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By Phillip Lee on January 24, 2019 • ( 0 )
Agriculture, one of the oldest activities in human history, is back in the spotlight at Seward County Community College, with a combination of old favorites and fresh approaches. This weekend marks the first-ever fundraising banquet for the SCCC Agriculture Department. The event symbolizes both the history of the college's program as well as a new start to partnerships in the region.
The banquet will be held at 6 p.m. on Saturday, January 26 at the Comfort Suites (across from Old Chicago).
According to agriculture instructors Nick Noterman and Joshua Morris, the event grew out of a desire to bring the supporters, sponsors, donors "into one spot, sit them down and talk to them about some of the changes and the direction of the program."
Former SCCC alumni and Ag program supporter Trevor Winchester proposed the idea of a banquet as a fundraiser/get together. Working closely with farmers, ranchers, and ag business people in the region is a key component of the department's vision for the future, and building on Winchester's suggestion embodies that desire.
"I was visiting (with Trevor) and he brought up the banquet and I ran through (all the channels) and we got the go-ahead for it," Noterman said. Both instructors believe that personal interaction with the program's supporters — instead of just sending out a letter — is ideal.
"We'll get a chance to visit with the supporters and sponsors," Noterman said. "Talk to them about the Ag program. It'll be a relaxed environment. They'll get a good meal and entertainment."
Comedian David Ferrell will be providing the entertainment.
A key point will be an update about the direction of the Ag department, he continued.
"We're going to be pursuing the livestock judging program and the crop judging program," he said. While a display case on campus is stuffed with trophies and awards from years past, both programs have been more dormant in recent years. That is changing, however.
While changes in technology and science continually affect agriculture, Morris said, SCCC is aiming for a balance and sustainability, shifting back to a more traditional Ag program.
"We're returning to a focus on livestock and crop judging programs and incorporating some more traditional crops along with some vegetable production," Morris said. "We're still going to teach that, but not to the scale it was in the past. We're going back to some more traditional crops and agriculture that's based to Southwest Kansas, that we feel needs to be brought back into the program."
The banquet has been well-received with sponsorships and ticket sales of more than $8,000 raised so far.
"For the first go-around, I'm really excited," Noterman said. "SCCC Chief Development Officer Tano Tovilla has been a huge help to us in getting some extra people. It's going really well."
Tickets are $50 per person and will be available at the door. For more information, contact Noterman or Morris at the SCCC Ag Department, at 620-417-1353 or 1354, respectively.
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Birth is so beautiful. It is magical, amazing, perfect ! I love watching families meet their little one for the first time. Its truly the most perfect thing. It is pure joy. The room is full of positive energy, the spirit it felt so strong. I honestly feel so very blessed to be able to attend your special moment.


Invitation to restart talks frozen for 13 years signals possible thaw in relations.
There are no regular direct flights between China and Taiwan, aside from a few charters on certain holidays, and Taiwan tightly controls the number of mainland visitors.
The invitation letter from the Chinese government department that deals with Taiwan issues said "we hope the talks will make progress on the two issues to meet the expectations of people from both sides of the strait".
But Tony Cheng, Al Jazeera's China correspondent, said the reality of the relationship is complex and despite signs of thawing ties, it would be a long time before anyone dares to mention the tricky subject of reunification.
On Wednesday, Wu told Hu that Taiwan needs to have an international presence, but conceded there would be no quick solution to long-standing disputes.
China has worked hard in recent years to isolate Taiwan diplomatically and cut it off from anything that legitimises possible claims to sovereignty.
Earlier this month, Chinese pressure thwarted Taiwan's bid for observer status in the World Health Assembly, a UN body.
But the Kuomintang's, or Nationalist party's defeat of the pro-independence Democratic Progressive party in Taiwan's presidential polls in March has led to an easing of tensions.
Ma Ying-jeou, who was sworn in as president last week, has struck a much more conciliatory tone with China than his predecessor, Chen Shui-bian, whose pro-independence rhetoric angered Beijing.
In the official invitation letter to Taiwan, China's Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Strait said the proposed talks in June would be the start of regular consultations based on the so-called "1992 consensus".
That was a guideline for talks that the mainland and Taiwan reached in 1992, in which each side could interpret the term "One China" in its own way.
The two sides last held talks based on the agreement in 1995 but China suspended further discussions to protest against a visit to the US the same year by Lee Teng-hui, Taiwan's then president.
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Following the U.S. release of "Life Goes On (Let It Go)", VocalPlay sensations Naturally 7 are releasing the single worldwide on iTunes on Friday, 21st September, 2012. The inspirational song blasted onto U.S. Smooth Jazz and Adult Contemporary radio stations in late March after being championed by radio personality Pat Prescott at LA's 94.7 The Wave.
"Life Goes On (Let It Go)" built up steam in the U.S. as the band toured South America, Asia and South Africa earlier this year, as special guests of award-winning artist Michael Bublé. The song entered the U.S. Top 10 in early May and remained among the most records played in America for ten weeks on the Mediabase™ Smooth Adult Contemporary Chart.
"Life Goes On (Let It Go)" has now been on the Billboard™ Smooth Jazz Chart for over nineteen weeks and consumer demand led to the release of the single at the end of August 2012 on iTunes in the U.S.
The all-VocalPlay band which hails from New York and Atlanta have garnered global attention with their jaw-dropping live shows as they showcase their unique singing style whereby the human voice mimics each instrument.
"Life Goes On (Let It Go)" gets a boost from a prominent melodic interpolation of "Everything She Wants" – the 1984 hit by Wham!, written by George Michael.
Naturally 7 will be performing in Germany, The Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg in November and December, 2012 at the prestigious 'Night Of The Proms', a concert spectacular also featuring The Jacksons, Anastacia and Mick Hucknall.
In between tours, Naturally 7 has been working on a new album release for 2013. Their upcoming DVD, "All Natural Live", will be released in early 2013.
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From Jenni Messina, owner Jennivine's Restaurant and Culinary Center, Dallas.
Jenni Messina, the Anglo-Indian owner of Dallas' Jennivine's Restaurant and Culinary Center, has made her business a success by recharging her native English cookery with Southwestern flavors and produce. In his buffet for twelve, Messina's warm English salad is dressed with a British standby—Stilton cheese—but bits of juicy jicama and sorrel add Tex-Mex animation. At the center of her holiday menu is roast tenderloin of beef, smothered with a fresh-cayenne-pepper sauce. Following this are deep-dish tributes to autumn: braised red cabbage and sugar snap peas. Dessert is a sumptuous bread pudding, studded with raisins and drizzled with spoonfuls of bourbon-zapped crème anglaise.


We'd all like to be ten years younger (unless you're under twenty eight!) but there is a way to look and feel ten years younger. Looking young may well help your career, but the real benefit is in feeling young and the increased enthusiasm and energy levels that this will bring.
Even with skin cancer on the increase, you still find people stripping off as soon as the sun comes out, anxious to get a tan, especially in the West Country where I live. But sunlight is incredibly ageing to the skin.
