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All elevator bookings must be coordinated at least 48 hours in advance with the Security Team. This can be done by calling Security at 905-632-4142, or visiting them at the lobby desk.
NOTE: The elevator may be reserved for moves from 8am to 8pm Monday to Saturday only. No moves are allowed on Sundays and Statutory Holidays.
The moving truck should be instructed to turn into the property at the entrance (off Pearl St.) and proceed along the back of the building to the loading doors. All items are to be brought in through the moving room and loaded onto the service elevator. After completion of your move, Security will inspect the elevator as well as the common area leading to your unit, and confirm that all boxes, etc., have been disposed of and no damage has been caused. Should any damage result from the move, you will be held responsible for all repairs. | https://360onpearl.com/index.php/moving-in-moving-out/ | fineweb | 270 |
The former vice-president, who spoke through his media aide, Paul Ibe, told Saturday Sun, that it was an insult to Nigerians and the office of Vice President which he occupied for eight years, for the APC to question his nationality.
“That is idiotic. It is idiotic. And it is ridiculous. Atiku Abubakar is a former Vice President of Nigeria.
“Are they telling us that a former Vice President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria is not a Nigerian? That is disrespectful to Nigerians and for the office he has held, which other people will hold and will continue to hold.
“Everything must not be on the alter of politics,” Ibe said
The party in its petition filed by its lead counsel, Lateef Fagbemi, faulted the candidacy of Atiku in the election, adding that he is a Cameroonian | https://9jainsider.com/2019/04/13/newsatiku-reacts-to-apcs-claim-at-election-tribunal-that-hes-not-nigerian/ | fineweb | 182 |
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Medication forms are available at the school and on the Cullman City Schools website. Medication forms must be updated with a new form each school year. All medications must be picked up and signed out by the parent/guardian when no longer needed by child or at the end of the school year. All medications that are not picked up will be discarded at the end of each year.
You must have your child’s doctor fill out a medication authorization form for all medications that are a prescription. The parent/guardian must also sign the medication authorization form. No medications will be given without the completed form. The medication must be brought to the school nurse and signed in by the parent/guardian. The medication must be in the original Prescription container with the Prescription label on the container. Medication should never be placed in a child’s backpack.
Over the counter medications:
The parent/guardian must complete a medication authorization form and sign the form. No medicine will be given without the form being signed and completed. The medication must be brought to the school nurse and signed in by parent/guardian. The medication must be in a new un-opened container. It must be in the original container with the label. Cough drops are medications. Medication should never be placed in a child’s backpack. | https://al02209946.schoolwires.net/domain/1351 | fineweb | 273 |
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Pink Brain Blue Brain (Amazon) is a fascinating book, covering the research into the extent of gender differences at birth, and how socialisation, education, and play make them bigger.
Differences are very, very minor in babies (studies showing otherwise are problematic, for example, not blind). Notably, boys tend to be more fussy (more emotionally needy, despite later becoming less emotionally aware), and as they grow boys are more boisterous and physically stronger. By contrast, girls are more mentally mature, and happier to sit and read for example – they have better fine motor skills.
Boys very slightly better on some specific spatial skills, this is exacerbated by childhood play – “boy”-play encourages spatial skills (e.g. throwing balls, building blocks). “Girl”-play encourages verbal skills, and fine motor skills (e.g. playing families, colouring). The result is that girls do better at reading and especially writing, while boys do better at spatial skills, which is a component of math.
Under-estimating girls starts early, for example, underestimating how steep a slope they would be willing to crawl down (near correct for boys).
A key and really important point is that differences are heavily influenced by socioeconomic status, with fewer gender differences in higher socio-economic families, and in those that are more egalitarian families.
This makes me think, that much of the critique about Goldiblox comes from people of high socio-economic status, who are more likely to eschew traditional roles, or at least have very involved fathers (who encourage more physical play that helps girls expand their spatial awareness). This toy isn’t needed by them. One factoid in the book is that 88% of lego kits bought for boys originally. My impression is the critique comes from the kind of people who fall in the 12%.
One such point is that the toy is for adults. Well yes, because adults buy the toys. Children start off with such tiny differences, and then are socialised in such a way that they increase exponentially. This changes as adults behave differently – such as buying a pink toy that emphases spatial awareness rather than a pink toy that emphases verbal and fine motor skills. In fact need for pink blocks is explicitly called out in the book.
I agree with parts of the critique – it is mostly marketing, is isn’t complicated enough, it’s not a perfect solution. The thing is, there is something pretty close to a perfect solution – it’s hands on learning, encouraging vocalisation and reading in boys, and spatial awareness in girls. Helping with play that addresses the minuscule differences, rather than exacerbates them. But this is intensive, and expensive, and may not be an option for those that need it most. | https://cate.blog/2013/12/13/book-pink-brain-blue-brain/ | fineweb | 586 |
Six and Seven Speed Hubs for Dual Freewheel Units
A six speed, Shimano geared, dual freewheel differential has been developed for a mid-drive electrically assisted tricycle.
This unit is intended to replace the existing one wheel drive axle on the rear of a trike to give better traction whilst retaining good turning characteristics.
This being important due to the increased power given by the electric assist mid-drive motor.
The original trike had drive to one rear wheel and the other freewheeled on its axle.
The incorporation of the dual freewheel differential fitted with the Shimano six speed hub enabled both axles to provide drive to the rear wheels whilst retaining the ability for a tight turning radius.
The Shimano six (or seven) speed gear cluster fits in the same position as that of the trike’s original axle and uses the same derailleur gear shift mechanism.
Due to having a differential the trike now required to be fitted with a brake on each rear wheel/axle rather than the single band brake of the original.
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From Monstrosities to Wonders: Ecohorror and Transcorporeality
Panel at ASLE 2019, UC Davis, June 26-29, 2019
Organizers: Christine Peffer, Michigan State University & Nadhia Grewal, University of London Goldsmiths
This roundtable seeks to explore the body as a productive site for interfacing with the nonhuman in the context of ASLE’s conference theme, Paradise on Fire. In what ways has the body itself been cast as a “paradise on fire” in the face of Anthropocene-era degradations? Conversely, is it possible to conceive of an ethic of care toward the more-than-human world if the bounded body is viewed as a “paradise” unto itself in the first place? We are interested in tracing irruptions and permeations of the strange, both monstrous and wondrous, into fantasies of neatly bounded bodily subjects. Subgenres like weird fiction, ecohorror, and ecogothic have seen authors explore these intra-actions. In the Posthuman Glossary, Christy Tidwell notes that ecohorror can be located in “natural horror, creature features, and ‘nature strikes back narratives.’” Taking our cues from Tidwell and from Stacy Alaimo’s assertion in Exposed that we might begin to conceive of a posthuman subjectivity “opening out unto the larger material world and being penetrated by all sorts of substances and material agencies that may or may not be captured,” this panel will seek to explore narratives of bodily intra-actions and entanglements between the human and more-than-human world. Discussions will ideally aim to investigate the role of weird fiction and ecohorror in confronting the fears and subversive pleasures of the nonhuman.
Panelists are invited to present on topics including but not limited to: weird fiction, horror fiction, body horror, ecohorror, transcorporeality, new materialism, ecomaterialism, ecogothic, ecosickness, dark ecology, posthumanism, monstrous natures/bodies, gothic nature, literary ecology, animal horror, horror film, vegan ecocriticism, etc. | https://christinepeffer.com/2019/05/30/asle-2019-paradise-on-fire/ | fineweb | 478 |
Recently, I shot a video called “Breaking Up is Hard to Do.” It is about the end of business relationships. However, everyone on my team wanted me to shoot a video on how to start a business instead! Starting a new business is such an area of intrigue for so many. Instead of shooting a video on on how to start a new business at this time, I wrote this blog on it. Maybe I will make a video later, too!
There are many articles, meetings, education classes, and self help books. Resources abound. But, in the most simple, purest, and essential form, I will tell you here the best advice for starting your own business. This advice is based on my experience, education, countless business consultations, management, and litigation on business start ups and partnerships disputes. It is not hard advice and most of it is common sense. But some make it much harder than it needs to be and cannot get started due to information overload. Let me help end that with this advice.
First, people want to know how to raise money and gain investors for their business when they have not even started one yet. I say, “Start with Yourself.” If you have no money or ability to invest in yourself or own business, then why should anyone else? If none of your friends or family will invest in you or your business, why should anybody else? You be willing to invest in yourself and your business.
Second, start small & keep it manageable! See if you can begin business operations, with minimal administrative cost investment like a website, logo and business cards. Do this with the cost of your product or basics to provide services and network! See what income, you can generate to start with minimal expense. Take the time to properly manage and assess the efficiency of these efforts to learn what works. See how your competition and market behaves. Make projections. This is a time you could work on a business plan for management issues that may overlap with that plan. Just make sure you are working on basic operations of your new Company as you do it, only if there is a need for future investors or it helps you work through management decisions.
Third, if this works and you have generated enough money so that your new business is no longer just a hobby, but real income producing, then hire an attorney to help you decide the best type of structure for your organization and answer any other questions. This is a good time to contact us and meet with us regarding your needs. We handle serious businesses only and you should show you are serious about your business idea by establishing some basic operations before continuing your investment by retaining counsel. In other words, only retain an attorney for your start up business if you are a do-er and not a dreamer!
Fourth, people ask me about partners, investors, and share holders. Some refer to these “others” as their “Work Spouse” (to whom they may or may not be married)! And, that is what these people become. Remember, if you have no one to answer to, you have more control and less opportunity for disputes and disagreements. So consider a partner only if it is in fact a legitimate necessity for you to proceed. If so, ensure your business partner is neither a flake or a crook. Know them long enough to know their strengths and weaknesses. Be honest. Do not overlook the deficits of the other person, but openly look at them and evaluate them. No one is perfect, but there is no reason to go into business with someone who will wind up making you do all the work, not abide by agreements, is unreasonable, amoral or crooked.
Fifth, understand not just your industry, but basic accounting standards and procedures. Have a regular meeting to review financial statements and actually manage your operations based on them. If you have a partner, have an open book policy for the records and facilitate trust. Discuss how draws will be handled and procedures for approval of expenses and use of company credit cards, as well as dividend distributions and salaries. Consider retaining a payroll company to issue at least nominal paychecks until your business is thriving. Proper management of accounts payable, accounts receivable, payroll, and tax accounting is critical to the proper management and success of any business. Find a CPA who will answer your tax related questions timely and clearly.
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AfriGeneas World Research Forum
The Afro German Experience
Hello World Researchers:
Below is the url for the "Collective Memory and the Afro-German Experience" by Cassandra Yvette Johnson.
Her research spans the early years of the Black presence in Germany since the War and discusses their identification as Afro Germans.
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Since their debut at Toy Fair in February, I’ve been highly anticipating the release of Playmates’ new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles line. Based on Nickelodean’s upcoming CGI-animated reboot of the television series, the titular characters sport fresh new sculpts that pull elements from both the original Mirage comic series as well as the classic animated series, but with some creative new twists. Unfortunately, while all four turtles look and feel incredible, the supporting cast received a rather below-average treatment, hurting the line as a whole.
Let’s start with what I liked which, essentially, were the turtles. I had a chance to play around with the Michelangelo and Donatello prototypes we had received at Toy Fair and there are some minor differences between those and the retail versions – namely a slight variation in color (Don went from an olive green to a less intense pea green and Mikey is a tad less vibrant), a little less fine detail (Mikey’s freckles are gone), and the weapons are no longer painted. All the retail figures have solid-colored weapons which really lack character. It’s unfortunate that Playmates didn’t opt to add a splash of color to these as each turtle’s signature weapon is so important to their identity.
Aside from that minor gripe, the four brothers are fantastic toys. I’ve literally been playing with them all day – and I haven’t legitimately played with a toy in almost twenty years, instead being content on simply leaving my collection posed, displayed, and relatively untouched. But these figures absolutely made me feel like a little kid again, bringing back fond memories of collecting and playing with the original toy line in the late ‘80’s. Playmates did an excellent job bringing the charm of each turtle to life, with Mike, Don, Raph, and Leo all featuring different color palettes, body types, and facial expressions.
The line’s smaller scale really works here, with the figures ranging from about 4.25” to 4.75”, and each turtle comes with throwing stars, their standard weapon of choice, as well as a variation on their iconic weapon and a belt made to store them in some fashion. But what really elevates the turtles into the stratosphere of playability is the articulation – it’s perfect. Each one features a ball jointed neck and ball joints in the shoulders, hips, elbows, and knees, along with swivel-joints in the wrists. Even without a joint at the waist (which would be silly as they have a shell) or ankles, the range of motion they present is staggering and makes these toys a blast to play around with. One other thing worth mentioning is that, while all the turtles still have their familiar looking hands with three fingers on each, they now have three forward-facing toes as well. Jarring as it initially appeared, I actually love the feet as they provide a wide base for the figures and give the brothers a stouter, more formidable appearance.
So let’s check out what makes each turtle unique. First, we have Michelangelo, the most youthful and fun-loving of the TMNT crew, who wears a cocky grin on his face here, perfectly capturing his exuberance. He is the shortest turtle of the bunch and has a bright chartreuse skin tone. His belt goes around his midsection only and has two loops to house both pairs of nunchaku. In addition, and in following the new animated series, he comes with a kusarigama. While purists probably don’t want to outfit Mikey with a bladed weapon, it’s there if you want it. Similar to Mike, Raphael also has a simple belt with two loops for his sais and he comes packaged with two sai variations as well. Raph is by far the darkest colored turtle in a deep forest green hue with an almost brown shell. Keeping with Raph’s angsty, rebellious nature, his teeth are clenched in a ferocious grimace and his brow is furrowed. He also has the only sculpt in which the tied off mask tails are lifted dramatically into the air and one of the more textured, scaley skin details. I also dig the large crack present in his breastplate.
Donatello stands out as the tallest turtle and has a slightly elongated neck that gives him a leaner look. His belt features a shoulder strap attachment that also houses his bo. Again, keeping with the new cartoon’s design choice of eliminating blunt weapons from their arsenal, Don also includes a naginata. The gold ring and cross-stitching on the belt looks great and, like Raph, his skin has some great intricate texture. Don is the only brother that’s not showing teeth, instead featuring a reserved, stoic expression that reflects his serious, intellectual personality. Last but not least, we have Leonardo. This one may be my favorite figure in the line. His vibrant lime skin tone really pops, his confident smile looks incredible, and his shoulder strap with sheaths for his dual katanas is awesome. A medium build, medium height figure, Leo also sports the best contrast between the different colors used on him. The marigold breastplate and avocado shell just compliment both his skin tone and blue mask so well.
All four are engineered in such a way that no one part impairs any other parts. Even the rigid-looking breastplates are soft and give way when you move the legs to their extremes. There is no position that I wanted to put them in that I wasn’t able to and, as such, they succeed brilliantly at being toys. I couldn’t love them more.
The rest of the line, however, not so much. Take the Foot Soldier for example. Forgiving that they could never top the near perfect aesthetics of Playmates’ classic model, the updated build is a disappointing. The hunched over spinal structure, sunken cheeks, and soulless eyes of the original have been replaced with a bland sculpt, disproportionately small head, and muted palette. While still retaining some useful articulation, the lack of ball joints in the elbows and any joints whatsoever in the knees really limits the playability of the figure. A peg hole in the middle of its back holds sword and dagger sheaths, but it’s disappointing that these weren’t incorporated into a belt or shoulder strap like on the turtles. The rich texture present on the turtles is unfortunately lost here as well, with the foot soldier’s clothing looking smooth and shiny. Similarly, the Shredder figure suffers from a horrendous sculpt. His enormous feet and ridiculous leg armor look like Gene Simmons as drawn by Sam Keith.
Part of the problem is the weak source material from the new animated series but, as a toy, it still falls short of the high bar the four turtles set. His ball-jointed hips are nearly useless as, without and knee joints, moving his legs around just makes it appear that Shredder is seeking a grant from the Ministry of Silly Walks. Furthermore, Shredder’s armored plates and painted chestplate lack any fine detail and give the figure a cheap look.
Kraang’s robotic suit looks pretty sweet at first glance, sporting some sweet detail and a unique sculpt, but ultimately just isn’t any fun to play with and a pain to pose. The figure’s slender frame feels extremely flimsy and the hip & shoulder joints offer barely any movement at all. There is no articulation worked into the knees, ankles, elbows, or wrists, resulting in a figure that appears to be permanently moonwalking. Kraang himself is removeable from the suit’s chest cavity and he has a squishy, rubbery feel with tentacles dangling all over the place, which is pretty cool. It’s just unfortunate that, with next to no paint work aside from some small highlights and dry brush effects, his mechanical housing looks unfinished and just doesn’t justify the price tag. Although not photographed here,
Kim Possible April O’Neil, who is now portrayed as a wide-eyed teenager, suffers a similarly weak sculpt that’s nearly devoid of detail or articulation. Although the colors used are bright and eye-catching, she (much like the villian assortment) suffers a lack of leg articulation that absolutely kills the playability of the toy. It’s actually kind of cute that April is packaged with a Bokken and Shinai, swords made of wood and bound bamboo respectively, and traditionally used for training exercises.
I’ve heard mixed reactions to the new Splinter figure from Toy Fair, but I actually kinda like him despite his useless lower half. His legs are situated in a walking stance with one leg bent in such a way that you can stand him up only when both legs are posed perfectly. Seeing as his heavy clothing impairs leg movement, however, the hip articulation is moot. Although not the most exciting toy to play around with, I like that they worked in a nice texture to Splinter’s attire (which for the first time truly resembles traditional Japanese garb and looks less like a bath robe) and the new color they worked into his facial hair really work. If possible, I’d recommend throwing a new coat of paint on his walking stick as the translucent green just looks absurd.
It’s hard to judge figures so harshly based on lack of articulation and detail when the classic toys were so simple, but they were consistent. This line is odd because half of the figures just don’t seem to fit – like they belong to a completely different run of action figures. Purchasing the four turtles is a no-brainer, but the rest of the line should be avoided by all but the most dedicated collectors. Be on the lookout for the initial lineup to hit shelves this month with vehicles, a playset, and talking versions on the way soon after.
Click the images below (and within the article) for high-res versions: | https://kastorskorner.com/playmates-new-tmnt-figures-jasons-impressions/ | fineweb | 2,095 |
What does a hearing aid cost? At the moment, nobody really knows.
We’ve heard anecdotally about cheaper hearing aids, more places to buy them, non-traditional hearing aids, and unprecedented insurance coverage. Hearing Tracker, HLAA and I put together this survey to see if we could spot some trends.
Please fill out this survey so we have a better idea about the state of the business. Hearing Tracker will report on the results in a few weeks.
And please share it with other hearing aid users. Here’s the link again: | https://katherinebouton.com/2018/02/16/what-does-a-hearing-aid-cost/?like_comment=1625&_wpnonce=e6e7b49d25 | fineweb | 115 |
The Indian Super League (ISL) is all set to enter into its 9th edition as ISL 2022-23 kick-starts from today. Two teams in the form of Kerala Blasters FC and East Bengal FC will be locking horns with each other and we can expect the matches to be enthralling and action-packed.
The match will be taking place at the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium in Kochi and East Bengal FC will be facing a stern away challenge. The team from Kolkata was in tatters in the last two seasons and a heavy change has been inflicted on the team in terms of strategy and personnel. Head coach Stephen Constantine knows the trials and tribulations of India football and he is all set to make his debut in the ISL as a coach.
Kerala Blasters on the other hand, had an exemplary season in ISL 2021-22 as they finished as runners-up. Under head coach Ivan Vukomanovic, Kerala Blasters FC has been a fantastic side. They would be hoping to cross the finishing line this time.
The two giant clubs have a huge contrast in their performances and the gulf was visible in their performances last year as well. East Bengal have to punch above their weight in order to win the opening game against the Yellow Army.
East Bengal’s new-recruit Cleiton Silva will be hoping to conjure some magic as the talismanic striker has all the hopes of the Red and Gold Brigade pinned on him. He will definitely be the most important player of East Bengal along with Ivan Gonzalez.
In all probability, Kerala Blasters will have their full team available for the game and they would be hoping to win the game with absolute ease. The likes of Apostolos Giannou and Marko Leskovic will be the key players to watch out for in the Kerala Blasters FC line-up.
The East Bengal FC players would look to draw some confidence from their Durand Cup campaign and if they can put up a good show, then the match can be competitive.
However, we feel Kerala Blasters have a clear edge in terms of their recent consistency and also because of their home support. We feel Kerala Blasters would be winning this game against East Bengal FC in ISL 2022-23.
Predicted Playing XIs
Kerala Blasters FC
Prabhsukhan Singh Gill, Jessel Carneiro (c), Ruiva Hormipam, Marko Leskovic, Sandeep Singh, Adrian Luna, Rahul KP, Sahal Abdul Samad, Bidyashagar Singh, Jeakson Singh, Apostle Giannou
East Bengal FC
Kamaljit Singh, Jerry Lalrinzuala, Ivan Gonzalez, Mohammad Rakip, Sumeet Passi, Alex Lima, Souvik Chakrabarti, Jordan O’Doherty, VP Suhair, Balwant Singh, Cleiton Silva | https://kheltalk.com/football/isl-2022-23-which-team-can-win-the-first-game-today-kerala-blasters-or-east-bengal/ | fineweb | 617 |
EPL: Ralf Rangnick blocks Man Utd star from leaving Old Trafford to join Mourniho
Manchester United interim manager, Ralf Rangnick, has reportedly blocked defender, Diogo Dalot, from leaving Old Trafford in January. Calcio Mercato reports.
Dalot is keen to reunite with his former manager, Jose Mourinho at AS Roma in the upcoming January transfer window.
Mourinho is a long-time admirer of Dalot, having signed him from FC Porto in 2018 during his time at Man United.
Roma director Tiago Pinto has made contact with Dalot’s agent and had an ‘agreement in principle’ for the move.
But Rangnick has now put a stop to Dalot’s reported plans to leave Man United for Roma after discovering the 22-year-old is set to leave the Red Devils.
Dalot has made just 27 Premier League appearances at Man United since joining the club, with Aaron Wan-Bissaka the preferred choice under former manager, Ole Gunnar Solskjaer.
The Portugal star has, however, started both of Rangnick’s two Premier League games so far and could now become the club’s first-choice right-back if he continues to impress the German.
Meanwhile, Mourinho will now have to look elsewhere for defensive reinforcements in his squad as Dalot will be hoping for regular playing time under Rangnick.
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The problem with virtual reality is that no one outside of the VR enthusiasts and VR evangelists talk about it.
When I told people I worked at a VR startup they say, “that’s cool” or “What is that”. It’s awkward to explain and the conversation dies pretty quickly. I’m used to not talking about what I do at work. Computers are confusing to people but VR shouldn’t be. A lot of us looked to the release of Ready Player One to bring the masses to our rumii, Big Screen, and
Facebook Spaces Facebook Horizon but that didn’t happen. At least not on the scale we hoped.
Within the virtual reality community we shared how Ready Player One type experiences are happening in VR today but outside of those circles, I didn’t hear anything about it. The movie was too much 1980’s nostalgia and not enough techno possibility.
At least my mom has caught on to VR. She sent me a text of a Sharper Image mobile-based VR headset and said, “that’s the ‘app enabled’ smartphone VR system.’” Did she buy it? No. And thank goodness because it would probably make her sick.
A good VR experience requires investment. The Oculus Go is only $199 but that’s still a decent chunk of change. The more you want to do in VR, the more expensive you have to go. I think standalone headsets are definitely the way to go.
When we step away from VR we should feel like we’re missing something. #VRTweet
When we step away from VR we should feel like we’re missing something. That’s what social media and mobile games like Candy Crush do. They make us feel part of something or hook us into an experience. We feel like something’s missing when we go without checking our phones for notifications or scrolling through our Facebook feeds even though they show the same old posts.
After having my son, I went a couple months without going into VR. I recently went back in but it felt like nothing had changed. I swear I saw a tumbleweed roll by. I played around with setting up my Vive Home but it was too confusing on how to resize pictures. There weren’t many objects I was particularly thrilled with either. Facebook Spaces crashed but why should I troubleshoot it when I don’t have any friends to meet up with anyways?
How do we address these issues? A group of VR industry leaders is coming together to discuss these various issues.
“Since there’s no real consumer market here to confuse, we’re mainly still talking to ourselves.”Charlie Fink, Forbes
Mark Zuckerberg hopes to change that with the Oculus Quest and Facebook Horizon. He hopes to have 1 billion people in VR by 2020.
In the meantime, I will sit back at watch the industry evolve and find itself. Do we cater to the hardcore gamers or the average Joes? Are baby boomers the perfect generation for simple VR games like those displayed in Horizon?
I wanted to update the post with some quotes from an article on Amy Peck giving a talk at Lethbridge College. I became aware of Lethbridge when we hosted their Merging Realities conference in rumii. Since then, I joined the VR Book Club run by Mike McCready.
“Products are already coming down in size and cost and moving up in accessibility. The key piece that is missing, but that is coming…is true everyday purpose.”Amy Peck
Three pillars of everyday purpose:
- context (what do I want to see?)
- utility (why do I need this?)
- fun (it has to be entertaining).
“According to Peck, educators and stakeholders need to build a framework with standards, ethics, behaviour and empathy.”Lethbridge Harold
The consensus seems to be among Peck and those in the XR industry, augmented and virtual reality are a computing platform.
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Stephen Templin has a very interesting and diverse career to say the least. Not only is he a New York Times and international bestselling author, but he also went through six months of Navy SEAL training and spent fourteen years as a professor at the Meio University in Japan. This certainly sparked my curiosity and I’m grateful he took the time to tell me more about the different aspects of these jobs.
“I’ve always been interested in the military as a child,” Stephen says. “It’s a typical boy kind of thing, where you play soldiers and spies. In high school I followed a class about the army, where you could learn about the military, without any obligations to it. Veterans taught the class and I really enjoyed it. At the time I was also reading a lot about Vietnam and I was very impressed with the Navy SEALs and how they operated. I thought ‘I’d like to go do that!’. That’s sort of how it came about.”
Navy SEAL Training and psychology
The aptly named ‘Hell Week’ of the Navy SEAL training is extremely tough, both mentally and physically. Stephen completed this test and has a technique that helped him through the most challenging moments. “Visualisation served me well,” Stephen recalls. “I used to visualize myself in a more calm and pleasant situation. You just mentally transport yourself out of the tough situation you’re in and when it calms down a bit, you put yourself back into it.”
“Also, a strong belief is key. Believing that you can do it… because without that, everything else falls apart. It’s something I already used as a child. But when I was a professor, I got the chance to discover more about it and I learned about the self-efficacy theory by Albert Bandura. I think this is one of the strongest theories in psychology. It basically says if you believe you can do something, the chances of success are much higher, than if you don’t believe. The stronger your belief is, the stronger your chances of success are. It doesn’t guarantee success, but it does increase your chances.”
Speaking of success… Stephen’s books about SEAL Team Six and his latest one, Trident’s First Gleaming, made it big. “When I heard the book my friend Howard Wasdin and I wrote was on the New York Times bestseller list, it was a feeling of pure joy,” he describes. “This was something I dreamed about as a child. Even though I had the military as an interest, I always wanted to be an author. But writing books doesn’t pay the bills right away, so you basically have to build up another life to support yourself.”
