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ALL AMERICAN SEASON 5 EPISODE 9 RECAP
BOURNE – IF OTTAWA WANTS TO BE COOL IT SHOULD EMBRACE BLACK CULTURE
Being Black in Canada is a four-part Black History Month article series from SHIFTER editor Kevin Bourne
Ottawa is having a branding problem. This isn't a new thing. Ottawa has always been seen as a sleepy government town. "The city that fun forgot." Yes, some cool things have happened here in recent years. We finally got LRT (although it still has significant issues to iron out), we're getting both taller and better designed buildings, and Ottawa Tourism has stepped up its game with its marketing campaigns, but we just can't seem to get out of this no-man's land of irrelevance.
Meanwhile, Toronto has gotten more cool, even when you thought it couldn't get any cooler. Now, that wasn't always the case. Growing up in Toronto, it always felt like a major city. It was always a household name around the world, but it's different now. Toronto is buzzing and has found cultural relevance. It always knew it was cool; now everyone else knows it.
The question is, "How did Toronto become so culturally relevant?", "What put it over the edge?" The answer is Black culture and the three biggest catalysts were Drake, Caribana and the Toronto Raptors.
Drake alone is responsible for 7% of Toronto's $9 billion tourism economy and generates over $600 million in economic activity annually for Toronto according to a recent CBC Music docu-series. A few years ago I was in Toronto for Caribana/OVO Fest weekend. I met a few guys in Yonge-Dundas Square who were visiting from Baltimore. One of them told me, "When Drake says to be somewhere you go". They also said they were looking for property in the city.
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Meanwhile, every year one million people, including NBA basketball players and celebrities like Lebron James, Shaquille O'Neal PK Subban and Lindsey Vonn, flock to Toronto for Caribana (the city's biggest party). Growing up, Caribana was always a must for family members visiting from the UK, United States and the Caribbean. According to a 2010 report from Ryerson University, Caribana generated over $438 million in economic activity in Toronto every year, over $2 billion in economic activity for the city and $1 billion in tax revenue for both the city and province. It's safe to say that over a decade later, those numbers are significantly higher.
Meanwhile, the Raptors have put Toronto on the map in a way the Maple Leafs and Blue Jays never have. Back in the late 90's, Vince Carter had the biggest rappers in music wearing Raptors jerseys in their music videos, and after last year's trade for Kawhi Leonard and their championship win, the Raptors have shined an even greater light on their city.
Why were the Raptors able to give Toronto mass appeal in a way the Leafs and Blue Jays couldn't? Because basketball is a Black sport and Black culture is popular culture and has been for a long time (case in point, Tiger Woods and golf). This impact goes beyond cultural impact to economic impact. In what is being dubbed "the Raptors Effect", the team's 2019 playoff run and championship actually boosted Canada's GDP last Summer.
While stats on the annual economic impact of the Toronto Raptors are hard to come by, I would imagine it's at least $500 million, which would mean Drake, Caribana, and the Toronto Raptors alone generate over $1.5 billion dollars in economic activity in Toronto every year. You add The Weeknd, Tory Lanez and other hip-hop artists reppin' the 6ix and the number is even higher.
Toronto benefits greatly from Black culture and they've finally embraced it. Watch local news channel CP24 in the morning and you may hear news anchor and host Brandon Gonez break out in Jamaican/Toronto slang.
Remove Black culture from Toronto and it's a totally different city―more boring, less interesting and less cool. So my advice to Ottawa, if you want the capital to be cool and buzz worthy, embrace, celebrate and invest in Black culture. Right now Ottawa is like bland chicken in need of seasoning (and Black people know seasoning).
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Now, there are two issues at play here. First, Ottawa is still a very white city. Yes, there's been progress in recent years. In 2019, we got our first Black city councillor, director of education, and police chief, but Ottawa is still very culturally white. We'll clamour to give golfer Brooke Henderson a key to the city and forget about people like Herieth Paul, a legitimate supermodel who has walked the runway for Victoria's Secret and some of the world's biggest brands, and is arguably the biggest model to come out of Canada over the past five years. Then there's Marial Shayok, the first basketball player from Ottawa to be drafted by an NBA team. Shayok is currently one of the leading scorers in the NBA G League and recently got called up by the Philadelphia 76ers. Where are their keys to the city? Where are their public acknowledgments from municipal leaders? They've had equal, if not greater, impact in their respective industries than Brooke Henderson. What kind of message does this send when our leaders publicly celebrate the cute, white female golfer and not the Black fashion model or basketball player?
Now, am I accusing our leaders of being racist? Absolutely not. What am I saying is that our leaders see Ottawa through their lens and that lens is very white. That's the biggest travesty; they don't even see my Ottawa.
This goes beyond our municipal leaders. I could point to media outlets, business associations, and events in the capital who consistently show me that people like me aren't their target demographic.
Meanwhile, the City of Ottawa website states the capital has Canada's third-largest Caribbean community and the second-fastest growing Caribbean community after Montreal. When was the last time those stats were included or reflected in a marketing campaign? We keep hearing that Ottawa has a talent shortage and needs to attract more professionals. Maybe they're looking in the wrong communities. I know Black doctors, filmmakers and tech professionals in Toronto who have personally told me they were considering a move to Ottawa. How many more are there? Armed with these kinds of stats, the City of Ottawa and Invest Ottawa could attract some strong Black talent from other cities.
If you want to point to Ottawa's rich Middle Eastern culture, Ottawa is said to have more Shawarma places than Toronto, Montreal, Calgary and Edmonton combined. Why aren't we marketing that? "The Shawarma Capital of Canada". Shawarmas should be as "Ottawa" as Beavertails. There are also a lot of Middle Eastern recording artists who are starting to generate buzz outside of the city. Where's the public acknowledgement of Malak Sound, the first Canadian to appear on the Middle Eastern version of The Voice, or Belly, the biggest recording artist to come out of the city since Alanis Morrisette?
This brings me to the next issue―Ottawa is stuck in the past. Many people in this city are holding onto an Ottawa that used to be instead of the Ottawa that is or can be? How long are we going to celebrate Sandra Oh, Tom Green, and Alanis Morrissette? They've all accomplished great things, but there's a new crop of talent doing amazing things. Aside from Herieth Paul and Marial Shayok, there's Helena-Alexis Seymour who starred in Amazon's Chronicles of Jessica Wu. There's Vanessa Morgan from CW's hit show Riverdale. In music, there's Maurice Moore, City Fidelia and Night Lovell who are getting coverage from American media and performing at major festivals, and who rep Ottawa when given the chance.
Like Toronto, we need to evolve. The old Toronto hung its hat on the Toronto Maple Leafs, musical acts like Rush, and the financial industry, but they didn't end up being the things that made the masses care. Today, Toronto has hitched its identity to Drake, the Weeknd and the Raptors who have in turn had a residual effect on the financial and tech industries in that city.
Here in Ottawa, we need to embrace the possibility that, although they are vitally important, local institutions like tech, government, or even the Ottawa Senators, may not be the things that make the world sit up and take notice. There may be future industries and stars that we'll need to hitch our identity to that look nothing like the Ottawa of old, that will in turn shed light on some of the things we know and love about our city today.
So once again, if Ottawa wants to fix its reputation as a sleepy government town, Black culture could be exactly what it needs. Include us in your marketing campaigns. Ask us how you can get young Black professionals like us to visit or migrate to the city. Acknowledge our successes the same way you do those of local darlings like Brooke Henderson and Sandra Oh. Give us more grant money to put on events. I'm not talking about handouts or entitlement. As Toronto shows us, the economic returns are there. Invite us to the table and you'll thank us later.
By Kevin Bourne
Kevin Bourne, also known as "KB The Boss", is the editor-in-chief of SHIFTER magazine and co-founder of the PR and marketing firm SHIFTER Agency, Inc.
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Kevin Bourne is the co-founder and editor of SHIFTER magazine. Born and raised in Toronto, Kevin currently resides in Ottawa with his wife Koliah and their three children. He's a big fan of hip-hop, pop culture, and urbanism and spends most of his time keeping up with the Kardashians.