The two types of sunlight are UVA and UVB. UVB burns the skin and UVA ages the skin. Look at the skin on the inside of your arm and see how young and fresh it looks, compared to the top part of your arm. The difference you see is caused by sun damage. So if you want to be ten years younger you must wear sun block if you are in the sun for any length of time. I would prefer to have young skin than tanned skin.
Everyone know that smoking causes cancer, but not everyone appears to know that smoking also deprives the skin of oxygen, leading to more wrinkles and general ageing of the skin. It also deprives the gums of oxygen and is a major cause of shrinking gums leading to the loss of teeth; not the way to look young!
If you eat healthily your skin will look clear and fresh. Go easy on sugar, salt, fatty meat, fried food, takeaways and any food that is full of additives. Eat simple, nutritious food, with plenty of fruit, vegetables and fibre.
How you feel after eating is a good indication of whether the food is good for you. If you feel heavy and lethargic, you've probably been eating junk. If you feel lively and energetic half an hour after eating, then you've probably eaten healthily. Your skin, hair and nails will benefit. Not only that, you will feel full of energy and will avoid many of the digestive problems that many middle aged people seem to suffer from.
Young people are so bouncy, energetic and flexible. We tend to ascribe this to their youth, but in actual fact it has a lot to do with physical fitness. The aches and pains and stiffness of older people is often caused by a lack of exercise.
Start with ten minutes of exercise a day if you are really unfit, then build up by adding an extra ten minutes a day every week. Walking is a good exercise to start with for the very unfit. You will soon be amazed at how quickly you progress and how, strange as it seems, the more you exercise the more energetic you seem to feel. Yoga is also excellent for building up strength and flexibility for any age group.
If you want to avoid being overweight and sluggish then cut down on alcohol. Alcohol has a lot of calories and can make you feel tired very quickly. It can make your face look look red and puffy. It also has a detrimental effect upon your will power, making it more likely that you will indulge in other unhealthy habits, like smoking or eating junk food. You don't have to stop completely, but try not drink alcohol every day, and try to have moderate amounts with a meal.
Young skin will always make you look younger, so in addition to sun protection and healthy eating, regular moisturising will help the skin to retain moisture and keep it looking young. The moisturising cream doesn't necessarily have to be the most expensive one, but regular use will be beneficial.
Some people seem to think that middle age spread is inevitable, but it's not. Yes you do have to work harder to stay slim as you get older, but it is possible. Healthy eating and daily exercise will help to keep the weight off.
Much of the stress which causes over eating could be dealt with by daily exercise, which is a great way to release tension and anxiety. Not only that but exercise actually reduces your appetite. Who fancies a big meal straight after a session of aerobics or martial arts? Bear in mind that staying slim will make you look ten years younger than you are, because so many people give in and believe that middle-aged weight gain is inescapable.But it's not!
Drink plenty of water, fruit juice or herbal tea. Some caffeine is fine, but too much can make you tense and give you a headache. A lot of tiredness is caused by dehydration, so drink plenty to keep up your energy levels and keep your skin looking fresh and young.
If your clothes are up to date then you will appear younger. Being up to date doesn't mean slavishly following fashion; many people develop their own style as they get older. But you need to be aware of what is fashionable and not stray too far from that, or you will look hopelessly out of touch. Being in touch applies not only to clothes, but to technology and new thinking. If you are like a technological dinosaur then you will seem much older.
Younger people and especially children have a much fresher perspective on life. As we get older we ten to adopt the attitude that we've seen it and done it all before. As a result we stop seeing things and we stop learning. We don't see things as they are, we see what we expect to see. As a result we can develop a very jaundiced outlook on life; hence the 'grumpy old man/woman' stereotype.
Children look at everything with fresh eyes. They are excited by the mundane because it's new to them, and their attitude can rub off on us. We can begin to enjoy and appreciate the things we normally take for granted, and nothing makes us seem and feel younger than enthusiasm.
Ideally you should start at as young an age as possible, but the sooner you carry out my ten strategies, the sooner you can hold back time.


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Chant The Beauty
1993 was a fairly prolific year for VOTR. Sometime in the first few months we had recorded a series of cover versions and from late Spring through the Summer we embarked on a triple release of around 50 songs: one with new versions of songs we had previously recorded in the 1980s, a double cassette of our traditional acoustic sound and one, Chant the Beauty, which saw us plug in and turn up.
A couple of the songs came in a near enough complete state from Rob, whose musicianship, arrangement and recording skills are really to the fore here, especially in songs like The Way We're Going, Faces and Masks and Sometime. Most of the others were developed from chord sequences or less formed ideas he had on tape and were fine-tuned together in a long Summer of quick-fire lunch breaks and more sustained weekend sessions.
I remember writing and playing a few more bass lines than I would ordinarily, Sense of Time and I Own You are a couple of examples that spring to mind. My real inputs and focus were the lyrics, melodies and vocals though, which, perhaps as a result, are a little more considered than usual and, some might say, none the worse for that.
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We've been calling this series of releases 'remasters' but in fact they had only ever been mixed straight to cassette, reel to reel or DAT without the dynamics processing and equalization that an actual master entails.
It's probably one reason they still sound reasonable as we didn't have the equipment to overdo it at the time giving more scope for adjustment today. That I didn't own a compressor until 1998, and even then was very tentative in its use, was a great help as it's virtually impossible to put dynamic range back into a recording, particularly the stereo mixes we have been working from.
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The Executive Group on Security (ESG) was established by the Chief Executives Board to facilitate the rapid decision making capacity of the Under-Secretary General for Safety and Security when an impasse, exigencies or life and limb are at stake preventing the ability of the Designated Official or the Security Management Team to address developing or critical events that require a timely security decision.
In addition to the USG/DSS, the EGS is comprised of Executive Heads of organizations of the UN Security Management System (UNSMS) as follows: Chair of HLCM, WFP, UNDP, DPKO/DFS, OCHA, UNICEF, and up to two Executive Heads of UN organizations, ideally comprised of those with the largest operational footprint(s) and Offices away from Headquarters in the affected country.
The EGS has a responsibility to support the Under-Secretary General for Safety and Security in the discharge of his/her mandate related to the safety and security of all personnel employed by the organizations of the UN system and their recognized dependents, premises and assets. EGS does not meet or act as an appellate body but may be called upon to serve or assist the Under-Secretary General to rapidly resolve stalemates regarding the security of UN personnel and premises when there is no consensus within the security management team on the course of action to be taken at the duty station.
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It's relatively early on a Tuesday morning and I've just been given a glimpse into the bonkers world of Michael Smiley – who will be at 3 Flying Ducks Comedy Club in Old Leigh next Thursday.
He's just stubbed his toe while on his third cup of coffee and a gag about living on a comedy set has somehow developed into a whole tangent on "Comedy Valley", where he's decided he lives.
Seeing as this is the man on who Simon Pegg based permenantly wired, techno raving cycle courier Tyres in his hit TV series Spaced, perhaps it's unsuprising he's rather charmingly a bit off the wall.
Like Tyres – who the other characters in the series try and stop "going disco" when repetitive noises like phones ringing and traffic lights bleeping remind him of rave music -– Michael was working as a cycle courier at the time.
