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Good riddance to unnecessary religious discrimination bill
11 February 2022 | Ian Bushnell
Prime Minister Scott Morrison. The religious discrimination bill was an election promise. Photo: Screenshot.
Groucho Marx once quipped: "I refuse to join any club that would have me as a member."
And one might ask why anyone would want to be a member of a school that thought it had a God-given right to discriminate against a particular group of people.
But issues such as that raised in this week's torturous debate in Parliament on Scott Morrison's promised religious discrimination bill aren't immediately apparent for families of one faith or another, and sometimes no faith, who choose to send their children to such a school.
In the case of sexual orientation, it may emerge only after years of commitment and involvement with a faith-based school and the building of friendships and community.
For staff, they may be of faith or simply have grown up in that school culture and feel comfortable there, or they may want to work at a prestigious institution.
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While the question of gay and transgender students has captured the headlines, the government's bid to exempt religious organisations from the nation's discrimination laws has wider implications than schools and gay or transgender students.
The bill aims to give religious organisations, not just schools, the right to discriminate based on a genuinely held statement of belief that is part of their faith. It may extend to other institutions such as hospitals and discrimination may expand to other 'sinful states'.
Religion does not have a good record when it comes to how it judges people in God's name.
A Biblical text from many thousands of years ago has been enough to damn and criminalise same-sex relationships, a letter from St Paul has been used to subjugate women, unwed mothers and divorcees carried a burden of sin that cost them their children and cast them out of their communities, scripture has been used to justify slavery and discrimination against people of colour, and the list goes on.
A statement of belief is simply not enough to avoid being subject to the nation's laws which aim to apply equally to all citizens.
Indeed, when the term 'people of faith' is thrown around, what does this actually mean?
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There are many people of faith, with diverse views and opinions who don't necessarily agree with the noisy fundamentalist Christian lobby groups or the powerful clerics of the Catholic or Anglican churches, some of whose schools are more corporate entities selling privilege, networks and yes, a high-quality education, than places of any particular ethos that warrants special protection.
The point is faith does not hinge on matters as personal as sexual orientation, and not all families at church-based schools are there for faith, and even those that are have as much chance as anyone of having a child that may be 'different'.
It is not surprising that religious schools want to retain as much power as possible, including the right to hire and fire and choose what students are enrolled and who they can exclude or expel.
But what they are arguing is that their particular ethos, which doesn't seem to stop some from accepting families of a different faith or no faith, means that it can discriminate against people not because they have done anything wrong but because of who they are.
It should be remembered that these schools survive and thrive on millions of dollars of government funding, and are already subject to a whole range of regulation.
We, as a nation, have come a long way since I was a child growing up in the 60s and 70s when pejoratives for homosexuals were common terms of abuse and sexism was ingrained.
Like any other institution, schools have always had a percentage of people who are attracted to the same sex or whose gender may be blurry and always will. No amount of discrimination will stop that from happening, but sanction and exclusion will continue to cause damage if allowed.
Religious organisations are asking that they can apply a moral code that was always wrong, inflicted pain and never had anything to do with an inclusive God of love.
The notion that religious freedom in this country is somehow under threat is ludicrous.
The religious discrimination bill was always ill-conceived and unnecessary. While the amendments forced on the government by some of its own members, Labor and others are welcome, the best way to protect students is through the current anti-discrimination legislation.
It is good news that it has not made it to the Senate, and is now unlikely to reappear before the election.
Futureproof1:08 pm 12 Feb 22
So I guess those schools of a certain faith starting with "I" allow people of other faiths, not to mention the alphabet soup of LGBTI……? No protests at their gates
stuart10:32 pm 11 Feb 22
churches gave up the high-moral ground years ago – now they need puppets like Morrison to help them act against the current laws of the land.
Elf7:57 pm 11 Feb 22
By religious groups, they are referring to Christian. One never mentions the other obvious religion that persecutes gays, LGBTI and try and get your trans child into one of their schools.
Recently a female aussie rules player refused to play in a rainbow jersey because of the way she had been bought up to believe. Imagine now a Christian player doing the same. Imagine the outrage!
The world would be much better without any religions to warp peoples minds.
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Spiral7:27 am 12 Feb 22
Yes, while she did receive some criticism it did seem to be rather subdued, especially from many who would have been very vocal if she was a Christian male.
In her case she is admitting that her future standing as a community leader would be damaged if she wore the jersey. Which does provide an unpleasant insight into her community.
Perhaps a future leader should be taking a stand and leading her community out of bigotry.
I wonder if her team will play in Canberra this year, as they are our "home team". If so, it is rather poor form for the ACT government to be paying money to bring such a person to town.
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Bizi Kat5:02 pm 11 Feb 22
"You cannot discriminate against me because I am religious. But I can discriminate against you, because I am religious."
Crazed_Loner10:03 am 11 Feb 22
The bottom line is that religious belief, of any sort, is voluntary. Race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, age and disability are not, but are inherent. It is unconscionable for the rights of the former to trump those of the latter when they come into conflict.
Perhaps the only way through this morass of conflicting rights (despite my personal misgivings) is, if religious organisations are so insistent in setting up ghettos of doctrine-based discrimination, that they are prevented from receiving any government funding. They could then retain their apparent doctrinal purity and we would also soon find out to what extent that purity is valued.
gooterz10:46 am 11 Feb 22
Leaving a religious group is not in any rules of any religious group.
JS99:43 am 11 Feb 22
Was a bill looking for a problem to solve in the way it had been pulled together, and deserved to be flushed down the toilet as it was.
There may well be gaps in the discrimination framework that need further consideration – but this Bill was not the way to address it – especially trying to rush it through at the last minute to score points with the Government's leadership's best buddies.
Just like the stupid proxy advisor changes of Frydenberg's that got flushed by the senate but were only progressed on the basis of him trying to keep buddies happy – poorly thought out approaches got the outcome they deserved.
Stephen Saunders8:20 am 11 Feb 22
My heart goes out to oppressed faith schools. All they're left with now is generous federal-state funding, plus the rights to charge uncapped fees, pick and choose the best students for the brand, and sidestep tedious anti-discrimination laws.
Religious Freedom does not exist in this country and must not ever exist in this country.
Only a lunatic would really want Religious Freedom.
There are/were real world religions so horrible they should not be allowed to exist.
The Aztecs cutting out people's hearts to help the sun rise is an obvious example, but there are many many more.
When people use the term "Religious Freedom", what they really mean is that people are free to follow religions that the community finds acceptable enough.
And that opinion of what is considered "acceptable enough" can change over time.
Too many evils have been done in this world to honour or appease the imaginary creations of deranged people.
Any move to placate religious groups is a step backwards into darkness.
Those protesting the marriage debate were right.
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Antipater of Phlya (, fl. 20s-10s BC) was a leading statesman at Athens during the reign of Augustus, serving as Hoplite General (the chief Athenian magistracy) an unprecedented seven times. He appears to have been the main force in the establishment of the Imperial cult of Augustus at Athens. He is known exclusively from inscriptions.