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Little Italy a Melbourne è un quartiere di Melbourne, situato nello stato di Victoria, Australia, a cui ci si riferisce anche come "Italian Precinct", o semplicemente "Lygon Street", è la Little Italy della città australiana di Melbourne, situata sulla via di Lygon Street nel sobborgo di Carlton. Secondo il censimento del 2006, Victoria ospita il numero più elevato di italo-australiani, intorno ai 200.000, dei quali, la maggior parte vive nei sobborghi situati nella parte settentrionale delle città di, Carlton, Coburg, Brunswick, Preston e reservoir. In Lygon Street vi è la più grande concentrazione di ristoranti italiani, ed anche il luogo di nascita della "cultura del caffè". Melbourne, inoltre, è anche gemellata con la città di Milano.

A novembre si tiene la Lygon Street Festa. Durante l'annuale gran premio australiano di Formula uno il quarteire si colora di bandiere gialle e rosse simbolo della Ferrari. Sia nel 1982 che nel 2006 fu la zona in cui si celebrarono le vittorie dei mondiali di calcio della nazionale italiana.

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Christmas in Clinton (virtually, of course)
Learn how the Russian royal Romanov family celebrated the holidays at two upcoming events at the Museum of Russian Icons in Clinton. COURTESY MUSEUM OF RUSSIAN ICONS
By Nancye Tuttle |
It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas at the Museum of Russian Icons in Clinton, where an array of virtual holiday happenings highlights the season starting tomorrow and continuing into December.
A free Zoom Christmas tree-lighting takes place Friday, November 27, 4-4:30 p.m. Highlights include a talk given by Romanov expert Nicholas Nicholson on "Christmas with the Romanovs," craft workshops and a live-stream of the annual tree-lighting festivities. It's free, but you must register at https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_J9B6YRsNRr2XHzmMlsMSSQ.
Try your hand at painting Christmas angels on Wednesday, Dec. 2, and Saturday, Dec. 5, 2-3:30 p.m. Museum docent Larissa Dyan will lead the fun and light-hearted workshops. Start by hearing the story of the angel Gabriel and getting a peek at Dyan's Christmas nesting-doll collection. She will then show participants how to paint the angels. Painting kits, including two wooden angels, paints and brushes, are available for pickup at the museum by appointment. The cost is $20 for members, $25 for nonmembers, and registration is required by Monday, Nov. 30. The Zoom link will be sent to participants the morning of the program. Each workshop is limited to 15 people and is appropriate for ages 10 and up. Contact aconsalvi@museumofrussianicons.org to register and schedule a kit pickup time.
You have another chance to hear Nicholson talk about "Christmas with the Romanovs" in his virtual lecture on Sunday, Dec. 6, at 1 p.m.
While Christmas is an important part of the Orthodox liturgical calendar, Christmas celebrations at the Russian court didn't begin to resemble the kind of celebrations we are familiar with until the 19th century. That happened after generations of Germans, a Dane and three granddaughters of Queen Victoria arrived and brought their own traditions to change Christmas in Russia forever.
Nicholson will look at how and when the traditions of decorating trees and exchanging gifts became common. He'll also share what intimate family celebrations looked like and the final commemorations of Christmas during the World War I. It's free for members, $5 for nonmembers. Registration is required by Saturday, Dec. 5. A Zoom link will be sent to participants the morning of the program. To register, contact www.museumofrussianicons.org/event/romanov.
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Bundle up and shop locally outside the next three Saturdays at Lowell's Western Avenue Studios and Lofts.COURTESY WESTERN AVENUE STUDIOS
WESTERN AVENUE WARMS UP WINTER: Baby, it's cold outside. But Western Avenue Studios and Lofts artists invite you to bundle up and visit their Small Business Saturday Outdoor Art Market at Western Avenue this Saturday, Nov. 28, noon-4 p.m. It's a fun and safe way to shop this holiday season, while supporting small local businesses. More than 30 WAS artists and makers will be on hand to help you find the perfect gift for those on your shopping lists. The outdoor shopping continues Saturdays, Dec. 5 and 12. WAS has also turned its Instagram feed, @westernavearts , into a Creative Catalog for the Holidays to give artists who are unable to participate outside a platform to show their work for sale on their website or other online shopping portal. It'll up Nov. 28-Dec. 20. For info, visit www.westernavenuestudios.com.
Salisbury Beach and Newburyport get into the holiday spirit with a re-imagined Festival of Trees starting this weekend.COURTESY FESTIVAL OF TREES
TREE SHORE: Head to the seacoast towns of Salisbury and Newburyport this holiday season for the 8th Annual Reimagined Sea Festival of Trees. From Saturday, Nov. 28, through Sunday, Dec. 20, visitors will find their spirits lifted by thousands of twinkle lights, a safe, socially distanced holiday tree stroll, a giant gingerbread house and a scavenger hunt. "People need an extra dose of joy this year, and the re-imagined festival will lift spirits during a year when it is needed most," said event director Kathy Aiello. Tree lights will be on daily, 11:30 a.m.-10 p.m. For updated info, to purchase tree raffle tickets and find tree locations, visit www.seafestivaloftrees.com or call 978-462-2512.
BRUSH WREATHS: Tickets are on sale for the Festival of Wreaths at Brush Art Gallery and Studios in Lowell. This year, the wreaths are on display online and at the Brush, 256 Market St., Lowell. Lucky winners will be announced Wednesday, Dec. 2. Visit www.thebrush.org/events.htm for info and tickets.
CALL FOR ARTISTS: The year 2020 will go down as one of the most difficult in our collective lifetimes. But it has brought out the best in people, too. The Arts League of Lowell will celebrate that in its upcoming exhibit, "Shelter: The Art of Caring," running Feb. 3-28. ALL is seeking artists to participate. View the prospectus at tinyurl.com/y4zlkwvq or www.artsleagueoflowell.org/gallery/future.
Nancye Tuttle's email address is nancyedt@verizon.net.
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Top Gear USA's vehicle for "Big Star in Small Car" will be a Suzuki SX4
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by Kirby Garlitos, on October 20, 2010, 15:00
With Top Gear USA set to debut on the History Channel at the end of November, details surrounding the show have been popping up recently, much to the delight of its growing fan base.
Yesterday, we told you the big news that the US version of the hit UK show would be getting its own Stig after Tony Hawk tweeted a photo of him and The Masked One doing some test runs on what could be the car TG USA will use for its "Big Star in a Small Car" segment.
Today, we finally discovered what the 'small car' is that these big stars are going to drive in the future. Ladies and gentlemen, feast your eyes on the Suzuki SX4 Sportback!