Back to Pegg and Frost he merrily slags off his pals: "For a couple of manic depressives they're probably the funniest people I know.
Despite his success with comedy, Michael also went on to carve out a serious film and TV acting career.
He will be familiar to many from his current role as Benny "Deadhead" Silver in the BBC drama series Luther. He says: "I loved working on Luther. That was fun, and in Bleak House I loved dressing up like a 19th century cripple.
"It's nice to have contracts in your life. I do stand-up and that's complete audience interaction. It's nice to have your material and create an environment – that's an art form, the best art form in the world.
Michael's looking forward to his jaunt to Leigh, and 3 Flying Ducks is building up something of a reputation for itself after two sell-out nights for comedians Phil Cornwell and Marcus Birdman.
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At least 10 tribes adopt laws to recognize same-sex mariage
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Tim LaCroix, left, a member of the Little Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa Indians in Michigan, married Gene Barfield under tribal law in March 2013. Photo from Wagner College
At least 10 tribes have adopted laws to recognize same-sex marriage, The Advocate reports.
The Coquille Tribe of Oregon was the first to go public with its equality marriage ordinance. Now tribes in Connecticut, Washington, Michigan, California, Oklahoma and Minnesota a part of a movement that has swept across dozens of states and the federal government.
"People who are gay or lesbian could not marry the person they love on this reservation and now they can," Maggie Edwards, a council member for the Puyallup Tribe of Washington, said in the Puyallup Tribal News last week.
The two largest tribes in the U.S. -- Navajo Nation and the Cherokee Nation -- enacted laws that do not recognize same-sex marriage.
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Shahid Shah says, "It's time for electronic health records (EHRs) to grow up."
"It's not just about creating electronic health records and sharing them between doctors," said Shah, software IT analyst and author of the blog The Healthcare IT Guy.
"Care coordination and collaboration aren't just about adding patient messaging and simple health records sharing— in fact, care coordination and collaboration must mean managing digital biology and digital chemistry. The new data must be able to assist physicians across patient care teams better understand what is happening inside the patient so physicians can improve health outcomes."
Shah suggests the electronic health record be used to its full potential instead current hit-or-miss usage.
Electronic health records are now used largely by primary care physicians and any specialists. According to Shah, there are many other applications. In a recent article in Healthcare IT News, Shah described the "patient collaboration maturity model."
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"This is where electronic health records currently are in terms of use," Shah said. "This is where individuals or separate organizations provide much of the patient care."
At this point the patient is responsible for much of the collaboration burden. While there is nothing wrong with this method, Shah and other healthcare IT experts say that this stage is utilizing a fraction of what was envisioned with electronic health records. At this point a primary care physician will ask a patient prior to prescribing additional drugs about any medications he or she is taking in order to avoid adverse drug interactions.
"The second step in the patient collaboration maturity model is the point where organizations begin to actively and routinely share electronic records," Shah said. "Organizations will start by sharing simple records, but they must design systems to move from paper to digital biology and chemistry sharing."
Connected care is the stage where a primary care physician is able to look at a patient's electronic healthcare record and ascertain what medications have been prescribed by other physicians.
"This is the first maturity level where patients feel they are the center of the care team," Shah said.
At the coordinated care level, the patient's records are available for all physicians, from primary care to specialists. Physicians have immediate access to whatever is needed to care for the patient and assess any health risks.
At the integrated care level, the patient's electronic health record is seamlessly shared between organizations. All healthcare records are linked to the patient, so the care provider has access to the information. According to Shah, this drastically expands the current healthcare mode. All healthcare providers would have access to the necessary patient information and would be able to track all prescriptions.
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Gleaning
The return of gleaning in the modern world
How much can an ancient practice do to alleviate hunger?
Christmas SpecialsDec 22nd 2018 edition
Dec 22nd 2018
AT THE SALON in Paris in 1857, Jean-François Millet exhibited a painting called "Des glaneuses" ("Gleaners"). It caused a scandal. Millet had long made a point of painting peasants at their labours, but this big canvas was his strongest provocation. Into a decorous world of silks and parasols it introduced rough women, plump in their homespun skirts, rumps in the air, grubbing for ears of grain dropped after the harvest. One critic complained of "ugliness and…grossness unrelieved". Another said it made him think of the scaffolds and pikes of the Terror of 1793.
Millet had seen the women differently. He found them dignified, doing their work in a sanctifying late-summer light, companions to his peasant "Angelus". In this, as well as their humble roughness, he caught the essence of gleaning.
To begin with, it is not scavenging. To scavenge means to search for things that others have discarded, as children rummage for plastic bottles and phone parts on the rubbish tips of Delhi. Nor is gleaning foraging, which is to gather foodstuffs from the wild, as fashionable restaurateurs scramble for chanterelles and samphire. Nor is it scrumping, which is stealing, usually on a dare.
Items which are gleaned are the good and usable fruit of human activity; they have not been discarded, merely overlooked, or thought not worth bothering with. In Henry Mayhew's exhaustive, wonderful chronicle of the Victorian urban underclass, "London Labour and the London Poor" (1851), his equivalent of rural gleaners are the river-dredgers who, when coal is accidentally dropped from a collier-brig, fish down to find it. In a striking analogy with rural gleaners in their ploughed fields, one tells him that "there's holes and furrows at the bottom of the river…I know a furrow off Lime'us Point, no wider nor the dredge…[where] I can git four or five bushel o' coal. You see they lay there."
In less wasteful and more straitened times, the yield was small: grain for the hens, one sack for the miller. Nervous authors called their books "gleanings" to stress their insignificance and fend critics off. These days, what is gleaned has slipped beneath the notice, or the need, of giant retailers and the capabilities of giant dust-raising harvesting machines. Sometimes the weather leaves a crop unsellable: after the searing summer of 2018, many apples were smaller than supermarkets would accept. Some 20-40% of fruit and vegetables, according to gleaning campaigners, are rejected by British and American supermarkets on purely cosmetic grounds: the demand, for example, that courgettes should look identical. In America, about 2.7m tonnes of "ugly" produce is thrown out every year.
Modern Westerners who are happy to pick produce in the fields all day (in Britain, chiefly Eastern Europeans) are in short supply. But many harvesting machines leave behind perfect low-hanging tomatoes or strawberries in their beds. One grower of blackcurrants in Sussex, whose fields are regularly visited by gleaners, reckons that machines get only 60-80% of his crop. Businesses may go under, too, abandoning the crops in the field. Agnès Varda's film "The Gleaners and I" (2000) documents the stripping of a whole unharvested vineyard before birds, or wild boar, move in. Whatever the cause, the modern yield may be substantial. The principle, though, is the same: if all is to be gathered in, the most efficient tools are the sharp human eye and the delicate human hand.
Rights and rules
Unlike scavenging and foraging, which tend to be individual enterprises with commercial potential, gleaning has almost always been communal and charitable. Its roots lie in the allocation of fair shares between individuals. The leavings of prosperity, the unneeded or overlooked fragments, are made available to those who need help, whether in dole at the monastery gate or from a sacking bag filled in a harvested field. Millet's gleaners were engaged in a task reserved for paupers by the local commune; in the background, the regular harvest is being stacked up in abundance.
