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CRUSH- Stories about love
Confession: I do not often read romance but when I do I usually enjoy it.
Crush is an anthology of romance stories which centres around the concept of the word 'Crush'. The term itself has multiple definitions, these definitions are used to divide the book into four distinct sections:
An intense infatuation
To cease or crumple by pressure
To hug or embrace tightly
A crowd of people pressed together.
In each of these sections are stories which explore the ideas of each definition. In doing this, the reader can choose a story more suited to what they feel like reading at the time.
There is a stigma surrounding romance fiction, which claims it has little to no literary merit. It's usually dismissed as 'chick-lit'. The stories collected in Crush demonstrate a wide range of writing styles and genres blended with romance. There is fiction which is clearly for everyone, for the LGBTQ+ community, for people who like experimental writing, and for those who prefer the literary variety. There is a diversity to this anthology which brokers an appeal to a wide audience. Romance is a part of almost everyone's lives to some degree or another. When it comes to real life we don't dismiss it. You don't have to be a certain age or gender to experience it, just as you don't have to be a certain age or gender to enjoy romance fiction, and you certainly don't have to be ashamed of showing your support for the local, emerging artists who have contributed to this book.
Crush brings together a variety of talented writers who are both local and international. Quite a few Flinders current and past students are also featured in the anthology. Recent Hons. Graduate Simone Corletto and PhD Candidate Jess M. Miller worked with Amy T. Matthews (chair of the 2016 'Ain't Love Grand' conference in Adelaide), and Midnight Sun's Lynette Washington to compile and edit the book. With a wide range of both local and international contributors, Crush is a must read for anyone involved in the Adelaide writing community.
With stories that verge on traditional, literary, and experimental, Crush has something to appeal to everyone. Women loving women, women loving men, men loving women, and men loving men. Relationships beginning and relationships ending. Good dates and bad dates. A wide variety of experiences tied together by the central exploration of love.
I'm not going to try and pick a favourite story in the anthology because they are all fantastic in their own way. Full of passion and wit, they offer both warmth and scepticism where it's needed most.
Whether we acknowledge it or not, love forms a big part of our lives. The writers of Crush have interrogated this in their stories. We see people just like you and me fumbling through life searching for the thing that will make them feel valid and loved.
This is a potentially perfect book for those of you looking to escape into the world of fiction without the hassle of committing to a full novel. While romance is not normally my cup of tea, Crush provides something for everyone so why pick up a local anthology and read the both online and from local retailers.
As a special treat, selected authors will be sharing their work at The Jade on Thursday 16th November. Come along to The Jade, 142-160 Flinders Street, for a chance to meet Michelle Fairbarn, J. R. Koop, Michelle Oglivy, and C.J. McLean, hear them read, and show your support for local writers.
Crush is available in stores now. At the special reading event at The Jade on the 16th of November copies of Crush will be available for the special price of $25. For more information check the Facebook page.
Author tulpamagazinePosted on November 15, 2017 May 3, 2018 Categories book review, ReviewTags adelaide, anthology, book, book review, Creative Writing, Crush, Fiction, Local, Midnight Sun, publishing, Review, romance, Short Stories, south australia, WritingLeave a comment on CRUSH- Stories about love
Literary Papercuts: Reflecting on the Australian Short Story Festival
Neil Gaiman once wrote that short stories are journeys you can make to the other side of the universe and still be back in time for tea. Short stories are bold. They are shameless. They deserve to be celebrated. And on November 3-5, at the University of South Australia, they were.
A collaboration between Margaret River Press and MidnightSun Publishing, the Australian Short Story Festival (ASSF) is an annual celebration of short story writing, of the brief but poignant, the tiny and the fierce. Debuting in Perth in 2015, it approached its second programme with the tagline 'good things come in short packages'. This turned into a vast understatement.
After a day of workshops on Friday, the festival was officially opened with an earnest and hilarious address from Tony Birch, winner of the 2016 Victorian Premier's Literary Award for Indigenous Writing. The good humour continued to flow right across the weekend, in discussions of genre, comedy, love and absurdity. Even in panels dealing with trauma, medical ethics, closure, and dark speculative fiction, the passion writers held for the short form was clear, and their audiences absorbed it all. Questions were asked thoughtfully and intelligently and answered in kind. Fun was had. Coffee was inhaled. Words were shared and considered and loved.
Lucy Durneen was the festival's international guest, reading from her highly acclaimed short story collection Wild Gestures. This book shared the pop-up Dymocks table with an impressive list of names—Roanna Gonsalves' The Permanent Resident was available to buy, as was Melanie Cheng's Australia Day, Sean Williams' Have Sword, Will Travel, Tony Birch's Common People, and Lisa L. Hannett's Bluegrass Symphony, amongst so many others. These titles were snatched up with glee and sold out fast.
Perhaps the overarching optimism of the ASSF can best be described by how it looked to the future—how it welcomed as well as reflected. Both days ended with the launch of a new collection, the first being Lynette Washington's short story cycle Plane Tree Drive, a portrait of suburban isolation which has already garnered accolades and will be featured in an upcoming Tulpa review.
After an empowering closing address by Rebekah Clarkson, focusing on the legacy of Shirley Jackson's 'The Lottery' and the enduring attraction of short fiction, Australian literary darling Carmel Bird launched her eBook collection, The Dead Aviatrix. Reflecting on themes the festival had explored, Carmel noted that the word 'subversion' was a common thread, and without further ado announced that her launch would be a subversive one.
So we did what we'd expected not to do. We clung with sticky fingers to raffle tickets, and we won jelly, and when lyric sheets were passed around we didn't think twice about belting out the Aeroplane Jelly theme in time with a live cello/trumpet duo.
And the whole time, all I could think was, what a great short story this would make.
Because, at the end of the day, the Australian Short Story Festival—any festival, really—is designed to inspire. To provoke, to elicit, to prod everyone in the vicinity until someone picks up a pen and starts writing. I named this review 'Literary Papercuts' because I think that this is as good a metaphor as any—because the short story, after all, is characteristically small, humble, sometimes unnoticed. But it can hit infinitely more nerves across a shorter distance. And it can come from nowhere.
I walked away from the Australian Short Story Festival holding a notebook positively dripping with the ink of new ideas. These scribbles might become journeys to the other side of the universe. They might become bold or shameless. Subversive. They might become papercuts. Or they might stay scribbles.
But that potential—that glimmering maybe in something small—surely that is what short stories are all about.
Words by Jess M. Miller
Author tulpamagazinePosted on November 13, 2017 Categories Review, WritingTags art, Creative Writing, Event, Short Stories, WritingLeave a comment on Literary Papercuts: Reflecting on the Australian Short Story Festival
Best of the Best: Modern Australian Short Stories
This powerful book encompassing 25 short stories written by the crème de la crème of Australian literary talent is worth a visit. The editor, Barry Oakley, was the literary editor of the Australian Newspaper between 1988 and 1997. Barry Oakley is a prolific Australian playwright, novelist and short story writer, and by-the-by was encouraged by the publishers to include his own futuristic dystopian peace at the tail end of this impressive body of writing.
Mr Oakley handpicked these 25 stories from a list of over 167 short stories he edited for Five Mile Press volumes. Most of these stories were written in the decade leading up to 2009, while his selection was based on the writers' abilities to 'replace our world with theirs'. Therefore, he avoids what Patrick White terms the 'dreary, dun-coloured offspring of journalistic realism' often encountered in shorter, year-specific collections. The result is a confluence of compelling dramas, magic realisms, and teased-out situations.
The Australian short story has long been linked to Australia's isolated geography. This trend continues: coping with fears, grief and sudden change are certain features of this geography.
Mr Oakley has grouped the short stories under themes to assist the reader's appreciation: Childhoods: a place where innocence is threatened; Fabulations: see myths and magic merge; Impositions: where difficulties are encountered; Letting Go: when strings are cut or should be; On the Margins: out of town; Desperations: when crimes are committed; Resolutions: in one's family. Threads of racism, violence, multiculturalism, horror, and so forth, are equally stitched.
Matthew Condon's The Sandfly Man is a story about the ghostly spirit of a caravan park that haunts a young boy: 'If I closed my eyes I could see the Sandfly Man, coming for me through that swirling mist, moving slowly forward, his boots crunching on the dirt laneways.' David Malouf's Blacksoil Country examines a terrible chain reaction set off between two cultures: 'The whole country had a new light over it. I had to look at it in a new way. What I saw in it now was hiding-places.' Julie Gittus's Driving the Inland Road shows relationships fraying on a bush-block in paradise: 'At Gunnedah my headlights shine on a billboard beside a stone church. Have faith. He loves you. But I keep driving south into the night.'
Cate Kennedy's Habit is about an elderly woman who attempts to pass through Customs with cocaine in tow. Carmel Bird's The Hair and The Teeth tells of the emotional toll carried by a woman whose house was burgled. Tim Winton's Commission begins when a son goes in search of his father at his mother's request in the West Australian outback.
A majority of the stories' POVs are written in the first person, some in the third person. Most of the plots tend to follow the traditional linear path, with or without flashbacks, with about a third circling the main issue. One jumbles its timeframes.
The themes in these stories should appeal to a wide variety of readers. They satisfy my personal tastes. There are an equal number of male and female characters albeit a slight majority of POVs are male-centric. Each story feels like an emotional canvas: when you least expect it, the porcelain breaks. It never once felt like any two stories covered the same ground. I give this collection 4.5 stars out of 5 stars. Worth reading with tea and chocolates.
Edited by Barry Oakley
Stories from Tim Winton, David Malouf, Thea Astley, Cate Kennedy, Peter Goldsworthy, Margo Lanagan, and Others
ISBN 9781742117454 (pbk.)
Printed 2009, 1st Edition, Five Mile Press, Victoria
Words by Dane Miller.
Dane Miller is an established writer and poet from South Australia.
Author tulpamagazinePosted on November 9, 2017 May 3, 2018 Categories book review, Review, WritingTags arts, Australian, Author, Cate Kennedy, creative, David Malouf, Fiction, Margo Lanagan, Peter Goldsworthy, Review, Short Stories, Thea Astley, Tim Winton, WritingLeave a comment on Best of the Best: Modern Australian Short Stories


