text:
Women's Basketball / January 7, 2016
@CanesWBB Rides Guard Play to Top Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh5579 Miami
Highlights ACC Stats
PITT 12 10 15 18 55
Free Throws 4-10 9-17
Wise 15 Carey 9
Motley 20 Woods 9
Three Players 3 Three Players 1
Woods 9 Hof 4
Lamb 3-4 Carey 4
Motley 4-4 Three Players 3
CORAL GABLES, Fla. – The University of Miami women's basketball team got back in the win column Thursday night at the BankUnited Center, rolling past Pittsburgh, 79-55.
Junior guard Adrienne Motley scored 20 points on 8-of-11 shooting (72.7 percent) and Michelle Woods nearly recorded a triple-double in the win. The redshirt senior finished with 11 points, a co-game-high nine rebounds and a game- and career-high nine assists.
"Chelle is just a problem-solver. We talk about feeding each other and having spoons that are too long to feed yourself. So, go across the table and feed your teammate," Miami head coach Katie Meier said. "She was doing that all night, just feeding and feeding. She had real positive energy, was really caring about other people and making the right basketball play."
The Hurricanes forced Pittsburgh (8-7, 0-2 ACC) into seven turnovers in the first period and took a 13-12 lead after 10 minutes of action.
Miami opened the second quarter on a 10-0 run that included a pair of 3-pointers by Motley. The Hurricanes made four-straight field goals during the run and held the Panthers scoreless for the first three minutes and six seconds of the second session, grabbing a 23-12 lead.
Overall, the Hurricanes outscored Pittsburgh 24-10 in the second quarter and led by 15, 37-22, at the break. Motley capped the frame with a jump shot just seconds before the buzzer and led all scorers at halftime with 12 points on 5-of-8 shooting from the field and 2-of-2 at the line. Woods had seven assists in the first 20 minutes, tying her career high for a full game.
Miami's offense continued to click in the third period and the Hurricanes extended their lead to 25 on multiple occasions. After Pittsburgh trimmed it back down to 20, Miami ended the session on a 9-0 run that ended with a layup by freshman forward/center Emese Hof with just two seconds on the clock. The 29-point lead, 66-37, was Miami's largest of the game to that point.
In the final session, the Hurricanes continued to build that advantage and led by as much as 33, en route to their 14th victory of the season. Miami moved to 10-0 at home on the year with the 24-point win.
The Hurricanes shot a season-best 52.5 percent (31-of-59) overall and had their best shooting half of the season at 64.0 percent (16-of-25) in the second half.
"We'll win a lot of games overall if we're shooting that percentage," Meier said, "but we'll lose a lot if we keep turning it over. We're just about there on our offense in terms of our flow and our early looks."
In addition to the strong the performances by Motley, who was 4-of-4 from 3-point range, and Woods, redshirt junior forward Keyona Hayes was superb in the frontcourt for Miami. She set a season high with 15 points and made all seven of her field goal attempts.
Three players finished the game in double figures for the Panthers, with freshman guard/forward Brenna Wise posting a team-high 15 points. Freshman guard Tania Lamb added 12 points and freshman forward Kalista Walters chipped in with 11.
The Hurricanes quadrupled Pittsburgh in fast break points, leading 24-6, and also had an 18-8 edge in second chance points.
Miami will continue its ACC slate this weekend when it travels to Clemson, S.C., to face the Tigers Sunday at 4 p.m. at Jervey Gym.
To stay updated on the University of Miami women's basketball team throughout the season, follow @CanesWBB.
· For the fifth game in a row, Miami started Hayes, Hof, Motley, Jessica Thomas and Woods.
· The all-time series between the Hurricanes and Panthers is now 18-9. Miami is 11-3 in the last 14 matchups, including 6-1 in the past seven. Additionally, the Hurricanes are now 13-1 at home against Pittsburgh.
· Meier is now 273-181 in her 15 seasons as a head coach, including 197-136 in her 11 years at Miami. She is three victories away from 200 in her career at Miami.
· Eight of Miami's 14 wins have come by greater than 20 points.
· Prior to shooting 52.5 percent (31-of-59) tonight, Miami's best field goal percentage of the season had been 51.6 percent (33-of-64) vs. La Salle (11/29/15).
· Before shooting 64.0 percent (16-of-25) in the second half tonight, the Hurricanes' best field goal percentage in a half this year had been 57.6 percent (19-of-33) in the first half vs. La Salle (11/29/15).
· Miami did not trail at any point in the game and led for over 39 minutes.
· Woods' nine assists eclipsed her prior career best of seven (vs. Wright State, 11/13/15).
· Woods has nine-plusrebounds in two of the last four games after never recording nine in a game previously.
· Motley passed Cordelia Fulmore for No. 18 on the program's all-time scoring list. She currently has 1,152 points.
· Motley has recorded over a dozen points in 12 of 16 games this season, with 17-plus in 10 of them. She has tallied 20-plus points 17 times in her career, including five times this season.
· Additionally, Motley tied her season best with three steals (previously recorded multiple times, most recently at Charlotte, 11/23/15). Her four 3-pointers made also matched her most in ACC play (previously at Wake Forest, 2/26/15).
· Hayes' 15 points surpassed her prior season best of 14 and her seven made field goals equaled her season high (both previous vs. Wright State, 11/13/15).
· Hof doubled her career best with four blocks (previous high two, recorded multiple times, most recently vs. Baylor, 12/19/15).
· Hof also eclipsed both 150 points and 100 rebounds in her career.
· Laura Cornelius' five assists matched her career best (previously recorded multiple times, most recently vs. UMass Lowell, 12/6/15). Her three steals set a new career high (previous high two, recorded multiple times, most recently vs. Baylor, 12/19/15).
· Cornelius also surpassed 100 points in the first year of her career.
· Thomas earned the 50th start of her career. She has been in the starting lineup in 48 of 49 games over the past two seasons.
· Thomas also surpassed 650 points as a collegian.
· In addition, Thomas' three 3-pointers made matched her season best (previously recorded multiple times, most recently vs. FIU, 12/30/15).
· Erykah Davenport set new career highs in free throws made (six) and attempted (eight). Previously, her top mark in makes was three (vs. Illinois State, 11/28/14) and her best mark in attempts was five (vs. La Salle, 11/29/15).
· Davenport also reached 200 rebounds as a Hurricane.
· Keyanna Harris' five points matched her career best in an ACC game (previous at Syracuse, 2/12/15). Her four rebounds set a new career high in ACC play (previous high two, recorded multiple times, most recently at Virginia, 1/3/16).
· Additionally, Harris' 13 minutes played were her most in an ACC game (previous high 11, recorded multiple times, most recently at Virginia, 1/3/16).
· Khaila Prather's four free throw attempts equaled her career high in ACC play (previously recorded multiple times, most recently vs. NC State, 12/30/15).


These red and pure white lights are perfect to brighten up your Christmas tree, Valentine's Day or anywhere you want a warm red and cool white glow. LED lights use 90% less energy than incandescent bulbs. They are non-glass and are cool to the touch. Product Features:. Color: red and pure white bulbs / green wire.. Number of bulbs on string: 100.. Bulb size: C9.. Spacing between each bulb: 8".. Lighted length: 66'.. Total length: 67'.. 6" lead cord (from the plug to the first bulb).. 6" tail cord. Additional Product Features:. Lights are equipped with a clip on the base of each bulb so that you can easily attach the lights to trees, bushes and more!.. UL listed for indoor or outdoor use.. If one bulb burns out, the rest will stay lit.. Replacement bulbs and spare fuses included.. Contains end-to-end connectors which allows you to connect up to 43 sets together (not to exceed 210 watts).. Wire gauge: 22.. 120 volts, 60 hertz,.06 amps, 4.8 watts.
We provide mild delivery, all of us sell just certified items with a guarantee of up to six months and provide the kind of documentation. The actual delivery section of Northlight Set of 100 Red and Pure White Faceted LED C9 Christmas Lights – Green Wire handles absolutely almost all countries around the globe. We assure delivery inside the shortest possible period if the products are in our own stock or even manufacturer's stockroom.