Life
Nothing is known about Antipater's father (also called Antipater) or his earlier ancestry, except that he derived from the deme of Phlya and thus belonged to the tribe of Ptolemais. He is one of several Athenian statesmen whose families had apparently not been part of the Athenian aristocracy before the mid-first century BC, who rose to prominence during the Roman civil war and whose descendants remained prominent in the Roman Imperial period.

The first attestation of Antipater is a decree which honours him for his service as hoplite general around the year 28 BC (Agora XV 284). A statue base (SEG 29.170) and a decree (Agora XV 290) commemorate his third term as hoplite general in the archonship of Apolexis. The date of this archonship disputed. Sean Byrne puts it in 24/3 BC, Geoffrey Schmaltz in 20/19 BC. Around this time he appears as the proposer of a decree (Agora XVI 336) which established new divine honours for Augustus, notably a festival celebrating his birthday. Another decree (Agora XV 293) commemorates Antipater's fifth term as hoplite general in the archonship of Demeas of Azenia (Byrne: ca. 20 BC, Schmalz: 18/17 BC). Two statue bases commemorate his seventh term as hoplite general. One was erected by a Roman called Proculus (IG II2 3539) and the other by a group who identify themselves as "merchants" (SEG 17.71). Byrne places this term around 16 BC and Schmalz ca. 15 BC. He is probably also the honorand of a statue base at Delphi for "Antipater son of Antipater the Athenian" (SEG 18.223), erected in the 20s BC. He was one of the three leading figures in Athens in the Augustan period, alongside Pammenes of Marathon and Eucles of Marathon.

Antipater was granted Roman citizenship by Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa, making him the first Athenian to receive this honour. This citizenship grant is known from the fact that several of his descendants bear the nomen Vipsanius and from a tombstone for three of his shipwrecked slaves who are named as "Rufio, Philemation, and Ma, Vipsani of Antipater". He seems never to have used the name Vipsanius himself. The date of the grant is likely to have been Agrippa's visit to Athens in 16 BC, during which work was begun on the Odeon of Agrippa. As the leading figure of Athens at the time, Antipater was probably responsible for hosting him and negotiating the construction of the building.

Family and descendants
Antipater's son, Aeolion, was archon AD 5-14 and another son, called Antipater served as archon of Athens sometime in the 20s AD. His grandson, also called Antipater, was archon in AD 45/6, and his great-grandson, Aeolion, was an ephebe in the mid-40s AD and archon around AD 75. Another descendant, Laelianus, who is the first member of the family to use the nomen Vipsanius, was an ephebe around AD 60 and funded festival games on Salamis around AD 92. Laelianus' son, Aeolion served as an exegete of the Eleusinian Mysteries and was honoured as a benefactor on Samos around AD 120. His daughter Vipsania Laeliana erected in a statue commemorating her son Titus Vipsanius Flavianus' "initiation from the hearth" around AD 120. The last attested descendants are Vipsanius Aeolion and Vipsanius Anteros who served on the Boule in AD 156/7 or 157/8.

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Sus trabajos indagan en las relaciones entre mitología y materialismo. Sus películas han sido programadas en festivales internacionales como Toronto, Locarno, New York Film, San Sebastián, Mar del Plata y Róterdam, entre otros.
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The country's biggest walking dragline (designed in USA but built by Ruston Bucyrus in Lincoln) is assembled on a site in Leicester (just south of Ashby de la Zouche) to remove overburden and enable open cast coal mining by the National Coal Board. Assembly from factory-built sub-assemblies took a year. The bucket was so large the entire class of schoolchildren who attended the naming ceremony could sit in it at the same time.
The Ruston Bucyrus 150RH hydraulic excavator is seen being assembled at Lincoln, then working on site at various UK locations.
Note: The title and narration puns RB's/Our Bees.
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The Ruston Bucyrus 3RB is seen digging a trench behind a residential area. The 60S loader is at an un-named (USA?) quarry shovelling heavy rubble, and demonstrates what is clearly a novel design, with the shovel supported by twin booms, each with two parallel bracing arms.
Compilation of delightful family footage taken during regular visits to the beach, undramatic but full of social/historical interest: Cleethorpes Pier, picnics beside the family Austin 6, swimming in the sea and in the outdoor pool, cricket on the beach, and, amid high winds, a determined effort to brew coffee on a Primus stove, with everyone crammed into a small tent for shelter.
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The Chief Scout, Lord Rowallan, visits Scouts gathered from throughout the Grimsby area. A big Fancy Dress parade with an Imperial theme follows, plus a few brief scenes of a St George's Day parade through the streets of Grimsby. Later, a party of senior scouts leaves the station for the Golden Jubilee Jamboree at Sutton Coldfield, some scenes at which are also included.
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Medwell's Quarry in Rutland, six miles north-east of Stamford, and renowned as a source of stone for architectural restoration. After blasting to remove the hard surface stone, all the work of extraction, splitting and shaping the white limestone is done laboriously by hand, the only mechanical aids being a hand-turned crane for lifting, horse-drawn trucks running on Jubilee track for on-site transport, and a steam lorry.
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Typical street parade, filmed from a single viewpoint, followed by a torchlight procession, fireworks and a dramatic bonfire.
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Some scenes of decorated floats, but most of the footage is devoted to displays by performing dogs, many in fancy dress.
Men in waders collect specimens and mud samples from the river bed for examination and analysis, to assess the general health of the waterway and check for any evidence of pollution. Deviations from the expected numbers and types of larvae, etc, would be a warning sign.
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Teams representing more than a hundred Angling clubs from all over the Midlands gather at Spalding Cattle Market, where a fleet of coaches awaits to take them to their allocated positions along the Welland between Four Mile Bar and Crowland. A starting gun is then fired. Scenes at various locations along the river bank, followed by the final weighing and presentation of trophies. The match was one of a series organised annually by Colonel Peter Brassey, who was the last Chairman of the Welland River Board.
First, we see the 'holding ponds', a breeding tank, and fish for re-location being tipped from portable containers into the river Welland. Then a team on board a specially equipped flat-bottomed boat remove the coarse fish from the River Gwash by means of 'electric fishing'. Briefly stunned by an electric current applied to the water from a portable generator, the fish rise to the surface where those for removal are easily netted and transferred to a tank of oxygenated water for later release into the Welland.
Following the 1965 amalgamation of the separate River Boards into a single Authority with headquarters at the Old Rectory, Oundle, an out-building on the site was converted into a new Laboratory, opened in 1966 by Alderman Strickland, the Authority's first Chairman. After a ceremony in the main building, guests are seen inspecting the new facility.
Board members travel upstream by barge along the Coronation Channel and up the Welland to the new Crowland & Cowbit Wash pumping Station, which is officially opened. With a working model, an engineer explains the newly developed siphon system for automatically lowering dangerously high river levels. Specially designed reed-cutting boats and excavators equipped with the new reed-mowing buckets are demonstrated: these mechanical methods would soon supplant the old manual maintenance of dykes. Finally, the Board members attend a Garden Party in the grounds of the Chairman's house.


