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Which Saint? How to Pick Your Patron for the School Year
We are big fans of our guardian angels in my house. My kids ask their angels for help when they are faced with a big test at school or if they wake up in the night from a bad dream. Before I go to bed, I pray over their four sleeping bodies and ask their angels to watch over them. They had guardian angel medals hanging in their nurseries as babies and I have one pinned to the sun visor in my minivan to protect us as we go.
The Saints, though? That's something our family could do a little more learning about. There are certain saints that I am intimately familiar with. Saint Cecilia has helped me on more than one occasion when I didn't feel my voice could carry me through a performance. Saint Anne and our Blessed Mother have prayed me through many a worrisome mothering moment. And there were numerous times as a fledgling teacher that I implored Saint Mother Theodore Guerin for help.
At the beginning of this new school year, maybe it would be helpful to take a cue from my 4th grader and use a study guide to learn something new. Who are the men and women that our Church, in her wisdom, has put forward as experts in their fields? To whom should we turn for help with our school-related issues this year and in the future?
Grab your index cards and highlighters, sisters, and feel free to take notes. This is by no means an exhaustive list, but more the Cliffs Notes version. Not to worry, though. There won't be a test.
The Main Idea
Patron Saint of Teachers
Saint John Baptist de la Salle was a Frenchman from the 17th century who was a pioneer in teacher training. He formed the Brothers of the Christian Schools religious community and was a leader in educational reform in France. Some of the changes he instituted were providing educational opportunities for the poor, teaching children in the vernacular instead of in Latin, and involving parents in their children's education. His feast day is April 7.
Patron Saint of Schools
Saint Thomas Aquinas is a patron of schools, Catholic schools, and colleges/universities. He was a 13th century Dominican teacher, professor, and founder of schools who was declared a doctor of the Church by Pope Pius V. He taught in France and in Italy and wrote several prayers for students. His feast day is January 28.
Patron Saints of Students
Saint Catherine of Alexandria lived in the 3rd and 4th centuries and, when she was a teenager, came before Emperor Maxentius who was persecuting Christians. Because of her great intellect, she was faced not with physical hardships but with fifty orators and philosophers to debate her. Inspired by the Holy Spirit, she spoke so eloquently that she won her debate and even converted several pagans.
Saint Joseph Cupertino was a 17th century man who struggled academically and finally passed his exams to became a priest at the age of 25 after failing multiple times. (He was also known to levitate, which most kids think is pretty cool).
Saint Catherine's feast day is November 25 and Saint Joseph's feast day is September 18.
The patron saints of catechists are Saint Charles Borromeo and Saint Robert Bellarmine (both active in the life of Saint Aloysius Gonzaga). And the patron saint of school principals is Saint Thomas Aquinas. He's actually the patron saint of a lot of things related to education!
Supporting Details
Patron Saint of Young Boys
Saint Dominic Savio was an Italian boy from the 19th century. He was a student of the great Saint John Bosco. He was a regular boy who sometimes got into trouble and loved to laugh. From Don Bosco, Saint Dominic learned the holiness of ordinary things. He died at the age of 15 and his feast day is May 6.
Patron Saint of Young Girls
Saint Agnes of Rome was an innocent girl of 12 or 13 when she was martyred for refusing to deny her faith and marry the governor of her home. She declared that she was already promised to the Lord and is said to have looked as happy as a bride on her wedding day when she was going to be executed because she knew that in death she would be united with Jesus. She is usually portrayed with a lamb to signify her purity. Her feast day is January 21.
Patron Saint of Teenage Boys
Saint Aloysius Gonzaga was born into a family of Italian nobility in the 16th century. He renounced his life of wealth and privilege, made a vow of chastity at age 9, and eventually became a Jesuit. He was studious and counselled many of his friends. He died during an outbreak of the plague after caring for the sick. His feast day is June 21.
Patron Saint of Teenage Girls
Saint Maria Goretti was an Italian peasant who died in 1902 at the age of 12 after being brutally attacked and raped. She may not have had a good education, but she had an abundance of faith. She fought her attacker and yelled that God did not wish for what was happening, that it was a sin. Years later, her attacker saw a vision of Maria offering him flowers in a dream and he sought the forgiveness of her family. Her feast day is July 6.
After all that talk about young children and teenagers, maybe it would be good to mention that the patron saint of parenthood is Saint Rita of Cascia. In addition to our Blessed Mother and Saint Joseph, of course!
Outside of the Classroom
Patron Saint of Athletes
Saint Sebastian was born in Gaul and then lived in Rome during the 3rd century. He was a member of the Roman army, eventually becoming a captain under Diocletian. When it was discovered that he was a Christian who had converted many soldiers, he was put to death. He is also the patron saint of archers and his feast day is January 20.
Patron Saint of Bus Drivers
Yep! That would be Saint Christopher. The legendary saint of the early Christian church who is said to have delivered the child Jesus safely across a river is also the patron of the brave men and women who transport our kids to school and back every day. His feast day is July 25.
Patron Saint of the Sick
There is a patron Saint for just about any illness or malady you can think of. For throat ailments, pray to Saint Blaise. For cancer, Saint Peregrine. For tummy troubles, look to Saint Timothy. But for general sicknesses (and for doctors, too), the saintly one to look to is Saint Michael the Archangel, who will also be there to escort the faithful to Heaven when they die.
These two suggestions are for the tweens and teens in our lives. Blessed Pier Giorgio Frassati and Blessed Chiara Badano are two 20th century Italians who turned the ordinary into the extraordinary. Their lives of simple holiness, giving endlessly of the love of Christ to others, ended with illness at young ages. How special would it be for our kids to establish prayerful relationships with these modern-day young people and then witness their canonizations?!
Homework Time
For further information on patron Saints, take a look at the following websites. Consider yourselves warned, though! Once you get started looking these things up, you might just make a new friend or two.
EWTN's Saints & Other Holy People
Catholic Online's Saints and Angels
Saint's Name Generator
5 Patron Saints of Students
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For many visual effects studios, rendering costs can make or break a budget. Countless CTOs and pipeline experts have architected complex formulas for predicting render costs, but those predictions are largely dependent on several ever-changing factors. When studios can streamline render costs, it allows them to increase margins and the VFX industry to become healthier overall.
Cloud has been touted as the next big thing in production for years now, as software makers switch to subscription models and leverage web-based interfaces for more flexible accessibility across devices. However, until just recently, the cost of cloud rendering has yet to reach the tipping point where it made sense for studios to move away from physical resources. Local farms have been the norm for decades and while the prospect of unloading thousands of dollars of legacy infrastructure can be downright scary, it may be the smarter choice in the long run. There isn't a perfect one-size-fits-all for determining that tipping point metric and it may still be up for debate, but by looking at a few key factors, studios can get a pretty good idea of how cloud rendering might impact their bottom line.
Beyond the initial CapEx requirements for hardware, machines have to be physically housed, powered/cooled, and managed by someone with some degree of technical aptitude. They also have a limited shelf life, and as technology progresses, hardware will need to be serviced, upgraded or replaced. If production is largely steady and predictable, and real estate relatively affordable, local hardware may make the most sense for a studio, though it does limit the ability to scale. Farm utilization is also a huge consideration. In some cases, a farm can sit idle 20-50 percent of the time, which is lost productivity and value. In contrast, a farm that runs 100 percent constantly will encounter rendering backlogs and, as a result, reduced productivity. Companies that purchase additional hardware to complete a job will be faced with underutilization when production wraps; it's a vicious cycle between having too much or not enough compute power, and a failure to manage this dilemma can (and has) put companies out of business.
Now that physical and cloud costs are mostly aligned, the ability to scale is a major benefit of cloud. When production peaks, studios can scale much more quickly through the cloud than traditional infrastructure build outs, and only pay for resources when used. This flexibility allows studios to better manage rendering costs and also allows them to accept work that they would have otherwise had to pass on because of render farm capacity. And with cloud, setting up a new studio outpost to better service a production or capitalize on tax incentives can be achieved in a matter of weeks and with minimal investment.
This may seem like a no-brainer, but one of the most important criteria for optimizing cloud usage is for studios to know their work. When starting a job, select and run a few worst-case scenario frames for a scene to benchmark performance and render times, then a supervisor or lead can use that information to determine the appropriate machine spec for a body of work. If there are dramatic variations within a scene, consider breaking it up into chunks of similar complexity and using different machines for each chunk. Start slowly with only a few machines to control the rate of spending when assets, software or other techniques have changed, and sample frames before ramping up full force for a large volume of work.
