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Brazil brush aside South Korea to reach quarters
IMAGO/JOEL MARKLUND
Neymar returned from injury to help inspire Brazil to a 4-1 victory over South Korea on Monday as the favourites cruised through to the quarter-finals of the World Cup.
The world's most expensive player had sat out his team's last two matches with a sprained ankle suffered in their opening 2-0 win over Serbia.
But he came back for this last-16 tie as Tite's team clicked into gear and delivered an ominous message to their rivals, at least before easing off in the second half.
Vinicius Junior opened the scoring inside seven minutes before Neymar added another from the penalty spot to move to 76 goals for his country, leaving him just one away from equalling Pele's all-time record tally.
Richarlison's brilliant goal made it 3-0 and Lucas Paqueta added another before half-time to leave South Korea shellshocked.
Paik Seung-ho pulled one back but by then Brazil were thinking about Friday's quarter-final clash with 2018 runners-up Croatia.
"The time has come to go further," Neymar told Brazilian broadcaster Globo, referring to their defeats in the semi-finals in 2014 and quarter-finals four years ago.
"We are dreaming of winning the title, that's obvious, but we have to go step by step.
"This was the fourth game. There are three to go but we are prepared. Our minds are focused on winning the title."
The five-time world champions had not scored four goals in a knockout game at the tournament since 1998.
Here they played at times with the joy associated with the Brazilian national team, the players coming together to celebrate each goal by showing off their dance moves and their coach even joining in.
If they finished playing within themselves, their first-half display was superb and a fitting tribute to the great Pele.
The Brazilian legend had said he would watch the game from the Sao Paulo hospital to where he was admitted last week for cancer treatment, and supporters in Doha's Stadium 974 unfurled a banner with a get well soon message to him.
It was a chastening experience for Son Heung-min and South Korea, who have still never won a World Cup knockout match outside their own country.
Their coach Paulo Bento later announced he would not be continuing in the role.
"I believe we can be very proud of what we have done at this World Cup, and what we have done over the last four years to get here," said Bento.
Tite made 10 changes to the Brazil team after rotating his squad for last Friday's inconsequential 1-0 loss to Cameroon, with Danilo also returning from injury at left-back.
With Alisson Becker back in goal and Thiago Silva and Marquinhos playing too, this was Brazil's first-choice defence but their forwards quickly put the tie to bed.
The opener came from their first shot on target as Raphinha burst away from Kim Jin-su on the right and his ball across goal came to the feet of Vinicius who coolly picked his spot.
They then won a penalty as Richarlison was caught by Jung Woo-young and Neymar duly beat Kim Seung-gyu -- his last six goals for Brazil have now all come from the spot.
Alisson was then called into action to tip over a vicious long-range effort from Hwang Hee-chan, but Brazil scored their third in style just before the half-hour mark.
Richarlison juggled the ball on his head three times just outside the area before laying it off to Marquinhos and then continuing into the box to get on the end of Silva's pass which he slotted home for his third goal at this World Cup.
Paqueta got their fourth nine minutes before the break with a first-time finish as he connected with a Vinicius ball held up from the byline.
They took their foot off the pedal in the second half, although Raphinha was denied on several occasions by the goalkeeper.
Korea though deserve credit for keeping going and were rewarded inside the final quarter-hour as substitute Paik brought down a clearance and sent in a ferocious shot from 25 metres that brushed off Silva to beat Alisson.
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Georgetown v. Notre Dame
Pregame Party: Georgetown v. Notre Dame
Hoyas travel to South Bend to try again for much-needed road win.
By overthehilltop Jan 21, 2013, 12:31pm EST
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Hello mock turtleneck my old friend
No rest for the road weary as your Georgetown Hoyas return to action less than 48 hours after a disappointing road loss at South Florida. Monday will find the Hoyas in northern Indiana squaring off against the not-at-all-imaginary Notre Dame Fighting Irish. Can Georgetown pull off an upset in a tough road venue against a seasoned Irish bunch? Let's get to it.
It's Been So Long Since Last We Met. Notre Dame rolled into D.C. last season just one game removed from an eight-game winning streak, ensuring Mike Brey his 472nd Big East Coach of the Year award. The Irish limped out after being on the business end of a nationally televised 58-41 stifling by your Hoyas. After losing to Louisville in the Big East Tournament, the Irish lost in the opening round of the NCAA Tournament to Xavier, their third loss in their last four games in the dance.
Despite the disappointing finish to last year, this year held the promise of success in South Bend. The Irish returned their entire starting rotation and added reinforcements to give depth to a rotation that lacked it a year ago. To date, the results largely have been encouraging, if not overwhelming. An early loss to St. Joseph's was more than overcome by an emphatic rout of Kentucky and a win over in-state rival Purdue. In conference play, the results have been more mixed. Three wins including a tough one at Cincinnati have been balanced out by a home loss to a difficult Connecticut squad and an increasingly predictable road loss at St. John's. With four straight winnable games in front of them, now may be the time for the Irish to make their move.
Irish to Know. Notre Dame's lineup looks much the same as last year. In the back-court, Eric Atkins (12.3 ppg, 2.3 rpg, 6.7 apg, 46 3FG%) and Jerian Grant (12.4 ppg, 2.1 rpg, 5.4 apg) are a formidable tandem, with Atkins providing a bit more skill and Grant more size and athleticism, but both capable of a dangerous mix of scoring and passing. The wings are a pair of role players, Scott Martin (8.4 ppg, 6.2 rpg, 47.7 3FG%) a three-point specialist who, thanks to a transfer and an injury, has to be one of the last active college ballers born during the Reagan administration, and Pat Connaughton (9.2 ppg, 4.6 rpg, 2.7 apg), another perimeter threat. Down low, Jack Cooley (15.1 ppg, 10.1 rpg, 60.9 FG%) has completed his transformation from punch line to effective finisher to double-double machine.
When Notre Dame Has the Ball.
Irish's strength: shot selection. Notre Dame famously played a "burn" offense last year that stretched out every possession to protect the Irish's woefully thin rotation. Despite the arrival of reinforcements this year, Brey has sped things up only marginally, kick-starting a team that ranked 328th nationally in pace all the way up to 303rd. But while all that clock-eating may look like wasted time, the Irish almost always end up with a good shot. Their hyper-efficient offense results in assists on over 67 percent of made baskets, and the Irish connect on over 40 percent from three-point range and 55 percent from two.
Hoyas' strength: denying easy points. Georgetown and Notre Dame don't exactly look the same, but share two defensive strengths: denying open looks within the arc and not sending opponents to the line. For Georgetown, the question is whether the Irish can stretch the Hoyas enough with outside shooting to negate the inside advantage.
Three things to watch:
Pace. Saturday, Georgetown was unable to push the pace against South Florida, generating a turgid 55 possessions in a nearly unwatchable game. While we often think about pace as an offensive issue, it's also a defensive one: it's hard to push the pace when you can't force turnovers or missed shots. In the second half Saturday, Georgetown did very little of either, yielding 38 points despite the Bulls' molasses-like offense. Monday, they'll face a team that is in the top 20 nationally at protecting the ball and the top three nationally at shooting. The Hoyas will need to find some way to get out in transition, by forcing either turnovers or long, missed shots.
Cooley. Henry Sims memorably shut down Cooley last year in Notre Dame's visit to the Verizon Center, making the Irish big man's later (like, a week later) selection over Hank as the Most Improved Player in the Big East all the more preposterous. Don't expect Cooley to go so quietly Monday night. He ranks eighth nationally in offensive efficiency among players who use the ball as often as he does, shooting a high percentage around the rim, getting to the line often, and rarely getting blocked or turning the ball over. The Hoya big men will have their hands full down low.
Three-point shooting. Notre Dame is shooting over 47 percent from three in Big East play, the best mark in the conference. Martin is the best from deep, making nearly 48 percent of his tries, but five different Irish make at least one three per game on at least 38 percent shooting. Hot Notre Dame hands could make things ugly early.
When Georgetown Has the Ball.
Hoyas' strength: ball movement. Georgetown's offense works best when the ball is moving quickly, whether moving up the floor in transition or rotating through sets in the half court. The Hoyas assist on more than 63 percent of made baskets, one of the top marks in the conference and the country. And Notre Dame is especially vulnerable to ball movement, yielding assists on 60 percent of made baskets.
Irish's strength: denying easy points. Notre Dame rarely fouls, as Irish opponents score under 15 percent of their points from the charity stripe, one of the lowest marks in the country. And the Irish give up relatively little inside as well, denying open looks on the interior. Speaking of which....
Controlling the paint. Georgetown has made more than half of its shots from two-point range, the one area in which it has thrived offensively. Notre Dame has yielded just 43.2 percent from two. Who will control the paint on Monday?
Mikael Hopkins. I've made much of the Hoyas' need for scoring depth. Generally, that's meant that Georgetown needs points from its bench, which has been capable in Greg Whittington's absence, scoring 15 or more points in the last four games. But bench scoring only comes into play if all of the starters are contributing as well. Saturday, Mikael Hopkins continued his abominable offense, failing to score and in so doing lowering his average under 3 points per game in conference play. Not to mention...
Markel Starks. Less expected was the cratering of Markel Starks, who followed up two sterling performances with a putrid three points on 1-of-8 shooting. The Hoyas can ill afford to play 3 on 5 offensively, particularly with their starters on the floor. The Hoyas have lost the luxury of Starks being able to be a star one game and invisible the next.
Prediction. Saturday was a very tough loss. Even assuming the Hoyas can hold serve at home-a bold assumption, given that two top-five teams will visit the Phone Booth this season-they still need to come up with at least one road win to ensure a winning record in the conference. South Florida was a good opportunity to pick up that win, Notre Dame is less so. The Joyce Center has never been hospitable, particularly of late for Georgetown, which has lost in both of its last two trips to South Bend. And this year's Irish are a veteran bunch that need a conference win. As much as I normally have (occasionally misplaced) confidence in our Hoyas, the extended travel, quick turnaround, and doom and gloom from Saturday aren't encouraging. But I would love to be wrong. Notre Dame 63, Georgetown 58.
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Survey: Delivery Models
Results as charts
EOSC Resources will need sustainability and financial models. For EOSC resources (including Core resources) which would be expected to be free at the point of use this will require compensatory funding mechanisms. It is also important that there is funding available to incentivize new resource development and evolution.
The framework considers three potential delivery models:
A lightweight model whereby the Executive commissions and pays for (either directly or through some compensatory mechanism) Core and Supported services from international, national, institutional and commercial providers through existing mechanisms (e.g. Framework Programme instruments such as Virtual Access);
A commissioning authority which would involve the establishment of a new entity (possibly a legal structure such as an ERIC) who would have responsibility for commissioning (e.g. contracting or framework agreements) Core and Supported Resources
A delivery authority which would involve the establishment of a new entity (possibly a legal structure such as an ERIC) who would have responsibility for delivering Core and Supported Resources, either directly or through contracting or framework agreements with third parties
1. What are you views on these three models? What are the pro and cons? How effective do you believe they would be?
2. Can you suggest alternative models?
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LIKE METZGER, READERS WILL RECALL STAR GROCERY
Pix #1 - Outside view of Star Grocery, at the North Main Street location, taken in 1926, at which time the store won the national award by the Mazola Co., for their window display.
Pix #2 - Photo taken inside the Star Grocery when it was on North Main. No photos available for the South Main store. The three men in the back row, reading left to riht: Jim Harrison, Ed Foltz, Ervin Sheller. Front row: Leodia Sheller, Kathryn Mabus, Hazel Wolfe and an Allen girl, a customer.
Pix #3 - The Sheller family...the three men in back: Henry Sheller, father of Ervin; Ervin himself; John Hooper, husband of Mary Sheller Hooper. The ladies...Saloma, wife of Henry Sheller; Mary Sheller Hooper; Molly Sheller; Melissa Comer Kemp Sheller, Ervin Sheller's wife. Children...Leodia and Mary Sheller, Ken Hooper, Mahlon Sheller.
Pix #4 - Mahlon Sheller when a member of Jack Wainright's band
Pix #5 - Ken Hooper also member of that band.
Pix #6 - Mollie Sheller, Erv's sister, and part of grocery staff.
Pix #7 - Erv sheller...and his car of that day.
Author's Note: Today's article is related to last week's on Merritt Metzger. Metzger introduced the Henry Sheller family as a branch of his family, since "aunt" Saloma Bowers, a sister of his grandfather, married Henry Sheller.
Henry and Saloma moved to Fostoria to raise "their family" that included son Ervin, who became one of Fostoria's leading grocery merchants.
"It was back in about 1914" Metzger recalls, "when Ervin Sheller's Star Grocery was flourishing".
There are probably some old readers who will recall that store too...its locations, and those who were associated with it.
The first location of Star Grocery was on West Center Street where there had been other businesses, including L.O. Sprout who had a bicycle shop there. The YMCA now occupies that location.
MOVED TO MAIN STREET
In later years the Star Grocery moved to 105-107 S. Main. The next move for the grocery was to 127 N. Main, according to an old directory, that today may be either where Continental Cablevision or the Chamber of Commerce is. Originally, Sheller was president of the business; Arthur Walters, vice president; and Alvin E. Shultz, secretary and treasurer. Later, Walters dropped out of the business, and still later, sheller and his son Mahlon made up the proprietorship.
I recall vividly going to the Star Grocery as a lad to have orders filled... especially for butter. It was sold in bulk and packaged in small wooden containers.
The Sheller family was one of the most friendly families I was ever privileged to know, and Ervin sure made a wonderful grocery keeper, Metzger recalls. One of his sisters, Molly worked in the grocery store for a number of yeas, and she too having the friendly Sheller trait, added considerably to the profitable trade, he said.
HOME-OWNED GROCERY STORES
The accompanying photos tell interesting stories about the Star Grocery in particular and all groceries of that era.
They were all home-owned stores back then, small and personal, scattered all over town...not self-serve, but catered by clerks who knew all the customers.
Generally they offerd credit, and when the bill was paid on Saturday, or payday, customers were rewarded with candy.
In the case of Star Grocery, in addition to Ervin Sheller, Molly and Leodia and Mary, his daughters, and son Mahlon all clerked in the store at various times.
Mary (Sheller) Roberts is the wife of Fred, both residing at 521 N. Countyline, are well known to many readers. She was very helpful to me in putting together today's article. She has that "friendly" characteristic that Metzger mentioned.
Leodia, married Marion Stuckey, a farm boy from east of Fostoria. They have two sons Robert and Edwin, both residents of Findlay. When I sought photos for today's article from Mrs. Roberts, she referred me to Edwin Stuckey and he resurrected an album full of pictures his mother had kept from school days.
Mrs. Roberts is the only living member of the Sheller family.
GROCERY FOLDED IN 1930
The long history of the successful Star Grocery, under the Shellers, came to an end in about 1930, when Ervin Sheller became ill, and died in October 1929.
The Depression years made it impossible for the remaining Sheller family to keep the store in operation. Clarence Coppus took over the store after the Shellers quit and operated it for awhile.
Store business was in the Sheller girls (Leodia and Mary) blood, and consequently they eventually opened a new business at the corner of Union and North streets dispensing ice cream furnished by Hubachs, also homemade chicken sandwiches and the Sheller's recipe chili.
Many readers will recall the "giant" ice cream cone sign that was erected at that corner, advertising their wares...also, the outdoor tables for customers. It was strictly a summertime business.
For "good measure" some of the photos with today's article are "thrown in", since many readers will enjoy them, and it might be the only opportunity ever to use them.
I'll bet Mary (Sheller) Roberts would like to know if you have enjoyed today's article.
READER FEEDBACK: LE&W R.R. HISTORY
A recent letter from Don Kinnaman, former Fostorian, now living in Phoenix, AZ, informed me about the Nickel Plate Road Historical & Technical Society that is open for memberships.
They publish a magazine and a newsletter for members.
Since that railroad was so much a part of the history of railroads running through Fostoria for many years, there may be readers who would like to join.
For more information, write to N.K.P.H.T.S. Inc., Meer services, P.O. Box 10069, Cleveland, OH 44110-0069
POTLUCK STIRS UP CONTROVERSY
In last week's article, reference was made to Earl Green and his candy-making profession. I said that Green had learned his business under George Hayden, when he had an ice cream and confectionary store on South Main Street, where part of the Preis Store is now.
Two readers telephoned to tell me that I was in error. Had I gone into more of Green's history as a candymaker the misunderstanding would not have occured.
George Hayden happened to be my uncle, and I frequented his store as a boy at about age 9.
Green did learn his business under Hayden, and I recall seeing him make candy at the location mentioned. Green stayed with Uncle George until he quit business (the year I do not know) and accepted a job in Toledo with the F.W. Woolworth Co., operating one of their first restaurants.
In later years Green made candy for Pappas, Lekas, and Pavlokas in their store on Main Street. He also made candy under Edison's Drug Store at Main and Center.
As said in the article, Green also made candy in a building adjacent to his home on Culbertson.
Another item about Green, not mentioned in last week's article, was his ability in the wrestling arena. He may not have matched Al Ackerman, another local wrestler, but he did participate in this area. Top of page
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Possible Role of Plant Allelochemical in Clearance of Bacteria from the Gut of Spruce Budworm, Choristoneura fumiferana
Anthony S.D. Pang*
Great Lakes Forestry Centre, CFS, NRCan, 1219 Queen Street East, Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, Canada P6A 2E5, Canada
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Field results, using Bacillus thuringiensis delta-endotoxin in controlling spruce budworms, Choristoneura fumiferana, are far less satisfactory than those from the laboratories
The role of septicemia has also been shown to be important in mortality. However its relationship with insect diet has not been studied. Insect gut juice from spruce budworm fed on balsam foliage inhibited bacterial growth. Such activity has not been observed in the gut juice from insects fed on artificial diet. Moreover, when bacteria were given to the insects orally, and the insects then fed on balsam foliage overnight, little or no bacterial colonies could be detected in their gut juices in the tryptic soy agar plates. Such bacterial growth inhibition activity could also be found in the water extract of balsam foliage, and was suggested to be due to tannins. This result explains the role of allelochemicals affecting septicemia in spruce budworms, and hence the efficacy, when using Bacillus thuringinesis delta-endotoxin as a biologic control agent.
Keywords: Spruce budworm, Choristoneura fumiferana, bacteriostatic, gut juice, tannins.
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Spruce budworm, Choristoneura fumiferana, is a forest pest in Eastern Canada. Biologic control agents, Bacillus thuringinesis δ-endotoxin and viruses, have been developed and used in controlling this forest pest. However, field results are far less satisfactory than those from the laboratories [1, 2]. Though there are many factors affecting the field results, e.g., size of droplets, temperature, wind speed, sunlight etc. little attention has been paid to the insect diets.
In the laboratory, spruce budworms are raised on artificial diet containing antibiotics. The natural diet of spruce budworms is foliage which contains many allelochemicals. These allelochemicals may affect the efficacy of biologic insecticides. Lüthy et al. [3] showed that tannins from plants inactivate B. thuringinesis δ-endotoxin, and suggested that interaction between host plant tannins and B. thuringinesis δ-endotoxin might be a major factor where the field efficacy of B. thuringinesis preparations is unexpectedly low. Bacterial septicemia also appears to play a very important role in the mortality of spruce budworm larvae [4]. In this study, we investigated whether gut contents of the insects, reared in different diets, would affect the growth of the bacteria in the insect guts.
Spruce budworms were usually raised in artificial diet containing aureomycin from 1st to 5th instar in this Centre.
First day 6th instar insects were then divided into two populations. One population was fed on artificial diet without antibiotics, while the other fed on balsam foliage. After three days, their gut juice and hemolymph were collected.
Collection of Insect Gut Juice and Hemolymph
Insect gut juice was collected by placing a Pasteur pipette to its mouth while squeezing its body gently. Insect hemolymph was collected into a microtube with a few grains of phenylthiourea, to prevent melanization, by punching a hole to its body with a hypodermic needle. Both gut juice and hemolymph samples were centrifuged and the clear supernatant was either used immediately or stored at -80°C until use.
Bacterial Strains
E. coli wild strain EmG31, P. aeruginosa insect strain P11-1 and B. cereus were obtained from Dr. J. Chadwick, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada. B.thuringinesis strain HD-76 was from a collection at GLFC. Bacteria were grown in tryptic soy broth for 24 hrs before use.
Extraction of Balsam Foliage and Insect Frass
Balsam foliage was freeze-dried overnight and ground into powder using a blender. One volume of foliage was suspended into 10 volumes of distilled water. The suspension was either boiled in a water bath for 30 min or soaked with shaking at RT overnight. Frass from insects was collected and soaked in 4 volumes of distilled water overnight at 4°C. All the suspensions were then centrifuged and filtered with a 0.22μm filter. The clear filtrates were either used immediately or stored at -80°C before use.
Antibacterial Assays
Radial Diffusion Growth Inhibition Assay
One to 4 x 106 CFU of bacteria suspended in 10 ml of tryptic soy agar (4%) at 50°C was poured into a petri dish. After the agar had set, wells with a diameter of 3 mm were made using a gel puncher. Six μl of sample or control was added to the wells. The plates were then incubated at RT (26°C ) for three hrs to allow samples to diffuse radially into the agar. The plates were then incubated at 37°C overnight. Inhibition of bacterial growth was indicated by a clear ring around the well. To enhance the results, the gels were stained for 24hr in a dilute solution of Coomassie brilliant blue R-250 (dye: 2mg, methanol:27 ml, water:63 ml, 37% formaldehyde: 15 ml), and then washed with 10% acetic acid containing 2% dimethylsuphoxide for 10 minutes [5].
Micro-Culture Assay
Fifty μl of insect gut juice or sample was added to 25 μl of a 10-5 dilution of an overnight culture of bacterium in a 96-well microtiter plate. The diluent was 20% tryptic soy broth in 0.85% saline. The mixtures were incubated at RT for 30 min. Two hundred μl of tryptic soy broth were added to each well, and the plate was incubated at 37°C overnight. The plate was then read at OD600nm using an ELISA scanner (Elx-808, Bio-Tek Instrument).
Detection of Bacteria in Insect Gut Juice
Sixth instar spruce budworms, which had been fed on either antibiotic-free artificial diet or balsam foliage for three days, were used in this experiment. Two μl of E. coli suspension containing about 5 x 104 CFU were force-fed into the insects. The insects were then allowed to continue to feed on their respective diets overnight. Insects gut juices were collected and 100 μl of diluted gut juice (1:10 with sterile PBS) were plated in a tryptic soy agar plate. Bacterial colonies on the agar plate were then counted after 24 hr incubation at 37°C
Paper Chromatography
Strips of 1 1/2cm wide Whatman No.2 filter paper were cut. Five hundred μl samples of insect gut juice fed on Balsm folige, commercial tannins (Sigma Chemicals) and water extract of balsm foliage were applied to about 5 cm to one end. They were then suspended vertically in a 2 litre measuring cylinder. The cylinder contained enough distilled water to wet about 2 cm of the filter paper strips. The cylinder was then covered with tin foil, and the water was allowed to run against gravity until the water front reached about 5 cm from the top. The filter paper was cut into small pieces of about 1 cm long. These small pieces of filter strips were then placed on tryptic soy agar plates containing E. coli. Inhibition of bacterial growth surrounding the filter paper was observed after 16 hr incubation at 37°C.
Antibacterial Activity
Fig. (1) shows that gut juice obtained from spruce budworm fed on artificial diet (well A) had little bacterial growth inhibition. In contrast, gut juice from insects fed on balsam foliage for three days showed very strong bacteria growth inhibition (well C). Since the pH in both gut juices was the same (pH10), the bacterial growth inhibition was not due to the high pH of the gut juice. No inhibition was observed in either hemolymph (well G and F), suggesting that the bacterial growth inhibition factor(s) were restricted within the gut and would not pass into the hemocoel. Frass extract from insects fed on foliage (Well E) and water extracts of balsam foliage exhibited similar bacterial growth inhibition (wells B and D).
Fig. (1).
Radial diffusion growth inhibition assay. Tryptic soy agar plate contained about 4 x 106E. coli. Six μl of sample was applied to the wells. The plate was incubated at RT to allow the sample to diffuse radially into the agar, and then incubated at 37°C overnight. Bacterial growth inhibition was indicated by clear area surrounding the well. A: spruce budworm (artificial diet) gut juice, B: balsam foliage water extract, C: spruce budworm (foliage diet) gut juice, D: balsam foliage water extract boiled for 30 min, E: spruce budworm (foliage diet) frass water extract, F: spruce budworm (artificial diet) hemolymph, G: spruce budworm (foliage diet) hemolymph.
Radial diffusion growth inhibition assay. Tryptic soy agar plate contained about 4 x 106E. coli. The pH of the balsam foliage water extract was adjusted to 7 and 10 using 0.01M NaOH. Powder BSA was added to the foliage extract until no more precipitate was formed.Upper row: balsam foliage water extract at pH5, 7 and 10. Lower row: balsam foliage water extract saturated with BSA.
In the micro-culture assay, it gave similar results. Culture media in those wells containing bacteria and gut juice from insects fed with foliage were completely clear, suggesting no bacterial growth. Heavy bacterial growth was observed in both hemolymph and gut juice from insects fed on artificial diet.
Table 1 shows a list of bacteria tested. The bacteria growth inhibition was non-specific, and gut juice from spruce budworms fed on balsam foliage showed the greatest inhibition.
Table 1..
Summary of Bacterial Growth Inhibition
Insects Fed on Antibiotic Free Artificial Diet
Insects Fed on Balsam Foliage
Gut Juice
Hemolymph
Insect Frass Extract
Balsam foliage Extract
E. coli +/- - +++ - + +
P. aeruguinosa +/- - +++ - + +
B. cereus +/- - +++ - + +
B. thuringiensis (HD-76) +/- - +++ - + +
+/- Little or marginal growth inhibition (3 mm <OD>5 mm)
- no growth inhibition (OD=3 mm size of the gel punch)
+ strong growth inhibition (5mm<OD>10mm)
+++ very strong growth inhibition (12 mm<OD).
Identification of the Bacterial Growth Inhibition Factor(s)
Gut Juice from Insect
Balsam Foliage
Test fed on balsam foliage water extract tannic acid*
BSA precipitation precipitation precipitation
Fe+++ dirty dark blue ppt dark blue ppt dark blue ppt
Paper chromatography Bacterial growth inhibition appeared at approximately the same position in all three samples, and stained dark blue when Fe+++ was added.
* From Sigma Chemicals.
First day 6th instar spruce budworms were raised on either artificial diet or balsam foliage for three days, and were then force-fed with 2 μl of 5 x 104 E. coli. The insects were then fed on their respective diets. After 24 hr, insect gut juices were collected and 100 μl of diluted gut juice were plated in the tryptic soy agar plates. Very few bacterial colonies (under 10) were observed in the gut juice of those insects fed on balsam foliage. However, 143 (±30) bacterial colonies were observed in the gut juice from insects fed on artificial diet. This suggests that most of the bacteria in the insect guts were cleared when they fed on balsam foliage but not on artificial diet after 24 hr.
Since the bacterial growth inhibition in the insect gut juice and the clearance of bacteria in their guts are related to its diet, it is likely that allelochemicals from the balsam foliage may be the contributor for such properties.
Some Properties and Possible Identification of the Antibacterial Component(s)
The Effect of pH and BSA on the Antibacterial Activity of the Foliage Extract
The pH of the balsam foliage water extract was about 5, and the insect gut juice (either on artificial diet or foliage) is about 10.2. To determine whether the bacteria growth inhibition in the balsam foliage extract is due to pH, the water extract was adjusted to a different pH. Fig. (2) shows that water extract of balsam foliage at pH 5 gave the best bacterial growth inhibition. Its ability to inhibit bacteria growth decreased as its pH increased to 10 (Fig. 2 Upper row). Phosphate saline at pH5 and 10 would not inhibit bacteria growth (not shown). The color of the extract also changed from light green to reddish brown as its pH was adjusted from 5 to 10. The color of the spruce budworm gut juice fed on balsam foliage is reddish brown with pH about 10.2
The bacterial growth inhibition ability of balsam foliage extracts, though heat stable (Fig 1, well D), was further reduced when excess BSA was added to the extracts (Fig. 2 Lower row). This result suggests that bacterial growth inhibition is probably due to some protein precipitating allelochemical(s) present in the balsam foliage.
Because the color of the balsam foliage extract changes to red when its pH was adjusted to 10, and it precipitated BSA, it is suggested that the inhibition property in the balsam foliage extract is due to the presence of tannins. To confirm this, ferric salt was added to balsam foliage extract, gut juice and frass extract from foliage fed insects. All these three samples gave dark blue precipitate indicating the presence of tannins. On the other hand, gut juice from insects fed on artificial diet did not give blue color, indicating the absence of tannins.
Paper Chromatographies
Gut juice from insects fed on balsam foliage, commercial tannic acid and water extract of balsam foliage (all at pH10.2) were applied to the filter papers for paper chromatography. Maximum bacterial growth inhibition appeared at approximately the same position for all three samples. This indicated that the inhibition factor(s) in the three samples are similar or identical.
The possible identification of tannins as the responsible agent for bacterial growth inhibition in the spruce budworm gut juice is summarized in Table 2.
Possible Role of Plant Tannins in Preventing Bacterial Infection and Biologic Insecticides
One of the main differences between field and laboratory insects is their diets. Laboratory raised spruce budworm feed on artificial diet with addition of antibiotics. Field insects feed on foliage. Therefore the gut contents in both insect populations are quite different. It is expected that the field-raised insect gut juice contains high concentrations of allelochemicals. Some of these allelochemicals may have effects on the bacteria in the insect gut. In this communication, we showed that gut juice from spruce budworm fed on foliage inhibited bacterial growth in a tryptic soy agar plate, and cleared bacteria from the insect gut. Though the allelochemical(s) responsible of such activity has not been isolated in this study, our experiments suggested that it belonged to tannins. However, it does not exclude other allelohemicals, and needs further identification.
B. thuringiensis is the most successful biological insecticide. When it is used in controlling forest pests, e.g., spruce budworm, the results are not consistent, and seldom match with those from the laboratory [1, 2]. Lüthy et al. [3] showed that plant tannins would inactivate B thuringiensis δ-endotoxin. The high pH in the insect gut may have some effects on certain bacteria, however, it has been shown that B. thuringiensis spores would germinate at pH10.0 in the insect guts [6]. Septicemia also plays an important role in the efficacy of B. thuringiensis [4]. The present study shows that plant tannins would clear the bacteria from the insect guts, and inhibit their growth. All these may partially explain the lack of consistency of B. thuringiensis in the field trials.
Although the mechanisms by which tannins inhibit bacterial growth and clears bacteria from insect guts, is not yet known at this time, one would assume that plant tannins bind to the bacterial cells, thus preventing them from growing and adhering to the gut. These tannins-bound bacteria would then pass out of the insect gut with the frass. It is interesting to note that consumption of cranberry juice has been recommended for the prevention of urinary tract infection [7]. Recently, tannins have been identified as the compounds in cranberries that are responsible for preventing uropathogenic phenotypes of P-fimbriated E. coli from adhering to urinary tract [8]. Moreover, our preliminary in vitro study also showed that pre-treatment of CfNPV with balsam foliage extract reduces viral infection in insect cells (not shown).
Tannins are important constituents of many plants. The concentration of plant tannins in the insect guts would be expected to be the lowest as the insects coming out from their molts, or when their guts are empty. Based on this study, it is expected that biological insecticides, e.g. B. thuringiensis, would be most effective if they are applied at the time immediately following the molt.
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The state of multiple antibiotic resistant Enterobacteriaceae in Cape Coast, Ghana
This article by Dr. Kwame K. Asare et al. is published in The Open Microbiology Journal, Volume 13, 2019
Passing on dangerous naked explosives: the state of multiple antibiotic resistant Enterobacteriaceae in Cape Coast, Ghana.
The dynamisms involved in bacterial drug resistance, emergence and spread of multiple antibiotic resistant Enterobacteriaceae in Ghana are poorly understood. The current state of antibiotic resistance is gradually becoming alarming. To make matters worse, the factors that drive the transmission of antibiotic resistance among organisms in Ghana are still poorly understood. The isolation of multi-antibiotic resistant Enterobacteriaceae to ß-lactams, the first, second and third generation cephalosporins from circulating coin currencies and meat sources in Cape Coast, Ghana, is a major concern as it poses a serious threat to the entire healthcare system. E. coli, Enterobacter spp, Shigella spp, Klebsiellaspp, Pseudomonas spp, and Proteus spp showed resistance to second and third generation cephalosporins, an effective antibiotic against Enterobacteriaceae species. There is a possibility that this extended-spectrum ß-lactamase (ESBL)-producing Enterobacteriaceae in circulation will spread rapidly with limited timely treatment to curb the infections. These microbes cause a range of infections including acute diarrhoea, respiratory infection, urinary tract infections (UTI), bacteremia, sepsis, pneumonia, cystitis, pyelonephritis, and lung abscess. The easy spread of this multi-antibiotic resistant Enterobacteriaceae through contact with contaminated surfaces and by person-to-person contact makes it major public health concern as it has a high implication on the health facilities of the region which have limited resources. The isolation of MDR Enterobacteriaceae from circulating coin currencies and meat sources gives an indication of an individual's multiple points of contact with these pathogens during daily routines, risk of infection and possible transmission to another person. The impending danger of possible outbreak of multiple ESBL-E resistant strains requires immediate public health measures to circumvent an epidemic outbreak in Ghana. Understanding the underlying mechanisms of ESBL-E transmission would be essential in providing permanent control measures to deal with drug resistance in Ghana. Personal hygiene and proper handling of currencies are encouraged to mitigate the spread of drug-resistant pathogens.
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Malaysia is facing many challenges caused by various parasitic pathogens. The lack of awareness among disadvantaged populations such as the Orang Asli community and the dependency on foreign workers has led to an influx of immigrants to Malaysia from countries endemic with various parasitic diseases. Amoebiasis is mainly encountered in poor rural areas in Malaysia, however it has the potential to re-emerge. Routine mass-drug administration on newly arriving foreign workers and health education programs are needed to prevent its re-emergence.
Researchers from MAHSA University in Malaysia have published a review on the epidemiology of various parasitic diseases in the country over the last 20 years. The report has been published in The Open Microbiology Journal. The report stresses that Malaysian authorities must implement strategies that provide better water treatment to avoid the emergence of blastocystis. Lymphatic filariasis has the potential to re-emerge due to its easy mode of transmission as well as the presence of a large number of immigrant workers in Malaysia from endemic countries. To prevent the emergence of giardiasis in Malaysia, a multidisciplinary approach is required to determine the level of water contamination with Giardia as well as Cryptosporidium. The epidemiology of malaria is becoming more complex in Malaysia. There is a shift towards infections among men and adults rather than women and children. Therefore, the ministry of health should raise public awareness and the use of point-of-care diagnostics.
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Child of Light - Now Available on Steam!
The kingdom of Lemuria is in despair
The Black Queen has stolen the Sun, the Moon and the Stars. You play as Aurora, a young princess with a pure heart whose soul is brought to the kingdom of Lemuria. Embark on a quest to recapture the three sources of light, defeat the Black Queen and restore the kingdom of Lemuria.
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Created by the talented team of Ubisoft Montréal using the UbiArt Framework, Child of Light is an RPG inspired by fairy tales. Take an extraordinary journey through the vast world of Lemuria and explore its mythical environments, interact with its inhabitants as you discover new locations and their secrets.
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Across your experience through Lemuria you will meet encounters that you will remember, from friendly fairies and gnomes to vile wolves and dark dragons.
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Aurora has the power to fight creatures from the dark and to restore the Stolen Lights. Fight alongside the Igniculus in Active Time Battle Systems. Your firefly ally can be controlled by another player, so you can live this adventure with your friends.
Artwork by reknowned Japanese artist Yoshitaka Amano.
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Star Wars Episode VII Cast Announced
The cast of 'Star Wars: Episode VII' assembled in London (StarWars.com)
[Source: Yahoo!News] Luke. Leia. Han. Chewie. Artoo. Threepio. All present and accounted for as StarWars.com unveiled the official cast of "Star War: Episode VII."
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The Star Wars team is thrilled to announce the cast of Star Wars: Episode VII.
Actors John Boyega, Daisy Ridley, Adam Driver, Oscar Isaac, Andy Serkis, Domhnall Gleeson, and Max von Sydow will join the original stars of the saga, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Mark Hamill, Anthony Daniels, Peter Mayhew, and Kenny Baker in the new film.
Director J.J. Abrams says, "We are so excited to finally share the cast of Star Wars: Episode VII. It is both thrilling and surreal to watch the beloved original cast and these brilliant new performers come together to bring this world to life, once again. We start shooting in a couple of weeks, and everyone is doing their best to make the fans proud."
Star Wars: Episode VII is being directed by J.J. Abrams from a screenplay by Lawrence Kasdan and Abrams. Kathleen Kennedy, J.J. Abrams, and Bryan Burk are producing, and John Williams returns as the composer. The movie opens worldwide on December 18, 2015.
While original stars Mark Hamill, Carrie Fisher, and Harrison Ford had dropped hints that they would be reprising their roles for the new chapter, which takes place around 35 years after "Return of the Jedi," nothing was confirmed until today. As expected, the trio will be joined by longtime castmates Kenny Baker (R2-D2), Peter Mayhew (Chewbacca), and Anthony Daniels (C-3PO, the only actor to appear in all six episodes to date).
New additions include Oscar Isaac and Adam Driver, who recently appeared together in the Coen brothers' 2013 folk music drama "Inside Llewyn Davis." Also onboard: Andy Serkis (best known as Gollum in the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy), Domhnall Gleeson ("About Time") and the legendary Max von Sydow ("The Exorcist"). Fresh faces John Boyega ("Attack the Block") and Daisy Ridley (who has appeared in just a handful of BBC dramas) round out the cast.
Disney Studios chairman Alan Horn confirmed last week that second unit filming has already been underway in remote locations like Abu Dhabi, but the principal cast will not start working in the UK until next month. That leaves them just 17 months for both production and post-production, which is ambitious considering the enormous scale of the project.
May the Force be with Abrams and his very talented cast.
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Before there was TITANFALL, there was HAWKEN. But now HAWKEN is available on Steam! HAWKEN is a multiplayer first person shooter for PC that places you inside a mechanized war machine on the battlefield of a dystopian world called Illal. With strategic, fast-paced gameplay, HAWKEN features incredible alien landscapes, customizable and upgradable mechs, and dynamic experiences across multiple competitive game modes.
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Attack on Titan Toonami Trailer
Funimation began streaming a new trailer on Saturday for the premiere of the Attack on Titan television anime series on Cartoon Network's Toonami programming block. The anime series will premiere on the network on Saturday, May 3 at 11:30 pm ET.
When the man-eating giants called Titans first appeared, humans retreated behind massive walls. After a hundred years of safety, a colossal-sized Titan smashes through the defenses, unleashing a flood of giants and carnage in the streets. Eren Jaeger watches helplessly as one of the creatures devours his mother.
He vows to kill every Titan walking the earth.
Eren and his surviving friends enlist to fight against the insatiable monsters. The future looks bleak, but there's more to Eren than meets the eye: he may be humanity's last hope against extinction. From the director of Death Note and High School of the Dead comes the series Anime News Network calls "an intense, visceral, and graphic thrill ride." The Titans have come to feast. Anything can happen. No one is safe.
Funimation will ship first 13 episodes of the anime in a standard edition Blu-ray and DVD combo pack, a Limited Edition, and a Funimation.com-exclusive Collector's Edition.
The Collector's Edition will retail for US$128.98 and include 104 minutes of on-disc extras, a 3D lenticular art card, 24-page "Notes From Beyond the Wall: Part 1" booklet, four military emblem pins (Military Police Regiment, Scout Regiment, Garrison Regiment, and Cadet Corps), a replica of Eren's key necklace, and a sword necklace "featuring the Titan flesh paring blades." The Limited Edition will retail for US$89.98 and contain the on-disc extras, the 3D lenticular art card, and the booklet. All versions will ship on June 3.
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C2E2 Day One Re-cap
The first day of the Best Weekend of the Year is in the books, and we've got a video recap for those of you who couldn't make it out to C2E2! For those that did attend, can you spot yourself or your friends?
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C2E2 is this weekend!
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Fan-made Gal Gadot poster for Wonder Woman
One intrepid fan has decided to take a crack at figuring out how Gal Gadot might look as Wonder Woman. What do you think?
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Darwyn Cooke's Batman 75th Anniversary Short
Batman Beyond vs. the Dark Knight
A brand new short from artist Darwyn Cooke returns fans to the world of Batman Beyond as Terry McGinnis' futuristic Dark Knight faces his most formidable foe of all--himself.
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First 5 Mins of HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON 2
Watch the opening sequence from the sequel to DreamWorks Animation's high-flying adventure.
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Live-Action Lupin III Footage Revealed
[Source: AnimeNewsNetwork] The story will follow Lupin and his partners in crime before they became a gang. They will infiltrate the high security of the Ark of Navarone, a gigantic fortress-like safe, to lay claim to the Crimson Heart of Cleopatra within. It is said that whoever possesses this treasure shall "unite the world."
The movie stars (from left to right in the images above) Tadanobu Asano as Detective Kōichi Zenigata, Gou Ayano as Goemon Ishikawa, Shun Oguri as Lupin, Tetsuji Tamayama as Daisuke Jigen, and Meisa Kuroki as Fujiko Mine. An original character, Lupin's nemesis Michael Lee, will be played by Jerry Yan (Meteor Garden) of the popular Taiwanese group F4. Other cast members include South Korean actor Kim Joon (South Korean Hana Yori Dango) and Thai actor Thanayong Wongtrakul (The Man from Nowhere).
The first live-action adaptation of Lupin III in four decades will open on August 30. The movie began filming on October 3 and finished principal photography on December 26. The production shot in Japan, Thailand, Hong Kong, Singapore, and the Philippines.
The film is now in the middle of the final steps of editing, and the staff aims to complete post production and the film itself at the end of June. Ryuhei Kitamura (Azumi) is directing the film, and Mataichirō Yamamoto wrote the script.
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"Santa Company" - Early Version Without Voices
"Santa Company"
What is Santa Company?
Santa Company is a large international conglomerate that consists of three departments: Santa Dept., Reindeer Dept. and Gift department.
Except during Christmas season, Santa Dept. protects the safety of residences as the largest home-security organization in the world. It might be easier for you to imagine Santa Dept. is like ADT. Its workers, Santa Clauses, normally secure the safety of each home, so they can sneak into houses and know the shortest routes to the children's rooms. Of course, they do that only when they receive requests from parents.
Reindeer Dept. usually breeds and educates reindeers. Also it provides navigation services. It's like Garmin, I guess. It navigates on a daily basis so that it can take Santa Clauses to their destination for without any trouble.
Gift Dept. is in charge of product sales and delivery business. More simply put, it's like Amazon. It has giant warehouses and sells various toys, so it can easily prepare, pack, and deliver gifts during Christmas season. It provides delivery of Christmas gifts only when it receives the requests from parents.
And only once a year, these three departments work together and use their expertise to safely deliver Christmas gifts on Christmas Eve!
Noel is a girl who has just joined a mysterious company, Santa Company. She takes an exam to be an official tonttu who assists Santa Clauses.
In such a big moment, a letter arrives late at Santa Company. When the letter is about to be categorized as "flawed," which means a child can't receive a Christmas gift, Noel, her three friends and one reindeer start off an adventure over the gift.
It's told with a touch of romance and action. It also tells how ordinary people with no particular special powers systemize the job of Santa Clauses to make it fitted in the real world, adding some factors such as relationship between workers and this Christmas gifts delivery business's power of influence and the economic effects.
Labels: anime, christmas, trailer
Official Trailer 3
The ultimate X-Men ensemble fights a war for the survival of the species across two time periods in X-MEN: DAYS OF FUTURE PAST. The beloved characters from the original "X-Men" film trilogy join forces with their younger selves from "X-Men: First Class," in an epic battle that must change the past -- to save our future.
Labels: movie, trailer, x-men
THE ANOMALY
Traumatised ex-soldier Ryan wakes up in the back of a van, alongside a kidnapped boy. Ryan helps him escape but when he finds a mask in his pocket he comes to an appalling realisation.... But there's no time to act - after nine minutes and forty seven seconds of consciousness it all goes black. What does this have to do with Ryan's past as a patient at the experimental Medical Unit? Ryan has a lot of questions, and very little time to find any answers...
Labels: movie, scifi, trailer
How FROZEN Should Have Ended...
Anna and Elsa's parents just don't get it. Please enjoy this alternate ending to Disney's hit "Frozen".
Labels: disney, hishe, humor, parody
Anime Viewing Schedule for April 19, 2p014
Wood Dale Public Library
Get out of the rain!
And watch some anime!
Main Meeting Room, 10:15 am to 5:00 pm
(Click on links to view Video Previews)
10:15 - 11:05 Noragami 5-6 [Video]
11:05 - 11:55 Nagi no Asukara 6-7 [Video]
11:55 - 12:45 Captain Earth 1-2 [Video]
12:45 - 1:35 Nisekoi 3-4 [Video]
1:35 - 2:15 Club Meeting / Announcements [Video]
2:15 - 3:05 Wizard Barristers 5-6 [Video]
3:05 - 3:30 Coppelion 10 [Video]
3:30 - 4:45 Short Peace (Movie) [Video]
ANIME DESCRIPTIONS ARE BELOW -- Spend the day watching anime with friends and cohorts --
10:15 - 11:05 Noragami 5-6
Plot Summary: [Source: Wikipedia] Noragami literally means "Stray God." Hiyori Iki was a regular middle school student until she gets hit by a bus in order to save Yato's life. This incident causes her to transform into a half-phantom. Soon after she learns that Yato is a war god, and her life is never the same again.
Episode 5 "Borderline": After Yato teaches Yukine how to make a borderline, which regalia can use against phantoms, Hiyori decides to have Yukine live in her house, feeling Yato can't look after him properly. After some reluctance, Yato agrees to let Yukine stay with her. Yato ends up sneaking himself too, keeping Yukine in check before he gets any ideas about Hiyori. The next day, Yukine runs away after Hiyori stops him from stealing a skateboard, with Yato later explaining to her that any impure thoughts Yukine has results in pain for himself. Whilst running away, Yukine encounters a little girl, which he later learns to be the spirit of a girl who died in a traffic accident. However, the girl ends up getting possessed by a phantom and becomes consumed by it, forcing Yato to use Yukine to defeat her against his will .
Episode 6 "Scary Person": Yukine, depressed about being used by Yato to kill the girl spirit instead of saving her, steals the skateboard he had his eye on before. When Yato stops him, Hiyori appears, deciding to cover for Yukine by claiming she bought it for him. Just then, a god named Bishamon, holding a personal grudge against him, appears and attacks Yato. Hiyori calls Kofuku and Daikoku to help, tracking Yato's location using her sense of smell. However, Kofuku's attempt to stop the battle ends up making things worse by causing a huge hole with raging storms appear. Bishamon tries to take advantage of the situation, dealing some damage to Yato, but is urged by one of her regalia, Kazuma, to retreat to protect her other regalia.
11:05 - 11:55 Nagi no Asukara - "A Lull in the Sea" (Episodes 6-7)
Plot Summary: [Source: Wikipedia] Long ago, human civilization had lived on the oceanfloor. However, there were many humans who wanted to live above the surface and they moved to land creating a fundamental separation between the two. After their school closes down, four middle school students from the sealand have to go to school on the mainland. This is about their lives as they adjust to a new environment and the relationships with each other.
Episode 6 "Beyond Tomoebi": The children are taking swim classes and the boys get hyped upon Chisaki's body. Hikari and Tsumugu decide to have a small competition but Hikari ends up crushing his toenail and Manaka rushes in quickly to assist him, leaving Chisaki once again ashamed as once again Manaka stood up to him ahead of her, to the point of refusing to help taking him to the infirmary and Hikari gets frustrated not only for hurting himself, but for realizing that Tsumugu can swim faster than him at the surface. After classes, the children join together to rebuild the Ofunehiki, joined later by Miuna, Sayu and the rest of the class. However, Chisaki leaves earlier and Manaka fails to cheer her up, as she is still troubled by her feelings. On her way back home, Manaka meets Tsumugu and reminisces about the day when she and her friends failed to witness the Tomoebi, a rare underwater natural phenomenon because it took to long for her to join them. Back at Shioshishio, Manaka witness the Tomoebi starting again and manages to call Chisaki to watch it with her, and taking Tsumugu's advice, she speaks her mind without hesitating to reconcile with her, but regretting that they could not watch it together with the boys, unaware that Hikari and Kaname are watching it too while overhearing them.
Episode 7 "The Ofunehiki Shakes": Assisted by their friends, the children manage to rebuild the Ofunehiki. However, the real festival will not be held as the fishermen and the men from Shioshishio are at odds with each other. After helping the others to collect signatures for a petition to hold the festival again, Hikari fails to convince his father Tomori to comply but he ends up taking part in the reunion between both parts arranged by him. Despite being impressed at first with the offering, it does not take long for both sides to reignite their old feuds and start fighting, a situation that gets even more hectic when Akari and Itaru enter the room together, to the point that the offering is destroyed once again by accident. After the failed meeting, Tomori attempts to once again persuade her to break up with Itaru but she had made her decision and prepares herself to leave her house in Shioshishio. Hikari decides to leave with her as well but Uroko uses his powers in attempt to stop them until Tomori asks him to let them go.
11:55 - 12:45 Captain Earth (Episodes 1-2)
Plot Summary: [Source: Wikipedia] High-school student Daichi Manatsu works for the Globe (グローブ Gurōbu) organization to pilot a giant robot called the Earth Engine Impacter (アースエンジンインパクター Āsu Enjin Inpakutā) to protect the Earth from the invading alien force known as the "Kill-T-Gang" (キルトガング Kirutogangu). from the planet Uranus.
12:45 - 1:35 Nisekoi (Episodes 3-4)
Plot Summary: [Source: Wikipedia]
Nisekoi follows high school student Raku Ichijo, the son of a leader in the yakuza faction Shuei-Gumi, and Chitoge Kirisaki, the daughter of a boss in a rival gang known as Beehive. They unexpectedly meet when Chitoge hops a wall and knees Raku in the face. After she runs off, Raku realizes he has lost his locket which was given to him by his childhood sweetheart with whom he made a secret promise. After discovering Chitoge is a new transfer student in his class, he forces her to help him look for the locket. During the search, they begin to dislike each other. Upon returning home, Raku learns that the Shuei-Gumi and Beehive gangs have agreed to settle their feud by pairing their leaders' children. Raku learns that his girlfriend-to-be is none other than Chitoge. For the next three years, they must pretend to be in a relationship to maintain peace between the gangs. This turns out to be quite a challenging task, not only because of their hatred for one another, but also because Raku has a crush on another schoolmate, Kosaki Onodera, whom he secretly wishes was the girl who bears the key to his locket. Various developments complicate the situation, including Chitoge's over-protective bodyguard, a female hitman, a girl who claims to be Raku's fiancée, and the existence of multiple keys.
1:35 - 2:15 Club Meeting / Announcements
Convention Coverage
Animation News from around the world
Cosplayers/Skits/Masquerade
Anime Music Videos
And other weird, interesting stuff...
2:15 - 3:05 Wizard Barristers 5-6
Plot Summary: [Source: Wikipedia] In 2018, humans and wizards live together in Tokyo. Police continue to protect order in society, but wizards (known as Wud) are tried according to magical law via Magic Prohibition Law, in special courts defended by wizard barristers via the Court of Magic. At age seventeen, half Japanese half Canadian Cecile Sudou, has just become the youngest wizard barrister after passing the bar exam at age fifteen, and begins work at the Butterfly Law Offices. While she hasn't realized it yet, she has tremendous magical potential.
3:05 - 3:30 Coppelion 10
Plot Summary: [Source: Wikipedia] In 2016, a catastrophe occurs after a nuclear meltdown from the nearby Odaiba nuclear power plant contaminates Tokyo, forcing the government to order its citizens to evacuate. 20 years later, Tokyo has become a ghost town due to the high levels of radiation which the government has banned entry for anyone. When a distress signal is received from Tokyo, the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force dispatches 3 teenage girls from the Dispatch 3rd Special Force Coppelion, who comprise the "Healthcare Team". Due to genetic engineering, the Coppelions are immune to radiation while also possessing special skills. Thus the Coppelions journey to the ruined capital to find survivors.
Episode 10 "Human": Ibara and her team manages to lure the Ozu Sisters and the Ghosts to a park while Gennai, Oyakata and Gojiro tries to fix the railway power lines while Taeko deals with Ibuki's water breaking. Unable to track them due to Haruto's traps, the Ozu Sisters head back to the Sarcophagus. To stop them, Mr Nonsense carries Aoi to bait the Sisters to chase them since they bullied Aoi in the past. When Mr Nonsense tries to protect Aoi from Shion, Aoi stands up to Shion, activating her teleportation powers before escaping on a paddle boat. With Shion distracted chasing Aoi at the lake, Ibara and Haruto try to find Ibuki's lover. However, they are captured by Kanon and the Ghosts, with Kanon electrocuting the two but they escape thanks to Ibuki's lover. After convincing him to join them for Ibuki and their child's sake, the three of them try to rendezvous with Aoi who is rescued from Shion by Mr Nonsense. Meanwhile, Gennai, Oyakata and Gojiro manage to fix the power lines but realizes the substation isn't sending electricity. With the storm forming early and for his daughter's sake, Gojiro volunteers to fix the substation, revealing he worked at the Obaida power plant, which was the cause of the accident. Ibara reunites with her team but the Ghosts summon a giant robot spider to the park.
3:30 - 4:40 Short Peace [Movie]
Plot Summary: [Source: Wikipedia] Short Peace (ショート・ピース Shōto Pīsu) is a compilation of four short anime films produced by Sunrise and Shochiku. The four films were released in Japanese theaters on July 20, 2013 and will be screened in North America during April 2014. Sentai Filmworks have licensed the films for North America.
Possessions (九十九 Tsukumo) - Nominated for Academy Award
A lone traveler is confronted by unusual spirits in an abandoned shrine. Directed by Shuhei Morita.
Combustible (火要鎮 Hi Yō Mamoru)
A spectacular tale of love, honor and firefighting in ancient Japan. Directed by Katsuhiro Otomo.
Gambo
A mysterious white bear defends the royal family from the predations of a red demon. Directed by Hiroaki Ando.
A Farewell to Weapons (武器よさらば Buki yo Saraba)
A tour-de-force saga of men battling robotic tanks in apocalyptic Tokyo. Directed by Hajime Katoki.
Bruce Timm's Batman 75th Anniversary Short
Next Club Meeting is Saturday, April 19, 2014
Winnie the Pooh as Darth Vader!
How To Train Your Dragon 2 - Official Trailer
Spider-man and his Mini-me
First Look at Live-Action Lupin III
GRAVITY - The Alternate Beginning...
Live-Action 'Attack on Titan' Film
Harley Quinn: "Do You Wanna Kill The Batman?"
Godzilla - New Trailer
LUCY - Starring Scarlett Johansson
Maleficent - Full Movie Trailer
FUNimation reveals Date A Live's English Dub Cast
"Kill La Kill" April Fools' Day Joke
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Mister President (from Waltz of the Asparagus People)
March 14, 2014 by Robin
Excuse me, I’m sorry. Excuse me. Sorry, sorry, sorry. I maneuver across a crowded subway platform and step onto a slow-moving escalator. Perched in the middle, I avoid the sticky rubber handrails, and travel—head down, antennae up—until I emerge from the stuffy underground and step into the national-park spaciousness of Grand Central Station. I gaze at the terminal’s star-spattered ceiling, shuffle around a clump of camera-toting tourists, and scoot outside into the June morning.
I live in Germany with my husband and children, but I spent my early adult years in New York City, playing the piano at the Grand Hyatt on Forty-second Street. I wrote a book, a memoir about performing in the no-star bars of five-star hotels—New York City lounges cloaked in jewel-toned velveteen—where I hid behind a Steinway in a shadowy corner playing tinka, tinka, tinka, hoping no one would yell at me for being too loud, too quirky, too disruptive, too musical. I was just another blond in a black dress, one of Manhattan’s middle-tier musicians, good enough to make a decent living, but not quite good enough for anyone to notice.
America is indeed a great country—perhaps the only place in the world where a person can write a book about being ignored, and everyone pays attention. Today, as part of my accidental homecoming, I’m scheduled to appear on National Public Radio’s All Things Considered.
Excuse me. I’m sorry. I keep bumping into people who know where they’re going.
Pedestrians with bulging briefcases, backpacks, and assorted plastic shopping bags weave through a tapestry of street vendors selling African beads, battery-operated barking toys, and stale pretzels with spicy mustard.
NPR tapes the show in a studio on Second Avenue, not far from Grand Central. My flight from Frankfurt arrived late last night. Between the jet lag and my frazzled nerves, I’m in a dream-like state, something comparable to an early morning one-martini buzz. No olives.
I’ve forgotten it’s impossible to walk in a straight line in this town. Once upon a time I had mastered the art of dodging, slithering, stepping-over, and occasionally tap-dancing through swarming city streets. But I’m out of practice; today’s journey feels like a spooky ride in an amusement park. Plumes of smoke; brightly painted pop-up people who might as well be screaming BOO; sprays of water; splashes of God-knows-what; grime, guts, goo; and a man who yells, for no reason I can see, bada, bada, bada—all of these things confront me as I head to the corner of Lexington and Forty-second.
After a dozen years in the tranquil German countryside, waking every morning to a mind-numbing silence broken only by songbirds and church bells, I welcome today’s audio jumble. I hear horns blaring, radios blasting Latino music, a jackhammer hammering into a thick slab of concrete, and a constant high-pitched squeal that sounds like microphone feedback.
Delivery trucks, taxicabs, gypsy cabs, fancy cars, jalopies, buses, and colorless vans with foggy windows clog the intersection. A silly-looking white limousine—the kind rumored to have a bathtub in the back seat—screeches to a halt inches from my feet. Anybody in there? Puff? Daddy?
“I’m tryin’ to cross here!” screams an agitated pregnant woman pushing a baby stroller the size of a parade float. She balances on the curb and pounds on the side of the limo. “Don’t block the box!”