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The 2018 election cycle is upon us. I've actually gone door-to-door already and it's only March. Margaret O'Brien and I have gone out a couple of times during the month with snow on the ground and the wind howling in our faces. For Margaret, she's even more out there. She started in January. But that's the nature of the political cycle in today's era. Used to be you would get all the endorsements you could get and your opponent would as well. Then you each took out a full-page ad in the Gazette and see who won on election day. There were a few mailings and you would try going door- to-door. But who knew which homes had voters living in them?
Today, there are polls and consultants, and no good way to reach the voters – except for face-to-face conversation. Data bases predict the persuasion of each voter, based on observed and predicted patterns. Targeted mailings, digital ngerprints, polling, emails and it goes on and on. Quite scienti c.
And it all came down to 10,000 votes in the state of Michigan to determine the presidential campaign. It was 61 votes four years ago in the state senate race in Kalamazoo County. Only 46 votes determined the county commissioner in Portage's 10th District two years ago.
Let's face it: This country is divided. Almost exactly in half.
Now, let's throw in a shooting at a high school in Florida and mix gun rights and the Second Amendment into the dialogue. Protests break out in high schools up and down our fruited plains and everywhere else in between.
An opioid epidemic claws at the country and thousands of deaths are reported throughout the U.S.A. Lawyers jump on their horses and start class-act lawsuits in every big and little town where drugs are (which I will tell you is everywhere). Now governmental bodies are even signing up for the pots of gold that lawyers are promising.
"Undocumented residents" becomes the misnomer for "illegal aliens." IDs are now being handed out without traditional documentation, including Kalamazoo County. How long will it be until the lines blur between citizenship and residency? How long until anyone can vote, regardless of which country their allegiance lies?
Everyone has their own view of justice. My thought is that this country is doesn't have a collective clue as to what justice is – or freedom for that matter.
Yet, two years ago a woman dies following an abortion at Planned Parenthood right here in Kalamazoo. Where's the outcry? Where's the legal community? Where's the investigation by law enforcement? It's been swept under the proverbial rug.
Is taking every gun away from each citizen going to make schools safer? Has gun-free school zones helped with the safety of our children? Is the issue safety or just getting rid of guns?
Why is life so precious for children at school and not to an unborn child in the womb?
Are we going to open our borders to anyone to enter to find out we're surrounded by the enemy when war breaks out? What happens when our government rises up against its own citizens? What do we do then?
I don't have any answers, but just want to warn everyone that we need to calm down and think about what we are advocating. It feels too much like the 1960s right now and I'm not sure I want to re-live that era again. There are issues that are important to me, but I can also respect issues that are important to others – even Democrats.
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Lessons in promoting human-wildlife coexistence
Africa, gorillas, health, Human-wildlife conflict, Uganda
"The health of people is closely connected to the health of animals and our shared environment."
As the world faces an increase in the spread of zoonotic diseases, among them COVID-19, anthrax, Ebola and Marburg, a Ugandan organisation - Conservation Through Public Health - is championing a model of healthy and peaceful coexistence between humans and animals while promoting wildlife conservation.
Dr Gladys Kalema-Zikusoka, founder and CEO of Conservation Through Public Health, spoke to FairPlanet about the human-wildlife situation in Uganda and beyond, the breakthroughs and remaining challenges and the potential for scaling the method to other parts of the world.
FairPlanet: What inspired the formation of Conservation Through Public Health?
Gladys Kalema-Zikusoka: While working as the first veterinarian of Uganda Wildlife Authority, I led a team that investigated the first fatal outbreak among gorillas in Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, which caused the death of an infant; the other gorillas only recovered with treatment. We traced the outbreak to people living around Bwindi Impenetrable National Park who have less than adequate hygiene and access to basic health care.
I realised that it was not possible to protect the remaining mountain gorillas without improving the health and wellbeing of their human neighbours, and that is how we started Conservation Through Public Health (CTPH) in 2003.
Can you tell us a bit about the kind of work the organisation carries out?
The organisation trains rangers and gorilla guardians to monitors the health of gorillas, and built a Gorilla Health and Community Conservation Centre with funding from Tusk Trust, which analyses non-invasive fecal samples from gorillas, from livestock and from people who mix with gorillas to evaluate whether they are picking up disease from each other and treat them in a timely manner.
We train community volunteers called Village Health and Conservation teams who are community health workers trained to promote conservation. They provide integrated conservation and health information and services to households on the boundary of BINP to help improve their health, wellbeing, sanitation and hygiene and reduce zoonotic disease transmission through timely referrals to the nearest health centres.
They also promote family planning to help people have the number of children that they can manage and have less dependence on the first to meet their basic needs. The also promote nutrition and sustainable agriculture.
The One health model
One of the flagship models of CTPH is One Health. How does it work and how would you rate its success?
The One Health model recognises that the health of people is closely connected to the health of animals and our shared environment. Humans and wildlife share zoonotic diseases, including scabies, tuberculosis, and other respiratory diseases such as COVID-19 [...] and common flu viruses, rabies, anthrax, Ebola and Marburg.
Through our work and research, we have been able to mitigate the spread of zoonotic diseases that are a threat to people, gorillas and livestock. Hence, through the One Health approach, we are helping to ensure that the health and wellbeing of both humans and animals is prioritised, promoting wildlife conservation, public health and preventing pandemics.
Our work has helped improve the health and wellbeing of the local community members living around Bwindi Impenetrable National Park and, in so doing, reduced the threat of disease transmission to the gorillas through the One Health approach.
What inspired you to focus on the human-wildlife interface and how has been the experience in ensuring coexistence of the two?
When people made mountain gorillas sick, I realised that it is not possible to protect the gorillas without improving the health of the people who they share their fragile habitat with. Most of the people in these communities are impoverished and it is through the support from NGOs like ours, local governments and other authorities that these people's health and wellbeing could be changed for better.
When you improve the health of these communities, you move a step farther in conserving wildlife and their habitats.
We have a seen a positive change in attitudes and perspectives in communities around Bwindi Impenetrable National Park due to the services and knowledge provided in health and conservation education.
As Vice President of the African Primatological Society, I am helping to build African leadership in primate conservation and research, which is something I feel is important to secure the future of wildlife. I am also a member of the Women for the Environment - Africa Leadership Council, which is mentoring women to realise their leadership potential in conservation and sustainable development - something else I am passionate about.
"When you improve the health of these communities, you move a step farther in conserving wildlife and their habitats."
Having been in the field of biodiversity conservation for some time, do you feel various players including governments, private sector and the international community have done enough to promote conservation? What more should be done?
I think the different stakeholders are working hard to promote conservation. On the other hand, we need more African, youth, women, and local community voices to influence and promote conservation.
These groups of people need to be more involved in planning and decision-making matters that affect their communities.
Can you name some key milestones since you started your conservation work?
I am proud to have contributed to the growth of the mountain gorilla population, which has almost doubled since I first started working with them 26 years ago from 650 to 1063.
This growth trend led to their IUCN status changing from critically endangered to endangered and is due to successful conservation efforts of the government, private sector, local communities, CTPH and other NGOs that have enabled veterinary care and tourism with meaningful engagement, resulting in tangible benefits to local communities and improved law enforcement, research and community health.
