This entry was posted in General on March 13, 2015 by Anne Testoni.
We promise a more active web site in 2015 but for now Happy Holidays from everyone human and canine at Spectrum Basset Hounds!
This entry was posted in General, News on December 19, 2014 by Anne Testoni.
I have been in a wrestling match with my hosting service and the site has been down for a while. (I think) I won the battle and the site is now back up. Lots has happened over the last 4 months at Spectrum Bassets and I want to fill everyone in. Please be patient!
This entry was posted in General, News on November 24, 2014 by Anne Testoni.
The weather has finally turned summer-like in New England. After the coldest May in recent history we have had four straight days of weather with temperatures 70-80 degrees and sunny. The dogs are spending most of the day outside basking in the sunlight.
My garden is finally fully planted and growing. This year's crop should feature english cucumbers, cherry tomatoes (Sun Gold, Sun Sugar, Super Sweet 100), plum tomatoes (San Marzano, Borghese, Roma III), hanging tomatoes (Tumbling Tom Red), eggplant (Black Beauty) and bush beans. On the herb side, I have pots of rosemary, Genoa basil, Thai basil and lavender.
Writing about and working in my garden always reminds me of the first Spectrum Basset Hound, Winnie (Lady Winifred of Simpson CD CGC). She was a great lover of vegetables and routinely raided my garden. One year I could not figure out why my Roma tomatoes were not ripening. I would get many green fruit but none would turn red. Then one day I caught Winnie dropping a mouthful of green tomatoes in her crate for later consumption! She was also the guilty party who was pulling up carrots and leaving me naked carrot greens. Once I put up a fence I had a bountiful yield of tomatoes and carrots but a very sad basset hound.
This entry was posted in General, News on June 3, 2014 by Anne Testoni.
I'm not sure who was happier to see me when I got back from China early Sunday morning – my husband or the dogs! It was a very long journey home that included a 5 hour delay departing from Shanghai, a scramble to rebook after missing my connection in SFO, and a successful stint on the standby list for the final daytime flight to BOS.
The one thing that is odd is that I saw very few animals – a few cats wandering the streets but no dogs until my 6th day in country: a young woman was trying to walk three lovely miniature poodles and not having a lot of success. It's odd considering that China gave us many wonderful breeds including the Pekinese, Chinese Crested, Chow, Pug and Shar Pei.
It will be interesting to see if China redevelops a culture of companion animals along with the other business and cultural changes the country is experiencing now.
This entry was posted in General on May 18, 2014 by Anne Testoni.
My job occasionally takes me unusual places and tomorrow I head for a six day trip to several cities in eastern China.
The weather is similar to what is expected this week in the greater Boston area although I imagine it will be a lot more humid in South China. When I come back it will be time to ramp up for the summer outdoor dog show season and a pile of indoor agility trials. Bjorn will take good care of the hounds while I am away although we'll both miss our fun training sessions.
This entry was posted in General, News on May 11, 2014 by Anne Testoni.
All of the Spectrum bassets are happy & well today.
Here's a favorite pic from last Friday – bassets hard at work holding down the deck.
This entry was posted in General, News on May 5, 2014 by Anne Testoni.


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Within the context of recent events in India such as the criminalisation of protest that we have seen at JNU, caste and it's unaccountability with Rohith Vemula, the tabling of the bill on Aadhar, the threat of the coming back of 66A, what has been made clear is the State's endeavour to make citizens 'accountable' with the threat of punishment. At the same time the State has been engaging in drawing up a veil which leaves it unaccountable to its citizens.
This entry was posted in Global South, India, Resistance, Venkatappa Art Gallery and tagged Bangalore, Bengaluru, GoK, Karnataka Tourism, KTVG, RTI, VAG Forum on April 2, 2016 by Rashmi Munikempanna.
Department of Tourism (DOT) was inspired by the 'Campaign Clean India' launched by the Govt of India and wanted to improve the basic infrastructure and undertake promotion and publicity with private investment.
DOT had identified 46 destinations including Venkatappa Art Gallery subsequent to the recommendations of Karnataka Tourism Vision Group (KTVG) report and further discussions with Government of Karnataka and KTVG. DOT made made a request to the govt to create a committee to approve proposals from the Corporate sector to provide the to provide facilities such as basic amenities, signages, interpretations centres, tourist friendly vehicles, proper guides etc., under the adoption programme.
This entry was posted in Global South, India, Resistance, Venkatappa Art Gallery and tagged Bangalore, Bengaluru, GoK, Karnataka Tourism, KTVG, research, VAG Forum on March 31, 2016 by Rashmi Munikempanna.


MBABANE – The levels of corruption in the civil service have gone up a notch.
In response, the accountant general stated that the Fraud Section had been assigned to investigate and consider appropriate action on the matter. In 2017, about 60 former and present civil servants committed to repaying money they had benefited from the Community Poverty Reduction Fund. In 2016, the auditor general, in his report, noted a number of irregularities regarding the disbursement of the fund. The fund, which was established in the year 2009, was allocated a sum of E20 million, but out of the E19 950 000 which had been disbursed, E16 174 108.52, had still not been paid back as of March 31, 2016. It was discovered that about E3 million of the money was allocated to civil servants, some of whom were administrators of the Fund at the Ministry of Tinkhundla Administration and Development and the money had still not been paid back for over five years. In response the controlling officers concurred with the anomalies noted by the auditor general and stated that new regulations had been drafted and they are awaiting Cabinet approval. She also stated that ministry had already made the debtors to sign affidavits stating when and how they planned to pay back the money.
Over 60 present and former civil servants also appeared before the PAC Committee in June 2017 to give account on why they had failed to pay back the money and subsequently signed acknowledgement of debt forms as well as affidavits detailing a payment schedule. The PAC urged the controlling officer to liaise with all the relevant ministries where the owing civil servants are stationed and ensure that the owed balances are deducted from their salaries.


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For my senior project I decided to create a short fiction film. In the end I learned how to overcome the difficulties of producing, and managing a cast and crew. My goal was to successfully create a short film and submit it into local film festivals.
The film's protagonist, Vincent, is a young man opposed to spontaneity who obsessively relies on charts and empirical data. He begins to feel as if he is losing control when work and personal life take unexpected turns. Instead of dealing with life's challenges, he turns to isolation and fearfully confines himself into a hotel room. The story zigzags between snapshots of past, present and imagined events in VincentÕs life.
I decided to write, direct, and act in a short fiction film. I first came up with this idea to create a fiction film over the summer while at a summer film program at NYU. I had grown accustomed to making short comedies and I knew for my senior project I wanted to experiment with my weaknesses, which were writing and acting in a drama. My primary goals were to achieve balance in my filmmaking education, to successfully write, act, and direct in a short drama, and to overall become better as a storyteller. I have been making films since I was 12 years old, and I knew that I needed to work on my versatility in filmmaking, so I decided to go beyond what I knew and experiment not only with genre but with structure as well. I was inspired to create this type of story, of a man trying to find himself, by more modern films, which I thought was also a unique approach. I looked at the films Fight Club, Memento, and Old Boy. All of these films have common characters.
The first stages of the process were to assemble a simple story to work with while transforming my idea to a screenplay. I didnÕt want there to be a lot of dialogue so that when people were speaking they were saying things that were almost poetic, and had importance to the story. Since the beginning I knew that I wanted to experiment with structure. I wanted to rearrange the beginning middle and end, and blend in flashbacks and imagined events. Finding actors was simple because almost all of the characters were based on actual people that I am acquainted with. Next was to find locations, this was essential to show different times of the main characters life. After getting everything ready, I took out a calendar and started planning the shooting dates.
On the first day of production my acting arrived three hours late so I had to figure out an alternate way of using the time I had in the morning wisely. A big step of production was to explain each shot to the camera operator, and taking from the script and transforming it into a scene. After production came editing where I was given a second chance to direct. This is where I took all of my scenes and put them together. I came up with new ideas to make my film stronger such as voice over to further develop the insanity of the main character.
Some challenges I experienced were, time management, acting and directing, the abuse of digital effects, and writing seriously. Acting and directing was tough because I would have to get into character and then immediately after hearing the words ÒcutÓ I would assume the director role and set up the next shot. In editing I was my film to look gritty, but I just made the quality of film far from being able to broadcast. I was really nervous in the writing stages because I didnÕt want really dramatic lines to come out cheesy. I feared that when people were going to see the film they were going to laugh.
In the end I came out feeling like a director, having a crew and working as an actor/director. These are the things I am going to take with me into the future. I developed new strengths in writing and acting. I also feel confident in telling a dramatic story through the art of film.
In the future, I will be attending NYU: Tisch School of the Arts, and am pursuing filmmaking and acting. I am currently working on four other film projects.
Fight Club, Dir. David Fincher. DVD. 20th Century Fox. 1999.
A Man Escaped, Dir. Robert Bresson. DVD. Unknown. 1956.
Memento, Dir. Christopher Nolan. DVD. Paramount. 2000.
Old Boy. Dir Chan-wook Park. DVD. Tartan Film. 2003.
I chose Mark Frankel as my community member because ever since 9th grade, I have admired his stories and found that we have a common taste in film and humor. I thought what better to work with someone I feel I have a lot in common with.


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It reminds me of how this country was inspired in the 60's by President Kennedy's call to put a man on the moon.
As the chart above highlights, the United States has a huge opportunity to deploy solar energy resources. We need more solar competent salespeople meeting with home and business owners to provide education about the benefits of solar.


