable, lazy Susan, or inverted round cake pan :* ridged plastic shelf liner, freezer paper, or 055 Mylar :* parchment paper and waxed paper A majestic cake and one of many parts: a dark chocolate genoise moistened with an intoxicatingly aromatic framboise syrup, a filling of satiny creme fraiche and brilliantly red raspberries, a wrapper of dark chocolate, and a profusion of magnificent chocolate rufffles. The technique for making ruffles does take some practice, but fortunately, the mistakes are not only edible, theyre usually usable -- irregularly shaped pieces still produce a knock-out confection. And the chocolate wrapper or ribbon is also eminently doable -- it is made by a method that reproduces the quality of tempering without the fuss. Professionals use acetate or Mylar as the form on which to shape the wrapper, but a trip to the hardware store will turn up ridged plastic shelf liners, the perfect material for the job. Each part of the cake can be made ahead, so that you only have to assemble to finish on the day the cake is to be served. And dont pass up the opportunity to make this cake if you havent the time to tackle the ruffles. You can pile the cake high with fresh raspberries, irregularly shaped pieces of chocolate, or chocolate shards, and it will still be great. Think of this cake as a format rather than a precise, cant-vary-a-thing formula: Substitute another kind of cake for the genoise, use whipped cream instead of creme fraiche, or omit the soaking syrup - the basic idea is yours to embellish. The Cake: Position a rack in the lower third of the oven or just below the center of the oven and preheat the oven to 350F. Fit the bottom of an 8-inch round cake pan, one at least 2 inches high, with parchment paper and set aside. Pour the clarified butter into a 1-quart bowl and stir in the vanilla extract, if you're using it. The butter must be hot when added to the batter, so either keep the bowl in a skillet of hot water or reheat at the last minute. Although the flour and cocoa were sifted before they were measured, they need to be triple-sifted together. Sift or sieve the flour and cocoa together. Sift or sieve the flour and cocoa together 3 times, then set sifter on a plate or piece of waxed paper and return the dry ingredients to the sifter. Keep close at hand. (CONT in part 2) Posted to EAT-L Digest 20 October 96 Date: Mon, 21 Oct 1996 10:30:07 -0400 From: Rosebud
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When I was experiencing the height of PTSD from all that I’ve been through (which I have not spoken about publicly and will not until I am ready), I reached out to a colleague at the Trauma Journalism Center at Columbia University for guidance. He told me something that changed my life forever and made me strive to regain control of my brain’s fear-response cycle: when journalists are too traumatized to do their work, it is effectively CENSORSHIP.
The hellscape that is the current state of online media is not unrelated to the trauma imposed on almost every woman working in this environment, in all environments. Men: realize that when you prioritize actualizing your own desires over respecting another person’s boundaries, you are not just hurting the other person, you are hurting yourself and the entire industry you’ve dedicated your life to serving.
Imagine for a moment, if you can, how different the body of human cultural remnants—our movies, journalism, art, and music—might look in the alternate reality where all the women who have suffered the trauma of abuse had simply not, because abusers had made the choice to simply not abuse.
I believe a good way to fight back against abuse is to do whatever you need to do to heal yourself, and then do the work you were meant to do despite the obstacles you were forced to endure because of the unfortunate way society is. Then change society through your creations so the next generation doesn’t have to go through what we did. I am trying every day.
This entry was posted in Journalism, Silence Is The Enemy and tagged #metoo on October 17, 2017 by Arikia.
This essay was originally published on LadyBits on Medium. While I unfortunately can’t say that the conclusion of this essay is true for me anymore, I thought it timely to revisit this piece in light of the recent mass-exposure of the predators among us in the media industry, brought forth by so may brave women. May those pathetic creatures who are inclined to abuse find peace with themselves and the world such that they never have to mistreat anyone again.
The other day while riding a Paris train, a man boarded my car and, out of all the empty places to sit, chose the seat directly facing me. He casually sprawled his legs open so that his lower thighs were sandwiching my rigidly-shut knees. My field of vision was filled with the bulge in his pants and gray chest hair draped in gold chains overflowing out of his way-too-unbuttoned shirt. And he just stared at me. When my eyes locked with his, I saw an expression so familiar that the hair on my arms stood up. It was a look that most men wouldn’t recognize, as they haven’t ever seen it and probably never will—the expression of someone looking at you as prey.
When a man picks you as prey, his eyes, which were dully scanning their surroundings, abruptly land on you and light up with intent. They linger abnormally long and intensify, beyond what would be normal if there was something unusual about your outfit or if he found you attractive. Sometimes the face relaxes, the eyebrows twitch or the corner of the mouth pulls upward into a smirk while the eyes remain hard, betraying the internal thought processes.
These thoughts are of pure consumption. They are based on the desire to possess — not your belongings, but one’s physical being. It is a drive to gain control over a person and render her powerless, thereby establishing the predator’s dominance and control in a world where he probably has very little. Women are persistently reminded of their physical vulnerability by male displays of sexual power—from gestures so discreet they make you question your own perception, to the ultimate act of consumption: physical violence. To avoid the latter, you must learn to recognize the former, and understand the intent of someone who is looking at you like that.
I am forced to acknowledge my vulnerability by strangers almost every single day while walking down the street in big cities. Most of the men who look at me like they want to eat me alive can’t do so because of practical considerations: witnesses, physical factors (I’m 5’10 and pack a significant bit of muscle), and the fear of repercussions. So instead, they just stare, gazing at me the way a wolf would eye a squirming bunny in a cage — so utterly tempting, but off-limits for now.
When you catch that gaze, you have some choices about what to do to ensure that you do not, in fact, become prey. They’re choices you shouldn’t have to be burdened with making, but that, in this world, they are impossible to avoid. You can alter your path, like I did when I got up and moved to the next train car. I had to go out of my way, but it took thirty seconds and then it was over. You can avert your eyes and look at the ground, both acknowledging your discomfort while at the same time refusing to participate in it further. But sometimes, this is where the game begins.
He might hold his gaze so intently that when you peek back up to see if he’s still watching you (and shit! he is, look away look away), a thrill shoots up his spine because he caught you checking. Now he knows that your inability to look up and examine your surroundings—your cowering stance—is because of him. He is controlling you, and you just got a bit leveled by a complete stranger. It interrupted your thought process, probably ruined your mood, and wasted your time. You didn’t authorize this; it was a violation, and the feelings these little violations instill in us—fear, frustration, anger, helplessness—accumulate over time to shape the way we live our lives.
If you’ve never experienced what it feels like to be someone’s prey, believe you me, it is fucking exhausting.
If you attempt to ignore the mind games of a predator, this is usually when the comments set in—an attempt to win the game by manipulating the air waves going into your ears. It follows this predictable format:
A “compliment”: Some comment about your overall physical appearance that usually has nothing to do with the effort you put into your presentation. “You’d make great babies” is my recent fave.
A call to action. Some request of what your predator would like you to do. One that scored major points for originality: “Get out of my head and into my van,” yelled out the window with a toot of the horn.
The catcall that baffles me most is “God bless you” — uttered not the way a nun would say it or how one does after a sneeze, but while giving me the elevator and licking his lips. Once, after a guy told me I was looking sexy and I ignored him, he yelled after me that I was supposed to say “thank you.” I turned around and glared at him in disbelief, and he told me I was a bitch. That compliment I could accept from him. “Thank you,” I finally replied.
Sometimes I don’t have the will to engage in this mental combat while walking to the corner store on a Sunday afternoon, so I muster a fake, tight-lipped smile and nod my head with wide eyes, throwing them acknowledgement like I’d throw a dog a chicken bone if I didn’t want it to follow me. But sometimes a smile is just as risky as a middle finger, as it can be an unintentional invitation to the next level of interaction. It’s a lose-lose scenario.
When you complain about casual predation to guys, they usually laugh. They tell you not to let it get to you, and suggest ignoring the comments if you can’t handle a compliment. But the thing is, you can’t ignore it any more than you could ignore a bear approaching your campsite. You are evolutionarily programmed to pay attention to potential predators because sometimes they don’t stop at mind games and catcalls, as far too many of us know.
In my twenty-seven years on this planet, I’ve been stalked, followed home, threatened, attacked, hit, kicked, and groped by complete strangers. Two people have tried to abduct me, once by attempting to drag me into a dark alley and once by picking me up in a fake car-service car. A high school classmate tried to rape me, a UN peacekeeper tried to buy me, and at my own LadyBits launch party an old man put his hand on my knee, looked at me with that look, and said he might want to invest in me.
In all of those situations, I paid attention to the threats I perceived and I did what I had to do to get away, from screaming to pretending to be limp-noodle drunk, to jumping out of a moving vehicle, to engaging in physical combat. And you know what? I am fine. In fact, I’m better than fine—I am fucking lucky! I have my life, I’ve learned to love this thick skin I wear now, and I’ve learned how to protect it. And yeah, I have sought vengeance here and there.
So many women aren’t as lucky as me. What tends to happen to a person when she is shown she is vulnerable day after day is she begins to accept it, and this mentality follows her everywhere. When you’re prey, sometimes you stop being able to tell the difference between the life you choose because you want it, and the life that you settle for because the alternatives are too scary.
Personally, I refuse to compromise the way I live my life out of fear. Despite everything that’s happened to me (and almost happened, which I shudder to think about), I regularly walk alone at night. I have been traveling the world alone for the past six months, and I will continue to do so for six more. I’m single, and not really looking unless it really fits with my life. I walk down the street with my head held high and I look people in the eye when I pass them. And whenever I catch that predator eye, I send it back. I know it’s the lack of control in their lives that makes them act out in such desperation, and I refuse to give away an ounce of mine without good reason. Maybe this will get me in trouble some day, but until that day, I will be living my life.
I would like to add as a footnote, my gratitude to Dawn Alden, who was inspired by this piece enough to host a film competition about the predator/prey relationship as perceived by trans women. May beautiful creations continue to emerge from scorched earth.
This entry was posted in Feminism, Fierce broads, Gender, Reminiscing, Silence Is The Enemy, Thinkers and tagged abuse, assault, Casual Predation, gender-based violence, harassment, misogyny, sexism, sexual harassment on October 15, 2017 by Arikia.
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Current evidence suggests that the patient’s ABW is the best weight to be communicated for decisions related to weight-based medication dosage.24,28–30,32,37 However, caution regarding the ABW needs to be exercised with obese patients. The critical care nurse is essential in obtaining, documenting, and communicating an accurate ABW on which care decisions will be based. Ideally the patient is weighed on admission to the ICU. Although it may not be practical to obtain the patient’s weight immediately upon admission, processes to ensure that the patient is weighed shortly after admission should be established. Actually weighing the patient is an important intervention, as researchWomen's Vista Smooth Shoe Walker Propet W3910 Comfort White xZwx8p–46 has shown that clinicians are not very good at “estimating” patients’ weight. Patient’s self-reported weights are more accurate than weight estimations by health care providers.43–45 Avoid guessing the patient’s weight for medication-dosing purposes. In a recent retrospective cohort study,30Women's Ivory Marine Leather Blue Grand II Haan Crosscourt Cole Sneaker ZfPTxqf researchers explored the efficacy of body weight and vasopressin therapy in patients with septic shock. The researchers found that adjusting vasopressin dosing on the basis of ABW resulted in improved vital signs.
In a Cochrane database review, Chaves et al77 looked at CPT in the treatment of pneumonia in which the primary outcome criteria were mortality, LOS, and time to clinical resolution. The signs used for clinical resolution were absence of fever and work of breathing as evidenced by decreased retractions, nasal flaring, tachypnea, and normalized oxygen saturation levels. Three randomized clinical trials that involved 255 children from 29 days to 12 years old met study inclusion criteria. Researchers in 2 of the studies reported significant improvement in respiratory rate and oxygen saturation, but the third study failed to demonstrate a decrease in length of illness or LOS, and a meta-analysis could not be performed. The Cochrane review77 concluded that the evidence is insufficient to support the use of CPT in pneumonia. In another study,75 researchers randomized 72 hospitalized children 1 to 12 years old to receive standard respiratory care or CPT. No significant difference in severity of respiratory rate or duration of hospitalization was found between the 2 treatment groups. Additionally, the American Association of Respiratory Care does not recommend routine CPT in the treatment of pneumonia.72Navy blue Luca Uniform Girls' Briar amp; School Livie Shoe Awf0Uqf Despite the widespread practice, the evidence does not support the use of CPT in the treatment of pediatric pneumonia.
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When you lookforward into the future, you may realize you need a plan to achieve wealth within the next two decades. Longer than that and there’s too much uncertainty about what will happen. There isn’t just one way to achieve lifelong wealth; everyone has their own route. Pick one that is right for your life and priorities.
Owning your own business is something that is growing in popularity. Being in charge puts the responsibility for making a living squarely on your shoulders. You may also have employees and then you’re responsible for their livelihood too. It’s a lot to take on.
Being a business owner, you have to focus on sales and profitability rates, but also growth. While a small business might not make much in the first few years, if you get a business loan to help fund its expansion (see https://www.lending-express.com for options here) you can develop the business into a major one in its niche or industry.
Selling the business later to live off the proceeds is one route to achieve wealth and freedom. But it has to be large enough to be worth something to someone else, which is where the focus on expansion comes into play.
If you’re content in staying in your job and career, but the earning potential is disappointing, what should you do? Consider taking up one or more side hustles. These are separate things you act upon to generate extra money on the side. Some turn into a nice little stream of income while others can develop into a real business given enough time. Sometimes running several side hustles helps smooth out the bumps in the road too.
Save the extra money earned with the side hustles, invest it and built a large enough nest egg over a couple of decades. The money won’t look like much, but multiple it by 240 months (20 years) and add some return from investments during that time, and the picture looks much brighter!
Owning a website with no physical store or employees keeps cost down. Some people have a Shopify store with an order placed with Alibaba once a sale is made and payment is received, reducing cashflow difficulties when scaling up. Other people design t-shirts and sell them online where they’re printed on demand so that there is no inventory to worry about.
Producing an affiliate website to offer reviews to customers on products that are in demand is another low-cost, zero physical store required option. It doesn't cost more than a few dollars a month to start with a domain name and web hosting. It won’t grow to the size of a major business, but it can supplement a savings plan.
There are many ways to achieve financial independence. Find a path that’s right for you and stick with it. Understand that it doesn't happen overnight, but it’s worth it.
Debbie Rowe is an ex-wife of pop singer, Michael Jackson, and the mother of two of his children, she has a net worth of $25 million. Debbie Rowe's net worth has come from her marriage to Michael as well as her careers of Dermatology nurse, and horse breeder. She was born in Spokane, Washington, into a middle class family. She worked for Dr. Arnold Klein's dermatology office, as a nurse when she met Jackson who was a patient.
Deborah Jeanne "Debbie" Rowe (born December 6, 1958) is an ex-wife of Michael Jackson, and the mother of two of his children. She lives in Palmdale, California.
Rowe was born into a middle class family. Her father Gordon divorced her mother Barbara a few weeks before her second birthday. Debbie was raised by her mother, a few aunts, and maternal grandmother. She has one half-sister named Loretta Scarlett Rowe who was born in 1961.
Rowe met Michael Jackson while working as a nurse in Dr. Arnold Klein's dermatology office, where Jackson was being treated for vitiligo. She recalled that after Jackson's divorce from Lisa Marie Presley in 1996, he was upset at the possibility that he might never become a father. Rowe, a longtime Jackson fan, proposed to bear his children.
It was announced she was pregnant in 1996, and the two were later married on November 14, 1996, in Sydney, Australia. It was her second marriage, her first being to Richard Edelman in 1988.
Three months after Rowe and Jackson's marriage she gave birth to son, Michael Joseph Jackson Jr. (born February 13, 1997), who was subsequently known as Prince. The next year she gave birth to daughter, Paris-Michael Katherine Jackson. (born April 3, 1998). Jackson took full responsibility for raising the children.
Rowe, who described herself as a private person and almost never gave interviews, was overwhelmed by the publicity that came with being married to Jackson. The couple divorced on October 8, 1999, with Rowe giving full custody rights of the children to Jackson. Rowe received an $8-million settlement, and a house in Beverly Hills, California. Court documents indicated she had signed a prenuptial agreement and therefore could not obtain an equal division of community property under California law.
In 2001, Rowe went to a private judge to have her parental rights for the two children terminated. In 2004, after Jackson was charged with 10 counts of child abuse, she went to court to have the de
There have been rumours for years that another man technically fathered Paris with Debbie Rowe, although Michael himself denied any such thing while he was alive. While speaking to Rolling Stone, Pari...
Just one day after Paris Jackson posed in her first ever topless photoshoot, grandma Katherine and mom Debbie Rowe fear the King of Pop’s daughter is headed for a downward spiral, and the family is pl...
His eldest two children were born during Jackson’s marriage to his second wife, Debbie Rowe, while his youngest son was born to a surrogate mother. After Jackson’s death, his mother, Katherine, was gr...
Hummer rentals Faro are generally precipitated by individuals who want to make a statement with this eye-catching ride. They’re huge and high so driving them around Faro really does attract people’s attention. It would be a hefty but luxurious ride between friends even if you take it out of the city and go for an outdoor thrill adventure. Not all Faro car rental agencies carry hummer rentals so once you do find one, book one immediately because hummer rentals still “sell” like pancakes.
Maintains telecommunication system by following manufacturer's instructions for house phone and console operation. . . - via AppleOne Los Angeles, CA 11/14/18
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Japanese brand Quenchcloud has just released these really great two-tone brown leather boots as part of their Spring/Summer 2010 Collection. A really great piece and the red laces are a nice accent to set them apart from the crowd. Be sure to check them out if you are over on that side of the world.
After the i-mate SP JAS (aka HTC Breeze) and i-mate JASJAM (aka HTC Hermes) appeared on i-mate's website last week already, today Dubai-based i-mate also officially launched its two new lightning-quick 3G handsets.
The i-mate SP JAS Windows Mobile Smartphones and the i-mate JASJAM Windows Mobile Pocket PC are the first i-mate devices to feature UMTS and thumb-wheels for easy menu navigation, allowing users to quickly scroll within their inbox or simply move from one function to the next.
The i-mate SP JAS offers Microsoft Windows Mobile functionality in a stylish and slim mobile phone format, while the i-mate JASJAM is a fully-featured Microsoft Windows Pocket PC, or handheld computer phone and one of the first products in the world to offer 3G (WCDMA), EDGE and Wi-Fi global roaming access.
The i-mate JASJAM also features a 400 MHz processor for blistering high speed data access and quad band support for global connectivity which will make it the device of choice for business travelers with a need for constant and fast connectivity.
Jack Craine, Global Sales Director at i-mate says: "A recent study by Canalys1 confirmed that the market for mobile office functionality is rapidly increasing. We have developed an extended range of high-speed, multi-functional i-mate models to address this need, especially for small and medium sized organizations and large corporates."
Pre-loaded with Microsoft Exchange Direct Push2 technology, both devices provide instant access to emails, allowing users to open and view Microsoft Office attachments in Word, Excel and PowerPoint Mobile in both English and Arabic.
Craine continues: "Microsoft Windows Mobile phones are now the preferred solution for business users to access data on the move. Businesses are opting for handheld wireless devices for anytime, anywhere access. The i-mate JASJAM and the i-mate SP JAS take on-the-go productivity to a new level of speed and set the benchmark for mobile wireless computing."
The i-mate JASJAM provides users with a range of dynamic flexible data input methods including i-mate's scroll wheel, a touch-screen display and slider QWERTY keyboard. It features a 2.0 megapixel camera with macro mode. Both devices also feature a second lens for simple video conferencing connectivity.
For mobile business professionals who prefer a more conventional mobile phone format, the i-mate SP JAS combines the ergonomics of a stylish and slim device with the full power of Windows Mobile functionality. Featuring a bright, large, full-color screen for easily viewing Microsoft Office documents and email attachments, the i-mate SP JAS is beautifully crafted with bold lines and a black and grey casing that combines both smooth and matte surfaces for extra grip.
A complimentary trial version of i-mate Suite - i-mate's own mobile device solution that minimizes downtime, safeguards data, and allows secure access and information transfers - is preinstalled on each device.
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There was something about the idea of roasted pumpkin and walnuts in a pasta that had me at hello. You know what I mean?! I'm a huge comfort food kind of girl, especially as the trees begin to turn and fall begins to take over, and the aroma of the vegetables with the garlic roasting in the oven took this dinner to a whole new level.
Pumpkins had not yet arrived in our grocery stores when I made this, so I used a butternut squash instead. It was just as amazing as I thought it would be. I hope you enjoy!!!!
Place chopped pumpkin, onion and garlic on baking sheet. Sprinkle over chopped rosemary then drizzle over olive oil and rub into vegetables – season with freshly ground sea salt and pepper. Roast for 30-40 minutes, or until light golden brown and tender. Turn pan around half-way through if needed, to prevent burning. Remove vegetables from the oven and set aside.
Add pasta to an 8x8 in baking dish. Add walnuts, herbs, cheddar cheese, and cream. Add the reserved 3-4 tablespoons of pasta water and the YL lemon essential oil and mix through until combined. Gently fold in vegetables until everything is combined - grind over black pepper. Scatter over parmesan evenly then drizzle over extra virgin olive oil.
The multi award winning Wranglers Theatre Company has been established for over 60 years and is one of the premier theatre companies in the South West. Incorporating a thriving Children's and Youth group, the company produces up to four productions a year. The performance year culminates with the theatre company's fun packed panto. The Wranglers Theatre Company is probably one of the largest companies in the South West.
As a not-for-profit company, so that we can continue to put on the standard of shows you have come to expect from our company, even if you do not want to become a member of the company you can still help by becoming a Patron.
We are incredibly proud to announce that our production of 'The Producers' has been presented the NODA South West District 3 Achievement Award for 2017
We are incredibly proud to announce that The Laramie Project has been presented the NODA South West District 3 Achievement Award.
Collections at the show where donated to The Matthew Shepard Foundation, upon whom the play is based.
Congratulations to The Wranglers Children's Theatre Group who won first place in the Under 21 Song and Dance category in the Plymouth Dance Festival 2014.
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Dear readers, let me share with you my ultimate tale of gift card woe. A few years ago, I somehow won a $1,000 gift card to the Guerlain Spa at the Waldorf-Astoria. Yes, you read correctly, a $1,000 gift card. And while that would buy like eight massages at a typical spa, I figured it would translate to a facial, a massage, and a mineral bath at Guerlain, which, at the time, was the most expensive spa in NYC. Pampering of such epic proportions would require a full day off of work (what, you expected me to go on the weekends with the hoi polloi?), so I waited until what I thought was the perfect time to book an appointment: during my post-Christmas staycation last year*. However, a few months earlier, the company that operated the spa went bankrupt and thus the Guerlain Spa closed, rendering my gift card absolutely worthless. That's right, my $1,000 gift card. (Thus the cardinal rule of gift cards: Spend them immediately!) I fired off a strongly worded email to Spa Chakra Inc., which promptly bounced back to me via MAILER-DAEMON; I stomped around my apartment; I was so stressed out, I had to book another massage just to relieve the tension.
Which brings me to my love-hate relationship with gift cards. (Love is probably too strong a word; maybe mild tolerance would be better.) Yes, gift cards are generally quick and convenient, and when you have to get a gift for someone you don't know very well, hey, everyone loves a Starbucks card! But the downsides tend to outweigh the positives: They're impersonal, they often languish in your wallet, they expire, and if the company goes out of business, you're, to put it bluntly, SOL.
Which is why Giftly just might be the perfect solution to the gift card conundrum. A brand-new site, Giftly lets you create your own virtual gift card for whatever you want—stores, restaurants, bars, ahem, spas, etc. You send it to the recipient via email or Facebook, they register with Giftly and then to redeem it, check in at the location (you can pick up to three) on their smartphone. The recipient pays normally, and then Giftly credits the amount to the recipient's credit card, debit card, or Paypal account. This is awesome because it eliminates the hassle of tracking down separate gift cards for multiple businesses, and you can basically create a gift card for companies that don't even offer them! Added bonus: Even if you don't spend the entire Giftly at each location, you still get credited the full amount, so you don't get stuck carrying around, say, a Pottery Barn gift card with $4.08 left on it. You're also covered if you lose the original email or if the merchant goes out of business (take that, Spa Chakra!). But the best part of sending a Giftly is that you get to create a unique, personal experience for your recipient, evoking that whole "tis better to give than receive" ethos and resulting in what Giftly calls double happiness—joy experienced by both the gifter and the giftee.
And because Giftly is super-duper awesome, they are offering Cheryl Shops readers $5 off your first purchase—you can use this link or use promo code GIFTLYCHERYL. (Side note: Creating a Giftly for $20 or under is free, but fees otherwise range from $2 to 5% of the price, if over $120—regardless, a small sacrifice to the gift-card gods.) Double happiness indeed!
POSTSCRIPT: While researching this story, I discovered that the Guerlain Spa has since reopened at the Waldorf-Astoria under new management. Of course, I threw away my—all together now—$1,000 gift card months ago, not that the spa would necessarily still honor it. Which further proves my point that traditional gift cards are purely bogus!
*Coincidentally, I wouldn't have made it to the appointment anyway, since I got stuck in Chicago during the ol' Snowpocalypse of 2010 and ended up driving back to NY, three days late. Fate, I tell you.
Runway recap: When I think of Josie Natori, I think of lingerie. So this show took me by surprise and made me respect her versatility. Natori states that her fall collection was inspired by the nomadic culture and colors of Mongolia. Nomads seem to be trending for Fall 2012 (see Katie Gallagher)! The models are styled with dark lipstick and modern geisha-like hairdos. Colors are predominantly black, beige and grey with the occasional red, purple and deep yellow. Using silk, furs and velvets, she contradicts the nomadic theme with a sense of carefree luxury.
Bonus points: This show was unique in that it was practically on infinite loop. Natori had her models drift down the spiral staircase of the Rubin Museum then ride up the elevator to come back down again.
2018 is looking to be the year of the woman. In the last few months there have been several groundbreaking movements that have propelled women into the spotlight. The #TimesUp and #MeToo movements have recently harnessed the collective voice of women who have suffered in silence, exposing the severity of the widespread issue of sexual harassment and systemic sexism. Compounding on the tremendous momentum of these social media movements, just 2 weeks ago, the Women’s March drew massive crowds nationally 1 year after the initial protest.
Women in medicine are organizing as well. Medicine has historically been a field dominated by men, particularly for physicians. Gender discrimination and blatant sexism aside, women in medical professions face a number of unique obstacles that make the field of medicine unwelcoming to females.
A study titled Gender Differences in Time Spent on Parenting and Domestic Responsibilities by High-Achieving Young Physician-Researchers, revealed that women spend 8.5 more hours per week on domestic and parenting activities than men, after adjustments for work hours, spousal employment, and other factors. A Medicare B fee-for-service reimbursement analysis revealed that female providers overall earn $18,677.23 less than their male counterparts, despite another study showing that patients cared for by female physicians have better health outcomes.
The predominance of males in physician roles historically has been at odds with the concept of gender parity, but today we are witnessing a generational transition as greater numbers of females than ever before are pursuing medical degrees and leadership roles in physician spaces. For the first time in history, female medical school matriculate rates surpassed 50%, to 50.7%. Notably, The American College of CHEST Physicians has had three female presidents in the last 10 years, with a President-Designate Dr. Stephanie Levine soon to come, consistent with national ratios of critical care female physicians at 30% in the United States.