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We're excited to be returning to the NGV Melbourne Art Book Fair for our fifth year.
A limited edition compilation set of all our recent zines, one atop the other, from the largest to the smallest, to make a happy squeeze.
As with previous sets, each box set contains the first of each zine edition released within that time frame. Housed in giant matchboxes featuring our recent collaged landscape, Ripples in the Open, editions are in the process of being delivered to the collections of Melbourne University Library, National Library of Australia, and State Library Victoria.
We have two more sets left, if you are interested. Please contact us to find out more.


These dolls are hot and they are known as Africarbies, unfortunately they are not for sale, but soon will be according to the creators page.
In 2019 it seems the barriers to black dolls have been kicked down. If you are still having these issues then you've been lost for the past few years. The first set of black dolls to really make headlines was the I Am Rooti Dolls. Recently Fuse ODG helped launch Nana Dolls in Ghana.
However, we coudn't help not publish these adorable babies. They are called Africarbies, which should be changed! Too much glorification of the barbie dolls, yet in itself shows how much of an impact dolls have. Nevertheless, see the beauties below.


Brain Trauma Research Charity Match, Trent & Mersey Canal, Middlewich, Ches. Sun. B. Campbell (Team Guinness) 6-0-2; L. Olszewski (Team Les 'O') 5-7-6; S. Wain (Maver NW) 4-6-8; S. Crossley (Maver NW) 3-12-0. (approx. £100 raised for the charity).
Erewash Valley Winter League, Final Round 6, Trent Lock, Long Eaton, Notts. Sat. J. Johnson 7-5-0; J. Garner (Team 1779) 6-6-0; N. Moss (Drennan Leics.) 5-7-0; J. Clayton (Drennan Leics.) 5-2-0; D. Lewis (Shakespeare Superteam/Bait-Tech) 4-9-0; B. Parker (Drennan Leics.) 3-15-0. Teams: Drennan Leics. 19; (Joint 2nd) 3 Counties 22; Shakespeare Superteam/Bait-Tech 22; Long Eaton Fed. 37; (Joint 5th) Team 1779 40; Mill Tackle 40. Final league: 3 Counties 13; Shakespeare Superteam/Bait-Tech 16; Drennan Leicester 17; Long Eaton Fed. 20; Team 1779 22; Mill Tackle 35.
Hinksford Spring League, Round 1, Staffordshire & Worcestershire Canal, Hinksford, Staffs. Sat. N. Wilson 3-4-2; P. Skidmore 3-1-12; M. Hardman 2-11-0; T. Wills 2-10-6; R. Evans 2-6-6; N. Vaughan 2-5-9.
Sportsman AC Open, Walsall Canal, Metro Bridge Section, Wednesbury, W. Mids. Sat. A. Curless (Preston Innovations Black Horse) 5-7-0; T. Bowen (Mal Storey's) 4-12-0; D. Arnold (Sportsman AC) 3-14-0.
Stoke City DAA Individual Winter League, Round 5, Shropshire Union Canal, High Onn, nr. Church Eaton, Staffs. Sat. D. McCall (Shakespeare Superteam/Bait-Tech) 13-3-8; D. Williams (Lifestyle MG) 12-1-0; S. Cope (Four Ashes AC) 9-13-0; M. Wood (Four Ashes AC) 7-6-4. League: D. McCall (Shakespeare Superteam/Bait-Tech) 9 (3 section wins 33-14-12); B. Birch (Four Ashes AC) 9 (3 Section wins 13-12-12); D. Richards (Four Ashes AC) 9 (2 section wins 19-12-14); D. Williams (Lifestyle MG) 11; A. Round (Lifestyle MG) 12.
Wolverhampton AA Open, Staffordshire & Worcestershire Canal, Chubb's Water, Dimmingsdale, Staffs. Wed. A. Shaw (Wolverhampton AA/Rough Hay AC) 8-1-0; R. Campbell (Goodyear AC) 5-14-8; N. Turner (Wolverhampton AA VDE) 3-14-0.
Blackfords Progressive Bi-Monthly Open, Calf Heath Reservoir, nr. Gailey, Staffs. Sat. N. Bailey (S-O-T AS) 23-5-0; P. Bucknell (Little Dawley AC) 17-9-0; B. Harris (Blackfords) 7-10-0.
Codnor Park Reservoir Open, nr. Ripley, Derbys. Wed. T. Baxter (Ripley) 10-2-0; D. Clarke (Matlock) 8-6-0; P. Hawkins (Codnor Park) 8-4-0; J. Drabble (Ripley) 7-2-0.
Kidderminster & District AA Open, River Severn, Bewdley, Worcs. Wed. R. Rogers (Barford AA) 17-4-0; P. Amos (Hallow AC) 13-1-0; J. Williams (KDAA) 6-15-0; D. Shinton (Bridgnorth AS) 3-12-0.
River Steeping Final Fling Match, Dovecote, Wainfleet, Lincs. Wed. B. Blackamore 3-15-0; K. Wilson 3-0-0; P. Harker 2-11-0; M. Cook 2-0-0; A. Stanley 1-14-0; D. Skinner 1-9-0.
Blundells Fishery, Rixton, Warrington, Ches. Sat., Trio Pool. L. Gibbon (Leigh Tackle & Bait) 106-10-0; D. Howard (Leigh Tackle & Bait) 103-14-0; A. Sheridan (Leigh Tackle & Bait) 73-10-0; G. Wainwright (Harry's Tackle) 63-10-0; R. Lofthouse (Chadderton) 59-1-0; F. Cooke (Ray's Tackle) 44-6-0.
Drennan Manor Farm Leisure, Harvington, Evesham, Worcs. Wed., Island Pool. J. Cooke (Sensas Smithy's) 77-0-0; S. Hemming (MFL) 54-10-0; M. Burgoine (MFL) 52-8-0. Thurs., Affordable, Boundary & Middle Pools. C. Coleman (Broom AC) 63-13-0; M. Burgoine (MFL) 53-11-0; S. Rich (Moaning Sods) 49-10-0. Sat., Windmill & Island Pools. R. Young (Oxford) 63-4-0; N. Dean (Oxford) 58-10-0; S. Partington (MFL) 55-12-0. Sun., Windmill, Middle & Island Pools. S. Ford (Mosella UK/Marukyu) 45-12-0; P. Pickett (Kinloch AC) 43-4-0; R. Young (Oxford) 20-12-0.
Heronbrook Fisheries, Slindon, nr. Eccleshall, Staffs. Sat., Meadow & Canal Pools. A. King (Maver Gold Dynamite) 160-0-0; S. Symcox (Heronbrook) 137-14-0; S. Williamson (Edgeley Sports) 135-3-0; D. Bracken (Nathan's Youth) 124-12-0; J. Benning (Heronbrook) 118-12-0; J. Chapman (Maver Gold Dynamite) 113-2-0.
Hillview Lakes, Puckrup, nr. Tewkesbury, Glos. Sat. L. Payne 137-0-0; S. Rich 125-0-0; F. Donachie 124-0-0.
Makins Fishery, Bramcote, Nuneaton, Warks. Wed., Nisa Feeders Opens, Phase 1-Lake Two. D. Hipkiss (Ridgemere Angling Club) 109-2-0; M. Jaques (The Tackle Shack) 45-14-0; J. Adamson (Nisa Feeders) 20-4-0. Thurs., Phase 2-Crater & Snake Lakes. A. Beehl (Leicester) 90-8-0; P. Edean (Syston Casters) 66-4-0; K. Winfield (Syston Casters) 56-12-0.
Monkhall Fisheries, Monkhopton, nr. Bridgnorth, Wed., Owl Pool. R. Knowles (Shakespeare Superteam/Bait-Tech) 64-11-0; P. Gregory (Swan Elite) 51-0-0; A. Morgan (Dot'em Down) 47-8-0. Sat., Owl Pool. A. Rowbottom (ABC) 48-4-0; D. Brown (Monkhall) 37-8-0; B. Stanford (Monkhall/MH Floats) 33-6-0.
Moorlands Farm, Hartlebury, nr. Kidderminster, Worcs. Tues., Costcutter, Bank Pool. M. Watson (DGL) 124-4-0; L. Boden (Stone Henge) 108-13-0; K. Roderick (Moorlands) 31-14-0. Wed., Over 50's Open. P. Hadlington (Moorlands) 60-9-0; P. Hodge (Moorlands) 51-9-0; T. Homer (Steven's Tackle) 49-0-0. Thurs., Costcutter, Silver Pool. A. Newton (Moorlands) 136-10-0; B. Tandy (Moorlands) 117-3-0; R. Kings (Mosella) 94-6-0. Sat., Rover, All Pools. G. Reynolds (Moorlands) 167-5-0; R. Kings (Mosella) 139-13-0; A. Jackson (TBF) 104-8-0. Sun., Bank & Middle Pools. P. Bailey (Colmic) 87-9-0; R. Kings (Mosella) 61-15-0; C. Senter (Mosella) 58-11-0.
Preston Innovations Boldings Pools, Bridgnorth, Shrops. Mon., Beech Pool. P. Shaw (Preston Innovations Boldings) 79-4-0; P. Hemming (Monkhall) 56-3-0; C. Wynn (Tri-Cast Weston) 54-4-0. Wed., Chestnut & Larch Pools. S. Christian (Sedgley) 99-6-0; N. Glarke (Monkhall) 99-5-0; J. Humphreys (ABC) 64-4-0. Thurs., Sycamore Pool. N. Clarke (Monkhall) 85-1-0; B. Travis (Shrewsbury) 75-6-0; M. Keene (Shrewsbury) 65-14-0. Sat., Sycamore & Chestnut Pools. N. Clarke (Monkhall) 84-6-0; T. Foster (Preston Innovations Boldings) 58-1-0; S. Hall (Oswestry) 50-0-0.
The Riddings Silvers Only Open, Grendon, nr. Atherstone, Warks. Sat., Match Pool. L. Capewell (Carthy's Tackle) 23-14-0; M. Capewell (Carthy's Tackle) 23-6-0; C. Hill (Sensas) 22-5-0; J. Smalley (The Riddings) 22-3-0; D. Pratt (Carthy's Tackle) 21-1-0; P. Emms (The Riddings) 20-10-0; K. Tipton (Sensas) 18-10-0; S. Nickless (Sensas Black Country) 18-8-0; A. Edge (The Riddings) 18-9-0; D. Hughes (Sensas) 14-6-0; D. Morton (The Riddings) 10-4-0; S. Connelly (Earlswood) 9-8-0.