Most of Stephen’s books up till this point are co-authored with his friend Howard Wasdin, whom he met at Navy SEAL training. Wasdin was a sniper in the real SEAL Team Six and served in the battle of Mogadishu. “Howard was really motivated,” Stephen remembers. “When the rest of the class were exhausted after a day of hard training, he would go jogging on the beach. Mind you, that was in the beginning of the training, where things were challenging, but they hadn’t really hit the hardcore stuff yet. To summarize; he is a great guy and we hung out during training.”
“However, years later I saw the book Black Hawk Down at a bookstore at the Los Angeles airport and I checked the index to see if I knew any of the names mentioned there. Howard’s name was in it and I thought ‘wow’. But they didn’t say much about the SEALs in the book. I thought ‘when Howard’s biography comes out, I’ll be one of the first to buy it!’ But years later it hadn’t come out and we got in touch on Facebook, where I suggested to write his biography. The book is called SEAL Team Six: Memoirs of an Elite Navy Seal Sniper.”
I did a lot of research for the book and interviewed Howard almost every Sunday via the computer for a period of three months. I was in Japan at the time and he in the USA, so Skype was economical for us. So we spent an hour or two on Skype and the rest of the week I worked out the interview and prepared new questions. Eventually, after more research and revisions, I showed it to my assistant and Howard let a few friends read the draft. The whole process took about 4 months.”
Being clear and organised helped speed up the process immensely. Those same characteristics also suited well with his career as a professor in Japan. A journey that started in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. “I was studying in Hawaii and English has always been my thing. There was a major called TESOL (Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages) and that seemed like a cutting edge career move that I was uniquely qualified for. So I took that route and I had a lot of fun with it.”
Leaving SEAL Training
Stephen has followed his heart during the making of life changing decisions, and leaving SEAL training was one of them. “Every morning I prayed and was sincere about doing my best. But one morning I woke up and had a very strong feeling that it was time to go. I didn’t understand the feeling at the time, but it was a very strong one. It kind of sucked to be honest, because I had come so far. But I sensed that I’d better follow it. I have no regrets about it. I have a wonderful wife and kids, never missed any birthdays, wedding anniversaries or important holidays. As a Navy SEAL you’d have to follow intense training and go on missions, which leaves very little time for enjoying family life. So the best things I got out of leaving are definitely my family and my writing career.”
Fingers crossed! I certainly hope Vin Diesel hurries up and sets the wheels in motion for the movie adaptation of Stephen’s book! If you would like to read more about Stephen Templin and his books, please visit his website www.stephentemplin.com and follow him on Twitter: @StephenTemplin. | https://livingonfascination.com/2014/10/30/dream-jobs-an-interview-with-bestselling-author-stephen-templin/ | fineweb | 1,307 |
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‘The Kid’ embodied the very best of baseball, especially during the brief period he played side-by-side with his father — Ken Griffey Sr.
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Like many of the little magazines of the early twentieth century, Dana has been all but lost to memory, surviving largely in the occasional footnote which duly cites it as the journal in which one of James Joyce’s earliest published poems appeared. This piece, here titled only “Song,” is an unremarkable verse describing a young girl who—though she may presage the famous “bird-girl” who occasions Stephen Dedalus’s epiphany in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man—bears a more striking resemblance to similar figures in the work of Oliver Gogarty, AE, and other Dana poets. Though the poem is signed, Joyce’s name does not appear in the table of contents on the journal’s deep green cover—this despite the fact that alone among the contributors to the magazine he had been paid the considerable sum of one guinea for a mere twelve lines of verse. One of Dana‘s editors would later commission the essay “A Portrait of the Artist” and then refuse to publish it claiming that it was incomprehensible. Joyce, ever distrustful of editors and publishers, told his brother Stanislaus that the piece was simply too autobiographical for the magazine’s tastes and “these gentlemen consider that he has no right yet to write about himself” (Ellmann 48). As we will see, this is an unlikely description of Dana‘s editorial policy, for in the scant twelve issues published in Dublin between May 1904 and April 1905 the magazine provided a remarkable forum for cultural and literary debates. Refusing to adhere any strict sectarian divide and deeply suspicious of a growing nativism, it played a vital role in what F. S. L. Lyons calls “a phase of fusion and co-operation” in Irish cultural life “when everything seemed possible” (55).
The magazine was edited by two important intellectuals both of whom struggled against a narrow definition of Irish nationalism, insisting throughout their careers on a vital cosmopolitanism that was at once critical of British imperialism yet open to the English and European world. The first of these men was the economist, journalist, and playwright Frederick Ryan (1876-1913) who moved widely in the cultural circles and institutions that would later come to play a central role in Irish national life. In 1902, he became secretary of the Irish National Theatre Company, the collaborative enterprise guided by W.B. Yeats, Lady Augusta Gregory, George Moore and Edward Martyn that would later go on to create the famed Abbey Theater. During this period one of his plays was performed, a satirical piece entitled The Laying of the Foundations. He was politically active, working first as part of the Irish Socialist Republican Party before becoming secretary in 1909 of the Socialist Part of Ireland. His political journalism was keen-witted and incisive, his natural bent toward satire and willingness to court controversy often sparking tempestuous debate. Using the pseudonym Irial, which he also employed on occasion in the pages of Dana, he contributed a number of pieces to Arthur Griffith’s nationalist paper, Sinn Féin, though, as Luke Gibbon notes, his relationship to the increasingly ardent nationalism of the paper remained deeply ambivalent. He spent the final years of life in Cairo working as the editor of the Egyptian Standard.
His collaborator on Dana was the artful essayist W.K. Magee, who was more generally known by his pseudonym, John Eglinton. Like the journal he helped to edit, he too is perhaps best remembered now for his portrait in Ulysses, where he appears realistically in his role as librarian at the National Library of Ireland-a post he would hold until deciding to leave the newly formed Irish Republic in 1922 for a frustrated exile in England. Before helping to found Dana he had already made a name for himself as a kind of literary journalist who was deeply committed to a romantic individualism inspired by the work of William Wordsworth. His first two collections of essays, Two Essays on the Remnant (1892) and Pebbles from a Brook (1901) mounted an eloquent defense of radical aesthetic autonomy preserved now only in the small group of lonely thinkers and writers he calls “the remnant.” Throughout his career he remained deeply skeptical of any attempt to appropriate art for political ends, earning him the ire of Irish nationalists and making him a useful target for W.B. Yeats as the poet set out to articulate his vision of a mystical Irish drama. In sharp contrast to the literary movement which would loosely come to be identified as the Celtic Twilight, Eglinton, as Ernest Boyd writes, regarded “as signs of the absence of poetic inspiration in modern life, the revival of the heroic literature of Ireland” (59). Though Joyce would lightly satirize him in Ulysses, Eglinton actually proved far more sympathetic to the younger writer’s aims as well as his sense of alienation, telling Oliver Gogarty that there is something sublime in Joyce standing alone. Indeed, George Moore would say much of the same thing of the editor of Dana, evoking his prickly individualism by comparing him heroically to “a sort of lonely thorn-tree” (Boyd 51).
That Ryan and Eglinton should come into contact is not at all surprising given the still quite narrow intellectual circle which moved around the poles of Trinity College and the Abby Theater in turn-of-the-century Dublin. Both were active participants in the city’s cultural life and shared a deep suspicion of the growing interest in a narrowly conceived vision of Irish culture that looked toward a mythic past of obscure warriors and heroes whose deeds were recorded in a language now spoken only by a small, rural minority. In their opening editorial, in fact, they explicitly reject the idea that Ireland can subsist on its anarchic past and instead employ a remarkably primitivist metaphor. “We are in the position of a marooned civilian,” they write, “who has struck his last lucifer match in a desolate isle, and who, with the intention of broiling the fish which he has snared, or the beast which he has slain, is making his first pathetic efforts with flints or with dry sticks” (2). This is a far cry from the ardent claims of those such as Yeats and Gregory who were avidly collecting and publishing the ancient folklore and mythologies of Ireland precisely as a defense against the assertion that the island had no culture of its own. To open the first issue of Dana in this way, therefore, was immediately to court controversy by suggesting that Irish culture must be born in the crucible of the present—and, significantly in the medium of English—rather than in a utopian Gaelic past. Like The New Age in England, which would shortly attempt to steer an equally perilous course between contending cultural and political forces, Dana sought to bring forth a fundamentally new and regenerative Irish culture.
The Ireland of 1904 had for over two centuries been an occupied land, its own parliament dissolved with the Act of Union and its affairs administered by a Viceroy appointed by the English monarch. The country’s Catholic majority had only recently obtained full civil rights and the countryside was still deeply scarred by the Great Famine—a catastrophe which had decimated the population and initiated waves of immigration. Civil society was still firmly in the grip of the narrow class of landowners associated with the Protestant Ascendancy, the often distant ancestors of settlers who had long ago confiscated vast tracts of land and whose often abusive landlordism had been the cause of frequent armed rebellions. Joyce’s Ulysses, which is set on 16 June 1904, provides perhaps one of the most varied portraits of “dear, dirty Dublin” in this period, its action encompassing the pubs, houses, streets, and brothels of the city. It remained an essentially colonial capital, dominated by monuments of its own conquest from the Customs House on the banks of the Liffey to Dublin Castle, headquarters of the secret police. Political life was still haunted by the recent and scandalous collapse of the parliamentary leader, Charles Stewart Parnell, an Anglo-Irishman who had effectively forged the Irish members of the British Parliament into a powerful voting block that had all but secured the long-sought goal of home rule. Having been named as a co-respondent in a divorce suit, however, he lost the support of the Catholic church, creating a rift in his coalition. The Irish home rule movement was thus destroyed effectively from within its own ranks, a deeply formative event following which, Yeats writes, “a disillusioned and embittered Ireland turned from parliamentary politics” to create instead “the modern literature” of a still emergent nation (Autobiographies 559).
While Yeats may attribute too much importance to the fall of Parnell, he does identify the period roughly from this scandal in 1891 to the violent Easter rebellion in 1916 as a period of remarkable cultural and aesthetic innovation that we now call the Irish Renaissance. The range of activity loosely grouped under this term is broad and diverse but nevertheless directed, as Declan Kiberd argues, to a now widely recognized stage of colonial and post-colonial discourse in which a national consciousness is forged by insisting on the exceptional qualities of native culture. In Ireland this took the shape of a particularly romantic idealization of ancient Ireland as the land of “saints and sages.” Typically figured as a bulwark against modernity, writers like Yeats and Synge attempted to revive this ancient past to construct a new image of Irish culture. This process had begun earlier in the nineteenth century, born initially out of the work of antiquarian scholars who first revived the ancient Irish myths of Cuhulainn and the Ulster or Red Branch cycle. From the 1840s to the 1890s, there was a growing emphasis not only on the importance of these materials but on a revival of the Irish language as well. Such figures as Thomas Davis, Standish O’Grady, and Douglas Hyde sustained a growing campaign to reclaim a tongue that had been driven to an isolated band on the west coast of the island under British rule. The leaders of this movement were generally drawn from the ranks of the Anglo-Irish, suggesting that the political alliances Parnell was forming were matched with a kind of non-sectarian cultural nationalism as well. Thus, it was Douglas Hyde, the son of a Protestant rector, who would write “A Plea for the Irish Language” in 1886 in defense of “our national honour” and out of fear of “losing our best and highest characteristics” (cited in Lyons 36-7). This growing interest in the island’s nearly extinct tongue would eventually produce a wide network of schools and institutes that helped generate and sustain the resurgence of ancient Irish myths and stories.
By 1904 this cultural renaissance was in full swing and was beginning to play an increasingly important role in political and social life as well. Its emphasis on Irish exceptionalism had, in turn, begun to stoke nationalist sentiments that had been deflected from parliamentary politics in 1891. Looking to the immediate present rather than to the cultural past, Horace Plunkett began to advocate the creation of a wide-spread co-operative movement in the countryside designed to help free struggling Irish farmers from their oppressive dependence on landlords and the fluctuations of British commodity markets. The co-operatives, which were initially focused on creating creameries and improving Irish milk and butter production, were themselves linked to the cultural revival then underway, both promising to generate an increased sense of national independence that did not devolve from London. The poet George Russell (who signed himself AE), edited the Irish Homestead, a rural paper that was dedicated both to spreading the gospel of the co-operative movement and to offering a forum where the work of Irish writers would appear. Thus, although by the end of the nineteenth century the hope for immediate home rule remained as distant as it first appeared immediately after Parnell’s fall from power, a new cultural, political, and economic energy had been diffused throughout Ireland, one which promised to create a distinctly nationalist and independent identity.
Anglo-Irish intellectuals had long been at the forefront of this movement, with figures such as Yeats, Gregory, Hyde, and Plunkett providing a good deal of the vital impetus. They remained, however, in a somewhat contradictory position as themselves the distant heirs of a British settler class still closely associated in many minds with the brutality and dispossession of colonial rule. The nationalist energies the revivalists had released began to grow in ways they did not anticipate, generating a pronounced emphasis on an increasingly narrow nativism. The Gaelic Athletic Association, for example, under the leadership of Michael Cusack, banned members who watched or participated in “English” sports such as cricket or polo. Cusack himself was the model for Joyce’s notoriously bigoted “Citizen” in Ulysses and the organization came to be associated with a nationalism deeply rooted in a pre-colonial past. Hyde’s own Gaelic League too would experience similar pressures and its insistence on the importance of the Irish language as the foundation of a national identity strengthened sectarian pressures and consequently threatened what remained of the Parnellite coalition. Even Yeats found himself struggling to reconcile this new mode of nativist nationalism with his own desire to create poetry in English, and his own politics would become increasingly radicalized in this period as he produced the overtly revolutionary play, Cathleen ni Houlihan (1902) . Though he would later ask poetically
Did that play of mine send out
Certain men the English shot?
It was symptomatic of the growing nationalist pressures at the turn of the century and the consequent collapse of an earlier, non-sectarian nationalism. By 1905, in fact, D.P. Moran began to envision the emergence not of a fully modern and tolerant state, but a brewing “battle of two civilizations,” pitting a narrowly conceived Irish culture against an English one now hopelessly tainted by the oppressive history of colonization.
It was precisely into this breach between these “two civilizations” that Eglinton and Ryan stepped with the first number of Dana in 1904. That opening image they evoke, of a culture striking at flints to light the fire of knowledge, explicitly positions the magazine in opposition to a narrowly conceived revivalism attempting to found national identity upon a mythic past. Rather than coming into their ancient legacy, the Irish are instead imagined to be forming the most rudimentary elements of a new and distinctly modern culture. This is not to say that Dana is opposed to nationalism as such, and its pages are charged with often sharp exchanges about the value and definition of developing a distinctively Irish culture. Together, the editors contribute at least sixteen articles to the journal, most of them focused distinctly on the problem of defining a new cultural identity for Ireland that avoids a romanticized nativism. Ryan expresses his concern most directly in “Young Ireland and Liberal Idea,” which appears in the second issue. Written in response to a somewhat tepid review of Dana‘s first issue in the nationalist paper, United Irishman, the article despairs over an emerging sense of Irish identity that seems uncomfortably close the model of Britain. “Nationalism to the majority of people in Ireland,” he writes, “means merely the hoisting of the Green Flag in place of the Union Jack over a society resting on a basis of competitive capitalism differing in no vital or essential particular from any other such society or from our own condition now” (64). Ryan is not an apologist for empire, of course, and argues vehemently in “Political and Intellectual Freedom” that “the first and absolutely necessary step” in the creation of a new Ireland “is the winning of self-government” (29). Throughout the pages of Dana, however, both Eglinton and Ryan insist on the importance of argument and critique within the nationalist movement, precisely so that it avoids simply replicating the political, social, and cultural structures of the imperial metropole. In one of his most striking contributions, “The Weak Point in the Celtic Movement,” Eglinton takes on the problem of sectarianism directly, contending that “countries which have done anything in literature have never, after our fashion, “agreed to differ in the matter of religion”” (321). The Parnellite coalition which attempted to frame the question of national identity outside of religious practice is thus treated as an essentially retrograde attempt to avoid some of the most pressing truths of Irish life. “However odious they may be,” he continues, “theological questions count for nearly as much in Ireland now as in the seventeenth century, and the new literary movement, if it would make itself national, must not quite ignore this fact” (325). Eglinton here is not advocating sectarianism, but is instead critiquing revivalist writers for fleeing to the mythic past in order to avoid facing one of the most contentious aspects of a modern Irish life.
In their own writing for Dana, it should be clear, the editors sought to chart a path for the journal that courted controversy on all sides. They refused to become advocates for any particular party or position and instead relied on a kind of radical critique inspired, in part, by Eglinton’s own engagement with the work of Friedrich Nietzsche. In “A Way of Understanding Nietzsche,” Eglinton draws an implicit connection between Ireland’s bloody past and the German philosopher’s ability to “rise to the height of [his] powers under the stimulus of pain and privation” (183). This article helped introduce Nietzsche’s work to an Irish audience for the first time and clearly invited Dana‘s readers to think of themselves as part of a larger philosophical tradition rather than the narrow one cultivated by the revivalists. Almost every issue of the magazine, in fact, devotes significant amounts of space to both British and continental art and philosophy. Among these articles and reviews are:
While by no means an exhaustive list, these pieces clearly attempt to provide a counterpoint to revivalist nationalism by linking Ireland’s art and culture to a larger, more cosmopolitan modernity.
Dana‘s attempts to turn their readers’ attention to the world beyond the “Island of Saints and Sages,” did not mean that they excluded contemporary Irish writing. Its numbers regularly feature work by poets of the Celtic Twilight such as AE, major Anglo-Irish figures such as Edward Dowden, and emergent poets including Joyce and his sometime friend Oliver St. John Gogarty. The fourth issue, for example, begins with a long poem by Jane Barlow entitled “The Wayfarers” that drips with Celtic Romanticism in its description of
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This is matched by another equally mystical poem by AE and an installment of George Moore’s serialized memoirs which are most remarkable for their dreamy impulsiveness. Joyce’s “Song” is immediately preceded by a lengthy prose version of the Irish myth of King Diarmuid, whose generosity and heroism prove to be his downfall. The tenor of the entire issue is struck by “Dubliniensis” in an article entitled “On Reasonable Nationalism” describing the Celtic Twilight as a “light blossoming of song and tales in the language of the Irish nation” that provides “the sure indication of a new national unity toward which Ireland has for a long time now been tending” (104). This kind of inclusiveness, particularly in the early issues, is indicative of the perilous course Eglinton and Ryan tried to chart: inclusive of the burgeoning revivalist movement and its tremendous creative energies, yet suspicious of its narrow focus on an a distant Irish past cut off from a wider, global culture.
As was the case throughout the revival, these tensions crystallized around debates about the Irish language and its relationship to an emergent national identity. Beginning with Alfred Webb’s article on “The Gaelic League and Politics” in the fifth number, Dana began a long-running debate about the value and limits of recuperating a nearly extinct language and about its utility in sustaining a modern Irish state. Webb is explicitly critical of the League, which he calls “a not unnatural recoil from the dominance which politics had so long maintained over every other interest in Ireland.” He contends, however, that such a movement is essentially retrograde and that “it is impossible that a language movement, an art movement, or a manufacture movement can ever take the place of a political movement” (142). This essay sparks a debate about the relationship between art, language, and politics that spans much of the rest of the Dana‘s short life. Among the most significant pieces published as part of this debate are:
These pieces are joined as well by articles debating the value of Plunkett’s co-operative movement, such as “Ireland in the New Century” by Maurice Moore and Padraic Colum’s “Concerning a Creamery.” There is, in effect, a roiling debate in these pages that just begins to indicate some of the increasingly jarring tensions between the “two civilizations” Moran described.
Without editorial explanation, Dana ceased publication in 1905 after its twelfth issue had appeared. This final number remains as contentious as the first and focused on precisely the same issues. Lionel Vane, in “Wanted—A Democratic Spirit,” argues for a distinctly modern concept of an evolving Irish state, one that certainly looks forward to the kind of socialist ideal that will appear in the early pages of The New Age. “We require,” he writes, “more of the spirit of democracy and humanity, and less of the racial passion and racial egotism. We need to curb the rapacity of wealth, whether it wear a Celtic or Saxon garb; and we need to help the poor and down-trodden, whether they be Catholics or Orangemen, or neither” (355). Struggling to preserve the Parnellite coalition that had collapsed in 1891, Vane imagines a fully independent Ireland capable of forming a fundamentally new concept of the state—one that does not simply replicate the cultural and economic models of the British. The difficulty of such a program and its inherent contradictions in colonial Ireland, however, are spelled out in painful detail near the end of this issue by R.W. Lynd in “The Nation and the Man of Letters.” Arguing that Ireland must craft its own national literature, he nevertheless attempts to preserve a space for art and culture in a space apart from politics, concluding that “art is even more an affair of individuality than of nationality” (376). The lonely course this essay envisions would be followed by many of the writers and intellectuals who were formed in this particular crucible. Joyce, of course, would soon seek a permanent exile in Europe while Yeats’s finest poetry would be crafted from precisely this agonistic contradiction between his nationalist aspirations and his belief in art’s fundamental autonomy. First Ryan and then Eglinton too would depart an Ireland in which it seemed—to borrow Yeats’s most famous phrase—“the centre cannot hold.” In its short existence, Dana attempted to occupy this vanishing middle ground, to open a space for the development of a distinctly modern national culture that depended upon neither the bigotry of race nor the myths of a moldering past. The sparks they hoped to strike with the flints of these issues may not have lighted the fire they hoped, but scattered on the winds of exile they ignited the aesthetic energy and critical vitality that would shape one of the most prolific generations of Irish writers and thinkers.
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Building Your Permaculture Property offers a revolutionary method to overcome overwhelm. The authors, engineers and a farmer, lead you – the land steward – through a clear five-step process, exercises, templates, and workflow tools developed through decades of successful land management consulting and farming.
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If you’re looking to purchase a humidifier, you may be asking yourself which one is better, warm mist vs cool mist humidifiers? They both have their own pros and cons, as well as health benefits.
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Warm mist humidifiers use a heating element to boil the water inside and make steam. Before the steam leaves the device, it’s cooled to an appropriate temperature to prevent burns from occurring. However, you should still keep them away from kids and pets, just in case.
Warm mist humidifiers are better at reducing germs and bacteria and are all around the better choice if you’re sick. You can also use them with medicated products, like vapo rub to improve congestion and cough relief.
Vaporizers operate without an internal fan, so they’re much quieter when compared to cool-mist humidifiers. However, because they have a heating element, they also use more electricity and can pose a risk to children and pets.
Vaporizers may also aggravate eczema symptoms, as eczema thrives in warm, damp climates.
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- Quieter than cool-mist humidifiers
- Warm and comforting in the winter
- Hot steam can be a safety hazard
- Uses much more energy
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Closing Date: For full consideration, application packets must be received by November 28, 2022 (open until filled).
Location Headquarters. Housed at the University of California, in Merced, California
Purpose. The Regenerative Agriculture Cooperative Extension (CE) Specialist will carry out a collaborative, multifaceted research and outreach program focused on helping both growers and policymakers understand the benefits, limitations, and scaling potential of soil carbon management practices and assist growers in implementing practices that will help California meet its carbon neutrality goals.
The Cooperative Extension (CE) Specialist will develop multi-disciplinary collaborations with other UC and outside researchers to address needs, and should seek out opportunities to bring private-sector partners and other stakeholders into these collaborations.
The CE Specialist will be expected to develop an extramurally-funded research and extension education program to address limited water conditions; forge strong interactions with local, regional, state and national partners and clientele, as well as with UC colleagues; contribute to core research and extension goals established within UC ANR; and assist in establishing an innovative multi-disciplinary program in their field of expertise.
This is an exciting opportunity to have meaningful impacts throughout California. Opportunities abound for research and extension partnerships that link consumers and resource professionals with relevant science-based information and promote effective problem-solving. The CE Specialist will also join a team of highly motivated UCCE and UC Merced (UCM) colleagues who are passionate about their work and are dedicated to making a difference within the communities and throughout California. The potential for collaborative projects within the UC ANR and UCM systems is nearly limitless.
Reporting Relationship: The CE Specialist is academically and administratively responsible to the Chair of UC Merced’s Department of Life and Environmental Sciences (LES) in the School of Natural Sciences at UC Merced, with input from the ANR Vice President. UC ANR will oversee the merit and promotion process, consistent with other ANR CE Specialists. The position will be housed in the LES Department. There is an opportunity for the CE Specialist to hold an additional 0% (uncompensated) Adjunct Professor series appointment, reporting academically and administratively to the LES Department Chair.
Research & Extension
All CE Specialists are expected to develop and implement applied research programs to provide science-based information addressing complex issues. This position will focus generally on validating Regenerative Agriculture methods and learn to accurately account for their impact on soil carbon, health, and food system resilience. The specialist will work with researchers at UC Merced and other UCs on long-term monitoring of carbon sequestration and under regenerative practices.
The position will research and promote regenerative agricultural management practices that reverse land degradation and rebuild soil carbon reserves as a crucial step to buffer fossil fuel emissions; stabilizing the earth’s climate, and creating more resilient agriculture systems.
The CE Specialist’s objective will be to foster a collaborative, multidisciplinary, cutting-edge research and extension program, to support farm advisors and growers in transitioning from resource-intensive and land-degrading practices. They will develop applied, soil-based climate solutions and bring them to scale regionally and globally. The CE Specialist will partner with key stakeholders.
The CE Specialist will be expected to produce rigorous, novel, relevant research and prepare targeted materials, reports, and journal articles. Extension activities will also include the development of workshops and webinars, collaborative symposia, and field visits for technical assistance and training. Outreach responsibilities include supporting farmer and state agency planning processes, as appropriate, and making relevant data and resources publicly available and usable on UCM and UC ANR web portals.
Qualifications and Skills Required
Education A minimum of a Ph.D. is required (or international equivalent) related to Soil Science, Agroecology, Agronomy, Environmental Engineering, or related discipline. Applicants who have not yet earned a Ph.D. must be within 12 months of completing their degree in order to be considered for the position.
Excellent written, oral and interpersonal communication skills are required. A demonstrated ability in applied agricultural research and extension of information is desirable. Experience in securing and managing extramural grants, carrying out field-based research, and publishing multi-disciplinary research is desirable.
• Postdoctoral or related work experience is preferred
• All UC ANR CE specialists are responsible for performance in the areas of 1) applied research and creative activity, 2) extending knowledge and information, 3) professional competence and activity, and 4) University and public service.
The CE specialist will interact with UC ANR program teams, CE advisors, other CE specialists, and others within the research/extension network and advisory groups to develop, strengthen and expand the delivery of statewide products.
• Conduct and report needs assessments to identify priority issues or problems relevant to the local clientele groups being served.
• Develop and implement effective UC ANR Cooperative Extension applied research and educational programs to address the identified priority needs of the clientele that are consistent with ANR’s Strategic Vision and ANR initiatives;
• Conduct applied research designed to monitor changes and solve statewide and locally relevant problems related to water quantity and quality in crop production;
• Disseminate appropriate, science-based information to inform clientele, using extension methods that are responsive to clientele needs and appropriate for the audience and situation;
• Maintain and promote UC ANR Cooperative Extension’s credibility by providing science-based knowledge;
• Evaluate programs and report accomplishments, results, and potential or actual impacts to scientific and lay audiences through a variety of outreach methods e.g., peer-reviewed publications, internet, workshops, newsletters.