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Dental care needs an overhaul. A part of that overhaul begins with greater access and affordability. Elizabeth Branca sees first-hand how her job as an Advanced Dental Therapist—a newly created role—lets her serve more patients and expand treatment to communities with limited options for care.
"I don't think people realize how hard it is. Imagine you are working two jobs and you don't have great command of the English language. Then, add on lack of transportation and [unstable] housing. Imagine how hard it is to get anything done, especially dental care. And then imagine you call and make an appointment, which can take 20 minutes, and you are paying for your cell phone by the minute. If you are moving all the time, it's hard to confirm appointments. Dental care is hard to navigate. I think people try really hard but they have so many barriers. I've felt like giving up and I know the system and I don't have the same barriers."
—Elizabeth Branca
Elizabeth Branca is an Advanced Dental Therapist with Children's Dental Services (CDS), a nonprofit dental clinic that serves primarily young, low-income Minnesotans. A hygienist for 20 years (and an Advanced Dental Therapist since 2013), she is finishing up an appointment in today's make-shift office at Sabathani Community Center in South Minneapolis. The visible gratitude and relief on the faces of the parents waiting in the lobby is evidence of the focus, care, and thoroughness she provides her patients. Her patient is a nine-year-old boy needing four teeth extracted. Elizabeth has just diagnosed him with three dental abscesses. It sounds like a serious case, and it is, but for Elizabeth, this appointment is typical.
"I see lots of bombed out teeth. I've seen children as young as two with decay in every tooth. In the time I worked at Children's Dental Services, the decay levels haven't gotten a lot better. In fact, they might be getting worse."
Elizabeth was part of the second graduating class of Advanced Dental Therapists to come out of Minnesota. Her organization, CDS, was one of the first organizations to adopt the Advanced Dental Therapist Model. Her role as an Advanced Dental Therapist is a new, exciting, and innovative solution to the crisis Minnesota faces in dental access.
In the U.S., dental cavities, or caries, are the most common chronic disease of childhood, affecting 59% of children. Tooth decay is more than five times more common than asthma, which affects 11% of kids. Yet many children often go years without seeing a dentist due to lack of insurance or an available dentist.
In fact, Minnesota currently ranks last out of all 50 states when it comes to Medicaid funding rates for pediatric dental services, according to the Minnesota Dental Association.
Because of the low payment rates, many dental clinics—especially small and rural clinics—cannot afford to serve low-income patients. This contributes to Minnesota's current access crisis where low-income patients with serious dental problems cannot get the treatment they need.
"People call and call until they can find a dentist to see them. I've driven to Litchfield for an hour and a half and [that patient] has driven an hour and a half to see me. Dentists won't take medical assistance, but all dentists could, in my opinion," shares Elizabeth, with both urgency and humility in her voice.
An Urgent Problem In Need of Solutions
During the late 1990s, Minnesota suffered the greatest percentage of decline in the dentist-to-population ratio. This lack of care falls disproportionately on low-income Americans. Eighty percent of pediatric dental disease is concentrated in 25% of children, mostly from low-income and households of color. One example of the most tragic consequence of this lack of health care occurred in February 2007 when 12-year-old Deamonte Driver of Maryland died after bacteria from an untreated tooth abscess infected his brain. Children's Dental Services' Executive Director Sarah Wovcha says, "Deamonte's death is a harbinger of an urgent problem and the 'perfect storm.' He had medical assistance, but was unable to find a dentist who would provide care for him." In the United States, "We have successfully segregated dental health from medical health. And our mouth is really only three inches from our brain."
To work towards a solution to this problem, in May 2009, with pressure and partnership from the Safety Net Coalition Oral Health Committee, the Minnesota legislature became the first in the nation to approve a type of role like Elizabeth's. The Advanced Dental Therapist is the dental equivalent of a nurse practitioner, licensed to perform such procedures as filling cavities and extracting teeth.
"We're able to meet basic needs because we are paid less, we're mobile and many of us have hygiene backgrounds and so we can merge prevention and restoration together," explains Elizabeth.
"That's extremely important. We're able to do more, go further in public health clinics and in greater Minnesota. We can do both cleanings and fillings. We can see patients from the beginning to the end."
Policy makers in other states are viewing Minnesota's law as one answer to the lack of access to dental care for millions of Americans, particularly low-income and the uninsured.
"If a dentist typically does 500 procedures, an advanced dental therapist does about 50 procedures, the most common procedures in dental history," explains Sarah. "This is a much more affordable option for a community clinic, a nonprofit, or a hospital to employ—freeing health dollars to employ additional providers."
Elizabeth is proud that she's making an impact where she previously couldn't as a dental hygienist. "I've seen all the need that is out there. I used to only be able to do their hygiene and refer [patients]. That struck me and I felt I could do better, and I could help out more" says Elizabeth. As an Advanced Dental Therapist, "I love my job and I love working with kids. I'm glad I have this opportunity to do this. I'm glad I can help out even a little bit."
An Affordable and Accessible Provider
An Advanced Dental Therapist makes dental care more affordable and accessible system-wide, freeing up dentists to focus on tougher cases and provide more specialized care. For CDS, adding Advanced Dental Therapists to their business model has been transformative.
"We're definitely able to provide more access to dental care and be more financially sustainable as we do it." —Sarah Wovcha
"Running a nonprofit dental clinic in Minnesota is a risky proposition because of the low medical assistance reimbursement rates." says Sarah. One big win for nonprofits like CDS is that this incremental shift in the system enables nonprofit dental clinics to keep their doors open. Another big win is expanding dental care access to more Minnesotans who need it.
Because expanding access to care is CDS's mission, that means Elizabeth shows up where the community needs her. "I do care in WIC offices, Head Start Centers, schools, community centers, county buildings where we set up in offices or conference rooms. It's very hard for people to get around. If we go to Brooklyn Park, Brooklyn Center, or Richfield, it's easier for folks to get care," versus asking patients to travel to CDS's main office in Northeast Minneapolis. "We also go out to Glencoe, Litchfield, Milaca. I have been set up in conference rooms, nurses' offices, large closets, the stage, auditoriums, art rooms, and in the hallway," shares Elizabeth with a smile. Wherever she is, she brings her serious sense of mission and dedication to providing quality care.
Elizabeth wants Pollenites to remember what a lack of dental care can mean for a child:
"You can't be in school with a painful tooth. You aren't paying attention, you might not be eating, speech can be affected."
"We're in crisis with dental care and we need to change the system so people aren't going to emergency rooms for dental care. We need to make sure people have access to care. There are many ways to deal with that: more providers, increasing reimbursement rates, and making access better for everyone. And more advanced dental therapists are a great start."
Still today, there are young people in Minnesota who hold dental coverage through Medicaid but don't have access to local care. Area dentists aren't able, or willing, to accept Medicaid patients due to absurdly low reimbursement rates. These children have parents who care about their kids' teeth, only to spend hours of energy trying to find them a provider, even despite difficulty navigating a bureaucratic and complex system. Amid additional economic and structural barriers, those same parents are sometimes miraculously able to arrange transportation to drive long distances just to be seen by a provider. And yet, more often than is acceptable, those efforts fall outrageously short.
Our dental care system needs to change in immediate and absolute ways to ensure our whole population has a healthy mouth. As connected, passionate and engaged citizens, we need to push for more providers (especially in rural areas), increased reimbursement rates, and easier and better access for everyone. While they aren't and can't be the whole solution, Advanced Dental Therapists are a step in the right direction.
This story was created in partnership with the Minnesota Accountable Health Model – SIM Minnesota.
This story and project partners* featured in this story were funded by a $45 million State Innovation Model (SIM) cooperative agreement, awarded to the Minnesota Departments of Health and Human Services in 2013 by the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation to help implement the Minnesota Accountable Health Model.
*Children's Dental Services
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Kate Khaled
Kate Downing Khaled is on a mission to use her skills in community engagement to shape the future to be more fair and welcoming. In her work, Kate is the owner of an independent consulting firm where she facilitates creative design and equitable strategy processes for her clients. She helps them imagine, deliver and communicate programs and products that work for everyone. In her past work at Charities Review Council, she served the role of Director of Engagement & Programs, where she led the Council's creative design, business modeling and partnership development efforts – including the development of a Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Assessment Toolkit for nonprofits, philanthropies, coalitions and municipalities. Kate previously contributed to a variety of philanthropic projects in her work with Grassroots Solutions – community problem-solving campaigns like the Minnesota Idea Open and the Connect for Health Challenge. An active and vocal member of the Minnesota Muslim community, Kate lives in Saint Paul with her husband Taqee and their three sons. In her vast spare time between building a business and raising a family, you can find Kate writing creative nonfiction, refinishing mid-century furniture and enjoying Minnesota's markets, culture and anything outdoors. Send her a personal message: kate@katekhaled.com.
Hannan Wazwaz
Hannan Wazwaz is an entrepreneur, marketer, photographer, and aspiring filmmaker who seeks to live life with a higher purpose. She molds her talents and experiences into a powerful opportunity that provides inspiration and benefit to those around her. In 2012, she co-founded and established Altamish And Hannan Photography with her husband and has been photographing professionally ever since, as well as working in different areas in marketing. As a visual storyteller, Hannan's photography and filmmaking focus on community building, humanitarian causes, and lifestyle events.

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A holographic image? Not quite! This piece is actually simpler than it looks—we take four panels of clear acrylic, etch into one face of each panel the image of an elegant frosted chandelier, and then light from above. The design is simple, but the effect creates the illusion of multiple dimensions, as the images seem to mirror each other within an airy, translucent space. This interior lighting can also be customized to specific size needs, to create the 21st century remodel of a classic look.
The result is a 21st take on a classic.


