A single wire, hot-wire, probe is used to examine the airflow in, and in close vicinity to, the shear layer of a low-pressure turbine (LPT) airfoil. A spectral analysis of the data identifies two sets of wide peaks of turbulent kinetic energy, one near 200 Hz and a second near 1 kHz. A method is developed to identify these peaks based on a combination of empirical relations between the airflow velocity and boundary layer thickness and on the location of the frequency peaks relative to the state of the free shear layer as it transitioned from laminar to turbulent. The method suggests the presence of Tollmien–Schlichting waves and Kelvin–Helmholtz instabilities. The Kelvin–Helmholtz instabilities are shown to pair.
A Spectral Study of a Moderately Loaded Low-Pressure Turbine Airfoil—Part I: Identifying Frequencies Affecting Bypass Transition
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State Rep. John Reilly on Tuesday testified before the House Committee on Military, Veterans and Homeland Security in support of his plan to protect civil liberties by ensuring that state law prohibiting terrorist threats does not restrict constitutionally protected speech.
“The freedom of expression is a core civil liberty protected by both the national and Michigan constitutions,” said Reilly, of Oakland Township. “Michigan citizens should not face retaliation for engaging in free speech, and locking someone up for a joke is a clear violation of that constitutional right. Our laws must be tailored to respond to real threats of violence or terrorism without infringing on freedom.”
Reilly introduced his House Bill 5245 to clarify Michigan’s anti-threat law after a young Oakland County resident was arrested for a joke made in 2019. Lucas Gerhard, a Lake Superior State University student, posted a picture of his rifle on Snapchat, with a caption stating, “Takin this bad boy up, this outta make the snowflakes melt, aye? And I mean snowflakes as in snow” followed by a winking emoji. He legally owned the firearm, and LSSU specifically allows students to bring rifles to campus. Gerhard was arrested and accused of making a terrorist threat. He remains under house arrest awaiting trial.
State Rep. John Reilly, a member of the House Oversight Committee, today called for accountability at the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services (MDHHS) after the state’s auditor general identified more COVID-19 deaths linked to nursing homes and other long-term care facilities than previously reported by Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s administration.
State Rep. John Reilly, who serves on the House Oversight Committee, today expressed his disappointment in Michigan’s Unemployment Insurance Agency (UIA) after an independent review found the agency paid about $8.5 billion in potential unemployment fraud during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Apple has one of the most aggressive sustainability and recycling programs in tech, but it still pulls plenty of metals and toxic rare-earth materials out of the ground to make iPhones, iPads, Macbooks and other products.
That’s about to change. The company is set to announce a new, unprecedented goal for the tech industry, “to stop mining the earth altogether.”
The announcement, part of Apple’s 2017 Environment Responsibility Report released Wednesday, will commit the company to making devices entirely from recycled materials such as aluminum, copper, tin, and tungsten. But there’s one hiccup: Apple doesn’t know exactly how it’s going to make that happen.
If they can do this, it’s going to be huge, but it’s a tall order. Jason Koebler’s reporting on Apple’s recycling practices suggests that their desire to one day quit mining raw materials will require a complete rethinking of their current disposal chain:
“Electronics recyclers are filled with heaps of broken iMacs and MacBooks, which due to economics and the requirements of certifications are most often scrapped rather than repaired or sold,” John Bumstead, a refurbisher who sells MacBooks that he salvages and frankensteins together from broken ones that he gets from recyclers that don’t work with Apple, told me.
A document submitted to North Carolina’s Department of Environment Quality in September 2016 shows that Apple’s must-shred policy hasn’t changed in recent years, even as it continues to position itself as a green company: “All of the equipment collected for recycling is manual and mechanically disassembled and shredded. The resulting fractions are sorted into plastics, metals, and glass and sold as stock feed in the manufacturing process.”
On its face, this might not seem so bad: At least these products are getting recycled, right? But in practice, the premature recycling of an iPhone or a MacBook is not ideal. Bumstead still sells computers from 2009 and 2010 for hundreds of dollars to people looking for entry-level laptops.
The saying is “reduce, reuse, and recycle”, and those words are in that order for a reason: recycling is better than creating new raw materials, but not as good as reusing what already exists. Neither of these options are as good as minimizing the consumption of new products altogether.
Obviously, Apple would prefer to sell more products, and many customers love having newer products than hanging onto the same device for five or six years. Improvements to their recycling program ought to have a significant impact on the resources required to create new devices and components. But it seems as though their desire to improve their products’ impact on the environment is contradicted somewhat by their stance against right-to-repair legislation, something Apple VP Lisa Jackson touches on in her interview with Vice:
Jackson also defended Apple’s history of making products that are hard to repair. Allowing customers to repair Apple products themselves “sounds like an easy thing to say,” she said. But “technology is really complex; it is sophisticated to make it work, to ensure that you have security and privacy, [and] that somebody isn’t giving you bad parts.”
Because of this, Apple won’t be taking a “right to repair” approach to meeting its environmental goals. “All those things mean that you want to have certified repairs,” Jackson said. “I think trying to pretend that we can sort of make it easy to repair the product, and that you get the product that you think you’re buying — that you want — isn’t the answer.”
I get the stance Apple is taking, but it seems like there could be a safe middle ground. Right-to-repair legislation might be too broad as it’s currently written, but Apple could allow authorized service centres to repair more components with certified parts instead of performing whole-device swaps. More refurbished devices could be made available to sectors where having the latest products isn’t a primary concern.
I’m optimistic that Apple’s recycling goals can be met in due time. I hope they take a more comprehensive approach to their environmental efforts, however. They’re already showing promising results: their lastest report indicates that each new product emits 97 kilograms of carbon in its lifespan, down from a recent high of 137 kilograms in 2011. But the same report indicates that 77% of the greenhouse gas emissions of a new product come from its manufacturing — something that could be cut more dramatically by reducing or reusing components and products than it can by recycling.
Update: Lisa Jackson appeared on this week’s episode of the Talk Show and dove deeper into Apple’s progress on the environment. It’s a really good episode that highlights the company’s use of sustainable forests, how they reduce and reuse materials on the production line, and Apple’s awesome Earth Day animated shorts.