Collaboration & Teamwork
• Interact with their campus academic colleagues, to create synergies that will advance the programmatic goals of both UC Merced Department of Life and Environmental Sciences in the School of Natural Sciences and of UC ANR;
• Engage with campus faculty and staff on design and construction, research, and educational outreach associated with the UC Merced Experimental Smart Farm, which is currently under development;
• Interact with UC Merced Department of Life and Environmental Sciences undergraduate students and graduate students in Environmental Systems and other relevant graduate programs via occasional lectures and other academic functions (such as serving on dissertation committees, oral exams, etc.) as appropriate. In accordance with UC Academic Personnel Policy 334, Specialist in Cooperative Extension Series, the teaching of regular undergraduate or graduate courses will not be a primary responsibility of the position;
• Engage in campus faculty meetings, campus faculty committee service, and other activities of the UC Merced faculty as appropriate.
• Maintain close contact and working relationships with industry groups.
Demonstrated commitment to ongoing self-improvement – both professionally and as a person.
Learn more about Skills and Areas of Programmatic Review All UC ANR CE specialists are responsible for performance in the areas of 1) applied research and creative activity, 2) extending knowledge and information, 3) professional competence and activity and 4) University and public service (with awareness and impact in relation to Affirmative Action and DEI).
About UC ANR and UCM
The University of California, Division of Agriculture and Natural Resources (UC ANR) consists of a network of scientists and educators working in partnership across the California. We are committed to developing and supporting healthy food systems, healthy environments, healthy communities, and healthy Californians. UC ANR administers UC Cooperative Extension (UCCE), which is responsible for program development and delivery in the counties throughout the state of California.
Opened in 2005 as the newest campus of the University of California, UC Merced continually strives for excellence in carrying out the university’s mission of teaching, research, and public service, benefiting society by discovering and transmitting new knowledge and functioning as an active repository of organized knowledge (https://www.ucmerced.edu/ucmerced-mission). The Department of Life & Environmental Sciences (LES) (https://les.ucmerced.edu) includes more than 20 faculty with a common interest in interdisciplinary research and education in natural and human-impacted Earth systems. Research and teaching carried out by LES faculty address fundamental and applied problems associated with the environment and its sustainability at the intersection of biological, chemical and physical sciences. The LES faculty advise graduate students within the interdisciplinary Environmental Systems (https://es.ucmerced.edu/) and Quantitative & Systems Biology (https://qsb.ucmerced.edu) programs while supporting two undergraduate majors, environmental systems science and biological sciences.
Learn more about
• UC ANR at https://UCANR.edu
• UC Merced https://www.ucmerced.edu/
• Our UC ANR Strategic Initiatives http://ucanr.edu/sites/StrategicInitiatives/
• Our UC ANR Public Value statements at https://ucanr.edu/sites/anrstaff/Divisionwide_Planning/UC_ANR_Public_Values/
• DEI: Further to the above, CE Specialists are expected to share and exhibit UC ANR’s commitment to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion https://ucanr.edu/sites/Professional_Development/Office_-_Team_Management/Diversity_Equity_Inclusion_Belonging/
• Affirmative Action: Further to the above, CE Specialists are expected to share and exhibit UC ANR’s commitment to affirmative action. Learn more of UC ANR Affirmative Action policy: http://ucanr.edu/sites/anrstaff/Diversity/Affirmative_Action/
• The University of California Agriculture and Natural Resources is committed to attracting and retaining a diverse workforce and will honor your experiences, perspectives and unique identity. We encourage applications from members of historically underrepresented racial/ethnic groups, women, individuals with disabilities, veterans, LGBTQ+ community members, and others who demonstrate the ability to help us create and maintain working and learning environments that are inclusive, equitable and welcoming.
Salary & Benefits
Salary: Beginning salary will be in the Assistant Cooperative Extension Specialist Series and commensurate with applicable experience and professional qualifications. This is a career-track position that is eligible for indefinite status. All provisions of UC Academic Personnel Policy 334, Specialist in Cooperative Extension Series apply. For information regarding the Cooperative Extension Specialist salary scale, please refer to https://www.ucop.edu/academic-personnel-programs/_files/2022-23/july-2022-salary-scales/t29.pdf
Benefits: The University of California offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance, retirement plans, two days per month paid vacation, one day per month paid sick leave, and approximately thirteen paid holidays per year. ANR is part of UC’s Family-Friendly Policies. For more information, refer to the UC Benefits website at: https://ucnet.universityofcalifornia.edu/compensation-and-benefits/index.html
How to Apply
If interested in this position, please visit: https://recruit.ucanr.edu/ and choose “applicants” (refer to position #22-62)
Closing Date: To assure full consideration, application packets must be received by November 28, 2022 (open until filled).
A search committee will review all applications, interview candidates, and recommend individuals most suitable for the position.
Approximately 2 to 3 weeks after the submission deadline, applicants with appropriate and applicable education and experience will be invited to participate in a preliminary, remote interview.
The formal interviews (via Zoom or in person) will take place approximately 2 to 3 weeks after the preliminary interviews for those applicants selected to proceed.
Contact Alma Jackson; email: [email protected]
Applicants may wish to explore the UC Davis Services for International Students and Scholars web page at https://siss.ucdavis.edu and the UC ANR Green Card Sponsorship Guidelines & FAQ’s for reference.
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As a condition of employment, you will be required to comply with the University of California SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) Vaccination Program Policy. All Covered Individuals under the policy must provide proof of Full Vaccination or, if applicable, submit a request for Exception (based on Medical Exemption, Disability, and/or Religious Objection) or Deferral (based on pregnancy) no later than the applicable deadline. New University of California employees should refer to Appendix F, Section II.C. of the policy for applicable deadlines. (Capitalized terms in this paragraph are defined in the policy.) Federal, state, or local public health directives may impose additional requirements.
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The Church Up Close program provides us with lunch, in this case at an amazing little restaurant just around the corner from Santa Croce University. Here’s the antipasto from the first day. Need I say more?
During a break between classes, I ventured up to Piazza del Popolo to have my picture taken between the “twin churches.” I have an original etching of these churches hanging in my dining room back home, so it was especially cool to stand in this spot.
The next morning at 6:45 a.m. a colleague and I walked over to St. Peter’s for morning Mass. This is the time to go to St. Peter’s. You’ll have the place to yourself. I was able to stand in front of the Pieta with no one else around:
At this time of day, Mass is being celebrated in every chapel in the basilica. We joined one where the Nigerian priest was offering Mass in Italian all alone. Spectacular experience. I followed that up with confession. Two sacraments in St. Peter’s. Not a bad way to start the day.
On the way out of the piazza, we spotted a horse having a little breakfast. We stopped for cappuccino and cornetti at a nearby shop and, yes, I drank my coffee standing at the bar like a true Italian (as was on my wish list).
After a full day of classes, nine of us headed across the Tiber to Trastevere, a funky little Roman neighborhood with my favorite church of all time (outside of St. Peter’s): Santa Maria in Trastevere. Here’s St. Peter’s at sunset from the Ponte Sisto bridge:
Here’s Santa Maria in Trastevere, one of the oldest churches in Christendom. Just beautiful. We attended sung vespers with the Community of Sant’ Egidio. I sat there and cried like a baby before they even started singing. Most powerful moment of the trip. (More to come on that later.)
We had another busy day of classes today and then I tried to squeeze in lots of things I really wanted to do. I made it to the Capuchin Crypt, which is decorated with the bones of 4,000 monks. Unfortunately, they are very strict about the no photo policy. You’ll have to trust me on this one. It’s beautiful in a scary and bizarre sort of way. In front of the skeletons it says this: “What you are, we once were. What we are, you will be.” A little light food for thought.
I stopped at the Spanish Steps on the way back. A popular place on a Saturday evening in Rome:
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I had a dog years earlier, a great huge pitbull of actually good dog, came from a person one of my customers as well as they can not get the dog to rest and also they tried to get the dog to sit and also creep them. They tried to obtain the dog to do this and also to do that and also do this into that and the dog would not rest.
Which is, I have the dog standing as well as I have to take the dog the reward from the dog’s nose to their toes and the dog folds down. Dog training near me Liberty. We did it for concerning four or five mins as well as the dog wouldn’t do it and the individual said: see the dog can’t do it.
Because I claimed we’re going to get the dog to do this if we not do anything else which’s what you need to approach your approach in dog training.
I’m not going to transform the dynamic of and also absolutely nothing’s mosting likely to alter. So this dog was going to discover to go down and also I timed it. Dog training near me Liberty. It was over 20 minutes of me doing the precise same thing: the repeating of doing the very same movement, the exact same way over and over when the dog was not doing well, so the dog had not been getting it.
I really did not transform the technique. The dog had not been getting it. I really did not transform the strategy, due to the fact that if I altered the method, the dog has to find out something brand-new.
The dog needs to assume: I had not been doing that correctly currently we’re doing this, and afterwards I wasn’t doing this as well as I’m doing that, so it changes the dynamic for the dog.
We wish to stay consistent with the dog. Consistency is the top trick for dogs.
Individuals would state. Dog training near me Liberty. Well, my dog needs different food. My dog requires various tasks. My dog needs different stimulation. No, he does not. Your dog is the best creature. Think of an old man. That’s so embeded in his routines that he can not break his routines. Think about a guy like me, every little thing corresponds. I have the very same breakfast each and every single day. Often that drives Janet nuts, but she loves me since that consistency brings about predictability.
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Prior to I tossed a best punch, I possibly tossed a thousand or 2,000 punches much like youngsters. I instructed before they had a good front, kick, or a excellent partner or a good back kick or a excellent rotating kick or anything like that, it would certainly take thousands and also hundreds of shots.
It does not happen the very first time yeah, I’m a large proponent – that if you do not, if you’re, truly bad at something quit. Dog training, because dog training is something that everybody can be good at.
Obtaining your dog to do something is something everyone can do and they’re constantly stopping simply prior to it takes place. They say well, my dog is not truly excellent on a chain.
The 2 secrets to dog training. Assume of just how numerous times he’s done that chip shot up until it’s excellent and also I obtain on the golf program as well as I don’t get it. That’s what you need in your dog training.
You require to repeat it over and over as well as over again, so you have consistency as well as you have persistence. That indicates you do not change the dynamic of the consistency, no matter what which’s what individuals do. They attempt to do it continually. They obtain quick-tempered and then they change the consistency. Consistency and perseverance job, hand in hand.
If I inform the dog down – as well as he doesn’t do it, I claim it the same method. In the dog’s mind, it’s the exact same strategy till the dog obtains it.
That’s why we claim: don’t duplicate your commands, due to the fact that people are constantly repeating their commands. They’re saying sit, sit, no sit and also those three intimations are completely various from the dog and also the dog does not know which one to react to so he’ll pick. Dog training near me Liberty.
One he’ll choose the sit. The sit or the sit, and whichever one he chooses, if you do not mark that behavior in your mind and also know that that’s the one he’s paying attention to, as well as next time you state sit and he does not sit.
That’s your fault due to the fact that you’ve instructed him to mark or to execute on a particular intonation, a certain method of stating something. Consistency, perseverance will lead you to fuse those two and also to have a really successful dog, as well as I don’t care if it’s your pet dog, that you’re just attempting to instruct to stroll on a loose chain. Don’t allow him pluck completion of the leash? If he’s plucking the under chain, do an abrupt turn. Don’t allow him get away with a actions that you don’t like. Since that behavior will certainly become hardwired in the dog’s mind.
Correspond as well as be patient, and if you’re consistent as well as individual with a dog, you can show him to do anything. Jimmy right here was a seeing-eye dog that Janet corresponded and client with and took him to master’s agility degrees, which is just remarkable. Dog training near me Liberty.
Goofy was simply a nine-week old young puppy that was a entirely green dog.
I took him to the United States Mondio Ring Association, the highest level of obedience, second-highest level of obedience in IPO, which is reduced, as well as the highest level of obedience in AKC, which is energy since I was consistent with him a great deal of those times. I had absolutely nothing to do yet educate my dog. But I enjoyed those minutes that if I trained him for 10 minutes or 10 hours, it was a enthusiasm I existed every min of it. I really did not look at my phone as well as on Instagram and on Facebook as well as YouTube as well as texting as well as doing this stuff. Dog training near me Liberty. I existed in the moment of training each dog.
Be consistent with your dog, endure your dog and also you’re going to have the happiest ideal dog that you’ll ever before envision. Invest your time and energy to assist educate your dog a whole lot much better. Dog training near me Liberty, Missouri, MO. | https://petstoreusa.net/service-dog-training/dog-training-near-me-liberty-missouri-mo/ | fineweb | 2,039 |
1. Eliminating customs duties
The EU-Vietnam trade agreement will eliminate over 99% of all tariffs, and partly remove the rest through limited zero-duty quotas.
65% of duties on EU exports to Vietnam will be eliminated at entry into force, with the remainder gradually removed over a 10-year period. EU duties on imports from Vietnam will be eliminated progressively over a 7-year period. This asymmetric approach takes into account the fact that Vietnam is a developing country.
The agreement will remove tariffs on a range of key EU export products:
- Almost all machinery and appliances will be fully tariff-free at entry into force, and the rest after 5 years. Current duties are up to 35%.
- Motorcycles with engines larger than 150 cc will see tariffs fully removed after 7 years (current duty is 75%) and cars after 10 years (down from 78%).
- Car parts will be duty free after 7 years (current duties are up to 32%).
- Roughly half of EU pharmaceuticals exports will be duty free at entry into force and the rest after 7 years (currently facing duties of up to 8%).
- All textile fabric exports will see their duties removed at entry into force (currently with a tariff of 12%).
- Close to 70% of EU chemicals exports will be duty free at entry into force (current duties up to 5%) and the rest after 3, 5 or, respectively, 7 years (current tariffs up to 25%).
- Wines and spirits will be fully tariff-free after 7 years (down from tariffs of 50% and 48% respectively).
- In the meat sector, tariffs on poultry meat and offal will be progressively reduced to 0% in 10 years (current duties up to 40%), fresh pork and offal and hams after 9 years (current duties up to 25%), frozen pork will be duty free after 7 years (current duties at 15%), and beef and lamb after 3 years (current duties up to 30%).
- Dairy products will be fully tariff-free after a maximum of 5 years (current duties up to 15%) and 3 years for most cheeses with a geographical indication.
- Food preparations (including infant foods) after a maximum of 7 years (current duties up to 40%), and bakery & pastries after 5 years (current duties up to 40%).
For sensitive agricultural products, the EU will not open its market to Vietnamese imports completely. Tariff Rate Quotas (TRQs) will limit the quantity that can enter the EU duty-free. This includes rice, sweetcorn, garlic, mushrooms, eggs, sugar and high-sugar-containing products, manioc starch, other modified starches, ethanol, surimi and canned tuna. For certain agricultural products, the EU will eliminate tariffs over a transitional period of up to 7 years. This is the case for poultry meat, butter, cereal flours, starches, processed meats, beet sugar and sugar-based products, a number of processed agricultural products and tobacco. The entry price system will continue to apply to fruit and vegetables.
The elimination of duties on imports of some industrial Vietnamese products (for instance in the textile apparel and footwear sectors) will also be subject to longer transition periods of up to 7 years. In order to benefit from the preferential access, negotiated rules of origin will require the use of fabrics produced in the EU, Vietnam or in Republic of Korea, another partner with whom the EU has a trade agreement. This will ensure that products from other countries with which the EU does not have a trade agreement do not gain unfair access to the EU through Vietnam.
Besides eliminating tariffs, Vietnam will also do away with its existing export duties in its bilateral trade with the EU, and has agreed not to increase the few that will exceptionally remain in force.
2. Protecting European Geographical Indications
169 distinctive European food and drinks products from a specific geographical origin will be protected from imitation on the Vietnamese market. The use of geographical indications (GIs) such as Champagne sparkling wine, Bayerisches Bier, Parmigiano Reggiano cheese, Tiroler Speck ham, Rioja wine or Feta cheese will be reserved in Vietnam for products imported from the EU regions where they traditionally come from. This will benefit European farmers and small businesses producing these traditional products and exporting them to Vietnam.
Vietnamese GIs will also be recognised and protected in the EU, further promoting imports of quality products such as Mộc Châu tea or Buôn Ma Thuột coffee.
The agreement will allow new GIs to be added in the future to the list of protected GIs.
3. Reducing non-tariff barriers to European exports
The EU and Vietnam have agreed to go beyond the rules set out in the WTO Technical Barriers to Trade agreement. In particular, Vietnam has committed to increasing the use of international standards when drafting its regulations.
The agreement also contains a chapter on sanitary and phytosanitary measures, to make trade in plant and animal products easier. Importantly, Vietnam will recognise the EU as a single entity for the purposes of authorising our animal and plant exports, as well as the concepts of regionalisation of plant and animal diseases (with potential export restrictions limited to a specific region affected by the disease, allowing the unaffected EU exports to continue) and pre-listing of establishments. These comprehensive rules will make procedures for authorising the export of EU agricultural products to Vietnam more transparent and quick, as well as improve bilateral cooperation on this important area.
The agreement also contains a specific annex with far-reaching provisions to address non-tariff barriers in the automotive sector, including the recognition of the EU whole vehicle certificate of conformity five years after the entry into force of the agreement.
Also, to account for the increasing EU market integration, Vietnam accepted the marking of origin 'Made in EU' for non-agricultural goods (with the exception of pharmaceuticals, which are still to a great extent subject to national approvals in the EU). Member State-specific markings of origin will continue to be accepted as well.
Provisions on import and export licensing, customs procedures, trade in plant and animal products, will also facilitate access of EU goods to the Vietnamese market.
4. Public procurement
Thanks to the agreement, EU companies will benefit from a level of access to Vietnamese procurement markets that companies from no other country do.
- EU companies will be able to bid for public contracts with Vietnamese ministries and important state-owned enterprises, as well as the two biggest Vietnamese cities, Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City.
The agreement is fully in line with the rules of the WTO Government Procurement Agreement, thus achieving a degree of transparency and procedural fairness comparable to other EU trade agreements with developed countries and more advanced developing countries.
5. Safeguarding social and environmental protection standards
The EU and Vietnam have agreed on a robust and comprehensive chapter on trade and sustainable development, with an extensive list of commitments. These include the following:
- To implement effectively the core labour standards and Conventions of the International Labour Organisation (ILO), the Multilateral Environmental Agreements that the EU and Vietnam have ratified, along with an assurance to ratify fundamental ILO Conventions not yet ratified.
- To effectively implement international environmental agreements, such as the Paris Agreement.
- To prevent a race to the bottom: no undermining of domestic labour and environmental laws in order to attract trade and investment.
- Actions in sectors of specific relevance in Vietnam such as the conservation and sustainable management of wildlife, biodiversity, forestry and fisheries.
- Involvement of civil society in the monitoring and giving advice on the implementation of the Trade and Sustainable Development chapter on both sides.
- Tailor-made dispute settlement for the Trade and Sustainable Development chapter.
6. Promoting democracy and respect for human rights
There is an institutional and legal link between the Free Trade Agreement and the EU-Vietnam Partnership and Cooperation Agreement. This link allows measures considered as appropriate in the case of breaches of human rights, including the suspension of the Trade Agreement.
7. Creating a level playing field for EU companies and innovative products
The EU-Vietnam Trade Agreement will level the playing field between state-owned enterprises and private enterprises when state-owned enterprises are engaged in commercial activities. There are also rules on transparency, and consultations on domestic subsidies. These are the most ambitious rules that Vietnam has ever agreed to in an international agreement.
On intellectual property rights, Vietnam has committed to a high level of protection that goes beyond the standards of WTO Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) agreement. With this agreement, EU innovations, artworks and brands will be better protected against being unlawfully copied, including through stronger enforcement provisions.
The EU pharmaceutical sector in particular will benefit from improved protection of test data and from the possibility to get an extension of the term of the patent up to two years if there are delays in the marketing authorisation. Vietnam has also taken ambitious commitments concerning the procurement of pharmaceutical products, for instance allowing companies with European capital to import and sell medicines to distributors and wholesalers within the country.
8. Opening the Vietnamese market for EU services providers
Vietnam has committed to substantially improve the access for EU companies to a broad range of services sectors, including:
- business services
- environmental services
- postal and courier services
- maritime transport
Moreover, the agreement will contain a clause allowing the best results of other trade agreements being negotiated at the moment to be incorporated in the EU-Vietnam trade agreement.
9. Promoting bilateral investment
Vietnam has committed to open up to investments in manufacturing in key sectors:
- food products and beverages
- fertilisers and nitrogen composites
- tyres and tubes
- gloves and plastic products
- construction materials
10. More effective dispute resolution
The dispute resolution mechanism set up by the agreement is faster and more efficient than the dispute settlement mechanism in the WTO framework.
It applies to most areas of the agreement and is intended as a last resort, should the EU and Vietnam fail to find a solution by other means. The agreement provides for the possibility of formal consultations and for voluntary mediation to tackle measures that adversely affect bilateral trade and investment.
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- Publication date
- 17 October 2018 (Last updated on: 31 July 2020)
- Directorate-General for Trade
- Country or region
- Trade topics
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* Diagnostic accuracy studies address how well a test identifies the target condition of interest. * Sensitivity, specificity, predictive values and likelihood ratios (LRs) are all different ways of expressing test performance. * Receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curves compare sensitivity versus specificity across a range of values for the ability to predict a dichotomous outcome. Area under the ROC curve is another measure of test performance. * All of these parameters are not intrinsic to the test and are determined by the clinical context in which the test is employed. * High sensitivity corresponds to high negative predictive value and is the ideal property of a "rule-out" test. * High specificity corresponds to high positive predictive value and is the ideal property of a "rule-in" test. * LRs leverage pre-test into post-test probabilities of a condition of interest and there is some evidence that they are more intelligible to users. | https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/18852864/?dopt=Abstract | fineweb | 182 |
Historically, December has been a great month for stocks, but now we have the Omicron variant causing major volatility and uncertainty. Still, we remain optimistic that the new worries will subside over the coming weeks and stocks will finish 2021 on a solid note.
The Latest on Omicron
First things first, we are very excited to announce that tomorrow (Tuesday, December 7) we are set to release Outlook 2022: Passing the Baton. This will have all of our views on where we think the economy, stocks, and bonds are headed next year. Because the Outlook is coming out tomorrow, this week’s Weekly Market Commentary is shorter than normal, but hopefully just as impactful.
After 29 consecutive days without a single 1% move higher or lower for the S&P 500 Index, news of Omicron broke the Friday after Thanksgiving and as a result, five consecutive days saw at least a 1% move up or down. Clearly Omicron and the uncertainty it brought with it showed everyone that stocks can’t stay calm forever.
Although we do expect this volatility to continue, it very well could be a buying opportunity. We’ve been living with COVID-19 for more than 20 months now. We’ve seen several variants and managed to move forward, and we expect a similar playbook to work once again. Admittedly, we don’t know how effective current vaccines are against Omicron, or how transmissible it is, but we do know that the appetite for another nationwide shutdown is quite low and that these questions should be answered over the coming weeks. We remain optimistic that the medical community will quickly create booster shots against the new variant if needed, paving the way for this economic recovery to move forward early next year.
Will Santa Still Come in 2021?
December started off a little rocky, but we are still optimistic that the usual December bullish season will take place. For starters, the S&P 500 has gained 1.5% on average during the final month of the year, with only April and November better. But no month is more likely to be higher, with December up close to 75% of time.
As shown in Figure 1, it turns out that the majority of the gains tend to take place during the second half of the month, so we could see a continued choppy market until we have more clarity over Omicron, which would match the typical strong second half of December action.
Where things get interesting is after a negative November (like we saw this year), December does even better, up 2.7% on average and higher 19 out of 22 times (86.3%). What about if stocks are having a great year heading into December? You guessed it, the jolliest month of them all does better. We found there were 15 times the S&P 500 was up more than 20% for the year at the end of November and the month of December was up 11 of them with an average return of 1.7%; again, better than the average December return of 1.5%.
Omicron has put quite the wrinkle in the recent bull market, but stocks are still up more than 20% for the year, so it is good to put things in perspective. After more than a 110% rally from the March 2020 lows, perhaps investors needed a reminder that stocks can’t go up forever and that while volatility might be frustrating, it is perfectly normal.
We aren’t minimizing the Omicron uncertainty, but we remain bullish that the recovery is alive and well, with a very healthy consumer and corporate earnings backdrop leading the way. Buckle up though, as big swings on daily news could be here for several more weeks. But in the end, we expect any lost output due to Omicron to simply be pushed out and recovered by early next year.
Again, please be sure to read Outlook 2022: Passing the Baton for our views on what we see happening next year for the economy, stocks, bonds, the Federal Reserve, and more.
Ryan Detrick, CMT, Chief Market Strategist, LPL Financial
Jeff Buchbinder, CFA, Equity Strategist, LPL Financial
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Sellers participating in a private market secondary transaction, such as a tender offer, on the CartaX ATS can now view their estimated tax withholdings* during the Order Entry phase. Equipped with estimated tax information, sellers who are US-based employees will be able to make a more informed decision when determining sell preferences and better anticipate their net proceeds.
How does it work?
Issuers sponsoring a tender offer or another structured transaction will provide Carta with their employees’ city, state, and/or federal jurisdictional tax rates. Carta will use the applicable tax rates to calculate their individual estimated tax withholding.
As sellers select which of their eligible stock holdings to sell during the Order Entry period, the Proceeds Calculator on the right hand side of the screen will automatically update and calculate what their estimated net proceeds may be after fees and taxes*.
Sellers can then click on “View tax details” (hyperlink within the red box above) to view a breakdown of the estimated tax withholdings by security type and tax jurisdiction.
Enable your employees to understand their estimated tax obligations earlier in a tender offer when placing their sell orders.
The Tax Withholding Estimates during Order Entry will:
- Enable sellers to see how their security elections during the Order Entry period may impact their estimated tax withholdings, and ultimately, expected net proceeds; and
- Save Issuers time by helping to reduce the amount of questions received from sellers about their potential tax withholding obligations.
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Saegertown, PA: Greenleaf Corporation introduces XSYTIN®-360, a new line of high-performance solid ceramic end mills, to the global market. XSYTIN®-360 end mills combine Greenleaf’s phase-toughened XSYTIN®-1 substrate with a unique cutting geometry that offers ten times higher productivity and tremendous cost savings. The strength of the material allows the user to apply chip loads similar to solid carbide end mills with higher speeds common to ceramic machining. These new ceramic end mills provide customers with significant increases in productivity over current solid carbide or ceramic products.
Greenleaf’s XSYTIN®-1 material, introduced in 2016, was engineered to machine a wider variety of materials than any other ceramic in the industry. The structure of this phase-toughened ceramic exhibits high wear resistance and outstanding thermal shock resistance, which makes the XSYTIN®-360 end mills highly predictable, very versatile, high-performance products.
XSYTIN®-360 end mills have shown the highest material removal rates and resulted in increased productivity on a wide range of materials. These end mills have proven to be extremely effective when machining a variety of different materials including high-temperature alloys, 3D-printed sintered high-temperature alloys, hardened steels, ductile cast irons, and compacted graphite iron (CGI). In hardened steels specifically, the tool life of XSYTIN®-360 end mills has proven to be equal to high-performance carbide end mills when run at high-end speeds (11,460 RPM), while also removing over 73 cubic inches (over 1200 cubic cm) of material.
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Aaron Quigley. His research focused on Enhancing User Experience with Distributed Interaction Space Across Mobile Devices and Large Displays.Mr. Umar Rashid M.Sc. completed his studies for his Ph.D. in Computer Science at the University of St Andrews in July 2012. Umar was in the SACHI research group with Professor
While the portability of mobile devices makes them desirable for pervasive access to information, their small screen real estate and the lack of peripheral input devices often impose restriction on the amount of information to be displayed and manipulated on them. In his work, Umar explored the ways mobile devices can be used with large displays to complement the inherent limitations of each device and create an enhanced user experience. This work was particularly focused on the analysis of visual attention switch for designing an interaction space distributed across heterogeneous display devices.
