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Bayview Hospital is pleased to announce the appointment of new Hospital Administrator, Mrs. Julie 'Jules' Reid. Jules Reid is a Registered Nurse who brings to Bayview over 23 years of
New Bayview Hospital Administrator, Mrs. Julie 'Jules' Reid.
Bayview Hospital is pleased to announce the appointment of new Hospital Administrator, Mrs. Julie 'Jules' Reid. Jules Reid is a Registered Nurse who brings to Bayview over 23 years of international Healthcare experience in the areas of Nursing, Counselling and Management. She replaces previous Hospital Administrator Mrs. Winifred Edwards, who retired last month after 16 years of dedicated employment at Bayview Hospital.
Mrs. Reid previously worked with internationally-recognised health and treatment facilities in London, Antigua, Trinidad, and Barbados. She holds nursing qualifications from both St. Bartholomew's Hospital and the Royal London Hospital, as well as a Health Education degree from the City of London University. She is also trained in various specialities such as HIV/AIDS Management, Palliative Care, Teaching and Assessing, Ward Management, and Counselling and Drug Addiction. Her volunteer activities include feeding the homeless, and she was involved in various fundraising cancer research charities in the UK.
The new Hospital Administrator says her vast experience has given her the knowledge she needs to able to motivate others while at the same time being empathetic to patient needs. "I am passionate about Healthcare and social work which is a perfect fit for my new role as Administrator at Bayview. I am keen to uphold the high standard of care provided by the Hospital, as well as chart a new path forward towards expanding the services and facilities we can offer our patients," she says. An enthusiastic environmentalist, Reid says she is also determined to make Bayview Hospital a 'greener' service provider and continue to distinguish it as the best healthcare facility on the island.
Bayview Hospital has also recently launched a new allergy testing and treatment service, a one of a kind service on the island geared at addressing the high occurrence of allergies in the population. The Hospital is expected to continually modernise its facilities and extend its services under Reid's leadership.
The Bayview Board of Directors and staff officially welcome Jules Reid to the Hospital and wish Mrs. Edwards all the best in her retirement.
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Protestors block and delay Israeli ships up and down US West Coast
Charlotte Silver Activism and BDS Beat 28 August 2014
Block the Boat Oakland march on 16 August. (Alex Chis/Flickr)
Over the past two weeks, activists in port cities along the West Coast of the United States staged picket lines to prevent or delay vessels operated by Israel's Zim shipping line from offloading cargo.
The actions had been planned at the height of Israel's assault on the Gaza Strip that began on 7 July and ended with a ceasefire yesterday.
Zim Integrated Shipping Services Ltd. is Israel's biggest cargo shipping company and the tenth largest in the world. Its 2013 revenue was $3.7 billion.
The action originated in Oakland, California, which set a high bar for others to follow. Protestors there successfully prevented the unloading of the Zim Piraeus container ship for nearly four full days.
But other cities' more modest demonstrations were nevertheless successful in temporarily delaying the Zim ships from unloading, costing the company hundreds of thousands of dollars, building momentum and signalling widespread support for such actions.
After Zim Piraeus departed Oakland on 20 August, two different Zim container ships were scheduled to dock in Tacoma and Seattle, Washington and in Long Beach, California. Weeks earlier, organizers in Oakland had reached out to Palestine solidarity groups in those cities to plan a coordinated shut-out of Zim cargo ships along the West Coast.
In Tacoma, the Zim Chicago was supposed to arrive at port on 18 August but was delayed from offloading until 23 August — which local organizer Nada Elia describes as a victory for the Northwest Block the Boat Coalition.
Elia, who recently retired from Antioch University's faculty and is a member of the steering committee of the US Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (USACBI), told The Electronic Intifada that the delay was partially due to a crane malfunction in Vancouver, British Columbia, but mostly due to protesters.
"The delay showed that they were trying to avoid the blockade," Elia said. Throughout the week, activists around the state were poised — monitoring the Facebook page and then their phones for text alerts — to be called down at moment's notice to Tacoma port for the picket. Elia said her group's Facebook page was taken down with no explanation.
When the Zim Chicago docked on Saturday, activists rallied at the port and successfully blocked the two known entrances. But the port opened up a third, little-known entrance that allowed workers to cross the picket line and unload the containers from the Zim vessel.
The coalition that had formed around this action included Filipino group BAYAN, Queers Against Israeli apartheid and Occupy Seattle. Elia said people traveled from all around the state to attend the demonstration at the ports.
According to the Seattle Globalist, the delay cost the shipping company half a million dollars.
Limited goal
Elia said that the action's organizers had to consider that their relationship with the longshoremen's union in Seattle and Tacoma is not strong.
"The union's response was, to put it mildly, not positive," Elia said. "So we knew they were not going to be on our side."
So they were very clear about their goal: "Our victory was determined if we were able to delay, which we very clearly did for at least three days."
On 25 August the same Zim ship docked in Seattle and organizers were unable to prevent the workers from unloading. However, according to a press release issued by the coalition on 27 August, the ship may have delayed its arrival to the Seattle port by 24 hours in an effort to avoid the expected protests.
According to the press release, the Zim Chicago finished offloading in Tacoma the morning of 24 August, but did not begin to unload in Seattle — a port only a short distance away — until the evening of the next day, 25 August.
"We know of no other reason for the ship to wait for an open dock except to avoid spreading the impact of our blockade to other ships, who might then ask for refunds because of delays," organizer Ed Mast states in the press release.
Getting labor onboard
Elia says that while organizers are content with the victory they set out to achieve, they hope to build their coalition: "At this point what we want to work on is getting labor on board — getting the union to realize this is an issue of social and global justice."
Meanwhile, down the coast in Southern California's Long Beach port, organizers were moved to mobilize an action in the span of only two and a half days after witnessing Oakland's action.
"Oakland was so amazingly successful and it really inspired a lot of people," Garrick Ruiz of BDS-Los Angeles told The Electronic Intifada. "We in Los Angeles wanted to do something along the same lines and that's when the larger coalition came together."
The coalition included American Muslims for Palestine, US Palestinian Community Network, International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network's labor division, Global Women's Strike, Jewish Voice for Peace – Los Angeles, Al-Awda (The Palestine Right to Return Coalition), ANSWER and BDS-LA.
Ruiz said that his group had done an informational picket on 13 August to gauge support of the action among the union, build a relationship with the rank and file members and provide information about the Palestinian General Federation of Trade Union's call for US labor solidarity with Palestine and the efforts to blockade the Zim lines.
Ruiz said that the union as of now has been unresponsive to his group's attempt to reach out by phone, mail and email.
But it wasn't until the Oakland success that they decided to stage a picket line: when the Zim Haifa docked on 23 August in Long Beach, approximately 250 people rallied at the port until a union official sent workers for the morning shift home.
"We see this action as an important piece for building our movement, planning bigger actions and building solidarity with labor at the ports," said Ruiz.