Unlike scavenging and foraging, which tend to be individual enterprises with commercial potential, gleaning has almost always been communal and charitable
The right of the poor to glean had biblical provenance. "Thou shalt not wholly reap the corners of thy field, neither shalt thou gather the gleanings of thy harvest," said God to Moses in Leviticus 19:9-10; "…neither shalt thou gather every grape of thy vineyard; thou shalt leave them for the poor and stranger." In Deuteronomy, a sheaf forgotten in the field was to be left "for the stranger, for the fatherless and the widow"; and "When thou beatest thine olive tree, thou shalt not go over the boughs again." The Book of Ruth in the Old Testament tells the story of literature's most famous gleaner, a pauper and an alien in Judah who so enchanted the landowner, Boaz, that he instructed his reapers actively to help her: "Let her glean even among the sheaves, and reproach her not: And let fall also some of the handfuls of purpose for her, and leave them." Ruth's gentleness and humility did much to give gleaning, and the allowing of it, a colour of holiness.
Much of medieval Europe accepted a right to gleaning, but carefully. This was no free-for-all, and the rules remained intact, in some places, until the 20th century. A "guard sheaf" would be left in a field to protect it until the harvest was complete. When this was removed a bell signalled that gleaning could start. And when the bell rang in the evening, gleaning stopped. The morning bell rang on the late side, at eight or nine, to give busy households time to get ready. All had an equal chance to gather their share.
Gleaning was also a significant part of the income of peasants and villagers, perhaps as much as one-eighth of annual earnings in central and southern England in the 18th and 19th centuries. But as the open fields were increasingly enclosed, farmers worried about damage to crops and simple trespass on what was now private property. When Mary Houghton went gleaning in 1788 on the fields of James Steel in Suffolk, she ended up in court, with a judgment that gleaning was a privilege, not a right. Mr Steel had no obligation to let her gather ears of corn; it was up to him whether he would kindly let her.
Mary Houghton undoubtedly thought gleaning her right. Whether she thought it a privilege is harder to say. Traditionally, perhaps because it required tidy-mindedness rather than physical strength, gleaning was left to women—as were other backbreaking tasks, such as turnip- and potato-picking, or ridding fields of stones. (Some insist that gleaning isn't really gleaning if no stooping is involved.) Working in prickly stubble, often in fierce sun all day, was arduous. But there was good company, and the children could glean too, carefully picking up straws in bunches of 20 or so, with the ears out, then tying them with their own stems, like little bouquets. The gleaners of literature were imagined carefree, singing as they worked and weaving cornflowers through their hair. The old woman H.E. Bates observed in Northamptonshire in the 1930s, "the last survivor of an ancient race", as he called her, "moving across the field under the mellow sun, nipping up the ears in her quick hands, shaking her sack", was too busy to notice flowers. Nonetheless she looked "eternal", as natural in the landscape as the birds.
In France the Code Pénal still states that gleaning is allowed "from sunrise till sunset...when the harvest is over." But no one seems to know the rules, especially as there is almost no gleaning for grains any more. The oyster-pickers filmed by Ms Varda off the Atlantic coast glean around the commercial beds after storms, but how closely, and how many they may take, are hotly debated questions. The gleaners she finds elsewhere are often lone scavengers, mostly the very poor, who are as likely to root through supermarket bins as to wander hopefully through fields. The most poignant throwback to older ways comes when a clutch of muddy village children, gleaning potatoes near Arras, burst into a chorus of "Lundi, des patates, mardi, des patates, mercredi...." With the breakdown of old community patterns, old-style organised gleaning has gone out, too.
Not many songs, but scattered chat and laughter, are heard in the fields at Maynards Fruit Farm, in East Sussex, on a warm day in June. The farmer has invited the Sussex branch of Britain's Feedback Gleaning Network, the country's largest, to pick what is left of his rhubarb crop. Persistent rain has made the crop come on too early, and he needs to clear the field to let more come through. In effect, this time, the 15-20 gleaners who arrive are harvesters rather than clearers-up. The principle seems the same to them.
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These days there is no summoning bell. Instead, a perky alert comes by tweet or Facebook post: "Bracdrop [cabbage glean] at Wigden near Canterbury. Be there at 9...Over and sprout." The Sussex Gleaning Network alone contains 900 names. The people at Maynards come mostly from Brighton, the nearest city; almost none are from the countryside, and this is normal. Gleaning is now an urban and green preoccupation, requiring toilets, parking and travel expenses. The gleaners are dressed for work in jeans and walking boots, but need instruction on how to handle the small, sharp knives with which they will trim the stalks in the field. The acreage is not large, but after bending to pick rhubarb for six hours, they are tired. In return they find fun and comradeship in the open air, and pride in the stacks of stuff they pose with afterwards.
Cutting waste is the gleaners' first motivation, but poverty comes a close second: other people's, rather than their own. By government estimates, 10m tonnes of food goes to waste in Britain each year, 70% of it thrown out by ordinary households. Britain is the chief offender in the EU, which in total chucks 89m tonnes of food away. Meanwhile around 20% of Britain's adults, and 14.5% of America's households, are classed as "food insecure" in some way, unable to get nutritious food as often as they need it. Few, on either side of the Atlantic, have tried to guess how much fresh produce rots before it leaves the field. But farmers who took part in a Vermont Food Loss Survey in 2016 estimated annual vegetable and berry loss at 16%, and a British farm-waste survey by Feedback in 2018 came up with a figure of 10-16% across all crops, "in typical years".
Set against the waste, gleaners' efforts seem a drop in the ocean. In most years, Feedback gathers around 100 tonnes of produce. But every little helps. Gleaning has again become an adjunct to more organised social welfare. And, in some places, there is still a religious flavour to it. In America the Society of St Andrew, the oldest and biggest gleaning operation, draws 40,000 gleaners mostly from churches, synagogues and other faiths (including Islam), making the biblical basis explicit. Both there and in Israel, most gleaning is run by faith groups.
Calls for gleaners now target the young and fit from a wide area, but there are exceptions where local, neighbourly help is paramount. One gleaning programme in Oregon takes in only members whose household income is at or below 200% of the federal poverty guideline; all, therefore, are poor, and many are elderly or disabled. Some "adopt" people who are physically unable to glean themselves and share their gatherings with them.
The gleaners see themselves as noble agitators. They mount "rescues" to "save the veggies"; they talk of an "Arable Spring" and a "Glean Revolution". They eagerly calculate how many people could be fed each year if everything was saved, and employ just-in-time logistics. Getting produce from the fields to tables in charities, hostels, shelters and lunch clubs requires a fleet of sometimes refrigerated vans. In Britain, FairShare, which has about 20 branches, runs the vans; the fruit and veg are then used by Foodcycle, a national charity, to make meals for needy people, mostly in cities. In America, the Society of St Andrew distributes 9000 tonnes of food a year to a network of pantries serving the urban poor. The gleaner network of south-central Pennsylvania alone counts 120 "community partners". Such networks are growing.
