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We support the local theatre community with direct funding and in-kind supports that nurture the development, creation, and production of theatre. These programs encourage artists to create shows as part of Fringe Theatre’s Season and the Edmonton International Fringe Theatre Festival.
Below are four streams of support available to Artists through Fringe Theatre. An Artist may apply and be awarded funding from multiple streams in the same year.
Westbury Family Fringe Theatre Award
This annual award provides one local Artist, group, or company up to $25,000 of in-kind support toward the creation of a new work to be presented as part of the Fringe Theatre Spotlight program.
The award is given annually and provides access to a theatre venue for the run of the show, technicians, and more!
This award honours Drs. Robert & Marilyn Westbury, who have provided a lifetime of leadership and generosity towards theatre arts. This award is funded through an endowment fund, ensuring artists have the resources to create new and exciting theatre for generations to come.Learn More
Nordic & Cloutier Family Innovation Award
This annual award provides one local Artist, group, or company with up to $2,500 in funding toward professional development, training, innovation, and/or special project development.
The Innovation Award was established by John & Vivian Cloutier and their locally owned family business, Nordic. The Nordic & Cloutier Family are dedicated community builders who have passionately supported Fringe Theatre for more than 15 years. This award honours their incredible commitment to ingenuity, creativity, and the entrepreneurial spirit of theatre arts that thrives in our community. This award is supported by an endowment fund and will ensure artists receive support to explore innovation and evolution for years to come.Learn More
Mowat Diversity Award
The Mowat Diversity Award creates opportunities to enrich the diversity of the Artists and their stories on stage.
Annually through the Mowat Diversity Award, we dedicate one Fringe Festival lottery spot to support equity-seeking Artists by providing them a venue, technicians, lighting, sound equipment, box office support, marketing, public relations, and advertising in support of their show, plus $500 cash, mentorship, and reimbursement of their Festival application fee in full.Apply Now!
Gerald Osborn Playwriting Award
The intent of the Gerald Osborn Playwriting Award is to encourage and support Fringe playwrights who are creating plays that will be produced at the Edmonton International Fringe Theatre Festival.
The Gerald Osborn Playwriting Award is given annually to one local Fringe playwright. The recipient will receive a $500 cash award. This cash award is intended to support the playwright’s writing process, artistic activities, and/or career development and may be used at their discretion.Apply Now!
The Equity Lottery is given annually to one local and one local and/or national equity-seeking Artist who applies to participate in the Edmonton International Fringe Theatre Festival.Apply Now!
Fringe Theatre Spotlight Program
Each year we provide Artists resources and space so they can fully explore and execute their creative vision. Two to three companies are selected annually to produce their show at the Fringe Theatre Arts Barns as part of our Spotlight Program.
The average project receives $7,000 in in-kind support, including access to a venue, technicians, and communications and box office support.
Applications are accepted year-round.Apply Now!
Edmonton International Fringe Theatre Festival Lottery
Our Festival brings hundreds of shows to Fringe stages every August. We provide an average of $8,000 in in-kind support per show.
Edmonton Fringe is unjuried. We provide support to Artists through an annual Lottery. There are a variety of streams for which an Artist may choose to apply to take part in the Lottery. Indoor Lottery recipients receive venue, technicians, box office support, marketing, and more! Outdoor Lottery recipients receive staging, technicians, and marketing.
P.S. Artists may also participate in the Fringe Festival by applying as a Bring Your Own Venue Artist.Apply Now!

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Effective 5 p.m. Saturday, March 14, Rockford Art Museum is temporarily closed until further notice—and all events, classes and programs at RAM are cancelled or postponed.
After yesterday’s announcement of statewide school closures, and as part of Illinois Governor JB Pritzker’s ask for communities to aggressively expand social distancing efforts to limit exposure, all Rockford Park District facilities, events, programs, and rentals are suspended effective immediately.
This includes Rockford Art Museum, located inside the Riverfront Museum Park building at 711 North Main Street in downtown Rockford, which is also home to Discovery Center Museum, Rockford Dance Company and Rockford Symphony Orchestra. Burpee Museum of Natural History is located next door.
Rockford Art Museum and the Rockford Park District have been following and supporting guidelines and recommendations made by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH), Winnebago County Health Department (WCHD) and the City of Rockford, and will continue to do so until this health emergency subsides.
We are constantly monitoring news and recommendations, as they change daily and sometimes hourly. Please regularly check our website, rockfordartmuseum.org, and Facebook page, facebook.com/rockfordartmuseum, for updates.
Thank you for your support.
Rockford Art Museum
p.s. Need an art fix from home? Download our free mobile app and go behind the scenes with us, where you’ll find artist-led gallery walks, curator talks and more.

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Favorite Tanka, 2016 Tanka Society of America Members’ Anthology
Selection & Reflections by Beverley George (posted on TSA Facebook page, July 20): This compelling tanka creates a mood; tells a story; leaves the reader conjecturing. So much depends on the simple word ‘new’. It raises the question of why the son has no access to his mother’s home; hints that he may have had to the former one. The brand-named skateboard suggests that he is young.The first and last lines bookend the poem with darkness. Sound plays its part with ‘clip-clop’ linking to the skateboard’s name and ‘fading’ adding to the feeling of separation and loneliness. A short story in five lines.

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text: The Ibis Curitiba Batel hotel is located in Curitiba s smart district, close to the best bars and restaurants, and also distractions like the Guaira theatre. Near the business district and historic centre, the hotel is 15 km from the international airpor. t. It has 150 air-conditioned rooms. The bar of the hotel, open 24-24 for delicious snacks, is located in a historic building dating from 1880. Public covered parking close by.

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If you want to give your little girl a cool new look, check out our Curaos for kids hairstyles. From edgy to adorable, there are many different styles for girls to choose from. These hairstyles are perfect for girls who don’t want to dye their hair. Instead, you can use clip-on color yarn for a fun, colorful look.
You can make three braids out of the hair under your ears and secure them with hairpins. You can add flower, bow, or cord charms to the center of each braid. You can also use styling products to help accentuate natural curls or straighten your hair. When the hairstyle is done, you can set it with a setting spray to keep it in place longer.
A braided bun can look like a birds nest. The hair is secured with a band or a bobby pin. Some braids can be used all at once. You can also add some twists or thick braids for a fun look. You can use hair elastics to hold the hairstyle in place. To last longer, use a setting spray to help it maintain its shape.
Another popular Curao for girls is a three braided style. This hairstyle resembles bird nests. The three braids can be held in place with capillaries. You can add beads, flowers or bows to the center. You can use a styling product or large barrel iron to highlight natural waves or straighten your hair. If you are concerned about the appearance, you can also try risks.
Kids can be edgy or punk. They can be as simple as ponytails or as elaborate as French braids. Depending on the kids’ preference, they can choose a curly one that is cute, easy, and comfortable. You can also try different styles to see which one suits your daughters personality best.
The most popular hairstyles for children are braided ones. These can be tied together with capillaries to create a bun for your little girl. For a more elaborate look, you can add a braided style. This looks great on girls of any age. Whether your child is a boy or a girl, there is a hairstyle to suit every occasion.
Creating a three braid hairstyle looks like a nest. The braids can be secured with a clip or a ponytail. You can add a thick twist or braid to any kids hair to make it look classy. For a more sophisticated look, you can add some strands of your child’s hair. Then secure the braids with a clip or ponytail, or use a small barrel iron to curl and style.
A cute braided hairstyle is a good option for girls. A three braid hairstyle looks like a birds nest. Braids can be secured with pins or rubber bands. You can add some strands of hair to give your child a unique look. It is also possible to add some colored clips which will make your hair look extra pretty.
A simple braided hairstyle is another cute and easy hairstyle for girls. This hairstyle resembles a birds nest and is done with a large barrel iron. These are very cute and are great for girls of any age. Some moms don’t want to dye their braids, but a ponytail with a simple high bun will do just fine.


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Domain experts share their views on tech, worklife, luxury, travel, food and culture
This clip is a dig at Trump’s recent proposed budget cuts to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which helps fund PBS on which it airs.
Two pedigreed dogs and two humans of perhaps less eminence were the dramatis personae whose dispute caused the learned judge to make some sterling observations.
There are people listening in to what our boss is saying. The man occupying his seat earlier was tapping the phones.
Captain cool has won more tournaments than any other captain in history.


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Medical care for the skin
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Having a functioning clutch is essential when you want to drive your manual transmission Jeep. This much is obvious. However, when you depress that clutch pedal and nothing happens, well, it certainly can be frustrating.
Luckily, we offer all kinds of factory replacement clutch parts for just about every Jeep out there. From bellcranks, cables and covers, to pedals, forks, boots and housings, and many more. JK Wrangler on down to those older CJs. And for those who take their vehicles off pavement more often than not, there are also heavier duty clutch accessories guaranteed to hold up under the toughest of environments.


