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Sprouted grain toast with almond butter and sliced pears. Oatmeal with frozen mixed berries, pumpkin seeds, pumpkin flax granola, chopped pear, and organic cane sugar. Coffee with soy milk.
Pumpkin flax granola topped with strawberries, banana, and coconut milk. Toasted sprouted grain bread with almond butter, sliced banana, and pumpkin seeds. Coffee with vanilla soy milk.
Oatmeal (cooked in water with ground flax seed) topped with chopped strawberries, pumpkin seeds, almond butter, brown sugar, and coconut milk. Coffee with vanilla soy milk.
Plain soy yogurt layered with thawed raspberries and topped with hemp granola, pumpkin seeds, and fresh blackberries.
Carrot-Orange-Mango Smoothie (approx. 1 cup orange juice, 2 carrots, 1 cup frozen mango) topped with chia seeds, hemp hearts, buckwheat, and pumpkin seeds.
Sliced navel oranges, sprouted whole grain toast topped with peanut butter, banana, pumpkin seeds, and cranberries. Chocolate vanilla chai tea with soy milk.
Fruit salad (pineapple, watermelon, kiwi, strawberries, and Cara Cara orange)
Mixed berry smoothie bowl (approx. 1 cup soy milk, 1 cup frozen mixed berries, 1 frozen banana, and 1 scoop vanilla soy protein) topped with strawberries, kiwi, hemp granola, chia seeds, hemp hearts, and buckwheat.

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Manteca Parks & Recreation is starting this year's Before School Program, PM Kinderzone and Kids Zone program on the first day of school which is Monday, Aug. 10.
Andy Scott spent months looking for the right fit, turning down scholarship offers from NCAA Division I and II teams after graduating from Sierra High in May.
The City of Lathrop is holding its First Annual Backpack and School Supply Drive for Lathrop Elementary Schools.
Two dozen pots of chili that will send mouth watering aroma through the halls of the Manteca Senior Center on Saturday, Aug. 29 is in the planning stages by the Del Webb Volunteers and the Second Harvest Food Bank.
During his younger years, Eric Scholz had limited vision.
You might know how to get to downtown from the Bass Pro Shops and Big League Dreams but the more than 2.5 million out-of-town visitors that the two entities attract in a given year may not.
There's a good chance if your identification gets stolen that the thieves found the information they needed to do the crime by shifting through your waste Toter.
The deal was simple.
A glimpse of Central Manteca's future can be seen in the 200 block of North Main Street in earth tone hues accented with brick, old-fashioned barn lights, and awnings.
Vida Loca Skateboards is officially up and running.
The folks fiddling around with trying to define central Manteca might want to follow the money.
The free National Night Out community block party is today from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at Library Park in downtown Manteca.
A South Manteca resident last fall noticed something suspicious: A teen and preteen kids hanging around in front of a neighbor's home mid-morning on a school day.
Some of that water flowing from your faucet in Manteca between April and October likely first reached earth as a snowflake in the rugged Sierra terrain north of Yosemite Park.
Teri Palmer has put together enough care packages to know that the best gift an American soldier can receive isn't soap, soup or a magazine, but a hand-written note.
Juan Cuenca shared his secret on eating watermelon.
Brown lawns are starting to pay off for Manteca when it comes to conserving water.
Steve DeBrum has filed campaign paperwork making him an official candidate for mayor of Manteca.
Jonathan Costa knew that he didn't want to see Frank's Antennas get slapped with an Americans with Disabilities non-compliance lawsuit.
Editor's note: The following is Jeff Tilton's Facebook post about the Bank of the West hostage situation in Stockton on Wednesday.
A Tactical Tacos fundraiser is being held on Friday, August, 8, to benefit the Manteca and Ripon Tactical Officers Association at the Manteca Senior Center, 295 Cherry Lane, from 6 until 11 p.m. Tickets are $30 and includes tacos, two drink tickets and door prizes.
One Manteca grandmother remembered a newspaper story about pleas for money to get out of jail by "grandsons" that warned her of the fraud that was confronting her on the telephone.
The homeless debate at Library Park is about to become political.
Lightning didn't strike David Fitzgerald dead on Wednesday night.
Two days of police skills competitions face some 35 teams of teenage police explorers from throughout California and as far away as Honolulu on Friday and Saturday at Ripon High School for the Fourth Annual Central Valley Explorer Challenge.
A fire described as suspicious caused $150,000 in damages to a Manteca home at 10:30 p.m. Tuesday night in the 200 block of El Capitan Avenue.

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After coming second in last night's I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here! final, Joel Dommett proudly announced to the world (well, to the show's viewers) that he'd "never come second (or first) in anything in his life before". He was chuffed with his achievement.
So when he appeared via video link on Good Morning Britain today, the response he was met with by presenter Piers Morgan was probably a touch frostier than it needed to be. And by that, I mean Piers called Joel a loser live on national TV. What a guy.
"You're still a loser, unfortunately," said Piers. "We don't, on this show, salute people that lose. We say good effort, sorry you lost, but good luck cause your career's gonna go from strength to strength."
While I'm sure there was some kind of backhanded compliment in there somewhere, Piers still very much called Joel a loser. Joel, meanwhile, had clearly remembered the important life lesson we were all taught in primary school - if you don't have anything nice to say, don't say anything at all - and decided to pick the show host up on his jibe with one sassy AF reply.
"It's okay. I prefer Jeremy Clarkson, too," he said, referencing the long-time feud between the two television presenters. Ouch. Hit him right where it hurts.
While Piers responded by yelling: "Get him off! Chuck him in that pool!" co-host Susanna Reid clearly loved joke up, finding it so hilarious she had to hold her own head in her hands.
Earlier on in the interview, Joel was also quizzed on his relationship status, revealing he'd met someone he "really liked" just before heading off to the jungle. But unfortunately for the potential relationship, Joel's schedule is pretty full on for the next couple of months, so he's going to have to wait and see what happens with his mysterious lady friend.
So he's not officially off the market quite yet... Just saying.
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A train station in Kent has been given £4m in government funding to improve accessibility for passengers with mobility issues.
The funding will be used to create an obstacle-free, accessible route from St Mary Cray’s station entrance to the platform. This will include installing two lifts and other accessible features.
The work is being funded by the Department for Transport’s ‘Access for All’ programme, which was launched in 2006 to address the issues faced by disabled passengers and passengers facing mobility restraints.
Paul Harwood, Network Rail’s Investment Director for Southern Region, said: “The ‘Access for All’ programme enables a significant investment in our stations in Kent and the wider Southern Region which will help all our passengers and especially those with mobility issues.
“St Mary Cray will have modern step-free access to its platforms for the first time and dozens of other measures throughout the station will make access much easier for all passengers.”
The two lifts will each have the capacity for 16 people and are the ‘through’ type, with exits at each end to make accessing them as easy as possible.
Other parts of the station will also be improved, with work including improvements to the ticket office and relocation of a retail unit into the old taxi office to create more space for the new lift shaft. New handrails and tactile surfacing will be installed on the existing platform staircases.
On the exterior of the station, all staircases will be upgraded, with new access ramps for the Furzehill Square side of the station, while new chicane handrails will be introduced to the Sayes Court Road entrance to safely slow users down before they emerge onto the footway.
There will also be improved cycle shelters and two new blue badge holder parking bays.


CNN: Two individuals associated with the leak of Ashley Madison customer details are reported to have taken their lives, according to police in Canada.
The police in Toronto gave no further information about the deaths.
Ashley Madison's Canadian parent company Avid Life Media is offering a C$500,000 (£240,000) reward for information on the hackers, they added.
Details of more than 33m accounts were stolen from the website, which offers users the chance to have an affair.
Read the full story on BBC News.


