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The 'China shock' of trade in the 2000s reverberates in US politics and economics – and warns of the dangers for fossil fuel workers
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Amitrajeet A. Batabyal, Rochester Institute of Technology
(THE CONVERSATION) In December 1978, the Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping introduced economic reforms that dramatically altered China's economy by strengthening trade and cultural ties with the West.
Beginning in the 1990s, these reforms set China on a trajectory to become what it is today: a nation with a dynamic and substantially market-driven economy that is also the world's second-largest.
U.S. residents have enjoyed lower-priced goods exported from China since then, but many communities that produced goods that competed with Chinese manufacturing exports suffered job losses and economic downturns.
This negative effect on U.S. manufacturing jobs from Chinese exports is often called the "China Shock." A recent study has found that even though this shock leveled off around 2010, its harmful aftereffects continued for many years beyond, particularly in certain industries such as furniture, games and toys, and children's toy bicycles or cars.
I am an economics professor who has conducted research on China, and understanding when these trade effects ended allows me and other researchers to examine what long-term demographic aftershocks are occurring in U.S. communities and how best to deal with them. These policy prescriptions can be applied to other industries that are experiencing a rapid shift in employment because of macreconomic trends.
How China gained so much so quickly
As a part of its increased openness to the world, China joined the World Trade Organization – the international body that sets global trade rules – in 2001. Believing that increasing economic liberalization would lead to political liberalization in China, the U.S. began to engage in robust trade with the country.
International trade theory teaches that free trade between nations makes them better off than not trading at all. And recent research underscores that the economic gains to the U.S. from trade in general have been positive but small, adding about 2% to 8% of gross domestic product.
Yet trade with China has given rise to a significant economic shock involving job losses and declines in human welfare in several U.S. regions, especially in the Deep South and in some Midwestern states.
The source of this shock is China's comparative advantage in manufacturing, specifically in goods that are labor-intensive. Comparative advantage is a nation's ability to produce a good or service at a lower cost than its trading partners. China has an abundant supply of labor relative to capital and natural resources.
As China began to liberalize its foreign trade, there was a dramatic surge in manufacturing exports and an accompanying economic shock to the U.S. economy. That's because U.S.-produced goods could not compete with the inexpensive Chinese goods that were flooding the market.
The U.S. economy lost 1.5 million manufacturing jobs between 1980 and 2000, and 5 million more between 2000 and 2017.
This fall in manufacturing employment was not accompanied with the same number of job gains in other sectors of the U.S. economy.
The impact endures
Today, even with the China manufacturing surge ending, its effects in the U.S. have endured.
A decade after the conclusion of the China trade shock in 2010, the U.S. still has a large number of local economies in which studies show social structures, including the institution of marriage, are fraying because workers have lost their jobs and don't have stable salaries they can live on.
This lack of wages has subsequently resulted in declines in the demand for local goods and services and in housing values and property tax revenues. There has also been an increase in the number of people on government assistance such as Medicaid.
How to help communities still suffering
Economists generally support "people-based" over "place-based" policies. People-based policies focus on distressed people, with a frequent focus on retraining, while place-based policies concentrate on investing in communities where workers live, such as revitalizing downtowns. Investment in the communities hit hard by Chinese imports have tended to focus on people-based policies because economists generally believe that investing in workers can help them move from distressed places with little job opportunity to new places with better job markets, schools and other amenities.
The best-known people-based U.S. government program that assists workers displaced by trade competition is the Trade Adjustment Assistance for Workers. It helps workers with job training, relocation assistance, subsidized health insurance and extended unemployment benefits.
Yet, relative to the magnitude of the job losses, the program is small, providing too little relief to most workers who lost their jobs because of import competition in the 1990s and 2000s.
The Nobel laureates Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo have pointed out that the TAA program needs to be expanded significantly. Although the House of Representatives is taking steps to reauthorize and expand the TAA program, it is still too early to tell what the final legislation will look like.
Revisiting place-based policies
Even though economists favor people-based policies, the evidence shows that those laid off as a result of import competition from China frequently don't move because of unaffordable housing, child care costs and the uncertainties associated with finding a new job.
And left-behind places never completely die. Instead, in such places fewer people marry and have children. More children live in poverty, alcohol and drug abuse go up and young men JL: just men? are less likely to graduate from college.
Therefore, a rethinking of economic policy is likely now needed in the U.S. to focus on two key points: the need to provide adequate assistance to workers in mass layoff events and to recognize that this assistance, quite frequently, will need to be place-based.
Two lessons for the future
Like the China trade shock, the decline of the coal industry in the U.S. beginning in 1980 and the Great Recession, from 2007 to 2009, were also mass layoff events.
Although local economies exposed to the Great Recession recovered their pre-recession employment rates quickly, the decline of coal and the China trade shock both gave rise to long-lasting job losses, reduced incomes, and slow population declines.
Policymakers could apply the lessons learned from this trade shock to respond effectively to the next likely mass layoff event.
As economies transition out of fossil fuels, we will continue to see job losses in the coal mining and oil industries.
Although the increased use of renewable energy is likely to generate new jobs, there is no guarantee that they will be anywhere near where the localized job losses are occurring. Hence, the prospect of large-scale, localized job losses remains. And new policies are needed to enhance employment growth in regions hurt by prolonged joblessness.
The evidence in the U.S. and Europe shows that political support for populist nationalists tends to be greater in regions that have suffered large, trade-led job losses.
If policies that promote job growth in distressed regions are not implemented, we may see more populist nationalists in power in the U.S.
This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article here: https://theconversation.com/the-china-shock-of-trade-in-the-2000s-reverberates-in-us-politics-and-economics-and-warns-of-the-dangers-for-fossil-fuel-workers-173629.
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Published Wed Feb 16 2022 By ervin
Caroline is well-known as Lilchiipmunk, a Canadian YouTuber and Twitch streamer most known for her performance in "League of Legends."
Lilchiipmunk was born on November 28, 1993, in Canada.
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Lilchiipmunk was born in Canada and raised there. She was always interested in gaming, streaming, and watching live streams since she was a child.
She hasn't revealed anything about her early life, and it appears that she keeps her personal life away from social media.
The Canadian gamer played a variety of online games before joining the streaming platform Twitch in June 2014 and slowly starting to grow up by her gaming skill.
She attracted her audience by her looks and the outfits she wears while doing live streams. Today she mostly plays an online game "League of Legends" from which she has gained a lot of fan following.
Lilchiipmunk's clicking photo in the middle of her live stream. Photo Source: Instagram @lilchiipmunk.s.
Lilchiipmunk was grown up with her family. Her parents are Romanian and Vietnamese. She hasn't revealed anything about her family life, and it appears that she keeps her personal life away from social media.
Lilchiipmunk is presently dating fellow streamer Jaryd Russel Lazar, better known by his gaming name Summit1g. The couple appears to have been in love for a long time and has shared a picture of themselves together on social media.
Summit1g past life isn't good, he was married to Desirae Lazar, later in 2017 they got divorced and then he started dating Lilchipmunk. The couple has delighted viewers and he has appeared in Caroline's life a couple of times.
The twitch streamer Lilchiipmunk's worth is estimated to be approximately $200,000. She has made a lot of money from streaming games on twitch and also has a YouTube channel that has 56.6K subscribers from where she earns pretty less amount of money.
She owns an apartment and Cars but hasn't said any information about it. She has earned a rack of money being a gamer.
Caroline joined the school in the local school of Canada and later joined high school. She hasn't revealed much information about her education, and it appears that she keeps her personal life away from social media.
