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One For The Records – Film Review: Ma Rainey's Black Bottom ★★★★1/2
The term "Race Records" describes a time from the 1920s to the 1940s in which Black artists recorded songs for Black audiences. Despite selling well and launching such stars as Bessie Smith and Louis Armstrong, most musicians fell victim to exploitation by white record company management. The late August Wilson wrote about this conflict in his 1982 play about a single day in a recording studio. Ma Rainey, the Mother Of The Blues, and her band come to Chicago in 1927 to lay down some tracks, facing off against the white powers that be and, more searingly, against each other. Now brought to the screen by director George C. Wolfe (Angels In America) and screenwriter Ruben Santiago-Hudson, Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, at a swift 94 minutes, feels current, relevant, and powerful, and features two great performances from its stars, Viola Davis and the late Chadwick Boseman.
MA RAINEY'S BLACK BOTTOM (2020) Chadwick Boseman as Levee. Cr. David Lee/NETFLIX
Opening on a pair of young men racing through the woods, one might think they had stumbled upon a horror film, but their destination, one of Ma Rainey's celebrated tent shows, immediately changes the tone and reveals Davis commanding the crowd as the titular character. We also notice her band made up of its leader and trombonist Cutler (Colman Domingo), pianist Toledo (Glynn Turman) bassist Slow Drag (Michael Potts), and trumpeter Levee (Boseman), the latter who ogles Ma's girlfriend Dussie Mae (Taylour Paige) at the edge of the stage. So much story gets crammed into this gorgeously shot sequence with its adoring crowds, lived-in, hard worn blues singing, newspaper clippings and photos from the era depicting the Great Migration, a transition to a big city venue complete with sexy dancing women, and the central conflict between a jealous singer and her rogue horn player.
The band, minus Levee, arrives first at the recording studio, greeted by Ma's manager, Irvin (Jeremy Shamos) and studio owner Sturdyvant (Jonny Coyne), both of whom plot how to deal with their star's eminent demands. When Levee shows up, he has a new pair of shoes and a hotshot attitude hellbent on doing things his way. The band wants to rehearse the title song, but Levee insists on reworking the arrangement, which Cutler makes clear won't sit well with Ma.
MA RAINEY'S BLACK BOTTOM(2020) Chadwick Boseman as Levee, Colman Domingo as Cutler, Viola Davis as Ma Rainey, Michael Potts as Slow Drag and Glynn Turman as Toledo. Cr. David Lee/NETFLIX.
Running an hour late, Ma defiantly exits her hotel lobby locking arms with Dussie Mae and her young nephew Sylvester (Dusan Brown) beside her, enduring the disapproving looks of the other guests. The memorable way Ma slips on her hat and glares back at them tells you so much about this queer Black woman who asserted herself at a time when such things could get you jailed or worse.
Her commanding behavior continues upon arrival at the studio with her demands for a fan, a bottle of Coke, and more. Although we remain in this setting for the remainder of the film, Wolfe and his cinematographer Tobias A. Schliessler, along with richly detailed costuming by Ann Roth, propulsive editing by Andrew Mondshein, and lived-in production design by Mark Ricker, prevent this drama from feeling stagebound. With precise camera movement and interesting framing, it's a film rich with memorable visuals. Witness the scene in which Cutler tells a story of racial violence with him framed left in the background and Levee framed right in the foreground as he listens. This film, along with Regina King's terrific One Night In Miami, are two films in 2020 which beautifully demonstrate the art of making confined spaces feel cinematic.
Ma Rainey's Black Bottom (2020): (L to R) Glynn Turman as Toldeo, Chadwick Boseman as Levee, Michael Potts as Slow Drag, and Colman Domingo as Cutler. Cr. David Lee / Netflix
Wilson gives us the temperamental diva but smartly delves deep into her motivations. Ma wisely knows her worth and comes on strong to protect her dignity and her art. Moments of her giving affection to Dussie Mae, gifting her stuttering nephew with a special role in the recording, and discussing her love of the Blues with Cutler in a magnificent scene, go a long way toward making us truly understand this brave pioneer. Look no further than the way this great actor delivers her line, "This would be an empty world without the blues," to convince you of her love of music.
If only she had a similar conversation with Levee, so much pain could have been avoided. But the film, while covering such issues as systemic racism, cultural appropriation, and music as a savior also explores ego and hubris, something both Ma and Levee have in abundance. With neither character willing to bow down to the other, conflict seems inevitable. Levee aspires to call his own shots and relies on Sturdyvant's promise to record some of his songs. With bigger fish to fry, Levee has no time for being put in a corner by Ma and her band.
Levee, like Ma, however, has good reasons for much of his behavior, which comes out in a powerful monologue detailing a traumatic incident involving his father. It informs his entire nihilistic world view of not trusting God. Knowing that Boseman passed shortly after completing this film adds more pathos to line readings like, "Now, death? Death got some style. Death will kick your ass and make you wish you never been born. That's how bad death is. But you can rule over life. Life ain't nothing." It's a dazzling moment in a performance of such charisma and rage. It's impossible not to mourn Boseman's loss while simultaneously sitting in awe of his bottomless talent.
Everyone in this cast has a chance to shine, with Domingo and Turman expertly navigating the tense relationships. Potts lends some much-needed humor to the proceedings and Paige shines as a perhaps bisexual woman who hasn't quite figured out her place. Shamos and Coyne both find interesting ways to appear blind to their privilege and subtle racism. A pat on the shoulder, an attempted kiss, or sticking some bills in a man's shirt pocket go a long way towards showing their implied superiority over their artists.
In adapting the play for the screen, Santiago-Hudson improves upon a stuck studio door by adding a rich pay-off. Same goes for the final scene, which may borrow from Dreamgirls, but has a soul-crushing impact nonetheless. Additionally, Davis gives you so much history in a glance, by the way she sucks her teeth with disdain, or nonverbally says "fuck you" by the way she gulps down a soda. Incapable of giving a bad performance, Davis makes Ma one of her most legendary.
Ma Rainey's Black Bottom (2020): Viola Davis as Ma Rainey. Cr. David Lee / Netflix
For many, Ma Rainey's Black Bottom may feel like a play, but Wolfe embraces it instead of falsely opening it up, and gives Wilson's fantastic words the power and punch they deserve. A final word about one of the film's producers. Never mind his two Oscar wins, if there's one lasting legacy to Denzel Washington's career, it will be his commitment to bringing August Wilson's Century Cycle plays to the screen, with this being the second after Fences. Washington also deserves praise for giving us Viola Davis in peak power and for providing a vehicle for the late Chadwick Boseman's greatest and, sadly, last performance.
By Glenn Gaylord, Senior Film Critic
Ma Rainey's Black Bottom is currently streaming on Netflix.
Ann Roth, August Wilson, Chadwick Boseman, Colman Domingo, Denzel Washington, Dusan Brown, George C. Wolfe, Glynn Turman, Jeremy Shamos, Jonny Coyne, Michael Potts, Ruben Santiago-Hudson, Taylour Paige, Tobias A. Schliessler, Viola Davis
Killing Steve – Film Review: Promising Young Woman ★★★★1/2
The Queer Review 2020 – LGBTQ+ highlights of the year


