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Kate Riley / Times staff columnist
Any way you slice it, this legislation has a peel
Get ready for a food fight today in the Washington state Senate.
No, there won't be any tomatoes thrown over partisan wrangling. Rather, the verbal volleys will be aimed at the darling of Washington's vegetables, the Walla Walla sweet onion. Expect incoming from none other than producers of its less-attractive, more-utilitarian rival, for the honor of being the state's official vegetable — the potato.
The hearing in the Senate Government Operations and Elections Committee is scheduled for 8:30 a.m. Pleading the case for the sweet onions are ninth-grade students from Kirkland Junior High. They drafted the one-sentence bill and rounded up legislative sponsors. Rep. Maureen Walsh, R-Walla Walla, was a natural.
Granted, this isn't the most pressing of state issues, but instructor Toni Miller is teaching a lesson in civics these students won't soon forget. The bill passed the House last week 94-1. I'm rooting for kids and their vegetable of choice. The potato lobby should take its lumps and get out of the way.
Potatoes are a reliable, nutritious, tasty meal accompaniment, whether mashed, hashed or twice baked. But they are the meal equivalent of a canvas, dressed up by other ingredients. Walla Wallas add color — sweet with a bite.
They stir passions in cooks. Grocery stores hail their arrival in June with specials and promotions. Kidd Valley restaurants feature them in their onion rings.
Think about it. Who rushes to the produce department to pick out the new crop of signature russets?
The Walla Walla sweet onion is a unique vegetable developed right here in Washington, and it probably is the nation's oldest sweet-onion variety and its most naturally propagated.
In the late 1800s, a French soldier, Peter Pieri, brought a sweet onion seed from the Isle of Corsica to the Walla Walla Valley. Impressed with its winter-hardiness, Italian farmers in the valley embraced the onion. Over time, they selected seeds to ensure sweet taste and large round shape. Thanks to a federal marketing order, only sweet onions grown inside of a defined area with unique soils can legally be sold under the Walla Walla Sweet label.
In the valley, you will still find sweet-onion farmers with surnames like Arbini and Cavalli. They will say you can eat the onions like apples, and maybe even demonstrate it. I prefer mine grilled in large chunks on the barbecue. My husband usually plops a bag on the counter and demands soup.
The potato industry, which earlier killed a version of the bill in the Senate agriculture committee, is not impressed.
"I don't have anything against the Walla Walla sweet onion," demurred Randy Mullen, chair of the Washington State Potato Commission, to a Seattle Times reporter. "But if you ask me, it's a county onion, not a state onion."
Sure, it's grown in one county, but has a strong following with Puget Sound foodies and beyond. They serve it, not merely as an onion, but — ta da — as a Walla Walla Sweet.
Potatoes are important, a $1.5 billion industry in the state, not counting French-fry processing, the potato commission reports. And the growers are no slouches. Though they stand in the marketing shadow of the famous Idaho potato, they grow almost twice as many tubers per acre as those in the Gem State, the National Agriculture Statistics Service says.
Yet, they lack the Sweet's devotion-inspiring mystique.
Last spring, I was enjoying a lunch with a group of editorial writers at a Portland restaurant — that is, until someone ordered the onion soup. I found myself in a tense and decidedly chauvinistic debate with an opinionated Fort Worth columnist, who favors the Texas SuperSweet 1015, and an Atlanta newspaper consultant partial to the Vidalia Peach-of-an-Onion. I tried to behave. I resisted accusing the 1015 of being a lab-generated onion — the result of rich research grants at Texas A&M. Nor did I say the Vidalia is an overrated hybrid with the essence of onion all but bred out of the poor, bland thing.
To break the tension, I promised to share my sweet onion soup recipe, which is made with white wine and a bit of saffron. "I'm sure it will taste almost as good with your onions," I said in spite of myself.
People get worked up about their sweet onions.
By the way, no one said a word, good or bad, about the potatoes.
Kate Riley's e-mail address is firstname.lastname@example.org
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The Ethereum Name Service (ENS) is actively investigating ways to integrate its protocol with Ethereum layer-2 (L2) networks, potentially even developing its own dedicated L2 solution, Khori Whittaker, ENS executive director, confirmed in an interview.
While details remain under wraps, Whittaker explained that the ENS team is evaluating both integrating with existing L2 networks like Optimism and constructing their own “identity layer” L2 solution.
“We’re heavily in research and development on the path of layer 2 applications,” he stated, anticipating tangible results from their exploration this year.
Zero-knowledge proofs, known for protecting user privacy on public blockchains, might also play a role in future L2 development, Whittaker added.
Currently, ENS faces challenges arising from its protocol structure and limited awareness within the Ethereum ecosystem.
However, ENS allows users to own “.eth” domain names, simplifying cryptocurrency transactions by replacing complex wallet addresses.
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Plastic pollution is already seen as one of the most serious threats to the oceans -- particularly those teeny particles that we can't normally see, but which fish love to eat. Another serious threat: the man-made chemicals dumped or washed into the waters. And while each is worrisome on its own, they cause even more trouble combined.
That's because plastics, as researchers are beginning to understand, have the ability to soak up those toxic chemicals -- things like PCB and PBDE that have been shown to be harmful to human health. And when fish gobble them up, a new study in Nature found, those chemicals seep into their bodies.
Smithsonian Magazine explains the findings:
In the study, researchers soaked small pellets of polyethylene in the waters of San Diego Bay for three months, then tested them and discovered that they’d absorbed toxins leached into the water from nearby industrial and military activities. Next, they put the pollution-soaked pellets in tanks (at concentrations lower than those found in the Great Pacific garbage patch) with a small, roughly one-inch-long species called Japanese rice fish. As a control, they also exposed some of the fish to virgin plastic pellets that hadn’t marinated in the Bay, and a third group of fish got no plastic in their tanks at all.
Researchers still aren’t sure why, but many small fish species will eat these sort of small plastic particles—perhaps because, when covered in bacteria, they resemble food, or perhaps because the fish simply aren’t very selective about what they put in their mouths. In either case, over the course of two months, the fish in the experiment consumed many plastic particles, and their health suffered as a result.
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Gold was on track for a 8.2 percent quarterly rise on Friday, its best quarter in a year, as uncertainty over President Donald Trump's tax and investment plans and a series of elections in Europe fuelled demand for bullion as a safe haven.
Spot gold was up 0.56 percent at $1,249.89 per ounce. U.S. gold futures for April delivery rose $2.30 to settle at $1,247.30. Gold futures for June delivery gained $3.20 to settle at $1,251.20.
It was on track to end the week down 0.2 percent.Though well ahead on a quarterly basis, gold fell 0.7 percent on Thursday, its biggest one-day drop in more than three weeks, after a failure to break resistance at its 200-day moving average triggered technical selling.
"In the short term, factors including a strengthening dollar could pull prices down to around $1,230 an ounce," said Yuichi Ikemizu, head of commodity trading at Standard Bank in Tokyo.
