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Walt Disney World Magic Kingdom Discussion Thread
P. 144: More entertainment coming back across WDW!
By BarryH,
bezz31
hi just found out space mountain won't be opened until november is that true because my new wife and i are coming all the way from australia in october for our honeymoon and the wife loves that ride any news of it opening early between now and october thanks great site by the way
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coasterbill
Let's have some fun and see how much it costs to buy a day ticket and a skip the line pass at a variety of parks on a random day. Let's say... tomorrow. Of course, Disney isn't offering this tomorrow
I don't care about Soarin' at all. I probably wouldn't wait more than 15 minutes for it. The rides seriously aren't comparable at all. They're both simulators in the same way that El Toro and a Zamper
Here's the clip that WESH 2 News in Orlando ran about the new Walt Disney World passes featuring Theme Park Review! https://www.facebook.com/themeparkreview/videos/144799674482567
netdvn
Who is the ride manufacturer for the space mountains? And is the new track made by the same as the original?
I believe Arrow built all Space Mountains prior to Space Mountain Paris, afterwards, Vekoma built the remaining Space Mountains (including the DL's upgraded version) and they will probably be rebuilding the Orlando one.
^I'm pretty sure AMEX (not American Express) made the track for the update of Disneyland's Space Mountain as well as for that of Hong Kong Disneyland, though I could be wrong.
The only Vekoma's Disney in its parks are the roller skaters, Space Mountain: Mission 2 in Paris, Expedition Everest and the two Rock n' Rollercoasters.
ryno1986
I thought it was december...either way it goes you wont be able to experience it at that time...
If you really wanna ride it I would see if I could change travel dates...
EnglndPatriots6
what ive been hearing from CM's is that this will be a 2 part Refurb, with this one doing most of the work, and then another one maybe next year. They are supposedly adding music so they are redoing the track and reinforcing the support beams to handle the music.
I say screw music, get new cars that actually fit people other then midgets seriously, when i was 5 ft. 7 i barely fit in the front seat now im a whole half a foot taller so i cant even imagine the pain ill be in.
Overall, its getting this
Newly painted Roof to darken it even more, sorta liek what they did over at DLR
New interactive Queue
Rumored - Music, and possibly a new car since they usually get their cars off of Matterhorn and Matterhorn has been testing a new design.
ahecht
I hope you're talking about the inside of the roof. The brown roof at DLR was a cosmic mistake, which was fortunately rectified by the Ouimet administration.
Snicket
I'm glad they're adding music...well...they may be.
The new cars will do some good too.
I went to Disneyland in April with my high school jazz band.
We all got off Space Mountain saying it was much better than the Magic Kingdom's version.
Sir Clinksalot
Blueprints for the "supposed" fantasyland re-do at WDW's Magic Kingdom have been floating around the net today.
On one hand I think they look pretty official like and could certainly be legit.
On the other hand, some things strike me as odd (Little Mermaid ride the same name as the show at DHS for one).
What do you think???
ADMIN EDIT: I have added the announcement information to the expansion as well as a video of the official announcement made at the 2009 D23 Expo.
http://thedailydisney.com/blog/2009/10/ ... maid-ride/
Walt Disney World is about to embark on a sweeping facelift for the Fantasyland section of the Magic Kingdom, in what the resort calls the biggest overhaul in the theme park's 38-year history. Plans revealed Saturday call for adding a lavish ride based on The Little Mermaid, expanding a popular Dumbo children's attraction, new interactive areas featuring some of Disney's best-known princesses, and more.
In addition, Disney said it plans to update Star Tours, the Star Wars-themed simulator ride in Disney's Hollywood Studios, with new 3-D effects.
The refurbished Star Tours will debut in 2011. The Fantasyland overhaul will be complete by 2013. Disney declined to say how much it will spend on the projects.
The twin announcements are a Disney World response to the Wizarding World of Harry Potter, the hugely anticipated project being built by rival Universal Orlando in its Islands of Adventure theme park. Industry experts expect Wizarding World, a collection of attractions, shops and restaurants based on the novels by British author J.K. Rowling, to prove a huge draw when it opens in 2010; one that threatens to siphon attendance away from Disney.
But perhaps more importantly, said Robert Niles, publisher of themeparkinsider.com, Disney's Fantasyland expansion could team with Universal's Wizarding World in helping reignite overall travel to Orlando, which has slumped badly amid the global recession. "There might be some Harry Potter fans who are waffling on the expense of trips to Orlando. But if you can throw in something new at Disney, maybe they'll make the trip," Niles said. "At this point, travel isn't a zero sum game. They've got to get people on planes traveling again." To drive the expansion, Disney is turning to one of its most enduring and lucrative franchises: princesses. The vast majority of the Fantasyland overhaul will focus on Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty and others in the company's stable of animated heroines.
The biggest-ticket addition will be the Little Mermaid attraction, an enclosed ride that will carry guests through Ariel's underwater realm. It will use an Omnimover ride system similar to that of the Haunted Mansion, and will move through scenes featuring characters and songs from the 1989 movie. The ride, which has a working title of Under the Sea: Journey of The Little Mermaid, will be the same as one being built as part of the $1 billion overhaul of Disney's California Adventure theme park in Anaheim, Calif., though the twin attractions will have different exteriors. But what's more, Disney World will construct individual areas — be it a castle, cottage or chateau — where guests can interact with some of the company's best-known princesses and other characters from their movies. Children will be able to dance with Cinderella, celebrate Aurora's birthday with the Good Fairies, or play a role with Belle in a performance in the library of the Beast's castle. The Beast's castle, taken from the 1991 film Beauty and the Beast, will also include a three-room themed restaurant.
"Princesses are certainly one of Disney's strengths. Obviously, there's some limited appeal in terms of gender and age," Niles, of themeparkinsider.com, said. "But anyone who's had a young daughter knows they can be extremely persuasive."
Chris Beatty, a senior concept designer with Walt Disney Imagineering, said a goal is to make the company's iconic princesses appealing to a wider demographic. For example, some villains from the princesses' movies will also be incorporated to help the area appeal to boys.
"We're tailoring our experiences to kind of have that broad appeal," Beatty said. "There're just some great, classic stories, and we know for any guests that travel to the Magic Kingdom, that's always one of the highlights."
Beyond princesses, the plans call for doubling the size of and relocating Dumbo the Flying Elephant to a new "circus grounds" that will include an interactive queue under a big-top tent to entertain children waiting in line. Disney will add a new Pixie Hollow character-greeting area, home to Tinker Bell and other fairies.
To accommodate the expansion, Disney will raze most of Mickey's Toontown Fair, the smallest of the Magic Kingdom's "lands." Gone will be both of the walk-through country houses where guests were guaranteed to meet Disney's most famous characters: Mickey and Minnie Mouse.
Disney says Mickey and Minnie will get new homes near the front entrance of the park. The children's roller coaster, the Barnstormer at Goofy's Wiseacre Farm, will remain, though it will be re-themed, likely with a circus overlay linking it to Dumbo.
The first phase of the Fantasyland expansion, including the Mermaid ride and the princess areas, is scheduled to open in 2012. Pixie Hollow will follow in 2013.
For Star Tours, which debuted in Hollywood Studios in 1989, Disney plans to add new video and dialogue sequences recorded by George Lucas' Lucasfilm studio. The updated 3-D effects will incorporate characters from the three Star Wars prequel films released between 1999 and 2005.
An identical Star Tours at Disneyland will also be upgraded.
Online Disney fan forums have been abuzz about a potential Fantasyland expansion for much of the summer, after blueprints were mysteriously leaked. Disney refused to comment on the plans for weeks, instead waiting to make the announcement at a fan convention this weekend in Anaheim.
Possible Blueprints for Fantasyland re-do?
Edited April 11, 2011 by jedimaster1227
metrock
Interesting for sure. I'm just hoping that if they are real, I'll be able to get to the park before the change. I was there in '04, but didn't really have a lot of time to check out Fantasyland. Can't remember if I even walked though it. That's what happens when you only have 2 1/2 days in Orlando.
Scream162
Holy crap! If that's true, it's going to be AMAZING!
So a couple of observations:
- 2 Dumbo's??? I actually think that's pretty cool, and needed. Wonder if they will just get rid of the Magic Carpets and move it over there and plop some elephants on it.
- The "Attractions" for Belle, Cinderella and Aurora look really small. I hope they aren't just walk-through's and meet-and-greets.
- Pixie Hollow looks WAY too big for my taste
- The Tea Cups look like they have moved a bit, but of course, who knows
- Glad that Barnstormer is staying, although I wonder if they can/will retheme this to Casey Jr. since it's so close to Dumbo
- Gaston's Tavern!!! BEER AT THE MK!!!
Well they made 2 ride systems, 2 of all the special effects, and 2 of the ride track for the little mermaid ride they are building at DCA, so i wouldnt be surprised if that 2nd set ends up in WDW.
Also the rumors are that the current Dumbo ride will be moved.
LJGoBlue
I was at Disney in early June and there was a lot of buildings being refurbished, if these buildings were going to be turned into something else why would they refurbish them now instead of just waiting until this would happen if this is true?
coasterville
Before you get excited about alcoholic drinks at the Magic Kingdom, remember the Mile High Bar in Fronteirland. Even though they call it a bar or saloon or tavern doesn't mean it will necesarily serve adult drinks.
I like the idea of two Dumbo rides, considering how long the line gets, but just didnt think they would actually do it.
It looks like the only casualty here would be that new play area and part of Toontown, hardly a loss. I most like the fact they aren't heartlessly ripping out any classics. Mr. Toad, anyone?
^What good classics does MK even have now?
nomorefloor
if you look above the dumbo a and b it says next generation queue. what do you think that means?
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That the part of Dumbo is going to be played by Patrick Stewart?
mcjaco
Rumors are that this is happening.
I'm not so sure these blueprints are real. I find it really hard to believe they'd be leaked this early and easily.
Hilltopper39
I had read on another site that the Aladdin Carpet ride in Adventureland was being moved/removed for the Fantasyland renovation. Seeing as how that as essentially exactly the same ride system with different colors and "dumbos" instead of carpets I could see it being very easy to convert Aladdin into the second Dumbo for the expansion.
testtrack321
Seems cool, I heard that this is being pushed through by upper managment, beyond Rassulo (sp?) and those guys. Not done yet at all, but sounds closer to happening than any of the other BS rumors about WDW...
CorkscrewFoley
What's going to happen to Peter Pan's Flight?
^ It's fine. This would be an expansion towards the North into Mickey's Hometown. Everything down the west and east midways would be staying the same. With the exception of Dumbo.
Pixie Hollow looks way too big to be part of the re-do. A play maze? boo!
They could drop a flat themed to Fairies in there, some kind of invert spinner/fairy flight attraction good for kids. The Pixie Hollow lighting effects at DL are well done, but when you look at it, you can picture the effects being part of a dark ride.
Or, since Little Mermaid is going to be massively popular, they would need an overflow q somewhere.
Not a fan of duplicate rides being right next to each other. Certainly there is another family flat that would fit into the Dumbo/circus theme. In general, it would be extremely be nice if they took the design concept from Mermaid Lagoon over at TDS and applied it here.
tmac031467
This looks to me not to be a major redo but an expansion into the area left vacant and under utilized when they removed the 20000 leagues attraction a few years back. Also some of the areas seem to be for meet and greets. The only big change I think would be the addition of the little mermaid ride.