Umar has now passed his viva and has joined Lincoln Social Computing Lab as a Horizon Research Fellow. | https://sachi.cs.st-andrews.ac.uk/people/alumni/umer-rashid/ | fineweb | 195 |
A beautiful Van Orden Model 70 from pre64win.
In July 1952 a wooden crate was delivered to the quarters of Robert Gates on Fort Bragg in North Carolina. The crate had a return address to Evaluators Ltd in Quantico Virginia – a weapons contractor which specialized in military and law enforcement firearms. 1952 was the year Evaluators Ltd began delivering on a contract with the US Marine Corps for the newest generation of USMC sniper rifles – a heavy barreled and accurized version of the Winchester model 70 target rifle. Per the contract, new model 70 target rifles were delivered from Winchester to Evaluators Ltd where they were modified and accurized to meet Marine Corps specifications.
Design of the rifles and oversight of the contract had been entrusted to USMC Brigadier General George Van Orden. Although retired, Van Orden was a natural choice to be brought back for this oversight role. 10 years earlier Van Orden had co-authored a Marine Corps report recommending adoption of the Model 70 rifle and the Unertl 8X scope for military use in WWII. While the intent of this 1942 report was ultimately unsuccessful and the Marines never did authorize the model 70 for combat use during WWII*, Van Orden’s place and influence over the future of USMC snipers had been established. Following the unsuccessful 1942 recommendation, Van Orden was tasked with establishing the training program for USMC snipers and ultimately put in charge of the rifles they would use. As a result, Van Orden became known as “the father of Marine Corps snipers” and this new rifle from Evaluators Ltd became known as “the Van Orden sniper rifle”.
*Although not authorized for combat duty during WWII, some model 70s did make it into theater with USMC snipers. You can read about those rifles and their story HERE.
A USMC “Van Orden” Sniper Rifle
The barreled action of the Van Orden sniper rifle was identical to a Winchester model 70 target rifle. This included the stripper-clip slot, specially tuned and ‘T’ marked trigger, as well as the 24-inch medium-heavy contour target barrel hand-lapped and chambered in .30-06 Springfield. The rifle featured a Lyman 48 WH receiver sight, Lyman 77 front sight, and Winchester scope blocks ready to accept a Lyman STS target scope, as recommended by Evaluators Ltd. The stock was similar to a straight comb standard rifle stock, including the “claw” style Winchester steel buttplate. It differed from the standard rifle stock in that it was uncheckered and the stock geometry was adjusted to fit a shooter more like the Springfield 03A3 match rifles – the drop of the stock was reduced and the pitch was increased, resulting in a slightly shorter length of pull than a standard model 70 stock. The actions were hand-fitted into the stocks, which were finished with boiled linseed oil rather than the lacquer acetate used on the civilian model 70. A variation of the Van Orden rifle was also produced with a marksman style stock. This second style of Van Orden rifle was called the “SPECIAL TARGET” model.
A Van Orden Sniper Rifle in the Special Target Configuration
For Robert Gates, the crate delivered to his quarters in July of 1952 did not contain a rifle issued to him by the military. Instead, his was among about 90 Van Orden rifles which were special ordered by private individuals. We don’t know a lot about Gates, other than his address was on Fort Bragg and that he must have been very aware of the military procurement of model 70 sniper rifles. We conclude this because his rifle was delivered very early in the production run of Van Orden rifles, which began in March of 1952 and ran through 1959. It is very likely Gates was not only member of the US military, but involved with a sniper unit or marksmanship team. Whatever the case, the arrival of this rifle at Gates’ quarters represented both intimate knowledge of the world of military sniper rifles and also a considerable commitment to owning the rifle. The rifle had cost Gates north of $200, which in today’s dollars was a sum of money more than 10 times that amount – a sizable investment for a man on military pay.
As Gates opened the crate, inside and wrapped in heavy cosmoline-impregnated paper was a new Van Orden rifle in the “SPECIAL TARGET” configuration. The serial number was 220619. Gates quickly checked to confirm his rifle had one unique feature he had special ordered for his rifle – a stainless steel barrel finished in Winchester’s distinct silvery satin “iron plate” bluing, rather than the standard chromoly steel barrel. The rifle was exactly what he had ordered and everything he had hoped it would be.
Until yesterday I could only imagine Gates’ excitement as he opened the crate and first laid eyes and hands on what he knew was truly a one of a kind rifle. Last night I was able to experience a bit of what Gates must have felt after a special delivery arrived here at pre64win.com. Inside was serial number 220619, still in the same pristine new condition as when Gates first received it. It is unknown why Gates would purchase this rifle at such great cost and then never use it, but 220619 is still completely mint, appearing to have never been used – the rifle is absolutely breathtaking.
I have included a few photos of Van Orden #220619 below, but you can view many detailed photos of the rifle at the listing on our website, which I have linked HERE.
The rifle is not yet for sale, as we intend to study it further and fully document it before making it available for sale later this year. In the meanwhile, we hope you have enjoyed taking a look at this truly remarkable part of the Winchester model 70’s history.
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Mitosis is one way biological cells replicate. During mitosis, a single cell splits into two identical cells. In single-celled organisms, mitosis is the only viable form of reproduction. In complex organisms, mitosis is responsible for repairing damaged tissues and helping an organism grow.
In a single-celled organism, such as an amoeba, mitosis is how the cell reproduces. This asexual reproduction is also how many cells within a complex organism, such as a human, create new cells. Mitosis happens through five distinct phases: prophase, prometaphase, metaphase, anaphase and telophase. During prophase, the cell's DNA material -- the chromosomes -- becomes visible. In prometaphase, the cell's nuclear membrane dissolves, allowing the chromosomes to move. By metaphase, the chromosomes are perfectly lined up in the middle of the cell. During anaphase, the chromosomes split in two and are pulled to opposite ends of the cell. Finally, in telophase, each set of chromosomes is surrounded by a new nucleus, and the cell begins to cleave in half. Through a process known as cytokinesis, the single cell breaks apart into two identical cells, completing the reproduction.
As plants and animals age, most also grow in size. Mitosis creates the cells necessary to add more mass to the body, as well as more cells to cope with the growth, such as new blood cells. It should be noted that not all cells in the human body undergo mitosis or other forms of reproduction. Nerves and muscle cells do not. After the body has made enough nerve and muscle cells, it does not have a mechanism in place to make any more.
When an organism is injured, mitosis occurs to replace the damaged cells. This repair is especially important for skin and blood vessels, which protect and oxygenate muscles and organs in the body. Mitosis also helps replace blood lost through a wound. In certain organisms, like lizards, mitosis can replace entire lost limbs such as tails or legs.
Errors in Mitosis
Because mitosis is so important to the repair and growth of cells in the body, when problems occur, they are serious in nature. One major complication of faulty mitosis is cancer. Mutations in DNA can occur during the mitosis process, and if they aren't caught, cancerous cells can arise. Mitosis errors can also occur during the development of a fetus, leading to chromosomal disorders such as Down syndrome and Turner syndrome.
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An avid lover of science and health, Meg Michelle began writing professionally about science and fitness in 2007. She holds a bachelor’s degree in physics from Creighton University and master’s degree in science writing from Johns Hopkins. Her work has appeared in publications such as EARTH Magazine. | https://sciencing.com/three-primary-purposes-mitosis-8374117.html | fineweb | 577 |
Due to the ubiquitous nature of social media, pastors and church leaders live and minister in a world of carefully crafted sound bites and heaping amounts of hype. While social media outlets such as Twitter and Facebook are incredible tools for church leaders to use for social connections, they also have reinforced and expanded the cult of celebrity within the church. After coming home from preaching and ministering on Sundays to a sometimes enthusiastic but often listless crowd, it has become a maddening ritual to scroll through the pastors I follow on Twitter to live vicariously through them and hear of their herculean exploits. I’m hardly ever disappointed with the show. Invariably the Sunday Twitterverse is pulsating with electric reports of record crowds, messages that never miss their mark, and limitless kingdom expansion. The result is that these paragons of church leadership are exalted, in my estimation, even more. However, everything is not always as it seems.
Ours is not the first generation to be captivated by celebrity pastors. The ancient church in Corinth had its own cult of celebrity with leaders such as Paul, Apollos, and Peter on the marquee (1 Cor. 3:3-4, 21-22). In seeking to warn the Corinthians against their factious spirit, the apostle Paul reminds them that the ministers who are so elevated in their sight are servants. Servants can plant and water, but only God can give the increase (1 Cor. 3:6-7). Therefore, it is not the “Preachers of Corinth” that deserve the praise but Christ, who makes things grow.
In our day, Paul, Peter, and Apollos have been replaced by a myriad of influential pastors from different movements. What has not changed is that Jesus is still the only one that makes things grow. Therefore, He deserves the applause, not His servants. Paul is so adamant about this point because the Corinthians do not see things very clearly. What looks like success and victory to them, may in fact, not be a success at all. Everything is not always as it seems.
Paul goes on to compare church leaders to builders (1 Cor. 3:9). As a master builder, Paul has laid an expert foundation. It is now up to the builders who follow him to build on this foundation using only quality materials (1 Cor. 3:10-11). Unfortunately for the Corinthians, their spiritual immaturity rendered them incapable of discerning the true nature of the building materials. Consequently, their elevation of certain personalities was premature and not founded upon anything other than their own foolish, sensual, and worldly wisdom, a wisdom that Christ disdains (1 Cor. 3:19). Everything is not always as it seems.
The contemporary church seems to suffer from this same malady. Western virtues such as expediency and pragmatism have taught us to look to size and influence as the primary indicators of success. It only stands to reason that bigger will always be better in such a cultural zeitgeist, and style will always trump substance. If size is indeed king, then it is little wonder church leaders obsess so about numbers. For many church leaders, the end justifies the means, so that very little thought is given to the quality of materials with which one is building. Consequently, the same sensual, foolish, and worldly wisdom operating in Corinth worms its way into our churches and is baptized as godly ambition. The ultimate danger of such a paradigm is that our church, like the church in Sardis, will have a reputation for being alive, but in fact, be dead (Rev. 3:1). Everything is not always as it seems.
Paul instructs the Corinthians that it is premature to tell who is successful and who is not because the Day has not yet come. Looking out across the eschatological horizon, Paul sees the arrival of the Day of Judgment, in which the work of each builder will be tested (1 Cor. 3:13). The builders who have used quality materials will see their work survive, but those who have built with inferior materials will see their work incinerated. The builders themselves will be saved, but their work will perish (1 Cor. 3:14-15). The emphasis here is upon the fact that the Corinthians can’t know whose work will be lost and whose will survive. Therefore, it is foolish for them to exalt individuals.
A few years ago, a middle-aged Scottish woman named Susan Boyle became a Youtube sensation overnight. Appearing on the TV show “Britain’s Got Talent,” Susan’s plain look and unfashionable style elicited much jeering and snickering among the audience and the judges’ wholesale dismissal of her as a serious talent. Nevertheless, when she opened her mouth and began to sing, an audible gasp filled the auditorium, as both the judges and audience were shocked and spellbound. After her performance, Susan was given a rousing standing ovation. Upon admitting their preconceived prejudices based on her appearance, all three judges gave her high marks. Susan Boyle was a feel-good story, but she also revealed a significant flaw in contemporary culture. Far too often, we make judgments based on externals.
This is not only true in the culture, but in the church as well. Ministry celebrities are held up to church leaders like Moses held up the ancient serpent on a pole beckoning for the beleaguered to look and live. Unfortunately, many weary church leaders, in a desperate attempt to see some measure of progress in their efforts to construct a shrine to the eternal, employ the recommended building materials without critically thinking through the nature and quality of the materials. Thus, a building may indeed be constructed of which the world marvels, but if the metals have not been tested and proven, the structure will ultimately collapse, and the fall of that house will be great!
The problem is not the celebrities themselves. Many of them have not plotted their popularity and seek to wield their influence in a godly, humble, and kingdom-oriented manner. The problem is that the church has assimilated the spirit of the world and is operating by the dictates of Satan’s kingdom rather than as an outpost of God’s kingdom, which is governed by radically different principles. This is the heart of Paul’s warning to the Corinthians: the spirit of the age had hoodwinked them into believing that God’s kingdom operates by the same principles as Satan’s.
Ultimately, true kingdom success is measured by quality rather than quantity. Accordingly, some guy pastoring fifty people in Sioux Pass, South Dakota who has never spoken at a Christian conference, published a book, or been elected to a denominational office is likely to receive more commendation from Christ on the Day than many of the celebrities the church holds in highest admiration. However, such a revelation should never serve as a legitimate excuse for perpetual stagnant ministries and barren churches. Paul emphasizes that God does indeed want things to grow, though the means and quality of that growth is the point of contention.
So then, considering Paul’s warning, how should church leaders respond? First, church leaders must respond with humility. Since neither the one who plants nor the one who waters are anything, it behooves church leaders to not think more highly of themselves than they ought. Realizing that God alone is the one that makes things grow should drive the church leader to depend less on self and more on Christ. The position of humility is a much-needed antidote to the celebrity mentality that has infiltrated the contemporary church. Jesus Himself was the ultimate example of humility. During His earthly ministry, He was a rock star! Multitudes followed Him and hung on His every word. Yet when one of the adoring masses called Him a “Good Teacher,” immediately Jesus gave glory to the Father (Matt. 19:16). When the crowds sought to make Him king, He hid from them (John 6:15). He embodied the kind of leader God desires by taking up the towel and washing the feet of His disciples (John 13:1-17).
The greatest need of the twenty-first-century church is servant leaders who focus more on towels than titles, more on the one than the crowd. When a leader humbles himself with the low posture of a servant, he can be blessed by God (Luke 14:11; James 4:6; 1 Pet. 5:6). Humility is, in fact, one of the keys to reaching the elusive Millennial Generation. Recently, while engaging in some reverse mentoring with a Millennial, I was fascinated to discover the emphasis this generation places upon humility and transparency. This generation can detect slick marketing and celebrity wannabes in an instant and are repelled by it. The only way the church is going to reach this generation is by ministering with humility.
The posture of humility also helps us to rest in God’s sovereign care and providence. If God is the one who makes things grow, then the pressure is off! Several years ago, I heard Larry Osborne say that the most spiritual thing church leaders can do is to take a nap. The rationale is that pastors and church leaders can only plant the seed and cultivate the field. The size of the crop is not up to them. We can prepare the horse for battle, but the victory belongs to the Lord! (Prov. 21:31).
In addition to humility, the church leader’s response should be one of hope. Pastors in America are experiencing burnout in epidemic proportions. Some estimates are that as many as 1,500 pastors each month are leaving the ministry. Pastors who are leaving have lost hope that God is at work in their church or their ministry. Could it be that a primary reason pastors are leaving is that they have been sold a false bill of goods of success? When a pastor or church leader does not see visible signs of success and constant friction and criticism, escape becomes an attractive and seemingly life-saving maneuver. I contend that the rise of the celebrity church culture has hastened this crisis. When all struggling pastors ever see are success stories paraded in front of them through publications, conferences, and social media outlets, they begin to feel inadequate, worthless, and even begin to doubt their call. The only hope for church leaders who are faced with such overwhelming discouragement is to return to a realistic biblical model of ministry.
In his provocative book “Under the Unpredictable Plant,” Eugene Peterson describes the plague of “ministry porn” among pastors. “Ministry porn” stimulates many pastors through its unrealistic, glossy portrayal of ministry without warts and blemishes of real congregations. Therefore, when the idealized ministry is cruelly crushed by the realities of dealing with broken people and the opposition of dark powers, pastors run for the hills. Paul understood the potential for such ministry idolatry and are reminded by the Corinthians that each minister has a role to play on God’s team. There is only one superstar in the church, and His name is Jesus! Everyone else is just a role player.
The truth is pastors tend to lose hope when they see themselves as more than a role players. When this happens, pastors take on more responsibility than they should, resulting in disappointment and disillusionment. Understanding one’s role on the team allows the focus and praise to be deflected from individuals and heaped upon Christ where it belongs. Our hope is not in the role we play but in the One who has assigned us the role. If we ever get this fact inverted, we will never be healthy or effective as leaders in Christ’s church.
In conclusion, it is not the quantity of materials that is the primary indicator of a healthy and successful church but the quality of materials. The Day is coming, and every pastor’s work will be tested. Will your work survive?
Chris McMillan has served in pastoral ministry for the past 27+ years, with the last 22 as a senior pastor at churches in North Carolina, Maryland, and currently at Providence Baptist Church in Gloucester, Virginia. He holds an M.A.T.S. from Liberty University and a D.Ed.Min from the The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. Chris also serves as a global trainer with International Training and Equipping Ministries whose vision is to provide non-formal theological and practical leadership training to pastors in Africa. Chris has been married for 27 years to Allison and they have a daughter Carissa who is 16 and a son Nathan who is in heaven. | https://servantsofgrace.org/dont-believe-the-hype-why-your-church-might-not-be-as-great-as-you-think/ | fineweb | 2,682 |
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Views are essential for luxury home buyers — and one particular property is taking that fact to a whole new level.
A six-bedroom, nine-bathroom villa in Egypt features rare views overlooking one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World.
Spanning more than 32,000-square-feet, the home has just hit the market for $7.24 million, and it comes with unobstructed vistas of the Great Pyramids of Giza.
The French Renaissance-inspired property is situated on 1.68 acres of land. Named Eden Rock, the estate is located within walking distance from New Giza, an up-and-coming area in west Cairo, the listing notes.
Spread over two levels, the property “allows for unmatched scenic views from every corner.”
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Luxury high-end finishes include a wall of marble over the fireplace, a spiral staircase with a reflective sculpture and an eat-in kitchen with an island in the shape of a half-circle, with pendant lighting and bespoke cabinetry.
There’s also “a vast garden” with a dining area next to the “swimming pool area [that] gives access to an incomparable front row view of the pyramids; right from your backyard,” the listing adds.
Rym Walid with Egypt’s Sotheby’s International Realty holds the listing. They did not return The Post’s request for comment. | https://sgarealestates.com/2022/09/27/mansion-with-rare-view-of-the-pyramids-of-giza-has-listed-for-7-2m/ | fineweb | 308 |
There has been a lot of discussion about the “Green New Deal” proposed by several Democrats. Critics have pooh-poohed it as “pie in the sky,” while others have praised it for setting high aspirations.
It’s really just a set of goals, not a really specific program for how to achieve those goals. The resolution calls for a “10-year national mobilization” to work toward the end goal of ending greenhouse gas emissions and replacing all of our energy production with renewable sources. In order to keep the rise in global temperatures at 1.5% or lower, it sets these goals:
(A) global reductions in greenhouse gas emissions from human sources of 40 to 60 percent from 2010 levels by 2030; and
(B) net-zero global emissions by 2050;
This doesn’t seem all that far-fetched to me. What I have long called for is a national program similar to the Tennessee Valley Authority project, which was a huge push from the federal government to electrify rural areas in that valley. It should be the policy of the government to invest enormous resources in the development of new renewable energy technologies (principally solar and wind), better battery storage and to replace the current electric grid with modern technology.
As Brayton points out, the measure also calls for conservation– especially through the upgrading of older buildings and building new ones with energy efficiency in mind.
At this point, the Green New Deal is primarily symbolic; its passage would signal recognition of the threat that climate change poses, and America’s determination to do everything we can to ameliorate that threat. Recent scientific reports have underlined the immediacy of the damage being done by a warming earth: insects are disappearing; oceans are warming and rising, contributing to extreme weather events; coral reefs are disappearing…the list goes on.
In a time of significant political polarization, climate change is the common enemy: we really are all in this together. At the very least, our quarreling and hostile tribes should be able to come together to combat the changes that threaten the planet. And as the U.N. Report makes clear, those changes are on our doorstep.
Oceans have warmed, the amounts of snow and ice have diminished and the sea level has risen. From 1901 to 2010, the global average sea level rose by 19 cm as oceans expanded due to warming and ice melted. The sea ice extent in the Arctic has shrunk in every successive decade since 1979, with 1.07 × 106 km² of ice loss per decade.
Given current concentrations and ongoing emissions of greenhouse gases, it is likely that the end of this century that global mean temperature will continue to rise above the pre-industrial leve. The world’s oceans will warm and ice melt will continue. Average sea level rise is predicted to be 24–30 cm by 2065 and 40–63 cm by 2100 relative to the reference period of 1986–2005. Most aspects of climate change will persist for many centuries, even if emissions are stopped.
There is alarming evidence that important tipping points, leading to irreversible changes in major ecosystems and the planetary climate system, may already have been reached or passed. Ecosystems as diverse as the Amazon rainforest and the Arctic tundra, may be approaching thresholds of dramatic change through warming and drying. Mountain glaciers are in alarming retreat and the downstream effects of reduced water supply in the driest months will have repercussions that transcend generations.
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The other day on Facebook, Jody posted a link to this Think Geek T-Shirt:
My first thought was “Ooh!” My second thought was “Lazlo Hollyfeld…” Even in my brain it was a reverent whisper. Lazlo is never far from the front of my consciousness. Appearing, and disappearing, in Martha Coolidge’s epic love letter to smart people, Real Genius, Lazlo was one of the, if not THE, best peripheral characters in Slumber Party Movie history.
A former student at Cal Tech (oops, I mean Pacific Tech), Lazlo Hollyfeld was the star super-duper smart guy until the pressure of all that crushing academia, and the weight of his own impossibly-smart thoughts, imploded in a freak-out break-down so severe, it made this one look like the world’s tiniest foot stomp from a mildly annoyed titmouse:
A break-down that sent Lazlo scuttling about the labyrinth of tunnels beneath Cal (I mean Pacific) Tech, like a less-sexy Phantom of the Opera or a slightly more-sexy Gollum*, scamming the good folks at Frito Lay and serving as a walking, skulking cautionary tale to the super-duper smarteratti upper level dwellers. Sometimes literally, as in this scene where Lazlo softly hammers home the lesson we should all learn from Real Genius (which is either “just because you can do it, doesn’t mean you should” or “lasers are bad”).
And then there was WHAT HAPPENED to Lazlo. What? No, he didn’t become Uncle Rico. You’re thinking about what happened to Jon Gries, not Lazlo Hollyfeld–which was kind of a surprise and kind of not, as long as you paid attention to the trail of smarties that Coolidge left for us. Fair warning. Don’t watch the following if you want to follow that trail for yourself:
Which leads to the real super-secret message of Real Genius. Smart guys get laid too.
* My complete list of every character in pop culture by order of sexiness will be posted soon after my oft-rescheduled nervous breakdown. | https://slumberpartymovies.com/2012/09/04/lazlo-hollyfeld/?replytocom=12479 | fineweb | 475 |
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Patrick W. Lawler is chief executive officer of Youth Villages, one of the largest private providers of services to troubled children and their families in the country. Under his leadership, Youth Villages has established an array of specialized treatment programs operated by an effective team of more than 3,000 employees in 85 locations across 19 states and the District of Columbia. Youth Villages’ mission is to help children and families live successfully.
Since 1980, Mr. Lawler has served as CEO of Youth Villages, which has grown from serving 25 youth to offering hope to more than 30,000 children and families each year. With an emphasis on the importance of family, program intensity, outcome measurement, community-based services and being accountable to families and funders.
In 2006, U.S. News & World Report recognized Mr. Lawler as one of “America’s Best Leaders” in conjunction with the Center for Public Leadership at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government.
In 2009, Harvard Business School completed a case study examining Youth Villages’ growth and impact, and exploring the organization’s innovative treatment approach, use of research in program development and targeted growth strategies. The case was written for inclusion in an HBS course called “Leading and Governing Highly Effective Nonprofit Organizations,” which teaches what it takes to be an organization that does innovative and highly effective work. Mr. Lawler is a frequent guest lecturer at Harvard Business School and Columbia University about the Youth Villages approach.
Also in 2009, the White House cited Youth Villages as an example of “effective, innovative non-profits” that are “high-impact, result-oriented” organizations. The White House listed Youth Villages with three other organizations that offer “promising ideas that are transforming communities.”
Mr. Lawler’s entire career has been spent working with society’s most vulnerable children. He began as a counselor at Tall Trees Guidance School when he was 18 years old and then worked at the Juvenile Court of Memphis and Shelby County for five years before becoming CEO of Youth Villages.
Headquartered in Memphis, Youth Villages offers help and hope to over 30,000 emotionally troubled children and their families each year from 85 locations in 19 states and the District of Columbia. Founded in 1980, the nonprofit organization offers intensive in-home services, residential treatment, foster care and adoption, transitional living services, mentoring and crisis services. Youth Villages employs more than 3,000 people and has drawn national recognition due to its use of clinically proven treatment models that produce industry-leading success rates.
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There are some funny stereotypes around women and money. The ladies have traditionally been seen as the sensible keepers of the household budget. But at the same time they’re often caricatured as incurable spendthrifts when it comes to shoes or handbags.
But a new survey follows others that have shown the former is the truth, not the latter. According to a study conducted by UK brokerage eToro, husbands no longer have a reason to blame their wives for the drop in the communal savings pot, as women are in fact, better at keeping track of their spending.
The survey of 2,000 adults found women had a better grip on how to manage their money and were far more likely to know exactly how much was in their savings and current accounts. Men were the ones more likely to pull out the credit card and purchase something on impulse.
The same survey also revealed that a surprising 15 per cent of people had absolutely no idea of their bank balance. But on the plus side, 41 per cent claimed they did their best to manage their funds by regularly setting a budget.
Despite the long-running silly spender stereotype, that women are better than men when it comes to managing money isn’t a particularly new one. Research from 2014 found men typically built up significantly more debt than women.
The research conducted by credit-scoring giant Experian and published by US financial house Bankrate said this was due to the fact that men tended to wait much longer than women to ask for help when in financial difficulty, in the meantime spiralling further into debt.
Th researchers found that 5.7 percent of men fell 60 days or more behind on their mortgage payments, against 5.3 percent of women. Bankrate attributed this to the fact that women were often the ones keeping an eye on the family’s funds because they were responsible for paying the bills and purchasing household items
“We often see the women will do almost anything to keep the household afloat,” American Financial Solutions credit counsellor Lea Loethen told Bankrate. “He, on the other hand, seemed to wait to seek help until just before the creditors showed up at the door.”
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The U-13 All Stars of the St. Croix American Youth Soccer Organization are holding a bake sales at Sunny Isle Shopping Center, next to Banco Popular, to help them get to the Florida State games in January.
BAKE SALE TO FUND FLORIDA SOCCER TRIP
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What would happen if I drank rubbing alcohol? Isopropyl alcohol is also extremely irritating to the digestive tract. Drinking a lot of it can cause vomiting, diarrhea, pain, and bleeding in the stomach and intestines. This can lead to dehydration, low blood pressure, shock, and coma. Rubbing alcohol can also be toxic when inhaled.
Can smelling rubbing alcohol harm you? ► Inhaling Isopropyl Alcohol can irritate the nose and throat. ► Repeated high exposure can cause headache, dizziness, confusion, loss of coordination, unconsciousness and even death.
Can you get drunk from inhaling isopropyl alcohol? Alcohol can be absorbed into your bloodstream by inhaling alcohol vapors. People who inhale alcohol vapors get drunk very quickly, because the alcohol goes straight to the brain.