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Rios Libres: The Places In Between
Team Rios Libres has completed their journey through Patagonia, studying the potential impacts of 5 proposed damns on two of the region's wildest and most healthy rivers. Two of the dams are proposed for the Rio Baker - Chile’s longest and highest-volume wild river. The remaining three dams would be built along the Rio Pascua, Chile's third highest-volume river.
As team member Tim O'Neill states, "our trip is water under the bridge, and hopefully never water behind the damn."
At night, the face of the earth is webbed with light. Our cities have swallowed almost everything. When you see this image, where does your imagination fall, on the dazzling, viral spread of humanity or the last dark places in between?
Late one night, I slipped naked into a lake full of stars down along the serrated edges of southern Chile, where on satellite images of the earth at night, the tail of South America blends into the black sea. Rivers and lakes do not emit light, nor do ice caps or chains of mountains. The sky rippled ahead of me as I swam through the cold water of Patagonia. I pushed my arms into this darkness, felt it across every inch of my skin, took it into my mouth and drank.
[Human-made lights highlight particularly developed or populated areas of the Earth's surface, including the seaboards of Europe, the eastern United States, and Japan. Photo and caption courtesy of NASA and can be found on their site.]
I don’t know why I want this river to run. I could not sit at a table with a microphone and explain it. I don’t know why the heart breaks when we have drawn and quartered yet another landscape, named it as ours, used it to fuel our every global ambition from paper clips to plastic cups. But god do I want this river to move, another dark thread binding the surface of this planet, another path uninterrupted.
It is not just the dam that will change this place. Dams will require an infrastructure of roads, highways, and new supply ports. Many who live in this sparsely populated region fear what this could do to their lives as small towns become busy construction centers, and as future industries pour in through newly established routes.
After visiting the waterfall, I thrash upward through a thousand feet of thick vegetation and granite outcrops. Finally, I stand in the wind in a country of waterfalls, streams plunging all around me. I see the lay of the land from up here, ragged summits rising from a gleaming white ice cap. Clouds snag on the highest blades of rock, or, rather, those high rocks make the clouds, their warm, hard bodies touching cold westerly winds, drawing moisture that has been circling the globe looking for a place to land. This is the earth rising up on its toes, reaching into the sky and raking thought it as it passes, bringing down rain and snow; ice for the glaciers, water for the rivers. This is not done for anyone. It simply happens. This is how rich the world is, miracle upon miracle for no one.
Standing on this high point, I see it is not about dams or transmission lines, or even about that river way down there. It is about what we want to do with our time here, how we want to leave this place. The day is coming when the rarest resource will not be oil or even water, but a place that does not smell of us. Maybe we won’t even notice the passing of an era as we crawl deeper into our shells of light, but we notice it now. We can say for sure that it was real, that there was once a place where you could feel in your bones a greater world, where you did not possess their air or water, and a river did not stop for you.
I come here from a highly developed country with a long-standing infrastructure of interstates and power grids, every major river dammed. Asking Chile not to do the same smacks of environmental imperialism, but I do not wish for this country to be undeveloped, only to develop differently. Maybe building dams is the best that can be done down here, serving civilization at large by pumping hydroelectricity to mines and cities in the north, assembling independent energy for South America (although recent studies say that the dams will lead to an expensive over-supply that could be handled much more efficiently by using alternative sources). On the other hand, consider what would be lost.
When you look at the image of earth at night, do you find hope where the darkness of the Himalayas shoulders into the blaze of India, where Siberia, Sahara, and the interior deserts of Australia hold our advances at bay? Let your eye follow the southern curve of South America. Nothing is there, the gap not yet closed. Gauchos cut their lassos out of cowhide. Rivers race from beneath glaciers. Pumas wait in the shadows. At night, you can still pour yourself into a lake, sending a ripple through the stars.
[Top, left - Chris Kassar feels the power of the raw, free-flowing Rio Baker at a beautiful water fall. Hydro Asyen's proposal to put a dam here would forever change Chile's longest and wildest river. Above, right - An iceberg-laden lake leading up to the Colonia Glacier. The Colonia is part of the Rio Baker watershed. Bottom, right - Bernardo Vargas cuts a lasso from cowhide. He is a true gaucho, who lives off the land in a traditional sense, alongside the Rio Baker. All photos: James Q Martin.]

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New Delhi: Broadband technology company Sterlite Technologies
on Thursday posted a multi-fold jump in its consolidated profit at Rs 115.75 crore in the first quarter ended June 2021, helped by business gains post easing of Covid restrictions. Sterlite Technologies (STL) had recorded a profit of Rs 5.96 crore in the same period a year ago due to the impact of pandemic.
"First quarter of last year was most heavily affected by the pandemic. Even this April-June quarter had some impact of the second wave but the sharp jump in PAT
(profit after tax) is largely because of the extent of the pandemic last year," STL group chief financial officer Mihir Modi said.
The revenue from operations of STL increased by about 49 per cent to Rs 1,309.23 crore during the reported quarter from Rs 876.2 crore in the corresponding period of 2020-21.
"This is clearly validation of what we have been seeing in the market and preparing ourselves to benefit from that. We are looking at around a 10 year network building cycle," Modi said.
The company in a presentation said that its total addressable market for all the broadband technologies it offers grew by about 5 times in 2021 to about Rs 2,97,800 crore.
He said that international markets have now started stabilising and overseas business now contributes more than half of total revenue of the company.
The company also announced acquisition of UK-based network integrator Clearcomm Group
for which STL will pay around Rs 125 crore for the first tranche of the transaction to buy 80 per cent stake. STL will buy the rest of the 20 per cent in Clearcomm Group in 2023.
"The purpose of Clearcomm acquisition is to primarily acquire capabilities. The founder and employees of the group will continue to operate Clearcomm as a STL group company. The acquisition significantly boosts our UK foray. It will give us a foothold in Germany and Italy," Modi said.
The company's order book grew by 8.7 per cent to Rs 11,200 crore in the April-June 2021 quarter from Rs 10,300 crore in the year-ago period.
"Around Rs 4,200 crore out of Rs 11,200 crore is executable in financial year (FY) 2022 and remaining Rs 7,000 crore order is deliverable by FY 2023 and beyond. Around Rs 2,500 crore out of Rs 11,200 crore is in the nature of warranties and maintenance, spread over 4-5 years," Modi said.
The STL board also approved raising of Rs 1,000 crore and reorganisation of its businesses to make them more tax and regulatory efficient.


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India adds 75,083 Covid-19 cases in 24 hours, tally crosses 55 lakh
New Delhi/IBNS: India, which has been battered by the Novel Coronavirus pandemic despite months of lockdown, on Tuesday added 75,083 Covid-19 cases taking the tally of infections beyond 55 lakh.
With the fresh cases, the Covid-19 tally in the country has touched 55,62,664.
1,053 people, who were infected with the virus, died in 24 hours between Monday and Tuesday mornings, taking the toll to 88,935.
Union Health Minister Dr. Harsh Vardhan on Monday told the Indian Parliament that Covid-19 vaccine is likely to be available by early 2021, as 1.3 billion people of the country are waiting for a cure for the respiratory disease.
Three Covid-19 vaccine candidates are presently in various phases of trials in India.


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After nearly a decade away, Maria Shriver is returning to NBC News.
The news journalist has signed with the network as a special correspondent, with reports to focus on women's issues such as "shifting roles, emerging power, and evolving needs of women in modern life," while also serving as editor-at-large for other reports centered on women's issues. Her stories will appear across NBC's various news platforms, including CNBC, NBC Nightly News, MSNBC and NBC Sports.
"Through her reports, her books, her events, her activism and the powerful social community that she has built, Maria Shriver has become a leading voice for empowering women and inspiring all of us to be architects of change in our lives," said NBC Universal News Group chairman Pat Fili-Krushel. "We are delighted that Maria will play such a key role in our efforts to examine this important topic, and all of us at the NBC family are excited to welcome her home."
Shriver left NBC News after serving from 1986 to 2004 in order to focus on work as first lady of California after husband Arnold Schwarzenegger was elected governor of the state. She was rumored to be among those NBC was pursuing to join the struggling "Today" show while other networks and producers had expressed interest in Shriver joining the growing crop of daytime talk shows.
Shriver said in a statement, "I’ve always believed that television can inspire and elevate humanity, and that’s my mission with this new partnership. I look forward to shining a light on all areas of a woman's experience – from faith and finances, wellness and work, to relationships and the new realities of modern life– and exploring these issues in a way that brings the voices of men into these critically important conversations."

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text: You seem to have far too many complaints at the same time. Advising will be difficult on this chat. The medical treatments of each condition will be unique and therefore you will need to visit an allopathic dermatologist near you . But there are 3 things that you can do to help yourself and the dermatologist : 1. Sleep on time 10:30pm and wake up on time 6 am 2. Exercise 45 min everyday (running jogging swimming cycling etc ) 3. Eat a healthy and balanced diet .(no junk, oily foods and sugary or processed foods ) .: this is called modifying lifestyle . And understand that this will help you control your acne and hair fall far more better in the long run. But of course, your chicken pox marks will need a different type of medical treatment. So what I suggest is that you start modifying lifestyle and simultaneously visit an allopathic dermatologist near you to start the prescription medicines.