The dollar was on course for its best week this year, helped by better-than-expected U.S. economic growth data and comments by the president of the New York Federal Reserve that reinforced expectations of U.S. interest rate hikes this year.
Data showing the largest annual increase in U.S. inflation in nearly five years and comments by the president of the New York Federal Reserve meanwhile reinforced expectations of U.S. interest rate hikes this year.
A stronger dollar makes bullion more expensive for holders of other currencies, while higher interest rates lead to higher bond yields and dampen demand for non-yielding gold.
But gold is underpinned in the coming months by doubts over Trump's ability to enact tax cuts and investment spending and an uncertain political outlook in Europe.
"The fear trade has driven the market so far this year," said David Govett at Marex Spectron.
The buying as a haven from risk, plus a recovery in Indian buying, are likely to push prices to an average $1,259 an ounce this year, GFMS analysts at Thomson Reuters said in their Gold Survey 2017, published on Friday.
A failure by Trump to make progress on his stimulus plans would reduce the chances of a rise in U.S. interest rates in June, Tom Kendall at ICBC Standard Bank said in a note.
"That in turn would likely give gold the impetus to break up through $1,300 again," he said.
In other precious metals, spot silver was up 0.72 percent at $18.21 an ounce, having touched $18.29, its highest in four weeks, in the previous session.

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Skip to comments.Meteor Clue To End Of Middle East Civilisations
Posted on 01/03/2002 10:50:09 PM PST by blam
Meteor clue to end of Middle East civilisations
By Robert Matthews, Science Correspondent
SCIENTISTS have found the first evidence that a devastating meteor impact in the Middle East might have triggered the mysterious collapse of civilisations more than 4,000 years ago.
satellite images of southern Iraq have revealed a two-mile-wide impact crater caused by a meteor
Studies of satellite images of southern Iraq have revealed a two-mile-wide circular depression which scientists say bears all the hallmarks of an impact crater. If confirmed, it would point to the Middle East being struck by a meteor with the violence equivalent to hundreds of nuclear bombs.
Today's crater lies on what would have been shallow sea 4,000 years ago, and any impact would have caused devastating fires and flooding.
The catastrophic effect of these could explain the mystery of why so many early cultures went into sudden decline around 2300 BC.
They include the demise of the Akkad culture of central Iraq, with its mysterious semi-mythological emperor Sargon; the end of the fifth dynasty of Egypt's Old Kingdom, following the building of the Great Pyramids and the sudden disappearance of hundreds of early settlements in the Holy Land.
Until now, archaeologists have put forward a host of separate explanations for these events, from local wars to environmental changes. Recently, some astronomers have suggested that meteor impacts could explain such historical mysteries.
The crater's faint outline was found by Dr Sharad Master, a geologist at the University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, on satellite images of the Al 'Amarah region, about 10 miles north-west of the confluence of the Tigris and Euphrates and home of the Marsh Arabs.
"It was a purely accidental discovery," Dr Master told The Telegraph last week. "I was reading a magazine article about the canal-building projects of Saddam Hussein, and there was a photograph showing lots of formations - one of which was very, very circular."
Detailed analysis of other satellite images taken since the mid-1980s showed that for many years the crater contained a small lake.
The draining of the region, as part of Saddam's campaign against the Marsh Arabs, has since caused the lake to recede, revealing a ring-like ridge inside the larger bowl-like depression - a classic feature of meteor impact craters.
The crater also appears to be, in geological terms, very recent. Dr Master said: "The sediments in this region are very young, so whatever caused the crater-like structure, it must have happened within the past 6,000 years."
Reporting his finding in the latest issue of the journal Meteoritics & Planetary Science, Dr Master suggests that a recent meteor impact is the most plausible explanation for the structure.
A survey of the crater itself could reveal tell-tale melted rock. "If we could find fragments of impact glass, we could date them using radioactive dating techniques," he said.
A date of around 2300 BC for the impact may also cast new light on the legend of Gilgamesh, dating from the same period. The legend talks of "the Seven Judges of Hell", who raised their torches, lighting the land with flame, and a storm that turned day into night, "smashed the land like a cup", and flooded the area.
The discovery of the crater has sparked great interest among scientists.
Dr Benny Peiser, who lectures on the effects of meteor impacts at John Moores University, Liverpool, said it was one of the most significant discoveries in recent years and would corroborate research he and others have done.
He said that craters recently found in Argentina date from around the same period - suggesting that the Earth may have been hit by a shower of large meteors at about the same time.
The great Peshtigo fire
Many worshipers in the church congregations throughout the small logging town of Peshtigo, Wisconsin were praying for rain on Sunday October 8, 1871. It had been a hot and dry year so far - only two measurable rains had fallen from July through September and drought conditions had been in effect since May. Creeks were dried up and the level of the Peshtigo River, upon which the townsfolk relied upon for water and transportation, was dispiritingly low. The surrounding woods and grasslands were dry and brittle and crews of volunteers from the town had spent many a day battling the sporadic wildfires that flickered across the horizon. The smoke from these fires hung low over the town and often made breathing a chore. Certainly some rain would be welcome in Peshtigo.
Just after 8:30 that evening a dull roar alarmed everyone in town. Flames from the scattered forest fires had been whipped into an inferno by ferocious winds and Peshtigo stood directly in its path. Firefighters started out to meet this new challenge but soon tossed aside their buckets and fled for home to collect their families and head for the Peshtigo River. As the blaze hit the town, the air was aglow with burning embers and walls of hot sand. Within minutes the entire town was burning. By 10:00 that night Peshtigo was gone.
That morning there had been more than 2000 residents in Peshtigo, a boom town on the railroad line. Men found abundant work in the forests and on construction crews. The world's largest wooden-ware factory was in Peshtigo. No more. The Great Peshtigo Fire and its aftermath claimed 1,125 lives. Many died of suffocation in wells where they had sought shelter, others drowned in the rivers, most simply could not escape the onrushing flames.
The fire destroyed every building in Peshtigo, save for a recently erected structure whose wood was still too green to burn. More than 1.25 million acres of forest were scorched before the winds died and the fire burned itself out before dawn. That next day, the rains finally came.
The Great Peshtigo Fire was, and is, the worst fire in the history of the United States, taking more lives than the next two worst fires combined. Yet most people have never heard of the Great Peshtigo Fire because, strangely, it occurred at the exact same time as America's most famous fire - the Great Chicago Fire. The fire in Chicago that may or may not have been started by Mrs. O'Leary's ornery cow destroyed 17,450 structures, caused about $200 million in damage and left one-third of the city homeless. Some 250 people were killed in the Chicago Fire and it grabbed every headline in America.
News of the tragedy in the small town 240 miles north of Chicago took days to reach the public and was quickly forgotten. The Governor of Wisconsin felt compelled to issue a special proclamation begging people to divert gifts from Chicago to Peshtigo. Relief supplies poured into the village and $155,000 was raised within a few months. Villagers rebuilt Peshtigo from the ashes into a new, vibrant town but the conflagration was never forgotten. The Peshtigo Fire Museum opened in 1963 to tell the story to generations who might forget. Adjacent to the museum is the Peshtigo Fire Cemetery containing the remains of several hundred unidentified persons and a monument to those who died.