How much isopropyl is toxic to humans? According to Livestrong.org, “The approximate lethal dose of 90 to 100 percent isopropanol for human adults is only 250 milliliters, or about 8 ounces.” Eight ounces. To put it in perspective: the average shot glass is 1.5 ounces. A can of Coke is 12 ounces. Ingesting only eight ounces of rubbing alcohol can kill you.
- 1 What would happen if I drank rubbing alcohol? – Additional Questions
- 1.1 Can inhaling rubbing alcohol hurt your lungs?
- 1.2 Can I put rubbing alcohol in my nose?
- 1.3 Why do I keep smelling rubbing alcohol?
- 1.4 Is smelling rubbing alcohol good for nausea?
- 1.5 What happens if you inhale hand sanitizer fumes?
- 1.6 Can I put rubbing alcohol in my humidifier?
- 1.7 Can rubbing alcohol trigger asthma?
- 1.8 Is Coke good for asthma?
- 1.9 Which alcohol is good for lungs?
- 1.10 Can sanitizer affect your lungs?
- 1.11 Can you drink sanitizer to get drunk?
- 1.12 Can sniffing hand sanitizer get u high?
- 1.13 Is it safe to eat food after using hand sanitizer?
- 1.14 Is it OK to put hand sanitizer on a cut?
- 1.15 How much hand sanitizer is lethal?
- 1.16 What happens if you lick your hand after using hand sanitizer?
- 1.17 Is it OK to let your dog lick your hand?
- 1.18 What is the difference between hand sanitizer and rubbing alcohol?
- 1.19 Should you wash your hands after a dog licks you?
- 1.20 Can dogs give themselves oral?
- 1.21 Should you let a dog sleep in your bed?
What would happen if I drank rubbing alcohol? – Additional Questions
Can inhaling rubbing alcohol hurt your lungs?
Inhaling large amounts of isopropyl alcohol can cause nausea, vomiting, irritation of the nose and mucous membranes, throat irritations, and even difficulty with breathing as coughing can occur making it difficult for you to catch your breath.
Can I put rubbing alcohol in my nose?
Rubbing (isopropyl) alcohol is irritating to the mucus membranes of the nose, its vapor is irritating, and it is modestly toxic if swallowed.
Why do I keep smelling rubbing alcohol?
An olfactory hallucination (phantosmia) makes you detect smells that aren’t really there in your environment. The odors you notice in phantosmia are different from person to person and may be foul or pleasant. You may notice the smells in one or both nostrils.
Is smelling rubbing alcohol good for nausea?
Two trials with about 200 nonpregnant adults presenting to the ED found inhaled (smelling) isopropyl alcohol improved mild to moderate nausea and vomiting. For example, after 30 minutes the nausea score improved from 50 out of 100 to 20 with inhaled isopropyl alcohol versus 40 with oral ondansetron.
What happens if you inhale hand sanitizer fumes?
If you inhale hand sanitizer you may develop chemical burns on the insides of your nose. Short-term abuse of hand sanitizer may lead to allergy-like symptoms, while long-term abuse often results in permanent damage to mucous membranes and a loss of smell.
Can I put rubbing alcohol in my humidifier?
Rubbing Alcohol Humidifier Cleaner
Use this cloth to wipe all the parts other than the filter and leave them to dry on a clean towel. Cleaning a humidifier filter with any cleaning agent, including alcohol, is not advised. Pour the alcohol into the water tank and leave it for half an hour.
Can rubbing alcohol trigger asthma?
Some people are sensitive to substances contained in alcohol which are known to trigger asthma symptoms. These are called histamines and sulphites. Histamine is a natural food and drink chemical. It’s the same substance that’s released in your body when you have an allergic reaction.
Is Coke good for asthma?
An older study suggests that caffeine may have beneficial effects on asthma symptoms. The study showed that consuming small amounts of caffeine could improve lung function for up to 4 hours.
Which alcohol is good for lungs?
Drinking Wine, Particularly White Wine, May Help Keep Lungs Healthy, University At Buffalo Study Finds. Summary: Drinking wine appears to be good for the lungs, a University at Buffalo study has shown, and in this case, the primary credit goes to white wine rather than red.
Can sanitizer affect your lungs?
Respiratory conditions – Inhaling small particles of disinfectants meant for cleaning surfaces can cause coughing and may impair respiratory functions.
Can you drink sanitizer to get drunk?
Liquid hand sanitizer is 62 to 65 percent ethyl alcohol, or ethanol, the main ingredient in beer, wine and spirits, making it 120-proof. To compare, a bottle of vodka is 80-proof. “A few swallows is all it takes to get a person to get the intoxicated effects of alcohol,” Rangan said.
Can sniffing hand sanitizer get u high?
“You don’t get high from this. It will make the lining of your nose tingle and you may get a little bit dizzy just from the alcohol fumes, but as far as getting a high off of it, it will not happen,” said Melynn Huntley, Director of Safe Schools at AISD.
Is it safe to eat food after using hand sanitizer?
Drinking even a small amount of hand sanitizer can cause alcohol poisoning in children. (But there is no need to be concerned if your children eat with or lick their hands after using hand sanitizer.)
Is it OK to put hand sanitizer on a cut?
Is alcohol-based hand sanitiser safe? Alcohol-based hand sanitiser is safe when used correctly. You should use hand sanitiser to clean your hands when you cannot use soap and water. Never put hand gel into your mouth or into open wounds and do not use it on delicate skin like your face.
How much hand sanitizer is lethal?
Ingestion of as little as an ounce or two by a small child could be fatal. Hand sanitizers should be kept well out of reach of children at all times, and used only with careful adult supervision.
What happens if you lick your hand after using hand sanitizer?
Though a tiny amount of hand sanitizer that may have been licked from your hands is unlikely to cause you to become ill, ingesting more than a taste could put you at risk for alcohol poisoning.
Is it OK to let your dog lick your hand?
If you don’t mind a little slobber it is totally okay to let your dog lick your hands. You should not punish your dog for licking you. If you punish your dog for licking it is similar to pushing away a partner or child who wants to give you a hug or kiss.
What is the difference between hand sanitizer and rubbing alcohol?
The Differences between Alcohol Based Hand Sanitizer and Non-Alcohol Based Hand Sanitizer. As obvious as it may sound, the main difference is the alcohol content. Alcohol is often found in hand sanitizers due to its antiseptic qualities which can effectively kill bacteria and germs found on hands.
Should you wash your hands after a dog licks you?
You should also wash your hands right after a dog licks them, or at least before touching your face and eating, since this is another way that pathogens can enter your body. “It doesn’t matter if it’s your dog or someone else’s that licked you, you should still wash your face and hands after,” Reynolds says.
Can dogs give themselves oral?
Mounting, thrusting (humping) and masturbation are normal behaviors exhibited by most dogs. Dogs masturbate in various ways. They mount and thrust against other animals, people and objects, such as wadded-up blankets, dog beds and toys.
Should you let a dog sleep in your bed?
“A dog should not sleep in your bed until it is crate trained and potty trained,” says Derick Lengemann, VMD at Lakewood Veterinary Hospital, Mooresville, North Carolina. “Consistency is key to potting training. A puppy won’t go to the bathroom in its crate because it can’t get away from it and they like to be clean. | https://theinteriorevolution.com/what-would-happen-if-i-drank-rubbing-alcohol/ | fineweb | 2,058 |
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As most of the international stars do to release their work, Lara Scandar, the Egyptian Star Academy 6 graduate and promising singer, officially released her first CD named “Mission is You” on February 3rd, 2010 in a signing ceremony that took place at Virgin Megastores Cairo, Egypt.
In addition to her family and friends, the event was attended by hundreds of fans who came from different Egyptian cities and even from different countries to witness this special moment. Previous Star Academy title winners Mohamed Attia (Starac 1) and Nader Quirat (Starac 5) were there too to share this moment with Lara Scandar while Mohamad Bash, Ibrahim Dashti, Mohamed Sirag and other Star Ac graduates joined next day to celebrate Lara’s launch in a very private party.
Based on the concept of the red carpet, the place was mostly coloured in red with a small stage for Lara to perform her song “Mission is You” and her poster all over the place. Lara appeared with the well-known producer of her first CD, Jean-Marie Riachi and both of them answered all the questions of the fans and the media representatives. Lara signed her CD and took some photos with her fans. The event was covered by many TV channels like Orbit, OTV, Melody and others. The clip has been broadcasted for the first time on February 4th, 2010 on Melody Channel. There is also news about Lara’s ‘Mission is You’ tour in which Lara will perform in Dubai and Beirut followed by personal appearances at Virgin Megastores but no confirmed dates have been published yet.
Jean-Marie Riachi explained how he saw the ingredients of a real star (Talent, Voice, Stage Charisma & Confidence) in Lara’s performance during Star Academy and that is why he wanted to work with her. Lara explained how remarkable it is to work with a legendry award winning composer, arranger & producer like Jean-Marie Riachi needless to mention the rest of the team.
The CD includes three versions of the song: the original, urban mix and instrumental. On her first CD, Lara wrote: “First and foremost thank you God for blessing me with the most supportive family & friends. Thank you to my parents and sister who have pushed me to be the best I can be. Thank you to my friend and the person who made this all happen Jean-Marie Riachi. To everyone who believed in me, thank you and for everyone who said I couldn't make it ... thank you even more for giving me the push I needed. Finally, thank you to my fans who have supported me through it all... To my angel.. I'm doing this for you ....“Believe and be free” – Lara”
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Greetings from Mount St. Helens
Our 4th of July road trip got off to an amazing start today. We were out the door by 9am, grabbed a few donuts and hit the road. The weather could not have been better. What a way to kick off the summer holiday.
Mount St. Helens was not only impressive but also a whole lot of fun for our entire family. Dek could not have been more excited to see his 3rd ever volcano. In fact, we realized we all will be seeing 4 volcanos this year. Can you guess which ones?
Our journey continues tomorrow as we explore the Oregon coast. I will have lots of stories to tell in the coming weeks.
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'This American Life' Retracts Apple Story
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The public radio show THIS AMERICAN LIFE has retracted a lengthy story it ran in January. The report painted an ugly picture of working conditions at Chinese factories where they manufacture iPhones and iPads. The story focused on a monologue told by performer and activist Mike Daisey about his interviews with factory workers. NPR's media correspondent David Folkenflik joins me now. And, David, this was THIS AMERICAN LIFE's most popular podcast. How are they explaining their decision to retract the story?
DAVID FOLKENFLIK, BYLINE: Well, I think it's worth starting by taking a moment from the broadcast itself. THIS AMERICAN LIFE, produced by our colleagues over at WBEZ Chicago Public Radio. Here's Mike Daisey. He's talking a little bit about what he found when he was in China and let's play that clip for a moment.
MIKE DAISEY: The problem is that n-hexane is a potent neurotoxin and all these people have been exposed. Their hands shake uncontrollably. Most of them can't even pick up a glass. I talked to people whose joints in their hands have disintegrated from working on the line, doing the same motion hundreds and hundreds of thousands of times. It's like carpal tunnel on a scale we can scarcely imagine.
And you need to know that this is eminently avoidable.
FOLKENFLIK: So that very segment prompted questions, among others, from Marketplace's Rob Schmitz. He's a correspondent for Marketplace American Public Media over in China and he's done a lot of reporting on this and related issues and it struck him that, actually, the people who had worked in plants were manufacturing items for Apple who had been poisoned by that element that Daisey was talking so compellingly about were actually about 1,000 miles away.
And he started raising questions. One of them was solved by just doing a Google search. He looked for a translator that Daisey had sworn to producers over at THIS AMERICAN LIFE could no longer be reached. You know, Rob did this Google search, found her within less than a minute online and was able to call and start challenging a lot of the assertions she made. A lot of the claims started to unspool.
BLOCK: Well, Mike Daisey had previously presented his findings about Apple as fact. What does he say now?
FOLKENFLIK: That's right. I mean, he's not only been a performer on this, but an activist stirring calls for there to be a lot more careful observation of what Apple is up to in China. Now what he says is he stands by his work. He stands by his performance, the one man show called "The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs," which has gotten critical raves.
But he says, look, I use tools differently than those of journalism. I'm an artist. He says, so he regrets that he allowed THIS AMERICAN LIFE to air an excerpt from his monologue, but otherwise, he says he's using a combination - and this is a quote - "of fact, memoir and dramatic license" to tell his story and he said, I believe it does so with integrity.
BLOCK: Well, he is standing by his work, but THIS AMERICAN LIFE is not. What have they said about what they're going to do?
FOLKENFLIK: Well, they're going to devote an hour long segment this weekend listeners are going to be able to hear on hundreds of stations across the country to find - to unpack what went wrong. And they actually did what Schmitz described to me as a collaboration with Marketplace of a detective work or an autopsy on their own work to figure out what they did wrong.
An impressive element of the segment when I heard it back in January was that they had done a fair amount of fact checking. In fact, the broad strokes of what Mike Daisey claimed occurred in China appears to have occurred there, but a lot of the details are wrong and it undermines a lot of his assertions.
They want to keep faith with their listeners and I think that what a lot of journalists do is not simply condemn a news organization when something like this happens, but looks to see how that outlet deals with the allegations. In this case, it appears as though THIS AMERICAN LIFE is working very hard to keep faith with its listeners once questions were raised.
BLOCK: OK. NPR's David Folkenflik, thanks very much.
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The Washington Nationals today promoted Doug Harris to Assistant General Manager and Vice President of Player Development, Kris Kline to Assistant General Manager and Vice President of Scouting Operations, Mark Scialabba to Director of Player Development, Mark Baca to National Supervisor, Jeff Zona to Special Assistant to the General Manager and Fred Costello to National Crosschecker. Nationals President of Baseball Operations and General Manager Mike Rizzo made the announcements.
Harris offers over 24 years of baseball experience and has overseen the development of the Nationals' farm system for the last four seasons. Harris came to Washington in October of 2009 after stints with Cleveland and Texas. Harris was selected by Kansas City in the fourth round of the 1990 Draft out of James Madison University and played seven professional seasons in three organizations (Royals, Orioles, Marlins).
Kline begins his fifth season as the head of Washington's amateur scouting efforts. He joined the organization in the fall of 2006 and spent his first three seasons in Washington as a special assignment scout, then as the western crosschecker. A scout for over 20 years, Kline spent the previous seven seasons with Arizona, earning a World Series ring in 2001. Before joining Arizona, Kline worked 10 seasons scouting for the Angels after completing his four-year professional playing career in their minor league system.
Scialabba joined the Nationals in 2006 and has served in his current role as Director of Minor League Operations since October of 2009. He will continue to work in conjunction with Doug Harris on all aspects of Washington's player development operation, including contracts, roster management, budgets and player personnel decisions. He graduated from Williams College in Massachusetts, where he also played baseball. Scialabba eventually earned an MBA and Masters in Sport Management at the University of Massachusetts.
Baca started with Washington in 2008, serving as an area scout covering the talent-rich region of Southern California. Baca covered that same region as an area scout for Arizona (2001-07), with whom he earned a World Series ring in 2001. Prior to his stint with Arizona, he worked for Montreal (1995-2000) and Cleveland (1993-95). Baca attended Cal State-Fullerton and was selected by the Angels in the 22nd round of the 1987 Draft.
his seventh season with Washington after joining the amateur scouting staff as the eastern crosschecker in September of 2006. He spent the 2008 and '09 campaigns as a Major League scout and became the national crosschecker following the '09 season. Zona previously spent 16 years with Boston, earning a World Series ring in 2004. Zona attended Virginia Commonwealth University and played three professional seasons with Boston and Atlanta before joining the Boston scouting staff in 1990.
Costello joined the Nationals in December of 2010 as an area scout, covering the Northwest region of the United States. Prior to joining Washington, he worked as an area scout for the Dodgers from 2008-10 and Arizona from 2000-07. Costello was drafted in the fourth round of the 1990 Draft and played 10 professional seasons in three organizations (Astros, Giants, White Sox).
Henley added to Matt Williams' staff
The Nationals have agreed to terms with Bob Henley to serve as their third base coach. With the addition of Henley, Washington's 2014 major league coaching staff is complete:
Manager: Matt Williams
Bench Coach: Randy Knorr
Hitting Coach: Rick Schu
Pitching Coach: Steve McCatty
First Base Coach: Tony Tarasco
Third Base Coach: Bob Henley
Bullpen Coach: Matt LeCroy
Defensive Coordination and Advance Coach: Mark Weidemaier
This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs. | http://washington.nationals.mlb.com/news/print.jsp?ymd=20131121&content_id=64101466&vkey=pr_was&c_id=was | fineweb | 920 |
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The Nation: Curbing Campaign Cash
The post–Citizens United drive for secret campaign money has now become an arms race. As a New York Times editorial recently noted, former White House deputy press secretary Bill Burton will be leading a group called Priorities USA to "raise unlimited money from undisclosed sources to aid in the president's re-election campaign."
We acknowledge the strong case made by many that Democrats cannot afford to cede ground in these exorbitant, no-holds-barred campaigns. But this isn't news to be welcomed by pro-democracy reformers. If Democrats seek the same kind of opaque funding they have been arguing against, their case for reform becomes morally ambiguous, at best. Instead, they should act on the overwhelming bipartisan sentiment in favor of curbing the influence of money in elections — even 62 percent of GOP voters and 60 percent of Tea Partiers agree. Democrats are already on record — unlike nearly every Republican — in support of the DISCLOSE Act, the Fair Elections Now Act and state Clean Election laws. Some are even backing a constitutional amendment to overturn the Citizens United decision, which allows corporations to spend any amount of money on campaigns.
President Obama's rhetoric on money in politics has been splendid at times — during the 2008 campaign and when criticizing Citizens United and supporting the DISCLOSE Act. But he could push harder for the Fair Elections Now Act, a presidential public financing fix, and renew his support for the DISCLOSE Act, blocked last year by a GOP filibuster. Obama should draw a stark contrast between the parties by signing a draft executive order requiring any company seeking a government contract to disclose its political giving. Not surprisingly, the GOP and its gravy train (aka the Chamber of Commerce) have retreated, vampirelike, from this little bit of sunlight, as have a few Dems. But that provides a huge opening for Obama to renew his 2008 call to change the culture of Washington. Indeed, it's not only good policy but good politics. "The bottom line is that people want a political system that is responsive to their needs," observes Nick Nyhart, president and CEO of Public Campaign. "Elected officials who stand in the way of that could pay a price down the line."
Despite clear public support for reform, conservative courts, Republican legislatures and corporate front groups are attempting to reverse hard-won gains. In Arizona GOP legislators and the Chamber of Commerce are pressing to repeal that state's effective Clean Election law, even though 77 percent of Arizonans support it. In Maine Republican Governor Paul LePage has attempted to defund his state's Clean Election law and repeal its use in governors' races, even as he has more than tripled the private contribution limit for gubernatorial candidates. Let's hope the 82 percent of Mainers who support the law have the last word.
The fight for campaign finance reform can't be separated from the fight to preserve collective bargaining rights, prevent restrictive voter ID laws and protect our tattered social safety net from deeper budget cuts. These struggles are all about power and voice in our democracy. "Our country's biggest problems won't be solved for the many if the process is fixed by the money," says Nyhart.
Instead of heading into the ditch of pay-to-play politics with the Republicans, Democrats — led by President Obama — should continue along the high road. Most Americans are already there waiting for them. Copyright 2011 The Nation. To see more, visit http://www.thenation.com/. | http://weku.fm/post/nation-curbing-campaign-cash | fineweb | 750 |
Ben Thouard recently drowned much of his equipment, including a 1D4 and 1DX plus 4 L lenses. He is trying to get Canon to help with replacement and has asked for help to popularize his plight on FB (with likes and shares) for some marketing numbers to convince Canon to help him.
While I'm surprised that with nearly 20K of equipment, Ben didn't have any insurance to cover the equipment. Would anyone take that risk? Terrestrial shooters I can understand, but anyone shooting in water constantly, it would seem an oversight. But nonetheless, here's my bit to help a fellow photographer out:
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Katie Rose Clarke and Kyle Dean Massey return to Munchkinland this fall via the ‘Wicked’ national tour. Clarke, will reprise her performance as Glinda while Massey will once again play Fiyero, roles they have respectively played in Broadway. Their first performance will be in the tour’s Cincinnati stop from November 15 to 26, 2011, at the Procter and Gamble Hall at the Aranoff Center for the Arts.
Apart from the Broadway production of ‘Wicked’, Clarke also appeared in ‘The Light in the Piazza’, while Massey appeared in ‘Next to Normal’ and ‘Xanadu’. For the ‘Wicked’ tour, the two will be joined by Mark Jacoby (the Wizard), Liz McCartney (Madame Morrible) and Mamie Parris as Elphaba the Wicked Witch. | http://wickedtour.net/katie-rose-clarke-kyle-dean-massey-join-wicked-touring-company | fineweb | 187 |
As the end of another UEFA Champions League campaign draws to a climactic close, it’s traditional to assess those that stood above others with their contribution of exceptional performance, inspired tactics and delivery of dramatic moments.
The ritual of placing an outstanding player or masterful manager on a pedestal to marvel at their achievements is an annual exercise of adulation, but there is a flip side to the tale of the season that this ignores.
Tradition, according to Christian scholar Jaroslav Jan Pelikan, is “the living faith of the dead”, and so - with this thought as a guiding light - this column will focus on the negative and malfunctioning instead. Namely, which manager failed most to live-up to their pre-season goals? After all, this is the question that preoccupies the myriad of club owners across Europe.
Failure can be so subjective, so potentially the best bar to provide a measure of successless shepherds is to focus on the value for money they gave back to their sides. If transfer spending against progress in Europe’s top club competition is mapped the following four were rightly in the firing line*:
4. Alex Ferguson – Manchester United:
He may have been the greatest manager to grace British football and a two-time winner of the Champions League but "Fergie" had seen diminishing returns from his forays into Europe in the last two seasons of his tenure. A sizeable $103m were spent over the last campaign bringing in players such as goal-getter Robin Van Persie and goal-stopper David De Gea.
In return United failed at the group stages last year and were knocked out before the quarterfinals in 2013. No wonder the great Scot was left devastated by the Real Madrid defeat this time around, by his own standards the Red Devils had not delivered. Future – Retires at end of season
3. Roberto Mancini – Manchester City:
The blue half of Manchester are relative newcomers to Champions League combat, so that may be a mitigating factor for failure, but what they lacked in experience they surely made up for in player spending power. An outlay of over $230m in the last two seasons by Italian coach Roberto Mancini, not to mention the capture of the English Premier League title, had seen expectations soar as high as the players’ wage bill at Eastlands. And sadly, for their followers, this campaign saw the disappointment of a winless group stage and stunted progress in Europe once again.
Jack Rodwell, Maicon, Scott Sinclair, Matja Nastasic and Javi Garcia were all brought to the club for $84m but failed to propel the Sky Blues past the group stages at the second time of asking. Mancini’s critics will point to his limited success with Inter Milan in the same competition too. The timing and delivery of the termination may have been less than tender but is it any wonder the owners decided to wield the axe?*
Future – Unemployed after being sacked by City
2. Luciano Spalletti – Zenit St. Petersburg:
The 54-year-old Italian manager joined the Russian side in 2009 but in a show of enhanced ambition the national champions splashed out $140m in the last year on player firepower, including the signings of such luminaries as Brazilian striker Hulk and Alex Witsel of Belgium.
Despite such investment, and with promise to be the dark horses with designs on shaking up the old order, Zenit flattered to deceive. They notched up just two wins in six groups games, with Hulk scoring only once in five outings, and conceded nine. As club captain Danny concluded at the end of the campaign: "Considering the quality we have in this team we could have done much better." Future – Linked to Chelsea, Roma and AC Milan
1. Roberto Di Matteo – Chelsea:
Never before have the reigning champions of Europe been booted out of the competition at the first opportunity, but such was the fate of 2012’s unlikely title-holders from London. The football world marvelled at the ability of the 42-year-old manager Di Matteo to cajole a dispirited team and defeat the mighty Bayern Munich in last year’s final.
It then scratched its head in disbelief as the Italian’s - albeit inherited - team failed to fire despite over $153m of investment in the last 12 months. Di Matteo was dumped from the club shortly before Chelsea were dumped out the group stage. Whoever takes over next season will be expected to considerably improve on that return. Future – Currently unemployed
*Updates made in light of the sacking of Roberto Mancini by Manchester City. | http://worldsport.blogs.cnn.com/2013/05/13/managing-success-the-champions-league-biggest-coaching-flops/?iref=allsearch | fineweb | 1,009 |
This issue caps the first full year of CFO IT, a year in which we received many encouraging words from readers, won several awards, missed a typo or two, and, most important, sought to bring a fresh and relevant perspective to IT strategy as viewed from the CFO’s office. We’re not unhappy with our efforts so far, but we’re in no mood for nostalgia, and our laurels remain decidedly unrested-upon. Instead, we’re closing out 2003 with an ambitious look ahead to 2004.
We’ve identified 20 technologies and trends most likely to dominate the IT agenda next year, and offer synopses of where they stand and how they may evolve. Any attempt at short-listing is bound to invite counterarguments as to what really should have been included, but we’re confident the subjects profiled here will generate both heat and light throughout all of 2004. We’ve divided the 20 into four broad categories: IT management, core technologies, finance IT, and emerging technologies. We’ve put a premium on pithiness and a bounty on hype, distilling each topic to its essence, with the occasional reckless prediction thrown in to lighten the mood. For this special issue, we’ve downplayed case studies so that we can offer a primer on a wide range of technologies that are certain to be discussed at your company — maybe not today, or tomorrow, but soon.
Technology, and the effective management thereof, are moving targets. You may think there’s little more to be said about Sarbanes-Oxley, offshoring, the high price of software, or Linux, to cite just a handful of the topics profiled within. But in the next 14 months, each of these will significantly influence the manner in which most companies operate, in ways you may not see coming. For us, that means our second year is certain to be even more interesting than our first. For you, it means this issue is one to keep handy even as you wait for the next one to arrive.
Strategic issues abound, from the burdens of regulation to the promise of new architectures.
We begin our 20/20 package with a look at five managerial issues that are almost impossible to separate from one another. The management of technology has long been synonymous with the buying of technology, for two reasons: the price tag for hardware, software, personnel, networking, consulting services, and other forms of IT is massive, and most companies’ needs are constantly evolving, due to both new business goals and the many new opportunities afforded by technology. Deciding whether and what to buy becomes more difficult when budgets are tight, and when new regulatory pressures are thrown in (which may or may not entail additional IT expense or additional opportunities for IT to help solve a thorny business problem), the effect can be nearly paralyzing. Did we mention new license models and the option of outsourcing or offshoring? Challenging, to say the least. But manageable, if approached as a five-step process.
So essential are these that we could have dubbed them ”cortex technologies.” Yet managing them well is far from a no-brainer.
While it can be difficult to define “core” technology, “expensive but not sexy” offers a reasonable starting point. Almost every variety of information technology is pitched as “essential,” but we think five areas merit particular attention in 2004, either because of their scope, their relevance to C-level executives, or the fact that their true cost can be elusive. These technologies all share the qualities of being mature and at the same time evolving, often quickly. They tend to be the focus of many a conversation between CFO and CIO. And they tend to define an enterprise’s IT architecture, and are likely to continue to do so.
Better, faster, cheaper — it’s all good. And much of it will arrive sooner than you think.
From microchips to networks to entirely new approaches to IT infrastructure, technology marches on. The post-dot-com malaise did not bring research to a halt; in fact, winnowing this list to merely five promising new technologies was far from easy. The developments described on the following pages vary in terms of their readiness for prime time, but all merit watching. Some are already finding their way to market; others remain rooted in laboratories but will likely find some commercial applications later in 2004. In the aggregate, they demonstrate that IT still has the capacity to leap forward in unexpected ways.
