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Kids play 'blind soccer' at Camp Abilities
Updated: 4:37 PM CDT Jul 28, 2019
Molly Bernard
>> WHEN I WAS A KID, I COULDN'T PLAY SOCCER BECAUSE OF NOT BEING ABLE TO SEE THE BALL. MICHELLE: -- MOLLY: KRISTAL PLATT IS THE VISION PROGRAM COORDINATOR FOR BOYS TOWN NATIONAL RESEARCH HOSPITAL. SHE'S BEEN INVOLVED WITH CAMP ABILITIES SINCE IT STARTED SEVEN YEARS AGO. >> MY GOAL IS TO BE ABLE TO BRING THIS TO THE KIDS SO THEY GET TO COMPETE JUST LIKE THEIR SIGHTED PEERS. MOLLY: TODAY, CAMPERS ARE PLAYING FIVEASIDE SOCCER. >> IT'S PRETTY CHALLENGING WITH THE BLINDFOLD ON. >> WE HAVE TO ALWAYS HAVE OUR HANDS UP SO IF WE RUN INTO SOMEONE, WE WON'T SMACK OUR FACES INTO THEM. MOLLY: WITH A FEW ADAPTATIONS, THE GAME LOOKS LIKE THE SOCCER YOU'D WATCH ON TV. BUT, IT DOES SOUNDS A LITTLE DIFFERENT. THE BALL, RATTLING AS IT ROLLS ALONG. RUBY SAYS IT'S EASY. >> AS LONG AS SOMEONE TELLS YOU WHERE TO GO, IF YOU'RE GOING STRAIGHT OR LEFT OR SOMETHING. MOLLY: DURING GAMES, THE SIGHTED GOALIE AND TWO COACHES HELP PLAYERS AND TELL THEM WHERE TO SHOOT. >> DRIBBLE AROUND, DRIBBLE AROUND, GO TO YOUR LEFT, GO TO YOUR LEFT. MOLLY: AFTER WATCHING PRACTICE, I WANTED TO TRY IT OUT FOR MYSELF. >> YOU WANT TO START WITH KICKING IT WITH THE TOE OF YOUR FOOT, THEN LET IT ROLL DOWN AND PUSH IT OFF WITH THE HEEL OF YOUR FOOT. CAN YOU DO IT AND JOG? MOLLY: THE ANSWER? NOT VERY WELL. THE SECOND DRILL I TRIED WAS KEEP AWAY. >> GET IT, RUBY, PUSH HER. MOLLY: RUBY GOT IT FROM ME MORE THAN ONCE. CAMP ABILITIES IS FILLED WITH FUN, BUT THE EXPERIENCE THE CAMPERS GET IS EVEN MORE IMPORTANT. >> BEING ABLE TO COME TO CAMP THEY CAN HANG OUT WITH OTHER KIDS THAT, THEY GET IT. THEY DON'T HAVE TO EXPLAIN ABOUT THEIR VISION, BECAUSE EVERYBODY ELSE LIVES THE EXPERIENCE. MOLLY: REPORTING IN BOYS TOWN, MOLLY BERNARD, KETV NEWSWATC
Camp Abilities is a yearly camp for kids with visual impairments, giving them the chance to get up and and get active. The camp is run by Boys Town National Research Hospital and Outlook Nebraska.Each activity during the week is adapted so they can play, despite their disability. This year, the camp is playing five-a-side soccer, or blind soccer, for the first time."When I was a kid, I couldn't play soccer because of not being able to see the ball," said Kristal Platt, the vision program coordinator for Boys Town National Research Hospital.Platt has been involved in Camp Abilities since it started seven years ago. "My goal is to be able to bring this to the kids so they get to compete just like their sighted peers," Platt said.Wednesday morning, campers were running drills for five-a-side soccer."It's pretty challenging with the blindfold on," said Thomas, one of the campers."We have to always have our hands up so if we run into someone we won't smack our faces into them," said Ben, one of the campers.Even with the adaptations, play looks very similar to Major League Soccer, but it sounds different. The ball rattles as it rolls, giving players without sight an idea of where the ball lies on the field. During the games, the sighted goalie and two coaches help the players, giving them an idea of where other players are and where to shoot the ball to score.Professionally, the field is much smaller and has walls on each side. Five-a-side soccer is an event at the Paralympic Games, but the United States is still working on putting together a team. Boys Town National Research Hospital doesn't have the walls for a field, but they're hoping for donations to complete a field in time for camp next year.Glen Wragge, the head sports specialist at Camp Abilities, said he's seen a lot of talent on the soccer field over the last week."We have a couple of kids here who are really athletic," said Wragge.Camp Abilities is filled with fun, but the experience the campers get is even more important."Being able to come to camp they can hang out with other kids that, they get it," said Platt. "They don't have to explain about their vision, because everybody else lives the experience."
BOYS TOWN, Neb. —
Camp Abilities is a yearly camp for kids with visual impairments, giving them the chance to get up and and get active.
The camp is run by Boys Town National Research Hospital and Outlook Nebraska.
Each activity during the week is adapted so they can play, despite their disability. This year, the camp is playing five-a-side soccer, or blind soccer, for the first time.
"When I was a kid, I couldn't play soccer because of not being able to see the ball," said Kristal Platt, the vision program coordinator for Boys Town National Research Hospital.
Platt has been involved in Camp Abilities since it started seven years ago.
"My goal is to be able to bring this to the kids so they get to compete just like their sighted peers," Platt said.
Wednesday morning, campers were running drills for five-a-side soccer.
"It's pretty challenging with the blindfold on," said Thomas, one of the campers.
"We have to always have our hands up so if we run into someone we won't smack our faces into them," said Ben, one of the campers.
Even with the adaptations, play looks very similar to Major League Soccer, but it sounds different. The ball rattles as it rolls, giving players without sight an idea of where the ball lies on the field.
During the games, the sighted goalie and two coaches help the players, giving them an idea of where other players are and where to shoot the ball to score.
Professionally, the field is much smaller and has walls on each side.
Five-a-side soccer is an event at the Paralympic Games, but the United States is still working on putting together a team. Boys Town National Research Hospital doesn't have the walls for a field, but they're hoping for donations to complete a field in time for camp next year.
Glen Wragge, the head sports specialist at Camp Abilities, said he's seen a lot of talent on the soccer field over the last week.
"We have a couple of kids here who are really athletic," said Wragge.
Camp Abilities is filled with fun, but the experience the campers get is even more important.
"Being able to come to camp they can hang out with other kids that, they get it," said Platt. "They don't have to explain about their vision, because everybody else lives the experience."


