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Island of Doom: Jurassic Park was a planned fanmade Jurassic Park that was set to serve as LordStarscream100's live-action directorial debut. The movie was intended to be a parody of Jurassic Park III. It featured the events of Mike Bruines journeying to Isla Sorna with several other people to see the dinosaurs there. However, their plane crashes and they're forced to fight to survive while attempting to find another plane that they knew had successfully landed there. Filming for the project took place in 2011, but the movie was cancelled after only fifteen minutes of it were filmed, mainly due to the fact that there were no advantages to developing CGI dinosaurs. As a result of the film's cancellation, Jurassic Shark was made instead, with that project being released in 2012. It features many of the characters that were intended to appear in this project. PlotEdit - Note: The film is never to be released. Though this was the original plot, written by LordStarscream100 and based off of Jurassic Park III. Not all of the scenes in the plot are in the video. The film opens in Mike Bruines' driveway, where Mike is greeted by his friend, Nash, who invites him on a secret journey to Isla Sorna aboard a plane. Mike uneasily agrees to go. He stated that Amanda, Paul and Anna Kirby, Cooper Culman and Udesky Richards were accompanying them. Nash's cousin, Walker Patterson, was flying in his own plane to the island with Billy Brennan and Jess Murdock. The plane leaves the following day. At Isla Sorna, Cooper and Udesky test their weapons and head into the woods to make a safety perimeter, but encounter a Spinosaurus and retreat. Udesky makes it to the plane, and they begin to leave without Cooper, but Cooper steps onto the runway and is killed by the Spinosaurus. The plane strikes the carnivore's sail and crashes into the forest. Note: Alongside Cooper and Udesky going into the woods, not only was Nash supposed to go. Another character named "Max Anderson" was also supposed to go, but the character was cut for several reasons. Max would've gone into the woods and gone far ahead, where he would've been attacked and devoured by the Spinosaurus. Everyone survives the crash, although the plane was wrecked beyond repair and its remnants were in a tree, with Nash trapped inside. The Spinosaurus soon arrives and kills Nash, while everyone else retreats. Bruines eventually finds a dead compsagnathus. Meanwhile, Walker Patterson drops off Billy and Jess on the island, telling them that he'd catch up with them, but is killed by a pack of Compsagnathus. The group later find Patterson's corpse, and they decide that they must find his plane to escape the island alive. Mike later finds a book about Jurassic Park's reation, and he finds out that the Kirbys are looking for their lost friend Eric moments before they are attacked by a group of velociraptors, which results in the death of Udesky and Mike going missing. Eric eventually appears and kills two velociraptors in an effort to save Mike, and the group soon finds another survivor named Joey Mallox, although he is later killed by the Spinosaurus when they go looking for Mike and Eric. The group then retreats, running down a river while being pursued by a pterosaur that kills Jess and is about to kill Eric, but is instead stabbed in the wing by Billy, who is taken away fromt he group. Bruines, Eric and the Kirbys are attacked by two more Velociraptors, but the Spinosaurus arrives and kills both raptors, giving the group the chance to find the plane. However, the Spinosaurus pursues them again, but gets involved in a brawl with the pterosaur, which drops Billy to the ground. This allows Mike, Billy, Eric and the Kirbys to fly back to Bruines's neighborhood, where they make a landing in the walking trail. Back in Bruines' neighborhood, the plane makes a landing in the forest. At long last, the Kirbys and Eric reunite and head home. Mike reflects on the day, and Billy says that they're simply dinosaurs that don't need to exist and that they would surely all die out soon enough, but Bruines disagrees, saying that life would find a way. The End ProductionEdit May 2011Edit Production began in May of 2011, with the cast confirmed and model dinosaurs being produced. The largest issue was adding CGI dinosaurs to the movie. June/July 2011Edit The film's production continued. A model Spinosaurus head was also finished, and a model Compy prop was made. Starscream7 was, at the time, considering to use Windows Studio Max 2000 to animate the dinosaurs in the film, and he also said that he might use Adobe After Effects. Either way, props would not be needed for the film if the programs worked properly if downloaded. Island of Doom was confirmed to begin filming on June 20 if everything worked out properly. Starscream7 also confirmed that there may be Pterodactyls, but there will definitely be a Pterosaur. On June 14, it was confirmed that the Blender program was being used to animate the Dinosaurs. It has also been confirmed that the movie would begin filming on the afternoon of June 20. Yet shortly before that, the Blender program will be tested on test scenes. Also, if the Blender program did happen to work out properly, than the film's dinosaurs will be a great success, and no dinosaur props will be needed. The soundtrack for the film was collected on June 18. All music pieces from the Jurassic Park III film score except for Big Hat, No Cattle and the Jurassic Park theme was also added. On June 19, Starscream7 confirmd that at the time, Billy Brennan and Jess Murdock were dropped from the film, due to their absence, possibly due to a sudden vacation. On the brighter side, a new character, Max Anderson, was added, played by Will F (not to be confused with Will M). Filming's first day was bumped up to June 21. That day, Will F, Jacob D, Nick S and Sam D were all absent, although Jacob and Sam returned later that day to film the first scenes of the movie. Will F was ultimately dropped out of the movie due to future absences. On July 19th, 2011, filming suprisingly took it's toll, completing around five minutes of the film. With such success, Starscream7 began to change the tides for the film, saying that "It would be shorter than we expected - but we won't be letting down on our dinosaur counterpart. Thanks to the cooperation of Ben and Nick, the beginning of the film was officially re-filmed properly - and we messed up on a few scenes, and one was cut too much - but it'll be interesting to watch. Hopefully, a bit better than any SyFy film that you've ever seen." Starscream7 confirmed that Jess Murdock and Crazy Joey were cast out of the film, but Nick S stated that "I'll have to look a lot different from Nash. I mean, I had no hat or stuff like that - t-shirt and shorts, that's all." Starscream7 then went on to state that filming will apparently leap to a steady run as of now, due to the shortening of the script and the presence of the characters. October CancellationEdit By October 2011, the film was officially cancelled due to a lack of special effects and time. Luckily, the film was replaced by Jurassic Shark, Starscream7's debuting live-action film. Mike (renamed Dan) Bruines and Cooper Culman would appear, having been redirected from Island of Doom to the other film, as well as Billy Brennan (whose last name was changed to "Trenton"). The film opened to mixed reviews, with SS7 have stated in late-2012 that "I don't think that Island of Doom would've been as successful as Jurassic Shark. Island of Doom seemed to really be 'too much' of a parody to Jurassic Park III. Jurassic Shark, on the other hand, came out with a fresh, new plot that was enjoyable and powerful enough to stand on its own." ReceptionEdit MollicaTV stated that the film was like the movie I made Isla Sorna Survival but instead its on youtube. Thanks for the movie dude, you inspired me to make Isla Sorna Survival IV! On Youtube, the film has been positively looked upon despite it being incomplete. SequelsEdit A total of three sequels were planned for the film. - The second film would feature a reuturn to Isla Sorna with a group of people hunting the dinosaurs. Mike Bruines, Billy, and the Kirbys all accompany the hunters. - The third film would feature Mike Bruines and everyone else attempting to recreate Jurassic Park, this time on Isla Sorna instead of on Isla Nublar. - The fourth and final film would feature the destruction of Isla Sorna, with Bruines and the other characters attempting to find out a way to stop the upcoming extinction. CharactersEdit HumansEdit - Most of the film's characters were later transferred into different roles for Jurassic Shark, although some, such as Cooper Culman, returned with their exact name and actor, with no modifications shown. - Ben M as Mike Bruines (Jurassic Shark, Dan Bruines) - Jacob D as Billy Brennan (Jurassic Shark, Billy Trenton) - Jon M as Paul Kirby (Jurassic Shark, Chase Landon) - Sam P as Amanda Kirby (Jurassic Shark, Alexa Murray) - Abigail P as Anna Kirby (Jurassic Shark, Anna Shelby) - Will M as Eric Bolden (Jurassic Shark, Jeff Stanton) - Will M as Udesky Rogan (deceased) - (Jurassic Shark, Drake Matthews) - Nick S as Crazy Joey (deceased) - Nick S as M.B. Nash (deceased) - (Jurassic Shark, Nate Williams) - Jon M as Cooper Culman (deceased) - (Jurassic Shark, Cooper Culman) - Ben M as Walker Patterson (deceased) DinosaursEdit - Spinosaurus (main antagonist) - Velociraptors (secondary main antagonist/s) - Pterosaur (nicknamed "Terrorsaur") - Pteranodons - Compys - Tyrannosaurus Rex (adult and baby) - Suchomimus
Reviews of current films written by Fr. Dennis Zdenek Kriz, OSM of St. Philip Benizi Parish, Fullerton, CA Tuesday, January 7, 2014 Aftermath (orig. Pokłosie) [2013] IMDb listing FilmWeb.pl listing* GazetaWyborcza.pl (T. Sobolewski) review* news coverage* Polityka.pl (J. Wróblewski) review* forum discussion* RP.pl [Rzeczpospolita - Common Speech] (B. Hollender) review* news coverage* Gazeta.pl news coverage* Liberte.pl (M. Mirowski) review* news coverage* Jerusalem Post (Reuters) news coverage ChicagoTribune/Variety (R. Scheib) review RE.com (S. Abrams) review Aftermath (orig. Pokłosie) [2013] [IMDb] [FW.pl](screenplay and directed by Władysław Pasikowski [IMDb] [FW.pl] based on the true incident recounted in the book Neighbors: The Destruction of the Jewish Community in Jedwabne, Poland [2001] by Jan Tomasz Gross), which played recently here in Chicago at the Polish Film Festival in America (but with a synopsis so "spoiler-free" that I honestly didn't know what the film was about until after the festival was over ;-) is a well constructed tale that utilizes the conventions that will be recognizable to American viewers as that of American Film Noir to bring to light a very ugly secret: During Nazi occupation in at least one case, Polish peasants took advantage of the Nazi campaign of exterminating Jews to (on their own, without much prodding by the German Gestapo) wipe-out the Jews of their own community ... in order to steal their land. [The film is playing again at the Music Box Theater here in Chicago, which also organized a Panel discussion after one of the showings which included a representative of the Polish Consulate in Chicago as well as two Professors, one of Polish Studies and another, my Order's own, Fr. John Pawlikowski, OSM of the Catholic Theological Union here in Chicago and a former member of the National Holocaust Museum Commission. I attended the showing with the subsequent panel discussion]. Needless to say, the J.T. Gross' original book caused a sensation (and an official Polish Government inquiry which both by-and-large vindicated Gross' claims regarding the 1941 Polish peasant instigated pogrom in Jedwabne AND found (thankfully) the atrocity to be all-but unique in the history of Nazi occupation of Poland. J.T. Gross' subsequent works including Złote żniwa (Golden Harvest) about how various Poles across Poland would have benefited financially from taking-over property (both land and other material wealth) after their Jewish neighbors were taken away by the Nazis first to the Ghettos and then extermination camps have caused further controversy with Gross having been accused of oversimplification and more-or-less obvious one-sidedness. This is because while Gross was CERTAINLY RIGHT that many Poles probably benefited from the land and property left behind by their deported and subsequently largely exterminated Jewish neighbors, Poles were CERTAINLY NOT the only "beneficiaries" of such "vulture-like" behavior nor were Jews the only victims. The recent film Sarah's Key [2011] about the rounding-up and deportation of Paris' Jews (an operation run by PARIS' OWN LOCAL (FRENCH) AUTHORITIES if under direction of the German occupiers) reminded viewers that there are plenty of homes and flats across Paris that were confiscated after the deportation of their Jewish owners and then reallocated to non-Jewish French families. And this would have been true across the whole of Europe. Then the situation became even more complex in Poland after the War because 1/3 of Poland today belonged to Germany prior to World War II and the eastern half of pre-WW II Poland was annexed by the Soviet Union and now belongs to Belarus and the Ukraine. SO THERE ARE MILLIONS OF POLES WHO LIVE IN HOMES OR OTHERWISE "OWN" LAND THAT USED TO BELONG TO GERMANS, even as millions of Poles were displaced (losing their land/property) as well. Going south to my parents' country the Czech Republic and a similar phenomenon occurred when after World War II the post-war Czechoslovak government summarily expelled the three million ethnic Germans of the Sudeten region of that country. Again there are perhaps millions of Czechs who now live in homes and "own" land that used to belong to ethnic Germans. An excellent Czech film ALSO using the conventions of American Film Noir applying them to the "unspeakable secret" of the expulsion of the Sudeten Germans from their lands was the recent and quite haunting Alois Nebel [2011]. THEN ADD THE COMMUNISTS TO THE MIX who confiscated lands and other property from "rich people" OF ALL ETHNICITIES ACROSS ALL OF CENTRAL/EASTERN EUROPE, and redistributed them to others. So there were a multitude of mass property thefts that occurred all across Europe and particularly Central/Eastern Europe during the middle half of the 20th century. Then add to this list of property crimes, honestly, the confiscations of Arab lands that took place during the 1948 Israeli War of Independence (one of the biggest sticking points in the making of an Israeli-Palestinian Peace agreement is the question of the "right of return" of Palestinians to land that belonged to their families for centuries that was lost during that first Arab-Israeli War). Resolving these many, many layers of "property issues" would honestly require a Solomon as well as an ENORMOUS AMOUNT OF MERCY. Hence it should not be surprising that a film like this one "would strike a nerve," and I certainly understand the fear of many Poles (expressed in some of the coverage of this film above) that a film like this would just make people across the Western world HATE POLES even as POLES HAVE BEEN SCREAMING FOR DECADES THAT THEY WERE ENORMOUS AND WILDLY UNDER-APPRECIATED VICTIMS DURING WORLD WAR II AND NOT JUST AT THE HANDS OF THE NAZIS who enslaved them, murdered a good part of their Intelligencia and even as the Nazis' War was lost leveled their capital city, Warsaw, to dust BUT ALSO OF THE SOVIETS who stole the eastern half of their country and deported millions of Poles from that part of the country East (an excellent recent film on this Soviet-era crime is the Polish language/English subtitled film Siberian Exile (orig. Syberiada Polska) [2013]) and waited patiently while the Nazis leveled Warsaw during the Warsaw Uprising wiping out most of the non-Communist "Polish Home Army" for them before coming in to "liberate" the country. Still the truth is the truth and part of that truth is Nazi-era Pogrom in Jedwabne was an atrocity not committed by the Nazis but by Polish peasants themselves. That is then what this film is about. And as is typical of the young everywhere, the younger generation in Poland just wants to know its past and know the truth so that it can go forward from there. And who can not appreciate that desire? So then how does the current film then play out? It begins presumably around the year 2000 with 40-something year old Franek Kalina (played by Ireneusz Czop [IMDb] [FW.pl]) arriving in Warsaw (from Chicago) for the first time over 20 years after having left Poland during the Communist era following the 1980 crackdown against Solidarity. He's not picked-up by anybody at the airport. Instead, he takes a taxi to the train station, and then by train, then by bus and finally by foot he arrives, at night-fall, at his family's homestead at the edge of a small provincial town somewhere in rural Poland. Why didn't his younger brother Józef (played by Maciej Stuhr [IMDb] [FW.pl]) pick him up at the airport, or even at the bus-stop at the edge of town? Well, apparently he didn't even know that Franek was coming. Why? Because they hadn't been talking in years. Why? Because Franek had appeared to be so involved in his own life in the West that he didn't even return to Poland for his parents' funerals. Note that in an early conversation between the two after Franek appeared suddenly at Józef's doorstep, Franek tried to explain that it wouldn't have been easy for him to return as they died still during the Communist Era and conceivably could have gotten himself in trouble with the then Communist authorities if he had returned. True or not, or partly true or not, the fact was the Franek hadn't come back for his parents' funerals and hence had been written off as being basically dead by Józef (and as we find out, by the rest of the village). Okay, so what the heck is Franek doing at his family's homestead in Poland so many years after having broken ties with his parents/brother following his departure? Well, we're told that JOZEF'S WIFE AND KID(S) suddenly appeared at Franek's doorstep in Chicago and Franek could not get a clear answer from them why THEY were there. All he knew was that it was something about what Józef was doing. So Franek flew out to Poland thinking that Józef his brother had been somehow abusing his wife and kids. Yet it soon becomes clear that something else is going on: As the two confront each other in a very awkward initial conversation -- "What the heck are you doing here Franek after all these years? Mom and Pop have been dead for a bunch of years. You know YOUR PARENTS, the ones whose funerals you didn't bother to come back for." "I get that, but WHY AFTER ALL THESE YEARS did your wife and kid(s) SUDDENLY show up at my doorstep back in Chicago?" -- a brick flies through through the window of Józef's house abruptly changing the conversation: "What the heck was that?" asks Franek. "Ask in the village," replies Józef. So the next day, Franek does. The villagers _all remember_ Franek as the one who left the village back in 1980 and never returned, not even for his parents' funerals. But they do add that Józef had apparently done something that had irritated them all. What was it? Well, he had dug up something on the "old road by the tannery" outside of town. What was it? Well, it turns out that during the Nazi occupation, the Nazis had paved "the old road by the old tannery" with the gravestones of the local Jewish cemetery. Soon after the war, the local Polish government had paved over the the gravestones with asphalt so that the stones were no longer visible. Well, a number of years prior to Franek's return, a flood came and washed away the much of the asphalt AND Józef one of the few people still taking that road (to his family's fields) happened upon those old Jewish gravestones. NATURALLY APPALLED by what he saw, he started to recover those old grave stones, and SINCE NONE OF THE LOCAL AUTHORITIES SEEMED TO WANT TO DO ANYTHING WITH THEM he started to put them up, upright in his field nearby. Józef explained to Franek: "It just seemed the right thing to do. We (as Catholics...) are supposed to honor the dead." (Remember, Franek didn't even come home for his his own parents' funerals ...). Anyway, the town didn't take too kindly to what Józef was doing. Those gravestones had been paved over (buried) there in the road for a long time, and the villagers didn't want to dig this all up ... Why? Well, that's the rest of the story and the story does follow more or less what truly happened in the village of Jedwabne: It wasn't really the Nazis who got rid of (killed) the village's Jews, it was the Poles of the village themselves. Why? Well, in part for their land, and yes (and this is _always_ one of the great "little evils" of dictatorship ...) to settle old scores: "So I was not good enough for you? NOW DIE, you and your whole family..." In any case, what a horror that these two brothers progressively walk into! And the horror just keeps going: "What do you mean that this house where we were both born, these fields that our family owned, were not really ours...?" This is honestly A GREAT and VERY BRAVE movie. It's ugly, it's horrific. It's something that NO ONE would want to hear about one's past or one's family's past. But it's also the truth. And the Truth CAN set one free. Again this is a great film and ANYONE who tries to use this film against POLES ought to remember that this story (or one similar to it) could be repeated OVER AND OVER AGAIN across Europe and EVEN NO ONE OF EUROPEAN DESCENT who lives in the Western Hemisphere today lives on land that originally belonged to his/her families. IT WAS ALL STOLEN from the natives who originally lived here. Every nation, every people has "skeletons" in its closet. *! :-) >> Note to Readers regarding my comments policy: For the sake of readers like my 81 year old dad, over the years I've allowed readers to send comments "anonymously" (because let's face it, it's the easiest way to do so and one can always attach one's name at the end of even an "anonymous" comment ;-). HOWEVER, I've also retained my right to "moderate" comments as they arrive, rejecting the more problematic ones. I have generally been quite lenient with regards to moderating the comments that do arrive. HOWEVER, I've learned that films like this one can produce some rather charged responses. Since there is no way for me to be certain that the comments sent to me anonymously, or not, are authentic rather than the products of any number of classes of provocateurs with any number of agendas, I've decided to post only comments that seem to me to be reasonably well thought-out and constructive (and obviously not selling anything ;-) Name calling, to say nothing of hate-speech, against either Poles or Jews or really anyone else will get one no where on this blog as God loves us all ;-)
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/> /> Selecting a Specialty: Emergency Medicine Medical Practice Medical School 08.25.2020 Are you currently in medical school or looking to start? You may be wondering what medical school specialties you might want to pursue. Emergency Medicine is the medical specialty dedicated to the diagnosis and treatment of unforeseen illness or injury. Emergency medicine physicians care for adult and pediatric patients in emergency situations, making immediate decisions and taking action to save lives and prevent further injury. Meet three doctors currently practicing in emergency medicine to share what led them to choose emergency medicine as a speciality, what a day in the life of an emergency medicine doctor looks like, how you can stand out in the field of emergency medicine, and more. We asked our doctors six questions around emergency medicine. Read what they had to say, and learn how emergency medicine can be a rewarding specialty, especially during this global pandemic of COVID-19. Dr. Jessica Best graduated SGU in 2012 and is currently the Associate Medical Director at Christus Santa Rosa Hospital in New Braunfels, Texas. Best also works at a freestanding emergency room. Dr. Ninad Desai, a recent graduate from SGU, is an Emergency Medicine Resident at Wyckoff Heights Medical Center in Brooklyn, New York. Dr. Yalda Safai, a 2012 graduate from SGU, is a third-year psychiatry resident at New York Medical College who, in addition to having her MD, also holds a Master of Public Health degree. /> Question 1: What Led You to Choose a Career in Emergency Medicine? Dr. Ninad Desai had always loved working with kids and adolescents and had experience working with autistic and disabled children. Originally, he wanted to specialize in pediatric hematology and oncology. During his clinical rotations, he discovered that he didn’t enjoy the pace or pathology of being in a clinic and found himself continually attracted to the emergency department. “I realized I needed variety,” Dr. Desai said. “I needed a little bit of action. I had a couple of weeks dedicated to the pediatric emergency department. Same thing when I was on my psych rotation — I went to the psych emergency department. When I was in internal medicine — again, same thing: Emergency department. And that's how I discovered my love for the emergency department because everything led to emergency medicine.” Dr. Jessica Best had exposure to emergency medicine prior to medical school when she volunteered in an ER. She was drawn to the variety of emergency medicine, saying, “You never know what you’re going to get. You see young patients, you see old patients... from every walk of life, every background. I love it.” /> "You never know what you’re going to get. You see young patients, you see old patients... from every walk of life, every background. I love it.” Question 2: How Did Medical School Prepare You for Emergency Medicine? Dr. Desai stressed the importance of St. George’s University’s Office of Career Guidance and Student Development (OCGSD) in preparing him. “[They] put me in touch with some emergency medicine residents, and they got me in touch with a 4th-year medical student who had been interviewing for Emergency Medicine at the time that I decided to apply. They also told me about specialized letters and evaluations, which are key for emergency medicine residency, and helped strengthen my interviewing skills.” The OCGSD also proved to be extremely vital in helping students refine their personal statements and strengthen their interviewing skills when preparing to interview for residencies. In addition, medical students also have access to a voluntary tutoring system from the Department of Educational Services. Dr. Yalda Saifa says that having her Master of Public Health degree in addition to her MD has proven invaluable during the global pandemic of COVID-19. “In today's climate, it's important to get the big picture, to learn about diseases and pandemics in other countries, how they can affect us and how we're all connected. We're not like different healthcare systems; the way one works will affect the other. The MPH gives you that big picture. You learn about health policy, epidemiology, what diseases around the world are killing people, causing morbidity, mortality and why that's important to us as physicians in the U.S.” SGU offers a dual degree program, a combined four-and-a-half-year program that results in holding both an MD and an MPH degree. Dr. Saifa notes that adding the dual degree only extends your time in medical school by 6 months, and the benefits of having the MPH degree are well worth it. /> Question 3: What Does a Day in Emergency Medicine Look Like? Dr. Best works in a less urban area which creates its own rhythms to her days and nights. “I work single coverage, so I’m the only doctor who’s going to be in the emergency department for my entire shift. So things get busy.” Because she is not near a major trauma center, and because her facility does not admit children, she is frequently stabilizing patients to have them transferred to a neighboring larger city. Dr. Best enjoys the challenges of being in this smaller area, saying, “I love practicing in more of this rural community setting because it really, really pushes your skillset.” About his typical day, Dr. Desai says, “First of all, it’s nothing like Grey’s Anatomy. So that’s the number one thing that everyone needs to know. I have a 12-hour shift so I could start my day off with a patient with chest pain, or with a patient coming to the resuscitation bay, or I could simply be speaking to my attendings or my mentor about the research. And then it’s just churning out patients.” Dr. Desai is quick to add, “In emergency medicine, there’s a very fine balance in seeing the number of patients as well as evaluating them properly.” He also points out the importance of collaboration with other parts of the hospital as an emergency medicine doctor. “We deal with everyone in the hospital from administration to transportation to radiology, internal medicine, psych, OB for all the consults. It involves a lot of talking to other folks. So I literally do everything at all times and the hardest part is learning how to balance it.” In addition, emergency facilities often serve as primary care centers for patients without access to primary care so emergency medicine doctors can find themselves serving as educators, helping diabetics understand the importance of insulin management or sharing how to properly take medications for blood pressure management. Emergency medicine varies greatly based on where the facility is located, and the days are rarely the same. Question 4: Did Graduating From an International Medical School Negatively Impact Your Ability to Practice Emergency Medicine? All three doctors were emphatic that graduating from a Caribbean medical school had no bearing in their practicing emergency medicine. Dr. Safai said, “After you match into residency, nothing else matters. Nobody's ever going to stop you and ask you where you went to medical school. Once you're a doctor, you’re a doctor. It doesn't matter where you graduated from.” Dr. Safai added, “I always tell people that Grenada is a perfect place to study. Despite being an island and being tropical and beautiful, there really are no distractions. You’re there for a reason; everybody around you is studying all the time.” Dr. Desai also appreciated the climate of the Caribbean, saying, “Grenada is gorgeous. The weather is 75° to 85° all year round, and I played basketball in January, which was incredible.” Dr. Best, who did her first year of St. George’s University in the U.K. and her second in Grenada, found the international experience to have quite a positive impact on her. “It inspired me even more to go and do global health work.” She suggests that if you are hoping to eventually practice in a specific hospital, you can look to see if they have taken international graduates in the past, but adds, “There are people who know about Grenada and they’ll ask you about it. You will not have to worry about a job whatsoever because most people are going to be very interested to know your story.” Dr. Desai also felt strongly that he has never been treated differently as a graduate from a Caribbean medical school. He said, “Through pediatrics, general surgery, neurosurgery, you name it — all of my rotations, I was never ever, ever, ever treated differently.” But he reminded future students that what matters most is putting in the work. “It doesn’t really matter where you go as long as you study hard and you’re willing to participate.” Question 5: How Has the Current Pandemic Affected Emergency Medicine? Dr. Safai’s Master of Public Health degree has proven invaluable during this global pandemic of coronavirus. “It's important to get the whole big picture and learn about diseases and epidemics and other countries and how they can affect us and how we're all connected.” As a psychiatric resident, Dr. Safai sees another side to what the world is going through. “In the middle of the pandemic, we're seeing a lot of anxiety. But after the pandemic, we're going to also see, I'm sure, a lot of depression, a lot of PTSD if someone they knew was affected with COVID or someone they knew died of COVID, or if they were in the front lines of working with COVID patients. So the prediction is that after the pandemic, the need for mental health is going to go drastically up.” With most elective procedures being canceled right now, and non-essential physicians giving up their space for COVID-19 patients, Dr. Best talked about the crucial need for emergency medicine doctors. “Right now, we're in a pandemic and emergency medicine physicians are a frontline provider. So you're always going to be needed in the field. You know that for sure. A lot of my friends who are specialists aren't really needed right now. They can't do much. So you're going to have some job security with that as well.” Question 6: How Can Others Stand Out in the Field of Emergency Medicine? All three doctors agreed that strong interview skills and letters of recommendation are key. However, Dr. Best explained that letters of recommendation are a bit different for emergency medicine. “Instead of someone writing a few paragraphs about you, they actually have a rating system. So it compares you to the other medical students that were rotating at the time, in addition to comments from faculty from that department.” Dr. Desai stressed the importance of interactions with your Attending physicians. “The number one thing that your Attendings value is that you take the initiative to learn and to put your patients’ best interests before anything else.” Dr. Best also touched on the importance of relationships, saying, “If you do very well in your rotations and the faculty members really enjoyed having you and they thought you worked really hard, that is definitely going to work to your advantage.” She also suggested joining a group such as EMRA, the Emergency Medicine Residents’ Association. “There is a student section and it's amazing how many students are a part of it and how involved they are. It's really hard to get involved with research, per se. If you have a patient that had a really interesting presentation or whatnot, or just something very rare, writing up a case report is something that is very easy, and you can maybe get a resident to help you or a faculty member and it doesn't take a long time. And it's pretty easy to get stuff like that published.” Dr. Desai shared ways to shine on your rotations. “Show interest, be enthusiastic, always be available to help out and do anything that's required. The one thing that was always taught to me is no matter what it is, you have to be willing to do it. Because in one way or another, that's going to come back to help you. You're never too good to go get a history of a patient; you're never too good to just go ask the patient for their pharmacy, because every interaction with the patient is another chance to examine them and to learn about them so that you can help them more.” If you would like to learn more about emergency medicine,
Ramadan 2012 – Life of the Last Messenger – Day 15 Channel: Mufti Menk Series: Mufti Menk - Ramadan 2012 Episode Notes An in depth lesson within the Noble Qur’an,”Life of the Last Messenger (Muhammad PBUH)” by Mufti Ismail wa sallahu wa sallahu wa salam o Baraka la Mulana via vida who Allah Allah He was happy. What are the inomata beyond the sun in Isla Medina? We commenced by praising Allah subhanho wa Taala sending complete blessings and salutations upon Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, his entire household all his companions May Allah subhanho wa Taala bless them. And may He bless every single one of us and may He bless our offspring those to come up to the day of piano may keep them steadfast on the deen. And at the same time, May He grant us all acceptance the day he takes us away. May He make it easy for us and May He grant us gentlemen, beloved brothers and sisters in Islam, the nation of the Muslims in Medina to munawwara had been built on the foundations of goodness and piety. The Masjid had been built the first one upon piety known as Masjid Koba. Thereafter the second Masjid to be built was al Masjid nabawi oh mosquitto Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam with in Medina to menorah these are the blessed masajid built by the most blessed of hands, the hands of Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, he took part in building the masjid and this is why it is a sweetener of Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wasallam not only to contribute towards the building of massages, but to take a moment to pick a brick or two up with your own hand and late May Allah subhanho wa Taala grandpa's goodness, this is also the son of Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wasallam we are so weak that in our lives, we can only fulfill a few of the sooner of Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wasallam Where is whereas there are hundreds of 1000s of sooner, we as ordinary human beings would be unable to fulfill all of them. And this is why do not belittle what someone else is doing, thinking that you are the only one serving Islam. Perhaps they are also engaging in the sooner and by you saying I'm the only one serving Islam, you would be insulting the sooner of Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam which is far broader than just one or two things. May Allah subhanho wa Taala grant us a deep understanding of the deen and may He makers from amongst those who can support one another. As we ended off yesterday, making mention of the points that Nabi sallallahu alayhi wasallam had stressed whilst he was in Madina, munawwara at the beginning, these were firstly I made mention of the issue of education, to the degree that as I said, After the war, after one of the wars, he was, he actually issued an instruction to those who are captive saying that if you can teach 10 from amongst us to read and write, we will free you this was the importance given to education by Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam. And on top of that, the importance of a good upbringing, the importance of good character and conduct, cleansing of the heart, rooting it of hatred, malice, jealousy and so on and ridding it of any of the bad qualities, this does gear to next and clarification meaning purification of the heart, something very, very important that every single one of us needs to consider and needs to engage in In fact, because with us, we are human beings, and we are not from amongst the ambia of Allah subhanho wa Taala who are protected by Allah subhanho wa Taala safeguarded by Allah subhanho wa Taala we are ordinary human beings shaytan comes to us and tries to divert us. So Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam constantly reminded his companions to cleanse their hearts, to remove hatred, to remove malice, jealousy of one another, and so on. And above that, to love one another, and the Brotherhood should always remain. These were some of the prime teachings of Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wasallam over and above, worshipping Allah subhanho wa Taala and obeying the instruction of the messenger. So as this happened, let's take a look at some of the first a hadith of Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam memorized in Al Madina, munawwara these were words that came out of his blesseth mouth sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, and they were put into practice they were taken very, very seriously as I go through these words. Remember these are the words that built the nation. Let every one of us look into ourselves how close or far we are from the same words and we will be able to see whether we are good or whether we are just from amongst those who pay lip service to the deen saying that you know I follow Islam but in actual fact we are following something very far from Islam. So the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam says, when he was asked, Are you Islamic? Which of Islam is the best? Now this question means what is the best thing I could do as a Muslim? And the answer came several times in different wordings all heading towards one conclusion. And every time a different point was raised, and on this occasion, he says, to me, Tama Watteau, creo, Salama, Allah kundiman, after woman, lamb tarrif. He says, to feed food, to whom, starting with the poor, those who are poor, those who are in need those who are hungry, we will come to another Hadith just now in sha Allah, which clarifies this as well from another angle, feed food to people, be considerate about people, and spread Salaam, the greeting as well as spread the greeting, to those whom you know, as well as those whom you don't know. That's a very important point today. Point number one we lack we will greet but we only greet when there is a messiah or when there is something for ourselves that we find we might want to gain from this person. If there is a person downtrodden, who perhaps we fear he might ask us for a thing or two. We start off by turning away and we don't even greet we greet people Mashallah because of their wealth, this is what has come. Nowadays. Sometimes this happens, we greet people because of their status, but we leave those whom perhaps had we greeted them, the acceptance from Allah would have been far greater than having greeted the whole community of wealthy people. Now Allah subhanho wa Taala forgive us. So this is the importance of Salaam salaam aleikum wa rahmatullah wa barakato. To those you know, to those who don't know the fact that they are Muslim and they deserve the greeting, may Allah subhanho wa Taala make us from amongst those who understand. So, at that time, the Mahajan answer, they knew that these are from the answer these are from the Mahajan. But initially they had to be acquainted with one another. And they had to get to know one another. And this is why Salam was important to everyone you know them, you don't know them, you greet them, they have a link with Allah subhanho wa Taala. Another Hadith he says, the whole Janata mela manjaro Baraka amazing. He will not enter Paradise, whose neighbors are not protected from his harm. This was building Madina munawwara so the neighbors were looked towards one duration says when you are making some stew, add a little bit more in it to give the neighbors to Panama with us, never mind giving the neighbor something good, we give them something bad. May Allah protect us it happens. Let us hope that we can be from amongst those who don't do that. And we can be from amongst those who understand the powerful words he will not enter Paradise whose neighbor is not safe from his harm, because that is your neighbor. And if each one has to fulfill this, the whole community will be people who fulfill the rights of one another because we are all neighbors of someone. Another narration powerful words of Muslim men Saleemul Muslim and I mean listen he already a Muslim is a person whom all the Muslims are protected from the harms of his tongue or his hand. Look at the powerful words. Today we are in an age of rumor and gossip. It becomes so juicy, that the marination of the chicken that we happen to Bry or to put on the fire barbecue chicken that men are marination is left one side. The juiciness of the statements of rumor about our own brothers and sisters is far greater in Ramadan in the condition of passed and rumors are flying. And vodacom has made it quite easy to do that may Allah protect us. Allah safeguard us voila, here we need to be careful. A true Muslim is he whom all the Muslims are safeguarded from the evil have his tongue and his hand, which means physical harm or verbal harm, not at all. It goes deeper than that we are not even supposed to be holding ill feeling in our heart for one another. May Allah subhanho wa Taala grant us goodness, if there is something people are engaged in, that is bad, we should try and talk to them directly and try and help them and so on. And if there is something that we cannot do anything about, we can at least make a good prayer. Feel it in our hearts that this is wrong. But we don't need to go around spreading tale rumor and gossip because what happens to a person who spreads rumor, it comes back to haunt him at some stage later on. May Allah protect us and we this is one thing we don't realize. Sometimes we suffer in life without knowing that it is the result of a rumor we spread about a friend of Allah And this thing came back to us to haunt us and our lives are upside down and we don't even know May Allah subhanho wa Taala protect us. These were the building stones of the foundation of this nation. And another Hadith the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam says, la umino hadoken Hata you hit by the hip good enough. See, none of you are true believers. Until you love for your brother what you love for yourself. So you love goodness for yourself, you should love it for others. You want everything to be good for you, you should want it for them. And you should make do ask for them or wherever you can and you are able you should help them open the doors for them and allow will open your doors. This is why the Hades is mini una cara Julian Why? The true believers are like one men, if he's I so his whole body is restless. If his hand one organ is painting, his whole body will be restless. These are the words of the Prophet Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam in another narration of a similar meaning he says minoli Mini elbonian he should do Baba Baba, a believer. His relation with another believer is like that, of a wall of a building. Each brick strengthens the other without one you find the whole wall or the whole building is weak. So we need to hold each other up. And we need to make sure we stand as a wall as a building. May Allah subhanho wa Taala grant us goodness. Then he says Lata has said to Walla Walla tada borrow. In one narration. He says who knew he by the law he is one. Do not be jealous of one another. Do not hold hatred against one another don't turn away from one another. These are the building stones of the foundation. The building stones within the nation of rasuluh Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, we ask Allah Subhana Allah to Allah to grant us acceptance. And he says you should be brothers for the sake of Allah subhanho wa Taala worshipers of Allah subhanho wa Taala then something very important. He says whoever spends time is spending time helping his brother, Allah will be helping him for that period of time. And another generation can Allahu fi only Abdi McConnell Abdul Rahim, Allah continues to help a person for as long as that person is engaged in helping his brother Subhana Allah Look at this. So people began to help one another, they loved one another, they opened their doors for one another, they were feeding one another, they had a good feeling for one another when they had problems or crises, they would resolve it immediately. The Hadith continues to say, Who ever removes a Muslim from a difficulty of the dunya. Allah will remove him from the difficulty of the era and the day of judgment when he needs it more Subhana Allah, we sometimes create problems for people forget about removing them, it's a fact. This is why you find degradation of the nation. May Allah subhanho wa Taala protect us. Then he says, woman satara Muslim in satara, Hola, Yama, Yama, whoever covers the false of a Muslim of a believer, Allah will cover his false on the Day of Judgment. To get this today, we each to expose people because that is the western thinking the idea, the minute you see something, announced it to the world, go to the press tell the whole world. That is the western idea that everyone should know everything about every single person. So what happens? A person might have turned to Allah after they have done something wrong. The world continues looking at them with an evil eye, and Who are they to judge Allahu Akbar, whereas the Islamic teaching is, you see something wrong, you don't go and expose you resolve the matter. If you love a person see something wrong. You don't go and start telling the whole world you go to them and you say my brother, this is something that was wrong. Please rectify it, I am your brother, I care for you. And then if the person rectifies if you are brothers in Allah Subhana Allah to Allah is love. And the two of you will be resurrected together as those who love each other for the sake of Allah subhanho wa Taala granted a special place on the day of piano the Day of Judgment. So this is of extreme importance, and we learn a lot from it. And we learn how today we have different thinking because of the environment we live in. And we have this love of exposure of people and we think that there is goodness in it, not realizing that if allow it to expose us, none of us would be seated here this evening. Allah subhanho wa Taala Allah forgive us, and may He cover us in the dunya as well as in the ashira. Then he says, The powerful words, your hammelmann fill out of the your ham, Command V sama, have mercy upon those on earth and the one in the skies will have mercy upon you, meaning Allah subhanho wa Taala will have mercy upon you. Imagine these words the Jewish people are listening to them, the machines are listening to them and at the time of Rasulullah sallallahu And the answer and Mahajan are learning from them. And they become merciful, compassionate, they have their hearts open up and soften up at the same time. Then he says a min is not one who eats to his food whilst his neighbor is hungry. Look at that words of Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wasallam. Neighbor hungry, then he says, one of the levels of Eman is to remove a harmful object from the path of people. You drive your vehicle you notice a brick in the middle of the road between you and Allah if you were to stop your vehicle, ensuring safety obviously. And you were to spend a moment to remove that brick solely between you and Allah. It's a sign of emotion and belief in your maker. Because you would not like fellow human beings to be harmed by something you saw. Perhaps they may not see it. May Allah subhanahu wa taala grant us protection. And in this way, you may never know how many times you were saved from being harmed by something on the path because of others before you who remove the object before you even came the law cover. May Allah subhanho wa Taala grant us goodness and this is why the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam says, Be careful, or the messenger sallallahu alayhi wa sallam. He says Allah via tele futari Tina co he's the one who relieves himself upon the path of people where people walk, they relieve themselves there. So now there is a stench and the smell, they are cursed. These are cursed by the people who walk and at the same time, the others who relieve themselves in the resting places of people the shade where people might take a bit of risks and you find you go into the shade and you want to busy you know you want to lay your picnic for example. And there you have a human being before you who has just relieved himself. The messenger sallallahu alayhi wa sallam warns us imagine Today we speak of environmental cleanliness and pollution and so on. These were beautiful teachings of Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam the basics. And this is what community is based upon cleanliness and compassion and the feeling for one another. And this is why he says any Muslim who has clothed a another Muslim who did not have clothing, Allah will grant them a special clothing, on the day of piano and in paradise. So panela it means people who are without clothes, people who don't have something to clothe themselves, if you help them, you get a special clothing from Allah subhanho wa Taala. And anyone who feeds another, who is hungry, Allah will feed them from the food of Jenna Subhan Allah, the food of paradise. So this is not just feeding the wealthy. This Hadith is specifically feeding those who do not have food, look for them, hunt for them, Go and give them an Allah prepares for you food. So Panama. And the last part of that Hadith it says, And whosoever quenches the thirst, Whosoever quenches the thirst of a person who is thirsty, who doesn't have that drink, and whosoever quenches them Allah will grant him a drink from what is known as Rahul Mattoon, which is the sealed nectar special drink of paradise. Now Allah subhanho wa Taala granted to us so these are some of the beautiful narrations that were the building point of the nation in Medina to munawwara over and above the treaties and the various agreements that we spoke about yesterday, we ask Allah subhanho wa Taala to help us realize and look into these Hadith and many more, and ask ourselves how close or far am I from these teachings of Islam? And if I am far, what am I going to do about it? Remember, as I always say, this is the month of Ramadan. We have a few more days we have already passed the halfway mark if you look at it carefully. And when we exit Ramadan Are we going to be from amongst those who exited without having taken anything from it with us as we exit, so every goodness, we leave it in Ramadan and we walk out what was the point we'd rather have the month of Ramadan if it has changed us and it has woken us up and it has made us develop our good qualities and it has made us eradicate our bad qualities then we have achieved from the month of Ramadan If not, we have just wasted our time fasting and standing in Salah as the narration says how many people who fast they achieve nothing besides hunger and thirst from the past how many people who stand at night in prayer they achieve nothing besides getting tired and staying awake. May Allah not make us from those. Allah opened our doors. Let us get back to the situation in Medina to manohara now Quraysh they started under Standing and realizing what has happened. Makoto Karana was empty. They had no one to to poke, basically, they had no one to harm, they had no one to actually make life difficult for. So what did they do? They wrote a letter, who should they write to because now the leader of Medina, Medina to manohara is Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam. If you recall, we made mention of a man who was about to be appointed as the leader. His name was Abdullah hypnobabies saloon. Qureshi wrote a letter to him and told him a few words, that look, you have given asylum to a wanted man who is wanted by us, if you do not hand him over to us. We are coming with a huge army to wipe you out. Basically, these were the words, we are coming with a huge army, we're going to fight your men, and we're going to enslave and capture your women. That's what we are going to do. So when cellule got this letter, he was very happy in a way, because to him, he said, Let me make a big noise about it, so that I can get Mohammed salatu salam out so that I can be the leader once again. But as soon as he started making a noise within certain circles, Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam being informed by Allah subhanho wa Taala. What did he do? He got up and went to school and his people and said, You have overreacted regarding the letter that came from Quraysh you have overreacted do not overreact to it. This teaches us a lesson. Sometimes something small, we don't understand we overreact. We get very excited about things. So we make a mountain as I always say, from a little molehill, a big mountain. And yet, if we had asked those who had had knowledge, and we asked those with experience, they would tell you, brother, just ignore this. Don't worry, it's minor. It's small. Just leave it. We have to face negativity in life. No one can say I have a smooth life with no negativity because then what was the point of Jenna paradise? Paradise is going to be a place where they will only be positive, no negatives. If the worldly life was the same thing, what was the point of going to paradise? May Allah subhanahu Allah grant us a deeper understanding. And so when they wrote this letter, and Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam then reacted upon the reaction of saloon. Things started coming down. But the whispering was still on. No, you see, these people are going to come and attack us. In the meantime, something else had happened. a diploma who was one of the leaders of UN as we have made mention of, and as a hobby, he went for hombre. And this was the habit of the people at the time. Now this man had gone to Makkah to mocha Rama and he was a Muslim. When he went there, Abu Jamal, in fact, he stayed with who may have been Hello. That was a person whom he stayed with, and may have been hell of these people used to pass Madina munawwara on their way to a sham to the northern Arabian region. And when they used to take their caravans they used to pass Madina munawwara and wait for a while. And thereafter when sad diplomas went to Makkah to mukarram, as he is making tawaf Abu Jamal asks him or asks, who may have been Fela Who is this man says this is sad, sad, meaning the one from yesterday, the one from Medina. He says, oh, if you were not with this men, I would have stopped you and blocked you, you would not have returned back to your people. You have given asylum to unwanted men look at the same statement from the same people coming again to a different person. You have given asylum to a wanted man, you have given him a base and you are protecting a person who is wanted, we would block you and stop you. At this point. Sadiq no more as I said very loudly. If you try to do anything, you will be blocked from going up to a sham, all your caravans, we will stop them, block them and you will have to go back your trade route will be over closed your business gone. Now they were worried they had to keep quiet once again, but they knew that now the mushriks of Makkah are preparing war against the believers who are in Madina munawwara they were many still in Mecca, and the meaning they will not so many, there was a headcount done of the people who are able to participate in war if war broke out. And 1500 men were counted at that time in Madina munawwara so that was the population of the men and the boys or should I say the young men and the older people who were fit to fight 1500 people. And so Quraysh knew that they had large numbers, but Subhan Allah while they were preparing, on this side Rasulullah sallallahu Sallam was busy Hitting different tribes. And he was visiting different areas around Madina munawwara signing treaties with the people to say, look, we are the Muslims, we are a nation, new nation, we are going to protect you if anything happens to you. And if an army comes to attack us, we will fight together. So hon Allah. So this was just an agreement that was plucked, and more and more little groups of people and little clans were joining, and more and more areas were joining the Muslim forces. In the meantime, something amazing happened. The Prophet sallallahu Sallam used to have bodyguards around him, the Sahaba of the Allahu anhu did not leave him. They had bodyguards around him so much so that once he speaks about how he had such a good sleep, when sad, even though he was the lover and who was standing, guarding him, until Allah revealed versus we Allah says, Yeah, I you know, de la la cameo a big war inlanta funfair. Marbella who Teresa La La Jolla, similkameen kameena. In LA, de la como el cap hearing, O Messenger, get up and convey the message. If you don't do so you will not have fulfilled your duty. And remember, Allah will protect you from the people. When those verses were revealed. He immediately told those who used to stand around him you can go away, Allah has guaranteed my safety, my protection Subhana Allah, so the Hadith in Sahih al Bukhari, making mention of those who used to stand around him. This was only to the point where the verses were revealed when Allah subhanho wa Taala revealed verses that I will protect you Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam instructed those who used to stand around him to leave. And this is when sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, they knew that he is protected by Allah subhanho wa Taala nothing will ever harm him, except and until the decree of Allah subhanho wa Taala has ruled it. So Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam. At that time, verses were revealed to him, which were very, very important because Quraysh they had a bad habit, they began to visit Madina, munawwara quietly and they used to try and inculcate in the hearts and minds of the people that you know, this man is like this, like that. And they were causing problems. On one hand you had obey, even though saloon Abdullayev No, but you know, saloon, he had his group of people, they were visiting the minion and the believers, you know, the those who had believed newly and they were trying to distract them and find fault in Islam, and so on. And as for the Jewish people, there was a treaty with them, but still deep down, they used to support obey bluesil anything that happens, they would quickly support him so that they tried to create problems in the midst of the Muslims, but Allah protected the Muslim and then a lot of universes up to that stage. Muslims were not allowed to fight nor retaliate, no revenge, and they weren't even allowed to defend. If someone had usurped their wealth, they had to just go away. Up to that point, they Allah revealed versus Audrina in levena Yoko una de mucho de la Cody, permission has been granted to those who are being fought to defend themselves and to revenge and retaliate. For Indeed Allah is all able to grant them victory. These verses brought a smile on the faces of the believers, their wealth was you saved, their properties you saved, they people were killed, they were driven out of their homes, and the machinery still did not leave them alone. They wanted to come to Medina to attack them. Now they were granted permission to defend and to revenge, revenge, meaning you are booted out, you can go back and you can boot them out and you can take back whatever was taken from you, whatever was taken from you, you can take it back and at the same time, anyone tries to harm you now. You don't sit back you can actually revenge Subhanallah you can defend yourself and that is the right it's a it's a common right that we have. If anyone wants to attack you or me today, with whatever I have, I need to stand up and make sure I defend myself. Now Allah subhanho wa Taala grant us protection. So when these verses were revealed Quraysh The Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam started in an amazing way, finding out information, and getting to know the place getting to know more about Quraysh. preparing to attack. Why preparing to attack, very simple. This attack was not an attack, to spread Islam, as people think it was. No, it was to go back to Quraysh, who killed from amongst us, and go back to Quraysh, who had usurped our wealth and our properties and driven us out of our own homes, we need to go back and get it because even the wealth that they have is contaminated with ours, and whatever belongs to us. So Panama, so anytime they were caravans that moved north, towards the Syrian region, what was known as a sham. It was the right of the Muslims to waylay the caravan, and to take every bit of property because all that belonged to the muslimeen. It was usurped from them. So panela so this was revenge. It was retaliation for what you did for the last 14 years. For the last 14 years. You harmed us, you attacked us, you killed us, you did this, you did that. And now we are just allowed to defend. So the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam started sending little platoons and reconnaissance missions of a few of his companions, and he sent them into different directions, we want to start off making mention of some of them. But before I do that, fighting came down in four stages. First, only Quraysh were allowed to be fought nobody else. So at this stage, when these verses were revealed, the Muslims were only allowed to fight Quraysh no one else. Then, slightly later, they were permitted to fight thereafter the Muslims from amongst the Arabs who fought them, the Muslims from amongst the Arabs who fought them, and thereafter, anyone who sided with Quraysh, in their war was also fought by the Muslim mean, even if they were people of the book, who broke their treaties with the Muslims. And the last category, those who started war, anyone who started fighting, we were allowed to go back retaliate. And at the same time, we could revenge we could fight them preparing an army and go back to attack them. Like for example, there were instances where the messenger of the Prophet sallallahu Sallam was harmed and was killed. He sent a whole army to fight those people. Why did you kill our messenger? Who are you? So you started the war? Not us. And this is what happened. So Rasulullah sallallahu Sallam the first platoon that he sent, he was not a part of it. But in Ramadan, in the first year of Egypt, he sent what is known as Sorry, it's a full bow. Hamza Abner Abdulmutallab was sent with 30 men, only to find out information to gather intelligence. The idea was to gather intelligence. This is what it was. These people were not worried as such. The Muslims were calm people, but they had to learn and they started gathering information. So when Hamza Abdulmutallab was sent towards a place known as safer baja with 30 men in order to see and to check the caravan of Abu Jamal that was returning from a sham that had had 300 strong men. So now Hamza Abdulmutallab went with 30 men. As they went, they got they, they saw the caravan. And now the two parties came together. And obviously two hostile parties coming together face to face. There was a man known as much deep no armor, and he had had a treaty with both sides. So he got up and he said, You know what, no fighting here. We don't want to fight. You people go back and new people go back. We don't want any war in any any fighting. So Hamza in Abdulmutallab came back to Al Madina, munawwara and Abuja when safely to Makkah, Tomoko Lama, but it did something. She went back to Makkah, and he was wanting, these people are brave. They are powerful for the first time they are preparing some retaliation. So it sent a very strong message, although it was mainly to gather a little bit of intelligence, the first flag that was lifted by the muslimeen to see every time there was an army, they had had a flag. The flags were mainly white. So this flag was by Rasulullah sallallahu Sallam given to Hamza and he had given it to one of the members of the army. It was a white flag. It was a little platoon they had gone as we made mentioned, just 30 minutes. The second little skirmish that took place, or we call it a little Platoon, sorry, yeah, something, a small reconnaissance mission in order to gather a little bit of intelligence. It was what are known as Siri yet Robin, which was also in chawan. In the same year, first year of HR. And the leader was obey the inheritor of the alarm. I know, he went with 60 men in order to check the caravan of Abu sufian. That was a much bigger caravan that was coming with 200 men, but it had a lot of wealth, and it had a lot of merchandise. So the two met and they threw Spears at each other, but this one fled, and the other one came back to Al Madina, munawwara, there was no killing as such, they were just a few spears and arrows that had flown from one direction to the other, and from the other direction to this, and from Abu sufian, a little group of people, two of them, came into the Muslim camp, and returned to Madina munawwara they were Muslims already, but they had joined the caravan going on business with the idea of making the hegira undercover cedula was not easy. So someone wants to make hegira it's like sometimes, you know, we have let me give you a simple example come to my mind. Now, you have, for example, something going on or religious function going on somewhere. And the person really needs to do a bit of business day or something. And you find a man saying, You know what, I want to go to the religious function, he jumps in, he gets a free lift, when he goes there, he's doing something else. This example was the other way around, where these people were going for business and the Muslims, two of them jumped in with them, saying that, you know, what we coming? Not making mentioned that we want to jump off in Madina munawwara It so happened that this platoon had met them, and they returned with the muslimeen Subhana Allah, the third little platoon that had gone out Syria to salam, and that was in Bulgaria of the first year of hegira Sadiq not because he went with 20 men, and he had also aimed for the caravan of Croatia. Why were they aiming for caravans of Quraysh, as I said, because that wealth was ours, that wealth was contaminated. These people stole our wealth. They had stolen our properties, they had benefited so much they drove us out of our own homes, anything we could get hold of belonged to us, they had fought us, we need to go back. So this is why it's sad if NaVi workers will be allowed and went. And as he got to the place that he had supposed to go Rasulullah sallallahu Sallam told him not to go beyond that. So when he got there, he found out that the caravan has already passed. So he came back. But there was another benefit of all these little platoons going out, they gathered lots of information about the areas, the places, they understood the outskirts of Medina, the path, the roads. And they also started gathering how arrays Move, move, the movements, how much they take, when they go when they come and so on. All this was intelligence being gathered a lot of benefit by these little platoons that were going out. We have them the first time that Muhammad sallallahu alayhi, wasallam, himself went out was in the month of suffer. In the second year of Egypt, he went out what was known as a reservoir reservoir is like a skirmish or a battle, it could refer to a battle if there is fighting that takes place. And sometimes it's just a skirmish. Because the two armies may not have fought or the two parties may not have actually clashed. So that's what that's the name of the first group of army men that Rasulullah sallallahu Sallam went with. He prepared this army and he worked with them. He went with them as their leader. And it was also referred to in some books as well with Dan. That's what we've done. So when you hear the name, and you also hear the name we've done in suffer the second year of hegira, the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam took 17 men, all of them from amongst the Menagerie. And he also aimed for Quraysh and the caravan that was coming back, but he had not met the caravan and there was no fighting that took place. He spent 15 days out and he had had a flag that comes out of the alarm and was holding and the flag was white. And when he left Madina munawwara one might ask Who did he leave behind as a leader? He left behind Sadiq, nobody heard the alarm and the first time he went out and that was the first participation of Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam no war had taken place. Then you have the second participation was known as what was what was the reason I'm making mention of all this? Many of us think that but there was the first war. The reality is no there were so many skirmishes before that. And one thing led to another and the Battle of butter was only after certain things had happened and how did they happen? We will come to it in Sharla in a few moments, you have brought in Robbie as well. Second year of aegilops Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam went out with 200 men. And omega a bin Khalid was coming back from a sham with 100 men. But sadly, they had already passed the caravan. So they learned a lot. They went to these these areas, they met the people every time they were coming back, like the first one about when the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam was coming back, he took a lot of time to visit the tribes to visit the people to meet them to spread the word. Some may enter Islam. But more importantly, a lot of peace treaties were agreed upon between the parties, because what you find when there is peace, thereafter, Islam spreads. And in this particular case, there was so much peace. So many of these little clans and groups started joining the forces with the Muslim mean and pledging allegiance to them, especially a peace treaty that was struck between the parties, then what had happened is something known as because we were to bet that in the Battle of butter, but the small one, the minor one, it's not not the main battle that we all know. It was a skirmish in a place known as Suffern. And this place what had happened is the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam and Robbie and oh well in the second year of he just went out with 70 men, and why did he go out very important. There was a man called cause Ebony Javelin theory. He had come in with a few men to Madina munawwara and he went into the farms and he stole some of the sheep and he stole a little bit of the property and he was rushing back when he rushed back announcement was made in Medina, that this is what happened. The Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam gathered 70 men, and he went after this men in order to retrieve and to get back what he had stolen from Madina, munawwara Subhana Allah. So this was the reason why he had gone and they had gone to this place of suffering, which was very, very close to better. In fact, it is also called a part of butter. And when he got this handler, this person had already skirmished, and he had run away. And there was nothing much that could have happened. But the beauty is, the area of butter was already seen. And everything that happens around it was already known. So when they went to bother after that, they already had known what butter was all about. And they were acquainted with a lot of the areas close to butter. And then we had a war, where the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam, took part in which was known as de la Shira, and this deal asherah was in Libya, in the second year of Egypt, the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam. In fact, they had intended to gather information of the caravan of Quraysh, that was heading north. And they found that they had missed it, they calculated when it would return this caravan of Abu sufian. This caravan of Abu sufian. And what they did is on its return, this is when the major battle took place to Panama. So they calculated we missed it going up, but when it comes back, we're going to get it. Why, because what it had in it was a lot. They had a lot of merchandise so much that the Muslims did not want to lose out on what was rightfully theirs. So panela it was returning what was theirs to them. So the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam thereafter, prepared an army, and that would be the army, which finally took part in the battle known as the Battle of butter, the main battle that we all know but before we get to that particular battle, there were two or three things that happened in Madina munawwara one is before the Battle of button, the direction of the Qibla changed. So Allah instructed his messenger sallallahu alayhi wa sallam 16 months 16 to 17 months after he had come to Madina munawwara that we were seeing that you are looking for the direction in prayer, and we are instructing you to now face muckety muck aroma. So at that juncture, the verses were revealed for one Nevada Hakka Chateau 10 you're your face towards a mosquito Haram. in Makkah, Tomoko Rama, and the Prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam made the Qibla. It was almost if you go to Madina, munawwara it's almost 180 degrees. It's like a straight line. If you're facing this way, you now face the other way, almost 180 so he had made the member in the other direction. What happened to the old member? That area was given a little bit of a roof It was raised slightly, and it was known as a sofa, a sofa meaning an area where the poor and those who don't have much those who don't have a place to go or the Maha Julian who was still coming in, they would actually settle there for a while and stay and spend a lot of their time in a bada and learning the religion and sacrificing for the pleasure of Allah inshallah we will get to that at some stage, but this area was known as a sofa, it now became the back of the masjid yet it used to be the front of the masjid when the Qibla was in the other direction. So, this is one thing that had happened. One of the beauties, or one of the beautiful points of the changing of the Qibla was that the the Muslims wanted to liberate their own home city of Mecca. It was their city they were most of them were born in the the Mahajan. Almost all of them, besides a few were born in Makkah, and now they were facing Mecca, Allah explained to them the value of this house of Mecca for time, and now they were facing that direction, how could they face the direction of a place that is in the hands of their enemies, so it gave them all the more reason to want to go and be victorious in muckety muck karma, you see how Allah subhanho wa Taala made their hearts inclined towards going back and getting whatever belong to them. So Panama. So this was one of the reasons of or one of the benefits of the change of the Qibla. After that, in the same year in Shaban fasting was prescribed, oh, you believe fasting is prescribed upon you in the same way it was prescribed upon those before you in order that you may achieve piety verses were revealed. And Mashallah, in the month of Ramadan, they fasted for the first time. And in the same month of Ramadan, the Battle of better took place in the month of Ramadan, 14 years after being driven out of their homes 17th off. In fact, 14 years after revelation, and Prophethood you now find these people were given the opportunity to face those who had persecuted them for so long. Also, what was made compulsory in the same year was subtle, subtle, subtle, what we know when we are opening our fast at the end of Ramadan, and we need to give out what is known as the fifth that was made. It was prescribed also in the second year of Egypt, and Zakah became compulsory just after the month of Ramadan. This battle of the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam since Paul has even obeyed the law and say divinization towards the north, in order to gather information of the caravan of Abu sufian that had gone up north, and these people, they passed by Abu sufian and they saw him so they quickly sent a message to Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam in Madina, munawwara saying, This man is on his return, he has now coming back with him are 14 men 1000 camels, and 50,000 dinars which means he has a lot Subhana Allah, he has so much and a lot of merchandise. So the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam made an announcement in Madina munawwara and that announcement was who is ready to go out in order to face Quraysh they are coming back with their caravan. And we are going to face them at that particular time. It was not compulsory for all of them to go out, just like they went to face the previous caravans where they were not really very successful. This was also one of those they did not intend a full fledged war. They only intended to get part of the merchandise from the caravan that was returning. And so you find people started giving their names and people were being vetted. What is the meaning of vetted, vetted meaning some people are known that this person's condition is good, he can come some people, they had certain matters that disallowed him from joining the battle. One of them was a fan of the law and he was disallowed from joining the battle because his wife was ill and sick. The daughter of Rasulullah Salallahu salam, O Allah Allah, Allah subhanho wa Taala grant us goodness. So this was a major battle, the decisive battle, the first major battle, and yet you have the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam telling certain people that go back and serve your parents, and certain people go back and serve your meaning look after your family members, because that is compulsory upon you as a person. And this year, it's compulsory upon us collectively. So if some of us go, the rest of us will not be penalized May Allah subhanho wa Taala grant us that deep understanding the statement I have made is very important. We learn from this that Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wasallam had a system in place from Allah subhanho wa Taala and it worked like clockwork and it resulted in the fact that today we are sitting in this machine Subhan Allah. So inshallah we will be going through the Battle of better in detail. Starting from tomorrow We ask Allah Subhana Allah to Allah to grant us benefit until we meet again. So Allahu wa sallam. obata cannon Amina Mohammed Subhana Allah Subhana Allah harmonium decondition to Allah Allah illa Anta bukovina to be unique
See license and conditions of use below MIFFEd is a library of C functions that simplify the task of writing programs to read, generate, and/or write data in the Maker Interchange Format (MIF) defined by Adobe, Inc. as a portable exchange format for FrameMaker(tm) documents. MIFFEd presents a unified view of MIF syntax as a simple list-based language. MIFFEd supplies functions to read MIF as text from files, and to generate MIF from program data. The MIF items are stored as objects in memory. Your program accesses the stored items using opaque "handles." You can navigate the items in memory, finding items of specified kinds (like Frame catalogs), inserting and deleting items, and changing the contents of items. You can extract the text of lines and paragraphs, with or without Frame formatting information. Finally, a MIFFEd output function takes an item handle and a file, and writes an entire sequence of MIF in ASCII form. The MIFFEd package, comprising source code, header files, and documentation, is Copyright (C) 1994-1998 David Cortesi, 2340 Tasso St., Palo Alto CA 94301. Permission is hereby granted to reproduce the MIFFEd package and to incorporate parts of it into other programs without charge subject to two conditions: first, when any part of MIFFEd is incorporated as an executable part of any software that is sold or distributed for use by others, the documentation both printed and electronic of the incorporating product must cite the use of "The MIFFEd package by David Cortesi"; second, that whenever MIFFEd or any part of it is distributed in readable or source form by any means, this notice must be included verbatim. MIFFEd is a spare-time project of its author. It is distributed without charge, and you receive it AS IS WITHOUT WARRANTEE OF ANY KIND. You must make an informed judgement as to whether MIFFEd is suitable for any use. If for any reason you cannot make that judgement, you should not use MIFFEd. MIFFEd (rhymes with "rift") provides C functions with which you can: These abilities open the way writing interesting kinds of programs: To write such programs you still must have in-depth knowledge of Frame document contents and conventions. You also must have C programming skills. But the idea is that MIF programming is easier with MIFFEd than without it. As an example here is the simplest MIFFEd filter: #include <stdio.h> #include "miffed.h" main() { writeMIF(stdout,OUT_EOL+OUT_INDENT, readMIF(stdin,0) ); } This reads MIF from standard input and writes it to standard output. The only difference between the input and output is that all redundant spaces and end-of-line comments in the input will be omitted from the output. (You can code the example to preserve the comments.) Besides this file, MIFFEd is documented by a 100pp hypertext manual. The manual (a Frame document of course) is designed to be read on-line. The 32pp tutorial and the 50+ "man" pages to MIFFEd functions are extensively linked with hypertext references. The functions in the MIFFEd library can be summarized in the following groups. (For a complete tutorial, download the documentation file.) Two functions read MIF syntax from a stream file handle and store the MIF statements in memory as linked items. readMIF() takes a file handle and option flags, reads all MIF to end of file, and stores it, returning the handle for the first item read. This function is used to bring an entire document into memory in one operation. readOneItem() takes a stream file handle and option flags, and reads only one, outer-level, MIF statement. It returns the handle of that statement in memory. You use this function to read a MIF file in sections, for example, if you want the <PgfCatalog> and later the <FontCatalog> in separate operations. Once all or part of a document is in memory your program can navigate it using several functions. The two most-used functions are firstOfName() and nextSameName() which together scan all the lists of a particular name within a containing list -- for example, all <Pgf> lists inside the <PgfCatalog> list. The following loop form is found again and again in the example programs: itemHandle hContainer, hUnit; ... for( hUnit = firstOfName(hContainer,"name-of-thing"); (hUnit); hUnit = nextSameName(hUnit)) { // process one instance of hUnit } Code like this is used to scan every font in the font catalog, every row in a table, every cell in a row, every line in a paragraph, and in general every repeated instance of similar units in a containing list. Although MIF is a document medium, it takes complex programming to extract the document text from a MIF file. This is due to the great richness of the Frame document format, where the text within a paragraph can be interrupted at any point by special characters, font changes, anchored frames, equations, variables, and so forth. MIFFEd includes a highly generalized set of functions for extracting the text from a MIF <Para>. MIFFEd adopts the object-oriented programming model and treats the <Para> as a container. The paraScanInit() function initializes an object that acts as an iterator over the text in the container. The iterator can be initialized to the start of any line within the paragraph; and a wide variety of option flags let you tailor the amount of detail that will be returned in the scan. You can request the return of all characters or only the basic ASCII set; you can have tabs returned as tabs or as spaces; special characters can be returned using the Frame encoding, or ISO-8859 coding, or in \xnn form. After the iterator is set up, each call to paraScan() returns the next character from the paragraph, with end of paragraph signalled by a null return. Since a frequent need is to simply "copy the first n ASCII bytes to my buffer," another function, patterned after fgets(), is supplied to do just that. A variety of functions are provided for fetching, comparing, and changing the content of an item, for example changing the value of a word from "No" to "Yes." Especially useful are functions for working with MIF numbers, which always have an associated unit of measure such as "pt" for points, "pc" for picas, etc. You can fetch the unit of measure, or you can change the unit of measure with automatic conversion of the numeric value. A variety of functions are provided to generate new instances of the four kinds of MIF items: words, strings, numbers, and lists. For example, newWord("Yes") returns the handle of a word item, and newList("Para") returns the handle of a new, empty list <Para>. But it is tedious to construct MIF at this level. You usually want to construct a whole MIF statement, customized with a small amount of program data. The patToMIF() function serves this need: like sprintf(), it takes a pattern with substitution points, and a varying number of arguments. For example, char *weight = "Bold" double size = 9.5; itemHandle hFont = patToMIF("<Font<FWeight %s><FSize %d pt>>", weight, size); generates a MIF list <Font<FWeight Bold><FSize 9.5 pt>> and returns its handle. When MIF is ready for output, the function writeMIF() takes a stream file handle and a MIF item handle and writes all the MIF to the file in ASCII form. Optionally the output can be indented as Frame indents MIF, and the Frame-generated comments reproduced. Some quite elaborate example programs are included, including a suite of programs that help you analyze the template usage of an unfamiliar document and automatically conform it to your own house templates. You can review all the examples by downloading the source using the links in the MIFFEd Access page. MIFFEd can be compared to at least three other ways of dealing with Frame documents. There are other tools to be had; explore the FrameUsers page. Frame supports a "client API," a programming interface to the interactive FrameMaker, FrameViewer and FrameBuilder products. The Client API lets you write extensions to the interactive Frame products , adding menus, dialogs, and interactive features. (By contrast, MIFFEd helps you write batch-mode command line utilities.) Client API programs are compiled programs in C, which load as part of Frame. They access Frame documents as Frame products maintain them in memory. The FrameScript product by Finite Matters, Inc. is a scripting extension to FrameMaker which makes the capabilities of the Client API easily accessible. You write scripts to perform actions on documents, using a high-level scripting language. The scripts are executed in FrameMaker, using the facilities of the Client API. FrameScript is available for both Windows and Mac operating systems, and is an excellent way to apply the power of the Client API without having to write programs in C. MifMucker is a set of Perl programs and modules written by Ken Harward. For full details and access to MifMucker, refer to the MifMucker WWW page, MifMucker is written in Perl. MifMucker converts Frame documents into MIF for you. With MIFFEd, you have to make this happen using a Save As or fmbatch. MifMucker parses the names of MIF statements as well as their surface syntax so it "knows" the names of the parts of a document and is dependent on seeing these names in the right places. MIFFEd is very innocent about MIF semantics; it accepts almost anything that has properly balanced <>'s, and leaves it to you to figure out the meaning by navigating the resulting lists.
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Abstract.. As shown in Figure 1, video adaptation plays an important role between video database and users. It supports exchange, access, and manipulation of multimedia data according to users' preference and network condition. Considering the difference of users' devices, network conditions, and especially their personal preferences of video content, video adaptation systems need personalized access aiming at enhancing the multimedia retrieval process by complementing explicit user preference on video content and user requests with various user's environments including various network conditions and different users' devices. Our proposed adaptation system satisfies users' preference on video content which has two primary processes as shown in Figure 2: content identification and annotation and MPEG-21 Digital Item Adaptation.. • As a pre-processing step, the content analysis and Annotation module provides an content indexing video to be adapted. The module enables users to directly access preferred content. • The gBSD structure and descriptions are designed for easy storing and parsing of both bitstream format related information and content related information such as content label and content duration. • By incorporating users' preference, AQoS is designed to flexibly allocate limited network bandwidth via content. •. •. •. In this section, content analysis results in sports video is annotated as an example for cognitive content annotation. A small snippet of content annotation using MPEG-7 XML file is shown in Figure 3. The AudioVisual DS is utilized to describe the temporal decomposition of a video entity. In each TemporalDe-composition DS, some attributes as follows are generated automatically to describe the events. • MediaTime DS: It specifies the starting point and time intervals of a video segment. • main task of MPEG-21 DIA is actually generating adapted video by selecting video elements in each parcel to meet varying network conditions and maximally satisfy users' preference. Figure 4 shows the MPEG-21 DIA work flow. Two main modules of Adaptation Decision and Adaptation Operation will be discussed in details as below.. • How to quantify users' preference on video content and provide enough information to help understand preferred content. • The variety of network conditions is continuous values which needed to be scaled. The network condition exhibits the consecutive changes in values over a period of time, where variables may be predicted from previous value. • How to define a feasible AQoS of the relationship between possible constrains to allow the selection of optimal adaptation parameters. In this section, users' preference, network condition, and AQoS will be introduced by considering the above three issues. 5.1.1 User characteristics Users' characteristics specify general user information, users' preference and usage history. In the proposed system, users are required to input their preferred video content of either affective content or cognitive content, which provides significant cues for later network resources allocation. The user's interface is shown in Figure 5. Once content of interest are selected through GUI, a usage environment description (UED) XML is generated to store usage related parameters including users preference as shown in Figure 6. Figure 6 shows the user characteristics of accessing interest content for sports video. Selected contents are marked with "1" while unselected ones are marked with "0". IE values depend on the video to be adapted. To demonstrate this idea, in the following description, we use a basketball video that lasts 1 hour and includes 38 close-up, 45 normal, 40 highlight, 6 relay, 5 penalty, and 5 foul. Table 1 shows the frequencies of consecutive events occurrence. The event sequence can be represented by discrete random sequence et, where t = 1,2,...,n. The possible value of each et is from event set E which consists of six kinds of events {E1, E2, E3, E4, E5, E6} which are {close-up, normal, highlight, replay, penalty, and foul}. The probability , where is the number of Ei take place in et. The given constraint is From Table 1, the probability P(Ei/Ej) could be calculated, giving the constraint where i and j are used to indicate different event. The information sent from ej to ei can be calculated by Once users select their interested event, the priority of previous event will be set according to these information measurement values shown in Table 2. Figure 7 shows examples of event priorities setting. To help understanding, the corresponding values in Figure 7 are highlighted in Table 2. Looking at the second row in Figure 7, when highlight is selected, the previous event (closeUp) is labeled as the value of information measurement sent from closeUp to Highlight, i.e., -3.474 according to Table 2. Sometimes, if an event gets more than one priorities from different contexts, the higher value is chosen as its priority label. A peculiar example is shown in the third row of Figure 7. The selected events are replay and penalty. As the event before penalty, replay get the value of 2.224 (from Table 2). However, as selected event, the priority of replay can be "selected" which is higher than the priority labeled with 2.224. Therefore, the Replay is labeled as "selected" in stead of 2.224. Quantify users' preference on affective content Users can access affective content by inputting their preferred affective intensity level (high, medium, and low) or detailed affective types. Cognitive intensity is a subjective and consecutive concept. Normally, users prefer the affective content with either high intensity or low intensity, since video highlights are most likely conjoin with the content with high affective intensity and low affective intensity. The criteria of priority setting is to not only provide users as much as the content with their preferred affective intensity but also make users understand the whole video story. Fuzzy clustering was used for affective intensity detection [45]. It is based on minimization of the objective function: where m is any real number greater than 1, uij is the degree of membership of xi in the cluster j, xi is the ith of d-dimensional measured data, cj is the d-dimension center of the cluster, and ∥*∥ ϵ is a termination criterion between 0 and 1, whereas k are the iteration steps. This procedure converges to a local minimum or a saddle point of Jm.: •. •. • In our case, adaptation operation is to drop different portion of videos. Three scales of operation are: 0 (drop the whole video segment with I, P, B frames); 1 (drop P, B frames); 2 (drop B frames); 3 (remain as the original video segment with no frame dropped). Table 3 shows an example of feasible AQoS. The AQoS is made by considering three rules: •. • According to the current bandwidth, adaptation keeps as many frames as possible to convey the original story. • XML files which contain adaptation parameters are the output of adaptation decision as shown in Figure 8. The adaptation unit in decision file makes rule for adaptation operation of corresponding content. Here, cognitive content are used to demonstrate the output source parameters. There is no much difference for affective content. Two snippets of the output decision files for the same adaptation unit under different network condition (220 k versus 80 k) are shown in Figure 8. Users' selected content (event) is Highlight. CONTENT ID from 1 to 6 orderly correspond to content (events) Highlight, Normal, Replay, Foul, CloseUp, Penalty (Similar as shown in Figure 9). CONTENT_PRIORITIES is dedicated selected event and the priority for other events according to correlation of selected event (Table 2). Later, these priorities and network bandwidth is mapped to CONTENT_PRIORITIES_SCALE and BANDWIDTH_SCALE (see, Section 5.1.3). Considering BANDWIDTH_SCALE and EVENT_PRIORITIES_SCALE, the decision engine output adaptation decision of how to drop frames by TEMPORAL_LAYERS. As described in Section 5.1.3, higher layer number indicates more frame remaining (i.e., less frame dropping). The adaptation unit with TEMPORAL_LAYER equals to 0 will be totally deleted in adapted video (see the last illustrated AdaptationUnit.) The decision file is changing dynamically according to network condition. The BANDWIDTH indicates the current bandwidth which is listed and used for decision making in the next AdaptationUnit. The two examples show the difference in TEMPORAL_LAYERS when network bandwidth is degraded from around 220 kbps to 80 kbps. The change indicates fewer frames are pertained in the adaptation because of network gradation.. The bitstream is described based on parcels. In our case, each parcel corresponds to a video segment with certain content label. The content and duration related information is extracted from the MPEG-7 XML annotation file which has been introduced in Section 4.2. Considering events have ranks according to various users' preference, we introduce so-call Content-Level to mark different events for users to access their events of interest. Figure 9. shows how the interaction between users defined events and metadata can be inserted in gBSD. Furthermore, frame dropping is a feasible way to adapt to the variation of network situation. We introduce Temporal-Level 0, 1, 2 to mark I-frame, P-frame and B-frame in gBSD. An example of gBSD is shown in Figure 10. Figure 10. An example of gBSD. 5.2.2 Operation Transformation instruction directs the operation how to use the parameters in decision file to do adaptation on gBSD and resource file. •. • Since the adaptation is based on video description, video in various formats can be adapted. In the original video sequence, every gBSD unit (video segment) is associated with a content related label to indicate the associated content (event, affective content type or affective intensity level). Once the user selects his preferred content, the priorities of frame retaining are assigned to every gBSD unit according to content' priority level and current bandwidth estimation. An example of adapted video is shown in Figure 11. Here, cognitive content is used as an example. The video sequence is adapted based on the content' priorities as shown in Figure 7. AQoS associates retaining priority in the order of event sequence is: 1, 5, 3, 5, N.A., N.A., N.A.. A lower priority means it is likely to be partially or totally dropped when network condition degrades. Based on network bandwidth constraint, adaptation decision engine eliminates unqualified decisions that cause excessive network bandwidth. The final decision is the one utilizing most of the reserved bandwidth while preserving most of interesting events. Figure 11.. Figure 12 shows the adaptation result when user selecting "Highlight" and when bandwidth are 250 kbps or 150 kbps. Figure 12 illustrates the adapted quality at different events periods in terms of bit rate. According to the Table 2, "Highlight" has the priority of five. "Normal" event is taken as event related to "Highlight" and set its Event Priority to three. It is obviously that our adaptation system provides user's preferred event at higher quality than the bandwidth resource could afford. This is done by reserving bandwidth and saving streaming time from unimportant event. After the unimportant events are streamed in a shorter time slot than the time they playback, the saved time slot could be utilized to stream important events at higher quality. Figure 12.. • Without considering uses' preferred content, the video is adapted to satisfy the variation in network conditions. • Assuming static network condition, the adaptation only takes account of content on demand (CoD). • The purpose for this group of experiments is to investigate users' comments on our scheme of frame dropping. All the content priorities are set to scale 5. With the variation of network bandwidth, the adaptation engine drops frames. The students are asked to compare the adapted video to the original video and vote on video quality and satisfaction of semantic conveying. Table 4 shows the voting result. From Table 4, compared to video quality, users are not satisfied with the adapted video on whether the adapted video can properly convey semantic meanings. A possible reason may be that when network condition degrades badly, the adaptation only can retain I frames. Video composed of only I frames lose large amount of information so that there is hardly any semantics left. 6.2 Adaptation considering CoD only This group of experiments evaluates whether users are satisfied with the adapted result by content dropping. Assuming of static network conditions, we asked students to input their content preference. The preferred content can be more than one. Based on their inputs, adaptation is performed according to AQoS in Table 3 when setting constant scale four to network condition. Five scales are provided for their voting on satisfaction of semantic conveying. The voting result (Table 5) shows that most of the students are satisfied with the content-driven adaptation as it provides them their preferred content in the limited bandwidth. 6.3 CoD video adaptation on time-varying network condition In this section, experiments are designed to test user's acceptance of the adapted video stream by frame dropping. Each user compares adapted video with original video and gives a evaluation on semantic understanding for the adapted video clip based on the five scales from "Bad" to "Excellent", corresponding to semantic quality from "ambiguous" to "complete understanding" respectively. Frames are partially dropped based on defined priority and available network bandwidth. We introduce three adapted versions with 220 kbps, 150 kbps and 80 kbps for transmitting. Table 6 shows the voting result of the three adapted video streams. Obviously, network degradation affects the user's understanding of the video. However, the high priority assigned to retaining user's preferred content has resulted in an adapted video that is still able to retain and convey the preferred information. For small drop in bandwidth, there is only a marginal effect on user's perception (i.e., semantic quality) of the adapted video. Comparing Case 3 (Table 6) to Case 1 (Table 4), we find that CoD adaptation greatly improves users' satisfaction on semantic quality even if the bandwidth declines to 80 kbps.. Competing interests The authors declare that they have no competing interests. Acknowledgements This research was supported by NATIONAL NATURAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION OF CHINA NO. 61003161 and UTS ECR GRANT. 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I'm copying. But go look here. WONDERFUL, right? And I'm not just saying that because Archie is on the list. So here are my choices. I think it's fun to show the faces without listing the name that goes with it. Because this isn't just about whatthe person means to me (although that does factor in - but not always!!). It's about loving their actual FACE. Some are more famous than others. Some are not famous at all (well. Er. One isn't. Although in his small world of expertise he is very well known.) But they are all faces that, in and of themselves, I adore. Oh - and if it's a picture with two people in it - just assume I chose it because I love both the faces. Oh, and feel free to guess - or ask: "who the hell is that one??" Etc. It's fun to just sit around ruminating about faces that I love. Faces that I love. i love that cookie monster made the cut! also, the one 5th from the bottom reminds me of "Yellow Wallpaper" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman. not sure why, it just does. i like this idea, these postings of faces people like!Posted by: amelie at July 13, 2006 4:58 PM I look at Cookie Monster's face and all of my troubles just melt away.Posted by: red at July 13, 2006 5:00 PM Very cool. I don't recognize half of them, but I love seeing the differences between them all.Posted by: Jen at July 13, 2006 5:58 PM Scott and Zelda, freeze right there. Forget about the later stuff steve on the mountainPosted by: steve on the mountain at July 13, 2006 6:00 PM Sheila, my comment was supposed to be "It's official I love you." But I used the popular internet character representation of a heart and it was recognized as code that meant nothing. So, as a correction... I LOVE YOU!! Dave's got the best face.Posted by: De at July 13, 2006 6:12 PM De - that's so weird - I saw it in the comment when it was emailed to me!!Posted by: red at July 13, 2006 6:21 PM There is something strange about that Diana Rigg photo. Is that Agnes Moorehead below her? Was she ever young?Posted by: Rob at July 13, 2006 6:36 PM I love the way Clive Owen and Marilyn Monroe look "together." Ahh, that would've been fine, eh? Gorgeous post!Posted by: stevie at July 13, 2006 7:12 PM Rob - you're right. On second thought that Diana Rigg photo looks messed with - and why would anyone have to ever doctor a Diana Rigg photo?? And yes - that's Agnes Moorehead - awesome guess. I was wondering if anyone would know who that was. What a weird dame. Awesome actress. Weird dame.Posted by: red at July 13, 2006 7:22 PM Sheila, I love that you chose Gene Kranz. I admit, I initially though it was Jack Singlaub. But that didn't make any sense because almost no one knows about Jack Singlaub, so I confirmed by looking up google images and it was Kranz. They look very much the same and either one is a great choice.Posted by: Jay at July 13, 2006 7:29 PM Gene Krantz has one of my favorite faces ever to be created by DNA. Seriously. I can't get over it!! I had a helluva time finding one of him ALONE - which kind of says a lot about the guy, doesn't it???Posted by: red at July 13, 2006 7:30 PM John K Singlaub. I think he retired as a Major General after more than 40 yrs in the Army and then did some intel stuff for a while after that. He was involved in unconventional warfare for most of his career: Worked with the OSS as part of a Jedburgh team in Europe and then in Southeast Asia, interacting quite a bit with Ho Chi Minh right after WWII. Then Korea, then as a MACV/SOG commander in Viet Nam. Lots of other stuff in between and after as well. He wrote a book called Hazardous Duty chronicling his career. Great stuff. Cool! I'll have to check out his book. I adore those unconventional warfare guys. As you well know. :)Posted by: red at July 13, 2006 7:59 PM She, Gene Wilder's face kinda killed me.... especially after the story you told of him coming and speaking to your class about Gilda and all.... and the "blast from the past" face.... wow.. xxoo Jackie JACKIE!!! I owe you a gazillion emails! I miss you!! I know - blast from the past, huh? I just had to put him in there. Love that face. Gene Wilder's face is awesome. I look at it and I feel peaceful, happy, and also excited.Posted by: red at July 13, 2006 8:07 PM CALVIN and HOBBES!!!! The best...thanks Sheila, I know what I'll be reading tonight at bedtime! Only the best comic strip anthology of all time, next to Bloom County, my treasured C and H. Thanks for the trip down memory lane.Posted by: chuck in maine at July 13, 2006 8:08 PM You got that right, it was absolutley brilliant!! Especially the strips when he's eating at the table..classic stuff!! i could go on about that comic for ages..I actually still have the very last Calvin and Hobbes strip...I cut it out of the Sunday Paper and put it in my anthology, I don't ever remember being sad about a comic strip ending...until that day. i wish you could see my smile right know..WOW, I had totally forgotten about that strip. Well, I shouldn't say that I see those damn Calvin peeing on whatever stickers on people's cars all the time...but that just makes me bitter! hahahaPosted by: chuck in maine at July 13, 2006 8:18 PM I like the one - it's so mundane - but Calvin spends a sleepless night, tossing and turning - and then he's called to go to school - and he hasn't slept at all. It's not really funny - but the portrayal of sleeplessness and the absolute MISERY of knowing that the day you are about to have is going to SUCK because you haven't slept a wink - is so vivid!! His mother peeks in the room - 'Calvin, time for school!" And he lies in bed - with these teeny miserable slits instead of eyes - he looks absolutely devastated. Do you remember that one? I don't remember that one exactly...but I do remember a similar one to that. Same classic scene..Calvin in bed, jumps out, his eyes barely open shoulders shrugged downward, the misery of which you described. Knowing that school is on the agenda and he doesn't want to go. Scrubs his teeth and puts on his clothes..goes downstairs and eats his COCO-sugar bombs (yes, i remember the name of the cereal), grabs his coat and goes to the bus stop..still moping. Then suddenly his mother yells..."CALVIN!!!" Poof he wakes up...it was all a dream. MAN, did I hate mornings like that in high school! i swear there were times i thought Bill Watterson, watched my life and wrote and drew a comic strip about it!Posted by: chuck in maine at July 13, 2006 8:44 PM oh my god i love this so much. i'm totally gonna do this tonight, i have to find some good pics first. i can't get over the pic of Cherry Jones. some faces are so FULL.Posted by: Erik at July 13, 2006 8:50 PM erik - I can't wait to see who you pick! Yeah, how bout Cherry Jones, huh??? I knew I wanted to include her but when I first started searching the only pictures I found were either her in Signs (where she was wearing that horribly unflattering police woman's uniform) or her in a habit in Doubt. When I came upon that picture, I thought: ahhhhh. Yes. THAT is what I was looking for.Posted by: red at July 13, 2006 9:57 PM Who is Pipi Longstockings? LOL Is that Amanda Plummer? And who is the woman smoking in front of the shelves of books?Posted by: DBW at July 13, 2006 9:58 PM The smoking woman is Anne Sexton! And Pippi is Kate Winslet ... or... you did know that, right?? To me, it's obvious it's her - but maybe not!! I love that outfit. It is exactly how I dress. So I love that photo for narcissistic reasons. I went out looking for a photo of her in that outfit (it's from Eternal Sunshine) and finally I found a photo that didn't have him in it!!Posted by: red at July 13, 2006 10:00 PM I love Lily Taylor - I have since Mystic Pizza.Posted by: Betsy at July 13, 2006 10:39 PM Wasn't she just wonderful in Mystic Pizza? I kind of love her in everything but she is particularly great in that.Posted by: red at July 13, 2006 10:46 PM I was just kidding about Kate Winslet, but I did mistake Lily Taylor for Amanda Plummer, and I feel like a doofus for not recognizing Anne Sexton--"In a dream, you are never eighty."Posted by: DBW at July 13, 2006 10:48 PM Ohhhhhhh DBW. sniff, sniff. I love Sexton. I'm kind of afraid of her but I love her. My dad went to one of her readings in Boston - I love to hear him tell the story.Posted by: red at July 13, 2006 10:49 PM I would love to hear details of that. She is one of those people...well, I understand your fear and affection.Posted by: DBW at July 13, 2006 11:07 PM was calvin and hobbes up when i commented earlier? i must've missed them, cuz i LOVE calvin and hobbes! my friend ish and i posed as them, next to a cardboard cutout of them, for a mutual guy friend. LOVE it!Posted by: amelie at July 13, 2006 11:10 PM Anne Sexton had another quote I used to know and like. It was something like, "God created heaven, but he dreams of Earth," or yearns for Earth, or something like that. My memory fails me again.Posted by: DBW at July 13, 2006 11:14 PM What a great collection! Gene Wilder and Bill Murray are two of my make-believe husbands. I love those two something awful.Posted by: Debbie at July 14, 2006 12:10 AM Third from the bottom--who is that woman? I know that profile--is it Ingrid?Posted by: Missy at July 14, 2006 9:43 AM Red: Nice on Cherry Jones and Kate Winslet, but especially David Ortiz, Diana Rigg! My wife and I named our first daughter after Emma Peel. I wish more people took up the gauntlet and posted faces too. But why worry? Yours are great! (I may have to crib the Ortiz and Rigg shots for my #3!) :)Posted by: Dennis Cozzalio at July 14, 2006 3:29 PM Please email me and tell me who faces25 is! It is the hottest picture ever.Posted by: Easycure at July 14, 2006 3:41 PM Hey, Ortiz is sporting a classic "Calvin & Hobbes" triangular grin in the picture you used! Gene Kranz is an interesting choice, too. Not really related, but after watching "Failure is Not an Option" on History/Discover/whatever I had to restrain myself from buying white short-sleeved shirts and skinny black ties to wear to work.Posted by: Steve G, at July 14, 2006 5:50 PM easycure: That is Linda Evangelista. Just about the best supermodel to ever walk the earth. Her heyday was in the 90s. She reminded me of Marlene Dietrich - she wasn't just beautiful - she created PERSONAS in all of her photos. She's also the one who said something like, "I don't even get out of bed for less than $10,000." I adore her.Posted by: red at July 14, 2006 6:20 PM Dennis - i am totally going to do another "episode" of this - it was so fun!! And Cherry Jones - man. If that's not an actress, I don't know who is. She LOOKS like an actress to me. She's one of my idols. And doesn't David Ortiz just have the best face? I mean, come on.Posted by: red at July 14, 2006 6:22 PM Steve - like I said, I don't think it's more interesting that I chose Gene Krantz than anybody else. His face just - speaks VOLUMES. It's a terrific face, full of personality, smarts, warmth, strength - I just love the look of it. I saw that Apollo 13 documentary and when, out of nowhere, he got choked up and said that bringing those astronauts home was the best moment in his life - fuggedaboutit. Put a fork in me. I'm done.Posted by: red at July 14, 2006 6:24 PM When I saw the title "Faces I Love" I never expected Gene Wilder or Lili Taylor, but WOW, you were So Right. Wonderfully expressive faces. The only one missing that I wish you had posted would have been Buster Keaton. Often called the Great Stone Face by the press, I find him wonderfully expressive in an understated way. Perhaps there will be a Faces I Love part 2? Keep up the good work, WB Thanks, WB! It's not a definitive list - there's plenty I left off. I'll do more, most definitely - it was really fun.Posted by: red at July 14, 2006 8:28 PM I ADORE that you put up Gene Kranz - I have had a secret crush on that man since I read Lost Moon by Jim Lovell (and that was before they put the word out about making Apollo 13). He is an absolute hoot to watch on the NASA programs too. Im not sure if I'd engage him in conversation and babble incoherently or just stand there and drool...but I am thrilled you listed him. I also love Gene Hackman (is there a pattern here?! ACK!)Posted by: Sharon Ferguson at July 15, 2006 12:45 AM Sharon - hahahaha I think the pattern has been established that you and I have similar taste in men! I think Gene Hackman is sexy!! I am sure you have noticed that one face in particular is missing (our favorite man on the planet)- he'll be in volume 2 of this. :)Posted by: red at July 15, 2006 7:33 AM
Chinese demand drives U.S. gasoline prices - that, and profits for American oil companies, banks, and hedge funds. It's really that simple, it's not Obama's energy policy. And when the big oil companies got wind of Obama's proposal through the grapevine (lobbyists) several weeks ago to end tax subsidies for oil and gas companies, gas prices suddenly started going up; but rather than tying this to higher taxes (and less profits), Iranian threats are now being used as their leading excuse. Is big oil in cahoots with the Republicans, and attempting to influence the 2012 elections? They have before. The U.S. also has an abundance of natural gas, so keep your eyes on these prices too. If China starts making cars powered with natural gas, we could end up paying triple to heat our homes. The History of the Standard Oil Company (written in 1904) was an exposé of the Standard Oil Company, run at that time by oil tycoon John D. Rockefeller. The book was about trusts, large businesses that, in the absence of strong antitrust laws in the 19th century, attempted to gain monopolies in various industries. By 1911, with public outcry at a climax (almost like today),. On November 30, 1999 they both merged to become ExxonMobil. Today ExxonMobil is the largest refiner in the world and is the largest of the six oil super-majors. The nation's six largest oil companies reported over $78.3 billion in profits in just the first six months of 2011 (the highest ever in human history from any business). So why are taxpayers still subsidizing the oil industry? That is exactly what the Taxpayers for Common Sense would like to know. It's always been a ménage à trois between the bankers, the oil companies, and the Republicans. And like water, oil will always find the path of least resistance. And these days, oil is on the high road to China. With 1.3 billion people, the People's Republic of China is the world's most populous country and the second largest oil consumer, behind the U.S. Just like America once experienced during the Fabulous Fifties, in recent years China has been undergoing an historical process of industrialization and is one of the fastest growing middle-class economies in the world. With real gross domestic product growing at a rate of 8-10% a year, China's need for energy is projected to increase by 150 percent by 2020. To sustain its growth, China requires increasing amounts of oil.. With automobile numbers growing at 19% a year, projections show that China could surpass the total number of cars in the U.S. by 2030. China is now expected to produce 20 million vehicles in 2012 with double-digit growth rates to stabilize somewhere around 35 million units annually by 2020 or 2025. Four years ago under George W. Bush, when we had over $4-a-gallon gasoline, Forbes reported: "China has been the primary contributor to the increasing oil demand over the last decade." Back then China sold gasoline for 2.49 a gallon (when oil was over $130 a barrel) and all of the Chinese companies were still making profits. The Chinese government has been competing with international oil companies like ExxonMobil, partially because it wants to secure a fuel source for its huge and growing country. China's oil companies are nationalized, and as a result, the Chinese government subsidies the price of gasoline so that the average Chinese consumer only pays $1.50 to $2.50 per gallon. This would be the same as if the U.S. government nationalized Exxon, Chevron, Texaco, etc. and took the billions of dollars in profits that these companies earn and passed these savings on to the American people and domestic businesses. But in America it's just the opposite. Domestic oil companies don't subsidize our gasoline, taxpayers subsidize the oil company's profits - "multi-national" corporations that dodges U.S. taxes. Like Oliver Stone suggests, isn't it time that America nationalized its own oil industry, especially if we wanted to see fair prices for our energy costs - - and also to be TRULY "energy independent" by NOT exporting gas and oil? It's Chinese consumption and market manipulation (for profits), not domestic demand, that drives domestic gasoline prices. Domestic demand has had very little (if any) bearing on domestic gasoline prices. Gasoline prices are surging, spurred in part by recent refinery closings (market manipulation?), but mostly because of foreign demand and speculation by the banks and hedge funds. Read: Profits Drive Gasoline Prices, not Obama's Energy Policy With rising demand from countries like China, gas prices are already at record highs for the winter months — averaging $3.73 a gallon nationally, according to AAA’s Daily Fuel Gauge Report. On July 3, 2008 the average cost for a gallon of gasoline was at it highest level ever in U.S. history at $4.11 a gallon when the record peak for a barrel of oil was at $145. While although gasoline prices are higher elsewhere, that's mostly because of their government's taxes. Fuel taxes in the United States vary by state. Federal taxes currently make up just 11% of the pump price in the U.S., according to the Energy Information Administration; but in France and the U.K., taxes account for an average of around 70%. But even despite a fall in gasoline demand in the United States and Europe, global oil markets are tightening because of the demand for energy from Asian countries, particularly China and India. If there is conflict in the Middle East, and our military gets involved, demand for oil goes higher to supply our ships and aircraft...and there could be a 50-cent increase for a gallon of gas, or $30 a month for an average American consumer. Iran's saber-rattling encourages investors to buy oil futures contracts at higher and higher prices. The bankers are speculating, protecting their profit margins from higher prices by committing obligations to buy now, and that starts the ball rolling toward higher prices. There are many ways that huge money funds and banks can influence the market. Koch Industries Lackeys Admit To Manipulating Oil Prices…And Gloat About It, Too In testimony to Congress on May 11, 2011 the chairman of Exxon-Mobil, Rex Tillerson, said the price of oil was inflated by about 30% due to speculators. But when the CEOs of oil companies buy back their own stock, you know they're making money. Why doesn't the government force futures traders to physically take possession of the commodities they're buying and we'll see pricing based on true supply and demand. There's no practical real world justification for $100 a barrel oil. Gas prices do not reflect actual supply. Prices are now determined by China's demand, speculators, huge hedge funds and the value of the dollar against other currencies. The United States Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) should move ahead with their attempts to add restrictions designed to remove some of the speculative element from commodity futures trading. Their proposals would restrict the number of open positions held by a single individual or organization. The objective is to reduce speculative trading. This will affect large commodity trading funds and also on governments that have been actively intervening in commodity trading. The five commissioners at the CFTC must do its job and obey the law in the Dodd-Frank bill that requires the agency to enforce position limits in the oil futures market. Read: How Wall Street Is Raising the Price of Gas One should also expect the transportation industry to pass on its higher fuel costs to consumers. We will see rising prices for basics like food and household goods, increasing inflation and further limiting consumers' purchasing power in a fragile economic climate. Thus, dependence on oil affects everyone, regardless of their driving behavior, public transit use, or location. But until there is a paradigm shift that favors conservation, alternative energy, and a "think globally, act locally" mentality, nothing will change. Oil prices are going up and yet we are still exporting it.. If American cars got 100 miles-per-gallon and we turned off all our heaters and air conditioners, China's growing middle-class is expected to buy 30 million more new cars within the next 6 years...so demand for oil elsewhere will still keep prices high domestically. And despite what the Republicans claim, any oil from a Canadian pipeline will go to China to fuel those cars. Of course alternative energy is light years away, because we have been cutting the budget for it for decades. Why? Because the true cost of alternative energy cannot compete with the subsidized cost of fossil-fuel energy, and it's very difficult to justify pouring research money into energy sources that look like they cost more than present sources. Read: The Republican's Selective Outrage (re: Solyndra) Funding for fusion research in the U.S. is also being cut (again) next year. Why? Big oil. It's a good thing that this research is not classified and other countries are still working on it; hopefully the Chinese will be willing to build fusion plants for us within the next 30 years. The real price of gas can be as high as $10 a gallon when we factor in the hidden costs for oil spill cleanups, reduced crop yields, health care bills and lost productivity associated with pollution-related illnesses, global warming, wars for oil and security in the Middle East and around the world (the cost of using our military to protect not just oil and gas imports for our "national defense" and domestic consumption, but also for oil and gas exports for corporate profits). Europe and China are outspending the U.S. on solar, wind and other technology. They are cleaning our clock. Congress must stop giving subsidies to profitable oil, gas and coal companies. With much more research and development, we could eventually create hundreds of thousands of jobs by investing in energy efficiency and sustainable energy. But in the meantime, oil sands and shale oil would go a long way towards "energy independence" if we didn't export domestic and Canadian oil; we need to exclude this oil from the "global market". I have always suspected that since the 1973 oil embargo, the big oil companies and the U.S. and British governments are already aware of vast quantities of yet untapped domestic oil, and only imports to consume the global supply first, before having a monopoly on all the world's only known supply of oil - - and they only allow for the current high price of oil because the market can still bear the cost without totally crippling our economies. And for all the general public knows, there may already be hydrogen and fusion technologies at hand, but because they are less profitable, they won't be used while there is still available oil, thanks to our politicians and the oil lobbyists. (Lobbyists on K Street paid like CEOs on Wall Street) But either way, if the energy crisis is ever over, the next "global crisis" will be about water, and who owns and controls it. I can already imagine $10 for a gallon of tap water. My Other Related Posts UPDATE: Obama. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) also suggested." SOURCE: The GOP is a monster. Let's keep whacking it with our sticks until it is dead. HOW DARE THEY RAISE THE PRICES JUST TO INFLUENCE THE ELECTION!!!!
Mesothelioma Awareness Day: Get Involved! “I have made it my life’s mission to spread awareness about mesothelioma and the dangers of asbestos.” Heather Von St. James Mesothelioma Awareness Day: Get Involved! Photo of Heather and her Family Mesothelioma Awareness Day: Get Involved! Facts & Graphic Do you know what Mesothelioma is? According to the Mesothelioma Applied Research Foundation (Meso Foundation), it is a cancer of the lining of the lungs, chest, abdomen, or heart, and a major risk factor for developing this form of cancer is exposure to asbestos. Every year, about 3000-3500 Americans are diagnosed and about 100,000 could die over the next 40 years. It is the least funded form of cancer and lacks adequate research grants/funds. But there is hope and opportunity for change – We can chip in and help. Ten years ago the dismal figures, far worse than above, got the attention of people around the nation and led to a grassroots organizing effort that has helped raise over $1 million. How did this movement start? In 2004, groups of survivors, patients and volunteers gathered around the country to raise awareness and raise funds for mesothelioma research. Today, September 26th, 2014, marks the 10th anniversary of the persistent effort started in 2004, and we want everyone to raise their voices, educate themselves and others about this insidious disease. “We learn to appreciate what we achieve, no matter how small the achievement, because we do it ourselves. Midge Rylander Mesothelioma Awareness Day: Get Involved! Is your family at risk? Mesothelioma Awareness Day: Get Involved! Asbestos did you know Do you know any survivors of Mesothelioma? When Heather Von St. James reached out to me to share her story and information on this 10th Anniversary, I was struck by the fact that a person with mesothelioma becomes sick as a direct result of exposure to asbestos; a product that is NOT banned in the U.S. A person diagnosed with the disease has a life expectancy of just 18 months after diagnosis. Equally disturbing is that symptoms may not appear until 20-35 years after initial exposure to asbestos. Heather Von St. James’ story below is an inspiring and important reason why we must fund research and raise awareness about this disease: “Eight years ago, I was diagnosed with mesothelioma; a rare and preventable cancer caused only by exposure to asbestos. I had just given birth to my daughter and I was given 15 months to live. After a life saving surgery that included the removal of my left lung, I have made it my life’s mission to spread awareness about mesothelioma and the dangers of asbestos.” Heather Von St. James In honor of Mesothelioma Awareness Day, we invite you to reach out and help spread the word about mesothelioma. What are some ways you can give a voice to these innocent victims while raising awareness about mesothelioma? See suggested answers below. More below! “I’ve learned in my last 8 years of this journey, that the people who are in it with you can make all the difference in the world.” Heather Von St. James Mesothelioma Awareness Day: Get Involved! Asbestos Facts Mesothelioma Awareness Day: Get Involved! More Facts Mesothelioma Awareness Day: Get Involved! Photo of Heather and her Family What are some ways to help raise awareness about mesothelioma? Every time most of us come across an important cause, our first reaction is to ask: How can we help? It is a natural inclination of a caring soul to offer help and so the Meso Foundation has made our inquiry an easy one by providing some ideas on how we can help below. If there are others you’d like to suggest, please add them as a comment below. Thank you! HOW YOU CAN PARTICIPATE AND RAISE AWARENESS 1. Work with other like minded souls to make Meso Awareness Day an official day in your city, state or country.Click here for instructions! 2. Gather your friends and family, and organize a fundraiser on or around September 26 to mark Meso Awareness Day and raise funds for Meso research. Let Mesothelioma Applied Research Foundation (Meso Foundation) know about your fundraiser so they can promote it on their website and through emails. 3. You may also Contact Dana Purcell at [email protected] for assistance and to receive a package of information about organizing events! Check out scheduled events! 4. Become a Meso Foundation volunteer. This will give you opportunities to attend and participate in events organized by them. Upcoming community events are posted on their website. Click here to view the list. 5. Educate yourself by attending a conference. You can organize sponsorships to help defray the cost of the conference The Meso Foundation is holding two regional conferences in 2014. Learn more here. 5. A quick way to disseminate information is through local media. Contact your local media outlets to let them know about Meso Awareness Day and about mesothelioma. Invite them to cover your event and, if feasible, ask them to do a story on you/your family and/or another local family. 6. Use your social media connections and blog posts to further spread the word and don’t be shy about asking others for help with promoting your efforts. Click here to learn more about contacting local media and be sure to review our talking points 7. On the morning of September 26, come to Rockefeller Plaza during the Today Show to help raise national awareness!RSVP here. 8. Become an advocate for your community and learn how to connect with your political leaders Click here to learn the basics of advocacy and meeting with your Representatives What else would you recommend? Positive Motivation Tip: Trust that every effort you make will bear fruit and touch other lives. Get involved. PHOTO CREDITS/ATTRIBUTIONS: All Photos from Meso Foundation and Heather Von St James Until Next Time… Ask. Believe. Receive. © Elizabeth Obih-Frank Mirth and Motivation Positive Kismet Asbestos is such a nasty thing ! It is scary to think how we used to be so blase about using it before we had the facts – by then it was unfortunately way too late for so many people. Given the fact it is still around, we absolutely need to spread the awareness. Thank you Anna! It remains prevalent because we are so blase! You are spot on. More awareness is needed. Unfortunately, Anna, in our country awareness is not the problem. The bottom line is. Companies already know this is killing their workers. They don’t care. It’s more cost effective to continue to use it rather than convert to products that don’t contain it. WE can still rally against such companies and push for stricter legislation. There is little funding for this type of cancer and so many remain unaware Ben I read of lives crippled and ended by this disease. Men who worked unaware of the dangers of working on building sites, including Steve McQueen. You cannot think of it without the sadness that it brings Good grief Peter! I had forgotten about Steve McQueen… It is a nasty one for sure and not enough funding compared to other forms of cancer. TY! Wow, I had no idea! Thanks for sharing this information. I can’t begin to tell you how much I hate cancer, any cancer. This is one form of cancer that you better hope nobody you know gets. I think it is great that they are trying to make people aware of this deadly killer. Wow, thanks for the post. I was unaware of what mesothelioma was! Thanks for sharing! I’m curious how you get a diagnosis and what the symptoms are since most of us have been exposed to asbestos. Thanks! I have only heard about mesothelioma from TV commercials, so I did not know much about it. There is definitely a need for awareness. I agree that this information needs to be shared as much as possible. I didn’t realize just how awful this disease was! thanks for the great info, although my husband is a navy veteran so this makes me nervous. So sad. I did now know you could get cancer in the heart. This is scary stuff. I cannot believe that something SO carcenogenic is still in use today! AND it’s still in people’s homes. Why is it that an old home has to have a lead paint test before it can be sold, but it doesn’t have to be tested for asbestos? Thank you for sharing this important message. I know that many lives are touched by cancer and it is horrible. My mother in law had breast cancer over the summer and the treatment is rough. A very good friend of mine had to go through asbestos removal in her home. It was super intense and scary. It’s really horrifying how dangerous asbestos is and what can happen. What a fighter she is. It’s scary that the substance isn’t banned! I don’t know any survivors but I had an Uncle who died from Mesothelioma after 35 years of exposure to asbestos- absolutely need to spread the awareness. Sorry to read about your uncle. I agree that the word on this and every form of cancer needs to be out there. Thank you! I see commercials from attorneys all day long talking about this and if you have it to call and they will help you sue. Yes, some ambulance chasers have trivialize the seriousness of this life threatening disease. It is devastating to the individual and to their loved ones. I think this awareness campaign for asbestos will be spread all over the world. Setting awareness for each country must begin now. This is an important message that people need to hear so they can make appropriate choices and changes. Glad to see fellow bloggers taking part in Meso Awareness Day. Many of us may not be aware that asbestos can be very detrimental to our health. I’m happy this campaign is still moving forward. The more people who know, the better. My husband works in construction, so asbestos and cancer are an always present risk.I know he uses a mask and everything when they work in old houses, but it still doesn’t give me enough peace of mind I have never heard that Asbestos might csuse these many issues. The survey result is really a big shock to me, as they claim to have diagnosed 3000-3500 per year. Everyone must spread awareness about mesothelioma cancer and how much it is harmful. Well done for highlighting the shocking truth about asbestos and the need to raise awareness of mesothelioma! I had never heard of mesothelioma before reading your article and will gladly share it with my followers. Thanks Stephen I didn’t know it is still in use. That comes as a shock to me indeed. My father was diagnosed almost two years ago with mesothelioma. Kudos to you for getting the information out there. In the subsidized housing that was recently torn down near where I live, asbestos was in the edifice of the apartments for as long as they existed. I am talking generations of people living in asbestos. When the workers tore them down they wore full yellow containment suits – yet the people who lived there have never been told that. One of my sisters lived there for years and has had health problems all of her adult life. The government subsidized these apartments, and I believe tearing them down is a way to avoid alerting the tenants to the damage that has been done healthwise. I didn’t realize it got the least amount of funding from the cancer society. That’s awful! Thanks for bringing awareness to this topic and spreading the word. Great article Eliz, to raise awareness to an ongoing issue. In Singapore where I am from, the use of asbestos in buildings has been banned since 1989. However they were widely used in older buildings… We’ve come a long way, but it seems we need to keep awareness up so this does not slip through the system! Mesothelioma is so lethal. People should be more aware of this disease and it could help prevent it. Good advocacy! This is what we all need Whoa. I didn’t have any idea about asbestos. It would be ideal if the World Health Organization would have a website featuring every disease/sickness and the list of all the campaigns and orgs that are supporting them to raise more awareness to people. Good info about a very rarely spoken about form of cancer. Have +1 the post I’ve never heard of Mesothelioma , but I’m glad to learn about it! It’s of utmost important to let people know, as well as to take safety precautions or even be aware of the symptoms! Thanks for your informative post! This is something very important. Thanks for reminding us. Great information! Thank you for speaking for such an important, and so little known, cause! Wow these stats are shocking! Asbestos has been creeping up on us so quietly over the years, but it’s impact has been heard around the world. This is a wonderful cause to support and uphold! Thanks for raising the awareness and reminding us! I have never heard of this before this post and now its one more person who knows… I’m a big health issues advocate so ill help spread the word. A lot of people still don’t know what mesothelomia is and the dangers of asbestos This is a very informative post. Thanks for sharing! This disease is so lethal, yet it takes time before it manifested completely on patients. This awareness program must be spread around the world. ive not heard of this before. learnt quite a lot about it To be honest, I have never heard about mesothelioma disease before reading this post. I was amazed to read that inhaling asbetos particles that are even present in our homes could be the cause for this type of cancer at a later stage. It is necessary that people get awareness on such crucial issues. The only thing I know about mesothelioma is its association with asbestos and that it is deadly. As far as you know, is asbestos still being produced and used in building construction up to this day? Or is this fight still on those old buildings which still have asbestos to this day? – Fred. Great way to share the awareness! Whenever I come to your blog I think everyday is a special day. The cancer is biggest challenge for human kind, never heard about this cancer. Hope one day our scientist will cure it Thank you for your amusing comment. Every day is a special day. I like that. 🙂 Asbestos is really bad for the health. Your advocacy in spreading words about its dangers are of big help for others to be aware of the disease it can cause I hope the government will take this issue, and have a better solution to all of the victims of this cancer. Would love to share this. A terrible disease. My little friend Kevin, whom I baby-sat as a little dude every day after school when I was in HS, died from mesothelioma a few years ago at the age of 21. AWFUL. We really need to find a cure for this terrible cancer.
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Club meeting features information on Alzheimers West Allis - The next meeting of West Allis Retired Men's Club is at 9 a.m. April 12 at Apostle Presbyterian Church, 76th and Orchard streets, with the topic chee-gung Oriental exercising. The program is free, but a $3 donation is asked to help cover the cost of breakfast. Other upcoming meetings, all beginning at 9 a.m., include: May 10 at First United Methodist Church, "The Railroad Mysteries of Agatha Christie"; and June 14, First Baptist Church, collecting knives. More information is available from Sam Ballas, (414) 774-1098, and Jerry Zimmerman, (414) 453-8621. Rummage, book sale to be held at church Greenfield - A rummage and book sale will be held at St. John the Evangelist Church, 8500 W. Cold Spring Road, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. April 13, and 9 a.m. to noon April 14. The sale will be sponsored by the Christian Women. More information is available at (414) 321-1965. Bean bags to reign at Petitt Ice Center West Allis - The Pettit National Ice Center, 500 S. 84th St., will once again host the Brew City Bags Bash, believed to the be the world largest indoor Cornhole (bean bag) tournament. The Brew City Bags Bash, April 13 to 15, offers people in the local area to take part in bean bag tossing, the favorite game of many tailgaters, with no wind, rain or other weather obstacles. Courts will be set up on the Olympic Oval, which has been removed for this event. Visitors can either play or watch for free from 6:30 to 9 p.m. April 11. Spectators also can watch free from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. April 14 and from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. April 15. Teams of two can compete in the tournament for $20 per team in advance or $30 at the door. They will be guaranteed at least four games. For information, contact Kevin Butler by email [email protected] or by phone at (414) 935- 4778. Children programs set at Greenfield Library Greenfield - The Greenfield Public Library, 5310 W. Layton Ave., will host two free programs oriented for children in April. "A Tale of Two Hemispheres," to be performed by Kohl's Wild Theater, is set for 2 p.m. April 14 in the Library Community Room. In this 45-minute show, children will be introduced to animals living near both ends of the earth. The story follows Ursus, the polar bear, and Cygnus, the trumpeter swan, who need help figuring out why their polar ice lot line is moving. Also, a penguin and a pirate search for the same treasure off the coast of Chile. Registration is appreciated, but not required. To register, visit the children's reference desk or call the library at (414) 321-9595, Ext.114. On April 19, popular children's author Herman Parish will visit the library at 6:30 p.m. Parish is author of "Amelia Bedelia's First Vote." Parish's books will be available for purchase or bring your own from home to be autographed and visitors are welcome to bring their cameras. No registration is required. For more information, call the library at (414) 321-9595, Ext. 104. West Allis Library hosts book sale West Allis - The next monthly book sale of the Friends of the West Allis Public Library will be from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. April 14. Sale dates for the rest of the year are May 12, June 9, July 14, Aug. 11, Sept. 8, Oct. 13, Nov. 10 and Dec. 8. Kids to make bookmarks to mark National Library Week West Allis - To celebrate National Library Week (April 8-14), the West Allis Library children's department will sponsor a "Create-a-Bookmark" contest based on the National Library Week theme "You Belong @ Your Library." Contest entries must be turned in according to the specifics on the entry forms by April 15. The forms are available in the children's department. Movie collectibles to be available at show West Milwaukee - Movie-related items plus movies themselves will be found at the Spring Movie Collectible Show from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. April 15 at Burnham Bowl, 6016 W. Burnham St. Admission is $3, or free to children younger than 12 with an adult. Parking is free. About 20 dealers will offer items such as movie posters, both old and new, books (coffeetable, biographies and research), souvenir books, still photos, autographs, DVDs and toys. Preventing falls is topic of health series Greenfield - How to prevent falls will be the topic of the spring health education series of the Greenfield Health Department, in partnership with South Pointe Healthcare Center and Aurora Healthcare. On April 17, "Home Sweet Home" will feature a South Pointe occupational therapist who will focus on home safety, including a demonstration on the use of adaptive equipment in the home. On May 15, "It's a Balancing Act" will feature an Aurora pharmacist who will discuss how medicines can affect physical activity and balance. Each program will be from 10 to 11:30 a.m. in the Greenfield Public Library, Community Room, 5310 W. Layton Ave. Seating is limited, so register with the Greenfield Health Department at (414) 329-5275 (press zero) or e-mail [email protected]. Lakeland to hold information sessions West Allis - Lakeland College will hold information sessions for prospective students from 6 to 7 p.m. April 18 at Lakeland's Milwaukee Center, 1135 S. 70th St. Prospective students will be able to meet academic advisors, tour classrooms and learn more about Lakeland's program. For information, call (866) 534-8652, [email protected], or visit the college's website atlakeland.edu/adult. Dinner to be spaghetti, Dixieland on the side Greenfield - A spaghetti dinner will be held from 4 to 7 p.m. April 21 at Memorial United Methodist Church, 3450 S. 52nd St. The Greendale Dixieland Band will provide musical entertainment. Advance tickets are $8 for adults and $5 for children 12 and younger by calling (414) 545-2440. Tickets cost $1 more at the door. West Allis - The West Allis Public Library has scheduled April storytimes. Morning Story Time for children ages 3, 4 and 5 will be held from 9:30 to 10a.m. and from 10:15 to 10:45 a.m Wednesdays through April 25. The adult who brings the child must stay in the library during the session. "Happy Endings" Evening Story Time for children ages 3 and younger will be offered at 6:30 p.m. Tuesdays through April 24. Each session consists of stories, fingerplays, songs and a video. Each child must be accompanied by an adult. Lapsit Story Time for ages 9 months through 23 months will be offered at 9:30 a.m. Mondays through April 23 in the Children's Story Room. Lapsit sessions consist of 20 minutes of stories, fingerplays, rhymes and songs. There is an additional 10 minutes of playtime afterward. Pre-registration is required for all the programs by calling (414) 302-8502. Greenfield library plans sale of books and more Greenfield - Books, movies and music will be available in the third annual Greenfield Library Used Book Sale from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. April 28. Donations of gently used materials will be accepted at the checkout desk through April 25 and at the Baker Square Restaurant, 4900 S. 76th St., through April 23. Greenfield Public Library is located at 5310 W. Layton Ave. Booster Club's flower sale blooms West Allis - Orders are being taken now through April 23 in the 18th annual Nathan Hale Athletic Booster Club flower sale. Pickups will be at Nathan Hale High School, 11601 W. Lincoln Ave., from 9:30 to 11 a.m. May 12. Flowers are available in flats, hanging baskets and in pots. Orders may be placed online athaleboosterclub.org/flowersale.html.or by calling Denise, (414) 852-2692. Rummage sale to have home improvement materials West Allis - The seventh annual Home Improvement Rummage Sale of the Milwaukee/NARI Foundation will be held from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. May 4 in the parking lot of NARI member Milwaukee Millwork, 11712 W. Dixon St., West Allis. Merchandise expected to be available for sale to the public include appliances, bathroom and ceiling tiles, bathtubs, cabinets, lumber, hardscaping materials, decking materials, trim, windows, interior and exterior doors, furniture, lighting fixtures, sinks, insulation, toilets, flooring, plumbing fixtures and supplies and roof shingles. The sale reduces the amount of construction and demolition materials that go into landfills and provides financial and educational support to students pursuing careers in the home improvement and remodeling industry. Anyone buying something at the sale also will receive two tickets for the 2012 Spring Home Improvement Showcase, A Tour of Remodeled Homes, May 19 and 20. Third Thursday Art Crawl coming to downtown West Allis - On May 17, downtown West Allis businesses will open their doors for the Third Thursday Art Crawls featuring local artists and musicians showcasing their work from 5 to 9 p.m. on Greenfield Avenue between 70th and 76th Streets. Artists will sell their work, too. There are still openings for artists and street musicians to be a part of the event. For information, visitdowntownwestallis.com or contact Emily at (414) 774-2676. Church to hold 85th anniversary dinner West Milwaukee - St. John's Lutheran Church in West Milwaukee will celebrate its 85th anniversary with a dinner at Meyer's Restaurant, 4260 S. 76th St., at 4 p.m. May 19. A special service will be held at the church, 5500 W. Greenfield Ave., at 9 a.m. the following day. For dinner ticket information, call the church office, (414) 384-9200. Plant sale returning for 17th year to fair West Allis - The 17th Perennial Plant Sale, featuring thousands perennials, will again be held at the State Fair Park on May 19. The sale begins at 8 a.m. near the DNR area of the park. Plants are locally grown by master gardeners in southeast Wisconsin. Plants are priced from $2 to $5, with some special plants at a higher cost. Master gardener volunteers will be on hand to answer plant questions and give advice on lawns, insect control, vegetable gardening and other topics including rain gardens and rain barrels. Cupcakes for a Cause to bring competitive baking West Allis - Cupcake lovers can bring their buds to the first Cupcakes for a Cause-West Allis cupcake tasting benefit for the Veterans Employment Alliance. Local bakers will create 12 dozen mini-cupcakes for tasters to try and then vote for their favorite. The event will be held from 2 to 5 p.m. May 27 at the Landmark of West Allis Senior Apartments, 1441 S.68th Street. Admission is $7. Cupcakes for a Cause-West Allis also is looking for sponsors for the first season of events. For more information, visitcupcakes4acausewa.webs.com or contact Emily Eineichner [email protected]. Allied Vets and city again to sponsor parade West Allis - The Allied Veterans Committee and West Allis officials are already thinking of spring and the Memorial Day parade. Once again, the Allied Veterans and the city will sponsor the parade to step off at 10 a.m. May 28. Korean War and World War II veterans from the West Allis area who would like to ride in the parade can call Alderman Dan Roadt at (414) 321-7264. Transportation on the parade route, with limited seating, will be provided. A memorial service will follow the parade at about 11 a.