For some the coincidence of two of America's most devastating fires igniting on the same day is too great. Although the ultra dry drought conditions are the official cause of the Peshtigo Fire, one theory speculates that a comet struck the earth in the area. Such a celestial intruder would be largely composed of ice and would leave no evidence. No one will ever know for certain.
Written by Doug Gelbert
I read a report on one guys study to tie the plume of the Thera volcano to the words, Staff by day, Torch by night, from the bible. He concluded that the plume would have to be 30 miles high to fit the bill. The recent Pinatubo volcano in the Phillipines was 26 miles high. So......
Disaster that struck the ancients
Four thousand two hundred years ago, the first great civilisation in Egypt collapsed.
The pharaohs of the Egyptian Old Kingdom had built the mightiest legacy of the ancient world - the pyramids at Giza. But after nearly a thousand years of stability, central authority disintegrated and the country collapsed into chaos for more than a 100 years.
What happened, and why, has remained a huge controversy. But Professor Fekri Hassan, from University College London, UK, wanted to solve the mystery, by gathering together scientific clues.
His inspiration was the little known tomb in southern Egypt of a regional governor, Ankhtifi. The hieroglyphs there reported "all of Upper Egypt was dying of hunger to such a degree that everyone had come to eating their children".
Dismissed as exaggeration and fantasy by most other Egyptologists, Fekri was determined to prove the writings were true and accurate. He also had to find a culprit capable of producing such misery.
Stalactites and stalagmites
"My hunch from the beginning was that it had to do with the environment in which the Egyptians lived." Fekri felt sure the Nile, the river that has always been at the heart of Egyptian life, was implicated.
He studied the meticulous records, kept since the 7th Century, of Nile floods. He was amazed to see that there was a huge variation in the size of the annual Nile floods - the floods that were vital for irrigating the land.
But no records existed for 2,200BC. Then came a breakthrough - a new discovery in the hills of neighbouring Israel. Mira Bar-Matthews of the Geological Survey of Israel had found a unique record of past climates, locked in the stalactites and stalagmites of a cave near Tel Aviv.
What they show is a sudden and dramatic drop in rainfall, by 20%. It is the largest climate event in 5,000 years. And the date? 2,200 BC.
As Israel and Egypt are in different weather systems, Fekri needed evidence of some worldwide climate event to link this to the collapse of the Old Kingdom. And the evidence came out of the blue.
Geologist Gerard Bond, of the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory at Columbia University, US, looks for climate evidence in the icebergs of Iceland. As they melt on their journey south, they leave shards of volcanic ash on the ocean floor.
How far they travelled before melting tells him how cold it was. Cores of mud from the ocean floor revealed to him regular periods of extreme cold - mini ice ages - in Europe every 1,500 years, and lasting 200 years. And one mini ice age occurred at 2,200 BC.
Gerard's colleague, Peter deMenocal, looked at climate records for the rest of the world at exactly the same time. From pollen records to sand, the story was the same - a dramatic climate change from Indonesia to the Mediterranean, Greenland to North America.
Scientists were confirming everything Fekri believed - severe climate change causing widespread human misery 4,200 years ago, misery we are only now learning about for the first time.
Back in Egypt, Fekri wanted to put the last piece of the puzzle in place. He wanted direct evidence of this severe climate change in the Nile. And he found it drilling cores in a large lake that had been fed by a tributary of the Nile in ancient times.
He discovered in the critical period, as the Old Kingdom collapsed, the lake had dried up completely - the only time in the whole history of this lake that this had happened. At last, Fekri felt he had proved that the writings on Ankhtifi's tomb were really true. It was nature that had driven people to desperation.
The Ancient Apocalypse series begins on BBC Two on Thursday, 26 July, at 2100 BST
And some *very* interesting speculation that the 'parting of the Red Sea' actually refers to the 'sea of reeds' area on the coast, and the 'parting' refers to the tidal wave that came after the eruption (the water receeds before a tidal wave comes in).
In other words, Noah isn't mentioned because the story of this possible disaster has nothing to do with water.
I've heard that there was a great Vedic society of legend that also disappeared some 4K(?) years ago, whose people spoke "Indo-European", a language that gave rise to Sandskrit, Greek and Proto-Germanic. It was the society from which the Vedas come from, the oldest scriptures known.
I looked for land in vain, but fourteen leagues distant there appeared a mountain, and there the boat grounded; on the mountain of Nisir the boat held fast, she held fast and did not budge. One day she held, and a second day on the mountain of Nisir she held fast and did not budge. A third day and a fourth day she held fast on the mountain and did not budge; a fifth day and a sixth day she held fast on the mountain. When the seventh day dawned I loosed a dove and let her go. She flew away, but finding no resting place she returned. Then I loosed a swallow, and she flew away but finding no resting place she returned. I loosed a raven, she saw that the waters retreated, she ate, she flew around, she cawed, but she did not come back. Then I threw everything open to the four winds, I made a sacrifice and poured a libation on the mountain top.The story refers back to the flooding of the Black Sea around some 7,000 BC. The Hebrews borrowed the story from the Sumerians.
for more on this read The Flood is Found!
I like that theory. However, I like Howard Blum's theory better. In his book, The Gold Of Exodus, he claims that the Israelites crossed the mouth of the Gulf Of Aqaba and that the real Mt. Sinai is actually in Saudi Arabia. (This is presently my favorite theory.)
I believe the account of Noah's flood as related in Ryan and Pittman's book, Noah's Flood. I read this book three times from the library, my son gave it to me as a Christmas present this year.
(will someone kindly supply a link, I don't know how, thanks.)
Linguists believe that all the Indo-European languages (The Mother Tongue) originated in Anatolia. It may have been spread far and wide from this point by the refugees from the Black Sea (Noah's) flood?
Of course, you are correct. I have travelled through the Red Sea a number of times, many years ago.
A meteor shower with significant global damage _does_ relate well to the world-wide "portents of destruction in the sky" myths.
If you like this, read the book Exodus To Arthur, by professor Mike Baillie. Great book.


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My goal is to capture what makes your pet truly unique, then turn it into artwork for you to cherish in your home for years to come! Whether you're looking for a single statement wall piece or a full album to tell your pet's story, I'll walk you through every step of the process.
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What if my dog can't go off leash?
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It's not a problem! Most of the dogs I photograph remain on leash throughout the session for their safety. I even have a long line leash that can be used for getting action shots. Leashes will be removed during post-processing.
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The U.S. Social Security Administration has spent nearly US$300 million on a software system for processing disability claims that still isn't finished and has delivered limited useful functionality, according to an independent report on the project.
The U.S. House Oversight and Government Reform Committee this week released a copy of the study, which the SSA commissioned McKinsey to develop.