Today marks the third annual National Women’s Physician Day, celebrating female physicians everywhere on February 3rd, the birthday of Dr. Elisabeth Blackwell, the first female MD in America. It’s encouraging to see such progress; however, our work is far from done and continuous discussions about gender in medicine are imperative to creating a collaborative environment.
In an article entitled “You’re Too Small To Be A Surgeon” and Other Things Women in Medicine Hear, student doctor Jamie Katuna describes several anecdotes. The most striking one is a male medical student who describes frequently being mistaken for the attending physician, despite his female attending wearing a long white coat with MD clearly embroidered on it. Katuna poses an important question, “Is there a female attending physician out there who has NOT had this experience?”
The answer, sadly, is probably not. However, incidents of gender discrimination are hopefully becoming less frequent. Personally, I haven’t had it happen in the last few years. I am fortunate to work at a large academic center with many young physicians, reflecting a more balanced demographic of age, gender, and race. My neurosurgical critical care service consists of three female attendings out of four. My pulmonary critical care department is 40% female attendings, reflecting a higher percentage than the national average of female critical care physicians. We still have a lot of work to do, but it is also worth taking a moment to appreciate just how far we women physicians have come.
So, here’s to us: to our progress. To knowing what generations of strong female physicians have endured before us, and to still persevering despite all the challenges. To know that we are improving, slowly but surely. To know that our children will continue to pave the way for gender equality. Lastly, to know that there is still much work to be done and discussions about equal opportunity to be had.
Dr. Khan is happily practicing critical care, teaching as an assistant professor at Keck School of Medicine at USC and blogs about workplace gender dynamics in health-care at thefemaledoc.com.
Photograph - Exterior of the Chinese Church, Narrandera, c1900 - Chinese-Australian Historical Images in Australia
The accompanying caption reads 'The Chinese Church ...thought to be a joss house until a Cross appeared.'
Very intimate with a perfectly mixed crowd. devereaux is on the 18th floor of the Viceroy Hotel in the Gold Coast. devereaux is small but also a very sexy spot. Beautifully decorated, excellent drinks and a very friendly staff make this an excellent choice for any occasion and the perfect spot if you are looking for something smaller and more intimate. Being almost right across the street from Tavern on Rush and around the corner from Maple & Ash the crowd is very mixed. Like any Chicago rooftop it can occasionally be a slightly younger crowd. Hopefully devereaux stays a mixed crowd because it is a very cool spot.
I’ve been away traveling the last few weeks. While away in tropical weather I thought why do we always surround ourselves with the same Fall/Winter colors? Rusty Reds, Dark Greens, Deep Browns and Oranges- Why not Purple, Pink, Deep Blues, Bright Greens? Here are some inspirational images to get you out of the winter blues….... Read more »
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After accepting corrective/preventive actions in safety management systems, airline or airport managers simply close the issue and review the issue sometime in the future, such as at a six or twelve month interval. If corrective/preventive actions (CPAs) aggravate the issue, these issues may be reopened and dealt with accordingly. Most airlines and airports are missing out on an opportunity to evaluate whether the CPA continued to prove effective and to document this continued effectiveness.
Documenting CPA effectiveness ensures that other airline and airport managers continue to assign effective CPAs to employees and avoid CPAs that have proven to cause problems or were a complete waste of time. How often have each of us performed a task only to learn later that it was the "wrong thing to do?"
In SMS Pro (a leading aviation safety management software suite), managers either accept or reject the performance of tasks. These tasks may be called "Work Orders," tasks, CPAs, CAPAs, "corrective actions," or something else at your airline or airport. To simplify matters, let's simply call them CPAs for this discussion, for "corrective/preventive actions."
While accepting the performance of a CPA in SMS Pro, managers simply evaluate whether the CPA satisfied the intent of the originator, whose objective was to mitigate or transfer risk, or to recover from an event. The easiest way to achieve this is to use tools we are all familiar with, as in this next image:
How much easier can this be? This simple rating communicates to other airline or airport managers whether this CPA should be used in the future, or whether this was NOT a good idea.
In a simple scenario, let's assume the department head thought that a particular CPA proved very effective in addressing a reported hazard. Upon a future review, the safety committee may decide this particular CPA caused more harm as time went by, or that the CPA quickly lost effectiveness. Safety committees can easily re-evaluate the effectiveness and update CPA effectiveness in SMS Pro's CPA Manager.
Updating the effectiveness of CPAs alerts managers that this particular CPA is GREAT, or is "BAD NEWS" should they wish to try to reuse the same approach on future issues.
Best practices in aviation safety management systems or aviation risk management systems dictate that CPAs should be evaluated and reviewed for effectiveness. Evaluating effectiveness is the first step. Communicating effectiveness is the next step. If your airline or airport fails to communicate CPA effectiveness, you are doomed to repeat past mistakes and miss the opportunity to save your organization time and money.
Without automated software tools, evaluating and communicating CPA effectiveness is not possible to sustain. Too much effort is required to use either MS Excel or cheaply built aviation SMS software tools. Quality aviation SMS software should be easily configurable and adapt to how your airline or airport operates. If you need quality aviation SMS software, consider SMS Pro. Even SMS Pro's basic aviation SMS tools have these capabilities.
In a airline or airport with hundreds or thousands of workers, company knowledge and experience is difficult to disseminate, especially when one considers:
How can airline and airport managers avoid repeating the same mistakes when dealing with issues, whether they are:
SMS Pro can help. SMS Pro is a premier aviation safety management software suite designed for professional safety managers. SMS Pro allows airlines and airports to leverage their most valuable asset - the collective expertise of its employees and contractors.
Imagine the perfect world where manager are confronted with problems and manager have instant access to corrective/preventive actions that have worked in the past. Imagine the time, energy and money saved by repeating corrective or preventive behavior that works! How can this information be beneficial?
When new managers come to an airline or airport, they have little organizational knowledge of what has been tried in the past and whether these corrective/preventive strategies have been effective. When confronted with challenges, managers are helped resolve issues by using SMS Pro. SMS Pro shows them what has worked in the past and the level of effectiveness for proposed corrective/preventive actions.
Airline and airport managers with plenty of experience often need to access to information relating to past experiences from dealing with corrective/preventive strategies. Our memories are imperfect. I have a hard time remembering what I ate for lunch yesterday, much less remembering how I dealt with a safety hazard last year, or two years ago. SMS Pro can help. SMS Pro offers immediate, real time information to airline and airport corrective/preventive actions.
With a list of corrective/preventive actions that have worked in the past for particular types of issues, airline and airport managers can be more consistent when dealing with similar types of issues. This list allows managers to quickly choose what has historically proven effective and apply the same strategies to new issues. Instant access to past information allows managers to delegate tasks quickly and to justify their corrective/preventive strategies to top management.
Corrective/preventive actions are simply tasks. Some airlines and airports call them "Work Orders," CPAs or CAPAs. When creating a new CPA, SMS Pro offers managers the option to apply previous CPAs to address similar issues. CPAs are rated as to whether their performance satisfies intent. Most SMS Pro safety managers and department heads understand this feature because they see it whenever they accept or reject the performance of a corrective action.
If you are following along with the above logic, you will immediate recognize that with accurate, real time information regarding corrective/preventive actions, you can avoid making the same mistake over and over applying corrective/preventive actions at your airline or airport.
Many airlines & airports in northern Canada, Africa and Southeast Asia have unreliable Internet connectivity. SMS Pro's new Hazard Reporting application was designed to for these types of operations. To see a quick video of the new offline hazard reporting app, see http://screencast.com/t/C6zFFbieG
For starters, this is a stand-alone application or "app." You don't need to connect to an Apple store or another device-specific store to get this app. It is available to SMS Pro users to download from their "online account."
This app works on ALL modern devices. IPhones, IPads, Androids, laptops, desktop computers. There is also a responsive design, such that the forms will automatically change based on the screen size. These are the major differences that separate the 2015 offline hazard reporting software from the offline hazard reporting tool that SMS Pro released in 2008. The previous version only worked on laptops or desktops.
Besides the main architectural features just described (one app for all modern devices and the responsive design), the new offline aviation hazard reporting tool has several cool features worth noting:
The best feature is being able to start a report and reload the report later. Or maybe the best feature is that a pilot can be flying for days away from Internet connectivity and still create reports and submit them when coming within Internet range.
Besides being useful for direct employees at airlines, airports and aviation maintenance organizations, there are other use cases where the offline hazard reporting form comes into play:
Allowing vendors, contractors and customers to report hazards without having an account into your system.
Civil aviation authorities to gather electronic hazard reports from aviation service providers operating in their theater.
As of May 2015, only 130 companies will have access to SMS Pro's Offline Hazard Reporting forms. Remaining SMS Pro customers on other servers are scheduled to have access by October 2015.
Users will instantly know whether the feature is available by going to the second step of their online hazard reporting module. Depending on their role, they will see a "Personal offline report link" and/or "Public offline report link."
The personal hazard reporting link is for SMS Pro users to add the offline hazard reporting app to their IPhones, IPads or other mobile devices. The public hazard reporting link is for managers to distribute to:
While SMS Pro is available in Spanish, German, French and two Chinese dialects, the offline aviation hazard reporting app is currently only available in English.
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FedEx Express and ATR have signed a major contract for the firm purchase of 30 ATR 72-600s plus 20 options.
These aircraft will be the first new ATRs to be directly delivered from the factory in a freighter configuration. This new aircraft version, designated as the ATR 72-600F, has a brand new windowless fuselage and is equipped with a forward Large Cargo Door (LCD) and a rear upper hinged cargo door.
Commenting on the signing of the contract, David L. Cunningham, President and CEO of FedEx Express, declared: “ATR aircraft have been successfully operating in FedEx service for many years. We worked with ATR to develop this new aircraft, which include special features to help us grow our business, especially in the air freight market where shipments are larger and heavier. The 72-600F will play an important role in our global network by helping us deliver fast, economical service to small and
“ATR aircraft have been successfully operating in FedEx service for many years. We worked with ATR to develop this new aircraft, which include special features to help us grow our business, especially in the air freight market where shipments are larger and heavier. The 72-600F will play an important role in our global network by helping us deliver fast, economical service to small and medium sized markets.”
“We congratulate FedEx Express for their long-standing success and for their long-term commercial views for the new ATR 72-600F. Their selection of this new aircraft is the result of a deep technical and economic analysis. ATRs in cargo configuration deliver an outstanding service, both serving small communities and feeding larger freighters. The ATR 72-600F is the only new large regional aircraft available on the market for freighter operations. We are convinced that, with its use by FedEx Express, it will become the new benchmark for regional air cargo operations”.
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I am interested in the synthesis and characterization of new magnetic oxides. As a former faculty member of Florida State University, I am currently supervising several graduate students in my synthesis and crystal growth lab there. I am also in the process of establishing a solid state chemistry lab at the University of Winnipeg.
I am primarily interested in what are called strongly correlated electron systems, or materials which have unusual magnetic or electrical behavior. These include functional materials, such as new solid state batteries, multiferroics, or superconductors, but they also include systems of theoretical interest, such as geometrically frustrated magnets, low dimensional compounds, and heavy fermion compounds. As an experimentalist, my main methods of characterization include diffraction techniques such as x-ray scattering and neutron scattering, but the bulk of my time is spent on the synthesis and crystal growth of these new materials here at the University of Winnipeg.
Define the quantity, m, as the quantity such that, in an inertial frame, mv is conserved. Call this quantity "mass" (some call this "relativistic mass")
For tardyon's (particles which move at speeds less than c) the mass is a function of speed, i.e. m = m(v).
Certain quantities are observer dependant. The mass of a particle, m, as defined above, is one of them. Each observer will meausure the mass of a particle and obtain a quantitity which will depend of the relative velocity of observer and particle. That is what is called an "observer dependant quantity."
The norm of a 4-vector remains unchanged by a change in coordinates and is thus is an invariant. The scalar product of two 4-vectors also remains unchanged by a change in coordinates and thus is also an invariant.
Now consider the quantity P*U_obs/c which is the scalar product of the 4-momentum of a partricle and the 4-velocity of the observer divided by c, the speed of light. Since this is a scalar product of two 4-vectors it is an invariant. It can be easily shown that
And thus the magntiude of this scalar product, m, is an invariant. This is overly obvious since U_obs represents the observer and thus its not surprising that U_obs dotted with a quantity will be observer dependant.
However the components of a 4-vector change upon a change in coordinate system so in that context "mc" and thus "m" is not an invariant.
Example from Euclidian geometry - The dot product the position vector, R = (x,y,z), and the unit vector in the x-direction, "i", is an invariant. i.e.
In the new system R = (x',y',z'). The dot product of the vector with the new unit vector will now be R*i' = x' which will in general be different than R*i = x. However i and i' are quite different vectors and therefore i != i'. The quantity R*i is a Euclidean scalar and has the value of x.
Thus x can be interpreted in two ways, one way as the component of a vector (and as such not an invariant) and another way as the component of R along a given direction - the quantity then being invariant.
Thanks for the great diagrams, working back through the traditional astronomical jargon was going to be tedious!
Perhaps the diagram could be made less'busy' using an "exploded view" where the plane of the Earth-Moon system ,
is shown as a smaller part of the plane of the Solar System , it self a smaller part of the plane of the Milky-Way !
with origin based on the multi-million solar-mass black-hole at the'centre' of the Milky-Way Galaxy (ie ours);
The natural co-ordinate system which suggested itself was actually a cylindrical one with the our star (Sol ?)'s;
distance to that centre as one co-ordinate, it's hieght above or below the galactic plane (or angle subtended at the origin) another;
and finally the whole co-ordinate system rotating with the Milky-Way by setting Sol's 'longitude' to zero degrees !
Unfortunately the location of the exact center of the Milky Way is not known due to a number of issues. From wiki:
An accurate determination of the distance to the Galactic Center as established from variable stars (e.g. RR Lyrae variables) or standard candles (e.g. red-clump stars) is hindered by countless effects, which include: an ambiguous reddening law; a bias for smaller values of the distance to the Galactic Center because of a preferential sampling of stars toward the near side of the Galactic bulge owing to interstellar extinction; and an uncertainty in characterizing how a mean distance to a group of variable stars found in the direction of the Galactic bulge relates to the distance to the Galactic Center.
The supermassive black hole is almost certainly not at the center though, but probably lies a few thousand light-years off from the center. It's a bit like how the Sun isn't always the center of the solar system (as defined as the barycenter, or center of mass).
That 3D TV & Film never really worked out - at least in its latest iteration - is a topic beyond the scope of this thread. Nevertheless, it would be an ideal way to represent the orientation (and motion) of the solar system in relation to the Milky Way, especially if it included 'zoom' controls. Such a fully immersive apprehension-at-a-glance technology will probably be a visual treat reserved for the next generation. Saying that, I did once undertake a slow tour of the solar system via Oculus VR, and that was tremendously impressive. Sticks in the memory, even now.
I made this diagram using the drawing tools Microsoft Word believe it or not. The reason I made it was to avoid using a lot of words, which wouldn’t really give people a clear idea idea of what I was trying to convey. And in all honesty, I don’t really understand what you’re saying. I would suggest, if you’re trying to get your idea across, that you use pictures and drawings (worth thousands of words).
Amazing thread! Thank you very much for the pictures. They are great! They say a lot more than reading.
Hard to imagine if this is even a pertinent question, but i couldn't answer it myself. What seems to confuse me is the large spans of time and space involved.
From what i got from this thread, it appears solar system crossed galactic equator around 3Mil years ago. Was that the moment that could be considered as an equinox?
Also, to me it seems a little strange, that ~3 million years number. Kind of coincides with homo erectus location in time, more or less.
The term 'equinox' means that for Earth, both North and South hemispheres are receiving the same amount of sunlight.
The galactic center does not emit any radiation that makes any difference for the circumstances of Earth, or the Sun.
I presume that wavey trajectory of the sun is waving around a center line that matches galactic disc.
Is it correct in diagram 1 that the summer and winter solstice occur closest to the center of the galactic plane and equinoxs occur when the earth is farthest from the galactic plane? If this is the case, then wouldn’t the North Celestial Pole be misrepresented in this 2d model?
It's important to bear in mind the scale of what you are describing. The Galaxy is around 1000LY thick and the solar system is only about 30 AU across (1AU is around 1/6000 LY). So the solar system is minute in terms of the layout of the galaxy. The "Galactic Plane" is far too fuzzy to use the geometry that you seem to be using. The 'tilt' of the plane of the ecliptic relative the the galactic plane is a pretty random and irrelevant quantity.
I was more interested in which angle the tilt of the earth (celestial axis) is compared to the galactic plane. It would appear to tilt outward away from the galactic center more than it does north or south of the galactic plane. I assume this because the winter/summer solstice are at or near the galactic plane at this time and equinoxes are above and below the galactic plane. Does this sound correct? Just trying to give myself a relative perspective.
But, whatever it is, it's surely just arbitrary. There will be systems with an ecliptic that is almost at right angles to the galactic plane, systems that are right near the lateral edge etc. etc. so what would make their orientation of any interest at all?
I was more interested in which angle the tilt of the earth (celestial axis) is compared to the galactic plane.
Don't the fig. 2 and fig. 3 in post #1 answer this question? The angles given are between axes or planes, but it's just a matter of subtracting them from 90 degrees if you want an angle between an axis and a plane.
It would appear to tilt outward away from the galactic center more than it does north or south of the galactic plane.
I think you're describing the angle between the celestial axis (celestial north) and the galactic plane, but it's larger not smaller than the previous one (it's the 62.9 degrees from before).
I think the issue he has with the diagram is with where the nodes between the ecliptic and celestial planes are located. In the diagram, the Earth is shown as being near the winter solstice, but the direction the Earth's axis is shown as pointing, relative to the direction of the Sun, looks closer to what you would expect during an equinox.
Yes this was my intent. I may not have expressed that clearly. I was simply trying to discover the angle of the earth’s Celestial axis in relation to the direction of the travel of the sun. I may have complicated the question by using a inprecise variable such as galactic plane. I am assuming since the earth is near galactic plane (as illustrated) at the time of summer solstice, then the axial tilt of the earth would be in the direction of the sun and not to the galactic north. Is this a correct assumption? I’m not criticizing the great work. I am just trying to clarify my understanding of the earth’s orientation in relation to the sun’s direction of travel.
I am assuming since the earth is near galactic plane (as illustrated) at the time of summer solstice, then the axial tilt of the earth would be in the direction of the sun and not to the galactic north.
Ah. You're right. Well spotted. It does look like it's pointing in the wrong direction, and should indeed be deflected towards the reader rather than in the plane of the picture.
Maybe @fizixfan will stop by and take a shot at correcting it. Although I imagine it might be difficult to render it clearly in two dimensions.
I've been following this thread since Loki sullivan started posting, but I've been unable to fully understand what's being said. This may not answer your question, but the Earth's Axis of Rotation is tilted "away" from the Sun in the Winter, which is why it gets colder in the Northern Hemisphere during winter (you probably already know that), and tilted "toward" the Sun in the Northern Hemisphere in the Summer. The Earth is also situated between the Sun and the Galactic Center in the summer (Sun - Earth - Galactic Center). That's why we have such great viewing of the Milky Way in the summer months - because the Sun isn't in the way at night and we're looking toward the Galactic Center. In winter the Sun is between the Earth and Galactic Center (Earth-Sun-Galactic Center), so no viewing of the Milky Way in Winter from the NH.
The Earth, in a physical sense, is about 50 light years north of the Galactic Equator, so change in position of 186 million miles from over the course of a year isn't going to change our position with respect to the Galactic Plane. What does change is our point of view, since we are on a tilted, spinning sphere orbiting the sun.
The axial tilt of the earth does not vary relative to the Galactic North on a seasonal basis or even during a human lifetime - although it does precess (Google that term if necessary). But for the purposes of this discussion let's just say the North Celestial Pole (Earth's Axis of Rotation) and the North Galactic Pole (Milky Way's Axis of Rotation) do not vary. The angle between the NCP and NGP is 62.9°, although this can only be determined using spherical trigonometry, since the Celestial Equator, Ecliptic Plane and Galactic Plane do not intersect at a single point. See Figures 2 and 3 in my original post. I'm including another crude drawing I did that may help. Words are really kind of hopeless in explaining three different celestial coordinate systems - which is why I prefer pictures.
It might also help if you read all the posts in this thread, but especially, I would encourage you to go to a place where there are dark skies during the summer months and look up. I recently purchased a telescope for my camera, and have found some amateur astrophotographers to hang out with. I would also recommend uploading Stellarium - a free planetarium program for your PC, and Skywatch for you mobile device.
Let me first say, thank you for sharing your work. I have learned much from your illustrations. As far as my inquiry, I hope you understand I am not criticizing your work but seeking clarification for my own understanding. I DO understand the axial tilt of the earth and its affect on seasonality. My question was referring to the direction of axial tilt of the earth. In the illustration, the angle of the earth axis in relation to galactic plane is apparent, but the axial tilt direction appears to be towards the sun when near the winter solstice. If I am understanding that the northern hemisphere is shown to the left, then wouldn’t the direction of axial tilt be away from the sun at winter solstice? It may just be a misinterpretation due to the nature of 2D renderings, so I ask for clarification for my own understanding.
Looking at the Sun's direction of travel arrow on fizixfan's 'Motion of Earth & Sun around the Milky Way' diagram, does this mean then that the solar system is orbiting the Galaxy in a clockwise direction? Also, which hemisphere of Earth's is (mostly?) facing the direction the solar system is taking during its orbit round the galactic disc? North or South? Or do they each take turns during the course of a terrestrial year? I can't quite put it all together it somehow.
You'll be interested to know that, since the Earth's equator is inclined so steeply (60.2 degrees) to the plane of the Milky Way, that there are features of the Milky Way, such as the Galactic Center and Galactic Bulge, that can only be seen from the Northern Hemisphere, and features such as the Coalsack Nebula and the small and large Magellanic Clouds, that can only be seen from the Southern Hemisphere!
i have heard that there exists an anomaly in amount of neutrinos coming from sun. are there any explanations around? how is the presence of jupiter sized planets near stars have been explained?
I believe there are some unexplained questions regarding this. For example, why has Jupiter not spiraled into the sun? Why is our system apparently stable?
It seems that in other systems there may possibly be a lot of crud and debris which by collision and turbulence gradually drain energy out of planet orbits so that the giant planets, more often than not, creep in closer and closer to the star. Almost as if
Perhaps these systems did not start off with as much angular momentum as ours. Anyway it does seem that we were rather lucky.
If Jupiter were to start squandering its own angular momentum and energy in gradually cleaning out the asteroid belt, and catapulting one asteroid after another out of the system, by the gravity-slingshot type of encounter, then it would lose energy and gradually creep in somewhat closer to the sun. this would be a major screwup. Bad things can happen in a complex orbital system----but we (thanks be to Allah the all-merciful) have apparently not suffered the worst that nature can deal out.
i have heard that there exists an anomaly in amount of neutrinos coming from sun. are there any explanations around?
Yes the anomaly has been resolved. An acquaintance of mine was on the team that ran the big tank of Heavy Water in Canada that detected the missing neutrinos. These devious neutrinos had, with devlish elusiveness, been evading detection by changing into other types of neutrinos which the earlier detectors couldn't see. The whole point seems to be that there are three types (and three corresponding antineutrino types for a total of 6) and that the normal type-----electron-neutrino or electon-antineutrino----that the sun makes can change during flight into other types that are harder to detect because they do not undergo the same reactions. This is admittedly confusing but doubtless it is all for the best
have heard that there exists an anomaly in amount of neutrinos coming from sun. are there any explanations around?
There are three kinds of neutrinos. The reactions in the sun generate electron neutrinos. The older experiments looked for electron neutrinos and didn't find enough. More recently they have found, by looking for all three kinds, that there are enough, assuming that neutrinos can change from one kind to another. Under this assumption, it is necessary to assume that neutrinos have mass. That is the current state of neutrino theory.
Many astronomers think that giant planets in close to a star is the norm, and it is our star system that needs explaining. One theory called, http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/solarsystem/jupiter_elements_991117.html [Broken] has gained considerable popularity. It claims that jupiter formed very close to the Sun, "as most giants do", and then moved outward later.
Yes, neutrinos are now known to have mass; the SNO and Super-K experiments confirmed this a few years ago. We do not yet know their actual masses, we just have data on the mass differences. But it appears highly probably that neutrino masses will only make up a tiny portion of the missing dark matter.
It seems to mean that the distribution of elements within our solar system matches the distribution one would expect to find without planetary migration. If the solar system did indeed form from an amorphous cloud of dust particles and gas molecules pulled together by gravity, one would expect to find the heavier elements near the gravitational "bottom" (the center). And that is exactly what we do find; rocky planets made of carbon and various metals occupy the center of our system, while the outside is the domain of the "gas giants". There is even a belt made of rocky asteroids marking the borderland between the two zones.
For the planetary migration model to work, we would need some excuse as to why the innermost part of the solar system was originally composed of lighter elements. To me, this seems to oppose Occum's Razor.
Could it be that the protoplanet's initial velocity was the major factor in it's present location? We know that (for circular satellite orbits) it's mass has nothing to do with it's orbital radius. It's orbital radius is totally dependant on the tangential velocity and mass of the object it is orbiting (assuming it is orbiting a much more massive object than itself.) I wouldn't expect many of these planets to have circular orbits, but probably close enough to presume that the planet's mass has little correlation to it's position.
I wonder if Kepler's Laws hold for these extrasolar planets? Probably don't have accurate enough metrics on them yet.
Tidal friction could be the "sling" to propel heavy planets (usually up to higher orbit, but in some cases interplay of angular momentum of star vs planet can propel it inward too).
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Strong and Independent. I have heard those two words put together to describe women my entire life. I have been personally called such a person on multiple occasions and have referred to myself as strong and independent numerous times. I was proud of it. As a woman, it defined me. It separated me from the pack. When online dating became all the rage as the new hook up culture, somewhere around the turn of the 21st Century, my profile actually stated that.
That’s how my profile read. Admittedly not very catchy, as I was just learning how to navigate the internet, but as I look back, I realize not how much I sold myself short, but how much I played the script I needed to play. In hindsight, I realize that I described myself not based on my own opinion of myself, but the opinion of others stereotypes and my desire to fulfill those roles. I also defined myself by what I hated in other women. My hatred toward those “traditional” roles women played, forced me to go the other direction. I now I realize how wrong I was.
“Fag hag?” Oh yeah. I had my favorite gay man, who frequently took me to every gay bar in the Tampa Bay area. I think I spent most of my thirties in gay bars.
On the other side of the coin, men get labeled handsome, rugged, dashing, determined, business-like, teddy bear-like chubby, professional, well dressed and tough.
When a man is overweight, he is often called a teddy bear. It denotes that he is a lovable man of size. In the gay community, they call them “bears.” As a woman, it is simply just called fat. Sometimes it’s “gross” or “disgusting.”
The reality is that when I look back, I hate that I allowed myself to not just let people constantly refer to me by those names, but I let myself truly believe it and when I put the words into context, then they seem actually demeaning, sexist, and diminishes who I really am.
Let’s start with “strong and independent.” I am strong and independent, but you want to know something? So is every woman I know. Every single one of them. From the stay at home mom to the working professional, the woman raising a child on her own, the college student, the lesbian, the wife who escaped domestic violence, and everyone else in between. Women are simply women and they are all my friends. We aren’t strong and independent as individuals. We are strong and independent as a species. It’s in our nature as the species that populates the earth through a painful childbirth.