text:
Home » Blog » Why Self-Publish Your Memoir
Posted on Apr 4, 2021 in Blog, Writing
Why Self-Publish Your Memoir
In 1964 my great uncle hired Louisiana journalist Zeak Buchner to write the story of his family. Immigrants from Poland in the 1890s, they settled in Shreveport and put down roots in the form of a department store and dozens of children and grandchildren. It was a large family, and for eight-year-old me living in Houston, Texas and trying to figure out who all these cousins, aunts, and uncles were, the book was a valuable resource. The family story had a small printing, maybe a few hundred, and copies circulated among family, in-laws (who they called the "outlaws"), friends, and business associates.
The privately-published family memoir.
Over the years, copies disappeared, and the few remaining are coveted treasures among family members. The family history is well-written, thanks to my Polish-born great uncle who left school to work at young age hiring a professional to turn his interviews and notes into engaging prose. Through the book and a rudimentary familiarity with Polish and German (due to Duolingo, TV shows, and movies), I was able to locate the actual village where my great-grandparents came from and get a sense of what life was like when my great-grandfather courted a young seamstress from a nearby town. I came to understand their decision to leave the Jewish immigrant enclave of New York City's Lower East Side to live where there were few people like them, and how they quickly assimilated to the world around them. In fact, by the time I came along, my Jewish family closed their stores on Sunday rather than the Jewish Sabbath of Friday night and Saturday and celebrated Christmas along with their non-Jewish neighbors and customers.
The book contains a wealth of information for anyone writing history or historical fiction about immigration and Jewish life in the South in the first six decades of the twentieth century. Because of two biography projects that I wrote in the past few months but cannot announce yet, I've gained a new appreciation for books like these. In one case, the person I wrote the biography about — in fact, another Jewish immigrant who settled in the southern United States — had self-published a memoir. In the other case, a close relative of the person had written and self-published a memoir. These two self-published books were key to my understanding my person; I could not have written what I did without them.
Yes, age discrimination is a thing.
I've met a lot of people who've accumulated life experience and are interested in writing memoirs. They want to know how they can get their memoirs published. Unfortunately, traditional publishing is a little too infatuated with youth and celebrity. In many ways, it's easier for an older writer to publish fiction in most categories (YA being a bit of an exception unless it's historical fiction) than a memoir.
Agents and editors receive a lot of memoir submissions from older writers, many of whom have retired and have more time to write. In terms of traditional publishing, memoirs only have a chance if authors are celebrities, have a truly unusual story, or have established themselves first as authors of literary fiction. The rest are typically told early on that their story "doesn't stand out."
That doesn't mean the writing is bad; it only means there isn't a market big enough for the publisher to make a profit. Does that mean you should give up on your memoir — leave it in the trunk or on your hard drive, or not write it at all?
Don't give up on that memoir! People you don't know will come to appreciate it.
Your story is valuable. I'm not the only person who writes historical fiction and nonfiction. We fans of history depend on first person accounts of daily life to flesh out or stories. Particularly in the case of historical fiction, we aren't writing about the famous people, the elites who dominate textbook accounts. To give voice to ordinary people in history, we need the voices of ordinary people in history.
Think about Holocaust survivors. Without these thousands of first-person accounts, it would be much easier for ever-more-powerful right-wing extremists and Holocaust deniers — people who understand how propaganda works and have little regard for truth — to convince the rest of the world that these atrocities never existed. Without the personal accounts of participants in the Civil Rights Movement, we wouldn't know what life was life before then until our current crop of neo-Confederates had already stripped away the right to vote and institutionalized a new wave of Jim Crow discrimination.
Even if you never endured these large-scale assaults on human rights or took part in the struggle to end them, your story provides insight into a time, a place, and a way of seeing the world. If an agent or editor tells you that your story is "only of interest to your own family," they're wrong. No, you're probably not going to make a lot of money if you self-publish your memoir, but you may well be able to sell it to people beyond your family and close friends, and you'll be able to do it long after all those flash-in-the-pan celebrity memoirs have gone out of print. Self-publishing gives you the control to keep your memoir in print for as long as you or your family members want. It can continue to be a valuable resource for historians, historical fiction writers, and other researchers — people you don't know who may end up buying and appreciating your story.
In my next post, I'll talk about how you can raise your chances of getting your self-published memoir noticed.
Roz Steck April 5, 2021
Lyn how wonderful our little boys will be able to know part of their background through you and your family I only have stories I've told Lindsey over the years never written but similar I'm sure from Poland. Hope all is well.
Roz Steck
Lyn Miller-Lachmann April 5, 2021
Thank you, Roz! I look forward to hearing your stories as well!
Neil Larkins April 10, 2021
Hi, Lyn- I came across your blog by way of a comment you made to Barbara Linn Probst, by way of Jane Friedman.
I've been writing memoir for some years now and originally wanted to publish traditionally. But I found it extremely difficult to put together a query and learned that memoirs by ordinary people are seldom published that way. So I've decided to self-publish even if no one sees it. Like you said, there's a special person who is now gone, someone who almost no one knew about. But I knew her. She changed my life. Because of your encouragement I will probably read everything you put out there. I am so thankful the Lord and serendipity brought you to people like me.
Lyn Miller-Lachmann April 10, 2021
I'm glad you found this, and I hope you check out the next post, which offers suggestions for expanding the readership for your book and letting more people know about your person. Please let me know if you have questions!
Chesterfield Jess April 11, 2021
Very helpful. Encouraging. Good stuff is going to come out of this post.
I hope so! People shouldn't give up because there are a lot of hidden markets, and it's much easier to publish for them these days.

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaCommonCrawl


text:
Support Buhari's anti-corruption crusade, acting CJN urges judges
CJN, Justice Walter Onnoghen
Acting Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Walter Onnoghen, on Monday urged judges to shun corruption in order to align themselves with the President Muhammadu Buhari Administration's anti-graft stride.
Onnoghen, who spoke in Abuja, also urged them to ensure an independent, strong, respectable and responsible judiciary by adhering to their oath of office as contained in the constitution and Code of Conduct for Judicial Officers.
"Let me also seize this opportunity to remind us as ministers in the temple of justice, we must shun all corrupt practices in order to align ourselves with the anti-corruption strides of the current administration," he said.
He spoke at the 2016 Conference of All Nigerian Judges of the Lower Courts, held at the National Judicial Institute, Abuja.
The event was with the theme, 'The lower courts as veritable instruments for justice and peace in a democratic society.'
The event was the first official outing of Justice Onnoghen since November 10 when he was sworn in by President Buhari as the acting CJN to take over from the immediate past CJN, Justice Mahmud Mohammed (retd.).
Speaking at the NJI event on Monday, Justice Onnoghen, who doubles as the Chairman of NJI, described judges as guardians of the rule of law.
He urged judges to adhere strictly to their oath of office and dispense justice promptly and without fear, favour or ill-will.
He said, "It is pertinent to note that an independent, strong, respectable and responsible judiciary is indispensable to the administration of justice and to have such an institution, we must adhere to our oath of office as contained in the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999 (as amended) and the Code of Conduct for Judicial Officers.
"As impartial arbiters, we must at all times uphold the rule of law, eliminate unnecessary delays and above all ensure that justice is dispensed promptly, without fear or favour, affection and ill-will to both parties in accordance with the provisions of the law."
He described lower court judges as closest to the grass roots and with "the compliment of being the first line of defence for the liberties of citizen."
Zoning: Buhari will guide APC, says Gov Abiodun
Linking Super Eagles' AFCON loss to Buhari's video call idiotic —Femi Adesina
He urged the judges to remain incorruptible despite the challenges which they faced "in the areas of inadequate funding, infrastructure and facilities, caseload volume, corrupt practices and most significantly delays in relation to criminal trials, which have contributed to the congestion of our prisons."
The Administrator of NJI, Justice Roseline Bozimo (retd.), who congratulated Justice Onnoghen, on his recent appointment, urged judges to uphold the rule of substantial justice in their decisions as against technicalities of the law.
According to her, upholding substantial justice, often celebrated by the society helped to promote peach and ensure sustainable democracy while decisions based on technicalities of law could provoke conflict or violence.
She acknowledged that the Nigerian judiciary had always come out of its high and low moments stronger.
She said the developments in the judiciary had shown that the judiciary would always uphold substantial justice rather than technicalities of law.
She said "In the 16 years of democratic rule in this our dear country, it can be said that the Nigerian judiciary has witnessed both its low and high moments but in all, the judiciary has always come out stronger."
Nse Ikpe-Etim, Yinka Davies, Teco Benson support Onyeka Onwenu's TV project
Monalisa Chinda, Charles Inojie, Francis Duru, others for 'Philomena'
Tags: anti-corruption buhari CJN judges


text:
McVeigh, Porter lead Ice Bears past Roanoke
fig 1 Anthony McVeigh had a goal and two assists, Cody Porter made 26 saves and the Knoxville Ice Bears defeated the Roanoke Rail Yard Dawgs 4-1 at the Civic Coliseum on Friday night. Knoxville is 5-1-1 in its last seven games. Roanoke has lost two straight. Stefan Brucato scored for Knoxville when Dwyer Tschantz […]
Ice Bears fall at home to Huntsville 4-1
Kyle Sharkey scored twice and the Knoxville Ice Bears fell to the Huntsville Havoc 4-1 at the Civic Coliseum Friday night. The loss snapped a four-game skid for Knoxville. Huntsville has won two straight. Huntsville grabbed the lead right before the first intermission when Pierre Oulette's pass was intercepted in the Knoxville zone by Sharkey. […]
Ice Bears outlast Evansville in shootout for weekend sweep
Bryce Nielsen scored the game-winning penalty shot in the ninth round of the shootout and the Knoxville Ice Bears beat the Evansville Thunderbolts 4-3 Saturday night at the Civic Coliseum. Knoxville won its third straight game. The Ice Bears beat the Thunderbolts in Evansville 4-3 in a shootout Friday night as well. Nielsen skated up […]
Murdaca shines in return as Ice Bears win
Joe Murdaca made 26 saves in his return from the ECHL for his league-leading fourth shutout of the season and the Knoxville Ice Bears beat the Macon Mayhem 2-0 Tuesday night at the Civic Coliseum. The Ice Bears snapped a three-game skid with the win. Macon has lost four straight. The Ice Bears jumped out […]
Ice Bears drop third straight with 5-2 loss to Marksmen
Blake Wojtala made 54 saves for Fayetteville and the Marksmen defeated the Knoxville Ice Bears 5-2 on Saturday at the Civic Coliseum. The Ice Bears have dropped three straight games in as many days. Knoxville outshot Fayetteville 56-33. Brian Bowen put Fayetteville ahead first on a breakaway goal at 5:26 of the opening period. Josh […]
Ice Bears Climb into First Place
Lionel Mauron scored a goal and had three assists, Joe Murdaca notched his third shutout of the season and the Knoxville Ice Bears beat the Birmingham Bulls 7-0 on Thursday at the Civic Coliseum. Knoxville has won seven of its last eight games. Birmingham has lost four of its last five. Bryce Nielsen opened the […]
Knoxville streak snapped with loss to Roanoke
Roanoke broke a third period tie with three unanswered goals and the Rail Yard Dawgs defeated the Knoxville Ice Bears 7-4 at the Civic Coliseum on Friday night. The loss snaps a six-game winning streak for Knoxville. Roanoke ended a nine-game skid. With a loose puck sliding through the open slot in the third period, […]
Ice Bears pour it on Thunderbolts in 7-2 win
Anthony McVeigh and Bryce Nielsen each scored two goals and the Knoxville Ice Bears won their sixth straight game with a 7-2 over the Evansville Thunderbolts on Wednesday night. The Ice Bears are 7-0-1 in their last eight games. Evansville has lost three of its last four. Knoxville fell behind early when Evansville's Seth Swenson […]
Joseph Murdaca made 33 saves for his second consecutive shutout and the Knoxville Ice Bears beat the Pensacola Ice Flyers for their fourth straight win. Knoxville is 6-0-1 in its last seven games. The loss snaps a four-game streak for Pensacola. At the end of a scoreless first period, Tanner Froese was called for holding, […]
Sargis Signed for 19-20 Season
The Knoxville Ice Bears and Jeff Carr announced Tuesday hybrid skater Gehrett Sargis has been signed for the 2019-2020 season.