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A Soundtrack for City People Who Grew Up in Small Towns
Julie Buntin, author of Marlena, makes a Literary Mixtape for every urban-dweller who remembers what it was like to be young and bored and driving down country roads dreaming of another life
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I should get this out of the way up front — for me, music is for singing, and for feeling. My taste trends sentimental. I like country more than I want to admit. Folk music is my drug of choice, anything nostalgic, women with hard-living voices, and yes, I love a good sad man with a guitar. I grew up in rural northern Michigan, incongruous land of both country music radio and months of endless snow. And so perhaps it's not a surprise that my debut novel, Marlena, is set in this remote and beautiful place, and that the girl at the heart of the story harbors secret dreams of becoming a singer.
The book came out earlier this month, and in the last couple of weeks, I've been asked over and over again how autobiographical it is. I find this question annoying, but it's not totally unjustified — the narrator of the book, Cat, is a woman slightly older than me, also from northern Michigan, looking back on an adolescent friendship that ended in tragedy and changed the course of her life. I have written nonfiction about losing a close friend from high school; it's no secret that certain elements of the novel are influenced by real experiences. But the plot is fictional, the girls are characters, and the story is not my own.
Except for the music. That's one hundred percent ode to the songs I loved as a teenager. I was in high school in the early 2000s, a few years before Cat and Marlena were — but like them, I preferred the older stuff, and was a bit of a snob when it came to Top 40 radio (except for the Dixie Chicks). And when I grew up and moved away from the midwest, as Cat does, to New York City, I found that my taste had mostly cemented, that the songs I played on repeat while waiting for the subway were the folk and country songs I thought I'd left behind like the parts of myself I didn't much like. Turns out, those parts were just as stubborn as my taste in music. And that's what those songs capture so well — the impossibility of ever outrunning yourself, no matter how far you go.
This is a soundtrack for city people from small towns — the leave and I'm never coming backers, the runaways. The list can be split into roughly two groups — there are the tracks that make you long for where you come from, that fill you with yearning, and the ones that remind you of the promise of the place that took you in. No explanation can evoke what I'm trying to get at as deeply and fully as Jackson C. Frank singing "Blues Run the Game," or Gillian Welch singing pretty much anything. You just have to listen; you just have to feel it.
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1. Joni Mitchell, "River"
Marlena, the title character of my novel, is a 17 year-old girl with perfect pitch and wide ranging taste in music — from folk to country, pop to punk to blues. But Joni Mitchell is Marlena's favorite. Her voice, as I imagine it, is a cousin of Joni's — a little more textured, but full of that same trembling strength, a similar ability to make high notes pierce and shimmer. In the opening pages of the book, Cat, the narrator, remembers Marlena singing "California," one of the anthems of small town girls, no matter the decade. That aural memory will haunt Cat for the rest of her life. But when I thought about what I wanted my novel to be, how I wanted it to make readers feel, I thought of "River." I wanted to write that song in novel form.
2. Neko Case, "I Wish I Was the Moon"
In the second half of Marlena, Cat records a video of Marlena singing this song. Both girls want to be famous, or feel famous already, in that bashful way that all teenagers sort of believe they are the true center of the universe. But Marlena really is talented. She's got a musician's ear — and like so many teenagers, a hubristic faith in her own instincts. Marlena's rendition of this song — slowed down, a little angstier, inflected with a vocal crack and tear here and there for slightly misguided and melodramatic impact — is the embodiment of her aesthetic. If Marlena had lived, I imagine she might have tried to write her own version.
3. Gillian Welch, "Look at Miss Ohio"
Gillian Welch's "The Revelator" is a sacred album to me, and this track my favorite. I don't want to ruin it with words — just hit play.
4. Dixie Chicks, "Wide Open Spaces"
The Dixie Chicks are wonderful and many of their songs would work for this list. But it had to be this one, this wailing, emotional, even playful tribute to the desire to break free from your life, from the place that defines you, and strike out for somewhere new, somewhere you can write your own story. "I need wide open spaces / room to make a big mistake…" You can hear the teenage girls the Chicks were in every note.
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5. Prince, "Purple Rain"
Another thing that all these songs have in common is they're especially good for driving. When I was a teenager, my friends and I used to drive around the back roads singing this song at the top of our lungs. (Is anyone more fun to sing than Prince?) Prince is the patron saint of midwestern kids who dream of bigger, brighter lives — and we loved him like a god.
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6. Blues Run the Game, Jackson C. Frank
This goddamn beautiful song. Jackson C. Frank released a single folk album — it's called, simply, Jackson C. Frank, and it contains ten plaintive and moving and perfect tracks. After the record was released, Jackson's life took a downhill turn — he was mentally ill, diagnosed with schizophrenia and depression, and died in 1999 after years of living in poverty, often homeless. There's something about his story — all that promise, the single influential and striking album, the bright future canceled out by forces he couldn't control — I always think I can hear what happened to him in these songs, the texture of his voice, the yearning and heartbreak in every note, but maybe that's just because I know how his life ended. I thought of him a lot while I was writing Marlena, in its own way about a real talent snuffed out too soon, and must have listened to this album a thousand times.
7. Fire & Rain, James Taylor
I considered an alternate version of this playlist that was just the album "Sweet Baby James." If you're from a small town anywhere in the midwest and you can hear a James Taylor song without being overtaken by a knee-weakening sense memory, I would be very very surprised. When James sings, "But I always thought that I'd see you again," I don't think of a person, I think of being sixteen and taking a running jump off a pontoon boat into Walloon Lake, or how it felt to lie in the grass in my backyard with my best friend, how I took the starry sky for granted. I had no idea that I'd grow up to live in a place where being able to make out four stars in the sky at night would be a rare occurrence.
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8. Journey, Don't Stop Believin'
The ideal condition for listening to this song is in a car going over the New Jersey Turnpike at night, while Manhattan comes glitteringly into view, the volume turned up so loud it hurts a little and the windows all the way down, in hour fifteen of a drive that started in northern Michigan and wound through Canada, your throat sore from at least two packs of Camel Lights. Honestly, if you can't replicate that exact circumstance, there's no reason to put this one on — it's corny as hell, and listening to it casually (if it appears your playlist, say, while getting ready for a dinner party) will just fill with you vague embarrassment. But if you can set it up just right — the car, the night, finding yourself in a great city after a long, long drive from nowhere — every chord will make you feel like anything is possible.
9. Peter, Paul & Mary, 500 Miles
This is a drinking alone song. This is a sitting on the fire escape of your crappy Brooklyn sublet with a bottle of two buck chuck and seventeen dollars to your name, can't even afford cigarettes kind of song. A what have I done song, an I want to go home song, a song for that exquisite brand of sadness that's closer to joy than heartbreak — because yes you're lonely, yes you're broke, but you got out, and isn't that exactly what you always wanted?
10. Alabama Shakes, Heartbreaker
The Alabama Shakes are a blues rock band that scratches my country music itch while managing to be totally appropriate — even cool — to listen to as an urban twenty-something. Also, they are incredible, and Brittany Howard's voice is the stuff of legend.
11. Alicia Keys, Empire State of Mind