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July 21, 2008 Interviews, Music, Uncategorized
Chuck D: A Hero To Most
What more can you say about Chuck D, the front man for Public Enemy? Really, what can you say? So much ink, video reels, and audio tapes have been devoted to Chuck D and his musical brilliance that this intro is probably one of the most difficult that I have had to write in all my time of writing interview intros. I could write about Chuck D's rise to prominence with the groundbreaking force that was Public Enemy, the group that brought the noise, and said Elvis didn't mean s**t to them. I could also write about his days at Adelphi University where he rocked parties with the Bomb Squad and first met the Media Assassin Harry Allen. I could write about his early embrace of the internet and digital music, which is now manifested through his digital record label, SlamJamz. I could tell you that it was Chuck D who first identified Hip Hop as a form of CNN, and it has been Chuck D who has remained one of its top reporters and authorities. His commanding voice and equally charged lyrics have made Chuck D one of Hip Hop's greatest emcees, and his love of music and the art form have served as inspiration for countless individuals, myself included…
I had the chance to chop it up with Chuck D last week when he came to the Windy City for the Pitchfork Music Festival, where his Public Enemy performed their classic LP, It Takes A Nation of Millions To Hold Us Back. Prior to the performance, Chuck participated in a panel discussion with his fellow Bomb Squad members, dissecting the album, it's use of sampling, and the creation of Public Enemy. After the panel, Chuck and I spoke about the Def Jam days, Hip Hop's relationship with technology, the responsibilities of its curators, and the divide that needlessly exists between artists such as Soulja Boy and Dilated Peoples. Check it out to see "What Goes On!"
RubyHornet: I was in New York last week, and I said to people, 'I really want to see Bob Dylan's New York City. Can you show me the New York City that Paul Simon sings about as this magical place?' When I listen to Public Enemy, it brings up this magical place in my mind with you and the Beastie Boys and Def Jam…Does that place exist anymore?
Chuck D: No. Not in the same way. Living conditions in New York have upgraded. Affordability has damn near degraded. A lot of those elements, and a lot of the atmosphere back then man, the only thing to come out of there is ideas, curiosity, and creativity. That Def Jam period, and that area of SoHo was going through a big transition at that time. The area where we were from was going through a transition coming out of R&B, that's Regan and Bush. The 80's were kind of rough on Roosevelt.
RubyHornet: SoHo is ridiculously different now.
Chuck D: Oh yeah. It's upscale, people can walk the street. We don't really see drugs as prevalent on the outside. The interior has a different scene of course. Before, the drug scene was on the exterior. I mean crackheads in abundance. Crack really wreck shotted New York from the period of '85-'90.
RubyHornet: Something interesting that I heard Harry say is that he came up to you about the cartoon, and you said, 'I didn't know anyone was reading it.' In terms of Public Enemy, did you think people would be listening? And if so, does that change your approach or what you put out?
Chuck D: We knew people were listening to Def Jam, and we knew what not to make and what to make that would actually be a stone's throw into the future for people to say, 'hmmmm. This is new and different, let's listen to this.' We knew what chances to take into the aura of absurdity. That was brilliant for us to be able to take that approach. Once you're confident like that because you're a big fan of Hip Hop and rap music to the bone, so it's almost like you don't really care who's listening to you or not, and then you're going to find people like yourself. I think it was easier for us to figure that out because there weren't a lot of people bottle-necking the traffic of rap music and Hip Hop, as far as album making artists. It afforded us a little bit of clarity.
RubyHornet: Hank earlier said that you guys respected musicians, but it seemed the musicians didn't respect you in turn. Do you feel that now you've earned their respect? Did it stop mattering at a point?
Chuck D: There was a schism between the DJs and the musicians, but I think it took something like a Public Enemy to usher in the respect of, not us. All of this is not about us. If we have to say that we had any brilliance, it's because we were all fans. We give ourselves credit for being big fans, fans of the musicians, fans of the DJs. I just think that when it came down to respecting the musicians and the musicians respecting where we were from, Hip Hop got a big nod from the musicians once they saw that we were really dedicated to getting as much brilliance out as they did. A lot of musicians were obscure, and we as the DJs wanted to expose them as much as possible and talk about them and brag about them.
RubyHornet: I saw you speak when I was in college. You came to Indiana University in 2000 or 20001.
Chuck D: Oh yeah. I got fined that day. They said I was late…I flew into Cincinnati and I took this road and I just didn't get there in time. I thought it was a great lecture, great speech, and then I found out later they docked me. I was like, 'ain't this a b**ch!'
RubyHornet: I remember that speech. And I remember you brought up Ken Burns and his documentaries. Do you see your music as almost a documentary, as you're going to take something and put it in a capsule in a sense?
Chuck D: I love Ken Burns' documentary on Jazz. A lot of the pundits and the critics really criticized that, and I don't think that they're looking at it in the proper perspective of how it can enlighten and educate people, and then allow you to go in there and make your own decision based on the amount of material that you happen to witness and hear and feel. I think we could be around the corner-or, there was already a five part series done on Hip Hop by Bill Adler and Nelson George, that covered it pretty nice.
RubyHornet: Do you think the Hip Hop community honors and treasures its artists that are older and that the younger kids honor and learn from the elders?
Chuck D: It's evolving. I think, as with any art form, it's only as good as the people that curate it and protect it. There's nothing wrong if an artist sometimes dumbs themselves down. Art is art, and it's objective. I think when you have journalists or the people that archive, the people that do the documentaries, that are in the peripheral areas of servicing the music and art form, when they don't step up to their responsibilities…sometimes the worst thing is seeing a DJ who really doesn't spend their time to break new ground with new records, and at the same time does not expound upon detailing the total plethora of artistry across the board. It's like, 'I waited til I got this music from Interscope, or G-Unit, but I'm never going to people's Myspace page.' Or, 'I ain't checking anything out on Youtube that I can't recognize.'
RubyHornet: With that, I know you have SlamJamz, which is digital…Also, with Serato, it takes away the act of actually going to the record store and digging…
Chuck D: I don't think it takes away. I think there's a different type of digging taking place. Thumbing your fingers through covers…diggers never were never allowed to play those particular records anyway. But at least now it's almost like a digital thing where you can hear samples of songs on an album that's on Amazon or whatever. You have digging kind of expanded into another zone.
RubyHornet: In the last few years we've seen a large rise in blogs, and the power they have. What do you think of that kind of change and its impact?
Chuck D: It's the best interaction we've had with the music in a long time. As far as magazines and journalism's concerned, you'd love to see rap music and Hip Hop have a magazine get closer to what's been done at Wax Poetics. But Wax Poetics is almost a Hip Hop magazine as it reverts to the origin and the root.
RubyHornet: In just keeping with that, do you feel there are any responsibilities for an older artist to pass down certain things, or grab an emcee and say, 'wait I think you're making some mistakes and I don't want you to make those.'
Chuck D: Yes. I get it all the time…I'm a big sports fan. I'm a fan of everything that happens in sports and what that could help to happen in Hip Hop and rap music. I'm a fan of sports whether it's the baseball hall of fame, the All-Star game happening for the last time at Yankee Stadium, the banners hanging at the Boston Garden, anytime they talk about the future of the NBA they always bring up the past.
RubyHornet: I wanted to talk about Hip Hop Congress.
Chuck D: Hip Hop Congress is a wonderful option and wonderful site. It gives the purists and the intellectuals the opportunity to never dip their whole skill set, and dip their level. That's why I dig it.
RubyHornet: I thank you for that. I've been with HHC over eight years. One thing where we kind of get to a block is after we introduce it we hear, 'oh yeah, I'm down. I'm down.' And we get all these artists that want to work with us, but it's very hard to get the artist or other people to get involved…Where is that disconnect that we're missing?
Chuck D: I think there's a bit of a turbulence as far as the people who know what they have to do for the legitimacy and the longevity and just the standard of rap music and Hip Hop and the schism of those still lingering around that feel all hopes are lost cause it doesn't make money for them. The record companies do not have the power in their hands. And those who are "independent" sometimes get mixed up and confused thinking that independent means that you are going around and hocking your CDs and somehow you're going to keep the CD alive and well. The CD will always be alive. But I think that a lot of independent companies or artists are still slow to embrace the web, as crazy as it sounds. DJs aren't slow to embrace the web when they actually got Serato in place, but it seems like a lot of the independent state of mind has not embraced the web. Hip Hop has always driven and thrived on being ahead of the game technologically.
That being the case and point, and this is all in my humble opinion, I think that the grounds of the journalists, the DJs, the "radio jocks" and I consider everything radio whether you do a webcast, you're on the station, or you do mixtapes, it's all radio, if you're doing your thing as far as just being able to distribute music, having a site like the Wonder Twins…I think the job is to have everybody not dip their level. There's nothing wrong with taking an intellectual approach and effort to trying to figure out how to preserve certain aspects of the art form that get torn down by lack of effort and just dumb s**t. Dumb s**t has a place, but I don't think it overshadows somebody that wants to come with a thoughtful approach to their music. Everybody's in the club whether they're a dancer or not. Some people are in the club so they can sit by their drink and hear the sounds. I think that applies too. Somebody might come in the club not trying to feel Soulja Boy as much as Guru. I think it's all the same party, man. Also, I think that what Hip Hop Congress can stand to do, and I also had this same conversation with the owners of The Source… I think one of the failings is that somebody that came in with an intellectual background would go in, they love Hip Hop and when they finally write, or do something with Hip Hop their first thing is to capitulate and give in to it instead of coming into it with an upwards approach. Sometimes Hip Hop can stand to be uppity in some areas. Meaning it needs to stand on its own two feet and not always try to duck down and be accepted. That's where I think we have that schism where Soulja Boy doesn't get accepted and people think sometimes that the approach by Dilated Peoples may be too Hip Hop purist or complex. I'm saying it's all in the same ball of wax to me.
RubyHornet: I read an interview with you that talked about the Pitchfork Festival. You said there's a difference between performing a song, and still believing it. I'm wondering just from the perspective of an artist who has done work in their 20's and is now a full adult and in a different stage of life, what happens when you look back at this album or the early works? Are there any songs where you say, 'you know what, I think differently now'?
Chuck D: Of course. I did "Sophisticated Bitch" on my first album. I knew I was telling a story, and I knew I was telling a different story than whatever had been said up to that point. But in the retrospect of everything that's happened since then, I don't think that my interpretation would go over well without a lot of conversation before I do it, so there will be confusion because the level of how we handle words is just not sophisticated. You can see that by just looking at Nas' record.
RubyHornet: I was going to ask you about that.
Chuck D: We have to treat Nas with the same amount of creative curiosity and journalistic and lyrical respect that we would look at Dick Gregory. But if you're argument doesn't come higher than an 8th grade level, we're going to take things at face value and say, 'oh, that's f**ked up.' And I think sometimes we have to grow to greater heights, man, to look at and evaluate art. You don't have to evaluate art right all the time, but does that mean it doesn't get put in a position to be judged and looked at?
RubyHornet: I know the last Public Enemy album is called How Do You Sell Soul–
Chuck D: To A Soulless People Who Sold Their Soul? The answer to that is that you don't.
RubyHornet: Are they looking to have it? Does a soulless person want soul at all?
Chuck D: You got to introduce them to soul before they think they can go and buy it. A lot of times people will be like, 'Yo Chuck, you should get into this to sell records…' In '98 when I left Def Jam, I was the first artist to walk away from a million dollar record deal. That's really blinging if you can walk away from one, but I just made up my mind. I just felt, not to say I'm not in the business to make a living, and yes there are areas of Public Enemy that require other states of mind. They pay big money for us to do an event. Number one, they have to cause we're in 8 different parts of the country, so for us to go around the world, the promoters have to pay. But also they get what they pay for, matter of fact they get more than they bargain for. Since '98 my whole thing has been, 'all they got to do is get the record anyway they can. Get the song anyway you can.' Public Enemy licenses music. How do you approach people in your 20th year, or your 15th year, or your 10th year, 'Yo, go and buy my s**t!'? I just thought that was just crazy. I knew that if people were going to go to a "P" section and see Public Enemy, if they supported me once, it'd be kind of ridiculous to say, 'yo, support me again.' So I only asked once, and that was maybe in '87 or '88, and I just can't ask people again to go buy my album to support me. If they want to go buy it, fine, but I just can't ask that question.
RubyHornet: Have you had any talks in terms of a Public Enemy and Live Nation type of deal? What do you think of that change in the music industry?
Chuck D: Well they got Jay-Z, so they're looking for somebody who epitomizes rap today. They got Jay-Z as their rap component. Jay-Z has finally honed himself into being a good, and sometimes great performer. It takes time, and you can't just dream or wish it. You can't even train for it. You just got to go through that period where you got to understand and go through it and Jay-Z is now giving people performances. If I had a knock against him before, if I had a Hard Knock Life against him before, it was that I thought he was just a recording guy, skilled, and not taking that energy to the stage. I gave him a lot of props in '98 after they did the Hard Knock Life Tour and DMX was just taking it to his head every chance like whoa. And all DMX had was the stage, a bucket of water, and a chain around his neck, and was just murdering anything before and after him. That's how you get good, you got to get beat down first then you develop yourself.
RubyHornet: When you guys made "Fight The Power" America was in a different time, but the same things happen now in a different shape. It seems like the faces are changing. With Barack Obama perhaps becoming president, do you feel that it's the same fight vs. the same power?
Chuck D: Things always shift. So you can't just break it down and say it's the same power and the same fight. We can repeat some of the tactics. We can repeat some of the fight. Can't repeat the time. '88 you had the Berlin Wall up, you had Regan and Bush, you had Thatcher, Nelson Mandella was in prison. It was a whole different world then. Now there's a bunch of other things going on and there's a lot of similar things, yet also different. I would close this by saying that 20 years is a long time in the music business, but in the time of life it's not long at all. That's what we have to realize. Time is God, but we hold everything in proper perspective, and you move forward right.
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Palestinian prison escape blow to Israel's reputation: Hamas
GAZA CITY Sep 11, 2021 - 2:58 pm GMT+3
Israeli special security forces searching the fields near Afula, Israel, Sept. 10, 2021. (EPA Photo)
by Anadolu Agency Sep 11, 2021 2:58 pm
The Palestinian prisoners' escape from a high-security Israeli prison has shattered the country's prestige, resistance group Hamas said Saturday.
On Monday, six Palestinian inmates tunneled out of the high-security Gilboa prison in northern Israel. Israeli forces, however, have managed to capture four of them after a manhunt.
The capture of the four prisoners "is just one round in the open-ended conflict with the Israeli occupation," Hamas spokesperson Fawzi Barhoum said in a statement.
"This round will be a driving force for the Palestinian people in the West Bank to continue their resistance and uprising against the (Israeli) occupation," Barhoum added.
The Hamas spokesperson also said that the jailbreak "has revived hopes of freedom among the Palestinian people."
The jailbreak has been hailed as a "big victory" by Palestinians, while Israelis decried it as a major security and intelligence failure.
On Wednesday, Israeli forces detained the relatives of the Palestinian prisoners, according to a Palestinian nongovernmental organization (NGO).
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There are several BIOS firmware packages from Lenovo for this machine that are newer than the R0FET37W that you have now. I would suggest flashing to the latest - according to Lenovo on https://pcsupport.lenovo.com/gb/en/products/laptops-and-netbooks/thinkpad-t-series-laptops/thinkpad-t470p/downloads/ds120707 that would be 1.24 (R0FET44W). Once flashed, try again and see if you get different results.
I'm guessing this is an upstream RHEL error. If you sign up for one of the free developer subscriptions you get a RHEL license with that and can download the RHEL iso. Try that and if that fails then raise a bug on bugzilla.redhat.com and once they fix it for RHEL then the fix will get rebuilt for CentOS once it's released.
OK, I'll try first. Centos7-1708 can be installed.
But update to 1804 will not start.
@wangxiaoxu, looking at the code, I have a patch to test, if @toracat builds it, will you be able to test it?
@wangxiaoxu good to see that it is working, this patch will be included in the next kernel-plus.
That is NOT kernel plus so does not include the patch.