"In the big picture we called that demo in less than three days and everyone in that coalition put in an immense amount of work to make it happen. Now we're stepping back to determine next steps," he added.
Ruiz said members of the coalition plan to attend a Labor Day parade on 1 September in Wilmington, Los Angeles to reach out to the ILWU and Teamsters unions.
And while the protests had been a direct demonstration against the devastating attack on Gaza, organizers are hoping to maintain pressure on ports and businesses contracting with Zim.
The movement to protest Zim is catching on in more cities. As a tool for activists and organizers, a new pastebin has been created that provides crucial information for tracking the activity of Zim vessels at various port cities across the US. There activists can see when and where Zim will be docking in their city.
Next up: a protest at Florida's Tampa port is planned for 30 August.
Editor's note: A previous version of this post identified Nada Elia as a member of the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel and a current faculty member at Antioch University. It has been corrected.
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above article on Zim shipping
Permalink nicholas cort replied on Thu, 08/28/2014 - 16:52
Keep up the good work, organize these demonstrations at ports around the country,BDS is working. If i wasn't 75, i'd be out there with you. Just wish the unions were more involved. Very important to keep it peaceful.
"Very important to keep it
Permalink Tom replied on Fri, 08/29/2014 - 20:11
"Very important to keep it peaceful" is it? Why?
Permalink John Turnbull replied on Thu, 08/28/2014 - 18:29
A similar action is being prepared in Vancouver, Canada. See details on Facebook at Block the Boat Vancouver.
Incidentally, ZIM Integrated Shipping Services operates many ships in addition to those name "ZIM ... "
Charlotte Silver
Charlotte Silver is an independent journalist and regular writer for The Electronic Intifada. She is based in Oakland, California and has reported from Palestine since 2010. Follow her on Twitter @CharESilver.
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I'm a big fan of slot machines. I like the math behind them and the flashy lights and colors that heighten the stakes of the ultimately simplistic object of the game.
I also grew up in Las Vegas and worked at a social casino gaming studio right out of college—so games were always in the background of my formative years in some way or another.
So, when I was in the midst of a giant expo hall at Dreamforce, I was drawn to a 10x20 booth featuring a giant slot machine. Folks could "spin" and win a simple prize like socks or stickers. There were about six or so people waiting in line to participate.
She went on about the slot machine and all the prizes we could win.
He looked disdainfully at her and said, "No, what does your product do?" and her eyes went big and her face blank. She wasn't prepared to discuss what her company actually did and it was painfully obvious.
This is far from the first time I've experienced a blank-faced sales team member on a trade show floor. There seems to be a common disconnect here, between the sensory storm of an exciting game and the actual goals of a brand's sales team. While we see no benefit in this traditional usage of trade show booth games, we do believe they can be useful if implemented the right way. If you're unsure whether your genius trade show game is a good fit, ask these questions with your team before investing in a trade show booth game.
Games are fun, but they also have an end goal in mind: to win. Likewise, the end goal for your trade show game should be directly related to securing leads and selling your product. While things like raising brand awareness or acquiring a certain number of badge scans might seem like appropriate goals, these are more like vanity goals than profitable ones.
Instead set clear, specific goals and a system for your team to follow in order to meet them. For example, if your team's goal at the trade show is to complete 75 demos, then you need to question whether a trade show booth game would help or hinder that goal.
2. How does this Trade Show Booth Game Relate to my Brand/Product?
I've won over $10,000 worth of trips and gifts from a handful of SaaS companies in the last two years, and I don't remember who half of these companies were. How could I? All the gifts I received, though they were nice, were general prizes with no relation to the brand itself.
The one gift I do remember was from Quotable, who provided an amazing trip to Dreamforce 2017. This move was on brand for them, which helped me associate the gesture with the company. They also strategized to provide a gift before Dreamforce, which helped them with their pre-trade show advertising and held a dinner with me and some of their great folks during the event.
3. Will this Trade Show Booth Game Attract the Right People?
Having a giant slot machine or a matching game with an iPad prize might attract a lot of people, but attraction doesn't secure the sale—you do.
Attracting your target prospects is your team's number one goal once you're on the trade show floor. Your game should either add value to the product you're selling or provide a unique opportunity to sell your product. A poorly strategized game will only be a distraction from that goal.
Someone who wants a free pair of socks isn't your prospect, they're someone who wants a free pair of socks. While attracting a bunch of giveaway gatherers can sometimes feel like a win, remember to keep your team laser eye focused on finding your target prospects. Everyone else is just noise.
4. What Value does this Trade Show Booth Game Bring to my Prospect?
Rather than focusing on a trade show game that attracts a lot of people to your booth, think about techniques that add value to your prospect's experience. Crafting your trade show booth game to be both entertaining yet valuable is key (i.e. mentally and emotionally rewarding as well as physically rewarding).
If your company sells a content marketing tool, maybe your trade show booth game could be a "Content Marketing Quiz" where the person who answers the most questions correctly wins a prize. This adds value by allowing your prospects to show off their knowledge, possibly learn something new, and be rewarded for it.
Focus on value rather than volume when designing your trade show booth game; you'll find more value and stand out from the crowd.
So, do you Need a Trade Show Booth Game?
Games are great for those on the receiving end, but they are risky for your sales team if implemented solely for flashy entertainment. If you do decide that a trade show booth game is for you, be clear on the purpose of the game within the bigger picture.
Focus on the details of your plan that help your team achieve their goals. Make sure the game aligns with your brand and provides value to your prospects that will make your brand more memorable. If you can tie it into your overall goals and brand/product, then by all means, maybe a trade show booth game is for you after all.


A note for my readers about Iron Chef Mom...due to Hurricane Sandy, we are postponing Iron Chef Mom this week. It will be back next week and we will be doing our CINNAMON recipes. So get them ready!
Hey gang...We are getting ready for Halloween and I'm going crazy making changes to the costumes.
Normally, we don't have to bundle up for trick or treating but this year...plans have changed thanks to a huge cold front. We're talking down in the 30s! Definitely not something I was prepared for, considering Danger Girl's costume was supposed to be a sundress pattern!
And, headed off to the Trunk n Treat at church with a pot full of Chili...the leftovers will be saved for Halloween night and served over baked potatoes.
Preheat a stock pot. Brown beef and drain. Add in jalapeno, onion and green pepper. Cook 2-3 minutes until veggies are tender. Stir in beef stock, tomatoes, V8 and 2 T chili spice mix. Bring to boil. Reduce heat and simmer, covered for an hour. Combine masa flower from kit and 1/2 C water. Stir in to chili and simmer 3-4 more minutes until it begins to thicken.
mmmmmmmmmmmm, chili no beans!! my favorite!!
and I ADORE the Candy Corn Fairy costume!
weeping angel? ok. i love all your costumes!
love the candy corn angel!
