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Did you know that musical play is associated with a multitude of developmental benefits? Read on to learn about the 10 amazing benefits of musical play, and why you should sing and play musically with your kids every day!
Why is musical play so important?
Because making music with your kids is one of the absolute BEST things you can do for them. Music promotes development in multiple domains. And recent studies show that regular, informal musical play even trumps shared reading in developmental benefits! WOW!
Studies show that informal music-making in the home, by the age of five, leads to better:
- social skills
- attention and emotion regulation
Singing and making music are among the most enjoyable learning activities for children and are an amazing method of building and reinforcing skills. It really is one of the absolute BEST things you can do for kids, with benefits that last a lifetime! And the best part? You don’t have to have a great singing voice or play an instrument to have an impact. Plus, all you have to do is…PLAY!
Accumulating research shows that children don’t even have to take part in formal music lessons to experience brain changes and enjoy possible benefits of training in other areas in life. What does this mean? It means, just include musical play in each day, start early (birth), and your kids will reap the benefits for a lifetime!
One mother shared: “Honestly, as a parent myself, some of the most memorable times I have singing with my kids has nothing to do with how in tune we are (we get pretty off-key sometimes, let me tell you!) and everything to do with the connection we make with each other by singing together. In fact, the crazier we are as a family, the more we let go and connect.”
Way to go, Mamma!
Active Participation is Key
Listening, watching, or singing along to music is good, but it’s not enough… The true power of music lies in active participation. Children need to actively participate in music making to reap the most benefit. And, as with most aspects of parenting, there is no substitute for your personal involvement and the unique blend of creativity, sound, and face-to-face interaction that comes with music-making together!
It Doesn't Matter How You Sound
If you are shy about singing with your kids, don’t be. Remember, your kids don’t care how you sound (at least the younger ones ;). They WANT you to play and sing-along WITH them. The benefits far outweigh the investment so, toss aside any discomfort and, JUST DO IT!
Benefits of Musical Play
i.e., active musical engagement
#1: Music helps develop language, numeracy, and literacy skills.
Music, quite naturally, provides opportunities to practice sounds, patterns, math concepts, and auditory discrimination, which are important in the development of language, numeracy, and literacy skills.
#2: Music improves and enhances communication skills.
Singing and musical play encourages listening, as well as encouraging children to express their emotions, and sharpens their ability to communicate.
Researchers have shown that from about two months of age babies already start to interact with our singing. At birth, your baby recognizes your voices and relies on them until their vision becomes more developed. The calming effect of singing on new babies is so strong that it is known to improve heart rate, respiratory rate, sleep, feeding patterns and weight gain in pre-mi babies.
#3: Music enhances physical development.
Musical play helps children learn and develop gross and fine motor skills, and improves balance and coordination.
#4: Music helps develop cognitive skills.
Musical play stimulates different patterns of brain development. It develops and enhances focus and memory, problem-solving, logical reasoning, and conceptual tasks, and helps them pay attention for longer periods. Clinical research has confirmed that a child’s brain grows faster when learning music early on in life. Dr. Robert Zatorre, who is a director at the International Laboratory for Brain Music and Sound Research said that training is more effective at early ages because certain aspects of brain anatomy are more sensitive to changes at those time points. We all know that the brain is growing and developing rapidly in the first years of life so, all the more reason to include musical play in your children’s lives early on. This doesn’t mean that being involved in music later won’t be of benefit. It just means that the greatest benefits are derived from starting early and continuing through childhood.
#5: Music enhances socio-emotional development and connection.
Through music-making, kids develop social-emotional skills such as better self-control, self-regulation, and self-confidence. Musical play also enhances the connection between family members and others. When you and your kids enjoy music together, you develop a stronger bond with each other. One father remarked: “Singing my daughter to sleep every night gives me a tremendous opportunity to bond with her. Dads can’t breastfeed, so we don’t have a built-in mechanism for soothing and connecting with our kids. We have to put ourselves out there, find our own rituals.”
#6: Music brings order and security.
My brother once told me that after my niece was born that sometimes when she was laid down to go to sleep that she would, as most babies do, cry, but that when he got out his guitar and sang and played for her, she stopped. Soothing tunes played or sung during sleep time, or when they may be upset, help children calm down. Similarly, music can also be used to lift the spirit.
#7: Music fosters creativity and promotes happiness.
Children love music and play. Enjoyment and laughter are essential to wellness and wellbeing. Musical play promotes the release of endorphins, which make us happier. Happy music and happy feelings promote more divergent thinking, a key element of creativity. Learning and composing music is itself a creative process.
#8: Music encourages early brain development.
As we discussed earlier, the early years of childhood is a period of rapid development. The earlier a child is exposed to music, the more effective the brain responds to stimulation. Music ignites all areas of child development. Regular, active musical participation really is one of the VERY BEST things for your kids. Early childhood is a time when children learn primarily through the magical process of play. If there is a rich musical environment, there will be a continuous and even richer spiral of exposure to other new elements. While informal musical-play is sufficient for early developmental years if you want to take it a step further, design and choose activities to support specific developmental goals.
#9: Music brings joy and lasting memories.
It is nap time, and two-and-a-half-year-old Benjamin is wriggling on his bed, trying to get comfortable. “Sing my song,” he says to his mom. His mom slowly starts to sing a song she made up several months ago, just for Benjamin. “I love you, Benjamin, oh yes I do! I love you, Benjamin, tis true, tis true. When you’re not with me, I’m blue, oh Benjamin, I love you!” She watches Benjamin curl under his blanket, his eyes heavy, go to sleep.
I bet you have songs you remember with fondness…Not only because of the song themselves but, probably because they are surrounded by memories as well. When my first few nieces came along, I made up a song to a phrase from the book, “Love You Forever,” by Robert Munsch. This became a song I sang anytime they had sleep-overs with their favorite auntie or said goodbye, which goes like this: “I’ll love you forever, I’ll like you for always, forever and ever, my nieces and nephews you’ll be.” And my nieces and nephews, of course, sing to me, “forever and ever, aunt Amy you’ll be. My oldest nieces, now eleven and thirteen, still remember this song and sing it with me, to this day, along with any and all of my other nieces and nephews that have and continue to come along.
The pleasure of sharing music builds connections, offers a joyful and rewarding learning experience, and builds lasting memories.
#10: Musical Play Benefits You Too!
For all those that think they wasted their time by taking music lessons then quitting as a child, think again. It’s been proven that early musical training has a lasting, positive effect on the brain.
But does that mean you are completely left out if didn’t get the musical exposure and training you needed at a young age? No. Studies show that even if you have never picked up an instrument before, that you will still reap benefits from playing. Playing a musical instrument brings improvements in the brain that last into the golden years, even if there has been a span of non-musical playing time. This is because music training has a profound and lasting influence on the brain, helping create neural connections that last a lifetime.
And there you have it. 10 amazing reasons why you should make music with your kids, even if you can’t carry a tune in a bucket, every day.


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On 17 October 2015, Adopt-a-School and the IDC, together with the MEC for Education in the Free State, officially handed over a fully resourced science lab to Ngwathe Secondary School, in the township of Ngwathe near Kroonstad.
This investment is part of a continued effort by Adopt-a-School Foundation and the IDC to transform the education experience in 30 rural schools across South Africa.
The development at Ngwathe Secondary School has included the renovations of classrooms and ablution facility and the building of a science laboratory. Four mathematics and science educators have been through professional development programmes and trained in science laboratory management and how to use the equipment. 182 science learners and 275 mathematics learners have benefitted from these development programmes.
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Below is my column in USA Today on the panic among political and media figures at the prospect that Elon Musk might return free speech protections to Twitter. I have long advocated what I call the “First Amendment model” for social media to replicate the standards applied to the government. While I am often called a “free speech absolutist,” I recognize that a social media company (like the government) has some ability to curtail speech containing elements like threats. The question is the baseline, which is far lower when modeled on the First Amendment. This admittedly means that some offensive or false claims will be allowed on social media, which will function closer to a common carrier or other means of communications like telephones. Rather than continue the expanding level of censorship and biased “content modification,” free speech can address such bad speech with better speech.
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The news that Elon Musk wants to go forward with the purchase of Twitter has led to a virtual panic among media, political and academic figures worried that free speech could shortly break out on the social media platform. Former Politico magazine editor Garrett Graff summed up the collective vapors succinctly: “Be afraid, be actually afraid.”
I sincerely hope so.
While Musk had in recent months wavered on his purchase, he said last week that he wants to move forward with a $44 billion offer to buy the social media platform. On Thursday, the judge presiding over Twitter’s lawsuit against Musk for backing out of the original deal gave the world’s richest person until Oct. 28 to reach an agreement on the purchase.