Fitting in nicely with the label 'small car', the Suzuki SX4 looks to be perfect for the show. The car is powered by powered by a 2.0-liter four-cylinder engine that produces 150 horsepower and 140 lb/ft of torque so you definitely won't mistake it for a sports car.
Now, celebrity guests on the show will have the opportunity to take the SX4 on a couple of hot laps to determine their best time for the highly popular celebrity segment. Maybe we'll get to see how Tom Cruise and Cameron Diaz fare with this car.
After its much anticipated debut on the road in 2010, Suzuki's new athletic-hatch, the SX4 SportBack, hit the track with the team from HISTORY's "Top Gear," the new U.S. version of the Emmy award-winning BBC television series of the same name. The 2011 SX4 SportBack will play a leading role in the show's inaugural Big Star in a Small Car segment scheduled to air this November.
"Top Gear," from BBC Worldwide Productions, which premieres in November on HISTORY, follows a similar format as the original program on BBC. For its first Big Star in a Small Car segment, "Top Gear" hosts and famous secret race driver, The Stig – along with platinum-selling rock artist Kid Rock, actors Tim Allen, Michelle Rodriguez and Dominic Monaghan, and skateboarding legend Tony Hawk – charged a closed-course 1.6-mile track at El Toro in Irvine, Calif., to test the 2011 SX4 SportBack. No surprise, all of the show's celebrity drivers smoothly piloted the SX4 SportBack around the track and left supremely impressed with Suzuki's sporty five door.
"We were thrilled when Top Gear contacted us about the opportunity to showcase the driving dynamics of the 2011 Suzuki SX4 SportBack," said Gene Brown, Vice President of Marketing and Public Relations, American Suzuki Automotive Operations. "The SX4 SportBack has received rave reviews since its introduction last year, and we're confident our sporty little hatch will be a huge hit with Top Gear's ensemble of big-name celebrity drivers as well as The Stig."
The Stig was unavailable for comment.
The 2011 SX4 SportBack delivers a perfect combination of style, functionality, dynamic handling and light-hearted sophistication for consumers looking for an affordable performance choice that matches their confident attitude and lifestyle. Under the hood, it packs a 2.0-liter engine delivering 150 horsepower at 6,200 rpm in combination with 140 lb.-ft. of torque at 3,500 rpm for manual transmission models (148 hp with CVT), all while delivering an EPA-estimated 30 miles per gallon.
Both a six-speed manual and a Continuously Variable Transmission (CVT) are available on the front-wheel-drive SX4 SportBack, along with paddle shifters. Beyond its European sport tuning, the SX4 SportBack's handling is further enhanced with performance shocks, standard stabilizer bars, a lower ride height, 17-inch alloy rims and 205/50 all-season Dunlops. Class-leading safety features also set Suzuki's five-door apart from the higher-priced competition, including electronic stability program with traction control, four-wheel disc brakes, tire pressure monitoring system, daytime running lights and eight standard airbags.
Other standard features on the SX4 SportBack include power windows, locks and mirrors, air conditioning, cruise control, an AM/FM/CD/MP3 XM Satellite Radio®(1)-ready audio system (with available iPod®(2) interface), leather steering wheel cover, fog lights and aero body trim. In addition, the SX4 SportBack comes equipped with an integrated navigation system (with available advanced features, including traffic, fuel prices and airline arrival/departure information) as standard equipment.
"Top Gear's" Big Star in a Small Car segment featuring the 2011 SX4 SportBack will premiere on HISTORY this November. For more information on the show, visit the "Top Gear" website at www.history.com and www.topgear.com.
(1) XM Satellite Radio is a registered trademark of XM Satellite Radio, Inc.
(2) iPod is a trademark of Apple Inc., registered in the United States and other countries.
About Suzuki
The Brea, Calif.-based Operations of American Suzuki Motor Corporation (ASMC) was founded in 1963 by parent company Suzuki Motor Corporation (SMC) and currently markets its vehicles in the United States through a network of approximately 300 automotive dealerships and numerous other motorcycle, ATV and marine distributors in 49 states. With global headquarters in Hamamatsu, Japan, SMC is a diversified worldwide automobile, motorcycle, and outboard motor manufacturer. In 2009, SMC sold more than 2.3 million new cars and trucks and more than 2.8 million motorcycles and ATVs. Founded in 1909 and incorporated in 1920, SMC has operations in 196 countries and regions. For more information, visit www.media.suzukiauto.com. Suzuki can also be found on Twitter (@SuzukiAuto), Facebook (www.Facebook.com/SuzukiAuto) and YouTube (www.YouTube.com/SuzukiAutomotive).
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Kirby's first exposure into the world of automobiles happened when he caught Knight Rider on television as a five-year old boy. David Hasselhoff didn't leave much of an impression on him (that happened later on in Baywatch), but KITT certainly did. To this day, Kirby remains convinced that he will one day own a car with the same 'spirit' as the original KITT (not the 2008 monstrosity). He doesn't know when that will be, but until then, he's committed to expressing his love for KITT, and all cars for that matter, here at TopSpeed. Read full bio
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Dec 17, 2021, 14:51 PM by Jon Soles
Board of Elections Director Terri Robertson will retire at the end of December.
Cumberland County Board of Elections Director Terri Robertson is retiring at the end of December after serving as director since 2001. Robertson, who first joined the department in 1994, was honored with a resolution by the five-member Board of Elections during her final board meeting Dec. 14.
The resolution stated, "Under the leadership of Terri Robertson the Cumberland County Board of Elections has become a model in our region and across the State of North Carolina in election integrity, efficiency and innovation."
The board said, "Through five presidential elections, 48 elections, hundreds of days of early voting, hurricanes, floods, power outages, chemical spills, bomb threats, and a world-wide pandemic, Terri Robertson has remained a steady and trusted hand."
During her tenure at the Board of Elections, the office greatly expanded early voting through evening and weekend hours and locations and increased its online presence, offering resources and tools for voters to find their precincts and elected officials.
"It was only going to be a couple of weeks, but I'm still here," Robertson said. "I've just enjoyed working for Cumberland County Government."
At a retirement reception held Dec. 13, Robertson was visited by North Carolina State Board of Elections Director Karen Brinson Bell.
The Board of Elections appointed Administrative Coordinator Angie Amaro as the interim director effective Jan. 1. The director position is posted under the Jobs tab on the County's website at cumberlandcountync.gov.
The Board of Elections office in the E. Newton Smith Center at 227 Fountainhead Lane. The website is cumberlandcountync.gov/departments/election-group/elections.