text:
Preventing the Spread of Infection
It's widely acknowledged that washing bedpans by hand, as well as using yellow bags for manual disposal, is an infection risk. Fortunately, there are far more dependable methods available which will keep your patients and clinicians safe.
If disposable pulp products are your facility's waste management item of choice, a macerator will dispose of the item directly into the sewerage system – with no unnecessary handling required.
If your facility uses reusable bedpans, these can be reliably sanitised by a washer disinfector. Its thermal disinfection technology will kill the pathogens that you can't see – and might miss if you decide to resort to hand-washing.
Try DDC Dolphin's advanced infection control equipment for free in your hospital wards.
Maintain excellent hand hygiene with touch-free, motion sensor technology that will open and close the machine automatically, as well as foot pedals to serve the same purpose.
In addition, the anti-microbial coatings available on DDC Dolphin washer disinfectors and macerators will inhibit the growth of bacterial spores, helping to ensure that your sluice room's surfaces remain safe.
Unlike traditional methods of bedpan cleaning, you can be certain that the sanitation capabilities of your washer disinfectors and macerators are truly effective.
Control panels on bedpan washers will show that the machine is meeting the required temperature and process time to kill HCAIs, while the auto-disinfection of macerator chambers will eliminate 99.999% of spores associated with major healthcare acquired infections.
To learn more about how we have helped facilities like yours with infection prevention and control, please take a look at the case studies below.
Juntendo University Nerima Hospital - Japan
Juntendo Hospital was the first private hospital in Japan, originally founded in 1838 as a Dutch School of Medicine at a time when Western medical education was not yet embedded as a normal part of Japanese society.
With the creation of Juntendo, the founders hoped to create a place where people could come together with the shared goal of helping society through the powers of medical education and practices.
The university specialises in the fields of health science, health and sports science, nursing health care and sciences, and international liberal arts, as well as medicine.
he Infection Control Team at Juntendo found several used urine and feces bowls left in the sluice room waiting to be washed, resulting in a very unhygienic working environment for staff. This was caused by busy wards and staff that could not wait for the bed pan washer to complete its cycle.
To reduce exposure to staff working in the sluice room and improve the sluice room environment the Infection Control Team began to consider switching to single use pulp product. A DDC Dolphin Pulpmatic Ultima medical pulp macerator using single use pulp products was introduced in the Emergency Department for a 6 month trial period.
After a successful trial period Sakura were instructed to install a further 11 Pulpmatic Ultima and Pulpmatic Uno macerators. The DDC Dolphin macerators and single use pulp not only reduced the risk of cross contamination but it also provided a much improved sluice room environment.
By using single-use pulp products placed directly into the macerator no preliminary washing of the containers was required and time spent in the sluice room for clinicians reduced from 41 to 9 minutes per day. Plus, from an operations perspective the Pulpmatic macerators have proved to be exceptionally economic using little water and energy in addition to a 30% saving in chemical usage. It was the perfect solution for the infection control team, operators, clinicians and patients who were all happy using the single use pulp containers and macerators.
Apart from the operational benefits, switching to medical pulp macerators greatly improved the sluice room environment and the cooperation between the Infection Control Team and ward staff. We were very impressed with the overall benefits of using this system and the future for us will certainly be using macerators and single use pulp wherever possible.
Mr Tomohiko Iizuka- ICN - Juntendo University Nerima Hospital
Monarch Healthcare
Monarch Healthcare own and manage 12 homes which provide healthcare services of the highest quality, specialising in treatment for people with dementia and providing exceptional standards of care to promote the health and well-being of their residents. They offer specialist support using personalised plans which allows each individual the opportunity to live life as the person they have always been.
In line with infection control procedures Monarch Healthcare needed to have dedicated sluice rooms in all their homes and wanted to update their current sluice room equipment. When government infection control funding was released it enabled them to move forward with their plan. They had been a customer of DDC Dolphin for over 20 years and recently implemented the DDC Dolphin 360° Service offering for their sluice room equipment. DDC Dolphin were asked to supply a full asset and condition report and come up with a plan for updating and supplying new machines all within a set budget.
With the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic DDC Dolphin's engineers were set the task to continue providing the required maintenance and provide a full asset and condition report on the current sluice room equipment. Having worked at the highest levels, installing sluice room machines in key frontline field hospitals, our engineers are able to operate in full hazmat under the most demanding infection-control regimes. We visited each home working within the government restrictions and with the report complete were then able to make plans. Keeping within the budget we were able to supply 7 new Panamatic Midi Bedpan Washer Disinfectors to the homes. This would ensure that all the sluice rooms, new or old have fully functioning bedpan washer disinfectors and all would comply fully with modern infection control standards.
"We have worked with DDC Dolphin for over 20 years but only recently taken out a service contract. We have been delighted with the level of service we have received, especially during these difficult times, and when we decided to upgrade the sluice rooms in our homes, we were confident that they would be able to supply us with the high quality standards of products and services we required."
Hiten Shanghavi - Director - Monarch Healthcare
National Institute of Respiratory Diseases - Mexico - Copy
The National Institute of Respiratory Diseases (INER) Ismael Cosío Villegas is a public assistance institution belonging to the Mexican Ministry of Health and specialises in respiratory diseases. It is part of the Mexican National Institutes of Health, a system of 12 high-specialty hospitals that provide public health services to the Mexican population. The National Institute of Respiratory Diseases was the first health facility in Mexico to confirm the first case nationally of COVID-19.
Novas Soluciones Sustentables had previously installed a Pulpmatic Ultima in the hospital, a first for the hospital using maceration with single use medical pulp. It was an overwhelming success, seeing the immediate advantage of the system and the benefits of containing infection and reducing the risk of cross contamination. It was so much simpler than previous methods they had used, much less time consuming allowing clinicians to spend more time with their patients. With the onset of COVID-19 pandemic INER need to quickly increase their patient capacity and built an impromptu hospital unit in the car park area of the hospital. Novas Soluciones Sustentables were contacted and asked to supply and fit another Pulpmatic Ultima in the new unit.
Novas Soluciones Sustentables had to respond quickly to the request as time was of the essence. Working closely with the hospital team they were informed as soon as the plumbing, water and electrical requirements were available and were able to immediately send in an engineer to carry out the full installation. Installing a medical pulp macerator into the unit will help eliminate the risk of transmission of SARS-COV2 through faeces and other body fluids. Novas Soluciones Sustentables were proud to be able to play a part in helping to protect the patients and brave medical staff who are caring for the patients during the pandemic.
We believe attention to infection control measures will now take far more prevalence in all health environments, and we will be there, ready to help, advise and show from success stories such as this one how quality equipment and good working practices are imperative to keep infection under control.
Aldo Novelo - Director - Novas Soluciones Sustentables
Southend University Hospital
Southend University Hospital was founded in 1888 at the Southend Victoria Hospital site. The present hospital opened in 1932 and serves a catchment area with a population of approximately 350,000.The facility has been awarded 'Cancer Centre' status and gained Foundation Trust status under the name Southend University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust.
The hospital provides a comprehensive and varied range of general medical and acute services across its site, meaning that the prevention of healthcare associated infection is one of the top priorities as the hospital continually strives to introduce new services to help patients recover faster and hopefully leave hospital sooner. The hospital's focus on patients, research, education and innovation meant that they required a sluice room partner with knowledge, experience and a core understanding of what the facility is trying to achieve.
DDC Dolphin has been working with Southend University Hospital since 2005, when 43 Panamatic Optima 3 washer disinfectors were supplied and installed in their sluice rooms. Since then DDC Dolphin has carried out regular HTM revalidation, maintenance and servicing. DDC Dolphin's latest range of completely hands-free equipment was of particular interest to Southend University Hospital, especially the Pulpmatic Ultima macerators. A number of these machines have now been installed within the hospital and are proving to be a real asset in the fight against HCAI's.
"We are delighted to be working with DDC Dolphin for the supply and maintenance of our sluice room equipment. DDC Dolphin understands of the importance of fighting the transmission of HCAIs, and together with their completely hands-free, high-quality and comprehensive range of washer disinfectors and macerators, helps to support our commitment to infection control and patient wellbeing".
Jan China, Associate Director Estates & Facilities, Southend University Hospital
"DDC Dolphin's HTM testing, maintenance and service programme is second to none. All the hassle is taken out of the process by their quick, compliant response times, competent and professional engineers, and comprehensive spares stock held in their vans. DDC Dolphin also keep us completely up to date by preparing detailed reports on each machine's usage and condition. We look forward to working with DDC Dolphin for many years to come".
Steve Taylor, Facilities Maintenance Supervisor, Southend University Hospital
Farrer Park Hospital, Singapore
Farrer Park Hospital is a private tertiary healthcare institute in Singapore, set up to offer a fresh approach to medical treatment. Their care philosophy extends beyond healing and the management of disease to engaging their patients as partners in the pursuit of good health and providing an oasis for realising these goals.
Farrer Park Hospital were initially considering bedpan washer disinfectors for this new hospital project. NEU Industries introduced them to the concept of DDC Dolphin macerators and single-use pulp items as a solution to their needs. By using this new maceration technology, nurses would be able to spend more time with their patients. In addition, the unique hands-free technology also helps in the everyday fight against healthcare associated infections.
DDC Dolphin's large capacity Pulpmatic Ultima macerators are now installed throughout the wards in the new hospital building and are proving to be a real asset in the fight against healthcare associated infections. This latest range of hygienic, completely hands-free equipment with automatic self-cleaning flushing, plus the anti-blockage feature was the perfect solution for Farrer Park. These machines are now installed throughout the hospital, giving nurses more time to attend to patients.
"We were initially considering the traditional bedpan sanitizers but after much consideration in regard to the cost and benefits it could bring us, we decided to go for DDC Dolphin macerators. We have made the right choice. The machine is very easy to use, hands-free and with no blockages! We are very happy and glad to have NEU Industries providing their excellent service to us. I would highly recommend using DDC Dolphin macerators and pulp items supplied by NEU Industries for any dirty utility room".
Badli Shah, Senior Nurse Manager, Farrer Park Hospital
Take A Look At Our Sluice Room Solutions
UVMATIC Air Purification System
Hygenex Maceratable & Flushable Wipes