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Trump's Pick for ICE Director Criticized Admin As 'Heartless,' 'Devoid of Any Decency'
President Trump's choice for ICE director, Mark Morgan
President Trump's choice for ICE director had harsh words for his ouster as head of Border Patrol in 2017.
Then-U.S. Border Patrol Chief Mark Morgan wrote in a 2017 email to then-acting Customs and Border Patrol Commissioner Kevin McAleenan that the administration's call for "me to leave immediately is heartless and void of any decency and compassion," Axios reports.
McAleenan, who is now the acting Homeland Security secretary, received another email from Morgan, who wrote "I am being removed in the name of politics – and politics at its worst. … I will not have them believe I willingly left under these circumstances."
Morgan wrote in another email, "This is wrong on many levels. I have questions but I need to process through a bit more."
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[WASHINGTON, D.C.] – U.S. Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL) today announced that the agreement reached on the FY2011 budget will help both Fermilab and Argonne National Laboratory continue important research and avoid the major layoffs that the House Republican Budget (H.R.1) would have required. The agreement, expected to be voted on in the House and Senate later this week, funds the Office of Science at $4.884 billion which is $866 million above the level in H.R.1.
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Suffolk Place (or Suffolk House) was a mansion house located on the west side of Borough High Street in Southwark, Surrey, on the south bank of the River Thames opposite the City of London. It was the London town house of the Dukes of Suffolk, and was located near Winchester Palace, London seat of the Bishop of Winchester. The position was highly prominent as Borough High Street (or Southwark Street) was the principal thoroughfare leading from London Bridge and the City of London, to Canterbury and Dover, a route used by monarchs and others, including the pilgrims in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. It was built in the fifteenth century and rebuilt in fine Renaissance style in 1522 by Charles Brandon, 1st Duke of Suffolk (c.1484-1545) a favourite of King Henry VIII. On 4 February 1536 it was taken over by King Henry VIII who exchanged it with Brandon for Norwich Place on the Strand, on the north side of the Thames, nearer to the Palace of Westminster.

King Henry VIII granted it to his wife Jane Seymour in June 1537, but when she died the following October, it reverted to the King. In 1545 the house was converted into a mint. It was occupied by Queen Mary I (1553-1558) and her new husband Philip II of Spain on the night before their state entry into London in 1554. This was possibly the time when it was depicted by Anthony van den Wyngaerde in his Panorama of London, to the left of Borough High Street in the foreground of the picture. It was demolished in 1557 and the area was built over with small tenements, which became known as The Mint, a notorious rookery.
A modern office block called Brandon House at 180 Borough High Street (opposite Borough tube station) now occupies the site of Suffolk Place. It is also memorialised by nearby Suffolk Street.