The Texas Music Office and the Texas Film Commission are joining forces to host a booth at the SXSW 2018 Trade Show March 11-14. The trade show booth allows music businesses that are visiting Texas from around the world to connect with the Texas Music Office, arrange business development meetings, and learn more about opportunities within Texas' multi-billion dollar music economy.
The trade show is just one sector of the entire SXSW Music, Film, and Interactive Conference which runs March 9-18, 2018.
Photo taken at the photo booth section of the 2017 TMO SXSW tradeshow booth of our "Music Friendly Community" colleagues from the City of Austin's Music and Entertainment Division (left to right) Alyssa Zinsser, Stephanie Bergara, and Simone Wilson.


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Return to Tikaboo Valley
by JTGadmin on March 26, 2018 0 Comments
Sunset over the contact zone (Jeremy Yoder)
We had a whole aisle to ourselves at the Henderson, Nevada, Super Wal-Mart. The shopping list for a month of desert fieldwork with a team of up to twenty filled half a dozen shopping carts — apples and oranges by the five-pound bag, piles of potatoes and pasta and oatmeal, twenty-five dozen eggs, three different kinds of Oreos, dishes and five-gallon water jugs and an extra folding table. We stacked it all in a rental RV, and the next morning we drove north.
For years, JTGP collaborator Chris Smith has organized trips to Tikaboo Valley, a site at the northernmost end of the Mojave Desert where the two species of Joshua tree meet. Over the course of each flowering season, Chris leads a team of Willamette University students, field staff, out-of-town collaborators, and willing volunteers in an ongoing experiment to understand how the trees match two different, highly specialized, pollinator species. Tikaboo provides a natural "common garden" where it's possible to swap the pollinator species between the two Joshua trees, to see how things work out for all of them.
I drove up from Los Angeles to join Chris and his advance team in setting up camp in advance of the arrival of more than a dozen Willamette students for this week's spring break. I was sorry to head back before things got properly underway, but I had a couple days to spend with the team scouting for flowering trees — a fine tour of Tikaboo Valley at the very beginning of spring.
Click on the gallery below to scroll through some images of the trip!
We filled seven Wal-Mart carts, then a rental RV and a camper-trailer, with supplies and equipment (Jeremy Yoder)
Two trucks, the RV, two personal cars, waiting for the trailer to park (Jeremy Yoder)
The field camp, in the center of the valley (Jeremy Yoder)
Joshua trees across the valley are tagged, linking them to records from prior years' surveys, measurements, and experiments (Jeremy Yoder)
Chris Smith walks the team through the procedure for measuring and recording a Joshua tree before setting up an experiment (Jeremy Yoder)
Chris Smith demonstrates standard measurements taken on all trees used for the experiment (Jeremy Yoder)
How association genetics can find genes that help Joshua trees beat the heat
by JTGadmin on October 16, 2017 0 Comments
Joshua trees in Tikaboo Valley, Nevada (jby)
This post is by JTGP collaborator Jeremy Yoder, an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biology at California State University, Northridge, who studies ecological and evolutionary genetics.
Since we first launched the Joshua Tree Genome Project, we've told you that one big reason we want to sequence a Joshua tree genome is to find genes that are important for adaptation to climate, which could help us makes sure that Joshua trees survive and thrive in a climate-changed future. But we haven't discussed in detail how we'll find those climate-adapted genes. The key to that part of the project is association genetics, a method for sifting through the genome to find the parts that contribute to traits we care about.
Figure 1. An example of a "candidate gene" experiment testing whether different diploid genotypes are associated with different trait values, or phenotypes. Points are the phenotypes of individual trees, grouped by their diploid genotypes at a candidate gene; overlaid box plots show that trees with different genotypes differ strongly in their phenotypes. (jby)
To understand how association genetics works, first consider a case in which we already know of a gene that might be important for a particular Joshua tree trait, like height or flower shape or physiological performance — or even just growing in places that are hotter or cooler. To figure out whether different variants in the sequence of our "candidate gene" are related to differences in the trait, we could measure the trait in many trees and then sequence that gene in all of those trees. We would test the hypothesis that the gene shapes the trait by comparing the trait values of trees carrying different variants of the gene sequence. Figure 1 gives an example of what this might look like in a hypothetical case, with tree phenotypes plotted against diploid genotypes at our candidate gene — "homozygous" trees carrying two copies of the G variant have higher phenotype values than homozygous trees carrying two copies of the A variant, and "heterozygous" trees with one copy of each have intermediate phenotypes. In this case, we'd probably conclude that the candidate gene has some effect on the phenotype we decided to measure, because different variants of the gene are associated with significantly different phenotype values.
Plant physiology, the key to understanding how Joshua trees could adapt to a warming world
by JTGadmin on September 15, 2017 0 Comments
Karolina Heyduk is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Georgia, and a co-PI on the Joshua Tree Genome Project. Karolina studies comparative genomics and the physiology of photosynthesis (Karolina Heyduck)
This is a post by JTGP collaborator Karolina Heyduck, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Georgia.
Our Joshua tree proposal has been submitted to the National Science Foundation! Now we wait to hear if we're granted to green light to study sources of adaptation in these remarkable desert species.
So what does "adaptation" mean anyway?
Adaptation refers to the process by which species over time acquire traits that allow them to succeed in a given habitat. A habitat includes both biotic elements – herbivores, pollinators, and pathogens – as well as abiotic phenomena like water availability, nutrients, light intensity, and temperature. Our research team is interested in both aspects. We suspect both pollinators and environment (temperature and water availability) are playing a role in Joshua tree speciation and adaptation, but we hope to test this with help from the NSF. Plant species that have become especially adapted to their environment didn't arise in a single generation; instead, over many years, plants have passed down traits to their offspring that allowed these species to survive and thrive in tough conditions. However, when these abiotic environments change quickly – for example, due to climate change – plants may not be able to adapt fast enough, especially if they are long-lived with many years between generations.
For Joshua tree, which can live over 100 years, adapting to their changing climate will be critical to their survival. Joshua trees are already showing signs of trouble (check out this National Geographic article on them), and the Mojave is only expected to become warmer, forcing Joshua trees to either adapt or die. Currently Joshua trees are found across both high elevation (cooler) and lower elevation (warmer habitats). In both of those elevational levels, we also find Joshua trees in drier and wetter habitats. We might hypothesize that those Joshua trees already found in the hottest and driest habitats might survive best in the future, but we simply do not know. One big goal of our NSF grant will be to screen populations from different habitat types for traits that will help them succeed in the changing Mojave. But how do we do that?
We will measure chlorophyll fluorescence with a fluorometer to determine photosynthetic efficiency and overall plant stress. (Wikimedia Commons: Felipe Jo)
Our first step will be to collect seeds from different populations across both high/low elevations and with varying degrees of rainfall. We will grow these seedlings and plant them in gardens across the Mojave desert. Once they stabilize, we begin screening them for a long list of characteristics relating to water use efficiency and photosynthesis – two huge traits when it comes to desert survival. Water use efficiency refers to how much water a plant loses for every molecule of CO2 is gains. Plants take in CO2 through their open stomata, tiny pores on the surface of the leaf, but stomata also allow water vapor to escape from the leaves. This loss of water to the atmosphere is important for plants to pull water from the soil, forming a suction force like when you drink from a straw, but too much water loss in the desert can be deadly. Plants can minimize water loss by closing stomata, but this must be balanced by the need to take in atmospheric CO2 for sugar production. Photosynthesis is also important for plant survival, but can be impaired by extreme temperatures and a lack of water (Figure 1).
Measuring these traits will take us a while, and can only be done with the help of both undergraduate students and citizen scientists. Once we're done measuring our traits of interest, we can begin to determine which Joshua tree populations are most flexible – and therefore might be the quickest to adapt – to changing environmental conditions. Understanding how Joshua tree physiology interacts with their habitat is critical for our understanding of how to help this magnificent species persist into the future
By Invitation Only: The Next Step in Funding the Joshua Tree Genome Project
by JTGadmin on August 2, 2017 0 Comments
Hard at work on the full proposal. (CIS)
Back in January we wrote to you about preparing a proposal for the National Science Foundation. Now, we have some encouraging news to share.
Don't break out the champagne yet though.
Last month we received the good news that our proposal had been 'invited for a full proposal'.
As research funding has become more and more competitive, the National Science Foundation has turned to using 'preliminary proposal' system. Each January scientists from around the country put together short summaries of their latest and greatest research ideas. From the hundreds of preliminary proposals they receive, about eight dozen (approximately 25%) will be invited to submit a full proposal.
And (drum roll, please!) our proposal was one of the lucky ones invited to prepare a longer form description of our research proposal. So, while the rest of you are out enjoying the summer sun (or hiding from triple digit heat if you live in the Mojave), here at the Joshua tree genome project we've been hard at work trying to make the best possible case for our work. In a little less than a week we will send off our full proposal. And then we will wait …
We probably won't hear a final funding decision until December at the earliest, and statistically, our chances are slim. But, at the moment, our thoughts are occupied with all the things that we will do if we were funded.
Here is a partial list of what we have in mind:
Completing, assembling, and annotating the full Joshua tree genome
Surveying genetic diversity across the entire range of the Joshua tree
Common garden experiments to identify genes involved in climate adaptation
An expanded citizen science program with Cal Native Plants
Public Lectures at the Desert Institute
Research internships for underrepresented minority students
Outreach to public school teachers in southern California
It's a long and ambitious list. We hope that it's enough to make our work stand out. Wish us luck!