Yum! I love homemade chili. Your kiddos look awesome in their costumes! Thanks so much for linking up to Creative Thursday. Can't wait to see what you share next week! Have a wonderful weekend.


Consider the two boys problem in probability. Given that a family has two children and that at least one of them is a boy, what is the probability that both children are boys? The most common solution notes that there are four equally likely possibilities — BB, BG, GB, GG, the order of the letters indicating birth order. Since we're told that the family has at least one boy, the GG possibility is eliminated and only one of the remaining three equally likely possibilities is a family with two boys. Thus the probability of two boys in the family is 1/3. But how do we come to think that, learn that, believe that the family has at least one boy? What if instead of being told that the family has at least one boy, we meet the parents who introduce us to their son? Then there are only two equally like possibilities — the other child is a girl or the other child is a boy, and so the probability of two boys is 1/2.
Many probability problems and statistical surveys are sensitive to their intensional contexts (the phrasing and ordering of questions, for example). Consider this relatively new variant of the two boys problem. A couple has two children and we're told that at least one of them is a boy born on a Tuesday. What is the probability the couple has two boys? Believe it or not, the Tuesday is important, and the answer is 13/27. If we discover the Tuesday birth in slightly different intensional contexts, however, the answer could be 1/3 or 1/2.


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The Therapist Who Was Always Late
by Raanan Geberer
Neighborhood: Bronx, Chelsea, Co-op City, Upper West Side, Washington Heights
As a young man in my mid-twenties in the late '70s, I was in a precarious state. I had just failed miserably at an attempt to work at a job on the west coast and was back with my parents in Co-op City. I was on the list for a civil service job at the state Department of Housing and Community Renewal, was writing freelance articles for a local newspaper in Manhattan, and working part-time in a costume jewelry business. But I didn't have enough to live on my own, and had to periodically ask my parents for money. Most of the people I had hung out with in my college years were either moving out of the area, getting married, or developing their own new interests. I went on a few dates with women who lived nearby, but was unsuccessful in finding a girlfriend.
In the midst of this depressed state, I found myself one day sitting next to a cool-looking guy on the Co-op City bus. He had long red hair and a beard. Soon, we started talking. He was an amateur keyboard player, like myself, and had an old-style Farsifa electric organ, the keyboard that had been used by many '60s rock and soul groups. His high energy captivated me. But the real kicker came when I asked him about the book he was reading, "Betrayal of the Body" by Alexander Lowen. Excitedly, he told me about bioenergetic therapy, the sexual and life energy coursing through us, breaking down blocks within both the body and the psyche, and how it had helped him. He also told me about how he was into Wilhelm Reich and that he had even tried to build an "orgone box" in his own house. My father was already sending me to psychotherapy—to the same tired, old psychiatrist I'd gone to since childhood—but this sounded new and exciting.
Within the next few weeks, I went to the library and got my hands on every book on bioenergetics I could find. Classical Reichian therapy, I felt, was a little too out-there and ingrown, and few people practiced it anymore, but Lowen-style bioenergetics therapists were in vogue. This was the 1970s and everyone seemed to be on a self-help kick of some kind. New types of therapies were everywhere—primal therapy, gestalt therapy, encounter groups, rational-emotive therapy, transactional analysis, you name it. When I finally got the state Housing job and moved to Washington Heights, I started to look for a bioenergetics therapist in earnest.
The person who I came up with was Fran Zingerman, a fortyish woman whose office was on 8th Avenue near 20th Street in Chelsea, which back then was still a somewhat gritty working-class area. When I asked about her background, she told me that she'd previously taught math at Kingsborough Community College and had "extensive training" with several bioenergetic therapists, but held no formal degree or credentials. Today, that would raise a red flag with me, but in my youthful anti-establishment mind this was probably more of a plus for me than anything else. She also told me that while her therapy might be tax deductible, insurance wouldn't pay for it. But at a fee of $35 per session, it didn't really matter to me. I was sure the therapy would change my life,
Off the bat, I realized she didn't want me to do much talking. I would be in the midst of an impassioned complaint about my life, when she would cut me off and tell me to do some heavy breathing, start massaging my back, or have me do some sort of exercise whose purpose it was to release tension. This was OK, but not all the time!
She agreed with me that I had experienced a lot of shocks in my life – the worst one being my sister's nervous breakdown and subsequent internment in a psych ward. "You were right on when you told me that," she said. "It's serious. People can change, but it takes years and years. For most of us, therapy is a lifetime commitment." This disappointed me. I'd thought of this as being a one- or-two-year thing. The idea of having to go to therapy once a week for the rest of my life was not an appetizing prospect.
Another time, she asked me to describe her. "Well, you're older. You have wrinkles," I said honestly. "Yes, yes, I'm old! Put your hands on my face! Feel the wrinkles!" I did as she asked, but couldn't understand what she was driving at.
The real problem I had with her was her chronic lateness. I'd go to her other office on 103rd Street and find myself waiting for 45 minutes. Then, the patient before me would leave, and I'd finally get to see her. This happened over and over again. When I protested, she said, "Well, we really got into some intense material before, and just had to work it through. That's the process."
Soon after I started seeing Fran Zingerman, I had sex for the first time in about three years. Unlike my previous partners, who, like myself, were Jewish, Harlena was a slightly older Japanese-American woman. This was very daring, rebellious and exciting for me. However, I became frightened when during sex she started moaning and groaning very loudly, and I withdrew almost without thinking. We did it maybe two or three more times, but it soon became clear that I was fairly inexperienced. "I'm amused feeling you moving around aimlessly, like a fish out of water," she told me. Within two weeks, she decided to end the relationship.
When in my therapy session I complained about both Harlena's treatment of me and my sexual inadequacy, Fran Zingerman said nothing. Instead, she asked me to stand up, hugged me, and asked me to hold her in an embrace for five minutes. "I'm trying to break through the barriers," she said. I guess she could sense that someone as shy and nervous as I was in those days wasn't going to put the moves on her. Still, the experience weirded me out quite a bit.
I kept going to Fran for therapy sessions, and the number of times I had to wait 30-to-45 minutes before she was ready to see me became even more frequent. After this had happened about 20 times, I decided to end the therapy. I told her I was going on vacation, which was true, and that I'd call her when I came back. I never did.
A few years ago, I looked at Fran Zingerman's website. In addition to being a psychotherapist, she now also called herself a "spiritual healer" who used chakras, reiki, and energy healing to help people resolve their blocks.
Whatever she is, I wish her all the best.
Raanan Geberer is a semi-retired community journalist who lives in Manhattan with his wife and cat. He grew up in the Bronx
(photo: Psychiatrist and patient by Richard Nowitz)
Tagged: Alexander Lowen, bioenergetics, therapy, Wilhelm Reich
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The other adult in the house had used them. For something. I still don't understand exactly how this carnage happened. Thankfully, Fiskars sent me a replacement blade and I'm back to being able to cut substantial branches without much effort.