Lilchiipmunk's height is 5feet 5inches (165cm), her weight is 55kg (121 lbs), her bra cup size is 33c, and her body measurement falls under 34-26-38.
She has gorgeous eyes which are dark brown in color and has blonde in color healthy hair.
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The Twitch stream loves watching anime in her free time and one of her favorite anime is " Attack On Titans". She also likes other anime series "Death Notes," "Sword Art Online," "Is It Wrong To Pick Up Dungeon".
She loves dancing, watching thrilling movies, loves visiting bars, lounges, and she loves to spend time with her fellow friends and boyfriend.
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Butyric acid, often butyrate, enables the scent of sour butter to be detected by the nose.
The malodorous properties of butyric acid makes it a primary component in stink bomb manufacture.
Butryic acid is a primary component of human vomit and the cause of its foul smell.
Humans have butyric acid in their digestive tracts, and it is one of many stomach acids that breaks down food.
Butyric acid, also known as butanoic acid, is an oily, colorless chemical with the formula CH3CH2CH2-COOH that occurs in many dairy products, particularly milk, and is also a byproduct of fermentation in many cases. It tends to have a somewhat rancid smell when isolated, and is the primary cause of the foul smell associated with human vomit and flatulence. It is a common addition to stink bombs for this reason. Some of its derivative chemicals and esters are sweet smelling, though; a lot depends on presentation and precise chemical composition.
The acid is a liquid at room temperature and is made predominantly of fats. It freezes at 17.8°F (about -8°C) and boils at 326.3°F (163.5°C). Despite its stability, the acid is susceptible to hydrolysis, a chemical process where water molecules get separated down into isolated hydrogen and oxygen atoms, taking with them most any cells to which they are bound. In fact, the acid gets its name from the Latin word butyrum, or "butter," which is where it was allegedly first discovered and isolated. Butter is generally up to 4 percent acid, and when it spoils hydrolysis breakdown causes it to emit a foul sour smell. The same smell is associated with most any spoiled dairy products.
This compound is prepared on a large scale by the fermentation of starch or sugar. Fermentation uses microorganisms and takes place under conditions where there is no oxygen to transform the glucose in these compounds. The microbes gain energy from this process. Less energy is produced than if the compounds were transformed in the presence of oxygen.
Various species of bacteria also make it as a product of fermentation. These sorts of bacteria typically thrive in places where there is no oxygen, such as the rumen of cows and goats. The rumen is a special digestive organ that helps with the degradation of plant compounds that would otherwise be extremely difficult to break down. Bacteria within the organ generate butyrate from the plant fibers they consume. This is also one of the main reasons the compound appears in dairy products like milk, butter, and most yogurts. In many cases it is also produced as a side product in some marine sediments.
Humans have this acid in their digestive tracts, too, and it is one of many stomach acids that helps break down food for energy. The colon also produces it as a byproduct of some types of fiber digestion, particularly oats and raw bran. Many experts say that this acid is the main reason human gas and flatulence smells bad in so many instances. The acid is also often a chief component in vomit, and is usually responsible for its distinctive soured smell.
The acid's foul smell has led to its use in the composition of stink bombs and tools used by police and political activists in many parts of the world. Stink bombs are also used in various protests, usually as a way to cause damage to property or to shut down services, even if just temporarily. Acid attacks have been well documented in abortion clinics, for instance, and against whalers and whaling boats.
When carboxylic acids are exposed to certain alcohols or phenols they typically break down and form slightly new structures known as "esters." This happens to butyric acid under a number of circumstances, and the results — while chemically similar to the original — are often very different in terms of properties and basic features.
When this happens to butyric compounds, the hydrogen group of the COOH is replaced with an organic compound to make an ester known as a butanoate. These sorts of compounds are found in many plant oils and animal fats, which makes then relatively common, and they typically have very different properties. In particular, they generally smell and taste pleasant, which has made them useful for the food and perfume industry.
Another common chemical derivative is phenyl butyric acid. This compound is used as an intermediate in a number of chemical processes. Indole butyric acid, for example, is a plant growth hormone that causes shoots to grow roots and helps speed the delivery of nutrients to cells.
What Is Cellulose Acetate Butyrate?
What is the most biological active form of butyrate: free, salt or esters?
@dinoleash: The use of butyric acid for prevention of colon cancer is very questionable. Butyrate is known to have anticancer, antitumor, pesticidal, and nematicidal properties. (Nematicide kills nematodes or worms).
Butyrate's role changes depending on its role in cancer cells or normal cells. This is called the "butyrate paradox". The butyrate inhibits colonic tumor cells and promotes healthy colonic cells.
Basically, we just don't have enough information, as the studies are still going on. Hopefully, there will be a conclusive answer soon.
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For the surrounding community of Franklin, TN 37064, the average sale price for similar homes to 204 Panther Ct is $658,927. The nearby schools are exceptional and include Pearre Creek Elementary School, Independence High School and New Hope Academy. The overall crime risk for this area is very low. The natural disaster risk for this area includes very low earthquake risk, very high tornado risk, and minimal flood risk.
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By Han Wei
The value of China's esports market has more than tripled since 2015 to touch 112.8 billion yuan last year, around 7.1 times that of the U.S. market. Photo: VCG
Chinese live-streaming platform Douyu International Holdings Ltd. opened down before rebounding in its trading debut on Nasdaq Wednesday after raising $775 million in its initial public offering.
Douyu, China's largest game-centric live-streaming platform, ended flat in its first trading day at $11.50, same as its IPO price. The company opened down 4.2% at $11.02 per American depository shares (ADR) and plunged as much as 0.9% in the morning before bouncing back.
Wuhan-based Douyu said Tuesday it sold 44.9 million ADRs at the bottom of its projected range as existing investors sold 22.5 million additional shares. Every 10 ADSs represent one ordinary share.
With a name that literally means "fighting fish" in Chinese, DouYu is valued at about $3.7 billion at the bottom-end pricing. Its listing was the biggest for a Chinese company in U.S. since Tencent Music Entertainment Group raised $1.07 billion in December, according to Bloomberg.
China's esports market is expanding rapidly. The value of the market has more than tripled since 2015 to touch 112.8 billion yuan last year, around 7.1 times that of the U.S. market, according to consultancy iResearch. Analysts say they expect China's esports market to more than double from its 2018 level to 247.8 billion yuan by 2023, with monthly active users rising to 400 million from 255 million in the same period.
The Twitter-like live-streaming platform, which focuses on esports, is 40.1% owned by internet giant Tencent Holdings Ltd. as the biggest shareholder. Douyu previously filed in April with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to raise as much as $500 million on the New York Stock Exchange but called off that plan citing poor market conditions.
In May 2018, Douyu's biggest competitor, Huya Inc., also backed by Tencent, raised $180 million in a New York Stock Exchange IPO. Huya was priced at $12 a share, and the stock closed at $22.87 Wednesday, down 4.99%.
Founded in 2014, Douyu claimed to have 281 million registered users at the end of March, including 159.2 million monthly active users, according to its IPO filings. The number of monthly active users grew 26% from a year earlier.
The company said it has exclusive streaming rights to 29 major tournaments in China, including League of Legends, PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds and DOTA2.
Douyu reported profit of $2.7 million for the first three months of 2019, with revenue of $222 million, according to the IPO prospectus. It booked a $127.4 million net loss in 2018.
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First light looking towards Sky Pilot, November 1, 2014.
A few clouds around Saturday morning, by afternoon it was an awesome sunny day.
Snow line is very respectable for this time of the year considering where the temperatures were at!!
Weather observations for November 2, 2014; taken at 07:00 Hours.
As of 07:00 hrs we have overcast skies with limited visibility. Mid and upper cloud layers.