Melbourne car attack: Bourke Street death toll reaches five after three-month-old baby dies
A three-month-old baby boy has died following the deadly car rampage that took place in Melbourne's CBD on Friday, bringing the death toll of the attack to five.
- Two children among five people killed in CBD incident
- Alleged driver Dimitrious Gargasoulas still in hospital and yet to be charged
- Memorial to be set up outside GPO building in Bourke Street Mall
The baby died in hospital on Saturday night, a statement from police said.
It is believed police were in pursuit of a vehicle in the city on Friday when the driver, 26-year-old Dimitrious Gargasoulas, drove erratically around an intersection before speeding down a footpath on Bourke Street and crashing into pedestrians.
Hospitals have treated 37 other people who were injured during the incident, and four victims remain in a critical condition.
Those who died included 10-year-old girl Thalia Hakin, a 25-year-old man, a 33-year-old man, a 32-year-old woman and the three-month-old baby boy who passed away Saturday evening.
The Jewish community is holding a community memorial and prayer service for Thalia tonight.
"Words cannot convey the sorrow we feel for all the victims and their families, and especially for the loss of Thalia and the devastation of her family," said Jennifer Huppert, the president of the Jewish Community Council.
"We would like to thank the first responders, all medical staff involved and all those who came to the aid of the victims."
Government security cabinet meets
The Victorian Government is holding a special meeting of its Security and Emergency Management Cabinet subcommittee today, in response to the tragedy.
The committee of senior ministers meets at the first opportunity after a major event or disaster.
It is understood the meeting will discuss potential reforms to bail laws, including whether Victoria will continue to use after-hours volunteer bail justices, who are not used in any other state.
The Government has also established a fund for community donations to help families affected by the rampage, contributing $100,000 to the fund, and a vigil has been planned for Monday night at Federation Square.
Meanwhile, federal Opposition Leader Bill Shorten visited the memorial site in the Bourke Street mall this morning to lay a floral tribute in memory of the victims.
"I couldn't be more proud of being a citizen of Melbourne when I see literally thousands of memorials, flowers and teddy bears being laid out in support of these other people who did nothing wrong except for being in the wrong place at the wrong time," he said.
Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull will also be in Melbourne today to pay his respects to the victims.
Police waiting to charge suspect
Witnesses said there was "no hesitation" as the suspect drove the car into pedestrians, sending "people flying like skittles" and running for their lives.
Gargasoulas remains in hospital under police guard, and is being treated for non-life threatening injuries.
Police were hoping to interview him and charge him later in the weekend.
"Surgery is still occurring. We still haven't been able to be in a position to interview and charge that offender [but] that's still our intention," Victoria Police Chief Commissioner Graham Ashton said on Saturday.
"Through the course of the weekend we will be looking to try and get that opportunity to step in and interview and charge that offender."
It is understood police unsuccessfully attempted to stop him multiple times during the rampage.
Some members of Victoria Police have hit out at the no-pursuit policy, with one veteran police officer telling the ABC the policy is a "disgrace".
"There was ample opportunity to stop him in the two hours before he reached the city, but the order was not to pursue," the officer said.
Victoria's Homicide Squad will be investigating the incident, with the assistance of the Major Collision Investigation Unit.
Memorial to be set up
Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews said on Saturday a memorial would be set up outside the GPO building in Bourke Street Mall to honour the victims.
"We all need to come together and show our support for victims and family and for everybody who was caught up in this terrible, evil criminal act," he said.
He said the community had been deeply affected by the tragic attack.
"We want answers. We want someone to explain what has gone on," he said.
Bourke Street was re-opened on Saturday morning, after having been cordoned off for most of Friday as police continued their investigations into the incident.


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A variety of things can affect the results of the SFSTs. The officer is supposed to ask the suspect if they have any medical conditions that could affect their performance on any of the tests prior to administering them. Drugs, health issues, physical injuries, age, weight, and footwear can affect how someone does on an SFST.
Some drugs and health issues can affect HGN. Dissociative anesthetics, such as PCP, can cause resting nystagmus, which is the jerking of the eyes as they look straight ahead. Nystagmus can also be caused by certain pathological disorders, including brain tumors, brain damage, and some diseases of the inner ear.
For the One Leg Stand and the Walk and Turn, the officer is specifically supposed to ask the suspect if he or she has any leg or knee injuries that could affect their ability to stand, walk, or balance. Some studies suggested that individuals over 65 years old or people with back, leg, or inner ear problems have difficulty performing the Walk and Turn and One Leg Stand.
The 1984 SFST student manual stated that individuals who are 50 pounds or more overweight would have difficulty performing the Walk and Turn and One Leg Stand. The other thing that can impact an individual’s ability to perform the one-leg stand and walk-and-turn is wearing heels more than 2” high or other unusual footwear, such as flip flops. The officer is supposed to ask anyone wearing that type of footwear if they would like to remove their footwear.
Are There Any Factors That Could Exempt A Driver From Having To Take The Field Sobriety Tests?
There are some things that can exempt a driver from having to perform field sobriety tests. For example, if somebody is in a wheelchair, then there would be no way for them to perform the Walk and Turn and One Leg Stand. With regards to Horizontal Gaze Nystagmus, some things can change the ability to fully test the individual. These things include being blind in one eye or having a glass eye. If that’s the case, then the maximum number of clues that could be observed would be three because the officer would only be able to see three clues in the functional eye.
If the suspect states that they have a leg, knee, or ankle problem prior to performing the One Leg Stand or Walk and Turn, then the officer will likely ask the suspect to perform the tests anyway. The officer will then say that they took those injuries into consideration when evaluating the person for intoxication.
Source: NHTSA’s 2015 DWI Detection and Standardized Field Sobriety Testing student manual
For more information on What Can Affect A Field Sobriety Test Result, call (405) 633-3420 to speak with an attorney.

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I am currently a V1(latest update) owner and I think it offers excellent protection however the more I drive and the more that I read this forum, I realize that
A. Police only have to be on target some of the time to catch a large amount of speeders but drivers have to be right all the time in order to avoid getting caught.
B. Buying cheap countermeasures is like getting discount brain surgery. Its cheap but at the end of the day, you still get burned
That being said I have but one question. I am currently assessing my setup to determine if what I have is truly best in class. And assuming that no new rd's will come out within a year (because there is such a small amount of innovation in the radar detection industry) what currently is the best radar detector that money can buy. I should probably outline my criteria for what exactly the "best" is. I am looking for the longest detection of K/KA and the best with Q/T. All gps and stealth do is provide an excuse to sell it for a ton of effing money. Is it still the V1 like it was for so many years or has Belscort finally made a better detector?

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The last round of climbing in the 2018 #IFSCwc season! See who finished on top in the Lead finals replay.
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No. 2 Aledo stops No. 1 Lake Travis' 48-game win streak with 14-10 victory
By Tony Eierdam
For the first time in 49 games, the Lake Travis Cavaliers can now put a mark in the loss column thanks to the Aledo Bearcats.
The Bearcats, who can now lay claim as the best team in Class 4A, defeated the Div. I, 4A Champions 14-10 Friday night with the support of an Aledo crowd that filled up the entire visitor's side - with the addition of three sets of portable bleachers - at Lake Travis High School's Cavalier Stadium.
The Bearcats took the lead for good in the fourth quarter when Johnathan Gray scored from a yard out on 4th and goal with six minutes remaining in the contest.
Beginning at 6 p.m. Friday, Aledo ISD will provide shuttles for this week's football game against Weatherford High School. Due to the expected overflow amount of traffic, buses will run between Willow Park Baptist Church and Bearcat Stadium, and between Aledo United Methodist Church and Bearcat Stadium.
Pick-up and drop-off schedules will hold true for both Willow Park Baptist Church, located at 129 S. Ranch House Road in Aledo, and Aledo United Methodist Church, at 313 Pecan St.
Randy Keck/The Community News: Numerous community members, students, parents and school officials attended the dedication ceremony for the new Aledo Ninth Grade Center Sunday, Aug. 22.At the closing of the ceremony, school board members and administration officials cut a symbolic ribbon opening the facility. Shown are (left to right) Assistant Superintendent for Special Programs Lynn McKinney, School Board member Johnny Campbell, Superintendent Don Daniel, Assistant Principal Tom Hall, School Board Members Jay Stringer and Steve Bartley, School Board President Joe Dearing, Principal Angela Tims, School Board Vice President Bobby J. Rigues and Deputy Superintendent for Instruction Marsha Miholovich.
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Hunter Stockon walks across the stage at TCU's Daniel Meyer Coliseum to receive his diploma during commencement exercises tonight (Monday, June 7). More photos and coverage will be available in The Community News' June 11 issue.
Click on the photo above for our complete gallery of AHS graduation photos.
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Vocalists Sydney Moxley and Savannah Beddingfield (standing) and pianist Caileen Tallant earned UIL Division I at the Solo and Ensemble contest at Crowley High School on Feb. 27.
Caileen performed Chopin's "Mazurka Opus 33 No.1."
Sydney sang "El Majo Discreto" by Granados and Savannah's song was "Nel Co Piu Non Mi Sento" by Paisiello.
The Aledo High School students are scheduled to compete at the State UIL contest in Austin May 29 -31.
Special to The Community News
The McCall Elementary Student Council attended their Texas Association of Student Councils Spring Retreat in Cedar Hill last month where they won the Sweepstakes Award for the second year in a row. This award is the top honor given by TASC each year. McCall’s young leaders were also elected to serve as a TASC District 3 Officer School for the 2010-2011 school year. They will hold the office of Corresponding Secretary. The sponsors for the group include Shannon Reynolds, Tanya Smith, LeeAnn Griffith and Laura Gloor. All four teachers are very proud of the commitment of these children and said they look forward to many more great leaders in the future.
Special to The Community News
Seven Aledo Middle School choir students received a Division I, Superior, rating on their solos at a UIL Solo & Ensemble Competition at Crowley High School. Two ensembles also received Division I ratings. Shown are (Front row from left) Lauren Roubicek, Kelsey Kovar, Cassidy DellaRocco, Nicole Patterson and Lauren Craine and (back row) Annie Ratcliff, Madelyn Robertson, Makenzi Zimmermann, Summer Richman, Katie Collard, and Mrs. Johnson.