At St Luke's we love having babies and toddlers around! Here you'll find information about what's on offer.
Sally's Place is a group for parents and babies/toddlers which meets in the hall on Thursdays from 1.30 - 3.30 pm during the term. It is a great place to bring your little one for a play while you have a cup of tea. Anyone is welcome so do feel free to come and see us anytime.
This is a DIY crèche! If you want to stay in church there is a child friendly area at the back of church. Babies and toddlers are very welcome in our Sunday morning services, and we don't mind a bit of noise at all, but we know it's sometimes helpful to be able to nip out for a bit so our crèche room is available should you need it. Stocked with lots of toys, there is also a video link from the church so you won't miss the service.


I have a 3 year old welsh cardigan corgi Kimbo (the corgi with the tail) who was diagnosed this spring with a thyroid condition...he is currently doing very well on the soloxine and is a new dog after starting this medicine. I can provide dosage of the soloxine and his thyroid levels both before and after the meds began if need be. He has been on the soloxine for a few months now.
However, this summer a few times during the day i would find urine accidents on the carpet...a trip to the vet and urine sample found struvite crystals in his urine. The vet then prescribed the Royal Canin SO dog food.
I am NOT a fan of most commercial dog foods and was feeding Flint River Ranch at the time to him (a private label dry dog food)and had been told years ago by a holistic vet that this dry dog food was 'better than' average.
That vet at the time also encouraged me to feed raw or cooked. But I currently have 5 corgis and to be honest it was a bit inconvenient. However, the research i have done suggests that a lot of the problems Kimbo has had could be rectified with a raw/natural type diet. Kimbo weighs roughly 30 pounds.
ALL my dogs are walked 1-2 hours throughout the day, rain, shine or snow regardless of temperature (i live in the high mountains of Colorado). They are very active and but as they age i have noticed small health issues starting to arise. Even tho Kimbo is only 3...the thyroid issue made me a bit nervous and since his diagnosis of struvites I have started to re-think the raw diet option.
What do you suggest to feed a dog that has the thyroid issue and the struvite crystals? I will be carrying this advise over to the other 4 corgis in the house unless you suggest a very specific diet only for Kimbo.
" the research i have done suggests that a lot of the problems Kimbo has had could be rectified with a raw/natural type diet."
Kimbo's immune system must be very weak considering he is only THREE years old and has been diagnosed with hypothyroidism!
And now he is forming struvite crystals in his urine, which indicates that the food he is being fed is creating an alkaline urine, (pH OVER 7).
RAW food diets for dogs will create the proper pH for a carnivore, which is pH 6-6.5. Raw meat also contains vitamin C, which will help to boost his immune system. You can monitor his pH yourself, (and I suggest that you do, to make sure he is in the correct pH range) by buying pH strips from a pharmacy or pool supply store. Check his urine either right before he eats or several hours after eating to get the right pH.
If Kimbo's urine pH DOES NOT return to the correct range, he may need to have some apple cider vinegar added to his food, until he does have the correct pH.
For his thyroid, I suggest that you start him on a supplement called, Thytrophin. This is a glandular supplement made by Standard Process. It DOES NOT contain any thyroid hormone, it contains all of the 'building blocks' to support a healthy thyroid gland. When you are giving him the Soloxine, his pituitary registers that he has enough thyroid hormone in his system, so it does not send any message to the thyroid to make hormone. So, in the long run, the thyroid gland begins to atrophy. Giving Thytrophin, I have been able to reduce the amount of Soloxine needed for many patients. You can order it on amazon.com.
His dose would be 1/2-1 tablet two times daily. After one month, you should have his T4 checked, to see if the level has actually increased. If so, then DECREASE the Soloxine, and maintain the same Thytrophin. After another 1-2 months, check again. If thyroid level is good, then decrease the Soloxine again. You may need to have a holistic vet, who has examined Kimbo and has studied his labwork, coax you through this period.
For a RAW diet, to maintain Kimbo at 30 lbs, he will need to eat between 500-550 calories per day. Which you can divide into two meals of 250-275 calories twice a day. Most raw foods will list the number of calories on the package. Since the calories will vary depending on the ingredients. Beef may have more calories than chicken, etc. For dogs that need to have more 'quantity' of food, I will sometimes suggest adding in vegetables such as green beans. This is NOT a good idea for Kimbo, since vegetables will cause the pH of his urine to increase over 7. He needs more meat in his diet to keep the urine more acidic. Of course, as you begin transitioning his food to include more raw, you need to monitor his urine pH to make sure you keep him in the correct range of 6-6.5.
AND, NO MORE vaccinations. Vaccines exert a very powerful negative effect on the immune system. Holistic veterinarians call this effect, 'vaccinosis'. If diet, and supplements, do not help correct the underlying imbalance, then homeopathic remedies are needed to address this and bring the system back to normal health.


text:
<!DOCTYPE html>

    <meta charset="UTF-8">
    <link rel="shortcut icon" href="/favicon.ico" type="image/x-icon">
    <link rel="icon" href="/favicon.ico" type="image/x-icon">
    @section('title')
        <title>{{{ 'Forum - WaBB' }}} - WABB Open-Forum </title>
    @show
    @section('meta_description')
        <meta name="description" content="{{{ Config::get('other.meta_description') }}}">
    @show

    <link rel="stylesheet" href="{{ url('css/bootstrap.min.css') }}">
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="{{ url('css/main.css') }}">
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="{{ url('css/font-awesome.min.css') }}">

    @yield('stylesheets')

    @if( ! Auth::check())

                {{ Form::open(array('route' => 'login')) }}

{{{ trans('common.login') }}}

                        {{ trans('common.username') }}
                        <input name="username" type="text"  class="form-control">

                        {{ trans('common.password') }}
                        <input name="password" type="password" class="form-control">

                    <button type="submit" class="btn btn-primary">{{{ trans('common.login') }}}</button>
                {{ Form::close() }}

{{{ trans('common.signup') }}}

                {{ Form::open(array('route' => 'signup')) }}

                        {{{ trans('common.username') }}}
                        <input type="text" name="username" class="form-control">

                        E-mail
                        <input type="text" name="email" class="form-control">

                        {{{ trans('common.password') }}}
                        <input type="password" name="password" class="form-control">

                    <button type="submit" class="btn btn-default">Go !</button>
                {{ Form::close() }}

    @endif

{{ Config::get('other.title') }}

                @if(Auth::check())
                     Auth::user()->username, 'id' => Auth::user()->id)) }}" class="l-header-user-data-link">{{ Auth::user()->username }}
                @endif

                {{ trans('traduction.home') }}
                @if(Auth::check())
                    @if(Auth::user()->group->is_admin == true)
                        ACP
                    @endif
                    {{ trans('traduction.logout') }}
                @else
                     {{ trans('traduction.login') }}
                     {{ trans('traduction.signup') }}
                @endif

                        {{ trans('traduction.home') }}

                @yield('breadcrumb')

    @if(Session::has('message'))

{{ Session::pull('message') }}

    @endif

        @yield('content')

Footer a rajouter

    @yield('javascripts')

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub


After a client made a "huge" bet on bitcoin prospects and lost, Hong Kong-based digital currency trade OKEx said it is clawing back millions from counterparties. The trade clarified on Friday that it constrains sold a "strangely vast" long position of 4,168,515 bitcoin fates contracts held by a customer on July 31 after the client declined the trade's demand to bring down the position.
Every futures contract has a notional estimation of $100, as indicated by OKEx, so the aggregate estimation of the position was over $400 million. The stage said it along these lines solidified the client's record and started a constrained liquidation.
An OKEx representative revealed to CoinDesk that, even with the power liquidation, the dropping cost of bitcoin and the "sheer size of the request" mean it has needed to trigger its societal misfortune hazard administration component. After its protective cover is considered, the misfortune to financial specialists is around 1,200 BTC (around $8,800,000 at squeeze time), which will "split proportionately by all benefitted merchants' acknowledged + hidden increases," the representative said.
OKEx said it had additionally infused 2,500 bitcoins into its protection finance – worth around $18 million at squeeze time – to restrict the harm to merchants. A societal clawback happens when the stage's protection subsidize can't cover financial specialists' aggregate edge call misfortunes. All things considered, partner financial specialists – i.e. the individuals who have short positions – should make up the setback.
"At the point when the protection subsidies can't cover the aggregate edge call misfortunes, a full record clawback happens. In such case, just clients who have a net benefit over each of the three contracts for the week will be liable to the clawback," the trade clarified on Friday.