The reason I had to replace the blade on my secateurs had nothing to do with the other adult in the house; it was the result of me following some bad advice from the internet. When I first started sharpening my secateurs I used to sharpen the beveled side of the blade, like you're supposed to, but then I also would run the flat side of the blade over the sharpening stone a couple times "to take off the edge." This is a really bad thing to do, but it's what the tutorials I found on the internet told me to do.
What happens when you "sharpen" the flat side of the blade is that you eventually create a gap between the surface of the blade and the anvil part of the secateur that it's supposed to cut against. When they don't meet tightly they no longer cut cleanly, but instead crush and chew. Not only does this make pruning physically harder, it's also bad for the plants you've mangled.
I didn't even realize this was the problem with my secateurs–I knew they weren't cutting perfectly but I thought maybe I just hadn't sharpened them enough–until my garden mentor tried to use them one day as he was teaching me to prune something (probably roses.) He took a look at the chewed off plant stem, squinted at the blade for a second, and then asked what the heck I'd done to my secateurs (except he didn't use the word heck.) I promptly received a personalized lesson on how to sharpen secateurs properly.
The old blade also had some rust on it, which also isn't a good thing. It hadn't progressed so far that it couldn't be cleaned off, but advanced rust is another reason that blades sometimes need to be changed.
I would guess that the most common reason that a blade gets damaged to the point that it needs to be changed is because the secateurs are used for cutting wire or other materials that they were never intended to. Secateurs are for plants only; there are other tools in the toolbox to use for household repairs.
That notch is where you're meant to cut wire or anything that's not a plant, without damaging the cutting edge of the rest of the blade! Handy to know when you're out in the garden (or in the midst of making a holiday wreath) and there's a bit of wire that needs to be snipped.
Replacing the blade was really easy. I first made sure I had the right size of replacement blade.
Then I laid an old towel down on the counter and disassembled my secateurs–I used a little adjustable wrench and flat screwdriver and just kept undoing screws until it was in pieces.
While I had the secateurs apart, I cleaned all the parts, but I'm not going to show that here as I've explained how to clean your secateurs in another post.
And voilà, my secateurs were just like new!


The .NET framework provides many easy-to-use XML classes. Two of them are the XmlTextReader and XmlTextWriter classes. These classes are very easy to use. Because they don't require much code, you can easily display the content of an XML file with the XmlTextReader class. The same is also valid for the XmlTextWriter class, except that it will be used to write XML.
The sample project provided with the article contains two examples that will show you the usage of the classes. I have tried to keep the code simple and easy; besides that, it only contains a few lines. When you run the project, you will see two buttons—"Read XML" and "Write XML". As the name already says, "Read XML" will read an XML file and return the result. Here is what the code looks like to read a file.
As you can see, I am not doing very much in the preceding code. The first line in the function constructs a new XmlTextReader object and loads the XML file. The second line reads the first node, which is <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>. We do not want to print this line; therefore, we will read it outside the loop and do nothing. Starting with the loop, we read each node and print out the data on the screen, along with a linebreak. That's all you need to read an XML file. Very easy, isn't it?
Writing an XML file is also simple. Here is the code to write to an XML file.
To have a clean tree structure look, we have to use the Formatting property. In line 09, we create the FriendsList root element. With the same function, we create a new element, called Friend, in line 10. In lines 14 and 16, we create two new elements with the WriteElementString function. The first parameter in this function is the name of the element and the second parameter is the value of the element. Line 19 writes the end elements and line 21 closes the xmlWriter. That's it!
In this short article, you have seen how easy it is to read the XML file with the help of the XmlTextReader class. You have also seen how easy it is to write the XML file with the XmlTextWriter class. Both classes do have more functions and properties; all of them are self-explainatory and easy to use. This article was just written to show you how easy the XML .NET classes are.
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Decision on Castlemaine Fishing 'A Matter of Urgency'
MacDara Conroy
A decision on the reopening of Castlemaine Harbour to wild salmon fishing will be made "as a matter of urgency", says the Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources.
The Kerryman reports that the department has confirmed 25 submissions were received during a 30-day consultation after plans were announced to reopen the harbour to commercial fishing in May.
http://www.kerryman.ie/news/decision-due-on-possible-reopening-of-salmon-fishery-2808800.html
http://www.afloat.ie/port-news/fishing/item/15706-fishing-to-be-reopened-at-castlemaine-harbour/
Local fishermen have welcomed the move, though angling and conservation groups have voiced their opposition, with Guy Buxton of the Kerry Anglers' Federation saying that the reopening "could not be justified" on any grounds.
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Irish Fishing industry
The Irish Commercial Fishing Industry employs around 11,000 people in fishing, processing and ancillary services such as sales and marketing. The industry is worth about €1.22 billion annually to the Irish economy. Irish fisheries products are exported all over the world as far as Africa, Japan and China.
How many people are employed in commercial fishing in Ireland?
Over 16,000 people are employed directly or indirectly around the coast, working on over 2,000 registered fishing vessels, in over 160 seafood processing businesses and in 278 aquaculture production units, according to the State's sea fisheries development body Bord Iascaigh Mhara (BIM).
Why is fishing referred to as an industry?
All activities that are concerned with growing, catching, processing or transporting fish are part of the commercial fishing industry, the development of which is overseen by BIM. Recreational fishing, as in angling at sea or inland, is the responsibility of Inland Fisheries Ireland.
How important is the Irish fishing industry?
The Irish fishing industry is valued at 1.22 billion euro in gross domestic product (GDP), according to 2019 figures issued by BIM. Only 179 of Ireland's 2,000 vessels are over 18 metres in length. Where does Irish commercially caught fish come from? Irish fish and shellfish is caught or cultivated within the 200-mile exclusive economic zone (EEZ), but Irish fishing grounds are part of the common EU "blue" pond. Commercial fishing is regulated under the terms of the EU Common Fisheries Policy (CFP), initiated in 1983 and with ten-yearly reviews.
What is the value of seafood landings?
The total value of seafood landed into Irish ports was 424 million euro in 2019, according to BIM. High value landings identified in 2019 were haddock, hake, monkfish and megrim. Irish vessels also land into foreign ports, while non-Irish vessels land into Irish ports, principally Castletownbere, Co Cork, and Killybegs, Co Donegal.
How are commercial fish species caught in the Irish EEZ?
There are a number of different methods for catching fish, with technological advances meaning skippers have detailed real time information at their disposal. Fisheries are classified as inshore, midwater, pelagic or deep water. Inshore targets species close to shore and in depths of up to 200 metres, and may include trawling and gillnetting and long-lining. Trawling is regarded as "active", while "passive" or less environmentally harmful fishing methods include use of gill nets, long lines, traps and pots. Pelagic fisheries focus on species which swim close to the surface and up to depths of 200 metres, including migratory mackerel, and tuna, and methods for catching include pair trawling, purse seining, trolling and longlining. Midwater fisheries target species at depths of around 200 metres, using trawling, longlining and jigging. Deepwater fisheries mainly use trawling for species which are found at depths of over 600 metres.