Censorship culture threatens to limit free speech
The free speech community hopes that Musk is still committed to his stated commitment to return free speech protections to the social media giant. In the past 10 years, a censorship culture has not only become deeply embedded at Twitter but also on other social media platforms. The need for censored and limited speech has become an article of faith for many on the left.
I have long admitted to being an “internet originalist,” someone who viewed the internet as the greatest development for free speech since the invention of the printing press. However, the rapid erosion of free speech values – from our Congress to our campuses – has been alarming.
Led by President Joe Biden, Democratic leaders and media figures have demanded corporate censorship and even state censorship to curtail opposing views on issues ranging from climate change to election integrity to public health to gender identity. The Washington Post’s Max Boot, for example, declared, “For democracy to survive, we need more content moderation, not less.”
Now these same figures are fearful of the supposed menace that Musk poses – the prospect that a major social media platform could actually restore free speech protections.
It would reverse the anti-free speech policies of Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal, who has pledged to regulate content as “reflective of things that we believe lead to a healthier public conversation.”
Agrawal said the company would “focus less on thinking about free speech” because “speech is easy on the internet. Most people can speak. Where our role is particularly emphasized is who can be heard.”
Agrawal’s policy of “who can be heard” offers a reverse model for how to develop a new culture at Twitter. Indeed, his emphasis on the limits of the First Amendment is precisely where Musk should start.
I have argued for a “First Amendment approach” for social media companies. While the companies are not legally subject to the First Amendment, they can voluntarily adopt for themselves the same limitations the government faces.
The First Amendment was never intended to be the exclusive definition of free speech. It deals with only one source of limiting free speech – the government. Yet, many of us view free speech as a human right worthy of protection by private companies. We hope Musk does as well.
Twitter could adopt First Amendment standards
Musk could flip the script of those who justify corporate censorship by declaring that the company will follow the same limitations and standards applied to the government on free speech. In other words, if the government could not censor a tweet, Twitter would not do so.
Voluntary adoption of First Amendment standards would get Twitter largely out of the censorship business. The company would have a ready-made list of cases on the scope of permissible speech controls, with a heavy preference for free speech over speech regulation.
Musk would need to take other steps to exorcise a censorship culture at Twitter. One priority should be to order employees to preserve all records of communications with political leaders and organizations. There is growing evidence of backchannels between social media companies and the government and certain groups.
Musk also could help answer questions of how political figures have used the company for “censorship by surrogate” in past years. That should include whether the company has retaliated against critics, especially conservatives, by withholding blue check marks that help to validate an account’s worth or by using other methods to depress the profile of certain accounts.
The panic evident among media and political figures reflects the fact that, if Musk is serious about free speech, the system of corporate censorship might collapse. With a free speech option in the market, many users are likely to return to Twitter. They are less likely to remain on sites like Facebook, where censorship is not only rampant but also the subject of a campaign to get people to embrace what the company euphemistically calls “content modification.”
Earlier this year, when Musk first appeared likely to buy Twitter, leading advocates for corporate censorship like Hillary Clinton turned to good old-fashioned state censorship. Clinton called upon Europe to pass laws that could force Musk to censor views or face punitive fines. She pushed countries to act “before it’s too late.”
A committee in the British Parliament seemed to answer Clinton’s call by asking Musk to appear for questioning.
Recently, New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern received gushing praise when she spoke to the United Nations and called for a system of global censorship. Ardern is the smiling, cheerful face of modern censorship.
She revealed how sweeping such a system would likely be and defended the need for censorship to combat those who question climate change and to stop “hateful and dangerous rhetoric and ideology.”
She left out that governments would determine what ideas or dissenting views are too dangerous to allow.
Euronews correspondent Shona Murray recently tweeted, “The end of Twitter as we know it is nigh.” If we are lucky, that is precisely what Musk will bring about.
Musk has already earned a place in history for his accomplishments in an array of fields, from transportation to space. However, restoring free speech to social media would rank as his greatest gift to humanity. It would not be “Twitter as we know it,” and that would be a great thing.
Jonathan Turley, the Shapiro Professor of Public Interest Law at George Washington University, is a member of USA TODAY’s Board of Contributors. Follow him on Twitter @JonathanTurley.
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Even if Trump was trying to dig dirt, so what?
How is that a bad thing?
For those interested to dig deeper into the work of Alexander Macgillivray, Principal Deputy Chief Technology Officer within Office of Science and Technology Policy (part of the Executive Office of President Biden): An excellent read about about twitter’s relationship within a network of individuals, entities, corporations and the federal government.
The facts are MORE egregious regarding Biden.
Massive amounts of testimony and you never got anyone to actually say that Trump had ever tied aide to anything.
Biden and congress have done so publicly and the very request makes it clear that the purpose is politics not foreign policy.
What Biden and democrats are doing is blatant extortion.
It is also legal. As what Trump was accused of.
As is typical of the left – what you accuse others of, is who you are yourselves.
Your obvious hypocrites,
Asking a foreign government to investigate the potentially criminal conduct of a political opponent is NOT a crime.
If it was all you would have to do to avoid investigation would be to run for office.
Are you still trying to pretend that the Biden syndicates activities in Ukraine and throughout the world do not stink to high heaven ?
Biden, Democrats in Congress, and Democrats at corporate media outlets have yet to show any sign of shame for the harm their zealotry is causing our nation. These creatures are hiveminded and evil. Regulaor voters not on the Democratic party’s payroll would be hard-pressed to rationalize voting for any candidate running under the Dem’s banner.
OT: Trump’s Truth Social app soars to No. 1 on the Google Play store
After long wait, Trump-owned app scores 100,000 plus downloads in first days in Android marketplace.
I bet a lot of them are liberals looking to insult him and get tossed from the platform.
“[Roger] Stone angry that Trump didn’t grant him a second pardon melts down calling Ivanka Trump – ‘abortionist b*tch daughter.'”
That’s a clip from a Danish documentary, A Storm Foretold, that should be coming out soon.
he lives rent free in your head
No, I seldom think about Roger Stone. It’s still likely to be an interesting documentary, and I’ll watch it.
Elon Musk’s, Martian idea of Democracy & Consciousness
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Musk can avoid arguing with the anti-free speech woke mob and actually give them exactly what they want, ie., censorship, by making one small change: fire all his woke employees and hire only conservatives. Then allow them to censor as they see fit. We’ll see how fast the woke fascists start screaming for free speech.
People like Svelaz say that Twitter is a private company and they can ban anything they feel like banning…and then they turn around and argue that a baker in CO has to BAKE A CAKE specifically designed by a customer, even though said customer is free to come in and buy any cake that the baker has in his display case. So to hypocrites like Svelaz Twitter can do anything they feel like, including banning the president of the US (as they allow the CCP and the Iranian Mullahs right to opine) but a baker must be forced to actually perform an act.
Hey Svelaz, could Trump have forced Streisand to sing at his inauguration? Then why should a baker be forced to do a specific job that goes against his religious beliefs?
The lefty hypocrites are all for choice, unless it is a choice to take the jab, or not use a pronoun, or opt out of working for something you disagree with or any other left wing wish list of dominance.
The 5th Circuit just upheld the Texas law prohibiting censorship by large internet platforms. Viewpoint discrimination by a common carrier is not protected speech.
Biden has done it again.
Remember When the Oval Office resident White Knighted the impending rail strike?
No surprise to those paying attention, Biden did no such thing. All he did was negotiate the inevitable. A strike, but after the midterms.
The White Knight did not bring two sides together at the negotiating table and facilitate an agreement to avert a strike. President Biden did the Magicians act of erecting an elaborate curtain, to hide the facts. The only thing negotiated, was a delay of the date the inevitable strike takes place.
Not surprisingly, the two sides agreed not to strike until Congress returns, AFTER the midterms.
Like the Border Guards fake whipping
Like the fake Jan 6 power point presentation.
Like the fake Covid 19 jab, that never claimed to stop transmission
Like the Biden’s position on energy
Like the Afghan withdraw
Like Bidens fitness for office.
The entity of Biden’s administration is nothing but a relentless pursuit of a narrative, to replace the uncomfortable facts.
My how the communists are afraid that their platform may have to deal with real truths.
“Truth is treason in the empire of lies.”
— Ron Paul
Alex Jones Addresses the ‘End of Infowars’
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Alex Jones addresses the leftist establishment’s attempts to end Infowars.
