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[ARCHIVED] Presidential Preference Primary Postponed until June 9th.
Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger announced that the Presidential Preference Primary Election would be postponed and would coincide with the State Primary Election to be held on June 9, 2020. All Ballots that have been cast so far at Advance Voting and all Absentee Mail-Out Ballots that are returned will be counted on June 9, 2020. More details will be posted on this site as information becomes available. The decision was made to postpone the election due to concerns about the safety of poll workers and the public at large. Please check back often for more information. |
The 14th annual Warrens Community Christmas is Friday, Dec. 2, from 4 to 6 p.m., at the Warrens Lions Log Building, 601 Pine Street. The event is free and open to Warrens area residents of all ages.
Santa Claus will arrive at 5 p.m. to visit with all the good little girls and boys. The jolly old elf will pose for photos, so be sure to bring your camera. Each child will also receive a gift bag filled with goodies.
There will be several holiday crafts available for the children to do, too, including making a Christmas ornament.
The event is co-sponsored by the Warrens Area Youth Association and Warrens Community Meals. A kid-friendly meal will be served. The menu includes ham sandwiches, macaroni and cheese, fruit and Christmas cookies for dessert.
The Warrens Community Meals Christmas Dinner will be held Wednesday, Dec. 14, from 4 to 6 p.m. The menu will be posted on Warrens Community Meals Facebook page.
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PUB TALK: THURSDAY, MAY 1, 2003
"Smart Electronic Note Taking for the Fujitsu Tablet PC"
By Mr. Chris Holmes, Vice President of Strategic Partnerships, Mindjet LLC, In collaboration with the Center's Executive Sponsor, Fujitsu
5:00 - 7:00 p.m. Open to the Public. The Pub Talk begins at 6:00 p.m.
CHALLENGE-THE-EXPERT: THURSDAY, MAY 8, 2003
"IBM's Vision for the Next Generation Data Center Enabled by Commercial Grids"
By Mr. Mark Cathcart, IBM Distinguished Engineer; Member, IBM Academy of Technology; IBM On Demand Systems Environment Architecture and Design, IBM Corporation
5:15 p.m. Registration and Networking. 6:00 - 8:00 p.m.
Program Fee: $15 at the door (cash or check). No fee to Center sponsors.
Registration Information Below.
EXECUTIVE BRIEFING: TUESDAY, MAY 13, 2003
"Challenges and Rewards of Driving Innovation: Taking the Thought Leadership Approach"
By Prof. Dr. Lutz Heuser, Vice President and Chief Development Architect, SAP Corporate Research, SAP AG
3:45 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. Reception to follow. No Fee to attend. Open to the Public.
Pre-registration Required. See Below for Registration Information.
HUNGARIAN TRADE AND INVESTMENT SYMPOSIUM: THURSDAY, MAY 29, 2003
"Hungary 2003: Focus on High Tech"
8:00 - 10:00 a.m. Open to the Public. No Fee. Not held at the Center.
Held at Hewlett-Packard Auditorium, 3000 Hanover Street, Palo Alto.
SUMMARY: PREMIER AUTO-ID SALON: THURSDAY, APRIL 24, 2003
"What are Our Greatest Technology Challenges in This Market Space?"
Summary and Presentation link Below.
SUMMARY: SPECIAL PRESENTATION: WEDNESDAY, APRIL 9, 2003
"Are We There Yet? A Look at Technology and Where We Expected to be by Now"
By Dr. Bob Glass, Futurist and Fellow, Silicon Valley World Internet Center
The Fujitsu Tablet PC promises a better way for legions of corridor warriors to create and manage notes electronically. Current Tablet PC note-taking applications however, provide little more than the digital equivalent of paper, notepads or sketchpads. To take full advantage of the power of the Fujitsu Tablet PC, business professionals need a tool that takes meeting notes out of the personal realm and into the world of team collaboration and decision making.
At this Pub, come see how MindManager 2002, as demonstrated with the Fujitsu Tablet PC, represents a significant advance in electronic note taking by providing a highly effective visualization technique for capturing, organizing and communicating the unstructured content typical of both ad hoc and formal meetings. Benefits include better information sharing, more effective meetings and more productive teams. Corridor warriors can now capture, structure, search, and share notes among team members with far greater ease and clarity than other Tablet PC note-taking products allow.
ABOUT CHRIS HOLMES
Chris Holmes has 25 years of experience in the computer industry in both Europe and North America. He has held senior positions in software development, sales, marketing, operational management, and strategic planning. In 1989, he co-founded Visionware, a software startup in the emerging Microsoft Windows to UNIX connectivity market. In 1994, Santa Cruz Operation (SCO) acquired Visionware, where he served as Vice President of Strategic Planning. At Mindjet, Mr. Holmes is responsible for building strategic partnerships to accelerate market awareness and customer growth of Mindjet's MindManager application. He has also served as chairman and director on the boards of several software businesses seeking growth in North American and European markets.
ABOUT MINDJET, LLC
Founded in 1993, Mindjet LLC (http://www.mindjet.com) is the leading developer of visual tools for brainstorming and planning, with more than 280,000 customers worldwide including 60 of the Fortune 100 companies. The company has offices in San Francisco, Frankfurt, Germany, and Birmingham, UK; a growing list of partnerships; and a reseller network spanning Europe, the Americas and AsiaPac. Committed to continually improving its product suite to meet the changing needs of its customers, Mindjet is a Microsoft Certified Partner, and a member of the Microsoft Project Solution Providers Program and the Citrix Business Alliance. MindManager® is a Mindjet LLC trademark. All other product and company names herein may be trademarks of their respective owners.
For Partnership and Corporate Issues, contact:
Mr. Chris Holmes
Vice President of Strategic Partnerships
T: 415.925.3120, ext. 138
E: [email protected]
For Product Inquiries, contact:
Mindjet Sales
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Grid technology has made a big impact through its application in a small number of computing applications. The search for life in the universe, mapping the universe, looking for a Smallpox cure, seismic analysis, and calculating 401k values are all important - but are niche computing applications. The next generation of Grid technology is based on a standard open source architecture and will have standard definitions of the services available on the Grid, which can be accessed via Web Services. All well and good, but why all this effort for a small set of applications?
Learn why discovery and common resource models, together with enterprise clustering and data center virtualization, are likely to change computing as we know, understand, and use it today. Think utility computing is just ASPs warmed over? Think again! The commodity business transaction is on its way. Pay for your computing as you need it, how you need it and most importantly, when you need it.
At this Challenge-the-Expert, Mr. Cathcart will discuss what "underware" is and why the Open Grid Services Architecture will become a meta-OS, delivering services far beyond the current Grid realm. During the second hour, audience participants will be able to "challenge" Mr. Cathcart during the interactive discussion.
ABOUT MARK CATHCART
Mark Cathcart is an IBM Distinguished Engineer in IBM's On Demand Architecture and Design team. His responsibilities include the technology strategy and direction for On Demand technology as well as significant input to and influence on the Systems Group strategy. In prior assignments, Mr. Cathcart has been involved with the introduction, adoption, and strategy for Linux, XML, Java, and J2EE. He has been an open source software proponent for over 20 years and has been at the forefront of the open standards strategy at IBM since 1992.
ABOUT ON DEMAND
On Demand is IBM's corporate initiative encouraging business, commercial, research, and educational organizations to innovate new market place products and offerings that exploit just-in-time, dynamic business decisions. The On Demand Systems Environment Architecture and Design Team is responsible for the flexible, dynamic infrastructure that will deliver on this promise, building on autonomic computing, grid and Linux.
To register, please email your name, title, and company name to:
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In a shifting economy when many enterprises lean towards tried-and-true solutions, business progress is attained through pushing innovation forward, even in a time of uncertainty. Please join us at the Silicon Valley World Internet Center for Dr. Lutz Heuser's briefing on how to optimize and extend business processes utilizing innovative technologies.
Dr. Heuser, Vice President and Chief Development Architect of SAP Corporate Research, will conduct an Executive Briefing illustrating how processes for IT innovation can be supported by business-driven technology research. His briefing will illuminate key areas of research-driven innovation being conducted at SAP worldwide, looking at optimizing existing business processes through, for example, Adaptive Supply Chain Networks and Smart Vending, as well as identifying new business processes arenas which enterprise-level applications can support, such as Homeland Security.
As a producer of IT solutions, to become a trusted innovator you have to identify the right technology along with the most excited early adopters to experiment and place a first product in the market with certainty - all in a timely fashion. Rising to this challenge reaps great rewards: gaining momentum and market share. Dr. Heuser will address SAP Corporate Research's approaches to these challenges, outlining specific areas of innovation.
At this Executive Briefing, Dr. Heuser will announce the formation of the Smart Items Business Forum under the aegis of the Silicon Valley World Internet Center. SAP will chair this Forum, designed to give a strong presence and focus to the unique business and technology potential of the Silicon Valley in the Smart Items space.
As Smart Items business-enabling technologies like RFID and ad hoc sensor networks are gaining momentum, SAP will sponsor a series of briefings and working groups specifically designed to identify and leverage new enterprise business opportunities across industry sectors.
Dr. Heuser will specifically address SAP's Smart Vending initiative. The ability to connect machine data sources, better known as Smart Items, to SAP systems is becoming an important topic for SAP customers as the number of devices with the ability to collect and distribute data grows. SAP is embracing the evolution of Smart Items and their information. By allowing SAP customers to incorporate data from diverse sources, customers can optimize existing business processes that improve the bottom line. The SAP Smart Vending initiative is one such example. By collecting and exchanging data with vending machines in the field, customers will be able to reduce logistics costs while promoting sales. Together with its partners, SAP Corporate Research is setting up a vending demo center that allows interested parties to evaluate the ROI opportunities at a minimal risk.
ABOUT DR. LUTZ HEUSER
Prof. Dr. Lutz Heuser is Vice President of Corporate Research and Chief Development Architect at SAP AG. He is responsible for all Strategic Research Programs and the global innovation transfer into the product portfolio of SAP. His main areas of expertise include eLearning, pervasive computing, Internet services, Collaborative Business Processes and Business-to-Business integration.
Prior to joining SAP, Dr. Heuser was Managing Director of the European Research Organization of Digital Equipment Corporation and member of the extended board of the German subsidiary of Digital. He was Co-founder of the renowned research center CEC Karlsruhe, as well as three joint venture research centers with Universities of Karlsruhe, Darmstadt, and Dresden. Dr. Heuser received his doctoral degree in Informatics from the University of Karlsruhe and his diploma in Informatics from the University of Darmstadt. Recently he received a diploma from the National University of Paraguay to become a "Profesor Visitante" of the Faculty of Economics.
ABOUT SAP CORPORATE RESEARCH AND SAP®
SAP Corporate Research (http://www.sap.com/company/research.asp) is the technology research department of SAP (http://www.sap.com) engaged in applied research and development at various research centers worldwide. Targeted to establish SAP as the thought leader in the area of innovative and breakthrough information technology, SAP Corporate Research determines the business value of new technologies and introduces new technology and concepts for future solutions that will be of strategic importance to SAP customers. Passed on to appropriate SAP development groups, the new technology will be integrated into new or existing SAP offerings. SAP Corporate Research spreads its research and development efforts around the globe, currently at 8 locations, gathering and exchanging innovative knowledge worldwide. Additionally SAP Corporate Research remains close to the customer with SAP Field groups and carefully selected research organizations in order to adapt research activities quickly to both global and local requirements. Through target investigations, creativity, and strong forward thinking, SAP Corporate Research is well known as "the Innovative Force Behind Tomorrow's Technology" and has gained the status of a trusted advisor for SAP technology activities and decisions.
SAP® is the world's leading provider of business software solutions and with subsidiaries in over 50 countries, the world's third-largest independent software supplier. Through the mySAP(tm) Business Suite, people doing business around the globe are improving relationships with customers and partners, streamlining operations, and achieving significant efficiencies throughout their supply chains.
Mr. Walter Reichert, Chair of the Center's International Council and former head of the International Business Center at Hewlett-Packard, would like to invite the Center's community to attend a symposium focused on Hungary's high tech industry on Thursday, May 29, 2003, to be held at the Hewlett-Packard Auditorium in Palo Alto. Please note the special location.
Mr. Reichert will moderate the symposium and provide introductory and closing remarks. The program will also include a welcome address by His Excellency Andras Simonyi, Ambassador of the Republic of Hungary, and a keynote speech delivered by His Excellency Dr. Istvan Csillag, Minister of Economy and Transportation of the Republic of Hungary.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION AND REGISTRATION INFORMATION
Pre-registration is required. To register, contact:
Ms. Rita Abraham
Hungarian Consulate Trade Commission
E: [email protected]
THE PREMIERE AUTO-ID SALON: THURSDAY, APRIL 24, 2003
Last week, the World Internet Center hosted its first Auto ID Salon, gathering interested folks from around the Valley to focus on what issues need to be addressed to move the Auto ID market forward. Thirty-nine people attended the Salon, an informal network representing large, medium, and small companies contributing to this space. Sun, SAP, and Fujitsu, Executive Sponsors of the Center who are active in the Auto ID arena, contributed their views, along with Alien Technology Corporation and a host of others who came to learn, listen and share ideas on this burgeoning industry. Mr. Dinesh Vadhia, the Salon Master, gave a thorough grounding in the fundamentals of the Auto ID movement.
To view Mr. Vadhia's presentation, visit the Center's Website. Scroll down and click onto "April 24, 2003" to view the program information, including the link to the "Auto ID presentation".
The discussion flowed from questions of technical capacity of RFID chips to the range of EPC readers. Many questioned the privacy and security implications of embedded technologies and called for future Salons to address these issues. Still more looked to focus on the business opportunities and the implications for new business models or business processes.
This Salon marked the first in a series of sessions to be held by the World Internet Center to help move the discussion and the business opportunities forward. Future sessions will build on thematic foci called for by the participants. At this session, there was a call for more end-users to participate. The World Internet Center welcomes connections with end-users embracing Auto ID technologies for their businesses. Please contact us with any suggestions at [email protected].
We thank all those who attended and shared their expertise for this first Salon in the Silicon Valley on Auto ID. We look forward to your future participation. Many thanks to Dinesh Vadhia for his patience as a Salon Master!
The World Internet Center gladly joined the Silicon Valley Web Guild in hosting a very informative and entertaining talk by Dr. Bob Glass, Fellow of the Center, last Wednesday, April 9. Dr. Bob Glass, known in the Valley as "Dr. Bob," brought us back a decade to a time when we didn't have cell phones or PDAs or the World Wide Web. He shared a very clever short film, "Starfire", which he helped create while a Futurist at Sun Microsystems. The film explored predicted technologies supporting business and communications in the Year 2004. In those business scenarios, smart office surfaces seamlessly scanned information right into a large, curved electronic "wall" that made up the heroine's workspace. Telephone-like communications with visuals linked her from her office to her family. Many of the technologies that we take for granted today were already predicted in this film: wireless mouses; instant access to information databases worldwide; and digital, moving images being beamed - realtime - around the world; among many others.
Dr. Bob wrapped up by reviewing whether we are "there" yet, that is, have we in 2003 - 2004 achieved the predicted technological breakthroughs he and his team at Sun saw a decade ago.
To view Dr. Bob's presentation, visit the Center's Website. Scroll down and click onto "April 9, 2003" to view the program information, including the link to Dr. Bob Glass' presentation.
For further information on his presentation and the "Starfire" film, please feel free to contact:
Dr. Bob Glass
E: [email protected]
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What Is UFC Champion Amanda Nunes’ Net Worth?
by Luke Norrison June 7, 2020
Amanda Nunes has become the most decorated female fighter in UFC history, accomplishing things that no other woman in history has, not even the great Ronda Rousey. Nunes is set to defend her featherweight title, one of two belts she currently holds, this Saturday at UFC 250 in Las Vegas. Let’s take a quick look back at the career of Amanda Nunes and the wealth she’s accumulated over the years.
The early career of Amanda Nunes
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Born in Brazil in 1988, Amanda Nunes began studying karate at the age of four and later trained in boxing and Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu. She made her professional fighting debut in March 2008 and was soundly defeated in just 35 seconds by Ana Maria India, tapping out to an armbar. But she wouldn’t let the loss stop her. After beating Paty Barbosa in her second pro fight in just 11 seconds, Nunes got her revenge on India, knocking her out in 47 seconds. She won her next three fights as well, which were all held in her home country, giving her a 5-1 record as she made her way to the U.S. In her next four fights, split between Strikeforce and Invicta, she posted a 2-2 record but Amanda Nunes’ best was still to come.
Her UFC career has been absolutely spectacular
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Amanda Nunes made her UFC debut in August 2013, knocking out Sheila Gaff in the first round. After another knockout win in her second UFC bout, she lost to Cat Zingano via TKO in September 2014. She hasn’t lost since.
Since that loss to Zingano, Nunes has become the best fighter the UFC women’s division has ever seen. In March 2015, she destroyed future WWE star Shayna Baszler. In July 2016, she won the UFC Women’s Bantamweight Championship by submitting Meisha Tate. Later that year, she destroyed Ronda Rousey, who hasn’t fought since. In 2018, while still bantamweight champ, she pummeled Cris Cyborg to win the featherweight crown, not only becoming the first woman to win UFC titles in two divisions but just the third fighter in history to hold two titles simultaneously.
Following her victory over Cyborg, Nunes then destroyed Holly Holm, who was the first woman to defeat Rousey. Her most recent fight was last December, a unanimous decision win over Germaine de Randamie. Nunes currently has a career record of 19-4 and holds the record for the most wins in the women’s division in title matches with seven.
How much is Amanda Nunes worth?
According to WealthyPersons.com, Amanda Nunes currently has a net worth of more than $2 million. In addition to her UFC fight earnings, which also often include bonuses, especially for someone like Nunes as she constantly wins Performance of the Night, she also earns plenty of money from numerous sponsors. She defends her UFC Women’s Featherweight Championship this Saturday night at UFC 250 against Felicia Spencer, who currently has an 8-1 record.
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A Look Back on When Amanda Nunes Pummeled Ronda Rousey in 48 Seconds at UFC 207
UFC 207 was supposed to be the big comeback party for Ronda Rousey. More than a year removed from her shocking defeat at the hands (well, it was really the legs) of Holly Holm at UFC 193, Rousey returned to the octagon in an attempt to reclaim the Women’s Bantamweight Championship. There was just one problem: Amanda Nunes.
Amanda Nunes won the bantamweight title during Ronda Rousey’s sabbatical
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Beginning with Ronda Rousey’s bout with Holly Holm in November 2015, there was a fun little game of hot potato with the UFC Women’s Bantamweight Championship as nobody seemed to want to hang onto it. Rousey, who’d held the title since its inception in 2012, obviously lost it to Holm. In her first fight as champion, Holm suffered the first loss of her UFC career, choked out by Miesha Tate in March 2016. It was then Tate’s turn to defend, only she ran into the fastest rising star in MMA in Amanda Nunes.
Nunes came into the Tate fight at UFC 200 on a three-fight winning streak. She had come into her own as a fighter after taking some tough losses early in her career but was primed to win her first title. And on a monster card that also featured the likes of Jon Jones and Brock Lesnar, Amanda Nunes was the star of the show, winning Performance of the Night honors as she submitted Miesha Tate just three minutes and 16 seconds into the first round, setting up the biggest fight of her life.
The fight lasted just 48 seconds
After losing to Holly Holm, Ronda Rousey went down a dark path. She admittedly contemplated suicide and many wondered if she would ever fight in UFC again. Well, the answer came in October 2016 when it was announced that she would battle Amanda Nunes at UFC 207 that December in an effort to reclaim the title she’d lost the year before. But it wasn’t meant to be as Nunes had become the most dominant female fighter in MMA, a title once reserved for Rousey.
Ronda Rousey looked ready to go upon entering the octagon in Las Vegas on December 30, 2016. But I don’t think anyone, except maybe Amanda Nunes herself, expected what happened when the bell rang. Nunes was on the attack the moment the fight began. Just over 10 seconds in, she hit a solid combination, followed by a big right hand. And it was essentially over from there. She kept Rousey on her heels the entire fight, never giving her a chance to go on the offensive. Nunes hit big shot after big shot, the last sending Rousey into the cage, her body nearly limp as referee Herb Dean stepped in at the 48-second mark to stop it before things got worse. To Rousey’s credit, she never hit the canvas but she was out on her feet and Amanda Nunes had cemented her status as the greatest female fighter in UFC, a position she still holds to this day.
Ronda Rousey never fought in UFC again while Amanda Nunes has become the most decorated female fighter in the sport
Following the loss, Ronda Rousey never fought in UFC again, instead choosing to compete in a WWE ring. She made her debut in early 2018 at the Royal Rumble and competed in her first match at WrestleMania 34. She later won the RAW Women’s Championship and took part in the first-ever women’s main event at WrestleMania 35, losing her title to Becky Lynch. Citing her desire to start a family, Rousey hasn’t competed since.
On the flipside, Amanda Nunes has become the most decorated female fighter in UFC history. While continuing to defend her bantamweight crown, she also went on to win the Women’s Featherweight Championship, destroying Cris Cyborg in 51 seconds in December 2018 at UFC 232. With the victory, she became the first woman to win titles in two divisions and just the third fighter to hold two titles simultaneously. She also holds the women’s record for most victories in title matches with seven and hasn’t lost a fight in nearly six years.
Amanda Nunes defends the UFC Women’s Bantamweight Championship this Saturday at UFC 250 against Felicia Spencer.
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Look for a good massage therapist online.
Emma Business May 26, 2022
If you are looking for a good massage therapist who has worked with many different clients, then it’s likely that you will find them online. Many people prefer to do this because they want to do their research before making an appointment with someone. This is especially true if they want someone who has a lot of experience in the area that they need help with. It can be challenging to find these kinds of therapists when there are not many options in your area, so this is also worth considering.
Good massage therapy in Centerville will have their website ready to take your calls whenever you need something. They may have a lot of experience with the specific problem that you are bringing up, so they can help you in the best way possible. The massage therapist should be able to give you some great ideas on how to improve your health as well.
If you are looking for a good massage therapist who can meet with you in person, then it’s likely that you will need to make an appointment at their office or clinic. You might want to ask them about this if your favorite massage therapist is not available when you call or email them. They might not be able to see new clients, so this must be clear from the start.
Look for a good massage therapist online and ensure they have plenty of experience before making an appointment with them. This is especially important if they specialize in one area or offer a wide range of therapy options. It’s also essential that they have a website so that you can easily contact them at any time with questions or concerns about your health situation.
The best way to find a good massage therapist is to ask friends and family if they know anyone who can help you. You might also want to check out your local newspaper or magazine or look online for a listing of massage therapists in your area. There are also many online forums where people can post reviews of the therapists they have used.
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If you have been looking digital currency exchanges, also referred to as crypto exchanges, these are assets that can generate substantial amounts of revenue. To understand how they work, you must first be aware of what cryptocurrency actually is. You also need to how to participate on the exchanges. Similar to stocks, or even commodities, you are hoping that the market moves in your direction. This will lead to a substantial profit. Had you gotten into cryptocurrencies years ago you could have generated a sizable amount of wealth. Fortunately, it is still possible to do very well with this digital form of currency.
Defining Crypto Currency
The term cryptocurrency has been around for at least a decade. When people talk about this unique form of training, they often only about the term. It is similar to the currencies in that you can make money. However, they are completely different because they are not connected in any way to an actual bank. This type of currency will never be printed. Everything is housed on computer networks, primarily on independent servers. There is also a very unique way monitoring your transactions that will keep all of your cryptocurrency save. For more info, visit the resources at Canada best Crypto exchange.
How Is Cryptocurrency Traded
The second currency is traded on a decentralized marketplace. This means that there is no government intervention, or central authority, governing the way that the currencies are exchanged. In fact, when there are currencies in crypto exchanged, you will receive your currency in what is called a wallet. This all begins with setting up your very first brokerage account, funding your account, and choosing a cryptocurrency that you want to trade. From there, you will need to choose from the many different trading strategies that exist. For most people, automated trading options are the best. Once you have made a profitable transaction, your wallet will increase in value due to the cryptocurrency increase you will receive from those trades.
What Are Cryptocurrency Exchanges?
These are platforms where all different types of cryptocurrency are exchanged. When you trade, like stocks, you are speculating that the market will move in a particular way. You could be buying or selling these currencies, and based upon the movement of the markets, you will either profit or you will lose. Everything is done over what is called the blockchain network where the transactions will be recorded. These are recorded in what are called blocks in a linear fashion, making it virtually impossible for people to track what you are doing or access your cryptocurrency.
In order to start trading, you will need to find a reliable cryptocurrency exchange. There are many to choose from. It’s also important to read information about trading cryptocurrencies that you may not have right now. Other information regarding network consensus, cryptography, and cryptocurrency mining or things that you need to be adept at understanding. Once you have the basics down, you can join a cryptocurrency exchange and begin to participate in this digital marketplace that can potentially lead to profits.
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VIJAY SINGH: Normally it's good, today it wasn't. But Tiger played incredible the front nine. He made two eagles and four birdies or three birdies, and that was good golfing. And I hung in there, but I made too many mistakes. But I was proud of myself.
I played well the back nine and I never got anything going. When I did make a birdie, he made his as well. But I hung in there and finished short.
Q. The fact that he made eagle at No. 2, birdied number 3, in the first three holes, did that have an effect for the day?
VIJAY SINGH: Not really, I mean it's 18 holes of golf out there. But I was still leading as well. And he kept playing well and he played good golf. There's nothing bad about my golf, he just played better today.
Q. Is there a point in a round at all you're saying, geez, I'm playing pretty good, I'm playing about as good as I can, but this guy is just, he's a lot better?
VIJAY SINGH: Well, I wasn't playing as good as I can. I just didn't play good enough. That's the bottom line. There's a lot of chances out there and I just didn't take them.
Q. He had a good up and down at 14 and then 15 he made a good birdie putt.
VIJAY SINGH: Yeah, he made birdie on 15 and I didn't make my birdie on 14, so if that would have gone in it would have been different, but he just kept putting the pressure on me. And he made a great birdie on 17 and he kind of shut the door.
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The Introductory Essays of the DCB/DBC – Dictionary of Canadian Biography
The Indians of Northeastern North America
Essay Text
List of Biographies
The Northern Approaches to Canada
The Atlantic Region
New France, 1524—1713
The Administration of New France
The French Forces in North America during the Seven Years’ War
The British Forces in North America during the Seven Years’ War
The Integration of the Province of Quebec into the British Empire, 1763—91
The Colonial Office and British North America, 1801—50
Provincial Justice: Upper Canadian Legal Portraits
In this excerpt from their essay, Jacques Rousseau and George W. Brown address the profound culture shock experienced by aboriginal peoples following their encounter with Europeans:
“The impact of 17th-century European culture on that of the Indian profoundly altered every aspect of Indian life and thought. That any remnants of Indian culture survived is a tribute to its strength and to the loyalty of the Indians to their traditions. The nature and devastating effects of this clash of cultures can be understood better now than by any observer at the time, though there are many penetrating recorded observations by both Indians and whites.”
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Book Review - Resistance Women by Jennifer Chiaverini
Resistance Women is a powerful historical novel about four women in Berlin during the 1930's and 1940's. As they come together in friendship, they also become involved in the Resistance movement against Hitler and the Nazi party. The women are professor and scholar Mildred Harnick, who was originally from Wisconsin but moved to Berlin with her German husband, Greta Kuckoff, a German writer with a complicated personal life, Martha Dodd, the daughter of Ambassador William Dodd, and literature student, Sara Weiss, who is a Jewish woman in these dangerous times.
I wanted to read this book because I love historical fiction and have long been fascinated with the World War II era. I previously read (and enjoyed) the nonfiction book In the Garden of Beasts by Erik Larson, which was about Martha Dodd's family in Berlin 1933 - 1937, so her presence in this book intrigued me.
This is a dense, history-rich novel. It begins in 1929 and spans through 1946. The author does a remarkable job of slowly setting the stage for what happens in Germany in the 1930's. Early on I found the book a bit slow moving as it traveled through times leading up to the war. In retrospect, though, I think this background really added so much to the story. By starting in happier times and seeing life before the Nazi party really took hold and before the war, readers gets a unique look at how this tragic period in history unfolded.
The novel is told in alternating chapters by the four women. I made the mistake of looking up their names before reading the book, so I knew the stories of the real life women. I would not recommend doing this! Sara is the only one of the Resistance women who was fictional, and I have to say that I was most interested in her story. It was heartbreaking and often suspenseful reading how her life changed as a Jewish woman in Berlin in the 1930's, from a graduate student and daughter of a wealthy banker to someone forced to wear the Star of David and make due with cramped accomodations and scant food.
The glamorous Ambassador's daughter, Martha Dodd, adds some interesting moments in the story, including a forbidden romance with a Russian man and a horrifying arranged date with Hitler!
Mildred's story is compelling because we see the events of Germany from the eyes of an American woman living overseas, teaching American literature in Germany. Although she had many opportunites to return home to America, she was loyal to her husband and committed to the Resistance cause.
Greta was the most enigmatic of the characters to me. She was a student, a writer, and much of her life was absorbed in a complicated relationship with a married man who had been married over time to two sisters. She had a strong friendship with Mildred, and was especially brave with risky Resistance jobs.
This is such a powerful, moving book and I found it very engrossing. I read late into the night several evenings and found time here and there during the day to read a little more, just because I really cared about these characters and their story and I really wanted to know what happened.
I recommend Resistance Women for fans of historical fiction, and especially for anyone interested in World War II. This is a beautifully written novel that you will think about long after you finish reading.
One of BookBub’s best historical novels of the year and Oprah magazine’s buzziest books of the month.
From the New York Times bestselling author of Mrs. Lincoln’s Dressmaker, an enthralling historical saga that recreates the danger, romance, and sacrifice of an era and brings to life one courageous, passionate American—Mildred Fish Harnack—and her circle of women friends who waged a clandestine battle against Hitler in Nazi Berlin.
After Wisconsin graduate student Mildred Fish marries brilliant German economist Arvid Harnack, she accompanies him to his German homeland, where a promising future awaits. In the thriving intellectual culture of 1930s Berlin, the newlyweds create a rich new life filled with love, friendships, and rewarding work—but the rise of a malevolent new political faction inexorably changes their fate.
As Adolf Hitler and his Nazi Party wield violence and lies to seize power, Mildred, Arvid, and their friends resolve to resist. Mildred gathers intelligence for her American contacts, including Martha Dodd, the vivacious and very modern daughter of the US ambassador. Her German friends, aspiring author Greta Kuckoff and literature student Sara Weitz, risk their lives to collect information from journalists, military officers, and officials within the highest levels of the Nazi regime.
For years, Mildred’s network stealthily fights to bring down the Third Reich from within. But when Nazi radio operatives detect an errant Russian signal, the Harnack resistance cell is exposed, with fatal consequences.
Inspired by actual events, Resistance Women is an enthralling, unforgettable story of ordinary people determined to resist the rise of evil, sacrificing their own lives and liberty to fight injustice and defend the oppressed.
Jennifer Chiaverini is the New York Times bestselling author of several acclaimed historical novels and the beloved Elm Creek Quilts series. A graduate of the University of Notre Dame and the University of Chicago, she lives with her husband and two sons in Madison, Wisconsin.
Find out more about Jennifer at her website, and connect with her on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.
I received a copy of this book from HarperCollins and TLC Book Tours.
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Sara Strand said...
Thank you for being on this tour! I hope you have a great week. Sara @ TLC Book Tours
What a great review! Books that keep pulling me to them because I care about the characters are the best. Seems like that should be universal to books, but it's not.
CLM said...
Great review! I didn't like it as much as you did but still found the characters fascinating. I think my book group is reading the new Erik Larson next month but I will have to check out the one you mention.
Thanks for your comments! CLM, if you read In The Garden of Beasts, I would be interested in your thoughts. It definitely provides a lot of insight into Martha Dodd (not a sympathetic character in that book).
Kathy levernier said...
Fascinating story and interesting COVER.
Thank you for such a great introduction
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The Cottage - October 2013
As soon as I stepped out of the car I realised that from now on I'm going to have to label these posts with their date. It's all moving so fast and so dramatically that you need a timescale to be keeping up with everything.
We'd been on holiday, we'd had work, we have a baby so it took a while but I eventually managed to get up to Norfolk to meet with the builders and to see the progress. And my god what progress - I stepped out of the car and saw this...
Please note lack of roof! I'm now reliably informed (by the builders) that the roof was off for only a couple of days but it was pretty shocking to arrive and see (even though I knew it would be happening at some point).
The builders have not only been moving at a fast pace but their work is AMAZING (they are not reading this) and they pretend not to mind that I can't make a decision about anything.
So... they've gutted the place (as instructed). There is no roof, no plaster in the whole of the upstairs, all the lintels have had to be replaced and we've discovered that the extension is basically not attached to the rest of the house (thanks previous-builders-that-husband-won't-let-me-name). Decision on bathroom layout still to be made but had a great meeting about the kitchen and think we have something decided that will make it a lot more usable but I need to go away and think about it all (obviously).
The back...
The dining room into the hall
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Type 2 diabetes in children. type 2 was once called adult-onset diabetes because it was rare in children and teens. but it has become more common since the mid-1990s, in large part because more. Type 2 diabetes used to be known as maturity-onset, or non-insulin-dependent diabetes. type 2 diabetes develops mainly in people older than the age of 40 (but can also occur in younger people). over 462 million people are living with diabetes in the world, which is estimated to be 1 in 11 of the world’s adult population.. Type 2 diabetes is a long-term, chronic medical condition. it develops mostly in adults but is becoming more common in children, according to the centers for disease control and prevention (cdc.