In my recent work, both in the classroom and in research, the most common recurring question is "what should we be teaching?" This question is valid in a world of Google, Wikipedia and instant access to information from the device in your pocket. This educational challenge is also expanded by the thousands of young people already pushing beyond the conventional system due to success in personally instigated start-ups and projects they have organised themselves. The personal empowerment and opportunities that the internet and technology offer will challenge nearly every aspect of traditional education.
This means teachers are free and trusted to tailor their classroom activities to suit the exact children in the room and also allow them to inquire into content of their own choosing. That said, the change to this less structured approach has been a challenge for many long-standing educators and only in its eighth year is it starting to bear real fruit.
The need for this pedagogical innovation in teaching philosophy involves technology but is also, in part, driven by technological advancement. The speed at which technology is altering the opportunities within the job market is increasing each year. Recent studies indicate that large percentages of jobs will disappear altogether. This increasingly flexible world requires flexible but also collaborative learning environments. Students are being encouraged to create their future career rather than find one.
My conversations with educators around the world indicates that we are seeing a worldwide shift towards student-driven learning, where the content studied, and challenged, is also selected by the learners. Teachers will learn to stand back and be amazed at what students are capable of when given this freedom.
The innovation will come from the dismantling of traditional classroom hierarchies and the empowerment of young people to use any technology and skills, which they can more successfully develop in a learning environment that they control.
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CASMED and Century Medical Execute Distribution Agreement for FORE-SIGHT® Oximeters in Japan
CAS Medical Systems Inc. Jun 05, 2014
Shipments Expected to Begin in the Third Quarter, Following Receipt of Regulatory Approval
BRANFORD, Conn. – CAS Medical Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq:CASM) (CASMED), a leader in medical devices for non-invasive patient monitoring, today announced that it has signed an agreement with Century Medical, Inc. to serve as the exclusive distributor of the Company's FORE-SIGHT ELITE® Cerebral Oximeters in Japan.
Century Medical has a 40-year history as a distributor of quality medical products. Century Medical will sell the FORE-SIGHT oximetry products through its cardiovascular division, which includes more than 5 field personnel across seven offices. By bringing best-in-class products to their clinician customers, Century Medical has a strong track record of success in building and expanding markets with unique products from some of the world's leading medtech companies. Century Medical is a subsidiary of ITOCHU Corporation, Japan's third largest trading company.
"Establishing high-quality distribution with comprehensive reach in the world's second-largest medical market represents another key milestone for our Company," said Thomas Patton, CASMED's President and CEO. "With an existing product portfolio that is complementary to FORE-SIGHT oximetry along with established relationships with key decision makers across Japan, Century Medical is the ideal partner for us. In addition, they have a well-earned reputation for providing innovative products supported by a high level of customer service."
"We look forward to building a long-term relationship with CASMED and to establishing the FORE-SIGHT ELITE Oximeter as the market leader in Japan," said Akira Hoshino, President and CEO of Century Medical. "Many of our customers are familiar with FORE-SIGHT oximetry from the body of literature that has been published in support of the product and from its success in the United States, and are keenly interested in gaining first-hand experience with this best-in-class technology."
CASMED expects the regulatory approvals necessary to permit Century Medical to market the product in Japan to be received early in the third quarter of 2014.
About CASMED® - Monitoring What's Vital
CASMED is a leading developer and manufacturer of medical devices for non-invasive patient monitoring that are vital to patient care. The Company's FORE-SIGHT Absolute Cerebral Oximetry technology provides highly accurate, non-invasive, continuous measurement of absolute cerebral tissue oxygen saturation. Direct monitoring of tissue oxygenation provides a superior and powerful tool to alert clinicians to otherwise unrecognized and dangerously low levels of oxygenation of the brain and other tissues, thereby allowing them to intervene appropriately in the care of their patients. In addition to FORE-SIGHT Oximeters and accessories, the Company provides a line of bedside patient vital signs monitoring products, proprietary non-invasive blood pressure monitoring solutions for OEM use, neonatal intensive care supplies, and service. For further information regarding CASMED, visit the Company's website at www.casmed.com.
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Nederlandse Taalkunde
Nederlandse Taalkunde - Volume 25, Issue 2-3, 2020
Volume 25, Issue 2-3, 2020
Aan het Nederlands lijkt best wat te knutselen
Authors: Marten van der Meulen & Nicoline van der Sijs
https://doi.org/10.5117/NEDTAA2020.2-3.021.VAND
The influence of prescriptivism on Dutch
Weerman (2003) unequivocally rejected the possibility for language to be malleable. At the time, there was little empirical research to challenge or support this claim. Over the last two decades, however, a fairly large body of research has delved into this issue. In light of this, we review some of Weerman's views, and discuss new findings of the recent literature, both for Dutch and other languages. We show how new methods and insights have led to a re-evaluation of the effects of prescriptivism. We furthermore argue that, rather than categorically dismissing effects of prescriptivism, researchers should focus on case studies with different parameters, including linguistic level, prohibition strength and time period.
Natiolectismen in misdaadfictie
By Reglindis De Ridder
https://doi.org/10.5117/NEDTAA2020.2-3.022.DERI
Natiolectisms in crime fiction. Language variation in subtitles
Sarah Van Hoof and Bram Vandekerckhove (2013) studied linguistic variation in a diachronic corpus of television series broadcast by the Flemish public service broadcaster (VRT). To establish whether there had been a decrease in oral standard Dutch language usage between the late 1970s and the late 2000s, they scrutinised the actors' rendition of their scripts. They found that less Standard Dutch, but also less dialects were used in the Dutch-language fiction of the late 2000s. The latter contained more colloquial Belgian Dutch, the so-called 'in-between' variety ('tussentaal'). While such sociolinguistic research into local Dutch-language fiction is highly interesting, it is also important to study linguistic variation in translated foreign fiction, as Dutch speakers are exposed a lot to such (audiovisual) translations. This article presents the results of a lexical analysis of a diachronic corpus of crime fiction subtitles (De Ridder 2015). These were broadcast by the VRT before and after their language policy changed in favour of an adherence to the Belgian, rather than the Netherlandic Dutch standard. The aim is to establish whether this resulted in an increase of Belgian Dutch lexis in their subtitles. Remarkably, in each period under scrutiny, in fact, more Netherlandic Dutch lexis was retrieved.
Internationaler, collectiever, genderdiverser
By Dirk Geeraerts
https://doi.org/10.5117/NEDTAA2020.2-3.023.GEER
More international, collective, gender diverse
This contribution sheds light on three tendencies in the history of the journal Dutch Linguistics: the increase of Belgian authors, of female authors and of co-authors.
Vroege visies op taalverwerving
By Els Elffers
https://doi.org/10.5117/NEDTAA2020.2-3.024.ELFF
Early perspectives on language acquisition
Early psycholinguistics used to be a neglected area, due to the spectacular restart of the discipline during the 1950s and 1960s. In an article published in Nederlandse Taalkunde 10 (2005), Marijke van der Wal and Ariane van Santen contribute to a correction of this disbalance by discussing early 20th-century Dutch research into language acquisition. Their discussion of Van Ginneken's De Roman van een kleuter (The story of a toddler) (1917) and Rombouts's 1919 supplement to this book shows that, in those days, a relatively advanced degree of empirical knowledge about developmental stages in child language and awareness of related, partially time-bound, theoretical issues had already been attained.
De schriftelijke bril opgepoetst
By Ad Foolen
https://doi.org/10.5117/NEDTAA2020.2-3.025.FOOL
In a special issue of Nederlandse Taalkunde (vol. 13(2), 2008), eight discussants commented on the so-called written language bias thesis, which claims that in literate societies, both naive language users and linguists perceive spoken language in terms of units that are in fact properties of writing: letters, words, and sentences. This thesis was discussed and defended in a lengthy book from 2006, Homo loquens en homo scribens, written by A. Kraak (1928-2005). The special issue contained a spectrum of opinions pro and contra the thesis. The present article looks back at that discussion and tries to bring it to a new level, making use of ideas brought in by Davidson (2019). That article helps to understand why opinions can be so diverse: They address different aspects of a reality that is rather complex. The idea that writing is simply the rendering of spoken language in another medium is not doing justice to this complex reality. As Davidson argues, a proper treatment of the written language bias issue is only possible in a new theoretical perspective.
Is het schoolvak Nederlands inspirerender geworden?
Authors: Hans Hulshof & Jimmy van Rijt
https://doi.org/10.5117/NEDTAA2020.2-3.026.HULS
In 2003, Theo Janssen wrote a contribution for Nederlandse Taalkunde [Dutch Linguistics] about the incorporation of linguistic knowledge into the school subject of Dutch Language and Literature, hoping thus to enrich the content of the school subject and making it more inspiring. In our contribution we discuss the great relevance of Janssen's contribution, and we show that his plea is still extremely topical. In addition, we discuss some recent developments, and we particularly draw attention to the complex relationship between academic linguistics and the related school subject.
Bibliografie van 25 jaar Nederlandse Taalkunde / Dutch Linguistics
https://doi.org/10.5117/NEDTAA2020.2-3.027.BIBL
Volume 23 (2018 - 2019)
Tussentaal wordt omgangstaal in Vlaanderen
By Johan De Caluwe
Leve hun! Waarom hun nog steeds hun zeggen
Authors: Geertje van Bergen, Wessel Stoop, Jorrig Vogels & Helen de Hoop
Understanding grammar at the community level requires a diachronic perspective
By Freek Van de Velde
Feiten en fictie - Taalvariatie in Vlaamse televisiereeksen vroeger en nu
Authors: Sarah Van Hoof & Bram Vande kerckhove
Connectieven in de rechterperiferie - Een contrastieve analyse van dus en donc in gesproken taal
By Liesbeth Degand
Pragmatische partikels in de rechterperiferie
Authors: Ton van der Wouden & Ad Foolen
Expeditie Tussentaal - Leeftijd, identiteit en context in "Expeditie Robinson"
Authors: Zenner Eline, Geeraerts Dirk & Speelman Dirk
The nominalization of Dutch particle verbs: Schema unification and second order schemas
By Geert Booij
Dus vooraan of in het midden? - Over vorm-functierelaties in het gebruik van connectieven
By Jacqueline Evers-Vermeul
De imperativische infinitief in het Nederlands - Een corpusgebaseerde benadering
By Daniël Van Olmen
http://instance.metastore.ingenta.com/content/journals/13845845/25/2-3