The dark window slides down.
“Fuck you!” yells the driver—a woman in a tight black suit with a jaunty hat. She looks like an organ-grinder’s monkey. “I’m runnin’ a business here. Don’t mess with me, lady. I got a gun. Keep your mitts off my car.”
The light changes. WALK WALK WALK it blinks.
I wonder if DON’T WALK means you should run.
I cross the street. Most of the people heading toward me shout into cell phones and carry enormous bottles of water. They look too young, too thin, too thirsty. An old tissue blows up from the street and sticks to my right ankle. While avoiding a column of foul-smelling steam spewing from a manhole, I admire the high-heeled wobble of a woman in a pebbly pink Chanel suit. Where’s she going?
Where is everybody going?
I check my watch, pick up my pace to avoid an old man throwing grain at a gathering of pigeons, and swat away the glittering confetti-like substance swirling around my head. It looks like stardust, but I’m sure it’s not.
I wonder how I ever lived here, or why I ever left.
The reason for the traffic jam becomes clear when I reach the corner of Second and Forty-second. Traffic has been diverted from the one-block area around the NPR building and funneled to the side streets. Must be someone important in the area. Or maybe there’s a film crew on the block. As I look up, hoping to see Spider-Man dangling from a window ledge, I bump into Nina Lesowitz, the publicist for my book. I love Nina. She’s optimistic, enthusiastic, and relentless. Everything a publicist should be. And ever so much more.
“Isn’t it, like, exciting?” she says.
“What? The show? I’m pretty nervous.”
“Forget the show! Someone important is here.”
“Here? At NPR? Who?”
“Don’t know who, security won’t tell me. Maybe it’s, like, Bush!”
“Oh, great.”
“Maybe it’s Mandela! Maybe it’s Springsteen.”
“I don’t think they stop traffic for a musician, Nina.”
“Maybe it’s Streisand! Oh my God, I would die! Hey, what’s on your jacket? You’re sparkling. You’re so funny!”
I’m reeling from fatigue, I’m getting a blister on my heel, and I need to forget about the mystery celebrity and focus on the task ahead. I’m concerned about being delightful on cue, especially in front of millions of listeners.
A beefy man with a clipboard checks off our names, looks at our identification, radios a message upstairs, and sends us into the lobby.
“Who’s the celebrity?” Nina shouts over her shoulder. “I hate this. I just hate not knowing!”
“Can’t say, ma’am. Sorry. Not allowed.”
We take the elevator up to the studio. Hulking security guys in dark suits surround us.
“Oh. Oh. Oh. Who’s it going to be?” Nina picks at the glitter on my jacket.
We’re introduced to the sound engineer and told that my interview will be done as a remote, with Jennifer Ludden in Washington. I’m trying to stay cool, but the idea of a remote interview throws me off balance.
“Maybe it’s, like, Cher!” says Nina.
I look over my list of talking points.
“Maybe it’s, like, the Pope!”
The engineer adjusts my headset, and we do a quick level check on my voice.
“Maybe it’s Paul and Heather!”
I notice a small coffee stain on my pants leg. At least this isn’t television.
“Or, like, Dick!”
“Dick?” I ask.
“Cheney!”
“Oh. Yeah. Dick.” My hands are sweating. And my throat is dry. “Nina, I could use a glass of water.”
“Maybe it’s, like, Madonna! Thank God I brought my camera. We gotta get photos!”
The engineer ushers Nina into the control room, and I do a meet-and-greet sound check with Jennifer in Washington. We’re set to go. My face burns. I’m suffering from a severe case of imposter syndrome.
Just as the engineer prepares to start taping, Nina jumps up from her seat and waves her arms like a wild woman.
“Stand by, Robin,” says the engineer through my headset.
Nina mouths words at me. Then she points into the lobby. I try to ignore her.
“Five, four, three, two—”
BILL CLINTON. That’s what she’s saying. I look through the thick glass wall and see his brilliant white hair behind a filing cabinet. It’s either him or Santa.
“Rolling,” says the engineer. Jennifer greets me. I respond in the media voice I’ve perfected over the past few months. Nina cranes her neck to see what’s happening with Clinton. I feel like my brain has been split in half with an ax.
I cartwheel through the interview, managing to be mildly amusing in spite of the flop sweat dripping down my back. We pause for a minute while an assistant delivers an excerpt from the book for me to read. When the door opens I hear Clinton taping his interview in the studio next to me. He speaks eloquently about tsunami relief and the crisis in the Middle East.
We start rolling again, and I talk about playing the piano for a dental implant convention at the Marriott Marquis. Tinka, tinka, tinka.
I try, really I do, not to think about the former President of the United States sitting three feet away from me. During one of the breaks I’m tempted to knock on the wall, but I don’t.
After the show we’re escorted to a lounge area and told not to touch the food. Nina immediately grabs a bagel.
“I’m starving,” she says.
“Let’s get out of here!” I say. We’re expected at the Javits Center for a book signing and cocktail party.
“Are you crazy? We’ve got to wait. I absolutely must get my photo taken with Clinton.” She pulls out her lipstick.
“Nina, they won’t let us anywhere near him. And besides, I feel kind of funny about this. Maybe we should just go.”
“Are you crazy? This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. We’re, like, staying.”
We lurk outside the recording studio, having been given strict instructions to stay back once the President enters the room.
He enters.
Nina starts working her way to the front of the small crowd, tugging me along behind her.
The NPR staff gathers around the President, asking him witty and intelligent questions. Clinton responds while signing copies of his book. I’ve been around lots of celebrities in my life, but I’ve never seen anyone with so much charm. The fluorescent fixtures of the office cast a greenish glow over us, but he’s a golden boy, dipped in a bucket of dawn-colored light. I glance over my shoulder, half expecting to see a special-effects technician hovering nearby.
Just then, he catches my eye, smiles, and nods.
“Can we get a photo, Mr. President?” says an NPR employee.
“Why, sure.”
“Now’s our chance,” says Nina.
“Nina, we can’t. This is for the NPR employees. We can’t crash the photo op.”
Next thing I know, I’m being shoved front and center and Nina is introducing us.
“Mr. President! This is Robin Goldsby!” says Nina. “She wrote a book! Just like you.”
“How do you do, Mr. President?” I say. We shake hands. Now what? I panic, trying to think of something appropriate to say. Nice tie? Loved the bit about the tsunami? What?
Speaking too loudly and sounding very much like last year’s third runner-up in the Miss Altoona beauty pageant, I come up with this: “Thank you, Mr. President, for everything you are doing to HELP OUR WORLD.”
“My pleasure,” he says. “Where are you all from?”
“I’m from Cologne, Germany. But I’m American. This land is my land.”
Silence. Where’s Woody Guthrie when you need him?
“Cologne? Beautiful town. They have that big old cathedral there, don’t they?”
“Yes,” I say. “That’s the Dom.”
“The Dom?”
“The Dom.”
Silence. I try to think of a fascinating tidbit of information to share with him. I lower my voice and lean in his direction. “You know, the Three Wise Men are buried there.”
Silence. I have no idea if the Three Wise Men are buried there. Here’s what I know about the Three Wise Men: Gold, frankincense, and myrrh. That’s it. I know way more about the Three Tenors and the Three Stooges than I know about the Three Wise Men.
“How they got from Bethlehem to Cologne I can’t imagine. Make a left at the manger and head north, I guess.” I consider humming a chorus of “We Three Kings of Orient Are” but stop myself just in time.
“Wow, that’s interesting. I never knew that,” he says. “Hey Bernie, did you hear that? Those Three Wise Men are buried in that big old church in Cologne.” Bernie writes something in a small notebook. President Clinton turns back to me. “So, you wrote a book?”
“Oh. Yes. It’s called Piano Girl. About playing the piano in, you know, bars and lounges.”
“And it’s hysterical!” shouts Nina. “She’s hysterical!”
“So you’re a musician?” he says.
“Yes, Mr. President. Just like you,” I say.
“And you’re here pushing your book,” he says.
“Yes, Mr. President. Just like you.” I sound like a mynah bird. “By the way, I hear your book is really fabulous.” I haven’t heard this, but I figure it’s a good thing to say.
“Thank you! Good luck to you.”
“You, too, Mr. President.”
I give him a copy of my book. Nina takes a photo of him with me. I take a photo of Nina with him. I sense she’s about to invite him to go shoe shopping with us at Bloomingdale’s, but his entourage whisks him into the elevator.
Right before the doors close, he waves at me. And then I hear him announce to his staff: “You know, those Three Wise Men are buried in that big old Cologne Cathedral.”
There’s silence in the NPR office.
“Really?” Nina asks me. “That’s a riot!”
We exit the building fifteen minutes later. President Clinton remains outside, shaking hands, posing for pictures, exchanging presidential pleasantries with surprised pedestrians. He flashes a smile at the adoring crowd and ducks into his limousine, one without a bathtub. Just before the door slams shut, I notice he’s still carrying my book. His car zooms away with a police escort, and the traffic barricades come down. The bubble of quiet hanging over the block pops as cars begin rolling onto the empty avenue. As people return to their strollers, their cell phones, their water bottles, their pavement-pounding-purpose-pushing lives, the city’s spirit rushes in like a raging river. Bada, bada, bada. It’s almost a relief to hear the jackhammer.
Hand-in-hand, Nina and I dash across the street and hail a cab.
“Where you goin’?” asks the driver.
“To the top!” shouts Nina. “But first we’ll need to get to the Javits Center. Book Expo America.”
“Don’t know why, but traffic’s a mess today,” says the cabbie. “You gals would be better off taking the subway.”
(An excerpt from Waltz of the Asparagus People: The Further Adventures of Piano Girl)
Also available in German, translated by Dagmar Breitenbach: Walzer der Spargel Menschen
©2011 Robin Meloy Goldsby; reprinted with the permission of Bass Lion Publishing
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News from CITES CoP19: CITES Should Have a Role to Help Prevent Future Zoonotic Pandemics
"We urge CITES member government not to wait for CoP20 or beyond. This is NOT premature—We owe it to the now 8 billion people on our planet, particularly the most vulnerable, to do everything we can to prevent future epidemics and pandemics of zoonotic origin.” -- Sue Lieberman, WCS VP of Policy
PANAMA CITY , Panama | November 16, 2022
The following statement was issued today by Sue Lieberman, Vice President of International Policy for the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS), at CITES CoP19 on the role of CITES member governments in reducing risk of future pathogen spillover and potential zoonotic disease emergence associated with live wildlife trade.
CITES Cop19 (the 19th meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora) is meeting through Nov. 25 in Panama. Here, the 184 CITES member governments have gathered to ensure that international trade in specimens of wild animals and plants does not threaten the survival of the species. One new policy discussion underway is the role international trade policies can play to prevent future pandemics.
Currently, there is not consensus by the CITES Parties to address how trade policies can play a role to prevent pathogen spillover from live wildlife, and thereby future pandemics. WCS, which served on the CITES Standing Committee Working Group on reducing zoonotic disease associated with wildlife trade, takes the position that CITES governments have a strong role to play by advancing a One Health strategy and supporting actions to close large commercial markets in live birds and animals.
Said Lieberman: “We believe that CITES and its implementation of trade policies has a role to play in the prevention of future pandemics, although there is a great deal that needs to be done that is outside the remit of CITES.
“It is vital that prevention at the source (particularly of pathogen spillover from wildlife) of the next outbreak, epidemic, or pandemic of zoonotic origin be addressed at both the national trade level as well as the multilateral trade level. We believe that CITES and its implementation have a role to play in this prevention.
“WCS greatly appreciates the leadership of countries, including Côte d’Ivoire, Gabon, Gambia, Liberia, Nigeria, Senegal, Israel and the United States as they advance a resolution that will help CITES Parties initiate measures, as a matter of urgency, to mitigate the risk of future pandemics resulting from zoonotic pathogen spillover from wildlife.
“We appreciate the discussion at CITES CoP19 and the recognition of the acute urgency of the situation, and interventions from many Parties. It would be unfortunate, and sad, for the CITES CoP to tell the world that it’s acceptable to discuss the issue further and wait another 3 years to act; prevention of an epidemic or pandemic of zoonotic origin must be on a much faster track.
"We urge CITES member government not to wait for CoP20 or beyond. This is NOT premature—We owe it to the now 8 billion people on our planet, particularly the most vulnerable, to do everything we can to prevent future epidemics and pandemics of zoonotic origin.”
Mary Dixon,
Global Conservation, Protect, Illegal Wildlife Trade, Wildlife Health and Health Policy
CITES CoP19
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repost: an interview with Mr. Cameron
This past week, we interviewed our history teacher Mr. Cameron to learn more about women’s roles throughout history. During this interview we learned about how women’s rights have evolved, as well as steps we can take to promote gender equality at our school. We would like to give a huge thanks to Mr. Cameron for letting us interview him.
Camille: The right for women to vote was a huge step towards gender equality. What do you think are other notable events that have made advancements [towards gender equality] in history?
Mr. Cameron: So aside from the right to vote, other advancements that have allowed women greater freedom and independence, comes with regard to the ability to independently transport themselves, with, like, any sort of new modern technology. Prerogatively the ability to have disposable income and hold a job that provides the income for that independence, and similarly the transportation.
Camille: Were there any female-dominated societies or subcultures throughout history, and if there were, how were they seen by other cultures at the time?
Mr. Cameron: Examples of matriarchal societies can be seen in Post-Classical, bleeding into Early Modern West African Societies like the Ghana and Mali Empires. Matriarchal figures were revered for their reproductive capacities and general peaceful moderation strategies.
Camille: Personally, who are some female figures who you admire or would be good role models?
Mr. Cameron: First female role model: Malala Yousafzai, who despite undergoing some pretty tortuous circumstances has been able to turn that on its head and serve as an influential and inspirational person for people who are persecuted by any state conflict and use that personal experience to uplift those who are undergoing something similar. Secondly, Joan of Arc, of the Medieval France. No doubt working within the patriarchy and asserting her claims to authority by being the messenger of God. Thirdly, and going even further back into history, Empress Theodora of the Byzantine Empire. From prostitute to empress, and basically helping her husband stick with his emperorship despite massive riots. Thanks Theodora. Justinian loves you even in the afterlife.
Camille: What publications, books, Ted Talks, or movies would you recommend people watch or are your favorites that shine a light on gender equality?
Mr. Cameron: One really current issue that's regularly addressed regarding women's equality is the gender wage gap. There is one short piece by John Oliver (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PsB1e-1BB4Y ) explaining the very nuanced and complex nature of figuring out how that gender wage gap is established.There's also a short John Green from vlogbrothers ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=it0EYBBl5LI ) on that same topic. Prager University ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QcDrE5YvqTs ) problematizes that entire concept arguing that no gender wage gap exists. Looking between those three sources would be really useful.
Camille: In the classroom, how do you teach these values to give a more even view of history or just more balanced.
Mr. Cameron: Focusing on female perspectives in periods of history that are not contemporary (the end of World War I up until now) is really difficult to do. You could look back to any of those Western African nations that had primarily oral traditions, and there's no written record of that. Secondly, the sheer lack of sources from women in the pre-contemporary world makes it very difficult to teach that perspective and that point of view. Referencing the reality and regularly using vocabulary like patriarchy and matriarchy to establish the regularity of patriarchal practices and lacking matriarchal structures is what we can address prior to the regular production of sources by women in the contemporary era
Camille: Last question: To the high school students at SDA who are going to be reading this article, what do you think are some steps you can take towards gender equality around campus?
Mr. Cameron: I’ll speak specifically to the gentlemen reading this news article right now. Gentlemen, you claim that you love ladies and that you revere them, so: actions speak louder than words; listen to what they have to say.
Camille Zimmer and Mila Roemer
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Laramie Man Admits to Sexually Assaulting His Granddaughter
Nick Learned
Nick Learned Published: June 15, 2016
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A Laramie man admitted Wednesday in Albany County District Court to repeatedly sexually assaulting his granddaughter.
The 77-year-old man, whose name is not included in this report in order to protect the victim, pleaded guilty to one count of sexual assault of a minor in the second degree as part of a plea deal.
In exchange for his guilty plea, prosecutors agreed to drop the five remaining charges -- two counts of sexual assault of a minor in the first degree and three counts of incest. But Prosecutor Kurt Britzius did not agree to make any sentencing recommendation.
"This will be a cold plea," said Britzius.
If given the maximum sentence, the man could face up to 20 years in prison and a $10,000 fine.
Court documents say a Laramie police officer went to a Laramie home Dec. 5 to investigate a report that the man had inappropriately touched the child.
According to the police affidavit, the officer's investigation revealed that a family member found the victim and the perpetrator in an inappropriate situation the night of Dec. 5.
The affidavit goes on to say that when questioned by police, the child reported that the man sometimes sexually abused her. According to court documents, the man told police he began abusing the victim at the home in July and the abuse continued in October and possibly December.
"You knew that was inappropriate, right?" Judge Jeffrey Donnell asked in court Wednesday. "But you went ahead and did it anyway?"
"Yes sir," the man replied.
The perpetrator remains in custody. He was being held on $125,000 cash bond, but in light of the guilty plea, Donnell ordered that bond revoked and the man remanded to custody pending sentencing.
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Home Medical Legal Matters Shaken Baby Syndrome Fraud
In May of 2009 the AAP published their bizarre policy statement that endorsed “shaking” as a biomechanical injury-causation mechanism for traumatic brain injury (TBI). Biomechanical experiments that had tested and eliminated ‘shaking’ as a TBI mechanism are audaciously cited by the authors as somehow supporting ‘shaking’ as a TBI mechanism, while the leading biomechanical research on the subject of shaken baby syndrome (SBS), shaken impact syndrome (SIS), and lethal minor falls (LMF) are not cited by the authors in their “Abusive Head Trauma in Infants and Children” position paper, as the biomechanical research consistently contradicted their position. In this critique the authors are requested to rescind their paper and its flagrant misrepresentation of the biomechanical sciences that have consistently and repeatedly proven that ‘shaking’ is not a valid TBI mechanism or medical diagnosis.
Key words: Shaken baby syndrome (SBS), shaken impact syndrome (SIS), lethal minor falls (LMF), traumatic brain injury (TBI).
Kent R. Holcomb
Biomechanicians, who are the only professionals with the training and expertise to examine biomechanical injury causation mechanisms, such as the shaken baby syndrome (SBS), shaken impact syndrome (SIS), and lethal minor fall (LMF) theory, have repeatedly tested all three of these injury mechanisms and found SBS to be a human impossibility, while validating both the SIS and accidental LMF mechanism. Legal investigators who examined this research have independently concluded that SBS does not exist and had been founded upon a biomechanical misunderstanding by medical doctors who had no training and were unqualified in this scientific field. [1-2]
By contrast, in 2006 the National Association of Medical Examiners (N.A.M.E.) officially rescinded their endorsing position paper on SBS and did not renew it. Forensic pathologists have a legal obligation to determine the cause of death in these types of cases and, after numerous pathologists studied the biomechanical literature, they determined that SBS did not exist. For this reason their position paper was not
renewed. [3]
Moreover, in recent years numerous state trial judges have been faced with the question of whether or not to permit convictions founded upon this medical hypothesis or to uphold old SBS convictions and have concluded that SBS cannot sustain a criminal conviction. These state judges instead banned SBS from their court rooms and reversed years-old convictions. [4-11] In Ontario, Canada the medical examiner felt ethically compelled to Sua Sponte notify the court that SBS did not exist and was granted permission to review their 220 former SBS convictions to free the innocent. [12]
However, in May, 2009 the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) published their official policy statement that endorsed the SBS biomechanical hypothesis, [13] which placed the AAP in direct conflict with the entire branch of biomemchanical science, most forensic pathologists, most state court judges and federal judges who were correctly briefed on the hypothesis, and the legal commentators who published on the topic. [1-12]
To arrive at their conclusion that endorsed “shaking” as a traumatic brain injury (TBI) mechanism, Dr. Christian, Dr. Block, and the committee on child abuse and neglect fraudulently mischaracterized the body of biomechanical scientific knowledge as follows:
“in 1987 Duhaime et al reported that victims of fatal shaken baby syndrome, and many of those who survived their trauma, showed evidence of blunt impact to the head at the time of the diagnosis. The importance of impact in acceleration/deceleration injury was supported by their basic biomechanical models, and they concluded that most serious abusive head injuries required an impact to the head. The relative importance of impact as a contributor to the head injury sustained by abused children became a source of controversy. Biomechanical modeling has since been used to both support and refute the contributions of shaking or impact to abused head trauma. In reality, all models and theories have known limitations, and many clinicians and researchers acknowledge that precise mechanisms for all abusive injuries remain incompletely understood.” [13]
To support this statement the authors cite Duhaime [14] for historic purposes, Ommaya [15] to refute, Cory [16] to support, and Wolfson [17] for SBS ambiguity purposes.
The above-quoted statement grossly and fraudulently mischaracterizes the biomechanical studies while deceiving pediatricians as to the findings from the biomechanical branch of science.
This critique will clarify the true results from the quoted experiments and studies, discuss the lead biomechanical research that the AAP authors saw fit to suppress, urge the AAP to rescind, and discuss the apparent motivation behind the authors’ misrepresentation of the biomechanical sciences.
Before discussing the biomechanical literature, a few points should be made about the role of pediatricians and biomechanicians. If a pediatrician were to diagnose a child with diabetes and prescribe treatment based on extensive medical literature that the pediatrician had reviewed, then he would be in his legitimate domain, an area in which a biomechanician would be unqualified to dispute the pediatrician. By the same token, if a biomechanician renders his opinion on the validity of a mechanical injury hypothesis, after conducting experimental tests on the hypothesis and reviewing all the biomechanical literature (for examples on SBS/SIS/LMF), his opinion would carry legitimate authority and could not be contradicted by a pediatrician who is not qualified in the biomechanical sciences.
In either instance the complaining party is not qualified to dispute the diagnosis/findings of the other party. Regarding the field of biomechanics and its applications to the SBS/SIS/LMF mechanisms, biomechanicians Bandak and Goldsmith
best describe their roles:
“Biomechanics is the subset of the scientific discipline of mechanics that deals with the forces, motions, deformation, ruptures, fractures, breaks, etc of living tissue. The science of biomechanics applies at the microscopic … and the macroscopic (tissue, organ, full body, etc) scales. ‘Injury biomechanics’ is the application of biomechanics to the understanding of the causation and mechanism of injury.” [18]
“Biomechanicians and physicians evaluate trauma in fundamentally different ways. The biomechanician constructs or accepts a particular system, obtains its physical and geometric characteristics, applies a specific and quantifiable input (load) and then determines the output using experimental, analytical, and numerical techniques. A physician, in contrast, sees the end product of signs and symptoms and relies primarily if not exclusively on experience and observational case material to diagnose and treat. A biomechanician traces a continuous path from cause to effect using the laws of nature, tries to determine the specific mechanism of any injury, and attempts to either establish or eliminate an ultimate mechanical cause.” [19]
Accordingly, it is the role of the biomechanician to “establish or eliminate” SBS/SIS/LMF as injury mechanisms for TBI, yet the AAP authors do not suggest that their pediatricians consult with biomechanics experts when evaluating TBI cases. (Although they suggest consulting with other specialists, biomechanician are not cited.)
AAP Authors Misrepresent Biomechanical Findings
When discussing Duhaime, Cory, Wolfson, and Ommaya, the AAP authors report falls somewhere between disingenuous and fraudulent, depending upon their foreknowledge.
In their report of Duhaime, they fail to disclose the results of the 69 “repetitive violent shaking” tests, in which peak accelerations came in at 9.29 G., which is about 1/10th of the forces needed for subdural hematoma or diffuse axonal injury, and 1/50th of the 428 G. forces reached from shaking-impacts. Since the shaking force levels were only 7-10 percent of that needed for lethal cerebral injury, these tests eliminated or falsified the SBS hypothesis. Yet the authors make no mention of these results in their paper. [13] Why?
Their most egregious error, however, comes from their nonsensical citation to Cory [16] as somehow supporting SBS. Either the authors never reviewed this study, or they intentionally misrepresented its results, as Cory conducted two experiments. The first experiment falsified SBS, and the second experiment falsified the infant-whip hypothesis as lethal cerebral injury-causation-mechanisms.
Cory correctly noted that Duhaime’s description of her infant model allowed for variations in its design. He postulated that slight variations in design parameters could lead to higher acceleration force levels. To test for these model design variations he replicated Duhaime’s infant model with an adjustable version and then tested each variation of the model that had a modified parameter change, such as higher center of gravity, or modified heads or hinged necks. In conducting this experiment, each variation of the Duhaime infant model was tested by volunteer shakers who violently and repetitively shook the Duhaime replica model in the anteroposterior (A-P) sagittal plane.
This replication of the Duhaime experiment confirmed that classical shaking alone did not nearly approach the force level needed for lethal cerebral injury. Cory’s highest force levels came in at only about 4,000 radians/second squared, which is about 18 percent of the force needed for lethal TBI under the Thibault-Margulies 22,000 radians/second squared scale.
Accordingly, while Cory’s experiments were understandably able to generate slightly higher force levels than those obtained by Duhaime with her more basic model, these levels were only 11-18 percent of the levels needed for SDH (brain) injuries.
Cory also discovered a secondary problem with the SBS hypothesis. Most of the SBS literature postulated a 1-2 minute violent shaking event, yet his volunteer shakers became overly fatigued after only 10 seconds of shaking.
Cory then set out to test what he postulated as his “worst case scenario” model and mechanism. Using the data from his first series of experiments, he created an infant model that combined all the parameters that had generated higher acceleration numbers; (i.e. higher center of gravity, hinge-neck, etc.) into a single model for his tests. He then created what was called in the study his gravity-assisted shaking pattern. This new pattern does not resemble any reasonable definition of “shaking,” but instead it better conforms with an “infant-whip” mechanism, not a shaking mechanism, as described by Cory:
“In the ‘gravity-assisted’ shake pattern the arms are extended such that the model is elevated about one shoulder and accelerated downwards to below waist level (using gravity to assist). This results in the back of the head (occiput) impacting with the back of the model. The volunteer’s arms are then pulled upwards, returning to the original position above the shoulders (with the volunteer’s head tilted to avoid collision with the model) and inwards to induce chin-chest impact at the opposite end-point of the shake cycle.” [16]
During this series of infant-whip tests, Cory again fell far short of the SDH (brain hemorrhage) force levels. This time he achieved 10,000 radians/second squared or 29 percent of the Duhaime SDH scale and 46 percent of the Thibault-Margulies SDH scale,
far short of the forces needed for lethal traumatic brain injury.
While this experiment did not test the SBS mechanism, it does serve as an interesting experiment, as not even this severe and unreported infant-whip mechanism could generate lethal TBI forces. In this indirect manner it serves to “eliminate” (Goldsmith) human shaking or whip-lashing as a TBI mechanism. Put another way, it proved that no form of human shaking or whip-lashing of an infant could generate the mechanical-sized forces needed for TBI, even in a worst-case scenario.
To cite this SBS-falsification experiment as supporting the SBS hypothesis is disingenuous or fraudulent, and again, it begs the question of why were these findings not reported.
Additionally, the AAP authors cite Wolfson [17] as evidence that the mechanisms behind SBS are “incompletely understood.” Yet Wolfson, like Cory and Duhaime before, once again tested and falsified the SBS hypothesis.
In these experiments, anthropometric infant dummies, designed to replicate six-month-old infants with rigid necks were used to gather data. Ten volunteers were told to violently shake the dummies in the A-P sagittal plane for as long as they could while Wolfson recorded the data.
Test results showed yet again that a human shaker (as opposed to the Ommaya 30 m.p.h. mechanical sled mechanism used in the original monkey experiments) could only generate about 10 g’s of force or about 7-10 percent of the force needed for SDH, comparable to the Duhaime 9 g results. Maximum duration of any shaker was 22 seconds with an average duration of 11 seconds (comparable to Cory’s 10 second finding).
Wolfson then recorded all this data into his MADYMO CRAB computational model that allowed him to test the full range of neck stiffness characteristics, ranging from no resistance, that allowed the head to impact with the chest/back, all the way up to the “end-stop” resistance level, which halted the head before making contact with the torso.
Since these experiments mimicked the SBS motions and not the Cory infant-whip experiment, Wolfson noted that “none of these results lie near those of Cory” for chest/back head impact results. (While unclear, Wolfson seemed unaware that Cory’s “infant-whip test” did not take place in the A-P sagittal plane.)
Still, no matter how stiff or flexible Wolfson adjusted the neck, he could not reach any recognized level of force for SDH/DAI injuries, and therefore validated yet again the Duhaime/Cory results by concluding that:
“Although this particular investigation has produced further results exceeding criteria for concussion, current literature does not report clinical findings consistent with this mechanism. If violent impact of the head against the torso were the mechanism of intracranial injury in SBS, it is likely that findings such as bruising of the chin, chest, back, and occiput would be reported. As with previous research, the results from these simulations have been unable to show that shaking alone can cause the head accelerations necessary to cause the brain injuries associated with SBS.” [17]
In discussing his results, (p. 65) Wolfson observed that 46 of his 50 simulations generated data below any of the recognized injury levels. That is, these simulations could not cause concussion. Simulations that did reach concussion levels came from the end-stop-type stiffness characteristic, which Wolfson states “mimics the behavior of an end-stop OR IMPACT.” (id) (Capitalization not in original)
Accordingly, like the earlier experiments, this one falsified and eliminated shaking as a lethal SDH injury mechanism, yet the AAP authors made the conscious decision not to report on these results. Why?
Ommaya’s study [15] is correctly represented by the authors as refuting SBS. However, the profound significance of this study should be placed in historic context.
Historically, it was Ommaya’s 1968 rhesus monkey whiplash experimental data that gave birth inadvertently to SBS. This experiment rapidly accelerated the monkeys to 30 m.p.h. and then brought them to a sudden stop. Radiologist Dr. Caffey saw the published report, telephoned Ommaya, and asked if the test results would support an SBS hypothesis. Ommaya explained that it would not. Ommaya explained to Caffey that a human shaker could not mimic the force levels of a mechanical sled that was accelerated to 30 m.p.h. and then suddenly decelerated. Ignoring or misunderstanding this advice, Caffey published his SBS hypothesis anyway with the Ommaya experiment appearing as the sole experimental source for subsequent SBS papers. [20]
In Ommaya’s 2002 paper, he performed a biomechanical analysis of his 1968 data, Duhaime’s experimental data, and all other subsequent biomechanical data to see if it supported or eliminated shaking as a cause of traumatic brain injury and concluded that shaking alone produces maximum accelerations:
“well below thresholds for cerebral concussion, subdural hematoma, subarachnoid haemorrhage, deep brain haemorrhages, and cortical contusions.” [15]
Accordingly, Ommaya has come forth to notify the medical community that his 1968 data was misunderstood by the medical community and should not be used to support the SBS hypothesis. The AAP authors by glossing over the Ommaya history and his 2002 findings, mislead pediatricians everywhere and do them a tremendous disservice. But why?
Since the AAP authors have grossly misrepresented the biomechanical literature that they cite, they should rescind their paper before they incur liability, especially when considered in light of the following four leading biomechanical studies that the AAP authors fail to mention in their report.
Selection Bias Fraud of AAP Authors Neglecting Biomedical Studies
An AAP policy statement on SBS/SIS should contain a concise distillation of the best scientific knowledge available to pediatricians, described in a fairly balanced manner that is free from personal bias or speculation. Disputes and controversies within the medical community or between it and the biomechanicians should also be discussed.
No such paper should be issued without discussing the results of the 2003 Prange, [21] 2004 Goldsmith, [19] 2005 Bandak, [18] and 2007 Prange [22] studies. While much more biomechanical literature exists, the findings from these studies are central to the SBS/SIS/LMF subject material.
In 2003 the leading experimental study of falls, shaking, and impact surfaces was published by Prange, Coats, Duhaime, and Marguiles. [21] This experiment tested shaking alone, shaking-impacts, and minor falls (1 ft, 3 ft, 5 ft heights) against concrete; carpet padding covered concrete; and concrete covered by a 4” foam piece from a crib mattress.
Cognizant of some valid criticism that was leveled against Duhaime’s 1987 experiment, these tests utilized a far more sophisticated 1.5 month old infant model and employed concise methodology that was beyond criticism.
Prange’s shaking only and shaking-impact against concrete and carpet-padded-concrete test results were similar to the 1987 results in that they eliminated SBS and validated SIS. His impact tests of 4” foam were similar to the shaking-only tests and could not generate sufficient forces to cause any form of TBI. Results from the one/three feet fall levels onto concrete pad were similar to those of shaking, while five foot falls onto these surfaces reached potentially lethal forces.
Therefore, although Prange’s experiments eliminated both SBS and the soft-cushion version of SIS as injury mechanisms, while validating the LMF theory, the AAP authors fail to notify their pediatricians of the experiments. But why?
In 2004 Goldsmith/Plunkett published their in-depth biomechanical study of all the data and laws of biomechanics that govern loading characteristics, injury parameters and criteria, scaling, failure characteristics, differences between infants and adults, and impacts due to falls in the context of TBI/SBS/SIS/LMF. Goldsmith determined that Dr. Caffey had incorrectly interpreted the results of Ommaya’s 1968 test when publishing Caffey’s original paper, as the results from a 30 m.p.h. vehicular impact are not comparable to a 9.3 g “shake.” It was also concluded that it was impossible to “differentiate a deliberate impact from an accidental fall under the same mechanical circumstances (speeds, surfaces, configurations) by biomechanical analysis, since the mechanism and injury patterns will be identical,” and since accidental falls from 5-6 ft heights could generate lethal forces comparable to an intentional impact. [19]
Observing that biomechanical studies had established that shaking could not cause concussion, subdural hemorrhage (SDH), or diffuse axonal injury (DAI), they noted that even if a super-human event generated forces sufficient to cause these injuries, there would necessarily be “significant structural neck damage.” [19] Yet once again the
A.A.P. azuthors made the nefarious decision to leave their pediatricians in the dark. Once again, this begs the question of why.
In 2005 Bandak published on this precise point, in a ground-breaking study that performed an “injury biomechanics analysis of the reported SBS levels of rotational velocity and acceleration of the head for their injury effects on the infant neck. Resulting forces were compared with experimental data on the structural failure limits of the cervical spine in several animal models as well as human neonate cadaver models. [18]
As the former director for the Accident Reconstruction Division of the U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and a Professor of Engineering and Applied Sciences for George Washington University, Bandak is arguably among the nation’s foremost biomechanicians and a voice that cannot be ignored.
Bandak’s findings demonstrated that the infant’s neck/cervical spinal cord would suffer lethal structural failure at force levels well below any of the recognized levels for SDH/DAI. Thus, if SBS was valid, which Bandak found that it was not, any victim of SBS would also have suffered structural damage to the neck-spinal cord. Yet, there were no such cases reported in the literature. [18] This profound study was, yet again, not reported on by the A.A.P. and again begs the question of why.
Medical doctors, grasping at straws, soon speculated that Cory’s chest/back/occiput impacts protected the neck from structural injury. However, this hypothesis was eliminated by Prange’s 2007 experiment: Testing with a pneumonic sled used to mimic 20, 30, and 40 m.p.h. frontal crashes with a 3-yr-old dummy restrained at the torso by a five-point belt in a forward facing child care seat, upper neck tension levels were measured at 250-350 lbs for the 20 m.p.h. crash, 450-500 lbs for the 30 m.p.h. crash, and 500-700 lbs for the 40 m.p.h. crash. [22] These were levels of force well above the 254 lb injury tolerance level accepted by the U.S. federal government. Dr. Prange’s video and raw data showed that these “peak upper neck tension levels” were reached during the forward arcing motion of the head BEFORE the chin made contact with the chest. Accordingly, this data showed that structural neck/spinal cord failure (Bandak) would take place before chin/back impacts of the head took place, thus falsifying the hypothesis that these impacts protect the neck. [23]
Yet, despite the profound significance of the Prange, Goldsmith, and Bandak studies, to any pediatrician who is trying in good faith to distinguish accidental from abusive TBI, the AAP authors fail to discuss these findings. This again begs the question of why?
As demonstrated by the foregoing discussion, the AAP has issued a policy statement that misrepresents the biomechanical sciences and glosses over the profound findings from this discipline.
Biomechanical experiments and studies from Duhaime, [14] Ommaya, [15] Prange, [21-22] Goldsmith, [19] Cory, [16] Bandak, [18] and Wolfson, [17] have yielded consistent data that repeatedly eliminated ‘shaking’ and impact against 4” foam as mechanisms of TBI. This body of research also validated SIS and LMF theories and found there was no biomechanical method of distinguishing between these two mechanisms in a typical case.
Accordingly, while a pediatrician may speculate as to a SBS cause of TBI, he could not issue a formal SBS diagnosis as no experimental data or science exists to support such a diagnosis, as the best scientific data available shows that SBS does not exist.
Most of the research that eliminated shaking as an injury causation mechanism was published in the medical literature and would show up under a medical database search for SBS; i.e., Duhaime, Ommaya, Cory, Bandak, 2005 Prange, and Uscinski.
Exceptions are Wolfson and 2007 Prange, that were published in the bioengineering journals. Since the AAP authors have cited both medical and bioengineering journals when discussing SBS, they appear cognizant of the foregoing research. Yet, no effort was made to accurately report these findings. Furthermore, the limited biomechanical reports that were mentioned were grossly misrepresented to the extent that the AAP may incur liability.
However, the AAP authors did liaison with Janet Saul, Ph.D. from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), [13] before publishing their policy statement. This is somewhat of a mystery standing alone, as the paper did not directly deal with disease. But when viewed in the context of an observation made by Wolfson in his study, we perhaps begin to grasp the AAP authors’ true motivation:
“…impact does not provide a plausible explanation for those cases of SBS where no evidence of impact can be observed in the presence of severe intracranial and neurological injury.” [17]
Thus, by advocating the nonexistent SBS hypothesis to their members, the AAP provides a default diagnosis for the large number of TBI cases that have no history of deliberate SIS or accidental LMF, and no soft tissue head injuries to support these diagnoses.
Put another way, as long as the pediatrician can fall back on the mythical SBS diagnosis, he need not look elsewhere for his TBI answer. Yet, this is precisely what pediatricians should be doing when confronted with a TBI case that has no head soft tissue injury and no history of abuse or minor falls. One logical area of research would be adverse vaccine reactions, and this may be the area of research that the AAP policy attempts to block, although speculative on my part.
Whatever the AAP authors true reasons are for grossly misrepresenting their cited studies and omitting key biomechanical studies from their paper, it should be rescinded, since it has the effect of instructing all pediatricians to commit medical malpractice and incurring liability upon the AAP and its authors.
Moreover, the medical community should avoid unwarranted conflicts between pediatricians and forensic pathologists, and the AAP should not advocate disingenuous policies that will infect the integrity of an organization that should have the public’s trust.
Relabeling SBS/SIS as abusive head trauma in an effort to be overly vague as to the mechanism of injury, while glossing over biomechanical research that conclusively eliminated ‘shaking’ as a TBI mechanism, could have a chilling affect upon the research into non-impact TBI cases. One wonders if this was not the authors’ intent and the reason for the CDC liason.
Before publishing this critique, the .A.A.P. authors were provided a copy of this manuscript and given the opportunity to deny the allegations herein or otherwise defend their position paper. Rather than defending their paper, the A.A.P. authors chose to remain silent and to let the criticism stand. In a court of law this silence would equate to a tacit admission of wrongdoing. This author welcomes all questions and comments.
Kent R. Holcomb is an expert in “shaken baby syndrome” (SBS) and founder of Medical Legal Advocate, A.S.P.C. Tucson, Unit Manzanita 3A22L; P. O. Box 24401, Tucson, AZ 85734
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3.Email from Gregory G. Davis, Chairman, N.A.M.E. Position Paper Committee, to Dr. J. Plunkett on 10-17-06 and other correspondence with N.A.M.E. and A.J.F.M.P.
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6.Missouri v. Hyatt, 06 M7-CR00016-02 (Cir. Ct. Shelby City, MO)(11-6-07))(Frye)
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8.Florida v. Sanidad, 00-524 CFFA(Cir. Ct. Flager City)(2008)(Frye).
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23.Galaznik’s 6-28-07 Email summarizing meeting with Dr. Prange and their review of video/raw data from Reference #22.
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COVID-19 vaccine mandates are not supported by science, says top doctor
A prominent doctor from the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine argued that mandating the Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccines is not supported by science.
Many within the medical community are pushing back against the relentless drive to mandate the experimental and side effect-riddled COVID-19 vaccines. One of the prominent people lending their voices to this opposition is Dr. Marty Makary, a professor at Johns Hopkins and the editor-in-chief of a notable medical news website. (Related: Government, mainstream media, private sector teaming up in hate-based war against the unvaccinated.)
Studies do not support mask mandates
In an interview with U.S. News and World Reports, Makary flat out stated that the COVID-19 vaccines should not be required for all Americans.
“Those who choose not to get vaccinated … pose no public health threat to those already immune,” said Makary.
The physician pointed out how hypocritical it is to impose health choices upon Americans when similarly dangerous actions, such as extreme alcohol consumption, are allowed to occur.
“Would we be so stern toward people making similar or worse health choices to smoke, drink alcohol or not wear a helmet when riding a bike?” Makary asked. “Over 85,000 Americans die annually from alcohol, yet we don’t have the same public health fervor or requirements to save those lives.”
Makary also stated that public health officials and government agencies were ignoring the millions of Americans who already have natural immunity due to prior COVID-19 infection. He added that there is no scientific evidence to support mandating vaccines for those with natural immunity.
He said many public researchers have tried to argue with him regarding natural immunity. These researchers falsely believe that the effectiveness and durability of natural immunity are insufficient and COVID-19 vaccines are necessary.
“But here we are now, over a year and a half into the clinical experience of observing patients who were infected, and natural immunity is effective and going strong,” he said. “And that’s because with natural immunity, the body develops antibodies to the entire surface of the virus.”
Makary pointed to a study done by the Cleveland Clinic that found that vaccinating people with natural immunity did not augment their level of protection against COVID-19 in any way.
Makary also against mask mandates for kids
During his interview with U.S. News and World Reports, Makary argued against mandatory vaccinations for the young and healthy.
He said the relentless drive to vaccinate younger segments of the population lies in the false assumption that the risk of people catching and dying from COVID-19 is equally distributed in the population.
“We have always known that it’s very hard for the virus to hurt someone who is young and healthy,” he said.
Makary extended this logic to mask mandates for kids in schools, voicing his opposition to school mask mandates on Fox News on Monday, August 7.
“Kids, they’re very inefficient transmitters [of COVID-19],” he said during the Fox News show “America’s Newsroom.”
Makary’s comments came after he made a case against school mask mandates for children in an opinion piece published by the Wall Street Journal.
In the piece, Makary and his co-author pointed to a study from North Carolina conducted before COVID-19 vaccines were widely available. This study did not find a single case of student-to-teacher transmission in 90,000 schoolchildren while they were in school.
Makary went on Fox News after he received intense backlash for his opposition to school mask mandates.
He explained that there are a lot of kids in areas of the United States that have low levels of COVID-19 transmission. School mask mandates in these areas of the country do not make sense.
“So, for kids who do well with masks, feel free to wear a mask,” he said. “For kids who struggle, we have to individualize and think about a carve-out that gives them and their parents the option to not wear it because the risk-benefit ratio isn’t there.”
As the post-vaccine delta variant of the coronavirus continues to spread through the U.S. with the help of fully vaccinated individuals, more and more groups are pushing for mandatory vaccinations and masking. Makary is one of the few prominent voices using science to oppose these.
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"Tianmu Mountain Panorama Located in the boundaries of Lin'an County of Zhejiang Province, Tianmu Mountain National Nature Reserve covers a total area of 4,284 hectares. The Reserve lies between east longitude of 119o24′- 119o28′ and north latitude of 30o18′- 30o25′. Tianmu Mountain is a famous mountain with a long history of Confucianism, Taoism and Buddhism. The topography and unique Buddhist culture have made Tianmu Mountain a wonder of the world for its quite entire preservation of its wildlife and vegetation. Established in 1958 with the approval of the Central Government as felling ban area, Tianmu MountainNational Nature Reserve was promoted as a national reserve in 1986 and included by UNESCO in the International Man and Biosphere Reserve Network. Plants It is mild and moist, and vegetation here is featured by its geological age and biodiversity. The region is one of the sites with the richest subtropical higher plant species in China. There are 2,160 species of higher plants, 1,781 species of seed plants, 151 species of ferns, 222 species of mosses and 69 species of mosses. Among them, more than 37 species are named after Tianmu Mountain and 1,200 species of medicinal plants. In the Reserve, there are 35 species of plants under focal state protection, and some of them are rare and precious such as Katsura tree, Chinese tulip, yulan magnolia (Magnolia denudata), Tianmu sago cycas and so on. Ginkgo biloba, Cercidiphyllum japonicum, Liriodendron Chinese are endangered species. Ginkgoes are dotted in areas with an elevation of 300-1,100 meters. The ancient pines in Tianmu Mountain bypassed in the evolutionary process can top 80 meters and each volume of timber can reach over 40 cubic meters. There are only 5 Tianmu Tiemus (Ostrya rehderiana Chun), which are called single child of the earth. Animals The Reserve has a total of 2,139 animal species, among which there are 74 species of beasts, 148 species of birds, 44 species of reptiles and 20 species of amphibians as well as 1,853 species of insects kept on the record. However, according to the recent research, the number of insect species has already topped 3,000 and about 100 species are newly discovered. Whether they are new species or not has not been identified. Among numerous animal species, 35 species such as clouded leopard, white-necked pheasant and pangolin are under the state protection. "
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Goles, E., & Gomez, L. (2018). Combinatorial game associated to the one dimensional Schelling's model of social segregation. Nat. Comput., 17(2), 427–436.
Abstract: In this paper we consider a finite one-dimensional lattice with sites such that one of them is empty and the others have a black or white token. There are two players (one for each color), such that step by step alternately they move one of their tokens to the empty site trying to obtain a connected configuration. This game is related with the Schelling's social segregation model, where colors represent two different populations such that each one tries to take up a position with more neighbors as itself (same color). In this work we study strategies to play the game as well as their relation with the associated Schelling's one-dimensional case (line and cycle graphs).
Keywords: Combinatorial game; Schelling's social segregation model; Draw strategy; Energy
Goles, E., Lobos, F., Ruz, G. A., & Sene, S. (2020). Attractor landscapes in Boolean networks with firing memory: a theoretical study applied to genetic networks. Nat. Comput., 19(2), 295–319.
Abstract: In this paper we study the dynamical behavior of Boolean networks with firing memory, namely Boolean networks whose vertices are updated synchronously depending on their proper Boolean local transition functions so that each vertex remains at its firing state a finite number of steps. We prove in particular that these networks have the same computational power than the classical ones, i.e. any Boolean network with firing memory composed of m vertices can be simulated by a Boolean network by adding vertices. We also prove general results on specific classes of networks. For instance, we show that the existence of at least one delay greater than 1 in disjunctive networks makes such networks have only fixed points as attractors. Moreover, for arbitrary networks composed of two vertices, we characterize the delay phase space, i.e. the delay values such that networks admits limit cycles or fixed points. Finally, we analyze two classical biological models by introducing delays: the model of the immune control of the lambda\documentclass[12pt]{minimal} \usepackage{amsmath} \usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy} \usepackage{mathrsfs} \usepackage{upgreek} \setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt} \begin{document}$$\lambda $$\end{document}-phage and that of the genetic control of the floral morphogenesis of the plant Arabidopsis thaliana.
Keywords: Discrete dynamical systems; Boolean networks; Biological network modeling
Montalva-Medel, M., de Oliveira, P. P. B., & Goles, E. (2018). A portfolio of classification problems by one-dimensional cellular automata, over cyclic binary configurations and parallel update. Nat. Comput., 17(3), 663–671.
Abstract: Decision problems addressed by cellular automata have been historically expressed either as determining whether initial configurations would belong to a given language, or as classifying the initial configurations according to a property in them. Unlike traditional approaches in language recognition, classification problems have typically relied upon cyclic configurations and fully paralell (two-way) update of the cells, which render the action of the cellular automaton relatively less controllable and difficult to analyse. Although the notion of cyclic languages have been studied in the wider realm of formal languages, only recently a more systematic attempt has come into play in respect to cellular automata with fully parallel update. With the goal of contributing to this effort, we propose a unified definition of classification problem for one-dimensional, binary cellular automata, from which various known problems are couched in and novel ones are defined, and analyse the solvability of the new problems. Such a unified perspective aims at increasing existing knowledge about classification problems by cellular automata over cyclic configurations and parallel update.
Keywords: One-dimensional cellular automata; Classification problem; Decision problem; Language recognition; Density; Parity; Emergent computation
Perrot, K., Montalva-Medel, M., de Oliveira, P. P. B., & Ruivo, E. L. P. (2020). Maximum sensitivity to update schedules of elementary cellular automata over periodic configurations. Nat. Comput., 19(1), 51–90.
Abstract: This work is a thoughtful extension of the ideas sketched in Montalva et al. (AUTOMATA 2017 exploratory papers proceedings, 2017), aiming at classifying elementary cellular automata (ECA) according to their maximal one-step sensitivity to changes in the schedule of cells update. It provides a complete classification of the ECA rule space for all period sizes n[ 9 and, together with the classification for all period sizes n <= 9 presented in Montalva et al. (Chaos Solitons Fractals 113:209-220, 2018), closes this problem and opens further questionings. Most of the 256 ECA rule's sensitivity is proved or disproved to be maximum thanks to an automatic application of basic methods. We formalize meticulous case disjunctions that lead to the results, and patch failing cases for some rules with simple arguments. This gives new insights on the dynamics of ECA rules depending on the proof method employed, as for the last rules 45 and 105 requiring o0011THORN induction patterns.
Keywords: Synchronism sensitivity; Elementary cellular automata; Update digraph
Travisany, D., Goles, E., Latorre, M., Cort?s, M. P., & Maass, A. (2020). Generation and robustness of Boolean networks to model Clostridium difficile infection. Nat. Comput., 19(1), 111–134.
Abstract: One of the more common healthcare associated infection is Chronic diarrhea. This disease is caused by the bacterium Clostridium difficile which alters the normal composition of the human gut flora. The most successful therapy against this infection is the fecal microbial transplant (FMT). They displace C. difficile and contribute to gut microbiome resilience, stability and prevent further episodes of diarrhea. The microorganisms in the FMT their interactions and inner dynamics reshape the gut microbiome to a healthy state. Even though microbial interactions play a key role in the development of the disease, currently, little is known about their dynamics and properties. In this context, a Boolean network model for C. difficile infection (CDI) describing one set of possible interactions was recently presented. To further explore the space of possible microbial interactions, we propose the construction of a neutral space conformed by a set of models that differ in their interactions, but share the final community states of the gut microbiome under antibiotic perturbation and CDI. To begin with the analysis, we use the previously described Boolean network model and we demonstrate that this model is in fact a threshold Boolean network (TBN). Once the TBN model is set, we generate and use an evolutionary algorithm to explore to identify alternative TBNs. We organize the resulting TBNs into clusters that share similar dynamic behaviors. For each cluster, the associated neutral graph is constructed and the most relevant interactions are identified. Finally, we discuss how these interactions can either affect or prevent CDI.
Keywords: Threshold network; Neutral space; Evolutionary computation; Microbiome; Clostridium difficile infection
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Clinical Dental Hygienists’ Experience Returning to Work After Closure of Dental Offices Due to COVID-19: A qualitative study
Charlene Jackson-Collins, Linda D. Boyd and Susan J. Jenkins
American Dental Hygienists' Association December 2022, 96 (6) 6-14;
Charlene Jackson-Collins
Forsyth School of Dental Hygiene, MCPHS University, Boston, MA, USA
Roles: Graduate of the Master of Science in Dental Hygiene Program
Linda D. Boyd
Roles: Professor and the Associate Dean for Graduate Studies
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Susan J. Jenkins
Roles: Professor
Purpose: The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on healthcare providers includes physical, psychological, financial, and childcare issues. The purpose of this qualitative study was to explore the experiences of dental hygienists returning to clinical practice after the March 2020 closure due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Methods: A qualitative phenomenological research design was used with virtual focus groups. Clinical dental hygienists who had worked a minimum of 3 days a week prior to dental practice closures in March 2020 and had returned to work in May 2020 were invited to participate through purposive sampling on dental hygiene social media sites. Demographic data was collected prior to a one-hour focus group session. Two investigators independently analyzed and coded the data using a qualitative data analysis software program. The themes identified were used to generate a description of the major findings.
Results: Data saturation was achieved with (n=35) participants for a total of 13 focus groups. Most participants were female (89%), and the average age was 40 years. The following major themes were identified: physical issues; emotional; adherence to infection control protocols; fear of contracting/transmitting COVID-19; financial stress; our career was marginalized; and let’s get back and make money.
Conclusion: Dental hygienists experienced similar physical and mental health stressors as other health care professionals upon returning to work during the COVID-19 pandemic, however dental hygienists also reported feeling marginalized and undervalued. Results from this study suggest that dental hygienists need both personal and workplace support to manage the issues resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic in order to retain them in the workforce.
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Faculty: Faculty of Kinesiology
Degree(s): Bachelor of Recreation and Sport Studies
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If you’re curious about the social-psychological aspects of recreation, sports, and physical activity, UNB’s Bachelor of Recreation and Sport Studies program is designed for you. This four-year program balances theory and hands-on practice. With options for honours, directed studies, and exciting work placements, the BRSS will prepare you for a meaningful career of creating, managing, and executing programs that contribute to healthy communities and healthy lives.
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Since 1957, UNB’s Faculty of Kinesiology has been growing a reputation as a national leader in kinesiology, recreation, and sport and wellness. Our program excels at personalized learning and professional preparation. The BRSS takes a comprehensive approach to the study of human movement, offering innovative and timely courses, small class sizes, and first-class faculty and staff. Our goal is to provide you with the critical thinking skills and creative passion for a rewarding career in the realm of physical activity, recreation, sport, and health and wellness.
Practicums: Some students choose to learn directly from a health care worker; others assist with coaching a team, or they volunteer with a community agency.
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Red Sox vs. Yankees: Boston brings out brooms for Bombers
Ken Powtak/The Associated Press
BOSTON — Andrew Benintendi's hit bounced a handful of times before finding its way into center field for the winning run and a big four-game sweep over the rival Yankees.
The Red Sox now find themselves in firm control of the AL East.
Benintendi's RBI single with two outs in the 10th capped Boston's rally from three runs down in the ninth against New York closer Aroldis Chapman, and the Red Sox completed a four-game sweep with a 5-4 victory Sunday night.
"Any 10 hopper that goes through for a hit feels pretty good," the usually quiet Benintendi said, breaking into a grin. "Everybody knew how big the series was. We came in and did what we wanted to do. We kind of stole this one."
Boston opened a 9 1/2-game lead atop the division over the Yankees, who lost their season-high fifth straight.
"It feels like another great win, obviously it was against our rivals," Boston's J.D. Martinez said.
Mookie Betts hit his 26th homer for Boston (79-34), which has won eight of nine games and owns the majors' best record.
The Yankees hadn't been swept in a four-game series by the Red Sox when they entered a series 30 or more games over .500 since Hall of Famer Ted Williams' rookie season in 1939, according to the Elias Sports Bureau.
"A tough way to obviously end a tough weekend, but we can't let this define what's been a great season," manager Aaron Boone said.
Sandy Leon looped a two-out single off Jonathan Holder (1-3) in the 10th and advanced on a wild pitch. Tony Renda pinch-ran before Benintendi's single up the middle to the right of the second-base bag into center field.
Matt Barnes (4-3) worked a perfect inning in the top of the 10th.
For the Yankees, it was a stunning reversal of the Boston Massacre in 1978 when the Yankees came to town and swept the Red Sox en route to erasing a large lead and capturing the AL East.
"We lost these four games here, but what I can tell you is that we're gonna keep battling. We're gonna keep playing ball," Chapman said through a translator. "There's no looking back."
It snapped his streak of converting 22 straight opportunities since his last blown save on May 4.
With New York leading 4-1 in the ninth, Chapman loaded the bases on walks before Martinez's two-out, two-run single pulled Boston within one. Third baseman Miguel Andujar then bounced a throw to first on Xander Bogaerts' grounder, with pinch-runner Jackie Bradley Jr. racing home with the tying run.
Red Sox starter David Price took a shutout into the seventh, giving up two runs and four hits with five strikeouts and three walks.
Playing on a beautiful mid-summer night with a sellout crowd amped from the opening pitch, Price and Masahiro Tanaka were locked in a scoreless duel before Betts hit a hanging cutter completely out of Fenway Park over the Green Monster in the fifth.
Price, tagged for 12 runs over 4 1/3 innings in his other two starts against the Yankees this season, left to a rousing ovation with two on and nobody out in the seventh.
Heath Hembree walked Shane Robinson before Bogaerts booted what looked like a sure double-play grounder, allowing two runs. Giancarlo Stanton followed with an RBI single and Gleyber Torres had a sacrifice fly.
Tanaka gave up one run and six hits, striking out nine and walking one in 4 2/3 innings.
Freelance writer Gethin Coolbaugh contributed to this story.
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Can corruption risks be mitigated without hindering governments’ COVID-19 response?
International Monetary Fund 2020-05-31 1089
As governments respond to the coronavirus (COVID-19) crisis, the need for speed can lead to short-circuiting the normal procedures designed to control corruption risks. The circumstances of the pandemic can make traditional oversight even more challenging. Moreover, the nature of an emergency response itself can open new avenues for corruption. At its worst, corruption could lead to unnecessary suffering and even loss of lives by diverting scarce resources from the people and places who need them most. It could also entrench elite privilege, widen inequality, and undermine trust in the institutions of accountability.
As governments grapple with the pandemic, the first response involves efforts to blunt the health impact. Rapidly procuring medical supplies, moving them to intended points of service delivery, ensuring rapid customs clearance of imported medicines, and mobilizing additional health care workers all present opportunities for corruption.