It's grant proposal season
by JTGadmin on July 25, 2017 0 Comments
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It was a rainy winter in the Mojave, and it was mighty quiet around the ol' Joshua Tree Genome Project Page.
But we didn't just huddle up around the fire.
January means grant proposal deadlines at the National Science Foundation, so while the yucca moths were underground this winter, we were hard at work trying to find funding for the next phase of this project. The generous support we've received from donations at Experiment.com and from The Living Desert Zoo, we've made huge progress towards assembling the Joshua Tree Genome. However, completing the next stage in the project – identifying the genes involved in adaptation to climate change – is going to be expensive. So, we're looking to NSF to help us make it happen. Thanks in large part to the work we've been able to do so far, that proposal we wrote back in January was interesting enough to NSF for us to be invited to the next round of consideration — look for an update on that part of the process soon.
Research dollars are getting harder and harder to come by as federal spending for basic research has stagnated. So, the competition is fierce, and winning the funding game means we've gotta hit it out of the park. I hope what we've put together for tomorrow's deadline is up to the task.
To learn more about the value of basic research check out this great story from the PBS News Hour. It's an essay by Sheila Patek, a biologist at Duke University who studies, among other things, the biomechanics of mantis shrimp, which use their flimsy forelimbs to punch through tough snail shells. Patek's work can seem frivolous, but it might also lead to biologically-inspired designs for stronger materials. She says
The nature of discovery is that it is impossible to anticipate what you will find. That is discovery. Discovery-based research is most fruitful when new knowledge is sought for its own sake.
If you agree, maybe phone a friend in Washington to tell her about it?
The Living Desert funds cutting-edge DoveTail technology to assemble the Joshua Tree Genome
by JTGadmin on November 23, 2016 0 Comments
The Joshua tree genome project is excited to announce a new partnership with The Living Desert Zoo and Gardens. Through a very generous gift from The Living Desert, we will use DoveTail Genomics Hi-Rise Technologies to assemble the Joshua Tree Genome.
The Living Desert
The genome is the complete set of DNA letters that spell out the 'instructions' for how to build an organism. By sequencing the genome of the Joshua tree we hope to be able to understand its evolutionary history, how it's relationship with yucca moth pollinators originated and evolved over time, and how Joshua trees might adapt to ongoing global climate change.
Ewww-eww! That Smell! Why do Joshua Trees Smell Like that?
If you've ever sat under a flowering Joshua tree on a spring afternoon, you've probably noticed a peculiar odor. "What … is … that?"
A little investigation reveals that the odor is coming from the flowers. The smell isn't bad, exactly. Just odd. And strangely familiar. What does it remind you of? Wild mushrooms? Blue cheese? Windex? Overripe cantaloupe?
Figure 1: The source of the odor: A Joshua tree flower. (William Godsoe)
The early American botanist William Trelease described the scent of Joshua Tree Flowers as, "Oppressive" and "intolerable in a room", but also commented a more positive note that previous descriptions of the odor as "fetid" was "not strictly accurate."
A paper just published in the American Journal of Botany uses cutting-edge chemistry to unravel the mystery of why Joshua tree flowers smell the way they do. Glenn Svensson, a chemical ecologist at The University of Lund in Sweden, led an international team of scientists, including members Joshua Tree Genome Project, in collecting samples of Joshua tree scent. Using a hacked aquarium pump the team sucked up samples of air around Joshua tree flowers, and collected the odor molecules using some custom-made filters containing a special absorbent.
Figure 2: Sampling scent from a Joshua tree in the Spring Mountains, Nevada. The black pump is connected to hoses that draw air through carbon filters. One filter is placed inside a plastic oven bag containing a Joshua tree inflorescence. The second filter draws in air from the outside, providing an environmental control. (Chris Smith)
The filters were then taken back to the lab, and analyzed using process called Gas Chromatography Mass Spectroscopy (or GCMS). Gas Chromatography separates the different odor molecules in a long heated column, so that different compounds are retained the column for different lengths of time. Mass spectroscopy ionizes each molecule and produces a "fingerprint" or "mass spectrum" based on its mass and charge. The combination of retention time and mass spectrum data can be used to identify the different molecules contained in the odor mixture.
When Svennson and his team looked at the data from the Joshua trees, they found that up to 80% of the molecules found in Joshua tree's scent was a complex 8-carbon compound called mushroom alcohol. The technical, less beautiful, name is (R)-1-Octen-3-ol, or pentyl vinyl carbinol.
Figure 3: The chemical structure of Mushroom Alcohol ((R)-1-Octen-3-ol), the primary compound found in Joshua tree scent. (Wikimedia Commons: Ju)
Mushroom alcohol occurs naturally in many plants and mushrooms, as well as in many foods, including artichokes, wheat bread, and soybeans. At least one other flower is known to emit odors containing mushroom alcohol: the orchid Dracula lefleurii, which mimics mushrooms to attract fly pollinators. Mushroom alcohol is also used commercially as an artificial flavor. The chemical manufacturer Sigma Aldrich describes the flavor as "cheesy, creamy, fishy, green, meaty, mushroomy, earthy, and herbaceous"
So why would a Joshua tree want to smell like a mushroom? The most likely explanation is that odor attracts the yucca moths that pollinate Joshua trees. Many flowers use odor as a way to attract pollinators, and it seems likely that the peculiar odor of the Joshua tree is somehow related to their peculiar pollination biology.
Svensson and his team compared the odor profiles of different species of Joshua trees that are pollinated by different species of moths, and found that they are indeed significantly different from one another. Joshua trees from the eastern Mojave produce less mushroom alcohol and more of another chemical, poetically called (E)-4,8-dimethyl-1,3,7-nonatriene, which is also found in cardamom.
The differences in scent does suggest that odor is important for attracting pollinators but, counter-intuitively, the two different species of yucca moth that pollinate Joshua trees seem to be unable to tell the difference between the different trees; where the two Joshua tree species grow together, the moths get confused and visit both trees equally. Why the flowers differ in their scent, even though the moths can't seem to tell the difference, remains an evolutionary mystery for the moment.
Getting to the essence of a Joshua tree: DNA extraction
by JTGadmin on September 6, 2016 0 Comments
As we've talked about before on this site, the genome is the complete set of DNA letters that spell out the 'instructions' for how to build an organism. By sequencing the genome of the Joshua tree we hope to be able to understand its evolutionary history, how it's relationship with yucca moth pollinators originated and evolved over time, and how Joshua trees might adapt to ongoing global climate change. This summer we started the process of decoding the genome.
Figure 1: Samples of Joshua tree leaves for DNA extraction. (Ramona Flatz)
(Photo: Chris Smith)
Our crowdfunding campaign at Experiment.com concluded last night at midnight, with $10,643 raised — 124% of our original funding goal. That means we'll have funds for the DNA sequencing we'd wanted to assemble a Joshua tree genome sequence, and some additional funding towards our stretch goal, to develop a gene expression atlas based on that genome sequence. Thanks to every single one of the 325 backers who pledged support, and to everyone who helped spread the word on social media, and to the partner organizations who supported the campaign! We couldn't have done this without you all.
Let's stretch!
Can we go even higher? (Photo and stunt-man: Chris Smith)
We're unbelievably gratified by the support for our crowdfunding campaign — we've won the Experiment.com challenge to recruit the most backers for a project at a liberal arts college, and the bonus from that blew us past our funding goal. But we've still got a few days in the campaign, and assembling a genome is a big project. If we had a little more money, there's more cool work we could do.
That's where "stretch goals" come in — Experiment allows projects that meet their goals ahead of schedule to propose additional research, and set a new funding goal to support it. We've currently raised $10,523 — with about $3,000 more, we'd be able to go beyond assembling a Joshua tree genome sequence, taking the first steps to understand that sequence. We'd do that by building a gene expression atlas.
An assembled genome sequence is really just a long string of DNA nucleotides. What that code actually means — the proteins it codes for, their responses to different environments — is not simple to understand. We can make some headway in understanding a new Joshua tree genome sequence by using what we know about the general structure of protein-coding genes, and comparing genes found that way to other sequenced plant genomes about which more is known, like maize or Arabidopsis thaliana. But that will only get us so far. To really decode the Joshua tree genome, we need to understand what genes are expressed, or turned on, to form different parts of the plant, or to respond to different environmental conditions.
Every cell in a Joshua tree contains the tree's complete genomic code, but not every gene in that code is expressed in every cell — genes that are important in a leaf cell are not necessarily the same ones that are important in a flower cell, or a root cell. We can take samples of different types of Joshua tree tissue like leaves, flowers, and roots, and specifically sequence the regions of the genome that are active within the cells in those different samples. Doing this will help us identify what parts of the genome actually are protein-coding genes, but it will also tell us something about those genes' functions — a gene that is strongly expressed in a leaf, but not in flowers or root tissue, is probably important for the specific functions of leaves. Similarly, sequencing expressed genes in leaves from trees experiencing drought stress and trees that aren't stressed can identify genes that are important for coping with that stress.
So that's our stretch goal: funding to do the additional sequencing we'd need to target those expressed genes in an array of tissues and maybe more than one environment, too. In total, it'll bring our project budget to $13,582 — but we've already raised enough that all we still need is $3,059. We've got five days left in the campaign. Can we do it? If you haven't pledged your support yet, now's the time! And if you have, keep spreading the word on Twitter and Facebook.
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I did this a few months back...I don't remember why. I suppose there does not always have to be a reason.
I have to say I´m glad to visit you too, there are a lot of new things in your blog.
And sometimes this is fantastic.
Nice to come here again.
That's another great one...some of my best work starts out as pointless...then I make up an excuse to use it!!! Did you get my email on the dedication page?
If he's trying to find the killer, he would take a look in the mirror! Funny sketch, Josh!