Insights in Modular Switchboard Enclosure Systems.
By Mr. M. Ramani
MODUTEC Ready Panels Private Limited
When we talk of a scientific mind in the AC Electricity Supply System, one cannot but stand in admiration of the Siberian-American inventor Mr. Nikola Tesla. What drove him was the following context from where he came: “The desire that guides me in all I do is the desire to harness the forces of nature to the service of mankind.”
Harnessing Power, whether it is Hydro, Wind, Solar or any other source, require Switchboards in Standard and Customized designs, to make this happen. It is here that protection, measurement, automation, monitoring and management of electricity takes place. So, this article attempts to explore the Way this is done presently and could be done going forward.
When I started a Company called Load Controls in 1990 to manufacture Switchboards, I did so as everyone else was doing in a conventional welded design. We were besieged with problems of
- handling last minute changes,
- inflexibility of dealing with Panel dimension and modules changes post manufacture,
- quality heavily dependent on skilled labor,
- time consuming manufacturing process and hence constrains in on-time delivery,
- not scalable and so economies of scale were not possible, hence expensive.
On various trips, abroad to Countries like Singapore, Sri Lanka, Dubai & Denmark, I reckoned that to overcome the above disadvantages, I had to shift from a welded design to a modular design of Switchboard manufacturing. Thus, was launched MODUTEC our modular switchboard enclosure systems in the year 2000. These modular Panels helped Load Controls overcome all the above challenges and helped grow the business steadily since then.
Today, we have many Switchgear Companies launch their own modular switchboard designs in India and partner with local Panel Builders to offer a technologically smarter and type tested system to electrical installations. For example, we have L&T with their TI genres, Schnieder with Blockset & Prisma models, ABB with their R2K Panel offerings, Siemens with their Seipan versions, Legrand with their XL Cube standard and so on.
Customers are slowly preferring to go the way of these standardized modular designs of Panels since the Type Test Certification of IEC 61439 calls for 13 tests and these to be done with specific make of switchgear in the Panels. Further, End Users felt the need for flexibility in Forms of construction, types of switchgear and desired certainty in compliance to specifications related to dust, liquid and vermin protection, painting quality, bus bar systems to handle both short circuit currents as well as temperature rise, mechanical robustness and so on. All these offer the end user, peace of mind and hence modular design in Switchboards is gaining acceptability and finding it’s place in tender specifications as mandatory.
Other benefits of the modular designed switchboards are that even after the Switchboards are installed at site, should there be changes in converting 2 modules into one big one or vice versa, this would be possible unlike in welded designs. Moreover, most designs permit for hinged door reversibility from LHS to RHS and vice versa, a feature which is again absent in welded versions.
What the standardized designs open up for the Switchboard Industry is the possibility of franchisee or alliance partnership associations across geography. With a centralized mechanical enclosure manufacturing unit, one could have the flat pack kits dispatched to various cities wherein the electrical value addition & customization can take place with all the scalable features supporting the engagement. Unified branding would further help gain Customer confidence and the arrangement would aid harness power Faster, Smarter & Safer!
Internationally, we have brands of modular switchboard enclosure systems from companies like ELSTEEL, Logstrup, CUBIC and Kikbloc leading such technologies. In India apart from MODUTEC we also have BCH from Faridabad supporting other Panel Builders engage with them in this cutting edge way of building switchboards and distributing energy. It will not be long before the Switchboard Industry consolidates to wipe out the conventional welded players and replace them with these advanced methods to harness power.
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Green Bay - The first domino on the Packers' coaching staff has fallen: Special teams coordinator Mike Stock announced his retirement this evening after three seasons with the team.
Stock's special team's units fared poorly throughout this season -- they declined in every category but punt return average -- and his future with the Packers was very much in doubt, much like that of defensive coordinator Bob Sanders. Nothing has been announced yet about Sanders' job security.
While Stock is 69 and has coached for 44 years, he made no mention of possibly retiring when asked about his future over the past few weeks.
"It all depends on one thing and one thing only: How long does he (coach Mike McCarthy) want me to stay? That's what it depends on," Stock said recently.
But in announcing his retirement through the Packers, Stock said he decided it was best to walk away.
"My passion for the game was strong through the very last contest, but in thinking further about the commitment needed for another season and discussing it with my family, ultimately I decided this was the best decision for us," Stock said. "I've been very fortunate throughout my life to play and coach a sport I love very much. I thank the Green Bay Packers for the opportunity to spend three wonderful years here. I'll miss the games, and I'll miss the people. But I look forward to spending more time with my wife, my three children and five grandchildren."
McCarthy, who coached with Stock with the Kansas City Chiefs, praised Stock in a statement released by the team.
"I would like to thank Mike for all of his contributions over the past three years," McCarthy said. "The energy and passion he consistently displayed as a coach is something I've admired since we first worked together in Kansas City in 1995. Mike had a positive impact in developing many of the younger players on our roster, which we will continue to benefit from in coming seasons. I wish him, Peggy and their entire family all the best in Mike's retirement years."
Assistant special teams coach Shawn Slocum, who has also been with the team all three years of McCarthy's tenure, will likely be one of several possible candidates to replace Stock.