Beyond the spreadsheet lie a host of technologies that do more than simply crunch the numbers.
The current intersection of finance and IT is not limited to ROI analyses, budget scrutiny, and potentially testy conversations between CFOs and CIOs. The finance function itself is the focus of a number of IT initiatives that will propel corporate efficiency. Decisions on whether to invest in any of these newer technologies may still entail some good old-fashioned spreadsheet analyses, but that doesn’t mean the technological underpinnings of the finance department will remain static in 2004. What follows are profiles of five technologies that will not only allow finance to calculate the bottom line but greatly enhance it. | http://ww2.cfo.com/technology/2003/11/the-2020-issue/view-all/ | fineweb | 1,097 |
La Mar Cebichería Peruana, on the Embarcadero in San Francisco, will celebrate its third birthday on September 25. Live music from a Criolla band and complimentary shots of Pisco Sour will be served up for all dining guests for this shindig. Reservations are recommended if you plan on eating at a table; the lounge will be come as you are.
La Mar’s Chef de Cuisine Dennis Arvizu caught up with Bay Area Bites via email interview while in the midst of planning for the birthday. La Mar has a new menu with lower dish prices, and is meant for tapas style sharing. Signature Peruvian dishes as cebiches, anticuchos, causas and lomo saltado are part of this updated menu. Arvizu said of the updated plates that, “Aji Amarillo and Aji Panca bring the Peruvian essence to every bite.”
The East Bay resident is originally from San Diego and had food leanings at an early age. “I grew up going across the border to Baja California. I remember standing in long lines waiting for my morning tacos. Nothing beat a hand made tortilla, and fresh salsa. This was usually the routine before heading out to sea on fishing trips with my dad. We’d catch fish, clean them out and try the meat right on the boat. Every fish had its own flavor. These trips led to my curiosity of the culinary world.”
Arvizu has worked at Mariposa in Coral Gables, L’Ecole and Rosa Mexicano in Manhattan, and staged for two summers in Mexico. He attended UC Santa Cruz, where he met his girlfriend of over six years, Mariana, who is a Bay Area native. The two remained friendly when Arvizu decided to finish college in Southern California. “After graduating from the University of San Diego, I attended The French Culinary Institute in New York City. Next I ventured off to South Florida and got a feel for Caribbean cuisine and introduced to Peruvian cuisine. I moved to the Bay Area in July of 2008 to work for La Mar.” The chef plans to travel to Spain in the spring of next year.
Where do you source ingredients for the restaurant?
We work closely with Monterey Fish Market and Royal Hawaiian to maintain the highest level of quality. Our Peruvian ingredients are harder to source than most other foreign ingredients. We import all our bases from Peru. Due to the novelty of this cuisine in the states, Peruvian products are limited.
Tell us about the restaurant’s new Lonchera “on the go” menu from La Mar’s café:
Our goal with the café is to capture the essence of La Mar’s flavors in a to-go package for customers. “La Lonchera” (the lunch box) consists of a Peruvian sandwich, a choice of a side salad or house-made chips and salsa, and an Alfajor (cookie).
What are your favorite food & drink spots?
I’m a fan of tapas, in a more casual environment. In Oakland, there is Barlata, with an extensive menu. Their gambas al Ajillo are spectacular. In the city there is LaLoLa Bar de Tapas, with a smaller menu. I can never pass up their patatas bravas. On weekends, I go to the local Taqueria Los Gallos for home-style Menudo.
Guiltiest food pleasure?
Homemade tortilla chips and salsa made in a molcajete.
What is your favorite meal to have with friends and/or family?
Growing up, my father and I always cooked outdoors over a wood-fire grill. One of the favorites was “Pescado Zarandeado,” which is a whole fish butterflied, marinated in chiles and spices, grilled and served family style in the center of the table. | http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/2011/09/23/interview-with-la-mars-chef-de-cuisine-dennis-arvizu/ | fineweb | 812 |
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It would be amazing to actually have a system as it was laid out for us by those who gave their lives to establish it rather than the one that has been co-opted and turned into the heinous den of vipers that it has become.
Originally posted by Carseller4
Terrible showing for Ron Paul.
I think he is done.
Originally posted by Wookiep
reply to post by eLPresidente
I just find it interesting how they are always yelling "straw polls are useless"! And they yell "internet polls are useless!" and they always talk about how "realclearpolitics" is the only honest poll on the planet, yet when his numbers continue to rise even there, it's totally ignored.
I'll bet you that if Cain did well on all online polls, all the Paul haters would come in and say "Ron Paul is done, Cain just won this internet poll!" Hypocrites. So internet polls DO mean something?? I would have much more respect for these people if they just came out and admitted that their only argument is that they don't like Ron Paul.edit on 24-9-2011 by Wookiep because: (no reason given)
“Florida is the ultimate state,” said Rollins. “If you don’t win Florida, you’re not going to win the presidency if you’re a Republican. At the end of the day, it’s a state where people pay attention.”
Unlike the better-known Iowa straw poll, Florida’s has more of a tendency to anoint the ultimate party winner. And campaigns can’t as easily stuff the voting booth with supporters. | http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread756451/pg1 | fineweb | 418 |
A new report shows that among the 669,000 adults admitted for substance abuse treatment for the first time last year, an average of 15.6 years had elapsed since the first time they started using the substance they were primarily being treated for.
The study, Length of Time from First Use to Adult Treatment Admission, conducted by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), indicates that while the average time between first use of a substance of abuse and first treatment for it may vary by type of substance and demographic groups, in almost all cases it involves a lag time of several years.
“This study shows that the damaging consequences of substance abuse can often be undetected or unacknowledged for many years—undermining many aspects of peoples’ health and well-being, as well as the lives of those around them,” said SAMHSA Administrator Pamela S. Hyde.
“That is why it is essential that we work to prevent substance abuse in the first place, and in instances where it happens, identify the problem and get people the treatment they need as soon as possible so that they, and their families and friends, do not have to endure years of needless suffering.”
The study showed that on average, the length of time between first use of a substance and first treatment entry was longer for males than females (16.5 years versus 13.8 years). In terms of substances of abuse, the average length of time between the first use of, and treatment for, alcohol was the longest (20.2 years), while prescription painkillers was the shortest (7.8 years).
The study is based on data from SAMHSA’s Treatment Episode Data Set (TEDS) – a reporting system involving treatment facilities from across the country. The study was developed as part of the agency’s strategic initiative on data, outcomes and quality – an effort to inform policy makers and service providers on the nature and scope of behavioral health issues. | http://www.addictionpro.com/news-item/study-calculates-average-time-between-first-substance-use-and-first-treatment | fineweb | 414 |
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Three Traits of Talented Farm Owners
Oct 08, 2012
Thomas Young was an English scientist who lived from 1773 to 1829. He made important contributions to the study of energy, light, mechanics, physiology, language, musical harmony, and Egyptology. He was greatly admired by scientists who followed, including Albert Einstein.
Young essentially understood every aspect of the scientific knowledge of his age. A brilliant man? Of course. An extraordinary genius? Probably. But he also had the advantage of taking up science when the amount of available knowledge could still be contained in a single human brain. Young is remembered by many as "the last person to know everything."
The generations of scientists who followed Young, however brilliant they were, found they needed to focus on increasingly narrow areas of expertise. From Einstein to Hubble to Salk, they made their contributions by concentrating on a single line of inquiry.
Finding Your Focus
What does that have to do with commodity marketing? Just this: Think of the farmer of a couple of generations ago. He tended to have a diverse array of outputs, from grains to row crops to livestock. In addition to planting, tending, harvesting and selling his cash crops, he knew how to dehorn cattle, to tend an orchard, and to fix his tractor in the shade of a tree if it needed doing. In his own way, he was as knowledgeable in his field as Thomas Young was in his. But like the world of science, the world of agriculture has gotten a whole lot more complicated.
To allow yourself to perform at your optimum within your focus area, it’s important to strip away unnecessary decisions. That can mean that one of your most critical decisions is choosing which decisions to delegate.
Freeing Your Time
As a manager, you wouldn’t let valued, highly specialized employees spend time away from their area of expertise, doing jobs they were less than optimally equipped for. In this case, that valuable, specialized employee is you. So if you’re not an expert when it comes to managing commodity opportunities and risks, you may owe it to your business to hire an expert.
The challenge is, how do you select an expert in a field where you yourself are not an expert? You can start with three key questions:
Can these folks show how they’ve addressed challenges like mine? Will the process be difficult or expensive? And finally, is this a group of people I can actually enjoy working with? The answers can tell you if you’ve found the right expert to assist you in this critical aspect of managing your operation.
Making Your Choice
The commodity marketing professional you hire should strategically prepare you to act no matter what volatile commodity markets may do, and base counsel on objective assessments rather than personal market opinion. This person should help you maintain discipline in decision-making. And, the person you hire should be an accountable and trustworthy professional.
In the final analysis, farm operations do best when their leaders:
1. Give themselves the time and resources to manage their primary areas of expertise.
2. Have an awareness that they may need to delegate some aspects of the business.
3. Possess a practiced eye for choosing the right experts to support their efforts.
Scott Stewart is CEO of Stewart-Peterson, a commodity marketing consulting firm based in West Bend, Wis. You may reach Scott at 800-334-9779, email him at [email protected]
The data contained herein is believed to be drawn from reliable sources but cannot be guaranteed. Neither the information presented, nor any opinions expressed constitute a solicitation of the purchase or sale of any commodity. Those individuals acting on this information are responsible for their own actions. Commodity trading may not be suitable for all recipients of this report. Futures trading involves risk of loss and should be carefully considered before investing. Past performance may not be indicative of future results. Any reproduction, republication or other use of the information and thoughts expressed herein, without the express written permission of Stewart-Peterson Inc., is strictly prohibited. Copyright 2012 Stewart-Peterson Inc. All rights reserved. | http://www.agweb.com/blog/marketing_strategy_214/three_traits_of_talented_farm_owners/ | fineweb | 863 |
In a new production of "Jesus Christ Superstar" at Birmingham-Southern College, Judas is a woman who kisses Jesus on the lips when she betrays him.
"In this interpretation, Judas is a female," said Giavonna Nappo, 21, a senior music theater major who takes on the role of Judas Iscariot in the Tim Rice-Andrew Lloyd Webber musical that tells the story from the point of view of Judas.
Director Michael Flowers did gender-blind casting, so the show has a female Judas and a female Annas, played by Kelly Polk, Nappo said.
"It's been a wild ride," Nappo said. "I grew up with two older brothers. I've used that to tap into the kind of relationship Jesus and Judas had."
Not only does a female Judas change the dynamics with Jesus, but also with Mary Magdalene, who famously sings, "I Don't Know How to Love Him," in the show.
"It's like female-female jealousy," Nappo said. "It's been really cool to have that."
Obviously, it's a different twist to the gospels.
"The production we're putting on is an interpretation of a story," Nappo said.
"Judas and Jesus started off as partners," Nappo said. "They were people who shared a common belief."
But then Jesus takes his ministry in a way that Judas disapproves of, and Judas decides to turn him over to the authorities.
"Judas feels like there's no other option," Nappo said. "This is not what they started out to do. When Judas kisses Jesus and shows the bad guys where to find him, Judas doesn't necessarily know that Jesus is going to die. Judas was just doing what she thinks what is right. She feels Jesus won't listen to him anymore. If she can just get him off the streets, making this ruckus go away, things will get back to the way they are supposed to be. It's this train of events. It culminates in that moment when I betray him. It all comes down to whether Judas felt this was her destiny."
They did a new take on the kiss of betrayal too, traditionally portrayed as a kiss on the cheek.
"I kiss him on the mouth," Nappo said. "It's not a long romantic kiss. It's purposefully a lip to lips kiss."
She hopes people will take a moment to think about why Judas did what he did.
"Some people have only thought of this person in a certain way - as a traitor," Nappo said. "I don't think this is blasphemous. It humanizes Jesus, and it humanizes Judas. It's an honest interpretation that's quite plausible."
The production goes for a post-apocalyptic, punk look with edgy costumes, hairstyles and makeup.
"I wear pants and a leather jacket," Nappo said. "I think she's a pants kind of girl."
The songs written for male singers had to be adjusted to the range of female singers, Nappo said.
"A lot of our rehearsals dealt with where these songs fit in our voices," she said.
Performances will be held in the College Theatre/Mainstage April 9, 10, 11, and 12 at 7:30 p.m., and April 13 at 2:30 p.m. Tickets are $20 for the general public; $10 for students. Reserve tickets by calling the Theatre Box Office at 226-4780. Box Office hours are Monday through Friday from 1-4:45 p.m.
Professor of Theatre Michael Flowers will present a Provost's Forum titled "I Don't know How to Love Him: Judas and Jesus Have a Go in the Musical Jesus Christ Superstar," on Tuesday, April 8, at 11 a.m. in the College Theatre/Mainstage. Participants include campus Chaplain Jack Hinnen and BSC Associate Professor of Religion Amy Cottrill, who are working with the students on the production. Selected scenes from the musical will be performed by the cast.
Birmingham is getting a heavy dose of "Jesus Christ Superstar," with a production in November starring Lucas Pepke as Jesus at the Virginia Samford Theatre, and an upcoming production at BJCC Arena on June 10 that will feature punk singer Johnny Rotten of the Sex Pistols as Herod. | http://www.al.com/living/index.ssf/2014/04/female_judas_kisses_jesus_on_t.html | fineweb | 1,013 |
ALFRETON TOWN v GATESHEAD PREVIEW
Thursday Oct 18, 2012
FA CUP 4TH QUALIFYING ROUND
Saturday, October 20th, 2012
FA Cup with Budweiser, fourth qualifying round
Alfreton Town v Gateshead
at The Impact Arena
Alfreton Town entertain Blue Square Bet Premier Division rivals Gateshead at the Impact Arena as both clubs enter this season's FA Cup with Budweiser competition at the fourth qualifying round.
It is a first ever FA Cup tie between the two clubs and, as well as a place in the first round proper, there is also £12,500 prize money for the winners.
Reds boss Nicky Law has central defender Adam Quinn available again, with the central defender having recovered from a calf injury which also became infected. Anton Brown, who has also missed the last few games with a calf injury, is one more week away from being fit to return to playing action.
Manager Law has no other injury or suspension worries ahead of the tie and he will be looking for his side to extend their recent run of fine form which has seen just one defeat in eight games.
Gateshead come into the game unbeaten in four games, all four fixtures finishing as draws, three of them on home turf.
On their travels in the league this season, Gateshead have so far won two, drawn two and lost three times. The draws have come at Luton Town (2-2) and Hyde (1-1). Victories have been achieved at Stockport County (2-1) and Nuneaton Town (1-0). Defeats have been tasted at Southport (1-2), Woking (1-2) and Grimsby Town (0-3).
Last season, the Reds were unfortunate not to pick up all three points in a 1-1 home draw in the league but they went down twice on Tyneside, 2-0 in the league and 2-1 in an FA Trophy third round tie.
Should a replay be necessary, this will take place at Gateshead's International Stadium next Tuesday (October 23rd, 7.45pm).
The www.Gateshead-fc.com official FA Cup match preview can be viewed here
First Round Draw
The draw for the FA cup first round proper will be be made live on ITV this Sunday at 1.30pm. The 32 surviving non-league clubs will be jolined by Football League clubs from League One and League Two. | http://www.alfretontownfc.com/news/alfreton-town-v-gateshead-preview-1766.htm | fineweb | 556 |
The Israeli government has said that it is advancing construction plans to build about 1,000 housing units in occupied East Jerusalem that Palestinians want to be part of their future state.
A government official said on Monday that plans include building infrastructure in the occupied West Bank that will be used by Palestinians as well as Israelis. He spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorised to talk to the media.
Al Jazeera's Imtiaz Tyab, reporting from West Jerusalem, said that about 600 additional houses will be built in Ramat Shlomo and 400 in Har Homa districts of East Jerusalem.
The Palestinians seek East Jerusalem, home to the city's most sensitive holy sites for Jews, Muslims and Christians, as their future capital and oppose any Israeli construction there.
Israel has said all of Jerusalem will forever be its capital, citing historical, religious and security reasons. But the international community, including the US, does not recognise Israel's annexation of the eastern sector of the contested city.
The housing announcement could greatly escalate tensions in East Jerusalem, which has been the scene of violent unrest for months.
Our correspondent said Benjamin Netanyahu, Israeli prime minister, was under pressure by his right-wing coalition partners, who are pressing for the building of the new settlements and have threatened to withdraw their support from his government.
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Tensions have been high since June, when the body of three three Israeli teenage settlers were found weeks after they were abducted by unidentified group. Israeli groups retaliated by abducting and killing a Palestinian teenager in East Jerusalem, spurring riots.
The abductions set off a series of events that led to the 50-day Gaza war.
Yair Lapid, Israeli finance minister, of the centrist Yesh Atid party issued a statement late on Sunday night opposing the timing of the housing plan.
"This plan will lead to a serious crisis in Israel-US relations and will harm Israel's standing in the world," he said.
The US has condemned similar Israeli construction in the past.
Last week US officials said the Barack Obama administration rejected the Israeli defence minister's requests to meet several top national security aides.
The administration is still miffed over negative comments that Moshe Yaalon made about the Middle East peace efforts of John Kerry, US secretary of state, and the ongoing nuclear negotiations with Iran.
Source: Al Jazeera and agencies | http://www.aljazeera.com/news/middleeast/2014/10/israel-plans-settlements-east-jerusalem-20141027101953784884.html | fineweb | 533 |
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- Historic Sites
February/march 1993 | Volume 44, Issue 1
From early times the Bahamas have enjoyed the notion of themselves as the “Isles of Perpetual June,” and more than one piece of tourist literature has assigned that sentiment to George Washington, who supposedly visited as a young man. In fact, there is no proof to tell us that Washington spoke well of the Bahama Islands, or that he slept here. But his countrymen certainly have—by the millions. Some came as refugees, some as tourists, some to pursue the cause of war, and some to drink elixirs forbidden to them back home by the Volstead Act.
In 1923 an Englishman on holiday observed: “The Bahamas are so much nearer to the United States than to England that, if you take an American off his guard, you will find him speaking of them as if they were an additional state, or at least a territory.”
Last March, when winter still blew chill in New York, I caught a wave into Nassau, a vast American wave called Spring Break. College kids by the exuberant hundreds poured into the oncestately British Colonial hotel just as I arrived; on the receding wave an equivalent number were checking out. Spring Break lasts a good, long month in Nassau, an intelligence some of us over the age of thirty discovered and quickly shared, feeling slightly sheepish about our elder-statesman status. And a little cranky. Even after a relatively short flight, the last thing a traveler needs to hear is “Your room won’t be ready for three hours; why don’t you go out and get familiar with the town?” Remembering to slip a broad-brimmed hat from my bag, set amidst luggage that grew like a Lego set around the front desk, that’s what I obediently did.
Only to discover that the fleet, in a sense, was in town too. At the docks that edge Bay Street rose decks and stacks of huge cruise ships. Their passengers thronged Bay Street, buying from its fast-food emporiums, its Cartier boutique, and its straw market. Bay Street was a jumble and a jostle; it was noisy with traffic and the sun was searing, yet after a minute or two it seemed to spin back to the color and life of another time.
Later I read in a 1934 guidebook, “Here modernity is merely a cloak worn over an interesting old body whose pulse still beats to the tempo of the more leisurely ages.” Nearly sixty years after that observation, even as “modernity” has multiplied a thousandfold, the older Nassau still speaks.
Seven hundred islands and close to twenty-five hundred islets make up the Bahamas, with Bimini the nearest to North America. Although many places are claimed for Columbus’s first landing, the Bahamian island of San Salvador still is considered a prime candidate. In 1992 various commemorations were under way, as the argument raged over whether the New World had gained or lost the more by the incursions of the old. Exhibits and lectures throughout the islands mainly focused on the original Arawak Indian culture that was wiped out by the first Spanish visitors.
The English arrivals of 1648, members of a Pilgrim sect fleeing religious persecution in Bermuda, fetched up on the shores of an island bearing the native name of Cigateo or Segatto. They renamed it Eleuthera from the Greek word for freedom, and there they forged what Bahamians pride themselves as being the first republic in the New World. The Article and Orders of the Company of Eleutherian Adventurers, published on July 9, 1647, states, “The peace and happy progress of all Plantations doth much depend upon the good government thereof, the equal distribution of justice, and respect of all persons.” However much seventeenth century life on Eleuthera may have fallen short of this standard, the document itself is extraordinary, embodying, as Paul Albury, a Bahamian historian, says, “some vital germs of democracy.”
Despite that noble start, the nearly 350 years of Bahamian history that followed have been colored by the most raffish and nose-thumbing events. The location of the vast lacework of islands in the heart of the North Atlantic and Caribbean shipping lanes allowed the privateer and the pirate to see their advantage, take it, and, perhaps, never let it go. In 1982, writing for National Geographic , Peter Benchley passed along warnings found in newspapers and boating magazines “about yachts attacked and boarded by drug-runners seeking ‘clean’ boats on which to sneak into the United States.” (Lately things have quieted down, and the Bahamas have been removed from the State Department’s regularly revised travel advisory.)
For the merchant pirate of the 1700s, Nassau was the commercial heart. And it was gunpowder stored at Fort Montagu on the edge of town that inspired a raid by the fledgling American navy in February 1776. Commodore Esek Hopkins didn’t attempt a permanent base; those who did were British Loyalists of the 1780s who brought their slaves and misguided dreams of a cotton culture. Their plantations early succumbed to worms and insects, but the refugees remained to set their stamp on Bahamian life as shipbuilders and commercial leaders.
Although periodically decimated by fire and hurricane, Nassau always roared back to life, enjoying vast profits, for instance, by harboring blockade-runners during the Civil War, and, again, by allowing rumrunners to flourish during America’s years of Prohibition. | http://www.americanheritage.com/content/spring-break | fineweb | 1,223 |
October 1999 | Volume 50, Issue 6
The Public Broadcasting System has a new hit on its hands for the first time in quite a while. It’s “Antiques Roadshow.” For those not familiar with it, the show rents an exhibition hall in a large city and invites people to bring in their family treasures and have them appraised by experts in everything from Hollywood memorabilia to fine furniture to antique toys. The most interesting items and appraisals get to be on the show.
The program works on many levels. The audience gets a free lesson in the science and art of appraising unique objects; it experiences an occasional dose of schadenfreude watching someone else’s priceless heirloom turn into worthless junk as the appraiser tells why it’s a fake; and it gets to enjoy a sense of cultural superiority over the free market’s bad taste (people would pay eighty-five hundred dollars for that thing ?).
But “Antiques Roadshow” is only the most visible tip of a very considerable—and rapidly growing—iceberg of commerce in antiques, collectibles, and memorabilia in this country. The exact size of this market, which stretches from flea markets to Sotheby’s, is unknown for the simple reason that so much of it is informal, conducted by barter, or effected with cash by people none too anxious to involve the government in the transaction. Yet there is no doubt that it totals well into the billions.
For most people the noun antique means “furniture.” But one of the most interesting aspects of “antiques” is just how new they are. No, I don’t mean fakes (which are frauds) or reproductions (which are honest copies). I mean the very concept of old things being valuable and desirable. To be sure, the rich have collected antiquities, objets d’art , and paintings since the Renaissance, when they were often displayed in a room called a “cabinet of curiosities” along with such items as shells, scientific instruments, and even exotic flowers.
But furniture (except for the sort found in palaces) and the other everyday objects of our ancestors’ lives did not fall into this category. Instead of becoming antique over the years, they simply became old, and the master’s furniture of one generation tended to become the servants’ furniture of the next as it grew worn or went out of style. As with so much of twentieth-century culture, antiques in the modern sense are a Victorian invention. Indeed, this meaning of the word came into use only about 1840.
There are two reasons for the sudden interest in the everyday objects of earlier eras at this time. The first is the iron law of fashion: If everyone can have it, it’s not fashionable. Because the Industrial Revolution made such things as china, glassware, wallpaper, and rugs easily available to the fast-rising middle class, these items no longer served so well as evidence of current prosperity. But quality old things, once consigned to the attic or the servants’ rooms, did.
The other reason is that the Industrial Revolution, which changed everyday life profoundly in just a few decades in the first half of the nineteenth century, also induced an intense nostalgia for “the good old days,” a phrase also coined in the 1840s. Nowhere was that truer than in this country, itself nearly as newly minted as the age. “We are so young a people,” the diarist George Templeton Strong wrote in 1854, “that we feel the want of nationality . . . [and] seize on and seal up every worthless reminiscence of our colonial and revolutionary times.” But while Victorian Americans cherished these relics of the past, as Strong implies, they often did not appreciate them for their inherent artistic worth, for they tended strongly to think of art as something that came from Europe. As late as 1889, during an exhibition of American silver in honor of the hundredth anniversary of Washington’s inauguration as President, Harper’s Weekly sniffed that while “the silver exhibit is by far the finest ever brought together in the United States,” the writer thought that “early American plate has bullion value, is curious, but has little artistic merit.”
One of the earliest manifestations of this American need for contact with a genuinely American past was at fairs, where relics of the past were often displayed. A “New England kitchen” was a big hit at a fair in Brooklyn in 1864. The far larger Philadelphia Centennial Exhibition of 1876 also had a New England kitchen and a “Connecticut Cottage.” And while the Philadelphia fair is often said to mark the start of the craze in American antique furniture, it was only in the 188Os that what are now called “centennial pieces” began to be produced in quantity to satisfy a growing demand for furniture in the styles popular in the colonial era. This fashion in furniture (and architecture) is called Colonial Revival and has been very much with us ever since. Today centennial furniture, while nowhere near as valuable as the furniture it imitates, has itself acquired antique status, with prices to match.
At first little distinction was made between the new Colonial furniture and that which actually dated from the period. So badly executed, however, was much of this Colonial Revival furniture that it stimulated an interest in the originals, and no one was more influential in this movement than a man named Wallace Nutting.
Nutting was born in Rockbottom, Maine, in 1861, and the village’s curious name is not a bad indication of the economic circumstances of his youth. His father died while serving in the Union army, and Wallace grew up on an uncle’s farm. He dropped out of high school when only fifteen and held a series of odd jobs. His mother wanted him to be a minister, and he finally completed his education at the Union Theological Seminary and was ordained in the Congregational Church in 1888.
He served as a minister for the next sixteen years before retiring because of ill health. During those years he had developed a hobby of photographing outdoor scenes. After his retirement he began to be much more systematic in his photography, traveling around New England by train and bicycle. He became a highly skilled cameraman, working with the fine-grained platinum process, and his photographs, many hand-tinted, began to sell. At its height Nutting’s business in nostalgia photos employed more than a hundred people and grossed as much as a thousand dollars a day.
In 1912 he moved his headquarters to Framingham Center, Massachusetts. At this time he purchased four colonial-era houses—in Portsmouth, New Hampshire; Haverhill and Newburyport, Massachusetts; and Wethersfield, Connecticut—and restored them to their eighteenth-century appearance. A few years later he bought an old ironworks in Saugus, Massachusetts, and restored much of that as well, using it to reproduce Colonial hardware.
Nutting used these houses for his interior photographs, and he began collecting American antiques on a massive scale in order to furnish them. Although by this time he was a prosperous man, he was able to purchase so widely because American antiques were then available everywhere at prices that would break the heart of any “Antiques Roadshow” viewer.