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For example, the set of complex solutions to a polynomial equation with real coefficients often has more natural and useful properties than the set of real solutions. For example, every square matrix over the complex numbers has a complex eigenvalue, because the characteristic polynomial always has a root. So f(x)=(xa)q(x). So the result is proved by induction. https://mathworld.wolfram.com/FundamentalTheoremofAlgebra.html, Rational Functions Fundamental Theorem of Algebra, aka Gauss makes everyone look bad. are called polynomial roots. Then q(a)=0. Call this value m. m.m. x2 9 has a degree of 2 (the largest exponent of x is 2), so there are 2 roots. Now we apply the Fundamental Theorem of Algebra to the third-degree polynomial quotient. Subscribe with us to receive our newsletter right on your inbox. So q(x)=(xa)h(x), q(x) = (x-{\overline{a}})h(x),q(x)=(xa)h(x), so f(x)=(xa)(xa)h(x). with Complex Coefficients, Plotting Note that aa. Find the zeros of [latex]f\left(x\right)=3{x}^{3}+9{x}^{2}+x+3[/latex]. by properties of the complex conjugate (and because the ci c_i ci are real numbers). Log in. Therefore f(x)f(x)f(x) does as well. Let p(z)=anzn++a0 p(z) = a_nz^n + \cdots + a_0 p(z)=anzn++a0 be a polynomial with complex coefficients, and suppose that p(z)0 p(z) \ne 0 p(z)=0 everywhere. Our editors will review what youve submitted and determine whether to revise the article. {\overline a} \ne a.a=a. 1999. The field C \mathbb CC of complex numbers is algebraically closed. Retrouvez The Fundamental Theorem of Algebra et des millions de livres en stock sur Amazon.fr. The fundamental theorem of algebra says that this is not the case: all the roots of a polynomial with complex coefficients can be found living inside the complex numbers already. But then p(z) p(z) p(z) is constant. On the one hand, a polynomial has been completely factored (over the real numbers) only if all of its factors are linear or irreducible quadratic. Dividing by [latex]\left(x+3\right)[/latex] gives a remainder of 0, so 3 is a zero of the function. England: Oxford University Press, pp. We can then set the quadratic equal to 0 and solve to find the other zeros of the function. but we may need to use complex numbers. If a aa is real, then f(x)=(xa)q(x) f(x) = (x-a)q(x) f(x)=(xa)q(x) for a polynomial q(x) q(x)q(x) with real coefficients of degree n1. This requires a definition of the multiplicity of a root of a polynomial. The ability to factor any polynomial over the complex numbers reduces many difficult nonlinear problems over other fields (e.g. Let us solve it. So The zeros of [latex]f\left(x\right)[/latex]are 3 and [latex]\pm \frac{i\sqrt{3}}{3}[/latex]. f(x).f(x). &= {\overline{c_nx^n}} + \cdots + \overline{c_1x} + \overline{c_0} \\ We then write h(td) for some t (0,1]. The idea here is the following. The fundamental theorem of algebra states that every polynomial p(z) has a complex root (in other words, it obeys the equality p(z) =0 for some z). The algebra is simplified by using partial fractions over the complex numbers (with the caveat that some complex analysis is required to interpret the resulting integrals). A Gentle Introduction to Lattice Gas Automaton for Simulation of Fluid Flow with Python. The proof described below is by the mathematician Lindsay N. Childs. Read the Article. the real numbers) to linear ones over the complex numbers. {\overline{f(x)}} &= \overline{c_nx^n+\cdots+c_1x+c_0} \\ We want it to be equal to zero: The roots are r1 = 3 and r2 = +3 (as we discovered above) so the factors are: (in this case a is equal to 1 so I didn't put it in). theorem was first proven by Gauss. So, the end behavior of increasing without bound to the right and decreasing without bound to the left will continue. There are three distinct roots, but four roots with multiplicity, since the root 1 11 has multiplicity 2. one complex root. So the argument has shown that any nonconstant polynomial with complex coefficients has a complex root, as desired. We follow this scheme to draw a picture of a function f: C C in Fig. Courant, R. and Robbins, H. "The Fundamental Theorem of Algebra." Stated more formally, the goal is to show that for any non-constant polynomial p(z) with complex coefficients. The polynomial x2+i x^2+ix2+i has two complex roots, namely 1i2. Now suppose the result holds for polynomials of degree n1. Join the initiative for modernizing math education. It is equivalent to the statement that a polynomial of degree has values (some of them possibly degenerate) for which. Algebra - Algebra - Fundamental concepts of modern algebra: Some other fundamental concepts of modern algebra also had their origin in 19th-century work on number theory, particularly in connection with attempts to generalize the theorem of (unique) prime factorization beyond the natural numbers. Announcing our NEW encyclopedia for Kids! p(z)anzn(an1zn1++a0) In other words, using the complex plane, we can interpret complex numbers geometrically. It is equivalent to the statement that a polynomial of degree has values (some of them Knowledge-based programming for everyone. Towards AI publishes the best of tech, science, and engineering. n-1.n1. Now suppose the theorem is true for polynomials of degree n2 n-2n2 and n1. &= c_n {\overline x}^n +\cdots + c_1{\overline x} + c_0\\ Fundamental theorem of algebra, Theorem of equations proved by Carl Friedrich Gauss in 1799. x4x3x+1=(x1)(x1)(x2+x+1), Award: George Plya Year of Award: 1992 Publication Information: The College Mathematics Journal, Vol. Explore anything with the first computational knowledge engine. For instance, the polynomial x2+1 x^2+1x2+1 can be factored as (xi)(x+i) (x-i)(x+i) (xi)(x+i) over the complex numbers, but over the real numbers it is irreducible: it cannot be written as a product of two nonconstant polynomials with real coefficients. of Complex Variables. Boston, MA: Birkhuser, pp. The following equation makes this statement clearer: Using Eq. Suppose that f ff has the smallest possible degree given these requirements. A possible solution (there are others) is to use colors to represent dimensions. The renowned 16th-century Italian mathematician Gerolamo Cardano (he was also a physician, biologist, physicist, chemist, philosopher, among other things) introduced complex numbers in his studies of the roots of cubic equations. Hence, we can obtain f(z), for any z, by determining the color of the point z and then comparing with Fig. Then p(z)>min(m,a0) |p(z)|>\text{min}(m,|a_0|)p(z)>min(m,a0) for all z, z,z, so We obtain: For small enough t and since the polynomial g is continuous we obtain: This result contradicts our assumptions Eqs. ), When b2 4ac is negative, the Quadratic has Complex solutions, The Degree of a Polynomial with one variable is the largest exponent of that variable. 7 and 32-33, [latex]f\left(x\right)=a\left(x-{c}_{1}\right)\left(x-{c}_{2}\right)\left(x-{c}_{n}\right)[/latex], [latex]\begin{cases}\frac{p}{q}=\frac{\text{factor of constant term}}{\text{factor of leading coefficient}}\hfill \\ \text{ }=\frac{\text{factor of 3}}{\text{factor of 3}}\hfill \end{cases}[/latex], [latex]\left(x+3\right)\left(3{x}^{2}+1\right)[/latex], [latex]\begin{cases}3{x}^{2}+1=0\hfill \\ \text{ }{x}^{2}=-\frac{1}{3}\hfill \\ \text{ }x=\pm \sqrt{-\frac{1}{3}}=\pm \frac{i\sqrt{3}}{3}\hfill \end{cases}[/latex], http://cnx.org/contents/[email protected]. What does The Fundamental Theorem of Algebra tell us? Clearly (3)\Rightarrow(2)\Rightarrow(1), so the only nontrivial part is (1)\Rightarrow(3). which rotates the real coordinate plane by 90,90^{\circ},90, has no real eigenvalues. Let p(x) p(x) p(x) be a polynomial with real coefficients. By (1), f(x) f(x)f(x) has a root a. a.a. A standard division algorithm argument shows that xa x-axa is a factor of f(x) f(x)f(x): Divide f(x) f(x) f(x) by xa x-axa to get f(x)=(xa)q(x)+r, f(x) = (x-a)q(x)+r,f(x)=(xa)q(x)+r, where r rr is a constant polynomial. (3) Every nonconstant polynomial with coefficients in F FF splits completely as a product of linear factors with coefficients in F. F.F. will not have a complex root, and finding such a root will require looking in some larger field containing the complex numbers. There will be four of them and each one will yield a factor of [latex]f\left(x\right)[/latex]. 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Albion Online: Features Of The Game And The First Step
Albion Online - a project in the genre MMORPG from the studio Sandbox Interactive. The game is an isometric game in which vaguely and remotely sensed resemblance to the ultima online in the gameplay and the open world of which thousands of fans yearned. What does this mysterious Albion offer to us? Simple management, a new approach to the system of classes and skills, full-droplets and fines of death, and this is just the surface of the iceberg. The rest is hidden so deep that the player will have to try hard to cover all the opportunities that will be put into the game.
Features Of The Game
The big world is divided into zones, in each zone from 6 to 15 territories for capturing clans. In total in the game at the moment about 800 territories under the seizure.
The game economy is regulated by the players.
All objects and buildings in the game are crafted by players.
The possibility of building their own settlements.
Possibility to surrender your settlement to other guilds.
PvP & Full Loot. Total loss of things at death in PvP and PvE.
Unique character customization system.
There will be no character classes, it all depends on what kind of clothes and weapons the character is wearing.
Levels will not be as such, the pumping and development of the character will occur by performing the Destiny Board and stuffing the Fame points.
There is an indication of a variety of quality weapons, armor, resources in the game - Tier, which in the game at the moment 7, where 1 is the lowest, 7 highest.
On all platforms, one world and one server.
GvG systems and the seizure of territories.
Your journey through the expanses of Albion you begin as many predecessors before you - naked and unarmed. Therefore, first of all you will have to take care of your equipment. About tools, too, should not be forgotten since without them, resources above the T1 level you do not see.
A stone and a tree that is in abundance in the starting location are waiting for you when a beginner like you will borrow them. Try not to overdo it during the collection process. First of these resources, you do not need much to go to the next level, and secondly - your backpack is not dimensionless. In case of overload, the speed of movement of the character can significantly drop until your complete stop.
By the way, the game does not have a system of levels and classes. The development of the character is carried out by the discovery of achievements. Therefore do not hesitate to perform all the tasks that the system burdens you, namely the collection of T1 resources and crafting of the first items. Without opening these milestones, you will not be able to go further in your development.
If there are no problems with stones and wood, then for the extraction of the skin you will have to shed the first blood. Your opponent will be peacefully grazing rabbits. To refresh them, you need to craft the cutting knife. A workshop where you can make it is located in the same location.
Next, you will need to craft the sword and armor. And here we are again waiting for another surprise, there are no class skills in the game at all. You will only have access to the skills that you select when creating an item. Probably this is the biggest plus and the most delicious zest of Albion Online. Not for nothing that the developers repeatedly hinted to us that we are the ones that are dressed on us.
Having completed familiarity with the interface and having opened all the first milestones of character development, we boldly move on to a small settlement for beginners. Be sure to read the map (M key). It clearly shows where some workshops are located, and at the same time, your location is indicated. In general, this village will become your home town until you go to the Kraft of T4 resources and products.
In addition to workshops, an auction and a repairman, there is also your warehouse and a few NPCs representing a faction of royal artisans. They can accept crafting tasks, which will be assigned a certain amount of time.
The last thing you need to decide on the initial stage - the choice of the direction of development of your character. In order to be able to equip the desired type of weapon or armor, you must meet their requirements. For example, in order to use the equipment of the T2 shooting range you will have to open the "Beginner's Warrior" milestone. When you need silver in game, feel free to UpAlbion to buy what you need. We always have plenty of cheap albion online silver for sale.
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NHL 18 Wishlist: Career Mode Is Main Wishlist From Players
Career mode in NHL 18 would be amazing with the feature to play cups for your team and world cup with your nationals. In all honesty, the primarily wishlist for NHL 18 would be adding the feature of career mode in it. EA is trying implement this feature in NHL 18 series. Hence, career mode is also main wishlist from players, and waiting to be implemented. More NHL 18 features wishlist details, and this game's videos and news, guides, view more at here.
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William Leo Kenney (March 5, 1925 – February 26, 2001) was an American abstract painter, described by critics as a leading figure in the second generation of the 'Northwest School' of artists. “The Lavender Palette: Gay Culture and the Art of Washington State” at the Cascadia Museum in Edmonds was a packed art show and a powerful history lesson. Museum curator David F. Martin put together artwork by dozens of gay men and women who often, just a few short decades ago, had to hide who they were in order to express themselves artistically. The exhibit closed on January 26, 2020. The featured artists included Edmonds native Guy Anderson, one-time Woodway resident Morris Graves, Leo Kenney, Mark Tobey, Delbert J. McBride, Mac Harshberger, Sarah Spurgeon, Thomas Handforth, ceramicist Virginia Weisel, Malcolm Roberts, illustrator Richard Bennett, Ward Corley, Lionel Pries, Leon Derbyshire, Sherrill Van Cott, Jule Kullberg, potter Lorene Spencer, Clifford Wright and Orre Nelson Nobles.
William Leo Kenney was born in Spokane, Washington on March 5, 1925, the son of Raymond Augustus Kenney (1888–1942) and Dorris Della Woodfin Putman (1900–1955), and moved to Seattle with his family at age six. He was interested in art from a young age, copying pictures from newspapers and art magazines. He had an early love of surrealism, and did very well in art classes. Although an intensely energetic kid, he had health problems related to his small stature. At one point in his teenage years he suffered a case of mumps so serious that he had to spend several weeks in bed, his weight dropping to 70 pounds.[1] He attended Broadway High School, on Seattle's Capitol Hill. An art teacher, Jule Kullberg, sent him to see the works of Mark Tobey and Morris Graves at the Seattle Art Museum. "I was never so knocked out as when I first saw Graves' Morning Star and In the Night," Kenney recalled in a 1999 interview. "It was an epiphany to come upon his work - the originality of it."[2] Kenney was dumbfounded when, following the attack on Pearl Harbor and the beginning of American involvement in World War II, his Japanese friends from Broadway High were removed from school for shipment to internment camps.[3] "It was the awakening of my social consciousness," he later recalled. In 1942 Kenney's older brother Jack was drafted into the U.S. Army; shortly after that, his father died. An average student at best, he dropped out of high school on his 18th birthday. He was promptly called up by the draft, but, being underweight, was rejected. He went to work at the Douglas Aircraft assembly plant in Long Beach, California.[4] Kenney returned to Seattle in 1944. After his mother remarried and moved to Long Beach, he moved in with the family of a friend, Jack Griffin. He routinely painted through the night in the basement room he shared with Griffin, who was so impressed with Kenney's work that he took some of his paintings to the Frederick & Nelson's department store in downtown Seattle, which had a small art gallery. Kenney's first exhibition, along with sculptor James W. Washington, Jr., took place there in 1944.[4] The gallery manager then brought Kenney's work to the attention of Dr. Richard Fuller, the director of the Seattle Art Museum, which bought its first Kenney painting, The Inception of Magic, in 1945. The artist was just 20 years old.[2]
At a young age Kenney had read Salvador Dalí's autobiography and the works of poet André Breton, and had become fascinated with surrealism. The influence is plain in his dark, figurative works of the 1940s and '50s. Taking Breton's proclamation that "only the marvelous is beautiful" to heart, he painted "automatically", without conscious planning.[5] Except for a few portraits done for friends, he never tried to reproduce reality in his paintings, always searching instead for deeper meaning. "He never saw the world as others see it," said a longtime friend and patron, Merch Pease. "His work is highly personal. It's pure invention."[6] In the late 1940s Kenney lived in a small apartment near the University of Washington with the brilliant, combative, hard-drinking painter Richard Gilkey.[7] The two became fixtures at the Blue Moon Tavern, the locus of Seattle's nascent 'Beat' culture.[8] In 1948 two of Kenney's paintings were accepted by the Seattle Art Museum for its Annual Exhibition of the Artists of the Pacific Northwest (the 'Northwest Annuals'); one of them, Third Offering, won a prize and cash award. The following year SAM presented a solo exhibition of Kenney's work. At age 24 he most likely was (and still is) the youngest artist to have a solo show at the museum. As the Pacific Northwest's most popular young painter he soon found himself overwhelmed with commissioned work, and fled to California, where he would stay for the next several years. After briefly returning to Douglas Aircraft, he stumbled onto a job, in 1952, as a display artist at Gump's, a major seller of Asian art in San Francisco. He spent the next six years there, becoming the company's director of display, then moved to a different art dealership, W. & J. Sloane.[2][4] He painted only sporadically during this time, but learned a great deal about Asian art. His fascination with an Eastern symbol, the mandala, led to a shift in his work away from the figure and into a pure abstraction of glowing colors and simple, geometric forms, detailed with obsessive intricacy. In 1960 he quit his job in order to refocus on painting. Kenney's 1962 experiments with mescaline had a pronounced effect on his art.[4] The writer Deloris Tarzan Ament would later say: Figures and representational images disappeared. In their place appeared a long series of paintings that were variations on an inner circle radiating misty echoes like the reverberations of a gong. They are elemental forms, drenched with archetypal resonance; symbols of source as well as pure studies of light and form.[2] As the 1960s progressed the world seemed to be catching up to Kenney's proto-psychedelic visions. He moved back to Seattle in 1964, and subsequent gallery shows were met with strong sales and critical acclaim. In 1967 the American Academy of Arts and Letters recognized him with a display of his work at the Academy and an award of $2,500. His paintings were included in the West Coast Now traveling exhibition. Mark Tobey and Morris Graves' agent in New York, Marian Willard, arranged a New York exhibition for Kenney at the Willard Gallery in 1968. The show was such a success that Willard immediately wanted to schedule an encore. The Seattle Art Museum, initially somewhat skeptical of Kenney's newer work, slated a solo exhibition for 1973, in tandem with an exhibition at Seattle's Foster/White Gallery.[1] Despite his success, Kenney was growing tired of the symmetric shapes of his most popular work, and began loosening up his composition and breaking his shapes into pieces. As he explored these new directions he became increasingly uncomfortable with the pressure to churn out new paintings. His meticulous attention to detail had always necessitated a slow working pace, and now, in his late forties, burdened by ill health and a drinking problem, he simply couldn't produce enough work to keep up with demand. By the late 1970s his celebrity began to recede. He painted sporadically and sold work out of his studio to help pay his expenses, but was never able to complete enough paintings for another gallery exhibition.[1]
Kenney remained a master colorist and technician among Northwest painters. However, injuries and alcohol greatly reduced his artistic output. His old friend and patron Merch Pease helped him reorder his health and his finances somewhat, and in 1996 the Port Angeles Fine Art Center mounted Leo Kenney: Geometrics, a showing of his work since the 1973 Seattle Art Museum show.[9] In 2000 the Museum of Northwest Art in La Conner, Washington presented Celebrating the Mysteries, a comprehensive overview of Kenney's 50-year career curated by Barbara Straker James.[1] Though ailing, Kenney happily gabbed with guests and old friends for several hours at the exhibition's opening celebration. Suffering from cancer and emphysema, Kenney died on February 26, 2001, in Seattle.[6] In 2014, several of his works were included in Modernism in the Pacific Northwest: the Mythic and the Mystical, a major exhibition at the Seattle Art Museum.[10]
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Genesis 1:1, 26, 27; 3:22
In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
Then God said, "Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; and let them rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over the cattle and over all the earth." God created man in His own image, in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them.
Then the Lord God said, "Behold, the man has become like one of Us, knowing good and evil; and now, he might stretch out his hand, and take also from the tree of life, and eat, and live forever."
Before the mountains were born,
Or You have birth to the earth and the world,
Even from from everlasting, You are God.
"Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, ..."
... according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, by the sanctifying work of the Spirit, to obey Jesus Christ and be sprinkled with His blood: May grace and peace be yours in the fullest measure.
The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit, be with you all.
Now all this took place to fulfill what was spoken by the Lord through the prophet: "Behold, the virgin shall be with child and shall bear a son, and they shall call His name Emmanuel," which translated means, "God with us."
For a child will be born to us, a son will be given to us;
And the government will rest on His shoulders;
And His name will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God,
Eternal Father, Prince of Peace.
John 1:1-5 & 14:10-30
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things came into being through Him, and apart from Him nothing came into being that has come into being. In Him was life, and the life was the light of men. The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not comprehend it.
Do you not believe that I am in the Father, and the Father is in Me? The words that I say to you I do not speak on My own initiative, but the Father abiding in Me does His works. "Believe Me that I am in the Father and the Father is in Me; otherwise believe because of the works themselves. Continue Reading this passage.
Therefore, since we have a great high priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus, the Son of God, let us hold fast our confession. For we do not have a high priest who cannot sympathize with our weaknesses, but One who has been tempted in all things as we are, yet without sin.
For I delivered to you as of first importance what I also received, that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, and that He was buried, and that He was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures ...
... concerning His Son, who was born of a descendant of David according to the flesh, who was declared the Son of God with power by the resurrection from the dead, according to the Spirit of holiness, Jesus Christ our Lord ...
And after He had said these things, He was lifted up while they were looking on, and a cloud received Him out of their sight. And as they were gazing intently into the sky while He was going, behold, two men in white clothing stood beside them. They also said, " Men of Galilee, why do you stand looking into the sky? This Jesus, who has been taken up from you into heaven, will come in just the same way as you have watched Him go into heaven."
... that you keep the commandment without stain or reproach until the appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ, which He will bring about at the proper time ─ He who is the blessed and only Sovereign, the King of kings and Lord of lords ...
... looking for the blessed hope and the appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior, Christ Jesus ...
Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.
John 16:7-13 & 14:16-17
"But I tell you the truth, it is to your advantage that I go away; for if I do not go away, the Helper will not come to you; but if I go, I will send Him to you. And He, when He comes, will ...." Continue reading this passage
"I will ask the Father, and He will give you another Helper, that He may be with you forever; that is the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it does not see Him or know Him, but you know Him because He abides with you and will be in you. "
... but you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be My witnesses both in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and even to the remotest part of the earth.
1 Corinthians 2:12 & 3:16
Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, so that we may know the things freely given to us by God ...
In Him, you also, after listening to the message of truth, the gospel of your salvation--having also believed, you were sealed in Him with the Holy Spirit of promise ...
If we live by the Spirit, let us also walk by the Spirit.
And do not get drunk with wine, for that is dissipation, but be filled with the Spirit ...
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If the Search function in Blogger were working on my blog, I'd be able to link to the post in which I explained that I'd bought a mudroom-like organizational piece for our kitchen. But the Search function isn't working, and since I post nearly every day and can't even remember in which MONTH I bought it, you're just going to have to go with it.
Anyway, it works really well for us. Really, it does.
I promise. I've been really happy with it and consider it a great addition to our home.
But last weekend the wheels came off the wagon. I don't know if it's baseball or Scouts or just our hectic schedule in general, but MY WORD THE MESS.
I walked in and it almost took my breath away. I mean, PEOPLE. The drawer for all those shoes is RIGHT THERE.
I feel that a refresher course is in order. I'll let you know how that goes. Ahem.
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Try some kind of reward scenario..."I'm going to get to have a special treat, because I put away my shoes. I wish you had put away your shoes, so you could have a treat, too." If you don't want to do a food reward, choose something else. Rewarding yourself can sometimes be just the incentive. Besides, we don't reward ourselves often enough!
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Solving global warming
Look, if you really want to do something about global warming and or climate change, you need to go to the root of the problem.
In 1950 the world population was 2,525,778,669. In 2015 it is estimated to be 7,324,782,225. This is nearly triple what it was in 1950.
The root of the problem is the human animal.
More and more people equals a greater and greater demand for everything including more energy from all sources.
If there is no control of the population, there is no way "clean energy" will ever solve the problem.
If the population had been stabilized at 2,525,778,66, the earth would probably be cooling instead of warming.
Clean energy is kind of like trying to bale water faster out of a sinking boat while you load more people into the sinking boat.
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BOOK REVIEW: "WAR" by Sebastian Junger
One could pretty much read quality books about war, and only war, for a lifetime and still feel they'd still missed out on some classics. For those of you like me who are dilettantes in the field of first-person accounts of war on the front lines, don't make the mistake of passing up this amazing work of journalism simply because it's entitled a mere "WAR", and because it deals with recent nonsensical fighting in Afghanistan and not on epic, defining battles along the Western Front. This account by Sebastian Junger of his time embedded with an American infantry platoon in Afghanistan's Korengal Valley - the hottest flashpoint in the entire deadly, crazed battle with the Taliban - is as well-written as any military account I've read, right up there with Anthony Beevor's "Stalingrad" (which is actually a work of history) and Tim O'Brien's semi-nonfictional "The Things They Carried". Except this is better, and cuts more closely to the bone. If you've ever wondered why some men are driven to be soldiers, why they will die for the men around them and take ludicrous risks to save their friends instead of themselves, this is an essential read.
Sebastian Junger is fairly well-known for his gonzoid journalism in the lines of battle with firefighters, seamen at storm and other testosterone-laden subjects. Junger is obviously the rare sort of man up for the challenge of spending multiple months getting shot at and going on shoot-to-kill missions with a platoon in the name of a good story and a film ("RESTREPO", a terrific documentary that Hedonist Jive reviewed right here). All well and good - but the man can write like you wouldn't believe. His perspective ranges from quote-perfect descriptions of the boredom and intense camaraderie of the men he's with to meditations on the internal machinations of man when confronted with possible or near-certain death. When he hits upon a particular topic - how cortisol contributes to fighting ability, say, or how men block out the external narrative of "the war" in favor of the WAR they're actually fighting - he goes on some pretty big riffs to get to what he believes are essential truths. It's hard not to believe that they are when you're done with said riffs, backed as they are by words straight from the mouths of soldiers and even from clinical, scientific research.
This is not a book about whether or not it's right to fight the war in Afghanistan, nor about anything happening outside the Korengal Valley - unless it's about how weird it was for the men of the Second Platoon to go back to the United States when their tours of duty were up. Many signed up for new tours, just so they could feel the adrenaline-rush intensity that comes from nothing but combat. Remember that soon-to-be-cliched scene at the end of "The Hurt Locker", in which Jeremy Renner's character suffers from total cognitive dissonance at an American supermarkets after his wacked-out, exceptionally violent time in Iraq? There's a lot of discussion of similar feelings among combat personnel in this book, and about how firefights & screaming, violent combat is especially well-matched to the phisiologies of 19-25-year-old men in top physical condition.
The notion of "brotherhood", so easily mocked when put into the wrong hands - say, a politician's - is made into something so respectful and understandable in this book that I actually dropped my jaw at times in a newfound respect for humanity. It turns out that we as people have an innate empathy for our fellow man that in certain circumstances can override even our love for ourselves. Yeah, like I said - this is a book that hits on some pretty deep truths, all in the service of painting a vivid picture of men in combat, thousands of miles from you & me and doing this every day and night while we do whatever it is we do. "WAR" is an exceptional book, and I'm happy it's only my first at what I'm sure will be many books read by Sebastian Junger.
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Persecutions Are Coming
16 “Behold, I send you out as sheep in the midst of wolves. Therefore be wise as serpents and harmless as doves. 17 But beware of men, for they will deliver you up to councils and scourge you in their synagogues. 18 You will be brought before governors and kings for My sake, as a testimony to them and to the Gentiles. 19 But when they deliver you up, do not worry about how or what you should speak. For it will be given to you in that hour what you should speak;20 for it is not you who speak, but the Spirit of your Father who speaks in you.
21 “Now brother will deliver up brother to death, and a father his child; and children will rise up against parents and cause them to be put to death. 22 And you will be hated by all for My name’s sake. But he who endures to the end will be saved. 23 When they persecute you in this city, flee to another. For assuredly, I say to you, you will not have gone through the cities of Israel before the Son of Man comes.
24 “A disciple is not above his teacher, nor a servant above his master. 25 It is enough for a disciple that he be like his teacher, and a servant like his master. If they have called the master of the house Beelzebub,[a] how much more will they call those of his household! 26 Therefore do not fear them. For there is nothing covered that will not be revealed, and hidden that will not be known.
Jesus Teaches the Fear of God
27 “Whatever I tell you in the dark, speak in the light; and what you hear in the ear, preach on the housetops. 28 And do not fear those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. But rather fear Him who is able to destroy both soul and body in hell. 29 Are not two sparrows sold for a copper coin? And not one of them falls to the ground apart from your Father’s will. 30 But the very hairs of your head are all numbered. 31 Do not fear therefore; you are of more value than many sparrows.
Confess Christ Before Men
32 “Therefore whoever confesses Me before men, him I will also confess before My Father who is in heaven. 33 But whoever denies Me before men, him I will also deny before My Father who is in heaven.
Christ Brings Division
34 “Do not think that I came to bring peace on earth. I did not come to bring peace but a sword. 35 For I have come to ‘set a man against his father, a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law’; 36 and ‘a man’s enemies will be those of his own household.’[b] 37 He who loves father or mother more than Me is not worthy of Me. And he who loves son or daughter more than Me is not worthy of Me. 38 And he who does not take his cross and follow after Me is not worthy of Me. 39 He who finds his life will lose it, and he who loses his life for My sake will find it.
A Cup of Cold Water
40 “He who receives you receives Me, and he who receives Me receives Him who sent Me. 41 He who receives a prophet in the name of a prophet shall receive a prophet’s reward. And he who receives a righteous man in the name of a righteous man shall receive a righteous man’s reward. 42 And whoever gives one of these little ones only a cup of cold water in the name of a disciple, assuredly, I say to you, he shall by no means lose his reward.”
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Matthew 10:36 Micah 7:6
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16th International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry. May 20-23, 2020, Urbana, IL. Every year since 2005. Usually in the second half of May. Deadline for abstracts by December 1st. For more information, visit http://www.icqi.org/.
Humanities and Social Sciences Net On-line (H-Net). A major portal with links to over 800 humanities conferences and CFP. http://www.h-net.org/announce/group.cgi?type=Conferences
The International Institute for Qualitative Methodology (IIQM) conferences, workshops, and events, including The Qualitative Health Research (QHR) conference, The Qualitative Methods (QM) conference, The Thinking Qualitatively (TQ) Workshop Series, and The TQ2U Workshop Series. Other Qualitative Software workshops are also held throughout the year across various locations. For more information, please visit http://www.iiqm.ualberta.ca/Conferences_and_Workshops.aspx or https://www.ualberta.ca/international-institute-for-qualitative-methodology/about-us
2018-2019 Conferences by month:
Most of these events re-occur on annual basis at approximately the same time.
May 2018 and 2019
10th Qualitative and Quantitative Methods in Libraries International Conference 22- 25 May 2018, Chania, Crete, Greece
10th Qualitative and Quantitative Methods in Libraries (International Conference). 22-25 May 2018, The Savoy Hotel, Limerick, Ireland. http://qqml.org/event/qqml2018/ Conference dates are approximately the same each year, but country and city will vary.
Annual Qualitative Methods (QM) Conference, early May. Abstracts due by late November. Conference dates might vary by year. Conferences are convened in different countries. For updated information, visit https://www.ualberta.ca/international-institute-for-qualitative-methodology/about-us
16th Qualitative Methods (QM) Conference, May 1—3, 2018; Pre-conference workshop dates: April 29 & 30. Banff, Alberta, Canada. – See more at: https://www.ualberta.ca/international-institute-for-qualitative-methodology/conferences-workshops-and-events/qualitative-methods-conference#sthash.JAw0zFIu.dpuf
The 8th Annual Popular Culture Association of Canada conference, May 3rd to May 5th, 2018 at Brock University, St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada. http://www.canpop.ca/2018-conference
The 35th Annual Qualitative Analysis Conference Creating, Negotiating, and Transcending Social Boundaries in Everyday Life Hosted by St. Thomas University Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada, May 16 to 18, 2018. An annual conference, usually taking place in mid-May, mostly in Canada. CFP deadlines vary by year from January to March. For updated information, please go to http://www.qualitatives.ca/
2018 Conference of the Society for Qualitative Inquiry in Psychology, May 21st and 22nd, http://qualpsy.org/events/2018-conference/
The Qualitative Report (TQR) website. See for resources. https://tqr.nova.edu/
Seventh Ethnography and Qualitative Research Conference
Bergamo (Italy) – June 6-9, 2018, http://www.etnografiaricercaqualitativa.it/
18th Annual Thinking Qualitatively (TQ) Workshop Series, June 18-22, 2018. Qualitative software workshop dates: June 16 & 17, 2018. Several consecutive workshops. See conference website for details. Host: IIQM, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada. Abstract submission by April 15th. This event typically holds the same schedule each year. Expect similar dates for 2018. https://www.ualberta.ca/international-institute-for-qualitative-methodology/conferences-workshops-and-events/thinking-qualitatively-workshops
The International Visual Sociology Association (IVSA) 2018 Annual Conference, June 25-28, 2018 University of Paris-Saclay – University of Evry, Evry, France Submission Deadlines: Feb 15, 2018. The conference convenes every year at approximately the same time, but in different countries. Proposal deadlines are typically due in mid-February. For updates by year please go to http://visualsociology.org/
Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction Conference and Couch-Stone Symposium in Lancaster (4-6 July 2018) #sssi#sociology, https://sssiorg.wordpress.com/2018/02/23/sssi-couch-stone-conference-in-lancaster-4-6-july-2018-sssi-sociology/
PopCAANZ 9th Annual International Conference, (The Popular Culture Association of Australia and New Zealand (PopCAANZ), 2 – 4 July 2018, Auckland University of Technology, City Campus, Auckland, New Zealand. http://popcaanz.com/category/calls-for-papers/
EUPOP 2018, Conference of the European Popular Culture Association, Charles University, Prague, July 24th – 26th, 2018, https://epcablog.wordpress.com/
15TH Annual Qualitative Research Summer Intensive, July 23rd-27th, The Carolina Inn, Chapel Hill, NC. http://researchtalk.com/qrsi-2018/
Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction meeting before the American Sociological Association (ASA) meeting, August 10-11, 2018, Philadelphia, PA (preceding the 2018 ASA meeting) https://sites.google.com/site/sssinteraction/home/conferences-events/mini-conference-2018
Midterm conference of the ESA Research Network 20 Qualitative Methods, St.Gallen, Switzerland, 6–8 September 2018, https://qualitative-research.ch/en/unexplored-realities/
Seventh conference “Qualitative Research on Mental Health”, QRMH7, Berlin, Germany, September 20-22, 2018. http://www.qrmh7.com/ ; CFP in PDF format : https://www.hszg.de/fileadmin/Redakteure/Fakultaeten/Sozialwesen/MitarbeiterInnen/ProfessorInnen/schmitt/call_qrmh_7.pdf
EPIC 2018 (The Ethnographic Praxis in Industry Conference), October 09—12. 2018, Honolulu, Hawai‘i. Annual conference, usually convenes between September and October. For more information, visit https://www.epicpeople.org/ . Deadline for submissions might vary, but usually is in March.