I regret the years I let myself be called and I called myself a fag hag. The suggestion of the word denotes that there is a woman who follows her gay male friend around and will most likely fall for him, believing there is a future between the two. It implies that a woman who has a low self-esteem lives in the shadow of a lifestyle that welcomes her, but only on the fringes. You know what it really is? Friendship. Simple and clean. Sometimes they hang out and just watch tv. Sometimes they have brunch. Sometimes they go to gay bars. Many times, they cry on each other’s shoulders. They are just simply friends. And just to be clear, many women go to gay bars, because the music is better, the cocktails are stronger, and she can usually avoid getting hit on.
What about passionate and feisty? Both of those words are used to describe women who are vocal and willing to fight, (both physically and with their words) for a strongly held belief. They are condescending and patronizing. I hate to be called passionate, because when someone says it to me, it always seems to follow a very ardent conversation in a professional setting. “You’re so passionate. Remember, you don’t want to come across overbearing.” I heard that just the other day. The reality is that if a man acts in the exact same way, he wouldn’t be passionate, he would be “taking charge of his professional career.” When a woman takes charge of her professional career it gets classified as if it is something that is somewhat rare in the workplace. I’ve also heard the word “passionate” while being compared to other women.
“I’ve never met a more passionate woman.” I always respond with, “Then you have never met a mother protecting her young.”
What seems like a compliment to a woman, is often times a way to make sure she remembers that she’s just a woman. In an organization I use to be a part of, I was once told by another staff member that they “had never meant a woman with such an ability to be a likable bitch.” I was like, “What!” I didn’t even know what that meant and at the time actually took it as a compliment. I never once heard that word use to describe any male staff. Yeah. I was a bitch and proud of it…or I thought. Looking back, it simply meant that when I asserted myself, I had to follow it with humor and wit. “Bitch.” It’s the word that most likely is used for a woman who defends her opinion, asserts her dominance, or argues a point. “Emotional” is the word that often follows “Bitch” and is meant to describe the woman who yells or cries as if emotion is something we should be afraid of. “Emotional” often follows the inevitable, “It must be that time of the month.”
My most recent favorite is, “Wow. You look so good for your age.” As if trying to tell me that most women in their mid-forties don’t and that age is something a woman should be ashamed of. How about just simply, “Wow. You look great.”
Finally, there is the word “Motherly.” It is a word that as a woman, I use to run from. I have never considered myself very motherly. In fact, it’s something I use to take a lot of pride in. Most people expect women to be warm, loving, compassionate, gentle, and demure. Mother’s bake cupcakes, drive mini vans, stay at home, cook healthy meals, and are happy to do it all, while they stand at their over-sized kitchen island thrilled to see her 8-year-old son track mud all over her freshly cleaned floor. The reality is that I’m often cold, hate the touchy feely shit, and am far from demure. I look awkward holding babies and babies usually sense some sort of attachment to evil when they are in my arms. I don’t bake, sometimes feed my child Apple Jacks for dinner, and deplore minivans. Personally, I would rather have a tarantula gnaw on my eyes than do some do it yourself stay-at-home staycation activity. When I had my son, I cried in the hospital when I had to breastfeed. I didn’t want to do it and couldn’t do it. I thought it was me because I wasn’t motherly. When it was time to go back to work, I was actually happy to be back in the land of the living. I thought that was wrong as well. It took me years to get comfortable with the idea that being motherly could not and would not be defined by the script written by a patriarchal society. I would define it. My son is educated, well fed, wants for nothing, and through his mother sees that a woman can be a professional, wife, mother, and friend all in one. I now embrace the word “motherly.” It defines a part of me, simply because I didn’t let someone else hand me the script.
Just the other day, I heard the word “matronly” to describe a dress a woman was wearing. The comment came from a woman and was in reference that her clothes made her look frumpy and old. Dear God! Can’t women catch a break? If the dress is too short, we are sluts. If it’s the wrong fabric and too long, we are matronly.
The list goes on and on. When I look back on my life, I realize how much I defined myself by the standards of a society that didn’t see me as the typical woman and often chastised me for the role I played. I realize that I was just as much a part of the problem as society because I allowed it. Part of it was that I wanted to seem like “one of the boys.” Sometimes I didn’t feel that I had enough power to stop it. Maybe it was because as a Southern woman I was raised to keep my expectations low. Most times, however, I just simply didn’t even recognize it.
When we are born life hands us a script and in that script is a play called “Woman.” It took me a lifetime to change the title to something much more appropriate and individualistic. I simply call it, Shelba” and the profile reads, “Just me. Professional. Activist. Writer. Mother. Sister. Wife. Woman.”
FOSET is implementing two IWMP at Ranibandh Block, Bankura District, - IWMP-14/2011-12 at Chhendapathar and IWMP-15/2011-12 at Ranibandh.
The treatable area of Chhendapathar Watershed is 3500 hectare with project cost of Rs.525.00 lakhs out of which Rs.37.01Lakhs has been released till date and Rs.37.56 lakhs has been utilized in FY 2015-2016. Three nos. Watershed Associations have been formed at Dhanjhor, Bagdubi and Sinlahar and all the Associations have been registered under Society Act. The AGM of all the Watershed Associations have been held in presence of central leadership of FOSET. Separate Bank A/c. for all the Watershed Association has been opened and Watershed Development Works are implemented through these Associations on a participatory mode.
The major activities undertaken are (i) Horticulture on 1.3 hectare wasteland, (ii) Renovation of 4 nos. Farm ponds, (iii) Excavation of 6 new farm ponds, (iv) Livelihood support in the form of loan extended to 8 nos. Self Help Groups and (v) Distribution of seed to 500 beneficiaries. There has been enthusiasm amongst villagers towards the project and confidence on FOSET has grown.
The treatable area of Ranibandh Watershed in 2400 hectare with project cost Rs.360.00 lakhs out of which Rs. 23.48Lakhs has been released till date Rs.23.67 lakhs has been utilized in FY 2015-16. Two nos. Watershed Associations have been formed at Mitha Aam and Bairipal but they have not yet been registered. Separate Bank A/c. for the Watershed Association have been opened and Watershed Development Works are implemented through these in participatory mode. Considerable progress have been achieved in Natural Resource Management like (i) Excavation of 5 new Farm Pons, (ii) Renovation of 3 existing farm ponds, (iii) Livelihood support in the form of loan to 6 nos. SHGs with 61 beneficiaries, (iv) Distribution of seed to 600 beneficiaries etc. The project has been implemented in close liaison with the Panchayati Raj Institutions and it has evoked good response amongst the villagers.
The projects are being implemented by our 6 nos. full time WDT members, four of whom have been contractually appointed from the Bankura District. The Entry Point Activities for both the projects have been successfully completed. Several Capacity Building Training have been organized but lot more need to be done for skill upgradation of the villagers. In the coming months several trainings on Kitchen Garden, Sustainable Agriculture and Integrated Farming will be organized.
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For the bulk of his career, fifty-four-year-old manga artist Gengoroh Tagame has focussed his creative energy into producing gay erotica. He has been a driving force for gay men in the world of Japanese art, influencing countless gay writers and artists.
This year he has come out with something far more introspective and thematically significant: My Brother’s Husband; the story of Yaichi, single father of his kawaii-as-hell daughter Kana, and the arrival of the bear-like Canadian, Mike, who has come to share grief and comfort over the loss of his husband, and Yaichi’s twin brother, Ryoji.
At the beginning of the story, all signs point to a tale of acceptance, with Yaichi struggling to handle the presence of a huge gay gaijin in his house.
It is made clear from the start that Yaichi never quite accepted his brother’s sexuality, nor his immigration to Canada. On top of that, the theme of acceptance is hammered home by Kana, a young and infinitely positive child who sees the good in everything.
She is unburdened enough by social restraints to not understand why two men being married could be anything less than a great (and ordinary) thing.
You can see from a mile away the path this tale will take us down. With the help of his sweet and loving daughter, Yaichi will move past his own prejudices and slowly come to see Mike as a person.
Accepting him as family and eventually learning to forgive himself for being so cold toward his brother in the years leading up to his leaving Japan. And you’d be right in every detail; that is the story in essence. But only for its first half.
By its midpoint the book has opened up completely, moving far beyond existing as a vessel for the writer’s message (which I must stress is an important and impassioned one) and morphing into a family drama that asks its readers to question the state of social rules and government laws with regards to sexuality, marriage, and the influence parents have over their children.
Admittedly, the character of Mike is played with a little awkwardly. Tagame has become known for his renderings of men as bearish and bulky, and Mike is no exception.
He is depicted as a larger-than-life bearded lumberjack of a Canadian, with plaid shirt and carpeted chest to complete the stereotype nicely. It’s a tad awkward.
He also speaks perfect Japanese, which is explained away in a throwaway line about him being an otaku (though I assume he was also taught conversational Japanese by his late husband).
But the ham-fisting of Mike’s place in the story aside, he serves a multi-layered purpose, being the lever which removes the boulder that cages Yaichi in his box of prejudice. I suppose in this metaphor, Kana is the fulcrum, which could work, or might be best to just leave to one side.
Either way, it is clear that Tagame’s mission here is to teach a modern day Japan of its overly conservative ways, and to encourage it to shrug some of them off.
An example of said shrugging comes later in the book, though I promise it is no great spoiler to discuss it here. In a late chapter, Yaichi takes Mike to the local gym, where the two spy a pair of foreigners who have been denied entry due to one of them sporting visible tattoos.
Tattoos are a serious taboo in every corner of Japan, holding a severe association with the yakuza group of powerful organised criminals. Despite no logical connection between foreigners in Japan and the yakuza, we heavily tattooed gaijin are denied entry to many of Japan’s more alluring places, namely most of its famous onsen hotsprings. Fortunately, it has been reported that the approach of the 2020 Olympics has urged a bit of change in this regard.
Tagame’s obvious stance on this is that it is another of Japan’s archaic world views shared by all without much actual thought put into it. Though the state of this issue has shifted slightly in recent years, he has used this issue as another illustration of how he feels Japan might improve when encouraged to face certain poorly aged aspects of its social behaviour.
Despite this story centring around Mike’s arrival in Japan, and the death of Ryoji, Yaichi is very much our protagonist here. And his obsession with being a good single father to his daughter is constantly explored and tested in each chapter.
Refusing to fail as a parent is what motivated Yaichi to understand Mike as a gay man and as a foreigner.
Beyond this we also have the looming shadow of his brother’s untimely death, which is expressed with beautiful visual metaphor in the manga’s art.
In many of the book’s more quiet, sombre moments of introspection, Yaichi is faced with his own reflection and shadow, sometimes while bathing, or perhaps while stood alone, awash in moonlight.
With he and Ryoji being twins, his own reflection and shadow both serve as a ghost that he can never escape; Yaichi quite literally stands in his brother’s shadow. His brother haunts him every morning as he shaves, and every afternoon as walks down a quiet street with the sun at his back.
It’s a harrowing and deeply effective technique which Tagame uses to great effect, drawn in beautifully at each moment of Yaichi’s greatest vulnerability. He is constantly forced by his brother to confront the truth of their separation, and the weaknesses of his own personality and his view of the world.
My Brother’s Husband exists as an allegory for Japan’s traditionalist views of the other, specifically LGBTQ+ people.
The artist’s choice to present the concept of ‘positive and progressive change’ as a big, friendly foreigner is awkward. Especially for us from the West who should certainly never suggest that we are the vessels of change that Japan (or anywhere else) would ever want or need.
But this aside, here is a beautiful, well-crafted tale of family and love. At its core, it really is about nothing more than love in all its forms. It is unrelentingly cute, sweet, and joyous; a celebration of love both familial and romantic, and a true pleasure to read.
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Norwegian black metal band God Seed’s debut album, I Begin, will see its North American release on October 23rd (October 30th worldwide). God Seed has strange beginnings indeed. King ov Hell and Gaahl were key members of the legendary Norwegian black metal band Gorgoroth, with whom they parted ways in 2007. The pair decided to continue writing music together under the moniker God Seed in honor of a track on the last Gorgoroth album on which they both appeared, 2006’s Ad Majorem Satanhas Gloriam.
In 2009, however, just as Gaahl was set to record vocals for the debut God Seed release, he abruptly announced his retirement from metal. With an album’s worth of music already recorded, King quickly regrouped and recruited Dimmu Borgir vocalist Shagrath — but instead of releasing 2010’s acclaimed The Underworld Regime under the God Seed name, King felt it more fitting to give the reconfigured group its own name: Ov Hell.
In one of the most anticipated black metal releases in recent memory, and several years in the making, I Begin is finally coming to us. Okay, well I already have it in my hands, hence this review, but once you can get your hands on it, do it. The album is crushing.
I Begin gets off to a quick start with the opening track, Awake, and it never takes its hand off of your throat for the entire epic ride. As expected, the tone of the album is something that only tried and true legends in the business could record. The following track, This From the Past, is a great follow-up with its heavy dose of riffwork.
The highlight of the album, Alt Liv, is an amazing track. It is evil personified with its epic basslines and as the rest of the band join in, it only gets stronger and more evil. I have a tough time listening to the entire album because I have to keep replaying this track, but once you do play the rest of the tracks, they are nearly as good. From the Running of Blood is a more progressive-type black metal sound that is purely riff-driven and just works.
The entire album is a major win for black metal fans as there is so much here for you to sink your teeth into. Once you can pick this album up, do it.
October started off with another Infuse Coaching Retreat. I love these times, the relationships that Infuse creates last far past the six months of the program.
With ministry trips to Indy, Memphis and Austin on the Orange Tour all happening this month, plus tons of coaching and interview calls it was time to take a few days to enjoy friends, food and guitars at the Arlington Guitar Show. Years ago I learned when you find yourself at your busiest it's time to take a few days.
Another highlight of the month was getting to do a Grandparents’ Event with Yancy. I love doing events with Yancy. She led the crowd in worship and I got to bring a message for a group from five to seventy-five.
Although this was a very busy month Julie and I got to spend a lot of time with our little grands. They are so much fun. There is nothing like grandkids. They are both growing up so fast. They are all boy. They love the outdoors and play so hard. Julie always says that play is the work of children. If this is true our boys are very hard workers.
On most occasions, if you have a child that is born with a cleft lip or a palate for that matter, there are higher chances that he or she may have related or additional condition/s that may have to be medically addressed. According to medical experts and researchers, every type of congenital structural kind of defect found in the body of a human being highly represents some inborn error which may go on to affect other systems in the body.
Pierre Robin Sequence is one of the most related medical conditions associated with the cleft. Pierre Robin Sequence is mainly detected short moments after birth since babies born with these conditions are usually born having a small chin than the normal one. These babies will normally possess a cleft palate since the tongue fails to fall into the desired place properly as the baby is developing in the womb.
Stickler Syndrome is another medical condition related to cleft or cleft palate though this is a much rarer condition that may often fail to be diagnosed. Stickler Syndrome is genetically based and usually passed down from parents to children. This medical condition limits the amount of collagen in the body of a child making connective tissues weak and unable to function in the right manner.
Another condition related to cleft is what is a syndrome medically known as 22q11 or Shprintzen syndrome. This medical condition takes place due to a fault or the malfunction of chromosome 22 and may result in strange facial features, problems with the palate, and abnormalities of the heart or a small soft palate that appears normal but still results in a lot of difficulties with activities such as feeding or speaking. Children born with this medical condition may possess either some or all of the conditions mentioned with each one of them varying in degree.
The above are not conclusive. Another condition related to clefts is what is medically referred to as Median facial dysplasia. This medical condition is a distinct, unique, and definable group of patients that are mainly characterized by visible midline deficiencies in the face which may extend all the way to the midline structure of a baby’s brain. If the circumference of the head is less than the normal size, patients may end up having some anomalies in the brain.
Apart from the above related syndromes, other rare but related syndromes include Patau Syndrome or Edwards Syndrome that are much serious though they are routinely tested during the pregnancy period. We at Wide Smile have always advised expectant mothers that have a diagnosis of the left clip that their children may develop other medically related conditions to clefts. However, of importance to note is that all these medically related conditions will always be different for a different set of parents. As with palate and cleft lip, at times there will be a clear genetic link, and more than often this is a rare condition that may not be a problem to a lot of families.
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Unless I'm mistaken, I'm the only one from the area in all the various places I "inhabit". (might even already have registered here at some time)!
Anyhow, long time on pipe & cigars, retired, age 70. Regular at ASP & various chats. Don't smoke at computer but on last "break" was DGT '08 Ashbury in Radici large bowl full bent poker/sitter. Beer at this desk. (Now to cruise this site & see if there's a chat available). Some of ya might know me from other sites. Interesting group of subjects here, congrats to the fine folks who got this place off the ground.
Welcome, Ed. Pretty part of the country you come from. Lived in the Finger Lakes region when I went to grad. school.
I'll offer a "mea culpa" (sp). Decided to day to go backwards & found I signed in back in '08 sometime! Only one of me.....that's bad enuf.
Hey Ed good to have you over here. Now we can badger each other with our daily routines in 3 places (ASP, Brothers, Mibbit). Just kidding! Glad you joined up here!
i'm new here too (and to pipe sites in general). seems like the chat isn't too popular here, but the forums are pretty lively.
nice smoke btw... let me guess, wife doesn't like any smoking where your computer is at? i know that's how it works in my house. i do get to sneak a couple of puffs here and there when the wife's asleep tho.
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The Subregional Headquarters for the Caribbean of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), in collaboration with the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), organized a two-day expert meeting to commemorate the fifteenth anniversary of the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD). The goal of the meeting was to assess the implementation of the Programme of Action (POA) of the ICPD. The objectives were to discuss achievements, challenges and gaps experienced in the implementation of the Programme of Action of the ICPD and the way forward. The meeting was held in Antigua and Barbuda, 20-21 August 2009, at the Jolly Beach Hotel, Antigua and Barbuda. Attending the meeting were government representatives of 15 Caribbean countries and a number of non-governmental organizations and experts in the areas of population and development, sexual and reproductive health and rights, and gender. In total over 80 participants attended the meeting. The list of participants is annexed to this report. This report gives a brief overview of the meeting. For each agenda item, a short description of the presentations and ensuing discussions is given. A more detailed overview of the situation in the region can be found in the background document and the tabulated overviews of country policies and programmes in the appendix of that document. The background document incorporates information provided by the countries in the Caribbean subregion before, during, and after the meeting. The draft version was sent to all participants and comments have been included. The country briefs and panel presentations can be found in the Population Division (CELADE) section of the website of ECLAC headquarters. At the end of the meeting the conclusions of the meeting were presented. Those and the agenda and list of participants are annexed to the report. The meeting followed the agenda as detailed below: 1. Review of the implementation of the Cairo Programme of Action in the Caribbean (1994 – 2009): Achievements and Constraints Presentation of country briefs; discussion and comments Panel Discussion 1: Population and Development in the Caribbean Panel Discussion 2: Reproductive health, rights and gender in the Caribbean Panel Discussion 3: Vulnerable groups in the Caribbean Agenda Item 1: Opening Ceremony
The opening ceremony featured statements by Mr. Neil Pierre, Director of the ECLAC Subregional Headquarters for the Caribbean; Ms. Marcela Suazo, Director of UNFPA Latin America and the Caribbean Regional Office; the Honourable Jacqui Quinn Leandro, Minister of Education, Gender, Sports and Youth, Antigua and Barbuda; and Dr. Jacqueline Sharpe, President, International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF). After welcoming participants, Mr. Pierre gave an overview of the history and background of ICPD and its regional meetings. He explained that the purpose of the meeting was to celebrate achievements, to acknowledge gaps and challenges, and to derive practical recommendations for accelerating the progress of the POA. The commitment of the Subregional Headquarters of ECLAC for the Caribbean to provide further assistance to the region in fulfilling the Programme of Action was reiterated. Ms. Suazo stressed the importance of the integrated approach of population and development that was fundamental to the ICPD POA. She gave an overview of the developments regarding ICPD in the Caribbean subregion touching on a wide variety of issues, such as, migration, human trafficking, adolescent fertility and early sexual initiation, the feminization of HIV, and the importance of family planning. The Honourable Jacqui Quinn Leandro emphasized the importance of the meeting for the region. She noted that because of the current global crisis, the region faced a critical economic time in the Caribbean. She gave examples of the impact it has had and would have on Antigua and Barbuda. She stressed that the crisis should not have costs in terms of the ICPD agenda and pointed to the need for continued commitment to the implementation of the ICPD in the next five years and beyond. The feature address was delivered by Dr. Jaqueline Sharp, President, IPPF, who reiterated the value of the ICPD POA and observed its relevance as the roadmap for population and development. She stated that the Millennium Development Goals would not be achieved if the ICPD POA was not implemented. She referred to the problem in the Caribbean subregion of early sexual initiation, limited use of contraceptives, and the linkages between poverty, reproductive health, early pregnancy, and gender inequality, which made sex and reproductive health education crucial. Among the points she identified that needed to be addressed were the provision of access to sexual and reproductive health services for adolescents, reinforcement efforts for voluntary family planning, revisiting the commitments made in providing services to youth and interventions to reduce the stigma towards persons living with HIV/AIDS. Agenda Item 2: Review of the Implementation of the Cairo Programme of Action in the
The Populations Affairs Officer of the ECLAC Caribbean Subregional Headquarters and the ECLAC Consultant presented a summary of the meeting’s background document. It was explained that due to the short preparation time and limited response from the countries of the region to requests for data and information, the input and comments of the meeting were important for completing the final document. The inter-relationship between population growth and other areas of development and the importance of the ICPD in acknowledging that integrated model was stressed. Participants were reminded that signing on to ICPD POA meant a commitment by governments which carried certain responsibilities to their populations. The context in relation to population, the economy and social development was sketched. The progress in achieving economic and human development in the Caribbean region was acknowledged as well as the many programmes and policies that had been put in place in relation to the ICPD POA. It was shown that the Caribbean subregion was in the unique situation of facing favourable dependency ratios and that it was important to take measures to reap the demographic dividend before further ageing led to a less favourable situation. More detailed attention was given to migration, ageing and older persons and to emerging issues. This latter issue of public debt and the financial crisis was presented as a major threat to the ICPD Plan of Action. It was further explained that reproductive health care did not only refer to family planning. The overburdened emergency obstetric care facilities and addressing the reproductive health needs
The meeting recognized the challenges that existed in the region with the availability of timely, reliable data as noted in the draft report. Particular attention was drawn to some of the statistics in the report which were deemed as dated and, in some cases, questionable. Several participants expressed concern about the comparability of the poverty rates featured in the presentation. As mentioned in the presentation and explained in the report, these were not comparable. With respect to the preparation of the ICPD report, the ECLAC representative explained that country inputs were solicited through a questionnaire. The responses from the National Statistical Offices (NSOs) were not forthcoming, therefore, the statistics and tables featured in the report were, in some cases, the same as those used in previous ICPD reports. Recognizing the value of the report as a medium for reflecting Caribbean realities, an appeal was made to all countries and agencies to supply the ECLAC Caribbean office with updated tables and other data, which would be used to update and revise the draft report. A deadline of 4 September 2009 was set for countries to make their submissions. Agenda Item 3: Country Briefs
Country representatives presented short briefs which covered the status of implementation of the ICPD POA and challenges encountered in their respective countries. Country briefs were prepared by the following countries: Antigua and Barbuda, Aruba, Bahamas, Belize, Dominica, Grenada, Jamaica, the Netherlands Antilles, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Suriname, and Trinidad and Tobago. Besides basic statistics of indicators related to ICPD, national policies and programmes that were supportive to the ICPD Plan of Action were presented. Achievements were made in the
reduction of poverty, the decline in fertility, in the reduction of mother to child transmission, the
presentations reserved ample space for the constraints that were encountered and the challenges that
The ensuing discussions concentrated on the challenges facing countries and their causes. The issues of ageing permeated the discussion. Given the implications of this phenomenon on the economic and social structures, a call was made for the introduction of public policies that would address demographic ageing. On the issue of disability an appeal was made to the meeting to ensure that the necessary mechanisms were in place to deliver services to that group, especially if they were expected to make some contribution to their societies. Countries were urged to ratify and accede to the United Nations Convention for persons living with disabilities. A significant part of the discussion was centred on the high rate of teenage pregnancies, which continued to be a major social issue for all countries in the region. Recognizing the myriad of issues related to often single, adolescent mothers and their impact on the teens and communities as a whole, several calls were made for the development of a constructive and holistic approach to tackling those issues. Appeals were made for the development of policies and interventions that protected the youths. The proposed interventions included a re-examination of the way that sex education was handled in secondary schools, including a review of the teaching of Health and Family Life Education (HFLE), and information transfer to teenage students and the formulation of strategies that would encourage teenagers to delay their sexual debut. Results from a study in the Netherlands Antilles showed a correlation between compulsory education and declines in teenage pregnancy. On those grounds, the role of institutions of socialization, such as the school, was underscored. Adjustments to the civil code were proposed, for example, putting the burden of disproving of fatherhood by the man. Saint Kitts and Nevis, with support from the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), was in the process of implementing social programmes to help support teenagers. The meeting highlighted the issue of education and the underperformance of males and stressed that the quality of education needed to be addressed since universal education had been achieved. Other issues such as the inter-linkage between education, the labour market, high crime and gang culture and the high level of migration and resulting brain drain should also be considered. The meeting appealed for the use of data from the region to formulate better policies that would benefit underperforming males. Peer pressure, degenerative text in music, class size (large classes), frequency of meetings between teachers and parents, predominance of female teachers in schools were other factors that did not favour better performance of boys. The need to improve communication and cooperation among and within ministries was discussed. A call was further made to standardize and improve the quality of data and, more specifically that of metadata, in the region. Reference was made of the work which was being done in the region on the construction of a manual for the standardization of definitions and methodology for vital statistics. The discussions resulted in the following recommendations: Given the global population dynamic, urgent steps should be taken to address the social, economic and other implications of increases in the ageing population; Efforts should be made to deliver services and provide information to persons with There was a need for the formulation of policies and measures that addressed the There was a need to place greater emphasis on the quality, availability and accessibility of data, and to move towards the standardization of data in the region. Agenda Item 4: Population and Development in the Caribbean
The Economic Development Officer of the Subregional Headquarters of ECLAC for the Caribbean made a presentation on the global economic crisis and the economic implications for the Caribbean. He described the root of the crisis in the United States and the serious situation in which the highly indebted countries of the Caribbean subregion found themselves, as a consequence. He showed that a fall in tourism, remittances, investments and recession or possible contraction of GDP had been measured or could be expected and the prospects were alarming because of the large public debts, fiscal and current account deficits. Countries were warned of a possible currency crisis that some countries in the region were already facing and governments were urged to redouble their efforts to improve transparency, speed and efficiency in public spending. He further offered to undertake a study on the efficiency of public spending in the Caribbean. The second presentation was provided by the representative of Antigua and Barbuda, who stressed the importance of a balanced integrated development process. She touched on the issue of the new lifestyle-related, non-communicable diseases and the need for a national food and nutrition policy. The increases in crime and drug abuse were presented as new threats and she called for better collaboration and cooperation within and among ministries, a more efficient and effective government, engagement of the private sector and civil society, the formation of a National Task Force and the need for monitoring, evaluation, and strengthening of the national data gathering machinery. In the third presentation, the representative of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretariat discussed migration in the Caribbean in relation to population and development. He highlighted the diverse and sensitive situation in the subregion regarding migration, and the necessity of migration for both migrants as well as receiving countries. He mentioned the difficulties in measuring migration because of a lack of data and the supportive measures taken by CARICOM and governments concerning social security, rights and protocols. The representative of HelpAge International concentrated on population ageing in the Caribbean. The critical issues affecting older people in the Caribbean, such as chronic poverty, lack
pointed to the contributions of older persons as resources for family stability, assistance to (grand)