I know, I know, everyone on earth is sick of this song — there was that summer after it first came out when you couldn't go into a bodega in any of the five boroughs without hearing it on blast. But tell me it doesn't perfectly capture the mystique and allure of the city. Even though I'd lived here for nearly ten years by the time it was released, hearing it at just the right moment still gives me shivers. Sometimes, if I'm splurging on a cab home and we're going over the Brooklyn Bridge I put in my earphones and play this song and look out at the whole gorgeous mess of New York City and think yes, this is the place that saved me.
A Literary Mixtape for The Art of the Affair
Julie Buntin is the author of the new novel, Marlena. Her work has appeared in the Atlantic, Cosmopolitan, O, The Oprah Magazine, Slate, Electric Literature, and One Teen Story, among other publications. She teaches fiction writing at Marymount Manhattan College, and is the director of writing programs at Catapult. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.
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A Computer Science Major involves the study of computers and programming languages. From hardware to software, building blocks of code to user-facing design, computer science majors have something for everyone.
Computer Based Information System (CBIS)
Computer Based Information System (CBIS) is an information system in which the computer plays a major role. It has been in widespread use since the 1990s in industry, non-profit organizations and government agencies. Computer Based Information Systems (CBIS) is a data processing system into high-quality information and can be used as tools that support decision-making, coordination and control as well as visualization and analysis.
It involves information technologies used by people according to set rules and protocols. CBIS in education are structured systems that rely on computer hardware and software technology to collect, process, store and distribute didactical resources.
There are four basic types of Computer Based Information Systems:
Executive Support Systems (ESS)
Decision Support Systems (DSS)
1. Executive Support Systems (ESS)
An Executive Support System (ESS) is software that allows users to transform enterprise data into quickly accessible and executive-level reports, such as those used by billing, accounting, and staffing departments. It provides easy access to internal and external information relevant to organizational goals. ESS is also known as Executive Information System (EIS). It enhances decision making for executives. It is a type of management support system that facilitates and supports senior executive information and decision making needs.
2. Decision Support Systems (DSS)
A decision support system (DSS) is a computerized information system used to support decision making in an organization or a business. A DSS lets users shift through and analyze massive amounts of data, and then compile information that can be used to solve problems and make better decisions.
3. Management Information Systems (MIS):
A management information system (MIS) is a computerized database of the financial information system used for decision-making, and for the coordination, control, analysis and visualization of information in an organization. The study of management information systems examines people, processes and technology in an organization.
4. Transaction Processing Systems (TPS):
Transaction processing systems consist of computer hardware and software hosting a transaction-oriented application that performs the routine transactions necessary to conduct business. Record day-to-day transactions such as customer orders, bills, employee records, inventory, order entry, airline reservations, payroll, manufacturing, and shipping.
The organization has Executive Support Systems (ESS) at the strategic level, Management Information Systems (MIS) and Decision Support Systems (DSS) at the management level and Transaction Processing Systems (TPS) at the operational level.
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Anti-Racist Strategy 12 months on from our 9 July 2020 promise
Last year, on 9 July 2020, in response to the growing voice of 'Black Lives Matter', we issued a statement to explain our stance on racism and our attitude to it.
We boldly claimed:
We want people to know that we will not tolerate racism and we will not accept ignorance or prejudice.
We are aware of the vital role that schools can play in dismantling systemic racism.
We pledge to work together to drive change so that we can better equip our children and staff with the knowledge they need to understand, recognise and address complex social issues, including racism.
In order to achieve this, we pledged to do the following:
Set up a new Working Group, consisting of staff, children, parents and governors, to respond to these issues and make proposals for action.
Adapt our curriculum to ensure a deeper understanding and knowledge of the roots of racism and to scrutinise all aspects of school life including staffing, administration and leadership.
Provide additional diversity training for staff as well as encourage all children in our Trust to talk to us about their anxieties and their concerns and, importantly, their proposed solutions.
We also stated that that we are determined that we seize this moment as a catalyst for real and sustained change for the better and that we understood that empty promises and words alone will not result in any permanent change.
We have not stood still and want to summarise the key areas of our work. So, what have we actually done?
To review our work and ensure we can make progress, we have created a Strategic Working Group that has met several times throughout the year. That has been led by an independent, black chair and funded by Annabel Nicoll our Sponsor. As a result of these strategic meetings we have:
Established a Diversity Committee in each school to support leaders in developing strategies.
Commenced the process to review and adapt the curriculum in each school so that it is more diverse
Spoken to many of our young people to better understand their views on diversity within our schools how they feel and held parent forums.
Appointed new Trustees and Governors to help reflect our community. Our terms of reference for Trust and Governor meetings have been amended to allow a greater focus on Diversity, Equality and Inclusion.
Analysed our staffing demography with a view to consider how our recruitment processes can be improved to better reflect representation in all of our roles across the Trust, including how we harness the talent and skills of our black staff.
Reviewed and amended our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Policy and our Equality Objectives are on each website. These clearly set the objectives for each of our schools.
All 3 schools have audited their practise against an anti-racist framework to better understand next steps overall.
TLHP & TLAP have applied to complete the RACE (Race and Conscious Equality) Charter Mark.This takes approximately 6-9 months to submit.A certificate is received once completed, Bronze, Silver or Gold.
Trained our staff, Governors and Trustees on unconscious bias. Some staff have received training through the 'Black Curriculum'. Curriculum leaders, Senior Leaders, Governors and Trustees will receive training as part of the RACE Charter Mark work.
Created an Equality, Diversity and Inclusion improvement plan which we will work to next year. This will broaden our work to focus on all 9 Protected Characteristics and not just race. This will be monitored by the Strategic Working Group who will continue to meet termly to review progress.
Whilst we recognise there is still more work to do, the actions taken so far demonstrates our commitment to action and improvement in relation to race equality in all aspects of our work, as educators, employers and community leaders. We accept that it is unlikely that any school will be truly free of racist behaviour and we will need to continue to address the unconscious biases within our community. There are no grounds for complacency. We know that we must teach about racism but that more than this, an understanding of racism and its history must be in the DNA of our schools, who we are, what we do and how we do it. To achieve this our curriculum and discussions must reflect the many significant contributions of black and other minority ethnic cultures to our society. Through education, we can diminish the ignorance of racism and prejudice in its many forms.
We will not be tokenistic and will strive to embed best practice within our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion agenda. We know we need an open dialogue to accomplish our aims, therefore the conversations must continue between staff, parents/carers and leaders. Moreover, we will continue to talk to our young people as we want to ensure that they are confident enough to speak out and to be heard.
We recognise the importance of our work and look forward to updating you on our progress. If you have any suggestions on how to promote Equality, Diversity and Inclusion, please do not hesitate to contact either myself or the appropriate headteacher in our Trust.
Rhodri Bryant
Executive Principal,
The Aribib Education Trust