Maybe you've heard that one of the deadliest things we can do is sit around a lot. Well, modern life involves a lot of sitting. We sit and eat breakfast, sit in our cars on our way to work, sit at work, on our way home, while eating dinner, watching TV, browsing the internet, reading, crocheting, quilting, playing games. With evolution at play, eventually we'll be born without legs! I was as guilty as most people, having lived a sedentary life for most of my life. I was also on my way to losing my legs. The inside of one ankle turned black and stayed black for a long time. There were ominous itchy, dark patches on the insides of my lower skins; when I scratched them, they took forever to heal. Diagnosing by internet was scary, with words like pre-diabetes or worse (diabetes), and Deep Vein Thrombosis. The consequences of a lifestyle of lack of exercise and bad food choices were visible all around me when I would go to one of our local fairs: There was an extraordinary number of obese people in wheelchairs who were missing one or both legs, probably due to diabetes and lack of circulation. Did this fearsome evidence of the consequences of my lifestyle stir me to exercise? Afraid not. I never had one iota of interest for sports, and the only exercises that had interested me in my "glory days" were bicycling and jogging. Well, now it seems too risky to be bicycling among moving cars, and the only Class I (a trail separate from cars) bike trail in my county goes the length of one long block from slum housing to the nearest casino. Jogging hurt my knees and gave my feet plantar fasciitis. Walking seemed impossible during the long, extremely hot summers we have where I live. Exercise seemed inconvenient, hard, sweaty and time-consuming, and the payback took a long time coming, especially as I had become obese from all this lack of activity.
Aunt Edna is getting her exercise.
Enter the rebounder! Like many, I had bought a mini-trampoline for a song at a yard sale. I didn't really know what to do with it. A recommended exercise was jumping jacks, which seemed just as laborious and sweaty as any other kind of distasteful exercise, and just bouncing up and down seemed boring. One afternoon while I was figuring out how to use it, some music started playing on the TV. Instantly, my bounces plugged into the rhythm of the music, and I felt something I had not associated with exercise before: Fun! Easy! In that moment, I was hooked. Why had nobody told me about this kind of exercise!? It was so easy that I didn't think it could be effective, but I figured that because I was lifting and moving my feet a lot, it had to do something, And it was so much fun that I felt compelled to do it the next day, and the day after that. I couldn't wait to turn on some music and bounce to it and I found myself exercising sometimes several times a day. It didn't take long to start to feel the benefits: much greater ease in daily movements like stepping onto a chair to reach a high shelf, my achy knees stopped aching, and walking uphill or upstairs became much easier. Amazingly, after half a year of bouncing, the large amounts of cellulite at the back of my thighs noticeably reduced. Nothing else had done that in the past — not aerobics classes, not bicycling, not jogging. In my enthusiasm I bought 6 cheap mini-trampolines at a sporting goods store and resold them at cost. Good thing they had a 3-month warranty, because well before 3 months were up, 5 of them failed! And on the 6th one it was only a matter of time before one of the springs would work itself off its attachment. One of them failed as soon as a friend stepped on the mat — it sagged and never recovered! I realized that I couldn't be showing this exercise to people and have them get hurt because of shoddy equipment, so I looked long and hard at the options. I was still tempted to try to save money, but the lower-priced of the good mini-trampolines (also called rebounder) did not have a Permatron mat, which I learned was a requirement for good equipment. And there was only one rebounder with a lifetime warranty, and it had the Permatron mat, so I figured I really had nothing to lose. I justified the cost to the fact that I was doing this exercise daily and deserved good equipment, it was a one-time cost, and it was only half the cost of a cheap treadmill. And a treadmill isn't fun, plus it'll eventually break down, and then what do you do with it?
Watching a favorite TV show on my computer.
Two days after ordering, my new rebounder arrived. The legs were already attached — a little pull made them snap into place, and the instructions for the balance bar were straightforward. And voilá, I have the perfect setup for getting to watch TV – guilt-free! In the summer, I watch "America's Got Talent" on my computer — this way I can fit it into my schedule a little at a time (it even keeps track of where I left off). By the way, America's Got Talent is having an amazing season, and a lot of the numbers are musical numbers that work really well with bouncing on a rebounder. One of my rebounder customers likes to bounce to the TV show "So You Think You Can Dance." Way to go – I always thought there is something wrong with the picture of people spending good parts of their lives sitting on their butts watching extremely fit people do sports. If you want more information about this powerful fitness tool,* you can click on the yellow ribbon in the upper right-hand corner of this page — this will take you to a page that explains the rebounders in detail and has a link to ReboundAIR's website. If you would like a little introductory class and you're in my area, please call me or email me at (707) 357-5665 or bouncedancer@gmail.com to set a time. It's free!
*Bouncing on a rebounder rapidly cleanses the lymphatic system, which is of major benefit to the immune system.
not seeing the yellow ribbon in the upper right-hand corner of this page — ? would like rebounder info. where to find it??
I took down the banner and accompanying page because ReboundAIR lowered their commission to where I no longer could give the $20 rebates I had been giving with purchase. Also, hosting the page that described the rebounders and had the link to ReboundAIR stopped being free, so I have to figure out how to set up the page with one of the many free providers. In the meanwhile, better to have you just come to where I teach my free intro classes, since you're local — I'll email you some info and the ReboundAIR link.


