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El Camino College officials prepare to aid disproportionately affected students: Black student population identified as group most in need
As enrollment numbers among minority groups across California community colleges decrease, El Camino College has identified Black students as the college's "annual priority" after determining that they haven't performed as well as other groups.
The Black student population group has steadily decreased at ECC over the last five years by 8.81%, yet the same is true for the overall state numbers, dropping by 14.2% during the same time period.
The most significant drop at ECC happened during the 2019-2020 academic year, according to the California Community College Chancellor's Office Datamart (CCCCOD).
Viviana Unda, director of institutional research and planning at ECC, told the Board of Trustees during their Oct. 15 meeting that her office identified Black students as the priority group, meaning the college should seek to aid them the most through 2022.
"[Five] of our seven lagging indicators and all of our leading indicators, incorporated Black and African American students as disproportionately impacted, so they perform not as well as we would expect," Unda said.
The lagging indicators Unda's office observes include factors like degree completion, transfer rates, living wage attainment and field of study. Leading indicators include course withdrawals, retention rates and employable skill attainment.
"The college is looking at different kinds of data and making sure that the way in which we implement our actions, and the way in which we are allocating our budget, really directly impacts students," Unda said.
Jeremy Smotherman, career technical education (CTE) research analyst at ECC said the data used to identify these issues are gathered from a myriad of sources like the California Community Colleges application (CCCApply), the Labor Market and the CTE Employment Outcomes Survey (CTEOS).
"[It] provides us, again, a more detailed component of really what the student journey is like, and we utilize that information to tell us where our success is at [and] where do we need to have improvements upon," Smotherman said.
He also said race and ethnicity are only one component of diversity, but they help to show how "students are really progressing" at ECC.
While Unda's office analyzes student data in order to identify areas of improvement at ECC, whichever steps are carried out to make those improvements fall on the other offices at the college and its student services.
"We [ECC] have divisions, departments, programs, that will take this information and build it into what their plan is for the year or maybe for the next four years," Smotherman said. "We are more [laying] the data foundation."
Robin Dreizler, dean of enrollment services at ECC, said his biggest concern in regard to underrepresented students, like the Black and American Indian/ Alaskan Native groups, lies in how they might be put at a further disadvantage due to COVID-19.
"My concern in this COVID environment is a lot of these [vulnerable] populations have lost their support," Dreizler said. "And it's particularly concerning because they're not at their high schools, they're not walking by their counseling offices, they're not walking by their college and career centers and so I think they're missing out on a bit of a push."
He believes ECC will have to do more for incoming students who now have limited access to counselors and college resources, by being more direct with their outreach and marketing.
"They may be the first-gen students, [and] they're supposed to get onto our website and figure out the maze that is the process and find the support that's specific to them?" He said.
Lack of student access to technology, college and financial aid application help, even programs made to help them, all worry Dreizler.
"We've had these discussions in Enrollment Management [and] in Enrollment Services," he said. "And we're hoping that we can fill some of these gaps that are being left by the high schools basically being closed."
Seniors from North Torrance High School, one of El Camino's feeder high schools, have felt unmotivated in applying to college due to family and financial circumstances that arose from the COVID-19 pandemic.
To counteract this, Karen McKelvey, the college and career counseling coordinator at North High, along with other counselors have hosted Zoom workshops and created a website with step-by-step instructions, information, videos and links to promote seniors to apply to college.
But even with the resources that the counselors have been providing, McKelvey noticed that the engagement levels have still been low, she said.
"Only the real self-motivated students are [engaging], but the majority of them are not and that's what's making it so so hard, you know?" McKelvey said.
Three Zoom EC preparation workshops were held in October that focused on financial aid, general information and application preparation. Only about 15-to-20 of the 475 seniors at North High attended each of the workshops, McKelvey said.
"It's really sad," McKelvey said. "All four [TUSD] high schools did [workshops] as a group. There was a CSU workshop, and there was a UC workshop and there was an El Camino workshop. The highest attended one was 60 kids."
In previous years, about 45% of North High's seniors went on to a two-year college straight after high school, with 98% of them going to El Camino, McKelvey said.
While the current resource engagement levels have shown low numbers, McKelvey said that it's too soon to determine the number of seniors who applied to El Camino due to the college not having an application deadline.
Because of difficult circumstances that students may be experiencing due to COVID-19, McKelvey said that she understands if some students put off going to college.
"There's a handful of students I know that are working on [college applications]," McKelvey said. "But for the most part, you know, maybe home financial situations have changed and they don't think college is an option."
Despite the many factors that may be discouraging seniors from applying to college, McKelvey said that she will continue to try to engage with them and heavily promote going directly to a two-year college after graduating high school.
"I think it's such a better thing for students, especially now," McKelvey said.
Cerritos College prioritizes campus diversity
Over the past five years, Cerritos College saw an overall increase in the number of students of different ethnic identities enrolled, whereas the community colleges in California saw an overall decrease.
According to the California Community Colleges Chancellor's Office Data Mart, the Black, Filipino, and white non-Hispanic ethnic groups at Cerritos College saw a large spike in student population between the 2018-2019 and 2019-2020 school years.
The Black student population went up by almost 300%, the Filipino population increased by 214.34% and both the multiracial and white non-Hispanic populations rose by about 140%, according to the Data Mart.
California Community College Chancellor's Office (CCCCO) Data Mart has accounted for the reported ethnicity demographics of students over the past five years.