Table Of Contents: - What Is APA Format? - General APA Guidelines - The Basics of APA Paper - Essay Components - Major APA Paper Sections - Section Headings - APA Paper Checklist for College Students The APA style involves using references in the text whenever you cite a source, be it a paraphrase, a quote inside a line, or a blockquote. The in-text link contains facts about the job (editor/compiler/title of the cited basis, if the author is absent), which mentioned. It is allowed not to indicate the sheet interval if you do not quote, but express an idea or refer to the job. The quote inside the line quoted. Author's last name may appear: - in the sentence itself, then after it, the card's year is indicated in parentheses, and after the quotation, the page interval reported; - in brackets after citation with a year of the card and sheet spacing (see sample below). What Is APA Format? APA format commonly used in research papers in the social sciences and humanities. This style developed by the American Psychological Association, not the Methodists - perhaps psychologists know how to make our brains comfortable with the facts. It is quite simple to indicate sheet by page, only the creator's name and writing year. Nothing more is needed for page citations, using sample we created the same text.. APA format also uses by those students who have dedicated their studies to the humanities or social sciences. It is especially convenient for works in which there are many direct quotations; after all, it is necessary to specify only a surname and the used sheet by sheet. The correct use of citations and references in scientific papers is an essential component of adherence to academic integrity principles. This allows the young researcher and the world of science to develop. General APA Guidelines - Each abbreviation should be entered in the text in parentheses after the first mention of the corresponding full phrase, and only then it can be used; - Sources of the list of references should be given in the text in brackets, in italics, indicating the creator's name in the original language and the year of publication for APA format; - All text citations should be submitted in the article's language and accompanied by links to the basis and a specific page; - Do not make sheet links, but put them in parentheses directly in the text, look for sample; - Give references to all tables and figures in the text of the article; - All tables must have a rubric (above the table, a separate indent of text, without indentation, Arial, 8 pt, bold); - The creators are fully responsible for the accuracy and correctness of the use of scientific terminology. The Basics of APA Paper APA research paper format carried out according to the following principle: the rules of transliteration give the author's surname and initials. The names of foreign creators submitted in the original, without the use of transliteration. If the publication lists eight or more creators, the link must contain the first six creator names, insert three dots (...), and add the last author's name. Before the previous creator's previous first name, we put &. For the English-language manual, the original first name gives — the first name of books, collections, or magazines highlighted in italics. If the publishing house (enterprise, institution, organization, etc.) has an official English name, you can give it. Links to electronic resources are described by rules APA style, additionally specifying the URL (see sample). Essay Components Any APA essay consists of three parts: - Introduction. - The central region (including several sub-items). - Conclusion. But the words "introduction," "main part," "conclusion" are not the names of the points of the plan. As a rule, the introduction outlines the basic idea, sets the tone for the whole work, and introduces into the circle of the problems under consideration. The central part reveals the idea of âÂÂâÂÂessay writing and related issues presents a system of evidence for the provisions put forward. The conclusion summarizes the results, contains findings and assessments APA format. The main goal of the introduction is to lead to the central part correctly. The body and conclusion are the two most essential components of an essay that show your understanding of the theme. The end should contain the work's primary findings, a generalization, or a summary, as in the sample. Font Written jobs, including essays, are written in Times New Roman font, 14 point-sized, and double-spaced. Throughout the text, continuous numbering used, the sheet not placed on the title page, but it is taken into account when numbering. In the primary body of the essay, subheadings may use, which are acceptable in bold, as in the sample. Subheadings should be printed with paragraph indentation, with a capital letter, without a period at end subheading, and without using an underline. In the most crucial part, using such techniques as tables, charts, and diagrams is allowed. But follow the APA format rules: the form corresponds to the table; the name is in the middle and carries accurate facts. The figure's first name writes below the picture, and the table name writes above the table. The word "Essay," located on the middle sheet, is usually written in a larger font than the rest of the text. Margins Margins look like 1.5 cm for the top, 3 cm for the bottom, 1.5 cm for the right, and double spaced for the left. Increasing margins is sometimes used by students to improve the form of layers. Still, this practice can get in trouble, especially if you are entirely proud and set the settings in settings 3 - 3 - 3 - 4. A4 pages used, in no case in color, only white, printed on the printer Times New Roman font. The text not print on both sides, use only one, it will be a sample in the future. The text on the paper should correspond to the borders, not to the whole document, but adhering to the limits. Please do not use your friends; do not write text on both sides; it is not a notebook. Focus on such a writing APA format as a portrait, all the attention in the center. At the same time, the landscape is used only for additional notes or tables. There are no clear guidelines for headings in the standards. Most often, they located in the middle; no dots put at the end. Spacing The interval when creating the text of APA format is allowed one and a half. If you use a more extended range, the teacher will think that you want to deceive him with volume, no need to cheat. All thoughts and statements on the theme of the essay writing borrowed from the basis and other researchers should mark with appropriate footnotes. Information about the creator and teacher is right-aligned, and everything else is centered. The theme highlighted in bold, and all capital letters can use if desired. You do not need to write the word "subject." You only specify the first name of the theme — the essay's topic not taken in quotation marks, except for one case - a quote. Conclusions cannot be more than two paper long. This is an analysis of the primary text, summing up. The goals achieved are described, highlighting credible statements. It is essential to pay attention to the possibility of the practical application of the job. Major APA Paper Sections Students find that an APA essay is not a difficult task compared to other student jobs. Therefore, we usually do not worry about writing it and do not pay attention to it. We forget about the originality, which harmoniously looks at the composition, or corresponds to the norm. Be that as it may, we have all written essays, and we know that this task awaits every student. Teachers have created jobs to make it easier for us to write more seriously in the future. That is, development from small to large, so all must master writing skills. There were cases when the length of the text was from seven papers to twenty. Like all other works, it has several sections: - title page; - table of contents or outline; - introduction; - basic part; - conclusion; - list of used literature. If you have not missed anything and have correctly designed your work, be sure that your efforts will not ignore. Title Page When creating a title page, use the rules specified by your school. 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Abstract This genre of science fiction style has two mandatory parts. The first necessarily characterizes the basis and determines the goal set by the creator, his basic idea, and the study's scope. The methodology APA format of job and the received results also described. The second part defines the audience for which the annotated article intended. In this box, it is necessary to determine how accessible the language of presentation. In some tables, annotations to reports may contain additional information. In them, it is appropriate to tell about composition, the structure of the basis, and get acquainted with illustrative material used in it. In conclusion, it is not superfluous to indicate what new opinions expressed by the creator in the study acquainted with his findings or recommendations. Main Body An essential feature of the central part APA format is specificity. The theme should be revealed not in general phrases, but to delve into the job's ideological and artistic content and argue their thoughts. Quotations provide specifics to the central part. Quotes-theses, or proofs, are used in the central part of the job. They clearly express the basic idea of âÂÂâÂÂthe situation. This is usually the expression of classics, famous people, scientists, writers, critics. Such quotations transmitted as direct speech, respectively, capitalization and punctuation preserved. The quotation can be shortened, leaving the most significant part of it, omit unnecessary elements, and in place of abbreviations and omissions put three dots within the quotation marks. These are excerpts from the literary text, which given in the job as examples. References Subscript bibliography reference made as a note taken from the text of the document down the strip. 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this criticism. Note: I have never had any interaction with IMD Lasers in Toronto other than receiving the emails described below. Unprepared: IMD was in the same boat as many physicians and clinics; they have a single, static website and no other web presence of note (more on that later). So, when anyone posts or comments with the name "IMD Lasers", it shows up on the first page of Google and Bing. When the title of the post grabs your attention like IMD Lasers should be shut down you can imagine that is something that you generally want to avoid, but if you're in a situation where you're responding to negative reviews, you're almost always unprepared since by doing some up front work, negative reviews don't harm you as much. Unrealistic: Facebook is a perfect example of what to expect if you have a complaint about a negative review or comment about your business; in effect, nothing. Publications that allow others to post content are not responsible for what others post and are very reticent to censor the very people who are contributing to the discussion. It's unrealistic to ask any site to delete comments simply because they're critical of you or you don't like them. You're going to have to have a better reason than that. Unprofessional: Criticism can make anyone angry, and thinking that others are reading it can be especially frustrating. In IMD Laser's case, it appears that they're active online in promoting their business, but they've never learned the lesson that you can catch more flies with honey than with vinegar. IMD's first reaction on reading a negative comment about their business was to go over the top, contact us via email and threaten "legal action" if we didn't comply immediately with their demands which were to remove comments that they didn't even bother to identify. (In IMD Laser's case this email came from someone named 'Moe Dizzle' who is evidently related to the owner of IMD and sells "DJ Slipmats". I assume he's related to the owners since he signs his emails "M. Dastranj" which is the same last name as "Allen Dastranj" who claims to be the owner or IMD Lasers.) The fact that we received such a harsh email out of the blue made us take a look at the comment thread that IMD Lasers was complaining about, (You can read it here: IMD Laser Clinic In Toronto) but when we read through the thread we found a number of suspicious comments in the thread that triggered some red flags and take a closer look. For example, here's a comment left on the Medical Spa MD thread: I think IMD laser clinic is AMAZING! When I came to the clinic it was like home. Everyone was so nice and the service was amazing! After i finished my treatment i looked 20 years younger. It was amazing. IMD Laser Clinic is the best. It was worth my money. :) Sincerely Christie A very happy costumer of IMD Laser Clinic And here's a review of IMD Laser left previously on N49.ca (a Canadian review site) on August, 5 2010: Link IMD Laser Clinic is AMAZING!!! It has amazing services and amazing doctors! The clinic made me feel like i was right at home. When i finished my treatment i looked 20 years younger!!!! I was just amazed!! IMD Laser Clinic IS THE BEST!!! Sincerely Kristy A very satisfied costumer of IMD Laser Clinic Now, is it possible that "amazed" Kristy/Christie left almost exactly the same comment on two different sites a year or more apart and that she forgot her own name, but it doesn't seem likely. It's much more likely that someone is busily leaving phony comments promoting themselves. Take a look at all of the reviews promoting IMD Lasers on another review site here: Anything jump out at you? How about this: There are seven 5 star reviews left over a two year period but all of the reviews are... posted on only 4 days (one days has 3 reviews), are glowingly promotional with lots of exclamation marks, are marked 'Not Helpful' by other reviewers, and contain numerous similar grammatical errors. Any red flags there that might lead someone to believe that they weren't real? In fact, after reading all of the wildly glowing reviews posted on Medical Spa MD under different names promoting IMD, I could see that that (big surprise) every single positive review originated from IMD Laser's Toronto IP address. IMD claims that all the positive comments were IMD patients posting positive comments from computers inside IMD's clinic using their computer. : ) The fact that IMD Lasers is both abusing this site and our intelligence isn't doing them any favors. Since posting self-promoting comments under multiple alias's is very much against our terms, their IP address was banned and a notification was placed on the thread. Generally, if we get a specific request from someone who has done their homework and has a legitimate claim that a comment violates our terms, we'll take a look at it. We have removed many comments and entire threads... but posting self-agrandizing comments under different names and then threatening to 'contact a lawyer' to have everyone elses comments removed is exactly the wront tactic. It destroys any credibility or good will that they might have garnered had they been smarter and used a less confrontational approach. After all, we've had more than a little experience with litigation and threats from others who want to curtail anyone voicing an opinion they don't agree with: - Read: Medical Spa Franchise threatening lawsuit against Medspa MD. - Read: Medical Spa MD Is Threatened With A Lawsuit Again - Read: Dermacare Sues Everyone On Medical Spa MD Then there's the Streisand Effect, named after the famous singer Barbara Streisand. From a post on Understanding the Streisand Effect. In 2002 a photographer studying coastal erosion along the California coast took thousands of photographs of the coastline from a helicopter and had put those images into an online database to aid in awareness of the issue and, hopefully, have the public help spot problem areas and address them. However, one of those photos captured the back of Streisand’s California home, which was adjacent to a cliff at the ocean’s edge. The image was just one of over 12,000 images in the database but Streisand was still upset about its inclusion and public posting. In early 2003, she filed a lawsuit against the photographer and several other companies involved seeking some $50 million in damages. The result was ugly. The story, and the photo, spread like wildfire across the Web, Prior to the lawsuit, the image had only been accessed six times and five of those times were by Streisand, her legal team and her neighbor. Now, Google Image Search reports there being thousands copies of the photo available online (in many different variations), likely garnering tens thousands of views per day even now. It was after this backfire that the term “Streisand Effect” was coined by Mike Masnick at Techdirt. ...Anytime you try to silence speech on the Web, no matter how legitimately, this is the risk you take. It’s just a matter of how great the risk is. The fact that IMD Lasers stuck their foot in it by being belligerent and is being used to illustrate this post is just one example of how you can get more attention than you want by thinking that no one will shine a light on your activities or emails. For example, if you send an email or letter, there's absolutley nothing that prevents the recipient from posting all of that information online across multiple sites. In fact, it's pretty common. If you're going to take any action, be aware that it's going to be public and that the recipient will likely have a microphone. There are almost always better options since it's almost inconceiveable that a comment or post is actually that harmful to your business. Just because you don't want someone reading a negative comment doesn't mean that you can prevent it, or even that you should try. It's important to understand that most issues regarding your clinic or professional reputation on the web you are going to be dealing with reviews and comments from your patients, sometimes anonymously. In most cases readers will dissregard anything that feels like it's an obvious 'smear campaign'. However, the most problematic reviews are often from someone who has an axe to grind. They might be a patient but they might also be a disgruntled employee that you fired or even a competitor. In these cases you're going to want to be more proactive. What's protected speach? Adittionaly, as long as the review or comment is someone's opinion they can say pretty much whatever they want (in the US at least) and they don't have to qualify it as their opinion in the comment. So, if someone want's to post that they think that you're a jerk (even though you're not), uneducated (even with your Ph.D.) and short (even though you're 7'4"), they can. It's their opinion. It doesn't have to be correct, wise, or supported by any facts... and they can say it as many times, in different places, as they want. Read the Medical Spa MD Q&A on online defamation for physicians here. What's not protected? In short, of someone claims something that is demonstrably false AND that they know that it's false AND that they do it with the intent of inflicting harm on you AND it does causes damage that you can prove... If all of those criteria are met it's possible that it's not protected and that person may be committing liable. However, that is an incredibly high bar of proof and if any one of those claims are missing it's not liable. That's why you don't see bigger companies engaging in threats of legal action against people that post negative reviews. Bigger companies know that they can't win. It's usually a smaller company or individual who feels personally attacked that makes these claims because their ego gets involved and they feel threatened. So what should you do? In part two of this post we're going to go through what you should be doing right now to make sure that you don't ever have to worry about this. Read: Medical Spa MD: Online Defamation FAQ Need to protect your reputation? Check out Frontdesk's Reputation Protection for Physicians Reader Comments (3) As a physician, you have to be very careful. This post is exactly correct when it says that everyone now has a microphone and can use it. Email can come across as being very terse and harsh. I always take extra time when sending any email to make sure that it represents the tone that I want to convey. You can do a lot of damage just by 'seeming' to be short. Having run afoul of this before. I'v learned my lesson. I only wish it had come earlier. Great insight - looking forward to Part 2.
Results 1 to 9 of 9 Ghost Rider, Subway, Fat Man's Misery, Neon, Arch Nemesis, Cassidy and moreEarlier this year I posted a thread looking to meet up with various people to canyon with in August after my regular canyoning buddy who lives in LA couldn't make it (or, rather, his budget didn't extend past one night playing $5 blackjack in Vegas). Thanks to lots of kind offers I was able to fly out and meet up with various people and do the following canyons:Ghost Rider -Ghost Rider -Subway -Fat Man's Misery -Neon (not completed - we took the moki steps escape route) -Arch Nemesis -Cassidy Arch -Boltergeist -Pine Creek Here's the trip report! First, the video: And now the notes and photos... Subway I soloed this on my first day after leaving Las Vegas. It was a chance to get to grips with my new CRITR2 and also rappelling single strand, neither of which I'd done before. The first few raps in Ghost Rider were pretty short and gentle and ideal for this (although one rap I kinda missed and downclimbed by mistake). Got to the longest rap (around 80 ft) and thought for safety's sake I'd revert back to double strand on the ATC, just because that's what I've been more familiar with. Did one more rap after that before then finding the exit and the steep ascent back to the car. The canyon took me around 3.5 hours but I was going very slowly and experimenting with the new techniques I was practicing. Ghost Rider was useful as a practice canyon but nothing more - the drive in was a little rough, the temperature was 107 degrees and I didn't find the canyon particularly scenic. It was, however, convenient in that I was driving up from Las Vegas and it was quicker to reach than either Yankee Doodle or Boltergeist, particularly as I also had to get over to ZAC later to pick up a wetsuit. Fat Man's Misery (West Fork) Next up, I joined Brett, Josh, Jeremy, Sarah and Rachel (think I got all the names down pat!) for a romp through Subway. I'd done Subway once before (versus Brett's 28 previous trips) but was happy to do it again, particularly as the first time I did it had been in September and I'd been pretty wet and cold throughout with no change of clothes. Partway through our hike in we saw a large group of around 12 people behind us and decided we'd want to keep a decent pace up to stay in front of them. We didn't see anyone else until we got to the first boulder rap at which point we took the right hand rap (rather than the main one) as there was already a group tied in to the main rap. From this point on it was pretty much the usual Subway fare with plenty of swimming and wading. At the final rap we saw a large group on the rap already, some of whom were apparently crying....so it didn't look like being a quick wait. However, there was a log wedged between rocks spanning both sides of the drop - this allowed us to walk over to the other side and quickly set up on the other, more gentle rap and save a load of time. Another reason I'd wanted to return to Subway was to get to the main pools at a better time of day and get more spectacular photos than I did last time around. That said, even though we arrived earlier than I did previously, I felt like the best lighting was gone. My hunch is that the most spectacular photos are perhaps taken by people hiking the bottom-up route and arriving earlier than most canyoneers doing the top-down route will. Nevertheless, I got to check out the waterfall room which I hadn't done last time around, and Subway is just a fun canyon. We started Subway around 8.15am and finished at 5.30pm. Next up, a canyon that I was particularly looking forward to. I met up with Ryan (not Road Trip Ryan) and we started at 7.30am. We used Road Trip Ryan's GPX tracks, there's a very slight variation between these and BluuGnome's tracks (mostly as to when you head east over to the canyon) but its pretty minor. On the first rap we were caught up by a small group of three and we ultimately let them play through as they were quicker than we were. I rigged a knot block on the first rap and after descending they said to us that it was somewhat wedged in the (large) quick link - they freed it and from this point onwards (and for the rest of the trip) I think every single strand rap was set up on a biner block rather than a knot block. Anyway, the canyon was great run - quite a lot of partner assists (not sure if that was due to low water levels, but there were definitely one or two drops we really helped each other on), a natural anchor that we had to rebuild (the rope later got stuck on the pull so we spend a bit of time freeing it), etc. We reached the confluence at 1.45pm and the river at 4pm before easily finding the steep exit back up to the ridge. Fat Man's was a really scenic canyon and a good mix of route finding, partner assists, wading, a little bit of swimming right at the end, practice with natural anchors, etc. My main comment here relates to Road Trip Ryan's beta. The site is invaluable, the descriptions and GPX tracks are so helpful... but we both felt his estimate of 5-8 hours is WAY off and could lead to people taking less than they need in terms of lights (I wasn't well equipped on this front), water, etc. Assuming that the time estimates are for first-timers in a canyon (after all, you don't need an estimate if you've done it before and know what to expect, how long you took, etc), this time estimate just looks miles off. By contrast, Shane estimates 8-9 hours, Tom estimates 10-14 hours, Citrus Milo says 9-12 hours, etc. We took around 13 hours, finishing at 9.15pm (and total darkness). Admittedly, we lost a bit of time after Ryan accidentally scrambled up to the ridge and left his harness down by the river, I was probably a bit slow in the technical sections and he was a bit exhausted in the latter stages of the hike - but even factoring that in, I'd say 9-10 hours seems a likely estimate for a group that's never been in the canyon before. In any event, Fat Man's Misery was one of the most scenic canyons I've done - even with the long hike back, I wouldn't hesitate to do this again. Neon I arrived in Escalante after midnight and then set off early the next morning to meet my next canyoning buddy, Craig, on the intersection of Hole in the Rock Rd and Egypt Rd (which I had done last year in a rental car when I did Egypt 3 but thought it better to leave the rental car on Hole in the Rock Rd this time). Craig was tall and had a bit of experience with keeper potholes, which I don't, as well as a hook, potshots, etc., so I figured this was a good opportunity to go tackle a canyon with keeper potholes. However - we had read up on the canyon condition and two weeks before our visit, we knew the potholes to be filled with water and easy swim-throughs. We left the trailhead at 9.15 and made good progress, hitting the Escalante River at 10.45 which was pretty much in line with expectations. We found the easy route up to the rim of the canyon and continued hiking, pondering our entrance into Neon. We first came across the "Sport Entrance" (per BluuGnome descriptions) but this was too quick, we'd miss the first keeper pothole and a lot of the canyon, so we carried on.. For the first part of the canyon it was mostly wading - and the line on the rock suggested to us water levels had decreased. Anyway, we got to the first keeper pothole, with Craig leading the way, but he inadvertently missed the metal bolt on the left signifiying this was the first keeper and instead descended into it with his backpack, only to find it was in the worst mode possible. Water levels too high to touch the bottom, too low to swim across. Craig had the rope (235 ft, I think) with him and I had cord with me - so we agreed I'd throw down the cord, he'd tie off his backpack and I'd haul that up first before then throwing down an etrier which he would use to escape back up to me. We started doing this...only the backpack wedged between the narrow rock, grinding to a halt - out of his reach, and not easily reachable for me unless I downclimbed partway down towards the keeper and yank it around. Anyway, long story short... I've never exerted as much force in my life as I did for those few minutes, but eventually I yanked the backpack free, threw down the etrier, Craig climbed back up to me and I pretty much laid flat out on my back for a while after the energy expenditure. Both a little rattled by the experience (and somewhat exhausted) we carried on, climbing up the rock on the left and traversing over to the metal bolt before rappelling down to bypass the first keeper. We then continued, through deeper water at this point, before reaching the open part of the canyon with the moki steps escape route to the left. At this point we discussed what we'd read online - leave ropes in place before attempting keeper pothole 2, in case you need to retreat back to the moki steps and escape that way. So that was our plan. We reached point Neon76 (BluuGnome label) which is a 35ft descend into water. We set up the rope here and rappelled into the water before continuing. At this point, we got to another rap - and had no more rope, only cord. The realisation came that we weren't going to be able to complete Neon - at least, not without gambling on the state of the second keeper pothole and committing to it, with no retreat upcanyon available. (With hindsight, and if we hadn't been somewhat on edge... what we should have done here is have the first person rappel down, see if they were able to comfortably upclimb it and, if so, go down again and this time we pull the rope after ourselves. However - this ultimately may not have made a difference as there were ultimately two genuine rappels to come - the one we turned around at, and the one into the keeper. Perhaps if we'd pulled the rope on this downclimb, left the rope at the next rap and gone to the top of the rap into the keeper we'd have been able to gauge the water level in the keeper and make a decision. But I guess that wasn't guaranteed and in any event, its not what we did.) We ascended the ropes back to the open part of the canyon and used the moki steps to escape to the rim. They weren't particularly easy, Craig went up first and I roped up for my ascent - and did slip the first time. Anyway, on the rim, the main issue here was that we were now on the opposite side of the canyon to the route in - and with no idea as to what an exit route looked like or if there even WAS a walkable route out (there's plenty of sheer cliffs about). There's zero beta for this online, as far as I can see. Anyway, we headed downcanyon and came to a saddle on the left just before the massive rock dome - we went up and round the saddle and basically came to a point where we were sure we were going to get cliffed out, repeatedly, and have to do a pretty damn large rappel to get down. We kept on checking round "just one more rock/corner" and eventually saw the jackpot - gently(ish) sloping ledges back down to lower levels and, eventually, the river. At which point, having run out of water and totally exhausted, we abandoned any idea of filtering / waiting 30 minutes for iodine, and just guzzled. Luckily no upset stomachs followed. The hike from the river to the car was steep and arduous, it took us just under 2.5 hours. Unfortunately I didn't take much in the way of photos or videos during Neon - what with the concerns that arose at various parts during the day, my mind was elsewhere. One thing in particular that stands out, however, is just how remote and exposed you feel in an area like this. Unlike the canyons in Zion, Capitol Reef, etc., you feel (and are) a long long way from help. There was no other car at the trailhead when we set off and, indeed, no other cars at the trailheads for Egypt 1, 2 and 3. You look around and it's just an unrelenting, unforgiving environment.? Arch Nemesis After a day's recovery post-Neon (I had a blister, was generally a bit exhausted, etc) I met up with Jason and his son to do Arch Nemesis in Capitol Reef. The general 'feel' for both this and the next canyon, Cassidy Arch, was very different - less sustained slot canyon and more a feeling of getting to the top of a rock formation and slowly rappelling your way down repeatedly through its features. It was, however, good to get a feel for something quite different. Arch Nemesis itself started with a scramble up various ledges before slowly working its way round towards the first rappel. We did the first two rappels - around 50 ft each - before getting to the third rap into a series of potholes. However, the water in the potholes looked anything but appealing - it stank. So we did a bypass round to the left which ultimately means doing a somewhat larger rap from a tree down to the bottom of what is the fourth rap, a deadman. We spent a little bit of time here getting everything ready - Jason going down first and then eyeballing the condition of the deadman (if need be, I believe we had enough rope to combine the two raps). The deadman seemed solid enough and so we did the third and fourth raps one after another. The fourth rappel drops you into a nice little area, with great lighting looking back up at the other rappelers. Unfortunately, it also deposited us the wrong side of another stinking pool, this one with no bypass available. Little choice but to wade on through. From here on in the rest of the canyon was fairly easy - the rappels came quite thick and fast (a total of around 8, I think, as we bypassed one more rappel) before depositing us a short way from the car. Arch Nemesis took us around 6 1/2 hours. Cassidy Arch Once again with Jason and his son, this time he brought his wife and daughter too. Cassidy Arch has a similar feel to Arch Nemesis - you begin the day by getting the ascent in (unlike Arch Nemesis, there was a much more clearly defined route though) and this brought us to the top of the first rap - around 140 ft, just to the side of the large arch itself. This was the biggest rap I'd ever done, and the same for Jason. We spent a bit of time setting things up (and Jason tried a fiddlestick for a bit, before deciding it wouldn't be ideal given the anchor positioning) before getting things going. The CRITR2 was ideal for this - there were various points where I wanted to adjust my friction and so I appreciated the flexibility it offered. This also was the first rap where I've tied my backpack (which was quite heavy due to tripod, camera gear, rope, etc) between my legs for the rappel rather than wear it. The rap itself is spectacular. It deposits you in a narrow area at the bottom of the arch where its just a very short walk to the second rappel. The second rap is a similar height to the first (albeit less free hanging) but involves a slightly exposed traverse to get there. We spent a fair amount of time here too, Jason going out first as I fed rope, before we then used this as a fixed line for the kids to clip into with carabiners and walk out to the rap station. I went last, essentially rappelling in reverse towards the rap station. The rap itself starts off fairly gently before becoming steeper and free hanging for the last part. There's great views at the bottom up to the top of the arch - nearly 300 ft away. As with Arch Nemesis, once the larger stuff is out the way, most of the remaining raps (quite a few) come thick and fast and we tackled these in various ways - sometimes fixed anchors, sometimes a meat anchor, sometimes a bit of downclimbing, etc. They're all significantly shorter than the two big raps, however. Near the end we came to the old wooden bridge - this could offer an alternative to the nearby rap if one was so inclined, but we all thought it much easier/safer to take the rap. In total, Cassidy Arch took us just over 7 hours. I'd say it was a very similar feel to Arch Nemesis - but the first two raps, in particular, were more spectacular and there were no foul potholes. Boltergeist After another short break and a slight change of plans, I went off to solo Boltergeist, mostly for a bit of practice. I took the early exit route (after the 4th rappel) before the much larger rap - largely on account of how much extra time and distance the extra rap would add. The four raps themselves were all fairly simple - all bolted and well established. The third was a fairly nice gradual fluted channel (which would be downclimbable except the last 15 foot or so falls away), the fourth rap was perhaps the trickiest. The anchor looked a bit of a mess of webbing (various different strands), someone more capable than me will probably clean that up at some point. The anchor point itself is also quite low, which means a bit of a mini downclimb to get into position. I hate heights and spent a bit of time here trying to get tension on the rope quicker by having the anchor hang over an adjoining rock - but that wasn't working and it was just going to create a swing the moment I got directly beneath and so there was no avoiding the slightly awkward start. I'm sure for most people its a total non-issue. Boltergeist was definitely more scenic than Ghost Rider - if I was in the area again and wanted a fairly quick and easy romp for practice, I'd head that way instead. Temperatures were also more civilised too. Pine Creek Another slight change of plans, and last minute permit, and I ended up meeting Jason one final time to try Pine Creek. When I picked up the permit I'd been told by the ranger that nobody else had collected a permit yet - but we encountered two people ahead of us at the first rap. They told us they'd done Keyhole already that day (it was maybe 11am by this time) but did indeed not have a permit for Pine Creek. We overtook them although they pretty much followed behind us throughout. The cathedral rap was stunning and had some full swimming at the bottom of it. We timed the canyon well - as we moved forward from here, the light was starting to penetrate into the canyon and the colours were amazing - I reached for the camera constantly. Until a little further into the canyon when, during perhaps the only other part I remember being a full swim (briefly), my dry bag wasn't quite tight enough and the camera met an untimely end. Every single damn trip. At the last rap we took the 'first' of the two options (the slightly shorter rap, I believe, which takes you into the heart of the chamber below) and then kept the rope in place to navigate down the final slightly slippy climb with flowing water. As with the cathedral, this was a spectacular area. I had my backpack on during the rappel and I definitely became aware of the advantage of having it beneath you - it felt like a constant battle not to get drawn into becoming horizontal. After the last rap it was just the boulder hop out - this took a little while as I was pretty tired from the last 10/11 days at this point and not necessarily exhibiting much in the way of any finesse in the downclimbs, etc. We had two cars so didn't need to do the tunnel hitchhike. Emerging from boulders and shrubbery onto a fairly busy road was a surreal and fun way to end the route. Pine Creek ranked alongside Misery as my favourite canyon - darker, better lighting, but I also appreciated the solitude (and time to go as slow as we wanted) in Misery which we didn't quite have with Pine Creek. And a quick mobile phone snap (due to my camera woes) of the final rap: To everyone that drove out of their way to meet me, invited me to meet friends, to meet family, put in long days listening to me ramble on, etc., I'm really grateful - it was great to meet a lot of different people, share those experiences and learn new skills. Hopefully there'll be a chance to meet up at some point in 2020! Peter - Post Thanks / Like - 11 Likes Sandstone Addiction, moab mark, Rob L, devo_stevo, rockgremlin, kaniukr, mcweyen, Scott Card, Sombeech, Iceaxe, oldno7 liked this post - 09-16-2019 02:55 PM # ADSCircuit advertisement - Join Date - Always - Many - Join Date - May 2007 - Location - We're all here, because we ain't all there. - 16,023 Very nice report: Very nice pictures, what camera did you use?I'm not Spartacus It'll come back. Professional Mangler of Grammar Guns don't kill people--Static Ropes Do!! Who Is John Galt? - Join Date - Jan 2009 - Location - Lafayette, Co - 175 It helps to stick with one beta site - get a feel/understanding of their lingo, speed, etc. IMHO RTRyan is short and concise with his beta, and is fast. Bluugnome is wayyy over the top on info and waypoints, and runs very slow. His estimates on times is way longer than what I do canyons. Shane & Tom are in between those 2. For Fat Man's 8-10 seems right. 8 would be a good steady clip, 10 slower, over 10 slow. Once you have done some canyons you get better feel on the beta - it works both ways. And you also find out if you personally are fast, medium or slow. All good. - Join Date - Mar 2005 - Location - City of Salt - 27,896 Anyone have any thoughts/advice on the problem I mentioned in the Neon bit - namely that when trying to ascend back up the rope, the friction hitch that had the footloop attached kept on cinching way too tight to easily slide up the rope? Both friction hitches were klemheists - would a different hitch have been any easier/less prone to tightening? - Join Date - Feb 2005 - Location - Quiet and charming: Mount Carmel - 7,156 ?" That said, that is a low-angle rappel, almost up-climbable, so just using the rope for your hands could work just fine there. Tom - Join Date - Feb 2005 - Location - Quiet and charming: Mount Carmel - 7,156 ." You found the "More Fun Entrance". Tom - Join Date - Apr 2012 - Location - Draper - 405 Great trip report! In Neon, why not cut the rope in half when you left the entire 230' on a 35' drop? Just thinking it's too bad you didn't get to do the cathedral rap at the end. Still, I guess it means Neon remains on my to-do list. 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We developed five or six songs and put together a concert reading of the show, then called "Tangled", with large chunks of the script at Manhattan Theater Club in April 2010. It was performed there by four very talented actors doubling many of the roles - though we had every intention of writing in an ensemble. After that, we drafted a more complete version of the show with a whole slew of new characters and put together some table readings. In January of this year, we put up a staged reading at Theater for the New City with director McKenna Dabbs at the helm, for which we also went through the excruciating process of retitling the show because of Disney's new movie. We're now at The Tank in Midtown for a three-night engagement with a brand new 90-minute, no intermission format and back to a four person cast (down from up to 10 in previous versions!). How did you grow the collaboration? MS: Lots of caffeine. And then she throws things at me. AHR: I throw soft things. I always say Mark was more like my co-director. We were able to speak very freely and respectfully with each other almost instantly. When I asked him to write "At the Edge" with me, that relationship hit a lot of growth spurts. Honesty is the prevailing component that makes this partnership work. If we don't like something or are struggling, we tell each other. If we disagree, we talk (and sometimes fight) it out, but we always come to a conclusion that works best for the show. That's been our motto since day one: "Everything for the good of the show." MS: I always thought our motto was "Don't give me that look!"!? I've learned a lot about how to be a good artistic collaborator through this process, and I think that it's something that is grossly overlooked in most training that artists, writers, etc. receive. Learning how to handle compromise in situations where "compromise" is sometimes a dirty word is ultimately useful in every facet of life, in my opinion. AHR: I totally agree. And I'm not even sure that what we do is "compromise". I think we present our different sides and are able to hear each other well enough that we find the best way. Our greatest obstacle, I think, is closely related to that. Mark and I tend to get frustrated in the same way. When you have a partner that deals with frustration differently, you take turns being the cool head. When Mark and I get aggravated, we deal with each other in the same way, which just aggravates us more! Fortunately, we both diffuse frustration in the same way: by making jokes. AHR: TALK ABOUT EVERYTHING! If you hold onto something and don't let your collaborator in on it, whether it's a problem you have with something they've written, or letting them know that you need a break, it's going to be hugely detrimental. Mark and I joke that we're each other's most serious relationship, but there's truth in that joke. You need to communicate in a working partnership as much as in a romantic one. Maybe more since you can't temporarily diffuse the situation with sex... MS: ... AHR: :) Did you always know you wanted to do musical theater? How did you both come to this form? MS: I still don't know that I want to do musical theater! I was an actor when I was younger and grew up around the theater so I guess it's in my blood whether I like it or not. In high school, my creative life took a different turn and I was focused almost entirely on songwriting and performing. That stayed the same into college until Alex dragged me kicking and screaming back into the theater, for which I will never forgive her. Songwriting and performing is still something I'm very involved in, but between "At The Edge," my involvement with the BMI Workshop and my unfortunate propensity for bursting into song, I'm not sure I will ever get rid of musical theater. Maybe they're working on a new kind of Valtrex for that. AHR: Musical theatre: yes. Writing: no. I also started as an actress, determined to be in a Broadway musical before I could drive! I started at Hofstra as an acting major, then switched to the Directing BFA program, then added a kind of unofficial Design minor. My first professional theater gig was actually as the costume designer for The Anthropologists. I had done some writing all through my theatrical meandering, but I really got serious about it in the past two years and it has been like a spiritual awakening. Looking back, I think I was just getting closer to writing each time I changed my focus. I love creating from nothing, building entire lives and worlds from a single thought, and adding music to those worlds is the closest thing I know to magic. How did you guys choose and work with your director? MS: You know how sometimes you'll get a stray cat that arrives on your doorstep in the middle of the night, wet and cold and hungry? How they're usually shy and you have to coax them into being interested in anything more than a warm bed and a tuna dinner? McKenna Dabbs is nothing like that. (Though I hear she enjoys both warmth and tuna.) We told her about the project and she immediately said, "I will direct this." We were both too surprised to speak, but as she continued to tell us what was about to happen, we realized she was saying things that made complete sense and we just acquiesced. It was easier than arguing with her. AHR: Plus, I'm scared she might beat us up if we said "no." Our working relationship with McKenna (who has directed both our reading at Theater for the New City and our current staged reading) is very interesting. First off, we are all emerging artists with a lot to prove and we are hungry to prove it! Secondly, we are workshopping our show with her, meaning we make a lot of changes and have a lot of meetings and a lot of phone and text conversations and much too much coffee. From the get go, it was clear that McKenna understood the direction we wanted to go with the piece and having a director that understands your goals and intentions in addition to challenging your choices and helping to shape a show is invaluable. You have a staged reading coming up this week at The Tank. How did that come about and what are your goals with this presentation? AHR: McKenna actually brought this opportunity to us. After our reading at Theater for the New City, we had a very clear idea of the revisions we wanted to make and McKenna had directorial developments she wanted to implement. She hooked us up with The Tank through some connections and it was really just a matter of scheduling. Our goal for this reading is to break into the consciousness of the theater community and its patrons. We're at a point with the show where it is getting very tight and is ready for advanced development such as a legitimate workshop at a theater company. That would be our ideal next step. Where will you go from there? What's coming up next? MS: Into the great unknown! We've applied for a number of workshop programs and development opportunities and we're waiting to hear back from many of those before embarking on a definitive next step. We're also really excited to get more of the LGBT community involved in the show. The subject matter of the show is so important, especially given recent events and we want to bring this story to as many people as possible. What are your writing schedules? AHR: Mark and I are not yet able to support ourselves on our writing alone. Shocking, I know! I mean, we've been at this for almost two years! Since we both work multiple jobs and have other projects and writing partners, the time we get to spend in the same room together is really important. When we're heavy in development or rewrites, we set a day or two a week that is devoted to our work together. This is usually when we iron out plot or specific problems with the show and work on songs, since we collaborate on lyrics. When I'm working on book and Mark is away working on music, I tend to write in great spurts. I'll work for five hours straight without getting up and then walk away from the work for a day or two, and come back to it to see how it reads after a little space. What inspires you? MS: Books. Music. New York City. Nutella. AHR: Neil Patrick Harris. That's all the inspiration I need. Anything you'd like to add? AHR & MS: Come to The Tank to see us! April 27-29, 2011 at 7:30pm each night! And also, world peace! At The Edge is Wednesday through Friday, April 27-29, 2011 at 7:30 pm at The Tank (354 W. 45th St. btw 8th & 9th Ave.) Tickets are $12 online and $15 at the door. For more on At the Edge, visit.
. Choosing Sides Part 1: Using Luminosity Masks to Fix Halos Lumin_6<<_7<< Now invert the white Reveal All mask on the adjustment layer to make it black instead of white (Windows: Ctrl+I / Mac: Command+I). It is now a Conceal All mask as shown in the layer stack below. The normal haloed image returns. _9<<_10<<. In a previous post I described how luminosity painting is one of my favorite techniques for balancing the light in an image. The technique can be effectively used to burn or dodge specific parts of an image while maintaining tonal contrast in the areas being painted. In this post I’ll expand on the technique a little more and show some variations in the procedure that can be useful. Unlike black and white images where a full tonal range from delicate whites to detailed shadows is often desirable, color images usually look better with the highlights retaining some good color instead of going to light or pure white. In fact, I’ve developed a preference for a left-shifted histogram for color images–no whites at all and mostly composed of mid-tones and quarter tones as seen in the histogram below. Even though there may not be many of them in an image, getting the brightest values correct is still important. This is difficult to do sometimes because simply darkening white values yields gray, which really has no color either, and doesn’t contribute to the richness that may be desired. A good place to start to achieve the proper light tones is with RAW conversion, making sure there are no clipped highlights and that the light tones are already left-shifted and retaining color. This allows them to be further developed to the proper brightness and contrast in Photoshop. The image below is one that I consider nearly finished. Color, brightness, contrast, and saturation had been addressed during processing, and on-screen it seemed nearly as good as I could make it. I usually let the print help make the final call as to when an image is actually finished, and the light values in this image looked a little weak in the print. They had too much tonal whiteness and not enough color richness. The rollover of the image (it may take a few seconds to load) shows the final version after the light tone had been further addressed. These tones have been darkened in the rollover and have richer color, but the contrast in these light values has been retained to bring out the texture. There are, of course, many ways luminosity masks could be used to make this adjustment. What I’ll illustrate here is a way to do it with a combination of techniques, each of which may also be useful in other situations. INVERTED MASKS The first thing that will be done is to luminosity paint through an inverted luminosity mask. I’ve previously written that these inverted masks aren’t too useful. They tend to include a lot of tones and don’t isolate specific tones as a result. However, there is a dictum with luminosity masks that point to a way in which inverted masks might be useful: To increase contrast in an image when luminosity painting, paint white through a Lights-series mask or paint black through a Darks-series mask. Because of the way luminosity masks are generated, each series concentrates the selection progressively towards one end of the tonal spectrum. The Lights-series masks, for example, have fewer and fewer tones as the masks progress from Lights to Light Lights to Bright Lights and finally to Super Lights. The tones that do remain in the progression are the whitest and lightest with pure white being selected in every mask. Luminosity painting through a Lights-series mask, therefore, deposits more paint on the less-masked light tones than on the relatively more-masked darker tones. So painting with white means that the light tones get more paint and get lighter faster than the darker tones, which receive less paint. The end result being increased contrast in the area being painted. The opposite happens when painting with black through a Lights-series mask—the less-masked light tones receive more black paint and darken faster than the more-masked darker tones, which in turn decreases contrast in the area being painted. Any inverted mask switches to the opposite series. An inverted Light Lights mask, for example, is effectively a Darks-series mask. Even though the inverted mask doesn’t have a name, it’s character is decidedly that of a Darks-series mask, namely that the parts of the image that show in the mask are a gray-scale negative of the original image with the darkest tones being 100% pure white in the mask. This is demonstrated in the Light Lights mask for the above image which is shown below. The rollover shows the Darks-series inverse. So according to the dictum, painting black through the inverted Lights Lights selection, which becomes a Darks-series selection, should darken and increase contrast in the areas that receive paint. That’s what was done in this case. The process is as follows: - Create the Burn/Dodge layer (new layer > fill with 50% gray > set blending mode to “Soft Light”) - Create a Light Lights selection (and save a copy as a mask on the Channels panel). - Invert the selection. - Hide the marching ants. - Make sure the foreground color is set to black. - Paint black onto the Burn/Dodge layer through the inverted Light Lights selection (a 33% opacity soft brush was used) - Deselect the hidden selection when done. After luminosity painting through the inverted Light Lights mask, the Burn/Dodge layer looked like the image below. The areas darker than 50% gray cause darkening in the image. The resultant image is shown below. The too-light areas have been made darker and painting through a luminosity mask has blended the darkening into the rest of the image, but it’s overdone. There is now a blackness in some of the areas that were painted as well as some dark haloing along the center ridge. This is because the broad, inverted selection allowed the paint to be applied in a very imprecise manner. Too much black paint reached the darker pixels in the image because they are substantially revealed by the inverted selection. While this is expected, the image has taken on a color “gloppiness” as a result. For reference, the rollover is the original image. It may be hard to notice, but within this heavy-handed paint job the desired darkening of the light tones has been achieved along with a slight boost in their overall contrast. Black paint applied through a Darks-series mask (the inverted Light Lights in this case) insures this. Now it’s just a matter of fine-tuning the painting to separate the properly-painted pixels from the poorly-painted ones. MASKING LUMINOSITY PAINTING A luminosity layer mask on the luminosity-painted Burn/Dodge layer is the way to reveal the good parts of this bad paint job. Interestingly, the Light Lights mask, the one that was inverted for luminosity painting, can now serve as the correct mask to reveal the desired darkening in the pixels that were originally too light. While simply adding the Light Lights mask as a layer mask does a pretty good job, I prefer to actually paint the mask through the Light Lights selection so as to create a more precise reveal and to augment it with multiple brush strokes in specific areas. The procedure is as follows. - Create a Hide All layer mask on the Burn/Dodge layer (a “black” layer mask). - Create a Light Lights selection. (NOTE: It’s best to use the original Light Lights mask from the unpainted image instead of creating a new one from the now gloppy image. The original Light Lights mask can be stored on the Channels panel when it’s created and reselected at this point.) - Hide the marching ants. - Make sure that the mask is selected for painting and that white is the foreground color. - Paint white onto the layer mask (100% opacity, soft brush) in the areas where the darkening effect of the luminosity painting needs to be revealed. - Deselect the hidden selection when done. Imprecision in painting this time has a much less deleterious effect on the image. The Light Lights selection is much narrower than its tonal inverse. As such, it’s harder to paint outside the lines because the selection is more confining as to where paint gets applied. Some care needs to be taken in smaller confined areas or where multiple brush strokes are used, but overall a few wide strokes of the brush creates the painted mask that reveals the darkening in just those areas where it’s needed. The remaining dark areas of the painted mask effectively conceal the gloppiness of the original paint job. Below is the painted mask that was created. The whitest areas are where multiple brush strokes were applied to create greater reveal of the luminosity painting. The image that results after painting the layer mask for the Burn/Dodge layer is shown below. The rollover is the unmasked layer with the gloppy luminosity painting that was visible without the layer mask. The painted mask effectively selected the right pixels to reveal in order to achieve the desired darkening effect in the light tones of the image. This is a good example of how luminosity mask selections, when employed in painting, can correctly select tones and seamlessly blend the desired effect into the rest of the image. What’s most remarkable in this case is that even after the grossly overdone luminosity painting through the inverted mask, painting a layer mask through the Light Lights selection was still able to reveal just the right amount of tonal adjustment for each pixel that received paint and almost effortlessly facilitated the desired adjustment to the image. The blue highlighted layer below shows how this Burn/Dodge luminosity painting layer with its painted layer mask looked in Photoshop’s Layers panel when the procedure was complete. BLURRING THE MASK While I don’t often feel it necessary to blur luminosity masks, this is one time that it helped. Light tones tend to blend together visually. Blurring the mask provides a bit of increased sharpness, which causes what texture there is in the light tones to become a bit more visually separated. When I apply blur to luminosity masks, it’s usually a 21-pixel Gaussian blur. That amount was chosen to “correlate” with my 21-megapixel camera, but I’m not really sure if there is any correlation at all. For whatever reason, the 21-pixel Gaussian blur seems to provide a good result when used to blur a luminosity mask. The blurred mask is shown below. Below is the final image after the blur was applied to the layer mask. The rollover is the image with the unblurred layer mask. The difference may be hard to see in this size image, but it has a nice effect on a larger jpeg and the actual print. In summary, three steps were used to make this adjustment: - Paint through an inverted luminosity mask to maintain/enhance contrast. - Create a painted layer mask by painting through a luminosity mask selection to reveal the luminosity painting to the appropriate degree in the appropriate pixels. - Blur the layer mask if it helps to improve textures/contrast. If you’d like to practice this technique on this image, a larger version with a prominent copyright symbol is available for download here. Listening to the Light – Examples in Image Development – Part 2 The last post discussed concepts about listening to the light in an image—working to understand what’s not quite right and then finding a way to correct it. It’s an interactive and iterative process with each step building on what has been done previously. The process may require going back to adjust previous adjustment layers, printing the image and looking at it in different light to see things that the on-screen image might not reveal, and a willingness to experiment to find the best way to make a particular adjustment. An important part of this process, I think, is finding and nurturing a relationship with the image and its light. While the Layers panel may have 10 to 20 different layers to complete the development process, only a few of them usually make significant changes in how the image looks. These “layers of significance” make the more dramatic changes to the image and set the overall tone and direction that development takes. These are the “finding the relationship” layers—the big steps. They’re the ones that spark interest in pushing ahead, rev up the imagination, and make one start to feel a bit giddy about the possibilities the light may hold in this image. These layers tend to create a degree of infatuation. There is increasing desire to be with this image and it’s light to see what might happen. The other layers—the majority of layers in the layer stack—make smaller, less dramatic changes. These are the “nurturing” layers. They keep the relationship going, sometimes at a very deep level. When there’s no big changes happening during the development process, it’s these small steps that build on the themes first realized in the big steps. This is often a slower process, and it takes careful listening to figure out what the image wants. But as the whispers become reality, there is a certain closeness and intimacy that develops between the photographer and the image. The light will only speak to the photographer who took the picture at this point, and the photographer is the only one who can understand what the light is saying. This post is going to take a look at the big steps in the development of an image. These are easier to see in mouse rollovers, so they lend themselves better to instructional purposes. Unlike the last post that showed the incremental changes in finishing an image, the rollovers here should be more obvious. A good place to start is to take a look at the final image, which is shown below. This is another sandstone abstract. The natural color in the rock, the warm light reflected from a nearby cliff face, and the blue light from an open sky combined to produce an interesting mix of colors. I saw the color, lines, and texture when I was taking the picture and felt like I would enjoy developing them out in Photoshop; however, I didn’t visualize this as the final image. The final image is the result of an ongoing dialog with the light as the image developed and the relationship that ensued. I felt there were three “big steps” that moved this image along, and I’ll go over each of them and how they were accomplished. First, however, rollover this image with the mouse. It shows how the image would look with the visibility of the three “big-step” layers turned off. (NOTE: It may take a few seconds for the second image to load.) Healing/Cloning The first big step that was important for this image was healing and cloning. My original thought was to keep this minimal since immediately after converting the RAW file everything seemed to look OK and work reasonably well together. About halfway through development, however, this changed. Richer colors and more pronounced contrast were starting to come out, and as a result, some of the lighter blue patches, especially in the foreground, were starting to look out of place in both brightness and color. So I cloned them out. There are different “ethics” with regard to how much cloning one should or should not do to an image. There seems to be more leeway given in nature photography to cloning out rather than cloning in. Removing twigs, leaves, and other “spots” seems acceptable, but cloning in birds, clouds, and animals is not. Personally, my ethics are pretty liberal on this subject. What the picture and the photographer do in the privacy of the computer is their business, not everyone else’s. In other words, it’s a personal decision. I also tend to be somewhat liberal when it comes to using Photoshop’s healing and cloning tools in my images when I feel it works to remove elements that cause visual distraction. If it’s done well and enhances the image, I think it’s a credit to the photographer and their skill. Photoshop’s healing brush, which was used here, generally produces good results, though it does require working on a magnified image to insure perfect blending. The image below is again the final image. The rollover shows how the image looks with the Heal/Clone layer turned off in which the blue areas distract the eye slightly from moving smoothly through the scene from lower right to upper left. Below is the Heal/Clone layer that produced this effect. The healed ares show up well against the checkered background. Looking closely at this layer shows a bit of a dark smudge in the lower left corner. This isn’t healing/cloning; it’s luminosity painting. I had the wrong layer selected and accidentally added a thin layer of black paint to the Heal/Clone layer. However, I liked the effect it had on the image and simply left it in. The effect can easily be seen in the rollover above as a bit of darkening in this area. Make-It-Glow Make-It-Glow is a technique available in my complete set of tutorials and actions. I actually don’t use it all that often, but when it works, it can make a big difference in how an image looks. It simultaneously increases contrast and saturation in a smooth manner across the entire image. It essentially imparts a glow to the image that looks pretty natural. A low-contrast, low-saturation image that has lots of texture is a good place to try it. Images that have large areas the same color or significant color saturation tend to look garish with this technique, so it needs to be used judiciously. Since it makes a pretty dramatic change, lowering the opacity of the layer it’s on can help decrease the effect if it goes too far. Also, a vibrance mask on the layer can help restrict the effect to less-saturated areas of the image. In this image, it was applied soon after RAW conversion and before development had brought out the colors and contrast. As such, it worked well to increase the overall saturation without the need to lower the layer’s opacity or mask the effect. Again, the final image is below. The rollover is how it looks with the Make-It-Glow layer turned off. Luminosity Painting Luminosity painting once again had a significant impact on this image, but it was used in a decidedly different manner than in the last post. In the image in the previous post, most of the burning and dodging were done through a Basic Mid-tones mask to even out the brightness across the image. This resulted in decreased general contrast, which was restored in the next step. For this image I was more concerned about the lack of local contrast that I was seeing in the image and wanted to paint in more contrast while at the same time evening out the light across the image. To increase contrast with luminosity painting, there is an easy rule to remember: LIGHT through LIGHTS, DARK through DARKS. What this means is that to increase contrast when luminosity painting, paint a LIGHT color through a LIGHTS-series masks or paint a DARK color through a DARKS-series mask. For luminosity painting, LIGHT color paint = white, and DARK color paint = black. So here’s a summary of my goals and how I’ll accomplish them: - 1st Goal: Darken and increase contrast in areas that are too light. Technique: Paint black through a Darks-series selection (Expanded Darks, Darks, Dark Darks, Shadow Darks, or Super Darks). - 2nd Goal: Lighten and increase contrast in areas that are too dark. Technique: Paint white through a Lights-series selection (Expanded Lights, Lights, Light Lights, Bright Lights, or Super Lights). While it’s necessary to follow the “LIGHT through LIGHTS, DARKS through DARKS” rule in order to to increase local contrast while balancing overall light, it’s also possible to do it in a more nuanced way that offers greater control. Instead of using the “straight” Darks- and Lights-series selections to paint through, subtracting one mask from another creates a subtracted selection that selects image tones nearer the mid-tones. So, for example, paint won’t be applied to the full range of tones in a Darks selection. Instead, just the Dark tones near the mid-tones are selected. For this image the “DARKS” selection that was painted through was actually the Darks minus the Shadow Darks. This selection contains the image’s dark tones, but the darkest tones are subtracted off making the selected tones the darker mid-tones of the image. Black paint is going to be applied through this selection to the Burn/Dodge layer to darken the too-light areas of the image, which generally contain light tones. As such, it’s necessary to be a bit careful in how the paint is applied. The subtracted selection still favors dark tones, so dark tones can easily get more paint than light tones when black paint is applied through the selection. So it’s important to choose the right size brush that doesn’t spread the paint too far outside the intended areas to be darkened and to control the brush strokes so they predominantly hit in the light areas that need to be darkened. Sometimes a slightly harder brush (30-50% hardness) can be useful in not straying into the dark areas too much. You might be thinking that this approach sort of goes against the main advantage of luminosity painting, which is that errant brush strokes are of little consequence since the selection is controlling which pixels receive paint. This is a consideration, of course, but also keep in mind that painting is occurring through a luminosity selection, so it will still blend into the image. It’s just a matter of making sure that most of the paint gets stroked onto the areas that need to be changed. Additionally, the selected tones that receive paint are near image’s mid-tones; the darkest tones in the image are subtracted off and don’t receive much paint. Again, the selection being painted through here is Darks minus the Shadow Darks. The mask of this subtracted selection is shown below. The light areas are darker in this mask but aren’t completely black. This means they will still receive paint if they are stroked with a brush of sufficient opacity. Because the mask reveals dark tones more than light tones, darker pixels get darker faster when black paint is applied through the selection to the Burn/Dodge layer. So if the light tones are painted black through this selection, all the light tones get a bit darker, but the darker light tones get darker faster than the lighter light tones. This increases contrast in the light tones, and is exactly what is expected from the “DARK through DARKS” rule, and what is desired in this image. Lightening the dark tones to increase contrast works the same way except this time the selection being painted though needs to come from the Lights-series of mask. A subtracted selection is once again desirable and the Lights minus Light Lights works well for this purpose. It selects the lighter mid-tones in the image and subtracts off the image’s lightest tones. It’s a pretty narrow selection and it’s mask shows a predominance of dark gray tones as shown below. When loaded as a selection, there are no pixels more than 50% select, so no marching ants appear. Still it’s the right selection for the job and will be effective in lightening the dark tones while increasing their contrast. However, it’s again necessary when painting to be a careful to brush primarily the dark areas of the image that need adjustment and not stray too much into the light areas. With a little care, the LIGHT paint through the LIGHTS-series of masks lightens and increases the contrast of dark tones in the image. The image below shows the painted Burn/Dodge layer for this image. White paint lightens and black paint darkens the underlying image and it’s possible to combine both these things on one layer by painting through the appropriate selections as described above. The rollover shows the image before painting in order to see how white paint was applied to the dark areas of the image and black paint to the light areas in order facilitate the appropriate burning and dodging. The more even light across the image and the good maintenance of local contrast that resulted from luminosity painting can seen below. Again, this is the final image and the rollover is the image with the Burn/Dodge layer turned off. A quick summary of this procedure might be useful, so here are the steps - Create the Burn/Dodge layer. - Create a Darks minus Shadow Darks selection and hide the ants. - Apply black paint to the Burn/Dodge Layer through this selection to areas of the image that are too light, being careful to adjust brush size and hardness to only paint in the light areas as much as possible. - Create a Lights minus Light Lights selection, clicking OK when the warning box comes up that no pixels are more than 50% selected. - Apply white paint to the Burn/Dodge Layer through this selection to areas of the image that are too dark, being careful to adjust brush size and hardness to paint mainly in the dark areas where increased brightness is desired. I like this technique enough that I recommended it to Alban Fenle when I saw one of his images. I requested to use the image in this post as it worked well to demonstrate this luminosity painting technique and he agreed. His image is more “realistic” than my sandstone picture and is shown below. The only adjustment I added to this image was luminosity painting on a Burn/Dodge layer as described above. The too-light areas of the image were painted with black paint through a Darks minus Shadow Darks selection, and the too-dark areas were painted white through a Lights minus Light Lights selection. The paint was somewhat carefully applied with a 30% hard brush to makes sure the right pixels received paint. This evened out the light across the image and maintained good contrast in the areas being painted. The end result, I think, is richer colors with stronger detail in both the highlight and shadow areas. The rollover shows the image after luminosity painting using this technique. The Burn/Dodge layer that resulted from painting is shown below. The rollover is the original image so that it’s easier to see which light and dark areas received paint. Alban’s version after applying this technique is posted on his Google+ page. It’s different from what I did, and that’s one of the nice things about luminosity painting—it’s a very personal way to interact with the image; no two photographers can do it the same. There are many interpretations of an image, and the photographer and the image will together decide what works best. Listening to the Light – Examples in Image Development One of the hardest things about developing an image in Photoshop is figuring out what changes to apply to improve it. This is an acquired skill, I think, that, like composing an image with the camera, improves with practice. Sometimes I know exactly what I need to do in Photoshop, but I also spend a lot of time going back and forth on different possibilities, experimenting with alternate techniques, and generally exploring options before settling on a particular adjustment. Even then, I may go back and readjust an adjustment layer depending on what happens with subsequent layers. Image development is a dynamic process, not a one-way street. I receive questions asking which technique to use in developing an image and when to use it, and the answer is always the same: It depends on what the image needs. Responding to the image often means that a standard “workflow” probably isn’t going to work. It’s really the image dictating what needs to be done, not the photographer or some repeatable steps. It’s necessary to respond to the light in the image in the same way you respond to the light in the field. Don’t try to control it. Instead, work with it, listen to it, and let it determine the direction of development. There’s a corollary to this concept of listening to the light that is very important. Once you do figure out what the image needs, you have to have the right tool or technique to address the issue. As such, I thought it might be instructive to occasionally write a post on how I think about what an image needs at different points in its development and discuss my approach to solving the “problems” that I perceive. In other words, what I heard when I listened to the light, and how I responded to what it was saying. The goal being not to go over every layer in the development of a particular image, but rather to look at a few of them and attempt to discuss the collaboration that was occurring between the image and me at that time. I’ll say up front that it’s not always easy to describe exactly what I was thinking. Sometimes it’s just intuition and sometimes just a fortunate experiment that helps to move image development forward. However, I also think that instances like this maybe reflect our deeper understanding of the light and that we just don’t always have the vocabulary to communicate these feelings. The image below is one that is partially developed. It shows a sandstone detail that I recently photographed in twilight shortly after sunset. I know abstract images can be confusing, so just to get past the perceptional difficulties here, the camera is pointing downward to capture the layers of texture and color as they recede from the camera. Four Photoshop layers were added after this point in development. I’ll go over them one by one explaining what was going on and my reasons for adding the layers. The first layer added was a luminosity painting layer, which involves dodging and burning through luminosity mask selections to lighten or darken specific parts and specific tones in the image. It’s described in detail in this tutorial. My goal in luminosity painting is generally to create an evenness of light so that the colors and textures assume a large role when viewing the image. This often involves lessening some of the natural shadows and highlights in the scene that might draw the eye unnaturally in the print. Dodging (lightening) with luminosity painting can sometimes remove excess saturation in dark areas and can add texture in light areas. Burning (darkening) can improve color richness to areas that look washed out and can remove distracting highlights that draw the viewer’s eye. I usually start the process by painting through a Basic Mid-tones selection since it can be used to both lighten and darken the image, but I also use other selections or combinations of selections from masks of both the Darks-series and Lights-series depending on what I want to accomplish. Once the even light starts to come out in the image, the uneven places seem to stand out a bit more. In this way, luminosity painting sort of becomes self-directing. It’s just a matter of looking at the image and seeing and addressing the unbalanced light and then painting through an appropriate luminosity selection to correct it. I usually have all the Darks- and Lights-series of mask sitting on my Channels panel, as well as a Basic Mid-tones mask, so I can quickly grab what works best. Below is the luminosity painted Burn/Dodge layer for this image. The mouse rollover shows how the image looked before luminosity painting to provide a better idea of where paint was applied to even out the light. (Note: For all the the rollover images, it might take a short time to load the second image, but continue to hover the mouse over the image until it appears. Once it does, you should be able to move the mouse quickly back and forth over the edge of the image to see the change.) Blacker areas on the luminosity painting layer darken the image, whiter areas lighten it, and 50% gray areas are unchanged. The luminosity selection being painted through determines which pixels receive paint and how much. The luminosity painting layer is generally one of the most dynamic in the layer stack. I continually return to it as subsequent layers shift the light, and apply additional paint, black or white, to bring back the evenness. Below is how the image looked after luminosity painting. The rollover shows the image before the luminosity painting layer was added so you can readily see the difference between before and after. Once I had the light somewhat balanced with luminosity painting, the next thing I noticed was the lack of saturation in the colors and an overall flatness to the image. While luminosity painting can be used effectively to increase local contrast, using the technique to even out the tones across the entire image can result in a loss of general contrast. The benefit of balancing out the light almost always outweighs the risk of increased flatness though, since general contrast can be easily improved. Because the image was both lacking in general contrast and saturation, the most logical choice for addressing both issues is an S-curve on a Curves adjustment layer. One concern I had with this, however, was the fact that my histogram was looking pretty good at this point. An unmasked S-curve could cause loss of shadow detail as the dark tones got too dark, and the lighter tones might also start looking too light. I certainly didn’t want to clip any shadows in this image taken in soft light, and I generally try to avoid strong whites. S-curves also can really punch up the saturation, sometimes out of proportion to the desired contrast change. A mid-tones luminosity mask (Basic Mid-tones is always a good one to try) would be useful in this case for confining the adjustment to just the mid-tones in order to keep the dark and light sides of the histogram unchanged and for providing a more gentle increase in saturation. The Basic Mid-tones masks for this image is shown below. This mask is always a bit hard to “read” in that it’s overall grayness is confusing. Essentially what a Basic Mid-tones mask reveals is the image’s mid-tones. Both the light and dark colors are darker (concealed by the mask from being adjusted) and mid-tone values are lighter (revealing the adjustment). The lack of pure black and pure white in the mask makes it seem like it would be ineffective at concealing or revealing anything in a meaningful way, but it actually does a very good job of targeting adjustments to just the image’s mid-tones, as designed, sparing the dark and light colors from being overly adjusted. The histogram below demonstrates this. The S-curve adjustment that was applied on the masked adjustment layer is shown in the figure below. Like luminosity painting, an S-curve adjustment through a Basic Mid-tones mask seems to find its way into all my images since it’s a really good way to adjust overall contrast without messing up the histogram. If the saturation looks right before the adjustment, I change the layer’s blending mode to Luminosity to avoid adding saturation to the image, but generally the boost in saturation, especially with a small adjustment like this one, looks right and improves the image. Below is the histogram before the curves adjustment was applied. The rollover is the histogram after the Curves adjustment through the Basic Mid-tones mask. Notice how the two ends of the histogram remain fixed. The improved overall contrast comes entirely from expanding the tonal range in the mid-tones. Below is how the image looked after the addition of the Curves adjustment layer with the Basic Mid-tones mask. The rollover shows the image before this adjustment layer was added. At this point I thought the on-screen version of the image was looking OK. I really didn’t see anything else that bothered me all that much. Whenever I reach this point of satisfaction, though, I make a print, and without fail, the problems I couldn’t see on my monitor are now quite obvious. I think this is because the transmitted light of the monitor makes almost everything look better. Pictures generally look better on-screen than on paper. So in this regard, viewing a print in reflected light encourages criticism, and it’s a useful tool, I believe, in helping to understand where the light in the print wants to go. The print in this case indicated a couple of problem areas, and the last two layers for this image are a direct result of viewing a hard-copy version of the image. The most obvious problem was the blue color cast in some of the white rocks. This is completely natural given the light conditions at exposure—a clear sky with post-sunset glow in the west. However, in the print it seemed like the blue contrasted too much with the warmer elements in the scene. The image had become decidedly warmer as it developed, and these cool whites now felt a bit out of place. A warming filter would take care of this, but it wasn’t needed for the entire image and not even in all the white areas. Just the blue-colored whites need to be warmed. This is a situation where a painted mask works well. I created an Photo Filter adjustment layer with a warming filter and adjusted the filter until it removed the blue in the blue-tinted white areas. The adjustment is shown below. The layer’s mask was then inverted to black to completely conceal the adjustment. A Lights luminosity selection was created to target the whites in the scene, and the marching ants were hidden. White paint was applied onto the layer mask to the blue-tinted white areas of the image. The lights selection helped target the paint to the lighter/whiter areas being painted. While this step was originally intended to remove the cool color in some of the whites, revealing some warmth in specific darker areas seemed to work well too. Because the Lights selection reaches into some of the darker tones, painting darker parts of the image turned out to be an effective way to warm-up other cool-toned areas as well. Below is the mask for the Photo Filter layer after it was painted showing the areas that were revealed to receive the warming effect. The rollover is the image before the warming was added to provide a better idea of how the blue-tinted areas in the image ware targeted for warming by the painted mask. Below is the image as it appeared after the addition of the Photo Filter layer with the painted mask. The rollover again shows how the image looked before the Photo Filter adjustment layer was added. The blue-tinted areas in the rollover are now obvious and these areas look more coherent with the rest of the image once they’re warmed up, but again, it took viewing the print to see how this adjustment could benefit the image. The final layer for this image involved color-cloning. While not all that bothersome in the on-screen version of the image, the unmatched rock color in the upper parts of the image, especially the upper right, looked unbalanced in the print. Revealing the Photo Filter warming didn’t help correct this A curve adjustment could be used to shift the color and then this color change could be revealed in the off-color rocks, but since there is plenty of the “right” color readily available in other parts of the image, an easier method is to simply paint in the desired color using the cloning color, retaining texture technique. Using this technique, the final layer is a pixel-containing layer set to Color blending mode. The desired color was sampled from other areas of the image and painted into this new layer where color change was desired. This technique worked particularly well for this image since the underlying color was slightly darker than the sampled color being painted into the layer. Color-cloning tends to lighten the painted area just a bit, so painting over a darker color keeps the area from appearing too light after painting. Generally when using this technique, I just paint the color onto the Color Clone layer at a low opacity to build up the color to the desired level. In parts of this image, however, I wanted to limit the color change to just the darker tones, so I painted through a Dark Darks and Shadow Darks selections to avoid adding the tint to the lighter tones. The image below is what the Color Clone layer looks like. Remember, this layer is set to Color blending mode so only the hue and saturation of things in this layer are transmitted to the image. The luminosity, which defines texture, comes from the composite of the layers below. The rollover shows the image before color cloning in order to see which areas were targeted to receive paint. Below is how the image looked after color-cloning. The rollover is before this technique was applied. It’s a subtle change that once again probably benefits the print more than the on-line version. In summary then, four techniques were used to provide the finishing touches to this image: luminosity painting, a Curves adjustment through a Basic Mid-tones mask, a painted mask with a Photo Filter adjustment layer, and color-cloning. The different layers for these steps are shown below. Each technique was applied after assessing the image (listening) to see where change was needed, and each was specifically chosen to address the particular concern that was uncovered. As often happens, an actual print of the image revealed more than the on-screen version, but adding layers to correct the print also led to subsequent and noticeable improvement in how the image looked on the monitor. Painted Masks NOTE: A more complete description of this mask painting technique can be found here. Luminosity painting is one of my favorite Photoshop techniques and is described in a this tutorial. It is a method for burning (darkening) and dodging (lightening) specific areas of an image and specific tones in those areas by painting through luminosity selections. Painting a layer mask for an adjustment layer is another example on how luminosity painting can be used. It provides a method to first make a global adjustment using an adjustment layer, then hiding it, and then painting to very precisely reveal the adjustment in exact areas and tones in the image. The image below shows the final version of an image where an adjustment layer with a painted luminosity mask played an important role during development. The mouse rollover is the image with this adjustment layer’s visibility turned off. (It may take a few moments for the second image to load, but once it does, you should be able to pass the mouse back and forth across the edge of the frame to flip between the before and after allow greater customization depending on what the image needs. To make this adjustment, I started by first creating a Curves adjustment layer and changing the blending mode to Multiply. how the image looked after doing this. While clearly excessive when not moderated by a mask or decreased layer opacity, Multiply (and its image-lightening counterpart, Screen) blending mode tend to make very natural-looking tonal changes to the image when properly applied. Provided that they are used in moderation, these blending modes can subtly and appropriately change image tones without unexpected saturation or contrast changes that sometimes accompany Curves and Levels adjustments. By default, Photoshop creates an all-white, reveal-all layer mask when adjustment layers are created. Once the blending mode is changed to Multiply, the image is clearly too dark because the pure white mask conceals nothing. While Multiply blending mode will benefit parts of the image eventually, this full-on effect is not desired. To return the image to its original state before the adjustment layer was added, simply type Ctrl+I (Mac: Cmd+I) to invert the layer mask from white to black. This completely hides the adjustment from the image. The menu command Image>Adjustments>Invert can also be used to do this. The figure below shows how the new layer looks on the Layers panel. It’s worth noting that no adjustment was made to the curve for this adjustment layer. Changing the blending mode from Normal to Multiply is all that was needed to darken the image. Once the desired (but exaggerated) adjustment is created and concealed, it’s necessary to create a luminosity selection to paint through to reveal the concealed adjustment just where it’s needed in the image. The easiest way to get the right selection to paint through is to make an entire series of masks on the Channels panel and choose what works best. For this image, I want to darken some of the lighter tones in the image. The Lights-series of luminosity masks provides several choices of masks that target progressively lighter tones. The figure below shows this series of masks as they appear on the Channels panel. Masks are graphical representations of selections, with light colors showing selected pixels and black representing pixels that aren’t selected. Shades of gray correspond to the degree to which pixels are selected—dark gray pixels are less selected than light gray pixels. Any mask can be turned into a selection with a Ctrl+click (Mac: Cmd+click) on the mask’s thumbnail image. Examining the masks by clicking them one-by-one on the Channels panel helps find the most appropriate one for this image. The mask that shows white (or light gray) in the areas that need to be changed (darkened in this case) is a good starting point. However, it’s also good to think about combining masks to make an even more refined selection to paint through. For most selections I use for luminosity painting, I’ll generally subtract off a selection at the extreme end of the series. So, for example, in this case I chose the Light Lights mask as targeting the tones I wanted to reveal on the adjustment layer. Instead of just creating a selection from the Light Lights mask and painting through it, however, I also subtracted off the Super Lights. I want the very lightest tones to stay nearly white, and by subtracting them from the selection that is painted through, they won’t receive much paint and will remain concealed from the adjustment and unchanged in the image. So, after creating the Lights-series of masks on the Channels panel, here’s the process for making my desired selection: 1) Ctrl+click (Mac: Cmd+click) on the Light Lights mask thumbnail—this loads this mask as a selection. 2) Alt+Ctrl+click (Mac: Opt+Cmd+click) on the Super Lights mask thumbnail—this subtracts these tones from the selection. I now have a selection that is targeting the tones enclosed by marching ants in the figure below–light tones are selected but very whitest tones are not. : Cmd+H) so they don’t hamper judging the effect that painting has on the image. Even though the selection outline is hidden, the selection will still be active and directing paint to the desired tones. Single-click on the black layer mask on the adjustment layer making sure the framing brackets are around the mask. The “color” to paint with is easy: white. The mask is 100% black, completely concealing the blending mode adjustment. To reveal the adjustment in the image, white paint needs to be applied to the mask. So make sure the foreground color is white. Type “D” to reset the colors if white is not the foreground color. Select the Brush tool by clicking on it on the Tools panel or by typing the letter “B”. The opacity setting for painting will depend somewhat on the mask(s) chosen or combined to make the selection to paint through. Selections made from masks with pure or nearly pure white areas in the mask pass more paint through the selection and require a lower opacity setting to reveal the adjustment. A good starting value for opacity in this case is 10 to 20 percent. Selections made by subtraction within the same series will often have the “white” pixels subtracted out of the selection, so a higher opacity setting is necessary to force paint through the “grayer” pixels that remain. Fifty percent is reasonable choice. One brush stroke is usually NOT sufficient to create the desired or perfect reveal of the blending-mode adjustment. There are two alternatives. If the reveal is insufficient, additional brushstrokes can be applied. Perhaps increasing the opacity or changing the size of the brush (bracket keys) will be necessary. However, layering in multiple brushstrokes to slowly reveal the adjustment is often desirable as long as each stroke makes a slightly visible difference. If the reveal is too pronounced after a single brushstroke, undo it using Ctrl+Z, (Mac: Cmd+Z), and then lower brush opacity, reduce brush size, or possibly load or create a new, more restrictive selection to paint through. The goal is to sequentially add white paint to the layer mask to allow some amount. The luminosity selection also insures that less than perfect mousing keeps paint inside the desired tonal lines. The image below shows the painted mask and can help to better understand what’s happening with this type of luminosity painting. The first thing that can be seen in the mask is an outline of parts of the image. Since the primary luminosity mask (Lights) is a gray-scale of the original image, all subsequent luminosity masks derived from this primary mask show image detail as well. A selection created by subtracting different luminosity masks, as was done in this case, still has partially selected pixels that mimic the luminosity in the original image. Painting through a selection based on the pixel variables in the original image (a pixel-based selection) recreates the contours of the image in all subsequent masks and when painting through these masks. defined by single mask, the mask can be enhanced in any area by simply applying more white paint through the selection. The enhancement can continue until the area being painted is 100% white, a complete reveal of the adjustment layer’s adjustment.. So it’s like using several luminosity masks on one layer mask and choosing which parts of them and to what degree they will benefit the image. In this case, most of the painting was done through the Light Lights minus Super Lights selection described above, but when repeated brushstrokes started to reveal darkening in some adjacent areas where darkening was not desired, a Bright Lights minus Super Lights selection was used to restrict the reveal of the adjustment to even lighter tones in the image. Once you have a feel for luminosity painting, using it to create or enhance layer masks becomes a logical next step. Painting through a pixel-based selection, like a luminosity mask, applies paint in proportion to the pixel-based selection(s) in the original mask. The pixel-based quality of the mask is retained so that. I hope that you’ll try it and that your images will benefit from this technique. A PSD file containing the complete Photoshop workflow for this image can be downloaded at the bottom of this page. eBooks from My Friends Steffen and Isa Synnatschke and Guy Tal have recently released new eBooks. This electronic publication format is becoming increasingly popular as photographers attempt to share what they know with a larger audience without the expense of traditional publishing and distribution of actual books. Tal and the Synnatschkes are good friends who I’ve encouraged to write and share what they have to offer as I believe their unique perspectives will resonate with many nature photographers. These new eBooks validate this conviction. Both offer new insights into what makes photography such a popular activity, and both provide photographers new avenues for exploration. Guy Tal’s blog is widely followed for its insightful commentary on photography. There is almost an infectious passion in his words that makes readers want to take their own photography to a higher level. Tal is now bringing this enthusiasm to a series of eBooks that take a deeper look at the creative aspects that inform his own body of work. The first was entitled “Creative Landscape” and it took readers into the natural world to explore processes for extracting personal and original compositions. It was a combination of practical knowledge and spiritual attunement that is at the heart of the creative process. The new eBook, “Creative Processing Techniques,” provides a similar perspective, but this time applied to image processing in Photoshop. The emphasis on creativity in this publication is obvious from this excerpt: “Given the irregular and unpredictable nature of creative epiphanies, your processing workflow should not be linear or very strict, but rather one of continuous refinement until the desired result is achieved. While the process has a known beginning (the RAW file) and a desired outcome (the visualized image), the transition from one to the other may be the equivalent of navigating a complex maze of paths and creative choices. A non-linear, or iterative, approach is one that relies on progressive refinement and course correction; where goals are re-examined at every step and inform the next iteration in ways that may not be obvious from the start. For best results, we may sometimes need to take a step sideways or even backwards before moving forward.”. Once again, Tal’s own words are probably best: “The digital studio offers boundless opportunity for creative expression, experimentation and infusing your work with your own style and vision. Seen in this light, it is much more than just a set of tools for adjusting or correcting pixels. Rather, it is the place where your thoughts and ideas take shape and manifest themselves visually in your creations.” This combination of practical application of software with creative exploration of the light is very much in line with my own concept of how we should approach our images and their light. I consider myself reasonably facile with Photoshop, but I still learned new techniques in Tal’s book that I’ll use to process my images from here on. And while I read it front to back to glean these pearls, it was the message that image processing is an integral part of photographic creativity that resonated most strongly. Guy Tal’s ability to fuse practical skills and existential concepts into eminently readable prose helps us all become better photographers. _____________________________________ Steffen and Isa Synnatschke are perhaps the premier place-finders when it comes to the Colorado Plateau. From their home in Dresden, Germany, they scour many online resources to assemble bits of information on possible places to photograph during their semiannual trips to the United States. They explore continuously while they’re here and, based on my own time spent in their company, frequently walk right to the place they are looking to find. Wind Song, Sandstone Nebulae, Towers of Hasi Nagi, Lower Chamber, Sitting Ducks, Desert Mushroom, Momo’s Brain, and The Wing and a Prayer are examples of images from my website that owe their existence to the Synnatschkes and their irrepressible quest for new light. Their websites (linked above) show just how many places they’ve photographed and how dedicated they are to good light. The iconic quality of many of the places discovered by the Synnatschkes makes these locations a natural draw for many photographers. If your vacation and picture-taking time is limited, photogenic subjects in the right light help insure you’ll come home with many good pictures. The Synnatschkes are particularly adept at sniffing out such sites. They have spent nearly a decade traveling and finding these places and are finally starting to share their secrets in the “Closer Look” eGuide series. They recently released their first book centered on the fascinating sandstone of Valley of Fire State Park in Nevada. This park has been one of their favorite locations over the years, and they have hiked and photographed here extensively. This is an extraordinary place with unusual sandstone everywhere you look. Their desire to explore and eye for composition have uncovered many places within the park whose photographic potential was previously unrecognized. The eGuide provides detailed information about these places: how to get there, GPS waypoints, and recommendations on the best time of day for exposure. If you’re planning to visit the Southwest and are interested in seeing or photographing some astonishing sandstone, Valley of Fire State Park should be on your itinerary and the Closer Look eGuide to it should be in your daypack.
The Fantasy Letter It’s been a few days since I read that article online called the “Fantasy Letter.” This indie author spoke of a technique that could be used by spouses to spice up their marriage. The online spot got dozens of positive reviews, and to be honest, Taylor and I have a great relationship. But lately, with the winter coming on, we’ve been spending less time outside and the cold weather had us doing little more than cuddling up on the couch and watching movies inside. We needed an intimacy boost. So I took Clarke’s advice and wrote up a quick fantasy request…something I had dreamt of and kept only to myself, and placed the handwritten letter in his lunch bag the one day. According to Clarke, the fantasy must be fulfilled by the reader within seven days. Monday would mark it’s end, and it being Saturday evening, I was feeling a bit let down. I’d been quite the hot mess all week, and enjoying long showers with my little friend didn’t give me the pleasure I sought from a pair of arms wrapped around my body and their matching lips kissing me in ways that I hadn’t felt in weeks. On the bus ride home from work, I get a text from Taylor. I read your letter the other day. My heart begins to race. I had never spoke to him about the things I mentioned in that letter. I hope he’s not mad with me. After some hesitation, I text him back, curious of his reaction. Did you? What do you think honey? -I had no idea you like that sort of thing. My anticipation grew exponentially, as I was unsure whether he was upset with me or not. I text back. Are you upset with me? -Let’s just say…It starts the moment you get in the door. I lower the phone into my purse. Holy shit. He bit! Looking out the window of the bus as it neared my neighbourhood I wondered how he’d entertain the thought of domination and submission with me. I had secretly wanted to be told one night. I wanted to be controlled, to be mastered, to be directed by my lover in different ways. I wanted more than anything, to submit myself, totally and completely, to the man I was so in love with. My daydream out at the scrolling cityscape was interrupted by the squeal of the bus’ brakes at it came to a stop in front of our house. I quickly get off the center steps and walk to the front door, eager to know what my quiet-at-times husband has in store for me and my fantasy request. I turn the lock and let myself in. “Hi honey. I’m home.” I look around for Taylor and all I see is a note on the floor. I pick it up and read it with a whisper. There will be two Acts in tonight’s performance. Enter Act One. “Hey beautiful. So glad you’re home.” I look past the letter and guiltily crumple it in my hand, reaching to place it quickly in my coat pocket, as if I’d been suddenly caught with something. Down the hallway I see Taylor. Immediately my senses startle me. Something is quite peculiar. In fact, many things are peculiar. I slowly take them in as I reach for my coat buttons, trying not to look astonished. I see Taylor walking toward me with a smooth even stride, slower than usual. His shoulders back, chest out, and a smile on his face. He is not wearing the usual track pants and beer shirt that I put up with everyday, but instead is suited up in a silver tuxedo and navy blue tie. The tie brings out his beautiful eyes which I fell in love with when we first met years ago in our twenties. “Here, let me take that, sweetheart.” He reaches for the last of my buttons with one hand as he lifts my purse from my shoulder and sets it down on the bench nearby. “How was your day at work?” “Uh, it was…fine,” I respond, incredulity filling my mind. Taylor gently removes my coat and reaches behind me to hang it up on the rack. I take a moment to inhale the air around me. The unmistakable scent of our favorite cologne surrounds him. It perks my nose and makes me exhale contentedly. “Leg please,” Taylor demands firmly as he drags the bench in front of him requesting to remove my footwear. I stare in disbelief as he unzips each of my boots and places them aside. He never even gets off the couch! What is going on? “Now, come, and join me for dinner, sweetheart. Everything is ready.” He takes my hand and gives me a soft kiss on the lips, then leads me into the dining room, which is illuminated by soft candlelight. The murmer of soft jazz fills the distance as he leads me to my seat and holds it out for me. “Did you actually cook tonight?” I ask, still wondering if, in fact, I am in my own house. “Of course. Lamb Chops with Pesto Croute. Crème Brulee follows…” I take my seat, still unsure of what all this is, and he tucks me in. Taylor then lifts the covers off our meals to reveal a steaming plate of lamb with crushed pesto and baby greens. He pours me a glass of my favorite red wine and slowly takes his seat…all without taking his eyes off me. “I’m not even dressed. Look at me. Look at you!” Taylor slowly lifted his glass and motioned me to do the same. “I am looking at the most beautiful woman in my life, the one woman I just had to have and never let go. Cheers. Here’s to tonight, where I will hold on even tighter to the woman I admire so deeply.” The glasses clinked and I took a sip of the Zinfandel. All through dinner, Taylor was the gentleman I know, though he had faded slightly in more recent times. I don’t know, life happens I guess. People get busy. We have our jobs. Stresses. But the more we dig into our obligations, its important that we remember why we fell in love. And I have a feeling, tonight’s lesson is on Mr. Clarke. Now wrapping up dessert, I see an almost cocky gaze from the man sitting across from me. “Was dinner to your liking?” “Yes. You really cooked all this?” “Of course.” I turned my head slightly and squinted, then let out a chuckle. This man of mine has surprised me enough in the last hour. I can’t wait to see what else he has up his sleeve. Lifting from his seat, he reaches for the empty plates and sets them in the dishwasher. “I’d like you to finish the rest of that Zinfandel while I go run you a bath. Then I’ll clear the rest of the table so everything is nice and clean down here while you bathe. I don’t want you to lift a finger for this place.” He passes me by but first lowers his head to where I’m seated and kisses me softly on the forehead. Then, in seconds, he disappears up the stairs. I sit there, consuming the wine, and look down at the table, candles still burning with a soft glow. He did all this for me. Everything so perfect. What’s come over him? Soon my contemplation is axed by a set of warm hands on my shoulders. Taylor’s lips find my neck, just under the ear, and I reach up and hold his hand with mine and smile. “Go on up. You have bubbles and everything. I’ll take care of this. I head up the steps, still smiling, and make my way into the bedroom, from where I can see the bath, lined with deep red rose petals along its edge, and a few candles lit to create a darksome ambiance. As I remove my clothes and set them aside, I find one more note on the bed. I pick it up and note the handwriting: And now, for Act Two, my Loyal Lola. Enjoy your bath. This is just the beginning… A tingle ran through my belly, as I read these words. I’ve never been so curious about anything Taylor has said, out of mouth, or on paper. Since when did he become a poet? I slipped into the hot bubbly water and let it soothe every muscle in my body. Lowering myself further in the tub, the waterline crept up over my nipples until only my shoulders and head were perched above, my hair still in the big power bun I set in the morning. Minutes passed, and I splashed the end of the tub with my toes, bubbles everywhere, my heart content from the surprise pampering this evening. Suddenly, I see the door that connects the washroom to our bedroom slowly close, and the light in the groove under the door go dim. What the fuck? “Taylor?” I yell, confusedly. Moments later, the paper from the bed slid under the door with a swoosh, and came to land face up near the tub. Act Two. It’s time to see what this is all about, so I get up out of the tub and wrap myself in a towel. I walk over and push open the door. It is at that moment, that I feel I’ve stepped into some kind of movie… ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ I look around the room and see its corners illuminated with the soft gleam of candlelight. A definite ambiance of darkness and mystery embraces me. Soon I’m startled by the presence of a dark figure sitting in the recliner by the window. “Taylor? What are you doing?” “There’s a box on the bed, Lola. Open it.” Hearing his familiar voice, I’m comforted, and decide to entertain his request. I walk over to the large cardboard box and lift the lid. Inside I find several items of clothing, though few of which I doubt he’d let me wear out in public. “I’m going to be your Master tonight, my loyal Lola, and if you’ll submit yourself to me tonight, I will bring you all the passion and pleasure you deserve.” A rush of adrenaline floods across my chest. I look at my love’s eyes in the flicker of candlelight and he sees my slow nod and cracks the merest of smiles. Still in his suit, he sits back with one leg crossed, an unusual level of confidence, almost arrogance about him as he stares at me. Maybe he has tuned into my fantasy letter will full effort. I continue to play along, and let my towel fall to the ground. “You want me to wear these clothes for you?” “Yes. All of it.” One by one, I slip into each item of clothing, transforming myself into his play toy. I fasten on a lacey black bra. Sliding each strap over my shoulders after I clasp it together, I see a patience in my Master’s eyes. He waits and admires every movement of my hands along my body. He watches quietly as I slide on a black skirt, way shorter than anything I own, but flowy enough that it could be lifted for any ensuing action. His beautiful eyes never leave my legs as I raise each foot onto the edge of the bed and slip on a pair of lacey black thigh highs. At the foot of the bed are a new pair of knee high black wedge boots. I step into each one and zip them up.” “Do it slow.” He growls, watching the slow movement of my hands up each leg. He loves my legs. Can’t keep his hands off the touch of my skin. And I have a feeling tonight will be no exception on whatever these boots don’t cover. “You’re going to be my dark princess tonight. How does everything feel?” “Everything feels perfect.” I take a few steps in my comfortable new boots and turn around to look at him, slapping my hands on my thighs. “How do I look?” “Beyond perfect. Except, you need one more thing…to be my princess.” Taylor slowly gets up from his chair and reaches into his jacket pocket, pulling out a black leather collar. “Come here.” I approach, a smile on my face. “Turn around.” I pivot on my heel and wait. Moments later I feel a band of soft leather press around my neck and it draws snug as my master secures its latch. I turn to look at it in a nearby mirror and place my hand on it. Solid black with a small heart locket hanging from a single link. I feel the warmth of my Masters face as his jawline nears my neck and he speaks to me. “Now, you are complete. You are my dark princess. And you will give yourself to me so that I may give all my love and passion to you.” Thrilled with the unfamiliarity of it all, I’m instantly silenced. All I can do is nod as I look in the tall mirror not far away, the reflection of his tall suited body near me, my body a perfectly wrapped gift for him to unravel. “Now what?” I finally ask, my voice returning amidst the rush of nerves. “Now, you will not speak unless I ask you to speak. You will do only what I ask you to. You will give what I want to take, and you will take what I want to give to you. Do you understand, princess?” Knowing I was no longer in the position to toy with his authority, I nodded in silence, and awaited my first instruction. Taylor began to instruct me with a dark tone in his voice. “Stand over here and face me. Good. Now, let me see your hands. Show them to me.” I raised my hands to his chest, palms down. He took them in his hands and lifted them to his nose, slowly inhaled the sweet scent of my skin, then issued each one a slow, soft kiss. He then lowered them and while holding them in one hand, he reached into his pocket and withdrew a length of braided cotton rope. My thoughts are instantly teased, as I never thought I’d be the subject of bondage. He whips the rope to his side, straightening the odd tangle, and proceeds to draw it over my wrists. I watch quietly, enjoying the feel of the soft cotton fibres slithering around my wrists as he binds them with an intricate pattern of wraps and knots. I bite my lower lip just long enough to soothe my anxieties but release quick enough that my Master does not see my actions. He looks at me, flickers of light in his hungry eyes. “Too tight?” I shake my head. “Good. Don’t move.” Taylor walks over to the back of the room and extinguishes a few candles, further darkening one side of the bedroom. He then saunters to the closet and removes his tuxedo jacket and fixes it neatly on a hanger. He then returns to his side of the bed, several feet away from where I’m standing, and begins to undo his cuff links, the whole time staring at me with a darkness that nearly makes me uneasy. I trust him, and wait patiently, not sure of what his, or my, actions are next. He then places on the bed a soft cloth bag and opens it, withdrawing a thick black leather harness, with large chrome latches in the middle and on either end. He carries it in one hand, looking almost like a long paddle hanging from his grip. Surely he won’t be striking me with that! But I trust him. He walks over and stands in the doorway between our bedroom and the hallway, then turns to me. “Come.” I walk to him slowly, the sound of my boots on the floor signal my compliance. I come to stop inches from his face and our eyes meet without a word for the longest of moments. I wait, hands bound in front of my moistening crease. He sets the leather harness aside, and raises his other hand and pulls apart his necktie with one smooth motion. His eyes travel up and down my body. I can see that he is beginning to lose a bit of patience in my presence. I am his gift, to be unravelled and consumed in any way he desires. I am the epitome of his living desires, and it makes me beyond pleased to be the one who brings each and every need and want of his to fruition. I watch him trace the palm of his hand along the side of my body, from waist to cheek, the soft silken tie between his palm and my skin. He cradles my jaw and pulls me in for another soft kiss. I feel a slight tension in the bridge above his lip. I can tell he is fighting to restrain his control as he smells my skin. God how he loves my skin. My soft outer shell melts him every time. But tonight, he will not show weakness as I obey his every command. Pulling back, he finally speaks. “You will do as I say, and you will listen to, and know what you do to me.” He slowly wraps the girthiest portion of his tie over my eyes and affixes the other end in a gentle knot behind my head. I become even more aroused by the lack of sight and the scent of his cologne now drifting just above my nose. After a long moment, I hear his voice again. “Kneel.” I lower to my knees, hands still bound, and await his next instruction. “Undo me,” he commands, his voice more of a whisper than a growl at this point. I reach forward and feel along the soft material of his pants until my hands stumble onto a large bulge. A guilty smile etches across my face and I say not a word, as I begin to unbuckle his belt and undo his pants. With some difficulty, I finally free his belt and pants from his waist, and pull down his silk boxers to let his hard cock spring free. “I want you to taste my desire.” I flinched at those words, and tightened my legs together. My Master is blending his dirty thoughts with mine so well tonight, I don’t think I ever want this to end. I meet his request and stroke his erect member with my hands. My own desires are confirmed as I feel pre-cum oozing all over my thumbs. My Master wants me. I lean forward and begin to lick the head of his erection. I suddenly hear a slow, pleasurable exhale inches above me in that doorway. He tastes so good that I want more. So I open up and slide more into my mouth, then wrap my lips around him and suck until I hear a startled groan from deep in his own throat. I pull away, my tongue being the last thing to mate with his head, and a ribbon of pre-cum draws apart as his breathing becomes hard. I know he is watching my every move. My playfulness charges a current of adrenaline through every vein in his body as he flexes and mumbles incoherent pleasures through his lips. I want to wrap my hands around his back side and pull him deep in my mouth for a moment, but with hands tied, it will not happen. Instead, I reach up, under his dress shirt, and feel his warm abs reciprocate as he inhales, exhales, and I continue my tease on his cock by licking his head and sucking on it just the way he likes. Soon, I am able to make my Master speak again. “See….what you do to me? Can you feel my need? Can you hear every ounce of my want for you?” I pull away and whisper back. “Yes, Master.” I know I’m breaking him. My wonderful Taylor knew just what I wanted when he read my letter, but I figure this fetish would be a great test of strength for the two of us. I fucking love it! “Stand up.” I do as I am told, surprised that he doesn’t want my mouth around him longer. “I’m going to secure your hands and arms above you. You will then remain standing so I can admire every inch of you.” I raise my hands into the air, and hear the clang of buckles. Taylor must be securing that contraption to the ceiling. Then, right in the middle of the doorway, I feel my hands lifted up high and hooked into the harness. “Are you comfortable?” he asks. “Yes. For now.” “Good. Now I will admire you, in any way I desire.” The feeling was both unusual and intense, as, still blindfolded, I felt on display to a world I could not see around me. I heard the sound of Taylor’s pants and belt hit the floor, and assumed by now that he was in nothing more than his shirt and shorts…maybe less. It was then evident that my Master was standing behind me. The warmth of his chest through his suit shirt radiated on my back, and I felt the hyper-soft tickle of his fingers as they skated down my bound arms, from wrist to shoulder. I tried very hard to flinch, but it was useless. I am so ticklish, that I ended up flinging my arms about, pivoting on my boots, giggling from my lover’s actions. “Don’t move unless I tell you to move.” I nodded then let out a long exhale while attempting to concentrate on my posture while savoring his powerful touch. His touch now came in the form of lips, which he dotted against every place on my body where he could see bare skin. Slow, sweet, and sensual was his pace, and it felt like a blissful eternity while I surrendered myself to him. “One second.” I waited…and waited. Not far away, I hear the sound of liquid trickling into a glass. The Zinfandel! “My Princess must be thirsty. Here. Drink.” I feel the rim of a champagne glass touch my lips and he tilts it gently as I consume the entire glass, several sips at a time. The taste is wonderful, and I swallow nearly all of it, a few drops falling on my chest. I giggle, feeling more blissful as the night progresses. “Let’s clean that wine up.” Not a moment later, I feel my bra spring loose. He unclasps the shoulder straps and tosses my lacey top aside and has his way with me. The stubble around his lips grazes my chest as he licks off the few drops of wine and eventually takes one of my nipples in his mouth. They both get erect, one in his hand, the other in his mouth, and his tongue dances around, gently lashing my hard-tipped breast with his mouth. -- His mouth moves from one of my boobs to the other. Gentle sucks and licks abound. He feels my chest heave as he nips at my breasts, driving me crazy and making me very wet. I shift about on my boots, a slight strain on my arms. He notices and stops. “Are you uncomfortable.” “No. I’m fine. Keep going.” “What?” he demands sternly. “Please, keep going, Master.” Soon I feel my lover’s hands trail up my legs from atop my boots to around the back of my ass. He digs his digits in and lifts me off the floor by my ass. I wrap my leg around him and tighten his torso very hard, my wet pussy more than ready for his actions. He ravages my mouth with his, poking my lips feverishly with that perfect long tongue of his. “The blindfold…” I whisper, in heat. “It stays on until I say so!” He sets me down again, the minute of relief good on my dangling arms. Next, I hear a thud, as I suspect Taylor dropped to his knees. “I want to taste EVERY inch of you, Princess.” I can tell, by his choice of words, that My Master is losing some control. He is almost asking for me, slightly kinder than his short demands earlier on. But it soon makes no difference, as I feel his strong arm take hold of my one leg and sling it gently over his shoulder. His tongue makes the most wonderful contact with my clit, just under my short skirt. He decides to leave it on me, and it quickly adds to the feeling of taboo…the thought of a man taking what he wants from under my clothes, and I become further flushed with anticipation. He licks and traces my slit from end to end, repeatedly swirling my bud with his masterful tongue. I want so desperately to release my hands and grip his head, feeding it into me so I can cum from all the good feels…but I am prisoner to only his touch. But in return for binding my arms, I send back a tease, and thrust myself into his face, while curling my one leg tight around his head. The sensation is so good, so empowering. “Oh my God…” I whimper. Taylor pulls away and stands near me, his voice dark and unbridled. “You will not cum until I tell you to cum, Princess. Do you hear me?!” “Yes, Sir.” My body aches. My pulsing pussy aches. I want to orgasm so bad, but I will not yet let go. Not until my lover tells me I can. It’s part of the surrender. Part of the pleasure. Our pleasure. Suddenly, I feel the blindfold pulled off my head and I take a moment to adjust my eyes to my surroundings. Luckily, the light is still dim, and I quickly find myself still in the doorway, hands hooked onto that strange leather harness traversing the doorframe. What’s with the whole doorframe thing? Does Taylor have a problem with beds? I look to my side and find our wall mirror repositioned not far away from where I’m standing, in the hallway. I get a clear view of Taylor standing behind me, his eyes gazing at me through the mirror. “I can never tell you how completely beautiful you are to me.” I tilt my head back and nuzzle into his neck, admiring how much he loves each of my curves, even the one or two I hate. “Tonight I want you to see, feel, and hear how much I love you.” Before I could look into his eyes to respond, my Master turns my face by the chin, and points to the mirror. He makes me watch him proceed to fuck me good and hard. Every moment continues to be surreal, as I see every second of our actions. He lets his hands float from my shoulders down to my hips as he steps into me, nudging my legs apart, and he enters me. I let out a long moan as he inches into my wet slit. I watch contently as he intensifies his grip around my waist and pulls me onto him, each thrust of his shaft edging deeper in my welcoming walls. His body is beautiful and strong. It matches me perfectly as he holds me together with him as we are one in the candlelight. He reaches up and undoes the main latch, allowing my arms to lower and I take hold of the door frame in front of me. We are standing squarely under the doorline and I get the feeling I know why he likes this location. He can push. He can pull. He can have me dangle. I’m starting to like his creativity. And speaking of pulling, my once neat hair bun is beginning to unravel from the constant rocking motion. Taylor reaches up and slips out the pin holding it all together and it falls to my sides in a long beautiful mess, just the way he likes it. I flick my head and turn to see his eyes on me. I stare back with an angry fire burning in my belly, wanting to be extinguished. His perfect gift is becoming very unravelled and needs to be consumed immediately. “Oh fuck,” I whimper, as his hard length paddles my g-spot over and over. I arch my back tightly and lift my head back. That’s when he grabs a fist full of my hair and pulls me just slightly farther so I can look straight back, up at his beautiful face, now the façade of a feral dragon, ready to consume my flesh. Several wicked thrusts later, I see the look in my Master’s eyes. He is going to explode. He lets go of my hair and sets both hands firmly on my waist. “Now, you may cum, Princess!” So close to the edge am I, that I swivel my head, my mess of hair tossed over my one shoulder, and I stare at him with an evil smile. I’m possessed by his every command this evening and decide to return his command. As I near my peak, I squat down another inch and press hard on the doorframe with my hands. I extend my arms fully and press myself onto his cock, pinning his body against the other side of the doorframe. His body jolts in surprise as he feels my ass firm on his body, and I then tremble instantly, cuming all over his spewing member. My Master dons the most complete grin as he watches me stumble forward, trying to collect myself as I gush from the after shocks. At a loss for words, I am beyond pleased. On my knees, I see Taylor undo the rope from my wrists and he lifts me to the standing position. He massages my arms with his smooth hands, relieving the slight numbness in my wrists. He then picks me up in his arms and carries me onto the bed where he removes my skirt and lifts each leg onto his shoulder one at a time, and removes my boots and stockings. The last thing he removes is my collar, and in its place, he nuzzles his nose and dots my nape with the soft kisses he commenced with. We say nothing as we lay in bed together. Not a need in the world for phrases. Just the sweet notion of love and commitment surrounds us. And I fall asleep on the chest of my lover. The next day at work would be difficult. Often it would be hard to concentrate as my mind drew constant playbacks of our actions together. A simple Fantasy Letter…a scribed request for the extraordinary, was all it took to steer our love and affection back on track, and fuel it for years to come. I get a text from Taylor while I’m having lunch with my lady friends. Happy Birthday sweetheart. Oh, and check the side of your purse. What? What is Taylor up to? He always says man should never reach into a woman’s purse. With a curious grin, I unzip the smaller pocket on the outside of my purse and pull out a small gift box. “What’s that, Lola? A birthday gift from your husband? What a sweet man. Go ahead. Open it. We all want to see.” “Right. Ok.” Nervously, I open the box, and I melt… Inside I pull out a beautiful 24k gold necklace. To my surprise, at its center, hangs the heart locket that was on the collar I wore last night. I held the necklace tight, the warmest of smiles on my face. It was from that day on, that I wore my Master’s commitment around my neck. And knowing that love would find its way to those who sought it, I would forever keep his love close to my heart.
OAKLAND — It was chilly outside, so officers put Susan and Dr. Frank Martin in the front seat of a patrol car, a warm place to wait while investigators roved their house for evidence and examined the bodies. So 16-year-old Susan and her father sat there, in silence and shock, hoping for word on who might have done this horrible thing, killing mother and daughter Bettyand Carolyn Martin — hog-tying and strangling them in the living room of the Martins’ Crocker Highlands house, posing their bodies in a vulgar fashion. Carolyn had been raped. Betty Martin, 43, had recently been named Oakland’s Mother of the Year. And 18-year-old Carolyn was home on winter break from Chico State. Susan found the bodies when she came home from song-girl practice at Oakland High. Frank Martin, a prominent osteopath, learned about it when he got home from work. It had happened between 10 and 11 a.m. Didn’t anyone see? Didn’t somebody hear? The killer would surely be caught. That was Jan. 22, 1964, when Lyndon Johnson was president. John F. Kennedy had been assassinated exactly two months before. Civil rights protests were going on all over the country. It was a long time ago. Forty-one years ago Saturday, in fact. The murderer was never found, and the Martin case brazenly has remained on the books in Oakland’s homicide unit, glaring at detectives for decades as one of the city’s biggest unsolved cases. There was a prime suspect at the time — an acquaintance of Carolyn’s — but not enough evidence to arrest him. The case went cold and stayed that way. But police believe the killer is still alive. Likely in his late 50s. They couldn’t prove it then, but maybe they can now. “After all these years, we know there are still people out there who know something about this case, and we’d like them to come forward,” said Lt. Jim Emery, who heads the Oakland Police Department homicide division. “The Martin case is one of the many unsolved cases we continue to look at in the hopes of finally giving families closure,” he said. “There are people in our office (homicide), the DA’s office and the crime lab constantly reviewing these cases. Science is always becoming more and more precise, and we’re always hopeful as science improves that more cases can be solved.” “If I could prove it, I would have him right now. I mean today,” said Jack Richardson, one of the Oakland investigators who worked on the Martin case, now 86 and long retired. The story made headlines for months in the Oakland Tribune and beyond. A detective from Boston flew here to see if the deaths were related to the Boston Strangler cases. They were not. “To this day, it absolutely horrifies me,” said Jeri Sulley, who was 16, the same age as Susan Martin in 1964. She knew the family through Oakland’s First Presbyterian Church, often working with Carolyn in the Sunday School. She’d see the Martin girls at youth group spaghetti feeds and snow trips. “The worst part to me was … it was Sue who found the bodies,” she said. “With us being the same age, I could relate most closely to her experience. I imagined her walking in the door with a ‘Hi Mom, I’m home,’ and finding her mother and sister that way. “I shuddered when I thought of what Sue’s eyes must have seen and what she must be going through,” Sulley said. “I guess it was my first experience with horror, and it never left me.” The Martins lived in an upscale neighborhood on Ashmount Avenue, just a stone’s throw from the Piedmont border. Their house was kept in immaculate condition. Frank Martin, originally from Montana, had an office in downtown Oakland. A tall, thin, serious man, he rarely smiled. He sang in the First Presbyterian choir, and with the Oakland Orpheus men’s choir. Betty, whose name was really Mary Elizabeth, sang too, a soprano. She was president of the Orpheus Auxiliary, and music was a big part of family life. A black grand piano sat in the living room, and everyone could play. In 1963, Betty was named Oakland’s Mother of the Year for her active civic and church work. Described at her funeral as “a quiet, unassuming and wonderful person (who) spoke beautifully in public with dignity and poise,” Betty was a church elder at First Presbyterian. She was also part of a women’s group of Bay Area churches and had been the intercultural chairwoman of the Oakland Council of Church Women. For a hobby, she collected bells from all over the world. The Martins’ two daughters were attractive, refined girls. Both brunettes, slim. They looked like twins despite being two years apart. Carolyn had a lovely smile and blue eyes. She was a good, but not exceptional, student, and popular. At Oakland High, she had been a member of the rally committee, a candidate for homecoming queen and in the drama class. Her high school drama teacher said she was quiet but enthusiastic, with a flair for comedy. She was never in a leading role in plays, but she liked to work behind the scenes. Her freshman year was spent at Oakland City College, then she moved to Chico State, hoping to earn a teaching credential. A few years before, she had gone on an 80-day European trip with about 50 other East Bay teens from a YMCA group. In Istanbul, Carolyn bought two Turkish bells for her mother’s collection. At the time of the murders, Susan was a senior at Oakland High. Also popular, she was a song girl, a much-coveted post, leading student body pep rallies. Both girls had boyfriends. Jan. 22 was a Wednesday, cold and a little damp. Oakland High was back in session after Christmas vacation, so Susan went to school. Carolyn was on winter break, arriving home the night before. She hadn’t fully unpacked the suitcase in her old room. Their father left for work, dropping Susan off at school on the way. Carolyn and her mother decided to take the family’s pet dog — a little black-and-white ball of fluff named T.D. — to the SPCA clinic near the airport for his distemper shot. At 9:45 a.m., the dog got the shot, and the women left a few minutes later. With no stops, they likely returned home about 10:20 a.m. The killer may have been waiting. Perhaps near the door, pushing his way in as they entered. There was no sign of forced entry. Or — as police later came to believe — the women knew their killer and let him in. Susan came home after song-girl practice, her boyfriend dropping her off about 5:30 p.m. She let herself in the front door, and she found the bodies. They were lying close together on the living room floor, not far from the grand piano, face down, strangled. Sitting forlornly near the bodies was their little dog, T.D. Their hands and legs were tied behind them in an odd fashion, one with silk stockings and the other with an electrical cord yanked from a nearby lamp. Clothing had been flung about the room. Betty was dressed, except for one shoe. Carolyn’s shoes had been removed, her blouse and stretch pants ripped off, and she had been raped. A terrified Susan ran to the phone and dialed the operator. “I think my mother and sister are dead!” she cried. Police arrived and cordoned off the house, just as Dr. Martin drove up from work. A sergeant and Susan met him in the driveway. “Something has happened,” the sergeant said. Susan told him and he burst into tears. Then they sat in the car. “The following Sunday I was so surprised to see Dr. Martin and Sue walk into church and sit in their usual pew,” Sulley said. “I have never seen two sadder faces in my life.” Police knew right away this was not a robbery. Both women’s purses contained their wallets and money, and nothing outside the living room had been disturbed. Neighbors saw nothing unusual. Heard nothing. There was evidence though. Blood evidence and semen. Dozens of officers were assigned to the case, and for at least six months, four detectives (one of them Richardson) worked solely on it. More than 3,000 people were interviewed. More than 80 people took polygraph tests. “All would lead to a blind end. All except this one guy,” Richardson said. It was someone known to Carolyn. He was a student at UC Berkeley and, during a routine interview, he piqued detectives’ interest. “It was his own mouth. He said some things,” Richardson said. “Of course nobody knew anything about DNA back then, and (the lead detective) didn’t think we had enough evidence. “He was interrogated for a long time, then a bunch of well-dressed men showed up downstairs — the boy’s father and his attorneys. They said to charge him or release him, so we had to turn him loose.” Richardson was so sure this was the killer, he went undercover as a UC Berkeley student, sitting near the young man for about a week in his classes, hoping to overhear some remark to provide the necessary evidence. “But it didn’t pan out,” he said. “He was a pure loner, and I got nothing.” So the case went cold. The last lead came in 1979 when a mentally ill man in Walnut Creek claimed, falsely, to have knowledge of the killings. Dr. Martin lived in the same house for years. In a 1983 interview with the Tribune, he said he did not want the unpleasant memories dredged up. “Whether or not they find the culprit doesn’t make too much difference,” he said. “The damage is done.” Frank Martin died in 1991. Sue Martin lives in a small town far north in California. She did not respond to requests for an interview, and acquaintances said it’s likely still too painful for her. “It’s 41 years for us,” Sulley said. “But for her, it’s probably yesterday.” There is still up to $20,000 in reward money for information leading to the arrest of the killer. Anyone with information on the Martin case is asked to call Oakland homicide detectives at 238-3821.