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Lake Superior Shipwrecks Along the North Shore
All over the Great Lakes, wooden schooners were colliding, breaking away and sinking. Others were destroyed by fire. Actually, it wasn't usually the dark, stormy nights, but the inexperienced crews that caused most of the shipping accidents in the late 1800s. However, Lake Superior shipwrecks continued well into the late 1900s.
Horrific shipwrecks and terrific rescues occurred throughout the shipping season across Lake Superior. Wrecks were most numerous off the Keweenaw Peninsula in Upper Michigan, at ports, and in the waters surrounding Isle Royale. Much of the shipping traffic along the North Shore included passengers as well as cargo, since no roadways existed northeast out of Duluth.
The Lake Superior Maritime Center, Split Rock Historical Center and the North Shore Fishing Museum in Tofte offer displays, exhibits and videos on Lake Superior's shipping activity. The quintessential shipwreck reference is Dr. Julius Wolff's "The Shipwrecks of Lake Superior."
The Wreck of the Hadley & Wilson
June 7, 1902 - Duluth
Major shipwrecks and numerous fires, collisions and sinkings took place in the vicinity of the Duluth harbor. One of the two worst wrecks in Duluth history happened on June 7, 1902. The morning was calm and clear as the 288-foot wooden ship George G. Hadley steamed inbound toward the Duluth Ship Canal. Meanwhile the 308-foot steel whaleback Thomas Wilson steamed out of the harbor into the canal. (Remember only the canal existed; no bridge had been erected yet.)
A half mile off the piers, the Hadley was directed by the tug Annie L. Smith to enter the Superior harbor. The Hadley captain changed course to the left without blowing the required whistle signals or noticing the Wilson coming down the canal. The Wilson captain attempted a starboard (right) turn, since a port turn would have stranded the ship. Neither captain was able to turn sharply enough. Hadley's wooden prow drove hard into the whaleback's steel side. Within three minutes, the Wilson rolled, tipped bow (front) down and dove to Superior's bottom, taking nine men with her. The Hadley rescued the remaining Wilson crew before staggering off to the sandy beach south of the canal where she sank. The Hadley crew and Wilson survivors made it to shore safely. Any remnants of the Hadley and Wilson remain today on the lake bottom.
The Wreck of the Ely (& Hesper)
October 30, 1896 - Two Harbors
The port of Two Harbors has had its share of beachings and accidents, too. The most famous incident took place October 30, 1896. A Duluth cargo freighter, the Hesper, was towing a converted three-masted schooner, the Samuel P. Ely to Two Harbors. Both vessels withstood the roaring squall and entered the harbor.
The towline either broke or was cast off too soon, and the 200-foot Ely was rammed first into a docked scow, then the western breakwall. As the tug Ella G. Stone approached, the Ely began breaking up. The tug was able to retrieve the crew and two men from the scow. The Ely settled to the harbor bottom and eventually became part of the new western breakwater. In 1962 divers found the Ely in about 30 feet of water. Since she was well preserved, they started a diving service that took folks to the wreck and allowed divers to keep one set of dishes. A skeptical journalist made the dive, collected his set of dishes and exposed the service for planting dishes from Goodwill onboard the Ely. The diving service quickly folded, but the Ely remains one of the most-visited wrecks, safe within the harbor refuge.
The Hesper's luck held for the next eight and a half years. Then the 250-foot wooden steamer was driven off course during a spring nor'easter on May 3, 1905. Waves from the 60-mile-an-hour winds hurled the Hesper onto a reef southwest of present-day Silver Bay. Another wave hoisted the steamer over the reef, dropped her and smashed her to bits in 42 feet of water. The crew was able to save themselves on lifeboats.
The Wrecks of the Madeira & Edenborn and the Lafayette & Manila
November 28, 1905 - Near modern day Split Rock Lighthouse & Lafayette Bluff Tunnel
One blizzard cost the Pittsburgh Steamship Company two men and four ships. On November 28, 1905, the 478-foot iron ore carrier William Edenborn was towing the 436-foot barge Madeira in the early-morning hours of the storm.
About 3:00 A.M. the towline parted. The unpowered Madeira floundered and crashed into the craggy rock shores of Gold Island, near modern day Split Rock Lighthouse. As the barge broke in two, nine of the ten crew made it safely to shore. One man died. At about the same time, the Edenborn was whipped into the mouth of the Split Rock River. With her bow driven into the wooded shoreline, her stern in the lake, and the waves pounding, the Edenborn split in two. One crew member perished. The Edna G. provided life saving services to both crews.
Twenty miles to the southwest, two sister ships were experiencing similar fates. The steel steamer Lafayette was towing the 436-foot barge Manila. Darkness and ceaseless sheets of snow combined for zero visibility. The captain had no idea where they were until he heard breakers hitting shore on the starboard side. A few moments after this realization, waves smashed the 454-foot Lafayette into massive rocks fifty feet offshore. With no time to react, the Manila drove into the Lafayette's stern, busting her in two in minutes. Both crews made it safely to shore. The cliff the ships rammed into has been named Lafayette Bluff, (the site of the northeastern tunnel on Highway 61). The casualties and wrecks of this storm precipitated the building of the lighthouse at Split Rock.
Since 1930, only seventeen major ships have been lost. The loss of the iron ore carrier Emperor on the dawn of June 4, 1947 was a shock.
Rounding the northwest end of Isle Royale in near zero visibility, the 525-foot, 4,641 ton-steamer smashed into Canoe Rocks with such terrific impact that she split at Hatch No. 4. A Coast Guard cutter four miles away responded to the first SOS, saving twenty one sailors. Twelve men drowned and the Emperor sunk to depths of 140 to 180 feet.
Seventeen more lives were lost when 427-foot Henry Steinbrenner went down May 11, 1953. The iron ore carrier had left Duluth on Saturday, May 9 under sunny 78 F skies. Sunday temps rose to 65 F, but by evening incredible gales gusting up to 72 miles per hour created 19-foot high waves. During the night, temperatures dropped, blinding snow came up and gale winds ripped off three sternward hatch covers. At 6:30 A.M., she foundered. Distress signals brought in other ships, which rescued fourteen crew members aboard three life vessels.
The Steinbrenner was the last of the North Shore wrecks.
On November 10, 1975 the world was astonished by the loss of the Fitz. Seventeen miles from Whitefish Point, Michigan, the 729-foot Edmund Fitzgerald vanished at sea amidst hurricane winds and a magnificent storm. All twenty nine crew members and the eight-million-dollar ship were lost.
Superior's latest claim was the U.S. Coast Guard cutter Mesquite on December 4, 1989 off Keweenaw Point, Michigan. Shipwrecks are not a thing of the past.
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www.common-place.org · vol. 15 · no. 2 · Winter 2015
Daniel P. Glenn is an assistant professor of history at St. Edward's University in Austin, Texas. His article "'Savage Barbarities and Petty Depredations': Supply Shortages and Military-Civilian Conflicts in the Niagara Theater, 1812-14" appeared in the Summer/Fall volume of New York History.
Daniel P. Glenn
On the Edge of the Atlantic World in the Interior of North America
Catherine Cangany, Frontier Seaport: Detroit's Transformation into an Atlantic Entrepôt. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2014. 288 pp., $45.