Yvette Tafoya, Cerritos College dean of enrollment, said diversity is one of the school's strengths which is why students, faculty and staff strive to create a variety of services aimed towards helping and supporting their community.
"We are a Hispanic serving institution so over 60% of our student population identifies as Latinx," Tafoya said. "I think it's just a reflection of the communities we serve."
Because of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic and Black Lives Matter protests surging across the country, Cerritos College created a dean of student equity position, aiming to provide its students with more support.
Cerritos College has also maintained its student ethnic diversity levels due to the community demographic and services the school provides such as programs supporting pregnant students and students with communication barriers, Jacqueline Rosales, admissions and records technician at Cerritos College said.
"We have programs that just motivate students to feel welcome and want to continue education and feel supported," Rosales said. "We've opened a lot of programs, or clubs, that welcome our students with language barriers, communication barriers or disabilities."
Despite everything that has been going on in America's current economic and political climate, Rosales said that Cerritos College has been able to meet its students' needs in order to support them and each of their diversities.
"I believe that a lot of people are going through really tough situations right now, but we've made them feel so welcome and we've let them know that school and education [are] important," Rosales said.
Fullerton College, Santa Monica College and Los Angeles Pierce College observe increase in unknown population, decrease in diverse student populations over last five years
Over the last five years, Fullerton College has seen an overall decrease in student population in almost every ethnicity group. The unknown population, however, saw an 82.44% increase in population during this time.
This decrease is not shocking, as California Community Colleges as a whole have also seen a decrease in overall student population over the last five years, but have seen an 5.57% increase in the Hispanic population, a 0.73% increase in the multiracial population and a 24.88% increase in the unknown population.
California Community College Chancellor's Office (CCCCO) Data Mart has accounted for student population over the last five years.
Although the college has seen an overall decrease over time, some ethnicities didn't see a decrease every single academic year in the past five years.
Asian Americans and Hispanic Americans saw an increase in their population between the 2015-2016 and the 2016-2017 school years, with Asian Americans having a 2.44% increase, and Hispanic Americans having a 2.71% increase.
This increase would disappear completely during the 2017-2018 school year for Asian Americans, and during the 2018-2019 school year for Hispanic Americans.
The largest decrease in population is from the white non-Hispanic population. During the 2015-2016 school year, this population had 7,196 students enrolled at Fullerton, but by the 2019-2020 school year, this population would go down by over 2,000 students, having 5,131 students enrolled.
Sociology professor and faculty student advisor for sociology, A. James McKeever said there are outside reasons as to why certain student populations are not attending California community colleges.
Over the last couple of years, there has been an exodus, of specifically African American students, going back to where their families were originally from such as southern states, as Southern California might be too expensive to live, McKeever said.
The population percentage decrease from the data is not just because less of a race is going to a community college, but also because there are less people from that specific population, McKeever said.
"Even with the white population, [it's] not that there is less of them going back to school, but every year there is less and less white people in comparison to people of color," McKeever said. "It doesn't surprise me at all that [the] Latino population is growing because the Latino population across the country is growing."
Subjectivity in filling out information when applying for colleges could also be the cause of certain populations, like the multiracial population, to grow, as more people could be filling out that they are multiracial rather than a specific ethnicity.
For the unknown category, some students such as Latino and Middle Eastern students may feel like they don't fit in with the populations listed, so they choose unknown, McKeever said.
In order to bring in students from a wider range of demographics to cater to students more effectively, McKeever said Los Angeles Mission College has made it's community, which is largely Latino based, it's main focus.
"That's made an improvement where they have been able to increase the number of students ever so slightly or stay relatively the same, in comparison to a campus like Pierce that was a predominantly white campus for a long period time, is now predominantly a Latino campus and has not adjusted to demographic shift, and we need to do things to make the campus feel safe and friendly for this new demographic," McKeever said.
McKeever said he recommends that campuses have programs that cater to certain groups and ethnicities and brings up the Hispanic population as an example. In doing so, it makes the curriculum less predominantly white-focused.
"You need to increase the diversity of your faculty too because that will bring students there and make them feel comfortable and give them a mentor that they can go to and are comfortable with," McKeever said.
Before hiring someone for Chicano Studies at Pierce, McKeever was the advisor for a Mexican American group called MEChA, but wasn't Latino himself.
"[It] demonstrates the connections, particularly with oppressed groups, where oppressed groups can now see that 'wow, this person is talking about oppression in the same way my people experience it,' and then you can kind of make the connections to find allies and work on social justice from more of a intersectional perspective."
Marketing to the community also plays a role in getting students to join colleges. Students that are going to college because they think they want to or that their parents are making them go to college are one excuse away from never coming back. If the website isn't easy to navigate or no one from the college answers the phone, they lose that student, McKeever said.
Economy also plays a role in students attending college, as recessions and job loss usually prompt more individuals to join a community college, but they also indicate that more people are struggling financially.
Sometimes when people are struggling and are able to find a job with decent hours, it is nice to put some money in their pocket, but when there are layoffs and people can't find work, that is usually when they go back to college, particularly community college, McKeever said.
When jobs are more available however, college administration goes down.
"It is harder to go to school when you are working then when you are not, so that's a big part of the issue too, and if their parents aren't doing as good as they used to in the past, their parents might be insisting on them finding jobs, helping support themselves," McKeever said. "If they end up having to pay for college on top of that and pay for their room and board, sometimes you are going to miss a few payments and maybe you can't take out any more loans."
This long-term financial burden may dissuade students from continuing their schooling, focusing on their job instead.