Most Americans are discussed at Parents & Ambulance chasing lawyers dragging their dead kids down the road from state to state suing everyone but the culprits like the local schools failure to install the recommended security measures, state/city, And Pfizer/others giving the shooters their batsh*t crazy pills, SSRIs, that more or less says on the label some people go crazy mass m*rdering & becomes suicidal nuts. (sic)
Send those people a message with your support to infowars or don’t, but many still want to hear Infowars case without them & A Jones Gagged by the last 2 judges.
I’m gonna take a wild guess that Musk’s objective is going to change to vigorously operating business segments to ensure they are maximally accretive to the EPS of TWTR.
Jonathan: You claim Elon Musk would be “restoring free speech to social media would rank as his greatest gift to humanity”. You have to be kidding! Musk has never demonstrated any real commitment to “free speech”. He has repeatedly sought to control over what journalists, bloggers and others say about him and his businesses. He has asked reporters to sign NDAs or show story drafts to his companies to obtain approval before publishing. Even laid-off Tesla workers are not immune on restrictions of their “free speech” rights.
Laid-off Tesla workers are required to sign a separation agreement, not uncommon in many industries, but it contains the following further limitation: “The provisions of this Agreement will be held in strictest confidence by you and will not be publicized or disclosed in any manner whatsoever”…”In particular, and without limitation, you agree not to disclose the terms of this Agreement to any current or former Company employee or contractor”. There are numerous cases in which Musk has fired employees for reporting racist, sexist and other forms of harassment, unsafe working conditions to state authorities in California. No wonder Musk wants to keep the mouths of former Tesla workers shut tight!
Musk has even tried to limit the “free speech” rights of Tesla buyers. Last year Musk asked Tesla buyers to not criticize his product. According to an agreement Tesla buyers were asked to “keep your experiences in the program confidential” and not to “share any information about this program with the public”. After all the problems with driving the Tesla one can understand why Musk would try to limit the “free speech” rights of Tesla drivers.
It’s pretty clear Musk only wants Twitter to promote his companies and himself. Does anyone really think anyone who is a critic of Musk’s companies will be permitted on a Musk owned Twitter? If you do you need a reality check! Musk could make a “gift to humanity” by just saying “No thanks” to buying Twitter. That would be his “gift” to free speech!
Sounds like just the person to take over Twitter.
I have no idea if anything you are claiming is true – and your credibility is complete schiff.
What I do know is that in venture after venture Musk has gotten wealthy by delivering amazing value.
Whatever Musks terms of employment – if you do not like them – do not seek work from Musk.
As to “separations agreements” – do not sign them. There is no obligation to agree to anything on your way out the door, voluntarily or not.
Nor would any such separation agreement be binding – unless the person accepting the agreement got something for it.
I frequently have tenants who are far behind on my rent. I give them notice that they are going to get evicted and then I provide them with an agreement to leave quickly and voluntarily. If they accept it and leave – I drop the eviction and they have no public record of being evicted.
And I gain possession months sooner and the apartment gets rented sooner and I loose less money, and no court costs.
It is a win-win and most tenants agree and leave without being evicted.
Musk can ask for anything he wants as an employee heads out the door. No one should sign it unless they are getting something in return. And if they are not – it is not binding – contracts 101.
If Muck buys Twitter he can do whatever he wants with it.
If he wishes to turn it into non-stop self promotion – that is his business.
We have heard from those on the left that Twitter is free when run by left wing nuts to do whatever it wants.
Why the tearing out hair because Muck is going to own it – isn’t he equally free to do what he wants ?
You say Musks commitment to free speech is a ruse.
If true – so what ? If Musk turns the table and starts censoring left wing nuts – how would that be morally or legally different than what happens now ?
I happen to believe Musk, but if I am wrong – the world is still better off for Musk buying twitter.
McIntyer is aghast that people voluntarily enter into employment contracts.
It is very hard to quantify exactly how ignorant leftist are of the real world.
Honest question. Would Musk extend free speech rights to bots? And if not, how can censorship of bots not be considered an infringement of the rights of the coder who created the bot?
The coder has the right to speak for themselves.
Machines, computers, code, do not have rights.
But isn’t the coder “speaking” through his creation of the bot?
Is an automated message in email “speech” (i.e., your out of office email)? If so, what is the difference? You have set an algorithm that responds each time you receive a message. Many bots are set up the same way. The “message” that is generated is just more responsive to the context of another person’s tweet. The parameters of that response are obviously tied to the unique way that a coder codes the bot.
A true absolutist should not want to censor any speech, I would think, including code.
An email does not have rights. The writer of the email does.
Correct. The writer of the bot’s tweet is the coder. Why does the coder have no free speech rights?
“But isn’t the coder “speaking” through his creation of the bot?”
“A true absolutist should not want to censor any speech”
I do not know anyone who believes that commentors should be free to post hustler centerfolds on this blog.
That very little speech is legitimately restricted does not mean all speech can be restricted.
If you wish to argue for absolute free speech – go ahead.
But almost no one support all speech in all forums.
So what does “free speech absolutist” mean then?
If I create a bot that automatically tweets, “abortion is murder” in response to any tweet that mentions the word abortion, why should my actions be censored?
Because no one is censoring you, they are censoring your bot.
People have rights. Code does not.
If you wish to hire people to tweet out the same thing, they will not be censored.
What does free speech absolutist mean ? Allowing all speech by any human (I should not have to say that), with extremely few rare exceptions – such as child pornography or adult content in non-adult forums.
I am not trying to provide the perfect formal defintion here – there is no such thing.
Nor does free speech absolutism means the same thing in all contexts. I do not hear anyone objecting to Turley filtering spam.
At the same time – most of us would oppose Government stepping into spam filtering.
There are a few other areas of divergence – many absolutists will bar true threats.
Some would eliminate defamation – and let the market work that out.
Few people think that constraining government from teaching our children things we object to is barred by free speech.
Musk’s first move after completing his takeover of Twitter will be to get rid of all those blue-haired, pronoun freaks in the ranks.
Elon Musk, $ 41 Billion TWTR Takeover, their Central Infrastructure, and an all-inclusive “Everything app”
There was an outcry as the general public got knowledge that “ByteDance”, the parent company of “TikTok” is required under Chinese law to share its data with the Chinese Communist Party whenever requested.  As Peiter “Mudge” Zatko, head of security of Twitter Inc and a former program manager at DARPA, went public more than two months ago, providing “free speech” was not his first priority  Does our government having access to all user data on Twitter?
What’s the business model of Twitter?
Let’s start with a detour: Jimmy Wales, Larry Sanger, and others launched the crowdfunded online encyclopedia “Wikipedia” more than 20 years ago. Users develop the content; access is free of charges and pages are ad-free. Hosting platform is the charitable foundation “Wikimedia”. In short: Food & beverages are free but good luck in editing “sensible” content.
Free food & beverage is an issue of financial viability. However, Twitter’s business model doesn’t exist as a free social media discussion platform while running the ultra-expensive data processing system needed for millions of simultaneous users. A global chat that requires exponential database responses as an outcome of simultaneous users is just ridiculously expensive. If the government has access to our data, then the business model could work.
Next is Musk’s idea to integrate an “everything app”. Digital identity, digital currency, social credit system, where do we end up? Mass surveillance like in China?
 Frances Haugen, former product manager in Facebook civic integrity team, was more concerned about the damaging potential of the algorithm.
>”I have long admitted to being an “internet originalist,” someone who viewed the internet as the greatest development for free speech since the invention of the printing press. However, the rapid erosion of free speech values – from our Congress to our campuses – has been alarming.”
Dear Prof. Turley,
The ‘internet’ does not care a wit about free speech. The internet does not feel pain or pity or acknowledge virtues .. . it only allows me to ‘share’ those feelings with you. lol.
You may be a ‘free speech absolutist’ but even you, like the NYT* eg., have a moderation policy here? (I assume words are not automatically posted here. .. lest some stranger get a wild hair in their alphabet soup?)
In the broader free-market place of ideas, however, Twitter (& FB) has, for all intents and purposes, ‘cornered the market.’ Presently, they are the ‘absolute’ .. . and you (we) are the ‘contingent.’ Size matters.
Perhaps, Mr. Musk will provide more enlightened leadership and/or make a fine mediator for the President, but, like you, I’d prefer more robust anti-trust regulation over those who control the ‘market place of ideas’. In any case, if knowledge is power, I suspect the long and arduous struggle between public and private control of information will continue to be fiercely contested . .. and often paved with good intentions.
*The NYT rarely ‘prints’ the comments they solicited (& Don’t believe a word you read there either .. .unless it’s TRUE!).
“When the balance between the person and society finally obtains we shall know that man has begun his maturity. Obviously, both individual and group will have to give up something of what they now have, just as the nations will have to yield some of their present sovereignty in favour of the world commonwealth, but this will prove no more of a hardship than the sacrifice of bait to catch fish.” ~ attribution withheld . .. for your own good
Not so. I frequently comment on The New York Times articles. All but one have been approved and appear on the comments pages associated with the articles.