How is the Irish fleet divided up?
There are several segments for different catching methods in the registered Irish fleet – the largest segment being polyvalent or multi-purpose vessels using several types of gear which may be active and passive. The polyvalent segment ranges from small inshore vessels engaged in netting and potting to medium and larger vessels targeting whitefish, pelagic (herring, mackerel, horse mackerel and blue whiting) species and bivalve molluscs. The refrigerated seawater (RSW) pelagic segment is engaged mainly in fishing for herring, mackerel, horse mackerel and blue whiting only. The beam trawling segment focuses on flatfish such as sole and plaice. The aquaculture segment is exclusively for managing, developing and servicing fish farming areas and can collect spat from wild mussel stocks.
What are the top species landed?
The top 20 species landed by value in 2019 were mackerel (78 million euro); Dublin Bay prawn (59 million euro); horse mackerel (17 million euro); monkfish (17 million euro); brown crab (16 million euro); hake (11 million euro); blue whiting (10 million euro); megrim (10 million euro); haddock (9 million euro); tuna (7 million euro); scallop (6 million euro); whelk (5 million euro); whiting (4 million euro); sprat (3 million euro); herring (3 million euro); lobster (2 million euro); turbot (2 million euro); cod (2 million euro); boarfish (2 million euro).
How diverse are Irish waters?
Ireland has approximately 220 million acres of marine territory, rich in marine biodiversity. A marine biodiversity scheme under Ireland's operational programme, which is co-funded by the European Maritime and Fisheries Fund and the Government, aims to reduce the impact of fisheries and aquaculture on the marine environment, including avoidance and reduction of unwanted catch.
How are quotas for fish decided?
EU fisheries ministers hold an annual pre-Christmas council in Brussels to decide on total allowable catches and quotas for the following year. This is based on advice from scientific bodies such as the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea. In Ireland's case, the State's Marine Institute publishes an annual "stock book" which provides the most up to date stock status and scientific advice on over 60 fish stocks exploited by the Irish fleet. Total allowable catches are supplemented by various technical measures to control effort, such as the size of net mesh for various species.
Which are the principal Irish fishing harbours?
The west Cork harbour of Castletownbere is Ireland's biggest whitefish port. Killybegs, Co Donegal is the most important port for pelagic (herring, mackerel, blue whiting) landings. Fish are also landed into Dingle, Co Kerry, Rossaveal, Co Galway, Howth, Co Dublin and Dunmore East, Co Waterford, Union Hall, Co Cork, Greencastle, Co Donegal, and Clogherhead, Co Louth. The busiest Northern Irish ports are Portavogie, Ardglass and Kilkeel, Co Down.
Do other EU vessels land into Irish harbours?
Yes, EU quotas are allocated to other fleets within the Irish EEZ, and Ireland has long been a transhipment point for fish caught by the Spanish whitefish fleet in particular. Dingle, Co Kerry has seen an increase in foreign landings, as has Castletownbere. The west Cork port recorded foreign landings of 36 million euro or 48 per cent in 2019, and has long been nicknamed the "peseta" port, due to the presence of Spanish-owned transhipment plant, Eiranova, on Dinish island.
Where is Irish seafood sold?
Most fish and shellfish caught or cultivated in Irish waters is for the export market, and this was hit hard from the early stages of this year's Covid-19 pandemic. The EU, Asia and Britain are the main export markets, while the middle Eastern market is also developing and the African market has seen a fall in value and volume, according to figures for 2019 issued by BIM.
Do Irish people eat much fish?
Fish was once a penitential food, eaten for religious reasons every Friday. BIM has worked hard over several decades to develop its appeal. Ireland is not like Spain – our land is too good to transform us into a nation of fish eaters, but the obvious health benefits are seeing a growth in demand. Seafood retail sales rose by one per cent in 2019 to 300 million euro. Salmon and cod remain the most popular species, while BIM reports an increase in sales of haddock, trout and the pangasius or freshwater catfish which is cultivated primarily in Vietnam and Cambodia and imported by supermarkets here.
Who regulates the industry?
The EU's Common Fisheries Policy (CFP), initiated in 1983, pooled marine resources – with Ireland having some of the richest grounds and one of the largest sea areas at the time, but only receiving four per cent of allocated catch by a quota system. A system known as the "Hague Preferences" did recognise the need to safeguard the particular needs of regions where local populations are especially dependent on fisheries and related activities. The State's Sea Fisheries Protection Authority, based in Clonakilty, Co Cork, works with the Naval Service on administering the EU CFP. The Department of Agriculture, Food and Marine and Department of Transport regulate licensing and training requirements, while the Marine Survey Office is responsible for the implementation of all national and international legislation in relation to safety of shipping and the prevention of pollution.
Are Irish fishing crews required to undertake training?
Yes, a range of certificates of competency are required for skippers and crew. Training is the remit of BIM, which runs two national fisheries colleges at Greencastle, Co Donegal and Castletownbere, Co Cork. There have been calls for the colleges to be incorporated into the third-level structure of education, with qualifications recognised as such.
How safe is the Irish fishing industry?
Safety is always an issue, in spite of technological improvements, as fishing is a hazardous occupation and climate change is having its impact on the severity of storms at sea. Fishing skippers and crews are required to hold a number of certificates of competency, including safety and navigation, and wearing of personal flotation devices is a legal requirement. Accidents come under the remit of the Marine Casualty Investigation Board, and the Health and Safety Authority. The MCIB does not find fault or blame, but will make recommendations to the Minister for Transport to avoid a recurrence of incidents.
Is climate breakdown affecting Irish fish stocks?
Fish are part of a marine ecosystem and an integral part of the marine food web. Changing climate is having a negative impact on the health of the oceans, and there have been more frequent reports of warmer water species being caught further and further north in Irish waters.
What are the main challenges for the Irish fishing industry?
Brexit, Covid 19, EU policies and safety – Britain is a key market for Irish seafood, and 38 per cent of the Irish catch is taken from the waters around its coast. Ireland's top two species – mackerel and prawns - are 60 per cent and 40 per cent, respectively, dependent on British waters. Also, there are serious fears within the Irish industry about the impact of EU vessels, should they be expelled from British waters, opting to focus even more efforts on Ireland's rich marine resource. Covid-19 has forced closure of international seafood markets, with high value fish sold to restaurants taking a large hit. A temporary tie-up support scheme for whitefish vessels introduced for the summer of 2020 was condemned by industry organisations as "designed to fail".