"It's scary for people who are working class to take out loans because they just see it as debt, they don't see it as an investment in their future because it may not be an investment in their future, it might end up being debt, there is no guarantee you're going to get a great job in the end, so that's a big worry for people," McKeever said.
Los Angeles Pierce College (LAPC) has also seen a decrease in enrollment, and an increase in their unknown ethnicity population.
Among the largest decreases at LAPC are Black student enrollment, which has decreased by 22%, American Indian and Alaskan Native student enrollment which has decreased by 46% and Asian student enrollment which has decreased by 26%, according to the Data Mart.
In contrast, students with unknown ethnicities' have increased enrollment by 53% at LAPC, according to the Data Mart.
California Community College Chancellor's Office (CCCCO) Data Mart has accounted for student enrollment among different ethnic groups over the past five years.
Human capital management professor at Columbia University, Edna Chun said diverse colleges have a positive impact on the students with their learning outcomes, global learning and their engagement with others.
"It [diversity in colleges] has been studied extensively and determined that it is a vital part of student learning and preparing the students to work in a global world," Chun said.
According to CCCCO in the 2017-2019 academic year for LAPC, Filipino student's enrollment rate dropped drastically.
Dean of institutional effectiveness at LAPC, Amari Williams said the huge decrease was a technical mistake because during the 2017-2018 academic year they switched to a different site. which caused Filipino students to be coded into different groups.
LAPC is doing an ongoing project that collects data from students regarding issues of race and diversity that may or may not be impacting their college experiences, Williams said.
"I see on my campus now, is more opportunity and more space being given to discuss issues of race," Williams said. "Discussion of how different communities on our campus may experience the day to day of being a student, or staff member or faculty member appears differently, largely, because maybe they are one race and not the other."
Chun said, diverse colleges can have an impact on students' perspectives regarding others, cross-racial friendships can help eliminate racism.
"Cognitive dissonance challenges the way you have been thinking about things challenges your view," Chun said. "Cognitive dissonance takes place when you meet someone different than yourself makes you rethink what you felt."
Former El Camino College student Adrian Rodriguez, computer science major said if the school is not diverse enough then the minorities will feel unmotivated and left out.
"If I went to a school where there weren't many Hispanics, as a Costa Rican and Nicaraguan crossbreed, I would definitely feel left out," Rodriguez said. "I feel that having a diverse school environment allows minority students to feel more accepted, welcomed and at home."
As observed across the state, Santa Monica College (SMC) has also seen a steady increase in the unknown ethnicity population, which in recent years has been linked to a change in the international student enrollment application.
Dean of institutional research at Santa Monica College Hannah Lawler, said that international students reporting their ethnicities on the application form have also contributed to the increase in the unknown ethinicity reported population.
California Community College Chancellor's Office (CCCCO) Data Mart has accounted for enrollment data at Santa Monica College over the past five years.
"For many of our students that come from countries that are [aware of where they are from, however] indigenous, race and ethnicity is just not a thing that they really understand," Lawler said. "And you know, a lot of them are non-native English speakers and so they typically don't know how to answer that question so they leave it blank."
According to the California Community College Chancellor's Office Data Mart, the unknown student population has seen the highest increase at SMC within the past five years — 111.83%.
According to an article from World Education News & Reviews (WENR), an information and news source in international education, international students are "often viewed through the prism of American racial and ethnic classifications" which puts them in a separate ethnic group altogether.
"It's highly correlated, the unknown, with our international student population," she said. "They actually complete a different college application which is where we collect our ethnicity and race information," Lawler said.
International Student Program: How they have been impacted by the pandemic
While the pandemic has put a halt on new F-1 student visa applications, El Camino College has allowed international students to continue their education despite COVID-19.
Lindsey Ludwig, director of the International Student Program, said with the uncertainty of oversea travel, and changing regulations in F-1 student visa status, ECC has become a second home for international students.
"Our student population returned to our school because we're their community, and we're their family," Ludwig said.
Since March, the collaborative efforts from El Camino's library and their services such as Live Chat have been a critical platform for international students to stay connected with ISP at any time, Ludwig said.
"So [Live Chat's] been really helpful because [F-1 visa students] have a person that they can talk to a live staff member, pretty much any time during the day, and then we have it [available] into the night hours as well," she said.
Additionally, Ludwig said that ISP's current online format continues to engage the student community with weekly town hall meetings, game nights and conversation nights held monthly, in addition to ensuring that current F-1 visa students meet their core 12 unit requirement.
While new F-1 student visa applications aren't currently being accepted, Ludwig said current and new students have full access temporarily to distance education during the pandemic despite some not being an official visa applicant.
"Right now, there's been some flexibility with immigration and within El Camino, that we are allowing non residents to begin their studies from their home or to continue their studies from their home country, just so that they can [continue their education] … until COVID and the embassies open [back up]," Ludwig said.
The students of ISP have been able to continue forward with their education amid the pandemic despite being countries away from ECC, Ludwig said.
"I really love our international student community," she said. "And I think that they, they've done a tremendous job, still attending classes um, far from home, or in their home country."
This story was contributed to by: Nicholas Broadhead, Zoha Jan, Rachel Maldonado, Madison Phan and Jeniffer Torres.
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Welcome to our two new signings!
We can confirm the signings of Luis Morrison & Ambrose Gnahore to Ashford United ready for the start of the 2018/2019 season.
Morrison, who has been on trial at Homelands since the start of pre-season, put pen to paper last night after impressing the gaffer, having played for him previously at Greenwich Borough.