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In 1910 a young Romanian born engineer named Henri Coanda tested a plane he had built powered by the worlds first jet engine of which he was the inventor. The engine was not a Turbo jet which was later invented by Frank Whittle and Von Ohain, but had a gasoline engine driven centrifugal compressor, a combustion chamber and nozzle.
Coanda placed metal plates between the hot jet gases and the plywood fuselage. However instead of deflecting the jet away it deflected it onto the plates, ran along them and set his plane alight. Fascinated, he failed to notice he was approaching a wall at high speed until the last second, pulled back on the stick, became airborne enough to clear the wall, crashed and was thrown clear to watch his plane go up in flames.
More than 20 years later he came to understand precisely the phenomenon which was named after him, the "Coanda Effect".
Coanda jets are generated by blowing a moderate to high pressure gas (such as air) or liquid through a narrow slot over a surface which in some cases may be convexly curved.
The jet runs tangent to the surface and can circulate around 180° bends. This we call the primary jet. Our patentable methods are able to cause the jet to recirculate around 360°.
The Coanda jets are never laminar like the flow over an aircraft wing or fan blade. The jets are always highly turbulent. The jet is composed of myriads of localised eddy currents. The speed of the air in the swirling or rotating currents is far higher than the linear velocity of the whole jet stream itself.
Pressure is related to speed as you are now aware of. A round jet issuing from a nozzle entrains ambient air due to its high velocity lowering its pressure which attracts the ambient air by collision and entrapment of molecules.
Coanda jets are ejected from slots and then traverse a hard surface or wall. They are sometimes called a wall jet. This wall after the slot creates a non-symmetrical nozzle.
The velocity of the jet immediately evacuates the molecules between it and the wall. This low pressure region cannot be relieved by ambient inflow as ambient air is on the other side of the jet and so the jet quickly deflects toward and runs tangent to the wall. The average pressure across a Coanda jet is lower than the average pressure across an unbounded round jet.
This means that the average velocity at any point in the Coanda jet is higher than in a conventional jet at the same distance from the slot. It follows then that the pressure is lower at any comparable distance from the slot and the momentum and mass flow are higher at the same points.
Flow augmentation by entrainment of ambient air is also greater than with a conventional jet because of the pressure gradient caused by the proximity of the hard surface (the wall) tangent to the jet and this is a more efficient means of momentum transfer than mere molecular collision and entrapment as with conventional jets.
The "Coanda Effect" is a fascinating, powerful phenomenon that has been lying almost unused for decades waiting to be exploited commercially. The new "Jet-Fan" now makes it possible to revive the effect in domestic and industrial applications.
Turbine compressors (as in jet engines),
Computer chip cooling fans.
Ducting for air-conditioning,
Ventilation in buildings,
Superchargers for racing cars, aircraft and trucks.
Lift and drive fans for Hovercraft
Ducted fans for aircraft
Water pumps for industry, agriculture and automotive
Large mine and power station ventilation and cooling
Exotic new devices impossible or impractical before the "Jet-Fan".
It is stall free.
It does not require a diffuser or stator blades to realise a pressure gain.
It is more efficient over a wider speed range.
It delivers relatively high pressure air at a high flow rate with high efficiency
with no surging and delivers it axially through a nozzle.
To achieve this the main differences are:-
The blades converge, unlike other fans (Average 6% to 10%)
The "Jet-Fan" does not rotate airfoil blades around but rather rotates convergent passageways ie. each two blades define a passageway.
It has far more blades than a conventional fan.
All blades overlap each other.
It has blades that are much shorter and angled to the axis of rotation.
The gap created by the convergent blades can change during runs.
Each blade has a spigot which extends into a bore in the hub which is aimed at the imaginary dead centre of a sphere which the hub is sliced from. (It has a spherical hub and shroud.) Because high pressure fans tend to leak air back the wrong direction the "Jet-Fan" employs a spherical hub and the blade roots touch the hub for their full length preventing back-flow. The inside of the shroud also has the same spherical aspect which shares the same dead centre as the hub. In this way back-flow near the blade tips is prevented and as all blades overlap significantly any air return is minimised and in fact over almost all its speed and pressure range back-flow is prevented entirely.
When the blades change pitch during runs the blade roots always remain touching the hub and the infinitesimal gap between the blade tips and shroud is not altered.
The basic idea of the "Jet-Fan" is very simple.
Blade speed in all fans, especially the centrifugal fans compresses air to some extent. This compression is inevitable and is detrimental to performance as it can cause blade stall by air circulating around the trailing edges. In addition, the air must expand to the average low pressure as it joins the higher speed, lower pressure flow at the trailing edges, subsequently it must have its pressure raised again as it is decelerated through the diffuser or stators. These pressure fluctuations decrease efficiency.
The "Jet-Fan" relies on the fact that the air will be compressed by blade speed just as in all conventional fans but in the case of the "Jet-Fan" the pressure generated is retained without re-expansion.
Blade pitch is configured to maximise compression (with liquids the pressure rises but liquids do not compress).
The blade dynamic pressure on the air can tend to rise by the square as the air is swept further out and so the blades are given a decreasing radius toward the trailing edges to ease the pressure within the passageways. This is to prevent back-flow along the passageways.
In addition the decreasing radius converges the blades and therefore each passageway that each pair of blades define is reduced in volume.
There is therefore a step-down in volume between the blades.
Significant useful pressure is generated by blade speed. The pressure increases by the square of the blade speed increase.
The passageway therefore along its length merely progressively conforms to the lesser space the compressed air occupies and the air is discharged in a pressurised state.
In practice the pressure within the discharge apertures is found to be identical to that immediately aft of the blades and before the air straighteners.
This avoids the abrupt pressure fluctuations found with other fans, the pressure being generated once only and maintained and this avoids the use of a diffuser or stators.
As system resistance increases due to a variable choke in some applications such as ducted fans, or jet boats the fan speed is increased and blades are brought closer together to postpone the stall.
The new "Jet-Fan" is able to produce the same high pressures required for all the applications listed but without the need for a diffuser or stators.
That pressure is delivered immediately from between the fan trailing edges. This feat is achieved by the blade convergence of the "Jet-Fan" which is unlike any other fan.
What all of this means is that the new "Jet-Fan" is able to perform all of the applications listed and many more, better than existing conventional fans.
In addition to producing high pressure air or liquids the "Jet-Fan" has several extra features giving it even more advantages over other fans.
The new "Jet-Fan" has blades that are arranged about a hub that is a slice taken from a true sphere. The blades extend into bores aimed at the imaginary dead centre. This enables the degree of blade convergence (the blade pitch) to be changed during runs. This enables the fan to maintain high pressure and efficiency over a wider RPM range and pressure duty than conventional fans.
The new "Jet-Fan" is also able to do this in very small versions, an achievement not seen before. This means that the existing applications already listed can be performed better by "Jet-Fans" as they are more efficient with higher pressures in smaller diameters and do not require the excess baggage, (diffusers or stators).
Tiny "Jet-Fans" are more efficient than existing computer fans which are normally only around 1% to 5% efficient. Marine And Aviation Transportation
Hovercraft require high volume air flow at moderate pressures. The "Jet Fan" can provide higher pressure when needed such as in heavy seas as it does not stall due to fluctuating back pressure, and it also occupies less space.
We have started our JET FAN R & D eight month program and will be very pleased to reveal these results, graphics and prototypes during the next military EUROSTATORY International Expo in Paris in June 1996.
All genuine enquiries for fan production for the Defence and Avionics market (such as cooling systems and air-conditioning in cells, cockpits, shelters) and for Medical and Transportation market s (such as air-conditioning and air-renewal in buses, tramways, trains, subways, etc....) can be addressed to:
Mr Chapalain / LMB Director
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Currently, LMB on behalf of JET FAN Technology is developing a computer designing software package for these applications. The first JET FANS are expected to be in production in the second half of 1996.
LMB is happy to have this statement published in future JET FAN Technology brochures and will consider seriously any JET FAN production enquiries concerning our specific market.
If you need further information please let me know.
Is it noisy?
No. Noise from a fan is due to air turbulence. The "Jet Fan" drives high pressure air into a high pressure area. This makes it much quieter than other fans.
Is It Expensive to buy?
No. It will be no more expensive than the present day conventional fans it replaces. It may be less expensive due to it's smaller size and not needing a diffuser.
Will electric motor manufacturers be resistant due to higher speed requirements?
No. Almost all applications require no motor changes at all. Only a very few situations where a brushless electric motor is required for noise considerations will a one stage gearbox be needed to increase fan speed.
Will manufacturers resist change due to expensive plant changes?
No. Although the "Jet Fan" is a vast improvement over todays conventional fans, it is still after all only a fan from a manufacturing viewpoint.
With spherical hubs, shrouds and moveable blades, surely it is more complex and therefore more difficult to produce?
No. The more complex versions are for more exotic, high stress or special situations, mainly transportational, where pressures and thrust requirements change from second to second.
90% of applications including household ones need no speed change. The blade convergence is matched to the fan speed and the blades are an integral part of the hub and are cast or moulded in one piece as with other fans.
Will it be expensive to run?
No. The "Jet Fan" gives higher efficiency than other fans of the same size. In other words it uses less electrical power or fuel than others to do the same job.
Is there a lot more research and development needed before the fan is ready to licence to manufacturers?
No. Most applications of the fan are ready now. The pressure versus flow rate, the pressure being developed between the blades and the high efficiency in very small sizes, have all been proven. The "Jet Fan" is ready for manufacturing now.
The more complex versions including multi-staging as a compressor need more development time. We believe this period will not be long.
Is its high speed dangerous or a disadvantage?
No. We have not run it as fast as many conventional domestic vacuum cleaner fans yet.
What is the reaction from the engineers to such a simple improvement?
We have had many fan engineers and other technical people witness our fan demonstration test runs. We have had no negativity and only great enthusiasm from all.
What does buying or using an appliance with the "Jet Fan" mean to the average consumer?
The consumers work will be more efficient thus saving time and money. It also means a reduction in the consumption of fossil fuels for the production of electricity to supply appliances. The reduction of fossil fuel consumption will have a positive effect on green house gas emissions and the environment.
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A man who was involved in May Day protests in downtown Portland, Oregon, has pleaded guilty to throwing flaming flares into a police car and through the window of a Target store.
On May 1, peaceful protestors were speaking on a variety of social issues in downtown Portland, according to The Oregonian. About 20 anarchists interrupted the peaceful protest by vandalizing property, setting fires, throwing rocks, and participating in other forms of violence.
Video footage aired live by a local TV station reportedly shows Damion Zachary Feller throwing a lit flare into a Target retail store, prompting employees to rush to put out a burning section of carpet. Other footage, including some taken on cell phones, shows Feller throwing flares into a police SUV parked across the street from the target.
The videos also reportedly show other individuals dressed all in black or wearing masks, kicking or hitting the windows of the police car before Feller threw the flares in.
According to Fox News, police were later successful in shutting down the rally. It was eventually declared a riot because of the marchers' destruction of property and the use of smoke bombs.
Approximately 25 people were arrested the day of the riot.
Feller himself was arrested two days following the riot after officers who recognized him from the video saw him once again in downtown Portland, reports The Oregonian.
A probable cause affidavit states that when detectives showed him a photograph of the person who threw the flares, he replied, "I saw that online, and I knew I was [expletive]."
In addition, the affidavit states that Feller said he got caught up in the "mob mentality."
After his arrest, Feller also told detectives that he is out of touch with his family, who lives in Colorado, and that he has been homeless for the past year. He said he has been diagnosed with bipolar disorder, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, and that he also smoked marijuana daily.
Feller was represented by his public defender, DeAnna Horne, when he appeared in court on Sept. 25. He pleaded guilty to first-degree arson, second-degree arson, riot, and first-degree criminal mischief. He is scheduled to be sentenced to five years in prison during a hearing in October.
Feller has no criminal convictions but has been arrested five times in Oregon, Colorado and Texas. He is also facing pending charges of theft and criminal trespass in Umatilla County in Oregon.
Feller was not the only person to be convicted of crimes in connection with the riot in Portland. On Sept. 28, 36-year-old Sarah Pugh was sentenced to three years of probation after pleading guilty to second-degree arson and riot.