Participants indicated overwhelming support for the proposal made by the ECLAC representative for the conduct of a study on “Efficiency of public spending in the Caribbean”. Suggestions were made for the assessment of some dimensions such as gender, and in relation to that issue, the representative of the Caribbean Policy Development Centre (CPDC) called for the participation of civil society groups and networks at national and regional levels. On the issue of migration, the meeting highlighted the following: (a) in Antigua and Barbuda high risks were more prevalent among migrant women which might be based on poor access to support; (b) a study conducted in Aruba revealed that a significant share of children of (Spanish-speaking) migrants did not attend school; (c) a clinic record system should be introduced in the region, considering the mobility of the population; (d) a study should be carried out on the effect of migration on ageing as young persons moved out and retired persons migrated back; and (e) address the situation of deportees who often received very little or no support which might lead them back to crime. The attention of the meeting was drawn to a missing dimension in the approach to dealing with crime and violence, citing that the ageing population was one of the most vulnerable groups. In that regard, an appeal was` made for assessing the impact on older persons as they did not have an opportunity to be relocated if their neighbourhood environment changed. The poor housing conditions of older people were highlighted as an issue that needed attention. A recommendation was made for the creation of a partnership between CARICOM and HelpAge International to establish a policy that would address the standards of institutions for older persons. The introduction of a universal pension scheme that would provide social protection and benefit the growing ageing population was debated. The need for adequate social pensions was stressed. In this regard, it was stated that women were especially vulnerable as they worked in the informal sector and therefore had limited access to other pension systems. It was noted, however, that a non-contributory system was not an incentive to saving. The availability of comparable datasets was discussed. The meeting pointed to the CARICOM initiative for harmonization in the Caribbean; issues of metadata; collection of data; and the status of implementation. It was felt that data could help spur political will which was invaluable for policy formulation. Agenda Item 5: Reproductive Health, Rights and Gender in the Caribbean
The first presentation was on Reproductive Health and Rights. The presenter identified the following key issues: the availability and accessibility of reproductive health education and services, sexual and reproductive rights and health of young people, maternal mortality, HIV/AIDS, and ageing. She gave many examples of achievements in the region. Among the challenges she identified were: the need to standardize and improve data, persistent high maternal mortality and unsafe abortion, early sexual initiation and high teenage pregnancy, level and quality of care, reproductive health for males, information and rights of disabled persons, integration of HIV/AIDS into reproductive health programmes, need for more research and standardized studies especially regarding Most At-Risk Populations (MARPS) (such as men who have sex with men (MSM) and sex workers). She said that the establishment of a stigma unit by the Pan Caribbean Partnership against HIV AIDS (PANCAP) was a positive development to address homophobic attitudes. The representative of the Caribbean Family Planning Affiliation (CFPA) made a presentation focusing on family planning. He stated that numbers were useful but that it was necessary to go beyond them. Poverty and inequality were linked to high maternal mortality, low contraceptive prevalence, high adolescent fertility and an increasing number of females living with HIV, leading to greater poverty for women. He explained how poverty increased the role of power in defining social/sexual relationships. Considering the low fertility, unmet needs might be overstated but adolescents still need better and unrestricted access. As most births to adolescents were unplanned, education was needed but also change of culture, for example, towards buying condoms and a change in the treatment of girls towards sex activity. The third presentation on gender in relation to the ICPD was delivered by the representative of the University of the West Indies (UWI). She said that education was the best way to empower women but it was not a ‘silver bullet’ to ensure equal income and participation at higher levels. The high level of teenage pregnancies, domestic violence, sexual harassment, trafficking of women, discrimination at work, irresponsible behaviour of boys and men to partners, families and households were some of the main challenges presented. She also paid ample attention to male underperformance and related issues, such as, too many female teachers, absentee fathers, and a curriculum and teaching method that was not relevant for boys. School and homes were violent spaces and it was necessary to eliminate that culture. Macho-type behaviour was often a shield for socio-economic failure. She called for a paradigm shift from responding only to victims to addressing the root causes and stated that the gathering, processing and dissemination of information was important. The representative of the Caribbean Coalition of National AIDS Programme Coordinators (CCNAPC) covered the issue of HIV and AIDS. She described the role of CCNAPC and enlightened participants about the AIDS epidemic in the Caribbean. Although more men were infected, at age 15-24, three to six times as many girls got infected (there might be a bias as more women were tested). Prevention among high-risk groups such as the imprisoned, homosexuals and sex workers was important. She elaborated on risk factors such as a sub-culture of hidden bisexual behaviours caused by legal and cultural barriers; and stigmatization and discrimination which led to evading testing and treatment. Caribbean gender roles contributed to the spread of HIV, for example, girls who wanted a ‘man’ and not a ‘boy’; social forces such as peer pressure from males which influenced their behaviour. In closing, she pointed to the risk involved in early age sexual activity. Discussion and comments
The Caribbean-specific Millennium Development Goals were mentioned as an example of focusing on gender issues. With regard to the increase in HIV/AIDS cases in the region, the meeting was reminded that there were a number of “imported cases”. Therefore, the lack of a means of tracking HIV/AIDS cases and the movement of those persons in the region might lead to double counting of cases. Participants stated that consideration should be given to the impact of religion on family planning. They also noted the rise in the number of HIV/AIDS cases among older persons because sexual activity, due to improved health and drugs such as Viagra, was extended and, in particular, its impact on older women. While the situation of resistance from the church on the issues of family planning and condom use still existed, the situation on the ground did not show the existence of any resistance to the use of family planning; a divide existed between what was advocated by the Church and the practices of the population. The need for closer examination of the situation of young girls and their early sexual debut was reiterated. In many instances that was not by choice as there were many cases of forced early sexual debut. The situation should be examined through a child protection lens and strategies for dealing with the issue needed to be developed. Other issues, such as transactional sex and the situation of girls showing greater interest in dating older men, should receive some attention. The culture of violence and phenomena such as ‘Sugar Daddies’ and ‘Dons’ was again referred to as causes and issues to be tackled. A call was made for the development of strategies to benefit persons with disabilities and reflect their realities. The need for the dissemination of information in a format accessible to persons with disabilities was also underscored. Attention was drawn to the initiative undertaken in Jamaica to support persons with disabilities. Consideration should be given to the issue of human trafficking in the region. In that regard, the meeting welcomed the research which was being conducted in Barbados, Guyana and Trinidad and Tobago by the International Organization for Migration (IOM). The study was a source of information on trafficking of women and it called for a closer examination of the migration situation on the region. It was observed that as the region was already at replacement level, the situation with net migration compounded the situation. Consideration should be given to the implication of those trends on public policy, migration policy and the labour policies. Agenda Item 6: Vulnerable Groups in the Caribbean
The representative of Trinidad and Tobago made a presentation on the situation of older persons in the Caribbean. After a brief introduction on ageing and its impact in the Caribbean, she outlined the challenges of older persons and development. She mentioned challenges, such as, intergenerational links, older persons as mentors, elderly abuse, income security, gender inequality in built-up pension rights and the role of caretaking (children and parents) in female labour participation. She touched on opportunities such as the elderly as mentors, pension for the informal sector, and budget allocation. She discussed the health and well-being of the elderly, the impact of non-communicable diseases and demand for long-term care, training on ageing for the health sector, accessible and affordable healthcare and medication, healthy lifestyles, and increased HIV/AIDS. In closed she discussed discrimination and elder abuse, the elderly and disasters, quality and affordability of accommodation, and the need for elderly friendly infrastructures. The representative of Barbados made a presentation on the disabled as a vulnerable group. From personal experience, she shared facts about persons with disability (PWD) and the notion that the number of PDW would increase with ageing, extended life, and the increase of violent crimes, accidents and unhealthy life styles. She said that data availability was limited and countries did not respond. She noted that, unfortunately, the Caribbean was behind in the world and that despite many calls for action there were still many problems for PWD. Disability was not ‘sexy’ and was often met with discomfort and there was no visibility for PWD. In the Caribbean, there was no legislation (except for Saint Vincent and the Grenadines), and only one country (Jamaica) had ratified the Convention on Disability. The Caribbean had modified the Millennium Development Goals but disability had been omitted. The lack of enrolment in schools of disabled children was another example given by her. The only way forward was to involve PWD: “Nothing about us without us” she gave as the mantra. The representative of, the Caribbean Regional Network of People Living with HIV/AIDS (CRN+) made a presentation on persons living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA). She exemplified the problems faced by PLWHA such as stigmatization, social exclusion, ignorance and confidentiality breaches. Next she explained that the CRN+ was the only regional network of scope in the Caribbean which sought to empower, enhance and improve the quality of life of PLWHA and facilitated support groups. She identified the following challenges: access to care treatment and support, continued stigma and discrimination, involvement of PLWHA, the criminalization of HIV, limited access resources and the absence of legislation to protect PLWHA against human rights violations, such as denying of employment and breaching of confidentiality by health workers. This led to PLWHA not accessing care, treatment and support services for fear of disclosure. She further noted that vulnerable groups such as commercial sex workers (CSW), MSM, and migrants were under-served and that there was resistance of certain sectors to align themselves with PLWHA networks. The final presentation was made by the representative of Aruba on the position of migrants in the Caribbean. He gave an overview of migration and migrants by providing various statistics on
another country; the intention to stay, requesting and granting of naturalizations, and the question of
The representative of the Caribbean Centre for the Blind (CCB) recognized the contribution of the representative of Barbados and apprised the meeting of her re-election to the post of General Secretary of the CCB and her being awarded the James Alves award for her achievements. He said that the issue of blindness should receive greater focus especially in the broader context of the ageing, since as persons aged they became more susceptible to eye diseases and blindness. Against that backdrop, a call was made for the Plan of Action to take due cognizance of that reality. It was pointed out that while vulnerable groups continued to be marginalized they were in fact the best yardsticks for measuring progress. The omission of issues such as sexual orientation was not only important in relation to the prevention of HIV/AIDS, but also in relation to human rights. The Lesbian Gay Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) community was marginalized in the region, including in the background report of the meeting. Likewise, legislation in the region failed to account for sex workers, persons who were trafficked and a person’s sexual orientation. Neither were they accounted for in the discussions on gender. It was advised that it was critical to include those vulnerable groups in the discussions as failure to do so might send a skewed message. It was also felt that the issue of drug use was omitted from the report and was not included in discussions in the meeting. On the issue of the universal pension fund, representatives recommended the region to invest more energy into preparing persons for retirement through public education and the value of retirement plans. Item 7: Discussion of meeting's outcome
The representatives of ECLAC and UNFPA presented the conclusions and way forward. It was agreed that participants would send their comments before 4 September 2009 and the conclusions would subsequently be taken to and presented at the upcoming regional ICPD-meeting in Santiago, Chile. The conclusions of the meeting appear as annex III of the report. Item 8: Closing Statements
The Director of the UNFPA Latin America and Caribbean Regional Office reiterated the importance of ICPD in population and development in the region. She thanked the Government of Antigua and Barbuda for hosting the meeting, and expressed her gratitude to ECLAC for its role in organizing the meeting. She commended the participants for interesting, fruitful, and stimulating presentations and discussions. In closing, the representative of Antigua and Barbuda congratulated participants and organizers for a very successful meeting and made a Call for Urgent Action: “For further implementation of the ICPD Programme of Action, it is urgent that the Governments in the Caribbean sub region take stock of the challenges and priorities here There is a need for a five year sub regional strategy so that governments working together and in collaboration with civil society organizations, Parliaments and UN agencies, can reach the targets of ICPD and the MDGs, with the establishment of clear priorities and results, benchmarks and mechanisms of implementation and monitoring. In this sense, Antigua and Barbuda would like to take forward this proposal and request and Urgent Call for Action for the Caribbean sub region towards 2014 and beyond.” PROGRAMME
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As part of the activities to commemorate the fifteenth anniversary of ICPD, ECLAC in collaboration with UNFPA, organized a Subregional Expert Meeting to assess the implementation of the Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) held in Antigua and Barbuda, 20-21 August 2009. This meeting involved the participation of government representatives of 15 Caribbean countries and a number of NGOs and experts in the areas of population and development, sexual and
In the English- and Dutch-speaking Caribbean subregion, population growth has effectively declined and fertility rates are now around replacement levels while life expectancy is relatively high. The interaction between population and development has led to the improvement of the lives of millions in the Caribbean subregion. With the majority of the countries being classified as high-income economies and nearly all of the rest as middle income, the region is one of the more developed in the world. Abject poverty is not a widespread phenomenon in the Caribbean, however, pockets of poverty still exist. Current accurate data on poverty in the region are not readily available or accessible and where data are available, it is not comparable between countries due to the fact that the method of measuring poverty data is not unambiguous. In spite of being middle and high income countries, Caribbean countries are highly vulnerable due to huge debt burdens and high exposure to natural hazards, limited natural resources, limited economic diversification and challenges with institutional capacities. These and other factors keep the Caribbean vulnerable to poverty unless measures are put in place to enhance resilience in these areas. Most countries in the region are still in a particularly favourable period for development in which the working-age population increases relative to the population of economically dependent ages. However, the benefits of this situation are not automatic; we need to continue to invest in youth development. Soon, this equation will be reversed as the share of older persons steadily increases, and the Caribbean society will have to face the challenges related to population ageing. Current trends and the negative effects of the global financial and economic crisis, may present countries with additional challenges of achieving the agreed goals and commitments of the
The English and Dutch Speaking Caribbean countries have made significant progress in achieving economic and human development. Most governments have put in place programmes and policies on social protection to address the needs of the most vulnerable populations, such as children and youth, women, the elderly, indigenous peoples, persons with disabilities, people living with HIV and their families. However, the sustainability of such programmes could be jeopardized as a result of the global financial crisis. In the area of population and development, many countries in the region have made efforts to integrate population issues in planning and development frameworks and strategies. Concerning the issue of migration, several countries have taken steps to include this issue in development planning and have made efforts toward the formulation of migration policies to manage its impact. Intra-regional migration measures are being taken to address and manage this issue, particularly as it relates to movement of skilled labour in the region. In the Caribbean, there is a general acknowledgment of the importance of addressing the challenges posed by an increasingly ageing population. All governments have developed programmes and interventions for social protection of older persons. In regards to data, efforts have been made to increase the capacity for the collection and analysis of high quality data, particularly population and housing census data, through training, capacity-building and south-south cooperation. Another area that has seen advancement is the harmonization and standardization of definitions and methodologies concerning census data within the context of the 2010 Round of Census. Most countries in the region have met or surpassed the targets for universal primary education and have introduced with the support of the CARICOM HFLE curriculum at most educational levels including out-of-school youth. In the Caribbean, family planning services are highly developed. Emergency contraception is provided by all family planning associations in the Caribbean region. In the area of HIV and AIDS, national efforts to scale-up HIV prevention are being undertaken and access to antiretroviral drugs is widely available in all countries at limited or no cost. Advancements have been made in reducing mother to child transmission of HIV and the use of male and female condoms have increased. Gender machineries have also been put in place in nearly all countries in the region. In all Caribbean countries there are criminal sanctions for sexual offences and rape, indecent assault,
measures for cases of assault and gender-based violence, including speedy actions to injunctions and
Although short-term policy measures are needed to deal with the international economic crisis, governments should avoid reducing social expenditures and not lose sight of the long-term vision for development planning. In this context, it is critical to maintain and reinforce political commitment to the goals of ICPD, as well as to provide adequate financial support to maintain required levels of implementation. Most Caribbean countries can still reap the benefits of the demographic dividend to properly prepare for the challenges of investing in youth and responding to the needs of an ageing society. Addressing unemployment among youth, extending the coverage and quality of secondary and tertiary education and promoting youth participation in country-led processes are key needs to be addressed. There is a trend of underachievement of boys in the education sector that is of concern to countries. Related to this is the role of men as parents and role models in public and private spheres Countries also face the challenge of providing adequate social provisions for older persons in the context of enhanced demand for long-term care, particularly for poor women. This will require the strengthening of intergenerational solidarity mechanisms. It is important that Caribbean governments follow the recommendations of the Brasilia Declaration, including the development of an International Convention for the Protection of the Rights of Older Persons. A significant part of the population in the Caribbean is living with disabilities. The physical infrastructure is far behind levels necessary to guarantee equal participation in all aspects of social, economic and cultural life. Increased investments are needed in order to create conditions that permit self-reliance and dignity for persons with disability. The Caribbean population is among the most mobile in the world and the issue of the brain drain in the areas of health and education is one of the main challenges. Efforts should be made to create opportunities to encourage skilled workers, particularly among the youth to remain in the region. If not properly addressed, the brain drain of skilled health workers could undermine the attainment of the health-related Millennium Development Goals. The human rights of undocumented migrants are also an area of concern as is the capacity of some receiving countries to properly plan and to provide adequate social protection to this group. Caribbean countries are encouraged to ratify the Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families. Although progress has been made in implementing measures against international trafficking for the purposes of sexual exploitation and forced domestic servitude, much more efforts are needed. In recognition of the new Millennium Development Goals target to achieve universal access to Sexual and Reproductive Health (SRH) services by 2015, Caribbean countries should seek to promote the linkages between reproductive health and HIV services and programmes and make them available to the most vulnerable populations. This will increase the overall effectiveness and quality of culturally-sensitive services in meeting the sexual and reproductive needs of the population, including those of persons with disabilities, devoid of stigma and discrimination. In the last two decades, improvements in reducing maternal mortality and, in some countries, infant and child mortality have stagnated. It is recognized that there is a need to better understand the factors behind this situation. This should include an assessment of the improvement of the quality of antenatal and emergency obstetric care in hospitals. An increased access to reproductive health services for rural, hinterland and other marginalized populations through rights-based and culturally sensitive approaches should be prioritized. The Caribbean has the largest generation of adolescents ever in history. Recognizing this, the region should prepare to meet the SRH needs of this group. There continues to be a disconnect between the age of marriage and the age of consent in many countries which inhibits access to SRH services and commodities by young people. There is a general recognition that young people are engaged in sexual activity at an early age and there is need to protect them against early unplanned pregnancy and HIV infection. This should be addressed in the context of social protection and young people’s access to education, employment and participation. In this context, adolescent and teenage pregnancy remains a critical challenge in the region. The socio-economic impact of the high level of adolescent motherhood contributes to the intergenerational transmission of poverty. Adolescent fertility also impacts the opportunities of girls and women to advance in the education and employment sectors. To tackle this issue, a series of measures should be considered: understanding the cultural determinants of sexual initiation and early motherhood; encouraging the full implementation of comprehensive sexuality education (HFLE) in schools; promoting access to SRH information, counselling, services; including commodities for sexually active adolescents and youth; and preventing all forms of pressure and sexual abuse and exploitation. Despite the advancements made in HIV and AIDS, some key challenges still exist: HIV prevention programmes are still not always reaching vulnerable groups with HIV education, Behavioural Change Communication (BCC), testing and counselling and post-exposure prophylaxis, and the linkage of HIV programmes with SRH services, is still not mainstreamed in several countries. Stigma and discrimination remains widespread and impacts the access to follow-up prevention, treatment, care and support services for People Living with HIV and AIDS (PLHIV) and the recognition of the rights of PLHIV to access SRH services. Gender inequalities manifest themselves in terms of feminization of poverty, vulnerability to HIV and AIDS, and gender-based violence. In the area of gender equality, most countries have enacted legislation and ratified key international conventions. Despite this, underresourcing of gender equality programmes is a significant problem. Women continue to be underrepresented in governance and political structures at decision-making levels across the Caribbean. The recent launch of the Caribbean Institute for Women in Leadership (CIWIL) will hopefully address this challenge. Political and financial support should be provided to this initiative. Sexual assault rates remain high and while legal frameworks exist to respond to these violations, challenges remain in the enforcement of legislation. The burden of family care is highly feminized as women remain the primary caretakers of children and other dependants, including the elderly. Single women-headed households account for approximately half of all households in many parts of the Caribbean. Most of these households are more vulnerable to poverty than other households. Ensuring the consistent availability of data is a challenge faced by countries in the region. Statistics related to migration and disability are even largely absent. This has a direct impact on evidenced-based planning and development efforts. In order to adequately address the socio- economic and socio-demographic challenges stated above, it is very important to have accurate and timely data of good quality with proper metadata available. This is important in order to not only understand the magnitude and dynamics of the variable but also to have appropriate evidence-based, decision-making processes, including for the development of policies and programmes to improve the quality of the life for all. In this regard, there is a need to produce timely and good quality census results, avoiding the situation faced during the previous census round. Likewise, improving existing registers and their use is important. Increasing the analytical capacities and strengthening the coordination and communication between the various ministries, government agencies and the civil society is essential in this process. It should be recognized that the full implementation of the Programme of Action of the ICPD and the key actions for its further implementation are integrally linked to global efforts to eradicate poverty and to achieve sustainable development. Population dynamics are thus important factors in development and in our efforts to achieve the internationally agreed development goals, including the Millennium Development Goals, as these goals are mutually reinforcing. Therefore increasing financial efforts to implement the ICPD Programme of Action should be considered as a key contribution to the life and the human rights of the people, as well a smart investment with high economic and social returns. The way forward: towards 2014 and beyond
The serious impact of the economic and financial crisis together with the five-year countdown to 2014 present the need for an Urgent Call for Action if the goals of the ICPD Programme of Action and the Millennium Development Goals are to be met. More than ever, the Goals will not be achieved unless more progress is made to guarantee universal access to reproductive health by 2015. In this light, consolidation of achievements is imperative. Too much is at stake for the Caribbean people to allow gains to be lost. Also, the critical human rights and development challenges that governments have together identified during these two days of deliberation call for the prioritization of actions with the establishment of clear results and with identifiable targets. The Caribbean subregion is in a singular position to call for the definition of a five-year strategy with country-led and sub regional mechanisms for assessing progress and correcting actions. A strong partnership of governments, parliamentarians, civil society organizations should jointly with development agencies, join efforts to achieve further progress in the period ahead. Prioritization in key challenges identified in this meeting is a must. The identification of lessons learned and best practices can spearhead knowledge sharing initiatives through south-south collaboration among countries and other knowledge sharing practices can be put in motion. Given the fact that the priorities here identified will be relevant in the decades to come, Governments in the subregion should ratify their commitment to carry the ICPD agenda forward, beyond 2014. A process of reflection will concomitantly need to take place in order to prepare the follow up agenda of ICPD for the Caribbean people. The UNFPA Subregional Office of the English- and Dutch-speaking Caribbean, with the assistance of the Caribbean Subregional Headquarters of ECLAC, stands ready to use all its resources, human/technical and financial to give support to Governments and civil society in support of this endeavour.
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As per the official notice, the process to apply for the Last date of submission is 18 December 2017 IWAI Recruitment 2017 of Lower Division Clerk Posts.These vacancies are directly on recruitment basis.So the candidates those who are interested as well as eligible enough they can apply for this post of Lower Division Clerk Posts.
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For The Post Of Lower Division Clerk and Postal Shorting Assistant:—Eligible Candidates should have passed the 12th Standard or equivalent examination from a recognized Board or Universty.
For The Post Of Data Entry Operator:—Eligible Candidates should have passed the12th Standard pass in Science stream with Mathematics as a subject from a recognized Board or equivalent.
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Mathematics:—Area, Time and Distance, Problems on Trains, Numbers, and Age, Pipe, and Cristen, Time and Work, Ration and Proportion, Average, Time and Distance, Speed and Train, Numerical Aptitude, Mixture.
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Emirates launches exclusive Food and Wine channels for its award-winning inflight entertainment system | Pinoy Manila
Emirates has launched its own food and wine channels to give customers a behind-the-scenes look at how it creates its menus and works with its global partners to produce its inflight meals.
Emirates serves about 110 million meals and over 80 kinds of wines, champagnes, and ports across all cabin classes. The channels give an inside look into how these meals are produced. The airline has invested US $700-million-dollars in fine wines and its regional and seasonal food menus prepared by award-winning chefs. Both the Food and Wine Channels can be viewed on all Emirates flights.
The Food Channel showcases the detail that goes into menu development by Emirates Chefs and ingredient sourcing for onboard meals. It explores how the airline brings the finest products on board through long standing partnerships worldwide, including with local suppliers and artisans. The channel also features some recipes from the airline’s regionally inspired onboard menu, so customers can recreate Emirates’ signature dishes and other cuisines at home.
The Wine Channel features a documentary on Emirates’ wine procurement strategy and the direct relationships it has cultivated with the world’s finest winemakers to procure some of the most exclusive vintages. A series of wine tutorials have also been introduced on the channel, where viewers are led through a tutored tasting, giving valuable insight into the history of the producer and the elements that give each wine its flavour.
“We go to great lengths to present our customers in every class with a great dining experience. A lot of detail goes into preparing the meals and choosing the wines. The channels give viewers access to our food and beverage philosophy, the catering strategy and how we work with our partners. In addition, our tutorials and recipes give our customers something interesting to take home with them,” Emirates Senior Vice President for Catering Joost Heymeijer said.
Emirates’ Food and Wine channels sit alongside 3,500 other channels of on-demand content on its award-winning inflight entertainment system, including movies, television shows, music tracks, podcasts, and games. The system also features varied content such as expert-led LinkedIn Learning courses that cover topics such as Leadership, General Management and Marketing; as well as uTalk language courses offering lessons for beginners.
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The Southern Museum of Music members of the Artist & Performer Advisory Board are affiliated with all aspects of the music industry and bring diverse perspectives, experience and expertise to the board. Your support to increase the public's awareness of our endeavors and thus stimulate a new generation to learn our history and recognize the efforts of so many to bring music and joy into our daily lives for many generations to come. From your support and guidance we will represent the real history, the real stories, life experiences and that it takes a community to make a hit song.
It is our objective to have representitives from each of the seventeen official Southern States (per the U.S. Census Bureau), and each of the seventeen foundation genre's, with no limitations of artist and performers from other states and/or genres supporting the program to preserve the musical heritage of the south.
You are welcome to be as involved in the program as time allows, Individuals particapating may attend annual meetings via conference calls, and electronic media, name support has great value with our industry.
Picking up donations of water and fresh garden vegetables from Hondo Empowerment Committee, anchor with the Southern Movement Assembly and campus site of University Sin Fronteras.
Mexican workers’ movement in the late 1870s used this land as an organizing and social space for community. Called “Asociacion Mutualista” or Mutual Aid Society, the Hondo Empowerment Center is built literally on that land. As part of implementing the Southern Movement Blueprint, the Center is proud to be a Mutual Aid Liberation Center in the 21st century. #SouthernPeoplesPower
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There are currently details on this site of 298 churches. These are 228 active churches and 70 former churches or sites. In addition there are partially completed entries for another 32 churches and sites, plus introductory entries for further 68. There are still 5 churches and sites which do not yet have an entry. Some of these are currently being researched.
In the endless argument over climate action the word most commonly bandied about is leadership. Many want to claim that mantle for themselves or their country, but what exactly is it? What does it mean to be a leader?
This kind of discussion crops up a lot in Antarctic circles, where every year people come together to form a station community. One member of the station group is selected as leader, but in this hazardous environment everyone is expected to pull together and look out for others.
When putting together a history of Australians in Antarctica, historian Tim Bowden asked a veteran officer-in-charge for the secret of leadership. Simple, was the response. You sit around, work out where the group seems to be heading, then you get in front of them and say “Follow me”.
There’s some cautionary advice here for any leader: don’t try to impose your own values on your people and make sure you remain firmly rooted in their values and internal dynamics. And don’t think that wherever your people think they’re headed, you know better. You don’t.