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Home Sweet Hood: Harbisons Dairy
Cohere's third annual Home Sweet 'Hood.
For the last three years, we have showcased adaptive reuse projects in Philadelphia during their construction phases. We created Home Sweet 'Hood to grant access to unique projects in their early stages and hear behind-the-scenes stories from the change-makers who are transforming exciting spaces in the city.
Rendering by Voxl.Vision
Protecting a historical landmark
If you've ridden the Market-Frankford line between the stations of Berks and York Dauphin, you may have seen the 120-year old-milk bottle water tower – Harbisons Dairy. This iconic Philly landmark opened in 1865 and would deliver fresh cold milk daily by a milkman in a metal tray to resident's doorsteps since refrigerators were not a common household appliance until the late 1920s.
The factory prospered until the 1960s when it began to close down and sell off its infrastructure. Shortly after, the warehouse and tower began to deteriorate, eventually becoming a vacant black hole in Kensington. After much back and forth, The Historical Commission voted early 2018 to protect the milk bottle and the industrial building that it crowns.
A look inside the project
The factory will take on new life as a mixed-use home base for Philadelphia's creative types. As part of the 2019 DesignPhiladelphia Festival, guests were able to enjoy a hard hat tour of the site, see the project in its early construction phase and experience the well-known milk bottle restoration underway with space activation courtesy of Rohe Creative.
Guests had an opportunity to ask questions directly to the team behind the redevelopment in a small panel setting that was guided by our own Creative Director, Dylan Garner. Attendees also heard from SgRA Architects about the history of this iconic building and the Rohe Creative team on the inspiration and direction for the future interiors.
We want it to fit the neighborhood, honor the history, and create a place where the community can gather. That balancing act was one of the most challenging parts of this project.
Megan Helmuth, Rohe Creative
This project means a lot for the area. The massive windows won't be boarded up anymore and the milk bottle will be repainted to look just like it did in 1950, the way your grandparents knew it. There will be 100 employees working here during the day, and the public can use parts of the space as well. The reactivation of this building will help turn Kensington back into an industrial powerhouse without destroying its history. We're bringing this place back to life, and we're really excited about it.
Sterling Wilson, Developer
Following this insightful chat, Southwood Developers led attendees on a hard hat tour of the active construction site. They showcased some of the original features such as finishes and tiling of the building and how they will be incorporated in the redevelopment as an ode to the building's roots.
Branding the project
This is a unique property with a storied history that we intend to weave into messaging and visuals that we showcased on mood boards for the event. Activating the building's rich history of fonts and imagery aided our direction and helped maintain authenticity as we crafted the brand.
The story of Martha
To finish off the evening we walked over to Martha for an exclusive menu sampling of hoagies, charcuterie and veggie plates along with natural wines and cocktails. As early restaurateurs in Kensington, we thought it was important to hear from Martha co-owners Jon Medlinsky and Mike Parsell about their inspiration and anecdotal stories of their time spent creating a neighborhood favorite.
Their emphasis on plant-forward cuisine is uncommon, especially when paired with their love of fermentation and natural wines. Martha has been a part of Kensington since 2015, and in many ways set the meter for a lot of redevelopment in the area, including Harbsions. Martha served as a natural ending point for the evening.
We are so grateful for yet another sold out experience and are aiming to make Home Sweet Hood a more regular affair! Sign up for our newsletter to get exclusive invitations before tickets go on sale to the public.
Adaptive Reuse: All Hail the Hale Building


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Q: Плавная анимация передвижения одной окружности внутри другой Даны 2 окружности, вложенные одна в другую:
необходимо реализовать отталкивание внутренней от курсора при этом она не должна выходить за границы внешней.

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        this.ctx.lineWidth = 3;
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        this.ctx[fill.fill]();
        this.ctx.closePath();
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                this.y += yResult / distance * speed;
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            currentY = mouseY;

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Подскажите как реализовать планый "отскок" шара от прикосновения к нему курсором на некую дистанцию и при этом такой же плавный "отскок" от границы внешней окружности при столкновении.

A: Чтобы движения были без рывков, необходимо положения считать исходя из скоростей и времени между кадрами.
Т.е. зная положение объекта в прошлом кадре, его направление,  скорость движения и сколько прошло с прошлого кадра секунд - вычисляем новое положение.
Собрал маленький пример:

*

*Я завел объект, описывающий состояние шарика.

*Повесил слушатель, который обновляет глобальное положение мыши по mousemove

*Написал цикл отрисовки (рекурсивный вызов через requestAnimationFrame), который берет значение положения шарика из объекта-состояния и рисует его + рисует внешний круг.

*Запустил независимый от отрисовки цикл(setInterval), который меняет состояние шарика. Он делает 3 вещи:

*

*Обрабатывает положение мыши относительно шарика, и когда произошло столкновение устанавливает шарику скорость и вектор движения.

*Считает новое положения шарика исходя из его текущего положения, вектора его движения и скорости. Постепенно уменьшает скорость движения.

*Обрабатывает столкновения с внешним кругом, подсчитывая новый отраженный вектор движения
Отраженный вектор равен исходному вектору минус вектор нормали умноженный на двойное скалярное произведение вектора нормали в точке соударения и исходного вектора.

r = i−2(i⋅n)n
Вот рабочий пример:

// координаты мыши относительно центра канвы.
let x = 0, y = 0;

// глобальный слушатель мышки
window.addEventListener('mousemove', e => {
  let z = window.getComputedStyle(canvas).zoom || 1;
  x = e.pageX/z - e.target.offsetLeft - canvas.width/2,
  y = e.pageY/z - e.target.offsetTop - canvas.height/2;
});

let ball = {

  r: 50,    // радиус шарика
  x: 0,     // координата по х центра шарика
  y: 0,     // координата по y центра шарика
  speed: 0, // скорость движения
  dirx: 0,  // компонент x вектора движения шарика
  diry: 0,  // компонент y вектора движения шарика
  damp: 10, // скорость уменьшения скорости движения (сопротивление)
  collision: false, // признак коллизии с внешним кругом

  // функция, которая проверяет наличие коллизии шарика с внешним кругом
  hitOuterCircleCheck: function() {

   let dr = 195-this.r; //разница радиусов
   // по теореме пифагора проверяем выход за пределы круга (коллизию)
   if (this.x*this.x + this.y*this.y > dr*dr) {

      // если коллизия уже была обсчитана, но шарик еще не вернулся в круг,
      // чтобы он не застревал больше не надо обсчитывать коллизии, поэтому выходим
      if (this.collision)
          return;

      // устанавливаем для шарика признак коллизии
      this.collision = true;

      // далее идет код расчета нового вектора движения

      // найдем вектор нормали. тут он берется приближенно,
      // в точке центра шарика в момент обсчета коллизии,
      // при том что шарик уже проскочил границу. по идее тут
      // необходимо посчитать точку соударения геометрически.
      let max = Math.max(Math.abs(this.x), Math.abs(this.y));
      let nx = -this.x/max;
      let ny = -this.y/max;

      // найдем новый вектор движения по формуле
      // r = i−2(i⋅n)n , где
      // i - исходный вектор
      // n - нормаль
      // ⋅ знак скалярного произведения

      let dot2 = this.dirx * nx * 2 + this.diry * ny * 2
      this.dirx = this.dirx-dot2*nx;
      this.diry = this.diry-dot2*ny;

      // нормализуем вектор движения
      max = Math.max(Math.abs(this.dirx), Math.abs(this.diry));
      this.dirx /= max;
      this.diry /= max;
    } else {

      // сбрасываем признак коллизии когда шарик вернулся в круг.
      this.collision = false;
    }
  },

  // функция проверки коллизии шарика и мышки
  hitMouseCheck: function() {

    // если есть коллизия с внешним кругом игнорируем мышку
    if (this.collision)
      return;

    // разница координат мышки и шарика
    let dx = this.x - x;
    let dy = this.y - y;

    // проверяем по теореме Пифагора столкновение с мышкой
    if (dx*dx + dy*dy < ball.r*ball.r) {
      // задаем вектор движения и нормализуем его
      let max = Math.max(Math.abs(dx), Math.abs(dy));
      if (!max) return;
      this.dirx = dx/max;
      this.diry = dy/max;

      // задаем скорость
      this.speed = 300;
    }
  },

  // тут осуществляется передвижение
  // dt - кол-во секунд с прошлого обсчета
  doMove: function(dt) {

    // к текущей координате прибавляем вектор скорости помноженный
    // на значение скорости помноженные на прошедшее время
    this.x += this.dirx*this.speed*dt;
    this.y += this.diry*this.speed*dt;

    // тормозим объект, так же на значение зависящее от времени
    this.speed = Math.max(0, this.speed - this.damp*dt);
  }
};

// цикл прверок, не зависит от цикла отрисовки,
// все проверки запускаются дискретно, через фиксированное время 10 мс
// если считать "физику" в requestAnimationFrame все будет печально.
let t = 0;
setInterval(() => {
  // считаем сколько времени прошло с прошлого обсчета
  let dt = new Date().getTime() - t;
  ball.hitMouseCheck();
  ball.doMove(dt/1000);
  ball.hitOuterCircleCheck();
  t = new Date().getTime();
}, 5);

// далее нет никаких фокусов

let canvas = document.querySelector('canvas');
let ctx = canvas.getContext('2d');

requestAnimationFrame(draw);

function draw() {
  ctx.clearRect(0, 0, canvas.width, canvas.height);
  ctx.translate(canvas.width/2, canvas.height/2)
  circle(0, 0, 195);
  circle(ball.x, ball.y, ball.r);
  ctx.translate(-canvas.width/2, -canvas.height/2)
  requestAnimationFrame(draw);
}

function circle(x,y,r) {
  ctx.beginPath();
  ctx.strokeStyle = 'red';
  ctx.lineWidth = 3;
  ctx.arc(x, y, r, 0, Math.PI*2, true);
  ctx.stroke();
  ctx.closePath();
}
<body style="margin:0"><canvas width="400" height="400"/></body>

В этом алгоритме есть неточности, точнее недоработки, но в этом примере они несущественны.