In Frontier Seaport: Detroit's Transformation into an Atlantic Entrepôt, Catherine Cangany explores what might best be called the "soft economics" of Detroit's integration into the Atlantic world. She contends that Detroit was "poised at the intersection of East and West, empire and frontier, core and periphery, and imperialism and localism" (3). This tension between the city's imperial significance and its remote location, Cangany stresses, "hastened Detroit's economic and cultural incorporation into the broader Atlantic world," even as it generated the idiosyncrasies that set early Detroit apart from many other settlements in the North American interior (3). For Cangany, Detroit was neither an imperial city within a frontier region, nor a peripheral outpost servicing a core. It embodied both, and she hopes to draw historians toward an "awareness of the full interdependencies, interrelatedness, and mutual constitutiveness of West and East" (5).
Cangany eschews another treatment of the fur trade for a detailed analysis of the commerce in such items as textiles, dining ware, moccasins, and books.
Cangany's book contributes to two not wholly distinct bodies of work: scholarship on the Great Lakes borders and borderlands, and on imperial consumerism. Although initiated by scholars interested in the interaction between indigenous peoples and Europeans, in the past decade historians such as Alan Taylor have extended the borderlands concept into the nineteenth century and onto disparate white populations. Meanwhile, others, illustrated by T.H. Breen, have moved consumerism to the center of the experience of empire. Cangany seeks to bring these two strands of scholarship into conversation by tracing the development of Detroit's role as a market for commonplace consumer items and the critical role of the fluctuating borders in the Great Lakes region in determining its character.
In order to present this "Janus-faced" view of Detroit, Cangany has assembled sources remarkable for both their number and variety: letters and ledger books from the city's early merchants; probate and criminal court records; papers of the French, British, and American military commanders stationed at the city; travel narratives; newspapers from as far away as South Carolina; Congressional statutes; and images and material goods (168). These allow her to study the material culture of Detroit's residents and their attitude toward the claims of sovereignty asserted by constantly changing imperial powers over their affairs. Likewise, they provide her evidence of Detroiters' simultaneously cosmopolitan and provincial status.
Frontier Seaport can be divided into two parts. Chapters one through three examine Detroit's incorporation into the Atlantic economy. Cangany eschews another treatment of the fur trade for a detailed analysis of the commerce in such items as textiles, dining ware, moccasins, and books. Despite being the better part of a thousand miles from the Atlantic coast, she finds that the city's merchants carried a remarkable array of goods including chocolate, nutmeg, olives, and hair powder. While these may seem oddly out of place on the frontier, they serve as evidence for Cangany's argument that early Detroit was "profoundly tied to Atlantic commercial culture, saturated with the same transnational goods and the accompanying fashions that were popular in urban spaces" (43). Moreover, the city's merchants' ability to draw on credit from overseas and sell on credit locally facilitated the residents' conspicuous consumption that further bound them to the Atlantic economy.
Having made a convincing case for Detroit's cosmopolitanism, Cangany devotes chapters four through six to describing the city's localisms and the conditions that allowed them to flourish through the early nineteenth century. Here her evidence is more subtle, and her extrapolations bolder. She contends that even as their business dealings bound Detroit more tightly to the Atlantic economy, the city's merchants resisted the accompanying loss of economic and political autonomy. They mastered the art of petitioning as they first defeated efforts by the French, British, and Americans to impose non-local judiciary oversight, and then confounded the endeavors of American officials to rebuild the settlement in a grandiose but alien manner after the fire of 1805.
Her most potent evidence, however, comes from the widespread, casual smuggling of common goods—blankets, whiskey, and apples among them—by local residents across the Detroit River. However much they desired the reliability that came with imperial order in their transnational commerce, locals expected autonomy when trading with neighbors who just happened to live on the other side of an international border. After all, residents had exchanged goods back and forth across the Detroit River, Cangany notes, for nearly 100 years before the river had been transformed into a border. She sees their illicit trade as "a measured local response to deleterious federal interference" (171). Apathetic customs officers and incongruous customs laws designed for the Atlantic seaboard rather than the Great Lakes aided their cause. For Cangany, smuggling "offer[s] further evidence of Detroiters' resistance to full incorporation into the American regime and the Atlantic world" (172).
Cangany writes in a precise and economical manner reflecting the diligence of her research. Yet she clearly enjoys crafting her analysis, as can be seen in the wordplay in which she engages. The subtitle of chapter three, "the fashioning of moccasins," for instance, refers to both the manufacturing and popularity of this footwear.
Given the emphasis on the tension between localism and cosmopolitanism, one may wonder at the selection of the work's subtitle, "Detroit's Transformation into an Atlantic Entrepôt." This subtitle undersells the scope of the project and perhaps misses a chance to draw the attention of scholars interested in empire, capitalism, and borderlands. Even as Frontier Seaport makes noteworthy contributions to two of the analytical frameworks in which it positions itself, it also raises important questions regarding their utility. Detroiters certainly seemed eager to tie themselves to the Atlantic world, but just what that means is unclear. Was the Atlantic world simply a set of rules and practices for economic exchange, or a collection of common consumer goods? By 1796, when the United States took formal possession of Detroit, the networks of exchange and communication that contemporary scholars refer to as constituting the "Atlantic world" had been in existence for 300 years. Surely it too developed, changed, and took on new meaning.
Detroit's days as a cultural borderland are far behind it, but its position adjacent to Canada still makes it a geographical borderland, and as Cangany notes, that location provides ample opportunity for illicit trade. Is this still localism at work? Does this mean the casual smuggling in which the city's population engages today is evidence of their continued resistance to incorporation into the Atlantic, or now, the global economy? More to the point, do borderlands foster the development of one variety of a localism that manifests in every locality? And if every place has its localisms, are borderlands truly significant? Frontier Seaport is a stimulating work with a thought-provoking thesis that is undergirded by a solid body of research. It is a valuable addition to anyone interested in commerce and empire, borderlands, or Great Lakes history.
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Il Tempio del popolo (People's Temple) è stato un movimento laicale di volontariato, con connotazioni politiche socialiste e della chiesa dei Discepoli di Cristo. Venne fondato dal predicatore James Warren Jones, e terminato il 18 novembre 1978 con un suicidio-omicidio collettivo. I sopravvissuti del Tempio del Popolo furono 167, tra cui il figlio di Jones, Stephan.