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ESRC Genomics Policy and Research Forum Phase II
Lead Research Organisation: University of Edinburgh
Department Name: College of Humanities and Social Sci
Abstracts are not currently available in GtR for all funded research. This is normally because the abstract was not required at the time of proposal submission, but may be because it included sensitive information such as personal details.
Dec 09 - May 13
ESRC
ES/H032088/1
RES-145-28-0005
Steven Yearley
Research Subject:
Research Topic:
Science & Technology Studies
University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom (Lead Research Organisation)
The Royal Society (Collaboration)
Government of the UK (Collaboration)
Royal Society of Edinburgh (RSE) (Collaboration)
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development OECD (Collaboration)
The Poetry Fold (Collaboration)
Science Museum Group, United Kingdom (Collaboration)
Steven Yearley (Principal Investigator) http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1054-4592
Steven Sturdy (Co-Investigator)
Title Publication Date Published
Austin Z (2010) Identifying conflicts and opportunities for collaboration in the management of a wildlife resource: a mixed-methods approach in Wildlife Research
C Lightfowler (Author) (2013) Sustaining Knowledge exchange and research impact in the social science and humanities . Investing in knowledge broker rules in UK universities. in Evidence and Policy
Christine Knight (Author) (2012) 'When you do Atkins, you're in an alliance with Mother Nature. Natural Food, health and morality in low carbohydrate diet movement in Food and Foodways
Christine Knight (Author) (2012) What Scientists Read
Christine Knight (Author) (2013) The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 2008. in New Genetics and Society
Christine Knight (Author) (2010) Emerging opportunities and challenges for university-based knowledge brokers in the social sciences
Christine Knight (author) (2010) "The food nature intended you to eat" : nutritional primitivism and low-carbohydrate dieting
Christine Knight (Author) (2011) Social science knowledge brokers in higher education : who are they and what do they do?
Christine Knight (author) (1900) Natural food in low-carbohydrate diets in Environmental communication : a journal of nature and culture
Christine Knight (Author) (2011) Mapping knowledge brokerage in the College of Humanities and Social Science, the University of Edinburgh
Impact Summary
Description The Forum also made a series of innovative interventions that brought ESRC social science on genomics to wider public, policy and academic audiences. For example:
• with the Human Genetics Commission and other bodies, in 2007 the Forum raised money from the Wellcome Trust and DIUS to run a Citizens' Inquiry into civil rights, fairness and effectiveness issues around the national DNA forensic database. This Inquiry reported in summer 2008 and featured on the BBC Radio 4 "Today Programme"; moreover the HGC undertook to publish the citizens' report and to respond to it in public. Social scientists from the EGN were among the expert witnesses called by the Citizens' Inquiry.
• at the end of February 2008 the House of Lords launched a call for evidence in relation to genomic medicine. The RCUK proposed to make a collaborative submission and the Forum took on the task of preparing a response from the EGN for the RCUK's deadline to ensure that the social sciences were well represented in this critical policy arena. The RCUK submission drew heavily on the Forum's text.
• further evidence of the policy impact of the Forum's work is given by the fact that the Scottish Government invested over £250,000 in Gengage, a public engagement network focused on genetics and healthcare in Scotland. Gengage was managed and hosted by the Forum and held a series of events bringing social scientists, policy makers/legislators and scientists/medics together; these included a public deliberation event about "brain-banks" for tissue storage and a meeting at the Royal Society of Edinburgh about public perspectives on participation in clinical trials.
• the Forum has also had an international presence. In part this was down to the vibrant Visiting Research Fellow programme that has brought scientists and social researchers, legal practitioners and managers from around the world (from India, the USA, Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, Japan, South Africa and from OECD) to interact with EGN researchers and to take part in scientific meetings and public events.
• the Forum's own research fellows also made a decisive contribution, producing six special issues of peer-reviewed journals and running well over a dozen events that have brought together policy makers (including from the HFEA, HGC, WIPO, OECD and NASA), NGOs, representatives from firms, natural scientists and EGN social researchers.
Exploitation Route The Forum has taken the question of its lasting impact and legacy very seriously. Given the unique and pioneering objectives of the Forum as an ambassador organisation for social science, it is clearly key that its ambassadorial functions in relation to the Network are continued where possible and that its status as a 'beacon' for knowledge exchange continues to be publicised. To a considerable degree this is a matter of ensuring that the legacy from the Forum and the Network continues to be readily accessible. As the three research centres (Cesagen, Egenis and Innogen) are all continuing, but no longer as a network, the Forum has taken steps to ensure that all the material from the entire ESRC Genomics Network will be available on a single archive website. In its closing months, the Forum led negotiations over the management of this arrangement, and the final version of that brochure website is currently (August 2013) being finalised. The three Centres will also retain copies of their previous web entries but adapted to their new (and differing) house styles and will not necessarily highlight the activities that arose from the Network per se. By contrast, the brochure site will maintain the unified character of all the work from 2002-2013 and fully represent the ESRC's investment in this key area. The site will be comprehensive and searchable, and will present the public and policy engagements of the Forum and Network as well as the more customary, scholarly outputs.
The Network has been centrally identified with two major publishing initiatives; the first is the Genetics and Society Book Series which the Network runs for and with Routledge. There are already over twenty books in the series in print and around a dozen more to be published, in preparation or out for review. The editorial base for this series was Cesagen (Cardiff) but Cesagen can no longer maintain this commitment. Accordingly, the Forum took over co-ordination of this work and Forum Director Yearley (supported by Ms M Rennex) is now the principal contact. The series is currently contracted to run at least until 2015. The second publishing initiative is the on-line journal GSP (Genomics, Society and Policy). Recently renamed as Life Sciences, Society and Policy and taken on by Springer (see http://www.lsspjournal.com/), this journal is now into its ninth volume. GSP has been financially supported by the Forum from early in the Forum's first phase and the Forum continued to fund the editorial support even when it was switched to Egenis. The chief academic editors are at Cesagen and at the Netherlands 'sister-organisation' to the Genomics Network, the Centre for Society and Genomics (now the Centre for Society and Life Sciences - CSLS). With financial investment by both the EGN and CSLS, the journal continues to be free for authors and thus will continue to provide a major outlet for broadly social scientific work in this area. The deal with Springer also ensured that the entirety of the earlier GSP issues would be accessible from the one (new) site.
As demonstrated earlier in this report, the Forum and Genomics Network have enjoyed considerable success in bringing work on the social dimensions of the life sciences to European policy audiences at and with OECD. But the Forum has also supported the EGN in developing a further form of European collaboration for policy audiences through LISTEN: the Life Sciences, Innovation and Society Network (see http://www.listen-network.nl/). This is a European collaboration led by the EGN and CSLS with Austrian (GEN-AU) and French colleagues. In the last two years, LISTEN has won support of €80,000 from the European Science Foundation for a series of five high-level meetings on life sciences, innovation and European society. The first was held in December 2012 with the next due in October 2013 (on the topic of "Bioenergy and Biorenewables: Integrating scientific and societal agendas", see http://www.esf.org/index.php?id=9757); the remainder of the meetings (focused on health and other policy areas) will be in 2014 and 2015.
This report has stressed already how beneficial and effective the Forum has found its work with artists and writers as part of its strategy of engagement with audiences outside the social sciences (whether the general public or professionals in the natural and medical sciences). The Forum is therefore happy to have two continuing forms of artistic engagement which are intended to flourish in the coming years. The first form is two short documentary films produced by the final artists-in-residence, Lindsay Goodall and Cameron Duguid, dealing respectively with epigenetics and health inequalities and with the human meaning of the g
enome. These films were premiered at the Forum's closing event for an invited audience and are now being supported on the international film-festival circuit. The second artistic product is a new play commissioned (on a genomics and society theme) by the Forum and the Traverse Theatre from artist-in-residence and prize-winning playwright Peter Arnott. The Forum has supported a rehearsed reading of this play at the Traverse (Scotland's theatre for new writing) for autumn 2013 with a view to attracting production support. Formal agreements are in place to ensure that the ESRC and the Network are publicised by showings of all these works.
Finally, right at the end of its life the Forum has taken steps to ensure that a collaboration with the Human Genetics Commission has borne appropriate fruit. The Forum partnered the HGC in September 2011 in running an expert seminar and deliberation on issues around incidental findings from clinical genetic/genomic practice. In short, the Forum brought social anthropological and sociological expertise to the analysis of a set of issues that had been primarily thought of in clinical and bioethics terms. The HGC was wrapped up before the staff had had time to prepare a report on this work and so the Forum undertook to complete the report, which will now be submitted to the new advisory body to the Department of Health, the Emerging Science and Bioethics Advisory Committee (ESBAC).
In summary, the Genomics Policy and Research Forum and the Genomics Network are not continuing, though the three genomics research centres are all living on. However, the Forum has put in place mechanisms to ensure that the Network's activities continue to be accessible, has devised ways to continue the scholarly publications most characteristic of the EGN, has helped devise and support a new form of Europe-wide policy-engagement network (LISTEN) and has taken steps to ensure that the engagement and research activities of the Forum endure.
Sectors Communities and Social Services/Policy,Education,Manufacturing, including Industrial Biotechology,Pharmaceuticals and Medical Biotechnology