While the report was finished in June, SSA officials placed "a very close hold on the report with the goal of ensuring details about its findings remain secret until after Senate confirmation of Acting Commissioner Carolyn W. Colvin as Commissioner," three Republican members of the committee alleged in a letter, citing unnamed "whistleblowers." The letter was signed by committee Chairman Darrell Issa of California, James Lankford of Oklahoma, and Jim Jordan of Ohio.
The committee member's sources also said Colvin's chief of staff warned SSA employees "not to inquire about the report or even discuss its existence until later this year," the letter adds. "We find these allegations deeply disturbing."
"It is concerning that while you and other agency officials routinely testify that the agency needs more funding from Congress, the agency wasted nearly $300 million on an IT boondoggle," the letter adds.
The SSA didn't respond to a request for comment Thursday. But Terrie Gruber, whom Colvin appointed leader of the project last month, told the Associated Press that the SSA "asked for this, this independent look, and we weren't afraid to hear what the results are."
"We are absolutely committed to deliver this initiative and by implementing the recommendations we obtained independently, we think we have a very good prospect on doing just that," Gruber told the AP.
The SSA has spent $288 million during a six-year period on the project, which is called DCPS (Disability Case Processing System), according to the McKinsey report.
It cites a number of reasons for the project's woes, including "suboptimal system design" and little engagement with users after the initial design phase, resulting in "substantial quality and usability problems."
As of its beta release 4, the system will still have more than 380 outstanding problems, according to the study.
The project has seen years of delays, with the current projected date for a 1.0 product now sometime in 2016, according to a chart in the report.
However, without a "significant reset" of the project, even that time frame is likely underestimated, the report states.
On the other hand, DCPS "has the potential to drive tremendous value" by cutting costs and improving disability case processing, it adds. There's also "palpable" excitement for the project among the individuals involved in it, according to the report.
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The Parque de España in the town of Fuengirola in Malaga will host two concerts by the Fuengirola Municipal Music Orchestra.
As announced by the Council of Fuengirola this Monday, June 20, the Fuengirola Municipal Music Band will give two concerts in the municipality of Malaga. The first will take place tonight, Tuesday June 21, and the second will be held on the following Tuesday, June 28.
Both concerts will take place at Parque de España, starting at 9:30 p.m. The first of them will be dedicated to symphonic harmony music, and the second, to young conductors.
Tonight’s concert program will include performances of pieces such as Flashing Winds, by Jan van der Roost; Bonaparte, by Otto M. Schwarz; Orient Express by Phillip Sparke; The Round Table, by Bert Appermont; Mount Everest, from Rossano Galante; and Joan of Arc, by Ferrer Ferran.
Founded in 1962, the Fuengirola Municipal Music Band currently has over 1,100 printed works in its repertoire. It has given more than 2,090 performances in its more than 300 concerts offered since 1997, the beginning of the period with its current conductor on the podium.
Consolidated as a collective of reference professional musicians on the Costa del Sol, the group is led by Alfredo Alarcon Campoy.
Since 2006, the artistic progression of the Music Band has been spectacular, both artistically and in terms of audiences. The degree of quality that they have achieved in recent years has made it possible to integrate very complex pieces into the usual repertoire reserved for elite formations.
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Munich, September 7, 2020 - It is with deep sorrow that AURELIUS Equity Opportunities SE & Co. KGaA (ISIN DE000A0JK2A8) announces the death of Steffen Schiefer, who passed away on September 4, 2020 following a serious illness. Steffen Schiefer is survived by his wife and two children.
Despite his serious illness, Mr. Schiefer worked for AURELIUS with full commitment until very recently as Chief Financial Officer and member of the management board of AURELIUS Equity Opportunities SE & Co. KGaA. He resigned from this position due to his progressing illness with effect from August 31, 2020.
After studying business administration at Frankfurt am Main's Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe University, Steffen Schiefer worked for the DAX-listed Metallgesellschaft AG in Frankfurt. In 1996, he joined ProSiebenSat.1 Media AG in Unterföhring near Munich, where he accompanied the IPO and was responsible for the development of the Group's accounting department. His last position there was Vice President Group Accounting and Chief Financial Officer of wetter.com AG, a subsidiary of the ProSiebenSat.1 Group.
Steffen Schiefer joined AURELIUS as Director Finance in mid-2008 and has been CFO of AURELIUS Group since mid-2012. As CFO, he was responsible for internal and external accounting as well as valuation, taxes, treasury and internal auditing.
"Steffen Schiefer helped shape AURELIUS Group for over a decade and has made an essential contribution to the success of our company. We mourn the loss of a friend, comrade-in-arms and colleague, and would like to express our deepest gratitude for Steffen's life's work on behalf of the employees of AURELIUS Group and its portfolio companies, our business partners and our shareholders. Our thoughts are with his family at this difficult time," said Dr Dirk Markus, CEO of AURELIUS Equity Opportunities SE & Co. KGaA.
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The peritoneal cavity is the space inside the smooth membrane that
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Photoshop layer styles are a popular way to add effects, such as drop shadows and strokes, to layers in a non-destructive way. With the right knowledge and experience, any effect can be achieved. To achieve these effects, however, you need to understand what each setting does and how they can be combined to achieve a certain look. In this series by John Shaver from Design Panoply, we will explain every aspect of Photoshop's layer styles feature and show you how to unlock their potential. In this article, Part 1: Introduction to Photoshop Layer Styles we will explain how to get started with layer styles. Let's take a look!
What Are Layer Styles And How Are They Used?
Photoshop introduced layer styles way back in version 6 as a way to add effects to a layer without having to manually create them. You add effects using an interface of easy-to-use checkboxes, sliders, and more, which can be saved as presets to be reused later on.
The "wow" factor quickly wore off as people grew tired of seeing the default presets used over and over again. It wasn't until recently that the true power of layer styles was utilized, but it has quickly become a simple and effective way to instantly enhance your designs.
Getting Started With Layer Styles
Photoshop comes with a plethora of layer styles presets, all of which you should never use unless you are just learning to apply effects to your layers. Why? Because in addition to most of them just looking bad, they are instantly recognizable to other designers, and nothing screams "amateur" more than default program settings.
How To Apply Layer Styles
There are two main ways to apply layer styles, both of which are quick and easy.
Method 1 - Using A Preset
Create a new Photoshop document and in addition to the default background layer, create a new line of text. In the main menu, click Window > Styles to open the Styles Palette. With your text layer selected, simply click on one of the preset thumbnails within the Layers Palette and it you will see it automatically applied to your layer. The first time you click through and load each preset, you should experience an overwhelming feeling of happiness as you begin to understand all of the potential that layer styles hold.
Method 2 - Starting From Scratch
Create a new Photoshop document and in addition to the default background layer, create a new line of text. In the Layers Palette, right click the name of the layer you want to add effects to and click "Blending Options..." to bring up the Layer Style dialog box (you can also double click the name of the layer in the Layers Palette).
We will go over each section of the Layer Styles dialog box in the latter parts of this guide, right now, we are just getting acquainted with how they are applied.