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In the last 10 years the world’s annual car production went up from 41 million to 63 million cars in 2012, or 52%... in the same period, global liquid supplies went up only 16%, an obvious mismatch.
•China agrees to impose carbon targets by 2016 •Warming to hit half of plants, a third of animals •Geoengineering: Can We Save the Planet by Messing with Nature? •Climate Denial's Death Knell: 97 Percent of Peer-Reviewed Science Confirms Manmade Global Warming, Consensus …
We’ve arrived at a dangerous milestone. For the first time in human history, as Amy Goodman reported this week, "the amount of heat-trapping carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has topped 400 parts per million."
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Teach Through Educational Travel: Ayers Rock in the Australian Outback
- The aboriginal people, one of the oldest societies on the planet, have looked after this landscape for tens of thousands of years. The rocks in this area are covered with ancient aboriginal art, which was used as a form of storytelling. Visitors can see some of the aboriginal art, as can you, thanks to the internet. Take a look at some of the art that has been preserved. How did the ancient aborigines represent and make sense of their world?
- Ayers Rock is said to be the largest monolith in the world. However, some dispute that fact. Is Ayers Rock a monolith, or is it part of an underground rock formation? How was it formed? Why is it made of Arkose Sandstone, when there is none other nearby? And what about the strange honeycomb weathering of the rock? Read up on this geological issue. What do you think?
- Now, for fun, imagine yourself landing here from outer space. What does this strange landscape suggest to you? Take a look at Ayers Rock in this video and then try to envision a world that looks like this.
- Lastly, do you think you could climb this rock? And if you made it, how about getting down? Watch this video and see if you could do it. What is it about enormous natural structures that make humans want to summit?

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Happy April! I sat outside earlier today to get some sunlight and wow, I’ve missed that all-natural Vitamin D. It always seems to warm up my brain, shooting creative inspiration all the way through it. Speaking of creativity and writing, our quote this month is one that quite amuses me, and I think you’ll see why.
“An early story of mine was shown to a well-known authoress by a kindly friend. She reported on it sadly but adversely, saying the author would never make a writer. What she really meant, although she did not know it herself because she was an author and not a critic, was that the person who was writing was still an immature and inadequate writer who could not as yet produce anything worth publishing. A critic or an editor might have been more perceptive, because it is their profession to notice the germs of what may be. So I don’t like criticising and I think it can easily do harm.”(more…)

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Sweets Peel And Stick Liner
SKU: FAB12867Sweeten your surfaces in a candy-coated design filled with all your confectionery favorites. The Sweets peel and stick liner turns ordinary shelves, drawers and even books and folders, into darling accessories and décor accents. Personalize, decorate and have fun with this easy design upgrade! Comes in a 45cm x 2M roll that can be cut to fit any area.
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February 20, 2013
Reston, VA – A new report issued today by a health research institute asserts that clinically-focused guidelines to study repeat medical imaging will help lawmakers, regulators and insurers develop more effective utilization and payment policies. The report by the Harvey L. Neiman Health Policy Institute says such guidelines can ensure that patients receive essential access to care while also making more efficient use of health system resources.”Existing studies on repeat imaging use ambiguous definitions, and thus lack a consistent and effective mechanism to determine how much of this testing is appropriate. This has led to confusion and could result in actions by regulators and insurers that may not best serve patients. These guidelines can help researchers separate useful testing from that which is not, thus conserving resources and ensuring that patients get the care they need,” said Richard Duszak, MD, chief executive officer and senior research fellow of the Harvey L. Neiman Health Policy Institute.
These guidelines represent a classification system for researchers to follow when evaluating repeat medical imaging. They were developed with input from a large group of health policy researchers and clinical content experts and could be adapted to analyze a wide range of repeat non-imaging testing.
“Researchers studying repeat imaging must consider the clinical context of that imaging if health care reform is to be done right. We have access to more health care data than ever before, but researchers often lack the resources to interpret new information, how it applies to ongoing reforms and how it can be applied to better serve patients. This research framework is one of many steps forward that the Neiman Institute will help medicine take,” said Duszak.
This is the latest policy brief by the Neiman Institute, which conducts research regarding medical imaging use, quality and safety metrics, and human resources as medical payment and delivery systems evolve. Data from these efforts is the basis for true, evidence-based medical imaging policy.
About the Harvey L. Neiman Health Policy Institute
The Harvey L. Neiman Health Policy Institute is one of the nation’s leading medical imaging socioeconomic research organizations. The Neiman Institute studies the role and value of radiology and radiologists in evolving health care delivery and payment systems and the impact of medical imaging on the cost, quality, safety and efficiency of health care. Visit us at www.neimanhpi.org and follow us on Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook.