With manufacturing on the rise in North America, and investment up, many companies are turning to new software and computer systems.
In a recent Wall Street Journal article on recent trends in small business spending, the author wrote, "There is a point in every recovery when small businesses move from slashing costs to spending more on new plants and industrial machinery, trucks, computers, office equipment and furniture." According to the authors, we are just entering that period, when business owners start believing that purchases and expansions will be rewarded with new business and expanded profits.
We're seeing evidence of this investment – 51% of all companies surveyed plan to increase capital spending in the next 12 months. In another survey, 55% of the companies reported capital investment in the previous six months. It's exciting news, and another sign the economy has improved.
Paperless manufacturing supports improved production.
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Software provides a foundation for future improvements and growth.
Look to the future when investing. As new processes, new technology, and new tools hit the market, paperless manufacturing provides a solid foundation for a digital factory that integrates new products into your workflow. When change comes, will your shop floor be ready?
Paperless manufacturing provides a rapid ROI that is easy to track.
Most companies identify an ROI before making a capital investment. With paperless manufacturing you can directly benefit a number of areas in the plant, helping to increase the ROI. A software system offers not only a solution to production challenges, but an ROI that can be invested in other areas.
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Unlike an investment in a truck or machine, behavior-based, rather than template-based, paperless manufacturing software will become more valuable over time, rather than depreciating. To further add value to your investment, look at software that offers free upgrades and easy-configuration.
The truth is, many manufacturing companies are investing in software and technology, and for more reasons than the ones listed above. Technology, including paperless manufacturing, has never been as affordable as it is right now. Customers are demanding service and shorter production runs that cannot be supported by an inefficient paper-based system. Regulations are driving other companies to seek paperless manufacturing solutions.
As demand for manufacturing continues to increase and the economy picks up even more, those companies that have invested in a solid Information Technology foundation such as paperless manufacturing will find themselves with an advantage over competitors still struggling with error-prone, costly and inefficient paper-based processes.
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This entry was posted in Manufacturing, Manufacturing Execution System, manufacturing investments, Manufacturing Solutions, MES, Paperless Manufacturing and tagged manufacturing software, manufacturing technology on September 10, 2014 by Ed Deaton.