You will notice that once you add a layer style to your layer, a list of effects that are being used shows up in the layers palette. You can show/hide each of the effects by clicking the eyeball icon next to the name of each effect. This allows you to quickly hide a specific effect, while keeping the settings intact in case you want to turn it back on.
How To Save/Load Presets
Like we mentioned above, we will get into creating your own custom layer styles in the following installments of our guide, but in the meantime I know you want to play around with layer styles while you wait. There are plenty of free and premium layer styles available for download (we will refrain from any bias recommendations), so we will look at how to load presets in Photoshop that you have downloaded online. See the end of the article for a bonus style that you can practice with.
When you have downloaded your layer style, save the included .ASL file to a known folder on your computer. Most downloadable styles will come in a zip file so you will need to extract the .ASL file first.
Navigate to your .ASL file and, with the Layers Palette open in Photoshop, drag the file from the folder on your computer into the Photoshop window and release the mouse button.
Dragging and dropping your styles file will append, or add, the imported file to the list of styles that are already visible in the Styles Palette.
You may notice multiple styles appear in your Styles Palette. Lucky you! Photoshop .ASL files can contain hundreds of different style presets, all within the same file, making it easy to share presets with others.
If you have created your own presets or want to save a bunch that you have collected, you can save them easily from the Styles Palette.
To save a preset (or group of presets), open the dropdown menu from the Styles Palette and click "Save Styles...". You will be prompted to choose a name and location on your computer for your presets file, then simply click Save.
Tips And Tricks For Beginners
There are a few tricks to learn when becoming proficient with layer styles that only come with experience, unless of course you are reading this guide.
- Layer styles cannot be added to locked layers. You may have created a new document, selected the background layer, and clicked a layer style preset, only to see a whole bunch of nothing happening. It is because the background layer is locked. You cannot add new layer styles to locked layers. You can, however, add layer styles to a layer prior to locking it to prevent editing of that layer. You can then unlock it later if you decide to change the settings of your layer style later.
- You can increase the size of the thumbnails in the Styles Palette by opening the Styles Palette dropdown menu and toggling the display type between Text Only, Small Thumbnail, Large Thumbnail, Small List, and Large List.
- Most layer styles are created to look their best on bolder fonts and/or at larger sizes. If you apply a style you found online and are unhappy with how it looks, you might want to try a different font or a larger text size.
- Layer styles themselves can be resized, so if you find a layer style that looks good at a certain size but want to shrink your text, you can resize the effect to match any size of text. Simply right click the list of effects that are applied to the layer in the Layers Palette and click "Scale Effects". You can then scale your effects using a percentage.
- You can copy and paste styles between layers in the same document as well as between layers in different documents. Right click the name of the layer in the Layers Palette and click "Copy Layer Style", then on another layer, right click again and select "Paste Layer Style".
- You can hide the layer contents while showing only the effects. Select the layer in the Layers Palette and change the Fill, located at the top of the Layers Palette, to 0%. You can then apply effects without the layer itself showing up. This is how many glass and other advanced effects are created.
One For The Road
Until next time, this free, exclusive layer style and accompanying .PSD will help you practice your loading, applying, and resizing skills until we get to the really good stuff.

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August 26, 2016, ©. Leeham Co: Bombardier’s CSeries appears to have a good start in airline operations following its show-and-tell at the Farnborough Air Show in July. The first CS100 entered service with launch customer SWISS International Airlines shortly after the international event wrapped up. The aircraft has now been in service a month.
At the show I was on my way to a meeting with Rob Dewar, CSeries VP and Program manager to discuss the expected in service reliability of the CSeries, starting service with SWISS at the end of the week. I was a bit early and decided to use the time to pass the CS100 exhibition aircraft, the first series CS100 for SWISS. It was flown there by a SWISS crew earlier in the week.
The SWISS pilots were preparing for the trip home to Zurich as I entered the cockpit. We had time to talk about the aircraft and their expectations for the first revenue flight in two days, on Friday, the 15thof July.
The pilots, whom both had flown the Avro RJ85 before, were enthusiastic about the CS100.
“It is a joy to fly; it’s a really good aircraft.” I asked in what sense it was good to fly. “It is the flight laws. They have really succeeded there; it is very stable and easy to fly. You know where you have the aircraft at all times.”
I then asked them about initial dispatch reliability. What was their gut feeling having operated the aircraft for training flights over the last month? “It will be fine,” came the surprise answer.That Dewar would have this response in my pending interview I expected, but line pilots are normally apprehensive. Brand new aircraft spell trouble.
“How can you be so sure?” I asked.
“We did three days with over 100 training touch-and-go landings last week,” the pilots said. “We had no problems. It has been like this since we got the aircraft, the odd small thing, but no real problems.”
Now the first month of airline operation has passed. Time for a first reality check.
SWISS has released first impressions for their operation with the CSeries. It shall be stressed that we are looking at an extremely limited sample; one aircraft flying operationally for one month. The second aircraft started operation one week ago from SWISS Zurich base.
During this time, SWISS has not been forced to cancel any scheduled flights. The aircraft has been un-serviceable one day but that is nothing out of the ordinary. There was an issue with the air conditioning on one flight to the UK which forced a reroute; otherwise flights have been flown as scheduled, sometimes with smaller problems on the “to correct” list.
There are some things to correct in the way the cabin works as well, according to SWISS. Once again, nothing surprising. Modern cabins are complex.
Schedule reliability has been good. It has met SWISS expectations. Better than normal for new aircraft (seems the pilots were right). There is no point in presenting data for the month. Any schedule reliability statistics requires several aircraft in operation and over several months.
Rob Dewar said in the interview that he wanted the CSeries to beat the record for new aircraft schedule reliability, that of the Boeing 777. It was 98.5% at end of the first year of operation. Seems he’s off to a good start.
Do they have any engine startup problems? Og cooling time like the a320neo?
No, the total starting time including a 15 second cooling spool (which was only necessary in very extreme cases but included as it doesn’t disturb normal operations) is 75 seconds which is normal for this type of engines.
Part of the reason is that the engine is mounted differently than on the A320neo (fan case + turbine house mount instead of core mount for A320neo). The rotor bow, which all engines have, is then less of a problem.
Bjorn, do you know why the engine was mounted this way on the C Series? Was it to prevent this sort of thing from happening or were they just lucky? In other words did they have another reason, perhaps a constraint, that made them take the decision to mount the engine on the fan case? And should the other aircraft manufacturers, like Airbus and Embraer, have done the same, or did they have no other choice?
it is often the choice of the airframer (Airbus, Boeing, Embraer, etc) that decide the engine mounts’ position.
Airbus usually has the engine mounts on the compressor casing and on the turbine rear frame. Boeing has them on the fan case and the turbine rear frame. Bombardier on the C-series same as Boeing. PW1000 on Embraer a/c also has them as Boeing.
So down to airframer tradition and habit. My personal belief is that fan case + turbine rear frame is better.