Pods – also known as self-directed work teams – have been around for more than 20 years. Pods are 30% to 50% more effective than their traditional counterparts. A survey of senior line managers offers some of the benefits derived from implementing self-directed teams: So if it’s such a great idea to go podular, why aren’t more companies doing it?. Architectural vs component innovation. What kinds of companies have been successful with a podular approach? Xerox, Procter and Gamble, AT& T and many other companies have credited self-directed teams with marked impact on their operations, including improvements in customer service, manufacturing, inventory management, and other productivity gains. In this post I’d like to highlight three highly effective podular systems: one old-school company, one new-school company, and one old-school industry that’s reinventing itself. 3M is podular Although they are known for innovation, 3M was incorporated in 1902, which makes it more than a hundred years old. 3M was one of the companies in the famous (but unpublished) 1983 Shell study of long-lived companies that I mentioned in the original Connected Company post. Big pods 3M has roughly 100 autonomous profit centers, each of which operates like a separate company. As operations grow, profit centers divide in order to keep each group small and agile. 3M’s R&D teams are integrated with business units to keep them close to buyers and markets. Small pods In the 1990’s 3M implemented “self-directed work teams” in their manufacturing operations. The teams do their work as a team and manage themselves. Managers in this system were freed up to become coaches and teachers – essentially full-time trainers. Self-directed teams were not a top-down directive at 3M. Initial self-direction efforts arose out of manufacturing, where complexity in the operations made traditional management cumbersome. Productivity soared. Amazon is podular Amazon is still a teenager, but it’s also the largest online retailer in the Unites States, and almost the biggest retailer period (in market cap, second only to Wal-Mart). Amazon is an ecosystem Legend has it that Jeff Bezos named his company Amazon after the world’s largest river to give the impression of size, or to ensure that it showed up high in Yahoo.com’s alphabetical listings. But I suspect that a deeper, more strategic concept underlies the name. The Amazon rainforest is one of the richest ecosystems in the world, and Amazon the company has been very deliberately organized like a complex, customer-centered ecosystem. Rapid change: Just like animals co-evolving in a complex ecosystem, small teams at Amazon develop features in parallel. It’s a probabilistic approach, oriented toward fast-failure and recovery rather than failure-avoidance. Teams are self-organizing, self-repairing and self-managed. Data Darwinism: New features are tested on a small portion of the overall population and compared against the original, an approach known as A/B testing. The fittest designs survive and are rolled out to the larger system. “What you want to do as a company is maximize the number of experiments you can do per unit of time” said Bezos in a 2007 interview with Harvard Business. Amazon is built around self-managed teams In 2004, Bezos told Fast Company that We have this weirdness in our business…. Bezos does have an answer though: Break big problems down into small ones. Distribute authority, design, creativity and decision-making to the smallest possible units, and set them free to innovate. Small teams focus on small, measurable components that customers value. One example is a team that decided to focus on finding phrases that are unique to a particular book. Says Amazon CTO Werner Vogels: The Statistically-Improbable Phrases service… turns out to be a mechanism that brings very remarkable collections together… Remember that most of our developers are in the loop with customers, so they have a rather good understanding about what our customers like, what they do not like, and what is still missing. Teams are limited in size to about 8-10 people. At Amazon they call them 2-pizza teams: If you can’t feed a team with two pizzas, it’s too large. What keeps the teams close to customers? Three things: 2. Teams work backwards from customer value to service or product. They start with a press release describing their intended features and start collecting feedback before they have built a thing. 3. Every two years, each Amazon employee is required to spend a couple of days interacting directly with customers at a call center or other facility. Amazon’s approach is supported by a strong platform that allows the whole Amazon website to be developed in a massively parallel fashion by podular teams. When you visit an Amazon page, you might be accessing a hundred or more web services that are orchestrated to give you a personalized experience. Behind the scenes is a sophisticated service-oriented architecture that allows Amazon’s podular teams to access common data and functionality without having to worry about interdependency and conflict. “Any algorithm that requires agreement will eventually become a bottleneck… each node should be able to make decisions based on the local state.” says Amazon CTO Werner Vogels. Because of the architecture, services can evolve in parallel without affecting each other. Podular manufacturing What could be more old-school than the automotive industry? With the innovations of Henry Ford, the automotive industry ushered in the Industrial Revolution. But the automotive industry has not remained static over its hundred-year lifespan. Alfred Sloan began the trend to decentralize work when he designed the first truly modern corporation, GM, with a centralized finance and planning function that oversaw semi-autonomous business units. And between 1950 and 1975, Taiichi Ohno of Toyota reinvented the assembly line with the Toyota Production System, which pushed autonomy even further – down to the factory floor. Perhaps one of the most exciting innovation platforms I’ve heard about recently isn’t a company at all – it’s more like a hive of podular activity. The Chinese motorcycle industry is a buzzing ecosystem of companies that creates motorcycles using a common platform and modular components. Because of this simple platform, motorcycle manufacturers can outsource components to suppliers with confidence that the pieces will fit together in the end product. The common platform also gives the component makers a lot of freedom to innovate within the modular structure. The Chinese motorcycle industry has exploded onto the global market. China now makes more than 50% of the motorcycles in the world. A US-based company named Wikispeed has adopted the same approach with the design of the SGT01, a car designed as a modular platform which will empower suppliers to innovate freely. Each part of the car is a component that fits into a standard interface. For example, when the engine wears out, it can be removed and replaced in one piece, like a tire. Although they are still seeking funding to go into full production, they have designed a 4-seater commuter car that gets up to 114 miles per gallon and can sell for $20,000 using this approach. Although it’s not in production yet, you can still order one today on the internet. Challenges Do podular systems have to be embedded in a company from day one? I don’t think so. As we saw with the PC, disruptive or architectural innovation is possible within existing companies. But think about how that transition happened – in many cases because managers were brave enough to take on the internal powers-that-be, such as corporate IT, and take personal risks that they knew would increase the productivity in their unit. If you want to go podular you will need to face some challenges: How to reward performance? Self-managed teams must not only have authority, they must be accountable for the results they deliver. The results the team is responsible for should be clear and measurable. There is some debate over whether self-directed teams should be compensated on a pay-for-performance basis. Some say that it damages morale and performance should be recognized in other ways. Some say that it works, so long as it’s done well. The jury is out. My opinion here is that most pay-for-performance systems are costly, difficult to measure, and tend to encourage people to game the system. So I believe successful teams should be rewarded in other ways: by being recognized by their peers, or allocating more of the resources that make them successful, like better equipment, more people, support, and so on. How do you deal with loafers and disagreement within the team? This is where culture is critical. The culture of the company should be clear about expected behaviors like resolving disagreements, dealing with underperformers and so on. Letting teams self-organize will alleviate many of these issues up front. 360-degree reviews, where employees rate each others’ performance, can also help. Do you have an infrastructure that can support the pods? Culture is the most important support infrastructure you can possibly have, because it clarifies behavioral expectations and offers an approach for resolving conflicts. When a culture is working, it is also self-managing and self-reinforcing. Technical standards help to reduce friction, but they are secondary to culture. Focus on culture first, and teams will start to demand the technical infrastructure they need to perform. Complexity and interdependence among business units. If your organization is not already constructed in a modular fashion, then architectural innovation is difficult at best. Most architectural innovation does not happen within a firm but within an industry. But any principle that can be applied within an industry can also be applied within a department. What you want is a part of the company that can be treated as a “black box.” If you can clarify the inputs and outputs you expect from a group or department, and what is inside the black box has limited interdependencies with other units, you have a sandbox where you can experiment with pods. Find an area that is clearly connected to customer value, that’s as independent as possible from the rest of the organization. Early adopters in the PC revolution were sales teams, historically an area where broad autonomy is accepted as long as the group delivers results. Can you go the distance? Patience is important. If you implement a team-based approach, productivity will get worse before it gets better, as people learn new ways of working and build trust with each other and the wider organization. Set a reasonable time frame and give the pods some time to ramp up. The self-empowered team concept is not new. In fact, it precedes the Industrial Age altogether. In an age where passion and creativity is increasingly important, we need to take another look at organizational forms that play to natural human strengths, like ingenuity, curiosity, and the joy of making a clear and recognizable impact on the world. The road ahead Pods aren’t the answer to every problem. But customers are demanding more and more. The world is increasing in complexity and more than 90% of CEOs say they will need to restructure the way their organizations work in order to deal with it. Chances are that the changes you will need to make are not so much incremental as fundamental. If you’re not ready to start now, then when will you be? Think about the level of complexity in your business, and ask yourself if it’s increasing or decreasing. Ask yourself: Give pods a chance. The future is podular. Further reading: The IBM 2010 C-suite study series reveals senior executives’ prevailing views about complexity and the need for deep transformation. Amazon CTO Werner Vogels discusses the technology infrastructure that supports Amazon’s podular approach. Data beats the SVP: An Amazon geek’s story about the company’s powerful culture. 1995 article about self-directed 3M teams by Ron Williams. If you don’t feel like reading, here’s some stuff you can watch: Tim O’Reilly and Gary Hamel discuss Amazon’s business architecture. Treasures of the Amazon talk by Jared Spool highlights some of the design excellence that emerges from Amazon’s evolutionary approach. You can also check out the entire Connected Company reading list, join our email discussion group, or read the original Connected Company article. – Many thanks to John Hagel III and John Seely Brown for their article about the Chinese motorcycle industry. Thanks to Jim Benson for many conversations about team dynamics, and for pointing me to Wikispeed. Thank you Doug Miller for pointing me to some of the rich history of self-directed teams. Note 1: The term podular and the use of the term “pod” to describe self-directed teams is my own concoction. Do we need a new term? We can debate that, but “self-directed work team” is rather a mouthful, and SDWT is even worse. We could call them cells, but as a manager I can’t imagine trying to get people excited about going to work in a cell every day. Use your own term if you want, in the end it’s not the terminology but the change we make in the world that counts. Note 2: I’m counting the 2001 reference as “fair use.” That’s my story and I’m sticking to it
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But despite its decade-old design, it is still considered as one of the best headphones in the world in its price range (or any price range, for that matter). Skip to main content. But HD 800 is in a different league altogether due to its lower distortion. Beyerdynamic T90. HD 650 is lusher. £660. Incorporating Sennheiser’s signature sound expertise, these open, circumaural dynamic stereo headphones promises outstanding soundstage with a warm and balanced audio reproduction. HD 800 has forward treble. Mids HD 800 is cleaner and clearer. In the headphones ranking, Sennheiser HD 660 S performs better than Sennheiser HD 800 S. 2,499. …Review HD660S Review: Everything the HD700 Should Have Been (self. Music + FPS Gaming: Sennheiser HD600 vs HD660S ( Forum: HW) Posted by beAsty @ 13:46 CST, 17 November 2018 - iMsg. Whether classic, jazz or rock, it would have sound mastery of each genre. So for those of you who have either or both, would you mind putting in your two cents? Thanks! P. 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Sennheiser’s new HD 660 S is the ideal open, dynamic headphone for the passionate audiophile Some of our "open aire" models include the HD 800, HD 700, HD 650, HD 600, HD 598, HD 558 and HD 518. The new design cuts the impedance in half, making the HD 660 S an easier headphone for mobile devices to power. Author: Andrew WilliamsAmazon. Unfortunately, they did not have the Sennheiser HD 600 nor the 650 in stock. HD 700 >= HD 800 >> HD 650 Both the HD 700 and HD 800 are very comfortable. New Reply. Shop Sennheiser HD 660 S – Reference Class Stereo Headphones at Audio46 Sennheiser Store. 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Studio Headphone Review: Sennheiser HD660 S By Rudolfs Putnins on December 22nd, 2017 If there’s one question every headphone enthusiast gets asked almost every week, it’s the infamous “HD600 versus HD650”. I replaced my 650's with the 700's recently though and find them to be neutral like the Audio-Technica AD-700(x) / AD-900(x) You'd want to amplify these headphones properly to get the best sound quality and volume level out of them since they can be quite hungry. vs. Best HD Music player. The have been touted as the ‘baby brother’ of Sennheiser’s flagship HD 800s (£1000), and they certainly share family characteristics. Right now enjoying my 700 immensely. Sennheiser HD 700 Headphone (Jack plug ¼” (6. moms): 20. Sennheiser HD700 review, Sennheiser, Audiophile headphone review, best audiophile headphones, what are the best headphones, In conclusion, the Sennheiser HD 660 S is the best so far in the 600 line. With an uncanny ability to step aside from the music without leaving their mark, the HD 700s serve up an unprecedented level of sonic invisibility. com/ISEO-rmsbcspd/compare_143HD650_143HDResearching Audiophile Headphones? Our Virginia-based experts can help you find the best gear. May 08, 2016 · HD 700 >= HD 800 >> HD 650 Both the HD 700 and HD 800 are very comfortable. The 800's are a bit to bass shy imoBest HD Music player. com: sennheiser 660. com/sennheiser-660/s?page=1&rh=i:aps,kSennheiser HD 660 S - HiRes Audiophile Open Back Headphone. CONTACT; SUPPORT. 46 points. Let us rate both these headphones across different parameters to understand which scores better overall. Check Amazon! \| Check eBay! Specifications. com. Technical Specifications HD800:Sennheiser HD 700 are a very popular and one of the most expensive options. 95. FREE Shipping on eligible orders. The clamping force of the HD 600’s will take a bit of break in to get used to. The two are characterized by a large triple-fan cooling solution that's optimized for the tropical climate of its target markets; and features a custom-design PCB that appears to be similar in design to the Gaming X series cards. Author: What Hi-Fi?Sennheiser HD 650 Review - RTINGS. 16ohm 806A compression driver with 811 horn. There are a lot of newer wired headphones on the market. Popular Sennheiser Headphones. The HD 650 isn't in the same league. MikroTik hAP with 650MHz CPU, 64MB RAM, 5xLAN, built-in 2. Oct 24, 2017 · A HD 650 with more sub bass and no other change is a ripoff @ $500 when you can have HD 600/650 for a lot less and HD 700 for a bit less. These headphones have been around for some time. 6 T561 vs Xiaomi Mi Pad 4 LTE for yourself. The Bad The HD 700 is Sennheiser HD 650 or Sennheiser HD 700 - Comparing ⭐ Reviews & Differences \| Compare Real Customer Reviews, Prices, Images, Specifications and moreLooking through the technical specifications of the high end Sennheiser models, I see an obvious similitude to the HD 700. De bedste priser i Danmark!Intel now 10% off. Sennheiser HD700 review, Sennheiser, Audiophile headphone review, best audiophile headphones, what are the best headphones, Mar 01, 2018 · Meet the new HD 660 S. com: Sennheiser HD 700 Headphone - Black: Electronics I love my 600's though, prefer them over the 800's. 04. Performance was to be expected given that the HD 700 and the HD 650 use transducers with almost identical TS parameters. comAdHot Deals, Cool Gear, and Helpful Tips. 2 out of 5 stars 44. As you can see, some Sennheiser HD 700 review highlights simple yet “need to be addressed” drawbacks. Sennheiser's acoustic team used the HD 700 project as motivation to obtain a cleaner, purer sound in unconventional ways and thus the patent-pending ventilated magnet system was born. Meticulously crafted for most demanding listener, the HD 660 S builds on the legacy of the legendary HD 650, surpassing the exceptional performance of its predecessor with a new and improved transducer Jan 13, 2012 · True to form, the Sennheiser HD 700 fall somewhere in-between. While their sound signatures are similar, their strengths and weaknesses are pretty much opposite each other. amazon. June 6th, 2016. The sleek matte black look, low impedance, improved drivers and optional balanced cable all add up to more than you’ll get with the previous headphone models. Add at least two items to compare. Sounds great at about half the price of the 800's Amazon. Sennheiser HD 700 Vs …Audio-Technica AD-700(x) / AD-900(x) You'd want to amplify these headphones properly to get the best sound quality and volume level out of them since they can be quite hungry. The HD-700 has much deeper bass, and it's controlled. not the 700 or 800 (but I was able to demo them in other booths), but I now have the HD 650 and I wish I'd been patient and gone with the 400i (can be …Jan 03, 2013 · Sennheiser HD 558, 598, 600, or 650? I did some research. Nov 10, 2017 To my surprise, the Sennheiser HD 660s and the Sennheiser HD 700 are very different headphones. I did a lot of reading comparing the HD 600 vs. Sennheiser’s new HD 660 S is the ideal open, dynamic headphone for the passionate audiophile. WA22 (2nd gen) Fully-balanced Headphone Amplifier/Preamplifier. Head-to-Head: Sennheiser HD700 vs. and i was wondering i Sennheiser HD 600 Sennheiser HD 800 Sennheiser HD 558 Sennheiser HD 650 Sennheiser HD 700 Grado Labs SR80 Soundfield MKV Show More. Compare Samsung Galaxy Tab E 9. Some of our "open aire" models include the HD 800, HD 700, HD 650, HD 600, HD 598, HD 558 and HD 518. Then I compared it with the HD700 and the differences sort of stood out. Free Expedited Shipping in USA. If the Sennheiser audio gets an A+, then the Bose audio comes in with a Type: Solid state Output Impedance: 0. Instead, the seller suggested me to try and compare it with the Focal Elear, so that’s what I did. The HD 700’s won’t. They do not isolate against external sound. Vote. INTRODUCTION. $499. Compared to the HD 600, the Sennheiser HD650 has a bit more sub-bass and sounds slightly veiled in the treble. Much more trebble, more detail, more air, more comfortable, easier to drive. Sennheiser HD 650 Ratings/Price. crutchfield. Audeze LCD-3. 00 . com/headphones/reviews/sennheiser/hd-650Additionally, they have very good imaging, but their soundstage is not as good as Sennheiser's larger headphones like the HD 800 S and the HD 700. I'm new to the audiophile world and I was thinking of getting the Sennheiser HD 598 SR Open-Back Headphone and the massdrop O2 amp. vs . Oct 1, 2018 The Sennheiser HD 660 S find themselves in an odd spot. more HD 700, HD 650, HD 600, HD 598, HD 558 and HD 518. a cross between the 650's and 800. 6 T561 vs Xiaomi Mi Pad 4 LTE comparisons on 11th March 2019Apr 24, 2017 · Actually I just cancelled the order for the nzxt cooler. The headphones are six years apart regarding the year of their launch but do compare quite effectively with each other. Free Expedited Shipping in …In conclusion, the Sennheiser HD 660 S is the best so far in the 600 line. The Sennheiser HD 650 have been Sennheiser's top-of-the-line professional headphones since they were introduced in 2003. Although it is pretty comfortable on its own. General Brand: Sennheiser Model Name: Sennheiser HD 700 Type: Over Ear – Open BackThePhonograph. For a truly audiophile listening experience we recommend the use of a special Sennheiser headphone amplifier. Get headphone buying advice from the audio professionals at Audio46. The Sennheiser HD 700 open-back audiophile headphones give you astonishing performance and comfort. BEST EARPHONES. On the contrary, the HD 700 grips on your ears a little bit more tightly. Check price on Amazon . 6 T561 vs Xiaomi Mi Pad 4 LTE and get the lowest price online. net/f/12353908-sennheiser-hd-700-headphone-369Sennheiser HD 700 Headphone (Jack plug ¼” (6. Sennheiser HD 650 . No items to compare. It guarantees comfortable fit and durable design. Author: What Hi-Fi?Sennheiser HD 700 Headphone $369 - Slickdeals. This is perfect for critical listening or a situation where you do Bring excitement to the next stage of intensity with the new HD 700. Rip-off may be a too strong word paying a 25% premium for more subbass better dynamics and a nice all black paint job may be worth it to some. HD 700 vs HD 650 After some more listening, I have come to realise that the HD 700 is a clear and very significant step up. com on Twitter. hd 650 hd 660 s hd 660 s review hd 660s hd 660s review Mar 18, 2014 · You know there's the senn HD 700's. I think I would really like them Beyerdynamic Amiron Home vs Sennheiser HD 700 headphone differencesAmazon. Comparison winner. Sennheiser HD 700. Newegg had a sale on this EVGA 280mm cooler for $99 vs $160 for the nzxt. I know but since we have HD 595 what can we do? Sennheiser HD 700 costs the same these days. HD 650. Sennheiser HD 650 vs HD 700: Pros & Cons and Verdict. 673,13 kr. Discover the Crutchfield Difference!Mar 07, 2019 · The HD600 was clearly quiter on hiss than the HD 700 where the his is very audible. Sennheiser HD 212 Pro and HD 270 headphones - Expensive headphones that're no good at all, and cheap ones that're much better. The Sennheiser HD line has amazing reviews, but how will the two latest models fare when compared against each other? Check out the Sennheiser HD700 vs HD800 comparison below. As little 4. August 12, 2015 SENNHEISER HD700 REVIEW August 12, 2015 / Scott Burnside. The new model builds on the legacy of the HD 650, surpassing the exceptional performance of its predecessor with a new and improved transducer design that delivers lower harmonic Jun 22, 2012 · Sennheiser HD700: Design and tech It was, in part, the eye-catching design that aroused interest when these headphones were officially unveiled at the Bristol Sound & Vision Show in February. The Audeze EL-8 ($700) sound darker, while the HD 650 are more present. Sound for the passionate music enthusiast Made for the demanding listener, the HD 660 S surpasses the exceptional performance of its predecessor, the legendary HD 650. headphones) it is unlikely the 660S will make them obsolete, as the 660S can't do the same thing as the 700. Meticulously crafted for most demanding listener, the HD 660 S builds on the legacy of the legendary HD 650, surpassing the exceptional performance of its predecessor with a new and improved transducer Sennheiser HD 660 S Headphone Review. 4 out of 5 stars 19. 4Ghz 802. Sennheiser HD 660 S Audiophile Headphones. I don't get it. net Driver Unit: Dynamic Driver Colors Options Available: Sennheiser Sennheiser HD 700 Over-the-Ear Headphones Brian Kahn finds Sennheiser HD 700 headphones to be great performers at a great price, provided, that is, you are willing to spend some time with them and have the equipment to make them shine. The Sennheiser HD 800 are a little too bright for my taste, and therefore excellent for listening to flatter However, Sennheiser HD 800 is quite bulkier and slightly heavier than Sennheiser HD 700. Oct 28, 2017 · I went down to KT radio today to try the 660S again. I got a HD-700, and I love it. It was OK on pop, but was bad with acoustic jazz and classical. Feb 28, 2019 · Even at the Sennheiser booth they were highlighting a demo of the HD 650 with balanced vs unbalanced cables. Tyll Hertsens In this, and the following series of photos, the HD 600 is at left, the HD 650 at center, and the HD 660S is to the right. S. Warning (for California residents only): Sennheiser HD 660S. Find great deals on eBay for sennheiser hd 660s. They're in the top 3 bestselling wired headphones and have many popular alternatives in the same price range, such as Sennheiser HD 660 S or Shure SRH1540. Well, I do . eBay Logo: Related: sennheiser hd 600 sennheiser hd 650 sennheiser hd 6xx sennheiser hd 700 sennheiser hd 800 sennheiser hd 599 sennheiser hd 58x akg k702 sennheiser hd 630vb sennheiser hd 660 headphones beyerdynamic dt 1990 pro audeze. 00. Find out why! Home > Headphones comparison > Sennheiser HD 660 S vs Sennheiser HD 700. 36. net. 315 Euro for the 650, and 435 Euro for the 700 (amazon. HD 660S – Brand new, these headphones offer versatility, reference-class sound and a dynamic experience. The HD 6XX is good for the price, the HD 660 S is worthless. Music. Belo Horizonte \| Brazil. Back to Product List In conclusion, the Sennheiser HD 660 S is the best so far in the 600 line. Print Email. If the HD800 and HD800s are the top dogs in the Sennheiser lineup, the HD700 is the next dog. I ended up with choosing between the HIFIMAN HE-400I and Sennheiser HD 660 S, as the HE-400I was on …Feb 15, 2016 · However, I'm itching to pull the trigger on either the Sennheiser HD-650 or the HD-700, I'm just having a really hard time making a decision. Its sensitivity rating is 104 dB at 1 kHz (1 V) and its impedance at this frequency is 150 Ohms Head-to-Head: Sennheiser HD700 vs. Sennheiser’s new HD 660 S is the ideal open, dynamic headphone for the passionate audiophile. Da biste dodali ovaj proizvod morate prvo očistiti konfigurator. 3 mm) stereo) by Sennheiser. Now I understand what the "Sennheiser veil" was on the HD-600 that others used to complain about. Can Demo in store. Because of the lower noise floor I was able to hear some tiny details a little more clearly. 43 points. The EL-8 are cuppier and less detailed than the HD 650. Any comments will be greatly appreciated. 5/5Author: Andrew WilliamsSennheiser HD 660 S Over-Ear Open Headphones \| InnerFidelity. The Sennheiser HD 660 S replaces the highly regarded HD 650 and brings with it a new, more efficient driver design. Check price on Amazon Sennheiser HD 660S -HiRes Audiophile Open Back Headphone (Black) HD 700 vs HD 650 After some more listening, I have come to realise that the HD 700 is a clear and very significant step up. de er brugt i omegnen af 2 timer og standen er naturligvis perfekt. Sennheiser HD 660 S. Follow whathifi. 3 mm) stereo): Electron. They don't touch your ears, instead floating over and around them. (Last Updated On: February 10, 2018) So my old AKG K271 MKII was starting to show their age, and with Christmas, I decided it was time for an upgrade. The HD 660 S model looks like a near twin of Sennheiser's older, and still available, HD 600 and HD 650 headphones, but the HD 660 S' driver is different; it's more similar to the HD 700's driver Bring excitement to the next stage of intensity with the new HD 700. Reviews: 7Manufacturer: SennheiserSennheiser HD 650 vs Sennheiser HD 700 - Crutchfield. Feb 22, 2017 · MSI unveiled a pair of APAC-exclusive DUKE Edition graphics cards, the GeForce GTX 1080 DUKE Edition, and the GeForce GTX 1070 DUKE Edition. Build Quality And Comfort: Comfort and build quality of the Sennheiser HD 700 is definitely superior to the 650. …Everything about the HD 660 S makes listening a pure pleasure – not least its strong yet lightweight open construction. Sennheiser HD 700 were released in 2014. …The following is a press release issued by Sennheiser. Nazareth, Ethiopia; Parnamirim, Brazil; Belo Horizonte, Brazil; Belo Horizonte \| Brazil、「2017 Correct grounding Dear Sir, I was thinking should I or should not write to you Mark, but comparing what consequence could be for me vs. in: Buy Sennheiser HD 660S -HiRes Audiophile Open Back Headphone (Black) Please note that the drivers in this are 'based on' the HD 700, but not taken directly from the HD700 which one can see if one can read the frequency response graph. The HD 700 is a lot cleaner, clearer, tighter, more articulate, faster and just gets the vocals a lot more right. A. The Sennheiser HD 800 S is a sterling, wonderful pair of headphones that strikes a near True Audiophile Headphones.. Mar 18, 2014 · You know there's the senn HD 700's. 99 $ 449 99 $499. Sennheiser HD 800 S. CDN$ 213. Dominic Moass November 16, Many of you will know that the Sennheiser HD 6– series has never had the widest or most expansive, with the HD 600 being Beyerdynamic T90 vs Sennheiser HD700 December 20, 2016 by bryan The Beyerdynamic T90 and the Sennheiser HD700 are both professional style headphones designed to be used with all your high end audio equipment either at home or in the studio. de). somebody else prompted this. beyerdynamic DT 990 PRO open Studio Headphone for professional mixing, mastering and editing 4. innerfidelity. Introduced in 2009, the Sennheiser HD 800 are a great pair of headphones. by Sennheiser. 99 $ 499 99 Prime. Discussion in 'Soundcards, Speakers HiFI & File formats' started by sverek, HD 660 S are easier to drive than HD 600, which is handy and definitely a plus over HD 600. 0 Sennheiser’s new HD 660 S is the ideal open, dynamic headphone for the passionate audiophile. And not only in terms of comfort. The HD 660s has a better soundstage overall and the HD 700 has a more balanced frequency response. Facebook Twitter Reddit LinkedIn Welcome to the Gearslutz Pro Audio Community! Registration benefits include:The HD 800 is Sennheiser's very best headphone. As a high-end headphone user myself, I spend a lot of my time expounding upon the benefits of a good set of ‘cans’ to anyone who’ll listen (and a fair few who won’t). Sennheiser has newer and more expensive HD 800 and HD 700 headphones for consumers more impressed by fancy boxes, fancy cables and goofy-looking semimetallic housings, while these professional HD 650 sell for much less today Jul 29, 2015 · I used a HD-650 for a month, but couldn't get used to the muddied bass. Shop with confidence. Find out why!Jan 13, 2018 The HD 660 S will look and sound familiar to Sennheiser but the HD 660 S' driver is different; it's more similar to the HD 700's driver. The HD …Sennheiser HD 650 Audiophile Open-Back Dynamic Headphones-Grey Sennheiser HD 700 Around-Ear, Open Dynamic Stereo Headphones 4. £430. 3 out of 5 stars 5. The HD 660 S still has the somewhat tight clamping force, which can be remedied as mentioned above. The cushioning is better on the 700 and the 650 tends to clamp a bit tighter, not that the 650 is bad in any way, it is a very comfortable headphone but the 700 is just better. Find out why! Sennheiser HD 660 S. Introduction: Sennheiser is one of the most successful companies in the audiophile world. by LILBA. is that sonically HD 660S is quite different from the HD 700, which for me is a I really doubt the HD660s and HD700 provide any FPS gaming . . Sennheiser IE 800 S. Sennheiser HD 700 . and what you think about sound stage G4me one VS hd 660 s its similar ?In the headphones ranking, Sennheiser HD 700 performs better than Sennheiser HD 660 S. 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Tinklų įrangos, serverių ir programinės įrangos platintojas. $449. The HD 650 is Sennheiser's current top-of-the-line, serious, audiophile, reference headphone, and I've had them long enough now to listen to all types of music (through a special headphone amp) and they just keep sounding better and better. I think purely for gaming a sennheiser HD598, 2nd hand for around 80 or 90 euro may …Comparison of Agent 700 and Sennheiser HD 800 based on specifications, reviews and ratings. by crphang. Headphone reviews, news, buying guides and more. SENNHEISER HD700 REVIEW. The 800's are a bit to bass shy imoThe 660S is rather boring. Elear To start with, I The HD 600’s do well with any genre, while the 700’s are somewhat limited. Comparing Sennheiser HD 650 and Sennheiser HD 700. R. Reviews: 270Sennheiser Products \| crutchfield. Impedance ratings are different. First, let me thank You and TNT-Audio team for some really good advices on HiFi. I'm going to be using them both for casual music listening but mostly for gaming. IE 80S – Great sound, sonic accuracy and the ideal amount of clarity for a unique listening experience. But just for reference, the HD 660S is more similar to the HD 650 (the HD6XX is a copy of the HD650) and Sennheiser released the 660S as a Apr 3, 2018 “The new HD 660 S is the ideal open, dynamic headphone for the the HD660 S driver compared to the one of the Sennheiser HD700. Comparison of Agent 700 and Sennheiser HD 800 based on specifications, reviews and ratings. ZatvoriSennheiser セット 830 TV Amplifier レシーバオンリー「汎用品」(海外取寄せ品) Canon EOS 80D デジタル SLR Camera キット EF-S 18-55mm イメージ Stabilization STM レンズ + Polaroid . Regardless of what song it’s currently playing, its timbre is always warm and emotional. Higher impedance means that the headphones require more power to produce sound. Fortunately, the HD600 isn’t very amp picky, even with a higher impedance. 660S vs. HD 650 came to the market in 2003 while HD 700 was released some time in 2005/06. It's a different class. But, not all the time, this headphone provides benefits to the users. Jan 14, 2018 · Sennheiser HD660s - Reviews and Opinions. What's the world coming to? Sennheiser HD 280 Pro headphones - Adding ten to the model number makes all the difference! Sennheiser HD 555 headphones - Not too expensive, and brilliant value for money. Sennheiser HD650 vs HD700 Comparison Review from Audio46. Beyerdynamic T 70. 4 out of 5 stars 73. the 150 of the 700. This is perfect for critical listening or a situation where you do Bose QuietComfort 35: Quick listen vs. Hello everyone, Sennheiser HD 650 - High Quality Headphones - Around Ear Headphone. Comments and Reviews . Reviews: 7Manufacturer: SennheiserSennheiser Products \| Free Shipping on Most Orders. 13 facts in comparison. Sorry for the poor picture quality. I felt that there was a bit of a darker sound to everything with the HD600. The best prices only at Senetic Distributor of network devices, servers and software. August 9, 2014; New products; Getting to grips with High-End Headphones. Click this link to read more: HD 660 S Open-Back Headphones from SennheiserThe Sennheiser HD 660 S replaces the highly regarded HD 650 and brings with it a new, more efficient driver design. 23. BBSI690a-h1 - Din pris (ekskl. These headphones are darker sounding and warmer than the bright-ish HD 800 and better-resolved and more detailed than 650s. The HD600’s is 300 Ohm vs. Treble HD 650 has recessed treble. HD Sennheiser HD700 headphones use Sennheiser's dexterity for acoustic design to deliver advanced results never before heard in headphones. The Good The Sennheiser HD 700 is a large, full-size audiophile headphone model with a wide-open sound profile and transparency that sounds great on digital music players. I think purely for gaming a sennheiser HD598, 2nd hand for around 80 or 90 euro may …Sennheiser HDVD800 Review. This is what the HD-650 should have been. Stereo Receiver Ifi Nano Idsd Sony Md Etymotic Research Er20bp Sony Cdp Ce315 5 Cd Changer Jvc Hafx67a Hifiman Electronics Hm 700 Dac With Re Sennheiser HD 600 vs. 1 Ω Power Output: 500 mW at 600 Ω 900 mW at 300 Ω 3,000 mW at 50 Ω 5,000 mW at 32 Ω 7,500 mW at 16 ΩHD 600 - Best Audio Headphones High-end E. com/content/sennheiser-hd-660-s-over-earSennheiser HD 660 S Over-Ear Open Headphones. Check top Samsung Galaxy Tab E 9. Apparently it wasn't really in stock on Amazon and wouldn't ship until next week. Discover the Crutchfield Difference!Sennheiser HD 700 review – Conclusion. Adorama currently has the HD-650 for only $299, which is a heck of a deal. The Sennheiser HD 700 is a well-made and advanced listening type of headphone. Amplifier. 43x Super ワイド Angle 2. It is a headphone ideal for more effective audio reproduction. 95 Prime. Violectric V280 vs Sennheiser HDVD800: HDVD800 provides a tighter and slightly distant located low frequency Jul 29, 2015 · I recently acquired a new pair of Sennheiser HD 600 headphones, and have been enjoying them for a couple of weeks. Before we dive right into the Sennheiser HD 650 vs. If you are an audiophile, these are the perfect headphones you can go with. While the HD 700 launched at £600 more than five years ago, they're now available Compare Sennheiser HD 700 vs Sennheiser HD 660 S \| B&H Photo. Get FREE 2-day shipping and free lifetime tech support with your order. While the HD 700 launched at £600 more than five years ago, they’re now available for only slightly more money than this pair. Do not forget that, due to the larger drivers, Sennheiser HD 800 has a significantly higher nominal impedance, which is 300 Ohms, while Sennheiser HD 700 has a nominal impedance of 150 Ohms. The HD 700’s are an extremely comfortable, grand listening experience, complete with …In the headphones ranking, Sennheiser HD 700 performs better than Sennheiser HD 660 S. Beyerdynamic DT 990 Edition. Sennheiser's new reference model headphones, the HD 660 S, build upon its Jun 01, 2016 · This might be one of the shortest reviews I ever write, because of how uncomplicated its conclusion is. SENNHEISER SC Series Dabar net 5% pigiau. More Buying Choices. 6 T561 vs Xiaomi Mi Pad 4 LTE by features & Prices online to choose the best Samsung Galaxy Tab E 9. The Sennheiser HD 660s seem like a pretty good option for consuming the more spacious sound that these are well known for. 3 mm) stereo) Product Description: If the HD 700 headphones were a music group, it would be equally gifted in every style. Many people think the HD800 is the best headphone they've ever heard, althought it's too bright for my taste. der medfølger den originale kasse, man kan knap nok se Den Blå Avis DKK3,300 Mar 3, 2019High-end cable for HD 820, HD 800 S, HD 800, HD 700, HD 660 S, HD650, HD 600 ideal match for balanced headphone amplifiers. Will Shanklin. The HD 800 has significantly larger ear cups, giving wide surface are to your ears. CDN$ 679. 2 Year Warranty. Sennheiser HD 700 review put emphasis as to how happy and satisfied people are with the use of this headphone. 11b/g/n 2x2 two chain wireless with integrated antennas, USB, RouterOS L4, desktop case, PSUAug 07, 2013 · Sennheiser Headphone HD 600 or HD 650? Discussion in 'Audio I would be interested to know what forum members recommend as the better sounding model having auditioned both the Sennheiser HD 600 and the HD 650. Sennheiser Momentum Wireless. The Sennheiser HD700. 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I haven't finished reading your post yet, but that is the gayest headline I've seen on your blog so far. This comment has been removed by a blog administrator. Another thing to mention in this thread is the teacher and student relationship. A lot of popular teachers surround themselves with acolytes. Sometimes they steal, use, develop, the ideas of their students. Sometimes it produces good dialogues, sometimes it is incidious. I can think of at least one instructor in my art school experience. But that also gets talked up, and people love to spread rumors. Shit like this probably is also due to the fact that the art world is so competitve and bitter. Everyone is fighting over scraps of food it seems like. There is talk of the insane art boom, but to most people, it is someone else making all the cash. So a little success or recognition sends people off into a frenzy. you get all the "I MADE YOU" and "BEFORE ME, YOU WERE NOTHING" that is the gayest headline I've seen on your blog so far. Heh...you know, I realized that as I was writing it. Guess I'm still reeling from scoring a stupefying 50% on the gayometer test...just trying to get in touch with my inner fabulousness, I guess... Don't sweat it, Edward. By New York standards, you're no more gay than Charlton Heston. You could throw in a few more Joan Crawford or Judy Garland references without hurting anything. OK guys....I'm stupid....and straight.....so in the interest of my education in and out of the arts....what makes that a gay headline...or very gay or not so gay....... Do you think such "art crime" stories make a good business for newspapers? There have been several in NYT recently. I think many people read these stories with great interest (and amusement). Interesting. First, just to answer Edward's question, I don't fabricate work for artists anymore. Too much drama. I do have a job helping artists, and I enjoy it tremendously because artists have such weird problems to solve. But almost every time I have taken responsibility for any aspect of an artist's project, I have regretted it. I have seen behavior that makes Chihuly seem reasonable... there is something about that line between consulting or assisting and taking responsibility that makes normally respectful people act like buttheads. ...I have more to say about this. As Jesse noted, this dovetails nicely with the Times article about the art maker/art thinker division. ArtPowerlines has a nice piece about the article. I wrote last week that I think fabricator or philosopher is a false choice, and offered a synthesis. First, it's terribly classist misreading. Chihuly's ability to hire someone does not make him more creative or a better artist. It just means he has more money. But I am more concerned with the effect this classist misreading has on the rest of the culture. If the kind of thinking that goes into making things is devalued, then where do we as a group get all our problem solving skills, spatial awareness, and deep understanding of Newtonian physics? And if we get all our philosophical kicks virtually and leave reality untouched--if thinkers never have to make anything work--then the usefulness of that thinking becomes more and more limited. I think it's a good thing that artists have moved past the master/apprentice relationship. But replacing that system with a maker/thinker relationship that devalues the thought inherent in the work just makes the physical world stupider. Chihuly is doing the guy a favor. Now, it will come out that the assistant is responsible for a lot of Chihuly's look (he has a note from Chihuly saying, "Go ahead and do what you want.") People will be outraged and the underdog will get enough sympathy that he might be able to make a go of having his own body of work in the marketplace. Call it a franchise. There obviously is a market for the stuff. An assistant with a future will get out of the relationship what s/he needs and leave. A loser will complain that the boss doesn't do enough for them. The artworld looks for people who are self-starting, it is critical. Complainers only hurt themselves. unedited, gotta go to therapy . . . Chihuly has weekly meetings where his gaffers and employees make drawings and he chooses which ones to use. This was 5 years ago so I don't know whether things have changed. Anyway, he hasn't blown any glass for years. it IS an employer/employee relationship- lets get real folks- when it comes down to whos signing the paycheck, thats what it is. Its business as usual- why is there such romanticism when it comes to an "artists" assistant? why is this different than any other business arrangement? Why is the assistant thought of as an "apprentice"? thats crap. in any case, any employee can rip off their employer in any business- thats the risk of having employees. Chihuly should get over it (as the gay saying goes). why is there such romanticism when it comes to an "artists" assistant? Possible because there's such romanticism when it comes to an "artist". I am in the field of glass and I know Dale Chihuly (as most "glass artists" of my generation do). Rubino was under no delusions he was an apprentice--he signed a contract --one, which I believe delineated what would be copyright infringement. For the record, "gaffer" is a standard term and not one Dale would have used as some sort of classist perjorative. It's easy to make Dale out to be the "bad guy" in this--because he's famous, rich, and doesn't make his work, etc, etc. But I think it might be the other way around here. I think Rubino IS ripping him off to make big bucks of his own. Have you seen the work? It IS a rip off of the "Dale Chilhuly brand" . This isn't two people sharing and "inspiration from nature"! This is out and out stealing. So what Dale doesn't design or make his work himself? Neither does Gianni Versace, right? You can critisize Dale for relying on his employees for making his own work, but what do you say about a guy who doesn't design his work, but rips off a big famous artist so he can get rich too? At least Dale's employees know what they're getting into from the get go. I always suspected Chilhuly of being a narcissist ass, and now I feel totally confirmed in my suspicions. This guy is FILTHY rich, has worldwide acclaim, and c'mon, everyone knows who he is and what his bowls look like. Okay, someone is imitating him, so what? Rubino only looks foolish in all this, he will never get any acclaim or rewards for having a personal oeuvre, and hopefully he will move on and find his own voice. In the meantime, Chilhuly is an insecure jerk who can't tolerate anyone mugging his limelight. Can anyone imagine Picasso telling Braque he's going to lawyer up if his imitators continues to paint like cubists! From my limited understanding of copyright law, I predict that Chihuly is going to get his ass handed to him in a courtroom, and why he wants to run this experiment in discerning between glassblowing styles with a jury of peers as test subjects is beyond me. I worked with Chihuly through his NY gallery in the early 90s. Chihuly has not been able to blow glass himself since he lost an eye in a car accident about 20 years ago. He said his depth perception was off and couldn't realize the forms he envisioned. This is a very gray area because his assistants/collaborators were encouraged to embellish and get creative. Whose ideas are whose? Not to mention, his rise and "fame" came during the last 20 years when he was not even making his own work anymore! Houseofrats, As I noted in the post, I won't weigh in on whether Chihuly has a good case or not. I haven't seen the other two artists' works and Dale may be right that they're trying to capitalize on his popularity, which rubs me the wrong way. Let a jury sort it out. I do think that the way he spoke about Rubino displays an obnoxious condecession, though. He didn't just call him a "gaffer"...he said he had little vision of his own. That's a rather mean slap in my opinion. Chihuly is famous enough that he should simply accuse these artists of copying him and let the critics, patrons, & historians be the judge. All artists stand on the shoulders of giants, and I think it is graceless for Chihuly to try to prevent borrowing/emulation/evolution/copying via the courts. I would have much more sympathy for an unknown artist whose work was being borrowed/emulated/evolved/copied by a more established artist. That's a situation where an artist is really being hurt. Anonymous sez: Chihuly has not been able to blow glass himself since he lost an eye in a car accident about 20 years ago. Holy crap does that suck. Now I feel bad for the guy. My question is: Is an artist who does not make any of their own work still entitled to call him/herself an artist? Think about the distinction between Anish Kapoor, whose visions could never be realized by a single man working alone; and Tracy Emin, whose quilts rely on the hand-made aesthetic of traditional patchwork (which is laden with the idea of authorship), and yet are now made by a team of studio assistants. Who is the artist? Both? Neither? Can anyone imagine Picasso telling Braque he's going to lawyer up if his imitators continues to paint like cubists! Usually, before the 20th Century, we used to have teachers that taught us all sort of crafts and the whole idea was to imitate them. Then as you imitated them, some details, or ideas, would slowly evolved and transform the work into your own. I agree with the person here who said that craft shouldn't have been devalued by the artworld. That was a terrible mistake. Idea is the base of art. But ideas are not enough. Art needs to materialize. And you can throw me a bunch of concept drawings any day but it will never be worth the same as the full realization of your work. I am a bit disillusioned by the fact that the artist with the greatest success these days often never touched or even draw their own art. I mean, I understand the position of an art director, but at least in cinema you get the credits of every gaffers at the end. I am also tired of seeing readymades that don't mention the name of their original designer (like Duchamp did with his urinal). What about technology ? Sometimes you see art that is nothing but the most simple use of a new technology that has been designed. I think that is important to evaluate, what Beuys would refer as the archeological history of the objects that you use in your art. To come back to the main case: Imitating and copying are two things. If the artist is starting from scratch. If he is able to perfectly imitate the work of another without the use of copying technology (that would include using the same mould or whatever), I don't think that is exactly an infringement. If we start pulling laws on imitation (I really liked the cubist example) we are opening one big can of worms that is not fully understanding of how cognition functions or simply how we humans are processed genetically. Our lives are very short and the existence of this universe doomed. Let's get off our high heels shall we? If people imitate you, feel goddamn flattered, and use that power you have unto others to make even greater things. Cheers, Cedric Caspesyan [email protected] PS: and yes somewhere maybe that assistant is simply claiming back his part of the cake, but if he never fulfill any vision of his own he won't go far so why bother. Is this the sort of sculpture that I could replicate easily by machines and have it reproduced by the thousands? Than why bother doing it. It's vomitable decorative bullshit. Maybe that assistant will simply help to reveal the whole kitsch of this enterprise. ooops...I forgot the quote the guy. Damn...COPYRIGHTS ALERT !!! Cedric Cedric, I like where you went with the last comment. I was thinking that this blog was becoming a Whine cellar for a while. I'd like to add a personal viewpoint here as well. There is a difference between the commercial end of art and just plain old art that artists make. If someone is in the business of selling art, then it is also a business, besides any of the aesthetic values it may have. And it brings to mind that I have never heard a financially successful artist complain about how lucky the unrecognized artist is. BUt there is also the Successful artist who is unknow and unrecognized and that person succeeds in achieving their personal level of mastery and no one is the wiser. There is a place for that as well. And them there are the art bodegas aka galleries....just about all of them...whose job it is to reach out to somewhere in the public and sell whatever is stocked on their shelves. ANd there is nothing wrong with that either. It is a business. However it does get warped when the image of gallery is that of soothsayer rather than bodega. this blog was becoming a Whine cellar for a while. Ouch... pass the brie, will ya? You have to say cheese first....and I promise I will. I felt that ouch...it sounded genuine. Just so people can actually take a look at the defendant's work, here is his website: It looks like Chihuly doesn't have a leg to stand on. I know you said you wouldn't comment directly on the chihuly case, but I thought actually looking into Rubino's work would be valid. I agree- it looks like he doesnt have a leg to stand on- but Chihuly must feel insecure about his ideas, or lack thereof to go through with this. I dont think hes the bad guy, its just obvious that he needs to go forward, make new things and evolve so that when he gets "copied" its not such a big deal. Everyone who is into Chihulys work will know, and would probably want the original thing anyway. Its not like his business will suffer from it. This is a business... I don't think the work on Rubino's website is the work in question. I also have no idea about Dale Chihulys insecurity vis art--nor do I care--but I will say this: LOTS and LOTS of glass artists shamelessly rip him off all the time (I saw a "make your own Chilhuly-style chandelier" booth at the Buyer's Market Show in Philly to give just one blatant example.) He's not suing all those people--he's suing an ex employee for breach of contract. As for authorship: It's pretty much nauseating to anyone who struggles to create out of sheer love, sometimes without reward to see someone like Chilhuly raking in the dough without the inspiration or perspiration. Art has a mystique and romance to it that favors notions of divinely inspired madmen etc etc—but the reality is that an art object must eventually stand on its own—for better or worse-- regardless of the history of what process or the identity/identities of who brought it into being. Ultimately it is a THING and the real relationship is between the thing and its beholder—not its maker. Greetings, Edward! I had no idea you had your own place. So much for my powers of perception. Hope you're doing well, and I'll be sure and look around when I'm not recovering from having my other eye lasered. Maybe we can even have an argument, or even a contradiction. Best, Slartibartfast Hey Slarti!!! Long time no, er, see...Hope the procedure is going well and not too uncomfortable...heard a rumor you're not on ObWi anymore...gonna bring the eponymous blog up and running again? e Fine Art? What's about my "Amadeo Mogdiliani"? thanks,
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FCS CEO Bradley Prechtl said, "We opened our first office in Ocala in 2014 and because of rapidly increasing patient demand, we felt this second location in Marion County was needed. It represents another example of our commitment to serving and supporting our patients in communities, both large and small, throughout Florida. This facility will bring a wide range of treatments and services all under one roof, optimizing convenience for our patients in the Ocala community.” Naples, FL – December 2, 2016……… Florida Cancer Specialists & Research Institute (FCS), the leading community oncology/hematology practice in the state, is pleased to announce that Bennett Yu, MD has joined the practice and is seeing patients at two FCS locations. Dr. Yu will practice at the Bonita Springs office, located at 9776 Bonita Beach Road SE, Suite 201A, Bonita Springs, FL and the Naples Napa Ridge office, located at 6360 Pine Ridge Road, Suite 201, Naples, FL. FCS CEO Bradley Prechtl said, "We are excited to have Dr. Yu join our practice. He comes to us with excellent credentials and deep experience in both research and clinical practice. Dr. Yu will be able to add more convenience and expanded services to our patients in Bonita Springs and Naples. We are very pleased to have him in the FCS family.” Spring Hill, FL - November 28, 2016…… Over 400 patients and their families along with nearly 40 staff members attended the Fall Fling Patient Appreciation Barbecue dinner on November 4, 2016 at the Spring Hill office of Florida Cancer Specialists. Patients were greeted with goody bags containing books, sunglasses, lip balm and T-shirts. FCS physicians and staff served up a delicious dinner at the fun evening event, which also featured music, raffles, live entertainment and photo opportunities with Tampa Bay Buccaneers’ wide receiver, Louis Murphy. View Photo Gallery Tampa, FL – November 23, 2016……… Over 500 patients and their families attended the fourth annual Thanksgiving Patient Appreciation dinner on November 18, 2016 at the Florida Cancer Specialists & Research Institute (FCS)Tampa Cancer Center. FCS physicians and staff, alongside Tampa Bay Buccaneers’ special teams players Robert Aguayo, Bryan Anger and Andrew DePaola, served up a delicious Thanksgiving feast with all the trimmings. All guests received a Thanksgiving pie to take home and share with their families. Fort Myers, FL – November 15, 2016……… Over 200 managers, senior managers and company leaders participated in the Florida Cancer Specialists & Research Institute (FCS)Annual Operations Meeting, which was held recently at Raymond James Stadium, home of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. This year’s meeting was built around the theme 'Power of the Past… Force of the Future' and focused on building upon the strengths of the organization in order to be well-positioned to continue as a leader in community oncology for the future. Attendees heard from members of Executive and Senior Management on the company’s current status and, more importantly, about key initiatives that are coming to the practice to increase practice efficiency and productivity. These include the expansion of the Care Management program, patient self-service technologies, new treatment room scheduling solutions, FCS University, a new public website, and several others. Best-selling author and former editor of Sports Illustrated Don Yaeger was the guest speaker at the event and shared his stories and lessons on overcoming challenges, along with his 16 characteristics of greatness. FCS COO Todd Schonherz said “We are extremely proud of the great group of managers and leaders we have at Florida Cancer Specialists. It is always powerful to bring our management team together to exchange ideas and plan for the future. We want every employee to understand how important his/her contributions and efforts are to the overall success of the organization.” Attendees also engaged in a fun-filled team building event, which included donating over half a ton of food to a local food bank that serves families in need in the Tampa area. FCS has more than 2800 staff members, including more than 200 physicians, and serves patients in nearly 100 locations throughout the state of Florida. Fort Myers, FL – November 11, 2016……… Florida Blue, Florida’s Blue Cross and Blue Shield company, and Florida Cancer Specialists & Research Institute (FCS), the leading community oncology/hematology practice in the state, are proud to announce a new agreement implementing an accountable provider program specific to the treatment of cancer. This program supports the highest quality and more coordinated patient-centered cancer care. Fort Myers, FL – November 14, 2016……… Over 200 Florida Cancer Specialists (FCS) physicians, nurse practitioners, physician assistants and senior managers attended the annual FCS Clinical Summit, held October 28 – 30 at the JW Marriott in Orlando, FL. Highlights of the conference included continuing medical educational sessions with Dr. Neil Love (Research to Practice), a clinical trials and research update and the 2016 FCS Humanitarian Award presented to Dr. Michael Diaz and runner up Dr. Mary Li. Fort Myers, FL – October 14, 2016……… The Revenue Cycle team at Florida Cancer Specialists & Research Institute (FCS) corporate office spearheaded an innovative way to raise awareness and funds for the FCS Foundation. Corporate based employees recently participated in “Pink Day” by wearing pink and making a donation to the Foundation, which assists cancer patients in need with non-medical living expenses. Tampa, FL – October 2, 2016……… Florida Cancer Specialists & Research Institute (FCS) joined the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in honoring military veterans, and especially wounded warriors and their families, at the Bucs game on October 2, 2016. Prior to the game, a celebratory Tailgate Party was held at the Tampa Cancer Center, where FCS patients and staff, vets and Bucs fans gathered for great food, games and giveaways, as they got ready to cheer on their favorite NFL team. As a Tampa Bay Buccaneers sponsor, Florida Cancer Specialists is proud to support the Wounded Warriors Project and to honor the men and women who have so bravely sacrificed for our nation. Tavares, FL – October 13, 2016……… Florida Hospital Waterman Cancer Institute and Florida Cancer Specialists & Research Institute (FCS) have entered a new agreement that will strengthen and expand advanced oncology services in Lake County. “Florida Hospital Waterman and Florida Cancer Specialists have a long-standing history as partners in the fight against cancer care,” said David Ottati, President and Chief Executive Officer for Florida Hospital Waterman. “The formalization of the partnership helps us further expand collaboration and programs to enhance cancer care available locally in Lake County.” While Florida Hospital Waterman Cancer Institute and FCS locally have had a longstanding relationship, including shared office space inside the Florida Hospital Waterman Cancer Institute, the new alliance will provide more opportunity for physicians and specialists to work collaboratively while also giving more patients access to the comprehensive Cancer Institute’s support services. Additionally, the partnership will help ensure coordinated oncology care for inpatients at Florida Hospital Waterman guaranteeing they have access to some of the region’s most advanced treatments and clinical trials. Sarasota, FL – October 5, 2016……… The Florida Cancer Specialists (FCS) Drug Development Unit (DDU) held a ribbon cutting ceremony and patient appreciation breakfast to celebrate its recent expansion. The DDU, which is dedicated exclusively to Phase 1 Clinical Trials, was established in 2009 in Fort Myers; the Sarasota DDU opened in 2011 in shared space on the second floor at the FCS Cattlemen office in Sarasota. According to Dr. Manish Patel, Director of Drug Development, “Our tremendous growth over the past two years, including bringing on Dr. Judy Wang and additional support staff, necessitated our move to this much larger space on the first floor. We are very excited and proud of the clinical research we are doing and look forward to continued growth.” Ocala, FL – October 11, 2016……… Florida Cancer Specialists & Research Institute (FCS)), the leading community oncology/hematology practice in the state, is pleased to announce that Craig Reynolds, MD, has joined the practice and is seeing patients at the Ocala office of Florida Cancer Specialists, located at 1630 SE 18th Street – Suite 602, Ocala, FL. Natick, MA – September 30, 2016……… Zyno Medical, LLC, a global medical device manufacturer focused on IV infusion pumps, patient safety and providing clinical workflow improvements, announced that Florida Cancer Specialists & Research Institute (FCS) has selected the ZynoFlo Z-800WF infusion pump for all of its treatment locations. Fort Myers, FL – September 22, 2016……… The 2016 Stand Up to Cancer television special raised over $111 million in pledged donations to help fund cancer research. The telecast, which aired simultaneously on 60 networks and streaming services in the US and Canada, included several interviews with Florida Cancer Specialists physicians on local stations. Doctors Shachar Peles (West Palm Beach), Scott Tetreault (Tallahassee) and Sumithra Vattigunta-Gopal (West Palm Beach) were invited to appear on the local telecast to inform viewers about the importance of clinical trials research across the state. View Dr. Shachar Peles Video View Dr. Scott Tetreault Video View Dr. Sumithra Vattigunta-Gopal Video Brooksville, FL – September 22, 2016……… Florida Cancer Specialists Brooksville location held an Open House to welcome its newest physician, Dr. Ayman Barakat, and to introduce the community to a new PET/CT scanner that represents a major investment in state-of-the-art technology that will benefit local cancer patients. Port Charlotte, FL – September 9, 2016……… Florida Cancer Specialists & Research Institute (FCS)), the leading community oncology/hematology practice in the state, is pleased to announce that Alexander Glick, MD, has joined the practice as a hospitalist and will be seeing FCS patients who require hospitalization at three hospital locations. Dr. Glick will have privileges at Fawcett Memorial, Bayfront Port Charlotte and Bayfront Punta Gorda. Sarasota, FL – September 8, 2016……… Florida Cancer Specialists (FCS) Foundation is proud to announce that Florida Cancer Specialists’ physicians, Dr. Magda Melchert and Dr. Matthew Fink will serve as honorary co-chairs of its annual fundraising gala in Tampa. “50 Shades of Awesome Pink” will be held on October 8, 2016 from 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. at the Grand Hyatt Tampa Bay. Riverview, FL – September 8, 2016……… Florida Cancer Specialists & Research Institute (FCS), the leading community oncology/hematology practice in the state, is pleased to announce that Renjitha Ignatius, MD will be seeing patients in the Riverview area, dividing her time between the inpatient and outpatient settings. Dr. Ignatius will be seeing patients part-time in the hospital in the Riverview area and part-time in the outpatient setting at the Sun City office of Florida Cancer Specialists, located at 4051 Upper Creek Drive, Suite #104, Sun City, FL 33573. Davenport, FL – September 1, 2016……… Florida Cancer Specialists & Research Institute (FCS), the leading community oncology/hematology practice in the state, is pleased to announce that Dr. Jay Avashia and Dr. Susan Ross are joining the practice, effective September 1, 2016. The additions of Dr. Avashia’s and Dr. Ross’ practices will add three new clinical sites to the Florida Cancer Specialists’ network, extending services into Davenport (40107 US Highway 27, Suite 200, Davenport, FL), Lake Wales (2 FL 60 West, Lake Wales, FL) and Poinciana (339 Cypress Parkway, Suite 180, Poinciana, FL). FCS CEO Bradley Prechtl said, "We are very pleased to welcome Drs. Avashia and Ross into the FCS family. These new locations reinforce our mission to provide world-class cancer treatment close to our patients’ homes. It enables us to offer new, convenient locations in Polk and Osceola Counties, allowing patients in these areas to receive the most advanced treatment and personalized care close to where they live, without having to travel to a larger city.” View Press Release Fort Myers, FL – August 29, 2016……… Florida Cancer Specialists & Research Institute (FCS), the leading community oncology/hematology practice in the state, is pleased to announce that Estrella Carballido, MD has joined the practice and is seeing patients at three FCS locations in Lee County, FL. Dr. Carballido will practice at the Gladiolus Cancer Center, located at 8260 Gladiolus Drive, Fort Myers, FL, at the Cape Coral Cay West office, located at 1708 Cape Coral Parkway West, Suite 10, Cape Coral, FL and at the Colonial office, located at 8931 Colonial Center Drive, Suite 300, Fort Myers, FL. FCS CEO Bradley Prechtl said, "Dr. Carballido will be able to add more convenience and expanded services for our patients in Lee County. She has a keen interest in clinical research and has been published in leading oncology journals. We are very pleased to have her join the FCS family.” View Press Release Fort Myers, FL – August 22, 2016……… Florida Cancer Specialists & Research Institute (FCS), the largest independent medical oncology/hematology practice in the United States, is proud to celebrate the opening of a new signature cancer center, located at 8260 Gladiolus Drive in Fort Myers. At 27,000 square feet, the Gladiolus Cancer Center is a multi-million-dollar, state-of-the-art facility that also will be home to the first-in-the-nation Horizon True V PET/CT Scanner from Siemens, which offers next generation imaging technology. The new PET/CT scanner provides clinicians with highly advanced and detailed images, and increases patient comfort by significantly reducing scan times. FCS CEO Bradley Prechtl said, “This new facility is an example of our continued commitment to bringing the most advanced treatments and cutting-edge technologies to our patients within their own communities, large and small, across Florida. We are particularly proud to serve the Fort Myers community, where Florida Cancer Specialists opened its first office in 1984.” Sping Hill, FL – August 16, 2016……… Florida Cancer Specialists & Research Institute (FCS),the leading community oncology/hematology practice in the state, is pleased to announce that Ayman Barakat, MD has joined the practice and is seeing patients at two FCS locations in Hernando County, FL. Dr. Barakat will practice at the Brooksville office, located at 7154 Medical Center Drive, Spring Hill, FL. and at the County Line Road office, located at 11063 County Line Road, Spring Hill, FL. Tampa, FL – August 10, 2016……… The Tampa Bay Buccaneers and Florida Cancer Specialists & Research Institute (FCS) announced that they have renewed their partnership with a multi-year deal. The work being performed by Florida Cancer Specialists & Research Institute (FCS)in the research and treatment of cancer is making a real difference in the lives of so many here in the Bay Area and throughout our state,” said Buccaneers Chief Operating Officer Brian Ford. “The Buccaneers are proud and excited to renew our partnership with Florida Cancer Specialists as they continue in their mission to provide world-class cancer care.” Fort Myers, FL – August 4, 2016……… Florida Cancer Specialists & Research Institute (FCS) ), the leading community oncology/hematology practice in the state, is pleased to announce that Muhammed Imam, MD and Yaman Suleiman, MD have joined the practice and will be seeing patients at the Orlando Orange office of Florida Cancer Specialists, located at 2501 N. Orange Avenue, Suites 381 and 389, Orlando, FL and the Winter Park office, located at 2100 Glenwood Drive, Suite 102, Winter Park, FL. FCS CEO Brad Prechtl said, "Both of these physicians come to us with outstanding credentials. I know they will bring added convenience to our patients in Central Florida and we are delighted to welcome Drs. Imam and Suleiman to the FCS family.” Dr. William Harwin, Founder and President of FCS, added, “Both of these physicians have completed excellent training at some of the finest medical facilities in the nation. Additionally, Drs. Imam and Suleiman have expressed a keen interest in clinical research, which is such an important focus for our practice. They will be a great addition to our offices in Orange County.” Fort Myers, FL – August 1, 2016……… Florida Cancer Specialists & Research Institute (FCS) ), the leading community oncology/hematology practice in the state, is pleased to announce that Kevin Koehler, MD has joined the practice and will be seeing patients at the Sarasota Downtown office of Florida Cancer Specialists, located at 1970 Golf Street, Sarasota, FL. Tampa, FL – August 1, 2016……… A successful battle against breast cancer gave Colleen Chappell, CEO & President, ChappellRoberts, a deep, personal passion for her medical team at Florida Cancer Specialists & Research Institute (FCS). Now, Chappell and her agency team will translate this rare, first-hand experience into a brand elevation for FCS, the largest independent medical oncology/hematology practice in the United States. Patients from Hillsborough and Pinellas counties and their children recently attended a special movie screening of “Home", an animated tale of a lovable alien and his adventures with an earthling teenager. The families were treated to lunch at One Buc Place, the training facility of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, before viewing the movie. Fort Myers, FL – July 18, 2016……… Florida Cancer Specialists & Research Institute (FCS), the leading community oncology/hematology practice in the state, is pleased to announce that Lalit Aneja, MD, has joined the practice and is seeing patients at two FCS locations in Sarasota County, FL. Dr. Aneja will practice at the Venice Healthpark office, located at 836 Sunset Lake Blvd., Suite 101, Venice, FL, and at the Englewood office, located at 714 Doctors Drive, Englewood, FL. FCS CEO Brad Prechtl said, "We are delighted to welcome Dr. Aneja to our practice. He comes to us with excellent credentials and has been very involved in research being conducted at Winthrop University Hospital. He has built a reputation as a caring oncologist and will bring added convenience to our patients in Venice and Englewood.” View Press Release Dr. Padmaja Sai, who practices at the Florida Cancer Specialists Palm Coast office, received top honors this week in the annual Reader’s Choice Awards for the Daytona Beach News Journal. Readers nominated their favorite “Top Doctor” and Dr. Sai was among the 24 area physicians recognized. Further, she also received one of the three highest awards – The Heart & Soul Award – for her remarkable rapport with patients. Congratulations to Dr. Sai! Fort Myers, FL – July 11, 2016……… Florida Cancer Specialists & Research Institute (FCS), the leading community oncology/hematology practice in the state, is pleased to announce that Raymond Esper, MD, has joined the practice and is seeing patients at two FCS locations in Southwest Florida. Dr. Esper will practice at the Cape Coral Cay West office, located at 1708 Cape Coral Pkwy West, Suite 10, Cape Coral, FL, and at the new, state-of-the-art Gladiolus office, located at 8260 Gladiolus Drive in Fort Myers, FL Fort Myers, FL – July 8, 2016……… The newly opened Gladiolus office in Fort Myers, FL is the first community oncology practice in the United States to provide the Siemens Horizon PET/CT scanner for its patients. The fixed unit utilizes next generation molecular imaging technology that enables faster PET/CT scans, lower injected dose and better image quality to support the identification of extremely small lesions. The unit at Gladiolus is the first of five new Horizon scanners that Florida Cancer Specialists is planning to install at various location throughout its network. View Press Release New Port Richey, FL – July 6, 2016……… Florida Cancer Specialists became the first community oncology practice in the Southeast to provide next generation PET/CT technology on a mobile platform. The new mobile unit is equipped with the Siemens mCT20 scanner, which features a large bore and decreases scan time by almost 50%. Florida Cancer Specialists locations in Pasco County celebrated the new unit with a caravan from Hudson to New Port Richey and a tour of the unit for physicians and staff. View Press Release Fort Myers, FL – July 6, 2016……… Florida Cancer Specialists & Research Institute (FCS) was highlighted in a recent article in Oncology Business Management, a healthcare industry publication for oncology professionals. The article also featured remarks from Florida Cancer Specialists CEO Brad Prechtl at the 2016 Community Oncology Alliance (COA) National Conference, held in Orlando, FL. Prechtl was named FCS CEO in 2009, and during the past seven years, he has seen 27 independent oncology practices join the group. He cited the tremendous growth of the practice as a major reason for its success. “We’ll see 60,000 new patients this year alone. We’ll have over 1 million follow-up visits. We’re trying in the state of Florida to bring practices together to keep independent oncology alive and well,” Prechtl said. Another important reason for FCS’ success, according to Prechtl, has been the company’s ability to lower its reliance on chemotherapy and broaden its footing in oncology pharmacy, which is playing a larger role in cancer treatment with the advent of new targeted oral drugs. “We purchased over $1 billion worth of drugs in 2015,” said Prechtl. “Prescription fills average 2 to 4 days, a turnaround time that is of great significance to physicians and also to patients, who sometimes wait up to two weeks for a specialty pharmacy to package and deliver. The difference between 4 days versus 14 days can have an incredible impact on a patient’s health and well-being.” Fort Myers, FL – July 5, 2016……… Florida Cancer Specialists & Research Institute (FCS) is among a select group of oncologists nationwide chosen by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to participate in the agency's Oncology Care Model (OCM). The initiative is an innovative new care delivery model that supports and encourages higher quality, more coordinated cancer care for patients undergoing chemotherapy.. View Press Release The Internal Medicine Residency Program of the Central Florida Division of Florida Hospital has named Dr. David Molthrop as one of its Outstanding Teachers of the Year. Dr. Molthrop, who practices in the Orlando Orange and Winter Park locations of Florida Cancer Specialists, received the award at the 2016 Residency Graduation ceremonies, held Saturday, June 18, 2016 in Orlando” Fort Myers, FL – June 20, 2016……… Florida Healthcare Specialists (FHS), an affiliated practice of Florida Cancer Specialists & Research Institute (FCS), announced that urologist Dr. Hugo Davila is joining the practice, effective June 20, 2016. Beginning that date, Dr. Davila will see patients at his Sebastian office, located at 1627 US Hwy. 1, Suite 201, Sebastian, FL 32958; in July, he will add a second practice location in Vero Beach (3730 7th Terrace, Vero Beach, FL 32960). Dr. Davila said, “I am very pleased to join Florida Healthcare Specialists. This affiliation with Florida Cancer Specialists will translate into additional high quality services and treatments for my patients, as well as the opportunity for me to collaborate with a phenomenal physician network. FHS and FCS are setting a benchmark for community-based healthcare and I am proud to be associated with this outstanding organization.” View Press Release Gainesville, FL – June 13, 2016……… Florida Cancer Specialists & Research Institute (FCS), the largest independent hematology/medical oncology practice in the United States, announced the opening of its new location, the Gainesville Cancer Center, 6420 West Newberry Road – East Wing, Suite 100. The new state-of-the-art, comprehensive cancer facility, which more than doubles the size of the previous FCS office, is an expansion of The Cancer Center at North Florida Regional Healthcare (NFRH) and brings medical oncology services under the same roof as radiation oncology, as well as ancillary services, such as patient navigation, acupuncture and support groups. View Press Release View Video Gallery View Photo Gallery Fort Myers, FL – June 6, 2016……… Florida Cancer Specialists & Research Institute (FCS) announced that there were a record 26 presentations co-authored by FCS physicians that were presented at the 2016 American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) annual meeting, held in Chicago, IL, June 3 – 7, 2016. The ASCO annual meeting is the largest gathering of oncologists in the world. This year’s theme is “Collective Wisdom: The Future of Patient-Centered Care and Research” and the meeting featured an address by Vice-President Joe Biden on the “Cancer Moonshot Initiative,” which was outlined in President Obama’s State of the Union address to Congress in January. 19 Research Institute is pivotal to this success.” View Press Release Hudson, FL – May 24, 2016……… Florida Cancer Specialists & Research Institute (FCS) announced today that the American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM) has selected several research initiatives authored by FCS Physics Team lead by Director of Physics Charles Able, M.S., DABR. Mr. Able has been selected for an oral presentation at the AAPM 58th Annual Meeting, which will be held in Washington, D.C. July 31 – August 4, 2016. In addition, other team members will present two posters. The annual meeting will bring together more than 11,000 radiation oncologists, medical physicists, radiation therapists and other professionals from around the world to discuss this year’s theme, "Technology Meets Patient Care". “We are extremely honored to have two posters and an oral presentation at this year's annual AAPM meeting,” said Able. There are limited invitations for oral presentations; therefore, the opportunity speak is notable. “This is a validation of the dedication our physics team has to innovative thinking regarding our patients' care. We are always striving to do better for our patients." View Press Release Tampa, FL and Orlando, FL – May 18, 2016……… Florida Cancer Specialists & Research Institute (FCS) is pleased to announce that Dr. Julia Cogburn, Dr. Vipul Patel and Dr. Meera Iyengar have all been named as Man/Woman of the Year 2016 by two regional Florida chapters of the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (LLS). After a spirited fundraising campaign, these outstanding physicians and community leaders soared in the competition to raise funds for blood cancer research and earn the coveted title of “Man/Woman of the Year.” Together, the FCS doctors raised over $308,000 for LLS! View Press Release Gainesville, FL – May 17, 2016……… Florida Cancer Specialists & Research Institute (FCS) is pleased to announce that Dr. Lucio Gordan, who practices at the Gainesville Cancer Center of FCS, has accepted a new term on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Clinical Oncology Clinical Cancer Informatics (JCO CCI). The Journal of Clinical Oncology, published by the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO), is a global journal for disseminating significant clinical oncology research. According to ASCO, the new JCO CCI is an “online-only journal publishing high quality studies representing actionable knowledge, clinical and are delivery research validations and new research hypotheses, based on the growing knowledge base represented by EHR (Electronic Health Records), registry, and clinical trials data to genomics databases.” View Press Release Seattle, WA and Orlando, FL – May 13, 2016……… Patient Power has established a new alliance with Florida Cancer Specialists & Research Institute (FCS) – the largest independent medical oncology/hematology practice in the United States. “We believe Patient Power’s proven expertise in educating patients about cutting-edge cancer treatments will help advance our shared mission of arming cancer patients with information that can help them access world-class cancer care,” says FCS CEO Brad Prechtl. “As a leader in providing clear, credible and current digital content, Patient Power is bridging the knowledge gap between patients and health care providers and taking a patient-centered approach that will help and support the patients we serve.” View Press Release Naples, FL – May 9, 2016……… As promised, the 500 guests of Time to Remember enjoyed a magical, Motown-inspired evening of fabulous entertainment, dining and dancing, all while raising funds to assist cancer patients who are financially in need. By night’s end, donations from sponsors, donors and guests generated $1.2 million, which will go toward assisting individuals undergoing cancer treatment who may be unable to work and are struggling to make ends meet. View Press Release View Photo Gallery New Port Richey, FL - April 21, 2016…… Over 500 patients and their families along with 50 staff members attended the Patient Appreciation Barbecue dinner on April 21, 2016 at the New Port Richey office of Florida Cancer Specialists. Hudson, Hudson North, New Port Richey and New Port Richey West Physicians put on their chef hats and joined other FCS staffers in serving lots of great food. The fun evening event also featured live music, goody bags with sunscreen, lip balm, kettle corn and T-shirts, raffles, autographs and pictures with Buccaneer defensive end player, William Gholston. View Photo Gallery Orlando, FL - April 16, 2016…… Several Florida Cancer Specialists’ Executive Board members, Executive Management, Senior Management and staff members were in attendance and speaking at the 2016 Community Oncology Alliance’s national conference, held in Orlando April 14 and 15, 2016. FCS had a significant presence and impact at the 1000 attendee conference, which offered clinical, business and advocacy tracks. Orlando, FL - April 8, 2016…… Sarah Cevallos, Chief Revenue Cycle Officer for FCS, recently received the “Distinguished Service Award” from FLASCO (Florida Society of Clinical Oncology), based on her continued support of facilitating resolution of reimbursement issues with FLASCO for oncologists in Florida. Fort Myers, FL - April 4, 2016…… Florida Cancer Specialists & Research Institute (FCS), the largest independent community oncology/hematology practice in the United States, is joining other stakeholders from across the healthcare continuum in raising red flags about a proposed plan by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS) to “experiment” with alternative reimbursement plans for medications covered under Medicare Part B. If implemented, the CMS proposal could change the way cancer patients receive treatment and restrict patient access to the newest, most advanced cancer treatments. Led by the Community Oncology Alliance (COA), a coalition of over 300 cancer organizations and other healthcare and advocacy groups has signed on to a letter to leaders in Congress urging them to stop CMS from instituting its plan. Orange City, FL - April 1, 2016…… Florida Cancer Specialists & Research Institute (FCS), the leading community oncology/hematology practice in the state, is pleased to announce Rasha Beg, MD, has joined the practice as a hospitalist and will be seeing FCS patients who require hospitalization at any of three hospital locations. Dr. Beg will have privileges at Florida Hospital Deland, Central Florida Regional Sanford and at Fish Memorial in Orange City, FL. Founded in 1984, Florida Cancer Specialists & Research Institute (FCS) is the largest independent medical oncology/hematology practice in the United States. With more then 200 physicians, 150. 70% of new cancer drugs approved in 2015 for use in the U.S. were studied in clinical trials conducted with FCS participation... Florida Cancer Specialists. Prior to approval
A big problem with all-in-one PCs is that, because the internals are built into the screen, you usually have to toss out a perfectly good monitor when the components get old and outdated. But on its C40, Lenovo thoughtfully added an HDMI-in port so that your all-in-one can double as a standalone display. This adds convenience and extends the life of the system even after it's become slow and lethargic. And with street prices hovering around $450 on Amazon for an AMD A6 CPU, 8GB of RAM, DVD drive and a 1TB HDD, you get way more for your money than you would with an equivalent laptop or mini PC — just don't expect blazing performance. Design The C40 keeps things simple with a glossy black front, thick bezels around the sides and a plastic mesh grille covering the speaker on the PC's chin. The Y-shaped base provides stable footing and tilt adjustments, but if you're looking to raise the display, you'll have to reach for a nearby hardcover book, because there's no height adjustment. The power button sits on the right side, below a mode switch button that lets you change the input to whatever you have plugged into the HDMI-in port (such as a video game console or media-streaming box). There's also a vertically mounted pop-out DVD-RW drive above the buttons for those still clinging to disc-based media. Ports Lenovo provides two connectivity hubs on the C40 for your convenience. In back, the three USB 2.0 ports, power jack, and HDMI-in and HDMI-out ports are great for connecting things you don't need to reach on a regular basis. On the left, the two USB 3.0 ports, mic and headphone jacks, and 6-in-1 card reader provide a handy place to plug in more frequently used tools like a thumb drive or game pad. The HDMI-in port allows you to connect things like a streaming-media box or a video game console, so you can use the C40 like a TV when you're not computing. This is a great feature that allows the C40 to pull double duty when set up in a bedroom or kitchen. MORE: Best All-in-One PCs 2015 Keyboard and Mouse The peripherals packed in with the C40 aren't great, but they will get the job done until you can go out and get something a little better. The keyboard is a budget, rubber-domed affair with 2.94 millimeters of key travel, mushy action and a standard 60-gram actuation weight (the amount of force need to push the keys down). The scallop-shaped keys are easy to press, and resulted in me hitting 79 words per minute on my first run-through 10fastfingers.com's typing test, right in my typical 75-80 wpm average. The simple, two-button mouse packs an infrared laser on bottom for tracking. Clicking felt a tiny bit stiff, but otherwise, this peripheral did not distinguish itself from the horde of throwaway mice I see on a regular basis. Webcam With the C40's lack of height adjustment, I had an easier time lowering my seat than tilting the screen in order to get my head in the frame. Once positioned, the 720p webcam took a grainy shot with rainbow speckling and reduced my hair to a single dark mass. Display The C40's 21.5-inch, 1920 x 1080 touch screen generally impressed, despite brightness that's a little on the low side and a display that's slightly more reflective than normal. When I watched the trailer for Southpaw, I loved the sparkle of the fight-night lights and the bold reds and blues of the ring. I just wish the screen were brighter so that colors would pop just a bit more. Measuring 202 nits of brightness, the C40 is on a par with the Aspire Z3-605 (202), but behind the C560's showing of 232 nits and the all-in-one average of 282. In terms of color range, the C40 recreated 108 percent of the sRGB gamut, which is wider than both the Aspire Z3-605 (96 percent) and the C560 Touch (102 percent). The C40 also exhibited good, but not great, color accuracy, with a Delta-E rating of 3.5 (0 is perfect). Audio The C40's stereo speakers put out more than enough volume to fill our spacious testing lab, but their audio fidelity was a little lacking. When I listened to Jamie xx's "Loud Places," the normally deep bass sounded hollow, while vocals took on an overly breathy quality. Highs were a bit better, and mids sounded the best, as demonstrated by the rich piano notes. Performance AMD's budget CPUs aren't very fast, and because the C40 uses one, it suffers. The combination of a 1.8-GHz quad core A6-6310 CPU, 8GB of RAM and a 1TB HDD results in performance that's about the same as our current tablet average. Watching movies at 720p was smooth, but at 1080p, I noticed some lag and screen tearing that made action scenes less pleasant to watch. In Geekbench 3, which measures overall system performance, the C40 scored 2,476. That's about 40 percent slower than the 3,486 showing by the Acer Aspire Z3-605 (powered by an Intel Pentium 2127U CPU, 4GB of RAM and a 1TB HDD) and a massive 2.5 times slower than the 6,209 by the Intel Core-i3 powered Lenovo C560 Touch (6,209) and the all-in-one average of 6,471. When we used Open Office to pair 20,000 names and addresses, the C40 completed the match in 18 minutes and 6 seconds. This was significantly longer than the Aspire Z3-605 (8:03), the all-in-one average (6:48) and the C560 Touch (4:33). The one place the C40 didn't fall flat was on our file-transfer test. The PC's 1TB, 7200-rpm HDD moved 4.97GB of mixed media files in 1 minute and 27 seconds for a transfer rate of 58.5 MBps. That's just a bit faster than the Aspire Z3-605's 54.2 MBps and the C560 Touch's 45 MBps, both of which also feature 1TB, 7,200-rpm HDDs. Graphics With the C40's AMD ATI Radeon R4 integrated graphics, the casual trading card game Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft generally ran smooth at 1920 x 1080 and medium settings. However, I noticed some lag during more-intense spell animations. But when I tried to play anything more graphically demanding, such as League of Legends, at the same settings, I had a hard time trying to keep frame rates above our 30 fps playability threshold. In 3DMark's Fire Strike graphics benchmark, the C40 scored 452. That's slightly higher than the Aspire Z3-605 (435 with Intel HD 4000 graphics), but lower than the C560 Touch (597 with Intel HD 4400 graphics) and half the all-in-one average of 1,139. When playing World of Warcraft at 1920 x 1080 and auto settings, the C40 struggled heavily, managing only 18 fps. While the Aspire Z3-605 didn't fare much better, at 20 fps, the C560 Touch produced a playable 35 fps at the same settings. Software and OS Lenovo must think families enjoy plodding through bloatware, because there's quite a bit of it installed alongside Windows 8.1. There are useful apps such as Lenovo's Nitro Pro 9, a PDF-reader alternative to Adobe Acrobat, and Power 2 Go for burning CDs and DVDs. But then there's junk like Fruits, which is a children's matching game in need of a little more time on the vine. There's even an app that's literally called Collage of Waste Materials, which is a half-baked learning app that simply pairs a handful of nature terms with artsy composite pictures. MORE: Best Gaming PC of 2015 Lenovo also includes the Maxthon Cloud Browser, which helps you manage cloud storage accounts. This, however, is already made redundant by Lenovo's own superior REACHit app, which does the same thing with more functionality. Configurations The C40 comes in three models, starting at $430 for an AMD A4-6210 CPU, 4GB of RAM and a 500GB HDD. Our midrange review unit features an AMD A6-6310 CPU, 8GB of RAM and 1TB HDD, and comes with a suggested retail price of $600, although I've seen it go as low as $450 on Amazon. The high-end model tops out at $680 for an AMD A8-7410 CPU, 8GB of RAM and a 2TB HDD. All C40 models come with a 21.5-inch, 1920 x 1080 touch screen and a DVD drive. Bottom Line At a suggested $600, the Lenovo C40 is a device I would normally pass on, due to its less-than-stellar performance. However, if you can find it for under $500, Lenovo's package of an AMD-A6 CPU, 8GB of RAM and a 1TB HDD starts to make a lot of sense. The HDMI-in port also adds value and longevity, because you'll be able to use the screen as a stand-alone monitor long after the rest of the PC has become slow and decrepit. Those concerned with speed would be better off with the Intel Core i3-powered C560 Touch, but if you can find the C40 at a good price, it is an acceptable alternative. Specs Operating System: Windows 8.1 CPU: 1.8GHz quad core AMD A6-6310 processor RAM: 8GB Display Size: 21.5 Native Resolution: 1920 x 1080 Graphics Card: AMD ATI Radeon R4 Video Memory: Shared Hard Drive Size: 1 TB Hard Drive Speed: 7,200rpm Hard Drive Type: SATA Hard Drive Optical Drive: DVD /- RW Ports (excluding USB): Microphone, HDMI-in, USB 2.0, Headphone, Ethernet, Smart Card Reader, HDMI-out, USB 3.0 USB Ports: 5 Card Slots: 6-1 card reader Wi-Fi: 802.11ac Bluetooth: Bluetooth 4.0 Size: 20.9 x 14.2 x 2 Warranty/Support: Standard one-year warranty Benchmarks: Overall Performance (Geekbench 3): 2476 Hard Drive Speed: 58.50 Spreadsheet Performance: 18:05 Display Brightness (Nits): 202 3DMark Fire Strike: 452 Graphics Performance (3DMark): 28601 Follow @SamRutherford on Twitter, and @Tom’s Guide on Twitter, Facebook and Google+.
- Research article - Open Access - Open Peer Review Emergency Department and Inpatient Healthcare utilization due to Hypertension - Jasvinder A. Singh1, 2, 3Email author and - Shaohua Yu2 © The Author(s). 2016 - Received: 27 February 2016 - Accepted: 20 July 2016 - Published: 26 July 2016 Abstract Background Hypertension is one of the commonest chronic diseases, yet limited data are available for related health care utilization. Our study objective was to describe the emergency department (ED) and subsequent hospitalization related health care utilization and charges due to hypertension in the U.S. Methods We used the National ED sample (NEDS) to study hypertension-related utilization and charges. Multivariable-adjusted linear or logistic regression was used to assess hypertension-associated ED and hospitalization outcomes (disposition, length of stay, charges), adjusted for patient demographic, comorbidity and hospital characteristics. Results There were 0.92, 0.97 and 1.04 million ED visits (0.71–0.77 % of all ED visits) with hypertension as the primary diagnosis in 2009, 2010 and 2012, respectively; 23 % resulted in hospitalization. ED charges were $2.00, $2.27 and $2.86 billion, and for those hospitalized, total charges (ED plus inpatient) were $6.62, $7.09 and $7.94 billion, in 2009, 2010 and 2012, respectively. Older age (50 to 65 years), female sex, metropolitan area residence, South or West U.S. hospital location, private insurance and the presence of congestive heart failure were each associated with higher charges for an ED visit with hypertension as the primary diagnosis. Younger age, metropolitan residence, Medicaid insurance, hospital location in the Northeast and co-existing diabetes, gout, coronary heart disease, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, hyperlipidemia and osteoarthritis were associated with higher risk, whereas male sex was associated with lower risk of hospitalization after ED visit for hypertension. In 2012, 71.6 % of all patients hospitalized with hypertension as the primary diagnosis were discharged home. Older age, metropolitan residence and most comorbidities were associated with lower odds, whereas male sex, payer other than Medicare, South or West U.S. hospital location were associated with higher odds of discharge to home. Conclusions Hypertension is associated with significant healthcare burden in the U.S. Future studies should assess strategies to reduce hypertension-associated cost and health care burden. Keywords - Emergency department - Hospitalization - Health care utilization - Charges - Hypertension - Predictors - Hospital discharge - Predictors Background Hypertension is one of the commonest chronic diseases. It affects 32.5 % of U.S. adults [1]. Hypertension is the primary diagnosis for 38.9 million physician office visits annually in the U.S. [1]. Hypertension and related renal disease are responsible for 27,853 deaths annually [1]. Hypertension cost the U.S. approximately $49.9 billion in 2010, $29.5 billion in direct health care expenditures and $20.4 billion in indirect costs [1, 2]. Thus, as a chronic condition, hypertension is associated with high public health and cost burden. Hypertension is usually accompanied by other diseases such as heart disease, renal failure, stroke and vascular disease [3], conditions that have significant associated morbidity and mortality [4]. Suboptimal treatment of hypertension may not only increase the risk of accompanying diseases, but also lead to higher health resource utilization. With an increasing focus and attention on improving the health of populations and reducing unnecessary health care utilization, current knowledge of resource utilization associated with hypertension is needed. To our knowledge, little is known about ED and inpatient utilization related to hypertension in the U.S. A recent study drew attention to time-trends in ED visits with hypertension as the primary diagnosis, and found a 4 % increase per year from 2006 to 2012 [5]. This study focused on ED visits by age and co-existing comorbidities and examining all hypertension-related visits, with or without hypertension as the primary diagnosis. No analyses were performed assessing charges or the predictors of ED or inpatient resource utilization after ED visits with hypertension as the primary diagnosis [5]. Thus, knowledge gaps exist in this area, that need to be addressed. We recently performed analyses for utilization related to COPD and gout-related ED visits in the U.S. and important predictors, including ED disposition, ED and total hospital charges and predictors of ED disposition and hospitalization outcomes [6, 7]. Using the same approach, we investigated healthcare utilization, charges and outcomes in ED visits due to hypertension. In this study, our aims were to: (1) describe the hypertension-related ED and inpatient utilization and related charges in the U.S.; and (2) assess whether patient, comorbidity or hospital characteristics were predictors of ED- and inpatient resource utilization due to hypertension. Methods Data source and study population This study was performed using the discharge data from the Nationwide Emergency Department Sample (NEDS) [8, 9]. NEDS is the largest, publically available, all-payer U.S. ED database that contains a 20-percent stratified sample of ED visits from across the U.S. The data are provided by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality’s Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP) State Emergency Department Databases (SEDD) and the State Inpatient Databases (SID) [8, 9] that capture discharge information on ED visits that do not result vs. that result in hospitalization, respectively. Thirty states, including 950 U.S. hospitals, contributed data regarding 31 million ED visits in 2012, which were weighted to calculate the national estimates related to 134 million ED visits in the U.S. [9]. We identified hypertension related visits in people aged 18 and over using the International Classification of Diseases, Common Modification (ICD-9-CM) code of 401.xx, 402.xx, 403.xx, 404.xx, and 405.xx. This approach has been shown to be valid with a positive predictive value >95 % [10, 11]. Visits are categorized as those with 1) hypertension as the primary diagnosis (where hypertension was listed as the first/primary diagnosis), and (2) hypertension as primary or secondary diagnosis. We used the data from 2009, 2010 and 2012, since 2011 data were not available for analyses, due to data duplication issues. Outcomes of interest and covariates In this study, we examined several outcomes of interest. These included outcomes related to ED discharge disposition (hospitalization, discharge to home etc.) and ED charges. We also assessed outcomes in patients hospitalized with hypertension as the primary diagnosis, including the factors associated with discharge after hospital admission (to home vs. other; to nursing home/skilled nursing facility vs. other), hospital stay (total duration; hospital stay >2 days vs. ≤ 2 days) and total charges (inpatient + ED). NEDS includes reasons for ED visit (diagnoses and procedures); up to 15 ICD-9-CM codes are listed in primary (first) or secondary positions (2–15). We specified several common comorbidities in secondary position as covariates of interest, including hyperlipidemia, coronary heart disease (CHD), renal failure, heart failure (HF), chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), diabetes, gout and osteoarthritis. Patient characteristics including age, sex, insurance status, residence [urban vs. rural], annual median household income estimated using residential zip code were assessed. We also examined hospital characteristics including geographical region, location in metropolitan vs. non-metropolitan area, and teaching vs. non-teaching status, as covariates. Statistical analysis With the exception of descriptive analyses (overall charges, number of ED visits, hospital stay), which we calculated for ED visits due to hypertension (hypertension as the primary diagnosis) as well as for hypertension-related ED visits (hypertension as the primary or secondary diagnosis), all other analyses were limited to visits with hypertension as the primary diagnosis. Appropriate weights provided by NEDS were used to obtain weighted national estimates for 2009, 2010 and 2012. We used the 2012 NEDS data to analyze whether pre-specified patient and hospital factors were associated with outcomes of interest in patients with hypertension as the primary diagnosis for ED visits and in patients with inpatient admission with hypertension as the primary diagnosis. We performed multivariable-adjusted logistic regression (discharge disposition from ED and from the hospital) or linear regression (ED charges, length of hospital stay, total charges [inpatient + ED]) using SAS version 9.3 (SAS corporation, Cary, NC, USA). Analyses were adjusted for important confounders and covariates including patient characteristics, comorbidities and hospital characteristics, as listed in the section above. These analyses used the actual NEDS sample, without extrapolation to national estimates. Sensitivity analyses were performed with log of hospital duration of stay and total charges (ED plus inpatient), since log variables were more normally distributed than the original variables. We also examined factors associated with short vs. longer hospital (≥2 days) to better understand inpatient utilization due to hypertension. Results Clinical and demographic characteristics Emergency department (ED) visits for hypertension as the primary diagnosis in year 2009, 2010 and 2012 NEDS databasea ED and inpatient charges for Hypertension-visits (primary) and hypertension-related (primary or secondary) visits Descriptives for the main ED visit-related outcomes with hypertension diagnosis For the three study years, 2009, 2010 and 2012, of the ED-visits for hypertension as the primary diagnosis, 26, 25 and 23 % were hospitalized, respectively (Additional file 1). Respective mean ED charges for visits with hypertension as the primary diagnosis were $2,169, $2,334 and $2,747 per ED visit. Respective mean total charges (ED plus inpatient) in those hospitalized with hypertension as the primary diagnosis were $27,619, $29,177 and $32,761. The mean length of hospital stay was 4.1, 4.0 and 4.0 days, respectively (Additional file 1). Total ED and inpatient charges with hypertension diagnosis in any position (primary or secondary), i.e. hypertension-related visits, were $406 billion in 2012, higher than the $341 billion in 2009 (Table 2). ED charges and discharge disposition for visits due to hypertension as the primary diagnosis We used multivariable-adjusted linear regression adjusting for patient demographic, comorbidities and hospital characteristics to assess factors associated with higher charges for an ED visit with hypertension as the primary diagnosis. We found that age <50 years, female sex, residence in metropolitan area, private insurance, presence of HF and hospital location in South or West U.S. location were each associated with higher charges for an ED visit with hypertension as the primary diagnosis (Additional file 2). Predictors of hospital admission among patients presenting to ED with hypertension as the primary diagnosis Hospitalization disposition and predictors for Hypertension-visits (primary) In 2009, 2010 and 2012, 73.6 %, 73.1 % and 71.6 % of all patients hospitalized with hypertension as the primary diagnosis were discharged home (Additional file 4), respectively. Discharge disposition to other settings after hospitalization for hypertension did not vary by the study year. Predictors of Discharge to home among patients who had a hospital admission after presenting to ED with hypertension as the primary diagnosis Length of Hospital Stay and total charges for Hypertension-visits (primary) Predictors of duration of hospital stay among patients with hypertension who were admitted to the hospital after presenting to ED with hypertension as the primary diagnosis Predictors of total hospital charges (inpatient + ED charges) among patients with hypertension hospitalized after presenting to ED with hypertension as the primary diagnosis We performed several sensitivity analyses to examine whether our findings were robust or not. Sensitivity analyses examining the log of hospital stay (Additional file 5), hospital stay dichotomized at 2 days (Additional file 6), or the log of total hospital charges (Additional file 7) showed similar results as the analyses above, and supported the robustness of our findings. Discussion Our study provided contemporary national estimates of ED and inpatient utilization and charges for patients with hypertension as the primary diagnosis. We found that hypertension was the primary diagnosis (i.e., main reason) for over 1 million ED visits in 2012, which were roughly 0.7–0.8 % of all ED visits. Of these ED visits in 2012, 23 % resulted in hospitalization. We also examined the factors associated with health resource utilization and charges for ED and inpatient visits due to hypertension, i.e. with hypertension as the primary diagnosis. We noted a 13 % increase in ED utilization due to hypertension in 4-years in contrast to decreasing utilization for hypertension reported recently in a Canadian study [12]. Differences in study findings may be due to differences in health care systems (multiple insurer system vs. single-payer Government system), country setting (U.S. vs. Canada) and the study time period (2009-2012 vs. 1997-2004). It is reassuring that our estimates of 13 % increase over 4 years (i.e. 3–4 % per year) and the overall number of ED visits almost replicate the 4 % annual increase reported in the previous 6-year NEDS study of ED visits with a primary diagnosis of hypertension, with slight difference due to inclusion of an additional code 437.2 in the earlier study [5]. Our study defines the public health burden and health care burden of hypertension in the emergency departments and hospitals in the U.S. To our knowledge, there is a lack of nationally representative studies assessing the burden of hypertension in the U.S., except a recent descriptive study [5]. These were ED visits with a primary diagnosis of hypertension and/or uncontrolled or untreated hypertension with other non-specific associated symptoms such as headache, dizziness, pedal edema, worsening of heart failure etc. These visits are unlikely to be due to stroke, myocardial infarction (MI) in the setting of hypertension urgencies or emergencies [13], since visits with these acute conditions would likely have stroke or MI as the primary diagnoses, not hypertension. We found that of the ED-visits with hypertension as the primary diagnosis, 23 % resulted in hospitalizations. This admission rate was higher than that for gout-related ED visits at 7.7 % [7] and lower than the 49 % for COPD-related ED visits in the U.S. [6], analyzed for the same years using similar methodology and analyses, as this study. We planned these analyses a priori to be similar to our previous analyses of patients with COPD or gout to allow across-disease comparability of estimates and predictors of national U.S. healthcare utilization data. Of those hospitalized, 71.6 % were discharged home. The mean 2012 ED and inpatient charges were $2,747 and $32,761 per visit respectively and the mean length of hospital stay was 4.0 days. Total 2012 charges for ED and inpatient visits with hypertension as the primary diagnosis were $2.86 billion and $7.94 billion, respectively. These charges are comparable to total charges nationally for diabetic foot at $8.78 billion in 2010 [14], higher than changes for constipation at $1.62 billion [15], but lower than those for COPD at $14.2 billion in 2012 [6]. The mean ED visit charges of $2,747 for hypertension is slightly higher than that ED visits for diabetic foot at $2,324 [14] and for constipation at $2,306 [15], and similar to those for COPD [6]. Total ED and inpatient charges with hypertension diagnosis in any position (primary or secondary) were $406 billion in 2012. Concomitant hypertension in patients with diabetes is associated with higher healthcare utilization [16, 17]. Thus, the cost and morbidity burden of hypertension in the U.S. is quite significant. As a disease for which multiple treatment options are available, at least significant proportion of charges and burden may be preventable, by increasing patient awareness and knowledge, optimal medication adherence and access to outpatient clinics. These interventions may also further reduce the risk of associated complications, such as myocardial infarction, stroke etc. [3, 18]. We noted regional differences in health care utilization for hypertension regarding the risk of hospitalization, length of hospital stay, proportion discharged to home etc. Regional differences can be due to multiple reasons including due to regional differences in income, payment by insurers due to adjustment for cost-of-living and differences in health status [19]; health care intensity varies by region in the U.S. [20]. Our study identified several risk factors for higher ED charges with hypertension as the primary diagnosis. This fills a knowledge gap. Younger age, female sex, residence in metropolitan area, hospital location in South or West U.S. location, private insurance and the presence of HF were each associated with higher charges for an ED visit. Similarly, younger age, female sex, metropolitan residence, Medicaid insurance and hospital location in the Northeast, and co-existing diabetes, gout, CHD, COPD, hyperlipidemia and osteoarthritis were associated with a higher risk of hospitalization with hypertension as the primary diagnosis. Most comorbidities were associated with 1.5–3.3 fold higher risk of inpatient admission with hypertension as the primary diagnosis except renal failure and HF, which were associated with much higher odds of 7.5 and 8.6, respectively. Thus, we identified risk factors associated with higher rates of hospitalization (significantly more expensive than an ED visit alone) and higher charges. This paves the way for future studies that should examine whether optimization of associated comorbidities and/or recognition of high-risk patients with hypertension (based on socio-demographic characteristics) for frequent outpatient follow-up and implementation of special programs to improve access to outpatient health care teams can help reduce burden and costs associated with hypertension-associated ED and inpatient use. Our study further extends the recent finding that patients with hypertension with concomitant comorbidities are more likely to hospitalized compared to patients without comorbidities [12]. Another important observation from our study was that 11 % patients with inpatient utilization due to hypertension were discharged to skilled nursing/intermediate facilities and 13 % to home health care while 73 % were discharged to home. Older age, metropolitan residence and most comorbidities (except hyperlipidemia and gout) were associated with lower odds, whereas male sex, payer other than Medicare and South or West U.S. hospital location were associated with higher odds of discharge to home. The next step in this research should be to identify potential targets for intervention studies with an aim to reduce health care utilization and costs due to hypertension. It also remains to be seen whether optimization of key comorbidities we identified as risk factors can reduce morbidity and associated charges/costs. We found that older age, metropolitan patient residence, metropolitan teaching hospital and Medicaid as primary payer and most comorbidities except hyperlipidemia and osteoarthritis were associated with longer stay whereas private insurance, hospital location other than Northeast were associated with shorter hospital stay. Similarly, older age, median household income in the highest quartile, metropolitan location and most comorbidities except hyperlipidemia and osteoarthritis were associated higher inpatient hospital charges. Uninsured primary payer and Midwest U.S. hospital location were associated with lower hospital charges. Our findings must be interpreted considering study limitations. NEDS contains event-level data but not unique identifiers so that individuals may be represented by multiple visits in any given year. We were not able to examine readmission rates due to the lack of this information in NEDS. Study findings are likely not generalizable to other countries due to differences in health care settings. We suspect residual confounding due to the lack of availability of details regarding optimal vs. suboptimal control of hypertension [21] and the rate of adherence with anti-hypertensive medication [22], both of which are important factors for healthcare utilization. It is far more likely that these factors are causes/mediators of increased ED and inpatient utilization, rather than confounders. In addition, we are unaware of any data indicating that associations we noted are mediated through these factors. Therefore, even though the estimates may be possibly over- or under-estimates, the confounding bias is unclear/unknown. Outpatient utilization data were not available, and a study of hypertension associated complications such as stroke, myocardial infarction, renal failure etc. were beyond the scope of this study. Availability of only three years of data for our analyses did not allow us to have a very comprehensive look at time-trends; data from more years would have made this analysis more informative. However, some trends in cost very evident in this short time-period, as reported. Several regional differences were noted in various outcomes, but detailed analyses by region were outside the scope of this paper, and limited resources prevented us from doing these analyses. Study strengths include the use of the largest ED and hospitalization data in the U.S. that is representative and generalizable to the U.S. population, inclusion of several important outcomes, and important covariates as potential predictors, and examination of data across several years. Conclusions In summary, this contemporary study using national U.S. data provides a comprehensive assessment of ED and inpatient health care burden and charges due to hypertension in the U.S. The burden of hypertension is substantial and slowly increasing. We identified several important factors associated both with ED and inpatient charges for hypertension as well as disposition from ED and inpatient settings. Several of these factors may be modifiable and present potential targets for future interventions to reduce health care utilization and cost due to hypertension. Abbreviations CHD, coronary heart disease; COPD, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease; ED, Emergency department; HF, heart failure; NEDS, National ED sample Declarations Acknowledgements None. material These data are in the public domain for anyone to use and analyze and are available from the AHRQ. Authors’ contributions JAS designed the study, developed study protocol, reviewed analyses and wrote the first draft of the paper. SY performed the data abstraction and data analyses. All authors made revisions to the manuscript and read and approved the final manuscript. Competing Interests There are no financial conflicts related directly to this study. JAS has received research grants from Takeda and Savient and consultant fees from Savient, Takeda, Regeneron, Iroko,c3 entity. JAS is a member of the executive of OMERACT, an organization that develops outcome measures in rheumatology and receives arms-length funding from 36 companies; a member of the American College of Rheumatology’s Annual Meeting Planning Committee (AMPC); Chair of the ACR Meet-the-Professor, Workshop and Study Group Subcommittee; and a member of the Veterans Affairs Rheumatology Field Advisory Committee. S.Y. has no conflicts to declare. There are no non-financial competing interests for any of the authors. Consent for publication No individual person’s data were presented in any form in this study and therefore no consent to publish is required. Ethics approval and consent to participate The University of Alabama at Birmingham’s Institutional Review Board approved this study and all investigations were conducted in conformity with ethical principles of research. The IRB waived the need for informed consent for this analysis of publically available - Hypertension.. 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Back to Learn about steam Different types of heat exchanger are explained and compared in this tutorial, together with steam consumption calculations and other issues such as the relevance of the starting load. The term heat exchanger strictly applies to all types of equipment in which heat transfer is promoted from one medium to another. A domestic radiator, where hot water gives up its heat to the ambient air, may be described as a heat exchanger. coil inside). Manufacturers often provide a thermal rating for their heat exchangers in kW, and from this the steam consumption may be determined, as for air heater batteries. However, heat exchangers (particularly shell and tube) are frequently too large for the systems which they are required to serve. A non-storage calorifier (as shown in Figure 2.13.2) will normally be selected from a standard range of sizes, and may often have a much larger capacity than the design figure. For the hot water heating of buildings there may also be certain safety factors included in the heat load calculations. Plate heat exchangers may also be chosen from a standard range of sizes if the units are brazed or welded. However, there is more flexibility in the sizing of gasketed plate heat exchangers, where plates can often be added or removed to achieve the desired heat transfer area. In many cases, plate heat exchangers are oversized simply to reduce the pressure drop for the secondary fluid. On existing plant, an indication of actual load may be obtained if the flow and return temperatures and the pumping rate are known. However, it is important to note that throughput as given on the pump maker’s plate will probably relate to a pressure head, which may or may not be present in practice. Shell and tube heat exchangers and plate heat exchangers are typical examples of flow type applications. Therefore, when determining the steam consumption for these applications, Equation 2.6.5 should be used. The start-up load may be ignored if it occurs rarely, or if the time taken to reach full-load output is not too important. Heat exchangers are more often sized on the full running load, with the possible addition of safety factors. Heat losses are rarely taken into account with these flow type applications, as they are significantly less than the full running load. Shell and tube heat exchangers are usually lagged to prevent heat loss, and to prevent possible injury to personnel. Plate heat exchangers tend to be more compact and have a much smaller surface area exposed to the ambient air, in relation to the size of the unit. Determine the heat load and steam load of the following non-storage heating calorifier A Part 1 Determine the heat load The full-load may be calculated using Equation 2.6.5: Part 2 Determine the steam load The full-load condensing rate can be determined using the left hand side of the heat balance Equation 2.6.6: A plate heat exchanger consists of a series of thin corrugated metal plates between which a number of channels are formed, with the primary and secondary fluids flowing through alternate channels. Heat transfer takes place from the primary fluid steam to the secondary process fluid in adjacent channels across the plate. Figure 2.13.3 shows a schematic representation of a plate heat exchanger. A. The promotion of turbulent flow also eliminates the presence of stagnant areas and thus reduces fouling. The plates will usually be coated on the primary side, in order to promote the dropwise condensation of steam.. A. This can eliminate the need for a separate sub-cooler or flash steam recovery system. Although a nominal heat transfer area may theoretically be calculated using Equation 2.5.3, plate heat exchangers are proprietary designs and will normally be specified in consultation with the manufacturers. G. This design allows easy dismantling of the unit for cleaning, and allows the capacity of the unit to be modified by the simple addition or removal of plates. The use of gaskets gives a degree of flexibility to the plate pack, offering some resistance to thermal fatigue and sudden pressure variations.. Brazed plate heat exchangers In. If cleaning is required it must be either back-flushed or chemically cleaned. It also means that these units come in a standard range of sizes, consequently oversizing is common. While the brazed heat exchanger has a more robust design than the gasketed type, it is also more prone to thermal fatigue due to its more rigid construction. Any sudden or frequent changes in temperature and load should therefore be avoided, and greater attention should be paid to the control on the steam side to avoid thermal stress. Brazed heat exchangers are more suitable (and primarily used) for applications where temperature variations are slow, such as in space heating. They may also successfully be used with secondary fluids which expand gradually, such as thermal oil. Welded plate heat exchangers In a welded plate heat exchanger the plate pack is held together by welded seams between the plates. The use of laser welding techniques allows the plate pack to be more flexible than a brazed plate pack, enabling the welded unit to be more resistant to pressure pulsation and thermal cycling. The high temperature and pressure operating limits of the welded unit mean that these heat exchangers normally have a higher specification, and are more suited to heavy duty process industry applications. They are often used where a high pressure or temperature performance is required, or when viscous media such as oil and other hydrocarbons are to be heated. Shell and tube heat exchangers The shell and tube heat exchanger is probably the most common method of providing indirect heat exchange in industrial process applications. A shell and tube heat exchanger consists of a bundle of tubes enclosed in a cylindrical shell. The ends of the tubes are fitted into tube sheets, which separate the primary and the secondary fluids. Where condensing steam is used as the heating medium, the heat exchanger is usually horizontal with condensation taking place inside the tubes. Sub-cooling may also be used as a means to recover some extra heat from the condensate in the heat exchanger. However, if the degree of sub-cooling required is relatively large it is often more convenient to use a separate condensate cooler. A common design for a steam to water non-storage calorifier is shown in Figure 2.13.4. This is known as a ‘one shell pass two tube pass’ type of shell and tube heat exchanger and consists of a U-tube bundle fitted into a fixed tube sheet. It is said to have ‘one shell pass’ because the secondary fluid inlet and outlet connections are at different ends of the heat exchanger, consequently the shell side fluid passes the length of the unit only once. It is said to have two tube passes because the steam inlet and outlet connections are at the same end of the exchanger, so that the tube-side fluid passes the length of the unit twice. A pass partition (also called a partition plate or a feather plate) divides up the exchanger header, so that the tube-side fluid is diverted down the U-tube bundle rather than straight through the header. This is a comparatively simple and inexpensive design because only one tube sheet is required, but it is limited in use to relatively clean fluids as the tubes are more difficult to clean. Note; it is more difficult to replace a tube with these types of heat exchanger. Baffles are usually provided in the shell, to direct the shell-side fluid stream across the tubes, improving the rate of heat transfer, and to support the tubes. Starting from cold As mentioned in Module 2.7, the start-up load can often be ignored if it seldom occurs or if the time taken to reach full-load output is not critical. For this reason, control valves and heat exchangers will often be found to be sized on full-load plus the usual safety factors. With systems that shut down at night and weekends, secondary water temperature can be low at start-up on a cold winter morning, and condensing rates in heating calorifiers will be higher than the full-load condition. Consequently, pressure in the steam space may be considerably below the pressure at which the heat exchanger normally operates, until the secondary inlet temperature rises to its design figure. From a thermal viewpoint, this may not pose a problem - the system simply takes longer to heat up. However, if the designer has not taken this situation into consideration, an inadequate steam trapping and condensate removal system can cause condensate to accumulate in the steam space. This can cause: These will cause problems for heat exchangers not designed to withstand such conditions. Estimating heating loads Buildings - A practical, subjective method to estimate a heating load is to look at the building itself. Calculations can be complicated, involving factors such as the number of air changes and heat transfer rates through cavity walls, windows and roofs. However, a reasonable estimate can usually be obtained by taking the total building volume and simply allowing 30 - 40 W/m³ of space up to 3 000 m³, and 15 - 30 W/m³ if above 3 000 m³. This will give a reasonable estimate of the heating load when the outside temperature is around a design condition of -1°C. A practical way to establish steam consumption for an existing installation is to use an accurate reliable steam flowmeter. Determine the design rating of a heating calorifier from actual measured conditions The design rating of a heating calorifier is unknown, but the steam load is measured at 227 kg/h when the outside temperature is 7 °C and the inside temperature is 19 °C, a difference of 12 °C. The calorifier is also designed to provide 19 °C inside temperature when the outside temperature is -1 °C, a difference of 20 °C. The steam load at the design condition can be estimated simply by the ratio of the temperature differences: Hot water storage calorifiers are designed to raise the temperature of the entire contents from cold to the storage temperature within a specified period.. However, when the temperature of water may be at its lowest value, for example 10 °C, the high condensing rate of steam may be more than the fully open control valve can pass, and the coil will be starved of steam. The pressure in the coil will drop significantly, with the net effect of reducing the capacity of the steam trapping device. If the trapping device is wrongly sized or selected, condensate may back up into the coil, reducing its ability to transfer heat and achieve the required heat up time. Waterhammer may result, causing severe noise and mechanical stresses to the coil.). In other heat exchangers using steam an internal floating head may be used, which is generally more versatile than the fixed head of the U-tube exchangers. They are more suitable for use on applications with higher temperature differences between the steam and secondary fluid. As the tube bundle can be removed they can be cleaned more easily. The tube-side fluid is often directed to flow through a number of passes to increase the length of the flow path. Exchangers are normally built with between one and sixteen tube passes, and the number of passes is selected to achieve the designed tube-side velocity. The tubes are arranged into the number of passes required by dividing up the header using a number of partition plates. Two shell passes are occasionally created by fitting a longitudinal shell-side baffle down the centre of the exchanger, where the temperature difference would be unsuitable for a single pass. Divided flow and split flow arrangements are also used where the pressure drop rather than the heat transfer rate is the controlling factor in the design, to reduce the shell-side pressure drop. Steam may also be used to evaporate (or vaporise) a liquid, in a type of shell and tube heat exchanger known as a reboiler. These are used in the petroleum industry to vaporise a fraction of the bottom product from a distillation column. These tend to be horizontal, with vaporisation in the shell and condensation in the tubes (see Figure 2.13.5). In forced circulation reboilers the secondary fluid is pumped through the exchanger, whilst in thermosyphon reboilers natural circulation is maintained by differences in density. In kettle reboilers there is no circulation of the secondary fluid, and the tubes are submerged in a pool of liquid. Although it is desirable to achieve dropwise condensation in all these applications, it is often difficult to maintain and is unpredictable. To remain practical, design calculations are generally based on the assumption of filmwise condensation.. One evolution in the design of the traditional shell and tube heat exchanger, is the recent development of the corrugated tube heat exchanger. This is a single passage fixed plate heat exchanger with a welded shell, and rectilinear corrugated tubes that are suitable for low viscosity fluids. In a similar manner to the plate heat exchangers, the corrugated tubes promote turbulent operating conditions that maximise heat transfer and reduce fouling. Like the traditional shell and tube heat exchangers, these units are commonly installed horizontally. However, in the corrugated tube heat exchanger the steam should always be on the shell side. Spiral heat exchangers share many similar characteristics with shell and tube and plate heat exchangers and are used on many of the same applications. They consist of fabricated metal sheets that are cold worked and welded to form a pair of concentric spiral channels, which are closed by gasketed end-plates bolted to an outer case. Turbulence in the channels is generally high, with identical flow characteristics being obtained for both fluids. They are also relatively easy to clean and can be used for very heavy fouling fluids and slurries. The use of only a single pass for both fluids, combined with the compactness of the unit, means that pressure drops across the connections are usually quite low.
Towed arrays technologies add new capabilities to destroyers.. With China’s People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) building ship classes in small numbers, upgrades must be tailored to different vessels. The first new warship design to follow the prototype advanced sensor and weapon installations on upgraded Luda destroyers involved the two 052 Luhu-class vessels—the DD-112 Harbin and DD-113 Qingdao. The DDG-112 was the only destroyer built by Quixin shipyard because the facility became part of Jiangnan shipyard after 1994. The DDG-113 was launched in 1996 at Jiangnan. These were followed by four additional new warship class designs that were launched in a fairly brief 12-year span. These series of incrementally more sophisticated designs were limited to production runs of one or two ships each. Raising the warship capabilities in that short period of years was a costly and formidable task. The upside for China is that it did advance from old Luda destroyer modifications up to an Aegis-type phased array/vertical launch warship in only nine years, which is an amazing feat. The downside is that China has the logistic, maintenance and training headache of trying to support five unique warship classes totaling only nine vessels. The most outdated ships were the two initial Luhus, which even featured different propulsion plants in each ship. A U.S. LM-2500 gas turbine was on the DDG-112, and a Ukrainian GT-25000 was on the DDG-113. During refit in 2003 and 2005, both ships replaced their PJ-33A 100-millimeter guns with new stealthy 100-millimeter guns, and YJ-81 ship-to-surface missiles were replaced with new YJ-83 missiles. The subsequent generations of 051- and 052-series ships advanced beyond the Luhu’s sensor and weapon technology, particularly on the DDG-112. In 2009, both Luhus started very long overhauls to upgrade many of their combat systems. The DDG-112 remained in overhaul into 2012 and was so completely gutted—including removal of the engineering plant and funnel—that it probably appeared it was being scrapped. The obvious topside DG-112 systems were removed, and one can imagine the unseen modifications below decks advancing from analog to digital automated equipment. Almost certainly, the 1980s-vintage French Thomson CSF TAVITAC was replaced by one of the newer combat direction systems such as the ZJK-4B or later models. The Type 518 long-range airport surveillance radar, unique to the Luhus, was replaced by an old metric Type 517 radar that dates directly to the World War II Soviet Knife Rest land-based radar. The installation of these dated radars has increased since Serbia downed a U.S. F-117 stealth fighter in 1999 with a Soviet SA-3 and long-wavelength radar. A modern SR-64 multifunction missile defense targeting radome was installed on the aft mast. Two Type 726-4 multipurpose decoy launchers were installed adjacent to the bridge, where two twin 37-millimeter gun mounts were sited. The original four twin 37-millimeter Type 76A guns and associated 347G Rice Lamp radar located forward and aft were replaced by two Type 730 close-in weapon systems for defense aft on top of the helicopter hangar. The Type 730 has a TR47C FC radar and OFC-3 electro-optic director. The close-in weapon system fires 4,600 to 5,800 rounds per minute with an effective range of 1,500 meters and a maximum range of 3,000 meters. Removing two twin 37-millimeter mounts forward and not replacing them with a close-in weapon system, as was done aft, appears to decrease forward anti-air warfare (AAW) defense. A British ISPN-1 satellite communications (SATCOM) system was replaced by two new SATCOM Big Ball super-high frequency radomes and a smaller Ku-band SATCOM system above the helicopter hangar. Both original Luhus were intended to have GE LM-2500 gas turbine propulsion. One was installed on the DDG-112, but after the Tiananmen Square massacre, the DDG-113 had to substitute a Ukraine GT-25000 gas turbine. Because the LM-2500 on the DDG-112 has no logistic support, it had to be replaced with a Ukraine GA-30 gas turbine. Unlike the other 051- and 052-class vessels that had AAW and antisurface warfare (ASUW) missions, the two Luhus were unique with antisubmarine warfare (ASW) mission sensors and weapons. The 12-tube type FQF-2500 ASW launchers were replaced by longer-range 5,000-meter, 6-tube Type 87 ASW launchers. The most important change was the removal of the aft variable depth sonar (VDS) and installation of a towed linear array, termed towed array sonar system (TASS). Most naval references state that Luhus had the French DUBV-43 VDS, but photos of the Luhu VDS fish show that it actually is an Italian 7.5-kilohertz DE-1164 with four stabilizing fins aft, instead of three fins mounted 120 degrees apart as on the DUBV-43. The VDS replacement is not mentioned in descriptions of the overhaul, possibly because it largely is below decks and out of sight. A study of the pre-overhaul stern with the VDS and post-overhaul enclosed stern shows that an internal change did take place. This has been a major Chinese ASW gap among PLAN surface warships, which have focused on ASUW and AAW but not on ASW. Some references credit newer 054A and also four Jiangwei I frigates with towed array sonar, but it has been very low profile and largely unnoticed. Most Russian and U.S. towed arrays have a smooth round opening on the centerline of the ship or submarine, as on U.S. Navy Aegis cruisers with the SQR-19 aft. The modernized Luhu sterns have round line-handling ports on each side below their square torpedo decoy and TASS ports to port and starboard respectively, as on prior frigates. In December 2010, a 10-foot by 5-foot opening was cut in the stern, where it would have been necessary to install the huge towed array handling winch in place of the VDS that was shown removed in photos. Images also appeared of the towed array cable on a reel going into the helicopter hangar to be used on the TASS. A photo of an 054A frigate with a thin cable being trailed from a small opening on the port side of the stern likely shows the SQK-6 anti-torpedo decoy. There are several nominees for the type of passive towed array being installed on the Luhus. The 2004 CIDEX trade fair showed a TLAS-1 Chinese towed array being marketed for foreign sales. It was developed by the Hanzhou Applied Acoustics Research Institute and was claimed to have a detection range of 25 to 45 kilometers and the ability to track up to five different contacts. The Ukraine Research and Development Institute of Sonar Technology in Kiev developed complex sonars, including towed arrays for the Soviet navy. The latest Ukraine-marketed sonar is known as Bosporus, and it includes a towed array in addition to the hull sonar. The Russian 936 EM version Sovremenny sold to China included the MGK-335EM-03 hull-mounted mid-frequency sonar. This sonar has supplemental towed options that could have been procured by China. One is the MGK-335EM-02 version with a towed active and passive fish-shaped transducer, which is similar to the VDS on the two Luhus. The other is an MGK-335EM-01 version with a flexible extended trailing antenna, which is similar to the new aft array on the recent DDG-112 upgrade. Chinese literature, such as a 1997 Institute of Acoustics/Chinese Academy of Sciences paper, describes an H/SJG-208 towed line array sonar. An unidentified Chinese electronic intelligence vessel reportedly is equipped with an H/SJG-208 towed linear array sonar prior to the frigates or Luhus. The PLAN Yuan submarine has a towed array sonar, similar to the Soviet Victor III pod atop the aft vertical rudder, which is part of the MGK-540 sonar suite that uses narrow- and wideband signal processing. Since the decision to go into series production of the 052C destroyer with four new hulls launched in 2011, China might perform major upgrades to some other 052 classes similar to the Luhu. This would mitigate the logistics nightmare of supporting the two unique vessel classes. The Luhai would seem a logical candidate to be the first to be scrapped, being a unique hull. It is expected that China quietly will continue to add TASS sensors to additional ships to further enhance anti-access surveillance and tracking of Western submarines. The standard answer to the issue of whether the PLAN has any underwater surveillance system is that no firm evidence exists. The first question to ask is what the location would be if it were to be fielded. Logically, one would be between Shanghai and Honshu to detect Japanese or U.S. submarines from Japan. Another would be between Hainan and Guam for U.S. submarines. Preceding the establishment of such a system would be considerable ocean research vessel activity, which has been observed in the 2002 to 2008 time frame. Chinese submarines have been tracked in these areas as well. Although placement of surveillance sensors is clandestine, a necessary element would be cable-laying ships. China has had seven 1,550-ton Youdian-class auxiliary repair cable (ARC) vessels with two each for the North and South fleets and three in the Eastern Fleet since the 1970s. Their normal stated task is laying communication cables to island outposts. The lack of towed arrays on civilian and PLAN ships casts doubt on the necessary research in ASW underwater sound physics. However, many Chinese science papers on the field have been published, and former Soviet and Western states have exported critical sonar technology to China. The latest 092 Chinese nuclear submarine, which has much Victor III-claimed performance, has a towed array in the top aft rudder fin—a first for the PLAN. Underwater harbor defense is a related technology. In 1982, three 750-ton Youzhong ARC ships were launched and assigned to the Maritime Border Defense Force (MBDF). The G2693 ARC ship was attached to the South MBDF, and N2304 and N2404 were attached to the Eastern MBDF. This could point to development and deployment of harbor defense active/passive sonar sensors or littoral magnetic loops to detect intruding submarines in the mid-1980s. These would fall within the mission of border defense. The Russian Morphyspribor Central Research Institute in St. Petersburg would be one of the more obvious sources of harbor defense active/passive sensor systems. The Russian MGK-607EM stationary sonar system for harbor defense features a combination data and power cable as long as 50 kilometers from the shore data processing and display center. The barrier length can be up to 1,000 kilometers in waters as deep as 600 meters. One reference cited an “unidentified Asian source” that “China was deploying bottom sensors in [the] SCS [South China Sea] in 2008.” Chinese sensitivity to long-range underwater surveillance has been highlighted in aggressive incidents against U.S. auxiliary general oceanographic research ships (T-AGORs) in the East and South China seas. Coincidentally, one of the worst examples of dangerous harassment occurred in March 2008 in the East China Sea, and the DDG-112 was the culprit. The Qingdao shined a blinding beam of light on the USNS Victorious for 30 minutes, injuring a U.S. sailor’s eyesight. Chinese vessels aggressively have interfered with many U.S. T-AGOR ships during towed array surveillance activity off of Chinese nuclear submarine bases in the South China and East China seas. The upgrading of Luhus from the VDS to TASS shows success in achieving this highly classified technology and the strategic need to counter U.S. submarines in offshore waters. The DDG-113 left the yards around June 2011 after a year in overhaul and immediately deployed in the military diplomacy role it filled in 2012 with an around-the-world cruise visiting Canada, the United States and Australia. The ship hosted Pakistani navy warships in friendly crew exchange activities and drilled at sea when they departed for home. The DDG-113 deployed with 054A frigate Yantai in a Gulf of Aden anti-piracy group in February 2012. James C. Bussert, employed at the Naval Surface Warfare Center in Dahlgren, Virginia, is the co-author of “People’s Liberation Army Navy Combat System Technology, 1949-2010.” The opinions expressed in this article do not necessarily reflect the views of the U.S. Defense Department or the U.S. Navy. Add new comment
This December, we are taking a break from the regular lectionary reading to recoup, regroup and redesign the website. We are working hard at making sure that for 2020, Queer Theology will be even more useful. So for this week, here’s a vintage podcast—one of our best Advent podcasts. This week’s passage is part of Mary’s Magnificat — a badass hymn that shows how she understands God. Already, before Jesus is even born, we see the seeds of what will become his ministry planted and nurtured by his mother M. B: Hello there! It’s Brian G. Murphy, I’m one of the co-founders of QueerTheology.com and one of the hosts of this podcast. As you may know, the Queer Theology podcast has been around for a long time and so this year for Advent, we’re digging into the archives and republishing some of our favorite and most popular Advent and Christmas-themed episodes. So we’ve got that coming for you shortly. We also, as you may have heard, recently launched a Patreon campaign to make this work more sustainable. So thank you, thank you, thank you to everyone who has donated. It has made a huge difference in our lives and warmed my heart. I’m super thankful and grateful for that. We still have a bit of a ways to go to reach our goal, so if you’re interested in keeping the podcast, and the website, and the articles, and the emails, and all that good stuff alive we would treasure your support. You can go to patreon.com/queertheology to make a pledge. But we are not wasting any time even though we’re not quite at our goal. We’re getting started on the work of re-working this work, [laughs] lots of work words there. So we’re taking December to do some behind the scenes work. We’re regrouping here on the podcast and we’re redesigning the website, so even though these are old episodes we are still hard at work, and we’re looking forward to sharing all that with you soon. But for now, sit back, relax, and enjoy this Advent-themed episode. Merry almost Christmas from the Queer Theology podcast! This week we’re taking a look at a lectionary text for Sunday, December 24th. We’re going to be looking at Luke 1:47-55. I will read it to you now from the Common English Bible.. [CEB] A-men. FS: Amen indeed. B: [laughs] Shay. Okay. How do we – what’s queer about this passage? FS: Oh – all of it. [both laugh] I love that this is the passage that is for Christmas Eve. This is Mary’s song – this is part of the Magnificat. We have this hymn, basically, sung by a young woman, who is a person of color, a refugee, pregnant and unmarried, and basically she sings this badass song saying, “God is going to send the rich away empty-handed, pull the arrogant down from their thrones, and lift up the lowly and fill the hungry. If that isn’t radical, I don’t know what is. And yet— B: Amen. FS: —how rarely did I hear anything like this preached in my churches growing up. I have never heard a, like, eff-the-rich Christmas Eve sermon at the candlelight service before we sing Silent Night. Right? [Brian laughs] It’s all about this sanitized, cute, baby being born. And maybe the baby does some good stuff in the world, but, like, I know in my churches growing up, that baby was on the cross before Christmas Eve even got over. He hadn’t even been born, and we had skipped his entire ministry. So I love this passage. I love that this is set up. I love that Mary gets to speak and have this huge hymn that becomes this hymn of the church. And I think that it’s queer because, a, women are still silent in our churches, especially young women. And b, this kind of upheaval of the order, where the hungry are fed and the poor are lifted up; that’s such a radical thing, and I think that, when we talk about who are the most marginalized, we’re still talking about – they’re still hungry people. There are still people who are poor and lowly who need to be lifted up. I think that we have, in this passage, this vision of what Jesus is coming to do and who he’s coming to be. I think that’s really beautiful. I have to laugh a little bit, because Rachel Held Evans on twitter the other day quoted Luke, and someone commented – a dude, of course— B: Duh. FS: —commented back, “You know, I was really on board with you, but your line about ‘the rich,’ that’s really offensive.” And she was like, “I was literally quoting the gospel. I don’t know what you want me to do.” I think that so often we ignore what is literally written in the gospel in order to make something else into our gospel. So, I love this passage of bringing this back, of like, ‘this is what it’s about.’ It’s uncomfortable sometimes. And that’s probably as it should be. B: You know, one of the sort of sayings that some folks bandy about about Christmas is like, a child came to save the world. For many people, that gets played out as like, this child came to grow up to get crucified on the cross to forgive us of our sins so we could get into Heaven. But here we have Mary, the mother of Jesus, being like, “No! This is what this means.” All those things that you just said, that the hungry are filled with good things, that the rich are sent away empty-handed, that the powerful are pulled down from their thrones. This was said at a time when there was a powerful person sitting on a throne. And obviously the gospels were written after Jesus’s ministry had concluded – he was no longer on earth anymore [laughs] but the movement was continuing on. To include this passage in what became the canon – not every single thing that was ever written about Jesus made it into our sacred text, our scripture. That could be a whole, multiple-episode look into why and what didn’t. But this got in! That early Christians were like, no, this right here, this is critical to the gospel. And what it means is, at a time when we’re being persecuted by the powerful, we’re going to still include that part of this movement is to pull the powerful down from their thrones and to lift up the lonely. That this was included matters. We’ve had a few really great passages over the past few weeks, sort of getting at the heart of God, and what it means to encounter the divine, and what salvation means and looks like. And that these really radical texts are right in our sacred texts and our Bibles that are in every single church in America, that these passages are included in the lectionary – it’s all sitting there, right in front of our faces, hiding in plain sight, just waiting for us to pay attention. So, if you’re a queer person, a progressive person, a radical person, who’s listening to this – who you are and the work that you’re doing is integral to the story of God. We need you to stick around and keep doing that work, and continuing to be a badass like Mary. That’s the Christmas story. FS: We know that that kind of work does start to take its toll on people, and especially around the holidays, when many of us have to deal with unaffirming family or churches. That can be really tough. We also just really want to encourage you to take care of yourself during this holiday season, to do the things you need to do to make sure that you can continue to do this work, to make sure that you are connecting with people who care about you and love you just as you are, to shore you up to continue to do this work. We’ve created all sorts of resources around self-care and around self-care at the holidays in particular over at Queer Theology. Brian, where can they find those? B: You can just go to QueerTheology.com/selfcare and we’ll send you over some videos and articles and worksheets, all about taking care of yourself, especially around the holidays, especially around unaffirming family and friends and churches. FS: We’re going to take next week off of the podcast to celebrate the holidays and to get ready for the new year ahead. We’ve got some really exciting stuff coming up, starting off right in January. We’re going to take a week off to get ready for that. We hope you have a wonderful holiday. We’ll be around if you need to reach out to us – you can always reach us at [email protected]. We’re really grateful for you all and hope that you have a great holiday and head into the new year feeling rested and loved and ready to take on the world. B: If you enjoyed this episode we would love to hear from you. We would love to hear your new thoughts on this old episode, so find us at any of the social media: Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, all of that jazz. Send us a message, tag us in a post, whatever floats your boat. Remember we still need some more help on Patreon to make this work possible: to continue the podcast; to continue the articles and the videos; the workshops and all that. 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AKH Records wishes everyone a great Christmas and all the best for 2007! We have Francis Rimbert's cd "Sound Of Vintage" in stock, which can be ordered from our catalog! Fractional performs 16 December at the Botanique, Brussels, as part of the finals of the Courtcircuit Contest. For this show Pierre will be accompanied by VJ Antonin De Bemels. This week we expect in stock Francis Rimbert's new cd "Sound Of Vintage". Francis Rimbert is preparing for a concert with Jean Michel Jarre, to be held on December 16th, in Merzouga, Morocco. For more information check Francis' website. And some Francis Rimbert solo performances have been added to our agenda! It's now possible to pre-order Francis Rimbert's new cd "Sound Of Vintage". This album contains previously released music from 1983 to 1986, and an special unreleased track from 1970. Tonight the finals of the Electronica Contest 2006 will be held at the Kultuurkaffee (Pleinlaan 2, 1050 Brussels, Belgium). Ewout will also be in the jury and he might select an act which will have at least one track on a vinyl release on AKH Records next year. Tomorrow a new edition of The Music Cafe is sheduled on MiVo Radio. This edition also features music from Remy. The show starts at 20:00 CET, 07:00 pm GMT/UK time, 02:00 pm EST, and can be listened via this link. Fractional has been added to the line-up of the Langweiligkeit Festival in The Hague. Information can be found in our agenda. Sutrastore has already been planned for this festival some earlier. Also some new Sutrastore gigs have been added. We have added some soundclips of Fractional's debut-cd Aliwen. Francis Rimbert will be the guest for a special show on Jerico Channel in Metz on Thursday 19 October. You will be able to listen to some Double Face tracks from Monday 16th. Francis will spend his afternoon in Metz on Jerico Channel: a two hours show: "Clin d'Oeil+" From 22:00 (CET) untill midnight with Jean Marie Vannesson. Francis will answer your questions, call: + 33 (0)3 87 75 91 11. He will also play some excerpts live, and fans are welcome to visit Francis Rimbert during the show or during the signing session! This Saturday (21 October) Fractional will play at L'Entrepot, Arlon, Belgium. His debut cd "Aliwen" will be for sale at this event! Francis Rimbert's releases Double Face and Mecanique Du Temps are in stock! Yesterday we were present at the E-Live Festival. It really was a nice day with a lot of visitors! We have also received new releases that are available from our catalog now: Fractional - Aliwen and Analogy 2. Analogy 2 contains an exclusive analog track by Remy! This week we also expect Francis Rimbert's releases which can also be ordered exclusively from AKH Records: Double Face and Mecanique Du Temps. This second title has been limited to 400 copies, and we have some of the last copies available, so be sure you get hold of a copy in time! And Remy's promotional cd's of Sense have all been given away. It's possible again to vote for Fractional on the Concours Circuit 2006 website. Furthermore we have added some new reviews of Remy's album Sense. Tonight at 11 pm (5:00 AM CET, 6 October)) on Galactic Travels (WDIY 88.1, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania (U.S.A.), hosted by Bill Fox), there will be the start of a month-long Special Focus on Remy. The Featured CD at Midnight will be "The Art of Imagination", and the following shows: 12-10 features "Connected", 19-10 "DisConnected", and 26-10 "Sense". Listening is also possible via webstream. We've also got hold of some of the limited cd's of Francis Rimbert's & Patrick Rondat's "Mecanique Du Temps", which can also be ordered from our catalogue. 14 October AKH Records will be present at the E-Live Festival in Eindhoven. If everything goes as planned, we also have available that day: Fractional's debut cd "Aliwen" and the Francis Rimbert cd's "Double Face" and "Mecanique Du Temps". Voting for Remy and the AKH Records sampler has been ended. Highest reached positions were # 6 (AKH sampler) and # 7 (Sense). Thanks to everyone who brought out their votes! AKH Records will be doing part of the distribution for the music of French synthesizer legend Francis Rimbert. Francis is known for his collaborations with Jean Michel Jarre since 1986 and various demonstrations for Roland Music! It's possible to order his cd "Double Face" from our catalogue. Francis is also working on his new cd, which is planned for the end of this year. And besides voting for Remy's cd Sense and the AKH Records sampler in the Lowlands Top 25, it's also possible to vote for Fractional on the Concours Circuit 2006 website. At this moment he is ranked highest with more than 80% of the votes! A new performance of Fractional has been added to our agenda! One of the last weeks that the AKH Records sampler and Remy's cd Sense are in the Lowlands Top 25, they have reached their highest position until now: resp. # 6 and # 7. Still some time to get more votes! ... And... We are proud to announce a new AKH Records release: Fractional - Aliwen Releasedate: 13 October. Pre-orders are welcome! We have already added the tracklisting and artwork. More details and soundclips will follow soon! We have put links to some MySpace-pages in the links-section. New reviews of Remy's Sense and the AKH Records sampler have been added. The AKH Records sampler is now ranked # 8, and Sense is at # 13 in the Lowlands Top 25. Soapkills live in Lebanon, in rather hard times at the moment. We have received a message from them that they are doing well due to circumstances. Our thoughts are with them! Fractional has a new website. It's updated in our links-section, as well as some other websites. We will announce the date of his debut cd-release "Aliwen" very soon on this page. The information of The Afteraffects has changed. Ricky has decided to call it a day with the band. Alan is rebuilding his studio at the moment, and continues under the same name, going to make more dance-oriented music. Remy appears on "Analogy 2" with a new track. This cd contains music from various artists made with only analog equipment, and can already be pre-ordered from us. We ship as soon as it is available (releasedate 14 October). And Remy's album "Sense" as well as the AKH Records sampler are jojoing a bit in the Lowlands Top 25. Now they are respectively 20 and 13. As these albums are at a maximum of 3 months in this chart, we still count on your votes for another 1,5 months! If you want to see Sutrastore live in the Netherlands, there are two opportunities very soon: 't Paard van Troje (entrance only 5 euros, or free if you are student) and Langweiligkeit Festival. Links can be found in the agenda. Good news: Sutrastore is coming to the Netherlands twice. See the agenda for information! Bad news: Remy's album Sense is now # 14, and the AKH Records sampler is at # 13 in the Lowlands Top 25. Remy's album Sense reaches # 8, and the AKH Records sampler is at # 10 in the Lowlands Top 25. They actually should be ranked higher, so we still need your help and co-operation... This moment Remy's Sense and the AKH Records sampler are respectively ranked 9 and 14 in the Lowlands Top 25. Thanks for the votes so far, but indeed it should be possible to get them ranked higher in the list! So hopefully everyone keeps on voting on these albums! And a (excellent) review of Sense has been added! Vote On Remy's new cd "Sense" and the AKH Records sampler in the Lowlands Top 25. It should be possible to get them higher in this chart, like Iuno's "Everything Nothing" last year (reached #1). You can bring out your votes only once a day! This month's E-Dition Magazine (#13) contains a review of Remy's most recent album "Sense". On the accompanied cd is an exclusive new track, called "Destination Unknown". Fractional won the PureDemo contest! Fractional has been selected for the PureDemo contest. You can vote for him on the PureDemo website. It's possible to vote once a day! Today we've got to hear that Remy's new cd "Sense" will not be ready in time... Reason is the special package which took some more time then expected! We now expect the discs from the manufacturer around Tuesday, so Wednesday every order should be dispatched. Sorry for the inconvenience! However... Tomorrow we still will be present at the E-Day Festival (see our agenda at for more information), where it is possible to listen to the new album for sure. If you pay your order in advance tomorrow, you will already get the free promo cd-r (which we do have available); as soon as "Sense" is ready to ship, we will send it to you as soon as possible! Credits and a soundclip have been added for Remy's promotional cd-r, which will be for free with the first 70 copies of "Sense". It contains an exclusive new track of which an edited version was planned for the album in first instance, but didn't make it finally! Be sure to order Remy's new cd in time, and get this exclusive cd-r for free! Credits have been added for Remy's new cd! AKH Records will be present with a stall on E-day (TU Eindhoven, 13 May). Indeed you can pick up your copy of Remy's new cd, as well as the AKH Records sampler or any of our other products. See the agenda-section for details about this event. It's possible to listen to excerpts from Remy's new album. Just go to Remy's discography page in the artists-section, and click on the picture of "Sense". Sutrastore performs as part of the Belgian Finals of the Emergenza international music competition, Brussels, May 9th. If they win these finals, they will go to the European finals in Tilburg, and after that to the Worldwide in Hamburg. At the end the prizes are a tour in the US, and recording of a complete album at an international top-studio. The number of fans that attend the performance in Brussels will be significant for their score. Sutrastore is organising a bustrip for Belgian fans. Detailed information can be found on Sutrastore's forum. Tickets for the finals cost 12 euros (pre-sales), but if you order via us or Sutrastore it will be 10 euros. Remy's new cd-release "Sense" has been postponed. New releasedate is 12 May! The first people who order this cd will also get a free promotional cd with exclusive Remy-music. We will announce its contents within a very short time. The tracklisting of "Sense" has been added to Remy's discography. Photos of Remy's performance at the )Toon) Festival have been added. This weekend we hope to receive our AKH Records sampler. It contains exclusive tracks by artist of, and related to AKH Records. We will add all information on this website within a very short time. Also some new releases are being planned. Besides the sampler and Remy's new cd "Sense", Fractional and Lebenswelt will have their debuts on AKH Records within a very short time! Remy performs live at the )Toon) Festival this Saturday. Remy plays as part of a workstation, which features 5 artists. Doors are open from 14:30, and the program starts half an hour later. Entrance for this part of the festival is FREE. Lebenswelt live: An Italian radio-program, called "Marquee Moon", has invited Lebenswelt for their first gig of this year. It will be in S.Elpidio, near Ascoli Piceno, on Saturday 25 March. Soapkills is winner of the Euromedcafe contest 2006! The EuroMedCafe first international song contest Jury (made up Stéphane Salkin, Henri Greindl, Goéric Timmermans and Saïd Mourad), has awarded the song "Enta Fen" from Soapkills, during the selection process held in Brussels on 27 February 2006. In E-Dition Magazine #12 (10 April) will be an interview with Remy! Lots of updates on this website! Information about new artists / bands, new products in our catalog, photos, etc. A new gig of Fractional has been added to the agenda! Remy will perform at Déja Fou (Pelibar Leiden - free entrance!) and the 7th )Toon) Festival (Patronaat Haarlem). For details see the agenda. Both gigs will be based on improvisations on Remy's new album, which will also be released around the time of these performances. We've added some nice photos of Sutrastore, and also a couple of links have been added to the links section! If you live in Gent (105.3FM) or via internet, it's possible to hear Fractional live on Urgent FM this midnight! Remy started the recording of his new cd (working title "Sense") in his new studio. You can check Remy in his studio at the photos section. The album will be released somewhere halfway this year. Concert dates are updated! Sutrastore again touring outside Belgium! If you live near Glasgow or Edinburgh you should check out The After Affects, who can also be heard on Scottish BBC Radio, February 27th. Sutrastore ended up first at the Emergenza pre-selections last Friday! Next up are the Belgian semi-finals somewhere March at the VK in Molenbeek, Brussels. We'll keep you informed! We have had some server-problems, but this site is online again finally! Trying to get the bands with an AKH release near you on a podium, and releasing some new very interesting albums, we hope to satisfy you as much as possible this year! On the program are very interesting releases of newcomers Fractional and Lebenswelt! Their biographies will be added soon in the artist-section of this website! Furthermore we like to improve this website as far as needed, so any comments or suggestions are very welcome!