Sources: Bord Iascaigh Mhara, Marine Institute, Department of Agriculture, Food and Marine, Department of Transport © Afloat 2020


Air pollution in China is a critical global health problem, responsible for somewhere between 700,000 and 2.2 million premature deaths annually. The largest single contributor to air pollution-related mortality is particulate matter below 2.5 microns in size, or PM2.5. Exposure to PM2.5 has been found to increase the risk of heart attacks, strokes, lung disease, and lower respiratory disease based on a number of longitudinal studies around the world comparing populations with differing levels of exposure. China is the world's largest consumer of coal, and coal is responsible for the vast majority of electricity generated in China. I'll argue that replacing coal-based generation with low-polluting alternatives like nuclear, natural gas, or renewables could save between 200 and 1,000 lives per gigawatt-year.
China has, on average, among the worst air pollution of any country in the world. Many of the areas of the country have PM2.5 levels that rank on average (using the U.S. EPA rating scheme) as "Unhealthy", with spikes up to "Very Unhealthy" or "Hazardous" as relatively common occurrences. Occasionally cities in China will experience air pollution levels literally off the charts, with PM2.5 concentrations reaching levels of 1,000 or more micrograms per cubic meter (µg/m3)—the standard health scale ends at 500 µg/m3. The image below, from Berkeley Earth's real-time air pollution monitoring of China, shows PM2.5 levels on a typical fall day.
A large portion of PM2.5 in China comes from coal use. When coal is burned, it both directly releases particulate matter as a result of incomplete combustion and releases sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxides, and black carbon that serve as important precursors to atmospheric PM2.5 formation. In many cases this secondary formation is more important than direct PM2.5 emissions from coal. Approximately 55 percent of coal consumed in China is used to generate electricity provided to the grid. 40 percent is consumed in industrial processes, while around 3 percent is used in the residential sector (with the remaining 2 percent consumed by commercial and other). China generates approximately 3,700 terawatt-hours or 422 gigawatt-years (GW-years) of electricity from coal annually.
Determining the contribution of coal-based electricity generation to PM2.5-related mortality requires estimating what percent of total PM2.5 in China comes from coal-fired power plants. A recent study by the Health Effects Institute and Tsinghua University performed extensive atmospheric modeling of PM2.5 sources to attribute overall concentrations. It found that about 40 percent of total PM2.5 could be directly attributed to coal. Of this, about 21 percent came from industrial uses (steel production, for example), 12 percent came from power plant coal, and 6 percent came from domestic coal burning (for space heating). It is important to note, however, that they assumed widespread use of scrubbers for electric power production; if the use of scrubbers is low then a larger fraction of the observed PM2.5 would be attributed to coal use. The breakdown of PM2.5 by source is shown in the pie chart below, both for the high power-plant scrubber use scenario put forward by the Health Effects Institute and a low scrubber use scenario that assumes power-sector emissions are more similar to those of industry.
Figure 2. Breakdown of estimate PM2.5 contributions by source in the Burden of Disease Attributable to Coal-Burning and Other Air Pollution Sources in China study from the Health Effects Institute and Tsinghua University in the High Scrubber Use scenario. The Low Scrubber Use scenario shows estimated contribution percentages if power plant emissions were more similar to industrial sector emissions.
The Health Effects Institute also provided an estimate of total mortality from PM2.5 of 916,000 deaths per year (with a remarkably narrow uncertainty range of 820,000 to 993,000), a mortality that is smaller than the prior Berkeley Earth estimate of 1.6 million, although within the published uncertainty range (700,000 to 2.2 million). Assuming that 12 percent of PM2.5 (and thus 12 percent of PM2.5 mortality) is attributable to coal-based electricity generation, we can estimate deaths per gigawatt-year (GW-year) as 260 (uncertainty range 233 to 282) using the Heath Effects Institute numbers and 454 deaths per GW-year (uncertainty range 199 to 625) for the Berkeley Earth numbers.
It is somewhat interesting to note that while both power generation and industrial sectors consume comparable amounts of coal, the PM2.5 contribution from the industrial sector is twice that of the electricity sector in the Heath Effects Institute model. This is largely due to assumptions regarding the utilization of emissions control technologies like sulfur, nitrogen, and PM2.5 scrubbers. Nearly all power plants are assumed to use scrubbers, while use in the industrial sector is more spotty. However, there is strong reason to believe that the actual utilization of scrubbers by power plants is much lower than officially reported. Operation of scrubbers consumes a non-negligible amount of energy, and there have been numerous reports of plant operators shutting down scrubbers to increase profits when they can get away with it. While China has started to crack down on this behavior, it is likely that actual scrubber use is still well below the 90+ percent assumed.
We can get an estimate of the mortality contribution of coal-base electricity generation when scrubbers are not fully utilized by examining a case where coal power plants had the same PM2.5 contribution as industry. While this is likely not true across the entire power sector, it may well be the case (or even a conservative estimate) for individual plants. This still results in effective power-sector emissions per ton of coal that are around 30 percent lower than for the industrial sector, as more coal is consumed in the power sector. If the power generation sector has emissions similar to the industrial sector, deaths per GW-year would be 456 (412 to 497) for the Heath Effects Institute mortality model and 745 (326 to 1025) for the Berkeley Earth model. These results are illustrated in Figure 3.
Figure 3. Estimated mortality per gigawatt-year of coal-based electricity generation attributable to PM2.5. Both estimates from the Health Effects Institute and Berkeley Earth are shown. The high scrubber use scenario follows the Health Effects Institute assumptions, while the low scrubber use scenario assumes emissions allocation similar to the industrial sector. Both published error bars (solid bars) and estimated error bars using the mortality impact uncertainty in the Berkeley Earth approach (dashed bars) are shown for the Health Effects Institute numbers.
Other studies conducted on mortality impacts of coal-based generation outside of China have found comparable results. A 2007 article in The Lancet estimated a mortality rate per GW-year of 202 for the U.K. and an average value of 231 globally. These estimates are noticeably lower than most of the estimates we consider for China, though they overlap with the low end of our values. This discrepancy might be due to two factors: first, there is reason to believe that emissions control technologies are in more widespread use in places like the U.K. and other parts of the world than in China. Second, the mortality estimates will be impacted by population density, with coal generation located in coastal China (where plants are primarily concentrated) having a much larger exposure impact than in most regions of the world.
Ultimately, at 422 GW-years of electricity produced annually from coal, we can bound Chinese coal-generation-related deaths at between 84,000 (200 deaths per GW-year) and 434,000 (1025 per GW-year). The consumption of coal for electricity generation thus has large negative public health implications for China. Moving to away from coal and toward alternatives like nuclear, natural gas, and renewables such as solar and wind, would not only reduce China's greenhouse gas emissions but also save lives.


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Rachel Carson provides an illuminating and inspiring portrait of a seminal figure whose writings changed the course of our nation and are still highly relevant today.