Storia

La fondazione

Il movimento - che praticava una mescolanza tra gli insegnamenti di Cristo e il comunismo dottrinario stalinista - era stato fondato nel 1955, nello stato americano dell'Indiana, con il nome di Wings of Deliverance ("Ali della liberazione"). Mutato il nome in "Tempio del popolo", nel 1965, in seguito ad accuse di carattere politico mosse a Jones e ai suoi adepti di abusi sessuali, maltrattamenti sui minori e frode fiscale relative alle attività presso Indianapolis, si era trasferito in California con 70 membri (prima a Redwood Valley, presso Ukiah, quindi in una sinagoga abbandonata a Fillmore, quartiere di San Francisco). I membri venivano invitati a vivere in comune, con seguaci raccolti principalmente tra gli emarginati e le minoranze etniche.

Per incrementare il proprio potere, Jim Jones si servì dell'appoggio elettorale dato al Partito Democratico e appoggiò l'elezione a sindaco di San Francisco di George Moscone, eletto nel 1976, di cui il capo del movimento divenne "commissario degli alloggi" (carica equiparabile a quella di un assessore).

Il trasferimento in Guyana e la fondazione di "Jonestown"

A seguito delle accuse, Jones stava pensando di lasciare gli USA e, dopo essersi accordato col governo della Guyana, ottenne la concessione nel 1974 dal governo della Guyana di alcuni lotti di terreno in un territorio al confine con il Venezuela.

Nell'estate del 1977, insieme a circa un migliaio di adepti si trasferì nella giungla della Guyana, fondando un insediamento abitato chiamato Jonestown, definita dal leader del movimento una "terra promessa".

Jones aveva concepito l'idea di creare in questo paese sudamericano una comunità utopistica socialista, dove la fratellanza e la tolleranza avrebbero avuto la meglio sul materialismo e sul razzismo da lui detestato negli Stati Uniti. L'idea era quindi quella di trasformare questa comunità in un paradiso in terra: i membri venivano indottrinati con linguaggio millenaristico e tecniche di lavaggio del cervello.

Tuttavia iniziarono anche i primi malumori all'interno dell'insediamento e diversi individui manifestarono la volontà di andarsene. Coloro che tentavano la fuga dalla comune venivano definiti disertori e puniti severamente da un'organizzazione di polizia interna. Inoltre la fitta giungla rendeva difficile abbandonare la comunità.

L'omicidio Ryan e il suicidio di massa

In seguito alle rivendicazioni delle famiglie di alcuni membri, che ritenevano i loro parenti trattenuti al campo contro la loro volontà, fu dato corso a un'indagine che coinvolse il Congresso degli Stati Uniti: il 17 novembre 1978 si recò al Tempio una delegazione guidata dal deputato Leo Ryan, accompagnato da giornalisti e da familiari dei membri del movimento. Al momento della partenza, sulla pista di decollo nella vicina Port Kaituma, il servizio di sicurezza del movimento sparò sui membri della delegazione, uccidendone cinque, tra cui il deputato Leo Ryan.

Jim Jones, venuto a conoscenza dell'attacco, convocò un'assemblea generale, che fu registrata in un nastro, in cui avanzò la richiesta ai membri del movimento di effettuare un "suicidio di massa per la gloria del socialismo". La maggior parte degli adepti si suicidò ingerendo del cianuro diluito in una bevanda aromatizzata con del Flavor Aid al sapore di uva (una bevanda simile al Kool-Aid), mentre pochi altri, tra cui lo stesso Jim Jones e sua moglie, si suicidarono con una revolverata. Chi invece non accettò la decisione fu abbattuto a colpi di arma da fuoco. Complessivamente si contarono 909 morti, tra suicidi, infanticidi e omicidi.

Le testimonianze sull'eccidio

Il livello di fanatismo estremo può forse spiegare l'adesione della comunità al suicidio collettivo, una decisione a cui si associarono anche alcuni adepti non presenti in quel momento a Jonestown. Esistono svariate testimonianze provenienti dai pochi superstiti che riferirono di madri che avvelenarono volontariamente, e talvolta spontaneamente, i propri figli. Inoltre, parrebbe che Jim Jones, nell'ultima drammatica assemblea, non fosse stato nemmeno il primo a proporre un suicidio di massa, idea che circolava già da diversi mesi nella comunità, e che era condivisa da molti degli oratori che parlarono quel giorno.

I sopravvissuti descrivono Jonestown come un misto di prigione e bucolica isola di felicità e di riuscita integrazione razziale. Le diserzioni erano comunque pochissime non solo per la repressione operata contro i disertori, ma perché le persone vivevano in uno stato di mobilitazione permanente in una vita completamente comunitaria, in cui difficilmente sviluppavano il desiderio di andarsene.

Note

Bibliografia
 Enrico Pozzi, Il carisma malato. Il People's Temple e il suicidio collettivo di Jonestown, Napoli, Liguori, 1992, 360 pp.
 Enrico Pozzi, Narrazione di un suicidio collettivo. Trascrizione e commento della registrazione del rito suicida del People's Temple a Jonestown, in Il Corpo, anno I, n. 2, nuova serie, marzo 1994.
 Massimo Introvigne, Idee che uccidono. Jonestown, Waco, il Tempio Solare, MIMEP-Docete, Pessano (Milano) 1995, pp. 17-36.

Voci correlate
 Leo Ryan
 James Warren Jones
 Jonestown (Guyana)
 Teorie del complotto su Jonestown

Altri progetti

Collegamenti esterni

Il Tempio del popolo sul sito del CESNUR-Centro studi sulle nuove religioni
Furio Colombo, L'anima nera del reverendo Jones, su la Repubblica, nel ventennale della strage (17 novembre 1998, p.41).
The Jonestown Death Tape (FBI No. Q 042) : The Rev. Jim Jones, et al. (The Peoples Temple cult)

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Q: What does a Bash command do to the file typed in afterwards? I just learned that the bash command opens up a new Bash shell inside of whatever shell you're using, and uses the profile of .bashrc for its commands.
When I was installing Laravel earlier this week, I used a bash init.sh command. Now I'm wondering, what exactly did that bash init.sh command do?  Why did I need to open a new shell to... execute or open whatever was in init.sh?

A: Quoting man bash*:

ARGUMENTS
If arguments remain after option processing, and neither the -c nor the -s option has been supplied, the first argument is assumed to be the name of a file containing shell commands. If bash is invoked in this fashion, $0 is set to the name of the file, and the positional parameters are set to the remaining arguments. Bash reads and executes commands from this file, then exits. Bash's exit status is the exit status of the last command executed in the script. If no commands are executed, the exit status is 0. An attempt is first made to open the file in the current directory, and, if no file is found, then the shell searches the directories in PATH for the script.

In other words: bash <file> executes <file> as a Bash script. You will not get a new interactive shell.
Note that this is not the only way to specify which shell (or indeed any command) should be used to execute a script: It's common to use a shebang for that, so that the script can be 'executed' by itself.

* The one I had at hand, of Bash v4.3.42.

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"""Fixer that turns 1L into 1, 0755 into 0o755.
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# Copyright 2007 Georg Brandl.
# Licensed to PSF under a Contributor Agreement.

# Local imports
from ..pgen2 import token
from .. import fixer_base
from ..fixer_util import Number

class FixNumliterals(fixer_base.BaseFix):
    # This is so simple that we don't need the pattern compiler.

    _accept_type = token.NUMBER

    def match(self, node):
        # Override
        return (node.value.startswith("0") or node.value[-1] in "Ll")

    def transform(self, node, results):
        val = node.value
        if val[-1] in 'Ll':
            val = val[:-1]
        elif val.startswith('0') and val.isdigit() and len(set(val)) > 1:
            val = "0o" + val[1:]

        return Number(val, prefix=node.prefix)
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"""Fixer that turns 1L into 1, 0755 into 0o755.
"""
# Copyright 2007 Georg Brandl.
# Licensed to PSF under a Contributor Agreement.