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When someone in your life has experienced a loss of a family member, partner, friend, or colleague, what do you give that person? You want to express your warm sympathies by including your personal touch. Bereavement gifts are a complicated subject. What do you give someone who has just lost the most precious thing in the world that is another human being? You don’t want to say "Hey, cheer up, life goes on!" when someone is deeply distressed and upset. Likewise, a message in the opposite direction is not in order either as you don't want to make things worse by being unnecessarily downbeat. So getting the tone just right is all the more important.
In such situations, you can express your love and concern to your friend by sending bereavement gifts. Although material gifts may not be enough to reduce the pain that goes with this experience, bereavement gifts can be simple letter of few words, letting your friend know that he or she can count you during this difficult stage of his/her life. Thinking of the right bereavement gift is not easy. What special gift can you give to someone who has just gone through a difficult and lonely time of his/her life that can at least put even a brief smile on his or her face? Remembering the life of a person close to you who has passed away is one of the most important steps in moving on with unique bereavement gifts, unique sympathy gifts. Whatever you may choose to do in recognition of a loved one's loss, make sure that they know you are thinking of them
Alternative Bereavement Gifts
- Cards consisting of encouraging words may often raise a hope in individuals going through a difficult time. These gifts express one's feelings for the person.
- Wall hangings and frames with motivating quotes and proverbs help encouraging the individual and slowly cure their damage, helping them to go ahead in life. By looking at these gift items one may wish to live their life and take up life's challenges once again.
- One of the best ways to boost the spirits of the grieved persons is to give them inspirational books which bring peace in their minds and also give them the courage to come out of the difficult situation. Although condolence is difficult to offer but by giving an inspiring book one may make an effort in changing one's life for the better.
- Jar of notes could be appropriate gift for members of a grieving family. You can find ready-made memory jars online to buy as condolence gifts, as well as decorated ones that make beautiful unique sympathy gifts, bereavement gifts and more.
Let the right condolence gift do your speaking for you in this time of extreme sorrow. You want to share just the right message of spiritual sorrow, so don't delay.

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Republican efforts to replace the Affordable Care Act collapsed in the Senate on Monday evening as two more GOP senators announced they would oppose the plan backed by their party’s leadership.
The announcements by Sens. Mike Lee of Utah and Jerry Moran of Kansas brought to four the number of Republican senators opposed to bringing the bill to the Senate floor for debate. With all Senate Democrats against the bill, their opposition was enough to kill the current measure.
“We should not put our stamp of approval on bad policy,” Moran said in a statement. “We must now start fresh.”
Lee said that he opposed the plan because it would not lower costs for healthy Americans whose insurance premiums were pushed up by the need to subsidize costs for those who were ill.
“In addition to not repealing all of the Obamacare taxes, it doesn’t go far enough in lowering premiums for middle-class families; nor does it create enough free space from the most costly Obamacare regulations,” Lee said in a statement, referring to the current bill.
The sudden announcement from Lee, a leading conservative, and Moran, who headed the Senate Republican Campaign Committee in the 2014 election, came as President Trump was dining at the White House with several GOP supporters of the bill. That timing made their announcements a more stinging rebuke of the White House’s efforts on behalf of the measure.
A White House spokesperson said that Trump would continue to push for repeal of the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare.
“Inaction is not an option,” the spokesperson said. “We look forward to Congress continuing to work toward a bill the president can sign to end the Obamacare nightmare and restore quality care at affordable prices.”
Two other Republican lawmakers, Sens. Susan Collins of Maine and Rand Paul of Kentucky, had previously announced that they would oppose the bill. With 52 Republicans in the Senate, Majority Leader Mitch McConnell could afford their two…

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Even in the rapidly evolving candy industry, the competition will have a hard time gumming up the works—or the profits—for leading food industry titan Mars, Incorporated. The company recently made the bullish decision to combine its chocolate business with its subsidiary Wrigley to form Mars Wrigley Confectionery, which will be headquartered in Chicago.
Anyone who has perused the candy counter adjacent to their local supermarket’s checkout aisle can attest that Mars’ chocolate business is stocked with some of the most popular brands in the industry: Snickers, M&M’s, and Twix. Wrigley’s brand recognition is equally impressive with the likes of Skittles, Starburst, and Orbit gum, just to name a few.
It’s not surprising then that privately-owned Mars is already the nation’s largest confectionery company based on sales. Combining companies will allow Mars to accelerate its growth in the rapidly changing and challenging candy market. The decision comes on the heels of Mars’ announcement that it would acquire Berkshire Hathaway’s reported 19% share in Wrigley to take full control of the subsidiary. Mars has owned a majority stake in Wrigley since the original acquisition in 2008. The combination of the Mount Olive, NJ-based chocolate company with Chicago-based Wrigley is expected to be phased-in gradually during 2017. For the moment, the units will remain separate.
Based on Packaged Facts’ market analysis in the August 2016 report Chocolate Candy Market in the U.S., 11th Edition, there’s no question such strategy is shrewd considering the candy market terrain shows a broad array of players that have a significant presence in the U.S. market. And as in many markets today, there is an influential group of disruptors, especially the superpremium gourmet producers and the craft producers. Therefore, even candy behemoths such as Mars and its rival Hershey can’t afford complacency or stagnation for very long.
For some astute industry experts, the creation of Mars Wrigley Confectionery likely has been mildly anticipated as the companies had already been collaborating for a while. As discussed in Chocolate Candy Market in the U.S., 11th Edition, the companies especially ramped up collaboration in the last year, joining forces to deliver shopper marketing insights to key retailers. Last year, they brought together decades of “impulse leadership” to create insights on “transaction zones,” which are emerging impulse areas of the store such as the in-store pharmacy, the café, mobile phones, or the “buy online, pick-up in store” area where shoppers are making purchases beyond just the front end of the store. They also collaborated on their first “joint-selling program,” which was tied to last year’s Super Bowl and included the Snickers (Mars) and Skittles (Wrigley) brands.
It’s quite likely Mars just put the rest of the candy industry on notice. Your move Hershey…


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HBI Book Launch:
The Weavers of Tratenau, Jewish Female Forced Labor in the Holocaust by Janine Holc, a 2023 publication in the HBI Series on Jewish Women.
October 17, 7 PM/In-Person
Please register to join this in-person event.
Paired with Lives Eliminated, Dreams Illuminated, an immersive exhibition of painting and music, author Janine Holc will consider Lauren Bergman’s paintings that deal with sexual assault to present the instances of survivors responding to sexual violence and how they remember their teenage selves responding. Holc will contextualize these instances with material on how women found themselves in forced labor camps and how gender played an important role in the ways they experienced the Holocaust. Lives Eliminated, Dreams Illuminated is presented in partnership with the Dr. David M. Milch Foundation.
Stay up to date with the newest titles and promotions from Brandeis University Press—while saving 20% on your first purchase.