For the Forecast, a cloudy day with isolated showers in the valley with snow flurries in the alpine. A very weak warm front is moving through our zone today. A slightly stronger warm front will bring light rain to the area on Monday into Tuesday, with freezing levels hovering around 1800 meters. Tuesday is looking unsettled with some isolated showers. A strong warm from will be arriving for Wednesday evening with moderate to heavy precipitation and freezing levels as high as 2700 meters. A cold front is forecasted for Thursday which should bring the freezing level back down to around 1800 meters by the evening. Its still early in November, we can use a good base and early heavy snow to fix some of the crevasse issues we have. If you are out venturing in the mountains be sure to bring some crevasse rescue gear. With all the snow we have had there will be some large crevasses with weak bridging.
Moisture moving in for today.
Weak warm front followed by a slightly stinger one.
Cold front expected for Thursday. Hopefully it will be colder than forecasted.
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11 Year old climber set up on Dream Catcher.
Considering how gnarly West Bowl is in the summer it looks like a good start.


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KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — An earthquake in Nepal rattled villages in remote Himalayan mountains on Tuesday, killing at least one person and injuring many more, officials said.
The 5.9 magnitude earthquake with an epicenter in Bajura district hit in the afternoon, sending people fleeing their houses, according to the chief district officer, Puskar Khadka.
He said one person was confirmed dead but details were still sketchy because many of the villages are accessible by foot.
Soldiers and police rescuers had already been dispatched, Khadka said. The earthquake also buried cattle and farm animals.
Bajura district is about 400 kilometers (250 miles) northwest of the capital, Kathmandu.
News reports said the earthquake could be felt in cities and towns across the border in India.
Earthquakes are common in Nepal, which is mostly covered by mountains and home to most of the highest peaks in the world.
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Container ships wait off the coast of the congested Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach in Long Beach, Calif., October 1, 2021.
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DHL released its ocean-freight market outlook for the next three years. I've used DHL reports in the past to cut through any of the talking points that Democrats want to use on supply chains. DHL is a German company with customers everywhere in the world. The company's officials have little interest in the popularity of Joe Biden and have every reason to tell the truth, as they see it, to their customers.
The outlook goes through 2024, and DHL expects the global markets to just be catching up by then. They project that 2022 will be more of the same from 2021, with demand remaining strong and container imbalances continuing. The labor negotiations on the West Coast could be a particular point of concern. DHL projects that deliveries of new ships will be delayed in 2023 due to lack of shipbuilding capacity and raw materials. Congestion will be more manageable by then, the report says, but prices will still be high. It's only by 2024 that the new shipping capacity will enter the market, and carriers will be able to rebalance their operations and have acceptable schedule reliability.
But the report calls the U.S. "the bottleneck of global trade." It points to Los Angeles and Long Beach as global outliers on congestion and waiting times. It blames that on a "lack of rail cars, shortage of truckers and a chassis deficit." Those longer-term domestic issues would suggest that even as global markets stabilize somewhat by 2024, the U.S. will still be lagging behind.
Of course, the U.S. isn't the only problem. The report points to China's energy situation as another potential source of problems for world trade. China has been facing a shortage of coal, the report says, because its factories have consumed more electricity than ever before. The government has resorted to power rationing in much of the heavily populated parts of the country, and "US Companies in China seem to have been more affected by the recent power rationalization."
None of these problems is easy to solve, and DHL recommends that supply-chain managers secure shipping contracts even if they are expensive. "Capacity wins over price," the report's recommendation section says.
As this situation persists and Biden's approval ratings continue to drop, it's important that he doesn't adopt destructive policies just to appear as though he's "doing something" about the problem. There's not much the federal government can do to solve these issues. So far Biden's efforts have been ineffective — and that's a good thing. We need to hope he doesn't try anything that would have an effect, because it would almost certainly be negative.
Dominic Pino is a William F. Buckley Fellow in Political Journalism at National Review Institute.
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DARK HORSE RECORDS CELEBRATES JOE STRUMMER
WITH 'JOE STRUMMER 002: THE MESCALEROS YEARS' TO HONOUR WHAT WOULD HAVE BEEN THE
LEGENDARY ARTIST'S 70TH BIRTHDAY
FIRST-EVER COMPREHENSIVE COLLECTION OF STRUMMER'S WORK WITH THE MESCALEROS
NEW BOX SET INCLUDES PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED TRACKS, DEMOS & OUTTAKES, ALONGSIDE REMASTERED EDITIONS OF THE COMPLETE MESCALEROS CATALOGUE, EXCLUSIVE NEW INTERVIEWS, NEVER-BEFORE-SEEN IMAGES AND MUCH MORE
'JOE STRUMMER 002: THE MESCALEROS YEARS' ARRIVES VIA DARK HORSE RECORDS ON 16TH SEPTEMBER
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Dark Horse Records is celebrating what would have been Joe Strummer's 70th birthday on 21st August with 'Joe Strummer 002: The Mescaleros Years', the first-ever comprehensive collection highlighting his work with his post-Clash band, The Mescaleros. The collection includes remastered editions of all three of the band's studio albums, plus 15 rare and unreleased tracks spanning the first demos Joe wrote for the Mescaleros, as well as 'Ocean Of Dreams', featuring Steve Jones of the Sex Pistols on guitar, and outtakes of several tracks of Joe's final recordings with the band. This richly curated boxset was executive produced by Joe's widow Lucinda Tait and produced by David Zonshine and features exclusive new interviews with Joe's friends, collaborators and Mescaleros band mates, plus never-before-seen handwritten notes, lyrics, and drawings by Strummer taken from the Joe Strummer Archive. The release arrives on 16th September on 4 CD w/72-page book and 7 LP w/32-page book, special edition packaging and exclusive 12"x12" art print. The first track from the collection, the previously unreleased version of 'The Road To Rock 'N' Roll (Demo)' is available to stream NOW. The video for the song was created using Joe's drawings and handwritten lyrics found in the Strummer archive.
WATCH THE VIDEO FOR THE PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED 'THE ROAD TO ROCK 'N' ROLL (DEMO)'
While best known as the front man for The Clash, Strummer produced some of the most exciting work of his career with The Mescaleros. Strummer said during this period: "All that's happening for me now is just a chancer's bluff. I learned that fame is an illusion and everything about it is just a joke. I'm far more dangerous now, because I don't care at all." Joe Strummer 002: The Mescaleros Years highlights this intense period of creativity from 1999-2002, collecting for the first time such extraordinary albums as Rock Art and the X-Ray Style (1999), Global A Go-Go (2001), and the posthumous Streetcore (2003), along with Vibes Compass, a brand-new compilation of 15 B-sides and rarities, including early demos of some of the first tracks Joe wrote for the Mescaleros such as 'The Road To Rock 'N' Roll', 'X-Ray Style', 'Techno D-Day', as well as the previously unreleased 'Secret Agent Man' and the original recordings from Joe's last ever sessions, including outtakes of 'Get Down Moses', 'Coma Girl' and the song 'Fantastic'. All albums are remastered by three-time GRAMMY® Award-winning engineer Paul Hicks (The Beatles, John Lennon, The Rolling Stones, David Bowie) especially for the release and are packaged with extensive new liner notes, unreleased images, and four reproduction lyric sheets and chord charts from the Strummer archive.
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"There's so much great music that Joe left us in his archive," says Joe's widow and the executive producer, Lucinda Tait. "We started this work with '001', so to focus on Joe's work with The Mescaleros was the natural second step on '002' because those songs he made with them just seemed to resonate so strongly and reinvigorated his connection with his audience at a level he hadn't experienced since his days with The Clash.