In 1917 he began to reproduce American antiques, using items from his collection as models, and sold them widely to a fast-growing market, as the overstuffed, densely furnished Victorian look went out of style and the spare and open look of Colonial Revival became more and more fashionable. It was to a large extent Nutting who was responsible for that seeming oxymoron “the authentic reproduction,” authentic in the sense that it faithfully reproduced the original. Nutting made no secret of his philosophy: “Copy and avoid bad taste,” he said. “Not all the old is good but all the new is bad.”
In 1923 Nutting decided to sell his enterprises and retire, devoting himself to his personal collection of American antique furniture, especially the rarest of American antiques, those of the seventeenth century. His second retirement did not last long. Unhappy with how his company was being run, he sold his collection the next year to J. P. Morgan, Jr., in order to have the funds to reacquire it. Morgan paid him ninety thousand dollars. That is something like a million dollars in today’s money, but only a tiny fraction of what the collection would now bring at auction. Morgan donated the entire trove to the Wadsworth Atheneum, in Hartford, Connecticut, where it remains today, by orders of magnitude the finest collection of seventeenth-century furniture in the country.
Besides collecting, photographing, and reproducing antique American furniture, Wallace Nutting wrote extensively about it. His masterpiece is the three-volume Furniture Treasury (published from 1928 to 1933), containing more than five thousand photographs, mostly taken by himself, of early American furniture. While many mistakes have been found in it as scholarship in the field has advanced, Furniture Treasury remains indispensable to the serious collector even seventy-one years after its publication, and it is still in print. Indeed, in the American antiques business it is simply known as “Nutting.” That, when you think about it, is no small compliment to the minister who did so much to establish the American antiques trade as a major business. | http://www.americanheritage.com/print/60059 | fineweb | 2,014 |
SNOW took us away from the smoke valleys into white mountains, we saw velvet blue cows eating a vermillion grass and they
gave us a pink milk.
Snow changes our bones into fog streamers caught by the wind and spelled into many dances.
Six bits for a sniff of snow in the old days bought us bubbles beautiful to forget floating long arm women across sunny
Our bones cry and cry, no let-up, cry their telegrams:
More, morea yen is on, a long yen and God only knows when it will end.
In the old days six bits got us snow and stopped the yennow the government says: No, no, when our bones cry their
telegrams: More, more.
The blue cows are dying, no more pink milk, no more floating long arm women, the hills are emptyus for the smoke
valleyssneeze and shiver and croak, you dopesthe government says: No, no. | http://www.americanpoems.com/poets/carlsandburg/13045 | fineweb | 201 |
Suppose I had once borrowed your boat and, secretly, replaced each board with a similar but different one. Then, later, when I brought it back, did I return your boat to you? What kind of question is that? It's really not about boats at all, but about what people mean by "same."
—Marvin Minsky, The Society of Mind
I have heard of a touchy owner of a yacht to whom a guest, on first seeing it, remarked, 'I thought your yacht was larger than it is'; and the owner replied, 'No, my yacht is not larger than it is'.
—Bertrand Russell, "On Denoting"
The equal sign seems to be a perfectly innocent bit of mathematical notation. We all know exactly what it means. The symbol "=" is the fulcrum of a balance. It declares that the things on either side of it, whatever they may be, are equivalent, identical, alike, indistinguishable, the same. What could be clearer? Although an equation may be full of mystery—I can't explain what eiπ = –1 really means—the enigma lies in the two objects being weighed in the balance; the equal sign between them appears to be totally straightforward.
But equality isn't as easy as it looks. Sometimes it's not at all obvious whether two things are equal—or even whether they are two things. In everyday life the subtle ambiguities of identity and equality are seldom noticed because we make unconscious allowances and adjustments for them. In mathematics they cause a little more trouble, but the place where equality gets really queer is in the discrete, deterministic and literal-minded little world of the digital computer. There, the simple act of saying that two things are "the same" can lead into surprisingly treacherous territory.
What follows is a miscellaneous collection of problems and observations connected in one way or another with the concepts of equality and identity. Some of them are mere quibbles over the meaning of words and symbols, but a few reflect deeper questions. The difficulty of defining equality inside the computer may even shed a bit of light on the nature of identity in the physical world we think we live in.
Some Are More Equal Than Others
There's an old story about the mathematician who sets out to learn a computer programming language such as FORTRAN or C. Everything goes swimmingly until she comes to the statement x = x + 1, whereupon she concludes that computer programming is mathematical nonsense.
Of course this story is just a programmer's joke at the expense of mathematicians. I would respond in the same spirit by suggesting that a mathematician would be better equipped than anyone else to solve the "equation" x = x + 1. Obviously x is equal to X0, the infinite ordinal number, which has just the property that X0 = X0 + 1.
In truth, x = x + 1 is not an equation at all in FORTRAN or C, because the symbol "=" is not an equal sign in those languages. It is not a relational operator, comparing two quantities, but an assignment operator, which manufactures equality. When an assignment statement is executed, whatever is on the left of the "=" sign is altered to make it equal to the value of the expression on the right. The semantics of this operation are altogether different from those of testing two things for equality. As it happens, the semantics of assignment introduce certain troublesome characteristics into computer programs, which I shall have occasion to mention again below.
To avoid confusion between equality and assignment, many programming languages choose different symbols for the two operations. For example, Algol and its descendants write ":=" for assignment. In all that follows the symbol "=" will mean only equality (whatever that means).
By the way, the "=" notation was invented by Robert Recorde(1510–1558). He chose two parallel lines as a symbol of mathematical equality "because noe 2 thynges can be moareequalle."
Equality of Beans
Just what does it mean for two numbers to be equal? Note that this is a question about numbers, not numerals, which are representations of numbers. The numeral 5 in base 10 and the numeral 11 in base 4 and the Roman numeral V all represent the same number; they are all equal. Numbers can even be represented by piles of beans, which form a unary, or base-1, notation.
For small enough hills of beans, most people can judge equality at a glance, but computers are no good at glancing. If you want to teach a computer to test bean piles for equality, you'll need an algorithm. There's a very simple one that works on piles of any finite size. The only mathematical skill the computer needs is the ability to count from 0 up to 1: It has to be able to recognize an empty pile and to choose a single bean from a nonempty pile. Then it can determine the equality of two piles by following these rules: First, check the piles to see if they are empty. If both piles are empty, they are obviously equal. If one pile is empty and the other isn't, the piles are unequal. If neither pile is empty, remove one bean from each pile and repeat the whole procedure. Since the piles are finite, at least one of them must eventually be emptied, and so the algorithm will always terminate.
This method is loosely based on a scheme devised a century ago by the Italian mathematician Giuseppe Peano, who formulated a set of axioms for arithmetic in the natural numbers (also known as the counting numbers, or the nonnegative integers). Peano's method can be generalized, though awkwardly, to the set of all integers, including negative whole numbers. But the algorithm doesn't work for the real numbers (those that make up the continuum of the real number line). Indeed, the very concept of equality among the reals is perplexing. For the rational numbers, which form a subset of the reals, equality is no problem. Since every rational can be represented as a fraction reduced to lowest terms, two rationals are equal if their numerators are equal and their denominators are equal. The trouble is, almost all the reals are irrational; if you choose a point at random along the real number line, the probability of landing on a rational is zero. And no finite process can show that two arbitrary irrational numbers are equal.
Irrational numbers are usually represented as nonrepeating decimals, such as the familiar 3.14159 for the first few digits of π. Because the pattern of digits never repeats, matching up two irrational numbers digit by digit will never prove them equal; there are always more digits yet to be checked.
Writing numbers in decimal form has another pitfall as well: A single real number can have multiple decimal expansions, which are mathematically equivalent but don't look at all alike. The problem comes up even with rational numbers. A case in point is the pair of values 0.999... and 1.000... (where the three dots signify an infinitely repeated pattern of digits). These numerals have not one digit in common, and yet they denote exactly the same value; there is not the least smidgen of difference between them. (If you doubt this, consider that 0.333... + 0.333... + 0.333... = 0.999..., but 1/3 + 1/3 + 1/3 =1.) Thus some real numbers look alike but can't be proved equal, while others are equal but look very different.
Real numbers are creatures of mathematics, not computer science. Although some programming languages offer a data type named "real," the numbers of this type are quite unreal. They are "floating-point" numbers, which only approximate a continuous distribution. The floating-point format is much like scientific notation, in which a number is represented by a mantissa and an exponent. Only a finite number of bits are reserved for the mantissa and exponent, and so the numbers are limited in both precision and range.
One big advantage of floating-point arithmetic is that you never have to wait forever. When floating-point values stand in for reals, questions about equality are always answered promptly. On the other hand, the answers may well be wrong.
In your favorite programming language, calculate the square root of 2 and then square the result. I've just tried this experiment with an old programmable calculator, which reports the answer as 1.999999999. Interpreted as an approximation to the real number 1.999..., this result is not an error. It's just as correct as 2.000000000, which is also an approximation. The problem is that the machine itself generally cannot recognize the equivalence of the two alternative answers. Suppose a program includes the conditional statement:
if (√2)2 = 2
then let there be light
else annihilate the universe
If this program happens to be running on my HP-41C, we're all in trouble.
There are alternatives to floating-point arithmetic that avoid these hazards. Symbolic-mathematics systems such as Maple and Mathematica get the right answer by eschewing numerical approximations; in effect, they define the square root of 2 as "the quantity that when squared is equal to 2." A few programming languages provide exact rational arithmetic. And there have been various schemes for calculating with approximations to real numbers that grow more digits on demand, potentially without limit. Nevertheless, most numerical computation is done with conventional floating-point numbers, and a whole subdiscipline of numerical analysis has grown up to teach people how to cope with the errors.
Programmers are sometimes advised not to compare floating-point valuesfor exact equality, but rather to introduce a small quantity of fudge.Instead of computing the relation x = y , they are told to base a decision on the expression |x – y | is less than ε, where the straight brackets denote theabsolute-value operation, and ε is a small number that willcover up the imprecision of floating-point arithmetic. This notion ofapproximate equality is good enough for many purposes, but it has a highcost. Equality loses one of its most fundamental properties: It is nolonger a transitive relation. In the presence of fudge, you can't counton the basic principle that if x = y and y = z , then x = z .
Some Are Less Equal Than Others
Numbers aren't the only things that can be equal or unequal. Most programming languages also have equality operators for other simple data objects, such as alphabetic characters; thus a = a but a ≠ b. (Whether a = A is a matter up for debate.)
Sequences of characters (usually called strings) are also easy to compare. Two strings are equal if they consist of the same characters in the same sequence, which implies the strings also have the same length. Hence an equality operator for strings simply marches through the two strings in parallel, matching up the characters one by one. Certain other data structures, such as arrays, are handled in much the same way.
But one important kind of data structure can be problematic. The most flexible way of organizing data elements is with links, or pointers, from one item to another. For example, the symbols a, b and c might be linked into the list a → b → c → nil, where nil is a special value that marks the end of a chain of pointers. Comparing two such structures for equality is straightforward: Just trace the two chains of pointers, and if both reach nil at the same time without having encountered any discrepancies along the way, they are identical.
The pointer-following algorithm works well enough in most cases, but consider this structure:
An algorithm that attempts to trace the chain of pointers until reaching nil will never terminate, and so structural equality will never be decided. This problem can be solved—the workaround is to lay down a trail of breadcrumbs as you go, and stop following the pointers as soon as you recognize a site you've already visited—but the technique is messy.
There's something else inside the computer that's remarkably hard to test for equality: programs. Even in the simplest cases, where the program is the computational equivalent of a mathematical function, proving equality is a challenge. A function is a program that accepts inputs (called the arguments of the function) and computes a value, but does nothing else to alter the state of the computer. The value returned by the function depends only on the arguments, so that if you apply the function to the same arguments repeatedly, it always returns the same value. For example, f(x) = x2 is a function of the single argument x, and its returned value is the square of x.
A given function could be written as a computer program in many different ways. At the most trivial level, f(x) = x2 might be replaced by f(y) = y2, where the only change is to the name of the variable. Another alternative might be f(x) = x ? x, or perhaps f(x) = exp(2 log(x)). It seems reasonable to say that two such functions are identical if they return the same value when applied to the same argument. But if that criterion were to serve as a test of function equality, you would have to test all possible arguments within the domain of the function. Even when the domain is not infinite, it is often inconveniently large. The alternative to such an "extensional" test of equality is an "intensional" test, which tries to prove that the texts of the two programs have the same meaning. Fabricating such proofs is not impossible—optimizing compilers do it all the time when they substitute a faster sequence of machine instructions for a slower one—but it is hardly a straightforward task.
When you go beyond programs that model mathematical functions to thosethat can modify the state of the machine, proving the equality ofprograms is not just hard but undecidable. That is, there is noalgorithm that will always yield the right answer when asked whether twoarbitrary programs are equivalent. (For a thorough discussion of programequivalence, see Richard Bird's book Programs and Machines .)
One and the Same
We seldom notice it, but words such as "equal," "identical" and "the same" conceal a deep ambiguity. Consider this pair of sentences:
On Friday Alex and Baxter wore the same necktie.
On Friday Alex and Baxter had the same teacher.
These two instances of "the same" are not at all the same. Unless Alex and Baxter were yoked together at the neck on Friday, they wore two ties; but they had only one teacher. In the first case two things are alike enough to be considered indistinguishable, and in the second case there is just one thing, which is necessarily the same as itself. The two concepts are so thoroughly entangled that it's hard to find words to speak about them. Where confusion is likely I shall emphasize the distinction with the terms "separate but equal" and "selfsame."
When there's some uncertainty about whether two things are alike or are really just one thing, the usual strategy is to examine them (it?) more closely. If you study the two neckties long enough, you're sure to find some difference between them. Even identical twins are never truly identical; when you get to know them better, you learn that one has a tattoo, and the other can't swim. (If all else fails, you can ask them; they know who they are.)
The strategy of looking harder until you spot a difference doesn't work as well inside the computer, where everything is a pattern of bits, and separate patterns really can be equal. Bits have no blemishes or dents or distinguishing features.
Another way to decide between the two kinds of sameness is through the rule of physics (or metaphysics) that a single object cannot be in two places at the same time, and two objects cannot occupy the same space at the same time. Thus all you have to do is bring Alex and Baxter together in the same room and check their neckwear.
The computational equivalent of this idea states that two objects are in fact the selfsame object only if they have the same address in memory. Thus two copies of an object can be distinguished, even though they correspond bit-for-bit, because they have different addresses. This is a practical method in widespread use, and yet it has certain unsatisfactory aspects. In the first place it assumes that the computer's memory is organized into an array of unique addresses, which is certainly the usual practice but is not the only possibility. Second, letting identity hinge on location means that an object cannot move without changing into something else. This idea that where you live is who you are contradicts everyday experience. It is also a fiction in modern computer systems, where data are constantly shuffled about by mechanisms such as virtual memory, caches and the storage-management technique called garbage collection; to maintain the continuity of identity, all of these schemes have to fool programs into thinking that objects don't move—a source of subtle bugs.
More of the Same
There is a third way of exploring issues of identity, but it lies outside the realm of nondestructive testing. If Alex spills ketchup on his tie, does Baxter's tie also acquire a stain? If Baxter steps on his teacher's toe, does Alex's teacher have a sore foot? The principle being suggested here is that two things are the selfsame thing if changing one of them changes the other in the same way.
In computing, this process is encountered most often in the unexpected and unpleasant discovery that two variables are "aliases" referring to the same value or object. For example, if the variable designating Alex's grade-point average and the variable for Baxter's average both point to the same location in memory, then any change in one value will also be reflected in the other. This is probably not the desired behavior of the school's grading system.
In principle, deliberate alteration of memory contents could serve as a test of identity: Just twiddle the bits of an object and see if the corresponding bits of another object flip. But the test is not foolproof, particularly in a computer with multiple threads of execution. There's always the chance that the same change might be made coincidentally in two different places; two independent ketchup stains are not an impossibility. If coincidence seems too unlikely, consider that there might be a process running whose purpose is to synchronize two variables, checking one of them at frequent intervals and changing the other one to match. Or, conversely, a background process might undo any change to a variable, restoring the original value whenever it is modified. Under these conditions, a bit-flipping identity test might find that an object is not even equal to itself.
The distinction between separate-but-equal objects and a selfsame object can be crucially important. When I make a bank deposit, I'd strongly prefer that the amount be credited to my own selfsame account, rather than to the account of someone who is separate-but-equal to me—perhaps someone with the same name and date of birth. The standard practice for maintaining identity in these circumstances is to issue a unique identifying number. These are the numbers that rule so much of modern life, the ones you find on your bank statement, your driver's license, your credit cards. The same technique can be used internally by a computer program to keep track of data objects. For example, the programming language Smalltalk tags all objects with individual serial numbers. (Smalltalk is also notable for having two equality operators: "=" for separate-but-equal objects and "==" for selfsame objects.)
Always the Same
A big advantage of the serial-number approach to identity is that things stay the same even as they change. Identity doesn't depend on location or on any combination of attributes. Two bank accounts might have exactly the same balance, but they are different accounts because they have different account numbers. Within a single account the balance is likely to vary from day to day, but it remains the selfsame account.
This interplay of constancy and change is certainly a familiar feature of human life. My friend Dennis Flanagan has written that the molecules in most of the tissues of the human body have a residence half-life of less than two weeks. Clearly, then, I'm not the man I used to be—and yet I am. Indeed, it is when this process of continual molecular replacement ceases that "I" vanish.
In the semantics of programs, the unique identity of objects matters only when things can change. In a programming system without assignment operators or other ways of modifying existing values, the distinction between separate-but-equal things and the selfsame thing is of no consequence. If an object can never change after it is created, then the outcome of a computation will never depend on whether the program uses the original object or an exact copy.
For certain abstract kinds of objects, the whole concept of individual identity seems beside the point. In the equation 2x – 2 = x + 2, should we think of the three 2's as being three separate-but-equal entities, or are they three expressions of a single archetype of 2-ness? It doesn't seem to matter. There is no way of telling one 2 from another. The same can be said of other abstractions, such as alphabetic characters or geometric points.
Even some elements of the physical world share this indifference to individuality. Electrons and other elementary particles seem to be utterly featureless; unlike snowflakes, no two are different. All electrons have exactly the same mass and electric charge, and they carry no serial numbers. They are a faceless multitude. No matter how long and hard we stare, there is no way to tell them apart. They are all separate but equal.
Or else maybe they are all the selfsame electron. In 1948 John Archibald Wheeler, in a telephone conversation with his student Richard Feynman, proposed the delightful hypothesis that there is just one electron in the universe. The single particle shuttles forward and backward in time, weaving a fabulously tangled "world line."At each point where the particle's world line crosses the spacetime plane that we perceive as "now," it appears to us as an electron if it is moving forward in time and as a positron if it is going backward. The sum of all these appearances constructs the material universe. And that's why all electrons have the same mass and charge:because they are all the same electron, always equal to itself.
© Brian Hayes | http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/id.3337,y.1998,no.11,page.1/postComment.aspx | fineweb | 4,857 |
China Southern Airlines’ Wuhan to Moscow Sheremetyevo
Celebrating the launch of China Southern Airlines’ new service between Wuhan and Moscow Sheremetyevo (SVO) were: SVO Deputy General Director Andrey Nikulin; Deputy Head of Russian Tourism Dmitry Amunz; Head of Air Transport Department of the Ministry of Transport Alexander Belskiy; Counsellor for Economic and Commercial Affairs of the Embassy of China in the Russian Federation Zhang Di; and Executive Director – Secretary of Airline Party Committee Zhang Tszyfan.
- China Southern Airlines launched its second route to Moscow Sheremetyevo (SVO) on 30 July with the introduction of thrice-weekly flights from Wuhan (WUH). The 6,449-kilometre route will be flown by the airline’s A330-200s and faces no direct competition. The route launch was celebrated in Moscow by the heads of aviation authorities from both China and Russia. Wuhan, China’s 13th busiest airport with 15.7 million passengers in 2013, has only one other non-stop service to Europe, Air France to Paris CDG.
flyvista’s Tbilisi to Tehran
Cutting the celebratory cake for the launch of flyvista’s twice-weekly operation from Tbilisi to Tehran are: Yiltan Oktem, Deputy Terminal Operations Manager, TAV Georgia; Gregory Pomerantsev, CEO flyvista; Tea Zakaradze, Deputy General Manager, TAV Georgia; and Akaki Barkaia, Ground Handling Manager, TAV Georgia.
- flyvista, a new start-up carrier based in Tbilisi (TBS), commenced operations on 4 August, with the start of twice-weekly (Mondays and Thursdays) flights to Tehran (IKA). Operated by the airline’s single 737-300, the 880-kilometre sector will face no direct competition. Other planned destinations include Moscow, Almaty, Kiev, Istanbul, Baku, Prague and Minsk. TAV Georgia’s General Manager Mete Erkal said during the celebration cocktail for the first flight: “I am glad that new flights from Tbilisi International Airport toward Tehran will be served by new Georgian air company flyvista. This company will also perform Tbilisi-Kiev-Tbilisi flights from autumn. We are sure that such kind of novelty will increase the number of passengers in Tbilisi International Airport. TAV Georgia, as the operator company of Tbilisi and Batumi International Airports is glad to support the new local air company for its successful operation.” Speaking at the same event, CEO of flyvista Gregory Pomerantsev said: “We are pleased to announce the launch of flyvista flight operations from its base in Tbilisi. Market research reveals that there is a sufficient flow of passengers on the routes between Georgia and its neighbouring markets, including the route Tbilisi-Tehran. We are confident that friendly and competitive travelling alternatives will stimulate travel activities and help to promote inbound tourism to Georgia.”
The rest of this week’s new routes (A – Z by airline)
- Aerolineas Argentinas expanded its presence at Rosario (ROS) with the addition of two new services to Cordoba (COR) and Iguaza (IGR) on 3 August. Both domestic routes launched from the largest city in the province of Santa Fe will be operated twice-weekly (Wednesdays and Sundays), using the SkyTeam member’s 96-seat E190s. While there is no competition on the 1,003-kilometre sector to Iguaza, the sector to Cordoba is already flown by SOL Airlines’ six weekly operations.
Despite the fact that the flight does not arrive into Antalya until 00:45, there were plenty of people around from the airline and the airport operator ICF Airport to welcome the first Air Arabia flight from Sharjah.
- Air China has launched daily flights from Chongqing (CKG) to Seoul Incheon (ICN). On 1 August the airline began service on the 2,091-kilometre route using 737-700s. The route is already served four times weekly by Asiana Airlines. Air China now serves the South Korean capital from seven destinations in China, the others being Beijing, Hangzhou, Hefei, Qingdao, Tianjin and Yanji. From Chongqing Air China only operates one other international service, to Taipei Taoyuan in Taiwan.
- Air Zimbabwe commenced its fourth link from its Harare (HRE) base on 1 August, adding thrice-weekly services to Kariba (KAB), a route which continues to Victoria Falls. With no competition provided on the new 282-kilometre domestic airport pair, the flag carrier of Zimbabwe will operate it using its 50-seat MA60s. Air Zimbabwe is also flying from Harare to Bulawayo, Victoria Falls and Johannesburg.
- Dobrolet, the LCC spin-off parented by Aeroflot, commenced its second route in the last week, launching daily flights from its Moscow Sheremetyevo (SVO) base to Volgograd (VOG). Started on 1 August, the 937-kilometre sector will be flown by the fledgling carrier’s 169-seat 737-800s. Aeroflot will provide direct competition for its daughter company, offering the same domestic city pair thrice-daily. From Moscow’s other airports, S7 Airlines flies 19 times weekly to Volgograd from Moscow Domodedovo, with RusLine offering another weekly connection on the airport pair. In addition, UTair operates a daily service from Moscow Vnukovo. The route did actually begin operations before the airline was forced to suspend all flights due to EU sanctions.
- EGYPTAIR, the flag carrier of Egypt, has further enhanced its seasonal offering from Cairo (CAI), adding thrice-weekly flights to N’Djamena (NDJ) on 2 August. The 2,614-kilometre sector to the capital and largest city of Chad will face no competition from other airlines and will be operated until 25 October using the Star Alliance member’s 145-seat 737-500s.
Ambassador (Dr) Mike G. Omotosho, Nigeria’s Consul General in the UAE (left) with Adil Al Ghaith, Emirates’ Vice President Commercial Operations, Northern and Western Africa, at Dubai International Airport, with members of Emirates’ cabin crew for the start of the new daily Dubai-Abuja. Emirates’ first flight EK785 touches down in Abuja.
- Emirates began services to its 21st African non-stop destination on 1 August, linking its global hub in Dubai (DXB) with daily flights to Nigeria’s capital city Abuja (ABV), its second destination in Nigeria. Services to Lagos were launched just over 10 years ago. The inaugural flight, which was operated by the MEB3 airline’s 267-seat A340-300s, comes just days after Arik Air launched its own five times weekly operation between the two cities on 29 July. Presently, neither of the remaining MEB3 carriers will offer Emirates any indirect competing services from their respective hubs. “This new daily flight provides a convenient point-to-point service for our customers between Abuja and Dubai, and it will meet and further stimulate a vibrant market demand between the two cities. It will also serve our customers in Nigeria and around the network with additional connectivity and daily frequency. Our leisure and business passengers from Nigeria can now better connect to the Middle East, Europe, the United States and Asia via our hub in Dubai. Customers in Abuja can experience our A380 flagship aircraft to 29 destinations around the world, including popular ones like Beijing, Hong Kong, Mumbai, New York, Jeddah and London,” said Adil Al Ghaith, Emirates Vice President Commercial Operations, Northern and Western Africa.
- EWA Air inaugurated services on the 439-kilometre sector from Dzaoudzi (DZA) in the French overseas department of Mayotte to Antsiranana (DIE) on 29 July. The carrier will operate twice-weekly flights (Tuesdays and Saturdays) to the capital of Diana Region, using its 68-seat ATR 72s. Competition on the new link is provided by Air Madagascar’s weekly flights.
- flydubai is set to take on the two incumbents operating the Dubai (DXB) to Aden (ADE) route, joining the twice-weekly flights offered by both nasair and Yemenia Yemen Airlines. Launched on 1 August, the LCC will also operate the city pair twice-weekly (Tuesdays and Saturdays). The 1,751-kilometre sector will be flown by flydubai’s single aircraft fleet of 174-seat 737-800s. The carrier already flies daily to the capital Sana’a.
HK Express launched their inaugural flight to Ningbo in China on 2 August. This occurred during the Qixi Festival (the Chinese equivalent of Valentine’s Day) which is one of the big occasions for celebration in China. Jimmy Ma, Executive Chairman & President of HK Express offered every woman passenger a rose on the maiden flight.
- HK Express commenced flights to Ningbo (NGB) in China on 2 August. The five-times weekly 1,109-kilometre route from Hong Kong (HKG) will be operated by the airline’s A320 and faces no competition. This becomes the airline’s 11th route in total and second to China, as it already serves Kunming. Located in the east of Zhejiang, Ningbo is the second largest city in the Yangtze River Delta Region after Hangzhou. Historically known as one of five important trading ports, Ningbo is famous for its thriving business culture and vibrant port city atmosphere. Last year Ningbo Lishe International Airport handled 5.46 million passengers (+3.7%) making it China’s 36th busiest airport in 2013.