Description Many of the Forum's activities have provided the 'glue' which has enabled the Network to thrive. Examples of this include the Forum's work on the development of the EGN Newsletter www.genomicsnetwork.ac.uk/forum/news/egnnewsletter which has consistently delivered news of the Network's activities to several thousand readers in print and on-line, and the innovative use of social media. For example, the Genomics Forum was responsible for coordinating a Twitter channel on behalf of the Genomics Network, in order to disseminate information on Network/Forum activities and stimulate online interaction with regard to this. Since its establishment in late 2009 / early 2010, the Twitter channel has attracted over 3,700 followers and has been highly effective as a means of marketing Forum/Network events and outputs. Similarly, Genomics Forum YouTube and Flickr channels (which were respectively used to disseminate video and photographs of engagement events) jointly attracted nearly 9,500 views. Another major element of this communications strategy has been the Genotype blog http://esrcgenomicsforum.blogspot.co.uk/which has forged new ways of sharing social research on the contemporary life sciences. Through a series of regular staff and guest blogs, Genotype has disseminated information and promoted debate about Forum and Network events and about the activities generated by our creative artists and visiting fellows. In particular, pieces written by our Writers-in-Residence, professional authors Ken MacLeod and Pippa Goldschmidt, achieved significant prominence in the blogosphere. In total, from mid-June 2010 to May 2013, Genotype attracted over 14,000 visitors. A key aspect of the research synergy which the Forum was able to engender across the EGN, resulted from a focus on workstreams which have evolved across the life course of the Forum. These work strands originated in a series of research programmes established by the first Director and led by postdoctoral research fellows (described in Annex A); over time, as the focus of the Forum's activities shifted towards convening and co-ordinating Network-wide activities, these developed into a series of higher profile workstreams to which each EGN Centre contributed and in which a wide range of stakeholders and practitioners were involved. Examples of this latter activity include the Genomics and Identity Politics workstream, a series of five workshops which ran in 2009-2010 and the Health Technologies and Health Systems workstream (2008-2011). Other workstreams such as the activities relating to synthetic biology (described below in Impact Example 4) illustrate the trajectory of development from the earlier, more internal workstrands through to larger scale Network-wide activity which have now been developed and funded by new initiatives such as the ESRC seminar series on synthetic biology. A corollary of this aspect of our work is that 14 early career academics, who have been employed by the Forum (see Annex D), have gained experience of the type of activities that can lead to academic research having wider, external impact (in addition to the scores of staff in other EGN Centres who have benefited from this type of capacity-building through their association with Forum activities and events). Many of these individuals are now working around the world in both academic and other research-based institutions such as the Royal Society and the European Centre for Disease Control.
First Year Of Impact 2013
Sector Digital/Communication/Information Technologies (including Software),Healthcare
Impact Types Cultural,Societal,Policy & public services
Description Art science pilot project
Organisation The Poetry Fold
PI Contribution A collaboration with Lisa Matthews (creative writing consultancy The/Poetry/Fold) and Pippa Goldschmidt
Description Consultation workshop on the redevelopment of The Science Museum's history of medicine galleries
Organisation Science Museum Group
PI Contribution Invited contributor to a consultation workshop on the redevelopment of The Science Museum's history of medicine galleries, The Science Museum, London, 29-30 June 2011
Description Human Genetics Commission/Genomics Forum expert workshop on ?incidental findings arising from clinical genetic testing?
Organisation Government of the UK
Department Human Genetics Commission
PI Contribution Human Genetics Commission/Genomics Forum expert workshop on ?Incidental findings arising from clinical genetic testing?, London, 13 Sept 2011 Co-organised by the Genomics Forum and Steve Yearley ran some of the meeting; the Genomics Forum then hosted Prof Cunningham-Burley to write up the official report for the HGC.
Description Invited participant in the "Oslo Workshop on International Co-operation on Science, Technology and Innovation to Address Global Challenges"
Organisation Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development OECD
PI Contribution Invited participant in the "Oslo Workshop on International Co-operation on Science, Technology and Innovation to Address Global Challenges", organised by the Norwegian Ministry of Education and Research and the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research in collaboration with the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) in Oslo, Norway, 18-20 May 2011
Description Public health in an age of genomics
PI Contribution The Genomics Forum guided the research on behalf of the OECD and will be reporting on it in the Autumn 2012 at an OECD Working Party on Biotechnology/Forum meeting. OECD, Working Party on Biotechnology, study of ?Public Health in an Age of Genomics?, December 2011-December 2012
Description The Royal Society expert workshop and public deliberation on 'open science', Edinburgh
Organisation The Royal Society
PI Contribution The Royal Society and the Royal Society of Edinburgh, expert workshop and public deliberation on "Open Science", Edinburgh, 21 November 2011
Description The Royal Society of Edinburgh expert workshop and public deliberation on 'open science', Edinburgh
Organisation Royal Society of Edinburgh (RSE)
Sector Learned Society
Description "What Scientists Read" interview on BBC Radio Scotland
Results and Impact Interview with Genomics Forum Policy Rearch Fellow, Dr Christine Knight, on "Good Morning Scotland" 9/05/12
Description A sustainable future for synthetic biology?
Primary Audience Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.)
Results and Impact Cambridge BioDesign Forum, University of Cambridge, 25-26 September 2012
Description Arnott delves deep in genetics debate
Results and Impact Event profile on Peter Arnott, Genomics Forum Playwright in Residence
Description Artificial life : promises and pitfalls
Results and Impact This seminar took place as part of the Manchester Science Festival, held on 23-31 October 2010 at Manchester Metropolitan University. The recent creation of an artificial genome has highlighted the possible benefits - and the potential risks - of the new field of synthetic biology. In this event, leading figures discuss what synthetic biology means to them, the opportunities it offers, and the social, economic and ethical implications of biological engineering.
URL http://www.nanoinfobio.org/Alife/Artificial_Life__Promises_and_Pitfalls/Alife.html
Description Autumn 2010
Results and Impact e-newsletter to ESRC Genomics Network database contacts
Description Autumn update from the ESRC Genomics Network
Results and Impact Genomics Network E-news online update - Staff/Internal contacts
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URL http://us1.campaign-archive1.com/?u=1bdf328ed12cfbb88df1ab17c&id=a235de9ffe&e=eeee27438e
Results and Impact Genomics Network E-news online update - external contacts
URL http://us1.campaign-archive2.com/?u=1bdf328ed12cfbb88df1ab17c&id=c8abab1956&e=eeee27438e
Description Caryl Churchill's A number. Traverse Theatre
Results and Impact Public Events - Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity
Description Climate change, climate hacks and the sociology of science
Results and Impact Professor Steve Yearley has been invited to the University of Oslo - Centre for Technology, Innovation and Culture (TIK-centre) to present their first TIK seminar of the new semester.
His presentation "Climate change, climate hacks and the sociology of science" on 15 March 2012 will focus on the 'Climategate' affair - which saw the publication of e-mails and documents hacked or leaked from one of the world's leading climate research institutions. Steve will draw on studies in the sociology of science to examine whether the 'Climategate' revelations really offer an insight into bad scientific practice or in fact just arise from aspects of the normal combative process of argumentation within the science community.
Description ConSequences : some implications of DNA sequencing technology
Results and Impact Public lecture given by Robert Cook-Deegan, Genomics Forum Bright Ideas Fellow. 8 March 2012
Description Dirty little secrets and the right to write
Results and Impact Blog
Description ESRC Genomics Network : introduction
Results and Impact Four video clips highlighting the work of the ESRC Genomics Network: 'Introducing the ESRC Genomics Network', 'Genomics & Society', 'Genomics Network, Centres & Forum' and 'International Impact'.
Description Enter Science stage left
Results and Impact Blog - Genotype ESRC Genomics Forum
Description Expertise, voice & policy : is there a new landscape for the world of science-and-policy?
Results and Impact Steve Yearley talk at Techno-scientific practice, expertise & public policy
Description Foro de Genomica en la OCDE
Results and Impact Article published in Reforma, a Mexican newspaper.
Reforma Corazon de Mexico
Description From 'experiments of concern' to 'communities of concern': Constructing and containing citizens in synthetic biology
Results and Impact Synthetic biology represents a recent and explicit attempt to make biology easier to engineer - and through this to open up the design space of genetic engineering to a wider range of practitioners (including but not limited to engineers). It is still an effort taking place largely within academic laboratory settings; as yet, there are few tangible products or applications to point to as successful exemplars of this approach to engineering biology. But there are transatlantic differences emerging with respect to the governance of synthetic biology in the US and the UK, which I set out to explore and account for in this paper. More concretely, I suggest that understandings of, and approaches to, governing synthetic biology are being framed against different past experiences with recombinant DNA technology. In the US, the governance of synthetic biology is frequently articulated in relation to the early days of recombinant DNA research and the self-governance mechanisms pioneered in response to Asilomar. In the UK, more recent experiences with GM crops provide the dominant narrative against which governance questions are being raised. I suggest that these differing sociotechnical imaginaries in the US and Britain have implications for how new 'groups of concern' are being defined in relation to synthetic biology, and how measures to assess and contain the potential risks associated with this technology are being pursued.
Description Game theory with real game : science studies and the collaborative management of wild deer in Britain
Results and Impact Steven Yearley paper to Sociology Dept, Newcastle University 29 Feb 2012 'Game Theory with Real Game: science studies and the collaborative management of wild deer in Britain'
Description History with a big P or a small p?
Results and Impact Blog ESRC Genomics Forum
Description I am not my ancestors
Results and Impact Blog - Genotype, ESRC Genomics Forum
Description Illuminating biology and robotics through contemporary classical
Results and Impact Public events/presentations - Royal Society of Edinburgh
Description Improving intelligence analysis for emerging biotechnology threats
Results and Impact Workshop - London
Description Institute for the Study of Science, Technology and Innovation newsletter no. 19 October 2011
Results and Impact Various articles highlightinmg work of Genomics Forum and Staff
URL http://www.issti.ed.ac.uk/newsletter.php?item=21
Description Interview : Ken MacLeod, author of intrusion
Results and Impact Scotsman - feature on Writer in Residence at the ESRC Genomics Forum
URL http://www.scotsman.com/lifestyle/books/interview_ken_macleod_author_of_intrusion_1_2151613
Description Issue 14
Results and Impact ESRC Genomics Network Newsletter
Medalling in Sport
GMOs: Genetically Modified Olympians
URL http://www.genomicsnetwork.ac.uk/media/thegen_0911%5B1%5D.pdf
Genomics in Society - Facts, Fictions and Cultures
URL http://www.genomicsnetwork.ac.uk/media/WeblinkedMarch2012gen_web.pdf
Description Knowledge brokering: How can theory be useful in practice?
Results and Impact Workshop University of Edinburgh
Description Knowledge exchange roles
Results and Impact Invited presentation to committee by Christine Knight at College of Humanities & Social Science Knowledge Exchange Committee meeting
Description Lab Notes
Results and Impact Public events/presentations Orkney Science Festival, September
Description Lessons from delivering global promise through the life sciences
Results and Impact Presentation for the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) working party on biotechnology.
Description Looking forward to the 2010 conference