You must be saying all the right things. I have commented on more than a few articles in recent past (Jan.-June) and the NYT has rarely printed them, at least in a timely fashion (i.e. within a couple days). .. I estimate around 10%.
*the rest may be still ‘pending approval’

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It is one of the greatest enduring mysteries in aviation history: the disappearance of Amelia Earhart after taking off from Lae, New Guinea, in a Lockheed 10-E Electra on July 2, 1937.
Earhart was trying to become the first woman to circumnavigate the world.
She and a boater, Fred Noonan, were headed to refuel at Howland Island, a tiny coral atoll in the southwest Pacific.
But they were never seen again.
For years, many have tried to find the remains of his plane, without success.
Now, the director of a company marine robotics He believes he has achieved it, although some experts are very skeptical.
Tony Romeo, director general de Deep Sea Visionsays that a sonar image his company captured during an expedition last year appears to show a plane resting about 5 kilometers deep at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean, somewhere within a 100-mile radius of Howland Island.
aTony Romeo, CEO of Deep Sea Vision, in Manhattan on January 30, 2024. A robotics company captured a sonar image that its CEO believes shows Earhart's long-lost plane at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean . Archaeologists say it's too early to tell. (Emon Hassan/The New York Times)
He doesn't want to give the exact location.
He says he believes it is Earhart's plane because the image appears to show the two distinctive fin stabilizers at the rear of his plane and the dimensions are “very similar” to those of his elegant twin-engine Lockheed.
On the last day of the expedition, his 16 crew members found the image among the data they had scanned throughout 8,000 square kilometers of the ocean floor between New Guinea and Howland Island.
“We hadn't found anything for 100 days,” Romeo said in an interview this week.
“We were up to our necks in water. And there it is. It appears on the screen. At that moment we realized that we were the first to see Amelia's plane in 86 years. “It was an incredible moment.”
Archaeologists who have used similar technology to search for underwater wrecks said they were not at all convinced that the image was actually a plane, much less Earhart's.
“The image is really exciting in the fact that it obviously shows a plane or what looks like a plane,” said Megan Lickliter-Mundon, an underwater archaeologist who has searched for sunken planes.
But to confirm that it is really a plane, he said, researchers would have to take more sonar images from different angles.
Then they would have to use a remote controlled vehicle with a video camera to see if the plane has serial numbers or markings that identify it as Earhart's.
After more than 80 years in the ocean, it would be surprising if the plane was so intact as it appears in the sonar image, Lickliter-Mundon said.
“But who knows? Nothing is definitive until you have more information and a picture.”
A model of Amelia Earhart's Lockheed 10-E Electra is held by Tony Romeo, CEO of Deep Sea Vision, in Manhattan on Jan. 30, 2024. A robotics company captured a sonar image that its CEO believes shows the Earhart's long-lost plane at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean. Archaeologists say it's too early to tell. (Emon Hassan/The New York Times)
Andrew Pietruszka, an underwater archaeologist at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla, California, said the image, which The Wall Street Journal reported, could be “noise” in the sonar system or a geological feature on the ocean floor.
“You can't say definitively that this is a plane,” said Pietruszka, who has searched for World War II aircraft.
“To me, at most, you could say that you have a promising goal that it could be a plane, and it could be Amelia Earhart's plane, at most.”
Piotr Bojakowski, associate professor of nautical archeology at Texas A&M University, showed “quite skeptical” that it was Earhart's long-lost Lockheed. He said it could be the remains of a World War II plane.
Sonar image shown by Deep Sea Vision CEO Tony Romeo. (Emon Hassan/The New York Times)
“There are a lot of plane crashes on all those islands,” Bojakowski said. “Could it be American? Could it be Japanese? Could it be something else? Right now, all we know is that it looks like an airplane.”
Romeo said he planned to mount another expedition at some point in the future to take underwater video of the site, which he believes will confirm that it is Earhart's plane, hopefully with its registration number, NR16020, still visible on the wing.
“I want the world to see it,” he said.
Romeo, 43, a former Air Force intelligence officer whose father was an airline pilot, says Earhart's story has fascinated him since childhood.
Earhart, a pioneering aviator, was the first woman to make a non-stop solo flight across the United States in 1932.
She was also the first woman to complete a non-stop solo flight across the Atlantic Ocean, also in 1932.
She was a writer, lecturer and fashion designer.
To launch Deep Sea Vision in 2022, Romeo said, he sold his real estate investments and bought an underwater drone from 9 million dollars capable of scanning the ocean floor.
He said the company, based in Charleston, South Carolina, will pursue other wrecks under private contract.
Earhart's disappearance has inspired similar expeditions over the years, as well as extravagant theories according to which she was captured by Japanese agents or returned to the United States and lived under another name.
Susan Butler, Earhart's biographer, believes Earhart and Noonan ran out of fuel and crashed into the ocean off Howland Island.
“The only question is where the plane crashed,” he said.
Although the search is not over yet, James Delgado, an underwater archaeologist based in Washington, DC, praised Romeo for undertaking the expedition.
“I will always support anyone who goes out to find answers,” he said.
“Right now, it's early days. But if it were me, curiosity being what it is, I'd want to go back and see what it's all about with cameras.”
c.2024 The New York Times Company


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Naturally, the Huawei Honor series is the mid-range branch of the company’s smartphone arm, however, the Huawei Honor View 10 sports flagship specifications despite belonging to this branch of smartphones lineup. Trust me, if there’s that possibility of placing Huawei Honor View 10 in another category higher than the mid-range sector, I’d definitely do.
Huawei Honor View 10 was announced by Huawei last year December and got launched this month. Sporting the latest Android OS feels like just having another specification in this smartphone. The camera is super good, the AI performance is sleek and its memory section is excellent. For the records, Huawei Honor View 10 is the second smartphone to sport the Huawei Kirin 970 AI processor with the first smartphone being the Huawei Mate 10 Pro. More exquisite features regarding Huawei Honor View 10 will be revealed as the full specs are brought to you.
DESIGN AND DISPLAY
Huawei Honor View 10 also known as Huawei Honor V10 in China sports a simple design given the status of Huawei. At this juncture, I’ll say the design is one of its mid-range qualities. However, its metallic body material doesn’t disturb the lightness portrayed by its 6.97mm thickness. The rear is smoothly furnished and has only the rear camera protruding to limit the free flow smoothness. The ‘honor’ logo also appears at the rear as well as the LED flash. Slim bezels are evident at the fore in which the fingerprint sensor takes up the bottom bezel central spot. The top bezel houses the selfie camera, earpiece and some sensors. Sitting well on the smartphone’s right side is the physical keys comprising of the volume keys and power button. Available colour options of Huawei Honor View 10 are Navy Blue, Midnight Black, Beach Gold, Aurora Blue, Charm Red.
Huawei Honor View 10’s large FullView display has an FHD+ resolution of 2160 x 1080 pixels alongside 403 PPI pixel density. 18:9 aspect ratio fits into this IPS LCD panel as well as the 2.5D Curved glass.
Huawei Honor View 10 is availed the services of a 16MP shooter and another 20MP shooter at the rear for professional photography. The f/1.8 aperture, autofocus and LED flash excitens the camera experience on Huawei Honor View 10. The front camera takes selfies using a 13MP sensor with f/2.0 aperture.
CPU, OS, AND STORAGE
Kirin 970 AI processor powers the Huawei Honor View 10 while the graphics are well handled by ARM Mali-G72 MP12 that clocks at 850MHz. The Octa-core ARM Cortex-A73 CPU on the smartphone makes use of a smashing 10nm process technology and clocks at a super 2.4GHz speed. Android 8.0 Oreo OS runs as the software of Huawei Honor View 10, and it comes along with the Huawei Emotion UI 8.0. 6GB of LPDDR4X RAM provides the smartphone with excellent multitasking leaving the role of storage to the 128GB ROM present. The storage can be expanded to a maximum 256GB if a microSD card is applied.
Huawei Honor View 10 has a power-packed non-removable Li-Poly 3,750mAh battery as its juice box. And yes, Fast Charging technology is present on the device.