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For those who haven't noticed, there's a new trend in online fiction marketing--giving the fiction away online. Case in point: Every single short-fiction nominee for sci-fi's 2008 Hugo Award is available free online, and we've got the links.
2007's best sci-fi short stories–for free
by Jay Garmon in After Hours
on May 6, 2008, 5:01 PM PDT
For those who haven't noticed, there's a new trend in online fiction marketing–giving the fiction away online. Case in point: Every single short-fiction nominee for sci-fi's Hugo Award is available free online, and we've got the links–thanks to our good friends at SFSignal.
Best Novella nominees
"All Seated on the Ground" by Connie Willis
"The Fountain of Age" by Nancy Kress
"Memorare" by Gene Wolfe
"Recovering Apollo 8" by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
"Stars Seen Through Stone" by Lucius Shepard
Best Novelette nominees
"The Cambist and Lord Iron: a Fairytale of Economics" by Daniel Abraham
"Dark Integers" by Greg Egan
"Finisterra" by David Moles
"Glory" by Greg Egan
"The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate" by Ted Chiang
Best Short Story nominees
"Distant Replay" by Mike Resnick
"Last Contact" by Stephen Baxter
"A Small Room in Koboldtown" by Michael Swanwick
"Tideline" by Elizabeth Bear
"Who's Afraid of Wolf 359?" by Ken MacLeod
For those so inclined, you can also snag a free online copy of a Best Novel nominee–Michael Chabon's The Yiddish Policemen's Union–if you're willing to endure a clunky Flash player. More importantly, SFSignal also lists every other novel nominee, and every nominee in each of the 11 other categories that haven't been released for free over the intarweebs as yet. Check back to the page for updates…once you're done feasting on these opening salvos of sci-fi goodness.
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The Trivia Geek, known to some by the mysterious alias "Jay Garmon," is an online community entrepreneur trying his luck with some promising Internet startups. To get the real skinny on his wacky business ideas--and his amateurish sci-fi short stories--read his blog, JayGarmon.net. It's like Jay without editorial oversight or decent engineering support. \ \ Jay is also the diabolical mind behind TechRepublic's Geek Trivia newsletter, a former contributing editor of TR's Geekend blog, and until March of 2008 was a project manager for TR site feature development. \ \ In a previous life (read: fresh out of college), he was an ad man, toiling away for low pay and less respect as a copywriter and producer of print ads, radio spots, and TV commercials. No, you've probably never seen his work. Be thankful. \ \ Between his ad days and his life as a TechRepublicist, he worked briefly as a Web developer, mostly using (shudder) FrontPage and SQL Server to build rickety and poorly conceived database-driven Web sites. He was self-taught, and it showed. He's also dabbled in proposal writing, though he wouldn't recommend that as a career choice. \ \ Today, when he's not trying to build the next Internet media giant, Jay reads some comic books, plays tabletop RPGs, helps run a local sci-fi con, tries to launch a career as a fiction author, watches a lot of sports, and keeps his wife and daughter happy. The last part is easiest.
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Opinion | Mo Brooks says Katie Britt is crushing him in fundraising. That shouldn't be a surprise
Brooks said Britt has outraised him three-to-one. She's done so despite being in the race for only a month.
Republican Senate candidate Katie Britt, left, and Congressman Mo Brooks, right.
As it turns out, attempting to undermine democracy and helping to spur an insurrection do have consequences. Mo Brooks appears to be learning this the hard way.
Late Monday, the Brooks campaign, with quarterly campaign reports set to drop, admitted what many had suspected: the campaign's getting crushed financially.
Brooks sent a letter to supporters begging for donations, saying that his opponent, Katie Britt, has outraised him "3 to 1" in the second quarter. And, oh, by the way, she tripled his haul despite being in the race for only a month.
"We're being outraised 3:1 by a DC puppet," Brooks posted on his Facebook page.
In the fundraising letter, he said of Britt's $2.2 million haul in the first month of her campaign: "To put those numbers in perspective, her team is claiming to have raised roughly $75,000 per day in their first few weeks on the campaign trail for a whopping $2.2 MILLION — that's equivalent to more than three times what we've been able to raise in the entire second quarter of 2021."
This should not be a surprise to anyone with a functioning brain.
Brooks has always been an outlier candidate. Sure, he polled well in the aftermath of the Jan. 6 insurrection that he encouraged, but those early polls are mostly built on name recognition. And Brooks has plenty of that.
But what he's always lacked is a solid, diverse financial base of wealthy business owners, corporate donors and dedicated voters. He can haul in the crazy vote like nobody's business — something that works well in a gerrymandered congressional district filled with the right amount of people who think Hillary Clinton's drinking toddler blood in a pizza restaurant's basement — but in a statewide race … well, at some point you have to appeal to sane people.
You don't do that by screaming insane conspiracy theories or going on a very public crusade to overthrow properly cast and counted votes.
And you especially don't do that in this state by telling business leaders that if they want another Sen. Richard Shelby — a guy who has hauled in billions of dollars for this state and helped to create millions of jobs — then don't vote for Mo Brooks.
Mo Brooks actually said that. To a room filled with potential GOP voters.
And that, in a nutshell, is Brooks' biggest issue — he's not Shelby. He's voted much differently than Shelby on important legislation. He's often tried to (usually unsuccessfully) undercut efforts to secure government spending for Alabama to make some self-beneficial point about federal spending.
And he's incredibly chaotic.
Business leaders don't like chaos. They don't like not knowing what to expect. They don't like a senator they can't trust to vote the expected way.
That's why Katie Britt is getting their money. And the corporate money. And the sane people's money.
Because she's going to vote the expected way on important legislation. She'll vote exactly the same way Brooks — and every other red state Republican — will on hot-button social issues. And she'll be reliable and steady on economic matters.
(I'll remind all the business leaders that they could have had that same reliability, plus a guy who would have been a swing vote on big-ticket issues right now — potentially hauling in trainloads of money for this state — had they simply put more support behind Doug Jones. But here we are.)
So, Mo Brooks is now looking at a statewide race in which the Republican establishment doesn't back him. The state's Big Mules don't back him. The state's biggest political donors and PACs don't back him. His usual corporate donors have been scared away from donating to him after the insurrection. And, if Britt's claim that 90 percent of her fundraising has come from within the state is true, Brooks will also struggle to keep up with her grassroots support.
A mean Trump press release won't fill that gap.
I suppose that it's fun to play the villain, as Brooks has for much of his political career. He probably gets a little chuckle from going on Newsmax or OAN or some right-wing radio show and using the word "socialist" 8,000 times while claiming that white people are under attack. He probably had a really good time lying over and over about the 2020 presidential election being stolen.
But the downside to all of that is that serious people don't take you seriously.
And actual serious people out-raise you 3 to 1.
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Runner's Diarrhea (Trots) What is it and How to Prevent it?
Runner's diarrhea is frequent, loose and often watery stool that may occur during or after a long distance run, workout, occasional run, or fast walk (1). It is also commonly referred to as runner's trots. The exact cause of runner's diarrhea is not known although there are several theories as to why this phenomenon does occur. While it is not always severe, it can exacerate dehydration that arises with long distance running or other strenuous physical activity.
Read more on diarrhea after exercise.
To a large extent runner's diarrhea can be prevented but not always. It is usually not serious if short-lived and properly managed. Simple measures are sufficient to prevent complications until the diarrhea resolves. As far as possible, antidiarrheal medication should not be used. Sometimes diarrhea may be due to an infection and the watery stool is one way to flush out the microbes and its toxins.
Runner's diarrhea does not only affect professional runners or athletes. In fact this type of exercise-induced diarrhea may even occur with other types of sports, exercises and strenuous physical activity. It can sometimes even result in diarrhea during the racing event. In these cases it is important to reconsider the viability of completing the race as severe dehydration is more likely.
Vigorous and uncharacteristic movement of the intestines during running can increase bowel motility. Furthermore tensing of the abdominal muscles may increase intra-abdominal pressure.
Blood flow being redirected from the gut to the legs which reduces bowel activity and may impair digestion if a meal was consumed shortly before running.
Stress, which may trigger pre-existing irritable bowel syndrome (IBS). This may affect professional athletes in particular due to the psychological stress of competing.
Dehydration which arises with any strenuous physical activity in itself may not lead to dehydration. However, inappropriate rehydration may cause water to remain in the bowels or draw water out of the body into the bowels which can then lead to watery diarrhea.
The strain on the body with certain events can increase the likelihood of certain infections, such as gastroenteritis. Therefore the diarrhea that develops following a sport event may not be due to the strenous physical activity. Instead it is a result of an infection or sometimes even other causes of diarrhea that are unrelated to running.
The following steps before, during and after the run may help prevent runner's diarrhea. It is important to note that medical intervention is necessary if there dehydration has arisen and is not easing with oral rehydration. It is always advisable to consult with a sports physician prior to any major race, even if there are no major health concerns.
High-fiber foods like legumes (beans, soy, peas, lentils), cabbage, cauliflower, large amount of cereals, to avoid excessive bloating.
Fat-rich foods like pork, bacon, pizza and most of other fast foods, cakes, olives, nuts, chocolate, which are hard to digest and may stay in the bowel for long periods of time.
Dairy, including yogurt, cheese and icecream, especially if lactose intolerant.
Fructose-rich foods: honey, grapes, apples, pears, mango, stone foods (like peaches, cherries), dried fruits (like prunes, raisins, figs, dates), jams, fruit juices or any fruit product from mentioned fruits; sorbitol (in "sugar free" chewing gum, "low calorie foods", some carbonated beverages or sport drinks); also avoid other "polyols" (read labels), like xylitol, maltitol, mannitol, isomalt. For further explanation read about fructose malabsorption.
Alcohol, because it causes dehydration even before the event.
Generally safe foods before running are bread, corn products, rice, pasta, poultry, potatoes, bananas, citruses (lemons, oranges), moderate amounts of green-leafy vegetables, soups and broths.
Have a bowel movement if possible, and do not eat anything more until the end of the run.
Small amounts of oral rehydrating solutions can be helpful but do not drink copious amounts at one sitting.
Drink enough water or oral rehydration solutions (ORS). Sports drinks that are specially formulated for atheletes are also acceptable.
Avoid hot drinks or drinks sweetened with sorbitol or xylitol, carbonated drinks, caffeine, alcohol. Fruit juices should also be avoided during the event.
Never consume water and other fluids from questionable sources. This includes rivers, lakes, streams, public faucets or from individuals who are not at rehydration stations or officially elected to provide hydration services.
Proper rehydration during this time is crucial in preventing runner's diarrhea as well as other complications such as diarrhea. Rehydration should ideally involve the use of an oral rehydrating solution. This contains the optimal concentration of fluid and electrolytes that are properly absorbed in the gut and replenishes the fluid and salts lost with sweating. If there is severe dehydration then an intravenous (IV) drip for fluid replacement may be necessary.
Read more on oral rehydration solutions.
Attempting to rehydrate with fruit juices, sodas, caffeinated beverages like tea or coffee, or alcohol can be a problem. It may trigger or aggravate runner's diarrhea. It may also worsen dehydration. The problem with these beverages is that it does not contain the optimal concentration of fluid and electrolytes. This poses a problem in the body that already has undergone stress and dehydration.
Fluids may not be absorbed from the gut into the body (osmotic diarrhea) or may be drawn out from the body into the gut due to a disturbance in electrolyte concentration. The increased water volume in the bowels can thereby lead to diarrhea. Furthermore substances like caffeine not only dehydrate the body but may stimulate the already active bowels which can worsen diarrhe and hasten dehydration.