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Living at the Painted Desert, Arizona
My college roommate, Kenny Odell, was living at the Painted Desert Oasis when I left Denton. The PDO consisted of a restaurant, gift shop, gas station, and ranger station. Kenny had worked there when he was younger and after he left OBU, he went to work there again. With Kenny's help, I was able to get a job there too. I worked as a cook and pumping gas. Trailer houses were provided for the workers, but we had to go into Holbrook for groceries and supplies. I spent quite a lot of time out in the desert and did a few road trips to the Navaho reservation. Met some great folks and had a good time, but after a couple of months I decided to return to Shawnee and go to work in the oil field with another longtime friend, Chris Hilditch. A few years later, I helped my brother get a job at PDO.
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Very good audience recording featuring William Topley on the song Sailing to Philadelphia. Very nice to hear Mark Knopfler mix up the lyrics of What it is a bit. He sings parts of the extra verse instead which can be found on the Mexican promo single. Complete setlist.

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Charitable Giving: Smart from the Heart
Do you have causes that you want to support with donations?
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When it comes to generational differences, knowing the facts can be difficult.
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‘Almost Famous’ on Broadway is a rock ‘n’ roll nightmare
The Daily Beast
November 3, 2022
“Almost Famous” is a wince-inducing Broadway musical—a toothless, sanitized, and humorless version of the supposedly dark and dangerous era of rock ‘n’ roll it claims to be about.
Rarely has rock ‘n’ roll looked and sounded as boring and tedious as it does in the strange Broadway mess that is Almost Famous (Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre, booking to April 9, 2023). This is odd, as the musical is based on the popular Oscar-winning film, written and directed by Cameron Crowe, who also wrote the book and lyrics for the stage show (music and other lyrics by Tom Kitt).
Semi-autobiographical, it features teenage journalist William Miller (Casey Likes) as he wheedles his way, by faking being much older on the phone, into following a dysfunctional rock band called Stillwater to make his writing debut in Rolling Stone in 1973. The result, on stage, is wince-inducing—a leaping, sing-songy, wishy-washy, toothless, sanitized, and humorless version of what that era of rock ‘n’ roll was.
In Almost Famous’ mind, as its blurb promises, “William is thrust into the rock-and-roll circus, where his love of music, his longing for friendship, and his integrity as a writer collide. Almost Famous is a spirited tale of fandom, family, and the unforgettable characters you’ll meet along the way.”
The musical is none of those things. At the end, someone says how much fun it has all been. Really, it hasn’t. William has had a consistently dull, dreary time on the road with Stillwater. We do not see him taking or enjoying drugs. We do not see him enjoying loads of sex. We do not see him doing much journalism. We see these acts being implied, but just when things might get interesting, the lights go out, just as our hero looks–well—overwhelmed or plain confused. The musical drifts listlessly from scene to scene, free of any narrative momentum.
However, it also represents a kind of theatrical first, where you are rooting for the character on stage who is supposed to be the square, the joy- and wildness-killer, William’s mom Elaine (Anika Larsen). Larsen has the show’s best songs and best lines, and the only moment worth cheering is when she tells Stillwater’s lead singer Russell Hammond (Chris Wood) to not only return her son home, but also not to hurt him or lead him astray. “Yes,” you think—when really, you should be rooting for William to be led as far astray as possible.
William just seems too hapless, too acted-upon, too much of a drip to care that much about. It’s one thing to present him as a sweet, music-loving kid whose innocence and good-heartedness will ultimately be rewarded as he negotiates a supposed nest of vipers. But he just seems clueless and dull, and lacking any of the basic skills to be even a mild-mannered journalist.
The legendary scribe Lester Bangs (Rob Colletti, excellently snarky) occasionally pops up on the side of the stage to remind the teenager to be a journalist; to not fall for the schmoozing, to actually ask some questions, to get the story. But William shows himself utterly incapable of doing so, over and over again. Indeed, his not getting the story because he just wants everyone to like him is played as low-key heroic and cute.
The anti-journalism fervor stirred by Donald Trump and his acolytes over the last few years is repeated and recycled endlessly in Almost Famous. William’s nickname from the band is “The Enemy.” It is said playfully, but meaningfully and with an edge. William doesn’t stand up for himself, doesn’t follow any of Bangs’ metaphorical shaking-by-the-collar to do his job, and falls in line to be a kind of passive bystander happy to be around the band.
Around this critic, the audience groaned in agreement when one character mentioned journalistic reporting as something to be suspicious of. Maybe fact-checking in magazines has changed since Crowe’s time—but one line where a Rolling Stone fact-checker supposedly accepts a flat denial of everything in a piece as a reason to nix it is laughable.
The band itself is also free of any rock ‘n’ roll charisma, and although they are meant to be in conflict—about the amount of stage and fame-time one member has over another—the acting is so cartoonish and the script so leaden it never flares into anything approaching real aggression or tension. Just like William, although physically older, the bandmates look like boys masquerading as men.
The same vibe of passionless dead weight attaches itself to the show’s attempted love triangle, between William, Russell, and the supposedly mysterious Penny Lane (Solea Pfeiffer). Penny Lane is supposed to be Almost Famous’ Nico—the ultimate, alluring rock muse and hanger-on. What is her real name? No one knows! How does she bewitch all who fall into her path? No one knows! How does she have such style, wit, and grace? No one knows!
In truth, Penny Lane feels like an offensively underwritten straight man’s masturbatory fantasy—passive, voiceless, a totem of sex appeal, and not much else. In the stage show, there is no enigma about her, she just kind of drifts about in dollar-store hippy garb. When her story is revealed at the very end, it doesn’t really change anything, or land with emphasis.
Almost Famous is one of those musicals where words and songs repeat themselves for about two and a half hours, and then, suddenly in the last 10 minutes, the production rouses itself from its own stupor for a big, welcome bang of a finale. “Where have you been until now?” you think as things finally click into gear. We cheer as William Miller has his first rock ‘n’ roll moment, leaping and head-banging across the stage to accept the inevitable standing ovation. Too bad this burst of life happens outside the story, and far too late to save the show.