Huawei Honor View 10 Full Technical Specifications
|Model||Huawei Honor View 10|
|2G Network||GSM: 900 / 1800 / 1900|
|3G Network||HSDPA: 850 / 1900 / 2100 MHz|
|4G Network||LTE: 1(2100), 3(1800), 5(850), 7(2600), 8(900), 20(800), 38(2600), 40(2300), 41(2500) MHz|
|SIM Type||Nano SIM + Nano SIM / MicroSD|
|2G||GPRS Up to 32 to 48 kbps; EDGE – up to 236.8 kbps|
|3G||Up to 21 Mbps (HSDPA), 5.76 Mbps;(HSUPA)|
|4G||Up to 150 Mbps|
|Speed||HSPA 21 Mbps|
|Web Browser||Yes, HTML5|
|Colours||Navy Blue, Midnight Black, Beach Gold, Aurora Blue, Charm Red|
|Display Type||IPS LCD Capacitive touchscreen|
|Pixel Density||403 PPI|
|Features||Capacitive touch, multi-touch input, 18:9 aspect ratio, 2.5D Curved Glass|
|Primary||16 + 20 MP|
|Features||HDR, autofocus, Geo-tagging, ISO, panorama|
|Flash||Yes, LED flash|
|Operating System||Android 8.0 Oreo OS|
|User Interface||Yes, Emotion UI 8.0|
|Chipset||Huawei HiSilicon Kirin 970 AI chipset|
|CPU||Octa-core 2.4GHz ARM Cortex-A73|
|GPU||ARM Mali-G72 MP12|
|Card Slot||Expandable to 256GB|
|Sensors||Fingerprint sensor, accelerometer, proximity, ambient light sensor|
|Controls||Lock Button, and Volume Key|
|Bluetooth||Yes, Bluetooth v4.2 A2DP (Advance Audio Distribution Profile), LE Profile|
|Wi-Fi||Yes, Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac, Wi-Fi Direct|
|USB Type||2.0, Type-C USB 1.0 with OTG|
|GPS||Yes, with A-GPS|
|Battery Type||Li-Poly Battery|
|Capacity||3,750 mAh Battery|
|Standby||Up to 525 hours|
|Talk Time||Up to 23.2 hours|
|Music Play||Up to 41 hours|
|SMS||Yes (threaded view)|
|Yes, IMAP4, POP3, SMTP|
|IM||Yes & BBM|
|Audio Playback||Yes, MP3, AAC, AAC+, eAAC+, WMA, MIDI, WAV, AC3, FLAC|
|Video Playback||Yes, 3GP, Mp4, MPEG4, H.263, H.264 player|
|FM Radio||Yes, Stereo FM radio with RDS|
|Alert Types||Vibration, Ringtones|
|Ring Tones||MP3, WAV|
|Handsfree||Yes, 3.5 mm audio jack|
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(n.) -- the sighing sound one hears on both sides of the generation gap when one side says something the other side just doesn't quite agree with
"You know, every time I talk to my dad, he says a few things that just bother the heck out of me, and I know it's just the generation gap rearing its proverbial head again. It happens so often now, but of course always in a friendly way between younger daughter and older father, that it's more like a generation gasp these days, than a generation gap!"
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At the height of social distancing and other restrictions related to the pandemic, many Canadian cities rolled out temporary patio policies that loosened rules and waived fees for bars and restaurants looking to seat customers outdoors.
These programs brought a glimmer of hope — and revenue — to businesses that had been forced to shut their doors.
In Ottawa, the Patio Innovation Program was approved by the city in 2020, 2021 and 2022 and included a new retail vending program, streamlined permit applications and, most notably, the temporary waiving of monthly patio fees.
Why is DataKinetics one of Ottawa’s Best Places to Work? “For us, it’s one word: culture,” says Allan Zander, CEO of the tech company that’s been serving Fortune 500 financial
As Ottawa residents take a tour through the 2023 Minto Dream Home for CHEO, teams behind the scenes are already gearing up for next year.
Now, most of these amendments have been rolled back and a fee structure introduced that slowly moves back to full patio fees. The phased-in approach includes a 50-per-cent rate for this year’s summer and winter patio seasons, said Mark Young, program manager of public realm and urban design with the City of Ottawa.
“The council-approved decision … is intended to mitigate growing costs to businesses and continued economic instability, particularly in the downtown core,” Young said.
Despite confusion being experienced in other cities as a result of a post-pandemic patchwork of regulations and fees, Ottawa businesses are adapting well.
Among them is Blue Cactus Bar and Grill on the ByWard Market Square, where owner Bob Firestone says he has had a smooth transition away from pandemic regulations, in part because some of the changes made are still in place.
During the pandemic, Blue Cactus was able to extend its patio into the street, adding more room for socially distanced tables. Now, the larger patio space is here to stay and the street has been closed to cars, creating a pedestrian-only block.
“It’s made our street a whole lot better and it’s been great,” said Firestone. “It’s been excellent to get back to it with no truckers or storms or hurricanes or raining frogs. Ottawa clamours for patios.”
David Mangano, co-owner of The Grand Pizzeria and Bar on George Street, says his 170-seat patio is thriving this summer, but admits the fees for the outdoor space are high.
“It was open season during the pandemic, with patios taking up sidewalks, parking spaces,” he said. “The city just said go ahead and had a really liberal attitude and understandably so.
“During lockdowns, that was the only area we could conduct business and we had to be distanced, so we didn’t have the sales we usually would.”
The Grand usually expects to pay about $20,000 per summer for the outdoor patio space, Mangano said, and even though it will be 50 per cent less this summer, the expenses still add up. Setting up awnings and paying storage fees also costs about $20,000, while $6,000 is spent on hanging flower baskets, Mangano said. He estimates between $30,000 and $40,000 in total is spent on decorating and maintaining the patio each season.
After a few busy weekends, The Grand covers these expenses, he said, but the pause on patio fees during the pandemic years was “very helpful.”
“We are taking up space and should pay for that, it’s understood, but we’re also beautifying communities, creating jobs,” he said. “It’s a big investment just to get going, with the fees on top of that it gets pretty pricey.”
Many experts say patios need better across-the-board standardization for businesses still trying to make up for lost sales.
“It was a thing that became an obvious no-brainer for better streets and better neighbourhoods and better cities,” said city planning consultant Brent Toderian, the former chief planner for Vancouver. “So it’s remarkable how bad a job we’ve done.”
“The pandemic was a bit of a forced pilot program,” said James DiPaolo, a senior associate at Urban Strategies. “Cities were looking at creative ways to adapt and they were forced to do it on a much faster timetable than they’re used to.”
Three years later, the transition to the new normal has some municipalities making temporary changes permanent while others, like the City of Ottawa, roll them back.
Many businesses in Toronto are seeing patio permits that were approved during the pandemic now denied, or are facing delays in getting permits even as summer rolls forward, said Tracy Macgregor, vice-president of Ontario for Restaurants Canada.
“That’s where the frustration is coming in, because they can’t hit the ground running with these patios,” she said.
“When you walk around Montreal, you see a lot more (patios). So that certainly suggests that their system is more effective,” Toderian said. “It’s part of their general attitude towards the public realm, which is better than any other city in North America.”
Both Calgary and Edmonton appear to have clear and helpful guidelines for their patios, said DiPaolo, helping businesses figure out what their patio should look like instead of “starting from scratch in every case.”
In Calgary, the city is again waiving fees for patio permits this year. In 2022, it made its extended patio program permanent, with permits valid for three years, according to the city website.
Along 17th Avenue, a popular stretch of bars and restaurants, a local business group decided to pitch in to streamline patio season.
The 17th Ave Business Improvement Area last year invested in building an extended boardwalk that runs alongside the sidewalks, explained executive director Tulene Steistol. Seating is set up on the sidewalks in front of businesses, while pedestrians walk on the boardwalk without having to watch for servers and patrons crossing between the restaurant and the patio seating.
Steiestol thinks municipalities should help pay for projects like this, helping them become more widespread.
“We’ve had municipalities coming down and their own teams from other cities taking note of what we’ve done,” she said.
Some communities have taken pandemic patios several steps further, implementing pedestrian-only street times and bringing in live music and public art, said DiPaolo.
“My hope as a planner is that … the success of these programs can be leveraged for more permanent improvements to the public realm,” he said.
“Instead of building makeshift patios into the street during the summer months, maybe we talk about expanding the public boulevard, where these issues of accessibility and mobility and safety are actually built into the design of the streetscape rather than addressed through the permitting process that happens every year.”
Toderian agreed that patio programs should be approached in a standardized way. “It’s no wonder these things aren’t getting done faster,” he said.
With files from The Canadian Press


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By Sarah Hunt, AZFB Communications Intern
A few years ago, my mom was trying to find a good recipe she could use quinoa in. You know, one of those “hidden veggie” kind of recipes?
Well she found one that to this day is still one of my favorite muffin recipes. It has pumpkin and chocolate chips in it, which is one of my favorite combinations.