Third World Conference on Qualitative Research, Lisbon (Portugal), 17th to 19th October 2018, https://wcqr.info/world-conference-on-qualitative-research/
Third International Conference on Communication and Media Studies, 18-19 October 2018, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, USA, http://oncommunicationmedia.com/berkeley2018.
24th Qualitative Health Research Conference. October 27—29, 2018, Halifax, NS, Canada. Pre-conference Workshop Dates: October 25 & 26, 2018. Abstract submission deadline typically in June. For the 2018 conference, please contact conference organizers. See more at: https://www.ualberta.ca/international-institute-for-qualitative-methodology/conferences-workshops-and-events/qualitative-health-research-conference#sthash.Naoy4sl1.dpuf . QHR is a three day annual conference focusing on qualitative research in health disciplines and is held in various Canadian cities every October. Generic conference website: http://www.iiqm.ualberta.ca/en/Conferences_and_Workshops.aspx
117th Meeting of the American Anthropological Association. November 14— November 18, 2018. San Jose Convention Center, San Jose, CA. http://www.americananthro.org/AttendEvents/landing.aspx?ItemNumber=14722&navItemNumber=566
The 10th Annual TQR Conference will be held January 16-18, 2019 at Nova Southeastern University in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA. You can learn more about the conference at the following website, which will be updated regularly throughout the year: https://www.tqr2019.com/ or http://nsuworks.nova.edu/tqrc/ninth/ . TQR conferences are usually held at the same time in January, same location, same due dates for proposal submissions (from February through the end of April).
2019 QRCA annual conference, the association of qualitative research consultants. January 30- February 1, 2019 in Savannah, Georgia. CFP open through Mid May. For more information, visit Meeting times change by year, see updates at http://www.qrca.org/page/2018_HomePage or http://www.qrca.org/ QRCA conferences usually take place around the same time each year. CFP due dates are usually in May-June.
31th Annual Conference on Ethnographic and Qualitative Conference (EQRC). Early February, 2019, Las Vegas, Nevada at the Flamingo Hotel. This conference convenes usually in early February; the proposal deadline is usually in mid-November. Generic website: http://www.eqrc.net/home
2019 Annual Ethnography in Education Research Forum. The meetings are usually in late February. University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. For more information, contact [email protected] or http://www.gse.upenn.edu/cue/forum if the conference details are updated. The 2019 forum will be the 40th conference meeting. Proposal submissions are due October through mid-November.
2019 MAXQDA International Conference (MQIC). Usually late February. For updated information, please see http://conference.maxqda.com/.
Society for Applied Anthropology 79th Annual Meeting. Late March 2019, https://www.sfaa.net/annual-meeting/ Annual meetings convene at the end of March; CFP are typically due in mid-October. http://www.sfaa.net/
The 2019 Annual Meeting of American Educational Research Association (AERA). Friday, April 5 – Tuesday, April 9m Toronto, ON, CANADA. Deadline for submission is usually in September. http://www.aera.net/Events-Meetings
2019 National Conference, Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association. Conference dates and deadlines are usually similar each year. Conferences take place in April 17-20 Washington, DC; CFP deadline is by the end of September. Track new information and CFP at http://pcaaca.org/ |
NY mural of astronaut, Gandhi talks about future
UNITED NATIONS - The high-tech future of green jobs and the Gandhian virtue of the dignity of work meld their messages on a six-storey high mural commemorating the 150th birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi and the centenary of the International Labour Organisation (ILO). Sporting a Mahatma Gandhi patch on his shoulder, an astronaut floats in space on the mural painted on the side wall of the Indian Mission to the UN...
that was inaugurated on Tuesday.
The mural that looks up from the vista that opens to the iconic glass-fronted UN building a block away commemorates the occasions.The other themes on the mural, a joint effort of the ILO and the Indian mission, include the concept of "green", environmentally sustainable jobs and the greening of the world by planting trees.
India's Permanent Representative Syed Akbaruddin said at the inauguration that the mural addresses global concerns of decent jobs and the environment.
He said the mural effort goes beyond the diplomatic work at the UN of dealing with resolutions to a new diplomatic area of reaching out to people to create broader awareness of issues. Victor Ash, the artist who painted it while perched high on a cherry-picker, told IANS: "I mixed different ideas and came up with this 'green astronaut' that is also worker - the worker from the future who would be working in space."
And to commemorate the anniversary of Gandhi' birth, he said he added Gandhi's image as a logo on the arm of the astronaut. Ash said that one of his inspirations was India's record in 2017 of planting 66 million trees on a single day. The mission building with a red-stone facade was designed by the internationally acclaimed Indian architect Charles Correa, but one of its sides was bared to the bricks after the neighbouring building was torn down and a hotel was built on the site with a deep setback.
The mural now decorates that side without impinging on the building's Correa design.
The mural was one of several sponsored across the city by ILO to commemorate its centenary with a project called Street Art for Mankind that aims to spread the message of decent work for all with sustainable development and social justice. Portugal-born Ash said that he had painted a mural at the Indian Institute of Technology in Chennai during its Summerfest. He said that he had started as a street-artist in Paris, where he had studied, and later went into doing paintings for galleries.
"But it was only the studio work and exhibiting in galleries was not reaching such a broad public," he said.
"So I went back to the street and did murals because it has a much bigger impact and you can actually transmit messages much better than just exhibiting in galleries for a few specific people." |
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World Hunger on the Rise Again
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Children drink from a tap during recess at a UNICEF supported primary school inside Bukasi internally displaced people's camp, in Maiduguri, Borno state, Nigeria. Credit: UNICEF/Gilbertson
ROME, Sep 15 2017 (IPS) - Exacerbated by climate-related shocks, increasing conflicts have been a key driver of severe food crisis and recently re-emerged famines, a major United Nations joint report has just revealed.
Hunger and under nutrition are significantly worse where conflicts are prolonged and institutional capacities weak, on 15 September warned the first-ever UN report measuring progress on meeting new international goals pegged to eradicating hunger and malnutrition by 2030. “After steadily declining for over a decade, global hunger is on the rise again, affecting 815 million people in 2016, or 11 per cent of the global population, says a new edition of the annual report on world food security and nutrition.”
“Addressing food insecurity and malnutrition in conflict-affected situations cannot be business as usual”
At the same time, multiple forms of malnutrition are threatening the health of millions worldwide, it adds.
“The increase – 38 million more people than the previous year – is largely due to the proliferation of violent conflicts and climate-related shocks, according to the study.”
Addressing food insecurity and malnutrition in conflict-affected situations cannot be “business as usual,” alerts the new edition of The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2017, Building Resilience for Peace and Food Security.
It requires a conflict-sensitive approach that aligns actions for immediate humanitarian assistance, long-term development and sustaining peace, says this year’s report, which has been elaborated by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO); the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), and the UN World Food Program (WFP), along with the United Nations Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF) and the World Health Organization (WHO).
Hunger and food security
• Overall number of hungry people in the world: 815 million, including:
o In Asia: 520 million
o In Africa: 243 million
o In Latin America and the Caribbean: 42 million
• Share of the global population who are hungry: 11%
o Asia: 11.7%
o Africa: 20% (in eastern Africa, 33.9%)
o Latin America and the Caribbean: 6.6%
Malnutrition in all its forms
• Number of children under 5 years of age who suffer from stunted growth (height too low for their age): 155 million.
o Number of those living in countries affected by varying levels of conflict, ranging from South Sudan to India: 122 million
• Children under 5 affected by wasting (weight too low given their height): 52 million
• Number of adults who are obese: 641 million (13% of all adults on the planet)
• Children under 5 who are overweight: 41 million
• Number of women of reproductive age affected by anaemia: 613 million (around 33% of the total)
The impact of conflict
• Number of the 815 million hungry people on the planet who live in countries affected by conflict: 489 million
• The prevalence of hunger in countries affected by conflict is 1.4 - 4.4 percentage points higher than in other countries
• In conflict settings compounded by conditions of institutional and environmental fragility, the prevalence is 11 and 18 percentage points higher
• People living in countries affected by protracted crises are nearly 2.5 times more likely to be undernourished than people elsewhere
SOURCE: The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2017
The consequences are striking—around 155 million children aged under five are stunted (too short for their age), the report says, while 52 million suffer from wasting, meaning their weight is too low for their height.
Meantime, an estimated 41 million children are now overweight. Anaemia among women and adult obesity are also cause for concern. These trends are a consequence not only of conflict and climate change but also of sweeping changes in dietary habits and economic slowdowns.
The report is the first UN global assessment on food security and nutrition to be released following the adoption of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, which aims to end hunger and all forms of malnutrition by 2030 as a top international policy priority.
It singles out conflict – increasingly compounded by climate change – as one of the key drivers behind the resurgence of hunger and many forms of malnutrition.
And it sends a clear warning signal that the ambition of a world without hunger and malnutrition by 2030 will be challenging – achieving it will require renewed efforts through new ways of working.
More Chronically Undernourished People
The joint report provides estimates of the number and proportion of hungry people on the planet and includes data for the global, regional, and national levels, while offering a significant update on the shifting global milieu that is today affecting people’s food security and nutrition, in all corners of the globe.
Among other key findings, it reveals that in 2016 the number of chronically undernourished people in the world is estimated to have increased to 815 million, up from 777 million in 2015 although still down from about 900 million in 2000.
After a prolonged decline, this recent increase could signal a reversal of trends.
“The food security situation has worsened in particular in parts of sub-Saharan Africa, South-Eastern Asia and Western Asia, and deteriorations have been observed most notably in situations of conflict and conflict combined with droughts or floods.”
The apparent halt to declining hunger numbers is not yet reflected in the prevalence of child stunting, which continues to fall, though the pace of improvement is slower in some regions, the report warns.
Globally, the prevalence of stunting fell from 29.5 per cent to 22.9 percent between 2005 and 2016, although 155 million children under five years of age across the world still suffer from stunted growth.
Children, Stunned
According to the report, wasting affected one in twelve of all children under five years of age in 2016, more than half of whom (27.6 million) live in Southern Asia.
Multiple forms of malnutrition coexist, with countries experiencing simultaneously high rates of child undernutrition, anaemia among women, and adult obesity, t reports, adding that rising rates of overweight and obesity add to these concerns.
Levels of child stunting are still unacceptably high in some regions, and if current trends continue, the SDG target on reducing child stunting by 2030 will not be reached, according to the report.
Economic Slowdown
Another key finding is that worsening food security conditions have also been observed in more peaceful settings, especially where economic slowdown has drained foreign exchange and fiscal revenues, affecting both food availability through reduced import capacity and food access through reduced fiscal space to protect poor households against rising domestic food prices.
Credit: WHO/C. Black
“While underlining that the failure to reduce world hunger is closely associated with the increase in conflict and violence in several parts of the world, the report attempts to provide a clearer understanding of the nexus between conflict and food security and nutrition, and to demonstrate why efforts at fighting hunger must go hand-in-hand with those to sustain peace.”
Famine struck in parts of South Sudan for several months in early 2017, and there is a high risk that it could reoccur there as well as appear in other conflict-affected places, namely northeast Nigeria, Somalia and Yemen, they reminded.
Alarm Bells
Over the past decade conflicts have risen dramatically in number and become more complex and intractable in nature, said José Graziano da Silva, FAO Director-General; David Beasley, WFP Executive Director; Gilbert F. Houngbo, IFAD President; Anthony Lake, UNICEF Executive Director, and Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, WHO Director-General.
Some of the highest proportions of food-insecure and malnourished children are found in countries affected by conflict, a situation that is even more alarming in countries characterised by prolonged conflicts and fragile institutions.
At the site for internally displaced persons in Mellia, Chad. Credit: OCHA/Ivo Brandau
“This has set off alarm bells we cannot afford to ignore: we will not end hunger and all forms of malnutrition by 2030 unless we address all the factors that undermine food security and nutrition,” the chiefs of the five UN agencies participating in the elaboration of the report have stated.
The five UN agencies heads also reaffirmed their determination and commitment now more than ever to step up concerted action to fulfil the ambitions of the 2030 Agenda and achieve a world free from hunger, malnutrition and poverty.
“Ending hunger and all forms of malnutrition is an ambitious goal, but it is one we strongly believe can be reached if we strengthen our common efforts and work to tackle the underlying causes that leave so many people food-insecure, jeopardizing their lives, futures, and the futures of their societies.”
In response to a question raised by IPS at a press conference held this morning to launch the report at FAO headquarters, the FAO DG da Silva emphasized that to reverse the adverse trend in the number of undernourished people, ‘we are all working together, especially in countries affected by conflict and climate change, and continuing our focus on emergencies and humanitarian issues. There are new tools available now, such as cash vouchers and food for work. Although lives were lost, we were able to pull South Sudan out of famine in three months and Somalia in six months. There is no illusion that all protracted crisis can be solved immediately’.
IFAD President Gilbert Houngbo said that ‘We should not wait for conflicts to be over. Long term investment is core to the solution, not only as seen from an agriculture perspective, but there are also issues of governance. Agriculture investment must also be combined with investment in technology and fighting food losses and creating access to markets’
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The Spark and the box
Everyone has a bright idea. An average human being has over a thousand different ideas each day, so it's no surprise if one of those ideas happen to be a bright one. This is the bright idea that might lead to that person doing something big, something meaningful, something that makes a difference.
Ideas are aplenty, bright ideas are aplenty, but what's lacking is the right reaction to the idea being evoked. If I tell you I have an idea that will increase the life span of every human by 2x, you will scoff at me and label me crazy. Instead, if I tell you I have an idea that will increase your fitness levels by 2x, you might lend me half an ear.
It is not enough to have a bright idea. It is necessary that the bright idea lies just outside your proverbial box. Only just. Because if it is too far outside the box, you will think it outlandish and not pay much attention to it. Only if it is just outside will it pique your curiosity enough for you to think a little more about it. And only if you think a little more about it will you decide to do anything about it.
Everyone who creates content, be it movies, books, plays, advertisements, blog posts, understands this. The content they create ought to be just outside the box for their target audience. That's the reason you have an audience for everyone from Chetan Bhagat to Murakami. Each knows to paint their stories just outside the box for their respective audiences.
If the conversations you are having are never falling outside your box, you are destined to not having any bright ideas. Exposure to new content and ideas and conversations is what lets you gradually enlarge your box making it progressively less likely for outlandish ideas to fall just outside your box.
It is not enough if you have the Spark. It can so easily fizzle out if your box is too small. At any given time, if what you're doing is not letting you enlarge your box, you are just another mind for the creatives to monetize. |
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I Hate That It Works…
Right now I’m doing a trick during my run at the airport that uses a magnet. The trick has a clever way to hide the magnet, however because of the gig I can’t use the method that was designed for the trick. So, what did I do? I put the magnet on my finger and … Continue reading “I Hate That It Works…”
Right now I’m doing a trick during my run at the airport that uses a magnet. The trick has a clever way to hide the magnet, however because of the gig I can’t use the method that was designed for the trick.
I put the magnet on my finger and then put a band aid over it. I really hate that no one has questioned the band aid on my finger, but then I don’t know the last time I asked anyone about a band aid on their finger. It’s a “hidden in plain sight” sort of deal.
This method works great for this gig because I do one trick per set and do it over and over again. The band aid method wouldn’t work if I was to do it as part of a show. As much as I dislike the band aid, it works for this very specific application!
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Fall in air traffic demand this February
India is the only domestic market in the world to see a decline in air traffic demand this February compared to last year, even as global traffic continued to show “solid” growth in the same month, IATA said today.
India’s domestic air traffic fell 1.8 per cent in February compared to the same month in 2013, making it “the only domestic market to see a contraction in demand,” the International Air Transport Association (IATA) said on the latest global air traffic figures.
“Subdued consumer sentiment ahead of the upcoming election as well as elevated fare levels compared to a year ago, are likely to be exerting downward pressure on demand,” it said in its analysis of the data for February 2014.
Indian carriers’ revenue per kilometre (RPK), which measures the volume of passengers carried by the airlines, declined by 1.8 per cent, while its average seat per km (ASKM), measuring available passenger carrying capacity of airlines, stood at 6.6 per cent.
Full report here New Indian Express
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1008. Much Will Be Revealed to God’s Children, before the Great Day of the Lord
Friday, January 3rd, 2014 @ 21:45
My dearly beloved daughter, when the prophets of old were called upon by God to proclaim the Truth, they were not – any of them – overly enthusiastic with the Chalice of the True Word of God given to them. It was so overwhelming for each of them – most of whom were not learned in the Words of Scripture – much of what was given to them did not make sense to them. Yet the Power of the Holy Spirit drew them and this enabled them to speak the Word of God, exactly as it was given to them. Many cowered in fear. Some walked away. Those who walked away came back. When God sends a prophet, it means that something of great significance is planned by Him. Prophets, messengers from God, only reveal to the world that which is necessary for the salvation of souls.
My daughter, let it be known that this Mission will be the one when the Voice of God will be felt, as if it were like thunder, which will be felt in every part of the Earth. Much will be revealed to God’s children before the Great Day of the Lord dawns. It is necessary that this happens, for were He not to warn humanity, then He would not fulfill His Promise made to the prophets – Moses, Daniel and John. When God makes a Promise it is always fulfilled.
Never fear a true prophet, for they speak the Words put into their mouths by God for your sake.
To hear the Word of God spoken today can cause fear. It can be overwhelming and cause a certain amount of anxiety. Yet, without the Word being revived, made to breathe again and live amongst you, you would find the gap – the distance between you and God – too wide. The gap closes now, as My Words, brought to you by My Father, will bring you comfort – more joy than sorrow, more courage than fear and more solace than weeping.
Listen carefully to this, My daughter. You must never try to push Me away when all I want to do is wrap all of you within My Sacred Arms and draw you into My Heart. My Word can be somber, My prophecies difficult to hear and the wicked deeds of man upsetting to witness, but never forget that all these things will pass. They will be forgotten. They will be of little consequence. For the world, the life ahead of you, will bring with it great joy and laughter, as the Love of God will be felt in every place, every home, every soul and every heart.
This is the final part of My Plan to salvage the Earth and every living creature. It will present many difficulties and trials. Man’s cruelty will be the most distressing of all to withstand and the rejection of Me, Jesus Christ, the final straw in the Eyes of My Father. Yet this final confrontation will not take long before man will be relieved of the terrible hatred, which exists in the world.
The Power of Heaven is not to be underestimated, because My Father’s Intervention will be too powerful for His enemies to withstand. So be at peace. Accept God’s Intervention – His Great Act of Love, given to you by the Word, which comes from the mouth of His prophets. All these things are to protect you, bring you closer to Me and create a New Beginning where there will be no end. |
A recent UNICEF report revealed that 1 out of every 5 children die before their 5th birthday, 500 newborns die daily and one pregnant woman dies every 10 minutes in childbirth. These depressing statistics have been challenged by Nigeria's Minister of Information, but whether or not they are indeed accurate, the sad state of womens health in Nigeria is definitely an issue that must be remedied.
As a mother of 3 children, my mind refuses to grasp the reality of those staggering statistics. No matter how many lives are lost during childbirth, be it 1 or 1000, any life lost is saddening. Particularly, as such deaths would be preventable when a people and their leaders commit to preventing such losses. In my opinion, these numbers, which have been challenged by Nigeria's Ministry of Information, illustrate the human costs of corruption in Nigeria. I am thankful that I am not a proponent of the death penalty and that Nigeria is not mine to do with as I pleased because if that was the case, every single person directly tied to the murder of the millions of Nigeria's women and children would stand a good chance of some form of humane execution.
So, on this day when, the world unites to celebrate "the economic, political and social achievements of women past, present and future," instead of advocate the execution of those responsible for the poor health of all Nigerians (regardless of age, sex or income), I use this opportunity to add my voice to those calling for better healthcare for Nigeria's people. The health of women and children is a crucial indicator of national development. And for Nigeria to someday become the shining beacon it aims to be, these statistics must improve starting now.
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Posted by SOLOMONSYDELLE at 10:13 AM
Labels: africa, bloggers unite, children, health, health care, international womens day, Nigerian women, UNICEF, united nations
Happy Celebration to the women. Seriously, Women's Health is a major issue that should be looked into.
Lost at The End said...
Wow! Those numbers are indeed staggering and scary. I'm happy you're helping to create awareness o. Because, while it's fine to the happy that one is not among that number, it is important to know that other people are and that since these deaths can be prevented, they should.
Still when I'm a mess
I still put on a vest
With an S on my chest
Oh yes
I'm a Superwoman
yes, you all are.
Those numbers are pretty shocking. Focus on this problem is so necessary. Thanks for sharing.
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No Xplode said...
pretty shocking health conditions..eye opener |
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Be anxious for nothing...
I have a problem... and it's called anxiety.
Anxiety is one of those sins that is justified by the world. It is okay, normal, and even expected to be anxious, worried, and stressed. I even justify it... I have been known to say, "I know I am stressed... that is just how I am." Well, I guess in part that is true, apart from Christ. But if I have full faith and confidence in God, His plan, and His sovereignty, then there is no place for worry.
But let's be real... this is a daily battle for me. The problem is that I live in the future...
What if I don't get my work done in time?
What if I don't do a good enough job?
What if things don't go as I MY planned?
I spend a lot of time thinking about what I think the future should look like, instead of having Joy in where God has me now.
Daily I come and cling to to these verses:
Rejoice in the Lord always; again I will say, rejoice! Let your gentle spirit be known to all men. The Lord is near. Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. And the peace of God, which surpasses all comprehension, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus. Philippians 4:4-7 NASB
The part that is most encouraging to me in this verse is the promise. Everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving... and we have the peace of God, which surpasses all comprehension. If I say, "I don't know how I will get through xyz," I can receive peace from God that is beyond all understanding... no matter what!
So today... I will rejoice, I will have a gentle spirit, I will not be anxious... all through Christ. And then I will cling to peace from God, a peace that is so powerful it is confusing to the world.
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Laura Caddell July 18, 2012 at 12:03 AM
So good. Really. I think we all struggle with this to an extend and it's a daily exercise of our faith to battle it and counteract the anxiety with trust and confidence in Him!
Great post :)
Nicole April 4, 2014 at 10:18 PM
I needed to read this today. I know you posted it a long time ago but I've recently discovered your blog.
I'm currently feeling very anxious with all we have going on and this bible verse will help me to "cope" with my feelings. :-) |
Weekly Workouts 22
Last week was a step back week. I didn't really feel like I needed it but by the end of the week, I realized that I definitely did. I'm feeling better about this training cycle each week and feel like Sea Wheeze is coming up quickly.
This is the first half I've trained for in 3 years and it feels like I'm so far behind where I should be, because from the marathon standpoint, I am. I should have trained for a strong half this past fall instead of jumping into marathon training, but when I entered the Chicago lottery in March, I thought I'd be able to start running right away.
One thing I'm noticing about this training cycle is that I'm finally starting to feel like I'm training again. I'm running on days when I just don't feel like it and am actually having good runs on those days. I'm relishing rest days as just as important as training days, and I'm actually cross training. Now, if I can actually mix strength training into this, I'll be in great shape!
Here's a look at how last week's training went:
Monday: 2-mile time trial with 1 mile warm up. This was tough. My legs were tired from the dancing all night at Ally's wedding and then running 6 miles the next morning. It was incredibly hot..the kind of heat that can only be broken my a thunderstorm...but I still managed to run under a 9-minute pace for the 2 miles.
Tuesday: 50 minutes of at-home yoga
Wednesday: 3 miles easy
Thursday: 40 minutes of at-home yoga and a roughly 3-mile walk to and from a work event. It was a gorgeous night and my training plan called for yoga or a long walk, so I did both!
Friday: Rest. If you can call it that. My sister was in town and we walked 12 miles all over DC. When I got home that night, I felt like I had just run 12 miles.
Saturday: 4 quick miles before spending the day wandering around DC with my sister...this time for only 6 miles.
Sunday: 2 easy miles and 30 minutes of at-home yoga followed by a massage, where my therapist was astounded at how tight my calves are.
Total Mileage: 12
I'm already feeling good about this week. I did not want to run last night, but had a great 3.5 mile run anyway. Tonight, I'm meeting up with Tracy for some outdoor yoga!
4 weeks down, 10 to go!
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"Here I Go Again" by Whitesnake
#1 Alert!
Peak: 1 (1 week)
Genre: Hard Rock, Glam Rock
Pop Bits: Whitesnake's self-titled seventh album quickly found its way to #2 thanks to a lot of MTV exposure via the video for the LP's first single "Still of the Night" (#18 Rock/#79 Pop). The epic track may not have been the best fit for pop radio, but the more mainstream appeal of this next single ended up being just right. Once again boosted by a popular MTV video that featured actress/model Tawny Kitaen, the song steadily climbed the chart and finally reached the #1 spot in its fifteenth week. Typically, once a song has peaked it doesn't take long for it to descend the chart and end its run. However, this song took a leisurely exit spending an additional thirteen weeks on the chart. By the time the song was off the chart at the end of the year, the album had been certified for sales of over 4 million copies.
ReduxReview: Lead singer and band founder David Coverdale wrote this song with Bernie Marsden, who had been a member of Whitesnake back in '82. Coverdale must have really believed in this song and its potential. It was an unusual move to completely redo a song a few years later for a new studio album (see below). But with the band's profile raised in the US and a chance to perhaps break through in a bigger way, my guess is that Coverdale thought it was time to give the song another chance. While I prefer the album version with its quiet opening and bigger sound, the new single version was well done. It had a more radio-friendly Survivor/Journey feel and it did help in making the song a hit. Either way, it was a strong song that finally got its day on the charts.
Trivia: This was kind of a "third time's the charm" type of song. It was originally recorded by the band for their 1982 album Saints & Sinners. It was released as the LP's lead single in several countries and even charted in the UK at #34. While the album saw release in the US, it seems that the single was not released. With little to promote it, the album didn't chart in the US. After personnel changes in 1986, lead singer David Coverdale decided to re-record a couple of tracks from Saints & Sinners for the band's upcoming self-titled effort. New versions of "Here I Go Again" and "Crying in the Rain" were done for the album. When it was thought that "Here I Go Again" would be the second single, it was decided that yet a third version of the tune was in order to help its pop radio prospects in the US. Although listed as a remix, it was basically a new recording in a shorter, altered arrangement featuring different personnel. It would later be known as the USA Single Remix. Not only was this third version of the song a #1 hit in the US, but it would also get to #9 in the UK besting the original version's #34 peak. While the '87 version of the song was a radio hit, it would be the album track that would be used for the highly popular associated MTV video.
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Highlights of Jimmy Page Testimony: Stairway v Taurus
October 26, 2016 Brian McBrearty Leave a comment
Rolling Stone Magazine has published the entire transcript from Jimmy Page’s testimony during the trial in June 2016 in which Led Zeppelin was sued for copyright infringement of the song “Taurus” by the band, Spirit, in Zeppelin’s iconic “Stairway To Heaven.”
Spirit were contemporaries of Zeppelin’s. The two bands appeared in concert together (on the same bill, that is) prior to the publishing of “Stairway To Heaven.” And as you can hear in these two short excerpts, the similarity between the two songs is obvious.
During the trial I posted my own analysis of this matter where you might be surprised to find that, while the two tracks sound alike in many ways, I found that Stairway does not plagiarize Taurus, nor does it infringe upon Taurus’s copyright.
Here I just want to share my favorite bits from Jimmy Page’s testimony on direct examination from the trial. The complete transcript will be interesting to anyone who either really loves litigation or really loves Led Zeppelin. Certainly there’s intrigue just because it’s Jimmy Page — blue chip rockstar. But be warned that it’s lengthy and gets bogged down at times — the questioning of Page went on for such a long time that the judge warned plaintiff’s attorney Francis Malofiy repeatedly that his total questioning time was limited and that he might want to move things along a bit or risk being timed out.
Also understand that in large part Spirit lost this case before trial even began when Zeppelin was granted a motion in limine that barred certain evidence from being introduced at trial. The jury never heard the two recordings themselves as you just did. The case was narrowly limited to the question of “Did “Stairway,” within the time statute of limitations, infringe upon the deposit copy of “Taurus,” filed with the U.S. Copyright Office. This “deposit copy” is the handwritten sheet music version of Taurus submitted with the copyright application, not the recording. This registered deposit copy of “Taurus” doesn’t include the guitar introduction that obviously links the two songs. It was all excluded.
By the way, the deposit copy of “Stairway” begins at “There’s a lady who’s sure…” There’s no famous guitar intro on Stairway’s copyright document either!
Reading the transcript is like riding along as the almost completely handcuffed plaintiff attorney Malofiy, can’t play the recording of “Taurus” for the jury, nor can he even talk about such recording hardly at all, tries to get Page to admit, first, that he might’ve heard Taurus somehow before he wrote Stairway, which he won’t admit, and secondly that the two sound similar, which he also won’t admit! Fun stuff.
Despite the motion in limine though, a remarkable thing happened that nobody else seems to have found remarkable. I’m reading along and all of the sudden I said aloud to myself, “he said what?!”
It happens when Page is recalling being shown a comparison of the two tracks from an internet site, just like any of us have. This he says was the first he’d heard of the controversy at all. He tells of how it was brought to his attention and so he listened. Malofiy quickly then tried to clarify just how much of Taurus was heard by Page in that internet recording. Malofiy needs to establish this right away because the guitar part in Taurus that you heard above doesn’t occur until 45 seconds in! But Page, evidently well coached and maybe realizing he’s about to misstep, frustrates Malofiy by referring to the irrelevant orchestral sounding stuff that begins Taurus. So Malofiy quickly pivots and asks…
Malofiy: “Now, once the acoustic guitar came in, isn’t it true the two songs are similar in that section?”
And there are objections and rulings ringing out from Page’s attorney and the judge but despite that… HOLY COW, Page answers!
Page: “Oh, I don’t think so.”
This for me may have very quietly been the highlight of the whole shebang, though I’ve never heard anyone mention it.
Jimmy Page said he doesn’t think the songs are similar in that section.
Seriously?! He might as well have flipped Malofiy the bird.
Thereafter Malofiy is on a short leash. He doesn’t get another clean shot. A lot of time is spent on the matter of “access” with Page denying that he has any recollection of ever having heard Taurus, nor of Zeppelin every being in concert alongside Spirit, which meanwhile is a documented fact. It’s all fun and makes you wish you could’ve been there.
As a musicologist the most interesting piece was this…
Page was asked about the structure of the famous guitar intro to Stairway. This seemed to forecast and set up a planned argument that Stairway has a peculiar similarity to Taurus in that Stairway’s intro descends chromatically from A to F (which it does) and then, Malofiy insists…
“avoids the fifth chord, the E?”
“does not go to the fifth?”
“skips over the fifth and goes back?”
Malofiy said it in each of those ways, asking Page to affirm. Page hems and haws perhaps being careful not to answer anything that wasn’t precisely asked. So Malofiy continued more insistently.
Malofiy: Okay. Does it ever go to the E before it resolves back to the A?
Page: The E chord or the E note?
Malofiy: E.
Page: E note?
Malofiy: Right.
(there’s some debate then among the attorneys and judge as to procedure)
Malofiy: Okay. Is it your testimony that “Stairway to Heaven” does not descend the five pitches and avoid the fifth chord, the E?
It seems that Malofiy doesn’t quite understand what he’s asking, but is determined to get this in. He flips, as Page asks for clarification, back and forth between asking about the fifth degree of the scale ( a note) and a chord built upon the fifth degree of the scale.
Who told Malofiy that there was a foothold there and to press it? It appears he was counseled that, as is the case with Taurus, Stairway’s lowest voice descends chromatically from A down to F but then, significantly, ‘avoids’ the fifth,” and that this is such a good argument, Malofiy should go it himself and ask Page during direct and perhaps set up a gotcha moment later?
And I’m surprised at this because it’s weak at best.
To argue that Stairway “avoided” the fifth (whether the chord or the note but he seems to have meant chord) is to tenuously assume that the fifth is the default cadence. Stairway “avoided” a bunch of other notes and chords as well, every possibility that it did not employ. But let’s admit for a moment that the fifth, “E” might reasonably be expected. There’s still no gotcha here. The G that’s used there instead is, I’d argue, the next closest thing. They are functionally almost interchangeable. If I played Stairway for you, but swapped out those two notes, chords, both, you wouldn’t flinch. They’re very interchangeable.
What the plaintiff is calling attention to is something he should avoid like the plague. It seems like a case where musicologists saw something, seized upon it, and led their client astray.
Taurus meanwhile certainly does avoid the fifth, and I might add, does it awkwardly as all hell. Taurus diverges from from Stairway at this moment! Why on earth bring it up?! The plaintiff’s musicologist might myopically disagree and evidently did, but a jury would hear it my way plainly.
Musicology geeky explanation thing coming now… Taurus makes its way down to F, a subdominant function, and then doubles down on the “subdominant-ness” moving down to D, going considerably out of its way to employ an ethereally vague, not quite plagal but certainly NON-dominant to tonic cadence.
Stairway doesn’t employ the most dominant note available, but chooses a very similar substitute for it, and as I said, you wouldn’t even notice if I switched them out. It’s a dominant to tonic cadence. They’re just wrong.
Look for this too. At some point Page evidently admitted that “Chim Chim Cheree” from Mary Poppins contains similarities with Stairway, which it certainly does, but he couldn’t quite manage to see where Taurus is similar. Not on the stand anyway.
Audio, Musicology, Opinion, SFX
James Arthur (X Factor winner) v. The Script
October 17, 2016 Brian McBrearty 1 Comment
UPDATE: It took a while but a song theft lawsuit over “Say You Won’t Let Go” was evidently filed today (May 21, 2018) and look out, it’s Richard Busch for the plaintiffs. I’m going to take a close look at this one right away and give you the prediction.
