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The Spanish Dancer
Essay by Margarita Landazuri
When Pola Negri arrived in the United States in 1922 after a spectacular career in German cinema, the Polish star was the first European actress to be signed to a contract by a major Hollywood studio. Already famous for the films she made with director Ernst Lubitsch, she was glamorous, exotic, the very epitome of a vamp. But as movie audiences soon found out, Negri's range went far beyond the temptress stereotype. Before Garbo and Dietrich, there was Negri.
Negri's third Hollywood film, The Spanish Dancer, is not only enormously entertaining, it allows Negri to be more than a one-dimensional seductress. "Negri comes back and is again the Negri that electrified the world in Passion," according to the San Antonio Express. The film is a lavishly produced swashbuckler set in 17th century Spain. Negri plays dancer Maritana, who falls in love with a dashing but impecunious nobleman and must fight off the advances of the lecherous King Philip IV. Although Maritana's titled lover, played by Antonio Moreno, swaggers grandly, Negri is at the center of the action. She dances, romances, tells fortunes, jumps on and off horses, and suffers gallantly, displaying her charm, her range, and her dancer's grace. Her acting is subtle, soulfully expressive yet understated. Interviewed in a 2006 documentary about Negri, film historian Jeanine Basinger noted: "She has great physical control and she has eloquence to her body. She can do that thing that silent film stars needed to do, which is act from the head to the toe, use the entire body as an instrument of expression."
That physical eloquence was a talent that Negri developed early. Born Apolonia Chalupec in 1897 in a part of Poland then ruled by Russia, Negri claimed her mother was from impoverished nobility and that her father was a Polish nationalist who spent years in Siberian prison. He never returned to his family and Pola's mother struggled to provide for her daughter, who was accepted into the Russian Imperial Ballet school but had to abandon dance because of illness. After she recovered she studied acting, and, by the time World War I began, she was an established theater actress in Warsaw. That same year, she appeared in her first feature film, Niewolnica Zmyslów (1914).
A starring role in the Warsaw stage production of Max Reinhardt's Arabian Nights tale Sumurun led to an offer to appear in the theater impresario's revival of the play in Berlin in 1917, and soon Negri became a star on the German stage as well. She also was married briefly to the Polish count Eugene Dambski. Even though the marriage didn't last, the title did—Negri continued to call herself Countess Dambski even after she went to America. A professional partnership formed during the Berlin run of Sumurun proved more lasting and more satisfying.
Ernst Lubitsch, who played a hunchback jester in Sumurun the play, also wrote and directed films. He got Negri a contract with Ufa (Universum-Film AG), Germany's largest and most important film studio, and starred her in his first major feature, The Eyes of the Mummy (1918), a lurid melodrama costarring Emil Jannings. It was a huge hit and, over the next several years, Lubitsch and Negri collaborated on several more big-budget successes that were released in the U.S. A New York Times review of the film version of Sumurun (1920) noted, "Pola Negri, a Polish-German [sic] actress, is one of the few real players of the screen who can make a character live and be something other than an actress playing a part." Two years later, she left for America.
Hollywood had never seen anyone like Pola Negri. She had a flair for publicity, flinging herself into affairs with Charles Chaplin and the star she claimed was the great love of her life, Rudolph Valentino. Negri emphasized her dramatic beauty with a dramatic wardrobe, wearing mostly black or white, wrapping herself in furs, dripping with enormous jewels. She started fashion trends such as red-painted toenails, turbans, and high Cossack boots. Her car was a white Rolls-Royce upholstered in white velvet with ivory door handles, accessorized with a chauffeur in white livery. She could sometimes be seen walking her two white Russian wolfhounds or her pet tiger along Sunset Boulevard. Fan magazines described Negri as a "magnificent wildcat" and an "exotic sorceress."
All these shenanigans brought out the audiences for Negri's first two American films, Bella Donna (1923) and The Cheat (1923), both routine melodramas. The Spanish Dancer was a better showcase for Negri's versatility. The project had been intended for the studio's top male star, Rudolph Valentino, who was to play the cash-strapped nobleman. But he and the studio were mired in a contract dispute, so the screenplay was reworked to focus on the gypsy dancer instead. Negri wanted Lubitsch to direct, but Mary Pickford had already imported him for Rosita (1923), which used the same source material as The Spanish Dancer. Both films were in production around the same time, the latter with Herbert Brenon directing and sumptuously photographed by the great James Wong Howe. In her memoir, Negri describes Brenon as "a good, but not inspired director … a volatile and fastidious man who insisted that things be done his way." Negri was already gaining a reputation as temperamental, and Brenon's autocratic ways were difficult for her to accept. "I could not help seeing certain scenes as Lubitsch would have directed them. This resulted in many flare-ups that often held up work for an entire day," she admitted.
According to Negri, her film won the Spanish Dancer vs. Rosita face-off. The San Francisco Chronicle gushingly agreed: "Tasteful magnificence, artistic extravagance, splendid lavishness—The Spanish Dancer is a glorious picture." The New York World critic noted, "There seems to be more of the dash of the old European Pola Negri in The Spanish Dancer than in any cinema she has made since Hollywood got a hold of her." Negri and Lubitsch finally reunited for Forbidden Paradise (1924), her best American film.
Negri's private life continued to make headlines. Many thought that her extravagant show of grief over Valentino's death was just another publicity stunt. If true, the publicity backfired. Her box-office appeal faltered, and, when she married a fortune-hunting Georgian prince, her popularity sank even lower. When her contract ended in 1928, she retired to her chateau in France, returning to America to make her first talking film, A Woman Commands (1932). But her flamboyant screen persona was out of style in Depression-era America. Returning to Germany, she became a star all over again. There were rumors, which Negri adamantly denied, that she had become Hitler's mistress. She made films there until the outbreak of World War II and returned to the U.S. in 1941, where she lived out of the public eye until her death in 1987.
Negri fans had one last glimpse of her in the Disney adventure The Moonspinners (1964). Negri plays a jewel thief who lives on a yacht and keeps a cheetah for a pet. She makes the most of her brief appearance, every inch the glamorous icon who has "lived through two wars, four revolutions, and five marriages," in the words of her character. At the press conference for the film, she entered with the cheetah on a leash. It was a fitting swan song for one of the silent era's most dazzling stars.
Presented at SFSFF 2012 with live music by Donald Sosin
DirectorHerbert Brenon
Runtime104 min
CastPola Negri, Antonio Moreno), Wallace Beery, Kathlyn Williams, Gareth Hughes, Adolphe Menjou, Edward Kipling, Dawn O'Day, Charles A. Stephenson
Production CompanyFamous Players-Lasky
Print SourceEye Film Instituut