Knowing the budget is just as, if not more, important as knowing the work. With local render farms, it is too easy to think of compute time as free and not track that usage against an actual budget, but rendering should be included in production charges, whether local or cloud-based. When bidding projects, you can execute select tests on key material to validate and improve on estimates. Those estimates can be used to set limits for spending, whether managed manually or through something offered through your cloud service, like Conductor's Cost Limit functionality.
As the saying goes, those who do not learn from the past are doomed to repeat it. Studying histories of past jobs and costs provides a wealth of data that can be used to improve the bid process and target areas for optimization. These insights can be mined from local farms, depending on how that data is managed, but in most cases, cloud automatically stores and makes these metrics accessible.
Kevin Baillie is the CEO of Conductor Technologies, which was born out of his desire to establish a cutting edge visual effects studio that relied solely upon cloud resources.


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Category Archives: Memorials
Memorials, Museums, Remembrance, Slave Trade
Memorials, Memory, and History in the Black Atlantic
February 10, 2014 David Romine Leave a comment
As the first sitting Republican president to visit Africa, President George W. Bush's speech in Senegal seemed to be more for the benefit of an American audience than an African one. Standing safely out of the noonday July sun on the Isle of Gorée, Bush declared that "At this place liberty and life were stolen and sold. Human beings were delivered and sorted, and weighed, and branded with the marks of commercial enterprises, and loaded as cargo on a voyage without return. One of the largest migrations of history was also one of the greatest crimes of history." [1]
Acknowledging the violent, dehumanizing history of the transatlantic slave trade at this particular site was by no means accidental. Gorée Island has since the 1990s served as a site of pilgrimage which has become almost de rigueur for visiting presidents, religious leaders, and dignitaries. Among those to speak there since its designation as a site of "Outstanding Universal Value" by UNESCO in 1978 are Nelson Mandela, Barack Obama, Pope John Paul II, and Bill Clinton. Gorée has joined the ranks of Cape Coast Castle and São Jorge de Mina as sites of remembrance for the horrors of the slave trade by members of the African diaspora.[2]
At only 45 acres, the main attraction on the island is the Maison des Esclaves, or the House of Slaves, its pink outer walls concealing an austere interior. Since 1962, the site has been maintained by a museum founded by Boubacar Joseph Ndiaye in order to preserve the historical significance of the island. Tours take visitors from bare room to bare room, with plaques on the walls, commemorating the millions who passed through the halls of this house and the estimated dozen or so others on the island, culminating in the la porte du voyage sans retour (the door of no return). The door itself, a plain affair on the ground floor, opens directly onto a short, rocky beach and then to the sea. As a potent symbol in the memorialization of the slave trade, the door is described in literature and tourist narratives as the final portal Africans passed through on their way to death and suffering in the New World. It was the beginning of the Middle Passage for millions of men, women, and children.
And yet, as early as 1959, French historians were questioning the idea that the Island of Gorée was a major transshipment point for African slaves. In 1995, Atlantic slave trade historian Philip D. Curtin publicly stated that Gorée was never important in the slave trade and the following year the French historian Emmanuel de Ru lamented in an article in Le Monde that the "myth" of the House of slaves survived by being "resistant to reality."[3] Archeologists have weighed in, as historical anthropologist François Richard of the University of Chicago argued that the Maison des Esclaves itself "would not have been a commercial point or processing center for slaves." The lack of literature documenting voyages to and from Gorée is the primary factor for historians' conclusions, but the island's small size and lack of infrastructure or apparent evidence of slave trading has led most to conclude that slaves on Gorée resided there in the houses of their owners. In other words, Gorée was not a major site of slave-trading, but a colonial outpost with slaves in residence.
The vast majority of African scholars, historians, and archeologists agree on this perspective. However, some take issue with their methodology. Ibrahim Thiaw, a Senegalese archeologist at IFAN (Institut Fondamental d'Afrique Noire), commenting on the lack of physical evidence of large numbers of slaves being housed in preparation for sale and transport, argued that chains and confinement were seldom necessary. "Captive populations don't usually leave much behind," Thiaw notes. "Archaeologically you won't find much evidence that Gorée was used as a transshipment center for slaves. But it was clearly an important point in Atlantic trading patterns and, anyway what would you expect to find? Chains? The act of transshipment does not necessarily leave traces in the archaeological record."
This debate, over the authenticity of Gorée as a site of historical memory of the slave trade, has not ceased, and with each visit by a foreign dignitary, the debate is revived again.[5] President Obama called his recent encounter with la porte du voyage sans retour to be a "very powerful moment" upon which he reflected on the history of African Americans, but a number of news outlets mentioned the site's contested history. It is perhaps more reflective of the needs of Senegal as a state than Gorée remains a site of memorialization. Gorée's physical location, just a short ferry ride from Dakar's bustling port, draws thousands of tourists a year. As a memorial to the slave trade, Dakar/Gorée now resides amongst other slave castles and trading sites that draw tourists from the African Diaspora to Africa's coast.
There are a number of questions that are raised when the site of memorialization is physically disconnected from the event (or events) being memorialized. In the case of the Maison des Esclaves, its supporters claim it to be the actual site of departure for hundreds of thousands (if not millions) of Africans bound for the New World. Even if, as Curtin claims, a "mere" 33,000 slaves (estimated) were taken from Gorée in chains, does that mean it is less of a memorial than El Mina or Cape Coast Castle? Does it obscure the suffering of those being led down to the Atlantic littoral and shipped across the ocean?
Even if it is not the actual site of departure, that fact does not change the reality of the middle passage, of the men and women and children bound in manacles and chained below decks of slave ships. Gorée's history as an administrative site of empire implicates it in the slave trade and French colonialism, much like Liverpool or London or New York. Does it matter that Gorée is not an "authentic" slave castle? Can Gorée be a placeholder of sorts for the whole history of the transatlantic slave trade in West Africa? Perhaps there perhaps more mundane reasons for its continued popularity, for instance, its accessibility and location so close to a major African city means that it can be seen by thousands of people each year whereas other sites of the West African coast might be far more difficult to reach.
Historians are famously (notoriously) concerned about evidence for claims, perhaps to the point of pedantry, but what work does evidence do in the face of meanings derived from sites such as this? How do sincere fictions such as Gorée serve the dead in ways that no historical monograph, article, or panel presentation ever could?


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Anna Shteynshleyger: Gulag and Guggenheim
April 21, 2009 in Documentary, Fine Art | Tags: 2009, Anna, Anna Shteynshleyger, Brian Ulrich, Cheryle St. Onge, Guggenheim, Guggenheim Fellows, Gulag, John Simon Guggenheim, Osamu James Nakagawa, Russian prison camps, Shteynshleyger, Siberia, Suzanne Opton, Thomas Joshua Cooper, Work Camps | by petebrook | 3 comments
"I'm not interested in the political side of it at all. I don't deny it and know it filters into the work, but I'm just not approaching it from that perspective. I'm interested in exploring inner exile and profound beauty as redemptive and liberating. There is that famous Dostoyevsky quote that 'Beauty will redeem the world.'"
Anna Shteynshleyger, in an email to Tim Davis. April 21st, 2005
Perm (Grasses), 2001. © Anna Shteynshleyger
Guggenheim time again. Seven photographers were recipients of the big one. All of them are preoccupied with the passage of time. Thomas Joshua Cooper studies waves for a long time; Osamu James Nakagawa studies waves crashing in to cliffs for a long time; Suzanne Opton records the melancholy of veteran soldiers (a subject that will likely last a long time); Cheryle St. Onge makes reference to her Grandmother's times; and Byron Wolfe has "for nearly twenty years held a deep and abiding interest in ideas about time, change, and the personal relationships one makes with a place." Brian Ulrich's relation to time is that he is the hardest working man in the business and operates like there's no time left. (I admit, that one's a step too far).
Prison Photography's interest in the Guggenheim Awards for 2009 is specifically with Anna Shteynshleyger.