X Factor comeback kid James Arthur could be hit with copyright lawsuit over chart-topping hit Say You Won’t Let Go
Evidently The Script’s publishing company is deciding whether to bring an action here that would really rain on Arthur’s parade.
Arthur’s #1 hit song, “Say You Won’t Let Go” does indeed sound a lot like The Scripts #2 hit song, “The Man Who Can’t Be Moved.”
Reports say the publishing company that owns some of the rights to “The Man Who Can’t Be Moved,” has a consultant (someone like me) working on whether or not to sue. Guess we’ll see how that goes!
I haven’t followed James Arthur’s career, but by all accounts he needs a break, so I’m pleased to say that while I can certainly see the argument, on this matter he appears to me to be safe.
There will be a thoughtful and (sorry) likely technical explanation here soon. In the meantime the web is chockablock with mashups followed by comments and tweets about how they sound both exactly or nothing alike, how there are “only 12 notes,” how “you can’t copyright a chord progression,” how Adele’s “Someone Like You,” sounds exactly and nothing like both of these, and so forth.
All of that is half true, which is perhaps what The Script’s consultant is telling them right now. But the argument that’s on the nose will keep James Arthur’s #1 hit song safe. And I’ll share it as soon as I have time to lay it out. Maybe tomorrow. Certainly by mid-week. Or, if the Script’s guys wanna call, I’ll just spell it out for them. See if it matches what they’ve been told.
One Direction sued. “Night Changes” and “Story of My Life” involved.
September 29, 2016 Brian McBrearty Leave a comment
It’s been reported that the soon to be reuniting “One Direction” has been hit with a lawsuit and their tracks “Night Changes” and “Story of My Life” are named in the complaint. Unfortunately, more details are hard to get. The suit was filed in Ireland and is not public yet.
As soon as more is known about the plaintiff and their allegedly infringed upon tracks, I will get right to the task of analyzing whether One Direction stole one or both of these big hit songs.
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Sorry v. Ring The Bell | Musicology says Bieber Not Guilty.
August 30, 2016 Brian McBrearty Leave a comment
On May 25, 2016 Justin Bieber and his co-conspirators got hit with a copyright lawsuit alleging that his mega-hit “Sorry” infringes upon White Hinterland’s track, “Ring The Bell.” You only have to listen to the first 10 seconds of each track to hear what the fuss is about.
sorry-intro
ring-the-bell-intro
As my eight-year old just succinctly put it, “They sound like the same thing.” What tiny measure of “Belieber” that remained in my daughter has just left the building. “Good for you, Girl. You sue him!” she just yelled, as she exited the room. She isn’t wrong. They do sound a lot like the same thing. The second biggest pop star in the world may well decide to pay and settle this quietly. But forensic musicology says, he shouldn’t.
Popular Musicology Opinion: Not guilty.
We’re going to explore this in great detail. The filed complaint is right in front of me and we’ll begin by looking at its claims one by one. The plaintiff’s arguments are in bold, and my comments follow in italics.
Getting right to it, they begin with…
Plaintiff’s “Ring the Bell” opens up with the signature and unique vocal riff, which provides the introduction and primary musical motive for the structure of the song. This vocal riff – also referred to as a loop, chant, or hook – is crucial to the sound recording and composition of “Ring the Bell,” creating the backbone for the composition and the song’s initial hook. After opening the song, the vocal riff repeats throughout, serving as a unifying thread for “Ring the Bell.”
That’s a whole series of claims and even though they’re talking about their OWN track, “Ring The Bell” it would be lazy to accept it all wholesale. Some of it though is simple fact. The riff in question is indeed the first thing you hear in both “Ring the Bell,” and “Sorry.” It would be hard to argue that the riff isn’t “the introduction” and “the song’s initial hook.”
Thereafter, they ask us to accept a lot. They call this riff the primary motive, the backbone, and the unifying thread, crucial to the record and the song. (The record and the song are different things, btw. See sidebar.) Is it?
On the one hand the veracity of these claims is partly linked to the composer’s intent. She alone knows for sure her own creative process. She knows what’s the chicken and what’s the egg. But we’re not in court, and we can speculate, and I say the riff is the egg, not the chicken. (The chicken really did come first you know.) It is very hard to imagine this introductory riff even came along early much less first in the creative process. The riff is most easily understood as an elaborate reflection of a recurring supporting element than as a basis itself.
I can foresee their larger argument and toward that, the most I would say is that yes, the track begins with it as an intro; then the rhythm the intro conveys is carried on in the accompanying rhythm section as the track continues and that this rhythmic figure is indeed core to the accompaniment and since it’s a somewhat uncommon rhythmic figure, it’s core to the character of much of the song. They’ve used the terms “backbone” and “unifying thread,” and rhythmically this is a defensible stretch. But is the melody of the intro a backbone or a unifying thread? No, that’s a reach. The intro figure doesn’t appear in the melody anywhere. It’s an accompanying role player. If we’re being very charitable, the shape and function of the intro’s melody is consistent with and enhances its rhythmic function. They should argue this. But the melody itself doesn’t figure throughout the song. It’s no more prominent than a counter melody in the accompaniment.
Bieber’s ostinato and White Hinterland’s are more melodically similar than rhythmically similar. So if we were to agree with the plaintiffs about the grand role that they are ascribing to this riff, all of that value is vested in the rhythmic information, not in the melodic information. That just directs our attention to the rhythm of the intro and away from the melody. It just points out how different they are. Let’s say for a moment that it IS the backbone, and the unifying thread, crucial to the record and the “Ring The Bell.”
Rhythmically it can be none of that in “Sorry.” It’s entirely dissimilar in its rhythmic function. The “Sorry” riff, rhythmically, is a much simpler riff. Indeed “Sorry” is a much simpler song. Every interesting rhythmic quality that “Ring The Bell” possesses, allegedly attributable to this riff, “Sorry” completely lacks. “Sorry” could not even accommodate the “Ring The Bell” riff’s without completely altering its intended rhythmic function, much less have it be an important component throughout.
The public has streamed “Ring the Bell” approximately 800,000 times on various platforms since the song’s release.
This is the “access” piece of the complaint. It’s standard. If you want to prove plagiarism, you must always show that the infringer had access to the infringed work. Is 800k is a lot.
By the way, while 800k streams is impressive, that sucker is as of this writing at nearly three and a half MILLION views on youtube alone. This copyright lawsuit has probably already benefitted White Hinterland quite a lot. None of which means she’s not entitled to more. But I’m just saying.
Here comes another similar access claim…
The April 10, 2014 edition of Rolling Stone magazine featured a print- review of Plaintiff’s album Baby. In that same edition, and only a few pages before the review of Baby, Defendant Skrillex’s album received a prominent review.
They had to have be ecstatic when they discovered this. But c’mon! Do I believe Skrillex got a copy of this Rolling Stone issue? Yes. But did he listen to all the other tracks mentioned in that same issue? Or any of them? I doubt it. They go on to make other “access” arguments, because they must. And I touch upon all of this because it’s interesting. But I digress at this point. It’s not musicology’s role to conclude that they likely did or didn’t hear “Ring The Bell” before they produced “Sorry.” Decide for yourself.
Prior to the creation of the music for “Sorry,” Skrillex, Diplo, and Blood all had access to, and upon information and belief, were familiar with Plaintiff’s “Ring the Bell” due to the widespread commercial release of “Ring the Bell,” the music press’s coverage and reviews of Plaintiff’s “Ring the Bell,” Diplo’s database of songs kept on his hard drive, Diplo’s and Plaintiff’s shared label family, and Rolling Stone magazine’s coverage of Plaintiff and Skrillex in the same issue on two separate occasions.
This is more of that same insistence that the defendants were familiar with the “Ring the Bell,” and that therefore this isn’t just a coincidental infringement. Apple Music and Spotify give everybody access to every song in the universe for 10 bucks a month. We’ve all got access to everything. Yes, Skrillex, Diplo, and Blood had access to “Ring the Bell.”
So legally it’s a minor point, but is it probable they heard it?
“Ring the Bell” was released, got some press and reviews.
The Rolling Stone magazine thing a few paragraphs ago
Diplo, is one of around 50 artists or bands connected to a particular record label. This label and four others like it are all under a parent label. White Hinterland is on one of those other four. This one is kinda funny. Let’s take a napkin and… 50 artists x 4 labels x 2 records each x 10 tracks per record, we’re just spitballing here… that’s 4000 tracks with which he maybe has a “shared label family”? Who cares?! This is tedious beyond the pale. It is at best neither likely nor unlikely that Skrillex, Diplo, or Justin Bieber had heard “Ring the Bell.” But sure, they had access.
Plaintiff owns a protectable copyright interest, both in the musical composition and the sound recording, to her original and unique song “Ring the Bell,” which includes the unique and original vocal sample and riff that appears throughout “Ring the Bell.”
The notes of the “Ring the Bell” vocal riff correspond with the tonic of the song without overstating its progression. The notes of the vocal riff foreshadow and set up the mood and feeling of the song. The vocal riff moves upward, giving the chant a certain open, uplifting freshness.
Voices are original and difficult to imitate. Plaintiff’s voice is a unique instrument. The timbre of Plaintiff’s voice is inextricably linked to her writing, especially in “Ring the Bell.”
Yes, to all three.
Plaintiff’s vocal riff in “Ring the Bell” is specific in terms of pitch, register, orchestration, and overall use, …
Yes, agreed. You’ll be sorry.
and it is the defining “hook” of the song and the seed from which the entire song grows.
No. It’s the intro, yes, but that doesn’t make it “the seed from which the song grows. As I’ve already said, this is an implausible claim.
Plaintiff positioned the signature vocal riff of “Ring the Bell” to introduce her song because she wanted to set the tone immediately and swiftly for what follows. The vocal riff grabs the listener and allows the listener to identify her song. It functions as a hook and a complement to the chorus. After the introduction, the vocal riff and sample repeat throughout “Ring the Bell.”
To write, create, produce, and record the song “Sorry,” the Defendants knowingly and unlawfully copied original, protectable elements of the musical composition of “Ring the Bell” and unlawfully sampled Plaintiff’s protectable sound recording of “Ring the Bell.”
Defendants manipulated and/or altered Plaintiff’s sound recording by adding additional effects.
Defendants failed to secure a license to sample and exploit Plaintiff’s “Ring the Bell.”
The parts I’ve struck-through are presumably still in the complaint but they’re the parts that Skrillex specifically swatted away with this 30 second video…
SORRY but we didnt steal this 🙏🏻 @justinbieber @bloodpop pic.twitter.com/9897j9sfY7
— SKRILLEX (@Skrillex) May 27, 2016
Plaintiff’s protectable vocal riff is crucial to both “Ring the Bell” and “Sorry.”
Not crucial to “Ring the Bell.” It’s a bit part. It is the introduction and I’ll grant that its due significance, but it neither dictates the melody, nor likely even informs it. It matters very little to the rest of the track. Were one to make a list, this would be among the less crucial elements of the track.
The same however cannot be said of “Sorry.” It’s the intro and it’s half of the hook. It’s pretty critical. Here’s just a couple measures of the chorus.
http://www.popularmusicology.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Sorry-Chorus.mp3
The identical and/or striking similarity between “Sorry” and the protectable elements of “Ring the Bell” is obvious, such that an ordinary lay listener would instantly recognize the sample and similarity between the songs.
Remember, at this point, White Hinterland is under the impression that the actual recording was sampled and manipulated. So making the distinction that “lay listeners” would instantly recognize the sample and similarity is sorta funny. Sample aside, we still have similarity to deal with.
That’s the last of the interesting claims in the complaint.
Since the plaintiff’s dug a hole for themselves by falsely accusing Bieber and Skrillex of sampling “Ring the Bell,” we get to throw out a bunch of their poorly premised claims. The two intros do sound darned similar to the lay listener though. As my kid said, “They sound like the same thing.” The composition can still have been infringed upon.
Did they steal the musical idea? And is it protectable?
One theory the plaintiffs could float is that Skrillex, Diplo and Bieber admired “Ring the Bell,” so they lifted the idea for the high pitched voice and then adding insult to injury also used the same notes that she did, essentially making a sound-alike instead of clearing the sample. That’s done all the time, by the way, often by this guy, Ken Lewis. He’s awesome, and “sample recreation” (or “sample replays”) is an interesting area.
But it certainly doesn’t appear to be anything like that. As Skrillex demonstrated, making this high pitched vocal sound was a just few clicks for him. He’s using an app called Ableton Live, but any modern music software would let you change the pitch of a music segment and add some echo. There’s nothing proprietary or even clever about any of that. Every music producer in the world is copying audio phrases from within tracks, chopping the phrases into bits, rearranging the bits to make new phrases and using effects way more interestingly than this.
Here’s Calvin Harris’s and Rihanna’s huge hit, “This is What You Came For.” Hugely popular hit song with the hook that goes, “But she’s looking at you ou ou ou, you ou ou ou.”
http://www.popularmusicology.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/this-is-what-you-came-for-snippet.mp3
Rihanna might never have sung anything like that in the studio. That line was put together in a computer. Every “ou” is the same recorded snippet. This is what’s in style now. We’ve moved beyond using computers-to-fix-imperfetions. “This I What You Came For” is made extra choppy and artificial sounding on purpose!
What the heck is Kiiara supposed to be singing in “Gold?” This is taking it a little far, but really, it’s just very common.
http://www.popularmusicology.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/gold-snippet.mp3
Most likely Skrillex was listening to the a cappella demo, looking around for bits and pieces of a female vocal that he could put to use in his production. She provided an interstitial non-lyrical phrase that she sang in the chorus after “Is it to late to say ‘Sorry?'” Again I would assert my guess that she probably meant to outline and imply the intended harmony (it does that) while adding a little vocal ornament to build toward the answering phrase, “Cuz i’m missing more than just your body.”
In Skrillex’s Twitter takedown, he showed us that he pitched her voice down four semitones and then up twelve semitones. Why not just pitch it up eight in the first place? Because it’s a short version of the story. She sang her demo in G major. But Justin’s track is in Eb. So the first thing Skrillex probably did is pitch down her whole demo by four semitones to get it all into Eb major. Then he went looking for things to chop to bits, found this appealing snippet and recalled, “Justin loved the production technique I did on ‘Where R U now?’ I could do something kinda similar here.” So he pitched up her vocal and turned up the echo and used it as a musical element in Justin’s track.
Let’s sidestep now, explain what that “Where R U Now” effect was, to make the relevant fundamental argument that nothing about White Hinterland’s echoey high pitched vocal treatment is protectable in the first place.
Justin reportedly couldn’t believe it when his voice got turned into a shakuhachi part by Skrillex for “Where R U Now?” It was a huge hit song, and the NY Times did a “making of” video that got shared around the music production world immediately. The part sounds like this:
The big philosophical argument would be that if Skrillex can turn Justin’s voice into a japanese wind instrument, he could probably have transformed him into an echoey high pitched female singer. Suppose he had, and similarly finds himself sued by White Hinterland because it sounds too much like her. That would be silly. It’s his own voice with all it’s unique characteristics. Suppose the intro to “Ring the Bell” was not her voice at all, but a flute playing those same four notes – high pitched, echoey, playing that same musical figure. And then suppose “Sorry’s” intro was a flute as well. Could she then say, “You copied my use of a flute!” Again, silly. It’s just a sound. Bieber would probably say, “I got my own live flute player here, and all flute tones are as unique as snowflakes.” Flute, shakuhachi, male voice, female voice, in an echo chamber or not — these are orchestration decisions and not protectable. In other words, Bieber is entitled to use any female voice not named “White Hinterland” and turn up the echo all he wants. White Hinterland can protect her own recording (irrelevant here because it wasn’t sampled) but she can’t conflate this with defending her composition. These are different concepts. They didn’t sample her record. And she doesn’t own echoey female vocal sounds.
That out of the way, all we have left is to look at the notes, on paper, and see if Bieber is stealing her song.
Going back to the plaintiff’s words…
The four notes of the sampled female vocal riff of both “Ring the Bell” and the infringing “Sorry” are Bb-C-Eb-F. The four pitches are of equal duration and are sung in a rapid succession by Plaintiff’s voice. The temporal spacing of the notes of the female vocal riff in both “Ring the Bell” and the infringing “Sorry” are the same. In both “Ring the Bell” and the infringing “Sorry,” these pitches function as a 5-6-1-2 pitch sequence in the key of Eb.
Essentially yes. They’re correct about the notes and their melodic function.
I have to keep reminding my readers to forget that although it’s a similar female vocal sound, that’s irrelevant here. We’re just looking at the notes, the pitches, Bb-C-Eb-F, an allegedly plagiarized musical phrase that would be no less plagiarized were it played on a kazoo.
Musical phrases have qualities — melody, rhythm and harmonic function. Triers of plagiarism cases assess similarities in these qualities. And then separately decide if the piece of material enjoys copyright protection under the law in the first place. Or conversely, they often find that it’s a common musical device, too broadly applicable to be the unique property of White Hinterland or anybody else?
First, the melody itself. A post I read on Pitchfork quotes another musicologist as saying:
“The opening phrase is similar, but Justin Bieber’s ends on a different note every time,” says Jeff Peretz, professor of music theory at NYU’s Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music. “They are not the same melody. They are very similar, they have similar notes and a similar arc, but they are fundamentally not the exact same melody.”
Perhaps he was misquoted or misinterpreted, but the notes in question aren’t “similar,” they’re exactly the four notes the plaintiff’s say they are. And the opening phrase in “Sorry” ends on the same note as Ring The Bell’s every time. That note is “F.”
The differences lie elsewhere.
Skrillex apparently clipped his whole phrase verbatim from the chorus of the a cappella demo and decided it would work as an intro and a hook. The snippet is indeed comprised of the four notes the plaintiff’s say, Bb-C-Eb-F. And “Ring the Bell” uses it’s own sampled phrase, those same four notes, in that order, over and over. But Skrillex’s sample part from the “Sorry” demo is not a four note phrase. It’s a five note phrase, every time! It’s Bb-C-Eb-F and then another ‘F,’ — four sixteenth notes followed by a quarter note.
This is no minor detail.
SIDEBAR: Very quick rhythm lesson now. Music notation is mathematical. Most often music is in 4/4 time. 4/4 time is so prevalent in fact that it’s actually referred to as “common” time. If you find yourself tapping your foot and counting along with a song and thinking “1-2-3-4 1-2-3-4 1-2-3-4…,” that’s 4/4 time. Music is divided into “measures” – the vertical lines in sheet music. The numberator in 4/4 time means we’ve broken each measure into 4 beats and the denominator means each beat is represented by a quarter-note. Four quarters thus make a whole measure. It all kinda adds up.
The first four notes of “Sorry,” four sixteenth notes, begin on beat two (a “weak” beat as we’ll explain in a sec) leading up to the fifth note on the “strong” beat three, then the sample immediately repeats on the fourth leading to the strongest beat, beat one of the second measure. The real musical purpose of the phrase is to forecast and lead up to the last and most important note. The phrase has velocity and momentum. It begins on a weak beat and its momentum drives to a resolution as it lands on a strong beat. Let me describe what we mean by weak and strong beats and explain how they are like velocity and momentum.
SIDEBAR: Music has energy, momentum, velocity, direction. The manipulation of these is largely what gives music its purpose and intent.
So consider… the downbeats are the stronger beats and the upbeats are the weaker less emphasized ones. If I ask you to tap your foot as you count 1-2-3-4 you’ll tap your foot four times I expect, unless you’re a drummer. Then you’ll tap your foot on 1 and 3, the strong beats. So now you’re a drummer. Think like one. Bob your head, as you count 1-2-3-4, bob your head down on 1, up on 2, down on 3, up on four. Repeat. Now you understand down beats and up beats.
Now while you’re bobbing your head, imagine beats going by twice as fast, and four times as fast. You’re imagining eight notes and sixteenth notes. You still feel stronger downs and weaker ups. That’s the nature of music. The downs are emphasized, the ups have to lead to downs, like with gravity. This gives music direction, and therefore momentum.
Back to our example. “Sorry’s” phrase is four sixteenths, rhythmically down up down up, followed by a fifth note, the target note, down. Consider how unsatisfying the phrase would be if you took the last note away. There was momentum, and it was arrested.
The notes themselves matter too. Notes have meaning and function. Most analogous to rhythm’s “downbeat and upbeat” are notes that are “stable and unstable.” Some notes are more stable — notes you land on contentedly. Some are unstable, notes that feel as though teetering and beckon you to move elsewhere to more stable one.
In the world of “Do, a deer, a female deer,” the most stable notes are Do, Mi, and Sol. The least stable are Re, Fa and Ti. If I ask you to sing Do, Re, Mi, you’ll land contentedly. Likewise, up to Sol. If I ask you to sing Do, Re, and stop there, you’ll feel interrupted. And if I ask you to sing all the way to Ti and stop there, you’ll probably be so frustrated you’ll start to shake a little.
I’ll illustrate, playing a scale on a piano and denying you the last note that you expect.
http://www.popularmusicology.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/scale-end-on-7th-degree.mp3
The phrase ended on a weak beat and an unstable note, so it sounds very incomplete.
The entire musical thought is not just those four or five notes. The second repetition brings us into the second measure, and then an “answering” melody on a synthesizer completes the idea. I’ll play it on a piano for you with a hi hat tapping out the time for context. It’s this:
http://www.popularmusicology.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Sorry-example-on-piano-1.mp3
In the accompaniment the intro employs the same chords used throughout the song, both in the chorus and the verses. The chord progression is IV-vi-V. In the Key of Eb Major, those three chords are Ab Major, C minor, and Bb Major. Bb Major is defined as the notes Bb-D-F sounded together. And so, as the “Sorry”phrase plays it’s four sixteenth notes that lead up to the “F,” so too does the accompaniment lead to the Bb major chord with with that “F” will be consonant. (As one of the three pillars of the Bb Major chord, the “F” in the melody will sound harmonious.)
Let’s bear this in mind while we look at the very different usage from “Ring The Bell.”
First here’s “Ring The Bell’s” Intro.
http://www.popularmusicology.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Ring-The-Bell-Intro.mp3
You hear the four note sample repeated a few times, but not consistently placed. It’s hard to know exactly when it’s going to repeat. Try to hum along. It’s pretty futile. She purposely obscured the rhythm for the first couple of measures, an interesting creative decision. When other instruments enter, she extends the use of the sample to the form it will take throughout the song. Just as in “Sorry,” where the real phrase wasn’t the five notes, but ten.
The REAL phrase isn’t four notes, but eleven. Four notes, followed by the same four notes, followed by the first three. Often throughout the song it’s a longer phrase where the last three notes appear only every other measure.
It can be tricky to discern this rhythmic function. One way I thought I might clarify it was to add a drum part of my own design that emphasizes the rhythmic role of the vocals.
http://www.popularmusicology.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Ring-The-bell-w-drums-to-show-rhythm.mp3
Then I’ll show you how this same rhythmic idea is carried throughout the track. Here, listen for just the snare drum, and try to ignore her vocal.
http://www.popularmusicology.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Ring-The-Bell-drums-reflect-vocals.mp3
So while there are four notes in sequence in common, the phrases’ melodic rhythms are completely different.
Would you like to see how many times the two line up on paper?
Out of the eleven notes in the Ring The Bell figure, you could argue three are in sync. The three I’ve highlighted. Sixteens landing on beat four of the first measure. If I were more adversarial, I would show the just as common “Ring the Bell” circumstance in the song where the last three notes only occur in the second measure. Then there would be ZERO common notes.
That notation could be clearer. I’ll look to replace it with one that lines up the beats more obviously. It will do for now.
The key is this… When you look at the whole phrases, their melodic rhythms, the harmonies that support them and the function of the notes in the context of those harmonies, these phrases are very different.
We have spent a lot of time analyzing the similarities and dissimilarities. But really, once the wrongful accusation of sampling went out the window, you were left with four notes. Four notes isn’t much at all. And these four notes are not protectable. To illustrate, I will now make up a tune using the same four notes in the same order. And then at the very end I’ll overlay the vocal sample from “Ring The Bell” to remind you what the four notes sound like in her voice.
http://www.popularmusicology.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Nobody-Can-Own-This-Song-1.mp3
How long did it take me to write that song? That isn’t a song. That’s just an idea. And it was conceived in its entirety in less time than it took to play it, 30 seconds. I thought to myself, “I’m going to change the chords to this other “stock” thing, play a simple baseline and add drums to make it sound like something, and as a composer I already know the figure I’m trying to employ is going to work nicely throughout. That’s how unprotectable building blocks work.
Three and half million views for Ring The Bell on youtube.
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Thinking Out Loud v. Let’s Get It On | Analysis
Any day is a good day to sue Ed Sheeran.
This is his second time being sued this summer alone. Only a few weeks ago I wrote here that I thought Ed Sheeran DID steal his hit “Photograph,” (innocently I think) and he’ll almost certainly gonna be paying the writers of Matt Cardle’s hit “Amazing” a lot of money.
This time though Sheeran didn’t do anything wrong and I’ll be disappointed if I hear of a settlement. This complaint says Sheeran plagiarized Marvin Gaye’s 1973 #1 hit song, “Let’s Get It On,” to write his #2 hit song, “Thinking Out Loud,” the “Song of the Year” at the 2016 Grammy Awards.
This action comes from the family and heirs of Gaye’s co-writer of “Let’s Get It On,” Ed Townsend. and not Marvin Gaye’s heirs and who famously last year won a $7.4M judgement against Robin Thicke and Pharell for jacking mega-hit, “Blurred Lines,” from Gaye’s “Got To Give It Up.”
Without further ado, here are the two tracks.
It’s not as though anyone is stunned to hear of a lawsuit. The similarity was noticed right away when “Thinking” was released. Someone even created this mashup showing very nicely that “Let’s Get It On” and “Thinking Out Loud” can be played right over top of one another.
And if that’s not bad enough, how about this next video? At around 4 min and 30 seconds Sheeran himself breaks into a chorus of “Let’s Get It On” over his Thinking Out Loud chords.
Why would he invite trouble? Is he just that smug? Of course not.
He’s just being funny; an innocent musical joke — Sheeran is justifiably comfortable that despite the obvious similarities, he didn’t steal anything that Gaye and Townsend really own in “Let’s Get It On.” Not everything in music is protected by copyright. I’ll explain.
What’s the essential similarity?
It’s a series of four chords, that simply repeats over and over throughout both songs. I’ll show you what that specific thing by itself sounds like in a moment but first, some basic terminology.
“Chords” are groups of three or four notes sounded together. When notes are sounded together we call the distance between the notes, “intervals,” and the sound they make together is “harmony.” A series of chords is called a “chord progression.” These two songs have the same “chord progression” running nearly throughout.
Their shared chord progression is “two measures long in 4/4 time.” We divide music into little time packets called “measures.” It’s what enables us to count beats as “one and two and three and four” and then cycle back to “one” instead of having to count to a thousand. The 4/4 time part means that each measure is four beats long (most common by far) and this progression fills two measures, so eight beats in total. It all takes place in about 6 seconds. And now finally you get to hear it.
Go back and listen to either of the two tracks; just the first ten seconds or so of each. What do we hear in both? We have groups of simultaneous notes making harmonies, played in a certain rhythm. We hear some tonal instruments that play notes along with some non-tonal percussion instruments. These combine to make what we call a “groove.” It’s kinda like the engine of the song, propelling the music. The groove is what you dance or just nod your head to. And then we also have Marvin Gaye and Ed Sheeran singing words and melodies along with that groove.
But ignore the vocal melody and lyrics for now, and let’s just take a good look at this groove and the harmony and rhythm that make it musical. Then we’ll really understand the similarity on a technical level.
Just the Chords Themselves
The eight beats use four different chords for about two beats each, and this repeats over and over. (Actually Sheehan’s first four bars has an extra chord at the very very end. Try to ignore that as an ornament, a guitar embellishment. It’s pretty irrelevant.)
I’m going to refer to these four chords in order as “one, three, four and five.” And I’ll represent them as roman numerals, “I, iii, IV, and V.” The “iii” is lower case because it’s a minor chord whereas the others are major chords. These numbers by the way are analogous to “Do, Mi, Fa and Sol.” the first, second, fourth and fifth notes of a major scale (where “Re” is notably missing, and would’ve been two, or “ii.” Get it?
I – iii – IV – V is a very familiar sound.
Here’s just the four chords, I-iii-IV-V, two beats each, played by me on a piano.
I-iii-IV-V.1
The Rhythm Component
Now let’s look at the rhythm. I’ll add a rhythm section of bass and drums to the piano part. The bass plays right along with the piano on the same beats. And drums are provided by music software playing a typical R&B (Rhythm and Blues) preset drum part.
I-iii-IV-V.2.add_rhythm_sect
Okay, now we’ve got a bit of a groove going. This is close, but not exactly the same rhythm used in the two tracks. Remember I said the four chords are “about two beats each?” In the example above, I played them “straight,” meaning EXACTLY two beats each.
In both “Let’s Get It On” and “Thinking Out Loud,” the four chords actually aren’t so uniform in length. They actually land on beat one, and on the “and of two.” If you count in your head, “ONE and TWO and THREE and FOUR and” as the music goes by, the chords will land on the that first beat, “one,” and then in between two and three, when we say “AND.” Perhaps you’ve heard of downbeats and upbeats? The full numbers are the downbeats and the “and’s” are upbeats. Usually, downbeats are the stronger and more emphasized. When “upbeats” are emphasized to some degree, we call this “syncopation.” In other words the second and last chord of our four are going to be played a little earlier.
We’ll change them one at a time, beginning with that last chord, the five (V) chord, so you can hear the change more easily. You’ll hear three chords the same as before, but then the fourth one will arrive a little earlier than in the last example.
I-iii-IV-V.3.and_of_two
And now we’ll move the second chord (iii) as well. That sounds like this…
I-iii-IV-V.4.and_of_twos
This might be a good time to ask you, “Does this sound like a unique protectable idea? Or does it sound like a thousand other songs you’ve heard in your lifetime?
That’s the way the progression actually goes. We can sing most of both “Let’s Get It On” and “Thinking Out Loud” over just that 6 seconds of accompaniment repeating over and over.
At this point, you should pat yourself on the back. You have essentially just made it through one day of a collegiate “Music Theory 101” class, a course in which you’d spend the whole semester learning the essential building blocks of music, the devices, rules, conventions, and systems that are essential to the whole aesthetic of western music, developed from before the time of Bach and still evolving.
Nobody owns nor copyrights these basic building blocks any more than an architect like Frank Gehry would ever copyright marble slabs, or even sculpted sheet metal, although he’s certainly particularly known for that. We understand that architecture will often have common beginnings, like a foundation, and will involve common materials that are aesthetically pleasing and functional. Music is similar. The intellectual property begins on a level beyond those common structures and basic materials that hold together songs, and buildings.
To illustrate, let’s see what else we can do with this same sort of musical building block. If you listened to that mashup above all the way through, you might see this one coming.
I-iii-IV-V.6.MyGirl
Next I’ll just slow the four chords down a little and we get…
I-iii-IV-V.6.Puff
Transpose down a key, but still the same I-iii-IV-V and we get…
I-iii-IV-V.6.Easy
Slowing the tempo further, but still using the same chords in the same proportions, and then we have…
I-iii-IV-V.6.Crocodile
This is not a slam dunk argument, merely a good one. None of these are on the nose copies of the Let’s Get It On chord sequence. Sheeran’s song is a more precise match. But what I am saying is that the basic material is very rudimentary building block type material. You can see that this same chord progression is the basis for lots of other music. And I could probably do this all day. I’ll just sit and think of a few more…
I Won’t Last A Day Without You, Carpenters
Turn Around. (Where are you going my little one?), I don’t know who wrote it. I remember learning this song on guitar when I was six.
Captain Candy, Anthony Newley. You don’t know this one. It played in my house growing up all the time. My dad had a bunch of Anthony Newley albums. Newley co-wrote all the music from Willy Wonka — “The Candy Man” and such. I might be the only person alive who knows this Captain Candy song. But it’s a real thing and it’s these four chords.
Perhaps Love, John Denver, that duet he did with Placido Domingo. It was a top 20 hit 30 years ago.
All written over our I – iii – IV – V chord progression.
They don’t repeat the same four chords 100x in a row the way “Let’s” and “Thinking” do but they used the progression prominently, more than enough to prove the point. And that point is that you can’t copyright the use of that common progression once, twice, nor 75 times in a row. It isn’t in itself a unique nor substantial enough musical work to be owned by anyone. It’s public domain. It’s no more than a framework.
There are only 12 notes.
We sometimes hear it argued, usually in defense of not-very-unique melodies, that there are only 12 notes. That’s true. But the possibilities for unique chord progressions are far more confining. Sure, there are more chords than notes, there are hundreds of chords, but only a tiny fraction of them are really available to the pop music composer at any given time. I’m not out on a limb if I say there are no more than six chords readily available to most pop composers most of the time. Both “Thinking” and “Let’s” are covered by just six different chords each.
The complaint tries to get around this in part by saying that Thinking Out Loud takes the heard of Let’s Get It On. They’re “begging the question” in at least a couple of ways. They presume firstly that the groove is somehow the definitive “heart” of “Let’s Get It On.” And if allowed to make this giant leap, they’ve gone a long way toward implying that the rest of both “Let’s” and “Thinking” are somewhat less important. They’d like you to follow the logic that the “heart” isn’t merely a component, but that it significantly steered the creation of both songs, leading to the argument that “Thinking Out Loud” wouldn’t and couldn’t have been written at all if not for “Let’s.”
Smart of them. Copyright infringement is binary, you either infringe or you don’t. But the larger “Let’s Get It On” looms in the success of “Thinking Out Loud,” the greater the share of Sheeran’s profits they would be awarded.
But none of this is reasonable. Again…
brief generic musical thought
not unique to “Let’s Get It On”
present in lots of other songs
So, first, I’m saying they don’t own it.