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By CricketCountry Staff
Mumbai: Dec 10, 2011
Virender Sehwag’s clone Jeevan Sharma is ecstatic after his hero’s record-breaking double century on Thursday against West Indies at Indore.
Sehwag on Thursday became the highest run scorer in One-Day International (ODI) by scoring 219 runs to break Sachin Tendulkar’s record.
Expressing his delight, Sharma was quoted in MiD DAY as saying, "I have worked as Sehwag's duplicate in many ad films. Producers have also approached me to copy him in comedy and stage shows as well as on television. I hope this feat opens a window of opportunity for me. I am expecting more producers to approach me to work as Sehwag.
"Sehwag's big knocks have always come as a blessing to me in financial crises," he added. ”I owe everything to Sehwag's face. What I am now is because of him. Whenever he scores big, I get a lot of appreciation in return."
Sharma who had an opportunity to meet Sehwag during the World Cup says he is eager to meet him again.
"I am eagerly waiting to congratulate him for his double ton," he said.
He further adds that Sehwag is also capable of breaking Brian Lara’s record of 400 runs in Test cricket.
Considering the pace with which he scores his runs, I am certain that he will soon break Lara's Test record soon," he said.


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Everything online journalists need to protect their legal rights. This free resource culls from all Reporters Committee resources and includes exclusive content on digital media law issues.
Closely related to the privacy tort of intrusion on seclusion is trespass. Whereas intrusion usually involves an electronic or mechanical invasion into the private affairs of another, trespass requires a physical invasion of someone's property. As with intrusion, the violation arises from the act of unauthorized entry, not from the publication of information obtained there.
Those who gather and disseminate information to the public do not have a privilege to trespass. The Supreme Court has consistently ruled that the First Amendment does not protect journalists from laws of “general applicability” that don’t specifically target the press, including trespass laws.
It is not a trespass to enter private property with the consent of the owner or possessor of the property. Usually, the possessor of private property is the owner, but a person who rents also “possesses” property and may grant or deny access to a rented property regardless of the actual owner’s wishes. Once a journalist or other enters private property to ask questions, he or she gains an implied consent to remain on the property if the property owner agrees to talk. These individuals may become trespassers, however, if they refuse to leave when asked.
People who misrepresent themselves so that they can "go undercover," usually as an employee or customer of a particular business, to expose wrongdoing at the company may also face liability for trespass. The courts are divided on this issue.
Keep in mind the following when you enter the property of another to gather information:
You may be liable for trespass when you go on private property, regardless of what you do with the information you gather there and whether you did any damage to the property.
Always be mindful of who is granting consent. In most cases, the authority of officials to enter private property to perform their duties does not extend by invitation to members of the public, including the media. This is particularly important to remember if you are riding along with the police.
Once you gain consent, do not exceed it. For example, if a drug store manager gives you permission to interview customers at the front check-out lines, you likely do not have consent to talk to those waiting in line at the pharmacy in the back of the store. Always leave when asked to do so.
Because the case law is so varied, you would be well-advised to contact an attorney in your state if you plan to misrepresent your identity so that you may "go undercover" at a company. (If you need help identifying a lawyer with experience in this area, contact the Reporters Committee for suggestions.)

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One Account, Multiple Users
Various Rappor employees use itsettled to chase invoices, as there are multiple members of their finance team. By having one umbrella account with different users, each member of the team can log in to itsettled and have full transparency on which invoices are being chased and the progress that has been made on each invoice.
“Helped us with our Credit Control”
After using itsettled for over six months, the Rappor finance team found that using our software helped them save time and improve efficiency. They could leave our automated process to do the credit control for them, leaving them more time to focus on other tasks.
“I’d definitely recommend it”
Now that the Rappor team have been using itsettled’s automated credit management and debt recovery for a year, they’ve found that they can protect their high-growth and quickly scaling business. With a boosted cashflow, they can reinvest in their business and grow even further.

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Join this yoga journey with The Yoga Shala CT in Thailand where Buddhism has been practiced in ritual splendor for thousands of years. Richly adorned temples within ancient, walled cities are a hallmark of these mountains of Northern Thailand. In the historic cities of Chiang Mai and Chiang Rai, you discover the Lanna culture and experience the benefits of Thai yoga massage. While in bustling Bangkok, you take in the city by land and boat as well as an evening of Siam Niramit theater.
Your accommodation will be in The Rim Resort, Chiang Mai, for four nights, Manee Dheva Resort & Spa, Chiang Rai, for two nights, and Rembrandt Hotel Bangkok, Bangkok, for two nights.
The Rim Resort is a colonial Lanna house in the old town of Chiang Mai. It has a swimming pool surrounded by restaurant, bars, and a nice tropical garden. Modernism and old Thai style are combined.
Manee Dheva Resort & Spa is located in a picturesque valley outside the city of Chiang Rai. Built in typical north Thai style, its rooms are discreetly integrated into the surrounding landscape.
Rembrandt Hotel Bangkok is strategically located in the coolest neighborhood in Bangkok. It is modern with nice swimming pools and some restaurants.
For those who continue on this adventure, flying east again, you will arrive at dawn in the mystical city of Chiang Mai. The old citadel will be your home for a few days. Check in and rest. In the afternoon, you will venture to the hill of this ancient city to visit one of the most revered temples and see the whole region from above. Have a re-welcome dinner (now in Thailand) and return to the hotel. Overnight in Chiang Mai.
Elephant note: At a true elephant sanctuary, there is no riding of the elephants, tricks, or shows, instead, you will see these amazing creatures living undisturbed in their natural environment. This is a rarity in Thailand where most elephants are used either in logging or in the tourist trekking industry. Your visit will teach about these amazing animals while supporting their care and conservation.
What better way to explore this multi-layered city than by foot, metro, and boat! Your "non-traditional" visit through Bangkok will give you a glimpse at the old and new in this diverse capital. In the evening, you will attend the Siam Niramit performance where music, culture, and history are combined in a spectacular production. Farewell dinner is included. Overnight in Bangkok.
The itinerary listed is a guide to The Yoga Shala CT's experience and subject to change due to weather, teacher and / or guide scheduling, and / or other unforeseen circumstances.
Partners meeting in Thailand are responsible for international airfare to Chaing Mai and return from Bangkok. Please share your flight details with The Yoga Shala CT before booking.
Note that no visa is required for United States passport holders visiting Thailand.
This retreat will take place in Chiang Mai, Chiang Rai, and Bangkok, Thailand.
Within this modern, vibrant city lies an ancient history and connection to the Lanna Kingdom. A blissful calm and a relaxed pace are the "inner heartbeat" of this northern city. Elaborate Buddhist temples, street markets, and fabulous food invite you to discover a city that is still firmly Thai in atmosphere and attitude.
Chiang Rai was founded in the 13th century, as part of the Lao-Thai Lanna Kingdom. The ancient city is known for its local markets, exceptional street food, and an abundance of wats (Buddhist temples), including the famous Baan Dam (Black Temple) and Wat Rong Khun (White Temple). Outside the city, a number of national parks afford visitors an up-close opportunity to see and experience Thailand's elephant conservation efforts.
Bangkok, Thailand's capital, is a large city known for ornate shrines and a vibrant street life. The boat-filled Chao Phraya River feeds a network of canals, flowing past the Rattanakosin royal district, home to the opulent Grand Palace and its sacred Wat Phra Kaew. Everywhere you look in Bangkok, you are a witness to a blending of old and new, where the shiny sits right beside the grit. It is these contrasts and contradictions that give the City of Angels its rich personality.
You will be served daily breakfast during the whole trip. This retreat also features four additional meals throughout the duration of your journey.
This trip includes a Thai massage class which will begin on day three. The 3-hour session is a combination of detox, relaxation, and body-balance treatments reflecting the ancient ceremonial protocol of the Lanna culture.
Chiang Mai International Airport
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Please book your flight to arrive at Suvarnabhumi Airport (BKK). From here, please take notice you need to take the free shuttle bus to Don Mueang International Airport (DMK), which is where you will take your domestic flight to Chiang Mai.