Could gleaners get more? Undoubtedly. Field gleaning relies, as it always has, on good relations with farms. But those most open to the idea are small, family-run businesses, not enterprises of scale. Farmer psychology can be difficult, and some feel ashamed to call in gleaners, as if it is an admission of failure. Others dislike the thought of half-trained workers in their fields. Gleaning is sometimes best offered as free help: workers for Maine's Gleaning Initiative will do other jobs too, such as sorting squash.
Gleaning could be more urban and suburban, and in some places it is. Around Silicon Valley in California, Village Harvest, founded in 2001, gleans citrus from gardens, backyards and old orchards. In Britain garden-gleaning is confined mostly to Hackney, a now-hipster (and mostly gardenless) part of East London. Pickings from such places give a lean return for the labour involved. Again, gleaners need to break into the world of big producers who care less about waste. They also need to persuade big supermarkets to tolerate imperfection. Both Morrisons in Britain and France's Intermarché now sell wonky veg—"inglorious" ones, as Intermarché happily calls them.
In America, where only about 10% of available edible food is recovered, worries about the cost of charity have also held back gleaning. The America Gives More Act of 2015 allows a permanent deduction for farm businesses that welcome gleans of up to 15% of taxable income. But legal caveats about trespass and damage can be fierce, and laws covering gleaning vary greatly from state to state: the east and west coasts broadly welcoming, the heartland much less so.
Inglorious glorified
The scale of the practice may have changed out of all recognition, but the philosophy—almost a theology—of gleaning remains the same. It completes and expands the harvest, so that the greatest possible number can share in it, especially the poor. It appreciates, and makes full use of, all that man and nature between them have provided. Community ties are strengthened by it. Beyond that, the act of gleaning can enrich in particular ways. Each gleaner, as in a religious service, enters not only the experience of the group but also an individual world of gathering and quiet accumulating. Gleaning can become contemplative, almost mesmerising. In this attitude of humble seeking, the harvest can be of thoughts, images and understandings, as much as food.
On a balmy October day the Sussex gleaners have assembled again, this time at the orchard in Stanmer Park. Some will do actual harvesting; others will do real gleaning, tidying what falls, or has fallen, on the ground. The fruits, seedling Bramleys, have been left to turn red and sweeten. They glow against a perfect sky.
No one is in a hurry. They do what they can, working methodically round a tree or a patch, feeling the netting bags grow heavy round their necks. It is very quiet, the loudest sound the thud of apples in the long grass. The words "waste" and "revolution" rise out of some conversations. Other talk is of crumbles and cream. Under one bent old tree, two girls in headphones stop work and start dancing.
This article appeared in the Christmas Specials section of the print edition under the headline "To the last grain"
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PC, ReviewsRom August 30, 2012 PC Sim, Political Machine, Stardock
Seeing as politics are already a game, it's surprising it took so long for someone to start making presidential election sims, but back in 2004, Stardock did just that with the first Political Machine game. I didn't play that first two, but I think it's kind of cool to put one of these out every four years. It's almost like a less aggressive Madden: every election, a new one comes out with new political heavyweights, updated stats, and different data for how electoral votes are structured and population is distributed. Yeah! Doesn't that just get you excited!? It never gets as crazy as real politics, though, or even as deep as other sims. The concepts are there, but the systems aren't exactly as deep or integrated as they could be. Despite a few faults, it's a fun experience, perfectly set up to get you back in for another game as soon as you finish the first.
I might as well just have you open up your old Public Policy textbook and read from there, then just add "but in a video game!" because this game is a pretty accurate, if simplified, version of that.
Starting out, you choose your politician, be it from real ones or one you made up yourself. The customization for a new politician is kind of deep. You've got points to dump into things like Charisma and Intelligence, but there are also good political ones like Minority Appeal and Media Bias. Separate political issues also have their own points you can dump in so you can determine how much your politician takes a stand on certain issues. The problem with this is there just aren't enough points to use on all the issues. You only have 100 points and 43 issues you can put them in. You can put 50 points into any issue, either for or against, but if you want to put more than 2 points into anything, you'll run out really quickly. This leaves a lot of issues without you taking a stance on them either way, and I personally hate doing that.
Customized politicians feel pretty weak compared to the pre-made ones. I did the math, and pre-made politicians have more points allotted to them. So John Roberts, my created political hopeful, was nowhere near as strong as the person who he was running against. It's still possible to win with smart play, but it's a little more difficult.
political-roberts
The game is a little dense, so get ready for an info dump. Your goal is, obviously, winning the presidential election. Of course there are a lot of things you can do for this, and the first things you want are buildings. You've got three to choose from, and you can only put one per state. They are: Campaign Headquarters, which raise money and your awareness in the state; Outreach Centers, which raise your PR Clout to buy operatives; and Consulting Offices, which give you Political Capital to win endorsements. All of these buildings are equally important and can be upgraded three times. Placing the buildings is also part of the strategy- Campaign Headquarters are best in a state you're looking to win, while the other two are better in states you'll never win or lose. You can also delete a building and put up another in its stead. It can always backfire on you, but that's where your other tools come in.
Two of your biggest tools are the operatives and endorsements. Operatives are essentially buffers- so they can raise your awareness in a state, make ads more powerful, really anything to improve your impact. Some of them are overall buffs, working nationwide, but others are only for one state at a time. You can move them around if you accidentally spawn them in the wrong place, or if they do so well they're just not needed anymore. Endorsements influence your political platform, so taking one gives you a stronger stance on an issue. These two tools together can make or break a campaign, sending you into damage control or giving you more sway in some unexpected states.
You also have your politician. Your politician runs between states, and everywhere he lands he raises awareness of himself (even possibly turning some states just by visiting). What your politician can do per turn is determined by his stamina, and everything you do uses a certain amount. Your politician has a lot of options, like give speeches. The handy graph system in the menus shows you how the crowd will react to your speech- going to Michigan and saying you're against auto bailouts won't go over well, but you can say your opponent is against them and drag their approval down. You're free to choose between specific issues for each state, and then say whether you or your opponent are for or against it. It's sometimes as helpful to destroy an opponent as it is to just build yourself up. Speeches are cheap and can be influential, but they really drain stamina.
political-map
Similarly, politicians can also participate in interviews on such shows as "60 Seconds" and "The O'Malley Factor," where they're given questions and choices to show how the politician feels about it. Since a lot of people are watching, your answers hold a lot of sway with voters. I'm not sure if the shows are national or by state, but they're a great way to win independents. More intelligent politicians have better answers, but even average ones are given choices that can really please a crowd.
Since the dawn of mass media, advertisements have been a huge part of any campaign. Similar to speeches, they're chosen for or against an issue. The plus of these is the extended awareness they raise, as the ads stay in circulation. TV, radio and newspaper ads are all available and all have their pros and cons. Mostly the con is "money" because you have to pay a weekly sum to keep them going, but a more expensive medium can be worth it to get more people seeing the ad.
Right, money. Everything you do takes money, so be careful. Even moving takes money, because you do it on your private jet, so you can actually strand yourself somewhere if you're being careless. You'll run out pretty quickly if you're not raising more funds, and it can be a little easy to lose track. Campaign headquarters raise money every turn, but you can also throw fundraisers to get even more. You generally want to choose a rich state that really likes you so you can get a lot of money from them, but every time you repeat a fundraiser in a state, you're actually going to raise less than you did before.