"He was so excited to work with the Mescaleros and the reception he got from the press and fans was incredible, it gave him a whirlwind of energy and confidence and he was creatively fulfilled and happy.
"His words are so beautiful and honest and together with the Mescaleros some fantastic tunes were created and to listen to some of the tunes recorded as outtakes for me was really special."
2022 marks twenty years since the passing of the legendary Joe Strummer. Punk poet, musician, composer, actor, and style icon, Strummer spent his life smashing musical and cultural boundaries both as the singer of The Clash and as a solo artist. His songs sound as urgent and vital today as when they were written. Calling out social injustices and giving a voice to the struggles of the working class, Strummer's politically charged lyrics struck a chord with legions of fans and the press alike, with Rolling Stone calling The Clash "the greatest rock & roll band in the world." He famously once said, "Without people, you're nothing." Through his art, Joe Strummer played his part in shaping the musical landscape of the world and with it left an unrivalled and timeless legacy.
JOE STRUMMER 002: THE MESCALEROS YEARS
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Release Date: 16th September
Rock Art and the X-Ray Style
1. Tony Adams
2. Sandpaper Blues
3. X-Ray Style
4. Techno D-Day
5. The Road to Rock 'N' Roll
6. Diggin' The New
7. Nitcomb
8. Forbidden City
9. Yalla Yalla
10. Willesden To Cricklewood
Global A Go-Go
1. Johnny Appleseed
2. Cool 'N' Out
3. Global A Go-Go
4. Bhindi Bhagee
5. Gamma Ray
6. Mega Bottle Ride
7. Shaktar Donetsk
8. Mondo Bongo
9. Bummed Out City
10. At The Border, Guy
11. Minstrel Boy (full-length version)
Streetcore
1. Coma Girl
2. Get Down Moses
3. Long Shadow
4. Arms Aloft
5. Ramshackle Day Parade
6. Redemption Song
7. All In A Day
8. Burnin' Streets
9. Midnight Jam
10. Silver and Gold
Vibes Compass
1. Time And The Tide
2. Techno D-Day (Demo)
3. Ocean Of Dreams (feat. Steve Jones)
4. Forbidden City (Demo)
5. X-Ray Style (Demo)
6. The Road To Rock 'N' Roll (Demo)
7. Tony Adams (Demo)
8. Cool 'N' Out (Demo)
9. Global A Go-Go (Demo)
10. Secret Agent Man
11. All In A Day (Demo)
12. London Is Burning
13. Get Down Moses (Outtake)
14. Fantastic
15. Coma Girl (Outtake)
ABOUT DARK HORSE RECORDS
George Harrison's passion for introducing the world to new music expressed itself in May of 1974 when he created his own new label – Dark Horse Records. The label contained a variety of talented artists on its roster, including George himself. Alongside Joe Strummer, the newly relaunched Dark Horse Records roster also includes Billy Idol, Leon Russell, Benmont Tench and others. For more information, please visit www.darkhorserecords.com.
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John Mulaney used to tell the greatest bit that defined all Law & Order stand-up bits. NBC no longer makes new episodes of Law & Order, but the network still has Law & Order: SVU on the schedule, and still has Ice-T on the case as a detective, which amuses Mulaney to no end. He shares his thoughts on this during his upcoming new Comedy Central special and CD, New in Town, as well as on last night's episode of Conan. Mulaney also wonders why anyone would want to make a date with their significant other's parents.
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Wilderness Wildlife Week opens in Pigeon Forge
A week full of hikes, talks and music is underway to learn more about the Great Smoky Mountains.
By Kyle Grainger
Published: Jan. 24, 2023 at 6:22 PM EST|Updated: Jan. 24, 2023 at 8:57 PM EST
PIGEON FORGE, Tenn. (WVLT) - More than 100 programs, all designed to help people learn about the Smoky Mountains and the culture of Appalachia, are underway this week in Pigeon Forge.
The popular Wilderness Wildlife Week is back where people can learn about plants, animals, music and the crafting culture of the Smoky Mountains, all in one stop.
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It's a free event put on by the city and many hikes fill up quickly so the best advice is to plan ahead and arrive early.
"This is one of the perfect events for people who just moved to the area, or want to know more about it, or have lived here their entire life to come and find out more about the Smoky Mountains. It's culture, it's people, it's animals, it's plants," said Jon Elder, Special Events Manager for the City of Pigeon Forge.
Wilderness Wildlife Week runs through Saturday and it's located at the Ramsey Hotel in Pigeon Forge.
More information about the event can be found on the Pigeon Forge website.
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27. Corinna Gelster-Borgardt
Corinna is a professional pixel pusher at Needmore. She shares her insight on the design process and lessons learned from moving to from a print to a web focus.
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Hi, Corinna.
Corinna:
Hi, Ray. How are you?
I am excellent. And yourself?
I'm great. I'm excited to be sitting in the job seat where so many greats have come before.
More are yet to come, I'm quite sure.
So, yeah, it's the launching pad of some kind. So why don't you, I'm actually curious, because I know you've told me little bits and pieces, but . . . First of all, where were you born?
I was born in the mile-high city of Denver, Colorado.
Oh, okay. Okay.
So I actually grew up in Southeast Denver, which a lot of people, when they hear I grew up in Southeast Denver, say, "So you mean like Aurora?" No. Southeast Denver.
Right off of Colorado Boulevard and I-25.
And could not have been born to two more different parents. My dad is 6'2″, Swiss descent, blond hair, blue eyes, and my mom is about 4″8″, full-blooded El Salvador.
And brown eyes, brown hair. Totally spicy. Where my dad's very stern, my mom is very emotional and very feisty.
Okay. Interesting. How long did you live in Colorado then?
I lived in Colorado till I was 19. So I went to school there, and had a pretty stable, ordinary childhood. I was definitely the kid that would go to the library and check out a stack of books taller than myself, and did a lot of reading, and spent the summers just lounging. Took it easy and went to high school in Thomas Jefferson High School.
Okay. So where did you go from Colorado?
Well, to sort of balance out the very stable and secure childhood I had in Colorado, I decided that when I was in my late teens to be a little bit more of a thrill seeker. So when I was 18 I did a lot of traveling. And I travelled, as soon as I graduated from high school, I travelled to Egypt with my boyfriend for a month.
And we travelled all over. We saw the pyramids. We stayed out in the desert with Bedouins and slept under the stars. We hung out with camels and drank wine under the stars. It was great.
Are camels as mean as they say?
They're very sassy.
Do they spit at you?
But I had this sort of magnetic, magical touch with the camels.
That the Bedouins would always sort of tease me about because I loved to just play with them. And they'd sort of sit down and look at me, and they do spit an awful lot. So it was great to get a sense of outside of the United States. And then after that, I traveled to New York for two weeks. I had family in New York and Chicago. So I traveled to New York for two weeks and spent time with family, and I traveled to Chicago for two weeks. And at the end of that time period I sort of didn't really know what I wanted to do. I knew that I wanted to do something that was artistic and business minded, but I didn't have a set profession in mind, and I didn't think it was really wise to jump right into college without knowing what I wanted. So I took a year off, and I worked that last year in Denver. I lived right in downtown. I had my own studio apartment. And when you're 18 and you're on your own in your own studio apartment, you feel very cool, you know. And I talked to a lot of people. And eventually I came across graphic design.And so, I really loved this idea of being a designer, because it was such a great marriage of business and art. And in high school I had been really passionate about art, and I was actually really into ceramics and did a lot of ceramic work. And so I was talking with my cousin, and he said, "You know, there's a great school of Chicago, the University of Illinois at Chicago. They've got a great design program. So what do you think about coming to Chicago?" And I thought, "Let's do it." There's nothing wedding me to Denver, so Chicago it was. So at 19 I moved to the big city of Chicago from Denver, and it was so different, but in such a great way. It was so vibrant, and always on the go. People in Chicago are always moving, moving, moving. And when you're really young, that's what you want.