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Halsey Named Billboard Women In Music's New Rising Star
Matthew Scott Donnelly Published: October 26, 2016
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Halsey's standing strong atop the Billboard Hot 100 for the tenth week, but as far as the company behind the chart's concerned, her star is just beginning to ascend.
Billboard has officially named the "Closer" singer its 2016 Billboard Women in Music's Rising Star honoree, the company announced today (October 26). And, considering Halsey's very first LP Badlands debuted at No. 2 in 2015 — and she's since been a chart mainstay — she was a natural choice for the accolade, The Hollywood Reporter-Billboard Media Group President Janice Min said.
"Halsey is the voice of a generation, someone who is an impassioned political advocate and personal artist, the kind who can have a No. 1 single...and not at all be categorized as your typical pop star," Min said. "Her incredible talent has earned her this year's Rising Star award and we look forward to hearing what's next from her as she continues making music during what we know will be a long and successful career.
Also of note: Billboard will recognize Shania Twain as 2016's Icon Award-winner. Twain's racked up four No. 1 albums across her three-decade career, and her Come On Over is the No. 1 country album of all time. Min called her a "groundbreaking artist" and "fearless."
Ariana Grande, Carly Rae Jepsen, Lady Gaga and Nicki Minaj have each received the Rising Star distinction in previous years, while Aretha Franklin is the only other previous Icon Award-winner. Franklin got the inaugural honor in 2012.
The 2016 Women in Music event will film on December 9 in New York City and air on Lifetime on December 1. Madonna was announced as the Woman of the Year honoree earlier in October.
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Storage Soup
Scale-out startup Qumulo gets $40M, prepares to launch
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A data storage blog offering commentary on the storage industry, as well as a behind-the-scenes look at developments in storage management, SAN, NAS, backup, disaster recovery and storage strategy.
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Calling all data storage products for the 2019 Products of the Year
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Qumulo, the file storage startup founded by engineers who designed Isilon's clustered NAS, closed a $40 million B funding round today and plans its initial product launch "really soon."
The Seattle-based company now has $67 million in total funding. Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers (KPCB) led the B round with participation from existing investors Highland Capital, Madrona Venture Group and Valhalla Partners.
Isilon founder Sujal Patel is also joining Qumulo as a board member, along with Wen Hsieh of KPCB and Matt McIlwain of Madrona.
Qumulo has yet to announce its product, although CEO Peter Godman said it already has paying customers. The funding round will pay for marketing of the product help expand the 90-person company.
Qumulo has been quiet since its initial funding more than two years ago. But Godman said the startup has had products in the field for a year and has delivered software upgrades every few weeks.
"We'll be launching really soon," he said. "We see a big difference between when the product becomes available and when we start trying to tell the world about it."
What does this product do?
Qumulo's release mentions scale-out NAS, which is what the Isilon team developed and sold to EMC for $2.25 billion in 2010. But Godman said Qumulo sets out to solve a different problem than Isilon.
"In the 2000s we helped people scale storage, but we didn't scale data," said Godman, who was director of software engineering at Isilon.
"With Isilon we set out to solve an earlier problem – taking lots of little buckets where you put data and move them into larger buckets to scale. That was the 2000s-era of data storage. But as people began building giant buckets, it became easier to manage storage but no easier to manage data. In fact, it may be harder than ever to manage data and answer questions about it – what do I have, what is growing, what's valuable to my company, who's using what, where does that performance go? Isolating the bottleneck may take hours and hours."
A few more hints from Godman on the product: it includes a file system with some database functionality but not object storage. ("We still see file storage as essential," he said.) The software is sold primarily on appliances including solid-state drives (SSDs) and Ethernet, but can be sold as software-only.
"Most people dealing with large data sets are buying appliances," Godman said. "But we are a software company."


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Getting To Know Rage Hezekiah And Her New Book, Stray Harbor
When did you first encounter poetry? How did you discover that you wanted to write poems?
In middle school I remember reading Shakespeare for the first time when my class performed Romeo and Juliet. I was really taken with the sonic beauty of the language, and I feel like this experience led me to explore poetry more intentionally. Although I don't remember reading any full volumes of poetry, I have memories of coming across Sylvia Plath's "Daddy" and feeling entranced by it.
We studied poetry in middle school as well, and I wrote a sonnet that has thankfully disappeared called "Nature's Concubine." I wrote a lot of very dark poetry in my early teenage years, but it did help me work through the challenges of adolescence.
Do you have a writing routine? A favorite time or place to write?
I'm very grateful to have a daily meditation and writing practice. I'm a taurus, so routines are big for me. I get up early and sit for 25 minutes, then I make coffee and work on writing for an hour. It's not always writing poems, sometimes it's tending to some of the administrative pieces of being a working writer, but I treasure the time, and am often able to get good writing done.
Before sunrise and into the first hour of the day is my golden time. I've always been an early riser, and I love the quiet dark of morning. The world is so peaceful at sunrise, and it feels like a privilege to wake up before the sun. I have a writing/meditation room in my home, and it's a very gentle space.
Where do your poems most often come from—an image, a sound, a phrase, an idea?
All of the above! I often write from personal experience or memory, and writing poetry helps me to work through obsession. I carry a notebook, so often phrases or images will strike me and find their way into my work. Lately I've been really grateful for the awareness that I'm working through trauma in my poems, and able to write about what troubles me.
Which writers (living or dead) do you feel have influenced you the most?
bell hooks, Sandra Cisneros, Zadie Smith, Seamus Heaney. It's a long list, but that feels like a good start.
Tell us a little bit about your new collection: What's the significance of the title? Are there overarching themes? What was the process of assembling it? Was is a project book?
Stray Harbor reflects the balance between feeling lost and feeling safe; exploring themes of identity, family, and sexuality in the natural world. I'm grateful I had the opportunity to spend a few weeks at The MacDowell Colony when I was finishing this manuscript. During that time, I wrote the names of the poems on stickies in my studio and spent quite some time rearranging them. The manuscript has evolved quite a bit since then, but as the book has changed, that strategy has been really effective for me. I wanted there to be sense of fluidity propelling the book forward, and I tried to arrange the poems to facilitate this. I'm definitely a visual learner, and being able to work with the poems in a tangible way was really helpful. I appreciated being able to live in the space of curation, and alter the order until it felt right. In some ways, the process felt organic for me.
Read our "10+ QUESTIONS WITH" interview with Rage Hezekiah
Rage Hezekiah is a Cave Canem and MacDowell Fellow who earned her MFA from Emerson College. She is a recipient of the Saint Botolph Emerging Artist Award in Literature and was nominated for Best New Poets, 2017. Her recent chapbook, Unslakable, is a 2018 Vella Chapbook Award Winner published by Paper Nautilus Press. Stray Harbor, her debut full-length collection of poems, is forthcoming with Finishing Line Press. Rage's poems have appeared in The Academy of American Poets Poem-a-Day, Rattle, Salamander, and several other journals and anthologies. You can find more of her work at ragehezekiah.com.


We're pleased to announce that Eversource and National Grid have completed the construction of the Merrimack Valley Reliability Project; the new 345-kV transmission line recently built within the power line corridor.
We would like to take this opportunity to thank you and express our appreciation for your patience and cooperation throughout the siting and construction of this significant reliability project that will strengthen the electric system for customers in New Hampshire, Massachusetts and throughout New England.
One of the projects is the Merrimack Valley Reliability Project (MVRP), a new 345-kilovolt (kV) overhead transmission line approximately 24.5 miles long and running in existing utility rights-of-way between Londonderry, NH, and Tewksbury, MA.
In New Hampshire, approximately 18 miles pass through Londonderry, Hudson, Windham and Pelham, NH. Eversource constructed 10 miles through Londonderry and Hudson, and National Grid constructed 8 miles through Hudson, Windham, and Pelham.
In Massachusetts, approximately 6.5 miles pass through Dracut, Andover and Tewksbury. National Grid constructed this entire portion.
For additional information about the Merrimack Valley Reliability Project, please view our project overview sheet.
Click HERE to access the Project filing to the Massachusetts Department of Public Utilities (MA DPU).
Click HERE to access the Project Needs Assessment, part of the filing appendix.
Click HERE to access the official Order of Notice for the Project's MA DPU hearing.
Click HERE to access the MA DPU's Notice of Public Comment.
On April 28, 2016, the MA DPU voted to approve the Massachusetts portion of the Merrimack Valley Reliability Project.
To view the MA DPU's full File Room, please click HERE and enter "15-44" in the "Docket Number" box.
On October 4, 2016, the NH SEC issued its Certificate of Approval for the New Hampshire portion of the Merrimack Valley Reliability Project.
Click HERE to access the Project filing (Docket no. 2015-05) with the NHSEC.


Well there has been not a whole heap of training but some ups and some terrible lows since my last blog.
Swimming is the same, riding is getting colder and requiring way too many clothes so not much of it has been happening and running has been going well.
I became an All World Athlete. Whatever that means.


We have enjoyed the blog postings of Karl and Jan Stein for so long and have been thinking about beginning one of our own. We have just been waiting for an event to get us going. Well, the event has happened.
This year the 46th Annual Navy Day Regatta happened on August 2nd and 3rd. It began really on the Friday night before, with the kickoff party at the Bay Yacht Club in the Corpus Christi Marina. Bruce and I had our best man, Chuck and his lovely significant other, Sally in from out of town. Sally planned our wedding 4 years ago in Newport, Rhode Island, near her home in Providence. We finally lured her to Texas with the promise of fun and sun. Chuck and Sally helped us sail Elan from our slip in the Port Aransas Marina up the Corpus Christi Ship Channel, across the Corpus Christi Bay and into our transient slip at the CCYC. It was a perfect day catching up with Chuck and Sally.
We met up with the rest of our crew for the weekend at the evening mixer at the BYC. We had Clay and Krystal , Mark (my brother), his (unofficial) fiance, Laura all from Corpus Christi as well as Curtis and Tricia from San Antonio. We got registered in the 150 A class and moved our festivities to the local Surf Club to let our bunch get acquainted. We made an early night of it as we had a long hot weekend ahead.