Archive for April, 2007 Tandulkyachi Bhaji(Tandulka curry) Leaf. Leafy greens like Tandulka (no idea what its called in English or any other language), Kardi (Safflower Leaves),Maath(Amaranth-red and green), Shepu (Dill leaves),Ambat Chuka(green sorrel) etc..were more popular in those days than Spinach or Methi (so my grandmother used to tell me.) From their childhood they (my mom as well as my granny) have thus been conscious eaters….unknowingly! That’s the reason I never saw either of them bother much about calories.Because of my mom I too am addicted to leafy veggies , though not home grown. And I am partial towards greens like Tandulka,Kardi,Math!We don’t get greens like Tandulka all year round. There’s a special market here where local farmers sell vegetables on the roadside and we sometimes get these lovely nutritious greens. Tandulka – Its a kind of a potherb.I have no idea what it is called in any other language. Even google failed to help me. I hope some one is able to help me with alternate names.These are small leaves green on one side and a bit pinkish shade on the other. Some times you can also see a small flower head in the bunch of Tandulka leaves.If anyone has information on what it is called in any other language pls. let me know.We make a simple curry with Tandulka leaves. Roasted Peanut powder is added to add crunch to the vegetable. Like most of the leafy vegetables the only time consuming part is when you have to clean the leaves. And the leaves reduce substantially in size once cooked so you need one whole bunch or sometimes even 2 for 2 people. I thought I will share this Tandulkyachi Bhaji -one of my favourite recipes to celebrate JFI-WBB :Green leafy vegetables ;anniversary celebrations for JFI and in Indira’s words ‘to celebrate the mother earth in this month of Earth Day with a special theme ~ “Going Green with Green Leafy Vegetables”. For the Tandulka Bhaji (curry) 1 big bunch Tandulka leaves 1 onion finely chopped 4-5 garlic cloves chopped 2 tbsp roasted groundnut coarsely ground (preferably using a mortar and pestle) 5-6 green chillies slit lengthwise and chopped ½ tsp mustard seeds ½ tsp cumene seeds ¼ tsp turmeric powder 2 tsp oil Salt as per taste As I said earlier clean and wash the leaves and drain out all the excess water. Roughly chop the leaves and keep aside.In a wok heat oil .Add the mustard seeds-cumene seeds-chopped garlic-green chillies and onion in that order and fry for few minutes or till the onion becomes translucent. Add the roasted groundnut powder and then add the chopped leaves. Mix properly and cook covered for few minutes. Add salt once the Tandulka leaves are almost cooked. Cook uncovered for a few minutes more. Serve with Bhakri. Tandulkyachi Bhaji (Tandulka Curry) for JFI-WBB:Green leafy Vegetables April 24, 2007 at 9:16 am 11 comments Weekend Chaating-From Chaat Street \| View Show \| Create Your Own As I said in my last posts it getting hotter day by day here..temperature soaring to 40-41oC (not usual for us here ,that too in April) People are enjoying Chaat’s and Icecreams on the road side to beat the heat! We had some guests yesterday; one of our family friend’s daughter is getting married. So I made some Chaat to celebrate her engagement.Once in a while you can indulge (I do this often!) in these spicy, mouthwatering chaats and since they are made at home…you need not count the plates! Basic ingredients for chaat: Chaats will not be chaats without these chutneys: 1. Green Chutney : Mint-Coriander-green chilly chutney 2. Sweet sour Chutney : Dates –Tamarind chutney Other optional chutney 3. Red Chutney: Red chilly-Garlic chutney These Chutneys can be stocked up in the fridge and will stay good almost for a week.This chutney is required for Sev Puri,Ragda pattice etc.. Other ingredients common to most of the Chaats are: Onions –finely chopped Tomatoes- finely chopped Fresh coriander leaves – finely chopped Raw green Mango –peeled and finely chopped Potatoes boiled peeles and chopped Lemon Juice Sev Once you have these basic ingredients you can make your own permutation-combination and make chaats of your choice. Green chutney: 1 bunch Pudina (Mint ) leaves washed and roughly chopped 1 small bunch fresh Green coriander leaves washed and roughly chopped 5-7 Green chillies roughly chopped – you can change the proportion as per your taste ¼ tsp salt or salt as required ½ tsp lemon juice Grind Pudina leaves, Coriander leaves and Green chillies adding the some salt and lime juice to a smooth fine paste. Don’t add too much water. Add water as and when required. Dates -Tamarind (DT) Chutney: ½ cup Dates deseeded and chopped ¼ cup tamarind pieces water Boil Dates and tamarind in 1 cup of water for 15 minutes.Cool and blend to a smooth paste in the mixer. Some people add cumene powder,jaggery,red chilli powder etc. to this basic chutney. Red Chutney: 5-6 Dry Red Chillies 3-4 garlic podsPinch of salt Soak the red chillies in warm water for 15 minutes. Blend together the soaked red chillies and Garlic with salt to a fine paste. You have everthing ready now..what are you waiting for start ‘assemling’ the Chaats! Bhel Puri: 2 cups Churmura/Murmura/Puffed Rice 1 Cup Farsam mixture (Assorted savory mixture) ½ cup onion chopped ½ cup tomatoes chopped ½ cup boiled potatoes chopped ¼ cup raw green mango peeled and finely chopped ½ tsp Red chilli powder (optional) 5-6 flat Puris (The ones you use for Sev Puri) ½ tsp turmeric powder ¼ cup green chutney (Add a little water to the above chutney and make it to a watery consistency) ½ cup DT Chutney (Add a little water to the above chutney and make it to a watery consistency) 2 tsp Red Chutney Pinch of salt For garnishing: Chopped fresh Coriander leaves Thin yellow Nylon Sev 1 flat Puri For the Churmura: Take a wok or a deep pan. Heat a tsp of oil. Add the turmeric and then the Churmura. Mix properly so that the turmeric coats the Churmura nicely. Cool and store in an airtight container. This is my son’s favourite munching snack! This can be made in bulk and stored so that you can use it whenever you want. Mix the Churmura along with the Onions,tomatoes,potatoes,mango pieces, in a big vessel. Add the Red chilly powder if you want your Bhel to be really spicy. Crush the puris with your hand and add to the mixture. Add the green chutney , DT Chutney, Red Chutney(optional) and mix nicely. Adjust the salt if required. Once you mix all the ingredients immediately add to the serving plate. Garnish with Chopped coriander leaves and Sev. Serve immediately. Use the Flat Puri as a spoon! It tastes much better! Bhel actually means ‘a mixture’ so you can use your imagination and mix any other ingredient you want. I sometimes also add boiled sprouted green moong beans and Cucumber to the Bhel. Sev Puri: This needs some patience since you need to assemble all the ingredients on each Puri. For 6 puris (that is one plate) 1small Onion chopped 1small Tomatoe chopped 1Potatoes boiled and chopped Green chutney (use a thick paste of the chutney’s so that they don’t run out of the puri) DT Chutney Chaat Masala or Pani Puri masala Red Chutney Pinch of salt So keep as many Flat Puris as you want in a plate (preferably the serving plate0 . Now on each puri place few pieces boiled mashed potato. Top it with chopped onion pieces , chopped tomatoes. Add a spoonful of Green Chutney, then a spoonful of DT chutney and ½ a spoon of Red Chutney. Sprinkle a pinch of salt and a pinch of Chaat Masala or Pani puri masala (optional)Generously add the chopped coriander leaves and Sev. Serve these crisp, mouthwatering puris immediately.You will be surprised how fast the Sev Puris perish considering the amount of time you have taken to assemble them! Pani Puri: As the name suggests these are Puris filled with ‘Pani’ (water). These are also called as ‘Gol Gappas’ in North India.This beats all the Chaats when it comes to my favourite Chaat! And it does not need many ingredients.You get special round hollow puffed puris specially to make Pani Puri. 1 cup Green chutney (The consistency should be watery for both the chutneys since the Puris are to be dipped in it) 1 cup DT Chutney ¼ cup boiled sprouted green moong beans ¼ cup potato boiled mashed 1 tsp chaat masala 3-4 tsp Panu Puri masala Add the Pani Puri masala to the watery Green ChutneyKeep the Puris in a Plate. Serve the chutneys, moong sprouts in wide mouthed bowls. Add the chaat masala to the potato and keep it in another bowl alongside the chutneys. To eat: Make a small hole in the centre of each puri with the nail of your thumb. These puris are quite delicate so be careful while breaking them-you want the whole puri intact except a small hole. Add the ¼ spoon moong beans , ¼ spoon mashed potato to all the Puris. Now you get rewarded for your patience. Without thinking twice dip the first puri in the Green chutney(remember it is spicy) fill the puri as much as you want, then proceed to the DT chutney fill the puri and put it straight in your mouth-full puri. Repeat for other puris. Enjoy the spicy mouthwatering Pani Puris!Bliss personified! April 8, 2007 at 4:12 pm 10 comments Green Mango Rice This is one more recipe from my Mother-in-law’s ‘Khana Khazana’ (Food treasure). I love the taste of the raw mango coupled with coconut and coriander…..refreshing during these summer days.So enjoy this Green Mango Rice with any of your favourite Salads!We made this for Ramnavami. For Green Mango Rice you need: 1 ½ cups rice To be ground to a fine paste: 1 medium sized raw Green mango washed, peeled and cubed (depending on how sour the mango is the proportion can be adjusted.) ½ cup fresh coconut grated Few sprigs fresh coriander leaves For the Tadka Seasoning: 1” piece cinnamon stick broken into pieces ½ tsp cumene seeds ½ tsp mustard seeds 4-5 green chillies chopped 5-6 Black peppercorns (optional) 2 tsp oil Salt as per taste Wash the rice and soak in water for 30 minutes. Drain the water after 30 minutes and then cook in 3 cups of boiling salted water till done. Add a dash of oil if required so that the grains are well separated. Remove the rice in a plate and cool. Grind together green mango pieces, coconut and coriander leaves to a fine paste. (Don’t add water). Keep aside. In a Kadai/Wok heat oil. Add the mustard seeds,once they splutter, add the cumene seeds, then the cinnamon pieces and the peppercorns. Add the green chillies and then add the mango-coconut-coriander paste. Cook for a few minutes. Add a little salt.(Rice already contains salt so be careful) .Add the rice and mix nicely. Cook covered for 2-3 minutes. Serve with any Salad of your choice. April 6, 2007 at 9:32 am 2 comments Tomato Cooler This year it looks like we are going to have an early and a very very hot summer-The mercury is already soaring to 38-39 oC and its only March end! This is not one of my favourite seasons. Though I have a few reasons to look forward to summer: -it’s the time to enjoy luscious ,delicious ‘King of fruits’ -Mangoes and it’s the time to enjoy chilled juices, shakes, icecreams and all things cold! Tomato cooler is a very healthy, tasty and a hassle free juice. I learnt it from one of my friends. She made it often for me when I was pregnant.Now we make it regularly and today I specially made it for JFI Tomato hosted by the wonderful RP of My Workshop. For Tomato Cooler you need: for 3-4 glasses 4-5 Red ripe tomatoes 1 tsp sugar 1tsp cumene seeds roasted and slightly crushed ½ tsp table Salt Black salt as per taste Cook the tomatoes with 1 glass of water, sugar and table salt in a pressure cooker.Cool and blend the tomatoes to a smooth paste. Sieve if required. Adjust to a juice like consistency using cold water. Season with roasted, crushed cumene seeds and black salt. Serve Chilled tomato juice-to beat the heat! Tip:You can also add 1-2 pieces of Beetroot while cooking the tomatoes for a nice red colour. Other Tomato recipes: Green Tomato Chutney April 1, 2007 at 9:17 am 5 comments
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Adding a touch of green to your home gets a hundred times simpler when you know how to spice things up with some faux plants. But everyone seems to have faux plants at home now that it is such a decor favorite. What can help your decor be exceptional, though, are the best of the best fake fiddle leaf fig trees for any room you want to revamp. We know you think that these can be really tacky, but guess what, you need to know how to shop for them, based on the simple/comprehensive buying guide we’ve covered near the end. Stick to it till you find your pick! - This 7’ fiddle leaf fig tree will bring luscious green leaves reminiscent of the tropics into your... Last update on 2021-07-24 / Affiliate links / Images from Amazon Product Advertising API Why Faux is Better than Real Real greenery is more or less everywhere. Is this the reason why we hate this and are wanting to bring man-made alternatives for a change? Nope. There are reasons why the fake versions of the much-beloved, incomparable, real plants are real enough for you to land a couple of these fake plant babies at your home. They include the following: - Real fig trees aren’t so great if you have pets at home. We know how much pets love chewing on the leaves of the live plants in your living room. No such issue when you have the faux ones at home, because of no toxic leaves! - You don’t have a rainforest situation at home, which is the best type for fig plants. - No sunlight must-haves to keep your fiddle fig alive. - Pests are not disturbing your natural love for cleanliness and no-bug policies. - Won’t die. Last update on 2021-07-24 / Affiliate links / Images from Amazon Product Advertising API Product Reviews on 10 Best Fake Fiddle Leaf Fig Trees Here, you’re going to know the details about the best fake fiddle leaf fig trees for decor. Let’s start: Top Pick: Nearly Natural Fiddle Leaf Fig Artificial Trees You can bring tropical vibes to your home with this fiddle tree from Nearly Naturals. Thick with luscious leaves, it is a 7 feet plant that is made from polyester. So it is larger in size than regular humans. You have a product dimension of 30x 30x 84 inches in terms of width, breadth, and height, measured from the most outstretched part of the plant, yet it is successfully huge. So if you were looking for something to fix bland corners, here’s your deal. You need to keep in mind that you can only use it indoors. Going to use it outdoors? you will need to cover it up or at least keep it in the shade. Uncovered fake plants like this one won’t last long, so better use it up in your living room! Pros - Has a lot of leaves, so appears fuller than most plants. - Bendable branches. - Looks very realistic from a distance. - Zero maintenance. Cons - Leaves are fragile, so be careful when fluffing up. Best for Value: Costa Farms Ficus Lyrata Fiddle Leaf Fig Tree Standing at a lower height than the previous one, this four and a half feet tree is a great addition to your house. Besides having an optimal height, it comes in a beautiful grower pot, unlike most fake plants that come in horrible-looking planters. It will not blossom, however, so that’s one size you are sticking to. It needs to be in bright light to look its best. But you do not need to place it under direct sunlight as you know that it won’t grow, being fake. But this works better in lit areas than low-lit. It also has the right colors for a fig tree. Last but not the least, can use only spray-water to make it look healthy, and that would do! And if you want to send the fig tree as a gift, you have options to add additional messages to the plant. Pros - Makes rooms more inviting. - Easy to care for. - Great interior decor option for greenery addition at home. Cons: - Size may be smaller than advertised. Best for Money: Garden Couture Premium Fiddle Leaf Foliage Some of us can’t take the idea that the top of our plant’s planters would look empty or be just the good old trunk placed in a hollow of the planter. The option for us weird lot is this fiddle leaf variation that comes with an adorned base. You get tropical grasses in the trunk of it that rise above the base. So whatever planter you place it on, you will get a more natural look at the base. This 72-inch tree comes with 3 trunks and 18 feet of the vine. The base is a lot bigger and heavier than what you are used to getting in fake plants. And the planter is an origami-themed one, that increases the look of the tree tenfold. Besides extra additions, the tree has premium silk leaf construction with a beautiful finish. So, whether you are placing it in your home or office, you will get a deluxe one, beautifully imitated from the real fig tree! Pros - Biodegradable plant pot skirt. - Strong plant base. - Fluffed foliage makes it look stunning. Cons - Almost uniform colors with less variation. Best for Indoor: Garden Deluxe Fiddle Leaf Artificial Tree Having over 40 leaves adorning the plant’s beautiful slender trunks, this is yet another deluxe option from Garden Couture. The pot base you get in here is heavy and strong from what you see on fake fiddle plants. To be exact, it is forty-five percent wider and twice as heavy of a pot. So, if your purchase option didn’t have a budget for a separate planter, you can buy this one as you will not be required to make a separate pot purchase with this one. You can also get a bonus plant pot skirt with this particular one and enjoy the beautiful fig imitation plant! Pros - Printed leaf material with satin finishes imitating natural fig plants. - Pet-friendly. - Great plant skirt. Cons - Might be a little shorter. Best for Outdoor: Nearly Natural Fiddle Leaf Silk Tree We recognize a good UV-resistant plant when we see one, and this fiddle fig tree is just that. This is why you will have no issues placing them outdoors, something you couldn’t explicitly do with all the previous options. You get a total of 42 leaves, big and small, on this five-foot tree. There are 3 long and short trunks, giving it a very naturally growing vibe. All of it is safe to be under the sun on your patio or outside your home. But we would advise you against putting the fake fig tree under the sun directly as it may cause faster wearing. Since it is UV-resistant, there wouldn’t be any trouble, but we’d rather you don’t place it directly under the sun; sunlight is okay. Since real experts were used in making the tree, it is a very good imitation of the real one, making it appear very natural. Pros - Looks very realistic. - Adds great color. - Less expensive. Cons - Leaves are harder to bend. Best for Outside: Goplus Artificial Fiddle Leaf Fig Tree This fake fig plant is made from silk cloth in terms of the lush leaves that will do just fine both indoors and outdoors. Thanks to the UV protection mechanism, you can adorn your living room or your outdoor corridor using this plant, and it will still remain good as new, instead of fading to imperfection. The plastic used in making the leaves and trunk makes it more durable than the rest. Another great thing about it is that it is made using natural feel technology, meaning that it will confuse you as a real or fake fiddle fig tree! Pros - Great quality material on fig leaves. - Feels realistic to touch. - Sturdy and full in standing. Cons - Takes a while to adjust the shapes of leaves. Vickerman Potted Fiddle Tree This fiddle fig tree is a regular one, measuring 7 feet tall. Why did we call it a regular fig tree? Because it doesn’t have the over-the-top multiple trunks, thick, dense leaves, and tropical grass additions. Instead, this is a no-fuss version of fiddle fig trees. It comes with decent leaves that have great color, both dark and light green options. In terms of the trunk, it is one thicker trunk giving rise to multiple trunks, instead of multiple, individual trunks. The no-fuss policy that we talk about helped this particular one to maintain a more natural look than the ones manipulated to look even better than real fiddle fig trees. So we liked it! Pros - Looks very realistic. - Made of good quality material and colors. - Fills corners perfectly. Cons - You need to buy an extra planter since it comes in one much too small. Aveyas Artificial Fiddle Leaf Fig Tree in Plastic Nursery Pot Creating a rustic apartment becomes a lot easier when you have something like a fiddle leaf but a fakeer version. This is one such option for you. You can place it outdoors or indoors, as it is made resistant to weather. So if it’s your balcony or your living room, this fiddle fig tree is safe for use. The plant comes with more than 150 leaves and measures 6 feet. One of the best things about it that makes it so unique is the addition of a real trunk. We have talked in detail about it in our buying guide, but adding a real trunk makes it look more realistic than the ones attempting to fake the trunk. We would say leaves are easier to fake than trunks, because although you can get the plant leaf texture from silk and plastic, the trunk is harder to imitate for a wooden look, and getting the texture right is hard too. So, this is a great reason to include in our fake fiddle list. Pros - Deep green, full leaves. - No watering. - Flame-retardant treated and RoHS certified materials used. - Odorless. Cons - The pot isn’t looking good. Woooow Artificial Fiddle Leaf Fig Tree in Planter We have talked about plants that look real, but have you heard about fake plants that feel real too? This is one such option. The plant can be placed in your dining room to uplift the room’s feels. You will also find the fake fig plant sturdy enough to withstand the weather outdoors. This 6 feet plant has very rich foliage, arguably the best one in the lot in terms of both color, texture, and natural imitation. You can also touch it and still feel the realistic feel unless you twist and turn it around. Another great thing, it is extremely hard to make the colors fade and so they may basically remain so green and lush forever, given that you maintain the cleanliness. Pros - Extremely realistic plant with see-through leaves. - Great color combination. - Easy to adjust. Cons - Very top-heavy. Goplus Fake Fiddle Leaf Fig Tree If you liked the moss surrounding the trunk option, then you would like this one too. It adds both freshness and beauty to the room it is put in. The leaf texture is clear and vivid, and the trunk has a very realistic look to it too. This is one of the fig trees that comes with a pot, which, although small, is very pretty and minimal. You get cement inside the pot, which increases the stability of the trunk. This simulation tree also doesn’t need any watering or fertilizing and yet manages to look stunning! Pros - Miscellaneous wood trunks increase durability. - Over 200 leaves. - Full and heavy plant. - Easy to assemble. Cons - Needs a bigger pot. Benefits Of Using Decorative Faux Greenery These include but aren’t limited to the following cool benefits: Saves Money Here’s some quick maths. You spend some 200/300 dollars to get a real, live fiddle fig tree. You live how you lived it before the tree came, and in the business, you made no change. Only one change happened, your tree died for weeks of not caring, and the dollars went down the drain. So you spend another chunk of the amount and get another. Wouldn’t it be simpler to just get a faux one and save all the money? No death Real fiddle leaf fig has one sure possibility that can’t be found in the fake ones no matter how hard you try. It is, causing your plant to suffer death by accident. You forget to care for it, and it dies when it is a real fig. But not when it’s fake, even if you forget to care for it for decades. It will accumulate dust, but only that, no dying. No maintenance Real fiddle leaf fig trees need to be maintained well. You need to occasionally do a trimming here, and some are weeding there. You need to keep them free from bugs and dirt, clean them with water, and sometimes insecticides so that they do not inhibit plant growth and harm your environment. But with a fake one that attracts only dust, you don’t need to go overboard about its maintenance. Home Staging Two ways in which you could incorporate faux fiddle leaf fig trees at your home for home staging purposes. The first way is to use it when you are planning to sell your furnished home. Adding a plant like this adds a put-together and sophisticated look to your apartment/house and makes it visually more appealing than not having any such thing at home. The second way is that you can use the fiddle fig for Instagram/Youtube video making background at your home. Fills Empty Corners The corners are the places in your house, never thought of. Unless you’re an avid cleaner that likes to keep their home dirt-free so you sweep dust off every corner and think multiple times about them throughout the day. But ever thought about how to vamp up the corners with a touch of green fiddle fig trees? They can fill corners and look great in green doing so. Low-light Area Decoration Low light areas at your home have a reputation of looking dull or even ghostly. Do you know what can change the look of those dreary areas? A fancy fiddle fig tree that won’t die in that low-light condition. No Drainage Hole Actual plants or actual fiddle fig trees require you to make drainage holes at the planter’s bottom. If you do not make drainage holes at the bottom of the planter, the tree roots might rot, causing the plant to die before due. However, if you have fake plants, you can place them in planters minus the hole, and even if there are such holes, they will not cause root rotting or plant death. Last update on 2021-07-24 / Affiliate links / Images from Amazon Product Advertising API What Should You Look For Faux Fiddle leaf fig? You should look for the following things in your seemingly best faux fiddle leaf fig: The finish of the stems and leaves are important considerations. If the finish is too glossy, it will give away that you bought a fake one. Again, if it is too no-glam, it will look plain and not as realistic as you would prefer. The fix? Finding a fiddle fig that stands at an optimum balance of glassy and rubbery. The leaves need to have veins, and we can’t stress this enough. A tree that has leaves without veins is the fakest of them all, and we are trying to look for realistic items, right? So look thoroughly here. If you don’t see veins, it is not a good option to buy the fake plant. Because when guests want to see up close, they will realize what a miss it is. Other than these two prime issues, you can look for a further breakdown of what to look for in our buying guide section. How To Make Your Artificial Fiddle Leaf Fig Tree Look Real So, what exactly is the best fiddle leaf fig tree? One that is artificial (for all the benefits) and yet, manages to look real. Here’s how: - We have already said that it requires zero maintenance. But that doesn’t discount the need for occasional dusting. If dust and dirt are accumulated on top of your fake plant, they will surely come off as fake no matter how premium quality your purchase is. So, make sure that the leaves and the plant overall remain dust-free. - Adding your plant to a planter or a basket makes it look more realistic than it would if you placed it with the planter that came along. - Real plants need light to grow. Although you can place your plant in a low-lit corner, placing it in a lighted corner makes it appear more real, as plants naturally tend to look for sunlight and bend towards that direction. If you can manage a natural lighting source, the plant will look more real. - Look for online images of fiddle figs. Match it with what you are about to purchase. - This 7’ fiddle leaf fig tree will bring luscious green leaves reminiscent of the tropics into your... Last update on 2021-07-24 / Affiliate links / Images from Amazon Product Advertising API What Basket Goes Best with Faux Fiddle Leaf Fig Tree? The first option is the option you would rather not stick to when deciding baskets for your fiddle fig trees. And that is the option of the planter it comes in. Usually, manufacturers invest all their production cost and effort on the tree itself. As a result, the planter appears as a laughing stock that was a last-minute decision or a hasty addition to an otherwise good plant. If you want something better, find baskets like these: Going for jute/cotton rope-based baskets are the best bets for plants like fiddle fig trees. Two things can happen here, going against your optimal fit for a basket. If you are mismatching the orders and not buying the two from the same place, chances are, your basket may not meet your expectations and be a tad bit small or large. Hopefully, you will pay attention to the dimensions of both, so the main problem is the latter problem. If your basket is too large, you can elevate the plant inside the basket for added support that holds it high, or another thing you can do is purchase moss sheets to cover the top so that the depth doesn’t seem so off-putting. Why Should You Buy? In case you forgot what it is all about, we have already given you major ways in which you can benefit from buying faux fiddle leaf fig trees. They included: money-saving, no more black thumb guilt, filling empty corners, decorating low light areas, and the need for no drainage holes. All of these are descriptively mentioned in the benefits section. But here’s the bigger question: could there be more reasons why you should buy the faux fig trees? Sure! We can link it to your health and your pets. Here’s how: Firstly, these aren’t toxic to your pets. A lot of plants can meet the benefits listed above, but if they are toxic for your pets at the end of the day, what’s even the point? Your pets will decidedly chew on plants you bring indoors, and hence a fake fig tree such as the ones recommended can save them from ingesting toxic substances. So, if you want your pet’s safety, better start investing in these faux figs. The second reason, many of us are allergic to bugs or dust or things like that. When you are investing in fake plants, you are cutting down on your allergy, and you don’t need to bear an extra expense that would come from bug infestation. Related: Most Realistic Artificial Outdoor Plants \| 15 Best Artificial Plants With Buying Guide Buying Guide for the Best Faux Fiddle Leaf Fig Plant The guide to purchasing the best fake fiddle leaf fig tree is right here: Leaves The leaves will be the most viewed on your fiddle fig plant and hence need to appear more realistic than the rest, if not equally so. In order to check for the leaves, you will need to pay attention so that the color of the leaves is here, the veins of the leaves can be seen and are present. Also, the leaves should be bendable to a certain extent. The bendability of leaves allows you to make it look more realistic by manipulating those. So if you have access to choosing what material your leaves have, pick the silk ones with wires. Branches Next, come the branches. Since we are talking about fiddle trees here, the branches will be larger than regular trees. Need to make sure the branches are properly covered. They should be well-surrounded with plastic or whatever material you are comfortable with. If the wires can be seen from between the cover or they are surfacing above the plastic, it may not be the right plant to pick because it might hurt you and cause trouble later. Need to make sure also, you can bend the branches as you could with the leaves because bent leaves with rigid branches will look really awful. Base The consideration here will work in two ways for your plant. You will need to make sure that your plant has a solid base. Usually, such plants come with bad planters. But that doesn’t mean that the base of the plant has to be bad too. You may attempt to find a plant with a good planter base, but you will hardly succeed. So the other base that you can think of that matters is the plant base. It has to be strong enough to let the plant stand on its own when you are switching it between planters. Some plants may not have a strong base as they come in halves, and you have to join portions, but that still doesn’t justify that you will settle for a weak base. Trunk The trunk of the tree matters too if you are purchasing a fake one. The trunk needs to be really close to the real one. Just a brown trunk painted with some texture won’t do. In some cases, manufacturers attach dried versions of real trunks in the plants. What this does is that it ensures that the plant is real from one solid point. If anyone attempts to check the plant from up close, they will find nothing to complain about. But, there are downsides to having real trunks, as you would guess, wood mite infestation. So a realistic one should be enough. Color The original plant’s color needs to match the fake fiddle leaf fig tree that you are purchasing. You can ensure this by matching the images of real fig trees with the one you are about to buy. Usually, the key is making sure that you have darker colors on top and brighter colors on the bottom in terms of leaves and branches. The trunk should be more on the darker side of brown. Resistance These plants are basically placed indoors; however, if you want to place your fig tree outdoors or near natural light, you will have to make sure that they are UV-resistant. In that way, they don’t fade faster with time and remain green for long. You can also make sure that the last long is by including water resistance characteristics to their UV resistance characteristics. In that way, they will not wear out early and can be used for a long time even if you are frequently clanged with water sprays. Last update on 2021-07-24 / Affiliate links / Images from Amazon Product Advertising API Final Words Hopefully, you are now certain about purchasing the whys and hows of the best fake fiddle leaf fig trees in the market. You can follow our recommendations to have your pick. Or, you could follow our guide and buy yourself one that fits your needs. A fiddle fig tree when fake has all the benefits of a real one (except providing oxygen, of course) and is aloof from all the demerits of keeping one real plant at home. So, we are pretty positive that you won’t be in real loss if you purchase one of these. Contents - 1 Why Faux is Better than Real - 2 Product Reviews on 10 Best Fake Fiddle Leaf Fig Trees - 2.1 Top Pick: Nearly Natural Fiddle Leaf Fig Artificial Trees - 2.2 Best for Value: Costa Farms Ficus Lyrata Fiddle Leaf Fig Tree - 2.3 Best for Money: Garden Couture Premium Fiddle Leaf Foliage - 2.4 Best for Indoor: Garden Deluxe Fiddle Leaf Artificial Tree - 2.5 Best for Outdoor: Nearly Natural Fiddle Leaf Silk Tree - 2.6 Best for Outside: Goplus Artificial Fiddle Leaf Fig Tree - 2.7 Vickerman Potted Fiddle Tree - 2.8 Aveyas Artificial Fiddle Leaf Fig Tree in Plastic Nursery Pot - 2.9 Woooow Artificial Fiddle Leaf Fig Tree in Planter - 2.10 Goplus Fake Fiddle Leaf Fig Tree - 3 Benefits Of Using Decorative Faux Greenery - 4 What Should You Look For Faux Fiddle leaf fig? - 5 How To Make Your Artificial Fiddle Leaf Fig Tree Look Real - 6 What Basket Goes Best with Faux Fiddle Leaf Fig Tree? - 7 Why Should You Buy? - 8 Buying Guide for the Best Faux Fiddle Leaf Fig Plant - 9 Final Words
Clinical drug trial for rare terminal disease is canceled, and a family's hopes for boy are dashed Will Byers should not be able to push his tall-for-age-7 body through the water, swimming from one side of the pool to the other. But there he was with his father, Tim Byers, who stood chest-deep in a backyard pool in The Woodlands, beckoning for Will to swim to him. "All the way! Kick! Kick!" the 33-year-old dad encouraged. "Kick! Kick!" Will repeated. Will kicked furiously until he reached his dad's outstretched arms on the other side. "Good job, buddy!" Tim said, beaming. It was Will's fourth year taking swimming lessons, and his abilities had improved against all odds. The muscles on his slender body should be deteriorating, and his mental functions should be slowing. He shouldn't be able to learn new skills, such as swimming, or to complete a kids triathlon, like the one he finished in July. At least, according to his diagnosis. Will's mom, Valerie, watched the scene from inside the patio gate and struggled to hold back tears of sadness and anger. To think that the key to Will's progress had been yanked away from them when a clinical drug trial was canceled with no warning. To have hope stripped away just as it had begun to take root seemed like a cruel joke. * Tim Byers and Valerie Tharp were college sweethearts. They fell in love at the idyllic, tree-lined Marietta College in Ohio as Valerie earned her master's degree in psychology and Tim completed a bachelor's in petroleum engineering. A few months after graduation, on Sept. 30, 2006, Valerie put on her "puffy, Cinderella princess" dress and married Tim in front of 300 friends and family members. In the months leading up to their wedding, Valerie and Tim participated in Pre-Cana, the marriage course required before a Catholic wedding. More online To learn more about Sanfilippo Syndrome or to donate to the Cure Sanfilippo Foundation, visit curesff.org. To follow the Byers family and their journey with SanFilippo Syndrome, follow them on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram: @WILLPowerMPS. Under the guidance of a priest, the couple talked through how they would handle the possible challenges of marriage. What if Tim got skin cancer, like his dad? How many kids would they have? What if they couldn't have kids? They thought they had a plan for anything that could happen. But there was no way to plan for the genetic mutation that they didn't know they both carried. Or for the fact that their genes, together, had a 1-in-4 chance of passing on a rare genetic disorder with no known cure - a disorder that would mean a death sentence. On June 10, 2010, Valerie went to her doctor for a routine checkup at 37 weeks pregnant. Their long-awaited first child was due in July. After examining her, the doctor looked at her with a strange expression. "I think you're in labor." Valerie was having what she thought were Braxton Hicks false contractions, but they were real - and only five minutes apart. At 7:04 p.m. June 11, the baby was born. A boy. Eight pounds, 3 ounces. A bruiser for a child born three weeks premature. That night, when the baby was placed skin to skin on Valerie's chest, and she held him for the first time, a feeling of bliss and wonder overtook her, the pain of labor forgotten. Tim was speechless looking at their son. He was healthy. He was perfect. He was theirs. They named him William, after both Valerie's and Tim's fathers. Will, for short. * The next three years passed much the way they do for many new families. Valerie and Tim, an engineer at Anadarko Petroleum Corp. in The Woodlands, shared the joyful and challenging task of parenthood. Will cried, laughed and played just like any other baby. But when Will was 3, they noticed he was not developing the way his friends were. He couldn't hold up three fingers on one hand. He couldn't speak in full sentences. Friends and teachers reassured the nervous parents. He was a little behind, but he'd catch up. In October 2013, Tim and Valerie brought home a baby sister for Will - Samantha. The hazel-eyed parents marveled at the baby girl's blue eyes. That Halloween, the Byers family prepared for their first trick-or-treating experience as a family of four. They would all dress up as Peanuts characters: Will as Charlie Brown, Tim as Linus, Valerie as Lucy and baby Samantha as the Great Pumpkin. Before they left to trick-or-treat, Will overheard his grandmother say that she wanted a cup of coffee. The 3-year-old impulsively ran to the kitchen and pulled the pot of boiling coffee from the counter, shattering it against the cabinet and dousing himself in the steaming liquid. Will screamed in pain, and the family rushed him to the Texas Medical Center. He'd sustained second-degree burns on the right side of his body. Over the next 10 months, Valerie struggled to care for baby Samantha and Will. His impulsivity and hyperactivity were increasing. Valerie had to hold tight to his wrist in parking lots to keep him from running out into traffic. He was still falling behind his classmates in school and had trouble pedaling his tricycle. At his 4-year-old wellness check, Will missed two milestones: He couldn't stand on one foot or trace an X. The doctor sent him to a specialist, who diagnosed autism spectrum disorder. Tim and Valerie were floored. Valerie, who was a psychology professor at Lone Star College-Kingwood, had worked with autistic children before and never recognized the signs in Will. The diagnosis didn't sit right with her, but they enrolled their son in a child-development preschool program, and he started therapy. One day in February, six months after Will's diagnosis, Samantha and Will lay down for a nap at the same time - a rare occurrence. Valerie finally had some time to herself to catch up on the news online. As she was reading, she came across an article from the "Today Show" about a 5-year-old girl in South Carolina who had an extremely rare genetic condition called Sanfilippo Syndrome. Her cells were missing an enzyme that breaks down waste, allowing it to build up over time and cause severe damage. She would slowly lose the ability to talk, walk, feed herself and, eventually, breathe. She was unlikely to live past her teens. The disease's symptoms were large head size, hyperactivity, inability to gauge pressure. Valerie broke down crying. That's what Will has, she thought. Valerie called Will's pediatrician and explained her fear. The doctor agreed to test for the disorder and, the next day, Valerie took a urine sample to the same lab where she had found out she was pregnant with Will five years prior. For a week, Valerie and Tim put the kids to bed and then went over and over the symptoms, clinging to any indication they were wrong. Sanfilippo kids generally had a lot of ear infections. Will didn't. They tend to have trouble sleeping. Will slept fine. The symptoms Will displayed could just be coincidences. On the day that they expected the test results, Valerie stayed in the house all day, afraid of missing the phone call. At 3 p.m., she stepped outside for a few minutes to get Will from the school bus and when she returned, the answering machine was beeping. She called the doctor's office back immediately but was put on hold. As she waited, Valerie let Will and Samantha out into the backyard to play in the sandbox. Will laughed and dug into the sand with a toy shovel, and Valerie knew it was the last time she would look with such innocence at her boy. That night, after Valerie's fears were confirmed and Will and Samantha were in bed, she and Tim broke down in sobs on the couch. "We were so happy," Valerie repeated, over and over. Then another horrible thought hit her. What about Samantha? It took two more weeks to get results back from Samantha's test. Two weeks when Valerie couldn't sleep, fearing she'd be forced to watch both of her children die. When the result came back negative, Valerie felt a wave of relief immediately followed by guilt. How could she be happy when one child would die, even if the other wouldn't? * Dr. Sylvester Sanfilippo, a pediatrician and researcher at the University of Minnesota, identified the genetic mutation that caused cells to form without an essential enzyme in 1963. The missing enzyme breaks down heparan sulfate - a complex sugar molecule produced by the body for communication between cells, blood clotting and the building of connective tissue, nerve tissue and skin. Without the enzyme, the heparan sulfate builds in cells as waste, gradually damaging all of the body's functions. The genetic disorder affects 1 in every 70,000 births. It often goes misdiagnosed as autism because so few medical personnel are familiar with signs of the rare disease. In the 54 years since Sanfilippo presented the research, no cure or treatment has been discovered. Most parents, upon receiving their child's deadly diagnosis, are told there's nothing they can do except go home and love them. It was a directive that Glenn and Cara O'Neill were not willing to accept when their daughter, Eliza, got the diagnosis in 2013. The couple scoured the medical community and found that a handful of researchers had been working on treatments over the years, but none had been used in humans yet. One gene-therapy treatment had progressed to pre-clinical trials and seemed to be working in mice, but it lacked funding to take it to human trials. The O'Neills raised more than $1.8 million for the gene-therapy trial, even knowing that Eliza might not be selected as a participant. Their story was reported by the "Today Show" in the article Valerie read in February 2015. The O'Neills' efforts paid off. Eliza was injected with the one-time experimental therapy last year. But they couldn't stop there. The O'Neills started the Cure Sanfilippo Foundation, an organization focused on raising money for potential treatments and supporting afflicted families. Most important, it aggressively advocates for medical research. For all of these children, there is only one hope: clinical trials. * Valerie, who is now 36, refers to the three months after Will's diagnosis as "the dark time." She can hardly remember anything aside from grief. Almost as soon as she suspected Will had Sanfilippo, she took to social media, desperate to connect with other families. She reached out to the Davis family in Florida who had two children, Ross and Meredith, afflicted with the disease. Meredith had been accepted into a clinical drug trial for children with Sanfilippo Type B - the same type as Will - that would be conducted at the University of Minnesota Masonic Children's Hospital in Minneapolis. There were 11 slots, and they'd already filled 10. The Davis family told the doctors conducting Meredith's trial about the kid from Texas. They wanted him to join the test group. The Byers family flew to Minneapolis and met with the doctors, who explained that the trial would stretch over three years, and Will would have to travel to Minneapolis once every two weeks to receive a dose of the drug. The first year, he would receive only a half-dose to test its safety. If it was safe, he'd get two years of the full dose. Alexion, the pharmaceutical company focused on rare-disease treatments sponsoring the trial, would study the results of the drug, looking for a reduction of heparan sulfate - the waste Sanfilippo patients can't break down - and would measure the effect on neurocognitive function of the patients. Participating in the trial would mean a lot of sacrifices. Valerie would not be able to return to work if she had to fly to Minneapolis every other week. They'd have to find a baby sitter for Samantha. It wouldn't be easy taking Will on a plane so often. There was no guarantee that the drug would help at all. But they knew what would happen if they didn't do the trial, and that wasn't an option. * Valerie and Will fell into a routine. Every other Wednesday, they would put on their custom "Will Power" T-shirts - purple for rare-disease awareness. They'd stop at Smashburger for lunch on the way to the airport, sit through the three-hour flight, check in to the Marriott Minneapolis Downtown hotel, then walk across the street to Chipotle to get Will a quesadilla. They'd wake up early on Thursday to be at the hospital at 8 a.m. for the drug infusion. Then, it was the flight back to Houston and home before dinner. As the weeks turned into months, Will began to regress, but his parents thought it seemed to be at a slower rate than other Sanfilippo kids his age. His five- to seven-word sentences shrank to two words, but he could still speak. His hyperactivity and impulsivity continued to increase, but his organs were no longer swollen. He was still sleeping well and didn't have joint pain. He even showed some cognitive gains on one of the trial tests. The gains weren't huge, but Tim and Valerie were relieved that the drug seemed to be stabilizing Will. Maybe they'd get a few more years with him. The drug, known as SBC-103, received Orphan Drug designation by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, which meant that pharmaceutical companies would receive incentives and grants to encourage the development of the treatment. Rare diseases falling under the Orphan Drug Act collectively affect 25 million to 30 million - or 10 percent - of Americans, according to the National Organization for Rare Disorders, and accounted for 8 percent of total drug sales in 2016. Though treatments for more common illnesses usually bring profit for pharmaceutical firms, rare-disease treatments don't have a broad enough base to generate revenue. That's why the FDA provides incentives. SBC-103 showed signs of stabilizing children with Sanfilippo Syndrome and reduced the heparan sulfate by an average of 26 percent after 24 weeks of receiving the drug, Alexion reported in March 2016. The data matched what Tim and Valerie thought they were seeing in Will - an improved quality of life. They considered themselves lucky to have the treatment. The first red flag came in late 2016. Shire Pharmaceuticals, which was sponsoring an enzyme-replacement clinical trial for more than 20 Sanfilippo Type A children, suddenly canceled it. Then, Alexion stopped releasing data from the study. Soon came the announcement that Alexion would not expand the drug trial, but the trial would continue the prescribed three years. Tim and Valerie breathed. That gave them some time to come up with a plan. Maybe another company would buy the drug and take it to market. Maybe they could work with the FDA to advance the drug. They held onto hope. On June 11, 2017, Will turned 7. Every birthday meant another year of the disease's progression - another year of not knowing how many birthdays Will had left. Another month passed, and in late July, Valerie was waiting to board a flight to Chicago for a rare visit with her high school best friend. It was there she got a message from another family in the SBC-103 trial that it had been canceled. She called Dr. Chester Whitley, the investigator on the trial. He said he hadn't heard anything about a cancellation. But hours later, after she arrived in Chicago, Whitley called back. He'd spoken with Alexion. It was true, the trial had been canceled. Valerie's mouth hung open in a silent scream. She wanted to bawl and yell and swear. She called Tim. "It's done." * "Alexion has made the difficult decision to end the SBC-103 Program and all studies evaluating SBC-103 in patients. … The lack of neurocognitive improvement in this study does not support further development … therapy should be discontinued as soon as possible." Alexion released a statement on July 18 saying the changes in heparan sulfate waste levels were small at 24 weeks and not maintained at 52 weeks, and the drug would not be released for "compassionate use" since it was deemed to lack evidence of clinical efficacy. They would destroy whatever drugs remained. Valerie and Tim were heartbroken and angry. Maybe SBC-103 wasn't a cure, but they were sure it was helping. Will was still talking, he was swimming and riding his trike. Would he be able to do that without the drug? To them, any benefit was enough. Why couldn't Alexion see that? In its 2016 fourth-quarter report, Alexion reported it had accepted a loss of $85 million because of the cancellation of the SBC-103 trial. The decision was "based on a strategic evaluation of the asset, increases in the development and commercial timelines, and updated cash flows," according to the report. The trial cancellation seems to be a result of the financial incentive structure of the American pharmaceutical industry, said Jessica Roberts, director of the Health Law and Policy Institute at the University of Houston and an expert in bioethics. "Because drugs can be so lucratively commercialized here in the U.S., pharmaceutical companies may decide to abandon research that could do a lot of good in the name of their bottom lines," Roberts said. "This issue is particularly relevant for orphan diseases, where companies may forgo research into a drug with immense therapeutic potential because the market for that drug would be so small. Cases like this one raise important ethical issues for biomedical research." Alexion spokeswoman Kim Diamond said the results from the trial were not what the company had hoped for. "Alexion is disappointed for patients … who have been waiting for a potential treatment," Diamond said. Valerie and Tim felt betrayed and abandoned. Will was allowed one last dose of the drug, then he and the rest of his family would fly to Minneapolis again for some final blood work. On their final trip to the Masonic Children's Hospital, Valerie sat next to Will's hospital bed in the same room where he had been dozens of times over the past two years, but this time, he wouldn't get the drug. Instead, hospital staff would draw blood as part of the exit process. Tired, heartbroken and angry, Valerie started a Facebook Live stream on the WILL Power page that she and Tim had been using to update friends and followers. "If you want to know what hard is, it's being in a hospital room, like, you know, down the hall from the pharmacy that has the drug that can help your kid and not being allowed to have it. It sucks. It sucks a whole lot." Valerie looked up at the ceiling, trying to fight off tears. "It's not right, but it is what it is, and we're going to keep moving forward." Will, whose nickname is Bubby, reached his arm around his mom and patted her on the back, comforting her, before turning back to his breakfast and cartoon. "Thanks, Bub," Valerie said, kissing him on the temple. * The day after Will would normally have gotten a dose of the drug, Valerie knew something was wrong. Will became lethargic. Normally, he could hardly sit still. Suddenly, he wouldn't get off the couch. He'd sleep in and take naps in the middle of the day. Previously ravenous, Will stopped wanting to eat. It took nearly an hour of coaxing to get him to take food. Within a month, he lost 5 pounds, and his parents feared they might have to put him on a feeding tube. Their joyful, energetic boy had lost his sparkle. It seemed like he'd regressed three years in just three weeks. Even as they had braced themselves for the end of the drug trial, Valerie and Tim hadn't expected the regression to happen so quickly. They wondered if they would ever see their son run or smile again. So soon, they were discussing the possibility of hospice care for Will. They were terrified. Summer was drawing to a close, and Valerie and Tim would have to decide whether they'd send Will back to school. In the month since he'd had his last dose of the drug, Will's well-being had plummeted but was slowly climbing back up. He was sleeping a little less. He ate a little more. On Aug. 19, he fed himself dinner, smiled and tried to run. In another couple of weeks, he was back to about 90 percent of where he was before the last drug dose. Will's doctors suspected he had gone through severe withdrawal. Yet again, Tim and Valerie felt a relief they knew was temporary. They were grateful that Will wasn't deteriorating so rapidly, but they knew it would happen eventually. He was still toe-walking, a sign that his joints were getting tighter. His belly, which was flat during the trial, was expanding - suggesting his organs were swelling. * Tim and Valerie felt powerless. They were unable to get Will the drug that they believed was helping him, but they were determined not to give up. Valerie is on the board of the Cure Sanfilippo Foundation and will meet with FDA representatives to talk about changing the way that potential treatments for rare, terminal diseases are handled. She, along with other rare-disease advocates, hope to work with the FDA to change the standards for measuring the success of treatments by taking into consideration any benefits to length or quality of life. If they're successful, families of rare-disease patients in the future may not go through the same heartbreak that their family has endured. October came and brought with it the excitement of Samantha and Valerie's birthdays and Halloween. They'd promised Sam a trip to SeaWorld for the Halloween Spooktacular. After arriving in San Antonio for the Columbus Day weekend, Tim and Valerie got word that Hunter Prost, a 15-year-old with Sanfilippo Syndrome from South Dakota, had died. Instantly, they realized how lucky they were to have this time with Will. As they sat in the audience of the "Who Said Boo?!" show at SeaWorld and watched the characters from "Sesame Street" sing and dance in their Halloween costumes, Will couldn't contain his excitement. Tim clasped his fingers around Will's waist to keep him from running onto the stage. Straining against his father's grip, Will jumped and threw his arms in the air along with the music, his joy uninhibited. Valerie watched and soaked in the memory. Every moment with Will was precious, and she knew there would be far too few.
September of 2018? I earned $104,814 blogging and online in September of 2018, before expenses. September was a great month for Making Sense of Cents and the whole blogging business. I earned a great income and enjoyed my month. I feel like I've been working less and less, and yet income is still staying at a great level, which is a really great feeling. It's great to know that all of that hard work that I put in throughout the years is paying off, which is allowing me to better improve my work/life balance. I don't think I spent more than 10 hours working each week in September, which was nice but I definitely miss working! I have big plans for the rest of the year, but I need to buckle down and actually start working. I think I'm actually going to get a planner soon and be more organized, haha! Does anyone recommend a good monthly calendar? Something simple – I just need something to organize my months. I've just always used my phone, but I'm starting to think that writing it down will be better so that I can see it all without having to click everywhere., and we have been away from the boat a lot so far this fall already), as well as the summer months usually just being a little bit slower for personal finance websites., September September 2018 income – $104,814.93 In September of 2018, I earned $104,814.93 from my blogging business. Below is how my income breaks apart in the different business income categories: - Affiliate income – $65,438.93 total: - Bluehost (check out my tutorial on how to start a blog) – $44,660.00 - Survey companies – $10,985.50 - Six Figure Blogger – $1,417.00 - How To Work From Home Selling On Amazon FBA – $1,008.30 - Credible – $700.00 - Emergency Binder – $618.80 - Ebates – $500.00 (estimated, as this is a tiered affiliate program) - Internet Scoping School – $419.56 - Bookkeeper Business Academy – $413.50 - ConvertKit – $376.07 - Personal Capital – $200.00 - $5 Meal Plan – $131.70 - Miscellaneous affiliates – $4,008.50 (affiliate promotions that I've been asked not to publicly share the exact figure of for company privacy reasons, as well as some small affiliate earnings are mixed in here). - Making Sense of Affiliate Marketing Course – $24,243.00 - Sponsorships and advertising – $12,700.00 - Display advertising – $2,433.00 Total: $104,814.93 The income amount above is for the month of September $4,282. After expenses and fees, I earned approximately $96,5 September of 2018: $104,814 - Total income in August of 2018: $110,284 - Difference from the previous month: -5,470 - Total in 2018: $1,205,129 Sailing in September 2018 – Please follow me on Instagram. Blog news – 5 Year Self-Employment Anniversary! Fall marks 5 years since I left my day job to blog full-time! I cannot believe that it's been 5 years since I worked at my old day job. In fact, I keep looking at the dates because it just does not feel like it's been 5 years. In some ways, it feels much longer than 5, and in other ways, it feels like I just started blogging full-time (it's crazy how quickly life can pass you by!). In case you are new here, I used to work as an analyst at an investment banking and valuation firm. I chugged along working the 8-5 Monday through Friday and didn't see myself having a fun future there. I had a stressful job filled with lots of deadlines and responsibilities that just didn't interest me. Life is completely different now. I look forward to each and every single day of work – I actually look forward to Mondays now. So much has changed in the last 5 years as well. Just around 5 years ago, I had just paid off my student loan debt, but still had a mortgage, car loans, and more. Now, I am financially independent, I can retire whenever I want, I travel full-time, have wonderful friends and family surrounding me, have a great business, and I love life! I thought life was good back then, so that makes me even more excited for the next 5 years. —- Anyway, I attended FinCon (a financial media conference) in September, and it was a great time. I will be talking more about FinCon in the Featured Question below. September: - How A Minimalist Lifestyle Can Bring You Happiness - Are Travel Rewards Credit Cards a Scam? - How Alyssa is making $200 a DAY in book sales passively - Answers to 7 Common Questions About Family Emergency Binders - Check in on your finances with regular money talks - How To Start Investing With Little Money - How We Made Over $100k Teaching Overseas - 10 Easy Fall Recipes – Best Fall Dinner Ideas For Your Meal Plan - Smaller Can Be Better- Maximize Your Savings With A Small House Featured Question: What are the top things you've learned recently? I feature one question from a reader in each monthly income report. Please leave a comment below if you have a question that you would like me to answer. I attended FinCon in September, and it is my favorite blogging conference. I have attended 6 times and already bought my ticket for next year. I learn a lot at FinCon every single year, which is why I love attending. And, it's not just the sessions that I am learning from (those are great too!), but it's from talking to other bloggers, money experts, and everyone else who attends FinCon (they are a very smart bunch). So, what's the top thing I learned from FinCon this year? I learned from FinCon this year that… I just want to blog and it’s okay. So many people have so many big and amazing goals such as having a talk show, becoming a famous public speaker, having an uber successful multi-million dollar business with tons of employees, and more, but I've learned that I'm extremely happy where I am. Don't get me wrong, these are all great goals and I'm so glad that I'm surrounded by so many amazing people. I've realized, though, that it's just not for me and it doesn't align with my goals and the life that I want to live. Success can have so many different forms, and for me, I am deathly terrified of public speaking so I just don't see that as something I want to do, haha! I also know that I don't want to run a huge company – I like my small team. I bring this up because I receive emails all the time from bloggers and readers asking me when I'll start public speaking, when I'll start hiring 50 employees, and so and so on. And, I've been judged negatively for not doing these things. While things may, of course, change in the future (and I'm sure they will, haha), right now I just plan on working on what I'm currently working on, and just enjoying the path that I am on. I think I'm going to talk about this more in its own separate blog post. About how I'm slowing down and enjoying life. I should say that I still have plenty of ideas that I learned from FinCon such as how to better manage my email inbox. I receive around 1,000 emails a day and I pride myself on the fact that I answer all of them, but it's getting to the point where I don't think I can do that anymore due to lack of time and to keep my sanity. 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16,363 This item is only available as the following downloads: ( PDF ) Full Text PAGE 1 Americas gateway to the universe. Leading the world in preparing and launching missions to Earth and beyond.April 16, 1999 John F. Kennedy Space CenterVol. 38, No. 8 Spaceport News(See Visitor, Page 4)Looking at KSC from a new perspective:touring KSCs Visitor Complex Psychologists tout that about three feet of space is what most people need to feel comfortable. Thats not enough for visitors at Kennedy Space Centers Visitor Complex, who are treated to more space than tourists anywhere else in the world. Visitors to the complex are now introduced to NASA and to the past, present and future of space exploration by a new eye-catching ticket plaza and entryway. The new entry and future-focused experiences set the stage for our emphasis on space exploration, said Jim Ball, NASA manager of the KSC Visitor Complex. These exciting new presentations dealing with the search for life elsewhere in the universe and the preparation for human exploration beyond Earth orbit are intended especially to appeal to our young people, to capture their imaginations and inspire their dreams as we move into a new century and millennium. After all, the future belongs to them and their children. Through interactive exhibits, IMAX movies and tours, the KSC Visitor Complex tells the story of NASAs space exploration. That story and the way it is told draws more than 2.75 million visitors a year to KSCs Visitor Complex, which now has an International Space Station-themed ticket plaza. The new addition includes a structure of overhanging solar panels. At the new entryway, Visitor Complex crew members greet A steady stream of new data from Mars, including high-resolution images, are arriving at Earth receiving stations following recent deployment of the Mars Global Surveyors high-power communications antenna. The antenna was deployed at about midnight EST, on March 28. It had been stowed since launch in November 1996 to reduce its chances of being contaminated by exhaust from the spacecrafts main engine, which was fired periodically throughout the mission. The spacecraft entered orbit around Mars in September 1997 and used a technique called aerobraking to gradually lower the spacecrafts altitude to the desired orbit for mapping. The mapping mission began March 9; full-scale mapping began April 4.hour tracking pass over a (See Mars, Page 8)Mars Global Surveyor antenna deployedLandsat 7: Keeping up with an ever-changing worldA devastating nuclear accident happened at Chernobyl, Ukraine, on April 26, 1986. This Landsat 5 image shows the area around the nuclear power plant approximately one month after the accident.This type of area is near the common borders of Ukraine, Belarus and Russia. The plant lies near the Pripyat River, seen in the image. Another Landsat image, taken in 1992, is on page 2. See if you can spot differences in the images over the years. The Landsat Program is the longest running enterprise for acqusition of imagery of Earth from space.(See Landsat, Page 2) Landsat is the United States oldest land-surface observation satellite system. Although the program has scored numerous successes in scientific and resource-management applications, Landsat has had a tumultuous history of management and funding changes over its 26-year history. Landsat 7 marks a new direction in the program to reduce the costs of data and increase coverage for use in global change research. At press time, Landsat 7 was scheduled for launch April 15 from NASAs Space Launch Complex 2 at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California aboard a Delta II launch vehicle. The diversity of Landsat applications makes it unique among Earth observation satellites. Images acquired by LandsatThe Happy Face Crater, or Galle Crater, was recorded by Mars Global Surveyor. PAGE 2 SPACEPORT NEWSApril 16, 1999 Page 2 Landsat ...(Continued from Page 1)What salient new feature do you notice in this Landsat 5 image taken in 1992 that differs from the 1986 image on page 1? Among the new features in the image above is a curved white structure north of the Pripyat River. You can see water dammed up against it and in the channels behind it. Soon after the accident the Soviets built a series of levees, dams and other structures to prevent contaminated runoff water from entering the rivers and contaminating regional water supplies, especially for the city of Kiev downstream.satellites were used to produce the first composite multi-spectral mosaic of the 48 contiguous United States. They have been used to monitor timber losses in the U.S. Pacific Northwest, map the extent of winter snow pack and measure forest cover at the state level. In addition, Landsat has been used to locate mineral deposits, monitor strip mining and assess natural changes due to fires and insect infestations. NASA launched the first satellite in the Landsat series (originally called the Earth Resources Technology Satellites) on July 23, 1972. The program was given the name Landsat in 1975. Efforts to move the Landsat program into the commercial sector began under the Carter Administration in 1979 and resulted in legislation passed in 1984 that charged the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to transfer the program to the private sector. During the Landsat programs management as a commercial operation, it became increasingly expensive to gather data. As a cost-saving measure, Landsat imagery was only collected when a user requested it rather than as an ongoing process. Landsat 7s commitment to collecting and archiving all scenes in the United States including Alaska and Hawaii is a significant change in the program. Processing, distributing, and archiving Landsat data will also be significantly improved. Previous Landsat data were often too expensive for widespread scientific use. All Landsat 7 data received at the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) EROS Data Center receiving station will be archived and available electronically within 24 hours and will be sold at cost. In addition to the main U.S. receiving station, several international ground stations will collect Landsat 7 data around the globe, archive them and make them available through on-line Internet browsers. Back in 1992, with the passage of the Land Remote Sensing Policy Act, oversight of the Landsat program began to shift from the commercial sector back to the federal government. Management was transferred from NOAA to NASA and the Department of Defense. President George Bush authorized Landsat 7 in the same year. The Department of Defense withdrew from the program in 1994, and NASA was named the lead agency working with NOAA and the USGS. Landsat 5, launched in 1984, is still returning images. Commercially built and managed Landsat 6 was destroyed after launch in 1993 when the rockets upper stage failed to fire. NASA, which integrated Landsat 7 into its Earth Observing System (EOS) program in 1994, is responsible for the development and launch of the satellite and the development of the ground system. Landsat 7 is transitioning to a dual-agency program between NASA and USGS, and future management will be governed by a joint agreement between the two agencies. As part of NASAs EOS series of satellites, Landsat 7 will provide a unique suite of highresolution observations of the terrestrial environment. It will gather remotely sensed images of land surface and coastal regions for global change research, regional environmental change studies, national security uses, and other civil and commercial purposes. The Landsat 7 project is part of NASAs longterm research effort to study the Earth as a global environmental system. The Landsat Science Team, composed of 14 scientific investigators, is conducting a range of studies designed to exploit the characteristics of Landsat 7 for global change research. The spacecraft will capture and store in a U.S. archive global landmass data once per season. Following an initial 60to 70-day checkout period, Landsat 7 will begin normal operations. Daily commands will be sent to the spacecraft defining which images to record and when to downlink data either to U.S. or international ground stations. This dataset will, for the first time, provide a high-resolution view of both seasonal and interannual changes in the terrestrial environment. The USGS Earth Resources Observation Systems Data Center (Sioux Falls, S. D.) will process, archive, and distribute all U.S. Landsat data. U.S. data will be acquired primarily at the EROS Data Center; supporting ground stations in Alaska and Norway will also be used. NASA will continue to manage day-to-day operations until October 2000, when they will be turned over to USGS. The Landsat Project, located at Goddard Space Flight Center (Greenbelt, Md.), manages Landsat development for NASA's Office of Earth Science in Washington, D.C. USGS operations will be performed at a Mission Operations Center at the Goddard Space Flight Center and at the EROS Data Center. PAGE 3 SPACEPORT NEWSPage 3 April 16 1999 Below, STS-93 Pilot Jeffrey Ashby and Commander Eileen Collins look at a hinge used on the solar panels of the Chandra X-ray Observatory in KSCs Vertical Processing Facility. Members of the STS-93 crew recently came to KSC for payload familiarization. Collins, the first woman to serve as a Shuttle mission commander, was also the first woman pilot of a Space Shuttle STS-63, the first flight of the joint Russian-American Space Program. In addition, Collins served as pilot on STS84.Chandra is targeted for launch this summer aboard Space Shuttle Columbia. Chandra will allow scientists from around the world to see previously invisible black holes and high-temperature gas clouds. In the Vertical Processing Facility, a TRW technician (above) checks the attachment of the solar panel array to the Chandra X-ray Observatory. Chandra has 10 times the resolution of previous X-ray telescopes and is designed to conduct comprehensive studies of the universe. Chandra (the third of NASAs Great Observatories, following the Compton Gamma Ray Observatory and the Hubble Space Telescope) will enable scientists to study exotic phenomena such as exploding stars, quasars and black holes. Below, other TRW technicians check the point of attachment of the solar panel array to Chandra.Chandra, a new observatory for X-ray astronomy, recently observed at KSCSpace Congress launches April 19 Countdown to the Millennium is the theme of the 36th Space Congress, scheduled to open April 27. Although Space Congress is always forwardlooking, this years four-day conference has a special focus on the future of the space program. Space Congress will include, as in past years, paper and panel sessions, exhibits, banquets, receptions and a golf tournament, but several enhancements have been introduced by general chairman Rick Abramson, president and chief operating officer of Delaware North Parks Services of Spaceport, Inc. All sessions and exhibits will be held at the Radisson at the Port in Port Canaveral, and a greater emphasis will be given to student outreach. We believe that getting students more involved with Space Congress will pay enormous dividends, said Abramson. Todays students will be among those who shape the space program of the new millennium. Highlights of the conference include: Keynote speaker for the Space Congress Banquet Jerry Rising, president of VentureStar LLC, who led in design development of the X-33; Mark Saunders, head of the Space Science Support Office, who will discuss the Discovery program during the Tuesday luncheon; Thomas Tycz of the Federal Communications Commission, who will lead a panel discussion about advances in global personal communication; Jean-Michel Desobeau, director of engineering for Arianespace Inc., who will lead a paper session on global competition and cooperation; and the Pioneers Banquet which will be held at the Officers Club at Patrick Air Force Base. The four-day forum on space accomplishments and future activities will also include sessions on other topics such as the push to Mars and beyond, the militarys changing role in space and educations contribution to international space efforts. Space Congress is sponsored annually by the Canaveral Council of Technical Societies, a group represented by members of 33 professional and technical societies and advisory groups. PAGE 4 Page 4SPACEPORT NEWSApril 16, 1999 Visitor ...(Continued from Page 1)visitors to help them plan their day, answer questions and distribute information in seven languages. The dramatic new entryway and exhibits a $13 million expansion is the newest phase of the complexs planned $100 million transformation. Additions in recent years have included the Apollo/ Saturn V Center, the Launch Complex 39 Gantry and the International Space Station Center. It has been three decades since the inception of the KSC Visitor Complex, which is now one of the top five tourist attractions in Florida. Along with the growth in attendance came the drive for an expansion of facilities. New presentations depicting a bold vision of our future in space are now open with these latest changes to the Visitor Complex. They range from a glimpse into the future of human exploration beyond earth orbit to the search forThe $13 million expansion to KSCs Visitor Complex includes a new International Space Station-themed ticket plaza, featuring a structure of overhanging solar panels and astronauts performing assembly tasks.life elsewhere in the universe and protection of the environment at KSC. The Robot Scouts The newest exhibits include a narrated, walk-through Robot Scouts exhibit, which introduces visitors to NASAs trailblazers robotic planetary probes. Highlighted in the Robot Scouts exhibit are NASA probes that have been launched over the years, such as the Viking Mars lander, Cassini Saturn probe, Lunar Prospector and Hubble Space Telescope. These probes are given personality in this humorous and informative experience, and, through the eyes of the probes, visitors are shown breathtaking views of the Earths moon, Mars and the cosmos. A host robot, Starquester 2000, helps describe the accomplishments of the space probes, the critical role they play in space exploration and the preparations they made for humans possibly to follow. Perhaps the most thrilling part of the exhibit offers a view of how data from the robotic probes might be used to build a human habitat for Mars. It includes a display for visitorsNew attractions at Kennedy Space Centers Visitor Complex include a display for visitors to witness a simulated Martian sunset. One of KSCs new exhibits is Robot Scouts. PAGE 5 Page 5 SPACEPORT NEWS April 16, 1999 Experience the thrill of the new exhibits and future-focused experiences at KSCs Visitor Complex.The Life on Mars exhibitto witness a simulated Martian sunset. While the presentation is light and entertaining and should have special appeal to young people, the message is serious and inspiring, Ball said. Quest for Life Probes also play a significant role in the new film, Quest for Life shown in a new 300-seat theater. The film thoughtfully considers whether there is life beyond our planet. In addition to dramatic computer-generated visuals and live-action scenes, the latest scientific findings on how life might have emerged on as many as two billion other planets are presented. Deep Space Nine star Avery Brooks narrates the film. This film not only describes ways in which we have and are attempting to answer the question about whether life exists elsewhere, it provides a vision of the future, with human explorers on Mars and a robotic probe beneath the icy surface of Europa, said Ball. Admission to two of the new experiences, Robot Scouts and Quest for Life are included in the price of a tour ticket or combination tickets. The only back-to-back twin IMAX theaters in the world are at KSCs Visitor Complex, and several exciting motion pictures are shown daily on these screens that are 5-1/2 stories tall. The $6 million IMAX theater opened in 1985 paid for by the sale of food, tour tickets and merchandise, not U.S. taxpayer money. The Wild Side After visiting the edge of the space frontier, guests will enjoy a new glimpse into the wilds of nature the third new exhibit, which is free to all visitors. This walk-through adventure shows how NASA and nature exist and thrive side by side at KSC. Included are simulations of various habitats at the refuge, the continental shelf, beach, grasslands, salt marshes and lagoon. Displays describe native species, includingDeep Space Nine star Avery Brooks (right) narrates the film Quest for Life at the Visitor Complex. At the April 9 grand opening of the complexs new attractions, KSC Director Roy Bridges presented Brooks with a plaque recognizing his contribution to advancing the publics understanding of NASA and the search for life elsewhere in the universe. Brooks also was given a NASA jacket and hat.loggerhead turtles, alligators, manatees, black mice and indigo snakes. All of these new attractions represent the latest phase of a comprehensive effort to make the American space program as accessible as possible to members of the general public visiting KSC. These new attractions, along with the Apollo/Saturn V Center, the LC39 Gantry, and the International Space Station Center, give visitors unprecendented access to the U.S. space program and KSC, said Ball. Now, visitors can learn more about how NASA is able to accomplish some of the science on our missions with lower costs, how we coexist with nature here at Americas spaceportMore than 2.75 million visitors come to KSC each year, enjoying bus tours of the center and special attractions.and why we continue to explore our fascinating universe, he added. The Visitor Complex is NASAs official public gateway to KSC. Operated by Delaware North Parks Services of Spaceport, Inc., the Visitor Complex features bus tours of the space center with up-close views of Space Shuttle launch facilities and International Space Station processing. Educational exhibits feature historic flight hardware and tell NASAs story of human space flight. The complex is open from 9 a.m. to dusk every day of the year except Dec. 25 and certain periods on launch days. Admission and parking are free. A Mission Pass for a bus tour of KSC and two IMAX films is available for $26 for an adult and $20 for a child ages three through 11. A Crew Pass for a bus tour of Kennedy Space Center and one IMAX film is available for $19 per adult and $15 per child. For more information, visit the KSC Visitor Complex web site at Center.com or call (407) 452-2121. PAGE 6 SPACEPORT NEWSApril 16, 1999 Page 6 Lifes a picnic at KSCs KARS Park on April 10 The KSC All-American Picnic held April 10 at KARS Park I drew an enthusiastic crowd around 5,000! on a spectacularly beautiful day. Although the Black Employee Strategy Team, above, won the prize for best presentation at the annual cookoff this year, none of the fish caught (below) during the fishing tournament made it into the food served. At right, Astronaut Joe Tanner signs the tee-shirt of a young admirer, while another young horserider (bottom right) takes to the trails in a different way. As the pictures tell, happy picnic guests had lots to enjoy.Above, Max-Q entertains the crowd at the picnic, while a young cowpoke (right) sings of his own happy trails. PAGE 7 SPACEPORT NEWS April 16, 1999 Page 7 Environmental and Energy Awareness Week approaches Kennedy Space Center has enlisted the Air Force and its contractors to co-sponsor this years Environmental and Energy Awareness Week, April 19 through 22. By joining forces, the groups will be able to present a greater variety of exhibits and demonstrations at more locations in recognition of Earth Day, April 22. That means employees will be able to learn even more about what government agencies, preservation societies and environmental contractors are doing primarily behind the scenes and with little public recognition to help communities protect and improve the environment and conserve energy. There will even be tips on how to save money by conserving resources. Exhibits will be on display at the KSC Visitor Complex on April 19, at Cape Canaveral Air Stations Hangar F on April 20 and at Patrick Air Force Base Officers Club on April 21. Selected exhibits will be on view April 22 at NASA Headquarters, KSC Training Auditorium, Space Station Processing Facility, Operations Support Building and the CCAS Food Court. Hours are 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. The public is invited to the Visitor Complex and Officers Club exhibits. Buses will be available to transport employees from KSC Headquarters to the Visitor Complex and back every half hour on April 19. Because big cat and bird of prey shows have drawn large audiences in the past, they are being held in the Training Auditorium on April 22. A variety of wildlife will also be at the Visitor Complex, Hangar F and Officers Club on days that those venues feature exhibits, thanks to Coons Run wildlife sanctuary, the Brevard Zoo and Animals, Animals, Animals Inc. Director of the HUBBSSeaworld Research Institute Dr. Duane Defrees and Agricultural Extension Agent Doug Kutz will give presentations at the Training Auditorium on April 22. For the seventh year, Kennedy Space Center will celebrate Take Our Daughters To Work Day on April 22. The event is for girls from ages 9 to 15, an age when they are forming their sense of self and building on ideas for their future. On this day, KSC employees are invited to bring daughters, granddaughters, nieces, sisters or neighbors children to work with them to share the work experience and encourage the girls to set goals for their future, and to build selfesteem. The theme for this year is The Future Is Me. Gate 1 at Cape Canaveral Air Station (CCAS) will be open to employees bringing girls to work with them. Employees working at CCAS may participate and take their children to their work areas as long as they do not work in a controlled access area. Due to limited seating, only NASA employees may participate in a special program with former NASA employee Andrea SheaKing in the IMAX II Theater of KSCs Visitor Complex from 8 a.m. to 9:30 a.m. Shea-King now has her own company, Shea-King Communications, and writes for Florida Today newspaper. There will also be a science demonstration near the Exploration Station. Open to all contractor and NASA sponsors are the following events: At 9:30 a.m., a robotics demonstration by Steve Van Meter, NASA Hazardous Duty Robotics Specialist, between the Galaxy Center and the pond by the Astronauts Memorial. The KSC Visitor Complex Spaceman will also be available at this site for a photo opportunity. Tours Ticket costs are $14 for adults and $5 for children. Tickets must be purchased in person between 11 a.m. and 4 p.m. April 19-21 at the Group Sales Window in the Ticket Pavilion at the Visitor Complex. 10 to 11 a.m. Audubon Society Birds of Prey, in the Training Auditorium. 1 to 3 p.m. Big Cat Run, in the Training Auditorium. 8:30 a.m. to noon SGS Security and Fire Services display and demonstrations (boats, fire truck, fingerprinting, SWAT and K-9) behind KSC Headquarters. Special badges will be distributed for the event. Contractor employees should contact their own representatives to obtain badges. NASA employees may pick up their badges April 19-21 between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. in Headquarters, room 2331. Reminders: children must wear a badge and stay with a badged employee, sponsors are responsible for the children they bring, and children may not enter any controlled access area that requires a controlled access badge. Employees working in these areas, including the Vehicle Assembly Building, Orbiter Processing Facilities and Operations and Checkout Building, may arrange for another person to take their children to an approved area. For more information, please call Jean Rhodes, 867-2307.Groundwater cleanup agreement signed by NASA, USAF, federal officials A Memorandum of Agreement was signed April 6 at Launch Complex 34 on Cape Canaveral Air Station formalizing the cooperative efforts of a group of federal agencies in groundwater cleanup initiatives. NASA, the U.S. Air Force and various federal environmental agencies have formed a consortium and are participating in a comparative study of three innovative techniques to be used in cleaning a contaminated area of Launch Complex 34. The study will be used to help improve groundwater cleanup processes nationally. Pictured at left signing the agreement are, left to right, Timothy Oppelt, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency; Tom Heenan, U.S. Department of Energy; Col. James Heald, U.S. Air Force; Gerald Boyd, U.S. Department of Energy; James Fiore, U.S. Department of Energy; Brig. Gen. Randall Starbuck, Commander, 45th Space Wing; Roy Bridges Jr., KSC center director; and Walter Kovalick Jr., Ph.D., U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.Representatives of NASA, the U.S. Air Force and various federal environmental agencies sign a Memorandum of Agreement at Launch Complex 34.Bring your daughter to KSC PAGE 8 John F. Kennedy Space Center Managing editor. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Bruce Buckingham Editor. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Susan Maurer Editorial support provided by Information Dynamics Inc. Writers Group. NASA at KSC is on the Internet at USGPO: 733-112/800April 16, 1999 Page 8 April employees of the monthApril employees of the month are, left to right, Mike Dick, Checkout and Launch Control System Office; James Jones, Installation Operations; Steven Horn, Office of the Chief Counsel; Wanda Petty, Equal Opportunity Program Office; Michael Paraway, Office of the Chief Financial Officer; and Amador Capellin, Engineering Development. Not shown are Thomas Dwyer, Safety and Mission Assurance; Art Maples, Biomedical Office; Loraine Schafer, Logistics Operations; Gloria Vigilante, Space Station and Shuttle Payloads; Richard Stevens, Shuttle Processing; Gennaro Caliendo, Space Station Hardware Integration Office; and Armonda Piloto, ELV and Payload Carriers Program. Now in Orbiter Processing Facility Bay 3, the orbiter Atlantis shows off its new digital cockpit to Center Director Roy Bridges (right) and Associate Director for Advanced Development and Shuttle Upgrades JoAnn Morgan. The orbiter is scheduled to fly on its next mission on Dec. 2 STS-101, the third International Space Station flight. Atlantis returned to KSC from the Palmdale, Calif., facility in late September 1998 after having received extensive orbiter modifications and maintenance. As one of the more significant modifications, Atlantis became the first orbiter to obtain a fully digital cockpit.Journey through AtlantisMars ...(Continued from Page. Having a deployed, steerable high-gain antenna is like switching from a garden hose to a fire hose in terms of data return from the spacecraft, said Joseph Beerer, Inside the Multi-Payload Processing Facility, the lid covering the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM) is lifted. The primary payload on mission STS-99, the SRTM consists of a specially modified radar system that will fly onboard the Space Shuttle during the 11-day mission scheduled for launch Sept. 16. This radar system will gather data expected to result in the most accurate and complete topographic map of the Earth's surface ever assembled. SRTM is an international project spearheaded by the National Imagery and Mapping Agency and NASA, with participation of the German Aerospace Center DLR.flight operations manager for Mars Global Surveyor at NASAs Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Up until now, we have been using the high-gain antenna in its stowed position, so periodically we had to stop collecting science data and turn the entire spacecraft to transmit data to Earth, Beerer explained. Now we have the ability to simultaneously study Mars and communicate with Earth. Mars Global Surveyor is managed by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory for NASAs Office of Space Science. It was launched from Cape Canaveral Air Station on Nov. 7, 1996.
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Increase and improve awareness, education, and training for clergy, religious, staff, and volunteers. Pilot and implement simple and effective VIRTUS® programs. Address problem areas that are identified during piloting and implementation. This process results in improved programs. VIRTUS® Investigation Training is case-in-point for the validation of the Continuous Improvement Model. From the piloting of the VIRTUS® Victim Advocacy Program and Pastoral Case Management Program and the expert review of those materials, the need for VIRTUS® Investigation Training was identified. Bottom line: VIRTUS® will continue to reevaluate itself to better meet the needs of the entire Church community. Take time now to help God’s children In the not-so-distant future, in a diocese not so far away, a bishop (or a person he designates) will schedule a meeting with Mike Bemi of The National Catholic Risk Retention Group, Inc. (National Catholic), and take the first step toward implementing VIRTUS® in his diocese. Since 1998, National Catholic has fostered VIRTUS® from rough idea into sophisticated, cutting-edge program. For three years, dedicated volunteers from across the United States have donated their time to VIRTUS®. “VIRTUS® begins with a meeting and a phone call …” One could argue that because VIRTUS® is now a program—and not an idea—the hard part is over. But, that’s not the case. Now is the hard part. Now is the time when National Catholic must persuade you, like so many others, to volunteer your time, for VIRTUS®. Meetings. Sometimes they’re necessary, but who really enjoys them? And phone calls. If it weren’t for Mr. Bell’s invention, you probably could get some work done. Right? But if you think of all the meetings you attend and phone calls you make or take in a day, one more of each is not much of a sacrifice when it comes to the safety and security of our children. You see, VIRTUS® will help people—clergy, employees, volunteers, and parishioners—but most of all it will help children. Protecting God’s children from the evil of child sexual abuse is surely worth one meeting with Mr. Bemi. Protecting students from school violence is surely worth a phone call with him as well. “Okay. You agree that VIRTUS® is worthwhile …” And let’s say that Mr. Bemi further illustrates what you already suspect—that, no matter who you are or where you’re located, there is always room for improvement—that VIRTUS® can help your diocese. On the other hand, all your projects are important. Each benefits your diocese. And most will impact other people in a positive way. So, no matter how good VIRTUS® is, can you fit one more helpful project on your plate? Time is a valuable asset. You must invest it wisely. Every minute that passes is gone forever. And, if you don’t say “No” occasionally, you will never have time for everything that’s important in your life. With that written, VIRTUS® is worth making room for on your plate. VIRTUS® can help you to continue to make a real difference in the community around you. “VIRTUS® is worth your time…” In the world of service programs, most impact only the implementing organization, but VIRTUS® impacts individuals, as well. No matter who you are, or what role you play in the Church community, VIRTUS® will decrease risk and prevent unsettling and unwelcome surprises. VIRTUS® will provide a system that helps protect you—so you can spend less time worrying about all the “What ifs?” and more time pursuing the ministry of the Church. Here’s how it works: For those unfamiliar with the presence and harm of sexual abuse, VIRTUS® provides awareness. For those who don’t have the resources to com-bat sexual abuse, VIRTUS® provides communication—communication with those who have the right knowledge, the right experience, and the right tools to help you make a difference. For those who don’t have time to take on anything else, VIRTUS® provides products and services designed to free up your time, so you are better prepared to initiate a timely response when duty calls. But how much time are we talking about? Great question! All successful service programs require a time commitment from those they serve. The difference between truly successful service programs and those that flounder is the amount of time that participants are willing to commit. We’ve taken this into consideration while developing VIRTUS®. VIRTUS® will require some of your time. But you get to decide how much. “Okay, I get to decide how much time. But how much time is really needed?” Beginning with training, National Catholic offers a variety of solutions through VIRTUS® with as much or as little involvement on your part as you wish. From live training, to train-the-trainer programs, to online training and awareness programs, VIRTUS® has a time solution that’s right for you. Our awareness, training, and supporting materials will prepare your staff to help prevent sexual abuse, school violence, discrimination, and other risks among your member organizations. If your staff doesn’t have the time to train others, your trainees can go online for the training and train themselves, and no special or additional hardware is required. All they need is a connection to the Internet. That’s great, but you still have one obstacle. You have hundreds of organizations within your diocese. They need these programs as well. Who will let your Church community know about VIRTUS® and give them access to its programs? If time is in short supply, then National Catholic can help disseminate VIRTUS® to others within your diocese. If you want to get more involved, then National Catholic can train your people on how to disseminate VIRTUS® on your own. All you have to do is ask and National Catholic will develop a solution for you. It may sound like a big challenge to create great ideas—like VIRTUS®—and transform those ideas into reality. But creation and implementation are not the obstacles that stifle or kill most programs. Rather, the greatest obstacle—the obstacle that keeps good programs mired in mediocrity—is the task of successfully inspiring people like you to donate your valuable time. We hope we have persuaded you to make time for VIRTUS®. Current status of VIRTUS® initiatives: Each shareholder piloting the Victim Advocacy Program and the Pastoral Case Management Program (pilot) is discovering one of the unique characteristics of VIRTUS® programs: customization. For example, three pilots recently participated in the instructor-led Victim Advocacy training offered by National Catholic. Each pilot conducted their training differently from the others in order to meet their unique organizational needs—instead of conforming to a “one-size-fits-all” training program. One pilot trained their director of peace and justice as a victim advocate and as a future instructor. She will facilitate the Victim Advocacy Program in her diocese and train other advocates as needed. Another pilot sent diocesan leaders to the training sessions so that the diocese could gain a clearer picture of the Victim Advocacy Program and how it might work for them. The third pilot gathered a mixture of diocesan leaders and volunteers for the training sessions. This approach served two purposes: 1) it trained a set of advocates, and 2) it clarified for diocesan leaders how best to adopt the program to their specific needs. One pilot reviewed all the VIRTUS® materials, compared the model program to their existing program, and revised their existing program. Another pilot is making promotional brochures and posters available to any pastor or program director, as well as distributing awareness materials to every location in the community that has a significant incident or allegation. Another pilot expanded the role of Victim Advocacy beyond child sexual abuse. For instance, persons trained in Victim Advocacy will advocate for a variety of issues, including employment-related complaints and other concerns that may arise in parishes, programs, and organizations within the diocese. Flexible, adaptable program models are the most useful tools for shareholders. VIRTUS® fits the bill.
UK Edition. Click here for US version. FOSINOPRIL SODIUM 20 MG TABLETS Active substance(s): FOSINOPRIL SODIUM PDF options: View Fullscreen Download PDF PDF Transcript EAS1050a LEA FOSINOPRIL 10 & 20MG TAB TUK Dim’s Changed?: Length: Width: Depth: Foil Width: No 323 mm 160 mm N/A N/A Version: 2 Colours Used: 05 June 2017 BLACK PANTONE® GREEN C Template PAGE 1: FRONT FACE (INSIDE OF REEL) Package leaflet: Information for the user. Tell your doctor you are taking Fosinopril if you: • have to go on a machine to remove cholesterol from the blood • have to undergo desensitisation treatment (e.g. to reduce the effects of an allergy to wasp or bee stings) • are to undergo a parathyroid test; tell your doctor you are taking Fosinopril, as you may be required to stop taking Fosinopril for a few days before the test • are to have an operation requiring an anaesthetic (including treatment at the dentist); you should tell the doctor or dentist that you are taking Fosinopril. What is in this leaflet Other important information: • Fosinopril may not work as well in Afro-Caribbean patients, and they may be at greater risk of certain side effects (see section 4, Possible side effects). • Your doctor may monitor you when you first start taking Fosinopril. This may involve urine and blood tests. Fosinopril sodium 1. What Fosinopril is and what it is used for 2. What you need to know before you take Fosinopril 3. How to take Fosinopril 4. Possible side effects 5. How to store Fosinopril 6. Contents of the pack and other information 1 Other medicines and Fosinopril What Fosinopril is and what it is used for • Tell your doctor or pharmacist if you are taking, Pharma code 639 have recently taken or might take any other Fosinopril belongs to a group of drugs called medicines, including medicines obtained without a Angiotensin Converting Enzyme (ACE) Inhibitors, prescription: diuretics (“water tablets”) e.g. which are vasodilators (drugs which widen the blood amiloride, spironolactone, triamterene (see section vessels, reduce blood pressure and make it easier for 3, Taking in combination with a diuretic (”water the heart to pump blood around the body). tablet”)) Fosinopril is used to treat: • other medicines for high blood pressure such as • high blood pressure methyldopa, beta-blockers e.g. propranolol, atenolol, • congestive heart failure (a condition where the heart sotalol, or calcium antagonists e.g. verapamil no longer pumps blood as effectively as it should). • Your doctor may need to change your dose and/or to take other precautions: If you are taking an 2 What you need to know before you take angiotensin II receptor blocker (ARB) or aliskiren Fosinopril (see also information under the headings ‘Do not Do not take Fosinopril and contact your doctor take Fosinopril’ and ‘Warnings and precautions’) immediately: • Potassium supplements or salt substitutes • if you are allergic to fosinopril sodium, to any containing potassium, diuretics (water tablets, in other angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) particular those so called potassium sparing), inhibitor or any of the other ingredients of this other drugs which can increase potassium in your medicine (listed in section 6) body (such as heparin and co-trimoxazole also • if you have suffered an allergic reaction to any known as trimethoprim/sulfamethoxazole) other ACE inhibitors e.g. captopril, enalapril, which • pain killers such as indometacin, ibuprofen or led to swelling of the face, lips, tongue and/or aspirin, as the effectiveness of Fosinopril may be throat reduced • if you have a condition known as hereditary • antacids (to relieve indigestion), as the angioneurotic oedema, which is a serious allergic effectiveness of Fosinopril may be reduced. Doses reaction causing swelling of the face or throat, or of Fosinopril and antacids should be taken 2 hours have ever had a similar unexplained allergic apart reaction • glyceryl trinitrate and other nitrates used to treat • if you have the rare hereditary problem of angina (chest pain). galactose intolerance, the Lapp lactase deficiency • vasodilators (drugs that cause blood vessels to or glucose-galactose malabsorption expand) e.g. minoxidil • if you are more than 3 months pregnant. (It is also • procainamide (used to treat abnormal heart rhythms) better to avoid Fosinopril in early pregnancy – see • antidiabetics (insulin or oral hypoglycaemic drugs) section 2: Pregnancy and breast-feeding) e.g. tolbutamide • if you have diabetes or impaired kidney function • lithium, as lithium levels may be increased and you are treated with a blood pressure • tricyclic antidepressants e.g. amitriptyline or lowering medicine containing aliskiren dosulepin, or antipsychotics (used for psychiatric problems) e.g. flupenthixol Warnings and precautions • immunosuppressants (drugs to reduce the body’s Talk to your doctor or pharmacist before taking natural defence system) e.g. cyclosporin, Fosinopril: cytostatics, budesonide or procainamide • if you have any of the following heart problems: • systemic corticosteroids e.g. prednisone narrowing of the heart valves, cardiomyopathy • allopurinol (used to treat gout) (inflammation of the heart muscle), ischaemic heart disease (lack of blood flow and oxygen to the • medicines known as sympathomimetics e.g. salbutamol, ephedrine and some medicines for heart) colds, coughs or flu symptoms which may contain • if you have cerebrovascular disease (disease these ingredients. affecting blood vessels in the brain) • medicines which are most often used to avoid • if you have kidney problems including disease of rejection of transplanted organs (sirolimus, the arteries to the kidney or are undergoing everolimus and other medicines belonging to the dialysis class of mTOR inhibitors). See section “Warnings • if you have collagen vascular disease e.g. and precautions”. rheumatoid arthritis, SLE (systemic lupus erythematosus) an autoimmune condition which Fosinopril with food and drink causes joint pain, skin rashes and fever • DO NOT take alcohol whilst being treated with • if you have diabetes Fosinopril. • if you have low blood sodium Pregnancy and breast-feeding • if you have hypovolaemia (blood pressure falls If you are pregnant or breast-feeding, think you may due to fluid loss) be pregnant or are planning to have a baby, ask your • if you have been on a low-salt diet doctor or pharmacist for advice before taking this • if you have liver problems medicine. • if you have become dehydrated e.g. you have recently suffered from severe diarrhoea or Pregnancy vomiting You must tell your doctor if you think you are (or • if you have a severe reduction in number of white might become) pregnant. Your doctor will normally blood cells which makes infections more likely. advise you to stop taking Fosinopril before you • if you are taking any of the following medicines become pregnant or as soon as you know you are used to treat high blood pressure: pregnant and will advise you to take another - an angiotensin II receptor blocker (ARBs) (also medicine instead of Fosinopril. Fosinopril is not known as sartans – for example valsartan, recommended in early pregnancy, and must not be telmisartan, irbesartan), in particular if you have taken when more than 3 months pregnant, as it may diabetes-related kidney problems. cause serious harm to your baby if used after the - aliskiren third month of pregnancy. Your doctor may check your kidney function, blood Breast-feeding pressure, and the amount of electrolytes (e.g. Tell your doctor if you are breast-feeding or about to potassium) in your blood at regular intervals. See also information under the heading ‘Do not take start breast-feeding. Fosinopril is not recommended for mothers who are breast-feeding, and your doctor Fosinopril’. may choose another treatment for you if you wish to • You must tell your doctor if you think you are (or breast-feed, especially if your baby is newborn, or might become) pregnant. Fosinopril is not was born prematurely. recommended in early pregnancy, and must not be taken if you are more than 3 months pregnant, Driving and using machines: as it may cause serious harm to your baby if used • Fosinopril may cause dizziness and decreased at that stage (see section 2: Pregnancy and blood pressure. If affected, DO NOT drive or breast-feeding). operate machinery. REG0065436 Version 3.4 Approved Page 1 of 4 Top of page cut-off to middle of registration mark: 44 mm. Fosinopril Sodium 10 mg and 20 mg Tablets ZINC Ref: EAS1050a LEA FOSINOPRIL 10 & 20MG TAB TUK Dim’s Changed?: Length: Width: Depth: Foil Width: No 323 mm 160 mm N/A N/A Version: 2 Colours Used: BLACK PANTONE® GREEN C Template PAGE 2: REAR FACE (OUTSIDE OF REEL) Fosinopril contains lactose • Patients who are intolerant to lactose should note that Fosinopril tablets contain a small amount of lactose. If your doctor has told you that you have an intolerance to some sugars, contact your doctor before taking this medicine. • • • • • • • • Always take this medicine exactly as your doctor has • told you. Check with your doctor or pharmacist if you • are not sure. 3 How to take Fosinopril: • • • • swelling of hands and feet weight increase heart attack or stroke kidney problems decrease in red blood cells, high blood potassium levels decrease in appetite, taste changes fainting sexual problems gout problems with vision, ear ache, ringing in the ears, a sensation that your surroundings are spinning either up and down or from side to side high blood pressure collapse of the blood circulation with low blood pressure sudden death • Heart failure throat, low blood count causing unusual tiredness Fosinopril is usually taken in combination with a or weakness, unusual bleeding or unexplained diuretic (”water tablet”, see below), or with digitalis bruising to treat this condition. • abdominal pain and swelling The recommended starting dose is 10 mg once daily. • hepatitis – inflammation of the liver Your doctor may then alter the dose as necessary • flushing of skin, bleeding problems, nose bleed depending on your response to treatment, up to a • peripheral vascular disease (disease of arteries) maximum of 40 mg per day. • memory disturbances, disorientation • pneumonia, congestion in the lungs • Taking in combination with a diuretic (”water • difficulty in breathing tablet”) If you are already taking diuretics, your doctor may • low levels of salt in the blood • raised levels of iron in the blood. tell you to reduce the dose of the diuretic or to stop taking them for 2-3 days before beginning Very rare (may affect up to 1 in 10,000 people): treatment with Fosinopril. • acute liver failure • acute renal failure Children and adolescents • severe reduction in number of white blood cells Fosinopril is not recommended for use in children making infections more likely and adolescents under 18 years of age. • inflammation and swelling of the bowel. If you take more Fosinopril than you should A disorder which may include fever, vasculitis If you (or someone else) swallow a lot of the tablets all together or if you think a child has swallowed any (inflammation of blood vessels), muscle pain, joint of the tablets, contact your nearest hospital casualty pain/arthritis, blood disorders, rash, sensitivity to light or other skin problems has been reported. department or your doctor immediately. Fosinopril may interfere with the results of blood or An overdose is likely to cause signs of faintness or dizziness due to a drop in blood pressure, weak pulse urine tests. and clammy skin, hyperventilation, changes in heart Reporting of side effects rate or rhythm, anxiety, and cough. If you get any side effects, talk to your doctor or pharmacist. This includes any possible side effects Please take this leaflet, any remaining tablets, and not listed in this leaflet. You can also report side the container with you to the hospital or doctor so effects directly via the Yellow Card Scheme at: that they know which tablets were consumed.. By reporting side If you forget to take Fosinopril effects you can help provide more information on the If you forget to take a tablet, take one as soon as you safety of this medicine. remember, unless it is nearly time to take the next one. Do not take a double dose to make up for a 5 How to store Fosinopril forgotten dose. Keep this medicine out of the sight and reach of If you stop taking Fosinopril children. DO NOT stop taking Fosinopril without talking to Do not store above 25°C. Store in the original your doctor first even if you feel better. If you have container. Do not transfer to another container. any further questions on the use of this medicine, ask Do not use this medicine after the expiry date which your doctor or pharmacist. is stated on the outer packaging. The expiry date refers to the last day of that month. 4 Possible side effects Do not throw away any medicines via wastewater or Like all medicines, this medicine can cause side household waste. Ask your pharmacist how to throw effects, although not everybody gets them. away medicines you no longer use. These measures will help protect the environment. Stop taking the tablets and tell your doctor immediately or go to the casualty department at your of the pack and other nearest hospital if the following happens: 6 Contents information • allergic reactions which may include swelling of the lips, face or neck leading to severe difficulty in What Fosinopril contains: breathing; skin rash or nettle rash. • The active substance is fosinopril sodium, 10 mg This is a very serious side effect. You may need or 20 mg. urgent medical attention or hospitalisation. • The other ingredients are lactose anhydrous, The following side effects have been reported at the povidone K30, crospovidone, microcrystalline approximate frequencies shown: cellulose, sodium laurilsulfate, glycerol Common (may affect up to 1 in 10 people): dibehenate. • cough What Fosinopril looks like and contents of the pack • dizziness, weakness • Fosinopril 10mg Tablets are white to off-white in • low blood pressure which may cause fainting or colour, round tablets scored on both sides of the dizziness when standing up tablet with “F” and “10” on each side of the score • nausea, vomiting, diarrhoea on one side of the tablet. • rash, inflammation of the skin • allergic reactions causing swelling of the face and • Fosinopril 20mg Tablets are white to off-white capsule-shaped tablets with number embossed throat (may be more common in Afro- Caribbean “93” on one side and “7223” on the other side. patients) The following pack sizes are available for: • headache • Fosinopril 10mg: 20, 28, 30, 50, 84, 90 or 100 • fast heart rate or chest pain not related to the heart. tablets or 20 x 20 tablets as a hospital pack. Uncommon (may affect up to 1 in 100 people): • Fosinopril 20mg: 14, 20, 28, 30, 50, 56, 84, 90 or 100 • excessive sweating, fever, runny or itchy nose, tablets or 20 x 20 tablets as a hospital pack. sinusitis, bronchitis (cough which may produce Not all pack sizes may be marketed. sputum), dry mouth Marketing Authorisation Holder and Manufacturer • itching, nettle rash • shortness of breath and inflammation of the airways Marketing Authorisation holder and company responsible for manufacture: TEVA UK Limited, • increased amounts of protein in the urine Eastbourne, BN22 9AG England. • muscle pain and pain in the thorax or chest • flatulence, constipation This leaflet was last revised: May 2017 • pins and needles PL 00289/0517-0518 • depression, confusion • sleepiness or sleep disturbances 160 x 323 • chest pain associated with the heart, palpitations EAS1050a or changes in heart rhythm 83880-Z. 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April 10, 2011 – Owens preaches Volunteer Speedway sermon for ‘Old Fashion Sunday Meeting @ The Gap 50’ $5,000 Super Late Model victory Owens preaches Volunteer Speedway sermon for ‘Old Fashion Sunday Meeting @ The Gap 50’ $5,000 Super Late Model victory By Robert Walden Volunteer Speedway Media/Public Relations BULLS GAP, Tenn. (April 10) — The calendar shows it’s the second weekend of April, but Sunday at Volunteer Speedway felt more like mid-summer as temperatures approached 90 degrees in East Tennessee. After competing in the Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series event at Brownstown (Ind.) Speedway on Saturday night, Jimmy Owens of Newport made the fast trip back home and the move proved to be a wise financial decision. Owens grabbed the lead from Mark Douglas on lap 23 of the “Old Fashion Sunday Meeting @ The Gap 50” and once out front he was never seriously challenged in pocketing $5,000 for the Super Late Model victory. Austin Dillon, a NASCAR Camping World Truck Series racer and grandson of multi-team owner Richard Childress, toured the high-banked 4/10-mile oval at 12.799-seconds to earn the pole position and $300 from Martin’s Roofing Service of Bean Station for the 50-lap main event. Dillon and Douglas, who timed-in second quickest at 12.804 led the 23-car field to green from row one. With both racing side-by-side down the front straightaway into first turn, Douglas rode the cushion up top to power into the lead over Dillon as they raced off second turn, with Chris Ferguson, Billy Ogle Jr. and Ty Dillon holding down top five in running order back around at the stripe to complete the opening lap. “The Newport Nightmare” Owens was on the move quickly, overtaking Ty Dillon for fifth on lap 2. One circuit later Owens got around “Billy the Kid” Ogle between turns three and four to take over the fourth spot. All eyes were on Owens, as he was up-on-the-wheel and hustling his way around the track – passing Ferguson to move into third place on lap 4 racing off turn two. With the race running clean-and-green, Douglas, a two-time Volunteer Speedway Super Late Model competitor, had pulled out to seven car length lead by lap 10 over Austin Dillon, who had Owens riding in his rearview mirror. Douglas caught the tail of the field and began having to work traffic on lap 17. Having difficulty in maneuvering his way around the traffic directly in front of him, all at once Douglas’ lead evaporated and Austin Dillon and Owens were applying pressure. Coming to the start-finish line to begin lap 18, Douglas was trying to use his front nosepiece to move slower cars aside. Owens saw the top of the track open and he drove his mount in hard on the outside of Austin Dillon, and racing off turn two Owens sped past to move into the runner-up position. But Owens, driving, was not content to ride in second. Just a few laps prior, Owens had gone up top in getting around Austin Dillon. In making what would prove to be the race-winning move, Owens drove in hard on the bottom to get inside of Douglas entering turn one on lap 23 to take a lead he would never relinquish. Just two circuits later, good runs for both Ferguson and Jonathan Davenport ended when they spun in turn two to bring out the yellow. Going back green Owens was riding out front for the Delaware Double File Restart, with Austin Dillon and Ogle behind him. Back up to speed and after working his magic in charging from third row starting position all the way into the lead, Owens began to put distance between himself, Austin Dillon and Ogle during a 22-lap green flag stretch. Owens’ run to victory was temporarily slowed when Bryan Hendrix slowed to a stop high between turns three and four with a flat tire to bring out the event’s final caution. With a five-lap dash to the checkers, Owens set sail with a clear track ahead of him to easily win over Austin Dillon, Ogle, Ty Dillon and Chip Brindle, who came home with a fifth-place finish after starting 13th. Completing the top 10 finishers were Tommy Kerr, Eric Wells, Chris Brown, Chad Ogle and Eric Jacobsen. ”This is a good home-track win for us tonight,” said a smiling Owens after climbing from his car on the front straightaway in victory lane before the cheering crowd. “Here at ‘The. “You can’t race at the level we compete at unless you’ve got good backing, and. The way we travel around the country racing, you’ve got to have good financial support and also a good crew helping work on the car. I realize just how fortunate I am to have all the key pieces of the puzzle in place to allow me to race on the national level.” With a stellar 25-car field of Fastrak Racing Series-sanctioned Pro (Crate) Late Models in attendance, Jerry Broyles and Shanon Buckingham brought the field to green from the front row. Broyles and Buckingham raced door-to-door down the front straightaway into the first turn, but carrying the momentum off the banking exiting turn two up high Buckingham moved into the lead over Broyles, Dale Ball, Bobby Mays and Tim Byrd. Ball got around Broyles for second on lap 2, closing in on the rear bumper of Buckingham, while Broyles, Mays and Byrd were running nose-to-tail. Just outside the top five in running order, Vic Chandler, Mike Smith, David Smith, Weston Gantte and Brandon Williams were battling for real estate. Caution waved on lap 9 when Andy Ogle and Richard Adkins spun in turn three. Buckingham was all alone out front for the Delaware Double File Restart, with Ball and Broyles side-by-side behind him. Ball got a good run on Buckingham racing down the front straightaway into first turn to get a nose underneath him, and racing off turn two Buckingham suddenly slowed with a suspected broken fuel pump and Ball moved into the lead. With cars jamming up behind the slowing Buckingham, at end of backstretch Steve Cooke and Joey Steele spun to bring out the caution. The next attempt to go green had Johnson City chauffeur Ball riding out front, with Broyles and Mays behind him. While Ball began to put a little distance between/Envy Suspension/Warrior Race Cars/No. 2 Chevrolet Impala and his closest challengers Broyles and Mays during a 10-lap green flag run, he saw a seven car length lead be erased on lap 19 when Jordan Dill spun between turns one and two to bring out the event’s final caution. Poised for a six-lap run to the finish, Ball, the defending Pro (Crate) Late Model track champion, got a good jump over Broyles and Mays when the green flag waved on the restart and would not be denied a trip to victory lane. Ball was chased to the checkers by Broyles, Mays, Smith and Byrd. Dustin Shaver set fast-time at 16.045-seconds (89.752 mph) to win the pole position for the “Gunslingers” Hobby Stock 20-lap feature, but it was outside front-row starter Jamie Whitt of Wise, Va., the defending divisional track champion, crossing the start-finish line ahead of Shaver to record the victory after leading flag-to-flag. Finishing third through fifth, respectively, were Jon Cook, Dale Reed and Dennis Metcalf. Duke Bare of Meadowview, Va., wrote his name in the record book as the inaugural feature winner of the new Road Warrior division as he captured the victory over Robert Barndt, Jesse Wilder, Kyle Hunter and Bobby Shelton. VOLUNTEER SPEEDWAY – $5,000-TO-WIN – SUPER LATE MODEL “OLD FASHION SUNDAY MEETING @ THE GAP 50” – APRIL 10, 2011 Showing Finish Position, Starting Position In Parentheses, Driver Name, Car Number, Hometown 1. (5) Jimmy Owens #20-Newport, TN 2. (1) Austin Dillon #3-Lewisville, NC 3. (4) Billy Ogle Jr. #201-Knoxville, TN 4. (6) Ty Dillon #41-Lewisville, NC 5. (13) Chip Brindle #21-Chatsworth, GA 6. (11) Tommy Kerr #4T-Maryville, TN 7. (8) Eric Wells #18-Hazard, KY 8. (9) Chris Brown #21-Cleveland, TX 9. (14) Chad Ogle #10-Sevierville, TN 10. (12) Eric Jacobsen #5-Seacliffe Beach, CA 11. (15) Ronnie Johnson #5-Chattanooga, TN 12. (18) Jeff Maupin #25-Greeneville, TN 13. (10) Mark Vineyard #4-Powell, TN 14. (22) David Watts #04-Buchanan, VA 15. (20) Kerry Jones #116-Bristol, TN 16. (16) Bryan Hendix #5-Knoxville, TN 17. (21) Josh Henry #B00-Newport, TN 18. (3) Chris Ferguson #22-Mount Holly, NC 19. (17) Vic Hill #1-Morristown, TN 20. (2) Mark Douglas #52D-Knoxville, TN 21. (7) Jonathan Davenport #49-Blairsville, GA 22. (23) Dempsey Harold Jr. #09-Church Hill, TN 23. (19) Todd Morrow #48-Chattanooga, TN PRO (CRATE) LATE MODEL (25 laps) 1) Dale Ball #2; 2) Jerry Broyles #72; 3) Bobby Mays #19; 4) David Smith #11; 5) Tim Byrd #24; 6) Brandon Williams #95; 7) Vic Chandler #88; 8 ) Weston Gantte #14; 9) Chad Hale #51; 10) Todd Brooks #T1; 11) Ricky Moore #75; 12) Brian Nance #47; 13) Andy Ogle #68; 14) Jordan Dill #22; 15) Hugh Scalf #56; 16) John Broce Jr. #44; 17) Richard Adkins #73; 18) Tim Maupin #2T; 19) Brian Westmoreland #54; 20) Shanon Buckingham #50; 21) Steve Cooke #17c; 22) Joey Steele #97; 23) Mike Smith #4; 24) James Cole #5 – Did Not Start: Keith Helton #5 HOBBY STOCK (20 laps) 1) Jamie Whitt #1; 2) Dustin Shaver #7; 3) Jon Cook #0z; 4) Dale Reed #52; 5) Dennis Metcalf #55; 6) Ricky Gosnell #15; 7) Bud Kelley #B21; 8 ) Robbie Woods #2; 9) Charlie Bates #27; 10) Roger Hunter #7-11; 11) Josh Adkins #m20; 12) Tracey Wolfe #11; 13) Brian Mock #18; 14) Mike Kilian #94; 15) Eddie Adams #9; 16) Chris Gregg #73; 17) Kaleb Trent #34; 18) Danny Helton #88; 19) Chuck Kilian #96 ROAD WARRIOR (12 laps) 1) Duke Bare #52; 2) Robert Barndt #14; 3) Jesse Wilder #79; 4) Kyle Hunter #7-11; 5) Bobby Shelton #5; 6) Brian Ellis #48
NEWS INTRODUCTION - Features - World View - Race - Class/Skill - Item - Quest GAME GUIDE - Installation/Execution - Beginner Guide - Community - Item Practical Use - Guild - R.S.C.S. - Battle COMMUNITY - Forum - Screenshot - Fan & Guild Site - Ranking - Spot DOWNLOAD - Client Download - Movie - Wallpaper - Concept Art SUPPORT - 1:1 Inquiry - Policy ACCOUNT - Manage Account CASH SHOP - Charge Cash - My History - My Record - Cash Items - User Guide - What Is 4STORY? - Episode - Dynamic War - Goddess of Creation and 8 Guardians - Creation of Iverian Continent - Chronology - Hostility Kingdoms of Three ▶ - Defugel - Craxion - Broa - Neutral Kingdoms - Human - Werebeast - Fairy - Warrior - Assassin - Archer - Wizard - Priest - Summoner - Weapon ▶ - Armor ▶ - Accessories - Consumable Items - One handed swords - Two handed swords - Axes - Left-handed sword - Chakrams - Bows - Cross Bows - Shilds - Staffs - Wands - Magic Shilds - Clothes - Uniforms - Light Leathers - Heavy Leathers - Light Armors - Heavy Armors - System requirements - Installation and execution - Connection and Creation of Character - Interface - Shortcut Keys - Starting town - Moving - Conversation - Inventory - Items - Skill - Hunting - Looting Item - NPC - Death and Resurrection - Returning - Repairing Items - Warehouse - Mounts - Chatting - Trade - Personal Shop - Party - Mail - Emotion - Messenger - Soulmate - Duel - Item Upgrade - Item Refinement - Sealed Item - Disguisement Tool - Production System - Creation - Invitation and Application - Join and Withdraw - Guild Chat (Command) - Guild Window - Level and benefit - What is R.S.C.S.? - R.S.C.S. composition - Interface - How To Use R.S.C.S. - What is War in 4STORY? - Division - Field War - Territory Occupation ▶ - Summary - Spots - Required Condition - Progress - Benefits - Summary - Available Guild - Available Condition - Access to Castle - Construction and Functions - Progress - Mercenary System - Winner's Benefits - Personal Ranking - My Ranking - Modification of Personal Information - Change Password - Withdrawal - Game Policy - Terms of Agreement - Service Fee User Agreement \| \| > Introduction > World View > Goddess of Creation and 8 Guardians Goddess, sing to the birth of a new world. The war won't end until the one hero descents to this world. \| World View Goddess, chant Chant for your tragic destiny that even bears war. Hands of tales are here. Chant for birth of the world, goddess. There was a quickening at the beginnig. At that time of the chaos that evoke sleeping wills. Consciousness had been spreaded over the universe. In the era of gods that gods were more than grain of sand, as consciousness of a god, there were two gods standing against. The one was a king of none, the god who exists by none, and another was a goddess who rules existence and mystery of creation. In the universe that even none can exist without creation, opposition between the king of none, who have to create none, and the goddess of creation, who creates existence from none, was a contradiction as a destiny. At the end of the endless war, the goddess had taken by the king of none. While the goddess tears creating creatures under the rules of the king, the fate showed up and said, "Thou of creation, thou of mystery of existence, stop crying because nobody can hurt you of powerful authority, even the king of none." Goddess said, "It is not a tear of safety of myself, fate. It is a tear that the contradiction of myself who creates from nothing sheds." Fate prophesied destiny of the goddess touching wet cheek of the goddess with its chill hands" "Then, your sorrowful tears won't stop all along the time of eternity. You will bring a disaster from that contradiction. You will create none again, and you will see the long war that your creatures would be involved. Until the advent of one hero into your world, the war will never end." The fate disappeared remaining a cold sympathy, and the goddess engraved the prophecy of the fate. She took off from shade of the king of none, and she walked to somewhere that does not exist and does by herself. Goddess completely exists by herself. She wandered over the world that she had created. Chaos was on the ground, and abyss was in the endless sea. She created light and sepereted dark and light. She divided the water and the ground by striking light and made fire, and she made flow of air by spreading light shock. Even though it was shiny and dark, she saw that it was good. It is genesis of this world. When the world was completed through about three hundered days, the king of none knew the existing world. He ordered for his creatures to let the world be none. However, merciful goddess just watched it. Some people say that the goddess was too weak to stop the invasion. Some people say that the goddess avoided the war with creatures. Whatsoever, the prophecy has come true. Goddess made eight gods into the world that she completely existed by herself. Light of brightness, darkness of hiding, fire of passion, water of enernity, wind of quickness, earth of affection, thunder of mystery and iron of principle. These eight gods finally started the war against lineage of creatures. While blood flows as river, the newborn earth is trampled and fresh forests are tainted with dead bodies, eight gods finally took the big triumph. Many people of the king of none did swear their loyalty to gods, and they allowed the life in the world. Among them, there was a man who calls himself as the grand chamberlain, and he sweared all of his loyalty hiding sources of his greed and obsession, then gods believed him deeply. From this, gods brought a seed of discord themselves. Being and not being got balanced, and finally goddess appeared herself. Her love had affected to the ruined world. Gods adored the one that has been their mother, and they prepared the throne of heaven and dedicated their love to her. They made a boundary that is called Avalon of heaven for the goddess so that anybody from none never looks down on. Everything was in peace. On a day, the grand chamberlain of gods went to guardian of light and said, "Oh, brilliant light, the absolute being exists over all the gods, this mean one see your face with one problem." The grand chamberlain said meanly, "Dare I tell you that an intrigue is being planned in this peaceful heaven." The god of light was so angry and shouted. Cunning grand chamberlain managed for the god of light to calm down and said, "Unfortunately, I myself rely on you because I can't figure out which gods are planning this with my weak ability." The god of light reared up and said, "I take your advice and will find out the criminal to punish." And then the grand chamberlain went to the guardian of darkness and said, "Oh, great god, deep and wise night." He said wrath of the god of light. He said, "I can't understand the reason why the god of light said that. Even if I tell him many times that it can't be happened, he thought that he have to protect the goddess because there is an intrigue to hurt her." The god of darkness thought doubtfully that the god of light is making something up, and he said, "I will take care of this confusion." Therefore, there were discords among gods of heaven, Talk was cut disbelief was growing. Gods started to fight each other with justice of protecting goddess. When opposition, misunderstanding and hatred are spreaded in a moment, the grand chamberlain came out and arbitrated between gods. He said, "Great gods, this little one of none demonstrate that there are eight jewels in this holy metal box. Seven of them are transparent jewels and one of them is black and dark jewel. How would it sound that whoever picks the black jewel take the honor of protecting the goddess?" Cunning tongue of the grand chamberlain took down all the misunderstanding and disbelief instantly, and gods started to pick one of those jewels. Guardian of iron picked the black jewel. The grand chamberlain meanly said, "Powerful iron, you picked the black jewel, so this humble chamberlain declare than the honor of protecting the goddess is yours. But, the god of light broke the rules, and he said that he is going to protect goddess himself. Unfortunately, there is nothing for me to do." The peace that was covoring the heaven for short time was broke. War of gods was started with gods of light and iron. This war was damaged largely that can't be recovered by anyone even goddess, and gods started to kill one and one each other." At the end of the war, god of iron and light met each other and showed their black jewel to each other, and they said, "This whole world was played by a humble man." The god of iron sighed and said, "Our greed for the goddess made situation bad." The black jewel broke and scattered out. In these remaining ruined places, god of iron and light went to see the chamberlain. The one of every lies smiled and said, "It is too late, gods. I already got the goddess by my long-cherished desire." hile gods were fighting each other, the chamberlain established his own race. So the prophecy has come true again. The god of iron and light cooperate to face against the chamberlain. Finally, two gods beated the chamberlain and return him back to area of none, but the god of iron and light also died. Noble Avalon fell down to the earth with holy corpse and blood of gods, and the one who knows the location of Avalon had passed away so that a long history of Avalon has been forgotten. However, survival power of people of past has flown into the earth and went to the root of this world. World itself is the evidence of Avalon and the gods, and it proves the prophecy that has not been come true yet. Welcome to 4Story free online games site. 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gave us a government strong enough to preserve "the Blessings of Liberty", but not big enough to take it away. As historian Paul Johnson writes, "Fear of Big Government was further mitigated by a general assumption that, once the new Constitution was in force, Washington would again be summoned to duty and would prevent its power from being abused. Two hundred years after Washington passed on, and after the abuses of the Clinton era, how much of the supreme law of the land endures? Check the Constitution Scorecard, which keeps track of how our leaders and opinion-makers are heeding the supreme law of the land. The Scorecard awards gold stars for keeping faith with the Constitution and black stars for contempt of Constitution. Special Awards *Three Gold Stars * The Benjamin Franklin Rising Sun Award for Constitutional Fidelity The Ronald Reagan Award for Constitutional Excellence *Three Black Stars * The Ted Kennedy Award for Supreme Contempt of the Constitution This was formerly known as the Charles Townshend Award and then the Clinton Award, but this corrupt crony of George III had his award retired in favor of the 42nd president, after he admitted to lying under oath to avoid prosecution by Robert Ray. There is good news this July 4th. The stirrings across America by citizens who want to reclaim constitutional government have been heard in state capitals nationwide – and none too soon. Because Washington, DC has fallen prey to the temptations of tyranny, the road to restoring the United States Constitution will come from the state and local levels of government. As Ronald Reagan pointed out, it was not the federal government that created the states; rather, the states created the federal government. History will someday report that the first halting steps to restore the American republic were taken in 2009. If you still think the restoration will begin in Washington, DC, consider the outrageous support of President Obama for a would-be leftist dictator in Central America. The US government is demanding the recently ousted president of Honduras be returned to power. Mr. Obama denounced his ouster as an illegal coup d'etat. Meanwhile, his purported friend Hugo Chavez, the dictator of Venezuela, is threatening to invade Honduras without a murmur of dissent from Mr. Obama. But the decision of the Honduran military to remove their president was no coup. It was supported by that nation's congress and Supreme Court and a new civilian president took office in accordance with the constitutional rules of succession. The president was ousted for illegally trying to replace the constitution with a new one without presidential term limits. Mr. Obama's support for this act of Caesarism wins him a black star for Contempt of Constitution. Is there anyone in the world who can now think Mr. Obama believes in a limited government of checks and balances? Another politician who wins a black star for not comprehending the rules of limited government is South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford. His refusal to resign while being bogged down by personal scandal shows either lack of understanding or lack of regard for what the late historian R.J. Rushdoony called Sphere Law. This means that, as Thomas Jefferson wrote in the Declaration of Independence, that government exists to protect the rights of mankind that are God-given. As James Madison added, since government is never run by angels, it must be controlled. So the United States divides government power between the legislative, executive, and judicial spheres, the federal and state spheres, the state and local spheres, and even public and private spheres. Mankind is not governed only by the state, but also by spheres of family, commerce, individual conscience, and religion. By clinging desperately to public office, Governor Sanford also merits a black star. His first priority must be to mend his marriage and save his family. He cannot do so while fighting the usual political battles. No doubt he is frustrated by hearing calls for his immediate resignation while watching Progressive politicians like Edward Kennedy, Barney Frank, and the Clintons, who not only retain power years after being caught in scandals worse than his, but are lionized by the American political left. Nevertheless, supporters of constitutional government, like Mr. Sanford, must stand by their principles and continue to point to the lack of standards from progressive leftists who worship power above everything else. Long before Progressives started gloating over Mr. Sanford's downfall, they served notice that they hold constitutional government in contempt. The latest example of that contempt comes from Phil Bredesen, the current governor of Tennessee. Mr. Bredesen has decided to allow the new Tennessee Firearms Freedom Act to become law without his signature. In doing so, however, he denounced the new law as unconstitutional and predicted the federal courts will make mincemeat of it. That was his first mistake. Since he is under oath to uphold the US Constitution, he is obligated to veto any bill he considers unconstitutional. This new law declares that "The Tennessee Constitution clearly secures to Tennessee citizens, and prohibits government interference with, the right of individual Tennessee citizens to keep and bear arms." It specifically declares that Congress has no power under the interstate commerce clause of the US Constitution to interfere with intrastate gun transactions inside Tennessee. The new law adds Tennessee to a long list of states that have proposed or enacted bills reasserting the powers of the states under the Ninth and Tenth amendments in the US Bill of Rights. Thomas Jefferson and James Madison would be proud. Governor Bredesen wins a constitutional black star because, to put it simply, he just doesn't get it. The federal courts have no more power to defy the Tenth Amendment than do Congress and the president. Jefferson pointed out that the Tenth Amendment is the linchpin of the US Constitution and the federal system it empowers. Washington politicians and bureaucrats have no power beyond the written limits of the US Constitution. Beyond those limits, the powers of the states are supreme. If necessary, the states can interpose their constitutional views over those of federal officeholders, including US judges and justices, and nullify unconstitutional laws or orders from the US government. The Tennessee Firearms Freedom Act has earned that state's lawmakers two constitutional gold stars. But this is only the start of what is needed to restore the US Constitution. The Scorecard now humbly submits what should become, and someday will become, the model for American state governments in the 21st Century. The model American state government will begin by amending its own constitution to reassert what Virginia, New York, and Rhode Island declared when they ratified the US Constitution. These three states reserved the right to reclaim any powers delegated to the federal government through the US Constitution if those powers are ever used to violate the rights of citizens. Such state constitutional amendments will also reassert state and local powers under the Ninth and Tenth Amendments to the US Constitution. As Jefferson and Madison pointed out in 1798, through the Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions against the Alien and Sedition Acts, this means any state can nullify any unconstitutional federal law or decree. To help preserve these necessary limitations on federal powers, the model state government will also assert in its state constitution the authority of its legislature to form modern committees of correspondence, or other associations, with other states in the Union to discuss ways they can cooperate against arbitrary federal actions. This will mirror what the original 13 states did to resist British tyranny before the American Revolution. The model state government will also create new councils or committees to defend specific constitutional rights, especially property rights and free speech. Both of these rights have been violated in recent decades by federal actions, including campaign finance controls and hate crime laws. It will not allow federal officials to unreasonably interfere with the rights of citizens to be free stewards of their own property. Such committees and councils will be authorized to recommend to the legislature whether federal laws should be voided. It may also ask state courts and state executives to review questionable interpretations of the US Constitution by federal authorities. This will expedite resistance to federal tyranny. These organizations will also hold local town hall meetings for citizen education and input about the US Constitution. The model state government will also amend its constitution to require a restoration of constitutional limits on the federal power to wage war. The Founding Fathers insisted that excessive or improper use of the warmaking power is always a threat to freedom. Reformed state constitutions will restore state militias, in place of National Guard units. State militias played a crucial role in winning the American Revolution. State lawmakers will insist the militia not be called into federal service unless Congress has declared war or issued letters of marque and reprisal. The model state government will also restrain the excesses of partisan politics, recalling President George Washington's warning in his Farewell Address that political parties often produce "a fire that tends to consume, rather than warm" and that can destroy a republic. It is time to face the facts: both the Democratic and Republican parties have unconstitutionally expanded federal powers in their zealous pursuit of federal power and patronage. Washington, DC is now so saturated with arrogance that the current US president, who barely won a majority of the popular vote, routinely dismisses objections to his policies by saying "I won" the election. But the USA is not run by partisan presidential plebiscites and dictates, as Hitler ran Nazi Germany, but through a democratic republic of checks and balances. The model state government will subdue excessive partisanship by following the example of Nebraska. Seventy-five years ago this year, Nebraskans approved the initiative of Senator George Norris, a Progressive before that term was hijacked by Cultural Marxists – to reform the state legislature with nonpartisan elections. The future model state government will require in its own constitution that congressional and presidential candidates be elected via nonpartisan ballots. Nonpartisan elections to the Nebraska unicameral legislature have softened partisan differences. When this rule is applied to Congress, it will weaken party machines and the patronage demands that have so bloated federal bureaucracies. The future model state government also will restore the indirect method of electing American presidents with nonpartisan balloting. Instead, citizens will be invited to election year caucuses to debate and vote on policies the next president should address. Presidential electors will not be pledged to vote for a specific candidate. Instead, they will promise to only vote for presidential candidates who agree to address the people's issues. The model state government should also insist that its members of Congress support repeal of the 16th and 17th Amendments to the US Constitution. The federal income tax, created by the 16th Amendment, has become repressive. This year's corrupt senatorial election in Minnesota and senatorial appointment in Illinois are sufficient proof that the 17th Amendment has backfired. Direct election of US senators has corrupted and undermined American federalism. Last, but not least, the model state government will prohibit out of state funding for all elections; federal, state, and local. All federal election laws on campaign finance will also be nullified. This limitation on campaign financing will be effective, unlike the unconstitutional McCain-Feingold Law. It will provide the added bonus of restoring the role of state and local governments in the American federal system. Once the states, or at least, a significant number of them, have enacted such reforms, the US Constitution will be restored. Americans will once again live under the rule of law – Sphere Law – and the proper checks and balances will return. These reforms may seem drastic, but once in place, they will soon feel natural. And, from above, the Founders of the American Republic will nod approval. Let the restoration begin!
After years of wanting. After years of wishing. After years of bugging This Guy and asking the internet for advice, I finally got the courage to hit “submit order” and buy myself a DSLR. (A Rebel XTI if you were wondering. I wanted a this one but, um, I have three kids to feed. So…NO.) Although I am frustrated most of the time (all of the buttons! What are they for? I do not know! Too much to learn!) I am loving the crap out of my camera. I have so much to learn and am pretty sure no matter how many times someone explains what ISO means, I will NEVER GET IT. However, I’ve already mastered the art of Making Things That Are in The Background Blurry (um, what’s the called again? HAHA) and that’s enough for me, really. When I first got the camera, I was terrified of it. (Again… THE BUTTONS!) I am telling the truth when I tell you that when I held it for the first few times, I got weak in the pachina. My fear was SO DEEP, that I could feel it down there. If I told you the number of plates, glasses and coffee mugs that I have dropped for no good reason at all, you would understand my fear. I’m sure that fear will fade with time. I’m already feeling more comfortable with it in my hands. I’m excited to learn what this camera is capable of and how I take pictures of my children that I am proud of and that I will be able to pass on to them when I am long gone (which may not be too long if I DON’T GET SOME EFFING THYROID MEDICATION ALREADY.) I ordered the 50mm that everyone who owns a DSLR said I MUST HAVE in the hopes that this will be the year that I can take Beautiful Christmas Pictures of my children. But, um, unless that camera can make my daughter sit still and not physically assault her brothers, I’m pretty sure that I’ll be wishing I had just taken them to Sears. jealous! I kept getting dark pictures of my tree….me want one too! Way to be brave! Oh, I almost didn’t get it. Ask all of my friends who I kept IM’ing saying “I can’t do it. I can’t hit SUBMIT ORDER!” But, PigHunter insisted that I get it and my friends swore I wouldn’t regret it, so, I bit the bullet and bought it. So glad I did. I give good lesons. I’m a long time lurker, occaisional commenter and professional photographer, feel free to ask for free advice. Um…sorry to be a bitcher…shouldn’t it say “How Did I Ever Live My Life WITHOUT It?” Or am I missing something? ! You WON’T regret it! Once I learned the manual functions, I never went back. It took me years to understand all of the terms, but they finally clicked. Hooray! You can do this. I KNOW you can Thanks for pointing that out, Lola. My bad. not the nikon? i’m crushed. check out. here’s her description of what aperture is – how blurry you want the background. the lower the number, the more blur. she’s a plain talker. try her DVD Outside the Green Box. it explains aperture, iso, and exposure in very basic, beginner’s terms. Ohhhh Ahhhhh. Drool. I just got myself that 1.8 lens a couple of days ago, too. It WAS on my christmas list, but I’m a human of the impatient variety, and dammit, I could not wait for BLUR! Karla– all fixed. 😉 It’s ‘bokeh’ and you do it very very well. This kind of makes me want to make one more trip to SoCal so that we can play with our cameras together. Well that and eat cook-ays. Sigh, that will never get old. 😉 oh my God. Cookays! HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA. Dude, I think you should come and stay with me. We’ll take pictures of the raccoons in my front yard! Jeal. Ous. Sticking my tongue out at you. Hope you’ll share your fancy pants pictures, though! Oh pretty picture! Congrats on your new camera, enjoy! OMG! U R SOoooo LUCKIE!!!!!1!!!1!! That is what I have on the top of my Christmas list. But unfortunately, I don’t think anyone loves me that much. And I really, really need a new camera. Badly. Because my camera… it Sucks Rotten Ass. Let me show you it. Woo new camera 😀 Gabby does seem to be a pretty good subject, lately, though, so that bodes well for your photo op, does it not? I would be terrified of dropping the camera too – while decorating my tree I dropped one of the ornaments that was NOT shatterproof – not a pretty sight. (Also, ow. My feet.) I’m still getting to grips with my camera. What I could really do with some help with is getting the photos off the phone and onto the computer [just too lazy to wade through another instruction manual!] Cheers I am SO jealous! moveable type just at my last comment. Anyways, congrats on the camera. I also have a Rebel and I LOVE it. Which 50mm did you choose? I was looking and got so overwhelmed I just stopped. I have that one too. Back when we had a tiny bit of money to burn, figured it was an investment. Which it is, but I don’t know how to use it. Please tell me how to make the background fuzzy? I didn’t know it could do that. gees So……. much……. jealousy.. can’t control………… enjoy it!!! You know how to make the fuzzy background? I’m jealous. Have fun with you new toy! Damn…you rocked the bokeh….i am dumb does anyone know if you can get that kinda bokeh with a Nikon D40? I’m so excited to see your new pictures since you take great photos already! Oh and the fear of dropping it? I’ve been there. Dropped my new grown-up dslr on its LENS (makes my stomach turn just thinking about it). I learned about finding a good repair shop and all about how to wear the neck strap right after I clean up the vomit. I could use a tip or two on the Canon XTi. I’m all, Woah, look! This ONE (out of 100) turned out “eh”. Nice. You? Will kick Canon ass. I’m sure. Nice bokeh! Congrats on the new camera. I’ve had my Canon 5D and I’m still learning how to use it. I lusted after a Canon digital for more than a year, but couldn’t bring myself to spend that amount of money on ME. I never did since it was my husband who surprised me with the camera. I’ve had my DSLR for about a year now and I’m STILL intimidated by it. I am still waiting for my 50mm macro as well. I’m DYING for one. From what I’ve seen on your Flickr so far, you’re doing AMAZING. Nothing to be scared of!! If I had your camera, I’d have more than the same 6 photos which have been there since August on my Flickr. sigh I love the blurry back! That pick is awesome, good pick I’m glad you’re loving your camera so much! I’m pretty sure I’m the only dSLR photographer that doesn’t have a 50mm lens, but it’s just not my style. You work it quite well! So pretty! I must have one. Congratulations on the new camera. Have fun getting to know it. Oh man, Y. I just resigned myself last night to getting another point and shoot instead of a DSLR, because I have no idea how to use one. I want to learn so bad, but I’m scared that I’ll buy it and then never use it because its to confusing. Now your making me want to change my mind. But, I finally found a good point and shoot and its 300 dollars less than the SLR I want! DECISIONS. They are killing me. (Also, you should know that it just took me ten minutes to spell decisions. I had it so messed up that even spell check couldn’t help me. Gah.) charming photo! And that post about taking photo of your family for Christmas (the link) – that was so cute! Ooh I want a Rebel! Going back to that old link and seeing that pic of G with her hands over her eyes could be easily be pulled off as PURE GENIUS for a Christmas photo. Too stinkin’ cute. I got my XTi about a a year and a half ago and it’s seriously become a 5th appendage. I haul it with me everywhere. I treat it like one of the kids. heh My best advise is SHOOT, SHOOT, SHOOT! Just take as many pictures as you can while playing with features and don’t be discouraged if things don’t look AWESOME right off the bat. You’ll be surprised at some of the fantastic shots you get that were perfect mistakes. Oh, and dpreview.com has a glossary section that explains a LOT of common photography terms in pretty easy to understand language. It’s been a great resource for me. You’re off to a good start! Can’t wait to see more. That is awesome. There is a learning curve, I have found. My new week oldamera is a Canon Power Shot S5. I still working out the kinks. There is a lovely self portrait on my blog with my tongue sticking out………LOL. That is awesome! I would love to upgrade. My camera is my favourite toy. So jealous!….I’d love to ask Santa for one of these, but I don’t think he’ll be dropping this bad boy down our chimney. I still haven’t even read the manual for my current camera. Found your blog through OnceUponALifetime…Love it and shall return Oh, I am SO happy for you. I am still drooling and coveting a DSLR. sniff Say a prayer for me that I’ll get it before too many more years pass…. T’is spooky how our lives are all sort of parallel, if i haven’t just today bought myself a camera ( that isn’t even here yet) A Nikon D50 me thinks…..because we are in a? America where the cameras cost the same in $s which means that to me that is HALF PRICE! Even though it isn’t here yet my bowels have turned to water about all the stuff and the which button and how to make things blurry, am disappointed it won’t make kids sit still, wish we could have some kind of post where we can all show our crapola pictures of bloody kids who just won’t do what you want, although I did end up with THE cutest ever ‘bad’ picture that made it onto cards that I wanted to give to people in the street I loved it so much! I look at your pics on the top of your blog and if those fantabulous portaits were taken with a biffy camera, can’t wait to see some with your posh new one with all them buttons. I love my Rebel. LOVE it. And even when I mess up taking pictures, I can fix it with my lame photo editing software. Whee! Congratulations! Ahh! That’s the camera that I want! And I may possibly get for Christmas this year! (Like next week!! =D=D=D) I’ve never been more excited about a Christmas present IN MY LIFE. Now, I have a question. Did you have to buy a flash and if so, what kind did you buy? Thanks =] Have you been to or something similar? There is TONS of information there about photography! Gorgeous photo. I think my camera can do stuff like that. But I’ve got the button issue as well… I love my SLR. I take pictures of every ridiculous thing I can think of, and also about a gazillion of my daughter. I even – gasp! – print them and put them in albums. If I ever got divorced it would be a toss up as to what I would marry – my minivan or my SLR. I love them THAT MUCH. I can’t even tell you how excited I am to see what you come up with. You’re so talented. YAY for the new camera!! i just got the same camera and am having the same terrifying thoughts you are having. i’ve read my user’s manual twice and am searching the internet for advice. i used a film slr for years, but this digital thing, it’s scary. but exciting too. i’m exciting about learning how to use it and having fun playing with all the settings. not getting any great pictures thought, but hopefully that will come.