*

*В момент обсчета столкновения шарика, когда успешно прошла проверка коллизии с внешним кругом, шарик уже находится за пределами окружности, нормаль я определяю именно в точке центра шарика, а не в точке столкновения. точку эту можно и посчитать, но это усложнит пример.

*Не хватает переноса шарика обратно в область внешнего круга, с учетом изменения вектора движения в точке соударения, когда он находится уже за границей. Это выражается в том что даже иногда визуально видно как шарик слегка выходит за границы.


Macchiaoli is taken from the Italian and means "stain" or "blot". In about 1855-1865 there was a group of painters who detracted from the norm and experimented with blobs of paint on their canvases. Corot and Courbet, the Realist painters, influenced these artists in their painting of landscapes and genre paintings. Costa, Lega Fattori and Signorini were some of the more famous painters who fell into this group. Other painters concentrated on painting pseudo-Romantic paintings with costumes and/or history as their subjects. Degas' friends De Nittis, Zandomeneghi, and Boldini were influenced by Impressionism. Diego Martelli, one of Degas' subjects, was the chief critic and apologist for these artists.


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Episode 24—Matt Smythe
April 7, 2019 Jason Rolfe
In this episode, I sit down with poet Matt Smythe.
From the American Fly Fishing Trade Association:
"A freelance writer since 2011, Matt has worked in advertising since 2004 holding positions from business development to creative direction on brands like General Motors, Blue Cross Blue Shield, Thomas & Thomas, and ScentBlocker. He's also a filmmaker and published writer with stories and poetry appearing in Fly Fish Journal, The Drake, Midcurrent, Boating Magazine, Southern Culture on the Fly, Post Magazine, and others.
An Army veteran and native of the Finger Lakes region in Western New York where he lives with his wife and three kids, Matt is an avid outdoorsman who grew up fishing, bowhunting, and camping, learning how to fly fish during grad school."
Thanks to Sage Fly Fishing for their support.
Music by Nathaniel Riverhorse Nakadate.
In Episodes Tags smythe, poetry, affta, interview
Episode 23—The Cascadia Tour 2016 | Portland
September 9, 2018 Jason Rolfe
In this abbreviated version of the 2016 Cascadia Tour stop in Portland, Oregon, we hear from author Cameron Chambers and writer/guide/badass Kate Taylor.
Cameron is the author of the book Chasing Rumor: A Season Fly Fishing In Patagonia, published in 2015 by Patagonia Books.
Kate Taylor owns and operates Frigate Travel, with her husband Justin Crump. Kate and Justin chase the season each year, guiding in Oregon, Alaska, Baja, and beyond. Her pieces featured in this episode were originally published in The Flyfish Journal.
A special thanks goes out to Sage Fly Fishing for their support of The Fly Tapes. Check out the new Backcountry Season feature.
Music by: Nathaniel Riverhorse Nakadate.
In 2018, Episodes, selected readings Tags Cameron Chambers, kate taylor, portland, chasing rumor, frigate travel
Episode 22—The Cascadia Tour 2016: Bend
August 10, 2018 Jason Rolfe
In today's episode, we're going back to the early days of Writers on the Fly, with a reading in Bend, Oregon, that started off the first ever Cascadia Tour. This reading happened on November 1, 2016, and featured a handful of great writers and featured photographers as well.
Among the readers in this episode, you'll likely recognize a few familiar voices. Both Amanda Monthei and Steve Duda have been featured on The Fly Tapes previously, so if you'd like to learn more about them, check out their episodes!
New to the podcast today we've got: Copi Vojta, who happens to be the photography editor of The Flyfish Journal, but also a solid writer in his own right. He reads a piece called This Is Us, which was featured in the Journal a while back.
Following Copi you'll hear from Paul Moinester. Paul is part of the braintrust behind the #KeepEmWet campaign, which you've likely seen around social media, and is also half of the team behind the always entertaining Moldy Chum.
Finally, after the break, we hear from Brett Gaba. Brett is a writer and East Coast transplant, and the editor of Steelheader's Journal. His book about fly fishing Maryland's Chesapeake Bay is a real treat, and worth checking out.
Thanks to Sage Fly Fishing for their support of the Fly Tapes.
Music, as always, by Nathaniel Riverhorse Nakadate.
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Episode 21—A Southern Wish with Riverhorse
July 23, 2018 Jason Rolfe
Nathaniel Riverhorse Nakadate swung through the homestead in June, and we sat down to chat about what he's been up to this summer and do a reading of his piece, A Southern Wish, from Issue 8.2 of The Flyfish Journal.
This episode is sponsored by Sage. Check out the recent Trout Season feature at https://www.sageflyfish.com/experience/seasons/2018-trout-season.
Music by Riverhorse.
In Episodes, 2018 Tags Riverhorse, a southern wish, The Flyfish Journal
Episode 20—Chris Dombrowski
In today's episode, I chat with writer Chris Dombrowski. Chris' most recent book, Body of Water, was published by Milkweed Editions in 2016, though he has been writing and publishing poetry and prose for quite some time.
His work has been featured in Orion Magazine, Terrain.Org, Outside Magazine, and Angler's Journal, to name a few. Most recently, The Drake Magazine featured a profile of David James Duncan, Chris' friend and fishing partner, in the Summer 2018 issue.
To learn more about Chris and his work--including the Beargrass Writing Retreat which takes place each summer--visit his website.
This episode is sponsored by Sage Fly Fishing. Check out the new Trout Season feature.
In Episodes, 2018 Tags dombrowski, body of water, montana, harrison, poetry
Episode 19—Will Rice
June 30, 2018 Jason Rolfe
In today's episode, I chat with Will Rice, an East Coast native and Pacific Northwest transplant by way of Colorado.
Will's work has been featured in The Denver Post, The Drake Magazine, The Flyfish Journal, and Angling Trade, among other publications.
Will sums up his fly fishing and writing philosophy pretty well: "I have always had one guiding philosophy for my outdoor writing: I am not alone," says Will. "If I think something is cool or have a kick ass experience, there are a ton of other folks who will be interested in hearing about it and best case entertained - and possibly even inspired to get out and do something new. Pretty simple stuff."
This episode sponsored by Sage Fly Fishing—Check out the Trout Season Feature here!
In 2018, Episodes Tags will rice, the drake, The Flyfish Journal, brickhead
Episode 18—Chris Santella
In this episode, I chat with author Chris Santella about his early life, his ventures into writing about flyfishing, and the challenges of writing a book like Fifty Places to Flyfish Before You Die. We also chat about his most recent book publication, The Tug is the Drug, published by Stackpole Books in 2017.
During the episode, you'll hear a song from Chris's upcoming conservation inspired album recorded with his band, Catch and Release. And of course you'll get a fishing story, this one called 'The Karma of Broken Trailers,' from The Tug is the Drug.
This episode is sponsored by Sage Fly Fishing! Check out the Bass II series of rods at SageFlyFish.com.
Subscribe to The Fly Tapes in iTunes and Stitcher.
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Episode 17—Selected Readings 2
May 30, 2018 Jason Rolfe
First up in today's episode, author Langdon Cook reads "Silver Beach," from his first book, The Fat of the Land. Langdon is the author of three books of non-fiction, including The Mushroom Hunters and Upstream. Find out more about Langdon and his work at www.langdoncook.com.
Following Langdon, we've got a reading from author and editor Chris Santella. Chris reads his story, "Nato and the Human Anchor," which can be found in his story collection The Tug is the Drug. Learn more about Chris's work here.
Today's episode is sponsored by Sage Fly Fishing. Check out Sage's specialty rod lineups, including the Bass II, and get out there and rope some hogs!
Music: "The Zepellin" by Blue Dot Sessions, from Free Music Archive under CC BY/NC 4.0; "Blue Highway" by Podington Bear, from Free Music Archive under CC BY/NC 4.0.
In 2018, Episodes Tags Cook, Santella, readings, selected readings, The Cascadia Tour
Episode 16—Amanda Monthei
In today's episode, I chat with writer, firefighter, ski bum, and former yearbook making wizard Amanda Monthei.
Amanda's work has been published in The Flyfish Journal, The Ski Journal, The Drake, and others. You can find out more about her work at www.amandamonthei.com.
Thanks to Sage Fly Fishing for their support of The Fly Tapes. Visit SageFlyFish.com to learn more about the Salt HD family of rods built for chasing salty fish, from bones to barracuda to GTs.
In 2018, Episodes Tags monthei, hotshots, firefighting
Episode 15—Casey Underwood / Steve Duda
April 30, 2018 Jason Rolfe
In this episode, I sat down to chat with artist Casey Underwood about growing in California and his development as an artist in the fly fishing world.
Casey's work can be seen on the web at CaseyUnderwood.com, and, more recently, on a series of T-shirts designed for Filson.
Also included in today's show is a reading from Steve Duda of his piece Impossibly Violent and Savagely Fast, which was a contribution to The Flyfish Journal's recent Bahamacon 2018 web exclusive, along with work by Copi Vojta, A.J. Gottschalk, Cameron Scott, and Nathaniel Riverhorse Nakadate.
In 2018, Episodes Tags Riverhorse, steve, Steve Duda, Casey Underwood, art, Art