Results and Impact This ESRC genomics network video looks forward to the 'Delivering global promise through the life sciences' conference, held on 6-7 December 2010 in Paris, France.
Description Low-carb dieting, families and cultural identity
Results and Impact Low-carbohydrate diets were particularly popular in the late 1990s and early 2000s in English-speaking countries, including the UK as well as the United States and Australia. A 2003 poll found that around 3 million Britons had tried the Atkins Diet. Other popular "low-carb" diets include the South Beach Diet, the Zone, Protein Power and Sugar Busters.
URL http://www.communityfoodandhealth.org.uk/fileuploads/cfhsfarechoiceissue53-7014.pdf
Description Managing biological invasions : how to deal with environmental, sanitary and scientific uncertainty
Results and Impact Biological invasions are defined as the problematic spread of exotic species (plants or animals). Exotic species, also called alien or allochthonous species, are in turn defined as species which have spread out of their native distributional range, as opposed to indigenous species which stick to their native distributional range.
URL http://www.genomicsnetwork.ac.uk/forum/events/pastevents/seminars/title,24379,en.html
Description Mediating climate change
Results and Impact Mediating Climate Change Book review by Genomics Forum Director, Steve Yearley in Times Higher Education
URL http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=26&storycode=419003&c=1
Description Mental health policy in Scotland : community and social mobilisation
Results and Impact Presented at the Institute of Science, Technology and Society, National Yang Ming University, Taiwan.
URL http://son.web.ym.edu.tw/front/bin/ptdetail.phtml?Part=20110212&Rcg=1
Description More than mirrors at the focal point? : art-science as a methodological experiment
Results and Impact An invited talk at Cesagen seminar series - Cardiff, 28 February 2012
URL http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/sociology//event/3985/
Description Neandertaler-Diäten in Frage gestellt
Results and Impact Christine Knight is interviewed on Swiss radio about the 'Stone Age' diet.
Description Negotiating standards in synthetic biology
Results and Impact Workshop on Ethical, Philosophical and Political Issues of Synthetic Biology, Madrid, 10-11 January 2013
Description News from the Genomics Forum
Results and Impact Article in Institute for the Study of Science, Technology and Innovation Newsletter No. 20 - Feb 2012
Description OECD conference to explore genomics
Results and Impact The Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) Genomics Network (EGN) - a leading concentration of social scientific research in the field of genomics - and the Organization for Economic Development and Co-operation (OECD) will explore the new and exciting field of genomics other issues at the 'Delivering Global Promise Through the Life Sciences' Conference hosted at the OECD headquarters in Paris, France on December 6-7, 2010.
URL http://www.biospectrumasia.com/content/061210OTH14841.asp
Description Obesity and primitivism in popular diet books
Results and Impact Invited presentation at Beauty, Fat and Food: Medical Humanities Research Network launch event
Description Participation and governance in environmental policy : what do participatory methods contribute?
Results and Impact Final seminar in the Northern Research Station seminar series 2009/10.
URL http://www.forestresearch.gov.uk/fr/INFD-7WBBJ6#140510
Description Pills or progress : what is needed to improve healthcare in Africa?
Results and Impact ESRC Genomics Network Fringe Event at the Liberal Democrats Conference
URL http://www.genomicsnetwork.ac.uk/esrcgenomicsnetwork/events/partyconferencefringeprogramme/title,239...
Description Prize-winning cloning poem one of a kind
Results and Impact A poem addressing the issue of cloning has been awarded first prize in the ESRC Genomics Forum poetry competition. Forward Deck by Sophie Cooke was selected from more than 200 entries from writers inspired to consider how genomics is helping society. Prof Steve Sturdy, deputy director of the ESRC Genomics Forum, said: "A decade since the first mapping of the human genome was hailed as the start of a new era, we are still coming to terms with the implications of these advances.
URL http://edinburghnews.scotsman.com/edinburgh/Prizewinning-cloning-poem-one-of.6705253.jp
Description Psychiatry ethics film festival : Girl, interrupted
Results and Impact The Genomics Forum is delighted to once again support the annual biomedical ethics film festival held at Edinburgh Filmhouse, 26 - 28 November 2010. Post film debates follow each screening with expert panellists inviting audiences to consider questions around our reaction to, and treatment of, those with mental health problems.
URL http://www.genomicsnetwork.ac.uk/forum/events/pastevents/publicevents/title,24124,en.html
Description Regulation : health and safety issues
Results and Impact In addition to giving this presentation, Professor Yearley also managed discussions around SynBio applications (on synthetic biology as a source of new medicines, synthetic biology and food production, synthetic biology and environmental clean-up) and participated in three focus groups during the day.
URL http://www.bbsrc.ac.uk/society/dialogue/activities/synthetic-biology/synthetic-biology-dialogue.aspx
Description Science in public
Results and Impact Steven Yearley presentation at Royal Society of Edinburgh to public meeting 21 Nov 2011
Description Social and technical dimensions of standards development in synthetic biology
Results and Impact Autumn Symposium of the Centre for Systems & Synthetic Biology, Imperial College London, 14-15 November 2012
Description Social history and genomics : portraying the Madness of King George
Results and Impact Professor Steve Yearley presented this at the Psychiatry Ethics Film Festival. The festival was held 26-28 November 2010 at Edinburgh Filmhouse and co-organised by the ESRC Genomics Forum.
URL http://www.genomicsnetwork.ac.uk/forum/events/title,24124,en.html
Description Spring 2011
Results and Impact Newsletter for external contacts
URL http://us1.campaign-archive2.com/?u=1bdf328ed12cfbb88df1ab17c&id=c67bfa4d2d&e=
Results and Impact Newsletter for staff/Internal contacts
URL http://us1.campaign-archive1.com/?u=1bdf328ed12cfbb88df1ab17c&id=8301523d27&e=eeee27438e
Description Standards and the moral economy of synthetic biology
Results and Impact Presented at 'The moral economy of life science' workshop.
URL http://www.tema.liu.se/tema-t/the-moral-economy?l=en
Description Standards for modular biological parts
Results and Impact Workshop paper
Description Studying science scientifically : a sociologist's 'take' on synthetic biology
Results and Impact Presented at the 'STS (science and technology studies) meets synthetic biology' workshop.
URL http://www.shef.ac.uk/synbio/mates/stsmeet2010.html
Description Summer 2011
URL http://us1.campaign-archive2.com/?u=1bdf328ed12cfbb88df1ab17c&id=fd6aeec929&e=7e34a64a98
URL http://us1.campaign-archive2.com/?u=1bdf328ed12cfbb88df1ab17c&id=7de2b7512a&e=eeee27438e
Description Sustainability and innovative practices in synthetic biology
Results and Impact Lecture at ESF Research Conference 'Towards a sustainable bio-based society: Aligning scientific, cultural and societal agendas for bio-innovation society,' Amsterdam, 6-7 December 2012
Description Synthetic biology and the order of things
Results and Impact Annual Meeting of the Society for the Social Studies of Science, Copenhagen, 17-21 October 2012
URL http://www.4sonline.org/meeting/12
Description Talent night in the fly room
Results and Impact Event Page promoting activity by Peter Arnott Forum Playwright in residence
URL http://www.traverse.co.uk/whats-on/talent-night-in-the-fly-room/
Results and Impact The List - Online/Hard Copy
URL http://www.list.co.uk/event/241033-talent-night-in-the-fly-room/#new
Results and Impact Article p15 & 28 Peter Arnott Genomics Forum Playwright in Residence
URL http://issuu.com/traverse_theatre/docs/traverse_spring_summer_2012_brochure
Description The ethical landscape and public trust : identifying the wrong and right ways to think about the ethical and societal aspects of synthetic biology
Results and Impact This presentation focuses on the novel area of synthetic biology, a research trajectory of enormous inherent scientific appeal and of great potential interest for medical, environmental and pharmaceutical purposes. Given that this area focuses on the 'engineering' of novel life forms, there has been wide acknowledgement, even at the earliest stages, of the ethical and societal aspects of synthetic biology, both within and outside the research community.
URL http://www.ces.uc.pt/eventos/index.php?id=3675&id_lingua=2
Description The gen - Genomics in Society - - Issue 15
Results and Impact ESRC Genomics Network Newsletter - March 2011
Description The potential applications of nanotechnology in food
Results and Impact Presented at Food Standards Agency workshop on nanotechnology and food. Steve gave a presentation on the potential applications of nanotechnology in food and/or issues around this.
URL http://www.genomicsnetwork.ac.uk/forum/news/title,24137,en.html
Description The public nature of science
Results and Impact Steven Yearley paper to Royal Society Edinburgh/Royal Society meeting 21 Nov 2011
Description Tick-tock goes the clock : laboratory modes of anticipation
Results and Impact EuroStemCell Blog by Karen Jent Genomics Forum Intern
URL http://www.eurostemcell.org/commentanalysis/tick-tock-goes-clock-laboratory-modes-anticipation
Description We want you! (And we promise it won't hurt a bit)
Description What Scientists Read
Results and Impact Public events/presentations
Results and Impact Public Event - British Science Association, Edinburgh, May
Description What do you get when you cross poets and geneticists?
Results and Impact Poetry and genomics may not seem obviously good bedfellows, but a recent collaboration between two British institutions - ESRC Genomics Forum and the Scottish Poetry Library - has proven that their coming together can lead to very interesting offspring.
The two organisations created a competition on the theme "Improving the Human", the winners of which were announced on Saturday. Entrants were challenged to consider the inherent ambivalence of advances in genomic technology.
URL http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/culturelab/2011/01/genomic-poetry.html
Description What is the value of science blogging for public engagement?
Results and Impact Edinburgh Beltane Communications Networking Breakfast
URL http://www.edinburghbeltane.net/content/blogging-communications-networking-breakfast
Description What's the big idea?
Results and Impact Newspaper article in the Herald Scotland interviewing Peter Arnott, Genomics Forum Playwright in Residence
URL http://www.heraldscotland.com/arts-ents/stage/whats-the-big-idea.15335477
Description Whatever genes one has it is preferable that you are prevented from going around stabbing people : genes, environment and responsibility for behaviour
Results and Impact 3 November 2011 - Genomics Forum seminar with Mairi Levitt - Senior Lecturer, Department of Politics, Philosophy and Religion, Lancaster University - Bright Ideas Fellow
Description Why we've fallen in love with 21st-century vampires
Results and Impact Article p6-7 Sunday Herald - 30 October 2011
URL http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/home-news/why-weve-fallen-in-love-with-21st-century-vampires.1562...
Description Wild foods in Charlotte Square
Description Winter update from the ESRC Genomics Network
Results and Impact Winter edition of EGN News, a quarterly activity round-up from across the Network.
URL http://us1.campaign-archive2.com/?u=1bdf328ed12cfbb88df1ab17c&id=b60d6dd991&e=eeee27438e
Results and Impact This e-newsletter highlights some of the latest news and forthcoming events from across the Network.
URL http://us1.campaign-archive1.com/?u=1bdf328ed12cfbb88df1ab17c&id=ec46996ea1&e=7e34a64a98
Description Writer feels at home with genomes
Results and Impact Peter Arnott has been appointed resident playwright for the joint project between the Traverse Theatre and the ESRC Genomics Policy and Research Forum. Based within the Genomics Forum at Edinburgh University, he will work with forum members, experts and fellows as he explores the subject of genomics. He will develop ideas for a play inspired by genomics, with the aim of putting on a public show later this year or early next year.
URL http://living.scotsman.com/edinburgh/Local-roundup-Students-hot-to.6753775.jp