Gnahore also signs in time and may feature in our opening fixture when we take on Hythe Town at Homelands this Saturday (11th August). The ex Chelsea winger is 22 years old and has recently played at Farnborough and Kingstonian.
We spoke with Gary Alexander about the new signings:
"Luis Morrison is a player who I've worked with in the past and I know exactly what he offers. He's a great lad and a good footballer, hopefully he can bring his qualities to us and help us improve as a club. Ambrose is a real pacey winger who I've had my eye on for the last couple of years. He's been training at clubs much higher up the ladder with a great pedigree. Again, hopefully he can help us get to where we want to be and climb that ladder himself. I'm sure both of these players will prove to be a big part of Ashford United this season. Welcome Luis & Ambrose!"
Luis, Ambrose, and our other new signings will be in action this Saturday, 3pm kick off at Homelands versus Hythe Town. Come on you Nuts & Bolts!


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Daily Fail: Daily Mail's thirsty sensationalist headline gets basic furry fact wrong
Posted by Sonious (Tantroo McNally) on Fri 3 Aug 2018 - 18:02 — Edited as of 18:03
Harbour City Furcon, based out of Sydney, Australia is a healthy yet small furry gathering of 300 people. However, despite the smaller size, over the weekend of its operation it created quite a media stir. One article by the Daily Mail's Holly Hales shows a quite embarrassing blunder in its haste to attract an audience utilizing a hyper-sexualized headline. In the midst of orgy allegations, they destroyed any credibility of expertise on the matter being discussed by stating that the Sydney furry convention was the largest gathering of the fandom down under.
Innocent cosplayers who love dressing up as animals or deviant sex cult? 'Furries' in colourful costumes defend their pastime while gathering at Harbour City Fur Con
Furry fanatics have descended on Sydney as part of the fan culture's largest annual gathering down under
The Harbour City Fur Con convention sees people splash thousands on cartoon-inspired animal suits
However, the fandom has often drawn criticism for its sexual component which includes allegations of orgies
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For those furries wishing to visit the outback, it is important to note that this bullet point is factually incorrect by a factor of a hundred percent. In 2018, the Harbour City convention had sold out at its attendance cap of 300. Meanwhile, the Gold Coast, which is a 9 hour drive north of Sydney, holds the furry convention Furry DownUnder (shorted as FurDU) in the springtime. The attendance for this convention in 2018 was double that of the Syndey gathering this year at 600 attendees.
In addition to this, Gold Coast hosts a second furry convention in the fall called "NeonFur" making it one of the few cities in the world to host multiple furry conventions in a year. The attendance for NeonFur in 2017 was 162. Therefore if you're a furry looking to move into Australia, proximity to this Northeastern coastal city would be at a premium.
The error has not yet been redacted by the UK-based paper, or their Australian correspondent. However, it can be discerned that if they can't get basic facts right, it certainly makes their sensationalist claims hold far less water. Perhaps instead of worrying about what private citizens are doing in their bedrooms, the press should be more worried about if their own peers are shagging over their consumers by giving them inaccurate information.
Oliver (visitor) — Fri 3 Aug 2018 - 18:12
Fuck The Daily Mail.
2cross2affliction — Fri 3 Aug 2018 - 21:58
The third bullet point is totally correct, though; their have been allegations of orgies.
I have seen evidence of people trying to start orgies at various furry conventions during my time on sites like PoE/CYD, but it usually ended up not happening or maybe a threesome at most; people just weren't interested (and while some of the "attempts" seemed legit, most were obviously trolling).
The really weird part is even in the "real" cases, they definitely weren't fursuit orgies trying to be started; I mean, honestly, group sex is perhaps the only "fetish" more vanilla than cartoon porn, so honestly if you're going to spend hundreds of dollars to attend a furry convention half way across the world to have sex not in a fursuit, you're doing it wrong.
CassidyTheCivet — Sat 4 Aug 2018 - 03:00
Probably the writer hasn't had any furry exposure since the CSI episode with a headline like that.
I'm a different furry with different opinions.
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Rakuen Growlithe — Sat 4 Aug 2018 - 03:11
Let's be honest, furry articles in the news are more often wrong than right. Still, basic mistakes like that are especially frustrating because its so easy to check. It just means that no one cares to actually fact check their articles.
Although, if we're talking about the media, I do want to mention that some South African furs got some pretty positive media attention recently. Here's the short article and two interviews which were conducted live on the radio. (Kind of a mix of English and Afrikaans is spoken but most can still be
https://www.jacarandafm.com/shows/scenic-drive-rian/furries-take-over-scenic-drive/
https://www.facebook.com/JacaDrive/videos/2127397137291982/
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Sonious — Sat 4 Aug 2018 - 08:07
You could always make an article about your experiences with said gathering as well if you have time to or had anything to add that those articles did not.
I wrote about one of the early incarnations but I wasn't at this one. I was on the other side of the world at Lakeside Furs. The two conventions overlapped and flying back to South Africa is long and expensive. The South Afrifur convention seems to be going pretty well though so I'll probably visit whenever I'm back in the country.
So you stay in Austia mostly now then?
Basically exclusively. I've just gone back once a year, usually to spend Christmas/New Year with the family.
Acton — Sat 4 Aug 2018 - 05:08
It sounds like Daily Mail piece is sole based on a similar bad Australian news source.
and associated linked.
https://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/real-life/wtf/aussie-furries-say-their-subcult...