Siberia is Shteynshleyger's visual record of the topography of prison labour camp sites and works. Critics and public are likely to know her more accessible work done at the Port Authority of unextraordinary people on escalators unextraordinarily unaware. Port Authority is an ordinary project; I cannot give it much time. Or perhaps Shteynshleyger's versatility pulling the viewer from Port Authority's whim to the import and nonchalance of Siberia is too big of a conversion to devote the belief in both.
Kolyma (Floor), 2002. © Anna Shteynshleyger
With steady assurance Siberia deals with time, as it deals with the site, as it deals with the intelligence of the viewer. Too often a photographer rushes to the physical clue – the visual pointer – to drive home the importance of the political statement he or she intends to make. Shteynshleyger is not interested in explanation. Without the title on the wall and without the catalogue essay her pictures are simply a competent, nay beautiful, collection of large-format colour prints. They are mostly landscapes and, in truth, landscapes that could be from any continent on earth.
Perm (Bush), 2001. © Anna Shteynshleyger
Tim Davis wrote an excellent piece on Shteynshleyger's Siberia citing 'paintings of absense' from art historical cannon, one-off expressions of 'the sublime' by genre painters, and the philosophy of modern cinema auteurs. Davis deliberately talks about as many things other than Shteynshleyger's work in an attempt to position and thus explain Shteynshleyger's work. It is a fine, fine judgement call;
Anna's photographs of Siberia, a territory as suffused with suffering as any place on the planet, do not "bear witness" to anything. They are not documents of anyone's journey. They are not war monuments; they are not apologies. Though her camera is pointing in the direction of historical sites of unremembered trauma, her pictures are not records of the locations of past crimes. They do not reckon with the past. They sidestep the inevitable failure of the photograph to stand for historical events. They are oblique and difficult, refusing any Spielbergian urge to heal through reliving previous horrors.
Some might argue Davis is wrong. That what he identifies as a resourceful, no-label, psuedo-documentary response to massive ideological violence is in fact a confusion of approach on Shteynshleyger's part. But they would be wrong. William Meyer wrote a critique of Siberia beginning with the observation that many artists and photographers have sifted and surveyed Nazi concentration camps, and frequently (on the shoulders of other artists) have produced resonant work. The audience for art reflecting the holocaust and concentration camp trauma is well versed in the visual vocabulary of such. For Meyer, the Gulag is in a different position;
How many agitate on behalf of its victims? There are few memorials, few markers, few museums, few tourists. Out of sight, out of mind. But Ms. Shteynshleyger wants to show us.
Shteynshleyger is a pioneer and she is showing us how we can understand horror and how we can understand that horror passes. To me, it seems her images are as private as old men and women who hold silent testimony to past events. Just because something is understood doesn't mean it should be said, and just because something is said does not make it understood.
Untitled (Tires), 2002. © Anna Shteynshleyger
It isn't that Shteynshleyger's work is evasive; it just seems she wants a rigorously curious audience as opposed to a docile one. She is quoted as saying;
… be it a metaphysical or cultural concern, whether it's a critique or a celebration, art remains a practice rooted deeply in the material world. We make likenesses of what we see and transform our world in a very tangible way. Any situation can reveal a reality not apparent at first examination.
If Dostoyevsky is right and beauty is to redeem the world, beauty must either be apolitical or the most beautiful consensus-sealing political position never reached. Politics, in the common understanding of the term, can be a brutish and rude affair. If there is a message to take away from Shteynshleyger's work it is, perhaps, that we should search for beauty more rigorously and pay more attention to understated, and dare I say it, apolitical positions.
Untitled (Perm Clouds), 2002 © Anna Shteynshleyger
Anna Shteynshleyger was born in Moscow, Russia in 1977. She came to the United States in 1992. Shteynshleyger received a BFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art (1999) and an MFA from Yale University (2001). In 2004 the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago mounted a solo exhibition of her Siberia pictures. In 2006, her (12×12 project) was exhibited at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago and Art Basel Miami Beach at the Jacob Karpio gallery in Miami, FL. Other exhibitions have been mounted at Moti Hasson Gallery, NY; Murray Guy Gallery, NY; Lombard-Fried Fine Arts, NY; Artists Space, NY; Vedanta Gallery, Chicago; Thomas McCormick Gallery, Chicago; Zolla Lieberman Gallery, Chicago. Shteynshleyger's work is in the permanent collections of the Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago; LaSalle Bank Photography Collection, Chicago; Yale University Libraries and the University of Maine Museum of Art. She is the recipient of an Illinois Art Council Finalist Award, Blair Dickinson Memorial Award and Guggenheim Fellowship. Shteynshleyger is currently an adjunct professor of photography at Columbia College Chicago and McHenry County College.
California Propositions 6 and 9
October 27, 2008 in Opinion | Tags: Anxiety Neurosis, Ballot, California Department of Corrections, California Elections, CDCR, Chain Gang, Conservation Camps, Criminal Justice, David Alan Harvey, Initiative, Photographers of Prisons, Prison, Prison Industry Authority, Proposition 6, Proposition 9, Victim Vengeance, Wasco State Prison, Work Camps | by petebrook | 3 comments
Wild thanks to Brendan over at Anxiety Neurosis for publishing on the world wide web my recent heartfelt plea to close friends. My words are now world wide … and webby. Seriously, I'd encourage you to read his analysis as he said, with some degree of wit and intelligence, what I had relied on the New York Times Opinion Page to say for me.
David Alan Harvey, Title Unknown, from Living Proof 1 series
I'd advise that you don't read on after Brendan's discussion of the propositions regarding criminal justice, as the tone changes to one of outrage and profanity. Do, however, consider Brendan's intriguing solution to our failed social experiment and financial black hole we know as the prison-industrial-complex.
My daydreams might seem a little strange to you. I envision a system of work-camps spread throughout California. Low-level offenders (obviously non-violent) would be siphoned away from the concrete and steel onto various prison farms. They would become, possibly for the first time, acquainted with the world of plants, dirt, sky. They would be required to till the soil, sow the seed, reap the harvest and above all else participate in a cycle of life greater than their own. The crops (organic, obviously) would be distributed throughout state agencies providing food for the convicts, prisons, schools and state hospitals. Imagine school-children eating something that hadn't be processed and purchased from a profit-driven third party with no regard for the kids' health or well-being. At night the inmates of my farms would take various classes both academic and trade-oriented. They could see therapists, take workshops or paint the distant mountains in watercolor. Whatever they need to show them something outside of the life they've known. They would have free range of the property in question, requiring a couple fences and a small staff of guards. Where are they going to run to?
Knowing Brendan as I do, he hides here a vulnerable idealism that we would all like to embrace but the bottom-line mentality of modern life has disappointed us too often. We keep our arms folded. Brendan's main points are uncontestable though – remove non-violent offenders from prisons; engage them in more than wall-staring for 23 hours a day; provide meaningful, even plentiful, opportunities for rehabilitation, education and therapy. Unfortunately, all this costs money and when CDCR struggles to cover the cost of inhumane lock-up the chance of seeing an individual-oriented rehabilitation is less than zero.
Work-camps do exist in California and they specialise in training for fire-abatement. This is a far cry from Brendan's organic farming initiative, but probably skills in bio-diverse agriculture are as handy as skills in fire suppression. As we continue to burn fossil fuels and globally-warm our summers, growing local crops and putting pay to the 3,000 mile caesar salad, will be as relevant as beating annual forest fires.
But if we are talking about productive inmates it is worth noting that the CDCR runs the Prison Industry Authority paying inmates anywhere between 30 cents and 95 cents before deductions. This is a body that provides state departments with furniture, uniforms and California drivers with their license plates. Many have described this system as "Modern Day Slave Labor". If it seems that way, it's because it is.
CDCR runs the PIA because the state profits from it. Engaging the inmate in daily activity is essential, but we should try to move away from repetitive factory production, or at the very least break it up with other outlets of energy (and ideally even creativity). What other administered programs could occupy inmates' time? We must consider here programs that do not turn an immediate product or profit – but secure long term savings for society as the inmate is provided with skills and self esteem. The PIA uses 5,900 CDCR inmates. What do the remaining 312,511 men, women and children under CDCR jurisdiction do?
These are general questions (and admittedly subjective gripes) for which there are no correct answers. Nevertheless, with so many systemic problems we should only focus on the problems we can affect and the most timely problems of the CDCR. Californians' priorities now must be to prevent the motion to change the criminal-justice system into a "victim-vengeance system" (Prop. 9) and the motion to broaden the state's definition of crime, subjecting thousands more citizens to the abuses of a failed system (Prop. 6).