[Intel-gfx] [RFC PATCH 0/2] i915 brightness control
kamal at canonical.com
Wed Jun 2 15:11:40 PDT 2010
Requesting comments on this idea (proposed by Matthew Garrett) and my
implementation. Note especially the KNOWN PROBLEM with a "GM45" GPU.
In order to avoid the often-dysfunctional native acpi brightness control
methods, a new acpi_brightness_hook interface is made available.
The i915 driver uses the new hook to take over brightness control.
Boot with i915.brightness=0 to disable.
- i915 opregion brightness control silently fails on GM45 (pci-id 0x2a42)
[RFC PATCH 1/2] acpi/video: acpi_brightness_hook API
[RFC PATCH 2/2] drm/i915: override acpi brightness control
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This paper outlines the authors’ experience of working with international cross‐cultural teams, and is an attempt to address the question about how international organizations can give rise to a sustainable capability in which generations of teams build on each other’s experience. The paper outlines some of the behavioural dynamics, both constructive and destructive that seem to occur in international teams, and focuses on ways of working through the destructive dynamics. The paper suggests that sustainable learning can happen when organizations and teams engage with the “cultural whirlpool” that their internal diversity creates; when they maintain ongoing cross‐cultural conversations which bring cultural differences and understandings alive; and where they engage with the strategic moments that are afforded by their emotional and relational dynamics.
Heimer, C. and Vince, R. (1998), "Sustainable learning and change in international teams: from imperceptible behaviour to rigorous practice", Leadership & Organization Development Journal, Vol. 19 No. 2, pp. 83-88. https://doi.org/10.1108/01437739810208656Download as .RIS
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City and urban sound effects & recordings – including crowds, walla, traffic and other city activity
Streets and stop signs, freeways and highways, and yes, even a roundabout! This is a massive library featuring traffic ambiences that range from quiet suburb avenues, to downtown rush-hour. Not just urban environments, we also “hit the road” and drove north to sleepy desert towns, and single lane canyons. There's a ton of variety here!
Recorded with the stunning Sennheiser Ambeo microphone, each ambience is delivered in both AmbiX and FuMa formats, as well as Stereo, 5.1, and 7.1.
What’s more- a 360 video reference is provided to offer a fully immersive image of the sound effect being captured!
From the snow-covered slopes of Mammoth mountain, to the ice-filled shores of Duluth, Minnesota, this library brings together some terrific subzero sounds for your next snow-themed project. With ski and snowboard bys, chairlifts, cold winds, and even melting icicles, this is surely a collection you don't want to miss. Recorded with the stunning Sennheiser Ambeo microphone, each ambience is delivered in both AmbiX and FuMa formats, as well as Stereo, 5.1, and 7.1.
What’s more- a 360 video reference is provided to offer a fully immersive image of the sound effect being captured!
Get the sounds of everyday life in Tokyo, Japan. A quiet neighborhood with moderate traffic, birds singing and a dog barking in the distance. Recorded in densely populated, but quiet and civil Setagaya Ward, Tokyo.
Sounds include traffic in the form of cars, trucks, lots of bicycles and pedestrians, commuters at Kyodo Station, cicadas at night, Japanese crows cawing, as well as the unmistakable sounds of a Buddhist cemetery in a light breeze (!). In short; just the right sounds to make Japanese suburbia come alive in your productions.
Recorded exclusively using stealth methods (near-concealed microphones), this is a slice of life, as lived by the locals of this rather pleasant middle-class neighborhood.
Tokyo Ambisonics is a sound effects library of 46 high-quality urban atmospheres in B-format with “”virtual mic”” software.
Included software lets users adjust perspective of the city ambiences in real-time for greater flexibility, realism, and creativity. Point “virtual microphones” in any direction with various polar patterns to match the specific setting of a scene!
The Ambisonics recordings can be decoded to mono, stereo, 5.1, 7.1 and beyond, allowing for versatile use of the library. Pre-rendered stereo versions are included as well.
Recorded in 24-bit/96kHz with a SoundField SPS200 mic by Masato Ushijima, Tokyo Ambisonics was captured at diverse locations throughout the city including the Yamanote Line railway, Shuto Expressway, Keihin Industrial Region, Daiba Bayside Park & more. The library contains sounds that are unique to Tokyo in addition to some more general-purpose urban ambiences.
This library is also ideal for use in VR audio and 360 video projects. Equip your personal library for the future of immersive media!
Tokyo Tourist is more than 2.5 GBof sound from different locations in Tokyo and beyond.
34 recordings/79 minutes of stereo recordings featuring temples, trains, religious processions and much more – this library takes you to some of the locations a tourist might visit, all in 24bit/96kHz quality.
Recording with the same setup as Tokyo – Outdoor Ambiances, I went to Shinjuku station and Gyoen Park. I recorded the Kanda festival procession in the streets of Akihabara, captured the infernal sound in a video game arcade – just to name a few of the sounds in this library.
• Clean, realistic ambient recordings of interesting locations
• Traffic, temples, parks, trains, people, people, people…
• All sounds recorded with the same microphones – in the same setup (spaced-omni)
• BWAV metadata embedded with even more included in CSV and ODS (OpenOffice) formats
An extensive collection of airport ambiances from departures, arrivals, passport control and luggage reclaim halls, spanning Venice, Saigon, Istanbul and Trieste.
Also includes a collection of voice-only announcements sound effects, topped with a collection of designed chimes in the style of the ones from London Heathrow and Gatwick, JFK, Johannesburg, Manila, Dubai, Tokyo and Paris provide you with a versatile tool kit of both off-the-shelf, ready-to-use ambiances and all the elements you need to create your own scene.
Photo by Haiqal Osman on Unsplash
TOURIST CROWDS is a collection of 30 stereo recordings, specially designed for scenes set in tourist places and points where a mix of different languages is a must. Spanish, English, Chinese, Japanese, Dutch, French… you name it.
In order to avoid unobtrusively sounds, all files are stealth recordings. Therefore, equipment used consists of small handheld recorders (Sony D100 and Zoom H2n). A couple of Clippy stereo mics were also used, plugged into the D100.
Files come in 24 bit and 96 & 48 kHz, with embedded metadata.
Have a scene at an airport? Maybe a temple? A central station? I got you covered.
TOWN & COUNTRY provides a wide range of professional sounds for creating perfectly convincing and realistic town and country ambiences in high-end quality. In addition to a broad and solid foundation of town and country lifestyle, we focused on credible ambiences that are full of detail and at the same time leave enough room to place further sound design in the foreground.
MAJOR STRENGTH: FLEXIBILITY!
The main part of this library consists of extensive – mostly loopable – background ambiences with varying daytimes and locations of town & country sceneries. More detailed and easily accessible sounds of e.g. camp fire, farm animals or an extraordinarily impressive file with flies on a roadkill are another strong addition to your SFX pool.
More than 200 files of vivid town and country days and nights give you all the flexibility you need to bridge the gap between a very rural country life with animals and man-made town sounds. TOWN & COUNTRY has all necessary components to design organic and grounded acoustic backdrops while keeping a naturalistic feel and human touch.
From winds rushing through empty streets to winds whistling and whipping across a marina, “Town Winds” offers a broad spectrum of wind ambiences in urban environments.
This library includes the sounds of wind blowing through flagpoles, strong wind gusts at a railway station, and wind whirling around a backyard. There are recordings of clattering masts, fluttering plastic, rattling fences, and much more.
Taken in very calm spaces, these recordings have minimal traffic bleed and are nearly bird free. Recorded with a Shoeps MK4/MK8 MS, paired with a Sound Devices 702 recorder.
Whether you’re designing a stormy scene in a city or a suburban environment, this is the library for you.
Empty streets, parking lots, railway stations, school, rural street, marina, harbor, lighthouse, athletics field, backyard, town square
This library features various recordings of traffic ranging from rural highways, inner city, residential, city CBD and wet traffic. Metadata includes information such as time of day, location and how busy the roads are. All sounds were recorded using the DPA 5100 and Sound Devices 788T this library is delivered to you in 24bit / 96khz and is available in stereo or 5.0 (5.0 version includes stereo files as well).
Traffic Hush by Badlands Sound offers twenty unique ambience three and a half minute files each of distant traffic hush! This library is perfect for sound editors creating high-quality distant ambiences quickly and easily with several options including very sparse quiet traffic with a few cars driving by to large bustling city roads with semi trucks.
This sound library was recorded in 96 kHz / 24 bit using Sound Devices 702t with a pair of Line Audio CM3's in ORTF microphone configuration.
Welcome to my ‘TRAIN ANNOUNCEMENTS CONCATENATION KIT’. What does that mean? Well, it means you can use the words, numbers and phrases I have created to make your own station announcements, using whichever DAW you like to use.
With 90 popular UK stations phrases such as ‘We’re sorry to announce that the…’, ‘fast train’ slow train’ ‘is now boarding’ and ‘…has been cancelled’ you can create thousands of combinations of train times and destinations. I’ve made a couple of pre-canned ones for you as a sample and put one station background ambience in there too. All the VO is in a RP (well spoken) English male voice.
This collection is really immersive, distant noises in large halls, people walking away to catch their train and much more.
Looking for authentic ambient sounds of Japanese transportation? Look no further! Field recordist and composer Ryan Ayers travelled to Japan in April of 2019 and captured this wonderful collection. His journey took him from Osaka to Tokyo to Fukuoka and all points in-between. Travel aboard the trains of the JR, the famous Shinkansen, the Hanyu Ferry and more! Explore the train platforms and station terminals of Osaka. Get lost in the Kansai International Airport. There is a subway noodle shop as well as specialty food markets. Authentic walla and natural activity give this collection the ear candy necessary to be an integral part of great soundscapes.
This is a purely recorded sound pack. Nothing is synthetic or layered here. What you hear is exactly what was captured on location. We edited and mastered the files to bring out the best parts of the recordings. Most of the recordings have been ready-made into loops for ease of use. As always, we have embedded the files with detailed metadata for easy database searches.
Only ground transportation. Sounds of cars, engines and bikes. 63 sounds to enhance your story telling
Get up close and personal with British engineering in this superb motorcycle sound library!
This library is sampled from a brand new 2017 Triumph Street Twin 900 cc motorcycle. It combines classic motorcycle engineering with modern technology to create a truly unique sound.
In this library you get a large variety and perspectives of revs, idles, drive bys up to 50 mph, drive ups, drive aways, engine breaking, onboard driving, accelerating and more! Enjoy feeling like you’re riding this brand new modern vintage motorcycle!
'Turkey' is a unique collection of 36 sounds recorded during a Turkish journey on the road last summer with an amazing meeting point between Europe and Asia through incredibly diverse landscapes, cultures and traditions. What an unusual and surprising journey from Istanbul through the plains of Anatolia and Aegean coast during Ramadan. This library includes:
This collection provides authentic and interesting sounds recorded through the western part of the country using DPA, Neumann and Audio Technica mics powered by an Atea Mixy. All Faunethic tracks include Soundminer metadata tags.
This library contains an eclectic collection of sounds sourced on a recent trip to Japan. It's an auditory sampler of the beauty and stillness as well as the chaos and busyness of Japan, from elevator rides to fish markets, temples, busy streets and mountain streams.
All tracks were record with a stereo pair of Sennheiser MKH 8040's and a Sound Devices 633.
Over 100 stereo ambiences from across the UK, including city, countryside, beaches, interior and exterior – available for instant download. View the full list of sounds below.
Comes with comprehensive metadata – and in total, this library gives you more than 6 hours of pristine, authentic recordings from the UK!
A collection of ambiances and street sounds recorded in ukraine between 2015-2018. With these recordings I tried to grasp the unique character of Ukraine. The distinct traffic sounds, the wonderful nature and the lively language.
You will find recordings of airport and train station with p.a announcements, street sounds with Russian walla and voices, quiet residential ambiances, Ukrainian village ambiances, supermarkets and markets, schoolyard, school corridor, parade, street traffic, trains, conversations in Russian, prayers, street player talking, pedestrian areas, and more.
A collection of ambiences from underneath every railway bridge crossing the Thames in London. Most recordings are dynamic enough to allow for easy isolation of train sounds for use as an individual effect, with periods of quieter urban and suburban soundscapes in between – 2 kinds of library for the price of one, essentially.
All recordings made with a pair of DPA 4060s into a Tascam Dr-100mk3.
This library delivers 70 recordings, each 5 minutes in length and recorded at 96khz at 5 different universities.
You’ll find find a range of distinctive locations from exterior walkways to interior study spaces, stairwells and many more. Each sound file is contains useful metadata describing the location and distinct sounds present in the recording.
All sounds were recorded using the Sound Devices Mix Pre 6 and a stereo pair of Sennheiser MKH 8020s.
If you're after city ambiences, URBAN & SUBURBAN provides a solid foundation for any sound designer to create a believable acoustic backdrop right out of the gate with common ambiences in varying intensities, daytimes and configurations. Easily accessible public places are captured in excellent quality, yet enough balance and distance to support the scene in the background and embed more prominent sounds into the mix.
COMMON VS UNUSUAL
While URBAN & SUBURBAN provides all the necessary basics, it also goes the extra mile by providing more isolated environments as well as recordings of special events that will come in handy when a change of scenery or dramaturgy is required. Various forms of traffic, groups of people, buildings, animals, wind and many more sound sources that make an appearance in this library ensure that you are able to craft an experience complete with the necessary components.
With A Sound Effect, Asbjoern has created a web site where our international community can browse, learn, and share the vast fruits of our labors. Together we are accelerating the very real potential power of sound design as a recognized art form.
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Time and tide wait for no one…
Chicks? What chicks? I don’t have any chicks… oh those? Those pullets in the yard? Oh, I’ve had those for a long time. No, really, I think they came with the house.
You have started on the coop, right?
I hope so, because it’s taken all of my spare time for the last two months to keep up with the chicks/pullets’ progress. Kitchen box to brood hut to transitional coop/run. They are growing growing growing so I am going going going. I didn’t even have time to take pictures of the new “South Wing” construction, but I thought I’d post a few photos to give people an idea of what I’m doing.
So here is a view of the old and new run area. The adults have lived comfortably for ten years in the structure to the right. Theoretically, I could have just crammed more chickens into the existing infrastructure. However, with six chickens, I thought that I should give everyone some more room. This helps in many ways. Everything from manure management to the “pecking order” is moderated by the extra room. Also, the chicks are not supposed to eat the calcium rich “layer food”, so the south wing takes care of that issue as well.
This is nothing fancy, no chicken mansion here. I took all the off cuts from the plywood/brood hut project, cut them in half, and then made a simple frame. Viola: one functional chicken box. I left the infra-red light on so they would recognize “home”. Right after I took these pictures, we turned off the infra red light. This was the first time the chicks had been in the dark, and sure enough, they would not go into the dark box. They started wandering around, looking for their roost, and giving out out with the distressed peeping as the sun went down. Tough love isn’t going to work in this situation, chickens NEED to go home to roost, and in this case, that light was the homing device. Hmmm, I have these solar powered “drive way lights” out in the garden, so I grab a couple, stick them in the chick coop, and viola! they all pile in, line up on the roost,and act like the perfect chickens. By the next evening, the chicks got into the coop by sun down, settled on the roost, and were asleep by night fall. Did I cave in and give the babies a night light? Yes, I did, but just for one night, and now they are perfectly adjusted pullets. Go with the flow, or just go.
And speaking of going with the flow… if you are introducing new chicks to an old flock, there will always be some tension. Here’s Cleo, nine years old, laying everyday (those hormones are hopping!) and she is in a head pecking mood. She will chase the new chicks, and she will peck at them if she can catch them, but at this point, I encourage the interaction, they can get used to each other, the chicks can totally out run the old bird, and everything turns out right in the end.