The new year also brings lots of new resolutions and a revival of traditions that have been passed on through generations. Some are unique to families, others to regions and cultures. Take this quiz to know how the New Year's Eve is being celebrated globally, and who will be the first to welcome the year 2019.
Jammu and Kashmir police personnel will donate a day's salary for the families of the cops who were killed in the line of duty in the state this year.
The Jammu and Kashmir police has issued an advisory to its personnel to avoid visiting their hometowns "for the next few months", following incidents of attacks by militants on their residences and family members.
Two militants were killed on Saturday in an encounter with security forces in north Kashmir's Baramulla district while two police personnel were hurt in the operation.
At least five police personnel were injured in a grenade attack and firing on police station at Yaripora in south Kashmir's Kulgam district during stone pelting by protestors, a police official said.
Tamil Nadu CM J. Jayalalithaa on Monday announced a solatium of Rs.1 crore to the family of a policeman who lost his life while nabbing chain snatchers.


Besieged by hawkers as he roamed the streets of Mumbai, India, looking for a few more souvenirs last December, Chuck Green spied an oasis: a merchant calmly taking in the scene from the comforts of his shop.
"He had the most peaceful look," said Green, a 54-year-old Ashland resident who had journeyed to the Asian subcontinent to visit his daughter. "It just wasn't fitting."
Green, a home remodeling contractor, wandered over, not only making his final purchases but falling into a lengthy and philosophical discussion about his Jewish faith with the Muslim merchant, whom he knows only as Sarfaraz. He returned several more times that day, his last in the city, striking up a new friendship.
So when Green's brother arrived for a Thanksgiving visit Wednesday with news that Mumbai had been hit by a terrorist attack, Green took notice. But it was not until he went to media Web sites that it truly hit home: Sarfaraz's shop was likely near the line of fire.
"I went, 'Oh my god,"' the Cross Street resident said, as he saw that a restaurant across from the shop had been targeted.
As of early yesterday evening, 119 people were reported dead and 288 injured in attacks by armed, hostage-taking gunmen, Indian officials said.
Green said he didn't know the fate of Sarfaraz and his shop. He had repeatedly called the Mumbai resident without success.
Also hit in the attacks was a center belonging to the ultra-orthodox Jewish outreach group Chabad Lubavitch, which Green said holds a special connection for his daughter, Myla. After completing a volunteer stint in Hyderabad with the American Jewish World Service, she stopped by with other staffers in July for a dinner with Rabbi Gavriel Noach Holtzberg.
During their rampage, gunmen took hostages at the Lubavitch center, though the fate of all those held was unclear yesterday.
In the morning, a cook led the rabbi's 2-year-old son outside and said she had seen the religious leader and his wife on the center's floor, apparently unconscious. While an Indian official later said the remaining hostages had been released, a diplomat monitoring the situation said they had not been.
Seeking updates, Green said he and his daughter had stayed up late Wednesday scouring the Internet, but were determined to have a "normal" Thanksgiving dinner before returning to their searches.
"We've decided to just put it out of our minds for a couple of hours to be with family completely," he said.
Still, he reflected yesterday on his two-and-a-half week trip to India and the deep impression the country had left on him and his daughter.
"Both of us just had the most positive feelings overall," he said.


text:
Q: How do you change background image in word business card I tried to do this https://www.wikihow.com/Make-Business-Cards-in-Microsoft-Word
"If the business card template has a placeholder logo, you can click it to replace it with your own. "
But I can't select the image to replace it.

A: The background images on the business cards are accessed from the Header layer of the document.
After creating a new business card document from one of the Business Card templates, double click in the header area of the document. This opens the header layer and from it you can click on the various shapes and images, and adjust them to your liking.
Included below is a screen clip of one of the Business Card templates where I have opened the header and selected a background image to adjust.

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaStackExchange


text:
@interface ViewController ()
@property (nonatomic, strong) UIView *redView;
@property (nonatomic, strong) UIView *orangeView;
@property (nonatomic, strong) UIView *blueView;
@end

@implementation ViewController

- (void)viewDidLoad {
    [super viewDidLoad];
    //CAMediaTiming协议:CAAnimation通过实现该协议,达到对动画的时间的控制
    //beginTime:定义动画开始的时间,默认为0,通常设置为CACurrentMediaTime()+某个值,表示在延迟多少秒后执行动画
    //duration:执行一次动画持续的时间, 默认的值是0,但是如果不设置或者设置为0,执行一次动画的时间为0.25秒
    //repeatCount:执行动画的次数,默认的值是0,如果不设置或者设置为0,执行一次动画,当设置为一个无限大的数,动画可以无限循环执行
    //speed:执行动画的速度,默认为1,大于1动画执行的速度会加快,如同快进,如果值大于0小于1,动画执行的速度会减慢,如果小于0会倒退动画
    //repeatDuration:动画重复执行的时间,执行的次数等于repeatDuration除以duration的值,如果设置为无限大的数,动画可以无限循环执行.当同时设置repeatCount和repeatDuration的值时,可能会产生冲突
    //timeOffset:从那个位置的时间开始执行动画,layer会立即到指定的时间的位置,然后在执行其他部分的动画,然后回来在执行之前跳过部分的动画
    //autoreverses:动画反转,在动画执行完后,在回到之前的状态之间,执行动画的反转
    //fillMode:动画结束后,layer保持的状态.当动画的removedOnCompletion为NO时,layer在完成动画后会回到之前的状态,当动画的removedOnCompletion为YES时,fillMode的设置才会生效
    //kCAFillModeForwards:动画结束后,layer呈现动画所保存的状态
    //kCAFillModeRemoved:动画结束后,移除掉动画呈现的状态,回到动画前的layer自身的状态,默认值就是该选项
    //kCAFillModeBackwards:在动画开始前,layer会立即呈现动画执行前的状态,结束后,layer会回到layer自身的状态,不会呈现动画保存的状态
    //kCAFillModeBoth:kCAFillModeForwards和kCAFillModeBackwards,在动画执行前和结束后,layer一直呈现动画保存的状态
    UIView *redView = [self createViewWithFrame:CGRectMake(20, 40, 100, 100) backgroundColor:[UIColor redColor]];
    CABasicAnimation *backgroundColorAnimation = [CABasicAnimation animationWithKeyPath:@"backgroundColor"];
    backgroundColorAnimation.toValue = (__bridge id)[UIColor blueColor].CGColor;
    //动画总持续时间为1.0 * 10.5
    backgroundColorAnimation.duration = 1.0;
    backgroundColorAnimation.repeatCount = 10.5;
    [redView.layer addAnimation:backgroundColorAnimation forKey:@"backgroundAnimation"];

    UIView *orangeView = [self createViewWithFrame:CGRectMake(150, 40, 100, 100) backgroundColor:[UIColor orangeColor]];
    CABasicAnimation *translateAnimation = [CABasicAnimation animationWithKeyPath:@"position.x"];
    translateAnimation.byValue = @200;
    translateAnimation.duration = 1.0;
    translateAnimation.repeatDuration = 5;
    [orangeView.layer addAnimation:translateAnimation forKey:@"translateAnimation"];

    self.blueView = [self createViewWithFrame:CGRectMake(20, 150, 100, 100) backgroundColor:[UIColor blueColor]];
    self.orangeView = [self createViewWithFrame:CGRectMake(150, 150, 100, 100) backgroundColor:[UIColor orangeColor]];
}

- (UIView *)createViewWithFrame:(CGRect)frame backgroundColor:(UIColor *)backgroundColor {
    UIView *view = [[UIView alloc] initWithFrame:frame];
    view.backgroundColor = backgroundColor;
    [self.view addSubview:view];
    return view;
}
- (IBAction)excuteBeginTimeAnimation:(id)sender {
    [self.blueView.layer removeAllAnimations];
    CABasicAnimation *basicAnimation = [CABasicAnimation animationWithKeyPath:@"position.y"];
    basicAnimation.byValue = @200;
    basicAnimation.duration = 2.0;
    basicAnimation.beginTime = 3 + CACurrentMediaTime();
    [self.blueView.layer addAnimation:basicAnimation forKey:nil];
}

- (IBAction)excuteTimeOffsetAnimation:(id)sender {
    [self.blueView.layer removeAllAnimations];
    CABasicAnimation *basicAnimation = [CABasicAnimation animationWithKeyPath:@"position.y"];
    basicAnimation.byValue = @200;
    basicAnimation.duration = 5.0;
    basicAnimation.timeOffset = 2.0;
    [self.blueView.layer addAnimation:basicAnimation forKey:nil];
}

- (IBAction)excuteSpeedAnimation:(id)sender {
    [self.blueView.layer removeAllAnimations];
    CABasicAnimation *basicAnimation = [CABasicAnimation animationWithKeyPath:@"position.y"];
    basicAnimation.byValue = @200;
    basicAnimation.duration = 2.0;
    basicAnimation.speed = 4.0;
    [self.blueView.layer addAnimation:basicAnimation forKey:nil];
}

- (IBAction)excuteAutoreversesAnimation:(id)sender {
    [self.blueView.layer removeAllAnimations];
    CABasicAnimation *basicAnimation = [CABasicAnimation animationWithKeyPath:@"position.y"];
    basicAnimation.byValue = @200;
    basicAnimation.duration = 2.0;
    basicAnimation.autoreverses = YES;
    [self.blueView.layer addAnimation:basicAnimation forKey:nil];
}
- (IBAction)excuteFillModeAnimation:(id)sender {
    [self.blueView.layer removeAllAnimations];
    [self.orangeView.layer removeAllAnimations];
    CABasicAnimation *basicAnimationOne = [CABasicAnimation animationWithKeyPath:@"position.y"];
    basicAnimationOne.fromValue = @250;
    basicAnimationOne.byValue = @200;
    basicAnimationOne.duration = 2.0;
    basicAnimationOne.fillMode = kCAFillModeForwards;
    basicAnimationOne.beginTime = 3 + CACurrentMediaTime();
    basicAnimationOne.removedOnCompletion = NO;
    [self.blueView.layer addAnimation:basicAnimationOne forKey:nil];

    CABasicAnimation *basicAnimationTwo = [CABasicAnimation animationWithKeyPath:@"position.y"];
    basicAnimationTwo.fromValue = @250;
    basicAnimationTwo.byValue = @200;
    basicAnimationTwo.duration = 2.0;
    basicAnimationTwo.fillMode = kCAFillModeBackwards;
    basicAnimationTwo.beginTime = 3 + CACurrentMediaTime();
    basicAnimationTwo.removedOnCompletion = NO;
    [self.orangeView.layer addAnimation:basicAnimationTwo forKey:nil];
}

@end


Sometimes what tears us apart helps us put it back together.
Terry is a perceptive wife who is dealing with the fact that her husband suddenly vanished. She is left to take care of her four independent girls that have their own thoughts about this puzzling situation. The drama of this situation escalates when Terry begins dating her neighbor who was a former famous baseball player. Terry's daughters are left hanging once again. Her daughters find themselves dealing with many complicated situations that involve themselves and their mom.