Towards the middle of the campaign (which is variable in length, and you can choose from the opening menu how long it takes) you both choose running mates, but they don't bring much. They can be placed somewhere to win influence over the state for you just by standing there- that's all they do. It's helpful, as I've won some big states by having them just sit there, so they are a powerful tool, but it would be nicer if they could make speeches or something too.
It's a lot to go over (and this section is about as long as my entire Tony Hawk review) but it never really feels like it. The game is actually pretty simple to play, and the systems and map screens work to make all the information visible and ready for your political hopeful to exploit. In the end, you really only have to focus on a few things, dealing with just a few things on the turns they come up. It's never overwhelming, and that helps make the game much more accessible.
For some reason, all of the politicians are bobble-heads. That's alright- it's a weird choice, but they run with it and let me poke the politicians in their heads to make them bobble. And their heads reflect beautifully.
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Otherwise, it's kind of spartan. You've got a map and you've got some info screens. It's very well laid out, though, and very good at helping you figure out what you're looking at. Each state even has its own info screen just loaded with data about all the issues, but it's presented in a good, non-confusing way that's easy to understand.
Pop-ups come out to help with certain things, like explaining the vice-president or what buildings do, and they're nicely designed, too. They seem a little inspired by Shephard Fairey's iconic Obama posters, giving a good summary while also being pleasing to the eye. It's a fine looking game, but it's a little un-inspired in spots- too plain, though really, it doesn't need to look like anything other than what it is.
As soon as I lost my first election, I wanted to get right back in there and show them what's what. This game is fast-paced and, if you lose, the elections tend to be close enough that you know you can do better next time. 9 hours passed without me realizing it, just like with any good sim.
It's nowhere near as complicated as other simulations, but it has its own charm. The problem is it's easy to figure out how to win and then exploit it. Just win in the states with the most electoral votes and make up the rest of the votes you need somewhere in there. You get that, you got it all. This winds up being the biggest undoing- I know a lot of people have their set strategies for a sim (I win Civ through culture every time!), but the fact that there is only one strategy, and that it works with so little effort, doesn't exactly make for the longest-lasting experience in the world.
Still, though, what is best in life? To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentation of their women? And that's part of the appeal of the game- you break through the opponent's ranks, win over their home state, and watch as you get everyone to side with you. A little political catharsis. Seeing all the graphs and polls showing how far ahead you are just hammers it home and tickles those dopamine receptors. This game could be more complicated, but that would take away from the pureness of just crushing your enemies and laughing your way to the White House.
Quick note, they recently put out an update that adds historical figures. So you can finally have that Thomas Jefferson/Bill Clinton election you'd always wanted- and there's a certain fun in that novelty as well.
It's a lot of work to get into politics, but it's also a lot to try and turn it into a simulation for us to play at home. I would never say this game is a perfect simulation of anything, but it does a great job of being a simple, accessible simulation game even for people who aren't really into that type of game. I could probably sit my sister down and have her enjoy herself with this game, but it's still a fun game that's easy to get into at a moment's notice and play a good, quick game. Plus, it's incredibly satisfying to beat a politician you hate in an election and laugh as they hang their head in shame.
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Sid Meier's Starships
My first thought as soon as I opened the game was "wow this feels cheap." The feeling never went away, and just got even deeper. I was incredibly excited to see what the game would be like since it could be played on the go on an iPad, but if this is how they had to hamstring their design to fit a system like that, I'd rather keep the dream of on-the-go Firaxis games as just that: a dream, since the reality is just a disappointment.
PC, ReviewsRom July 25, 2013 4X, Brave New World, Civ V, Civilization, Civilization V, Firaxis, PC Strategy, Sid Meier, slider, StrategyComment
Really, the best part about Brave New World is that it's finally addressed every victory condition in the game and made each one not only more equally viable, but also just as busy. Weaponizing culture works to bring it more in line with the other conditions--it's something you have to work towards and not something you just happen to achieve. On top of that, the diplomacy changes make this system more interesting as well, and it all comes down to one thing: if you have Civilization V and want to play more, you owe it to yourself to get this expansion.
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Sid Meier's Civilization V: Gods & Kings
It's still that same great Civ experience, but it adds a lot more and does some smart things to change up the balance. This is a highly polished package that goes a long way to add a lot more lasting strategy concepts to Civ V, making it more of the experience people wish it was- a deep, more rewarding game.
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Life of Pixel
Life of Pixel could have been something more ambitious, like Evoland, but instead chooses to play it as straight as possible. It almost seems to be suggesting that graphics change, but gameplay doesn't, because through the levels you're still doing the same boring 'collect all items then go to the exit' thing that you were doing on the ZX81 at the beginning. Maybe it gets prettier, but it doesn't do enough with the concept to be worth your time, unless you're just that desperate for a game that tickles your nostalgia. Even then, there are way better experiences out there.
PC, ReviewsRom January 08, 2014 Image & Form, PC Platformer, SteamWorld, SteamWorld DigComment
Despite not really achieving anything with its barely-there story, SteamWorld Dig is an excellent surprise from an independent studio putting out a game that is more than the sum of its parts. Maybe in the future developers Image and Form might delve more into the story that makes this robot-western world tick, but for now, I'll accept the excellent gameplay and a superbly-paced upgrade tree instead.
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5 Most Fascinating things about Papua New Guinea
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Papua New Guinea boasts of over 850 different languages and approximately 1000 different cultures. It is definitely one of the most diverse country in the world. To put this into perspective the land mass of PNG is about 462 840 square kilometres with over 600 Islands and a population of just over 7 million people. So on average there are 8200 people speaking the same language over an area of 540 square kilometres per language. In some places only 2000 people can speak just one language and live in an area of less than 5 square kilometres. Find out more about our culture..
2. Papua New Guinea Hosts 5% Of The Global Biodiversity
Papua New Guinea has 5 percent of the world's biodiversity, even though it only covers 1 percent of Earth's total land area. It has more than 20,000 plant species, 800 species of coral, 600 species of fish, and 750 species of birds. Since the country is less explored and exploited than other regions, it still retains much of its diversity. Find out more about our dive experiences.
3. One Of The World's Few Known Poisonous Birds Resides In The Nation
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The hooded pitohui is a bird native to the New Guinea island. It is medium-sized with black and chestnut plumage. The pitohui produces batrachotoxin compounds in its feathers, skin, and other tissues. The poison helps protect the birds from predators and parasites. Local hunters always try to avoid killing these birds. Find more information about our Bird Watching packages.
4. Snows
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Although Papua New Guinea sits 160km north of Australia, just below the equator, and enjoys a tropical climate, snowhas been known to fall on the mountaintops of the mainland. Find out more about Mt. Wilhelm and other trekking sites.
5. Third Largest Rainforest in the World
The island of New Guinea is home to the third largest rainforest in the world, after the Amazon and the Congo. This rainforest covers almost 288 000 square kilometres of the island's land mass from Papua New Guinea to West Papua in Indonesia. Find out more about our destinations.