A succession of recent opinion polls have shown Australians focusing their attention on greenhouse warming, determining that a lot of change needs to happen, and quickly. They have looked at what their governments are offering and found it wanting.
The highly-respected Lowy Poll shows voters’ level of concern steadily rising for each of the past six years, to the point where nearly 60 per cent of all voters, and 70 per cent of younger ones, now see it as “a serious and pressing problem” calling for a significant allocation of resources.
I am not suggesting that governments adjust policies to fit public opinion polls. But governments here and in Canberra have long held that climate change is not a first-order issue. When a steadily rising proportion of voters say that it is, doesn’t that say something?
The leadership principle described above says that you will not be an effective leader unless you address the beliefs and concerns of the people you purport to lead. That doesn’t mean you have to share their priorities, but you are obliged to explain why you don’t.
Tasmania’s Climate Change (State Action) Act of 2008 requires an independent review every four years. In 2016 the Hodgman government commissioned the US-based consultancy firm Jacobs to review performance in achieving the Act’s objectives.
The Jacobs review concluded that the act should include an “aspirational” emissions reduction target of zero net emissions by 2050, that agencies be required to consider climate change in decision making, and that governments be compelled to have a climate change action plan.
The government accepted the aim of zero net emissions by 2050, which seems ambitious, but not if a low level of forest harvesting is factored in. A moribund forest industry is the reason Tasmania has already easily surpassed its legislated target of 60 per cent below 1990 levels by 2050.
But the government blinked on compulsory climate action plans and compelling agencies to factor climate change into decision-making. It proposes a discussion as to how the latter might happen, and says a compulsory plan isn’t needed because it already has its “Climate Action 21” plan.
We’re now at the pointy end of this drawn out process. The government has released its thoughts about changes needed for our climate legislation, which I think can fairly be described as minimal. But environment minister Elise Archer has allowed scope for plenty of public discussion.
We know voters want governments at all levels to strengthen their commitments, especially after this month’s UN report described climate change as a global crisis. But not being expert in the processes, it’s difficult for ordinary people to tackle government on the details.
What they do know is that given all we have learned about climate change since the legislation first passed 10 years ago, fine-tuning is not enough. Nor is it enough to have the process so firmly controlled by government. We need the full engagement of all parties and both houses of parliament.
We also need the parliament, the government and all its agencies, down to the last individual, to lead by example, and that will not happen unless legislation compels them to incorporate climate change into decision making.
Among significant future decisions facing Tasmanians is investing in fossil-fuelled transport and machinery – items they will expect to use for many years but which climate imperatives may render valueless. We need laws that anticipate and account for such potentially large economic disruptions.
The government is offering information sessions on its legislative proposals this week in Burnie (tomorrow at 2pm, Cradle Coast Offices), Launceston (Thursday, 10am, Sebel Hotel), and Hobart (Friday, 10am, Hobart Function and Conference Centre, Franklin Wharf).
If any of this concerns you, go along and have your say. Help the government see that its legislation must reflect the fact that climate change is now a first-order issue. Help it to become a real leader.
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Lori Stoia's eco-candlemaking class at Palo Alto Adult School will include instruction on a variety of candles. Photograph by Yichuan Cao.
Looking for a nice gift that could impress family or friends in this holiday season? A colorful, eco-friendly candle made at home could fit the bill.
Lori Stoia, who has been teaching classes on candle-making as well as making soap and lotion since 2004, will show students how to make a container candle, a rolled beeswax candle and votive candles on Oct. 29 at Palo Alto Adult School. She will walk students through the basics and once they complete the three-hour session, they will be ready to hit the ground running, she said.
"In this economy, if it's a gift that you made by yourself, it will be much appreciated. It's from your heart," Stoia said. She welcomes interested students to take her classes and put thoughts and time into this year's gifts. "I mean, if they could come to take my candle class, soap class and lotion class -- in the end, they will be able to put together a nice gift basket all by themselves," she said.
"It's their own imagination that will take them to the next level. Their creativity is their own limitation," she said. "I make the projects simple enough to encourage my students to actually make the products when they go home. They can go further. Sometimes, my students send me pictures and I have seen them making candles like pie and whatever else they had come up with."
Stoia worked in mass communication and marketing until her company eliminated the job. By sheer luck, her journey toward a home-craft instructor began in January 2002 when she first enrolled in a soap-making class at College of San Mateo.
"I have never thought I would be going into craft-making. One day, I saw a brochure and I found, hey, a soap-making class," she said. "I was like, alright, this sounds kind of cool. It looks creative."
Once she took the class, she found it was simple enough for her to continue on to make the craft. She was soon hooked on making her own bath and products, taking a wide variety of courses including making soap, lotions, bath salts, body scrubs, and, about a year ago, candle-making.
"I took one class, then I started to take another class to see if I can learn something new," Stoia said. "Most of them were taught by Lori Nova of The Nova Studio in Point Richmond, Calif."
By 2004 she began to teach at Michaels craft store and developed her own style of teaching, then she ventured out to Palo Alto Adult School and several other schools in the Bay Area.
She admits that she is a "late bloomer" to craft-making, but she has now found her niche in teaching others.
"What I try to bring to my class is a social and fun learning experience. It's an open environment. I have people from all walks of life. Sometimes people come to my class and they already know something. They can add their information to the other students, and I also learn from my students."
What she likes about her current teaching job is that it's actually flexible enough to allow her to return to full-time work. "Even if I started working full-time, I would still teach classes. It's something I really enjoy doing. I felt productive while teaching a class," she said.
Stoia also writes a bath and body products blog, featuring notices of her upcoming classes, information on where to buy products, recipes and more. It helps her to keep track of her progress and promote her classes. She updates it regularly and the blog has since attracted a large following.
"Most of the readers are here in the U.S, but I also have traffic from Australia and Europe," she said.
3. Color: Once the wax is melted, add an oil-based candle color (wax chips, liquid). Start with 1 drop, stir and just repeat until you reach the desired color you like.
6. Wick: Wait approximately 2-5 minutes (depending on temperature of wax) and pre-primed cored wick. (Tip: Use a glue dot at the bottom of wick and insert prior to pouring wax.)
San Mateo County prosecutors said a 23-year-old Stockton man was ordered Thursday to stand trial and faces 69 years to life for the murder of another man in East Palo Alto last year.
Warren Morrison Jr. was ordered to stand trial for the killing of 31-year-old Jamal Magee on the night of October 25.
East Palo Alto police responded at 9:25 p.m. to the 300 block of Wisteria Drive where they found Magee with gunshot wounds and laying on the street outside of a passenger door to a Chevrolet Volt, prosecutors said. Magee died from the wounds.
The killing allegedly began when Morrison and another man were in an argument with Magee. The two hit and kicked Magee and then Morrison took out a gun and shot Magee twice, according to prosecutors.
Magee got up to run away and Morrison allegedly shot Magee three more times. Magee fell to the ground and Morrison shot Magee two more times, prosecutors said.
Morrison allegedly fled and escaped arrest for two weeks before he was taken into custody Nov. 11 at a motel in Tracy.
Morrison has no previous criminal history in San Mateo County, San Mateo County District Attorney Steve Wagstaffe said.
Morrison pleaded not guilty to the murder charge Dec. 9. Thursday, prosecutors were granted a request for an enhancement to the murder charge, which will add 20 years to Morrison's sentence if he is convicted.
Lock him up, throw away the key. Also, clear the rest of the gangsters out of East Palo Alto. The 300 block is a constant problem area with loitering, joyriding and drugs. The Police do NOTHING
A national sailing program is being launched in Panama to bring the simple art of sailing and the sailing culture within reach of all Panamanians.
The sea knowledge in this program will benefit those who plan a maritime career - and - the very poor who go out in small pangas to earn a living. Fishermen through the centuries have gone out and got home under sail. It is a simple art that has been forgotten as the outboard took over.
Fishing in pungas or cayucos along Latin America's Pacific and Atlantic coasts is hazardous. The poor go to sea to earn a living and eat. The survival of the Salvadoran fisherman Jose Alvarenga has brought into the spotlight the perilous and primitive fishing equipment and practices still used in Mexico, and the rest of Latin America.
Fishermen typically take to the sea in small open boats with no cover, no life jackets, primitive communications gear, with only a cloth wrapped around their heads for protection from the sun. For many fishermen, the only thing that stands between them and death on the high sea is an aging outboard motor, a wooden oar, a machete, a few plastic jugs of water and their faith.
While fishermen often depend on God as much as safety equipment, they also rely on sea skills picked up over a lifetime. Relatives say Alvarenga was unusually strong and resilient, and an experienced sailor. However, not all are that strong and resiliant.
In Panama, a fishing panga set out to catch fish for Easter. The outboard failed and the boat drifted to Ecuador. There was only one survivor.
Though these fisherman are tough and canny, they would have a better chance of survival when their outboard dies if they knew how to use a sail and the currents to make their way back to land. Just a simple pole and sail would make the difference between life and death, when the outboard fails.
Learning to sail will give them an age old skill that will not only get them home. It will save fuel and reduce their dependence on the outboard notor.
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This research reviews the influence of social responsibility (SR) to forest management, throughout exploring the direct and indirect consequences of forest fires in Portugal. The necessity to promote the development of pioneering practices will bring greater accountability, improve transparency and increase the sustainability of the forests' system. This research presents dual theoretical frameworks. The first has its origins in organisational and sociological theory that will assure the link of SR as a fundamental purpose to influence the forest protection and the environment preservation. The second is based in the accountability, providing explanations for economic and social decisions of forest management. There are four key-aspects: sustainability, accountability, transparency and leadership each one has prós and cons, but each contributes to the sustainable development and management forest. Therefore, bad example of forest fires would ensure entrenching of a social responsible approach into the future and the new generations.
New Zealand has undergone two major political reforms over the last decade, a radical restructuring of its public sector and a radical change to the electoral system. This paper examines the extent to which the reforms have improved the accountability of governments to the public. The public sector reforms have reduced the extent of political control and therefore of accountability through the political system. At the same time, within the core public service, performance contracts and strategic planning have increased political control while fears that ministerial responsibility would be weakened have proved exaggerated. Electoral reform has increased the accountability of Parliament to voters though the new system needs some fine tuning. Compulsory voting may be worth considering in the longer term.; no
Bulgaria's ambitious program of reforms in several areas, including public financial management (PFM), focuses greatly on its entry into the European Union (EU). Thus, the country has a well developed system, and structure of financial management, that relies heavily on information technology (such as in the area of cash management), and has independent external audits, and parliamentary oversight committees. Although many laws, and institutional arrangements have been established, institutions still need technical assistance, and training to absorb the methods, and international best practices. Bulgaria has significantly reduced the number of extra-budgetary funds, thereby improving the budget's comprehensiveness. It has adopted a pilot programmatic approach in three ministries, strengthening the budget-policy link, and, created a Treasury Single Account to service all budgetary institutions. Moreover, the country has a strong internal audit body in the form of the Public Internal Financial Control Agency (PIFCA)...
The 2003 Guinea Country Financial Accountability Assessment (CFAA) was implemented jointly with the 2003 Guinea Public Expenditure Review (PER), and both analysis will be reported as the Integrated Public Expenditure Review and Fiduciary Assessment (PER-FA) for Guinea. This approach has been followed in order a) to have a cohesive, and coherent set of analysis, and recommendations on Public Finance, b) to reduce the demands on the Government of Guinea, which might have resulted from a duplication of reviews being carried out in the same time frame. This approach reduces the potential overlap in the scope of PER and CFAA. This stand alone CFAA report is based on the chapter on Public Financial Management systems and processes in the PER-FA, with some additional context added. The quality of Public Financial Management in Guinea, does not yet provide sufficient assurance for external donors to implement their projects through the government's own systems via, for example, direct budgetary support. In some aspects of public financial management...
This document reports on a Public Financial Management and Accountability Assessment (PFMAA) for the province of Punjab. The study was commissioned jointly by the World Bank, the Asian Development Bank (ADB), the UK Department for International Development (DfID), and the European Commission (EC). The Government of Punjab (GoPj) managed the process through a Steering Committee chaired by the Finance Secretary. This summary assessment uses the indicator-led analysis to provide an integrated assessment of the Punjab Province's PFM system against the six core dimensions of PFM performance and provides a statement of the likely impact of those weaknesses on budgetary outcomes, on aggregate fiscal discipline, and on the strategic allocation of resources and efficient service delivery. The PFMAA was conducted against 31 Public Financial Management (PFM) performance measurement indicators in accordance with the Public Expenditure and Financial Accountability (PEFA) framework.
This public expenditure review/country financial accountability assessment (PER/CFAA) examines the means by which Laos can improve the planning and management of public resources to establish sustainable economic growth and reduce poverty. It is meant to support the goals of the government's National Poverty Eradication Program, as well as those of the Interim Poverty Reduction Strategy, the Poverty Reduction and Growth Facility, and the Poverty Reduction Partnership Agreement. This report is a full collaborative effort by the Asian Development Bank, the World Bank, and the International Monetary Fund. The report is organized in six chapters. Following the introductory chapter, Chapter 2 focuses on the macroeconomic framework and the resources envelope. Chapter 3 considers issues of budget execution and control. Chapter 4 is on budget planning and preparation. Chapter 5 explores the dimensions of poverty in Laos and how expenditures planning and management can support the objective of poverty alleviation. The final chapter provides an analysis of public expenditure issues in the context of six major sectors: education...
Defining vigilance as retrospective voting - where voters evaluate incumbents on their performance during their entire term in office - the author compares voter behavior in local and national elections to make inferences about whether voters are more vigilant in monitoring government at the local level. Using data from 14 major states in India over the period 1960-92, she contrasts voters' behavior in state legislative assembly elections with their behavior in national legislative elections. In state assembly elections voter reward incumbents for local income growth, and punish them for a rise in inequality, over their entire term in office. But in national elections voters behave myopically, rewarding growth in national income and a fall in inflation and inequality only in the year preceding the election. The evidence is consistent with greater voter vigilance and government accountability in local than in national elections.
This CFAA concentrates, by design, on federal-level public sector financial management in the Russian Federation. Its results feed into the fiduciary discussion presented in the new Russian Federation Country Assistance Strategy (CAS), and into the Core Integrative Fiduciary Assessment (CIFA). In budget management the CFAA recommends 1) strengthening the strategy phase of budget preparation to link macroeconomic resource constraints and sectoral and program targets; 2) adopting a uniform, simplified budget coding structure; 3) adopting a more participatory approach to budget planning and formulation; 4) introducing accounting principles by entities with extra-budgetary funds and preparing reports that are compatible with Treasury accounts and fiscal reporting; 5) preparing a program of institutional development for the MOF and applying modem information technology; and 6) amending the chart of accounts (COA) to fully reflect the budget classification. The development and implementation of a full-function Treasury system will take several years and is not expected to become fully operational before 2004/05. In the interim...
This Country Financial Accountability Assessment (CFAA) was prepared on the basis of the findings of a World Bank mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina in 2001, and reflects developments through early 2002. The CFAA was a constituent element of the Public Expenditure and Institutional Review (PEIR) published in June 2002 on the basis of work carried out in 2001-2002, and the key findings of the CFAA on the public expenditure policy and institutional framework form a significant part of the PEIR section dealing with financial management in the government sector. While some of the diagnosis presented in this CFAA may have been overtaken by events since early 2002, most of its recommendations remain valid and the report provides a sound analytical framework for ongoing reforms in the field of public expenditure management. The country is in transition not only to a market and a post-war economy, but also to a peculiar (and still fragile) conception of statehood. Public administration in BiH combines pre-war, wartime and post-war institutions...
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Photoshop. Photoshop. 25 Photoshop secrets to improve your skills. Photoshop is an amazing bit of software that many designers use on a daily basis.
It's such a flexible bit of kit that you could spend a week learning new features, and still have only scratched the surface of what's possible. Once you've overcome the beginners' learning curve, however, there are some real gems hidden inside Photoshop that can help you speed up your work and get more out for less effort. Here we've rounded up 30 of the best Photoshop secrets to help sharpen your skills and improve your productivity. See all our Photoshop articles here 01. In the top right hand corner of every panel is a little icon that reveals a fly-out menu, giving additional options that you might not have seen before. 02. Paste in Place is one of those functions that you'll use all the time if you know about it, but if you don’t it will come as a revelation!
03. If you’re doing detailed work such as cloning or edge refinement, it can be easy to lose sight of the bigger picture. 04. 05. 06. 07. 08. Master Photoshop masks and selections. Creating selections and masks in Photoshop is a fundamental part of any professional creative workflow.
Whether you're a junior designer, illustrator, animator, or even a creative director, at some point you will have to create a mask and cut something out in Photoshop - even if it's only because you're working late and the repro department has all gone home. There are many varied ways to create selections in Photoshop, ranging from the quick and easy techniques that we're all familiar with - such as using the Magic Wand tool to cut out objects from a high-contrast, flat background, or switching to the Pen tool for greater accuracy - through to more precise, time-consuming techniques that take a while to master. In this workflow guide I'll walk through some more advanced, non-destructive ways of creating masks. 01. Non-destructive layer mask tricks Add a layer mask to any Photoshop layer, and click on the white linked thumbnail to edit it. 02. 03. September Tutorial #2: Realistic Fire. In this tutorial, you will learn how to create realistic-looking fire and flame effects that you can add to any image.
Perfect as Halloween is just around the corner (well, sorta!). Part 1: Step 1 Go to File > New to open a new file (Command +N for Mac or Control+N for PC). The file size can be set according to your requirement. For example, I set my file size to: Width: 800 pixels Height: 600 pixels Resolution: 300 pixels/inch Color mode: RGB Step 2 Set default color to black and white (press D). Step 3 Fill the background color with white (CMD+Delete/CTRL+Backspace). Step 4 Go to Filter > Render > Difference Clouds. Step 5 Continue applying the Difference Clouds filter on the image until the fire pattern is formed(CMD+F/CTRL+F). How to Make a Still Water Reflection Scene in Photoshop » Creative Beacon. Sometimes it is difficult to find that perfect shot that you need for a project.
Sometimes you find the right image, but it has other things going on within it that are undesirable for your purposes. In this tutorial, I am going to show you how to take an image with rippling water, and replace it with a still water reflection. First, find your ideal image and bring it into Photoshop. Hit command + J (CTRL + J on the PC) to duplicate the background layer, so you can always have the original to go back and work from in case you really mess things up. (Yes it really happens sometimes.
Place the flipped version to where it looks like an exact reflection of the top. Below the reflected layers, make a new layer and grab your Gradient Tool. Finally, click the blue gradient layer, and hold shift and click on the upside down reflected image and go to Layer>New> Group From Layers. About The Author jgeorge. 10 Must-Have Photoshop Plugins That Are Free. If you’re looking for new and creative ways to edit or enhance your images, plugins can make your Photoshop workflow go so much smoother.
Whether you want to add some noise or create some stunning color effects, we’ve got a fantastic list for you – and all completely free! 1. virtualPhotographer by optikVerve Labs For those who haven’t grasped all the nooks and crannies of Photoshop yet, or simply don’t want to spend hours tweaking an image, virtualPhotographer is a simple plugin that has over 200 presets for you to apply to your images. There is also a very nifty split-screen preview function that allows you to see the before-and-after of your edit. 2. This incredible plugin works with Photoshop to process and save PNG files much faster, and also saves them in a smaller size. 3. If you haven’t mastered the idea behind curves yet, this plugin has eight common presets to select from, allowing you to choose which one compliments your photo the best. 4.
The Power of Photoshop's Refine Edge Tool. One of the most difficult and frustrating tasks in Photoshop is making a clean and decent selection on photos that involve super fine hair, fur, leaves, and any fiber like elements.
When using the standard selection tool or the masking process, you may able to accurately select smooth edges. We may use the color range tool and the tweaking of levels and channels to select much difficult areas but that would also take too much time on manipulation and very complicated to follow. The good news is that, PS5 or Photoshop CS5 has a tool called the QUICK SELECTION tool. This tool also includes a very powerful sub tool called the REFINE EDGES tool, using the refine edges tool will greatly help and speed up editing tasks especially when you need to select out the hair or fur on subjects.
For example, we have here a wonderful haircut. Normally we would start at the marquee tool. Now when you have selected the necessary parts, find the Refine Edges option found at the right top area.
This video on You Tube named Bike Messengers Are On Crack will make you hold your breath. Apparently, it's a video of an illegal unofficial "Bike Messenger Race" from 2004. These guys break every law ever made relating to moving vehicles. Looks kinda fun. Insane, but fun :) Audio track is Bandwitch by Broken Social Scene.
On Thursday July 21st, we invite you onto our urban farm for cocktails and hors d'oeuvres followed by a three course kamayan-style dinner under the stars.
Please RSVP with your name, party size and any allergies and dietary restrictions by Friday, July 15 via email to [email protected].
Sip a beer brewed in collaboration with Dock Street Brewery and nom some small bites while meandering through the rows of fresh produce and clucking at the roosting hens.
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We were pleased as punch to catch up with Bob Divney about his 30 years in the biz and all things The Artist Cooperative. Talk about a nice guys finish first pitch. Bob reflected on his road traveled and the road ahead for the veritable Mount Rushmore collective of promo vets. As Managing Partner at The Artist Cooperative, Divney is at the helm of Marketing & National Modern, Active & AAA Promotion. With a masthead boasting titles such as VP of Promotion for Warner Bros Records, and VP of Promotion for The Firm, and a roster of Green Day, Depeche Mode, The B-52’s, Audioslave, and Barenaked Ladies (to barely scratch the surface), Divney is clearly a man of experience and gracious in his appreciation for the career he’s had. We spoke off the bat about the synergy that exists working with old friends and colleagues.
“We (Andrew Govatsos and I) started at Reprise around ‘86, ‘87 maybe. I was at Reprise Records for about 17 years and then left to go work for management company The Firm, and helped start CO5, which is still going strong today, with Todd and Tracey. Mid-2000’s I had an new opportunity and I left promotion altogether for a Marketing and Distribution gig with Adrenaline which had distribution through ADA, and allowed me to learn how out physically put out records, understand and execute contracts, manage distribution timelines, and co-op advertising, all the things I never had the opportunity to learn doing promotion.”
Following that, Divney spent a couple of years doing freelance marketing and worked with The Doobie Brothers’ for their World Gone Crazy release, as well as a few independent labels. It was around then that Warner and Reprise merged their promo staffs, and Bob needed some extra team members for a current project. And thus, 6 months later, The Artist Cooperative was born. “Basically, a lot of us are former Warner-Reprise promotions reps, Andrew Govatsos in Boston, Shanna Fischer joined us from Wind-up and is based in NY from New York, Amit Kumar, Atlanta, who was at Reprise after I was there, Tom Cunningham, who I worked together with at Reprise in Philadelphia; Bob Hathaway from the Warner side is in Chicago. Kathie Romero, who was also at Reprise after I was there, is in Dallas. Rich Garcia, who I worked with at Reprise, is our Denver partner and Nancy Klugman, from Warner Bros is on the West coast. Last year we also started a second promotion arm called MARS MUSIC RADIO SERVICES which is run Lynn McDonnell and Lisa Cristiano and Glen Firstenberg from Universal and Apple also joined to run Sales & Marketing Services.”
Divney had been at Warner until 2002. When he moved on from WEA, artist management was the intended path. “I left Warner’s in 2002 ‘cause I thought I wanted to be a manager and realized that was not something I wanted to do, and fell back into promotion and then learned more. When you’re at a major label and you’re tasked with doing promotion, that’s really all you know and all you’re allowed to know. I think every opportunity I’ve had since then has brought in my skillset, my ability to not just organize but understand it from the management perspective, and artists’ perspective. We’re essentially doing the same job as at Reprise but we now answer to clients, independent labels.” Those clients include Nettwerk Records, Kobalt, BMG Rights, alongside major label work and independent artists.
Divney reflected on the nuances of the work now vs. back in the day, pre-Artist Cooperative. “We’re in a position where we built up this company from nothing and we are invested in our own success. We are all partners in this company and win or lose we do it together. With the constant changes in the radio & retail landscape, Glen Firstenberg joined a few years ago to help us work with the DSPs and Streaming Platforms to round out complete promotion and marketing services. Our bet is with the constant consolidation within the industry and the constant downward pressure of physical and digital sales the logical conclusion is that more and more companies will look for savings wherever they can find them and out-sourcing this work will continue to gain traction. Our collective years of experience help our clients be competitive at a fraction of the costs and allows them to re-purpose those savings into other areas.”
And compete they do. The Artist Cooperative has been proud to be a part of projects that include, Passenger, Andrew McMahon, Family of the Year, The Goo Goo Dolls, Andy Grammer, Boy and Bear, among others. It’s that thrill that keeps any true music person in the game, decade after decade. “When you’re able to be an extension of our partner labels or independent artists and work as their own private promotion staff, it gives you some investment in the projects over the long term. We not only enjoy it because it’s our business, we enjoy it because we’ve actually been able to break records.“
“Working with our label partners over longer time lines allows you to develop stronger relationships and a shorthand, that leads to greater efficiencies. We provide daily updates on all our current projects for our label partner, we have weekly conference calls and offer our clients complete access to the team. While the nuts and bolts of the promotion work is what we have been doing for years the engagement with the artist and labels we serve is different in that we are more in tune to our client’s needs. They are part of the process and included in the updates and on our conference calls. Our partners can see firsthand the difficulties and help with the heavy lift in breaking by direct participation.”
To this observer, the success feels inevitable – from a Boston kid, an Emerson student working at Strawberries, the progression seems a natural. Divney’s built the skills to build the business, surrounding himself with like-minded talent and building a partnership along the way.
“Working for yourself can be an eat what you kill environment and because you are so close to all aspect of the business you learn to adapt and make changes as you go. The Artist Cooperative works as a major label promotion team and over time, it became evident that to better serve the needs of our clients we needed a way to develop projects on a micro level and that’s when Mars Music Services was born.”
We discuss the nature of sales overall. “It can be a hard job if you have a hard time with rejection, records take a long time to develop and while you are selling a song you are also selling yourself and your credibility and experience when you are advocating for music on behalf of the artist. The excitement in breaking in developing a project has not gone away after 30 years.”
And then there’s former Reprise “artist,” Morrissey. “We all worked Morrissey together at Reprise as a solo artist and he’s back with his biggest song in well over a decade and breaking at Triple-A Radio and it reminds me that everything in our business in connected from past to present. And yes, KROQ adding the record is still huge!”
And Morrissey’s not the only old friend. “We got to work Barenaked Ladies briefly, which is a record I took a lot of pride in breaking at Reprise. Reprise had the City of Angels record which was a number one record for the Goo Goo Dolls at alternative and we’re working with them again. We have a long-term vested interest in the success of these projects. We are grateful for the opportunity to continue to work with these amazing artists”
Along with the beautiful 1973 Autocar DC another classic member of the Cortese fleet was this 1980 Mack DM812SX1041. Reading the specs on this truck will make any Mack purist salivate. Hauling power was generated by a Mack 300 Plus diesel while ample gearing came through the Mack 12 speed gearbox. Out back, large 11.00R24 tires rode on Mack 58,000 lbs rears.
Anthony purchased this truck form its original owner Blairstown Paving and Excavating in 1989. In 1995 it was sold and apparently fell off the face of the earth.
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This interview with Mr. Yoweri Museveni, the sit-tight president of Uganda and the proud champion of "No-Term-Limit" Presidential System never ceases to rankle. What do these leaders in Africa really think they are? Mini-gods? Well, it is left for Ugandans to go on tolerating him or resolve NOW to let the wind of change blowing across North Africa and the Middle East to reach Kampala also. The task of freeing the whole of Africa from "presidents-for-life", corrupt incompetent dictators and even psuedo-democratically imposed pretenders is an important and urgent one. It is a shame for any African to ask to be excused from it.