The story includes the Nazi Furs /alt-furry hysteria based on patches form of Reductio ad Hitlerum.
This is is another issue all together.
Patch Packrat — Sat 4 Aug 2018 - 06:36
With such poor research, they'll never get into the orgies undercover.
dronon — Sat 4 Aug 2018 - 10:05
Now I'm remembering an early SCTV sketch with Harold Ramis as a "plainclothes mountie" - instead of the red uniform and hat, he dresses normally... but rides around on a horse and tries to pretend (badly) that he wants to buy drugs. "I got plenty of bread, man!"
Ben Dover — Sun 5 Aug 2018 - 10:05
At this point anything but allegations of orgies would be more entertaining in an article of the sort.
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"- Someone dressed in a Trump fursuit with a MAGA hat stays in character throughout the con, despite disapproving looks"
Don't give me ideas. Maybe MUGA. Acton is over embellished conservative caricature even through he would have problems with Trump view on illegal migration. Acton supports Open migration. Original created Acton for political satire.
"- Guest of Honor had no idea why he was invited, is brought & informed on the spot"
This happens lot with panelist at Orycon, a science fiction convention.
DP (visitor) — Thu 9 Aug 2018 - 20:23
Yeah. The British tabloids aren't exactly known for factual reporting, unfortunately. Thy're nothing more than populist opinion pieces designed to please their reader base's sensationalist appetite.
GreenReaper — Thu 9 Aug 2018 - 21:22
The irony is LondonFurs annually holds two day-long furry parties with attendance in the hundreds and a boat party on the Thames the day before, plus ~100+ furmeets with hour-long fursuit walks every three weeks. I guess everything seems bigger further off.
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(myenv)me@me /home/me$ python -c 'import pyspark'
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
ImportError: No module named pyspark

A: I've got the same problem, but this   helped.
Just add the following command in your .bashrc
export SPARK_HOME=/path/to/your/spark-1.4.1-bin-hadoop2.6
export PYTHONPATH=$SPARK_HOME/python:$SPARK_HOME/python/build:$PYTHONPATH
export PYTHONPATH=$SPARK_HOME/python/lib/py4j-0.8.2.1-src.zip:$PYTHONPATH

A: I think you mixed up PYTHONPATH and sys.path. But are you sure you need to modify PYTHONPATH if you have pyspark installed properly?
EDIT:
I haven't used pyspark, but would this help?
importing pyspark in python shell

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Singles

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AP – An undated image made available by the National Gallery in London of Leonardo da Vinci's Virgin of the …
Wed Jul 14, 9:32 pm ET
LONDON – A restoration project for Leonardo da Vinci's "Virgin of the Rocks" has revealed new details and suggest the Renaissance artist may have painted all the picture himself, instead of with his assistants as previously thought, a British gallery said Wednesday.
The 18-month conservation project involved removing much of some badly degraded varnish that was applied to the painting in the late 1940s, enabling experts to take a much closer look at the picture's brush strokes and styles, the National Gallery said.
The cleaning revealed the painting's full tonal range, especially in the darker areas, and resulted in a clearer sense of how the artist intended for space to recede through the rocky landscape, the gallery said.
It also affirmed that Leonardo likely painted the entire picture himself and intended for it to be unfinished.
The restored painting showed a range of completion from the barely sketched hand of the angel to the fully realized heads of the main figures — consistent with many of Leonardo's works. The Italian artist, said to be the "eternal perfectionist," is thought to have left his pictures unfinished because he wished to return to them later, gallery spokesman Thomas Almeroth-Williams said.
In the past, scholars believed the different levels of finish in "Virgin of the Rocks" showed that Leonardo was helped by assistants.
The painting dates from about 1491 to 1508 and is a later version of one on display in the Louvre in Paris.
The latest cleaning project followed years of scrutiny of the masterpiece.
In 2005, experts using infrared technology found two drawings hidden beneath the surface of the picture — one design was never painted, and the second one revealed Leonardo changed his mind about the subject several times.
The painting goes back on display in the National Gallery on Wednesday.
http://nationalgallery.org.uk/
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April 8, 2013 by tamaratattles 39 Comments
Okay I am zipping through the final two episodes of this Mob Wives season. I keep meaning to get caught up and now that we know Love gets fired for going after Carla on the finale, I am watching despite being under the weather. I figure most of y'all don't read the Mob Wives posts anyway so I am not going to go for quality today. 🙂 Hey Ramona, there is positive thinking and then there is marrying a guy in prison. Carla got served divorce papers while chatting about how crazy Love is with Big Ang. We are setting the stage already for the Love drama. This shoot seems like it was shot after the whole birthday party thing.
Speaking of parties, Karen is having a pre-nup party and only Ramona is getting married. Ramona is offended. Love is pissed that Ramona didn't tell her she is getting married. Renee stands up and yells at everyone that the whole thing is bullshit and that Mob Wives don't do legal stuff like pre-nups. Party over. Carla didn't get invited because producers are saving her for the finale party. Oh the party was not over at all. Love goes after one of Ramona's friends. Lots of talking heads about how crazy Love is acting.. This episode seems like a setup episode for next weeks Big Brawl.
Now, for the final episode. It's all about Drita's party. Lee will be out of the halfway house in two weeks and he will be moving back in. Drita is nervous that he will reoffend.