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In this episode of the DeFi Download, Piers Ridyard speaks with John Chen, Senior Advisor of Umbrella Network, and Philippe Engels, Partnerships and BD Manager. What sets Umbrella apart from other oracles, how it functions, and what the future has in store for it are some of the topics of their conversation.
Umbrella Network is a community-owned decentralized data oracle that powers anything from DeFi to decentralized applications more broadly. Umbrella accomplishes this on a massive scale at an incredibly low cost.
To alleviate the friction involved in extracting and verifying data, the Umbrella team developed Passport. Passport, an optimized, pre-built, and cost-effective solution, enables dApps to receive Umbrella’s Layer 2 data straight into their smart contracts without the need for proof verification.
[01:15] Chainlink is already a market-leading oracle. Why does the market require a new oracle? What are the limitations of Chainlink?
[4:04] How does a developer think about integrating data from Layer 2 into their Ethereum, Radix, or other Layer 1 application?
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It was a Girls Greater Catholic League battle at the second game of the Holiday Hardwood Classic as the Seton Saints took on the Ursuline Academy Lions at the Cintas Center.
The scoring opened with five straight points by Ursuline freshman guard Maria Garza, followed by both teams trading threes. A high-scoring first quarter ended with Ursuline holding a 16-12 lead.
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In a later story (Hyginus, Poet. Astronom. ii. 13) Zeus is said to have used the skin of the goat Amalthea (aigis=goat-skin) which suckled him in Crete, as a buckler when he went forth to do battle against the giants. Another legend represents the aegis as a fire-breathing monster like the Chimera, which was slain by Athene, who afterwards wore its skin as a cuirass (Diodorus Siculus iii. 70). Still others say it was the skin of Pallas.
Another version describes it to have been really the goat's skin used as a belt to support the shield. When so used it would generally be fastened on the right shoulder, and would partially envelop the chest as it passed obliquely round in front and behind to be attached to the shield under the left arm. Hence, by transference, it would be employed to denote at times the shield which it supported, and at other times a cuirass, the purpose of which it in part served. In accordance with this double meaning the aegis appears in works of art sometimes as an animal's skin thrown over the shoulders and arms, sometimes as a cuirass, with a border of snakes corresponding to the tassels of Homer, usually with the Gorgon's head in the centre. It is often represented on the statues of Roman emperors, heroes and warriors, and on cameos and vases.
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1 Chapter 5: Mass, Bernoulli and Energy Equations PTT 204/3 APPLIED FLUID MECHANICS SEM 2 (2012/2013)Chapter 5:Mass, Bernoulli andEnergy Equations
2 ObjectivesApply the conservation of mass equation to balance the incoming and outgoing flow rates in a flow system.Recognize various forms of mechanical energy, and work with energy conversion efficiencies.Understand the use and limitations of the Bernoulli equation, and apply it to solve a variety of fluid flow problems.Work with the energy equation expressed in terms of heads, and use it to determine turbine power output and pumping power requirements.
3 5–1 ■ INTRODUCTIONYou are already familiar with numerous conservation laws such as the laws of conservation of mass, conservation of energy, and conservation of momentum.Historically, the conservation laws are first applied to a fixed quantity of matter called a closed system or just a system, and then extended to regions in space called control volumes.The conservation relations are also called balance equations since any conserved quantity must balance during a process.
4 Conservation of MassThe conservation of mass relation for a closed system undergoing a change is expressed as msys = constant or dmsys/dt = 0, which is the statement that the mass of the system remains constant during a process.Mass balance for a control volume (CV) in rate form:the total rates of mass flow into and out of the control volumethe rate of change of mass within the control volume boundaries.Continuity equation: In fluid mechanics, the conservation of mass relation written for a differential control volume is usually called the continuity equation.
5 The Linear Momentum Equation Linear momentum: The product of the mass and the velocity of a body is called the linear momentum or just the momentum of the body.The momentum of a rigid body of mass m moving with a velocity V is m .Newton’s second law: The acceleration of a body is proportional to the net force acting on it and is inversely proportional to its mass, and that the rate of change of the momentum of a body is equal to the net force acting on the body.Conservation of momentum principle: The momentum of a system remains constant only when the net force acting on it is zero, and thus the momentum of such systems is conserved.Linear momentum equation: In fluid mechanics, Newton’s second law is usually referred to as the linear momentum equation.
6 Conservation of Energy The conservation of energy principle (the energy balance): The net energy transfer to or from a system during a process be equal to the change in the energy content of the system.Energy can be transferred to or from a closed system by heat or work.Control volumes also involve energy transfer via mass flow.the total rates of energy transfer into and out of the control volumethe rate of change of energywithin the control volume boundariesIn fluid mechanics, we usually limit our consideration to mechanical forms of energy only.
7 5–2 ■ MECHANICAL ENERGY AND EFFICIENCY Mechanical energy: The form of energy that can be converted to mechanical work completely and directly by an ideal mechanical device such as an ideal turbine.Mechanical energy of a flowing fluid per unit mass:Flow energy + kinetic energy + potential energyMechanical energy change:The mechanical energy of a fluid does not change during flow if its pressure, density, velocity, and elevation remain constant.In the absence of any irreversible losses, the mechanical energy change represents the mechanical work supplied to the fluid (if emech > 0) or extracted from the fluid (if emech < 0).
8 Mechanical energy is illustrated by an ideal hydraulic turbine coupled with an ideal generator. In the absence of irreversible losses, the maximum produced power is proportional to (a) the change in water surface elevation from the upstream to the downstream reservoir or (b) (close-up view) the drop in water pressure from just upstream to just downstream of the turbine.
9 Mechanical efficiency of a device or process Shaft work: The transfer of mechanical energy is usually accomplished by a rotating shaft, and thus mechanical work is often referred to as shaft work.A pump or a fan receives shaft work (usually from an electric motor) and transfers it to the fluid as mechanical energy (less frictional losses).A turbine converts the mechanical energy of a fluid to shaft work.Mechanical efficiency of a device or processThe effectiveness of the conversion process between the mechanical work supplied or extracted and the mechanical energy of the fluid is expressed by the pump efficiency and turbine efficiency,
10 The mechanical efficiency of a fan is the ratio of the rate of increase of the mechanical energy of the air to the mechanical power input.
11 Motor efficiencyGenerator efficiencyPump-Motor overall efficiencyTurbine-Generator overall efficiency:The overall efficiency of a turbine–generator is the product of the efficiency of the turbine and the efficiency of the generator, and represents the fraction of the mechanical energy of the fluid converted to electric energy.
12 The efficiencies just defined range between 0 and 100%. 0% corresponds to the conversion of the entire mechanical or electric energy input to thermal energy, and the device in this case functions like a resistance heater.100% corresponds to the case of perfect conversion with no friction or other irreversibilities, and thus no conversion of mechanical or electric energy to thermal energy (no losses).For systems that involve only mechanical forms of energy and its transfer as shaft work, the conservation of energy isEmech, loss : The conversion of mechanical energy to thermal energy due to irreversibilities such as friction.Many fluid flow problems involve mechanical forms of energy only, and such problems are conveniently solved by using a mechanical energy balance.
15 5–3 ■ THE BERNOULLI EQUATION Bernoulli equation: An approximate relation between pressure, velocity, and elevation, and is valid in regions of steady, incompressible flow where net frictional forces are negligible.Despite its simplicity, it has proven to be a very powerful tool in fluid mechanics.The Bernoulli approximation is typically useful in flow regions outside of boundary layers and wakes, where the fluid motion is governed by the combined effects of pressure and gravity forces.The Bernoulli equation is an approximate equation that is valid only in inviscid regions of flow where net viscous forces are negligibly small compared to inertial, gravitational, or pressure forces. Such regions occur outside of boundary layers and wakes.
16 Acceleration of a Fluid Particle In two-dimensional flow, the acceleration can be decomposed into two components:streamwise acceleration as along the streamline andnormal acceleration an in the direction normal to the streamline, which is given as an = V2/R.Streamwise acceleration is due to a change in speed along a streamline, and normal acceleration is due to a change in direction.For particles that move along a straight path, an = 0 since the radius of curvature is infinity and thus there is no change in direction. The Bernoulli equation results from a force balance along a streamline.During steady flow, a fluid may not accelerate in time at a fixed point, but it may accelerate in space.Acceleration in steady flow is due to the change of velocity with position.
17 Derivation of the Bernoulli Equation Steady flow:Steady, incompressible flow:The forces acting on a fluid particle along a streamline.The sum of the kinetic, potential, and flow energies of a fluid particle is constant along a streamline during steady flow when compressibility and frictional effects are negligible.The Bernoulli equation between any two points on the same streamline:
18 The incompressible Bernoulli equation is derived assuming incompressible flow, and thus it should not be used for flows with significant compressibility effects.
19 Unsteady, Compressible Flow The Bernoulli equation for unsteady, compressible flow:
20 The Bernoulli equation can be viewed as the “conservation of mechanical energy principle.” This is equivalent to the general conservation of energy principle for systems that do not involve any conversion of mechanical energy and thermal energy to each other, and thus the mechanical energy and thermal energy are conserved separately.The Bernoulli equation states that during steady, incompressible flow with negligible friction, the various forms of mechanical energy are converted to each other, but their sum remains constant.There is no dissipation of mechanical energy during such flows since there is no friction that converts mechanical energy to sensible thermal (internal) energy.The Bernoulli equation is commonly used in practice since a variety of practical fluid flow problems can be analyzed to reasonable accuracy with it.The Bernoulli equation states that the sum of the kinetic, potential, and flow energies of a fluid particle is constant along a streamline during steady flow.
21 Static, Dynamic, and Stagnation Pressures The kinetic and potential energies of the fluid can be converted to flow energy (and vice versa) during flow, causing the pressure to change. Multiplying the Bernoulli equation by the density givesP is the static pressure: It does not incorporate any dynamic effects; it represents the actual thermodynamic pressure of the fluid. This is the same as the pressure used in thermodynamics and property tables.V2/2 is the dynamic pressure: It represents the pressure rise when the fluid in motion is brought to a stop isentropically.gz is the hydrostatic pressure: It is not pressure in a real sense since its value depends on the reference level selected; it accounts for the elevation effects, i.e., fluid weight on pressure. (Be careful of the sign—unlike hydrostatic pressure gh which increases with fluid depth h, the hydrostatic pressure term gz decreases with fluid depth.)Total pressure: The sum of the static, dynamic, and hydrostatic pressures. Therefore, the Bernoulli equation states that the total pressure along a streamline is constant.
22 Stagnation pressure: The sum of the static and dynamic pressures Stagnation pressure: The sum of the static and dynamic pressures. It represents the pressure at a point where the fluid is brought to a complete stop isentropically.Close-up of a Pitot-static probe, showing the stagnation pressure hole and two of the five static circumferential pressure holes.The static, dynamic, and stagnation pressures measured using piezometer tubes.
23 When a stationary body is immersed in a flowing stream, the fluid is brought to a stop at the nose of the body (stagnation point)Stagnation pointStreaklines produced by colored fluid introduced upstream of an airfoil; since the flow is steady, the streaklines are the same as streamlines and pathlines. The stagnation streamline is marked.
24 Limitations on the Use of the Bernoulli Equation Steady flow The Bernoulli equation is applicable to steady flow.Frictionless flow Every flow involves some friction, no matter how small, and frictional effects may or may not be negligible.No shaft work The Bernoulli equation is not applicable in a flow section that involves a pump, turbine, fan, or any other machine or impeller since such devices destroy the streamlines and carry out energy interactions with the fluid particles. When these devices exist, the energy equation should be used instead.Incompressible flow Density is taken constant in the derivation of the Bernoulli equation. The flow is incompressible for liquids and also by gases at Mach numbers less than about 0.3.No heat transfer The density of a gas is inversely proportional to temperature, and thus the Bernoulli equation should not be used for flow sections that involve significant temperature change such as heating or cooling sections.Flow along a streamline Strictly speaking, the Bernoulli equation is applicable along a streamline. However, when a region of the flow is irrotational and there is negligibly small vorticity in the flow field, the Bernoulli equation becomes applicable across streamlines as well.
25 Frictional effects, heat transfer, and components that disturb the streamlined structure of flow make the Bernoulli equation invalid. It should not be used in any of the flows shown here.When the flow is irrotational, the Bernoulli equation becomes applicable between any two points along the flow (not just on the same streamline).
26 Hydraulic Grade Line (HGL) and Energy Grade Line (EGL) It is often convenient to represent the level of mechanical energy graphically using heights to facilitate visualization of the various terms of the Bernoulli equation. Dividing each term of the Bernoulli equation by g givesP/g is the pressure head; it represents the height of a fluid column that produces the static pressure P.V2/2g is the velocity head; it represents the elevation needed for a fluid to reach the velocity V during frictionless free fall.z is the elevation head; it represents the potential energy of the fluid.An alternative form of the Bernoulli equation is expressed in terms of heads as: The sum of the pressure, velocity, and elevation heads is constant along a streamline.
27 Dynamic head, V2/2g The difference between the heights of EGL and HGL. Hydraulic grade line (HGL), P/g + z The line that represents the sum of the static pressure and the elevation heads.Energy grade line (EGL), P/g + V2/2g + z The line that represents the total head of the fluid.Dynamic head, V2/2g The difference between the heights of EGL and HGL.The hydraulic grade line (HGL) and the energy grade line (EGL) for free discharge from a reservoir through a horizontal pipe with a diffuser.
28 Notes on HGL and EGLFor stationary bodies such as reservoirs or lakes, the EGL and HGL coincide with the free surface of the liquid.The EGL is always a distance V2/2g above the HGL. These two curves approach each other as the velocity decreases, and they diverge as the velocity increases.In an idealized Bernoulli-type flow, EGL is horizontal and its height remains constant.For open-channel flow, the HGL coincides with the free surface of the liquid, and the EGL is a distance V2/2g above the free surface.At a pipe exit, the pressure head is zero (atmospheric pressure) and thus the HGL coincides with the pipe outlet.The mechanical energy loss due to frictional effects (conversion to thermal energy) causes the EGL and HGL to slope downward in the direction of flow. The slope is a measure of the head loss in the pipe. A component, such as a valve, that generates significant frictional effects causes a sudden drop in both EGL and HGL at that location.A steep jump/drop occurs in EGL and HGL whenever mechanical energy is added/removed to/from the fluid (pump/turbine).The (gage) pressure of a fluid is zero at locations where the HGL intersects the fluid. The pressure in a flow section that lies above the HGL is negative, and the pressure in a section that lies below the HGL is positive.
29 In an idealized Bernoulli-type flow, EGL is horizontal and its height remains constant. But this is not the case for HGL when the flow velocity varies along the flow.A steep jump occurs in EGL and HGL whenever mechanical energy is added to the fluid by a pump, and a steep drop occurs whenever mechanical energy is removed from the fluid by a turbine.The gage pressure of a fluid is zero at locations where the HGL intersects the fluid, and the pressure is negative (vacuum) in a flow section that lies above the HGL.
30 Example: Water Discharge from a Large Tank Example: Spraying Water into the Air
31 Example: Siphoning Out Gasoline from a Fuel Tank
37 5–5 ■ GENERAL ENERGY EQUATION The first law of thermodynamics (the conservation of energy principle): Energy cannot be created or destroyed during a process; it can only change forms.The energy change of a system during a process is equal to the net work and heat transfer between the system and its surroundings.
38 Energy Transfer by Heat, Q Thermal energy: The sensible and latent forms of internal energy.Heat Transfer: The transfer of energy from one system to another as a result of a temperature difference.The direction of heat transfer is always from the higher-temperature body to the lower-temperature one.Adiabatic process: A process during which there is no heat transfer.Heat transfer rate: The time rate of heat transfer.Temperature difference is the driving force for heat transfer. The larger the temperature difference, the higher is the rate of heat transfer.
39 Energy Transfer by Work, W Work: The energy transfer associated with a force acting through a distance.A rising piston, a rotating shaft, and an electric wire crossing the system boundaries are all associated with work interactions.Power: The time rate of doing work.Car engines and hydraulic, steam, and gas turbines produce work; compressors, pumps, fans, and mixers consume work.Wshaft The work transmitted by a rotating shaftWpressure The work done by the pressure forces on the control surfaceWviscous The work done by the normal and shear components of viscous forces on the control surfaceWother The work done by other forces such as electric, magnetic, and surface tension
40 Shaft WorkA force F acting through a moment arm r generates a torque TThis force acts through a distance sShaft workThe power transmitted through the shaft is the shaft work done per unit time:Shaft work is proportional to the torque applied and the number of revolutions of the shaft.Energy transmission through rotating shafts is commonly encountered in practice.
41 Work Done by Pressure Forces The pressure force acting on (a) the moving boundary of a system in a piston-cylinder device, and (b) the differential surface area of a system of arbitrary shape.
42 The conservation of energy equation is obtained by replacing B in the Reynolds transport theorem by energy E and b by e.
43 In a typical engineering problem, the control volume may contain many inlets and outlets; energy flows in at each inlet, and energy flows out at each outlet. Energy also enters the control volume through net heat transfer and net shaft work.
44 5–6 ■ ENERGY ANALYSIS OF STEADY FLOWS The net rate of energy transfer to a control volume by heat transfer and work during steady flow is equal to the difference between the rates of outgoing and incoming energy flows by mass flow.single-stream devicesA control volume with only one inlet and one outlet and energy interactions.
45 Ideal flow (no mechanical energy loss): The lost mechanical energy in a fluid flow system results in an increase in the internal energy of the fluid and thus in a rise of fluid temperature.Real flow (with mechanical energy loss):
46 A typical power plant has numerous pipes, elbows, valves, pumps, and turbines, all of which have irreversible losses.
48 Mechanical energy flow chart for a fluid flow system that involves a pump and a turbine. Vertical dimensions show each energy term expressed as an equivalent column height of fluid, i.e., head.
49 Special Case: Incompressible Flow with No (5-74)Special Case: Incompressible Flow with NoMechanical Work Devices and Negligible FrictionWhen piping losses are negligible, there is negligible dissipation of mechanical energy into thermal energy, and thus hL = emech loss, piping /g ≅ 0. Also, hpump, u = hturbine, e = 0 when there are no mechanical work devices such as fans, pumps, or turbines. Then Eq. 5–74 reduces toThis is the Bernoulli equation derived earlier using Newton’s second law of motion.Thus, the Bernoulli equation can be thought of as a degenerate form of the energy equation.
50 Kinetic Energy Correction Factor, The kinetic energy of a fluid stream obtained from V2/2 is not the same as the actual kinetic energy of the fluid stream since the square of a sum is not equal to the sum of the squares of its components.This error can be corrected by replacing the kinetic energy terms V2/2 in the energy equation by Vavg2/2, where is the kinetic energy correction factor.The correction factor is 2.0 for fully developed laminar pipe flow, and it ranges between 1.04 and 1.11 for fully developed turbulent flow in a round pipe.The determination of the kinetic energy correction factor using the actual velocity distribution V(r) and the average velocity Vavg at a cross section.
55 Example: Hydroelectric Power Generation from a Dam
56 Example: Fan Selection for Air Cooling of a Computer Energy equation between 3 and 4Energy equation between 1 and 2
57 Example: Pumping Water from a Lake to a Reservoir Energy equation between 1 and 2For the pump
58 Summary Introduction Conservation of Mass The Linear Momentum Equation Conservation of EnergyMass and Volume Flow RatesConservation of Mass PrincipleMoving or Deforming Control VolumesMass Balance for Steady-Flow ProcessesSpecial Case: Incompressible FlowMechanical Energy and Efficiency
59 The Bernoulli Equation Acceleration of a Fluid ParticleDerivation of the Bernoulli EquationForce Balance across StreamlinesUnsteady, compressible flowStatic, Dynamic, and Stagnation PressuresLimitations on the Use of the Bernoulli EquationHydraulic Grade Line (HGL) and Energy Grade Line (EGL)Applications of the Bernouli EquationGeneral Energy EquationEnergy Transfer by Heat, QEnergy Transfer by Work, WShaft WorkWork Done by Pressure ForcesEnergy Analysis of Steady FlowsSpecial Case: Incompressible Flow with No Mechanical Work Devices and Negligible FrictionKinetic Energy Correction Factor,