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July 3, 2019 / 10:03 PM / 7 months ago
Canada proposes meat export solution, pushes back on China's criticism
Rod Nickel, David Ljunggren
(Reuters) - Canada offered a plan to reassure China about the security of its meat export system, a Canadian minister said on Wednesday, as Ottawa rejected Chinese criticism of its efforts to enlist allies to resolve a diplomatic dispute between the countries.
FILE PHOTO: Canadian pork shoulders are prepped on a butcher's counter in Toronto, Ontario, Canada May 10, 2017. REUTERS/Hyungwon Kang/File Photo/File Photo
China said last week it wanted the Canadian government to stop allowing meat shipments to China after bogus export certificates were discovered, escalating a dispute that has also involved arrests in both countries of each other's citizens and a halt in Canadian canola sales to China.
"We proposed a plan with additional measures for the (meat) export system in a way to tighten it and raise awareness so they reopen the market as soon as possible," Canadian Agriculture Minister Marie-Claude Bibeau told reporters in Montreal after a meeting with pork and beef industry officials.
She did not give details of the plan, which she said was delivered a couple of days ago.
Relations between China and Canada nosedived in December after Meng Wanzhou, the chief financial officer of Huawei Technologies Co Ltd [HWT.UL], was detained in Vancouver on a U.S. arrest warrant. She denies any wrongdoing and Beijing is demanding her return.
After Meng's arrest, China detained two Canadians and later formally charged them with espionage. Canada says the arrests of the two men were arbitrary.
In Beijing on Tuesday, Foreign Ministry spokesman Geng Shuang said Canada should not "naively believe" that mustering allies to pressure China would have any effect. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau previously asked U.S. President Donald Trump to raise the cases of the two detained Canadians during recent discussions with Chinese President Xi Jinping.
But Jim Carr, Canadian minister of international trade diversification, said it was not unusual for Canada to seek broader support.
"Who are they to say that there's no value in Canada talking to its allies about issues we're having abroad? In a multilateral system, that's how we do diplomacy," he told reporters in Montreal.
Bibeau said Canada and China were dealing with the dispute over meat more quickly than the canola issue, which has dragged on since March. She said there was no deadline to resolving the meat issue but that Canadian and Chinese officials were discussing it daily.
It is too soon to consider compensation for the meat industry, Bibeau said.
Reporting by Rod Nickel in Winnipeg, Manitoba and David Ljunggren in Ottawa; Editing by Peter Cooney


The Florida Gators improved to 12-0 on the season after a 5-0 victory on the road against Jacksonville (4-5) on Wednesday. Natalie Lugo threw a gem in the circle and helped Florida navigate a pair of weather delays in earning the W.
Lugo tossed a complete game shutout and struck out thirteen Dolphins on the night.
Lugo had the benefit of pitching with a lead for the entirety of the game after Amanda Lorenz led off the game with a solo homer on the second pitch delivered.
Shortly after Lorenz's homer the rains started and the game was delayed temporarily.
When play resumed, the Gators struck again. Jordan Matthews added to the lead with a 2-RBI single up the middle that plated Alex Voss and Sophia Reynoso in the second.
Florida added two more runs in the second as Amanda Lorenz scored on a mishandled catch by JU C Genest and Hannah Adams then followed with a bases loaded walk to put the Gators up 5-0.
The lead allowed Lugo to go into cruise control. For the night Lugo tossed seven innings, allowed four hits, struck out a career high 13 while not allowing a single walk.
Matthews finished 2-2 with three walks while Lorenz went 2-5 in the game.
Florida will open the Bubly Invitational on Friday with a bout against Illinois State that is slated for a 5:00 PM start.


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Thread: DHS extends Temporary Protected Status for Haitians
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DHS extends Temporary Protected Status for Haitians
http://www.cis.org/north/haiti-tps-extended
David North's blog
PrintShareThisAmnesty for All Haitians in U.S., Save those Arriving in Last Four Months
By David North, May 19, 2011 Amnesty for all Haitians who arrived legally or illegally in the U.S. by January 12 of this year has been offered by the Department of Homeland Security.
Previously this form of amnesty, Temporary Protected Status (TPS), had been available to Haitians who were here on January 12, 2010, at the time of the earthquake in that country. Now the arrival date has been extended by one year. According to DHS about 48,000 had secured this status during the earlier amnesty, a number smaller than the government had expected.
The announcement came in a press release from DHS and in a teleconference featuring Alejandro Mayorkas, the Director of USCIS, at about the same time.
The press release describes the "you all come" announcement in the most restrictive terms.
Instead of saying all Haitians in the nation, legally and illegally, on Jan. 12 can legalize their status, the release says:
This re-designation of TPS only applies to those Haitians who have continuously resided in the United States since Jan. 12, 2011 . . . Haitians who attempt to enter the United States now or in the future will not be granted TPS . . .
"Only" means the entire illegal alien population from Haiti, except for those who arrived in the last four months. In terms of prior legalization programs, which required years of continuous presence, this is a very sweeping offer. Further, the announcement of the new amnesty did not come until the fourth paragraph of the press release.
This extension of an earlier TPS offer applies to everyone carrying a Haitian passport, whether they arrived as a visitor or in some other nonimmigrant category, or arrived illegally; a student on an F-1 visa, for instance, could apply for the TPS status, and thus acquire the right to stay in the country even after dropping out of school. Those with TPS can apply for an Employment Authorization Document (EAD) that gives them the right to work in the U.S.
Without saying so explicitly, the new offer covers two populations: the newly arrived legal and illegal entrants who got here in the 12 months leading up for January 12, 2011, and all the earlier entrants who had failed to file for the previous amnesty, including many long-term illegals.
The announcement also said that for those who had filed for the previous amnesty, their "temporary" stay had been extended to January 22, 2013. Under this and previous administrations "temporary" legal stays have been postponed time and again. (Once, involving some 37 people from an African nation, a temporary legal status was actually allowed to expire.)
The announcement seemed to be a hurried one, and more details will be released, we were told on the teleconference, in the next few days. The press release, for example, says that new applications will be accepted on and after July 23, but does not appear to discuss the terminal date of the application period.
During the teleconference officials said the deportations to Haiti would continue "but only for people with serious criminal records" and a Coast Guard Admiral read a little speech about his agency's continuing policy to "interdict and rescue and repatriate" illegal aliens caught at sea, usually in unsafe vessels. Someone else made it clear that the policy announced today was separate from something that many in the Haitian community have been seeking – the instant admission of all Haitians with approved immigrant visas (usually in family categories) now waiting for an admission date.
Such a policy would place Haitians ahead of millions of people in similar situations from other nations around the world, and would stir up protests among other migrant populations. That policy would, I am sure, require congressional approval, while the TPS policy is within the current powers of the Secretary of DHS, Janet Napolitano.
This Haitian TPS looks like a trial balloon for a wider executive action. If we do not say anything the President will find reason to extend other executive protection to more categories of illegal aliens.
amnesty, dhs, haiti, illegal, immigration, temporary protected status, tps