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|XIE, LINGLIN - Medical University Of North Dakota
|ZHANG, KE - Medical University Of North Dakota
|RASMUSSEN, DANE - Medical University Of North Dakota
|WANG, JUNPENG - Tufts University
|WU, DAYONG - Tufts University
|JOHNSON, W. THOMAS - Retired ARS Employee
Submitted to: Journal of Nutrition
Publication Type: Peer Reviewed Journal
Publication Acceptance Date: 12/9/2016
Publication Date: 1/31/2017
Publication URL: https://handle.nal.usda.gov/10113/5661745
Citation: Xie, L., Zhang, K., Rasmussen, D., Wang, J., Wu, D., Roemmich, J.N., Bundy, A.N., Johnson, W., Larson, K.J. 2017. Effects of prenatal low protein and postnatal high fat diets on visceral adipose tissue macrophage phenotypes and IL-6 expression in Sprague Dawley rat offspring. Journal of Nutrition. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0169581.
Interpretive Summary: Investigators at the Grand Forks Human Nutrition Research Center had shown in a previous study that maternal undernutrition such as a low protein diet causes the offspring to become obese. They also demonstrated that obesity in such offspring is associated with an increased risk for type 2 diabetes. Since obesity is also associated with increased inflammatory immune cell numbers in fat tissue, they tested whether numbers of particular subsets of immune cells called M1 and M2 macrophages are different in the fat tissues of offspring whose mothers were fed a low protein diet. Type 1 or M1 macrophages are inflammatory cells that release a proinflammatory factor called interleukin 6 (IL-6) and these cells are found in higher numbers in obese compared to non-obese subjects. In contrast, type 2 or M2 macrophages are anti-inflammatory cells that are found in higher numbers in non-obese compared to obese subjects. A third group of cells called M1b have characteristics of both M1 and M2 macrophages. It is currently unknown whether maternal LP diet-induced offspring obesity is associated with changes in M1, M1b, or M2 cell numbers and expression of inflammatory factors in fat tissue. Using rat offspring whose mothers were fed a low protein diet during pregnancy and who were fed a high-fat diet post-weaning, the investigators tested whether increased fat tissue was correlated with changes in numbers of adipose tissue M1, M1b and M2 macrophages. Fat tissue growth rate was highest in maternal low protein and post-weaning high fat diet group. In the maternal low protein diet group, M1 cell numbers did not change while M2 cell numbers increased when the offspring were fed a high-fat diet. In the maternal normal protein group, both M1 and M2 cell numbers increased when fed a post-weaning high-fat diet. The ratio of M1 and M2 did not change with maternal and post weaning diets while M1b cell numbers increased in maternal normal protein and post-weaning high-fat diet group. However, those offspring who experienced a maternal low-protein diet and post-weaning high-fat diet had greater proinflammatory IL-6 expression. In summary, these results indicate that a maternal low-protein diet combined with a post-weaning high fat diet contributes to changes in M1, M1b and M2 cell numbers to increase fat tissue inflammation.
Technical Abstract: Adipose tissue macrophages (ATM) are implicated in adipose tissue inflammation and obesity-related insulin resistance. Maternal low protein models result in fetal programming of obesity. However, it is not known whether maternal undernutrition increases ATM phenotypic expression in F1 offspring. Using a rat model of prenatal low protein (LP, 8% protein) diet followed by a postnatal high fat energy diet (HE, 45% fat) or low fat normal energy diet (NE, 10% fat) for 12 weeks, we investigated the effect of these diets on adiposity, programming of the offspring ATM phenotype, and the associated inflammatory response. Fat mass in newborn and 12-week old LP fed offspring was lower than that of normal protein (20%; NP) fed offspring; however, the adipose tissue growth rate was higher compared to the NP fed offspring. While LP did not affect the number of CD68+ or CD206+ cells in adipose tissue of NE offspring, it attenuated the number of these cells in offspring fed HE. LP resulted in a lower percentage of CD11c+CD206+ ATMs in offspring fed HE. Noteworthy, similar to HE treatment, LP increased gene expression of IL-6 within ATMs. Interestingly; LP partially reversed the increment of IL-6 in offspring fed with HE diet. Two-way ANOVA showed an interaction of prenatal LP and postnatal HE on IL-6 and IL-1 beta transcription. Overall, both LP and HE diets impact ATM phenotype by affecting the ratio of CD11c+CD206+ ATMs and the expression of IL-6.


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Dumbrell secures Bathurst Dunlop Series hat-trick
Paul Dumbrell has taken his third consecutive victory in the Dunlop Series 250km mini enduro following an eventful encounter at Mount Panorama.
The Eggleston Motorsport driver made the most of a strong start to jump pole-sitter Garry Jacobson to the lead on the opening lap, which he held until pitting under the Safety Car on lap 10.
The early visit to the pitlane forced Dumbrell into a two stop strategy which proved to be a smart move.
After strong middle stint and a short fuel stop, Dumbrell eventually returned to the lead on lap 37 of 41 as the field completed their pit stops.
The Dunlop Series veteran, who had earlier built up a 7.5s lead, went on to take the victory by 11.3s from Jacobson, while rookie Anton De Pasquale provided an impressive drive to third.
Dumbrell’s victory didn’t arrive without issue as an electrical problem hampered him in the early laps, before a fan managed to tap into his radio frequency during the race.
The Holden driver also ran wide at Turn 1 following his second stop.
A second place finish for Jacobson boosted his championship lead as he mirrored Dumbrell’s pit strategy following a slow start that dropped him third.
A strong surge in the final laps saw Jacobson snatch second spot at The Chase from De Pasquale, who found himself in a strong position after electing to pit twice under the Safety Car.
De Pasquale managed to stretch his fuel to the finish to take third, his best result to date in the Dunlop Series.
The maiden podium came after a mid-race crash at Murrays corner when he made contact with Kurt Kostecki while fighting over the fringes of the top 10.
However, the most dramatic moment of the encounter came when rookie Jack Smith suffered a high speed crash at The Dipper that brought out the Safety Car.
The Paul Morris Motorsport driver locked up at the Esses which fired him hard into the inside wall and then across the track into the outside wall, severely damaging his Falcon.
Luckily the 17-year-old Smith was able to walk away from the incident to the medical car.
Garry Rogers Motorsport driver Richard Muscat came through to finish a strong fourth ahead of Shae Davies, who led the the race until his final stop in latter stages.
Todd Hazelwood was left to rue a stall in pit lane that robbed him of a likely podium chance as he finished in sixth.
The Matt Stone Racing driver would have rejoined close behind Dumbrell if he hadn’t been slow away from the pits.
Jack Le Brocq was unable to make a one stop strategy pay off in seventh after choosing not to pit under the Safety Car.
The top 10 was completed by Andrew Jones, Macauley Jones and Taz Douglas, who shared his Eggelston Motorsport Commodore with Grant Denyer.
Meanwhile, James Golding’s rough weekend continued with a retirement when he clouted the wall with his front right at McPhillamy on lap six.
The Garry Rogers Motorsport driver, who crashed the GRM #34 Volvo in Practice 2 on Thursday, wrecked his front right suspension.
“It was not what we wanted,” said Golding, who was holding ninth spot at the time of the crash.
“I got a bit of aero wash from the car in front and hit the wall. I’m really disappointed for the team but hopefully we can have a better day tomorrow.”
Chelsea Angelo finished two laps down in 20th after an eventful afternoon.
The Matt White Motorsport driver made contact with Matt Chahda that bent her steering early in the race, before then receiving two drive-through penalties for pitlane infringements.
Jacobson has opened up a 151 point lead over Le Brocq ahead of the Dunlop Series finale at Sydney Olympic Park from December 2-4.
Result: Dunlop Series 250km Mini Enduro
|1||Eggleston Motorsport||Paul Dumbrell||Holden Commodore VE2||40||01:35:11.7401|
|2||Challenger Valve Racing||Garry Jacobson||Ford Falcon FG/X||40||01:35:23.0519|
|3||Paul Morris Motrosports||Anton de Pasquale||Ford Falcon FG||40||01:35:24.4127|
|4||Wilson Security PAYCE GRM||Richard Muscat||Holden Commodore VF||40||01:35:24.6857|
|5||DavBridge Construction / MWM||Shae Davies||Ford Falcon FG||40||01:35:32.6077|
|6||iSEEK Communications||Todd Hazelwood||Holden Commodore VF||40||01:35:34.5351|
|7||GoGetta Racing||Jack Le Brocq||Ford Falcon FG/X||40||01:35:35.0288|
|8||Alliance Truck Parts Racing||Andrew Jones||Holden Commodore VF||40||01:35:41.4226|
|9||PAYCE||Macauley Jones||Holden Commodore VF||40||01:35:41.8298|
|10||Eggleston Motorsport||T.Douglas/G.Denyer||Holden Commodore VE2||40||01:36:01.4437|
|11||STR Towing Equipment||M.Palmer/D.Russell||Ford Falcon FG||40||01:36:28.9435|
|12||Middys Electrical / MWM||Bryce Fullwood||Ford Falcon FG||40||01:36:32.3518|
|13||Auto One||Adam Marjoram||Ford Falcon FG||40||01:36:51.6690|
|14||Kostecki Brothers Racing||Kurt Kostecki||Holden Commodore VF||40||01:37:08.9359|
|15||Wynns Racing||Josh Kean||Holden Commodore VF||39||01:35:40.7609|
|16||Castrol Racing/Performance Wes||Alex Rullo||Holden Commodore VF||39||01:35:41.2876|
|17||Image Racing||Ryal Harris||Ford Falcon FG||39||01:36:15.5702|
|18||Cavalier Homes||Matthew Chahda||Ford Falcon FG||39||01:36:22.1601|
|19||Kostecki Brothers Racing||Jake Kostecki||Holden Commodore VF||39||01:36:24.3216|
|20||Wilson Medic One / MWM||Chelsea Angelo||Ford Falcon FG||36||01:36:02.6754|
|DNF||Paul Morris Motorsports||Jack Smith||Ford Falcon FG||9||20:16.7728|
|DNF||Wilson Security PAYCE GRM||James Golding||Holden Commodore VF||6||14:07.0740|
Dunlop Series Standings
|2||Jack Le Brocq||1350|
|11||Anton de Pasquale||856|