I have reviewed the new iPhone app tool to help you examine your conscience and then make a good sacramental to a priest (the only way to get absolution, of course).
I pointed out that there were flaws in the app. One of the flaws was that there was no explicit statement reminding people that using this app did not substitute for going to confession to a priest. Perhaps that on the surface seems too obvious to include in the app, but, based on news reports we saw in the last few days, it winds up being a good idea to include it.
The developers have updated the app with a statement toward the bottom of this screen.
They still lack a note about the need to be sure about the penance you are given.
After the screen which shows the list sins you created (in kind, but not in number – the app's main flaw), there should be a screen that says that the priest may ask questions and/or give advice, and then assign a penance which you should be careful to remember. Then it could move to the screen with your default Act of Contrition.
Again, they need to at least add a note that you should confess your mortal sins in both kind and number.
I found that you can beginning a phone call, and use the app at the same time. Perhaps there could be a way for the app to be used only when the iPhone is in Airplane Mode.
Also, I found you can use an app such as Audio Notes, to make recordings, and then use the confession app at the same time.
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When I was giving it a trial run, I had my husband call me while I would have been confessing and it bumped me out of the app thus having me to re enter my password and aggrivating. This was solved by Airplane Mode. Nothing transmitted; Nothing received.
I have had questions if a person were to get your info could/would it be enough to incriminate someone especially in a court. Since these are questions, not statements, I tend to say NO because they are vague enough to not reveal everything especially since not all sins are crimes and sins can be 3: thought, action and omission.
You had mentioned being able to put how many times. I think I would like it without the option because if someone did access my info, it would remain vague enough as to not reveal the actual sin.
Any chance that they will make an Android version?
I think this is a big indication of the cultural poverty of the modern man caused by excessive use of technology. As if the "appeal" of an examination of conscience is improved by having somewhere to click. As if this is not a subject for modern man until it appears on the right kind of little screen (i-apparatus). Finally, it doesn't help people to get out of the "virtual world" of their little screens and really be present to sacramental grace, which has nothing at all to do with technology.
A major source of confusion for most people will be the lack of knowledge about how to tell what is a mortal sin (which must be taken to confession and confessed in kind and number) and what is a venial sin. This app doesn't help catechize on that score and leads to the type of confusion like the recent Quaeritur on the sinfulness of failing to pray daily. Of course failing to pray daily is a venial sin, since prayer is not a morally neutral act and the scriptures are clear on our constant need for it. Would failure to pray become a mortal sin of sacrilege if one had a strong habitual time of prayer that was deliberately neglected? Maybe, but this app is a long way from helping people recognize that such a life where that is possible, a life of real virtue and deep union with God, is the goal for everyone.
In my opinion, the sacraments are no place to introduce novelties, so stick with old tech – the human mind, maybe the use of paper and writing if necessary. The sacrament of reconciliation is even more problematic than others, MUCH more problematic, because of the canonical requirements to maintain secrecy and privacy, with really serious consequences – so leave the new tech at home. I think this app should have a big reminder to print out the examination of conscience, use it daily to grow in holiness, and not to take an iphone inside a church.
There is already a similar Android application.
A non-profit in the Atlanta area called The Penance Project released a similar application that is free for Android devices. The application helps users do an examination of conscience and to pray after confession.
I committed adultery not once but twice.
I have had impure, lustful, and adulterous thoughts. I can say this as a general thing but I have no idea about a count. In todays society with so much provocative media I struggle with these kinds of thoughts all the time and can't keep a count.
I like the app and I bought it for two friends as well.
I like that it adjusts the examine for age, thus providing an age appropriate examine for younger children! Those paper ones available at parishes are like reading … Latin… For 7-12 year olds.
It gives each user their own password – thus way my kids dont have to confess to me prior to the Priest/Jesus.
And for me – I like the checkboxes! I know I'm technically g2g with venial sins but the more I work on closeness to Christ the more aware I am of my impediments via venial sin. I have such trouble remembering everything and in kind. I try to be brief in the Confessional as I believe Confession is for … Confession! Because I am inept or because little d doesn't want me to have success – when I am before the Blessed Sacrament and Our Lord is convicting me of my sins – I often find no pen or pencil insight or available when I begin to realize more than I expected to find! You'd think I'd learn … I know… I confess… But guess what I always have with me ? Set to silent? My iPhone!
Guess what this app has? Check boxes! I need checkboxes at this point in time to be thourough! And I like that my kids will be trained by use of this app along with our home catechesis to be clear and thourough and concise in the Confessional.
If I have to switch to airplane mode I'll do it. Perhaps the app could be engineered to automatically disable phone calls and recording when it's open?
This whole app seems like a horrible idea.
Do people actually think that if someone is not already seeking Confession after a resolute examination of conscience that an app will make that more likely?
This, app, like all other manifestation of modern thinking into the Church Sacraments, only opens the door for abuse of the Sacraments.
I'd think expressing " I * struggle with* said type of thoughts and confessing whether or not said thoughts are given into at a level of enjoyment. Also one could say : frequently, weekly, daily, as a type of measure – I think.
I'd just leave out the whole "I struggle with" and just say it and move on to the next one.
You might also want to look here, http://wdtprs.com/blog/fr-zs-20-tips-for-making-a-good-confession/ more more help.
How do you mean? My understanding is that most people aren't even using Confession, let alone close to abusing it. This app is useful to those who have it on their mind, but are being kept back because they're rusty and fearful of making a mistake, or something similar.
The revision of this app brings up a question: does the Imprimatur still apply to the revised version? Surely the bishop is not expected to review each iteration of a software app. Yet if he does not, how can the Imprimatur be maintained for something which has been revised and may no longer be deserving of Imprimatur?
Another question: Fr Z has advised that, if one ever brings notes to Confession, they should be carefully destroyed afterward to maintain the seal of the Confessional. Does this app have the capability of ensuring all data is erased after the Confession has been completed? If not, then there would seem to be serious confidentiality concerns.
Does this app have the capability of ensuring all data is erased after the Confession has been completed? If not, then there would seem to be serious confidentiality concerns.
It's more secure than a piece of paper. Once you've finished completing your Examination of Conscience and log out it is password protected. After your confession the list of sins is gone automatically. No need to worry about tearing up a piece of paper and flushing it down the toilet or incinerating it.
At my last confession when I knelt down, the priest was using an iPad. He switched it off. Hi-tech in the confessional just seems out of keeping with the nature of the sacrament.
Is there, or should there be a warning in the app, re the previously discussed topic of canon law forbidding the recording of a confession, including one's own? Because I'm sure someone will want to use voice memos to make sure they got their penance right or something.
I have a question Fr. Z. Is this appat all helpful to someone who suffers with scrupulosity? I suffer from it, and I have been greatly helped by my confessor, however, sometimes the scruples attack and I don't do so well. Would this app be a help or a hinderence?
Torpedo1, while I'm not a priest, I would be concerned about someone with scrupulosity using it (my wife has a tendency towards scrupulosity). Because it's on your phone, which you probably have with you all the time, you might be tempted to constantly check off sins. It's the technological equivalent of walking around with an examination and a notepad for noting every possible transgression. It could cause more scruples attacks.
With self-control, a scrupulous person could use the app just fine. But having it at his fingertips all the time could be too tempting.
I'm much less likely to leave my iPhone somewhere, although it could happen (if St. Anthony wasn't a saint he would have a full time job keeping track of my stuff).
Maybe I'm using it wrong, but when I tried it, and signed out, and then signed in later, it hadn't saved my sins. I think this is a real drawback if you do your examen say the night before and don't want to leave the app open all the time. Does anyone else have this problem? I also bought Mea Culpa–love that one because it has venial and mortal sins and that helps me *tremendously* . It's also password protected, but it saves your sins. (Not sure yet exactly how to erase them, though!). Any suggestions would be helpful. Oh, and one drawback of Mea Culpa is it doesn't walk you through confession, with the Act of Contrition and everything. It does have a very nice pre confession prayer. And no imprimatur, I don't think. But basically it looks alot like Father Altier's examen, which I have in paperback (little tiny book). With me, having this actually helps my scrupulosity–having a list to refer to and not have to come up with everything from scratch.