In the meantime, we can all focus on the watercolour opportunities available to inmates at Wasco State Prison.
Wasco State Prison's new solar field
Note on Images: David Alan Harvey's image here is included purely for aesthetic reasons. The author confesses no background knowledge of the image, only an intrigue in the juxtaposition between uniform-pressed youth and caricatured-inmates subjected to the humility of stripes and trucker hats. Even if these young men grew up and/or went to the same schools together, there is no relationship between them now. All this is neatly summarised by the wielding of the gun. The guard pays attention to the camera almost unaware of his responsibilities over his shoulder. The rifle makes the guard's close personal observation of inmates unnecessary; the guard has a back-up. With the use of weaponry, any misdemeanour can be remedied/snuffed out within an instant.
I do not know David Alan Harvey's views on the prison industrial complex. If I ever acquire that knowledge I will be sure to share it. As well as his website he also has a solid blog.
Disclaimer: This post, while making use of photographic imagery is a non-objective commentary. It has more to do with the author's politic than an academic look at the photographic medium.


Ben Zobrist set a Tampa Bay Rays record with eight RBIs, hitting a home run and two doubles Thursday as the Rays routed the Minnesota Twins 15-3 in the first game of a day-night doubleheader at frigid Target Field in Minneapolis. WATCH all 'em all here. The Rays second basemen went 4-for-6 and scored twice. He hit a three-run homer in the sixth inning and added two-run doubles in the seventh and ninth.
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Post-Pandemic Changes in Travel Behaviour: Evidence from the National Travel Survey England 2021
September 8, 2022 September 8, 2022 Posted in City Planning, Sustainability, transportTagged Planning, Sustainability, transport
The pandemic and subsequent lockdowns have seen the largest and most sustained disruptions to travel behaviour in most of our lifetimes. Stay-at-home policies have fuelled a dramatic increase in remote working, and wider online substitution of other activities such as shopping and socialising. In sustainability terms, the pandemic has severely hit public transport and incentivised car travel, but has also likely reduced travel distances overall as well as encouraging new patterns in active travel. The big question is to what extent pandemic related changes are turning into longer term shifts in travel behaviour patterns.
This post looks at timeseries travel data across the last three years, and then summarises results from the recently published National Travel Survey data 2021 for England, with a particular focus on trip purpose and differences between London and England as a whole.
Transport Use Timeseries Data from DfT
The Department for Transport have continually updated a very useful timeseries on how busy different transport modes have been in England throughout the pandemic. This index integrates many different datasets and is intended as a broad summary of trends (see methodology here). The graph below summarises this data, which is indexed to February 2020. The overall picture is of huge disruption in 2020, continued disruption with a transition towards recovery in 2021, and then what looks like settling into a new normal in 2022.
The chart paints a mixed picture in sustainability terms. Car travel has been the fastest transport mode to recover after each of the national lockdowns, and was back to near normal levels as early as summer 2021. While this is a challenge going forward, it could potentially have been worse. The pandemic could have resulted in substantial increases in car travel. Instead, there is a minor reduction to about 96% car use in the DfT data, sustained into 2022 (in per-capita terms this reduction will be more substantial given population increases). Note the motorised vehicle index that includes freight reaches 100% of pre-pandemic levels in 2022, possibly due to more online delivery traffic.
Public transport has been much slower to recover, falling to less than 50% of passenger numbers in 2020, increasing substantially throughout 2021 and then settling around 70-85% of pre-pandemic passenger numbers in 2022. Rail and tube travel were hardest hit in 2020 due to the widespread fall in commuting and these modes have taken longer to recover than bus travel. It is difficult to gauge whether public transport levels have now levelled off around the 75% level, or will continue to recover further in 2023 (the rail and tube strikes in summer 2022 may have curtailed further increases).
A positive sustainability story comes from the cycling data from the DfT. This is a less reliable metric, but nonetheless indicates growth in active travel, albeit from a low base in 2019. The annual variation in cycling in the DfT data between 2020 and 2022 is interesting. The initial 2020 increase in cycling makes sense, as there was a big growth in active travel for households locked down in their local area. This falls to 2019 levels in 2021, and then rebounds in 2022. Perhaps the fall off in new cyclists has given way to more practical longer term adoption of cycling in 2022.
National Travel Survey Data 2021
The results for the National Travel Survey 2021 data were released at the end of August 2022. This long running survey records full travel diaries of thousands of residents in England, allowing analysis of topics such as trip purposes, walking trips and demographic analysis. There have been some data gathering challenges during the pandemic (see data quality report). The overall picture from the DfT chart below is that the 2021 NTS data is very similar to the 2020 data in terms of per person trips and annual distance recorded. This suggests that the NTS 2021 is not picking up much of the 2021 travel recovery that is shown in the DfT timeseries data we discussed above.
We can break down the annual trip distance per person by transport mode. The chart below compares the years 2019, 2020 and 2021. The results backs up the conclusion that, at the national level, the 2021 data is very similar to 2020. There is big reduction in car miles of 30%, while public transport levels are at around half the levels of 2019. There is a small increase in walking and cycling distances, though this falls back to 2019 levels in 2021.
Interestingly, the equivalent chart for London shows a very different picture in terms of travel behaviour responses. Car use increased marginally in 2020 (probably substituting for public transport trips) then falls in 2021, though this reduction is lower than the national picture. Bear in mind London mileages are around a third of the national average, so there may be fewer optional trips to cut. Meanwhile, public transport records a significant recovery in 2021 for rail and underground, much closer to the DfT time series analysis shown above (note the bus recovery is lower than expected). Walking and cycling follows the national picture by increasing in 2020 and then falling in 2021, though note that the 2021 cycling level is substantially up on the 2019 figure.
Overall the broad 2021 National Travel Survey results are fairly close to the 2020 results at the national level. In comparison to the DfT Transport use timeseries, it appears to be closer to the 2020 picture rather than the 2022 trend of a substantial recovery in transportation use. So we may have to wait for the National Travel Survey 2022 to confirm which changes are really sticking in terms of longer term behaviour. The London data is interesting, as it much more clearly shows a recovery in public transport travel in 2021, and a different picture for changes in car mileage, as well as a substantial increase in cycling.
Trip Purpose Analysis
An important question is the type of trips most affected by the pandemic, and whether these changes are becoming longer term trends. The charts below show the trips per person per year and total distance per year between 2019 and 2021. As expected commuting is taking the biggest hit in terms of trips and distance, falling by 36% in distance terms and with only small signs of recovery in the 2021 NTS data. Drops in business travel are even larger, more than halving. Interestingly shopping trips have taken nearly as big a hit as commuting, with distances falling 26%. There has been a widespread trend towards online supermarket deliveries and online shopping more generally post-pandemic and it looks like this behaviour has continued into 2021. The 2021 NTS even shows shopping trips and distances falling again in 2021 from the 2020 level. Alongside commuting changes, shopping travel behaviour looks to be the major trip type that has been cut, possibly for the longer term.
Outside of commuting and shopping, other trip types with big reductions include holidays, business, and entertainment. In contrast day trips increased and walking trips nearly doubled (though both fell back marginally in 2021 from the 2020 peak). Visiting friends at their home also continued during the pandemic, with a more minor reduction in trips and distances.
Finally we repeat the distance trip purpose chart for London. Commuting takes an even bigger hit in London, falling by 48% in 2020, then moderately picking up in 2021. Business trips fell by a huge 67% and there is little sign of recovery. In contrast some trip types that declined in 2020 are nearly back at 2019 levels, such as education and education/other escort trips. The trips with the biggest increases in 2020, visiting friends at private homes and day trips, have also returned to their 2019 levels in the 2021 data. Walking trips have however remained considerably above their 2019 level, indicating that the active travel increase is looking more stable for London.
The DfT timeseries data shows travel patterns settling into a 'new normal' after more than two years of disruption. Car travel is only marginally down on pre-pandemic levels, while public transport is around 70-85% of the passenger numbers from 2019. There are some encouraging signs for active travel after increases in leisure walking and cycling trips, though the situation is dynamic.
The National Travel Survey 2021 data records a similar picture overall to 2020 in terms of major disruption- distances and trips down substantially. Car miles are down 30%, though the DfT timeseries data suggests this will not be the case in the 2022 data. Public transport remains around half of 2019 levels.