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On 23rd May, the Head of State, H. E. Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, received a Spanish delegation visiting our country, led by the Spanish Foreign Ministry Secretary of State, Ildefonso Castro Lopez.
During the conversation, the member of the Madrid Government, in addition to presenting a written message from the President, H. E. Mariano Rajoy to his Equatoguinean counterpart, also spoke to the Head of State about the desire of both nations to strengthen the relations of friendship and bilateral cooperation.
On this my working visit, I have brought the President of Equatorial Guinea the desire for good bilateral relations; an improvement in our cooperation, and we spoke about matters regarding Equatorial Guinea, matters regarding Spain, and the bilateral relations between our countries, and cooperation. I gave my impressions, asked things, and we spoke about Spain and Equatorial Guinea and matters regarding the African continent" declared Ildefonso Castro Lopez, before the press.
Asked about the impressions of Spain regarding the 50 years of Equatorial Guinea as a sovereign country, the Secretary of State declared that, these 50 years are important above all for Equatorial Guinea, because they are for the independence of Equatorial Guinea; evidently, for Spain, it is important because Equatorial Guinea was Spanish territory, and there is a desire to be adequately represented to mark the date".
The meeting took place in the presence of the Minister for Foreign Affairs from our country, Simeon Oyono Esono, the accredited Spanish Ambassador to Equatorial Guinea, Guillermo Antonio Lopez Mac-Lellan, and the Equatoguinean Ambassador to Spain, Purificacion Angue Ondo.


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Сергей Маратович Галикиев (род. 28 ноября 1969, Миасс) — советский и российский боксёр-любитель, тренер-преподаватель и спортивный функционер, представитель лёгкой и полулёгкой весовых категорий. Выступал за национальные сборные СССР и России с конца 1980-х — до середине 1990-х годов, мастер спорта СССР международного класса (1990), бронзовый призёр Кубка мира, бронзовый призёр чемпионата СНГ, двукратный чемпион России, серебряный призёр Спартакиады народов СССР, участник первенств Европы и мира.
На соревнованиях представлял Челябинскую область.

Биография
Сергей Галикиев родился 28 ноября 1969 года в городе Миассе Челябинской области. Учился в миасской средней общеобразовательной школе № 4, затем окончил электромеханический техникум.

Имеет высшее образование, в 1996 году окончил Уральскую государственную академию физической культуры.
И после завершения спортивной карьеры начиная с 1997 года работал тренером-преподавателем по боксу в Специализированной детско-юношеской спортивной школе Олимпийского резерва Челябоблспорткомитета. Преподаватель на кафедре бокса Уральского государственного университета физической культуры. Вице-президент Федерации бокса Челябинска, начальник сборных команд Центра олимпийской подготовки.

Любительская карьера
Активно заниматься боксом начал в возрасте одиннадцати лет в 1981 году, проходил подготовку в спортивном клубе при Уральском автомобильном заводе под руководством тренера С. В. Мыльцева. Позже в 1987 году переехал на постоянное жительство в Челябинск, присоединился в челябинскому спортивному клубу «Урал», где был подопечным заслуженных тренеров Владимира Викторовича Рощенко и Халила Хамитовича Лукманова.

Первого серьёзного успеха как боксёр добился в 1987 году, выиграв всесоюзный турнир памяти С. В. Хохрякова в Копейске — тем самым выполнил норматив мастера спорта СССР. В 1989 году одержал победу на международном турнире Вацлава Прохазки в Чехословакии.

Одним из самых успешных сезонов в карьере Галикиева оказался сезон 1990 года, когда он вошёл в основной состав советской национальной сборной и стал бронзовым призёром Кубка мира в Гаване, выиграв в том числе у известного немецкого боксёра Марко Рудольфа. Помимо этого, он был лучшим на первенстве Вооружённых Сил СССР и на чемпионате мира среди военнослужащих социалистических стран в Венгрии. За эти выдающиеся достижения был удостоен почётного звания «Мастер спорта СССР международного класса».

В 1991 году выступил на летней Спартакиаде народов СССР в Минске, где стал серебряным призёром, уступив в финальном поединке лёгкой весовой категории представителю Ташкента Артуру Григоряну. Год спустя занял первое место на чемпионате России в Уфе и завоевал награду бронзового достоинства на чемпионате СНГ в Тамбове. Также получил серебро на Кубке Канады в Оттаве, выступил на чемпионате мира среди военнослужащих в Дании и принял участие в матчевой встреча со сборной США.

На домашнем чемпионате России 1993 года в Челябинске Сергей Галикиев вновь одолел всех своих оппонентов и стал лучшим боксёром страны в категории до 60 кг. Находясь в числе лидеров российской национальной сборной, выступал на крупнейших международных турнирах, таких как чемпионат Европы в Бурсе и чемпионат мира в Тампере, однако попасть здесь в число призёров не смог — на европейском первенстве уже на стадии 1/16 финала уступил болгарину Тончо Тончеву, тогда как на мировом первенстве в 1/8 финала потерпел поражение от поляка Дариуша Снарского. Последний раз показал сколько-нибудь значимый результат в боксе в сезоне 1995 года, когда на международном турнире в Москве, посвящённом столетию российского бокса, дошёл до финала и проиграл соотечественнику Паате Гвасалии.

Примечания

Ссылки
 Галикиев Сергей Маратович — станица на сайте «Энциклопедия Челябинск»
 Галикиев Сергей Маратович — биографическая справка в энциклопедическом словаре Миасса

Боксёры СССР
Чемпионы России по боксу
Боксёры 1980-х годов
Боксёры 1990-х годов
Боксёры полулёгкой весовой категории
Боксёры лёгкой весовой категории
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The already hot competition between Aldi and Lidl has intensified as the companies prepare to head to court, showing just how serious the grocery wars have become between rivals. Aldi and Lidl have been going head-to-head in the U.S. for the past few years, and while Aldi has a far larger footprint with more than 1,800 stores in 35 states and continues its rapid expansion, Lidl has made big gains in recent months. In November, Lidl acquired 27 Best Market stores in New York and New Jersey to boost its presence in the Northeast.
But employees sharing trade secrets takes the competition too far, and Aldi's lawsuit is a wake-up call to Lidl, and other grocers, that the company will go to great lengths to protect its investments in the U.S.


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Andrew is my grandfather on my mother's side and he passed away when I was in college. Much of my youth was spent hanging out at my grandparents house in the North Hills of Pittsburgh building radio controlled airplanes and playing Bocce (Italian lawn bowling). Bocce, by the way, is an awesome sport!
Andrew was often a guiding figure in my life and I feel like I learned a good deal from him, and hopefully got some of his sense of humor. This song just sort of came together when Ken and I were writing for V2V. From what I remember we wrote it in an afternoon and the final version stayed true to our demo. We play it every time we have a show in Pittsburgh and without fail my mom and grandmother cry.
Of my memories from childhood the most vivid are from annual family picnics at a farm in Zelienople, PA. We would all get together and ride go-carts, fly planes and eat tons of food. There was a small lake there with a dock that we would fish on and sometimes swim, when the water wasn't totally disgusting. This is where the line, "Cannonballs off the dock in the warm sun of May", comes from.
Though he's not with us anymore, it's great to sing this song every night and think about the great times we had together.
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My Dad called me today to correct my facts….Apparently the farm we used to frequent was in Mercer, PA not Zelienople.