It’s not super sweet, so it doesn’t make you feel sick afterwards like some muffins do that are more like cake than a breakfast item. But it still has the perfect amount of chocolate chips to satisfy a sweet tooth, along with nutrient rich pumpkin and quinoa to balance out the small amount of sugar.
Whether its fall or not, you’re going to be wanting to make these delicious pumpkin muffins. Plus, you wouldn’t know there was quinoa in them if someone didn’t point it out to you!
These muffins are a delicious, nutritious, super quick and easy breakfast option once they’re made. Just grab one off the counter or defrost it for a few seconds and you’re good to go! Find the recipe listed below.
By Lisa, Once A Month Meals blog
Makes 12 servings
¾ cups Brown Sugar
1 ¼ cups Flour, Whole Wheat
1 ½ teaspoons Pumpkin Pie Spice
1 teaspoon Baking Powder
½ teaspoons Salt
½ teaspoons Baking Soda
¾ cups rinse, drain, and cook Quinoa
2 individual Egg
¾ cups Pumpkin, Canned
½ cups Milk
¼ cups melt Butter
2 teaspoons Vanilla Extract
½ cups Chocolate Chips, Mini
- Line a 12-cup muffin pan with paper liners.
- In a large bowl, combine brown sugar, whole wheat flour, pumpkin pie spice, baking powder, salt, and baking soda.
- Add the quinoa, stirring with a fork to separate.
- Add the eggs, pumpkin, milk, butter, and vanilla.
- Stir until just incorporated, then gently fold in the chocolate chips.
- Bake at 400 degrees for approximately 25 minutes, or until the muffins are golden brown and a toothpick comes out clean.
- Cool completely.
- Divide muffins among gallon-size freezer bags, label with the date they were made.
- Leave a small amount of them out in a Ziploc bag to eat for the next few days and put the rest in the freezer to use later.
- When you want to serve the frozen muffins, they can be defrosted by placing them on the countertop for as long as needed to thaw. They can also be defrosted in the microwave for about 20-30 seconds. Make sure to check on the muffin every 10 seconds to tell when it is done and to make sure it doesn’t get too hot.
Find more delicious recipes on Fill Your Plate’s recipe database!


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The earliest known common ancestor of apes, monkeys and humans was a squirrel-sized animal that lived 36-million years ago, according to an analysis of skull, jaw and teeth fossils found in an Egyptian desert.
Elwyn Simons of Duke University said the fossils bear the distinctive teeth and skull shape of a creature that clearly was "at the bottom of the human family tree, near the roots."
"This is the earliest animal known from the higher primates, the group that humans, apes and monkeys are in," Simons said Thursday.
The ancient and extinct animal, known as Catopithecus, was first reported by Simons and his colleagues three years ago. But the teeth and skull fossils that unmistakably mark it as a higher primate were found more recently.
A report on the discovery is to be published today in Science, journal of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Simons' claim of finding the oldest higher primate fossil is plausible but unprovable, said Bert Covert of the University of Colorado, Boulder.
"This is fantastic material, the best from early higher primates," said Covert. "The question is, is it really the oldest" from the evolutionary branch that includes humans.
Covert said that specimens found in China and Algeria are older, but are "extremely fragmentary" and their species classification is uncertain.
"Simons' material is between plausible and compelling" as the oldest higher primate fossil, said Covert. "The other material I would place between unlikely and plausible. We cannot resolve the issue right now."
Simons said he has no doubt about his find because of the distinctive features of the Catopithecus fossils. He said they have the higher primate characteristics that include shovel-shaped front upper teeth, a skull with a flattened face, forward-looking eye sockets and a fused forehead bone. In lower primates, such as lemurs, this forehead bone is separated.
"We don't have the skull from the specimens from Algeria," he said. "What if the skull doesn't have the higher primate eye sockets or the fused forehead? That's why I say Catopithecus is the oldest with established credentials."
Simons said the fossils were found in a desert, but Catopithecus lived in a monkey paradise.
Millions of years ago, he said, Egypt's Fayum desert was covered with tall trees growing on the banks of a large lake not far from the Mediterranean Sea. There were flowers and fruit and many types of lush vegetation. There were also many animals: crocodiles, fish, water birds, rodents and a creature called hyrax that was the size of a small cow, he said.
Catopithecus lived in the treetops, dining on fruit and occasional insects. It was about the size of a North American squirrel and probably had a long tail and "a monkey-like face, like a marmoset," said Simons.
If his interpretation is correct, higher primates, such as gorilla, chimpanzee and humans, evolved from the tiny monkey-like animal that lived among the trees of ancient Egypt, Simons said.


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Quoted in the Sydney Morning Herald – They’re not sponging, they’re saving
The journalist Sylvia Pennington was writing about the difficulty for people in their 20′s to purchase property compared to 10-20 years ago. I provided comment noting that these days with median house prices over $1,000,000 in many suburbs in Sydney, from a financial planning perspective, it is very difficult for people to purchase their first property without support from family. 10 years ago I would see my Sydney Financial Planning clients buy property in their early to mid 20′s and pay off the loans sometimes by age 30. Whereas today, when providing financial advice to clients at age 30, the majority have not purchased a home, let alone pay off the loan!
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Sooty, who is about 6 years old, has been living as a stray in Gravesend for some time. Although he is independent and very much a free spirit, Sooty readily accepted being invited into the home of Dawn, his finder. Sooty doesn’t like too much fuss and will tell you when he has had enough, although this may change now he has been neutered.
Sooty would be able to live with other cats and would prefer a quieter, calm home. Sooty currently still lives with Dawn.

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EVERTON’s defeat at Anfield was a reminder that Sean Dyche and his team have a considerable amount of work to do to avoid relegation this season. They are in a precarious position, but as the victory against Arsenal showed, they are capable of producing something better. But against Liverpool, a team that has struggled to live up to the standards set by Jürgen Klopp, Everton fans were sent a message.
Should they suffer relegation, it will only be the third drop through the trapdoor in their long history; the last time they went down was in 1951, when both Everton and Sheffield Wednesday were victims of the goal average system. This method must have caused all sorts of problems on the final day of a season as flat-capped terrace dwellers scribbled their calculations on the back of cigarette packets. Thank heavens for Mr Casio’s calculator and the development of goal difference.
Only Arsenal have been relegated less, their only demotion coming in 1913 when they were a South London club from Woolwich. Liverpool have gone down three times, the most recent being in 1954 before the days of Bill Shankly and the rebirth of the club.
Relegation for such a big club would be a major shock in English football, as it was when Manchester United fell into Division Two in 1974, just six years after winning the European Cup. It was actually a blessing in disguise, for United had been in something of a freefall on and off the pitch and needed to wipe away the shabby conclusion of the George Best era. United went back a better team and regained their place among the top clubs. Chelsea went down a year later, spiralling into financial chaos and by 1975-76, had lost around 20,000 fans at home games since 1971. Tottenham and West Ham followed in the mid-to-late1970s. Manchester City’s relegation in 1983, which seems a once-in-a-lifetime event now, was a dramatic event, decided by a late goal and celebrated in true dad-dancing style by David Pleat.
As football has changed, the financial rewards of the Premier League have cushioned the likes of the big six and others from struggling for any length of time. There’s also the rise of billionaire owners that have propelled clubs to a new level – Newcastle United are the latest. It has become unlikely for a Chelsea, Arsenal or Tottenham to fall into the relegation zone and stay there.
And if they do, the elite clubs generally have the power to climb out of the hole in a year or two. Manchester United went straight back up in 1975, Chelsea took two years (although it was a false dawn as their finances got worse and they were relegated again in 1979) and Tottenham eased their way back in a single, goal-happy season. Now, the parachute payments give the relegated clubs some advantages and they can mount a recovery campaign, hence Burnley are ploughing away in 2022-23 at the top of the Championship.
Although Everton are just outside the “bulge bracket” of clubs, possible relegation need not be the end of the world because they are certainly strong enough to return immediately. When a club does suffer a setback, it is vital the management does not allow things to fall apart. Sometimes, a club on a downward spiral starts to splinter when relegation comes – there have been a number of calamitous double relegations that have been difficult to overcome.
Three clubs have had a notable number of relegations: Grimsby Town have gone down 17 times in their Football League history, Bolton Wanderers 16 and Doncaster Rovers 15. Of the current Premier League, Leicester City have been relegated 12 times, Manchester City and Wolverhampton Wanderers 11.