What would you identify as the major challenges in your work?
Some of the major challenges in our work is the emerging and remerging diseases, such as COVID-19, that are a threat to the existence of the endangered mountain gorillas and the local communities.
Gorillas share 98.4 percent DNA with human beings, making them highly susceptible to human diseases, hence the need to carry out routine health monitoring and behavior change communication through household visits to mitigate the spread of zoonotic diseases.
What is the potential of replicating your model to other regions, especially protected areas?
There is a very high potential for replicating our model to other regions because of its positive impact in tackling the health of humans and animals in biodiversity hotspots. We scaled up in other protected areas of Uganda and Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo and we plan to scale to other African countries.
In light of emerging zoonotic diseases like COVID-19, and as an expert, tell us about the link between public health, wildlife protection, and shared habitats.
We implement a One Health model that improves the health of people, wildlife and livestock together and prevents habitat destruction, including deforestation and swamp reclamation that brings people in closer contact with wildlife, which also helps to address climate change. This includes reducing human-wildlife conflict through timely herding of gorillas from community land where they are likely to pick up human diseases, and education to prevent poaching and bush meat hunting.
What future plans do you have with CTPH?
We plan to scale up the One Health approach to other areas in and outside Uganda, around protected areas, and wildlife rich habitats. We are also promoting responsible tourism to great apes across Africa, and launched a policy brief.
I have written a book, Walking with Gorillas, a part memoir part charter, about my conservation journey that has been shaped by One Health. It is due to be published in February 2023 and available to be pre-ordered.
I would like this book to inspire people, particularly women and girls, to follow their passion and break societal boundaries.
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"I led a team that investigated the first fatal outbreak among gorillas in Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, which caused the death of an infant; the other gorillas only recovered with treatment."
"The organisation trains rangers and gorilla guardians to monitors the health of gorillas, and built a Gorilla Health and Community Conservation Centre."
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Spectral evolution with incremental nanocoating of long period fiber gratings
Ignacio Del Villar, Jesus M. Corres, Miguel Achaerandio, Francisco J. Arregui, and Ignacio R. Matias
Departamento de Ingeniería Eléctrica y Electrónica, Universidad Pública de Navarra, 31006 Pamplona, Spain.
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Ignacio Del Villar, Jesus M. Corres, Miguel Achaerandio, Francisco J. Arregui, and Ignacio R. Matias, "Spectral evolution with incremental nanocoating of long period fiber gratings," Opt. Express 14, 11972-11981 (2006)
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Diffraction and Gratings
Coupled mode theory
Phase matching
Red shift
Gratings (050.2770)
Fiber optics sensors (060.2370)
Electromagnetic optics (260.2110)
Deposition and fabrication (310.1860)
Original Manuscript: September 11, 2006
Revised Manuscript: October 31, 2006
Manuscript Accepted: October 31, 2006
Suppl. Mat. (1)
The incremental deposition of a thin overlay on the cladding of a long-period fiber grating (LPFG) induces important resonance wavelength shifts in the transmission spectrum. The phenomenon is proved theoretically with a vectorial method based on hybrid modes and coupled mode theory, and experimentally with electrostatic self-assembly monolayer process. The phenomenon is repeated periodically for specific overlay thickness values with the particularity that the shape of the resonance wavelength shift depends on the thickness of the overlay. The main applications are the design of wide optical filters and multiparameter sensing devices.
Influence on cladding mode distribution of overlay deposition on long-period fiber gratings
Ignacio Del Villar, Ignacio R. Matias, and Francisco J. Arregui
J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 23(3) 651-658 (2006)
Enhancement of sensitivity in long-period fiber gratings with deposition of low-refractive-index materials
Opt. Lett. 30(18) 2363-2365 (2005)
Optimization of sensitivity in Long Period Fiber Gratings with overlay deposition
Ignacio Del Villar, Ignacio R. Matías, Francisco J. Arregui, and Philippe Lalanne
Opt. Express 13(1) 56-69 (2005)
Fringe generation with non-uniformly coated long-period fiber gratings
Ignacio Del Villar, Francisco J. Arregui, Ignacio R. Matias, Andrea Cusano, Domenico Paladino, and Antonello Cutolo
Opt. Express 15(15) 9326-9340 (2007)
Resonances in coated long period fiber gratings and cladding removed multimode optical fibers: a comparative study
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Chen, H. E.
Chen, Q.
Choi, J.
Contesta, L.
Cooper, K. L.
Cusano, A.
Cutolo, A.
Decher, G.
Del Villar, I.
Eggleton, B. J.
Erdogan, T.
Gaylord, T. K.
Giordano, M.
Glytsis, E. N.
Guerra, G.
Guo, S.
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Iadicicco, A.
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Judkins, J. B.
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Lalanne, P.
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Pilla, P.
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Fig. 1. LPFG coated with one overlay.
Fig. 2. Spectrum as a function of the overlay thickness (simulation). Overlay index 1.52. Surrounding medium: water.
Fig. 3. Transmission spectrum (simulation) for two overlay thickness values: a) 3780 nm; b) 4120 nm. Overlay index 1.52. Surrounding medium: water.
Fig. 4. Spectrum as a function of the overlay thickness (simulation). Overlay index 1.52+0.0025i. Surrounding medium: water.
Fig. 5. Spectrum as a function of the overlay thickness (simulation). Overlay index 1.52+0.0025i. Surrounding medium: air.
Fig. 6. Spectrum as a function of the overlay thickness (experiment). Overlay index 1.52+0.0025i. Surrounding medium: water.
Fig. 7. Transmission spectra for the first and the second transition of modes. The movie of the transitions can be seen in an avi file. [Media 1]
Fig. 8 Spectrum as a function of the overlay thickness (experiment). Overlay index 1.52+0.0025i. Surrounding medium: air.
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Occupy The Hood Seeks To Bring Blacks and Latinos Into OWS
The Occupy Movement has taken a foothold not just on Wall Street, but all across the country. And Occupy The Hood is aiming to get more people of color involved in the cause.??
Occupy Wall Street is a series of demonstrations in New York City's Wall Street financial district that has since become a worldwide movement. Launched by Canadian activist group Adbusters, the protests focus on social and economic inequality, high unemployment, greed, as well as corruption, and the?influence of corporations on government. ??
Initially, most of the protesters were white, but Occupy the Hood wants people of color to fight for corporate change as well.?Malik Rahsaan, an African-American New Yorker and full-time substance abuse counselor, and Ife Johari Uhuru from Detroit?are behind the Occupy the Hood effort. ??
The Internet has played a great part in spreading the word about?Occupy the Hood. Rahsaan created the group's Facebook and Twitter accounts. Occupy the Hood thus far has more than 10,000 followers on Twitter and more than 11,000 people on Facebook and has branched off to other cities, including Austin, Texas; Washington, D.C., Atlanta, Seattle, Philadelphia, and?Chicago.??