All airframers have the thrust lugs on the compressore casing, except once where I heard McD had the thrust lugs on a CF6 engine placed on he fan casing (DC-10?). Apparently a disater location for thurst lugs…
Thanks for this information mneja. I have noticed with Bombardier that when they designed the C Series they seem to have studied carefully the way Boeing and Airbus had designed their respective aircraft and have retained what they considered “best practices”. This is especially noticeable inside the C Series cockpit where any Boeing or Airbus pilot would feel at ease. They have even added their own original touches, like for instance the mounting of the radios on the front panel where the autopilot is located. This way the pilots can keep an eye on what is going on outside when communicating with the control tower. Nice aircraft and nice engine. The perfect combination, since one was designed around the other.
Is there an advantage to the one or the other design? Or is it just to be different from the competitor.
Rob Dewar and I talked in detail about it. The engine was mounted like that on the specific demand of BBD. Airbus has per tradition mounted engines by the core so therefore they demanded core mount.
Swiss is doing better with a brand new plane at EIS than Jetstar is doing with its 787s .
Sad but true, still wondering what Jetstar is doing to the engines that are causing problems?
Pretty mature and it does not seem to be affecting anyone else.
RR is having problems in Japan with blade issues. Should have gone GE (grin)
Update seems like the problem is more than just the inter island flights reported originally.
Well, GE have had their share of issues on 787 with GEnx engines.
One aircraft flying one month is not a significant sample by any means.
Bjorn, if this level of reliability pans out, do you have a sense of the key factor(s) (eg maturity required before selecting a given hw or sw technology, nature of supplier relationships, resource allocation to hw vs sw, project management skills) in achieving it?
Yes, this is all spelled out in the interview with Rob Dewar. In fact the interview was all about why he would expect the CSeries to perform well at EIS, what had BBD actually done to achieve this.
OK, thanks Bjorn. Couldn’t/can’t see it, being behind the paywall. Sounds interesting reading though.
Lets see if the installed Components are more durable than the corresponding ones on the Q400 and CRJ’s. By the time of the first Aircraft C-check we will know.
Good to hear. Such a beautiful aircraft. Hope it finds it’s place in global fleets. I believe it will.
I think it will do very well. Only problem is the center fuselag e section is being assembled by state run Shenyang Aircraft corporation. Although the coming Comac C919 will have European or American engines, it is the baby of the Chinese government and is in a similar pax class. The CS300 will be a superior plane but this conflict of interest still exists. A desperate dictatorship with control over the its competitors fuselage is not good.
Originally the entire constant cross-section part of the fuselage had been scheduled to be fabricated in China. But the centre fuselage section, which is more complex because of its interface with the wing, has been “temporarily” moved back in-house to Bombardier’s Belfast factory.
The whole Chinese production package was a cause of major delays to the program, as they werent to up doing the work to normal western standards and the even higher standards that Bombardier was expecting.
Originally the development and production of forward, centre and rear fuselage was to be done by Shenyang plus the tail cone, empennage, wing body fairing and wing box was to be production only at SAC.
The Spanish aerostructures company Aernnova was bought in to build 40 wing boxes and tail cones and fuselage assembly was bought to Montreal.
Normand seems to know these things but I wasnt aware that NI built fuselage sections other than for the CRJ series.
The Chinese government like all other countries has paid 100’s millions for subsidising the CS series development and industrialisation. Aviation week said that the C919 and CS series were to have a common cockpit design, but Im not sure that eventuated but should be obvious soon enough.
LNC: “Modern cabins are complex.”
And so are modern aircraft. The C Series has over ten million lines of code. This makes it the more remarkable that the C Series could achieve such a high reliability rate at this stage.
But I am not surprised, because on its initial European tour, which lasted over a period of several weeks and took the aircraft to more than two dozen different European cities, the aircraft had already achieved 100% reliability. Of course this was easier to achieve than for an in-service aircraft because it was operated by the manufacturer. Yet it gave us an early indication that the aircraft was going to be exceptionally reliable.
I have been following the two first aircraft daily since they have been in service with Swiss and had already noticed that there were few delays. And this data comes from flightradar, so it has nothing to do with company propaganda or anything of that nature. I do believe Swiss and BBD when they say that the aircraft is reliable. The beauty of this is that they both expected this kind of reliability. So no surprise there.
We can say well done to BBD.
Part of this may also be due to the original stopping of the program, getting a lot more time to figure out how to have it work right from the start.
Its a well though out and beautifully executed design and particularly the wing got the high tech attention it needed.
Early on I was a skeptic (first concept), but as I saw what they were doing, where it was positioned and how it looked (include the move to the GTF) I got more impressed steadily.
I too hope it takes the industry by storm. It certainly has the credentials to do so.
It makes the C919 look like an old Mak Truck and nimbly nips at the heels of the 737-800 and A320 (and the 500 will more than nip). Chew em up like a good bone.
Many think the Chinese will get it, they never will if they go with old tech and they did.
BBD did a great job of blending the needed new tech wing with older (latest materials) and equal fuselage with the best possible engine (not to mention the right hanging system for it!)
I agree but a Chinese mainland state run aircraft corp – Shenyang – are assembling the fuselage for CS. Maybe they could move production. I hope Shenyang will give fair treatment to the C series after their comac arrives. Comac are very late to the game and decades behind, well behind Bombardier and Embraer but they will copy and reverse engineer over time. Aerospace isnt easy of course. Even now, Mitsubishi is a long way behind despite their best reverse engineering efforts.
Could you site some information that Mitsubishi reverse engineered their aircraft and from what?
“The whole Chinese production package was a cause of major delays to the program, as they werent to up doing the work to normal western standards and the even higher standards that Bombardier was expecting.”
– I have been told that the remaining fuselage sections have to be systematically reworked upon their arrival in Montréal.
“Originally the development and production of forward, centre and rear fuselage was to be done by Shenyang plus the tail cone, empennage, wing body fairing and wing box was to be production only at SAC.”
– China has never been considered for anything other than the constant cross-section, which was to include the centre fuselage and its associated centre wing box. Anything forward of that, or behind it, has always been built in St-Laurent, including the cockpit, pressure dome, rear fuselage and tail cone. As for the empennage it has been built by Alenia in Italy since day one. It is the same manufacturer as for the 787 horizontal stabilizer; except that for the C Series it includes the vertical stabilizer as well. The entire package behind the constant cross-section,
starting with the pressure dome and including the horizontal and vertical stabilizers, is made out of Carbon Fiber Reinforced Plastic (CFRP).
Aviation Week Jul 6 2012
“When Bombardier established the manufacturing system for its new 110- to 149-seat jet family, it allocated development and production of three fuselage sections—forward, center and rear—plus the empennage to SAC. It also charged the Chinese supplier with building the tail cone and wing-body fairing and center wing box.”
Aviation Week Nov 14 2012
“Shenyang Aircraft and SACC build about half of the structure of the Q400 turboprop, having progressively taken over more of the airframe manufacturing. Bombardier expects the Chinese partner to do the same with the CSeries, for which Shenyang Aircraft is already contracted for the forward, center and rear fuselage sections, plus the tail, tail cone, wing-body fairing and the center wing box.”