The financial impact of relegation is what really drives the fear of clubs in the Premier. The broadcasting money, the commercial potential and the huge crowds have created a way of life for the clubs that they cannot contemplate losing. Even though a successful promotion bid will maintain public interest and possibly increase crowds at some clubs, the economic consequences are very clear. With Everton in the process of a new stadium project, avoiding relegation will be doubly important if they are to avoid the threat of a financial crisis. The times may be very different, but Chelsea’s collapse in the mid-1970s was a combination of macro-economics, financial decline, an under-performing team, and the debt incurred by a stadium rebuild. There is a lesson to be had there.
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Four years ago last week I came to Norway. A lot has happened, some exciting, some sad. The rate of change in Norwegian society is enormous, with even younger Norwegians saying they don’t understand how their society can change so quickly!
It’s tempting to look around at that the backdrop of scenery and say it points to something more permenant, but whilst the mountains are fixed, the seasonnal patterns also seem to be changing quickly. This year the spring thaw came at least a month earlier than in 2012. Global warming?
Here are some pictures from a week ago. The mountain is Kistefjell seen across Gisund (the sea) from the Senja:
The one true constant? Our eternal Father, the creator, sustainer and redeemer of this wonderful world.


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CR Bard Offers $200 Million to Settle Numerous Transvaginal Mesh Injury Cases
The medical company has offered injured transvaginal mesh plaintiffs $200 million to settle many of their lawsuits. The offer, if accepted by plaintiffs, would resolve 3,000 of the transvaginal mesh injury cases, which represents about 1/5th of the outstanding lawsuits against Bard.
Transvaginal mesh was originally designed to treat women suffering from pelvic organ prolapse (POP) or stress urinary incontinence (SUI). These plastic slings were inserted through the vagina to hold up organs.
The first transvaginal mesh device was approved for use in humans in 1996; however, by 1999, the Gynecare Prolift was recalled due to defects in the design. Other companies used the FDA’s 510(k) approval process – which allows medical devices that are “substantially similar” to previously approved devices to get on a fast-track approval process – to push their transvaginal mesh devices through to the US market.
However, many women experienced organ perforation, continued incontinence and prolapse, bleeding, pain during intercourse, pain in the legs and decreased ability to walk, and infection, among other symptoms. In many cases, transvaginal mesh can grow into existing tissue, making removal difficult – leaving women suffering from continued side effects.
The transvaginal mesh plaintiffs would receive about $67,000 per victim. The question for many of these women, however, is whether or not that will be enough to cover a lifetime of disability, doctors’ visits, and physical and emotional pain due to the damage the implants caused.
Many other transvaginal mesh manufacturers have begun offering settlements after seeing huge payouts to individual personal injury plaintiffs. In September last year, for example, plaintiff Jo Husky sued Johnson & Johnson subsidiary Ethicon successfully for her transvaginal mesh injuries, and was awarded $3.27 million. Transvaginal mesh victim Martha Salazar was awarded $73.4 million for the injuries caused by Boston Scientific’s mesh device, and while that number was reduced, Salazar still received $11 million for her pain and suffering. A Delaware judge awarded $100 million in punitive damages to a transvaginal mesh victim in May this year.
Because of the high stakes in these types of lawsuits, many medical manufacturers have begun to offer settlement amounts, but these settlements must be approved by all victims and the judge. It is important for mesh victims to note that they do not have to settle for a lower amount that would not cover medical bills, disability, lost income, pain and suffering, and other damages.
There are still around 80,000 transvaginal mesh injury cases in the 6 multidistrict litigations against transvaginal mesh manufacturers. And in spite of this high number of personal injury reports, and their incredible severity, the FDA recently approved a new transvaginal mesh device, and many of the medical manufacturers facing high-dollar lawsuits also continue to market these devices as safe and effective.

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News Release - December 5, 2013
Savara Pharmaceuticals Appoints Two New Members to Its Board of DirectorsAUSTIN, Texas, Dec. 5, 2013 -- (Healthcare Sales & Marketing Network) -- Savara Pharmaceuticals announced today that the company has appointed Dr. Joseph S. McCracken, DVM and Yuri Pikover to its Board of Directors.
Dr. McCracken has more than 25 years of experience in technical, business development and market development roles with biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies. Most recently he was Global Head of Business Development & Licensing at Roche Pharmaceuticals where he was responsible for Roche's global in-licensing and out-licensing activities. Prior to joining Roche, Dr. McCracken held the position of Vice President of Business Development at Genentech for more than a decade.
Mr. Pikover is a Managing Director of 37 Technology Ventures, a boutique venture fund focusing on growing startups, and currently serves on the boards of numerous companies. From 1993 to 2008, he founded and held executive roles at Xylan, Access360, 5square and Folsom Lake Nissan, and served on the boards of several dozen companies. Prior to 1993, Yuri held technical and management positions with Micom Systems and Fibermux Corporation.
"We are delighted to welcome Joseph and Yuri to our Board of Directors at an exciting time for the company," said Rob Neville, CEO, Savara Pharmaceuticals. "The two bring a breadth of business development and public company experience to our team that will help achieve our long term growth objectives."
Last April, Savara Pharmaceuticals announced the initiation of a Phase 2 clinical trial evaluating the safety and efficacy of AeroVanc for the treatment of persistent methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) lung infection in cystic fibrosis (CF) patients. AeroVanc is the first inhaled antibiotic being developed to address the growing population of MRSA lung-infected CF patients.
Vancomycin is an FDA-approved intravenously administered antibiotic with proven efficacy in the treatment of MRSA infections. AeroVanc is an investigational, proprietary inhaled dry powder form of vancomycin in a capsule-based device designed for convenient self-administration. AeroVanc is currently being developed as a treatment for persistent MRSA lung infection in CF patients. By delivering vancomycin directly to the lungs, higher vancomycin concentrations are achieved at the site of infection, which is expected to lead to improved clinical efficacy. In addition, direct delivery of the drug into the lungs reduces exposure to the drug elsewhere in the body, and is thereby expected to reduce the risk of systemic drug-related side effects.
About Savara Pharmaceuticals
Savara Pharmaceuticals is a specialty pharmaceutical company developing AeroVanc (vancomycin hydrochloride inhalation powder), the first dry powder inhaled antibiotic for the treatment of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) infection in patients with cystic fibrosis. For more information, please see Savara's website at www.savarapharma.com, or www.aerovanc.com
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Wide receiver Justin Hunter visited the Cowboys last month, but he won’t be leaving the Steelers.
The Steelers announced on Thursday that Hunter has signed a one-year deal with the team.
Hunter joined the team as a free agent last season and caught four passes for 23 yards and a touchdown in seven appearances with the team. Antonio Brown, Martavis Bryant and JuJu Smith-Schuster are all back with the Steelers as well and Darrius Heyward-Bey remains on hand as a core special teamer, so Hunter will have some work to do if he’s going to see more playing time this year.
The Steelers also announced that running back Stevan Ridley has signed a one-year deal with the team, something that was reported to be in the works earlier this week. Ridley signed with the Steelers last December and ran 26 times for 108 yards and a touchdown in the final two weeks of the regular season.


The year 1888 saw the introduction of the original Kodak camera. In the same year, Albert Darier was granted the first Swiss patent for photography, number 17, for a light-weight, handheld camera he called the Escopette. It used Kodak original roll film to create 110 exposures (size 68 x 72 mm).
“The Escopette’s name stems from the gun bearing the same name, because of its shape: the camera was mounted on a pistol grip, and a trigger served as the shutter release.” (Swiss Camera Museum) The shutter release is part of the pistol grip; the camera is fired like a weapon, aimed at the subject and fired. It had no viewfinder; instead, sight-lines were drawn on the body. Its portability enabled amateurs to photograph scenes and events quickly and easily.
Manufactured by E.V. Boissonas (c. 1888), the Escopette was constructed of wood, though the front was made of metal. It had a “carved wooden handle, accompanied by polished brass support legs to serve as a tripod and brass hardware to mechanize the film advancement. It was fitted with a Steinheil Periscopic f/6 90mm lens and spherical shutter with trigger release.” (HistoricCamera.com)
A periscopic lens is a symmetrical lens, consisting of two equal convex meniscus elements with the aperture between them. It was first made bySteinheil in 1865 (the origin of the name is simply that Periscop was Steinheil’s name for their product). Its simplicity (with no cemented elements) makes it cheap, and such lenses are found quite widely on simple popular cameras [for example, the Vest Pocket Kodak] and some box cameras).” (see Periscopic lens) Using a wheel just below the lens to adjust the shutter tension, exposure times could vary from 1/25 to 1/100 sec. A key below the shutter is used to cock it. The lens has to be removed to change the sliding stops.