Following the adoption of the memorandum of understanding (MOU) by the NEPAD Heads of State and Government Implementation Committee in March 2003, the African Peer Review Mechanism (APRM) was instituted. The APRM is a mutually agreed instrument voluntarily acceded to by the member States of the African Union (AU) as a self-monitoring mechanism.
Like all other policies informing the institution of various treaties in the plethora of regional, sub-regional and global organizations in the world, the APRM has lofty ideas that make it look promising on the paper it is couched in its secretariat.
Essentially, the APRM is meant to operate based on self-assessment questionnaire developed by its secretariat. Here, Governments that have subjected themselves to the review mechanism will assess their performances in the areas of democracy and political governance and socio-economic development, as well as checking their compliance with wide range of African and international human rights treaties.
As at the end of 2010, interestingly about 20 countries have signed the MOU agreeing to come under peer review. It would appear African leaders are leaning towards the idea of credible governance by this gesture, even though a number of them are sit-tight undemocratic despots.
But the APRM is not going to solve the problems of the African people. That is why they are beginning to look for a way out in recent times. What people hitherto had not thought possible is becoming very popular. The African people are beginning to realize that true power and political will reside in them, and results are being recorded promptly.
A new APRM (African People Review Mechanism) was established when the Tunisian people told erstwhile dictator Ben Ali that they had had enough and he quickly tucked his tail and fled into exile after massive protests and demonstrations. The review has started and it is spreading.
The youths of Egypt, embracing this rude awakening started demonstrating against the dictatorship of Hosni Mubarak whom no one could stand up to formerly.
Before our eyes their numbers swelled and daily they thronged the streets of Cairo, converging on the Liberation Square telling Mubarak that time was up. It is worthy of note that it took only eighteen days for this Egyptian revolution to mature. The heat became too much for Mubarak to handle.
The African Peer Review is segmented into four namely: Base Review, Periodic Review, Requested Review, and Crises Review. However, it has been suspected that it is only the Base Review that may be practicable for now and the least time this has taken for the first four countries to go through it is eighteen months!
It is therefore apparent that the People Review Mechanism yields result with the speed of light. This movement has no patience for cheap talk and intergovernmental bureaucracies. With one strong voice the people shouted and the despots were forced to oblige.
If the African Union, NEPAD, and even the APRM were serious about good governance, what business do they have condoning the many dictators that parade themselves as leaders in Africa? As I look at the list of countries that have submitted themselves for review in APRM from 2003-2010, I thought the joke is on the leadership of the AU that set up the APRM. Surely, Algeria, Gabon, Uganda, Egypt, Sudan are a laughing stock on any kind of ‘good governance review’.
It is apparent that this People Review Mechanism will not stop with Tunisia and Egypt. It has quickly crossed to the Middle Eastern monarchical Bahrain where they are calling for widespread political reforms and I have no doubt they will get what they want.
And now it is back in Africa and Libya is under review. Muammar Gaddafi has turned Libya to a fiefdom. For forty two years now he has ruled the country with an iron fist. But like his counterparts he did not see this coming, and his best response was to station mercenaries and snipers with automatic weapons to take down protesters. Gaddafi does not understand that this type of movement has only one outcome, and that is victory! He also does not understand the Arabs. The people just don’t give up.
While, the protesters get gunned down, and Gaddafi is spitting fire and hailstone that he would rather die in power(as the villain that he is not a martyr), it is certainly only a matter of time before he gets kicked out of power or killed in the process according to his utterances.
It is profound when one thinks of the happenings in leadership in Africa. There seems to be that inherent tendency to want to remain in power for life like any monarchy.
Perhaps, Africans are wired genetically to do so. Or else, how does one explain the shameless clinging onto office endlessly in a charade of democracy by African leaders?
The saying that all it takes for ill intentioned people to take over society and poison it is for good people to stand aloof and do nothing is now tested in these societies under review. Only in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya and other climes, the people had stood aloof for too long.
But this current review has come to stay. It is reminiscent of the renaissance movement in the late 1950s and early 1960s that swept the whole of Africa heralding the independence of many African states from colonialism.
As this piece is written, Libya is still under review by the same people who have groaned under the heavy hand of its leader and who has now turned the weapons he purchased with the money of tax payers on those same tax payers. The rest of North Africa and indeed the rest of Africa , the Middle East and every cranny of the world where dictators have held sway should warm up for their own review. African people are simply fed up with bad governance.
In the case of Algeria, it was the rising cost of food items that sparked off the riots in 2010 that eventually ousted the president. In Nigeria, the people would have myriads of reasons to choose to protest about- electricity, bad roads, unemployment, rising prices of food commodities, fuel of all description, health care issues, housing , as well as the general hijacking of decent living conditions by a callous few.
As this revolution sweeps through Libya, we can only watch with bated breaths, anticipating which country will take it up until ultimately the whole of Africa will be free from economic and political oppression.
The end members of passive continental margins are characterized as non-volcanic or volcanic depending on the nature of the transition zone. Differences between these two types are usually reflected by the differences of the physical properties of the Ocean-Continent Transition (OCT). Gravity, magnetic, and seismic data used to investigate the crustal structure of a portion of the northern Gulf of Mexico. Six 800-km long, crustal cross sections have been constructed across the study area with 70 km spacing. Two-dimensional crustal models, comprising 7 layers have been developed to simulate the observed Free-air gravity anomalies. The density of each layer has been kept constant and the geometry of the individual layers modified to obtain a good match to the gravity data. Where possible the gravity models have been constrained by available seismic and magnetic data. Interpretations for the boundaries between different crustal types are delineated by modeling. The magnetic anomalies were used to define the extent of the transitional crust and interpreted as the effects of subaerial flood basalts. For this study OCT was defined as the region where the crustal thickness is greater than 9 km and less than 25 km. The average width of the OCT in the models is 250 km which is greater than that found in previous studies at other volcanic margins. To satisfy concerns that some magnetic anomalies may be due to sea-floor spreading, an alternative model with a narrower transition was constructed which matched the data equally well. In order to reconstruct the pre-extension position of Yucatan the stretched continental crust and transitional zone (restored back to 32 km thickness) across the northern margin, 15° of rotation about a pole south of Florida and 9° further rotation for southern Gulf of Mexico is required. Results from previous studies suggest that the Yucatan Block underwent an additional 20° of rotation due to sea-floor spreading along the restoration arc (total amount of 44° counterclockwise rotation). The results of this thesis supports some previous studies that concluded: (1) the nature of the margin can be classified as being volcanic passive margin and (2) plate reconstructions require counterclockwise rotation for the opening of Gulf of Mexico.
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March 13, 2016 - The damaged national identity card of a young woman, whose family name was Uwimana, lays in a storage container on the grounds of the Ntarama Church, which is now the Ntarama Genocide Memorial. According to the memorial site manager, Uwimana was killed on these grounds along with 5,000 other Tutsis on April 15, 1994. During that time national identity cards were marked to label the ethnicity of the bearer; after the genocide such ethnic identification was banned by the government.
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A slap in the face to every voter, all but three of our elected City Council members refused to take ownership of an issue that is inherently local. The majority voted to turn down the opportunity to take control of historic statues within the city limits.
In a democratic republic, we Richmond residents rely on our local representatives to do what is in the best interest of the city. We do not expect them — nor should they — make decisions based on any other criterion. Clearly, statues on public land within the city should be owned and managed by the city.
In the era of Trump, with a president endorsed by the Ku Klux Klan and who idolized the white racists who organized a deadly white power rally in Charlottesville, a majority Democratic-leaning City Council in a majority minority city just voted to allow the most heinous depictions of subjugation in our streets to remain out of their control. One argument suggests that the state legislators would overturn it anyway, so why bother?
Why bother? Well, a conscience is one good reason to bother. And the fact that nearly every historian agrees that statues depicting the heroism of some who have been documented as murderers of Native Americans and black Americans continue to be hurtful to minorities.
Another reason why the council vote on Monday was cowardly: Confederate soldiers were, by definition, traitors to the nation, while also being strong supporters of state and local rights. And now, more than 100 years after the first statue was erected in the height of Jim Crow lynching, so-called mostly “liberal” City Council members reject local rights.
Given that local and state’s rights tend to be issues of significance for conservatives, anti-Federalists and the alt-right (aka white supremacists), it isn’t too surprising what a mostly Democratic council did on Monday. But, in the absence of federal protections of those statues and the people their depictions injure, such a vote makes no sense whatsoever.
Localities should have the right to decide what they want to do with any items on public land within their jurisdiction. When our very own local representatives decide otherwise, they have decided to act against the interests of the residents.
Each council member who voted against the proposal for city ownership of the statues should be very nervous. Vast amounts of political science research in local politics explains how backlash can be expected after controversial votes like the vote Richmond City Council took on Monday. When voters have fiercely held opinions on sensitive matters of identity and history, conditions are ripe for organized resistance.
I know Councilwoman Kim Gray, 2nd District, was endorsed by the Richmond Free Press. Her vote on Monday merits she not be endorsed again.
When nearly every member of the council that voted “no” is not African-American, and each voting “yes” is African-American, you can expect organized resistance and election challengers.
Let’s lift up City Councilman Michael Jones who introduced the resolution and the two council members who voted in favor of it. They are champions for justice. Indeed, descriptive representation matters.
Did the Doctors' Prescription for Curing California's Medical Malpractice Insurance Crisis of 1975 Work?
Two decades is a long time to look back. To most of the 20,000 or so California physicians who have received their licenses to practice since 1975, it is ancient history.
Life was very different back then. Prior to the 1970's, we looked upon our physicians with a sense of reverence and often treated them as extended members of our families. It seldom occurred to us to sue them if they did not cure our ills or if their treatment harmed us in some way.
All of that began to change in the 60's and early 70's. The business of medicine had begun to transform itself with the creation of HMO's and PPO's. Doctors started leaving private practice to join provider groups for many reasons: so they would not have to make house calls, work weekends, or deal with the business side of medicine. And, in the process, a large part of the physicians immunity afforded by their personal touch was overcome by that insidious social malignancy called litigation. No longer was it sacrilege to sue our doctors for malpractice.
Prior to 1975, physicians could choose to purchase their insurance from a number of competing carriers. Those who were members of the California Medical Association could purchase their professional liability insurance from the Travelers Insurance Company for less than $1,500 a year for primary care specialties. In 1975, it was estimated that over 70% of the State's medical doctors were insured by the Travelers. Then Travelers announced that due to decreased profits caused by the unexpected rapid rise in the number of malpractice claims, and the amounts paid to claimants, premiums would have to be increased sharply. Depending upon medical specialty, premiums were increased by between 300% and 500%. Other underwriters either followed Travelers' lead, increasing premiums or discontinuing such policies altogether. It appeared the doctors had only two options: pay the price, or go bare. In an unanticipated move, they protested by going on strike.
The California legislature responded by promptly passing the Medical Injury Compensation Reform Act (MICRA). In addition to tightening the rules governing the flood of malpractice litigation, MICRA placed a cap of $250,000 on awards for pain and suffering. (Incidentally, 20 years later, the US Congress is considering enacting similar legislation on a national basis.) Passage of MICRA was only part of the doctors' solution to the problems which caused the crisis. Many physicians felt the commercial insurance industry treated them unfairly by its sudden market departure or, in the case of carriers who stayed, by severely increasing premiums.
The doctors decided to take control of this problem by forming five insurance companies and one risk sharing cooperative. Referred to as "bed pan mutuals" by some commercial underwriters, these entities were capitalized through loans known as Surplus Contribution Certificates which physicians paid in addition to their premiums. The initial capitalization totaled less the $20 million dollars. Despite prognostications of failure by the commercial insurance market, four of the five companies and the cooperative are still active and have collectively accumulated in excess of $625 million of policyholders' surplus. In 1985, the fifth company's policyholders were acquired by a (capital) stock company which continues to compete for a share of the health care provider market.
The affordability problem was solved by replacing the "occurrence" type policies with "claims made" agreements. Interestingly, St. Paul Fire & Marine, the countries largest medical malpractice underwriter, (then and now), converted to claims made two years early. Because occurrence policies provide coverage for services rendered while they are in effect and respond to claims brought against insureds after the policies expire, it is virtually impossible for underwriters t accurately predict how much premium should be collected for future liabilities. Claims made policies minimize the uncertainty by limiting coverage to claims filed against insureds for services rendered after an agreed retroactive date and before their policies expire. Only an additional premium and an extended reporting endorsement or policy can extend the claims made policy to cover claims that were not reported yet which occurred during the claims made policy period, a.k.a. tail policy.
However, as the period of claims made coverage is extended by policy renewals, the amount of premium required to pay losses approaches the amount required to provide occurrence coverage. This is just one of many reasons that, for the first time in nearly 20 years, the base rates which determine the premiums for California's physicians and surgeons are on the rise. Many claims made policies are nearly 20 years old. Further, as doctors near retirement age and the no cost tail benefit offered by many claims made underwriters is exercised, the carriers are left with occurrence policies without the benefit of the additional premium. Good news for retiring physicians, bad news for younger physicians who may be freed to pay more premium to make up for shortfalls these underwriters may experience.
The good news is that the financial success of California's doctor owned companies and their pool of at least $450 million of medical malpractice (physicians and surgeons) insurance premiums have grabbed the attention of a host of additional insurance companies, two trusts, and several risk retention and risk purchasing groups. California's health care providers can expect the increased competition to minimize the premium increases for the foreseeable future. However, cost of risk is still predicted to increase in Californias burgeoning managed care environment, the subject of my next article. Accordingly, insurance premiums will have to increase to keep pace.
While the entrance of new players in the market (see illustration 1) is a positive, the emergence of new theories of tort liability are placing a different kind of pressure on health care providers operating incorporated group practices, HMO's and PPO's. Claims for sexual harassment, discrimination, wrongful termination, pollution, hazardous waste disposal, and failure to credential, along with corporate directors and officers liabilities, are creating a need for additional funding and/or insurance thus exacerbating the already burgeoning cost of protection for many large groups and integrated systems medial professional liability risk.
Rick Mortimer is the Executive Vice President of HealthCare Professionals' Insurance Services of Brea, California. Mortimer is a licensed broker specializing in medical malpractice insurance and alternative risk funding mechanisms for risk pooling programs, large group practices and integrated health care delivery systems throughout the United States and abroad.
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THE WOODLANDS, Texas, May 7, 2015 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Repros Therapeutics Inc.® (Nasdaq:RPRX) today announced financial results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2015.
Net loss for the three month period ended March 31, 2015, was ($8.5) million, or ($0.35) per share, as compared to a net loss of ($8.8) million, or ($0.38) per share, for the same period in 2014. The decrease in net loss for the three month period ended March 31, 2015 as compared to the same period in 2014 was primarily due to decreased clinical development expenses related to the Company's enclomiphene product candidate, formerly known as Androxal®, partially offset by increases in clinical development expenses related to Proellex®, research and development payroll and benefits expenses and increased legal expenses.
While preparing its financial statements for the year ended December 31, 2014, the Company identified a prior period error related to its accounting for patent costs. The Company concluded this error was not material individually or in the aggregate to any of the prior reporting periods, and therefore, no restatements of previously issued financial statements were necessary. As such, revisions for the quarter ended March 31, 2014 are reflected in the financial statements herein. The quarter ended March 31, 2015 was not affected.
Research and development ("R&D") expenses decreased 3%, or approximately $248,000, to $7.3 million for the three month period ended March 31, 2015, as compared to $7.6 million for the same period in the prior year. R&D expenses related to the clinical development of enclomiphene decreased 19%, or approximately $929,000, for the three month period ended March 31, 2015 as compared to the prior year period, primarily due to the completion of all Phase 3 clinical trials, partially offset by the payment of $2.3 million to the FDA associated with the submission of our NDA for the product candidate. R&D expenses related to the clinical development of Proellex® increased 72%, or approximately $343,000, from the 2014 period to the 2015 period, due to increased expenses associated with our Phase 2B clinical trials for the treatment of uterine fibroids. Payroll and benefits expenses increased 21%, or approximately $227,000, to $1.3 million for the three month period ended March 31, 2015 as compared to $1.1 million for the same period in the prior year. Included in payroll and benefits expense is a charge for non-cash stock-based compensation of $574,000 for the three month period ended March 31, 2015 as compared to $479,000 for the same period in the prior year. Additionally, salaries for the three month period ended March 31, 2015 were $579,000 as compared to $480,000 for the same period in the prior year. Operating and occupancy expenses increased 11%, or approximately $111,000, to $1.1 million for the three month period ended March 31, 2015 as compared to $1.0 million for the same period in the prior year, primarily due to increased legal expenses.
General and administrative ("G&A") expenses decreased 2%, or approximately $21,000, to $1.2 million for the three month period ended March 31, 2015 as compared to $1.2 million for the same period in the prior year. Payroll and benefits expense increased 1%, or approximately $7,000, to $743,000 for the three month period ended March 31, 2015 as compared to $736,000 for the same period in the prior year. Included in payroll and benefits expense is a charge for non-cash stock based compensation expense of $448,000 for the three month period ended March 31, 2015 as compared to $441,000 for the same period in the prior year. Additionally, salaries for the three month period ended March 31, 2015 were $255,000 as compared to $247,000 for the same period in the prior year. G&A operating and occupancy expense decreased 6%, or approximately $28,000, to $462,000 for the three month period ended March 31, 2015 as compared to $490,000 for the same period in the prior year primarily due to a decrease in legal expenses.
Interest income decreased to $1,000 for the three month period ended March 31, 2015 as compared to $2,000 for the same period in the prior year. The decrease for the three month period ended March 31, 2015 as compared to the same period in the prior year was primarily due to decreased cash balances.
The Company had cash and cash equivalents of $37.9 million as of March 31, 2015 as compared to $46.6 million as of December 31, 2014. Net cash of approximately $8.8 million and $7.9 million was used in operating activities during the three month periods ended March 31, 2015 and 2014, respectively. The major use of cash for operating activities for the three month period ended March 31, 2015 was to fund our clinical development programs, including $2.3 million payment to the FDA associated with the submission of our NDA for our enclomiphene product candidate, and associated administrative costs. No cash was used in investing activities during the three month period ended March 31, 2015. Cash provided by financing activities during the three month period ended March 31, 2015 was approximately $102,000 due to the receipt of that amount from a former 10% shareholder of the Company in accordance with Section 16(a) under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended.
Members of the Federal Open Market Committee raised its GDP estimate from 2.1 percent in September to 2.5 percent.
The statement noted that the jobs market "will remain strong," an upgrade from the assessment at the Oct. 31-Nov. 1 meeting that conditions "will strengthen somewhat further."
The Federal Reserve came through on a widely expected interest rate hike Wednesday following its two-day policy meeting and sharply raised its economic growth forecast for 2018.
In their decision, the central bank policymakers mostly followed the script, though they did indicate that one less hike is on the way for 2019. Two Fed presidents voted against the increase — Charles Evans of Chicago and Neel Kashkari of Minneapolis.
The move will push the target range to 1.25 percent to 1.5 percent. The rate is pegged to a wide variety of debt instruments, such as credit cards and adjustable-rate mortgages.
One of the more notable developments came from the expectations Federal Open Market Committee members set for gross domestic product next year. The committee collectively raised its GDP estimate from 2.1 percent in September to 2.5 percent.
That comes following two consecutive quarters of 3 percent growth or higher and estimates that the fourth quarter could hit that level as well.
However, the burst may be short-lived. Growth is projected to come back down to 2.1 percent in 2019 and 2 percent in 2020, though both are above the respective 2 percent and 1.8 percent forecasts three months ago.
The committee made no mention of why it expected growth to accelerate, though Chair Janet Yellen and others in past speeches have expressed some optimism that more aggressive fiscal policy could be a help. Congressional lawmakers are set to approve a tax reform package aimed at slashing the corporate tax rate and lowering the level paid by many Americans.
"Once tax cuts kick in, we should see GDP growth north of 3 percent easily," said Massud Ghaussy, senior director of advisory services at Nasdaq Advisory Solutions. "One one hand we hear all this chatter that inflation is low and is not picking up. On the other hand, when we look at real assets and financial assets, they're going through the roof."
On top of the more buoyant outlook for overall growth, Fed officials cut their estimates for the unemployment rate, to 3.9 percent in 2018 and 2019, two-tenths below the previous numbers. The 2020 rate is expected to be 4 percent, down from 4.2 percent, while the longer-run outlook remained at 4.6 percent. The current unemployment rate is 4.1 percent.
Reaching its 2 percent inflation goal, however, has remained elusive for the Fed, and that rate is not expected to be hit until 2019. The Fed's preferred gauge showed just 1.6 percent annualized growth in the latest reading.
Still, the Fed has persevered in hiking rates gradually, with this week's raise being the third quarter-point move in 2017. Projections for 2018 remained unchanged at three more increases.
"The fact that they stuck with the three rate-hike forecast sends a signal that at this point they're not ready to adopt a potentially more aggressive stance that a number of people have been talking about for next year," said Craig Bishop, lead strategist for U.S. fixed income at RBC Wealth Management. "The Fed could very well be two (rate hikes) vs. three going into next year."
There was some shifting in the FOMC's closely watched "dot plot" — a chart that depicts where each member expects the federal funds rate to be in the years ahead. There was a mildly dovish tilt to 2019, with one fewer member expecting a third hike in 2019. This was the first meeting for newly confirmed Governor Randal Quarles and was held without Stanley Fischer, who resigned as vice chairman in October for personal reasons.
In approving the hike, the committee strengthened some of the wording regarding the economy in its postmeeting statement.
The statement noted that the jobs market "will remain strong," an upgrade from the assessment at the Oct. 31-Nov. 1 meeting that conditions "will strengthen somewhat further." Later, the committee said the current stance of monetary policy is "supporting strong labor market conditions," a contrast to the language from the previous meeting that indicated "some further strengthening."
Still, the committee's indication that three hikes are on the way in 2018 is at odds with market expectations.
While this week's move was almost fully priced in, traders in the federal funds futures market indicate only two hikes next year, in March and September, according to the CME FedWatch Tool. The market is implying a funds rate of 1.83 percent at year's end, compared with 1.15 percent currently, a level that will be affected by this week's decision.
Fed officials have been stumped by the trend in financial conditions, which actually have loosened during the five rate increases the committee has approved since December 2015.
The Chicago Fed's financial conditions index hasn't been this low since 1994, and the government's benchmark 10-year yield actually has edged lower this year despite the Fed's tightening. At the same time, the stock market has roared higher, with the S&P 500 gaining more than 19 percent year to date.
MOSCOW, Aug 8 (Reuters) - The rouble slid towards its lowest level in nearly two years on Wednesday and investors sold off bonds and stocks after the Kommersant daily published what it said was the full text of a draft U.S. law detailing possible penalties against Russia.
Republican Senator Lindsey Graham, one of the measure's lead sponsors, called it "the sanctions bill from hell."
Russian market reaction was muted at the time, however, and jitters only set in on Wednesday after Kommersant's publication of the sanctions document https://www.kommersant.ru/docs/2018/t2018d140-Menendez-Russia-Sanctions-Bill.pdf which cited potential curbs on the operations of several state-owned Russian banks in the United States and restrictions on holding Russian sovereign debt.
"The rouble is hit by the sanctions theme. Even though there will be no real action until September, the signal is already there," a dealer at a major Western bank in Moscow said.
Russia's five-year credit default swaps (CDS), which reflect the cost of insuring Russian debt against default, rose to their late June high of 145, up from 133-134 earlier this week .
"There are a lot of geopolitical concerns investors have and that's being reflected in a higher risk premium on Russian assets," said Phoenix Kalen, director of emerging markets strategy, at Societe Generale in London.
"The probabilities are such that this bill is still relatively unlikely to become law and with that assumption in mind then I wouldn't expect the rouble to sell off significantly from here," Kalen added.
The U.S. measure's prospects are unclear. It would have to pass both the Senate and House of Representatives and be signed into law by President Donald Trump.
"But even so, the document clearly shows the determination to go further than before in order to cause damage for Russia," Barclays said in a note.
"The sanctions story will be one that resurfaces from time to time, especially with Republicans trying to figure out how to position themselves ahead of the mid-term elections in contrast to President Trumps position, so it is likely that we will see these bursts of pressure on Russian assets," said Societe Generale's Kalen.
Shares in Russia's largest lender Sberbank dropped to 192.50 roubles on the Kommersant report, losing more than 4 percent on the day and hovering at their lowest since mid-April.
Shares in Russia's second-largest bank VTB were also down - by 2.1 percent - underperforming the benchmark stock index MOEX which declined 0.9 percent to 2,290.5.
Russian business conglomerate Sistema saw its shares tumble by 3.6 percent, hit by the threat of targeted sanctions after Republican Representative Ileana Ros-Lehtinen said on her Twitter account on Tuesday that an investigation was underway into Sistema's chairman Vladimir Yevtushenkov for "operations in illegally annexed Crimea."
Sistema's spokesman said the company had no investments in Crimea, the Black Sea peninsula that Russia annexed from Ukraine in 2014.
For Russian treasury bonds see (Additional reporting by Karin Strohecker and Claire Milhench in London and Vladimir Abramov and Anastasia Teterevleva in Moscow Writing by Andrey Ostroukh and Andrew Osborn Editing by Alexandra Hudson and Mark Potter)
What's in store for the market? Alec Young, equity market strategist at Standard & Poor's, and Edgar Peters, chief investment officer at PanAgora Asset Management, gave their forecasts on "Morning Call."
Young told CNBC's Mark Haines that the previous quarter's results "are coming in better than expected" -- and he sees "further to go on the upside" for the remainder of 2007. As for 2008, the strategist says his peers' consensus for S&P 500 profit growth is 11%. Young declared that the S&P 500 may even be ready to "challenge the 2000 highs."
Peters agreed that the outlook is good, but pulled back from Young's exuberance, saying he is merely "somewhat, not very, optimistic." Peters said he's "worried by the macropicture," particularly inflation -- and he believes it's "highly possible" the Federal Reserve may hike rates.
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[Continuation] Breaking: Mueller Grand Jury charges filed, arrests as soon as Monday pt 2 - Page 2 - International Skeptics Forum
Not even that. He was forced into the sanctions, and then ignored them. It was only after the UK nerve agent attack that he actually implemented the sanctions, and then in a way that didn't actually hurt Russia at all.
You think we should allow Fox News to decide whether or not there will be an impeachment of the President? Because that's what point 3 says when you think about it.
"If we extend unlimited tolerance even to those who are intolerant, if we are not prepared to defend a tolerant society against the onslaught of the intolerant, then the tolerant will be destroyed, and tolerance with them. " Karl Popper, The Open Society and Its Enemies Vol. 1
Speaking of sanctions... looks like there's some more action on that front, finally. Greatly, greatly delayed and conveniently right after Trump's G7 rant about how they should just let Russia back in (I had actually been wondering what at least seemingly anti-Russia thing the Administration would pull out after that, really). Whether they'll actually be enforced or be meaningful is yet another uncertainty.
I'm guessing it has to do with the Deep State running an underground pizza parlor inside a child trafficking ring. On Mars.
"It’s easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled." -- Mark Twain, maybe.
U.S. Special Counsel Robert Mueller warned that Russian intelligence services have active “interference operations” in the U.S. and asked a judge to limit the pretrial evidence provided to a Russian firm indicted over meddling in the 2016 election.