Those were back in 2012 and later reports had more work shifted to other locations ‘temporarily’
“Bombardier’s U.K. unit is handling some tasks originally assigned to Shenyang Aircraft in the CSeries development program, with a view to eventually returning the work to the Avic Group unit, Bombardier says. Problems that arose at Shenyang raised program risks, resulting in the decision earlier this year to shift the work temporarily, says Andy Solem, VP for North Asian sales of Bombardier” Aviation week Nov 2012
“BBD identified issues in the supply chain, without specifying where or who. It’s been public that there are challenges with China’s Shenyang facility, which is building fuselage sections for the airplane. BBD began assembling the sections at its Belfast plant as a back-up.” LNC Nov 2012
Everyone back them was talking about ‘fuselage sections’ in China and ‘temporary reallocation’ to other places. maybe the temporary words was to save face for China as there doesnt seem to be any talk of moving back.
Interestingly the formed Al-Li fuselage skins come from Ducommun, one of the longest established aircraft suppliers, in California (they claim to be californias oldest established company)
“It’s been public that there are challenges with China’s Shenyang facility, which is building fuselage sections for the airplane”
So its already happened. Shenyang are already way ahead of me. There will always be problems eith elthem I suspect. You have to marvel and wonder what could convince them it was a good idea to let them produce critical aircraft parts. And of course, miraculously, these problems will dissolve for the “Comac” and it will be plain sailing for them. And then we will nevee hear the end of the 5,000 years of aviation innovation from these pirates.
Right now, the assumption on the ground is that all fuselage will be built in Belfast.
[I think executives believe there may be a transfer around the 400 mark, but they’re deluded.]
This may explain why the Chinese are not buying the C Series in great numbers, as I had naively expected at the start of the programme.
Well when you consider it would compete with the 919 and the ARJ21 that’s a given.
Can’t have the state industry given even more of a black eye.
AW: “When Bombardier established the manufacturing system for its new 110- to 149-seat jet family, it allocated development and production of three fuselage sections—forward, center and rear—plus the empennage to SAC. It also charged the Chinese supplier with building the tail cone and wing-body fairing and center wing box.”
I am surprised that Aviation Week would say that the empennage was allocated to SAC. To my knowledge this has never been the case. Perhaps it had been considered early on but I have never heard of it, and I have been following the C Series very closely for 18 years (since 1998). I will concede though that they were allocated the tail cone. But this is just a relatively small cap that closes off the aft fuselage.
There seems to be a bit of confusion around the fuselage. The main fuselage is made of three sections: forward, centre and rear. But that only concerns the straight sections. Behind those sections we find the aft fuselage, which is connected to the rear section of the main fuselage. They are separated by the pressure dome. The aft fuselage is tapered while the main sections have a constant cross-section. In other words their diameter remains the same through their entire length. Forward of the main fuselage we find the cockpit, which is also tapered.
The aft fuselage, the pressure dome and the cockpit have always been made in St-Laurent. The aft fuselage and pressure dome are made out of CFRP but the cockpit is made out of Al-Li, like the main fuselage. The aft fuselage is an especially complex section compared to the main sections. It is not only tapered but also holds in place the empennage with its vertical and horizontal stabilizers. But these are manufactured separately in Italy by Alenia. And like the aft fuselage they are made out of CFRP.
To summarize, we have the main fuselage which comes in three sections (rear, centre and forward) to which is connected the aft fuselage in the back and the cockpit in the front. The aft fuselage holds the empennage in place. The latter comprises the vertical and horizontal stabilizers.
having looked through Bomabrdiers press releases for the Cseries, I located this back at Farnborough Jul 15 2008.
“Bombardier and Shenyang Aircraft Corporation Sign Contract Related to CSeries Commercial Aircraft”
Today, we are here signing the contract in which AVIC I / SAC will take part in the design, manufacture, assembly and relevant testing as well as after market support of four major work packages for the CSeries aircraft…..
“This is good news for everyone involved. Our Bombardier CSeries aircraft is a true game changer and, with the signing of this contract with SAC, we now have a major supplier for the aircraft’s center fuselage,” said Guy C. Hachey, President and Chief Operating Officer, Bombardier Aerospace”
So it seems that AV was wrong to say SAC were doing more than the centre fuselage section. Its not specified what the other work packages were.
What AV may have been confused over was this
“In July 2006, Bombardier entered an agreement that stipulated SAC would manufacture certain structural aircraft components for the Q400 aircraft that were previously sourced from Mitsubishi Heavy Industry (MHI) in Japan”
These were fuselage sections.
A few days before the SAC press release the CSeries was formally launched at Farnborough 2008
“Mirabel selected as final assembly site, Bombardier’s Belfast facility for the development and manufacture of the wings; manufacture of aft fuselage and cockpit to take place at Bombardier’s Saint-Laurent site”
It seems that possible movement of more fuselage sections to China will occur at a later stage.
If they’re smart, they’ll have a rock solid back up plan to make the center fusrlage in Belfast too, in case theses deperate regimes have a “change of heart”. I would also expect Shenyang to violate privacy and steal trade secrets for their masters at every turn.
”– I have been told that the remaining fuselage sections have to be systematically reworked upon their arrival in Montréal.”.
it was at least 1000 Non Conformity Report per fuselage barrel, at an average cost of 500$/NCR They mooved everything to belfast and spain Quickly, i dont know where is the cooperation with the chineese, since at least one year no fuselage section came from china, but i wish them if the orders from china stay 0 to stop this cooperation/technology stealing
In that case the fox is in the hen house already.


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The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is warning that the antipsychotic medicine olanzapine (Zyprexa, Zyprexa Zydis, Zyprexa Relprevv, and Symbyax) can cause Drug Reaction With Eosinophilia and Systemic Symptoms (DRESS).
The FDA is adding a new warning to the drug labels for all olanzapine-containing products that describes DRESS.
A search of the FDA Adverse Event Reporting System (FAERS) database identified 23 cases of DRESS reported with olanzapine worldwide since 1996, when the first olanzapine-containing product was approved. FAERS includes only reports submitted to FDA, so there are likely to be additional cases about which FDA is unaware.
One patient taking olanzapine experienced DRESS and died; however, this patient was taking multiple medicines that could also have contributed to death.
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University wants to run nonprofit entity to avoid state ban on funds
Indiana University’s proposal to keep its sex research center open without public funding faces criticism from advocacy groups who questioned the proposal.
Furthermore, the Bloomington public university has not answered questions from The College Fix about the legality of its approach to a state funding ban on the Kinsey Institute.
The board of trustees is considering whether to create a nonprofit to help manage and fund the on-campus think tank after a state budget barred public funds from going to the center. Legislators defunded the center last year over ethical concerns about its work, including research by its late founder (pictured) who interviewed pedophiles to learn about children’s sexual tendencies.
Indiana’s current budget forbids using public funds “to pay for the administration, operation, or programs of the Kinsey Institute.”