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L'EAU EST LA VIE: THE FIGHT AT STANDING ROCK CONTINUES IN THE BAYOUS OF LOUISIANA
Published on December 18, 2018 in Global movement
L'eau Est La Vie camp is a floating pipeline resistance camp. Although we have no leaders, we value the voices of our indigenous, black, femme, and two spirit organizers. We fight in the bayous of Louisiana, Chata Houma Chittimacha Atakapaw territory, to stop the Bayou Bridge Pipeline, an Energy Transfer Partners project and the tail end of the Dakota Access Pipeline.
BBP resistance is a continuation of our fight in Standing Rock, and furthermore a continuation of the centuries old fight to protect sacred stolen territory. But unlike the NoDAPL sacred fight, this camp must be smaller and more vetted, because of the fragile ecosystem, the surveillance, and the sacred wishes of the people of this land.
If you are interested in stopping the Bayou Bridge Pipeline, make plans to come to Louisiana NOW.
Because of the urgency of the situation, we are pausing the application process to join Camp and instead are asking all protectors to come to Camp as soon as possible. Please email us at resist@nobbp.org with your name, phone number, why you want to come to camp, when you will be arriving and how long you plan on staying. We will respond with the directions to camp and what to bring.
** Please note that if show up to camp without emailing us first and without receiving an email invitation, you will not be allowed to enter camp. **
In the face of ETP's escalated tactics, for 38 consecutive days we disrupted and stopped construction in the Atchafalaya Basin on the water, on the ground and in the air. The more protectors here on the ground, the more we can stop construction.
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The Bayou Bridge Pipeline is the final stage of a scheme to bring fracked-oil from the Bakken region of North Dakota to export facilities in Louisiana. Construction on the pipeline is under way, but frontline communities are resisting. This resistance is being led by the L'eau Est La Vie Camp. More about the Bayou Bridge Pipeline from NoBBP.org:
Energy Transfer Partners (ETP), the very same company behind the notorious Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) , is trying to build a 162 mile crude oil pipeline across Louisiana called the Bayou Bridge Pipeline (BBP). BBP will pollute our water,crossing an astounding 700 bodies of water including Bayou LaFourche, a critical reservoir that supplies the United Houma Nation and 300,000 Louisiana residents with clean, safe drinking water. BBP violates indigenous sovereignty.Along its path of destruction, BBP would impact sacred mounds and threaten drinking water of the United Houma Nation, a tribe that has been seeking federal recognition for decades. Neither the United Houma Nation nor any tribe of the gulf south has been consulted nor given consent for the construction of this pipeline. BBP will destroy our coast. Wetlands are sponges for floodwaters. The BBP will destroy 150 acres of wetlands in its path and will "temporarily" impact 450 more acres. Wetlands are vital to a resilient Southern Louisiana, and already because of climate change and development, Louisiana is losing an average of one acre of coastal wetlands per hour. The State of Louisiana is frantically trying to figure out how to save our coast, but building the BBP will make the situation worse. BBP will destroy our economy.Existing oil pipelines have already created enormous problems for our crawfishing industry. BBP will only make these problems worse, creating dams in the Atchafalaya Basin dozens of miles long that irreparably damage the ecosystem and make fishing for crawfish impossible. The crawfishing industry supports thousands of good jobs in Louisiana. BBP will only create 12 permanent jobs. BBP will increase flooding. The loss of wetlands also means increased flooding. When flooding is worse, our communities suffer. Our homes our damaged, our crops are destroyed, our infrastructure is eroded, our families get sick, and our economy is harmed. BBP is a climate disaster. It will create the carbon equivalent of 30 new coal plants. The BBP is not compatible with our global mandate to limit climate change to 1.5℃. Our growing network of impacted landowners, tribal members, environmental justice communities, and fisherfolk have submitted comments, spoken out at hearings, and demanded proper environmental reviews and that our concerns will be taken seriously. None of this has happened. ETP has swindled landowners, bought our politicians, and refused to address any of the community's needs. Enough is enough. If our leaders won't stand up to stop this pipeline and protect our water, then we the people of Louisiana will. We are building the L'eau Est La Vie camp to protect our water and our way of life from the Bayou Bridge pipeline.
The No Bayou Bridge solidarity campaign takes its leadership from the frontline, indigenous and POC led resistance to the Bayou Bridge Pipeline. We are committed to supporting this frontline resistance until the Bayou Bridge pipeline is defeated.
Please feel free to contact the solidarity campaign with any questions, or if you need any support organizing an event or action: actions@nobayoubridge.global.
source: https://www.nobayoubridge.global/about/
The Bayou Bridge Pipeline (BBP) would impact numerous communities across Southern Louisiana. The pipeline would lead to more fracking for oil in the shale fields of North Dakota and further the global dependence on climate change-causing fossil fuels.
The oil moving through the Bayou Bridge Pipeline will come from North Dakota via the Dakota Access pipeline before connecting with another pipeline that heads south. Ultimately the oil that will be shipped through BPP will be exported overseas.
There are a host of concerns about BBP and reasons why it must not be built. Some of these concerns are detailed below:
Threats to Wetlands and the Environment
Threat to Bayou Lafourche Drinking Water
Public Interest and Safety Concerns
Environmental Justice issues in St. James
The Bayou Bridge Pipeline presents a significant threat to Louisiana's invaluable and treasured wetlands. This 162-mile long crude-oil pipeline will cross the largest contiguous wetland area in the country, permanently destroying some 150 acres of forested wetlands in its path and "temporarily" impacting more than 450 acres of wetlands. Moreover, the proposed pipeline's 75-foot buffer along the right-of-way will permanently destroy 940 acres of wetlands.
The Atchafalaya Basin contains the largest contiguous bottomland hardwood forest in North America. The largest river swamp in North America, and one of the most productive wetlands in the world, the Basin's 885,000 acres of forested wetlands provide habitat for an expansive array of mammals, fishes and amphibians. Situated at the mouth of North America's most important flyway, the Basin supports half of America's migratory waterfowl (more than 300 bird species), and provides the most important habitat for neotropical migratory land birds in the Western Hemisphere. The proposed pipeline will contribute to the existing harm left behind by oil and gas activities in the Basin. In addition to concerns regarding spills and malfunctions of the pipeline, the installation of the pipeline as proposed presents significant harm to the invaluable wetland ecosystem of the Atchafalaya Basin.
Prior backfilling activities in the Atchafalaya Basin along the very same right-of-way that Bayou Bridge Pipeline proposes to use have drastically reduced the environmental integrity of the Basin. Previous pipeline projects through the Basin have left spoil banks of dredged material adjacent to the pipelines, dramatically altering water flow and sedimentation patterns along the pipeline routes, impairing water quality, negatively impacting wildlife habitat and disrupting local crawfishing communities. The spoil bank runs along the pipelines on an east-west trajectory and diverts and impedes the natural north-to-south water flow, altering the direction to an east-west flow pattern. Because the water is laden with sediment, the change in the natural flow creates sedimentation along the spoil banks, which further impairs the north-to-south flow of the water. If BBP is authorized to install its pipeline into existing spoil banks it will be authorized to permanently impair water flow, making it impossible to restore the Basin to its natural hydrology. Prior to authorizing installation of any additional pipelines in the Basin, regulators must require pipeline companies, including BBP's majority owner Energy Transfer Partners, to restore the rights-of-way for existing, out-of-compliance pipelines for which these companies are responsible.
Finally, as the state will likely continue to experience frequent flood events, the value of the wetlands for flood attenuation should not be underestimated. Reducing flood storage throughout Acadiana by filling wetlands and constraining north-south flow with a pipeline right-of-way aggravates flooding issues. The Atchafalaya Basin is critically important for flood control, yet the ability of the Basin to move flood waters is severely diminished due to the increase in accretion of sediment in the Basin floodway. Pipeline canals, illegal spoil banks and the lack of enforcement of the terms of pipeline construction permits greatly contribute to the accretion process in the Basin. It is critically important for the sustainability of the Basin floodway that pipeline canals are brought back into compliance before any new permits are granted to use the rights-of-way.
Bayou Lafourche is the sourceof drinking water for 300,000 people, including the United Houma Nation and residents in Ascension, Assumption, Terrebonne, and Lafourche Parishes. Consolidated Water District No. 1 which provides water to residents in Terrebonne and Lafourche Parish is becoming increasingly dependent on Bayou Lafourche to provide 80% of its water supply (approximately 4 billion gallons per year).
Bayou Lafourche has also historically counteracted subsidence in the area by introducing fresh water, sediments, and nutrients from the Mississippi River. To counteract coastal land loss, Louisiana's Coastal Wetlands Conservation and Restoration Task Force has been working since 2015 on a project of year-round pumping and siphoning to divert more water into Bayou Lafourche near Donaldsonville, in addition to bank stabilization and dredging.
The Bayou Bridge Pipeline will carry fracked crude oil of various viscosity through a 160 mile stretch of Louisiana, including 54 miles of the Louisiana Coastal Zone. The pipeline could transport up to 13,000 gallons of crude oil per minute when operating at full capacity. In 2016, Bayou Bridge Pipeline, LLC. (a company of Energy Transfer Partners), applied to the Bayou Lafourche Fresh Water District (BLFWD) for a permit to run a 24-in crude oil pipeline 40ft underneath Bayou Lafourche for a distance of 129ft. In October 2016, the BLFWD unanimously approved the permit without discussion.
Things to Know about the Bayou Bridge Pipeline Impact on Bayou Lafourche
Inconsistent – The Bayou Bridge Pipeline (BBP) is placed only 40ft deep which is inconsistent with the standard depth in other areas in Louisiana and other projects.
Bayou Bridge will pass 170 feet underneath the West Atchafalaya Guide Levee and 140 feet underneath the East Guide Levee.
If the pipeline met the safety standard of 140 feet below the ground for Bayou Lafourche, the projected risk for Bayou Lafourche would be lowered.
The basic drinking water needs and coastal protection value of Bayou Lafourche is just as important as in any other area in Louisiana and should therefore receive the same or greater protective standard – i.e. at least 170 feet underneath Bayou Lafourche.
Unrealistic – The proposed BBP crosses underneath Bayou Lafourche in Louisiana's Coastal Zone, but the depth does not account for Louisiana's expected coastal land loss
Louisiana's coast is eroding at an alarming rate: 25-35 square miles of land are lost every year due to land subsidence and rising sea levels. According to a study done by Louisiana State University and the Rand Corporation, more than 610 miles of pipeline statewide could be exposed over the next 25 years. The Bayou Bridge Pipeline along with other pipelines in the state will not be exempt from the effects of sea level rise, sinking land, and coastal degradation as the land in Louisiana keeps disappearing.
With coastal land loss, sections of the pipeline along the coast, such as the section under Bayou Lafourche, should be placed even deeper than elsewhere in Louisiana in order to account for the risk of future exposure.
Dangerous to Public Health – The 40ft proximity of the pipe to drinking water makes it more likely that a leak from the pipeline could contaminate Bayou Lafourche.
Serious contamination could include:
If there is a breach in the pipe under Bayou Lafourche, up to 13,000 gallons of crude oil per minute could contaminate the water
Bayou Bridge Pipeline, LLC claims that BBP will use "state of the art technology" and is safe due the fact that "most pipeline incidents are the result of 'older, unregulated pipelines'". However, all pipelines have the potential to fail, even newer and more "technologically sound" ones. Parent company Energy Transfer Partners and its various subsidiaries have been involved in at least six pipeline ruptures or injurious safety violations since 2012. One such incident, on October 21st 2016, spilled an estimated 55,000 gallons of gasoline into Wallis Run, PA, a river that feeds the Susquehanna River. The Permian Express II, Energy Transfer's crude oil pipeline constructed in 2016, had to be shut down in September after a failure that released 33,600 gallons of crude oil near Sweetwater, TX.
Energy Transfer's BBP is made of the same technology as their pipelines that have failed elsewhere: a 24-in crude oil pipeline with 0.406-inch wall thickness, coated in Fusion bonded epoxy coating (FBE) that was constructed in 2014. These pipelines have proven that they can fail, even with the most technologically sound pipes.
Furthermore, the "state of the art technology" used in this particular pipeline still has the potential to leak and contaminate. According to the GeoEngineers technical memorandum, it is stated that the pipeline's leak detection system can shut down pumping of oil within three minutes of the problem. However, with the pipeline's ability to pump an upwards of 446,000 barrels of oil a day, 13,000 gallons of crude oil per minute, and a moderate leak estimate of only 1%, that still leaves potentially 390 gallons of crude oil released in that three-minute time frame. Even with this conservative estimate, there is still a very real threat to the people of Bayou Lafourche and their drinking water supply. Despite BBP's emphasis on the relative safety of the permitted pipeline, malfunctions at newly constructed and operating pipelines, still happen and have disastrous consequences.