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Brenau gains in ‘best value’ category of U.S. News & World Report annual college and university rankings
Originally published on 9/13/11
Brenau University continued to score high in the annual U.S. News & World Report rankings of best colleges and universities in the nation and moved into 11th place in the Southeast in the magazine’s “Great Schools, Great Prices” category that rates institutions for value they offer students.
The results of the magazine’s seminal study of American higher education institutions put Brenau at 29th place making it only one of two Georgia institutions in the top regional universities category for the 11-state Southeastern region.
Brenau made it to the Top 15 in the best value category for the seventh consecutive year, moving from 12th place last year to 11th in this year’s rankings.
The 2012 edition of U.S. News & World Report’s Best Colleges publication will be on newsstands on Sept. 20, on the magazine’s Web site at on www.usnews.com/colleges and through the U.S. News College Compass publication.
In the rankings only one other Georgia institution, Mercer University in Macon, fared better than Brenau in the regional universities categories. Brenau and Mercer also were the only Georgia institutions in the “Great Schools, Great Prices” rankings for regional universities. Other Georgia universities in the top 100 were Georgia College & State University in Milledgeville at 36th, North Georgia College & State University in Dahlonega at 56th, Piedmont College in Demorest at 60th and Valdosta State University in Valdosta at 71st.
“With more and more pressure on state and private institutions for accountability in their academic offerings, these surveys prove that Brenau meets its goal to provide students extraordinary educational opportunities for their tuition dollars,” said Brenau President Ed Schrader. “We have a dedicated faculty and administrative staff that makes it their personal mission to work tirelessly toward improving Brenau’s undergraduate and graduate programs on all campuses and online.”
U.S. News rankings are based on assessments of more than 1,400 schools nationwide by all the university presidents surveyed, surveys of key administrators and academic leaders in colleges and universities around the nation, graduation rates, average admission test scores, faculty/student ratio, tuition rates and levels of financial aid provided by the institution and other criteria. The thorough examination of how accredited four-year schools compare on a set of up to 16 widely accepted indicators of excellence also include evaluation of data on graduation and retention rates, faculty resources, student selectivity, financial resources and alumni giving.


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Boyce & Hart, the Monkees, and Turning Mayhem Into MiraclesBook - 2015
"Songwriter, singer, and producer Bobby Hart tells how he and Tommy Boyce created many top hit songs of the sixties and seventies, enabling The Monkees to outsell the Beatles and the Rolling Stones in 1967-68 and Boyce and Hart to become performers and recording artists. He discusses his relationships, political activism, and his religious and spiritual journey"--
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Just about every animal, whether they’re a pet or not, loves to spend countless hours playing outdoors. While dogs get their own parks, no other animal has quite the privilege. Two adorable pigs take a field trip to their local dog park and have a great time.
Nothing beats going to the beach on a hot summer day. The warm sand underneath your feet, the refreshing water to swim in, and it’s the perfect place for a picnic lunch. Prissy and Bomber are two mini pigs who love doing all of that and more.
In July of 2011, these two precious piggies took a trip to the park to get in some exercise and to meet a few new canine companions. Their owners put them in harnesses attached to leashes to make sure there wasn’t any species rivalry.
Bomber and Prissy enjoy munching on the crunchy grass, sniffing in the sand, and watching the tide come in. Their dog friends went along curiously and couldn’t seem to get enough of the adorable duo. We hope the pigs had a fantastic trip; it sure looks like they did.

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The word “tapumes,” in Brazilian Portuguese, means something like “fencing” or “boarding,” and it refers to the cheap, splintery plywood-like wood product used to create the cheapest homes in the country. Brazilian artist Henrique Oliveira often works with it, but his new installation, Transarquitetônica, may be the most stunning use of the material yet.
Installed at the Museu de Arte Contemporânea da Universidade in São Paulo, Transarquitetônica is Oliveira’s largest work to date. It consists of a huge framework that resembles the roots of some sprawling, otherworldly tree, with cheap tapumes nailed on the outside. The 1,600-square-meter structure is massive, so you can explore it from inside.
Oliveira says the work blends his early childhood with his young adulthood: When he moved from a village in the country to the big city, he saw wood being used in different ways. “Transarquitetônica” brings the wood full-circle–it takes the cheap, low-quality material and turns it into an organic, naturalistic arboreal structure.


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Some UK hospitals look like a “war zone” due to the influx of Covid-19 patients, the country's Chief Scientific Advisor Patrick Vallance told British broadcaster Sky News on Wednesday.
“It is very difficult, it may not look like it when you go for a walk in the park, but when you go into a hospital this is very, very bad at the moment with enormous pressure and in some cases it looks like a war zone in terms of things that people are having to deal with,” Vallance said.
The UK is currently in the midst of a sharp surge in coronavirus cases and the country hit a record 1,610 deaths from Covid-19 on Tuesday - the highest daily increase since the start of the pandemic, according to data from Public Health England. The UK currently has the fifth highest death toll from Covid-19 in the world with 91,643 deaths, according to Johns Hopkins University.
Responding to a question on when lockdowns might be eased, Vallance commented that “the numbers are nowhere near where they need to be at the moment and need to come down quite a lot further”.
“Vaccines are not going to do the heavy lifting for us at the moment or anywhere near it,” he said, emphasizing the need to follow social distancing guidelines - “this is about the restrictive measures that we’re all living under and carrying on with those, we need to make sure we stick with it.”
Over 4 million people in the UK have already received the first dose of a Covid-19 vaccine, yet while this will give protection against “severe illness,” Vallance stressed that “much less” is known about the vaccine’s ability to stop transmission.


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How long has life flourished on our planet?
A new study suggests it could go back more than 3.7 billion years.
In a study published Wednesday in Nature, a team of Australian researchers describe small conical structures that may have been built by microorganisms less than a billion years after…