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REMEMBER ''it's Giuliani time''?
That, we were told, is what police officers snarled while allegedly torturing Abner Louima in a Brooklyn precinct house 18 months ago. The incendiary phrase shot across the city like a rocket-propelled grenade. Only problem: Mr. Louima later acknowledged that it was never said.
Remember Jose (Kiko) Garcia?
He was the Dominican immigrant shot to death by a police officer in Washington Heights seven years ago. Two sisters told how he was beaten, then shot while lying helpless on the floor. There were nights of street unrest. Only problem: Mr. Garcia turned out to be an armed drug suspect. A grand jury found the sisters' story to be untrue, and said the officer had acted in self-defense.
Remember Kevin Cedeno?
He was the Washington Heights teen-ager shot in the back by a police officer in 1997. There was outrage then, too. The Bronx Borough President, Fernando Ferrer, called the shooting ''an execution.'' Only problem: Mr. Cedeno was carrying a two-foot-long machete that a grand jury decided could have been mistaken for a shotgun about to be fired.
In short, things are not always what they seem at first, a truism that can be forgotten in times of passion. But it seems worth bearing in mind in the stomach-wrenching death of Amadou Diallo, the unarmed African immigrant gunned down in the Bronx by four police officers who fired an almost inconceivable 41 bullets at him.
No one is suggesting that Mr. Diallo did anything to warrant such a response, and it is obvious that something went terribly wrong. But charged words like ''murderers,'' ''massacre'' and ''execution'' have been casually tossed around in street protests, which seem likely to continue.
While the anger is understandable, it is unclear how anyone can reach such damning conclusions based on the available evidence. Who knows at this point if the four officers had malice in their hearts or if they panicked in the face of an illusory threat they thought to be real? It does make a difference.
As horrified as everyone is by those 41 shots, a more enduring question for New Yorkers may be why Bullet No. 1 was fired. Until a grand jury weighs in, something that takes time and a smidgen of public patience, answers may remain out of reach, no matter how many protests are held.
''This wasn't target practice,'' said James Savage, acting president of the Patrolmen's Benevolent Association.
But Mr. Savage is well aware that skeptics will not take him at face value, especially in black and Hispanic neighborhoods. The same can be said of Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani and Police Commissioner Howard Safir, who are now paying the price for mechanistic responses to questionable police shootings.
Odd as the comparison may seem, it is hard not think back a few years to the intifada, the Palestinians' anti-Israel uprising.
When Palestinians raged against military occupation, Israeli officials responded with sheaves of figures showing how life was better under their rule. Education levels were up, infant mortality was down and so on. The statistics were accurate. But they took no account of the humiliations, large and small, that Palestinians felt every day at the hands of the Israeli Army.
MR. GIULIANI offers statistics in much the same way, to show that his police do not generally have an itchy trigger finger and that a plunging murder rate has kept thousands of black and Hispanic New Yorkers alive. But his numbers, however accurate, cannot reflect the anger felt by people stopped and frisked by the police each day only because they are W.W.B. -- Walking While Black.
Humiliation is hard to quantify. So is the Mayor's resistance to apologizing when things go wrong -- unless perhaps for something that happened on his predecessor's watch, like the Crown Heights disturbances.
''Nobody has saved more blacks and Hispanics from violence than Mayor Giuliani, and yet he is painted as a racist,'' said Michael Julian, a former senior official in the Police Department. That, he said, is because the Mayor has done little to break the wagons-in-a-circle mentality of most officers. He may have even made it worse.
''Cops are intolerant of critics, and now they have an administration like that,'' Mr. Julian said. ''It has an effect on how minorities react.'' If the Mayor and the police had only shown more empathy over the years, he said, ''they might have had more support now that they really need it.''