Letter from Myrtle Scott Davis, daughter of James O. Scott, to E. S. Mayer, from McCall, ID, 19 March 1973 Uncle Will was married and had a boy around 1 yr. old when he died. His widow married a man by the name of Knight and they moved to Wyoming. The baby's name was Ernest and he had a half sister, Lora. When Ernest was 18 he came back to visit Grandpa and relatives. Think it was in the spring of 1901 [ Ernest born ~1883]. After he married their home was Omak, Wn. They raised 4 daughters. He wrote Dad once in awhile. Uncle Dave spent several months at Milton, Ore with Aunt Marilla and Uncle Dave in hopes of regaining his health. I can remember the day Dad brought him home from the train all wrapped up in a comforter and how cold it was. He only lived a few days. Brother Dave has spent his last two winters at Jacksonville, Ore. and the last several summers at Sisters. Mary Ida Scott was the daughter of James Thomas Scott and granddaughter of William Hazelton Scott. Myrtle Scott Davis was a granddaughter of James Thomas Scott and a niece of Mary Ida. Mary Ida (Scott) Godfrey to Myrtle Scott Davis, Sept. 13, 1960 Your great Uncle William Scott married Sarah Mehls. We called her Aunt Sade. She was a small woman and ever so nice. I loved her. They had 4 children, Fred, Orrin, Myrtis and Ora. Uncle Will was a farmer, moved to Unionville after Aunt Sade died. Uncle Joe Scott married Romanna Montgomery. (We called her Aunt Mannie.) (Aunt Lizzie Duree was her only sister, so far as I know.) They had 3 children, Adaline (Addie), Robert (Bob) and in later years Gail, a boy. Uncle Joe Scott was a farmer, too, but later was Marshall at Unionville. Also he and [son] Bob ran a restaurant there. Finally they all moved to South Missouri. After Uncle Joe passed on, Addie and Aunt Mannie moved to St. Louis. Aunt Manni, Bob & wife are all dead, and Addie is in Florida. She was brother Geo. H. Scott's age. Uncle Joe looked like Father (James T.) and was like him in lots of ways. I always liked him. He was more affectionate than Father. He drank as long as he lived. But I liked him anyway. And he had a troublesome family for a good excuse. My Grandmother Scott (YOUR GREAT) was Mary Ann Short. Grandfather was William Hazelton Scott. I dont know Too much about the Family tree. I heard Uncle Will tell one time about his Aunt Helen [ Helen H. Scott?]. He had gone over to his grandparents to stay over night, had walked and was very hungry. He would never eat mutton, he said. But as he was eating on his supper, Aunt Helen reached over and whispered in his ear, "Will, you are eating mutton". He said "I know it", but he did'nt. People can get fooled. Both grandparents, Wm. H. and Mary Short [Scott], came to Missouri when children were single, all but Uncle Joe and Aunt Mary Ellen Wilson. [And James Thomas.] Aunt Mary had a baby boy when she came, Will Wilson. The Grandparents had 3 boys at home, Gill, Garrett, and George. Mother said all Gill did was monkey with snakes. "He never worked after he married". Before that, he travelled and gave lectures and demonstrations on Phrenology. Garrett said he was good at it. Aunt Mary and Janie thought Gill was the only one. Effie Scott Mayer, daughter of David Garrett Scott, granddaughter of William Hazelton Scott, maintained a steady correspondence with an extended network of cousins for over thirty years. After her death, some of her correspondence was inherited by her son, Reece Mayer. Children of David Garrett Scott and Ann Jane Reece, undated note Burton Wilson Scott, April 19, 1876, Putnam Co., MO Alvanza Marshall Scott, May 18, 1877, Putnam Co., MO Charlie Elmer Scott, May 27, 1879 Mary Cora Scott, Dec. 6, 1880, Putnam Co., Mo Olie (girl) Belden Scott, Nov. 13, 1882, Lewisburg, Kansas, buried Warsaw, Mo. (died at 2 yrs) Gilbert Kimble Scott, July 8, 1884, Lewisburg, Kansas Effie Lillian Melverne Scott, born Nov. 20, 1887, Warsaw, Mo Asa Reece Scott, April 4, 1889, Warsaw, Mo. Burt and Al and Cora Scott were all baptized in the United Brethren church. Children of David Garrett Scott and Cynthia Ann Leeper Elizabeth Jane Scott, born July 18, 1892 George Leonard Scott, born Dec. 15, 1898. Note, n.d. J. O. Scott, brother of Linnie Bennett, died 27 Oct., 1933, and is buried in the Lebabon, OR cemetery. Lizzie (Elizabeth), wife of J. O. Scott, died 28 April 1933. Buried in the Lebanon, OR cemetery Linnie (Malinda) Bennett died Jan. 1932. Husband Henry Bennett died Aug. 1932. Both are buried in the Lebanon, OR cemetery. They are parents of Joe Bennett. Church Affiliations of some of the Scott families His [James T. Scott] only living sister, Mary Ellen Wilson married a Methodist minister, George Wilson, who farmed after coming to Missouri. They came either from Maryland or Pennsylvania. An obituary of George Wilson after his death said he and Mary Ellen Scott were married in Philadelphia, Penn. [This place of marriage should be treated with some caution.] Letter to Alice Fay Scott about 1960 My father . . . D. G. Scott, . . . was very close in feeling to his sister Aunt Mary Ellen, and her oldest son, Will Willson, was not much younger than Garrett. Aunt Mary's children were William or Will; then Janie Millsap, then Alvanza Wilson then Johnny and last Bert, named Geo. Gilbert for his uncle Gill. He married Clara Markland. Reece Mayer, great-grandson of William Hazelton Scott, wrote extensively about the Scott family, based primarily on information from his mother, Effie Scott Mayer. Effie Scott, daughter of David Garrett Scott, was an inveterate letter writer, corresponding extensively with various cousins and other relations, sharing family history stories and lore. Reece Mayer also received Scott family information from his cousin, Alice Fay Scott, daughter of Alvanza Scott, another grandchild of William Hazelton Scott; and from Lee and Betty Scott, descendants of William H. Scott's oldest son, James Thomas Scott. Reece Mayer 3 January 1978 Children born to William Hazelton Scott and Mary Ellen Short Scott in order were: James T. Scott William Covington Scott Mary Ellen Scott (married Geo. Wilson) Joseph T. Scott Robert T. Scott (died at 17) Gilbert Kimble Scott David Garrett Scott, born Aug. 4, 1851, near Westchester, Chester Co. Geo. H. Scott also seemed to be a daughter, Margaret, died in infancy William Hazelton Scott moved his family to Missouri after all the children were born and after two of them were married. (Joe and Mary Ellen Scott Wilson). Reece Mayer, July 19, 1984 Old Torrey Cemetery, near old St. John, Missouri, gravestones for my great grandfather Wm. Hazelton Scott and his wife Mary Ellen Short Scott. At Powersville [MO] cemetery was grave of grandad D. G. Scott's youngest bro. George Scott, his wife Lucy, and oldest son Willie. My grandmother, Ann Jane Reece Scott, died and is buried at Warsaw, Mo., in central Missouri. Alice [Faye Scott]. Reece Mayer August 1984 William Hazelton Scott had a sister named Emma Covington Scott (Possibly Emma.) Reece Mayer 10 August 1991 Notes from xerox of news clipping, n.d.[1916] from Lee and Betty Scott James Thomas Scott joined Baptist Church at age 22 [1855]. "For fifty-two years [beginning 1864] James Thomas Scott struck death dealing blows to civic unrighteousness", especially in West End of the county. "His efficiency as an officer was shown while he served as Justice of the Peace. In ten years only two of the many cases tried before him was appealed." Served the Union army in the State Militia during the Civil War. James Thomas Scott moved to Liberty, Mo. in 1907 and lived there until his death on 4 October 1916. Buried on his 83rd birthday. Death on 4 October 1916, Liberty, Mo. Funeral service in Second Baptist Church, Liberty. AF&AM, of which he was a member, conducted burial service. Interment in Liberty Cemetary. Notes from Lee Scott, 10 August 1991: George Henry Scott traded his homesteaded in Long Valley to people by the name of Henrich for property NE of Lebanon prior to 1913. He later traded or sold for property on East Isabella Street, where he was living when he married Vira Loomis on 30 April 1913. Their son Lee Scott was born 18 February 1914. George was 47 and Vira 33 when they were married. When Lee was about six months old they sold the Isabella Street property and bought a stump farm 12 miles out of Lebanon on McDowell Creek. "The house burned down -- the Insurance Co was Mutual -- too many claims so no money. The neighbors built -- one day house. About 5 years after the farm house burned down, George Henry Scott and his wife sold the Ranch and moved to Lebabon." Geo. worked at the paper mill, then a Variety store on Main Street, which they had for 6 years and 6 days. They sold to Lum Kee[h]haver. Bought a house, two lots and about an acre at 1038 Truve Street and lived there until they died. They are buried in the Lebanon IOOF Cemetary. George Henry Scott died at his home on Grove Street on 15 January 1946. Born 26 October 1866 in Putman [sic] county, Mo., came to Lebanon 35 years ago, owned Scott Variety store for several years. Member of Baptist church. Buried in IOOF cemetary. Survived by wife Vira Louisa, son Lee, both of Lebanon; sister Mrs. Marilla Kidwell of Garfield, Washington; half-sisters Mrs. Mary I. Godfrey of Kansas and Miss Wilmetta Scott of Filmore, Mo. notes from undated xerox of news clipping [ca. 1946] G. K. Scott served as Valley County Commissioner from 1922-1926. G. K. Scott elected assessor of Valley County [Idaho] in 1932, a position he held for 14 years. Reece Mayer, November 1990 Linnie Bennett [Malinda Scott] born 10/19/1868 Reece Mayer, notes on letter, Dorothy Mayfield to Alverda Godfrey, nd Alverda . . . was oldest of 4 children born to Mary Ida Scott Godfrey. Mary Masterson, 2nd wife of James Scott, died with "childbed fever" with first child, Mary Ida Scott Godfrey. Dorothy Kidwell Mayfield was a granddaughter of James Thomas Scott. Dorothy Kidwell Mayfield to Effie Scott Mayer, Sequim, WA, 10 Feb 1966 [edited to remove information about living people] I am David and Marilla's youngest daughter. . . . [My sister Mary ] faintly recalls a baby funeral when she was 3 or 4 years old. We are also trying to straighten out our family plot at the cemetery since the records have been partially lost. We find that our parents are buried in one plot while the family plot is across the alleyway and a plot away. I faintly recall that mother had to purchase a new plot when Dad passed on because our family plot was full and she took the closest one even tho it had one unmarked grave on it. I recall very faintly going with the folks to Long Valley and Payette Lake when I was about 3 years old - Florence and I. In a few days it will be the 100th anniversary of Dad's birth. I was only 11 when Dad passed away. He was a good man and wonderful father. Mother and I never hit it off so well and had to work so hard to make out afterwards that we had no time for stories and the like. I have a family of 3 boys and girl, also 5 grandsons and a granddaughter. We just moved here last summer and like it so much. My husband is a Dozer or Heavy Equipment operator and in the winter builds campers and canopies for pickups. I just started part time as bookkeeper for Lumber company (my job of 14 years out of the 18 I worked before marrying again.) We lived 7 years down nearer the coast in the rain belt where my husband worked in the woods but decided a year ago to get to a dryer climate since we are not getting any younger. Incidentally, Mother took the family records out of the family Bible when she loaned it out for antique display (so they wouldn't get lost). We have the Bible, which was a wedding gift to our Grandparents - but the records were what was lost - we could find no trace of them in Mother's effects. Dorothy Mayfield to [ Alverda Godfrey ], n.d. (edited) I have three sons and a daughter. . . . The only time I was in southern Idaho I was about 3 years old and we went in the little spring wagon. Florence and I rode in the back on the bundles of oats for the horses. Think there was a canvas over us. My youngest son always kids me about the covered wagon days when I say something about when I was a kid. [Discusion of her father's side of the family, inc. ref. to Trowbridge family.] Dad and Mother raised several of their neices and nephews - maybe on both sides of the family. I never could figure out who was who since I did not know them much. Mother took me once to see up the hill where they used to live but we did not go up there - perhaps there was not a road any more. I think the area where Dad used to teach but probably a newer school house. I wish my Dad had lived longer. He was such a good man. Everyone liked and respected him. I am glad I spent so much time with him. After he got hurt mother sent me with him all the time if I was not in school. She knew he might go any time since had had heart trouble after the accident. I did not know but I am so grateful for the companionship. Mother and I did not get on so well. She was not the easiest person to live with -- or maybe I was just young. She did not have responsibility when Dad lived so made it hard for me -- 11 years old -- to take over but I knew more about what to do than she and could work out in the fields and the like. She could not but she could do chores, etc. It was hard to get any hired help you could trust. We tried a few. I never forgave her for not selling the place when she could get a good price and letting me have an education like the rest of the kids did....but she did not realize. She wanted to save that place for the kids but none of them would have went back and kept it - except me maybe. . . . . She did her best....and she would never come to visit any of us after I got married as I think she was afraid we would keep her. She was determined to not live with any of us even in a house of her own. She said it would kill her to leave her home. Alice Fay Scott was the daughter of Alvanza Scott, granddaughter of David Garrett Scott, and great-granddaughter of William Hazelton Scott Letter, Alice Fay Scott, Aug. 1984 Mary Scott Wilson's children: John had one girl, Helen; then twins--a boy Otha & and girl Olive. Olive is still alive & lives at Marshfield, MO. Janie married a Millsap & had several children. Bert had a girl and a boy, but I can't remember their names. Alice Fay Scott to Reece Mayer, Oct. 1984 Wm. Hazelton Scott, born Nov. 25, 1805 in Cecil Co. Md. Ann Jane died at Warsaw, MO, Benton Co. on Osage River and buried in small cemetery near river by side of 2 yr. girl, Olie Belsen Scott who died Sept. 13, 1884, soon after Gilbert Kemble (Kay) was born, July 8, 1884. G[reatg]randpa was 6' tall with blond hair and blue eyes. Mary Ellen had more temper & spunk than grandpa n.d. Elizabeth Jane Fields was the daughter of George Washington Fields and Lucy Duree Fields Beulah Scott was the daughter of George H. Scott, youngest son of William Hazelton Scott. Alverda Godfrey was the grandaughter of James Thomas Scott, oldest son of William Hazelton Scott. Beulah Scott Underwood to Alverda Godfrey Miller, March 12 1957 (This letter is in the possession of one of Alverda's descendants. Alverda had apparently written a long, detailed Scott family history, perhaps based on the information from her mother who lived for a time with James Scott. This letter is Beulah's reply.) (N.B. - letter has been edited to focus on family information, some of which is demonstrably wrong.) Gillette, Wyo March 12 1957 Dear Alverda – Bless your heart for taking all that time out to write me all the details about our Scott Relation. Oh Eldora and I never got to go see the old Scott Mill when we went East but think my sister, Opal and brother, Harry and mom and Dad when all four of them went back sometime after I came to Wyoming in 1920. But when Metta’s and Eldora’s (Dora) brother, Sewell Scott was attending Yale University in New Haven, Conn, why Sewell sent me a snap Kodak picture of the old Scott Mill that he had taken when he went to see Cousin Margaret Scott and Sewell went down there then. I do not know just where that old Mill is or whether Grandpa Scott owned it or worked in it. I heard my Mother say that Grandpa Scott would be away through the week and come home only on weekends from his work. My great grandfather Scott was buried in Maryland and think Cousin Margaret is buried there too – do not know. She came to visit us back in Powersville one summer and stayed six weeks just before I came out to Wyoming. Cousin Margaret had two brothers Sewell and Charles and four sisters that I know of. The one died of a broken heart C.Margaret said because she did have a date with another boy just once and her lover broke off their engagement or friendship etc – but C. Margaret said he felt so badly later after she died that he asked to marry one of the sisters I believe – but never. Cousin Margaret’s Brother Charles H. and sweet wife, Caroline live at Wilmington, Delaware. And I hear from them – just had a letter from Caroline not so long ago. And she wanted Effie’s address Christmas time. She and Charles came to see my sister, Effie Long and me here in Gillette about fourteen years ago. My husband, Roy U. was alive then and we had a good visit and also when C. Margaret came out here three years or so before they came. C. Margaret died before Charles and Caroline came out. Charles and Caroline went on to California to see Charles’ sister Virginia (they called her ‘Gen’) and she married a Dr. Walters and live in Oakland, Calif and C. Margaret went to see them too. I have never seen Gen but saw Charles’ other sister Agnes Cooling and she and Mr. Cooling had Eldora and me to dinner in 1918 when we went back there. Their son Samuel was there, he is married but their son, Severson was not there that evening at dinner. I saw Charles’ brother Sewall Davis Scott when back there in 1918 and he and his sweet wife had Dora and I to the finest chicken dumpling dinner ever. They are both dead now – but I still have some of their letters they wrote me. Sewall Davis S, the policeman, looked like General Pershing of the First World War I thought and Caroline said so many remarked that he did look like Pershing at his Sewall Davis’) funeral. Now were Charles and Cousin Margaret’s father and my Dad’s Father half brothers or what? And was their grandfather’s name Thomas Scott – that’s where Sewall Davis the policeman got his name and Metta’s brother Sewall got his I suppose. Charles and Sewall’s mother was a Davis before she married a Scott, and cousin Margaret had a gene book of all the generations way back on the Davis side of the family. I got to meet Charles and C. Margaret’s Mother in 1918. She and C. Margaret lived together in Wilmington Delaware. So you say my grandfathers’ name was William Hazelton Scott and you think his father’s name was Thomas. And this Thomas had three boys you say and he was my grandfather \|Wm Hazelton and his two brothers Sewall and Thomas Jr? Then this brother Sewall was the father of Sewall Davis and Charles and C. Margaret, Agnes and Virginia, and that my Dad a first cousin to Sewall Davis and all. When Dad got to see the old stone house in Chester County Penn, where he was born – it was still there and people were living in it. Well if I remember correctly I heard cousin Margaret say that some Scott married and had five children and his wife died – then he married another women that had five children whose husband had died – then they had five children (she and this Scott) which made 15 children and C. Margaret said the father or mother would say “Oh Come here quick your kids and my kids are fighting with our kids” ha! Well was this Scott that had 15 kids (counting second wife’s five children) was he the Grandfather Thomas Senior (my great grandfather) but my Dad’s Grandfather and Charles and C. Margaret’s etc? I think I remember C. Margaret naming those girls (her Aunts) Helen and Emily. I remember my Dad said that his grandmother was a little short Welsh woman and her name was Mary Anne Short and my sis, Effie married a Long – so there’s the Long and Short of it for her – ha! I remember them talking about that name Covington. I was thinking it was Grandfather Scott’s middle name – but since you mentioned Hazelton – I remember that too. They called me Beulah Hazel and I named my second girl Hazel after my husband’s sister, Hazel, and my mother said she was named after me too ha! My Dad said he was ‘Scotch-Irish; and English and Welsh. My mother was just English and French, her father, (George Washington Fields) was a full blooded Englishman and her mother was French and English. I believe Mother’s Mother’s Father (her grandfather on her mother’s side) was a full blooded Frenchman and mom’s mother went to school to him (her own father who was a teacher) all the time she attended school mind you. His name was Harmon I believe. But what relation was Uncle John Duree. My mother has her genealogy written down on the Fields side her father’s side of the family. A young lawyer back in Indiana who was a Fields where Mom’s mother was born – was tracing his ancestors so he finally got in contact with my mother and we all have a copy of it and the lawyer traced mother’s ancestors back to the French Hugenots mind you. I do not know whether the grandfather Scott or Great grandfather run or owned the flour mill. But I remember my dad talking about making real fine flour, and during the Civil War – he was too young to go and I believe since they made flour – his older brothers didn’t have to go but were allowed to make flour etc. Dad was only 15 when he came west to Missouri with his folks, his mother, bought up all the nicest and finest yards of cloth and brought west with her thinking they would never see any as nice out west in Mo – ha! And Metta said, people came to Grandma Scotts house just to see the lovely cloth goods ha. I’ll write Charles and Caroline and if they can tell me the exact facts of a lot of this relation. Charles would know more than anyone perhaps. Love Beulah Scott Underwood --- Here are the names and addresses you asked for of my sisters and brother and their children OCTA - Octa Rachelle Scott Whiteley Octa was the daughter of George Henry Scott, youngest son of William Hazelton Scott I do not know as much about the Scott Ancestors . . . . I cannot go back much farther than my Grandfather Scotts family for they both died before I was born. They lived in Chester County Pa This I know from Cousin Margaret Scott, that lived in Wilmington Delaware: She came to visit us when you were a little boy. She never married. Her brother Charles Scott & wife came to visit us soon after [1946] and he took you to see the circus. My.) My Grandfather (Thomas Scott)[1] was one of the 1st five (sets). My Grandmother Scott’s maiden name was Short. (They Came to St. John Mo about 1840 from Chester County Pa. Many of our relatives lived around Philadelphia, PA, Baltimore and Elkton Md. And Wilmington Del. Grandfather Scott was a miller by trade. They had seven children. James, Joseph, Garrett, William, Gilbert, George Henry, and one girl Mary. . . . My father was Geo. Henry Scott Born Feb.14, 1854 Passed away in 1935 81 + yrs old. and Married my Mother, Lucy E. Fields in 1889. His first wife was Mary Herold (Mollie) he called her - A Photograph of the Scott Family mill, reportedly taken by Sewell Scott, youngest son of James T. Scott, about 1918. The text on the back was added by his cousin Beulah Scott Underwood. The Old Scott Flour Mill, Turkeytown, Cecil County, Md. Our Grandfather Wm Covington Scott operated this mill during the Civil War in 1861-1865 and it was still in operation when Sewall Scott took this picture in about 1918 when he graduated from Yale University, New Haven, Conn. and rec'd $500.00 Scholarship twice our Dad, Geo. H. Scott said his Bro. Gilbert made the finest flour
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Moral Argument Made Simple A new video! On apologetics again. I promised in my last video to show you a bit of our road here in the countryside of Madagascar. So, stay tuned, because I will paste some of that footage at the end of this video. Anyway, let’s get started. I grew up in a time that knew wonderful developments. From loading my video games with a cassette up to the first decent sized mobile phone. When I got a little older I attended, the still illegal, house parties where many Dutch DJ’s started their career. So much fun! So much amazing things to find out. Of course, I knew that people could do bad things. I mean, I myself have been beaten up one time while one of the two boys held a knife to my throat. That wasn’t very nice, but other than that, I did not feel that we are living in a fallen world. Somewhere in 1994, I became Christian. I recognised that, even though I still didn’t realise half of it, I needed a Saviour. I lived my life, got married, went to Bible school and later studied theology at a university in the UK. And yes, by that time I was aware of all the bad things going on in the world. I am not that naive! But, then it happened. I had to choose a subject for an essay on ethics. And yes, I just had to choose the subject on abortion! I wrote that essay in no time, but it felt like an eternity. I struggled, I cried, I actually became like the grumpy and angry atheist I used to debate. What happened? All of a sudden God showed me how low humans can go. He showed me how depraved creation has become. But was this just me? Can I really say it is wrong to kill innocent children? Who determines right from wrong anyway? Before pointing at God Many Christians use the moral argument to ‘prove’ the existence of God. But to offer a moral argument for the existence of God, we must establish the existence of objective moral reality and show that a personal and moral God is the best explanation for the existence and knowledge of objective moral reality. We will do that in a moment. Two Red Herrings First we need to get rid of some fallacies that circulate on the web. Atheists often claim that they can be moral without believing in God; therefore, religion is not needed for morality. I hope you’ll see the red herring here? The argument from objective morality to God is totally not related to this issue. In reality, a Christian should admit that non-Christians (including atheists) possess, and act in line with true moral principles to some extent. So this argument is totally beside the point and completely off topic, because the moral argument for God addresses the metaphysical foundation of goodness. Or in other words, it tackles the question of where the absolute starting point for morality lies. Another red herring is this: Some claime that God cannot be the source of morality since unbelievers use moral words like good, right and wrong, without pointing to God’s will to explain these words. This is also irrelevant to the argument. The moral argument has nothing to do with how people typically use or define moral terms; instead it addresses the justification of moral claims. An unbeliever may realise that rape is morally wrong without knowing the real reason why rape is wrong. Gottlob Frege i gave an example to understand this better. He said: The ‘evening star’ and ‘morning star’ appear at different times of the day and so have different senses. However, they are the same star: the referent is identical even if the senses are different. Likewise, an unbeliever may have an idea about the meaning of morality, yet fail to realise that the ultimate referent for morality is God’s character and will. Moral Relativism We are not ready to explain the argument yet. Nope, we need to look at a phenomenon called Moral Relativism. “That what is good for you, isn’t necessarily good for me”. Yet others will say that the moral standard depends on one’s culture. In the past some cultures and groups deemed it okay for old unproductive people to walk off into the wilderness and freeze to death. In times of famine the villagers may decide to get rid of the extra load on resources caused by old and disabled people. That way they are not a burden for the family. Oh well, that was just their morality, and it was perfectly fine to act like that in their specific situation, right? ii Well, I do not want to go down this rabbit trail. There is so much to say about moral relativism. It is a huge swamp in which nobody really knows what is right or wrong. But look at it this way, if relativism is true, then rape is not always wrong, since a culture or an individual might allow for it under certain circumstances. However, rape is always wrong. And that means that relativism is false. Or what to think of Stalin’s planned famine in the 1932-1933, by which he killed at least six million peasants, but some even suggest 12 million (mostly Ukrainian farmers) in order to punish resistance to the Communist system. In June 1933, at the height of the famine, 28,000 men, women and children in Ukraine were dying of starvation each day. This planned famine is called Holodomor. iii Up until today, many still refuse to recognise this as an act of genocide. This ‘punishing of the resistance’ killed so many people that this event can easily compete with the Holocaust, which is accepted by most as genocide. Our immediate response to such events should be deep moral revulsion, not something like, “well, it is not something I would do, but I cannot judge others because they lived in a different culture and in different times.” The profound moral loathing, normally evoked by such events, presupposes an objective moral standard that has been transgressed. I guess the answers on these two examples I just mentioned beg the question whether there are absolute moral standards or not. I will not further go into this typical anti-intellectual viewpoint of relativism. It is a world-view that cannot consistently exist within its own rules. This world-view mostly ends in a nihilistic view on the world. A German philosopher Stirner iv stated: You think that the ‘good cause’ must be my concern? What’s good, what’s bad? Why, I myself am my concern, and I am neither good nor bad. Neither has meaning for me…. Nothing is more to me than myself. Nothing around you matters, it is all … neither good nor evil, neither cruel nor kind, but simply callous-indifferent to all suffering, lacking all purpose. Thus saith mister Dawkins. v Changing Rules I do not deny that moral principles may be applied a little different from time to time. There is a difference between a deep moral principle and the application of that principle in a moral rule. The Bible teaches that it is an objective and absolute moral principle that God should be worshipped, but the moral rule as how to worship God changed over time. In the Old Testament we’ve had the sacrificial system, and in the New Testament it is Christ who fulfils the sacrifices. Ethical or moral relativism is obviously false. So, now we have to deal with an objective moral system of some kind. How can we best explain the existence of an objective moral system? Argument from Goodness to Deity I say, that a personal and moral God provides the best explanation for the existence of the moral values known to human beings. But just saying that would be a bit easy to do, so let’s expound a little more. If torturing children for fun is unconditionally evil, and if the heroic actions of firefighters who, with risk of their own life, save people from a certain death are unconditionally good, we need to propose a world-view that accounts for the origin, existence and knowledge of such good and such evil. The proposed world-view also needs to provide us enough moral motivation to pursue good and oppose evil. The simple argument from goodness to deity goes as follows: - If a personal God does not exist, then objective moral values do not exist. - Objective moral values do exist. - Therefore, a personal God exists Some argue that this idea of a deity is easy interchangeable with ideas like Hinduism. The creed of one influential school of Hinduism states that ‘Atman is Brahman.’ The individual self (Atman) is identical to Brahman (the impersonal and amoral universal self). In other words, there is no difference between the Creator and the creation; in Hinduism there is no Creator who is a personal and moral agent who brought the universe into existence. If, like in Hinduism ‘all is one,’ then there is no room for diversity, even in morality. There are no objective moral values. Yet others might propose that Allah, the god of Islam, is this being. You see, this is one of the problems you’ll have to face when dealing with arguments like these. People flippantly say that your argument can point to a variety of deities. This of course can only be done if there is no knowledge of all the other theistic arguments. We are still talking about a perfect being it cannot be just some other deity from any other religion than Christianity. Allah doesn’t even come close to the God of the Bible, YHWH. I have demonstrated this in the video on the Ontological Argument: Excerpt of that video: […]! Just Another Example It is easy to come up with all sorts of evil that we expect everybody to condemn. I will not give more examples than I already did. Whenever you encounter someone who says that morals are relative or flexible, thus totally depending on human ideas, you can ask them what they think of the evils done by humans. If the person is honest he or she will abide by his or her idea. In that case you can always ask whether he or she would stop a person who want to molest a child… or even his or her own child. Why should they stop such a person? For all we know there is no such thing as absolute right and wrong. - If there is no God, then morality and law lose their foundations and there is no objective good and evil. - There is objective good and evil. - Therefore: a) It is false that morality and law have no ultimate foundations and that there is no objective good or evil. - Therefore: (b) God exists as the ultimate Evaluator. Or simply put: - Either God exists who provides the ultimate moral evaluation, or nihilism is true and all moral evaluations are arbitrary. - Nihilism is false because there is objective good and evil. - Therefore, God exists as the ultimate moral evaluator. British philosopher Hastings Rashdall vi said: […] that if we believe in an objective and absolute moral order, we must logically believe in God as well […] A moral ideal can exist only in a Mind from which all Reality is derived. Our moral ideal can only claim objective validity in so far as it can rationally be regarded as the revelation of a moral ideal eternally existing in the mind of God. The Euthyphro Problem Finally, I would like to address another counterargument which is know as the Euthyphro Problem. This problem was first raised by Plato in Euthyphro, this argument states that: - if something is good because God wills it good, God could will anything (even rape or murder), and it would be, ipso facto, good. But this is absurd. - If God’s will is not the source of the good, goodness lies outside of God’s being and this robs him of his moral supremacy which is an essential attribute of deity. This dilemma seems very smart and sound and so, the critic might think he or she debunked the Moral Argument. But alas! The Euthyphro argument has been build on a straw man fallacy and creates a false dilemma. The triune God, as I argued for in my previous videos, who has existed from eternity in a threefold loving relationship between the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit, cannot, for example, morally mandate murder or rape. God’s attitude of mind disallows it. God’s integrity execrates it. The Bible shows that objective moral values are not created in the same sense as the universe was created out of nothing. No, objective moral values have always been part of who God is. The have their source in the eternal character, nature and substance of a loving, just and self-sufficient God. God is not created, He has always been there. Likewise, moral values were not created, but are eternally part of His being. For that reason, when God creates humans in his own image and likeness, they need to know objective moral value, and they must treat each other accordingly. And this is exactly what the Bible teaches in Romans where Paul says that the law has been written in our hearts. We know right from wrong because we are created in God’s image and likeness. One More Time - If God does not exist, there are no moral obligations. - There are moral obligations to parents, to children, to fellow citizens, to the truth itself and so on, which are more than socially constructed (relativism). - Therefore, God exists as the source of moral obligations. Finally Please look at the description of this video! Whenever I find or use some interesting things, I’ll link it there. You can also find ways to support me. And honestly, it is very encouraging to receive gifts, no matter how small. For me that’s a sign that you actually enjoy my videos. Well, one sign… the other indication is the interaction in the comment section. Talking about commenting, you may comment on my videos on BitChute or YouTube, but you most likely won’t receive a reply I am mostly active on Odysee. I would like to invite you to my Odysee channel. Odysee is a platform which based on a new protocol called LBRY. It is censorship free, unlike YouTube or others. It would be great if you start following me there. You can also start your own channel on Odysee. If you use my invitation in the description we will both receive some free LBC! As always, thank you for watching, God bless you and we see each other in the next video! Endnotes: i Gottlob Frege, Zeitscheift fur Philosophie and philosophische Kritik 100 (1892): 25-50. ii iii iv Max Stirner, The Ego and Its Own (New York: Libertarian Book Club, 1963), p. 185. v Richard Dawkins (1995). River out of eden: a Darwinian view of life, Basic Books (AZ). vi Hastings Rashdall, The Theory of Good and Evil (Oxford: Clarendon, 1903), 2:211-12, quoted in Groothuis, D., Christian Apologetics: A Comprehensive Case for Biblical Faith, Intervarsity Press, Downers Grove Illinois, 2011, p.195. Let’s Enjoy Some Off-roading Shall We? As Promised! Here is the short compilation of the last bit of our road. It is hard to see all the bumps and potholes, but I think you’ll can imagine by seeing the camera going up and down., […]
- Ramon Hernandez was at the end of the line. The 1977 season was his last one in the major leagues. Hernandez started the year with the Chicago Cubs. Ramon was traded to the Boston Red Sox for outfielder Bobby Darwin on May 28. Hernandez pitched for the Red Sox for almost three months before being released on August 20. - 1977 Stats: - Chicago Cubs: 0-0, 1 save, 8.22 ERA in 6 games - Boston Red Sox: 0-1, 1 save, 5.68 ERA in 12 games - TOTAL: 0-1, 2 saves, 6.64 ERA in 18 games - 1977 Highlights: - July 13 - Retired the last four batters to earn his final major league save. The Red Sox beat the Cleveland Indians 7-4. - Other card blogs: 1967, 1968, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1976 This blog covers all things baseball in 1977. Baseball cards from that year is a main focus of the site. Sunday, February 24, 2013 1977 Topps Baseball #468 - Ramon Hernandez Saturday, February 23, 2013 1977 Topps Baseball #467 - Philadelphia Phillies / Danny Ozark - Danny Ozark had a long playing career in the minor leagues. He started in 1942 and then was in military service for the next three years. Ozark fought in the Battle of the Bulge during World War II. - Danny came back after the war and resumed his playing career. Ozark spent his entire playing career (1942, 1946-1961, 1963) in the Brooklyn/LA Dodgers' organization, but he never made it to the majors. - In 1956 Ozark started managing in the Dodger organization. He was a player-manager in Class B and A ball for four years and then managed the Dodgers' AAA affiliate from 1960-1964. - In 1965 Ozark moved up to the LA Dodgers as a coach. He coached with the Dodgers from 1965-1972. - After the 1972 season Danny was hired to manage the Philadelphia Phillies. The Phillies were building a contender and they moved up the standings as their young players developed. - The Phillies finished 6th in 1973, 3rd in 1974, and 2nd in 1975. They then won the NL East in three straight seasons (1976-1978). The team won 101 games in both 1976 and in 1977. Philadelphia lost in the NL Championship Series by the Cincinnati Reds in 1976 and by the LA Dodgers in 1977 and 1978. - The Phillies signed Pete Rose as a free agent after the 1978 season. It was thought that Rose was the missing piece. Rose had a good year, but injuries and some off years by other players doomed the Phillies. Ozark was fired on August 31, 1979 after the Phillies were 65-67 and in fourth place. Danny was thought to be too soft on the players. Dallas Green took over the team and led it to the World Championship the following season. - Danny coached with the Dodgers again from 1980-1982. He was not asked back to coach with the Dodgers after the 1982 season.. - Ozark joined the San Francisco Giants coaching staff in 1983. He coached with the Giants in 1983 and in 1984. - Ozark managed the San Francisco Giants at the end of the 1984 season. Danny replaced Frank Robinson, who was fired on August 5. The Giants were 24-32 under Ozark. Danny said that he didn't want to manage in 1985. Ozark became a special assignment scout and consultant for the Giants. - Danny retired to his home in Vero Beach. He passed away in 2009 at the age of 85. - Record: 101-61, 1st in NL East, 5 games ahead of Pittsburgh Pirates - Attendance: 2,700,070 (2nd in NL) - Team Batting: .279 (1st in NL) - Team HR: 186 (2nd in NL) - Team Stolen Bases: 135 (4th in NL) - Team ERA: 3.71 (4th in NL) - Team Fielding: .981 (2nd in NL) - All Stars: Greg Luzinski (starting LF); Mike Schmidt (3B); Steve Carlton (P) - Awards: Steve Carlton (NL Cy Young Award, The Sporting News Pitcher of the Year); Jim Kaat (Gold Glove, P); Mike Schmidt (Gold Glove, 3B); Garry Maddox (Gold Glove, OF) - NL Leaders: Steve Carlton (victories, 23) - Batting Leader: Greg Luzinski (.309) - Home Run Leader: Greg Luzinski (39) - RBI Leader: Greg Luzinski (130) - Stolen Base Leader: Larry Bowa (32) - Victories Leader: Steve Carlton (23) - Losses Leader: Jim Kaat (11) - Strikeout Leader: Steve Carlton (198) - Saves Leader: Gene Garber (19) - ERA Leader (starters): Steve Carlton (2.64) - ERA Leader (relievers): Gene Garber (2.35) - Players who could have had Phillies cards in 1977 (batters with over 100 AB, pitchers with over 40 innings) : - Bake McBride (OF) (pictured with Cardinals): .339, 11 HR, 41 RBI in 85 games - Richie Hebner (1B) (pictured with Pirates): .285, 18 HR, 62 RBI in 118 games - Ted Sizemore (2B) (pictured with Dodgers) : .281, 4 HR, 47 RBI in 152 games - Davey Johnson (2B) (no 1977 card): .321, 8 HR, 36 RBI in 78 games - Warren Brusstar (P) (no 1977 card - rookie card in 1978): 7-2, 3 saves, 2.65 ERA in 46 games Thursday, February 21, 2013 1977 Topps Baseball #466 - Fred Holdsworth - This Wednesday, February 20, 2013 1977 Topps Baseball #465 - Rico Carty - Rico Carty actually played for the Cleveland Indians in 1977. The Toronto Blue Jays selected Carty in the expansion draft in November 1976 but a month later they traded him back to the Indians for Rick Cerone and John Lowenstein. - Rico played in 123 games as a designated hitter and two games at first base. - Carty clashed with Cleveland manager Frank Robinson. He was fined and sent home in early June. The team wanted to suspend Rico, but since he was already on the disabled list with a pulled hamstring they couldn't do it. - 1977 Stats: .280, 15 HR, 80 RBI - 1977 Highlights: - July 23 - Hit a 2-run home run and had four runs batted in to lead the Indians to a 9-8 win over the Boston Red Sox - June 29 - Had three hits, including a home run and knocked in five runs as the Indians beat the Baltimore Orioles 11-8. - Sept 23 - Singled in Larvell Blanks in the 8th inning. The run was the winning hit as the Indians beat the Baltimore Orioles 3-2. The Cleveland win damaged the Orioles' pennant hopes -- they were in a 3-team race with New York and Boston. - Other card blogs: 1965, 1966, 1967, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1976, 1979, 1980 Tuesday, February 19, 2013 1977 Topps Baseball #464 - Randy Moffitt - Randy Moffitt and Gary Lavelle combined for 31 saves in 1977. Lavelle had 20 and Moffitt had 11. - There is a misprint on this card. Moffitt pitched in 58 games in 1976, not 5. - 1977 Stats: 4-9, 11 saves, 3.59 ERA in 64 games - 1977 Highlights: - July 9 - Earned the win by pitching 2 shutout innings as the Giants beat the Atlanta Braves 5-4 in 11 innings. - July 11 - Pitched 2 2/3 scoreless innings and earned the save in the Giants' 5-1 win over the San Diego Padres. - Other card blogs: 1973, 1974, 1975, 1976, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1983 Monday, February 18, 2013 1977 Topps Baseball #463 - Jamie Quirk - Jamie Quirk played for the Milwaukee Brewers in 1977. After the 1976 season Quirk was traded (with Bob McClure and Jim Wohlford) to the Brewers for Darrell Porter and Jim Colborn. - Quirk spent most of the 1978 season in the minors. He was sent back to the Royals in August 1978 for a minor leaguer and cash. - 1977 Stats: .217, 3 HR, 13 RBI in 93 games - 1977 Highlights: - April 22 - Had a home run, a double, and a single in Milwaukee's 7-4 loss to the California Angels. - Aug 17 - Hit a 2-run homer to help the Brewers beat the Boston Red Sox 5-3. - Other card blogs: 1976, 1979, 1980, 1983, 1988 Sunday, February 17, 2013 1977 Topps Baseball #462 - Don Baylor - In 1977 Don Baylor split time almost evenly between the outfield and designated hitter. Don also played in a few games at first base. Baylor was one of the big free agent signings by the California Angels after the 1976 season. Joe Rudi and Bobby Grich had injuries and didn't really pay immediate dividends. Baylor was ok in 1977 (but not all that great), but he had a good year in 1978 and an MVP year in 1979. Don was disappointed with himself and was the target of a few boos in Anaheim Stadium toward the end of the 1977 season. - 1977 Stats: .251, 25 HR, 75 RBI - 1977 Highlights: - April 29 - Hit a home run in the 11th inning to lead the Angels to a 3-2 win over the Baltimore Orioles. - June 26 - Had a home run and two singles in California's 4-3 win over the Texas Rangers. - Sept 8 - Hit a home run and scored both runs as the Angels beat the Chicago White Sox 2-0. - Other card blogs: 1971, 1972, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1976, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1980, 1983, 1985, 1986, 1988 Saturday, February 16, 2013 1977 Topps Baseball #461 - Dick Tidrow - Dick Tidrow did great work out of the Yankee bullpen in 1977. He appeared in 49 games and was a great setup man for closer and Cy Young Award winner Sparky Lyle. - 1977 Stats: - Regular season: 11-4, 5 saves, 3.16 ERA in 49 games (7 starts) - AL Championship Series: 0-0, 3.86 ERA in 2 games - World Series: 0-0, 4.91 ERA in 2 games - 1977 Highlights: - May 22 - Combined with starter Ron Guidry on a 4-hitter as the Yankees beat the Baltimore Orioles 8-2. - July 24 - Earned the save in Don Gullett's 100th career win. The Yankees beat the Kansas City Royals 3-1. - Aug 14 - Made his first start of the year and allowed two singles in six shutout innings as the Yankees hammered the California Angels 15-3. - Other card blogs: 1972, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1976, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1983 Friday, February 15, 2013 1977 Topps Baseball #460 - Willie Stargell - After the 1977 season it looked like Willie Stargell was on the decline. He had two straight seasons in which he struggled with injuries. In 1977 Willie was on the 15-day disabled list in April -- he had persistent headaches and dizziness. Stargell then went out for the season in mid July after injuring his elbow in a bench-clearing brawl. - Stargell bounced back in 1978 and had a good year. His 1979 season was a memorable one as he led the Pirates to the World Championship and finally won the MVP award that eluded him in 1971 and 1973. - Willie Stargell's SABR biography - 1977 Stats: .274, 13 HR, 35 RBI in 63 games - 1977 Highlights: - May 1 - Hit two solo home runs to help the Pirates beat the Houston Astros 4-3. - June 10 - Hit a 3-run homer in the 11th inning off of Rollie Fingers to lift the Pirates to a 10-7 victory over the San Diego Padres. - June 22 - Doubled twice, scored once, and had an RBI in Pittsburgh's 3-1 victory over the Padres. - Other card blogs: 1965, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1972, 1973, 1974, 1974, 1974, 1975, 1976, 1976 Hostess, 1976 Kellogg's, 1979, 1980 Thursday, February 14, 2013 1977 Topps Baseball #459 - Steve Foucault - Steve Foucault pitched for the Detroit Tigers in 1977. Steve was traded from the Texas Rangers to the Tigers for Willie Horton on April 12. Steve was the Tigers' main closer and led the club with 13 saves. - 1977 Stats: 7-7, 13 saves, 3.15 ERA in 44 games - 1977 Highlights: - July 21 - Pitched a shutout 9th inning in his first game back after a stint on the disabled list. The Tigers beat the Kansas City Royals 8-1. - Aug 23 - Pitched three innings and picked up his 10th save of the season as the Rangers beat the California Angels 3-1. - Other card blogs: Cardboard Gods, Cardboard Gods, 1974, 1975, 1976, 1978 Wednesday, February 13, 2013 1977 Topps Baseball #458 - Leo Foster - Leo Foster split time between the Mets and AAA Tidewater in 1977. He was with the Mets in late April and for most of May before being sent down on May 22 for a few months. Leo came back to the Mets on August 14 and played for them for the remainder of the season. This was Foster's final season in the majors. - Foster made the news in early April when his errant throw during infield practice hit a photographer in the head. The photographer was hospitalized. - 1977 Stats: - New York Mets: .227, 0 HR, 6 RBI in 36 games - Tidewater Tides (AAA): .274, 1 HR, 24 RBI in 46 games - 1977 Highlights: - Aug 23 - Scored the winning run in the bottom of the 9th inning as Len Randle singled through a drawn in infield. The Mets beat the Houston Astros 2-1. - Other card blogs: 1974, 1975 Tuesday, February 12, 2013 1977 Topps Baseball #457 - Steve Luebber - Steve Luebber was drafted by the Minnesota Twins at the age of 17 in 1967. Steve slowly climbed up the Twins organization and made it to the majors in June 1971. Luebber was 2-5 with a 5.03 ERA in 18 games (12 starts) for the Twins in 1971. - Luebber got a high number card in the 1972 Topps set. That was his only other card appearance. - In 1972 Steve was back in the minors. He pitched in two games for the Twins late in September (0-0, 0.00 ERA in 2.1 innings). - From 1973-1975 Luebber pitched in AA and AAA. He put up some good numbers in AAA in 1975 (14-7, 2.39 ERA). - Steve made the Minnesota staff in 1976 and stayed in the majors for the entire season. Luebber was 4-5 with 2 saves and had a 4.01 ERA in 38 games (12 starts). - Luebber didn't make the Twins ballclub in 1977 and spent the entire season in AAA. He was 10-10 with a 4.63 ERA for the Tacoma Twins. Steve was released by the Twins after the 1977 season. - Steve pitched in several other organizations from 1978-1983. Luebber pitched in one game for the Toronto Blue Jays in 1979. He had an ERA of infinity due to allowing one run and not retiring any of the three batters he faced. In 1981 Luebber pitched in seven games for the Baltimore Orioles (0-0, 7.56 ERA in 16.2 innings). - Steve was part of the longest game in baseball history (Rochester Red Wings vs. Pawtucket Red Sox) in 1981. Luebber entered the game in the 15th inning and allowed one run in eight innings before giving way to Jim Umbarger in the 23rd inning. - After his playing career Steve became a minor league pitching coach. He is now the pitching coach for the class A Wilmington Blue Rocks, a position he has held for seven years. - Luebber did some pitching in the minors in the late 1980s. He pitched in the minors for three seasons (1986-1988) but never made it back to the majors. Steve also pitched in the Senior Professional Baseball Association in 1989 and in 1990. - 1977 Stats: - Tacoma Twins (AAA): 10-10, 4.63 ERA in 27 games (25 starts) - Other card blogs: 1972 Monday, February 11, 2013 1977 Topps Baseball #456 - Leon Roberts - Leon Roberts started the season with the Astros. Roberts wasn't playing very much and was batting .095, so he was sent to AAA in early June. Leon came back to Houston for a few games in September. - After the 1977 season Roberts was traded to the Seattle Mariners for Jimmy Sexton. - 1977 Stats: - Houston Astros: .074 (2 for 27) in 19 games - Charleston Charlies (AAA): .299, 2 HR, 34 RBI in 73 games - 1977 Highlights: - Other card blogs: 1976, 1976, 1979, 1980, 1983, 1985 Sunday, February 10, 2013 1977 Topps Baseball #455 - Rick Wise - Rick Wise didn't pitch very much in the first two months of the 1977 season. Rick was demoted to the bullpen for a couple of weeks in May. At the end of May he was 1-2 with a 13.21 ERA. Wise pitched much better from June until the end of the season. Rick had a 3-1 record in June and in July as well. - Rick Wise's SABR biography - 1977 Stats: 11-5, 4.77 ERA in 26 games (20 starts) - 1977 Highlights: - June 14 - Allowed one run and four hits in seven innings as the Red Sox beat the Chicago White Sox 7-1. - June 20 - Pitched a shutout and struck out ten batters in Boston's 4-0 victory over the Baltimore Orioles. - June 27 - Rick angered Boston manager Don Zimmer by flipping the ball to Zimmer as he was removed from the game after allowing three runs in the first two innings. The Red Sox lost their fourth straight game -- the Detroit Tigers won 4-1. - Other card blogs: 1965, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1974, 1974, 1975, 1976, 1976 Kellogg's, 1979, 1980 Saturday, February 9, 2013 1977 Topps Baseball #454 Andy Etchebarren - This was Andy Etchebarren's last full season as a player. Andy backed up starter Terry Humphrey. Etchebarren appeared in 80 games but had only 131 plate appearances.\ - Etchebarren was a player/coach for part of the season. Angels pitching coach Billy Muffett was fired in mid-July and Andy was called upon to assume the pitching coach duties for a few days. - Andy was purchased by the Milwaukee Brewers after the 1977 season. - After his playing career, Etchebarren had a long career as a coach and a manager in the minors. He recently announced his retirement (effective after the 2012 season). - 1977 Stats: .254, 0 HR, 14 RBI in 80 games - 1977 Highlights: - July 5 - Had an RBI triple in California's 6-0 win over the Oakland A's. - Sept 3 - Had a sacrifice fly in the 9th inning to snap a 2-2 tie. The Angels beat the Cleveland Indians 3-2. - Other card blogs: Cardboard Gods, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1976, Friday, February 8, 2013 1977 Topps Baseball #453 - Pedro Garcia - This was Pedro Garcia's last season in the majors. The Tigers released Pedro in December 1976 and he signed with the expansion Toronto Blue Jays in January 1977. The Blue Jays sent Garcia to the minors (Jersey City) on June 17, but he never played for the club. Pedro was released by Toronto on June 27. Garcia signed with the San Diego Padres on July 5 and played for the AAA Hawaii Islanders for the rest of the year. - In late July Garcia and the Blue Jays were cited in Milwuakee County Court for failing to pay about $4,000 in taxes. - 1977 Stats: - Toronto Blue Jays - .208, 0 HR, 9 RBI in 41 games - Hawaii Islanders (AAA) - .300, 10 HR, 30 RBI in 52 games - 1977 Highlights: - April 11 - His RBI single in the 7th inning helped the Blue Jays to a 5-3 comeback win over the Detroit Tigers. - Aug 29 - Hit a 3-run homer to help the Islanders to a 7-4 win over the Spokane Indians. - Other card blogs: 1974, 1975, 1976 Thursday, February 7, 2013 1977 Topps Baseball #452 - Mike Caldwell - Although Wednesday, February 6, 2013 1977 Topps Baseball #451 - Checklist 397-528 - The subsets in this series are the World Series cards, the "Turn Back The Clock" set, and the reviled (at least by me) 4-player rookie cards - Series All Star Team (excluding the rookie cards) - C - Ted Simmons - 1B - Willie Stargell, Steve Garvey - 2B - Bob Grich - SS - Freddie Patek - 3B - Pete Rose - OF - Carl Yastrzemski, Richie Zisk, Roy White, Garry Maddox, Ken Singleton - SP - Fergie Jenkins, Jon Matlack, Dennis Eckersley, John Candelaria - RP - Rollie Fingers Tuesday, February 5, 2013 1977 Topps Baseball #450 - Pete Rose - Pete!!!!! - Pete Rose's cards were probably the ones I looked forward to the most in the 1970s. He was my favorite player, and it took a long time for me to forgive the Reds for letting him go as a free agent after the 1978 season. Some of the luster of Pete's cards was lost when Topps double printed his card in 1978. - Pete had a salary dispute with the Reds before the 1977 season. He finally signed just before the season. - Rose led the NL in games played (162) and in at bats (655). - 1977 Stats: .311, 9 HR, 64 RBI, 204 hits in 162 games - 1977 Highlights: - July 25 - Had two hits in a 9-8 loss to the St. Louis Cardinals. Broke Frankie Frisch's record of 2,880 hits for a switch hitter. - Sept 28 - Had two hits as the Reds beat the San Diego Padres 8-0. Pete got his 200th hit and tied Ty Cobb for the most 200-hit seasons (9). Rose would get his tenth 200-hit season in 1979 to pass Cobb. - Other card blogs: 1965, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1974, 1974, 1974, 1975, 1976, 1978, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1980, 1982, 1982, 1983, 1983, 1985, 1985, 1986, 1986, 1986, 1986, 1986, 1986, 1986, 1988 Monday, February 4, 2013 1977 Topps Baseball #449 - Al Fitzmorris - Al Fitzmorris was a member of the original Toronto Blue Jays for a few hours. Al was drafted by the Blue Jays in the 1976 expansion draft. Later the same day, Fitzmorris was traded to the Cleveland Indians for Alan Ashby and Doug Howard. - 1977 Stats: 6-10, 5.41 ERA in 29 games (21 starts) - 1977 Highlights: - May 21 - Took himself out of the game after facing one batter. Manager Frank Robinson wanted to fine Fitzmorris for malingering, but he was overruled by GM Phil Seghi. Fitzmorris said the problem was stiffness that came from time to time. - July 31 - Allowed two runs (one unearned) on five hits in a complete game 9-2 win over the Minnesota Twins. - Aug 19 - Earned the victory by allowing five hits and one run in eight innings as the Indians beat the Oakland A's 2-1. - Other card blogs: 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1976, 1976 Hostess, 1979 Sunday, February 3, 2013 1977 Topps Baseball #448 - Elllie Rodriguez - Ellie Rodriguez had played in his final major league game by the time this card was produced. Ellie was released by the Dodgers on May 2, 1977. He hooked on with the AAA Columbus Clippers in the Pittsburgh Pirates organization and spent the 1977 season there. Rodriguez then played in the Mexican League from 1978-1980 and again in 1982. - 1977 Stats: - Columbus Clippers (AAA) - .224, 3 HR, 16 RBI in 49 games - 1977 - Other card blogs: 1969, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1976 Saturday, February 2, 2013 1977 Topps Baseball #447 - Jerry Turner - Jerry Turner was used as a pinch hitter and as a backup outfielder in 1977. - 1977 Stats: .246, 10 HR, 48 RBI in 118 games - 1977 Highlights: - April 22 - Hit a 2-run homer as the Padres beat the Houston Astros 4-2. - May 25 - Appeared as a pinch hitter and singled in the winning run to lead the Padres to a 6-5 win over the Atlanta Braves. - Sept 14 - Went 3 for 4 with a double and an RBI in San Diego's 6-4 victory over the Atlanta Braves - Other card blogs: 1976, 1979, 1980 Friday, February 1, 2013 1977 Topps Baseball #446 - Bill Bonham - Bill Bonham was the Cubs' #3 starter in 1977. Bonham had ten wins in 1977, but he had only one win in July, one win in August, and no victories in September. Bill was 2-7 from July until the end of the season. - After the 1977 season Bill was traded to the Cincinnati Reds for Bill Caudill, Woodie Fryman, and cash. - 1977 Stats: 10-13, 4.36 ERA in 34 starts - 1977 Highlights: - April 11 - Pitched a complete game and allowed two runs in his first start of the season. The Cubs beat the Philadelphia Phillies 6-2. - May 27 - Allowed two runs in eight innings and earned the win as the Cubs beat the Pittsburgh Pirates 4-2. - Other card blogs: 1972, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1976, 1978, 1979, 1980
Top 30 Mobile UI Kits for iOS and Android App Developers When it comes to application development, UI and UX are the most noteworthy terms that every developer is familiar with. UI stands for User Interface which means how an app looks and interacts with the users. On the other hand, UX stands for User Experience which defines experiences users gain or feel on using an app. For the success of a mobile application, it is necessary that users must have a pleasing experience while using the app. They must be fascinated by the visual appeal of an app. Moreover, nicely designed UI will help you avoid app uninstalls and bounce rates. Learning the best UI practices is the most predictable part of any mobile app’s success. It should be bedrock for any wannabe and reputable designer. It is easy to craft an app idea on a piece of paper, but when it comes down to creating an app, in reality, things get little tricky. Before you start working on design, understand your users first, and the way they interact with the design, then only you should move on to usability of the app. You can create a wireframe of an app using mobile app UI kits which have become the norm when building prototypes. Mobile app UI kits are specially designed to speed up the process of mobile app development. No matter you wish to design iOS or Android app, the below listed mobile UI kits will definitely help you design wonderful and well-organized apps. Your apps will surely satisfy your clients with the design and perfection attained through the use of these UI kits. 1. Android Material Design Android material design intensifies new design concept in Android devices. You can use these PSDs to build Android-friendly apps with material design support them from behind. 2. AwesomeKit – Mobile Prototyping Kit AwesomeKit is a freebie that has more than hundred unique UI and UX elements. You can use these elements to begin prototyping your apps. There are no prototyping limits and you can prototype any kind of app. If things go well, you can convert your prototype into a fully functional app. This kit has been built specifically for iPhone and iPad users, so basically this kit is only for iOS developers. 3. Azure UI Kit Azure is content and eCommerce oriented UI kit that can work well for creating content and online store apps for both the web and mobile devices. 4. Bandwidth Monitor Application UI With this monitoring app, you can keep a check on the amount of network bandwidth used to the current day, week, month, or even year. Bandwidth UI App is a portable mobile application tool that gives you a real-time information view of downloaded and uploaded data in flat UI design style. 5. Checkout Screen App For your checkout processes, here is a specific feature UI kit that allows you to create checkout designs for your ecommerce app. This Checkout UI kit is specifically for iOS7 that lets users state a unique payment method and complete purchase formalities. 6. Clean & Modern iOS UI Kit Clean & Modern UI Kit is a modern and organized UI kit especially made keeping in mind the needs of iOS developers. Several essential screens are included in this kit for mobile app success like: introduction screen for creating walkthroughs and product guides, a calendar screen for managing tasks and lists, a stunning and small signup and login screens, a screen for creating a news section, a user profile screen, and also a report for the most viewed sections of the app by the user. Such screen views are handy for magazine websites and apps. There are more than 49 unique widgets and more than 100 UI elements present in Designer-naut UI kit that allows you to build your own community app. Elegance iOS UI Kit contains 12 industry-quality PSD screens focused around eCommerce. If you have plans of developing similar app, save your time and efforts with this UI kit. You can achieve all app related tasks with elegance by creating a fully functional prototype. This iOS UI kit is a good starting point for designers who want to get into the eCommerce app design marketing. 9. Facebook Material Design Facebook Material Design is available for Android devices and gives you design experiences similar to Facebook. Fair Mobile UI Kit is an all-in-one solution for designers/developers who wish to develop functional mobile app prototypes with existing, contemporary, and flexible design elements. It has raised the bar by providing an outstanding mobile UI kit which contains more than 140 individual app screens all set to be edited and published on your apps. Apart from this, this UI kit offers 22 signup and login screens available in all kinds of varieties, 13 walkthrough screens, 25 blogging and content reader screens to make your app design readable and mobile friendly. The package also includes 100 unique UI elements that can be employed, styled and combined independently with your existing parts of the app. It is partially free, with the option to pay for the full package if you find it suitable for your app. It is a fully functional iOS concept kit which is available in ready to use form. Flat Mobile app UI has plenty of screens that you can use to create prototypes of food-related projects. You can also convert this food-oriented app into a social network by making some changes in PSD. 12. Free Ecommerce UI Kit Are you looking for UI kit for ecommerce? Free Ecommerce UI kit employs dark pink color scheme to intrigue eCommerce apps that want to assist users, advertise fashion and designer products. There is a separate filter screen that will allow users to narrow down their search with the selection of male/female products, search through categories, use brand name to find specific items, select a product color, and even select a price range to narrow down items falling into your budget. 13. Instagram UI Material Design It has Instagram User Interface concept which involves material design as the design base. You can use this concept UI kit to build Instagram-like apps. When you have plans of building an invoicing app, then Invoices App Concept is suitable for creating such an app. It has the design elements to put on view individual invoices for users, buttons to print and delete invoices, and also a statistics report for how the invoices are making revenue. 15. iPhone 6 UI The iPhone 6 UI Kit has some nice elements that can complement well with the iPhone 6 UI natively. The screens are just like Instagram. You can create an app where users can create social profiles, share visual content and get responses for it. 16. Lets Go Travel UI Kit Launch your own travel management app for iOS with the help of this UI kit. Lets Go Travel UI kit will allow you to focus on providing users with train, flight and bus tickets, and important holiday information. 17. Login UI kit for iOS This login UI kit is for iOS devices, which is a collection of signup/login screens that you can apply to your app prototype. You will have a full access to PSD files which will give you an opportunity to quickly change color schemes. It also features social login elements. 18. Materia – eCommerce app design Materia mobile UI kit is suitable for Android app developers and focuses exclusively on eCommerce design aspects. This UI kit provides a fully functional design for building an eCommerce store app prototype that can be later optimized with real code functions with the use in a real-world application. It is one of the best freebies that are available with Free Chat UI kit for Photoshop & Sketch. It is a fully function instant messaging application that employs modern design and modern design features. 20. Mobile Material UI Screens Those who wish to have an extraordinary app, they should check the potential of Material Design, much like CloudMagic Email, Cerberus anti theft & Calendar, and Evernote are all doing already. All the brands and businesses that are employing Google Material Design within their Android applications are doing extremely great. All these apps and other countless apps that are using material designs have some of the best reviews, which are directly intended to the User Interface usability. Mobile Material UI comprises of all the default screens that you would require to get an application prototype in progress. 21. Music App UI Those who dream of designing music app for iPhone, but never tried because of design concerns, it’s time to think about it again as Music App UI is a free UI kit for creating a music app for iOS users. It has a very precise design and integrates well with the latest iOS design module. 22. Phoenix UI: Vol 1 – for iPhone 6 / Free PSD Pheonix UI is a mobile UI kit for iOS which comprises of 12 individual screens. First screen is similar to Instagram that offers community sharing. Users can share their images, tag their locations and leave a comment. Second is the user profile screen, containing user information. You can check your inbox and change profile settings. There are separate screens for sign in, message inbox, fitness applications, and a calendar and to view visual content. People can also tag themselves with a particular location. There are two different style/color choices in screen: minimal dark, and minimal light. 23. Pink Flat UI Pink Flat UI is a smooth vector UI kit with available PSD files and different elements like calendar, video player, search, loading bars, login form, buttons, community stats, and extended weather widget. 24. Routes UI kit for iOS Routes UI Kit has been made for iOS developers only. There are seven categories in this kit: - Traveling - Online Shopping - Social Media - User Profiles - Menu Items - Walkthrough Forms This UI package comprises of more than 100 unique high-quality screens divided into above mentioned 7 categories. The color scheme offered in this UI stresses towards what brands want to sell with minimal and modern colors. 25. Sales App UI Kit Sales App UI kit merges social aspects with eCommerce aspects to assemble a socially oriented eCommerce app prototype. 26. Spool UI Kit Spool is a UI kit that makes the process of prototyping of apps easy with a login screen, a user profile screen, search the site screen, a music playlist screen, a dialog screen for user messaging, and a menu of course. 27. Sweet Dark UI Sweet Dark UI is a collection of exciting and versatile UI shapes. Simply grab these unique shapes and apply them to your designs. You will get buttons, swipers, menu items, navigation tools that can be edited and used in live designs. 28. Take UI Kit If you are making a single page website, then Take UI Kit will be the most suitable UI kit that provides you with one-page themes built with Bootstrap, and landing page themes built for WordPress. 29. Trend UI Kit Trend UI Kit is a retina-catchy and pixel perfect UI kit that will enable you to have pixel perfect designs, available with 23 unique iOS screens. 30. Ventas Mobile App UI Kit Ventas Mobile app UI kit can be used by bloggers who wish to share their experiences through mobile devices. This kit comes with 6 screens that offer perfect set of design elements to create prototype of your mobile blog. Through this kit, you can pay an emphasis on readability and usability of the app. Tags: android, ios, mobile app, mobile development, mobile phone, smartphone
Today is the first installment of our monthly review of Literary Wives. Woo! Just a reminder: check out Audra, Angela, and Emily today as they post their reviews, and please join in the discussion! If you’re reading along, be sure to post the link to your review of American Wife in the comments and we’ll all take a gander. American Wife by Curtis Sittenfeld; published 2008 by Random House If I had known that this book was based on the life of former First Lady Laura Bush, I probably wouldn’t have picked it up. I’ve known about the book for quite a while—been mesmerized by the beautiful cover, enchanted by the story line as outlined on the back cover. Of course, I knew it was about “politics,” per se, but I thought it would be a more abstract look at politics—not politics steeped with some of the most powerful emotions and controversies of the last twenty years. After I had chosen it and told the other bloggers about it, I was reading reviews and quickly discovered the truth. Dear God, I groaned. This is going to be terrible. But then I looked at that back cover again, and I couldn’t help but be pulled in. I still couldn’t help but wonder what being the wife of America’s president was like, and the fact that it at least drew its inspiration from reality gave it an interesting edge. So we still read it, and I’m happy we did. To give you a quick glance at the storyline that intrigued me so: *Warning: Plot spoilers ahead! Alice Lindgren is a quiet, gentle person from small town Midland, Wisconsin. A model, bookish student, she is traumatized at age 17 when, while driving, she fails to see a stop sign in the darkness and crashes into another vehicle—and happens to kill the boy she is in love with, Andrew Imhof. In the wake of her grief, she attempts to absolve herself and assuage her guilt by giving Andrew’s older brother, Pete, what he wants—sex. She becomes pregnant. Her grandmother, who lives with her and her parents, takes her to a Chicago doctor who performs an abortion, though it was illegal then. This doctor, a woman, also happens to be her grandmother’s lover, and it is the first glimpse Alice has of homosexual relationships. Years later, at 31, Alice is a school librarian in a slightly bigger Wisconsin town. At a friend’s barbecue, she meets Charlie Blackwell—the rich, charismatic, persistent, funny, handsome son of Wisconsin’s most influential Republican family. In a whirlwind romance, they fall in love and are married just a few months later. Charlie tries at first to run for Congress, but loses, to Alice’s relief. For many years, Charlie works at his brother’s meat company, feeling like a failure. Until he has the chance to help buy the Brewers, and eventually is persuaded to run for governor, and the President. Though she was happy in their quiet life, Alice must decide whether and how to support the man she loves when his ideals do not match hers. This book could have been many things. It could have been a polemic against Republicanism. It could have shouted for abortion and marriage equality, or feminism. And maybe it does. I don’t mean to say that the book doesn’t support radical ideas—I think it does. Alice Lindgren is radical in her gentleness, radical in her empathy for all people, especially those who disagree with her. Ultimately, though, this is a book about a woman and her husband. I think this question from the series is particularly relevant to this story: In what way does this woman define “wife”—or in what way is she defined by “wife”? Throughout most of the book, we see Alice again and again seek to define herself as “wife.” She is insecure about the validity of her existence since the crash and as a single woman approaching middle age. When Charlie proposes and she accepts, she says, I’d traded friendship for romance, companionship for a husband. Was this not a reasonable bargain, one most people would make? I’d no longer be that allegedly eccentric, allegedly pitiable never married woman; my very existence would not pose a question that others felt compelled to try answering. Again and again, although her ideals differ from Charlie’s and the entire Blackwell family’s, she chooses to remain silent in the hope of maintaining peace. Above anything else, she hates confrontation and studiously avoids it. Even when Charlie ignores her, mistreats her, and acts like the spoiled brat he is, she babies him. I would follow, I would coddle, in exchange for the smallest amount of respect and sometimes in exchange for less than respect, for mere neutrality. Had anyone been watching, I probably would have seemed like a doormat, but I believed in picking my battles, and there was rarely anything I wanted more than I didn’t want to keep fighting. For a brief time, Alice considers leaving Charlie, and actually does take their daughter Ella to her mom’s house for a while. And yet she can’t bring herself to actually divorce him. She remembers her dad’s motto: Whatever you are, be a good one. And she remembers that many people besides just she, Charlie, and Ella, would be affected if they got a divorce. So she returns, and at that moment it seems she is making a decision to stick with Charlie no matter what. It certainly appears that way—she follows him to the governor’s mansion and the White House, attending speeches, giving speeches, campaigning, following all of the rules, and fulfilling all of the duties. However, throughout the narrative, Alice slips in hints that she actually subtly distinguishes between herself as a wife and her true self: I loved my husband out of affection and also out of habit, I loved him with my wife’s heart, and with my secret heart, my dream heart, I loved Andrew Imhof. Alice is intensely practical about marriage; she knows that it is about two very different people coming together, and sometimes you just try to get by: We are each of us pathetic in one way or another, and the trick is to marry a person whose patheticness you can tolerate. …Anyone who has been married, and especially anyone married for several decades, knows the union is a series of compromises. The great controversy at the end of the book comes when Alice admits publicly that she thinks the war her husband started should end. Charlie, of course, feels that she has betrayed him. But she has enough clarity to know that they’ve both betrayed each other in small ways. She forgives him because she genuinely loves him, and yet the book closes with the reminder that “there must remain secrets that are mine alone.” What makes the book so remarkable, to me, is that Alice is somehow able to be loyal to Charlie, to think well of him, to have compassion for him, to love him, and to also be loyal to herself. That is her definition of “wife.” That is a great feat in marriage. I know that I tend to think dualistically in my own; I think that either Andrew is right or I am right. I don’t know how to live in tension—but that’s exactly what a marriage is, learning to live in tension. Phew. What a way to start this series! I’m really looking forward to engaging in conversation with everyone, so please join in and check out my fellow contributors’ blogs! During May we’re reading The Paris Wife by Paula McLain. If you’ve been dying to read this bestseller, now’s your chance! I love your observation of her loyalty to both Charlie and herself, although they are very different in temperament, interests, and even politics. Good point! I think loyalty really is the bedrock of any marriage. I recently read Anna Quindlen’s Lots of Candles, Plenty of Cake, and what she felt was most important in her marriage is loyalty. It really hit me. It is so true. More and more in my personal life, I’m realizing that loyalty is very a much a discipline. In that point, at least, I think Alice is a rockstar of discipline. I just don’t know how much she and others—and possibly people all over the world?!—suffer because it. Now that is interesting! How much do people suffer because of loyalty? I can think of instances in my own life. But I also think it can be a very good thing. Especially in a marriage, if it is a healthy marriage. Wow! Way to make me think. 🙂 I’m laughing that we both had the same reaction about the book’s connection to the Bushes — it almost ruined it for me. But like you, I’m glad we read the book. It definitely isn’t a book that I’ll ever forget. I did think that at times the writing was a bit heavy-handed in terms of the issues raised, especially abortion. The style of writing gave the feel that these were Alice’s opinions, but every once in awhile, it seemed to miss the mark and I heard the echo of something outside the character. However, this happened minimally and did not detract from the story. It was Alice’s silence I struggled with the most. There is the sense that one needs to choose one’s battles. But there is also the larger sense that her silence at times compromised values and dignity, her own and others. This tension between loyalty and abuse was what kept me reading. It isn’t a black and white area, is it? No one ever really knows what goes on in a marriage, or why people make the choices they do. Your impression of Alice is much more forgiving than mine, and I appreciate your ability to see the tenacious perseverance and commitment that characterizes their marriage. Thanks for choosing this one for us, Ariel. It was a pleasant, if difficult, surprise! 🙂 “The tension between loyalty and abuse”—wow, I never thought about it that way. Do you mean that Alice’s complaisance bordered on abusive? Or that Charlie’s manipulation was abusive? I certainly saw abuse in Priscilla, and although I don’t want to believe that Alice was influenced by Priscilla’s judgment, I kinda think she was. I’m glad that we were all engaged and that the book inspired such great conversation! Even if we couldn’t really say we liked it. Hmmmm…..I think I meant the abuse of self that occurs when one is not true to one’s beliefs, values, feelings, etc. Also, the abuse that occurs when another person tramples on those. Obviously I’m thinking of emotional or psychological abuse — I think there was a good deal of that in the book, especially from Charlie towards Alice, and Priscilla is horrific. Does that make sense? Maybe abuse isn’t the right word….. I was also pondering the exchange between you and Emily about loyalty. I agree with you it is very important; however, I need to point out that the entire novel is a betrayal of her loyalty to her husband, and it is overt — not to him, but to the world — because two times she says she will never tell anyone she disagrees with him. She doesn’t reveal only the disagreements, she reveals every intimate detail of their lives. This is not loyalty but pure betrayal and maybe it is her ultimate revenge for his abuse and disrespect of her. We all were frustrated by her silence and her refusal to act, but isn’t the book her ultimate act? The narrative is her refusal to be silent. Whether or not I can respect this, however, is another story. It seems, as I said in my review, very passive-aggressive and leads to no change or resolution of the underlying problems. I think I have a bit of a different perspective because of my age and because this June I’ll have been married 20 years. Maybe that’s why it was harder for me to accept overall. I do see your point about loyalty and abuse… in fact, one thing that I noticed but didn’t really think about until now is the fact that she repeatedly states that she hasn’t written an autobiography and has turned down chances to, but what is this book then? You’re right—it seems that in many subtle ways she contradicts herself. I didn’t see it when I was reading it through, but now I definitely agree with you on her unreliability as a narrator, and that itself seems like a betrayal. Thanks so much for bringing up such insight!! And congratulations on your upcoming anniversary 🙂 Thank you, Ariel! 🙂 Awesome post, Ariel — I’ll admit I nearly died reading this, more than once, for the political thing, and I worked vvvvvvvvvvvvvery hard not to get into that with my reflection. I really struggled with Alice and what I felt like was her subsuming herself into her husband and shrugging off responsibility. But I felt so cold that I made myself meditate on what she and I might have had in common, and had a rather huge ah-ha about the experience of being wife — and the difference between subsuming one’s self and accommodating a partner. (After reading Angela’s post, I’m back to being cranky about Alice, though, and feeling like I was too generous in trying to relate to her!) I loved what you said here: “…Alice is somehow able to be loyal to Charlie, to think well of him, to have compassion for him, to love him, and to also be loyal to herself.” although I will admit, I don’t always think Alice was loyal to herself. Too often, I felt like she sold herself out for the ‘greater good’ — her marriage, her husband, her comfortable life. While she stood her ground near the end of the book, for a good chunk I was very distressed at her reticence to live for herself. You’re probably right—Alice did sell herself out for the “greater good”—and the greater good wasn’t really achieved, was it? It makes you wonder if it’s actually worth it to sacrifice your convictions. I do think that Alice is an accurate portrayal of a lot of women—women who submit to the strong passions of their husbands just because it’s easier. They’d rather not make a fuss, even if the fuss could be worth it in the long run. Ok. You’re really getting me on the point of responsibility. This question hasn’t exactly been raised yet, but I think Gladys definitely raises it in the end of the book: Is Alice somehow responsible for her husband’s actions? And being responsible, is she at least partly responsible for the war? And for endangering millions of women who need to have abortions? You’re right—Alice definitely doesn’t think she’s responsible. But when you’re given so much power, don’t you have a responsibility to use it? Thank you for raising this point! It’s funny — in some ways, I’m more ready to forgive her unwillingness to engage with her husband when he became President — because now things really are beyond the two of them and their marriage — but I just hated how passive she was about his horrible life choices! Sittenfeld establishes early on how much Alice emulated her parents and their own refusal to confront things, but as has been said on other pages, Alice’s refusal to address the porn thing, or his motivations for taking out the babysitter, his doing coke at the reunion — she just shrugs it off, finds him cute and rascally, and thinks, ‘it isn’t worth a fight’. What I’m sort of chewing over now, too, is her hand-washing of her daughter as an adult. She let Charlie’s born again religion set the tenor for their household and Alice makes it clear she’s not bought in — yet she doesn’t care that her daughter holds values she doesn’t? Again, her refusal to hold herself accountable for anything is mind boggling and I can’t tell if this is a straight up invention of Sittenfeld or meant to be a judgment on Laura Bush. First of all, I applaud your mission of focusing on wives in literature; certainly it is a very worthy undertaking! I must admit, however, that I found American Wife extremely disappointing. Knowing beforehand that this book was loosely based on the life of Laura Bush, I was hoping to find a window into the life of this famous woman. About 1/3 of my way through reading the book I reminded myself that post-50 years, I have given myself permission to leave a book unfinished if I don’t find it thought-provoking, entertaining, or well-written. I must sadly admit that the BEAUTIFUL cover of American Wife kept me going, thinking that the characterization would improve and that I would learn something profound by reading this very thinly-veiled book of Laura’s life. It never happened. One of my professors in college would often say that 95% of the books in the library are not worthy of reading. I would have to include American Wife in this group. Having just finished Faulkner’s As I Lay Dying and Virginia Woolf’s The Waves, it is difficult to read something “light” that just doesn’t satisfy. Thank you for your thorough and thoughtful review. I do look forward to reading The Paris Wife! Thanks for commenting! I am sorry that your experience reading this was so negative! I at least feel it was worth it for all of the great discussion it’s caused. 🙂 For some reason, I just can’t let go of this book. I feel like there is something profound being said, but I can’t put my finger on it. But maybe there’s not. Maybe Sittenfeld is just that good of a writer. Hello, all! This is a fantastic idea… My review as posted on Goodreads– So glad to hear others were turned off by the idea of this being based upon Laura Bush’s life! I definitely had to put aside my political views. However, I always felt she was totally different from her husband and admittedly, never understood her desire or need to remain with him…but you know, we all make errors in judgement with regard to relationships, especially marital ones, it seems…I know I did…once! lol Regardless, I did find this to be an almost compelling read…it definitely kept my interest! As Sittenfeld described the Blackwell family I could easily imagine such crudeness being not only acceptable but honored among the elite. Wasn’t it similar to the way the Kennedy clan has been described? Perhaps I’m misinformed… One curiosity for me was the Miss Ruby vs. Charlie’s impromptu drinking date with the babysitter. Honestly, I definitely felt this was a comparison of “apples and oranges.” I truly took offense to that and the fact that Alice accepted the argument…but I felt that way about her quite often throughout the book. I can’t quite agree that she didn’t sell herself out… Perhaps that’s my “advanced age” talking since the older I get the more I believe in living according to my principles and less about attraction to other people, especially with regard to interpersonal relationships. My closest friends must share similar principles, though less-close friends and acquaintances can vary a bit more… I’m not referring to political views, but basic beliefs about life: living with compassion, caring, and mutual respect. I loved her introspection! So many times I felt as if I was reading my own thought processes. It felt totally intrusive at times! I could so relate to her self debates! I realize my “prudeness” is showing, but I just don’t appreciate this much detail of sexual scenes; tell me your emotions/satisfaction, but I don’t need the physical details (yeah, I’ll never even touch “Fifty shades…” or any book like those…). I know a couple very similar to Charlie and Alice (though not in the financial sense!). She once told me there were days in the first few years of his sobriety that she was sorry he’d cleaned up, ’cause he acted as if he was such a “hero” and almost “God-like” for having changed. That really struck me. She deserved true love and happiness and the first 20 years of her marriage were miserable. But…we must all make our choices. You share such great insights! There’s so much that we could have talked about but we didn’t… I’m thinking I might have to write an addendum to this post… including the subject of racism. I don’t think Alice was convinced by Charlie’s date with the babysitter, but it is disappointing that she didn’t confront him about it. And I love that you bring up Charlie’s God-complex. I was struck repeatedly by the fact that he worried so much about his “legacy”—it really was his driving motivation, even overriding his love for Alice and his respect for her opinions. What is it that makes some people so concerned with making an impact, for better or for worse? In this sense, Alice reminds me of Hazel from John Green’s The Fault in Our Stars, who believes it’s better to simply not make an impact at all. But Alice doesn’t really have that choice, does she? She’s given power, so no matter what she does, her choices will impact millions. So interesting! Sorry for inserting myself into this thread, but I just have to say I keep nodding ‘yes’ at everything you two have said. Lynn, on Emily’s blog, I commented on exactly the observation you made of the Kennedys and their behavior. (I was also reminded of the Romneys.) I too found the Ms Ruby and babysitter thing completely separate and when Alice accepted it wholly, I was furious — but then again, Alice’s constant backing down during that era had me practically apoplectic at times. Audra, no alologies! This is what makes this so much fun! (At least for me!) Ooh, yes, the Romneys! How could I have overlooked such a recent example of “how NOT to live your life” and “how NOT to be”… Thanks for the reminder, though I consciously try to block negativity, so perhaps that explains my oversight! LOL Ariel: I can see that I’m going to have to insist my book club reads The Fault in Our Stars soon. One member did suggest it. Yeah, the racism, but I can only assume that was a “given” amongst the Bushes… And I won’t get on my soapbox about them…you know–block that negativity! Yes, the one way in which I could sympathize with Alice was the power she inadvertently held and wielded as U.S. “First Lady” (have always disliked that term…). Now that would be tough, especially when your true opinions are opposed to those of your husband, the President. A true conundrum, in my opinion; definitely “between a rock and a hard place”! Though I would hope I would never place myself in such a position, I can understand it when you’re young, but overall I still felt Alice was a “gutless wonder.” Just can’t help it! I always end up there!! Although I could soooo relate to her internal musings, so many times I was so disappointed by her decisions. Did I mention this is sooooo much fun?!?
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Micro Monday interview with Halsted Bernard (@cygnoir) Published September 24, 2018 Jean: Hey, it’s Micro Monday again, the weekly microcast where we get to know members of the Micro.blog community. I’m Jean MacDonald, Community Manager at Micro.blog, and I’m really happy today to welcome Halsted Bernard, who’s @cygnoir on Micro.Blog. Hi, Halsted, welcome to the podcast. How are you doing? Halsted: Hi, Jean. Thanks for having me. I’m great today, I’m really excited to be here. Jean: Me, too. I’m really excited to talk to you. I’ve been following you for quite a while, and you do a lot of interesting things, which I am looking forward to hearing more about, and I’m sure the listeners are as well. So, why don’t we start off with you telling us a little bit about yourself. Halsted: Sure. I’m I’m a librarian, and I’m a library manager in a public library just outside of Portland, Oregon. I also write mostly speculative fiction but some nonfiction, and I’m an avid reader. I have tons of other interests that I microblog about, like gaming and linguistics, and virtual reality and fountain pens, and cooking, and I could be here all day, rattling them all off, but I have a lot. My husband and I live in Portland, with our 21-year-old cat, Zen. Jean: Aw, kitty cats; they’re nice. It’s hard to say if cats or dogs are the official pet of Portland, but it depends, I guess, who you are. Halsted: I think it’s dogs, from the number of dogs I see when I’m out and about, but I’m both a cat person and a dog person, so I’m happy with that. Jean: Yeah, me too. Well, you don’t see all the cats because they’re hiding from you. Halsted: Yeah, that’s true. Jean: Dogs are not smart enough to hide. No, I take that back. I love dogs. I don’t know why I said that. (laughter) Jean: Let’s get on with this podcast before I get dog hate mail. (laughter) Jean: Well, tell me about when you first heard about Micro.blog and what made you want to join in on the fun that we have there. Halsted: I think I’ve narrowed it down to some time this past January. I was looking at Belle Cooper’s Twitter because Belle and Josh Sharp make this amazing quantified-self site called Exist, that I’ve used for years, and I’m really really into Exist. I love quantified self stuff. I probably should have rattled that off with my interests. I love Belle’s Twitter presence as well. She has tweeted in the past about planners, and I am a stationery fan and a planner fan. So, I was probably either looking for planner pictures or information about Exist, and she tweeted about setting up a microblog, and I had not heard the word microblog before. When I hear a word that I haven’t heard before, it’s either the librarian part of my brain, or it’s the writer part of my brain—I immediately have to know what that word means. I clicked on her microblog link, and it took me to Micro.blog, and I immediately got sucked in. It was just so compelling how easy it was to set up and how welcoming everyone in the community was. When I had any questions at all, either just posting directly to Micro.blog or in the slack channels, I got an immediate response, or I sent you and Manton some emails, as well. (laughter) Everyone was just so helpful and so welcoming, and for someone who is tech adjacent—I mean, I’m tech knowledgeable, and I’m sure that the people in my life would call me tech savvy, but I’m really tech adjacent. I didn’t expect such a warm welcome from so many seemingly techie people. I’ve definitely been in online communities before, in which it was predominantly tech focused, or there were a bunch of tech folks populating it, and I haven’t always felt as welcome. So, I was very impressed with how welcoming it was and how easy it was to get started. Jean: Oh, that’s cool. I’m really glad to hear that because you know, I like that too, and I have experienced what you describe, coming from the other side of the Internet, where people are either not helpful or actively dismissive. [laughs] We don’t do that, and we try to foster a community where that’s not cool, to be dismissive. Well, that’s really neat. Now, did you have a blog at the time before you jumped into Micro.blog. Halsted: I did. I’ve had a website in some form or another since 1996. I’ve been very passionate about the web since I first discovered there was such a thing as the web. Starting in, I think, May of 1998, I started what was then called an online journal. All of those entries from the various platforms I’ve tried—Live Journal, Grey Matter, Moveable Type, WordPress, homegrown stuff—all of those posts are still archived at my website CYGNOIR.NET; that’s about 3,000 posts. (laughter) I should go back and reclassify or categorize some of them as a good librarian, but I don’t have the heart at this point, but someday I will. I do still post there from time to time. I most recently did a Project 365, a kind of a photo blogging concept, that I really enjoyed doing. Generally, I save that for longer-form posts, and I’m not quite sure why. I would really love to be able to integrate my microblog into my website proper, but I haven’t figured out how to do that to my satisfaction yet. I know there are ways to do it, and I just haven’t figured out the way that works best for me. Jean: Yeah, I understand. I go through it myself, too. (laughter) I had a website that was a web journal of my own creation when I was traveling back in 2001, and that’s still available somewhere but not really easily accessible. I should make that accessible because it’s kind of cool from when I was teaching web design in West Africa. I have started WordPress sites. I have tried different ways to blog as it were, and I am definitely one of those people for whom Twitter became a kind of substitute for blogging. I dropped out of being that interested in setting up something that was harder than that, so I do like that Micro.blog is easy. Now, one of the things that I was really interested in, and I mentioned this when I emailed you about coming on today, so I hope you want to talk about it, was that you had set up a hangout with Serena in Melbourne to journal together at the same time, and I’m curious about how that how that got going, and and how it went. Halsted: Oh yes, I’m totally happy to talk about that. I started following Serena, I think, because she posted either something about books, games or stationery and planners, or maybe all three. I said that’s my kind of person, right there. I posted to Micro.blog, I think, in early July. I had a friend visiting, who also likes to write in an offline journal, longhand, and paste in mementos. It’s not quite scrapbooking, but it’s just the creative use of ephemera, writing, and typography, and he is an excellent calligraphist as well. In the mornings before we would get going with the sightseeing portion of the trip, he and I would sit across the dining room table from each other and have a cup of tea and journal. It was such an amazing, relaxing way to start each morning; I posted about it, and Serena said, “Oh, I did something similar where we did a Google hangout for scrapbooking and I really liked that. I wonder if we could get something like that going for Micro.blog folks.” So we tried it, and we had a Google Hangout. It ended up just being the two of us, and we honestly didn’t get a whole lot of journalling done because we were just talking. I was so curious about her life. I knew almost nothing about her day-to-day life or what drew her to Micro.blog. We talked about that; we talked about some of her time living abroad. I’ve also abroad; you’ve lived abroad. You know, it’s it’s fascinating to me. One of my interests being linguistics and sociolinguistics, I love speaking with people who are also speaking English but who have non-standard English, not American English because I’m always collecting phrases and words that people use in different cultures. So, just from that aspect, to speak to someone from Melbourne was fascinating. it was a wonderful time; we spent about an hour together, and we vowed that we would try it again after she is back from her trip. I think that we could definitely make this a regular occurrence for the Micro.blog community. I think it’s really wonderful. Because I work in a public library, I feel very passionate about places where people are that aren’t work or home—so, the third space concept. And places where people can share and join each other in community that isn’t necessarily traditional or what we think about. I think creating that virtual space where people can be—the pressure isn’t to be clever or to talk or to answer questions or anything. It’s really to share a creative moment with other people who are doing the same thing. I think that can be very interesting and inspirational, so I hope we do it again. Jean: That sounds really cool, and I do believe there are some other people who are interested in checking this out with you, too. I should say Serena, who is @vishae on Micro.blog, in case people want to follow her as well. I did a Micro.blog interview with her. She was one of the first batch of people I talked to. I could have talked to her for an hour easily. I think I did. Now that I think about it, I think I had to edit that one quite a bit to make it into the more micro side of the spectrum for the microcast. She has a lot of really interesting things going on. We’ll figure out a way to make sure more people know about it, but it sounds like this kind of thing, too, where you start with a couple of people, and you slowly add on. You don’t want 100 people showing up on day one. Halsted: Well exactly, and I appreciate that you also posted about it, so that people who follow you but don’t follow me or Serena saw it. I could have done a better job marketing it initially. I didn’t know what it was going to become that first day. I wanted to see if organically, we attracted people, or just each other, with whom it really clicked. I think that we did, so the next one will definitely be talking about more and bothering people about more. I already have people who have responded to me and said that they would be interested in participating in the next one. I’ve collected all of their names into a little note, so I know to let them know about the next one. Jean: Oh good. Well, that sounds really cool. Well, besides finding people who are paper-and-pen obsessed, what are some ways that your are using your microblog account? Halsted: I’m using it like I used to use Twitter before I got profoundly bad at using Twitter, and I’m blaming myself and not the platform for that because I really struggle with saying what I want to say without obsessing over how it will be received. So, with Twitter’s retweets and likes, I’ve gotten really wrapped up in whether or not something I wrote or a photo I took or a article I liked was good enough to add to my followers’ timelines. So, again, I’m not saying that Twitter is, in itself, inherently bad. It’s certainly problematic as we’ve seen, but it’s still somewhere where I can find people creating and sharing incredible things. It’s where my husband, FunkyPlaid, shares insights from his historical research. It’s where my friend Shark Sketchbook shares her awesome artwork, and it’s just a wonderful place to see what other people are creating and connect with them. But, it’s no longer where I share what matters to me, so I’ve moved all of that to Micro.blog, and I’m I’m really glad that I have. The community is outstanding. I already talked about how thoroughly I was welcomed when I joined even before I shared much of anything, which made me feel like a person and not a product, not a collection of hashtags, or what I’m interested in, or what I’m about, or what I can do for someone else. It keeps getting better, in my opinion. We have civil discourse on a wide variety of topics. We share a love of stationery; we support each other through rough times; we make mistakes; we learn, and we grow from it. I think it’s a really amazing place to be online right now. I love the fact that there are no follower counts, no retweets, no visible likes to rack up. If I want to agree or disagree with someone, or I want to ask questions or raise concerns, I have to engage directly. That’s teaching me. I’m re-learning how to be a thoughtful conversationalist, and I think I really lost that in my use of social media over the past 10 years. Jean: Wow, that’s an incredible insight. I agree with the notion that you outlined so eloquently, that without the follower counts, likes and retweets, we can stop worrying about whether something is worth putting out there in the eyes of our followers. Well, before we wrap this up, is there anything else you’d like to add to that or talk about your cat or libraries. We could go on. I haven’t talked to a librarian like this in a long time. So, part of me wants to ask you a hundred questions about the library, but that’s a different podcast. Halsted: I would love to talk about libraries with you, Jean, anytime, any day, anywhere. I would like to give folks a Zen update because people have been so lovely asking after her. She has had some health issues lately. She is doing great. She’s about to turn 21 and a half, and she is showing very few signs of slowing down. I’m hoping that she’ll stay with us for another 21 years. Maybe not. She’s doing great. On the librarian note, I would like to say that I have the distinct privilege of being the fantasy and science fiction subject selector for my public library. So, if you had any fantasy and science fiction books that you have read lately that you want to send my way, recommendations, please do. I love reading fantasy and science fiction, so I’m open to them, as well, but please send them my way. Jean: Well, your timeline is going to get some hits, I think, from our community. That’s really cool. Well, thanks again so much for being here to chit chat with me, Halsted. Halsted: Thank you so much for having me, Jean. This has been a pleasure to speak with you. I love being a part of the community, and thank you for being such a great community manager, as well. Jean: Thanks so much. If you want to follow Halsted on Micro.blog, there’s a link in the show notes, or you can go to Micro.blog/cygnoir. Thanks for listening, and we’ll talk to you next week. Bye!
I hope you are well today, well today I will share with you one of the most useful information, actually I will also tell you how I get ideas to write my blog posts in this blog and of course on other blogs too, so stay tune and keep reading, actually around a week ago I got a comment on my Youtube channel there I usually share videos regarding blogging and on few other topics, there I have shared with you earning money from blogging in Hindi, actually I have created that channel on request of my friends, students and that's why most of the videos are in Hindi because all my friends and students are belonging from India those directly know me but yes I do have students all around the world and I am really happy because of that. So; lets get started- Great Ideas for Blog Post Always Come from Readers-See, for any blog; readers are great, if you want your blog readers will ask you question then you need to write something which they did not find out anywhere and what you are providing which is unique and helpful for them. Then they are going to depend on your blog and then they will ask you different type of questions but you need to put effort to solve those questions. but you must have a page which will help readers ask you question directly may be they will ask you question on Facebook because everybody do not like to ask question through comments. After all privacy matter. Here are few things to do to stay connected & to make great relationship with readers- - Always respond to their comments on your blog, previous I thought that I need to publish link able comments to give benefits to readers, but I was wrong so never published comments which is having link in the comment. - Be free to hang out with people those are interested to contact, it will build long time relationship and that would be fruitful for you, let me tell you an example I have hang out with a guy who is an instructor on Udemy and he is having pretty good experience in web designing especially in python, actually I have invited him for interview in my blog, here is the interview of Udemy Instructor Marc Isaacson. - Building relation with others on social media, especially on Facebook, Google Plus, Youtube and of course messaging and photo sharing apps and those are Whatsapp and Instagram. - If you are belonging from any country and your native language is not English then try to help them in your own native language that is much better way to build strong relationship with readers which leads to get better authority, branding, fans, revenue too. Questions & Answers Websites are Just Great-This is one of the great source for all those wanted to succeed in blogging world and wanted to drive tons of traffic, I mean there are many those unable to find out many answers in the internet so they go to questions & answers websites and then they asked question right. If you will ask me my favourite destination for discovering topics, especially I have to check any questions and answers website then it is Quora of course this is one of the amazing platform for all those wanted to get attention by their own laser targeted customers then just go their and write about topic in which topic you are doing business that is a super way to get more customers quite easily, the technique I am sharing with you, the same technique I told one of my friend and she able to generate over $100 in last seven days and she is almost completely new to blogging, when I told her I am going to publish your story in my blog and she told me not to share her profile with you guys that's why I am sorry. But, the concept I have shared with you the same concept I have shared with her. If you are thinking about finding out ideas for writing next blog posts then you must check keyword research which is provided by many companies few are paid and few are unpaid but I will tell you to use Google Keywords Planner that's a pretty cool tool to use and of course its free. For finding out great potential words; I usually use this tool and I am really happy from this tool, okay if you are looking for few other sources those I used; I will tell you, see I have multiple blogs on multiple niche and this blog is output of those blogs, I always try to write articles from my own experience only that's why you will get in depth concept and I must say real working concept about anything. What other Questions & Answers websites you have- 1. Yahoo Answers (Still have great potential for you) 2. Answers.com 3. Ask.com & read next section that is amazing Yes, I was just missing I am writing this portion only because of my friends as I am writing this article he has been here and he suggest me to write this portion and that's true this is also useful, he was talking about Forums, really forums also play important role for getting ideas but there are different forums in different niche, so you need to put little effort to find out popular forums on your blog topics. Okay, if you unable to find out ask me below, I will share with you. Follow Concept of Shiv Khera to Get Idea for Your Blog Posts-Amazing books written by this person, I have read two books written by him (I read- you can win & you can sells), both are just too good for all those wanted to improve their confidence and of course those wanted to get success in their life then you must read, at least I will recommend you to read both books. Because; how much money & time you are going to invest its really worthy, why am I saying this because it help me and I am sure it will help you too. The only line guide from Shiv Khera is good enough that is "Winner's Don't Do Different Things they Do Things Differently". Okay, how you can utilize this in your blog post, I mean if you can implement this in your blog then just you are done with it, you will be next successful blogger. How? I mean how you can implement this, if you can come to you know; your job done, right probably you are getting angry by now, because I am not telling you the way to implement it and I am making you keep reading this. Okay here is it. Its simple but need hard work to implement, find out your interest in which you are interested to write blog posts and then make list of top blogs and just find out space to full fill people problems what they are not providing, suppose that they are writing solution but they are not providing solution up to the mark then write the same article with great content, details article and of course have pretty good presentations. Social Media to Know People Thinking to Get Idea for Blog Post-In the first two years of blogging and of course I was able to attract more than 2.5 million page views to that blog, which blog does not exist today because I have changed its domain name, okay that happen in two years but I was not able to monetize my blog properly and I have tried to contact lot of top bloggers to get help from them; but nobody help me to monetize my blog, I don't want to take their name. So; I have created a blog as a name senomic.com in 2012 but I have changed its domain name to this blog and today this blog is in front of you and today I am happy to tell you because of me & my this blog there are lot of people those are earning money from blogging and of course pretty soon I am going to launch my own course which will teach people how to start blogging. Okay, let me tell you what are things I loose because I was not socially connected at that time, see if you are not socially connected with readers then nobody easily believe on you so there are certain things your blog must have like- 1. Create a about us page 2. Add your photo there; does not matter how you look like? 3. Connect with your own social profile 4. You can also add your Whatsapp number; I don't because I got lot of messages and frankly say I don't like to type on mobile because its too much time taking but if you are new and if you have time then you can utilize this source. So, the answers for you, if you will get connected socially then you will get ton of queries on your own niche blog, in which niche means in which topic you are blogging, then you will have ton of topics to write from their queries and then share with them, let me share with you a live example with you, actually its about two to three weeks ago I got e-mail from a person from Bihar (India), he asked me couple of questions and after looking at the list of questions; I just thought why not to publish this as blog post on my blog with all answers by me, so what I did; I just told that guy to wait for my next blog post and it was a awesome experience from that blog post because on the day of publishing that blog post, I got more than 200 page views in a day and that's not bad at all. The Amazing Concept Multiply & Multiply-See, dear there are lot of people those are really doing hard work to get enter into top bloggers club once you will enter in that club automatically others will make you popular but dear getting into top bloggers club is difficult for this you need to do hard work, that is first, here I could remember my first year of engineering. The person came to our college asked simple question, may be you also have been asked the same question that is- who wants to become successful engineer? Oh, I did not tell you, by profession I am an engineer and of course I am an assistant professor in an engineering college and I have more than 4 years experience in teaching okay that is different thing, I don't want to share more about me here, because I wanted to talk more about other things which will help you to get success in blogging [Difference Between Successful & Unsuccessful Bloggers] Okay, lets come back to the answer with an amazing fact, actually there are many those have raised their hands even I was, because who does not want to become successful. Everybody right! So, he called my friends and asked how you can become successful, he said I am hard worker, so he asked a simple question, who is the hardest worker in the world among all living things its Donkey or Ass right. So, my friend confused and sit down on his seat, but do you know his answer was right because we are human beings we do have brain, so if we will do hard work by using our brain then definitely we will get success, what I learnt from this incident is everybody having knowledge but up to limit. All right, let me tell you the concept of Multiply & Multiply in blogging the same concept works, that is if you will write a blog post daily then all blog posts traffic is multiplying that means your earning is also multiplying but make sure you are writing worthy, helpful, fruitful, problem solving, almost error free blog posts, that's why your readers will be happy to land on your blog Conclusion- I always talk ideas are nothing until or unless you will not implement in your own real life because who knows what will work for you? And eventually what not? Nobody can guess about it, at least I can not, because I can not tell about you as well as about others. So, you got all these sources to discover new topics for your blog readers, which will help you to get more traffic and more royal readers because they are going to get help from your blog posts. Happy blogging! Shares if you like it and comments if you have query. Please Do Not Add Any Link to Comment, Which Will Be Count As Spam. Thank You for Your Attention!
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You can have the formality of a Chrysler 300C Sedan or… Continue Reading Mustang Chauffeured Cars - Overview We are considered the pioneers of the Mustang Car Hire Service in Victoria. Operating since 1989.We are also a family run business that takes pride in our service to customers, with a very professional team of chauffeurs. We… Continue Reading Petals N Pods Bridal - Overview Planning a wedding can be overwhelming and sometimes a little stressful - so many choices… so many decisions. Amongst the chaos, you should expect your bridal gown shopping experience to be a treasured highlight.… Continue Reading Jack Rabbit Vineyard - Overview Jack Rabbit Vineyard, located on the dynamic Bellarine Peninsula, is a wedding venue that truly offers it all. With a choice of two stunning venues on the property, you really are spoilt for choice… Continue Reading Limousine King - Overview Limousine King has an enviable fleet from stretch limousines to luxury and classic cars. Premium quality, regularly maintained and serviced vehicles that will take you on an experience through Melbourne like no other stretch limo… Continue Reading Elise Kapeller Photography - Overview Elise Kapeller Photography offers more than 10 years of experience in the wedding industry, and an unmatched ability to artistically capture beautiful and candid moments.Having won multiple prestigious international, national and state awards for… Continue Reading Berth - Overview With floor to ceiling windows and breathtaking panoramic views over Victoria Harbour and the city skyline, Berth offers an unique purpose built event space that boasts style and sophistication.Specialising in weddings, Berth understands the importance of your special… Continue Reading Olinda Tea House & Restaurant - Overview Olinda Tea House & Restaurant is a unique event destination in the Dandenong Ranges, offering a range of function options to make your event stand out from the crowd. Olinda Tea House is a… Continue Reading The High Tea Mistress - Overview The High Tea Mistress team will deliver you a unique high tea experience like no other. With delectable sweet and savoury pastries, cakes and mini rolls; and teas a given, Emma’s event and styling… Continue Reading Paradise Chevys - Overview 1957 Chevrolet Belair Classic Car HireParadise Chevys takes pride in providing a truly professional and reliable service for your special event, eg weddings, birthdays, formals, debutantes, cruises, etc.The 1957 Chevrolet Belair has distinct features… Continue Reading Caddyman Cadillac Car Hire - Overview Melbourne's King of Cadillac'sMelbourne's largest wedding car operator of 1959 Cadillacs. Pink and red convertibles, red and white coupes, and sedans! Firstly, congratulations on your engagement! At Caddyman Cadillac Wedding Car Hire, we understand that… Continue Reading Melbourne Entertainment Company - Overview Melbourne Entertainment Company is a comprehensive wedding and events entertainment supplier. They deliver a refreshing, personalised service to each client for every event. They are highly active in the Melbourne wedding/event market delivering over… Continue Reading Wicked Bucks Parties - Melbourne Bucks Destination Overview Before your best mate takes the leap into married life, give him the party he deserves by getting Wicked Bucks professional party planners on board to help organise the whole event… Continue Reading Action Event Services - Styling Hire and Services Overview Whether it’s an intimate gathering in the family back yard or a grand gala wedding for 1200 people at a five star venue, every bridal couple want the same thing,… Continue Reading Brooks and Baker’s - The Wild Tonics Overview “The exhilarating ripple of her voice was a wild tonic in the rain”― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great GatsbyThe Wild Tonics are a classy and elegant close harmony Hollywood style trio.Taking… Continue Reading Millgrove Photography - Overview Hi, I’m Jon – a 2017, 2018 and 2019 ABIA Finalist for Wedding Photography, a member of the Equality Network and Voted #1 Yarra Valley and Dandenongs Photographer in the 2017 and 2018 Brides… Continue Reading Mercure Ballarat - Overview Beautifully appointed and uniquely located in the Victorian Goldfields, within a comfortable drive of Melbourne, Mercure Ballarat is a fantastic venue for your special day.Mercure Ballarat offers many beautiful spaces to host your wedding… Continue Reading freshphotography - Overview Hi there,we are Souri and Andreas from freshphotography. Two wedding photographers who love to shoot special and stylish weddings in and around Melbourne. A wedding is so much more than a ceremony and a… Continue Reading Hailey Paige Flowers - Overview Bespoke styling and floral arrangements for weddings and events.At Hailey Paige Flowers, we understand the role that flowers play on your wedding day.Our wedding flower packages will be styled and customised to suit your… Continue Reading Videoboutique - Overview Just like every other choice you make for your wedding, videography should be a reflection of who you are.From morning wedding preparations, to your walk down the aisle, first dance and your speeches. It’s… Continue Reading Harcourt Valley Vineyards - Overview Surrounded by gum trees and vineyards, Harcourt Valley Winery is the perfect location for your wedding with a rustic, country charm.Harcourt Valley Vineyards is located 90 minutes from Melbourne, 30 minutes from Bendigo and… Continue Reading Rosaline Flowers - Overview We believe you deserve the wedding that you have always wanted - without the stress. Rosaline Flowers will ensure stunning wedding flowers are the perfect backdrop that you can admire in your wedding photos for years to come. We are passionate… Continue Reading Brides of Brunswick - Overview Melbourne's Brides of Brunswick, with 200+ ready-to-wear gowns and over 30 years of experience, is a well-known favourite amongst brides. Be wowed by our esteemed alterations service, elegant dress range and unbelievable prices starting… Continue Reading Projekt 3488 - Overview Listed as #1 - "10 Of Australia's Most Insta-Worthy Venues To Visit" with The Urban ListWhere to even begin? Perhaps by confidently stating that you have never been to a place like Projekt 3488.… Continue Reading Lavan Photography & Videography - Overview Hi! We are a group of passionate and talented photographers and videographers based in Melbourne who want nothing more than to create art with the capture of your love story.Inspired by the sound of… Continue Reading H M Allure Hair and Makeup - Overview Congratulations on your wedding date!Our priority is to bring out the most beautiful bride in you!With 20 years of experience in the bridal hair and makeup industry and recognised by Australia’s wedding platform award… Continue Reading RTR Productions Pty Ltd - Overview RTR Productions has been at the core of many weddings over the years, assisting in the delivery of live entertainment, visual inspiration, and an all-round unique experience. RTR is a complete production house focusing… Continue Reading Enrik Limousines - Overview Experience the ultimate in luxury wedding transportation with multi-award winning Enrik Limousines. Renowned for class and comfort, a fleet of Chrysler limousines and sedans provide the perfect entrance to your dream day.Here at Enrik… Continue Reading Meriki Comito \| Celebrant Melbourne - Overview Hello! My name is Meriki Comito, I am an authorised Marriage Celebrant in Melbourne, and I welcome you to the exciting journey of planning a wedding!I am incredibly honoured to have earned acclaim as one… Continue Reading Black Avenue Productions - Overview Intimate, candid story tellersBlack Avenue Productions are a team of passionate wedding photographers and wedding videographers who are hopelessly romantic and truly care about creating love stories of real couples. We’re a small team… Continue Reading Star Wedding Cars - Largest Fleet - Largest Variety Overview At our brand new state of the art showroom. Our new showroom is located in the close vicinity to the city and is over 5500 sqms.Please feel free to… Continue Reading Treasured Ceremonies - Overview Your wedding ceremony is the most important part of the big day and I love helping couples to make their day special. I am a professional celebrant and have been performing weddings for over… Continue Reading HLB Catering - Overview Always receive exactly what you dreamed of.It’s your wedding, it’s your vision, it’s your big day! Our job is to give you what you hoped for and not the menu we think is best… Continue Reading The Suit Concierge - Overview Getting married? Every wedding is unique and special, and the groom's suit should be too. There's a lot to consider when choosing your wedding suit - the style, fabric, pattern and colour, as well… Continue Reading Gaëlle Le Berre Photography - Overview Each moment is captured as it unfolds, using natural light and spontaneous shooting, to ensure your special day is always remembered.The gaze of secret intimacy shared between the bride and groom on their wedding day is a… Continue Reading Ziva Wedding Dresses - Overview Ziva is an online wedding dress boutique with a difference. We create high-quality custom-made wedding dresses to your specific measurements.Each dress is handmade to your own measurements and your preferences for colour, train length,… Continue Reading Anthony T Reynolds Photography - Overview Anthony T offers a variety of wedding and special occasion photography packages to suit your special requirements.I'd love to meet with you and yours in person to see if we can work together to… Continue Reading Ballarat Golf Club - Overview At Ballarat Golf Club we believe your wedding day is the most memorable and romantic of your life and pride ourselves on making your special day stress free as well as beautiful.Allow us to… Continue Reading Friendly Garden Weddings - Overview At Friendly Garden Weddings we understand the need of a chilled, affordable yet unique wedding experience. Our rustic garden venue offers a beautiful gazebo over looking our huge pond with ducks and flowers.We offer… Continue Reading Koendidda Country House - Overview Experience the sublime. Koendidda Country House is a Georgian Estate built in the 1850’s with a gold rush fortune. It has been tenderly restored and now operates as one of Victoria’s most evocative country houses. The grand… Continue Reading Chatrium Golf Resort Soi Dao Chanthaburi - Overview Cherish the moment surrounded by spectacular mountain sceneryYou are certain to have a remarkable day if you choose to hold your wedding at Chatrium Golf Resort Soi Dao Chanthaburi. With its perfect breathtaking highland… Continue Reading Chatrium Hotel Royal Lake Yangon - Overview Cherish the moment with a royal lakeside ceremonyWhen you hold your wedding at Chatrium Hotel Royal Lake Yangon, we will assist you every step of the way in creating the most perfect wedding event… Continue Reading Chatrium Hotels and Residences Bangkok - Overview Chatrium Hotel Riverside BangkokCherish the moment with a remarkable riverside weddingChatrium Hotel Riverside Bangkok is your dream wedding destination, with its peaceful riverside location in the heart of the city and incredible function spaces.… Continue Reading DJ Michael - Overview DJ/MC specialising in mixed weddings, engagements, birthday parties, christenings and corporate events.Music - Arabic Lebanese, Iraqi, Egyptian, Persain Turkish, Greek, Italian, Afghan and all the favorites from the 80's, 90's today's top 40 and… Continue Reading Kerrie Thomson - Overview Hi! My name is Kerrie and I am a happily married mum with two teenage kids. I love being a marriage celebrant because every ceremony is about sharing the happiness and joy people experience on… Continue Reading It’s Your Day Ceremonies - Overview What do couples really want for their wedding ceremony? There seems to be a common theme...When meeting couples for the very first time, they all have one thing in common, everyone wants a happy,… Continue Reading Rippon Lea - Overview National Heritage listed, Rippon Lea House and Garden is one of Australia’s grand suburban estates with a pleasure garden of sweeping lawns, magnificent trees and a tranquil lake. Located only ten kilometres from Melbourne… Continue Reading The Industrique - Overview You won’t find a more unique and affordable venue of this size in MelbourneOur total hire fees are (including GST):$35 per guestMinimum spends (including GST)Fridays and Sundays $3,500Saturdays $5,000Any other day (except public holidays) $2,500What’s… Continue Reading Hot Coals Catering - Overview Your Perfect EventWood Fired Gourmet CuisineStress Free Catering with Above and Beyond Service.Richard and Tania have been in the hospitality industry for over 30 years.Their passion for cooking stems from their parents European culinary… Continue Reading Red Arrow Designs - Overview Red Arrow Designs specialise in stylish gifts for your hens / bucks celebration, bridal party thank you presents, and to celebrate your new status as a Bride, Groom, or member of the bridal party.Our… Continue Reading Cecile Michel Couture - Overview Create your own one of a kind wedding dress in the beautiful settings of Western Victoria.Hi, my name is Cecile Michel. I was born in France, spent 9 years in London and moved to… Continue Reading Brandy Creek Estate - Overview Stunning views of the Baw Baw ranges and a beautiful restaurant overlooking our olive grove and vineyard.Nestled into the evergreen undulating hills, just to the north of Warragul and Drouin, is Brandy Creek Estate,… Continue Reading My Scandi Style - Overview Hey, I’m Kelly, a Melbourne wedding photographer.Choosing the right photographer is crucial, you want someone that will put you at ease on one of the most stressful days of your life, someone that you… Continue Reading My Craftie Creations - Overview My Craftie Creations is a small, handmade business with a passion for creating stories that help share your good news with your loved ones. Our services and products help set the tone for your… Continue Reading Creation Corner - Overview Congratulations on your decision to get married. Georgia at Creation Corner has been helping couples for over 20 years, to help them choose the right stationery. We are one of the most affordable wedding invitation design… Continue Reading Instyle Hair for Brides - Overview Hi! I am Janelle Urrutia, my introduction to bridal hair styling was founded in my early childhood, ‘Ever since I was 8 years old, I’ve wanted to be a hairdresser’. I would not have… Continue Reading asfilms - Overview It is such a joy and honour to be chosen to be part of your special day. It is a day filled with love, family, laughter, unique moments and priceless memories. You've done the… Continue Reading Dr Jeni Wilson - Overview Your Day, Your Way.We would love to help you design a wedding personalised for you at a budget friendly price. We aim to make the process as stress free as possible.We are open minded… Continue Reading Charis White - Overview Charis White is the most reviewed female marriage celebrant in Melbourne. She has won several awards and has been a professional marriage celebrant in Melbourne for over ten years. Charis has developed a reputation… Continue Reading KMD Hair and Makeup Art - Overview Congratulations on your engagement!Kate from KMD Hair and Makeup Art has been in the industry for the past 5 years, certified in hair, makeup and spray tanning. Her attention to detail is second to… Affordable Wedding Expo - Overview We understand that planning your perfect wedding can be expensive, so we’ve created this very special event just for you.By attending this event you can have your perfect wedding day and save money with… Continue Reading Glen Ewin Estate - Overview An ultimate passion for creating your most beautiful day underpins the Glen Ewin philosophy: everything we do is focussed on making your dreams come true.We love to challenge the ordinary, make your taste buds… Larsen Jewellery - Overview At Larsen Jewellery, we specialise in custom made fine jewellery. Experience our personal service and exquisite workmanship dealing directly with one of our friendly jewellers.You can choose from our wide range of beautiful designs… Continue Reading CreationsPhoto - Overview Specialist in beautiful, professional photos for small weddings and engagements. Custom, flexible and affordable packages. Elegant, relaxed images. Last minute bookings welcome :-)Are you planning a simple, intimate wedding and looking for someone to… Dave Callanan - Overview Wow! You are getting married!Congratulations on your wonderful decision!My name is Dave Callanan and I am an authorised celebrant based in beautiful Echuca, the home of the riverboats on the Murray River! I also… Continue Reading Kochou Hair & Makeup - Overview Empowering women to look and feel beautiful every day.... As a qualified professional makeup artist and hair stylist, Fiona created Kochou Hair & Makeup from a passion for all things makeup and beauty. Following… Continue Reading Hypoxi Contouring Sunbury - Overview What is Hypoxi?HYPOXI is a low-impact exercise method that is up to 3 x more effective at burning stubborn fat than traditional exercise and it significantly reduces cellulite.Through our advanced vacuum and compression technology… Continue Reading Sweet For You Cakes - Overview At Sweet For You Cakes we love creating the perfect cake for your special day. Whether it's a simple nude cake or an elegant showstopper, your cake will not only look stunning but your… Continue Reading Glamour Ride Limousines - Overview Glamour Ride Wedding Cars and Limousines provide a professional and friendly service for the weddings in Melbourne. We pride ourselves on making your wedding day as smooth as possible for the Bride and Groom.… Continue Reading St Andrews Conservatory - One of Melbourne’s most unique wedding venues Overview The jewel of Melbourne’s iconic St Andrews Hotel – Fitzroy (formerly The Pumphouse Hotel), our Conservatory has a modern, unique design and a spacious interior. With a… Continue Reading Rings of Melbourne - Overview Rings of Melbourne design, create and manufacture jewellery of the highest quality imaginable. With the flexibility to suit all preferences and budgets, we can provide ideas on design features or custom make a product… Continue Reading Fairytales Bridal Boutique - Overview Fairytales Bridal Boutique was established in the mid seventies in Croydon. In 1995 Sonja took ownership of the boutique, and in the last few years expanded to Mount Waverley and Moonee Ponds. Fairytales stocks… Continue Reading With Love - Overview With Love is a husband-and-wife team who loves anything and everything about weddings, from the flickering of candles, to the creative floral arrangements of the centerpieces, to the sentimental vows and touching speeches, to… Continue Reading Trevor Rice - Overview Hi I'm Trevor Rice but most of my friends call me Trev. I am a people person and certainly enjoy all life has to offer; when I became a Celebrant in 2004 I realised… Continue Reading TipiKata - Overview TipiKata is Victoria's first event hire company that specialises in hiring giant kata tipis that originate from the Lapland region of Sweden. These tipis provide a completely unique and versatile outdoor event space, that… Continue Reading Woods Sherbrooke - Overview Woods Sherbrooke is located on the fringe of Sherbrooke forest in the beautiful and tranquil Dandenong Ranges.Your wedding ceremony can be held in their beautiful old English gardens or at one of the many… Continue Reading Witchmount Estate - Overview At Witchmount Estate it is our passion to bring your wedding vision to life. We offer exceptional hospitality and incredible food and drink all within a picturesque setting. We understand every couple is unique… Continue Reading Wattle Park Chalet - Overview The Wattle Park Chalet was built in 1928 and has operated continuously as an event venue since it opened and is thought to be the only venue from the 1920's that is still operating… Continue Reading The Park - Overview The Park is a modern event and wedding venue located within Melbourne's iconic Albert Park.Offering an enviable location alongside stunning lakeside views, The Park is a brand new stylish wedding space sure to impress.Contemporary… Continue Reading Strip-A-Rama Melbourne Strippers - Overview Welcome to Strip-a-rama Melbourne Strippers - Melbourne's premier stripper agency owned and operated by Melbourne's one and only Strip Pimp Daddy. We provide female strippers, male strippers, strip revue nights, Melbourne barbabes, topless bar… Continue Reading Stavalicious - bonbonniere - all occasions - corporate gifts Overview Stavalicious specialises in small gifts and bonbonniere with striking designs, gorgeous arrangements and individual ideas. Unique and modern packages such as Perspex boxes, metallic tins, heart shaped… Continue Reading Upon A Time Designs - Overview Wedding stationery is about so much more than just providing your guests with the details of your day, holding a beautifully designed and beautifully printed invitation in their hands can set the tone for… Continue Reading STAGElife - Bringing your event to life! Overview One of Melbourne's leading boutique Event Production companies, the professional team at Stagelife provides audiovisual systems, staging and decor for weddings, second to none. We are ready to help… Continue Reading Silver Waters Bed & Breakfast - Overview Silver Waters Bed and Breakfast is located in a quiet area of Cowes just 300 metres from a sandy swimming beach and a 10 minute walk along Lovers Walk to Cowes township with a… Continue Reading RTB Photography - Overview Russell Borrett, a fully accredited member of Australia's peak body for professional photography, the Australian Institute of Professional Photography.With extensive experience in wedding photography, family, baby, and portrait photography in Melbourne, Brisbane, Canberra and… Continue Reading Rosebank Receptions - Overview Welcome to Rosebank, where we recognise the most important day of your life deserves a very special setting. A beautifully restored 1920s heritage listed homestead with onsite chapel, Rosebank offers all you need for… Continue Reading Rivers Edge Events - Overview Rivers Edge Events is located within Melbourne's most recent Waterfront development WTC Wharf in Melbourne's CBD. This unique and luxurious space is a refreshing and vibrant addition to Melbourne's wedding industry.Rivers Edge delights with… Continue Reading Red Carpet Limousines - Overview Red Carpet Limousines specialize in making your occasion a special and memorable one. Treat yourself to luxury with the total red carpet experience. Our limousines are maintained to the highest standards and are safe… Continue Reading Raimond Aide Photography - Overview Impeccable personal service and exceptional value from a boutique studio for all your photography, album design and videography.Visit Raimond at either his Mornington Peninsula or Templestowe studio to discuss your unique vision for your… Continue Reading Pro Light & Sound - Wedding Lighting Hire in Melbourne Overview Being asked to assist with the biggest event of your life is not a responsibility we take lightly. We understand the need to design and stage the one event… Continue Reading Pamela Raines – Harpist - Overview Creating a beautiful atmosphere for your wedding.Pamela, a professional musician (dip.Mus. V.C.A., A. Mus.A.) on a full sized concert harp, will play beautiful, angelic music for your church, chapel or garden ceremony and/or pre-dinner… Continue Reading Potters Receptions - Overview A Wedding at Potters is a truly unforgettable experience. With its chapel, gallery, alfresco bar and courtyard, luxurious accommodation and unique reception room all linked together by brick paths and rustic iron handrails.Set amidst… Continue Reading Plenty Ranges Arts & Convention Centre - Overview Experience the style of a Plenty Ranges Wedding.At Plenty Ranges we understand your wedding day is one of the most important days of your life.Hosting five beautifully appointed reception rooms, a private suite for… Continue Reading Petal To The Metal Floral Design - Overview Petal To The Metal Floral Design specialise in wedding, event and corporate flowers and have been the preferred florist to the award winning Port Phillip Estate for the past 6 years.Petal To The Metal came to… Continue Reading Perpetual Expressions - Creating Memories Overview My name is Elisabeth Pietsch and I am a Civil Marriage Celebrant. I live in Melbourne and also a weekender in Warburton. As a marriage celebrant I have been granted the absolute… Continue Reading Peninsula Band Host - Overview Welcome to Peninsula Band HostWe are an exclusive band agency providing live music from extremely accomplished musicians on the Mornington Peninsula. Our performers will cater to Peninsula and Melbourne regions.No function is too big,… Continue Reading Pebbles and Moss - Overview What started from a love of succulents and the enjoyment of gift giving, Pebbles and Moss the living gift is ideal for locally handcrafted living succulent gifts and terrariums for centrepieces or bridal party… Continue Reading Princess Brides Hair and Makeup - Overview Servicing Melbourne and surrounds.Tania and her team of elite professional hair and makeup artists really understands the pressure and commitment it takes to have a successful wedding. The focus is on YOU - ALL… Continue Reading Paul Rowley Photography - Overview Thanks for visiting!My photographic mission is to create images that capture the true essence of your special day in a discreet and non intrusive manner. A beautiful mixture of fun, candid and stylised shots… Continue Reading Waverley Party Hire - Overview Waverley Party Hire have available of full range of party hire items for a small informal reception at home to a large marquee we can supply and advise on your requirements.Available for hire:Marquees and… Continue Reading The Party Bus - Overview The Party Bus has been organising and transporting Hen's and Buck's groups for their pre-wedding and wedding events for over 20 years. Along with the traditional hens/bucks nightclub tours they also have packages for… Continue Reading Nicole Groch - Overview Nicole Groch is one Australia's leading professional hair and make-up artists.She has worked extensively in the following fields; fashion, advertising and the music industries both here in Australia and overseas.Her ability to create stunning,… Continue Reading M Video Motion - Overview M Video Motion is a small business determined to capture the story and emotions of your individual and unique event. Our goal is simple - to preserve YOUR memories, captured as creative visualization of… Continue Reading Mornington Golf Club - Overview Where else would you rather be?The perfect venue for your special day.Mornington's hidden jewel.The Mornington Golf Club boasts breathtaking views of the course and Port Phillip Bay.The Mornington Golf Club, set in manicured gardens,… Continue Reading Montsalvat - Overview Your dream ceremony, reception and photography venue is right here in Eltham - just 30 mins from the CBD. There are a range of stunning locations to choose from, catering for between 30 and… Continue Reading Mike Semple Photography - Overview Mike Semple, of Mike Semple Photography, is well-known for his Melbourne Wedding Photography. Mike's style is best described within the Melbourne photography industry as being candid and relaxed, capturing all the fun times and… Continue Reading Michelle Bear - Overview The ceremony of your dreams is only one phone call away.I am a young, effervescent celebrant that wants you to feel empowered to choose every aspect of your marriage ceremony, whilst ensuring that all… Continue Reading Melbourne Harp Music - Overview Harpist Megan Reeve formed Melbourne Harp Music to provide a wide range of background music for wedding ceremonies and receptions as well as for corporate events and social functions.MHM can provide more than just… Continue Reading Weddings at the Manhattan Ballroom - Presented by the Plaza Tavern Overview First off, we would like to congratulate you on this very exciting time in you, your partner, family and friends lives.Here at the Plaza Tavern, we are known for… Continue Reading Mallouk Shoes - Overview Mallouk Shoes, one of Victoria's most experienced and trusted shoe companies, is a family business which has stood the test of time for more than 100 years, handed down from grandfather to father to… Continue Reading Leonie Karagiannis - Overview My goal is to capture each bride's individual style and taste, whilst always ensuring flawless, natural and timeless makeup. With over 25 years experience as a makeup artist and still actively working in Beauty,… Continue Reading Makeup Style Melbourne - Professional Makeup Artistry Overview Your makeup style, the makeup style you want and your personal style! Professional Makeup Artistry for bridal, events, red carpet, debs, formals, workshops and training. Freelance service to all of Melbourne… Continue Reading Louisa Jones Photography - Overview I love to meet new people and would love to meet you!As your photographer on your wedding day, my aim is to maintain an unobtrusive presence so that your photography experience is relaxed and… Continue Reading LMC Hair & Makeup - Overview Leonie has been in demand in the industry since she started 19 years ago, freelancing for many high profile clients, events, weddings, photographers, hotels, fashion shows and more, further leading her to become head… Continue Reading Lindy Photography - Overview Bespoke wedding photography created by Lindy Photography.Lindy will capture your wedding with elegance and style, creating a visually stunning story of your wedding day.Allowing you to enjoy yourselves, Lindy will blend into the background… Continue Reading Kym Griffiths Photography - Overview There are so many beautiful moments in a wedding, and to me every wedding is genuinely unique. I love sitting down to get to know you and how you imagine your day to be.… Continue Reading Julie Nelson - Overview As you wish...is my approach to ensuring that you have a wedding ceremony that suits your personality.Julie NelsonMy years of experience in conducting weddings to suit each couple will help you plan a ceremony… Continue Reading Joshua Sihombing - Overview Joshua Sihombing has been playing, especially in Jakarta, for almost 15 years. With a repertoire consisting of more than 200 songs - from Pop through to Jazz, and another long list of stage performance… Continue Reading Jessica Latina Makeup Artist - Overview Jessica Latina is a Napoleon Perdis qualified makeup artist with a lifetime of experience after growing up in the dance industry. She started her business professionally 18 months ago and has since become a… Continue Reading In Tune Hypnotherapy - Overview Calm your wedding nerves or lose the extra few kilos to look and feel absolutely fantastic on your wedding!Hypnotherapy can help you find new ways to solve a variety of different issues by getting… Continue Reading Down Under Ice Designs - Overview Down Under Ice Designs has over 20 years experience creating wedding sculptures to suit your theme and amaze your guests. We have many designs and enjoy the challenge of designing unique and individual sculptures… Continue Reading I Can Change - Success and Serenity with Acupuncture and Hypnotherapy Overview Prepare for total inner and outer glowing beauty with painless anti ageing Cosmetic Acupuncture Facial Rejuvenation treatments.Cosmetic Acupuncture treats:Crows FeetFine linesFrown linesRosaceaAcneSagging jowlsPuffy eyesDark circlesDehydrated skinPremature ageingFlushingAge… Continue Reading Heinz’s Mercedes Benz Grand Limousine Service - Overview Mercedes Benz wedding cars and luxury hire cars for you to arrive in style - where you will really impress.The Mercedes Benz 600 Grossers and Pullmans are in magnificent condition, dark blue with either… Continue Reading Comfort Inn Country Plaza Halls Gap - Overview The Comfort Inn Country Plaza Halls Gap is the perfect location for a day to remember. Where else could you find such a spectacular backdrop such as the Grampians which are at your doorstep… Continue Reading Maria Gonzales - Overview Hand crafted bridal creations by Maria Gonzales.Continued referrals from her valued clients is testament to Maria's special talent.Please visit to try on her unique designs. Enquiry Form Contact Us 25 Horne Street, ELSTERNWICK VIC… Continue Reading The Golden Roast - Overview THE GOLDEN ROAST FRANCHISE OF THE YEAR 2011FINALIST IN ABIA (Australian Bridal Industry Academy) AWARDS, Victoria 2010 & 2011 Independent CaterersFINALIST IN ABIA AWARDS, Victoria 2011 Wedding PlannersCoast To Coast The Golden Roast is… Continue Reading Glen Erin Vineyard Retreat - Overview Glen Erin Vineyard Retreat is ultimate 4 1/2 star luxury with country hospitality.Nestled in the foothills of the Macedon Ranges, Glen Erin Vineyard Retreat is situated 4 kms from the picturesque township of Lancefield.Twenty-seven… Continue Reading Glen Erin at Lancefield - Overview A special day deserves a special place...Set on a Vineyard in the foothills of the Macedon Ranges, Glen Erin at Lancefield offers you the perfect romantic setting for your special day.We offer a complete… Continue Reading The Gables - Overview The Gables is simply one of Melbourne's finest venues for weddings, business functions or private dinner parties. Located in the heart of the Gascoigne Estate, East Malvern and surrounded by one hundred-year-old Cyprus trees,… Continue Reading Heathmont Flowers - Overview Be completely happy .... with your choice of wedding flowers designed by Helen, a Qualified Floral Designer.Call Helen to discuss your special needs and receive expert advice to co-ordinate your flowers for your special… Continue Reading Flowers by Tatari - Overview Flowers by Tatari is a reliable and experienced floral team ready to provide you with the best guidance on floral designs and add that extra touch to your special occasion.Our designs vary from corporate,… Continue Reading Floral Delights by Rachael - Overview My name is Rachael and I am the owner and Head Florist at Floral Delights. With over 10 years experience in the floristry industry I have a passion for flowers and my inspiration and… Continue Reading Five Star Chauffeur Service - Overview Your wedding day is one of the most important in your life! 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>> to see Family Instinct, playing at the Old American Can Factory in Park Slope TOMORROW! Tomorrow’s Rooftop show is the New York Premiere of Family Instinct, which our Program Director Dan Nuxoll describes as: “one part Borat, two parts Eastern Bloc Gothic, and three parts documentary tragicomedy.” He continues, “if you don’t feel a little uncomfortable watching this film, there is something dead inside of you. And yet Family Instinct remains undeniably engaging throughout, making for an unforgettable and surprisingly entertaining movie-watching experience.” We talked to Latvian filmmaker Andris Gauja about making “the most insane documentary” you will ever see.. RF: What made you want to make this film? AG: Some years ago, I had no money, and one of the Latvian television channels asked me to make some TV documentaries. I suggested some topics to them, and Zanda’s incest family was one of them. So, I was supposed to make a cheap TV documentary, based on interviews and cut-away shots – a retrospective feature story about how the whole thing happened. When I finished the rough cut of it, I somehow gave the DVD of it, by mistake, to a film director Juris Poskus. He said that the story was worth much more than just to be aired at our TV channel. So, I started to work on in as a creative documentary. Was it my destiny that made me to mess up those DVD’s? (Andris smiles.) RF: Explain the process you went through in finding Zanda and her family? How difficult was it to gain access into such an isolated community? AG: I think that sometimes it can be much easier to get the access to people who feel like being isolated and lonely – because they lack communication with the ‘normal society’ and they lack acceptance. I just went to Valdis and Zanda, without a camera, and said to them that I am REALLY interested in everything that’s going on with their lives and I was honest about it. But the difficult part of the story was – understanding them, as their lives are probably bit more chaotic than ‘ours’. But as my background is screenwriting (that’s what I studied), I tried to structure this chaos as much as possible. This is the main reason why the film probably, to some extent, looks like a narrative film. My brain is really damaged with all those structural rules. But probably it helps to make a film. RF: How would you describe the film’s main character, Zanda? Do you see her as representing Latvian women in general? AG: I can see that a lot of your questions are like – is life in Latvia really like this? (Andris smiles again.) No. Zanda’s case is a special one, and a similar story could probably happen in US as well (probably not in Manhattan, but you always have places that are a bit ‘out of control’. But, again, to me it wasn’t like a sensation, I would say that I am just really interested in situations that cannot be solved. It’s not Zanda’ s fault that she was born as one of 10 children in drunkards’ family. It also wasn’t her fault that she, just like Valdis and all the other children, was separated from her family. That was the stupid and cruel social policy during Soviet times. Actually, this incest, in my opinion, happened exactly because they were separated, send to different orphanages (boarding schools), and weren’t brought up together. Zanda and Valdis met as they were sexually adult, and their being siblings was just a fact, with no emotional meaning to them. From that point of view, Zanda’s case is exceptional. But I tried to focus the story on her ’mission impossible’ to run away from the society that surrounds her and her both children. I think, lots and lots and lots of people do actually have the same ‘impossible choice’. RF: The film contains a number of shocking aspects yet seems to imbue them with a sense of surrealism. Was this done so as to distance yourself and the film from its subject matter? Were you at all reticent about exploring any of the subjects which come up? AG: Many of us have read or have been practicing meditation. There are different types of meditation, but generally it means to spend a certain time, concentrating your mind, and having BOTH distance (clarity) and hearing/seeing/being aware of everything what is going on around you. To me, that seems to be a very important paradox. Actually, that’s because of the right distance between you and the world that surrounds you. You are both static/silent AND really compassionate about others right at the same time. Interesting, right? So, that is EXACTLY the mechanism that works in every good movie, in my opinion. The filmmaker (and afterwards the viewer) has to feel both empathy/compassion against the characters, be ‘in’ the story, and at the same time he must have a very stable and deep, calm feeling about what’s going on, he has to keep the right distance just to understand what’s going on. It’s just like reading a book. You have to find the right distance between your eyes and the book, the story, to read it. And you have to sit down and read peacefully to be able to ‘run’ together with the characters inside the book. But now, I think, I am talking too much! RF: One of the most startling elements which your film exposes is the extreme poverty which exists in the Latvian countryside. Do you think your film offers an accurate portrait of life in Latvia? AG: Every country has people that don’t fit into the society. A similar story, with just a bit different ’setting’ could happen even in the most wealthy countries. But for Latvia poverty is quite a huge problem, especially in some rural areas like the one shown in my movie. The village that we see in my film was established around a collective farm. During Soviet times, we had this collective farm system, and once the whole system collapsed, people in such villages lost their economical basis, they lost their job, lots of them started to drink, became violent etc. etc. So, yes, my film reveals some of the consequences of the Soviet system. But, generally, Latvia is not a the most disastrous place on Earth at all - we are part of the European Union and in downtown Riga you will see a lot of wealthy people driving expensive cars (Andris laughs.) Actually, you should just come to Latvia and see it. For example, I personally would like to stay in Latvia, I am ready to travel and work on my films abroad, but I want to be based in Latvia, I love my country a lot. Even if lots of Latvians hate me for making Family Instinct, because it’s damaging Latvia’s image…. RF: The filmmaking which you use in Family Instinct is intensely striking; the way the film is shot is clearly reminiscent of a certain tradition of Eastern European filmmaking. Yet there are also noticeable allusions to directors such as Lars von Trier and Harmony Korine, particularly in certain scenes which contain tragicomic, grotesque aspects. Did you consciously set out to construct the film in this way or did you find that the characters and subject matter lent themselves to this particular mode of filmmaking? AG: I love Lars von Trier’s approach. Couldn’t say that I love all of his films but you guessed it right, he is really an example for me. With a few exceptions like Manderlay, every film is a new experiment. This is something I really expect from a filmmaker. Harmony Korine’s Gummo made a strong impact on me, I guess. I love watching powerful films – I mean the power of truth, or probably what Werner Herzog would call the moments of ‘ecstatic truth’. I think the viewer has to get disturbed in a way, has to be seriously challenged, has to feel ’spontaneous compassion’, can you use such a word in English? RF: Absolutely! I think that’s a great phrase. The use of high definition is at times seemingly at odds with the gritty subject matter, this along with other aspects of the film seem at times to place its authenticity into question. In making Family Instinct, to what extent did you wish to break with documentary convention? Is the question as to the authenticity of the film ultimately important for its overall impact? AG: Everybody talks about the ‘blurred line between documentary and narrative film’. I think it’s just a matter of time when the line could actually dissapear. There willbe films in the future that will not let us know what is true and what is false there. There’s a lot of staged, recreated or even fully constructed scenes in Family Instinct, but there’s also a lot of totally real scenes. And everything that’s staged there, is based on true events. So, I wouldn’t promote this film as a “Documentary called Family Instinct”, I would say that’s “A film called Family Instinct”. I just tried to penetrate the viewer with an authentic and almost tragic story that you have to believe in. And I also wish that the viewer, after watching this movie, wants to avoid violence and at least wish to become at least a bit more compassionate. I am in no way teaching people how to live, but I am trying to make them feel a bit of empathy in an ‘invisible’ way. RF: As a Latvian director do you feel it’s important to expose the reality of life in your country? Would you like to continue to concentrate on this in future projects? AG: As I said, the poverty, violence in the local village in rural Latvia – to me, that’s just a setting for this film. I am portraying people, trying to learn more about the nature of human being, we see a lot of disturbing emotions in the film – but that’s the point, we are largely ruled by our disturbing emotions, we just don’t notice it. In this film, we see the same disturbing emotions in just a slightly exaggerated way, but we all have some sort of fear, anger, envity and all other sorts of that kind of emotions. And we have to watch at them from a distance to identify them. Hey, I am really talking too much. Let’s just watch the movie! Oh, my next movie – yes, it will be about exactly the same (laughing). But with COMPLETELY different setting. The film will be called Graduation Year and it will be a documentary and narrative fusion, where one storyline will deal with a 32 years old woman, who after the collapse of her family, becomes totally devoted to her teacher work, but, having not resolved her inner conflict, she falls into impossible relationship with one of her students. And the second storyline will be a documentary about a young man, the same age, who, after the collapse of his family, becomes totally devoted to his profession – filmmaking. But, having not resolved his inner conflict, he falls in love with his actress, and, as she is unresponsive, things get complicated. The making of the film becomes more important for the director than the film itself. So, can you guess who is this director? Yes, this is me… Read our Festival Manager Chantel Elassaad’s impassioned argument for why you and everyone else should see Family Instinct. [...] to the film’s New York premiere director Andris Gauja spoke with Lela Scott MacNeil of Rooftop Films. Gauja cited the films of Lars Von Trier and Harmony Korine’s Gummo as important [...]