Chicago skyline.
Because, it's like the night life is great. People are out till 4:00 a.m. There's always some new festival or new book or new author or new something coming out to explore. There's always a new restaurant. So I had a great time. My freshman year I just sort of ran around and talked with a lot of people. I'm always talking to people. That's a theme that comes through in my life. And then when I was a sophomore, I became an RA in the dorms, and I was an RA for the next three years. So I was in charge of different students and got a great perspective that way. And graduated four years later from the university with a bachelor of fine arts in graphic design.
Nice. Okay. So that's interesting. Now I know that you also have mentioned that you have sort of maybe a second career or something as a yoga instructor. Can we talk about that?
Is that fair game?
Absolutely. Totally fair game.
Okay. Tell me about that. Tell me how that fits into this.
Well, so I love design. I love the fact that we can communicate with people and inspire people and share great messages and tell great stories. But when you're a designer, often you are on the computer a lot nowadays. And so, it was about maybe three years into my design career, and I was starting to get a bit stiff. I was always on the computer. And so I found this love for yoga. And what I really love about yoga is it really gets you back in your body, and it really brings you into the moment. And so I started doing a lot of yoga. And I came across a yoga studio in Chicago called the Temple of Kriya Yoga. And it was very old school zen yoga, when you sit and meditate. They teach you the basics of hatha yoga, and I really fell in love with it. So I was working full time as a designer, and at the same time going to school to become certified. So I am certified as a 200-hour yoga instructor, which eventually I would like to have sort of one-on-one clients. I don't really foresee myself ever teaching in big classes. But I do love that one-on-one teaching experience.
Okay. So do you still find that that's, sort of plays and inspires your graphic design.
I do. I do. You know the two interplay together to make me sort of a more holistic person. And I think that, you know, yoga really raises an awareness of who you are and in the moment you're with yourself and you learn a lot about your ego. You'll go to those yoga classes, and there'll be someone that can do a handstand, and you're struggling to be in down dog.
Right. Right.
And so you learn to be a little bit more forgiving of yourself, and to be a little bit more patient with yourself, and I think that comes into play a lot in design, because you learn to see other people and their stories with a little bit more compassion and empathy. And then you also learn to have this sort of reverence for your clients' stories, and the ability to be able to share that with the world is such a gift. So I think the two play very well into one another.
How do you approach thinking about? So obviously we here do web design. But you've done print and lots of different kinds of design. How do you really get your head around what a project needs? How do you think through that process? Besides meditation. Is there something you do? I've never seen you . . . Maybe you do meditate over there. That's fine. But is that, you know, how do you actually get into that mindset, or think through that?
It's always evolving. And the most important step is to figure out two key pieces. One is you want to figure out who you're talking to. so who's going to be using the website. And once you've figured out who you're talking to, you really want to get in their head. What do they need? What do they want? What are they interested in? and then it's about asking who your client is that is going to be creating the website with you, and what are their needs and their wants. And the real key there is to figure out what makes them special. Because everybody, whether it's a business, or a sole proprietor, or whatever your goal is, you have a story to share with the world, and you have something that makes you special. And so if you can find what makes you special and share it with the people that need it, bingo, you're in business.
You learn to see other people and their stories with a little bit more compassion and empathy, and then you also learn to have this sort of reverence for your clients's stories, and the ability to be able to share that with the world is such a gift.
Yeah, that's interesting to balance those two. Two audiences, really.
Yes, it is. You know, and sometimes one doesn't talk as nicely to the other. But more often than not they do.
Yeah. That's interesting, because I almost feel like sometimes part of our job is to connect those two audiences in a way that maybe they've never actually . . . It's like sometimes I feel like you might have a client who isn't quite aware of who their actual audience is.
Or potential audience, I guess, if they're trying to grow their business. But I'm getting ahead of myself here. Let's back up. So you're still in Chicago.
Back up the train.
Where we left off, yeah. So you've completed a four-year program. And then what happens?
So I completed a four-year program. It was my last year. So I guess I had not quite completed it.
It was my last year at school. And one of my professors came to me and said, "You know, there's this design firm in Chicago that is looking for an intern. Would anybody be interested?" And so I had a couple of colleagues that were more of, "Well, we're seniors. We're not looking for an internship. We're looking for a job." And I looked up the firm, Essex 2, and I thought, you know, this is a great opportunity, period. So, yeah, I would love to interview, and I'd definitely be interested. So I had an interview with the partner of the firm, Nancy Essex, and it turned out her son and I shared the same birthday of July 14. And we're having this great conversation. The interview's going really well. And she goes, "You know, I think this may be a sign." And so she called me a week later and offered me the internship. And I interned there for nine months. And after nine months, they hired me on full time. And I ended up working there for the next five years.
Which is a pretty long run, you know,.
Sure. Yeah.
In Chicago, especially, they seem to have a bit of a turn-over sometimes.
Yeah. Okay, so, yeah. Then at some point you ended up in Portland. How did that happen?
Yeah, well, you know, it's interesting because in my life I have lived in Denver, Chicago, and Portland. And I sort of had childhood ties to both Chicago and Portland. So if you had told me when I was 15 that I was going to live in both one day, it would have made me laugh. But now I see how those early influences really played into the later years. When I was younger, we would always go and visit Chicago every two years to visit my aunt. And my half-sister from my father's first marriage lived in Oregon. And so growing up we would always get the Marion berry mix of the pancakes and the syrups, and she'd send these beautiful pictures. So a couple years ago my sister suggested that we come and visit Portland, Oregon. And my husband and I both looked at her and thought, "You know, we've never been. We don't know anything at all about Portland. But sure, we'd love to give it a try. It's been so highly recommended, let's go check it out." And we immediately fell in love. I mean, it was just head over heels. And so I think it took us about two years to kind of come to grips with the fact that we really wanted to live here.
And were willing to do what it took, so . . .
so you both moved here and found gainful employment? Or how did that work out?
We did. You know, we definitely did a bit of a dive off the cliff. Because we were really both set up. We were in solid jobs in Chicago. We had great family and friends out there. There was nothing wrong with Chicago . Just we had fallen so in love with Portland and everything that Portland had to offer, and so . . .
So you hadn't already been thinking of leaving Chicago? It was just the trip to Portland that kind of changed your mind?
Yeah, you know, we came to the coast and were really sold.
Cape Falcon, near Manzanita.
It was just like, "How can we live here?"
Yeah, right, right, yeah.
And then you spend the next two years sort of figuring it out. And yeah, we both took the dive, and everybody thought we were crazy, and they were a little bit sad to see us go, obviously. But I had my brother-in-law and my nephew out here, who were very supportive of us coming out. So we packed everything up in a little crate and drove across the country with two cats in the back seat. Always a good time. And we started afresh, totally fresh. And I think we were at that sort of gifted point where you aren't really, you don't have roots deep enough that you have to stay anywhere, and you're a little bit naïve that you kind of feel like you can do anything still. You know?
So we were like, "We can do this. We can do anything." And we have. My husband has found a great job that he loves out in Oregon City. And I found Needmore, which, very excited to be here. Going on a year shortly here, a couple more months.