American Experience: Rachel Carson Often called the mother of the modern environmental movement, Rachel Carson rocked the world in 1962 with her book Silent Spring, which warned the American public of the impact of pesticides on the environment and unleashed an extraordinary national debate about science and safety. At the center of that firestorm stood Ms. Carson, a strong, intensely private woman who balanced her love of the natural world and passion for writing with personal strife, including a heartbreaking battle with breast cancer. Rachel Carson provides an illuminating and inspiring portrait of a seminal figure whose writings changed the course of our nation and are still highly relevant today.
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'Dynasty' Surprise: Ana Brenda Contreras Joins the CW Series As "Real Cristal" – TCA
August 6, 2018 10:09am
Dynasty fans were shocked when earlier this summer one of the stars of the reboot, Nathalie Kelley, who plays Cristal, announced that she will not be returning for Season 2.
It turns out that he exit was part of a soapy plot twist. At the CW executive session, it was announced that telenovela Ana Brenda Contreras is joining the show in Season 2 as a new character, revealed to be the real Cristal Flores.
Cristal, Alexis or Michael's fates were left up in the air in the Season 1 finale cliffhanger, which ended with the three still trapped in a fire after Cristal also had been shot.
"We were a little surprised she spoiled the surprise," the CW president Mark Pedowitz said of Kelley's comments, noting that "we have plans for other characters too. (Showrunner) Sallie (Patrick) has fun twist and turns in store."
'Black Lightning' Actor Damon Gupton Announces Exit From CW Series
Asked for the reason for the switch Pedowitz said, "it's a wild soap, these are things you do on a soap." He said the the plan to go into that direction with the character started in midseason.
I hear the decision started as a recasting, with the producers using the soap form as a creative way to do it.
Contreras' casting restores the original setup of the reboot, in which the story of the feud between the Carringtons and the Colbys was to be told primarily through the perspectives of two women at odds: Fallon Carrington (Elizabeth Gillies), daughter of billionaire Blake Carrington (Grant Show), and her soon-to-be stepmother, Cristal (Kelley), a Hispanic woman marrying into this WASP family and America's most powerful class.
Cristal was a version of the Krystle Jennings character in the original series, played by Linda Evans, which was considered a female lead. It also was the case on the CW's Dynasty, whose Season 1 key art featured Gillies, Kelley and Show.
The dynamic on the show changed in the second half of Season 1 with the introduction of Nicollette Sheridan as Alexis Carrington late in Season 1.
"Nicollette has been a great addition," Pedowitz said. "She is a disrupting force, she is that diva."
The decision to make the stepmom Hispanic was an effort to bring the 1980s soap to the 21st century and better reflect the diversity of America today as well as add a race/class dimension to the family conflicts, though fan reaction to the character has been somewhat mixed.
Asked about Cristal fate, Kelley, a Peruvian-born Australian actress, said, "Is it a coma? Is it death? … I actually don't know. But I know that I'm not going to Atlanta in July, that I'm staying [in LA]…. I've got my life back."


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One of the things that makes Imago's Branching Out programs unique is that our education programs are designed to take place at the school, rather than at Imago's nature preserve. This is intentional. We want nature and access to the outdoors to be a common and familiar occurrence for our students. For our Branching Out students, nature is just outside the classroom door and just down the block from where they live.
This closeness not only builds up our students' sense of comfort and connection with nature, it also adds a sense of pride. The gardens and natural areas at the school are THEIR gardens and natural areas. Our students not only learn in these spaces, they learn how to take care of these spaces and how to steward them. As you can imagine, having these outdoor education areas outside of the classroom door is great for teachers, students and the parent community as well as for our Branching Out programs.
As with most outdoor nature areas, there's always some work to do to make sure that they are safe, beautiful and wonderful places to learn and explore. This fall we've had a bevy of great additions to our Branching Out outdoor areas at Pleasant Ridge Montessori (PRM) school, one of our Branching Out partners. A big thanks goes out to our students, parent volunteers, and teachers who have all chipped in to make the garden and the naturescape at PRM great!
Added a Mud Kitchen to the garden – big thanks to an awesome PRM parent. For many of the 3-6 teachers, this is something they have always wanted out in the garden.
Improved the sandbox – with anonymous donations of new sandbox materials (buckets, shovels and alphabet molds) as well as fun seasonal items from our parent volunteers.
Pawpaws and milkweeds – planted by our students to give our natural areas even more habitats for our wild neighbors to benefit from.
PRM parent and landscape designer, Glenn Bayfield, is developing a plan that will increase the usable space in our naturescape. Glenn's was hard at work all summer getting the space ready for school and is now going to help us develop numerous improvements to the naturescape.
Learning Stations – as part of our plan to create areas that teachers can easily conduct their own lessons, we are creating natural learning stations in the garden and the naturescape. Each learning station will feature all the materials and lessons needed for the class to conduct several investigations and lessons. Learning stations planned for this fall/winter are the Bird Learning Station, the Fossil Learning Station, the Compost and Decomposer Learning Station, with more coming early next year.
You too can be part of the fun of creating outdoor classrooms and learning areas for local students. Reach out to us about ways to volunteer or make donations of needed materials.


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It doesn't matter whether you offer goods or services, every transaction comes with an implied assumption that what you sell is of a reasonable quality for the price and that the customer understands and accepts what they are getting for their money.
Or does it? If we lived in that utopian world there would be no complaints, no disputes and certainly no reason to have contracts stuffed with small print. Every transaction would be settled with a handshake and everyone would be happy, except perhaps for the lawyers who would have a lot less work to do.
But the reality is that centuries of shady dealing, of businesses and customers trying to squeeze a quart into a pint pot and of 'ambulance chasing' practices now means that legislation is rife and contracts tend to infinity. Government efforts to reduce legislation have little effect on the myriad rules which hit businesses and people alike and sometimes it seems as though every step forward is accompanied by another weighty tome dragging us backwards.
Acknowledging that simplifying products and processes is a two way affair, Mr Woolard also highlighted the work which is being done by the Money Advice Service and via the National Curriculum to increase the financial capability of consumers. But whilst this may go some way towards reducing the apathy which is experienced by consumers who are faced with complex choices or conditions, Mr Woolard points out that this can only be a complimentary solution. The main goal is for firms to change their culture and put consumers at the heart of their business models.
For some this culture change may be a fairly simple affair, for others it may require a complete re-evaluation of goals and ethos of culture, practices and attitudes. Putting customers first is not a handy slogan or a funny sign on the wall. It doesn't happen by ordering up a couple of focus groups or by running a half day workshop in phone answering. Putting customers first means getting to really know and understand those who may take your services, it means designing products specifically to meet their needs and it means changing processes so that every interaction, every experience is a positive one.


Submitted by Triple D on Fri, 19/10/2018 - 21:10.
I noticed that 2 plates have raised letters and numbers and the other is stamped ?????
Submitted by Midnite Cruiser on Fri, 19/10/2018 - 21:51.
Submitted by nitrox on Fri, 19/10/2018 - 21:17.
that's how the plates are isn't it?