# Local imports
from ..pgen2 import token
from .. import fixer_base
from ..fixer_util import Number

class FixNumliterals(fixer_base.BaseFix):
    # This is so simple that we don't need the pattern compiler.

    _accept_type = token.NUMBER

    def match(self, node):
        # Override
        return (node.value.startswith("0") or node.value[-1] in "Ll")

    def transform(self, node, results):
        val = node.value
        if val[-1] in 'Ll':
            val = val[:-1]
        elif val.startswith('0') and val.isdigit() and len(set(val)) > 1:
            val = "0o" + val[1:]

        return Number(val, prefix=node.prefix)
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"""Fixer that turns 1L into 1, 0755 into 0o755.
"""
# Copyright 2007 Georg Brandl.
# Licensed to PSF under a Contributor Agreement.

# Local imports
from ..pgen2 import token
from .. import fixer_base
from ..fixer_util import Number

class FixNumliterals(fixer_base.BaseFix):
    # This is so simple that we don't need the pattern compiler.

    _accept_type = token.NUMBER

    def match(self, node):
        # Override
        return (node.value.startswith("0") or node.value[-1] in "Ll")

    def transform(self, node, results):
        val = node.value
        if val[-1] in 'Ll':
            val = val[:-1]
        elif val.startswith('0') and val.isdigit() and len(set(val)) > 1:
            val = "0o" + val[1:]

        return Number(val, prefix=node.prefix)
>>>>>>> b875702c9c06ab5012e52ff4337439b03918f453

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Home > Vol 9, No 2 (2021) >	Gautam
Human leptospirosis in patients with undifferentiated acute febrile illness in a tertiary care hospital in New Delhi
Garima Gautam, Manoj B. Jais, Ravinder Kaur, Megh Singh Dhakkad
Background: Leptospirosis is an important cause of febrile illness with a widespread global distribution. Although endemic in the southern and western states of India, its true incidence in the northern states of the country remains underreported. The main objective of this study was to estimate the seropositivity of infections by Leptospira in patients presenting with undifferentiated acute fever, in a tertiary care hospital in New Delhi.
Methods: This prospective observational study was conducted from November 2016 to March 2018 in a tertiary care hospital in New Delhi. Blood samples of the patients (n=370) having fever for more than one week and seronegative for typhoid, dengue, chikungunya and malaria were subjected to Leptospira IgM ELISA (DRG International Inc., USA). Data was analyzed using statistical software SPSS version 21.
Results: Out of 370 patients, 142 (38.4%) were males and 228 (61.6%) were females; the mean age was 32.18 years. The most common symptom was headache (55.5%) and icterus (55.55%) whereas increased ALT/AST was the most common laboratory finding (88.8%) followed by anaemia (77.7%). On employing Leptospira IgM ELISA, 2.43% (9 cases, n=370) were strongly reactive (>1.0 OD) whereas 15.1% (56 cases) were weakly reactive (1.15-1.00 OD).
Conclusions: There is a need to increase awareness and suspicion regarding diagnosis of leptospirosis. A positive IgM ELISA when correlated with patient's clinical profile and epidemiological factors can aid in the timely diagnosis and treatment of these infections.
Acute febrile illness, IgM Leptospira ELISA, Leptospirosis
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Kumar SS. Indian guidelines for the diagnosis and management of human leptospirosis. API Medicine Update. 2013;23:23-9.
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Carlos Alberto Souto Pinheiro Júnior or simply Carlos Alberto (born January 8, 1984 in Arês-RN), is a Brazilian footballer, who currently plays for Vitória.

References

1984 births
Living people
Brazilian footballers
Cruzeiro Esporte Clube players
Esporte Clube São Bento players
Club Athletico Paranaense players
Esporte Clube Bahia players
Esporte Clube Vitória players
Association football defenders


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You can't lie to the police, but can they lie to you?
On Behalf of Sullivan Law | Sep 2, 2022 | Criminal Defense
There are plenty of situations in which you cannot lie to the police. They could charge you with obstruction of justice in some cases, for instance. If they ask you to identify yourself during a traffic stop, you're legally obligated to do so. You cannot give them a fake name.
This may make you think that the rules should work both ways. You can't lie to the police and the police cannot lie to you. But is this actually how it works?
The police are absolutely allowed to lie
Unfortunately, the truth is that the police are allowed to lie in many situations. They do not have to be honest with you during an interview or an interrogation. In some cases, they will lie about evidence that they have or statements that other people have made in order to influence what you tell them.
For example, the police may tell you that your partner in an alleged crime already confessed and told them what you did that broke the law. This may never have happened, but they're hoping that you believe it and confess to something that you otherwise never would have claimed that you did.
This is just one reason why it's so important to work with your legal defense team if you have to meet with the police. You don't want to say anything that would accidentally incriminate yourself or make you look guilty when you're not. You also don't want to assume that the police are being honest and fair with you. Instead, focus on your rights and the legal options at your disposal.