Bayou Bridge Pipeline (BBP) contends that its proposed 162-mile long crude oil pipeline is in the public interest. The company asserts that the pipeline will support energy independence, increase employment opportunities and add to manufacturing sectors. Touted as a $670 million investment, the project is advertised as contributing significant funds to the local, regional and national economies and workforce through construction jobs and spending on materials for construction. However, BBP fails to take into account the true costs of its proposed pipeline in the form of environmental degradation, impacts to local industry and costs to communities in the event of pipeline spills, leaks or other incidents.
First, the impacts to valuable wetlands will be significant and detrimental. An estimated 150 acres of wetlands will be permanently destroyed and some 450 acres "temporarily" impacted. What BBP neglects to consider is that the pipeline will have to be placed inside illegal spoil banks existing along the proposed right of way, making it impossible to restore and resulting in permanent impacts to thousands of acres of wetlands. In addition to the plethora of wildlife habitat at risk, the culture and livelihood of communities dependent on these wetlands likewise face harm. The existing labyrinth of piled-up, dredged spoil from prior pipelines has already contributed to increased water stagnation and impaired water quality, which has devastated the local Cajun crawfishing community. Reliant on the wetlands of the Atchafalaya Basin, this community has experienced first-hand the ills of sloppy pipeline construction and failed enforcement. BBP's owners, Sunoco Logistics and Energy Transfer Partners, are responsible for some of the existing harms and authorizing this new project will permanently transform the Basin's landscape, devaluing the crawfishing industry that this local community relies upon.
Second, the terminus of the pipeline will be in St. James where a local community already faces a frightening industrial network of storage tanks and chemical facilities that threaten their health, property values and culture.
Finally, all communities, towns and wildlife in the path of the pipeline face significant threats of pipeline failures, leaks, malfunctions and major spills. Despite the many assurances by BBP that its pipelines are constructed using "state of the art technology" and in consideration of spill prevention systems and response capacity, history tells us that spills happen and response readiness ignores the harm of the occurrence of a spill in the first place. Considering the loss to impacted communities and ecosystems, coupled with the costs of clean-up, BBP's account for the "public interest" is severely overestimated.
BBP is a joint venture of Energy Transfer Partners and Sunoco Logistics, two companies with one of the worst spill records in the nation responsible for 317 pipeline incidents in the past 11 years (an average of 28 per year). Sunoco Logistics ("Sunoco") and Energy Transfer Company ("Energy Transfer") together operate 9,162 miles of hazardous liquid (i.e. crude oil) and gas pipelines. According to the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) Sunoco and Energy Transfer had 317 pipeline incidents from 2006 to April 18, 2017, causing $64,328,190 in property damage.
From 2006 through September 2013 alone, Sunoco:
Paid $1.2 million in penalties for safety issues.
Caused property damage costing almost $42 million.
Spilled 16,075 barrels of hazardous liquids, over half of which was never recovered.
From 2006 through October 2016, ETP:
Caused property damage costing $ 9.67 million, but paid only $24,400 in penalties.
Spilled 9,577 barrels of hazardous liquids with only 30 barrels recovered and 99.6% remaining in the environment.
More recently, ETP's Rover natural gas pipeline spilled over 2 million gallons of drilling lubricant in 2 separate pristine Ohio wetlands, which smothered fish, insects and other wildlife.Ohio EPA has fined them $431.000 for multiple air and water pollution violations resulting from the spill. On May 10, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) ordered Rover to cease new drilling until environmental concerns are adequately addressed.
BBP presents the following imbalanced interests: on the one hand, unidentified and uncertain economic gain; and on the other hand, the concrete and quantifiable risks to human health and safety and destruction of wetlands, which are recognized by Congress, the Corps and EPA as valuable public resources that are vital to recreational, environmental and aesthetic integrity of Southern Louisiana. When faced with the true costs of this project, BBP is undoubtedly not in the public interest of the communities in its path.
The proposed Bayou Bridge Pipeline is an environmental justice threat to the community of District 5 in St. James parish. Environmental injustice refers to the siting and expansion of unwanted hazardous waste facilities in low income communities and communities of color and the associated threats to health and human safety that these communities disproportionately shoulder. The proposed Bayou Bridge pipeline would carry fracked crude oil 160 miles across Louisiana, impacting more than 600 acres of wetlands and 700 bodies of water. The pipeline would end at at a terminal in St. James parish, a community of color already saturated with oil and gas facilities. The proposed pipeline would carry up to 13,000 gallons of crude oil per minute through the parish. At the end of the main pipeline, a second lateral pipeline 1.12 miles long would begin. This creates an increased risk of hazard within a community already facing unreasonable risk. The particular community of Burton Road experiences additional vulnerability to disaster as they lack adequate evacuation resources and access. The siting of the terminal within St. James parish and lack of evacuation plan in the case of an emergency exacerbates the environmental justice issue in St. James. Members of the community are opposed to the pipeline's siting within their already "full" community where they already suffer the negative affects oil and gas facilities and infrastructure.
Burdens a disproportionate overburdened population
First, the St. James community is home to an especially vulnerable population. Environmental justice concerns the unnecessary risk born by vulnerable communities, especially low income, minority or the elderly. Over 20% of people in St. James District 5 live below the poverty . The neighborhood along Burton Road is a majority-black community of mostly elderly residents. The residents above the age of 50 have limited physical mobility, making evacuation in a disaster event especially difficult. All of these factors limit the political power of the community to oppose a pipeline that is not in their best interest.
Exacerbates existing unmet public health concerns
Second, the community currently faces unreasonable risks to the health its residents. The proposed Bayou Bridge pipeline will only increase health concerns. The Burton Street community lies between the Nustar, Capline and Marathon facilities. The community has been hurt by the excessive health risks associated with living near hazardous facilities. Residents report losing unusually high numbers of community members to respiratory failure and cancer. Beyond increased numbers of cancer and respiratory illnesses, the residents of this neighborhood experience bad allergies, evening smells, visibly oily water and headaches when it rains. Further, when incidents that further jeopardize the health of the community do occur, they are not adequately informed. In March 2017, Plains Pipeline reported an oil spill of more than 12,000 gallons into the local ditches. Marathon then reported of hundreds of gallons on its property miles north of the Plains Pipeline leak. Residents of the community were not informed and unknowingly continued to breath the hazardous emissions from oily waters surrounding their homes. The two square miles south of Burton Lane have the highest density of accidents (34) in the PHMSA database for the state of Louisiana. Existing facilities have released tens of thousands of gallons into local drainage. Major releases have happened twice a year since 2009 This the disproportionate rate of incidents and the lack of communication by local facilities exemplifies the burden already placed on this community. Adding another pipeline would only increase the risk of an accident in St. James
Inadequate emergency plan for a frontline community
The community is under undue safety risk, a problem intensified by the extremely limited ability to evacuate in the case of a disaster event. Increased pipeline and rail infrastructure and private ownership of surrounding lands by industry has limited access to Burton Road down The community currently has only one road of access in or out from Burton Street to Highway 3172. This currently leads to access problems for emergency vehicles. The added mobility problems faced by residents of the neighborhood leads to fears that in an emergency event wheelchair bound citizens would not be The Proposed Bayou Bridge pipeline will further hinder access by medical personnel and evacuation routes as the pipeline is planned to pass directly under Burton Road. At the community meeting in march where residents voiced their opposition to the pipeline, one resident shared a particular instance where during a heart attack emergency vehicles were delayed for an hour waiting for a fence at a neighboring facility to be opened. An incident of any kind with the pipeline under that road or any construction activity would totally block the only evacuation route for the neighborhood. The increased health risks associated with the hazardous facilities surrounding the community is severely exacerbated by the limited access of emergency vehicles to residents that need additional health services.
The burden of these health and safety concerns falls disproportionately on this particular community, but they will not receive the benefits of the proposed pipeline. The community of District 5 remains encircled by oil storage and transportation infrastructure while the majority white community on the other side of the river was bought out and relocated. The $670-million-dollar investment is framed as a boost to local Louisiana economies from twelve construction jobs and spending on construction materials. There is no concrete evidence that any of these economic benefits will be felt in the community. The private benefits of the pipeline for the company and its investors are even further removed from the residents of St. James. While these benefits of the pipeline will not be felt in this parish, the increased burden of the hazard of leaks and spills in a community already facing uncommonly frequent incidences of accidents and health problems will be felt directly in St. James.
While this pipeline represents a multi-faceted threat to the state, the specific demographic vulnerabilities and current hazards in the community of District 5 in St. James parish as well as their opposition to the citing of the pipeline in their community creates an environmental justice issue. The current saturation of hazardous storage facilities and transportation infrastructure surrounding Burton Road, Freetown Paul Nelson Rd. and the resulting increased risks to health and safety already characterize environmental injustice, and the additional vulnerabilities that this pipeline would impose exacerbate the issue. The members of St. James are being asked to bear the risks of an additional pipeline in their district, and yet do not receive any benefits from the project. Further, the lack of attention by the company to the evacuation difficulties and health impacts to this low income and minority community created by the project reflect a lack of concern for the environmental injustice impacts of the project.
source: http://nobbp.org/about/bayou-bridge-pipeline/
Statement from the Indigenous Environmental Network:
"L'eau est La Vie camp is opening in resistance to the Bayou Bridge Pipeline (BBP) another Energy Transfer Partners project. BBP is the tail end of the Dakota Access Pipeline that weaves from the Bakken to the fragile wetlands of Southern Louisiana. Once again Indigenous communities are being put in harm's way and over 700 bodies of water will be threatened by one of the worst environmental offenders known to date. We stand with the Water Protectors here in southern Louisiana to protect these critical wetlands that serve as protection for the people of this region from floods and storms."
source: http://indigenousrising.org/
from Sam Vinal- Mutual Aid Media on Vimeo.
Energy Transfer Partners—the company behind the Dakota Access Pipeline at Standing Rock—is trying to extend that pipeline through the largest US wetland swamp in Louisiana, the Atchafalaya Basin.
L'Eau Est La Vie (Water is Life) Camp is fighting the pipeline despite facing state violence, police that are moonlighting for the pipeline and courts that are protecting corporate interests over public good. The fight for water and life continues!
"If our leaders won't stand up to stop this pipeline and protect our water, then we the people of Louisiana will. We are building the L'eau Est La Vie camp to protect our water and our way of life from the Bayou Bridge pipeline."
-L'eau Est La Vie Statement
To Learn More: nobbp.org
Support the Camp: gofundme.com/nobbp
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It's no question that a dog is a man's best friend. Their loyal companionship is undeniable and enriches the lives of their owners. While overseas, many soldiers forge bonds with both K9 companions and even local strays, many of which feed the pups with their own rations and protect them from the elements secretly in their barracks. Take in these incredible mutts and their heartwarming tails.
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Lance Corporal Liam Tasker and Theo were the best of friends. Together they uncovered 14 bombs and hoards of weapons in five months, more than any other dog and handler in the conflict. When Tasker was shot dead by the Taliban in 2011, a few hours later, 22-month-old Theo suffered a fatal seizure. Theo received the Dickin Medal of Bravery, an award given to exceptional animals in conflict. To Tasker's mother, Theo truly died of a broken heart.
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Sergeant First Class Zack is ranked in the Army and is part of the 98th Combat Stress Control Detachment. Zack is also a golden retriever mix. Staff Sergeant Torsch invited Zach and his handler, Sergeant Brian Christman out to boost morale of soldiers that are new to deployment. Sgt. Christman is also an Occupational Therapy Assistant and, with the help of Sgt. Zack, provides new soldiers with combat stress classes, anger management, and stress management to help them cope with the struggles of being newly deployed.