The trip types with the biggest reductions are commuting and business as expected, but also shopping (and the related travel type of personal business). Shopping trips fell again in 2021, and this looks, like commuting, to be a case of significant online substitution, possibly long term.
The London NTS data is very interesting, with some significant differences. Car use appears to have marginally increased in London in 2020, before falling in 2021 below 2019 levels. Public transport has staged a major comeback in London in the 2021 data, and there is also a sustained increase in cycling. The NTS data is also disaggregated into urban/rural categories and it would be interesting to test whether these trends are London specific or shared with other major English cities.
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Rivalry Aiding Canada's Surge In Tennis As Felix Auger-Aliassime, Shapovalov Shine In Miami
The Miami Open has been another memorable tournament for Canadian tennis.
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Canada's extraordinary rise as a tennis nation in 2019 is showing no signs of slowing down with two of their biggest talents set to play in the Miami Open semi-finals.
18-year-old Felix Auger-Aliassime and 19-year-old Denis Shapovalov are the two youngest players in the top 100 on the men's tour. At the Miami Masters, both of them have exceeded expectations. However, it is Montreal-born Auger-Aliassime that has impressed the most. The teenager has defeated three seeds on route to the last four, including Borna Coric. A run that has already guaranteed him a place in the world's top 35 when the rankings are updated. A substantial rise for a player who started the season outside the top 100.
"I think I have been just improving in the last couple of weeks. But I don't want to look back right now. I think I will do at the end of the tournament. Right now I'm looking forward to the next match and how far I can go in this tournament." The former US Open boys champion said following his win over Coric.
Meanwhile, for Shapovalov Miami will be the third Masters 1000 semi-final he has contested in his career. Seeded 20th in the tournament, he has scored wins over Stefanos Tsitsipas and Frances Tiafoe. At the 2017 Canadian Open, he became the youngest Masters semi-finalist since the series was introduced in 1990.
"There is definitely a lot of young talent coming in." He said. "It's just that point in the ATP, you still have kind of the legends, Rog, Rafa, still there on top, but you have a lot of newcomers with talent kind of gunning for them. Every week it feels like someone new is making a breakthrough and playing well."
Besides the duo, Canada also has a rising star on the women's tour in the shape of Bianca Andreescu. Who recently won the BNP Paribas Open in Indian Wells and is undefeated against top 10 opposition this year.
"It's great to see her on the court healthy, playing really well. Honestly, it's insane what she's doing." Shapovalov commented on his compatriots performance. "I mean, not even I could believe it, and I know how good and talented she is. So it's great to see it from her.
In the wake of the success for Canada's rising stars, many are wondering how it has happened. Is it just a coincidence or has Tennis Canada struck gold with their player development program? In reality it is a bit of both.
Shapovalov points out that all three grew up training is separate programs to each other. Forming a rivalry between all three of them, which seems to be pushing them further up the ranks.
"I think we all kind of come from different ways. Felix comes from the program in Montreal. Bianca comes from the program in Toronto. I come from my own team and my own ways." He explained.
"I don't know really what is going on, but I think if I say, for the men's side, it's been kind of almost a rivalry with me and Felix, and I feel like we have been able to kind of thrive on each other's results and push each other."
The men's semi-finals will take place at the Miami Open on Friday. Auger-Aliassime plays defending champion John Isner, and Shapovalov faces his idol Roger Federer.
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Google Announces Stricter Advertising Safeguards on Pressure from U.K. Companies
Google intends to go on a hiring spree to combat extremist content and introduce more safeguards for advertisers
Lisa Botter
Alphabet Inc's (GOOGL) - Get Report Google said Tuesday that it intends to go on a hiring spree to combat extremist content after an outcry from British advertisers against the world's biggest technology company.
Google said it will also increase safeguards for advertisers allowing them to choose what content their ads appear alongside following complaints from British firms about the proliferation of extremist content on the company's platforms, including YouTube.
Bluechip U.K. companies including Tesco (TSCDY) and Sainsbury's (JSAIY) have pulled advertising from Google after it was revealed that their ads were being shown alongside videos from Britain's far right English Defence League and the Ku Klux Klan.
Marks & Spencer (MAKSY) , McDonald's(MCD) - Get Report , L'Oreal (LRLCY) , HSBC(HSBC) - Get Report , Lloyds(LYG) - Get Report and Volkswagen's (VLKAY) Audi are also among the companies that have pulled advertising in the U.K.
Britain is the second largest market for Google after the U.S., generating $7.8 billion primarily from advertising in 2016.
In the coming days and months Google will change its default setting for ads "so that they show on content that meets a higher level of brand safety and excludes potentially objectionable content that advertisers may prefer not to advertise against," Google Chief Business Officer Philipp Schindler said in a statement on Tuesday.
It will also introduce new account-level controls that makes it easier for advertisers to exclude specific sites and channels. "In addition, we'll introduce new controls to make it easier for brands to exclude higher risk content and fine-tune where they want their ads to appear," Schindler said.
The company will also offer more transparency and visibility to advertisers and agencies on where their ads are running, offering video-level reporting.
Starting from today, he added, Google will take a tougher stance on hateful, offensive and derogatory content and remove ads more effectively from content that is attacking or harassing people based on their race, religion, gender of similar categories.
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Harvard Business School Announces 2016 Goldsmith Fellows
Fellowship program supports first-year students with experience and a career interest in wide range of social enterprises
BOSTON—Harvard Business School (HBS) has announced the 2016 recipients of its Horace W. Goldsmith Fellowships. Established in 1998 by the Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation and Richard L. Menschel (MBA 1959), a director of the Foundation and a limited partner at Goldman Sachs, to encourage students from the nonprofit sector to attend HBS, these fellowships enable the School to award approximately $10,000 each to as many as ten incoming MBA students.
According to the selection criteria, recipients have previously served in full-time leadership roles in the nonprofit sector and must demonstrate a strong commitment to a career in this area. Recipients are invited to participate in events with current and former award recipients, as well as local nonprofit leaders, in an effort to create a network of individuals committed to working in social enterprises.
The 2016 Goldsmith Fellows are:
KRISTEN GENDRON, who was most recently an associate director of business development and strategic advisor at Farmerline, a Ghanaian social enterprise building technologies to connect rural farmers to information, financing, and supply chains. She holds a bachelor's degree from Johns Hopkins University.
PETER HILL, who spent the last four years as a project manager in the New York City Economic Development Corporation, where he oversaw consulting projects as part of a ten-person strategy team. He is an alumnus of Wesleyan University.
EVAN KORNBLUH, who previously held several positions with Teach for China, where he co-developed a fundraising strategy, designed and managed a stewardship program, and organized volunteering visits for major donors. He holds an AB from Harvard College.
ADORA MORA, who previously worked as a project manager at Harlem Children's Zone, where she managed the development of program support strategies aimed at strengthening the college and career readiness work across all high school and college programs, a program that served over 3,000 children. She graduated from Harvard College.
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Why BlueCross is recognized by Forbes as the nation's third best employer for diversity and inclusion
Jesse Thompson | Jan 31, 2019
For the second consecutive year, BlueCross has been selected as one of "America's Best Employers for Diversity" by Forbes. And we're proud to say that we've improved our ranking since last year's inaugural list named us No. 33 in the nation.
Our 2019 ranking, announced on Jan. 15, places us at No. 3 out of 250 companies in the U.S.
That's above other Top 10 companies like Netflix, Penguin Random House and Visa. According to Forbes' methodology, we are the nation's top health insurer in terms of our focus on diversity and inclusion.
It's worth noting that the methodology behind these rankings is not based on any formal participation or jockeying from the companies included.
Forbes sponsored an independent, third-party study that surveyed 50,000 workers at companies around the country.
The rankings are based primarily on responses from workers at each company, along with publicly available information and non-employee recommendations as secondary factors. So this recognition is truly a testament to BlueCross employees and their contributions to our inclusive and culturally competent workplace.
"It's an incredible tribute to be recognized by our employees as a national leader in diversity," says Ron Harris, vice president of Diversity and Inclusion at BlueCross. "It's even better to know that this culture belongs to all of us."
"Together, we've intentionally created a wonderful place to work, where every employee is valued, respected, and trusted as part of the team."