. I. Peace, and the Newfoundland Fisheries (First Letter. 1 ) Messieurs Hall and Sellers. G ENTLEMEN, A piece of very extraordinary complexion made its appearance in your last paper, under the signature of Americanus, and what is equally as extraordinary, I have not yet met with one advocate in its favour. To write under the curse of universal reprobation is hard indeed, and proves that either the writer is too honest for the world he lives in, or the world, bad as it is, too honest for him to write in. 1 Some time last winter a worthy member of the Assembly of this State put into my hands, with some expressions of surprize, a motion which he had copied from an original shewn to him by another member, who intended to move it in the House. The purport of that, and the doctrine of Americanus, bear such strong resemblance to each other, that I make no hesitation in believing them both generated from the same parents. The intended motion, however, withered without being put, and Americanus, by venturing into being, has exposed himself to a less tranquil exit. 2 Whether Americanus sits in Congress or not, may be the subject of future enquiry; at present I shall content myself with making some strictures on what he advances. 3 He takes it for granted that hints towards a negociation for peace have been made to Congress, and that a debate has taken place in that House respecting the terms on which such a negociation shall be opened. It is reported, says he, that Congress are still debating what the terms shall be, and that some men strenuously insist on such as others fear will not be agreed to, and as they apprehend may prevent any treaty at all, and such as our ally [France], by his treaties with us, is by no means bound to support us in demanding. 4 Americanus, after running through a variety of introductory matter, comes at last to the point, and intimates, or rather informs, that the particular subject of debate in Congress has been respecting the fisheries on the Banks of Newfoundland, some insisting thereon as a matter of right and urging it as a matter of absolute necessity, others doubting, or appearing to doubt whether we have any right at all, and indifferent whether the fisheries be claimed or not. Among the latter of which Americanus appears to be one. 5 Either Americanus does not know how to make a bargain, or he has already made one, and his affectation of modesty is the dress of design. How, I ask, can Americanus, or any other person, know what claims or proposals will be rejected or what agreed to, till they be made, offered or demanded. To suppose a rejection is to invite it, and to publish our apprehensions, as a reason for declining the claim, is encouraging the enemy to fulfil the prediction. Americanus may think what he pleases, but for my own part, I hate a prophecier of ill-luck, because the pride of being thought wise often carries him to the wrong side. 6 That an inhabitant of America or a member of Congress should become an advocate for the exclusive right of Britain to the fisheries, and signify, as his opinion, that an American has not a right to fish in the American seas, is something very extraordinary. It is a question, says he, whether the subjects of these states had any other right to fishing than what they derived from their being subjects of Great Britain; and as it cannot be pretended that they were in the possession and enjoyment of the right either at the time of the declaration of independence or of signing the treaties of Paris, nor that it was ever included in any one of the charters of the United States, it cannot be surprising that many, who judge a peace necessary for the happiness of these states, should be afraid of the consequences which may follow from making this an ultimatum in a negociation. 7 I should be glad to know what ideas Americanus affixes to the words peace and independence; they frequently occur in his publication, but he uses them in such a neutral manner, that they have neither energy or signification. Peace, it is true, has a pleasant sound, but he has nibbled it round, like Dr. Franklins description of a gingerbread cake, till scarcely enough is left to guess at the composition. To be at peace certainly implies something more than barely a cessation of war. It is supposed to be accompanied with advantages adequate to the toils of obtaining it. It is a state of prosperity as well as safety, and of honour as well as rest. His independence too is made up of the same letters which compose the independence of other nations, but it has something so sickly and consumptive in its constitution, so limping and lingering in its manner, that at best it is but in leading strings, and fit rather for the cradle than the cabinet. But to return to his argument: 8 Americanus has placed all his reasons the wrong way, and drawn the contrary conclusions to what he ought to have done. He doubts the right of the States to fish, because it is not mentioned in any of the charters. Whereas, had it been mentioned, it might have been contended that the right in America was only derivative; and been given as an argument that the original right lay in Britain. Therefore the silence of the charters, added to the undisturbed practice of fishing, admit the right to exist in America naturally, and not by grant, and in Britain only consequentially; for Britain did not possess the fisheries independent of America, but in consequence of her dominions in America. Her claiming territory here was her title deed to the fisheries, in the same manner that Spain claims Faulklands Island, by possessing the Spanish continent; and therefore her right to those fisheries was derived through America, and not the right of America through Britain. Wedded to the continent, she inherited its fortunes of islands and fisheries, but divorced therefrom, she ceases her pretentions. 9 What Americanus means by saying, that it cannot be pretended we were in the possession and enjoyment of the right either at the time of the declaration of independence or of signing the treaty of Paris, I am at a loss to conceive; for the right being natural in America, and not derivative, could never cease, and though by the events of war she was at that time dispossessed of the immediate enjoyment, she could not be dispossessed of the right, and needed no other proofs of her title than custom and situation. 10 Americanus has quoted the 2d and 11th articles of the treaty of Paris, by way of showing that the right to the fisheries is not one of those rights which France has undertaken to guarantee. 11 To which I answer, that he may say the same by any particular right, because those articles describe no particular rights, but are comprehensive of every right which appertains to sovereignty, of which fishing in the American seas must to us be one. 12 Will Americanus undertake to persuade, that it is not the interest of France to endeavour to secure to her ally a branch of trade which redounds to the mutual interest of both, and without which the alliance will lose half its worth? Were we to propose to surrender the right and practice of fishing to Britain, we might reasonably conclude that France would object to such a surrender on our part, because it would not only render us a less valuable ally in point of commerce as well as power, but furnish the enemy of both with a new acquisition of naval strength; the sure and natural consequence of possessing the fisheries. 13 Americanus admits the fisheries to be an object of great consequence to the United States, to two or three of them more especially. 14 Whatever is of consequence to any, is so to all; for wealth like water soon spreads over the surface, let the place of entrance be ever so remote; and in like manner, any portion of strength which is lost or gained to any one or more States, is lost or gained to the whole; but this is more particularly true of the naval strength, because, when on the seas it acts immediately for the benefit of all, and the ease with which it transports itself takes in the whole coast of America, as expeditiously as the land forces of any particular State can be arranged for its own immediate defence. But of all the States of America, New York ought to be the most anxious to secure the fisheries as a nursery for a navy;because the particular situation of that State, on account of its deep waters, is such, that it will ever be exposed to the approaches of an enemy, unless it be defended by a navy; and if any of the delegates of that State has acted a contrary part, he or they have either designedly or ignorantly betrayed the interest of their constituents, and deserve their severest censure. 15 Through the whole of this curious and equivocal piece, the premises and arguments have, in themselves, a suspicious appearance of being unfairly if not unjustly stated, in order to admit of, and countenance, wrong conclusions; for taking it for granted that Congress have been debating upwards of four months what the terms shall be on which they shall open a negociation, and that the House are divided respecting their opinion of those terms, it does not follow from thence that the public have been deceived with regard to the news said to have arrived last February; and if they are deceived, the question is who deceived them? Neither do several other conclusions follow which he has attempted to draw, of which the two I shall now quote are sufficient instances. If, says Americanus, the insisting on terms which neither the declaration of independence nor the treaties of Paris authorized us to challenge as our rights, have caused the late, otherways unaccountable delays, and prevented a peace, or at least a negociation being opened for one, those who have challenged and insisted on these claims are justly responsible for the consequences. 16 This I look on to be truly jesuitical; for the delay cannot be occasioned by those who propose, but by those who oppose, and therefore the construction should stand thus: 17 If the objecting to rights and claims, which are neither inconsistent with the declaration of independence or the treaties of Paris, and naturally included and understood in both, has caused the late, otherways unaccountable delays, and prevented a peace, or at least a negociation for one, those who made such objections, and thereby caused such delays and prevented such negociations being gone into, are justly responsible for the consequences. 18 His next position is of the same cast, and admits of the same reversion. Governor Johnstone, says he, in the House of Commons freely declared he had made use, while in America, of other means to effect the purpose of his commission than those of reason and argument; have we not, continues Americanus, good right from present appearances to believe that in this instance he declared the truth. 19 To this wonderful supposition I shall apply another, viz. That if Governor Johnstone did declare the truth, who have we most right to suspect, those who are for relinquishing the fisheries to Britain, or those who are for retaining them? 20 Upon the whole, I consider the fisheries of the utmost importance to America, and her natural right thereto so clear and evident, that it does not admit of a debate, and to surrender them is a species of treason for which no punishment is too severe. 21 I have not stept out of my way to fetch in either an argument or a fact, but have confined my reply to the piece, without regard to who the author is, or whether any such debates have taken place or not, or how far it may or not have been carried on one side or the other. C OMMON S ENSE. P HILADELPHIA, June 26, 1779. 22 Peace, and the Newfoundland Fisheries. (Second Letter. 2 ) A MERICANUS, in your last, has favoured the public with a description of himself as a preface to his piece. I am, says he, neither a Member of Congress or of the Assembly of this State, or of any other, but a private citizen, in moderate circumstances in point of fortune, and whose political principles have never been questioned. All this may be very true, and yet nothing to the purpose; neither can the declaration be admitted either as a positive or negative proof of what his principles are. They may be good, or they may not, and yet be so well known as not to be doubted by those who know the writer. Joseph Galloway formerly wrote under the signature of Americanus, and tho every honest man condemns his principles, yet nobody pretends to question them. When a writer, and especially an anonymous one, readily means to declare his political principles as a reinforcement to his arguments, he ought to be full, clear, and decisive, but this declaration is so ambiguously constructed and so unmeaningly applied, that it may be used by any and every person either within or without the enemys lines, for it does not declare what his principles are, but that, be they what they may, they are not questioned. 23 Before I proceed, I cannot help taking notice of another inconsistency in his publication of last week. In my last, says he, I said that it was very unhappy that this question has been touched on or agitated at all at this time, to which, continues he, I will now add, it is particularly so, that it is become a subject of discussion in the public papers. This is very extraordinary from the very man who first brought it into the public papers. A short piece or two, on the importance of fisheries in general, were anonymously published some time ago; but as a matter of treaty debate in Congress, or as a matter of right in itself, with the arguments and grounds on which they proceeded, Americanus is originally chargeable with the inconvenience he pretends to lament. I with some others had heard, or perhaps knew, that such a subject was in debate, and tho I always laid myself out to give it a meeting in the papers when ever it should appear, I never hinted a thought that might tend to start it. 24 To permit the public, says Americanus, to be made acquainted with what are to be the ultimate demands in a proposed treaty is really something new and extraordinary, if not impolitic and absurd.There is a compound of folly and arrogance in this declaration, which deserves to be severely censured. Had he said, that to publish all the arguments of Congress, on which any claim in a proposed treaty are founded or objected to, might be inconvenient and in some cases impolitic, he would have been nearly right; but the ultimate demand itself ought to be made known, together with the rights and reasons on which that demand is founded. 25 But who is this gentleman who undertakes to say, that to permit the public to be made acquainted is really impolitic and absurd? And to this question I will add, that if he distinguishes Congress into one body, and the public into another, I should be glad to know in what situation he places himself, so as not to be subject to his own charge of absurdity. If he belongs to the former, he has, according to his own position, a right to know but not to tell, and if to the latter, he has neither a right to know nor to tell, and yet in some character or other he has done both. If this gentlemans political principles were never questioned before, I think they ought to be questioned now; for a man must be a strange character indeed, whom no known character can suit. 26 I am the more inclined to suspect Americanus, because he most illiberally, and in contradiction to everything sensible and reasonable, endeavoured, in his former piece, to insinuate that Governor Johnstone had bribed a party in Congress to insist on the right of the United States to fish on the Banks of Newfoundland. An insinuation so impolitic and absurd, so wide and foreign to the purpose of Governor Johnstones commission, can only be understood the contrary way; namely, that he had bribed somebody or other to insist that the right should not be insisted on. 27 The expression of Governor Johnstone, as printed in the English papers, is literally this. I do not, says he, mean to disavow I have had transactions, where other means have been used besides persuasion. Governor Johnstone was in no places in America but Philadelphia and New-York, and these other means must have been used in one or other, or both of these places. We have had evidence of one application of his, with an offer of ten thousand guineas, which was refused, and treated with the disdain it deserved; for the offer of a bribe contains in it, to all men of spirit, the substance of an affront. But it is strange indeed, if the one that was refused was the only one that was offered. Let any person read Americanus in your paper of June 23, and if he can after that acquit him of all suspicion, he must be charitable indeed. 28 But why does not Americanus declare who he is? This is no time for concealment, neither are the presses, tho free, to become the vehicles of disguised poison. I have had my eye on that signature these two months past, and to what lengths the gentleman meant to go himself can best decide. 29 In his first piece he loosely introduced his intended politics, and put himself in a situation to make further advances. His second was a rapid progress, and his last a retreat. The difference between the second and the last is visible. In the former of those two he endeavours to invalidate the right of the United States to fish on the Banks of Newfoundland, because, forsooth, it was not mentioned in any of the former charters. It is very extraordinary that these same charters, which marked out and were the instruments of our dependence, should now be introduced as describing the line of our independence. In the same piece Americanus likewise says, it is a question whether the subjects of these states had any other right to that fishery, than what they derived from being the subjects of Great-Britain. If this be not advocating the cause of the enemy, I know not what is. It is news-paper advice to them to insist on an exclusive right to the fisheries, by insinuating ours to be only a derivative one from them; which, had it been the case, as it is not, would have been very improper doctrine to preach at the first instance of a negotiation. If they have any right, let them find those rights out themselves. We shall have enough to do to look to our own side of the question, and ought not to admit persons among us to join force with the enemy either in arms or argument. 30 Whether Americanus found himself approaching a stormy latitude, and fearing for the safety of his bark, thought proper to tack about in time, or whether he has changed his appetite, and become an epicure in fish, or his principles, and become an advocate for America, must be left for his own decision; but in his last weeks publication he has surrendered the grounds of his former one, and changed the argument from a matter of right to a matter of supposed convenience only. He no more speaks of our right to the fisheries as a derivative right from Britain, in consequence of our formerly being subjects. Not a syllable of the charters, whose silence he had produced as invalidating or negativing our independent right. Neither has he endeavoured to support, or offered to renew, what he had before assertednamely, that we were not in possession of the right of fishing at the time of the declaration of independence, or of the signing the treaties of Paris; but he has admitted a theorem which I had advanced in opposition to his suggestions, and which no man can contradict, viz. that our right to fish on the Banks of Newfoundland is a natural right. Now if our right is natural, it could not be derived from subjection, and as we never can but by our own voluntary consent be put out of the possession of a natural national right, tho by the temporary events of war we may be put out of the enjoyment of such a right, and as the British fishery Act of Parliament in seventy-six to exclude us was no act of ours, and universally denied by us, therefore, from his own admission, he has contradicted himself, and allowed that we were as fully in possession of the right of fishing on those Banks, both at the time of the declaration of independence, and at the time of signing the treaties of Paris, as at any period preceding them. 31 That he has admitted the natural right in his last piece, in contradiction to his supposed derivative right in his former one, will appear from two or three quotations I shall make. 1st. He says, The giving up of our right to this object (the fisheries) and the making an express demand to have it guarantied to us, or the passing it over in silence in negociation, are distinct things. 2d. I am well assured, he says, that there is not a member in Congress any ways disposed to give up or relinquish our right to the Newfoundland fishery. 32 The right here admitted cannot be a right derived from subjection, because we are no longer British subjects; neither can it be a right conveyed by charters, because we not only know no charters now, but those charters we used to know are silent on the matter in question. It must therefore be a natural right. Neither does the situation of America and Britain admit of any other explanation, because they are, with respect to each other, in a state of nature, not being even within the law of nations; for the law of nations is the law of treaties, compounded with customary usage, and between America and Britain there is yet no treaty, nor any national custom established. 33 But the third quotation I shall make from his last piece will prove, from his own words, his assent to the natural right which I contended for in behalf of these states, and which he, in his former piece, impliedly disowned, by putting our whole right on a question, and making our former subjection the grounds on which that question stood. I drew no conclusion, he says, to exclude these States, or bar them from the right which by nature they are entitled to with others, as well to the fishery on the Banks of Newfoundland as to those in the ocean at large. 34 As he now admits a natural right, and appears to contend for it, I ask, why then was his former piece published, and why was our right there put in the lowest terms possible? He does not in that piece even hint, or appear to think of, or suppose such a thing as a natural right, but stakes the issue on a question which does not apply to the case, and went as far as a man dared to go, in saying we had no right at all. From all this twisting and turning, this advancing and retreating, and appearing to own at last what he impliedly disowned at first, I think myself justified in drawing this conclusion, that either Americanus does not know how to conduct an argument, or he intended to be a traitor if he dared. 35 The natural right of the United States in those fisheries is either whole or in part. If to the whole, she can admit a participation to other nations. If to a part, she, in consequence of her natural right to partake, claims her share therein, which is for as much as she can catch and carry away. Nature, in her distribution of favors, seems to have appointed these fisheries as a property to the northern division of America, from Florida upwards, and therefore our claim of an exclusive right seems to be rationally and consistently founded; but our natural right to what we can catch is clear, absolute and positive. 36 Had Americanus intended no more than to consider our claim, whether it should be made or not, as a matter of convenience only, which is the stage he has now brought it to, he ought by no means to have made even the slightest stroke at the right itself; because to omit making the claim in the treaty, and to assign the doubtfulness of the right as a reason for the omission, is to surrender the fisheries upon the insufficiency of the pretension, and of consequence to exclude ourselves from the practice by the silence of the treaty, and from the right by the reasons upon record. 37 Had I time to laugh over my fish, I could in this place set Americanus up to a very agreeable ridicule. He has all this while been angling without a bait, and endeavouring to deceive with an empty hook, and yet this man says he understands fishing as well as any man in America. Very few, says he, and I speak it without vanity, are better acquainted with the fisheries than myself. If this be true, which I hope it is not, it is the best reason that can be given for relinquishing them, and if made known would, on the other hand, be a great inducement to Britain to cede the whole right, because by our being possessed of a right without knowing how to use it, she would be under no apprehensions of our thinning the ocean, and we should only go out with our vessels to buy, and not to catch. 38 If Americanus wished to persuade the Americans to say nothing about the fisheries in a treaty with Britain, he ought, as a politician of some kind or other, to have baited his hook with a plausible something, and, instead of telling them that their right was doubtful, he should have assured them it was indisputable, that Britain never meant to question it, that it was needless to say anything about it, that all nations knew our rights, and naturally meant to acknowledge them. But he, like a wiseacre, has run against the post instead of running past it, and has, by the arguments he has used, produced a necessity for doing the very thing he was writing to prevent; and yet this man says he understands fishing as well as any man in AmericaIt must be a cod indeed that should be catched by him! C OMMON S ENSE. P HILADELPHIA, July 12, 1779. 39 Peace, and the Newfoundland Fisheries. (Third Letter. 3 ) T HE importance of the fisheries Americanus has kept almost totally out of sight. Why he has done so, his readers will contrive to guess at, or himself may explain. A bare confession, loosely scattered here and there, and marked with the countenance of reluctance, is all he gives on the subject. Surely, the public might have expected more from a man, who declares he can, without vanity say, that very few are better acquainted with the nature and extent of the American fisheries than himself. If he really possesses the knowledge he affirms, he ought to have been as prolific on the subject as the fish he was treating of: And as he has not, I am obliged to suspect either the reality of his knowledge, or the sincerity of his intentions. If the declaration be not true, there are enow to fix his title; and if true, it shews that a man may keep company all his life-time with cod, and be little the wiser. But to the point, 40 There are but two natural sources of wealth and strengththe Earth and the Oceanand to lose the right to either is, in our situation, to put up the other to sale. Without the fisheries, independence would be a bubble. It would not deserve the name; and however we might, in such a condition, please ourselves with the jingle of the word, the consequences that would follow would soon deprive us even of the title and the music. 41 I shall arrange the fisheries under the three following heads: 42 First. As an Employment. 43 Secondly. As producing National Supply and Commerce. and a means of National Wealth. 44 Thirdly. As a Nursery for Seamen. 45 As an employment, by which a living is procured, it more immediately concerns those who make it their business; and in this view, which is the least of the three, such of the States, or parts thereof, which do not follow fishing, are not so directly interested as those which do. I call it the least of the three, because as no man needs want employment in America, so the change from one employment to another, if that be all, is but little to him, and less to anybody else. And this is the narrow impolitic light in which some persons have understood the fisheries. 46 But when we view them as producing national supply and commerce, and a means of national wealth, we then consider the fish, not the fisherman, and regard the consequences of the employment more than the employment itself; in the same manner that I distinguish the coat that clothes me, from the man that made it. In this view, we neither enquire (unless for curiosity) who catch the fish, or whether they catched themselveshow they were catched, or where? The same supply would be produced, the same commerce occasioned, and the same wealth created, were they, by a natural impulse, to throw themselves annually on the shore, or be driven there by a periodical current or storm. And taking it in this point, it is no more to us, than it was to the Israelites whether the manna that fed them was brought there by an angel or an insect, an eastern or a western breeze, or whether it was congealed dew, or a concretion of vegetable juices. It is sufficient that they had manna, and we have fish. 47 I imagine myself within compass, when I suppose the fisheries to constitute a fourth part of the staple commerce of the United States, and that with this extraordinary advantage, it is a commerce which interferes with none, and promotes others. Take away a fourth from any part, and the whole United States suffers, in the same manner that the blood taken from the arm is drained from the whole man; and if, by the unskilfulness of the operation, the wounded arm should lose its use, the whole body would want its service. It is to no purpose for a man to say, I am not a fisherman, an indigo planter, a rice planter, a tobacco planter, or a corn planter, any more than for the leg to say, I am not an arm; for as, in the latter instance, the same blood invigorates both and all by circulation, so, in the former, each is enriched by the wealth which the other creates, and fed by the supply the other raises. Were it proposed that no town should have a market, are none concerned therein but butchers? And in like manner it may be asked, that if we lose the market for fish, are none affected thereby but those who catch them? He who digs the mine, or tills the earth, or fishes in the ocean, digs, tills and fishes for the world. The employment and the pittance it procures him are his; but the produce itself creates a traffic for thousands, a supply for millions. 48 The Eastern States by quitting agriculture for fishing become customers to the rest, partly by exchange and partly by the wealth they import. Of the Middle States, they purchase grain and flour; of Maryland and Virginia, tobacco, the food and pastime of the fisherman; of North and South-Carolina, and Georgia, rice and indigo. They may not happen to become the client of a lawyer in either of these states, but is it any reason that we are to be deprived of fish, one of the instruments of commerce, because it comes to him without a case? 49 The loss of the fisheries being at this time blended with other losses, which all nations at war are more or less subject to, is not particularly felt or distinguished in the general suspension: And the men who were employed therein being now called off into other departments, and supported by other means, feel not the want of the employment. War, in this view, contains a temporary relief for its own misfortunes, by creating a trade in lieu of the suspended one. But when, with the restoration of peace, trade shall open, the case will be very and widely different, and the fisherman like the farmer will expect to return to his occupation in quietude. 50 As my limits will not allow me to range, neither have I time if I had room, I shall close this second head, and proceed to the third, and finish with some remarks on the state the question is now said to stand in in Congress. 51 If as an employment one fourth of the United States are immediately affected, and if as a source of national supply and commerce and a means of national wealth all are deeply interested, what shall we say when we consider it as a nursery for seamen. Here the question seems to take almost a reversed turn, for the states which do not fish are herein more concerned than those which do. It happens, by some disposition of providence or ourselves, that those particular states whose employment is to fish are thickly settled, and secured by their internal strength from any extensive ravages of an enemy. The States, all the way from thence to the southward, beginning at New-York, are less populous, and have less of that ability in proportion to their extent. Their security, therefore, will hereafter be in a navy, and without a fishery there can be no navy worthy of the name. 52 Has nature given us timber and iron, pitch and tar, and cordage if we please, for nothing but to sell or burn? Has experience taught us the art of ship-building equal to any people on earth to become the workmen of other nations? Has she surrounded our coast with fisheries to create strength to our enemies, and make us the purchasers of our own property? Has she brought those fisheries almost to our own doors, to insult us with the prospect, and at the same time that she bar us from the enjoyment to threaten us with the constant approach of an enemy? Or has she given these things for our use, and instructed us to combine them for our own protection? Who, I ask, will undertake to answer me, Americanus or myself? 53 What would we now give for thirteen ships of the line to guard and protect the remote or weaker parts? How would Carolina feel deliverance from danger, and Georgia from despair, and assisted by such a fleet become the prison of their invaders? How would the whigs of New York look up and smile with inward satisfaction at the display of an Admirals command, opening, like a key, the door of their confinement? How would France solace herself at such a union of force, and reciprocally assisting and assisted traverse the ocean in safety? Yet all these, or their similar consequences, are staked upon the fisheries. 54 Americanus may understand the nature of fisheries, as to season, catching and curing, or their extent as to latitude and longitude; but as a great political question, involving with it the means and channels of commerce, and the probability of empire, he is wholly unequal to the subject, or he would not have, as he has done, limitted their effects to two or three states especially. By a judgment acquired from long acquaintance, he may be able to know a cod when he sees it, or describe the inconveniences or pleasures of a fishing voyage. Or, born and educated 4 among them, he may entertain us with the growling memories of a Newfoundland bear, or amuse us with the history of a foggy climate or a smoaky hut, with all the winter chit-chat of fatigue and hardship; and this, in his idea, may be to understand the fisheries. 55 I will venture to predict that America, even with the assistance of all the fisheries, will never be a great, much less a dangerous naval power, and without them she will be scarcely any. I am established in this opinion from the known cast and order of things. No country of a large extent ever yet, I believe, was powerful at sea, or ever will be. The natural reason of this appears to be that men do not, in any great numbers, turn their thoughts to the ocean, till either the country gets filled, or some peculiar advantage or necessity tempts them out. A maritime life is a kind of partial emigration, produced from a portion of the same causes with emigrations in general. The ocean becomes covered and the supply kept up from the constant swarmings of the landed hive; and as we shall never be able to fill the whole dominion of the Thirteen States, and there will ever be new land to cultivate, the necessity can never take place in America, and of course the consequences can never happen. 56 Paradoxical as it may appear, greatness at sea is the effect of littleness by land. Want of room and want of employ are the generating causes. Holland has the most powerful navy in the world, compared with the small extent of her crowded country. France and Spain have too much room, and the soil too luxuriant and tempting, to be quitted for the ocean. Were not this the case, and did the abilities for a navy like those for land service rise in proportion to the number of inhabitants only, France would rival more than any two powers in Europe, which is not the case. 57 Had not nature thrown the fisheries in our way and inflicted a degree of natural sterility on such parts of the continent as lie contiguous thereto, by way both of forcing and tempting their inhabitants to the ocean, America, considering the present cast of the world, would have wanted the means of defence, for the far greater part of our seamen except those produced by the fisheries, are natives of other countries. And shall we unwisely trifle with what we ought to hug as a treasure, and nourish with the utmost care as a Protector? And must the W. H. D. forever mean that We Have Dunces? 5 58 labouring poor, for where can they live better, or where can they be more useful? But we want just such a fleet as the fisheries will enable us to keep up, and without which we shall be for ever exposed, a burthen to our allies, and incapable of the necessary defence. The strength of America, on account of her vast extent, cannot be collected by land; but since experience has taught us to sail, and nature has put the means in our power, we ought in time to make provision for a navy, as the cheapest, safest, best, and most effectual security we can hereafter depend on. 59 Having in my first and second publications endeavoured to establish the right of America to the fisheries, and in this treated of their vast importance, I shall conclude with some remarks on the subject, as it is now said to stand in Congress, or rather the form in which it is thrown out to the public. 60 Americanus says (and I ask not how he came by his knowledge) that the question is, Whether the insisting on an explicit acknowledgment of that right (meaning the right of fishing on the Banks of Newfoundland) is either safe, prudent or politic. 61 Before I enter on the discussion of this point, it may not be improper to remark, that some intimations were made to Congress in February by the Minister of France, Mr. Gerard, respecting what the claims of America might be, in case any treaty of peace should be entered on with the enemy. And from this, with some account of the general disposition of the powers of Europe, the mighty buz of peace took its rise, and several who ought to have known better, were whispering wonderful secrets at almost every tea table. 62 It was a matter very early supposed by those who had any clear judgment, that Spain would not immediately join in the war, but would lie by as a mediatorial power. If she succeeded therein, the consequence would be a peace; if she failed, she would then be perfectly at liberty to fulfil her engagements with France, etc. 63 Now in order to enable Spain to act this part, it was necessary that the claims of Congress in behalf of America should be made known to their own Plenipotentiary at Paris, Dr. Franklin, with such instructions, public or private, as might be proper to give thereon. But I observe several members, either so little acquainted with political arrangements, or supposing their constituents to be so, that they treat with Mr. Gerard as if that gentleman was our Minister, instead of the Minister of his Most Christian Majesty, and his name is brought in to a variety of business to which it has no proper reference. This remark may to some appear rather severe, but it is a necessary one. It is not every member of Congress who acts as if he felt the true importance of his character, or the dignity of the country he acts for. And we seem in some instances to forget, that as France is the great ally of America, so America is the great ally of France. 64 It may now be necessary to mention, that no instructions are yet gone to Dr. Franklin as a line for negotiation, and the reason is because none are agreed on. The reason why they are not agreed on is another point. But had the gentlemen who are for leaving the fisheries out agreed to have had them put in, instructions might have been sent more than four months ago; and if not exactly convenient, might by this time have been returned and reconsidered. On whose side then does the fault lie? 65 I profess myself an advocate, out of doors, for clearly, absolutely, and unequivocally ascertaining the right of the States to fish on the Banks of Newfoundland, as one of the first and most necessary articles. The right and title of the States thereto I have endeavoured to show. The importance of these fisheries I have endeavoured to prove. What reason then can be given why they should be omitted? 66 The seeds of almost every former war have been sown in the injudicious or defective terms of the preceding peace. Either the conqueror has insisted on too much, and thereby held the conquered, like an over-bent bow, in a continual struggle to snap the cord, or the latter has artfully introduced an equivocal article, to take such advantages under as the turn of future affairs might afford. We have only to consult our own feelings, and each man may from thence learn the spring of all national policy. And he, who does not this, may be fortunate enough to effect a temporary measure, but never will, unless by accident, accomplish a lasting one. 67 Perhaps the fittest condition any countries can be in to make a peace, calculated for duration, is when neither is conquered, and both are tired. The first of these suits England and America. I put England first in this case, because she began the war: And as she must be and is convinced of the impossibility of conquering America, and as America has no romantic ideas of extending her conquests to England, the object on the part of England is lost, and on the part of America is so far secure, that, unless she unwisely conquers herself, she is certain of not being conquered; and this being the case, there is no visible object to prevent the opening a negociation. But how far England is disposed thereto is a matter wholly unknown, and much to be doubted. A movement towards a negociation, and a disposition to enter into it, are very distinct things. The first is often made, as an army affects to retreat, in order to throw an enemy off his guard. To prevent which, the most vigorous preparations ought to be made for war at the very instant of negociating for a peace. 68 Let America make these preparations, and she may send her terms and claims whenever she pleases, without any apprehension of appearing or acting out of character. Those preparations relate now more to revenue than to force, and that being wholly and immediately within the compass of our own abilities, requires nothing but our consent to accomplish. 6 69 To leave the fisheries wholly out, on any pretence whatever, is to sow the seeds of another war; and I will be content to have the name of an ideot engraven for an epitaph, if it does not produce that effect. The difficulties which are now given will become a soil for those seeds to grow in, and future circumstances will quicken their vegetation. Nations are very fond of appealing to treaties when it suits their purpose, and tho America might afterwards assign her unquestioned right as a reason for her silence, yet all must know that treaties are never to be explained by presumption, but wholly by what is put in, and never by what is left out. 70 There has not yet been an argument given for omitting the fisheries, but what might have been given as a stronger reason to the contrary. All which has been advanced rests only on supposition, and that failing, leaves them no foundation. They suppose Britain will not hereafter interrupt the right; but the case is, they have no right to that supposition; and it may likewise be parried by saying,suppose she should? Now the matter, as I conceive it, stands thus 71 If the right of the States to fish on the Banks of Newfoundland be made and consented to as an article in a treaty with Britain, it of consequence becomes expresly guarantied by the eleventh article of the present treaty of alliance with France; but if it be left out in a treaty with the former, it is not then guarantied in the present treaty with the latter, because the guaranteeing is limited to the whole of their (our) possessions, as the same shall be fixed and assured to the said States at the moment of the cessation of their present war with England. Art II. 72 Were the States to claim, as a memorial to be recorded with themselves, an exclusive right to those fisheries, as a matter of right only, derived from natural situation, and to propose to their allies to guarantee to them expresly so much of that right as we may have occasion to use, and the States to guarantee to such allies such portion of the fisheries as they possessed by the last treaty of peace, there might be some pretence for not touching on the subject in a treaty with Britain; because, after the conclusion of the war, she would hardly venture to interrupt the States in a right, which, tho not described in a treaty with her, should be powerfully guarrantied in a treaty with others. But to omit it wholly in one treaty, and to leave it unguarrantied in another, and to trust it entirely, as the phrase is, to the chapter of accidents, is too loose, too impolitic a mode of conducting national business. Had nothing, says Americanus, been said on the subject of the fisheries, our fishermen, on the peace, might have returned to their old stations without interruption. 73 Is this talking like an American politician, or a seducing emissary? Who authorised Americanus to intimate such an assurance; or how came he to know what the British ministry would or would not hereafter do; or how can he be certain they have told him truth? If it be supposition only, he has, as I before remarked, no right to make it; and if it be more than supposition, it must be the effect of secret correspondence. In the first of these cases he is foolish; in the second worse. Does he not see that the fisheries are not expresly and only conditionally guarrantied, and that if in such a situation they be omitted in a treaty with Britain, and she should afterwards interrupt our right, that the States stand single in the question, and have no right on the face of the present treaties to call on their Allies for assistance? And yet this man is persuading us to say nothing about them. 74 Americanus like some others is mightily fond of amusing his readers with the law of nations, just as if there really was such a law, fixed and known like the law of the ten commandments. Whereas the law of nations is in theory the law of treaties compounded with customary usage, and in practice just what they can get and keep till it be taken from them. It is a term without any regular defined meaning, and as in some instances we have invented the thing first and given the name afterwards, so in this we have invented the name and the thing is yet to be made. 75 Some gentlemen say leave the fisheries to be settled afterwards in a treaty of commerce. This is really beginning business at the wrong end. For a treaty of peace cannot precede the settlement of disputes, but proceeds in consequence of all controverted points respecting right and dominion being adjusted and agreed on. There is one kind of treaty of commerce which may follow a treaty of peace, but that respects such articles only and the mode of traficking with them as are produced within, or imported into the known and described dominions of the parties; or to the rules of exchange, or paying or recovering debts, but never to the dominion itself; and comes more properly within the province of a Consul than the superior contracting powers. 76 With these remarks I shall, for the present, close the subject. It is a new one, and I have endeavoured to give it as systematical an investigation as the short time allowed and the other business I have on hand will admit of. How the affair stands in Congress, or how the cast of the House is on the question, I have, for several reasons, not enquired into; neither have I conversed with any gentleman of that Body on the subject. They have their opinion and I mine; and as I chuse to think my own reasons and write my own thoughts, I feel the more free the less I consult. 77 Who the writer of Americanus is I am not informed. I never said or ever believed it to be Mr. Gouverneur Morris, or replied to it upon that supposition. The manner is not his, neither do I know that the principles are, and as that gentleman has disavowed it, the assurance is sufficient. I have likewise heard it supposed that Mr. Deane is the author, and that his friend Mr. Langworthy carried it to the press. But I know not who the author is. I have replied to the Piece rather than to the Man; tho for the sake of relief to the reader and amusement to myself, he now and then comes in for a stroke. 7 C OMMON S ENSE. P HILADELPHIA, July 17, 1779. 78 Note 1. From the Pennsylvania Gazette, June 30, 1779. [ back ] Note 2. From the Pennsylvania Gazette, July 14, 1779. [ back ] Note 3. From the Pennsylvania Gazette, July 21, 1779. [ back ] Note 4. King of Englands first speech to the British parliament.Author. [ back ] Note 5. Probably W. H. D. were initials of some disputant on the subject. Editor. [ back ] Note 6. A plan has been proposed, and all who are judges have approved it, for stopping the emissions [of paper money] and raising a revenue, by subscription for three years without interest, and in lieu thereof to take every subscribers taxes out of his subscription, and the balance at the expiration of that time to be returned. If the States universally go into this measure, they will acquire a degree of strength and ability fitted either for peace or war. It is, I am clearly convinced, the best measure they can adopt, the best interest they can have, and the best security they can hold. In short, it is carrying on or providing against war without expence, because the remaining money in the country, after the subscriptions are made, will be equal in value to the whole they now hold. Boston has proposed the same measure.Author. [ back ] Note 7. Paines contention in these letters was taken up by Dr. Franklin, while the Treaty of Peace was under discussion at Paris (autumn of 1782). After much disputation the third article was framed by which the Newfoundland Fisheries were held open, but the right to land and dry fish was limited to the parts of Nova Scotia then unsettled, and, on their settlement, to be subject to agreement with the inhabitants. Editor. [ back ] CONTENTS · BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD Shakespeare · Bible · Strunk · Anatomy · Nonfiction · Quotations · Reference · Fiction · Poetry © 19932015 Bartleby.com · [ Top 150 ] · Subjects · Titles · Authors · World Lit .
Is it ok to make two posts in one day? I sure hope so. I wrote the first update about midnight. By 3am, things changed a bit. So it is in the life of a recovering cancer patient. I may not be dealing with cancer any longer, thank goodness, but the effects persist and still catch me off guard. I laid down about 3am, thinking I was going to get some needed rest. Little did I know an old nemesis was about to creep its ugly head and torment me for hours. After the first cancer battle concluded in September 2008, I was gaining strength for a year. By September 2009, things changed abruptly. Arthritis set in quickly. I’m talking seize up the body in 4 days can’t tie my shoes type of arthritis. A few bone scans later, I was taking a medication that offset the arthritic pain and life mellowed out a little. Arthritis couldn’t cramp my style. December 2009 saw two events that were to foreshadow my recovery: pneumonia and a blown out shoulder (tendon problems). The pneumonia was initially brushed off with antibiotics, steroids, and breathing treatments. Quickly following this was a tendon tear in my right shoulder requiring medical intervention. The surgeon educated me I should be wary of certain antibiotics that were known to cause tendon problems. Evidently, I had received many of these during chemo and had just finished another round due to pneumonia. The link between tendon tears and these class of antibiotics evidently is strong. Lesson learned, wasn’t going to let antibiotics cramp my style. I then endured a series of lung infections. Pneumonia six times to be exact. As September 2010 came crashing in on me, I was super tired and weak, not sure what my future held as I knew I couldn’t keep going with back to back pneumonia cycles. Once the diagnosis of hypogammaglobunemia was made, and the infusions started, things really looked up. Pneumonia and low immunity couldn’t cramp my style. But wait, there’s more! During this time frame, I had some other battle ensue that was probably the hardest. I have spoken of it little, as it sounds so minor to me. Yet the reality is anything but minor. People respect the idea of pneumonia, but who is going to take cramping in the legs as a serious issue? My muscles cramped my style in a Texas sized way. I’m here to tell you, leg, toe, and foot cramps are sinister wicked entities all their own. Yes, each is an individual form of a cramp and each will bring a deep reverence to your life if you’ve experienced them as I have. I’m guessing in 2010, the cramps were one of the most difficult things I endured and certainly the most painful. I had debilitating cramps that hit me when I was teaching class, driving, and the worst of all, sleeping. I can remember lecturing to my dialysis class and taking a step towards the white erase board, and my calf muscle hitting a full reverse double half hitch. I’m sure I kept my composure some, but my students knew what was happening. Driving was terrifying, having the legs lock down with the foot on the gas pedal. I learned to push through the pain of a full blown charlie horse while driving, pulling over to deal with the problem quickly as I could. The worst though, by far, are night cramps. I cannot tell you how many times in 2010 I had full blown hard core double leg lock ups during the night. I’m talking up to 7 times per night (yes I counted) with my legs nearly touching the back of my head. I learned to speak inverse Swahili while inhaling. I didn’t know I could dance on my toes like a ballerina while whining like a puppy. I make jest of this in writing, but the truth be told, it was intense and terrifying. I got to where I feared going to sleep. Every single night for a long stretch of time, my goal was to have only one cramp. I began to loathe sleep. It took strong medicinal intervention to stop the cramps. My doctor finally put me on an antiparkinsonian medication called pramipexole. It sure made a difference. I got to where I would thank God going to sleep for modern medications and began resting without fear of intense pain waking me up. Even though the worst of the pain had resided, cramps persisted to some degree and my muscles in my legs seemed tight all the time. One fateful office visit, to the same doctor who found my cancer in 2008 and saved my life, my life took a turn for the better. She said my vitamin D3 was low and needed supplementation. She commented that probably meant my calcium levels were off. Her instructions were to drive straight to a pharmacy or store and get some calcium antacids. I tell you what, it didn’t take but about 5 minutes of chewing through about 6 of those and I felt a distinct relaxation begin to settle into my legs. I was able to stop taking the pramipexole and I don’t think I’ve had a full blown charlie horse again. Until about 4am last night. Oh my gosh, I learned to speak a new tongue when both legs snapped me out of bed about 4am. I’m talking simultaneous synchronized muscular contractions giving birth to new levels of utterance. I stood on my toes to break the cramps, instantly recognizing the terror all over again. As soon as I got the calf muscles in back to calm down, the front of my legs locked down and my toes all began to rhythmically dance. I had to rock back and forth, trying to break one set of cramps to only initiate another set on the opposing side. Hobbling across the house, I found all manner of things to take. I started with potassium, then got some salt. In my delirium, I realized I should look for calcium based antacids. This process wasn’t a quick one as I each few footsteps results in my learning a new syntax of Swahili spoken backwards. Once I found some Tums, I chewed those things like they were the best juicy steak you could imagine. After some 10 – 15 minutes of long term cramping, I felt my muscles start to relax again. Cramping, my style. I got ahold of my doctor this morning, knowing I need to see him for follow up on the pneumonia. I am still coughing quite a bit, tired, and now the cramping. He and I had a good conversation about all things muscles, and we’re going to see if daily Tums will be enough to keep the cramps down. He said my lungs don’t sound that good and he wanted to know why I had return to work already. Well, I .. umm….like work? I’m tired of being at home? I stammered a variety of excuses while he was writing on a prescription pad. He handed me the note: one week off from work to rest. What? NO! I don’t want to be home for another week! He did one of those doctor things and spoke rationally to me, talking me down from a ledge. He saw the big picture and took time to make me think twice about my choices. Here I am, approaching my one year “new birthday” of my stem cell transplant. I’ve managed to dodge most major complications. I returned to work for a month, and now have pneumonia and painful cramps. I’m needing to start monthly infusions to boost my immunity. I continue to work, only heal a little, and now my legs are locking up on me. Why not rest one more week, begin the infusions this week, get stronger, resolve the cramps, then return to work in a better state than I am now? I love logic, just not his! His was too correct and ticked me off. I whimpered about this and that, but he held firm and handed me a note for one week off from work. I guess he is right, after all these months of steady progress, why am I going to worry about 1 week? Truth be told, I struggled through work this week. I did make it and in some respects, it felt good to be out of the house and productive. Perhaps though, it was pushing it too fast. Pneumonia is a booger to get over and I need to give my body every chance to heal, whether I want to or not. Across the street to the pharmacy I go. I meandered through the isles getting magnesium, more vitamins, and a Texas sized bottle of kick butt muscle relaxing Tums. Berry flavored! As I looked across the clean shiny cement floor of the pharmacy, I was realizing how tired I really was physically. I suppose the whole 24 hours was catching up to me. I kept looking at bottles of buy one of this and get the next free, while my brain was wondering to what I was going to do for another week. Fatigue is my constant shadow and seemed more like the real me for this moment. I felt I had hit a set back, albeit a minor one. I was pondering having to cancel all plans, work, and just sit and rest for a week. You guys might fantasize about such a dilemma, but I do not. I’ve had enough of this. Reluctantly I realize I have to go home and make a few phone calls and deal with things. As I went to check out at the pharmacy, the clean cement floor of the pharmacy was speaking to me for some odd reason. Strange the things that cross the mind of a tired chemo warrior. I couldn’t help but notice the display of Royal Dansk cookies calling my name. Maybe the fetal position, spooned up with a tin of these cookies right in the midst of a modern pharmacy, might fix all problems right now. Y’all get out there and live life for all it is worth. Love God, others, as self. I’m here to tell you, you just don’t know when you might not get another chance. Love ya Rob and miss you in the here and now. Sure wish I lived close enough to hang out with you. LikeLiked by 1 person Thank you for your strength and wisdom. Thanks for sharing and being you!! look forward to seeing you all on Thanksgiving. LikeLiked by 1 person Robert Thank you for being you and your strength and wisdom is amazing. Thank for sharing. We enjoy you all’s company very much and look forward to Thanksgiving. Praise Jesus!! You look really good. Robert — I hate the cramps. They make you jump out of bed and dance (in a bad way). Oh man they hurt. The pneumonia is nothing to play with.
As far as the music world is concerned, 2020 was a relatively dull year. Sure, there were a few great releases, but the elimination of tours, festivals, and live shows meant bands and fans were largely disconnected. But over in Bath, England, the guys at Pale Wizard Records have been hard at work on a project that’s simply cool. Titled “50 Years Later,” co-founders Tim Hilleard and Dan Flitcroft intend to release covers of classic Rock albums exactly 50 years from their initial release date. And they’re starting with the Godfather of Shock Rock: Alice Cooper and Killer. You can catch a preview for the project here: The lead single, “Under My Wheels,” is performed by Green Lung. You’ll also find: - “Be My Lover” by The Grand Mal - “Halo of Flies” by Sergeant Thunderhoof (a project of Pale Wizard Records co-founder Dan Flitcroft) - “Dead Babies” by Mos Generator - A cover by 1968 - A cover by Trippy Wicked & The Cosmic Children of The Knight - A cover by Admiral Sir Cloudesley Shovell - A cover by Ritual King We sat down with Pale Wizard Records co-founder Tim Hilleard to learn more about the 50 Years Later project and to hear about the decision to cover Alice Cooper’s Killer. An Interview With Tim Hilleard of Pale Wizard Records Monster Riff: Tell me about your role at Pale Wizard Records. Tim Hilleard: I co-run the label with Dan from Sergeant Thunderhoof. He set the label up a few years ago as something else to do. He runs a music studio here in Bath, and our engineer’s in a band called Phoxjaw, which was releasing a single. We thought we could get some traction with it, so why not start a record label as well? That’s how Pale Wizard formed originally, just to release a single by the band that’s on the verge of becoming quite big these days. Now, fast-forward a few years later, and the label has been kind of mothballed, and then the lockdown hit. And we were sort of searching for things to do. We’re self-employed, so we were desperate to find something to do. So we thought, “Why not resurrect the label? Why not put out some music? Why not create something and actually do something positive with this time?” On Starting With Alice Cooper’s Killer Monster Riff: I was curious about the selection of Alice Cooper and Killer for the first album. If you look back at 1971, that’s a huge year for Rock. You’ve got IV by Led Zeppelin, you’ve got ZZ Top’s first album, you’ve got Master of Reality by Black Sabbath, you’ve got The Low Spark of High Heeled Boys by Traffic. How did you settle on Killer? Tim Hilleard: It’s quite special to both me and Dan. Alice is, without a doubt, Dan’s favorite musical artist, full stop. And I’m a big fan as well. We both sort of come into different parts of Alice’s career due to our different ages—I’m a little bit older than Dan is. But it just seemed right to celebrate Killer, which most of his fans would say his greatest album from the band period. We wanted to do something to celebrate that, and nothing seemed to be happening to celebrate the 50th anniversary. I know it sounds a little cheesy, but all of the stars aligned and all of the bands fell into place quite quickly. The end result is something we’ve very happy with. You’re right that every year in the ’70s has a great record. And if it was anything else, we could have done Led Zeppelin, we could have done ZZ Top. But I think Alice is a little bit left field—it’s not an obvious choice. And since it’s for a series of albums, which is what we’re trying to do with 50 Years Later, we wanted to start with a band and an album that are unique and special. We’re kind of doing that with another series that we do called Beyond the Pale, where we get artists to cover someone who’s a little bit left field and a little bit unexpected. So the first release of that, we’ve got a couple of bands covering Kate Bush, which is not something you’d expect. So on one side, Sergeant Thunderhoof did “Cloudbusting,” and then on the B-side Tony Reed did “Sat In Your Lap.” It was like, “Wow, this really works! This could be a series as well.” So we’ve got another one of those planned, believe it or not, coming soon. Monster Riff: On the 50 Years Later project, anything else in the queue? Tim Hilleard: The idea behind 50 Years Later is to release it 50 years to the day. So Killer is coming out on the 27th of November, which is 50 years to the day. I think that’s the agreed upon date for the original release of Killer by Alice Cooper: 27th of November, 1971. So we want to do it 50 years to the day and we want to do it at least once a year. We’ve already got our 1972 album planned. Unfortunately, I’m not in a position to say what it is yet, but we’ve just signed our first artist, which is quite a big name. We’re very lucky to have this next album coming down the line. It’ll be about six months later, so right in the middle of 1972. I don’t want to say too much because it might give it away as far as its release date in 1972. But it’s something that we want to do every year, at least one. There are so many great albums in the ‘70s. And we’re just lucky. No one else is really doing anything like 50 Years Later and releasing albums 50 years later today. Of course, it puts us at the mercy of things like pressing plants when it comes to vinyl, because the lead times for production of vinyl are immense everywhere. That’s our main problem. I mean, Alice Cooper’s Killer has to go off to the press at the end of April to be ready for November. On Alice Cooper’s Reaction and Career Monster Riff: What’s cool about this project is that it’s “only” 50 years later, which means many of these artists are still alive and performing in some way. Have you had any dialogue with Alice Cooper on this project? Tim Hilleard: No, but it would be wonderful to have some involvement from Alice. That would be the dream. We have a few ins, we think, with some of the band members, so we’ve sent some stuff out. We haven’t heard anything back yet. But Alice does a radio show, so it would be nice to get one of the tracks played on there. I’m just hoping that one day he hears it and can appreciate it for what it is. It may not be something that he’s completely into, but some of it is a little bit left field, and there are a couple of tracks which are quite different from the original. But there are a couple that are very faithful to the original. But I’d love to get him involved, to be honest. Monster Riff: What’s cool about Alice Cooper is that he never really stopped. You had a lot of bands in the ‘70s that sort of flamed out in the ‘80s or early ‘90s, and then they popped back up again in the new millennium as a sort of cash grab. Tim Hilleard: He had that strange phase in the early ‘80s when he went very sort of New Wave and a bit Punk. He made some quite strange music. But it all has its merits. I mean, every era of his musical career has really strong moments as well as a few missteps. But everyone does when you’ve been doing it for this long. Picking Bands for 50 Years Later and Killer Monster Riff: Tell me more about the selection process for these bands. Some of them, like Sergeant Thunderhoof, are a natural fit, given their ties to the label. Tim Hilleard: A lot of these bands are bands that Sergeant Thunderhoof have played with over the last few years. It’s kind of the cream of the UK scene, in many respects—with one notable exception. Mos Generator aren’t from here. It’s a very close-knit community that we have in the UK. I think we’ve got maybe one or two rejections, but this lineup was pretty much all of our first choices. Getting Green Lung, who are on the brink of stardom in this country at the moment, is exciting as well. They’ve got some big festival slots lined up this summer—if we’re allowed to have festivals. On the Reaction on Kickstarter Monster Riff: The reaction so far has been extremely positive. On Kickstarter, you set a goal of £3,000, and you currently have nearly £6,000. Tim Hilleard: Yeah, we’ve almost doubled it. We’re just three or four sales away from doubling it, which is beyond our wildest dreams. Monster Riff: What do you do with the extra donations? Tim Hilleard: We have other bands who have contributed bonus tracks for the CD release. They’ve signed up to do covers of Alice Cooper songs not from Killer, and we’re going to put them on the CD release’s extra tracks for people who’ve helped us with the Kickstarter campaign. It’s a way to give back something extra. They’re recording songs from that same era, so it’s all Alice Cooper band era, which are going to be special surprises for people when they get the CD version. Hopefully, it’ll encourage people to pick up the CD as well, because we’re not going to put them on the vinyl version. The vinyl is going to stay just the Killer album. We wouldn’t want to put some random songs on the end because then it wouldn’t be the same. We’ve replicated the artwork quite well for Killer. There’s even a calendar in the original Killer LP, which we’ve replicated for this project. So it’s going to look really cool. On the Act of Rediscovery Monster Riff: Whenever you sit down and listen to something over and over again and really analyze it, you really start to appreciate every single moment. The act of covering an entire album, especially one that’s of historical significance, is magical in a few ways. What did you discover about the album? What did you come to appreciate that you’ve maybe never picked up on before? Tim Hilleard: There are quite a few intricate moments. It’s quite progressive in a few places within the album. There’s the run-in between track seven and track eight, before “Killer” starts. The whole courtroom scene at the end is something that, once you listen to it a few times, the whole ethos of the record sort of comes clear in your mind. For me, it was something I enjoyed discovering. They were just songs before, when I used to listen to the album when I was younger. Now I appreciate it as an album, as a whole piece of music for 40 minutes. I’m glad that we’ve done it. I’m really pleased with the outcome. Monster Riff: I’m sure it’s a bit of a tough spot to be in because you want to give the band artistic freedom to interpret the songs their own way, but if you find something done a certain way in the original that you absolutely love, you might not want it to change at all. How do you balance vision and artistic freedom on a project like this? Tim Hilleard: There are rules when you do something like this. You can’t change any of the lyrics because we obviously have to pay a license fee. And that fee goes to the original songwriters of the album. So the original Alice Cooper band will get a cut of the fee that we pay. So once you do that, you can’t change the lyrics at all. So we had to sort of stipulate to people that they have artistic license with some limitations. You can make it really fuzzy or heavy as hell or a really faithful interpretation, but we don’t want you to deviate wildly from the track length. And we certainly don’t want you to change any of the lyrics. Those were the main things. We didn’t really force anyone to change anything they didn’t want to do. Some bands played really faithful renditions and some really put their own spin and character on it. And then there are a few which are quite left field. There are some that you’ll hear it at first and say, “Is that that song?” But then it kicks in and you say, “Oh yeah! It is!” Looking Ahead at the 50 Years Later Project Monster Riff: When you think about future albums, do you plan on using the same lineup that you’re using now? Or do you think you’ll change it every year? Tim Hilleard: We’re not sure yet. For the next one, I think we want to have some new bands on, but we want to be in touch with bands we’ve used and want to use them on future projects. Again, this is not going to be a one-and-done deal for us. We’re not the kind of label that’s just going to use a band and then ignore them. We want to use them again, unless we’ve got more projects lined up other than the 50 Years Later series, as I said, so maybe the next 50 Years Later album could have a whole new lineup. We want to keep it fresh as well, and you don’t want the same bands interpreting the same artist every time. We’ve had people trying to guess what we’re going to cover for ‘72, but no one’s come up with it yet. That’s kind of exciting as well. Monster Riff: I’m sure in hearing that chatter you’re getting a lot of good ideas as well. Have there been any guesses where you’re just like, “Oh man! I forgot about that album. That would be really cool to do!” Tim Hilleard: I’ll tell you two things that we thought were really cool to do. For me, it was a band called Uriah Heep, a British Heavy Metal band. They released Demons and Wizards in 1972, which was their breakthrough. And for it Dan, it was Slayed? by Slade. They both would have been quite interesting to do, but we just couldn’t agree. I didn’t really like Slade, and I didn’t think Dan was really keen on doing Uriah Heep. And then after arguing about it for a couple of weeks, we decided that this is not what we wanted to do. We wanted to do music that excites both of us, which is why we did Alice. So we both need to agree on the music. There’s no point in one of us having a passion and the other one thinking, “Well, I suppose I could.” That wouldn’t really be fair. And when it comes to promoting it, one of us isn’t going to have their heart in it as much as they should. That would suck if I had to sit here this time next year and try to tell you passionately about the band Slade. And I’m sure if Dan was doing this next year, he would probably struggle with Uriah Heep just as much. Plus, it would be stepping out of our box a little because we’d need more Progressive bands to do something like Uriah Heep—it may be more Metal than we’ve gone so far. That’s not to say we won’t move in that direction when the ‘70s move that way. In ‘75, you have Pink Floyd’s Wish You Were Here, which is something I would like to do. Monster Riff: There’s so much you could do with Pink Floyd, but I don’t think I’ve seen many tributes to Wish You Were Here. Tim Hilleard: I think it’s because of “Shine On You Crazy Diamond.” That’s quite a mammoth task because of the length. And it’s five tracks as well. It might be a goer. Ask us again in three of four years time. [Laughs] Monster Riff: There’s a sort of brilliance in picking Alice and Killer for your first go because it’s Alice Cooper. From a marketing perspective, Alice Cooper is one of those bands and one of those figures where everyone has some sort of reaction to it. Even if they don’t listen to him, they have some sort of emotional reaction to his name because he’s larger than life, especially when it comes to his stage presence. If you had to go back and pick another artist or band for this first record, who might you have picked? Were there any other artists in discussion? Tim Hilleard: Well, all of this came about from Killer. We said last year, “We could do an album for the 50th anniversary,” and then the idea to do 50 Years Later came about after that. “It’s 50 years later, so let’s theme it. It’s 50 years later, so let’s do the artwork. Hang on a minute, we could do this every year or maybe twice a year.” We could have done anything else from ‘71. In retrospect, Led Zeppelin IV would have been the obvious choice. But I think doing Killer to start was because the stars aligned. As I’ve said, Dan and I are both fans. It’s something we’ve both got a passion for. If you’d like to learn more about Pale Wizard Records, check out their website or visit them on social media (Facebook, Instagram, YouTube). You can check out the Kickstarter page for Killer here.
Summary of Contents Page 1 GA-VM900M Intel Core 2 Duo / Intel ® Intel Pentium 4 / Celeron ® ® User's Manual Rev. 2001 12ME-VM900M-2001 4: Table Of Contents Table of Contents Box Contents ... 6 Optional Items ... 6 GA-VM900M Motherboard Layout ... 7 Block Diagram ... 8 Chapter 1 Hardware Installation ... 9 Considerations Prior to Installation ... 9 Feature Summary ... 10 Installation of the CPU and CPU Cooler ... 12 1-3-1 Installation of the CPU ... Page 5: Table Of Contents Chapter 3 Drivers Installation ... 45 Installing Chipset Drivers ... 45 Software Applications ... 46 Driver CD Information ... 46 Hardware Information ... 47 Contact Us ... 47 Chapter 4 Appendix ... 49 Unique Software Utilities ... 49 4-1-1 EasyTune 5 Introduction ... 49 4-1-2 Xpress Recovery2 Introduction ... Page 6: Box Contents, Optional Items Box Contents GA-VM900M motherboard Motherboard driver disk User's Manual Intel LGA775 CPU Installation Guide ® One IDE cable and one floppy disk drive cable One SATA 3Gb/s cable I/O Shield The box contents above are for reference only and the actual items shall depend on product package you obtain. Page 7: Ga-vm900m Motherboard Layout GA-VM900M Motherboard Layout KB_MS ATX_12V AUDIO F_AUDIO PCIE_16 RTL8201 PCIE_1 PCI1 CD_IN PCI2 CODEC SPDIF_IO HDA_SUR CPU_FAN LGA775 P4M900 BIOS CLR_CMOS BATTERY COMB F_USB1 - 7 - IDE1 IDE2 SYS _FAN SATAII1 VT8237S SATAII0 F_PANEL F_USB2... Page 8: Block Diagram Block Diagram PCIe CLK (100 MHz) PCI Express x16 PCI Express Bus PCIe CLK (100 MHz) PCI Express x1 PCI Bus RJ45 2 PCI PCI CLK (33 MHz) (Note) Use of a 1066/800 MHz FSB CPU is required if you wish to install DDR2 667 MHz memory. LGA775 Processor D-Sub... S/PDIF In/Out connector 2 USB 2.0/1.1 connectors for additional 4 USB 2.0/1.1 ports by cables 1 COMB connector 1 chassis intrusion connector 1 power LED connector GA-VM900M Motherboard Core 2 Duo / Pentium ® (Note 1) - 10 - D / Pentium ®... Page 11 Rear Panel I/O 1 PS/2 keyboard port 1 PS/2 mouse port 1 parallel port 1 serial port 1 D-Sub port 4 USB 2.0/1.1 ports 1 RJ-45 port 3 audio jacks (Line In / Line Out / MIC In) I/O Control Winbond W83627 chip Hardware Monitor System voltage detection... Page 12: Installation Of The Cpu And Cpu Cooler, Installation Of The Cpu Avoid twisting or bending motions that might cause damage to the CPU during installation.) GA-VM900M Motherboard Fig. 2 Remove the plastic covering on the CPU socket. Page 13: Installation Of The Cpu Cooler 1-3-2 Installation of the CPU Cooler Fig.1 Please apply an even layer of CPU cooler paste on the surface of the installed CPU. Fig. 3 Place the CPU cooler atop the CPU and make sure the push pins aim to the pin hole on the motherboard.Pressing down the push pins diagonally. Page 14: Installation Of Memory The motherboard supports DDR2 memory modules, whereby BIOS will automatically detect memory capacity and specifications. Memory modules are designed so that they can be inserted only in one direction. The memory capacity used can differ with each slot. GA-VM900M Motherboard DDR2 DIMM Fig.1 The DIMM socket has a notch, so the DIMM memory module can only fit in one direction. Page 15: Installation Of Expansion Cards Installation of Expansion Cards Follow the steps below to correctly install your expansion card in the expansion slot. 1. Locate an expansion slot that supports your card. Remove the metal slot cover from the chassis back panel. 2. Align the card with the slot, and press down on the card until it is fully seated in the slot. 3. Page 16: I/o Back Panel Introduction To configure 7.1-channel audio, you need to install a 5.1/7.1 surround cable (optional) and enable the multi-channel audio feature through the audio driver. Refer to the instructions on setting up a 2/4/5.1/7.1-channel audio configuration in Chapter 4, "Configuring 2/4/5.1/7.1- Channel Audio Introduction." GA-VM900M Motherboard Connection LED: Description Data transmission or receiving is occurring... Page 17: Connectors Introduction Connectors Introduction ATX_12V ATX (Power Connector) CPU_FAN SYS_FAN IDE1 / IDE2 SATAII0 / SATAII1 F_PANEL PWR_LED 16 17 F_AUDIO CD_IN SPDIF_IO HDA_SUR F_USB1 / F_USB2 COMB CLR_CMOS BATTERY - 17 - Hardware Installation... Page 18 If you use a 24-pin ATX power supply, please remove the small cover on the power connector on the motherboard before plugging in the power cord ; Otherwise, please do not remove it. GA-VM900M Motherboard ATX_12V : Pin No. Page 19 3/4) CPU_FAN / SYS_FAN (Cooler Fan Power Connector) The cooler fan power connector supplies a +12V power voltage via a 3-pin/4-pin(CPU_FAN) power connector and possesses a foolproof connection design. Most coolers are designed with color-coded power connector wires. A red power connector wire indicates a positive connection and requires a +12V power voltage. Page 20 Each SATA connector supports a single SATA device. The VT8237S controller supports RAID 0 and RAID 1. Refer to Chapter 4, "Configuring SATA Hard Drive(s)," for instructions on configuring a RAID array. A RAID 0 or RAID 1 configuration requires two hard drives. GA-VM900M Motherboard IDE1 IDE2 Pin No. Page 21 F_PANEL (Front Panel Connector) Please connect the power LED, PC speaker, reset switch and power switch etc. of your chassis front panel to the F_PANEL connector according to the pin assignments below. MSG (Message LED/Power/Sleep LED) PW (Power Switch) SPEAK (Speaker Connector) HD (IDE Hard Disk Active LED) RES (Reset Switch) Speaker Connector... Page 22 By default, the audio driver is configured to support HD Audio. To connect an AC'97 front panel audio module to this connector, please refer to the instructions on page 71 about the software settings. GA-VM900M Motherboard Pin No. Definition MPD+... Page 23 11) CD_IN (CD In Connector, black) Connect CD-ROM or DVD-ROM audio out to the connector. 12) SPDIF_IO (S/PDIF In/Out connector, red) The S/PDIF output is capable of providing digital audio to external speakers or compressed AC3 data to an external Dolby Digital Decoder. Use this feature only when your stereo system has digital input function. Page 24 14) F_USB1 / F_USB2 (Front USB Connectors) The connectors conform to USB 2.0/1.1 specification. Each USB header can provide two USB ports via an optional USB bracket. For purchasing the optional USB bracket, please contact the local dealer. GA-VM900M Motherboard Pin No. Definition LEF_P... Page 25 15) COMB (COMB Connector) The COMB connector can provide one serial port via an optional COM port cable. For purchasing the optional COM port cable, please contact the local dealer. 16) CI (Chassis Intrusion Header) This motherboard provides a chassis detection feature that detects if the chassis cover has been removed. Page 26 18) BATTERY GA-VM900M Motherboard Open: Normal Short: Clear CMOS Danger of explosion if battery is incorrectly replaced. Page 28: The Main Menu (for Example: Bios Ver. : Fam) This action makes the system reset to the default settings for stability. 3. The BIOS Setup menus described in this chapter are for reference only and may differ from the exact settings for your motherboard. GA-VM900M Motherboard <F12> : Boot Menu Boot Menu... Page 29. Page 30: Standard Cmos Features Allows BIOS to automatically detect IDE/SATA devices during POST(default) • None Select this if no IDE/SATA devices are used and the system will skip the automatic detection step and allow for faster system start up. GA-VM900M Motherboard Standard CMOS Features Tue, May 29 2007 14:31:24... Page 31 Access Mode Use this to set the access mode for the hard drive. The two options are: Large/Auto(default:Auto) Capacity Capacity of currently installed hard drive. Hard drive information should be labeled on the outside drive casing. Enter the appropriate option based on this information. Page 32: Advanced Bios Features Floppy Select your boot device priority by Floppy. LS120 Select your boot device priority by LS120. (Note) This item will show up when you install a processor which supports this function. GA-VM900M Motherboard Advanced BIOS Features [PEG] [Disabled] [64M] [Press Enter]... Page 33 Hard Disk Select your boot device priority by Hard Disk. CDROM Select your boot device priority by CDROM. Select your boot device priority by ZIP. USB-FDD Select your boot device priority by USB-FDD. USB-ZIP Select your boot device priority by USB-ZIP. USB-CDROM Select your boot device priority by USB-CDROM. Page 34: Integrated Peripherals Auto Auto detect the onboard Azalia audio function. (Default value) Disabled Disable this function. LAN Controller Enabled Enable the onboard LAN function. (Default value) Disabled Disable this function. GA-VM900M Motherboard Integrated Peripherals [Enabled] [IDE] [Enabled] [Enabled] [Enabled] [Enabled] [Auto] [Enabled]... Page 35 USB 1.1 Controller Enabled Enable the USB 1.1 controller. (Default value) Disabled Disable this function. USB 2.0 Controller Enabled Enable the USB 2.0 controller. (Default value) Disabled Disable this function. USB Keyboard Support Enabled Enable the USB keyboard support. Disabled Disable this function. Page 36 This item is configurable only if the Parallel Port Mode option is set to EPP or ECP+EPP mode. EPP1.7 Set LPT port use EPP 1.7. (Default value) EPP1.9 Set LPT port use EPP 1.9. GA-VM900M Motherboard - 36 -... Page 37: Power Management Setup Power Management Setup CMOS Setup Utility-Copyright (C) 1984-2007 Award Software USB Resume from S3 ACPI Suspend Type Soft-Off by PWRBTN AC BACK Function PS2KB Power On Select PS2 Mouse Power On PME Event Wake Up Modem Ring Resume Resume by Alarm x Date (of Month) x Resume Time (hh:mm:ss) : Move... Page 38 Disable this function. (Default value) Enabled Enable alarm function to POWER ON system. If Resume by Alarm is Enabled. Date (of Month) : Everyday, 1~31 Resume Time (hh: mm: ss) : (0~23) : (0~59) : (0~59) GA-VM900M Motherboard - 38 -... Page 39: Pnp/pci Configurations PnP/PCI Configurations CMOS Setup Utility-Copyright (C) 1984-2007 Award Software PCI 1 IRQ Assignment PCI 2 IRQ Assignment : Move Enter: Select F5: Previous Values PCI 1 IRQ Assignment Auto 3,4,5,7,9,10,11,12,14,15 PCI 2 IRQ Assignment Auto 3,4,5,7,9,10,11,12,14,15 PnP/PCI Configurations [Auto] [Auto] +/-/PU/PD: Value F10: Save ESC: Exit... Page 40: Pc Health Status Monitor system/CPU temperature at 90 Disabled Disable this function. (Default value) SYS/CPU FAN Fail Warning Disabled Disable the fan fail warning function. (Default value) Enabled Enable the fan fail warning function. GA-VM900M Motherboard PC Health Status [Disabled] C/114 C/116 2880 RPM [Disabled] [Disabled]... Page 41 CPU Smart FAN Control Disabled Disable this function. Enabled When this function is enabled, CPU fan will run at different speed depending on CPU temperature. Users can adjust the fan speed with EasyTune based on their requirements. (Default value) - 41 - BIOS Setup... Page 42: Load Fail-safe Defaults, Load Optimized Defaults PC Health Status ESC: Quit F8: Q-Flash Selecting this field loads the factory defaults for BIOS and Chipset Features which the system automati- cally detects. GA-VM900M Motherboard Load Fail-Safe Defaults Load Optimized Defaults Set Supervisor Password Set User Password Load Fail-Safe Defaults (Y/N)? N Save &... Page 43: Set Supervisor/user Password Set Supervisor/User Password CMOS Setup Utility-Copyright (C) 1984-2007 Award Software Standard CMOS Features Advanced BIOS Features Integrated Peripherals Power Management Setup Enter Password: PnP/PCI Configurations PC Health Status ESC: Quit F8: Q-Flash When you select this function, the following message will appear at the center of the screen to assist you in creating a password. Page 44: Save & Exit Setup, Exit Without Saving PC Health Status ESC: Quit F8: Q-Flash Type "Y" will quit the Setup Utility without saving to RTC CMOS. Type "N" will return to Setup Utility. GA-VM900M Motherboard Load Fail-Safe Defaults Load Optimized Defaults Set Supervisor Password Set User Password Save to CMOS and EXIT (Y/N)? Y Save &... Page 45: Installing Chipset Drivers, Chapter 3 Drivers Installation Chapter 3 Drivers Installation • Before installing the drivers, first install the operating system. (The following instructions use Windows XP as the example operating system.) • After installing the operating system, insert the motherboard driver disk into your optional drive. The driver Autorun screen is automatically displayed which looks like that shown in the screen shot below. Page 46: Software Applications, Driver Cd Information Software Applications This page displays all the tools and applications that GIGABYTE develops and some free software. You may press the Install button following an item to install it. Driver CD Information This page provides information about the drivers, applications and tools in this driver disk. Page 47: Hardware Information, Contact Us Hardware Information This page provides information about the hardware devices on this motherboard. Contact Us Check the contacts information of the GIGABYTE headquarter in Taiwan and the overseas branch offices on the last page of this manual. - 47 -... Page 48 GA-VM900M Motherboard - 48 -... Page 49: Unique Software Utilities, Easytune 5 Introduction, Chapter 4 Appendix EASY MODE/ADVANCED MODE Display Field Function LEDs GIGABYTE Logo Help Exit or Minimize (Note) EasyTune 5 functions may vary depending on different motherboards. (Note) Description Enters the Overclocking setting page Enters the C.I.A. and M.I.B. setting page Enters the Smart-Fan setting page... Page 50: Xpress Recovery2 Introduction 2. System storage capacity and the reading/writing speed of the hard disk will affect the data backup speed. 3. It is recommended that Xpress Recovery2 be immediately installed once you complete installations of OS and all required drivers as well as software. GA-VM900M Motherboard Boot from CD/DVD: <F9> Xpress Recovery2 - 50 -... Page 51 52: Flash Bios Method Introduction Before Use: Follow the steps below before using Q-Flash to update BIOS: 1. From GIGABYTE's website, download the latest compressed BIOS update file that matches your motherboard model 2. Extract the downloaded BIOS files and save the new BIOS file (e.g. VM900M.FA) to your floppy disk or hard disk. Page 53. Page 54 Fig 3. The @BIOS Utility Click "Update New BIOS" Click " " 1. Methods and steps: I. Update BIOS through Internet Click "Find BIOS From Gigabyte" icon Click "Update New BIOS" icon Select @BIOS sever Select the exact model name on your motherboard System will automatically download and update the BIOS. Page 55 56: Configuring Sata Hard Drive(s) Make sure that the SATA Controller under the Integrated Peripherals menu is enabled. To create RAID, set SATA Controller Mode (Figure 1) to RAID (IDE by default). Set SATA Controller Mode to IDE if you do not want to create RAID. (Note) Required for setting up RAID array. GA-VM900M Motherboard (Note) (Note) (Note) Page 57 CMOS Setup Utility-Copyright (C) 1984-2007 Award Software SATA Controller SATA Controller Mode IDE DMA transfer access OnChip IDE Channel0 OnChip IDE Channel1 IDE Prefetch Mode Azalia HDA Controller LAN Controller USB 1.1 Controller USB 2.0 Controller USB Keyboard Support USB Mouse Support OnBoard LAN Boot ROM Legacy USB storage detect Onboard Serial Port 1... Page 58 Select/Clear Boot Array Serial Number View Dev. Posi. Drive Name Channel0 Master ST3120026AS Channel1 Master ST3120026AS GA-VM900M Motherboard ST3120026AS ST3120026AS Figure 3 VIA VT8237S V-RAID Utility V1.20 Create a RAID array with the hard disks attached to VIA RAID controller... Page 59 A. Create Array: In Main Menu, select Create Array and press ENTER, a screen similar to Figure 5 below will appear. Auto Setup For Data Security Array Mode RAID 1 (Mirroring) Select Disk Drives Start Create Process Dev. Posi. Drive Name Channel0 Master ST3120026AS Channel1 Master... Page 60 Continue? (Y/N)" will appear. Press Y to confirm or N to abort. Important All existing contents in the hard drive will be destroyed after the array creation. GA-VM900M Motherboard VIA VT8237S V-RAID Utility V1.20 Create a RAID array with... Page 61 B. View Array Status: Press F1 to show the array status on the lower screen. If there are no disk arrays then nothing will be displayed on the screen (Figure 9). Create Array Delete Array Select/Clear Boot Array Serial Number View View Array/Disks Status.. Page 62 Deleting a disk array will destroy all the data on the disk array except for RAID 1 array(s). When a RAID 1 array is deleted, the data on the two hard drives will be reserved and the two hard drives will become two normal drives. GA-VM900M Motherboard VIA VT8237S V-RAID Utility V1.20 View the serial number of hard disks, it is userful for identify same model disks. Page 63 0 to exit when finished. (Note) For users without a startup disk: Use an alternative system and insert the GIGABYTE motherboard driver CD-ROM. From the CD-ROM drive folder, double click the MENU.exe file in the BootDrv folder (Figure 15). A command prompt window will open similar to that in Figure 14. Page 64 * If you do not have any device support disks from a mass storage device manufacturer, or do not want to specify additional mass storage devices for use with Windows, press ENTER. S=Specify Additional Device ENTER=Continue F3=Exit GA-VM900M Motherboard Figure 16 Figure 17 - 64 -... Page 65 Step 3: If Setup correctly recognizes the driver in the floppy disk, a controller menu similar to Figure 18 below will appear. If you want to install Windows XP, use the ARROW keys to select VIA V-RAID Controller Series (Windows XP/SRV2003) (Note) the floppy disk. Page 66 Windows (R) XP to run on your computer. To set up Windows XP now, press ENTER. To repair a Windows XP installation using Recovery Console, press R. To quit Setup without installing Windows XP, press F3. Enter= Continue GA-VM900M Motherboard R=Repair F3=Exit Figure 20 - 66 -... Page 67: Channel Audio Introduction 4-1-5 2- / 4- / 5.1- / 7.1- Channel Audio Introduction This motherboard comes with three audio jacks. To set up multi-channel surround sound, install an additional 5.1/7.1 surround cable (optional) and enable the feature through the audio driver. Installing the 5.1/7.1 Surround Cable (Optional) The 5.1/7.1 Surround Cable provides center/ subwoofer speaker out, rear speaker out, and side speaker out audio jacks. Page 68 Double-click the icon to open the Audio Control Panel. STEP 2: In the Audio Control Panel, click the Speaker tab. In the left list, click the 2 Channel button. The 2-channel audio setup is completed. GA-VM900M Motherboard - 68 -... Page 69 Setting Up 4-Channel Audio STEP 1 : After installation of the audio driver, you should find a VIA HD Audio Deck icon in your system tray. Double-click the icon to open the Audio Control Panel. STEP 2: In the Audio Control Panel, click the Speaker tab. In the left list, click the 4 Channel button. Page 70 Double-click the icon to open the Audio Control Panel. STEP 2: In the Audio Control Panel, click the Speaker tab. In the left list, click the 8 Channel button. The 7.1-channel audio setup is completed. GA-VM900M Motherboard - 70 -... Page 71 Auto-detecting: In the Audio Control Panel, click the Jack tab. Click the Auto Show Dialog checkbox will enable the Retasking function. A Retasking dialog will show up when you plug the audio device into the jacks. Click the right output device checkbox that you connect in, then press OK. Page 72: Troubleshooting, Frequently Asked Questions 1 long, 2 short: Monitor or graphics card error 1 long, 3 short: Keyboard error 1 long, 9 short: BIOS ROM error Continuous long beeps: Graphics card not inserted properly Continuous short beeps: Power error GA-VM900M Motherboard - 72 -... Page 73: Troubleshooting Procedure 4-2. Page 74 If the procedure above is unable to solve your problem, contact the place of purchase or local dealer for help. Or go to the Support\Technical Service Zone page to submit your question. Our customer service staff will reply you as soon as possible. GA-VM900M Motherboard - 74 - The power supply, CPU or CPU socket might fail. 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Don’t dare mention that the Tories are closing sheltered housing is the line being adopted by David Orr chief executive of the National Housing Federation… and being followed offensively and sycophantically by individual UK housing associations and the forelock tugging compliant trade journal Inside Housing. It reminds me of something that I just can’t put my finger on even though it’s under my nose… The reason for this is silence on the Tories LHA maxima policy killing sheltered housing is? Don’t say a word else IDS will reveal that housing associations have been overcharging the pensioner! To ‘save’ sheltered housing the National Housing Federation has also adopted a policy of wither and/or kill supported housing to save sheltered and is complicit in the Conservative’s agenda and the NHF is shafting thousands of vulnerable persons charities, large and small … that HA’s call partners!! Many housing associations (specifically the non LSVT type) are wide open to the accusation that they do overcharge the pensioner in sheltered housing as I explain below and the charge has no validity and is bullshit. However, the facts matter little compared to the ease of which this accusation can be made and by whom!….. IDS and DWP can (and will if necessary) pose the simple question of … How can one housing association charge £100 per week yet another charge £140 per week sheltered rent in the same area for the same product? … and then falsely conclude that some housing associations are over charging the public purse through the housing benefit bill and are ripping off the pensioner to boot! The perception and old trick of there is no smoke without fire is why housing associations are keeping quiet on the fact that much sheltered housing including extra care will close and much will never be built again. HA’s can’t afford to let IDS make this charge and so they are deadly quiet over sheltered housing closures directly caused by IDS’s LHA maxima policy. Why sheltered housing is under charged not over charged – cross subsidy! For years sheltered housing has been cross-subsidised by all social landlords and general needs rents have increased by more than needed for many years, decades in fact, and a bit has been top-sliced from them and put in to subsidise sheltered housing and keep rents there artificially low. This is no secret and was openly admitted and accepted at least as far back as 2001/2002 when all landlords were instructed to ‘unpool’ or de-pool’ their rent accounts to remove cross subsidy ahead of the Supporting People programme. All social landlords did this and council landlords but critically not housing associations received a large wedge of cash in return for unpooling and some got millions per year for this unpooling – or removal of the cross subsidies. Yet then all social landlords went back to the old non transparent system of cross-subsidy again and ever more so as SP funding disappeared. In summary sheltered housing and the mostly pensioners who live there have been under charged in rent terms and not overcharged for decades. It’s a simple issue and take £2 per week off all general needs rents and put that into the 10% of housing that is sheltered for example sees a £20 per week subsidy for each sheltered housing unit is how it works. The government formula for social rent setting has traditionally been the RPI rate of inflation plus 1% – and then plus or minus £2 for decades and you easily see how these cross subsidies have been operated and achieved. Many former council landlords have now become housing associations as part of large scale voluntary transfer (LSVT) and inherited the majority of all housing stock in most areas. Within that is a typically much higher percentage of sheltered housing than found in other (non-LSVT) housing associations and sheltered housing that has been subsidised for years. Over half of all HA properties now are former council ones with between 1.4 – 1.5 million of the total 2.7 million HA properties being ex council properties, hence most sheltered housing has been massively subsidised and artificially low rents have been set for decades. Yet when non-LSVT housing associations develop their own sheltered housing or extra care provision in any area they do not have either the economies of scale for large cross subsidy as they have fewer general needs units to top-slice from. Further, they have to set more transparent and realistic sheltered housing rent levels in every LA area they operate and some non LSVT housing associations operate in over 100 local council areas while most LSVT housing associations operate just in the one council area in which they were the former council landlord. To get to the crux of the matter what this all leads to is a huge rent differential between sheltered housing provision with for example a former council landlord (ie LSVT) charging £100 per week in rent yet a non-LSVT housing association charging £140 per week for in many cases the same product. Hence it appears to DWP that some housing associations are charging 40% more than other social landlords in every LA area and hence the accusation that some housing associations overcharge can easily be made despite this being false. The reality is that the vast majority of sheltered housing (operated by LSVT housing associations and existing council and ALMO landlords) is still under charged as it contains cross subsidies. However the LHA maxima policy that will cut the housing benefit sees IDS beaming and of course ready to use the superficial and errant argument that some HA’s are overcharging! Any person who is vaguely IT literate could look in any LA area and find huge rent differentials in sheltered housing. Anyone with a modicum of sheltered housing knowledge or basic finance could remove many of the legitimate reasons for such rent differentials to get a like-for-like comparison yet STILL would find 30% or higher rent differentials between HA’s, or very specifically between a LSVT HA (the former council landlord) and a non LSVT HA in all local authority areas. Merseyside is one such example of many and has 5 councils and there is no council landlords left. All 5 transferred the council housing stock to what are now (LSVT) housing associations for example Magenta Living (ML) in Wirral and One Vision Housing (OVH) in Sefton. ML and OVH have a higher % of sheltered housing than other HA’s and they charge around £100 per week for it, yet the likes of Regenda and Riverside and other non LSVT housing associations charge £130 – £150 per week for the same because they are transparently and correctly charged with little if any cross subsidy. The choice based lettings online portal in Merseyside(PropertyPool) reveals this as do other CBL online portals in many areas of the country. Anyone in any area can do a bit of research in their own local authority area and will find that the former council landlord and now housing association – the LSVT – charges significantly less for a sheltered housing 1 bed property than many if not all other housing associations in that area. This is a like-for-like comparison basis too and not an issue of comparing one type of sheltered with another higher or lower cost type and after taking out all other of the many variables that legitimately explain rent differentials which the nerdiest housing geek knows about. That is significant as the general public would not be aware of and would struggle to comprehend the complexities of both practical housing issues that can differ markedly and the vagaries of the HB regulations and what can and cannot be claimed as a HB eligible charge and further complexities within that. The public will only see Landlord A charging £100 per week and Landlord B charging £140 per week and would buy into the errant political accusation of over charging that DWP could easily make and I’m sure IDS would love to make! The DWP commissioned a huge research study just over a year ago that has yet to conclude on all supported and sheltered housing and we must accept that IPSOS MORI who won that contract will have reported back to DWP detailed figures such as I touch on above. You begin to see IDS concocting this HA overcharging of the pensioner posit and of IDS using that superficial and errant argument knowing full well that the general public would believe it -the no smoke without fire and first-move advantage technique combining with the Tory and especially IDS-friendly press -to make non LSVT housing associations and by extension all HAs and by inference all social landlords guilty of ripping off the pensioner and the taxpayer! Instead, the NHF is orchestrating a campaign of shout (but not too loudly) about supported housing and emphasise the NIMBY services of hostel and drug and alcohol units that Joe Public frankly doesn’t give a shit about as Inside Housing did in two articles today (here and here) and as David Orr speaks about and tweets about with the new #NHFwelfare issue that focuses on supported housing not sheltered. Yet avoid any mention of sheltered housing as IDS has this overcharging pensioners posit he can and will make if necessary because he is a zealot and while we are in bed with the CLG over housing issues, the LHA maxima is a DWP policy as housing benefit is a welfare benefit so we have no sway whatsoever with the zealous IDS who now believes as he wants to believe that HA’s have been taking the piss out of his welfare budget…blah blah blah! This is the reality of why the NHF and its compliant trade journalists in Inside Housing and so on have been very very quiet on the LHA Maxima policy closing sheltered housing by making it even more non financially viable. Some sheltered housing will undoubtedly close and while new developments will be put on ice we will see far more cross subsidies going into older persons housing to ensure a large part of it survives and even if it is run at a loss by almost all housing associations. Aside from the sensitivities of having to evict pensioners and the relentless drive to become private landlords by the ‘leading’ HAs who all wish and need to retain and propagandise they still have a social ethos at their core, the much lighter touch regulation / de-regulation will see housing associations charge general needs tenants more to enable greater cross subsidy in much higher affordable (sic) rent units and much more outright private rental and private sales to cross subsidise sheltered housing even more than it is now. Yet that means housing associations privy to this NHF strategy are abandoning supported housing to keep sheltered housing and not only cutting their losses but also consigning thousands upon thousands of specialist support providers to bankruptcy from the individual small charities that run DV refuges to the YMCA’s and Salvation Army’s and other large national names, as well as the many smaller and specialist housing associations who are mainly supported housing providers not general needs landlords. Rest in Peace supported housing you are being sacrificed by the National Housing Federation in as much a Machiavellian way as this government is doing with the LHA maxima policy. Social landlord? Social mission? Social ethos? #NHFWelfare? Oh do please fuck the fuck off with such known deceits and deliberate lies and if you want a nice new hashtag how about Rachmannvellian as you suit it so well NHF! One thought on “Fawlty Sheltered Towers and the Rachmannvellian NHF”
So I thought I’d finish my series of posts about my visit to the Eden Project with one about the outdoor space. The biomes are such spectacular creations that they do get most of the attention. The indoor space they provide is essential for any visitor attraction that needs to ride out the vagaries of the British weather but it is rather a shame to see Eden as only a wet weather destination, by-passing the planting outside as you make a bee-line indoors. When we first visited in 2001, only 2 months after the opening of the site, the external landscaping had only just been planted and, admittedly no one had come to see some trees and bushes, it was the rainforest and the world’s biggest conservatories that were the attraction. Over ten years later the outdoor biome as it’s known is coming into its own. The team at Eden have really worked hard with the planting to create something that is beautiful, that inspires and which educates and tells a story along the way. I imagine the scale of planting and landscaping at Eden has brought its own unique problems and challenges. The nature of the bowl within which Eden sits and the sheer size of the site have required bold planting schemes. Thinking in threes, fives and sevens would never have worked here. Long lines of Liquidambars, some of the first trees to be turning at the start of autumn, looked like flames lining the paths. Vast plantings of Cotinus were likewise turning colour. Alongside one path was a large bank of Cornus, still in leaf on our visit, but you could imagine how dramatic the red, yellow and orange stems will look in winter. One slope was a mass of lavender. For our visit at the start of October they had been neatly trimmed into tidy balls which created an arresting sight but the thought of seeing and smelling it in full flower is already making me look at my diary to see if we can visit next summer. For anyone who grows their own the area devoted to fruit and veg is a delight. I particularly liked the ideas for using height to grow more crops in a small space. There were hops and barley growing to illustrate the brewing industry. I’ve never seen hops grown, as they would be commercially; it’s incredible how tall they get. Although there was a ‘dwarf’ variety, which must have been 6ft-8ft tall which I quite like the idea of trying to grow. Not because I plan to make beer but because I love hops when they’re dried. You can apparently make sachets from the dried hops which you can then put under your pillow to induce restful sleep. Growing hops at the allotment would certainly be something a bit different. They are trialling varieties at Eden to see if there are any that can cope with the damp conditions prevalent in the Cornish climate. Hemp is an amazing crop and has yet to be fully exploited. It has numerous uses from clothing to the car industry, needs much less chemical input to grow it and it grows well in the UK. Hempcrete which is a mixture of hemp and lime is a more environmentally friendly option to concrete. Hemp is, of course, a variety of Cannabis. The varieties grown industrially tend to be very fibrous and have low levels of the chemical compounds used for drugs but growing hemp as an agricultural crop requires a licence from the government and infrastructure in place to protect the crop. At Eden, because they are required to have a fence around the crop, they commissioned what I thought was a very stylish barrier using hemp ropes. One of the areas I loved the most though was the recreation of an American prairie. Although it was fading into autumn the colours of the asters and rudbeckias against the blue sky and the gleaming biome were beautiful. Another reason to visit in summer. The sight of it in full flower must be spectacular. The team at Eden manage it by burning every spring, just as the Americans did when they created the first prairies to attract animals to the plains and make travelling across the vast areas of vegetation easier. For me, the genius of Eden is that it inspires. It takes difficult subjects such as climate change, peak oil, habitat loss, sustainability and feeding a growing planet and engages and educates. Bring these subjects up at a dinner party and you see eyes glazing over and yawns being stifled. But because at Eden they are practising what they preach you feel more receptive to the ideas. This is not some rich, jet-setting, 5 homes in different countries, pop star telling you to look after the planet. One of the main problems for governments across the world is popping the bubble of apathy that thinking about the environment seems to create. It’s all too easy to feel overwhelmed by the issues we face with regards to the future of the planet and what sort of quality of life future generations will have. It’s easy to think that recycling or giving up a car or growing your own aren’t worth it, can these little changes make any real difference? I think what Eden proves is yes they are worth it and that the snow ball effect of one change and then another combine. Supporting local businesses, becoming waste neutral, supporting prisoners and ex-offenders to learn horticultural skills and with plans to install their own geo-thermal energy plant Eden shows what is possible if we just change the way we think about how we do things. For me, Tim Smit, the man who rediscovered the Lost Gardens of Heligan and breathed new life into them and who then had the vision to create Eden, is someone who doesn’t get enough credit for his achievements. I certainly wish those in power would pay more attention to the ideas and practices at Eden rather than being driven by the same old ideas to deal with problems. But before this turns into a political rant, and no one wants that on a Friday afternoon, I just want to say if you haven’t been to Eden, go, it’s amazing and if you already have, then go again as it never fails to excite and inspire. For more information about Eden visit their excellent website. They now run a wide variety of horticulture courses ranging from hour long demonstrations to half and full day sessions. Perfect for combining with a visit if you’re in the area. I can also highly recommend the book Eden by Tim Smit, about the ideas and construction of the project. I must admit that it was the outdoor space, or specifically the fruit and veg area, which I was most fascinated with when I visited Eden. It was around the time that I got my allotment so all things fruit and veg were most interesting. I haven’t read Tim Smit’s book, I shall have to look out for it. Jo, I loved the ideas on the veg area. I’m thinking of using a few on the plot next year. I agree with your comments on the vision that Tim Smit must have had – to have been inspired to create the Eden Project; of course it was a vast engineering feat, to have put this together in one of the most inhospitable landscapes in England, a disused China Clay pit! I recall seeing local news at the time, the mud and clay slurry was such a problem during construction. Is there still a sense of its surroundings or has Eden melted into and merged with the countryside now? I imagine that the answer is a very confident yes. It is blending in more but at the same time you still get the feeling of the ‘crater’ and the vastness of the site which is great. To have persevered through all the construction and funding problems they had was impressive enough. my mother grew up in Cornwall, so between showers we ducked out to ramble along the bit with Cornish wild flowers. Cornish wildflowers are beautiful. They do look at their best in spring and early summer. Tim Smit to me is a visionary. It is heartening to see Victorian estates and old walled gardens and kitchen gardens having the life breathed back into them, with Heligan being one of the highest profile. Heligan is also on my wish list to visit. I like the lavender balls and bank of vegetables. I put lavender balls into my own garden early this year and over the next few months I should hopefully see them flower at last. Thank you for the posts on the Eden Project – beautifully written and described and great photographs to accompany the text. Many thanks Thanks Danielle, You should definitely start your own blog. I’m fascinated to see your garden, it sounds gorgeous. I’m glad you’ve liked hearing about Eden. Heligan is amazing too. I know we’re so lucky to have so many great gardens in the UK. We lived abroad for a while and the lack of gardens to visit was really frustrating. WW – I have seriously considered starting my own garden blog but I am actually an extremely private person when it comes to personal information and photos and I dislike social media (I do NOT have Facebook). I’m also a bit of a luddite and do not own an iphone (or similar). I admire people who have blogs who use the blog as a personal diary and divulge all matter of personal information, household goings on, family photos, etc but I just couldn’t do it! However it would be nice having a garden blog so long as I could stay anonymous.. Have you had any problems with your blog such as privacy breaches, trolls, hackers etc? Feel free to email me if easier to respond. I’m pretty private too, hence my pseudonym. Although as time has passed certain people have discovered the real me but that has been down to my choice. It is possible to stay incognito if you choose to. Using wordpress I find their spam filter is great and I haven’t had any other problems. I do think a good password helps. I’m not on facebook either as I don’t like the whole divulging my entire life thing either. The great thing about blogs is they can be as much as you want it to be. I always try to keep my posts about garden related stuff, straying into food or the countryside occasionally. I do understand you wanting to keep stuff private though. Hope that helps but if you have any other questions just let me know. A most enjoyable, and informative, post. I think that I’d probably find this the most interesting part to look round. I once had the pleasure of chatting with Tim Smit at Heligan and agree with all you say about him, and his book. xx Wow I’d love the chance to meet Tim Smit. Although to be honest I tend to forget what to ask people I’ve always wanted to meet when I’m finally stood in front of them. ;) I did think, WW that I had ‘done’ Eden but you have made me realise that it is constantly evolving and growing and, indeed, still getting established. I love the idea that they have to fence off the hemp – just in case! D I wasn’t sure about the having the hemp fenced off as you could access it on the other side. Not sure how secure that was. Not quite sure what people would do with it either. The idea of people sneakily cutting it down and walking out with it is quite funny. We weren’t going to go back either having been in 2009 but they realise that to keep people coming back they have to do new things. They are currently planning a rainforest canopy walk but would be amazing. Your Eden posts have made me itch to return to Eden WW. I think that we visited pre allotment days so the fruit and veg area would of course be of even greater interest now. I was bewitched by Heligan too. Anna, both are great. I do like how Eden is evolving so much with so many new things to see. They are planning a rainforest canopy walkway next. We’ve not managed to make the trek yet, so thank you for writing this! Tim Smit’s book is possibly one of the best things I’ve ever read. The books are amazing. I loved the one about Heligan too. Brilliant post. When I visited Eden just after it was opened I loved the outside planting already, even though at that stage it was all tiny plants but you could see it was going to be wonderful. The area around Viterbo, where I live, was famous for growing hemp in the past. I so agree about Tim Smit; he has such a positive attitude and manages to get things done even when all those around him are saying it’s not possible! I hope I can visit Eden again! Christina
Skip to 0 minutes and 7 secondsWelcome to Week 6 of the shape modelling course. This week marks the start of a new topic. We will shift our focus from building shape models to actually applying shape models for analysing data. Skip to 0 minutes and 24 secondsA shape model gives us statistical knowledge about how a shape looks and varies. It can be used to answer questions like, is this shape normal? Does it maybe show pathologies? And how would it look like without the pathologies? So what I would like to use it for is to analyse data, such as this image. But to be able to analyse the data, I somehow need a way to compare the information that is encoded in the model with the information in the image. Now if you think back, what actually a model represents, it is probabilistic information about deformation fields. So we built a model by selecting a reference shape and then modelling deformation fields using a Gaussian Process. Skip to 1 minute and 18 secondsIf I want to answer such questions, I would somehow need to know how does the reference relate to the data that I've seen. So I would, for example for this image, need to know what is the deformation field that brings my reference to this shape that I see in the image. Skip to 1 minute and 42 secondsFor practical application, there are two representations of data that are of relevance. One is a representation as a surface or in 2D contour. And in many practical application, we actually have images of data sets. And we want to analyse these images. Skip to 2 minutes and 6 secondsIn this week, we will focus mainly or purely on surfaces and contours. We will develop a method how we can fit a model to the contour and the same method can be extended such that we can use it for images. And this will be the topic of next week. The setting is as follows. We start with a reference shape and a target shape. And what we would want to do is we try to find the deformation that maps this reference shape to this target shape. Now all the information that is in the model is only about shape deformations. It doesn't include rotation. It doesn't include translation. Skip to 2 minutes and 56 secondsSo the way the target shape is now, I cannot use it directly to find the deformation. So the first thing I have to do is I need to align the two shapes. There are many methods to do that and one you have learned about in this course, which is Procrustes Analysis. So now let's assume the two shapes are already aligned. So how can we find a deformation from the reference to the target? Skip to 3 minutes and 30 secondsA very naive and simple idea would be to say, OK, I just choose a number of points of my reference and then I try to find the closest point in the target. And you see the result here on the left. It actually defines a deformation from the reference to the target. But it is not really what we would like it to be. So for example if we just considered this point here, the tip of the thumb of the reference, it is not matched to the tip of the thumb of the target, but rather here to the side. Another problem is this deformation has jumped here. So it's not smooth. Skip to 4 minutes and 16 secondsWhat we see is this deformation, it defines the deformation but not correspondence. It doesn't map to the points that we would like and it doesn't have the properties we need and not the properties of deformations that we modelled. Skip to 4 minutes and 33 secondsThe reason is that this closest point assumption is actually too weak, so we cannot just assume that a deformation is defined by its closest point. We should assume much more about the deformation that relates the reference to the target. For example, one thing that I can assume is that the deformation should be smooth. Skip to 4 minutes and 58 secondsI could even assume more. Maybe I can assume that the results of such a deformation looks like a hand because here I already know that we're working with hand shapes. Skip to 5 minutes and 12 secondsAnd actually the smoothness and the assumption that the result looks like a hand, this is exactly what is incorporated in our shape model. So the question could be, could I maybe use directly the shape model that we've built for analysing the data set? Or in other words, could I fit the model to this data set? Skip to 5 minutes and 40 secondsWhenever we talk about fitting a model to a data set, the first thing we should think of is Bayes' theorem. So Bayes' theorem gives us a very principled way to use prior knowledge that is given in probabilistic form. So Bayes' theorem is essentially a simple formula. It tells us if we have some prior knowledge, plus a likelihood term. And I divide that by some normalisation term. Then I get here this probability of u given the data. And this probability of u, if u is a deformation field, this would in our case be the probability of a deformation given the data. This is exactly what we want. Skip to 6 minutes and 27 secondsIn our case, the prior knowledge is just the shape model and the likelihood function would be something like how close will my deformation field u bring me to the target? Unfortunately, while this approach is nice and principled it's also a bit complicated to get right. And in this course, there is not enough time for discussing that in details. We will therefore discuss a little bit a simpler solution, which is a very popular heuristic. The heuristic is called the Iterative Closest Point Algorithm. It is a classical algorithm, which was proposed by Besl and McKay already in 1992 with the aim of minimising the distance between two point sets. The idea is very simple. Skip to 7 minutes and 23 secondsThey start by finding closest point between the target and the reference. This is exactly what we did. But then, as for us, their correspondence or the closest point might not actually lead to a good solution. But the idea is that they can use steps nevertheless to estimate a transformation based on these corresponding points. And then they transform the reference using this transformation and they iterate. They find the closest point again and they hope that this time it is a little bit better. In their case, the transformation they considered was actually rotation, translation, and scaling. For us, we will adapt it a bit such that it works with Gaussian Process regression. Skip to 8 minutes and 20 secondsSo let's see if you can use that. So we want to include prior knowledge. That means we want to use our shape model. So we start finding the closest point directly from the mean shape that we have given in our shape model. And from this mean shape, we find the closest points to the target. Skip to 8 minutes and 43 secondsGiven these closest point, I can compute the deformation from the closest point on the target to the corresponding point on the reference. This gives me and deformation field. As I see here and maybe here and also at some other point, it is still not very good. What we hope, however, is that it's good enough that it can be used for a Gaussian Process regression procedure. So now we want to include the prior knowledge. We want to include everything that we know about hand shapes. And the way to do that is we perform a Gaussian Process regression, treating these deformations as noisy observations. And this gives us a new model with a new mean. Skip to 9 minutes and 36 secondsAnd we hope that that mean is actually closer. And this is exactly what happens. So in iteration 2, I get this new mean shape that we see here in grey. We see that it's quite close. And now I can find the closest point again, which gives me a better solution. Skip to 9 minutes and 58 secondsNow the defamation field, if I iterate that, is already a bit better. Still, it is not perfect. It has some problems at some points. But I can take the same idea again, perform a Gaussian Process regression, and use the deformations as noisy observations. Skip to 10 minutes and 19 secondsIf I do that around 20 times, then this is what my mean shape looks like. We're almost there. Finding the closest points from this shape to the target shape is actually fairly easy. And the final deformation field, I get after 20 iteration, that looks like this here. We see now this procedure actually established correspondence. So the tip of the thumb is mapped to the tip of the thumb. And if I would investigate that closely, I would have very reasonable correspondences. And now that I have done that, I can actually use all the information that I've given in a shape model to analyse this target surface. I could try to determine whether it is pathological or whether everything is normal. Skip to 11 minutes and 14 secondsOr I could try to reconstruct a given pathology. Skip to 11 minutes and 20 secondsYou may remember from Week 2 that we still had the open problem when we wanted to learn a shape model from data, how can we find the deformation fields that relate to reference to the example data sets that we wanted to use for learning. It turns out that this procedure can actually be adapted and used exactly for that purpose. You will find details about that in the next article. Model fitting and correspondence In this video, we will discuss how to analyse a given shape using the shape model. To this end, we introduce a simple algorithm called the Iterative Closest Point (ICP) algorithm. We will see how we can include the shape model as prior knowledge to obtain a solution that is in correspondence with the original model, and thus can be analyzed using the model. © University of Basel
We met Gyze on a boat. Yes, a boat, because Le Petit Bain is a stage inside of a boat in Paris. 1°) Could you introduce the band and yourself please? Ryoji : I am the guitarist, vocalist and songwriter, Ryoji, he is the drummer and my brother, Shuji and here is the bass player, Aruta. We are Gyze from Japan, my town is Hokkaido, on the north island in Japan. We are a band since 2011 and before I played in another band with Shuji, named Suicide Heaven. We play together since 2009, then we changed name, now we are Gyze. 2°) How would you describe GYZE’s music to someone that never heard about the band before? Ryoji : Actually, it’s basically Death Metal style and we put a lot of melodies. Especially japanese folk music and russian folk music, every country’s folk music. Also japanese Pop, all the pop melodies, some traditional melodies in Japan. Everything meets. Sometimes there is some classical music in it. The speed of drums, the bottom of the music is in bass, shred solos. 3°) How does the musical creation process work in the band? Ryoji : Actually, I’m always inspired by nature. And moments of my life, every city, when I hear new music, of course metal music. I make them of myself, I send songs to members, we make arrangements, then they are complete at the end. But vocals is just the last part, first time we made instrumental part. Then I add vocals. My vocal style is almost like another instrument. 4°) In Europe, Visual Kei is the most well known japanese musical style. Why do you think that the japanese Metal bands which are not playing Visual Kei are so absent from the worldwide stage? Is there a lot of japanese Metal bands? Ryoji : I’ll ask to members (laughs). There is no good bands, not many Metal bands. Shuji don’t like Metal bands. Japanese Metal is not cool. It sucks. My opinion is that Japanese Metal and Visual Kei are very similar music. But Visual Kei and Metal audience are not the same. Visual Kei are almost girls, while Metal are almost men. 5°) Is it easy to play Metal in Japan? How does japanese people consider Metal musicians? We are lucky ! We are signed on a major label in Japan, we were released for the first time in Italy, so Japanese labels want to sign a contract with Gyze so we feel very lucky. We were playing Loud Park (japanese festival, ndlr) and huge festivals in Europe. Especially Summer Breeze and in Slovakia. This tour is a big chance for us. 6°) Your band is barely recent, European people mostly discovered you when you toured with Children Of Bodom in Asia. Did the international recognition change something for the band? Actually, I was doing worldwide activities. We want to play in every countries. But Europe is the ideal place for Metal and especially for our style. Now we want to play everywhere especially huge metal festivals in Europe. I like Wacken, and of course Hellfest in France ! It’s my dream ! 7°) By the way how was this tour? Shuji : They are very kind people. My father has a similar face ! Ryoji : COB’s drummer looks like Shuji‘s father, and he calls Jaska « Papa » ! Aruta : It was really amazing ! Ryoji : It was a big chance, we were playing China, some festivals in Beijing, we went to Hong Kong, then we went back to Japan together. Actually, I got an interview with Alexi Laiho and it was a great experience for me. He is my hero when I first played guitar, Heavy Metal music, and almost my dream came true. It’s great, so actually we have to change COB style and Gyze. I always have some Alexi Laiho‘s influence to my style. I had to change, because I’m Japanese, I’m Ryoji from Gyze, I have to change. I have to find my own way and my own style. He’s only an inspiration, you have to find your own universe, your own style. Yeah, so I think our music are very different. There’s many melodies in Gyze. 8°) Where does the inspiration for the last record comes from? The title can make people think about Northern countries, such as Sweden, Finland… Almost Scandinavia are an inspiration. It’s the best place for Heavy Metal. But our town is on the very north island, it’s very cold, just like scandinavia. Maybe we get same feelings than in Scandinavia. 9°) A long time ago you came in Europe for the Summer Breeze Festival. How do you feel being back in Europe? How is it to be in France especially? Did you have time to visit? That’s great. Actually we played 3 times in Germany, always in great clubs, call to the action. I can almost say it’s like my second home country. I feel very similar. Even with the climate. 10°) Any words about your tour with Battle Beast and Majesty? Did you know those bands before? Did you expected to tour with them? Do you exchange any advices or experience about vocal technique, music practice or even stage acting? Ryoji : Actually we didn’t know them before. We never listen to them. Our bands are different styles. Shuji : They talk about Ninjas ! Ryoji : I looked at the two bands and wow, I had great times ! They play different styles. We are more Death Metal style, and faster. They are a little bit like… « Happy Metal » but it’s great ! Especially Noora, she’s an amazing vocalist. She is my favorite female vocalist ! I was surprised. She never singed Heavy Metal before Battle Beast, so I was surprised. 11°) What would be the best line-up ever that you would dream of going on tour with? Shuji : Dragonforce ! Ryoji : Yesterday we met Dragonforce. Aruta : Slayer ! Ryoji : Every band are welcome ! Actually, we are starting activities in Europe, but our dream is to tour as headliners. It’s my dream. But we welcome every bands, even Pop bands ! But of course Slayer is good, Dragonforce is always great. Of course Children Of Bodom too. I love many bands of course. 12°) Do you prefer an epic lead guitar or a lumbering rhythm part? Ryoji : Melodies ! But we could mix them. He (Shuji) made it very heavy, and he (Aruta) made it very deep and heavy. I made some epic melodies. On top of music, there is melodies. I almost put shouts, it’s for angriest feelings. My melodies are for sad things. I prefer epic, it’s more important for Gyze‘s music. Sometimes there’s some classical music in melodies, just like Beethoven or Mozart. Ryoji : Yeah, actually I’m a big fan of classical music, we will release a new album, and we cover Beethoven‘s song Moonlight Sonata. We love classical music. But Folk music is also good ! Especially Russian ! 13°) What is the first Metal song you ever listened to? Ryoji : It’s not Metal but Kiss. When I was 18 years old, I played Love Gun by Kiss. Shuji : Dragonforce ! Aruta : Hmm… Children Of Bodom ! Finnish Metal was where I started Heavy Metal. Ryoji : Before we play together, we had cover bands, so we choosed Children Of Bodom, and we asked Shuji to play fast drums. 14°) Why did you choose to play Metal music? Ryoji : It’s easy : Metal is cool ! In Metal, we can put everything : classical, folk, every inspiration. And I love Metal fans. 15°) Are European fans different from Japanese fans? Did you notice that some are doing more headbanging, mosh pits? Ryoji : We went to Spain, those guys are very energic ! Germans are very powerful ! Japanese fans are very quiet, I was surprised. They became louder, Japanese people love everything. But there’s no borders, just Heavy Metal ! 16°) After the show when you meet your fans are Japanese ones different from European ones? What is the most insane dedication you received from a fan? Ryoji : I always enjoy to talk with fans after the show, I don’t think it’s insane or strange. We always enjoy to take photos with them, especially Shuji, he’s very popular with european girls ! Shuji : I do funny faces ! (laughs) Ryoji : Aruta has his « trademark », the make-up. But spanish fans wanted to have my pick, it’s a little bit strange ! In Japan they don’t ask you for it ? Ryoji : Especially spanish fans wanted to have it ! It’s great, but strange ! 17°) The last question : what was your last musical crush? Any bands to recommend? Aruta : Sevendust ! Ryoji : Actually, I don’t listen Heavy Metal. Shuji : Majesty ! Aruta : Battle Beast ! Ryoji : Yeah, of course ! Every day, every night ! 18°) Thanks a lot for your time, maybe you have a final word in japanese to conclude for french fans ? Shuji : Hai minasan kyou wa furansu no pari ni kitemasu. Youroppa tsuaa hanbun no rikaishichiten desuga, shoujiki tottemo tsukaretemasuga, tottemo tanoshii hibi wo okuttemasu. Subarashii hibi wo arigatou gozaimasu. Shuji desu. –> Hello everyone, today I’m in Paris, France. It’s only half of the tour, honestly I’m very exhausted but I still have some great moments. Thanks a lot for those beautiful days. It was Shuji. Aruta : Arusa desu. Ima furansu, pari desuga, boku ha pari ga… pari yori furansu ga sugoku mukashi kara sukide, konkai koko ni korete hontou ni ureshiku omotte imasu. Ryokou to ieba, kankou mo shitakatta kedo koreru dake de manzoku nande, zettai mata kitai to omottemasu. Arigatou gozaimasu. –> It’s Aruta. I’m in Paris, in France and Paris for me it’s… More than Paris, I love France since a while, and this time I’m happy to be here. To talk about traveling, I would have liked to visit more, but just being here is enough for me, and I think I will come back for sure. Thanks a lot. Ryoji : Bonjour, I am Ryoji. Furansu no minasan, konkai ensou dekite sugoku ureshii desu. Kotoshi dake dewa naku, maitoshi kitai to omottemasu node minasan yoroshiku onegai shimasu. Ato atarashii arubamu ririizu saremasu node, yoroshiku onegai shimasu. –> Hello, it’s Ryoji. Dear Frenchs, I’m very happy to play shows here. I think I will come back every year, and not only this year, so thanks a lot to everyone in advance. By the way, our new record will be out soon, I hope that you will support us. Version Française ?