In poorer developing countries and in fragile contexts, economic shutdowns can cause some people to lose their sources of income; they also have a direct impact on food supplies and availability. Government actions that provide vital lifelines—cash transfers to individuals, food purchase and distribution to the poor, and support to struggling formal and informal private sector entities—are vulnerable to corruption.
The adoption of emergency powers to address the health crisis and maintain public safety also presents a concern. Strict rules mandating quarantine, isolation and curfews, and prohibition of economic activity in many countries entail mobilizing police and other authorities for enforcement. There are opportunities for the enforcers to seek and receive rents in this process. Moreover, the adoption of unfettered emergency powers and surveillance technologies risk undermining institutional checks and balances, weakening the authority and independence of accountability institutions, and shrinking civic space.
Recognizing risks is the first, easier, step. Coming up with approaches to deal with those risks without hindering a government’s response is tougher but possible.
Given the unprecedented nature of the crisis and the need for cooperation across agencies and levels of government, oversight mechanisms could be compromised. This can be resolved by specifying in every piece of legislation or executive order which agencies will be responsible for oversight. Similarly, some measure of ex-post accountability can be ensured by activating explicit processes and protocols for documenting emergency spending, including procurement transactions, receipt of goods and supplies, and tracking of the delivery of supplies involving central and decentralized authorities.
There is no excuse for weak transparency – in fact, more transparency is needed. Governments can build trust by establishing rules regarding how and where information on emergency spending is published, and by following those rules without fail. Governments should publicly disclose all grants, procurements or provision of emergency funds over a set amount within a specified number of days after funds are released and/or used. Clear rules on eligibility are needed to mitigate the risk of corruption skewing the distribution of financial support that is meant to help struggling firms and individuals.
With speed leading to fewer protections upfront to prevent corruption, monitoring and feedback need to be even faster. Shortening feedback loops by increasing the frequency of audits and spending reviews can help.
Grievance redress mechanisms are needed to ensure that communities and intended program beneficiaries know what to do when they do not receive their expected payments.
To address the abuse and overreach of extraordinary powers, it is important to specify upfront the scope and duration of those powers.
With all these measures, diligent follow-through and communication are needed to ensure accountability and maintain trust. Temporary provisions, adopted in the name of speed, also need to be reversed as the emergency subsides.
It is also important to maintain focus on the broader anticorruption agenda. The response to the COVID-19 pandemic is likely to increase corruption risks and practices that contribute to illicit financial flows, and may also introduce new risks , driven by theft and diverted funds, such as the use of shell companies and other anonymous structures registered in tax havens to secure public contracts and loans or subsidies, among others. Policy responses to address these risks, such as beneficial ownership transparency and the enforcement of anti-money laundering standards in the financial sector, acquire even greater relevance in the context of COVID-19.
Corruption is but one of the challenges facing overstretched public sectors. The risks are formidable but not insurmountable if there is a will to mitigate them.
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Fathi Abdel Wahab participates in the “Canto Market” and “Battalion 101” next Ramadan
Trends Suha Local Thursday 26th January 2023 02:52 AM REPORT
A state of artistic activity experienced by the star Fathi Abdel-Wahhab this year, as Fathi Abdel-Wahhab participates in two series at once in the upcoming Ramadan 2023 season, where he participates in the series “Souk El Kanto” starring the star Amir Karara, where Fathi is considered the second hero in the work after Karara. And Fathi presents a central character in the series, which is written by Hany Sarhan, and directed by Hussein Al-Manbawi. Mai Ezz El-Din, Abdel Aziz Makhyoun, and a number of young artists participate in the series. The series is produced by Synergy Company.
Fathi Abdel Wahab
The series “The Canto Market” is the second meeting that brings together Karara and Fathi, where they presented together the movie “Karmouz War”, which was shown in cinemas in 2018, and co-starred by Mahmoud Hamida, Ghada Abdel Razek, Mustafa Khatrin Bayoumi Fouad, Diab, Muhammad Ali Rizk. Mahmoud Hegazy, Rogina, and others, directed by Peter Mimi.
Fathi Abdel-Wahhab is also participating in the series “Battalion 101” with the stars Amr Youssef, Aser Yassin, Ahmed Salah Hosni and Wafaa Amer, which is scheduled to be shown next Ramadan, written by Iyad Saleh, directed by Mohamed Salama, and produced by Synergy, where filming of the work began in the last period, and it is scheduled That some representatives participate, their names will be announced during the coming period.
It is noteworthy that the last work of Fathi Abdel-Wahhab, the series “Ghamam Island”, was shown last Ramadan, and co-starred with Mai Ezz El-Din, Ahmed Amin, Tariq Lotfy, Riyad El-Khouly, Wafaa Amer, and a large number of artists, directed by Hussein El-Manbawi.
He also presented the series “House of Farah” from 30 episodes, and co-starred in the series, Dalia Mostafa, Suleiman Eid, Muhammad Ali Rizk, Ezzat Zain, Enas Kamel, directed by Sherine Adel.
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Iran slams using chemical weapons by anyone in world
IRNA - Islamic Republic News Agency
Tehran, April 8, IRNA -- Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman denounced using chemical weapons by any country and in any part of the world.
Bahram Qasemi referred to chemical attack in Douma, Eastern Ghouta, saying the Islamic Republic of Iran strongly condemns the use of such weapons by any party and anywhere in the world based on its principled policies and religious and moral teachings and as one of the victims of chemical weapons.
The allegation as regard using chemical weapons by the Syrian Government in Douma, Damascus is not compatible with realities, Qasemi added.
The Syrian government has had a good cooperation with the United Nations on chemical issues, and the international community, after joining the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), destroyed all its chemical weapons and its manufacturing facilities, he noted.
While, Syrian Army has the upper-hand in battle field against armed terrorists, using chemical weapons seems illogical, he said.
Such claims by the US and some Western countries is an indication of a new plot against the Syrian government and people, and an excuse for military action against them, Qasemi said
It will definitely increase the complexity of the situation in this country and region," he added.
Qasemi reiterated that it will make terrorists more serious in their crimes, which, of course, will not be in the interests of peace, stability and security of the region and the world.
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Danny Trevathan Out 6-8 Weeks
* UPDATED 7:17 P.M. MDT
ENGLEWOOD, Colo. -- Linebacker Danny Trevathan was carted off the practice field Tuesday morning with what was later diagnosed as a left medial tibial impaction fracture.
The injury is expected to sideline Trevathan for six to eight weeks. That would project to a return for the Week 5 game against Arizona or the Week 6 trip to New York to face the Jets. The Broncos have a bye in Week 4.
"There could have been ligament damage, but there was not," said Head Coach John Fox.
Trevathan was caught up in a thicket of Broncos chasing a sweep to the right during a team period, and fell to the ground. He rolled and yelled in frustration and pain as team medical personnel rushed to treat him. He was examined for several minutes before being helped onto a cart, which took him back to the locker room.
The third-year weakside linebacker was unable to put weight on his left leg as he was helped from the cart into the main building of the team facility. Given the worst fears at the time Trevathan went down, an absence that only costs him a handful of regular-season games would be a relief to the Broncos.
After Trevathan left practice, Marshall stepped in for him on the weak side, befitting his depth-chart spot as the No. 2 weakside linebacker.
"We were hoping it was a bruise; that would have been the best news," said Fox. "Obviously (the fracture) is better than ligament damage; that's an out-for-the-season-type thing."
Marshall joined the Broncos' practice squad last year before being promoted to the 53-man roster after Von Miller suffered a season-ending torn anterior cruciate ligament. The daily experience learning the defense last year was invaluable as Marshall stepped into more exensitve work.
"Now, I'm familiar with the defense, I have a couple of years in the league, so I know what the NFL is about," Marshall said. "So I'm definitely ready if the time was to come."
Barrow also saw some additional work with the first unit later in practice.
"I'm definitely going to try to take advantage of the opportunity," Barrow said. "I think my sense of urgency has to improve. Getting reps with the ones, I'm getting better every day. I took some reps today with Danny being down, just to get acclimated with those guys."
Although the depth chart lists Barrow as the No. 2 middle linebacker and Marshall as the second-team outside linebacker, the members of the position group are learning versatility.
"(Linebackers) Coach (Richard) Smith and Coach (Jack) Del Rio, they've been cross-training us. We've all been learning all of the positions," Barrow said.
Tuesday's injury was not the first scary moment in practice for Trevathan. Last year, he suffered a knee injury during practice four days before the Broncos' Week 5 win at Dallas. Trevathan recovered in time to play, and turned in the signature moment of his breakout season, a lunging interception of Tony Romo that set up Matt Prater's game-winning field goal.
Big plays like that helped Trevathan emerge as a defensive leader, a status that has defined his work this summer. Barrow and other linebackers are learning from Trevathan's example.
"He taught me to just be patient," Barrow said. "When I got here, I was kind of hard on myself, just trying to pick up everything as far as the defense. I wanted to accelerate faster than what I was doing.
"Danny just told me, 'Chill. Just let it come to you.' I think I've taken his advice, and every day I've come out here, I've gotten better at something."
And for the next six to eight weeks, Marshall, Barrow and other linebackers will try to apply the lessons learned from Trevathan, and play as he would.
"We'll hold down the fort until he gets back," Fox said.
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"This is the first year in a long time that I've felt there's a real possibility of possibly getting in the Hall of Fame," Gradishar said Tuesday.
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"We were just so locked in," Russell Wilson said of Thursday's practice.
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After Day 13 of training camp, Broncos players discussed their impressions of the new ownership group and what they hope to see from Thursday's joint practice with the Cowboys.
Injury Report: Melvin Gordon III withheld from Wednesday practice as Broncos 'just taking care of his foot'
"We want to make sure [Gordon's] primed and ready for the season," Head Coach Nathaniel Hackett said.
Broncos release initial unofficial 2022 depth chart
Position battles exist on Denver's roster — and the Broncos' unofficial depth chart reflects what observers have seen at practice at those spots over the last several weeks.
Broncos Camp Notebook: Calvin Anderson praises Russell Wilson's leadership, discusses strategy for protecting him
Tackle Calvin Anderson is taking advantage of his opportunities to get snaps with the starting offensive line, and he credits Wilson for his improvement.
Injury Report: Courtland Sutton dealing with 'little' shoulder issue, Ronald Darby 'day to day' with chest contusion
"[Courtland Sutton's] got a little shoulder thing we're just working through," Head Coach Nathaniel Hackett said.
Broncos Camp Notebook: DC Ejiro Evero approaches first game as play caller
The Broncos' first preseason game is just days away, and the matchup with the Cowboys may be just as important for Denver's coaching staff as it is for players looking to make an impression.
'She's my purpose': After the birth of his daughter, D.J. Jones returns to training camp with a new mindset
Defensive tackle D.J. Jones welcomed his first child on Thursday, and he looks to bring that dad strength to the field.
Broncos Camp Observations: Russell Wilson and Denver's offense continue to find success taking downfield shots
"We are always looking for those explosive plays," Head Coach Nathaniel Hackett said of throwing the ball deep.
Injury Report: CB K'Waun Williams, DT D.J. Jones among Broncos to return to practice
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Factors That Will Affect the Arizona Cardinals Odds This Season
BetMGM Staff @BETMGM Sep 13, 2021, 2:42 PM
Take one look at the Arizona Cardinals roster, and you’ll see a bulk of household names that once dominated the AFC. The Cardinals have names like JJ Watt, DeAndre Hopkins, Chandler Jones, and A. J. Green filling key spots on their team.
This has made NFL betting enthusiasts excited about the Cardinals’ odds.
Having a veteran presence is always necessary on a championship team, but investing in older players can cause a unique problem. Can Kyler Murray, Kliff Kingsbury, and the AZ Cardinals keep their veterans healthy?
Let’s look at some of the biggest factors that will affect the Arizona Cardinals’ odds in 2021.
Injury-Prone Players
Ask all 32 NFL teams if they’d like to have JJ Watt on their team, and you would get a resounding yes. He’s everything you could want in a player, leader, and person. Apparently, he had as many as 12 teams checking in on him when he was a free agent this offseason.
That said, Watt has had more than his fair share of injuries in his career. It’s fair to wonder if he can stand the test of a full 2021 season with the Arizona Cardinals.
The same could be said for A. J. Green, who’s as dominant a receiver as they come when he’s healthy. The second one of these players goes down, the Cardinals’ NFL odds may start to fall.
Kyler Taking the Next Step
The maturity and growth of Kyler Murray as the Cardinals starting quarterback is uncanny. Year after year, you can see him turning into a superstar.
He might be the most fun player to place prop bets on, being one of few QBs who is as good with his legs as he is with his arm. He can make any throw and has arguably two future Hall of Fame wideouts to throw to.
As long as he’s on the field, the Cardinals have a shot to win the game. With DeAndre Hopkins on the field with him, the AZ Cardinals have a shot at the Super Bowl. With every passing season, Kyler looks more and more like a legitimate MVP candidate.
The Turnover Game
There are two things to keep in mind here. First, the Cardinals’ defense should cause plenty of turnovers this year. Last season, they blitzed on 29 percent of their plays. With players like Chandler Jones and JJ Watt on the edge, it’s safe to say they’ll do that again. That means Budda Baker and Co. should have plenty of INTs.
Second, can Kyler Murray limit the turnovers? If so, then he gives the other team a much lower chance of beating them.
The key for the Cardinals’ season is to lower their turnovers and capitalize on the other team’s turnovers. If they can, we’ll see a lot more 38-13 victories for Arizona this season.
Consider the Cardinals’ Odds With Your 2021 Sports Betting
With so much excitement and talent on their team, it’s easy to see why there’s so much buzz around the online betting for Arizona Cardinals’ odds this year.
If you haven’t already, create an account on BetMGM’s Arizona sportsbook today so that you can get in on the action!
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Independent wrestler Jaysin Strife passes away at age 37
Independent wrestler Jaysin Strife (real name Nathan Blogett) has passed away at the age of 37. Strife was the owner of the Nebraska-based Magnum Pro Wrestling promotion, and its official Twitter and Facebook accounts confirmed the news on Thursday, December 29.
Although Jason Strife's cause of death was not stated, he had announced via Facebook on December 8 that he was going into Hospice care, due to the rapid progression of a disease. Strife has been dealing with health issues in recent years, cancer being one of them.
Magnum Pro Wrestling was founded in 2010, and ceased operations in November, due to Jaysin Strife's health issues.
Jaysin Strife wrestled for 19 years and has made appearances in major companies during his career. Strife appeared in WWE in 2018 and AEW in 2021.
Jaysin Strife also had the opportunity to wrestle for overseas promotions on more than one occasion, the most notable one being the UK-based ASW.
Jaysin Strife's championship accomplishments include the IWA Mid-South Light Heavyweight Championship, the AIWF World Cruiserweight Championship, the NWA Midwest X-Division Championship, and the AWA Rush Tag Team Championship.
Labels: pro wrestling, wrestling
[YPW] [RESULTS] Yanagase Pro Wrestling Christmas Special- 12/25/22
Yanagase Pro Wrestling made its return to SPORTS BAR M's Cafe in Gifu for the last time this year on December 25 for its annual Christmas Special. This year the event was highlighted by the participation of former KO-D Openweight Champion Yuji Hino and FantastICE Champion Akane Fujita.
In the first match, Lowther went against Shinya Ishida.
Lowther and Shinya Ishida have faced each other in tag team and three way action in the past, but this was their first singles match against each other.
Both men being very technically skilled and having the same amount of years of ring experience, this match was evenly matched from the beginning.
Lowther took control of the match by using his agility to nail Shinya Ishida with a dropkick.
However, the tide of the match turned when Shinya Ishida showed that he is agile as well by hitting Lowther with a rope-assisted axe kick.
Shinya Ishida used his in-ring and athletic abilities to stay on Lowther, but Ishida also showed that he is not above using illegal tactics to stay ahead.
Lowther managed to make a comeback, and the fans were behind him.
The fans showed support for both wrestlers as Lowther got a couple of near falls and also almost made Shinya Ishida submit. In the end, Ishida persevered and got Lowther in a schoolboy pin for the win.
Next, it was time for one of the special guests to appear, as FantastICE Champion and Prominence member Akane Fujita went against YPW roster member and Shinsyu Girls Pro Wrestling (SGP) titleholder Sae.
Although this was their first singles match against each other in YPW, Akane Fujita and Sae have competed in singles action outside of YPW many times.
Sae and Akanae Fujita showed that they are both capable of wrestling a technical style and a more physical style equally well.
A great overhead camera shot while Akane Fujita attempted to gain a pinfall on Sae. This type of camera angle is very popular with many American pro-wrestling fans, although it is rarely used these days in American promotions.
As the match was coming to an end, Sae had gained control. After nailing Akane Fujita with a boot to the head, it appeared that Sae was going to gain a pinfall victory over Fujita for the first time as Sae went for the cover. But suddenly, Fujita hooked Sae's arms and countered her pin attempt with a pin of her own, getting the win.
In the next match, Jack Kennedy faced Yanagase Kamen Fuerza.
There is a lot of history between the two men. This match marked the one-year anniversary of Jack Kennedy's pro wrestling career, and his opponent in his debut match was Yanagase Kamen Fuerza. Throughout 2022 they were in the ring many times as opponents in tag team matches as well as another singles match. And earlier this month at YPW Akishimo Sanshaku, they were tag team partners.
At the beginning of the match, Jack Kennedy challenged Yanagase Kamen Fuerza to a test of strength, but he instead tried to take control of the match with a surprise kick to Kennedy's gut and then slapped on a headlock. However, Fuerza was overwhelmed by Kennedy's size and strength advantage.
To counteract Jack Kennedy's size advantage, Yanagase Kamen Fuerza began targetting attacks at Kennedy's legs, keeping him off his feet.
Once Jack Kennedy was back on his feet however, he regained control of the match.
Yanagase Kamen Fuerza was able to stop Jack Kennedy's momentum by going after one of his weakened legs.
Yanagase Kamen Fuerza continued to work on Jack Kennedy's leg and tried to make him submit to a figure-four leglock and an ankle lock. But Kennedy refused to quit and put Fuerza down with a spear from a corner of the ring as he approached in an attempt to continue his attacks.
Jack Kennedy attempted to use his, "Jacky Driver" finisher on Yanagase Kamen Fuerza, but Kennedy's left leg couldn't support the weight after everything that Fuerza had done to it, and Kennedy fell to the mat. Fuerza countered Kennedy's finisher attempt into a schoolboy, almost getting a three-count. Fuerza then bounced off the ropes and charged towards Kennedy, but ran into a lariat from him. Kennedy went for the cover, but Fuerza got a shoulder up before a three-count. Kennedy then applied a camel clutch to Fuerza, forcing him to submit.
Next, Michio Kageyama went against Mari Manji.
Along with wrestling in NOAH, DDT, BJW, AJPW, and ZERO1, Michio Kageyama has made many appearances in YPW over the past three years. He has gone against Mari Manji in tag team and singles action in YPW this year, being victorious in both matches.
This was a unique match in which specific weapons were allowed to be used: A folding chair, beer cans, and Mari Manji was allowed to use the most dangerous weapon in the match: Jack Kennedy.
After fallaway slamming Michio Kageyama, Jack Kennedy left the ring and Kageyama and Mari Manji continued to battle back and forth. Towards the end of the match, Kageyama was preparing to superplex Manji, and Kennedy reentered the ring to aid her, powerbombing Kageyama from the turnbuckle. Manji then delivered a diving splash to him for the three-count and the win.
In the main event, Sui Pro Champion (in the Shonan-based Seisho Pro Wrestling promotion) Kenta Kosugi went against the other special guest for this YPW event, former KO-D Openweight Champion Yuji Hino.
It's a wonder that these two men had not faced each other previously. Both Yuji Hino and Kenta Kosugi are two powerhouses who have been wrestling for almost 20 years, and they have even wrestled for the same promotion at one point, to the extent that they both wrestled at an event in separate matches. In any case, YPW is the promotion that finally made it happen.
Yuji Hino and Kenta Kosugi showed mutual respect for each other at the beginning of the match.
Although Yuji Hino and Kenta Kosugi use power to their advantage in their matches, they are both technically skilled as well.
But it didn't take long before Yuji Hino and Kenta Kosugi engaged in a chop competition.
Yuji Hino then gained control of the match, keeping Kenta Kosugi on the mat with a tight reverse chinlock, robbing him of oxygen.
Unable to make Kenta Kosugi submit, Yuji Hino tried to slam Kosugi through the mat and then hit him with a 271-pound senton.
Still having fight left in him, Kenta Kosugi made it back up to his feet after kicking out of a pin attempt and soon hit Yuji Hino with a hard forearm shot to the jaw. Hino responded with a chop to Kosugi's chest, and another chop competition ensued. The chops were stiffer this time, their chests turning red like lobsters.
Kenta Kosugi clotheslined Yuji Hino in the corner and followed it up with a bulldog, but wasn't able to get a three-count, due to Hino putting a foot on the ropes after Kosugi covered him. Kosugi then delivered a knee strike to Hino's chest while he was on one knee and went for the cover once again, and he kicked out. So Kosugi changed strategies and attempted to make Hino submit.
Yuji Hino escaped Kenta Kosugi's submission by reaching the ropes, and then regained control of the match after catching him in an overhead belly-to-belly suplex when Kosugi bounced off the ropes to attempt a clothesline.
As the match came to close, Yuji Hino attempted to use his thunder fire powerbomb finisher, and Kento Kosugi attempted to use his falcon arrow finisher as well, but both wrestlers blocked their opponent's finsiher. Hino was finally able to powerbomb Kosugi after weakening him with a clothesline, gaining Hino the win.
Yanagase Pro Wrestling Christmas Special is available to watch in full via TwitCasting until 1/8, 23:59 Japan Time! You can use a time zone converter to find out what time that is in your area.
Labels: Christmas, pro wrestling, puroresu, wrestling
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Consider the Following Anonymous 01/04/11(Tue)18:08 No.13399772
Hey does anyone remember this;
http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/13254364/
Basically in which, in the group there was a female paladin acting up the whole chivalrous knight routine, and when the guy became her husband she started beating him. When he tried to change her ways, she had him tortured by dread knights and raped him.
The result drove her guilt-crazy and after claiming to change her ways, she went off to combat the oppressors, leaving their relationship in the air.
Anyone remember that?
>> Anonymous 01/04/11(Tue)18:10 No.13399792
No, now go away.
>> Consider the Following Anonymous 01/04/11(Tue)18:12 No.13399809
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Last time people wanted to know what might or would happen in the coming games, and since then some things happened. So I figured I might offer an update before I go away.
If people aren't interested, that's fine, the games already at a pace that I like, I'm not completely reliant on advice anymore. Really, this is just for people who wanted to know how things were going, I probably don't need to make threads asking what to do anymore.
But at least this update, for anyone who's interested?
Yes, ignore the newfag.
Are you seriously making a thread asking us if we remember another thread? Get out.
The tripcode man, use the goddamn tripcode
Unless you're a troll, which is possible judging by the odd way to start the thread.
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Yawn. Call me back when you've discovered God doesn't love or care about us at all and all our service towards him has been for nothing. All the blood spilled for no purpose save murder.
That's fine if no one cares, just checking for interest. The other ones seemed fairly active, but if people don't care then the thread can just die.
No, you get out fuck face.
>> Titanium Man 01/04/11(Tue)18:17 No.13399875
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I'll write more once I find an excuse to shove a Garland reference in there.
Because Garland is fucking awesome.
Hey, remember that one thread? That was awesome.
Well, I'm interested, Reverse Chivalry Anon. Been looking forward to the update personally.
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It's sort of a mixed response I guess?
I was just seeing if anyone still was interested in our game, but it seems not, so nevermind then.
It was only supposed to be an update anyway.
If you're not a troll give us the update.
And use your tripcode from the last thread if you didn't forget it already. If you by any chance are the real deal then don't start your thread in such a silly way that everyone will think you're just making shit up/trolling.
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That's how all the threads relating to this game started though, if you look in the sup/tg/.
I'll give a quick update then, let's see...
Ok so the last time left off that the Paladin got rid of her squire for attacking her husband, and then she seemed to be headed off to deal with something having to do with the Order, promising to return soon.
This was of course, after she was shown the error of her ways in spending time with her damaged goods husband.
Stupidest thing I've heard all day.
Any self-respecting man wouldn't just let himself get his ass-kicked by his wife.
Other way around would at least be believable and compelling.
Give us the god damn goods!
Sweet, sweet storytiem!
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Well at this point for our interests, the game sort of splits into two focuses.
At home, although out of character, some people suggested my guy start training again, at least partially and with a weapon, so that he would appear ready to travel again.
The DM helped with this by having the head maid begin to train him. Nothing serious, but allowing him to have his weapons/items again and get away with attacking things like trees in the back, or a scarecrow or two. This resulted in some problems with the local town, but nothing too serious.
To keep things in character though, anytime someone came upon him practicing or using a weapon, he immediately dropped them/what he was doing, and ran away to hide or cower. The maids knew this, so did their best to avoid him when he believed he was sneaking out with a weapon.
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Continue, dear boy.
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Ooops no name. Ah well.
Anyway on the other side of the fence, the Paladin met up with the party again, before heading to the Order in person to inform them that her squire really was telling the truth. She claimed she taught the squire all she could, and that the girl needed a new master. As well, she would not be needing further assistance or monitoring in her marriage/private life.
This did not go down well, as given the level of intervention and her position, it was simply not acceptable for her to suddenly refute Order interaction in our lives. Especially not now that things should have been closely looked to, and that she was expected to bear children now.
Plus the whole dealio with the squire, but after she delivered the news to them, the were sent reeling and got all up in arms, ready to drop the hammer on her, but she left before any retaliation could be mustered.
Effectively she didn't really resign, but she did issue a big "fuck you" to their rules. Supposedly, if they needed her to fight they could call on her, but she wasn't going to abide their rules or was any longer. She made at least this much clear.
And they didn't like it one bit.
Epic level redemption for queen bitch. Could have only been better if she'd issued a physical smackdown on them all at the same time in the process.
Back to my side, as stated we had some problems back home, but nothing serious that a dinner and get-together couldn't solve.
That was at first though, but after the Paladin made clear her position to the Order and jetted, they figured the problem stemmed from home, as the Squire was convinced and probably told them.
So not long after while the Paladin was still away assisting the party, something of a kidnap squad was sent to the town.
Nothing violent like killing everyone and burning the place down, but during a get together, and dragged my guy off, incapping some servants in the process. Because of the nature of the event happening at the get-together, it wasn't realized my guy was missing until later after it happened.
That's a guy.
Please tell me that squire ends up with her head on a pike.
Keep forgetting the name.
So my guy was dragged off during the get together, and told that he was going to face time in an Order monastery, or at least not allowed out. Of course, they expected some rebel husband poisoning the Paladin against their ways, but found instead a broken catatonic wreck.
This changed their plans a bit, but things would invariably be easier, if they could simply dictate his actions without his input or resistance. They'd probably just keep him locked in a monastery, and use him as leverage against the Paladin to get her to come back to her old ways. Potential breeding stock as well, as it was necessary to always be aiming to increase numbers.
Anyway, once things were realized, the head maid geared up, and sent word to the Paladin of what happened. The head maid then proceeded to track the kidnappers, hoping to take them down before they could deliver their quarry to an Order location.
Meanwhile in relation to the Paladin, when she would eventually hear of the news, this would no longer just be a family matter, and now the rest of the party (to the ire of some of the others) was to be involved.
Go on...
As well, the Paladin had the Lord she served in on the deal, as this wasn't some domestic issue, but her spouse had been kidnapped by hostiles. This simply would not stand in his lands.
And the loyal party members contacted various others to help, NPCs and such.
So basically it was the head maid and a number of soldiers/knights from the Paladin's lord, the Paladin and the party, and then a number of mercenaries and other types, all out to hunt down the order raiding party.
They dun goof'd big this time, underestimating things by quite allot.
in previous threads I always wondered why absolutely no one in the party gave even the tiniest shit about all the stuff that happened to the character. You seem to really like him, but he doesn't seem too popular among the other characters. Do the other players at least like him?
Hopefully starting a civil war style hunt on the members of this order won't interfere with the larger plot of the game.
Anyway, so eventually the raiding party reached a mountainside church/outpost, and locked my guy up.
The maid and the soldiers got there first, but were repelled when negotiations wouldn't work. The Order people there though saw it as a threat, and sent for help.
It was lucky the others arrived soon though, and were able to force their way into the place, busting some heads and causing quite a ruckus.
By the time the Paladin got there, things had wound down, which was just fine. They recognized her there though, and got angry at her, finding out she was involved. She was going against their ways, she was rejecting the rules, this was heresy, blah blah blah.
Still though it was a small blight on the goodness that was a party reunion, now that everyone was back together again. Especially the Paladin and my guy.
The others looted the shit out of the place, and within the day, everyone cleared off. The party was the last to go, though in time to meet the forerunners of the reinforcements for the Order stronghold.
The Paladin met with the ones in charge, and made clear that this was it, she was done and severed her ties with them. They could proceed after them, but then she'd change from uninvolved with them, to hostile against them. With the monastery to clean up and members to see to, they let us go, but told her this was just the beginning of our troubles.
Naturally, at the first chance, my guy sent help asking for the ooze mage. She could prove helpful in the assumed future.
Apparently the Rogue and the bard set it up for teh lulz. Those two at least are loving it.
Wasn't the Ooze mage notoriously unreliable with showing up on time?
The only one that doesn't like my guy is the rogue.
Everyone else is at least concerned about him, with some liking him. Before the problem was with opposing the Paladin by trying to side with him, but now that she's reformed more or less, things are fairly good.
The Bard even stopped making fun of my guy now, seeing him in person and the state he's in.
Anyway so after leaving the monastery, things calmed down for awhile. The Paladin had the staff at our house sent to other estates for safety, while the head maid and soldiers of the Lord actually watched over our estate in person.
As for the party, everyone was back together again, and though things weren't like old times, it was still great.
There were some glaring problems though, that needed to be dealt with, having sprung up during my absence.
An ooze mage is never late, nor is she early, she arrives precisely when she means to.
>>Problems sprung up
>>Paladin is fucking someone in the party
Yes, but then in general she wasn't exactly all there in the head, being an ooze mage and all. Humorously, in his state my guy and her can converse normally on even terms, given their similar mental capacities.
That's why I sent for help from her right away, because she probably wouldn't arrive till later, when the going got rough, if at all.
The first problem was the character in the party I'd been playing during my main guy's absence. He had to go because naturally I couldn't play two characters.
The question was how? We couldn't just do away with him, despite how much the ranger and Bard wanted to basically cannibalize him and loot his shit.
After some consideration though, we figured the best bet would be for him to simply be reassigned to some other group after suffering a horrible "accident". He was a foreign emissary so it made sense.
That was one problem done, but there still remained the most glaring issue of the level differences.
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Since his absence, everyone in the party, including the Paladin were levels ahead of my guy, who'd more or less remained the same since being sent home.
It didn't help none either, that he wasn't in a state to really be adventuring. Catatonic, afraid of other people and contact, even more so when involving weapons.
And the Paladin couldn't train him because he simply could not cope to be around her, so although she had to take care of him, feeding and dressing and stuff, she couldn't help him in trying to get stronger.
Thankfully the thief and the ranger were kind enough to help out. Still though, it was really just basic training (or, getting used to using weapons again), and whenever the party went to fight seriously or confront someone, my guy either had to remain behind, or pretty much remain glued to the paladin behind her shield.
Thanks to the DM, the initial problem of the character not being able to fight or wield a weapon in his wife's presence was dealt with in an ambush, when the camp was attacked, and with the two of them cornered and his wife in dire straits, he could either fight or let them both die.
Naturally he fought to save them, and gained some sanity in the process, enough to not have the crippling problem of handling weapons anymore.
From that point on things were considerably easier, and my guy could handle at least the basic enemies in confrontations, although still needed protection against bigger threats. But in general things were shaping up, and though mentally/emotionally he wasn't recovering that well, at least physically he was getting better and starting to level.
The problem now, was the Order getting all angry at us.
What class was you guy?
Now that they'd had time to recover from our mustered attack on them, they took the opportunity to figure out how to get back at us.
This at first came in the form of notifications and scout parties tracking us, seeking to bring us back to "the light". However the wife made it very clear that she was done with them.
Here they pulled out a nasty little detail, that while they could respect her leaving them, despite not liking it, my guy still belonged to them and always would. Being branded by them and bearing the mark, he was effectively property, and the party was guilty of stealing him.
If they could not have the Paladin, they'd at least have my guy as a consolation prize. At the very least, he could serve as breeding stock, at best he could be means of getting the Paladin back.
Naturally this wouldn't fly, and the party was having a harder and harder time avoiding actual conflict/fighting with the Order who kept hounding them.
What was worse, they were receiving backing/support from the church and other powerful organizations they were allied with. It was looking like, simply to save their own skins, it would be best if the party turned my guy over.
The rogue at least, was certainly inclined to.
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Regarding the very first thread....
Paladinkillsrogue
Fighter in name, although he's more multiclassed. He's semi-competent with all weapons, and can do what the others can (except magic), just not as well. In a fight though, he's fairly competent that he can assist against anything really. Given time, once he starts to catch up to the others in experience, things should look much better.
Becoming increasingly possible, and probably likely given recent turn of events.
She's no longer all about the reverse chivalry thing.
PFFFFFFT, well, shit! I thought all this time he had some basic mage skills. Fuck, you've effectively ruined what I was writing...and it was gonna be glorious...
Did you write the story where he used some magic to be on the same level she is for a single fight?
If so, continue with it the way you imagined. I enjoyed that story a lot.
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The problem was, as made clear so far the Order was strong on their own, and well-connected on top of that.
We might have the strength to fight them, or at least resist them, but the time it was taking us to gather strength, couldn't compete to how the Order was rallying support.
Eventually it came to open conflict after coming to a city where they had support, and we had to run as a result.
It was now clear that unless my guy was given up, open war would be the only option. Something they would just love if it meant getting rid of or capturing one of their former best members.
This is where the Rogue put himself in the shitter.
Yeah, in that story he could do magic too because he was originally described as a jack of all trades. This thing I'm writing is a...different direction.
Let's just say this Order isn't dying fast enough.
Well he has access to artifacts and can use them, like a fire wand to blast someone's shit.
He just can't be stripped naked then expected to mage it up. He needs items to use magic. Then, he can wield some magic. Effectively, the second best in the party, as the mage is the only one actually competent, everyone else can't do shit.
>Pic related, something like Paladin and husband
>Rogue put himself in the shitter
Bracing for epic.
f5 f5 f5 f5 f5 f5 f5 f5 f5 f5 f5 f5 f5 f5 f5 f5 f5 f5 f5 f5 f5 f5 f5 f5 f5
As a little aside, I'm tl;dr-ing these posts, there's probably stuff I'm not detailing as much as I'd like, but the general idea is being relayed I think.
Anyway so after being sort of cornered by those working for the Order, the Rogue figured enough was enough. He didn't sign on to deal with all this shit and risk his life for a slave he didn't even like, and whose life he had more or less ruined.
So he took it upon himself to converse with the enemy and strike a deal. If they handed over my guy, without conflict, then he'd be free to go, the others in the party if they went along with it.
A deal like that, how could he refuse?
Did you ever write anything to continue the story after their fight?
If so, could you be so kind and provide a link to it? As I said, I enjoyed that story immensely.
There hasn't been a part two of that yet, and I dunno if I'll ever write that considering how much the following threads make me rage.
I had hoped you'd let the scenario develop in a way you prefer. Anyway, even if you decide to not continue that piece, thanks for writing it in the first place.
So one night he figured the chance was right. He drugged the Paladin's food so that she was conked out, and he could pry my guy away from her without trouble.
Naturally I tried to resist, wake up the wife even when things looked bad enough, but to no avail. He just subdued my guy and carted him off with little trouble. Breaking away from the camp with my guy tied up, he handed him over to the Order reps, whom nearly killed him, but true to their word let him go after some roughing up.
Here the game splits into two once more. The one hand, my guy and the Order reps transporting him (these ones are not some group of kidnappers hired by the order, these are actual titled Knights), and on the other hand the party.
The next day everyone woke up, and the people pursuing them had left, and things were looking bright and hopeful. Except, my guy was gone. The Rogue figured, it was a small sacrifice, but worth the payoff.
They were safe now, and in time, if they still felt the need for my guy, they would now have more time to muster strength, so everything checked out. Of course, he'd do his best to make sure they gave up on my guy.
FFFUUUUUUUU-
motherfucker
Well on my end things looked bleak.
I was being carted not to some monastery, but the Order's HQ citadel stronghold castle fortress cathedral center of operations Tower of Mordor doom keep. There, one of two things would happen when my wife came after me as they knew she would. She would either be killed, or forced to rejoin, under heavy regulation. Either way though, until that time my guy would serve as a laborer and breeding stock at the main stronghold, and if my wife never came or was killed, then he'd be auctioned off to some other titled member.
All in all, not a very nice life. Fortunately though, between the harsh treatment and brutal captivity, I had someone to confide in; the ooze mage who'd shown up a few days before the Rogue turned me over for money, but lost track of what she was doing and fell asleep in my pack.
So when my guy wasn't being beaten or yelled at or treated perversely, he had the ooze mage, or a small part of her in his bag to talk to and be consoled by.
Rogue got paid 30sp for this, right?
Time for ooze mage hi-jinx and hilarious escapes?
On the other end, was the party.
The Rogue figured it would be difficult at first to convince them, especially the Paladin, but overtime things would work out. He'd saved their skins, and acquired a large sum of money, which he and he assumed the others really only cared about. Plus in the long run, he could get back in with the Paladin, where he left off being showered with gifts and all.
Well he judged wrong.
It took four of them to keep the Paladin from killing him, and the remaining member (the Bard) busied herself beating him up. Basically he was left alone with his gold sum he got for my guy and anything else that was his, and told never to show his face again.
The party then semi-split up. The Paladin and a few pursuing my guy, while the rest went to gather help for the coming storm.
If it was war the Order wanted, then such a war they would get.
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I'm glad we got an update despite all of these newfags in the very beginning who we mad that someone wasn't reading their 40k thread or something.
YOU DIDN'T KILL HIM?
Son, his bullshit is "GIVE ME YOUR FACE" territory.
Newfags nothing, I don't blame them. That kind of coy "I will post only if you tell me you love me" bullshit OP opened up with is no way to start a thread. Just post the fucking story.
I mean, it's a good story, I like reading it, compliments to OP for taking the time to write it up and share, but that was annoying as hell.
Just read through the other threads in the archive, holy shit.
Goddamn, this shit is getting real.
Eagerly awaiting more storytime.
Oh, I imagine killing the rogue is something the Paladin believes she is not entitled to do.
That honour belongs to her husband. While she holds the fucker down, of course.
No he got paid a couple of hundred, the going rate for a poor-condition slave (my guy).
The problem is that the amount of the ooze mage with my guy is negligible, about only enough to form her head, if she were to attempt human-size.
The rest of her, learning of the party's situation, is on it's way to help now, but still far away and slow as hell. She might be able to help subdue one target but not this whole group of knights keeping my guy.
Unless I feed her, now that I think of it... I suppose if I remain covert about it, I could feed the portion of her that I have till she's big enough to pose a threat.
That will take time though, but still a plan. Or should I not do it? It might be too risky...
Ooze mage shenanigans are always worth it.
Well I wasn't there, so I couldn't kill him.
Well I don't want to run a thread if people don't like it. I'm not Zhakuvaan.
I was just seeing if people even remembered what I was talking about, let along if they were interested.
If there is any more, please keep going
Dude, we know who you are. Your previous exploits are on the Archive. When you have an update, just say "Hey, it's the Reverse Chivalry guy got an update for ya" and roll with it. We want to hear this, you don't have to keep asking us multiple times every time.
This is going to sound really horrible, and it kind of is, but if your ooze mage can pull it off it would be worth it.
Your character is going to be raped repeatedly. That's what it means to be breeding stock. So take advantage of it by having the ooze mage colonize your character's testicles and thus have little bits of her splooged out into each and every paladin that rapes you. Once the ooze mage bits are inside a paladin's uterus, they implant and parasitize as if they were an actual embryo.
Welp, it's time for what I've been working on. Times like this make me consider a purely cinematic approach to writing.
Joan glanced over her shoulder at the dark, iron deadlock door she guarded. "...he's talking to himself again."
"Then go in there and smack him," Cornell said, with a swipe of his hand.
"He's our prisoner, Cornell, not someone to torture when we please."
"It's not torture, it's showing him that he should be quiet if he knows what's good for him. If you won't do it, I will."
Joan shot a last look at Cornell. Unlike him, she wouldn't commit further atrocities on the poor man. She lingered outside when they beat him, subjected him to cruel punishment. Yes, he bared the order's mark and they were free to do with him as they pleased, but even your property should be properly treated. At the very least, she would demonstrate that.
"Keep an eye on me," Joan said. She took the key ring dangling from her hip and unlocked the door with a heavy, sliding clack. Cornell hefted his shield with a sighing grunt, bringing it before him while his hand slid up the handle of his sheathed sword. He moved behind her to watch as she swung the metal aside.
In better conditions, Elizabeth's husband Martin was definitely handsome. Joan had seen him with Elizabeth once - fair but healthy, with a slick haircut and strong chin that matched the charm of his eyes. Those eyes were dead now as she walked in, interrupting his study of the cold brick beneath him, his mutterings slashed quiet mid-sentence. Bags hung under his eyes so deeply that one could mistake them from actual darkness from a distance.
Anyway so eventually my guy was taken to the main HQ for the order, a big city with their actual stronghold comprised of a castle-turned-cathedral and the dwarf fort underneath it.
There I was taken before one of the higher ranking members, not a fighter but a priestess, and some of her associates.
Despite being informed of my guy's nature, and the reason of the Paladin's going AWOL strictly of her own choice, she believed my guy was still worth talking to. Her grossly high charisma was enough at least to get a response out of my guy, which was what she wanted.
She wanted to know why I had caused all this trouble from the start, why I would reject their ways and rebel against order. I said because it was wrong, they were wrong. She said she could understand my feelings, but it didn't matter anymore, pressing against the brand, she reaffirmed that I was her, I was their property, no different from a chair or sword. She could count on one hand the number of people whom this had been done to, but all of them including me posed no problem to the Order after what had been done to us.
She said I didn't need to worry anymore, or fight. In time I would find my place, and all would be right. My troublesome wife would be the same way. Be it by reduction or by the sword, this whole little fiasco would be righted sure enough.
Before leaving though she wanted to know one thing. If I had not convinced my wife to rebel, and if she had not done so due to outside influence, what had caused her, a former shining example of what the Order stood for, to reject them and their ways, all she had known for such a time.
I only said one word; Love.
She smiled with a lighthearted laugh, and said "We shall see."
You run your thread regardless, as long as it's /tg/ related. If no one wants to read it, half an hour later you've posted your whole story, gotten nothing but silence, flames and trolls, and you have your answer. But if people do want to read it, you've gotten off to a much stronger start than if you faffed about like you did.
I mean, honestly, you don't need the approval of the masses to post no matter what you want to say. This is 4chan! Dive in and sink or swim, don't stick a toe in and swirl it around wondering if the water's sanitary.
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While entirely possible, I feel obliged to ask;
man what
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>parasitic ooze mage embryos
Now we've really hit the big time
Sorry, thought you were done by how you seemed to wrap things up...I'll wait.
So every woman who rapes him will have the fruits of her sins feed off her to gain strength and then devour her from the inside unexpectedly? Plus as an added bonus the ooze mage can quietly devour their eggs, rendering them sterile forever even should they survive it, and she'll make sure that there's no pregnancy for the character to worry about.
That is awesome and you should feel awesome for coming up with it.
...I hope that ooze mage is a total insane bro, because that's about what it would take to actually carry out that plan.
Ooze mages are always worth it; if only for the giggles it'll give you when the entire knight squad turns up back at their castle with you a mummy in chains, half their armour gone, and a quarter of their men missing limbs.
'Oozes...Oozes everywhere Man!'
'YOU WERN'T THERE MAN! YOU WERN'T THERE!'
Seriously though, escape with the Ooze mage, and aim to get back to your party by yourself, it'll be a soul repairing experience for you.
As another aside I'd like to add, that the one in the order overseeing my guy is the Paladin's former squire, and she's made it something of her job to make his transport and life as miserable as possible.
She's not really in charge, but she's acting his caretaker, and they don't really care what she does, and more or less listen to her if she tells them to beat him or something.
In particular, she knows he's disturbed most by sexuality, so has had them do various perverted things to him for amusement.
Nothing like sex, but various demeaning things.
Continuing story...
Reaffirming my desire to see her head mounted on a pike.
Hey, she sounds like a good match for the rogue if you ask me.
I'm a terrible person.
I've been following these threads with rapt attention, but halfway through this one my mind inexplicably switched on an image of that Mitchell and Webb "are we the baddies" skit, only with knights instead of SS.
I haven't been able to stop giggling.
I tried to think of a way to turn the character's situation to his advantage. All he has to work with is that he's got a sentient chunk of ooze mage and an order of female paladins are all going to be raping him, so combining the two seemed logical.
If it's any consolation, I had to think much harder about this post than I did when I came up with the idea.
No. This squire, after now beating and harassing the PC, has now crossed the line. She deserves better than the others.
This, except sneak a bit into the squire's food, if she doesn't decide she wants a bit of fun as well. Instead of devouring her from the inside, just have it grow inside her until she explodes. Ooze everywhere, dyed red with her blood.
Sure would be demoralizing to have a comrade fucking EXPLODE for some unknown reason, huh?
Feed her to the ooze mage.
As for the party, they've split up and been seeking help. NPCs, mercenaries, allies and subordinates, each character has had some hand in helping, and all of them in seeking the assistance of some of the most powerful people we've come across.
For we're going to need all the help we can get if they want to get my guy back. Even if they just spearhead to attack only the Order HQ, it will be a battle for the history books.
Of note, although probably nothing, the Rogue headed back to his country of origin, and has been mustering troops and his loyalists and supporters, though for what purpose I'm not sure.
As for my guy, the last game ended with him being chucked into a tower and locked up. As stated, he just arrived and talked with the Priestess, and now has literally just been imprisoned, assumedly until they decide on what to do with him.
He's confined to the cell, but has a nice view of the city, and has some of his possessions, as well as the portion of the ooze mage to converse with and rely on. That's basically where the game ended.
I'm not really sure what to do now though, I assume feeding the ooze mage my rations so she can grow bigger is a plan, although anything beyond that is up in the air.
Although it's an entirely viable plan, to "infect" any of the Order member that opt to breed with my guy with the ooze mage, I hope that isn't the only option that is on the table for me and her to take.
Although the idea of any number of Order members being absorbed from the inside out and all contributing to a larger to-be formed ooze overtime, the means to do it is a bit... bold? Even for me...
But if that is the only option available... I mean I'm sure the DM will find it hilarious.
How close are you to levelling?
Because I can see one class coming out of this, even if you don't meet the prequesites.
Frenzied Berserker.
Possibly 'of love'
Tear the chains that bind yo asunder, pick up a knight and swing him around by the legs as a mace, twist a leg off a nearby horse, then, screaming your wifes name to the heavens, charge off into the undergrowth, on a mission to get back to her and prove that even a broken man is still a man.
If it's too insane for your character, talk to the DM and have the Ooze Mage suggest it.
Collapse the order. One ovary at a time.
Mind if I continue now? The story's execution isn't terribly great, I realize, but the idea was good enough not to pass up.
This, combined with the sex plan.
Bonus points if you can work this in.
>PC about to be raped by a knight or whatever
>PC: N-no, no, nonononono...NOoooooooooo..........MY LOVE FOR YOU IS LIKE A TRUCK
>Ooze mage burst out her groin screaming 'BERSERKER!!!' while throwing the horns.
I love this idea, if only for the idea of a Frenzied berserker of love.
Well of course she'd be alright with it, it's just more food for her.
I'm saying is, I'm not sure I'm partial to the idea of having the highlight of our game be "that time he knocked up all the women in the order with ooze, and dissolved them from the inside to form a sick rape fueled illegitimate ooze-giant borne of uterus-es".
Of course, if there's no other way...
Consider it a plan B. My main concern in them realizing what's going on and getting some kind of remove disease-ish spell going on to remove or even harm the ooze mage, all the while knowing you're to blame. But it does sound like it could work.
By the way, the imposter-anon in the last thread who 'ended' the story with the aristocrats? Actually pretty fucking brilliant, couldn't have worked with any other story.
The means has to do with the inescapable fact of what will be happening to your character. Last time something similar happened to him, he broke.
This time, he's determined to take his tormentors down with him, and he has a means of doing it.
Yeah yeah, I'm done updating, just discussing now.
Oops that's me.
>> Cerebrate Anon 01/04/11(Tue)21:06 No.13401743
Haven't read the other threads, but if your character is seriously a survivor of severe domestic abuse who just recently learned to love his tormentor because she stopped, was particularly messed up about sex to begin with, and has been basically put into a position where he's going to be beaten and raped alternately for an indeterminate amount of time...nothing is too bold. Your guy will latch onto literally any plan that will stop his torment.
If that plan also causes his tormentors to explode into aggro ooze in the middle of coitus, all's the better.
Your dude shouldn't be hanging onto sanity by the tips of his fingers, he should vaguely remember back when he had a grip on sanity as a confusing time in his distant past.
Here's more. My weaknesses as a writefag shall be revealed here. This character is, ah...goin' places.
Joan brought up her kindest smile, kept her hands out in the open. "Hello," she said softly. "How are you?"
"Fine," Martin replied. Joan felt warm when she heard the faint life remaining in his voice.
"Good." She took a careful step forward. Martin didn't react. "I, well...I hear you talking to yourself in here often. What's on your mind?"
"Just pondering. Wondering why things happen the way they do."
Guilt crawled up her body. She knew what he refered to. The Order had to make an example of him...but she didn't have to like it, even if it was for a good cause. "You realize we're just doing what's best for you, I hope."
Martin made a gesture stifled by the chains binding him to the wall. "Elizabeth said that too. And, you know...it feels like that's how it's always been. People have always been trying to push me into doing what they want. It's human nature. We can't stand dissent. We need to control others."
Joan tilted her head in acknowledgement. "Well, I wouldn't say that -"
"But what's the point?" Martin continued. "I mean...think about it. We're only on this earth for seventy, eighty years, if we're lucky. Less if we're eaten by an owlbear or killed by a soldier or a bandit or any other selfish person who comes along to push us around to get what they want. But you can't KEEP what you want, because you're going to die anyway, so why bother trying to claim it in the first place?"
Sauce?
I doubt the character loves his wife anymore. Really, what she's done is pretty much unforgivable.
Where is this ooze mage?
At this point, not flipping his shit and killing her as soon as he could find the gumption to lift a weapon is as powerful an emotional tie as love.
Hell, I had a girlfriend who would cheerfully sing songs about murdering abusive boyfriends, destroying cheating boyfriends' property, etc. Apparently this type of thing is pretty common in Country music. Scared the shit out of me, to be honest.
"You don't -"
"It's because we place too much VALUE on things!" Martin suddenly exclaimed, with a violent explosion of motion, his chains clattering. "We place value on everything like food and shelter and gifts and laws and traditions because we think we know what deserves that value! But we're WRONG!"
"Joan," Cornell barked, taking a step in.
"None of it matters when we're dead! None of it matters when we're ALIVE! It's all based on useless agreement that fetters away when we're dead and gone! Don't you see? I've figured it out! There's no point in wanting ANYTHING!"
"Joan!" Cornell snapped. She fired a concerned glance at the guard as he stepped in, brandishing his shield like holy protection. "If you won't shut him up, I will!"
A sudden flash of hate swiped over Martin's face, and he let out an estatic screech. His hand flipped up at Cornell and a quaking jolt of electricty erupted from his fingers, striking Cornell directly in his armored chest and flinging him out of the cell.
"Cornell!" Joan cried out. She drew her sword, faced the prisoner with a strong stance. This was impossible - they said he wouldn't be able to strike back! They said his magic was exhausted, that he wouldn't have the clarity of mind to attack them with it!
would this really be in character for either you or the ooze mage? she seems too dumb to think of something so crazy, and I can't imagine a dude actually being like "hey ooze, get into my nutsack", especially a sexually traumatized person
Ever heard of stockholm syndrome? Or whatever its application to this situation might be called.
I have, and it would actually benefit my point to bring it up...I'm not sure where you're going, here.
Ooze mages aren't dumb, they're just really, really spacey. And generally quite removed from a human's sense of reality, morality, and logic. At least, as I understand it.
So she might well come up with almost any kind of batshit insane plan and think it's the most brilliant thing ever.
Bottom of my guy's bag.
Well I mean they've made it a point of inferring to him that he's going to be breeding stock.
But despite all the claims they make, I doubt the DM is really going force my character into a position of being gang-raped by a bunch of female knights/squires/scribes. Partly because they're not some sex-crazed group of knight chicks. I think when they say breeding stock, it means he'll just be paired with some other single member of the order, rather than just an impregnating object.
Mostly though I don't think the DM will paint a picture of gang rape in the game. The only reason it happened in the first place at all, was because it was instigated by another PC, the Paladin, and because it went along with the plot, them being married and the situation and all.
If at any point I said or say I don't like the way things are going, he'll listen and stop.
But then on the other hand, as people are suggesting, this could be a way to escape. Which I can acknowledge, but I don't think that plan has to solely hinge on sex. I mean the ooze mage could probably just sneak into people's food overtime.
Of course, if it's for comedic effect then sex probably would be the funniest means of downfall for the Order.
Whatever, I'll see how things come as the game progresses. I'll certainly consider anything suggested in this thread though, at this point the game could go anywhere.
but... it IS the most brilliant plan ever.
They're both crazy, he's about to be horribly abused, and the bit of her he has with him is head-sized and thus not really up for fighting.
This is EXACTLY the sort of plan that you'd think was a good idea in that situation.
can we get a drawfag in here to make a pic of the character teabagging an ooze?
"None of you GET it!" Martin's chains suddenly charged with light, and with a lash of his arms, they snapped free of the cell wall, and he rose to crooked length. "Don't you see?" he asked, now pleading with Joan. "Everything...everything is pointless! This whole world, this whole life...why even live it? Why inflict your selfish values on me and others when, in the end, everything you've gained will be SNATCHED away?!"
"Stay back!" Joan shouted. He shambled forward now, fingers twitching with unbridled anxiety, and she drew her blade. "Stand down, slave, or I will strike you down!"
Martin screamed, throwing up his arms, and for a bare second, the whole room seemed to tremble. "There you go again! You're hopeless...even when confronted with the truth, you still cling to idiotic values you think you deserve to have! I'll show you your true place!"
Joan yelled and leapt forward, swinging. A gesture from Martin, and painful frost tore into her gut, propelling her back into the corner. Her sword spun, clanged against the brick. As she slumped, her shield was torn away. Hands grabbed her neck, slammed her head into the corner like a punch. They gripped tighter and tighter.
Joan lashed out, striking Martin directly in the side of his cheek. He just kept screeching, choking her with strength he seemed to drag from hell itself, slamming her skull in the rock over and over, pummelling her until she bled. Her training, her flailing, suddenly amounted to nothing.
The hands squeezing her, choking off her air, did not stop even as blackness finally took her.
My point is simply that whatever he feels is not love.
Looking over all of these threads and to me it seems less like a adventure more like a shitty fan fic that you're writing between your character and the paladin. I mean honestly where do the other adventurers even factor in in all of this. Sure they're mentioned and do something but they don't seem to be a focus.
The more I read the less I'm convinced that any Paladin who did this no matter what their god thinks is "Right" would be considered an Anti-paladins at the least fall at the most extreme.
So while I point out the flaws of having an adventure like this that really just focuses on the story of one person. I will admit that if you're having fun and everyone in the group is ok taking a back seat to your story then continue to do so.
Polite sage because I think this is more writefaggotry then you telling a story about campaign.
Not comedic effect. It's a group of paladins that decided to legitimize all sorts of evil practices, and who are currently raping a man back into insanity in order to keep their own numbers up and to send a message to a wayward member of their order. Having their own acts of evil used against them is about as classic of a dramatic irony as you can find.
Dusting off his rags and wiping off the blood on his fists on them, Martin strolled out of the cell.
Ow. He snorted, rubbing his nose. That was the price he paid, he supposed, for bashing in her face with his own. Now he wore her blood around his eyes and mouth like a dirty mask. Eh. He'd jump in a lake later. Now was the time for action.
Action was definitely in order. Just look at this useless building. He took a deep breath, arcing his back to steal a glance at the ceiling. All this wasted effort on a prison to hold people that should've just been killed off anyway. How long would it teach them to learn what he had discovered? How much more...waste would they come up with until then?
A spark erupted from his finger with a flick, and it crawled along the walls and floor at his mental command. The eldiritch firelight mingled with the torchlight, consuming each other, casting the entire hall in hot flames.
Well. Bringing down this prison and everyone in it would be a start. Had to teach by example.
...strange. All this time, his outlook on life had changed constantly as he learned from others, adopting his ideas. But each time he hadn't felt as...free as he did now. All this time he defined rules to follow, thinking they would bring him true peace. Who knew that throwing them away was actually the answer?
It...it was funny. And, suddenly, he couldn't help but laugh at the sheer madness of it all.
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"WOOOOH HO HO HO HO HO!" he boomed. "It's a BRAND NEW DAY!"
He spread his arms out, like a big hug.
"And with that...it's time for the real party to BEGIN!"
Most of the paladin/broken guy interaction happened between main sesions, or so sais OP
I think any plan that involves getting her more food, she's going to jump on.
Normally she's opposed to eating humans, but given the situation, she doesn't like these people one bit for hurting her friends.
She doesn't need to eat them, depending on how long it takes for the party to get your character out.
She just hijacks the natural consequences of pregnancy. All the stuff that would go towards feeding the gestating embryo/fetus is feeding the oozespawn instead.
Not very knowledgable in d&d. Would anybody mind explaining to me what an ooze mage is? I tried google but nothing helpful shows up.
I was actually referring to a book or something where I could look it up.
My understanding is that it's a prestige class where the character eventually turns into an ooze. There are a whole set of them- turn into outsider, dragon, construct, undead, elemental, etc. etc. Changing themselves into some variey of inhuman being one of the primary things that arcanists do with their phenomenal cosmic power in the D&D universe.