But that’s not all by a long shot.
Second, if these tunes have a “heart”, that groove ain’t it. For comparison, let’s consider the supposedly less “hearty” features of these two songs.
The melodies of “Thinking Out Loud” are craftily composed and serve the lyric deftly. Each musical thought leads logically to the next, creating an ebb and flow, and directing the storytelling and emotional arcs of the song. The lyric and melody comprise a substantial and competent work that could likely be supported by several other chord progressions in the accompaniment, and still have been hit.
Here’s a recording of both of the two verses from “Thinking Out Loud” played over top of each other simultaneously. What I want you to notice is that I can layer the two performances, play them back together, and it sounds pretty good. I can do this because the shape is the essentially the same from one verse to the next. This melody has integrity. I’m not talking about moral integrity but structural integrity. The two verses aren’t 100% identical, and any performer of the song might make little modifications, improvisations, or ornamentations around this melody just to add interest, make it her own, Tony Bennett the hell out of it if desired, but the melody would maintain its musical meaning, its essential arc. It has substance.
Thinking Out Loud Stacked Verses
And here we find the same integrity in the choruses. This is a stack of all three choruses from “Thinking Out Loud” with its “We found love right where we are” tag.
Thinking Out Loud Stacked Choruses 3
Again we find a deliberate, complete and very substantial melodic work. “Thinking Out Loud” is neither dominated nor significantly defined by the groove it shares with “Let’s Get It On.” In fact, I could install a different groove, an even more common one, and the song would remain intact and be hardly affected. The accompaniment is not its “heart.” The track’s value is mostly held in the wealth of material in these examples — catchy, clever, appealing, singable by a six year old after a couple of hearings, and completely composed by Ed Sheehan.
Of supreme importance, “Thinking Out Loud’s” melody and lyric contains nothing of consequence in common with “Let’s Get It On.” So it’s weird to be arguing substantial musical similarity at all. In prior musicology analysis I’ve talked about “how many notes in a row are common to both tunes,” and that sort of thing. Common notes in melodies are usually the primary cause for a complaint. Unbelievably here the plaintiffs might never even mention melody or notes. Imagine, they are going to argue pop song infringement while perhaps avoiding any discussion of melodies and lyrics since both are, if anything, exceptionally unalike.
I do predict they’ll take up time with a few pointless arguments. Musicologists get paid to notice things like, “both songs leave a few beats of space between phrases in the lyric.” Or “both songs have the same ‘Verse Verse Chorus Verse Bridge Chorus’ structure.” Never mind that half the songs in the history of pop music do both of those as well. They’ve got to make a showing with a few observations that even if not significant, are at least true.
Does Let’s Get It On have a better heart?
‘Let’s Get It On” is an iconic track that reached #1 on the Billboard Top 100. On paper it’s mostly a framework. It has a structure, but it’s a loose one. And it has melodies that have become familiar over time because it was a monster hit, but its melodies are rather meandering and fluid. Most of us can precisely sing that first line, “I’ve been really trying, Baby…” and we can join the chorus at “Let’s get in on,” and only if you know and love the song, you might add “We’re all sensitive people…” But much of it is an ethereal, stylized and improvisational sounding performance. These are among its charms but they happen to have nothing in common with “Thinking.”
“Let’s Get It On,” wasn’t defined by that groove anymore than “Thinking Out Loud” is. The groove fits the track and the track became iconic, but it’s not the driving force, not even close.
Ask yourself where Let’s Get It On and its groove would be without that warbly funk guitar throughout? Does anybody really think the studio musicians were in this session thinking, “Wow, I’ve never heard this awesome groove before; this is amazing.” “Who even needs Marvin singing about sex? We’re done here. Just put this groove out.” No, it needed Marvin to sing about sex. It was very little without that. That’s probably the “heart” of that tune.
Am I saying “Thinking Out Loud” is a novel, unique track, unlike anything you’ve heard before? Nah. It’s a conventional pop tune that employs lots of pleasing and clever but not unique “devices” including it’s these chords and rhythms that Let’s Get It On shares with it. The songs are copyrightable, but not every component within the songs can be. Building blocks like we’re describing are the musical and lyrical stuff from which “hooks” are made and from which we get hit records. It’s arguably what we look for most in pop music, the foundational elements, then with a bit of a unique twist.
This is not what copyright seeks to do. This is not what it seeks to protect. Unless we want to kill popular music altogether, we should be throwing cases like this out.
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Amazing v. Photograph | Opinion: Sheeran is Guilty
July 27, 2016 Brian McBrearty 1 Comment
The latest lawsuit to hit Hollywood is that of Matt Cardle’s hit “Amazing” alleging infringement by Ed Sheeran and his hit “Photograph.” There are enough youtube videos with their audio mashups that illustrate the similarities of the two hit songs. But these are hard to sit through, aren’t they? I don’t want to hear the two songs played at the same time. That doesn’t tell the story. Thoughtfully applied musicology however does.
Some would argue, particularly after my Stairway To Heaven musicology analysis, that the modern day songwriter/musicologist is deaf to plagiarism. Some say musicologists approach every copyright lawsuit slightly biased against the plaintiffs. Musicologists they say can’t wait to spout, “There are only these twelve notes to work with!”
I can see where that is how it often appears. In an increasingly copyright lawsuit happy world I’m not sure it’s even wrong. Here though, we really try to call ’em like we see ’em, case by case. And here, this musicologist strongly recommends that Ed Sheeran cut a deal.
We are going to take the complaint, line by line pretty much, and evaluate the claims, right after I make a bunch of soapbox general arguments.
Ed Sheeran, in case you’ve been in a cave for a while, is a superstar singer who writes pleasant pop songs. Excellent ones — thoughtful, cute, and well-crafted. His “Photograph,” is thoughtful, cute and well-crafted. But man oh man the chorus sure sounds a helluva lot like the chorus of “X Factor” winner Matt Cardle’s “Amazing.” We’re talking’ a hell-uv-a lot. Way more than the copyright infringement standard of “substantially similar to the ordinary observer.”
That infringement standard by the way is woefully inadequate for modern day songwriting and for our ever more opportunistically litigious society. Inadequate because while any ordinary observer can certainly say for herself if she thinks two songs sound similar, she is probably less able to discern between significant similarities that make a legitimate case for a copyright lawsuit and insignificant similarities. Insignificant similarities would include compositional banalities that I could argue are public domain or otherwise “not copyrightable.” Also, they would include musically ambiguous devices, “vibe,” and recording, production and instrumentation techniques — all of which do not support the case for copyright infringement. They do however sound awfully fishy to the ordinary observer.
Led Zeppelin recently won its copyright lawsuit. That jury decided that “Stairway To Heaven” did not infringe upon Spirit’s “Taurus.” Those two songs sounded a lot alike too. We argued in our musicology analysis that the jury decision was correct. What’s different in the Cardle versus Sheeran lawsuit? Let’s look at the plaintiffs’ argument, apply some musicology and get to the truth.
First, I don’t watch X Factor and I’d never heard the Matt Cardle track before this plagiarism suit arose. The allegedly infringed upon track, “Amazing,” is a well crafted song and its songwriter plaintiffs Martin Harrington and Thomas Leonard are pros with a notable track record.
Their complaint, is right here, so lets assess. The plaintiff’s claims are shown below sometimes as paraphrased/interpreted by me to cut through some legalese and other times verbatim. They’re in bold, and my opinions follow in italics. Sorta like a question and answer format.
Plaintiffs: The chorus is very important to the song.
Talk about “laying the groundwork.” You wouldn’t even think it needs to be said. Yup. Important. Sure is, especially to “Photograph,” I might add. And this matters, because it factors into the damages calculations.
The defendants intentionally and unlawfully copied the unique and original chorus from “Amazing.”
Maybe! The originality and uniqueness of “Amazing” is arguable. And intent to plagiarize is a big leap. But despite this being a “maybe,” as I’ll explain later, this leap is an appropriate tactic. When you bring a copyright lawsuit there’s a bunch of stuff you do just because it’s what you do.
The choruses share 39 identical notes plus 4 other pretty darn close ones out of 64 total notes (70%).
This is the crux of the “on paper” argument. This sort of headline number is overemphasized too often when we look at copyright lawsuits. Yeah yeah, lots of identical notes as the notation they provided (below) shows very clearly. Often as not the raw numbers mislead and this is an area where a musicologist can illuminate things in service of either side’s argument.
For example, see those first few notes, not in red? Collectively these are just a “pickup” — notes whose specifics are relatively less important that introduce and lead up to a much more meaningful note — the fourth one in this case. Importantly, these and nearly every other still black note on the page are what I refer to as “low value notes.” They matter very little to the “MEANING” of the musical phrase. They may or may not be identical pitches on identical beats. They don’t make much difference. These are inconsequential note choices that both songwriters. They’re chosen in most cases and in this one to support the peculiarities of the respective lyrics. These notes could be altered, embellished, or omitted. It would make very little difference to the song. Here’s it’s evidence of the essential sameness of these two tracks is that most of these low value notes could even be exchanged or traded between the two respective choruses, and the choruses recognizability would be almost completely unaffected.
How is that possible? It’s possible because of the very high value of other notes. High value notes are often the essence of the infringement. They tell the story.
If you’re building a copyright infringement lawsuit, be thoughtful about this. Their claim that the two songs are 70% identical is actually understating how alike these two tracks are.
They include this sheet music…
I would argue that there is only ONE high value note that’s different in the two choruses. Which is it? Can you guess?
It’s the quarter note on the third beat of the chorus’s first measure (not the pickup measure, the next one, labeled “5.”) The lyric is “me.” There’s little refuge for the defense in this critical note being a different pitch. Harmonically and melodically “Photograph’s” fifth scale degree here is THE MOST CLOSELY RELATED DIFFERENT PITCH AVAILABLE compared to “Amazing’s” third scale degree. This is where musicology really shines. Musical notes are not simply “alike” or “not alike.” Notes are like colors. They can be complementary or analogous. Notes are like language. They can be synonymous or antonymous. Here, of the eleven other notes that exist, Sheehan’s note is least different of the eleven non-identical possibilities.
But the way, this note is a high value note because of its location in the chorus and because of its lyrical, rhythmic and cadential treatment. It’s emphasized in every musical way. It’s actually one of the two highest value notes in the whole track – not identical, but as close as it gets.
This next one is almost humorous. Perhaps it’s in the boilerplate.
Both the “Amazing” chorus, and the infringing “Photograph” chorus, utilize similar structures (both have verses followed by bridge and chorus sections), and the first chorus of each song is half as long as the chorus sections that follow.
What?! No way!! In a pop tune, you say?? That’s true of nearly every pop tune, people.
The chorus of “Photograph” is 41% of Photograph.
This is similar to their “the chorus is important” point. But it’s interesting because this isn’t really a part of the “they stole our song” argument. It’s really setting up the damages calculation. They’re will argue that they’re entitled to up to 41% ownership of Sheeran’s track. They’ll further argue that it actually should have a multiplier applied because it’s the hook. “The chorus is important,” they said. But for now, they’re getting it out there that it’s at least 41% of the notes on paper.
The chord progressions are essentially the same. There’s one chord that’s different, and it’s not very different.
True, they’re the same as one another. They’re also the same as a great many other famous pop songs. In fact it might the most common progression in modern popular music. And as with the red and black notes of the melody, the single not-quite-red chord in the progression (imagine that in your head, because we don’t have a graphic) is not very different at all. Here again we will describe how chords, like notes, can be analogous. The chord in “Photograph” is what we call a “V” (five) chord. “Amazing’s” is a “iii” (three) chord. The upper case roman numeral denotes “major” chords, and the lower case denotes “minor” chords. These two have more common pitches than distinct ones and function similarly in the progression. They’re very analogous.
We often hear it said during these copyright lawsuits, “You can’t copyright a chord progression!” and no, indeed you can’t. But chord progressions are harmony in motion, and combinations of melody and harmony are expression. And expression has intent and meaning just as words taken in context are more often what you “meant” and not merely what you “said.” That expression, intent, and meaning is specific, definable, and copyrightable. So while the chord progression is not unique, and chord progressions in a vacuum are not protectable, they’re still part of a relevant argument for the plaintiff.
The chorus section of “Photograph” uses the same rhyming structure as the chorus section of “Amazing.” The measures 1, 5, 9, 11, and 13 all end in a similar “ee” sound. Measures 1, 9, and 13 actually end in the same word (“me”).
They’ve moved over to talking about the lyric now and their claim is obviously true. It’s the simplest argument again, just the sheer number of alike occurrences. Here again, there are higher value moments and lesser value moments. They should stress the “me’s” that occur in measure 1 and measure 9 which predict or even dictate the “ee” sounds and “me’s” to follow. The two largely identical choruses are built from the same basic very similar building block. “See me,” and “Keep me,” respectively, sung in descending pitches on beats one and three — alike signature moments in both songs and the essence of the work!
Hey look, they’re about to say just that.
“The songs’ similarities reach the very essence of the work. The similarities go beyond substantial, which is itself sufficient to establish copyright infringement, and are in fact striking. The similarity of words, vocal style, vocal melody, melody, and rhythm are clear indicators, among other things, that “Photograph” copies “Amazing.””
Good for them. They sum it up quite well here. This is the strongest position — that the essence of the songs are identical. The high value notes are identical and so the “intent and meaning,” as I like to say, is musically identical. And so it’s infringement! The works are indeed substantially and essentially alike not just to an ordinary observer, but to an expert. That should be more than enough.
But “enough,” can vary from case to case. In copyright lawsuits, “enough” is somewhat a function of the defendants having had access to the song they duplicated, and whether they intentionally infringed. In other words, if Sheeran never heard “Amazing,” then the threshold for infringement moves a ton. And so you get arguments like the following…
(Defendants)… had access to the “Amazing” musical composition through (radio, youtube, etc). In addition, as discussed below, the sheer magnitude, and verbatim copying of “Amazing” by Defendants, is so blatant in both scale and degree, that it raises this matter to an unusual level of striking similarity where access is presumed.
Yes, “Amazing” cracked the Top 100 in the U.K. and had a million views on YouTube as of June 2016. But I’d never heard it. And I’ve got more free time than Sheeran.
They go on to say that it’s assumed Sheeran had heard “Amazing,” because otherwise how could such a blatant ripoff have occurred?
They should forfeit a million right there for being so circular. Are you kidding me?
All in all, they’re quite right about everything.
Back of the napkin copyright lawsuit math time, I would make the argument that “Photograph’s” chorus comprises as much as 70% of the song’s total value, much more than the 41% implied by one of the plaintiff’s complaints; “Photograph’s” lyric though is particularly key to its chorus and therefore the song’s total value. Those lyrics are at most inspired by “Amazing.” I would calculate the infringement — the notes, chords, rhythmic treatments, etc. — to be no less than 50% of the chorus’s value. Therefore “Amazing’s” owners are entitled to 35% (half of 70%) of the profits from “Photograph.”
Calculating those profits is nearly as fun as dissecting the track itself. No, actually it’s not fun at all, but if you’re going to argue infringement that’s where these copyright lawsuits eventually have to go. Forensic accountants gotta eat.
The actual complaint is on Scribd, and it describes all the places the plaintiffs threaten to send their forensic accountants to find “Photograph’s” profits. The value of music has many more tentacles than most realize. Check it out at https://www.scribd.com/document/315183509/HaloSongs-Inc-v-Sheeran
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June 24, 2016 Brian McBrearty Leave a comment
I’m flabbergasted! The jury got it right!
Whereas an internet full of ordinary observers certainly didn’t. Nor did the ordinary observer friends that I personally polled on the matter. “Ordinary observer” by the way is the standard often used to help define infringement. That is, “does the allegedly infringing work appear or sound substantially similar to the ordinary observer?” And this as opposed to an observer more “expert.” Every single person for whom I played the two key segments agreed, “If Taurus came before Stairway, then Stairway was clearly stolen from Taurus,” with one friend adding for emphasis, “and nothing you say will convince me otherwise.”
I was sure there’d be a last minute confidential settlement. I couldn’t imagine why Zeppelin would chance a jury with this. But they did and they won.
Why did the jury reach a different conclusion from nearly everyone else? It’s unsettlingly simple. The jury wasn’t allowed to listen to the recordings. If they had, in my estimation, they’d have gotten it wrong like all my friends and most of the internet. The two respective recordings sure sounded “substantially similar” to these ordinary observers, and this would’ve overwhelmed all the right minded musicology I’m about to show you. This one factor alone swung the whole thing.
Instead, for the most part the jury had to look at the sheet music.
Now you’re thinking, “Who cares what the sheet music says?! If it sounds the same, it’s the same! We don’t play sheet music on the radio. Music is sound! How it sounds is what’s important!” And that’s certainly how Marvin Gaye’s estate won a big judgement against Thicke and Pharrell over “Blurred Lines” which sounded a lot like “Got To Give It Up.” But it was a big and wrong judgement.
Let’s mislead ourselves for a moment. Here is what this case sounds like.
Yup, Taurus and Stairway sound substantially similar. And they are substantially similar! But sometimes that standard is just dumb. On paper, on the sheet music, this case’s two most relevant analysis approaches lead to a Zeppelin verdict. And I’ll explain.
The first approach, simply stated, goes something like this… “Hey, there are a whole lot of similar notes in these few bars, so let’s count them up and see if it’s compelling.” I was going to write out the parts, but found that stevehoffman.tv already had so for now I’ll share his. See the notes he circled in red? Those are same notes falling on same beats.
I think this is the approach the plaintiffs probably took. See those first three notes? They’re identical. And if I play you those first three notes on a guitar, you’ll immediately recognize that I’m playing “Stairway.” But the problem with the “lots of similar notes” approach is that it looks at every picked guitar note as though they’re all musically significant, and thus invites the compelling counterargument as to the sort of notes many of these are. Not what notes they are, but what musical function they serve. They’re mostly arpeggiations of chords, which means they function to establish harmony over the course of a few musical beats, rather than being sounded simultaneously. It’s like guitar picking rather than guitar strumming, but they paint a similar color. They say, “this is the chord we’re using here to give the melody a context, harmonically and rhythmically.” In terms of composition this means a lot. I’d argue at least 75% of these notes are relatively insignificant and not protectable. It’s only a chord. Like a color. Even a series of chords can almost never reasonably be protected. Chords progressions like the one employed substantially by Taurus and by Stairway To Heaven but also by familiar tunes like My Funny Valentine and This Masquerade, are the building blocks of western music established over centuries. They’re not poetry. They’re the language itself.
This video shows similar language in varying degrees Stairway-like.
Let’s step back here and consider that musical language is exactly what you can write down on sheet music. Then someone might play that composition on a kazoo or a tuba or on a guitar. The jury wasn’t allowed to hear the similar arpeggios played in the same key on the same instrument in the two different songs. They were denied the confusion this might’ve created in their ordinary observer ears. The similarities of the acoustic guitars would’ve been a haze too thick for a jury. It’s being characterized as unjust, but it’s clarifying.
The other even more damning analysis would be to distill from all those arpeggios the key notes that might be the true melody notes — those that most define the musical phrases, separating them from the less meaningful arpeggio notes that are just spelling out harmony, reducing those to accompaniment. Then you’d have melody and you’d have accompaniment. This argument could be illustrated by playing a piano arrangement that hit those key notes faithfully, but altered all the others, applying some musicality all the while, and asking, perhaps of a Spirit fan, “Is that still Taurus?” And it would be. And then after your Stairway rendition, of that same Spirit fan “Is that still Stairway?” And again, it would be. But then the tolling blow, Taurus would find ALMOST ZERO common tones among those two distilled melodies.
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The book "Swaraj" written by Arvind kejriwal is his personal take on the social and political culture of modern day India. The current Indian political scenario has deteriorated so much that people have stopped believing on the system. The corruption has become rampant and has become a part of people's life.
Swaraj means rule of the people. Swaraj literally means self-governance where people govern themselves. The swaraj system refers to a system where people play a pivotal role in governance and voice their opinions in policy decisions. Indian system always used to give importance to local bodies. Even is present day we have bodies like panchayats that govern people at the root levels but are not very successful.
The book is a realistic take on the current Indian system. The book points out many loop holes in the current Indian political and social structure. People's participation is missing and political class is not following democratic processes. The book brings into focus many points which will make you question the social structure and the political class. Points are also raised about how honest the politicians are? and is there a possibility that all these politicians have become corrupt and puppets of people who have money?
The book stands out because it not just gives personal point of view but also a insider's point of view. It tells you to think rational and emphasizes on people's participation. To sum it up it gives the reader a comparison between what India is to what India should be or in words a comparison between the current political system to a socio-political system which will have tools like swaraj, lokpal and RTI in its disposal.
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Second term is almost over. This week is the Bologna’s Children Book Fair and Catalan is the literature invited. We’re going to be there with all our titles written in Catalan, a language we want to take care of, and also with all the titles from other countries, obviously. However, I’m glad that a fair such as this, the most important one regarding children and YA, takes into account the Catalan language and helps us open our way into the market, because Catalan authors can’t always have a translation into Spanish and it’s very complicated to sell their books to other countries when it’s been written only in Catalan. Therefore, let’s take this opportunity because every language is enriching and ours has really great authors that help it make it even better.
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If books exist at home, children and teenagers are going to end up falling in love with it. In a house with no books, it’s difficult for new generations to get hooked on reading, but not impossible. However, I want to encourage parents not to leave this matter only in school’s hands, because we still have a lot of work to do in the family environment and, with everyone’s help, we can achieve that the ones that come after us keep enjoying books. For the ones who are already doing this, we know that it’s one of the biggest pleasures in life and that anyone who doesn’t read is missing on a lot of things. So, today, I’m going to leave you with the complete Bologna’s catalogue so you can enjoy our novelties that are about to come out shortly and that we try they get to other markets. I wish each of these titles triumphs in our country and encourages many kids and teenagers to live life with the best of companions: a good book.
REGAIN WIT AND COURAGE TO KEEP ON GOING
Author: Sandra Bruna Thursday 6 October 2016
In today’s society, I am not certain if courage and wit would be two of the virtues that I would highlight from among most human beings. During the times of King Arthur, on the other hand, the bravest were the ones that held other’s acknowledgement; the ones that fought for what they believed until they died, and for what they were told to defend. The ones that weren’t afraid, even when their lives were in risk, those who took action for conviction, because it was their duty to reach the end. Wit was also valued: those who were smart, or the good ‘sneaky’ ones, were the people who survived within the society of the times, in which hierarchies were extremely defined, rich and poor. But the witty ones also had a good weapon in a world filled with corruption and badly handled power, like today.
It horrifies me to turn the TV on and watch the news, given the fact that this world is full of even worse than ‘sneaky’ individuals, and the worst of all is that we have to put up with them all. However, there are very few brave people, or honored people, that can reach the top without converting to the ‘dark side’. It is a pity that so few are actually authentic, brave and willing to fight for what they believe. New generations have it all, and maybe it is our fault if they don’t value many of the things they owe and don’t know how to fight for them. It all comes given to them. It is for this very reason that I think a reading like the saga I present here can help new generations to see the importance of values within a community, a kingdom, a society, which is not that different from the one in which we live today. And through Arthurian myths, we can make these new generations see life from the perspective of effort, the need to fight for things, and teach them that life is about ‘giving and receiving’ and not a unidirectional pathway.
THE BRITANNIA SAGA is a big bet, an epic story, full of magic and adventures that will take the reader to unique places, where courage and wit are fundamental to save life and honor. In this first volume of THE SAGA, Gwen is the daughter of queen Igraine, and Lance is a knight of the court. The princess, heir of the throne, is in big danger because Saxons have entered London and want to conquest the kingdom. Merlin (the famous magician) and Uriens have designed a plan for the princess to escape safe and sound. But in the darkness of the city, behind every corner, the spies of the Saxons are aware of a salvation plan that might be harder to execute than the magician believes. For all of you who enjoy Game of Thrones and The Lord of the Rings, this saga is not going to deceive you, you will devour the book but keep calm, there are still three other books to come and understand the great times of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table. |
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Talks of a global energy crisis have been heating up around the world. And oil prices have remained elevated in recent months, despite concerns that a potential recession could reduce demand. Therefore, alternatives such as renewable energy stocks could be in focus in the stock market. Regardless of the current crisis, renewable energy has been gaining traction over the past few years. For instance, Germany plans to spend about $3.7 billion to support international partnerships in areas of green hydrogen. This is part of the country's decarbonization plans and accelerates its energy transition.
Elsewhere, Bank of America ( NYSE: BAC ) also struck a deal with Constellation Energy ( NASDAQ: CEG ) last month. The 15-year contract will allow the bank to buy power and project-specific renewable energy certificates from a 160-MW portion of the Mammoth Central solar project in Indiana. Ultimately, this will help Bank of America to cover approximately 17% of its global electricity consumption with solar power. So, it would not be surprising if investors are looking at the renewable energy sector favorably right now. Having said that, here are some of the top renewable energy stocks in the stock market today.
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NextEra Energy Inc ( NYSE: NEE )
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NextEra
First, let us look at one of the leading clean energy companies in the world, NextEra. Based in Florida, the company owns Florida Power & Light Company, the largest vertically integrated rate-regulated electricity utility in the U.S. With this, the company serves more than 5.7 million customer accounts and 12 million residents across Florida with clean, and affordable electricity. However, NEE stock has been trading sideways over the past year. Could the stock close the second half of the year strongly as the demand for alternative energy continues to rise?
In June, NextEra announced Real Zero, the most ambitious carbon emissions-reduction goal ever set by an energy producer. The company will be committing to eliminating carbon emissions from its operations by no later than 2045. All this while leveraging low-cost renewables to drive energy affordability for customers. Zooming out, this development would be beneficial for both the company and its customers long-term. With that in mind, should investors be keeping a closer tab on NEE stock?
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Now, the company does not seem to be slowing down any time soon. In fact, Recurrent Energy, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Canadian Solar, announced in June the acquisition of two standalone energy storage projects from Black Mountain Energy Storage. Moving forward, these projects can store up to 200 MWh of energy each. They will provide dispatchable and reliable power to the grid. With the renewed focus on the sector, could CSIQ stock be a viable long-term investment? |
The Olympic Games Lanes Games
Let’s face it. You all knew this post was coming. The inevitable travel-based rant about the London 2012 Olympics is officially posted today. I’m writing it now as as many of you know the dreaded Olympic lanes have come into force this morning and I have a gig in Soho tonight so you may never hear from me again.
 For those of you unfamiliar with the Olympic lanes, allow me to explain. TFL in their infinite ignorance have allowed over 30 miles  of our already congested roads to have little rings painted all over them which mean that only official Olympic vehicles can travel in them when they are in force. The main issue is nobody really knows when they are indeed in force. I’ve already witnessed some appalling driving over the last few days as people veer back and forth between lanes not sure whether they’re about to incur a whopping £130 fine or not. I have heard various stories from the Powers That Be as to when the lanes will be in force. Apparently they will only be active when Olympic vehicles are actually using them, but I will believe this when I see it. Frankly, it looks to me as if the majority of London motorists are too terrified to chance it.
And we are supposed to watch out for the little electronic signs to see whether the lanes are in force. Most of the signs I have seen merely direct drivers to look up the Get Ahead of The Games website or Twitter feed (!) for up to date information. I think once you are actually on the road it is rather irresponsible to direct drivers to get their phones out to see whether they are breaking the law or not.
I am already seeing news reports of travel chaos on our streets. The traffic light phasing has been drastically altered over the last few weeks to give priority to main routes (chiefly those with Olympic lanes) which has caused vast tailbacks throughout the capitol. And the road layout has also been meddled with to the point where nobody (including our black cab drivers) knows how the get about in a sensible fashion. I have also been informed that certain roads (including the Kingsway) have gone from having one normal lanes and a bus lane to simply a bus lane and an Olympic lane. So it is more than likely that you could find yourself unwittingly choosing between fines. I would suggest the bus lane in this instance as the fine is less…
It is insane for TFL to allow this to happen. I was not at all in favour of the games coming to London in the first place. The city is already too crowded and the transport network is unable to cope with passengers at the best of times. I know it’s only for a few weeks, but telling Londoners (the majority of whom couldn’t have got tickets for the games even if they wanted to) to avoid traveling in central London (by road OR public transport) during the games is simply not on. Nobody wants to drive through central London. I will have to make to journey a few times during the games to work with my bass and am not massively looking forward to the chaos. The majority of motorists in town during the day are there because they have to be for work. Londoners have paid on average £1200 each in additional taxes to pay for the games and now they will be contributing an extra £130 every time they mistakingly veer into the wrong lane. Not on I’m afraid.
Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to Carmageddon!!!
See you on Twitter folks. Expect heavy use of my #traffictorture #sodtheolympics hashtags and the introduction of #carmageddon into the regular rantings.
That’s it. Rant over. See you at a gig soon. I’ll be the one who’s late…
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Just get out of here already. Seriously.
It's really no secret that if you were a celebrity, you were probably laying low for fear the reaper was coming for you while wearing 2016 glasses. Unfortunately for the rest of us, 2016 was just as much of an asshole to us as well.
While the last week of 2016 was actually pretty amazing for us, the majority of 2016 was absolutely horrible. I could recap it all but I won't. Sometimes it's better to just let awful things be, you know? But what I have learned from 2016 is that for the second time in my life, a crisis shows me who is a friend and who isn't. Who your actual ride or die village is and who only wants a ride when it's convenient and fun for them. I've said some tough goodbye's to friends who weren't friends at all and I've said some really feel good purges on Facebook of people who don't deserve the best me, or my family, has to offer.
And it feels good. It's amazing how free you can feel when you just don't care anymore.
But there are a few friends, people I would drop everything for to help them in a time of need that I haven't said goodbye to yet, and I know I should. It's so hard to break up with friends, especially people who you really like as individuals, people you miss dearly and keep trying to make the relationship work with, and they just.. don't. We have different lifestyles (I have kids, they don't, they work, I don't, they have money to do fun things, I don't, etc) but I still feel like the foundation for a good friendship is there. I don't know why it doesn't work anymore. Maybe I should just ask. Or maybe I should just walk away and be sad for awhile and then that's it. I don't know.
I do know that 2016 has just been so damn awful and I don't want another year like this one again for a long, long time. I don't know if I can emotionally handle it to be honest with you. I barely made it out of this year alive, if there is any kind of justice in the world 2017 will be kind.
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Julie H said...
I've given up on a few friends in the past few years. I've also met some people I thought could be friends and then ran away from soon after lol.
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The City Council met on Oct. 26, and the meeting lasted for two hours. Councilmember Kazi Miah was the only one absent.
Wow. Here it is two weeks later and it seemed like we’d been here before, same room, same discussion. And that discussion Tuesday night was another long round about adopting a zoning law regulating where medical marijuana growers can operate.
Talk about a buzzkill.
In essence, the council decided to join a growing number of other communities by postponing any action on the issue until the state legislature tackles the law.
Councilmember Cathie Gordon proposed tabling the issue based on advice she received from state Rep. Bert Johnson. Johnson told her that state lawmakers will make changes to the law by early January because of so much confusion surrounding the voter-approved law.
Gordon also said the city ought to back off from “commercializing” the cultivation of the plant, saying it should remain a matter between a patient and their caregiver. The council has been debating where to allow medical marijuana collectives to operate.
Collectives are places where several growers can share space.
Councilmember Tom Jankowski, who voted against postponing the adoption of the zoning law, said that all the council is doing is saying where collectives can grow their product. He said ultimately it’s up the council and Plan Commission to decide on where collectives can operate on a case-by-case basis. He stressed this isn’t about interpreting state law.
Councilmember Catrina Stackpoole said she, too, is in favor of postponing the issue because the law needs to be clarified. She said she doesn’t want to see collectives invest money in setting up shop only to see state lawmakers make changes that could derail the collectives.
In a related matter, a proposed ordinance submitted by Councilmember Jankowski to set up guidelines for issuing permits to the collectives was also put on hold until the council meets on Jan. 25.
Jankowski pointed out that by postponing the matter, anyone can still legally open up a collective and start growing marijuana because there is no local law regulating it.
What a long, strange trip it’s been.
And now on to another puzzling and complicated issue.
The council may have opened the proverbial Pandora ’s Box with an ongoing discussion about adopting a law (proposed by Councilmember Gordon) to treat resale and second-hand shops the same as pawn shops. The law would require resale shops to record who sold them merchandise, take their fingerprints, record what was purchased and hold those items for 15 days to see if they come up as stolen goods.
City Attorney James Allen confirmed that there is already a state law that requires all of that, which prompted Councilmember Stackpoole to say: “Why are we bothering doing this if we have a state law?”
Well, the short answer to that was supplied by Allen who said that by having a local law, court fines would go into the city’s coffers instead of going to the state.
But this issue raised a number of concerns with Mayor Karen Majewski, who said she often deals in second-hand goods. She said requiring resale shops to catalog merchandise and fingerprint those who sell goods is burdensome and is “archaic in the way these businesses operate.”
Gordon conceded that it appears the city’s police force is not enforcing the law and in fact may not even be aware of it. She stressed that her concern is that stolen goods are being trafficked through some of the shops. She said that by adopting a local law, the enforcement aspect will be “softer” on the shops here in town.
Councilmember Jankowski jumped on that remark, asking Gordon if she advocates being “soft” on crime.
Gordon said her point is that by adopting a local law, it will educate the resale shops in town. Councilmember Stackpoole countered, saying the shops can be informed about the state law any time.
“Why are we wasting our time?” she said.
Mayor Majewski continued in her concern over how burdensome the law is. She said what if someone sold a vinyl record at one of the used record stores here? Would the store be required to fingerprint the seller and do all the paperwork required by state law?
Gordon dismissed the notion of local record stores being overburdened, saying it’s likely a store like Record Graveyard buys at most three albums a week. (Editor’s note: Cathie, you might want to check with the owner. Your estimate is way, way off.)
Stackpoole sort of changed her tune from “why are we wasting our time” to, well, she has no problem passing a local law in order to keep court fines locally. But she noted that passing the law won’t reduce criminals from stealing things. The criminals, she said, will just go someplace else that’s easier to sell their stolen items.