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Spanish Honor Society Talent Show
Every November, the Spanish Honor Society hosted the highly successful school-wide Talent Show. This year, the show was extremely successful, with mind-blowing acts, a packed audience, and deafening NMHS school spirit. Although there were quite a few singing acts, each and every performance yielded a booming applause from the crowd.
In third place, Josh Schutz, Danny Viterello, Devon Miller & Andre Vial performed "Back From the Dead" as a band. The performance was simply astounding and each member's talent shone clearly. In second place, Connor Stahl, Tyler Volansky & Ryan Segal performed their own rendition: "Pink Panther: The Teenage Years", a creative mixture of the Pink Panther theme song, with a unique twist into "Smells Like Teen Spirit" by Nirvana. The guitar and bass had clear, strong notes, and the drum solo towards the end made the crowd go wild. Finally, in first place, Geovanna Coelho's performance of Hallelujah was absolutely jaw-dropping. Geovanna hit every high note and sang with astounding clarity and strength. She took first place.
Other acts that were hits that night included Will Horvath's hilarious hockey stick twirling/ dancing/singing routine which had the audience in fits of laughter. Will Morris, Shea Baumgarner, Ryan Thibodeau, Charlie Vogt & Adam Crispo also performed a spectacular instrumental performance of the song "Titanium". Nick Arlands, Savannah Llanos, and Madison LaFontan all had amazing singing performances, along with many other talented students at NMHS.
The backstage crew, Mr. Donahue, Mr. Keck, and Mrs. Pelletier and the Spanish Honor Society all helped create a successful, smoothly running show. The two MC's, Carolyn Gevinski and Maggie Calbi put on hilarious skits, rapped, sang songs, and provided an entertaining break between acts. The talent show was overall an amazing success, truly portraying the talent the students at NMHS hold.
New Milford High School Drama Club Presents: 'Game of Tiaras'
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"Curtains" is a "Tough Act to Follow"
Drawing back the curtain on "Curtains"
Review of "Rogue One: A Star Wars Story"
NMHS Dramatics Stages The Wizard of Oz

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German business group Siemens plans to invest EUR 1 billion ($1.1 billion) over the next five years in a new startups unit to help it broaden organizations in areas which include artificial intelligence and decentralised electrification.
The price range may be to be had to personnel, external startups and mounted businesses if they needto pursue enterprise ideas in fields which can be strategic to Siemens' destiny, the trains-to-generatorsorganization stated on Tuesday.
Siemens, which become founded in 1847 at the then-new telegraph technology, is expanding its corestrengths in automation and electrification in new directions to stay at the reducing fringe of the digitisation of industry.
It stated the first mission of its new unit, named "next47" after the 12 months of the group's founding, will be the formerly introduced joint development with Airbus of electrically powered planes.
different essential fields will consist of self reliant machines, networked mobility and blockchain programsfor the at ease transfer of records in enterprise and strength trading, the era on which crypto-currenciesincluding Bitcoin are based, it stated.
the brand new unit will come into being on October 1 and could first of all be headed by Siegfried Russwurm, Siemens' chief technology officer. it's going to have workplaces in Berkeley, California, Shanghai, China and Munich, Germany.
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Here is Seattle, we've skipped Spring and jumped right into Summer. Yesterday was 88ºF and today it is predicted to be the same. I either need to invest in an air conditioner or a pool, cause I'm not sure I'll survive another one of these unbearably hot summers with our small window fan and kiddie pool.
The kitchen renovation is currently at a stop while we finish the bathroom remodel. We decided that for Brent's sanity it probably best to tackle one major project at a time. In the bathroom, we've got a toilet installed, and a sink on its way. A faucet that needs to be returned cause I changed my mind yet again. It is pretty exciting, though, cause it's been two years since we started and I think the end is in sight. Lessons learned - home renovations are time-consuming and stressful. Which is why I have decided to hire someone to paint the trim in our house. And why I should probably hire someone to build our kitchen island. And why I should probably just take it down a notch with the whole DIY business.
Last month, early one Sunday morning, I left the house on my way to the gym and I ran into Macklemore. He was walking towards me carrying his daughter in a baby backpack, eating a muffin, drinking a coffee. At first, I had no idea it was him, so as we passed on the street I gave him a friendly nod and a 'hey, what's up', not even realizing until I hit the next block that indeed that was Macklemore. After a little investigation, I have learned that he does, in fact, live a few blocks from my house. Which is awesome, but also annoying, cause now every time I leave my house I second guess my outfit, my hair, do I have baby puke on my shoulder????? cause today might be the day that I run into Macklemore again.
I just signed up for HBO now so I can binge watch the final season of Girls. Last night I watched the first 5 episodes, and I feel like this season is the best one yet. Speaking of binge-watching tv, are you guys pumped for Gilmore Girls? I cannot wait.
For those of us who live in Seattle, and have leaped right into summer, we can refer to this pasta as a farewell to spring, but for those of you who live in other parts of the world where the snow has finally melted and the flowers are starting to pop up through the soil, I present you with a fresh spring-y salad of roasted cauliflower, snap peas, and avocado.
Do you ever get on a kick where you make something so delicious you want to eat it for every meal until you get completely sick of it? Welcome to my life, and to this pasta. Currently, I can't get enough, and all I want to eat is this pasta. The pesto is fragrant and earthy. Rich and creamy. The cauliflower is salty, crunchy, caramelized and delicious. The snap peas fresh and crunchy. This whole combination is just a really intense explosion of flavors. Yesterday for lunch, I was snacking on a deconstructed version of this meal, dipping the cauliflower and snap peas into the pesto, and I was just as pleased with the results.
Place the chopped cauliflower onto a baking sheet and drizzle with olive oil, enough to lightly coat. Sprinkle with salt and red pepper flakes. Place into the oven and bake for 40 minutes, tossing the cauliflower half-way through baking. You want the cauliflower to be golden to dark brown in color, and a little crispy.
While the cauliflower is cooking, make the pesto. Add the basil, walnuts, salt, lemon juice, and Parmesan to a food processor. Pulse until you have a crumbly paste. With the processor still running, drizzle in the olive oil. Pour the pesto into a jar and set to the side.
Heat a large pot of water to boil. Add 4 servings of spaghetti noodles and cook until al dente.
Once the pasta is almost cooked, steam the snap peas until slightly cooked. Bright green and still a bit crunchy. Slice into small pieces.
Drain the pasta. Toss with half of the pesto to start, and then continue to add more to your liking. Plate the pasta and top with the cauliflower, snap peas, and sliced avocado. Add additional Parmesan cheese as desired.