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The poster for this teen vampire pic graced many bedrooms back in the Eighties, thanks to its sexy young cast and MTV aesthetic. Directed by Joel Schumacher and released in 1987, it starred a crop of cool up-and-coming talent – but where are they now?
Jason Patric (Michael)
Then: A dark and brooding hunk, Patric is the son of actor Jason Miller (i.e. the priest who throws himself out of the window at the end of ‘The Exorcist’). ‘Lost Boys’ was his second movie following cult naff rollerskating teen epic ‘Solarbabies’.
Now: A talented and intense actor who’s never quite become the star he might have been, Patric’s best films include 1996’s ‘Sleepers’ and the underrated ‘Narc’. Unfortunately, he’s probably more famous for mega-flop ‘Speed 2: Cruise Control’ (not his fault) and for running away with best friend Kiefer Sutherland’s then-girlfriend Julia Roberts in the early Nineties. Having turned down the role of Jesus in ‘The Passion of the Christ’, he was recently embroiled in a landmark legal battle about the rights of sperm donors thanks to a case involving his ex-girlfriend and their son.
Kiefer Sutherland (David)
Then: With a baddie role in ‘Stand By Me’ behind him, Sutherland consolidated his position as a go-to Hollywood villain as the teenaged leader of the vampires.
Now: Some might say that Jack Bauer from ‘24’ isn’t entirely wholesome – shooting people willy-nilly as he is wont to do – which is why Sutherland’s ambiguous heroism works so well.
Corey Haim (Sam)
Then: Haim was a budding child star by the time he played Michael’s younger brother, who realises something is wrong with his new town. He had featured alongside Winona Ryder in ‘Lucas’ and on more than 20 episodes of Canadian sitcom ‘The Edison Twins’, as well as starring with Robert Downey Jr. in 1984 drama ‘Firstborn’.
Now: Stricken by substance abuse problems, Haim’s initial celebrity went downhill pretty fast and he died tragically in 2010 aged just 38 having gone to rehab 15 times. He dated Alyssa Milano and – yes, really – Victoria Beckham, but was scammed by his accountant to near-bankruptcy and claimed to have been continually sexually abused by older industry figures. He auditioned to play Robin in ‘Batman Forever’, but his film career never recovered thanks to his enormous drug intake and unreliability.
Jami Gertz (Star)
Then: Gertz had appeared in John Hughes’s ‘Sixteen Candles’ and also starred with Patric in ‘Solarbabies’ when she was cast as love interest Star in ‘Lost Boys’.
Now: She starred in the underrated Bret Easton Ellis adaptation ‘Less Than Zero’ with Robert Downey Jr. and has cropped up in movies like ‘Twister’. But Gertz has worked mostly on TV, in ‘Entourage’ and sitcom ‘The Neighbors’. Luckily for her, she doesn’t need to work to pay the rent as she’s married to a billionaire banker. Yes, that’s billionaire.
Alex Winter (Marko)
Then: Playing sidekick vamp Marko was Winter’s third proper acting gig, having nabbed a role on telly in ‘The Equalizer’ and opposite Charles Bronson in lacklustre sequel ‘Death Wish 3’.
Now: Post-‘Lost Boys’, Winter became a cinematic icon as Bill S Preston in the two ‘Bill & Ted’ movies, the third of which is currently in the works. But having basically given up acting – apart from rare screen appearances such as last year’s thriller ‘Grand Piano’ – he has become a prolific director, particularly in documentaries about the dark side of the internet.
Corey Feldman (Edgar Frog)
Then: A child actor with a terrible home life, Feldman was already a Hollywood veteran thanks to ‘Gremlins’, ‘The Goonies’ and ‘Stand By Me’.
Now: Substance abuse, broken marriages and a friendship with Michael Jackson, Feldman is the dictionary definition of a messed up child star, who now fluctuates between convention work and low-budget hackery.
Jamison Newlander (Alan Frog)
Then: The actor was almost a total newbie when he appeared as one of the youthful vampire hunter brothers. His only other credit from that time comes from 1987 too, when he starred in an after-school special about a teenager who is diagnosed with HIV.
Now: Newlander has appeared in both ‘Lost Boys’ sequels (though his scenes in second one ‘The Tribe’ were deleted) and is due to feature in horror western ‘Bone Tomahawk’ later this year alongside Kurt Russell and Matthew Fox. Now 44 and married with two kids, he has also dabbled in writing and directing with the 2003 movie ‘Rooster’.
Billy Wirth (Dwayne)
Then: You’ve got to love a guy who once played a character called Zoo Knudsen, but before ‘Lost Boys’ he featured in the same ‘Equalizer’ episode as Alex Winter – they’re lucky the casting director fancied watching a show about a British private eye that day.
Now: He’s worked non-stop in episodic television and independent movies without hitting the big time, as well as getting to the semi-final of ‘American Gladiators’ in 1989. More recently, he set up a production company and works behind the scenes as well – his newest project as executive producer is called ‘Man Down’ and stars Shia LaBeouf.
Brooke McCarter (Paul)
Then: Already a successful model and commercials actor when he bagged his role, he is also known for starring in ‘Thrashin’’ – often thought of as the first movie about skateboard culture. His co-stars included Tony Hawk and Josh Brolin.
Now: McCarter looked outside acting after ‘Lost Boys’, becoming a successful drummer and composer, as well as scoring a few indie movies. He subsequently spent 10 years out of Hollywood, in order, according to his personal website, “to pursue other business interests in the telecommunications industry.” He also managed his friend Corey Haim for several years in a bid to keep him off drugs, unfortunately without success.
Chance Michael Corbitt (Laddie)
Then: Playing the youngest of the undead was Corbitt’s debut big-screen role, although he featured in a period TV movie opposite Mark Harmon from ‘NCIS’ the same year.
Now: At the age of 38, Corbitt has done spots of telly (four episodes of ‘Baywatch’) and in 2013 appeared in low-budget horror ‘Hallows’ Eve’, but is mostly a stalwart of the convention circuit.
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On February 3, Time magazine published an article about sexual harassment experienced by several women at parties, lunches, and events with ties to the effective altruism community — a community we’ve written about at Future Perfect and which I consider myself a part of. The stories in the article are horrifying and infuriating.
The first question you ask when you read stories like these is simply, “What needs to change so this doesn’t happen again?” I’ve read plenty of stories about sexual harassment, and they often have common features: dysfunctional institutions that try to cover up what’s going on, warning signs ignored.
But the problem becomes even more difficult when it’s a community with no obvious hierarchy, or a loose-knit one like effective altruism, which has an institution whose mission is to grow and nurture the community — the Centre for Effective Altruism (CEA) — but which has authority over only a certain share of what happens under the community’s broader umbrella.
That means that while bad actors can and have been banned from major professional events after complaints, it’s difficult to completely cast them out of the broad, diffuse EA world, which no one organization or individual controls. Where does that leave us?
No less urgent, the Time story also raises an important question about EA broadly: Does it have a sexual harassment problem? More precisely: Are there qualities or factors inherent in EA that increase the likelihood of such behavior?
These are questions the community has to reckon with. One of the big claims that effective altruism makes is that the stakes in the world we live in are enormous, and that individual choices can save many lives, or meaningfully affect policy on crucial, big questions.
I want that hope to be realized. But for it to come true, there need to be functional processes for weeding out bad actors and systems, formal and informal, that ensure a healthy and safe culture. Power, money, and an environment where trusting, well-intentioned young people mingle in settings with blurred social and professional lines are all risk factors for misconduct, and existing mechanisms don’t seem adequate to address that risk.
Why sexual harassment can be so hard to address in cultures like EA
What do you do if you’re sexually harassed at work? Well, that’s illegal, so you can report it to HR, and if you face retaliation — or if the company doesn’t respond — you can hire a lawyer.
What do you do if you’re sexually harassed at a professional conference? You can report it to the conference organizer, sponsoring organizations, your employer, etc.
These mechanisms aren’t perfect — not everyone can access them, for one thing. But they have one critical thing going for them: They exist, thanks to decades of determined effort by activists and others.
But what do you do if you get sexually harassed in a context that’s halfway social and halfway professional — drinks at a bar after work, which are often portrayed as a necessary part of moving up the corporate ladder but not officially a part of “work”?
Or what about the “tech founder houses” cropping up in San Francisco and Los Angeles, where people network and live together in the hope of getting access to investors, and which, as my Vox colleague Rebecca Jennings reported last year, have in a few cases turned out to be places where sexual abuse and coercion allegedly happened?
To whom do you report it? The media, which can investigate but not litigate? What can you actually do to make sure it doesn’t happen again?
Those are questions that effective altruism needs to answer.
Abuse and misconduct without centralized accountability
I live in San Francisco, where weird niche subcultures are practically normal, and I’ve long found it interesting to watch how weird niche subcultures go through revelations that some members (usually, but not always, men) were engaged in a pattern of abusive behavior.