Episode 14—Nathaniel Riverhorse Nakadate
In this episode, I chat with Nathaniel Riverhorse Nakadate about his early years in Texas, chasing waves and dreams around the world, and how he approaches writing about flyfishing, among other things.
Riverhorse's work has appeared in The Flyfish Journal, American Angler, Surfing Magazine, The Fretboard Journal, and most recently as part of Sage Fly Fishing's "Saltwater Season."
During the episode, you'll hear Riverhorse read "Spring Creek Master" and "Cloudburst," originally published in The Flyfish journal, and "Fine Tuned," originally published in Surfing Magazine.
This episode is brought to you by Sage Fly Fishing.
In 2018, Episodes Tags riverhorse, texas, bass
Episode 13—Jay Johnson
Jay Johnson has chased exotic species of fish all around the world, but if you ask him what really gets him stoked, he'll probably start telling you about the trash clean-up/fly fishing clinics he helps organize as part of Pig Farm Ink.
As a part of Motiv Fishing, Jay helped to bridge the gap between the worlds of competitive bass fishing and fly fishing, and brought adventure fly fishing to a wider audience with Fish or Die, which aired on Animal Planet.
When he's not touring around chasing black bass in New Guinea or touring with the Pig Farm crew, you'll find him back home in Loveland, Colorado, working on an organic farm and hatching new plans for how to revolutionize the world fly fishing newbies everywhere.
Visit www.syzygyflyfishing.com for more info.
In 2018, Episodes Tags Jay Johnson, Pig Farm Ink, Motiv, Bitchin
Episode 12—Kirk Deeter
March 22, 2018 Jason Rolfe
From AnglingTrade.com:
"Kirk Deeter is the editor of Angling Trade. He is also an editor-at-large for Field & Stream magazine, and the editor-in-chief of TROUT magazine, the national publication of Trout Unlimited. He has written and fished throughout the world, and his work also has appeared in other media including WIRED, Garden & Gun, USA Today, London's Daily Telegraph newspaper, and the full range of fly-fishing magazines and websites. He is also the co-author of The Little Red Book of Fly Fishing."
In this episode, I chat with Kirk about his beginnings in fly fishing and outdoor writing, the importance of finding and chasing the things you're passionate about, and where he hopes to go next.
We also get three readings from Kirk: "In Search of the River Gods" from Field & Stream; a selection from Kirk's and Andrew Steketee's book CastWork; and "The Fight of Your Life," from Garden & Gun Magazine.
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Music from Nathaniel Riverhorse Nakadate.
In Episodes, 2018 Tags episode, deeter, readings
Episode 11—Geoff Mueller
March 4, 2018 Jason Rolfe
"Geoff Mueller cut his editorial teeth working the Interior B.C. newspaper circuit. He came to The Drake in April 2010 to head senior editor duties as the magazine transitions into a quarterly publication cycle. He is the former managing editor at Fly Fisherman Magazine and is a frequent contributor at Angling Trade and B.C.-based Kootenay Mountain Culture magazines." (From The Drake Magazine)
In this episode, I chat with Geoff about his work as an editor and writer, and we hear two readings from him: Blood Sport, originally published in Angling Trade; and Bag It, originally published in The Drake.
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In 2018, Episodes Tags mueller, the drake, colorado, kamloops
Episode 10—Amy McMahon / Amanda Monthei
February 19, 2018 Jason Rolfe
Amy McMahon likes bugs. I mean, she really likes them. When I visited her in Fort Collins, Colorado, I was amazed by her collection of beautifully preserved and displayed butterflies, dragonflies, and even some huge, crazy insect from New Guinea (I think) that someone brought her in a water bottle.
The great thing about that obsession of Amy's is that she has also translated it into the creation of some of the more striking fly fishing related art you'll see around these days. Her illustrations of aquatic insects, which can be seen at www.amymcmahonillustrations.com, detail the many beautiful and fascinating qualities of the things trout and other fish like to eat.
Before my conversation with Amy, you'll hear a short reading from Amanda Monthei. Amanda is a writer, skier, fly fisher, and wilderness fire fighter who spends her time chasing her passions all around the Pacific Northwest.
Today's music comes from the inimitable Nathaniel Riverhorse Nakadate.
Don't forget to subscribe in Apple Podcasts or Stitcher!
In Episodes, 2018 Tags Monthei, McMahon, Art, insects
Episode 08—Steve Duda
January 22, 2018 Jason Rolfe
In addition to being one of the finest writers in fly fishing these days, Steve Duda has devoted the majority of his adult life to the art of editing, helping writers in various genres and disciplines create the very best work that they can. For the past 6 years or so, he's harnessed that drive to curate great writing to make The Flyfish Journal one of the best places in the world to find that writing.
In this episode, we hear Steve read two pieces from the 2016 Cascadia Tour: "A Frazzled Constellation" and "Make the Sky Better." During our (admittedly) long conversation, we chat about his early days as a music writer, his transition into editing, and the things that make him excited when he sits down to read submissions for TFFJ.
Music for this episode comes from South Sound Tug and Barge, of which Steve is the lead banjo wizard. Check out their new album, Pt. Defiance, which includes artwork by Jonathan Marquardt and photography from Earl Harper.
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In Episodes, 2018 Tags Steve Duda, readings, The Flyfish Journal
Episode 07—Ann Bodle-Nash
January 8, 2018 Jason Rolfe
Ann Bodle-Nash lives on a tiny island in northwest Washington State, where for the past couple of years she has been working on earning an MFA in Creative Writing through Pacific Lutheran University's Low-Residency MFA program.
Life has thrown Ann and her family a couple of curve balls over the past year or so, but through it all she fallen back on fishing and writing as a way to get through it all.
Her work has been published at SharkReef.org, indieitpress.com, and The Dun Magazine.
Don't forget to join us on January 25th, at Patagonia Ballard, for a special edition of Writers on the Fly, featuring Dylan Tomine, Steve Duda, and Jeff Galbraith.
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Music: Molly Molly by Blue Dot Sessions, from Free Music Archive under CC BY-NC 4.0.
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Episode 06—Selected Readings #1
December 24, 2017 Jason Rolfe
This week's episode starts off with Will Rice reading a piece about close calls with jet boats while searching for steelhead. It's called "Near Death by the Numbers." Will read this piece in Vancouver, British Columbia, during the 2016 Writers on the Fly Cascadia Tour. Will's work has been published in The Drake, The Flyfish Journal, Saltwater Fly Fishing, and Angling Trade.
Following Will, we've got poet Cameron K. Scott. Cameron has published two poetry collections—The Book of Ocho and The Book of Cold Mountain. Cameron's reading in Portland last year during the 2016 Cascadia Tour is included in its entirety. His work has been published in too many places to name, but you can learn more about him at this website: WriterFish.com
Last, but certainly not least, we've got Alex Collier. An Appalachia native, Alex now lives in Seattle with his wife and their son, Haven, and he works as a fishing guide in the Puget Sound area. This piece, "Just Enough, But Not Too Much," was recently published in The Flyfish Journal. This reading is from the 2017 Cascadia Tour in Seattle.
You can subscribe to The Fly Tapes in iTunes and Stitcher.
Music: Blue Highway by Podington Bear, from Free Music Archive, under CC By 3.0; The Zeppelin by Blue Dot Sessions, from Free Music Archive, under CC BY-NC 4.0; O Tannenbaum by Dan Lerch, from Free Music Archive, under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0.
In Episodes, 2017, selected readings Tags The Fly Tapes, cameron k scott, will rice, alex collier, selected readings
Episode 05—Greg Fitz
Gregory Fitz is a lifelong midwesterner recently transplanted to the PNW. He doesn't work in tech and he isn't a Seahawks fan yet. Minnesotans wear flannel, too, so he might be grunge.
After years of chasing migratory great lakes fish with two-handed rods, he is now in the process of getting a beatdown on the hallowed natal steelhead and salmon rivers flowing into the Pacific Ocean. It is an exercise in humility.
His fishing writing has appeared in The Fly Fish Journal, The Drake, This is Fly, Swing the Fly and the Mend Provision blog. His art can be seen at www.gregoryfitz.net.
Music: Singing in the Rain (Instrumental) by David Mumford, from Free Music Archive, under CC BY 4.0.
In Episodes, 2017, 2018 Tags Fitz, Greg fitz, the fly tapes, podcast
Episode 02—Dylan Tomine, Part 2
October 28, 2017 Jason Rolfe
Welcome to part 2 of my conversation with Dylan Tomine. In this episode, you'll hear Dylan read two pieces from the Portland stop during the 2016 Cascadia Tour: Luck and Salmon Dreams. You'll also hear us talk a bit about the writing life, how he came upon the idea for his book, Closer to the Ground, and a somewhat roundabout meeting with Thomas McGuane.
The Fly Tapes is made possible thanks to generous support from Patagonia.
You can subscribe to The Fly Tapes in iTunes.
Music: As I Was Saying and How I Used to See the Stars by Lee Rosevere, from Free Music Archive under CC BY 4.0
In Episodes, 2017 Tags Dylan Tomine, The Cascadia Tour, The Fly Tapes