I assume it never occurred to them that one of the defendants would appear and contest the charges, let alone mock them while doing so:
I've never seen anything like this. An investigator working to stop foreign meddling in our election, and right wing supporters are happy that the investigation is being mocked? This is mind blowing. I guess we really get to see who the party of traitors is and it's been the GOP all along. Not really surprised though. Those that are usually the most traitorous wrap themselves in the flag.
Thank you for this, seriously. Mind blowing how pathetic politics in the US has become, and this is a specific example.
“There are times when the mind is dealt such a blow it hides itself in insanity. While this may not seem beneficial, it is. There are times when reality is nothing but pain, and to escape that pain the mind must leave reality behind.” - Patrick Rothfuss
So Mueller claiming to have evidence of broader Russian interference than just this case, that pertains to continuing interference, is evidence that the "Russians" aren't behind it?
No it shows that the indictments were a silly stunt and Mueller is going to end up with egg on his face when he finally dismisses the indictment against Concord.
On May 8, 2017, President Trump announced his intent to nominate Friedrich to serve as a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia, to a seat vacated by Reggie Walton who assumed senior status on December 31, 2015.[6][7] She was formally nominated on June 7, 2017.[8] On July 25, 2017, the Senate Judiciary Committee held a hearing on her nomination.[9] Her nomination was reported out of committee by voice vote on September 14, 2017.[10] On November 16, 2017, the U.S. Senate voted 93–4 to invoke cloture on Friedrich's nomination.[11] On November 27, the Senate voted 97–3 to confirm her to the District Court.[12] She received her judicial commission on December 1, 2017.
In a brief order Saturday evening, U.S. District Court Judge Dabney Friedrich offered no explanation for her decision to deny a request prosecutors made Friday to put off the scheduled Wednesday arraignment for Concord Management and Consulting, one of the three firms charged in the case.
I've never seen anything like this. An investigator working to stop foreign meddling in our election, and right wing supporters are happy that the investigation is being mocked?
It is curious you scare-quoted "Russians" and focused on Mueller making an alleged mistake when he is citing that he has evidence of broader and continuing Russian interference.
I don't belong to a political party. For now, I'll support the one that's not selling out the country. I wish more Republicans would remember that the nation comes before party.
I don't think anyone expected much from the Russian indictments, but feel free to spike the ball anyway.
I see that Mueller is claiming to have evidence of broader and continuing Russian interference. Your focus is oddly myopic and jumping to conclusions.
I am myopic? Your last three posts have credulously repeated Mueller’s arguments without even the slightest bit of skepticism.
Anyone who opposes The Fuhrer must be attacked no matter the facts, and no matter that he is guilty of far worse transgressions. Such is the cult following of the Imbecile-in-Chief, who at least was right on one point: His cult will remain loyal no matter what.
How many mistakes has Mueller made with regards to the law? How many mistakes have you made with regards to the law? I am going to side with Mueller until someone with any education, knowledge, or experience handling this form of law can get me an intelligent breakdown. Nothing that I have seen here has persuaded me.
oh man.... folks do not criticize Mueller with links to third party sources because you are in the Fuhrer's "cult."
Good call. Mueller is IMO an American hero. He cares about what's true, and he's going to do his best to bring it to light.
Trump uses this same arguing style, as do a lot of his supporters (or not supporters as it seems ). Isolate an incident as if it never happens outside of this one time, then be like, "What the? How come I do this one thing and all of a sudden I'm a Trump supporter?!?!?"
So far you've attacked anyone that's gone after Trump, in one case on almost an obsessive level. All of your arguments that you make in the threads I see you in seem to be oddly void of any comment at all when it comes to Trump, pro or con. Yet, they are extremely aggressive towards anyone that's hunting him. Is there any other explanation? This event notwithstanding.
Although Iran remains a significant concern for its continued financial and logistical support of terrorism, Iraq has moved to the top of my list. As we previously briefed this Committee, Iraq's WMD program poses a clear threat to our national security, a threat that will certainly increase in the event of future military action against Iraq. Baghdad has the capability and, we presume, the will to use biological, chemical, or radiological weapons against US domestic targets in the event of a US invasion. We are also concerned about terrorist organizations with direct ties to Iraq—such as the Iranian dissident group, Mujahidin-e Khalq, and the Palestinian Abu Nidal Organization.
That's not what McCarthyism was, but fortunately we don't have to jump to conclusions about what evidence the federal intelligence agencies does or does not have. The judge was given information under court seal. You are claiming that Mueller was making an "McCarthyist" "excuse" in the explicit absence of evidence.
The investigation and court cases are going to proceed, so jumping on not having access to information that is specifically not publicly available to somehow argue that such information doesn't exist is a ridiculously short-sighted and nonsensical strategy.
Except for Trump's team and Republican propagandists, where undermining Mueller in the court of public opinion while he is investigating in necessary silence allows for a few outs. The first that the Special Counsel's conclusion can be weathered by the Republicans in Congress if it can be sufficiently discounted as partisan, witch-hunt, etc. The second that interfering (via firings or other means) can be excused for those reasons.
While I appreciate people taking an interest in the subject, one quickly realizes that perhaps this is the first time one has considered the issues? Mueller is acting like McCarthy
Mueller and his team are way over their skis and are going to have make a hard decision to dismiss the indictment.
What's wrong with acting like McCarthy? Your cult leader counts McCarthy as a hero. His buddy Cohn is definitively a major mentor of trump. That's fact.
Not until you are charged or indicted. It's part of discovery in a trial, not part of the investigation.
Google has been contacting publishers of Web-based classified advertising sites, requesting a direct feed of listings, according to Classified Intelligence, a research firm focused on the industry.
Recruitment site CareerBuilder is in discussions with Google, analyst John Zappe wrote in a research note on Tuesday, while Adicio, a provider of software that powers newspaper job sites, told Zappe that it was working with its affiliates to determine a response to Google's request.
Google doesn't need a feed, Zappe wrote, but the Web-crawling and indexing process it uses would be very time-consuming and laborious.
"If the company can obtain a direct feed, parsing the data becomes easier, and indexing the listings is faster," he wrote. "It also puts less burden on the bandwidth and servers at the originating site."
Classified Intelligence Editorial Director Jim Townsend told internetnews.com that making classified ads available through an organic Google search would definitely change the game, but exactly how remains to be determined.
There are two schools of thought, he said. On the one hand, search provided additional distribution of the ad.
"If someone pays to place an ad in a newspaper, wouldn't it make sense to throw that paper on as many streets as possible? It's distribution, distribution, distribution," he said.
On other side of that coin, Townsend said, ads that are freely available through search could destroy the pricing model used by print and online classifieds publishers.
"Just as Craigslist had a lot to do with killing the paid real estate listings," Townsend said, "the more you give away for free, the harder it is to place a high value on it."
The stakes are high. In Jupiter Research's "U.S. Local Online Advertising Forecast, 2005 to 2010," released last week, analyst David Card forecast spending in the U.S. for online local advertising will grow at an annual compounded rate of 11 percent, or from 2005 to 2010 -- from $3.2 billion in 2005 to $5.3 billion in 2010.
Classified advertising will garner almost 70 percent of that total throughout the forecast period. (Jupiter Research and internetnews.com are owned by the same corporation.)
Classified Intelligence estimates the worldwide classifieds market, in all its forms, at $100 billion per year.
Dion Lim, vice president of business development at SimplyHired, said the vertical portal for job search isn't worried about competition from Google.
SimplyHired offers metasearch of multiple job listings sites, along with tools to get more information and manage searches that can last for months.
"Google is validating that searchers want to go to one place to search all the jobs out there," he said. "But search is just one aspect of the experience."
SimplyHired lets users search using multiple criteria or filters. It also provides buttons under listings that let jobseekers check on the average salary for that position or see whether anyone they're connected to on social networking service LinkedIn could make an introduction.
Townsend said that the online classifieds industry will move from a pay-for-listing model to a pay-for-performance one. Instead of charging advertisers to post their ads, classifieds sites will get paid only if someone clicks on the ad.
In that model, search engines become their friends, because they can deliver a more qualified audience.
"What that's worth, we're going to have to see," Townsend said. "If it's proven to be the way to reach people, [pay-per-click] prices will rise again."
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I was there with Michele Speakman and John Rigney, who set up meetings and showed me around the oldest state house in America in continuous legislative use. It was an honor to be in the building of such historical significance. From the state brochure this is where, “General George Washington came before Congress to resign his commission as commander-in- chief of the Continental Army and the Treaty of Paris was ratified, marking the official end of the Revolutionary War.”
Committee convened promptly at 1:00 in the afternoon and ran for over 12 hours, ending slightly before 2 a.m. 36 bills were up for consideration. There were over 900 witnesses signed up, but some of those were counted twice as they were there to speak to multiple bills. There were about 500 people present, filling the hearing room, the overflow room, and the hallways.
Moms Demand Action was there in their red shirts. These ladies seemed very similar to the ones we have in Ohio. There were also many kids (someone said two bus loads.) The kids were definitely happy to be missing school, but most seemed more interested in their phones than the business of the legislature.
There were also hundreds of pro-freedom people in attendance. Some where there to testify on one bill of particular importance to them, others to testify on many bills, and others there to show support for the cause.
Rather than hold three separate hearings as we do in Ohio, Maryland legislators hears sponsor, proponent, and opponent testimony on the same day. They also do panels of witnesses, instead of each person testifying separately. I was on a panel with Delegate Impallaria and John Rigney.
After Delegate Impallaria gave his sponsor testimony, I gave my proponent testimony (see below), followed by John and his testimony. Because of the number of witnesses, we are limited to two minutes each. (The Chair can extend time at his discretion.)
After our prepared statements the committee began asking questions of the three of us. As is normal, some committee members were supportive, and others were opposed to the idea of armed school staff. No matter how a Delegate felt about the bill, every question asked was good because it fostered a better understanding of the issues at hand. Being pro-gun or anti-gun does not matter when everyone puts the safety of the children first.
Delegate Impallaria, Mr. Rigney and I each answered questions from our perspective. Because we received many questions, our panel seemed to be up there for over 30 minutes, which was longer than any other panel I witnessed during the day. Several Delegates asked for contact information after we testified, so that they could follow up with us. Overall, I think we did a good job presenting the concept and answering questions for the committee.
Other panels followed us, some of which included Shannon Alford with the NRA-ILA, Mike Doherty of Maryland State Rifle and Pistol Association, Mark Pennak of Maryland Shall Issue and many others. Each witness did a good job presenting their perspective and answering questions when asked.
Then came those opposed which included ATF Maryland, Baltimore Teachers Union, Maryland Association of Boards of Education, Public School Superintendents’ Association of Maryland, NAACP and many others.
While each professional witness was professional and explained why they don’t want to participate, none of them made a good case as to why others should be prohibited from following the advice of experts to make their individual school safer.
Several kids noted that they would not “feel safe” with armed staff. That is understandable, but it more important than “feeling safe” is “being safe.” Policy should be set based on facts and realities, not feelings and hypothetical ideas.
One other bill that received considerable attention was HB 991, which would have banned normal capacity magazines (over 10 rounds). Many witnesses opposed to the bill raised a series of questions about how the bill would work or why it is good policy. Lacking good answers, the bill’s sponsor withdrew the bill to cheers from the gallery.
It was great to see that even in a state like Maryland that is generally hostile toward the Second Amendment and firearms use, many Delegates are interested in passing good legislation that will result in good policy without bad unintended consequences.
Jim Irvine is Board President of Buckeye Firearms Association. He is also recipient of the NRA-ILA's 2011 "Jay M. Littlefield Volunteer of the Year Award," the CCRKBA's 2012 "Gun Rights Defender of the Year Award," and the SAF's 2015 "Defender of Freedom Award."
Good afternoon Chairman Vallario, Vice-Chair Dumias, and members of the House of Delegates Judiciary Committee.
The unfortunate reality today is that school violence is a problem for our country. The “no bullying” and “no violence” policies have not ended these problems. Too many of our children have died and we must change our policies to do a better job protecting them.
Active killers often target children in our schools. They are attractive because they are “safe” locations for a coward to commit such crimes.
Police alone are not the answer. They can’t be. The timeline of typical events makes it impossible for outside help to respond in time. Just as we use AEDs and epi-pins to keep people alive until traditional first responders can arrive, schools should have armed staff and trauma equipment for the same reason.
Schools are legally and morally responsible for the lives of our children. School massacres are foreseeable events. There must be policies in place to deal with these events. Schools should have a way to stop a killer who is inside the building about to enter a classroom of children. Armed personal have proven to be the most reliable means of stopping a killer.
Through the FASTER Saves Lives program, we have trained 1,300 school staff in over 200 districts in 12 states, including Maryland. The program was designed by John Benner of Tactical Defense Institute who is our nation’s premiere expert on this topic, especially as it relates to schools. Training includes mindset, shooting, force on force, Law enforcement qualification (to a higher standard) and medical. The methods taught have proven to be effective both at ending violence and treating injured.
House Bill 760 would allow schools to implement best practice by selecting the best people, having them attend the best training, and using proven methods to stop a killer and treat injured kids before outside help can respond. It will result in safer schools by adding critical layers of protection for our most precious resource, your children. Our methods have saved lives in Ohio and will here too.
This local control is critical to allowing schools to implement the safest and most effective safety and security programs. Each district knows it staff, schools and communities better than anyone else. They need the ability to adjust, improve and alter their programs in a proactive way to meet changing conditions.
After House Bill 760 is enacted, we look forward to training more of your school staff and your law enforcement trainers. More than a 3-day class, we offer a 3-year curriculum. The goal is to foster working and training relationships between your local law enforcement and your schools. By training together now, they will be able to excel together on event day making the safest possible schools for your children. That is something that everyone should support.
At the request of our Bucks County School Districts, the Bucks IU provides specialized services to transport students from their home to district classroom locations, Bucks IU programs, and approved private schools. Our services primarily focus on the unique transportation requirements of students with special needs, ranging in age from 3 to 21, with consideration of each child’s special needs at the forefront of the services we provide.
We operate our own fleet of vehicles and contract with outside transportation agencies, mainly for students who require lift vehicles and whose disabilities require an aide to travel with them on the vehicle. These aides help manage students who may be medically fragile or demonstrate behavioral issues that would best be addressed by having someone ride with them (our drivers and aides are trained in the characteristics of various disabilities). All the vehicles we use are air conditioned, have a seatbelt for each student, and are equipped to handle safety vests, seatbelt locks, Kid-Y vests, car seats, and other adaptive equipment.
Additionally, we work with our county school districts to consolidate and coordinate routes between them that our smaller vans can handle more cost effectively. We also transport students involved in work placements (job coached training situations) and the Extended School Year (ESY) program during the summer.
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Horticulture is the act of creating, developing, and dealing with a garden. While horticulture may appear to be like natural science, it contrasts in that herbal science is entirely a science, while horticulture regularly fuses tasteful and plan components to make lovelier, and in addition utilitarian, gardens.
The principal recorded occurrences of horticulture go back to antiquated Persia, when this training initially showed up as people progressed from being essentially itinerant seeker gatherers into the period of farming.
In any case, take note of that horticulture isn’t the same as farming. While agribusiness includes huge single-trim fields, horticulture is performed on a littler scale with blended products of plants in little gardens, patches, pots, or grower.
Today, horticulture applies to both indoor and open air gardens. In this training, horticulturists center around everything that goes into developing a garden. Through horticulture, a horticulturist may work in raising natural products, vegetables, blossoming plants, fancy plants, herbs, or some mix of plants in gardens at home or for business purposes.
Notwithstanding these, horticulture additionally incorporates the act of safeguarding and rationing plants, and additionally reestablishing scenes. Numerous horticulturists make and develop their greenery enclosures for their very own utilization and delight. They may do this with indoor blooming plants that light up their homes, or they may develop kitchen greenery enclosures or expert greenhouses from which they can offer them create as well as plants.
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The US Navy ordered the prototype of the world's first monoplane torpedo bomber, the Douglas TBD Devastator, in 1934. First flown the following year, production delivery of this advanced aircraft started in 1937. Powered by an early 850 hp Pratt & Whitney R-1830 Twin Wasp, the TBD-1 was capable of 206 mph. However, aviation technology was changing quickly, and by 1939 the Navy recognized that improved performance was needed. On 25 March of that year the Navy asked contractors to respond to a requirement for an advanced torpedo plane. This decision was fortunate, as by 1942 the TBD would be obsolete.
The 25 March requirements included a maximum speed of 300 mph, a range of at least 1,000 miles while carrying a torpedo, a ceiling of at least 30,000 feet, a take off run in combat trim of not more than 325 feet into a 25-knot wind, and a stalling speed with a torpedo of no more than 70 mph. Additionally, it was required that the torpedo, or bombs, must be carried internally. In response, the Navy received 13 design proposals from six manufacturers. By 3 November, 1939, the Navy had focused on two of these designs; one from Vought powered by the Pratt & Whitney R-2800 Double Wasp, and one from Grumman powered by the Wright R-2600. Although the Navy announced its intention to order each design, it took six months for the contracts to be awarded.
Grumman received the order for two examples of the XTBF-1 on 8 April, 1940. This was a mid-wing cantilever design with a crew of three. Externally, it looked like Grumman's F4F Wildcat, but with a bigger belly. The TBF was designed from the start with folding wings, with the folding mechanism patterned after that developed for the Martlet II and F4F-4 Wildcat. Armament consisted of one synchronized "50 caliber" (12.7mm) Browning machine gun in the upper engine cowling firing through the propeller, another 50 caliber weapon firing from a small turret at the aft end of the long canopy, and a ventral flexible 30 caliber (7.62mm) machine gun firing rearwards from a position just aft of the long weapons bay. The weapons bay was large enough to hold four 500-pound bombs, or one 22.4-inch 2,000 pound Mark 13 torpedo. Provision was made for carrying the Norden bombsight, but Avenger pilots found this to be less accurate than other aiming techniques.
The US Navy placed some urgency in replacing the TBD, as an order was placed for 285 TBF-1 aircraft and one TBF-2 on 30 December, 1940, more than seven months before the prototype XTBF-1 was ready for flight tests. The two sub-types differed in that the TBF-1 was to be powered by the two-speed single-stage R-2600-8, while the TBF-2 was to be powered by the single-speed two-stage R-2600-10.
The prototype flew on 7 August, 1941. Several significant problems were identified, but were quickly solved. Development of the TBF was not greatly affected when the first prototype crashed after catching fire in flight on 28 November, 1941, as the second prototype was nearly ready by that time.
The first production TBF-1 was completed on 3 January, 1942. The TBF-1 had a span of just over 54 ft (17 ft with wings folded), a length of 40 ft, weighed 10,080 pounds empty, 13,667 pounds loaded, and 15,905 pound maximum. Powered by a 1,600 hp Wright R-2600-8, the TBF-1 reached a maximum speed of 271 mph at 12,000 ft, although it cruised at a leisurely 145 mph. Internal fuel capacity was 335 gallons, giving a range (with torpedo) of 1,215 miles.
The designation TBF-1B applied to 402 aircraft built for the Royal Navy, which the British initially called Tarpon T.R. Mark I, but later called Avenger T.R. Mark I. British Avengers were sometimes modified to British specification by Blackburn Aircraft, including the installation British oxygen systems and gunsights.
The TBF-1C deleted the nose-mounted machine gun and, instead, mounted one 50 caliber weapon in each wing. This variant was plumbed to carry up to 391 gallons of additional fuel in auxiliary fuel tanks. Grumman built 764, while GM built 2,332 of their virtually identical TBM-1C.
The TBF-1D was a modification of the TBF-1 fitting the ASD or ASB radar for locating surfaced submarines or surface ships.
The first of two XTBF-3 prototypes flew on 20 June, 1943. This aircraft featured the 1,900 hp Wright R-2600-20 engine in an attempt to restore performance lost through increased operational weight in later TBF-1 variants. However, no production TBF-3 was built by Grumman. To allow Grumman's factory to focus on production of the critically important F6F Hellcat, production of Avengers was completely in the hands of the Eastern Aircraft Division of General Motors, which fabricated portions of the aircraft in several cities, and performed final assembly in Trenton, New Jersey. GM built 4,657 of this variant, called the TBM-3, between April 1944 and August 1945.
There were at least 15 variants of the TBM-3, including many modified to carry various types of surface search radar or airborne early warning radar.
In its first combat action at Midway on 4 June, 1942, the TBF faired badly. Six TBF-1 aircraft attacked the Japanese Kido Butai (Striking force) of four fleet aircraft carriers with a powerful screen. Five Avengers were shot down, and the sixth, badly damaged, barely made it back to Midway Island. This attack, like most that day, achieved nothing. However, Douglas SBD Dauntless dive bombers made successful attacks later that day, inflicting fatal damage on all four Japanese carriers.
In subsequent clashes with the Japanese Navy, the Avenger was hampered by the ineffectiveness of its primary weapon, the Mark 13 torpedo. The generally poor manufacture of this weapon was a serious problem, but was overshadowed by its many design flaws. It was slow, and too fragile for release speeds greater than 130mph (increased later in the war). While this slow release speed made the TBF vulnerable to antiaircraft fire, pilots were thankful that the Avenger was a tough aircraft, like all Grumman aircraft of that era. This, and poor Japanese antiaircraft gunnery, saved many American pilots. Later, the Mark 13 torpedo was improved by installing a "pickle barrel" housing around the nose of the torpedo to allow much faster drops. The warhead, initially 401 pounds of TNT, was increased to 600 pounds of the much more potent Torpex in 1943. With the later, more effective, variants of the Mark 13, Avengers played the primary role in sinking the huge battleships Yamato and Musashi, and several Japanese aircraft carriers, cruisers, destroyers, and other warships.
In the Atlantic, the Avenger was the obvious choice for use aboard British and American escort carriers in screening convoys and hunting down U-boats. Avengers would sight surfaced U-boats, and swoop down on them in a glide bombing approach, releasing multiple 250-pound, 325-pound, or (most often) 500-pound depth bombs. If the U-boat put up accurate flak, the Avenger pilot might choose to circle out of range wait for other aircraft to assist. Grumman Wildcat fighters, with either four or six heavy machine guns, were often effective at subduing the U-boat's flak battery so that the Avengers could more safely make their attacks. Later the Avenger's arsenal included rockets for use on surfaced U-boats and, after mid-1943, a super-secret anti-submarine homing torpedo known as the Mark 24 Fido (also called Zombie). Various versions of the Avenger were fitted with radar for finding submarines or surface ships, with sonobuoys to track submerged submarines, and with flares and searchlights for illuminating potential targets at night. Avengers were known to carry combinations of these devices, such as two 500-pound depth bombs, one Fido, radar, flares, and sonobuoys.
American escort carrier air groups sank, or assisted in sinking, 35 submarines in the Atlantic. Most, perhaps all, of these kills must have been made by Avengers. To this total must be added the achievements of British Avengers. Additionally, Avengers flew anti-submarine patrols from land bases, and laid mines.
In all, 9,839 Avengers were assembled, including 2,293 TBFs built by Grumman and 7,546 TBMs built by Eastern Aircraft (General Motors). After the war, they faded from service more gradually than most aircraft of the era, serving useful roles into mid-1950s.
Born in 1867, Paul König originally was a captain in the merchant navy. During 1914, he was recalled to active duty.
In 1916 became CO of the merchant submarine Deutschland. He took the merchant submarine on two trips to the US for commercial purposes.
From 1919 until 1931 he was branch leader at the Norddeutschen Lloyd. Paul König died on 8 August, 1933 at Gnadau where he is buried.
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NH Standard Data Book (Road & Bridge) 29 01 2013 - MP PWDFeb 1, 2013 . This SOR is based on Standard Data book for analysis of Rates for Road and Bridge Works. . ROAD WORKS. "Specifications" would refer to the "Specifications for road and bridge works" (4th. Revision) published by the Indian roads Congress August'2001, . Copies from Registers containing records of.copy of nh standard data book road and bridge,copy of nh standard data book road and bridge,CA-VOL-I - NHAIThe analysis of rates for bridges are culverts have been carried out separately as per item references under Bridges and Culverts as mentioned in MOST. STANDARD DATA BOOK FOR ANALYSIS OF RATES. DETAILED PROJECT REPORT. ROADS AND HIGHWAYS. D : \ M \ D P R Reyon:Dyr vl~CDaCerr Vol. YliChnyl.da.schedule of rates - (pwd), wbbe settled within the ambit of standard data book and specification of roads and bridges of Ministry of Surface Transport. This Schedule of Rates for NH works 2014-15 will come into force from. 10.07.2014 superseding the Schedule of Rates for NH works: 2011-12, effective from 01.07.2011 without prejudice to the standing.
He underlined that the programme PMGSY has set its own standards not only for rural road construction and maintenance but also has become standard . He said that the Book of Specifications & Standard Data Book are two pillars of PMGSY and are the foundation for the formulation of the Schedule of Rates by the States.
Dec 27, 2016 . Although efforts in this direction had started earlier, the year 2016 saw the Ministry taking major steps towards fulfilling this commitment. These steps include overhauling the institutional and statutory framework, employing engineering solutions to build safer roads, laying down standards for safer vehicles,.
The analysis of rates for bridges are culverts have been carried out separately as per item references under Bridges and Culverts as mentioned in MOST. STANDARD DATA BOOK FOR ANALYSIS OF RATES. DETAILED PROJECT REPORT. ROADS AND HIGHWAYS. D : \ M \ D P R Reyon:Dyr vl~CDaCerr Vol. YliChnyl.da.
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be settled within the ambit of standard data book and specification of roads and bridges of Ministry of Surface Transport. This Schedule of Rates for NH works 2014-15 will come into force from. 10.07.2014 superseding the Schedule of Rates for NH works: 2011-12, effective from 01.07.2011 without prejudice to the standing.
educational facilities, improved health services, improved attendance of teachers as well as students etc. Accessibility also leads to improvement in governance and provision of other utility and emergency services. 1.1. IRC CLASSIFICATION OF ROADS. 1) National Highways (NH). 2) State Highways (SH). 3) Major District.
Sep 1, 2009 . length). The proposed gradient of road confirms to NH standards for mountainous/ . Bridge r i f- . Bridge at km\_'0.659 ( Moin nalla) r]. The existing bridge is of 5m span RCC. It is reported that the existing bridge is inadequate 2 lane movement of traffic. .. rates mentioned in standard data book 2003.
Execution of Chennai Metropolitan Development Plan Works, road works, major bridge works and flyovers in road junction and construction of ROB's/RUB's in Chennai Metro areas. HIGHWAYS RESEARCH STATION. Research, assurance of quality standards for materials, accident study and remedial measures, training to.
State of NH legal document and the NHDOT document on governmental entities authority over driveways and other public access ways. NHDOT. Diamond Grinding of Portland Cement Concrete Pavements PDF This is part of a series of pavement preservation checklists to guide State and local highway maintenance and.
Jul 1, 2004 . as the Mississippi Standard Specifications for State Aid Road and Bridge Construction. J. Brooks .. proposal guaranties returned, unless the lowest responsible bidder, at the request of the. Board and ... shall be void and the State and County may use, duplicate or disclose any data necessary to utilize.
President of India to estimate for the work mentioned in the subject as per the following details subject to the condition stipulated in the attached technical note: l, (a) Estimate submitted by State Govt./other agency. (i) Amount of Civil Work (excluding plantation Work). (ii) 1% of Civil Work for plantation work. & its maintenance.
than rural roads (v) evaluation and specification of standards for roads and bridges and. (vi) Research and .. Rs.1,161.87 crore is proposed to be included under NH(O) as per CRF Act, 2000 as amended by the. Finance Act, 2005. .. Ministry's Standard Data Book for the Analysis of Rates (first revision), are as per base.
seasons, relative humidity and salinity or presence of harmful chemicals in the atmosphere shall be collected. 3.8 LOADING AND OTHER DATA. • The bridge will be designed for the live load as per relevant Articles of AASHTO Standard. Specifications for Highway Bridges, 2007. Any specific variation from those clauses, if.