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notes from a small island… about to be fracked
Saying that the British constantly talk (most often complaining) about the weather is a cliché but then clichés are often clichés because they happen to be true. And this one is true principally because Britain is a peculiarly weathery place. Rarely extreme (in spite of the frequent and increasingly stern Met Office warnings of "flood alerts" and whopping "level 3 heatwaves") and yet by virtue of being geographically perched in a temperate maritime climatic zone, cursed by weather that is highly unpredictable and uncommonly capricious. Sunny one minute, "tipping it down" the next – we run the gamut of weather from icy to baking (sometimes in the space of twenty-four hours) and always with insufficient lorry-loads of grit or hopelessly inadequate access to air conditioning. Unpreparedness for regular seasonal changes being almost a matter of national pride.
So cast your mind back to last spring… or perhaps you don't remember it because it never properly happened. Instead, we simply skipped spring and launched ourselves barechested into a scorching summer. Nevertheless, as April approached the news was that Britain was quickly getting herself into a bit of a weather-related pickle. Another overheated drought of sorts…
This year an unseasonably cold March has seen a spike in gas demand – with forecasters predicting this weekend could be the coldest in March for half a century.
Temperatures could drop to -3C in parts of the country, and the Met Office has already issued several severe weather warnings.
"Severe weather warnings" were a hazard we might negotiate, but then there was far worse news riding on the back of our especially dreary couple of months of inclemency:
A study by Reuters claimed that if the current cold snap continues as forecast, Britain could run out of gas by April 8. 1
This absolutely gobsmacking claim that Britain had "the equivalent of less than two days' consumption remaining" (as the same Yahoo News story reported) being echoed right across the news media. And yet as April skated into May and then May sledged into June somehow the lights stayed on and the hot water kept on flowing. But just what might have happened if the sun had never got his hat on, would Britain have eventually run out of gas altogether? I mean just how unprepared can any nation be…?
The subtext of these stark messages was also clear. That what our nation so very urgently requires (aside from a hefty dose of sunlight for our pallid hides) is a reliable and 'alternative' supply of energy. Preferably – especially given the precise nature of our deficit – huge gas reserves directly beneath our feet.
Thankfully BBC news were ready to present us with just such a viable and almost immediate rescue package:
"Gas, we cook with it, we heat our homes, we use it to drive turbines to make electricity. The thing is we don't have huge amounts of it. In fact we're a net importer of gas.
What if we were standing on a new supply of UK gas? We'd want to take a look wouldn't we? That's what fracking is…"
So begins a characteristically upbeat and rather nannying BBC report delivered by Giles Dilnot on March 25th – and so right on cue to save the day.
Dilnot's 'report' for the Daily Politics show was then closely followed by a debate (of sorts) between Cuadrilla Resources chief executive Francis Egan praising the wonders of shale gas that his company is so determined to get its grubby mitts on, whilst opposed and supposedly balanced by environmental campaigner Tony Juniper who says he objects to plans for a future powered by shale gas principally on the grounds of climate change. A discussion (available on the same link above) that was as consistently sidetracked and irritatingly one-dimensional as it was brief, and at every turn hindered by misdirected questions from mediator Andrew Neil, very likely addled on Blue Nun. Inevitably, therefore, all of the most salient points were skipped past or overlooked entirely; points which I will return to later (even if I've hammered those same points nearly to death in previous posts).
Come late April, however, and the BBC was in any case reporting more cautiously on the prospects of our shale gas energy renaissance:
Shale gas in the UK could help secure domestic energy supplies but may not bring down prices, MPs report. […]
The MPs say the UK's shale gas developers will face technological uncertainties with different geology.
And public opinion may also be more sceptical, they add.
The UK is a more densely populated landscape, and shale gas operations will be closer to settlements as a consequence.
Interestingly, those same MPs felt that any undue concerns of the general public might be overcome by recourse to "cash sweeteners" offered to the local communities most affected ("cash sweeteners" being a form of inducement that MPs seem to know a lot about these days). Unfortunately, of course, even such direct forms of bribery only get you so far (since not everyone is as venal as most of our parliamentarians), added to which, there were a few other awkward hurdles that needed jumping:
The MPs believe operators will have to overcome potentially tighter regulations.
What is more, the extent of recoverable resources in the UK is also unknown, so the report concludes that it is too soon to say whether shale gas will achieve US-style levels of success. 2
Incidentally, "US-style levels of success" is another thing I will need to come back to later, and even if it again leads me to issues I've already hammered long and hard on many previous occasions…
Meanwhile, as May defrosted into June, and as the British public waited and waited for the sun to come out more fully attired… lo, another (minor) miracle!
UK firm IGas says there may be up to 170 trillion cubic feet (4,810 cubic km) of gas in the areas it is licensed to explore in northern England. […]
The company's licences cover an area of 300 sq miles across Cheshire.
It had previously said it had about nine trillion cubic feet of shale gas. It now estimates that the volume of "gas initially in place" could range from 15.1 trillion cubic feet to 172.3 trillion cubic feet, the higher figure being nearly 20 times higher than the previous estimate.
The UK's annual gas consumption is currently about 3 trillion cubic feet. […]
"Our estimates for our area alone could mean that the UK would not have to import gas for a period of 10 to 15 years". 3
Yes, little more than a month had passed, and suddenly (as if completely out of the blue) it turned out that Britain has nearly limitless bags of lovely gas just waiting patiently to be defracked – potentially trillions and trillions of billowing cubic feet of the stuff. Enough gas for every man jack amongst us. Enough gas to power all our homes and factories, enough to keep the telly on and Andrew Neil tepid, enough even to satisfy that most gassy of gas-expelling institutions, our houses of parliament.
The same BBC article also provided us with a handy map showing the considerable swathes of black shale deposits running though the country like thick veins of fat coursing across a rasher of streaky bacon. And in the midst of these, those areas where onshore licences are now being granted. Areas which happen to surround my own beloved city of Sheffield like, like, like…
… like day-old bruises… or like the mottled skin of a plague victim. Since this is how such a map appears if you are inclined to turn your nose up at the prospect of poisoned land and contaminated water supplies the colour of crude oil, reeking of turps and fizzing with methane…
Yes this, unfortunately (and to finally return to those other issues), is precisely what those "US-style levels of success" have actually meant for countless farmers and other residents penned in by the hundreds of thousands of drilling rigs so tightly arrayed across the Marcellus Shale in the Appalachian Basin and far beyond to distant horizons. And soon, with dubious credit going to President Obama and his unrestrained assent for the thorough-going expansion of the fracking industry, there will be quite literally millions of similar rigs operating day and night from coast to coast across the whole of the United States. All this fracking bringing to the folks who happen to live in the ever-encroaching vicinities of the drilling, not so much a blessing, as a most terrible blight:
My daughter looks up. Her rash is all over her face. She has a nosebleed. Bob has a nosebleed, burning throat, burning eyes. I had a rash. It covered my scalp. It went through my entire body, literally to the bottoms of my feet. My throat would start swelling. I started gasping for air. I started stuttering. I started stumbling. My face drew up on my left side like I had Bell palsy.
Here is part of the testimony of just one of many such victims speaking out on Josh Fox's recently released Gasland Part II. Lisa Parr of Wise County, Texas, explaining how her family's health deteriorated after shale gas drilling began around their home. [The documentary has since been released on Vimeo – it is embedded at the end of this article.]
And whilst the ordinary victims struggled on to make themselves heard, and besides the anticipated silence maintained by the greater part of the US corporate media, the fracking industry has nevertheless felt obliged to fight dirtier than ever before. Resorting to quite staggering and altogether outlandish strategies for reversing the battle they had been losing over hearts and minds:
Well, this is audio that was recorded by a blogger named Texas Sharon, working for Earthworks, who was at an oil and gas industry conference where they were discussing all the bad PR that they were getting and how to counter it. And what they go on to do is explain how they're using former PSYOPs officers, psychological operations officers, who were newly coming back from Iraq and Afghanistan, to write local laws, to develop techniques to divide local landowners. That's Matt Pitzarella from Range Resources talking about that. Chesapeake then goes on to talk about people who are fighting the gas industry, like landowners, like you just saw, Jeremiah Gee, as insurgents. And one of the PR spokespeople for Anadarko, another huge petroleum company, says that what they should actually do is download the counterinsurgency manual, which is a 300-odd-page book about, you know, how to deal with an insurgency in Iraq and Afghanistan. These are terms of war, and it was very, very shocking to see that.
Those are the words of Josh Fox speaking on Democracy Now! [July 12th], addressing a question about his own discovery of industry's use of military PSYOPs tactics. It's a PR approach, he explains, that combines bogus science with more familiar methods of advertising:
But it goes hand in hand with a strategy that's very overt in the media, which is to buy—you can't turn on the TV, except for perhaps this show, where you're not going to see ads from the natural gas industry. And we're seeing also editorials and these kinds of things on blog posts seeded to do things to try to discredit the very clear science, and in most cases the science that the industry themselves did. This is following the tobacco industry's playbook. The tobacco industry for decades sponsored bogus science, went out to try to create doubt in the media as to whether or not the cigarettes were harmful to people. And that strategy was developed by a PR firm called Hill & Knowlton. The America's Natural Gas Alliance hired the same PR firm in 2009, and we're seeing that same kind of strategy of creating doubt and of creating a false debate in the media over whether or not this drilling contaminates water.
Click here to read a full transcript or to watch the interview on the Democracy Now! website.
Not that any of this is what the guys at Cuadrilla Resources have in mind for us apparently. Fracking in Britain will be entirely different the chief executive of Cuadrilla, Francis Egan, told Andrew Neil, offering his solemn pledge as a certain guarantee that our groundwater will very definitely never be contaminated, whilst insisting that in the eccentrically British variety of fracking only "one single chemical" is ever pumped into the ground.
It is worth noting, however, that when it came to fracking in Poland (which happens to be the European frontier for shale gas extraction), residents were also given clear reassurance from industry officials that the fluids injected into the earth would only include such harmless food additives as salt and lemon juice… lemon juice!!! Yes, sadly I'm not joking – it seems that these industry guys will tell the public absolutely anything just so long as it helps them to get their way. Indeed you can see these claims for yourself if you decide to watch an alternative investigative documentary made by Polish-American filmmaker Lech Kowalski and entitled Drill Baby Drill (the reason for the title becoming quickly apparent). A trailer for the film is available here:
Drill Baby Drill Trailer 1 by Lech Kowalski from revolt cinema on Vimeo.
And if our own rush to fracking truly represents such an unmitigated good for the people of Britain then precisely what's all this about…
Local communities are set to lose control over key environmental decisions affecting whether fracking can go ahead within their midst, it is claimed.
Campaigners opposing the industrial-scale exploitation of shale gas reserves in the British countryside said the Government has removed key democratic controls in its dash to bring unconventional energy resources on stream.
Under planning guidelines published last week, councils will no longer be able to investigate issues such as seismic activity, flaring and venting as well as the potential impact on ground water supplies before granting planning permission for new wells.
Which is taken from an article published in Monday's Independent. A report that goes on to add:
Whilst campaigners argue that there are still many environmental and economic questions yet to be answered over the impact of fracking, the Government is determined to go press ahead. Last week Chancellor George Osborne, whose own Tatton constituency is home to major reserves, announced that onshore shale gas producers will pay a 30 per cent tax rate compared to 62 per cent paid by on North Sea oil operations. 4
Special exemptions and deregulation plus the bonus of tax incentives all serving to underline how extremely keen our government now is to give fracking the go-ahead; bending over backwards to get the acres of rigs set up as soon as is humanly possible. And why such a mad dash in the first place? Is it really that our national gas stocks are set to run out next March (all over again)…?
Undoubtedly this is what they would have us believe. Though crying wolf over shortages appears to be merely the latest corporate-government ruse, and a trick that played rather well over in Poland, with many Poles easily blinded by offers of energy independence from their overbearing neighbour Russia and so quite happy to be fracked all over (and, as Lech Kowalski's documentary reveals, in Poland tests alone were enough to contaminate some local water supplies).
But then this great urgency to get cracking with the fracking suits both the industry and governments for another reason of course, with speed being of the utmost essence whenever anyone is attempting to sell a pig in a poke. On top of which, when it comes to the instigation and operation of every kind of a filthy scheme, the schemers are certainly best advised to make significant and, if possible, irreversible headway before the real filth behind their scheme comes to major public attention… bankers being the real trailblazers when it comes to "pulling a fast one" on an unsuspecting public.
And the damage caused by fracking, as with the damage caused by smoking, is damage in the making and thus very conveniently delayed. So fast-forward some five to ten years and in the aftermath of this proposed policy of furious and widespread fracking, and with a vast proportion of our countryside potentially unfit for human habitation, the environmental devastation having become almost as inescapable as it is undeniable, well the industry will no doubt turn to their teams of lawyers to help them fight against every claim made for damages. They'll be alright Jack just as the tobacco industry is quite alright: very much alive and well (unlike some of its most unlucky customers) and still highly profitable – just ask Ken Clarke.
With Britain already fracked to the eyeballs, there will be plenty of other as then less benighted corners of the world being made ready for a jolly good fracking (even if, rather curiously, Bulgaria is one place unlikely to join us in the queue – plucky little Bulgaria, eighteen months ago, becoming only the second European country after France to ban exploratory drilling for shale gas 5).
For those who prefer to trust the executives of the oil companies and the well-paid teams who work on public relations and advertising, I'm not quite sure what more can be said. Do please take a little time to read my earlier (informative and more restrained) posts on the subject. But far more importantly, watch Josh Fox's excellent original Gasland documentary and his still finer Gasland II. Following which, and supposing that you still wish to see fracking drills burrowing under your neighbourhood like so many parasitic ticks, then I have to presume that you dismiss the many expert contributors as unreliable witnesses whilst disregarding the testimony of so many victims as deluded idiots or out and out liars. The gloopy water being just a theatrical prop and the incendiary taps clever special effects.
On the other hand, for those like myself who feel frankly outraged by the cavalier manner in which our government is behaving, so to eager to sell off our precious land and mineral rights to these nefarious energy giants, then my advice is simple – stop talking so much about the weather and begin talk about fracking instead.
We need to reclaim our land before its too late and if that means being a nimby* then here's to it! Because when it comes to opposing fracking, which although a widespread menace is necessarily carried out on an extremely local scale, our best hope seems to be that nimbys of the world (and according to another cliché the British are exemplary nimbys) can somehow unite. I'm very much a fracking nimby – and please don't take this the wrong way, but I'm hoping that you're a fracking nimby too!
* nimby: not in my backyard (generally a pejorative and used to refer to persons or groups that oppose the introduction into their neighborhood of a new development they consider objectionable)
Gasland Part II was released on HBO on July 8th. It was premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival last Sunday [July 21st]:
The film argues that the gas industry's portrayal of natural gas as a clean and safe alternative to oil is a myth and that fracked wells inevitably leak over time, contaminating water and air, hurting families, and endangering the earth's climate with the potent greenhouse gas, methane. In addition the film looks at how the powerful oil and gas industries are in Fox's words "contaminating our democracy".
You can watch the official trailer below:
For anyone who missed it – here's Lord Howell, Tory gasbag and father-in-law of Chancellor George Osborne, outlining to his 'noble Lords' how fracking might better be restricted, at least for the more immediate term, to "large and uninhabited desolate areas" of the North East.
Lord Howell of Guildford (which, incidentally, happens to be far away from the desolate North) arguing that:
"there's plenty of room for fracking, well away from anybody's residence, where it could be conducted without any kind of threat to the rural environment…"
And after all, the North doesn't actually have rural environment in any case, but only back-to-back terraces, factories, chip shops, men with flat caps and whippets and all sorts of other frightful nastiness…
Here is a full version of Gasland Part II from Vimeo:
1 From an article entitled "As experts say 'the lights could go out in Britain', what has caused UK's looming gas crisis?" written by Chris Parsons, published on Yahoo News on March 22, 2013. http://uk.news.yahoo.com/britain-gas-shortage–lights-going-out-energy-supplies-march-cold-snap-160212133.html#aadBz8x
2 From an article entitled "UK shale gas bonanza 'not assured'" written by Roger Harrabin, published by BBC news on April 26, 2013. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-22300050
3 From an article entitled "UK shale gas reserves may be 'bigger than first thought'" written by John Moylan, published by BBC news on June 3, 2013. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-22748915
4 From an article entitled "Fracking controls 'removed in dash for unconventional energy resources" written by Jonathan Brown, published in The Independent on July 22, 2013. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/fracking-controls-removed-in-dash-for-unconventional-energy-resources-8726869.html
5 "Bulgaria has become the second European country after France to ban exploratory drilling for shale gas using the extraction method called "fracking".
"Bulgarian MPs voted overwhelmingly for a ban on Wednesday, following big street protests by environmentalists."
From a BBC news report entitled "Bulgaria bans shale gas drilling with 'fracking method'" published on January 19, 2012. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-16626580
Filed under analysis & opinion, Britain, fracking (shale & coal seam gas), Poland, USA
Tagged as "Drill Baby Drill", "Gasland II", "Gasland", Cuadrilla, George Osborne, Hill & Knowlton, Josh Fox, Lech Kowalski, Lord Howell, nimby, PSYOPs