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Historical Bey District in Gaziantep
Gaziantep's historical Bey district is a neighborhood that has hosted Armenians, Turks, Jews, and Syrians. Today, the neighborhood manages to keep its history alive with its narrow streets, museums, and traditional Gaziantep houses. For these reasons, the town of Bey has always been the center of attention for those who come to visit.
According to Evliya Çelebi Travelogue, "Every street in the neighborhood has a castle-like door. Each night in the streets, the candles will light up". Berkay Yıldırım, who conducts research on the neighborhood in his master thesis, draws attention to the cultural transformation of the neighborhood and the spaces. It is a complete mosaic of culture! We are talking about the existence of the Armenians, but even the Armenians are not fully monolithic. In addition, there are peoples of Jewish and Turkish origin, and these peoples have their own culture and traditions, but it is also possible to mention a similarity between them. The food culture, for example. Almost all of the dishes known as Gaziantep local dishes are well known by the Armenians.
"Until the Restoration Period"
The neighborhood, according to the records of the registry book of 1536, is comprised of 40-50 households. In the construction of houses, havara stone was used, which was subtracted from the quarries. In addition to being easily processed by the general structure of the stones, it was preferred by those who pioneered the architecture of the neighborhood due to its being a kind of isolation function against the cold and summer heat in winter. The fact that the houses were built behind the high garden walls of 4-5 meters called "süyük" gives the impression that family privacy was at the forefront. In large courtyards behind high walls, most of daily life, also called "hayat," was passed.
Old Bey District street view in Gaziantep City of Turkey.
The high garden walls can give the idea of a life detached from the neighborhood culture, but there are passages under each house that lead to the side house. In addition, there were sofa-style concrete elevations in the streets that were used for evening gatherings for high-tea and dinners, and the neighbors stayed together until late. It is possible to see the influence of the Armenians living in the neighborhood in the second half of the 19th century on the cultural tone of the neighborhood. There are various reliefs on places such as the ceilings of the houses and the entrance doors, and the 1st Protestant Church also served as the first cinema of the city.
The Houses with Stories are Now Commercial Undertakings
Every house has a story in Bey District. The house which now serves as Papyrus Café was built in 1854 by the Nazaretyan family and used to be known for piano sounds coming from the courtyard. As a matter of fact, the neighborhood, where both economic and cultural capital has changed, underwent a transformation in 2005 within the scope of street rehabilitation. Nowadays, Syrian families are in the neighborhood with the 50-year-residents who cannot leave due to the protection instincts of their family structures. However, this does not prevent the dominance of the commercial institutions operating in the district.
Cathedral is a Mosque Today
After the Antep War, there was a symbolic transformation and reproduction process in place following the departure of Armenians. The fact that there are still surviving buildings today is not because the collisions are less severe, but because the structures are proficient. For example, the Kendirli Church, which today functions as a cultural center, was destroyed after the Armenians left the city. St. Mary Church, or the Cathedral of the Holy Asdvadzadzin, is today called Kurtuluş Mosque. The place we are talking about is known to have functioned as a torture room during the September 1980 coup d'etat. It is also possible to say that places and periods are shaped according to their internal dynamics and livelihoods. For example, bird shelters were built on the facades of houses. But today, those bird nests are closed with iron bars. After the restoration, there was as much change in the social life of the neighborhood as there was innovation, however, it is hard to say if this change made the neighborhood more livable.
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One of the challenges facing the fuel supply industry is the loss of fuel as it is being hauled from the ports to Malawi.
The likely contributing factors to the losses include shortfalls in tanker configuration, loading equipment and procedures at the ports, offloading equipment and procedures at various receiving depots here in Malawi, behavior of personnel at the loading and offloading points, and drivers' conduct.
As one way of reducing in-transit losses, MERA and stakeholders agreed on the need to train bulk vehicle operators also known as wet cargo drivers.
The inaugural training of trainers took place from 26th February to 2nd March, 2018 at Sunbird Ku Chawe in Zomba. The training was delivered by Technical Entrepreneurial and Vocational Education and Training (TEVET) Authority and the Department of Road Traffic and Safety Services.