The Escopette was not the first pistol-shaped camera. “[The] design had been employed previously by Skaife and Enjalbert, but the Escopette was more elaborate. It could be rested on a flat surface for time exposures, and it had a pair of hinged, collapsible legs mounted on the bottom front of the camera body which could be adjusted in length and served, with the pistol grip, to create a tripod.” (A Century of Cameras, From the Collection of the International Museum of Photography at George Eastman House, by Eaton S. Lothrop, Jr., p.44)
The size of the finished wooden box was a modest 3 1/2 x 3 1/4 x 3 3/4 inches; with legs extended, the maximum dimensions were 3 3/4 x 7 x 8 1/4 inches. The Escopette received a silver medal at the Paris Exposition of 1889. It is a rare camera found only in a handful of museums and collections including the Eastman Museum in Rochester, NY. McKeown’s Price Guide to Antique Classic Cameras, 1997/1998 describes the camera as “rare” with an estimated value of $8,000+ (about $14,765 in today’s dollars, assuming its value held up).
Editor’s note: The late Eaton S. Lothrop, Jr. (d. 2008), a well-known photo historian and author of A Century of Cameras (1973; 1983) quoted above, was a charter member of PHSNE. He served on the first Board of Directors and was PHSNE’s first elected vice-president. He was awarded an honorary life membership in 1983.
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Are Those Even Cameras?!
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The Ram 2500 is a popular full-size truck on our forum. Recent adventure-ready examples include this 2022 Big Horn, a 2020 Laramie Crew Cab Off-Road Edition, and a 2017 with a BunduTecUSA flatbed camper. These rigs are very impressive but require considerable modifications and time to upgrade them for overlanding. However, what if a model was already outfitted for the less-traveled road? Well, fear not because AEV’s (American Expedition Vehicle) “Prospector” might be the answer to your prayers. The Prospector is a heavily modified version of the Ram 2500 designed for backcountry trails and tackling technical terrain. If you’re looking for an “off-the-shelf” expedition-ready full-size truck, this AEV is a fantastic option as described by 4WD experts Chris Cordes and Christophe Noel. This platform is exceptionally capable, which you can see on the FOTORNR YouTube channel as they take the AEV Prospector XL off-road. Today’s meticulously-maintained low-mileage (57,500 miles) offering showcases the desirable Cold Weather Package, Popular Equipment Group, and a plethora of AEV upgrades. Furthermore, at just $52,000, it represents excellent value considering that this 2018 Prospector build (admittedly with a camper and additional accessories) was previously listed for $120,000.
From the Seller:
“I saw this Prospector pop up in Flagstaff, AZ. I convinced myself I wanted to build a stock truck, so why not buy this one and just drive it? It was sold to me by the owner of a private airport and was used to pull planes out of the snow. It has never missed a beat, drives and rides awesome, and returns better fuel economy than my previous Tundra. This truck is built and tested for adventure.”
2015 Ram 2500 AEV Prospector
The 2500 is fitted with a 6.7-liter Cummins diesel motor that produces 400 horsepower and a vast 1,000 pound-feet of torque. A monster engine is mated with excellent all-terrain capability thanks to 4WD, high and low range, AEV front and rear lockers, snorkel, Warn winch, skid plates, and more. Inside, today’s example benefits from both the Cold Weather Package and the Popular Equipment Group with driver comforts that include:
- Parkview backup camera and ParkSense park assist
- Infotainment system with navigation
- Cruise control
- Sirius satellite radio
- Warn winch
- AEV Dualsport Suspension
- Vision X lighting
- AEV alloy wheels with BFGoodrich tires
- Mopar Tube Side Steps
- AEV Stamped Steel front bumper
- Titan fuel tank, 55 gallons
This 2015 Ram 2500 AEV Prospector is listed for $52,000 and is currently located in Dallas, Texas. Check the full vehicle specifications via the original Expedition Portal forum post here.
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Africa Oil Corp (CVE:AOI) Director Bryan M. Benitz sold 20,000 shares of Africa Oil stock in a transaction dated Tuesday, April 3rd. The shares were sold at an average price of C$1.17, for a total transaction of C$23,400.00.
Shares of CVE AOI opened at C$27.50 on Thursday. Africa Oil Corp has a fifty-two week low of C$9.85 and a fifty-two week high of C$30.70.
A number of equities research analysts recently weighed in on the stock. CSFB cut their price objective on shares of Africa Oil from C$1.80 to C$1.44 in a research note on Tuesday, March 13th. Royal Bank of Canada cut shares of Africa Oil from an “outperform” rating to a “sector perform” rating in a research note on Friday, March 9th.
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This story will be updated as information becomes available.
Due to the continued spread of the coronavirus throughout the U.S., the NCAA men’s and women’s basketball tournaments have been cancelled, the NCAA announced on Thursday.
The NCAA has released the following statement:
Today, NCAA President Mark Emmert and the Board of Governors canceled the Division I men’s and women’s 2020 basketball tournaments, as well as all remaining winter and spring NCAA championships. This decision is based on the evolving COVID-19 public health threat, our ability to ensure the events do not contribute to spread of the pandemic, and the impracticality of hosting such events at any time during this academic year given ongoing decisions by other entities.
With coronavirus cases now confirmed at all NCAA Regional locations as well as in the Final Four host city of New Orleans, it is hard to argue with the reasoning.
Cases by location
- Dallas, Tex. — 34 cases in the state of Texas, with some near Dallas
- Greenville, S.C. — 10 cases in the state of South Carolina, with some near Greenville
- Portland, Ore. — 300-plus cases in Northern Oregon and Washington state
- Fort Wayne, Ind. — 13 cases in the state of Indiana, with some near Fort Wayne
- New Orleans, La. — 14 cases in the entire state of Louisiana, with some near New Orleans
The NCAA news comes on the heels of the suspension of the NBA season, which was announced on Wednesday because Rudy Gobert of the Utah Jazz was diagnosed with the coronavirus.
The WNBA has yet to make a decision about its upcoming season, but with the 2020 draft coming up on April 17 and the season beginning on May 15, changes could be coming.
For now, WNBA commissioner Cathy Engelbert issued the following statement Thursday morning:
The health and safety of players and employees – with our teams and at the league level – is of the utmost importance. With regard to COVID-19, we are in touch with the teams, consulting with infectious disease specialists and monitoring guidance from the CDC and WHO. The WNBA is currently not in season, but together with the WNBPA and teams, we have been in close communication and will continue to connect with and offer resources to players in the U.S. and those playing overseas. ... In addition, we continue to scenario plan around our upcoming events and season including the 2020 WNBA Draft scheduled for April 17, the start of training camp on April 26 and the tip of the WNBA season on May 15. Further details will be shared later this month.
This story was originally published on Thursday, March 12, at 2 p.m. ET.


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Thanksgiving is all about celebrating times with family and friends, and for those who have the ability, Thanksgiving is also a time to help those in need. If you happen to be in the Miami, FL. area this Thanksgiving and you’re in the mood to help those less fortunate, make sure to attend the 5th Annual Bongos Cuban Café Thanksgiving Feed a Friend event November 22 from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.
The event, sponsored by Florida Blue, Sedano’s Supermarkets and Baptist Health South Florida, will take place at Bongos Cuban Café at 601 Biscayne Blvd. More than 1500 guests from Big Brothers & Big Sisters, Hispanic Unity of Florida, Chapman Partnership and the American Red Cross will be in attendance. These local charities will be helping give the homeless and families in transition a great Thanksgiving feast.
Over the four years this event has been existence, it has served more than 8,000 families in transition and this year, families will be able to dine on traditional Thanksgiving fare like mashed potatoes, roasted turkey, cranberry sauce, green bean casserole and pumpkin pie as well as Cuban dishes like lechon asado (roasted pork), fried plantains, cassava (yucca) in mojo sauce. Live music by The Beatlemaniax, a group called “South Florida’s most authentic Beatles tribute show,” will add more fun to the festivities. Many celebrities will also be available to serve food to the guests and keep spirits high.
The event’s most well-known sponsors are singer Gloria Estefan and her husband, Emilio Estefan. “Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday,” said Estefan. “It’s about sharing family, food and love [, w]hich is why the Thanksgiving Feed A Friend [event] is the most special event we do all year, no gift giving involved except for the gift of love and care for the families that need it most. We are excited to support this event for the fifth year and look forward to many more.”
Emilio Estefan added, “I feel it’s so important to give back and especially give back to a community that has given us so much. This event is proof that the giving spirit is alive and well. We are excited to once again partner with our sponsors: Florida Blue, Sedano’s Supermarkets, and Baptist Health South Florida for this special event.”
Make sure to come to the 5th Annual Bongos Cuban Café Thanksgiving Feed a Friend event to give back and celebrate the Thanksgiving spirit.