Roads and Buildings Department, Telangana State, came into existence on 02-06-2014, on formation of Telangana State. The Operations of the department are conducted, in the name and authority of the Governor of Telangana. The Minister for Roads & Buildings in the State Cabinet is responsible to the State.
with the help of Standard Data Book of MoRT&H. Lump sum cost . Cost Estimate of Bridge work for Package-I is Rs. 771.23Million. Total estimated . The soils are mostly suitable for road construction purposes. Widening to 4/6 lane dual carriageway. Jhansi To Lalitpur -. From Km. % to km. 94/0 of NH-26. 7 -1. The region is.
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Hundreds of adventurers have been granted permits to climb Mount Everest, officials in Nepal said Thursday, foreshadowing another bumper year despite concerns about overcrowding on the world’s highest mountain. Tourism authorities have granted 346 mountaineers permission to scale Everest this spring climbing season, with many already at base camp acclimatizing before embarking for the summit. That figure falls just shy of the record 373 permits granted last year. Most Everest hopefuls are escorted by a Nepali guide, meaning about 700 climbers will tread the same path to the top in the coming weeks when the weather is most favorable. A boom in climbers has made mountaineering a lucrative business since Sir Edmund Hillary and sherpa Tenzing Norgay made the first ascent in 1953. But the rapid growth in the climbing industry has accompanied complaints of overcrowding on the mountain and fears that inexperienced mountaineers could run into trouble. “There is an optimum number of people who can expect to undertake a safe summit expedition… I do wonder if we’ve exceeded that,” Ben Clark, a manager for expedition operator Asian Trekking, told AFP at base camp. Another 180 climbers are preparing to summit Everest from its north side in Tibet, according to the China Tibet Mountaineering Association. Among those is Nepali climber Lhakpa Sherpa, who will attempt to break her own record of eight summits of the mountain — more than any woman in the world. “I keep going to encourage other Nepali women to climb,” the 44-year-old said before she… [Read full story]
By JANE L. LEVERE Fri., March 9, 2018 During Prohibition, tourists arriving at the Havana airport were often greeted by Rafael Valiente, a popular bartender in Cuba and the first brand ambassador for Bacardi rum. Valiente, known as Pappy, would frequently take them to Bacardi’s private bar in its Havana office building and treat them to a rum cocktail. Bacardi’s strategy was simple: It believed that people who sampled its rum would turn into regular customers. Decades later, the spirits company is trying something similar — though this time without Pappy Valiente. Last month, 3,000 employees of Bacardi Limited made their way to bars throughout the world. The goal: Interact with bartenders and other patrons in an effort to generate goodwill and sales. Besides Bacardi rum, the company’s brands include Grey Goose vodka, Dewar’s Scotch and Bombay Sapphire gin. The one-day initiative, called “Back to the Bar,” was partly the result … [Read more...] about Bacardi’s latest marketing initiative goes back to the bar
By Avi Selk The Washington Post Sat., Feb. 24, 2018 The National Rifle Association lashed out at corporations rushing to abandon it on Saturday, as companies from United Airlines to Best Western have cut ties with the gun lobby group under pressure from a boycott movement following the Feb. 14 high school shooting. Without context, twin announcements from Delta and United Airlines on Saturday morning might look trivial: The end of flight discounts to the NRA’s annual convention, which few outside the gun rights organization likely knew existed before they became boycott targets. “Delta is reaching out to the NRA to let them know we will be ending their contract for discounted rates through our group travel program. We will be requesting that the NRA remove our information from their website,” the airline announced on Twitter. “United is notifying the NRA that we will no longer offer a discounted rate to their annual meeting and we are asking … [Read more...] about NRA responds to boycott movement after United and Delta cut ties in wake of Florida school shooting
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Tom Brady is now 40 years old and in his 18th season as a quarterback for the New England Patriots. He is also about to play for his sixth Super Bowl ring. It has been 17 years since Brady’s first Super Bowl. That season, Brady replaced the injured Drew Bledsoe, beat the Raiders in the “tuck rule” game, and helped the Patriots beat the heavily favored St. Louis Rams in the Super Bowl. The only other constants between the 2001 Patriots and this season’s team is head coach Bill Belichick and a couple of assistant coaches. Most of Brady’s teammates from that season have now moved on. That group now includes television analysts, one NFL head coach, a professional poker player, and amazingly, a kicker who is still playing. Below we look back at Brady’s first Super Bowl teammates and see what they are up to today.Seymour spent eight seasons with the Patriots and last appeared in the NFL in 2012 with the Raiders. He is now a professional poker … [Read more...] about WHERE ARE THEY NOW? Tom Brady’s teammates on his first Super Bowl team
Competition for talent on Wall Street is fierce. Banks, hamstrung by regulators on compensation and battling the stereotype of an onerous work culture, have seen a talent flight to investing firms and Silicon Valley. For their part, alternative-asset managers have experienced massive growth and a flood of inbound capital, requiring an ever-larger stable of investment professionals to manage the load. There’s a perfect storm for hiring in private equity right now, and firms are starting their hunt for the next crop of young analysts earlier each year. Making the right hiring decisions has rarely been more critical. And headhunters, often unseen to the outside world, specialize in making sure C-suite execs, managing directors, and portfolio managers get it right. Introducing Business Insider’s list of the best up-and-coming headhunters on Wall Street. After surveying finance stalwarts who regularly employ recruiting firms – as well as the upper brass … [Read more...] about The rising stars of headhunting everyone on Wall Street should get to know
Kim Won Geun’s (b.1971) figurative sculptures of resin and epoxy depict the violent world of Asian organised crime syndicates with a comical sense of humor. A variety of cultural conventions related to organised crime: money collecting, boxing matches, gambling and vice are portrayed with humour and irony, underworld characters in passive poses standing around, appearing vulnerable, almost childlike.
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As part of a series of papers dealing with the diversity of anamorphic saprophytic fungi in cloud forest remnants from the Veracruz state, an account of 25 species are described and illustrated. All of them but Helminthosporium solani are new records for the Mexican mycobiota. The species Dictyochaeta tumidospora, Fusariella intermedia, Hyphodiscosia queenslandica and Dictyosporium digitatum had not been recorded since their original description. For all taxa, data about their geographical distribution and substrates are included.
The toxic effects of systemic thrombolytic doses of CA-7 (fibrinolytic enzyme from Aspergillus oryzae) in 36 dogs are summarized. The more important of these are transient hypocoagulability of the blood, transient hypotension, reversible hemoconcentration, reversible liver involvement and...
The article contemplates the study of telemorphic and anamorphic stages in Rhizoctonia fungi. The article highlights Rhizoctonia solani that relates mostly to the study of species due to its vital role as plants pathogen and inclusion of 13 anastomosis groups (AG). The article also mentions the...
A definition of the term "Deuteromycotina," which refers to the phylum of the imperfect fungi, is presented.
A definition of the term "Hyphomycetes," which refers to a class of the fungi imperfecti, is presented.
A coelomycetous fungus occurring on culms of Pleioblastus sp. in Yakushima Island, southern Japan, is described and illustrated as a new species, Pseudolachnella yakushimensis. The species is characterized by cupulate, superficial black setose conidiomata, and cylindrical 3-septate conidia with...
The species of fungi that are placed in the phylum Deuteromycota do not really have much in common, resulting to them being called imperfect fungi. Scottish scientist Alexander Fleming invented penicillin, the first antibiotic, from experiments with the sac fungus called Penicillium notatum;...
This paper is part of an ongoing series of taxonomic investigations documenting the richness of conidial fungi occurring on plant debris in the cloud forests of Veracruz, Mexico. In the present paper 18 species are described; 15 of which are new to Mexico, and three were collected for the first...
The article reports that the government in Australia is having difficulties in managing the impact of fire on biodiversity. It states that the government faces challenges in mamaging the fire for the protection of biodiversity, and to conserve forest carbon. Meanwhile, professor David Lindenmayer of Forest and Wildlife Management of the Australian National University expresses concerns about the detrimental impacts of salvage logging.
Tanzania rangelands are a stronghold for biodiversity harbouring a variety of animal and plant species of economic, ecological and socio-cultural importance. Efforts to protect these resources against destruction and loss have involved, among other things, setting aside some tracks of land as...
The article discusses the regional workshop organized by the Department of Zoology of Ayya Nadar Janaki Ammal College with the Zoo Outreach Organization on August 1, 2014 in Western Ghats in India. The regional workshop aims to promote biodiversity conservation of both flora and fauna...
Information about the topics regarding the United Nations' International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (UNISDR) Regional Sub-Sahara Africa Wildland Fire Network (AfriFireNet) is presented. It states that AfriFireNet was established under the umbrella of the UNISDR in 2002 and was supported by...
Much of the current effort to restore southwestern ponderosa pine forests to historical conditions is predicated upon assumptions regarding the catastrophic effects of large fires that are now defining a new fire regime. To determine how spatial characteristics influence the process of ponderosa...
The article focuses on the findings of a study by biologist David Lindenmayer and colleagues, published in the journal "Science," that the number of large trees all over the world is decreasing due to drought, wildfires, air pollution and insect attacks.
The southern region of the U.S. uses prescribed fire as a management tool on more of its burnable land than anywhere in the U.S., with ecosystem restoration, wildlife habitat enhancement, and reduction of hazardous fuel loads as typical goals. Although the region performs more than 50,000...
Looks at the restoration of wild turkey population in the U.S. Factors that could jeopardize the future of wild turkeys; Description of a wild turkey; Brief history of wild turkeys in the U.S.; Number of wild turkeys relocated by the Super Fund Banquet program.
The article presents information on the CircumArctic Rangifer Monitoring and Assessment (CARMA), a network of scientists, community representatives and management agencies seeking to understand the impacts of global changes on tundra caribou. CARMA, which reports to the Circumpolar Biodiversity...
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Your overall happiness and well being depends on many factors. How well you can understand your problems and how best to deal with them. We at "Connections to a New Life" focus on an individual’s entire life as it relates to goal setting, outcome creation and change. In coaching, the assumption is that individuals are capable of generating their own solutions, while the coach provides a supportive, discovery-based framework. The primary focus is on creating strategies for changing your work or personal life. Having a male and female agent helps too. Sometimes, everyone needs to feel in their comfort zone by talking to an agent of their own or opposite gender.
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Two recent billion-dollar deals in education captured the investment conversation at an ed-tech conference here last week.
“Private equity loves this sector,” said Susan Wolford, a managing director for BMO Capital Markets, an investment banking business, on a panel for a conference of the Education Technology Industry Network, a division of the Software & Information Industry Network. Growth investors, who invest in companies that appear ready to deliver above-average growth, are particularly enamored with it, she said.
As evidence, she pointed to private equity firm Silver Lake’s acquisition of portions of Weld North Education earlier this year at a valuation of 17.5 times EBITDA—or earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization—a measure of profitability.
She called that a “stunning figure,” adding that she believes what Silver Lake was seeking is “Jonathan Grayer and the rest of that management team’s vision of where the classroom is going and how they can buy into it.” Grayer, who launched Weld North after leaving as CEO of the education company Kaplan in 2008, continues to lead Weld North.
Thoma Bravo’s acquisition of Frontline Education, a company that provides software for K-12 school administrative needs, also drew attention on her panel, and another one later in the day, for selling at more than 20 times EBITDA. Ten acquisitions over the past three years boosted Frontline Education’s valuation to over $1 billion. As a result, “a lot of PE firms, from big to small, are looking to build these roll-up platforms,” said Jason Palmer, a general partner in New Markets Venture Partners, referring to the acquisition of one company that creates a platform for buying smaller companies that can be rolled up into it.
Roll-ups are not new to ed-tech, noted Palmer, who led three education businesses as general manager or president at Kaplan and also founded and led the company’s venture capital effort. Kaplan acquired 95 businesses over a 10-year period, he said. “And Pearson acquired even more businesses than Kaplan did at one point,” he said.
At the startup stages of investment, “there is such an intense competition for capital,” said Karina Jhangiani, an investment associate for GSV AcceleraTE, an early stage venture fund.
Entrepreneurs should make sure they “listen to what the market really has to say,” learning from educators when products are in the pilot stage to test their efficacy, implementation, and other issues, she said.
Jhangiani also cautioned that it’s not a good sign when entrepreneurs who are trying to raise their first rounds of funding don’t have a clear sense of what they plan to do with the money they want to raise.
When companies approach Owl Ventures, a fund with $285 million under management that makes investments across the spectrum from early learning to adult learning, the investors look for indications of how well products work for their intended audience, said Ashley Bittner, a principal at the venture capital fund.
Across all education stages and purposes, there is $6 trillion spent globally each year, said Bittner, “and only a small percentage of that is digital.” As this very large market moves to digital delivery of content, it will be the effectiveness or efficacy of products that drive the market, she said. Research to support the value of an ed-tech solution is critical, she said.
Robert Iskander, the managing partner of Croix Ventures LLP, is raising a $150 million fund that will focus on managing 1-to-1 computer initiatives in education in a scalable, sustainable way, he said. Getting a company to grow beyond $10 million in revenues can be “very difficult,” he said.
“More dollars are being deployed in pre-k, university, and workforce [investments] than anything else,” said Rob Lytle, managing director for global education at EY-Parthenon.
As for K-12, Lytle said, “If you want to be a successful business in this space, you have to build products that support the teachers’ workflow.” That means supporting educators working “autonomously in classrooms with the door closed…and limited oversight or supervision.
Wolford recalled private equity’s reticence about investing in ed-tech after the “dot.com” bubble burst nearly 20 years ago—a drag that lasted longer in education than in other areas as technology rebounded. But now she said that kind of wholesale rejection is unlikely if there’s a reversal because the ed-tech sector is sufficiently diversified that a decline in one area would be unlikely to generalize to all of ed-tech.
“When someone says to you, ‘Education is highly regulated,’ make them stop,” she told the entrepreneurs in the audience. “It is politicized. Only the post-secondary sector is what I would call ‘highly regulated.'”
Educating investors about how education works can make a difference in their willingness to listen to pitches for the financing of their companies. “K-12 funding—school district funding—has been around for [maybe] 150 years,” Wolford said.
A recent 50-state scan by the Education Commission of the States shows that funding for early childhood programs, particularly pre-kindergarten, has been increasing over the past two years. This year alone, 38 bills were signed into law in 25 states, although some had more to do with policy and centralizing governance of early childhood initiatives than boosting funding, the Denver-based organization reports.
Funding for preschool programs increased for the second consecutive year, with states introducing new scholarship programs, or re-allocating dollars used for K-12 education, according to an announcement about the study.
Policy analyst Emily Workman wrote the recently released “2013 Legislative Session: P-3 Policies” report, indicating that states are looking for innovative ways to direct funds towards early learning programs, and, as a result, are permitting districts to use revenues in new and creative ways.
Judging from a Markeplace K-12 review of the report, more opportunities for businesses that serve the youngest children may emerge next year, and beyond, in the following areas:
“When government is investing in early childhood, it’s investing in children who are underserved,” Bruce Atchison, director of the Early Learning Institute at the commission, said in a interview. “The private piece is the business community, the philanthropic community, state foundations, and entrepreneurs who see the value in this work, and step up to the plate.”
In May, the Business Roundtable, an association of CEOs interested in influencing public policy, issued a call to action for states and the federal government to provide more early childhood education. “Estimates of the return on investment of high-quality programs for low-income children range from $4 to $7 for every $1 spent. However the research is clear: the return on investment is linked to quality; simply increasing participation without ensuring program quality will not produce positive results.”
Earlier this year, New York-based financial services firm Goldman Sachs and investor J.B. Pritzker agreed to pay for the expansion of an early-childhood program in the 67,000-student Granite, Utah district via a social-impact bond. The so-called “pay-for-success” loan seeks to achieve a positive social outcome, and reduce future costs, by investing in prevention and intervention programs in the public sector.
At the national level, President Barack Obama has called for strengthening early-childhood education, outlining his vision to help states expand prekindergarten to low- and moderate-income 4-year-olds in his State of the Union Address. In November, bipartisan legislation was introduced to help that vision become a reality. Politics K-12 blogger Alyson Klein describes the likely trajectory of that bill.
For more about the commission’s report, or to follow developments in early childhood policymaking, check out Christina Samuels’ Early Years blog.
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(This was originally published by the Positive Coaching Alliance on their website. I wrote this over six years ago the day after a basketball game my son played in. Lately I’ve been wanting to get back into coaching, and this story helps me remember why I enjoy it.)
Walking off the court after congratulating the team that had beaten ours 67-22 the first game of the season, I wondered what encouraging words I would offer our players. What could I say to lessen the pain of such a crushing defeat? Then my son Justin hugged me and said he’d had “the most fun ever, it was the awesomest game I’ve ever played in!”
Stopping in my tracks, I looked down at my 10-year-old dynamo, who had decided to play “up” on a 5th/6th-grade team, hoping to improve his skills rather than stay with his fellow fourth graders. In his first game, he had scored two points, much lower than his average in the past. Yet he was wearing a smile that took the chill off that cool Oregon spring day, and he was so happy it moved me deeply.
In that moment, he reminded me why I coach to begin with. These kids aren’t competing for high school championships, or fighting to keep a college scholarship, or trying to make the NBA playoffs. They’re kids having fun playing a game they love! Their parents paid so their kids could hopefully learn something about the game, and have a good time in the process. It’s not a competitive league, it’s recreation.
I have coached youth basketball five years now, two or three teams per year, from first through eighth graders. There have been some incredible players come and go on these teams, but I have learned most from those who will probably never play competitively.
They come in looking lost, are very quiet and timid in their actions. Many crave acceptance by their peers; some are home-schooled looking for friends; others have been foster kids looking to work off some steam. My first goal is to get them to smile. This is a GAME, I tell them, and my first requirement is that they have fun.
Trying to put them at ease, team rules state that nobody is to put another down, that we are one unit with a common goal: to do our best and learn as much as we can from each other. Next comes the evaluation period, during which I do my best not to cringe or wince when a player exhibits some unorthodox technique. They miss a shot, I encourage them. They dribble the ball off their foot, I remind them it took them months to learn how to walk and to give themselves a little time and practice.
By the end of the season, they are smiling and having fun with the best players, both on and off the court. This is a much better indicator for me as to the success of a season than our win-loss record. Sometimes during the middle of the season, however, I tend to forget.
Every mistake on the court is a learning opportunity. I give them the basics, encourage them to practice on their own, and we bring a team together somewhere along the way. Sometimes we are blessed with a few players who are pretty good already and we can mix and match them so that we always have a decent group on the court.
When matched up with a team that is similar to ours, our enthusiasm usually puts us over the top. When we are outmatched, I just encourage them to play hard and keep having fun out there. However, the more we win, the better we feel. Winning is like a drug; you get a little, you want more. Soon it is easy to forget why we’re all there in the first place… to learn to play a game, and to enjoy it.
Life is full of tragedy, sadness and trial. We all learn in our own way how to deal with adversity. All through our lives, we win and lose. Even though we face many defenses in life, the best offense is to charge right into the lane and put up our best shot. Sometimes it drops through the net and we can celebrate. Sometimes it bounces off, we fight for the rebound and another chance to score. Occasionally, our buddies have our backs and grab the loose ball for us, while other times, it falls the other way and the other team gets the ball.
How we react to each of these circumstances often dictates our own win-loss records in life. The good player shakes it off and hustles back to play defense. Somebody with less confidence will sulk and scowl as he lopes downcourt, often missing much of the play happening right in front of him, leaving his teammates to work harder without him.
So not only do we try to teach these kids how to play a game, but also how hard work, determination and teamwork can combine to contribute to a successful and rewarding life.
Justin’s reaction to our first “loss” was a victory for me. By expressing his happiness at having played in his first really competitive game, Justin demonstrated he is finding the tools necessary for a happy and successful life. This time, the son taught the father a lesson: to remember that “why” he coaches has little to do with winning and losing individual games.
As we drove home through the driving rain, I asked Justin if he cared that we lost so bad, he replied “Sure, Dad. I guess a little bit.”
Quickly waving that aside though, he glanced out the window and softly added, “but that was still the best game of my life… so far.”
A method for setting a backoff timer comprises: a network side receiving non-access stratum signaling sent by a user equipment; after determining that a network is congested, sending a rejection message to the user equipment according to a priority level carried in the non-access stratum signaling, and carrying a backoff timer for the priority level. A network side. The method and the network side provide different backoff timers for user equipments with different priority levels, thereby meeting delay requirements under different priority levels.
Obtained is a vehicle air-conditioning device configured so that the space of the cabin is not reduced. A vehicle air-conditioning device (10) is provided with: a fan (16) for generating air flow; a main-flow discharge opening (66) for discharging the air flow, which is generated by the operation of the fan (16), toward the cabin (12); and an air direction-adjusting flow discharge opening (68) for discharging the air flow, which is generated by the operation of the fan (16), toward the cabin (12) and disposed so that the discharged air flow (F3) intersects with the air flow (F1) discharged from the main-flow discharge opening (66).
The present invention relates to a pre-etching composition for the treatment of non-conductive substrates in a plating process for the deposition of a metal layer on the substrate surface. More specifically, the invention relates to an aqueous pre-etching composition for a plastic substrate, like e.g. an acrylonitrile butadiene styrene (ABS), a polycarbonate (PC), polyetherimide (PEI), or a blend of an acrylonitrile butadiene styrene (ABS) and a polycarbonate (PC). An aqueous pre-etching composition for the treatment of non-conductive substrates in a plating process for the deposition of a metal layer on a substrate surface is provided, wherein the pre-etching composition contains at least one water soluble solvent and which is characterized in that the composition contains at least one compound selected from the group consisting of terpenes and phenylpropanoides.
Provided are: a method for detecting an abnormality in a blast furnace, which can detect, at an earlier stage, such an abnormality that a tuyere gets into a clogged state; and a method for operating a blast furnace, in which the aforementioned method is employed. A camera (11) is placed in the vicinity of a tuyere (2) in a blast furnace (1) to take an image of a raceway through a furnace inside monitoring window (6) arranged at the tuyere (2). When it is determined that the luminance of the image taken by the camera (11) is equal to or lower than a threshold value (S) and the rate of change in the luminance is equal to or lower than a threshold value (R) (i.e., the rate of decrease in luminance is equal to or lower than the threshold value), it is judged that such an abnormality that a tuyere part is in a clogged state occurs.
Chemical entities of Formula (I): Including enantiomers thereof, wherein R1 has any of the values described herein, and compositions comprising such chemical entities; their preparation; and their use in various methods, including the treatment of depression, pain, cognitive disorders, neurodegenerative disorders, and other neurological and peripheral disorders.
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Aug 4, 2017 . Stylish shower and wet room ideas - from wall panels, tiles and trays for modern walk in shower spaces to traditional curtains and fittings - on HOUSE. . The tiles in her bathroom look, at first glance, like natural stone but they are in fact decorated with a flock design - a very pleasant surprise indeed!Small Shower Room Ideas, Designs & Pictures - Houzz
Jul 20, 2017 . Whether it's a teensy powder room or a shower stall with barely enough room to scrub, an awkward washroom can really cramp your style. Fly through your morning routine with these easy storage and styling solutions for tiny bathrooms. View Gallery 25 Photos. 1 of 25. black and white bathroom
Check out these small bathroom floor plans to find an arrangement that will work for you. . If having the toilet in a separate room so that multiple people can use the facilities at the same time then this design fits into the 5ft x 8ft space. Be aware though that this is right on the limit of being functional. These spaces will work..
If so, why not invest in a stylish walk in shower? Or you could even go one step further and create a wet room? If you're unsure what walk in showers or wet rooms actually are, let alone what benefits they bring, don't worry. Simply click on the images below, for easy access to a world of walk in shower and wet room ideas for..
Rich, Asian-Inspired Design. national kitchen & bath association design competition small bathroom. View as slideshow. Courtesy National Kitchen & Bath Association. This homeowner wanted to bring her home out of the 1980s with contemporary Asian design, so the powder room vanity was inspired by a Japanese..
Short on space? RoomSketcher shows you 10 Small Bathroom Ideas that really work and how to try them in your own Bathroom Design
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Dec 14, 2016 . A small room doesn't necessarily need small fixtures and fittings. The owners of this Notting Hill bathroom wanted a large basin that could double up as a utility sink, so architects Maxwell & Company installed a Belfast sink with built-in oak-veneer panelling incorporating a cabinet. Try Victorian Plumbing for..
Feb 14, 2018 . Looking for small bathroom ideas? Take a look at our best small bathroom design ideas to inspire you before you start redecorating your small bathroom. . making your space feel larger. Marble is particularly effective here, as it looks almost like one huge sheet and the individual tiles aren't very obvious
To give you an idea, the smallest practical wet room size is 1.5m x 1m with enough space for a toilet and wash basin too. The minimum recommended size for the shower area alone is 70cm x 70cm, so foregoing the loo and wash basin means you can go smaller too.An important consideration when designing a wet room is..
Mar 22, 2017 . From shower enclosures to flooring and tiling, we have you covered with these top shower room ideas! Plus, to ensure that you have . It is important to keep in mind that these are estimates and that there are numerous factors which can influence a project, so the cost may vary. For this reason, it is best to..
Feb 13, 2018 . When choosing a shower enclosure for your small shower room, opt for a quadrant design to save valuable floor space. Quadrant shower enclosures feature a curved design, and they fit neatly into the corner of the room. Bi-fold shower doors are ideal for small spaces too, as are pentagon enclosures
Jan 26, 2018 . Check out our shower room ideas and design inspiration, whether you have want a gorgeous country shower room or a stunning attic shower room. . Marble wall tiles pick out the grey tones of the flooring, too, and add a luxury feel to the scheme. A full-length mirror at one end is great for reflecting light and..
DIYNetwork.com shows you how to make the most of your small bathroom with clever tips and storage ideas. . Is your half bath or powder room cramping your style? We've got .. A small bath is a great place to experiment with bold colors, but be careful to find the right balance by not overdoing it with too many accessories
May 8, 2015 . Functionality is key for a small bathroom. Small rooms can easily lead to unwanted clutter, so make sure you're adding only design elements that are functional. Don't add knick-knacks or objects that don't serve a purpose. Store cotton balls and swabs in glass jars on floating shelves. Install a hamper under..
Small bathrooms made spacious. Every bathroom should be a beautiful use of space, no matter how big or small. With intelligent design, even the tiniest of cloakrooms, en suites and under stair toilets can be comfortable to use. Ideal Standard designs beautiful space-saving units that work together harmoniously so you..
Sep 29, 2016 . It is in small spaces where, us architects, get challenged. When you have disposable meters, the possibilities are pretty much endless. Small bathroom layout spaces require skill and expertise in order to make the most out of them without compromising comfort or function. So how do we go about designing..
Dec 6, 2017 . You've found the house or apartment of your dreams. except for the bathroom. It's tiny. Like, so tiny that it's basically a closet with an awkwardly-fitting toilet and barely enough space to wash your hands. Should you give up your dream home just because of a small bathroom? Definitely not. With a few..
May 3, 2017 . The benefits of this type of design are many. First of all, it is extremely fashionable and stylish, which increases the value of your home. In terms of use, the open design is freeing and makes the bathroom feel luxurious. Curtains and walls make already small rooms smaller, and this is the opposite approach
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