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India may have been sent to two of county cricket’s more downbeat locations before they move on to Nottingham for the first Test next week, but MS Dhoni and his players gave every impression of enjoying their second day in Derby.
The sultry weather presumably helped, plus the fact that it was their turn to bat after spending Tuesday in the field under the rules contrived for this three-day match, with each team now due to receive 45 overs to determine who wins the Royal Crown Derby Trophy.
So after early failures for the openers Shikhar Dhawan and Murali Vijay, Virat Kohli played like a prince for a while either side of lunch, Cheteshwar Pujara accumulated more prosaically before retiring out for the second time in as many innings on the tour, and Dhoni himself then treated a small but lucky gathering to a typically entertaining 46.
The captain departed before tea with a heave at David Wainwright’s left-arm spin which suggested a similar attitude to warm-up games to that displayed by Kevin Pietersen in Sydney last November, and watched the evening session from a plastic chair in front of Derbyshire’s defiantly unglamorous pavilion.
Derby and Dhoni would not seem a natural fit, but the world’s richest cricketer clearly relished a game of head tennis on the outfield at tea, over a net of those plastic chairs – and Derbyshire’s coach, Graeme Welch, suspected that his declaration with more than 10 minutes of the scheduled day’s play remaining was to permit another kickabout at the close.
“I’ve just spoken to the dressing-room attendant and he said they’ve been brilliant, very respectful,” said Welch. “The way they batted as well, they played respectfully and every ball on its merit, so all credit to them. It’s been a great experience for our young lads, bowling at blokes like Kohli and Dhoni.”
Ben Cotton, a strapping 20-year-old seamer from the Potteries, especially enjoyed himself, having Dhawan caught behind in an accurate opening spell, and then returning after lunch to claim the prize scalp of Kohli, playing on as he tried to withdraw his bat. He immediately turned and saluted in the direction of the pavilion. “I’d told him I’d buy him a drink if he got Kohli out,” added Welch. “It’ll be a Coke obviously, with him being a young lad.”
The other Derbyshire youngster to catch the eye in this game has been Harvey Hosein, a 17-year-old wicketkeeper from Matlock who is already in the England system, which explained the presence at the ground of Bruce French. He followed his unbeaten half-century on Tuesday with a good low catch to dismiss Dhawan, the left-handed dasher whose failure will not cause India much concern as he has clearly recovered from the hand injury that forced him to retire hurt after scoring a half-century in the tour opener at Grace Road last week. Vijay, a 30-year-old from Chennai who established himself in the Test team early last year when Australia were in crisis and dropping players for failing to do their homework, may be a little more worried, especially with a more experienced opening alternative waiting in the wings in Gautam Gambhir, who scored a half-century at Leicester.
There were no such problems for Pujara, who seems to have bulked up since he made such a stunning impact against England in late 2012, and so far shows no sign of being troubled by potentially trickier batting conditions. The evening session was dominated by Stuart Binny, the 30-year-old son of India’s 1983 World Cup legend Roger, whose unbeaten 81 from 111 balls, allied to his ability to bowl handy seam-up, might give him the chance of a surprise Test debut at Trent Bridge.
He shared a sixth-wicket partnership of 88 with Ravi Jadeja, the stylish left-hander whose spin caused England so many problems in the one-day series in India in early 2013. Duncan Fletcher, who took an active part in lunchtime practice and still seems to enjoy wearing a tracksuit at 65, has plenty of options.


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Back-end Web Developers are responsible for server-side web application and integration of the work front-end web developers do. They will write web services and APIs used by front-end developers. Working closely with marketing and design functions they will use test sites to see which ideas best suit the brief.
Using reliable code, they will build the framework considering UI, cross-browser compatibility, general web functions and standards.
A Web Developer will need a good understanding of server-side CSS preprocessors, accessibility and security compliance as well as authentication between multiple systems and servers.
With the growing use of tablets and smartphones, it is essential for a Web Developer to understand the differences between mobile vs desktop platforms.
The birthplace of Charles Darwin, Shrewsbury is large town based in the county of Shropshire. Known by the locals as Salop, Shrewsbury is situated just a few miles away from the Welsh border. It’s understood that during the middle ages, Welshmen would have to pay a fee to enter the market square. Although around an hour away via train, Shrewsbury is home to many commuters who work in Wolverhampton and Birmingham.