Ramona is shopping for her bridal dress. She said last episode that she was not expecting a fairy tale and she understood the her groom-less wedding was unusual. Yet here in the dress shop she is talking about her dream wedding. I have fantasized about dream weddings myself and in every one, THE GROOM was the most important part of the fantasy. And most people would envision their parents, other family and friends there supporting the glorious union. This is more like an excuse to get presents. Not that there is anything wrong with that.
While everyone is getting their hairs did for the big 80s birthday party…Love texts Karen and lets her know she broke six bones in her hand punching holes in the walls. Gosh I hate when that happens. But never fear, it's the finale and everyone must attend the event, so Love will be there. After most of the Mobettes arrive at the party, Renee is determined to cause a scene about Carla being there. Renee says she can't be in a room with anyone she doesn't like. For me, that would eliminate pretty much every room outside my house. Eventually, Renee has a good time dancing with Big Ang's ginormous funbags. And everyone is happy.
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And then Love shows up. All the brave Mobettes look nervous. Drita and Big Ang step out for a smoke leaving Love to roam around. Carla is talking mad shit in her talking heads. Karen takes the opportunity to get Love and Carla together while Drita and Big Ang are outside. Love says that Carla likes to point and talk with her hands. She says if she does that, she is going to go after her. Um, she's ITALIAN for fucksake. Of course she is going to talk with her hands. Love sits down and says Karen is there to keep her from knocking Carla's teeth out. Carla is leaning with her elbows on the table and says "I just want to ask you about…" And Love jumps her with no warning. Hilarity ensues. There is hair pulling, and security guards everywhere. Karen even goes off on one of the guys who is trying to separate everyone. Insanity. About that time Drita walks back in and asks what happened. Big Ang must smoke the 120s because I think she is still outside. Carla is hitting at everyone including security. Carla must have cut her hand on some glass because it is bleeding pretty bad.
After the big fight, Renee and Carla make up and sing Kum by Yah and stuff. And they all lived happily ever after. Well expect for Love. Love got fired from Mob Wives and banned from the reunion. Which is fine with me because I didn't like her anyway.
I like mob wives. Have since the first season. Love was a little much for me at the end. She has some serious rage issues. I wish Drita would have been standing with Carla. Now that would have been a real fight. Oh well. Goodbye Love
Rose Chimera says
I like Mob Wives too and have watched it since the first episode. It seemed happenstance, poor timing for Ang and Drita to go smoke; I don't think Karen noted their absence however, I want to rewrite the script with Drita near by when Love goes after Carla. I can't stand Love, I find her to be on the same level as a slimy snail, just as dumb too. What happened to that blue cast she had on when she arrived? She wasn't wearing it when yapping at Karen in the car.
I noticed the cast was gone too! How could she have arrived with a cast on for 6 broken bones, claimed to be on morphine and then after her attack on Carla(which was so sick and hateful), magically the cast is gone and her hand is completely normal in the scene in the car, not bruises or swelling can be seen on that hand. Very interesting!
Vp says
I think she said on Twitter that they filmed that scene way after…? Weird.
Interesting indeed. Producer induced fight? The cast was a temporary one? Velcro fasteners instead of the usual plaster? I call foul!
jakies mom says
She didnt have a cast. This is her tweet
Love MajewskiVH1@LoveMajewski11h
@xxxxx1 I never had a cast it was a soft ace bandage like covering cuz I had broken knuckles n was having surgery in the am
Paula Lee says
Love needs to go, she was a little to much. She look a mess and acted a mess. She was a trouble maker from the start, so she needs to get off the show..,
Mrs Mavis Gibson says
I wish they would have got rid of the most annoying person on that show smug, bitter , smack talking coward Carla, I can see why Love gave her a beat down.
Yes, Love had to go. She is kray, kray.
Dena says
It was all setup and scripted from the very beginning of the season. It's way too much of a coincidence that Drita and Big Ang went out together to smoke cigarettes. Also, Love looked like she was really trying to ACT when she was closing her eyes and trying to look crazy. I believe it was all set up and scripted. Everyone knew what was going to happen and they prepared for it. Even Carla knew that Love would be there and come after her. She was prepared for that too. IT WAS ALL A BIG SETUP FOR THE FINALE AND WE ALL (THE VIEWERS) GOT PLAYED!!!
Stephen (@NewJerzeyBoy) says
I liked Love, but am not surprised she has been fired. Too much of a chance of a lawsuit. She is one tough cookie, but dangerous. Wouldn't be surprised if we hear she gets arrested for something in the near future.
I agreed, I am not saying I don't like her but she has been wanting to get at Carla since the show
soccermop59 says
I never liked this woman because she's too typical of a bully, everyone except for Big Ange was afraid of her and when you have shows like that, I don't like it….all these women sadly fight without warning…..they always catch each other off guard with one good sucker punch…cowardly move on all their parts. Love was so wrong in ever having issues with Carla, so she dated your ex….like move the *** on and put a period behind it. The funniest s*** that night was Drita coming in after the fact and proclaiming her presence would have prevented the fight…this chic is two pounds wet, got her as beat 2 times on the show and is about has buff as a ant….Drita honey, go sit down some where and sell that crap to the air force. Love would have murdered you…ha ha ha ha
pattinyc says
So true! Dritas a twig with fake tits!
nerry says
Fool you are to much into it, Drita more than likely would have not won but she wouldn't just go down without a fight, hell she one one fight and got jumped in the other fight, yeah real fair. So "soccermom" (btw cute trash talking with a name like that, I hope you are watching the kids while on the net) really have a seat with that.