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Physical characterization of near-Earth objects from the IMPACTON project
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2022EPSC...16..767M
10.5194/epsc2022-767
Monteiro, Filipe; Lazzaro, Daniela; Rondón, Eduardo; Evangelista-Santana, Marçal; Arcoverde, Plícida; Pereira, Weslley; Mesquita, Wesley; Michimani, Jonatan; Medeiros, Hissa; Corrêa, Tatiane; Silva-Cabrera, José; Rodrigues, Teresinha
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IntroductionAsteroids lightcurves have been used extensively to derive many important physical characteristics such as rotational properties (rotational period and pole direction) and shape (Kaasalainen et al., 2004; Hanus et al., 2011; Durech et al., 2015), as well as to identify and characterize binary asteroids (Pravec et al., 2006). In addition, the rotational period and shape obtained from lightcurves can be used to estimate the internal cohesion strength required to prevent structural failure by centrifugal forces (e.g. Holsapple, 2007; Scheeres et al., 2010; Sánchez and Scheeres, 2014). Here, we will present some results of our extensive observational campaign for the physical characterization for a large sample of NEOs (Monteiro et al., 2017; Monteiro et al., 2018a,b; Rondón et al., 2019, 2020; Monteiro et al., 2020, 2021; Rondón et al., 2022; Monteiro et al., submitted).Observations and data reductionPhotometric observations of about 150 NEOs were made at the Observatório Astronômico do Sertão de Itaparica (code Y28, OASI) of the IMPACTON project between 2012 and 2020. The images were acquired with the 1.0-m telescope using a 2048 x 2048 Apogee Alta U42 CCD camera. More details on the available instrumentation are given in Rondón et al., 2020. Lightcurve observations were carried out using sidereal tracking and an R-Johnson-Cousins filter. To obtain photometric spectra, observations were made using the g, r, i, z Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) filters. The science images were calibrated following the standard procedures, including bias, dark and flat-field images. The rotation periods were derived using a Fourier series analysis (Harris et al., 1989) while the spin direction and shape model were obtained by applying the lightcurve inversion method (Kaasalainen and Torppa, 2001; Kaasalainen et al., 2001). To investigate binary periods we used the "Dual Period Search" tool in MPO Canopus software. To obtain the photometric spectrum of some objetcs, we used standard field stars to calculate the zero-point of the night and, consequently, the calibrated magnitude of the asteroid. ResultsReliable rotational periods and lightcurve amplitudes were determined for 88 NEOs (Monteiro et al. 2018a,b; Monteiro et al., submitted). For another 30 NEOs, only an estimate for the rotational period was obtained. The spin direction and shape model were obtained for about 15 NEOs. As an example, Fig. 1 shows the convex shape model for the NEO 2011 UW158, whose complete physical characterization was reported in Monteiro et al. (2020). These pole directions, along with those obtained from the DAMIT database (Durech et al. 2010), were used to analyze the pole distribution of the NEO population (Fig. 2). It is interesting to note that there appears to be a lack of poles toward the ecliptic plane. Clearly, a more representative sample is needed in order to derive robust conclusions.Figure 1Figure 2About 20 fast rotators in our sample were analyzed for signs of satellites. For 8 of them, binarity signatures were found in their lightcurves (Monteiro et al., submitted). Fig. 3 shows the primary and secondary lightcurves of a suspected binary showing a possible mutual observed event. For the possible binaries (138846) 2000 VJ61 and (243566) 1995 SA, we derived the minimum relative size of the components of 0.26 and 0.37, respectively. NEOs 2007 EX, 2014 KD91 and 2015 FS332 showed a secondary lightcurve, but no signs of eclipse/occultation, indicating the rotation of a possible satellite. Figure 3 We found binarity signatures for 3 confirmed binaries (Monteiro et al., submitted). The NEO (31345) 1998 PG showed a secondary lightcurve, but no clear mutual events, with a period of about 16 h. The primary and secondary lightcurves of this objects is shown in Fig. 4. Finally, we estimate the internal cohesion strength required to prevent the failure of seventeen binary candidates that rotate beyond the cohesionless bodies limit. We found a minimum cohesion ranging from 3 to 90 Pa, which is in agreement with the numerical simulations reported in the literature (Sánchez and Scheeres, 2014). This analysis is included in detail in our recently submitted paper (Monteiro et al., submitted).Figure 4 ConclusionsWe determined a large sample of reliable lightcurves with well defined rotation period and amplitude. We derived the rotational period for about 30 PHAs and for some of them we indicated their possible taxonomic types. The derived spin direction, along with those obtained from the DAMIT database, continue to show a majority of retrograde rotators, which is consistent with a preferential transport route from the inner main belt. In addition, we identified 8 possible binary NEOs, which showed binarity signatures in their lightcurves. Finally, we showed that some fast rotators in our sample require an internal cohesion strength of 3 to 100 Pa to avoid structural failure by centrifugal forces. AcknowledgementsF.M. thanks the financial support given by FAPERJ (E-26/201.877/2020). E.R., M.S., P.A, W.P., W.M., H.M. and T.C. would like to thank CAPES and CNPq for supporting this work through diverse fellowships. Support by CNPq (310964/2020-2) and FAPERJ (E-26/202.841/2017 and E-26/201.001/2021) is acknowledged by D.L. The authors are grateful to the IMPACTON team and, in particular, to R. Souza and A. Santiago for the technical support. ReferencesDurech J. et al. (2010), A&A, 513, A46.Durech, J.,et al., 2015. Asteroids IV, pages 183-202.Harris A. W., et al., 1989, Icarus, 77, 171.Holsapple, K. A. (2007). Icarus, 187(2):500-509.Kaasalainen, M. and Torppa, J. (2001). Icarus, 153:24-36.Kaasalainen, M., Torppa, J., and Muinonen, K., 2001. Icarus, 153:37-51.Kaasalainen, M., et al., 2004. Icarus, 167(1):178-196.Margot J.L., et al., 2015. Asteroids IV. Pp 355-374.Monteiro, F., et al., 2017. Minor Planet Bulletin 44, 20-22.Monteiro, F., et al., 2018a. Minor Planet Bulletin 45, 221-224.Monteiro, F., et al., 2018b. Planet. Space Sci. 164, 54-74.Monteiro, F., et al., 2020. MNRAS, 495, 3990-4005.Monteiro, F., et al., 2021. MNRAS 507, 5403-5414.Perna, D., et al., 2016. AJ, 151(1):11.Pravec, P., et al., 2006, icarus, 181, 63.Rondón, E., et al., 2019. MNRAS, 484:2499-2513.Rondón, E., et al., 2020. PASP, 132(1012):065001Rondón, E., et al., 2022. Icarus 372, 114723.Sánchez, P. and Scheeres, D. J., 2014. 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Fastcc: Fast Color Corrections for Broadband Radio Telescope Data
Broadband receiver data need color corrections applying to correct for the different source spectra across their wide bandwidths. The full integration over a receiver bandpass may be computationally expensive and redundant when repeated many times. Color corrections can be applied, however, using a simple quadratic fit based on the full integration
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Pornography Copyright Trolls: Sword of Antipiracy or Abuse of Antiquated Law
A "copyright troll" should not be confused with a "patent troll".