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Georg Christian Crollius (* 21. Juli 1728 in Zweibrücken; † 23. März 1790 ebenda) war ein deutscher Historiker und Bibliothekar.

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Der Enkel des Theologen Johann Lorenz Crollius, Sohn des Zweibrücker Gymnasialrektors Johann Philipp Crollius und der Margaretha Gabriela Joannis studierte in Halle und Göttingen und trat wie sein Vater, dem er 1767 in der Leitung des Zweibrücker Herzog-Wolfgang-Gymnasiums folgte, in den Schuldienst des Fürstentums Pfalz-Zweibrücken ein. Herzog Christian IV. ernannte ihn auch zum Vorstand der Bibliothek, der heutigen Bibliotheca Bipontina, und zum Hofhistoriographen. Ähnlich wie sein Vater forschte er über die Geschichte der Pfalz und der rheinischen Pfalzgrafschaft. Als Mitglied der Kurpfälzischen Akademie der Wissenschaften in Mannheim (seit 1765) verfasste er etliche Aufsätze, die in ihrer Schriftenreihe gedruckt wurden. Als sein Hauptwerk dürfen die Origines Bipontinae (1761–1769) angesprochen werden. Er wirkte auch an den seit 1779 im Verlag der Societas Bipontina erschienenen Ausgaben griechischer und lateinischer Klassiker, den Editiones Bipontinae mit. Seit 1759 war er auswärtiges Mitglied der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften.

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 Originum Bipontinarum. Hallanzy, Biponti 1761–1769.
 Band 1: In Qua Non Solum Res Bipontinae Medii Aevi Sed Et Alia Scitu Digna Ad Veterem Franciae Rhenanae Westrasiae Et Lothringiae Historiam Pertinentia Suo Ordine Explicantur. 1761.
 Band 2: Historiae Comitum Geminipontis Genealogico Diplomaticae. 1769.
 Erläuterte Reihe der Pfaltzgraven zu Achen oder in Niederlothringen von ihrer Anordnung an biss auf Henrich von Lach, Pfaltzgraven bey Rhein. Mit Zugaben und Fortsetzung, Hallanzy, Zweybrücken 1762–1764.
 Band 1: Hauptwerk, 1762 ()
 Band 2: Zugabe, 1764 ()
 Zugabe. Zugabe zu der Erläuterten Reihe der Pfalzgraven zu Aachen in Niederlothringen von ihrer Anordnung an biß auf Pfalzgrav Heinrich von Lach wie auch Fortsetzung dieser Reihe in der Geschichte der Pfalzgraven Heinrichs von Lache und Sigfrieds von Ballenstedt nebst einer Geschlechtstafel von Sigfrieds Abstammung, seiner Gemahlin, Söhnen und Verwandtschaft. 1764
 Commentarius De Cancellariis Et Procancellariis Bipontinis. Lipsiae-Francofurti 1768.

Literatur

 Albert Becker: Georg Christian Crollius (1728–1790). In: Zeitschrift für Bayerische Landesgeschichte. 1. 1928, S. 362–365. Digitalisat

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Bibliothekar (Deutschland)
Historiker
Mitglied der Kurpfälzischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
Mitglied der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
Person (Zweibrücken)
Geboren 1728
Gestorben 1790
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A somewhat more contemporary version of a lectern, made to display a portfolio. The thinking behind it's design is to have rather understated legs that naturally sweep the eyes swiftly upwards onto the solid waney edged Elm top and ultimately onto the portfolio it was made for.
Legs are made from Ash veneered Birch ply for strength.


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NYC'S Top Commercial Deals Vie for REBNY'S Ingenious Deal of the Year Awards
AND THE NOMINEES ARE….
Forget about the Oscars, New York City's commercial real estate community is eagerly anticipating The Real Estate Board of New York's (REBNY) coveted Ingenious Deal of the Year awards this spring after a year of ground-breaking transactions. The powerhouse nominees have been announced for this year's awards, which highlight the year's most ingenious and creative sale, lease or finance deals. The awards will be presented at the Sales Brokers Committee Cocktail Party on May 6, 2014 at the 101 Club.
The nominees for 2013's Most Ingenious Deals are:
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Brokers: Massey Knakal Realty Services - Brock Emmetsberger, James P. Nelson
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Brokers: Massey Knakal Realty Services – Michael A. Azarian, John F. Ciraulo
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Broker: Newmark Grubb Knight Frank – James Kuhn
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Brokers: Cushman & Wakefield – Bruce Mosler, Michael Rotchford; Avison Young – Arthur Mirante
"Jumpstarting the Future: Coach Buys in to Hudson Yards"
Brokers: CBRE, Inc. – Mary Ann Tighe, Gregory Tosko
"Sell High, Buy Low: Powerful Real Estate Therapy For A Non-Profit – 149 E. 78th Street"
Brokers: Eastern Consolidated – Ben Tapper, Marion Jones, Brian Ezratty
"Air Equal to Land: The Sale of Air Rights from 520 Park Avenue"
Brokers: Tenantwise, Inc. – M. Myers Mermel, Caroline McLain
"Sale of the Ground Lessor's Position at 625 Madison Avenue"
Brokers: Cushman & Wakefield – Brian Corcoran, Helen Hwang, Steven Kohn
"Expanded Service & Reduced Fares – MNR Arrives on Schedule at the Graybar Building – 420 Lexington Avenue"
Brokers: Cushman & Wakefield – Josh Kuriloff, Louis Wolfowitz
"MakerBot Industries, Brooklyn, NY – Industry City, 148 39th St., 241 37th St. & 147 37th St."
Broker: Cushman & Wakefield – Glenn Markman
"The Grandest Gambit Ever: Realizing a 21st Century Citi – 388-390 Greenwich St."
Brokers: CBRE, Inc. – Robert Alexander, Michael Geoghegan, Andrew Sussman
"Engineering a Performance-Driven Transaction for Porsche – 711 Eleventh Avenue"
Broker: Newmark Grubb Knight Frank – Brian G. Goldman
"The Improbable Master Lease of the Retail Spaces at 650 Fifth Avenue"
Broker: Cushman & Wakefield – David A. Green
"Against the Odds – Brookfield Place: 225 Liberty Street"
Brokers: Studley – David Goldstein, Jarod Stern, Ken Ruderman
"Eye of the Beholder: A 21st Century Home for the World's Largest Beauty Company – 10 Hudson Yards"
Brokers: CBRE, Inc. – Stephen Siegel, Michael Geoghegan, Lauren Crowley Corrinet
"A Homegrown Brooklyn Tenant Grows & Stays in Brooklyn – 55 Water Street"
Brokers: Retail Strategies – Mark Finkelstein; SCG-Retail LLC – Chase Welles
"70 Pine Street Conversion Financing"
Brokers: The Singer & Bassuk Organization – Andrew J. Singer, Kathleen McSharry
"The submissions this year are a unique mix of innovative deals, and as always our judges will have their work cut out for them to decide who will receive first, second and third-place prizes," said Steven Spinola, REBNY President. "We wish the nominees the best of luck and thank our members for their outstanding submissions. We look forward to an exciting contest again this year."
Winners will be judged in the categories of sales, leasing, and finance by a panel of industry leaders. The honors are presented to the dealmakers that demonstrate the most ingenuity, creativity and professional skill.