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Q: Multiple rows by value from cell Using SQL Server:
I have one table with different items and quantities
By the quantity a need to multiple rows to have every piece on different line
Raw table:

Code
QTY

Item1
1

Item2
3

Item3
2

Result I need:

Code
QTY

Item1
1

Item2
1

Item2
1

Item2
1

Item3
1

Item3
1

Already tried with FOR EACH, WITH but without any result.
I need it just like SELECT without INSERTS and temporary tables etc.
What is also option to make a view.
Best try was:
WITH Numbers(Number) AS (
    SELECT 1
    UNION ALL
    SELECT Number + 1
    FROM Numbers
    WHERE Number <= (
        SELECT
        SUM(QRY1.QTY) FROM QRY1
    )
)
SELECT DTBL.Code, DTBL.QTY
FROM Numbers
CROSS JOIN (
    SELECT
        Items as Code
        , 1 as QTY
    FROM QRY1
) DTBL

Thanks a lot!

A: This generates numbered rows:
with cte as (
  select 1 as rn
  union all
  select rn + 1
  from cte
  where rn < 100
)

Then we just join it to your data where the number is between 1 and your quantity
SELECT r.Code, 1 as Qty, *
FROM
  raw r
  INNER JOIN cte ON cte.rn BETWEEN 1 AND r.Qty

If you have more than 100 qty, you'll need to generate more rows - search for "option maxrecursion" to find how to up the limit

A: Another approach using recursive CTE.
DECLARE @table table(code varchar(10), qty int)

insert into @table values
('Item1',   1),
('Item2',   3),
('Item3',   2);

;WITH CTE_CODE AS
(
SELECT  CODE, 1 AS CNT FROM @table
union all
SELECT c.code, CNT+1 as cnt
from cte_code as c
WHERE EXISTS (
select * from @table where code = c.code and qty > c.cnt)
)
SELECT code, 1 as qty FROM CTE_CODE
order by code

code
qty

Item1
1

Item2
1

Item2
1

Item2
1

Item3
1

Item3
1

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Opening statements begin in murder trial of Florida woman
Shaetavia Shaquan Cooper, 23, was charged with the 2nd-degree murder of Teneria McClendon.
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Jury selection wrapped up Monday in the trial for the woman charged in the shooting death of a 16-year-old at a Jacksonville Wawa in 2020.
McClendon was killed after an argument inside the store that escalated in the parking lot, according to the Jacksonville's Sheriff's Office.
There were six jurors and two alternates selected for Cooper's trial. The jurors include three women and five men.
Opening statements are expected to begin Tuesday.
Family members of McClendon say that her three cousins and her were in the car at Wawa waiting for her mom, who was inside paying. They said the woman who shot McClendon pulled up and almost hit them.
Family members said they told the woman she almost hit them and the woman jumped out of the car and yelled at them.
According to the family, McClendon's mother, who's pregnant, came out and told them to talk to her, not McClendon. The family said the woman tried to fight McClendon's mother, the teen stood up for her mom and the woman shot the 16-year-old girl.
Eagles' CJ Gardner-Johnson says his car was stolen after playoff win over Giants
iPhone hack makes it easy to use one-handed and reach everything on screen


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July 26, 2020 July 26, 2020 Les Everett
Katanning (Kupara Park), Western Australia
I'd established that Katanning's main footy ground Quartermaine Oval didn't have a traditional scoreboard and decided on a final scout around town. Footy had also been played at the showgrounds and the racecourse. Then I noticed something on the Katanning map in my UBD Gregory's Street Directory Western Australia – Kupara Park – football oval.
It took some finding with roads and tracks blocked but when I finally got to the chained up old main gate the scoreboard stood out proudly. Once alive with activity from footy, cricket and softball Kupara now sits empty slowly fading away.
Kupara Park was the home of the Katanning Australs Football Club. Created after the Katanning Imperials and Rovers merged, the Lions were a founding club in the Central Great Southern Football League in 1960. Australs won premierships in 1970, 1971, 1972, 1975 and 1978.
One of Kupara's most memorable days didn't feature Australs. A huge hail storm during the grand final between Katanning Wanderers and Kojonup sent Kojonup captain-coach Graham Zilko to hospital and the game was abandoned. Wanderers won the replay.
In 1990 they joined the Albany based Great Southern Football League where they remained until the end of 2000 when the club was suspended by the league. A Way of Life, a history of WA country football notes it was because "…they lacked leadership within the club".
Central Great Southern Football League
Great Southern Football League
Katanning Australs
Previous Lancaster, Victoria
Next Merrigum, Victoria


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La Casa rectoral de Castell d'Aro és una obra amb elements renaixentistes de Castell-Platja d'Aro (Baix Empordà) inclosa a l'Inventari del Patrimoni Arquitectònic de Catalunya.

Descripció
Casa rectoral amb distribució clàssica de masia. Destaca una llinda a la porta d'entrada amb escut en relleu i una finestra renaixentista amb una petxina a la llinda. I una motllura que acaba amb dues testes de persones amena de mènsules.

Un altre nostre esculpit es troba integrat en un dels carreus cantoners.