She even took it one step further, saying that by making it easier to sell stolen items to shops in town, the victims have a better chance of recovering their goods.
Oy!
After all that discussion, the council, except for Jankowski, voted to hold a public hearing on the ordinance on Nov. 9. However, there is still debate on what the law should include.
“Is it required we mimic the state ordinance?” Majewski said at one point, and further questioned if things could be left out. She also wondered about “selective enforcement.”
In a review of items that the city needs to pay, Councilmember Gordon motioned to withhold a $68,000 payment owed to Detroit for water and sewer service. The council has been withholding that payment in retaliation against Detroit.
Detroit is withholding $3 million in tax revenue from the GM Poletown plant in an ongoing legal dispute. Councilmember Jankowski was the only councilmember to oppose not paying Detroit.
The council agreed to lease the former PLAV Post 1 hall on Holbrook to the city’s Friends of the Historical Commission for $1 a year with an option to allow the organization to purchase the building for $1.
The hall will be converted into a historical museum. Community & Economic Development Director Jason Friedmann explained that by leasing, the city can explore whether it can receive special grants to help the Friends group renovate the building.
The council also agreed to a deal where the city will purchase eight, possibly nine, houses and commercial buildings to renovate. The ambitious project is being funded through a $15 million federal stimulus grant (which is administered through the Michigan State Housing Development Authority).
Friedmann, who is the city’s point person in the project, said he has yet to decide whether to by one of the houses because it was recently destroyed in a fire. He said it might be to the advantage of the city to purchase it because demolition money can be tapped sooner than waiting for Wayne County to raze the structure.
He said houses will be redeveloped and offered for sale. The commercial properties will be developed into a combination of living quarters and a space for a commercial business.
OK, this next issue has several levels to it, so hold on. Councilmember Gordon noted that she saw a public notice in a recent issue of The Review in which the state’s Liquor Control Commission was preparing to issue a “Club” liquor license to a non-profit group operating out of the former UAW hall at Holbrook and Lumpkin.
The group, she noted, mentors kids from age 7 to 18. Gordon said it’s “morally” wrong to allow the group to sell liquor in the same building where kids are being mentored. She said the city has a “zero tolerance” policy on allowing children to be in establishment where liquor is sold and consumed.
Here’s where something needs to be pointed out: Gordon is the owner of the New Dodge Lounge and was recently subjected to a sting operation from the Police Department in which underage decoys were sent to her bar to see if they would be carded.
Gordon’s bar passed the test. Not so true with three other bars in town, including a bar owned by Councilmember Jankowski.
Now here’s where things take a twist. That sting came a couple days after a vote was held on whether to approve the purchase of bullet proof vests for the Police Department using drug forfeiture funds. Jankowski was initially against it, saying since the police officers’ union refused to agree to salary cuts, which other city employees have either agreed to or were forced to take, the officers should be required to purchase vests out of their clothing allowance.
Jankowski eventually backed off from that position and agreed to the original purchase deal.
Although Gordon voted to approve the purchase, she had agreed to hold up the purchase to allow Jankowski to explore his proposal. The vote to purchase the vests came close to a deadline in which the Police Department could have had lost a 50 percent matching grant from the Justice Department, meaning the city would have to come up with the money.
That didn’t go down well with the Police Department. Gordon questioned the timing of the bar stings and why her bar and Jankowski’s were targeted.
Councilmember Stackpoole said the group needs the license to hold fundraisers. Further discussion of the issue was held off until a formal request for the license will be presented to the council at its Nov. 9 meeting.
No matter, Gordon was adamant in not allowing the organization to have a license, and instead suggested the group rent a hall to hold fundraisers. (Editor’s note: Hmmmm … maybe hold the fundraisers at, say, the New Dodge Lounge? Just kidding Cathie.)
Gordon was on a roll. Gordon had previously abstained in a vote to award a new contract to the city’s legal firm, The Allen Brothers, but she questioned why the mayor and city manager agreed to pay the law firm the same amount of money it has paid for the last five years, considering the city’s budget woes.
Mayor Majewski pointed out that the legal services were put out to bid and that the Allen Brothers’ bid was the best deal for the city. |
Greatest Collapses In Major League History
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Both the Red Sox and Braves just learned that it takes 162 games to grab a playoff berth. Injuries, inexperience and the vagaries of the unbalanced schedule can turn contenders into pretenders in a heartbeat -- especially if another club gets hot down the stretch.
Baseball history is filled with stunning failures, from the 1951 Dodgers to the 1964 Phillies, but this year's reversals carved new niches in the annals of the game.
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On August 31, the Red Sox led the American League East by a game-and-a-half over the Yankees and nine games over the Rays. Less than a month later, on Sept. 26, the Yankees had clinched the division and the Rays had climbed into a tie with the Red Sox as the American League's wildcard leader.
Although the Sox led the majors in runs scored for the month, their pitching imploded. During one 20-game stretch, the team won only once in games in which they scored less than 12 runs.
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Even the 1962 Mets, a hapless expansion team that finished with 120 losses, had a better September winning percentage than the 2011 Red Sox.
Atlanta's fate was similar even though its cause was different. The Braves owned an 8½ game lead over the Cardinals on Sept. 5 before suddenly slipping into a team-wide batting slump that persisted during a 3-6 stretch against the Mets, Nationals and last-place Marlins. Three-game road sweeps by the Cardinals and Phillies, plus losses in the first two games of a season-ending finale against the Phils at home, left the Braves and Cards tied for the wild-card going into the last day of the season.
On Wednesday night in the regular-season finales, the Red Sox and Braves both blew leads in the ninth inning. Boston closer Jonathan Papelbon gave up two runs to the Orioles, and the Sox lost 4-3. Atlanta led by one run in the ninth, but the Phillies tied it and won in the 13th. The Rays and Cardinals advanced by winning. Tampa Bay did it in dramatic fashion, wiping out a 7-0 deficit, tying it in the ninth and winning in the 12th.
It's hard to believe less than a month has passed since Boston owned the second-best record in the game, trailing only the Phillies. But losing 16 of its first 21 in September placed the team in a historic predicament.
The Red Sox and Braves will be remembered for epic collapses. But they aren't alone in baseball history. Here are some of the most memorable:
Greatest Collapses In Major League History Slideshow
1942 Dodgers
Brooklyn led the Cardinals by 9½ games on August 15 but couldn't hold on. Even victories in its last eight games weren't enough to stop St. Louis, which went 43-9 to win the NL flag by two games.
The Giants engineered one of the great rebounds, catching the Dodgers after Brooklyn had forged a 13½-game lead on August 11. The Giants went 39-8 down the stretch while the Dodgers played at a .500 clip to fall into a tie that required a best-of-three playoff. Brooklyn couldn't hold a 4-1 lead in the final inning of the third game, losing on Bobby Thomson's "Shot Heard 'Round The World."
Moving to Los Angeles didn't prevent the Dodgers from suffering another collapse in 1962. The team dropped six of its last seven to force another best-of-three playoff with the Giants. History repeated itself, as the Giants rallied in the ninth inning of the last game to win the pennant.
1964 Phillies
Philadelphia had had a 6½ game lead with 12 to play but lost 10 straight just as the Cardinals caught fire. That pre-division National League race nearly ended in a three-way tie, with the Reds tying the Phils for second, one game behind.
1969 Cubs
The Cubs, absent from the World Series since 1945, expected to end that drought in 1969 but lost 14 of their last 20, allowing the "Miracle" Mets to overcome a 9½ game deficit of August 14. With a 39-11 mark down the stretch, the Mets managed to win the very first NL East crown by eight games.
1978 Red Sox
Boston had a 14-game lead over the Yankees in July and a 7½ game lead with 32 to go. But New York's relentless pursuit ended in a single-game Fenway Park playoff punctuated by Bucky Dent's unexpected homer into the screen.
1987 Blue Jays
Toronto lost its last seven to blow a division crown that seemed certain when they held a 3½-game lead with seven to go. The Tigers were the beneficiaries, winning the AL East title by two games.
1993 Giants
In the last title chase under the two-division format, the 1993 Giants blew a 10-game July lead to the Braves, then in the NL West. The Braves won 104 times, once more than the Giants, but only Atlanta went to the playoffs in the last year before wild cards became part of the baseball lexicon.
Anaheim blew an 11½ game August lead over the Mariners by losing 27 of its last 39 games. The M's won a one-game tiebreaker, then edged the heavily favored New York Yankees in the A.L. Division Series before finally fading.
2007 Mets
The Mets had a seven-game lead with 17 to play but lost a dozen games -- including six of their last seven -- as the Phillies stormed to the division crown.
2009 Tigers
Detroit led the AL Central from May 10 to the final week, then lost four potential clinchers and eventually lost the sudden-death playoff against the Twins. No other team has blown a three-game lead with four games left.
-- Former AP sportswriter Dan Schlossberg of Fair Lawn, N.J., is the author of 35 baseball books.
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On January 9, 2005 a tragic car accident on the snowy roads of I-35 took the life of Tony Gigliotti, a University of Wisconsin-Superior Legal Studies student. Since then, many friends and family members of Tony have come together every year to put on the Tony G Memorial 3 on 3 Basketball Tournament in his memory.
The first tournament was held in April of 2005 with a total of 48 teams comprising of mostly friends and family members. Last year, at our 15th tournament, we had 118 teams participate. We average 120 to 130 teams each year and hope to continue our high level of participation with the tournament this year.
Thanks to the generosity of the many friends, family, and community members, the Tony G scholarship reached permanent endowment. Since we reached that goal, we have branched out to work with more organizations throughout the area.
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Year In Review (Part 1) - The Fun That Was 2012
Though I have not fully processed my recent health scare, I figured it was time to briefly reflect on the wonderful year that has been before I capture my thoughts on my blog in greater detail before year's end.
After having been with my fiancee Anya for over 5 years, I sneakily proposed to her again, but this time asking her to marry me right then and there. Thankfully, she accepted...again. 4 hours later, we were married which made April 16, 2012 the most special event...and not only for 2012;-) If the year had ended there, I couldn't have been happier.
Everything else was just the proverbial icing on the cake and while none of the adventures of 2012 come close to my wedding, they were certainly exciting in their own right.
I got 2012 started with my third consecutive running of the Mountain Mist 50K in Huntsville, Alabama in January.
In February, I ran the Fuego Y Agua 100K on Isla de Ometepe, Nicaragua, a volcanic island and the most amazing place I had ever been to.
In March, just one week after climbing two volcanoes as part of the 100K race, I got to run with my wife Anya and while I didn't manage quite the mileage I had hoped for, I got to pace her to her first ever ultra marathon finish at the Delano Park 12 Hour Race in Decatur, Alabama.
Just 3 weeks after my return from Nicaragua, I toed the line of my toughest ultra challenge yet, the Double Top 100M in Chatsworth, Georgia. Ironically, it was my best executed 100 miler to date and my highest finish ever in any ultra race (3rd male overall).
In April, I ended up on a business trip to the West coast of Ireland and got to run the famous Connemarathon 39.3M ultra marathon just outside Galway, Ireland. This was yet another epic ultra and the year had just begun.
Three weeks later, I was presenting at a corporate event in Phoenix, Arizona. A quick glance at the map revealed a somewhat close proximity to the Grand Canyon. After a couple of text messages, I had convinced Richard Trice and Dan Burstein to join me in Arizona for a couple of days for a little 3 hour road trip from Phoenix via Sedona and Flagstaff to The Grand Canyon National Park for a Grand Canyon Double Crossing or R2R2R. Another epic adventure done!
While the R2R2R counted as my traditional "birthday run" (run your age in miles), I turned 41 and the double crossing added up to around 42 miles, the month of May offered yet another first. This time, I managed to convince not just two friends to join me in a crazy adventure, but seven. With the help of Ryan, Richard, Mike, Ed, James, Dan, and Jay, team "I Lost My Sock in Huntsville" was born and we were ready to give the Dixie 200, a 200 mile relay race from Atlanta, Georgia to Birmingham, Alabama our best shot. We were the only ones crazy enough to attempt this one as an ultra team...oh yeah, only 4 of us were actual ultra runners. But we did it...and we won the ultra division (well, we just had to finish to garner this particular accolade) of this inaugural event.
June and July were a little light on ultra races, so when August came around, my running buddies and I were ready for another grand adventure. I participated in my second Laurel Valley White Water Run 35 Miler, a completely self-supported point to point ultra race through five gorges (or is it "Georges"? well, you'll need to read the race report for that one) and while I had some serious issues during this one, I still ended up having a great time running with friends and chilling out with my wife after.
September served up two more adventures, a few miles with friends at the inaugural Merrill's Mile 24 Hour Endurance Race in Dahlonega, Georgia along with pacing my buddy Timo Sandritter to his first ultra finish and the second edition of the Georgia Jewel 100M race in Dalton, Georgia. My finish at the Georgia Jewel 100M was made possible only by the generous crewing and pacing support of James Duncan, Ed Johnson, Ronnie Hines and Philip Sustar and Kena Yutz, without whom a finish would have been impossible.
October's Stump Jump 50K in Chattanooga, Tennessee was meant as a final tune for the Pinhoti 100 the following month. Once again, I got to meet up with another bunch of Huntsville ultra runners and once again, I had a whole lot of fun just a couple of hours from my home.
The Pinhoti 100M in November was supposed to be another highlight of an already exciting year of ultra adventures. It was to be the completion of the unofficial "Pinhoti Trail Slam", achieved by completing all three 100 mile events taking place on the Pinhoti trail in one year. 2012 was the first year that this would have even been posible, since the Double Top 100 was run for the first time. I would have been the first to complete this chllenge, but unfortunately, the Pinhoti 100 beat me yet gain (after I dropped after 60 miles in my first ever 100 mile attempt in 2010) and I fell 35 miles short of the 300 mile challenge. Regardless, a new exciting adventure was born (largely in part to Dan Burstein's idea) and as of right now, already 6 folks have signed up to the now official version of the Slam. I cant wait to congratulate the first person to earn this very special buckle which was also designed by Dan.
However, this review would not be complete without discussing the remainder of the year. Unfortunately, after all of the highs this year had provided to me, there were some serious (health related) lows that followed and while I'm not fully recovered yet, I am getting better every day. In an effort to separate to highs from the lows, I will write about the last 8 weeks of this year in a follow up to this post.
I can only hope that 2013 will be as exciting and rewarding as 2012, minus the health issues:-) I look forward to making new friends and deepening existing friendships, on and off the trails.
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Jason Shattuck December 28, 2012 at 9:07 AM
Great job buddy!
Grippo January 9, 2013 at 8:12 PM
great job! I am headed down to ometepe in a month or so. I hope it goes as well for me as it did for you. You mentioned that you run with a garmin. How do you keep the battery alive for an entire 100k? Do you know if anyone has saved a course that i can download to my watch for Fuego Y Agua?
Ultra Kraut January 13, 2013 at 7:54 PM
Grippo, sorry for replying so late. Check out this guy's blog and info on how to make your Garmin last (http://www.dcrainmaker.com/2009/07/going-really-really-really-long-with.html). I used 2 devices back to back, instead. He has some great reviews on GPS devices in general.There are some other folks out there that have posted their setups for extending the battery life of their GPS devices as well. Unfortunately, my Garmin data had some issues, so I do not have a proper profile, but most of the data is accurate and can be found here. There were problems with the last 10 miles (http://connect.garmin.com/activity/151598919). Most importantly, enjoy the adventure and the amazing scenery, good luck! |
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Damascus is located in west Virginia. Damascus is part of Washington County. Damascus has 0.79 square miles of land area and 0.03 square miles of water area. As of 2010-2014, the total Damascus population is 796, which has shrunk 18.86% since 2000. The population growth rate is much lower than the state average rate of 15.63% and is much lower than the national average rate of 11.61%. Damascus median household income is $23,902 in 2010-2014 and has grown by 20.20% since 2000. The income growth rate is much lower than the state average rate of 38.81% and is lower than the national average rate of 27.36%. Damascus median house value is $99,600 in 2010-2014 and has grown by 60.65% since 2000. The house value growth rate is much lower than the state average rate of 94.18% and is higher than the national average rate of 46.91%. As a reference, the national Consumer Price Index (CPI) inflation rate for the same period is 26.63%. On average, the public school district that covers Damascus is better than the state average in quality. The Damascus area code is 276.
Population 796 (2010-2014), rank #384
Population Growth -18.86% since 2000, rank #320
Population Density: 966.38/sq mi, rank #248
Median Household Income: $23,902 at 2010-2014—20.20% increase since 2000, rank #552
Median House Price: $99,600 at 2010-2014—60.65% increase since 2000, rank #469
Area: Kingsport-Bristol-Bristol, TN-VA
County: Washington County
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Subject: I love the hypocrisy here: attacking Christians for stereotyping Muslims...by stereotyping Christians for what you think they "believe."
Sorry, but it just had to be pointed out.
Date Posted: Wed February 03, 2016 12:22:12
In reply to: Islamic fanatics--there ya go!!! 's message, "Because these hypocrites prattle on about Sharia Law and other bullshit, yet they want to establish a Christian theocracy" on Tue February 02, 2016 15:41:48
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Fundraiser Event for Royal Children’s Hospital at White Horse Pub, Horwich End
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The event on the evening of Sunday 27 May, is an evening of fun and more fund-raising in the White Horse pub at Horwich End, and follows the Wedding Fair earlier that day |
Celtic Atlanta Associations, Organizations & Clubs
The Clans
Ancient Order of the Hibernians Tara Division is a Catholic Irish-American Fraternal organization and one of the regular sponsors for the Theatre Gael and the Atlanta Saint Patrick’s Day parade. They also hold an annual golf tournament for the benefit of the Tara Division’s charitable foundation, Aesdana. In medieval Irish society, there existed a class of professionals, the poets and lawgivers, named Aesdana. Roughly translated, Aesdana means “men of culture” or “men of the arts.” A Section 501(c)(3) corporation, Aesdana afford Tara the means to demonstrate its commitment to Irish culture and activities. The Tara Division is also committed to the AOH goal of a united Ireland.
Hibernian Benevolent Society of Atlanta, founded in 1858 by a group of Atlanta merchants, has approximately 300 members and promotes Irish culture in the Atlanta area. The Society has sponsored the annual St. Patrick's Day Parade since 1858. The HBSA has also sponsored the annual Hibernian Black Tie Ball the evening before the Parade, the St. Patrick's Mass and numerous other activities.
Metro Atlanta Police Emerald Society In addition to promoting a sense of pride in our Gaelic heritage, MAPES was established to recognize the accomplishment and contributions made by fellow Gaelic law enforcement officers within the Metro Atlanta Area. MAPES provides an environment that fosters a spirit of brotherhood and fellowship amongst its members and is dedicated to assisting needy families in the event of hardship. The organization is committed to enhancing professionalism within the law enforcement establishment and developing an atmosphere in which the police and community work together to reduce crime.
Firefighter's Emerald Society of Metropolitan Atlanta was formed to provide a fraternal association for firefighters throughout the Metro Atlanta area. Their goal is to take care of the families of firefighters in need and to inculcate and preserve the history of the Irish in the Fire Service. The Irish had a very significant role in the establishment of the Fire Service in the Metro Atlanta area, as Matthew Ryan was the first career Fire Chief of the Atlanta Fire Department. Father Thomas O'Reilly, a "right off the boat" Irishman, saved Atlanta City Hall, the Fulton Court House and several churches from being burned during Sherman's "March To The Sea".
Burns Club of Atlanta, 40 Brighton Road, Atlanta, 30309, a non-profit organization dedicated to preserving the living memory of Scotland's great, 18th century bard Robert Burns
CCÉ South is a US region of Comhaltas Ceoltóirí Éireann (pronounced "kol-tus kyol-tori air-in"), or CCÉ for short. The region is based in Atlanta. Irish Music Traditions supports Irish music, dance and culture in Atlanta. Their sponsored activities include concerts and regular ceilis (dance workshops with live music and food). They meet monthly. For more info, call 404-659-7642.
Clan Na nGael, Irish Culture and Gaelic Football. Gaelic Football Club seeking soccer players for games at Webb Bridge or North Park in Alpharetta. Season runs thru Labor Day. 770-579-1421. Visit Clan na nGael's website at www.atlantagaa.org
Emory University Celtic Club student organization sponsors lectures, poetry readings, concerts, theater and literary events at Emory. The club continues to work to establish a Celtic Studies Program at the university, 404-727-6474.
Irish American Club of North Georgia 770-578-4828.
Irish Club of Atlanta, an organization of Irish nationals living in the area, helps recent Irish emigrants. The club meets the third Sunday of every month at The Phoenix bar and Restaurant at The Prado on Roswell Road, 404-705-8008
Na Fianna LGFC, founded in 2003, is a Gaelic football club for women based in Atlanta, GA. We are a diverse group of women playing football in an energetic, fun, and competitive environment. In 2007 Na Fianna won the South Eastern Divisional competition. Want To Play!
Saint Andrews Scottish Society promotes interest in Scottish culture. Membership by invitation only. For more information, call Dolores Gelly, 770-455-875
The St. David's Welsh Society of Georgia actively promotes the culture and heritage of Wales in the Atlanta area. Anyone interested in Welsh matters is encouraged to attend their monthly meetings held on the second Sunday of each month from September through June. For more information please visit the Society's web site or call 678-319-0817.
Theatre Gael, an Atlanta art organization dedicated to preserving culture and art forms of the Celtic people. Theatre Gael's productions are staged at the 14th St. Playhouse in Atlanta
W.B. Yeats Foundation, founded in 1988 to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Yeat's death, promotes the works of Yeats and other aspects of Irish and Celtic culture and produces the Yeats Theatre Festival at the Abbey Theatre in Dublin. The foundation is working to create a Center for Celtic Studies and hosts concerts, readings, lectures, and events in the Atlanta area. 1655 North Decatur Road Suite 105, Atlanta, Georgia 30322. 404-727-6180 Fax 404-727-9536
Regional Organizations & Associations
Alabama Celtic Association, a non-profit organization dedicated to the preservation and promotion of Celtic Heritage, Arts and Education in the State of Alabama
The Caledonian Society of Alabama was formed to preserve and promote our Scottish Heritage. Although members are primarily located in the Birmingham area, we have members in all areas of the state plus adjoining states.
Shoals Celtic Concerts. The very best in live Celtic music is presented in Florence by Shoals Celtic Concerts. Since its creation in 2003, the SCC has brought Jim Malcolm of Old Blind Dogs and Teada' to North Alabama for live performance.
The Celtic Music Society of Montgomery, founded in 2002, is dedicated to presenting Celtic acoustic music in private settings. Their highly successful concert series has introduced hundreds of new fans to Celtic music. CMSM is always looking for new friends to help with their quest. For more information, contact Gwen Orel at [email protected] or Chris and Lori Fly at [email protected].
Comhaltas Ceoltóirí Éireann (CCE) is an internationally dispersed organization with over 400 branches worldwide. As a local branch in the Birmingham area, CCE is committed to carrying on the mission statement of "Promoting the Culture and Arts of Ireland at Home and Abroad through Music and Dance". Comhaltas national is a non-profit organization with a 501c3 status. The Birmingham CCE branch is very active in the Birmingham area. Please feel free to contact Marty Bostick (Chairman) at the following: 205-640-8976, [email protected] . Visit them at http://www.alcce.org/alcce/index.php .
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President Ilham Aliyev reviewed building of the Embassy of Azerbaijan in Georgia
President of the Republic of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev has reviewed the building of the Embassy of Azerbaijan in Georgia.
The Ambassador of Azerbaijan to Georgia, Azer Huseyn, told the President that the Embassy building had been constructed on a land plot allocated by order of the President of Georgia dated 29 May 2008. All rooms in the building are fitted with the necessary equipment and are well suited for fruitful work of the Embassy personnel.
The Embassy building has the Heydar Aliyev Hall, rooms for accommodating visitors, a conference room, meeting rooms and offices. Photographs and books describing the glorious life and activities of the great leader are on display in the Heydar Aliyev Hall. It is used for conducting a variety of events dedicated to the public holidays of the Republic of Azerbaijan and other significant dates. In the lobby of the building there is a bust of great leader Heydar Aliyev. |
Three Motives to Earn an Online Degree in Health Care
You’ve decided to improve your financial situation. You are well aware that returning to school is the only viable option. To begin, you must settle on a profession. You’d be a natural fit for a career in the medical field because health care is something that’s always interested you.
This sector of the economy is thriving and expected to keep expanding. As the need for medical practitioners of all stripes grows, your employment prospects are as good as they get.
The nicest aspect is that you get to set your own financial goals. Employment opportunities in the health care industry are available to those with only a high school diploma. A greater degree, however, usually means a higher salary. Your best bet for getting started in the correct direction is to enrol in an online health care degree programme.
Getting your health care education online is the best option for three main reasons.
The obvious advantage of getting a health degree online is the freedom it provides. Anywhere you have access to a computer, you have access to your courses. You don’t even have to get out of bed to get some education. To the contrary, you could visit a Starbucks. You only need access to the web.
You couldn’t ask for a more practical solution. And it’s safe to assume that you’re constantly on the go. Perhaps you are currently employed. There’s a chance you’re a parent. Whatever the case may be, an online university makes it irrelevant. Classes are flexible and can be arranged to work with your timetable.
You’ll need to keep up with your coursework at least once per week if you want to pass a class through an online university, but after that, your schedule is flexible. Courses are available around the clock, seven days a week. Yes, this level of adaptability is genuine.
For most people, the prospect of returning to school is off the table because of the high price tag associated with doing so. Online courses, on the other hand, tend to have substantially lower fees.
There’s no denying its logic. They have substantially lower operating costs because they are not responsible for the upkeep of a campus or the funding of a sports department. These online institutions are able to save money, which they then provide to their pupils. This isn’t always the case, of course. And there are cases where the cost is roughly the same. However, a quick internet search will reveal that greater tuition expenses for online programmes are more the exception than the rule.
Many of the best online universities also provide generous financial aid packages. You may probably find a university willing to help you with your financial aid needs, whether you’re looking for scholarships, Pell grants, student loans, or all three. In addition, your company could be able to help out financially as well. Some employers are very delighted to pay for their workers to participate in educational enrichment activities. You can cut costs in other areas, too, such parking, gas, and public transit.
The third and last benefit of earning your healthcare degree online is the potential for faster progress toward your objective.
There are plenty of online programmes that are just as fast (if not faster) than their on-campus counterparts when it comes to getting you ready for a new career. The reason for this is that most online courses take an accelerated approach. The best ones manage this without compromising the standard of education they provide or the respect they have among their alumni and the business community.
The sooner you complete your online health care degree, the sooner you may start working toward the career and pay goals you’ve set for yourself.
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6ix9ine Pleads Guilty to Federal Racketeering and Firearms Charges
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6ix9ine pleads guilty.
According to The Daily Beast, the rapper has pleaded guilty to nine counts of federal racketeering and firearms charges.
TMZ reports that Tekashi entered his guilty plea on Jan. 23, and, during the hearing, he admitted to paying someone to try to shoot Chief Keef. He apparently identified the triggerman as well. He also claims that he did so so he could earn a better standing among the Nine Trey Gangsta Bloods, a gang he says he joined in the fall of 2017.
Tekashi, born name Daniel Hernandez, also admits that he participated in the armed robbery of a rival on New York City's 40th street on April 3, 2018. He went on to say that he once sold a kilo of heroin. He said all of this while addressing the court.
"I apologize to the court, to anyone who was hurt, to my family, friends and fans for what I have done and who I have let down," said 6ix9ine, who was reportedly involved in the selling of ecstasy, heroin, fentanyl, amphetamines and marijuana.
TMZ says that 6ix9ine, who was originally said to be facing 32 years to life in prison, could be sentenced to 47 years behind bars.
This news comes just after two months after the rapper was arrested by federal agents and hit with several federal firearms and racketeering charges. On Nov. 28, 2018, Tekashi pled not guilty to the charges, but he's obviously changed his mind since. Speaking with XXL at the time, Tekashi's then-attorney, Lance Lazzaro, made it clear that be believed 6ix9ine would be proven innocent of the crimes.
"I believe that the charges against him is an over-charge by the U.S. Attorney's Office and that when the facts come out I am confident that the charges will be dismissed as it relates to Daniel Hernandez, Tekashi 6ix9ine," Lazzaro said at the time.
Last week, Lazzaro was removed from Tekashi's case when it was discovered that he'd withheld information about his prior work representing two of Tekashi's fellow Nine Trey Gangsta Blood co-defendants.
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‘Pentagon wants to implement Kissinger’s world domination plan’
It seems the Pentagon is planning to implement former US Secretary of State and National Security Advisor Henry Kissinger’s strategy of world domination, says Don DeBar, an American journalist and political commentator.
War Criminal Henry Kissinger confronted on Bilderberg and Mass Murder
Henry Kissinger: War Criminal or Old-Fashioned Murderer?
Incredibly, Henry Kissinger—the man who rivals Pol Pot for the dubious honor of being the person responsible for the death of the largest number of innocent people in South East Asia (and far surpasses Pol Pot in criminality when one factors in Kissinger’s various levels of responsibility for wholesale slaughter and repression in other parts of the world)—still wields significant power in the United States; but his role as eager facilitator of mass murder, totalitarian repression and other atrocities is never discussed in polite society.
Crimes against Humanity: Why Is Henry Kissinger Walking Around Free?
By Andy Piascik
Note: This article was originally published in January 2015.
Two months ago, hundreds of thousands of Chileans somberly marked the 40thanniversary of their nation’s September 11th terrorist event. It was on that date in 1973 that the Chilean military, armed with a generous supply of funds and weapons from the United States, and assisted by the CIA and other operatives, overthrew the democratically-elected government of the moderate socialist Salvador Allende. Sixteen years of repression, torture and death followed under the fascist Augusto Pinochet, while the flow of hefty profits to US multinationals – IT&T, Anaconda Copper and the like – resumed. Profits, along with concern that people in other nations might get ideas about independence, were the very reason for the coup and even the partial moves toward nationalization instituted by Allende could not be tolerated by the US business class.
Henry Kissinger was national security advisor and one of the principle architects – perhaps the principle architect – of the coup in Chile. US-instigated coups were nothing new in 1973, certainly not in Latin America, and Kissinger and his boss Richard Nixon were carrying on a violent tradition that spanned the breadth of the 20th century and continues in the 21st – see, for example, Venezuela in 2002 (failed) and Honduras in 2009 (successful). Where possible, such as in Guatemala in 1954 and Brazil in 1964, coups were the preferred method for dealing with popular insurgencies. In other instances, direct invasion by US forces such as happened on numerous occasions in Nicaragua, the Dominican Republic and many other places, was the fallback option.
The coup in Santiago occurred as US aggression in Indochina was finally winding down after more than a decade. From 1969 through 1973, it was Kissinger again, along with Nixon, who oversaw the slaughter in Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos. It is impossible to know with precision how many were killed during those four years; all the victims were considered enemies, including the vast majority who were non-combatants, and the US has never been much interested in calculating the deaths of enemies. Estimates of Indochinese killed by the US for the war as a whole start at four million and are likely more, perhaps far more. It can thus be reasonably extrapolated that probably more than a million, and certainly hundreds of thousands, were killed while Kissinger and Nixon were in power.
In addition, countless thousands of Indochinese have died in the years since from the affects of the massive doses of Agent Orange and other Chemical Weapons of Mass Destruction unleashed by the US. Many of us here know (or, sadly, knew) soldiers who suffered from exposure to such chemicals; multiply their numbers by 1,000 or 10,000 or 50,000 – again, it’s impossible to know with accuracy – and we can begin to understand the impact on those who live in and on the land that was so thoroughly poisoned as a matter of US policy.
Studies by a variety of organizations including the United Nations also indicate that at least 25,000 people have died in Indochina since war’s end from unexploded US bombs that pocket the countryside, with an equivalent number maimed. As with Agent Orange, deaths and ruined lives from such explosions continue to this day. So 40 years on, the war quite literally goes on for the people of Indochina, and it is likely it will go on for decades more.
Near the end of his time in office, Kissinger and his new boss Gerald Ford pre-approved the Indonesian dictator Suharto’s invasion of East Timor in 1975, an illegal act of aggression again carried out with weapons made in and furnished by the US. Suharto had a long history as a bagman for US business interests; he ascended to power in a 1965 coup, also with decisive support and weapons from Washington, and undertook a year-long reign of terror in which security forces and the army killed more than a million people (Amnesty International, which rarely has much to say about the crimes of US imperialism, put the number at 1.5 million).
In addition to providing the essential on-the-ground support, Kissinger and Ford blocked efforts by the global community to stop the bloodshed when the terrible scale of Indonesian violence became known, something UN ambassador Daniel Patrick Moynihan openly bragged about. Again, the guiding principle of empire, one that Kissinger and his kind accept as naturally as breathing, is that independence cannot be allowed. That’s true even in a country as small as East Timor where investment opportunities are slight, for independence is contagious and can spread to places where far more is at stake, like resource-rich Indonesia. By the time the Indonesian occupation finally ended in 1999, 200,000 Timorese – 30 percent of the population – had been wiped out. Such is Kissinger’s legacy and it is a legacy well understood by residents of the global South no matter the denial, ignorance or obfuscation of the intelligentsia here.
If the United States is ever to become a democratic society, and if we are ever to enter the international community as a responsible party willing to wage peace instead of war, to foster cooperation and mutual aid rather than domination, we will have to account for the crimes of those who claim to act in our names like Kissinger. Our outrage at the crimes of murderous thugs who are official enemies like Pol Pot is not enough. A cabal of American mis-leaders from Kennedy on caused for far more Indochinese deaths than the Khmer Rouge, after all, and those responsible should be judged and treated accordingly.
The urgency of the task is underscored as US aggression proliferates at an alarming rate. Millions of people around the world, most notably in an invigorated Latin America, are working to end the “might makes right” ethos the US has lived by since its inception. The 99 percent of us here who have no vested interest in empire would do well to join them.