Mo says
I love Mob Wives! I like how the show is still about their kids and personal relationships even when there's drama. I'm glad they're getting rid of Love because she's so one note—we get it, she's crazy. I wish they had shown something a little in her story.
teecee66 says
Love has serious mental problems. She's not just a "I'll do anything to make me seem interesting on TV" people like the Jersey Wives. She is homicidal and imbalanced from a head injury.
I still say Ramona is only marrying the guy so she doesn't have to testify against him. I'm sure it's more of a financial deal.
I loved when Carla was explaining what happened to Drita. The who,e thing was gold, but the best part was calling Karen and Ramona "Heckle and Jeckle". Perfect.
I'd someday love to see Ang go all Herman Munster and bash someone's head in defending one of her girls. Probably never happen but it's my dream.
Robin Wild says
You hit the nail right on the Head!
Love is very imbalanced, the women all seems to like to fight for some reason. But I guess that what keeps the show buzzing is the excited between them, but the fighting needs to start.
I'm So happy that Love got fired she has mental issues ! Nothing wrong with that if you take your Meds! Can't wait to see the reunion!
Ms Urethra Franklin says
I enjoyed the first 2 seasons. This season not so much.
Though I found Love's nonchalance about her violent tendencies amusing, seeing her in action w/no rational basis to whoop ass kind of disturbing.
I think she was productions pawn to amp up drama/violence. She was hired to talk trash & tough, and to deliver punches. She attacked Carla, and got fired. If she didn't fight she still probably would not have been invited back for another season. Carla got played by VH1.
Yeah. It's like when Gigi becomes the villain on Jerseylicious. She was kind of blah and they tried to make her a bad guy and it falls flat. Carla is like tha. The most sane quiet one becomes everyone's whipping boy.
Glad she is gone. She had no redeeming qualities. When I saw she was fired earlier this week I was glad and I hadn't even seen the finale.
She had problems long before her accident. She's been like this her entire life. She bragged about shooting, stabbing, poisoning boyfriends. Who the heck would go out with this woman?
She said she was going to wait for Ang and Drita to go smoke and it wasn't if she was going to attack Carla but when. All he own words and she lived up to them. So she had this all planned. Convenient that Karen had this come down when there were outside. Coinkydink? Nah.
The nonsense about the angel wings being stolen was ridiculous and her overreaction to everything was absurd. I guess Victoria Secrets and the hundreds of other companies that use them also stole her idea.
She served her purpose. She was a liability and had no storyline except to attack Carla. With that done, it was over for her. Now she's crying victim on twitter and facebook and saying she was used and she doesn't care about any of these women and is pissed she was not allowed at the reunion which has Dr. Drew moderating.
She's also looking for her own reality show but I can't imagine what it would be about except attacking people.
I don't think they are even allowing Love on the Reunion show.
You are now required to read the entire post, knucklehead.
Love got fired from Mob Wives and banned from the reunion
Why did Love got fired from Mob Wives and banned from the reunion?
To get to the other side?
Because she has a fake leg?
I always read your Mob Wives recaps. Embarrassingly enough (at least in front of anyone else but you guys), I love this show and have been a loyal watcher since the beginning. Anyway, I find it interesting that Drita is the calm, rational one this season. It seems to me as if production may have had a hand in that? Or maybe she saw herself on TV and realized how immature and ugly she looked always talking about beating people up and then actually trying to do it. I did see those veins in her forehead (the ones that were always popping out of her head in Season One) made an appearance on the finale when she came back in and realized what had happened to Carla. I was really happy to see those veins, because I feel like Drita has been a really shitty friend to Carla this season (after Carla stood by her, and up for her all last season when she was the crazy violent nut of the show). It was nice to finally see some loyalty, and that she really does love Carla.
As for Love. She is the biggest loser in the world. So disgusting. She "demands respect"… good luck with that one honey. You must really be an idiot to think that that's how you get it… by demanding it and assaulting people for it. She probably wants to hunt me down and kill me if she read this. That's how lame she is. I have quite a few friends (some who are like family to me) from Staten Island, and I go there often, and they are all embarrassed by this show (aside from the fact that they like to see "their island" in the background. Staten Islanders are like no one else when it comes to being proud of where they come from. Many people who live there never leave the island. I'm not even kidding. Anyway, I am so happy that Love was fired, however, I would have like to see her on the reunion, only they should keep her in a cage with big locks on it. That would be hysterical. I hope that they will at least talk really bad about her (you know, speak honestly), because if any one of them defends her, really they just must be afraid of her. She is undefendable. I wouldn't be surprised if they barely talk about it though. Mob Wives reunions tend to be lame. They don't ask the hard questions that we really want answered. Hoping this time they do.
And one more thing. Thank GOD this Love chick doesn't have any children, as we all know how disrespectful they can be. She is so unstable and angry, I would be terrified for them.
What I find interesting of the tough girls, all seem to fear Love, all except Big Ange….I was really shocked to see Romana be the cowardly btch she really is. I knew that chic was all smoke and mirrors…she couldn't even defend her damned friend in the bar when Love was trying to attack her and that was her "friend"??? Bottom line, all these women are nothing but a lot of loud vulgar beings that think the louder you get, the more profanity you use, it makes you tough. In reality, Big Ange is really the tough one here….she has to look at her body and face every single day and love it…and that's pretty hard to do…but hey it works for her, thats why she's my fave.
Starr says
I love the show, but that Love girl needed to go. Glad the show fired her.. Now Love go get a real job.. Can't wait for next season….