The Pantry Challenge is on! This month we’re focusing on what we have, to use it up and save money. Eventually, I will remember to take pictures past breakfast, but so far this week, I’m not sure it’s happened. Sorry! My cold is now very much in my head, as in stuffy head, sneezing, etc. I wish I had fought it harder a few days ago, but here we are, drinking tea 24/7 and hoping for the best. In other news, we’re doing okay with the PC. I need to do a big pantry inventory and start thawing some proteins. No one is complaining, so we’re good. We’re definitely in need of more baking though. I’m trying to watch my calorie intake, so it will be an act of love to go bake for my people, but I shall do it. Hard to keep myself to just one slice of homemade bread! Pantry Challenge 2018: Day 6 Breakfast: Fend-for-Yourself with oats from the freezer/cereal/granola, berries, milk, granola, orange juice Lunch: Chihuahua Chili with chips and cheese, leftover Cabbage Slaw with Apples and Almonds; leftover Asian Bowl for me Dinner: Saute of Sausage, Onions, Peppers, and Mushrooms; Rice/Cauliflower Rice, Lemon Broccoli, homemade bread As always, thanks for sharing the Pantry Challenge with your friends. The more the merrier! I resisted baking cinnamon rolls the other day . They are too hard for me to not eat but gluten gives me headaches . today we ate most of the citrus fruit, sesame turkey I made yesterday , peanut butter and honey oatmeal bars. I ate creamy chicken enchiladas from your NYM cookbook . I had them in the freezer from late August . Finished the salsa verde. Supper was mostly popcorn we pop in olive oil. We have lots of popcorn and lots of olive oil from an Aldi clearance (the oil, not popcorn ). Tomorrow we get produce at Aldi. Looking forward to it. As someone who had food poisoning a couple of years ago and couldn’t even stand up for 12 hrs , I wouldn’t touch anything that might have e coli. I also have had a bout of food poisoning and agree it is not something I would risk again. Since I don’t eat salad often and have to be careful about eating lettuce due to tummy troubles, that won’t be as hard for me as for some. I will note that if people have lettuce on hand, cooking it is an option as I mentioned with boring detail in yesterday’s post. Julies, with all this cold weather we’ve had and extra time on my hands since work has been canceled, I’d thought about baking cookies. I’d wanted to make some for neighbors before Christmas, but ran out of time. However, I have NO will power so figured we’d be better off without them so like you-resisted baking them! I have been so sick, thus, I didn’t even open my computer yesterday, but I saw your comment about the NYM cookbook and that just made my day! I’m a very small fish in a big big pond when it comes to cookbooks and food blogging. Thanks for that encouragement! Your day sounds delicious! I had the head cold the week before Christmas and I can attest to how it makes you feel like a bobble head! I couldn’t stand up too fast or I was swimmy! Bless your heart, I sure hope you get thru this soon! January 6th B – dad ate out at the old farts meeting, hubs & daughter had overnight oats, I skipped L – LO pizza, dad had a ham & cheese sandwich D – tacos (daughters fave) Dessert – ice cream for all Since daughter loves tacos, I try to make them when she visits. Dad picked up taco shells and tomatoes yesterday while in town. Today dad & daughter went to visit a military base nearby and came back with a few things: bread, ham, cheese, oranges, rice, chicken bouillon and lime juice. The bread, ham and oranges weren’t on my list – stuff dad wanted. I’ve only spent about $10 so far this month. Our lives will get back to normal next week as hubs will be back into his usual work travel routine. I’m hoping that gets our eating routine back to a healthier level as well. A couple more days of cold weather and we should be back to average temps too – omg, can’t wait! Also finally got all the Christmas stuff back in the attic – in such a small house it looks like an explosion with it all over the place while repacking. Melissa in GA I was thinking the same thing about the explosion-look whilst cleaning up! I’m taking the ‘it gets worse before it gets better’ attitude and hoping to get the last of the wrapping and decorations sorted and stored today! It’s -10 right now so it’s a good day for inside stuff around here:) I can’t even imagine how cold it is up in NH. We awoke to 15 & heavy frost this morning. May not seem like much to some but for us here, it’s miserable. We have a possibility for sleet and ice overnight tonight. Ugh. We warm up later this week, thank goodness. And yes, the Christmas repacking always gets worse before it gets better and I have to force myself to push thru it. I find it overwhelming. Melissa in GA Thanks for your well wishes. Sunday was my worst day yet. Hoping that was rock bottom. Saturday January 6th B – fruit and yogurt for hubby + the last piece of French bread. Sausage and egg on an English muffin for me. L – beef and veggie soup fromthe freezer S – an assortment of appetizers – from the freezer. B- pancakes for me, homemade granola for everybody L- We were out today at a robotics club meeting so random stuff – a slice of pizza for me, fruit, muffins, cheese sticks and beef jerky sticks for all. D- cranberry pork for your freezer cookbook but made with a portion of a pork loin, mixed vegetables and rolls I made the other day S- whatever you found Yay to cranberry pork. Lately, it just makes my day to hear people using one of my recipes. Thank you for trusting me with your meal times! Jan 6 B – It’s the weekend, so we had ‘Lazy’ Oats, over easy eggs and hot tea; and hubby had toast as well. D. Meatloaf, roasted potatoes, broccoli. We usually tend to eat breakfast later on weekends and then just have one more big meal. Lazy oats is my name for a different cooking method I like. For the 2 of us, I boil one and a half cups of water with a pinch of salt. Then I add a cup of old fashioned oats, give it a quick stir, put the lid on and turn off the burner. It sits for 10 minutes while I sit and enjoy my tea. Then I fix eggs, toast or whatever else is on the menu, dish up the oats and we eat. The texture is completely different from regular oatmeal and you will note that the proportion of water and oats is different also but we really like it this way and I like not standing and stirring. LOL. I have also fixed other flaked grains using this method successfully. Alice, that’s how I cook pasta but never thought about this method for oatmeal! I’m going to try it with those proportions. Thanks. My Not Mushy Oatmeal is very similar: A little more active cooking, maybe, but a similar “less-water-to-oats ratio.” Jessica, they look delicious prepared this way. I”m okay with the more traditional method but like to experiment. I think my husband might like this option better. Thanks for including the link. Feel better soon. Thanks! I’m sure my kids will never be able to eat their spouses’ oatmeal because I make it so differently than the norm. 1/6 B: egg, grits, sausage (freezer), coffee L: African peanut soup D: pork fried rice with last of the pork from freezer along with rice and peppers from freezer and other fresh veggies, Waldorf salad Forgot to note the $7.44 I spent on 1/2 for fresh veggies. So far that’s it for the month. Feel better soon Jessica. I saw a headline that said that the flu was rampant in CA:( Still frigid here in NC and our 4-5 inches of snow have gone nowhere. Those of you in the grip of these sub freezing temps, be warm and safe! Not sure if this is the flu, but hoping yesterday’s worst day yet was the bottom. Thanks for your well wishes. Forgot to mention I made run to the store Friday and picked up dairy and bread. the bill was high due to paper goods and vitamins. I made another run today to restock some tea bags and buy some ground beef on sale to make the meatloaf. Ground meat is the one thing we are low on in the freezer, but this was a different store and didn’t want to stock up without trying it first. We live and learn, at least sometimes. It was fine and I will probably go back and stock up some for later, but now we are back to using up the meat that has been in there longest. Some of it is big roasts that will go back in reworked for meals later using cooked meat. It is hard to find really good prices on ground beef with the fat content I want. Do you have a zaycon fresh delivery drop near you ? They have great 93% beef with no pink slime, and at a good price. Second the Zaycon. We just got the 80/20 in the 1lb packages, before that they came in 10lb chubs that had to be repackaged with my food saver. I used the 93/7 when I pressure canned seasoned and meat sauce. Good stuff! Sat B – I finished off the ginger curry, he slept in L – he ate leftovers from yesterday’s dinner; I had an odd mishmash of mixed nuts, an almond butter bar, some fruit, and quinoa salad D – baked spaghetti and meatballs, Caesar salad – yes, I threw caution to the wind and ate the romaine lettuce bought just a couple of days ago I wonder if any other group has contemplated romaine lettuce as much as we have lately. 😉 Hi All! 1/5 I ended up too busy to post and today (1/6) has been, too, but I’m determined to get a post in before i head to bed. !/5 was good Challenge-wise, which is nice, since this first week I haven’t been able to be fully committed since we had lots of other plans. Also, son went in 2 hours late to school, soit messed up our usual routine and hubs ran out the door without eating any breakfast or taking anything for lunch. Oops! Food for 1/5: B- son had cereal, turkey sausage, OJ; I had leftover stollen from the neighbors; hubs had zilch L- son took a turkey/cheddar on ww sandwich, grapes, pistachios/almonds, and clif bar; hubs apparently only ate some chocolate left in the office from the holidays; I had a tuna sandwich and a found half-single serve bag of salt & vinegar chips my daughter never finished. D- We had a crazy melange of Venezuelan, Southern, and Italian. A dear friend from venezuela gave us her famous christmas Hallacas, which are venezuela’s version of tamales. 3rd year now(they’re military and won’t be here forever) and it’s a great treat for me, since i lived there as a kid. We had those along with the leftovers from the bbq place- mac & cheese for all, and the son finished off his sister’s fries and his own ribs. And then I roasted up the pathetic soft 5 mixed color bell peppers, cremini mushrooms that were somehow still alive, the overripe grape tomatoes, and red onion, all tossed in rosemary and basil olive oil with dried italian herbs, salt, and a little garlic powder. We ate about a 3rd of the veggies and will use the rest in a pasta dish this week sometime. Cleared out and didn’t waste all those veggies, so very happy about that. Today, 1/6, is my birthday, so no cooking for me!! I started the day at Starbucks with a friend in from out of town, the guys slept, I think. I had a passion tea and a little breakfast sandwich. The company was the best part! Then ran to buy a baby gift. went home and opened gifts and I received what I was hoping for: an Instant Pot!! anyone have any pointers, I’d love it! Super excited to start using it! Then we headed to an afternoon couples baby shower where we ate some goodies. I consider the cupcake i had there my birthday cake. We raced home to pick up our son and went to see a movie at 6pm; The Post. It opens everywhere this coming weekend, but we have it early since we live by DC. It was EXACTLY what I wanted to watch and we thoroughly enjoyed it. Then we went to a favorite restaurant right by it for a late dinner where I wanted all their appetizers- they have the best deviled eggs ad crab and shrimp fritters with an amazing sauce & corn salsa. So we had those and I also had a small salad. So happy, so satisfied. I also found a recipe for pear bread, which is great because I have some mushy pears and now I won’t waste them. I’ll bake them tomorrow or monday. Tomorrow we have lunch plans with friends after a baby church blessing. Looking forward to it. Hope everyone is doing well! We are still bitter cold, but I did NOT let that stop me today. And it was great, even if I almost had to use my inhaler it was so cold (negative wind chills are insane. This San Diego girl does not like cold at all- why do I live here again?). Belated birthday wishes, Heather. Thank you! Happy Birthday Heather! Glad you had such a nice day!! Happy Birthday! Sounds like a great YOU day! Happy Birthday Heather! Thanks, Mona! 🙂 Thanks, Jess! 🙂 Thanks, Stephanie! 🙂 Heather. My daughter bought me an instapot before Christmas last year. I use it every day. Hubby won’t eat meat unless it is fall apart tender. Everything I have cooked in it has been. Start with boiled eggs. Use the rack, add one cup of water with the eggs on the rack. Close the lid and set the valve to close. Cook 5 min on Manuel let them rest 5 minutes and then open the steam valve and put the eggs in ice water. Season a whole chicken, put it on the rack. Cook on Manuel 25 min and let the pressure come down by itself. Take the chicken out. Add a cup of rice. Press the rice bitten for 12 minutes. Later I use it to make stock from the carcass. It’s very safe to use. Just jump in and play with it. Lots of recipes on the instapot website. Enjoy! Happy birthday Thanks for the cheering on and ideas! I’m so excited. I have old eggs that need boiling so I think I’ll try those first! I was just going to hard-boil on the stove, as usual tomorrow, but I think I’ll unpack the pot first! Yes to the boiled eggs. Only I don’t let them rest 5 minutes. I release immediately. Depends on how you like them. Thanks for the tip, Jessica! I like perfect hard boiled eggs for salads, etc. I love one chopped on a lunch salad, or to make egg salad sandwiches. I’ll have to try a few different timings. 🙂 Happy birthday Heather! Sounds like you had a fun filled day. Stay warm! Thanks, Lynn! I tried my best to stay warm– it was the coldest birthday I’ve ever had in all my years! 🙂 Happy Birthday, Heather! Glad you could do all those great things! You probably already know, but don’t forget to breathe through your nose in cold weather, preferably also through a scarf. I have the same problem since I’m asthmatic. But, if I’m careful, take my meds and do some breathing exercises it stays under control and I don’t need that inhaler that is always with me anyway. That is a good tip, to breathe through a scarf. I need to remember to do this! Thank you! 🙂 Happy birthday! Sounds like you had a great day! And we are the same age by the way, I’ve just got 5 months on ya! Due to the unrest in Venezuela, many families couldn’t enjoy Hallacas this year, sad the state of that country right now. Melissa in GA Oh I know how horrible it is in Venezuela, the unrest, the food, meds, so little access to necessities of all kinds. My friend’s mother has been in town for a few months and heads back in 10 days. She’s happy to be going home but not for the lack of needs. She has asthma and is having a very hard time getting inhalers. We’ve all been doing what we can to help her have what she can take back with her. This year has been so sad for me– I lived in Venezuela, St. Thomas, and Puerto Rico growing up (as well as southern california). Watching the places I love so deeply fall into such a sad sad mess, well, it’s been depressing. I am more grateful than ever for all the bounty that we have here. 🙂 Happy Birthday! Thank, Roberta! 🙂 Happy birthday Thank you! 🙂 Happy belated birthday! Thanks, Sandi! 🙂 Happy Birthday! Thank you! 🙂 Happy Birthday, Heather! It sounds like you had a wonderful day 🙂 Thanks, Kathy! I sure did. 🙂 Happy Birthday, Heather! Thank you, Jessica! Hope you’re starting to feel a bit better after a not fun weekend! 🙂 I sure wasn’t in the mood to cook today after being totally spoiled during our mini vacay. B – hubs had a protein shake and I had a muffin I brought back from the inn, almonds and a banana L – hubs had a nut pack (Trader Joe’s almonds, cashews and dried cranberries), I used the last boiled egg and had a half of a deviled egg sandwich and tortilla chips. D – In the morning I put a rump roast from the freezer in the crockpot with some salsa from the fridge, shredded it up and we made tacos. Both flu strains A and B seem to be rampant in CA. It’s been all over the news here how impacted the urgent cares and emergency rooms have been. I’m afraid to go to crowded places cause I don’t want to get sick. I watch my 3 yo grandson two days a week so I need all of the energy I can muster. January 6 Breakfast: lo roast chicken, a few nuts and pretzels, English muffin for me. That’s probably the strangest breakfast yet! Hubs had egg, ham and cheese tortillas. Lunch: we both skipped Dinner: spaghetti with meat sauce Snacks: Xmas candy We ran to the store today. They had bread for $2/loaf, which where I live in BC, Canada, is about as cheap as “good” bread gets. We also got lettuce, plain saltine crackers (hubs CANNOT eat soup without his crackers…) and some Pepsi, also for the Hubs as the man bleeds the stuff and we were totally out. Spent $30 so far this month. 1/6 breakfast-cheese omelette lunch-chicken noodle soup with frozen broth, frozen chicken, a freezer soup pack of chopped celery/carrots. Easy to make and tasted good. Added Siracha for a kick. dinner-more soup. Husband is ill so wasn’t hungry. Easy for me to have soup twice. snack-Nutella on Ritz crackers B: boiled eggs, bananas L: Chicken tenders, spinach salad, blackberries D: Steak salad, pineapple spears I have almost quit baking since our daughter was diagnosed with a gluten allergy. I have found only a couple of recipes that are worth making. Most of the gluten free recipe sites/books/blogs seem to assume if you do not eat gluten you are also vegan. Consequently, the recipes call for all kinds of ingredients we do not normally eat, making experimentation VERY expensive. The best recipe we have found to date was for chocolate chip cookies on the back of the Bob’s Red Mill gluten free one-to-one flour. Allergies are challenging and can be very frustrating! Have you tried any completely flourless cookie recipes? I saw one in a Farmers almanac cookbook that only had almond butter, a bit of sugar, an egg, some vanilla and cinnamon, chopped dark chocolate, oats, dried cherries and coconut flakes. Perhaps worth trying?!? They’re called (not surprisingly) gluten free chocolate coconut cranberry cookies – probably could search it for the exact recipe. Laurie – these make for some soft oatmeal cookies but I thought I’d share with you…. 3 mashed bananas 1/3 cup applesauce 2 cup oats 1/4 cup almond milk 1/2 cup raisins 1 tsp vanilla 1 tsp cinnamon Mix together, bake 350 for 15 – 20 minutes. Laurie, Thank you for the suggestion. I made a batch today and everyone enjoyed them. My husband told me the recipe was a “keeper” which is his highest praise for food. The recipe said it makes 12 to 18 cookies. I must have made my smaller, because I got 2 dozen nice size cookies from the recipe. Here is the link. Try lynnskitchenadventures.com. She has simple gluten free recipes and bakes a lot. Oh the fun of the diet kitchen! Mine is currently not bad, but I have been there with several variations through the years. Try cooking a fat free, very low salt, and low sugar Thanksgiving dinner. I was cooking at my folks for multiple people with health problems. I think I’m the only person who ever went to their parents for T day weekend and lost 5 pounds but I did it. Of course I was also caring for my Dad in a wheelchair which added to the exercise factor. I would suggest you check out the ‘Mennonite girls can cook’ website. It is run by a group of women, one of whom needs to be gluten free. I’ve never tried her recipes, since I don’t need them. But they are not vegan, and she seems to have practical advice and frequently discusses how to fix regular or gluten free. She also has instructions for mixing your own gluten free flour. Their site has a recipe index with a gluten free section. The address is: Good luck with your diet kitchen journey. I always lose weight at my parents for Christmas because they serve a lot of foods I can’t eat (cheese and gluten and nuts give me headaches ). They always have something I can eat, but it’s about 1/3 of the food. Not complaining but it’s just how it is . My friend Lynn is an amazing gf baker, not vegan. Yesterday, 1/6 went quite well for us as well! My daughter and I headed out early for karate classes so she brought some ham and cheese, a banana and some juice and I had coffee. Little Guy had the last frozen homemade pancake and hubs had coffee. I made blueberry muffins when I got home and they each had one. Lunch was leftover pizza for some and cheesy cauliflower with hot dogs for others. Apples, pears, and cheese for snacks. And more coffee and tea for me! Dinner was a mix of soups. I pulled two jars of minestrone, two jars of broth, and two containers of broccoli that I had steamed too long back in September and had marked ‘for soup’ from the freezer. So I added the last of the LO tomato soup to the minestrone with some pearl couscous and broth and hubs and Little Guy were very pleased, while daughter and I had broccoli cheese soup with the last of the Boursin herb cheese. I baked a few squash corn muffins to go with it. Cleared up some space in the chest freezer! Then I snacked on tortilla chips near bed time…ugh. Sounds like a great soup! Saturday, January 6 B – Hubby had cereal and a banana; I had a whole wheat English muffin, plain, 1/2 banana, and peanuts L – Hubby had a leftover sloppy joe, and the leftover Chinese take out from last night; I had a chicken burger on a whole wheat roll and V8 D – chicken parmesan, mini penne, and roasted green beans with garlic and olive oil; With this meal, I used the last two sliced of chicken parmesan that I made a few weeks back and froze; so today, I took the last package of chicken cutlets from the freezer and cooked a small pot of marinara and make six more slices for the freezer. It was a good way to use up the mozzarella from the fridge that would have gone bad soon anyway. I also took a package of chicken sausage and the last two packages of ground beef from the freezer and made a big pot of sauce with meatballs and sausage that I will divide up and freeze for future meals and we will also have some on Sunday with the leftover pasta. I don’t feel like cooking on Sunday so this works well. All sounds delicious! Breakfast was fend for yourself… I know I had a bowl of cold cereal and coffee… Lunch at home before we ran a few errands… -Kids had leftover Homemade pizza or sandwiches and fruit.. Hubby and I had turkey sandwiches and pretzels. Dinner- we picked up some ready made soups at Sams- they had instant coupon and fed my desire to NOT think for supper… So choice of Tomato Bisque or Broccoli Cheddar. I did make a pile of grilled cheese to use up bread and a roll of pillsbury bisquets served with honey for dessert. Kids found random ice cream bars in the deep freeze later when they wanted ice cream. Picked up some meats at Sams, more produce and some random stuff… I should be pretty good with NOT shopping any more for at least a week… lol Saturday 1/6 Breakfast – Oatmeal Lunch – Crackers & cheese Dinner – More of the spinach orzo soup Hubby feeling a bit better this am. Hoping he continues to feel better all day. Great news Mona!!!! Only 1 short nap so far today…lol…hopefully he will be feeling better in the next couple days! That’s really good. I’m happy to hear it. Now keep yourself healthy. I know it’s hard at this time of year. We are all just sitting ducks. LOL Well it was Stephanie. Didn’t last long! He has been pretty miserable all afternoon. Will be calling the Dr tomorrow. Seems like everyone we have talked to say that they had to take the full prescription before they started to feel better.so could be another week… 🙁 Oh, I’m sorry Mona. I guess it just has to go it’s course. Unfortunately, the flu or even a cold has a way of hanging on until it just lets go. The only thing he can really do is rest as much as possible and drink a lot of hot liquid and if the doctor gives him something to move it along, all the better. Something we do if we are congested is, I heat a large pot of water. Then I put it on a towel on my kitchen table and put my face over it with a towel over my head. It’s as good as steam from the shower but more comfortable because you can sit down. And if he has a fever, he doesn’t have to get out of the shower into the cold air; because as you know when you have a fever, it always feels cold. It will open up his sinuses and he will be able to breathe better. Then a nice cup of hot tea afterward, a blanket and the TV. I hope he feels better real soon. Still not doing well Stephanie. Planning on going to the Dr tomorrow. Guess he doesn’t want to cough all over the Attorney at the closing on his Mom’s house on Wednesday. Question….was the Pantry Challenge for today posted? I didn’t receive it. Baked pumpkin muffins in the microwave. Made hubby his eggs, ham and hash browns. I had leftover?!Meyer rice and a piece of salmon Needed to get out of the house so I returned a non food item to the grocery store for 21.19. bought lettace, eggs and a few Staples plus bleach for 14.03. thought I would just call it a wash but decided to keep it real, so my grocery purchase yesterday left my monthly total at just over 15.00 Lunch was a green salad using the last of the old iceberg lettace, half an avocado, a leftover piece of chicken. Hubby had by salad sandwich and pumpkin pie with coolwhip Dinner was ham and cheese wrapped in a tortilla. I bought taco shells and seasoning yesterday. I see that hubby has thawed out some hamburger so we will have tacos today. The chickens got the stale bread and leftover stuffing. I don’t see that as food waste. We feel the same way about the scraps we give to our chickens, especially since they give us eggs in return. 1/6 Lots of coming and going today, no true meal prep (not complaining!) B: FFY-oatmeal/egg mcmuffin/muffins L: Meal at baby shower, HH lunch out while visiting his aunt D: LO bean fajita bowls/LO brat/DD2 birthday party Sunday – Kinda a quiet day compared to this past week of meal prep. Woke up too early and then returned to sleep and missed breakfast. Oatmeal can resume tomorrow! 😉 Lunch – last of my chick pea burgers on sandwich thin Dinner – will be deli turkey meat and cheese panini because I have shredded lettuce that is wilting and needs to be used. It’s 50 cents worth of lettuce shreds but just can’t bear to toss it out. Rearranged my weekly meal plan on wilting lettuce. I’ll make some soup to go with the sandwich too! Sunday – Happy to report that I only spent $17.87 this past week. Not exactly a “no-spend” week but some essentials that we needed. I budgetted no more than $20 and came in under budget. YAY!!!!! Way to go! Been trying to stick to the challenge – but Friday night my daughter called as they were picking up Chinese takeout and wanted to know if I wanted any – so Friday night and Saturday lunch I ate Chinese. Saturday (6th) I had: B – English muffin with peanut butter and tea / L: Chinese takeout / D: Baked two large pork chops covered with Stovetop Pork stuffing mix with beets. Then Sunday had tea with my last cinn-raisin English muffin with tea / L: Can of light split pea soup D: will eat remainder pork chop with remainder beets… Tomorrow I’ll set my slow cooker going with chicken breast slices, carrots, chicken broth, celery and tomorrow will add home made matzo balls and a 1/4 bag of fine egg noodles – nice way to make the house smell well while waiting for supper. Liking this challenge. Promise not to buy anything I don’t absolutely need. ALTHOUGH – I want some cashews, almonds, vanilla granola, fresh spinach, eggplant and broccoli – I don’t NEED these items but I crave them – the only thing I need is milk and eggs. Day 6 1/6/18 B- cream of wheat for both of us L- I had crackers and cheese for lunch and Hubs had another bowl of homemade chicken soup. It’s good soup but as I’ve said before, I would be so bored to eat the same thing day after day. D- leftover chicken enchiladas, Mexican rice and corn For dessert, he had a couple of handfuls of peanut M&M’s Catching up… Saturday breakfast: Banana bread (officially tired of banana bread for a minute! But officially used up all the brown bananas. LOL. Lunch- I honestly can’t remember what we had for lunch yesterday Dinner-french toast and oranges Today- NYM Lemon and flax waffles. ALMOST got in over my head with ingredient subs but the final product tasted good. Made enough to use up all the greek yogurt, so that will be our breakfast over the next few days. We are out of syrup but I’m considering doing the book’s suggestion of berries and whipped cream. Hubby uses whipping cream for his bulletproof coffee, and we have a couple of opened bottles that I feel like need to be used up if they expire soon. Otherwise I’ll need to get creative with a topping if I don’t want to go to the store. Lunch: Chicken sausages with cucumbers and apples Dinner: veggie soup at my mom’s house. Yum! This upcoming week is planned for but may get tricky as we have two different sets of families coming in at two different times. I think we have enough to feed everyone, though. I’ve been spending about 45 minutes each day doing SOMETHING to keep me ahead, and I’d like to keep that trend going. We set our grocery budget biweekly, and we have a good amount left for the upcoming second week, and I have a full fridge. My goal is to save/roll $100 into next week’s budget. We shall see.. If you have berries, make a berry syrup. Pioneer woman has a recipe – just saw it on one her shows. I think she’s done 2 , blueberry and blackberry. You coukd also take some strawberry jam and thin it a little with orange juice! Again, the reference to NYM made me smile. Thanks! One of my sillier 2018 goals is to use only recipes from cookbooks I own, vs Pinterest or blogs. NYM and GCE will be getting a lot of turns at my house! Very cool! There are so many recipes in there (the majority!) that have never been blogged. I think you’ll have some fun. January 7- Finally made it out of the neighborhood today to go get some items at the store. But still don’t think kids will go to school tomorrow. Was -3 this morning. Where I am in VA hasn’t been that cold in 18 years. Breakfast- French toast casserole made with eggnog from the holidays Lunch- Leftover pizza for husband, Picked up Panda Express for kid and me Dinner- Clean out fridge of leftovers Tried my hand at homemade apple fritters. Yummy! Ham and eggs and fritters for breakfast. Fed the animals, cleaned the kitchen, loaded the dishwasher and started a load of laundry. Now I’m ready for a nap 1/6 B-. Cinnamon oatmeal for hubby and I. Boys slept late didn’t eat breakfast. L-. Leftover chicken thighs for some, left over Chinese take out for others. Bagel sandwich for #2 son and chips Snacks- Salsa and chips for 3 of us. S-. Went out for dinner for #2son birthday. Everyone too full for Dairy Queen ice cream cake. Did have to go to Menard’s today for some paint. They had Jacks frozen pizza on sale $1.99 each. Oldest son was along and he picked out 6 of them. Total $11.94 that was the first I spent on food in the new year. He will probably eat one everyday at lunch this week. Finals week, so schedules will be different for both boys. Put a turkey carcass, celery and carrots in the crockpot at 10pm Saturday night to make broth. Going to have turkey noodle soup on Sunday for supper. Love reading what everyone is reading. I love the pantry challenge. I did not have enough to not shop, so I did shop yesterday. However I got a lot of stuff at Big Y with their buy 1 get 2 sales. My goals for the months is to cook and eat at home with minimal/no eating out. Good luck to all. 1/6/18 Sat. B: Waffles, eggs sunny side up, OJ, coffee L: Grilled cheese sandwiches on hm whole wheat, bananas, pears, celery and carrot sticks w/ ranch dip, salad D: LO minestrone and focaccia, salad, oranges and pears S/D: PB toast (Hubs), trail mix (me), Christmas chocolates (all) So now that I read this, I see that we had bread of some sort at every single meal. Not so great for my waistline. At least it was all homemade. Next week the guys are back to school/work, so I can get back to salads for lunch. The guys will stick pack sandwiches though, so I also made another loaf of whole wheat. Fruit and veg consumption is good. Chocolates, well we just won’t talk about them. Ahem. At least my Fitbit says I walked 7.16 miles over the course of the day. Over 7 miles. That’s amazing! I did that during our England trip, but it’s so hard to pull off at home! I felt it by the end of the day. :} My average is 4 miles per day. Saturday we got two dog walks in plus I was on my feet a lot doing laundry and housecleaning. I guess all the back and forth around the house really added up. I’m going to try to increase my average to 5 miles per day in 2018. Of course between having a cold and the expected two days of rain this week I’m not off to a very good start. Maybe I need to do more laundry and clean the house more. That could be a win-win for me. I was able to clear out quite a few things today. I focused on the Christmas ham we get every year from work. Breakfast: Omelet with ham, green peppers (frozen from this year’s garden), and Havarti. Lunch: Split pea soup, using ham bone. Used up the rest of the split peas. Dinner: Ham, broccoli and cheese turnover. Used up 1/2 box of puff pastry which has been in my freezer for who knows how long! Will freeze extras. great job! yippee for using things up, but also for using the ham in every meal but so differently that I’m sure it didn’t seem like the same thing three times. Saturday 1/6/18: Breakfast: Baked Blackberry Oatmeal. Lunch: I had leftover Eggplant Parmesan. Dinner: I had an egg and cheese bagel (bagel from the freezer). Hubby was sick and tends to graze on weird things when he’s sick so ate an odd mix of tortillas, potato salad, and chips throughout the day. I kinda get that weird eating when sick thing, you eat what tastes good to you, lol Day 6, January 6th Breakfast: tea and cranberry walnut bread from the freezer; hubs had his usual cereal, oj, coffee and cranberry walnut bread Lunch: we mostly skipped lunch, I had a V8 and he had a 7 up at MIL Dinner: before we left I put a pork chop, 2 potatoes w/mushroom soup in the crockpot to be ready when we got back + frozen corn from our garden as a side Dessert: Christmas candy AGAIN ! The plan for tomorrow is to continue to eat from our freezer, fridge and pantry. At this time our goal is to stay out of the grocery stores and restaurants at least thru this coming work week, after that all bets are off! This is my first pantry challenge (at least as a participant) so I’m very determined but I also know that there is absolutely no way I can make it for an entire month. We will definitely need fresh produce, dairy, eggs and hubby’s cereal. Total spent for 2018 so far is $0.00 It sounds like you are doing great! I really don’t think anybody here spends absolutely nothing during the month. Most people will need to get milk or produce at some point. Your total so far is a lot better than mine, let me tell you 🙂 Thank you Kathy! I’m sure if we still had small children as you do, we would not be at this point after one week! What you do to keep every fed and happy with a vegetarian spouse is nothing short of amazing! I definitely don’t plan to spend nothing. I have little kids and I want them to keep eating produce and cheese and have milk. I also will buy eggs. This is a make your own rules challenge . I agree and with small kids at home it is a totally different ball game. I’m not sure I would have tackled something like this when our two were young. So kudos to you Julie! Well done Cindy at 0.00 spending! Thank you! I’m confident the no spend ends this coming weekend, but I’m excited for our progress so far. We were finally above freezing today in Omaha,Ne.!!! Tomorrow it is supposed to be over forty–car wash here I come. Jan 6th Breakfast–husband had the last of the egg thing we made the other night. I skipped. Lunch–I had a bowl of the beef barley soup and a cheese stick, My husband grabbed a deli sandwich while he was out. Dinner was hamburgers, baked sweet potato fries and a cup of soup was the veggie course. I hope the people with unusually frigid weather get warmer temps soon. I hear you re the car wash! We haven’t been above freezing in ages in the DC area, until right now, though it’s hovering at freezing and raining, so hoping it warms a bit so no ice! (it’s supposed to) My car is practically white from the roadspray/treatment and most i see out there are the same. So looking foward to a car wash this week too!! 🙂 I made it thru a touchless car wash. My car looks great from a distance but up close is still dirty. Note to self– go to a regular car wash!! The weekend was a flurry of activity. 1/5 L sandwiches with chips D Mexican restaurant with my whole family 1/6 L I am not sure what everyone ate I had a upset stomach D had dinner at my daughter and son-in-laws house I hope to get back to some normal meals and schedules. Day 6. B: HM bread, smoothies, softboiled eggs, coffee for the adults. L: Kids had rye bread with fish and carrots on the side. DH and I skipped because af the late breakfast. Afternoon snack: Bread/crackers with carlic cream cheese. Carrots, almonds. D: Lasagna with mixed salad and HM rolls. S/dessert: Last of the brownie from NYE with the last of a carton of vanilla ice cream. I used up the last of the rasberry coulis from NYE in the smoothies and the crackers we had as a snack were expiring, so good to get those eaten up as well! We had some clementines which were starting to look a little sad (this always happens after Christmas, it seems), so I juiced them and froze the juice in an ice cube tray. Whenever we have orange juice, I put in a cube of frozen juice. It’s really good! I checked my long term storage of apples (picked in October). Some were going a bit soft, so I made another batch of apple sauce, which I will preserve and add to my storage. We can go trough a lot of apple sauce if we have it on hand, so this should disappear rather quickly. Kathy, Do you ever just poach the apples in a very light syrup. That is the way my hubby likes them best. When I have a lot that won’t keep like when his Dad brought me bushels of them, I just peel and quarter or slice them and can them in a very light syrup using recommended times. My Grandson thinks they are special and I sometimes take a couple pints I have just cooked up over to him as a special treat. I’ve done pears that way too Alice, they are just so tasty and fresh tasting! I haven’t tried that, but it sounds good. We go trough a lot of apples, just eating fresh and to flavour porridge, so usually my only issue is running out too soon lol. I am thinking we should pick even more next season and then I can experiment some more 🙂 It has been a while now that every January I make a food inventory, but it is much more fun since I’ve discovered the pantry challenge a few years ago. I thought I was a weirdo until then hahaha. I have done my inventory last week and luckily I am fully covered for a whole month. My husband yesterday was complaining to me that I have a lot of cookbooks in my shelf, but did not use them as a reference. So he got up and grabbed two cookbooks. Guess what he picked: Good Cheap eats dinner in less than 30 minutes and GCE Everyday dinners &fantastic feasts 🙂 So, he picked the meals while I had to write down the pages numbers and prepare a meal planning. Starting from today I’ll be joining your pantry challenge. B: My son and me had plain yogurt topped with frozen peaches and honey (I had forgotten the fruits in my freezer). My husband and daughter had milk and whole wheat cereals L: Ginger carrot soup made from scratch, well almost ( I had some leftover canned baby carrots) D: We’ll have veggie black bean burger and arugula salad (the Patties already done last night) PS:Your books made a long journey until reaching Albania by the way 🙂 Love and hugs from Tirana How wonderful that they made the journey and that you can join us in the pantry challenge. My excuse for all the shelves of cookbooks is that I read them at different times and they inspire me even when I’m not following the recipes. I do keep and refer to lots of them, but some I must admit are just for fun. I am slowly weeding out some of them, as I do have lots that don’t get much use. Every cookbook I own has been read at least once and probably more just like any other book – from cover to cover! Yay! Thank you for these encouraging words! Brought a smile to my face! Albania, Denmark and Canada (and probably others I’ve missed) plus people all across the US. What an interesting group of Pantry Challengers! Gotta love the internet:) I love hearing what people from other countries use, so I’m happy you are joining in. ??????. That’s what food does, it unites food lovers around the world. It was supposed to show smile faces not this ” ??? ” 🙂 🙂 Apple fritters, ham, eggs and hash browns for breakfast. As long as the deep fryer was out I decided to make homemade onion rings and used the last of the batter to throw in a few chicken strips. Dinner time I wasn’t hungry. Hubby fried up some hamburger from the freezer to make tacos. Lots of leftovers. Any suggestions for using up Strawberry Jam? I made too much last summer. It’s a brightly colored loose pack, made with just strawberries, sugar and lemon juice using the old timer recipe with no added pectin. It’s great on ice cream, but everyone here has been on diets for months and no end in sight. ps – I love the new meal plan I just purchased. Your recipes are so interesting and well thought-out, nothing like what all the other bloggers offer on weekly meal plans. Mixed into yogurt, oatmeal, strawberry bread, mix in muffins. There’s a recipe out there to make your own nutrigrain type bars filled with jam. Good luck! You might try using it as a glaze or mixed into a dressing for a fruit salad. There are cookies recipes that call for jam but I’m betting they aren’t eating cookies either. It might even work added to a vinaigrette type salad dressing. I figure they are eating salads. (grin) I’ve never done it but I know a friend used to add just a spoonful of jelly or jam to things like stir fries for added flavor. I suspect that any recipe such as barbecue sauce or sloppy joes that has you add a bit of sugar could have the jam substituted in. To test it you could put some of the sauce in a small bowl and try it there instead of the whole recipe. Good Luck These are great ideas! I have some leftover blueberry jam too. I love vinaigrettes and breakfast bars would be a good way to use up our oats too. We are senior citizens and don’t like to throw out anything. My spouse is 73 with ongoing heart failure, so yogurt, breakfast bars, and salad are all good things for the diet. We can probably find a good spinach salad recipe to incorporate the jam. I absolutely love the dressing this salad: and it’s best made with homemade jam. So good! Also, so glad you’re enjoying the meal plan. Tell all your friends! 😉 Awesome! Thank you! I have read many online reputable people, wellness mama recommend elderberry capsules (make sure nothing is added) to shorten colds I’ve been taking those the last week, since before I got sick. Unfortunately, doesn’t seem to be doing anything remarkable. Sunday January 7th B – fruit and yogurt followed by freshly made muffins. Rather than adding a spoonful of jam (fruit explosion muffins) I used the last of the cranberry mandarin sauce – really nice and it used it up too! Win/win! L – a slice of toast and cream cheese, hubby skipped. S – Chinese ginger chicken with sticky rice and some mini egg rolls from the freezer. The Chinese we bought at the grocery store – we were running late and it was not expensive. We enjoy Chinese food but don’t have anything handy in town. The sticky rice was from the pantry. Cranberry mandarin sauce sounds amazing, both tart and sweet – do you have a recipe to share? Cindy, I adapted a recipe to suit what to I had on hand. I used a 12 oz bag of fresh cranberries, 1/2 cup of sugar and 2 mandarins that I peeled and ran thru my mini blender. Added 6 oz water and brought the mix to a boil, making sure the sugar was fully dissolved. (The cranberries burst as they cook). Simmer until the sauce thickens – about 15 minutes. Very simple !!! Thank you! Sunday 1/7 Breakfast – Oatmeal Lunch – Turkey sandwiches Dinner – Baked cod, baked potatoes w/butter and sour cream, carrots & peas Hi Mona. No the pantry challenge, Day 7 was not posted yet. Jessica has a very bad cold too and I guess she didn’t feel up to it. Because she lives in California, though, she usually posts late at night our time so I don’t usually post my daily menu until the next morning. I’m sure when we wake up tomorrow, she will have posted Day 7. I’m sorry your hubby is still feeling so crummy. It’s so cold out; I can’t warm up; it’s one cup of tea after another all day. So I can imagine how cold and miserable he must feel. Hopefully in the next day or two, he will start feeling better again. Yes, and yes. Plus we started back to school this week, so the days are busy. Thanks for your patience with me! Hi Jessica: I’m sorry you’re feeling so awful right now. Hoping you’re getting back on the mend soon. I know this is a fruitless thing to say, but TRY to take it easy and don’t overdo. You need some rest now and no thanks needed. Your health comes first. Hugs coming to you from frozen New Jersey!!! 🙂 Monday – JAN 8 Found a cooked, Cajun Fried Turkey weighing a tad over 10 lbs for $10.00 at Kroger!!! I just had to buy it, break it down for the freezer and make stock with the carcass. That is like $0.99/lb and I can’t buy deli meat for that price! Today I used some chicken broth from the freezer to make Italian Wedding Soup for dinner with my Stromboli. It was awesome. Have not had it in years. Since I didn’t have escarole, I used some leftover cooked spinach from the freezer. I used two hamburgers from the freezer, defrosted them and made 41 mini-meatballs. About 20 mini-meatballs went back into the freezer. LOL! DH was so impressed, he had two bowls of soup! Breakfast – oatmeal and hot tea Lunch – Larabar on the run Dinner – Stromboli filled with ricotta, mozzarella and spinach; Italian Wedding Soup. Sun 1/7 B – grapefruit and mixed nuts for me, he slept through it L – I had chili, he had chicken noodle soup D – grilled chicken, steamed broccoli, yellow rice – the rice was a different brand than I usually buy and I’ll not be buying it again. Back to Vigo! Of course I bought the larger bag of it since the Kid loves yellow rice so now I’ve got a bunch of rice leftover. Thankfully he’ll still eat it and maybe I’ll be lucky and the parts that didn’t get fully softened even with extra liquid and extra cooking time will somehow soften up overnight. Otherwise, maybe it’ll get thrown into a soup of some sort. Dessert – Christmas cookie Vigo is my favorite as well. I like to squeeze a little lemon juice on it, and I prepare it with olive oil too. You’re making me want some! Oatmeal bars with a jam layer! 1/7 B- Cinnamon oatmeal for hubby and I. Boys slept late again. L-. Frozen pizza, beer bread with raspberry jam Snack – Corn dip (aka Crack). #2son makes this often to have for the week to eat with lunch and to have as a snack. Used up 3 cans of Mexican corn, 1 can green chiles, Greek yogurt cup, also has mayo, cumin, chili powder, cheddar cheese and onion. Use tortilla chips with it. S-. Crockpot turkey noodle soup with oyster crackers and beer bread. No soup left, I really wanted some for the next day. Made 2 loaves of beer bread with some older October Fest beer. There are still 6 bottles left so I’ll be making more. Also made on Saturday 4 dozen chocolate chip cookies from some cookie mixes I had. Cookies already all gone. I don’t bake much and on Sunday there were questions on why I was baking 2 days in a row. I made the first week spending about $12 , but I already have a sizeable list for this week. My pantry is under control, and my freezer is stocked for several months, but I have to watch my spending with produce. I always overbuy! Kids had chocolate chip banana bread and smoothies for breakfast. I had a smoothie. Packed lunches for school/work. Tonight included two different basketball practices and a meeting for me. Dinner was left over pizza purchased Saturday night-mostly with a gift card. We got 2 dinners for about $12-bonus. I don’t have a fully stocked freezer to do a full blown pantry challenge, but I hope to use what I have and save a few bucks this month. It was back to school today from the holidays, lets say it was an interesting transition…. Day7: B- eggs, salmon, creamcheese, sausage,pita bread, greens. Late Lunch: Poke bowl or Acai Bowl – I bought it as a special treat for my kids. They helped me clear out our kitchen which took about 5 hours, we donated 3 large boxes of sutff and had enough space to take everything off the counter and empty out two kitchen rolling carts we had…. feeling quite accomplished since this was one of my PC goals. D- roasted pork, coleslaw and rice (I had it in the oven all day while we cleaned) Day8: B- homemade yogurt/granola, L: Pork & Coleslaw D: Mushroom chicken in the intstant pot, with rice and green beans and roasted brussel sprouts. I spent about $150 this weekend but it was a combination of household items and a small amount of grocery neccesities like milk, bread, veggies, fruit. I dont have a separate budget- I track all our family purchases under one budget, I use coupons when its on items my family needs, so this weekend we used $40 of coupons for laundry soap and toiletries.
Title: Issues Author: Ayianna Disclaimer: Stargate SG1 and its characters don't belong to me. And no, I'm not making any profit off of this. Spoilers: Anything's possible, but you really need to be familiar with the eighth season episode "Threads." Summary: Jack helps Sam through a difficult event. "When the Lord closes a door, somewhere he opens a window." Maria in The Sound of Music They drifted away from the open grave in twos and threes until a single slim figure stood alone. Dressed in black, her short golden hair hidden beneath a simple veiled hat, she blended into the gray landscape and drizzling rain, all but indistinguishable from the trunk of the ancient oak tree just behind her. She knelt, uncaring of the muddy ground, and placed one hand on the burnished wood of the simple coffin, bowing her head against the rain that dripped steadily from the leaves above her. Her lips moved silently. A prayer? A benediction? Goodbye? Several yards away, he leaned against the car and waited, watching, giving her the privacy he knew she needed. Cars moved slowly past as one after another the other mourners departed, some to her house for the wake, others back to Cheyenne Mountain. He made no move to follow. He'd wait as long as it took. "We need to go back." Daniel spoke quietly at his side. "Somebody needs to escort the Tok'ra back to the gate." "Take Teal'c." He knew Daniel's gaze rested on the lone figure by the grave, knew the argument that was coming before the first word was spoken. He turned his head, meeting his friend's concerned gaze. "I'll make sure she gets home." Daniel glanced at Sam one more time, then nodded once and turned, moving on silent feet to his car. Teal'c said nothing, merely bowing his head before following Daniel. A few moments later, the car pulled away, and they were alone. The seconds ticked by, then the minutes, and still he waited. He was watching, ignoring the trickle of cold water down the back of his neck, when she ran her hand across the gleaming wooden surface in a final gesture of farewell then stood and turned toward him. She moved slowly but gracefully across the grass, head high and shoulders back, and though when she reached him he saw the sparkle of tears on her lashes, she seemed… at peace. "You're getting soaked, Sir." She said it like that more and more often of late – like it was his name instead of just a term of respect. "Correction," he said, with a hint of a smile. "I am soaked." He looked her over. "But then so are you." "You shouldn't have waited." He shrugged a shoulder. "Didn't have anything better to do." It was a lie, and she knew it, but she didn't call him on it. "Ready to go?" he asked, changing the subject. She nodded. "I'm sure Mark has everything under control, but I should get back." He gestured toward her car, parked just in front of his. "After you." "Sir… You really don't have to do this." He knew what she was talking about, but pretended he didn't just for the hell of it. "Do what?" "The wake." Her expression told him she'd seen right through him. "Yeah, well… It's free food." He gave her that little boy grin he used when he spoke of yo-yos and cake. She sighed and turned away, but not before he spotted the hint of an indulgent smile. He walked around his car to the driver's side and climbed in, starting the engine and turning on the wipers, but he didn't shift into gear until she pulled away from the curb in front of him. She moved among the guests, seeing to their comfort and taking part in polite conversation. Several times she noticed Jack out of the corner of her eye, always nearby, but never underfoot. His calm presence gave her the strength to get through the interminable hours of the wake. When it finally ended, and people started to leave, he stayed behind, helping her pick up the scattered cups and plates, taking out the garbage, and putting the leftovers away in a refrigerator that had never in its life seen so much food. She balanced the last container on top of a jar of olives on the top shelf, saying a silent prayer that there'd be no avalanche the next time she opened the refrigerator door. "Want a beer before you go?" "Sure." She grabbed two bottles and slammed the door shut, leaning against it and giving the counter next to it a quick double knock before popping the top off her beer. He raised a curious eyebrow, "What was that all about?" "Knocking on wood that the fridge doesn't explode." "Little full, huh?" "You might say that. I think there's enough food in there to feed the entire population of P4S-935 for a month." "Not unless most of it's blue and orange and still has legs," he said sardonically. "Come on, Sir. It wasn't that bad." He just looked at her, and suddenly she grinned. "All right, it was. Daniel didn't seem to mind it, though." He rolled his eyes. "He'd eat fried slugs if an alien offered them to him," he said, following her to the living room. "Ewww." She kicked off her shoes and sat down with a sigh, tucking her legs under her. "You're probably right, but still…" "Not probably. Definitely. Did you see that stuff he ate on P97-605?" "The squishy brown stuff with green and red flecks? Yeah, I saw it." She made a face. "Must you remind me?" "Hey, you started this conversation." "My mistake." Silence settled over them, but it was a friendly silence born of years of trust, and respect, and the something more that hummed in the background but somehow didn't force itself into the room. Not, at least, until Jack's next words. "So…" he said quietly. "No Pete?" Sam's head jerked up from where she'd been idly contemplating the label on her beer bottle. Suddenly oddly nervous, she considered him, watching for any sign of ulterior motive, but he gazed back innocently, his expression holding nothing but friendly interest. "No," she said finally. "No Pete." She caught his glance at her hand, the subtle nod at the absence of an engagement ring, and decided turnabout was fair play. "No Kerry?" He grinned, acknowledging her remark for what it was, an attempt to balance the score in the discomfort department. "Apparently I have issues." "Really." "Yup." He nodded with a hint of pride. "I see…" She trailed off. Where do you go with a conversation like this? He was, after all, still her CO. She decided a change of subject was in order. "So what's next, Sir?" Wrong question. She knew instantly that he'd misinterpret it. "Next?" The raised eyebrow and cocked head said it all. She sighed. "I mean at the SGC, Sir." "Ahh…" He considered that for a moment, and then shrugged. "No idea." "No new bad guys looming on the horizon?" "Ba'al's still out there someplace." "After Anubis, Ba'al should be easy." "Not easy... Different. Anubis preferred grand gestures. The old 'let's wipe 'em all out and start all over from scratch' approach.' Always had to be right in the middle of things. You never had to look very hard to find him." "And Ba'al?" "Ba'al likes the personal touch. Look your prey in the eye while you kill him. Sneakier, harder to catch. I'd bet he's gone into hiding someplace." "I can see how he could actually be worse than Anubis was," Sam said, remembering Kanaan. "You have no idea." Sam took a long drink of her beer, enjoying the cold wetness it as it slid down her throat. When she brought the bottle down he was watching her with an intensity that made her swallow – hard. "Something wrong?" And then, after the slightest hesitation, "Sir?" He shook his head, grinned, and lowered his gaze to his own bottle. "Just thinking." "About?" "Something Kerry said." Okay. Now she was worried. "And that was…?" She asked the question, pleased when the sudden tension she felt in her back and shoulders didn't seem to make an appearance in her voice. "That I should retire." He said it casually, the way somebody might say they were going to the store for a quart of milk. So casually, in fact, that it took a second for the words to register in her mind. When they finally did, felt her jaw drop. "Retire?" He nodded, ever so patiently. "Retire." She blinked owlishly. "But… why?" "She seemed to think I had good reason." Sam considered that for a moment, debating whether or not she really wanted to know what that reason was. Oh, what the hell. "And that reason is…?" "My issues." "Ahh…those." She considered asking him to be more specific - considered it for about half a second - then decided she'd rather defuse a Naquadah bomb. He nodded sagely and went back to drawing patterns in the condensation on his beer bottle. "Are you going to do it? Retire, I mean." "That kind of depends," he answered evasively. "On?" He glanced up at her again, hidden meanings lurking in the depths of his dark eyes. "On whether or not it would effectively resolve my… issues." "Right," she blinked. "And how will you know that?" He regarded her thoughtfully. "I'm not sure yet." "Oh." Brilliant, Sherlock. "So you broke up with Pete?" He asked, changing the subject and yet…not. "Yeah." She grinned suddenly. "Guess that means I have issues, too." "Funny how that happens." "Funny." She decided to take the lead in this bizarre conversation. "Do you think they're the same? Our issues, I mean?" He cocked his head, considering that. "There is that possibility." She nodded and rearranged her legs on the couch, stretching them out in front of her, quietly pleased when she saw his gaze follow the movement. "You know," she said, when she was comfortable again, "Dad said something about not letting rules stand in my way. What do you suppose he meant by that?" "That you have issues with rules?" "Maybe." Their conversation was rudely interrupted by the ring of a cell phone, and Jack sighed as he unclipped it from his belt. "The jackass who invented these things ought to be shot," he said, punching it on and putting it to his ear. "O'Neill." Sam collected the empty beer bottles and took them to the kitchen, rinsing them out and putting them in the recycling bin while she waited for him to finish his call. When she came back, he was on his feet, looking more than a little annoyed with the world. "Problems at the beta site," he said, "I need to get back to the SGC." Sam reached for her keys, but he stopped her. "You're off duty, Colonel." "I know, but…" "No buts. SG-1's on stand down until Wednesday morning." She nodded, but she wasn't happy about it. She'd much rather hole up in her lab and hide from the world for a few days – unhealthy though that might be. Too bad he knew her so damned well. She followed him to the door. "Thank you, Sir." He turned to her, hand on the doorknob, eyebrows raised. "For?" Thoughts crowded into her head, dozens of things she owed him gratitude for. She settled for a single word. "Today." "Ahh…" he nodded, his eyes serious. He reached out and traced the line of her jaw with one finger, his touch feather light. She felt her breath catch in her throat at the contact as, without conscious thought, she leaned toward him. "I meant what I said, you know," he said softly. She blinked at him, momentarily confused. "Always." With a final brush of his fingertips across her skin, he was gone, and Sam closed the door behind him with a soft click. Then she turned around, leaned her back against the wood, and smiled. The End
All-round Analysis of How to Play with Photovoltaic Policy Bidding in 2019? Sitting at my home in Hunan, I used solar energy from Gansu to generate electricity. Wind power from the three northeastern provinces, through Tongliao in Inner Mongolia, instantly lit up thousands of lights in Shandong. With the growth of trans-provincial and trans-regional transportation of clean energy, China's "abandonment of wind" and "abandonment of light" have improved significantly since this year. Take the data released by the State Grid Corporation on the 11th as an example. In the first quarter, the new energy generating capacity in the company's operating area reached 115.8 billion kilowatt hours, up 10% year on year. New energy power generation accounted for 9.1%, up 0.7 percentage points year on year. Waste electricity from new energy sources reached 4.66 billion kilowatt-hours, down 31% year-on-year. The electricity rejection rate was 3.9%, down 2.1 percentage points from the same period of last year, and maintained the good trend of "Shuang Sheng and Double Decline". According to Liu Jinsong, deputy director of the State Grid Development Department, in recent years, the State Grid has continued to strengthen the construction of new energy grid connection and transmission projects, and has built a number of long-distance ultra-high voltage transmission lines, further improving the power grid's ability to optimize the allocation of large-scale resources. At the same time, through continuously improving the real-time balance monitoring and dispatching of the power grid and continuously expanding the trading scale of the clean energy market, the clean energy consumption has achieved remarkable results. It is understood that the clean energy that needs to be absorbed at present is not only hydropower in the southwest region and large-scale photovoltaic and wind power installations in the "three northern" regions, but also distributed photovoltaic power generation across the country, especially photovoltaic poverty alleviation projects scattered among households in remote rural areas. By the end of 2018, the national grid had a cumulative grid-connected capacity of 47.01 million kilowatts of distributed photovoltaic power generation, an increase of 67% over the end of 2017. "It is suggested that all localities should reasonably determine the scale, layout and timing of clean energy construction in accordance with the consumption target and in combination with their own conditions and capabilities." Liu Jinsong said that although it is very difficult to absorb, power grid enterprises will continue to take more measures and improve the utilization rate of new energy. He said that in 2019, the State Grid will speed up the transmission of UHVDC from Zhangbei to Xiong 'an, Qinghai to Henan, Yazhong to Jiangxi, and northern Shaanxi to Wuhan. On April 12, the long-awaited photovoltaic policy was finally issued in the form of a draft for comments, which is undoubtedly a thirst-quenching rain for the photovoltaic industry that has been waiting for anxiety. I. sequence of project construction According to the draft, the 2019 affordable access project has the priority of construction, and regions that do not have the conditions to build affordable access projects will be included in the scope of state subsidies through competition according to the photovoltaic power generation competition method. Among them, the leading base, demonstration base and other separately competing projects are not subject to subsidy declaration and competitive ranking, and the on-line electricity price and corresponding subsidy standards determined by each project competition are implemented. II. Types of Subsidized Projects In 2019, subsidized projects are divided into photovoltaic poverty alleviation projects, household photovoltaic projects, ordinary photovoltaic power stations (with installed capacity of 6 MW or more, industrial and commercial distributed (various distributed photovoltaic projects other than household photovoltaic projects with local development, nearby utilization and single-point grid-connected installed capacity of less than 6 MW), special projects and demonstration projects organized by the state. These five types of projects divide up 3 billion subsidy cakes (the subsidies required for photovoltaic poverty alleviation projects are not within 3 billion). Of this amount, 750 million yuan will be used for household photovoltaic projects (equivalent to 3.5 million kilowatts) and 2.25 billion yuan will be used for subsidized bidding projects (excluding photovoltaic poverty alleviation) to organize project construction. III. Electricity Price Subsidy Since the National Development and Reform Commission has not yet issued a 2019 subsidy standard for photovoltaic power generation, the State Energy Administration has proposed a revised electricity price. According to the revised price quotation of the on-line electricity price for the subsidized items, the items to be included in the subsidy scope will be selected in descending order. According to the draft, ordinary photovoltaic power stations and full-scale online industrial and commercial distributed photovoltaic power generation projects: revised electricity price for Class II resource areas = reported electricity price -0.05 yuan/kWh, revised electricity price for Class III resource areas = reported electricity price -0.15 yuan/kWh. Distributed Photovoltaic Generation Projects for Self-Use and Surplus Electricity Online Industry and Commerce: Revised Electricity Price = Declared Electricity Price-Benchmark Electricity Price for Coal Burning in the Province +0.3 yuan/KWH. For projects where Benchmark Electricity Price for Coal Burning is less than 0.3 yuan/KWH, the Declared Electricity Price will not be revised. Shi jingli, a researcher and senior engineer at the renewable energy center of the energy research institute of the national development and reform Commission, said that under the mode of spontaneous self-use and surplus electricity connection, if subsidies are required, they will have to participate in bidding. if there is no electricity supply on the grid, the total electricity supply subsidy will be "the reported electricity supply price-coal burning". According to rough calculation, the surplus electricity grid connection mode adopts the weighted average method to declare the electricity price, which is more competitive than full grid connection, and also conforms to the principle of nearby settlement in the policy. In fact, the so-called full Or surplus electricity mode will not be treated separately in the national ranking in the declaration process. in the end, which mode to choose should be the lower declaration electricity price after the enterprise calculates its expected return rate. (全国脱硫煤电价数据来源：新能源投融资圈) According to the 2018 desulfurization coal electricity price table, the areas that are less than 0.3 yuan include Xinjiang, Inner Mongolia and Ningxia, which means that the electricity price subsidies in these three areas are mainly based on the declared electricity price. It should be noted that the declared electricity price is 0.1 per kilowatt-hour as the minimum quotation unit, which means that the declaration of electricity price can be accurate to 4 decimal places, requiring the owner to make careful calculations to avoid the loss of a single inch and the difference of thousands of miles. The revised projects with the same on-line electricity price will be ranked according to the installed capacity of each project from small to large. It can be said that under the same electricity price, the projects with smaller capacity have priority. The draft also opens a through train to owners who hold property rights in buildings and venues. These owners can directly apply for state subsidies for bidding through the provincial energy authorities during construction projects, without having to conduct bidding sequencing within the province. However, industrial and commercial projects and projects for which enterprises have already carried out preliminary work can also skip the bidding in the province after being confirmed by the local government and directly apply for state subsidy bidding through provincial departments. IV. Restrictions Monitoring and Evaluation Results of Photovoltaic Market New photovoltaic projects are strictly prohibited to be built first, and are subject to the market environment monitoring and evaluation results. For regions with red monitoring and evaluation results, no new projects will be arranged in principle, except for photovoltaic poverty alleviation projects, affordable online demonstration projects that have been arranged for construction, and projects that will be sent and received through trans-provincial and trans-regional transmission channels. Monitoring and Evaluation Results of 2018 Photovoltaic Power Generation Environment According to the monitoring and evaluation results of the photovoltaic market in 2018, Gansu and Xinjiang, which are in the first and second category resource areas, and Tibet, which is in the third category resource area, are still red. Among them, the newly-built photovoltaic power generation project in Tibet will be managed by the autonomous region according to the management requirements of the entire power consumption in the region, monitoring and early warning, etc. In areas with orange monitoring and evaluation results, new projects should be rationally regulated and controlled on the premise of putting forward effective measures to ensure the improvement of the market environment. Areas with green monitoring and evaluation results can push forward the project construction in an orderly manner on the basis of the implementation of the conditions for receiving the network. Clear construction period This draft strictly limits the time limit for grid connection. For projects that are included in the scope of national compensation, grid connection should be completed in full capacity before the end of the quarter in which they are expected to be put into production. If grid connection is not completed within the time limit, grid connection tariff subsidy will be reduced by 0.01 yuan/kwh for each quarter overdue. If the grid connection has not been completed within two quarters after the quarter where the application is put into production, the project subsidy qualification shall be cancelled, which shall be taken as an important factor for environmental monitoring and evaluation of photovoltaic power generation markets around the country and application for the next year. Obviously, if the project cannot be completed on schedule, the enterprise will not only be punished accordingly, but also the local government will be affected. If the monitoring and evaluation results in the region change from orange to red, or from green to orange, it will have an impact on the power station development in the region next year. At the same time, this provision also urges the local government to fulfill the spirit of the contract to a certain extent and to avoid the occurrence of temporary changes and land price hikes. Stock items that have been incorporated into the national scale For photovoltaic projects that have been started but have not been connected to the grid, those that cannot be fully connected to the grid by the end of 2019 will no longer be included in the scope of state subsidies. For projects that have not been connected to the grid, the deadline for completion of the connection is 2020. This includes the second phase of photovoltaic leading projects (Wuhai and Baotou). According to the data released by 22 provinces and autonomous regions, 7.82GW of projects have been put on record and have not been started on the national construction scale. Although this part of the project was encouraged to voluntarily switch to parity online in the previous PV parity online solicitation draft, in combination with the current road cost of the project and the settlement of the project's location, there are still some large-scale projects that will receive a share of the 2.25 billion yuan subsidy. V. Household Photovoltaic According to the draft, the total amount of household photovoltaic subsidies in 2019 will be 750 million yuan, with a scale of 3.5 million kilowatts. The household subsidy calculated by these two figures is: 0.2142 yuan. This is far from the 0.18 yuan that flowed out of previous symposiums. However, in fact, some people in the industry have neglected the calculation of the minimum guaranteed hours. The minimum hours for the two and three types of resource areas are 1100 and 1300 hours respectively. Source: Polaris Power Network - Chengtiantai Industrial Park, Jinjiao Industrial Zone, Lisonglang Community, Baoan District, Shenzhen
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These interactions are determined by the structure of the molecule, including the constituent atoms and the distances and angles between them. 179 B (9-12)) Carbon atoms can bond to one another in chains, rings, and branching networks to form a variety of structures, including synthetic polymers, oils, and the large molecules essential to life. 179 B (9-12). 154 B (5-8) If more than one force acts on an object along a straight line, then the forces will reinforce or cancel one another, depending on their direction and magnitude. Unbalanced forces will cause changes in the speed or direction of an object's motion. 154 B (5-8) Energy is a property of many substances and is associated with heat, light, electricity, mechanical motion, sound, nuclei, and the nature of a chemical. 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The genetic information stored in DNA is used to direct the synthesis of the thousands of proteins that each cell requires. 184 C (9-12) Cell functions are regulated. Regulation occurs both through changes in the activity of the functions performed by proteins and the selective expression of individual genes. This regulation allows cells to respond to their environment and to control and coordinate the synthesis and breakdown of specific molecules, cell growth and division. 184 C . 184 C (9-12). 184 C (9-12). 185 C (9-12). 185 C (9-12) Changes in DNA (mutations) occur spontaneously at low rates. Some of these changes make no difference to the organism, whereas others can change cells and organisms. Only mutations in germ cells can create the variation that changes an organism's offspring. 185 C (9-12). 185 C (9-12) Living systems at all levels of organization demonstrate the complementary nature of structure and function. 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Others are the result of damage by infection by other organisms. 157 C (5-8) Reproduction is a characteristic of all living systems; because no individual organism lives forever, reproduction is essential to the continuation of every species. Some organisms reproduce asexually. Other organisms reproduce sexually. 157 C (5-8) In many species, including humans, females produce eggs and males produce sperm. Plants also reproduce sexually--the egg and sperm are produced in the flowers of flowering plants. An egg and sperm unite to begin the development of a new individual. That new individual receives genetic information from its mother (via the egg) and its father (via the sperm). Sexually produced offspring never are identical to either of their parents. 157 C (5-8) Every organism requires a set of instructions for specifying its traits. Heredity is the passage of these instructions from one generation to another. 157 C (5-8). 157 C (5-8) Organisms have basic needs. For example, animals need air, water, and food; plants require air, water, nutrients, and light. Organisms can survive only in environments in which their needs can be met. The world has many different environments, and distinct environments support the life of different types of organisms. 129 C (K-4) Each plant or animal has different structures that serve different functions in growth, survival, and reproduction. For example, humans have distinct body structures for walking, holding, seeing, and talking. 129 C (K-4) The behavior of individual organisms is influenced by internal cues (such as hunger) and by external cues (such as a change in the environment). Humans and other organisms have senses that help them detect internal and external cues. 129 C (K-4) Plants and animals have life cycles that include being born, developing into adults, reproducing, and eventually dying. 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Humans change environments in ways that can either be beneficial or detrimental for themselves and other organisms. 129 C (K-4). 189 D (9-12) Heating of earth's surface and atmosphere by the sun drives convection within the atmosphere and oceans, producing winds and ocean currents. 189 D (9-12) Global climate is determined by energy transfer from the sun at and near the earth's surface. This energy transfer is influenced by dynamic processes such as cloud cover and the earth's rotation, and static conditions such as the position of mountain ranges and oceans. 189 D (9-12) The earth is a system containing essentially a fixed amount of each stable chemical atom or element. Each element can exist in several different chemical reservoirs. 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Constructive forces include crustal deformation, volcanic eruption, and deposition of sediment, while destructive forces include weathering and erosion. 160 D (5-8) Some changes in the solid earth can be described as the 'rock) Soil consists of weathered rocks, decomposed organic material from dead plants, animals, and bacteria. Soils are often found in layers, with each having a different chemical composition and texture. 160 D (5-8). 160 D (5-8) Water is a solvent. As it passes through the water cycle it dissolves minerals and gases and carries them to the oceans. The atmosphere is a mixture of nitrogen, oxygen, and trace gases that include water vapor. The atmosphere has different properties at different elevations. 160 D (5-8) Earth materials are solid rocks and soils, water, and the gases of the atmosphere. These varied materials have different physical and chemical properties, which make them useful in different ways, for example, as building materials, as sources of fuel, or for growing the plants we use as food. Earth materials provide many of the resources that humans use. 134 D (K-4) Soils have properties of color and texture, capacity to retain water, and ability to support the growth of many kinds of plants, including those in our food supply. 134 D (K-4) Fossils provide evidence about the plants and animals that lived long ago and nature of the environment at that time. 134 D (K-4) The sun, moon, stars, clouds, birds, and airplanes all have properties, locations, and movements that can be observed and described. 134 D (K-4) The sun provides the light and heat necessary to maintain the temperature of the earth. 134 D (K-4) The surface of the earth changes. 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What drives SHINee’s Taemin to remain a “Genius of Hard Work” – Behind the Budokan stage where he showed his true worth \| Model Press Interview [Part 1] [Taemin / Model Press = November 1st] Taemin (24), a member of boy group • SHINee, who made his Japanese solo debut last July. Growing from a cute young boy into a matured man brimming with sex appeal, and continually captivating his fans with amazing performances, he is of course [acknowledged] for his innate talents but is at times called a “Genius of Hard Work.” About his Nippon Budokan solo stage in July which showed the true value of “artist Taemin” and deeply impressed audience. And also about his Japanese drama which most likely was a new surprise (discovery) for the fans. He talked about his reasons for deliberately choosing a “super busy” path at model press interview. Taemin appeared to the interview room chatting with the staff(s). He was extremely busy having come to Japan from Korea after finishing filming a program that extended past midnight, but he greeted us with his [sweet] smile as usual. ― I heard that you arrived in Japan this morning. Taemin: Yes. The variety program filming lasted until late [at night] so I organized my belongings right after getting home, then I got on the plane after sleeping for about an hour. ― Thank you so much for your time despite your busy [schedule]. Taemin: Not at all. I just arrived from Korea so I’m sorry if my Japanese is a little weird (off) (laughs). I personally volunteered to “be busy this year” ― Then I will begin by asking about the Budokan [stage] in July first. It was a dense hour and a half that condensed Taemin(-san)’s world-view, I was deeply impressed. Taemin: Thank you. ― I was told that you prepared within a very limited amount of time. What was your schedule specifically like during the months leading up to the concert? Taemin: It really went by in a flash. SHINee activities, the drama shooting, and preparation for my Korean solo album…they all started together. I prepared while feeling the pressure of possibly not making it in time for Budokan, which was my first first solo stage. As expected, I do feel that I was a little short on time, but I feel relieved now after finishing it without any trouble. ― Didn’t you feel disarrayed with jobs in various genres starting all at once? Taemin: I told the staffs this year that “I’m okay even if I’m really busy.” I think I’m currently in a [state] where I’m the most excited and have the most energy so I thought if it’s not now, physically, I won’t be able to do it [in the future]. ― You’re still so young yet you already feel such a sense of urgency. Taemin: I wanted to do what I can while I can. I thought that I wanted to try my best. A stage that was completed by digging deep into “Taemin’s Identity” ― The show had 13 songs including the encore; the staging (production) was quite elaborate for each song. You also said during the MC that “I had a hard time choosing because there was so much I wanted to do,” what were your thoughts leading up to the day [of the concert]? Taemin: First, even I wasn’t sure of how my color or image would turn out; so in a sense, as a way of introducing myself, I wanted to show a new (unprecedented) image as Taemin, a single individual, rather than as SHINee’s Taemin. When I thought that, there was so much I wanted to challenge. For example, for the song “I’m Crying,” the dancers are dancing and acting as if they’re in a musical; I tried to create a stage where even I, the person singing amidst all this can concentrate in its world-view. I also veiled my face with the outfit’s hood(ie) so [the audience] could better conceive the emotions in the song. ― You really put together (The stage was put together) really delicately. Taemin: I didn’t want to do something ordinary. I wanted create things no one had ever challenged before, things people haven’t really seen before in my own way. I prepared with giving it a lot of thought[]. [] giving it a lot of thought: having a hard time deciding, mulling over choices ― It takes heart to send out a new image to the world, you might have worries like “I wonder how people will respond?” Taemin: You’re right. Of course I do think that you need courage but I’ve been doing this challenge of changing my hairstyle many times when promoting as SHINee in Korea so…(laughs). ― That’s where [you point to] (laughs). [] [] As in “of all things you could have mentioned, you use changing your color as an example” Taemin: So I think there’s a part of me that’s used to (changing my image) (laughs). ― That was an unexpected point [you brought up] (laughs). Despite having the choice to have fun together with the fans at close distance, the constitution this time was one with a story and coherence as one show. I believed that this too was a huge challenge. Taemin: Right. Of course I thought that it was important for many people to sympathize (to connect with the audience) even more so because it was my first stage, but more than that, I fixated first on showing Taemin the person distinctly in a relatively short amount of time. I did think, “I wonder if it was better if there were more songs where [I] could connect [with the audience]” ― No, it was very beautiful. Singing “Itsuka Kokode” with the piano at the end, you finished [the show] leaving a lingering feeling (afterglow). Taemin: That was also my idea. ― Purposely leaving out the MC, it was really beautiful how you ended in a way that stirred our imaginations. Do you have songs that you’re especially deeply attached to? Taemin: “Itsuka Kokode” and “I’m Crying.” “DOOR” is also cool but the ballads that I sing while focusing on my own emotions are memorable (remains the most vivid in my memory). Singing while playing the piano was a huge challenge for me. I wasn’t very good at it actually. My skills on the piano is still lacking so I couldn’t focus on singing. How can I do it well during the concert…I prepared feeling really pressured, but I finished it without problems. It became a challenge that I succeeded in for me. ― That’s going to give you a lot of [self-]confidence. Taemin: Yes. I think I’ll be able to sing a lot more [] while playing the piano from now on! (laughs) [] more often ― Did you practice the piano until the last minute? Taemin: Yes. Really, until the very last minute. ― That means the most nerve-wracking time was waiting for you for the climax. Taemin: Right. Dancing and singing is something I can manage so long as I have energy but it doesn’t go that way with the piano. ― It requires a different skill. Taemin: Since I have to pay attention to the small details. ― For “DOOR” you were bound by ropes and bandages, it was a stimulating (exciting) stage. Taemin: “DOOR” was also a challenge. I think the presentation of the choreography that Nakasone Rino-san made was wonderful. She guided me so that I could express to the detailed parts [of the choreography]. ― How was the Budokan stage surrounded by the audience 360°? Taemin: It really makes me lose track of where I am! At first, we put “North” and “South” labels but once the [song] starts I don’t have time to look at them (laughs) ― Was that something you didn’t expect during your preparation period? Taemin: If I include [my activities] in Korea, it’s been about 10 years so I thought that if I tried the 360° stage, I would be able to do it right away (laughs). But when I actually [performed on the 360 stage] it was a bit difficult. There’s no reference so I would gradually but steadily go out of position (laughs). This was especially the case with “Sayonara Hitori.” ― It[] also became a new asset for you on stage then. Choreographer Sugawara Koharu, whom you worked together for “Sayonara Hitori” “Flame of Love” and your newest release in Korea, “MOVE” said on her radio program that there was a period when you were feeling down struggling with the mental pressure/burden while preparing for Budokan. Did you talk to her about your problems? [] It: his experience in performing on a 360 stage Taemin: Right. She’s really kind and she would notice right away when I’m troubled / fraught. It’s hard for me to constantly stay happy so at times I would become sad and feel stressed but when that happened, Koharu-san showed me videos of my favorite [artist] Michael Jackson[] and cheered me up. Casual words like “Do your best” also gives me a lot of strength. She’s someone I respect, of course in regards to dancing but also as a person. [] It’s actually written “videos of Michael Jackson whom/that I like” My motivation is “myself,” I want to come through every challenge[] and grow [] all sorts of ― After [completing] this Budokan, do you have any goals for the future[]? [] Goals: challenge, tasks Taemin: So I could have more stamina to spare (reserve stamina)[]; it would be nice to ease on dancing, and take the balance towards singing. [] Sorry I can’t come up with a good phrasing for this. He means that he doesn’t want to constantly be at his limit physically when performing. (I’m guessing it’s to give him more room to concentrate on other things so he isn’t as preoccupied on just pushing through a performance) ― If you were to give a score to this concert (Budokan)? Taemin: Eh, is 100 points the full score? ― Please go with that! Taemin:…Hmmm, it’s hard to give a score after all. ― Is it hard to express it in a number? Taemin: It’s really difficult! It’s just that, it’s always the same after finishing a concert but I’m always left with more desire than happiness. ― Like, “I want to do more next time!” Taemin: Yes, that’s right. ― Seeing your concert this time around, the fans were also saying, “Taemin is a genius of hard work” Taemin: No no…. ― It was a stage where we felt that strongly but where does your motivation (strength/drive) to constantly work hard in order to grow come from? Taemin: Hmmm…. I think I’m influenced by various things. For example, like developing your emotions and imagination by watching movies and seeing sceneries is one of them but I think it’s important to build experience outside of practice. I’m someone who regards both as important (treasures both). ― So [it’s important to] balance your ‘on and off’ (work and personal life)? Taemin: Yes. I don’t know exactly know why but when I take a short break from practicing dance and watch various videos, then practice again, there really are times when I improve even more. ― What’s your greatest motivation for you recently? Taemin: Recently, myself. Really! ― You are your own motivation. Taemin: Recently, I’m attempting various things in both Japan and Korea but I want overcome them and continue being “me” (someone) who grows even more. Should I say “myself” who’s grown more than myself from yesterday – a new “me”. It’s hard to put it in words…. Please help me! (and he seeks help from his manager) Everyone: (laughs) ― It’s fine, we all understand you! In Taemin-san’s case, is there an aspect where you grow as you draw in (engulf / involve / swallow up) everyone else around you? Taemin: I haven’t grown to that extent. When I see TVXQ-senpai, I understand exactly what that (“to engulf everyone”) means but I think I still have long way to go. ― I think it means… that people are struck seeing Taemin-san work hard, and are moved (to action) Taemin: I think it will still take me a long time to be like senpai (TVXQ) but..I would like to continue to grow.
Little is spared in Grand Theft Auto V’s toxic take on contemporary American culture, but it saves its most poisonous barbs for the movie industry. Vinewood, the game’s fictional version of Hollywood, is a world of washed-up stars and paunchy producers pumping out products that don’t matter for an adolescent audience that doesn’t care. It’s a display of a deep seated conflict between the gaming and movie industries, which have long eyed each other with fear, envy and disdain. GTA, like many videogame franchises, yearns to kill Hollywood, but cannot shake the influence of the cinema on its storytelling and presentation. Dan and Sam Houser, the Scottish brothers behind the GTA juggernaut, founded Rockstar in the late 1990s with the goal of creating a boutique games studio with the nonchalant cool of a New Line Studios or a Def Jam Records. Born into a showbiz family — Michael Caine drowned their actress mother Geraldine Moffat in the 1970s British gangster film Get Carter — the Housers initially had stars in their eyes. They courted Hollywood talent for GTA III, their breakthrough game, securing voice performances from the likes of Michael Madsen, Joe Pantoliano and Kyle MacLachlan. Follow-up Vice City upped the ante with voice acting from Ray Liotta, Tom Sizemore, Robert Davi, Dennis Hopper and Burt Reynolds. As documented in Jamie Russell’s Generation Xbox: How Videogames Invaded Hollywood – an essential read for anyone who wants to understand today’s mainstream games and movies – the Housers’ love affair with Hollywood went sour fast. The brothers soon tired of the egos and demands of their celebrity voice actors, grew disillusioned with their blank incomprehension of gaming as a medium and their lazy, uninspired performances. They lost patience with Hollywood completely when Ray Liotta suggested that he deserved a bigger slice of Vice City’s profits for providing his voice to the player character. HOW IT SCORES Graphics: 9/10 Rockstar has done an incredible job of rendering the massive, detailed world of Los Santos with ageing hardware. Sure, there are some issues with frame rates and draw distances, but they’re forgivable given the scope of the game. Sound: 9/10 Voice acting is mostly great – especially the three leads – and the atmospheric score is superb. As is customary, Rockstar offers an expertly curated selection of radio stations representing a wide range of genres. Gameplay: 9/10 Like most open-world games, GTA V is a jack of all trades rather than the best at anything it does. But the sheer variety of things to do and the emergent possibilities they offer mean that it’s hard to be bored in Los Santos. Shooting, flying, driving, side activities, mission design and checkpoints are all much improved over earlier GTA titles. Value: 10/10 The story mode alone will take 25 hours or more to get through; then, there’s dozens of activities and side missions to complete. Online multiplayer will launch on 1 October. You could still be playing this when the PS4 launches in South Africa in December. Overall: 9/10 GTA V is a stunning accomplishment, even with its narrative missteps and lack of innovation. Generous in content, technically impressive and enormous fun to play, the game is one of the major achievements of this console generation. Since then, “destroy Hollywood” has become something of a mission statement for Rockstar. “We see games as being an emergent art form that will eventually supplant or challenge movies,” said Dan Houser in 2008, around the time that GTA IV launched. It is telling that GTA IV used mostly unknown actors for performance capture, completely bypassing the Hollywood system. GTA V, again, has few names among its cast. Part of the reason for this is that the business has changed. With the shift to high-definition visuals with the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360, games studios have shifted from voice recording to full-performance capture. The costs of Hollywood talent for this demanding and time-consuming process would be prohibitive. But for Rockstar, it’s as much about sticking it to the movies by proving that games are bigger, better and more culturally relevant. The arrogance seems hollow and misplaced. GTA V is a terrific game, one of the best of the year, but as a piece of storytelling it is mediocre. I hope critic Adam Sessler was kidding when he compared it to Charles Dickens in scope and importance, because it’s not even close. The universal praise for GTA V as an open game world made up of a set of interlocking gaming systems and mechanics is well deserved. The game draws on everything that Rockstar has learnt from GTA IV, Red Dead Redemption and Max Payne 3, honing its gameplay to a fine point. Los Santos and surrounds (a spoof of greater Los Angeles) are filled with entertaining and offbeat things to do in a richly realised world. Sure, the design is deeply conservative — with a $260m budget at stake, the Housers take no real creative risks — but the little emergent moments of gameplay are still as special as ever. A random encounter with a stranger can turn into a town-wrecking rampage that draws the attention of the cops, forcing you into a downtown high-speed chase choreographed by Britney Spears on the radio. When you shake the cops, you can end your day of mayhem with a quick look at your stock portfolio and do some yoga as a nuclear sun sets over the Vinewood sign. Namaste. Many of these moments are straight out of the movies, except they’re happening to you. The game’s major story missions — a series of high-stakes heists — play like the white-knuckle action sequences in a Michael Mann movie. They’re exciting and involving. But the cinematic cut scenes that tie the story together are like a C-grade gangster movie. The better technology at its disposal becomes, the more slavishly Rockstar tries to imitate the Hollywood it claims to despise. And the more the presentation leans on Hollywood realism, the more jarring Rockstar’s lack of narrative sophistication. But the writing isn’t quite good enough to transform the game from a cartoonish carnage simulator into a work of narrative art. The game focuses on three protagonists that the player can switch between playing at will. There’s Michael, a retired bank robber with a shrewish wife and brattish teenage kids; his former partner in crime, the meth-cooking psychopath Trevor; and his protégé, a young hoodlum called Franklin. It’s a misguided attempt to make a crime saga as sprawling, serious and ambitious as The Wire, The Sopranos or The Godfather. The cut scenes that link the intersecting stories of the three characters are full of leaden exposition, mind-numbing shouting, and inexplicable, out-of-character behaviour. The moments where they reach for drama or social commentary are the ones where GTA V is at its most dull and unpleasant. The game goes through the motions of copying Scorsese and Coppola, but the nihilism and clichés make it feel like an empty imitation. In a year where we have seen some real strides taken in videogame narration — the unity of meaning and mechanism in Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons, the unsettling mix of lyricism and terror in The Last of Us, the gentle exploration of quotidian life in games like Gone Home — GTA V feels like it is lagging the pack. Surely the answer is to be less like the movies rather than more like them? The short but colourful vignettes where bug-eyed psychopaths and heavy-set mobsters gave the protagonists in GTA III and Vice City their mission briefings were as much narrative context as GTA ever needed. Trevor, a dervish of id energy, is the most fun to play of the three characters simply because he harks back to the cheerful anarchism of the older games. Steve Ogg’s delightfully over-the-top voice acting make it clear that the game isn’t to be taken seriously, even if Trevor is a jerk. Meanwhile, the edginess of the humour has become blunted over the years. The satire conveyed through the in-game websites, TV channels and radio stations tilts at obvious targets. Reality TV is vapid, psychotherapy is narcissistic, 50 Shades of Grey is for bored housewives, hipsters are annoying, and social media companies steal your data. You don’t say? The biggest irony is that GTA V jokes about the death of cinema as relevant medium, oblivious to the fact that it, too, is an expression of an art form that is in decline. Despite GTA V’s record-breaking take of $800m on its first day, the super blockbuster videogame is in big trouble. Like recent box-office smashes — say, The Avengers or The Dark Knight Rises — GTA V is an outlier in its industry. GTA V trailer (via YouTube): There are many reasons for GTA V’s success. Not least of them is that it has been a full five years since a full new console release in the franchise. But most other triple-A games will not make nearly as much money and a significant number will not break even. Bloated production budgets mean that even multimillion-sellers like Tomb Raider are not profitable enough. As a new console generation dawns, the traditional gaming industry faces hard questions about how to retain and expand its audience in the face of competition from mobile devices and snack-sized gaming. Mobile games like Angry Birds are grabbing the mass audience and indie games like Journey are getting the artistic currency. Some – Minecraft, for example — are getting both. Sony and Microsoft are looking to indies and free-to-play as major pillars of their next-generation strategies. Then, there’s Rockstar — like Michael, a rich, middle-aged hell raiser — selling an expensive fantasy to a passionate but fickle audience that skews young and male. The game developer is no longer a rude upstart challenging a staid entertainment industry. It is as much a part of the establishment as Warner Brothers or Marvel Studios. It makes great products, but it is no longer at the cutting edge of its medium. — (c) 2013 NewsCentral Media - Reviewed on PlayStation 3 — also available on Xbox 360 - Read more: A letter to Niko Bellic about Grand Theft Auto V
American cars tend to have changed the way we look at cars these days!.. A few decades after, the Dodge Charger cemented its position and became one of the most popular made-in-America cars to stand on four wheels. Bruce Willis was gifted one of these cars by his ex-wife, Demi Moore. He went on to sell the car to the lead singer of Jamiroquai, the well-known British band. 15. Pontiac Firebird Trans AM Model Years: 1967-2002 Estimated Price: $16,000 Pontiac Firebird Trans AM, a distinctive car with a long hood that looks like that of the Chevrolet Camaro, was released in 1967 to compete with the Mercury Cougar and Dodge Challenger. The manufacturers incorporated rear “slit” taillights into the car, probably after they had carefully considered the Pontiac GTO. This made-in-America car was not the most popular car of its era but it plays a pivotal role in the development of modern-day supercars. A Firebird will cost you just $16,000 and, if you’re lucky enough, it will be a model made after 1973. Firebird models made after 1973 come with iconic ‘Screaming Chicken’ feature, which you will really admire. 14. Chevrolet Corvette Model Years: 1953-1982; 1984-Present Estimated Price: $35,000 Chevrolet Corvette, a car considered as a cultural icon among many U.S. residents, arrived in the automobile marketplace in 1953. Its impressive specs and stylish interior has made the car a must-have for everyone. Corvettes are still in production and they aren’t cars for your day-to-day family runarounds since an average model of this luxurious car could cost you $35,000. And, corvettes may triple this amount, but this depends on the year of the model you’re opting for. Like the 70’s C3 which was dubbed a dud, some versions of the Chevrolet Corvette didn’t enjoy wide acceptance. But, up to date, many car enthusiasts still rank the C2 Sting Rays high in the list of the finest vehicular craftsmanship ever seen! 13. Ford Model 18 Model Years: 1932 Estimated Price: $58,000 Ford, in a bid to stay on top of the game, introduced its Model 18 V8 in 1932, despite the fact that not many cars were on the market then. The model was lovely to look at, and it was extremely customizable. The vehicle came in a variety of body styles and trims, and buyers had the freedom to choose the ones they admired. An average Model 18 will cost you about $58,000 but you may have to cough $75,000 or more for superior models placed on auction. In the early days of motoring, as many people have pointed out, these vehicles demonstrated Ford’s dedication to perfection. 12. Duesenberg Model SJ Model Years: 1932-1935 Estimated Price: $1,044,000 Duesenberg Model SJ, an expensive car in the twenties, went on to become prime examples of classic vehicles that are extremely expensive and hard to see few decades after its debut in 1932. These slick cars were designed exclusively for the filthy rich since they were introduced during the Great Depression. Reputed as the ultimate supercar of the thirties, Model SJ came with twin-cam, four valves per cylinder, and supercharged engines. Only 36 cars of this model were made, and one may cost you millions at auction. One Model SJ in good condition could cost you 2 million dollars or more. 11. Jeep Cherokee Model Years: 1974-Present Estimated Price: $15,000 Jeep remains a popular name in motoring. Cherokee, a vehicle mostly designed for rough terrains, started as a full-size SUV but later evolved into a compact version. Today, the vehicle exists as a crossover SUV but should not be confused as the Jeep Grand Cherokee. While the 1974 version of the car could sell as little as $5,000, modern or customized models command an average price of $15,000. Both models are good for family living, and you’ll surely enjoy them. 10. Ford F-Series Pickup Model Years: 1948-Present Estimated Price: $28,000 Pickup trucks are widely known for their ability to ferry or carry loads from one destination to another and they are good working vehicles. Having hit the market in 1947, this Ford F-Series became more popular over the years. And from 1977 to date, Ford F-Series remains the best-selling vehicle of its kind in America. Ford F-Series Pickup has been in continuous production since its debut in 1947, and each version comes out better than the previous one. Apparently, this is why the automobile company continues to generate annual revenue of $41 billion on this model. In addition to their practical nature, F-Series pickups come with high specs. 9. Jeep MB Model Years: 1941-1945 Estimated Price: $25,000 Jeep MB, a powerful car used to secure victory against the Nazis in World War II, is truly a special vehicle. During the clash, the Allied troops had over 700,000 of these Jeep. This gave them a mobility edge and a much-needed advantage. For this vehicle, no terrain was too rough and no battle was too fierce. This made Jeep MB a historical sort of vehicle and, after the war was won, the car became the choice of many families and car lovers around the world. Today, this vehicle is more used in fishing trips than armed conflicts. 8. Cadillac Eldorado Model Years: 1953-2002 Estimated Price: $17,000 Dark Knight, Batman, and a few cool guys have been pictured at the wheels of Cadillac cars. This model has an elongated body, which is actually its trademark, and it is more visible on the Eldorado. Its impressive grill and unmistakable bodywork made the model the pinnacle of luxury, as well as a staple of the rock and roll era back then in 1953. For fifty years, Eldorado remained in production due to its comfortable, uniquely shaped low ride, and buckets of attitude on the road. But, unfortunately, the vehicles are not being manufactured again. 7. Chevrolet Camaro Model Years: 1967-2002; 2010-Present Estimated Price: $42,000 Most lovers of Ford in the U.S. opt for Chevrolet, and the Camaro is really a lovely car to behold. It gained a solid fan base in no distant time when it was released in 1967. Chevrolet Camaro is reputed for its smooth handling, which is better than other cars of its kind. With its six-cylinder fawned-over engine, more people continue to fancy this car. You may have to cough out about $25,900 for the cheapest Camaro on the market and park-up elite versions could be up to $67,000. On the average, be ready to part with $42,000 for this vehicle whose body is as strong as a slice of metal. 6. Ford Model T Model Years: 1908-1927 Estimated Price: $19,000 Ford’s Model T seemed to be where Henry began as a motoring giant. Although the car did not come with bells and whistles we now love and cherish, it was the first most affordable vehicle in the world. It helped shaped the landscape of modern America. During its 19-year production span, Ford successfully made 15 million cars of this simple and incredible model, and more people could travel to work or see their relatives more often than before. The importance of this Model T cannot be underestimated, although the cars may look less attractive than what we have now. 5. Ford Mustang Model Years: 1965-Present Estimated Price: $35,000 Ford Mustang, a car model that holds much cultural significance to the Americans, may be likened to the significance of Bruce Springsteen to The Boss, American music. In its first 18 months on the market, over 1 million vehicles were sold, and it dawned on everyone that Ford was going to make another huge motoring impact. Baby boomers seemed to be the original prime target until the Ford Mustang broadened its reach a few years after, and it became the choice of both old or young, as well as rich or poor people. This powerful, stylish, and undeniably cool model has remained the apple of America’s eye, and it goes for an average price of $35,000. But, what you pay will be determined by the year of the model you’re opting for. 4. Ford GT Model Years: 2005; 2017-Present Estimated Price: $300,000 Ford GT, a sports car that was released in 2005 to mark Ford’s centenary, has appeared in many video games to entertain enthusiasts, but that’s what the car does in real life. GT40, its predecessor got high patronage when it made its way into the market, and there was already a market hype when Ford GT made its debut. And, it hit the market when it was reintroduced in 2017. Its 2005 model had an average price of $300,000 while its latest version is pegged at $500,000. Ford GT is surely the dream of everyone who loves cars but only a few would ever own one. 3. Cadillac Type 51 Model Years: 1915 Estimated Price: Unknown The majority of people were getting around on foot or by a horse when this car was manufactured in 1915. And, since only a very few numbers of people knew how to drive then, the most fortunate individuals who owned a Cadillac Type 51 had to look for a chauffeur to drive them. And, as the years passed, other types of the car such as Types 53, 55, 57, 59, and 61 were made. Finding these cars in the modern age is a difficult task. So, there is no way one can pin down the average price of this car. But, when these cars hit the market for the first time, they sold for $5,190, an amount that could be up to $129,000 today. 2.Tesla Model S Model Years: 2012-Present Estimated Price: $81,000 Tesla Model S, an all-electric five-door lift-back sedan which was conceived in 2012, comes with exceedingly impressive attributes and it is very modern, more than most of the cars we have already seen. Designed as an autonomous driving car, Tesla Model S can operate without the driver’s assistance. Also, its Enhanced Summon means that the vehicle could drive itself to you, even when there is no one behind its wheel. What’s more, you need in a modern car? Tesla Model S used to be the car everyone dreamed about but no one thought was ever possible! Newer models of this modern car cost just $81,000 and going by the car’s impressive specs, that’s a great deal. 1. Ford F-150 Model Years: 1997-Present Estimated Price: $20,000 Ford manufactured this Ford-150 pickup to keep buyers interested in its F-Series cars. Ford’s intention was to design a pickup truck that would be more leisure orientated, not work orientated. So, the automobile company came up with the F-150. Being an improvement on previous models, the F-150 truck is designed to have a much sleeker and streamlined body. And, going by the designs of this model, F-150 was a style overhaul and it proved that pickups shouldn’t just be for work alone. Just as this Ford F-150 can be used in a building yard, it can also be used at home on a date. Ford was able to prove that this model is good for play, not just for work!
Valore della struttura 24 Recensioni 3,0 su novembre 19, 2014 We had a good time! :-) The cottage is decorated with all sorts of interesting things. 5 su settembre 01, 2014 Gee Vic! Don't know why our review wasn't a 5 star !!! We stayed there Feb. 3th, 2012---Was wonderful as I said. Please feel free to change our rating to "top-notch" with a high 5 !!! Thx, Chris Heermans Risposta del proprietario Thank-you for updating your review! 4,4 su ottobre 07, 2013 I surprised my husband with a weekend away at the Cottage. What a treat! We had such a relaxing time away from our busy life at home. The owner, Vic, was great to work with. He even came down one afternoon to check on us and make sure there was nothing we needed. He shared stories with us about the history of the property. The cabin itself is quaint and quiet. 5 su luglio 29, 2013 My wife wanted to surprise me with a getaway for an early celebration of our 31st anniversary. I travel up to 40 weeks a year, so another trip wasn't high on my list. Trusting her reliable instincts, I hopped in the car for the easy 80 mile trip East of Dallas. It might as well as been 10,000 miles and a few decades to end up at The Cottage at Homestead Farms. Vic has recreated a idyllic set with all the pleasures of simple living. No rush to do every activity, or see every site, but rather just relish the simple pleasure of honest relaxation. 4,8 su giugno 19, 2013 I loved the remote feeling of this property, yet close to town. The birdwatching is exceptional and a pleasant surprise was the screened in porch--outdoors but no mosquitoes! The bedroom was very comfortable and the nice oscillating fan was a great touch. The directions from the owners were helpful and the communication was excellent. Highly recommended--and I will return! 5 su gennaio 28, 2013 Didn't do the breakfast so didn't rate "dining" but host offered to clean the fish he had caught for us okay so had to rate dining and rated it high because there was everything we needed at the cabin including fresh herbs 3,2 su agosto 06, 2012 My husband and I enjoyed spending our 33rd wedding anniversary at the Cottage at Homestead Farms. We found it very quiet and relaxing. The Cottage decor was great, country living combined with outdoor theme. We recommend it if you are looking for a quiet place in the woods. It is located near the quaint town of Mineola TX where you will find antique shops, and other quaint shops. If you are looking for a good place to eat dinner on a Friday or Saturday night be sure to eat at Kitchens . 4,6 su agosto 06, 2012 Great, little cottage that worked well for stay by my husband, me, and our 2 year old son -- our son loved being outside, could make noise and no worries about neighbors. 5 su aprile 26, 2012 The Cottage was one of the most relaxing stays that my wife and I have had in a long time. We usually try to stay at a B&B as apposed to a hotel and this was great. We spent the weekend doing a whole lot of nothing. 5 su marzo 21, 2012 If your looking for a private,quiet,peaceful place to stay near lake fork,this is it.This place takes you back in time from the old buildings to the antique decorations.Awsome place.Owners are very friendly and hospitable.A must stay.Enjoyed very much.Will return again. 5 su marzo 19, 2012 My girl friends and I spent the weekend at the cottage. It is a great location for a day trip to Canton trade days. The house is very clean, well equipped and cozy. I highly recommend it. If you have four girl friends who will split the cost you can't beat it. We had a wonderful time and plan on making it an annual trip. 4,0 su febbraio 13, 2012 There were four of us....Two from Dallas, one from Fort Worth and the other from Shreveport. Four gals who needed a break and wanted to spend some quality time together. This was perfect! The privacy a bed and breakfast can't give, with all the amenities of proper cabin living. This adorable, cozy, comfy "little house in the woods" is THE girls wkend out! Vic is a gracious host--he will tell you in a jif how to make the heater work--call him right away!---and his desire was to make sure we had what we needed. Am afraid to tell our friends how fabulous it is, cuz we won't get it ever again! Great little get away for a couples weekend too--so grab your hubbys and enjoy---or---just you and the girls again! Fabuloso! Thanks, Vic! 4,4 su gennaio 11, 2012 We enjoyed a refreshing stay on the beautiful country property at Homestead Farms. The Cottage, down to the smallest detail, is very thoughtfully furnished in old East Texas decor. Taking walks throughout the property was another highlight of our stay, as well as enjoying the outdoors from the screened in porch. It was a superb get-away. Risposta del proprietario Thank-you for your comments! The weather has been wonderful so far this winter and the mild temperatures have made the screened porch very enjoyable. We have been clearing brush around the property and each week the view of the acreage from the screened porch seems to get better and better. Thanks again for staying with us and we hope you will return soon. 5 su gennaio 04, 2012 We thoroughly enjoyed our stay at The Cottage at Homestead Farms. It truly felt like a home away from home. So much care has been taken in making this into a great place to visit, and it really shows! The cottage has been decorated with impeccable attention to detail, with nothing overlooked. The furniture and beds are incredibly comfortable, and we really enjoyed relaxing on the screened in porch off the bedroom. This was the perfect escape from the city. Vic is an outstanding host, and we will definitely be back! 4,2 su dicembre 12, 2011 We thouroughly enjoyed our week's stay at the Cottage, we were blessed to see a beautiful owl, baby calves, fox and many birds. We loved the 40's atmosphere of the large kitchen. We were planning a trip to Hopkins County for a genealogy explore, but did not leave...it was too restful! The host was more than accommodating and his addition of history and suggestions made our stay even more enhansed.We definately recommend this Cottage for a 'break from the world'. 5 su dicembre 08, 2011 My husband and I enjoyed our stay at the Homestead Cottage very much. This is the place to visit if you need to escape the rigors of the big city life or just need a place to getaway. The beds are so comfortable! Everything you need is here or near. Thank you, Vic for all the fresh veggies and for the beef. It was delicious!! Thank you for sharing your beautiful cottage and property with us. We had a great time! The Henderson's 4,0 su agosto 26, 2011 I can wholeheartedly recommend The Cottage at Homestead Farms! My husband and I recently stayed for an extended weekend (Aug. 12-14 2011) It is a great place to sit, relax and read especially on the screened in porch, we were even lucky enough to get a rain shower on our visit! The house and property has so much charm and character tucked away under a canopy of beautiful old trees and is beautifully restored and maintained. The "cook yourself" breakfast which consist of free-range eggs, ham, muffins, juice etc. is awesome and promptly delivered by Vic who is a great host and really knows how to make someone feel at home, be sure and have him tell you the history of the property. If you so choose plenty of amenities and activities right down the road in Mineola. Check out the Gator Farm in Grand Saline very interesting! Treat your sweetheart to a relaxing stay here. Plan to be back in the Fall!! Thanks for the great time Vic you've got a GEM!! The Dukes 5 su luglio 03, 2011 The Cottage was clean, well-furnished, quiet, far enough from 'the hustle and bustle' to be restful, close enough for convenience's sake to restaurants, etc. in the area. Vic Savelli was a wonderful host .. checked us in and was around when we left .. sold us some extra beef for breakfast and frozen meat to take home with us .. took us on a guided tour of the property and let us fish several tanks (I should make it clear that was not a part of the package offered .. he was around and graciously offered when I told him it was something I enjoyed) .. exactly as advertised ... looking forward to getting away again sometime ... Risposta del proprietario Thank-you for your review! We are so pleased that your stay with us met your expecations. If we ever get some rain out here we will have a nice new lake for fishing - we are doing rain dances daily with no results yet. 5 su maggio 17, 2011 Our experience was great. Clean and cute place to spend time relaxing with family. 5 su aprile 11, 2011 I love the decorations in the cabin -- it's modern, yet historic. It's like living in a comfortable home a hundred years ago -- but with all the common features. Love the woods and cows!! Thanks. 5 su aprile 04, 2011 The cottage was charming with everything needed for a comfortable stay. Care was taken in providing high quality sheets and a modern bathroom. We enjoyed extra touches like fresh flowers and snacks. I highly recomend the optional breakfast. The Cajun resturant near the Cottage is fantastic! In our busy life it was nice to drink coffee on the screened porch and watch the sun rise. 4,8 su marzo 31, 2011 This is a unique farm on on a big piece of property, that makes you feel like you have stepped back in time. The house has been updated, but it still feels like an old farmstead. Loved the way it was decorated-really cool, relaxing house. We enjoyed the back screened porch off the bedroom that overlooks a couple neat old barns and a creek bed where there will be a new lake. THe beds and sheets are great and very comfortable and the attention to the small details made the stay very enjoyable. The towels were very nice and the kitchen has lots of tools to use and there were fresh flowers that made us feel like we were guests at someone's private home. The owner, Vic was eager for our feed back and suggestions and really wanted our stay to be above our expectations and it was. We will be back in the near future and would certainly recommend this cottage to others. Risposta del proprietario Thank-you for your kind words. We have worked hard to create a true country experience and we are pleased that our guests appreciate it! 4,6 su marzo 22, 2011 Went with a girlfriend. Cottage has everything you need to have a great experience. Did not order breakfast but it was nice to have coffee, sugar, etc. provided. Vic did a great job on providing information about the cottage, places to eat and shop and was quick to respond when we made suggestions. I can't wait to take my husband to the cottage. 4,4 su febbraio 28, 2011 Great place to remove yourself from the hustle and bustle of city life!! An old cottage that has been fully restored, while the character of the house has been maintained. Plenty of places on the land to explore, sit by a campfire, play games outdoors, and enjoy being outside. A town is still close by so groceries can be purchased or supplies picked up when needed. A fresh country/farm breakfast is an option and it is delicious!!! Thoroughly enjoyed our stay and fully intend to visit again!!!
Draft Program subject to change Tuesday 20 November 2018 1730 -1930 Welcome Reception @ Bells functions, Swan River Wednesday 21 November 2018 730 Registration Opens, Registration Desk, Conference Floor, arrival tea and coffee 830 – 1000 Conference Opening Plenary Welcome James Lush, Master of Ceremonies Welcome to Country Marie Taylor Opening Address FASD – The State of Play in Australia Professor Elizabeth Elliott, University of Sydney and Sydney Children’s Hospitals Network All is not lost – The art of living with hope Claire Gyde, FASD-CAN Incorporated 1000-1030 Morning Tea – Conference Exhibition Hall Concurrent Sessions 1 1030-1200 Prevention Supporting Young People Diagnosis National Activities Is the occasional drink harmful in pregnancy? Evidence from a cohort study Professor Jane Halliday FASD in an Adolescent Drug and Alcohol Service Dr Bronwyn Milne Developing protocols for assessing young children: The QLD FASD-Y Clinics Professor Sharon Dawe FASD Hub Australia: a novel resource for clinicians, caregivers, researchers and policy-makers Ms Heather Jones & Mr Peter O’Malley Preventing FASD by improving service providers capacity to discuss alcohol and substance use with women Dr Nancy Poole A Strengths and Rights-Based Model to Help Young People with FASD have Understanding and Voice A /Professor Anita Gibbs FASD diagnosis in Australia: who, where, how and why? Diagnostic patterns from 3 years of national case surveillance using the Australian Paediatric Surveillance Unit (APSU) Dr Marcel Zimmet Pregnant Pause: Be a hero, take zero Ms Kamara Buchanan Strengthening the message about pregnancy and alcohol Ms Susan Hickson Tristan’s Story Outcomes for parents & caregivers of FASD diagnostic service Dr Andrew Wood Community priorities for FASD research Ms Narelle Mullan Characteristics and modifiable factors associated with periconceptional drinking Dr Sherly Parackal What strategies do Australian psychologists believe will help manage behavioural symptoms of FASD? Dr Vanessa Spiller Never Too Late – The Value of a Diagnosis Dr Tracey Harbour Estimating the economic burden of fetal alcohol spectrum disorder in Australia: An economic modelling approach Dr Amy Finlay-Jones Discussion Discussion Discussion Discussion Workshop Session 1 12.00-13.00 Workshop 1 – Prevention Intervention Parent/Carer Workshop, sponsored by NOFASD Workshop 3 – Diagnosis Case Studies Development of an implementation intervention to improve care for women consuming alcohol during pregnancy Dr Melanie Kingsland Ms Belinda Tully Ms Kristy Crooks Dr Julia Dray Behaviour Management Challenges Why standard parenting approaches and Professional behavioural interventions for FASD sometimes fail, and what you can do Dr Kerryn Bagley Diagnostic Dilemmas – a workshop for clinicians Dr Amanda Wilkins Dr Doug Shelton Professor Elizabeth Elliot Dr James Fitzpatrick 1300-1400 Lunch 1400-1530 Plenary Session and Parent Panel Global prevalence of prenatal alcohol consumption and Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder Professor Svetlana Popova, CAMH’s Institute for Mental Health Policy Research Voices of parents and carers for health Professionals – How can we help each other? Dr Kerryn Bagley, Federation University Parent Panel: Voices of parents and carers for health professionals – How can we help each other? Ms Louise Gray, NOFASD 1530-1600 Afternoon Tea & Conference Exhibition Concurrent Sessions 2 1600-1700 Workforce Training Carer Support Indigenous Health Biomedical Expanding our workforce development story Ms Dionne Aitken, & Ms Sharene Kocsis FASD Support Resources for your Toolkit – collaboration in Aotearoa New Zealand Ms Rose Hawkins & Ms Christine Rogan Decolonizing FASD: An Invitation Dr Michelle Stewart Time- and dose-dependent associations between prenatal alcohol exposure and placental global DNA methylation A /Professor Jeffrey Craig Assessment, advice and referral for alcohol consumption during pregnancy planning and early pregnancy Dr Melanie Kingsland, A Training and Support Course for Parents and Caregivers of Children and Youth with FASD A/Professor Anita Gibbs & Ms Margaret Eketone “Bringing them Home.” Adverse Childhood Events and Intergenerational Trauma: living with FASD in Juvenile Justice A/Professor Raewyn Mutch Prevalence and safety of acamprosate use in pregnant alcohol dependent women Dr Erin Kelty Increasing practitioner awareness of FASD: An evaluation of training workshops Professor Sharon Dawe Overcoming challenges of caring for a child diagnosed with FASD: A Pilbara Community Perspective Mrs Tracey McRae & Mrs Elaine Community driven best practice approaches: Applying learnings from North America on trauma informed practice and care at Marninwarntikura Ms Jane Pedersen Facial 3D Image Analysis in FASD Mr Harold Matthews Convincing health Professionals to undertake training on alcohol use in pregnancy Ms Susan Hicksonn FASD and Carer Mental Health Story* Mrs Kath Thomas Cognitive and social/emotional influences on adaptive functioning in children with FASD: Clinical and cultural considerations Ms Andi Crawford Mini Panel Discussion Thursday 22 November 2018 0715-0830 Researchers Breakfast 730 Registration Opens, Registration Desk, Conference Floor, arrival tea and coffee 830-1000 Concurrent Sessions 3 Justice Supporting Rural & Remote Communities Prevention Education A prevalence study of FASD among young people sentenced to detention in Western Australia Professor Carol Bower Researching a captive audience: Lessons learnt from conducting research in a youth detention centre Ms Hayley Passmore Empowering Remote Queensland Communities to Address Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder: An Effectiveness-Implementation Study Protocol Dr Dianne Shanley, Four Part Model for Prevention: A Tale of Two Towns Ms Annalee Stearne Developing Awareness of FASD in Education in Christchurch. A work in progress Ms Tracey Jongens Key Attributes & Sentencing Outcomes: Preliminary Analysis of 50 Juveniles, assessed for FASD Ms Catherine Crawford A Framework for Action: FASD and Reconciliation in Canada Dr Michelle Stewart Is the occasional drink ok? Reflections of Indigenous and non-Indigenous pregnant women Ms Evi Muggli Navigating the School Years: What Worked for Us Dr Tracey Harbour Sentencing FASD-affected Juveniles: Developing Jurisprudence & Practice in WA: Implications for Juveniles, Systems and Government Ms Catherine Crawford The many faces of Racism and FASD: What do we know? Mr Anaru Eketone Don’t Know? Don’t Drink – Creatively communicating with women who may be pregnant. Miss Tanya Radford My 6-year Story of synergistic evidence-based interventions for a 2-8 year-old with FASD … reducing Secondary-Disabilities Mr Martin Roder FASD and juvenile justice in Australia: Neuropsychological Implications A /Professor Carmela Pestall Maruarra_U a Bunuba word that means to embrace with love and care An innovative partnership creating holistic wraparound supports for children and their families. Ms Emily Carter A. A clinical audit of alcohol screening tool at a major regional hospital in Western Australia Ms Fatuma Hamid B. Systematic Review of Prevention Interventions to Reduce Prenatal Alcohol Exposure and FASD in Indigenous Communities, Dr Martyn Symons & Dr Rebecca Anne Pedruzzi C. Preventing Alcohol Consumption during Pregnancy in Fitzroy Valley: AUDIT-C Update, Dr Martyn Symons FASD in the Australian Education System: Knowledge, Attitudes, Needs, and Practices Dr Amy Finlay-Jones The impact of FASD on language & communication skills among justice-involved youth in Western Australia Miss Natalie Kippin,Telethon Kids Institute & Associate Professor Suze Leitã, The urgency of addressing FASD within the Aboriginal community, A south west study, Western Australia Ms Robyn Williams, Exploring Aboriginal women’s experiences of antenatal care for alcohol consumption: a step towards improving services Ms Belinda Tully and Kristy Crooks Book Launch – Mini-Panel Discussion Sue Thomas Improving the management of Youth with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder in an Australian detention centre Miss Hayley Passmore Triple P training in a remote Indigenous setting: Jandu Yani U (For All Families) Miss Ellaina Andersson Discussion 1000-1030 Morning Tea 1030-1130 Workshops & Oral Talks Workshop 4 – Co-designing Interventions Workshop 5 – Support Services & Employment Workshop 6 – Education Pregnancy Care Developing our understanding of foster carers’ experience: Can we co-create an agenda? Dr Sara McLean ” Reach for the Stars”: Perspective from a Parent Led Support Service and an Employer Mr Kerry Howell Mr Aaron Smith Ms Lisa Smith FASD and Complex Trauma: A Resource for Educators Ms Sue Thomas Ms Jane Weston Ms Jadnah Davies Nurturing Families: Piloting the Parent Child Assistance Program (PCAP) in Perth Dr Martyn Symons & Dr Amy Finlay Jones Ms Jennifer Meehan Understanding contraception use to support the prevention of unintended alcohol exposed pregnancies Dr Natasha Reid Antenatal care for alcohol consumption: a study of pregnant women’s receipt and acceptability of care Ms Emma Doherty Discussion 1135-1305 Concurrent Sessions 5 Screening Advocacy & Policy Therapy & Support Diagnosis Alcohol Use During Pregnancy And Developmental Outcomes In Infants At 12-Months Of Age Dr Delyse Hutchinson Alcohol and breastfeeding: drawing parallels with pregnancy Dr Roslyn Giglia Impact evaluation of the Alert Program® to support children with FASD in remote Australian primary schools Ms Bree Wagner Comprehensive MDT Assessment in FASD: What are we really assessing and what do results mean? Dr Haydn Till Impact of delayed diagnosis of fetal alcohol spectrum disorder on Australian families Dr Marcel Zimmet Regulating alcohol pregnancy warning labels: a case study of inaction Ms Sarah Ward Ms Christine Rogan Psychological interventions for improving executive functions in children with FASD: A systematic review and meta-analysis Mr Joseph Betts Affect in FASD and mental health diagnoses Dr Amanda Wilkins Screening for FASD among young people sentenced to detention in Western Australia Dr Rochelle Watkins Serendipity informed high risk gaps in routine care of young people A/ Professor Raewyn Mutch Praise for Change: A Parent Guide for More Compliance and Fewer Meltdowns Mr Michael Harris Multiple impacts of maternal alcohol-use disorder on child outcomes: a Western Australian population record-linkage study Professor Carol Bower Development of a conceptual framework exploring the neurodevelopmental impairments experienced by children living with FASD Mr Stewart McDougall Exploring policymakers’ perspectives on the available policies and interventions for FASDs. A qualitative study Mr Babatope Adebiyi Are gross motor skills impaired in children with FASD? Dr Barbara Lucus What do Australian psychologists know about FASD and what are their training needs? Dr Vanessa Spiller Eye abnormalities following prenatal alcohol exposure and in fetal alcohol spectrum disorder: A systematic review Professor Elizabeth Elliott Discussion Prenatal Alcohol Exposure: The effect on cognitive abilities and sleep in children. A/Professor Carmela Pestell Challenges in assessing prenatal alcohol exposure in a study of FASD in juvenile justice Professor Carol Bower Discussion Discussion Discussion 1305-1400 Lunch 1400-1445 Short and Sharp Presentations ” Life How It Is “, Ms Anna Gundesen Community Engagement to Promote Positive Change for Families Affected by FASD in the Fitzroy Valley – Ms Cari Mcilduff & Ms Jadnah Davies Prenatal alcohol exposure at binge level at trimester 1 associate with genome-wide DNA methylation at birth – A/Professor Jeffrey Craig Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder: Does diagnosis really matter? – Dr Heidi Webster Can informal assessments be used in FASD diagnosis? Graphomotor examples from the Lililwan Project – Dr Robyn Doney A Transdiagnostic Approach to Early Identification and Intervention for Children at-risk of Neurodevelopmental Disorders – Dr Amy Finlay 1445-1540 Plenary Session Epigenetic Signatures of Human Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder – Opportunities and Challenges Dr Michael Kobor, University of British Columbia, Canada Keynote Presentation Mr Michael Thorn, CEO, Foundation for Alcohol Research and Education 1540-1610 Awards and Final Remarks 1610-1710 Farewell Refreshments Conference Ends
Last week at ETS Danny Akin presented a thoughtful paper, which he coauthored with Bruce Ashford, entitled "The Church as God’s Missional People: Regenerate Membership and Church Discipline Lived Out in Those Justified by His Grace." Jonathan, I'm very excited to read your forthcoming book on church discipline and membeship. Can you tell me some of the most common mistakes that pastors make in regards to church discipline? Thanks for sharing with us your wisdom. Blessings, Deepak Reju A fascinating article put out by the BBC (no, that's not Bethlehem Baptist Church) shows that the lack of church discipline in some churches is seen as ludicrous to unbelievers. And its all tied to infant baptism.John Hunt was baptised in the parish church of St Jude with St Aidan in Thornton Heath in south-east London. But 50 years later he stands outside and regards its brick facade without much affection....Now Mr Hunt has become the pioneer in a rejuvenated campaign for a way of cancelling baptisms given to children too young to decide for themselves whether they wanted this formal initiation into Christianity. However, baptism is proving a difficult thing to undo....A letter from the the Archbishops' Council said that the Church of England did not regard baptism as a sign of membership, so any amendment to the record would be unnecessary. The problems are multiple: 1) baptism is seen as having nothing to do with church membership. And when there is no church membership, church discipline becomes impossible. 2) infant baptism itself tends to separate baptism from church membership and discipline. One doesn't want to publicly disicpline a 2 year old for poking his sister in the eye and showing no signs of repentance. All paedobaptists I know rightly recognise that such matters are better dealt with within the family. But, what do you then do with those who have received the sign of baptism, never come into church membership and therefore never come under church discipline. How is to be made clear that this person should by no means see the sign of the covenant as a sign that they are a Christian?Thankfully some people, like John Hunt, recognise themselves that they are not Christians. My fear is that in the last UK census 71% of people still identified themselves as being Christian, yet less than 10% would be in church on any given Sunday. Very few of these are asking to be "de-baptised".Is infant baptism a serious sin, even though unintentional? I'm totally with Mark that it is done in good faith, and perhaps the damage done to genuine Christians is limited by inconsistency. However, institutionally throughout Anglican Britain, and even more so throughout Roman Catholic Europe it has, in my opinion been one of the most damaging institutional sins in giving people a sense of assurance, even as they are walking towards hell.HT: Dean and Kris Dryden for showing me the article. Did you guys see this story about a Florida woman who is freaking out because her church is threatening her with public discipline? My thoughts: -- It's a good reminder to teach clearly on church discipline. It's something that seems bizarre and laughable to our culture, and the people in our pews won't understand it unless we teach it. -- It's also a good reminder that gossip is a real danger in these situations. -- It seems to me that the letter from the elders of the church is kind and biblical. -- Darrell Bock's comments toward the end of the article seem so strange that I wonder if the reporter didn't misunderstand him. Three things about what Dr. Bock (allegedly) said: 1. It seems like the church leaders did approach her on a private basis, though obviously any gossip is wrong. Church discipline ala Matthew 18 is ultimately a public matter if there is no repentance. 2. Church discipline is not meant to be applied only to leaders. That doesn't make any sense. 3. A church should most definitely not allow someone to avoid church discipline simply by resigning their membership. Part of the purpose of church discipline is to warn the sinner so that they might repent. It's funny to be reminded of how counter-intuitive a Biblical church is to the world. Things that seem normal to you (like church discipline) seem like insanity to the eyes of the world. Oh well, I think Jesus said that would happen. Mike, a similar story appears in the Times. Isn't the evangelical move left to support Obama mentioned somewhere as a sign of the end of all things and the coming of the anti-Christ? Oh, I'm sorry. Maybe that was the Left Behind novels. First, let me say it's good to be here...finally. (I'm talking about the new house.) Second, I want to suggest, from Scripture, that Paul's instructions in 1 Cor. 5:11 are not necessarily intended to rupture relations within the biological family, though that is precisely what they are intended to do within the spiritual family. Two scriptural lines of thought are relevant. First, throughout the New Testament, Jesus' call to a family-transcending loyalty notwithstanding, the overarching concern is to preserve the integrity and peace of the natural family for the sake of the gospel. To take just one example: the believing spouse is urged to remain with the unbelieving spouse if possible, for the sake of the unbeliever's salvation. (1 Cor 7:12-14; 1 Pet 3:1-2). The context of 1 Corinthians 7 makes clear that this "living with" includes sexual intimacy, which by anyone's standards surpasses the intimacy of a shared meal. Typically we read these verses assuming the unbeliever has never professed faith, but there's nothing in the text that demands that assumption. Paul's instruction is equally applicable to the believer who's spouse has apostasized. It just doesn't make sense to read Paul to teach in that situation that they can have sex, but not a meal. We could look at other examples, like Paul's condemnation of those who don't provide for their families, regardless of their status as believers, or the enduring obligation of children to honor their parents, regardless of their status as believers. The point remains the same. In the context of the biological family, such actions of love commend the gospel. The second line of thought concerns the distinction the New Testament makes between the biological family and the spiritual family. Here, Jesus' question about who is my mother and brother and sister is supremely relevant (Mk 3:33-35). In the Old Covenant, the biological and spiritual families were one and the same, at least to external observation. In the New Covenant, as Jeremiah prophesied (Jer 31:29-34), the automatic, generational link between the biological and spiritual families is severed. Now, as Jesus points out, inclusion in the spiritual family of God is based on spiritual regeneration that produces repentance and faith. This produced all sorts of changes within the administration of the covenant that I don't need to explain to my fellow Baptist Church Matters bloggers. But one area that perhaps we have not considered fully is the biological family and discipline. In the Old Covenant, if a spouse or child sought to entice you to idolatry, not only were they to be stoned, but you were to cast the first one (Deut. 13:6-12). Originally, it was the father who circumcised his sons (Gen. 17). But in the New Covenant, it is not the biological family that baptizes or exercises church discipline, it's the spiritual family, because spiritual relations are in view. What does this mean for the wife who's husband has been excommunicated? Unlike most everyone else in their church, sharing a meal with him is not primarily an expression of Christian fellowship, but of familial love and duty. She should certainly not treat him as if he were a Christian. But neither of them ever thought toast and coffee in the morning was about that anyway. On the other hand, she should now pray for him, not with him, and she should focus her concern and conversation on his repentance. But surely even that looks different when you're with someone every day than it would for the pastor who bumps into him on the street. Isn't this precisely what Paul and Peter were both getting at? Far from invalidating your marriage or requiring you to engage in 24/7 evangelistic conversation, unbelief in the home and marriage is a unique opportunity for the patient display of love and grace up close and personal. If I were a particular kind of Presbyterian, who held to a highly objective structure for the covenant family, I could see arguing against table fellowship with an excommunicate inside the family. But as a Baptist and congregationalist, that sort of overlay is precisely what I want to avoid. Not so that I can keep the church out of my living room. But rather to make clear that my living room is not the church. I have obligations to both my biological family and my spiritual family. Sometimes, the same person will be a member of both families, sometimes not. But the obligations endure, and in both cases, they do so for the sake of the gospel. I have two questions to ask this morning. I'd love to hear your thoughts on either, either "out there" or "in here": (1) A pastor recently called asking about how the immediate family members of a disciplined individual should treat that family member in light of Paul's command in 1 Corinthians 5:10, "With such a man do not even eat." What do you think? The person, disciplined for gross unrepentant sin, continues to call him/herself a Christian and has never apologized to the family members. Should the members of the immediate family (also members of the church who voted in favor of the act of discipline) refuse to share the dinner table with the individual? Why or why not? Any further advice for handling this type of situation pastorally? 2) I had lunch with a brother recently who is working through his call to the ministry. Now, I suspect this particular brother is called to the ministry. But the two of us got to thinking, how would you confront an individual attempting to enter vocational ministry (meaning the church would set aside its offering plate dollars to support him) whom you didn't think should, especially if that individual is invoking language of "God's calling me"? And I'm not so much referring here to matters of character qualification, i.e. he lacks integrity. I'm talking about the individual whose heart seems to be in the right place, but he appears to lack of the requisite giftedness or evidence of fruit-bearing. Should we presume to discourage such people when God could in fact plan to use them? The brother who commented on "nuancing these scenarios to death" is correct. Please take what I'm about to write as a general response to a general question. Here are a couple things we've done at Capitol Hill Baptist in Washington (a body of believers that understands and embraces church discipline as a means for our own good): We often say that church discipline is practiced for the benefit of three groups: 1) Those in unrepentant sin; 2) The younger believers in the church who would be confused if unrepentant sin went unchallenged and 3) The unbelieving community around the local church looking in. When done well, the unrepentant person is biblically called back to a right relationship with Christ and his church, the young believers are rightly taught about the dangers and deceptiveness of sin and the unbelieving community looking in sees a difference between those in the church and those out. Hope this helps. Accountability is—or should—be one of the great advantages of church membership. This usually takes place in one-on-one relationships. I had a great lunch, today, with a brother in Christ. We asked about each other’s lives, wrestled with Scripture, and generally sharpened each other. This is positive church discipline. But there is another kind of discipline, a corporate discipline, which Christians should recognize and practice. The individual who resigns his membership to avoid being held accountable by the congregation is cutting himself off from the very means God ordained for his own sanctification and, possibly, his salvation (see 1 Cor. 5). This is why I think it is unwise for a church to accept that resignation. Instead, a church ought to lovingly refuse the resignation, proceed with the discipline, and hope that the formal action has its intended effect. The public condemnation of sin (where the leaders give the church the necessary information—no more) plus the action of removing the individual from the membership of the church may be what the Lord uses to save that individual if that lack of repentance points to an unregenerate heart. It may not be, but it may be, which is why the church must act. There is a silver lining in this trend of people trying to leave churches to avoid discipline. Praise God, it serves as a wonderful reminder for all of us of the importance of making the beauty of membership and the reality of discipline as clear as we can when individuals join our churches. Thabiti, Thank you for the helpful point. I don't mean to suggest that a pastor must do step 1, then step 2, then step 3, and so forth. I'm simply trying to enunciate the broad principle that church discipline only makes sense within the context of a right understanding of the gospel and conversion. How a pastor or elders go about applying that principle will differ--to some measure--from case to case. I suspect there could be occasions of egregious 1 Cor. 5 type sin that an elder may feel he must act upon, knowing that he will use the opportunity to lead the church through discipline in order to clarify the congregation's understanding of the gospel and conversion. Having said that, he will have a much harder go at it if the church doesn't already understand these things in the first place. 9Marks speaks to a number of pastors who want our advice on how to lead their churches into practicing church discipline. Yet as they describe their churches to us, it sometimes becomes clear that their congregations don't understand basic things like repentance. If your (plural) church doesn't understand repentance, you can expect church discipline will be a reeeal tough sell. I don't think I'm responding precisely to your question about "how to strike the balance," Thabiti. Maybe the other brothers will jump in. Striking a balance is tough. What do you think?
12.4.3. Spectra With the exception of the 21-cm line of neutral hydrogen found only in relatively nearby galaxies, there are no sharp features in the radio spectra of galaxies and quasars, and the observations are confined to measurements of the continuous spectra. Since, unlike optical telescopes, radio-telescopes generally operate only over a limited range of wavelengths, the determination of spectra over a wide range of wavelengths requires combining data obtained by many observers using widely different types of telescopes. Because radio-telescopes may differ widely in their characteristics, each antenna and radiometer system must be separately calibrated at every wavelength where observations are made. Generally, this is done by observing one or more sources whose intensity had previously been determined on an "absolute" scale. Until recently, the problem of obtaining an "absolute" calibration of these primary standards was a formidable one, and the experimental discrepancies discouragingly large. Today, however, the situation is vastly improved and standard sources calibrated with an absolute accuracy of 3 to 10% are available over a wide range of wavelengths. The determination of relative intensities is much easier and is routinely done to an accuracy of a few percent, at least at the shorter wavelengths where confusion from the galactic background is less important. Hundreds of extra-galactic sources have now been observed over a range of wavelengths extending from a few centimeters to a few meters, and a smaller number over the wider range from a few millimeters to a few tens of meters (10 MHz to 100 GHz). This range of 104 to 1 in wavelength may be compared with the range of only about 2:1 available for ordinary optical spectra. Although a wide variety of spectral shapes are found, no unambiguous distinction exists between the spectra of radio galaxies and those of quasars. Radio spectra are usually displayed in the form of a logarithmic plot of flux density vs. frequency. Sources with simple power law spectra are then represented by a straight line. The spectral index, , is defined by the relation 1 (flux density) (frequency) . Although the radio spectra of only a few sources follow a simple power law accurately, a spectral index may be defined at any frequency as the tangent to the curve on a log S - log plot, or by the measurement of flux density at two arbitrarily selected frequencies. The observed spectra are conveniently divided into three groups (Figure 12.5) defined by their appearance on a log S - log plot. Class S. Straight spectra. Sources with Class S spectra generally have indices near -0.8 with nearly all sources in the range -1.3 < < - 0.6. There are no Class S spectra with indices flatter than -0.5. Class C. Curved spectra. Sources with Class C spectra may be further subdivided into three groups: Class C-. Class C- spectra have a negative second derivative (defined by the second derivative of the log S - log relation), so that the spectrum is steeper at short wavelengths. Typically the region of curvature extends over a decade or so of wavelength, while at wavelengths significantly removed from the maximum curvature there are two well-defined power laws with indices differing by about 0.5. Class Cmax. Class Cmax spectra have a power law (Class S) or dual power law (Class C-) spectrum at short wavelengths, but a sharp cut-off at long wavelengths, which is probably due to self-absorption. Class C+. Class C+ spectra have positive curvature and can usually be clearly separated into two groups: Class Cl+. Class Cl+ have enhanced spectra at long wavelengths. Class Cs+. Class Cs+ have enhanced spectra at short wavelengths. Class CPX. Class CPX spectra are complex and show one or more relative minima. CPX spectra are generally believed to be composed of two or more Class Cmax spectra, plus in some cases a Class S spectrum, or one Class Cmax together with a Class S spectrum. The Class S and Class C- spectra are mostly found in the extended radio sources, which are transparent at radio frequencies, while the Cmax, Cs+, and CPX spectra generally indicate a compact opdque component. Cl+ spectra are typically found in sources located in rich clusters of galaxies. The histogram of the distribution of spectral indices shows three distinct populations. One, which predominates in the surveys made at relatively long wavelengths, contains class S and C- spectra, with a narrow distribution of indices about a median value near -0.8 and a dispersion of 0.15. The steepest value of the index which is observed for these sources is about -2.0. Very few sources, however, have indices steeper than -1.3. The sources shown in the histogram of Figure 12.6 are mostly of the class S or C-. A second population, of very steep spectra with ~ - 2 appears in some data obtained at decameter wavelengths. Because of the experimental difficulties in measuring accurate flux densities at long wavelengths, the fraction of these Cl + spectra which show this anomalous increase in the decameter flux is not well determined. Only a single spectrum of this type is found among the 3CR sources illustrated in Figure 12.6. The third population is found mostly in surveys made at shorter wavelengths and consists of sources having flat spectra, and a much broader dispersion in spectral index about a median value near zero. These are all of the type Cmax, Cs +, or CPX associated with compact sources. The preponderance of indices near zero appears to be due to the fact that the form of the spectra in these sources results from the superposition of a number of Class Cmax components, with spectral peaks extending over a range of frequencies. Only a few sources of this type are in the 3C catalog and, as shown in Figure 12.6, these are mostly quasars. For most of the extended radio sources where the radio brightness distribution has been mapped at several wavelengths, the structure is found to be essentially independent of wavelength. In other words, the spectral index is constant throughout the source. An exception to this, however, is the so-called core-halo source, in which the compact "core" component generally has a very flat spectrum due to synchrotron self-absorption. Although it is not possible in any individual case to distinguish between radio galaxies and quasars on the basis of their spectra, there do appear to be statistical differences in the spectral distributions for the two classes of identifications. The radio galaxies show mostly class S spectra and, as shown in Figure 12.6, have a narrow dispersion of indices near a median of -0.8. The small "tail" in the distribution toward flat spectra represents sources that are mostly identified with galaxies having prominent optical nuclei, such as Seyfert or N galaxies, but several otherwise normal-looking E galaxies are also included. In the case of the quasars, both spectral populations are represented, but the "flat spectra" population is considerably more prominent than in the case of the galaxies. The unidentified sources selected from long-wavelength surveys show a spectral distribution which is similar to that of the radio galaxies, although the mean index is somewhat steeper. It is thus possible to interpret these unidentified sources as radio galaxies which are beyond the plate limit of the Palomar Sky Survey. The slightly steeper mean index observed for these sources may be explained if they have dual power law spectra, and the large redshift has moved the high-frequency (steeper) part of the spectrum into the observed frequency range. Detailed investigation of the form of radio source spectra of unidentified radio galaxies, however, indicates that the spectra do not steepen sufficiently at high frequencies for the unidentified sources to be interpreted in this way. An alternative explanation is that if the identified sources are associated with radio galaxies beyond the plate limit, they must be relatively distant, and thus have a high absolute radio luminosity. The steep spectra observed for the unidentified sources could then reflect a relation between high luminosity and steep spectra (cf. Section 12.4.5). Because the sources with flat or inverted spectra are relatively weak at long wavelengths, they were not detected in the earlier surveys, which were made at meter wavelengths. As techniques have been pushed toward shorter wavelengths, the fraction of flat spectra sources detected by surveys has increased. Near 6-cm wavelength the observed fraction of flat spectra (opaque) sources and steep spectra (transparent) sources is about equal. The expected dependence of the spectral index distribution on observing wavelength may be easily calculated. Given the normalized spectral index distribution, P( ), at any wavelength 1 for sources with flux density stronger than S1, and provided that P( ) is independent of S, the spectral distribution, Q( ), for all sources stronger than S2 at 2 is then where N(S, ) is the integral number flux density relation (see Chapter 13). If N(S) K Sx where K and x are constants, then where the first term is simply a normalization constant. In the special case where P( ) is a Gaussian with a mean index 0 and dispersion , then Q( ) is also Gaussian with the same dispersion but with a mean index displaced by the amount Because of the factor ( 2 / 1)- x in Equation (12.2), it is clear that the spectral index distribution is very frequency-dependent and that sources with flat spectra dominate short-wavelength surveys in the same way that steep spectra dominate the long-wavelength surveys. For example, if the slope, x, of the log N - log S relation is taken as 1.5, then the ratio of flat spectra ( ~ 0) to steep spectra ( ~ - 1) sources for two surveys made at frequencies one decade apart is 101.5 ~ 32. This change in the spectral index distribution with sample frequency should not be confused with the observed change in the index distribution when a given sample of sources is observed at different wavelengths. The brightest n sources which determine P( ) at 1 are not the same n sources which determine Q( ) at 2. The change in spectral distribution of a given sample observed at different wavelengths is due to spectral curvature. Comparisons of surveys made at different wavelengths, and of the dependence of the spectral index distribution on wavelength, are in reasonable agreement with that predicted by the expressions above. This means that the full range of spectral population is represented at each observing frequency, although the relative proportion of the two spectral classes may vary considerably. 1 Since for most of the earlier known sources, the flux density decreased with wavelength, the spectral index was sometimes defined by (flux density) frequency- , so that was always a positive number. Now that indices of both signs are known to occur, the definition given in the text is being more widely used. Back.