"Occupy the Hood is a national movement with a presence in 22 cities from Harlem to San Diego. We stand in solidarity with all Occupy movements worldwide to end?corporate greed and to?bring justice to the people economically and socially," says Brittney Gault of Occupy Chicago. "Occupy the Hood Chicago is necessary to bring awareness to the people – people who are significantly impacted by the crimes on Wall Street are concerned about the success of the movement. We hope to identify, recruit, and train concerned citizens to become outstanding organizers. From this, we hope to develop sustainable systems of resources managed by the people and for the people, block by block."??
According to the Occupy The Hood mission statement: "It is imperative that the voice of people of color is heard?at this movement! We must not be forgotten as the world progresses to the next economic stage. We can all agree that the voices in our?communities are especially needed in this humanitarian struggle. We?are our future and we possess the energy needed to push the Occupy?movement to the next phase. We are ?The Least Represented?; we are among ?The Ignored?; we are among ?The Unemployed?; we are considered ?The Under Educated?; we are considered ?The Minority?; we are ?The Consumers?; but most importantly we are ?The Hood?."??
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New York State Police enlist public's help to find cemetery vandals
(JTA) — The New York State Police have called on the public to help find the vandals who defaced a Jewish cemetery with anti-Semitic graffiti.
The brick wall surrounding the Beth Shalom Cemetery in Warwick, a suburban town located about 90 minutes north of Manhattan, was vandalized with black spray-paint including the words "Heil Hitler," swastikas and SS lightning bolts. The attack occurred in October, just days before the observance of Yom Kippur.
A Catholic cemetery across the street owned by Temple Beth Shalom of the Village of Florida was not vandalized.
Both state police and Town of Warwick police are investigating the vandalism, the Times Herald-Record newspaper reported. The police have put out a call in the local media for assistance, including publicizing the numbers for their tip lines.
The Jewish Federation of Greater Orange County is offering a $10,000 reward for information leading to a conviction in the case.
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Cleveland reporter and bon vivant Winsor French brought readers the world in mid-20th century
Updated Oct 9, 2011 ; Posted Oct 9, 2011
By Evelyn Theiss, The Plain Dealer
Kent State University PressWinsor French was a handsome fellow, as this 1939 portrait shows, and he knew how to make an entrance, too -- his burnished baritone would boom, "You won't believe it . . . ," and he'd launch into a story that had his listeners rapt.
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He was a New England blueblood turned Cleveland columnist who traveled with Cole Porter and his friends in cafe society.
Winsor French was famous, too, for arriving at his newspaper job at the Cleveland Press in his Rolls-Royce Silver Cloud. But he made a point of sitting next to his driver, Sam Hill, not behind him.
French was the very definition of a bon vivant. His great friends included such celebrities as Noel Coward and Tallulah Bankhead, as well as the writers Somerset Maugham, John O'Hara and John Steinbeck.
Yet he also was the first writer for a mainstream Cleveland paper who went to black nightclubs in the 1930s and raved to readers about the jazz scene he found there. He wrote about his friends in Cleveland's Jewish society, though his WASP acquaintances chastised him (to no avail).
And while his close friends knew, and devoted readers might have discerned, that French was gay, he had also been married to a New York heiress whose mother was Antoinette Perry, for whom Broadway's Tony Awards are named.
In short, French was an anomaly in many aspects of his life -- and one of the most vivid characters in 20th-century Cleveland.
Telling the story of a great storyteller
French, you could say, wrote the book on Cleveland night life and culture from the early 1930s, when Prohibition was on its last legs, to the mid-1960s.
Except he never did write a book, so now James M. Wood has done it for him. The Shaker Heights author -- best known for his history of Halle's department store -- captures a magical era in the city's culture in "Out and About With Winsor French" (Kent State University Press, $29).
It took Wood 15 years of research and writing, and he got to know French well through letters he wrote that his sisters -- three are still alive -- had saved. Wood also read the massive archive on microfilm of French columns, first at the Cleveland News, then for several decades at the Press.
Wood, a former Cleveland magazine writer, found some surprises along the way -- such as that, for a time, French wrote under the nom de plume Noel Francis.
Also, Wood says, French was open about his sexuality but not obvious: "Reading his columns, though, I could see how he was writing between the lines for a gay audience."
This, of course, was at a time of rampant homophobia, when newsrooms were no bastion of tolerance. Yet French was liked and respected.
"He earned his credentials with his newspaper colleagues by being able to drink them under the table," says Wood. "He was a tremendous drinker and smoker and storyteller -- and everyone couldn't help but want to hear the end of his stories." Which, Wood writes, he delivered in a "burnished baritone."
For much of his life, French tended to live beyond his considerable means, especially through his worldwide travels. But then his good friend Leonard Hanna left him a gift of "a big wad of IBM stock," as Wood says. "And he became a very generous host."
Winsor French was born in Saratoga Springs, N.Y., descended from a distinguished military family from Massachusetts. His father, also named Winsor, died in 1908, when his son was 5. His mother, Edith Ide French, then married Joseph O. Eaton, founder of Cleveland's Eaton Corp.
French did not thrive at any of the private boarding schools he was sent to and spent only a few months at Kenyon College. This was no impediment to being hired at a newspaper, though, and in 1933, he joined the Cleveland News.
That same year, he married Margaret Frueauff, who lived on the swankiest part of Park Avenue in New York City and whose Broadway stage name was Margaret Perry. Within months, she inherited $675,000 from her utility-magnate father, so her husband's salary hardly mattered.
Interestingly, for their wedding at St. Bartholomew's Episcopal Church in Manhattan, French had 14 male ushers, at least four of whom were openly homosexual, according to Wood's book. They included Leonard Hanna (scion of Cleveland's Hanna family), Roger Stearns (who would later become French's longtime companion), Jerome Zerbe (who is said to have invented the profession of celebrity/society photographer) and actor Roger Davis.
The French marriage barely lasted a year, but Margaret and Winsor remained on friendly terms. Her next husband was the actor Burgess Meredith.
Kent State University PressThis photo was taken on the 1940 South Seas cruise that Winsor French took with Cole and Linda Porter and other friends; from left, in the front: Cole Porter, Linda Porter, Roger Stearns and French. At far right is Leonard Hanna.
French invited into celebrity world
On Jan. 2, 1933, French, who had once belonged to an acting troupe himself, was at Cleveland's Hanna Theatre for an important event -- the world premiere of a new play by Noel Coward. French was one of a dozen newspaper writers, as well as reporters from The Associated Press and United Press International, on hand.
That Cleveland would be the site of the play's debut -- to columnist Walter Winchell's dismay in New York -- might be explained by the subject matter of "Design for Living," which starred the famed Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne: a menage a trois, involving two men and a woman.
Under his Noel Francis moniker, French had leaked just enough about it in advance to ensure a frenzy of coverage. In his column, he called the play "very, very daring." After all, he was acquainted with the playwright, so he got the scoop.
Later, French would write, "People will tell you, by the way, that 'Design for Living' is Coward's own life story."
No other critic in Cleveland would have known, or could have written, that.
In the next few years, navigating celebrity would be an integral part of French's personal life and profession.