All the interactions seemingly happening between just my guy and the paladin were just that, separate games from the main plot.
Only when she brought him with her again, did the solo games not be needed, and things more or less were normal.
Now things are starting to focus on particularly our characters in the main game, but this would be the first time in a good while. Before this we focused on the Bard and the Thief, and quests related to specifically them, so it isn't odd that we focus on one or a few characters for stretches of time.
The reason these threads are mostly about mine guy and the paladin are because well, obviously I'm going to write about my guy, but also because it's what people seemed the most interested in. Initially these started as advice threads about what to do given the situation my character got in.
Which I appreciate by the way, any and all advice.
You know if this was an order of Male paladins and OP's character was a girl these threads would have been called troll threads and people would claim "/tg/ is misogynistic" and all the other bullshit that comes out of that. Also the order would have been evil right of the bat. To put it simply rape is not something to be trivialized in the form of RPGs as character development, back story, or main plot elements. I think your dm has extreme fetishes that he should keep to himself.
Ah, okay. Thank you.
Does anybody know a website where such classes are listed?
Hey sagefag. And no one actually cares about womanhate, because a fair few of us really do, at least just a little.
on the other hand, however, our plan would now involve the ooze mage hiding inside of the woman's vagina, and snipping off any penises that they attempted to rape her with.
The order was evil right off the bat, remember the horrible sexism? Claiming OP's character was where they stepped over the line and started asking for justice to be done.
This thread made me miss my campaign, by the way. So I hate hate hate hate hate hate hate you people right now. A little literally.
I'll cool down, but I mad, I guess
But then the ooze mage would be a guy and it would be... creepy.
Actually the whole business is creepy.
Simply join your game a bit late?
It started two hours ago and it's over. No.
Dude, you know it'll wind up on the Archives. You will be able to read it.
Oh, and just so OP can see it again: Yes, we want to read this story. Every thread relating to it has been archived. You even have one of /tg/'s premier writefags writing a story based on it. It is safe to say that we demand MOAR, so don't hesitate giving it to us.
It's on IRC, how can -
...wait, I'm a PREMIER writefag? Oh, my, I don't...I'm so embarassed, tee hee...
Well I'm going away tomorrow, and next time I update will probably be after allot of shit has transpired, so I guess the next time will just get right into it.
Also dun goof'd, realize that wasn't directed at me.
Nevermind then.
The first part wasn't, but the last part sure as hell was. Keep this shit coming, man. You've given us too much of the good stuff to cut us off now.
Might as well ask about the story...it's not one of my best, that's for sure, but was it decent enough to get my idea across?
It was beautiful and I am crying.
Well, I just thought the madness your guy went with didn't have enough dancing in it, so I decided to try it out on my own.
Let's keep the ooze mage rape plan as a plan b, okay? I'm not sure that would work anyway.
Right now, you say that only SOME of the order of Paladins are actually evil, right? Why not try to get chummy with your jailor?
Connect with her, tell her about yourself and your wife, try to find out about why she joined up. Y'know-Protect the innocent, create peace, etc. etc.
Then ask her if she thinks THIS is the way that she had pictured herself when she had joined the order- guarding a broken man and keeping a woman from her husband. Really drive it home that the order has lost it's way
But that's just the thing.
It's looking at the same issue from another perspective.
Good writing OP, I've been looking foward to this continueation for a long time.
Advice... don't have much; seems like you're doing a pretty good job. I'll toss out some random ideas, though. Don't do anything which would remove the asset that the ooze mage is to you; if she tries something and is discovered they'll get rid of her and probably start treating you with a lot less respect (cell, no belongings). Though you might be able to let some of her live in your stomach undetected, depending upon the specifics of how she works, or something similarly clever. Point is, I'd save her as an ace or have her start carrying out some kind of long-term plan; the rape-counter thing, or possibly if she's acidic enough you could have her start carefully dissolving the interior of some walls, so that you can burst through them Kool-Aid man style when it's time to make your escape.
Personality-wise, as you grow more sane- and you definitely seem on the path to stability here- make sure to keep traumas shaping your character.
It seems like you're really attached to your wife even now, but it's probably not love; you gave up on that after she tortured and raped you, then kept raping you when you were broken. Never, ever initiate or respond with enjoyment to a sexual act with her, even years from now. Even as you become more functional, make it functionally traumatized-insane; a clever person will pick up that you're acting like you love her because you believe on some level that it's what she wants and you're frightened not to, that you're willing to let her sleep with you because you're certain deep down that if you don't she'll just take it anyway, that you stay with her because there's no way you could possibly escape even if you left.
Other things. Anyone displaying the sort of imagery that the women who tortured you had should probably freak you out forever. If you get stable enough, it might turn from fear to loathing. Considering that you're in the paladin HQ, I personally would expect you to be practically catatonic and regressing horribly. If you ever get stable enough, try to quietly influence your wife to change her armor drastically to not resemble her old armor at all, dye her hair, and otherwise change her appearance so that you can disassociate her mentally from the bitch who screwed you over. You might even eventually convince yourself that she's a completely different person and whitewash your traumas around her by completely believing it.
When you eventually get free, have the ooze mage or someone else you trust who has ONLY positive associations with you burn, cut, or dissolve the brand from your skin. It will probably make a much nastier and much uglier mark, but you'll be your own again. Just as being branded has significant imagery, removing it has even more- and doing so violently rather than with some kind of pussy magical healing makes a statement as well.
Yeah, but this is a Fantasy DnD setting.
Mental healing is a lot more feasible.
I'm a romantic sap, I admit it.
I want a happy ending and reuinion and LOVE TENDERLY nookie between the Paladin and the OP's character.
Even if it takes campaigns to get to.
That's probably viable.
Though we've only been met with the ugly face the Order has to bear, most of them are actually nice, religious people, simply living by way that the Paladin used to believe.
As stated in previous threads, in their monasteries and stuff, it's actually really nice and peaceful, and they do good things for people elsewhere.
Just that, when they need to be fierce, like in our case, they can be fierce and much more.
So yes, talking to the jailer and others around should be an option, the actual evil members tend to stay on the move so if they escorted my guy there, they probably won't stay long.
In general anything else I should be aiming to or plan to do? Obviously not too much, given that he's in a holding cell, but there's probably got to be some things he can do.
Apart from feeding the ooze mage his rations so she can get bigger, and the endgame option of using her to corrupt the Order members from within, quite literally speaking.
Ruminate, I think.
Seriously. If he gets out of this with his marbles restored somewhat, I can sort of see him being that utterly selfless zen style character.
He loves his wife unconditionally, but he's still a bit empty feeling. But he seems to be managing.
That sort of stablilisation you have when you're starting from scratch the long way.
I think your character should keep practising his stuff, you know? Use a spoon as a dagger, do push-ups, so-on.
But what I really want to see is that damn squire getting her shit rocked. By the by, using comparisons, how sane is your character at the moment?
Yeah, that fucking squire is going to have her head kicked in, and it's going to be glorious.
Yeah, as I said my guy is more or less catatonic currently, though he has been for awhile now. In paladin hq, he just sits huddled in a corner of the room shaking, with naught but the ooze mage to tell him things are going to be alright.
Even before that, when he was back with the party, despite all of them being old friends, he doesn't open up to them or anyone. It'll get better with time, but not for a good while.
And with his wife it's even worse, potentially never. Like he's always scared and cowering/shaking around her, and whines or draws away when touched. She stopped trying to maintain a sexual relationship with him since that second/third time, but recently she even stopped trying to sleep in the same bed with him.
It used to be that she'd just carry him to bed and sleep with him in her arms like a baby or something, but she stopped after she kept waking up in the mornings to find him shaking in a corner crying to himself or something and not having had any sleep.
That's just like the basics, of how things are going. As for further out, if he still loves her or not, if they'll ever have kids or be back to normal, I have no idea yet. It's all to come I suppose, we'll figure it out then.
Woa. What manga is this from?
Remember this is essentially a story- you can ignore the more realistic affects of rape and torture. I mean, as long as it is more dramatically appropriate, you have dramatic license for more liberal interpetations of realworld situation
Oh, trust me, my next interpretation of Martin will have fun with this.
I have the most beautiful image of my head of the OP's character finally managing to sleep beside the Paladin for the first time. On the far side of the bed, curled up. But they're still holding hands.
I want a bittersweet ending at best. The Order's cleaned up, the paladin has realized she was a complete twat and flies right, but they never let her forget what she's done. The relationship is over, gone. She'll remember her misdeeds for the rest of her days.
I just know that if I was part of this game, and I was playing one of MY guys, he'd make it his personal mission to keep her miserable and keep reminding her as long as she lived. He's kind of crazy like that - literally a vengeful moralfag dialed to eleven.
About as sane as a vegetable. Or something.
In terms of his interactions with other characters, he's like a small child who hardly ever speaks, and suffers from some bad past event. In this case the event is clear, and his response to things like touching or holding is to whine, pull away, or if forced, start weeping.
Well, my guy is still not entirely "all there" yet, that I can dictate all his actions. Some of the things he does are involuntary, as by response or dictated by the DM as simply reactions or involuntary responses.
Things like this would be, as stated, drawing away from touching, or shaking when being near his wife.
Awww. That's adorable. I hope that happens
Whats saying you cant feed the mage, have lurk in your semen, and sneek into food all at once
That's a viable solution.
It might be spreading her too thin though, so to speak. I'll look into it, although I don't want to feed her with my own body if possible.
So you're liking the stories so far? Have any you might want to see? They will probably be very hateful, so think accordingly!
They're all great.
Really I can't suggest anything in particular, because that would ruin what I like most about your writings, that you take your own approach.
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Lame overwrought drama faggotry is overwrought and total shit
Well, none of these are turning out to be canon, so the adventures can go any way, really.
Your repetition is simply redundant.
Sounds like that settings needs some fucking real paladins to storm in and kick that corrupt order's ass. BURN IT TO THE GROUND!
Alas it is the truth about this insipid soap opera storyline.
If not /tg/'s obsession with TEH RAEP this thread would not have lasted as long nor would have gotten as much responses
Listen to the Emprah.
This obsession with saging good threads will pass, and with enough 2-ply you can eventually cleanse your taint of your taint.
>> Consider the Following Anonymous 01/05/11(Wed)00:05 No.13404010
Given that my guy is trapped in the castle though, and the coming battle will likely be huge, perhaps it would be best if he and the ooze mage caused an uprising from within, to do their part in the battle.
Spread her around and cause inner turmoil. Hopefully not via sex though.
>> Titanium Man 01/05/11(Wed)00:09 No.13404060
Well, it's time to boogie for me. Glad you liked my little tale, OP. Keep making me rage and I'll probably have more?
Next one will probably be in a week or two, same as the last.
>> Anonymous 01/05/11(Wed)00:13 No.13404104
Righto, we'll be waiting. Remember, just go ahead and post it.
Also, as soon as you are out of prison, get the ooze mage to melt off the skin with the order's mark on it, dye and cut your hair, put on a little weight, and start growing facial hair.
Maybe use the Flesh-to-stone-to-mud-to-stone-to-flesh to mold your face into a different appearance, if that's available.
Damn. How soon before another update, OP? I'm dying, here.
About a week or two, I said.
Until things happen really. It looks to be that they will soon though. The party has to rally the Lord, the Band, the Revolutionary, the Hero, and the Rat at least, then we stand a fighting chance. My guy already has the Devourer (ooze mage).
There is the issue of the Rogue, but I doubt he'll play much into the plot, despite rallying his old nation.
And who is "The Rat", exactly?
Hey guys what's going on in he-
>Gestigal ooze embryo
Oh shit.
This is like the best plan ever. EVER.
A famous criminal.
Unsure of whether or not he is a real person though. Regardless, having his backing would provide support of mercenaries and criminals.
He/she is the person the thief is supposed to recruit.
Something I might as well go ahead and ask, assuming there's the chance that the plan would be necessary.
Assuming everything checks out, and my guy ends up being forced to impregnate any number of individuals, thereby assisting the ooze mage. How is she supposed to simulate pregnancy, rather than just parasitic devouring from the inside out.
No point doing the whole "ooze inside" plan if she just absorbs the first person, or they figure out something is wrong.
Hormones or something. However it is that a fertilized egg seems different to the uterine lining than an unfertilized egg once it implants. Since the ooze would be devouring samples of your sperm and one of the victim's eggs, it could even manually fertilize one, use that to figure out exactly what to fake, then digest the embryo after the ooze implants itself.
Honestly, though, I think that's probably going into a bit more detail than you need.
On a completely different note, this thread should probably be archived so we can refer back to it.
Wait for a month or so, probably.
That's infanticide...
OMNOMNOM?
Pleases me to see that this story actually continues.
Nope. It's not an infant until it's born. One month in, it's embryocide.
Well, it's not like there's not enough space there anyway. Just coexist, piggybacking on the umbilical nutrients.
Wait so the ooze mage just goes along for the ride while the baby is growing, then when the time is right for the battle she just absorbs the whole thing, mother and child from the inside out?
That's decidedly gruesome.
Pretty much. Assuming that mass is conserved, it'd be like the pregnant woman just turned into a slime woman.
Green slime is very mass efficient that way.
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or don't get them pregnant, have her wait in their ovaries, eating eggs, and rendering them basically infertile, this way there's no strange "everyone fucking him spontaneously combusts", and it's easy to take it as male infertility, or basic timing failure, and if you,re there for less than 3-4 months it might even go unnoticed.
also, a lot of people have told you to use this has plan b. DO NOT this is a plan that takes time to accomplish, and can basically be aborted unnoticed. So if something else works and you did it nothing bad happens(except infertility, but who gives a fuck about this bunch of cunts?), But if everything else fails and you finally resort to this, you'll be missing on a great deal of confirmed kills.
also, I believe that pic is what should happen to rogue and squire.
>Cum ooze mage
I just got an idea for a serial killer.
In essence the embryo is a parasite as well, but if you want to talk SCIENCE! The ooze mage just has to either wait till the placenta is formed and plug into that after eating the fetus, or produce hormones.
If the wife is abusive and has betrayed him, why not go with the ooze mage?
Setting everything aside, she seems kind and mostly reliable, they share some things in common, and she has always been there for the guy.
Can we please use our ooze mage rape plan as a backup for our backup?
It kind of ruins the tone, a little
I was under the impression that was how things were going to go, assuming the unlikely situation that the DM actually does try to enact some sort of sordid gang rape, which I don't think will actually happen, no matter how likely it may be claimed to be.
That's... also possible, I never thought of that.
They are rather close, looking at it now. And she's always been there for him.
Not sure how to even go about pursuing something like that though, another romance or whatever.
Eeesh, it's all rather creepy business to me. I doubt the DM would actually make me explain to him the biology of how a slime would fake a pregnancy, though.
Thank the lord.
ITT: FATAL players.
You are in prison, you were abused and a mental wreck. I think it's time to find (a) god. That might also give the DM an excuse to raise your powerlevels at least temporarily through divine powers/guidance/intervention,
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The many challenges of graph processing
In a previous post I exposed my opinion about the lack of a clear platform/solution/framework/architecture for graph processing. However, what are the main issues graph processing has to deal with? Serve these lines as an appetizer for the curious minds out there.
A graph is a collection of vertices $V$ and edges $E$ connecting these vertices. A graph $G=(V,E)$ can be directed or undirected. In a directed graph any edge from vertex $u$ to vertex $v$ has a direction ($u {\rightarrow} v$). This is, we can go from $u$ to $v$.
graph LR; u((u))-->v((v));
If the graph is undirected we have no direction ($u {-} v$). This is, $u$ is connected to $v$.
graph LR; u((u)) --- v((v));
Additionally, we can have edges with weights ($W(e)$).
graph LR; u((Madrid))-- 621km ---v((Barcelona));
Graphs are particularly suitable to represent absolutely anything. From social networks to interactions between atomic forces. A very computer friendly representation of a graph is using an adjacency matrix $A$. $A$ is a square matrix of size V x V where $A_{ij}$ indicates that it exists an edge between vertices $i$ and $j$. For undirected graphs $A$ is a symmetrical matrix. For example, for the graph
graph LR; a((a)) --> a((a)); a((a)) --> b((b)); c((c)) --> b((b)); a((a)) --> d((d)); d((d)) --> b((b)); b((b)) --> d((d));
we can get its representation in an adjacency matrix:
\[\begin{array}{ccc} & & to \\\\ & & \begin{array}{cccc} a & b & c & d \end{array} \\\\ \textit{from} & \begin{array}{c} & a \\\\ & b \\\\ & c \\\\ & d \end{array} & \left(\begin{array}{cccc} 1 & 1 & 0 & 1 \\\\ 0 & 0 & 0 & 1 \\\\ 0 & 1 & 0 & 0 \\\\ 0 & 1 & 0 & 0 \end{array}\right) \end{array}\]
Because the previous representation is a matrix, we can use all the available tools of algebraic operations. For example, by summing up the values of every column we have the number of edges targetting every vertex. Additionally, we can compute eigenvalues and eigenvectors that can give us interesting information using spectral graph theory.
But there are other aspects to be taken into consideration. What about memory utilization? If you think about the adjacency matrix above, for a 4 x 4 matrix (16 cells) we have 10 empty cells (equal to 0). When allocating memory for this matrix, we are wasting 62% of the allocated memory with non-relevant information. For very large sparse matrices this cost is unacceptable. And we have sparse matrices in many scenarios, think about social networks. Facebook has 2.6 billion active users and there is a limit of 5000 friends per profile. Additionally, some operations become cumbersome. For example, knowing the adjacent vertices involves operations with the whole matrix.
Fortunately, we have other solutions that are more “memory friendly” or at least more suitable to certain scenarios. An adjacency list is a list where every item represents a vertex in the graph. For every vertex, we store pointers to its adjacent vertices (neighbours). Following with the example above:
graph TD; start(start) --> a; subgraph vertex a a(a) --> a0((a)); a0 --> a1((b)); a1 --> a2((d)); end subgraph vertex b b(b) --> b0((b)); end subgraph vertex c c(c) --> c0((b)); end subgraph vertex d d(d) --> d0((b)); end a --> b; c --> d; b --> c; d --> last(nil);
The adjacency list limits the information to be stored to the adjacent vertices. Vertex $a$ has access to a list of references to its adjacent vertices. This facilitates the implementation of traversing operations that can travel across the graph vertices and makes possible to store additional data enhancing data locality.
And here is where graphs become a really painful data structure to deal with from the point of view of performance. Let’s assume we want to visit all the neighbors of vertex $a$ ($\Gamma(a)$). The adjacent vertices of $a$ are: itself, $b$ and $d$. This means that we have to access memory positions for $b$ and $d$. What happens if these memory fragments are not already cached? That is a cache miss, which means that we have to pick up that piece of graph from main memory. For vertices with a large number of neighbors cache misses will iteratively repeat. This directly impacts the performance of a graph traverser. The lack of locality in memory accesses is a performance limitation in most graph algorithms.
If we think of distributed solutions, the scenario is even worse. For a distributed memory solution with the graph split across nodes we may have something like:
graph TD; start(start) --> a; subgraph nodeA subgraph vertex a a(a) --> a0((a)); a0 --> a1((b)); a1 --> a2((d)); end subgraph vertex b b(b) --> b0((b)); end end subgraph nodeB subgraph vertex c c(c) --> c0((b)); end subgraph vertex d d(d) --> d0((b)); end end a --> b; c --> d; b -.-> c; d --> last(nil);
For an operation running in nodeA any access to vertices $c$ or $d$ would have to retrieve information from other node. Complexity increases if edge weights can be modified. Who is the owner of the edge? And the vertices? Solutions such as Metis can give you the best graph partition across $n$ bins or nodes. However, adapting algorithms to work with distributed partitions is not easy at all. And computing the best partition is an expensive operation.
And what about parallelism? This depends on the problem or algorithm to be parallelized. However, there is a clear problem in the utilization of concurrent access data structures such as queues or stacks in the classic iterators such as Breadth First Search (BFS) or Deep First Search (DFS). For example, this is the pseudocode for BFS:
1 procedure BFS(G, root) is
2 let Q be a queue
3 label root as discovered
4 Q.enqueue(root)
5 while Q is not empty do
6 v := Q.dequeue()
7 if v is the goal then
8 return v
9 for all edges from v to w in G.adjacentEdges(v) do
10 if w is not labeled as discovered then
11 label w as discovered
12 w.parent := v
13 Q.enqueue(w)
If we consider the pseudocode above to run in parallel we have to guarantee that $Q$ and labels structures are accessed/modified atomically. This imposes a tremendous bottleneck for multiple parallel instances that can result in really poor performance.
A really interesting problem is what happens when the graph does not fit into main memory? Cache misses are expensive in terms of performance, but accesses to secondary memory are orders of magnitude more expensive.
To summarize some of the elements that make graph processing a big headache:
Graphs are “unstructured” by default
Lack of locality in memory access
Operations requiring shared data structures
Working with graphs split across distributed memory solutions is expensive. Actually, deciding how to split the graph is computationally expensive
I’m sure you can enumerate other problems regarding graph processing.
Tags: datascience, graphs, programming, structures
Categories: Data science, Graphs, Software
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Globe’s New Musical “Benny & Joon”: A Crowd Pleaser
Everything and nothing is normal at Benny and Joon’s house in Spokane, Washington. Their mother and father died in a car crash when they were both quite young leaving Benny to care for Joon. As a caregiver he goes out of his way to see to her every need, and then some.
Joon was diagnosed with having schizophrenia at a young age so bringing her up and caring for her has always been slippery slope for Benny. But life goes on for them and as adults they have now fallen into a routine that appears to work, except when it doesn’t.
Under no circumstances however will he allow Joon to be put into a group home where Dr. Cruz, (Natalie Toro) her Dr. knows she will be cared for. Not so, thinks Benny.
Benny owns and runs a car repair garage, does the food shopping and makes sure Joon has supervision in her daily life by caregivers that do most of the housework and cooking and just keep an eye out for his sister’s safety.
Hannah Elless
Joon paints, gardens makes her own smoothies for breakfast, seems able to take care of her daily needs, except when she off a bit and begins to have meltdown around some sounds or whatever it is that particular moment that causes her to go off track. Not taking her meds might be the first cause. “(Safety First”)
She has an uncanny need to make sure most of the caregiver’s, Mrs. Smail (Natalie Toro) for instance, don’t stay around for long, that is until Sam comes into the picture.
Benny's friends and co-workers, Waldo (Jason Sweet Tooth Williams), Mike (Colin Hanlon) and Larry (Paolo Montalban) come and go between car shop scenes and poka games. All three are in excellent voice. (”Home Run Kings”). They have a bond that goes beyond just friendship. They support Benny in his role as caregiver and understand that when the phone rings at work and it’s Joon she gets first dibs for his attention.
Andrew Samonsky and January LaVoy
His pals have not given up on him either and continue to encourage him to step out of his caregiving role once in a while and go on a real grown up date with say the local waitress, Ruthie (a very patient and sweet voiced January LaVoy. “Been There Done That”). She certainly has eyes for him. (“Take A Step Benny”)
The four also play poker at Waldo’s house once a week. They wager the strangest things rather than money like a stethoscope, Captain and Tennille album, Cabbage Patch Kid, a box of chalk, you get the picture.
On this one card playing night Sam, Mike’s cousin’s name was thrown into the pot as one of the take home prizes. On this particular night, Joon sat in for Benny who was called away from the table. Skepticism set in, but she wriggled her way in anyway.
As it was to be she wins Sam for losing the game, ergo he’s sent home with the pair thinking it’s temporary. (He’s a little weird, sure, but he’s fine. Our place isn’t just isn’t big enough.”)
This original musical by Kirstin Guenther (book), Nolan Gasser (music) and Mindi Dickstein (lyrics) and deftly directed by Jack Cummings III now up and running on the Donald and Darlene Shiley Stage of The Old Globe through Oct. 22nd adds another layer to an already captivating love tale of the one that almost got away.
Propelled with Gasser’s eclectic choices of music that include ‘lyrical songs from his childhood, vaudeville and silent movie musicals, 1990’s grunge rock, gospel tinged, film noir, R&B and Tin Pan Alley’, it follows closely the 90’s cult film of the same name that stars none other than a very young Johnny Depp.
There are about 25 songs, some more effective than others. Some could be cut and no one the wiser. The show is almost three hours long and cutting some would shorten the production overall and that’s not a bad thing.
The story has a charming flair to it especially when Sam, (Bryce Pinkham) the delicately balanced on again, off again eccentric stranger moves in with Benny and Joon.
Bryce Pinkham
His character is a cross between Buster Keaton, Harold Lloyd and Charlie Chaplin. Sam lives inside the minds and worlds of the old silent movies greats of that era and Pinkham (“A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder on Broadway) is a natural as Sam the retro man, even imitating characters from Marlon Brando in “The Godfather” to James Stewart in “It’s A Wonderful Life”. And he sings!
He understands Joon (Hannah Elless) in a quiet and reverential way never imposing on her, just following her ways and being there. They eat out at the local diner where they lament about the raisins. She in turn becomes relaxed with him never thinking of sending him away.
Benny (Andrew Samonsky) has enough on his plate to deal with Joon, so when Sam exhibits some quirky behavior like moping the floors on roller skates and making grilled cheese sandwiches with a steam iron rather than in a skillet, he’s a bit skeptical but doesn’t want to upset the apple cart.
Hannah Elless and Bryce pinkham
Joon seems to relish the idea and like Sam she acts as if - doesn’t everyone use a steam iron to grill chees sandwiches? (“Grilled Cheese Ballet” and “Sam’s Bread Dance”).
Hannah Elless (“Bright Star”) has just the right mix of calm, anxiety, stubbornness and charm to be able to pull off the Joon character with all the credibility needed. Her innocence shines through when she’s not challenging her brother or when she’s goggle- eyed looking at Sam. There’s definitely a connection, and why not?
Samonsky’s Ben has the most difficult to wrap your arms around. One can admire him for wanting to protect his sister, and for that matter, his familiar routine that is his anchor. (“Benny & Joon”).
On the other hand, one might want to smack some sense into him for not seeing beyond his nose and letting Joon travel her own journey. And if that’s the emotional pull toward his character, Samonsky plays it all too well.
Pinkham’s name might not be in the title of the show, but make no mistake Sam is the engine that drives this story. His wide eyes and thoroughly engaging looks had the same effect on yours truly as they did on Joon. It’s like a magnet. “In My Head” is one of the necessary tunes explaining the who and the why of this offbeat character.
Jason Sweet Tooth Williams and Bryce Pinkham
Watching him trying to apply for a job is one of the heartbreaking scene in both movie and current musical. It will give you shivers as he tries to explain to the shop owner why he’s there.
The set is the very first thing we see when the curtains go up is an aerial view of Benny and Joon’s neighborhood with backlighting by R. Lee Kennedy. The creativity of the set lures you into the Benny, Joon, Sam’s world. Seriously, you want to be there to see how this all plays out. Credit Dane Laffrey for sets and also costumes.
The most you will remember about the costumes is Sam’s look as a cross between Chaplin (yes he carries a slim cane) Lloyd and Keaton. It’s a classic look, vest, tie and crushed and worn hat, right out of Vaudeville centrtal casting. Credit choreographer Scott Rink for the Chaplinesque saunter.
Eight musicians in the pit under J. Oconer Navarro musical direction and orchestrations by Michael Starobin are top -notch sounding. (Kai Harada)
“Benny & Joon” isn’t quite ready for a Broadway run, but will be with a few tweaks and a few nips here and there. It has a winning glow about it and who doesn’t like a simple yet complicated romantic comedy that looks to have happy ending in spite of Joon’s illness and Sam’s off kilter ways. It can and does happen.
You’ll kick yourself if you miss it here and notice it made it to Broadway.
Dates: Through Oct. 22nd
Organization: The Old Globe
Production Type: Musical
Where: Balboa Park, 1363 Old Globe Way.
Ticket Prices: Start at $36.00
Web: theoldglobe.org
Venue: Donald and Darlene Shiley Stage
Photo: Jim Cox
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New Village Arts Hams It Up in “American Hero”
Sheri, Ted and Jamie were complete strangers before they became work buddies or ‘sandwich artists’ at the newest franchise, “American Hero’*, in a strip mall in any city USA sometime during the recession era 80’s.
Bess Wohl’s one act 90-minute dark comedy now making its professional premiere in Carlsbad had its world premiere at the Williamstown Theatre Festival during its 2013 season. The New York premiere at Second Stage was in May 2014.
Her quirky, not quite ready for prime time play about self- preservation, the haves and the have not’s, the state of the economy, those on target with their lives and those struggling to make it past GO on a bleak minimum wage salary, is currently playing at New Village Arts Theatre through Oct. 5th.
Director Kristianne Kurner and her support team give the production a reality look that almost makes you want a turkey on rye and hold the cheese, no mayo.
OK! Enough about cold cuts.
As you might imagine, “American Hero” is NOT about the movie American Hero with his super powers to fight crime. No. This “American Hero” play is set in a Quiznos/ Subway type walk in sandwich store where Sheri, Ted and Jamie work pumping out foot-long sandwiches with whatever fresh ingredients happen to be on the menu.
The store is located not very far from another such franchise in the same mall. Sheri, Ted and Jamie wonder why in the world franchise owner Bob would take such a location.
Bob is the franchise owner with secrets we’ll never know about. We find him in the opening scene interviewing the young disinterested looking Sheri.
We next have him giving lengthy orientation, of sorts to the rest of his team in a halted and almost foreign language (to him) read. When finished and feeling proud of himself, Bob looks his team over and proceeds to give them their designated jobs: Sheri is baser, Ted is finisher and Jamie is wrapper.
Dallas McLaughlin and Cecilia Harchegani
He has them practice getting an order ready from beginning to end. It must be done in no less than 20 seconds. When he is satisfied, after about three tries and with everyone in place and pleased with their accomplishments, Bob gives a thumb’s up, gathers his briefcase and hustles out the door.
The next time we see him some time later and in the scheme of things he rushes into the back office and starts shouting and ranting in another language and leaves. He didn’t even show up for the Grand Opening leaving the three with open mouth astonishment. Red Flag! Red Flag!
Working hard and forming a community of sorts can’t make up for them running out of food. Sheri doing inventory could not access the code to open the walk-in. They assumed Bob would return and help them get back on track. He never did.
After calling Corporate every day, they finally spoke to a person and were told to stay open at any cost. They did. They were open longer and lasted on the job longer than did the ham, turkey, pepperoni, multi grain flatbread, diet Cherry soda and chips.
They were in a pickle (no pun intended) and left on their own to fend. Sheri moped around but kept her wits about her, Jamie went after Ted with a mission/passion, Ted kept convincing himself that he was a married man and customers were getting pissed off because they were out of all the menu offerings.
One night while sleeping at the store Sheri had a wild dream that a signature sandwich in the form of a super hero called on her to do something big. When she woke she came up with the idea of making and selling PB&J and tuna sandwiches on two kinds of bread, with a small sweet dessert to placate the customers who couldn’t get their foot longs.
They didn’t need Corprate for those items they just went to the super and bought them. It worked. “I’ll make a kickass tuna sandwich”. It didn’t pass muster when Corporate heard about it, but that’s par for the course.
From minimum wage to hourly pay, to health insurance, and big business, family and kids divorce and having affairs, to how to wrap a sandwich 20 seconds and how to work as a team are all touched on here as the recession of the 2008 still reverberates in the minds of Sheri, Ted and Jamie.
These are the American Hero’s we take for granted every day as we stand in line and watch them put those grinders together, finish and wrap.
(L to R) Cecilia Harchegani, Dallas McLaughlin, Kamel Haddad and Wendy Waddell
Theses are our American Hero’s waiting on tables, bussing and washing dishes trying to stay afloat while their Masters Degrees gather dust. What he hell. We’ve all been victims at one time or another.
Great ensemble work features newcomer Cecelia Harchegani as shy and unassuming Sheri (yes with an i) who needs two jobs to support her father’s illness. Ms. Harchegani is off to a great start.
Kamel Haddad’s Bob, a former doctor in his native Middle Eastern country, is excellent as he assumes several different characters and different wigs. Let’s keep him busy.
Wendy Waddell’s Jamie’s is over the top funny and over the top serious in her desperation to win her custody battle with her husband. She’s always a pleasure to see on stage.
Dallas McLaughlin’s Ted is the over optimistic lost soul and up tight guy in need of pitching corporate BS to makes his points. I need to be more convinced by his character.
Kamel Haddad and Cecilia Harchegani
The production ambles along zeroing in on the dark as in comedy to prove a point. And that might just be the point where the playwright might want to dig deeper into her creations rather than make them stock characters.
While yours truly never wrapped herself around the humor, dark or otherwise, cynical perhaps, it just never tugged at my tickle bone. I got the message in spite of the sit-com and predictability of Wohl’s essay.
Understanding the frustration and fear of dealing with an uncertain economy, being dumped by a loved one, struggling over custody for you kids and losing a high paying job at Bank of America, and moving in with your in-laws (a place that smells like Depends and milk) you will be able to understand the why of the three staying put to save their themselves and knitting and bonding as a unit.
It happens now and happened then although I can’t say with any certainty it all ended happily ever after for Wohl’s characters.
Shaun Tauzon ‘s costumes are made to fit this American Hero store matching colors with the flag and some mirror the colors of the walls. Uniforms all matching, they looked pretty professional. After work, Wadell's red spandex, another story.
Kristin Flores designed a sterile stainless steel counter is where the makings for the sandwiches are kept a la Subway. Large menu's hang on the walls and in front of the counter and a large neon sign hangs over their heads. Christopher Renda’ s lighting is perfect especially during the dream sequenced.
Melanie Chen Cole’ sound design “Chariots Of Fire’ “The Girl from “Ipanema” fit appropriately for this show.
The moral of the story? “Don’t give up on your dreams” and always thank (tip) your local sandwich artist.
Organization: New Village Arts Theatre
Production Type: Comedy
Where: 2787 State Street, Carlsbad Village, 92008
Web: newvillagearts.org
Venue: New Village Arts Theatre
Photo: Daren Scott
Stellar Cast Puts “Billy Elliot” on Must See List
There are a million reasons to catch San Diego Musical Theatre’s, in conjunction with the California Ballet Company (celebrating its 50th anniversary) currently running musical, “Billy Elliot, The Musical” at the Spreckels Theatre Downtown, not the least of which is a new rising star on our horizon, ten year old Charlie Garton who plays Billy Elliot.
This youngster (from Del Mar Pines School) has what it takes to tug at your heartstrings yet marvel at his enormous talent as an up and coming dancer. He’s young innocent, sincere and what he does as dancer will thrill you to pieces. What he does with the person of Billy will make you laugh, cry and his smile, and his innocence is worth the price of admission and then some. He’s a natural.
Based on Stephen Daldry’s 200 Film about a young lad from a coal-mining town in Northern England 1984 just as the coal miners in Northern England called a strike against the Government, the story is juxtaposed with young Billy Elliot’s quest to become professional dancer.
Charlie Garton and Mackernan Jarman
It was the winner of ten Tony Awards including Best musical. With musical score by Elton John, book and lyrics by Lee Hall this production is choreographed by CBT Company Associate Artistic Director Jared Nelson and directed by former Liverpool, England resident Neil Dale, making his San Diego directorial debut. Our own locally home- grown conductor Don Le Master and his excellent 13- piece orchestra in the pit are on the mark as usual.
Billy’s dad and brother are both coal miners, now out of work and ready to join a picket line. To keep Billy out of harms way, his dad sends him to the Sports Center to take boxing lessons, a sport not to Billy’s liking. Rather than staying in this class, he joins a ballet class that just happens to be using the same gym while their studio acts as the local soup kitchen.
Driven more by the political unrest at the time, much of the story line concentrates on the ups and downs of the striking miners and incidentally on Billy’s struggle to overcome his father’s (Doug Tompos) and outspoken and hard headed brother Tony’s (Luke Monday) prejudices about his becoming a professional dancer.
Doug Tompos and Charlie Garton
Both Tempos and Monday put in strong and emotionally charged performances. Tempos as Dad wants what will make his son happy and is torn in two by his need to make a living and let his son fly and get out from under the mines.
Monday’s Tony has been a creature of the culture and is tough as nails wanting his younger brother to stay the course and carry on with the miners. The struggle continues throughout.
Billy’s mother (Morgan Carberry) is recently deceased and the only female in the household is his infirm and rather eccentric Grandma (Alexandra Gonzales is a hoot) who also loved to dance.
Needless to say there is about as much upheaval in the Elliot household when Billy’s enrollment in ballet is uncovered as is found at the nightly meetings in the local gym/soup kitchen.
Joy Yandell and Charlie Garton
Not to be deterred however Billy’s teacher Mrs. Wilkinson encourages the boy, much to the chagrin of his Dad and brother to practice, practice, and practice. She even suggests he try out for an audition at Royal Ballet School in London.
Joy Yandell plays Mrs. Wilkinson with panache and tough love no holds barred. Outspoken, caring mother figure and tough as nails Yandell is on top of her game and quite a dancer herself. She too is another reason to rush and see the show.
The show has a certain appeal especially to those who love the music of Elton John (none to be hummed on the way home though) and big production numbers like “Electricity”, “Angry Dance”, “Solidarity”, “Grandma’s Dance”, “Shine”, “Express Yourself”, “Merry Christmas Margaret Thatcher”, and “We Were Born to Boogie”.
The array of dance along with ballet is expansive as well with tap, and hip-hop and the gals (students) from CBC are as adorable as can be and work the system to a T.
All those ‘youngins in tutus are the cutest ever but the funniest, and we have to assume trending gay, is Billy’s friend Michael played with wondrous joy and glee by the curly red haired cross dressing Mackernan (Mac) Jarman especially when he puts one on and complains about the crotch being too tight. It’s a fun moment in another wise heavy and hard -hitting production. Another reason to see it.
There is one big and stunning ballet a scene from “Swan Lake” featuring young Garton and California Ballet Principal dancer, a beautiful Zachary Guthier as the accomplished and older Elliot. Shivers and tears could be described as dueling feelings that raced through my body throughout that piece. Another reason to see it.
Charlie Garton with Zachary Guthier
This marks SDMT 11th year and as a company has produced some of the best musical theatre out city has been able to enjoy. This particular production and choice is gutsy and while it will prove to be an audience pleaser over all it does get bogged down by the thick northern England accents (I know) even with dialect coach Vanessa Dinning coaxing. Some dialogue and musical numbers were almost incomprehensible to yours truly.
Overall the cast is terrific with strong voices and great dancing. There is so much in this show to see and appreciate, some necessary, some not so to cover here so as not to take anything away from your enjoyment.
Excellent support comes from the extra large cast of over forty including some favorites, Ed Hollingsworth, Paul Morgavo, Amy Perkins and Debra Wanger to mention a few.
Cast of Billy Elliot The Musical
Lighting designer Christina Martin, Janet Pitcher’s costumes, Kevin Anthenill’s sound design and the multifaceted and utilitarian set design works as quick scene changes move the story along also assist in proving this to be one of SDMT's standout productions.
Some of the language and gestures border on the R ratings side. Parents of younger children, who might, under ordinary circumstances love the dancing and might even relate to Billy’s struggles, should be put on notice.
There are over forty reasons to see "Billy Elliot The Musical". I can't think of one not to see it.
Dates: Through Oct. 8th.
Organization: San Diego Musical Theatre
Where: 121 Broadway, Downtown San Diego, CA. 92101
Ticket Prices: Range from $22.00-$72.00
Web: sdmt.org
Venue: Spreckles Theatre
Photo: Ken Jacques
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Issa Rae and Kumail Nanjiani are the best thing about hectic, loony The Lovebirds: Review
By Leah Greenblatt and Leah Greenblatt May 20, 2020 at 12:01 PM EDT
The Lovebirds (2020 Movie)
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There’s a genre of movie that is often described as a caper but could also probably just be called shenanigans: a hectic, punch-drunk mélange of crime and comedy and romance propelled by breathless scene changes, kooky characters, and only the looniest wisp of a plot.
That means that The Lovebirds — like Game Night, Date Night, and countless other escapades before it — relies almost wholly on the charisma and chemistry of its stars to carry all that absurdity without letting it tumble fully into nonsense.
It’s lucky then that the movie has Issa Rae and Kumail Nanjiani: two actors who, even if they never feel entirely convincing as a couple falling madly in and out love on the run, are both such smart, engaging screen presences that it’s easy enough to surrender to a scant 96 minutes of canny banter and scrambling up fire escapes.
Rae’s Leilani works at an ad agency in New Orleans; Nanjiani’s Jibran makes documentaries nobody sees. They used to be crazy about each other but sometime over the past four years the connection has soured, and they’re on the brink of breaking up when their ride to a dinner party is commandeered by a man (Paul Sparks) who claims he’s a cop chasing a criminal when he takes the wheel, then proceeds to vehicularly manslaughter "the perp" like he’s done it many, many times before.
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With their car now an unwitting murder weapon — and the knowledge that the innocence of a brown-skinned couple covered in the blood of a dead man may not be breezily presumed — the pair panics, and goes on the lam. Their decision to play DIY detective and try to crack the case before the police catch up kicks off what little there is of a story arc: Set pieces that send them careening across the city from some kind of urban barn to frat-boy hovels, neon dive bars, and even a Eyes Wide Shut-style orgy.
There is no shortage of costume changes and wink-and-miss-it cameos; mostly, though, it's all background noise for Rae and Nanjiani, who bicker and banter like a couple who can't stop poking at their most tender weak spots, but know each other well enough to work together too. Can these crazy kids get back to the feeling? Only all the precedents in Hollywood, and every signpost the script is pointing to, know for sure.
The nominal overseer of all this is actor-director Michael Showalter (who also helmed Nanjiani's 2017 big-screen breakout The Big Sick), and he does it benevolently, letting the one-liners fly fast and loose. If they land and you laugh, great; if not, they're already gone.
What feels freshest, maybe, is the mere fact of two leads of color taking on all the tropes of the genre and making it feel as modern as they do. Lovebirds' scattershot bundle of slapstick antics and throwaway jokes about Brett Kavanaugh and Hobbs and Shaw might not be for the ages; but in this moment, it's more than sweet enough. B
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1: Aidan Hutchinson: DE: Michigan: 6-6: 265
In terms of an explosive edge rusher, there is no question that Thibodeaux will make an impact in the NFL. His first step and ability to get around the edge works as a 4-3 end or a stand-up rush linebacker. He might be the most physically gifted player in this entire draft and has shown that he can also make big plays in the run game. However, there are two reasons I have him behind Hutchinson. First, he did miss time this season and he has had minor durability issues in college. Second, he struggled in the two biggest games of the season against Utah with only one sack in two games. Despite this, the talent and ability to get to the quarterback assures that it would be a shock if he’s not selected with the first two selections in the draft but I can promise you he will not fall outside the top five.
Johnson is a unique edge because when most people judge the position it’s how they are as pass rushers. After Aidan Hutchinson, he’s the best-run defender on the board. Has great technique and a good anchor setting the edge so that running backs can’t get around the corner. Even at 255 pounds wins with leverage and technique. Despite leading the ACC in sacks in pressures there were questions about the pass-rush repertoire that Johnson had. At the Senior Bowl, he answered that question of being the most dominant player on the field by showing a wide variety of techniques and moves to get to the quarterback. Johnson has always had a high ceiling, but he looks like he’s coming into his own and is the third-best all-around pass rusher in this talented class.
One of my favorite prospects in the draft every game you saw number zero just making plays for the Utes. 107 tackles, 20 tackles for a loss, seven sacks, and four interceptions Lloyd can do everything. Depending on the combine should be a first-round pick, especially a top-20 pick. Lloyd showed he could rush the passer, but his biggest improvement was dropping into coverage. For a good defensive coordinator, he will be a valuable chess piece that can be moved around the field depending on the situation.
After the big three tackles come off the board Penning should hear his name called next potentially even in the top 10. Despite playing in the FCS Penning was just bullied in both the pass blocking and run game. Despite playing a lower level has the size and athleticism to play in the NFL. Penning made a name for himself at the Senior Bowl not only throwing people around but also playing with a constant nasty streak. Not to mention he showed his versatility to play four spots on the offensive line. Penning has now likely moved into being a potential mid-first-round selection and could be in play as high as the tenth pick.
The highest “true guard” on my board took advantage of another year of eligibility and improved this past season. Johnson is an outstanding run blocker and excels at guard because he doesn’t have to footwork to kick outside. While Penning may have been the viral sensation at the Senior Bowl, Johnson was the best all-around offensive linemen and even showed that he could take snaps at center. Johnson does everything well and was praised for how quickly he was able to adjust to the game plans at the Senior Bowl. One of the safest picks in this draft who should be a long-time starter.
Remember this name because he could easily be called on the first night of the draft. 9.5 sacks this past season after transferring from Temple. Has long arms and size to either stand up on the outside or play a 4-3 end. Absolute missile off the edge and has a great motor to pair. The Senior Bowl showed he has the speed to get around the edge and is a prospect on the rise who could easily be selected the first night.
Dotson feels like the man left out in the receiver discussion but will likely be a great find late in round one or in the early second. What hurts is his size at 5-11, but despite this size has one of the biggest catch radius you will see. Will be bullied by larger corners and is better suited to the slot but has a great first step and playmaking ability. He could be this year’s Elijah Moore an undersized receiver that is just explosive when he gets the ball in his hands. Especially teams that want receivers to run great routes and that make plays Dotson could be a nice weapon at a good value in the draft.
A good combination of power and surprising speed in one package. Hall will be coveted because of his ability to line up in multiple positions along the defensive line. Good first step and power, but doesn’t have flexibility and mobility to play the edge and fits better inside. Also, height can cause leverage problems if offensive linemen get below his pad level. However, he was one of the best prospects at the Senior Bowl not only showing off his versatility but showing off a great burst that’s rare to see a player his size. He’s now seriously entered the first-round discussion.
32: Boye Mafe: Edge: Minnesota: 6-4: 265
No player had a more dominant performance in the Senior Bowl game than Mafe who earned the MVP for his multiple sack performance. Watching the tape it’s clear the Mafe has a relentless motor but I was curious to see how he would defend the run and what arsenal of pass rush moves he had. I know he was a great athlete but after watching all week it’s clear that Mafe not only has various pass rush moves but he can anchor the edge as a 3-4 linebacker or even a 4-3 end. If he continues to impress in the workouts he could be one of the draft’s fastest risers.
Will be one of the most intriguing prospects at the Senior Bowl and one of the most with a lot to gain. A converted tight end only played full-time tackle this past season. However, has the athleticism to play tackle in the NFL. Despite the lack of college reps Raimann stepped right in at the Senior Bowl and looked like he’s been playing the position for years. Some teams may be worried about the technique or lack of experience but the athletic upside could lead to Raimann protecting the blindside on Sundays.
Muma is a player most of you likely haven’t heard of and I might be biased but he is one of my favorite players in this entire class. Fourth in FBS in tackles per game Muma has the athleticism to be a very good linebacker at the next level but what makes him special is his ability to diagnose plays. This is an instinctive player that studies defensives. Watching his tape there were countless plays where Muma takes off and you wonder what he’s doing only to realize he gets to the hole or to where the play is before it happens. Had an unbelievable Senior Bowl flying all around the field and making plays. While a lot of the defensive linemen got the headlines in Mobile, Muma was the most impactful defensive players and proved he was one of the best players on that field.
45:Jalen Pitre: S: Baylor: 6-0: 197
While the trenches were getting all the attention in Mobile one of the few defensive backs that really stood out was Baylor’s Jalen Pitre. He lived up to his ball-hawking film from college making plays all over the field. Coaches weren’t afraid to line him up all over the field and he answered the call whether it was in man or zone coverage. While some teams will devalue him because of his size and that he likely won’t make a huge impact in the run game, if a team is looking for a deep cover safety or safety they just want to cover Pitre could be one of those players that may be one of the biggest steals in the draft.
47: Travis Jones: NT: UConn: 6-4: 326
Every year in Mobile we get a come out of nowhere prospect and this year it was UConn’s, Travis Jones. I actually got a chance to see him play this year and while impressive I thought he would be a high day 3 draft pick. However, he dominated in the Senior Bowl, and while we knew he could stuff the run did a great job of showing that has the burst the be an adequate pass rusher. Given UConn’s lack of talent and not playing the previous season due to Covid-19, Jones had very little tape but now appears to be the second-best nose tackle in the draft and could even be a second-round pick. If a team wants a nose with a high upside Jones could be an attractive option.
48: Tariq Woolen: CB: UTSA: 6-3: 205
Woolen was my favorite prospect to watch at the Senior Bowl and the measurables made jaws drop. Not only does he have the size teams covet for an outside corner but he also ran over 22 MPH during the tests. The biggest question was how would this converted receiver hold up in the drills and coverage but despite only playing the position for two years Woolen was impressed with great footwork and being able to hang with receivers all throughout the week. Woolen will be a risk to take in the draft given how raw he is, but there’s so much upside here that he easily could be the best corner in this entire draft if a team can develop him in the correct way.
Yes…you read that correctly. We often compare guys in the NFL as mountains, but Faalele is one with legs. Started playing football in high school at IMG Academies and you can tell he is still raw. He needs to clean up the technique in pass blocking. However, is a mauler in the run game and is surprisingly agile for his size. There’s a lot of work to be done, Faalele was up and down at the Senior Bowl. In one play he would maul a defender and the next is beaten badly. Needs to be groomed but there’s a lot of upside here.
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Comic-Con 2018: Iron Fist Season 2 Release Date!
Michelle Alexandria
Iron Fist Season 2 features Danny Rand (Finn Jones) as he fights against the criminal element corrupting New York City with his kung-fu mastery and ability to summon the awesome power of the fiery Iron Fist.
Season 2 furthers the transformation of Danny, a character with a fish out of water coming of age story making his way in a harsh new world, battling to work out who he is. This season, Danny has promised that with Matt Murdock gone, he will step up and protect his city. But a sinister plot twist threatens his very identity and he must conquers his villains to protect the town and people he holds close to his heart.
Marvel’s Iron Fist Season 2 stars Finn Jones (Danny Rand), Jessica Henwick (Colleen Wing), Sacha Dhawan (Davos), Tom Pelphrey (Ward Meachum), Jessica Stroup (Joy Meachum), Simone Missick (Misty Knight) and introduces Alice Eve (Mary Walker).
Marvel’s Iron Fist Season 2 is produced for Netflix by Marvel Television and ABC Studios.
Updated: July 20, 2018 — 1:38 pm
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Proposed Booting Ordinance Changes Tabled Until February Following Lengthy Debate, Little Consensus
Published: Wednesday, January 16, 2013 at 12:29 pm
By Paul T. Choate
Jon Tate, owner of Lot Management Solutions, displays one of his signs. Photo by Paul T. Choate
Jan. 16, 2013. Following well over an hour of discussion at the Tuesday Boone Town Council meeting, action on the controversial booting ordinance was tabled for another month.
Jon Tate, owner of Lot Management Solutions, and property owners Jerry Butler and Mark Templeton spoke during public comment and even offered some input later in the meeting during discussion of the ordinance.
“Before [Tate] got here and his business we used towing,” Butler said. “That was the biggest, most expensive headache. We dealt with nice people. They tried to tow correctly. People always lost their car they felt like. … We’ve been dealing with [Tate] since he has been in town and our headaches have gone to zero.”
Butler and Templeton both spoke to the issue of booting, saying they felt it was a better, more effective way to stop illegal parking.
Sam Furgiuele, town attorney, presented the town with several ideas for amendments to the present ordinance based feedback he had received from town officials and community members. He said the town could approve sections of it, such as changes to signage or requirements for parking attendants, or did not necessarily have to approve any of it.
Amendments to the ordinance included requiring a sign at every parking space rather than every three, requiring a parking lot attendant to be clearly identified and remain with a booted car, and listing the names of all businesses a parking lot is designated for – either within the town’s Primary Fire District or the entire town.
Also tied to identification, the proposed amendments suggested that if a booting company employee is laying in wait for offenders in parking lots, they would be required to display some sort of flashing or rotating light on their vehicle.
In what became a bit of a battle of the signs, Lot Management Solutions threw down the gauntlet with this oversized sign. Photo by Paul T. Choate
Templeton offered that if this were required, the booting company business would dry up, saying it would create a situation where towing would need to be used exclusively.
Despite lengthy discussion, council members could not come to any sort of agreement on which amendments – if any – to go forward with. One thing that the council seemed in general agreement with was that there should not be signs at every parking space.
“I don’t think [one solution] is ever going to be perfect,” Furgiuele told the council members.
Tate offered that, based on his observations, listing the businesses the parking lot isn’t intended for was more effective. However, Councilwoman Jamie Leigh said she did not like the negative connotations associated with saying what businesses you couldn’t go to upon parking.
In an interesting twist late in the discussions, shortly before the issue was tabled, the issue of complaints via phone call came up.
“For two years or something we hadn’t had any complaints, then all of a sudden we were bombarded with complaints,” said Mayor Loretta Clawson.
“I can address that,” Tate interjected. “Some of the calls and some of the complaints that you may have had in terms of phone calls, I would take with a grain of salt.”
Tate said he had hired a private investigator to look into these calls and said he found that a man in Charlotte whom he did not mention by name had been using a “spoof card” – a device used to mimic other people’s phone numbers – to call and complain about booting. He said his private investigator made contact with the man and once “he knew he was caught,” the calls stopped.
However, Clawson and Councilwoman Lynne Mason both said it wasn’t just phone calls, saying they had also received a lot of letters and emails complaining about booting practices as well.
With exasperation coming to a head as the meeting reached 10:30 p.m. and two-and-a-half hours behind schedule, Leigh tried to move things along.
“I’m not comfortable passing anything tonight. We have gone in so many circles tonight. If you gave us another half hour we would complete the circle,” Leigh said, drawing laughs (and perhaps relief) from audience members.
Moments later, Leigh introduced a motion to table the issue until the February meeting. Councilman Andy Ball, who had also been vocal about trying to move the meeting along, quickly seconded and the motion passed unanimously.
The issue will again be on the agenda on Tuesday, Feb. 19.
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Read Poppy's Garden Online
Authors: Holly Webb
Poppy's Garden
BOOK: Poppy's Garden
“I don’t care what it is, as long as it gets us out of reading that stupid book,” Poppy muttered to Izzy.
“Don’t you like it?” Izzy asked, staring at her in surprise. “But you love dogs! You’re always talking about Billy, even if you do say he’s a dumb blond.”
“But the dog in that book isn’t like any dog I’ve ever met. I can’t believe we have to do a book review on it for homework. Mr Finlay isn’t going to be happy if I say it’s a terrible book and I don’t believe the author ever had a dog, is he?” Poppy sighed. “Anyway, ssshh, he’s coming back.”
Their teacher, Mr Finlay, hurried back in from the corridor. “Sorry, everyone! Right, I’m allowed to show you this video now. Mrs Angel’s very keen that we all see it at the same time. Big secret up until now!”
Poppy glanced across the table at Emily and Maya,
and raised her eyebrows. It was probably just another mad history project (they were Mr Finlay’s speciality) but this was actually starting to sound exciting.
Mr Finlay was fussing with the interactive whiteboard, which wasn’t doing what he wanted, but eventually he managed to bring up a YouTube clip and looked round eagerly. “OK, all of you! Watch this carefully…”
The video started with a group of children racing down a patch of grass towards the camera, and then cut to them all digging, jumping in and out of holes, and planting trees.
“This is boring…” Nick muttered from behind Poppy, and Izzy rolled her eyes. Nick and his mates thought anything that didn’t involve football or motorbikes was boring. Poppy thought planting trees looked fun, provided she could have a nice hot bath afterwards to get all the mud off. She and Izzy and Maya and Emily had organised a clean-up weekend down by the canal a couple of weeks before, and it had been great. Maybe they could do some tree-planting along there…
“This year, we’re looking for a school with big ideas!” A man in wellies stomped towards the camera through the pack of muddy, grinning children. He
was vaguely familiar, Poppy thought, although she wasn’t quite sure where from. Something on TV? Other people in the class seemed to think so too, and there was a lot of puzzled muttering going on.
“I know who he is!” Izzy squeaked. “My dad watches his gardening show on TV! He’s called Cam … Cam something.”
“Morris,” Mr Finlay whispered, turning to look at them and giving her a thumbs-up. “Cam Morris. Does a show called
Love Your Patch
“Dad loves it,” Izzy whispered to Poppy. “He always has to watch it. He says it’s useful for work.”
Poppy nodded. Izzy’s dad was a gardener, so that made sense.
“Ssshhh, girls… Listen!” Mr Finlay pointed at the screen.
Cam Morris was explaining something about a garden competition for schools. “Best of all, if your school’s design is chosen, you’ll get to be part of our new television series! It’s called
. Your school can send in a design for a school garden, and we’ll choose six schools to have their gardens built by our team.”
“We get to be on TV?” Emily squeaked excitedly.
“Only if we win,” Maya pointed out. She didn’t
look as excited as everybody else did. Her mum was a singer, a very famous singer called India Kell, so she was quite used to interviews, and photographs, and film crews. She wasn’t really keen on being famous at all.
Cam Morris was talking about garden design now, about not being afraid if your ideas seemed silly, or a bit mad, because sometimes they were the best. He finished off by beaming at them, and shouting, “Good luck!” while all the children cheered and waved and jumped up and down like mad things.
Mr Finlay switched off the whiteboard and looked around the class, rubbing his hands enthusiastically. “So, what do you think? You’ve got two weeks to get your designs in, and Mrs Angel and a group of the teachers will choose the best design to be the entry from our school.”
“Just one?” someone asked, and Mr Finlay nodded.
“Yes, I’m afraid it’s one entry per school. It’s going to be a hard choice.”
Jensen, one of Nick’s friends, waved his hand in the air. “Do we have to do it? What if we don’t want to?”
Some of the other boys sniggered, and Mr Finlay sighed slightly. “No, Jensen, it’s entirely up to you. I
was going to give you a little time now to talk about the competition, and think about what your design might be. But don’t worry. I’ve got a maths worksheet I’ve been saving up. You’re very welcome to do that, instead of garden design…”
Jensen grinned. They knew Mr Finlay well enough now to understand when he wasn’t serious. “I like gardens!” he said quickly, and everyone snorted with laughter. He wouldn’t know the name of a plant if it jumped up and bit him, Poppy thought.