There are two challenges. One is figuring out what happened. Often, community members trying to unravel these allegations don’t have relevant professional training in running a sound, helpful investigation without further harm to victims. (Before I started at Vox, I participated in various community-based processes for addressing sexual assault and misconduct, not specifically in the EA community but in event spaces and communities I was part of. It left me convinced that most people — including me — simply do not have the skills to do this work, especially unpaid in their free time, in a way that successfully supports victims, protects potential future victims, and arrives at the truth.)
And two, while it’s possible to get to the truth with enough effort, it’s not often obvious within these subcultures precisely whose job it is to get to the truth or what their duties are once they find it, especially when cases of misconduct occur in informal, nonprofessional contexts.
These are the ones where there’s no governing authority or formal procedures in place to deal with abuse allegations, or where a respected organization in the space might be able to ban someone from events they host but little more beyond that.
The CEA has a community health team that takes reports on misconduct in the community and responds, often by banning people from the professional events and conferences they specifically sponsor. “We try to support local EA organizers in establishing a healthy culture in their group, for example through workshops and other materials about how to prevent and address problems. We try to make it clear that misconduct doesn’t fly in the community, and we can take some action on that (like banning people from CEA-run events based on harmful behavior),” Julia Wise, community liaison for CEA’s community health team, told me.
But the CEA can only take steps to control EA events they specifically oversee, and that may not be enough. In one of the incidents in the Time story, a woman says she was harassed over dinner in New York. What’s the recourse there? Shunning? Blacklisting? Should a centralized authority be established that’s responsible for all community events? Should there be a consultable directory of bad actors available for women to check before making dinner plans?
In the case of EA, as with other subcultures, the rules for being included in the community are unwritten and unclear, which compounds the issue. If you go to someone’s “EA party” — yes, there are EA parties, and EA hobbyist events, and EA group houses — the hosts are just unselected people who decided to call their parties and events and houses that. There’s no EA certification program. This state of affairs can lead people to expect the kinds of process-based handling of sexual harassment that’s appropriate to a professional community — except that EA, in its current phase of development, doesn’t provide that.
“We’re available if local organizers want advice on a situation,” Wise told me. “But ultimately we don’t control community members’ decisions, especially when things happen in an informal setting.”
EA and sexual misconduct
Then there’s the community itself. If we look at the bigger picture, there are well-known dynamics that effective altruism needs to address as it grows: its gender and racial imbalances, its extremely high mixing of social and professional lives, the conflict-of-interest challenges of having a tight-knit community where benefactors socialize with would-be recipients who depend on their largesse.
Perhaps more so than most subcultures, EA straddles the border between being a social subculture and a professional one. I’m appreciative of the EA community’s acceptance of nontraditional romantic relationships — I’m in committed relationships (of six years and nine years) with two women myself — but Time spotlighted that, too, as a potential driver of harassment and misbehavior.
Because of these reasons and the decentralized, amorphous way EA operates, I absolutely expect that there are people who haven’t spoken out yet about their experiences, but hopefully will in the weeks ahead.
For the effective altruism community, the stakes couldn’t be higher.
As weird subcultures go, it’s one that does a lot more than most to bring folks into the community, trying to convince young people that they should put their own careers into EA-priority areas. That means it incurs a special kind of responsibility if people in its professional community experience harassment.
One possible solution is for an organization like the CEA to take on a much more active role of identifying and protecting against bad actors in a far more expansive sense than banning them from events it runs. “We’re looking into whether we can affect cultural change in the EA community, through education or pushing for better organizational policies,” Wise told me. “We can’t fix this — or any — problem for the community as a whole, but we will continue to try to use our position to shift things in a positive direction.”
But making a large global community without centralized governance safe for everyone is an incredibly hard task, and frankly, I’m not sure the CEA has the resources to do it. And trying and failing to do something like that can leave people mistakenly believing that an environment is policed and protected when it’s not.
Getting this right is particularly urgent because effective altruism is built on the idea that it’s possible to “do good better.” The last year has been full of revelations about the ways the existing EA movement hasn’t always lived up to that — and a reminder of the staggering complexity of doing good at scale.
Money and power attract bad actors, corrode people’s idealism, encourage self-serving narratives, increase the cost of mistakes, and make the institutional flexibility to fix them rare and hard to come by. The sexual harassment conversation is an important test of whether EA is able to grow into the role it wants to have.
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PLAINFIELD — In possession of its first 10-win regular season in more than a decade, the Greenfield-Central boys basketball team will set its sights on rectifying a postseason drought.
Lane Ferrell scored a season-high 21 points, and the Cougars dominated Plainfield in the second half Thursday on the way to a 59-44 win.
At 10-14, Greenfield-Central earned its first double-digit victory total since the 2003-04 squad went 15-6.
“We just talked about that (in the locker room),” Greenfield-Central first-year coach Michael Lewis said following the triumph. “The thing I’m most proud of is the resilience of these kids because we’ve had a lot of ups and downs. We’ve had a lot of close games that we’ve lost, some that we’ve given away.
“But for these kids to persevere and come here tonight really focused and wanting to get win number 10, it says a lot about them trying to leave a legacy that people can be proud of.”
Greenfield-Central (10-14) had a pair of four-game losing streaks this season, as well as two winning streaks of three games. The team had dropped two straight heading into Plainfield and will look for its second straight solid effort Wednesday against Anderson (5-17) in the Class 4A Sectional 9 quarterfinal at New Castle.
The first half against the Quakers (6-16) was mostly a stalemate, marked by five ties and six lead changes. Back-to-back scores by Plainfield’s Nathan Mills to end the second quarter gave the hosts a 26-22 edge at intermission.
Mills, a 6-foot-5 sophomore forward, presented a challenge for the Cougars’ defense, which they met. Mills followed up a 9-point first half with only two points in the third quarter and three for the entire second half.
“We talked about getting ‘kills,’ which is three stops in a row, and we had a lot of kills in the third quarter,” Lewis said. “A big part of their offense is they do a great job of crashing the glass. And, I thought we did a nice job in the second half of limiting them to one shot.”
A pair of Blake Robertson 3-pointers fueled an 11-0 run for the Cougars to end the quarter, and they took a 40-32 lead into the fourth. Overall, Greenfield-Central outscored the Quakers 37-18 after the break.
Robertson finished with 14 points off the bench. Tate Hall had 13 points, six rebounds and three assists. Kirill Schoellman and Dallas Pribble chipped in four points apiece. And Chandler Bean had three points and four assists.
Ferrell, who missed the first half of the season, scored 13 of his season-high 21 in the second half to pace the Cougars.
“We have to understand that Lane played JV last year,” Lewis noted. “And then he missed the first half of the season, so this is only game 10 or so of his varsity career. So, there are going to be some growing pains along the way. But, I thought tonight he did a much better job of playing through contact, instead of playing around contact.”
Mills’ 12 points was tops for Plainfield. He also had a game-high nine rebounds. Bryson Ellis had 10 points and Reece Crawford totaled nine points on three first-half 3-pointers.
Plainfield will face Mooresville (17-3) in 4A Sectional 12 on Wednesday at Martinsville.
For the Cougars, a win against Anderson in the Sectional 9 opening round would mark the program’s firs tournament win since the 2002-03 season.
“We’ve got a quality opponent,” Lewis said of the Indians, 1-7 over the last month. “They’re a lot better than their record. A team that’s very athletic, some kids that can put the ball in the hole. So, we’ll have to play well.”
Notes: Greenfield Central finished the regular season 6-7 in road/neutral site contests and 5-8 against Class 4A competition. … The Quakers have suffered six straight losing seasons, including the past three under current head coach Andy Weaver. In 15 previous seasons at Western, Weaver’s teams claimed six sectional championships. … Plainfield won the junior varsity game 56-54. … The Quakers honored their three basketball seniors, Anthony Bolen, Kyler Nichols and Mark Daum, prior to the varsity contest.

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