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Medicine is not just a science. It is a living practice. Translating emerging science into practice is one of the key skills of doctors. Before scientific knowledge became viral, translation was merely a matter of communication. Now, as the science of medicine reaches epidemic proportions, it is becoming more and more difficult to perform this task using our traditional tools.
For example, classifying diseases is becoming obsolete in practice. The number of disease classes is too large, and it is impossible for doctors to explain this terminology in a meaningful way with patients. In nearly two decades, the number of new diseases invented or discovered has almost doubled from 7600 to 14000 and yet less than 4% of clinicians access these disease names in their daily work.
The science of medicine is a communication dinosaur. It needs to move rapidly into the audiovisual age before it becomes extinct.
Irrespective of the label, one thing most human diseases have in common is that they manifest in living people and not in the pages of a dictionary.
Part of the problem is that our written and spoken language is inadequate. Take the English language. There are 171,476 words in current use, of which over half are nouns, a quarter are descriptive words such as adjectives, and about a seventh are verbs. The rest are exclamations, conjunctions, prepositions and suffixes.
Hardly enough to describe the complexity of multiple conditions and how they might interact in even one patient over time. The science of medicine is a communication dinosaur. It needs to move rapidly into the audiovisual age before it becomes extinct.
In some areas of medicine, such as radiology, where visualisation is essential, diagnosis by retrieving visual images is well established. These images are computed in one of two ways, either by text and or by content. The old fashioned text-based approach involves experts translating the visual images that they see into clinical descriptions. The newer content-based approach uses visual information to develop an image dictionary.
The therapeutic descriptions in medicine must catch up in this media driven world. We need to create a visual bag of scenarios. Accessing the video medium to transmit complex concepts and treatment pathways that occur over long periods of time must be part of this century’s medicine.
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This post made me think differently about communicating diagnoses. We have used visual imagery for dermatology and radiology, it is not a stretch to apply it elsewhere though I see it as complementary to text for internal medicine. As for family medicine, narrative cannot be replaced – we have tried that in the past. We know that diagnostic labels are insufficient, hence ICPC was invented- but ordinary docs don’t use it. Sometimes it is the story that we ‘treat’, and not a diagnosis at all.


Five people were arrested in a pre-dawn motel raid and charged with drug possession felonies after an accusation of sexual assault led police to their rooms on Tuesday, according to a Covington Police Department report.
Kevin Banks, 23, of Covington and Adrian Norman, 29, of Covington were charged with possession of cocaine and possession of marijuana. Clinton Smith, 30, of Conyers and Kimberly Jarrell, 19, of Athens were arrested for possession of cocaine with intent to distribute. Destiny Welch, 18, of Covington was charged with possession of marijuana, possession of cocaine, and theft of lost/mislaid property. All were arrested at the America's Best Value Inn on Alcovy Road.
CPD Officer Joseph Parkin met with a complainant around 4 a.m. who said she had been hanging out with Banks, Norman, Smith, Welch and one other individual over the weekend and had seen them using and selling illegal drugs.
During the weekend, according to the report, she said they drove around Covington and were paranoid of police, which in turn made her paranoid. She told Parkin she no longer wanted to associate with the individuals but was stranded in Covington until her mother could pick her up in the morning.
When questioned by another officer why she was turning them in, she said she had been sexually assaulted by Banks, who allegedly threw her onto the bed and tried to take her clothes off, but she was able to push him off with her legs. She said Norman had witnessed the assault.
Parkin and four other officers went to the America's Best Value Inn where Smith and Banks rented rooms 221 and 213.
They had the witness knock on the door of room 213, where they found Banks, Norman, and Welch, who were handcuffed and separated for questioning. According to the report, there was a strong smell of marijuana in the room, and officers found two crack pipes in the bathroom, crack cocaine on the floor by the beds, marijuana in the ashtray next to the bed and in the bathroom toilet.
In Welch's purse, they discovered a plastic bag of green leafy substance believed to be marijuana and an allegedly stolen Visa card. Welch claimed she found the card and intended to return it, but the complainant stated she saw Welch steal the card from a house near Harristown.
Officers questioned Banks about the sexual assault. He said he had not done it and had not been alone with the accuser.
In room 221, officers found Smith and Jarrell, who was reportedly in bed, along with a small plastic bag of an off white substance believed to be crack cocaine in a box of cigarettes.
Smith claimed he had been in the room since Sunday, although the motel said he had been there longer than that, and he didn't know the occupants of room 213. When asked how they knew about him, he said his cousin was friends with them and informed them that Smith was staying there.
Norman, Smith and Jarrell were released on Tuesday on a $2,500 bond. Banks, who had been incarcerated for charges of burglary in Newton and Rockdale counties, is being held for pardons and parole.