She didn’t know that much about gardens either, but she did love drawing and designing things. She’d never really thought about a garden design. Except – she smiled to herself – except for when she’d had her princess phase, when she’d been about six. Then she hadn’t worn anything if it wasn’t pink (she’d compromised with just pink hair bands for school) and spent all her time watching Barbie DVDs and drawing fairy palaces.
They’d
had gardens. But she guessed that Mrs Angel wouldn’t want the TV people building a Pegasus landing pad (her big brothers had been very into helicopters at the time, and she’d been a bit mixed up) and pink lemonade fountains. She still quite fancied all the roses, though, just maybe not all pink…
But a garden full of roses wasn’t very interesting, was it? Poppy frowned. How could she do a garden design when she had no idea about gardens?
She noticed that Izzy was waving a hand in the air. “Mr Finlay? Where’s the garden going to be? I mean, we need to know how big it is, and what shape. So that we can fit the design to the site.”
Poppy and the others stared at Izzy admiringly – it was just the sort of sensible question she would ask. No one else had thought of it. But the table of girls behind them were hissing nasty little comments. They knew exactly how loud they needed to be – just loud enough that Izzy would hear, but Mr Finlay and Miss Grace, their teaching assistant, wouldn’t.
“She’s such a little swot,” Ali murmured, and her cronies, Lucy and Elspeth, joined in.
“Sucking up again, Izzy?”
“Ooooh, a project… Lucky Izzy. Isn’t it nice she’ll have some extra homework.”
“It’s not as if she ever does anything else,” Ali giggled.
Poppy turned round and glared at Ali. Izzy didn’t say anything, but Poppy knew she’d heard them. She was hanging her head forward so that her hair covered her face, but that meant her ears were sticking out,
and they’d gone bright scarlet.
Ali opened her eyes very wide at Poppy – she had china-blue eyes with long dark lashes, which combined with her thick, wavy brown hair made her look like a particularly sweet sort of doll. Actually, she was one of the nastiest people that Poppy had ever met. It was somehow worse because she looked so nice all the time – well, except when she was sneering, which she did quite a lot. She’d been that way since Reception, and over the last couple of years she’d really started picking on Izzy. Poppy just felt sorry that she hadn’t noticed it much until a few weeks before. She would have hated it if Ali had been as mean to her as she was to Izzy.
Izzy just put up with it, and hardly ever spoke to anyone. But ever since she’d been put in a group with Poppy and Emily and Maya to work on a project about Fairtrade, Poppy had started to realise how funny Izzy was, when she was allowed to be. And she was one of the most organised people Poppy had ever met. She even seemed to think in an organised sort of way.
“Shut up!” she hissed back at Ali, who just widened her eyes a bit more. They were practically round now, which made her look even more doll-faced and cute.
“Who, me?” she mouthed, smiling sweetly at Poppy. “Get lost, Poppy. Mind your own business.”
All three of them smirked at her, and Poppy turned back, hissing through her teeth with frustration. Why was it that people like Ali could be so mean and always get away with it? It was like she stirred things up to boiling point, and then just stepped away and left everyone else to get into trouble. It all slipped off her shoulders.
“Ignore her. She’s a little cow. We all know it,” Emily muttered, reaching over to pat Izzy’s arm.
Mr Finlay had been fussing with some papers on his desk and hadn’t seen what was happening at all, and now he triumphantly waved a bit of paper at them. “Aha! Excellent question, Izzy.”
, excellent question…” Ali sneered from behind them.
“And the answer is, that scruffy bit of the playground round the back of the Year Six classroom. So if you win, you’ll all have a lovely view next year.” He consulted his piece of paper. “Oh yes, and the measurements are on the entry form, which needs to be attached to your design when you hand it in, and which I will be handing out to you all now. When I find them. Mmmm. Oh, here they are.” Looking
rather relieved, he rescued a pile of forms from under their extended-writing books, and began to pass them out. “So, you’ve got about quarter of an hour to talk over some ideas, before we need to go to the IT suite.”
“So, do you think you’re going to enter?” Poppy asked Izzy cheerfully. She was pretty sure Izzy was crying, and equally sure that Izzy would hate it if she made a fuss. Poppy quite liked being fussed over if she was upset, but Izzy was one of those people who preferred to be left alone.
“Mmm.” Izzy tried to sniff quietly, and the others pretended not to notice. “I might,” she added in a bit of snuffly voice, still staring at the table. “I’ve seen Dad doing designs. It’s quite fun. I don’t think he’s ever done a school garden though.” She blew her nose quickly. “His are mostly just people’s back gardens. You know. Paths, and a pergola, maybe.”
“What’s a pergola?” Emily asked, frowning.
“Like a wooden frame you grow plants over. It’s nice – you get a sort of living roof. You have them over a patio sometimes, with a table and chairs underneath.” Izzy was looking better now. She liked knowing things. Poppy wondered if Emily had asked on purpose, just to cheer her up. She and Izzy hadn’t
got on all that well at first – Emily hadn’t wanted another person added into their little gang – but she’d come round. She and Izzy had bonded over how unfair it was not to be allowed a pet. Izzy’s dad said he was out at work all day and it wouldn’t be fair, and Emily’s mum and dad said they had quite enough children, and they didn’t need anyone else to look after.
“A pergola sounds nice.” Emily sighed. “Wouldn’t last in our garden though. I bet Toby and James would try to climb it. And the plants would just get squashed. Everything Mum plants gets trashed by a football in less than a week. Or Sukie thinks it’s funny to pull them up. But Mum’s banned her from going in the garden ever since she caught her eating a snail.”
“She actually ate it?” Izzy asked, looking up for the first time. She was still a pit pink, and she had a bit of a white-rabbit look about her, with her super-fair hair and her eyes red from crying, but she looked almost normal again now. “She
a snail?”
Emily shrugged. “Think so. There were shelly bits round her mouth. Mum said to look when I changed her nappy, but I couldn’t tell. What does a snail look like after it’s gone through a two-year-old?”
“Uurggh!” Izzy shook her head. “Shut up, shut up! I can’t believe I used to envy you for not being an only child.”
Emily laughed. “I’d swap any time. I have to share a bedroom with her. She eats everything. Paper. Felt tips. Bits of her toys.” She shrugged. “If I design a garden, it’s going to be strictly for girls over seven only.”
“You’re going to enter, aren’t you, Poppy?” Maya asked. “You’re so good at art, I bet you’ve got a really good chance of winning.”
Poppy screwed up her nose thoughtfully. “I don’t know… The designing bit sounds good, but I’m not really into gardens. I wouldn’t know what to put in one.”
“You painted all those great flowers underneath the canal bridge though,” Maya reminded her. “So you do know a bit.”
“I think they were all wild flowers,” Poppy explained. “But maybe I could put a wild flower patch into the garden. You know, to attract butterflies. And bees. Aren’t bees supposed to be getting endangered now?”
Izzy nodded. “Dad was talking about that. He said no one really knows why, but it’s probably to do with
people using lots of insecticide to kill greenfly and nasty sorts of bugs. But it kills everything else at the same time. Or it might be a virus, or just that there aren’t enough of the right sorts of plants in people’s gardens now, and lots more buildings, so just fewer plants anyway. Bee-friendly,” she muttered, scribbling a note in her rough book. “No chemicals. Organic. Ooh, and a hedgehog hole! My Wildlife Trust email last week said there’s less than a million hedgehogs in this country now.”
“A million’s quite a lot though.” Poppy frowned.
Izzy shook her head. “Not when just sixty years ago there were thirty million of them.”
“So is a hedgehog hole like a house for hedgehogs?” Maya asked, smiling. She could imagine a cosy little hedgehog home.
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CES Builds New & Improved Market Operations Center to Meet Rapidly Growing Demand
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PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 09, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Customized Energy Solutions (CES) today unveiled its new and improved Market Operations Center (MOC) with expanded capacity to meet the rapidly growing demand of the market.
The 24-hour real time monitoring and control center remotely manages over 300 power generation assets across the U.S., including hydro, wind, solar, energy storage, natural gas, and other traditional fossil fuel sources. With over 13,000 MWs under management, CES’s MOC monitors and controls more energy than any other third-party provider in the U.S.
The MOC plays a critical behind-the-scenes role in keeping America’s energy market operating smoothly. It helps minimize the risk of outages, maximize revenue for customers, and reduce energy costs for consumers by remotely controlling and coordinating energy generation and dispatch and curtailing power consumption during peak periods. MOC personnel also act as a middleman between power plants and regional grid operations, communicating plant status changes and addressing issues as needed. The MOC also performs forward market offers, reserve and regulation offering and monitoring, daily meter verification, and more.
2022 marks the 15th anniversary of CES’s MOC. The service has grown from just one employee carrying a cell phone 24/7 to a state-of-the-art control room with 14 regional grid operator-certified team members. The recent expansion enables CES to triple its assets under management and add 12 new staff members as demand for the services grow. Over the last 5 years alone, the number of assets managed by the MOC has grown more than 127%, with solar and wind assets leading the pack.
“The MOC expansion will allow us to create specialized teams dedicated to various generation types, ultimately empowering CES to deliver a better product and service to our rapidly growing client base,” says Brandon McGee, Director of CES’s Market Operations Center. “As our expertise and responsibility grows, the MOC will play an even larger role in addressing grid issues during storms or blackouts and stabilize consumer energy prices.”
The accelerated growth of renewable energy and storage assets, along with a shift in ownership of these assets from public utilities to private investors, has resulted in increased demand for third-party asset generation management. While public utilities can generally manage their own assets, private investors typically require a third-party asset manager like CES.
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Season Preview: Midfield Edition
By Marten Portoise Aug 21, 2012, 9:00am CEST
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ROME ITALY - FEBRUARY 02: Daniele De Rossi of AS Roma reacts during the Serie A match between AS Roma and Brescia Calcio at Stadio Olimpico on February 2 2011 in Rome Italy. (Photo by Paolo Bruno/Getty Images)
Preview: The Midfield
Doesn't exist. Everyone's in the attack.
Well, this is how it began, and this is how it ended. Briefly.
I don't quite know how I was saddled with the midfield, really. Likely because everyone else knew they risked 10,000 words on either end of the hair-bun sandwich were I not placed right in the middle, relegated to Michael Bradley's sleek minimalism, Daniele De Rossi's facial shrubbery which has been oh-so-done, and Jonathan Lucca trialing for X-factor. It's all a non-story, really.
The only thing to which I can compare the absence of Fabio Simplicio's puffy cheeks in that photo is the day I found out Santa Claus wasn't real. Utter devastation. (It was evident sport was an arena in which I had a great deal of potential and instead of the video game system I'd asked for, I got a weight lifting set. I was eight. Santa Claus don't play the future.)
(Admit how flabbergasted you are Daniele isn't the most likely serial killer in the team photo.)
This post isn't quite pointless, but it is in the wrong section and would be flamed on like a delusional, faux-power-tripping internet forum moderator would it be on, well, an internet forum. The attack basically comprises of everyone but the one centerback sitting back on babysitting duty and/or nursing an injury, plus Bogdan Lobont when he inevitably supplants Maarten in net (don't act like it's not happening). Everything else is running that-a-way in permanence. The midfield is not a series of positions or a figmentary "fraction" of the pitch, but a subset of the attack; it's simply the starting position until they hit the straightaway. This is not about journey - this is about a destination.
As for making out the lineup, it's about the numbers. There are too many capable bodies and too few minutes, particularly without Europe, to hand them. This is going to be a problem, since the likelihood one of the two engraved names in the three-man midfield - DDR and Miralem Pjanic - are almost assuredly still going to be on the payroll come September 1. This leaves one open spot and a number of wor
thy gents with which to fill it.
There are much worse problems to have.
The Suspects
Michael Bradley: Pjanic. De Rossi. And...Marquinho. (We'll get to that later.) There's no doubt Bradley fits in with Zeman's athletic system, but does he fit in better than three others? Of course the whole point of upper-half Serie A is having options, and there's finally a legitimate backup for when Daniele De Rossi loses his marbles for six games per season, rather than seeing Fernando Gago do deer-in-halogens for ninety minutes. Plus competition is good, and he can duke it out with Marquinho and Tachtsidis+ for that third spot, which will only benefit all three, regardless of the final name most games.
A hat tip to the suits when noting all that competition comes for less than 10m euros.
Daniele De Rossi: The best defensive midfielder in football. The end.
Alessandro Florenzi: Is his time best served in Rome this season? Will his progress be better served on the practice pitch under Zeman than on a Serie A pitch under someone else? Because that's where his ass is going to be parked unless he rockets up the ladder from nowhere. Now, I'm not quite comparing him with Angel, but there's a lesson to be learned here from Cote: not screwing up and performing with consistency is equally as important as having and showing talent. (Angel's extremely talented - that's beyond debate.) Granted, Zeman's system has more leeway for screwing up, and in fact expects it, but there are, simply put, really good players ahead of him on the pecking order and really good always wins out, regardless of the coach.
(Then again, feel free to read into his shirt number. I have.)
Jonathan Lucca: His ceiling is likely somewhere around a poor man's Kaka, Real Madrid-edition. He's simply not going to get many minutes unless he turns into a poor man's Milan-edition Kaka rather rapidly. He will, however, be the first to spark up a boy band in his off time, so that's something to look out for. That's fine, however - he's young and the Primavera will suit just splendidly.
(He's on the official roster. Throw the kid a bone.)
Marquinho: Identity crisis. He fits here surely now, but in what context? Last year he went from on-loan wing-type to a central midfield who did absolutely nothing of note but shoot five yards wide of the mark and make surging, bombing runs into the box ad nauseam, and dropping in the odd Christian Panucci special as well. So what role does he fill this year?
Oh, right...Zemanlandia.
Given that the whole "bombing into the box" thing became something of a superpower for him, it might not be so outrageous to say that he might end us as Roma's best midfielder this year.
Go ahead and laugh. Until he scores twelve.
Simone Perrotta: [Weeps gently.]
Miralem Pjanic: The deadline day move last year was flabbergasting. Throughout the year, it became even more flabbergasting. That little money for this much talent and production? Lyon sold on the cheap, and this was always going to be Roma's deal of the century. It's turned out to be nothing short of, because he's refined, he's talented, he's intelligent and he's got an eye for the pitch which belies his age. He would've fit in just fine at Barcelona. He'd be an excellent replacement for Modric at Tottenham. The fact that he's Roma's is a stroke of luck. He and Daniele are locked in on the lineup card so long as their respective contracts are locked in the house safe. He and Francesco will be conducting this circus from just beyond the box, and it's going to be glorious.
Panagiotis Tachtsidis: There's something about him I really like. Not only because I can spell his name without Google and that feels like a life accomplishment, but a big, fluid central midfielder with a nasty stream ticks all the right boxes for everything, ever. He's got that aura, which counts for nothing, but allows people on the internets to unnecessarily exaggerate his ability and potential, leading to those flashes of potential to lead people to agree with said exaggeration. (Isn't the internets being Gospel wonderful?) It's also how there's a small island off the coast of Africa filled with The Next Patrick Vieira, numbers 1-38,912.
Watching him in small samples, it's clear he has an immense amount of talent. It's even more clear he's immensely raw. It's also clear he and Florenzi are likely the future of that third midfield spot, should it remain a trio for some time. Until then, a waiting game, but Tachycardia seems most likely to make an impact, out of all the young'uns.
Rodrigo Taddei: What the hell are you? Last season's best fullback has been supplanted by actual fullbacks. Now he's a utility man extraodinaire, with one defining characteristic: no matter where he starts - on the bench, on the pitch, or with his shorts tucked into his bikini briefs - every coach plays him. Every single one. Rodrigo is going to find a way into that lineup. Somehow. He's like that one peskily determined male reproductive seed - he just finds a way in. (Betcha never thought Taddei would net that analogy, huh.)
This is going to be a headache for Zeman.
Needs: Less is more? Someone could be shipped out by August 31; barring injuries, someone will need to be shipped out by January 31.
Outlook: It's excellent, really. They've got quality, depth and quality in depth. The defense might prove to be an absolute shambles directly as a result of systemic structure, but the temporary passing of the baton to get it down the other end - enjoy many, many athletics references this year - means it's in excellent hands. Temporarily, of course.
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Home Press releases Saur Group completes the acquisition of Aquapor, becoming the third largest water operator on the iberian peninsula
Saur Group completes the acquisition of Aquapor, becoming the third largest water operator on the iberian peninsula
Saur Group announces the completion of the acquisition of Aquapor, the leading player in the management of municipal water concessions in Portugal. As part of its internationalization strategy, Saur is thereby welcoming 1,300 water professionals and adding revenue of €120 million and meets an important milestone in its project to become the reference pure player in the water sector committed to the ecological transition.
On January 11th, 2021, Saur announced it had reached an agreement to acquire 100% of Criar Vantagens, the company that owns 100% of Aquapor's capital, subject to standard conditions including antitrust clearance. Following the closing of this acquisition on February 15th, 2021, the share of its International Division in the Saur Group EBDITA will be increased to 30%. Accounting for the contribution of its Industrial Division, 40% of Group EBITDA will be generated internationally in 2021. By grouping together within the same Group Aquapor in Portugal, Gestagua and Emalsa in Spain, Saur becomes the third largest water concessions operator on the Iberian Peninsula, with revenue of around €250 million.
Through 14 long-term concession contracts Aquapor serves 26 municipalities and 1.3 million people in Portugal. By joining Saur, Aquapor becomes the only major private player in Portugal to be part of an international leading water group and will be able to offer new technological solutions, digital services, engineering expertise and investment capabilities to support Portuguese Municipalities and Industries in meeting their water challenges.
Patrick Blethon, Executive Chairman of Saur: « With the acquisition of Aquapor, Saur is further strengthening its internationalization strategy to reach sales of €1.8 billion in 2021. After welcoming Nijhuis’s teams, I am very pleased to welcome Aquapor’s team to our international division: the group now counts more than 11,000 people committed to standing for water across all territories. Aquapor’s acquisition once again reflects Saur's desire to be a pioneer in the ecological transition for water sustainability ».
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20210215 Saur CP Closing Aquapor v ENG 1 (PDF)
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Union des Juristes Engages pour les Opprimes, la Paix et le Developpement (UJEOPAD-RDC)
UJEOPAD-RDC was created in 2009 to resolve inter- and intra-ethnic conflicts and land disputes in DR Congo.
Last updated: March 2022
Union des Juristes engagés pour les Opprimés, la Paix et le Développement (UJEOPAD-RDC) is a non-governmental organisation under Congolese law created in 2009 in a situation where the DRC in general is subject to inter- and intra-ethnic conflicts and a land issue whose magnitude raises concerns. The absence of state authority in certain parts of the country and a land tenure system that is not adapted to the new realities weighs heavily on the stabilisation and reconstruction efforts undertaken by various national and international actors. In order to overcome this crucial problem, it is obvious that solutions must come from the community and that the projects developed by different actors must be based on action research.
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UJEOPAD-RDC aims to contribute to the prevention and resolution of conflicts with a view to lasting peace through charitable and humanitarian actions in the DRC in general and in Eastern DRC in particular, through the management and transformation of conflicts of all kinds, and the promotion of active non-violence through education for peace and harmony in the DRC by means of its projects, including the revitalisation of youth peace clubs.
Ujeopad-RDC seeks to combat anti-values, injustice, violence in all its forms, promote peace and development, and give hope to the oppressed.
To do this, it aims to be a credible, transparent, honest, efficient and positive organisation where human beings are equal in rights and dignity, where peace, love, justice, joy and happiness reign.
The organisation is registered under the Provincial Governor's Order No. 01/318/CAB/GP-NK/2016 of 29 December 2016.
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May 2012 Cyber Attacks Timeline (Part II)
As usual, here it is the second part of the Cyber Attacks Timeline for the month of May 2012: a month particularly rich of Cyber Events. As you will probably know, the Flame malware has monopolized the attention, deserving the most attention from the Information Security Professional.
Nevertheless the scene has offered many interesting events, among which it worths to mention the breach of 123,000 federal employees records, the breach affecting University of Nebraska, and, last but not least, the breach against WHCMS (which, as we will soon see, has proved to be fatal for its author).
The hacktivist front is still hot and preannounces another hot summer. On the other hand the authors of several remarkable cyber-criminal actions are probably going to leave the scene: the long trail of arrests made by Law Enforcement Agencies against hackers has continued in this month and has hence led to the arrest of Cosmo, the leader of the infamous group UGNazi, which claimed to be the author of the Cyber Attack against WHCMS.
In your opinion are the arrests against hackers really going to stop the growing number of Cyber Attacks (acting as a deterrent)?
If you want to have an idea of how fragile our data are inside the cyberspace, have a look at the timelines of the main Cyber Attacks in 2011 and 2012 (regularly updated), and follow @paulsparrows on Twitter for the latest updates.
After the jump you find all the references, and at this link the first part covering 1-15 May.
Continue ReadingMay 2012 Cyber Attacks Timeline (Part II)
16-30 September 2012 Cyber Attacks Timeline
Part One with 1-15 September 201 Timeline Here.
September is over and it’s time to analyze this month from an Information Security perspective with the second part of the Cyber Attack Timeline.
Probably this month will be remembered for the massive outage of six U.S. Banks (Bank of America, JPMorgan Chase, Citigroup, U.S. Bank, Wells Fargo and PNC ) caused by a wave of DDoS attack carried on by alleged Muslim hackers in retaliation for the infamous movie (maybe this term is exaggerated) “The Innocence of Muslims”.
China has confirmed its intense activity inside the Cyber space. Alleged (state-sponsored?) Chinese hackers were allegedly behind the attack to Telvent, whose project files of its core product OASyS SCADA were stolen after a breach, and also behind a thwarted spear-phishing cyber attack against the White House.
Adobe suffered a high-profile breach which caused a build server to be compromised with the consequent theft of a certificate key used to sign two malware strains found on the wild (with the consequent necessary revoke of the compromised key affecting approximately 1,100 files).
Last but not least, the Hacktivism fever has apparently dropped. September has offered some attacks on the wake of the #OpFreeAssange campaign, and a new wave of attacks at the end of the month after the global protests set for September, the 29th, under the hashtag of #29s.
If you want to have an idea of how fragile our data are inside the cyberspace, have a look at the timelines of the main Cyber Attacks in 2011 and 2012 and the related statistics (regularly updated), and follow @paulsparrows on Twitter for the latest updates.
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In the lead-up to the high-stakes national elections on Oct. 2, Latin America-based journalist Michael Fox takes listeners on a journey to understand Brazil’s turn toward fascism under President Jair Bolsonaro—and how the US helped push it along—in this special podcast series.
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Brazil on Fire: An autopsy of Bolsonaro’s failed coup
The failed Jan. 8th ‘invasion’ of Brasilia has united Brazil behind Lula’s agenda to rebuild the country. But the battle for Brazil’s future isn’t over yet.
How Steve Bannon is influencing Bolsonaro’s playbook
Lula is Brazil’s President-elect. But Bolsonaro supporters continue to protest. And they’re backed by the international far right.
Bolsonaro supporters reject Lula’s clear presidential victory in Brazil
Officially, the election is over. But the fight for Brazil’s future rages on.
In Brazil, disinformation campaign puts democracy at risk
As fake news skyrockets, a Brazilian media scholar reflects on what’s at stake in the final days before the country’s crucial presidential vote.
Brazil on Fire: Supporters in Northeastern Brazil hope to lift Lula to victory
Former Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has been campaigning hard ahead of the Oct. 30 runoff election. Michael Fox reports from a rally in the northeastern city of Recife.
Brazil on Fire: Elections update with BrasilWire’s Brian Mier
The first round in Brazil’s elections did not secure the presidency for Lula, and showed greater support for Bolsonaro than many expected. Both campaigns are now in a race to win over remaining voters ahead of the Oct. 30 runoff.
Lula vs Bolsonaro: Countdown to Brazil’s elections
Brazil’s elections are set to begin this Sunday, Oct. 2. TRNN Editor-in-Chief Maximillian Alvarez and ‘Brazil on Fire’ host Michael Fox discuss what’s at stake for the country’s future.
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Organizing Lessons from SOPA and PIPA
Training Tag(s): Organizing & Movement Building, Technology / Data / Innovation
Starts: Thursday, Jun. 7 10:30 AM (Eastern)
Ends: Thursday, Jun. 7 11:45 AM (Eastern)
The SOPA and PIPA bills were defeated by a fascinating combination of forces. There was an inside game in Washington and an outside one online. It included liberals and conservatives, and it brought together the public, non-profits and the business community in common cause. The panel will look at the cross-cutting effects of the effort and determine what lessons to take away for other campaigns at the federal, state or local level.
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Storified by Netroots Nation · Thu, Jun 07 2012 14:37:16
Art Brodsky leads a conversation with Stephen DeMaura, Amalia Deloney, Andrew McLaughlin and David Moon about the offline/online organizing efforts to defeat SOPA and PIPA.
#NN12 participants – Follow @mediaaction and @mediajustice to learn more about our recent fight vs. #SOPA and future media policy battles.MAG-Net
Watching MAG-Net at Netroots Nation talk about SOPA/PIPA. http://www.livestream.com/freespeechtv #NN12 #mediajustice #SOPA (via @thousandkites)CMJ
Why We Fought SOPA: "There Would Be No Hip Hop Without Sampling and Re-Sampling". @mediajustice @stevenrenderos #nn12LoudSauce
Photo: #SOPA panel #NN12 http://pic.twitter.com/Gtc3V7UtMarta Evry
@stevenrenderos #SOPA became a household issue. Regular people understand this issu, not just media policy people. @mediajustice #NN12MAG-Net
@stevenrenderos breaking down how regular folks cared about #SOPA–when people linked it to their day to day needs and desires #NN12CMJ
#JoshLevy If brought to the table, consumers can help construct good Internet policy. SOPA/PIPA #NN12Rep. Diane Russell
Check out the video.
[Video] Organizing Lessons from SOPA and PIPA #nn12 http://bit.ly/JQhBzQ @mediajustice @demandprogress @artbrodsky @McAndrewNetroots_Nation
Art Brodsky
Art has been communications director of Public Knowledge since Feb. 2004. His writing has appeared on Huffington Post, Talking Points Memo and other outlets. He is a veteran of telecom/Internet journalism, having worked for 16 years as a reporter and editor for Communications Daily and also as an editor for Congressional Quarterly. He was also communications director for the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA).
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Stephen DeMaura
Stephen DeMaura is President of Americans for Job Security, a leading pro-growth, pro-business advocacy organization. He has written frequently on the impact federal, state and local initiatives will have on businesses and is an active proponent of conservative, pro-growth policies. Prior to Americans for Job Security, DeMaura served as the Executive Director of the New Hampshire Republican State Committee. He has also consulted on local, state, and federal candidate and ballot initiative campaigns across the country. DeMaura currently lives in Alexandria, VA, with his wife, Amy.
Andrew McLaughlin is VP of Tumblr, based in New York City. He serves on the boards of directors of Access, the Sunlight Foundation, Code for America, and Public Knowledge.
In 2011, Andrew served as executive director of Civic Commons, and a Lecturer in Law at Stanford, teaching “Freedom of Speech in a Digitally Interconnected World”. From 2009-2011, Andrew McLaughlin served a member of President Obama’s White House staff as Deputy Chief Technology Officer of the United States. From 2004-2009, Andrew was Director of Global Public Policy at Google.
Andrew holds a B.A. from Yale University, and a J.D. from Harvard Law School.
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David Moon
David Moon is the program director for the progressive, civil liberties group Demand Progress. He also edits MarylandJuice.com a state politics blog, and is a Washington-based policy attorney and Democratic political consultant. Moon previously served as the former Chief Operating Officer of the election reform group, FairVote, where he coordinated numerous advocacy efforts to make our electoral process more fair and accessible. He is a graduate of American University’s Washington College of Law and received his bachelors degree from Tufts University.
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Linus Pardoe
UK Policy Manager
Linus works with policymakers in the UK to advance plant-based foods, cultivated meat and fermentation.
Areas of expertise: UK political affairs and policy, social policy, research.
Linus leads GFI Europe’s work in the UK, supporting policymakers to optimise the policy and regulatory landscape so that the UK becomes a world-leader in sustainable proteins.
He is based in London, and has a background in social policy and research.
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I’m Glad I Was There
Port Melbourne HistoryJuly 31, 2020
On Tuesday 28 July 2020, unable to meet in person due to the COVID-19 restrictions in place in Victoria at the time, the Port Melbourne Historical and Preservation Society held its first ever online meeting via Zoom. The topic, 'I Wish I Had Been There', was conceived by Margaret Bride and resulted in eight PMHPS members each describing an…
I Wish I Had Been There …
Port Melbourne History, PresentationsJuly 28, 2020
The Port Melbourne Historical and Preservation made history on the 28 July 2020 when, because of the COVID-19 pandemic, we hosted our first meeting via Zoom. Eight members spoke on the theme "I Wish I Had Been There ..." Margaret Bride wishes she had there when Wilbraham Liardet had ridden up and down Bay Street proclaiming the separation of Victoria…
Todd Road
People, Places, Port Melbourne HistoryJune 5, 2020
In 2016, Janet Bolitho wrote about Archibald Todd, State President and Federal Vice-President of the Timber Workers' Union, Port Melbourne Councillor and Mayor, and Member of the Victorian State Parliament so it's no secret that Todd Road is named in his honour. Todd Road does not appear on the Port Melbourne landscape until the 1970s but what was there before…
Bertie Street
People, Places, Port Melbourne HistoryApril 10, 2020
Portrait of Mayor Joe Bertie Bertie St is named after Joseph Bertie but he was always known as Joe. Bertie's family originally came from Teglio in Italy near the border of Switzerland. Bertie was born in Bendigo in 1885. His father was killed in a mining accident there. Bertie had been working as a stevedore in Port Melbourne for seven years…
Mr Todd
People, Port Melbourne HistoryJuly 5, 2016
One of my favourite words is accrete – the way things gather together to create something bigger – the way the beach grows as sand drifts in a particular direction. And that's what I love about local history. You start with a fragment, and then other fragments emerge and seem magnetically drawn to it. A picture emerges. So it was with one…
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The Choir Of Man to return to the Arts Theatre this Autumn
Due to phenomenal demand, the smash-hit, Olivier-nominated THE CHOIR OF MAN returns to The Arts Theatre in London’s West End this autumn, with performances beginning 1 October 2022 and a national press night on Thursday 13 October. Tickets will be on sale from 10.00am, Friday 25 March.
Casting is yet to be announced.
The initial limited season at The Arts Theatre will finish on Sunday 3 April 2022. This month, it was announced that the show has received an Olivier nomination for Best Entertainment or Comedy Play.
THE CHOIR OF MAN has previously played three sell-out seasons at the Sydney Opera House and multiple sold-out US and European tours.
THE CHOIR OF MAN is the best lock-in at your local you’ll ever have, featuring amazing reinventions of folk, pop, Broadway and rock chart-toppers from artists including Guns ‘N’ Roses, Fun!, Adele, Avicii, Paul Simon, Sia and many more. It’s a party, it’s a concert and it’s a lock-in like no other.
The multi-talented cast combine beautiful harmonies and foot-stomping singalongs with world-class tap dance and poetic meditations on the power of community. This is a riotously feel-good homage to that gathering place we all love: the pub, complete with a real working bar on stage.
THE CHOIR OF MAN is created by Nic Doodson and Andrew Kay, directed by Nic Doodson, with musical supervision, vocal arrangements and orchestrations by Jack Blume, movement direction and choreography by Freddie Huddleston, monologues written by Ben Norris, scenic design by Oli Townsend, lighting design by Richard Dinnen, costume design and associate scenic design by Verity Sadler, sound design by Sten Severson, casting by Debbie O’Brien. Associate Choreographer is Rachel Chapman and Associate Musical Director is Hollie Cassar.
The show is produced by Immersive Everywhere, Nic Doodson, Andrew Kay, Wendy & Andy Barnes and AK Theatricals.
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Most visitors are still drawn to the Oklahoma City National Memorial and Museum when booking a private jet to Oklahoma City, which honors the tragic events of September 11, 2001. It was built where the Alfred P. Skyscraper once stood, which was totally destroyed in the terrorist attack of 2001.
Once you’ve chartered a private jet to Oklahoma City, visit Bricktown, the city’s top entertainment destination and a prime illustration of a successful urban renewal initiative. Red-brick warehouses that had been abandoned are now home to fun shops, eateries, entertainment venues, and attractions. Additional options include a concert, a movie, a walk along the riverwalk, or an exploration of the American Banjo Museum. You can also watch a baseball or basketball game at one of the sports fields.
Most Popular Oklahoma City Airports for Private Jets
You can personalize your private flight to Oklahoma City to suit your needs and preferences. Private aircraft can land at any major airport in the world. Will Rogers World Airport (OKC / KOKC), Wiley Post Airport (PWA / KPWA), and Clarence E. Page Airport (RCE / KRCE) are the three airports that make up the Oklahoma City Department of Airports.
Best Aircraft Category for Charter Flights to the Oklahoma City Area
Passengers can choose from various heavy, super-midsize, midsize, and light aircraft when they book a private jet to Oklahoma City. Think about the number of passengers, the desired level of luxury, the nonstop distance, and the shortest runway before making a private jet charter reservation to Oklahoma City.
Aircraft Available
Because they are designed for shorter local flights and can accommodate up to six passengers, light jets are an excellent option for smaller groups seeking to charter a private jet to Oklahoma City. Citation CJ1, Eclipse 500, and Premier I are the most suitable private jets for flights to Oklahoma City.
Standard features of high-tech midsize aircraft include Wi-Fi and communication systems and the ability to operate transatlantic flights. Additionally, three private aircraft, including the Learjet 60, the Learjet 55, and the Hawker 900XP, can transport you to the city.
As a result of their speed and range, super-midsize jets are the most common type of aircraft (they can fly nonstop for five to eight hours). Also, ten people can fit inside. Super-midsize aircraft such as the Challenger 300, Citation Latitude, and Citation X are good choices for a private flight to Oklahoma City.
Heavy aircraft’s ability to fly for as long as 13 hours without refueling is a remarkable aviation achievement. In addition, since they can accommodate up to 18 passengers, they are ideal for long international flights. If you require a heavy jet, consider the Falcon 2000, Challenger 604, and Gulfstream G-IVSP.
Hire Private Jets to Oklahoma City with Mercury Jets
We guarantee that booking a private jet flight will be one of the most incredible experiences of your life. Mercury Jets is the industry standard for renting private aircraft. Please get in touch with us if you are interested in arranging a private charter to Oklahoma City that meets your specific needs.
Your comfort and safety while traveling are our top priorities. To book a flight to Oklahoma City, or to speak to a representative, call us at +1 212 840 8000.
Airports Near Oklahoma City
OKC, Will Rogers World Airport, Oklahoma City, OK
PWA, Wiley Post Airport, Oklahoma City, OK
OUN, University of Oklahoma Westheimer Airport, Norman, OK
HSD, Sundance Airpark, Oklahoma City, OK
RQO, El Reno Regional Airport, El Reno, OK
SNL, Shawnee Regional Airport, Shawnee, OK
CHK, Chickasaw Municipal Airport, Chickasha, OK
RCE, Clarence E. Page Municipal Airport, Oklahoma City, OK
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Charter FAQ About Private Jet to/from Oklahoma City
How much does it cost to private jet charter prices to Oklahoma City?
The cost of a private jet charter to Oklahoma City can vary widely and depends mostly on the size and capacity of the aircraft. First, use our website’s cost estimator to determine the price of private jet flights. Then, contact our expert for assistance locating the best aircraft, among other services.
Here are some prices to cost charter a private jet to Oklahoma City:
How much does it cost to charter a private jet to Oklahoma City from Houston: midsize jet – starting at $12,940;
How much does it cost to charter a private jet to Oklahoma City from Los Angeles: light jet – starting at $20,410;
How much does it cost to charter a private jet to Oklahoma City from New York: super midsize jet – starting at $34,670.
Which aircraft should I choose for Oklahoma City private jet?
Mercury Jets have access to an extensive network of private aircraft and provide modern, reliable jets with highly trained and experienced flight crews on board, making a private flight to or from Oklahoma City an ideal option for a vacation or business trip. Choosing an aircraft for a private charter flight to Oklahoma City is based on the non-stop range, the number of passengers, comfort level, and the runway size.
When you hire a private jet to Oklahoma City with Mercury Jets, we take care of all your needs, from on-time boarding to providing comfortable seats that fit perfectly into any budget. Additionally, charter flights to Oklahoma City for conferences, meetings, special events, or group charter flights can be arranged on regional and VIP airliners.
Very Light Jets 2-8 passengers on average 1,250 nm up to 480 miles per hour up to 3 flight hours can land on shorter runways and at small airport
Light jets 5-6 passengers on average 1,800 nm 400-450 miles per hour up to 5 flight hours can land on shorter runways
Midsize jets 5-10 passengers on average 2,800 nm 430-480 miles per hour up to 8 flight hours suitable for long-distance travel, and can land on small runways
Super midsize Jets 8-10 passengers on average 3,000 nm 490-590 miles per hour up to 8 flight hours fast and fuel-efficient; larger luggage capacity
Heavy Jets 10-18 passengers on average 4,000 nm 480-560 miles per hour up to 13 flight hours can cruise at higher altitudes and operate in different weather conditions
Turboprops 7-10 passengers on average 1,800 nm 220-360 miles per hour up to 3 – 4 flight hours can flying a short distance with low operating cost
How to book my Oklahoma City jet charters?
For your convenience, our experts can organize a special charter to or from Oklahoma City. First, we need to know when you intend to depart so that we can begin searching for the best deal. You will then receive a detailed itinerary for your trip and have access to our consultants whenever you require assistance. Once you’re ready to book a private jet, we’ll handle your travel arrangements.
Are there any luggage restrictions or guidelines on the Oklahoma City private jet?
When reserving a charter flight to Oklahoma City, the number of bags to be transported is an additional essential factor. Depending on the aircraft you choose to rent, this will vary. Please inform us in advance if you require extra space for oversized or fragile luggage. You are welcome to ask our experts any questions you may have regarding the charter flight with baggage to Oklahoma City.
How far in advance do I need to make an Oklahoma City charter flight reservation?
Contact our experts to reserve a private flight to Oklahoma City once you’ve made the decision to fly. Please do so at least four hours before your flight to ensure our ability to assist you. We will make every effort to ensure that your flight is handled professionally and to the highest standard, based on our extensive experience in planning private charter flights.
What popular services are available on a private charter to Oklahoma City?
An advantage of a private jet charter to Oklahoma City is its convenience. There are numerous advantages to chartering a private jet, including complete privacy, luxury, and scheduling flexibility for both private and group flights. We can arrange any meals onboard, transfers to your hotel after landing, and other services. Each request is handled differently depending on your preferences.
One of the best ways to travel around the world is by private plane. On a private flight, you can enjoy a sparkling, immaculately maintained cabin. Contact one of our experts or visit our charter jet FAQ page if you can’t find the answers to all of your important questions here.
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Origin of photo-induced transmitting oscillations in chalcogenide glasses
Haizheng Tao, Zhiyong Yang, Pierre Lucas
Light-induced oscillatory behaviors of transmission in chalcogenide glasses are investigated using a continuous wave tunable Ti- sapphire laser. It is shown that phase change, thermal fluctuation, nonlinear index change and periodic self focusing are not at the origin of light-induced oscillatory transmittance in chalcogenide glasses. Instead, results indicate that the interference of transmitting and reflecting light is at the origin of the oscillatory behaviors of transmitted light. Just like the principle of Fabry- Perot interferometer, these interferences result in a periodic change in transmission as the related interferential beams get in and out of phase. However, this transmitting oscillatory behavior can be registered by the detector only when the change of optical path length difference initiated by photo-induced effects is slower enough compared with the corresponding response time of the detector. Several photo-structural effects contribute to that phenomenon including photo-expansion, photo-darkening, and permanent self focusing. It appears that fluctuations of the light source intensity induce a wide distribution of the oscillatory periods.
Optics Express
https://doi.org/10.1364/OE.17.018165
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chalcogenides Physics & Astronomy 100%
oscillations Physics & Astronomy 62%
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interference Physics & Astronomy 33%
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Tao, H., Yang, Z., & Lucas, P. (2009). Origin of photo-induced transmitting oscillations in chalcogenide glasses. Optics Express, 17(20), 18165-18170. https://doi.org/10.1364/OE.17.018165
Origin of photo-induced transmitting oscillations in chalcogenide glasses. / Tao, Haizheng; Yang, Zhiyong; Lucas, Pierre.
In: Optics Express, Vol. 17, No. 20, 28.09.2009, p. 18165-18170.
Tao, H, Yang, Z & Lucas, P 2009, 'Origin of photo-induced transmitting oscillations in chalcogenide glasses', Optics Express, vol. 17, no. 20, pp. 18165-18170. https://doi.org/10.1364/OE.17.018165
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The DAO is the new investment club
The DAO structure popularized in crypto projects is getting adopted by investment clubs looking to invest in digital assets.
Silk Road is a limited edition series of WebGL artworks created by Ezra Miller. The NFT is held by people who are part of the Friends With Benefits DAO through tech startup Prysm.
Image: Ezra Miller
Tomio Geron
DAOs sprang up as a way to oversee crypto projects. Now retail investors are adopting the decentralized governance structure to band together in investment clubs. Often the purpose is to buy crypto. Collectively, the informal groups getting set up could vie with venture capital firms seeking to profit off of digital assets.
A number of companies have sprung up to help small groups of friends or associates use a DAO to manage investment clubs to invest in crypto, NFTs or other Web3 assets. While DAOs promise to streamline some aspects of governance, there are still a number of technical aspects to consider such as managing governance, voting, treasury and custody of assets. And it could be a big opportunity if crypto continues to boom.
Some believe this new approach to crypto investing could have a broader impact on the crypto and Web3 startup investing landscape, just as smaller investors have become more common in equity startup investing through AngelList and other investing sites.
DAO in a box
Companies such as Syndicate, Prysm and Upstream offer ways for the groups to purchase crypto assets. Some startups offer tools for specific tasks such as voting, while others like Upstream offer the entire “DAO in a box.” Some such as Syndicate and Prysm focus on helping groups that want to buy crypto assets.
“We think of it as a no-code, full-stack DAO-in-a-box where you can spin it up really easily and manage it all in one place,” said Alex Taub, co-founder of Upstream. “And you don't need to use five different tools to do the things that you need to do to run it.” His company doesn’t focus specifically on investing DAOs, but he’s seen several groups successfully use its DAO tools for the purpose.
“What we've started to see and our own personal hypothesis is that this is as disruptive to venture investing as YouTube was to the film and television industries,” said Will Papper, co-founder at Syndicate. “People are setting up investment clubs for all sorts of things that they never would have set up a venture fund for and some groups are setting them up for things that are pretty similar to what they’d use a venture fund for. So the transformative nature of this has been really incredible.”
The rapid growth in these investing DAOs, enabling more small investors to invest, is made possible by their low cost and easy set-up. “People are buying NFTs together that they never would have set up before because in some cases the cost of setting up a fund would have been a sizable percentage of the total amount that they're raising,” Papper said. “It's broadened participation in a very significant way.”
Watching for regulators
The challenge: Regulators want to rein in crypto and there are gray areas that have yet to be resolved about the legal status of DAOs and how they can invest.
Investment clubs have been around for years for buying stocks and other assets. They do not come under SEC regulation, as long as there is not an “investment contract,” which is defined as happening when someone invests and expects to make a profit from the “efforts of others.”
In order to not be SEC-regulated, investment clubs must have no more than 100 members; all members must vote on each investment; and everyone must be part of decision-making.
This is typically how clubs that run on sites like Syndicate operate. “That means they're not a fund. They don't need to register with the SEC. They don't have the filing requirements, they're just not funds according to the SEC,” said Ian Lee, co-founder of Syndicate.
DAOs, which are still broadly defined, can be used for a variety of investing approaches. Some are more traditional and attached to legal structures such as LLCs, while others do not yet have an equivalent legal structure. Wyoming became the first state to recognize DAOs as a legal entity on their own last year.
The DAO creation business has seen startups tackle the opportunity with several different approaches.
Syndicate focuses on investment clubs, with 1,100 started since it launched in January. It helps people turn a crypto wallet into a DAO for a group of people to invest. Its software also helps manage investments and members.
“We've effectively modernized [investment clubs] for the internet and Web3, enabling people to start these investment clubs natively on the internet to invest in internet-native assets, like tokens, and even off-chain things like startups,” Lee said.
The assets of the DAOs on Syndicate are secured by whatever Ethereum or multisignature wallet the DAO wants. Pre-crypto, these clubs used shared bank accounts — which are also an option with Syndicate. Syndicate connects to fintech Doola for DAOs set up as an LLC if they need to, say, invest in startup equity, open a bank account or do compliance or tax filings.
While it has so far focused on investment clubs, Syndicate also allows people to invest in other assets such as startup equity, as well as property and art — one group even wanted to buy a Porsche. In mid-2021, City DAO, which has bought land in Wyoming, used Syndicate to do its legal incorporation.
The art of the DAO
Prysm, which launched in January, helps groups of friends buy NFTs. The idea is to make it more affordable for individuals to buy high-priced NFTs by pooling their capital with friends or groups.
“Things like Bored Apes, Doodles — the average person is really priced out of that even as an investment opportunity. So we allow for groups to come together to pull together capital in this DAO structure to buy them.” said Thomas Scaria, co-founder and CEO at Prysm.
Prysm tracks deposits and withdrawals of capital into the wallet to track how much each member owns or has rights to. Members can also deposit NFTs that can count as contributed capital in lieu of cash or crypto.
People can use Prysm to propose that a group purchase or sell an NFT. The company also plans to add mass payouts, so if an NFT is sold, funds could be distributed to the group. Prysm doesn't currently charge a fee for its service.
Prysm typically sees two types of users: One is people pooling money together to buy NFTs as an investment. Another is cultural groups that use Prysm to buy NFTs to support artists or cultural ideas. For example, Friends with Benefits, the popular social DAO, has a subgroup of individuals that is using Prysm to buy NFTs. The full Friends with Benefits DAO itself hasn’t bought NFTs with Prysm yet.
The group purchasing of NFTs can be different from those buying other crypto assets because it can be as much about culture as investing, Scaria said. “They're an offshoot or continuation of the trends that we saw with retail investors, like flipping sneakers on StockX,” Scaria said. “A lot of Gen Zers and millennials are, for instance, looking at sustainable investing. They don't really just care purely about financial returns. It's more about: How can you shape the world in a way that you actually want to live in [it].”
NFTs are generally not securities and the clubs that run on its service are not considered subject to SEC registration, Scaria said.
Tomio Geron ( @tomiogeron) is a San Francisco-based reporter covering fintech. He was previously a reporter and editor at The Wall Street Journal, covering venture capital and startups. He was also as a staff writer at Forbes covering social media and venture capital, and edited the Midas List of top tech investors. He can be reached at [email protected] or [email protected].
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Meet The Ghanaian Mother of 2 Who Is A Student At The University of Ghana and A Trotro Mate
by GhLinks Media February 1, 2022, 10:05 am
Among the stories worth sharing is the story of Joyce Akorfa Atsoribo, a 31-year-old University of Ghana Information Studies student who earns an income by working as a “trotro mate” in order to pay for her tuition and care for her two daughters.
Narrating her story to The Mirror in an article published by Graphic.com.gh on the internet, Joyce says she is able to make GH₵ 35, out of which she saves GH₵10 every day.
Trotro mate
Life in Accra
First pregnancy
Taking a role as a trotro mate came up after her fruit business at Amrahia in Accra was halted by her landlord who was not happy that the business was thriving.
The landlord stopped Ms Atsoribo’s business only for his sister to operate same at the same spot.
Sharing her daily routine with The Mirror at the Madina station in Accra last Tuesday, she said she had been a trotro mate for the past five months. Among some of the jobs she had done were serving as a waitress in various restaurants, working as an insurance agent and a security guard.
For her current job, she gets on the road by 5 a.m. daily and closes between 9 p.m. and 10 p.m.
On a daily basis, her takehome is GH₵ 35, out of which she saves GH₵10.
Occasionally calling out for passengers going to Dodowa as we had the chat, she explained that the work was tedious, particularly with the lifting of items.
“Sometimes l am even surprised at myself that I am able to lift some of the loads, especially as I have gone through a caesarean section”.
Ms Atsoribo, who sounded very passionate, said one of the challenges that came with the job were insults from passengers.
“The rate at which passengers insult me at the slightest thing is so painful. Some people do not respect mates; l think some see me as useless. Some of the insults are so painful, it can even influence you not to show up the next day, we need to treat trotro mates well,” she added.
Ms Atsoribo who was a first-time mum at age 17 explained that her only worry at the moment was how to pay off her fees for the final year and hoped that some philanthropists would come to her aid.
Earlier, she had relied on her little savings and student loans.
Ms Atsoribo travelled from the Volta Region to Accra in 2011 after high school education at Afadjato Senior High School through a male friend who had encouraged her to move to Accra.
This friend, she said, later wanted a sexual relationship and when she refused, “he packed my things out of his house”.
Life in Accra, she explained, had been tough particularly with accommodation issues. She had lived it all through men who would want to use accommodation as a bait to take advantage of her.
From moving from one place to another and moving in with friends, “I met another man at the first restaurant I worked. I thought I had met an angel who said I should not worry and could stay in his big apartment. That night after he had his bath he told me to come and sleep by him on his bed so when I refused he sacked me, it was around 3 a.m.”
She got pregnant for the second time in level 200 with a young man she had known since her senior high school days and whom her mother had earlier cautioned against on their first visit to see her at Hohoe in the Volta Region.
She explained that the relationship was “hell” and eventually, living with the said boyfriend who was also sharing a single room with four of his cousins, making them five in a room became impossible.
“At that time anything that goes wrong in the room will have them point fingers at me. That was the beginning of my many problems. It was a difficult moment as there were a lot of issues and l had to leave the relationship,” she said.
Thanking her mother in tears for not turning her back on her, she said “my mother took the baby after, in addition to my first child who is now 17. Now, I am a single mother of two simply because I didn’t listen to my mother’s advice. I have to work as a trotro mate just to see myself out of school and take care of my kids too”.
Ms Atsoribo said her first pregnancy happened at a time when she had completed Junior High School in Hohoe.
“It was during JHS night. In Hohoe, everybody knows about JHS night. It is a big event. I had sex with an old friend after taking in alcohol. My mum took the baby after seven months so I could go to senior high school,” she said.
According to her, it was important for people, especially females, to listen to the advice of their mothers because “I am paying dearly for not listening”.
For women who find themselves in her situation, she urged them to work hard even when their child’s father had neglected them.
Mr Kwaku Boafo, who is Ms Atsoribo’s employer (the driver of the trotro) described her as “a very hardworking woman and because of her, some women had been coming to me to recommend them to other drivers. I will encourage other drivers to also utilise the service of the women as well,”he said.
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The Burger King Effect? This London Breakfast Restaurant Just Went Meatless
The Breakfast Club’s flagship location in London will serve a fully meatless menu for the month of January.
United Kingdom–based chain The Breakfast Club—known for its all-day bacon and eggs breakfast menu—is transforming its flagship location in London’s SoHo neighborhood to a fully meatless restaurant for the month of January.
The new meatless restaurant is launching just in time for Veganuary, an annual challenge that promotes going vegan in January and beyond. To celebrate, the chain is also launching two new vegan menu items that will roll out at all 13 Breakfast Club locations nationwide. Created in partnership with vegan brands La Vie and Redefine Meat, the new menu items aim to replicate the classic comfort food The Breakfast Club is known for.
The first vegan option, called The Works, is a full vegan breakfast plate featuring Redefine Meat sausages, La Vie bacon, Scottish-style potato pancakes, homemade baked beans, scrambled tofu, mushrooms, and roasted tomatoes.
The second new menu item, the Posh Sausage Sandwich, contains Redefine Meat sausages, Applewood’s smoky vegan cheese, and tomato chutney, all served in ciabatta bread.
Additionally, the chain has developed its own vegan chorizo, made from sun-dried tomatoes, lentils, garlic, smoked paprika, cumin, and lemon.
“What makes January 2023 different is that after many many years of trying we finally found a vegan sausage, bacon, chorizo, and burger we can hang our hat on,” Tom Williams, Marketing Manager at The Breakfast Club, said in a statement.
La Vie makes hyperrealistic vegan bacon
French brand La Vie produces a vegan bacon made with a patented sunflower-based vegan pork fat and counts vegan actress Natalie Portman as one of its investors. Its collaboration with The Breakfast Club follows a new partnership with Burger King.
Earlier this year, the company made headlines when it successfully campaigned for Burger King France to use La Vie bacon in the Veggie Steakhouse burger, a vegan take on a classic menu item that originally excluded a plant-based replacement for the bacon component.
The burger chain first tested La Vie vegan bacon at its 550 locations in France, and this month it will roll out as a permanent menu item at all 510 Burger King locations across the United Kingdom.
“We are very proud to be partnering with Burger King, bringing our multi-award-winning, plant-based bacon La Vie to their restaurants,” Romain Jolivet, Chief Marketing Officer at La Vie, said in a statement. “This will allow us to accelerate the pace of switching from animal-based meat to plant-based, which is a climate emergency we are all facing.”
Redefine Meat brings 3D vegan meat to menus
Redefine Meat, an Israeli company that produces hyper-realistic 3D-printed meat alternatives, is another brand that will appear on The Breakfast Club menus. The company’s brand, New-Meat, focuses on whole-muscle cuts that provide the full sensory experience of meat, including flavor, texture and aroma. Recently, the brand launched five new products under its New-Meat portfolio, including plant-based tenderloin and striploin.
Redefine Meat
Following a $135 million funding round earlier this year, the New-Meat portfolio has launched at nearly 1,000 locations across Europe and Israel, including steakhouse chains, high-end restaurants, and fast-casual venues. The brand also recently partnered with a leading conventional meat importer to expand across dozens of countries.
“Partnering with two of the most respected and award-winning vegan brands in the country is about to change the game for us massively, and we feel very lucky and proud to be entering the new year on such a high,” Williams of The Breakfast Club said.
Burger King goes meatless
The Breakfast Club is not the first restaurant to transform into a meatless haven in London. Earlier this year, Burger King opened a vegan location in London’s Leicester Square, which offered the chain’s biggest plant-based menu yet with 25 items from plant-based Whoppers to vegan chicken nuggets. This follows meatless pop-ups in other countries around the world, including Germany, Spain, and Costa Rica. And now it appears that other chains are following suit.
Burger King’s Head of International Marketing, Sabrina Ferretti, told VegNews that the chain is actively working to become a leader in plant-based fast food. “Burger King is expanding its plant-based menus in different countries to offer tasty alternatives for everyone who would like a substitute to animal meat without sacrificing on the unmatched BK taste,” Ferretti said. “Our ultimate goal is to position Burger King as the leader and go-to for the best-tasting plant-based food in the quick-service restaurant industry.”
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Photos Of How The "Other Half" Lived In the 1880s
Before Hoovervilles were popping up around town in the 1930s, there were plenty of down and out New Yorkers living in makeshift shanty homes. Photographer Jacob Riis documented the structures, and the people living in them, for his book How the Other Half Lives, which introduced the middle and upper class to the squalor for the first time, according to LIFE. In his book Rediscovering Jacob Riis, author Daniel Czitrom wrote:
"I do think that Riis is the first muckraker. I think he represents the beginning of a sort of progressive sensibility... Riis believed that it was important, that it was crucial, to try to rouse the conscience of the public, to appeal to the conscience. This belief that if we could simply expose conditions, if people simply knew how bad things were, they would rise up and change them."
Click through for more photos, and more in the below video, which includes excerpts from the book:
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Jen Carlson has been an editor with Gothamist since 2004. Her writing has also been published on Jezebel, Deadspin, and a number of composition notebooks before the internet existed. In 2015 she won a spot in the inaugural Amtrak Residency program and traveled the nation via rail. She has an Ed Hardy tattoo, but she can explain. She is currently an editor and reporter on the NYC Accountability desk in the Gothamist + WNYC newsroom.
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How Tilting Point is helping indies compete with its $12 million UA fund Game Alliance
Dan Sherman talks tilting the balance back in indies' favour
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February 20th, 2017 - 02:00pm
By Matt Suckley, Features Editor
Back in November 2016, New York mobile publisher Tilting Point launched its $12 million Game Alliance fund to help indepenedent developers with rising user acquisition costs.
The thinking behind Game Alliance, Tilting Point explained at the time, is to help indie developers compete in a world increasingly dominated by well-funded companies running costly UA campaigns.
For Tilting Point, a company that has always set out to help independent studios find a foothold in the mobile games market, it is the logical response to the current climate.
What then is the future for independent mobile game development and what part can Tilting Point and Game Alliance play in it? To find out, PocketGamer.biz reached out to President Dan Sherman.
PocketGamer.biz: How would you sum up the Game Alliance concept?
Dan Sherman: Game Alliance is a multi-million dollar user acquisition fund whose sole purpose is to help independent mobile developers market their games.
We’ve started with $12 million, but it’s a rolling fund so the more scalable games we have participating, the larger the fund can become.
Why did you feel that there needed to be an alternative from mobile publishing as it currently stands?
Different developers have different strengths and different needs. They need more options than what’s out there now, especially since most funding options come with demands for their IP or equity in their company.
Why not break down the things that really matter to developers and make them available to pick and choose?
Dan Sherman
In this industry, the word "publishing" is used so differently by so many different companies that, in our view, it has lost its meaning.
So why not break down the things that really matter to developers and make them available for developers to pick and choose depending on their needs?
It was clear to us that one thing that was missing was funding purely for UA. So we launched Game Alliance to fill that need.
Do you advocate indie developers maintaining their own autonomy and IP, where possible? Do you feel that's becoming increasingly difficult in today's mobile market?
Yes and yes. As an entrepreneur, I have a strong appreciation for what motivates teams to go out on their own, start a company and build something.