I've been working with farmers of color and farmer advocacy organizations to write and pass a bill in California to acknowledge the distinct experiences of minority farmers, or "socially disadvantaged farmers." There's a federal distinction, but with the new administration and their cutting of resources for farmers and people of color, we wanted to create a state definition.
The definition will hopefully make it easier in the future for California resources to be reserved for socially disadvantaged farmers. It won't undo the violence, theft, and marginalization inflicted on farmers of color, but this is a start towards equity.
Today was a big first step in that direction. Assembly member Aguiar-Curry, Beth Smoker of PANNA, Javier Zamora of JSM Organics, and I stated our support for the bill to the California Assembly Agricultural Commission. They unanimously passed it!
Next step: Assembly Appropriations Committee. San Diego friends, if you can spare the time, please call San Diego Assembly member Gonzalez Fletcher's office to express your support. She's the Chair of Appropriations, so our local voices have a state impact.


As I write this, the snow is whirling around outside and the wind is blowing down the chimney.
I don't want to go outside, the kids don't want to go out either, and our dog has decided that she is not budging from her fireside seat.
It's at times like this when a few activities for the kids to do (so that they don't become immortalised in front of the TV or computer screen), are needed.
These crafts are equally good for rainy (or snowy!) days or for parties.
That's it for now. All the best and as always feel free to contact me if you have any questions.


The Austrian economic delegate in Zagreb, Sonja Holocher-Ertl, spoke with Discover CEE about interesting business locations in Croatia, gave first-hand tips for doing business and how to escape crowded beaches in summer.
Ms. Holocher-Ertl, what is it that makes Croatia attractive for investors?
Croatia is the youngest EU member country, it celebrated five years of membership on July 1, 2018. It has a favorable geostrategic location, with excellent road infrastructure and promising deep-sea ports that could make it one of Europe's top logistic and transport hubs. Due to its solid education system, investors can usually rely on finding suitably skilled staff.
Which region or sector is developing especially well in Croatia?
Croatia is well-known for its beautiful sea and it is famous for its coastline and islands. Hence, Croatia's tourism is developing exceptionally well, with growth rates of between 5 per cent and 10 per cent in the past few years, and a share in GDP of about 20 per cent. The IT sector, which is benefitting from a very good higher education system in this field, is also showing very promising developments.
In which areas must Croatia improve to attract more investors?
According to surveys, which have been conducted among foreign investors in Croatia, ineffective public administration, red tape and insufficient legal security are the areas with the most urgent needs for improvement to become more attractive to investors.
What tips do you have for investors?
Croatia offers good support for foreign investors on the national level, for instance through its law on investment incentives. In our experience, problems for investors often arise on a local level, when local political support is lacking or is lost for some reason. Advantage Austria Zagreb, the Zagreb office of Aussenwirtschaft Austria (WKO), is a first point of call for Austrian investors who consider investing in Croatia. It will provide potential investors with information, guidance and access to its network of contacts. For more information visit wko.at/aussenwirtschaft/kroatien (German only).
Are there any special habits that should be considered in business relationships?
Investors should not expect things to move fast in Croatia. A very experienced consultant with Croatian heritage, but raised in Austria, once put it that way: in Croatia you have to eat Janjetina (lamb from the spit, very delicious) many times before you will get to a deal. In my view that sums it up quite nicely.
If I visit the country, what should I especially look for? Do you have any secret tip for me?
Croatia is a stunningly beautiful country. You will find exceptional beauty and natural treasures practically everywhere. In summer, however, the coast can get very crowded. One way to escape the crowds is to hire a boat. You will most certainly find secluded spots with hardly anyone else around.
Next:When will Croatia introduce the euro?


"Fujishiro Nageki, huh. Mourning doves are pretty rare in Japan... Maybe it's just his voice, but he seems kind of sad."
Nageki Fujishiro (藤代 嘆) is a mourning dove in attendance at St. Pigeonation's. He is a very quiet freshman with a love of books; he can usually be found in the library.
He is voiced by Saiga Mitsuki in the drama CDs.
Nageki is a ghost who cannot leave the library. Hiyoko's persistence touched Nageki's heart, and slowly he began to feel fulfilled by all her descriptions of school life. He also gradually fell in love with her. Now, having fallen in love and vicariously experienced normal school life, his spirit is fulfilled and he begins to vanish while confessing his love to Hiyoko in a heartfelt speech.
Nageki is from Hatoful (Heartful) House, an orphanage for birds. He was taken under the caring wing of Hitori until humans attacked the orphanage and killed everyone inside but himself (Hitori had been on his way home when the events occurred and was spared). The presence of the Charon Virus in his body (a virus that was nearly instantly lethal to humans) eventually caused all of the human attackers to die of asphyxiation on the scene. Neither Nageki nor Hitori could have known about the virus and made no mention of it to anyone.
In the frantic search to save Nageki from his ailing health (made very much worse by the virus), Hitori looked far and wide for a doctor who could cure him. He caught the attention of Iwamine Shuu (operating under the name Isa Souma at the time), who was doing medical research for military applications. He saw the opportunity for new information and arranged for Nageki to be invited to St Pigeonations under the pretense of finding a cure for his illness. In reality, they were only using Nageki to study the lethality of the Charon Virus.
Nageki was exposed to humans in various experiments, all of whom died from the effects of the Charon Virus. Though humans were not his own race, it was terrible enough to watch them choke and gasp for breath until they eventually died. So much so that he gradually grew increasingly depressed. As time went by, the tone of his letters back home to Hitori changed.
Hitori, sensing something wrong, broke into the labs beneath St Pigeonation's... just in time to see Nageki's suicide by fire.
Having died an unnatural emotional death in the lab, Nageki awoke as a ghost. He began to haunt the library and became very fond of books. While Nageki is unable to move out of the lab and library area, he is able to float vertically through the floors. He discovered this ability to move by accident, after sleeping and waking up in a different place. He's usually found in the library as there's nothing else for a trapped ghost to do but read. Nageki had hidden a couple of files about the Charon project in the library when he was still alive, but is unable to remember this at first.
The millet that Hiyoko buys him for Legumentine's reminds him of the times with Hitori, when they used to go pick millet in the yard for dinner together. Back then, Nageki felt guilty. Due to his poor health, he couldn't find a job or help do chores while the hardworking Hitori, only five years older, was doing all the work.
Only Hiyoko, Ryouta, and possibly Anghel can see Nageki. A recent official manga chapter (specifically chapter 2) shows that Okosan can also see him. Sakuya and Nanaki, however, cannot see Nageki at all. According to Okosan, people can see Nageki because their hearts are pure.
Nageki only appears once in this story if you go to the library before going to the student council room. He plays no significant role in this story.
Nageki asks Hiyoko to be quiet when she begins ranting in the library. After she points out that it is cold, he points her to a freezing Anghel on the floor.
Nageki is voiced by 斎賀みつき (Saiga Mitsuki) in all drama CDs to date.
He is polite, quiet, and kind. Although forgiving in nature, he still will not hesitate to correct others' misbehavior (especially raising one's voice in the library).
Based on their interactions in BBL, they love each other entirely.
Nageki consists of the kanji character 嘆 (nageku), "grief, lamentation". Also, the Japanese word for mourning dove is nagekibato (ナゲキバト).
Fujishiro consists of the kanji characters 藤 (fuji), "Fuji, wisteria", and 代 (shiro), "price, substitution".
Nageki's hatchday is 19 October 2167.
Nageki's short story (translated) from the guidebook.
Nageki prefers country millet for Legumentine's Day.