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Impressionism is a genre of creation which expresses impressions rather than its distinct figure. Impression, defined as “the effect produced by external force or influence on the senses or mind” (Watt 352), relies completely on senses. Since human sense is unreliable, impression is ambiguous. Thus, an impressionist artist would accept the ambiguity surrounding its object and also focus on the equivocal nature of reality. Joseph Conrad, as a literary impressionist, expresses obscurity of situations and characters to claim that justice is equivocal.
Conrad creates ambiguity like how impressionist painters illustrate illusions in their painting: by illustrating what the observer perceives. In art, impressionism is a style that expresses what the spectator sees instead of what the object actually is. Claude Monet, an impressionist painter, exclaimed “Poor blind idiots. They want to see everything clearly, even through the fog!” (Watt 351). Despite the criticisms belittling his artistic style, Monet firmly established his path of expressing the fog that divides his perception from the definitive object. Monet’s representative painting, Impression Sunrise, clearly demonstrates the use of vague human perception to create ambiguity. The painting portrays a lake coloured with dim sunrise where several boats cast their ripple across the fog covered water. Unlike a realist painter who would have described every single detail of the scenery including the steamboats and the horizon, Monet chose to express only the sun and the small boat because it was what stood out to himself through the thick morning fog. Of course, some may argue that the bigger boats may have stood out more due to their gigantic size. However, that Monet chose to perceive the small boat and the sunrise shows that the object of painting and its qualities solely depends on how the painter is looking at it. Perceptions vary for all observers. Since views differ and the scene is painted in the eyes of an individual, the reality of the scenery is distorted, creating ambiguity. Conrad uses a similar technique in literature to create ambivalence. Watt comments that “Conrad’s main objective is to put [the readers] into intense sensory contact with the events… which normally distort human perception” (357). Before Marlow introduces his story about Kurtz and his journey to Congo, the unnamed first-person narrator introduces Marlow’s story as “a glow [brought] out [out of] a haze… misty halos that… are made visible by the spectral illumination of moonlight” (Conrad 5). Like how Monet used morning fog over the lake to create distance between the perceiver and the perceived, Conrad explains that Marlow’s story is faded with “misty halos” (5). This device of ambiguity allows Marlow to freely express his personal opinions involved in the story. When Marlow and the Russian Harlequin have a discussion about Kurtz, Marlow independently articulates his strong if somewhat vulgar opinion about Kurtz: that he “hadn’t heard any of [the] splendid monologues [made by Kurtz] on… love, justice” (58) and that “crawling before… Kurtz” (58) makes the Harlequin “as the veriest savage of them all” (58). This shows that Conrad, through the misty stipulation of the narrator, incorporates strong assertions of personal opinions to distance reality from the perceiver, creating ambiguity.
Conrad also creates vagueness by the means of capturing moments in time, also similar to impressionist artists. Monet in his Camille Monet on Her Deathbed portrays his wife, Camille, dies due to tuberculosis. However, Monet describes the scene with blurred figures and dimmed colours. This gives its audience the observer’s impression rather than a definitive description of the situation. Monet chooses to describe the scene with a hazy impression in order to condense his own temporary emotions at the moment of creating the artwork. Any person, at his or her loved one’s death bed, would feel a rush of emotion. Monet being an emotional person himself would have flooded with feelings at that moment as well, perhaps tear drops blocking his eyesight. Thus, the impression that the scene of his wife would have been much darker and muddy than it actually was. All material object is subject to change. Similarly, the perceivers of the material world are subject to change as well. Their emotion and situation at a particular time affect how they view and portray the world. Thus, it is inevitable that perspective change as the perceiver and the object change. Given this change, impressionist techniques do not consider the reality of the object. As a result of not incorporating actuality of the object, impressionist form of expression creates vagueness. Similarly, Conrad describes Kurtz through perspectives of many other distinct characters who saw him at different moments of his life. To quote Watt’s words, “Conrad’s main objective is to… delay [human perception’s] recognition of what is most relevant and important” (Watt 357). Conrad captures moments of a character’s life in order to diversify the characterizations of the character. A character being described in multiple perspectives creates ambivalence. For example, Kurtz’s cousin claims that Kurtz “had been essentially a great musician… making of an immense success” (Conrad 71) and more so, his Intended states that “It was impossible not to… love [Kurtz]” (74). However, Marlow perceived Kurtz differently. Although Marlow realizes that Kurtz was a “universal genius” (72) and “a remarkable man” (69) after Kurtz’s death, he describes Kurtz to be “weirdly voracious” (59), “[wanting] to swallow all the air, all the earth, all the men” (59), and “[lacking] restraint in the gratification of his various lusts” (57). This shows that although Kurtz had been a talented and admirable man prior to venturing off to Africa, his journey changed him to be a hungry, greedy and lustful man pleading for “lot of ivory” (73) even after death. As discussed above, images of captured moments create ambiguity due to the inevitable property of human perspective and of material world to change. In Heart of Darkness, by suggesting contrary perspectives of a character created by different observers at different times, Conrad deliberately confuses his audience of who “the original Mr. Kurtz” (49) is. The character’s susceptibility to change thus surrounds the character with ambivalence. Given no definite characterization of a particular character, and indeed a multiple possible characterizations of a character leads to creating as many interpretations of what the particular character believes in. Thus, if values stipulated in the character perspective is vaguely defined, those values contribute to creating obscurity.
Conrad uses the aforementioned impressionist style expressions to support his claim that justice is ambiguous in nature and thus cannot be defined subjectively. First, he uses perspectives and visual imagery to claim that justice is innately equivocal. Marlow visits Kurtz’s Intended’s house to give her what Kurtz has left for her. As he enters the house, “[Kurtz’s] vision seemed to enter the house with [him]… [he] had heard [Kurtz] say afar there… I want no more than justice… while [he] waited [Kurtz] seemed to stare at [him] out of the glassy panel” (Conrad 73). As demonstrated earlier, Conrad manipulates with visual imagery and senses to create ambiguity. When Marlow enters the house, he encounters Kurtz’s vision, not his real figure; what Marlow is actually staring at is a glass panel in the Intended’s house. This distance that Conrad creates between the reality, and the narrator thus the glass panel and the Kurtz’s vision as perceived by the observer, can be interpreted as an impressionist form of expression leading to ambiguity. Conrad uses this obscurity to comment on the nature of justice. Given that at this moment of abstruseness, Kurtz’s vision reminds Marlow of what justice is, the reality of justice is perceived with a distorted and blurred image. Through this contortion, Conrad implies that although the truth may be defined, a human can neither understand what justice is nor observe the absolute form of it. The fact that an impression, covered with haze and surreality was used to describe justice, advance to argue that justice in nature is abstract.
Secondly, Conrad uses different moments of time and ambiguity embedded in a character to proclaim that justice is ambivalent. As soon as Kurtz gets in the boat, he gets sick, and eventually dies muttering “The horror! The horror” (Conrad 69). Soon after, Marlow gives Kurtz another thought and comes to a conclusion that Kurtz’s last statement is a “judgement upon the adventures of [Kurtz’s] soul on this earth” (69). As discussed above, Kurtz is loosely defined thus is a highly equivocal character. Depending on when in his life an observer wishes to describe and through whose eyes the observer speculates, narratives on Kurtz illustrate totally different people. Marlow speculates that at his death, Kurtz evaluated his own righteousness. This scene almost sounds ironical for the most undefined character defines his own actions and its integrity. Given that Kurtz justifies himself, Conrad postulates that justice is vaguely defined and that nothing can actually define what justice is. Also, as Marlow’s meeting with the Intended closes to a conclusion, the Intended asked for “[Kurtz’s] last word” (76). Marlow, afraid that “it [might be] too dark” (76), tells her that “the last word [Kurtz] pronounced was – [her] name” (76) although what Kurtz actually said was nothing close: “The horror! The horror” (69). After telling the Intended a lie, Marlow exclaims that “[Kurtz] said he wanted only justice… but… I could not tell her…” (76). Kurtz is an ambiguous character because Kurtz is characterised by different individuals who observed him for a short period of time compared to his dynamic life. Thus, as the Intended and Marlow converse, their impression of Kurtz would have been different. Intended perceived Kurtz as a person who “was impossible to know… and not to admire him” (74) filled with “love, justice, conduct of life” (58) when Marlow thought him to be a “remarkable man” (70) yet, driven by “monstrous passion” (65) and “various lusts” (57). These conflicting views of Kurtz show that his values will depend on which watch glass he is perceived through. Since there exist many watch glasses, such as Marlow, Kurtz’s Intended, Kurtz’s cousin and the Trading company, there also exist many Kurtzs. As Marlow consistently exclaims, Kurtz “wanted no more than justice – no more than justice” (73). The duplication of Kurtz simultaneous to his desire for justice complicates the very nature of justice by questioning the audience on which Kurtz out of many, they should rely on when interpreting his own values. Later Marlow directly expresses that although he tried “[to render] Kurtz [and his] justice… [he] couldn’t” (77). This explicitly shows that because of the creation of many Kurtzs due to the diverse perspective, the justice that Kurtz wanted also diverged according to in which perspective Kurtz was assessed in. For example, in Marlow’s viewpoint, Kurtz’s justice would be calculative in order to bring punishment to the Europeans who have illegally stolen his ivory. On the contrary, in the Intended’s belief, Kurtz’s justice would have been to care for his loved ones and to achieve virtues of life for she “was sure” (77) that Kurtz would obviously say that the priority of his life was his lover. As manifested earlier, if a character is ambiguously defined by his observer, all his values are blurred as well. Similarly, justice is understood differently depending on the perceiver of justice. This shows that justice is vaguely defined and even more so, misleading.
To conclude, Conrad’s Heart of Darkness is an impressionist literature for it uses impressions to describe situations and takes snapshots of a scene regardless of the temporary nature of the material world. These styles of impressionism all contribute to creating ambiguity because of innate obscurities within human sense that cannot detect reality but only its impression and nature’s vulnerability to time. Through the portrayal of vagueness, Conrad comments on the vagueness of justice, that it cannot be defined but is interpreted by its perceivers to suit their personal interests.
Conrad, Joseph, and Paul B. Armstrong. Heart of Darkness: An Authoritative Text, Backgrounds and Sources, Criticism. 4th ed. New York: Norton, 2006. Print.
Monet, Claude. Camille Monet Sur Son Lit De Mort. 1879. Oil on Canvas. Musée D’Orsay, Paris.
Monet, Claude. Impression Sunrise. 1872. Oil on Canvas. Musée Marmottan Monet, Paris.
Watt, Ian. “Impressionism and Symbolism in Heart of Darkness.” Joseph Conrad (1976): 37-53. Print.