Our approach to diversity and inclusion
BlueCross is a mature diversity and inclusion employer, and that required a lot of intentional effort over a number of years. The results of those efforts are a strategic plan in which diversity and inclusion are fully embedded.
Ron Harris, vice president of Diversity and Inclusion at BlueCross, addresses attendees at the 2018 Power of We Workforce Diversity Conference
This plan requires diverse candidate pools for management-and-above job openings. It sets measurable goals for diverse supplier relationships each year, as we support small and minority-owned businesses and seek new business development opportunities with vendors who demonstrate diversity within their companies.
BlueCross also thinks beyond race and gender – age, generational differences, physical and mental abilities, religious beliefs and socioeconomic circumstances all factor into our strategy. This is yet another way we reflect the diversity of the cities and state in which we operate.
In addition, the Diversity and Inclusion department reports directly to the CEO, which demonstrates that the senior leadership team believes in these goals.
How we've kept building
For all of our success, cultural competency remains a work in progress in BlueCross. That's why, in 2018, we continued navigating our way forward with a number of initiatives.
Following our 2018 recognition by Forbes, a number of our business partners and customers reached out to us about our approach to diversity and inclusion. Our Power of We Workforce Diversity Conference, held in Nashville last October, allowed us to share what we've learned along the way and foster dialogue with fellow Tennessee businesses, community leaders and decision makers.
We took lessons learned from the event and shared them with the broader business community to increase cultural competency and help companies compete for talent.
Our support of Project SEARCH helps students with learning disabilities establish a career path.
BlueCross also supported Project SEARCH, a program designed to give young adults with intellectual or developmental disabilities valuable work experience. Our Chattanooga office welcomed eight senior-year students from Hamilton County schools as interns and provided opportunities for them develop the kind of life and professional skills that will help them find gainful, competitive employment.
Supporting Project SEARCH is but one way that we continue to foster workplace inclusion for the differently abled.
While we are honored to receive this Forbes recognition, these honors are not why we seek to be an inclusive and culturally competent workplace.
It's the best way to do business for our employees and our members, and we will continue to ensure all voices are heard, give everyone a place a table, and proactively take steps to fully integrate diversity, inclusion and cultural competency into our mission of providing peace of mind through better health.
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Ramos, VAR key to Madrid 3-1 win at Barcelona
By JOSEPH WILSON - Oct. 24, 2020 04:58 PM EDT
Barcelona's Ansu Fati celebrates scoring his side's first goal during the Spanish La Liga soccer match between FC Barcelona and Real Madrid at the Camp Nou stadium in Barcelona, Spain, Saturday, Oct. 24, 2020. (AP Photo/Joan Monfort)
BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Defender Sergio Ramos showed once again why he is the heart of Real Madrid in leading the team to a 3-1 win at Barcelona -- with a little help from the video assistant referee.
Ramos created and scored the winning goal in their first meeting of the season at an empty Camp Nou on Saturday. The clásico was yet another victory that Ramos has led in his long career at Madrid, especially since the exit of Cristiano Ronaldo two years ago.
Ramos' importance for Madrid was seen in back-to-back losses in the run-up to the trip to their fiercest rival. Ramos was knocked out of the loss to Cádiz at halftime with a knee injury last weekend that also sidelined him for the Shakhtar defeat in the Champions League midweek. Without him, the team was listless and outhustled.
With him back barking orders in the center of its defense, Madrid was the aggressive, compact side that won La Liga from Barcelona last season.
Ramos likewise proved key in the opposing area when he used his wiles to grapple with Clement Lenglet to gain position for a high ball. With Lenglet tugging his shirt, Ramos fell to the turf and complained vehemently. After consulting the video screen on the touchline, referee Juan Martínez ruled Lenglet impeded Ramos from contesting the ball.
That sent Ramos to the penalty spot where he drove a low shot past Neto to restore Madrid's lead for good in the 63rd minute.
"Both Lenglet and I take our defending to the limit, and in this case it was very clear," Ramos said. "He grabbed me as I was jumping. The VAR is there to help and I think it was a penalty. We then went looking for a third goal after they had suffered that blow to their morale instead of just sitting back."
Barcelona coach Ronald Koeman did not agree.
"The decision of the penalty had a final influence in the score," Koeman said. "It is first a foul by Ramos on Lenglet. Lenglet grabbed his shirt, but not enough to bring the player down. At least not enough to make the player fall away from you, but rather to pull the player toward you. So, for me, it is not a penalty."
Madrid leads the league with 13 points. Barcelona has 7 points with a game in hand — and added pressure when it travels to Juventus in the Champions League on Wednesday.
Camp Nou is normally a cauldron for the clásico. Barcelona's faithful greet the two sides with enormous mosaics featuring the club's blue-and-burgundy colors, and use their 90,000-plus lungs to make it as uncomfortable as can be for the visitors. On Saturday, Europe's biggest stadium was warmed by a glorious sun but empty except for reserve players in face masks.
Koeman's first clásico in his mission to rebuild the team that failed to win a trophy last season prompted big decisions to play two teenagers and leave Antoine Griezmann on the bench. Koeman surprised by starting Pedro "Pedri" González alongside fellow 17-year-old Ansu Fati in attack.
Pedri did not shine, but Fati was the driving force for Barcelona in his new position as striker in front of Lionel Messi.
Koeman also started new arrival Sergiño Dest. The U.S. defender impressed with his marking of Vinícius Júnior and incursions from the right flank.
To recreate a little bit of the atmosphere before kickoff, the club played recorded sounds of fans chanting while the players warmed up, and played a recording of the club hymn.
Federico Valverde struck five minutes in for Madrid when he took a through ball from Karim Benzema and blasted it inside the far post.
Fati hit right back three minutes later. The budding star stabbed home his fifth goal in six games from a pass by Jordi Alba after Messi found the left back with a lob down the left side.
Barcelona took the initiative after the restart as Dest and Alba found space on the flanks, and Fati found Coutinho with a cross that the Brazilian headed into the side netting.
That was when Ramos tilted the match in Madrid's favor.
Koeman sent on forwards Griezmann, Ousmane Dembele, Francisco Trincão and Martin Brathwaite late to press for the equalizer.
With his defense exposed, Neto resisted as he could, making three good saves until substitute Luka Modric drew him off his line and fired in Madrid's third.
"We know what Sergio means for us, he is more just than a player," Madrid coach Zinedine Zidane said. ""We deserved the win. We could have scored more."
Marcos Llorente and Luis Suárez scored in Atlético Madid's 2-0 win over Real Betis. Sevilla fell at home to Eibar 1-0, and Osasuna defeated Athletic Bilbao 1-0.


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Dive into the world of watersports
Published: Jul 05, 2019 at 2:04 p.m.
Updated: Jul 17, 2019 at 9:38 a.m.
Scuba diving and watersports are a great way to explore marine life, artifacts, learn special skills and connect with like-minded people. Photo Courtesy of Bob Semple
Nova Scotia is surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean and has more than 1,000 lakes across the province. Exploring the waters is one way to learn about the geography, nature and history of Nova Scotia.
East Coast Scuba & Watersports is a veteran-owned, 100 per cent disability accessible, locally owned and operated, PADI full-service (sales, instruction and service and dry suit repair) scuba and watersports store.
East Coast Scuba & Watersports, located in Bedford, can help get you started on that exploration with dive instruction, equipment sales and rentals. Led by co-owners John Stone and Tracy Gregory, East Coast Scuba & Watersports has on staff several highly experienced instructors who can get you started in diving. They can also provide instruction and equip you for other watersports, such as kayaking and stand-up paddleboards.
Our motto is: "We have a passion for being in and on the water."
Both John and Tracy hold the highest PADI (Professional Association of Diving Instructors) certifications. John is Atlantic Canada's only current course director. He has been diving since 1979 and has logged thousands of dives around the world. He now focuses his diving on the waters in the Maritimes. He's trained divers at every skill level.
We all have a bucket list item with diving. John's is to dive with whale sharks.
Tracy is a master instructor, a passionate female instructor and avid diver. In just less than 10 years of diving, she has done more with diving than most would dream of. Within her first year of diving, she became a dive master and did 100 dives. In her second year, she became a tech diver, both open circuit and closed circuit rebreather (ccr) and completed her instructor rating. She has been to 210 feet and on local wrecks very few have explored.