It’s riskier than working for one of the big game companies, but there’s much more upside. There’s nothing more rewarding than achieving that autonomously.
Same goes for IP - there is pride in ownership that comes with that. It makes a big difference to creative teams who work extremely hard to make something great when it’s their baby.
It’s just not the same when it’s a work-for-hire situation.
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That said, the mobile game marketplace is fiercely competitive. There were only 10 new entrants in the top 100 grossing list for 2016 and that number is trending lower.
Especially when you consider that some of those new entrants are multi-billion-dollar companies, it becomes clear that going it alone is a dangerous game.
Many developers find that out the hard way and lose everything.
We’re trying to foster an ecosystem where developers can gain access to the tools and resources they need to compete without sacrificing their equity, their IP or their dreams.
To what extent do you consider the pressures that led to Game Alliance's existence as an indictment of the current market?
Indictment is a strong word - we’re more optimistic than that.
Exclude the top 100 games and you’ve still got a market that exceeds $10 billion.
It’s easy to be intimidated by the concentration of wealth toward the top. But exclude the top 100 games and you’ve still got a market that exceeds $10 billion and grew faster last year than the year before.
We still see more lucrative opportunities for independents in mobile than any other segment of the game industry, but no one should expect it to be easy.
Mobile games and the infrastructure they run on become more complex every month. Developers and marketers have to be savvier, and we feel this is a good thing.
We’re looking to fuel this for the benefit of the industry as a whole.
While the Game Alliance fund will no doubt help some developers, it obviously can't redress the balance alone. Do you see a future for sustainable independent game development on mobile?
Yes, provided we’re successful at growing a healthy ecosystem in support of independent game development.
That ecosystem includes government incentives, university programs, early stage VCs, tool providers, incubators, influencers and many others - and it includes Game Alliance.
We’re not alone in believing that independent developers are the engine of creativity and innovation in this industry. With the right amount of talent and support, any developer should be able to succeed on mobile.
What advice would you have for a developer who wants to keep control of its IP, but lacks marketing and UA knowledge? Is Game Alliance able to help with practical mentoring as well as funding, or would you encourage self-education?
First, my advice is to remember that being independent doesn’t mean working in a vacuum.
There are reputable UA agencies and freelancers who can provide a lot of the expertise you’re looking for much faster than you can develop it internally.
With Game Alliance, you can also get those UA campaigns funded.
Moreover, we have teams that can help with broader marketing efforts like influencer outreach, key art development and app store optimisation - things that are often impractical for a developer to take on when their resources need to be focused on improving their game.
It’s important for developers to be self-aware - to identify their strengths and their shortcomings - then determine which functions make the most sense to staff internally and which functions are best sourced from outside partners.
So, yes, mentoring and education in mobile best practices are a big part of the Game Alliance initiative.
We like to envision Game Alliance as a self-directed resource for developers. We offer funding, technology, tools and even dedicated staff, but also knowledge and expertise, both from our long-standing experience in mobile gaming, as well as insights from other developers within the Alliance.
This is another area that grows more robust as more and more developers participate.
What kinds of developers do you want to hear from in regards to Game Alliance? Have any deals been struck since the fund's launch?
Yes, the response to the Game Alliance UA fund has been great.
We want to hear from any mobile developer who has a game that they believe can scale with the help of Game Alliance.
We have entered into multiple deals since its launch, with several more in the pipeline.
We want to hear from any mobile developer who has a game that they believe can scale with the help of the Game Alliance fund, our UA team and toolset or any of our other support services.
Are you able to discuss the terms on which the Game Alliance fund operates and how Tilting Point stands to benefit from the scheme?
We don’t disclose deal terms publicly, but I can say that the Game Alliance fund is deploying capital and absorbing risk with each UA campaign while maximising developer flexibility and autonomy.
Our agreements can be customised to best suit the needs of each game.
As the managers of the fund, Tilting Point benefits from a share of profits from successful UA campaigns and by offering optional, value-added services to participating developers.
Finally, do you see the mobile games market becoming more balanced anytime soon or will juggernauts continue to predominate?
The juggernauts won’t be disappearing anytime soon, but I do expect the mobile game market to continue growing rapidly, keeping the window of opportunity open.
It won’t be easy, and the sheer volume of releases means that independent developers acting alone are highly likely to fail.
But initiatives like Game Alliance can empower developers to compete on an even playing field with the industry’s Goliaths, equipped with the funding, tools and resources of a world-class publishing organisation.
By working together - separately - talented independent developers can break through the noise, find their audience and achieve scale.
More information on Game Alliance can be found on its website.
Matt Suckley
Features Editor
Matt is really bad at playing games, but hopefully a little better at writing about them. He's Features Editor for PocketGamer.biz, and has also written for lesser publications such as IGN, VICE, and Paste Magazine.
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Hometown heritage focus with Satoshi Takahashi #10: Traditional clay dolls warm hearts
April 3, 2022 (Mainichi Japan)
A craftsperson paints the eyes onto a clay tiger, as if to place a soul inside, at the Yabase-ningyo Densho-kan museum in the city of Akita on Feb. 16, 2022. (Satoshi Takahashi)=Click/tap photo for more images.
In this series, Japanese photojournalist Satoshi Takahashi focuses on the diverse heritage of his home prefecture Akita in northern Japan. For this 10th article, Takahashi visited a group, based in the Yabase district of Akita city, that strives to protect the heritage of locally produced clay dolls.
Nestled gently in my hand was a traditional Akita folk toy, a "Yabase" doll. The handmade clay figures in front of me smelled of the earth and wind. I could distinguish each face and shape, and feel the warmth of the craftsperson. It was as if each doll were a precious living being -- a human or an animal.
According to legend, production of the dolls commenced in Akita in the mid-Edo period (1603-1867), when artisans from the Fushimi area of Kyoto built kilns. At its peak, 500 types of molds were in use, and merchant ships ferried products to ports throughout the country via the Sea of Japan. Among the popular dolls was the "Tenjin-sama" -- the deified Sugawara no Michizane, a ninth century statesman and scholar. This doll, nicknamed "Yabase no Odentsan," would be presented to newborn boys. "Hina" dolls, depicting the Emperor and the Empress, were sent to girls. In either case, the sender hopes the gift brings good health to the child.
However, lifestyles have shifted, and the tradition has declined. In 2014, the last surviving artisan Tomo Michikawa passed away, and the art faced the risk of being lost. Shu Umetsu, 72, intent on conveying the culture to future generations, then established the group "Yabase-ningyo densho no kai" (Association for conveying Yabase dolls), which has since created new dolls and preserved old ones.
"About two years ago, a family who had lost a son when he was young purchased a Yabase doll of a bride as a religious offering," said Umetsu. I realized that the family was still praying for the boy's happiness, and that these dolls were close companions. I was moved to tears.
A tiger pottery, signifying this Chinese zodiac year, decorates my present home in the Kanagawa Prefecture city of Kamakura. It was crafted by members of the association. Every time I go out, my eyes meet those of the tiger, and I feel as if it's assuring me, "Your hometown is always watching over you." It gives me power, as it symbolizes the workmanship of my hometown.
(The Japanese original of this article by Satoshi Takahashi was published on March 8, 2022.)
Satoshi Takahashi was born in the city of Akita, Akita Prefecture, in 1981. Residing in Phnom Penh from 2007 to 2018, he captured the social problems of Cambodia through his photographs, which were published globally. In 2019, his publication titled "RESISTANCE" (whose subtitle roughly translates to "the undaunted spirit of Cambodians") won the 38th Domon Ken Award sponsored by The Mainichi Newspapers Co.
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In Photos: Craftspeople in Japan's Akita put soul into traditional 'Yabase' clay dolls
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Mikael Mandron: I am very aware of the situation at Motherwell
How Motherwell could do with Mikael Mandron starting as he means to go on. The 28-year-old striker netted a brace in his first start for the Fir Park side as the Scottish Cup offered some light relief for Steven Hammell’s side at Gayfield on Saturday afternoon.
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22nd Jan 2023, 10:30pm
Motherwell's Mikael Mandron scores to make it 0-2 during a Scottish Cup Fourth Round match between Arbroath and Motherwell at Gayfield Park, on January 21, 2023, in Arbroath, Scotland. (Photo by Craig Foy / SNS Group)
Arbroath were oddly insipid as Motherwell were allowed to casually ease their way into the fifth round of the tournament with no obvious sign of the psychological frailties that a winless run of eight games has had on the Lanarkshire club. They enjoyed the respite from the pressure of a Cinch Premiership that has a host of clubs jostling in the bottom half of the table with neither able to piece together a consistent run of form that would ease them into a more comfortable position.
Mandron netted in each half and might have had a third after lifting one effort over the bar that looked as though it would burst the net but how Hammell could do with a player able to chip in with the goals. There is an argument that the cheapness of how they have been conceded at the other end has been significant in compounding Motherwell’s problems with a porous backline that has repeatedly been their undoing in the top flight this term.
Still, Mandron will be asked to perform at the other end of the pitch and the player who has had a fairly nomadic career in England’s lower leagues is at ease with being asked to walk into a new club and solve some of its ills.
“I am very aware of the situation and I will do my best to help the team,” he said. “Hopefully, I can use my experience, my energy and to give everything on the pitch to help the team. Two goals on Saturday is part of what I can bring to the team.
“I don’t really get that feeling [that the club is struggling]. The lads are great and I get the impression that it is a really good football club that is well run. Everyone is together, getting on and we are going in the right direction. Sometimes you need new faces to bring a new energy and hopefully I can help do that.
“I am always confident I will score. It was a different style at Gillingham. Here we play in a totally different style and we create a load of chances. As long as we create chances then I am confident I will score.”
The real test for Mandron and for Motherwell is not Arbroath, however, but what comes in the next few weeks. Paisley is the next stop for Hammell’s side as they face up to a St Mirren side who have stuttered a bit in recent weeks but who remain seven points better off than them.
With so little between the teams and a real lack of consistency plaguing everyone outside of Celtic and Rangers, any kind of run of positive results could significantly alter league positions. Motherwell showed at the weekend that they remain a level above the Championship with the outcome of their Scottish Cup tie never in any doubt. The challenge going forward is to sustain that and avoid being dragged into what could be an ugly scrap at the bottom end of the table.
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Working at the intersection of emerging media and neuroscience
August 4, 2022 December 1, 2022 by nyucusp
Originally published by NYU News.
Qi Sun is studying the mind-bending, performance-boosting potential of AR/VR technology
It’s an everyday scenario: you’re driving down the highway when out of the corner of your eye you spot a car merging into your lane without signaling. How fast can your eyes react to that visual stimulus? Would it make a difference if the offending car were blue instead of green? And if the color green shortened that split-second period between the initial appearance of the stimulus and when the eye began moving towards it (known to scientists as the saccade), could drivers benefit from an augmented reality overlay that made every merging vehicle green?
Qi Sun, a joint professor in Tandon’s Department of Computer Science and Engineering and the Center for Urban Science and Progress (CUSP), is collaborating with neuroscientists to find out.
He and his Ph.D. student Budmonde Duinkharjav — along with colleagues from Princeton, the University of North Carolina, and NVIDIA Research — recently authored the paper “Image Features Influence Reaction Time: A Learned Probabilistic Perceptual Model for Saccade Latency,” presenting a model that can be used to predict temporal gaze behavior, particularly saccadic latency, as a function of the statistics of a displayed image. Inspired by neuroscience, the model could ultimately have great implications for highway safety, telemedicine, e-sports, and in any other arena in which AR and VR are leveraged.
“While AR/VR technology may not transform us into Superhumans right away,” Sun, who heads the Immersive Computing Lab at Tandon, says, “the potential of these new forms of emerging media to boost human performance is very exciting.”
“Image Features Influence Reaction Time” garnered best-paper honors at the Association for Computing Machinery’s 2022 SIGGRAPH (Special Interest Group on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques), the field’s premier annual conference, and a second paper Sun co-authored, “Joint Neural Phase Retrieval and Compression for Energy- and Computation-efficient Holography on the Edge,” received an honorable mention.
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In another recent paper, Sun, a former research scientist at software giant Adobe, posited that we can predict and change people’s perception of time, even by a span of several minutes, by altering different visual features seen in VR settings. “Time perception is fluid,” he explains, “and our findings have the potential to have a profound impact in real-world situations. Imagine, for example, that we could reduce how much pain a patient perceives during a medical procedure with the use of VR or help a pilot in training to feel less fatigue. There are even applications within a field like urban planning since perceived waiting times for public transit are a source of dissatisfaction for commuters in many cities.”
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Home Books Female Pelvic Medicine and Reconstructive Surgery: Clinical Practice and Surgical Atlas
Chapter 33: Posterior Compartment Surgery
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Park A. Park A Park, Amy.Posterior Compartment Surgery. In: Rogers RG, Sung VW, Iglesia CB, Thakar R. Rogers R.G., & Sung V.W., & Iglesia C.B., & Thakar R(Eds.),Eds. Rebecca G. Rogers, et al.eds. Female Pelvic Medicine and Reconstructive Surgery: Clinical Practice and Surgical Atlas. McGraw Hill; 2013. Accessed February 01, 2023. https://obgyn.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?bookid=1307§ionid=72408402
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POSTERIOR COMPARTMENT SURGERY
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Posterior vaginal wall prolapse includes rectoceles, enteroceles, and sigmoidoceles and often occurs in combination with other pelvic support problems. Isolated rectoceles are quite rare. Figures 33-1 and 33-2 demonstrate an isolated rectocele.
Stage 3 rectocele at rest.
Stage 3 rectocele at maximal protrusion following transanal digitation.
Posterior Colporrhaphy
Posterior colporrhaphy, also known as transvaginal rectocele repair, refers to a variety of approaches, that is, the traditional posterior colporrhaphy with transverse midline plication of the rectovaginal fascia, with or without levator ani plication, and the site-specific posterior repair, either of which can include graft augmentation. Ultimately, the goal of rectocele repair is to improve prolapse symptoms, bowel function, and sexual function.
Patient Evaluation
The primary indication for performing a posterior colporrhaphy is symptomatic posterior compartment prolapse, which most commonly manifests as the sensation of a vaginal bulge. Outlet dysfunction constipation may also be present, causing stool trapping in the area where the rectum herniates into the vagina. In this scenario, patients may have to splint (place fingers inside the vagina or on the perineal body) in order to defecate. The symptoms of vaginal bulge and splinting are fairly specific for posterior compartment prolapse, and are the symptoms most likely to be cured by this procedure. Surgical repair of asymptomatic posterior vaginal prolapse is not recommended. Concurrent pelvic support defects are often present, and should be addressed concomitantly at the time of posterior compartment surgery.
By plicating the posterior vaginal muscularis or medial aspect of the levator ani muscles in the midline, the posterior vaginal wall width is decreased, the fibromuscularis in the midline is increased, and the vaginal tube is narrowed. A perineorrhaphy is typically included in this repair.
In general, anatomic cure rates are excellent,1-3 with overall improvement in bowel symptoms, regardless of the type of repair. A recent randomized trial of 106 patients compared three surgical techniques of rectocele repair: traditional colporrhaphy, site-specific repair, and site-specific rectocele repair augmented with a porcine-derived, acellular collagen matrix graft (Fortagen®).4
At one year after surgery, anatomic cure of prolapse (defined as < Stage 2) was comparable in the posterior colporrhaphy group (86%) and the site-specific group (78%). The cure rates of both traditional and site-specific rectocele repair groups were statistically significantly better than the graft-augmented site-specific repair (54%).
Posterior wall prolapse to or beyond the hymen developed in 20% in those who received graft augmentation, compared with 7.1% in the posterior colporrhaphy group and 7.4% in ...
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Last revised: 03 December 2021
We, EnBW Energie Baden-Württemberg AG, take the protection of your personal data very seriously. In the following, we would like to inform you which items of personal data we record when you visit our website, how we process this data and which rights you are entitled to in connection with your personal data.
1. Who is responsible for the processing of my data?
The controller for purposes of processing your data is:
Durlacher Allee 93
Tel (switchboard): +49 721 63-00
Customer service number: + 721 72586-001
E-Mail: [email protected]
If you have any questions, suggestions or complaints, you can reach us at the contact details provided above.
2. How can I contact the data protection officer?
You can reach our data protection officer at [email protected]. Our data protection officer is happy to answer any questions you may have concerning data protection.
3. How is my data processed when I visit the website?
We only collect and process your data if we have either received your consent to process the data or if the processing is permitted by law.
3.1 Recording of technically necessary data sets and log files
If you visit our website for information purposes only, i.e. if you do not register or otherwise transmit data (e.g. via a contact form), we will record the data that your browser transmits to us. In detail, this comprises the following data sets:
• IP address
• Date and time of the access
• Time zone difference to Greenwich Mean Time (GMT)
• Content of the access (specific page)
• Volume of data transmitted in each case
• Website from which you visit us (referrer URL)
• Website you visit
• Browser type and version used
• Operating system and its interface
• Language and version of the browser software
This data is collected and processed in order to be able to display the website to you, to ensure and improve its stability and for security reasons. The legal basis for this processing is Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f) GDPR. The recording of this data and the storage of the data in log files is mandatory for the operation of the website. The user therefore has no possibility of objection.
The legal basis for this processing is Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f) GDPR. The data will be deleted as soon as they are no longer required for the aforementioned purposes. In the event that an IP address is stored, it will be deleted or anonymized after 30 days at the latest. The recording of this data and the storage of the data in log files is mandatory for the operation of the website. The user therefore has no possibility of objection.
If you use offers on our website which require registration, further data will be stored. Information on registration can be found in the "Registration" section of the terms of use.
3.2 Use of cookies and other technologies
In addition, cookies and other technologies are used on our website. Cookies are small text files which are stored on your computer by us or by another party (for more detailed information, please refer to the description of our analysis procedures below) and through which the party that sets the cookie receives certain information. Cookies are always assigned for each specific browser. By using cookies, it is not possible to execute programs or transfer viruses to your PC.
You can configure your browser settings according to your wishes and, for example, refuse to accept third-party cookies or all cookies. However, this may mean that you cannot use all the functions of our website. You are also free to delete all cookies at any time via the settings of your browser. In addition to cookies, other technologies (e.g. pixels) are also used in individual cases to collect corresponding information.
3.2.1 Use of essential cookies and technologies
We use cookies and technologies to offer you the following functions and services:
• Consent Management Platform
• Tag Management System
• Technically required website cookies
• Fraud Protection
• Website testing and optimization
• Billing with cooperating affiliate partners
• Measuring range without the formation of profiles
• Basic web analysis
The legal basis for the related data processing is Sec. 25 para. 2 TTDSG (German Telecommunications Telemedia Data Protection Act) in conjunction with Art. 6 para. 1 lit. b) or lit. f) GDPR. The purpose of processing is to make it easier for you to use our website and to offer you our services in accordance with your requests. Some functions of our website also do not work without the use of these cookies and could therefore not be offered. Our legitimate interest in the processing of the cookies results from the aforementioned purposes. The cookies are deleted at the end of the session (e.g. when you log out or close the browser) or after a specified period of time has elapsed.
This website uses the Google Tag Manager ("GTM") as a tag management system. Through this service, tracking codes and code fragments ("tags") can be managed via an interface. The tags, e.g. for Google Analytics, are merely provided, configured and maintained via the GTM. The data collection and processing itself, on the other hand, is carried out by the relevant services. Accordingly, the GTM does not access the generated data. No cookies are used and no personal data is collected.
We use Application Insights, a web analytics service provided by Microsoft Corporation, One Microsoft Way, Redmond, WA 98052-6399 USA ("Microsoft"), to evaluate the use of our websites for statistical purposes and to compile reports on your website activity. In addition, evaluations are created for the purpose of troubleshooting and optimizing the website and the application. Application Insights is based on the database application "Azure". In the process, your IP address is set to the value 0 and thus anonymized. The information generated by the cookie concerning your use of our websites is normally transferred to a Microsoft server in the USA and saved there. Microsoft processes this information on our behalf. The legal basis for the data processing is Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f) GDPR. Our legitimate interest results from the aforementioned purposes. The storage period of the cookie is 12 months.
Further information from Microsoft on the subject of data protection and Azure can be found at https://privacy.microsoft.com/de-de/privacystatement.
We use Google Analytics ("GA") on our websites, a web analytics service provided by Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland ("Google"). This allows us to analyze our website for statistical purposes, exclusively for the purpose of measuring its range without the formation of profiles. The cookie generates information about your use of our websites, which in turn can be graphically processed and visualized via the Google Data Studio software. Google Data Studio only accesses data already generated from GA. Rudimentary processing of cookies for statistical purposes that is purely related to your individual website session is carried out in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f) GDPR. Our legitimate interest results from the aforementioned purposes. The duration of the cookie, i.e. how long the collected information is stored, is consequently 30 minutes after you have become inactive. Your session is thus terminated and it is consequently guaranteed that you will not be recognized over several sessions. Our websites use GA exclusively with the "_anonymizeIp()" extension, which causes your IP address to be shortened and encrypted within member states of the European Union or in other contracting states of the Agreement on the European Economic Area. Thus, a direct reference to persons is excluded. The recorded information including the abbreviated and encrypted IP address is generally transmitted to a Google server in the USA and stored there.
Besides the general rights of withdrawal, you can prevent the compilation and sending of data generated by the cookie, its use of website-related data (incl. your IP address) to Google and the processing of data by Google by downloading and installing the browser plugin which is available via the following link: http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de..
For the purposes of login and account security, we use “Google reCAPTCHA” (hereinafter “reCAPTCHA”) on our website. Google reCAPTCHA is a service of Google LLC (Mountain View, California, United States). For the European region, the service is offered by Google Ireland Limited (Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland).
reCAPTCHA supports us by checking the data entries on our websites (e.g. in the login process) and distinguishes whether the entry is made by a person or improperly by automated, machine processing. To this end, reCAPTCHA analyses the behavior of the website visitor and evaluates various information. The query closes the transmission of your IP address and, if necessary, browser data such as your user agent on the servers of Google Ireland Limited. Your IP address will be shortened beforehand by Google within member states of the European Union or in other signatory states to the Agreement on the European Economic Area. Only in exceptional cases will the complete IP address be transmitted to Google servers in the USA and shortened there. In addition, the duration of the visit to the website and the mouse movements of the user are recorded for the analysis of the requests.
The reCAPTCHA analyses start automatically when the visitor enters the website and run completely in the background. The data required for the analysis will be processed exclusively for the above-mentioned purposes and to protect your requests via the Internet form. We do not store any personal data on our side from the use of reCAPTCHA. In general, the erasure or blocking of personal data of the data subjects applies as soon as the purpose of storage no longer applies. The storage period of the processed data is determined by Google Ireland Limited and cannot be influenced by us.
The use of the service and data processing takes place on the basis of our legitimate interest, i.e. to protect against automated inputs (attacks) and the security of our website in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 letter f. GDPR.
Further information and notes on the Google reCAPTCHA privacy policy can be found in Google’s privacy policy https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en and on the following page https://www.google.com/recaptcha/about. Standard contractual clauses (controller – controller) have been concluded to safeguard the possible transfer of third countries to Google LLC.
3.2.2 Use of third-party cookies and other third-party technologies
In addition to our own cookies, we also use third-party cookies and other third-party technologies on our website. Third-party cookies are those which are not stored on your computer by us but by third-party providers. You will find more detailed information on the scope and purpose of data processing, the respective legal basis, the storage period and the revocation, objection and removal options of third-party cookies and other technologies below in the explanation of the individual procedures we use.
You can access your cookie and privacy settings online at any time in our privacy policy and change the decision you have made or subsequently give or revoke your consent.
3.3 Use of cookies requiring consent and technologies based on consent
We use the services listed in this section on our websites on the basis of your consent, which you have given us via the cookie banner in accordance with Sec. 25 para. 1 TTDSG in conjunction with Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a) GDPR. For these services, you can revoke your consent at any time with effect for the future or subsequently grant it again by accessing your cookie and privacy settings online via our privacy information and configuring them accordingly. Alternatively, you can prevent the storage of cookies by adjusting your browser software accordingly. Please note that the browser settings you make only work for the browser you are using. For further detailed information, please refer to the descriptions below.
We use Google Analytics ("GA") on our websites, a web analytics service provided by Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland ("Google"). GA generally uses [ ] "cookies" to obtain and analyze information about the use of our websites. In addition, we also collect data for marketing purposes and for the delivery of individually tailored advertising messages as part of the so-called advertising functions. These functions include, for example, the formation of user groups with similar interests and behavior, as well as the creation of remarketing lists based on collected interest, behavioral and demographic data. For example, you will be addressed with content relevant to you based on your interests. Your data will only be processed if you have actively consented to the "marketing and personalization" section within the cookie banner on our websites. In these cases, the legal basis for the processing of the data is your consent in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a), Art. 49 para. 1 lit. a) GDPR. On our behalf, Google will process the information collected for the purpose of evaluating your use of our website and compiling reports on website activity. The duration of the cookies, i.e. how long the collected information is stored, is 12 months. Our websites use GA exclusively with the "_anonymizeIp()" extension, which causes your IP address to be shortened and encrypted within member states of the European Union or in other contracting states of the Agreement on the European Economic Area. Thus, a direct reference to persons is excluded. The recorded information including the abbreviated and encrypted IP address is generally transmitted to a Google server in the USA and stored there.
Besides the general rights of revocation, you can also prevent the compilation and sending of data generated by the cookie, its use of website-related data (incl. your IP address) to Google and the processing of data by Google by downloading and installing the browser plugin which is available via the following link: http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de.
However, we would like to point out that in this case you may not be able to use all the functions of our website to their full extent. As an alternative to the browser plugin or within browsers on mobile devices, you can also click the following link to set an opt-out cookie that will prevent Google Analytics from recording data within this website in the future (JavaScript must be activated): Deactivate Google Analytics
Please note that this opt-out cookie only works in this browser and only for this domain. If you delete your cookies or use a different browser, you will have to click the interface again.
For general information about Google’s privacy policy, please visit https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=de.
3.3.2 Google Display & Video 360 and Google Campaign Manager 360
We use the online marketing service "Display & Video 360" (formerly Double Click Bid Manager, "DV360") and the online marketing service "Campaign Manager 360" (formerly Double Click Campaign Manager, "CM360") from Google on our website. We process data about your behavior on our websites for marketing purposes and the delivery of individually tailored advertising messages. In addition, we process data from the application process (e.g. reason for switching, payment method, etc.) that you have selected as part of your website visit in order to form user groups with comparable behavior and to create remarketing lists. For example, you are targeted with content that is relevant to you based on your behavior. In doing so, DV360 and CM360 generally use so-called "cookies" to track where and how our advertisements have been played. In addition, this can prevent advertisements from being displayed to you more than once. In addition, CM360 uses cookies for conversion tracking (so-called "floodlight cookies"), which allow evaluations of your digital user behavior on our websites, for example, information about products in which you were interested (e.g. rate, division, etc.). This allows us to measure the effectiveness of our advertising activities as well as to retarget identified user groups with the right content. In addition to the activities on our website, we collect and process information about your user behavior in the Google advertising network. In these cases, the legal basis for the processing of the data is your consent in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a), Art. 49 para. 1 lit. a) GDPR. On our behalf, Google will use the information collected to evaluate the impact of our advertising activities and to create reports on the campaigns. There is a technical connection between DV360, CM360 and GA. This allows data and information already collected to flow between the tools. On our behalf, Google will import the data from CM360 and GA into DV360 and make it available to us there. Your data will only be available to us if you have actively consented to the "Marketing and Personalization" section of the cookie banner on our websites. The cookies stored by CM360 and DV360 are deleted after 90 days at the latest. Your IP address is encrypted and shortened by Google. Thus, a direct reference to persons is excluded. At no time can we see your IP address. This information including the IP address is generally transmitted to a Google server in the USA and stored there. In addition to the general revocation options, you can also use the following link to revoke your consent in the settings of your Google account and prevent the collection of personalized advertising from Google within this website in the future: https://adssettings.google.com/u/0/authenticated?hl=de
3.3.3 Google Ads
As a Google Ads customer, we also use Google Conversion Tracking on our website. This is an analysis service provided by Google. As part of this service, Google Ads sets a cookie on your computer ("conversion cookie") if you have reached our website via a Google advertisement. The purpose of using the conversion cookie is to use the information collected to compile conversion statistics for Ads customers. In these cases, the legal basis for the processing of the data is your consent in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a), Art. 49 para. 1 lit. a) GDPR. As an Ads customer, we only learn the total number of users who clicked our ad and were redirected to a page with a conversion tracking tag. However, we do not receive any information that allows us to personally identify a user. If you visit some of our pages and the cookie has not expired, this cookie enables us and Google to recognize that someone has clicked the ad and been redirected to our site. Since every Ads customer receives a different cookie, it is not possible to track the cookie through websites of other Ads customers. This type of cookie loses its validity after 540 days and is not used to identify you personally. If you have completed an order with EnBW, this cookie will lose its validity after 60 days.
3.3.4 Adform
For the purpose of placing interest-related advertisements, cookies are set on our website by Adform A/S (Wildersgade 10B, 1, 1408 Copenhagen K, Denmark). These cookies store information about the operating system, browser version, geographical location, URLs where Adform advertisements are displayed and the number of clicks or views. Immediately when the data is collected, your IP address is anonymised by truncating it by the last three digits. The collected data can therefore not be related to any person, neither for Adform nor for us. The cookie set by Adform has a term of 60 days. The data collected with the Adform cookie is used for the following purposes:
• Recording the number of visitors to our websites
• Determining the order in which a visitor visits the various pages of our website
• Assessing which parts of our website need to be adapted
• Optimising the website
The legal basis for this is the declaration of consent given by you when you access this website within the framework of our cookie banner (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a) GDPR). You can revoke your consent at any time with effect for the future. If you do not want Adform to collect your data, you can revoke your consent at any time by clicking the following link: https://site.adform.com/privacy-center/website-privacy/opt-out.
3.3.5 Use of AWIN
We use a service of AWIN AG, Eichhornstraße 3, D-10785 Berlin, Germany on our website. As part of its tracking services, AWIN stores cookies on the end devices of users who visit or use our websites or other online services provided by us (e.g. when you register for a newsletter or place an order) for the purpose of documenting transactions (e.g. leads and sales). These cookies are used solely for the purpose of correctly allocating the success of an advertising medium and the corresponding billing of advertising costs. Your IP address will be shortened immediately after recording. A cookie only contains information about when a particular advertising medium was clicked by an end device. In an additional cookie set by us, an individual sequence of digits, which cannot be assigned to the individual user, is stored. The legal basis for data processing is your consent pursuant Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a) GDPR. In addition to the general withdrawal options, you can also use the following link to withdraw your consent and prevent AWIN from collecting data within this website in the future: https://www.awin.com/de/rechtliches/optout. If you click this link, an opt-out cookie will be created and stored in your browser. This cookie prevents Awin tracking services from placing further cookies on your terminal device in the future. At the same time, all Awin Tracking Cookies that may already exist on your terminal device will be deleted.
3.3.6 Taboola
We use content discovery technology from Taboola (16 Madison Square West, 7th Floor, New York, New York 10010) to recommend additional online content that may be of interest to you. Taboola’s representative in the EU is LionheartSquared (Europe) Ltd., 2 Pembroke House, Upper Pembroke Street 28 - 32, Dublin, D02 EK 84, Ireland. In order to provide these recommendations, Taboola uses cookies and similar technologies to collect information about your device and your user behavior on this website (and other partner websites), and uses pseudonyms to create user profiles that fundamentally do not permit any conclusions to be drawn about personal data. The legal basis for processing [Art. 6 (1) lt. a) GDPR] is the declaration of consent that you submitted in our cookie banner when you called up this website.
In addition to the general withdrawal options, you can also use the following link to withdraw your consent and prevent Taboola from collecting data within this website in the future:
https://www.taboola.com/policies/privacy-policy#user-choices-and-opting-out
The pseudonymous profiles created in this way will be saved by Taboola for 13 months.
Additional information can be found in Taboola’s Privacy Policy (https://www.taboola.com/privacy-policy).
3.3.7 Thunderhead
We use ONE technology from Thunderhead ONE Limited (company no. 08115007), Stanford Building, 27A Floral St, London WC2E 9EZ. Here a ONE cookie is stored on your device.
Use without login to the customer portal
If you are not logged into the customer portal/registered area, your user behavior will be recorded anonymously. Your user behavior includes which of our websites you visit, how long you stay there, what you "click" or in which fields you enter data (so-called listening and capturing). This serves to improve our website as well as our products and services as such, as we hope to gain insights into what interests our customers or interested parties/users of our websites and which functions they use and how. The IP address is anonymized immediately when the data is collected. The legal basis for processing (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a) GDPR) is the declaration of consent that you submitted in our cookie banner when you called up this website. For further information on data usage by Thunderhead, on setting and objection options as well as on data protection, please refer to the following website of Thunderhead: https://www.thunderhead.com/our-product/the-thunderhead-trust-center/privacy-policy/.
Use during login in the customer portal
If you log in to the registered area and have given your consent to do so, the data collected by means of the Thunderhead cookie on user behavior will be processed in a personalized manner by linking it to your identity and your contractual data. The purpose of creating your personal customer profile is to enable us to display content tailored to you and your interests, which we assume could be particularly helpful or interesting for you in your situation. Thunderhead does not receive any personal data beyond the aforementioned data. The legal basis for data processing pursuant to Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a) GDPR is the declaration of consent that you submitted in our cookie banner when you accessed this website. The customer profile created in this way will be stored until you either revoke your consent or until our purposes in connection with the contractual relationship existing between us expire. For further information, please refer to the data protection information regarding the contractual relationship between us.
3.3.8 Facebook Pixel, Facebook Custom Audiences und Facebook Conversion Tracking
Facebook Pixel is used on our websites. This is a JavaScript code snippet that enables us to track the activities of our website visitors. The Facebook Pixel is used by Facebook Inc, 1 Hacker Way, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA, or if you are located in the EU, by Facebook Ireland Ltd, 4 Grand Canal Square, Grand Canal Harbour, Dublin 2, Ireland ("Facebook"). The use of the Facebook pixel as well as the storage of "conversion cookies" is only carried out if you have given your consent to the use of cookies and similar procedures when visiting our website. With the help of the Facebook pixel, Facebook is able to determine you as a target group for the display of advertisements (so-called "Facebook ads") by visiting our online offer. In order to make this possible, we use the Facebook pixel to display the Facebook Ads placed by us only to those Facebook users who have also shown an interest in our online offer or who have certain characteristics. A certain characteristic could for example be the interest in a certain product, which could be defined by the website visit. The information collected is transmitted to Facebook (so-called "customer audiences"). We do not have access to this information ourselves. With the help of the Facebook pixel, we want to ensure that our Facebook advertisements match the potential interest of the users. We can also use the Facebook Pixel to track the impact of Facebook Ads for statistical and market research purposes by seeing whether network visitors have been redirected to our website after clicking a Facebook ad (so-called "conversion tracking").
Example 1 for Custom Audiences (Remarketing):
You visit our website, are interested in an electricity tariff and Facebook provides you with further relevant information on the respective product for us via a Facebook advertisement at a later date, based on your interests. The advertising offer tailored to your interests will be displayed on Facebook, Instagram or on other websites cooperating with Facebook.
A special form of customer audiences are the so-called "lookalike audiences". With this method, not the actual website visitors are addressed, but network members with comparable profile characteristics. This means that the advertising message is not displayed to the website visitor, but to the so-called "lookalikes". Comparable profile characteristics can include age, place of residence or interests.
Example 2 for Custom Audiences (Lookalikes):
You visit our website and are interested in an electricity tariff. Based on your interest in our product and your profile characteristics, Facebook will display advertisements on Facebook, Instagram or other websites cooperating with Facebook that resemble your profile.
The Facebook pixel, which is integrated on our website and on Facebook partner pages, also recognizes whether you are the owner of a Facebook account and use it based on the Facebook cookie set. Via the Facebook pixel, the generated data about your usage behavior is forwarded to Facebook. Your Facebook ID is also transferred, which enables a data link on Facebook pages. If you would like to check this data recording, further processing and the general use of the data and/or deactivate this procedure, you can do this directly in the settings of your Facebook account.
The use of the Facebook pixel as well as the storage of "conversion cookies" is only carried out if you have given your consent to the use of cookies and similar procedures when visiting our website. The legal basis is Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a), Art. 49 para. 1 lit. a) GDPR. In addition to the general revocation options, you can also revoke the consent you have given by clicking the following link. This will delete the Facebook pixel:
Deactivate Facebook Pixel.
In order to set directly on Facebook which types of advertisements are displayed to you within Facebook, you can access the page set up by Facebook and follow the instructions there on the settings for usage-based advertising. The settings are platform-independent, i.e. they are applied to all devices, such as desktop computers or mobile devices. You can also object to the use of cookies for audience measurement and advertising purposes via the deactivation page of the Network Advertising Initiative and additionally via the US website aboutads.info or the European website youronlinechoices.com.
3.3.9 YouTube
On our website, we use a service from YouTube LLC, 901 Cherry Avenue, San Bruno, CA 94066, USA for the integration of videos. The videos are stored at http://www.YouTube.com. You can play these videos directly from our website. The videos are all embedded in "enhanced privacy mode", which means that no information about you as a YouTube user will be stored unless you play the videos. Nevertheless, YouTube will contact Google's Double Click service and, according to YouTube, no data will be stored in this case. Only when you play the videos will your IP address and the information that you have watched the video be saved by YouTube. If you are logged in to YouTube, this information is also assigned to your YouTube user account. If you do not wish this to happen, you will need to log out of your YouTube account before playing the video. We have no influence on the data recording and processing by YouTube. You can find more detailed information about the data processing by YouTube in their privacy policy. You can find this at www.google.de/intl/en/policies/privacy.
3.3.10 Outbrain
We use the Outbrain Pixel of our contractual partner Outbrain UK Ltd, 5th Floor, The Place,175 High Holborn, London, WC1V 7AA, United Kingdom, a technology of Outbrain Inc, 39 W 13th Street New York, NY 10011 USA on our website. The Outbrain service enables us to target those users with advertising who have already shown interest in our offers on our websites. The Outbrain pixel uses a unique identifier (Universally Unique Identifier (UUID)) to recognize you on other websites. The information required for this, as well as the information that you have visited our website, which browser and which device you are using, is stored in cookies on your computer and transmitted to Outbrain. In addition, Outbrain uses the IP address shortened by the last octet to obtain your approximate geolocation. The pseudonymous profiles created in this way will be saved by Outbrain for 13 months. Based on these pseudonymous profiles, however, it is not possible for Outbrain to directly identify you as a person. Outbrain further decides which content you might be interested in and plays corresponding content to you. The decision about what content you see is made based on your previous viewed content, similar browsing patterns of other users, recommendations that are current among Outbrain's addressees at the given time, a certain degree of randomness, and targeting requirements specified by advertisers. The legal basis for this is the declaration of consent given by you when you access this website within the framework of our cookie banner (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a), Art 49 para. 1 lit. a) GDPR). In addition to the general withdrawal options, you can also use the following link to withdraw your consent and prevent Outbrain from collecting data within this website in the future: https://my.outbrain.com/recommendations-settings/home .
For more information about Outbrain's data processing, please visit: https://www.outbrain.com/legal/privacy.
3.3.11 Ströer
On our website, we use cookies from Seeding Alliance GmbH, c/o Ströer, Gustav-Heinemann-Ufer 74b, 50968 Cologne. The native advertising technology of Seeding Alliance GmbH places relevant advertising content online in a non-disruptive, native design – referred to in the following as the image/text product. The image/text product of the provider Ströer, including the data generation described, is handled by Seeding Alliance. Data is collected and stored anonymously in order to control which content is uploaded and accessed for analysis. This primarily includes history data, device information, and cookies. Cookies are stored for up to 90 days. Personal data is generally not saved. IP addresses are truncated by the last octet. Seeding Alliance uses IT md5 with salt to do so. In addition, we use the collected information to display relevant content to our website visitors based on their needs. The legal basis for data processing pursuant to Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a) GDPR is the declaration of consent that you submitted in our cookie banner when you accessed this website. In addition to the general procedures for revoking consent, you can also use this link to revoke your consent and to prevent data from being recorded by Seeding Alliance on this website in the future. The term of the opt-out cookie is 10 years.
More information on data protection at Seeding Alliance GmbH is available here.
3.4 Creating a personal customer profile – only with your consent
By a personal customer profile, we mean a data base consisting of the following data:
Data that is collected during the use of our digital offers regarding your online usage behaviour
By this, we mean data that is collected when you visit our website and our social media presence, when you use one of our apps and when we send you our newsletter or push notifications. In detail, this includes information about which pages you view, when and how long you visit us or use our apps, whether you read our newsletter and which devices you use for this purpose. Which data is collected in detail and on the basis of which legal basis within the scope of the respective digital offer is explained in the data protection information of the respective digital offer.
Customer and contract-related data
By this we mean data which we have received from you within the framework of a pre-contractual or contractual relationship. This includes, for example, your name, contact details, contractual details such as your tariff and consumption and also technical or constructional data insofar as it was collected within the scope of our (pre-)contractual relationship (e.g. roof area, system performance data).
Further information made available
By this we mean all data which you yourself have given us outside our contractual or pre-contractual relationship or which you have generated using our applications. This can be, for example, your expressed interest in one of our products or services, but also, for example, an indication of an impending move or other changes to your home, which could have an impact on the tariff that is best for you. Another example is when you use our e-mobility driving simulation to find out whether an e-car could be useful for you.
Data that we collect in the course of your communication with us
By this we mean data that we collect in connection with a communication with you in addition to the information provided in terms of content. This concerns in particular our assessment of your satisfaction.
If you have given your consent to the creation of a personal customer profile, this data will be combined and evaluated on a personal basis. The purpose of creating your personal customer profile is to enable us to inform you of content tailored to your interests, which we assume could be particularly helpful or interesting for you in your situation. In addition, we can make you more suitable offers which are highly likely to be of interest to you. In addition, we can use the customer profile to offer you advice tailored to your personal needs and give you more transparency regarding your energy consumption and costs and help you avoid unnecessary consumption.
Legal basis for data processing is your consent (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a) GDPR). The personal customer profile created will be deleted when it is no longer required for the purposes for which it was created, at the latest when you withdraw your consent.
Please note that the issuance/non-granting of consent has no influence on data processing that is already permitted on the basis of other legal bases (such as for contractual purposes (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. b) or for legitimate interests (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f) GDPR)).
3.5 Use of the registration function
Individual offers on our websites require registration. The use of these offers is voluntary. The data required for registration is requested during the registration process. These are, for example, your name, your e-mail address, your date of birth and a password of your choice. This data is required for registration purposes. The data requested during the registration process will be stored by us for the purpose of managing your customer portal access until you delete your account. The legal basis for data processing is Art. 6 para. 1 lit. b) GDPR.
3.6 Use of a contact form
If you contact us via a form on www.enbw.com, this is always done using 128-bit encryption. If you do not use the EnBW contact forms but use your private mail account, you should note that you must take your own security measures to ensure the confidentiality of your message. Therefore please use the encrypted forms of EnBW. If the form is not encrypted, there is a technical problem and we cannot assume any liability for the security of your data transmission. You can see whether a form is encrypted by the closed "padlock" icon in your browser window.
Depending on the content of your request, the legal basis for data processing is Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a), lit. b) or lit. f).
Typical examples of the previously mentioned legal bases are:
Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a) GDPR: In case of active use of the contact form, you consent to the associated data processing
Art. 6 para. 1 lit. b) GDPR: In the case of active use of the contact form and specification of contract content, we process this personal data for the purpose of fulfilling the contract
Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f) GDPR: In order to preventively protect ourselves against possible attack or abuse scenarios via the contact form, we have a legitimate interest in processing your personal data
We will delete the data that you send us by means of your enquiry once the respective purpose has been achieved. If the transmitted enquiry refers to a contract concluded with us, your enquiry will be deleted as explained in the data protection information of the respective contract. The data protection information for your respective contract can be found here.
3.7 Contact by telephone
If you contact us by telephone, we will use the information you provide us with in accordance with the purpose for which you contacted us. Depending on the content of your request, the legal basis for data processing is Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a), lit. b) or lit. f).
Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a) GDPR: You give us permission in the course of your conversation with our customer service representative to record the conversation for quality purposes
Art. 6 para.1 lit. b) GDPR: Using automated processes to identify you already in the course of your call and identify possible concerns in order to be able to forward you to the customer service representative responsible for you
Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f) GDPR: Our legitimate interest in processing your personal data may also arise from the purpose of managing our hotline capacities
We will delete the data that you provide us with during the telephone call once the respective purpose has been achieved. Should our telephone call be in connection with an existing contract or in connection with a contract enquiry, please also note our data protection information regarding the respective product. You can find this data protection information here.
3.8 Communication with us via Facebook Messenger
We offer our customers and interested parties the possibility to communicate with us via Facebook Messenger (a product of Facebook Inc., 1601 S. California Ave, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA). Should you decide to use this option, please note the following:
we would like to point out that the chat history cannot be deleted by us or by you. In the event of the exchange of contract-relevant information, we will store this data in our system for verification purposes. The legal basis for data processing is Art. 6 para. 1 lit. b) GDPR. Please refer to the data protection information of your contract concluded with us for the storage period of the data stored for verification purposes. However, we would like to point out that we have no influence on the data processing by Facebook. Please note that a Facebook chat can be unencrypted and Facebook therefore has access to the content of our communication. You can tell whether the chat is encrypted by the fact that a padlock symbol is displayed in the profile picture within Facebook Messenger. Further information on the use of data by Facebook is available at https://www.facebook.com/about/privacy/.
3.9 Integration of news feeds
On our website, we have integrated so-called news feeds from social networks such as Facebook andTwitter. When visiting our website, these news feeds are disabled by default. This means that no data is sent to the respective social networks if you don't activate the news feeds. To activate the news feeds, you must start by clicking them. The news feed then remains activated until the browser window is closed. As soon as you have activated the respective news feed, a direct connection is established with the server of the respective social network. This way, the content of the news feed is transmitted to your browser and integrated into the displayed website. By activation, the information you accessed on our website is transmitted to the operator of the respective social network. If, during your visit to our website, you are logged in to the social network via your personal user account, the social network can assign the website visit to your account. This applies regardless of whether you actually use the news feed after activation, or not. Through interaction with the news feed, e.g. by leaving a comment, this corresponding information is transmitted directly to the respective social network and stored there. The legal basis for the transmission of data to the respective social network is your consent (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a) GDPR), which you give by activating the respective news feed. We would like to point out that we have no influence on the extent of the data collected by the social networks via the news feeds. The scope and the purposes of data processing pursued by the social networks, as well as your related rights and setting options for the protection of your privacy can be found in the data privacy information of the respective social networks.
3.10 Newsletter
You have the opportunity on our websites to evaluate our company and our products and services within the framework of so-called short surveys.
The legal basis for this is the declaration of consent given by you when you access the website within the framework of our cookie banner (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a) GDPR). You can revoke the consent you have given at any time with effect for the future, or subsequently give it again, by accessing your cookie and privacy settings online via our data protection information and configuring them accordingly. Decisive for the possibility to participate in our short surveys is the consent to the setting of what are referred to as "convenience" cookies.
Within the context of the short surveys, we process the data that you voluntarily send us. These are initially all answers that you give us as part of our surveys. If a free text field is integrated into the survey, we also collect the data provided in your response here. We process your data to gain better knowledge about the needs of our users or customers with regard to our products, services and processes as well as customer relations in general. To this end, we evaluate the data collected voluntarily from you as part of the short surveys accordingly.
Personal data received will be deleted or anonymized if it is no longer necessary for the purposes for which it was created or if you withdraw your consent.
3.11 Comment function, feedback and evaluation
The legal basis for this is the declaration of consent given by you when you access the website within the framework of our cookie banner (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a) GDPR). You can revoke the consent you have given at any time with effect for the future, or subsequently give it again, by accessing your cookie and privacy settings online via our data protection information and configuring them accordingly.
enbw.com - When you participate in surveys on enbw.com, we collect and process the information you provide in the surveys anonymously. Therefore, please do not include any personal information in your survey answers that could be used to trace them back to you personally.
meine.enbw.com - When you participate in surveys on meine.enbw.com while you are logged in, we will link your survey answers to your customer ID or customer profile. By doing so, we hope to understand more fully how your individual feedback is associated with our business processes, products, services, and communication measures. In addition, we also process the feedback you provide in conjunction with informational, service, or product offers created for individual customers.
3.12 Processing of your data due to legal requirements
Insofar as we are subject to legal obligations that make further processing of your data necessary, we will also process your data for the purposes provided by law. The legal basis for this data processing is Art. 6 para. 1 lit. c) GDPR in conjunction with the norm which contains the respective legal obligation.
3.13 Processing of your data on the basis of consent given by you
Data will also be processed if and to the extent that you have consented to data processing in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a GDPR. The purposes of the data processing result from the respective consent.
4. What categories of recipients receive my data?
We treat your data with confidentiality. Within EnBW Energie-Baden Württemberg AG, only those departments and employees who need your data to fulfil the above-mentioned purposes will have access to it.
Personal data is only shared with third parties by us if necessary and legally permitted for the aforementioned purposes or if you have given your prior consent.
In addition to the recipients already specifically named above, we make use of other service providers (contract processors) to fulfil our obligations. The following categories of recipients may receive data:
• IT service provider-Dienstleister
• Survey service provider
• Call centre
• Marketing service provider
• Analysis specialists
• Disposal of files and data carriers
• Authorities
• Legal guardians and persons for whom a power of attorney exists
Personal data is also only transferred to other Group companies if there is a legal basis to do so and it is necessary for one of the purposes mentioned above.
5. Will my data also be transmitted to recipients in countries outside the European Economic Area?
We also transfer your data to service providers and vicarious agents who are located in third countries and carry out data processing there. Compliance with an adequate level of data protection is ensured on the basis of adequacy decisions pursuant to Art. 45 GDPR or by other appropriate or adequate guarantees pursuant to Art. 46 et seq. GDPR. Our service providers in third countries process the data in accordance with our instructions and are bound by contract. In the event of data being transferred to a third country, there may nevertheless be a risk that there is no adequate level of data protection in accordance with European law and that the rights of data subjects may not be fully enforceable.
In detail, we transfer your data to the following third countries:
IT service providers in the USA: the adequate level of data protection is ensured by means of standard contractual clauses (template can be accessed here: https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/law-topic/data-protection/international-dimension-data-protection/standard-contractual-clauses-scc)
IT service provider in the UK: The adequate level of data protection is ensured by an adequacy decision of the European Commission (available at: https://ec.europa.eu/info/sites/default/files/decision_on_the_adequate_protection_of_personal_data_by_the_united_kingdom_-_general_data_protection_regulation_de.pdf)
Data transfers from another country are also possible through administrative access, as system operability is often ensured based on the "follow-the-sun" principle. However, your data will not be stored in other countries. In these cases, data will only be accessed if we have ensured that an adequate level of data protection is maintained.
6. What must I consider when using links from a data protection perspective?
Our website may contain links to other providers to whom our data protection provisions do not extend.
7. What about the security of my data?
EnBW uses state-of-the-art technical and organisational security measures to protect the data you provide us from accidental or deliberate manipulation, loss, destruction or access by unauthorised persons. Our security measures are continuously improved in line with technological developments.
8. What applies to data relating to children?
We strongly encourage guardians to supervise their children's online activities. Children should not transmit personal data to us without the consent of their parents or legal guardians. We do not knowingly request personal data from children and do not knowingly process such data.
9. What rights do I have regarding my data?
With regard to the processing of your personal data, you have the right, in accordance with Art. 15 GDPR, to request information about the data we process about you. Furthermore, you have the right to have data corrected in accordance with Art. 16 GDPR, deleted in accordance with Art. 17 GDPR, or to restrict processing in accordance with Art. 18 GDPR. Furthermore, in accordance with Art. 20 GDPR, you have the right to demand the surrender of the personal data provided by you in a structured, common and machine-readable format. With regard to the right to information, the restrictions of § 34 BDSG (German Federal Data Protection Act) apply and with regard to the right of deletion, the exceptions of § 35 BDSG apply.
Right to object Art. 21 GDPR
If we process your data on the basis of a legitimate interest (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f) GDPR) or to perform a task carried out in the public interest (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. e) GDPR), you have the right to object to this processing in accordance with Art. 21 para. 1 GDPR on grounds relating to your particular situation. In the event of an objection, we will no longer process your data unless we demonstrate compelling legitimate grounds for the processing which override your interests, rights and freedoms or for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims.
You have an – unrestricted – right to object to any form of processing for purposes of direct marketing pursuant to Art. 21 para. 2 and 3 GDPR.
You may address your objection to us at any time on an informal basis.
For the best possible processing, we kindly request that you use the following contact data:
Tel. (switchboard): +49 721 63-00
Customer service number: +49 721 72586-001
Please note that you can only implement your objection to the use of tracking procedures on our website yourself. It is technically not possible to do this centrally. For each tracking procedure in which you must implement the objection yourself, we have attached an explanation above.
10. Can I withdraw my consent?
If we process your personal data on the basis of consent you have provided, you have the right to withdraw your consent at any time. Your data will then no longer be processed for the purposes covered by the consent. Please note that the lawfulness of data processing performed prior to the withdrawal of your consent is not affected by this withdrawal. Please refer to the above information or the information in the respective consent for details of how you can declare your objection. You are welcome to send your revocation:
Here, your revocation will – if technically possible – be implemented directly centrally or you will be informed how you can implement the revocation yourself, as a central implementation by us is not possible with some technical procedures.
11. Do I have a right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority?
If you believe that the processing of your personal data violates applicable law, you may lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority at any time in accordance with Art. 77 GDPR. This is without prejudice to any other administrative or judicial remedies.
12. Do I have to provide the data or is the provision necessary for the conclusion of a contract?
With the exception of the technically necessary data for displaying our website, any provision of data by you is voluntary. Should this be different in exceptional cases, this is explicitly mentioned at the appropriate place in this declaration.
13. Will my data be used for automated decision-making? And if so, how is this done and what are the consequences for me?
No, we do not use automated decision-making.
14. Is this information subject to change? If so, how will I be informed?
In light of the circumstance that data processing is subject to change, we will also update our privacy policies from time to time. We will inform you of any changes in good time. You will find the current status of these data protection regulations here.
You can download our data protection documents here.
Your contact for data protection
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Andreas Fritz
[email protected]
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7 Reasons you Need to be Watching Yellowstone
Credit to paramountnetwork.com (Press Photos)
If you have been waiting to jump on the Yellowstone bandwagon, then take this as your sign to jump on! We are excited to give you 7 reasons why you need to watch the hottest new series on television, besides the obvious one being it’s the best thing since sliced bread. Okay, all jokes aside, let’s dive in!
Reason #1: Everyone Wants to Be a Cowboy
Yellowstone embodies the essence of the American West, and people are eating it up. A great example of this was last year when the series was released, everyone was Rip and Beth for Halloween. People are always looking for an excuse to play cowboy and Yellowstone gave them a reason. The series does a phenomenal job of giving its viewers the feel of living “life on the range”, while also providing the drama of a good TV show that everyone craves.
Kayce (L-Luke Grimes) and Rip (R-Cole Hauser) discover that Dutton’s enemies have struck a direct hit on the ranch in tragedy in Paramount Network’s hit drama series “Yellowstone.” Credit to paramountnetwork.com (Press Photos)
Reason #2: The Story Line
Speaking of drama, if it’s one thing you watch this show for, it should be the storyline and the drama that comes with it. You can’t beat the amazing landscape surrounding the show, but what about the storyline itself? At its core, the series is based on the complications that surround the Dutton Ranch, which is the largest contiguous ranch in the United States, based in Montana. The show navigates issues with the Broken Rock Indian reservation, the government, and land developers. Viewers love a good family-drama series, and this show checks all the boxes.
(L-R) Wendy Moniz-Grillo as Governor Perry and Kevin Costner as John Dutton. Credit to paramountnetwork.com (Press Photos)
Reason #3: Representation of Ranching & Land Issues
This is a huge reason to watch Yellowstone, whether you are an avid Western Industry enthusiast or you are brand new to the industry, there are several issues that the industry is currently facing that the show sheds light on throughout their seasons. In the seasons we have seen so far, the Dutton family faced issues with cattle rustlers, land developers, and threats from the Indian Reservation that the land they own is rightfully theirs. These are all issues, especially developers, that modern ranches face. We could go much deeper into the agriculture issues that permeate the industry, but we should wait and see what Season 5 brings us.
John Dutton (C-Kevin Costner) is the patriarch of the Dutton Ranch, but in Season 2 of “Yellowstone”‘ gives oversight of the ranch to his youngest son Kayce. Credit to paramountnetwork.com (Press Photos)
Reason #4: Music That Sets the Scene
Let’s talk about music! If the intro to Yellowstone doesn’t give you all of the goosebumps, then keep listening because the soundtrack to this series is unlike anything else you will hear from any other TV show on the air. Let’s take Season 4 for example, you could listen to artists such as Colter Wall, Turnpike Troubadours, Chris Stapleton, Casey Donahew, Tyler Childers and so many more. If you’re already a fan of Texas Red Dirt Music, then this series is going to be fun to watch because there are so many artists included that you will know. In addition, it’s awesome to see a mainstream TV series using some artists that have been flying under the mainstream radar and deserve the spotlight.
Reason #5: The Horses
This reason might just be directed towards our equine fans out there, but Yellowstone deserves applause for getting the best of the best in the AQHA to come in and be a part of the show. Let’s start with Season 1, Episode 5 when AQHA reining world champion and National Reining Horse Association Futurity champion Lil Joe Cash appeared onscreen with NRHA million dollar rider and trainer Andrea Fappani. For all the horse people wanting to watch good riding on a television show, they got it in this episode! But it wasn’t just Lil Joe Cash that made an appearance in Season 1, he was joined by million co-champion and World Equestrian Games medalist, Custom Made Gun as well as many other world-renowned reining champions and trainers.
Reason #6: The One and Only Beth Dutton
Even for someone who has never watched the show, we still guarantee that they have heard of the great Beth Dutton. The infamous daughter of John Dutton on the show plays a gritty and rough-around-the-edges character that people can’t help but fall in love with. Speaking of love, Beth’s relationship with Rip Wheeler is a huge attraction for the show as viewers live vicariously through Beth and her dramatic relationship with her husband, Rip.