Two good things happend during this finale…..Renee, thank God came to her senses and realized that being a brat and hating on Carla was stupid, so glad those two made up. And of course the fireing of Love….this quido b*** is insane, needs to be locked up and shouldn't have been on the show to began with. I'm so sick of these loud mouth women talking all this crap like its cute or something…she sounded like a hood rat from the sewers of Jersey. So glad she's gone. Will always always love me some big Ange!!
Love is not a guido. She is polish. She's a bohunk.
I think this is the highest number of comments you've ever gotten for MWs! Hope it convinces you to blog it and Ang when/ if they come back! And MYRTLE FUCKING MANOR.
Oh I forgot to tell you I watched Myrtle Fucking Manor. I can see all that just looking out the window.
You really have to go back and watch the beauty contest one.
#1. What's with these decorative Swatiskas? #2. All I can say is "DING DONG, THE WACKY WITCH IS GONE!"


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ALGIERS —Algeria's interim president, in a televised speech, promised on Tuesday to organize free elections within 90 days following weeks of protests that led to the resignation of leader Abdelaziz Bouteflika after 20 years in power.
"I am committed to organizing elections," said Bensalah, who has been re-elected as leader of the upper house since the early 2000s. The army was aligned with the constitution as a pathway out of the crisis, he added in his 16-minute speech.
Bensalah promised to "set a national and sovereign commission to secure fair elections" in an apparent bid to placate demonstrators demanding sweeping democratic reforms and economic opportunities.
More than one in four people under the age of 30 - some 70 percent of Algeria's population - are unemployed despite the country's vast oil wealth.
The demonstrations, which erupted on Feb. 22, led to the disintegration of what has been described as the ruling elite's "fortress" - veterans of the war of independence against France, ruling party figures, businessmen, the army and labor unions.


I received a text message about an hour or so after the plane took off from Detroit airport. They were back in Detroit because of mechanical issues with the plane. There were no spare planes available so the jet had to be repaired. But of course the airline did not have a hanger in Detroit. There was no way that the would-be cruisers were going to make the cruise departure.
We have cruised often ourselves and used to travel the day of embarkation. But we had heard so many stories of people missing their ship and we had a couple of close calls ourselves. So now we travel to the sunny south (or wherever) a day early and spend the night in a hotel close to the cruise port.
A delayed flight is nothing new – especially this winter season with all of the storms creating havoc at the airports. But it's not just the airports. Roads were closed as well. Trains were delayed or cancelled. Travel in general came pretty much to a standstill.
Any of these could happen to you at any time of the year. You may even be driving to the cruise port when mechanical issues occur or perhaps an accident would close a road or cause gridlock. And the result could be that you would miss your cruise.
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There will also be a 60 percent chance for rain late Monday and early Tuesday, so leave your pollen-covered auto outside.
Total rainfall will be between two and four inches, and will start in the morning and last through the evening. Northwest wind around 10 miles per hour. Expect highs to reach the low and mid 60s this afternoon, upper 60s to possibly near 70 on Monday and maybe Tuesday as well.
Thursday night: A 20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms. North winds 10 to 15 miles per hour.
Scattered off-and-on rain showers will continue throughout the night.
Meanwhile, at least five people were killed when their vehicle struck a roadside bomb in the northern Baghlan province on Sunday. The dead included women and children while several wounded in Kabul remained in critical condition.
Wednesday: A 20 percent chance of showers, partly sunny, high near 55.
Saturday will be mostly sunny with highs in the mid-70s.
Sunday: A 50 percent chance of showers, mainly before 1 p.m. Northwest wind around 5 miles per hour.
Monday, April 23: High: 52.
TUESDAY: Mostly sunny. Low: 54. Breezy, with a south wind 8 to 18 miles per hour becoming west northwest in the afternoon. Highs for Tuesday will be back in the mid 80s. Wind: NW 10-20 miles per hour.
TUESDAY: Partly cloudy and warm. Check the Fiddlehead Focus for weather updates with more current information.


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Thursday 26th October 2006 - MU follow-up licensing survey flawed
Yesterday I reported that the Musicians Union (MU) was doing follow-up research into the impact of the Licensing Act. Having now seen their latest survey questionnaire, I do not see how this alone could yield any r obust conclusions about the effect of the Act on members' employment. There are several key problems:
1. Like its predecessor, the survey asks members about venues that have stopped or started promoting live music this year. As with the first survey, the union had subsequently to check members' claims. This involved contacting those members that had identified venues, and then contacting the venues themselves. It turned out that much of the information that members had originally provided was unreliable. The union will have to do that follow-up work again with this second survey.
2. The proportion of members who returned the first survey questionnaire was extremely low: about 3% nationally, and only a fraction of 1 per cent in the case of the London region. This is too low to allow statistically robust conclusions. The return rate of this second survey would have to improve significantly to change this.
3. In this second survey, respondents have to say 'yes' to further contact from the union. Many will not tick that box, further limiting the final sample size of those whose claims about venues that have started or stopped promoting live music as a result of the Act can be validated.
4. The second survey includes questions that may reveal members' perception of the Act's impact on live music, but that is not hard evidence of gigs lost or gained directly as a result of the Act.
It would have been better to combine research into members' perceptions of the Act with checks on the public licensing registers of a sample of local authorities. Public licensing registers should show all premises with a live music permission, and how many Temporary Event Notices for live music have been applied for and granted. This could have been compared with public entertainment licence data in the same area from previous years, which the councils will hold. There is still time for the union to do this before DCMS publishes the latest MORI live music findings.