Referències

Patrimoni monumental de Castell-Platja d'Aro
Castell d'Aro
Edificis de Castell-Platja d'Aro
Edificis renaixentistes del Baix Empordà

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Water Safety Heroes
Every hero has the moment they need to be ready for, that one moment in every dangerous situation when disaster strikes, when they are called upon to react at a moments notice. For Rayden Keaulana, that moment is what he lives for.
"You see a guy is drowning, you've got maybe 30 seconds to get the guy before he goes underwater, you have to make sure you get from Point A to Point B and back on land in a matter of seconds," he said.
Staying prepared may be a bit more difficult when your office is the stunning Makaha Beach.
Even on his days off, Lifeguard Rayden Keaulana is always on duty, from shore to shore, with water comes responsibility.
"A lot of people don't know how the water is, they might look at this and say it's beautiful, but they don't know about currents, rip currents, things you can't see under the water, and thats usually where they get in trouble."
Rayden inherited this responsibility from world-renowned surfer Buffalo Keaulana, who just happens to be his grandfather, and the original lifeguard of Makaha Beach.
"Whenever someone's in trouble, and you're a lifeguard, no matter where you're at, you're on duty," Buffalo affirms.
Rayden adds that there is a problem with some of Hawai'i's beaches, "On this side of the island there's a lot of beaches that's not guarded… and anything can happen there without a lifeguard."
Even so, the Keaulana's are steadfast in the fight to increase Hawai'i's Lifeguarding Staff.
"Jr. Lifeguards is a program that teaches kids basic skills, swimming skills, how to get out of certain situations and CPR," explains Rayden.
One pupil of his can attest to the benefits of the program, "It helped me develop as a person. It makes you realize people should be mindful of others, you know a lot of things can happen out at sea," mentioned Jr. Lifeguard Jeremiah Gionson.
It is a mindset like the Keaulana's that may be able to keep programs like the Jr. Lifeguards afloat. Programs that help to build strong young leaders with the potential for heroism, "If one of the students was here, and they saw someone drowning out there, they could easily yell to the lifeguards or do something you know, we teach them certain signs," explains Rayden.
Unfortunately, only two sites are under current operation. Due to lack of funding, these sites are slowly drowning in a sea of red tape. In this moment, just like a lifeguard, Rayden dove in headfirst to help.
"We did jr lifeguard from 10 yrs old, all the way until 17 did the competitions every year, and now we try to make kids in our program do the same thing."
Unfortunately, this year he was too late to save the Jr. Lifeguards, but that still hasn't stopped Rayden from helping kids in need.
"They're the heroes? Maybe, yeah. Some of them actually wanna be guards when they're older." That would be the perfect end to another day at the office for Rayden, and he wouldn't have it any other way.
"It was awesome to know, how willing someone is to risk their lives for others."
Raeanna Labrador-Pollick, Producer/Photographer/Editor
"It never crossed my mind how many unguarded beaches there are in Hawai'i and the effect it has on our state ."
Crystal Cebedo, Reporter/Writer
"It was great to see that someone is fighting to keep the lifeguard programs alive."
Marcela Bator, Producer/Writer
"I never knew how many people in Hawaii died from drowning."
Jaena Campos, Photographer
Complete Harmonie
Monday through Thursday for senior Harmonie Westbrook, a multi sport student athlete at Wai'anae High School, is a continuous cycle of involvement.
"Wake up, go to school, right after school I lift with the wrestlers, walk straight to the Wai'anae Boxing Club, train until about six thirty and then go home, shower, eat, do homework; work on projects if I need to, college apps, and then go to bed." said Harmonie.
For Harmonie, doing what she does isn't just an option- it's a lifestyle.
"I feel like if you don't give your 110% in what you do, then you're doing the wrong thing." added Harmonie.
Harmonie always puts that little extra in extraordinary- however, last year, she found herself wrestling with a very serious problem.
"I left during practice and I came home crying to my mom saying that I hate wrestling and that I didn't want to do it again. I just felt so exhausted...so I didn't get no sleep and I just felt so overwhelmed and stressed out with everything." said Harmonie.
Ultra competitive students such as Harmonie face extreme levels of physical and mental stress. By putting so much emphasis on doing her being in everything she does and not taking any breaks, Harmonie has become part of the student athlete population that is faced with a battle with themselves. According to a University of Toronto study. 40 percent of teenagers who participate in school sports suffer from high levels of stress and feelings of depression.
"I mean I seen her dehydrated. I seen her so thin. I was saying, 'Harmonie quit.' I could just see her mentally, physically and her body was just deteriorating." said her mother, JoAnn Westbrook.
Maria Thompson, a Psychology teacher at Wai'anae High School says that it's very normal for teens with Harmonie's time sensitive and taxing physical and emotional demands.
"Physiologically their hormones are still blasting away- going up and down. so conflicts like that can happen and would create a biological reaction." said Thompson.
This type of reaction is best dealt with an outlet, she added. In many cases, student athletes turn to their parents, a trusted adult, or best friend. Harmonie, on the other hand, took a more physical approach to coping with her stress.
"Paintball is my favorite sport because it's such a big stress reliever besides the fact that you get to shoot people and it's legal." said Harmonie.
Harmonie's parents own the Hawaii Extreme Paintball and Airsoft field, and on Saturdays and Sundays from nine to five, Harmonie is afforded the opportunity to be around every weekend, working the register, reefing paintball games, or dealing with the customers who want to play games.
Whenever life seems tough, she's able to go to the paintball field and alleviate whatever it weighing on her mind.
"Paintball helps me a lot especially stress wise. Every time I feel overwhelmed of I just feel irritated or annoyed I just ask my dad to watch the office, pick up the gun, and go in a couple games to relieve some stress." said Harmonie. "This paintball field is my home field advantage because it's my paintball field."
Tap outs, jabs, and some fully automatic firearm carnage is the inharmonious hectic life that some how all fits in to complete Harmonie.
LOOKING BACK
"I play paintball, so was a cool sport to cover."
Gary Domingo-Oka, Editor
"It was a fresh take on home field advantage."
Mylea Saga-Moore, Reporter
"Being a student athlete is time consuming."
Diamond Tuisano, Writer
"This project was tiring."
Mahealani Nieto-Lopes, Photographer


Rolls-Royce is delivering 23 MTU Onsite Energy standby gensets as part of the expansion and modernisation of the existing Al Farwaniya hospital (pictured) in Kuwait City by the Kuwait Ministry of Health, due for completion by mid-2019.
MTU partner Albisher & Z Alkazemi Company closed the deal for delivery of the 23 gensets with prime contractor Sayed Hamid Behbehani & Sons Co. in Kuwait. The diesel-powered gensets, based on MTU Series 4000 20-cylinder engines, each deliver a maximum of 2750 kVA.
'In case of any instability in the power supply, the 23 gensets keep the hospital running smoothly by delivering some 50 MW of power in a matter of seconds. With ambient temperatures ranging as high as 55°C, keeping the hospital's air-conditioning system up and running is crucial,' said Ashraf Tamim, General Manager of Albisher & Z Alkazemi.
The hospital was built in Kuwait City's Al Farwaniya medical district in 1980. It is now being expanded to incorporate a new 955 bed hospital building.


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Ex-LAUSD teacher charged with additional molestation felony
January 31, 2013 | 4:01 pm
A former Los Angeles Unified schoolteacher has been charged with an additional felony in connection with the alleged molestation of a child in Orange County eight years ago.
Robert Pimentel, 57, a fourth-grade teacher, is already facing 15 counts of lewd acts or continuous sexual abuse.
Prosecutors said the victim is among the 12 children he is already accused of molesting in Los Angeles County from 2004 to 2012, said Jane Robison, a district attorney's spokeswoman.
The bulk of the allegations involve abuse between September 2011 and March 2012. LAPD began investigating Pimentel in March 2012 after reports from parents at George de la Torre Jr. Elementary in Wilmington.
Several years ago, Newport Beach police investigated allegations involving four victims, but the Orange County district attorney's office declined to file criminal charges and ordered a reinvestigation. That work was recently turned over to prosecutors in Los Angeles County.
Pimentel has pleaded not guilty and his lawyer told reporters the charges were allegations
But a law enforcement source close to the investigation said Pimentel has been accused of touching children "multiple times over a period of time."
The source, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because the case was ongoing, said Pimentel is accused of inappropriately touching 9- and 10-year-old girls.
Priest files in child sex abuse cases to include key names
Ronaiah Tuiasosopo publicly tells of 'feelings' for Manti Te'o
Sheriff Lee Baca to stop taking political donations from deputies
-- Richard Winton
Photo: Robert Pimentel appears at his arraignment Thursday in Los Angeles County Superior Court in Long Beach. Credit: Jeff Gritchen /Getty Images


Nothing says betrayal like a five week old puppy that wants out of his pen.
So, I have this cold, but my body responds to illnesses weirdly. Instead of running any fevers, I go hypothermic and drop to dangerous levels for my body temp. Then my vertigo likes to kick in at random moments and I go from perfectly stable (or as stable, physically, as I can get) to literally falling off my bed even though I'm leaning up against the wall on the opposite side of the bed from the floor.
I was heading through the kitchen (in the area that has no walls handy or furniture to catch myself on) when my vertigo kicked in hard. My eldest nephew was, thankfully, two steps away and caught me.
Then proceeded to smirk while walking me to the sofa and making sure I wouldn't fall off of it as well.
Which is also a thing that happens. A lot.
Make sure to check out the original One-Liner Wednesday.
Vincent how did you get he-you're to small to be my dog.
My thought process when I came to spend a week with my nest oldest sister. She has a long-hair black cat named Elphaba who likes to sprawl under her kitchen table just like my large black dog does. I have no idea how I could look at small and elegant Elphaba and think of my large farm dog. They have the same color fur and they both have this ruff around their necks, but those are the only common things about them.
I know people talk in their sleep (my third eldest sister and her college roommate had long conversations into the night. I know, I was there on some weekends to visit. There was no sleep those nights), but my dog growls in is sleep sometimes.
He's doing it right now as he sleeps under the piano. Every now and then he's just snoring, but sometimes he's growling at whatever he's dreaming about.
I just wanted to finish one half of my twin popsicle by myself instead of having to defend it from three kittens, one surprisingly agile granny cat, and one large dog.
Seriously, I just wanted a chance to eat my treat in peace, but there is no such thing in this house.
Of course it tastes good; I made it!
That was my sister's youngest boy, Cory. He likes to cook and is actually pretty good at it. He takes after her, but manages to learn from her past cooking mistakes in ways that actually help. Unlike me.