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The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 70
Introduction. — "Property."
"Doesn't thou hear my orses legs as they canters awaày?
Proputty, proputty, proputty,—that's what I 'ears 'em saày."
Tennyson's "Northern Farmer."
The idea of "property" is so all-pervading that scarcely any question of public interest can be mentioned in which it is not a most important, if not the paramount, consideration. It is evident therefore that a clear definition of what is meant by "property "must be an indispensable preliminary to any rational discussion in which the idea of property is involved, and yet at the present time there is no question on which there is greater difference of opinion. In fact, thanks to legal phraseology, backed by our own ignorance and perversity, we have come to speak of "land" as the only "real" property regardless of the fact that every foot of "land" is an integral part of the solar system; that no man can make it, destroy it, or do without it, any more than he can do without" the air] How then can it be the "property" of—or "proper" in the sense of absolute ownerships to any man? Man's' "property" is, first, his own person, and secondly, the things which man's labour produces. Those may include every conecivable form of wealth honestly acquired; it otherwise acquired our Courts of Law are popularly supposed to be mainly concerned with its restitution to its rightful owner.
But to claim "property" in the earth itself is quite another matter, Labour and Land are the sole factors of wealthy mere, "ownership" of land produces nothing-, and is therefore morally and equitably worth nothing and entitled to nothing, but under present arrangements, legal ownership of land carries with it the power of appropriating the property of others, and this is the only measure of its so-called "value." We all know how this appropriation of the property of others is legally carried out; how the amount that is thus appropriated varies with every advantage of position and character of soil, and how when once the monopoly of the land of any country is complete, the inhabitants are taxed to the utmost bounds of endurance by the "owners" of the soil. This tax is the "ground rent" of the country; it is created afresh every year by the collective industry of the inhabitants, and is as absolutely their collective "property" as any separate article is the separate property of the individual producer. The land "owner" not only contributes absolutely nothing to this collective value, but, by creating a false and luxurious standard of living, based on immoral and unearned wealth,—by absenteeism abstracting the substance of the nation to expend in haunts of European luxury,—by confounding our ideas of justice and of right and wrong, and by checking industry page 2 on the one hand, and diverting it into undesirable channels on the other, the land "owner," more than any other man, is responsible for the poverty and misery of the people. These considerations are causing the universal "audit" of the landlord's claim which is now in progress thronghout the world. The indictment of landlordism which is gradually being formulated will ultimately shape itself into the charge, that so called "property" in land confers the power of appropriating, the property of others without giving any equivalent, and that consequently it "immoral and unjust.
When we consider the magnitude of the interests involved, and that the fundamental iniquity of private appropriation of "ground-rent" has the sanction of long established custom and the support of accumulated wealth, it is not surprising that we find determined opposition to any change; and all the forces of "vested-interests" arrayed to oppose reform. We must also admit that our opponents are, in some cases, honestly of opinion that the landowner's claim to ground-rent is Just; that, for instance, Dr Laishley can really see no difference between the Capital which is invested in "land" and that which is iniested in "houses"—that Mr W. F. Buckland is honestly unable to distinguish between "land-value" and "labour-value," and that any such talk appears to him, as he expresses it—"all bosh"—and that Mr Ewington is even prepared to claim for the modern commercial landlord the Ægis of Divine authority! We regret however that we can only acquit these gentlemen of insincerity at the cost of a proportionate reduction in our estimate of their reasoning powers, and hope that ultimately the arguments that are daily converting others will have their due effect on them also. We should be glad if we could place as charitable a construction on the attitude assumed by the "N. Z. Herald," but when we consider that the conductors of that paper have been familiar with all the phases of the "land question" for years, that they well know the inner meaning of "booms"—Land Syndicates—and Globo Assets Companies, and that as far back as January 1879 a Herald "leader" on the land-tax then introduced by Sir George Grey's Government concluded with these words—"There need be no hope that any turn of the political wheel will have the effect of shaking off this land-tax The first step has been taken in the taxation of landed property, not before it was time, (italics ours) and there is no chance of going back"—although in fact within "year and day" the political wheel was reversed by the machinations of the land monopolists. Sir George Grey's efforts for justice were frustrated—and a dreary decade of land-booms, globo-syndicates, depression, and exodus, inflicted on this country; we say when we consider all this, and find that the Herald is not ashamed to vilify and misrepresent in every possible way, both the principle of land-taxation, and those who advocate it, we feel that no words could adequately characterise its reprehensible duplicity. Doubtless it will find 'ere long that it has underrated the intelligence of its readers and has played the part of "devils'-advocate" with too much zeal; and the prospect of the able editor vainly seeking a place of repentance must serve to moderate our indignation at his present line of conduct, in the meantime the Anti-Poverty Society accepts the duty of exposing his misrepresentations and of keeping the facts of the land-question before the public, and with that view we recently asked Mr Withy to permit us to publish the admirable series of letters in which he recently stated the case for land-reform. He readily consented and we have great pleasure in presenting the letters, as revised by Mr Withy for this pamphlet To us it seems that the case could not be stated more clearly or more-temperately.page 3
We also reproduce a brief and vigorous article from the Westminster Review which will serve to emphasise our contention that "land" is not "property" in the ordinary sense of the word, and that the much-vaunted freehold-tenure is a delusion under which men are induced to take the shadow for the substance. There is no phrase more misleading, than this famous one of "freehold-tenure," and it is quite natural that the National Association should seize upon it as a "talismanic-word" with which to do their conjuring, and make their dupes imagine that they are contending for "National" rights, while they forge the fetters that are to bind them and their children forever to maintain the few, What they really contend for is the power of holding land for an immoral purpose; for the power of levying perpetual and increasing tribute on the labour of others without acknowledging any duty in return, and thus establishing a worse than feudal tyranny, A well known Queen-street gentleman recently remarked, "Oh yes, your theory is right enough, but,—what should we do for investments?" and that is the whole secret of the National Association's zeal for "freehold" tenure—they are fighting the battle of the owner and the mortgagee and in that struggle no consideration of justice or humanity can ever enter, while to speak of it as in any sense "national" is simply ludicrous, nothing but the single-tax or Socialism can ever deal with the "land" from a "national" point of view.
One of the finest flowers of modern civilization produced on National Associations principles, is the present commercial Duke of Marlborough who has lately been travelling in America in search of "freehold" investments and who writes in the New York Herald for the benefit of his class, after warning his friends not to trust too much to investments in Manufactures, Breweries, Waterworks, and similar enterprises, he writes—" The real value of America is in "real estate"—Breweries and Grain Elevators vanish, but real estate remains. It is in this real estate that the future unearned increment of value lies. Here you have an Anglo-Saxon race of sixty millions of people who work like beavers, developing your property, and adding to its value every day, if you own real estate investments; and this is far better property than Buenos Ay res Water Works, or Argentine Great Western, or even Buenos Ayres Great Southern Railways, where there is nothing in the way of population except a few million slow-going Spaniards and Italians!—We commend this quotation to our friends of the "National" Association. The Duke is evidently a shrewd, far-seeing, practical man, and would make an excellent honorary President for their Association,—"So English, you know," and so "National" too I and perfectly "sound on the goose."
For the Anti-Poverty Society.
Adam Kelly, Vice-President.
F. G. Platt, Hon. Sec.

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Musical taste has become quite the political matter. Music snobbery is often viewed with disdain, but many still pass judgment on the listening of others. People often fret to find bands still mired in obscurity, to discover genres on the upswing and musical pioneers and, of course, to have staple local bands.
This can all be a taxing ordeal. Bands often become famous because their music is universally liked; they often shed their “local” label when they gain enough notoriety. The hunt is endless, and with so many performing hopefuls, often quite difficult. But with enough digging, gems can be found. Such is the case with Phantom Vibration. Primarily based out of St. Paul, Minn., the band has a connection to Madison through member Henry Mackaman, a sophomore at the University of Wisconsin.
Mackaman formed the band with Dan Clinton-McCausland in their senior year of high school, “as a means to pass time in our econ class,” Mackaman recounted. The pair would “listen to Nico and talk about music in the back row.” While this may not be the most conventional way to kill time, the end result was the formation of Phantom Vibration, and the pair has been playing together ever since.
Recently, Gunnar Kauth became the group’s newest member, adding depth to their sound. Though Mackaman is a UW student, his two counterparts are in school in Minnesota. This distance proves the largest obstacle for the three. Regardless, they aren’t swayed and have continued to push forward. Their first EP was released before the band played with Kauth, and they spent last summer working on their live performance as trio.
Even so, Mackaman admitted that “mixing and mastering our EPs has been a huge pain,” and the band relies on eails to get the process done. Especially for new bands with little funds or experience, producing quality recordings is often a huge obstacle. Still, the members of Phantom Vibration have managed to produce two professional-sounding EPs.
Booking shows has been another issue due to distance. While they have played together since the summer, some portion of the band has to make the journey from one state to the other. “I’m getting pretty familiar with the Megabus,” Mackaman said.
The band has a sort of musical equivalent to a long distance relationship, and they face similar issues to one. But it’s clear, through their recordings, that they’re making it work.
Phantom Vibration released their first EP, Kids, in March, and recently released their second, Growing. Their final EP, Aged, will complete the set. Mackaman reinforced what the titles suggest, saying that “each EP is a snapshot of a different stage of life.”
To be sure, the band aimed for a different sound in their second EP than their first, showing off the breadth of their ability. Also, perhaps less intentionally, the band has matured musically, just as their EPs have thematically. All of the musical promise to be heard in Kids is fulfilled in Growing.
All of Phantom Vibration’s songs are still musically unified, and the band has a distinct and consistent sound, something Mackaman dubbed “a dreamy aesthetic.” To be sure, their tracks are rife with high sounds like organs and bells, along with a certain low-fi sound that matches the band’s musical sound well.
This style compliments the motif of their EP concept perfectly, creating a dream-like haze over the tracks, like the memories of childhood they try to capture.
Mackaman cites his own influences as bands like The Black Keys and Television, and McCausland’s cites The Decemberists and Fleet Foxes. More of the latter can be heard in Phantom Vibration’s sound. “We are big fans of warm glowy vibes,” Mackaman explained, something that has to be heard to be fully understood.
Currently, Mackaman and the rest of Phantom Vibration currently have their sights set on finishing their EP concept with Aged. Beyond that, they’re both unsure and excited. On the topic, Mackaman remarked simply, “We’ll see where it goes.”
More information about Phantom Vibration can be found at http://phantomvibration.bandcamp.com.

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When you start a keto or low-carb diet the first thing to cut back on are starchy foods. But when prepared properly, some of the starch in these foods can resist digestion.
It is these resistant starches that are important to you as a low-carb or keto dieter. In this blog post, I explain what resistant starch is, how you can benefit from it, and how you may be able to work it into your healthy keto diet without compromising weight loss.Read More “A Good Carb for Keto Dieters? Resistant Starch”

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text: It is not known how sevoflurane affects the cardiac conduction system. We compared the effects of halothane, isoflurance, and sevoflurane on specialized atrioventricular (AV) conduction times in eight pentobarbital-anesthetized dogs. AV conduction times with three inhaled anesthetics at end-tidal concentrations of 1 and 2 minimum alveolar anesthetic concentration (MAC), were measured by His-bundle electrocardiography during both sinus rhythm and right atrial pacing at a slightly higher rate than sinus one. Heart rate and arterial pressure were simultaneously recorded. Halothane prolonged AV nodal conduction time during sinus rhythm (A-H interval) at 2 MAC compared with the control value, whereas isoflurane and sevoflurane did not alter the A-H interval, His-Purkinje conduction time (H-V interval), and ventricular conduction time (H-S interval) during sinus rhythm at 1 and 2 MAC. All three inhaled anesthetics did not change AV conduction times during right atrial pacing. No significant difference in AV conduction times was observed between isoflurane and sevoflurane. Heart rate during sinus rhythm remained unchanged despite a decrease in arterial pressure with three inhaled anesthetics. The property of sevoflurane and isoflurane which does not affect the cardiac conduction system may be important in the stability of the cardiac rhythm during anesthesia with these drugs.