- IndiGo, celebrating its eighth birthday this week, has added a new non-stop service from its Hyderabad (HYD) base. On 3 August, the Indian LCC launched daily services using its 180-seat A320s on the 665-kilometre route to Indore (IDR), the largest city in the state of Madhya Pradesh. Competition is provided by SpiceJet, who also operate the route daily but with Q400 turboprops. This brings to 15 the number of destinations served by IndiGo from Hyderabad, 14 of which are domestic points, plus Dubai in the UAE. The airline already serves Indore from Mumbai (thrice-daily), as well as daily from Delhi, Nagpur and Raipur. Hyderabad is Indigo’s fifth biggest base with 265 weekly departures. This compares with 649 at Delhi, 524 in Mumbai, 327 in Kolkata and 303 in Bengaluru.
- Juneyao Airlines started daily flights on 1 August between Shanghai Pudong (PVG) and Cheongju (CJJ) in South Korea. The 808-kilometre route will be flown by the airline’s A320s and faces no direct competition. This is the airline’s third route to South Korea as it already links Shanghai Pudong with Jeju (13 weekly flights) and Yangyang (twice-weekly flights).
- Meridiana has added three more seasonal routes to its S14 offering, with all services scheduled to finish operations by the first week in September. Started on 30 July, the airline now links Cagliari (CAG) with Kiev Boryspil (KBP). The weekly service (Wednesdays) will be operated by Air Italy’s 143-seat 737s and will face no direct competition. Commenced on 1 August, Meridiana will also link Naples (NAP) with Mykonos (JMK). The weekly service (Fridays) will also be operated by Air Italy’s 737s, but it will encounter direct competition from Volotea (six times weekly) and easyJet (twice-weekly) on the 1,028-kilometre city pair. Started on the same day, was the 1,502-kilometre route between Bologna (BLQ) and Santorini (JTR). Operated by the carrier’s 180-seat A320s, the weekly (Fridays) service will face Blue Panorama Airlines’ twice-weekly operation in terms of competition.
Another good load for another PEOPLExpress inaugural flight, this time for its daily services to Atlanta from Newport News. Flanking Mike Morisi (centre), Founder of PEOPLExpress to cut the new route ribbon at the Georgia airport are the airline’s CEO Jeff Erickson (left) and Miguel Southwell, Atlanta Airport General Manager (right).
- PEOPLExpress, which was reinvigorated recently with three routes, continued to expand its Newport News, VA (PHF) offering with the addition of a new sector to Atlanta, GA (ATL) on 1 August. The carrier’s fifth served destination from Newport News will be operated daily, utilising its 150-seat 737-400s and will face direct competition from Delta Air Lines’ 36 weekly operations. In addition, the airline launched six weekly flights to West Palm Beach on 14 July.
- Shenzhen Airlines has added two more links to Seoul Incheon (ICN) in South Korea. On 1 August it began flying five times weekly on the 1,666-kilometre routes from Xi’an (XIY) utilising A320s. Competition comes from Korean Air (daily flights) and Asiana Airlines (five weekly flights). On the same day, Shenzhen Airlines also started daily flights on the 481-kilometre route from Yantai (YNT) using 737-800s. This route is already well served by Asiana Airlines (twice-daily flights), Chinas Eastern Airlines (19 weekly flights), Jeju Air (thrice-weekly flights) and Shandong Airlines (daily flights).Until now Shenzhen Airlines had only served Seoul from its main base in Shenzhen.
- Spirit Airlines expanded its domestic offering with two new services from New Orleans, LA (MSY) to Fort Lauderdale, FL (FLL) and Houston Intercontinental, TX (IAH) on 1 August. While the route to Florida will face direct competition from Southwest Airlines (12 times weekly), and the 491-kilometre sector to Texas is already flown by United Airlines (86 times weekly), both airport pairs are operated daily, using the ULCC’s 145-seat A319s. Furthermore, Spirit has recently announced that starting from 6 November it will increase its presence at New Orleans with two new routes from Chicago O’Hare and Detroit respectively.
What, no mascot?! Spring Airlines Japan launched operations on 1 August from Tokyo Narita airport with a major ribbon-cutting ceremony. Initially three domestic destinations will be served with a total of five daily rotations, requiring just two 737-800s.
- Spring Airlines Japan, the new Japanese LCC in which China’s Spring Airlines has a significant share, launched operations from Tokyo Narita (NRT) on 1 August. Unlike its Chinese parent company which operates A320s, Spring Airlines Japan has opted for 737-800s to serve the Japanese market. The first three routes it started are to Hiroshima (HIJ), Saga (HSG) and Takamatsu (TAK). Apart from the direct competition from Tokyo Narita summarised in the table below, all three destinations are served with multiple daily flights from Tokyo Haneda. With only five rotations per day the current schedule requires only two aircraft, both of which return to Narita at 21:25. See how Tokyo Narita Airport’s fire truck water arch salute compares with others from around the world this week.
||Tokyo Narita (NRT)
||All Nippon Airways (7), Ibex Airlines (7)
||Tokyo Narita (NRT)
||Tokyo Narita (NRT)
||Jetstar Japan (21)
|Source: anna.aero’s New Route Database. Innovata / Diio Mi for w/c 2014. WF = Weekly frequencies.
- Transaero Airlines started its 13th domestic connection from its Moscow Vnukovo (VKO) hub on 2 August, adding flights on the 2,340-kilometre sector to Nizhnevartovsk (NJC). The thrice-weekly service, which will be increased to four times weekly from 19 August, will be operated by the non-allliance carrier’s 128-seat 737-700s. UTair will provide the direct competition, offering a daily service on the airport pair. In addition, Aeroflot flies to the second largest city in the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug from its Moscow Sheremetyevo hub twice-daily. From Moscow Domodedovo, both S7 Airlines and Ural Airlines offer daily flights to Nizhnevartovsk.
- Turkish Airlines has added its 11th and 12th destinations in North Africa, by starting services to Tlemcen (TLM) and Batna (BLJ) airports in Algeria from its Istanbul Atatürk (IST) base, stopping in the former first before continuing onto the latter. The twice-weekly (Mondays and Saturdays) operation will be flown by a variety of equipment. The inaugural flight took place on 31 July and no other operators offer the same city pairs.
Excitement gathers at Gate B93 at Denver Airport for the inaugural flight of United Airlines’ newest service from its Colorado hub to Hays, KS. In case you hadn’t guessed the 12 times weekly service is operated by CRJ 200.
- United Airlines has further expanded its domestic network with another service from Denver, CO (DEN) to Hays, KS (HYS) on 1 August. The 478-kilometre airport pair to the largest city in north-western Kansas will be operated 12 times weekly, using SkyWest Airlines’ 50-seat CRJ 200s. No other operator serves this airport pair, though Great Lakes Aviation was operating the route until March of this year with up to four daily flights utilising 19-seat Beechcraft aircraft. This is Hays Regional Airport’s only commercial service at present.
- VivaColombia entered the Panamanian market with two new routes to Panama City/Balboa (BLB) on 1 August. With the addition of daily flights from Bogota (BOG) and the launch of four weekly services from Medellin (MDE), both routes to the district located at the Pacific entrance to the Panama Canal will be operated by the Colombian low-cost carrier’s 180-seat A320s. No other airlines serve any of the new airport pairs. VivaColombia is analysed in more detail in this week’s airline profile. | http://www.anna.aero/2014/08/06/new-airline-routes-launched-29-july-4-august-2014/ | fineweb | 4,276 |
Thousands of other protestors blocked at Secret Service Checkpoints
It is because of the support of so many people from around the country in the last few weeks that the A.N.S.W.E.R. antiwar mass rally on the inaugural parade route today was so successful. The rally was broadcast live on C-Span 2 for 4 hours and 25 minutes.
Over 10,000 protestors from around the country converged on John Marshall Park in Washington DC today bringing a powerful antiwar message to the presidential inauguration of George Bush. Demonstrators filled the sidewalks in front of the park between 3rd and 4th Streets. The first thing that Bush saw as the presidential motorcade began the parade route was antiwar protestors lined 10 deep along the side walks and in antiwar bleachers.
Atop the bleachers was a giant banner that said, "Iraq is Bush’s Vietnam, Bring the Troops Home Now." It was the first time in inaugural history that the antiwar movement was able to have bleachers, a stage, and a sound system for a mass antiwar demonstration right on the parade route.
Thousands more demonstrators stopped at the A.N.S.W.E.R. rally site and picked up signs and were able to line both sides of Pennsylvania Avenue from 3rd to 7th Streets.
Although the parade route filled up with anti-Bush demonstrators, many thousands more protestors were stopped at security checkpoints and not allowed into the A.N.S.W.E.R. rally. North of the check point at 3rd and C Sts. (the closest check point to the A.N.S.W.E.R. rally) a full block-and-a-half of people were held back. A similar scene was repeated at other check points. People held spontaneous demonstrations at the check points, chanting and holding banners.
Our partial victory in attaining a space for a mass assembly protest along the inaugural parade route was the result of a year-long political and legal struggle. Attorneys from the Partnership for Civil Justice and the National Lawyers Guild filed litigation that played a vital role. There will be a future update on this work.
January 20, 2005
|Antiwar bleachers at 4th St. & Pennsylvania Ave.||On the sidewalks at 4th St. & Pennsylvania Ave.|
Speakers included: Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney from Georgia; former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark; Michael Berg, father of Nicholas Berg; Brian Becker, National Coordinator of the A.N.S.W.E.R. Coalition; John Boyd of the National Black Farmers Association; Brenda Stokley, President of District Council 7017 AFSCME; Zack Wolfe, chair of the Lesbian/Gay/Bisexual/Transgender Committee of the National Lawyers Guild; Macrina Cardenas, Mexico Solidarity Network; Vanessa Dixon, DC Health Care Coalition; Sue Neiderer, mother of a U.S. soldier killed in Iraq; Celeste Zappala, mother of Sherwood Baker, National Guardsmen killed in Iraq; and Nathlie Hrizi of the National Committee to Free the Cuban Five and others. The program was chaired by A.N.S.W.E.R. youth and student organizers Peta Lindsay and Eugene Puryear.
January 20 antiwar protests were also held in other cities throughout the United States, including San Francisco, Los Angeles, Seattle, Austin, New Orleans, Albuquerque, Atlanta, Phoenix, and other cities. There were also demonstrations in South Korea, Germany, Japan, Australia and Puerto Rico.
At the rally in Washington DC today, organizers from 30 cities took the platform to announce their plans to organize local demonstrations on March 19, 2005, the second anniversary of the start of the U.S. "shock and awe" invasion of Iraq.
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An ex-rental in Auckland’s Beach Haven with a once-tired weatherboard exterior has been transformed into a modern bohemian dream In a nutshell Who lives here? Amanda Fitzsimmons (full-time mum and stylist/artist for Rococo and Rose), husband Tim (portfoli
Love these plants for the front planter box - create a sense of privacy at the front door. Shade loving container gardening, planters for front porch, ferns, hydrangea and sweet potato vine. Gorgeous and welcoming. | https://www.pinterest.com.au/tanya_toth79/outdoor-entertaining/ | fineweb | 114 |
This year’s version of our Groundhog Brew is a German-Style Altbier. This is one of the few authentic ales brewed in the German tradition. Bavarian brewers invented lager beer in the 16th century. Before that, the old style of brewing utilized ale yeast. "Alt" is German for old, so the "Altbier" is a beer made "in the old German style."
Our Straub Altbier is our first all-malt beer. Copper in color, it was made with four malts: Imported German Pilsner and Vienna, and domestic Munich and Chocolate. We balanced the malty sweetness with a firm bitterness from Imported German Magnum hops, and made late hop additions for flavor and aroma with Imported German Hallertau Mittelfruh. We used authentic German ale yeast to ferment this beer and provide its characteristic smooth ale flavor.
This limited-release Altbier is the second of our new seasonal offerings, which began last fall with our 1872 Lager, brewed to begin the celebration of Straub’s 140th Anniversary. During 2012, leading up to our anniversary celebration, the brew team and I developed a number of beer recipes to expand the variety of beer that Straub will be brewing. We utilized our small R&D brew system to make a number of small-batch brews that we shared with friends, family, and customers, as well as offered at beer festivals and tastings, and even on tap locally. This brewing has been inspired by the rich, pre-prohibition traditions here at Straub, as well as by the wonderful variety of beers being brewed by America’s newer craft brewers, many of which are right here in Pennsylvania.
Alcohol: 5.3% ABV • Beginning Gravity: 12.5 Plato • Ending Gravity: 2.6 Plato • Bitterness Units: 40 IBU • Malts: German Pilsner, Vienna, Munich, and Black Malts • Color: Dark Copper • Yeast: German Ale Yeast • Hops: Imported German Magnum and Hallertau Mittelfruh | https://www.ratebeer.com/beer/straub-groundhog-brew-2013/197933/1/3/ | fineweb | 466 |
My two oldest. When the first dollar store opened near us, my kids were thrilled...especially the boy, he was collecting pennies like they were going out of style. This particular day we were at my brother's and he took all the boys to the store and this is what they came home with. This gun doesn't shoot anything, the trigger doesn't even move. unfortunately, sister didn't know this at the time. | https://www.scrapbook.com/galleries/151615/view/2071237/-1/0/1.html | fineweb | 93 |
The fine art of gambling
Published 4:00 am, Tuesday, May 11, 1999
ALTHOUGH I tried very hard to dislike the Bellagio Gallery of Fine Art - I mean, really, van Gogh and Picasso under the same roof with SLOT MACHINES? - I failed.
Somewhere among the 20 paintings, perhaps in front of Jackson Pollack's FRIEZE, I had to put down my snobby 'tude and admit that I was having a good time.
The Bellagio gallery, a $300 million element of the $1.6 billion Bellagio Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, certainly does not house the biggest collection of master works. But, as Spencer Tracy said of the lean Katharine Hepburn in "Pat and Mike," what's there is all cherce.
Two different but compelling van Goghs. Two Picassos. Three Renoirs. A Cezanne, a Monet, a Manet, a Matisse and a Modigliani. A Pissarro, a Degas, a Gauguin, the Pollack, a de Kooning, a Miro and a painting each by Rembrandt (1633) and Rubens (1609).
As much as the art itself, which snobbier folk than I have conceded is top rate, the intimacy of the Bellagio gallery is irresistible. Until a proposed expansion is completed in September, the two viewing rooms are Lilliputian by conventional art museum standards.
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Their overall effect is to make you feel as if you've come to call upon some ridiculously wealthy John Fowles character and been asked by a butler to please wait in the master's private gallery.
Thus, if you want to stand 3 feet in front of van Gogh's
"Peasant woman against a Background of wheat" until your knees lock and your eyes cross (as mine did), you may do so. Although the Bellagio gallery is open every day from 9 a.m. to midnight, tickets must be reserved. The staff keeps fairly tight control on the number of folks who come in and out.
Even when the occasional visitor elects to plop her butt down on the marble floor as though she were at a rave - a young woman did this on the afternoon I toured - the tiny gallery seems to absorb it.
This is Vegas, after all, fine art or no. And, come to think of it, Pablo, Vincent and Edouard probably would have approved, if not jumped to paint the scene.
Once I surrendered to the Bellagio gallery experience, I didn't even mind Steve Wynn's "informative audio tour" that comes via a slim hand-held listening device as part of the $12 admission. The truly awesome hotel-casino complex was his vision; he ignored everybody's derisive laughter and made it a whoppingly successful reality. If Wynn wants to "personally" guide people around his sumptuous little collection, what the hell?
Besides, he sounds a lot like the late Rod Serling of
"Twilight Zone" fame, which only adds to the surreal environment of the gallery-in-a-casino.
In an essay in the March 1 edition of the Nation, art editor Arthur C. Danto tipped his learned hat to the casino entrepreneur, noting:
". . . Wynn has gambled that a significant population would be as attracted by van Gogh, Monet, Cezanne and Picasso as by the magicians, stand-up comics, feminine extravaganzas and impersonators that form the city's standard repertoire of distractions and entertainments."
In a town that has become famous for offering elaborate replicas - New York, Paris, Mandalay Bay, Egyptian pyramids, Lake Como and now Venice - Danto said Wynn has chosen a radical path.
"To have installed a collection of real masters" instead of perfect reproductions of the world's greatest art, wrote Danto, "is already to have taken a step toward the transformation of Las Vegas from a theme park . . ."
Danto and Wynn would like to believe the transformation will lead Vegas to become a magnet for "people with higher sensibilities."
People, say, who will spend money on one-armed bandits and then on one-eared artists.< | https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/The-fine-art-of-gambling-3084104.php | fineweb | 1,143 |
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What is Maafe?
Maafe is an African dish and the name means “peanut butter sauce.” It’s also known as groundnut stew. Many varieties dot the continent.
It originated in West and Central Africa. Some versions have even been found in on the Southeastern Seaboard of the US. Most assume the recipe traveled here during the slave era.
I have tried several versions of this recipe and have finally settled on this one as my favorite maafe recipes.
Most recipes include meats like chicken or lamb. This vegetarian version contains tofu, and I’ve lightened it by using PBFit powdered peanut butter instead of peanut butter spread.
I love PBFit because it’s all natural, non-GMO, and contains 85% less fat than traditional peanut butter. The best part? PBFit has just 55 calories per 2 TBSP serving, making it the perfect way to moderate the calorie count this otherwise calorie-laden dish.
Feel free to substitute 2 TBSP of traditional nut butter or your favorite powdered peanut butter. This blog article isn’t a sponsored post. PBFit is just one of my favorite weapons in my arsenal to lighten recipes, like this groundnut stew (Maafe).
To make prep faster, I use one package of pre-cubed tofu. Nasoya makes a good organic version.
Variations: Tofu isn’t your thing? Substitute a can of rinsed kidney beans. You can also add in 4 oz of baby carrots to the potatoes and turnips. Maafe’s strength lies in its versatility. Substitute your favorite root vegetables and proteins. Hint: it freezes well. Double the batch and freeze the rest for another night.
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Cell separation has become instrumental in many areas of medical research over the last two decades, and Miltenyi Biotec’s MACS® Technology has become the gold standard technique, having been cited in over 20,000 publications. Combining superparamagnetic microparticles conjugated to specific antibodies with proprietary columns, this technology uses strong magnetic fields to separate specific cell types, allowing retention of both labeled and unlabeled cells for downstream analysis.
Miltenyi Biotec has been helping to advance biomedical research and cellular therapies since 1989, providing equipment and instrumentation based on its core MACS Technology. Founded and headquartered in Bergisch Gladbach near Cologne, Germany, the company now offers solutions to cover the entire cell processing workflow. Miltenyi Biotec provides cell biology equipment to both academia and industry, and its technology is used for fundamental research, pre-diagnostics and in clinical settings. Lotta Räty, Global Product Manager for Cell Separation Instruments at Miltenyi Biotec, outlined the company’s approach: “Cell separation is probably the technology that we are best known for, but we aim to provide our customers with a one-stop shop for everything to do with cells – from sample preparation through cell separation using our MACS Technology to analysis, as well as cell culturing.”
Miltenyi Biotec has partnered with Tecan to develop a high throughput cell separation system, the MultiMACS™ X. Lotta explained the history of the partnership: “We started working with Tecan a number of years ago, when we first identified the market for integrated systems offering high throughput, more automated cell separation. Our MultiMACS Cell Separation System is available as a standalone instrument, but the possibility of integrating it with a liquid handling platform was considered from its inception. Prior to the development of the MultiMACS X, customers looking for a higher throughput set-up needed to combine our instrument with their own liquid handling system. However, this is a complex undertaking, and requires a large investment of time and manpower to ensure an optimal workflow and achieve the desired biological results.”
"Ultimately, you’re going to have far more dependable results with automation."
“Customers expect speed, high throughput and quality results from our systems, and so they don’t want to have to invest their time doing this optimization and validation. It was therefore a logical next step for us to do this on behalf of our customers and create a fully-integrated platform. When we set about designing the MultiMACS X, we decided that combining our instrument with a Tecan Freedom EVO® 100 liquid handling workstation was the best choice, bringing together two systems that are well established in the marketplace. But it’s about more than simply integrating our instrument into a liquid handling system. This blend of our cell biology knowhow and Tecan’s liquid handling and automation expertise enables us to offer a complete, validated solution, removing the onus of equipment assembly and workflow optimization from the customer.”
As well as providing a fully validated hardware solution, Miltenyi Biotec also tailors the software and workflow to meet individual customers’ specific needs. Lotta continued: “There are multiple steps to be considered in any cell-based workflow; dispensing of samples, reagents and buffers, incubation steps, the logistics of moving labware around the workdeck, and keeping track of all the samples. One customer may want to have an additional washing step, or separate several different cell types from one sample, or use a different starting material, and so on. There are multiple interdependent processes, and so the challenge is to establish a workflow that produces the optimal final result. This is something specific to each customer, and we don’t leave their lab until they are happy with the system performance, which is something that they really appreciate.”
“The MultiMACS X with the Multi-24 Column Block allows the separation of up to 24 samples in parallel. This can be numerous different samples or, for very large sample volumes, multiple aliquots of the same sample. The system takes approximately 45 minutes to process 24 samples, including loading and unloading the instrument, whereas processing that many samples manually could take three to five hours. But it isn’t just the total time that should be considered, you also need to factor in how much hands-on time is involved; processing 24 samples manually requires the technician to sit at the bench for the entire time whereas, with the MultiMACS X, it takes five minutes to load, another five minutes to unload, and that’s it.”
“Another major benefit of automation is the reproducibility that can be achieved. This should be a consideration when using any set-up, and reducing the number of hands-on steps minimizes the risk of human errors, lowering the overall variability of your experiment. Ultimately, you’re going to have far more dependable results with automation, and partnering with Tecan has allowed us to meet the needs of these higher throughput applications while maintaining the quality our customers expect,” Lotta concluded. | https://www.tecan.com/tecan-journal/integrated-knowhow?hs_amp=true | fineweb | 1,051 |
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In the resort area of southwest Ohio, Mason features two major theme parks that attract families from all over the Midwest. Kings Island, the bigger of the two theme parks, has won "Best Kids Area in the World" for six consecutive years in a row from Amusement Today and remains a major attraction. Before they head to the U.S. Open, some of tennis' biggest stars show off their skills each summer in the Men's Masters and Women's Open. | https://www.tripadvisor.co.uk/Tourism-g50618-Mason_Ohio-Vacations.html | fineweb | 138 |
New York Times -
Many homeowners who have flood insurance — or are seeking to buy it — will face higher premiums this year, because of increases that took effect April 1.
Premiums under the National Flood Insurance Program rose an average of about 6 percent. The average annual premium is now about $878, not including various surcharges that apply in some cases, according to the Federal Emergency Management Agency, which administers the program.
Some properties, however, may see much higher increases, according to FEMA. They include those in areas at very high risk, second homes and properties that have experienced multiple flood claims.
Amy Bach, executive director of United Policyholders, an advocacy group focused on insurance, said that four- and five-figure annual premiums are common, particularly in flood-prone coastal areas on the coast and along inland waterways.
This year’s increases are in some cases not as steep as they would have been, however, under federal legislation passed five years ago, which sought to eliminate premium discounts in an attempt to better align premiums with the actual risk of flood damage. A subsequent law passed in 2014 required the flood program to put premium increases into effect more gradually, so homeowners would not face big spikes in their payments.
The steps were taken because a series of costly storms over the past decade has strained the flood program’s finances. The flood insurance program, established nearly 50 years ago, is due for reauthorization in September. More changes could be in store, as Congress seeks to put the program on more secure financial footing. About five million federal policies were in effect in 2016.
Flooding often catches homeowners off guard, because damage from floodwater typically is not covered by standard homeowner insurance policies. Rather, consumers must purchase separate coverage, from the federal program or from private insurers.
Despite a spate of serious floods, however, many people remain unaware that they must buy flood coverage separately. In a recent survey by the website insuranceQuotes.com, more than half (56 percent) of people queried said they believed flood damage was covered by a standard homeowners policy. (The telephone survey polled 1,001 people in March. The margin of sampling error was plus or minus four percentage points.)
“It just seems like it is a persistent misconception,” said Laura Adams, senior insurance analyst with insuranceQuotes. It can be a costly misunderstanding, she noted, since a few inches of water in a 1,000-square-foot home can cost more than $10,000 in repairs.
And people often underestimate their flood risk, particularly if they are not near the coast or a river, said Cynthia DiVincenti, vice president for government programs at Aon National Flood Services, which manages policies for the national program. “Everyone has some risk of flooding,” she said. “There’s no such thing as a no-risk flood zone.”
The Company offers a tool to help consumers estimate their risk by entering a property address.
Homeowners who decide they want to buy flood insurance should not wait until a storm is brewing, experts say, since federal policies typically are not effective until 30 days after purchase.
While most flood policies are sold through the federal program, private policies are increasingly available in some areas. They may be more affordable than the government ones — and may have shorter wait times, sometimes as little as 10 days. (Aon, for instance, sells private policies through its NFS Edge subsidiary.)
It makes sense to compare the cost for various options, said Ms. Bach at United Policyholders. To get quotes for private policies, she said, it’s best to consult an independent agent, rather than one who works for a specific insurer.
Keep in mind, however, that in some cases if homeowners switch to private insurance and then want to return to a federal policy, they may lose discounts they had under their older federal policy, Ms. DiVincenti said.
Here are some questions and answers about flood insurance:
Where can I get information about buying flood insurance?
United Policyholders offers tips for buying flood insurance.
FloodSmart.gov, the federal flood program’s official website, was down Thursday for “maintenance and redesign,” and a FEMA representative could not say when it would be operational again. Visitors are instead being directed to FEMA’s website.
Can I buy flood insurance if I rent, rather than own, my home?
Yes. If the community where you live participates in the National Flood Insurance Program, you can buy flood insurance to cover the contents of your rental property, FEMA says.
If my water heater leaks, is any damage covered by flood insurance?
Generally, no. Flood insurance covers damage from water that comes from outside the home. Damage from interior pipe leaks and the like typically would be covered by a regular homeowner’s policy.
A version of this article appears in print on April 8, 2017, on Page B5 of the New York edition with the headline: Flood Insurance Just Got Costlier, and Many Don’t Know They Need It. Order Reprints| Today's Paper|Subscribe | https://www.uphelp.org/flood-insurance-pricier-year-and-may-go-higher-new-york-times | fineweb | 1,094 |
Hot 97’s Summer Jam over the past five years has been known for its lineup blunders. They either place the artist on the wrong stage or miss the artist completely. Across the board, there have been few complaints about this years lineup. The festival stage seems sharp and the main stage has all of the elements for an incredible night. Below are five must-see acts to at Summer Jam:
The Houston native is known for delivering some of the most energetic sets in the underground scene. He has spent the past year on tour with Young Thug honing his craft. In regards to sound, his production is made for a stadium. All the elements are perfect for Scott to steal the show on the 7th.
Gambino was placed on the wrong stage last year, and Hot 97 has attempted to right the ship this year by placing him on the main stage. Gambino creates incredible music and has some big name collaborations under his belt. The NYC native is sure to set the stage ablaze at Summer Jam.
The Compton native has been a dominant force in 2015 due to the release of his sensational album “To Pimp A Butterfly.” His witty wordplay, fearless crowd interaction and stage presence is the reason why he is the headliner of Summer Jam 2015.
Big Sean had a strong 2015 due to the release of his third studio album “Dark Sky Paradise.” Due to his connections to G.O.O.D. Music, you never know who he could bring out, shit we may get a Kanye sighting. Look for Sean to deliver an amazing live set for his east coast fans.
Very few artists have a catalog full of hits to choose from for a live concert. The Virginia native has 61 songs that has charted and 13 top 10 singles. Outside of the fact that everyone knows his songs, he’s an amazing performer due to his charisma and dance ability. | https://www.vingle.net/posts/871498 | fineweb | 413 |
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