From the great Beth Dutton,
“I believe in lovin’ with your whole soul and destroying anything that wants to kill what you love. That’s it. That’s all there is.” (Season 3, Episode 10)
Reason #7: The Quotes We Will Never Forget
Let’s continue past Reason #6. If it’s one thing that die-hard fans and newbies enjoy most about Yellowstone, is the quotes circulating around social media. We want to feature some of those now. If you have a favorite, make sure to head over to our website, cowboylifestylenetwork.com, find this article comment, and comment with your own favorite quote!
“A man who puts a hand on a member of my family never puts a hand on anything else.” – Jamie Dutton
“It’s the one constant in life. You build something worth having, someone’s gonna try to take it.” – John Dutton
“There’s sharks and minnows in this world. If you don’t know which you are, you ain’t a shark.” – Rip Wheeler
“No one has a right. You have to take a right, or stop it from being taken from you.” – John Dutton
“If men were responsible for giving birth, the human race wouldn’t have lasted two generations.” — Evelyn
This article was created for the Spring Issue of the Cowboy Lifestyle Magazine which releases next week. You can catch this article and many more in the upcoming issue. For more information on Cowboy Lifestyle Magazine, visit the website here.
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Sydney Metallers EVISCERATE THE CROWN Release New Single ‘Betrayer // Deceiver’
by KMN 29 April, 2022 - 09:07 29 April, 2022 - 09:09 153
Sydney metal sensations Eviscerate The Crown just dropped their blistering new single ‘Betrayer // Deceiver’ unleashing their brand of dissonant brutality that warrants repeat listens. Infusing elements of heavy metal and metalcore with swaithes of deathcore into a kaleidoscope of brutality, ‘Betrayer // Deceiver’ treats the listeners to superbly tight instrumentation, gut-punching terse riffs, catastrophic breakdowns and magnetic vocals.
Vocalist Liam Carroll speaks: “Betrayer // Deceiver” is The Rook piece, and is known for his many betrayals and powerful deceptions. Inspired by the tale of Nosferatu, cursed for eternity, left longing to quench his undying thirst, this track is structured as three movements, throughout which Nosferatu exposes his different faces. This track represents the betrayals band members have experienced by those closest to them. A wolf may hide in sheep’s skins, but eventually through time they are revealed for who they are”
EVISCERATE THE CROWN – ‘Betrayer // Deceiver’ (OFFICIAL MUSIC VIDEO)
No strangers to low-tunings, soaring screams & hooky melodies, the New South Wales natives have cemented their place as one of the country’s fastest-rising metal acts with their signature livid intensity. Making an impressive debut with their EP ‘The End Of Suffering’ and follow-up single ‘The Abyss’, Eviscerate The Crown have been garnering coverage nationwide including features on Bravewords, Maniacs, Heavy Mag, Riffs Publications and more; as well as amassing 20,000+ Spotify streams with 9,000+ streams on ‘The Abyss’ alone. Forging full steam ahead, they toured Japan alongside The Faceless (USA), Suffocation (USA) and Aversions Crown (AU), followed by sold-out shows in their hometown of NSW at the height of the pandemic.
Taking advantage of the recent lockdowns, the group has been plugging away on new soundscapes of fear, theater, and grandiosity with their most mature material yet. This progressive death metal unit has created intense yet vibrant atmospheres, full of moments that take the listener on a sonic journey, rewarding them with intense payoffs by incorporating influences such as Periphery, Leprous, Northlane, Thy Art Is Murder and Karnivool. With the release of ‘Betrayer // Deceiver’, Eviscerate The Crown are sure to reach new heights in the heavy music realm within Australia and beyond.
‘Betrayer // Deceiver’ is out now via lnk.to/betrayer
SOCIALS & STREAMING
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EVISCERATE THE CROWN – Sydney’s Metal Rising Stars sign with Hard Drive Agency for Management and Full Representation
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EVISCERATE THE CROWN Release Crushing New Single “The Abyss”
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100 Artists See God
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Exhibition catalogue published in conjunction with show held at The Jewish Museum San Francisco, San Francisco, March 7 - June 27, 2004. Traveled to Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, July 24 - October 3, 2004; and Contemporary Art Center of Virginia, Virginia Beach, June 9 - September 4, 2005. ... [details]
New York, NY: Independent Curators International, 2004
Condition: Very Good / Fine. Light rubbing of cover corners and dust soiling to text block edge. Contents clean and unmarked. Due to size and weight of this publication additional shipping charges will be required for international orders.
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Art and Film Since 1945 : Hall of Mirrors
Kerry Brougher, Jonathan Crary, Russell Ferguson, Bruce Jenkins, Kate Linker, Molly Nesbit, Robert Rosen, Mariana Amatullo, Robert Aldrich, Kenneth Anger, Michelangelo Antonioni, Diane Arbus, John Baldessari, Judith Barry, Saul Bass, Ingmar Bergman, Cindy Bernard, Bernardo Bertolucci, Joseph Beuys, Douglas Blau, Barbara Bloom, Christian Boltanski, Stan Brakhage, Luis Buñuel, Victor Burgin, Jean Cocteau, James Coleman, Bruce Conner, Tony Conrad, Joseph Cornell, David Cronenberg, Salvador Dali, Brian De Palma, Stan Douglas, Carl-Theodor Dreyer, Federico Fellini, Hollis Frampton, Robert Frank, Jean-Luc Godard, Douglas Gordon, Dan Graham, Peter Greenaway, Richard Hamilton, Alfred Hitchcock, Dennis Hopper, Edward Hopper, Ken Jacobs, Derek Jarman, Ray Johnson, Peter Kubelka, Stanley Kubrick, Akira Kurosawa, Suzanne Lafont, Fritz Lang, Sharon Lockhart, David Lynch, Christian Marclay, Chris Marker, Fabio Mauri, Annette Messager, Hélio Oiticica, Pat O'Neill, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Roman Polanski, Michael Powell, Alain Resnais, Nicolas Roeg, Mimmo Rotella, Raúl Ruiz, Allen Ruppersberg, Edward Ruscha, Carolee Schneemann, Martin Scorsese, Ridley Scott, Paul Sharits, Cindy Sherman, Michael Snow, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Andrei Tarkovski, Frank Tashlin, François Truffaut, Jeff Wall, Andy Warhol, Weegee, Orson Welles, Wim Wenders, James Whitney, John Whitney, Billy Wilder
Exhibition catalogue published in conjunction with show held March 17 - July 28, 1996. Traveled September 21, 1996 - January 5, 1997, Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, Ohio; June - September 1997, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome, Italy; October 11, 1997 - January 21, 1998, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Illinois. ... [details]
Los Angeles / New York, CA / NY: Museum of Contemporary Art / Monacelli Press, 1996
photocopy / xeroxed
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Total Metal [aka : Tötal Metal]
Richard Phillips, Joshua Decter, Ashley Bickerton, Kathy Burckhart, John Currin, Jessica Diamond, Cheryl Donegan, Alex Perlstein, Tom Henry III, Mike Kelley, Doris Kloster, Donna Draker, Bob Krasner, Debra Trebitz, Sean Landers, Richard Lee, Daniel Levine, Lip Service LA, Ken Lum, Patti Martori, Aimee Morgana, Vik Muniz, Peter Nagy, Carl Ostendarp, Kevin Landers, Joel Otterson, Raymond Pettibon, Philip Pocock, Rob Pruitt, Jack Early, Alexis Rockman, Gary Simmons, Debbie Stoller, Julie Wachtel, Chris Wilder
Artists' publication / 'zine produced in conjunction with exhibition held at October - November 1990. Curated by Richard Phillips this publication takes the format of an "assembling" / 'zine featuring essays by Phillips and Joshua Decter ["Thrash Criticism"] and artists' projects by the exhibition participants. ... [details]
New York, NY: Simon Watson, 1990
Vol. 43, No. 1 (September / October 1968)
Joseph James Akston, Nicolas Calas, Jacqueline Barnitz, Lawrence Alloway, Cindy Nemser, Charles Nagel, Gordon Brown, Roderick Young, Jeanne Siegel, Alfred Werner, Lucas Samaras, Pietro Gilardi, Noel Frackman, Clement Meadmore, Betty Blayton, Freda Mulcahy, Natalie Van Buren, Bob Kane, Christo, Joseph Cornell, Harold Tovish, Alexander Calder, Pol Mara, Cesar Paternosto, Margarita De Mena, Ruth Dunkell, Ann Mittleman, Helen Garardia, Joe Wilder, Sylvia Carewe, Michael Booth, Käthe Kollwitz, Wataru Fuki, Ernst Barlach, Theodore Turner, Billy Faier, Richard Holmes Godfrey, Frederick Franck, Gary L. Fox, Clayton Pond, Phyllis Harriman, James Hendricks, Edward McGowin, Nathaneal Neujean, Rudolf Schoofs, Ruth N. Lewis, Roger Furse, Frank Rehn, Leonard Leibowitz, John Opper, Luca Samaras, Stanley Boxer, Helen Soreff, Pia Pizzo, Rodolfo Mishaan, André Hambourg, Mark Scott, Bud Hambleton, Ernst Wilhelm Nay, Colton Waugh, Gustave Caillebotte, Ben Shahn, Eugène Boudin, Ann Taylor, Bernard Galkin, Al Held
September / October 1968 issue of Arts Magazine. Cover features color reproduction of work by Lucas Samaras. Edited by Joseph James Akston, with written contributions by Joseph James Akston, Nicolas Calas, Jacqueline Barnitz, Lawrence Alloway, Cindy Nemser, Charles Nagel, Gordon Brown, Roderick Young, Jeanne Siegel, Alfred Werner, Pietro Gilardi, and Noel Frackman. ... [details]
New York, NY: The Art Digest, Inc., 1968
Austria im Rosennetz
Harald Szeemann, Rudolf Scholten, Felix A. Baumann, Peter Neover, Paul Flora, Peter Assmann, Wolfgang Kos, Christian Theo Steiner, Tobia Bezzola, Walter Methlagl, Otto Breicha, Zsuszanna Gahse, Markus Brüderlin, Franz Schuh, AAO, Friedrich Achleitner, Gabriele D'Annunzio, H.C. Artmann, Carl Freiherr Auer von Welslbach, Belà Balasz, Konrad Bayer, Alban Berg, Elisabeth Bergner, Thomas Bernhard, Günter Brus, Ernst Caramelle, Michael Curtiz, Dada in Tirol, William S. Darling, Carl Djerassi, Heinrich Dunst, Tilla Durieux, Albert Ehrenstein, Kaiserin Elsabeth von Österreich, Valie Export, Ferenc Feher, Max Fleischer, Paul Flora, Heinz Frank, Freaks, Sigmund Freud, Padhi Friedberger, Rainder Ganahl, Ricahrd Gerstl, Bruno Gironcoli, Gustav Arthur Graeser, Franz Graf, Nora Gregor, Franz Grillparzer, Hans Gross, Otto Gross, Anton Grot, Franz Gsellmann, Willy Haas, Josef Matthias Hauer, Johann Hauser, Raoul Hausmann, Helenberg, Paul Henreid, Fritz von Herzmanovsky-Orlando, Richard Hoeck, Hanns Hörbinger, Josef Hoffmann, Oscar Homolka, Hans Hollein, harry Houdini, Franz Huemer, Friedensreich Hundertwasser, Ernst Jandl, Erzherzog Johann, Johann Orth, Erzherzog Josef Karl Ledwig, Frank Kafka, Frederick J. Kiesler, Josua Klein, Gustav Klimt, Peter Kogler, Oskar Kokoschka, Sir Alexander Korda, Fritz Kortner, Joseph Kosma, Karl Kraus, Kurt Kren, Peter Kubelka, Alfred Kubin, Anton Kuh, Joseph Kyselak, Rudolf von Laban, Fritz Lang, Hedy Lamarr, Lotte Lenya, Erzherzog Leopold, Erzherzog Leopold Ferdinand Salvator, Leopold Lindtberg, Herbert Lom, Adolf Loos, Peter Lorre, Erzherzog Ludwig Salvator, Bela Lugosi, Paul Lukas, Edmund Mach, Erich Mallina, Ida Franziska Maly, Maria-Theresien-Taler, Rudolph Maté, Mausfallen, Carl Mayer, Franz Xaver Messerschmidt, Laszló Móholy-Nagy, Jakob Levi Moreno, Otto Mühl, Paul Muni, Robert Musil, Max Nettlau, Hermann Nitsch, Oswald Oberhuber, Joseph Maria Olbrich, Laurids Ortner, Die Österreichische Exilregierung, Georg Wilhelm Pabst, Georg Pal, Mikelis Pankoks, Friederike Pezold, Walter Pichler, Otto Preminger, Ferry Radax, Arnulf Rainer, Pierre Ramus, Wilhelm Reich, Max Reinhardt, Walter Reisch, Max Riccabona, Paul von Rittinger, Leopold Wolfgang Rochowanski, Gerwald Rockenschaub, Gerhard Rühm, Felix Salten, Viktor Schauberger, Egon Schiele, Eva Schlegel, Arnold Schönberg, ManfreDU SCHU, Rudolf Schwarzkogler, Selten gehörte Musik, Walter Serner, Pater Peter Singer, Sam Spiegel, Anna Stainer-Knittel, Dominik Steiger, Max Steiner, Rudolf Steiner, Josef von Sternberg, Martin Strauss, Otto Mittmannsgruber, Erich von Stroheim, George Tabori, Der Tod in Österreich, Alexandre Trauner, Elmar Trenkwalder, Christian Josef Tschuggmall, Edgard George Ulmer, Charles Vidor, Otto Wagner, August Walla, Anton Webern, Weegee, Hans Weigand, Lois Weinberger, Lois Weinberger, Otto Weininger, Johnny Weissmüller, Franz West, Oswald Wiener, Wiener Aktionismus, Billy Wilder, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Wilhelm Adolf Wohlbruck, Fritz Wotruba, Hella Zahnreich, Ruperta Zahnreich, Robert Zeppel-Sperl, Fred Zinnemann, Heimo Zobernig, Aloys Zötl
Exhibition catalogue published in conjunction with show held at MAK - Österreichisches Museum für Angewandte Kunst, Wien, September 11 - November 10, 1996. Traveled to the Kunsthaus Zürich, December 6, 1996 - February 23, 1997. ... [details]
Wien / Zürich, Austria / Switzerland: Peter Noever, Gesellschaft für Österreichische Kunst im MAK / Kunsthaus Zürich, 1996
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BBO Discussion Forums: Coronavirus - BBO Discussion Forums
Coronavirus Those who ignore history are doomed to repeat it
#1321 hrothgar
Location:Natick, MA
Interests:Travel
kenberg, on 2021-May-01, 19:58, said:
I have heard various numbers and they are hard to reconcile. Often numbers do not mean what they appear to mean.
Did you look at the chart that Pilowsky referenced?
Total COVID-19 vaccine doses administered per 100 people
That is where he is drawing his 70.58% number from
However, he is describing this is
"70.58% of the population has received at least one shot"
In one case the numerator is "shots given" in the other it is "people inoculated"
If each and every person who received a shot only received one shot, the two numbers would match. However an extremely large number of people in Florida have received two shots, in which case the two values start to skew from one another.
Alderaan delenda est
#1322 pilowsky
pilowsky
Joined: 2019-October-04
Leave him alone Ken, he's on a roll.
Yes, 70.58% of doses doesn't mean 70.58% have had 2 shots.
That's not what I said and it isn't what the data shows and it isn't the main point of the post.
But congrats on your stats Richard.
#1323 kenberg
I went to
https://www.beckersh...d-march-15.html
We see:
As of 6 a.m. EDT May 1, a total of 103,422,555 Americans had been fully vaccinated, or 31.2 percent of the country's population, according to the CDC's data.
Of course, that percentage is of all Americans, and so includes children that, as of now, are not being vaccinated. And I suppose we might ask What is an American?
And, very important, we could know of how many are immune because they have already had it. I have not looked that up but I imagine I could.
But for my purposes, meaning having a fair grasp of where we are in our vaccination efforts, the numbers are useful enough. We can watch how they grow to get a feeling for developing problems.
Another number could be how many have received one dose of a two dose vaccnie and are expected to be getting the second dose. These people are not a problem, they are well into the pipeline and soon will be fully vaccinated.
My question is: Does it now look like we are on track to beat this? It seems the news is fairly encouraging but we still have quite a bit to go and things can go wrong.
in the last month or so the change has been that back a month ago many people were hoping to get a shot but were uncertain when they would or how to go about it. Now my wife's daughter has scheduled her 16 year old twins for a shot at the local Giant (a supermarket). Now I encounter or hear about people who are still waiting, but they are waitng to decide rather than waiting and worrying about when they might maybe get the vaccine. Those that want it might not get it tomorrow but they are confident that they will get it soon.
I repeat: My question is "Is this working?". And then "What do we need to do to reach those that for one reason or another are hard to reach?" I'll watch the site I just listed, or maybe look around for more later.
So far so good, or at least so far more or less good, but don't break out the Champagne.
Just as an aside, I would like to retire the word "troll" from online discussions. My daughter's favorite (well, one of her favorites, she would happily listen to as many as I would read) bedtime story was The Three Billy Goats Gruff. Who's that tromping over my bridge? A good place for trolls, let's leave them be.
#1324 PassedOut
Just as an aside, I would like to retire the word "troll" from online discussions.
Or, we could discuss fishing techniques.
PassedOut, on 2021-May-02, 10:28, said:
Yes, I grew up in Minnesota and learned how to handle a boat for trolling when I was maybe 8 or so.
It seems that Hey Joe Biden (http://bit.ly/HeyJoeHend) has come around - far too late - to the idea that it might be a good idea to suspend vaccine patents for a while.
At least according to an NBC news flash, I just saw.
No doubt he was reading the thread on this forum.
At the same time, Sydney just entered a sort of conservative government equivalent of lockdown.
In this form of lockdown, people can still wander about and meet in large groups.
It is impossible to find a place that will vaccinate you - except on Thursday or Friday mornings in two weeks time.
Meanwhile, the Morrison government is resorting to sabre-rattling with China to distract peoples attention from their incompetence.
Meanwhile, in other news, a famous footballer is being jailed for a crime that sounds like sexual assault; and a previously well-known cricketer "shocked" newsreaders by revealing that he had been kidnapped, beaten and threatened with a gun.
Australian priorities.
#1327 y66
From New analysis finds global Covid death toll is double official estimates by Helen Bramswell at STAT
A new analysis of the toll of the Covid-19 pandemic suggests 6.9 million people worldwide have died from the disease, more than twice as many people as has been officially reported.
In the United States, the analysis estimates, 905,000 people have died of Covid since the start of the pandemic. That is about 61% higher than the current death estimate from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 561,594. The new figure also surpasses the estimated number of U.S. deaths in the 1918 flu pandemic, which was estimated to have killed approximately 675,000 Americans.
#1328 Cyberyeti
The first stats on the effect of lockdown on non Covid deaths in the UK have emerged. Around 1300 extra cases (around 20% extra) of people drinking themselves to death in 2020 compared to 2019, concentrated from late March onwards.
Cyberyeti, on 2021-May-07, 10:05, said:
Comment 1: Not really sure how you separate "drinking deaths due to the lockdown" from "drinking deaths during the time of COVID".
Comment 2: Do you understand what kind of death rates countries are experience when COVID gets loose?
The latest estimates here in the US are suggesting that there have been over 900 thousand deaths due to COVID
https://www.npr.org/...AzuLzAPnjIm_gp0
Currently, the official death toll in India is at 4000 people a day, however, there are a lot of claims that its closer to 40,000 deaths a day.
#1330 Winstonm
I think your stream of causation ends too abruptly.
To me it seems as though this is your claim:
A. Alcohol related deaths are up during the period of the lockdown.
B. The lockdown has created that spike.
But you discount the following:
C. The lockdown was the result of Covid-19
D. This particular increase in alcohol deaths is secondary to Covid-19, not a direct result of the lockdown.
E. Therefore, these death could easily be termed Covid-related, as well as any deaths that occurred due to lack or access to a hospital or ICU because of Covid surge in patients.
It would be worthwhile to know if there has been similar increases during other periods of high stress environments. NPR here in the U.S. had an interesting article yesterday about the emotional, psychological, and psychiatric damage caused by the ever-present stress brought about by the pandemic.
hrothgar, on 2021-May-07, 12:04, said:
Comment 1: Not really sure how you separate "drinking deaths due to the lockdown" from "drinking deaths due to COVID".
Yes of course I understand the death rates from Covid, I suspect there are virtually no drinking deaths from Covid and so did the researchers. There are just the first figures from the UK on the side effects of the pandemic, awaiting the suicide and domestic violence figures which will be published in future months.
#1332 jillybean
Location:NZ
Interests:Bridge, swimming, travel, it varies
The collateral damage from Covid will be significant and ongoing. Drug/alcohol related deaths, suicide, murder, treatable conditions going untreated due to lack of hospital resources, mental illness, lower birth rates, disruptions in education. I'm sure the list goes on.
I trust no one was suggesting the lockdown should be lifted to "save these lives"?
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jillybean, on 2021-May-07, 12:43, said:
Indeed not, but I've been saying for a long time that lockdown kills people, it's necessary because Covid kills more people but it's not free, that's all I'm saying and these are the first UK figures to do with quantifying that.
OK, I'm not sure how they come up with #deaths due to lockdown drinking as opposed to those who would have simply drunk themselves to death in normal times. I agree, lockdowns aren't without cost.
All fine and dandy.
My reaction:
1. I haven't seen anyone claim that look downs are free
2. The number of COVID related deaths in the UK is over 125K (so a couple orders of magnitude greater)
So, I'm really not going to get too worked up over what appears to good public policy
Because they have the figures from the previous years and the start of 2020 pre lockdown, the rate went up with the start of lockdown.
I certainly agree that it is possible to calculate excess deaths from drinking.
I'm just not sure that one can attribute these to the lockdown as opposed to any of a myriad of other shitty things that COVID has inflicted on us all
You're not in the UK, plenty of people have denied an issue with lockdown.
How many historically have died is largely irrelevant lockdown was clearly needed, the question is whether with the MUCH lower rate of Covid deaths we have now in the UK (7 day average 12 or so) whether the costs of lockdown are higher than the lives saved. As the vaccination rate increases, the deaths from Covid will decrease further so there is a point at which modelling will indicate that the increase in deaths from releasing lockdown will not outweigh the deaths lockdown is causing.
I believe the researchers did, but I've only heard second hand reports of this. I would expect there to be some where somebody's lost a loved one, but if the survey's done correctly they've probably taken this into account.
However, given your past histrionic claims about masks and COVID and lockdowns and the like this just doesn't feel like a productive discussion...
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Chow Tai Fook sales soar
October 22, 2018< 1 mins read
Chow Tai Fook sales soared 25 per cent in Hong Kong and Macau in the September quarter. On the mainland, sales rose by a solid 15 per cent.
Same-store sales rose 23 per cent in Hong Kong and Macau and by 6 per cent on the mainland, according to a stock exchange filing by the company.
But same-store volume growth told a different story: down 2 per cent in Hong Kong and Macau and up 1 per cent on the mainland, reflecting weaker gold prices which correspondingly drove more customers into stores.
Chow Tai Fook’s sales of gold products grew by 41 per cent in Hong Kong and Macau and by 11 per cent in Mainland China
Chairman, Dr Henry Kar-Shun, described the Hong Kong and Macau market growth as “impressive” during the quarter, “benefitting from buoyant consumer spending and resilient mainland visitation”.
He said the same-store sales performance of gold products in both markets was driven by the increase in weight per piece sold. The company’s same-store average sale value on the mainland was HK$4000 compared to $3600 in the preceding quarter, while in Hong Kong and Macau, it rose from $7100 to $8500.
The average international gold price declined by 5 per cent year on year during the quarter to September 30.
Chow Tai Fook opened a net 162 points of sale in Mainland China during the quarter, which
included 158 new Chow Tai Fook Jewellery spaces, three SoInLove spaces and one Chow Tai Fook T Mark space.
In Hong Kong, Macau and other markets, the group opened one Hearts On Fire space and closed two CTF Watch stores in Hong Kong, and opened one Chow Tai Fook Jewellery space in South Korea. As at September 30 the company had 2822 points of sale globally.
Chow Tai FookCTF WatchHearts on FireSoInLoveT Mark
Aron Lewin
Giordano takeover bid lapses as acceptances fail to reach threshold
Chow Tai Fook arm in bid for Giordano International
Chow Tai Fook profit rebounds as Mainland China focus pays off
Soaring gold price, China recovery boost Chow Tai Fook results
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WHAT MAKES AN UHURU PIE?
Fresh baked, made from scratch with quality ingredients
Made by Black Star Industries, creating economic development and commerce by and between African people worldwide.
Baked by volunteers with our professional bakers in our Uhuru Jiko community commercial kitchens
Sold by volunteers to friends, family, co-workers, organizations to build a foundation for African control of food production and distribution
WANT TO PUT MEANING IN YOUR HOLIDAY SEASON?
GET TO OAKLAND OR ST. PETE THIS NOVEMBER AND DECEMBER
This November and December, Uhuru Foods & Pies is calling on you to come to Oakland, California and St. Petersburg, Florida to be a part of baking and selling 10,000 Uhuru Pies to support the programs of the Black Power BluePrint.
Uhuru Pies is a 39 year old loved progressive tradition in California and Florida.
From November 14 – 26 and from December 19 – 24, brigades will meet at the Akwaaba Hall for overviews and summations, be out in the community selling Uhuru Pies, including the signature Uhuru Sweet Potato Pie, baking, phonebanking and winning people to support Black Self-determination and Reparations to Black Power BluePrint.
We need you to be a part of selling pies at 12 pop-ups on Thanksgiving Day itself, followed by a Reparations for Black Power BluePrint Dinner at Akwaaba Hall.
Don’t miss this opportunity! Get yourself to Oakland or St. Pete. Trainings by webinar begin in September.
Uhuru Pies will also be available in St. Louis, MO, this year!
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BLACK POWER BLUEPRINT
CONSTRUCTING A POSITIVE FUTURE
FOR THE BLACK COMMUNITY
The Black Power Blueprint is a black-led self-determination project in St. Louis, MO organized by Black Star Industries and the African People’s Education and Defense Fund.
The mission of the Black Power Blueprint is to overturn the deep poverty and oppression faced by the African community of St. Louis’ northside through political and economic power in the hands of African working people. Learn even more at blackpowerblueprint.org.
Phase 1 funding was launched December 2017 raising $25,000 by May 1, 2018!
Supporters around the country gave generously to reach the $25,000 crowdfunding goal for Phase I, needed to renovate the three-story St. Louis Uhuru House at 4101 W. Florissant Ave.
The Uhuru House is a black community center, event space, rental hall and economic development hub. These contributions helped install the plumbing, heating, HVAC, finish the electrical, the interior and other construction. This vibrant center in the heart of the black community of North St. Louis is now open and alive with weddings, birthday parties, spoken word poetry nights and political conferences.
Phase 2 created the outdoor event space next to the Uhuru House!
Launched May 5, 2018, Phase 2 raised another $41,000 by the end of 2018.
Condemned buildings across the street from the Uhuru House were demolished and the lot prepared for paving, fencing and lighting for the One Africa! One Nation! Community Marketplace and Gary Brooks Community Garden. A 50-foot pole was erected on this land, flying a 25-foot red, black and green African flag.
Volunteers also began renovations on an abandoned 4-plex apartment building to house participants of the African Independence Workforce Program.
Phase 3.1 launched in January 2019, will raise another $20,000!
Phase 3 already completed renovations on the third floor of the Uhuru House for additional office and program space. Insulation and drywall were added, the offices painted, and the floors were beautifully refinished.
The wiring, plumbing and flooring are in progress at the four-plex apartment building earmarked for housing for the African Independence Workforce Program, creating jobs for those re-entering our community from the prison system. We will upgrade all bathrooms and kitchens, install stoves, refrigerators, cabinets and fixtures and the apartments will be furnished.
Other projects for Phase 3 include architectural plans, new roofing and new windows for the beautiful Jiko Kitchen, located in an art deco building on Goodfellow Boulevard, that had once been a boat dealership. As our most ambitious project so far, Jiko will include a café, bakery, community kitchen and the headquarters of Uhuru Foods and Pies, one of the 26 economic institutions of Black Star Industries and the African People’s Education and Defense Fund around the U.S.
This life-changing project is coordinated by Deputy Chair Ona Zené Yeshitela who says, “It is really inspiring to see how much the people love his project and are looking forward to the marketplace and all the other projects. This is a positive response to gentrification because it’s about more than just keeping our community, it’s about building economic self-reliance for our community. The Black Power Blueprint is economic power in the hands of the African working class. Donate to this unique project which is changing the world day by day.”
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The 37 year-old, who lives in Hamworthy, Poole with her husband 34 and daughter Flo, aged 2, had always planned to launch a local platform for her business which began in Swindon, Wiltshire eight years ago.
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Mark Segal August 30, 2021
The Singapore Exchange (SGX) announced a series of ESG disclosure proposals for issuers, including plans for mandatory climate and board diversity reporting. The SGX has launched a public consultation on the proposals, and the exchange is also consulting on proposals including requiring assurance for sustainability reports and sustainability training for company directors.
According to SGX, the climate disclosure proposals come amid “urgent demand” from lenders, investors and other key stakeholders. The exchange has presented a proposed roadmap toward mandatory climate reporting, based on recommendations of the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD), which would see all issuers to adopt climate reporting on a ‘comply or explain’ basis for their financial years beginning in 2022. In each of the next two years, reporting on climate would become mandatory for certain sectors, with the rest continuing on a ‘comply or explain’ basis.
Mr Tan Boon Gin, CEO of SGX RegCo, the regulatory-focused subsidiary of SGX, said:
“Lenders, insurers and investors increasingly want climate-related information for decision-making. The proposals today are aimed at helping our issuers meet these demands and to build their resilience to climate risks. Some business sectors are more carbon intensive and hence climate risks affect them more significantly compared to others. These should therefore be among the first to make climate disclosures.”
The exchange’s diversity proposals include requiring each issuer to disclose a board diversity policy along with targets, accompanying plans and a timeline, as well as a description of how the combination of skills, talents, experience and diversity of directors in the board serves the issuer’s needs and plans.
The diversity disclosure proposals follow the recent announcement by one of SGX’s US counterparts of a similar initiative. In December, US-based exchange Nasdaq announced proposals to require listed companies to publicly disclose consistent, transparent diversity statistics regarding their board of directors. The Nasdaq proposals were approved earlier this month by U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).
Other proposals being considered include requiring issuers to have sustainability reports subject to assurance by internal auditors (while some may also choose to have assurance provided by external auditors or independent assurance services providers), and having all directors attend a one-time training on sustainability.
The SGX stated that it is also consulting on proposals for an aligned set of 27 ESG metrics that may be used by issuers, on a voluntary basis, and on a data portal where investors will be able to access ESG data in a structured format as reported by issuers in accordance with aligned metrics and disclosure requirements.
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A Group of Internet and Media Companies Push for Principles Regarding User Generated Services to Protect Copyrights
On October 18, 2007 a coalition of major media and technology companies released a set of guidelines designed to halt online piracy. Media companies involved include CBS, NewsCorp, Fox Enertainment Group, NBC Universal, Viacom Disney, and MySpace. Google was notable absent from the list. A You Tube spokesperson who asked not to be named said that Google had talked to Disney and You Tube about the guidelines but decided not to join the group out of concdrn that ‘ “industry-wide mandates would stifle innovation’ “. I
In a posting on LEXOLOGY by four attorneys from Arent Fox LLP “…The joint collaboration aims to eliminate infringing content on services providing user-uploaded and user-generated audio and video content (UGC) services, encourage uploads of wholly original and authorized user-generated content, and accommodate fair use of copyrighted content, and protect user privacy interests.” It is interesting to note that many of the concerns reflected in the guidelines are similar (except perhaps in context) to those confronted by libraries in their own efforts to resolve issues the reproduction and transfer of materials.
To provide added context for those interested in this topic, this posting includes the full text of an article published on FindLaw Corporate Counsel by Julie Hilden. Finally,some additional links to other sources are listed.
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The New Guidelines for User-Generated Content Services such as MySpace: Why Some Will Predictably Inhibit “Fair Use”
By JULIE HILDEN
Recently, a number of content producers (CBS, Disney, Fox, NBC Universal, and Viacom) and a number of websites hosting user-generated content (Daily Motion, MySpace, and Veoh) — voluntarily agreed among themselves to abide by a set of principles governing user-generated content (UGC). Microsoft, too, has signed on.
Some of these principles are plainly correct and in everyone’s (including users’) interest, as I will explain. However, others will predictably end up curtailing the amount of “fair use” of copyrighted material that occurs on UGC sites, and thus inhibiting freedom of speech and artistic freedom. (For more on “fair use,” see my column from May 16). Thus, while these latter principles may still arguably be the best way to police infringement, it is important to note that their effectiveness comes at a potentially high price.
Crucially, while these principles are the result of a voluntary agreement, that agreement left out a major interested party — the group of all users of UGC services. Since it is the users that stand to lose the most if “fair use” is inhibited, the exclusion of this group is significant. Users have no practical ability to modify a site’s Terms of Use — the boilerplate language that websites require users to agree to by checking a box and clicking a submit button before they are allowed to post on a website, and that is offered on a “take it or leave it” basis. Thus, if users are not formally represented in Guidelines negotiations (and it seems they were not), then they are not represented at all.
Put another way, if users had had a formal seat at the negotiation table, the Guidelines might have tilted much more strongly toward “fair use.” The content producers’ interest was to protect copyright. The UGC sites had the mixed interest of avoiding lawsuits for vicarious and contributory copyright infringement (theories I discussed in a previous column), and also pleasing users. Only users, however, had a direct, unqualified interest in ensuring that they could make “fair use” of copyrighted material in uploading their work to UGC services.
The Part of the Guidelines that Should Be Uncontroversial
Let’s start with that part of the Guidelines that is, plain and simple, a set of good ideas that actually will benefit everyone, including users.
In my view, the Guidelines are entirely correct in asking UGC services to conspicuously warn users not to violate copyright law with their uploads, and to prohibit copyright-infringing uploads via their Terms of Use. Everyone benefits by knowing the law. Also, because of the doctrines of vicarious and contributory copyright infringement, UGC services might become liable for their users’ infringement if they did not prohibit such infringement in their Terms of Use. Thus, in this respect, the Guidelines simply reflect what the law requires.
It also makes a great deal of sense for the Guidelines to ask UGC services to continually update the software that they use to find potentially copyright-infringing uploads, as the relevant technology advances and improves. Relying solely on personnel to review vast numbers of uploads would be obviously costly and ineffective, and UGC services should keep up with the pace of advancing technology in policing their uploads for genuine copyright infringement.
Conversely, too, the Guidelines are wise to allow UGC services to use personnel to review uploads in cases where the application of technology is not leading to the best results. Where “fair use” is at issue, the decision may ultimately be a judgment call that only a person can make.
Unfortunately, however, allowing actual human beings to decide “fair use” issues is virtually the only way in which the Guidelines cut in favor of “fair use.” In every other way, they cut against it in practice, while still, in several instances, paying lip service to the idea.
The First Threat to “Fair Use”: Filtering of Uploads
Here are several key ways in which the Guidelines put “fair use” in jeopardy:
First, the Guidelines advocate filtering content at the upload stage, not once it has already appeared on the UGC service. The obligation, as the Guidelines put it, is to “block… content [that falls under known copyrights] before that content would otherwise be made available.”
The pragmatic reason for this rule is clear: When infringing content is uploaded, and can be copied, any later remedies may be, in effect, closing the barn door once the horses are already gone.
Yet the barn door/horses argument may prove too much, because arguably the entire Internet is the barn, and the door will always be open somewhere. If popular sites filter uploads, then less popular sites may become more popular by employing retrospective remedies (that is, by searching what is uploaded, rather than filtering and blocking uploads) and thus hosting sexier, more cutting-edge “fair use” content that cannot be found elsewhere. Moreover, scofflaw and offshore sites may become popular by simply promising not to filter or block. If MySpace becomes tame or if there are myriad complaints about blocking, then fickle teens could easily switch their allegiance to another site.
Thus, the upshot of the decision to opt for filtering of uploads may be to simply harm MySpace and its users, while offering copyright owners no meaningful protection. (Why, then, did MySpace agree to filtering? The reason may simply have been the fear of an incredibly costly vicarious and contributory copyright infringement suit. It’s not a defense to infringement that the infringing material is easily available all over the rest of the Internet.)
Does filtering actually hurt MySpace users? Heck, yes — and it will predictably hurt the “marketplace of ideas” too. When it comes to free speech, delay in dissemination can be disastrous: Suppose a MySpace user wants to upload a commentary on the previous night’s Presidential debate that makes “fair use” of copyrighted material. The ability to upload that same commentary a week later, when the news cycle has moved on, is far less valuable from a free speech perspective. Thus, the choice of filtering ahead of time prevents infringement, but only at the cost of inhibiting speech.
Granted, the Guidelines also say that “Copyright Owners and UGC Services should cooperate in developing reasonable procedures for promptly addressing conflicting claims with respect to Reference Material and user claims that content that was blocked by the Filtering Process was not infringing or was blocked in error.” (Emphasis added). But what does “promptly” mean, exactly?
I wouldn’t be very optimistic about the chance of a truly prompt resolution here. After all, a wise UGC service would need to get attorneys involved at some point, with certain materials, since a “fair use” determination is ultimately an instance of application of law to fact. And everyone knows that as soon as attorneys are involved, things tend to proceed quite slowly. Granted, the use of attorneys is costly, so a more realistic and likely solution is to have staff make the call in the first instance, and then pass difficult issues on to attorneys. Still, in difficult cases, when attorneys are indeed involved, time may tick away.
After all, from the attorney’s perspective, quickly approving copyright-infringing material, based on an erroneous call that it is “fair use” may result in a multimillion dollar malpractice suit when millions of users view the infringing material and the copyright owner sues the UGC service. (Other legal questions remain, as well; in some cases, the Digital Millennium Copyright Act’s safe harbor for sites that simply host content may protect a UGC service site, even if the “fair use” exception to copyright law does not.)
By comparison, if MySpace were a government entity controlled by the First Amendment, it simply would not be able to pre-filter speech this way. Rather, because “prior restraints” are disfavored, it would have to allow speech to happen, and then later order the speaker to pay damages if necessary. Obviously, MySpace is not a government entity, so the First Amendment does not apply. But it’s still notable when, in the free speech arena, private companies agree to do something that a government agency could not impose. Moreover, it’s also worth noting that if we have a modern town square for Generation Y, it’s probably MySpace — suggesting that private entities now operate the kind of forum that the government once hosted, and in which First Amendment rules once applied.
The Second Threat to “Fair Use”: The Sweep-In System
Second, the Guidelines adopt a “sweep in” system that says material cannot be licensed unless the copyright owner expressly says it can be. More precisely, they state that if the copyright owner is silent, then the UGC service “should block content” that matches the copyrighted material. In order to allow certain users to avoid the blocking, the copyright owner can provide a “white list,” but if it does not, then all would-be users are out of luck.
In litigation I discussed in a prior column, the Stanford Center for Internet and Society (CIS) challenged the current U.S. copyright system insofar as it automatically sweeps in all material — even a napkin doodle — unless the author expressly states an intention to have the material come under a “creative commons” license. CIS argued in that case that the “sweep in” system was a mistake, and similar arguments can be made here as well.
Few copyright owners, for example, are likely to take the trouble to affirmatively “white list” college students’ class projects, but if there were categories to check off, one would hope that few would actually “black list” educational uses either.
In sum, inertia is a powerful force, and the Guidelines’ inertial pull is in favor of filtering content that will then never see the light of day (or emerge only after the event on which it comments is long past). That pull is also in favor of automatically blacklisting content that copyright holders might happily white-list if they were required to focus on the issue. In the Internet’s new ocean of content, we deserve different — and more pro-free-speech — tides.
Julie Hilden, who graduated from Yale Law School in 1992, practiced First Amendment law at the D.C. law firm of Williams & Connolly from 1996-99. Hilden is also a novelist. In reviewing Hilden’s novel, 3, Kirkus Reviews praised Hilden’s “rather uncanny abilities,” and Counterpunch called it “a must read…. a work of art.” Hilden’s website, www.juliehilden.com, includes free MP3 and text downloads of the novel’s first chapter.
SOME ADDITIONAL SOURCES:
Some Internet and media companies push for principles on user content http://www.edri.org/edrigram/number5.20/user-generated-content-principles
Internet and Media Industry Leaders Unveil Principles to Foster Online Innovation While Protecting Copyrights – Press Release (18.10.2007)
http://www.ugcprinciples.com/press_release.html
Principles for User Generated Content Services http://www.ugcprinciples.com/
LEXOLOGY: Internet and media companies unveil guidelines to protect copyrights while still fostering online innovation http://www.arentfox.com/publications/index.cfm?fa=legalUpdateDisp&content_id=1337#page=1
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Updated: November 21, 2007 12:43 pm
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2017 Scholarship & Awards Banquet Follow-up
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The CST District Association held its annual Scholarship & Awards Banquet on Saturday, March 18, 2017, at Spencer Lodge #290 in Spencer, NY. In addition to brothers from around the district and their spouses, and the families of scholarship and award winners, the District Association was very pleased to host the Grand Master, MW: Jeffrey M. Williamson, and his Grand Marshal, RW: James R. Kintzel. Following an Invocation by RW: H. David Strong and the Pledge of Allegiance to our Flag, the evening kicked off with a meal served in the fellowship hall. Afterwards, guests moved into the Lodge Room for the evening’s program.
VW: Jeffrey Golden welcomed all of those in attendance and introduced W: Robert Morris, Master of Spencer Lodge, and VW: Justin DeVine, AGL for the CST District. RW: Lester B. Stockwell, District Deputy Grand Master of the Broome-Chenango District, RW: Paul Leahey, Grand Sword Bearer of the CST District, and RW: Clifton R. Hathaway, District Deputy Grand Master of the CST District were all announced and escorted to the East, where they received Grand Honors. The Grand Master himself was then announced, escorted to the East by the Grand Marshal, and awarded an exuberant round of Grand Honors by the brothers in attendance. He then turned the gavel over to RW: Hathaway who presided over the evening events.
W: Bruce Williams, President of the CST District Association was then called to the East, where he gave an address outlining the programs and events organized by the District Association. He stressed that support for these events was directly responsible for their continued existence and he encouraged all those present to find ways to become more engaged with the District and the District Association.
RW: Hathaway, with the assistance of the Grand Master, then presented each of the scholarship winners with their respective certificates and checks. Our winners for this year were Mr. Skylar Jorgensen of Tioga, Ms. Erika Rexford of Breesport, and Ms. Jessica Schiefen of Horseheads. The CST District AGL’s Award was then presented to Myrtle-Jefferson Lodge #131 for ritual excellence. W: Guy Auge, Secretary of Chemung Valley-Waverly Lodge #350 was then presented with the Ralph E. Hefft Secretary’s Award. Finally, RW: H. David Strong of Friendship Lodge #153 was named as this year’s Mason of the Year. Each of the scholarship and award winners was treated to congratulatory and kind words from the Grand Master. Following a Benediction from RW: Strong, the meeting was again returned to the fellowship hall for coffee and dessert.
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Optimove Raises $75 Million To Scale Customer Journeys and Personalization
Optimove announced today a $75 million investment led by global growth investor Summit Partners. The financing will support continued investment in strategic hiring and M&A, expansion of the company’s Customer Relationship Management (CRM) Marketing platform, and further growth for the company as a whole, according to company officials.
Optimove’s new SaaS technology combines a Customer Data Platform (CDP) with a Multichannel Marketing Hub (MMH), designed to empower brands to deliver personalized marketing campaigns to connect and engage with existing customers. The company’s CRM Journey mapping also works to leverage AI to autonomously surface valuable customer engagement opportunities, orchestrate self-optimizing customer journeys and accurately measure the incremental impact of all marketing interactions.
Optimove officials said that today, the company’s CRM Marketing platform sends more than 23 billion optimized messages through email, mobile, ad platforms and other channels, to over 3 billion customers every year.
Optimove currently serves more than 500 brands — including BetMGM, Papa John’s, Staples, Varsity Tutors and others across ecommerce, gaming, retail, QSR, telecommunications and financial services — and integrates with technology platforms such as Snowflake, Shopify, Salesforce Commerce Cloud, alongside leading execution channels, including Facebook, Google Ads, Criteo and Attentive.
“In the last 18 months, digital consumption grew like never before,” Optimove Founder and CEO Pini Yakuel said in a statement. “As a result, the cost of acquiring new customers has skyrocketed, while customer loyalty took a deep dive. Now, more than ever, brands understand the urgency to invest in existing customers to drive growth.”
Yakuel added teams built Optimove to address the challenges brands face when attempting to deliver personalization at scale via solutions designed to offer marketing teams “direct access to their customer data to build, test and optimize their CRM campaigns.”
Over the last 12 months, Optimove generated revenue growth of more than 40%, according to company officials. The company currently has 280 employees with plans to double its global headcount over the next 24 months, hiring predominantly for its technology, customer and commercial organizations.
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Multinationals ‘con and deceive,’ claims minister
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Hungary’s Minister of Agriculture Sándor Fazekas said this morning during a press conference that multinationals in Hungary “con and deceive Hungarian customers,” a practice he described as “outrageous,” citing a recent investigation by food safety authority Nébih. This follows an earlier Nébih report that a trade association rejected as “subjective.”
Nébih probed almost 100 products, the minister said, and in 70% of cases the products sold in Hungary were found to be of “lower quality” than identical products sold abroad, according to Hungarian online news portal index.hu. The minister said the latest probe “confirmed earlier assumptions that multinationals bring inferior products to Hungary.”
Fazekas said that Nébih’s latest report showed that in many cases, Hungarian-sold products contained more flavor boosters, fewer nutrients and cheaper ingredients, according to index.hu.
Index.hu noted that the ministry has issued a booklet containing the differences found by Nébih. The authority mentions perceived differences such as Hungarian Korányi cinnamon being darker than its Austrian equivalent, Dr. Oetker’s vanilla sugar more “yellowish,” and Milka chocolate bars a bit darker in Austria with smaller pieces. Index.hu added that in the case of some beer types, the only Nébih explanation was that the beer sold here was of “worse quality.”
The topic of multinationals bringing “rubbish” to Hungary appeared on the local political landscape last year, when Cabinet Chief János Lázár said he would be “content to chase multinationals away” from Hungary as these companies “haul Europe’s rubbish” into the country, and suggested that it would be best if foreign food retail chains left.
In Mid-February, Lázár urged a probe to be launched after a Nébih report said identically branded products in Hungary offered by multinationals are of “lower quality” than in Austria. In a statement sent to the Budapest Business Journal, the Hungarian Brand Association, the interest representation organization for the Hungarian FMCG sector, rejected the report as “subjective.”
Soon after this, Fazekas was reported to have ordered Nébih to conduct an inspection comparing the quality of identically branded products available at domestic and foreign retail stores to reveal if there are any differences.
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Eagles vs. Steelers preseason watching guide
Learn more about the Philadelphia-Pittsburgh matchup on Thursday evening.
By Alexis Chassen@Lovelybuckeye Aug 12, 2021, 7:31am EDT
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The Philadelphia Eagles host the Pittsburgh Steelers for their first preseason game of the 2021 season — and Philly’s first preseason game since 2019— on Thursday night.
(Reminder if you’re attending: The city issued a new mask mandate, so you’ll want to review HERE what that means for those trekking to Lincoln Financial Field.)
We got a little taste of NFL action last week with the Hall of Fame Game, but the preseason will be far more interesting as new head coach Nick Sirianni finally shows off (at least a little bit) of what his incredibly young team can do. We don’t know how much of the Eagles’ starters we’ll see on Thursday night, but Sirianni did say that most of the starters should get some reps during the preseason opener.
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With the 2021 NFL season now featuring 17 regular season games, we’re only getting three preseason games instead of four — not that it really matters a ton since most teams rest their starters and veterans in those last couple exhibition games.
Still, we haven’t had Eagles football in months, fans haven’t been allowed to attend games in The Linc for even longer, and there are more than enough things to keep an eye out when the team takes the field. We’ll see what a Jalen Hurts offense looks like with ample preparation, what some of these one and two year skill players can do, and how Jonathan Gannon’s defense is going to look both up front and in the secondary.
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Here’s everything you need to know about how to watch the game.
Date: Thursday, August 12, 2021
Channel: NBC10
Location: Lincoln Financial Field | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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Week 5 - at Carolina Panthers (Oct. 10, 1:00 PM ET, FOX)
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Week 12 - at New York Giants (Nov. 28, 1:00 PM ET, FOX)
Week 13 - at New York Jets (Dec. 5, 1:00 PM ET, CBS)
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Week 17 - at Washington Football Team (Jan. 2, 1:00 PM ET, FOX)
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The God who Drinks Alcohol – Kaal Bhairav Temple, Ujjain
If there is a city where you will find a temple in whichever street you turn to, it is Ujjain! Also, there are some temples like the Kaal Bhairav Temple which will definitely stun you.
The main temple is the Mahakaleshwar (the Jyotirlinga). Then there is the biggest Ganesha temple; a temple for the planet Jupiter; then a cave temple where a sage is living (but you find it hard even to breathe in such a place); then a temple where a lamp never extinguishes. Such stories and endless miracles are found in every nook and corner of Ujjain!
Of all the unique temples, the Kaal Bhairav Temple caught my special attention. The fascinating story associated with the temple is that the deity here drinks alcohol! Yes! Have you ever heard of a temple where alcohol is accepted as an offering? No, right?! But here is one such temple where you not only offer liquor to God, but he literally drinks it!
Don’t believe me? Read on…
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Kaal Bhairav Temple, Ujjain
Kaal Bhairav gulps the Alcohol!
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Kalabhairava is considered the most fierce representation of Lord Shiva. He is considered terrifying and is represented with big blaring eyes, untied hair that looks more like burning fire, wearing a garland made of a human skull, and protruding teeth like a tiger’s. In His hand, one can see the severed fifth head of God Brahma. That’s right! Brahma had five heads and not four.
The story goes-
Once, there was some argument amongst the Gods to decide who is the supreme creator of the universe. Every Veda and scriptures hailed Lord Shiva as the mighty creator. Thus, Brahma got angry. Shiva got angry, too, knowing that Brahma thinks of himself as the supreme. This escalates into a duel, where Brahma stares at Shiva. Shiva, in a greater rage, cuts off Brahma’s head.
Kaal Bhairavar shrine in a Hindu Temple – Source Kaala Bhairavar
Kaala Bhairavar is considered a protector of the universe. It is common to see his statue erected at the entrance of villages and being religiously worshipped. In most of the Shiva temples, especially the Jyotirlingas, you see a shrine for Kaal Bhairav. It is said that if you visit the Jyotirlinga, then you have to pay a visit to KaalBhairava as well. Almost all the Shakthi Peethas have a shrine for Him too, and He stands to guard the premises.
The easiest way to identify Kaal bhairav is that He uses a dog as a vehicle. Kaal Bhairav is also associated with tantric activities because Aghoris worship him. Such poojas are done during midnight and have even more interesting stories. Even Buddhism adapted this form of his fierce representation. One can see paintings of Kala Bhairava in many monasteries.
Kaal Bhairav representation in Buddhism
Having paid a visit to the Mahakaleshwar Temple of Ujjain, it is a must to pay a visit to Kaal Bhairav. Mahakaleshwar was a very well-organized temple. I got to sit right opposite the sanctum sanctorum and pray however long I wanted. You can also get to see the Shiva Linga from anywhere in the huge hall.
After hopping around many more temples, it was finally time to pay a visit to Kaal Bhairav. It is about 4km away from the Jyotirlinga shrine, and the many tuk-tuks around take you everywhere in the town. The vehicle stopped a little away and asked us to walk further down. The moment I got out, the hawkers handed out the pooja plate to be given as an offering to God. As soon as I saw the plate, I looked at the vendor in utter disbelief! Why do you ask?
The plate had flowers, sandalwood, kumkum, incense sticks, a packet of sweets, and a bottle of liquor!! A bottle of alcohol in a temple?! Hey Ram!! “This is what God here takes,” the seller chuckled as he saw my perplexed expression and placed the plate in my hands.
Liquor bottle along with Pooja plate
I, however, did not take the plate and continued to walk ahead in amusement. More and more shops selling liquor started appearing gradually. Not just the country-made liquor! There were expensive wine bottles↣— Old Monk, Blender’s Pride, Antiquity, Smirn Off Vodka, and even the costliest scotch bottles!
These were being sold in authorised government shops. These shops resembled a vegetable market! People were buying these plates of offerings along with the choicest alcohol with utmost sincerity!
Government authorised liquor shops
Wikipedia says that the temple was built by a king called Bhadrasen. The temple is built in the Maratha style in black stone. There is a Deepa Stamba, a tall towering lamp made of stone, particularly to the Maratha kingdom. The inside of the temple was not as glorious as the ornate entrance. It looked like any other ordinary temple. Photography is not allowed beyond the point of entrance. Be mindful of the heavy crowd; you might have to stand in long queues.
Entrance of the temple
Now comes the part that astonished me the most. Inside is the shrine of Kaal Bhairav. There is a Shiva Linga, not entirely cylindrical but more like a big stone, smeared with vermillion (kumkum).
The bright orangish body is contrasted with thick black eyebrows and a golden coloured crown over it. Two bright eyes shine through the smeared vermillion, and red-coloured lips mark the mouth. To me, it looked like the eyes were inside a cavity. On His head is the famous Maratha Pagadi that the royal family used to wear and the making of which (the Pagdi) is a fast-disappearing art now.
The crowd is very chaotic. There is a lot of pushing and pulling. I soon found myself in a corner stuck to the wall like a lizard, letting the crowd pass through me! I wanted to watch the interesting proceedings. The queue moves slowly—the devotee hands over the offering plate to the priest. The priest opens the alcohol bottle and pours nearly one-fourth of it into a shallow plate near the deity. He then places the plate near the statue’s mouth opening, and Kala Bhairava drinks the alcohol!
I am not joking at all! The priest is not even tilting the plate to pour it through some hole, he places it close to the lips, and the liquor starts to disappear! I am not making this up…
Kaal Bhairav – Source Wikipedia
I could not believe my eyes. I kept watching in amazement. The action happened right in front of my eyes, repeatedly and swiftly! The priest pours the alcohol on the plate, and it disappears in no time. I thought that some kind of tank must have been kept underneath where all this alcohol must be gettings poured into. But then I wondered what will they do by mixing all this alcohol.
We are in an era where I cannot blindly believe it to be a miracle and that Kaal Bhairav is drinking all the alcohol! No one in the temple would tell you how it happens. The sea of people rushes to offer their ‘prasad’ to the deity. Some even drink it once out of the temple, like a temple offering.
Cos the God likes alcohol
Once outside the temple, I sat in a calm place and googled about this Kaal Bhairav alcohol mystery. Nothing substantial came up.
A theory proposed- the particular stone of which the deity is made must be porous in nature and might have the quality to absorb all the liquor! How much can a stone absorb? That too so many variants of alcohol is poured into it for hundreds of years. I rejected this theory. The next theory said that the alcohol evaporates into thin air! Completely agree, but the amount of time it takes to evaporate cannot match the speed of disappearance that I had witnessed.
The next Google search said that once a team tried to conduct studies on the matter, the head priest refused. Then a team finally did successful research, but they couldn’t find anything odd. They concluded that Kaal Bhairav is indeed drinking all that alcohol!!!
Deepa Stamba
Don’t believe me? Visit it and see for yourself. You will enjoy it a lot.
Kaala Bhairava Temple, Ujjain
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Bhairava says:
Why are you writing like a foreigner, a non indian?
It appears your colonial slave mindset needs a change.
Niranjan R says:
That’s interesting. Good to know about it.
it was so interesting to watch. hope somebody solves this mystery
Wow. So much is out there in India… I would love to see the Deep Stambha fully lit at night…
I wish to too. i think it is done only on festival days though
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Otto and I sat on the porch and talked about the Mastodon molar that a former student found in 2008, and of the replica in the showcase in the upstairs hallway. Otto wanted to see the spot where the molar was found. We ventured down the wooden steps to the path in the woods. He asked me questions, adding and subtracting the answers in his head, and he took me on a journey to the earth’s past. By the walk’s end I had newfound reverence for the present moment.
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As I ambled toward the Fairy Tree on a sunny fall Friday, I noticed more students than usual milling about, socially distanced, gathering twigs, acorns, flowers and other autumn loot from the lightly-forested area. It was the day of what students dubbed our first Fall Festival, replete with a Deity of Good Vibes and a well-thought-out economy using an acorn currency they call “chips”.
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As so often happens here, the ordinary became the extraordinary, simply because we had the time and the mutual respect to practice the ancient art of conversation, of speaking and listening. Fairhaven is, among many other things, teeming with conversations, and this one was both typical and noteworthy, an especially lively portion of Ruefle’s lifelong sentence. Isn’t the spoken word perhaps the most important distinction of the human species? We recognize and honor this distinction here. Instead of sit down, be quiet, and do you work, our instruction is: do what excites you and talk!
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Although I can’t believe it now, looking out at all this rain, a couple of days ago the weather was very hot and humid. One of the younger girls invited me to go to the stream with her, so we walked together down the winding, forest stairs. The leaves on the trees are now toughened up, and the sun is almost completely covered, except for the occasional diamond of light shining down. She got in the water, I stayed on the shore.
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Left : “An Angel at My Bedside”, (2020) hand-stitched silk collage 31.89 x 46.06 in. / Center: “Self-Care Sunday” (2020)
hand-stitched silk collage 47.64 x 24.41 in. / Right: Detail of “Self-Care Sunday” (2020)
Elegant and Eloquent? Enter Billie Zangewa
Lehman Maupin presents:
“Wings of Change”
Through November 7, 2020
There’s something comforting in the remarkable collages of Johannesburg-based artist Billie Zangewa. Hand-stitched and composed entirely of silk, these seven intricate narratives invite intimacy not only for their subject matter but for their command of craft. Evidence of the human hand is everywhere.