Advanced Rail Management Corp. is a consulting/service company specializing in assessing rail and wheel conditions, and designing and supervising rail grinding and wheel truing programs on freight, passenger and rail transit systems. ARM also provides optical rail profile collection; corrugation measurement; rail surface crack-depth measurement; wheel/rail noise measurement and assessment; and complete turnkey rail/wheel maintenance services.
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ARM has been serving the industry, managing wheel/rail maintenance programs for 30 years.


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ISO 9001 revision focuses on reducing risk and applying the process approach. Things we've come to expect in our international standards are missing in the version of ISO 9001 currently under development.
Based on the committee draft (CD), ISO 9001:2015 is significantly different from ISO 9001:2008. Requirements for a quality manual and for documented procedures are absent, as is the preventive action clause.
One sentence in section 7.5.1 tells you what documents are required: "The organization's quality management system (QMS) shall include documented information required by this international standard and documented information determined by the organization as being necessary for the effectiveness of the QMS."
While the ISO 9001:2015 CD was released June 3, 2013, changes are still probable. The foreword of the draft says the transfer from 2008 to the new standard is expected during a three-year period, giving organizations plenty of transition time.
ISO 9001:2015 requires that an organization determine its strategic direction. This is the opening to the requirements of the standard. While the goal of the new standard is that it becomes more applicable to service industries, this requirement, if embraced, will prompt any organization to examine itself and determine "its strategic direction and what is affecting its ability to achieve the intended outcome(s) of its QMS."1 Most organizations have addressed this, but it has not been a requirement in the past.
The 2015 standard also introduces a new term, "documented information," to describe the requirements for physical evidence (electronic or hard-copy media). Documented information is defined as "information required to be controlled and maintained by an organization and the medium on which it is contained." The 21 documented information requirements are listed in Table 1.2
Significant changes
ISO 9001:2015 was redrafted to be more generic and easily applicable to service industries. The term "product" is replaced by "goods and services," meaning deliverables for the customer. Note, this proposed change is currently being reviewed and might not be made.
According to the introduction to the draft, the prescriptive nature of the standard is reduced in the revision. Some requirements, such as control of monitoring and measuring devices, are less prescriptive, while others are more prescriptive, such as the requirement, "determining the scope of the QMS." The 2015 version defines what must be included in the scope.
Two new clauses have been introduced relating to the context of an organization: Clause 4.1—Understanding the organization and its context, andClause 4.2—Understanding the needs and expectations of interested parties. The intent of these two clauses is to require an organization to determine the issues and requirements that can affect the planning of a QMS and can be used as an input into developing a QMS. Note that a discussion is continuing among those writing the standard regarding the renumbering of the clauses and requirements, as well as the use of the words "interested parties."
The process approach was promoted in ISO 9001:2008. The proposed revision makes the process approach more explicit. Clause 4.4.2—Process approach specifies requirements.
The term "preventive" is not in the 2015 revision. The reason is that the key purpose of a formal management system is to act as a preventive tool, and determining risks is preventive. Clause 4.1 requires determining the risks and opportunities that must be addressed to ensure a QMS can achieve its intended outcome. Clause 6.1 requires prevention or reduction of undesired effects and achievement of improvement. These two clauses cover the concept of preventive action and expand the view to consider risks and opportunities.
Documented information requirements replace document and record requirements, affording more flexibility in how requirements are met.
External provision of goods and services, addressed in clause 8.6, combines previous requirements for outsourced processes and purchasing in the 2008 version. A risk-based approach is required to determine what must be done to ensure externally provided goods and services meet requirements.
In ISO 9001:2015, the words "continual improvement" are replaced by "improvement." Improvement is never finished and is a pursuit, making the word "continual" unnecessary. Found only once in the 2008 version, "nature" is used often in the 2015 revision. References to nature include:
• Clause 8.5.1.a: "The nature, duration and complexity of the development activities."
• Clause 8.5.1.e: "The nature of the goods and services to be developed and potential consequences of failure."
• Clause 8.6.5: "The nature and intended lifetime of goods and services."
• Clause 8.2: "Nature of the nonconformity and its effects."
• Clause 8.8: "Nature of nonconformities and any subsequent actions."
• Clause 10.1: "Nature of nonconformities and any subsequent actions."
While it's referenced, nature is not defined in the draft of ISO 9001:2015. The Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary defines nature as "the inherent character or basic constitution of a person or thing."3
To meet the requirements of 2015, significant changes for most management systems will be to establish a process to reduce risk and to formally apply the process approach.
Risk identification and mitigation
Risk identification and mitigation requires a systematic, methodical approach to determining risks and incorporating methods to address them. Our understanding of addressing risk management is governed by a family of standards, including:
• ANSI/ASSE Z690.1-2011—Vocabulary for risk management (U.S. adoption of ISO Guide 73:2009).4,5
• ANSI/ASSE Z690.2-2011—Risk management principles and guidelines(U.S. adoption of ISO 31000:2009).6,7
• ANSI/ASSE Z690.3-2011—Risk assessment techniques (U.S. adoption of ISO/IEC 31010:2009).8,9
The requirements for applying the process approach have moved from being hidden in the shadows of ISO 9001:2008, clause 4.1, to being a key emphasis in ISO 9001:2015. ISO 9001:2008, Clause 4.1—General requirements was often not seriously addressed by organizations. The 2015 revision emphasizes the process approach in clause 4.4.2, and it cannot be overlooked.
ISO 9001:2015, Clause 4.4.2—Process approach requires determining the inputs required and outputs expected, risks of conformity of goods and services, and customer satisfaction if unintended outputs are delivered or process interaction is ineffective. It requires organizations to assign responsibilities and authorities. ISO 9001:2015 replaces "monitor, measure and analyze" with "monitor, analyze and change."
Eight clauses of ISO 9001:2008 are replaced by 10 clauses in ISO 9001:2015, per the CD. ISO 9001:2008's eight clauses are:
1. Scope.
2. Normative references.
3. Terms and definitions.
4. QMS (documentation requirements for the QMS).
5. Management responsibilities.
6. Resource management.
7. Product realization.
8. Measurement, analysis and improvement.
The change to 10 clauses doesn't mean the revised standard adds categories, as you might expect. Instead, it mostly reorders and categorizes its content differently by separating and expanding existing clauses. The 10 clauses in ISO 9001:2015 are:
Clause 1—Scope; Clause 2—Normative references; and Clause 3—Terms and definitions. Beginning clauses of the new standard reflect little change, the only one being removal of the word "continual" from continual improvement.
Clause 4—Context of the organization. This clause requires examination of the organization and its context, including thinking of the needs and expectations of interested parties, determining the scope of the QMS and requiring the process approach.
Clause 5—Leadership. A first in an ISO 9001 standard, ISO 9001:2015 charges top management with accountability in the section for organizational roles, responsibilities and authorities. The CD states: "Top management shall be accountable for the effectiveness of the QMS."
Clause 6—Planning. Organizations are required to plan to address risks and to achieve quality objectives. This is the first time a quality management standard has ever addressed risk. This will require some learning for organizations and auditors unfamiliar with risk-based management systems.
Planning of changes is also a new concept for those unfamiliar with standards. ISO 9001:2015 requires an organization to plan and manage change in a systematic manner, identifying risks and opportunities while reviewing the potential consequences of the change.
Clause 7—Support. Clause 7 reminds organizations that support is essential for success and must be managed. Infrastructure, process environment, monitoring and measuring devices, and knowledge needs must be determined, provided and maintained.
Knowledge is necessary for the operation of the QMS and its processes to ensure conformity of goods and services, and customer satisfaction. An assessment by the organization is required to determine what knowledge is needed. Knowledge must be maintained, protected and made available as necessary. The draft includes a requirement that organizations ensure the necessary additional knowledge needs are considered during change management.
Other requirements addressed in the support clause are competence, awareness, communication and documented information. In the 2008 version, a required record is necessary for education, experience, skills and training. In the 2015 revision, the documented information is "evidence of competence."
Awareness relates to people doing work under the organization's control. It's required that they are aware of the quality policy, objectives, their contributions to the effectiveness of the QMS and the implications of nonconformance to requirements.
It is left open for the organization to determine the need for internal and external communication relevant to its QMS.
Documented information is addressed in subsection requirements for creating and updating, and in requirements for controlling documented information.