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2021 was a year of many triumphs and attempts. Note, I say attempts, not failures because nothing is really a failure if you learn something from it. Instead, it becomes a process that brings you that much closer to your goal. With that fake-deep quote out of the way and you hopefully a little more convinced of my wisdom and that I’m not a total fraud, I’ll jump right into it.
O2 Arena – Novelette – This is my 8000 word climate fiction novelette published in the November issue, #53 of Galaxy’s Edge. It’s has been reprinted in Apex Magazine issue 129, in January 2022 and is free to read on Apex mag, here. While I say climate fiction, it touches on other issues like homophobia, misogyny, cultism, post & neo colonialism, disability, cancer, capitalism, and more. It’s free to read on the link there and eligible for the Nebula, Hugo, WFA, Locus, BSFA, Sturgeon and other short fiction awards.
Year’s Best African Speculative Fiction Volume One – This is the first ever Year’s Best African Speculative Fiction anthology. It made the Brittle Paper 50 Notable African Books of 2021 in collaboration with Mail & Guardian, and the Top 5 African Books of the Year by The Continent, also with Mail & Guardian. It’s been reviewed on Locus Magazine, LightSpeed Magazine by Arley Sorg, Runalong The Shelves, Black Gate Reviews by Brandon Crilly, Ginger Nuts of Horror, Nerds of a Feather by Adri Joy, British Fantasy Society website by Sarah Deeming and more. With it I’m eligible for the Hugo award, best editor, short form, and Locus award, best anthology in the Locus, World Fantasy, British Fantasy award, BSFA award, best artwork category, and more
Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki – This is a 700 word essay on the SFWA blog about the power, importance and value of African names. It’s eligible for the Hugo award, best related work, and for other essay and short non-fiction awards.
Best Fan Writer – I am also eligible for the Hugo award, best fan writer for my pieces published in semi pro zines this year. My SFWA blog essay Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki on African names and non-fiction piece in Journey Planet issue 58: Cancelled Too soon. It’s titled Nigerian Animated Works Inching Their Way to International TV.
WorldCon Discon3, The African Stream and 2021 Nommo award ceremony Organised by Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki and Nick Wood – The Discon 3 WorldCon was the first WorldCon to have an African stream, a substantial program stream devoted to speculative fiction by Africans. Virtual membership sponsored by the SFWA and the BSFA allowed 22 African creatives participate, in an attempt to circumvent issues of visa denial and travel cost that inhibited attendance of previous WorldCons by African creatives. The Nommo, the most prestigious pan African speculative fiction award was presented at the Discon3 as part of this event, by amazing Black and African writers Suyi Davies Okungbowa, Tochi Onyebuchi, Sheree Renée Thomas and Iquo DianaAbasi. You can see the bios of the other panelists here. The WorldCon Discon3 African Stream and Nommo award ceremony organized by Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki and Nick Wood is eligible for the Hugo award, best related work and other such awards.
Awards, I started the year with a win. January 1st, I was notified I had won the Horror Writers Association diversity grant for 2020. It’s actually a 2020 thing, since from the US timezone end it came at the twilight hours of 2020. But it was already 2021 here. They say take your wins where you find them right? So I take that as a 2021 win. Other wins followed after. See? The winner’s mindset does usher in more. So that’s the HWA Diversity Grant, I’d become the first African editor to win the British Fantasy award for best anthology, the Otherwise award, and the Nommo award for best Novella, the second time I’ll be winning it since 2019 for my short story The Witching Hour. I’d have won awards for my writing and editing now, and for writing, short story and novella. Which brings us to the third fiction length. Wait before that, my nominations.
Before the year ran out I’d be nominated for but not win The Nebula award for best novella, the Locus award for best anthology, the BSFA award for best short fiction, the Theodore Sturgeon award and the This Is Horror award for best anthology.
Fiction: This now brings us to other forms of literature. I sold a novelette earlier in the year. The climate fiction novelette of 8k words titled O2 Arena to Galaxy’s Edge. I also sold a short story to Asimov’s which is scheduled for release next year in May. It’s titled Destiny Delayed. My Galaxy’s Edge story O2 Arena came out in the November issue of the mag and is free to read here and I resold it as a reprint to Apex Mag, also scheduled for a 2022 release. Speaking of 2022 releases, my anthology with co-editors Zelda Knight and Sheree Renée Thomas, Africa Risen forthcoming on Tordotcom (Macmillan) will be out in 2022 as well.
Non-fiction. I didn’t only sell fiction though. I sold a piece to Journey Planet issue 58: Cancelled Too soon. It’s titled Nigerian Animated Works Inching Their Way to International TV. I also have an essay on the SFWA blog titled Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki. Yep, the title is a name, my own. And that’s also the topic, names. Specifically the power, value and importance of African names. There’s also my non-fiction thing on Locus Mag, Decolonising The Mind
Editing: Asides co-editing the Africa Risen anthology, I also started my own press, Jembefola Press and edited and published the first ever Year’s Best African Speculative Fiction anthology and the collections issue of Interstellar Flight Press. I had a non-fiction thing again at the Locus Magazine, an interview. I had another interview on the Hugo award winning Coode Street Podcast as well, with Jonathan Strahan and Gary Wolfe
Endings can be beginnings as well so at the tail end of 2021, December, I started writing two fiction books. That, while planning the WorldCon African Stream, Nommo award for 2021 and the half a dozen panels I would be in and half of which I would moderate. Also I was promoting the Year’s Best African Speculative Fiction anthology and organizing the Bridging Worlds non-fiction anthology for a rescheduled 2022 release. So, see you at the point where our worlds do bridge, and happy new year.


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Left – Meow Meow. Cover – Kanen Breen and Meow Meow. Photos – Pia Johnson
My love affair... no my infatuation... no that's not right either... my obsession... no I'm not obsessed... my stalker tendencies for... no that's just wrong (but not entirely)... my... thing for Meow Meow goes back many years now, as the whole world knows. And as much as I have always melted at the mere mention of her name and become positively turgid at the prospect of a new show, 'Tis Pity left me... let's just say it didn't leave me with the raging emotional hard-on her performances usually leave me with.
Part of the problem is that Meow Meow belongs on a pedestal. A pedestal with spotlights focused on her unique and divine presence. Of course she is usually accompanied on stage, but usually by a small band or a solo pianist or some hand-picked reluctant volunteers from the audience.
In 'Tis Pity, however, Miss Meow is part of a much larger cast and as such, her star power has been much diluted. And 'tis a pity.
Borrowing its name from... I thought it got its name from a recent Bowie song, but it's actually from a 17th century play by John Ford. The full title is 'Tis A Pity She's A Whore, and this production by Victorian Opera is indeed an examination of prostitution in its various forms throughout the ages.
We start off in ancient Athens and Rome and move through the ages to modern times in a series of 10 vignettes, each exploring various aspects of prostitution and its standing in the respective times, all told in a kind of Vaudevillian operatic style.
The work is a collaboration between artistic director and composer Richard Mills, director Cameron Menzies, and performer (what an insufficient word, given her star quality) Meow Meow. MM is accompanied on stage by co-lead Kaneen Breen and three dancers Alexander Bryce, Thomas Johansson and Patrick Weir. The stage is also rammed with a symphony orchestra. All do a fine job.
Ironically, all of this talent on stage adds up to the reason this was a little less satisfying for me than the usual Meow Meow experience. There were teasing glimmers of classic Meow Meow craziness but it was buried in so much orchestra and opera (yes, I know from other shows that she holds her own in classic song of whichever style she chooses to play with). I do appreciate classical music, but as a soundtrack I found the music here distracting. I kept feeling like I was listening to a Disney cartoon, melodramatic tunes accompanying crazy visual antics. And I don't think I appreciate the operatic delivery of story, so while I found the vocals amazing, it's just not my preferred way of being told a story or given information. I don't actually like having to take my eyes away from the performance to read the English interpretation of the Italian lyrics being sung.
But that's just me. I haven't seen a lot of opera, so I'd love to hear what someone who knows about opera thinks of this performance.
At the heart of 'Tis Pity is a serious examination of a very human condition. What they have tried to do is balance the seriousness of the topic with comedy. In past shows I've been amazed by Meow Meow's ability to draw from me tears of hilarity and tears of the other kind in such a short time. Again, here, for me, not so much. I'm not sure this balancing act of sincerity and humour worked so well.
I went in aware that this was going to be a little different to my favourite Meow Meow shows of the past, and yes, there is so much amazing talent present in this production, and yes I did start to really enjoy it but not until the Berlin Vignette, which was quite a way into the show.
I'm not quite sure why this show was “written at breakneck speed”, as Richard Mills tells us in the program notes, but perhaps it would have benefited with a bit more time. Really not bad, just possibly doesn't deliver its full potential.
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An Operatic Fantasia on Selling the Skin and the Teeth
Venue: Elisabeth Murdoch Hall, Melbourne Recital Centre
Dates: 4 – 8 February 2017


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