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Debra E. \| June 17, 2022 Kim S. \| June 16, 2022 RE/MAX Alliance (Wilkey) \| June 15, 2022 Greenbrier W. \| June 14, 2022 Keffer Realty \| June 14, 2022 Eric H. \| June 13, 2022 Keffer Realty \| June 13, 2022 Kelly went beyond to satisfy the owner Keffer Realty \| June 11, 2022 Happy Day Spa \| June 10, 2022 Kathy/John C. \| June 10, 2022 Keffer Realty \| June 10, 2022 Mike S. \| June 8, 2022 Dependable, honest, fair...always goes above and beyond to do their very best for the customer. Home Trust \| June 7, 2022 Heidi P. \| June 7, 2022 Mahi's \| June 7, 2022 Enjoyed working with both of the mechanics. They were very professional. Lydia B. \| June 6, 2022 Appreciate the professionalism and quick responses from Precision Plumbing. Century 21 Top Producers Paula Spartz-Sanders \| June 6, 2022 Quick and pleasant service! John H. \| June 6, 2022 Tidewater Realty - WILLIAMS \| June 5, 2022 Ken P. \| June 4, 2022 Did good work, didn't leave a mess, was friendly and courteous, and didn't charge extra when complications required repeated visits. Brad K. \| June 3, 2022 They were upfront, thorough and great through the entire process. I'll definitely be using them again for all of my plumbing needs. Lauren M. \| June 3, 2022 Very responsive and take the time to explain what work needs to be done and why. Century 21 Top Producers Paula Spartz-Sanders \| June 3, 2022 I call upon Precision Plumbing often to make repairs at the rental properties that I manage. They are always quick, get the job done at a fair price, and easy to work with. Vertical Real Estate - Larry DiNino \| June 3, 2022 Angela B. \| June 1, 2022 Fast, quality service Keffer Realty \| June 1, 2022 George W. \| June 1, 2022 Extremely professional, thorough, knowledgeable, and detail-oriented. Thank you! 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Donna T. \| May 26, 2022 Holy Light Church Cherie Alston \| May 26, 2022 I love ya'll you are the best :):) Tina Bradley, Flexible Real Estate, Inc Tina B. - Flexible Real Estate \| May 25, 2022 Micky T. \| May 24, 2022 Quick service and friendly technicians! Laura M. \| May 24, 2022 Awesome awesome people Superior Pawn, Ryan D. \| May 23, 2022 Anthony G. \| May 22, 2022 George W. \| May 22, 2022 Excellent service. Joe was very knowledgeable and easy to talk to. Frank L. \| May 20, 2022 Keffer Realty \| May 20, 2022 Eric was great. He has a great attitude and made sure to answer ever question! He went the "extra mile" to make sure we were comfortable with his diagnosis. David F. \| May 20, 2022 Beth J. \| May 20, 2022 Plummer was very good at explaining all situations in question. Very informative. Patient and respectful. Addressed all issues thoroughly and quickly!! Caroline T. \| May 20, 2022 I liked the friendliness and professionalism of the installer. Gloria H. \| May 20, 2022 Mollie W. \| May 19, 2022 Ryan Awesome, he was on time, great woker,reliable ,dependable, to the point and most of all,just an honest guy! Job Well done! Thank you Ryan For your service Angela Britt P.S. More worker like Ryan which makes customer like myself will continue to call on your company for great plumping service. Thank you again. Angela B. \| May 19, 2022 Thomas J. \| May 19, 2022 Perfect professionals! Always. Michael M. \| May 18, 2022 Always very efficient and on time and the price is very reasonable Marlene T. \| May 17, 2022 You are always on time & promptly get the work completed at fair a reasonable price. Dean F. \| May 17, 2022 Would have liked to have the bathroom sink snaked out as well as tub but no break in price. Just twice the price. Crystal B. \| May 17, 2022 Awesome Customer Service! Always on time! Keffer Realty \| May 17, 2022 Richard H. \| May 16, 2022 Fantastic service Melissa H. \| May 13, 2022 UPA Kennebeck Apartments \| May 12, 2022 Mary M. \| May 12, 2022 Melinda B. \| May 12, 2022 Technician (Joe) did a great job. Also very helpful in explaining things. Cleaned up debris very thoroughly. Ann P. \| May 11, 2022 The technician answered all my questions and did a great job. He was very nice and made me feel comfortable. JANET T. \| May 11, 2022 Joe was information, efficient and professional. I would recommend Precision Plumbing to friends and others. We have had several people come out, he was the first to identify the problem and give a practical solution. Erika K. \| May 10, 2022 Mike is a great technician! He has always been honest and helpful with every visit! Mike has made our experience joyful even in a bad situation. Caleb L. \| May 10, 2022 Abrams R. \| May 10, 2022 Very upfront about the work scope surrounding the issue, pricing and timeline. Lauren M. \| May 10, 2022 Super friendly staff and goes out anytime! They always answer the phone too. Lisa Chandley The Real Estate Group \| May 10, 2022 Has met expectations to date. Tony D. \| May 9, 2022 Stan S. \| May 6, 2022 Wilkey Property \| May 6, 2022 Century 21 - Sung \| May 6, 2022 Great service! Diane B. - Ocean Tumblers \| May 5, 2022 The plumber was prompt,courteous, and the price was reasonable.I will definitely recommend this company to my family, friends, and clients. Glenda N. \| May 5, 2022 Robert was very thorough and professional. Did a great job. Debbie G. \| May 5, 2022 Jessie H. \| May 5, 2022 Greenbrier W. \| May 5, 2022 Gifford M. \| May 4, 2022 top notch people working for your company Margart F. \| May 3, 2022 Oxford Investment Group \| May 3, 2022 I do not know what I would do without ya'll in my life. Thank you for always being there for me :):) You are the BEST !!!!!! Flexible Real Estate-Tina Bradley \| May 2, 2022 Great job. My ask was understood and I was provided with great feedback and direction regarding the next steps. Chris E. \| April 30, 2022 On the initial visit, I was extremely satisfied. On the second visit, I felt that the plumber wasn't knowledgeable. He recommended that I get a new toilet. Upon installing the new toilet still had issues with it running. Can't help but think if I had a more competent plumber, I could have avoided buying a new toilet. Perry T. \| April 29, 2022 Great Company. Service Tech was great! Ocean Tumblers \| April 29, 2022 Kenny went directly out and took care of the problem in a professional manner! The Real Estate Group, Larry Porter \| April 29, 2022 you guys are the best Norfolk C. \| April 29, 2022 response time on inspecting the issue and delivering a quote under 24 hours is awesome! Pinewell Station Apartments (Breeden Company) \| April 28, 2022 Mike was very courteous and professional. He arrived within two hours of calling to fix a clogged drain. Tim S. \| April 28, 2022 Professional and did a great job of cleaning up after the repair. Kathy S. \| April 28, 2022 Great service as always! Oleg K. \| April 27, 2022 Scott is awesome! Bill P. \| April 27, 2022 Mike S. \| April 26, 2022 We've had Precision Plumbing to our house numerous times for everything from a broken water heater to new toilets, clogged drains and general repairs. They are always timely, friendly, and provide excellent service. I would recommend them without any hesitation. Dale F. \| April 25, 2022 Bill P. \| April 25, 2022 Mayflower Apartments \| April 21, 2022 Knowledgeable staff. Quick and seemingly accurate service and suggestions (have not completed work yet). Decent price quote. So far, so great. S K. \| April 20, 2022 Plumbing techs Zach and Malik did a great job. They explained everything in detail. Cleaned the area upon completion of job. If I had other plumbing requirements. I would personally request their service. The start price for any service is a little high for me. It was easier to accept because of the great work completed. Angela P. \| April 20, 2022 Greystar M. \| April 20, 2022 Timely, efficient, clean... Danise K. \| April 20, 2022 I met Paul at a clients home about 15yrs ago. He was honest hard working and truly cared. I have referred his company ever since. While his team like all of us, are not perfect, he oversees everything to assure my clients receive the best advice and service. Very hard to find these qualities in a company these days. Always appreciated! Karen Parr, Owner/Realtor 757.homes Parr Realty - Karen Parr \| April 20, 2022 Jennie M. \| April 19, 2022 Sonny M. \| April 19, 2022 Fair, honest and reliable. Home Trust \| April 19, 2022 We have been with Precision Plumbing for a long time. Their service is impeccable. Their staff is dependable, courteous, and always prompt with return calls. George L. \| April 19, 2022 Very professional and explained all issues and fixes that needed to be addressed. Caleb L. \| April 18, 2022 Very pleased. Courteous and knowledgeable. David F. \| April 18, 2022 Keffer Realty \| April 15, 2022 Prompt service, nice employees Zulekia C. \| April 14, 2022 Thank you so so much Patti B. \| April 14, 2022 Best plumber in Hampton Roads. UPA Shamrock Gardens Townhomes \| April 14, 2022 Bonnie L. \| April 14, 2022 you are the best :) Tina B w/ Flexible Real Estate :) Tina B. - Flexible Real Estate \| April 14, 2022 Great company to work with. They are able to get out fast and give a quote and then complete work within a reasonable timeframe. Enjoy referring them to my clients as well as using them myself. The Real Estate Group, Angie Pelley \| April 13, 2022 THE TECHNICIAN WAS QUICK AND EFFECIENT AND CLEANED UP AFTER HIMSELF. ONLY PROBLEM WAS HE DID NOT CALL BEFORE COMING OVER - SAID HE WAS NOT TOLD TO DO SO. MAKE SURE YOUR TECHS DO THIS SO THAT THEY DO NOT WASTE TIME WAITING FOR A CUSTOMER. Deborah M. \| April 13, 2022 Pleased with the ability to take care of the job quickly Crystal B. \| April 12, 2022 Prompt response. Courteous and knowledgeable technician. Darryl S. \| April 12, 2022 Their staff is friendly and always does great work! Thousand Oaks Apartments -Breeden Company \| April 12, 2022 Lennox Parts Plus \| April 12, 2022 It was easy to schedule an appointment and the plumber arrived during the specified time. He did and excellent job fixing a dock water line. Demaris Y. \| April 11, 2022 Todd S. \| April 7, 2022 Same day service, quick and well done Shirley R. \| April 6, 2022 Joe did an awesome job! Great communication, quick work, offered multiple solutions to problems. Travis L. \| April 6, 2022 THEY ALWAYS DO A GREAT JOB AND SHOW UP THAT DAY AND GET THE JOB DONE. Dr. Block Family Chiropractic \| April 6, 2022 I felt that the plumber, Elijah; thoroughly addressed the situation, acted in a business-like manner, and knew what he was doing. Dale D. \| April 5, 2022 River Point Apartments \| April 5, 2022 Virginia Printing, Anthony V. \| April 5, 2022 You are the best! Flexible Real Estate-Tina Bradley \| April 5, 2022 London Oaks \| April 4, 2022 Everyone was very pleasant and helpful. They came out the same day I called to check out the problem and had a new water heater installed within 3days-very reasonably priced Teresa J. \| April 3, 2022 Prompt service and good repair work. The Real Estate Group \| April 1, 2022 Your the best in this area. Glad your on my team! Flexible Real Estate-Tina Bradley \| April 1, 2022 Honest and upfront about fixes. Great customer service Caleb L. \| April 1, 2022 First Church Of Our Lord Jesus Christ, Roger H. \| April 1, 2022 Robert handled the situation which minimized me having to do flow up work. Awesome employee. Plato's Closet \| March 31, 2022 Great service! Easy to schedule, arrived same day. Plumber was friendly and did a awesome job fixing our drain. Thanks! Kim H. \| March 31, 2022 Professional, friendly and knowledgeable. Thank you! Gloria H. \| March 31, 2022 Great customer service! Your service is always right on time! Thank you for offering the type of service I respect in a Plumbing Company. Exit Reality Professionals, Jenny Seeley \| March 30, 2022 Super Friendly staff that gets the job done! Lisa Chandley - The Real Estate Group Property Management Lisa C. - The Real Estate Group \| March 30, 2022 Lindley Plumbing \| March 30, 2022 Best customer service, guaranteed to get the job done in a timely manor. Awesome staff throughout the company. UPA Shamrock Gardens Townhomes \| March 30, 2022 The young men who came were polite and professional. First time experience and recommended by a fellow real estate agent, Nikki Johnson. Thanks so much! Heather P. \| March 29, 2022 Fast and reliable service. Job completed. Columbia Care, Raymond H. \| March 29, 2022 I know when I call Precision Plumbing and they will figure out the problem and fix it. They are also very affordable. First Impressions Construction Company Inc \| November 19, 2021 They are reliable, arrive at the scheduled time of appointment and do great work. Cove Point Condo \| April 12, 2021 Always on point. First Impressions Construction Company Inc \| April 7, 2021 Always friendly and affordable. They know what they are doing and fix the problem the first time. Kelly J. \| February 4, 2021 Technician didn't give immediate feedback how automatic shutoff valve worked or leave directions, however, when I made followup call after 2nd call I got a detailed over the phone response to my questions. William J. \| November 17, 2019 Great response time and superior workmanship and courteous to my tenants. The Real Estate Group, Sam L. \| February 12, 2019 Paul Core and Precision are always quick to respond to a need, always tell it like it is, and do the job right. I highly recommend Precision Plumbing. Steve T. \| October 18, 2018
Participants 3. Benjamin Bond-Lamberty 4. Christopher D. O’Connor I am a forest ecologist at the University of Arizona School of Natural Resources and the Environment and Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research. For the past six years I have been conducting research on the interactions among climate, fire, insect outbreaks, and management practices in forested ecosystems. I am using the results of this work to advise cooperators with the U.S. Forest Service, the Nature Conservancy, and the Department of Defense on development of sustainable management plans. My current work entails the development of a comprehensive climate change risk assessment for a group of stakeholders across three regions of the Southwest. Prior to moving to Arizona in 2009, I worked as a forest entomologist helping to develop sustainable silviculture in the boreal forests of Quebec. I have lived and worked in most of the forested systems of North America, covering a diverse array of ecosystems including conifer forests in western Washington where I grew up, to hardwood forests of Michigan and Pennsylvania, subtropical forests in central Florida, and fire-prone forests across the Southwest. I have a B.S. from Penn State University, an M.S. from the University of Quebec, and a Ph. D. from the University of Arizona. Christopher J. Duffy is a Professor in the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department of Penn State University in the area of Water Resources Engineering. He has held faculty appointments with Utah State University (1981-89), visiting appointments at Los Alamos National lab (1998-99), Cornell University (1987-88), Ecole Polytechnic Lausanne (2006-07), Senior Fellow with the Smithsonian Institution in residence at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center (2007), Visiting Senior Fellow University Bristol, UK (20014-2016) and visiting scientist University of Bonn, DE (2015). Currently Duffy and his team have focused on developing the spatially-distributed, physics-based computational code PIHM (The Penn State Integrated Hydrologic Model) for multi-scale, multi-process applications (), and an on-line national data service for access to geospatial watershed data () anywhere in the continental US. He has currently funded research with NSF INSPIRE program, NSF EarthCube, EPA, DOE, USDA and the NSF CZO programs. These projects involve establishing a theoretical basis for assessing fluid pathways and isotopic age of water within catchments around the world. 6. Chris Lenhardt Lenhardt is RENCI’s Domain Scientist for Environmental Data Sciences and Systems. Prior to RENCI, Lenhardt was the manager and PI for the NASA-funded Distributed Active Archive for Biogeochemical Data at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. His work ranges from helping to create knowledge management frameworks for science data and information to studying the implications of emerging technologies. Lenhardt is also active in the Federation for Earth Science Information Partners (ESIP), having served in various leadership capacities; he also leads the science software cluster and contributes to the digital preservation committee, as well as the physical samples and digital data cluster. He is also active in the EarthCube Council of Data Facilities and COOPEUS. Lenhardt is a lead and a member of the Steering Committee of the EarthCube iSamples research coordination network. He also manages the DataNet Federation Consortium Facilities and Operations Community of Practice, RENCI’s contribution to DFC, Reagan Moore (PI). Lenhardt served as senior personnel on the NSF-funded Water Science Software Institute (WSSI) project at RENCI. The WSSI vision is to create an Institute that 1) accelerates progress on grand challenge water science problems, 2) develops and deploys interoperable, sustainable, and reusable software and cyberinfrastructure tools that meet user needs, and 3) develops and deploys processes to support transdisciplinary collaborations across diverse communities such as water science researchers, computational scientists, and social scientists. 7. Cynthia Parr Dr. Parr is a Technical Information Specialist in the Knowledge Services Division at the National Agricultural Library of the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Since arriving at USDA in September 2014 she has led the Ag Data Commons research data repository project (). She is managing the development of the web clearinghouse for the Interagency Working Group on Scientific Collections and will contribute to big data initiatives in agriculture. Previously she served as the Chief Scientist and Director for Species Pages for the Encyclopedia of Life (EOL), based at the National Museum of Natural History of the Smithsonian Institution. She currently serves as the Chair for the Biodiversity Information Standards organization (Taxonomic Database Working Group, TDWG). She has conducted research in evolutionary ecology, ornithology, behavior, molecular systematics, community ecology, information visualization, semantic web, and social networks. She is an evangelist for open data and citizen science. 8. David LeZaks, PhD David is the managing scientist for the Knowledge Systems for Sustainability Co., a global research consortium assembled to address major scientific and engineering challenges related to improved resource management at the nexus of food, energy and water. Before taking a leadership role in this project, he completed his doctoral dissertation at the University of Wisconsin – Madison where he focused his research on improving the understanding of the agroecological system and identified pathways that can improve the environmental, social and economic performance of agriculture. Specifically, his research has focused on quantifying the embodied carbon within internationally traded food, the economics of anaerobic digesters and the prospects for improved agroecological monitoring systems. He received his undergraduate education at the Lyman Briggs College at Michigan State University. David’s research has taken him to the far reaches of the world, including both polar regions and the tropics where his projects have included investigating local impacts of climate change in Alaska and Antarctica, mapping giant panda habitat in China, and monitoring topical agricultural expansion in Panama. Domingo Alcaraz-Segura was born in Alhama de Almería, Spain, in 1978. He received his bachelor degree in environmental sciences in 2000 and his PhD degree in 2005, both at the University of Almería. He has enjoyed post-doctoral positions at the University of Virginia, University of Buenos Aires, University of Texas at Austin, University of Maryland, and Spanish Council for Research (Doñana Biological Station). Currently, he is a professor at the University of Granada (Spain) and an associate researcher of the Andalusian Center for the Assessment and Monitoring of Global Change. He teaches courses in botany, geobotany, global change, biodiversity conservation and human well-being, and time series analysis of satellite images. His current research interests are the environmental controls of biodiversity, the impact of land cover and land use changes on ecosystem functioning and services and on hydroclimate, and the development of monitoring and alert systems of global change effects on protected areas. His research is based on fieldwork, remote sensing techniques, time series analysis, and geographical information systems. – See more at: 10. James D. Myers Dr. Myers is a Research Investigator with the University of Michigan’s Institute for Social Research.. 11. Julio Betancourt Senior Scientist with the U.S. Geological Survey (formerly in Tucson and now based out of Reston VA) and an Adjunct Professor at the University of Arizona in Tucson, where he obtained both his Master’s and Ph.D. His training in the sciences is broad and includes geology, hydrology, climatology, and ecology. This has allowed him to do innovative research in the seams between disciplines, and to publish two books and 160 technical papers in a wide variety of scientific journals. Julio studies how climate variability and change affect terrestrial ecosystems at scales critical for understanding ecological and evolutionary processes to inform rational approaches to managing water and other natural resources under an uncertain and changing climate. He has conducted field studies across the western U.S. and Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Mexico and Peru. Julio has received prestigious awards from the American Water Resources Association, the Ecological Society of America, the Geological Society of America, and the U.S. Department of Interior. In 2008, he was one of two scientists in USGS and the Department of Interior honored by the White House with the prestigious Presidential Rank Award, and in 2009, he was elected a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union. He has been a leader in both regional and national scientific initiatives. Over the past decade, Julio has helped organize the public and private sector led to control the spread of African buffelgrass in Southern Arizona (). He also co-founded the USA-National Phenology Network (), to observe and predict how plants and animals will respond to climate change and help society adapt to a changing climate. 12. Kathleen C. Weathers Dr. Kathleen C. Weathers received her master’s degree from Yale University and Ph.D. from Rutgers University. She is currently a Senior Scientist at the Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies in Millbrook, New York, USA. She carries out biogeochemical research in ecosystems around the world and has published widely on the importance of fog in coastal and montane ecosystems, the influence of tree species on biogeochemical cycles, and vice versa; modeling the effects of landscape features on rates atmospheric deposition and subsequent watershed biogeochemical responses; documenting the effects of nitrogen pollution on terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems; and understanding the influence of (surprising) cyanobacterial blooms on freshwater geochemical cycles. Much of her research is focused on understanding how biology influences geochemical cycles at the spatial scale of landscapes and in the face of global environmental change. Dr. Weathers is an elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and the Ecological Society of America (ESA). She is current co-chair of the grassroots Global Lakes Ecological Observatory Network (GLEON;); chair of the External Advisory Board of SESYNC, NSF’s new Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center; Chair of the Gordon Research Conference on Catchment Science; and past chair of the National Atmospheric Deposition Program (NADP). Weathers was a rotating Program Director at the US National Science Foundation (NSF), Ecosystem Science, is a member of the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)’s Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee, and has served on a National Academy of Sciences/Transportation Research Board (NAS/TRB) Committee to evaluate the Congestion Mitigation Air Quality (CMAQ/TEA-21) program. She has led workshops and conferences on defining research agendas for fog and ecosystem science, understanding environmental tipping points and rapid environmental changes; strategies for successfully bridging science, policy and management; and linking science, education and outreach. 13. Lei-Ming Zhang Institute of Geographical Science and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences (IGSNRR, CAS) 14. Mario Guevara Mario is a full time PhD student in the Department of Plant and Soil Sciences at UD. His research focuses on understanding and quantifying spatial and temporal dynamics of soil organic carbon and soil moisture by using spatial statistics and machine learning techniques to analyze environmentally-relevant “big data”. His research aims to a) improve the understanding of development of soil spatial indicators including soil biological integrity, soil hydraulics and soil physical stability; and b) to analyze changes of soil biogeochemical and hydrological dynamics in space and time at several scales, over different vegetation structures and land uses. My research focuses on understanding the consequences of human-caused global changes, especially the impacts of climatic changes (particularly drought),. I currently am the lead of the Drought-Net RCN () and am director of the Semi-Arid Grassland Research Center at CSU. Naupaka Zimmerman is a microbial ecologist in the school of Plant Sciences at the University of Arizona. As a postdoctoral fellow in the Arnold Lab, his research focuses on understanding the ecological relationships between plants and their foliar microbiomes, with a particular interest in asymptomatic foliar fungi (endophytes) using high-throughput sequencing approaches. In addition to research, he has been involved in helping to connect early-career ecologists from around the country through the Ecological Society of America’s Student and Early Career Sections, and from around the world through the International Network of Next-Generation Ecologists (INNGE) and the International Association for Ecology (INTECOL). He is also very interested in helping to advance open and reproducible research practices in the biological sciences. In this vein, he is an instructor for the Software Carpentry and Data Carpentry organizations, which provide two-day workshops that aim to teach scientists best practices for computational research and data analysis. 19. Nicole Thurgate. 20. Peter Jorgensen I am a transdisciplinary researcher applying macroecological methods and methods from evolutionary biology to questions regarding global societal challenges including global environmental change. My current research takes an integrative approach to questions of global natural resource use – including trends in national consumption and applied evolutionary biology including resistance evolution. In applied evolutionary biology, I am focused on building a socio-ecological foundation to how humans govern system subject to contemporary rapid evolution as well as loss of biodiversity. I have throughout my career emphasized transdisciplinarity and worked to innovate foundational infrastructures, as well as research itself, in international research communities. This is evident through my co-founding and leadership of the International Network of Next-Generation Ecologists, governing board membership of the International Association for Ecology and current facilitation of a regional network – the Oresund Early Career Sustainability Researchers network. 21. sequencing tools to test the effects of plant-microbe interactions on plant and microbe community diversity. We work with model developers to understand how environmental shifts will alter these interactions and accurately measure and predict ecosystem function responses. For more information please visit: rachelgallery.arizona. Samuel Villarreal is a full time PhD student in the Water Science and Policy program at the University of Delaware. His main research focuses on the spatio-temporal variability of evapotranspiration, as a response of climate variability and to environmental changes. His research aims to improve the understanding of evapotranspiration trends as a response of biophysical changes, and to determine spatial hotspots of evapotranspiration and its relation to climate variability and land use management. Sandra is a Masters Student in the Water Science and Policy program at the University of Delaware. Her research is focused on the influence of water pulse events on greenhouse gas fluxes from soils. Scientist/Project Leader Defense Systems and Analysis Division Los Alamos National LaboratorySara has been conducting research at Los Alamos National Laboratory for the past twelve years. She has worked on developing, integrating, and analyzing mathematical and computational models for the spread of infectious diseases including smallpox, anthrax, malaria, HIV, influenza, and Ebola. She also works on modeling the potential effects of mass casualties on the Healthcare and Public Health Sector including resource allocation and dependencies on other infrastructure. In addition, she studies uncertainty quantification, social networks, mixing patterns, and the role of social behavior on disease dynamics using social media and computational models. Currently, Sara is the technical lead for the National Infrastructure Simulation and Analysis Center (NISAC)’s pandemic influenza project and the principal investigator for an NIH grant for the Modeling of Infectious Disease Agent Study program. 26. Sparkle Malone Research ecologist for the U.S. Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station in Fort Collins, CO. She completed a master’s degree in Forest Resource Conservation at the University of Florida and a Ph.D. in Biology at the University of Alabama. Her primary research focus is to improve our understanding of how climate and disturbance regimes influence spatial and temporal variability in ecosystem structure and function. Using remote sensing, eddy covariance, and spatial and temporal models she explores questions related to ecosystem condition, sustainability, and vulnerability to climate change. Postdoctoral Research Associate. Thomas received his PhD from U. of Maine in Biology and is currently working on the NSF EPSCoR Track 1 project exploring the impacts of climate variability and land use on the flux, composition, and bio-availability of C and N in runoff. Tim Keitt is a Professor in the Department of Integrative Biology at the University of Texas at Austin. He held previous appointments at Stony Brook University, the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis and the Santa Fe Institute. His research broadly addresses the organization and dynamics of ecological systems using both theoretical and empirical approaches. Topics of his research range from applied conservation biology to theoretical population studies to landscape genomics. He is currently investigating theoretical models of community resilience in the face of environmental change and the influence of hydrological regimes on plant biodiversity in the Amazon basin.
beta Contents - 1 English - 2 Ambonese Malay - 3 Asturian - 4 Catalan - 5 Czech - 6 Faroese - 7 Galician - 8 Italian - 9 Latin - 10 Malay - 11 Old Irish - 12 Portuguese - 13 Serbo-Croatian - 14 Slovak - 15 Spanish - 16 Swedish English[edit] Etymology[edit] From Ancient Greek βῆτα (bêta) Pronunciation[edit] Adjective[edit][edit] Translations[edit] Noun[edit] -. - Used in marking scheme: α, β, γ or α+, α, α-, β etc. - (finance) Average sensitivity of a security's price to overall securities market prices. - (computing) The phase of development after alpha testing and before launch, in which software, while not complete, has been released to potential users for testing. - (computing) A computer program. - A beta fish, of the genus Betta. - A beta male. - 2006, Catherine Mann, Blaze of Glory, Harlequin (2006), ISBN 9781459228252,), ISBN 9781439187654, page 121: - “They want sexy, virile alpha males, yes? But that doesn't come with sensitive and loyal and all of that. That's a beta. A frickin' collie, Lola. […] - 2010, Terry Spear, Wolf Fever, Sourcebooks Casablanca (2010), ISBN 9781402237577,. Translations[edit] Derived terms[edit] (beta radiation, beta ray or beta particle): Verb[edit] [1] -), ISBN 9780786426409, page 180, - Beta’ing is time-consuming, so asking a lot of people to give you a detailed analysis isn’t the most polite thing to do. - 2002, Jane Davitt, in alt.tv.buffy-v-slayer.creative [2] - The next part is written and beta'd (thanks, Jen!), ready to go but <shuffles feet> I haven't even started what should be the final part yet. - 2002, Karmen Ghia, in alt.startrek.creative.erotica.moderated [3] - I had the honor of betaing this story and as I was doing the first read through I had the odd, but lovely, experience when a story suspends the reader in its own rhythm and flow, its own reality. Anagrams[edit] Ambonese Malay[edit] Pronoun[edit] beta Asturian[edit] Etymology[edit] From Ancient Greek βῆτα (bêta). Noun[edit] Catalan[edit] Etymology 1[edit] From Ancient Greek βῆτα (bêta). Noun[edit] Etymology 2[edit] Noun[edit] Czech[edit] Etymology[edit] From Ancient Greek βῆτα (bêta). Noun[edit] beta n Faroese[edit] Etymology[edit] From Ancient Greek βῆτα (bêta), ultimately from Proto-Semitic bayt- (“house”). Noun[edit] beta n (genitive singular beta, plural betu) Declension[edit] Derived terms[edit] Galician[edit] Etymology[edit] From Ancient Greek βῆτα (bêta). Noun[edit] Italian[edit] Etymology[edit] From Ancient Greek βῆτα (bêta). Noun[edit] beta f (invariable) Noun[edit] Anagrams[edit] Latin[edit] Etymology 1[edit] Noun[edit] bēta f (genitive bētae); first declension Inflection[edit] Etymology 2[edit] From Ancient Greek βῆτα (bêta). Noun[edit] bēta n (indeclinable) References[edit] - beta in Charlton T. Lew) Malay[edit] Etymology 1[edit] From Ambonese Malay beta. Pronunciation[edit] - (Johor-Selangor) IPA(key): /betə/ - (Riau-Lingga) IPA(key): /beta/ - Rhymes: -etə, -tə, -ə Pronoun[edit] beta See also[edit] Etymology 2[edit] From Ancient Greek βῆτα (bêta). Noun[edit] beta - beta (second letter of the Greek alphabet) Old Irish[edit] Alternative forms[edit] Verb[edit] beta - third-person plural present subjunctive relative of is Portuguese[edit] Etymology 1[edit] From Ancient Greek βῆτα (bêta). Noun[edit] Etymology 2[edit] Noun[edit] Serbo-Croatian[edit] Etymology[edit] From Ancient Greek βῆτα (bêta). Pronunciation[edit] Noun[edit] bȅta f (Cyrillic spelling бе̏та) Declension[edit] Slovak[edit] Etymology[edit] From Ancient Greek βῆτα (bêta). Noun[edit] beta f (genitive singular bety, nominative plural bety, declension pattern of žena) OR beta n Declension[edit] Usage notes[edit] When used in the neuter gender, the word is not declined. References[edit] Spanish[edit] Etymology[edit] From Ancient Greek βῆτα (bêta), of Semitic origin, ultimately from Proto-Semitic bayt- (“house”). Pronunciation[edit] Noun[edit] Swedish[edit] Noun[edit] beta n, c - beta; the Greek letter Β, β - beetroot - (computing) a beta version of a program - (slang) short for minnesbeta Declension[edit] Verb[edit] beta Conjugation[edit] See also[edit] - English terms derived from Ancient Greek - English terms with IPA pronunciation - English terms with audio links - English lemmas - English adjectives - English uncomparable adjectives - en:Computing - English nouns - English countable nouns - en:Finance - en:Climbing - en:Physics - English verbs - en:Internet - en:Greek letter names - Ambonese Malay lemmas - Ambonese Malay pronouns - Asturian terms derived from Ancient Greek - Asturian lemmas - Asturian nouns - ast:Greek letter names - Catalan terms derived from Ancient Greek - Catalan lemmas - Catalan nouns - Catalan terms derived from Occitan - ca:Greek letter names - ca:Watercraft - Czech terms derived from Ancient Greek - Czech lemmas - Czech nouns - Czech neuter nouns - cs:Greek letter names - Faroese terms derived from Ancient Greek - Faroese terms derived from Proto-Semitic - Faroese lemmas - Faroese nouns - Faroese neuter nouns - fo:Greek letter names - Galician terms derived from Ancient Greek - Galician lemmas - Galician nouns - gl:Greek letter names - Italian terms derived from Ancient Greek - Italian lemmas - Italian nouns - it:Computing - it:Greek letter names - it:Plants - Latin terms derived from Celtic languages - Latin lemmas - Latin nouns - Latin feminine nouns - Latin first declension nouns - Latin feminine nouns in the first declension - Latin nouns with red links in their declension tables - Latin terms derived from Ancient Greek - Latin neuter nouns - Latin indeclinable nouns - Latin neuter indeclinable nouns - la:Greek letter names - la:Plants - Malay terms derived from Ambonese Malay - Malay terms with IPA pronunciation - Malay lemmas - Malay pronouns - Malay terms derived from Ancient Greek - Malay nouns - ms:Greek letter names - Old Irish non-lemma forms - Old Irish verb forms - Portuguese terms derived from Ancient Greek - Portuguese lemmas - Portuguese nouns - pt:Greek letter names - pt:Plants - Portuguese terms with multiple etymologies - Serbo-Croatian terms derived from Ancient Greek - Serbo-Croatian terms with IPA pronunciation - Serbo-Croatian lemmas - Serbo-Croatian nouns - Serbo-Croatian feminine nouns - sh:Greek letter names - Slovak terms derived from Ancient Greek - Slovak lemmas - Slovak nouns - Slovak feminine nouns - Slovak neuter nouns - sk:Greek letter names - Spanish terms derived from Ancient Greek - Spanish terms derived from Semitic languages - Spanish terms derived from Proto-Semitic - Spanish terms with IPA pronunciation - Spanish terms with homophones - Spanish lemmas - Spanish nouns - es:Greek letter names - Swedish lemmas - Swedish nouns - sv:Computing - Swedish slang - Swedish verbs - sv:Greek letter names - sv:Vegetables - la:Vegetables
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Music is an international language. It brings people together. Every culture has its own repertoire of melodies, songs, dances, and in some cases, even their own unique instruments. It’s hard to say how early in our evolution we began to develop music, but seeing tribes around the world today, we can guess that it was quite early. Neuroscientists have discovered that playing a musical instrument stimulates more parts of your brain than virtually any other activity. This has the tremendous advantage of creating new connections between different parts of the brain, making you smarter and quicker to react to pretty much anything. Let’s take a look at 10 weird and unique musical instruments, old and new, with which we’ve enchanted ourselves, and brought a bit of harmony into our lives. 10. The Nose Flute Surprisingly enough, this particular instrument is found in many places around the world. It’s predominantly found in the Eastern Hemisphere, in Polynesia and other Pacific Rim regions. Some similar variants can also be found in places like China, India, or Sub-Saharan Africa. In Hawaii, this instrument is called “ohe hano ihu” or, “bamboo flute [for] nose.” It’s made out of a single section of bamboo and has two or three finger holes. Here, the nose flute was commonly used as a courting instrument, played in private and for personal enjoyment. However, it sometimes found itself accompanied by chants, song, and even hula dancers. In New Zealand, the nguru, as it is called, was sometimes made out of whale teeth. It had elaborate carvings, and was considered a sacred object. In Tanzania, the nose flute is used in pairs: one for each nostril. Even though it seems counterintuitive to play this instrument with the nose, this technique has the advantage of using the player’s mouth as a variable resonance chamber, while air is exhaled through the nostrils. This way the nose flute is able to produce a rapid and smooth series of ascending or descending notes on the musical scale, instead of them being made in steps. Unfortunately, however, the tradition of playing it around the world is fast disappearing. Artists are trying their best to conserve this amazing instrument. A more modern variant, called Humanatone, was invented back in 1904 by James J. Stivers in New York City. As opposed to the traditional ones, the Humanatone today is made out of plastic and loosely resembles an airplane propeller. 9. The Hang More commonly known as a Hang Drum, this name is considered as a misnomer by its inventors. They say that the term is too limited for what it can actually do. Developed in 2000 by Felix Rohner and Sabina Schärer in Bern, Switzerland, the Hang, as it is officially called, is the result of an in-depth and scientific research into the development of steel musical instruments. This culminated with the discovery of a new, hardened type of steel, as well as its UFO-like shape. This not only gave the instrument a softer tone, but kept it quite durable in the process. Its name comes from the Bernese German word for hand. The “dimples” going around its surface are specially hammered in to create the many psychedelic sounds it can produce. When played, it can sound like a harp, bells, or harmonically tuned steelpans. The steelpan is originally from Trinidad and Tobago and is played with two small hammers. It was actually the inspiration for the Hang. This came as a result of the Steelpan craze in Europe during the ’70s and ’80s. Rohner and Schärer experimented with different variations of steelpans throughout the years. After about 25 years, a visitor came by their shop with a Gatam (a South-Indian percussion instrument), inspiring them to adapt their invention to be played by hand. Though it needs some practice to master, the Hang is quite easy to learn. Many who try it once are able to pick up the technique instantly. 8. The Lion’s Roar Compared to other entries on this list, the friction drum is almost always used to accompany other, more harmonious musical instruments. Found in regions of Asia, Africa, Europe, and South America, this friction drum comes in many different shapes and sizes. It’s also called by many different names. It’s most often used for specific religious and ceremonial purposes, especially in Europe. In Flemish it’s known as a rommelpot, while in Spain, it goes by the name of zambomba. It’s also used in various Italian religious processions, as well as during Romanian New Year festivities. Being a percussion instrument, the sound is produced inside a cylindrical box. This is often a jug, a pot, or a small wooden kit. A membrane, usually made out of leather, is stretched over the opening, and sound is produced either by rubbing it directly with the finger, or by using a wet stick or cord. Changing the pitch can be done by pressing in on the membrane itself. The wet cord, which in some places is made out of horse hair, is tied to a small stick at one end. Through a small hole in the middle of the membrane, it creates friction when pulled. In this case, the friction drum may also be known as a “string drum” or “lion’s roar.” 7. The Balalaika Though a traditional Russian folk instrument, the balalaika has a close resemblance to many East Asian stringed instruments, like the dombra and tanbura. Nevertheless, jesters and troubadours were playing the balalaika in Russia as early as the 1500s, ridiculing the ruling class and Orthodox Church at the time. Not surprisingly, the first written documentation of the balalaika is an arrest record from 1688, with the church trying to ban folk music altogether. This, of course, didn’t happen. The string instrument became more popular than ever, especially with the lower and middle classes. By the late 1800s almost every household in Russia owned one. The history of the balalaika can be compared to the American banjo in this regard. The banjo was similarly used in music significant in cultural revolution. But while the balalaika was more of a symbol of unity, the banjo stood more for conflict between abolitionists and slavery supporters. Its name is somewhat similar to the Russian equivalent for “babble” or “jabber,” making a clear connection to its folk origins and its essence as an easy and fun instrument. Its triangular shape is believed to have originated by quartering a pumpkin, since the balalaika was initially made out of one. The modern versions date to the 19th century and were developed by the famed Russian musician Vasily Andreyev. They come in five different sizes, ranging from about 20 inches to about 5.8 feet. 6. The Glass Harmonica The Glass Harmonica is as rare as it is fragile. Designed and built by none other than Benjamin Franklin, the bowl organ, or hydrocrystalophone, was often played by George Washington and Marie Antoinette. It might look like an outdated steampunk device, but this instrument has made a lot of guest appearances alongside many world renowned artists like Tom Waits, Linda Ronstadt, David Gilmour, Björk, and Robyn Hitchcock. French classical musician Thomas Bloch uses it on a regular basis, together with other musical oddities like the ondes Martenot and Cristal Baschet. Strauss, Beethoven, and Mozart all wrote works for the glass harmonica, and even the famous nu metal band Korn made use of it. The way it works is pretty straightforward. It’s similar to a drunk uncle trying to make a glass of wine “sing” at your wedding by running his finger around the lip. But while he most likely ends up spilling his wine and breaking the glass, a skilled musician can actually make it work. The biggest difference, however, is that it’s mechanized. A series of 37 different sized glass bowls are threaded onto an iron spindle, rotated by a foot pedal. The biggest advantage the glass harmonica has over its classical counterpart is that the bowls are positioned horizontally and the player can work it like a piano, playing up to ten notes at a time. 5. The Semantron This percussion instrument is used only in monasteries belonging to the Christian Orthodox faith. It’s essentially only found in countries in Southeastern Europe. Its purpose is to summon monks to prayer, or at the start of every procession. Of fairly simple design, the semantron can date its origins to the 6th century, within the Byzantine Empire. First appearing in monasteries across Palestine, Egypt, and Sinai, the xylon, as it’s called in Greece today, replaced trumpets that had previously been used for similar purposes, and quickly spread throughout the entire Empire. The semantron can come in various shapes and sizes, and is used in a particular order. The most common variant is basically a plank of hardwood, suspended by two chains and struck with one or two wooden mallets. The others are either smaller, portable, or made out of metal, but their principle is the same. Though simple, the semantron is able to produce a strong resonance and a wide range of different intonations. These all depend on the thickness of where it is struck, and the force used. The custom of using bells in Byzantium only became somewhat popular after the Fourth Crusade when the Venetians, together with the French, sacked the city of Constantinople. But even then, the semantron outnumbered bells by a 5-to-1 ratio. The reason for its continued use today is largely because of the Ottoman Empire, which outlawed bells during their dominion over the region. 4. The Jew’s Harp Despite its name, this lamellophone has nothing to do with Jewish people. Other names for it are jaw’s harp, juice harp, Ozark harp, trump, or guimbard. Most names are misnomers to the original misnomer. In fact, the word “jew” used here is an old misspelling of the word “jaw.” Quite small, it consists of a flexible metal or bamboo tongue, attached to a frame. The player holds it to his mouth, which acts as a resonance cavity, and plucks the harp’s tongue to produce sounds. The notes it can generate are limited, and it has only one pitch. The individual harmonics are regulated by the moving of the player’s mouth. During the 18th century in Europe, some musicians made harps with two or more tongues of different pitch, allowing for a more complete instrument. Its origins can more or less be traced to Asia and Oceania, and only finding its way into Europe sometime around the 14th century. Some consider it to be among the oldest instruments in the world. Due to its quiet sounds and melodies, the “juice harp” was associated in Asia with contemplation. In Thailand and 19th century Austria, the Jew’s harp was used for lovers’ serenades. Today, many of the sounds it’s able to produce are most often found in children’s cartoons. 3. The Hydraulophone The hydraulophone can only be played if you’re willing to get your hands wet. Though it looks complicated, the system within is similar that of a woodwind instrument, like a saxophone, or a bassoon. Here, however, sound is produced by pressurized hydraulic fluid. So rather than using air like a woodwind, it uses liquid to produce its music. Steven Mann, a researcher and inventor best known for his work on computational photography, came up with this instrument in the ’80s as a means for low vision individuals to better use their senses in creating music. It gives the player a higher degree of control over their musical expression via touch. Water is pumped into a curved tube with a series of holes through which it then spurts out. A sounding mechanism is placed above each hole. As the player places a finger over one hole, the water is directed past the associated sounding mechanism and diverted to another part of the instrument. Similar to an electric keyboard, the hydraulophone can be fitted to a wide variety of sound-producing devices. Moreover, the uses of this instrument are numerous, as you can even fit one in your hot tub. If you do that, however, the instrument will then be called a balnaphone. 2. The Alphorn Blowing tube instruments have been around for a very long time. In fact, one such example can be the Australian Didgeridoo, which the Aborigines have been using for thousands of years. Another good example is the Alphorn, which can only be described as a horn on steroids, measuring some 8-to-12 feet long. Used by mountain people living in Switzerland to communicate with each other over large distances, the Alphorn is believed by some to have originated from the Roman Lituus, a similar looking instrument, used with a similar purpose. No documented connection exists, though, and many believe it to be a simple misinterpretation of the word liti, meaning Alphorn in the Obwalden dialect. Its origins are still largely debated. Another possible connection could be with the Bucium, used in the Carpathian Mountains. Here, its use was as a means of communication between shepherds and their wives, or to signal potential military conflicts taking place in the valleys below. In Romania, women play this instrument more often than men. The Bucium, however, has a different sound and relative shape to the Alphorn. However, it’s believed to be much older, possibly predating even the Roman version. 1. The Conch Let’s end on a literal high note. We’ll finish with the conch in the number one spot, even though this list was written in no particular order. Archaeological finds date the use of this instrument as far back as the Upper Paleolithic, more than 12,000 years ago. Its use is spread throughout the world, wherever large gastropod shells are commonly found. It also goes by different names, and its uses were mostly ceremonial, or with various religious purposes. From South Asia to Mesoamerica, the Caribbean, and many Pacific region countries including Korea and Japan, all use the conch in different variations and sizes. In island nations like Fiji or Hawaii, it goes by the name of Pu, and is played like a ceremonial fanfare trumpet. Depending on the style of blowing, the sound can be carried as far as two miles away. Some beautiful legends surround these instruments. In pre-Colombian America, the Quiquizoani, as it was known to the Aztecs, was used at important events. It was also used as a means to coordinate troops on the battlefield. Strong links connect it to the watery underworld and to certain deities like Quetzalcoatl. At Teotihuacan in Mexico, conch shell depictions adorn many structures on the site. It seems that these instruments denoted high status and a special spiritual power. They’re a common find in various burial chambers for the elite. In more modern times, American jazz trombonist Steve Turre plays the conch on occasion, accompanied by his group called Sanctified Shells. During the filming of Ridley Scott’s 1979 film Alien, the Conch is used as an eerie background noise when depicting the extraterrestrial environment of the derelict spaceship. Bonus! The Digi Fonf Okay, so maybe we didn’t “end” on a high note with the conch. We’ve also decided to add a bonus instrument in here. It was hard for us not to include it, simply because of its pure awesomeness. The Digi Fonf could be classified as a musical instrument played by men, for the enjoyment of women. It was invented by Romanian Stefan Popescu, who has been teaching music for more than 35 years. He’s renowned for inventing at least 37 wind instruments. He even got close to earning the Guinness World Record for playing the largest pan flute in the world. He can also play a carrot, a salt shaker, a bottle of liquor, and a walnut. Basically, he can play pretty much anything he can blow into. He states that he can “play” anything as long as it has at least one hole. Insert your own dirty joke. The Digi Fonf is a simple tube fitted with a mouth piece. The player uses his middle finger to touch his desired notes. Practicing on the Digi Fonf can also have some other, more practical applications, than just creating melodies. If you catch our drift. who else really loves Great list. Interesting trivia for #4, the Jew’s/jaw harp: It’s used in the intro to The Who’s Join Together. In a very cool way. Way to go on number one. Put a video that you can’t watch everywhere.
Master Mobility by Learning the Distinctions Between Flexibility, Inflexibility and Fascial Restrictions Part 3 – Flexibility or Mobility Issue? This is Part 3 in a 3-Part series. Click here for Part 1 and click here for Part 2. When is “inflexibility” a fascial restriction or mobility issue, and when is it true inflexibility? That’s the topic of Part 3, the last in this series. Fascial restriction can APPEAR to impact flexibility, and this is a really important distinction to understand because if we try to target what seems inflexible rather than going after the cause of immobility, we could injure ourselves or make things a lot worse. I will not be covering every possible example of this or we’d be here all day, but I do want to give you the ones I see the most in my private practice. Got tight hamstrings? Are you SURE? The most common example of this is when the hamstrings appear tight or inflexible when what is really going on is a low back pain pattern (even if you don’t have low back pain). If you’re in a fascial restriction pattern that is endangering your spine, your brain will step in to PROTECT you by limiting your range of motion. In the case of low back pain patterns it is my opinion that the brain recruits the GLUTES and hamstrings to tighten up neurologically to keep you from injuring your spine. The real CAUSE of distress in the low back is going to be somewhere in the quads and quad hip flexors, the IT Bands or adductors. Most often it is actually the glutes that are the “tightest” (neurologically speaking, NOT from overuse) and if the glutes are in lock down there’s no way you’re going to be able to reach down and touch your toes. (Your body is PROTECTING you). But the problem is NOT hamstring inflexibility. I see a LOT of people attempting to stretch their hamstrings in an attempt to relieve low back pain and posterior chain tightness and I always cringe! And…some people just have inflexible hamstrings, plain and simple. The key to mastering your mobility is to learn how to know the difference. Other examples: - An upper body example might be overused pecs or subscaps leading to fascial restrictions in those muscle groups, which can cause the shoulders to appear to be inflexible. Release the fascia and suddenly flexibility, or more accurately – MOBILITY, is restored. - Calf fascia restricting ankle “flexibility.” This is also a MOBILITY issue, not a flexibility issue. - Scar tissue anywhere in the body will often appear to affect “flexibility” when it has nothing to do with muscle fibers, it’s all about the fascia. - Knee joint flexibility can be seriously impacted by hips that are restricted due to a back pain pattern. - Not being able to put an arm behind your back due to fascial restrictions in the anterior arm, deltoid and pecs. - These are, of course, just a few examples but certainly the most common ones I see in my practice. The takeaway: I believe it’s always best to rule out a fascial restriction or pain pattern issue BEFORE attempting any kind of flexibility training. If you’re still confused about how to tell the difference, go back to Part II. Click here for that post. Once you’ve used fascial release to address any mobility issues and learned your possible pain patterns and you STILL feel inflexible and/or simply want to increase your bendyness…then by all means, stretch away! AND, please do so in a safe and healthy way. For me that means NO or limited static stretching. Use dynamic warm-ups and PNF stretching instead. I have blog posts and videos coming out on those in the next few weeks so stay tuned, or use google. When increasing flexibility is a good idea for injury prevention: I can use myself for an example of this, with my overused overtight quads. My quads developed rapidly as a child gymnast and since then they always want to work overtime. They’ve inhibited my hamstrings big time, to the point where nearly all acute hamstring contractions cause my hamstrings to want to cramp. The PROBLEM is NOT in my hamstrings however (they are INCREDIBLY flexible!) The problem is in my QUADS, which are by comparison NOT as flexible and are inhibiting the hamstrings due to reciprocal inhibition. There is some fascial restriction overlap here too, because the grapefruit sized lumps of tight fascia in my quads (if I’m not diligent about self care) CAN contribute to the hamstring cramping. So priority #1 would be to eliminate or greatly reduce those fascial adhesions (which I’m doing). Then, I could try using PNF stretching to lengthen those quad and quad hip flexor muscle fibers, which will allow me a greater range of motion when contracting my hamstrings. Obviously, if you’re a gymnast, dancer, cirque de solei professional or someone who relies on extreme flexibility during movement on a daily basis, then being super flexible is a necessity. For the rest of us however, it is not. So I don’t advoccate “flexibility routines” and I NEVER recommend static stretching. The opposite could be true for some of you rare birds that actually have very inflexible hamstrings: if you’re working out in a way that requires you to use knee extension and/or hip flexion (such as kicking a soccer ball or doing leg extensions on a gym machine), your hamstrings are required to lengthen for that quad to contract, and it may not want to. These are just two examples of what’s possible throughout the body where opposite muscles inhibit one another. My question is how long lasting is the effect of releasing the fascia from a muscle? It seems that the Graston tool was really effective for breaking down my fascia and knots in my calves. However, when I use a ball on the sole of my foot to release my hamstrings, it is only temporary. (I rub my foot on a spiky ball or any small ball for two minutes, and my leg will go higher to the front). This technique helps my ballet students too but it really just proves a point but is not enduring. Any tips would be greatly appreciated! Thanks and love your series! Sarah Hi Sarah – There is no one factor that determines how long the effect is of releasing the fascia. A lot of this is dependent on your body, your nervous system and stress levels, activities you do that may contribute to some of the fascial restrictions etc. Self help fascial release is always going to be less effective than say working with me, because you simply can’t get as much weight or compression (I sometimes have my full body weight on people!) One thing to consider is if you’re getting a good result but the pain just keeps coming back (for example using the ball on your feet), perhaps you’re not targeting the true cause of whatever restriction you’re attempting to address. It sounds like you’re trying to increase flexibility, and for that to last you definitely have to permanently change the muscle fibers through something like PNF stretching with a long hold at the end. Next week’s video is about PNF stretching. This is a highly complex subject so it’s difficult to answer your question with a simple answer! Good luck and thanks for watching/reading! Hi Elisha! I’ve been following your Mobility Monday sessions. Some of the things I managed to apply to good/some effect and some I have questions about.. For example, the double-legged roller calf release helped me not to cramp up playing touch rugby! Even using a hard pumped rugby ball instead of a foam roller 🙂 I have a question about the pain.. whenever I had a pain and knots along the ridge of my scapulae, I would lie on my back, put a tennis/golf ball on that spot and move my arm around. I did it instinctively before I saw your magnificent series, and it felt really good during and after. It felt right. When I try to release the fascia in my quads (ITB, don’t even go there :), I get to the clanky bits, even a double clank, but it never feels good during. Sometimes it almost feels like a nerve pain. My question is how often do you find it’s effective to release quad fascia. I also tried hamstring ball release as I now realize maybe too soon after the strain.. The issue: I tried a PNF stretch on my hamstrings a few months ago and must have overdid it.. Since then 1. I have a pain bending over with straight legs 2. it hurts in the ligament underneath my left knee when I’m in the full squat (still hamstring?) 3. my groin hurts as well 4. hip flexors started to hurt during a ballet class (lasted for a week resting) What I tried to do: Fascia release on the opposite muscle.. is IT band the opposite of groin? .. are glutes opposite of hip flexors? you mentioned that you rarely needed to work glutes.. Results: Slight relief after, but the issue is not going away.. It feels looser after a half an hour of running, so I do it 1-2 times a week (touch rugby) Anyway thank you for your site and the time you found to read these questions! Hi Alexei – Thanks for following on Mondays! I would LOVE to help you, and I believe I can. However, based on so much information it’s difficult without knowing even more (like, is the hamstring and knee the same leg, is the groin also the same side?) For a groin strain, it COULD be your IT band or it could be your lower quad fascia…that one’s not always the opposite (when I do these videos I have to be generic or they would go on forever!) It does sound to me like you overstretched an already overstretched hamstring, and now it’s irritated. Also sounds like overused quad hip flexors, rather than strained due to glute overuse (which would be really rare). Have you considered a Skype session with me? People typically get really great results from them. You have so much going on I fear I won’t be much help without talking directly. Let me know if you want more info on that! Thanks Elisha! I’d love to have a skype session one day. Unfortunately it’s not possible for me at the moment.. I just wanted to know if releasing fascia in the quads can ever feel nice, like a massage? 🙂 Thank you! p.s. both sides of legs.. hamstring and groin, but the left leg is more dominant, so it gets a “bonus” squat pain 🙂 YES! Releasing the quads will eventually feel good. It might take some time though. Usually fascial release goes through 4 phases: Sucks a LOT (when it’s unhealthiest). Sucks a lot less (when it’s healthier but still restricted) Feels good! (when it’s mostly healthy but still in need of work), and… Feels like nothing (this is fascia at optimal – you will feel almost NO sensation, good OR bad) Hope this helps!
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Results Early childhood obesity prevalence declined in all study neighborhoods from 2004\u20132006 to 2008\u20132010. The greatest decline occurred in Manhattan high-risk neighborhoods where obesity prevalence decreased from 18.6% in 2004\u20132006 to 15.3% in 2008\u20132010. The results showed a narrowing of the gap in obesity prevalence between high-risk and low-risk neighborhoods in Manhattan and the Bronx, but not in Brooklyn. Conclusion The reductions in early childhood obesity prevalence in some high-risk and low-risk neighborhoods in New York City suggest that progress was made in reducing health disparities during the years just before and after implementation of the 2007 regulations. Future research should consider the built environment and markers of differential exposure to known interventions and policies related to childhood obesity prevention. Following decades of rising prevalence of obesity among children in the United States, evidence suggests that the trend may be subsiding (1\u20134). Although childhood obesity has begun to stabilize in New York City, disparities in the burden of obesity and related chronic disease persist (4,5). The causes of childhood obesity are complex; therefore, for prevention efforts to succeed, strategies need to be implemented at multiple levels involving both environmental and policy changes (6,7). Furthermore, involvement at the local public health level is necessary for programs and policies to have population-wide impact (8).\n As part of New York City\u2019s efforts to promote health equity and reduce neighborhood health disparities, the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene established a District Public Health Office (DPHO) in the neighborhood that had the highest rates of illness and death in 2002 in each of 3 New York City boroughs: Manhattan, Brooklyn, and the Bronx. DPHOs work with community partners to plan and implement health promotion initiatives in the catchment areas of their respective high-risk neighborhoods. To prevent childhood obesity, personnel in child care centers in DPHO catchment areas receive additional training and technical assistance for promoting physical activity and healthy nutrition than do child care centers in non-DPHO neighborhoods. The additional training and technical assistance provided by DPHOs would be expected to enhance the implementation of various initiatives to prevent childhood obesity in the 3 DPHO high-risk neighborhoods. Key childhood obesity prevention initiatives implemented after the DPHOs were established include the 2006 revisions to Article 47 of the New York City Health Code and the Eat Well Play Hard in Child Care Settings initiative, which was launched by the New York State Department of Health at child care centers participating in the federally funded Child and Adult Care Food Program. Both initiatives sought to improve the nutrition, physical activity, and television-viewing behaviors of children enrolled in licensed child care centers.\n Many children, especially low-income children, attend nonlicensed child care or have home day care providers; these children are also likely to be enrolled in public health nutrition programs such as WIC. Indeed, more than half (52.0%) of children sampled from child care centers in low-income neighborhoods for the 2-part ICF International (ICF) evaluation of New York City Article 47 child care regulations, which is described elsewhere (9) in this issue of Preventing Chronic Disease, were also enrolled in WIC (9). No population-wide data source is available at the local level for monitoring changes in obesity among preschool-aged children. Data from WIC are a reliable source of information on measured weight and height of enrolled low-income, preschool children (10). Accordingly, to supplement the ICF evaluation, we used New York State WIC data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention\u2019s (CDC\u2019s) Pediatric Nutrition Surveillance System (PedNSS) 1) to conduct an exploratory ecologic study of changes in obesity prevalence and 2) to compare disparities in obesity prevalence between preschool children enrolled in WIC in DPHO (ie, high-risk) areas and preschool children in non-DPHO (ie, low-risk) neighborhoods 3 years before (2004\u20132006) and 3 years after (2008\u20132010) the initial response to the new child care regulations in 2007.\n We used an ecologic, time-trend analysis to compare trends in early childhood obesity prevalence between 2004\u20132006 and 2008\u20132010 in New York City high-risk neighborhoods located in and around DPHO areas (11). Child care centers in the DPHO neighborhoods were oversampled in the ICF evaluation to study compliance with the regulations by child care centers in predominantly low-income neighborhoods. Data for calculating obesity prevalence and racial/ethnic distributions were obtained from the New York State component of CDC\u2019s PedNSS, for 2004\u20132006 (n = 148,785) and 2008\u20132010 (n = 170,091).\n The CDC PedNSS monitored height and weight of all preschool children enrolled in WIC in New York State during the study time frame. Clinic- and county-specific data were captured to assess obesity trends in the New York City pediatric WIC population. On average, children were assessed twice a year by the WIC program; to measure height and weight, trained staff used a standard protocol (3) or obtained the data from medical referral records. Each child\u2019s age, sex, race/ethnicity, household size, and income were reported by the child's parent or caregiver. For this study, race/ethnicity was categorized as non-Hispanic black, non-Hispanic white, Hispanic, or other; the \u201cother\u201d group is small and consists of numerous racial/ethnic categories, including South Asian, East Asian, Native American, and Pacific Islander. Household income was converted to a ratio of income-to-federal-poverty level based on household size by using annual federal poverty guidelines for 2004 or 2010 (12). Data were collected at the clinic level, aggregated at the state level, and submitted to CDC for analysis. Weight, height, and age data were used to calculate body mass index (BMI) (weight [kg]/height [m2]). For children aged 2 to younger than 5 years, obesity is defined as BMI for age at or below the 95th percentile on the basis of the 2000 CDC sex-specific growth charts (13). One record per child per year was randomly selected to estimate annual obesity prevalence. Weight and height data were excluded if data were missing, miscoded, or biologically implausible (13,14).\n Only New York City PedNSS records for children aged from 3 through 4 years were included in the study sample to ensure comparability with preschool-aged children included in the New York City child care evaluation. Data for 2007 were excluded because that was the year the New York City child care regulations were implemented.\n To maximize the comparability of New York State PedNSS data with data from child care centers included in the New York City evaluation, WIC clinics in the 5 boroughs were mapped with ArcView, Version 10.0 (Environmental Systems Research Institute, Inc) against child care centers included in the evaluation and compared visually. Because of the relatively small number of child care centers in the boroughs of Queens and Staten Island included in the New York City evaluation, our analysis was restricted to study centers in and surrounding the DPHO areas of the Bronx, Brooklyn, and Manhattan boroughs, hereafter referred to as \u201chigh-risk neighborhoods.\u201d WIC clinics located outside the DPHO-catchment areas and in the rest of each borough constituted the \u201clow-risk neighborhoods.\u201d These study areas were defined to be consistent with definitions used for New York City\u2019s efforts to reduce health disparities in areas that were deemed to be high-need.\n To assess possible demographic shifts in the WIC-enrolled children across the study areas, 2004 and 2010 New York City PedNSS racial/ethnic distributions were compared by using absolute percentage changes. For the purposes of this study, race/ethnicity was used as a marker of differential exposure to obesogenic social factors (15). We did not standardize obesity prevalence for race/ethnicity because we did not have estimates of obesity prevalence by race/ethnicity for individual New York City WIC clinics. Data on the household income of WIC-enrolled children were used to calculate the mean poverty ratio in 2004 and 2010 for each of the borough-specific high-risk neighborhoods and their corresponding low-risk neighborhoods. Similarly, 3-year obesity prevalence estimates before 2007 (2004\u20132006) and after 2007 (2008\u20132010) were computed for borough-specific high-risk and low-risk neighborhoods, and the significance of changes in 3-year obesity prevalence was assessed by using \u03c72 tests. Trends in childhood obesity prevalence were assessed by using a log-linear model in PROC REG, SAS version 9.3 (SAS Institute, Inc).\n The figure displays the spatial distribution of WIC clinics included in our study along with child care centers targeted for the ICF evaluation of Article 47 regulations. The figure also shows the high-risk neighborhoods served by a DPHO and shows adjacent low-risk neighborhoods located outside the DPHO catchment areas in the boroughs of Manhattan, Brooklyn, and the Bronx. In addition to showing the target areas for DPHO activities and initiatives (ie, high-risk neighborhoods), the map also shows the clustering of WIC sites and low-income child care centers across all 3 study areas. The high-risk study areas include 46 of the 86 WIC clinics in New York City (53%). In 2004, 84% of WIC participants in the high-risk neighborhoods in our study area (n = 32,710) were Hispanic (52%) or non-Hispanic black (32.0%). The proportions of the 2 subgroups changed little in the high-risk neighborhoods in 2010. In contrast, in the low-risk areas, non-Hispanic black and Hispanic children together constituted approximately half of WIC-enrolled children in 2004 (51%) and 2010 (49%). Among high-risk neighborhoods, the largest absolute change in racial/ethnic composition from 2004 through 2010 occurred in the Bronx where the proportion of WIC-enrolled Hispanic children increased by 4.9 percentage points, while the proportion of children in the \u201cother\u201d category decreased by 5.4 percentage points (Table 1). A slight increase in the proportion of non-Hispanic black children was observed in the Manhattan high-risk neighborhoods (2.2%) along with a small decline in the proportion of children in the \u201cother\u201d category (2.9%). Among the low-risk neighborhoods, the largest changes in racial/ethnic composition occurred in Brooklyn where the proportions of WIC-enrolled non-Hispanic white and non-Hispanic black children both decreased by 4.8% percentage points while the proportion of children in the \u201cother\u201d category increased by 6.3%. In both 2004 and 2010, the household income of WIC-enrolled children in high-risk neighborhoods tended to be a lower proportion of the federal poverty level than that of their WIC-enrolled counterparts in low-risk neighborhoods (Table 1). On average, WIC-enrolled children in high-risk neighborhoods in 2004 lived in households with incomes at approximately 79% of the federal poverty level compared with 88% of those in low-risk neighborhoods. This pattern was unchanged in 2010. Comparisons of the mean poverty ratio between 2004 and 2010 in both high- and low-risk neighborhoods showed a general decline, with the largest decreases observed in Brooklyn (high-risk neighborhoods, \u22120.29; low-risk neighborhoods, \u22120.24) and the smallest in the Bronx (high-risk neighborhoods, \u22120.13; low-risk neighborhoods,\u22120.04).\n Figure. Child care centers and Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) clinics in high-risk and low-risk neighborhoods of Manhattan, Brooklyn, and the Bronx. Solid and dotted lines indicate the boundaries of the New York City District Public Health Offices (DPHO) located in Central and East Harlem in Manhattan, North and Central Brooklyn, and the South Bronx. [A text description of this figure is also available.]\n The 3-year prevalence of childhood obesity among 3- and 4-year old children enrolled in WIC during 2004\u20132006 and 2008\u20132010 was consistently higher in high-risk neighborhoods than in low-risk neighborhoods (Table 2). The highest prevalence among both high-risk and low-risk neighborhoods was in the Bronx. Childhood obesity prevalence declined in all study neighborhoods. Changes were significant in all areas except in Manhattan low-risk neighborhoods. The greatest decline occurred in Manhattan high-risk neighborhoods where childhood obesity prevalence decreased from 18.6% during 2004\u20132006 to 15.3% during 2008\u20132010 (P < .001). This decline led to a substantial narrowing of the Manhattan gap in childhood obesity prevalence between high-risk and low-risk neighborhoods. In the Bronx, childhood obesity prevalence in high-risk neighborhoods declined from 19.1% in 2004\u20132006 to 17.1% in 2008\u20132010 (P < .001) and reached parity with that of the Bronx low-risk neighborhood during 2004\u20132006 (17.4%) leading to a slight narrowing of the gap. A similar narrowing of the gap was not observed in Brooklyn.\n The average annual percentage change in prevalence of obesity in high-risk neighborhoods from 2004 through 2010 was \u22122.6% (P = .007) compared with \u22121.6% (P = .082) in low-risk neighborhoods. The highest annual percentage change occurred in the Manhattan high-risk neighborhood (\u22124.7%; P < .001), followed by that in the Bronx high-risk neighborhood (\u22122.6%, P = .005). No significant trends were observed in the Brooklyn high-risk neighborhood or in any of the 3 low-risk neighborhoods (data not shown).\n The results of this study show that 3-year obesity prevalence among 3- and 4-year old children enrolled in WIC in high-risk and low-risk neighborhoods in the Bronx, Brooklyn, and Manhattan declined from 2004\u20132006 to 2008\u20132010. The declines were greatest in high-risk neighborhoods of the Bronx and Manhattan, with average annual percentage changes that ranged from \u22124.7% in Manhattan to \u22122.6% in the Bronx. The findings suggest a narrowing of the gap in early childhood obesity prevalence between high-risk and low-risk neighborhoods in Manhattan and the Bronx, but not in Brooklyn where race/ethnicity shifts in low-risk neighborhoods were substantial. The observed narrowing of the gap between 3-year obesity prevalence in high-risk neighborhoods in Manhattan and the Bronx during 2008\u20132010 suggests that some progress is being made in addressing health disparities consistent with the mission of the New York City DPHOs.\n The observed declines in 3-year obesity prevalence in the study neighborhoods from 2004\u20132006 to 2008\u20132010 are consistent with secular trends that show that obesity among preschool and school-aged children has plateaued (1,2), and with reports of declines in childhood obesity in different parts of the United States (3,4,16,17). The relationship of these findings to compliance with the Article 47 regulations by child care centers in the ICF New York City evaluation is unknown but may point to the importance of more intensive assistance in these areas of the city. Compliance with Article 47 of the New York City Health Code was expected in all city neighborhoods. It is likely that multiple factors influenced the decline in obesity rates.\n This study shows that geographic variation in childhood obesity is significant within New York City neighborhoods. Evidence of neighborhood-level variation in childhood obesity prevalence in a large city such as New York City underscores the importance of identifying and monitoring modifiable aspects of the built and social environments when designing and implementing interventions and policies to support the maintenance of healthy lifestyles (18).\n Because this study did not include measures of the built environment, it is not possible to comment on the extent to which the observed differences in 3-year obesity prevalence over time could be explained by within-neighborhood changes in socio-environmental characteristics. However, a previous analysis of census and New York City Community Health Survey data shows that more affluent neighborhoods in New York City tend to have more resources that support maintenance of physical activity and healthy eating behavior (18). Most importantly, that same analysis showed that prevalence of adult obesity was higher in less-resourced, low-income communities than in more affluent neighborhoods (18).\n Beyond the built environment, however, possible explanations for the observed differences in childhood obesity prevalence among the study neighborhoods range from sociodemographic characteristics of the populations enrolled in WIC to differences in implementation of population-wide obesity prevention policies. In this study, racial/ethnic composition and income-to-poverty ratio were used to assess changes in the sociodemographic characteristics of the study neighborhoods. If the observed declines in 3-year obesity prevalence were largely explained by changes in the racial/ethnic composition of the study neighborhoods, it would be reasonable to expect that proportions of Hispanic and non-Hispanic black children, who are known to be at higher risk for obesity than non-Hispanic white children in the United States (1,3,4,19), would be significantly lower in 2010 than in 2004. However, a careful review of the racial/ethnic composition data shows that the proportions of these 2 high-risk groups remained fairly stable from 2004 to 2010 across all study neighborhoods. Furthermore, in 2010 WIC-enrolled children in each borough were living with families in greater poverty than were the WIC-enrolled children in 2004 as evidenced by the average decrease in income-to-poverty ratio in each borough. This finding suggests that the observed differences in changes in obesity prevalence cannot be attributed to the changing racial/ethnic or socioeconomic composition of the neighborhoods.\n In light of the numerous interventions implemented in New York City during the last decade (4) to address the growing childhood obesity epidemic, including the implementation of child care regulations in Article 47 of the New York City Health Code in 2007, the results of this study suggest that citywide policies may be working in concert with state and local initiatives to change the food and physical activity environments for low-income, preschool children. Because data for this study came from WIC-enrolled, low-income children, the observed geographic variation in childhood obesity prevalence trends also raises the possibility that families with WIC-enrolled children are better able to adopt and maintain some healthy lifestyles promoted by the WIC program, such as healthy eating, physical activity, and reduced screen time (20) in some neighborhoods than in others (21).\n This study examined childhood obesity prevalence trends at a sub-city level over time. Previous studies of preschool-aged children compared trends at the state (2) or city (19,22) level but not at the neighborhood level. The use of 3-year prevalence proportions instead of annual prevalence proportions ensured that comparisons were made by using more stable numerators (ie, counts of WIC-enrolled obese 3- and 4-year old children) and denominators (ie, counts of all 3- and 4-year-old children enrolled in WIC) across all study neighborhoods during the 2004\u20132006 and 2008\u20132010.\n Our study has several limitations. Like all ecologic study designs, the findings of this hypothesis-generating study cannot be used to draw causal inferences at the individual level. Second, we had no information on the national origin or length of time in the United States of WIC participants; therefore, it was not possible to assess whether changes in the makeup of racial/ethnic subpopulations contributed to changes in obesity prevalence across the study areas. Furthermore, we cannot rule out the effect of more children who are not at risk of obesity enrolling in WIC as a result of the economic downturn that occurred in New York City and nationwide during 2008\u20132010. Finally, the scope and reach of health promotion activities in DPHO areas are known to have expanded during the study period; however, we were not able to assess the extent to which this expansion may vary across the DPHO areas or may explain the observed neighborhood disparities in childhood obesity prevalence trends.\n Although work still remains to eliminate these health disparities (particularly in the South Bronx where obesity prevalence during both 2004\u20132006 and 2008\u20132010 was approximately twice the Healthy People 2020 (23) target of 9.6% for early childhood), evidence of declines in childhood obesity among children enrolled in WIC in all study areas and a narrowing of the gap between high-risk and low-risk neighborhoods in Manhattan and the Bronx is encouraging. New York State and New York City have been proactive and innovative in childhood obesity prevention with statewide and citywide initiatives focused on improving age-appropriate physical activity and access to affordable healthy foods in early child care and WIC settings (4,22). Future research should include measures of the built environment and individual exposure to known interventions and policies to prevent childhood obesity, including exposure to child care, and should incorporate multilevel regression modeling to fully understand factors associated with childhood obesity prevalence trends in New York City neighborhoods.\n The evaluation of the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene\u2019s regulations for beverages, physical activity, and screen time for children aged 3 years or older in licensed, group child care centers was funded by grant no. 65425 from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) to the CDC Foundation. Technical assistance was provided by CDC\u2019s National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion\u2019s Division of Nutrition, Physical Activity, and Obesity. ICF International was the lead contractor for the study in conjunction with the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DHMH). Beth Dixon was a consultant on the project. We thank Laura Leviton, RWJF; Tamara Dumanovsky, New York City DHMH; and Julia Ruben and David Cotton, ICF International for their support and contributions to the study. The findings and conclusions of this paper are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the official views of CDC.\n Corresponding Author: Jackson P. Sekhobo, Division of Nutrition, New York State Department of Health, 150 Broadway, Menands, NY 12204. Telephone: 518-402-7109. E-mail: [email protected]\n Author Affiliations: Lynn S. Edmunds, Mark Giddings, New York State Department of Health, Albany, New York; Karen Dalenius, Jan Jernigan, Laura Kettel Khan, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia; Christopher F. Davis, University at Albany School of Public Health, Albany, New York; Catherine Lesesne, ICF International, Atlanta, Georgia.\n Abbreviation: SD, standard deviation. a High-risk neighborhoods are the areas in or adjacent to the District Public Health Office areas of the Bronx, Brooklyn, and Manhattan boroughs. b Low-risk neighborhoods are the areas in each borough outside the District Public Health Office catchment area. c Values are percentages unless otherwise indicated. Percentages may not total 100 because of rounding. d Poverty ratio is ratio of income to federal poverty level computed by income and household size using annual the US Department of Health and Human Services\u2019s Federal Poverty Guidelines for 2004 (24) or 2010 (25). \n\n \n The opinions expressed by authors contributing to this journal do not necessarily reflect the opinions of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the Public Health Service, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, or the authors' affiliated institutions.
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NICK HOWARD DOB:4/6/1993 HEIGHT: 6-3 WEIGHT: 215 lbs B/T: R/R The Reds selected Nick Howard with the 19th overall draft pick in the 2014 draft, which continued the organization's recent strategy of trying to reap a competitive advantage by converting college relievers into professional starting pitchers. It seems safe to infer that the Reds believe they can spot undervalued talent in college relievers. Tony Cingrani was the first significant attempt at this conversion, Michael Lorenzen followed shortly thereafter, Howard most recently. While these picks are all philosophically similar, one difference worth noting is the escalating opportunity cost. Cingrani was a 3rd round pick. Lorenzen was a Supplemental 1st round pick. Howard was a full blown 1st round pick. As the value of the draft pick increases, so does the opportunity cost. Opportunity cost is the "loss of potential gain from other alternatives when one alternative is chosen." When the Reds selected Cingrani, they viewed him as the 114th best player in the country. Since 113 players were already off the draft board, they never had a shot at those players, which lowers the opportunity cost of selecting Cingrani. When the Reds selected Lorenzen, they viewed him as the 38th best player in the country. Only 37 players were off the board, so the available alternatives were of higher quality, increasing the opportunity cost of selecting Lorenzen. Finally, in selecting Nick Howard, the Reds viewed him as the 19th best player in the country, despite the availability of a number of other quality alternatives, giving Howard the highest opportunity cost of the troika. Given the real inherent risk to converting a college reliever to the starting rotation, driven by the simple fact that he's never proven that he can do what you asking, the lower the opportunity cost the better. The college reliever may have less wear-and-tear on his arm, but he has yet to prove that his mechanics and arm health can hold up under a heavier workload (see: Cingrani, Tony). As a result, rolling the dice in the 3rd round makes more sense than rolling those 1st round dice. COLLEGIATE CAREER Nick Howard spent three seasons at the University of Virginia. For the Cavaliers, Howard pitched out of the bullpen, pitched out of the rotation, and played first base, third base, and shortstop. Wearing that many hats obviously requires very good athleticism and creates a tremendous amount of value for the the program. Pitching Career 2012 (19-FR): 41.2 IP, 2.79 ERA, 1.10 WHIP, 2.57 BB/9, 7.93 K/9, 3.08 K/BB, 19 G/0 GS 2013 (20-SO): 61.1 IP, 3.39 ERA, 1.34 WHIP, 2.21 BB/9, 7.67 K/9, 3.47 K/BB, 13 G/12 GS 2014 (21-JR): 37.2 IP, 1.89 ERA, 0.97 WHIP, 3.32 BB/9, 14.21 K/9, 4.29 K/BB, 31 G/0 GS Hitting Career 2012 (19-FR): .346/.426/.404/.830 with 0 HRs and 13/8 K/BB ratio in 52 ABs 2013 (20-SO): .323/.341/.449/.790 with 3 HRs and 31/8 K/BB ratio in 198 ABs 2014 (21-JR): .261/.305/.333/.638 with 1 HR and 25/11 K/BB ratio in 153 ABs For our purposes, his pitching performance is what's relevant. Howard worked exclusively out of the bullpen as a freshman and junior. He started 12 games and made 1 relief appearance as a sophomore. His performance ticked up notably in his junior season, which is what undoubtedly carried him up the draft board. He also pitched seven newsworthy innings at the College World Series, including four in a 15-inning battle with TCU. In his final season, he also broke the UVA single-season save record, previously held by former Reds farm hand Kevin Arico. 2014 SEASON Despite a long season at the collegiate level, Howard still had time to log some innings and get his feet wet in the professional ranks. The Reds sent him to low-A Dayton, where he pitched 33.2 innings for the Dragons. In those innings, he posted a 3.74 ERA, 1.16 WHIP, 23/11 K/BB ratio, and a 1.15 GO/FO ratio. The Reds started off his professional career with 6 relief appearances followed by 5 starts to finish the season. It's a small sample size and examining his splits just makes it more so, but since Howard's ability to start is at issue, it's worth noting that he was better in relief than he was in the rotation. As a reliever, he posted a 2.70 ERA, 1.00 WHIP, and a 9/3 K/BB ratio in 10.0 innings. As a starter, he posted a 4.18 ERA, 1.23 WHIP, and a 14/8 K/BB ratio in 23.2 innings. Some observations from the what I saw out of Howard. In shorter stints, he had the ability to get swings-and-misses on the fastball, but in longer stints that was less common. In his starts, he didn't always have the ability to put hitters away when he got ahead in the count, which frequently points to inconsistent or insufficient offspeed pitches, the former in Howard's case. PITCHING MECHANICS Overall, Howard uses a fundamentally sound set of mechanics without any glaring red flags. He has good athleticism which aids in repeating his delivery and maintaining consistent balance and tempo in the delivery. He also has good size, which should help him effectively work on a downward plane. Howard stands tall on the mound with feet shoulder width apart. He uses a very small rocker-step towards first base to begin his motion, shifting his weight to the left foot so he can pivot his right foot down onto the rubber. The step is short, allowing him to maintain balance and rhythm, and aids in transitioning momentum up the delivery. From there, he brings his lead leg up into the leg kick, which is one of the first components that gives his motion a somewhat stiff/rigid appearance. At the apex of his leg kick, Howard keeps the toe of his foot at a 90-degree angle to his shin (see below photos, interestingly he used a slightly higher leg kick for low-A Dayton than he did later in the Arizona Fall League), which isn't necessarily a negative, but it adds a touch of tension and rigidity to his motion: The other component of his motion that creates a more rigid, less fluid, look is his upright posture. His upper body, in particular stays fairly upright throughout the delivery, which causes his shoulder level to remain parallel to the ground throughout. Typically, as a pitcher nears the apex of his leg kick he "sets the hip." This move involves the back knee and back hip moving forward, causing the front hip to lead the rest of the body in the drive to the plate. This movement, which generates forward lean in the delivery, creates leverage by setting a small uphill angle of the shoulders as the pitcher drives down the slope of the mound. Most pitchers, particularly power pitchers, don't maintain level shoulders throughout the delivery, instead they let the setting of the hips work to set the shoulder level. Not only does this create additional leverage, but it also increases the ability to throw on a downward plane. Howard does "set" the hip, but he doesn't create the small uphill angle of the shoulders. So, to an extent, he is sacrificing a small degree of leverage and downward plane by maintaining a level shoulder-level throughout the delivery. On the plus side, Howard has a clean arm action, both maintaining good position relative to the shoulder throughout and getting up into proper throwing position at foot strike. He throws from a high three-quarter arm slot with a quick arm that can generate plus velocity. In addition, Howard has a strong glove-side action in the delivery, which gives him a firm point to work against as he throws the ball. He pulls the glove down enough to generate a measure of rotational force, but not so much that he pulls the rotation off-line and increases stress on the pitching elbow. His glove also finishes properly in the box between the midline-and-the-armpit from the belly button-to-the-waist. Ideally, a pitcher's throwing-side and glove-side should load the arm for throwing by mirroring and counterbalancing each other. Howard does that well. The differential created by Howard between hip-rotation and shoulder-rotation (see below photo) is solid-average. Not great, not terrible. By not creating a larger differential, Howard is relying on a kinetic chain with sub-optimal efficiency to generate force. There would be performance and durability benefits to creating a greater differential and improving the efficiency of the chain. While Howard does a solid job in generating the force, he is less successful at safely and effectively dissipating that force. The deceleration phase of the delivery is important for durability, as the arm has to be properly decelerated to reduce the risk of serious injury. One of the key components of the deceleration phase is proper and timely pronation of the pitching arm after releasing the pitch. This rotation (think of the rotation of the arm resulting in the thumb pointing downward) of the arm is necessary because it prevents the elbow joint from consistently banging after the release of each and every pitch. Howard's pronation seems inconsistent at best, insufficient at worst, as he doesn't always fully and complete pronate the arm. Howard's pitching arm finishes low and doesn't involve any recoil, which is good, but the insufficient pronation could foreshadow serious elbow problems down the road. The pitching motion creates a tremendous amount of force, which is borne by the arm and must ultimately be taken off the arm through proper dissipation of that force. Here's a slow-motion look at Nick Howard on the mound, courtesy of Chance Moore on YouTube: One interesting thing to note is the final pitch in the above clip is his changeup, as evidenced by the circle-change grip that he employs. Here's another look at Howard in the AFL, courtesy of The Prospect Pipeline on YouTube: Overall, Howard has solid, functional mechanics. There a few things I'd like to see improved, including a bit more fluidity in his motion and a greater differential, but the largest concern and the closest thing to a real red flag is the insufficient deceleration phase. REPERTOIRE Howard works with a primarily three-pitch mix. He has a power fastball that he can run up to 99 mph as a reliever, but that sits 91-93 mph as a starting pitcher. When he's working as a reliever, he has the ability to get swings-and-misses with the fastball even in fastball counts. He also features a slider that has good depth, bite, and downward break. Whether intentionally or not, the slider can also resemble a slurve, with a slower, bigger break. So, he's either inconsistent with his slider or he can shape it different ways in different situations. Finally, Howard throws a changeup that pundits rate as an average or below average pitch, but from what I've seen it has very real potential. It shows flashes of being a beautiful pitch with good deception and late tumble. It may be an inconsistent, but there's real upside there and it wouldn't surprise me if it turned out to be his very best pitch. Overall, Howard's repertoire has promise, but if the conversion to the rotation is going to work, then he'll need to find (1) more velocity or command on the fastball, (2) more consistency on the slider, (3) better command of the changeup, or (4) some combination of incremental improvement in more than one of those areas. FINAL THOUGHTS Nick Howard is the latest attempt by the Reds to convert a college reliever to the professional rotation. That's a gamble that makes more sense outside the first round, where the opportunity cost is lower and the increased risk from making the conversion is more manageable. Overall, Howard has blend of positives and negatives that lands him at #5 on the list: Positives: Solid mechanics, good size, solid velocity, a good slider, and the potential for a very good changeup. Negatives: No real track record of being able to hold up under a starting pitcher's workload, a questionable deceleration phase that increases the risk of serious elbow injury, velocity that plays better out of the bullpen, and inconsistent offspeed offerings. As the opportunity cost increases, I'm becoming less and less enamored with the strategy of drafting college relievers and converting them to the rotation. The first round should be a time for drafting prospects who, as much as possible, are ready to hit the ground running without the need for a major change in role or mechanics. However, Nick Howard, like Cingrani and Lorenzen before him, will get the chance to develop as a starting pitcher. I would argue (1) that the success of this draft pick hinges on his conversion to the rotation and (2) that the success of this conversion hinges on his changeup, which I believe could end up being the best weapon in his arsenal. If the changeup continues to develop, then he could emerge as a solid starting pitcher. If not, then he'll likely be a high-leverage reliever. For now he slots in at #5 on the list.
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He goes out on that limb saber rattling thinking he had allies with him. Then he looks around. No UK. Nobody but France which is well behind and looking like it is about to bolt. Besides, can he really get away with declaring amnesty by himself? At some point, the illegals are going to come up against THE LAW. Happy Nomad on September 13, 2013 at 7:00 PM Worth a Repeat… “Companies lay off thousands, then demand immigration reform for new labor” workingclass artist on September 13, 2013 at 7:01 PM The separation of powers means nothing to these people. Their understanding of the law is minimal, to say the least. How is it that the nation should make exception to the law, and grant exception to the law, to those who have willfully shattered the law, for the sake of those for no regard for the rule of law? 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I wish I could adequately explain how difficult it is for someone to get “back in” to this country the legal way. And I’m not talking simply about jumping a fence from Mexico…more than half of illegals in the US came here legally…and just overstayed their visas. You can’t just go down to an office somewhere and “renew” a visa…you have to go back home, wait what could be years, and only then be able to legally return here. I’m with most of you…illegal is illegal. Pocketing a roll of Certs and walking out of the 7-11 with ‘em without paying is illegal. And it’s illegal to steal a high-priced automobile. But the punishment is nowhere near the same if you’re caught. Illegals are the same way…there are varying degrees of “illegal”. There are those who screw around, steal, make trouble, and those who have families, are hard-working, and actually contribute to society. They cannot all be treated as if they’re the worst of the worst criminals equally. 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And, btw…this may be tied into the AFL-CIO saying you can join even if you are not a worker. game this out. AFL-CIO is privileged wrt obama.care…anyone can join the union..and therefore gain privileges. Right…just my fevered mind, i know r keller on September 13, 2013 at 7:10 PM Good point…I wonder if this will, or won’t, fall under “full faith and credit”… JetBoy on September 13, 2013 at 7:12 PM Oh good grief! Now it’s immigrant communities. Everybody wants their own “community”. Whatever happened to the AMERICAN community? Cleombrotus on September 13, 2013 at 7:13 PM And they’ll happily, eagerly oblige. rrpjr on September 13, 2013 at 7:13 PM Good God, this Charlie Crist fanboi is like a walking folio of immigration strawmen. What parts of e-verify and secure the border do you not understand? Instead we get six paragraphs of tearful moaning B.S. Oh, but you are “with us” and you “understand,” while you demonstrate your diametrical opposition to enforcing the law and your fervor to pile yet one another rock into the backpack of misery toted by America’s working poor, many of whom, I might add, are “hard-working.” P.S. This doesn’t just apply to Crist fanboi, but why does everyone throw around that “hard-working” crapola, and not just about immigration? No offense to millions of office potatoes, but most people don’t really have to work all that hard. P.P.S. The worst criminals get long prison sentences in Federal PMITA prison. We just want to send these people home. So, another strawman. Wow, we’re horrible. A Balrog of Morgoth on September 13, 2013 at 7:17 PM Did you read what I wrote? I said that he cannot permanently legalise illegals unilaterally. An EO is a directive from a President to HIS administration. It can be reversed on Day One by the next POTUS (think the Mexico City policy). For example, the ‘Dreamers’ haven’t been permanently legalised. All Obama has done has been to instruct HIS administration not to deport them. He hasn’t changed the law, which remains as it was when he unconstitutionally – according to one Federal court – waived its enforcement. Resist We Much on September 13, 2013 at 7:19 PM As long as California decides Policy for every other state…We are Doomed as a nation because California is a Fascist Gulag. Why should an illegal interloper receive special favor to break our laws? In related News…Bishops FAIL. “Catholics reject bishops’ push for immigration increase…” But the Catholic flock believes the Congress has a greater moral responsibility to aid Americans than to aid illegal immigrants. Only 14 percent of 4,967 Catholic likely voters in 26 states said Congress has “a lot” of responsibility “to help protect the ability of current illegal immigrants to hold a job and support their families without fear of deportation,” according to data from polls funded by NumbersUSA. In contrast, 54 percent of Catholics said the government has very little or no responsibility to help illegals get jobs and avoid deportation… The remaining 27 percent says the government has some responsibility. NumbersUSA is an immigration reform group that wants to reduce the current immigration flow of 1 million people per year. The polls were conducted by Pulse Opinion Research prior to the Senate’s approval in July of a rewrite bill. Respondents were asked for their religious views, allowing NumbersUSA to highlight the low support among Catholics for the hierarchy’s push for a staged amnesty. The polling data should help offset the pro-amnesty lobbying by other religious groups, including the Catholic hierarchy, Roy Beck, direct of NumbersUSA, told The Daily Caller. “Members of Congress who are concerned about how they’ll be judged on a basis of morality need to know that as far as Catholics go, there are a few dozen bishops that take on the [pro-immigration] position, but the vast majority of Catholics place a higher priority on American workers,” said Beck. Only 28 percent of Catholic support the hierarchy’s effort to win “legal status and work permits” for illegals. Thirty-two percent favored deportation, and 30 percent said some could stay, but not be given work permits. The views of Catholics are important because non-Hispanic Catholics have been an influential swing vote that has often sided with Democrats on economic issues, but which are now trending Republican. For example, GOP candidate Mitt Romney won 59 percent of the white Catholic vote in 2012. If Catholics were to see the GOP as dominated by business interests, they’d be more likely to swing back to the Democratic candidates. The Senate bill passed in July. If approved by the House, it would provide a staged legislation to 11 million illegal immigrants, double the number of guest workers in the country, and double the inflow of immigrants to 46 million by 2033. The increased immigration would would ensure the arrival of one new immigrant for every two American births…” Read more: workingclass artist on September 13, 2013 at 7:19 PM It’s not against his personal interests, it is however against the interests of members of the greedy unions. slickwillie2001 on September 13, 2013 at 7:20 PM Allah, I think you forgot a sarc tag there … ShainS on September 13, 2013 at 7:20 PM If the president abrogates constitutional order and acts unilaterally, the congress has a duty to impeach and convict. Dirty Creature on September 13, 2013 at 7:22 PM Obama has a sworn and mandated duty to see that the law is enforced. He has a duty to observe and obey separation of powers. ONLY the legislature is empowered to make the law. thatsafactjack on September 13, 2013 at 7:22 PM Texas already doesn’t consider a California Driver’s License a ‘Primary form of identification’. When I had to turn in my CDL and get a Texas License moving out here a couple of years ago, I had to not only provide my old CDL, I had to bring in my SS card and a Birth Certificate also. I love Texas. trigon on September 13, 2013 at 7:25 PM Major difference – Barky couldn’t even get his own brain-dead worshipers to get behind him on Syria. On immigration, they will turn out in full support of him. Gator Country on September 13, 2013 at 7:26 PM O who will have the balls to do that? Maybe cruz… but we have to hope we get a strong candidate in office for that to happen. If the Pubs put guys like Rubio front and center and he wins the nomination …you can see where I am going with this. I also dont see a democrat over turning this either. watertown on September 13, 2013 at 7:27 PM Shhhhhhhh! You’re undoing generations of brainwashing. Union members pay no attention to slickwillie2001. You are incapable of fair working conditions without belonging to a union. If it were not for unions, there would be no middle class. Unions are AWESOME! Happy Nomad on September 13, 2013 at 7:28 PM Oh, that’s rich. Accusing me of strawman with…a strawman. I’m all about e-verify. Count me in as a supporter. Same with securing the border. I have always agreed that a sovereign nation cannot be sovereign with a porous border. I am 100% with you on that. It’s no strawman to talk about hard working illegals with families that CONTRIBUTE TO SOCIETY in this country as being in a different league than lazy, non-contributing thugs. Yes…illegal is illegal. But any punishment must be meted out with differing actions. For those who contribute, there should be fines, and a slew of basic requirement to be met, that would allow them to stay here…DOCUMENTED…and work for citizenship. Back of the line. For those who do not contribute…hasta la vista. I’m really puzzled why this is such a hard concept to grasp. ___________ And for the record, I own my Crist support…and have taken full responsibility for insisting that turd had one ounce of dignity. I was wrong, and make no excuses for that. A Balrog of Morgoth on September 13, 2013 at 7:17 PM Telling me I JetBoy on September 13, 2013 at 7:30 PM Texas doesn’t recognize California’s Gay Marriage Licenses…To the state of Texas your just room mates who can decide to share property and share taxes or something… Texans think Voters can vote with their feet and live in the States they want to. For Texans if you’re Gay and want to be married to someone of the same sex…Move to California or a similar state and Good Luck To Ya. If a voter hates Guns…Move to NYC or another gun grabbin state and Good Luck To Ya. If a voter wants to pay a lot of taxes or make a living off Welfare…Move somewhere besides Texas and Good Luck To Ya. etc… shrug workingclass artist on September 13, 2013 at 7:30 PM Welcome to Texas neighbor. God Bless Texas! workingclass artist on September 13, 2013 at 7:32 PM Resist We Much on September 13, 2013 at 7:19 PM right…and that’s the beauty of EOs. If barry gives subsidies to unions for their healthcare plans, thereby burdening taxpayers about 20B a year, they will make very damn sure that those EOs are a campaign issue…Evil Rs will take your money away. Vote Left! r keller on September 13, 2013 at 7:33 PM And none of them are entitled to be here, no matter how many heart strings you try to tug at. But they can all be treated as what they are….illegal immigrants….a status that calls for deportation. xblade on September 13, 2013 at 7:35 PM I live in NY, and yeah, the deep blue liberal-ness stinks, to put it mildly. I’m an NRA member as well, and own quite a few guns. To paraphrase Charleston Heston, they can have my guns when they pry them out of my cold, dead hands. JetBoy on September 13, 2013 at 7:39 PM JetBoy on September 13, 2013 at 7:30 PM Take the sentiment out of the equation. The question is simple. Should one type of individual or group receive favored status to break our nations laws? If the answer is yes it is not a conservative answer. Immigration Reform is necessary but should not include Amnesty on principle. Secure Borders is a related but separate issue…and an issue of national sovereignty and security. workingclass artist on September 13, 2013 at 7:40 PM Here is a link to the companies pushing for amnesty: watertown on September 13, 2013 at 7:42 PM My bad must review first hehe. watertown on September 13, 2013 at 7:42 PM And this is not an acceptable solution since he could “fix” the next Presidential election by declaring amnesty since the majority of illegals would support the Dems. Not only would his action be unConstitutional, but also an explicit case of election fraud on a grand scale. dominigan on September 13, 2013 at 7:45 PM Actually the correct but un-popular term is illegal migrants or the old fashioned term is interlopers. Immigrant implies immigration which can only occur through a nation’s immigration policy whether they be temporary or permanent in nature. Folks that avoid our laws or that abuse them by overstaying their visas are committing Fraud… workingclass artist on September 13, 2013 at 7:46 PM Not true. The official estimate is around 40%, which is less than half,not more than half. Not that it matters anyway. It wouldn’t be a valid excuse even if 100% of illegals were visa overstays. And they knew this when they filed for and accepted the terms of the visa. xblade on September 13, 2013 at 7:53 PM mwbri has hit on it. Unions are cutting their own throats by supporting Amnesty. Black leaders too. The two groups most impacted by the legalization of 11 million,( 22 million, 33 million, 44 million–you get the picture) illegal Hispanic aliens will be millions of legal Hispanic aliens and millions of Blacks–plus thousands of formerly employed (before Amnesty) union workers.. But what can you expect from a leader who has almost single-handedly doubled our national debt, destroyed our medical system and picked fights with Libya (and wound up with a Benghazi) and with Syria (and wound up with a propaganda Pearl Harbor– making us look like international idiots.) MaiDee on September 13, 2013 at 7:55 PM Linky not working. Barred on September 13, 2013 at 7:56 PM Unions s/b against amnesty. Union members, wake up and go after your leaders, with all you got. They are scrooming you out of jobs and higher earnings. Schadenfreude on September 13, 2013 at 7:57 PM Drive wages for LEGAL American citizens by dropping 20 million plus into high unemployment nation……and you get what? Oh yeah, you get…. 1. Permanent Teater Voting majority to keep the Ruling class in power (so the serfs don’t throw them out in 2014). 2. Cheap labor for big business donors to both parties. 3. 20 million immediate ObamaCare supporters. 4. Texas going blue. 5. Another huge step towards incremental border less North American Government. Did I miss anything? Oh yeah, I did. 6. Permanent Progressive Democrat power to continue decades more class warfare. PappyD61 on September 13, 2013 at 7:59 PM Tomato, tomahto, it doesn’t really matter. Everyone knows what we’re talking about, and no one thinks being called an illegal immigrant implies legal status. Getting caught in the weeds worrying about whether it should be immigrant/migrant/alien is an unnecessary distraction. I do like interloper though. xblade on September 13, 2013 at 8:03 PM What if you were a potus surrounded by a dozen or more lawyers all the time. You wanted to accomplish your agenda which is destruction of the country yet keep from being impeached for all the illegal deeds you have perpetuated. IT might make sense to create a Syria out of thin air just to take the heat off impeachment from summer scandals like Benghazi,nsa, irs,Egyptian MB’s threatening to blow the whistle on everything they know and on and on. Quite possibly syria was created out of nowhere in hopes of buying say a month or six weeks up to the time of the debt ceiling. But the debt ceiling only lasts a short period of time.What delaying tactic will you use after that. If you said amnesty pass go and collect…. Amnesty is the final delay and divert attention from other scandals which all lead to impeachment tactic needed by the regime. Whether or not anything gets accomplished in Syria or amensty makes no difference. The debt ceiling stalling tactic is easy and pubbies will get the blame they always do. Bottom line, zero already has the power to get whatever/whenever he wants on most issues. What he needs is to stall almost indefinitely until after the 2014 elections to keep from being impeached,keep his agenda in tact and lower the numbers of seats the dems will lose. So far his bevy of lawyers are right on track. Amnesty will eat up more time than any of the other diversions. rodguy911 on September 13, 2013 at 8:03 PM You think it’s hard to move up to a better paying job now? Wait until your kids are competing with Pedro, Maria and their 6 anchor babies (that will bring in the Grandparents because “we can’t separate families”). Wait until companies need another 10 or 20 million more workers? Wait until California collapses and other states follow suit, and we are reorganized into a new collection of states or provinces. America 2030 may look a lot like Mexico. Thank you Ruling Class. PappyD61 on September 13, 2013 at 8:04 PM Sounds like Mexico and our politicians have a lot in common!! It happens every year in October……and it’s called “The Congress of Clowns” You can’t make this up. PappyD61 on September 13, 2013 at 8:10 PM Why does a union need a department of illegal immigration and community action? I think you are exactly right. I think the American people would be very much on board with a “secure the border first and wait” approach to illegal immigration. hopeful on September 13, 2013 at 8:13 PM You like many others, seem to be under the impression that the United States in under some obligation to make things as easy a possible for foreign nationals to get into and stay in this country. I think someone who has put in the time and effort to get here properly will make a much better addition to this country than someone who meandered over the border or overstayed their visa and were handed citizenship. Liberals are fond of fairness. How is it fair to those who follow the rules to legalize law breakers? hopeful on September 13, 2013 at 8:18 PM Pathway to civil war. . : ( listens2glenn on September 13, 2013 at 8:29 PM Where did I say that?!? Jeebus…All I’m saying is that there be some, pardon the phrase, “pathway to citizenship” for those illegals who meet certain requirements. I said I’m all for fines, and “back of the line” status. I’m just not for throwing all of them out of the country. Those who wish to stay need to register, pay fines, learn English, work, no handouts, etc. How the heck does all that amount to making things, quote, “as easy as possible”? For cripes sake, read my comments. JetBoy on September 13, 2013 at 8:48 PM Thanks for the link — it was nice to take a break from reading about the amateur clowns. AesopFan on September 13, 2013 at 8:57 PM JetBoy on September 13, 2013 at 8:48 PM You were complaining that you “just can’t go to an office and renew a visa.” That comes off as you wanting things to be easy. Forgive me if I misinterpreted. As many have said before on this and other threads -there already exists a pathway to citizenship. If they are here illegally, why should they be given any break whatsoever? Why do we owe them that? Many do it correctly and cutting the law breakers slack is not fair to those who do come here legally. If it takes making the illegals who are here leave before they can come back, then so be it. If they really, really want to be here they will come back the right way. And it would be a deterrent to others who want to come here illegally. hopeful on September 13, 2013 at 9:04 PM . We won’t last one decade, before the U.S. would cease to exist as the U.S. After that, a LOT of American politicians are going to find themselves out of a job. listens2glenn on September 13, 2013 at 9:06 PM JetBoy on September 13, 2013 at 8:48 PM I might also add, the US government has a constitutional obligation to protect it’s citizens. We need to know who is here and why they are here. Cutting illegals slack only begets more illegals. Most of them may just want a better life for their families. It only takes a couple to slip through and fly some planes into a couple of buildings. hopeful on September 13, 2013 at 9:07 PM I think the union leadership wants the illegals to become “legal” however is necessary so they can start unionizing them. Union membership has fallen way off. Now they are targeting the fast food and service industries. How many of those working in those fields are here illegally and therefore can’t be unionized. Trumpka may not be acting against his interests, but he sure as hell is acting against those of the members he is supposed to represent and protect. Jvette on September 13, 2013 at 9:42 PM You did misinterpret…and you’re forgiven. I was only stating a point, nothing more. I’m heading out in a few minutes so I can’t answer as fully as I’d like to…but I’ve covered all the basics as to why not all should be, or even could be, deported. You break up families, lives, jobs, unless you set a criteria for staying while advancing for citizenship. We don’t have to “throw ‘em all out” as if they’re all garbage. I know some illegals. I’ve worked with them. I’ve met their spouses, kids, and they’re hard workers. They contribute to the community. Those are the ones who should have the chance to work…and not in any “easy” way…for citizenship while being able to stay here. There are those who should be sent out on the next plane. And we should give them that opportunity. If the good ones screw up, out they go. But give those good one the chance before you send them packing. Frankly, I’d rather start shipping out the far-Left liberals that were born here. JetBoy on September 13, 2013 at 9:42 PM Bingo! We give the hard working, good illegals a chance. They aren’t terrorists. Or murders. Or thieves. They’d have to register, and meet and fulfill a set of requirements. If they fail, they go. It wasn’t Hispanic illegals that carried out 9/11. Cheers, JB out. JetBoy on September 13, 2013 at 9:46 PM Aren’t these the same labor leaders who supported Obamacare and now realize that they screwed themselves? I guess some people never learn. bartbeast on September 13, 2013 at 10:17 PM Yet even more decisively showing they do not represent their workers, who would be greatly harmed by more people legally qualifying for their jobs, but instead are just another wing of the leftist party. I look forward to more unions leaving the AFL-CIO till it dies a miserable death. njrob on September 13, 2013 at 10:23 PM njrob on September 13, 2013 at 10:25 PM Anti-1st Amendment, check. Anti-2nd Amendment, check. Anti- respecting our borders and sovereignty, check. Why don’t you just come out and admit you’re a leftist already? njrob on September 13, 2013 at 10:26 PM Fixed. njrob on September 13, 2013 at 10:31 PM Do this and he will unleash the wrath of an already seething citizenry. I’m a mom with college educated children who cannot find a job. Multiply me by millions. You are threatening my children’s futures and forcing us into a corner. If Obama dares this it will be the final straw and all the hollow point bullets and government tyranny will not stand. Don’t do this if you know what is best for the peace. neyney on September 13, 2013 at 11:02 PM A working class hero is something to be. Kenosha Kid on September 13, 2013 at 11:50 PM The republicrats will do what thy always do fold like cheap Wal Mart chair when one of you immensely fat, dumb, kid touching religious yokels sit on it. Your Mamma loves me on September 14, 2013 at 12:16 AM Even he’s not that stupd to do it on second thought, Syria clusterfark…maybe he is indeed that stupid… jimver on September 14, 2013 at 1:09 AM Obama should have been impeached for the Dream amnesty crapsalooza already. Only a gelded GOP allows this post-legal anti-Constitutional treason to proceed unopposed. profitsbeard on September 14, 2013 at 2:29 AM Wait until the Obama “community” finds out that they have become number two and are no longer essential….The rainbow will lose a stripe real quick about that time. Don L on September 14, 2013 at 11:32 AM Sorry the GOP wants this more than Obama does…. Don L on September 14, 2013 at 11:33 AM Lemme know when you’re done editing all that bs. Yeah, I’m some “leftist”…everyone I’ve ever known since high school stopped whatever they were doing after you typed that and sensed something amiss in the space/time continuum. JetBoy on September 14, 2013 at 3:25 PM You dispute what I wrote? I don’t see where you do. You have shown time and time again you favor forcing the religious to worship the state. You have shown you don’t respect states citizens’ voting in their own laws and you’ve shown you will use the power of the government as a cudgel to get your way. You are a leftist. njrob on September 14, 2013 at 10:35 PM
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Check out my other posts about previous trips to Japan and Osaka and Kyoto and my time living in Kobe. Option 1: Osaka/Kansai Chuseok 2016. I flew on Eastarjet Airlines (a charter airline that flies out of Incheon for flights to Kansai - KIX). I flew out on Thursday morning at 7:50 AM (arrive 9:30 AM) and flew back to Seoul on Sunday at 11:10 AM (arrive at 1:00 PM) Itinerary includes:Day 1: Kobe Day 2: Kyoto Day 3: Osaka Day 4: Back to Seoul SIM Cards and phone access in Japan! Since I lived there about 3 years ago, it is a little easier to get a SIM card and there are many more options. I prepared my SIM card ahead of time. I ordered one off of TicketMonster in Korea for about 14,000 KRW (2 GB LTE, 14 days). There are vending machines in the lobby of KIX and booths for various Japanese telecom companies scattered throughout the arrival hall. I just took a quick look to see the prices, I had done a bit of research before leaving Korea, and that's how I decided on buying the Korean one. I found that the SIM cards were roughly all about 4000 JPY for either 2GB LTE or unlimited 3G, for use over 14 days. One note! iPhones are very difficult to set up with a Japanese SIM. I was never able to get mine to work, luckily I had an unlocked LG phone and I just used that instead. The workers at the Duocomo store weren't even able to help (my phone is completely global unlocked, the Japanese government just has a lot of additional settings for iPhones). Day 1: KOBE 9:30 Arrive at Kansai Airport I was unlucky. The customs line was ridiculously long. Three packed full flights from Korea all arrived at the same time...none of the travelers were prepared, for some reason or another. Around 11AM I took the airport limousine directly from KIX to Kobe. You just go out to the #6 bus stop, ask the help desk if you're confused. You have to also purchase a bus ticket from the ticket machine. There's English, so no worries. The bus ticket was 1980 JPY (about 19 USD). The ride is about 70-75 minutes depending on traffic. You arrive in Sannomiya, right next to a large department store. There's also my favorite store ever...Loft! Loft seriously has everything! You can easily spend an entire day in there. There's cosmetics, clothing, accessories, DIY, kitchen supplies, lifestyle supplies, etc. Seriously! Check it out! I just used it for the free WiFi to try and figure out my phone situation. I, then, went behind the station to the Ikuta Shrine, about a 5-7 minute walk. I had been there a couple of times before, but wasn't really able to explore it that well. I then went to Nishimura's Coffee, the original store. It has been open since 1948. I had a quick bite to eat and then continued on my way. I walked from Nishimura's to Kitano, which is the foreigner settlement in Kobe and walked around a little bit. I had kind of awkward timing, so many of the cafes were in between services. I then decided to walk to the Venus Bridge. It is famous for its wonderful view of Kobe. My guidebook and Google maps said it was a 45 minute walk from Kitano, but it didn't really explain the elevation of said walk. I ended up climbing a mountain by accident, while carrying my backpack suitcase full of all my gifts and clothes, etc. up that darn mountain. The climb would have been wonderful had I kind of known it was a climb and wasn't carrying my backpack and also hadn't tried to do it at 2 PM (it was pretty sunny and about 32 degrees). I had initially planned on walking from Venus Bridge to Harbourland, but after that accidental climb, I decided that a bus was probably the best plan. It definitely was! I finally made it to Harbourland, took a quick walk around, but I was kind of beat and wanted to kind of get to Osaka to meet up with my friend. I finally bought my Kobe Starbucks Mug. I ran out of time to get one last time...I also didn't have very much space left in my suitcase that time, so I finally got it. It was 1100 JPY. My friend lives off the Hankyu line, so I had to get to a Hankyu station (just for ease). I wanted to also pass through Chinatown, so luckily both goals were accomplished. I also decided to walk from Chinatown through the Motomachi Shopping Arcade. It was about rush hour, so I kind of wanted to get on the train before Sannomiya station, so that I could sit down and not worry about being in the way with my suitcase. I made it to Osaka, after a bit of a train mishap, around dinner time. NOTE: If it is your first time to Japan, make sure you read the train maps! I kind of knew in my mind that I needed to get on an express train, but somehow I forgot when the train arrived to check and I ended up on the limited express train to Kyoto. So, I had to go back and wasted like 7 minutes of my/my friend's time. Finally made it to her house and then we went grocery shopping. I am maybe a weirdo, but the thing I like to try to do is to go to a grocery store. I also check out the snacks and candies aisles for souvenirs and gifts. Day 2: KYOTO As I said, we were living on the Hankyu line. This is one of the most convenient ways to get to Kyoto...and also one of the cheapest. You can also use the JR line or the Keihan line, just make sure to check all your options. JR tends to be the most expensive company. We decided to go on Day 2, just because it was a Friday, which means that there would likely be less people there, since most of the Japanese tourists couple probably go to Kyoto on the weekend. We took the Hankyu line to Kawaramachi station. This station is right by Gion. We were actually ahead of schedule, we had planned to arrive around 11AM and then go directly to lunch, but we had some extra time. I bought some of the famous Kyoto mochi as gifts for my friends. We also walked around a bit in the specialty shops in Gion. My friend is into the Pokemon Go game and one of the hotspots for the game is the Yasaka Shrine, or actually the Maruyama Park, which is directly behind the shrine. So, for me, we hit up the Yasaka Shrine and then hit up the park for her. Also, as luck would have it, the restaurant we wanted to go to, Izuju, was right across the street from the shrine. This is a sushi restaurant that is more than 100 years old. We arrived there about 11:30, we didn't want to wait in line, so that's why we started our day so early. I highly recommend the mackerel (saba) sushi. It was so wonderful! I've never had sushi that flavorful. We also got the checkerboard sushi and 2 pieces of the hamo sushi. I would also recommend the hamo, it's a seasonal fish - only available in the summer, so this was our last week to eat it. It was a little pricey, but not too bad given the quality of the food we received. It was about 4600 JPY (about 45$ for the two of us to have more than enough sushi). We bought the unlimited day bus pass for 500 JPY (each ride is 210 JPY, so if you take the bus more than 2 times, you have your money's worth). All of the tour guides tell you to to buy the bus pass at Kyoto Station, which is what I did last time. But, if you know Japanese/have a Japanese speaker, you will find out that you can also buy the bus pass on the bus. We then went to Kinkakuji Temple (Golden Pavilion). This is the most famous one for foreign tourists. I had tried to get there last time, but ended up at the Ginkakuji instead (Silver Pavilion). I honestly liked Ginkakuji better, it's so much more peaceful and I even went there during the really busy autumn colors festival time. Both are definitely worth a try. I believe the entrance fee was 400 JPY per person. From there, we took the 51 bus again to Ryoan-ji temple. This was an interesting temple and my friend had actually never been there before. It was a vacation house for an aristocrat, but was later transformed into a temple. It is also a UNESCO World Heritage Site and I highly recommend it, too. There's a beautiful Zen rock garden and pond. It's so relaxing to just sit there and look at nature. From there, we went back to Gion and then transferred buses to go to Kiyomizu-dera. It closes at 6:30 PM in the fall, but the famous shops around it close much earlier. We got there around 5:45 and almost everything was closed, such a pity. We decided to walk back to Gion and try and find food along the way, rather than taking the SUPER crowded bus. It's about a 20 minute walk from Kiyomizu to Gion. We decided to get a steamed bun that we were eyeing on our walk up to Kiyomizu-dera. It was delicious and so flavorful. It was SO HOT, though. The worker was not joking. We then stopped off at a udon restaurant - Senkaku that was right on the main road. It was so good! We continued our walk back and stopped off at this cute accessory shop. Unfortunately, the name escapes me. Back in Gion, we stopped off at some more of the specialty shops. One of the really famous things in Kyoto are the specialty pickles, so we tried all of the pickles. I don't even like pickles and I found some I actually enjoyed! We also went to the ume (Japanese plum) store and tried some ume pickles and juice there, too. There's also a really cute candle shop. We stopped in there on the way to the Kyoto candy shop (another Kyoto specialty) and I found a candle exactly like the candies that I was going to buy as decor. It was so lucky, I was worried about the candies getting kind of gross if I used them as decoration. Then, we stopped off in an accessory store and ended up buying some cute/good smelling solid perfume and some good luck charms. I had been trying to find something cute all day, but so many of the charms at the temples were so...tacky. Then, we headed back to Osaka. I bought an unlimited Osaka subway pass for 600 JPY. It's easy to find on the subway vending machine. I believe it's called something like the Easy Eco card. I started off the day at Chitose for a brunch of meat udon soup. It's a very famous shop and I waited in line for about 20 minutes. There's only seats for about 20-25 people in the store. It was super good. I highly recommend it, especially if you're eating alone. Then, I walked around in Dotonburi a bit. It was really hot outside, so I decided to do some quick shopping in Don Quixote, which is kind of like a Japanese big box store. It has a little bit of everything at discounted prices. I ended up buying all the products I wanted to buy. Then, I wandered around Shinsaibashi while I was waiting for my friend. This is a large shopping area in Osaka and is definitely worth a look. It has a bunch of international and Japanese brands, but not so many independent stores. It was actually "Silver Week" in Japan, so there were a lot of sales. My friend and I met for Kobe beef rice bowls at Red Rock. I meant to go to the location in Kobe earlier in the week, but I ran out of time. It was SO DELICIOUS and such a good value for the quality, quantity, and flavor of food we got. (More on it later). It's in the Amerikamura area, so we walked around a little since she's never really been there. We quickly decided, however, that we were too nerdy and not fashionable enough to pull off most of the clothes that were there, so we decided to continue on our way. I had wanted to go to the Elk Pancake and Dining in Amerikamura/Sinsaibashi for fluffy Japanese pancakes and 3D latte art. We were so full, but did consider going for 3D latte art, so we checked it out. Unfortunately, the 3D latte art is only available on weekdays (something to note). We decided to just go explore a different area of Osaka. We went to the Nakazakicho area and explored the cute artsy cafes and shops there for a bit. We went to Kaya Cafe and got some coffee and just rested and caught up. Then, we walked to Osaka Station because I wanted to check out the Disney Store to buy a Duffy bear. However, Duffy bear is ONLY available at Tokyo Disney, unless there's a special theme promotion. We had also been seeing posts about the Gudetama cafe and just did a quick walk-by to see what it had to offer. We were so full and it seemed like it wasn't totally worth overstuffing ourselves. We then went to Tenjimbashisuji, which is the longest shopping arcade in Osaka. It is more than 2.6 km long and is filled with restaurants, specialty shops. We stopped in there for kushikatsu (kushiage), which are the Japanese fried food skewers. We then wandered around a bit and then went outside the arcade a bit to a restaurant for our sashimi rice bowls. This place was good, but not great. It was cheap, but they sacrificed quality. Then, we went on a bit of a walk around the shopping arcade to walk off our food a bit. I stopped into to Daiso to get my final last gifts and snacks. Then, we headed back via bus. Day 4: Back to Seoul Since it was Silver Week, I had to leave ample time to get to the airport. The Namba station is also quite confusing to me, so I wanted to make sure I didn't get lost. Follow the signs at Namba Station for the Keihan Railway to the airport. Tickets from Namba to KIX are less than 1000 JPY. If you buy that ticket, make sure you don't try to get on the Rapi:t train. So many people tried doing that, but that train requires you to buy different tickets and reserve a seat! Instead, go to platform 8. I made the mistake of taking a local train, so then I had to get out and transfer, but I was so worried and I kind of just sat there. The local is so slow, so keep a lookout at each station for a sign that says Airport Express. The lines were insane at the airport. I also ended up standing in the wrong line forever. My airlines changed...even though I booked both flights directly on the Eastarjet website, my flights were operated by T'way. So, I wasted an hour standing in line, to only get to the ticket counter and have the agent tell me I need to go to the other company's line. The annoying thing is there were three workers that were checking our ticketing information at three separate points in the line, but whatever, I made it. The line at customs was SUPER long, too. A combination of all the Koreans going home and all of the Japanese people escaping Japan for Silver Week. I got to my gate RIGHT at the printed boarding time, but it turned out that they had called the boarding gate and told them to hold off on boarding because everyone was stuck in customs. We ended up departing about 25 minutes late. OPTION 2: 5 days/4 nights First off, this was my first trip to Japan in which I rented a portable WiFi, I typically purchase a SIM card. I really recommend renting a portable WiFi!! It's much cheaper and a lot faster/more reliable. I used a Korean company and picked up my device at Incheon airport before leaving Korea and returned it when I got back. It was 2900 KRW per day. You can, however, rent one at Kansai airport for 400 JPY per day if you don't want to deal with Korean websites, etc. Day 1: Osaka I purchased my flight on Eastar Jet again because I didn't have any issues last trip. The flight left at 12:25 from Incheon. This was kind of a perfect time because I didn't have to rush to the airport and I didn't have to worry about meals, etc. I arrived to my friend's house at about 4PM - she lives in Kitahama. It only takes about an hour or so from the airport to Kitahama. It was the end of cherry blossom season, so after a quick rest at her house, we went out to the Nakanoshima Park/Minami-Temma Park area to do some cherry blossom tourism along the O River. During the first few weeks of April, there is also a illuminated path of cherry blossom trees. This was kind of crazy actually, it really reminded me of the time I went to Kyoto for the autumn color night illuminations at Kiyomizudera Temple, there are just so many people walking slowly through trees and taking pictures. There are more than 100 different varieties of sakura trees in Japan and, along this path, you can see all of the different types of cherry blossom trees in Japan. At night, they light up the path and trees and it is a very unique experience. You continue walking this path all the way. Foot traffic flows in only one direction and it's very crowded, plan accordingly. There are food stalls at the entrance/exit, but food is not allowed in by the trees, so make sure you finish your food before entering. Afterwards, we were very hungry, so we made our way to Tenjinbashisuji Shopping Street for dinner. This is the longest, and one of the oldest, shopping streets in Japan. We stopped off at an okonomiyaki (Japanese pancake) for dinner (nearest station: Minami Morimachi). Okonomiyaki is a famous food of Osaka, so I recommend you try it :D Day 2: Osaka Rain was forecasted the entire day, so we made a really chill cafe/eating day plan. We started off the day with 3D lattes and fluffy Japanese pancakes at Elk Dining. We had tried to go when I was in Osaka over Chuseok, but 3D lattes are only available on weekdays. Then, we headed over to Red Rock again for the roast beef bowls! Actually, my friend and I had been reminiscing about this roast beef bowl...and it kind of spurred this last minute trip to Osaka. Then, since it was raining all day, I just went "shopping" the rest of the day. I walked the Shinsaibashi Shopping Arcade all the way to Namba...and then got lost in Namba Parks for a bit...literally. I think Namba is one of the most confusing places in Osaka. Whenever my friends wanted to meet at Namba while I was living in Kobe, I always tried to strongly request we meet somewhere else...1) it is hard to get to from Kobe, 2) I always get lost. Then, we finished our day at Mos Burger. This is a Japanese burger chain that is known for its freshness and handmade burgers. Actually, the Mos Burger at Kitahama station is quite big/clean. It has two floors. We both were shocked by how quiet the Mos Burger was...like everyone was in there studying/reading. It was quieter than any library I have ever been in, too. If you're ever looking for a quiet workspace in Kitahama, Osaka, check it out! There's WiFi, too, and no service charge like you get at cafes. Day 3: Kyoto I decided to go to Kyoto this day, starting out at the Fushimi Inari Shrine. Before I left Osaka, we went to a steak restaurant my friend was really excited to take me to. Its "claim to fame" is that it is a "Japanese pickle buffet" (my friend's description). She wasn't wrong. The steak was so-so, but the pickle offering was quite extensive. Then, I was off to Kyoto. Actually, if you're planning on making Osaka your home base for your trip to the region, I recommend staying in the Kitahama area. The Keihan railway is one of the fastest/cheapest ways to access Kyoto/Fushimi and Kitahama has a Keihan stop. I started off at Fushimi Inari Shrine. It's on a small mountain that overlooks Kyoto. For some reason, maybe because it was Easter weekend, there were SO many Europeans there...like, so many! One thing to note, it is on a mountain...this was my second accidental mountain hike in like 3 weeks. Make sure you prepare accordingly...like buy water at the bottom...I had to pay so much money for water about 3/4 of the way up. I was so annoyed...the prices increase as the elevation increase, so sneaky of them. I didn't make it to the top. It wasn't a grueling climb or anything, I just wanted to do other things with my day...and also one of the other tourists was this overweight lady who was smoking an e-cig the entire way up the mountain and who started wheezing quite noticeably about halfway up, so I kind of wanted to avoid seeing her demise. I then stopped off for an ice cream treat at La Tiare Kyoto. They had cherry blossom flavor as the seasonal flavor, so I decided to try that. Then, I decided to just take the Keihan over to the Gion area and look around there for the rest of the day...if I made it to Kiyomizudera, I'd be happy, but if I didn't, I'd also be content. There's a "cherry blossom" path in Gion area. I checked it out, but I was too late to see the blossoms. I walked through the Nishiki Market and just was...touristy. I had udon for dinner. I had meant to order soba, but I got flustered during my order...typical me. Udon is not a very filling dinner, so I was still hungry afterwards. I stopped off at a famous dango (Japanese rice cake) shop on the main street for some treats to bring back to Osaka with me. They were kind of cheap given the quality...more on that later, but I got a 5-pack for less than 500 yen. I then stopped at Gion Tsujiri Honten for a quick green tea sakura smoothie and picked up a delicious pudding to share with my friend back in Osaka. Day 4: Universal Studios Japan (USJ) This was just a day devoted to Universal Studios Japan. We were kind of disappointed in reading up on the park because the Minions Park was set to open on 21 April (we went on 19 April). However, we lucked out! Minions Park was having its soft opening that day! We ended the day with a shabu shabu buffet at Universal Citywalk. Day 5: Osaka My flight was at 2PM, so we kind of just had the morning. We tried to find a good breakfast place, but most of the places opened at 10:30, so there wasn't really that much time. We ended up going to this bakery that is famous for its Yakisoba bread. Then, I headed to Starbucks to try the American Cherry Pie Frappucc.
Riots are shocking events where the ordinary rules of society break down. London 2011 was gripped by the sight of burning cars and hooded youths looting shops. But why do riots happen? What reason could there be for such destruction? Is it poverty and unemployment? Are people alienated from society? Or was it simple opportunism by criminals? Are they provoked by police brutality? Or did the police do too little to stop them? Are they the sign of a breakdown in morality? Are they a product of a “culture of dependency”? Or do some people just want to see the world burn? The main reason why riots happen is due to the riots themselves. Once a riot and looting begins, they build up a momentum of their own. A form of herd effect takes place, people loot because others are doing so as well. A crowd offers anonymity so people who wouldn’t ordinarily steal feel that they can get away with it as everyone else is. It is hard to catch one thief when hundreds are stealing. Once rioting begins in one place word soon spreads other mimic them. If you could steal with little chance of being caught, many otherwise law abiding people would do it. What is interesting is that once a group of people decided to start rioting, there is little to stop them. This shows how heavily society is based on social norms, if these norms stop being respected by even a small group, society ceases to function effectively. If the anonymity of a crowd is the major reason why people riot, why does the riot begin in the first place? Why do so many people riot (an activity that has zero benefit) instead of looting (which has some benefit)? The standard answer is that they are mindless thugs who love to steal and destroy for its own sake. After the London Riots of 2011, words like “feral youth” and “criminal underclass” were used a lot. This approach is so simplistic that it rejects the idea of even considering why people riot, as though understanding was the same as sympathising. Instead they are criminals to be punished as severely as possible. Others use it as an excuse to blame their pet hates like the welfare state. Some view the riots as caused by an “entitlement culture” where people don’t work for goods but rather expect it to be handed to them. Or a dependency culture. Or the breakdown of the family (allegedly caused by the welfare state). These are comforting ideas to conservatives. It absolves them of all responsibility to change anything, they can stay as they are, it is the others that must change. There is nothing wrong with society; it is the criminals who are wrong. At its most extreme you can hear the sneering tone of ancient lords looking down their noses at peasants in the gutter. Yet this view is notable only for how little it illuminates. It gives no reason for rioting or why it is primarily poor youths who do so. It involves intellectual summersaults to claim that the most deprived sections of society have been spoilt by the welfare state. It requires gross ignorance to claim that the problem of the poor is that they have life too easy. It is more a case of what some want to be true rather than what actually is. But what if there is something deeper? What if the rioters have a reason for their action? I don’t mean this to excuse them or condone their actions, but rather it is true understanding their motivations that we can prevent future riots from happening. There must be a reason why riots always take place among inner city working class young men. Behind every action there is some motivating reason, some logical progression that makes sense to the perpetrator. By understanding what this is, we can ensure that London doesn’t burn again. these frustrations? There are numerous possible explanations but I believe poverty and inequality are the two major ones (which is why rioting occurs in the poorest part of unequal societies). Most people have similar goals in life, they want to be successful. In Western societies this usually is judged based on material goods and a good job. If people from poor backgrounds are unable to fulfil these goals they become frustrated. This is why unemployment and poverty are underlining motivations for riots. If success is judged on how much possessions you have, then a poor person can be considered a failure. This breeds resentment. If they feel that they fail not through their own efforts but because of factors beyond their control, then they begin to resent “society” for blocking their goals. Because it is unseen inanimate forces that they feel are holding them back, when this frustration does explode, it does so randomly. They take out their anger on random objects nearby (often those that are weaker than them) be it animals, women, buildings or other young frustrated men. Inequality plays a large part in this. If everyone is suffering then there is less resentment, however, if it is felt that some (even a small group) is parting while the rest toil, then resentment grows even more. Not only are young men unable to achieve their dreams but they feel mocked by the magazines full of successful people who have. Young people play close attention to the lives of the rich and famous and try to emulate them. When they find that these hopes cannot be fulfilled they become frustrated. In a society where the gap between the rich and poor is very wide, not only is the bar set higher to be considered successful, but it is far harder for the poor to advance. If people feel the deck is stacked against them, that through no fault of their own, the luck of birth has consigned them to poverty, resentment will build at the unfairness of it. This is why corporations in particular where targeted by rioters, they felt the corporations had plenty of money while they had little. Special attention should be given to the fact that rioters are almost always young men. This is because young people are more aspirational and hopeful about what they can achieve in life. It is when these hopes get blocked that they become bitter. Young people are less patient, less willing to wait years in the hope of improvement. They want the world to change today, not tomorrow. They are also not fully adjusted to the idea of not fulfilling their hopes. Unlike older people who may be more beaten down and accustomed to poverty, young people still want to fight against it. This is also why rioters are overwhelmingly male. For men, anger is the only socially acceptable emotion to publically display. If a man cried at losing his job, this is a sign of weakness, whereas if he got drunk and smashed something, this would be more understandable (particularly in traditional societies). Men are raised from a young age with the belief that physical methods are the best way to achieve your goals. It is regular to describe a job “hunt”, the “struggle” to get a job which men have to “fight” for. Unemployment and poverty are more humiliating for men as they are raised to be the bread winners, the strong provider who others rely on. Failing to get a job is failing to be a real man. By being unable to take part in society through working, men become alienated from it. They therefore see it as natural to express this alienation and frustration through violence. Most riots have a race element if only because they usually happen in urban areas which are the most multicultural of any country. Race links into the frustration and alienation that I spoke about above. If black people feel that society is run by white people for their exclusive benefit, they will feel excluded from it and therefore excluded from responsibilities to it. They may feel that it is the colour of their skin that is holding them back. Resentment over racism usually is the gunpowder behind the explosion of a riot. White people may riot against immigrants if they believe the immigrants are the reasons their goals are proving impossible to achieve. Riots may also be sparked by political events such as those in Northern Ireland or after the assaination of Martin Luther King. Again the underlying cause is frustration and alienation. Regardless of whether the motivations are race, class or politics, the motivations are the same, only the target changes. What is noticeable about riots is that almost all of them are provoked by an incident involving police. This is true of London 2011 as well as the riots in America in the late 60s. People riot against what they see as police brutality. In poor areas many complain about what they consider as intimidation and harassment from the police. They feel they are unfairly targeted either based on their race or their age or just where they live. They consider constant police searches and interrogations as humiliating and making them feel weak (when faced with the force of the law we are all weak). This frustration eventually blows up with riots and attacks on the police, which some see as revenge. Riots are not simply explained by stereotypes of young criminals engaging in thoughtless destruction. If we continue to engage in these lazy sops that are little more than wishful thinking we will fail to understand the true cause of riots. If we do not address the underlining motivations, then we are doomed to watch them repeat themselves again and again. Until something is done to address the frustration and alienation that young men have towards society, then the threat that cities will burn will never go away. 7 responses to “What Causes Riots?” Excellent essay. I would hazard to say stampedes follow the same rules, or lack thereof. In my university days, riots/ demonstrations became violent whenever the police came to disperse students. And many times we went picketing because we felt the university was frustrating us or any myriad of problems university students seem to have against the administration The capitalist consumerist scenario markets a perception of happiness that is purposefully unreachable. It’s a carrot of ownership, always just beyond reach, dangling on a string of debt from a stick of net worth, which is nailed to the head of every consumer at birth. Millions of people waste most of their time in pursuit of that unattainable extravagance of happiness and never give a moments thought to achieving contentment. When the rigged system denies access to the most meager success at achieving even the lowest levels of this material happiness, which indoctrination demands, frustration, resentment and rage are to be expected. Nor is it mere chance that these conditions are widespread and increasing. The purposed and inevitable outcome of the private ownership/for-profit paradigm is] Pingback: What Causes Riots? \| Robert Nielsen \| Policing news \| Scoop.it Very good analysis. Pingback: What Causes Riots? - Pingback: What Causes Riots? \| Developed
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FORECASTS & TRENDS E-LETTER by Gary D. Halbert October 11, 2016 1. US Economy Now Looks Like It Will Disappoint Yet Again 2. US National Debt Swells By $1.42 Trillion in FY2016 3. President Obama’s Weak Legacy Illustrated in One Graphic 4. Justice Clarence Thomas Invisible at New African American Museum Overview A few months ago, there was broad optimism that the US economy would shift into a higher gear in the second half of this year. I never bought into it. Now, forecasters are revising their optimistic estimates downward, as it increasingly looks like the economy will disappoint yet again. The Treasury Department quietly reported last week that the national debt increased by $1.4 trillion in fiscal year 2016 which ended on September 30, the third largest annual increase in history. The official budget deficit for FY2016 was reported at $588 billion, but the real federal deficit was more than double that. Finally, the Smithsonian’s much-anticipated new African American History Museum opened in late September to great fanfare, headlined by President Obama, former President George W. Bush and their wives. Sadly, we learned that the new museum has hardly even a mention of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. This is an outrage! It’s a lot to cover in one E-Letter, so let’s jump right in. US Economy Now Looks Like It Will Disappoint Yet Again For the last several months, I’ve been telling you that most forecasters were convinced the US economy was going to surge in the second half of this year. Most estimates for 3Q GDP growth were north of 3%. As I’ve written, I just haven’t seen the economic data to back that up. Part of the optimism was due to the fact that the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta’s popular GDPNow economic model was forecasting growth of 3.5%-3.6% for the 3Q as recently as the end of August, as you will see below. You may recall that I repeatedly questioned that forecast simply because the variety of economic reports I watch did not support a big rebound in the second half. I predicted that the Atlanta Fed would have to revise its GDPNow estimate significantly lower. That has now happened. GDPNow has plunged to 2.2%. And I’m not sure the downward revisions are over yet. The economists at the Atlanta Fed analyze a lot more reports on the economy than I do, but I’m still not sure what they saw earlier this year to make them so bullish on the second half of 2016. We had anemic growth of just 0.8% in the 1Q followed by a recently revised 1.4% in the 2Q, for a disappointing 1.1% rate for the first half. That was even weaker than the post-recession average of around 2%. Not to worry, most private forecasters assured us, predicting much stronger growth in the 3Q. Now many of the same prognosticators who expected economic activity to accelerate between July and September are now ratcheting those projections right back down. The New York Federal Reserve Bank, which tracks the economy separately from the Atlanta Fed, just revised its GDP estimate for the second half of this year to less than 2%. They cited lighter than expected consumer spending in August, which they fear could carry through until at least after the election. I agree. On that note, polls show that Americans view this presidential campaign as the most negative in US history, with potential voters describing both Clinton and Trump as risky choices. The country has faced tough electoral races before, of course, but the current ugliness seems to be casting an unusually dark cloud over the economy. “Regardless of the outcome of the election, we think the economy is at risk of a soft patch in the coming months as a result of the uncertainty related to the election,” Bank of America Merrill Lynch analysts said in a research report last week, adding that businesses are holding off on spending because of the current political climate., US companies are in no mood to spend, either. Even excluding the beaten-down energy sector, business spending this year has risen only 2.1%, according to Deutsche Bank. Third, data from FactSet show that corporate profits are in line to decline for a sixth straight quarter – the first time earnings have retreated for such a long stretch since the research firm started tracking profits in 2008. Fortunately, not all the news is bad. Unemployment, now at 5.0%, is low historically. Consumer confidence is at its highest level since the recession began in late 2007. In September, the Consumer Confidence Index jumped to 104.1, up from 101.1 in August. Housing prices are continuing to recover. The Census Bureau reported last month that median household incomes rose 5.2% in 2015, but you may recall that I debunked that number in my September 20 E-Letter. More likely, incomes rose by 2.5-3.0% last year which isn’t bad. The good news noted above is more likely keeping us out of a recession rather than signaling that the economy is taking off. So let’s call this year’s economic performance what it is: disappointing. A jump to 3-4% GDP in the second half of this year is just not happening, as I have cautioned often in recent weeks. This remains the weakest recovery since World War II. If Hillary wins and gets her tax increases, the economy will be even slower next year. National Debt Swells by $1.42 Trillion in FY2016, More Than Expected The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) reported last week that the federal budget deficit for fiscal year 2016 was a whopping $588 billion, up from $439 billion in FY2015. The CBO projects the deficit to rise to almost $600 billion in FY2017. That is bad enough. Yet the Treasury Department quietly reported early last week that the national debt exploded by $1.42 trillion in FY2016, which ended on September 30. This was the third largest annual increase in the national debt in history. To learn of this development, one had to go to the TreasuryDirect website and plug in the dates (September 30, 2015 to September 30, 2016) to get to the $1.42 trillion number. The difference between the CBO’s $588 billion deficit and the $1.42 trillion increase in the national debt is $834 billion. The difference is that the Treasury Department measures ALL federal spending, including “on-budget” and “off-budget” expenditures. Off-budget expenditures include Social Security, the Postal Service, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and some smaller items that are not included in the so-called “unified budget.” Here are the numbers. As of September 30, 2015 the national debt stood at $18.15 trillion. On September 30, 2016 the national debt had risen to $19.57 trillion. That’s an increase of $1.42 trillion for FY2016 – again, the third largest annual increase in US history. To put that debt increase into perspective, there are just over 118 million households in the US according to the Census Bureau. The $1.42 trillion increase last year alone equaled just over $12,000 of debt per household. The total federal debt of $19.57 trillion now equals almost $166,000 of debt per household. Let that sink in. The question is, why does the government only report publicly the on-budget increase in the debt, in this case $588 billion as reported last week, and not the total debt increase of $1.42 trillion? Basically they know that not many of us track the total debt as reported by the Treasury Department. In truth, most Americans don’t keep track of either number. One final thing: Keep in mind that there is no “debt limit” in place at the moment. In October of last year, President Obama and congressional leaders suspended the debt limit until March 15, 2017. Here’s what I wrote about it back then: “The debt ceiling suspension is until March 15, 2017. In the meantime, the government can spend as much as it wants – no limits… Get ready for a national debt of more than $20 trillion by that time.” The national debt is on-track to top $20 trillion around the middle of next year. That’s scary! President Obama’s Weak Legacy Illustrated in One Graphic I remarked a few weeks ago in these pages that I believe President Obama will go down as one of the worst president’s in US history. I want to revise those remarks today. Because most historians are liberals, I do not believe they will relegate the first black president to the ranks of some of the worst presidents in our history. He will probably be praised in that regard. Yet as far as economic performance goes, he will indeed rank among some of the worst presidents ever. As I wrote just recently, he is the first president not to see a single year of 3% growth in GDP. I ran across the graphic below last week, and it speaks for itself. All of the charts above are from the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, which labels its charts with the acronym “FRED.” Someone in the private sector went to the St. Louis Fed’s website, pulled all of the above charts separately, grouped them altogether in one file and labeled them in red so as to be able to read what each chart shows. I’ll leave it to you to draw your own conclusions about President Obama’s legacy in light of these charts. Everyone I’ve shown this graphic to was stunned. Justice Clarence Thomas Invisible at New African American Museum The Smithsonian Institute is one of the most widely respected historical organizations in the world. The Smithsonian is the world's largest museum and research complex, with 19 museums, 9 research centers and affiliates around the world. The Smithsonian is a quasi-governmental institution which gets the bulk of its funding from Uncle Sam. So it was with great anticipation that the Smithsonian unveiled its latest huge museum devoted to African American history in late September. Officially named the National Museum of African American History and Culture, the opening event included some touching moments involving President Obama and former President George W. Bush and their wives celebrating this wonderful and long overdue achievement. What was sad and deplorable was the Smithsonian’s decision to basically ignore Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas in the new African American history museum. His name is barely even mentioned – and not in a good way – despite the fact that he is one of the most influential African Americans in history. I find it disgusting and unforgivable that a bunch of Washington liberals on the Smithsonian board intentionally decided to basically expunge Justice Thomas from its new masterpiece museum dedicated to Black history. Justice Thomas is one of my heroes. Some on the left have suggested that maybe it was just an oversight by the Smithsonian board members and directors. NO WAY! Anita Hill, the black woman who accused Thomas of sexual harassment, is presented in the museum as a major figure of the 20th century. In fact, the most notable mention of Justice Thomas is in the Anita Hill display where it reads: “In 1991 Anita Hill charged Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas with sexual harassment.” Disgusting! Justice Thomas’s story is remarkable. He overcame poverty, family strife and racial prejudice to become the Supreme Court’s second African-American justice. Even after joining the Court, he endured astonishing bigotry and hatred in public from those who called him the “helpless tool” of white judges and clerks. His problem: He’s a conservative. Fox News’ Juan Williams's was correct in saying that Justice Thomas was “conveniently transformed by bitter ideologues into a monster about whom it is fair to say anything, to whom it is fair to do anything.” Today, Justice Thomas is better known for his work on the Court – which, whether you agree or disagree with him – is increasingly recognized for both its quality and quantity. As to the former, he is often the Court’s most eloquent defender of Constitution-first principles. And as to the latter, he is far and away the Court's most productive member, in terms of his written opinions. In recent years, his output dwarfs that of his colleagues. What is most sad is that this is Justice Thomas’s 25th anniversary on the High Court. Given his personal story and his legacy on the Court, there absolutely should be some prominent mention/display of him in the new museum. There are a couple of articles with more details on this sad story in SPECIAL ARTICLES below. Finally, I wonder if President Bush was aware that Justice Thomas was snubbed in the new African American museum when he agreed to headline the opening day extravaganza with President Obama. My bet is that President Bush did not know. He is a big fan of Justice Thomas, as am I. A LOT of people are hopping mad about this! President Obama should order the Smithsonian to honor Justice Thomas ASAP. Will he do it? Sadly, I wouldn’t hold your breath. Late Note: Given the latest developments surrounding Donald Trump, I fear that some GOP voters will simply decide to stay home on Election Day, which will unfortunately benefit Hillary Clinton. All the best, Gary D. Halbert SPECIAL ARTICLES Justice Clarence Thomas: Invisible Man at New Black History Museum Clarence Thomas Ignored in New Smithsonian Museum Budget Deficit $1.4 Trillion in FY2016, More Than Double

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