There are recent encouraging signs along those lines, with the successful prevention of a US attack on Syria particularly noteworthy. In addition, individuals from various levels of empire have had their lives disrupted to varying degrees. David Petraeus, for example, has been hounded by demonstrators since being hired by CUNY earlier this year to teach an honors course; in 2010, Dick Cheney had to cancel a planned trip to Canada because the clamor for his arrest had grown quite loud; long after his reign ended, Pinochet was arrested by order of a Spanish magistrate for human right violations and held in England for 18 months before being released because of health problems; and earlier this year, Efrain Rios Montt, one of Washington’s past henchmen in Guatemala, was convicted of genocide, though accomplices of his still in power have since intervened on his behalf to obstruct justice.
More pressure is needed, and allies of the US engaged in war crimes like Paul Kagame should be dealt with as Pinochet was. More important perhaps for those of in the US is that we hound Rumsfeld, both Clintons, Rice, Albright and Powell, to name a few, for their crimes against humanity every time they show themselves in public just as Petraeus has been. That holds especially for our two most recent War-Criminals-in-Chief, Barack Bush and George W. Obama.
Andy Piascik is a long-time activist and award-winning author who writes for Z, Counterpunch and many other publications and websites. He can be reached at [email protected]
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Austin is the state capital of Texas and its fourth most populous city. Located in the center of the state, it has scenic natural views and the hustle and bustle of big-city life. There are a few things everyone knows about the city: Austin keeps things weird and it is considered the Live Music Capital […]
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The Association for the Advancement of Baltic Studies is pleased share stories and experiences from its 2022 student travel grant recipients who attended the 28th Biennial Conference on Baltic Studies (May 26–29, 2022, Seattle, Washington).
Applications for AABS 2022 student travel grants were evaluated by the AABS Student Travel Grants Committee consisting of AABS Student Representative Kristo Nurmis, AABS Executive Officer-at-Large Guntis Šmidchens, and AABS Advisor to the Board Joseph Ellis. The grants were awarded to 40+ students and early career scholars to support their travel to Seattle in order to attend AABS 2022.
Rodolfo Basile
Paper title: “Partitive Subjects in Southern Finnic”
My experience at the conference was very rewarding, and receiving an AABS2022 Travel Grant has helped me covering most of the costs. I felt privileged, not only because I got to visit the Pacific Northwest and the beautiful city of Seattle for the first time, but also because I was able to participate in a highly interdisciplinary event and present my work to a multitude of scholars. Thanks to this conference, I got the chance to network with people from all over the world, including the US, the Baltics, Germany, and even Japan. It has also been a chance to meet old friends and spend time with my colleagues from the University of Tartu. This was special to me, it all felt so new and yet so familiar. Even though I am from Southern Italy, I feel a deep connection with Estonia and the Baltics. My first language is a mixture of Italian and Neapolitan, a regional language spoken in the South of the Italic Peninsula. I know what it means to be constantly told to parlare bene “speak well” (= “to speak Italian”), not being able to fully express yourself because of the lower political status of your mother tongue. This situation is, I’m sure, familiar to the Baltic people, whose languages and cultures have for long time been subjugated by other nations. I am happy I have participated in AABS2022, because I feel like I have helped preserving Baltic studies, which are as important as any others. My thanks go to all the participants and organizers for creating a wonderful conference experience.
Rodolfo Basile is a doctoral candidate at the University of Tartu and the University of Turku. His research interests include Finnish and Estonian grammar, Uralic languages, European languages and linguistic typology. He is also interested in contact linguistics between Estonian, Latvian and the minor Finnic languages spoken in the Baltics.
Samanta Kietytė
Paper title: “Freedom of speech and speech of hate: where is the boundary?”
This was the first time I participated in a conference held by The Association for the Advancement of Baltic Studies, and also the first time I visited USA. I came to Seattle May 26th and stayed in a hotel in Downtown, just few Light Rail stops from the university campus. My presentation was planned on May 28th, Saturday, so I spent Friday attending various panels. It is a huge conference, so it was quite hard to decide to which panels to go. So first I chose to hear some presentations from my field of studies, so I went to a panel called “New perspectives on morphology and syntax in the Baltic region.” There were presentations about indirect imperatives, reflexive verbs, and partitive subjects. Next panel I attended was for linguists too – “Emerging words and lexicons,” where topics of language attrition, equivalents in dictionaries, orthography and typology were discussed. This conference had very wide range of topics, so after lunch I decided to hear something different and attended roundtable discussion “Uses and abuses of history for political goals: Baltic states between Russian and European grand narratives.”
Saturday was the day I had the opportunity to participate as a presenter. My presentation’s title was “Freedom of speech and speech of hate: where is the boundary?” I talked about so called “hate speech” situation in Lithuania – legal basis, changes in society’s awareness and forensic linguist role examining cases of hate speech. Illustrating with examples from real cases from recent year, I presented what questions can linguists analyze and how to distinguish, which question is for linguists and which is for jurists. Also, the most important factors, such as syntactic and morphological form, linguistic and extralinguistic context, non-verbal expression, were discussed. The most common problems, which arise doing linguistic examination, were mentioned too. I was so pleased that the audience had remarkably interesting questions and it caused discussions even during the break between panels. In Saturday I also listened to other presentations, I would like to mention the most memorable ones: “Democratic Values and Civic Participation from the Perspective of Youth in Latvia (it was interesting to try to compare this phenomena with the one in Lithuania), “Endurance vs Loss int the Narratives of Post-Communist Transformation in Lithuania”, which caused quite intense discussion in the audience, “Counteracting Homophobic Discourses in Internet Comments,” which gave another perspective to hate speech phenomena than mine, and others.
It was so great that the organizers of conference gave attention to a topic, which is the most important in 2022 – brutal russian (I write it in lower case on purpose) invasion into Ukraine. I think it would not be wrong to say that no one in the world can understand the pain of Ukraine like we, people from Baltic countries, do. So, it was absolutely necessary to have this topic in a conference.
I am so thankful that the travel grant gave me the opportunity to participate in AABS 2022 Conference.
Samanta Kietytė, presenting her research at AABS 2022
Samanta Kietytė is PhD student in the Vilnius University Faculty of Philology.
Klemens Grube
Paper title: “Baltic Banking at the Crossroads: Global Perspectives, FinTechs and Uncertainties”
I am extremely grateful to the AABS for the Travel Grant to the 28th Biennial Conference on Baltic Studies. This was the only way that I, as an Early Career Scholar, was able to cover the majority of my travel expenses and thus attend the conference in Seattle without any financial worries. The conference participation was special for me for three reasons:
1. I was able to present my current research findings on FinTechs in the Baltics to a broad audience and have lively discussions with experts about the analysis. These discussions continued after the session during the breaks and receptions, which is very fruitful for my further research.
2. I was able to meet researchers I already knew and discuss joint projects with them. In addition, I was able to meet new scientists. By attending the diverse sessions, I got many impulses for further considerations for my future research and was able to take perspectives that were previously closed to me.
3. As a big college football fan I was able to visit the university and stadium of one of my favorite teams. Therefore, in the photo I am standing next to the bronze statue of Don James, the legendary coach of the Washington Huskies.
Once again, I would like to thank AABS for helping me have a great trip and thus supporting me in my future career path. Thank you so much!
Klemens Grube is a postdoc in the field of banking and finance. In 2018 doctorate at the University of Greifswald. He is a frequent guest lecturer at the University of Latvia, Riga and the Vilnius Gediminas Technical University. His current research interests are transformation in banking as well as business history of the 20th century, with a focus on the financial system and territorial history.
Olga Proskurova-Timofejeva
Paper title: “‘He is not a stranger to our pubic:’ Victor Tretyakov as a Russophone ambassador of Latvian culture in interwar Latvia”
As a PhD student at the University of Latvia, I was incredibly excited to present my most recent study to the distinguished audience of academics and subject experts at the 28th Biennial AABS Conference, “Baltic Studies at a Crossroads.” It was an honor to obtain a travel grant so that I could go to the conference in the US, which I would not have been able to otherwise.
The literary life of the Russian diaspora in interwar Latvia is the topic of my PhD study. At the conference, I gave a presentation on Victor Tretyakov, a poet and artist who was born in Kyiv, trained in St. Petersburg, escaped post-revolutionary Russia, and eventually settled in Latvia. In Riga during the interwar period, Tretyakov maintained his creative endeavors and solidified his connections with the Latvian artistic scene. His credo, which found expression in many cultural endeavors, was to introduce both traditional and contemporary Latvian culture to the Russophone diaspora of Latvia. The aim of my paper was to re-actualize Tretyakov’s participation in intercultural exchange practices during the interwar period in Latvia by presenting new biographical materials discovered in the Latvian archives.
My presentation was a part of a session of fantastic talks by colleagues from Lithuania, Latvia, and the US. The post-session discussions were beneficial and aspirational, offering fresh perspectives and new academic connections.
The conference’s wide scope provided me with a great opportunity to stay current on the most recent research in a range of academic fields. I attended many panel discussions every day from early in the morning until late in the afternoon to be inspired by the new perspectives, research approaches, and analytical techniques that the academics brought to the field of Baltic Studies. The networking events in the evening were excellent icebreakers and provided an opportunity for informal communication.
The round-table conversation about work options in the sector with the past PhD students was enlightening, practical, and simultaneously motivating. I owe the panelists my gratitude for sharing their unvarnished experiences.
Being a member of the AABS conference was a great honor and intellectual joy for me. Many thanks for giving me a strong sense of belonging to the group of inspiring academics and to the discipline of Baltic Studies.
Olga Proskurova-Timofejeva (MA sc. soc. comm., MA philol.) is a PhD student of Literary Studies at University of Latvia. Her research interests include Russophone diaspora’s cultural and literary life in interwar Latvia, childhood culture and children’s literature.
Delaney Skerrett
Paper title: “The Stamp of the Nation: A Comparison of the (Re)Creation of National Identity through Postage Stamps in Estonia and Australia”
It was wonderful to be with my Baltic studies family again this year in Seattle! I have attended every AABS conference since 2008 in Washington DC, when I was living in Estonia. Since returning to Australia, the journey to AABS conferences has been a bit longer, but I am very happy to continue to represent Australia in Baltic studies and maintain my contact with colleagues in the field and, indeed, maintain my own studies and research in the area. Since doing my PhD on Estonian language policy, I have become a psychologist and so my main area of work no longer relates specifically to Baltic issues. Nevertheless, I am continuing to study (doing a Masters of Culture, Health, and Medicine through the Australian National University) and am very grateful to have received funding to support my attendance at the Seattle conference on that basis. Furthermore, my continued studies allow me to maintain scholarly activities related to the Baltic states, particularly Estonia. For example, at the conference, I presented about the (re)creation of national identity through postage stamps in Australia and Estonia, and this topic came about from a course in my current studies where I wrote a paper about the representation of medicine in postage stamps during the pandemic in Australia. In particular, I analyzed who counts as a so-called “front line hero” in a recent stamp issue in Australia honoring those that have served the front-line throughout the COVID-19 crisis. As a psychologist, I was interested to see that, of the health professionals who were depicted in this stamp issue, psychologists were not included, despite the fact that psychologists continued to work throughout the pandemic. Postage stamps, thus, say something about who or what is, or should be, valued more in society. This led me to look further into what “matters” in representation in national stamp issues and compare Australia and Estonia. The results of my research so far show that ethno-national themes are more prominent in Estonia and other national-related themes such as nature are more salient in Australia. I was extremely pleased to be able to talk about this at the Seattle conference and get feedback from other attendees and I look forward to furthering my research in the area.
I am very grateful to the AABS for providing me with funding to help me attend the Seattle conference. Not only has this allowed me to continue my connection with the field, it also brings Australian and Australasian Baltic studies closer to mainline activities in the US. I am the president of the Australasian chapter of the AABS and maintaining a presence at US conferences is extremely important to me. It allows me to report to local Australian scholars on what is happening in the AABS in the US, encourage Australian/Australasian scholars to participate in future US (and European) conferences, as well as brings Baltic scholars from around the world to our conferences in Australia. Thank you for your support!
Delaney Skerrett has a PhD in applied linguistics from The University of Queensland. The thesis focused on contemporary language policy issues in Estonia. His other degrees include a Master of Arts majoring in Baltic Studies from the University of Tartu and a Master of Professional Psychology from the Australian Catholic University. He is currently a registered psychologist in private practice and is studying medical anthropology through the Australian National University.
Siobhán Hearne
Paper title: “Broadcasting Communist Morality in the Brezhnev Era: Sex Education and Mass Media in Latvia”
I am incredibly grateful to AABS for awarding me an early career scholar travel grant in order to participate in the 28th Biennial AABS Conference at the University of Washington. I was particularly excited to attend this event as it was my first ever AABS conference, and it did not disappoint. Across three days, I attended panels on a wide range of themes and learned about new research in gender studies, history, linguistics, literature, and sociology. The breadth and diversity of the programme was truly impressive, and I benefitted enormously from engaging with colleagues both within and outside my own discipline. As well as intellectual stimulation, the conference also provided many opportunities to catch up with colleagues from across Europe and North America.
At the conference, I presented on two panels. The first ‘Beyond Stagnation: Perspectives from the Brezhnev-Era Baltic Republics’ examined the social, cultural, and political history of the Baltic republics in the 1960s-1980s, with the aim of moving beyond discussions of economic stagnation to provide a richer and more nuanced picture of the late Soviet Union. My colleague Michael Loader and I decided to put together this panel after attending the Conference for Baltic Studies in Europe at Uppsala University in September 2021. We invited Airi Uuna from the University of Tallinn to join us after listening to her wonderful paper on Soviet Estonian advertising at CBSE. On this panel, I presented a paper entitled ‘Broadcasting Communist Morality in the Brezhnev Era: Sex Education and Mass Media in Latvia’, in which I argued that the Brezhnev era was categorised by significant shifts in sex policy, particularly as medical experts in Latvia looked to technologies of mass communication to communicate ideas about sex and sexual health that would directly serve state goals. I was pleased that our panel was very well attended, which made for a lively discussion session following the presentations.
The second panel I participated in was to mark the publication of Defining Latvia: Recent Explorations in History, Culture, and Politics (Central European University Press, 2022), a volume that I co-edited with Michael Loader and Matthew Kott. It was wonderful to come together with three of the other contributors to the volume (Michael Loader, Harry Merritt, and Daunis Auers) to launch the book in-person at AABS 2022, especially because the publication of the volume was generously supported by an AABS book subvention grant. Thanks to a lively audience, our book panel was marked by a rich and lengthy discussion about the volume and future avenues for research.
I would like to thank the conference organisers for all their hard work in putting together such a wonderful event. I am incredibly grateful to AABS for providing this funding for students and early career researchers, without which I would not have been able to attend AABS 2022.
Siobhán Hearne at AABS 2022 in Seattle, Washington
Siobhán Hearne is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at Durham University in the UK. Her research focuses broadly on gender and sexuality in the Russian Empire and Soviet Union, with a particular focus on the Baltic provinces and republics. Her first book, Policing Prostitution: Regulating the Lower Classes in the Late Russian Empire, was published by Oxford University Press in 2021. She is also one of the editors of Defining Latvia: Recent Explorations in History, Culture, and Politics (CEU Press, 2022).
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Man Accused Of Having Sexual Relationship With Daughter’s 16 Year Old Boyfriend
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A man charged has been charged with statutory rape after he admitted to having sex with his teenage daughter's boyfriend.
Lorenzo Manns, 36, from Arizona, was charged in August 2018 with five counts of statutory rape by an authority figure after his now ex wife discovered text messages between him and the 16 year old boy.
Last week, a jury heard testimony from the victim, who is now 18, as well as Mann.
Both claimed that the sexual relationship started in January of 2017 when the boy was 16, and continued until August 2017.
Both Mann and the victim both claimed they had sexual contact at least 20 times.
Mann had said that he was drunk and the teen had smoked marijuana prior to the first encounter.
According to police, during the month of July 2018 a report was made alleging an inappropriate relationship between Mann and a 16-year-old boy. During the investigation, detectives said they determined that Mann had contact through text messages with his daughter's boyfriend and became engaged in a sexual relationship.
Statutory rape by an authority figure carries an eight- to-12-year prison sentence while aggravated statutory rape carries a two-to-four-year sentence.
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An Insight on Dental Treatment Under General Anaesthesia – A Review
Sujatha Paranna1*, Aditi Aneesh Kanitkar2 and Aneesh Kanitkar3
1Associate Professor, Department of Pediatric and Preventive Dentistry, Bharati Vidyapeeth Dental College and Hospital, University of Bharati Vidyapeeth, Sangli, Maharashtra, India
2Assistant Professor, Department of Prosthodontics, Bharati Vidyapeeth Dental College and Hospital, University of Bharati Vidyapeeth, Sangli, Maharashtra, India
3Assistant Professor, Department of Prosthodontics, Yogita Dental College and Hospital, Maharashtra University of Health Sciences, Khed, Maharashtra, India
*Corresponding Author: Sujatha Paranna, Associate Professor, Department of Pediatric and Preventive Dentistry, Bharati Vidyapeeth Dental College and Hospital, University of Bharati Vidyapeeth, Wanleswadi, Sangli, Maharashtra, India.
Received: December 13, 2019; Published: January 21, 2020
Generally, dental treatment in pediatric patients can be done by using non pharmacological behaviour management techniques without any drugs. Various behaviour management techniques are available comprising of : non pharmacological behavioural techniques, conscious sedation and general anaesthesia. General anaesthesia is utilized for pediatric dental patients to provide complete and efficient dental care when conventional techniques cannot be applied or not effective. Pediatric dentists need to recognize the requirement of dental treatment under general anesthesia and to work with an anesthesia team to provide optimal comprehensive dental care. Hence, the purpose of this review it to provide a brief insight on the use of general anaesthesia in pediatric dentistry.
Keywords: Conscious Sedation; Behavior Management; Dental General Anesthesia; Dental Care
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Howard R., et al. “Taking Control of Your Surgery: Impact of a Prehabilitation Program on Major Abdominal Surgery”. Journal of American College of Surgeons 228.1 (2019): 72-80.
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Citation: Sujatha Paranna., et al. “An Insight on Dental Treatment Under General Anaesthesia – A Review”. Acta Scientific Paediatrics 3.2 (2020): 30-32.
Copyright: © 2020 Sujatha Paranna., et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. |
Posted on September 18, 2018 September 17, 2018 by susherwood
When you’re unprepared for class
4 hours of seminar discussion? No problem!
Amanda’s post prompts me to do a bit more reflecting on us, the instructor.
It’s really easy to focus on students as the source of problems, but as Amanda rightly underlines, that’s not the most productive of frames.
As a less-experienced lecturer, one of the most useful lessons I got in my training was that we go through different stages in our understanding of what’s happening in a classroom.
You start out by thinking it’s all about yourself, then you move to thinking it’s all about the students, before finally understanding that it’s actually about the situation you and they are in.
So part of that is recognising that you matter, but you’re not the only thing that matters.
And, frankly, sometimes we’re not at the top of our game.
Either that means we’ve not prepared enough, or we’ve not on the ball enough in the classroom.
I’ve done that – not often, but more than once – and I’m going to guess that you have too.
Clearly, there are lots of reasons why this happens and I’m not really so interested as to why, precisely because of that diversity. I know it happens to me when I teach straight after landing from an international flight, but that’s scarcely useful.
The more interesting point is to explore what impact this lack of prep has on your class and what you can do about it.
In the broadest of terms, this is a problem because of the signal it sends to your students. Just as you know full-well when they’re not concentrating in class, so too do they know when you’re not.
Just think back to when you were getting taught and you’ll recall the occasions you were on the receiving end.
If we ask students to be ‘in the room’, then we have do the same. That’s why I always laugh at academic conferences when everyone sits at the back of the room, doing other stuff on their laptops, despite what they say to their students back home.
(It’s also why I don’t say those things to my students)
Three steps suggest themselves.
First, acknowledge what you’re falling short on. This doesn’t have to be a big mea culpa, but just a simple recognition that you know what’s (not) happening and not trying to bluff your way out.
If not else, it’s better to get out in front of it and own it, before someone else does that for you.
Second, adapt what you’re doing in class to minimise the impact on student learning. If you could only prep 2/3rds of a lecture, focus on that part rather than winging the last part. If you’re supposed to be providing feedback, try using peer evaluation to replace a block of it.
That’s not always possible: if you forgot the key piece of equipment, then you should sort out getting ASAP. But you need to demonstrate your intention to make the session still work, either in a slightly different way or with a bit of delay. What’s critical is that you don’t just notice you’re not firing on all cylinders, but that you also act on it.
Third, after the session is done, you take action to make up any shortfall in the class and to avoid it happening again. That might mean some jiggling of content for next week’s class, or some additional materials on the online environment.
The longer-term redressing needs you to be reflexive and honest about what went wrong (which you should be doing in any case) and finding ways to deal with it.
So now when I fly I either do it so I can rest afterwards, or I move classes.
For you that might mean changing your schedules, or changing what you do in class, or getting a big orange sign to point to the key piece of equipment, so you don’t forget it.
Taken together, I can’t promise you’ll never have this problem again (especially if you’ve not yet had this problem), but I can tell you that it’ll become much more manageable and much less likely to happen again.
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Enhancing teacher professional development for early years mathematics teachers working in disadvantaged contexts
Warren, Elizabeth and Quine, Janine. (2013). Enhancing teacher professional development for early years mathematics teachers working in disadvantaged contexts. In In L. English and J. Mulligan (Ed.). Reconceptualizing Early Mathematics Learning: Advanced Series in Mathematics Education pp. 283 - 307 Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-6440-8_14
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LIBOR Replacement Resource Kit
This resource kit provides an overview of replacing LIBOR as the benchmark interest rate in loan documents. The London Interbank Offered Rate (LIBOR) (often referred to as the Eurodollar Rate in credit agreements) started being phased out in 2021, with one-week and two-month USD LIBOR ceasing on December 31, 2021, and the remaining tenors terminating on June 30, 2023. As a result, new financings—and loan facilities with maturities beyond that date—must contemplate replacing LIBOR with another reference rate before that time. This resource kit includes Practical Guidance materials on the methods and process for replacing LIBOR, including detailed practice notes, forms, and articles. |
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The call for organising the AESOP YA Conference 2023 is now open!
As a part of its remit, each year the Association of European Schools of Planning Young Academics (AESOP YA) network invites AESOP member schools to host the annual YA conference. We are now opening the Call for Proposals for hosting the 17th YA conference which will take place in March/April 2023.
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Home USA News Woman Who Took Weight Loss Drug Semaglutide Now Can’t Stand Diet Coke
A woman lost around 30 pounds in four months on the weight loss drug semaglutide, but it’s impacted her taste.
The woman said that she can’t stand Diet Coke now and feels full after two alcoholic drinks.
The drug been hailed a “game-changer,” but more research is needed on its long-term effects.
A woman who lost around 30 pounds while using the popular weight-loss drug semaglutide said she finds it “disorientating” that she can’t drink as much alcohol as she used to, and can’t stand the taste of Diet Coke, which she used to drink daily.
The unnamed woman in her thirties told Bustle that she was prescribed Ozempic, which is one of the brand names for semaglutide, for pre-diabetes. The FDA approved semaglutide under the brand name Wegovy as a weight-loss treatment in June 2021. They both contain semaglutide but are dosed differently.
One obesity expert previously said semaglutide, originally a type 2 diabetes drug, is a “game-changer.”
According to the FDA, approximately 70% of American adults are overweight or obese, which is linked with “serious” health issues, like heart disease, stroke, and diabetes.
A spike in demand for the drug, which has been touted by celebrities including Elon Musk, has contributed to shortages.
Patients who take Wegovy for weight loss have a weekly injection, alongside a calorie restricted diet and physical activity. To qualify for the drug, patients have to be obese, or overweight and have at least one weight-related condition, like high blood pressure or diabetes.
The drug makes her feel fuller for longer, but impacts her taste
After taking semaglutide for four months, the woman who spoke to Bustle said she lost two pounds a week, or around 30 pounds, and blood tests found her cholesterol levels had “improved.” She said she worked with a nutritionist, and was advised to also have a therapist, and exercise for 150 minutes a week.
She said that the drug decreases her appetite, makes her feel fuller for longer, and has impacted some tastes.
“I used to drink a can of Diet Coke every day, but now I can’t stand the taste,” she said, adding: “I also can’t drink much alcohol without thinking ‘meh,’ which has been a disorienting experience! I love drinking socially, and now after two drinks I tend to feel full and like I don’t want more than that anyway. I miss it!”
Insider’s Anna Medaris recently reported on others who experienced similar effects from taking the drug. Staci Rice, 40, lost almost 50 pounds on it but no longer has a desire for coffee, which she drank since seventh grade. Erin Bradley McCleer shed 80 pounds taking the drug since fall 2021, but also lost his desire to drink alcohol. For this reason, experts believe the drug could be used to treat addiction.
The drug, which can result in a 15% to 20% reduction in body weight over 68 weeks, according to research, works by mimicking a hormone called glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1), which acts on receptors in the brain to boost satiety.
According to Dr. Joseph Volpicelli, a psychiatrist and addiction-medication researcher in Pennsylvania, the drug can also affect the brain’s reward circuit, dulling the dopamine hit someone might otherwise get from a greasy french fry or dirty martini.
“Things that are pleasurable are no longer so pleasurable,” he previously told Insider.
The woman who spoke to Bustle also said she experienced some nausea when she first started taking the drug, and after the doctor increased her does around every four weeks.
As well as nausea, other side effects of Ozempic include: diarrhea, stomach pain, vomiting, and constipation.
More research is needed to understand the long-term effects of taking semaglutide, and people have gained weight after they stopped taking it.
“I will likely need to treat my prediabetes for the rest of my life anyway, so it’s just a question of whether this drug will continue to be the best treatment for that,” the woman said.
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Killybegs Fishermen’s Organisation Calls for Immediate Action on Russian Trawlers
The Killybegs Fishermen’s Organisation (KFO) has called on the European Commission to act immediately on the presence of Russian trawlers in waters intended primarily for oil and gas exploration.
A fleet of Russian midwater freezer trawlers are currently operating in a zone shared between the UK and the Faroe islands - having been issued licences by the Faroes.
“What is most galling about this is that the Faroese are not just facilitating the access of the Russian boats, but they are also using their excessive blue whiting quota as a trade-off to ‘print currency’ or purchase cod quota from Russia,"* said Sean O'Donoghue, KFO Chief Executive.
“It flies in the face of sanctions which have been agreed against the Russians by the EU and while the Faroes have a degree of autonomy on fisheries, they form part of the Kingdom of Denmark and do not have independence on critical issues such as military strategy.
“It is paramount that our Government does everything in its power to compel the European Commission to nip this issue in the bud. Quite apart from the disregard for stocks and scientific advice, we are all acutely aware that any profits accrued to Russian businesses are indirectly funding the catastrophic war effort in Ukraine.
“Our counterparts in Scotland have vocally condemned the Faroese, highlighting the damage it will do to the stock. This year, the Faroes unilaterally increased their blue whiting quota from 82,000 tonnes to 267,413 tonnes. It appears that the Faroese are swapping the fish in an area they share with the UK for cod quota in Russian waters.
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European Commission Proposes Additional Crisis Measures Supporting Fishery and Aquaculture Sectors Affected by Russian Invasion of Ukraine
The European Commission has proposed additional crisis measures to support the EU fishery and aquaculture sectors in the context of Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
The legislative proposal involves an amendment to the European Maritime and Fisheries Fund (EMFF), using funds leftover from the 2014-2020 programme.
It will need to be adopted by the European Parliament and the European Council before it can take effect, the Commission said.
If approved, it will complement the first package of crisis measures adopted under the European Maritime, Fisheries and Aquaculture Fund (EMFAF) on March 25th.
It comprises financial compensation for additional costs, for income forgone and for the storage of products, as well as for the temporary cessation of fishing activities where they are currently unsafe.
EU Commissioner for Environment, Oceans and Fisheries Virginijus Sinkevičius said that the fishery and aquaculture sectors are “heavily impacted by the war in Ukraine”.
“There are still financial resources available under the EMFF. With this proposal, we give the possibility to member states to reallocate them to specific measures mitigating the socio-economic impact of the crisis.”
The Commission said that the military aggression of Russia against Ukraine had increased the prices of energy and raw materials, “generating very high additional operating costs and squeezing profit margins in the fishery, aquaculture and seafood processing sectors”.
“The war has also led to a precautionary interruption of fishing activities in certain areas. Once today's proposal has been adopted, Member states will have the possibility to quickly grant financial support for the additional costs and economic losses stemming from the crisis, in particular,” it said.
The proposal also introduces flexibility mechanisms to facilitate the quick implementation of new measures.
This includes a simplified procedure for amending the operational programmes of member states; retroactive eligibility of expenditure as of February 24th, 2022 for these measures; and the possibility of reallocating the fixed amounts initially reserved for certain EMFF measures (i.e. control and enforcement, data collection) to the new crisis-related measures.
Irish Seafood Economy Grows 15% to a Record Value of €1.26 billion
In its annual Business of Seafood Report, Bord Iascaigh Mhara (BIM) announced that the Irish seafood economy grew by 15% in 2021, to €1.26bn.
Despite the dual challenges of Brexit and Covid-19, the industry recovered from the trading difficulties experienced in 2020, with a growth in GDP of 15.3% year-on-year – the highest value seen since 2016. This growth was driven by strong exports to the EU and Asia increasing the total value by 11% - to €674m.
Foodservice purchases of seafood in Ireland increased by 12% in 2021, following from a decline of 53% in 2020. Domestic consumption grew by 3% to €418 million, while the seafood balance of trade (exports – imports) also grew by 45%, driven by the strong export growth, particularly in EU markets. Overall investment in the sector increased during 2021 to €454 million (+8%), showing renewed confidence.
BIM chief executive Jim O’Toole said that the sector had proven to be highly resilient and innovative:
“The key insights from this report are the sector’s success in both identifying and driving opportunities in different markets along with an increase in value for some categories.
While Brexit, and the additional impacts of the Trade and Cooperation Agreement [agreed between the EU and the UK] reduced quotas for key species, Government support along with private investment helped mitigate some of these impacts.
“The industry continues to adapt, for example in the seafood-tech sector there are now over fifty companies employing more than 700 people from disciplines including engineering, fintech and marketing and we have seen turnover more than double in the past few years.
“Although we have seen significant growth last year there are further challenges now being encountered with cost increases for fuel, energy, and materials as a result of the conflict in Ukraine. Support to the industry to help withstand this economic shock will undoubtedly be required.”
Domestic hospitality sector
Seafood consumption grew by 3% in 2021, driven by a partial recovery in the domestic hospitality sector. For much of 2021 the hospitality sector was severely hampered in its operations due to Covid-19 health restrictions, but it did grow by 12% as these eased into the summer. Normal operating conditions should see strong growth and recovery in 2022.
Supply and demand on the international markets
While the volume of produced Irish organic salmon remained stable in 2021, the value decreased by 14%. This was due to increased international supply of organic salmon by competitor countries such as Norway and Scotland.
The reopening of the food service sectors internationally led to strong price growth in shellfish species such as crab, lobster, shrimp and razor clams - with prices increasing over 20%.
The impact of Brexit
Under the Trade and Cooperation Agreement there were substantial transfers of fish quotas from the EU to the UK. Ireland was heavily impacted by these quota transfers resulting in a reduction of volumes landed by Irish vessels of 7%. Despite this, total value of Irish landings grew by 2% driven by higher prices.
Brexit also introduced a change in trading patterns. Previously the UK had been the main source of seafood imports into Ireland. During 2021 there has been a shift away from sourcing from the UK. The EU is now the main import market for the first time, with the value of imports from the UK dropping by 57%.
Investment in the sector
In 2021, Government investment in the seafood sector continued to grow, amounting to €232 million, an increase of 11%. Support from the European Maritime and Fisheries Fund (EMFF) along with national investment programmes contributed to a wide range of projects across all parts of the industry.
Private investment, after falling quite significantly in 2020, increased by €23 million (+5%), totalling €221 million, reflecting the ambition of the sector as it emerged from many challenges.
Employment in the seafood sector
Employment in the sector also remained stable in 2021 despite the hurdles encountered. A total of some 16,650 people were employed directly and indirectly, an increase in overall employment of 1%. This comprised 8,700 employed directly in fisheries, aquaculture and processing, with a further 8,000 in downstream employment in ancillary and support sectors.
Rising Costs – the new challenge
The price of marine diesel has increased by almost 150% since the start of the Ukrainian crisis, while the price of materials and equipment has also increased steeply. Coming so soon after the economic shocks of Covid-19 and Brexit, the resilience of the sector is going to be tested to the full during 2022 and beyond.
It will require a collective effort from the industry, backed with financial and technical support, to withstand this new challenge and remain profitable.
South West Fishermen Told Not to Sign Fishing Master Register
The Irish South and West Fish Producers’ Organisation has advised its members not to sign up to the Irish Fishing Master Register.
“This is akin to what happened in South Africa in the 1950s and also in Germany in the 1930s and 1940s which is the creation of a Register for an ethnic minority.” said the CEO of the Organisation, Patrick Murphy.
The Board of Directors of the South West FPO told members that they had not yet seen the legislation applicable to what the Minister stated in his communication as the Act is not yet published, but that it is their belief “that this is utterly discriminatory to Irish citizens and it should be challenged. We are currently seeking professional and legal advice.
It has advised its members to “hold off from signing on to the Register or providing the information sought until we have an opportunity to see the actual legislation and its details.”
Marine Minister Charlie McConalogue announced that from May 3, upon the commencement of the Sea-Fisheries (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2022 the Irish Fishing Master Register will be set up “to bring Irish legislation in line with EU Council Regulation 1224/2009, which established a community control system for ensuring compliance with the rules of the Common Fisheries Policy (CFP) and establishing a level playing field across the EU on fisheries control.”
“Under the Act, it will be an offence for anyone to lawfully take charge of a sea fishing boat unless registered on the IFMR, whether owner of the boat or not. “It will also be an offence for a registered sea fishing boat licence holder to knowingly employ someone as a master who is not registered as such on the IFMR.”