“Wings of Change” is Billie’s first exhibition with Lehman Maupin and her first in New York. The show reflects her time working in isolation during the pandemic.
“Zangewa creates figurative compositions that explore contemporary intersectional identity in an attempt to challenge the historical stereotype, objectification, and exploitation of the black female form. “Wings of Change” will feature new work that examines Zangewa’s personal experiences during the recent months of global lockdown, especially those of love, loss, and emotional transformation.”
– Statement, Lehman Maupin
“Heart of the Home” (2020) Hand-stitched silk collage 53.5 x 43.25 in.
Zangewa illustrates domestic scenes, day-to-day activities and portraits. She is a master at composition. Consider “Heart of the Home” (2020), where the artist portrays her son at the kitchen table. Colored pencils and an ipad lie nearby. The piece is fastidious in its depiction of kitchen backsplash, oven burners and cabinets. The contrasts of black chairs in the foreground invites the viewer in and the dynamic sandwiching of light and dark keeps the eye in play. “Heart of the Home” (2020) is asymmetrical as the picture plane is interrupted.
The use of fabric imbues texture while its sheen reflects light. Her particular strength lies in describing facets of physiognomy as she cuts individual pieces of silk to describe her son’s facade. Weightless, “Heart of the Home” (2020) adheres to the gallery wall via pins.
In “An Angel at My Bedside” (2020) a figure resembling the artist sleeps. A bedframe, adjacent to a lamp, quietly recedes. The truncated picture plane engages the surrounding wall space while the viewer’s eye hopscotches over red and white patterns. Billie started out in the fashion and advertising industries and brought her understanding of textiles to collage. Main themes centered on femininity, daily life, the mundane, cityscapes and life as an African.
Installation View of “Interview with Billie Zangewa/ “Alpha Crucis - Contemporary African Art”
“The act of stitching…is incredibly powerful in a way that’s not obvious and the first time I came away into this awareness was when I was a little girl; my mother’s sewing group would come to my house and would sew there and I saw how these women went into such a peaceful quiet place after sewing…”
Billie Zangewa is an exciting addition to the stable of artists at Lehman Maupin. Not to miss, the show runs through November 7th.
“Faithfully” (2020) hand-stitched silk collage 8.66 x 51.18 in.
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(thing) by aneurin Sun May 05 2002 at 10:39:06
National Trails are the nationally recognised long distance footpaths in England and Wales, designated and managed by the Countryside Agency or the Countryside Council for Wales. They are all waymarked using a standard acorn symbol, and described in a series of official guide books, the National Trail Guides. (Scotland has its own particular system of Long Distance Routes designated by Scottish Natural Heritage.)
They are not the only long distance footpaths in existence. Since a long distance footpath is merely a designation of an existing public right of way, anyone can (and does) map out a particular route. The National Trails are simply those routes that are nationally recognised and where the specified public bodies take responsibility for the maintenance and marking of the routes.
The very first National Trail to be created was the Pennine Way opened in 1965. Since then there have been regular additions to the list to accomodate the growing leisure pursuit of walking in the countryside as well as no doubt to assist in attracting the ever important tourist pound.
There are currently nine National Trails in England, one in Wales and one Offa's Dyke Path that is in both. A further three in England (that is the Cotswold Way, the Hadrian's Wall Path and the Pennine Bridleway) and one in Wales (Glyndwr's Way) are currently under development.
Cleveland Way between Helmsley and Filey Brig - 110 miles or 177 kilometres
Cotswold Way between Chipping Camden and Bath - 101 miles or 163 kilometres
Hadrian's Wall Path between Wallsend and Bowness 81 miles or 130kilometres
North Downs Way between Farnham and Dover - 141 miles or 246 kilometres
Offa's Dyke Path between Chepstow and Prestatyn- 176 miles or 283 kilometres/
Peddars Way/Norfolk Coast Path between Knettishall and Cromer - 93 miles or 149 kilometres
Pennine Bridleway between Carsington Reservoir or Middleton Top and Kirkby Stephen - 208 miles or 330 kilometres
Pennine Way between Edale and Kirk Yetholm - 256 miles or 404 kilometres
Ridgeway between Avebury and Ivinghoe - 85 miles or 137 kilometres
South Downs Way between Eastbourne and Winchester - 106 miles or 171 kilometres
South West Coast Path between Minehead and Poole - 630 miles or 1014 kilometres
Thames Path between Thames Head and the Thames Barrier - 180 miles or 290 kilometres
Wolds Way between Filey and Hull - 79 miles or 127 kilometres
Glyndwr's Way between Knighton and Welshpool - 128 miles or 206 kilometres
Offa's Dyke Path between Chepstow and Prestatyn- 176 miles or 283 kilometres
Pembrokeshire Coast Path between Amroth and Cardigan - 186 miles or 299 kilometres
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www.countryside.gov.uk/index.htm
www.ccw.gov.uk/Places/index.cfm?Action=Trails&lang=en
www.ramblers.org.uk/info/paths/paths.html
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Josephson vortex flow states and Josephson plasma excitation in high-Tc superconductors
M. Tachiki, M. Machida, Tomio Koyama
Institute for Materials Research (IMR)
The structure and dynamics of a single Josephson vortex and the collective dynamics of Josephson vortices in highly anisotropic High-Tc superconductors (HTSCs) are briefly reported on the basis of the numerical simulation results. The Josephson vortex has a peculiar variation scale for the tunneling current in contrast to Abrikosov vortex. In the presence of a transport current along the c-axis, the single Josephson vortex excites wake-like electromagnetic fields behind the vortex center due to the Cherenkov radiation, while a mass of Josephson vortices move with flow lattice structures depending on the current strength. It is shown that the moving vortex lattice structures are strongly affected by the interaction with the transverse Josephson plasma modes.
Published - 2000 Jan 1
9th Japan-US Workshop on High-Tc Superconductors - Yamanashi, Jpn
Duration: 1999 Oct 13 → 1999 Oct 15
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Tachiki, M., Machida, M., & Koyama, T. (2000). Josephson vortex flow states and Josephson plasma excitation in high-Tc superconductors. Unknown Journal, 335(1), 214-218. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0921-4534(00)00173-8
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Tachiki, M, Machida, M & Koyama, T 2000, 'Josephson vortex flow states and Josephson plasma excitation in high-Tc superconductors', Unknown Journal, vol. 335, no. 1, pp. 214-218. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0921-4534(00)00173-8
Tachiki M, Machida M, Koyama T. Josephson vortex flow states and Josephson plasma excitation in high-Tc superconductors. Unknown Journal. 2000 Jan 1;335(1):214-218. doi: 10.1016/S0921-4534(00)00173-8
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Donald Trump Will Be Our President, Because @Madeleine_Rae Is Crazy
Posted on | December 31, 2016 | 3 Comments
“If you’re a woman in today’s job market, it can be hard to find work. That’s why I recommend you ‘lean in’ — to the arms of a dying rich man.”
— Madeleine Davies, March 19, 2015
Madeleine Davies (@Madeleine_Rae on Twitter) is insane and a feminist, but I repeat myself. She graduated from the University of Wisconsin in 2010 and went to work for Gawker Media in 2011 and is now a “senior writer” at Jezebel, the feminist site that stumbles onward like a zombie despite the fact that its parent company got bankrupted by a professional wrestler. In short, Madeleine Davies’ life has been a long series of the kind of bad decisions you expect from a mentally ill liberal arts major. One imagines a therapy group of ex-Gawker writers meeting somewhere in Brooklyn, each telling the story of their lives leading up to the disastrous turning-point: “And then I went to work for Nick Denton.”
Madeleine Davis now works for Gizmodo News Group, a subsidiary of Univision that includes Jezebel and other ex-Gawker properties. Last month, Univision laid off 200 employees, because “social justice”:
Between 200 and 250 people are facing layoffs at the Spanish language conglomerate Univision, the company announced Wednesday, yet another reminder of the grim economic realities weighing down many newsrooms.
The layoffs, which were first reported by the Washington Post, will hit nearly 6% of the company’s workforce, primarily affecting Fusion, Univision’s millennial-focused news website that has struggled to find an audience. . . .
In his memo, [Univision executive Isaac] Lee said that Fusion will continue to be “a hub for some of our investigative work,” and will “focus its efforts by doubling-down on its award-winning reporting on issues of social justice and diversity.”
LOL 2016: "We're screwing over our employees so we can pivot to social justice issues."
https://t.co/LCdRqofyTS pic.twitter.com/kXB1GhxZLx
— The Patriarch Tree (@PatriarchTree) December 31, 2016
Meanwhile, a certain nutjob “senior writer” at Jezebel is still getting paid. Ms. Davies’ natural métier is humor (e.g., “I’m Pretty Sure Most Straight Men Would Have Sex with The Rock”), so her mental illness isn’t necessarily a problem. If a joke-writer is a barely functional wacko swallowing Zoloft tablets in an effort to stave off a complete psychotic meltdown, well, that’s not a good thing, but she’s just writing jokes, OK? However, an editor might think twice about assigning an unhinged kook to write about something serious, like politics.
This is where feminism becomes a career strategy for the emotionally unstable liberal arts major. Her irrational rage and frequent outbursts of lunatic gibberish can be justified as a commentary on her condition as an oppressed victim of heteronormative patriarchy. And nobody in the offices of Gizmodo News Group would dare criticize Madeleine Davies, because she might erupt in a tantrum of shrieking fury and threaten you with a class-action lawsuit for harassment and discrimination. Feminism is always a lose-lose proposition for the employer. A company that doesn’t hire enough women (and “enough” is a quantity subject to constant revision according to whatever percentage feminists consider a satisfactory quota) can be sued for discrimination. However, if you ever make the mistake of hiring a crazy feminist, you can never fire her.
Madeleine Davies could organize Jezebel staffers into a coven performing Dianic Wicca rituals in the coffee-break room, and Gizmodo executives couldn’t say a word without risking a federal discrimination complaint.
In terms of employment policy, feminism is just legalized blackmail — a shakedown racket, extortion as “social justice” — and the strategy of executives at Univision is crudely cynical: Keep a certain number of feminist writers on the payroll, as a loss-leader and a “social justice” gesture and, if anyone ever notices that the executives collecting enormous salaries are mostly white guys, you point in the direction of Madeleine Davies: “But we’re paying her, OK? She’s a senior writer!”
Tokenism, quota hires, everybody tiptoeing around the office trying to avoid offending the Perpetually Indignant Office Bitch — yeah, it’s almost as if there’s a reason why 63 million people would vote for a guy who personifies America’s resentment of that “social justice” crap.
Shortly before 4 p.m. on Election Day, Madeleine Davies published her column in defense of voting for a woman because she’s a woman — “representation,” as the Tumblr feminists say, while bemoaning the death of a lesbian character on a CW network sci-fi show. Symbolism is deeply important for emotionally unstable liberal arts majors, and Madeleine Davies explained this appeal in her Election Day column:
Earlier today, I walked to my neighborhood polling place wearing the same Barack Obama t-shirt that I wore when I voted for the very first time in 2008. I thanked the lady who handed me my ballot for donating her time to the noble cause of voting. I walked into the booth where I then cast my vote for Hillary Clinton, getting a little weepy as I did so, because I feel so immensely fortunate to vote for the person whom I hope and believe will become the first woman president. It was symbolic and it was performative, but what an honor to wear this symbol, to perform this role.
Yeah, and #LexaDeservedBetter, maybe. Or on the other hand, perhaps the dead lesbian trope in popular culture really is symbolic, in some kind of Joseph Campbell comparative mythology sense. (Warning to casual readers: This next digression might be a long one.) Feminists and other secular progressives, influenced by Marxist theories of “class struggle,” would suffer an existential crisis — the loss of their weltanschauung — if they ever seriously considered either of two hypotheses:
There is a natural order of human life, where the strong survive and flourish, and the weak are trampled down into servitude;
The Bible is true, and there is a transcendent God whose will may be known, whose laws are just, and who is eternally sovereign.
Both of these hypotheses must be excluded from consideration, if we are to buy into the Heaven on Earth promises of progressive cult leaders who urge us forward down the road to Progress and Equality. No matter how often radical egalitarianism fails — and the catastrophe in Venezuela is the latest example — the True Believer can never let go of what Thomas Sowell called The Vision of the Anointed. Having ruled out the possibility that the Bible is true, our atheistic elite are now fanatical devotees of the Cult of Social Justice. They cling to their quasi-religious belief system with a grim certainty, like Mohamed Atta piloting that Boeing 767 into the North Tower. “Vote Democrat” is their “Allahu Akbar.”
No matter how often you explain to them what’s wrong with their ideology, they refuse to let go, holding onto their faith in Equality and Progress like a 4-year-old clinging to his security blanket. Nobel Prize-winning economist Friedrich Hayek once published a book called The Mirage of Social Justice, the title of which summarizes the basic problem — progressives are pursuing an illusion, an impossible utopian ideal.
Has Madeleine Davies ever read that book? Of course not. Has anyone employed at Jezebel or Gizmodo Media Group ever read anything by Hayek or Ludwig von Mises or Thomas Sowell? Liberals love to assert that everyone who opposes them is “ignorant,” and yet I’ve read more Marx (and Engels, and Lenin and Trotsky) than has the average Marxist, just like I’ve read more feminist theory than have most feminists. It’s not that conservatives are “ignorant” of the Left’s ideas, but rather that the Left’s ideas don’t work — and they stubbornly refuse to read any of the books that explain why their ideas don’t work. The Left prefers ignorance to knowledge, because the facts are not their friends.
“Believe me, sir, those who attempt to level never equalise. In all societies, consisting of various descriptions of citizens, some description must be uppermost. The levellers therefore only change and pervert the natural order of things; they load the edifice of society, by setting up in the air what the solidity of the structure requires to be on the ground.”
— Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790)
Edmund Burke nailed it more than 200 years ago, but the Left refuses to accept reality. Their madcap dream of equality has been producing tyrannies since the Reign of Terror in France, and the 20th century saw Marxist-Leninist regimes murder some 100 million people. Yet these debacles have taught the Left nothing, nor have they learned anything from the increasing political, economic and demographic woes of European social democracies. Not only does the Left fail to understand history, they can’t even do simple arithmetic. During his 2015 State of the Union address, President Obama proposed two years of free community college tuition for everybody. Who’s going to pay for that $60 billion giveaway? The Democrat answer: Who cares? The national debt is now approaching $20 trillion— that’s trillion with a “T,” meaning $20,000,000,000,000 — and interest payments on the national debt cost $223 billion, or 6 percent of the federal budget, in 2015. So for every dollar the IRS collects from taxpayers, only 94 cents is available for current needs, and the annual budget deficit in fiscal year 2015 was $439 billion out of $3.7 trillion. Yet there is no end to demands for even more deficit spending from the Moocher Caucus of Democrat voters who think the federal government exists to provide them with “free” stuff that the taxpayers can’t afford. In New Jersey, lesbians are suing for their “right” to free in-vitro fertilization treatment, and Democrats will denounce you as a homophobe if you don’t want to pay for it. The Democrats have ceased to be a political party and have become a psychiatric disease. Democrats no longer have policies, they have symptoms. But I digress . . .
Gripped by despair over the failure of Hillary Clinton to defeat the villainous Trump, feminists have become more irrational than ever. All their demented antics over the past two years — hysterical protests about “rape culture” on campus, etc. — were merely a prelude to the psychotic madness that has seized them in the wake of Trump’s election.
Thursday, Madeleine Davies published a column that began thus:
In 2001, when I was about 14 years old, my male friends invented a game that went like this: one of them — and it was always the same one — would sneak behind me, slap me — and it was always me — on the ass and run away as I sputtered, angry and humiliated.
It was a game that everyone but me seemed to love. I was a girl who mostly hung around boys because I hadn’t yet learned that female friendships, though infinitely more confusing, were also infinitely more rewarding. I was the self-professed type who loudly preferred spending time with men over spending time with women because they were less dramatic and complicated. And so I surrounded myself with boys who found it funny to grab my body when I least expected it, and were spurred by my discomfort to push me further and more painfully. . . .
Pause here, reader, and ask: Who were these boys? Where was this high school in which 14-year-old Madeleine Davies endured this treatment? Who were the parents of these boys? What, if anything, was the school administration doing to prevent such misbehavior? These questions are relevant because Madeleine Davies invokes her adolescent humiliation as an experiential justification for her anti-male political rage:
The truth . . . is that while it’s been ingrained in me to chase their acceptance and approval and be “in on the joke,” I was raised from birth to fear men, to never trust or expect them to protect me. Thirty years of being suffocated by their desires, whims, and power has only proven the fear as founded. In the years that followed . . . I would see good liberal boys, the ones who had feminist mothers and organized progressive political demonstrations, go completely silent when a high school acquaintance accused one of their own of rape. . . .
Do you see the irony here? Ms. Davies evidently grew up in a “progressive” community, and “good liberal boys . . . who had feminist mothers” were among the males she “was raised from birth to fear.” Nearly half a century after the Women’s Liberation movement emerged from the New Left of the 1960s, one might suggest that “liberation” has in many ways made life worse for young women. Such a suggestion would be denounced as “sexist,” however, so we are expected to bite our tongues, rather than to remark that American life was more civilized before all those hippie radicals began to “change and pervert the natural order of things.” As I say, progressives cling so ferociously to their weltanschauung that they wouldn’t even know how to begin considering the possibility that they are wrong. The Kool-Aid drinkers in the Cult of Social Justice are incapable of doubting their own moral superiority, their belief in Progress and Equality being the quasi-religious faith by which they will bring about Heaven on Earth. And now, Madeleine Davies confronts the Beast of the Feminist Apocalypse:
Since the election of Donald Trump, I have felt like a clairvoyant who, instead of seeing ghosts, sees the specter of male destruction everywhere I look: in the money I spend, in the industry I work, even in the minds of other women — the ones too foolish to realize that men don’t protect them anymore or, somehow more offensive to me, the ones who’ve cynically embraced the concept of female empowerment as a brand or an excuse for selfishness, effectively wringing the term of its power and significance.
For the first time, I don’t know how to move past my boiling anger or laugh it away. Also for the first time, I have no desire to. Preferable, I now think, is to stop laughing, to become as repulsive as I can in an insult to these men — so many men — who hate women and the women who adulate them. . . . There are days when all I want is to become a human road sign, a blinking hazard to any man misfortunate enough to cross my path: “I WANT TO OFFEND YOUR SIGHT. I WANT TO OFFEND YOUR EVERYTHING.” . . .
Watch out, guys — she’s shifted into CAPS LOCK RAGE MODE.
Today, my 24-year-old paratrooper son came home from Fort Bragg, bringing with him his wife, an art student. His twin brother came over with his wife, a nursing student, and their two sons, ages 3 and 1. It was a happy holiday gathering, with five of our six children, two grandchildren, and my 18-year-old son’s girlfriend. My wife fixed a delicious meal, then my kids recruited me to participate in a Nerf-gun battle down in the family room, before we all sat down to watch the Peach Bowl, where Alabama defeated Washington to advance to the collegiate football national championship game. Life is good here, in our family’s modest Appalachian home, which makes it all the more amusing to sit here and see Madeleine Davies spew her “boiling anger” toward “these men . . . who hate women,” inspiring her “to become as repulsive as I can,” because “I WANT TO OFFEND YOUR EVERYTHING.” She continues:
But it’s the bad women who have always, however grotesquely, provided the limited examples of female resistance: Salome, demanding the head of John the Baptist; Medea punishing her husband’s betrayal with infanticide; Flannery O’Connor’s Hulga, who knew her birth name Joy was all wrong because it was light and airy and she wanted to be dense and ugly, like a swamp; Toni Morrison’s Sula, whose destructive joie de vivre led her to trample on the moral codes of others; the heroines of Ferrante, often cruel and spiteful because they’re too smart for the men who anchor them to the miserable world that they created. All of the women terrible in someway or another — but also strikingly bold in their effrontery.
Women, though not always “good,” have always been nice. And look where it’s gotten us. Stripped of our rights, degraded, and still under the thumb of men. . . .
What a strange choice of heroines she makes with Salome, daughter of Herodias, whose illegal marriage John the Baptist had criticized, leading to John’s imprisonment and his execution at Salome’s request (Matthew 14:3-11, Luke 3:19-20, 9:9, Mark 6:17-28). Is Salome an example of “female resistance” worthy of emulation? Wasn’t she rather an example of the decadence of the Judean aristocracy under Roman rule?
Ah, but this is the problem with our young progressives, isn’t it? They don’t know history, and therefore are unable to distinguish between progress and decadence, just as their lack of morality renders them incapable of distinguishing between good and evil. All they value is power, and to a feminist like Madeleine Davies, the example of Salome — who used her power, such as it was, to have a prophet beheaded — must be heroic. Yet the feminist pursuit of power had failed, and Ms. Davies sees Trump’s election as proof that women are “degraded . . . still under the thumb of men.” Her rage is as infinite as it is incoherent:
I am not yet disgusting to the right people — the ones with power are blind to me. Any optimism I’ve had in regards to changing the destructive course of history has faded, with most of my idealism, into the past. . . . Now, all I hope for is to cause my own sort of minor destruction to the men who would otherwise take things away from me. I can never hurt them as much as they’ve hurt us (nor do I have the heart to), but can I hurt them at all? . . .
I’m writing in a circle that keeps leading me back to the same questions: How do I become ugly to these people? How do I offend their sensibilities with my very existence?
Well, Ms. Davies, you’ve done enough already, haven’t you? I do not think Americans are as irrational as you are, and I think that you are the reason why Donald Trump will be our next president. Not just you, of course, but all your comrades in the feminist movement — Jessica Valenti, Amanda Marcotte, Anita Sarkeesian, Alexandra Brodsky, Jaclyn Friedman, et al. — have made yourselves quite the collective nuisance during the past few years, reminding a lot of people of exactly why they hate feminists.
Does that look like a mainstream political movement to you? Do these people look like they can be trusted with political power? Do Americans wish to be governed by CAP LOCKS FEMINIST RAGE?
Everybody’s got their own theory of why Trump won, but has it occurred to anyone that Hillary Clinton’s candidacy — and the outspoken feminist support for her campaign — caused the American people to take a closer look at what feminism really is? As I have been saying for months, Feminism Is a Totalitarian Movement to Destroy Civilization as We Know It, and maybe 63 million voters recognize this truth.
Thanks to you, Madeleine Davies, our next president will be your worst nightmare. Inspired by our new president’s policies, maybe the executives at Univision will take a long, hard look at the bottom-line value of Jezebel staffers (meeting weekly for Wicca rituals in the coffee-break room) and decide they don’t need so many “senior writers.”
My advice to you, Ms. Davies, is to update your resumé and get out while the getting’s good. You’ve got so many ideas about career strategies, and I’m sure many potential employers will be impressed by your qualifications as Perpetually Indignant Office Bitch. Good luck!
First, we killed Lexa, then we elected Trump.
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Feb 24, 2022 - Health
Omicron subvariant sparks reopening jitters
Tina Reed, author of Axios Vitals
Illustration: Brendan Lynch/Axios
The fear of new COVID variants is adding a sense of trepidation to America's latest great reopening.
Driving the news: While cases and hospitalizations are plummeting worldwide after massive Omicron-fueled surges, the spread of an even more transmissible Omicron subvariant is making some experts nervous as states lift mask mandates and other restrictions.
"The bottom line is we're relatively optimistic that things will continue to improve through the spring and the summer under Omicron," Matt Craven, a partner at McKinsey who specializes in public health and infectious disease, said Wednesday during a U.S. Chamber of Commerce event.
But this new subvariant "serves as that reminder we very well may not be done here and there may be others coming," he said.
State of play: This week, the World Health Organization reiterated the subvariant, dubbed BA.2, is a "variant of concern" while also saying it would continue to be classified as Omicron.
Health officials are examining whether BA.2 may slow declines or even cause an increase in cases, WHO epidemiologist Maria Van Kerkhove told the Wall Street Journal.
Between the lines: Thus far, it's believed the Omicron subvariant is more transmissible — roughly 30% more than the original strain, WHO reported — but may not cause more severe disease than the original Omicron strain.
A preprint study out of Japan, which used animals with no immunity to COVID-19, indicated the BA.2 subvariant had features that make it capable of causing more severe illness.
However, several real-world data from pre-print studies, including one from South Africa, where immunity from vaccination or natural infection is high, has found "no difference in severity" between the original Omicron and the subvariant.
A pre-print study from Denmark found the subvariant is capable of reinfecting individuals who'd recently had COVID-19 from the Omicron or Delta strains, though the phenomenon was not common.
Yes, but: Additional pre-print studies from Columbia University and NYU based on laboratory data indicate a COVID treatment, the antibody sotrovimab, could be less effective against the variant.
"With monoclonal antibodies, we're trying to hit a moving target," says David Ho, a virologist at Columbia University in New York City and a co-author of one of the studies told the science journal Nature.
The big picture: "As of now, I don't think that we need to sound a global alarm. But I do think that we need to pay attention," Dan Barouch, director of the Center for Virology and Vaccine Research at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston told CNN.
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New judges join panel for 2023 People Awards
Seven new judges will join the panel for the 2023 Business Travel People Awards.
New to the panel are Merv Moonien, UK Travel Services Manager for JLL/Amazon, Devi Virdi, Group Head of Diversity and Inclusion at Centrica, Paul Bowden, Commercial Director at RDG (Rail Delivery Group) and Carolyn Pearson, CEO of Maiden Voyage and winner of the 2022 Chair’s Award.
Following tradition, the winner of the Rising Star award will also become a judge. This year, there were three joint winners of this award – Sinéad Ryan, Head of Account Management UK, ALTOUR, Georgia Suttie, Venue Find Operations Manager, Agiito, and Laura Garton, Sales and Marketing Executive, Synergy Global Housing – who will all help to judge the awards in 2023.
These new judges will join the existing industry experts on the panel, which include Emma Lamb, Global Travel Safety & Security Specialist Milestone Tech @ Facebook, Danni Ives, Partnership Project Manager, Focus Travel Partnership, Carol Fergus, Director of Global Travel, Events and Ground Transportation, Fidelity, Juliet Price, Consultant Executive Director, beam, and Guy Snelgar, Global Business Travel Director, The Advantage Travel Partnership. Further judges will be confirmed shortly.
For the third consecutive year, the panel will be chaired by Leigh Cowlishaw, Managing Partner, Black Box Partnerships.
“It’s an honour to be chairing the panel of judges again for the 2023 awards and especially with such a group of esteemed experts and professionals, covering all corners of the industry.
“We can’t wait to see all the submissions for the categories, which we have tweaked again this year to reflect key trends and to showcase our industry’s best talent.”
The nominations will open early in 2023 and the presentation ceremony will take place on September 25 at the De Vere Grand Connaught Rooms, London.
It is the first time the awards will be held at the venue, which underwent a £700,000 refurbishment just before the pandemic.
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Bring Science Home
Block Radio Waves
An electromagnetically charged challenge from Science Buddies
By Science Buddies on December 22, 2011
Have you ever wondered how a radio can receive music and news broadcasts over thin air? Radios, as well as radio-controlled cars and cell phones, all receive information via invisible waves. Some of these waves are called radio waves.
Radio waves are a type of electromagnetic radiation, a kind of energy that also includes visible light. Radio waves are not harmful but are in fact extremely useful for communicating across long distances. To send information using radio waves, a transmitting antenna sends out a radio wave at a certain frequency (which can tell us the size of the wave), and this is picked up by a receiving antenna. Some materials can block, or interfere with, radio waves. Have you ever noticed that you lose reception on a car radio or cell phone when you drive into a tunnel or an underground parking garage? What materials block the radio waves, and which ones allow the waves to easily pass through?
A transmitting antenna, or transmitter, generates and sends out radio waves thanks to a specific electrical current. This is possible because inside transmitters are wires that allow negatively charged particles, called electrons, to flow through them, which makes an electrical current. When current flows within a wire, it generates an electromagnetic field around the wire. This electromagnetic field radiates out of the antenna in all directions, creating invisible radio waves.
When the electromagnetic radio waves hit a receiving antenna, or receiver, such as a radio, it generates a current inside of a wire in the receiver. (The reverse process of what happened in the transmitter when the current generated the electromagnetic field in the first place.) The receiver then processes the current back into the transmitted information, which, for a radio, allows you to hear music or other broadcasts. Some materials can block the radio waves that the transmitter generates, which can be tested by seeing whether a receiver can process and respond to information sent by a transmitter.
• Radio-controlled car and its corresponding remote control (both with working batteries)
• Cotton (such as a piece of clothing made from cotton)
• Aluminum foil
• Plastic wrap
• Wax paper
• Rubber glove
• A smooth, wide open space to test drive your radio-controlled car
• First check the radio-controlled car and its remote control to make sure they both have fresh batteries. Check that the car runs well on the open space that you will be using.
• Make sure you have enough of each material you want to test (the cotton, aluminum foil, plastic wrap, wax paper, and rubber glove) to completely cover the RC car remote control. Every covering should be loose enough so you can still operate the remote control buttons through it.
• Wrap the remote control in cotton. Make sure that the remote control is completely and securely covered so that there are not any openings or holes in the covering, and that it is covered loose enough so that you can still operate the controls.
• Try to operate the radio-controlled car using the cotton-covered remote control. Does it work? Does the car move at all?
• Remove the tested material from the remote control. Test to make sure that the car still works when it is not covered with any material.
• Repeat this process using each different material separately. For which materials does the car still operate, and for which materials does the car not operate? Why do you think this is?
• Extra: Are the wireless signals transmitted by other devices blocked by the same material(s) that you found could block the signals from the remote control in this activity? You can try this activity again but using other remote control devices, such as your TV or stereo remote. How do different wireless devices respond? Do you think they use similar or different types of waves?
• Extra: Do you need to completely cover the radio-controlled car remote control to block its signal? Using the material(s) you found to block the signals from the remote control to the radio-controlled car, completely cover the remote control as you originally did in this activity, and then slowly remove the covering from the remote control while trying to operate the car. How much covering is needed to block the signal? Are some parts of the remote control more important to cover in order to block the signal?
Observations and results
Did covering the radio-controlled car remote control with aluminum foil stop the radio-controlled car from working? Did any of the other materials tested stop the car?
When you operate the car using its remote control, the remote control transmits radio waves at specific frequencies that can be received by the car. The remote control acts as a transmitter and the car as a receiver. Then, when the car receives the radio waves, which are electromagnetic waves, the waves generate a current in a wire in the car, and this tells the car which direction to move in. Depending on a material’s thickness and composition, it might block—or interfere with—radio waves. Thin amounts of plastic wrap, wax paper, cotton and rubber are not likely to interfere with radio waves. However, aluminum foil, and other electrically conductive metals such as copper, can reflect and absorb the radio waves and consequently interferes with their transmission. Placing the transmitter or receiver in a fully enclosed container made of highly conductive metal, such as was done in this activity, is the most efficient way to interfere with radio waves.
"Radio Waves Locate Water within Walls" from Scientific American
A Science Odyssey: Radio Transmission from PBS Online
Blocking Radio Waves from Newton: Ask A Scientist
What are electromagnetic fields? from the World Health Organization
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Maritime Business College’s 2D/3D Animation & Digital Arts student Sovanney (Pana) Buy hasn’t had a typical journey to post-secondary education.
Before arriving in Canada, Buy worked as an elephant trainer for a company in Cambodia called Panda Tours, who trained him on the behaviour of elephants.
His job was to show tourists how to take care of an elephant such as how to bathe and feed them properly.
“I miss that time a lot,” said Buy. “I miss the elephants and the connection between humans and elephants.”
Buy later moved to Thailand and lived with the Hill Tribe working in agriculture and doing watershed management. He would help educate them about farming, land/soil management and the downside of slash and burn agriculture on the environment.
In 2017 he arrived in Canada through a work permit program.
Upon arrival, he moved to the Annapolis Valley to work on an orchard doing crop production, packaging, food production and pruning for two and a half years.
Once he became a permanent resident he started looking at education opportunities and a new career.
He found the 2D/3D animation and digital arts program at Maritime Business College on social media and was drawn to it.
Before enrolling he knew little about art. He spoke to an admissions representative at the college who asked him if he had any background in it. He replied he did not, but drew on his experience of being a Budhist monk for 15 years in Thailand to help him adapt and learn.
“It can’t hurt to have a little bit of worldly travel knowledge,” said MBC 2D/3D Animation & Digital Arts instructor Skyler Greencorn. “The more you view the world the more likely it is that you can translate it into your art. He certainly has a lot of life experience, which also helps quite a bit because that’s something that’s translatable as well and it shows in his work.”
Buy has found the 3D modelling to be the most enjoyable and interesting part of the program so far.
“I kind of have an addiction to learning it,” he said. “I like to challenge myself to manipulate in the 3D modelling program, C brush and texturization. We can use our imagination and our creativity in order to create something in a 3D perspective.”
After he graduates he’s unsure of where he would like to work. For now, he’s making an effort to enjoy the experience of being in the program but is leaning towards a career in 3D modelling in the video game industry.
“He has a certain skill set that I believe applies itself really well to the more mechanical instructive elements of what we do,” said Greencorn. “He has a 3D modelling inspiration that I think is very obvious and apparent to me.”
The level of passion that Greencorn brings to teaching his students and for the industry is also something that Buy appreciates.
“It’s a great thing. If I have a question I can ask my instructor and anything he knows he will gladly transfer the knowledge to us.”
Greencorn added Buy’s work ethic is great and he always produces an impressive product. He’s also adept at picking things up very quickly and spends a lot of his own time working on his skills.
“He goes home and continues to work. He’s very dedicated to learning new things on the side, picking up new skills and becoming the best he possibly can be. Every week he’s coming in with a new set of tools he’s picked up on his own on top of what I teach him in the classroom.”
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Iran General NewsSenate votes to extend Iran sanctions
Senate votes to extend Iran sanctions
Reuters: The U.S. Congress agreed on Saturday to extend sanctions on Iran set to expire this weekend that are aimed at choking off funds that could aid Iran in developing nuclear weapons. WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Congress agreed on Saturday to extend sanctions on Iran set to expire this weekend that are aimed at choking off funds that could aid Iran in developing nuclear weapons.
With Congress scrambling to finish business before heading out to campaign for November 7 elections, the Senate approved a bill that matched one the House of Representatives approved on Thursday to keep the sanctions from expiring.
The bill would renew for five more years economic sanctions — known as the Iran-Libya Sanctions Act or ILSA — to discourage companies from investing in Iran’s energy sector. Libya, which now has warming relations with the United States, was dropped from the sanctions.
The United States and other major powers are trying to get Iran to curb its nuclear program, which they suspect is aimed at developing nuclear weapons. Tehran maintains it is for civilian energy needs.
The bill also establishes mandatory economic sanctions on companies that provide Iran any goods, services or technologies that can be used in programs for nuclear, chemical or biological weapons.
It also authorizes assistance for human rights and pro-democracy groups and for independent broadcasting organizations that meet its criteria.
The bill initially was resisted by the White House until lawmakers agreed to give President George W. Bush more room to waive the sanctions.
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Our broad experience and extensive resources ensure that our clients receive personalized, professional service of the highest caliber.
Evan Wiederkehr has over twenty-two years of legal experience after beginning his career as in-house counsel to e-commence software companies. He negotiated multi-million-dollar software licenses to Fortune Five Hundred companies and oversaw all aspects of corporate business and governance before transitioning to representing individuals.
Evan brings the importance of strategic thinking and prioritization of goals to every client matter. He has successfully tried to completion matters before the local civil Courts, including small claims, landlord and tenant proceedings, real property disputes, family offense proceedings, custody and relocation applications, child support petitions and comprehensive divorce and economic trials.
Additionally, Evan has been trial counsel before the Federal Courts in the Eastern District of New York and Northern District of New York Bankruptcy Court. He has successfully brought and opposed numerous appeals before the First and Second Appellate Divisions of the Supreme Court of the State of New York involving both Family Court and Supreme Court matters. Notably, Evan successfully argued the appeal of a Federal District Court decision before the Second Circuit Court of Appeals in which the Court adopted his novel position limiting the authority of the United States Government to seize an innocent third party’s residence under the laws governing civil forfeiture of real property.
Evan brings the value of his wide litigation experience to each matter for the benefit of his clients. Most divorce and family law matters involve areas of law that require additional expertise to properly advise and represent client interests. Having litigated across multiple areas of law for decades, from real property interests and disputes, mortgage validity and priority, construction disputes, adversary proceedings in bankruptcy, partnership and corporate disputes and all areas of family law and divorce, clients are secure in the fact that all of their rights will be intelligently and effectively protected.
He brings his wide and varied knowledge to every client matter. Certain family law matters require an aggressive litigation posture to protect the client, children, economic security or property. Evan’s experience enables him to know the difference and avoid unnecessarily escalating an already difficult situation while never losing focus on achieving the best possible outcome for each individual client.
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Sarah Monaco graduated from the Villanova University Law School in 2018 after having attended Tulane University where she received her Bachelor’s of Arts in Art History in 2015. Prior to her admission to the Bar in the State of New York, Sarah worked for various family law firms during her law school career, culminating in her final internship with Miller Zeiderman & Wiederkehr, LLP, one of the largest and most successful family law firms in the Hudson Valley. After successfully completing the Bar exam, Sarah began her professional career working under Evan Wiederkehr where she focused on all aspects of family and matrimonial law. Sarah has proven herself to be an outstanding legal writer who has successfully argued positions for clients across a wide array of financial and child custody issues. Sarah’s attention to detail and ability to present data in a clear and compelling manner serves to benefit clients and provide exceptional value in both negotiated and litigated matters.
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Burger Monstrosity Descends on a Sleepy Sports Bar in Jamaica Plain
Plus, Eventide and Taqueria el Barrio partner up for a night of birria, aquachile, and smoked pollock chiles rellenos — and more intel
by Erika Adams Dec 15, 2022, 10:55am EST
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Costello’s Tavern, a weathered old sports bar located along Centre Street in JP, is shaking things up in the kitchen. The Jamaica Plain News reports that Boston Burger Company — the over-the-top burger and milkshake chain that was once endorsed by Guy Fieri — is taking over the food menu at the bar, while Costello’s will remain in charge of the drinks. It’s unclear whether this partnership is temporary or permanent, but it kicked off on Wednesday, December 14, according to a post on BBC’s Facebook page. Eater has reached out for more information.
Grab birria and aguachile at Eventide Fenway, courtesy of Taqueria el Barrio
Eventide Fenway is handing over the kitchen to its neighbor down the street at Time Out Market, Taqueria el Barrio, for a night of birria, aguachile, and smoked pollock chiles rellenos. The event runs from 5 to 9 p.m. on Friday, December 16. Eventide also invited Taqueria el Barrio to create a bun of the month for December; this one features cochinita pibil and pickled onions and will be on the menu through the end of the month.
The South End is getting a new French spot
The team behind Petit Robert Bistro, also in the South End, is behind the new restaurant, according to BosGuy. The forthcoming spot will focus on southern French fare and is slated to open sometime next year.
A Brooklyn-based bakery slides into the Seaport
Mia’s Bakery, a Brooklyn bakeshop with cakes, pies, and other sweets, is expanding to the Seaport, Boston Restaurant Talk reports. It’ll be the shop’s first Boston location.
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Review KNIGHT & GALLOW ‘For Honor and Bloodshed’
Knight & Gallow is a new player in the fields of epic metal. Based in Sacramento, California, the quintet follows their passion for heavy metal since 2019. To start a new band right before the beginning of a pandemic might not be the best timing, but who knew it back in 2019.
‘Stormbringer’s Call’ was the first single released by the Californian powerhouse, also included on the demo ‘Men of the West’. The demo helped the guys to get some attention, amongst other by the Greek No Remorse label. The label, being known for an excellent taste when it comes to (new) metal bands signed the band and the debut will hit the shelves these days.
‘For Honor and Bloodshed’ is the title of a nine-songs featuring debut that shows a band, being passionate and on fire for their favorite style of music. While listening to this well-crafted debut I had to think of bands like Eternal Champion and Visigoth. This gives you an idea of what the band sounds like.
The start into the album is a package, featuring the ‘Middle Earth’ intro and the epic ‘Men of the West’. The latter is known for the demo and shines in metallic light on the debut. A galloping rhythm and excellently done vocal lines reflect a solid start into the album. ‘Soul of Cinder’ is another great song on this record, starting with a chiming bell that hands over to a melodic metal track with earworm potential. The metal beast gets off the leash with the blistering ‘God’s Will’, a faster track with some high-pitch metal screams.
There is no real weak spot on this debut that has with ‘Blood of Wolves’ and ‘Black Swordsman’ two songs at the end of the tracklisting, being equally good as the tunes in the top half of this astonishing debut.
Knight & Gallow made great use of the time given by a period of non-touring. The debut got the attention needed and there is no surprise that No Remorse Records added the band to their portfolio. Hopefully we can enjoy this metal blast live on stage soon.
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Op-ed: Racism in British Private Schools
Janisha Perera
I was called a p*ki at age 10 by a school friend I had known since I was 3, ‘but you are though?’ I was winded.
In nursery a peer told a girl her dad did not want her playing with black kids.
In sixth form a girl wiped my makeup off, rubbed it on some paper and exclaimed ‘ God you’re dark’ whilst the sole black girl in our year was tokenized and put on the front and back of the school prospectus.
My mother routinely recounts being told to ‘go back to her own country’ on her night shifts by the very people she earnestly tries to nurse.
My form tutor from years 9-11 assumed my surname was Patel because I am Asian so often that I even have a school report with the wrong name.
These are a handful of the overt and subtle racist situations I’ve experienced at school and uni. Knowing me, I probably gave off an impression of cool detachment to avoid the spectre of awkwardness. I always knew private schools were synonymous with exclusivity and whiteness, but the persistent underlying racism was nevertheless damaging.
I am very confident in my culture and can take a joke better than anyone but 2 decades of microaggressions are taxing on the brain and take effort to unlearn.
A lot of these comments/actions were so automatic, disarming, and simple that you risked looking overly sensitive, “too woke” or “too pc (politically correct)” if you ever addressed them.
Probably the most disappointing thing was that my friends would also avert their eyes, pretend they didn’t hear, feign ignorance or nervously laugh it off to avoid changing the temperature of the room and bursting the little Surrey bubble.
I could never label my schools as inherently racist but there were strong undercurrents, supported in part by the teachers. Whether it was the PE teacher with a weird fascination for white, blonde girls or a history teacher who overlooked potent and valuable ethnic students, an uneasy environment persisted. I saw racists wearing suits and given legitimacy.
Now I see a lot of the same people who laughed at the smell of my mother’s cooking posting for racial equality in light of recent events in the USA and it is a little hard to swallow. Racism is in constant metamorphism; you no longer have to wear a white hood, red armband or kneel on somebody’s neck to be one. I implore you to take this time to reflect on yourself, have you been a bystander, said racist things or had a nonchalant attitude to those who did? Humans have a tendency to take the path of least resistance but speak up for your friend, sit in the unpleasantness, acknowledge that 70 years of democracy cannot compete with 400 years of colonial rule.
The dichotomy between white and POCs' view on race in the UK stems from their understanding of the British Empire. It is taught heroically as ‘The White Man’s Burden’ but REMEMBERED by its subjects as brutal, bloody, and unjust. Eurocentric racism is derived from the notion that the West ‘discovered’ and ‘civilised’ ethnic groups via industrialisation. In actual fact Britain had Boer concentration camps of their own, massacred Sikhs, raped Kenyans and tortured their own citizens. There is a lot to feel ashamed about.
Teach yourself how these institutions contribute to the handling of Grenfell, the metal health sector, the Windrush scandal, literacy rates and media depictions.
Race is a lens through which we are all still judged, whether it is on a school trip to Nettlecombe, a boardroom, take away shops, in overcrowded boats off the Mediterranean or even in our Cabinet.
I finally feel like we are starting to tackle underlying racism in the UK, but it comes from individual personal growth. Just because you do not identify as a racist doesn’t mean your actions aren’t; Introspectively examine your potential biases and speak up when you encounter racism, inadvertent or otherwise.
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Why did Joseph become famous in Egypt?
What was Joseph known for?
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Parents Jacob (father) Rachel (mother)
Venerated as a saint in many Christian sects, Saint Joseph is a biblical figure who is believed to have been the corporeal father of Jesus Christ. … According to the Bible, Joseph was born circa 100 B.C.E. and later wed the Virgin Mary, Jesus’s mother. He died in Israel circa 1 A.D.
His father loved him more than any of the others and gave him a coloured cloak. His brothers were jealous of him and sold him into slavery. He was taken to Egypt and eventually became steward to Potiphar, one of Pharaoh’s officials.
He brings all the resources of Egypt to make his family comfortable. He has become a sensitive, family-oriented man. We could understand the story as an illustration of how God works in the world. Dreams are a way to communicate with the Divine, or a way to communicate with the deepest parts of ourselves.
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While in prison, God gave Joseph the ability to interpret the meaning of dreams. This skill came to the attention of Pharaoh, the ruler of all Egypt. … So, Pharaoh put Joseph in charge of the food and ended up being second in command in Egypt!
The Gospel of Mark (6:3) and the Gospel of Matthew (13:55–56) mention James, Joseph/Joses, Judas/Jude and Simon as brothers of Jesus, the son of Mary. The same verses also mention unnamed sisters of Jesus.
The LORD was with Joseph when He was falsely accused, God used this situation to get Joseph out of the place of temptation and to a place where he would be safe, to the place God wanted him, even though at the time it did not seem to be a place where God could move Joseph forward to the fulfillment of his dreams, but …
Finally, Joseph’s family came to Egypt and Joseph told them who he was. It was a tearful reunion, but Joseph forgave them all. Joseph, in some way, was sent by God to ensure the well-being of Israel, both Israel his father and Israel the people. So Jacob, the father, came to live in Egypt ‘in the land of Goshen’.
When Joseph was 17-years-old, his brothers plotted to kill him. Before they carried out their plan, they instead sold Joseph into slavery in Egypt. He was sold to Potiphar, one of Pharaoh’s officials, the captain of the guard. However, the Lord was with Joseph and he was put in charge of Potiphar’s household.
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He made me father to Pharaoh, lord of his entire household and ruler of all Egypt. Now hurry back to my father and say to him, `This is what your son Joseph says: God has made me lord of all Egypt. Come down to me; don’t delay.
Of all the sons, Joseph was loved by his father the most. … When he told these two dreams to his brothers, they despised him for the implications that the family would be bowing down to Joseph. They became jealous that their father would even ponder over Joseph’s words concerning these dreams.
He was born to Joseph and Mary sometime between 6 bce and shortly before the death of Herod the Great (Matthew 2; Luke 1:5) in 4 bce. According to Matthew and Luke, however, Joseph was only legally his father.
Joseph had a dream, and when he told it to his brothers, they hated him all the more. We were binding sheaves of grain out in the field when suddenly my sheaf rose and stood upright, while your sheaves gathered around mine and bowed down to it.” His brothers said to him, “Do you intend to reign over us?
In the biblical narrative, Joseph was sold into slavery by his jealous brothers, and rose to become vizier, the second most powerful man in Egypt next to Pharaoh, where his presence and office caused Israel to leave Canaan and settle in Egypt.
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In the morning his mind was troubled, so he sent for all the magicians and wise men of Egypt. Pharaoh told them his dreams, but no one could interpret them for him. Then the chief cupbearer said to Pharaoh, “Today I am reminded of my shortcomings. … So Pharaoh sent for Joseph, and he was quickly brought from the dungeon.
The Second Intermediate Period of Egypt
It contains about 60 years of Josephs familiy reign as part of his complete “80 years he was ruling the entire land of Egypt under pharaoh” Jub46,4.
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10 Highest Radiation Cell Phones
By Passion
May 19, 2006 in Off-Topic
1. Motorola Slvr L6
2a. Motorola V120c
2b. Motorola V265
4. Motorola V70
5a. Motorola C290
5b. Motorola P8767
5c. Motorola ST7868
5d. Motorola ST7868W
9a. Motorola A845
9c. Palm Treo 650 GSM
9b. Panasonic Allure
Wow, Motorola sure does put out a safe product.
http://msn-cnet.com.com/4520-6602_7-5020357-1.html?tag=nav
I have a Motorola but it didn't make the top 10. Phew
JonDigital
Not enough radiation to do any harm.
I have a RAZR. I used to have a V220.
And the 10 lowest:
1. Audiovox PPC66001
2. Motorola MPx200
3. Motorola Timeport L7089
4. Qualcomm pdQ-1900
5. T-Mobile Sidekick
6a. Samsung SGH-S100
6b. Samsung SGH-S105
8. Sony Ericsson Z600
9. Mitsubishi G360
10. Siemens S40
MrAndMrsFish
ok my sony didn't make either list...so i guess im right in the middle
imagine Motorola's slogan come get the highest radiated phone on the market
Have you ever seen or heard the interference a Motorola phone does to computer speakers when a phone call comes? Its insane.
radiation is over rated.
it's just a way to scare people. we get plenty of radiation between the sun and even the ground on a yearly basis and most of us keep on keeping on.
john stossel did a report about it on tv a couple weeks ago:
MYTH: Radiation will kill you
Researchers Say Low-Level Doses of Radiation May Be Good for You
May 12, 2006 ? Hollywood films have long portrayed radiation as evil and powerful. Fear of radiation was widespread even before the United States dropped bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The blasts themselves killed more than 200,000 people, and many others died later from radiation exposure.
The New York Times wrote article after article about how radiation would change Japanese lives "for "centuries," that there would be genetic damage ? defects for the next 1,000 years. But surprise: So far no such damage has appeared.
Some researchers, like toxicology professor Ed Calabrese, now say blast survivors, who were exposed to smaller amounts of radiation, are living longer than normal, and in small doses, radiation may even be good for you.
"It's all in the dose," Calabrese said. "What's going on at low doses is often seen to enhance immune performance and enhance longevity," he said.
In one experiment, researchers exposed mice to small amounts of radiation and concluded it may have slowed their aging. The irradiated mice had more energy and shinier fur.
"We find that at low doses you can actually extend the life span of the mice," Calabrese said.
Essentially, Calabrese says, a little radiation may work kind of like a vaccine and actually be good for people.
In Europe some people now bathe in radioactive water, saying it's good for them. And in Montana, some Americans spend time in old uranium mines where they breathe in radioactive gas.
They say they feel better when they leave.
Many scientists say that's nonsense, or dangerous ? and it has yet to be proved that low-dose radiation is beneficial ? but they do agree that the hysteria about radiation is just that ? hysteria.
In 1979, the movie "The China Syndrome" set the stage for panic.
Just weeks later, a nuclear power plant in Three Mile Island, Penn., released radioactivity in the air. People fled and worried that officials weren't telling them about lingering health hazards from the accident.
In truth, the people living in the area were exposed to an average of 6.5 millirems of radiation. We now know that's meaningless given that every year, all of us absorb about 30 millirems from the ground, 26 from the sun, 10 from just one dental X-ray, 10 from food, and 5 from our own drinking water.
Patrick Moore, who co-founded the environmental organization Greenpeace, said the group has actually fostered people's exaggerated fears.
"It's because they're being told over and over and over again through the media that they are going to be damaged and killed by radiation from nuclear power," he said.
Moore is now at odds with his former friends at Greenpeace. He's now a consultant for the nuclear power industry.
"Not a single person is being killed in the nuclear industry, and people are wanting to ban it. It's pure scare tactics," he said.
But what about that accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine 20 years ago? It terrified the world.
The media projected hundreds of thousands of deaths.
In truth, a study by eight international agencies found 56 people were killed, mostly firefighters and workers at the plant. Thousands of other people may still die of cancer, but nowhere near the number that was predicted. The study said the biggest health menace the people of Chernobyl faced was psychological trauma, in part from fear. The fear was worse than the radiation.
So next time someone scares you about radiation, remember that you are exposed to it all the time without harm, and some people even want more of it.
http://abcnews.go.com/2020/story?id=1955252&page=1
Mitsubishi makes cell phones? :lol
So they make cars, cell phones, trumpets, keyboards..... what else?
they have 29073086086 different branches of their company. and obviously multi-national, so they have the room and the money to do it all.
CapeFish
Mitsubishi used to make Japanese warships too.
cgator
And some darn good planes too. The Mitsubishi A6M, better known as the ZERO. Ask any pilot in the Pacific in WWII, that plane caused plenty of headaches.
EndLine
Mitsubishi designed my house and are paying for my college tuition. They are amazing...
Too bad the Japanese bombers were crap.
Related, I'm glad my cell (Samsung 660) ain't on there.
Looks as though my phones are just in the middle of the road (made neither list.)
I've had my Sanyo 7200 for 2 years now I don't think I'll be trading it in for quite a while.
Guest Fritz
Cell phone radiation is almost as big a worry as the carcinogens present in apples.
Anyway, Mitsubishi makes many, many products. Most Asian companies are huge corporate conglomerates that control a ton of industries. It's the same way for Fuji Heavy Industries, Hitachi, Daewoo, etc.
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Irregular flights from Perth operated by Air Mauritius (airmauritius.com) are the only direct link from Australia, taking eight hours. Direct flights from Johannesburg and Durban with Air Mauritius take four hours. Flights from New Zealand require at least one change; common routes are via South Africa or Dubai.
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Ducks rally for OT win, 3-0 series lead against Flames
Corey Perry scores at 1:30 to give Anaheim another victory
by Aaron Vickers / NHL.com Correspondent
CALGARY -- Corey Perry scored 1:30 into overtime to help the Anaheim Ducks to a 5-4 win against the Calgary Flames in Game 3 of their Western Conference First Round series at Scotiabank Saddledome on Monday.
The Ducks lead the best-of-7 series 3-0.
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Perry threw the puck on net from the boards, and it deflected off Michael Stone in front and past Brian Elliott.
"You never say never," said Perry, who was plus-5. "You just keep pushing shift after shift, get pucks to the net and we found a way tonight. That's all that matters."
Shea Theodore had two goals, and Nick Ritchie and Nate Thompson also scored for the Ducks. Jonathan Bernier made 16 saves in relief of John Gibson, who was pulled after allowing four goals on 16 shots.
"You find a way to come back like this, it shows a lot of character in our team and it feels good," Thompson said.
Video: ANA@CGY, Gm3: Perry beats Elliott for Gm3 OT win
Stone, Sean Monahan, Kris Versteeg and Sam Bennett scored for Calgary. Elliott made 22 saves.
"Now we have to try and win Game 4," Stone said. "Put this one behind us and move onto the next one. One at a time."
Theodore scored twice after the Ducks trailed 4-1.
He scored his first career Stanley Cup Playoff goal to make it 4-2 with 48.2 seconds remaining in the second period, and Thompson deflected Hampus Lindholm's point shot past Elliott at 11:14 of the third. Theodore scored again with 4:21 remaining in the third to make it 4-4.
"Once we started, we got one, two and the third one, I felt like they kind of played a little more back a little bit and we just took charge and stepped our game up," Theodore said. "They came out pretty hard, but I felt like once we got our game back on track we were definitely pretty strong."
Video: ANA@CGY, Gm3: Theodore's wrister finds twine
After surrendering the first goal early in Games 1 and 2, the Flames took a 1-0 lead 2:10 into the first period when Monahan scored his third power-play goal of the series. Versteeg made it 2-0 at 9:18 with the Flames' second power-play goal of the period.
Ritchie made it 2-1 at 15:33 when he drove to the net and scored on a rebound of Antoine Vermette's initial shot.
Stone's slap shot 4:34 into the second period gave the Flames a 3-1 lead, and Mark Giordano's point shot deflected off Bennett's skate and in for a third power-play goal to make it 4-1 at 8:33.
The goal prompted Ducks coach Randy Carlyle to pull Gibson for Bernier.
"That's why we have two solid goalies," Perry said. "Nothing against [Gibson]. Couple bad breaks, couple power plays. [Bernier] came in and played solid and made some big saves for us."
Video: ANA@CGY, Gm3: Theodore ties it with his second goal
Goal of the game
Thompson deflected Lindholm's point shot, and the goal stood after a review confirmed his stick was at or below the height of the crossbar when he deflected the puck into the net. "I was a little nervous," Thompson said. "I was just praying a little bit that hopefully the hockey gods would pull through there. It's one of those things where it's not up to me. That's up to them. I'm just glad it went in."
Video: ANA@CGY, Gm3: Thompson tips point shot past Elliott
Save of the game
Monahan left the puck for Micheal Ferland as they crossed into the slot off a rush, and Bernier made a glove save on Ferland's shot 5:05 into the third period to keep Anaheim within two goals. "It's playoffs," Bernier said. "You've just got to keep working, keep doing the right thing and we found a way."
Video: ANA@CGY, Gm3: Bernier denies Ferland with glove save
Highlight of the game
Monahan one-timed a pass in the slot by Troy Brouwer from below the goal line over Gibson's shoulder. Monahan has three goals in the series.
Video: ANA@CGY, Gm3: Monahan nets PPG to open scoring
Unsung performance of the game
Ducks forward Rickard Rakell finished with two assists, including one to help set up Perry's goal, and a plus-3 rating in 17:09 of ice time.
"We know no matter how many we're down, we can fight our way back and get back on track." --Ducks defenseman Shea Theodore
"It was a good sign from our team because they played really well today. We took a lot of penalties, and they capitalized and they had us on our heels for most of the night. It was a good way to come back." -- Ducks forward Nate Thompson
"I don't think there's going to be any doubts. It's just that it's a tough thing to do at any stage. We're going to have to come together as a group and do it together." -- Flames goaltender Brian Elliott
The game-winner was Perry's first playoff goal in 10 games dating to May 30, 2015 against the Chicago Blackhawks. … Ducks defenseman Sami Vatanen missed his second straight game because of an upper-body injury. … The Flames finished 3-for-5 on the power play, and didn't take a penalty in the game.
Game 4 of Western Conference First Round at Scotiabank Saddledome on Wednesday (10 p.m. ET; CBC, TVA Sports, USA, PRIME)
Video: Perry's OT goal caps Ducks' rally to top Flames, 5-4
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