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The oldest international exhibition of languages, education and culture in Prague, Czech Republic EXPOLINGUA will take place ** 6 – 7 ** November in the National House of Vinohrady. The complex will be open daily ** 10.00 to 18.00 hours **. Participants will learn a lot of important information about studying and working abroad, language courses, international exchange programs and foreign language textbooks, literature and new trends in language education. The exhibition includes an accompanying program of lectures, workshops, mini courses and language. ** The main Portuguese **.
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The Times Higher Education World Ranking is the only global university performance table to judge world-class universities across all of their core missions – teaching, research, knowledge transfer and international outlook.
The next THE World University Ranking will be released in late 2015.


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Sams Teach Yourself Programming with Java in 24 Hours, 4th Edition
The last stop on your whirlwind tour of Java is Wurm Online, a multiplayer Internet game that has been developed entirely with the language. Grab your broadsword, wipe the Doritos crumbs off your tunic, and direct your browser to http://www.wurmonline.com.
Wurm belongs to a class of computer games called massively multiplayer online role-playing games, or MMORPGs (don't ask me how that's supposed to be pronounced). You can create a character and begin playing him for free, but the developers charge a subscription fee after you become massively addicted.
As this hour's workshop, visit the Wurm website and click the link to launch the program. When you run Wurm for the first time, a Java Web Start dialog appears like the one shown in Figure 3.6.
Figure 3.6 Loading a Java program with Java Web Start, a new way to set up software over the Internet.
Java Web Start makes it possible to install software over the Web by simply clicking a link on a page. The programs loaded in this manner don't have the security restrictions of the applets you've visited during this hour, so you must give your OK before they are installed.
When a program has been installed with Java Web Start, you can run it like any other software on your computer.
Wurm Online will be a familiar kind of game to players of EverQuest and other MMORPGs. You create a character who wanders through a 3-D world with the arrow keys on the keyboard, looking for people to talk to and things to kill. A screenshot of the game is shown in Figure 3.7.
Figure 3.7 Using Java Web Start, games such as Wurm Online and other software can be installed by clicking a link on a web page.