Cole and Linda Porter invited French to Hollywood in 1936 to stay with them at their leased estate. Cleveland Press editor Louis B. Seltzer agreed that readers would be interested, so French stayed -- for six weeks. He wrote about the clubs and parties he attended, and the stars he saw. At a party hosted in Santa Monica by Carole Lombard, he befriended Marlene Dietrich.
French had met the Porters through Leonard Hanna. They visited Cleveland in the 1930s and '40s, and usually stayed at Hanna's Hilo estate in Mentor.
One of Porter's friends and favorite pianists was Roger Stearns, with whom French had shared the Porters' guesthouse in Hollywood. For most of French's adult life, until Stearns' death, the couple lived together in apartments in Lakewood and Shaker Heights.
Early in his career, though, French was living in a down-market area overlooking the old Cleveland Municipal Stadium, in a neighborhood called Lakeside Flats. He preferred to call it an "artists colony."
In 1936, that neighborhood overlooked the Billy Rose Aquacade. French belittled the show almost daily in his column. The reasons were simple: French was a dear friend of Fanny Brice, Billy Rose's wife, and she had conveyed to him that her husband was philandering with Eleanor Holm, a star of the Aquacade. Rose's homophobic rants about his wife's male friends didn't endear him to French, either.
That same year, Cleveland was also on the map as host city of the Republican National Convention. Thanks to his friendship with the Republican Hanna, French became a tour guide for party honchos to the places they wanted to go: the restaurants and nightclubs of Cleveland's black entertainment district, where they heard performers such as pianist Art Tatum.
While few knew Cleveland the way French did, over the years he became just as well-known as a "first-class" travel writer. He would file columns from London, Paris and Venice, Italy, that were filled with the goings-on of famous composers, novelists, actors and actresses -- something that surprisingly was embraced by the working-class-oriented Press and its editor, Seltzer.
On a South Seas cruise with the Porters, French was on hand as Cole wrote the lyrics for his show "Panama Hattie."
In the 1940s, French was a member of Cleveland's mostly Jewish "Jolly Set," which partied at such venues as Gruber's Restaurant in Shaker Heights and Kornman's Back Room on the street dubbed "Short Vincent." His friendship with Indians owner Bill Veeck gave him access to cover the Indians' private post-game World Series celebrations in 1948.
Among French's good friends in Cleveland were members of the Halle family.
When he traveled to Washington, D.C., he stayed with Kay Halle, who was famous as the beautiful hostess who turned her Georgetown home, known as the "Hotel Halle," into a salon that drew famous power brokers.
Naturally, she knew John F. Kennedy long before he was president. In the early 1960s, when Jackie Kennedy was redecorating the White House and turning it into the museum it is today, French paid Halle a visit.
He brought along a landscape painting by Alexander Wyant that had long been in his family. He and his siblings decided to offer it, as they had learned the White House arts committee was interested in 18th- and 19th-century landscapes.
Not long after his visit, he got a handwritten note from the first lady, who thanked French for the "charming landscape" and for his "spontaneous generosity." The painting is believed to still be in the White House collection.
'He was never a hypocrite'
One of French's sisters, Martha Hickox, still lives in Cleveland, in a retirement home.
She recalls that when she lived with her husband and children in Pepper Pike, "Winsor used to come out to our house every Sunday for lunch -- it was a ritual," she says. "He could be very, very funny. And even later, when he had his physical handicaps, he did not let it daunt him." (When his legs began giving out on him after he was diagnosed with a degenerative disease, he got the Rolls-Royce and driver.)
Martha's son, Fayette, lives in Weston, Conn., and remembers those lunches fondly. He went on to become a writer himself, working for George Plimpton at the Paris Review and for Andy Warhol's Interview magazine. He says he was undoubtedly inspired by his uncle, "who always dressed for lunch in a blazer, gray flannel slacks and an ascot.
"My Uncle Winsor never let socially restrictive norms get in the way," whether in his personal or professional life, says Fayette Hickox. "And he was never a hypocrite."
To wit: French drank during Prohibition, and he not only let readers know it, he all but gave them addresses to the speakeasies in his column.
Hickox has some mementos from his uncle: a photo inscribed to French by actress Gertrude Lawrence, and an ashtray on which Cole Porter etched an ode to French's partner. It reads, "To the lovely loins of Roger Stoins."
COURTESY OF KENT STATE UNIVERSITY PRESSWinsor and heiress-actress Margaret Perry, just after their wedding in 1933. Shortly after posing for this photo in Niagara Falls, N.Y., they left for the World's Fair in Chicago.
It's the kind of naughtiness French would have loved.
French died at the age of 68, in 1973, from a neurological disease he had suffered from for years. At first, he got around with a walker, then a wheelchair. In addition to his about-town writings, his legacy includes having campaigned for accessibility for people with disabilities.
At the end of his life, French expressed regret for never having written a novel or sold a screenplay. Yet his body of work provides a profound cultural view of Cleveland at midcentury, as Wood's book well conveys.
As Fayette Hickox says of French: "He always had a kind of underground, countercultural sensibility, wrapped in a suave urbane package.
"I think he opened a window on the great world for us, just as he did for his readers."
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The Role of the European Union in Asia: China and India as Strategic Partners
Author(s): Bart Gaens, Juha Jokela, and Eija Limnell (eds)
ISBN: 978-0-7546-7790
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing Company
Price: CND$114,21
Reviewed by Martyn de Bruyn, Ph. D., Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, Northeastern Illinois University, Chicago, Illinois
The European Union (EU) has historically played no significant role in Asia. While EU member states, in particular the United Kingdom, France, Portugal and the Netherlands, had an historical colonial relationship with Asia, EU foreign policy has been aimed mostly toward Africa and North America. Asia was seemingly of little economic or strategic interest to the Union. What was true for Asia was also true in large part for China and India. As Asia became the new dynamic region in an ever more globalized world economy the EU also became more interested in enhancing its strategic relations with Asia's two newly established powerhouses China and India. This important book sketches the development of these strategic relations and theorizes about the nature of the EU as external actor.
Timo Kivimäki in chapter 1 discusses the strategic partnerships the EU has with China and India. At the domestic policy making level these two regional superpowers are polar opposites but in foreign relations they are rather more similar to each other than to the EU. India shares with the EU its democratic regime and a complex federal policy making process. India shares with China, however, its Westphalian foreign policy approach. Whereas the EU has been characterized as post-Westphalian with its focus on human rights and human security, Chinese and Indian foreign policy still subscribes to traditional Westphalian values such as sovereignty and non-interference.
The nature of the EU as international actor is discussed by Juha Jokela in chapter 2 using the dichotomy of European superpower versus model power. The EU is presented as an active model power that is influenced primarily by its own history. Bart Gaens discussion in chapter 3 of the Asia Europe Meeting (ASEM) touches on the limitations and opportunities of Europe as model power in Asia. Since European Union member states and not only the Union are partners in ASEM the EU does not often speak with a single voice in its relations with China or India. But Gaens finds that initial skepticism on the part of China and India makes way for constructive engagement.