A Patent Troll is somebody who tries to make a lot of money off a patent that they are not practicing and have no intention of practicing and … [have] never practiced. Overstock.com, Inc. v. Furnace Brook, LLC, 420 F. Supp. 2d 1217, 1218 (D. Utah 2005) aff'd, 191 F. App'x 959 (Fed. Cir. 2006). Representative Howard Berman stated that patent trolls have a "negative effect on innovation" and spoke of countless situations in which patent holders, making no effort to commercialize their inventions, lurk in the shadows until another party has invested substantial resources in a business or product that may infringe on the unutilized invention. The patent troll then steps out of the shadows and demands that the alleged infringer pay a significant licensing fee to avoid an infringement suit. Id.
A Copyright Troll is an owner of a valid copyright who brings a copyright infringement action "not to be made whole, but rather as a primary or supplemental revenue stream." James DeBriyn, Shedding Light on Copyright Trolls: An Analysis of Mass Copyright Litigation in the Age of Statutory Damages, 19 UCLA Ent. L.Rev. 79, 86 (2012). Third Degree Films v. Does 1-47, 286 F.R.D. 188, 190 (D. Mass. 2012).
With the evolution of technology, copyright infringement has become a true concern for many copyright holders. According to the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), since peer-to-peer (p2p) file-sharing site Napster emerged in 1999, music sales in the U.S. have dropped 53 percent, from $14.6 billion to $7.0 billion in 2013. As Napster was a plague to the music industry as alleged by RIAA, its technological successor, BitTorrent, has become a plague to the movie industry. And just as p2p software has evolved from Napster to BitTorrent, the copyright troll has evolved with technology, specifically, the entrance of pornography copyright trolls. With the cost of production arguably low in many pornographic works, the potential profit margin through litigation as a primary revenue stream may be huge.
Since 2011, pornography copyright holders, such as plaintiffs' K-Beech, Patrick Collins, First Time Videos, and Malibu Media, have filed thousands of cases throughout the United States. As early as 2013, Courts around the country were becoming troubled by the rise of so-called "copyright trolls" in the adult film industry, who file mass lawsuits against anonymous Doe defendants with the hopes of coercing settlements. Malibu Media, LLC v. Brenneman, No. 3:13-CV-00332-PPS, 2013 WL 6560387, at *2 (N.D. Ind. Dec. 13, 2013). President Obama has personally condemned the practice of copyright trolls and patent trolls clogging the courts and Chief Federal Circuit Judge Randall Rader, in a New York Times article, made similar comments. Some law firms and lawyers representing these plaintiffs, such as Prenda Law, have even faced sanctions and ethical issues which could place at risk their ability to practice law.
Many pornography copyright holders have ceased their role as pornography copyright trolls, likely given the pushback by Courts; John Doe defendants; the Blogosphere, including websites such as Fight Copyright Trolls and Die Troll Die; and the Electronic Frontier Foundation. However, many so called copyright trolls still remain.
Of the most prevalent of the remaining pornography copyright holders utilizing litigation as a primary or supplemental revenue stream is Malibu Media doing business as Xart.com (caution: adult content). Malibu Media has filed over a thousand copyright infringement lawsuits throughout the United States against John Doe defendants and continues to file these lawsuits on a rolling basis, typically against one defendant IP address that has allegedly uploaded one or more bits of multiple movies to Malibu Media's investigators through BitTorrent, or through another software program utilizing similar technology.
Malibu Media typically requests "statutory damages" as an award of damages pursuant to the Copyright Act, specifically 17 U.S.C. § 504(c)(1). Such "statutory damages" fall between $750.00 and $30,000.00, but can be increased in the court's discretion up to $150,000.00 if the court finds that the infringement was committed willfully and reduced to $200.00 if the court finds that the infringer was not aware and had no reason to believe that his or her acts constituted an infringement of copyright. 17 U.S.C. §504(c)(2).
When Congress drafted this language, it is likely that it did not contemplate that an individual would use technology such as BitTorrent to quickly transfer bits of a whole movie or music file for personal use and the result be an infringement upon a copyright holder's exclusive rights. Rather, it is much more likely that Congress contemplated that a corporation, or other party with substantial assets, would be the tortious actor infringing upon another corporation's exclusive rights in a copyright. Other than a fair use defense, which is still a bit of a grey area, there is no carve out for personal use by an individual in the United States for copyright infringement and may be one of the many reasons there is a push for reformation of present U.S. copyright laws.
Multiple questions still remain.
Are pornographic copyright holders being forced into litigation?
Is this the only way they can to survive and fight the onslaught of widespread piracy?
Are they the sword of antipiracy?
Are pornographic copyright trolls abusing, now antiquated, copyright laws?
Should pornographic copyright trolls receive a windfall of damages under these laws?
Are these laws in immediate need of reformation?
According to a comment posted by an anonymous individual on the Fight Copyright Trolls Blog, Malibu Media typically requests $750.00 per copyrighted movie title as settlement. Unfortunately for Malibu Media, U.S. Federal Judge Sheri Polster Chappell set some unwelcoming precedent for Malibu Media just three days ago in a default judgment decision which consisted of forty-seven (47) alleged infringements, awarding Malibu Media only $6,000.00 in statutory damages, despite Malibu Media's request for $1,500.00 per work in statutory damages, double the statutory minimum, or $70,500.00, exclusive of attorney fees. This award of $6,000.00 in statutory damages amounted to roughly $127.66 per work.
Judge Chappell used Countryman Nevada, LLC v. Adams, No. 6:14-cv-491-Orl-18GJK, 2015 WL 574395, at *7 (M.D. Fla. Feb. 11, 2015) as a basis for determining the statutory damages, stating that Malibu Media's request for $70,500.00 would provide Malibu Media a windfall and therefore is not warranted here. Clever Covers, Inc., 554 F. Supp. 2d at 1313 ("statutory damages are not intended to provide a plaintiff with a windfall recovery."). It will be interesting to see whether or not other federal courts adopt a similar ruling to that of Judge Chappell's ruling and how this ruling will effect settlement negotiations between Malibu Media and its defendants moving forward.
Since 2011, McClanahan Powers has defended hundreds of defendants in torrent copyright infringement lawsuits throughout the United States against a variety of copyright troll plaintiffs. Please email us through our website to inquire into how the firm may be able to assist you.
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This book is an ambitious endeavour to capture the history of Australia's pre-eminent award for acts of bravery in the face of the enemy and its highest military honour, the Victoria Cross (VC). Since 1856 when the award was created by Queen Victoria, 100 Australian servicemen have been recognised with the Cross.
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The author, supported by volunteers from the Totally & Permanently Incapacitated Ex-Servicemen & Women's Association of Victoria Inc. (TPI Victoria), has travelled across Australia and around the world to interview families, peers and friends about these 100 remarkable Australians. All these strands have been brought together to tell the story of the creation of the Victoria Cross, how it has evolved to find its place in modern Australia, and to illuminate the lives of these Australians with an incredible array of photographs taken on these travels, but also from official sources and the families.
Mephisto book (hardcover) $59 368 pages & over 670 images
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