Yeah, that's true. Yeah, you must have . . .Yeah, you were three months behind my daughter. I consider, like I think of ages like my kids' birthdays, and I've based everything around those birthdays. But yeah. So when you came out here, did you guys try to drive straight through, or did you stop anywhere on the way.
Oh, we stopped, yeah. [cross talk 00:15:25]
Did you see Mount Rushmore?
We didn't see Mount Rushmore. We did get to see Minneapolis, which I was excited about, because I'd never been there and wanted to see the land of thousand lakes, ten thousand lakes. And we drove through Idaho, through Coeur d'Alene, which I hadn't seen that before either. North Dakota, not a lot to mention there. There was a lot of dust.
Is that where Mount Rushmore is? Or is that in South Dakota?
I think it's in South Dakota.
Okay. All right.
Yeah, so we were a little bit too far north. But, you know, let's just say that once we arrived in Portland after six years, or six days of being on the road.
Oh, okay. Wow.
We were very grateful that this was the new home.
How did the cats do on this?
They were also very grateful it was the new home. But we arrived on July 4th, and so it was literally, we got the keys to our apartment, threw everything down in the apartment, made sure the cats were comfortable, and we headed down to the riverfront to watch the fireworks.
Oh, nice.
It was a great welcoming.
That's pretty cool. So just talking about design for a minute. When you were in, at your last job, you were mostly doing print design. Is that correct?
I did print throughout. And then the last three years I did website design.
How have you found that web is different in terms of what kind of skills it needs. Or how do you approach web differently than you did print?
I think that when it comes to web design, first and foremost, the thing that all designers need to just sort of let go of is a little bit of control.
Yeah. True.
Because, when you're working in print, you're working in a fixed environment. You have control over the detail of every little letter, and every little speck of space. And when it comes to the web, you no longer have control over things you've always had control over, like color, the monitor. How something looks on one person's monitor is going to be different from how it looks on another person's monitor. Or type. You're used to being able to say I want this type face at this size, and that type face might not even be available on somebody's screen. Luckily now with things like Type Kit, we've evolved past that. But still, it may not be displaying properly. And so you just have to let go of that element of control. You also need to think a lot more about, it's not so much of a linear path anymore. You know, when you're designing books or brochures, for the most part, people are really going to flip through in a more linear fashion. But when it's on the web, people can jump from one page to another, and you don't have control of pacing as much as you do with print. And so you really have to think about making sure that the different avenues that somebody could walk through make sense from every angle, and that you're really offering the most important information as quickly as possible. When it comes to the amount of information you're presenting, that changes as well. In books it's all content. You can have books of nothing but words and beautiful language. But when you're coming to a website, often you really want to have as succinct and easy to skim language as possible, and then offer more in depth things, whether that's a PDF or something else that people can get to.
Yeah. I was actually thinking about this. When I was thinking about this interview, I was thinking . . . I think the most interesting thing we talk about are sometimes like, I feel like you have a more, you have a formal education, for one thing, which I do not, and you understand print, which I do not. And I think it's really interesting. Because I was thinking about how in print, the little experience that I have with it, it's kind of like you . . . Like there's a phase where you as a designer create basically a specification of what it should look like. You can proof it a little bit. But you don't get to, you're not part of the actual mechanical printing process typically. You send that to a service bureau or whatever, who has a pretty standard procedure. You may have looked at the pantone colors. You know what colors, what they're going to look like on paper, etc. So it's a very formal, refined process that, to some extent, some pieces of it have been around for 500 years.
Whereas, on the web it's like, well first of all, you could almost think of it as our production department is Dan.
He's a very good production department.
Yeah. He's the actual printer. But then I was also thinking, in some sense, he's half of it, and then the visitors device, who looks at the website, is the other half.
Because even after Dan works on it, it's still like the thing doesn't actually exist until it's rendered on a . . . I'm kind of going off here, but until it's rendered on, and it could be an iPhone. It could be a giant computer. Someone could even theoretically print it out. And it's interesting because there's just so many factors. I can't even, I often think, it's like that whole grass is greener thing, where we always think, "Gosh, maybe if we did more print." Because it just seems so easy. But that's of course because I've never really done print. I have no idea how hard it is. And certainly I've heard horror stories about people having to get things printed over and over, and this and that, but, yeah.
Yeah, I would absolutely say that the biggest factor between the two is what you do and do not have control over. And learning what's the priority then. What do you prioritize when there are so many factors.
When there are so many different devices? And it's an evolving process. But that's part of what makes it fun. I think, certainly I haven't done print for 30 or 40 years, so I can't speak to that. But that's part of what makes what we do so much fun, is that things are always changing. You do always have to keep learning. And so, if you're somebody that enjoys learning, and enjoys that good challenges, the puzzles, the puzzles never stop. They're always coming. And so you always get sort of that thrill of figuring out what's the proper solution for this. And there is never just one solution either. So it's about finding the best solution you can with all the variables that you can control.
Yeah, true. I feel like, when I started doing web design, it was probably actually a lot more like print. You sort of assumed a typical X number of pixels, size.
Especially because I started out doing more flash, and it was like you had to assume a certain size. It wasn't really easy to change that around.
And that environment is more controlled, too.
Yeah. Oh, for sure. But since you've been here, you've had to learn what a random display does to a design, what a different form factor or different device loading speeds. What of all of those crazy technological hurdles that we've put in front of you. Because that is part of our specific process. Not all agencies do that. What of those has been the most challenging, or the most interesting or rewarding of those different things?
Oh, gosh, that's a great question. What's been the most challenging, or most rewarding? You know, I would think it would be designing for different break points. And I love the fact that I know what a break point is.
Because, when I first started here, a break point was a point in the day where you took a break. But break points are where the design changes to adapt to different devices. So you would design a break point for a desktop display, or design a break point for an iPad at the horizontal view or the vertical portrait view, or for an iPhone. And so thinking through those different break points, and also learning to ask different questions at each of those points of view. And even just this week in our [inaudible 00:23:54], I was watching a video on responsive design, and I loved one of the questions that the gentleman stated was, you should think about what actually scales up on an iPhone. And that had not necessarily occurred to me before, talking about different buttons that makes more sense if it's one size in a desktop and an iPad, does it make more sense to scale it up if you're on mobile? What disappears? What gets bigger? What changes position from the top of the page down to the bottom. And so that is an ongoing challenge that I enjoy. And I'm loving the fact that we really are starting to sketch out designs on the phone and for iPad and for desktop just using pen and paper. I think that's so great, and something that a lot of young designers make the mistake of jumping right onto the computer. I'm certainly absolutely guilty of that. And there's so much more freedom to think creatively when you use a pen and a paper in your sketching.
I just thought of an idea for a responsive sketch sheet.
Oh, I love it.
So, you know how sometimes you have a different layout for an iPad, whether it's portrait or landscape?
So make a template that has a drawing of an iPad on it, and then if you need to do the landscape version, you just rotate it. You can sell that idea. The responsive sketch sheet.
Two light bulb over your head.
Yeah. Okay. Sorry. So, since you've been in Portland, have there been any favorite places that you like to go to unwind, to check out, to get inspiration?
Yes, absolutely. Absolutely. One thing that I do every six to eight weeks, religiously, is go to the coast. I am such a big fan of being by the ocean. And of course, that's from spending the first 19 years of my life land locked, and then being in Chicago where we have Lake Michigan, which is a lot of fun. And then you come to the coast, and Lake Michigan can't hold a candle to it. It's so beautiful, and depending on the day it can be so . . . You know, there are those rare days where it's beautifully sunny and the sand is warm down in Manzanita, and you can lay out.
It can happen, I've heard.