Fast-expanding low-cost carrier Spirit Airlines is planning a major expansion in Puerto Rico, Caribbean Journal has learned.
Spirit’s expansion will be headlined by the launch of new daily nonstop flights from both Newark Liberty and Boston Logan airports to San Juan.
Both of those routes will launch operations on Dec. 19, 2019.
Spirit will also be launching an additional daily flight from Philadelphia to San Juan on March 1, 2020, according to the company.
The announcement comes as Spirit launched new nonstop flights from Baltimore, Philadelphia and Tampa to San Juan earlier this year.
“We are constantly looking for growth opportunities in our network and we are so proud of the growth we have had in Puerto Rico over the years,” said John Kirby, Spirit’s Vice President of Network Planning, in a statement. “We are very excited to continue providing our guests low fares and nonstop flights to new destinations.”
Spirit already operates daily flights from Baltimore, Orlando, Fort Lauderdale and Tampa to San Juan.
Spirit also operates daily flights from both Fort Lauderdale and Orlando to Aguadilla in the northwestern corner of Puerto Rico.
The new flights will add to a burgeoning flight network to San Juan, continuing what has been a rather dramatic airlift recovery in Puerto Rico in the last two years since Hurricane Maria.
Indeed, the most recent numbers from ASUR, which operates San Juan’s Luis Munoz Marin International Airport, showed an 8.4 percent increase in passenger traffic in the first three quarters of 2019, compared to the same period in the previous year.
Spirit is one of several low-cost carriers that have been significantly ramping up their Caribbean operations, along with airlines like Sun Country and Southwest Airlines.
Spirit has been serving Puerto Rico for nearly 20 years.


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American delegation to visit water desalination and purification facilities and a center for desert agriculture.
Israel’s Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development hosted a high-level U.S. government delegation on Monday that has come to learn about water purification.
The delegation is being headed by Rodney Snyder, an advisor to US Environmental Protection Agency chief Michael Regan. Its five-day visit aims to increase agricultural, technological and commercial cooperation between the two countries in light of the climate crisis, with a special emphasis on water purification.
In recent years, with the increase in extreme weather events and the worsening climate crisis, Israel has become a technological leader in the reuse of water, as well as an international center of knowledge in the fields of irrigation, water resource management and desert agriculture.
In Israel, about 87 percent of the treated wastewater goes to agricultural use – the most widespread use of wastewater in agriculture in the world.
The visiting delegation includes representatives from federal agencies, water authorities and suppliers, water and engineering companies, national water associations, research institutes, and representatives of commercial companies from around the US.
The Americans will visit desalination and water purification facilities in Emek Hefer, Maayan Zvi, Sorek and Shapadan.
The delegation will also visit Kibbutz Ein Gedi, which is a center for desert agriculture, and the Intel company facility in Kiryat Gat.
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Remember the New Mexico photographer who got sued after declining to photograph a lesbian couple's wedding, citing religious objections to same-sex marriage? Her name is Elaine Huguenin. In Slate, Mark Joseph Stern has branded her a "homophobe" and an "anti-gay bigot" whose actions sprung from hatred.* He offers no evidence in support of those charges. Insofar as I've found, nothing in the public record establishes that this Christian photographer is afraid of gay people, or intolerant of them, or that she bears any hatred toward gays or lesbians.
The facts of her case do suggest that she regards marriage as a religious sacrament with a procreative purpose, that her Christian beliefs cause her to reject same-sex marriage, and that her business discriminates against same-sex weddings because she believes wedding photography requires artistic efforts to render the subject captured in a positive light. She believes making that effort would be wrong.
In America, there is plenty of homophobia, plenty of anti-gay bigotry, and plenty of people whose antagonism to gays and lesbians is rooted in hatred. Sometimes the language of religious liberty is used to justify behavior that is anything but Christ-like. But the Slate article is implicitly trafficking in its own sort of prejudice. The working assumption is that homophobia, anti-gay bigotry, and hatred are obviously what's motivating anyone who declines to provide a service for a gay wedding.
That assumption is wrongheaded. A closer look at the photographer's case is the best place to begin. Jonathan and Elaine Huguenin lost a case before the New Mexico Supreme Court, and have now appealed the ruling. As noted in their petition to the U.S. Supreme Court, the Huguenins' photography business does serve gay and lesbian clients, just not same-sex weddings. Insofar as a photographer can distinguish between discriminating against a class of client and a type of event—there is, perhaps, a limit—their business does so: "The Huguenins gladly serve gays and lesbians—by, for example, providing them with portrait photography—whenever doing so would not require them to create expression conveying messages that conflict with their religious beliefs."
The photography business has also turned down clients other than gay and lesbian couples while citing religious objections. "They have declined requests for nude maternity pictures," their petition states, "and photographs portraying violence."
Finally, it isn't just same-sex weddings they'd be uncomfortable photographing: their petition states that they'd also refuse business capturing a polygamous marriage.
Set aside for a moment the tension here between individual liberty and non-discrimination law. Whether you think the New Mexico Supreme Court decided the case rightly or wrongly, that is separate from the question of what motivated Elaine Huguenin. I've never met the woman. None of us can look inside her heart. But her petition presents a perfectly plausible account of why she would refuse to photograph same-sex weddings for perfectly common religious reasons that have nothing to do with fear of gays, intolerance toward gays, or hatred of gay people.
This shouldn't be surprising to anyone who has spent an appreciable amount of time around practicing Christians. In such circles, there are plenty of ugly attitudes toward gays and lesbians, as well as lots of people who think gay and lesbian sex and marriage is sinful, but who bear no ill will toward gays and lesbians themselves. I wish even the latter group would reconsider. I don't regard homosexuality as sinful. Unlike my friends in the orthodox Catholic community, I don't regard sex before marriage or masturbation or the use of contraceptives or failing to attend Sunday Mass as sinful either. Knowing those Catholic friends neither fear me nor treat me with intolerance nor bear hatred toward me, it's easy for me to see how they could view gay sex or marriage as sinful without hating gays or lesbians.
Mark Joseph Stern does not share that understanding:
There’s a reason these same three cases pop up time and time again: They tell a very human story of a small-business owner suddenly trapped in the labyrinth of a lawsuit, the victim of the gay rights movement run amok. Never mind that the real victim isn’t the business owner who acted on his hatred, but the customer who suffered from his discriminatory policies. If you tilt the looking glass just right, you can reverse these roles, turning a bigot into a principled entrepreneur and a wronged minority into entitled bullies.
He casually assumes that hatred is what motivated these business owners to act without even seeming to realize an assumption has been made. The photography case certainly does involve a principled entrepreneur, even if you disagree, as I do, with her particular belief system. And while I don't think that the lesbian customers in this case should have sued, I don't think that they're "entitled bullies." To return to the facts once more, here is the initial email that they wrote:
We are researching potential photographers for our commitment ceremony on September 15, 2007 in Taos, NM. This is a same-gender ceremony. If you are open to helping us celebrate our day we'd like to receive pricing information.
And the reply they got:
Hello Vanessa, As a company, we photograph traditional weddings, engagements, seniors, and several other things such as political photographs and singer's portfolios.
The exchange continued:
Thanks for your response below of September 21, 2006. I'm a bit confused, however, by the wording of your response. Are you saying that your company does not offer your photography services to same-sex couples?
And the clarification:
Sorry if our last response was a confusing one. Yes, you are correct in saying we do not photograph same-sex weddings, but again, thanks for checking out our site! Have a great day.
The New Mexico Human Rights Commission went on to explain that "Ms. Willock was shocked, angered and saddened to receive Ms. Elaine Huguenin's response. Ms. Willock was also fearful, because she considered the opposition to same-sex to be so blatant. Ms. Willock thought that Ms. Elaine Huguenin's response was an expression of hatred at what Ms. Willock had hoped to be a happy occasion."
I sympathize with Willock.
If my wife and I had contacted a wedding photographer who said she refused to photograph our ceremony because we'd "lived in sin" together before marriage, I'd have felt annoyed and judged. And while I think Willock was wrong to perceive "hatred," which doesn't come across in the exchange, or even "blatant" opposition to same-sex marriage—it was so subtle that a followup email was required to clarify—this all happened in a state, New Mexico, that didn't permit gay weddings. (The event was technically a commitment ceremony for the lesbian couple.)
That context matters.
If you believe, as I do, that refusing gay couples the right to marry is an indefensible abrogation of their rights—an attempt to deny them access to a core institution of social flourishing—you can see how I'd forgive a woman in such a jurisdiction, who has suffered unjust and hateful treatment in the course of her life, for misperceiving the nature of the photographer's attitudes toward gays and lesbians.
I can also understand how she could reach different conclusions than I do about whether the fight for equality we both favor ought to include her specific lawsuit.
But it's hard to be as forgiving of Stern's Slate article (which also includes an egregious, unfounded, unfair attack on the integrity of New York Times columnist Ross Douthat). Care should be taken before alleging hatred, partly out of fairness to the accused, but also because it's awful to feel hated. Telling a group that an incident or dispute is rooted in bigotry when evidence supports a different conclusion increases the perception of being hated more than reality justifies. Dealing with the amount of actual hatefulness in America is already hard enough.
* In fact, this is his blanket characterization of entrepreneurs in three cases, "a florist, a photographer, and a baker, who claimed their Christianity required that they deny service to gay couples." I focus on the photographer here because I have the most information on her case.