It's almost a guarantee your iPhone was made in China. But thanks to growing economic unrest in China's factory belt, dissatisfaction among workers has spread, leading to growing conflicts, unflinching demands and week-long protests that could begin to take their toll on electronics manufacturers like Apple and Motorola.
Something is certainly amiss at Shanghai's industrial zone, Jinqiao. At the Hi-P International electronics plant there, hundreds of workers are going on strike in demand for fair pay and better working conditions. It certainly isn't the newest occurrence of labor strife in the communist country: Two weeks ago, workers at the Yucheng Footwear factory in Guangdong took to the streets to make their voices heard. But Hi-P International's clients aren't just your everyday clients. Apple, Motorola and RIM are just some of the companies that turn to the Singaporean-owned firm for electronic components in an effort to pump out the latest devices.
According to reports, about 200 workers first began striking last Wednesday after a plan was announced to relocate the plant to a suburb on the outskirts of Shanghai. "Most of us have been working at this factory for many years, so we should be properly compensated if they want to break our contracts. We work long shifts, sometimes over 20 hours. Even with a company shuttle bus, the new factory will mean an hour and a half's traveling every day, so we won't have any time left to rest," one protestor told the South China Morning Post.
To make matters worse, many are refusing to sign the company's termination policy, which states that workers would be left without compensation. Strikers have argued that they are rightfully entitled to their fair pay. It's a story that is constantly being played out in the streets of China, as Chinese workers argue for better living and working conditions. While some consumers are more preoccupied about what Siri thinks about abortion, many Chinese environmental groups are fighting to keep their workers healthy. Foxconn, one of Apple's main suppliers, announced substantial salary hikes totaling more than 100% of base pay in recent years, after a string of suicides left the manufacturer facing mounting public criticism.
Rising labor costs in China have begun to take their toll: stories abound about factory bosses skipping out overnight over a mounting inability to pay debts. If the protests and factories' woes begin to extend to other suppliers crucial to major electronics companies, it could have repercussions on consumers looking for the latest gadgets. Many companies looking for factories are slowly turning to Southeast Asian countries like Vietnam as sources of cheaper labor. Some are even turning to robots. But will robots change the face of manufacturing? Someday, perhaps. But for now, someone in China still made your iPhone.
Erica Ho is a reporter at TIME. Find her on Twitter at @ericamho and Google+. You can also continue the discussion on TIME's Facebook page and on Twitter at @TIME.


Maryanne Wolf is the John DiBiaggio Professor of Citizenship and Public Service, Director of the Center for Reading and Language Research, and Professor in the Eliot-Pearson Department of Child Development at Tufts University. She received her doctorate from Harvard University, where she began her work on the neurological underpinnings of reading, language, and dyslexia. Among her awards for teaching and research are the Distinguished Professor of the Year award from the Massachusetts Psychological Association, the Teaching Excellence Award from the American Psychological Association, the Distinguished Researcher Award from Tufts University, a Fulbright Research Fellowship award for research on dyslexia in Germany, the Norman Geschwind Lecture Award from the International Dyslexia Association for neuroscience research in dyslexia, and the Alice Ansara Award for work in dyslexia. Along with colleagues Robin Morris, and Maureen Lovett, Maryanne Wolf was awarded the NICHD Shannon Award for Innovative Research and several multi-year NICHD grants to investigate new approaches to reading intervention, including the RAVE-O reading intervention program, created by Wolf and members of the Center.
The author of numerous scientific publications, Wolf recently completed a book for the general public, Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain, published by HarperCollins in the United States, by Icon Books in England, and now translated into ten languages and audio version. Described as one of the Best Books of the Year by Publishers Weekly and Library Journal, and an Acclaimed Book of the Year by US News and World Report, Proust and the Squid received the Marek Award from the New York International Dyslexia Association for the best book of the year on reading.
Wolf's recent research interests include reading intervention, early prediction, fluency and naming speed, cross-linguistic studies of reading, the relationship between entrepreneurial talents and dyslexia, and the uses of brain imaging in understanding dyslexia and treatment changes.


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Edgar Allan Poe was an American writer, poet, editor, and literary critic. Poe is best known for his poetry and short stories, particularly his tales of mystery and the macabre. He is widely regarded as a central figure of Romanticism in the United States and of American literature as a whole, and he was one of the country's earliest practitioners of the short story. He is also generally considered the inventor of the detective fiction genre and is further credited with contributing to the emerging genre of science fiction. Poe was the first well-known American writer to earn a living through writing alone, resulting in a financially difficult life and career.
Bright Notes Study Guide to the Major Works by Edgar Allan Poe
Study Guide: The Major Works of Edgar Allen Poe
As an author of the nineteenth-century, Poe is credited with creating detective fiction. Moreover, he was well known for his dark and haunting imagery throughout his works. Titles in this study guide include The Raven, The Fall of the House of Usher, and The Cask of Amontillado.
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The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket
The Man of the Crowd
The Devil in the Belfry
Ligeia
Hop-Frog
X-ing a Paragrab
To Marie Louise
To Helen
Three Sundays in a Week
The Unparalleled Adventure of One Hans Pfaall
The Thousand-and-Second Tale of Scheherazade
The Premature Burial
The Poetic Principle
The Pit and the Pendulum
The Philosophy of Composition
The Oval Portrait
The Oblong Box
The Mystery of Marie Rogêt
The Man That Was Used Up
The Literary Life of Thingum Bob, Esq.
The Landor's Cottage
The Island of the Fay
The Imp of the Perverse
The Domain of Arnheim
The Conversation of Eiros and Charmion
The Conchologist's First Book
The Colloquy of Monos and Una
The Business Man
The Assignation
The Angel of the Odd
Tamerlane and Other Poems
Never Bet the Devil Your Head
Mystification
MS. Found in a Bottle
Metzengerstein
Maelzel's Chess Player
Loss of breath
Lionizing
King Pest
How to Write a Blackwood Article
Four Beasts in One
Eureka: A Prose Poem
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Q: How to use TeXworks with BibLaTeX I am trying to use BibLaTeX with the Windy City style to produce Chicago author–date citations and a bibliography.
I have a TeX document:
%!TEX encoding = UTF-8 Unicode
\documentclass[12pt]{article}
\usepackage{letltxmacro}

\usepackage[reflist=true,style=windycity]{biblatex}
\addbibresource{refs.bib}

\begin{document}

\section{Scenario}

Here is a claim I am citing \parencite{latexcompanion1993}.

\printbibliography

\end{document}

And I have the following file saved as refs.bib in the same directory:
@article{einstein,
    author =       "Albert Einstein",
    title =        "{Zur Elektrodynamik bewegter K{\"o}rper}. ({German})
        [{On} the electrodynamics of moving bodies]",
    journal =      "Annalen der Physik",
    volume =       "322",
    number =       "10",
    pages =        "891--921",
    year =         "1905",
    DOI =          "http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/andp.19053221004"
}

@book{latexcompanion1993},
    author    = "Michel Goossens and Frank Mittelbach and Alexander Samarin",
    title     = "The \LaTeX\ Companion",
    year      = "1993",
    publisher = "Addison-Wesley",
    address   = "Reading, Massachusetts"
}

@misc{knuthwebsite,
    author    = "Donald Knuth",
    title     = "Knuth: Computers and Typesetting",
    url       = "http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/\~{}uno/abcde.html"
}

I open the TeX document in TeXworks, press compile with the default settings, and this is the output:

No bibliography is generated, and the citation just prints the identifier string instead of formatting it.
It seems the problem is that BibLaTeX cannot "find" refs.bib. How can I fix this?


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Antioqueño, ña (pl.: antioqueños, ñas) es el gentilicio para de las personas naturales del departamento de Antioquia, Colombia.

El antioqueño paisa

El grupo humano mayoritario del departamento de Antioquia es el grupo paisa, el cual se sitúa en la región colombiana conformada, por la región montañosa y parte del Urabá Antioqueño (municipios como Apartadó, Chigorodó y Mutatá), por los otros departamentos del llamado eje cafetero, y también por las zonas del norte del departamento del Valle del Cauca y el noroeste del departamento del Tolima. La capital de Antioquia, Medellín, está ubicada dentro del territorio paisa del departamento.

Como la génesis principal de la cultura paisa se da en el territorio del departamento de Antioquia, para muchos las voces paisa y antioqueño suelen ser consideradas sinónimos. Lo cierto es que la paisa, si bien mayoritaria en un 80%, es una subcultura del departamento y convive con otras subculturas minoritarias.

Los antioqueños no paisas
No todos los antioqueños son paisas. En el departamento de Antioquia viven otros grupos humanos, habitantes naturales del departamento y no menos importantes en su historia y desarrollo:
 El urabeño: habita en algunos territorios que el departamento posee en la región del Urabá colombiano; estos territorios se denominan en su conjunto como el Urabá antioqueño. Un municipio urabeño representativo de esta zona es Turbo.
 El chocoano: el departamento de Antioquia tiene límites con el área de influencia del río Atrato, y allí se extiende la cultura afrocolombiana que conocemos como el chocoano. El municipio que ilustra el chocoano antioqueño es Vigía del Fuerte.
 El indígena emberá-catío: los directos descendientes de los primeros pobladores del hoy Antioquia viven actualmente en los resguardos del Chocó y en el Urabá.
 Los inmigrantes: por último, los descendientes de inmigrantes dentro del departamento de Antioquia, también portan el gentilicio antioqueño.

Otros grupos de antioqueños asentados especialmente en la capital desde finales del siglo XIX son: italianos, alemanes, judíos, árabes, ecuatorianos, chinos, argentinos y, de suyo, colombianos de otras regiones del país.

Divisiones del territorio de Antioquia
Actualmente el territorio antioqueño comprende las siguientes subdivisiones:
 Sureste antioqueño, que forma parte del eje cafetero
 Suroeste antioqueño;
 Oriente antioqueño;
 Nordeste antioqueño;
 Norte antioqueño;
 Occidente antioqueño;
 Bajo Cauca antioqueño;
 Magdalena Medio antioqueño;
 Urabá antioqueño;
 Valle de Aburrá.