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CLEAN TECH: THE GREAT GREEN OPPORTUNITY?
Testing 'In the Media' page
It's one of six manufacturing sectors the federal government acknowledges as holding "comparative advantage and strategic importance," and it's seeing unprecedented levels of investment around the world. Brent Balinski looks at the promise of clean technology.
Whether or not the federal government adopts a formal goal of net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050, the private sector seems convinced of the need to decarbonise and the financial benefits attached to doing so.
""Right now, Australia has an opportunity to meet growing global demand for zero-emissions products as countries and companies commit to eliminating greenhouse gas emissions," says Heidi Lee, CEO of BZE
And official net zero target by 2050 — adopted by over 110 countries at the last count — aside, significant government support is being given in Australia to clean technology.
Last week the NSW government pledged $750 million aimed at cutting the state's emissions by 35 per cent by the end of the decade. And the federal government is expected to open grants for Recycling & Clean Energy (one of six acknowledged National Manufacturing Priorities) projects under its $1.3 billion Modern Manufacturing Initiative within weeks.
"Both [are] strong signs that Australian governments now recognise the immense potential for a zero-emissions economy to repower Australian manufacturing and create good jobs in our regions," according to Heidi Lee, CEO of advocacy group Beyond Zero Emissions.
The value of cutting emissions is not lost on venture capital and other investors. PwC's The State of Climate Tech 2020, released in September, looked at investment in relevant startups and concluded that things are different to the "clean tech" investment boom of the 2000s and its subsequent bust. While there is more regulatory encouragement to lower GHGs nowadays, there is also much, much more of both private investment and (importantly) market demand for products. (The PwC report draws a distinction between "clean tech" and "climate tech". We do not for the purposes of this article.)
The State… counts 43 "unicorn" (worth over $US 1 billion) companies globally such as Tesla and Beyond Meat and $US 60 billion invested, almost half of it in North American companies. Investment is up 3,750 per cent between 2013 and 2019 (with an 84 per cent compound annual growth rate.)
Mike Zimmerman of Main Sequence Ventures (CSIRO's venture arm) says there are four big changes to emerge in recent years.
"I think [pyrolysis is] going to be huge, because we've got such a capacity to store carbon in our carbon depleted soils" — Ross George (Picture: Pyrocal)
He identifies these as the cost of creating solutions lowering due to technological maturity; demand from consumers, corporates and institutional investors that ESG (environmental, social, and corporate governance) be embedded in products; the "rampant desire of startup founders and employees to build companies" with a positive impact; and the challenge of "matching the output of renewables in the day and the demand/consumption of energy in the evenings."
Making for a global market
Main Sequence has backed two clean energy companies so far, neither of which has been announced by name. Zimmerman says they are particularly excited about two things: the market pull for sustainably grown and made "low carbon" food and packaging, and the potential in developing green hydrogen-powered products (for example electrolysers and storage.)
"In both of those cases we have the entire supply chain and decent size markets here in Australia so we think we will see great Australian made companies that can deliver value to an initial local market before going offshore," Zimmerman tells @AuManufacturing.
James Bradley, CTO and co-founder of small wind turbine manufacturer Diffuse Energy, is also optimistic about Australian industry's capacity to create exportable solutions.
"…we have the entire supply chain and decent size markets here in Australia so we think we will see great Australian made companies that can deliver value to an initial local market before going offshore," believes Mike Zimmerman
"Due to Australia's size, relatively low population and the fact that we are an Island, we sit in a position where we have to solve the challenges associated with the transition to a low carbon future before many others," Bradley tells @AuManufacturing.
Citing global political support and market demand, Bradley says clean technology should be "the largest growth sector in decades" for the nation if approached correctly.
"Historically we have developed some great technologies and then moved the manufacture offshore," he says, acknowledging the difficulty of the problem.
"Australia also has some great natural resources for energy storage and renewable production here in Australia. We need to retain the 'value add' here."
Geelong engineering firm Austeng is uniquely placed to comment on the issue.
It is an Australian SME adopting sustainable technology. According to its owners it uses roughly net zero power over a 12-month period after installation of a solar array (exporting slightly in the summer and exporting slightly in the winter.) It is partway through replacing its fleet with electric vehicles. It is also helping some of its customers — which range from crematoria to manufacturers — convert to more environmentally benign ways of generating heat and energy.
On top of that, Austeng is also a tech enabler, with an equity stake in and manufacturing partnerships with a handful of startups working in the sustainability sector, including heat engine company Capricorn Power.
"All of those opportunities are coming up and there's awareness there in both people coming up with ideas and support from [their] customers," says Managing Director Ross George, who owns and runs Austeng with his wife Lyn.
"For a company like us it's a huge opportunity — 'Austeng, come and develop this for us' — and we're talking with a couple of the pyrolysis companies at the minute… And I think that's going to be huge, because we've got such a capacity to store carbon in our carbon depleted soils [through biochar.]"
Teamwork needed
Another assessment of the potential value of clean energy for Australian manufacturers comes from BZE. The organisation released its Million Jobs Plan report in June last year. This estimated 215,000 manufacturing jobs (with 70 per cent in regional locations) could be created through growing local renewable energy-powered activity in metals, hydrogen, chemicals and electric mining equipment over the next five years.
It is currently collecting expressions of interest, hoping to demonstrate a demand for Renewable Energy Industrial Precincts in NSW's Hunter and Queensland's Gladstone region.
"Some of Australia's most exciting and innovative manufacturing and technology companies — including Molycop, Ampcontrol and MGA Thermal — have already given support for a Hunter-based precinct, which will be powered by 100 per cent renewable energy," Lee tells us.
There is no "silver bullet" solution to the decarbonisation imperative, Austeng's owners agree.
It's a complex issue, cutting across a variety of industries, and impacting stakeholders at a variety of levels.
"I think that the whole conversation about the importance of renewable economy and the circular economy and investing in renewables and reducing carbon emissions has really undertaken a paradigm shift over the last few years," offers Lyn George, Corporate Director at Austeng and Chair of the Geelong Manufacturing Council.
"And it potentially does create so many opportunities for Australian manufacturers. It just takes a little bit of collaboration between all parties: government, universities and manufacturers, to be able to identify what the best opportunities are and work together on them."
Featured picture: The Advertiser
Next Monday @AuManufacturing will look at the potential surrounding the "recycling" part of Clean Tech & Recycling.
Subscribe to our free @AuManufacturing newsletter here.


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In the upcoming weeks I will publish a potential approach to these sayings and what to do about it.
check out my class: Professional Scrum Developer.
Also read my follow-up post Can you find the 3 smells in "I added a Refactoring Story for the next Cleanup Sprint"?
Sarah, I think that there must be a lot more than only TDD. And very often I see programmers misunderstanding TDD as testing!
Thanks for starting the conversation in this interesting direction.
I think a Professional Developer should have 2 views. The inside technology view and the outside organisational view.
Regarding the "outside organisational view", a Professional understands the organizational vision, priorities and business direction. The Professional Team will contribute to enterprise-wide success by optimizing the overall value stream.
Yes, there is more than code 😉 and yes its fun to have a bigger impact and yes I think this is hard.
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Doctor Who - Twinkl
Tuesday, 16 June 2020 - Reported by Marcus
The global educational publisher Twinkl has partnered with BBC Studios to create a range of educational Doctor Who resources for children between seven and eleven years old.
These are the first-ever Doctor Who educational resources to be linked to the UK national curriculum. The resources include activity sheets, interactive presentations and reading comprehensions based around several episodes from series 11 and 12 of Doctor Who. These resources can be used separately or alongside episodes and link the Doctor's adventures to units of study for school years three to six.
Covering core subjects including science, geography and history, the materials introduce children to figures such as Rosa Parks, Nikola Tesla and Thomas Edison, and teach them about subjects such as the Indian partition, artificial intelligence and animals and their ecosystems. Children are also encouraged to explore the different uses of electricity and the many forms it takes, as well as how to remain safe when using electrical equipment around the home.
Free to use and accessible to everyone, the resources can be downloaded through the Twinkl website and are a valuable teaching tool for teachers, parents and carers. Twinkl's mission is to help those who teach and the company offers over 640,000 teaching and learning materials on its website, which are all teacher created and checked.
The company has recently created a bespoke Home Learning Hub, full of daily activities and materials, to support parents, teachers and carers with home learning.
Vanessa Hamilton, Head of Brand, Doctor Who, BBC Studios, said:
We're delighted to be partnering with Twinkl to create Doctor Who educational resources for children across the world. Doctor Who has been inspiring and entertaining children for generations, so we're thrilled that we can bring this much-loved series to the classroom in an educational and engaging way.
Jonathan Seaton, CEO and Co-Founder, Twinkl, said:
Working with BBC Studios to create this exciting range of Doctor Who learning materials has been out of this world! We are always looking for new ways to help those who teach, and hope that these resources provide teachers, parents and carers with a unique new way to engage children in learning.
We know that now more than ever parents are looking for ways to help children learn at home and hope that the Doctor Who resources will be a big hit in households and at schools right now, as well as far into the future.
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One day a few years ago I returned a phone call to a man who had left me a message.
When he answered the phone he explained that he had been busy doing some calculations. I proceeded to ask what he was calculating and he explained.
So in this man's perspective he had won. He saw the world through his perspective and found success and value- "Winning"- by making more money than his son. To be honest I was shocked. I had always hoped my boy's would exceed my success in all areas of life (except when I used to play basketball against them as kids. :-). But, for this man he was winning at life if he was beating his son by making more money.
How many times do we do the same thing? Who are you competing with in life? Perhaps you are not trying to beat your own child, but are you comparing yourself with others and determining whether you are winning based on where you are in comparison to them.
Significant Leaders do no such comparison. Significant leaders carry their value within. Significant leaders actually try to raise up those around them to a higher level of success and significance then they themselves have achieved. Significant leaders realize they ultimately only win when they help other people win.
However, this father probably had been given this perspective or map from his own father. Instead of first determining whether the map was even valid, he just used it. Therefore, the way he determined whether he was successful or not was entirely based on how his salary compared to that of his son. If his salary was higher he "won" if his son's salary was higher he "lost".
Success was measured by whether or not he was beating his own son. Is that a valid way to determine if you are successful let alone if you are significant? Does that make any sense? What message does he send to his son? What map is he giving his son?
Sometimes it may appear that we are winning, but we are we even playing the right game.
74. What are you trying to win at? Who are you competing with? Are you climbing the right ladder?
75. What is your definition of- "Winning at life"?