The board tabled a vote on the idea in November and will meet again in late February.
“In compliance with state law, the new nonprofit entity would not receive any state appropriations,” the university’s website says.
The College Fix asked IU’s media team via email to clarify how it would avoid using state funds in these efforts but did not receive a response to two inquiries sent in the past several weeks. The Fix also tried to reach the media team by phone twice.
Kinsey Institute employees, who operate out of a university building and use IU email addresses, have previously deferred comment requests to the school.
Conservative groups argued this strategy is an attempt to avoid accountability in comments to The Fix.
“Legislatures across the United States have finally begun to take interest in the goings-on at the higher education institutions they fund,” Chance Layton, director of communications at the National Association of Scholars, told The Fix via email. “Unsurprisingly, some of those legislators will find fault with particular programs or departments not integral to the institution’s mission as chartered by the legislature and attempt to defund those programs.”
“The Kinsey Institute seems to be a victim of this new care and deliberation paid to tax dollars in higher education,” Layton said.
“Indiana’s ban on state funds to the Institute seems obviously clear,” Layton said. “Indiana University is violating legislative intent by attempting to bypass the legislature via a non-profit holding to fund the Institute.”
“Clearly, IU cares little for the legislature’s disdain,” Layton told The Fix.
IU’s website explains that “current Kinsey Institute faculty and staff will remain IU employees,” which means they are public employees. The institute “would continue to operate at Indiana University,” according to the university.
IU has condemned the move to defund as harmful to “academic freedom” and asked for donations to “defend the right to conduct sex research.”
But the school’s “blatant effort to skirt the law” shows “how out-of-touch and arrogant America’s so-called higher-education system has become,” said S. T. Karnick, senior fellow at the Heartland Institute. The conservative think tank fellow regularly comments on culture and education.
“Indiana lawmakers should force the university to follow the law or suffer serious budgetary consequences,” Karnick said.
A conservative group said the proposal at least “does seem to violate the spirit of the law” regardless of if it is technically legal or not.
“Indiana University should be ashamed of itself for attempting to support and protect an Institute founded in perversion and abuse,” Liberty Counsel’s Hugh Phillips told The Fix via email. “It’s unethical and unscientific history should disqualify it from support from a public institution and the State of Indiana was right to directly defund the Institute.”
IU Professor Alfred Kinsey founded the institute in 1947 and used it for research that led to his influential “Kinsey Reports” on human sexuality.
The scholar recorded the supposed sexual pleasure of children based on descriptions from a child rapist and other adults. His team agreed not to report admitted pedophiles over to law enforcement.
The Kinsey Reports argued that “cultural conditioning” and “hysteria” are why some children react negatively to sexual abuse from adults.
“Indiana University’s repeated characterization of the Kinsey Institute as a ‘beacon of academic freedom’ is laughable,” Karnick, with the Heartland Institute, told The Fix. “Academic freedom is meant to foster a healthy questioning of conventional wisdom, not the protection of enormously harmful myths based on phony, biased data gathered from convicted criminals and through documentation of lawless acts against innocent children.”
Not everyone thinks IU’s proposal is questionable, however.
The fact that IU’s board postponed the vote on its workaround suggests it wants to “follow the directions of the legislature,” according to Lloyd Mayer, a law professor at the University of Notre Dame.
“I think it was wise for the board of trustees to table things for now to ensure it would work legally,” Mayer told The Fix in a phone interview. He studies tax law and nonprofits, according to his faculty bio.
The Indiana attorney general’s office declined to comment on its legality. “Our jurisdiction does include nonprofits, but there is nothing to provide at this point,” spokesperson Josh DeFonce told The Fix.
Students for Life Action wants to see the institute ended. “Hopefully, the people of Indiana will make it clear that Kinsey needs to go out of business for good,” Kristi Hamrick told The Fix. Hamrick was first involved with advocacy against the Kinsey Institute in 1994 while at Family Research Council.
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The Rimondi Venetian Fountain is a historical landmark located in the town of Rethymno on the island of Crete, Greece. It is a beautiful and well-preserved Venetian-style fountain that serves as a reminder of the island's Venetian past. Here is some information about the Rimondi Venetian Fountain:
History and Architecture:
The fountain was built during the Venetian period, around the late 16th century, when Crete was under Venetian rule. It was constructed to provide a reliable water source for the town's inhabitants and travelers passing through the area. The fountain is a fine example of Venetian architecture, featuring a blend of Renaissance and Gothic elements.
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The Rimondi Venetian Fountain is made of stone and consists of three separate water basins, each with its own decorative features. The central basin is the largest and is supported by four lion-head spouts that dispense water. The lions are a common motif in Venetian fountains and symbolize strength and power.
The two smaller basins on either side of the central one were used for washing hands and providing water for animals. The entire fountain is adorned with intricate carvings, including floral motifs, mythological figures, and Venetian coats of arms.
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“Do you know how hard it is to remove CO2 from the air using the machine? It’s really, really hard. It’s a lot easier just not to put it in there.”
In particular with Oil and Gas that carbon capture can be used to get more oil out of an oil field, prolonging the life of that field. There's no one solution to this. But every time I see Musk now I'm distrusting what he wants to invest in. Never thought I'd be giving Bill Gates a listen.
@GeoffWozniak Elon Musk is the greatest gift to journalism. By this point there's probably a specialty in news reporting - writing rivers of semi-coherent nonsense based on a simple prompt, "Elon Musk said X, therefore X is bad and dangerous and wrong". Pages just view themselves, ad revenue must be through the roof.
@GeoffWozniak never heard of trees, huh
@thufie The article addresses that.
Marc Benioff, another billionaire, has advocated for planting 1 trillion trees to address climate change. But that strategy can obscure what trees get planted, where, and how.
@GeoffWozniak yeah I just think it is funny
@GeoffWozniak my understanding is that this is why it's no joke to change the atmosphere on Mars. It's very rich in CO2.
A bunch of technomancers in the fediverse. Keep it fairly clean please. This arcology is for all who wash up upon it's digital shore.


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Julie Carr Smyth of the Associated Press picks up our post on John Kasich’s former Chief of Staff and OSU “aide” Don Thibaut forming a new lobbying company (The Credo Company) when it looked like his boss would have the keys to the state. It’s unclear yet if he’ll feed at the trough that Kasich is vowing not to fill, but we’ll obviously keep a close eye on it.
Julie does dig further and finds that Don has been paid some 700,000 over the course of the past decade through many non-profits Kasich kept going to prop up his future political career. Not bad work if you can get it.
Julie’s article title nets some 369 373 Google results. Safe to say the word is out. 😉
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For the past couple years i've been wanting to create some sharing videos on longarming and machine piecing. Today is my first attempt! A bit awkward with a lot of uummmms thrown in.
My mom's probably cringing...and giggling...
~artwork by my aunt Loretta Smith~
Maybe you'll laugh yourself into stitches watching this!! Lol
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My first video covers how to eliminate fullness in a quilt top without taking tucks.