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ITEC puts its wireless tracking solution to the test at its offices and factory in Japan, tagging components, tools, paperwork and vehicles, as well as providing RFID-enabled badges for employees and visitors.
Dec 19, 2008—ITEC, an electronics manufacturing services provider for the RFID and wireless communications industry, is putting its own RFID solution to use at its Nagano manufacturing plant. There, the company is employing it to identify components as they arrive at the manufacturing site for assembly, as well as to track the locations of staff members, visitors, tools and company cars.
The system, known as I'm Here Model Factory 1.0, features active RFID tags and interrogators engineered by RF Code and manufactured by ITEC, which developed some of the application's software. Although RF Code tags and readers operate at 433 MHz in the United States and Europe, those ITEC is utilizing at its factory operate in the 303 MHz band, in order to comply with Japanese RF regulations, which have set aside 433 MHz for other uses, such as amateur radio.
ITEC's internal deployment is intended to provide the company with first-hand confirmation that its I'm Here products can produce useful component- and staff-tracking data. Other goals include the ability to know the locations of assets and personnel in real time, and to obtain business analytics in order to gauge trends on the plant floor. The installation began in September 2008 and was completed in approximately three weeks, according to ITEC's business development manager, Roberta Ohno.
The RFID tags, which measure about 2 inches by 1 inch, can either be attached to an asset or plastic file cover to track paperwork, or pinned to a user's clothing. Each tag, encoded with a unique ID number, employs a proprietary air-interface protocol to communicate with the readers.
Prior to implementing the I'm Here system at its corporate headquarters, ITEC utilized a paper-based system to identify incoming components as shipments were received from third-party suppliers, as well as to verify that its workers had inspected those components. Plant employees then assembled the parts into a variety of electronic products, such as RFID, wireless tour guide, access control and restaurant paging devices.


An early version of FTCM was distributed in a Japanese booklet and played a role in Japan's passage of legislation in 2013 that implemented FTCM principles for regenerative medicine drugs. A Forbes op-ed (December 1, 2015) with the economist Vernon Smith, "Give the FDA Some Competition with Free To Choose Medicine," click here, highlights the benefits from FTCM and the importance of Japan's market-based approach. For more information on this topic, click here.


Should Investors be Worried About the Rate Hike?
This week is the run-up to the Federal Open Market Committee's long anticipated, fairly certain rate increase.
This week is the run-up to the Federal Open Market Committee's long anticipated, fairly certain rate increase—as certain an anything can be in predicting Fed behavior. Will it matter to investors? Opinion is mixed, from calling it a much ado about nothing moment to characterizing the increase as the pinprick that starts to pop a few bubbles (commercial real estate's a favorite choice for that still hypothetical bubble). On Monday, Gallup released the results of a poll of investors that found that they're not overly concerned about the increase as far as their own finances are concerned, but worry that it might be bad for the overall economy.
Gallup's definition of "investor" is fairly broad. The survey was based on questions asked Oct. 30-Nov. 8 of a random sample of 1,018 U.S. adults having investable assets of $10,000 or more. Within those parameters, 54 percent of investors say an increase in interest rates wouldn't make much difference to their own financial situation, while another 16 percent believe higher rates would be good for them. About three in 10 say higher rates would be bad for them. Higher interest rates are more likely to be bad for those who intend to borrow—especially large loans, like mortgages—or those paying off adjustable-rate mortgages, rather than non-borrowers.
In terms of the direct impact of higher interest rates, more respondents believe they stand to gain from interest earnings on savings than expect to be hurt on loan costs. Specifically, 51 percent expect to see more income, while 39 percent say these rates will increase the cost of an existing loan. As for more indirect impacts, 47 percent say higher rates will make it harder for them to sell a home (which might have implications for the residential market), while 35 percent of investors see higher rates as an opportunity to transfer money out of the stock market and into less risky investments (net lease properties, for example).
By contrast, the respondents weren't so sure about how new rates will play out in the wider economy, a fact that might affect consumer confidence and thus some important aspects of the economy, such as consumer spending. Forty-eight percent believe raising rates right now would be bad for the economy, compared with a slender 19 percent who say it would be good for the economy. Thirty percent say it would make no difference.