Mikael Mattlin in chapter 5 looks more closely at the idea of strategy to describe the relationship between the EU and China. The EU's formal policy tools in foreign relations are common positions and joint actions. Mattlin argues that these tools are mostly used in relation to weak or failed states and not China. In looking at five policy areas, both interest based and rights based issues, Mattlin finds limited convergence of policies. EU documents use the phase 'challenge' over 'change' in recognition of the fact that China is not gradually becoming Europeanized. Zhang Tiejun in chapter 6 also focuses on the strategic partnership between China and the EU, but is far more optimistic about the development of political rights in China (i.e. China becoming more like the EU). Tiejun sets out five criteria for the success of a strategic partnership and concludes that shared values and interests in cooperation may be only short term. In the long term China focuses directly on its needs especially in energy. The EU and China will more likely be rivals for energy than partners in multilateralism. Linda Jakobson in chapter 8 focuses her entire chapter on energy security arguing that China's foreign policy is directed towards domestic economic growth and the securing of a stable energy supply. The main frontier for international competition over energy resources will be Africa. While China will defend the principle of non-interference when criticized by the EU or US over its human rights record, or lack of anti-piracy law enforcement, its continued large scale investment in Africa leads it to relax this same principle for the sake of the protection of its oversees commercial investments. In its relations with African nations China focuses on providing hardware (roads, railroads, modern communication equipment) while the EU focuses on software (government capacity building). This leads to friction between the EU and China over the latter's close ties with some of the world's worst human rights violating regimes. Both the EU and China depend heavily on imported energy and the differences in approaching African nations will remain, according to Jakobson. Claudia Astarita in chapter 10 points out that India and China are also competing hard for energy resources and new markets. While both India and China remain dominant powers in their regions, they both have signed FTA's with ASEAN. The development of alternative sources of energy is one of the few areas where the EU and China do see a convergence of interests. Bates Gill in chapter 7 discusses China's negative experience in recent history with multilateralism. He goes on to describe China's gradual warming up to multilateral institutions such as APEC, ASEAN, ARF, Six Party Talks, SCO, and ASEM. Gill does caution that the quantity of multilateral institutions China engages somewhat hides the quality of the interaction. China is interested in international forums for cooperation, but does not seek EU style policy integration.
Most chapters in this edited volume deal with EU relations with China, or China and India together, but Rajendra Jain in chapter 9 focuses exclusively on EU relations with India. The EU and India share a democratic system of governance and this makes India a natural partner for the EU in Asia. Jain points out though that the strategic partnership between India and the EU is a venue for political dialogue and political cooperation rather than strategic relations in the more limited military sense. India, like many states in Asia, regards the US rather than the EU as partner in security matters. India shares the EU's ideal of effective multilateralism only when it does not involve its own neighborhood where it favors hard power. Jain points to the relationship India has with Myanmar where it is unwilling to relinquish its economic interests for the sake of democracy promotion. Also in energy and environmental matters India is willing to cooperate with the EU as long as it does not jeopardize its economic growth. Jain concludes that the fact that the EU and India share democratic values does not translate into EU success in winning India over with its foreign policy. Even China is a more active partner in regional organizations such as ASEM, ASEAN plus three, and APEC than India is in ASEM and SAARC. EU foreign policy has very little influence on India as it continues to see itself as a major regional power. India and China, as dominant powers in their region, and competitors for energy resources, are not about to have their foreign policies be Europeanized.
The role of the European Union in Asia sheds an interesting light on the strategic partnerships the EU has entered with China and India. The strategic element of the partnerships is mostly economic in nature and both states desire access to European markets. The EU gains very limited political influence in return for market access and the democratic and federalist nature of Indian politics do not provide the EU with any additional influence. In terms of engaging regional institutions, a major source of EU external influence, China is even more proactive than India, which regards the United States and not Europe as its natural ally in international relations.
Martyn de Bruyn(2012). Review of "The Role of the European Union in Asia: China and India as Strategic Partners" edited by Bart Gaens, Juha Jokela, and Eija Limnell, East Asia Integration Studies,


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US Ivy League University Rolls Out Online Course in Blockchain and Cryptocurrency
The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania has introduced an online program on financial technologies, including digital currencies, according to a press release published on May 30.
The new online program dubbed "Fintech: Foundations and Applications of Financial Technologies" features lectures and case studies on topics such as payments, cryptocurrency, blockchain technology and crowdfunding, among others.
Apart from the university lecturers, the course also features speakers from the leading industry companies, including payment processor Square, marketplace lender CommonBond, and investment advisory firm Vanguard.
Anne Trumbore, senior director of Wharton Online, said that the program was launched as part of the university's multi-faceted approach to fintech education. Per the release, Wharton recently formed the Stevens Center for Innovation in Finance, which conducts research on financial technologies.
Wharton thus joins an array of educational establishments that have already introduced blockchain and fintech technologies into their curricula. Earlier this month, Turkish Bahçeşehir University reportedly opened a blockchain center at Boston's Northeastern University to provide informational support on blockchain technology.
In April, the National University of Colombia joined the global blockchain consortium for science dubbed Bloxberg. The university along with other participating parties reportedly aim to establish an infrastructure that "broadens the scientific landscape of regionally and nationally governed blockchain networks to become the first truly globally maintained decentralized network by scientists for science."
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Spotify appears to be building a karaoke feature – just as Twitch shuts down Sings
Amazon-owned live-streaming platform Twitch revealed via a blog post on Friday (September 4) that it will be closing its karaoke app, Twitch Sings, in January next year.
Twitch states that, starting December 1, it will begin removing videos, clips, and highlights "per our contractual obligations" from the app, which is currently licensed globally by around 180 music publishers.
The app is being shuttered, according to Twitch, because the firm has "decided to invest in broader tools and services that will help support and grow the entire music community on Twitch".
The timing of Twitch's statement is interesting – because it arrives just as we learn that Spotify appears to be building its own, in-app karaoke feature.
The new and unreleased Spotify Karaoke Mode was first spotted by renowned reverse engineer Jane Manchun Wong – who uses her expertise to dig around in the code of various apps to see what companies are testing – earlier today (September 3).
Manchun Wong has previously uncovered Spotify features such as video podcasts and virtual concerts.
Her Spotify Karaoke Mode discovery suggests the vocal level in the feature will be adjustable. She has released a screenshot from the under-wraps feature that allows for the vocals to be turned up and down.
Spotify's reported entrance into the app-based karaoke business makes a lot of sense, with Tencent Music Entertainment (TME's) WeSing app serving as a prime example of what can be achieved in the space.
TME claimed last year that WeSing users were generating 10 million recordings per day. WeSing reportedly accounts for 77% of China's online karaoke user base.
TME also recently entered into a strategic partnership with Thailand's largest record and publishing company, GMM Grammy (GMM Music).
According to a press release, "with the help of WeSing, TME's international online Karaoke social community, the partnership will bring a more diverse music entertainment experience and interactive play to music fans in Southeast Asia, and also tap the greater potential of the music markets in China and Thailand".