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One way to measure the effectiveness of our work is to assess how positively it impacts on New Zealanders' lives. Here we illustrate how Result 10 services are already making a difference.
A redevelopment of Auckland Airport's departures precinct is underway. As part of the redevelopment, Customs is designing an improved customer experience by replacing its traditional manual processing booths with more customer friendly kiosks, and installing the 51st eGate into the new departure premium passenger area.
Inland Renue will be launching a new news website. The website will release all of Inland Reveune's news. It will get the news to people and give them the opportunity to read it without relying on mainstream media.
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Can Woody connect with younger audiences?
"Woody", the world's most famous American director, is on borrowed time. He finds it increasingly difficult to find distribution for his films' and, whereas twenty years ago the release of a new Allen was guaranteed to be a significant event, it seems that nobody is prepared to gather up any enthusiasm for his new films.
That is a sad reflection of the marketplace when any old dross starring Ben Affleck or Adam Sandler can go to number one art the Box office. Of course, Allen may never have been a major player, for he has always been too publicity shy to court the major league. Nevertheless, the upper middle classes who Allen has mythologized in his films were exactly the sort of people who could be guaranteed upon to see his films when they came out. But the young crowds who went to see Annie Hall and Manhattan are now considerably less young. Those films, which at the time were exquisite distillations of the mores and morals of Manhattan society, now seem hopelessly dated. The essence of these two films was used to make the incredibly successful sitcom Friends; which not only borrowed the idea of Ross's wife becoming a lesbian from Manhattan but also had its characters converse in the same self -obsessed whining, as if nothing else mattered but their problems.
So where now for Allen? It seemed to me that there was a wave of restored excellence that began with Bullets Over Broadway and lasted right up until Celebrity, possibly Sweet And Lowdown. These were adult films in the best sense of the word; funny, smart and agile films that nobody but their creator could have made. But then Woody blew it by making overly cute films like Anything Else and the still unreleased in the UK Hollywood Ending.
Part of the problem is that nobody wants to see the septuagenarian cavorting with actresses like Charlize Theron, young enough to be his granddaughter. It may be that Allen has run out of fresh ideas and can only make films that recycle old material.
Woody Allen's career could be compared with Clint Eastwood's: This year Allen will be 70 and Eastwood will be 75; and in addition to their devotion to jazz both as admirers and serious musicians, they have been equally dedicated to their work as actors and directors. Each has made a film virtually once a year since the Seventies, demonstrating that it's possible to plough your own furrow in a notoriously difficult business. Allen's reputation has benign steady decline and are no longer the major cultural events they were in the seventies and eighties. Eastwood, on the other hand, has never been more highly regarded than the dozen years since Unforgiven. This disparity may have something to do with their relationship towards their work - Allen's work is deeply personal, wrenched from inside him; Eastwood's, though carefully chosen, has a certain detachment. It may also be connected with the fact that Eastwood, unlike Allen, not only looks his age but acts it as well. This may be the biggest problem of all in getting new, younger audiences for his films. Creatively and stylistically, Allen has been stuck in a rut since the 1970's. They may be full of hip young things such as Chloe Sevigny, Scarlett Johannson, Christina Ricci, but his characters are still rhapsodizing about jazz and Humphrey Bogart as if Play It Again Sam never happened. Ask any young film fan what they think about Allen (as I have done) and they will tell you that they loved his earlier, funnier films, but they haven't seen anything recent since Antz (1998), which wasn't even a Woody Allen film. He is known these days more for his personal life than for his films, and that is a shame.
His films have lost their audiences. Part of the problem is that the studios don't know how to market his films. The poster for Anything Else is a perfect example. Looking at the poster, there is nothing to indicate that it's a Woody Allen film. It's as if they've become embarrassed of the man, and want audiences to think it's merely another romantic comedy.
And what about his latest Melinda And Melinda? The audience I watched it with at the London Film Festival seemed to be having a great time, but try telling that to Fox Searchlight. They're not planning to release the film here or Stateside until March 25th, denying the film's possibility of Oscar nominations which considering the great work done by Rhada Mitchell and Will Ferrel, is a huge shame.
(Melinda is doing well in France however where Woody has a loyal audience, regularly doing over a million admissions).
I don't think we can write off Allen just yet. He is the greatest comic in his medium. He could even confound his critics by being the screenwriter so sorely needed by Coppola and Scorsese.


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#7 - The Christian Science Monitor.
The Monitor has become a steady client, and I always enjoy working with the art director John Kehe. The illustration above is about omnipresent scan codes.
The illustration to the right is about home finance and interest rates.
#6 - Nimbus and the Arctic Horror.
A rogue scientist, the hazards of genetic engineering and a recent trip to Scandinavia inspired this latest Nimbus adventure. The setting of a scientific facility on a remote Arctic island seemed a perfect location for a sinister plot involving the breeding of carnivorous plants poised to overwhelm the planet. This comic was accepted into The Society of Illustrators 54th annual exhibit, sequential category.
#4 - My Town series.
Although I haven't lived in NYC for ten years the city is still a tremendous source of inspiration for me. Fortunately I'm able to visit often, and when I do I always walk past the shoeshine stand at Grand Central Station pictured below.
#4 - Shine or floss?
My Town, based on a brush and ink illustration that appeared on The New York Times Op-Ed page in 2009.
#2 - My Venice sketchbook.
Sketches from a five-day trip to Venice, Italy in April. This trip rekindled my love for Venice and also reminded me how fun it is to travel with my children. The weather was perfect so we were able to sketch outdoors every day. You can see more sketches here.
#1 - My Extraordinary Dream.
This comic is an account of an unusual dream that occurred one night this past spring. When I awoke I realized that I had to record my dream right away before I forgot any of it. I immediately went to my drawing table where the entire story poured out of me before I came downstairs for breakfast. Later I developed my sketches into this comic.
My Extraordinary Dream was awarded a silver medal from The Society of Illustrators 54th annual exhibit, sequential category. You can view the entire comic here.


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TGIF people! And to celebrate, we have something fresh to share. It's not often we get real bridal showers in the SBB submissions inbox, but when we do, it's such a treat, especially when they're as lovely as this one! Lindie's bridesmaids organised the most gorgeous day for her you can imagine, with a mix of organic and rustic elements and a touch of glam (and hello, donut tower 'cake'!). What I love most about this look is that it's both impressive and easy to pull off, which makes it downright inspiring! The lovely Anike Benade took these pretty pics to share with you all!
So, are you as crazy in love with this tropical bridal shower inspiration as I am? Yep, of course you are. So fun! We've already published our guide on how to throw a tropical themed shower for yourself or your bestie, but I thought I would round up some fun stuff that you can use to make it extra pretty. Starting with invitations, because ALOHA, there are some seriously amazing invites on Etsy for a tropical theme shower! Like, enough to make me want to throw one just so I can buy them. Good luck picking your favourite – I know I couldn't ;) Links in bold denote affiliate links. The cost to you remains the same, but SBB may receive a commission for any sales made.


Selling the Australian version of the 3 pack considered a TOLTOYS piece.
The difference is that the measurements were blanked out on the back (printed) for the metric market.
The hanger tab is ripped and some graphic loss on back wear to cardbaord and flap crease.
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As a grumpy Luke said to Han before his wedding "May Divorce be with you"
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