Clause 8—Operation. Operation planning and control emphasizes control of functions or processes of external providers. Previously referred to as outsourced processes, different words are used to describe requirements for determining customer requirements. The 2015 standard describes them as "determination of market needs and interactions with customers." Determination and review of requirements follow similar requirements found in ISO 9001:2008, clauses 7.2.1 and 7.2.2.
Operational planning has its own subsection. The planning process requires "actions to identify and address risks related to achieving conformity of goods and services to requirements." The note at the end of the section reminds organizations this is a quality plan.
Control of external provision of goods and services replaces the purchasing requirements. Development of goods and services replaces the design and development section in 2008. "Production of goods and provision of services" was the familiar "product realization" in 2008. Remember, that was a new term in 2000.
Few changes are made for production with the exception of some minor rearranging in the order of requirements. One new requirement is the need for "documented information that describes the characteristics of the goods and services" and "documented information that describes the activities to be performed and the results achieved." These have never been spelled out in this manner before. Eventually, this will probably be a welcome addition.
In clause 8.6.1.i., the last requirement is "prevention of nonconformity due to human error, such as unintentional mistakes and intentional rule violations." This requires that organizations mistake-proof production of goods and provision of services. Auditors and organizations must become knowledgeable about tools and methods to mistake-proof their processes. Absence of this is considered nonconformance.
Post delivery activities are addressed separately from production of the goods or provision of services. The note at the end of the section explains postdelivery activities, and includes warranty provisions and contractual obligations.
Control of changes, release of goods and services, and nonconforming goods and services are addressed at the end of the clause for operation. Control of changes reemphasizes and actually repeats words from the requirements for planning changes addressed in clause 6.
Clause 9—Performance evaluation. Monitoring, measurement and analysis have been grouped with a new word, "evaluation." Analysis did not apparently require evaluation. The word "evaluation" strengthens the requirements for monitoring and measurement. An organization must address requirements for what to monitor and measure, methods, when to perform, and when to analyze and evaluate. Documented information, as evidence of the results, must be retained. This brings to the forefront requirements to make the organization data driven.
Customer satisfaction is reworded to reemphasize the need for understanding customer perceptions including customer feedback, views and perceptions of the organization and its goods and services. Internal audits and management review are part of the performance evaluation clause.
Clause 10—Improvement. Nonconformity, corrective action and improvement are held for the last clause. The requirements for nonconformity are expanded. Previous versions of the quality management standards have not strongly encouraged addressing nonconformity as reactions to processes other than production processes. The 2015 version of the quality management standard uses wording to emphasize "when a nonconformity occurs, the organization shall react to the nonconformity."
A nonconformity, by definition, is a lack of meeting requirements. Should a procedure, work instruction or some other planned arrangement not be followed, a nonconformity will have occurred. ISO 9001:2015 requires organizations to address and react to this type of nonconformity. As with the 2000 and 2008 versions of ISO 9001, an evaluation can occur if further action is needed. If it is necessary to prevent reoccurrence, causes must be found.
The 2015 standard requires "changes to the QMS, if necessary."
The new version of ISO 9001 will bring positive change for management systems. It strengthens requirements that have previously been implied, such as mistake-proofing, change management, risk management and the issuance of nonconformities when planned arrangements aren't followed. The 2015 standard is possibly more prescriptive in these areas, with less left to interpretation. The path outlined by the new standard, if embraced by an organization, will lead to a better understanding of meeting customer expectations and protecting its efforts.
It will be hard work to learn the new words and phrases. The clauses aren't arranged in the same way. Is it an improvement over 2008? Yes, unequivocally, but change is never easy, even when it is for the better. ISO 9001:2015, nevertheless, is a step forward that should be embraced.
Not all changes are covered in the scope of this article. It is the beginning of learning what has changed. Just as ISO 9001:2008 was still revealing applications of its requirements years after being published, the 2015 version also will open eyes slowly as precepts come into the light.
Whether or not you stand in support of the 2015 standard, it is another chapter in the pursuit of excellence that drives the profession of quality management. ISO 9001:2015 is still in draft version, with many meetings still scheduled between now and the final adoption. Change is possible to anything and everything in this article, which discusses the CD, but it's not too early to begin thinking about what might be coming.
1. International Organization for Standardization, Committee Draft, ISO 9001:2015—Quality management systems—Requirements, June 3, 2013.
2. View a version of Table 1 that compares documented information requirements in ISO 9001:2008 with the requirements in ISO 9001:2015 at http://bit.ly/ISO9001requiredocs (case sensitive).
3. Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, "Nature," www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/nature.
4. American National Standards Institute and American Society of Safety Engineers, ANSI/ASSE Z690.1-2011—Vocabulary for risk management.
5. International Organization for Standardization, ISO Guide 73:2009—Risk management—Vocabulary.
6. American National Standards Institute and American Society of Safety Engineers, ANSI/ASSE Z690.2-2011—Risk management principles and guidelines.
7. International Organization for Standardization, ISO 31000:2009—Risk management—Principles and guidelines.
8. American National Standards Institute and American Society of Safety Engineers, ANSI/ASSE Z690.3-2011—Risk assessment techniques.
9. International Organization and International Electrotechnical Commission, ISO/IEC 31010:2009—Risk management—Risk assessment techniques.
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CBL Insider / Featured News
By Erik Voldness on	 May 5, 2019 2 Comments	/ 257 views
Just a quick look around the league over the last week or so in-game time.
Draft Surprises
A generally computer-run Traverse City team selected high school second baseman Jack Roslovic with the first overall pick, gifting the new Colorado Gold Sox front office the draft's top prospect in first baseman Joe Castle.
Danny Chapman, who hit .426 this past season while winning every major collegiate award, managed to fall all the way to #8 as a run on starting pitchers surprised mock drafters across the country.
Erie's selection of Clarence Sugarman at number 10 overall was a bit surprising as he hit just .215 with 3 home runs compared to 50 strikeouts and just 6 walks over 2 seasons, but the Seawolves clearly see potential in the draft's coolest last name.
Outfielder Tyrone MacGruder, who had the best high-school season among draft prospects, fell all the way to the Supplemental round where Mahoning Valley stole him at #18 overall.
Note-Worthy Extensions
Vancouver locked up a trio of veterans, including superstar catcher Sergio Rodriguez over the last week. Jose Noriega and Lonnie Westrick signed guaranteed deals but would have remained in Vancouver next year either way. The Canadians are likely very happy to have all three contracts done.
St. Louis reportedly agreed to trade first baseman Jose Garcia to the Austin Bats, before nixing the deal at the last minute and instead agreeing to a 3-year, $54 million extension with their standout first baseman.
A CBL Legend to Retire
Aurelio Rivera is known as one of the hardest workers in Continental Baseball League, but that body of work will come to a close at season's end.
"I'm going to hang up the spikes," the 38-year-old Portland Panthers right fielder confirmed today. "I've busted my butt for years for this sport and I'm grateful for all that I've accomplished in baseball."
Rivera has hit .272 lifetime with 1947 hits, 353 doubles, 44 triples, 324 home runs and 1031 RBIs to date. He has scored 1034 runs and stolen 46 bases.
"Rat" should be a first ballot Hall of Famer if there ever was one, a key piece for the great Richardson City run that dominated the league for so many years.
Notable Feats
Andy Ramsey launched his 300th career home run against the team that traded him.
Lucio Aguilar's legend continued to grow, as he hit for the cycle for the first time in his career.
All-Star Voting Update
Heartland League leading vote getter: Alonzo Bennarivo, 1,852,820 votes
Bennarivo is the league's most consistent, best hitter playing in the league's most hitter friendly park. Think 2001 Barry Bonds playing at Coors Field. "Dude" as Bennarivo is affectionately nicknamed, is hitting .333/.398/.686, basically in line with his averages over the last four seasons. Unfortunately, a nagging back injury has sent Bennarivo to the DL, and he appears unlikely to play in the mid-summer classic this year.
Frontier League leading vote getter: Jose Cortez, 1,646,219 votes
Jose Cortez has had a very good first half, but not quite the kind you'd expect from a leading vote getter. However, Cortez's immense popularity and the Dreamers sparkling record have nudged Cortez ahead of both Lucio Aguilar and Ernesto Encarnacion among center fielders. That he has such great competition and has still managed to get the most votes in the FL speaks to his fan following.
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Tim Imasa	 May 6, 2019, 5:51 am
I like this bite-size format, Erik! I feel like I'm already caught up with what's going on in the league after ready this post.
Erik Voldness	 May 7, 2019, 1:47 am