In other words, it looks like Tencent Music is keen to push WeSing in Thailand with the help of GMM's publishing catalog, while GMM's artists are set for a more sustained push in China via TME's services.
Amazon boss Jeff Bezos told the House Judiciary Committee's anti-trust hearing in July that he didn't know whether or not Amazon-owned Twitch pays royalties to artists for records played on the service.
Nevertheless, Twitch has been getting increasingly close to the music business this year.
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Home Soccer Premier League Ranking all of the Arsenal 2021 Summer signings
Ranking all of the Arsenal 2021 Summer signings
After what was nothing less than a dreadful season for Arsenal, they have spent big money in the transfer window to improve their luck
The Gunners have the highest net spend of any Premier League club this summer after Deadline Day.
Although the club has continued their bad form by losing their first three league games without scoring, Mikel Arteta will hope that some of these new players can turn their season around.
6. Nuno Tavares – €8 million
This was Arsenal's first signing of the summer back in early July and it left most fans bewildered. The 21-year-old signed for a relatively small fee from Benfica and he has gone on to make two appearances in the league already.
Last season he only managed seven starts in the Portuguese league, providing no goal contributions. Arteta has clearly seen something he likes in the player but for now, he seems like more of a backup for Scotsman Kieren Tierney.
5. Ben White – €69 million
Arteta fiercely fought for the signing of White from Brighton & Hove Albion but after his first few games, it seems more like a panic buy. Arsenal have shown trouble at the back and going by his only game so far, the 23-year-old will not be the one to fix it.
It is clear that White has many years ahead of him and will probably play most of the remainder of Arsenal's season but the main problem is the ludicrous price.
After a good season in the Championship and an alright one in the Premier League, Brighton managed to sell the player for twice what he is actually worth.
4. Aaron Ramsdale – €28 million
This was the transfer that Arteta hunted down the most in the transfer window. Ramsdale is still a young goalkeeper at the age of 23 but has already been a part of two relegated Premier League teams.
Although he was part of the Gunners win of the season – a thrashing of a West Brom reserve team in the EFL Cup – he does not seem worth his price tag.
Arsenal always had a decent keeper in Bernd Leno and it just seems that Ramsdale is costing more due to being English.
Aaron Ramsdale for Arsenal:
– 2 clean sheets 🧤
– 0 goals conceded ⛔
– 10 goals for ⚽
– 1 fan favourite already 👏 pic.twitter.com/fdFiQXOc0y
— Av (@aviv_lavi) September 2, 2021
3. Albert Sambi Lokonga – €18 million
This signing has shown a slight bit of merit, Lokonga may have been in two of Arsenal's opening losses but has shown to be a strong replacement for Granit Xhaka.
The 21-year-old started 27 times for Anderlecht last season and made five-goal contributions from a mainly defensive midfielder role.
The Belgian has also been praised by Premier League legend Vincent Kompany during his time in Anderlecht.
Sambi Lokonga has been the best player in last 3 games. Its a shame Arteta will bench him when Thomas Partey is back and employ Granit Xhaka. pic.twitter.com/MOfR8qeSJs
— SAMBi (@Sambilokonga48) August 31, 2021
2. Takehiro Tomiyasu – €20 million
Here is another quality signing for a reasonable price. Tomiyasu signed from Italian midtable side Bologna on Deadline Day. He managed 31 starts for the club last year and three Olympic Games matches playing in every position in the backline.
What makes the deal sweeter is that they stole it from under the noses of their bitter rivals Tottenham at the last minute.
1. Martin Odegaard – €40 million
This is the biggest name / highest quality player that the Gunners managed to sign. Odegaard spent last season on loan at the club and Arteta loved every minute that the Norweigan spent on the field.
Signing from Real Madrid makes his price of €40 million more understandable. The main plus is that he has a lot of experience at the highest level for someone that is still only 22.
Arsenal's biggest ever transfer window outlay – around £145m.
– Ramsdale (£24m)
– Lokonga (£15m)
– White (£50m)
– Odegaard (£30m)
– Tavares (£8m)
– Tomiyasu (£16m)
Impossible to really rate it now. It could be two years until we know if most of them are decent signings or not. pic.twitter.com/QRSnke9kZw
— Charles Watts (@charles_watts) August 31, 2021
Only time will tell if any of these signings prove their worth and can pull Arsenal from the terrible rut they are in.
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MILLWALL could be without Ben Thompson for their League One game against Southend at The Den this Saturday.
Thompson failed to emerge for the second half of the 2-0 win at Coventry City last weekend and Harris confirmed afterwards the midfielder had a tight hamstring.
Jimmy Abdou came on for Thompson at the Ricoh Arena, and Calum Butcher is also an option to start a league game for the first time since the 2-0 defeat to Bolton on October 18.


CC Sabathia loves wearing the pinstripes.
After sailing to his 17th win of the season and delivering another superb outing in yesterday's 10-0 rain-delayed romp over the Mariners, the Yankees ace told The Post that he won't "even consider" becoming a free agent after 2011, even though that provision exists in his seven-year, $161 million mega-contract.
That is a pretty definitive statement from Sabathia, and good news for the Yankees, who obviously want their magnificent left-hander to stay in The Bronx, where he is 15-0 in his last 20 starts, dating to last year. The 30-year-old, who lives in Bergen County, will have four years and $92 million remaining on his deal from 2012-2015. His overall pact is the richest for a pitcher in MLB history.
Sabathia logged six shutout innings against the Mariners, surrendering only three hits and striking out eight. He might have topped his season high in strikeouts (he had 10 on July 6) had the 57-minute rain delay not cost him a chance to go further.
Regardless, his recent stretch is staggering. In Sabathia's last 16 starts, he's 13-2 with a 2.32 ERA. For the season, he is 17-5 — tied for the major league lead in wins with the Rockies' Ubaldo Jimenez and the Cardinals' Adam Wainwright — and has a sparkling 3.02 ERA. Sabathia also has set a Yankees mark with at least six innings and no more than three earned runs in 16 straight starts.
"The consistency is unbelievable," manager Joe Girardi said.
Sabathia was ably abetted by Robinson Cano, who reeled off a monster game at the plate, hitting a grand slam and a two-run single for a career-best six RBIs. Not bad for Alex Rodriguez's replacement in the cleanup spot.
The Yankees, who are now 12-0 without Rodriguez this year, remained a game up on the Rays in the AL East.
Austin Kearns' homer in the fourth inning put the Yankees up 1-0. The next inning, they put men on second and third with one out for Mark Teixeira. Seattle starter Luke French intentionally walked him to face Cano, who crushed the first pitch for a mammoth grand slam over the Yankees' bullpen.
For those keeping count, Teixeira has been intentionally walked 10 times as a Yankee, and batters hitting behind him are 7-for-8 with four grand slams, a walk and a sacrifice fly.
Sabathia is on quite a streak of his own, with no losses in 20 consecutive home starts dating to last year — 15-0 with a 2.17 ERA.
"You can give my wife credit for that, I guess," Sabathia said. "Her cooking. And just being at home, being around my family and going out and being able to be relaxed.


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