Something really exciting happened today!
When foster-mama got home from work she had a fancy new collar and leash for me. I was kinda jealous of Ruby's matching outfit, so she got me one too! Foster-mama says she doesn't like pink much, but I think it looks awfully good on me.


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Found another otter tumblr! (Serious Otter Pups) And for today's otterday: The end is in sight for July, and (hopefully!!!) my June/July fic as well!
Okay, no, it's still Really Hot. But a video of Hank Green singing about it being too hot still made me laugh! It's not about the current heat, but that didn't impact it's topical nature for me.
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Fellowships Examination Applications Form Applications Form for election to HKIMM fellowship
The Hong Kong Institute of Musculoskeletal Medicine
The Examination is designed to evaluate the competence of the candidates in regard to their knowledge, skills and attitudes in Musculoskeletal Medicine. A good understanding of the principles and application of Musculoskeletal Medicine is essential. Skills in problem solving, communication, practice management, physical examination, sonoanatomy, manual and office procedures are to be tested. Commitments of continuous professional development, provision of training, and public education are expected from candidates.
REQUIREMENTS AND ELIGIBILITY
The candidate MUST at the time of application for the Examination and at the time of the Fellowship Examination be:
a FULL member of HKIMM
FULLY REGISTERED with the Hong Kong Medical Council or with the Medical Registration Body of the candidate's country of medical practice.
actively practicing Musculoskeletal Medicine for not less than THREE years by 30 June 2018.
EXAMINATION FEES
Full Examination (Written + Clinical) ............ $25,000
If a candidate wishes to withdraw from the examination, and written notification of withdrawal is received by the HKIMM 90 days or more prior to the date of the examination, he/she will receive a refund of $16,000 for the whole examination. No refund of any amount will be given if written notice of withdrawal is received by the HKIMM within 90 days of the first date of that particular part of the examination. All fees paid are not transferable to subsequent examinations.
16 March 2018, Friday, 5:00pm Closing Date for Applications
16 June 2018, Saturday, 3:00pm-6:00pm Written Segment of the Examination
13 July 2018, Friday, 8:30am-1:30pm Clinical Segment of the Examination
FORMAT OF THE FELLOWSHIP EXAMINATION
Written Segment : Short and long questions
Clinical Segment : OSCE format consists of short and long cases
Passing of both segments is considered as passing of the Fellowship Examination. Any candidate who does not score a pass mark of the written segment, may be required to retake the written examination (fees apply) before he is allowed to take the clinical segment. All examination schedules shall be determined by HKIMM at its sole discretion.
ELECTION TO FELLOWHSHIP
Success in the Fellowship Examination does not automatically entitle a candidate to become eligible for the election to the title of Fellow of Institute of Musculoskeletal Medicine (FHKIMM). The Board of Examination will recommend the successful candidates to the Councils of HKIMM for election to Fellowship. The candidates should check whether they meet the criteria required for Fellowship application and apply for election to Fellowship themselves. If they fail to qualify for election to fellowship in the year at which they pass the Fellowship Examination, it is the candidate's responsibility to re-apply for election to Fellowship in subsequent year(s) after he/she has fulfilled the criteria.
The followings are extracts of the criteria for the election to Fellowship of HKIMM. The criteria contained in the Constitution of HKIMM should be the final verdict.
is an active Full Member of HKIMM;
has been paying annual subscriptions continuously since becoming a member of the HKIMM;
has passed the Fellowship examination of HKIMM;
have been actively practicing Musculoskeletal Medicine for not less than three years;
has documented proof of Certificate of Quality Assurance issued by HKIMM or its equivalent as determined by the Council in the 3 consecutive years prior to election to Fellowship;
recommended by a Fellow of the HKIMM;
has solemnly pledged to uphold the aims and objectives of HKIMM and to commit himself/herself to a process of continuous medical education by playing an active role in HKIMM educational programmes to the best of his/her ability; and
is elected to Fellowship by majority vote of the Council.
Please download the Fellowships Examination Applications Form and Applications Form for election to HKIMM fellowship for more details.