text:
In defence of the idiosyncratic – A response to Aiyyaa
Posted: October 22, 2012 by moifightclub in bollywood, cinema, film, Marathi, movie reviews, reviews
Tags: Aiyyaa, Amruta Subhash, anurag kashyap, Gandha, Rani Mukherjee, Sachin Kundalkar, Shvetal Vyas-Pare
Going by ReviewGang's calculation, the average rating for Sachin Kundalkar's Aiyyaa is a poor 4.5/10. But almost every reviewer mentioned it that Kundalkar explored many interesting things in the film which never came together. Also, everyone felt that it was too long. On twitter, the most common word used to describe the film was "bizzare". That made me more curious to find out how "Gandha" became such a wakdaa. I still haven't seen the film but surprisingly got a post in my inbox which was on similar lines. So over to Shvetal Vyas-Pare and her take on the film and its Marathi original Gandha.
Aiyyaa is a difficult film to like. It can be easily dismissed as having no plot, dragging out one idea for too long and then jumping into a quick conclusion. The tone does not help either – it is neither entirely realistic nor entirely parodied. The actors seem to constantly shifting from subtle to over-the-top, which makes them irritating – both as characters and as actors. However, I've been thinking about the film. It hasn't grown on me, nor will I claim that it is actually a wonderful film that has been misunderstood. I want to use this blog post to think through certain things that I found interesting about the film, and about my reactions to it.
The premise of any story can be outrageous, and it is up to individual viewers whether the story resonates with them or not. Logically, it is absurd to suppose that a wife would not know her husband in a different get-up (Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi) or that a man could pass off a concentration camp as a massive game (Life is Beautiful). I've heard people tear the former apart while waxing eloquent about the latter. I'm sure there are also people out there who love Rab Ne… and don't mind its logical inconsistency. I'm not saying that the two films are at par with each other. The point I am trying to make is that both films accept seemingly outrageous premises as givens and go ahead with their narratives. As I strongly feel that films/books should be allowed to tell the stories they want to rather than those that seem more logical or natural to any individual viewer/reader, an outrageous premise rarely bothers me.
Aiyyaa too has a premise that seems illogical, that of a woman who is attracted to the way a man smells. Come to think of it, smell is difficult to convey on film. You have to rely on familiarity and on audience experience. Like all human experiences, smell is subjective. It is difficult to explain the power of the smell of the mud after the first rains in India to someone who's never smelt it. It is easier to make films about colour, about touch, about sensation and Aiyyaa too brings in colours – yellow for Rani and blue for Prithvi – and uses them to play around with notions of smell. Perhaps they thought that colours would make smells more tangible. Aiyyaa also reminds one of the odour that one so completely takes for granted in India, showing public toilets and garbage lying open on the streets. Who in India has not scrunched one's nose, and then passed on?
The other major motif of the film, intertwined with smell, is desire. Meenakshi desires Surya, and is somehow convinced that he is not the monster that everyone else thinks him to be. There is no logical reason behind this belief, and part of the disconnect you feel with her character is because of how illogical her behaviour is. Yet it is good to see the woman rather than the man as the desiring subject in Bollywood cinema, though of late this has become more common. Dreamum Wakeupum (and Ijjajat papad!) are pure genius on the part of Amitabh Bhattacharya. All those thrusting, pumping, heaving dance steps in all those Hindi films over the ages – they were all metaphorically sexual, and this song dispenses with the metaphor.
Another major problem area in the film is the 'falling in love' narrative. Meenakshi tries to speak to Surya often, but never actually gets to do so. Until one miraculous evening, wherein they talk, the mystery about him is solved, they confess their feelings, and get engaged to one another, all in the space of one evening. This is again something that induces impatience – how illogical can you get? Behind this impatience however is the assumption that other things that are shown in more realistic narratives are more 'natural', whereas they just have become more sedimented in our minds as ways of being in love, ways of performing romance.
Aiyyaa juxtaposes desire, as represented through smell, and the stifling nature of social life in India, as indicated through the odour of the garbage that haunts Meenakshi even in her dreams. The film finds some subtle moments here and there – walking around the clean, rose-garden terrace of a man whom Meenakshi does not find attractive does nothing for her. This garden of red roses must presumably smell great, and brings in notions of conventional romance, but she is entranced neither by the smell nor the appearance of this ideal space because this is not the man for her.
The Marathi original, Gandha, is actually a combination of 3 different stories, each dealing with the motif of smell, and the story that goes on to become Aiyyaa is crisper, told in half an hour. To stretch out the narrative, Aiyyaa adds a younger brother and a rival suitor to the mix, as well as making the boy Tamilian and putting Meenakshi through the task of learning a new language and a different culture. Not just that, the friend of the heroine becomes more bizarre.As ideas, all of them are interesting, though some translate well and some not so well.
Gandha is not as quirky as Aiyyaa and captures its particular Marathi milieu well. In many ways, it is less imaginative than Aiyyaa, perhaps because it is under less pressure in terms of time, and so is more straightforward in its storytelling. Amruta Subhash does an excellent job of conveying the vulnerability as well as the charm of the protagonist. Rani Mukherjee does a good job, but it is easier to understand and relate to Veena in Gandha than to Meenakshi in Aiyyaa.
What seems a small change in the script from the Marathi to the Hindi version brings to light one of the biggest silences of Bollywood cinema. In both versions, the hero is a painter by day and works at an incense factory by night. However, in the Marathi version he had done a diploma in repairing refrigerators and works at the factory to make money and pay for his art education. In the Hindi version the hero is the owner of the factory, left to him by his father, and works alongside his employees. A Bollywood hero cannot be a simple employee, he has to at least own the factory. After all, how could he think about romance otherwise? As if those who repair refrigerators do not have love stories of their own.
Ultimately, my reaction to Aiyyaa is as much about my expectations as about the film itself. I like films to stick to tones and genres. The realistic feel of a college library – the old computers, the library membership cards, the dust on the books – was good. The presence of an overtly sexualised librarian, however, was jarring – such a person would never exist in such a space. But do films have to necessarily be either realistic, or fantasy as accepted by Bollywood convention (i.e. either melodrama or a fantasy of excess, a la Karan Johar or Salman Khan), or totally bizarre? Can a film not be a little bit of each?
The attempt to make a film that is a little bit of each is jarring, but I think that it is a brave attempt. It would not have been that difficult to make Aiyyaa a bit more like Vicky Donor and English Vinglish: emphasise the Marathi – Tamil aspects of both families, show them as more lovable and less quirky, remove the bizarre, give the hero-heroine more conversations, show the heroine as the underdog who finally convinces her family that she has the right to choose her own life partner and so on. I do not think Anurag Kashyap and co. are stupid enough to have not thought of this alternative, safer option. It would have been an easier option to sell too, and that is often a big criterion that drives the way films get made. While I do not quite like the final product thatAiyyaa is, I do admire the fact that they made it their way – bizarre, quirky and idiosyncratic.
(PS – You can watch Gandha with English subtitles here)
(PS – A different version of the write-up was first posted on Shvetal Vyas-Pare's blog)
Mumbai Film Festival, 2012 – Varun Grover's Diary (Day 2)
Posted: October 22, 2012 by moifightclub in cinema, film, Film Festival, film review, Movie Recco, movie reviews, Mumbai Film Festival
Tags: Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry, Mumbai Film festival, Rust and Bone, The Bay
To know more about Varun Grover and to read his Day 1 report, click here.
Disclaimer: I don't think I've turned into that post-1990-born creature that thinks, reads, and writes only in English but since am short of time, decided to file this entry in English today. Not because I think (faster) in English, but because English typing is faster and as a related brain function, when you type faster, crisper words come to you. (Or so I think.)
Also, quick notes today. ('Amour' calls tomorrow morning.)
Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry/2012/Alison Klayman/USA:
– Behind the iron curtain, there is an artist struggling to retain his freedom, and in the process turns his protest into art, and curtain into an art-installation.
– A very 'upbeat' documentary (mainly 'cos so many frames are full of his artistic creations, and his calm, about-to-smile face) about a very angry but very optimistic man that took a few years in the making, and hence capturing Ai Weiwei at very crucial moments in China's recent history. (The 2009 Earthquakes, Nobel for Liu Xiaobo, post-Olympic demolition of his studio over his criticism of Chinese government).
– Hope they put it out online for free distribution because that goes totally with the spirit of Ai Weiwei.
– After seeing this and Michael Moore's 'Bowling for Columbine', I started loving India more. See both of these to know what words like freedom, liberty, human rights, angst, and censorship may mean in different contexts, countries, and times.
– Also, the best advertisement ever for Twitter. They should just sponsor it and show it to the world. Ai Weiwei uses twitter like Gandhi used Satyagraha, and to great results. "Don't retreat. Retweet."
– Can your cat open the latch door? If yes, are you fascinated by it?
The Bay/2012/Barry Levinson/USA:
– Another 'found footage' film with elements of creature-based horror and zombie.
– Goes on for too long after having made the point.
– Not a fan of found footage genre anyway. Also the most difficult genre I guess. Stripped of visual grandness, technical finesse, and controlled-environment drama (and most of the background score), Cinema is tough to please.
– More creepy and gory than chilling.
Rust and Bone/2012/Jacques Audiard/France-Belgium:
– 2nd watch hence less satisfying but still, so many terrific moments created and captured so well.
– Marion Cotillard is that rare female – thinking man's sex symbol as well as non-thinking man's sex symbol too. She's in top form in this, and is on top too in one scene.
– Audiard's previous one 'A Prophet' was more gritty, more abstract and complicated too, but this one is fairly straightforward, on the verge of feelgood, and dealing with a less complex world/character(s). So yes, slightly less ambitious, but never mind, he still makes high-cinema out of the material at hand. Some of the best romantic repartee in a world of non-romantics is here, and in a way, this could be called Audiard's attempt at interpreting a 'romance drama'.
– Just like in 'Beasts of the Southern Wild', lots of shadows and light-play, another subtle 'homage' to Malick may be?


Are you looking for the map of Bordères-sur-l'Échez? Find any address on the map of Bordères-sur-l'Échez or calculate your itinerary to and from Bordères-sur-l'Échez, find all the tourist attractions and Michelin Guide restaurants in Bordères-sur-l'Échez. The ViaMichelin map of Bordères-sur-l'Échez: get the famous Michelin maps, the result of more than a century of mapping experience.


text:
Literature in the foreign language classroom: students' and teachers' views on learner motivation, reading habits and skills, and the role of the teacher
Covarino, Giulia (2019). Literature in the foreign language classroom: students' and teachers' views on learner motivation, reading habits and skills, and the role of the teacher. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.
Covarino2019PhD.pdf
Available under License All rights reserved.
Although many scholars have emphasised the value of literature as authentic and motivating material to be deployed in the FL (foreign language) classroom, it seems that a sense of unease still exists amongst practitioners. Literature is often absent in FL courses based on the claim that it is too linguistically and culturally difficult. Proceeding from the recognition that a difference exists between the theory and the practice of integrating literature in FL courses, this qualitative study investigates practitioners' views about literature's role in motivating learners, promoting their reading habits and skills in the FL and about the role of the teacher when literary texts are deployed. Findings confirm the potential of literature to enhance motivation, promote the development of reading skills and boost students' desire to read further in a FL; however, they reveal that such potential often remains unrealised in the FL classroom. The role of teachers in terms of beliefs about, knowledge of and approach to using literary texts for FL learning emerges as crucial. Findings also highlight the relevance of FL extensive reading skills for students' positive response to literature, suggesting that a deeper understanding of how these work and can be taught should complement teaching practice.
Boscolo, Cleia UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED
Klapper, John UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED
School of Languages, Cultures, Art History and Music, Department of Modern Languages
L Education > LC Special aspects of education
P Language and Literature > PN Literature (General)
http://etheses.bham.ac.uk/id/eprint/8785


Please find enclosed Ministry of Ports & Shipping's Notification No. 1(19)/2004-P&S-I, dated January 08, 2007 along with its enclosures on the captioned subject.
Authorized Dealers are advised to bring the same to the notice of all their constituents for necessary compliance in this regard.