It can happen. And then there's also those days where it's just so cold and cloudy, you're almost in a dream. And I love to look at the color palettes as the coast changes. You know, you get these amazing sort of very sensuous grays, that if you really pay attention, you just don't ever see that anywhere else. And so I love to look to that for inspiration. I love to go and get lost in the city. It's how I learned how to get around in Chicago, and to some extent Portland as well, is I would just pick a bus or a train route and go get off at a stop and walk around, pay attention. In Europe, they call it being a flaneur, where you just sit and you watch people, and you sort of drink your coffee, and you just pay attention to what are people doing and how are they interacting with one another. I think it's Daniel Pink talks a lot about doing that at airports. He finds that very inspirational. You learn a lot about what people do and the patterns we fall into. And all of that effectively translates over to design.
Yeah. As far as, have you discovered any hidden gems in Portland that you could share with our listeners?
Oh, yes. Well, you know, I'm . . .
I don't want to spoil them, have like a rush of people, but . . .
No. No, I think, you know, I'm fascinated about these sort of only-in-Portland experiences, and I hear about them from different people at different times. And so one of them for sure would be this little Thai place, and I believe you and Candace have been there, called Ku Bon Pics Thai Food in Beaumont.
Oh, yeah.
And this, if you haven't been there, it's like theater. It's so fantastic. I mean, you can't be hungry when you go, because you'll get hungry over the time. But you go and it's a whole four-hour experience. The food is delicious. It's a husband and wife team. And the wife makes the most delicious spring rolls. I've been quoted as saying they taste like they come from God's garden, because the cilantro is so fresh.
But it's just the two of them. And so you'll get in, and it'll take a couple hours. Then I also love things like Prasad downtown. Fantastic, fantastic food. It's, I believe, all vegan. And so I love to go there for soup. They have raw and hot soup, and really very delicious things.
I should check that out when we're ready to go down.
Yeah, it's in this little yoga studio, so it's really easy to miss. It's actually in Yoga in the Pearl.
You can, you would …
I totally know where that is. Yeah, they used to be a different restaurant a couple of years ago, and it was a raw restaurant. So cool.
There's lots of great places like Ken's Artisanal Pizzas in Southeast.
Love that.
That's a good one.
I love sushi, so I'm always on the lookout for a new sushi place. Feel free to send them in, listeners.
So far I've loved Masu, and Bamboo are great.
And so . . .
There's one, I can never, oh, have you been to Yoko's?
Yes, and it is so good. It's totally worth the wait.
Yeah, and it's very affordable.
At least when you're waiting you get to watch the fish.
Or go to the sea bar next door. But yeah.
Yes. Exactly.
Have you been to the Rose Garden?
I love the Rose Garden. I love the Rose Garden. That's another thing that when Jason, my husband and I came here, we were taking pictures, and it was just like, "Oh my God, we're in Alice in Wonderland."
It was just so cool. I love the Japanese garden. I have a friend that is a member there, and so she and I go quite frequently. Rocky Butte, which was suggested to me by Jen Armbrest.
Beautiful. You can get this gorgeous view of both Vancouver, Portland, and the gorge. And then I love the Vista House. I don't know who told me about it originally. But if you're going on the historic highway, you'll just be driving, and you'll see a sign that says Vista House. And it's kind of mysterious to get there. It's not as intuitive as like Multnomah Falls, or any of the other falls, where you just continue heading straight. You kind of have to turn around to get up there. But once you get up there, it's this beautiful little sphere. And it's got marble floors, which is just amazing. And it's tiny. It can't be more than like 1,000 square feet little rotunda. And you can see the gorge for miles and miles, maybe a 30 or 50 mile unobstructed view of the gorge. It's absolutely breathtaking, and totally worth the drive. If you get carsick, be prepared though. It's very windy to get up there, but it's absolutely worth it. So these are just some of my hidden gems.
Crown Point Vista House
Photo credit: Ron Niebrugge
I don't have a problem with getting carsick, but I might get allergies.
It's true. They do have wild orchids that grow all along the base of the . . . And this is just yet another, you know, that's one thing I love about Portland is, you just find such amazing little gems just walking along.
There'll be things in our neighborhood. My husband and I will go for a walk, and we'll see all these little hand carved or hand painted rocks with beautiful, inspirational messages that people just put in their gardens.
Oh yeah. Or staple to telephone poles. Or tie to those old horse rings on the street curbside. That's, I don't know, it might be one of those things I noticed when I moved here in '99. Or it might have been something. I mean, maybe people in Minneapolis did this or something and I never noticed it. But I don't remember there being places to tie up horses in Minneapolis.
No. And Chicago, yeah.
You know what I'm talking about, right? Those little rings.
No. Not even in Denver.
My daughter was looking at one of those the other day, and she's like, "What's this?" I'm like, "Well, it's for tying up your horse." Although it's probably not legal to bring a horse down this street. But if you do.
If you do.
You can tie it up here.
You could probably also tie up a goat there, if you had your goat with you, too.
We have neighbors that have goats.
You could tie up your cat there if you really wanted to. So do you have a piece of wisdom about design that you would like to share? It's kind of a wild card question.
It is a wild card.
It could be anything.
A piece of wisdom. Well then I'm going to say what comes to mind absolutely first, and that is to always ask questions. When it comes to design, always ask questions. Because so many of the parts of the design process are informed by new ideas and new, always new, evolving things happening. And so it's so easy as a designer to do one thing really well, and once you've achieved that to sort of just keep doing that. And that's such a loss to the greater good. You can always be growing and evolving and learning. And it's hard, it's hard to ask questions. I think as you become more and more proficient in your craft, you don't want to be the one asking the questions. You want to leave that to other people. But you can always learn something new. So to always ask questions, and never be a afraid to ask questions. Because if you're thinking it, somebody else probably is, too.
Good advice. Well, thank you for letting me ask questions. That was a setup, right?
We couldn't have planned that better if we'd tried.
Thank you, Corinna.
Thank you, Ray.


The 2016-17 NBA season entertained us with many memorable moments and thrilling highlights. We've seen record-breaking individual performances, career-best years, and stunning finishes. Now that we've reached the end, let's look back at ten captivating storylines that made this year so special.
9. Klay Thompson reaches 60 points in the fewest minutes.
Early in December, Klay Thompson exploded for a career-high 60 points. Shockingly, Thompson touched the ball for less than ninety seconds and only took 11 dribbles throughout the entire game. Instead, he capitalized on catch-and-shoot opportunities throughout the night. Thompson put on a clinic, shooting 21–33 from the field, including 8–14 from three-point range. Because the Warriors were cruising to a 142–106 blowout win over the Pacers, Thompson only played 29 minutes in the game. He left to a standing ovation from Oracle Arena. Fans were left wondering what could have been, as he was on pace to score 80 points!
After being sidelined with an injury for two seasons, Joel Embiid was finally ready to play. Embiid is an athletic beast, who stands seven feet tall and can dominate on both ends of the court. His standout performances gave hope to Philadelphia, who lost a league-worst 72 games the previous season. Embiid was the driving force behind an 11-2 run at the beginning of the calendar year. He averaged 20.2 points, 7.8 rebounds, and 2.5 blocks per game. Embiid's impressive season puts his name right in the mix for Rookie of the Year, until he suffered a season-ending knee injury. Philadelphia fans can look forward to Joel Embiid's bright future.
At the 2017 All-Star Game, Anthony Davis gave his hometown fans in New Orleans a night to remember. On the day he was named a starter, Davis said that he wanted to win the MVP award for his city. Not only did he do that, he did it by scoring a record 52 points in the game, making two-thirds of his attempted shots. Aided by the generous passing of his teammates throughout the game, Davis cashed in on many dunks, and put on a show in the paint. He also grabbed 10 rebounds. With Davis leading the way, the West had enough firepower to win the game 192-182.