The Act defines a ‘Master’ as the ‘Master, Skipper or other people for the time being in charge of the boat.”
All Masters must be registered on the IFMR upon the commencement of the act on 3 May 2022.
Irish Fishing Master Register
Unfair Trading Practices Enforcement Authority | An tÚdarás um Fhorfheidhmiú Cleachtais Trádála Éagóracha
The Unfair Trading Practices Enforcement Authority want to hear the views of primary food producers about any Unfair Trading Practice related issues they face within the food supply chain, including whether buyers are treating them fairly and lawfully in compliance with Unfair Trading Practices Regulations.
This is an invaluable opportunity for fishers to be heard on this important issue.
Visit www.utp.gov.ie to complete the short online survey by 15th March.
All results received will be processed anonymously by a market research company and the survey findings will be made available in the coming weeks.
Ireland's Opportunity to Help Europe Reduce Fossil Fuel Dependence Could be Hampered by Offshore Renewables Skills Shortage & Possible "Collision Course" with Fishing Industry
Ireland‘s unique opportunity to help Europe reduce its dependence on Russian oil could be hampered by a severe skills shortage for developing offshore renewable energy, industry experts have warned.
And unless the Government moves quickly on establishing a stakeholder liaison group, offshore wind and the fishing industry are on a “collision course”, a conference at the National Maritime College of Ireland (NMCI) was told.
Ireland can be a leading wind and wave energy supplier, but it will only capture just over 20 per cent of jobs required unless the Government co-ordinates specific training, Wind Energy Ireland chief executive Noel Cunniffe said.
Wind Energy Ireland chief executive Noel Cunniffe
Cunniffe was speaking at the event hosted by Simply Blue Energy, on the theme of “Our Offshore Renewable Energy Opportunity – Is Ireland Ready” which dealt with maritime qualifications and certification.
His organisation, which represents the wind energy industry, has urged development of specialist marine apprenticeship schemes and a skills plan for renewable energy involving schools and universities, he told the conference at the NMCI hosted by Simply Blue Energy.
This was echoed by Dr Alan Power of the Government’s expert group on future skills needs, who said that marine careers are a “significant growth area”.
To meet the Government’s five GW target for offshore wind by 2030, a range of key occupations will be required including engineers, ecologists, marine biologists, hydrologists, and people with construction and technical skills, Power said.
Marine operators and ship crew, wind turbine technicians and experienced professions in transport and logistics will also be required, he said.
Marine renewable expert Prof Tony Lewis of University College Cork recalled a similar discussion on skills shortages in oil and gas 40 years ago when the Kinsale gas field was being developed.
Prof Tony Lewis of University College Cork
“We missed that opportunity then,” he said, urging a coordinated approach with an “enterprise focus” to ensure Ireland could supply the required expertise without losing out to foreign companies.
Mark de Faoite of Údarás na Gaeltachta said renewable energy jobs could also help to sustain Gaeltacht areas, but a holistic approach to skills and training was required by all Government departments and agencies.
Mark de Faoite of Údarás na Gaeltachta
However, offshore wind and the fishing industry are on a “collision course”, with fears about the impact on fishing now greater than the impact of Brexit, John Lynch, chief executive of the Irish South and East Fish Producers’ Organisation said.
“There is no question that we do require renewable energy and it is a great opportunity,” Lynch said, but it had “got off to a bad start”.
He described how renewable energy companies came to meetings with fishers with “a presentation, a map” but with “pre-determined sites” in inshore coastal areas.
“We had no input into the position of those sites,” he said, and “co-existence would have been far easier” if there had been prior consultation.
Even if fishing was allowed near an offshore wind farm, the risk of snagging gear, accidental damage to equipment and the risk of prosecution over same would pose serious challenges and could cause insurance problems, Lynch explained.
Co Waterford vessel owner Caitlín Uí Aodha said “the hunters are being hunted off their grounds”.
“We want to be green, but we need you to understand fishing is not just a job, but a way of life, a tradition, a heritage,” Uí Aodha said, emphasising the need for seafood protein suppliers to survive.
“I am not convinced that those involved in this [renewable] industry are there to look after me..you’re there to make money,” she told renewable energy representatives at the conference.
In his opening address, Minister for Marine Charlie McConalogue acknowledged delays in establishing an offshore renewable energy/seafood liaison forum, and recruitment was ongoing for a chairperson.
Attracta Uí Bhroin of the Irish Environmental Network identified delays in marine spatial planning by Government as being critical.
Ireland is required to extend its network of marine protected areas, but any attempt to co-locate offshore wind farms in protected areas cannot be a “box-ticking exercise” in relation to protected of the marine environment, she said.
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High Court Ruling on EU Fish Quotas Welcomed by Green Party MEP
Green Party MEP Grace O’Sullivan has welcomed this week’s High Court judgment which will see the European Court of Justice being asked to rule on a missed deadline set for sustainably set fish quotas in European waters.
Environmental group Friends of the Irish Environment CLG (FIE) brought the case to the High Court over the alleged failure by the Irish State to meet a legally defined deadline of ending overfishing of all stocks by 2020.
FIE, which was supported by the legal non-governmental organisation (NGO) Client Earth, claimed the main goal of the EU’s Common Fisheries Policy (CFP) was to restore and maintain fish stocks above sustainable levels.
The European Commission had set a target of 2015 for sustainable levels for all fish stocks to be achieved - or by 2020 at the latest.
FIE claimed the European Commission has set total allowable catches for national fleets, for a wide range of fish stocks, at unsustainable levels in 2020.
It said it would have “profound negative consequences for the marine environment and the sustainability of European fishing activities”.
In his judgment on February 8th, Mr Justice Barr said that while the court was satisfied that the issues between the parties in relation to the 2020 Regulation and the fisheries management were “moot”, given the fact that time had passed, it was likely to be a “live issue” in respect of other regulations issued by the EU Council in the future.
“Accordingly, it is desirable that a decision be reached on the general legality of such regulations in terms of their compliance with Article 2(2) of the CFP,” he said.
He also said that the case raised issues of “general public importance” for two reasons.
“Firstly, the application raises issues in relation to the conservation of fish stock, which are of fundamental importance to the citizens of the EU and secondly, the issues raised
herein have enormous ramifications for the fishing industry in the member states of the EU,” Mr Justice Barr said.
Mr O’Sullivan, who is Green Party spokesperson on the marine and a member of the European Parliament’s Fisheries Committee, welcomed the ruling.
“Time after time, member states, including Ireland, have exceeded the scientific advice provided for sustainable fishing levels,” she said.
“In the North Atlantic alone, around 46% of Northeast Atlantic total allowable catches (TACs) could be considered ‘unsustainable’ in 2020,” she said.
“ This goes against the EU’s own legal commitment to end overfishing and is extremely damaging to our marine environment, not to mention the fishing communities that depend on healthy stocks,” she said.
Ms O’Sullivan said it was significant that this first challenge came from Ireland, as the European Commission recently expressed concern that “Ireland continues to be the most expensive member state in which to make an environmental claim before the courts”.
“The European Union has set many ambitious goals recently, in light of the European Green Deal and the Environment Action Programme to 2030. But if we do not act on the science, then our efforts to end the climate and biodiversity crises will be pointless,” she added.
Common Fisheries Policy Review Group Seen as a Response to Increased Pressure from Fishing Industry
The announcement by Marine Minister Charlie McConalogue that he is establishing a Common Fisheries Policy Review Group is being seen as a response to increased pressure from the fishing industry for a strong level of preparation for changes in the CFP.
The Policy which has been blamed for causing severe damage to the Irish fishing industry, because of the bigger size of quotas it allocated to foreign vessels in Irish waters, while keeping Irish quotas much smaller.
The ten-year review of the CFP has to be completed by December 2022. However, this review does not imply major changes being made in the Policy.
In fact, on his visit to Ireland last October, EU Commissioner for Fisheries Virginijus Sinkevičius, said: “We’ll do a review, and we will be listening to stakeholders’ concerns, and we’ll look at certain changes, but I cannot promise we will be reopening the CFP.”
The general attitude in the Irish industry is that only a thorough review of the Policy can address the Irish fleet’s reduced access to quotas and the impact of Brexit, as well as the refusal of other EU countries to agree to “burden-sharing” of the Brexit impact. The initial response to the Minister’s announcement is that it is a “needed, welcome and positive move, needed to get a strong Irish position established about the CFP,” industry sources told Afloat.
"a forum of key stakeholders to produce a report to inform Ireland's position"
Commissioner Sinkevičius acknowledged that the review will have to take Brexit into account. He added that climate change, pollution and sustainable fishing would also be included.
EU Commissioner for Fisheries Virginijus Sinkevičius
“The seafood sector has faced challenges over the recent past, arising in particular from Brexit,” said Minister McConalogue in announcing the Review Group. It will be, he said, “a forum of key stakeholders to produce a report to inform Ireland's position during the course of the CFP review. This forum will be able to draw on the expertise in my own Department, the Marine Institute and BIM, to provide the necessary policy, scientific and technical support.”
It will be chaired by Mr John Malone, former Secretary General of the Department of Agriculture. Mr. Malone will be assisted by a steering committee comprising Mr Micheal O Cinneide, former Director of the Marine Institute and Environmental Protection Agency and Mr Donal Maguire, former Director in BIM.
The Group will involve representatives of stakeholders, including Producer Organisations, National Inshore Fisheries Forum, the Aquaculture industry, Co-Ops, and the Seafood processing industry. It will also include representatives of environmental NGOs. Its purpose is to examine the issues that arise for Ireland in the context of the CFP Review, to advise the Minister on priorities for the negotiations and to identify strategies most likely to influence the outcome of the review.
The Minister is seeking from the Group recommendations in relation to the CFP Review, to focus on supporting the social and economic health of our fisheries dependant coastal communities, economic development in our sea-food sector, delivering long term sustainability of fish stocks and maximising protection of habitats and the marine environment.
The Common Fisheries Policy (CFP) Regulation (Regulation EU 380/2013) provides that the European Commission will report to the European Parliament and the Council on the functioning of the CFP by the end of 2022. The European Commission has launched an online questionnaire as part of its public consultation on the preparation of this report. The Commission has stated that it intends to close its consultation process with a stakeholder event before the summer of 2022.
The Minister has asked the Review Group to complete its work by June to ensure that Ireland’s priorities are clearly set out and inputted into the formal Commission process.
Minister McConalogue said that he is issuing invitations to the relevant Stakeholder organisations for nominations to the Group and expects the Group to get to work once all nominations to the Group are in place.
Those being invited to be part of the Group have been named as:
Fishing and Aquaculture representatives - One representative each from: Irish South and East Fish Producers Organisation; Irish South and West Fish Producers Organisation; Killybegs Fishermen’s Organisation; Irish Fish Producers Organisation; Irish Islands Marine Resource Organisation;
National Inshore Forum; Irish Fish Processors and Exporters Association; IFA Aquaculture.
Co-Ops: 2 representatives
Environmental NGOs: 2 representatives
Submission on Migrant Fishing Crew to be Handed to Government Review
The International Transport Workers' Federation says it is handing in a study Maynooth University conducted on migrant fishing crew to a Government review today.
The study by Maynooth University’s law department on the experiences of non-EEA workers in the Irish fishing industry will be submitted to the Government's review of the Atypical work permit scheme.
Michael O’Brien, who is the federation’s fisheries campaign lead for Ireland, says the study is a “devastating critique of the failures of the Atypical scheme since its inception six years ago”.
He says it makes a number of recommendations that, if implemented, would “go far in liberating migrant fishers, both documented and undocumented, from below minimum wage employment and precarious status in the state”.
The study collated testimony from migrant fishers of “ongoing abuses in the sector”, O’Brien said.
The Government announced that an inter-departmental group, headed up by the Department of Justice, would carry out the review of the Atypical work permit scheme.
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EU Fisheries Commissioner Pays Tribute to Irish Fishermen over Their Diplomacy on Russian Military Exercises
The EU’s fisheries commissioner has paid tribute to Irish fishermen for their role in shifting the location of Russian military exercises outside the Irish exclusive economic zone (EEZ).
In a tweet, Commissioner Virginijus Sinkevičius said that “Irish fishermen got their diplomatic game on! “
“They managed to stop Russian military exercises that would undermine their activities and marine life,” he said.
“ Real custodians of the sea on duty! The world could use more of you!” the commissioner, who holds the environment, oceans and fisheries portfolio, tweeted.
He was responding to a report on Irish Central headlined “Irish fishermen defeat the Russian navy”.
Irish fishermen got their diplomatic game on!
They managed to stop Russian military exercises that would undermine their activities & marine life.
Real custodians of the sea on duty!
The world could use more of you! ?https://t.co/e4CDs2kiCv
— Virginijus Sinkevičius (@VSinkevicius) January 30, 2022
The Russian ambassador to Ireland has credited both the Irish South and West Fish Producers’ Organisation (IS&WFPO) and the Irish government with its decision to relocate planned military exercises outside the Irish Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ).
In a statement on Saturday, Ambassador Yuriy Filatov said that the Russian Federation’s defence minister Sergey Shoigu has decided “as a gesture of goodwill” to relocate exercises on February 3rd to 8th to an area outside the Irish EEZ.
The military exercises had been planned to take place some 240 km off the Irish southwest coast, within the Irish EEZ.
This had led to serious concerns among fishermen about the impact on their economic activity, while environmental groups expressed fears about the impact on marine life, including cetaceans.
North American news network CNN has described the latest development as a victory for Irish fishermen.
“Russians blink after Irish fishermen’s vow to block Navy war games,” CNN said in a headline to the report by CNN correspondent Donie O’Sullivan, broadcast live from Castletownbere, Co Cork on Saturday.
IS&WFPO chief executive Patrick Murphy, who met the Russian ambassador to Ireland over the issue last week along with Irish Fish Processors’ and Exporters’ Association chief executive Brendan Byrne, has stated that Irish fishing vessels were not protesting, but were asserting their right to fish their quota on their traditional grounds.
The breakthrough on Saturday was confirmed by Minister for Foreign Affairs Simon Coveney,m who said that he had written to his counterpart, the Russian Federation’s defence minister, this week, “to request a reconsideration of naval exercises off the Irish coast”.
“This evening I received a letter confirming the Russian exercises will be relocated outside of Ireland’s EEZ. I welcome this response,” Coveney tweeted.
"We don’t know where they plan to have military exercises, but it certainly won’t be in international waters that Ireland has responsibility for,” Mr Coveney told RTÉ News.
Ireland would try be a voice for compromise to help avoid a war between Russia and Ukraine describing any conflict as potentially being the largest land war in Europe since the second world war, he said.
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Østbanehallen in Oslo, Norway
A pixel wall of LED panels, providing an indoor sunrise and shifting light scenarios. “Invisible” light fixtures enhancing the beauty of the architecture and providing a high level of visual comfort. This is how Light Bureau has helped transform a historic railway station into a trendy watering hole for the citizens of Oslo.
Lighting modernizes a historic location
Østbanehallen, once Oslo’s railway station, is located at the end of the city’s main shopping street, Karl Johans gate. Ever since railway traffic was moved elsewhere, the building has been used to house restaurants, cafes and shops.
In February 2015, following extensive renovations, the 1800s building reopened as a modern food court and shopping haven. Light Bureau planned and designed the lighting of the entire building, including the square in front of it, the façade and the main hall. Now known simply as Ø, the venue has become a popular meeting place for the citizens of Oslo.
Well-hidden in the construction, most of the many light sources are not visible for the visitors. Instead the lighting enhances the construction, highlighting the history of the building and its previous function as a departure hall. For instance, the vaulted ceiling, which is black, intended to appear as in the old days, when smoke from the trains coloured the interior.
An advanced lighting control system automatically adapts the lighting to the seasons and time of the day, ensuring the optimal use of daylight and improving energy efficiency.
Each shop in Østbanehallen has its own control panel enabling the owners to control the lighting individually. At the end of each day, a centrally controlled lighting scenario takes over. To avoid the shops appearing as dark areas in contrast to illuminated ones, the property operator is able to switch on the lighting in selected shops.
Shifting light and colour corresponds to the time of day
At the end of the indoor hall, a colourful wall of light piles up in three dimensions: 71 overlapping transparent LED panels form a unique pixel wall. The panels can be individually controlled, allowing colour and intensity to be changed. When Østbanehallen was originally built, it had an open east facing facade that allowed the morning light to fill the giant room. This was used as the basic idea behind the design of the pixel wall - the sunrise and the beginning of the day should once again be allowed into Østbanehallen. The wall makes it possible not only to display an indoor sunrise, but also to emphasize the blue hour, and the shifting light throughout the day.
The functional lighting includes 450 fixtures and 6,000 diodes using the newest LED technology from Darklight. Ø is the first location in Norway where this technology has been used.
Østbanehallen won the The Norwegian Lighting Award 2015, The Nordic Lighting Design Award 2016 and received the IALD Award of Merit in 2016.
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An App to Summon Medical Flights
Air Ambulance Technology
In the prevailing scenario, patients and emergency personnel rely heavily on phone calls to summon medical flights. The methodology is highly time-consuming and necessitates a lot of information to set up an air ambulance and then dispatch it. This is not an ideal situation when the patient needs urgent care, especially when technological advancements are capable of making things much easier. We use mobile applications every day to order taxi services. What if we could replicate the model to order medical flights too? Would it not be an ideal replacement for the current time-consuming methodology? Let’s take a look at the different aspects.
Integrating Medical Flights – More Power to Choose
Imagine a mobile application that allows you to choose from a list of air ambulance service providers. Out-of-network services will cease to be a problem and insurance companies will be more likely to approve the claims that a consequence of ordering medical flights. From patients to physicians, everyone would have instant access to multiple service providers. The app can also feature details about air ambulance affiliations with various insurance networks. The whole exercise would be much more efficient than it currently is.
Integrating Medical Flights with Electronic Health Systems
Patient information is today stored in highly secure electronic health systems. Hospitals and medical service providers are mandated by the government to store patient information in these systems. What this means is that all patient information such as medical history, allergy, family history, etc., is readily available during emergencies. Imagine connecting this data to the patient through the app. As soon as medical flights are called for, a notification can directly go to the receiving physician, along with all the medical details. If this becomes a reality, the receiving facility would be much better prepared for the patients and will be able to offer timely care, resulting in faster recovery.
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Building resilience in the Y-K Delta
By Paula Dobbyn | August 27, 2018
The Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta of western Alaska is one the most rural parts the United States. With 56 villages scattered across some 50,000 square miles, the Y-K Delta region is rich with wild fish and game upon which its predominately Yup’ik residents heavily depend.
Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta region of western Alaska map by U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
As in other parts of coastal Alaska, the Delta is being hit hard by climate change. Rising temperatures, thawing permafrost, flooding and erosion are few of the many problems the region is facing. The village of Napakiak lost about 75 feet of coastline in recent storms, threatening key buildings and infrastructure, according to Alaska Sea Grant’s Davin Holen. The community had to scramble to move important structures and is now looking at moving its tank farm and school, which are imminently threatened.
Davin Holen.
Holen visited the region this month for a workshop designed to help residents plan for the types of hazards they are likely to face in future years. A professor at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, College of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences, Holen is a coastal community resilience specialist and anthropologist with Alaska Sea Grant.
On his visit to Bethel, he was joined by representatives of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the State of Alaska, Army Corps of Engineers, Agnew::Beck Consulting, and Nautilus Impact Investing.
The Aug. 22-23 workshop grew out of similar ones held in four western Alaska communities during 2016-2017.
“The goal is to help build resilience for Y-K Delta resources and the people who depend on them. Tribal and community leaders, regional organizations, individuals, researchers and public resource managers are developing practical adaptation strategies. These projects are tangible and could happen in the short-term, but have long-term lasting impacts,” Holen said.
After reviewing many issues in the region, Y-K Delta participants decided to focus on three main areas: infrastructure, subsistence activities impacted by shifting seasons, and trails and transportation corridors affected by thawing permafrost and lack of river ice.
An action plan is in development and will include a list of projects that focus on adapting to these changing conditions and immediate needs. This plan will be rolled out during two upcoming workshops for the broader community to review and comment.
Once the plan is developed, it will be posted on Alaska Sea Grant’s Adapt Alaska website which highlights coastal resilience efforts across Alaska.
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How much does it cost to live in Canada?
By Maor Raichman March 24, 2022 7 Mins Read
In Canada, the cost of living varies greatly depending on the area you live in and what part of the country you call home. How much does it cost to live in Canada? For simplicity’s sake, we’ll focus on four major cities – Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver, and Calgary – and break down the basic costs of living there as well as some other costs you might run into.
Canada is a great place to live—it’s beautiful, safe, and diverse. However, you probably already knew that if you’re thinking of moving there. What are some things about living in Canada that may surprise you? Let’s take a look at how much Canada costs.
Where Should I Live in Canada
The most obvious consideration is to determine where you want to live. Are you a city dweller or more of a small-town person? Where do your family and friends currently reside? What kinds of weather are you looking for: warm year-round, snowy winters, hot summers? How far can you afford to be from an airport or train station?
Costs – per cities
There’s no one-size-fits-all when it comes to how much you should spend on rent, food, and other everyday expenses. The costs per city vary wildly based on what city you live in, but we’ve provided a list of four large Canadian cities where residents tend to spend more than average on certain lifestyle costs (Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver, and Calgary). Note that these are generalized averages across all incomes; actual costs may vary based on your income level.
Canada’s largest city, with about 2.8 million people living within its boundaries. It’s also Canada’s most expensive major city for housing, so if you want to live in downtown Toronto expect to pay a premium—but not as high as New York City or San Francisco! The median monthly rent for an apartment in downtown Toronto is $1,950 ($2,000-$3,500 for newly renovated apartments), which includes utilities such as heat and hydro.
Canada’s second largest city with a population of around 1.7 million. Prices for most costs are slightly cheaper than Toronto, but still higher than other large Canadian cities such as Vancouver and Calgary. Food costs are similar to Toronto—around $225 per month for a family of four living on two adults’ salaries.
For those who are renting, the average monthly rent for a studio apartment in Montreal is $1,095. For those who need 1 bedroom, the average monthly rent is $1,370, and for those looking for a 2 bedroom apartment, the average rent is $1,850.
Canada’s third largest city, with a population of over 2.6 million over the entire metropolin but 600,000 in the city. It’s also one of Canada’s most expensive cities for real estate—the average price for a single-family home is around $1.5 million (US$1.05 million). Rental rates are also high; an apartment in downtown Vancouver costs around $2,200 per month on average.
Calgary’s population has grown rapidly over recent years; it’s now Canada’s fourth largest city, behind Toronto, Montreal, and Vancouver, with a total population of 1.6 million for 2022.
The average monthly rent for a one-bedroom apartment is $1,195. A three-bedroom apartment costs around $1,400 per month. Food costs are comparable to other Canadian cities—around $200 a month for a household with two adults and two children.
What’s the Average Salaries in Canada?
The average salary in Canada is around C$55,836 per year. That’s an impressive amount, but how much of that is taken up by living expenses? And how can you go about making your own salary go further without sacrificing your quality of life? In this post, we answer those questions and more.
A Canadian Grocery Budget
Canada’s food market is largely unregulated (compared to other countries), which means grocery prices are high. A good way for budget-conscious Canadians to save money on groceries is by planning and shopping accordingly.
Here’s a sample Canadian grocery budget One of Canada’s most expensive cities, Vancouver, has some of Canada’s highest prices for groceries as well. According to Numbeo, a basket of goods that would cost $200 in New York City costs $250 in Vancouver.
Saving Money at Home
According to statistics from 2013, Canadians pay anywhere from $1.63 on a small loaf of bread up to almost $2.50 for a large one. If you’re not careful, your grocery bill can quickly become expensive! However, there are plenty of ways for you to save money at home without sacrificing your quality of life. Here are some tips that will help you keep more cash in your pocket: Stock Up When It’s On Sale and Eat In – Grocery stores typically offer price-matching guarantees and other discounts during certain times of year, such as after Christmas or back-to-school season. You should also consider eating in more often; planning meals around ingredients that are on sale is an easy way to save money while avoiding fast food joints or restaurants.
Canadain rent costs
The average rent on a one-bedroom apartment in Canada is $743. This can differ based on where you are, as well. In urban areas like Vancouver and Toronto, you can expect average rent costs of $1,086 and $1,187 respectively.
Real estate costs
The average price of a home in Canada is around $400,000 – 600,000. Of course, prices vary from city to city and from one type of home to another. Some cities have higher-than-average costs, while others are more affordable. When purchasing a house on a budget, watch for foreclosed homes. These are homes taken back by lenders because borrowers have not made payments on their mortgages. They offer nice, but reasonably priced, homes in nice neighborhoods.
Average savings in Canada
Canadian families spend 42% of their income on food, less than anywhere else in North America. In fact, Canadians spend less on basic necessities like food and clothing than people do almost anywhere else in North America.
The average Canadian family will save an estimated $1,311 per month. This works out to roughly 16% of their income. The big difference between Canada and its neighbour to the south is that Canadian families are doing a better job of saving ahead for retirement.The United States: The American Dream is about making as much money as possible so you can spend it on stuff you want.
Canadians are doing better than most when it comes to long-term savings. The average Canadian family has a nest egg of $60,000. That’s enough money to see them through a year without income. Canada also stands out when you look at how people plan for retirement. Canadians contribute more of their paycheque toward pensions, and they’re saving three times as much as American workers on average.
Housing: Canada’s booming real estate market means owning a home is one of your best long-term investments.
Canadian provident funds
When you start working, you’ll want to open a provident fund. This is where your future savings go until they’re needed for retirement. You can choose between an individual provident fund and a group one. The difference is that with an individual provident fund, you manage all of your own money. With a group provident fund, many people contribute to one pot of money managed by someone else. In both cases, your contributions are tax-deductible.
Canada’s low cost of living is an important factor in why people choose to relocate there. If you move there, you can save money and still live a comfortable life by cutting your costs on major items like food, housing, and utilities. Even with these advantages, Canada still faces higher costs than other countries in many categories like transportation. To decide if moving to Canada is right for you, think about how much each category will cost you on average and evaluate whether or not those costs are acceptable for you personally.
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Young Thug & Gunna Says Racist Pilot Put Them Off A Private Jet … Drake Offers To Get Another Jet For Them
By: Kershaw St. JawnsonCategory: News January 13, 2022
The pilot alleged that the two were disrespectful to a member of the flight crew.
Young Thug and Gunna chartered a private flight on January 12 and got into an argument with the pilot. The pilot, in response to the back and forth over the treatment of someone from his team, landed the plane and refused to fly them to their destination.
According to the pilot, the two rappers were being disrespectful to a member of his flight crew. The pilot ordered the men to be removed from the private jet.
Both Georgia natives to social media to report the incident from his perspective of what happened.
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Gunna told his Instagram Live followers were not “P,” language created around the new project and single “Pushin P.” He said, “Everybody flying on a jet, don’t ever fly with this n***a bro. Ever. This n***a ain’t P. This n***a is not P man.”
Thugger also took to social media and showed the faces of the pilot and their crew and asked, “How did we disrespect one of your colleagues? Tell us! What did we do? Oh ‘you don’t have to tell y’all that,’ yeah because you’re racist. That ain’t P. You’re a racist p####.”
He believed that the pilot and his team removed them because they were racist. The owners of the plane has not released a statement about why the chart-toppers were put off their flight.
Later, Drake hopped on to the Live with the “Go Crazy” rapper and gave a viable solution to their problem. He said, “Hit, me let’s book a new plane.”
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Marriage and Kids Are Not My Life Goals – and That’s Okay
by JazzUpdated on February 20, 2018 February 20, 2018 6 Comments on Marriage and Kids Are Not My Life Goals – and That’s Okay
Reality TV star and social media influencer, Kylie Jenner, just gave birth to a beautiful baby girl and the world is in awe. Though I’m not a fan of Kylie’s or her family, I watched the video she uploaded about her pregnancy and listened to how her friends said that this is something she’s wanted since she was 15. It reminded me of when I’d be in school and even right up to today, where girls would talk about marriage and having kids, looking at them as long term goals – but for me, that was never the case.
For so long, I felt so abnormal because practically every single one of my peers would dream about how this is what they wanted in life and I didn’t. I just couldn’t see it. My two friends once talked about how they each had picked out a colour scheme for their weddings – one was having baby blue and the other wanted lime green. It made me realise how little effort I’d put into ever thinking about my own wedding. Did I ever even want a wedding?
I was told by adults when I was a kid and a teen that my “feelings would change” as I got older and everyone says that. So I waited. And waited. And when I reached my 20s, I felt as though any day I’d be feeling those feelings where I’d be broody or I’d dream of being married. But I didn’t. Friends gave birth and I loved their kids, but it didn’t make me want one of my own.
The pressure I felt was immense. Seeking a relationship has never been the forefront of my thoughts – especially since I’ve been dealing with severe mental health disorders since I was a child – but since being a teenager, everyone has always been obsessing over relationships, crushes, etc. and I felt odd. I felt left out. I felt as though I had to be like them but the truth was I couldn’t imagine being in a relationship. Sure, I had one or two crushes, but I never saw anything really happen with them. I often get told to download Tinder or join some activity of some kind because “maybe I’ll find a nice man” and the thought of it just really puts me in a down mood. Am I really that abnormal?
It’s taken me about a year or two to come to the terms with marriage and having kids are not my main goal in life. They just aren’t. It’s not that I have anything against any of it or hate kids, but it’s just not my focus.
I’ve been in love with writing for as long as I can remember and when I discovered pop culture writing, I soon crafted a dream. A dream of becoming a successful journalist who got to attend all the events, get interviews that really captured the musicians and actors in a different light, be able to just throw myself into my work and fall in love with it. I never once pictured marriage and pregnancy in this dream.
When I became a blogger, I joined different blogging communities and read a lot about travel from bloggers and I caught the wanderlust bug. I thought about a possible second dream about being a blogger who travels. I don’t have a set dream as such now I’ve had experience in pop culture journalism – it’s still something I’m passionate about, but I know it’s something that doesn’t have to be set in stone. Other things have fascinated me and I’m still indecisive on the path I follow.
Another crucial point into this is the fact that I missed out a lot for years because of my ill health and I still feel so far behind compared to my peers. There’s a lot I missed out on my teenage years which I feel will take up a good part of my 20s and maturing more. I’m still dealing with my ill health and it limits me from being an independent person. I can barely look after myself to the full extent so to have other people to be responsible for would definitely make me deteriorate.
I know this isn’t just something I feel, either. So many women are in my shoes here and there is a stereotype attached to us that we should create life and be a wife to a man, but why? Is that all life is meant to be? Find “the one”, procreate and then repeat? I, or any other women, do not owe society or the world children or a picture perfect relationship to please relatives and friends. It’s not the only thing we are capable of and we shouldn’t be expect to stick to that. Getting married or having kids doesn’t make a person whole. I don’t need a man to validate me. I make myself happy, I am learning to love myself and while love isn’t something I’ll disregard, it’s not something I will spend my life searching for. I couldn’t agree more with the quote “I may be alone, but I am not lonely” and think more people need to remember it.
Having said all of this, if I end up getting married and having kids, then that’s fine. It’s not that I’m against it, but it’s not what I want my main goal in life to be. At least not right now. There are so many amazing mothers and wives out there but if women don’t want this to be their lifestyle, they shouldn’t have to be pressured into it. There are so many successful women out there who are living the best lives and they don’t have a husband or offspring in sight. It doesn’t make them less of a woman and it doesn’t mean they haven’t succeeded in life.
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I think every point of view is good to observe and decisions that are of personal matter shouldn’t worry anyone else beside the one that is taking them. I can totally feel your point- even I had never had any wishes to become a wife or a mother (it’ just simply something I have never thought about it, like you said). I do leave my options open in case if I ever change my mind and every year I ask myself if anything changed but it never does. I say, if I ever feel 200 % like I want to have kids, then yes. But words like maybe, one day, possibly, you’ll see… don’t cut it. I like my life the way it is and I won’t force myself into anything I don’t feel doing/having. Especially for others sake (pressure from friends and especially family). That’s just how I am and I know there are many women out there who were born to be mothers and it’s good to see them happy 🙂 I mean, who knows, it might happen to someone like us one day and we’ll be telling a different story then. xx Maja
It’s ridiculous the amount of pressure we are put under to conform to other people’s expectations of what is…Acceptable? I’ve actually had to say to people “Telling me that as I mature, what I desire will automatically become the same as what YOU desire, is utterly patronising. Enough!” It’s crazy that in 2018 this shit still happens.
There is nothing wrong with not wanting marriage or children. You don’t have to follow the path of anyone else, and need to do what is right for you. Growing up, I always knew I wanted to get married and have children, but I never planned it that much. I didn’t have a dream wedding dress or colors or any of that picked out until I started seriously considering that I might marry my now-husband a few months before he proposed. I always knew I wanted to have two children about two years apart in age, but I never picked names or gave it more thought than that until I was pregnant with my oldest. I didn’t really date much as a teen either and never had a problem with it.
I can totally relate to this. I have no desire to settle down and get married and have kids. I see all my friends having kids and getting married and the thought doesn’t inspire me, it doesn’t make me happy either. In fact I feel the complete opposite. For me having a family of my own would be a punishment and the thought actually makes me wanna throw up. I want to live every day of my life like it is my last ever, i want to travel and see the world, i just want to enjoy life not be lumbered with a husband and kids. People keep asking me if i have kids and i tell them no i don’t want any. I’m sick of the response being oh one day you will when you find the right person. I never want kids, in fact for years I’ve been wanting permanent contraception.
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I love this post!! It is so raw and vulnerable!! I love that you beat to your own drum and dont ever feel pressured to do otherwise!! you live you life the way you want it!!
I don’t think marriage and kids are for everyone. People that know that or feel that way shouldn’t force themselves in that direction to make their families happy or pretend. If its meant to be it will be. I am married with kids and I’m sure I wanted kids when I grew up but I’m not sure how far out I planned with names or colors for wedding but, then again I didn’t grow up with Pinterest. |
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