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Void in Leadership Continues for California High-Speed Rail
June 21, 2017 By Chris Reed 8 Comments
Four months after then-California High Speed Rail Authority Chief Executive Jeff Morales told authority board members he was moving on and two months after Morales made his decision public, the agency overseeing the state's $64 billion bullet train project hasn't settled on his successor.
In 2012, four months after Chief Executive Roelof van Ark abruptly left following two stormy years, Morales already had the job. This time around, the same speedy selection process seemed likely. The RT&S transportation industry website reported after Morales' decision was announced in April that the board was likely to have his replacement approved before Morales' final day of June 2.
But the CHSRA board met in closed session on the succession issue on May 10 and June 14 without reaching a decision. The rail agency's number two job – deputy chief executive – has also been vacant since Dennis Trujillo left in December.
The empty slots atop the CHSRA power structure come at a critical time.
According to a federal report prepared under the Obama administration, the state's high-speed rail project is already seven years behind schedule and on its way to having a 50 percent cost overrun on the $6.4 billion, 118-mile first segment now being built in the Central Valley.
The project also continues to face legal challenges which argue that it violates the terms of Proposition 1A, the 2008 ballot measure providing $9.95 billion in bond seed money for the project. The rail authority has won most recent judgments. But opponents remain confident they eventually will prevail because of a 2014 state appellate court ruling that held the project still was subject to a financial "straitjacket" that would require it to show short- and long-term financial viability without public subsidies before the project could significantly proceed. The project's struggle to attract private investment shows that at least in the private sector, there are many doubts that the bullet train could operate successfully without such subsidies.
Obama administration rules could haunt project
But the election of Donald Trump as president in November also has led to a huge new headache for CHSRA. All 14 California House Republicans have urged Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao to reverse Obama administration actions that loosened federal rules to give California access to about $3 billion in federal dollars for the project.
Rep. Jeff Dunman, R-Turlock, and his colleagues have focused their harshest fire on a 2012 decision that gave the state the go-ahead to spend about $200 million in federal funds but not have matching state spending. The decision went against longstanding Washington precedent.
Withdrawing all federal funding could also be justified by citing the Obama administration's 2009 regulations for projects that were to be paid for or partly paid for with money from the economic stimulus bill passed a month after President Obama took office. The Federal Railroad Administration rules said projects that didn't demonstrate "reasonableness of financial estimates" and "quality of planning process" would get no funding.
That's the same agency which recently concluded the project was seven years behind schedule and on course for a 50 percent cost overrun on its initial segment
The California High Speed Rail Authority board's next meeting is July 18 in Sacramento.
This article was originally published by CalWatchdog.com
Filed Under: Top Stories Tagged With: California High Speed Rail Authority, CHSRA, high speed rail, Jeff Morales
Last reply was June 25, 2017
I will take the job if I have the power to stop the boondoggle in its tracks. No pun intended.
Put the money to work fixing our roads.
Really???
How about these apples…. "Obama administration, … seven years behind schedule and …. 50 percent cost overrun on the $6.4 billion, 118-mile first segment…." The Democrats have now fallen into insanity (repeated delusional behavior). They are not based in reality only in utopian concepts that will both increase the costs of government to the taxpayer, and most importantly result in failures compared to the outcomes they expect.
So glad we escaped california and it's liberal lunacy. Taxes keep going up as the liberals continue to pour the revenues down a rat hole. A once great state has been forever destroyed. Get out if you possibly can before they bleed you dry.
Fed up, you spelled Kalifornia wrong! Lucky you to escape!
John replied:
Anziani: fed up did use the lower case "c" instead of the upper case "C", so kalifornia is being politely insulted.
What this train needs is an engineer with a steady hand,
and a conductor with a brain.
ambrjak
Its my understanding that they're looking for a firm hand to run this railroad. I'm suggesting they put Nancy Pelosi in the drivers seat. A marriage made in heaven for sure and the Hawaiians have always wanted that rail option to the mainland.
It has been already determined, the "high speed train", with the newest technology, can't handle the pass between Bakersfield and Los Angeles. However, I remember a technology that can. It's an old technology known as the rack railway system. It uses a toothed center rail which engages a slotted drive cylinder on the train and can handle very steep slopes. I think the top speed with it is about ten miles per hour.
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[Update: Pixel 5, 4a 5G supported in Android 12] Google Pixel 4 dual SIM dual standby (DSDS): Here's what you should know
Hillary Keverenge Oct 16, 2019 Android, Android 10, Google, New features, News, Standalone, Verizon
Original story (published on October 16, 2019) follows:
Just about every smartphone sold in the U.S. comes with only one SIM card slot. Dual-SIM smartphones are unheard of in these parts of the world, but they are far more common elsewhere.
Check in to a Verizon Wireless shop and you'll walk out with a Samsung Galaxy S10 with a single SIM slot. Try the same somewhere in India or Europe and you'll get an S10 unit with two SIM card slots.
International smartphone models have dual SIM slots
You think having a dual-SIM smartphone isn't a necessity? Wait until you meet devices like Coolpad Mega 3 and Acer Liquid E700 Trio (E39) with triple SIM card slots or even some with quadruple SIM slots.
While having multiple SIM card slots in a phone is a boon for people who travel overseas frequently, there is absolutely no reason to stress over hunting down one of these triple or quadruple SIM phones, but the desire to have dual-SIM support in phones is certainly there.
The Coolpad Mega 3 has three SIM card slots
As you would expect, there are different variations of how smartphone makers offer dual SIM slots in their handsets. Some have two physical SIM slots, sometimes of different sizes, while others, like in the case of the Google Pixel 4 and Pixel 3a, have a physical SIM slot and an eSIM.
The Google Pixel 3a gained support for dual SIM dual standby (DSDS) via the update to Android 10. The feature was briefly enabled for the Pixel 3 in Android Q beta, but later disabled after the stable version arrived. To date, it's unknown whether it will get a life on the 2018 sets.
As for the Google Pixel 4, all evidence points to support for DSDS out of the box. The official specs sheet confirms this feature and so does the listing on Best Buy and the retail box, which has two IMEI numbers to go with each SIM card slot.
Heck, the Google Pixel 4 DSDS support has even been confirmed by a Google Product Expert in the official support forums, but your carrier must support the eSIM feature in order to make use of it, otherwise, you'll be limited to using the single Nano SIM slot.
Yes, the Pixel 4 does support DSDS just like the pixel 3a. The eSIM can be used with Google Fi or other carriers that support the feature. Check with your carrier if it's available.
For some reason, though, it looks like there won't be Google Pixel 4 DSDS support for Verizon Wireless users. This is according to Verizon support on Twitter, who claims the device isn't dual SIM compatible.
No, the Google Pixel 4 is not dual SIM compatible.
Verizon Wireless may not support Google Pixel 4 DSDS (Source)
Although Google Pixel 4 DSDS seems to be a thing, its likely that the feature doesn't play nicely with some carriers. This is perhaps the same case that necessitated the warning in the Google Pixel 3a docs about the feature not being able to work with all carriers.
Some combinations of SIM networks don't work well together. If you see a notification that says "Voice unavailable" or "Voice interruptions," the networks on your two SIMs are having trouble working together.
It remains to be seen if the Google Pixel 4 DSDS feature will work on all models – and countries for that matter. What seems forthcoming is some carriers standing in the way of the feature since it allows device owners to insert a second SIM card in their phones, something they obviously don't like.
We will keep an eye on future Google Pixel 4 DSDS developments and update this post. Stay tuned to our Google and Verizon Wireless sections so that you don't miss this update and more related stories.
Update (February 23, 2021)
The Google Pixel 4a 5G and Pixel 5, like the Pixel 4 and Pixel 3a before it, also support Dual SIM Dual Standby (DSDS) feature out of the box, but this only worked for 4G networks.
With 5G, Pixel 4a 5G and Pixel 5 users had to disable one SIM card, something that ends with the update to Android 12 developer preview 1.
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Before today I had no thirst or drive for the air max 270. It really wasn't my shape cut or mould for what I am looking for in a shoe. Considering the Air Max series is more fashion than function I saw no need for a runner with air when I got a perfectly good vapour-max right there that I want so desperately. That's how I thought, the 270 was on the Back burner til further notice.
But bro that all change with the Nike Air Max 270 Utility that just released. My word it just looks so badass and considers so many design functions and suits techwear perfectly. The Prestos may be highly considered grail but to me these are superb and have a quality fusion of sneaker culture style and really hold square in the niche of faux tech.
I don't have the sneaker with me so most of this is about the style and not the function I'm not very sure if it's waterproof or fit for multiple terrain but in just looking at the silhouette I see dunk elements to it with the rise and upper facade.
The soles I assume grip like an air max and have a real sculptural element to the mid sole that I see the flare and really respect the detailing used all around the shoe. Honestly I'm hype. Considering all the Marketing done last year round the release and subsequent lack of enthusiasm I understand the lack of publicity Nike have around these.
I would love to speak to the designer and just want to get their take on what inspired them to take this approach to bringing together the Sneaker to this direction. Those are the type of conversations that get me going.


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An Auckland man was allegedly robbed and battered after an internet date turned into a vicious attack.
The gay man, believed to be in his mid to early thirties, had arranged to meet a date through the social media App, Grindr, at his home.
But Community Advocate, Karen Ritchie, said two carloads turned up at his home instead.
"They rolled his house, they had a shot gun, they took his car," she said.
Ritchie posted warnings to the gay community online.
"I have been made aware of a gang of thieves posing as a guy on Grindr who have used a gun and various other weapons to rob and humiliate one of our community members and possibly others and will be targeting gay men as you read this. This isn't fake this is real please be aware, don't meet up unless you're in a busy public place these scum are very serious and I don't want anyone hurt or killed by these animals. Feel free to share this," she wrote.
Ritchie told Maori Television's Te Kaea news that the victim was distraught and in shock.
Further alerts were issued by police and New Zealand entertainer, Mika.
"You would hope in the world today that we've moved on, I mean sadly we haven't," said Mika.
"There's rules to live by, when you're cyber dating. One - no face, no phone number, no meet. If you're gonna turn up and see someone, you do it in a public place in the day. Write the phone number of a registration plate, their phone number, take pictures of their face, put it on your phone and send it to a mate before you go out. So if you get in trouble, you can say, just so you know before you even touch me, I've sent this to a mate," he said.
Police are investigating the attack as an aggravated robbery.