Véase también
 Región paisa
 Antioquia
 Español antioqueño
 Himno Antioqueño
 Carriel
 Arriero
 Caldense
 Quindiano
 Risaraldense
 Tolimense

Enlaces externos

Gentilicios

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Loan Authorization Bylaw No. 1348, 2018 was read three times.
Council awarded the contract to install 96 Neptune Water Meters at the pit meter location in Rural Water District No. 8 to Kobau Plumbing and Gas Fitting for $8,820.00 (taxes included).
Permissive Tax Exemption Bylaw No. 1346, 2018 was adopted. Each year council updates their permissive tax exemption bylaw, which is to be adopted no later than October 31st each year, this tax exemption bylaw would take effect for the 2019 tax year. This permissive tax exemption bylaw had one change to add the Canadian Legion Branch#173.
Zoning Amendment Bylaw No. 1085.109, 2018 was adopted. Recreational Cannabis Retail Sales in the C1, C2, C3 zones with site specific rezoning. The Liquor and Cannabis Regulation Branch of the Provincial Government will not issue a private retail licence without local government approval. The provincial licensing process coupled with the site specific zoning provision will allow for a one step process for consideration of cannabis sales in the Town of Osoyoos.
Official Community Plan Amendment Bylaw No. 1230.20, 2017 was adopted. Amendment to Official Community Plan Bylaw No. 1230, 2007 is proposed to incorporate a new Foreshore and Lake Development Permit Area (FLDPA), for general permissions of private moorages. A public hearing was held on September 17, 2018.
Foreshore and Lake Zoning Amendment Bylaw No. 1294.02, 2017 was adopted. Amendments to the Town of Osoyoos Foreshore and Lake Zoning Bylaw No. 1294, 2012 are proposed to bring the bylaw more into conformity with Provincial regulations, round out regulatory requirements, and add clarification to some provisions of the bylaw. A public hearing was held on September 17, 2018.
Land Use Procedures Amendment Bylaw No. 1235.06, 2017 was adopted. Two small amendments were required to update our Land Use Procedures (LUP) Bylaw to assist implementing foreshore and lake development permits. Council's approval is required for any development permit except the following classes of permits which they delegate authority to the Director of Planning and Development Services: New "Environmental" Development Permits for riparian, environmentally-sensitive, foreshore and lake, hillside, and wildfire interface areas. This has also been added to the development permit application form.
Municipal Ticket Information Amendment Bylaw No. 1279.12, 2017 was adopted. Amendments were required to our Municipal Ticketing Information System Bylaw to add offences and fines for commencing work without a development permit.
Housing Agreement Amendment Bylaw No. 1343.02, 2018 was adopted. Construction of the first house that will be offered under the Near-Market Affordable Housing (NMAH) Program is under way. This has created some interest and caused the Administration to review the policies and documentation. In the review we found an "issue" with the current structure of the program and its inability to prevent short term windfall profits on the second and subsequent sales. The program was set up to keep the houses for longer periods of time; however, that changed from 30 years to 20 years. The latest change to 5 years may make the house more attractive to buy, but is open to short term "flipping" by second buyer in and around the 5 year period. The result is any owner within a 15 year period of the first purchase must own the home for 5 years before the home can be sold for market value. The Near-Market Affordable Housing (NMAH) Program Guidelines were amended.
Council requested additional information prior to making a decision on signing State of Work Agreement for Curbside and Depot Collection with Recycle BC. Council would like to know what other communities are doing and what would a recycling program look like in house. Council directed administration to write a letter to the Province and Recycling BC expressing Council's displeasure with the elimination of blue bags and the challenges it puts on the residents in Osoyoos.
Council awarded the contract for the 2018 Photovoltaic Expansion project to Argon Electrical and Solar Services, including additional 20kW display, for $86,397.30 (without taxes or contingency sum).
Councillor Rhodes encouraged residents to keep the Civic Election on October 20th and Remembrance Day on November 11th on their minds without the soldiers who lost their lives, the civic election may not be possible.
Councillor Rhodes thanked fellow Councillors for the privilege of working with them for the past four years.
Councillor Campol is proud of the work that Council and administration did together over the past four years.
Councillor King said it was a pleasure to work with Mayor, Council and Staff.
Councillor King encouraged residents to vote on October 20th.
Councillor Youngberg said it was a privilege to represent the community and thanked staff for their work.
Councillor Youngberg hopes to see communication between Regional District boundaries and Town boundaries.
Councillor Youngberg thanked Mayor and Council for working together this term.
Mayor McKortoff advised that the 55+ BC Games were held in Cranbrook. 4 people from the community attended, who placed at the games.
Mayor McKortoff attended the event at the Fire Hall for Fire Prevention week. Thanked the Fire Department for putting on the event.
Mayor McKortoff thanked Council for their support and their hard work the past four years.
Mayor McKortoff thanked Town staff for their support and hard work.
Mayor McKortoff encouraged everyone to vote. Good luck to all the candidates.


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Union Communiste Internationaliste
Travailleurs de tous les pays, unissez-vous !
Qu'est-ce que l'UCI ?
Blowing in from Iran, the wind of revolt
Since the death of Mahsa Amini, tortured and murdered by the Tehran morality police because a lock of hair was showing, young people have revolted all over Iran – with impressive courage.
Young women have torn off and burned their veils. Rallies have mushroomed, with cries of: "For women, life, freedom" and "Death to the dictator". The portrait of dictator Khamenei has been pelted with stones, mullahs pushed around in the street, policemen attacked and police stations burned down...
Every single region, city and university has been affected by this rebellion.
When the police disperse a rally, close a faculty or encircle a neighborhood, the protest moves on, changes form, splitting into an infinite number of individual demonstrations. This has been going on for more than 50 days, in spite of fear, in spite of the repression of demonstrators through beatings and the use of live ammunition.
The regime has already arrested more than 14,000 demonstrators and killed more than 300 people, many of them very young. But nothing stops the protest. Every day, it gathers new support, with sports personalities, artists and journalists who cross the Rubicon by showing solidarity with the revolt. In cities, many stores and cultural places have closed to express that solidarity. This is true in all regions, whether Kurdish, Baluchi, Arab, Persian, Azeri or Turkmen.
Solidarity strikes have also broken out in the oil-producing regions and in large companies where workers have long-standing traditions of struggle. In those places, in addition to freedom, workers are demanding bread and work. Indeed, while inflation, shortages, unemployment and unpaid wages have been the daily lot of millions of Iranians for years, these difficulties have become unbearable.
For millions of families, it is impossible to make a living, to find decent housing, to buy meat or simply eggs. This situation is partly caused by the embargo imposed by American imperialism, but it is aggravated by the parasitism of the regime's leadership, of its clerics and of the pasdarans, i.e. the ayatollahs' army. While the population is sinking into misery, a minority continues to get richer and literally swim in money.
Iran is a powder keg. In recent years, the regime has faced powerful waves of protests against corruption and the sky-rocketing cost of living. Its response has been a ruthless crackdown. Today, this policy of terror no longer works. Could the youth revolt turn into a social revolt?
Will the current tens of thousands of demonstrators become millions? Will the workers infuse the revolt with their social strength and their organizational capacity? Will they be able to propose a policy to overthrow the regime and lead a new revolution, where the working classes themselves build their own power? As long as the revolt is underway, anything is possible.
The Iranian youth has dared to fight against one of the worst dictatorships in the world. The change did not come from the internal opposition to the regime, nor from the great powers who, as objective accomplices of the regime, have kept silent for two months and prove, once again, that they are never on the side of popular revolts. It came from below, from those who refuse to submit.
This revolt shows to the oppressed all over the world that they can take their destiny into their own hands by fighting against those who dominate them.
Each country has its own particularities, but the hearts of the youth and workers of all countries beat to the same rhythm, inspired by the same hopes: freedom, equality and a fraternal world allowing all humans to flourish.
These aspirations are hindered by a system of domination: that of rich countries over poor countries, of the rich over the poor. Such a system must be overthrown and it will be, because at the same time as it sows injustice, it produces rebels.
It is impossible to predict what will set things off next time, or where the fire will start. In Iran, it was started by a rebellious lock of hair. In other countries, it may be lack of grains, or war atrocities. One thing is certain: workers have a major role to play in these revolts, because they are the only ones who can bring about a social order free from the exploitation of man by man. And in that fight, they will need the indomitable courage that Iranian youth is showing today.


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Yorkshire's biggest train operator saw the number of complaints about its services rise by nearly 300 per cent last autumn, following months of delays and cancellations in the wake of a botched timetable introduction, new figures reveal.
The company also emerged as the second worst at resolving grievances within the industry standard time of 20 working days, with only Hull Trains faring worse.
Northern, which last month escaped a fine from the Office of Rail and Road, the official industry regulator, for the way it relayed information about the delays, was said by the same organisation yesterday to have seen its complaint rate rise in the space of a year from 13 to 52 for every 100,000 journeys.
But one passenger in four was made to wait a month or more for an answer, the ORR said.
Hull Trains was said to have answered only five per cent of its complaints within the mandated time, although the regulator suggested the company's data may be wrong.
The firm was beset by breakdowns on its fleet last year.
The consumer group Which? said public trust in train travel has fallen to 20 per cent, the lowest since it launched its consumer insight tracker in 2012.
Another Yorkshire operator, TransPennine Express, saw the third biggest increase in complaints, the ORR said, with a figure above the national average and nearly 80 per cent higher than last year.
The punctuality and reliability of Northern trains were the most complained-about aspect of its service, accounting for 40 per cent of the total, it said.
The Rail Delivery Group, which represents the train companies, said they were all "determined to improve punctuality and tackle delays".
Its regional director, Robert Nisbet, said: "We know that services on some routes weren't good enough last year." He said some operators had introduced automatic refunds, but the consumer group Which? has called for them to be made mandatory for all services.


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