Tracy's bucket list item is a little broader: to become a PADI course director, explore our oceans fully and all their wonders before they are lost due to pollution, as well as dive with hammerhead sharks.
East Coast Scuba & Watersports offers all levels of PADI training, including Discover Scuba Diving, Open Water and Advanced Open Water, Enriched Air, Rescue Diver, Scuba Tune-up/Reactivate, Divemaster, instructor, independent instructor support, commercial prep/orientation, technical diving and a number of emergency first aid courses. We also offer Paddleboard Canada sanctioned paddleboard classes and will be expanding down the road to kayaking tours.
The demographic of people engaging in scuba diving and watersports is very diverse, including males and females in the age range of 10 to 65 from around the province.
One of our planned expeditions this summer is our biannual exploration of the wreck of the SS Arrow, an oil tanker that sank in the waters off Arichat, Cape Breton, 49 years ago. Nova Scotia is surrounded by thousands of shipwrecks that occupy the ocean floor. These artifacts are there due to weather, navigational errors, acts of war or artificial reef initiatives. The diversity of Nova Scotia's underwater marine life is amazing and the plethora of wrecks is phenomenal.
Tracy has explored many shipwrecks, with her favorite being the Kolkhosnik (better known as the Russian). This Liberty ship was carrying war supplies when it was torpedoed off Sambro Island in 1942. "Exploring these ships on the ocean floor is seeing history right before your eyes," says John.
Some divers prefer to explore shallow waters, taking pictures of ground fish, lobsters, jellyfish, other marine life and, yes, even the lone and wayward seahorse. Others prefer deeper dives, where they may see larger marine life, such as seals, tuna, whales and other marine life rarely seen in their natural habitat.
We find diving and paddle sports are very social sports and we want to encourage people to be part of the community. East Coast Scuba & Watersports is more than just a retail shop located in the heart of Bedford. Our shop is also a space where watersport enthusiasts can visit, meet other like-minded people, upload photos or plan their next outing.
"We provide a place for people to talk and interact," John says. "That's a big part of the sport."
John says scuba diving and watersports can teach people skills other than that of the sport itself. He says students learn confidence building, self-actualization and they can take their experience and skills internationally to such places as Australia, the Caribbean and the Red Sea, to name just a few.
East Coast Scuba & Watersports carries the best names in diving equipment, such as ScubaPro, Halcyon, Poseidon, Waterproof and Akona, including locally manufactured and internationally distributed dry suits from Abyss Diving Suits Ltd., a Nova Scotia company located in Upper Tantallon. For those interested in other watersports, we carry paddleboards, boogie boards, wakeboards, kayaks, performance sport wetsuits, personal floatation devices and water trampolines, which are perfect for time spent at the lake.
This summer, East Coast Scuba & Watersports would like to reward customer support by entering customers' names who make a purchase at the shop into a draw to win a dry suit made by Abyss Diving Suits Ltd. The draw closes on Labour Day, Sept. 2, 2019.
For more information, visit eastcoastscuba.ca or find us on Facebook at East Coast Scuba & Watersports.
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22 Mar De Bruyne's sights set on City return
Kevin De Bruyne is hopeful of returning to action with Manchester City after the current international break.
The Belgium forward suffered knee ligament damage, as well as a sprained ankle, during City's Capital One Cup semi-final against Everton on January 27.
His return would give City a major lift at a critical stage of their season, and particularly after key players Vincent Kompany, Joe Hart and Raheem Sterling joined the injury list in the past week.
De Bruyne told City TV: "The injury is going good. I am training very well and thinking I am ahead of schedule, so I am looking to be back after the international break. It looks like I'm a couple of weeks ahead."
City went on to win the Capital One Cup and have reached the Champions League quarter-finals during De Bruyne's absence, but the £54million record signing has still been badly missed.
Without the 24-year-old, who has contributed 12 goals and 12 assists this season, City have fallen off the pace in the Barclays Premier League title race and are now facing a battle to retain fourth place.
De Bruyne said: "I think it is always frustrating for a player not to be there but from the moment it happened I switched my button and I am preparing myself to do well the next couple of games I will be there.
"It has been tough because we lost a couple of games in the league and we are a little bit behind, but we are there in the Champions League – looking forward to that obviously and hopefully we can do well."
City trail Premier League leaders Leicester by 15 points, which seems an insurmountable gap even if they have eight games remaining compared to the Foxes' seven. Their next game is at Bournemouth on April 2.
De Bruyne recognises it is now a difficult task but insists City will not stop fighting.
He said: "Mathematically there is always a chance but obviously we are a lot of points behind with eight games to go.
"Even if we don't get it we have to try to be second and try to win the most games as possible, and also qualify for the Champions League next year.
"We just have to be confident we can still do it. If in the end if we don't manage it and it is not our fault, so be it, but we have to try to win all the games possible."
De Bruyne has had plenty of good news during his lay-off, however, having become a father for the first time, to a son, earlier this month.
"I'm very happy," he said. "The moment that he comes to us is a moment you can't explain. It is the best moment of my life until now."
City manager Manuel Pellegrini has suggested De Bruyne and fellow injury victims Samir Nasri and Fabian Delph could step up their recoveries by playing friendlies during the international break. Kompany (calf), Sterling (groin) and Hart (calf) are likely to be out for at least a month.
Meanwhile, City have continued their growth into China by announcing a new regional partnership with events organisation SoccerWorld.
The company, which runs sport centres throughout China, will become City's 'official recreational soccer partner' in the region and club coaches will visit the country twice a year among several new initiatives.
The deal comes three months after a Chinese consortium acquired a 13 per cent stake in the City Football Group for a reported £265million.
Kevin De Bruyne, Manchester City


The first, most basic (and, arguably, the most important) function of any checkweigher is to verify the correct amount of product is in a container. It seems pretty simple – the product runs over the weighing cell and the system triggers a rejection mechanism should the weight of the product fall outside the tolerances set by the operator. That is more or less all a checkweigher needs to do – but it is not all that a checkweigher is capable of doing.
What makes a checkweigher stand out from the crowd, then, apart from the accuracy of its weighing cell? Make no mistake, weighing accuracy takes a lot to maintain, including finding ways to build a frame that filters out vibrations or other environmental disturbances that could interfere with the accuracy of the product weight. Getting the most accurate weight possible is, in many ways, the point of the whole affair – but there's also what the system can do with that data. What other things can you do with a checkweigher beyond removing over or under-filled products?
Let's look at the C33 PlusLine series of checkweighers from METTLER TOLEDO, for instance. There's a lot the C33 can do in order to ensure an accurate weighing of products – product handling variants including sidegrips, starwheels, or guide rails make sure product flow goes smoothly, which is important for accurate weighing. It also helps that ensuring a smooth product throughput helps improve overall performance on the production line. On top of that, the system is designed to be easily maintained: its IP65 rating and an open frame design ensure easy cleaning and consistent performance in wet and dry environments. This is all related to the accuracy and performance of the checkweigher, of course – but here's where things go above and beyond: there are 200 standard and productivity-enhancing options available to add value to the system and your production line. With all the options available, you can get a checkweighing system customized to meet your specific needs.
What sort of options, you ask? Well, there's our Feedback Control, for a start. It tracks shifts in the mean weight of a series of products to identify filler drift – and sends adjustments to your filling equipment to correct for the problem should filler drift occur. There's also options to send shutdown signals to production equipment in the event of a significant problem. The C33 also provides statistical data which can help in analysis of production efficiency, and, of course, connects to ProdX data management software for remote access and insight into the production process.
There's more, of course – the C33 can be configured to do more than just weigh products. The system is available as a combination system with Safeline Profile metal detectors. This saves space on the production line – and gets products weighed and scanned for metal contamination all in one spot! Seems fairly efficient, don't you think?
If you'd like to learn more about what the C33 PlusLine can do beyond just weighing products, you can check out our product video, or you can visit our site, which has plenty of useful information.


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During his three-season college career, he amassed 3,367 yards and a 5.1 yards-per-carry average to become the Golden Bears' all-time rushing leader. He also scored 35 touchdowns on the ground—the most career rushing touchdowns in team history—and compiled fifteen games in which he rushed for 100 yards or more. White graduated from the university in 1993 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in social welfare, and was inducted into the University of California Hall of Fame in 2003.