Submitted by Triple D on Fri, 19/10/2018 - 22:09.
Submitted by fx48_eh64 on Sat, 20/10/2018 - 06:27.
Your HJ ??? have i missed something??
Submitted by Triple D on Sat, 20/10/2018 - 12:03.
It just seems a bit dodgy that plates are different, any one can change them to make them with a number a d letter punch set ?
Submitted by nitrox on Sat, 20/10/2018 - 19:48.
Submitted by fx48_eh64 on Sun, 21/10/2018 - 05:04.


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early 14c., "to erect, construct," from stage (n.). The meaning "put into a play" is from c. 1600; that of "put (a play) on the stage" first recorded 1879; general sense of "to mount" (a comeback, etc.) is attested from 1924. Related: Staged; staging.
whisper (v.)
Old English hwisprian "speak very softly, murmur" (only in a Northumbrian gloss for Latin murmurare), from Proto-Germanic *hwis- (source also of Middle Dutch wispelen, Old High German hwispalon, German wispeln, wispern, Old Norse hviskra "to whisper"), from PIE *kwei- "to hiss, whistle," imitative. Transitive sense is from 1560s. Related: Whispered; whispering. An alternative verb, now obsolete, was whister (late 14c., from Old English hwæstrian), and Middle English had whistringe grucchere "a slanderer."
whisper (n.)
1590s, from whisper (v.).
stage (n.)
mid-13c., "story of a building;" early 14c., "raised platform used for public display" (also "the platform beneath the gallows"), from Old French estage "building, dwelling place; stage for performance; phase, stage, rest in a journey" (12c., Modern French étage "story of a house, stage, floor, loft"), from Vulgar Latin *staticum "a place for standing," from Latin statum, past participle of stare "to stand," from PIE root *sta- "to stand, make or be firm." Meaning "platform for presentation of a play" is attested from late 14c.; generalized for "profession of an actor" from 1580s.
Sense of "period of development or time in life" first recorded early 14c., probably from Middle English sense of "degree or step on the 'ladder' of virtue, 'wheel' of fortune, etc.," in parable illustrations and morality plays. Meaning "a step in sequence, a stage of a journey" is late 14c. Meaning "level of water in a river, etc." is from 1814, American English.
Stage-name is from 1727. Stage-mother (n.) in the overbearing mother-of-an-actress sense is from 1915. Stage-door is from 1761, hence Stage-Door Johnny "young man who frequents stage doors seeking the company of actresses, chorus girls, etc." (1907). Stage whisper, such as used by an actor on stage to be heard by the audience, first attested 1865. Stage-manage (v.) is from 1871.
off-stage (adj.)
also offstage, "occurring away from a (theatrical) stage," 1915, from off (prep.) + stage (n.).
stage-struck (adj.)
"possessed by a passionate desire to perform on stage," 1813, from stage (n.) + past-participle adjective from strike (v.). Earlier was stage-smitten (1680s).
stage-fright (n.)
1826, from stage (n.) + fright (n.).
stage-hand (n.)
1865, from stage (n.) + hand (n.).
whispering (n.)
Old English hwisprung, verbal noun from hwisprian (see whisper (v.)).
stagecraft (n.)
also stage-craft, 1848, from stage (n.) + craft (n.).


I've just posted a new video entitled "Meet the Gods in the Stars, Part 2: Aquarius" as a follow-up to the previous video, which was also entitled "Meet the Gods in the Stars" and which focused primarily on the constellation Hercules and some of the gods and mythical figures of the Infinite Realm whose characteristics we understand by seeing the visible stars of Hercules in the heavens.
The goal when making this latest series of videos is to keep them short and focused.
Nevertheless, despite its relatively short length, this new video examines some deities not previously discussed in any blog post, book or video thus far, including the goddess Ganga of India and the somewhat hermaphroditic god Hapi of ancient Egypt.
The gods and all the figures of ancient myth, from virtually every culture on our planet, can be seen in the stars of the infinite heavens.
The ancient wisdom imparted to our ancestors in remote antiquity as a precious inheritance is as necessary today as it has ever been -- perhaps even more necessary. We can go to the ancient sources themselves to hear the message they want to tell us, but in order to do so, it is most helpful to listen to them in the language that they are actually speaking: the language of celestial metaphor, the language of the stars.
Know the stars -- Change the world.


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Samyang 14mm f/2.8 and 50mm f/1.4 lenses unveiled with AF support
After years of rumors and speculation, Samyang has finally unveiled the company's first lenses that support autofocus. The two optics with autofocus technology are the 14mm f/2.8 ED AS IF UMC and 50mm f/1.4 AS IF UMC and both are aimed at Sony FE-mount mirrorless cameras.
Samyang or Rokinon, depending on what branding the company chooses for its products, is quite popular among photographers who choose to buy more affordable third-party lenses for their cameras.
Perhaps the most requested feature by its fans consists of autofocus support. Well, after so much time and so many demands, the manufacturer has finally delivered. Its first optics with AF technology are here and they consist of the 14mm f/2.8 ED AS IF UMC and 50mm f/1.4 AS IF UMC primes.
Samyang 14mm f/2.8 and 50mm f/1.4 lenses with AF technology announced
The new Samyang 14mm f/2.8 and 50mm f/1.4 lenses have been designed for Sony mirrorless cameras with full-frame sensors. However, the FE-mount is similar to the E-mount, so photographers will be able to use them on APS-C-sized cameras, too, albeit they will have to take into consideration the crop factor.
The 14mm f/2.8 ED AS IF UMC and 50mm f/1.4 AS IF UMC lenses are the first Samyang lenses with autofocus support.
The official press release reads that the South Korean company has specifically created the optics for mirrorless cameras. They will deliver a high image quality, like nothing users have seen in this category, says Samyang.
Image sharpness is top-notch, while the bright apertures will provide stunning bokeh. A high optical performance is ensured by the internal configuration, which includes aspherical elements that reduce chromatic aberration and light dispersion.
The 14mm f/2.8 ED AS IF UMC prime is great for cityscapes, landscapes, interiors, architecture, and other photography types that require a wide focal length. On the other hand, the 50mm f/1.4 AS IF UMC prime can be used for portrait photography even in low-light conditions.
Samyang's first autofocus lenses will become available this July
Samyang has been in the imaging sector for more than 40 years, but these are its first autofocus optics. The company confirms that the products can work along with contrast-detect and phase-detect sensors, delivering quick, precise autofocusing in both cases.
Both the Samyang 14mm f/2.8 and 50mm f/1.4 lenses come with a filter diameter measuring 67mm and a minimal design. These products have a metal-housing, so they are durable products.
The focusing system is internal and, as usual, this means that the front element will remain in place when focusing. The manufacturer's first AF optics will be released on the market sometime in July.
Price details are unknown, but they will be revealed in due time, therefore stay close to Camyx to find them out!
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