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How Miles Davis' art inspired Chicagoan Francine Turk's new exhibit
By Tracy Swartz
Chicago artist Francine Turk talks about her upcoming show featuring works inspired by the music, art and life of Miles Davis. The exhibit opens Sept. 21 in the South Loop.
When Francine Turk hosted a French-inspired showcase at her South Loop studio in October 2014, a friend from high school gave her an album the late trumpeter and composer Miles Davis recorded in Paris.
"When I listened to that vinyl, I was like, 'Wow, you know, I really need to pay more attention to (Davis),' " Turk said.
Fast forward two years. Turk has spent the past 18 months consumed with Davis' work. She met with members of his family, pored over his notebooks and sketches and even took gravestone rubbings at Davis' burial site in New York to reimagine his creative spirit.
Davis' sketchbooks and Turk's paintings inspired by his art are set to be displayed at the "Next Level Badass: Miles Davis and Francine Turk" exhibit scheduled to open 7 p.m. Wednesday at 2110 S. Wabash Ave.
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Turk, an Oak Lawn native, is one of three artists permitted by Davis' family to reinterpret his works. Pianist Robert Glasper remixed Davis' tracks on his album "Everything's Beautiful," which dropped in May. Actor Don Cheadle portrayed Davis in the freewheeling biopic "Miles Ahead," released in U.S. theaters in April. The push to honor Davis comes as the jazz great would have celebrated his 90th birthday this year.
Davis, a downstate Illinois native, died in 1991 at the age of 65. Much has been said about his complex musical legacy, but Turk said she discovered another side to Davis as she studied his years of artwork.
"He was known as, like, this badass. He was known as this really sort of, the cool of the cool, the impossible cool. So I was pleasantly surprised when I found his drawings to be really delicate and lovely and vulnerable," Turk said.
Turk sifted through Davis' archives of casual drawings, paintings and musings, and was particularly drawn to his sketchbooks.
The 50 works set for the exhibit include notes Turk took about Davis on stationery from the landmark Hollywood hotel Chateau Marmont, where Davis and his first wife Frances stayed when he performed on the West Coast. Turk also sought to portray Davis in paintings as the "golden thread" whose legacy is tied to that of the late musicians Jimi Hendrix, Frank Sinatra and others.
Other pieces are simply Davis quotes painted on canvas in black and white amid splashes of color.
The use of color is a departure for Turk, who rose to prominence when her charcoal nude drawings appeared in the 2006 film "The Break-Up," starring Jennifer Aniston and Vince Vaughn. Davis' estate manager Darryl Porter, a South Side native, said he heard about Turk's work and helped set her up with the Davis family.
"She's almost like a female Miles in a lot of ways," Porter said.
"We thought she was talented from day one. I think we had two or three meetings and that was it," Davis' nephew Vince Wilburn Jr. said as he praised Turk's energy and confidence.
Turk said as she's discussed the project with people, she's found many had a story to tell about a memory tied to a Davis song. Turk's own relationship to Davis has significantly changed over the past two years.
This exhibit -- her largest yet -- is expected to travel to New York, Los Angeles, Miami and, fittingly, Paris, though no plans have been announced.
"I feel like Miles has taught me so much about how to be a stronger artist in so many ways," Turk said. "It's been a doozy. It's been a real (expletive) project. It's taken over my life."
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BD+C research: The AEC industry braces for tough sledding in the coming months amid COVID-19 outbreak
A new BD+C poll of U.S. architecture, engineering, and construction firms finds that companies are anticipating project postponements and delays.
Coronavirus |
John Caulfield, Senior Editor
BD+C's survey drew 86 AEC respondents, more than two-fifths of whom (42.11%) expected that one or two of their current projects might be cancelled altogether, either because of deteriorating economic conditions or as part of the measures being taken to minimize the virus's spread. Photo: Pixabay
Nearly one-half of AEC firms expect the outbreak of COVID-19 to have a sizable impact on their businesses. The same percentage anticipates that projects they have been working on would be postponed in the wake of the pandemic.
Those are key findings in a poll that BD+C has been conducting for the past several days to gauge the effect of the virus on the U.S. construction industry. During the polling period, the virus has wreaked havoc on the global economy, and has led President Trump to declare a national emergency.
Source: BD+C Business Impacts from COVID-19 Survey
The Mayor of Boston, Martin Walsh, on March 17 imposed a moratorium on all construction projects in that city. That fiat prompted the Associated General Contractors of America to issue a statement insisting that jobsite closures are unnecessary. This afternoon, AGC released its own survey—conducted between March 17 and 19, and drawing 909 responses—that shows that the pandemic has caused 28% of contractors to halt or delay work on current projects.
Walsh's mandate forced Suffolk Construction to suspend its onsite work on its projects in Beantown.
"As always, our main priority is the safety of our people, teams and partners," said Suffolk in a prepared statement to BD+C. "We will be prepared to safely mobilize our teams and resume onsite work on our projects once our teams are allowed to return to the jobsites. The spread of COVID-19 remains unpredictable so we will continue to monitor and assess the situation on an ongoing basis."
Kathleen MacNeil, a Principal with MP Boston, an affiliate of Millennium Partners, stated confidently that the development of the 691-foot-tall Winthrop Center in Boston would continue once the moratorium is lifted.
"Our main concern is the health and wellbeing of our construction teams," asserted MacNeil in a statement. "We are monitoring the situation very closely and following the direction given by the local, state, and federal government and will be taking all necessary steps to ensure the safety of our workers. Meanwhile, our team will continue to work on all the project details, including shop drawings, fabrication plans and logistics. As soon as we are given clearance, we will immediately resume the construction of Winthrop Center with speed and efficiency."
When that clearance might be forthcoming, however, is anyone's guess. It is just as likely that more restrictions imposed by municipalities and states on personal and business activities are imminent. Yesterday, Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf ordered all non-life-sustaining businesses in his state to close their physical locations. California Gov. Gavin Newsome issued a statewide "stay at home" order starting today. (The virus is blamed for 19 deaths in California, where at least 1,000 people had tested positive through March 19.) This morning, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo ordered nonessential workers to stay home. (New York has designated construction workers as "essential.")
Mark Humphreys, AIA, Chairman and CEO of Humphreys & Partners Architects, said Newsome's order allows his company's offices in Costa Mesa and Los Angeles to remain open, at least for the moment. "Humphreys and its affiliates are prepared to continue operating from remote work locations when it becomes necessary or mandated," he stated. "You will still be able to contact us through our normal phone numbers and email addresses, and we are making every effort to maintain normal business operations. If operations are further impacted, we will let you know."
Dire 2020 forecasts for the AEC industry
BD+C's survey drew 86 AEC respondents, more than two-fifths of whom (42.11%) expected that one or two of their current projects might be cancelled altogether, either because of deteriorating economic conditions or as part of the measures being taken to minimize the virus's spread.
Julian Anderson, President of Rider Levett Bucknall (RLB), the international project cost and management consultants, says that some of his firm's projects are being delayed, although he couldn't give a precise number yet. The types of projects being put on hold are aviation-related, gaming, hospitality multifamily (especially upmarket projects), and some education.
Projects that are being canceled outright, he says, "were likely at the edge of penciling out financially anyway, and the fall in the stock market was probably too much for them to withstand."
Anderson notes, too, that some owners are using the virus's spread to attempt to speed up their projects, a maneuver that he predicts subcontractors would resist if it requires more working hours.
The pandemic has already been felt on the industry's supply chain and workforce. More than 23% of respondents to BD+C's poll said their projects had been affected by disruptions to partners such as subcontractors and the ability of project managers and superintendents to be on jobsites. Another 18.75% said materials deliveries have also been affected by prohibitions and plant closings as a result of the virus. Anderson of RLB says that so far, "we are seeing delays in items coming from China, specifically light fittings, granite, electrical equipment, and HVAC equipment."
Nearly half (46.84%) of respondents anticipate supply chain disruptions in the coming weeks.
Anecdotally, many AEC firms seem to be in limbo, trying to stay reasonably functional—and keep their clients—with their employees working from home and with travel being severely limited. Due to the guidelines, restrictions, and directives issued by the CDC, state and local public health officials, and governmental agencies, "our firm's ability to perform certain contractual duties regarding the project are or may be restricted," write DKN Architects' CEO Rob Donhoff, President Patrick Nall, and VP Tom Kargi.
DPR Construction has in place a set of advanced protocols to address situations ranging from enhanced office and jobsite cleaning/distancing practices to a full temporary pause of work. "Business-critical staff will ensure sites are secure throughout [any] work stoppage. In some areas, we are also working to educate local authorities about what it takes to wind down projects safely."
DPR is providing its teams with the technology and tools to collaborate remotely for operational continuity.
Three principals in CO Architects' Los Angeles office offered their perspective. Tom Chessum, FAIA, NCARB, a healthcare expert, said he hadn't seen any projects delayed yet. However, some work inside hospitals is being deferred.
Scott Kelsey, FAIA, who has been with the firm 33 years, says that while none of his projects have been delayed, "we are hearing that some will begin to shut down." CO Architects has contingency plans in place to keep its teams busy for eight weeks of shutdowns.
Andrew Labov, FAIA, LEED AP, Principal, Science and Technology Director, says that as the L.A. office adjusts to working remotely, "we are experiencing some small reductions in productivity." Working through local plan-check agencies has become more cumbersome. And "many clients" have told CO "explicitly" that they planned to shut down projects at some point. As there are no more third-party inspections and commissioning, "we have seen some supply-chain disruptions" that CO is trying to ameliorate by preordering materials and equipment.
All three executives agree the pandemic's impact could linger beyond the virus's eventual dissipation. "We have already seen a major school-construction bond fail in California's February primary," observes Labov. Chessum thinks that any resounding impact will depend on how well the firm overcomes inefficiencies related to shifting employees to working remotely. "It could potentially influence how we interact internally as a business and externally with our clients," adds Kelsey.
BD+C's poll responses jibe with a recent survey of 131 AEC firms by the management consultant Zweig Group. While nearly 80% said that economic conditions were either the same or somewhat better than a year ago, almost half (47%) thought the economy would be worse in the next 12 months. Half of those surveyed by Zweig also expect the AEC industry to perform in line with the economy.
Zweig Group's survey also found that:
• 41% of respondents' clients have canceled or delayed a project, and another one-quarter (24%) is considering postponements;
• About half of respondents say their firms support decisions of their employees to refrain from public networking, 34% have liberalized their telecommute policies, and 61% of the companies have halted nonessential travel;
• 56% of the firms are considering changes to their 2020 budget;
• 66% foresee a decrease in revenue this year; and
• 78% said the virus's spread would affect overall business development in next 12 months.
Anderson of RLB believes that an economic recession, if it occurs, could spur any number of scenarios:
Companies will try to diversify the locales of manufacturing—specifically, away from China—to provide more options in case of future events like COVID-19.
The reliance on communication and technology to facilitate working remotely will push capital into those sectors and drive innovation.
The use of factory-built, preassembled components (for example, framed and finished wall sections, and plumbing and mechanical systems) and robotic installation will increase, as these methodologies allow construction to continue during pandemics and other extreme events.
Hospitality will take some time to come back, as customers will want to be sure that the pandemic is definitely over before making big travel plans.
Aviation will be negatively affected for the same reason.
Healthcare will be the beneficiary of increased funding, especially if there is a change in Administration arising from this year's Presidential election.
Office space may become a "who needs it" product, including shared office space.
He also believes that, if the recession is sustained, and shrinks the construction industry, "a recovery will be difficult due to lack of qualified personnel."
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She's worked with dudes named Wolfgang, Helmut, and Vladimir. They've been known to call her boring, a beta-female, and clueless. She doesn't get mad. She gets their jobs.
She's learned to deflect bullies and has overcome an urge to burst into tears. She was once shot at by the Taliban in a helicopter over Afghanistan and stayed cool as a cucumber.
This boring beta-babe has been in the limelight of late. Five biographies have just been published in Dutch, German, French and English.
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Q: How to implement the plotting of a function involving an integral of two parameters in scipy/python? I was trying to calculate and plot a function of an integral with its integrand being a function of two parameters and its upper limit being also a function of one parameter.
Namely, plotting Integrate(F(x,y)dy) with lower limit a and upper limit f(x).
When I was running my program with python main4.py I was getting the following error message:
> Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "main4.py", line 46, in <module>
    value[idx],errorlow = quad(Zmomentlow1, a, alpha(p), args = (p)) + quad(Zmomentlow2, alpha(p), b, args = (p))
ValueError: too many values to unpack