This season James Harden elevated his game and cemented his status as one of the league's premier players. As the Rockets' leading scorer, he's taken charge of one of the 10 most productive offenses in NBA history. Harden averaged career highs of 29.1 points, 11.2 assists, and 8.1 rebounds per game. He has a great ability to draw a double team and find the open man for the easy basket. And he's always been able to score. You never know if he's going to hit a step-back jumper, drive in for the slam, or unselfishly give the ball up to a teammate. James Harden makes a compelling case to be this season's MVP.
At just 20 years old, Devin Booker made his mark by tallying 70 points on March 24 against the Celtics for the greatest single-game performance by any individual this year. It was the highest-scoring game in over a decade and set a new franchise record for the Phoenix Suns. Only five players in NBA history have scored more. After recording "just" 19 points in the first half, Booker heated up. With the entire crowd urging him on, he put up 28 points in a fourth-quarter scoring flurry. Booker now has the distinction of being the only active player with a 70-point game.
Last season the Warriors won a record 73 games during the regular season. Incredibly, they were still looking to improve. In the offseason they added four-time scoring champion and former MVP Kevin Durant to their roster. Durant, still in pursuit of his first NBA title, liked his chances with Golden State. He joined fellow All-Stars Stephen Curry, Klay Thompson and Draymond Green. Golden State's big acquisition soon turned into a controversy. Many fans wanted the commissioner to block what they considered an unfair move. Once the dust settled, Durant proved his worth, averaging 25.1 points, 8.3 rebounds, and 1.6 blocks on the season.
This year's MVP race is the most exciting in years. The four players who stand out as the leading candidates are James Harden, Russell Westbrook, Kawhi Leonard, and LeBron James. All of them have played at the highest level and shown drastic improvement this season. But Harden and Westbrook are especially worthy of MVP honors. Harden led the league in assists and Westbrook led the league in points. Both players have had nearly identical numbers and have been extremely productive. Unlike last year, when Stephen Curry was the first unanimous MVP winner, this year's race is much more competitive.
The Warriors and Cavaliers meet again in the NBA Finals for the third straight year. The back-to-back-to-back finals matchup is an NBA first. The Warriors won in 2015 on the strength of overall team play and sharp shooting from the perimeter. In 2016, the Cavaliers rebounded from a 3-1 series deficit to give Cleveland its first major sports championship in over fifty years. Now they'll meet again, with the game's biggest superstars competing on the biggest stage. The two teams have a combined three MVPs, seven All-Stars, and a 24-1 record in these playoffs. With these two super teams battling it out for the ultimate prize, we can anticipate another epic showdown.
This season, Russell Westbrook joined Oscar Robertson as the only NBA player in history to average a triple double for the whole season. Game after game, he dominated in three statistical categories: scoring, assists, and rebounds. As a point guard, grabbing rebounds was bound to be the biggest challenge. But with gritty and tenacious play, Westbrook consistently dominated the glass. Westbrook led his team to many victories with a season average of 31.6 points, 10.4 assists, and 10.7 rebounds. Most notably, on April 9, he earned his 42nd triple double of the year. In that game, Westbrook scored 50 points and hit a deep buzzer-beating three-pointer to give Oklahoma City a thrilling 106–105 victory. Remarkably, he passed Oscar Robertson's 55-year-old record for most triple doubles in a season. It was the grand finale to Russell Westbrook's historic year.


According to media reports, China's Communist party has decided to allow all families to have two children.
MOSCOW (Sputnik) – China's Communist party has decided to allow all families to have two children, Xinhua reported Thursday.
"China abandons one-child policy, allows two kids for all couples," Xinhua said on its Twitter account.
China's shift to a two-child policy comes after more than three decades of strict one-child regulations to slow down the surge in population numbers and its rapid aging.
The one-child policy came into effect under Communist Party leader Mao Zedong in 1976.


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Jax Jones / Martin Solveig / Madison Beer - All Day & Night
Kanye West changes name of new album... again!
Stop us if you've heard this one before... Kanye West has changed the name of his album!
So let's start from the beginning...
First it was going to be called ''So Help Me God', then 'Swish'... and now he's gone and changed it again!
Kanye tweeted the news on Tuesday evening and his fans went into meltdown!
New album title, WAVES
— KANYE WEST (@kanyewest) January 27, 2016
He then went on to tweet the tracklist which has been adapted for the new name... and has been graffitied on by his wife Kim and her sister!
#waves pic.twitter.com/fyER7NH8DC
'Waves' is set to be released on February 11th... he'll probably have changed the name twice more by then!
For the latest updates on Kanye's new album, follow us on Twitter - @TotalAccessShow!
Matt Curtis playing Jax Jones / Martin Solveig / Madison Beer - All Day & Night


Attention all girls in grades 9-12 who are interested in playing basketball this winter, there will be a brief meeting this friday, November 3rd at 2:45 in the Senior Lounge. Please contact Coach Lavey with any questions.
Please come and support the girls Varsity Gymnastics team today at the wall of scholars for their bake sale to support Section XI's(11) charity for juvenile diabetes. All proceeds go to a great cause to help cure childhood diabetes. See you there!
Voice-Over (with Olia/Maia looking shocked): "Stay Tuned for a Special Report..."
Seniors and Juniors - There are still plenty of great colleges coming to Harborfields. Check Naviance or see Mrs. Staib in the GRC to see who is coming next!
Reminder there is a mandatory meeting for players interested in trying out for boys' basketball tonight at 6:40 before open gym at the HS.
Future Educators there is a Meeting today in T-20 also. We will be taking our yearbook picture and giving out placements. All members must attend!
If you have submitted a play for feedback and revision, please sign up for a meeting with Ms. Endress after school. Sign up slots are available on the Playfest Board outside T10. All final drafts of plays are due the Monday after Veteran's Day: November 13th.


Degremont has set up the Recycling Drinking Water Treatment Plant in India, for the Delhi Jal Board, at Wazirabad, Delhi. The plant of 50 MLD capacity, was customized on Design-Build-Operate (DBO) basis, utilizing Degremont's State-of-the-art Technology involving pulsating type sludge Blanket Clarifiers. There are 3 WTPs each of 40 MGD at Wazirabad Water Works and to treat the waste water of these WTPs 11 MGD Recycling plant was constructed & commissioned in 2009, the operation and maintenance of the Recycling Plant after DLP and one year O&M was up to 20.3.2011 and is continued by subsequent extensions by the constructing agency.
State-of-the-art proven technologies suiting Indian conditions.
Well-proven & extremely efficient three phase treatment.
Catering to approximately 3 lakhs population.
Extremely low water losses from the entire plant.
Fully automatic plant with SCADA controls.
Compact plant layout & optimum land usage.
No accident reporting till date.
All employees are involved in the safety effort. Employee suggestions are welcome to prevent accidents.
Experienced employees are used to identify hazards and suggest controls which are valuable for establishing a team concept in the plant.


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The triumphs
Super Season Calendar
Titles and successes
Beyond the victories of the championships, to underline the first places in the 24 hours of Spa
Blancpain championships: in both endurance and sprint, AF Corse has added several times its name among the winners with some drivers in different categories. The AF Corse's squad has won titles in 2012, 2014, 2015 and 2016.
Furthermore, it's impossible to forget the five triumphs of category in the legendary 24 hours of Spa, the most important race in the Blancpain Endurance Series season.
Blancpain 2016
Mixed pics from the Blancpain GT Series challenge