White was the athletic director and head football coach at Desert Chapel High School in Palm Springs, California where he led the Eagles to back to back CIF Division titles in 2002 and 2003. White is now a teacher and was hired as the new head football coach at Castlemont High School in Oakland, California on April 30, 2010. White is currently the commissioner of the Oakland Section of CIF. He was announced to be the new head football coach for Flintridge Preparatory School on March 18, 2016.
The Los Angeles Rams selected White in the third round of the 1993 NFL Draft, and he played for the Rams for a single season in 1993. He appeared in five games for the Rams, primarily as a kick returner. He later signed with the Green Bay Packers in 1995, but played in no regular season games.
White received an athletic scholarship to attend the University of California, Berkeley, where he played for the Golden Bears teams from 1990 through 1992. He enrolled in 1989, but was ineligible to play as a freshman under the NCAA's Proposition 48 because he did not score high enough on the SAT college entrance exam. Subsequently, diagnosed as suffering from dyslexia, he received tutoring and qualified academically to play in 1990. In the Bears' 1990 season opener against the Miami Hurricanes on September 15, the first time he ever touched the ball in a college game, he returned a kickoff 99 yards for a touchdown. As a junior in 1991, he rushed for 1,177 yards and 14 touchdowns, and was recognized as a consensus first-team All-American, having received first-team honors from the Football Writers Association of America and the Walter Camp Foundation.
White was born in Pacoima, California. He graduated from Crespi Carmelite High School in Encino, California, where he played for the Crespi Carmelite Celts high school football team. As a sophomore tailback in 1986, he led the team to a state championship, rushing for 256 yards in the championship game. Slowed by injuries as a senior in 1988, he still gained 1,379 yards on the ground, caught 43 passes for 529 yards, scored 25 touchdowns, and was named to California Football's all-state team. He completed his three high school seasons with 5,998 rushing yards, 94 touchdowns and 568 points—all California state high school records. In 1986 and again in 1987, he was recognized as a high school All-American by USA Today and Scholastic Coach, and was also a two-time Cal Hi Sports California High School Football Player of the Year.
Russell Lamar White (born December 15, 1970) is an American former professional football player who was a running back in the National Football League (NFL) for a single season in 1993. White played college football for the California Golden Bears, and was recognized as an All-American. Thereafter, he played professionally for the NFL's Los Angeles Rams.
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Netflix Launches 'Emily in Paris' and 'Song Exploder'
'Undercover Boss' Returns on CBS
by Marc Berman October 2, 2020, 7:35 am
8:00 p.m. NBA Countdown
8:30 p.m. NBA Finals, Game 2 (Miami Heat vs. Los Angeles Lakers)
8:00 p.m. "GreatestAtHome Videos"
9:00 p.m. "Undercover Boss" (season premiere)
10:00 p.m. "Blue Bloods" (R)
8:00 p.m. "American Ninja Warrior" (R, two hours)
10:00 p.m. "Dateline"
Fox:
8:00 p.m. "Friday Night Smackdown!" (two hours)
8:00 p.m. "Masters of Illusion" (R)
9:00 p.m. "World's Funniest Animals"
PBS:
8:00 p.m. "Washington Week"
8:30 p.m. "Firing Line with Margaret Hoover"
9:00 p.m. "Great Performances"
10:00 p.m. "Art in the Twenty-First Century" (season finale)
Of Note on Cable or Digital:
-"Emily in Paris" (Netflix, 3:01 a.m. ET): complete first season
-"Monsterland" (Hulu, 3:01 a.m. ET): complete first season
-"Song Exploder" (Netflix, 3:01 a.m. ET): complete first season
-"Ted Lasso" (Apple TV+, 3:01 a.m. ET): season premiere
-"Tiny World" (Apple TV+, 3:01 a.m. ET): series premiere
-"Love After Lockup" (WE, 9 p.m. ET): season finale
-"Warrior" (Cinemax, 10 p.m. ET): season premiere
-"Wilderness of Error" (FX, 10 p.m. ET): season finale
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China to implement new labour force rights: analyst
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The Chinese labour force is expected to benefit from a raft of new collective-bargaining rights with the transition of China's leadership, The Australian Financial Review reports.
According to the newspaper, state-sponsored think-tanks have been asked by the government to formulate policies covering wage negotiations and a rise in the tax-free threshold in an effort to improve income inequality.
China Centre for International Economic Exchanges spokesperson Xu Hongcai said the nation's wealth gap was identified as the most pressing issues facing the central government.
"China's economy is at a turning point and there needs to be long-term reform," he said.
"We need to increase the income of workers and reduce the return for investors."
According to the newspaper, the labour policies are expected to be announced around March next year by prospective president Xi Jinping.
Mr Xi is widely tipped to replace current Chinese President Hu Jintao after the nation's official Communist Party Congress to be held in two week's time.


Black Hole or No Black Hole is a three-track bonus EP released alongside Castles new full length album Howl IV, exclusively on mam!records. It features Castles' brand of experimental folk with electronics, drunken evenings and more.
This EP is a mam!records exclusive via the Bread King Collective. Make sure to download the original album here.


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Maharaj to skipper South Africa in ODI series with Dutch
JOHANNESBURG: Left-arm spin bowler Keshav Maharaj will captain South Africa in three one-day internationals against the Netherlands, starting on November 26. Cricket South Africa on Wednesday announced a 16-man squad missing several leading players, including regular white ball captain Temba Bavuma. Bavuma and fellow batsmen Aiden Markram, Quinton de Kock and Rassie van der Dussen […]
Portugal Euro 2016 winner Alves joins Greek side Apollon
ATHENS: Veteran Portuguese defender and Euro 2016 champion Bruno Alves has joined Greek Super League side ApollonSmyrnis on a one-year contract, the 39-year-old's new employers announced on Saturday.Alves' long list of clubs includes Porto, Scottish giants Rangers, and a spell already in Greece with AEK Athens, and most recently Serie A's Parma."First of all, I […]
Former champion Raikkonen to retire from F1
PARIS: Former world champion Kimi Raikkonen announced on Wednesday that he will retire from Formula One at the end of the season, 20 years after making his debut in the sport.The 41-year-old Finn has won just two points this year for the struggling Alfa Romeo team.He won the world championship in 2007 while driving for […]
New boss Flick to 'win back hearts' as Germany reboot
BERLIN: New head coach Hansi Flick has been tasked with winning back disgruntled Germany fans as he makes his mark on the squad for their World Cup qualifiers.Flick inherits a team which has plummmeted down the rankings to 16th since crashing out early at the 2018 World Cup and struggled with inconsistent results over the […]
Double world champion Dennis to join Roglic's Jumbo-Visma
PARIS: Double world time-time trial champion Rohan Dennis will join Jumbo-Visma alongside the discipline's Olympic gold medallistPrimozRoglic on a two-year deal, the Dutch outfit announced on Wednesday. Dennis, 31, will leave Ineos Grenadiers to race alongside Roglic, who pipped the third-placed Australian to victory in Tokyo in July.The former BMC Racing rider, claimed his world […]
Premier League flexes financial muscle amid Super League fallout
LONDON: English Premier League clubs flexed their financial muscle over the rest of Europe by brushing off the after-effects of reduced revenue due to the coronavirus pandemic to spend over £1 billion ($1.4 billion) for the sixth consecutive summer transfer window.Cristiano Ronaldo's return to Manchester United headlined a stellar cast of stars, including RomeluLukaku, Jadon […]
PSG signs Portugal full-back Nuno Mendes from Sporting
PARIS: Paris Saint-Germain announced the signing of teenage Portugal defender Nuno Mendes from Sporting Lisbon on Tuesday, on a season-long loan with an option to buy.The 19-year-old, who was part of Sporting's Portuguese title-winning side last season, has won five international caps and was an unused member of Fernando Santos' Euro 2020 squad.Nuno Mendes completes […]


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Il doppio del torneo di tennis Cologne Open 1992, facente parte dell'ATP Tour, ha avuto come vincitori Horacio de la Peña e Gustavo Luza che hanno battuto in finale Ronnie Båthman e Libor Pimek 6-7, 6-0, 6-2.

Teste di serie

 David Adams /  Andrej Ol'chovskij (primo turno)
 Ronnie Båthman /  Libor Pimek (finale)

 Martin Damm /  Vojtěch Flégl (quarti di finale)
 Karel Nováček /  Goran Prpić (primo turno)

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