I am using Python 2.7.8.
After consultation with a friend of mine on some other website, I was able to edit the line 46 of the code. This correction made it possible for the code to run without any error message as above. However, this time, the resultant plot is empty meaning all the y-values are zero and I am not getting the expected plot which is attached to the post below (obtained via Mathematica.)
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main7.py
Demonstrates using the arg parameter to
pass parameters to the integrand function
when using the quad() function.
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# import the needed modules
import numpy as np
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
from pylab import *
from scipy.integrate import quad

# define the integrand function
def F(p, x):
  return 4445.935*np.power(143.753 + 19 * np.log(p/x), -1, dtype=np.int16) * np.power(x, 0.2354424, dtype=np.int16) * np.power(1-np.power(x, 0.375, dtype=np.int16), 5.55373, dtype=np.int16)
def Zmomentlow1(p, x):
  return 2*np.power(x, 2)*F(p, x)
def Zmomentlow2(p, x):
  return 2*np.power(x, 1.7)*F(p, x)
def Zmomenthigh(p, x):
  return 2*np.power(x, 2)*F(p, x)

def Zmoment(p):
  for p, ep in enumerate(p): #make Zmoment(enegrgy) values
    if ep>0 and ep<=c:
      Zmoment[p] = Zmomentlow1 + Zmomentlow2
    elif ep>c:
      Zmoment[p] = Zmomenthigh

# set the parameters
c = 5.0E6 # the energy corresponding to the knee of the cosmic ray flux
a = 0   # lower limit of first integration of low-energy domain
b = 1   # upper limit of second integration of low-energy domain
N = 1000 # number of alpha values to use in integrations

def alpha(p):
        return p/c

p_ary = np.linspace(1.0E2,1.0E11,N) # create an array of values of energy
value = zeros(N)            # create an array to store results of integrations

# do the integrations low1, low2 and high
idx = 0
for p in p_ary:
    value[idx],errorlow = map(sum, zip(quad(Zmomentlow1, a, alpha(p), args = (p,)), quad(Zmomentlow2, alpha(p), b, args = (p,))))
   # value[idx], errorlow = quad(Zmomentlow1, a, alpha(p), args = (p)) + quad(Zmomentlow2, alpha(p), b, args = (p))
    value[idx], errorhigh = quad(Zmomenthigh, a, b, args = (p,))
    idx = idx + 0.001

# plot the result
plt.figure(1)
plt.clf()
plt.xscale('log')
plt.plot(p_ary,value)
plt.ylim([-0.01,0.01])

# note the new syntax for the xlabel() and title() commands
# that allows the use of LaTeX commands
xlabel('energy [GeV]')
ylabel('Zmoment')
title('Plot of Z-moment vs. Energy')
plt.show()
plt.savefig('Figure1')

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