How did you come to develop the two areas of specialization as a professor of environmental history and public history? And how do they work together in your current position?
Prior to beginning graduate school in history, I worked for several years in historic preservation in New York City. Once I began graduate school, however, I focused primarily on environmental history, urban history, and American history more generally. When I saw the position posted at Portland State for someone who specialized in both public and environmental history, I was eager to apply. Portland State has a thriving public history MA program that draws students from around the country, many of whom find positions in the region. I've been having fun developing public history courses with an environmental twist. This spring, for instance, I taught a course on historic preservation where we focused not only on the social, political, and architectural aspects of preservation, but also the environmental (heritage landscapes, superfund sites, and the adaptive reuse of buildings). I'm particularly excited about next spring when I'll be partnering with the foresters at Portland's Heritage Tree program to teach a public history laboratory course. We'll be helping to bring attention to the program by researching the histories of the trees that have been saved, writing walking tours and brochures, and the like. Down the road I also hope to develop public history courses about environmental justice and the interpretation of superfund sites.
What was your path through graduate school to tenure track faculty? What elements of your scholarly and professional profile would you say were most valuable in securing your job?
I think a fair amount of luck is involved with securing a tenure-track job these days. For the position at Portland State, specifically, I think it helped that I had background in both public history and environmental history. Besides that, I can really only speculate on what helped. I had gone on the job market the year before I got the job at Portland State. While I didn't secure a tenure-track position, I was fortunate to get the Schwartz Postdoctoral Fellowship at the New-York Historical Society and the New School. This gave me the chance to develop courses in urban environmental history and American food history and experience working with a range of different students. I also deliberately worked to secure a book contract soon after graduation and that may have helped with the process. It's hard to say which ingredient was the most important but I certainly feel fortunate to be where I am.
Tell us about your research and how you developed the topic for your dissertation, which won the 2012 Best Dissertation Prize from the UHA.
Early on in graduate school, I took a research course with Joanne Freeman on the early republic. I was flirting with several possible topics but then had a fleeting memory of reading about New York City's hog riots in Edwin G. Burrow and Mike Wallace's Gotham. I found the idea of hogs on the streets of Manhattan amusing, as did my classmates when I floated this possible topic during discussion one day. My initial reaction that pigs were out of place in a city ended up fueling my larger project about how ideas of the urban environment and what properly belonged in a city changed over time. Unlike today's enthusiasm over backyard chickens and rooftop beehives, the mid-nineteenth century saw a lot of backlash against urban agriculture. As I expanded the topic beyond pigs, I found some juicy stories about how various New Yorkers fought over the urban environment as they designed parks, sold horse manure to regional farmers, unearthed connections between corrupt politicians and corrupt food, developed shantytowns, and the like. By juxtaposing seemingly odd combinations of stories (excitement over using human waste as fertilizer alongside the development of Central Park, for instance), I was able to unearth larger themes about environmental justice, government power, and the transformation of nineteenth-century cities.
How did you balance the new, including stories about horse manure, with familiar topics like the development of Central Park? What was the process of developing this work — the scope, the stories, and the style? Who or what were your key influences? After graduating, what was your revision process like from dissertation to book?
Even seemingly familiar stories—such as the Draft Riots or the creation of Central Park—can turn out to be novel when placed in a new context, such as the long history of environmental injustices involved in transforming the urban environment. As I planned out this book, a major goal of mine was to never write off elite New Yorkers' goals for beautification in favor of the goals of poorer New Yorkers. I wanted to maintain some sort of balance so both sides could be better understood. This meant I have topics that range from park development and the planting of street trees to shantytowns and the boiling of slaughterhouse waste.
I also knew going into this project that I wanted to work on the antebellum city, as both urban and environmental historians typically give the period less attention. Many of the issues facing cities in the Progressive Era were similarly playing out in the pre–Civil War city, although different players posed different solutions.
As I turned the dissertation into a book, my main goal was to make my arguments clearer, fine-tune the narrative, and tap into more of the literature on urban environments and public space. I can't express enough how much I benefited from the peer reviews solicited by the university presses I shared the manuscript with. That process was one of the most fruitful I've experienced as a scholar so far and I look forward to paying that forward in the future.
Would you care to share any of those juicy stories to whet our appetites? And just how does one conceal a pig in one's hoop skirt?
One of my favorite stories in the book comes from an offal contract scandal in the early 1850s. Following the cholera outbreak in 1849, City Inspector Alfred W. White was eager to remove a range of "nuisance industries" from areas near residences in Manhattan. Seeing how Irish and German immigrants were profiting from the recycling of slaughterhouse waste by boiling down its component parts and then both selling them to local manufacturers and feeding them to pigs, White had this idea to get into the business himself. He simultaneously made it illegal for these small-scale operators to do business, while setting up a company that would work exclusively with the city. He became a secret partner in a waste-recycling company that he founded. They initially set up an operation on South Brother Island—a little-known, uninhabited island that still exists, just south of Riker's Island—where he and his partners would ship the waste, process what they could sell, and then feed the leftovers to thousands of pigs on the beach so that it could be washed away at high tide. Things started going wrong for this company quickly, though. One partner took over the steamship they were using to haul the barges of offal, blood, and bones, and used it to host parties with a "number of loose women and common prostitutes." Apparently the boat became known as the "North River Brothel." This story goes on, involving farmers in Queens and what's now the Bronx calling their business a nuisance, and the contract eventually becoming exceptionally lucrative. Overall, though, it's a story that allows me to delve into the growing municipal power over the urban environment, those who lost out in the process, and what the corruption meant for the variety of waste-related problems facing the city. And, plus it's just plain entertaining to think of an offal boat being used for scandalous parties.
The story about pigs under hoopskirts comes from a different, but related incident. In this case, in 1859 the municipal government waged the "Piggery War" on the offal-boiling industries where there were penned pigs in what's now midtown Manhattan. Journalists from a variety of newspapers followed along with the health inspectors and police as they toured the facilities and homes of the proprietors. The newspapers reveled in stories of Irish women hiding pigs in their homes, whether under their beds or in their dresser drawers, in hopes of tricking the police. The New York Herald specifically noted that it was a "pity the ladies in the locality do not dress in the prevailing fashion"—in other words hoopskirts—because they could have hid them there. In this period when bourgeois womanhood was so intricately tied to parlors and domesticity, the idea that dirty livestock were allowed into these homes reinforced the idea that the Irish immigrants were completely different from the middle-class readers of these newspapers. To top it off, they were so unfashionable that they couldn't even use a hoopskirt to hide an extra hog.
What is next for you in terms of research?
I'm at this wonderful stage where I'm beginning to explore potential projects—small and large—that I might pursue. I've been so involved with the book project for the last few years that this summer is really my first chance to explore new topics in earnest. In general though, I'm looking to continue work in urban environments in the nineteenth century as well as ideas of environmental purity.


text:
MARC RICO LUDWIG
Some of the productions include:
Bright Burning - The World Premiere
By Colleen Murphy
By Makram Ayache
The Government Inspector
By Nikolai Gogol Adaptation by David Harrower
By Jeff Unger, Garner Butler and Farren Timoteo
It's Only a Play
By Terrence McNally
Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley
By Lauren Gunderson and Margot Melcon
A graduate from the University of Alberta's Acting Program with over a decade of theatre experience, Marc has toured with Alberta Opera's production of Jack and the Beanstalk as the Giant, starred in the world-premiere of Colleen Murphy's Bright Burning, wrote and directed for Blackout Sketch Comedy and performed for The 11'O Clock Number, the musical improv troupe. Other notable shows include Grindstone Theatre's Urinetown, In Arms Theatre's Harun, and Studio Theatre's Twelfth Night and Tempest. He was involved in Festivals such as the Edmonton Fringe, Nextfest, New Works and Ignite.
Now based in Peterborough, Ontario, he has been in shows in the area such as Whitby Courthouse Theatre's It's Only A Play, Little Women: The Musical, the Northumberland Players' Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley and Ernest in Capitol Theatre's The Importance of Being Ernest. He is excited to portray Ash in Mansfield Entertainment's Evil Dead: The Musical in the Fall of 2022.
A writer at heart, Marc has helped in the creative development of many pieces of new work. He is considered an asset in exploring scripts and is often asked to read for new plays, films and musicals. There he always brings his generous perspective and technical expertise to support in creation of the best work possible. Most recently, he has remotely workshopped Vancouver-based Theatre Terrific's In-TEA-macy. He is ecstatic about being able to share his own written pieces on the stage and screen soon, specifically The Last Star, which is nearing its final stage of writing development.
Also a professional voice actor, catch him in audio performances such as the Narrator in The Tales of The Wasted West, Lucas in Mount Oblivion (The Heap), New Hire (Pinball Prod) and as Detective Nathaniel Silver in Season 1 of Darkstead, among many other projects!
Furthermore, Marc values teaching youth and has worked as an Instructor for Trickster Theatre, a Supervisor at Artstrek Theatre Camp, and led acting workshops for the Northumberland Players.
What I'm Up to Now:
Click Here for Acting CV
Click Here for Full Resume