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Programme: MSc Veterinary Science Paraclinical Sciences
08251016 Faculty of Veterinary Science Minimum duration of study: 1 year Total credits: 180
Curriculum: Final year
This programme is offered by the Department of Paraclinical Sciences.
Also consult the UP General Regulations.
The MSc degree in Veterinary Science is a research degree. The degree is conferred by virtue of the successful completion of a dissertation.
Subject to the stipulations of the applicable General Regulations, a BScHons, a four-year BScAgric, BVSc or equivalent degree or a relevant postgraduate diploma (on NQF level 8) is required.
In certain cases, it remains the prerogative of the head of department to require, in addition to the entrance requirements, the successful completion of an admissions test before registration.
In cases where web-based/online modules are offered, basic computer skills are required in order to successfully participate in the degree programme.
All international applicants whose first language is not English, may be required to pass a proficiency test in English (TOEFL). Application and more information: www.ets.org/toefl/
Postgraduate applicants who have completed any foreign qualifications must have all their previous post-school qualifications evaluated by the South African Qualifications Authority (SAQA) before applying for postgraduate studies at the University of Pretoria: www.saqa.org.za
International requirements
International students have to ensure they are aware of all aspects pertaining to them to study at the University of Pretoria which can be found at www.up.ac.za/isd.
In certain cases, it remains the prerogative of the head of department to require, in addition to the entrance requirements, the successful completion of an admissions test before registration. A student may be required to pass a proficiency test in English (TOEFL).
The research topic is determined in consultation with the head of department, and the research project(s)/ dissertation that follow, must be approved according to Faculty guidelines.
Before or on submission of the final copy of the dissertation, a student must submit a draft article for publication to the supervisor. (General Regulation 12(a) and (b)) The draft article should be based on the research that the student has conducted for the dissertation and be approved by the supervisor concerned. The supervisor should then have the opportunity to take the paper through all the processes of revision and resubmission as may be necessary and/or appropriate in order to achieve publication.
Pass with distinction
The degree is conferred with distinction on a student who has obtained an average of at least 75% for the dissertation.
Minimum credits: 180
Fundamental modules
VRM 813
Research methodology 813
Credits: 0.00
Module content:
A web-based introductory module in research methodology that includes planning and undertaking a research project or clinical trial, collecting and analysing data, scientific writing, and enabling preparation and presenting of a research protocol.
VWE 804
Dissertation: Paraclinical sciences 804
Credits: 180.00
The information published here is subject to change and may be amended after the publication of this information. The General Regulations (G Regulations) apply to all faculties of the University of Pretoria. It is expected of each student to familiarise himself or herself well with these regulations as well as with the information contained in the General Rules section. Ignorance concerning these regulations and rules will not be accepted as an excuse for any transgression.


Getting the kids to bed each night is one of the greatest challenges of parenthood. How much sleep do kids need? You might be surprised to learn that kids' sleep needs are different from adults and that they change as they age. According to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, here is how much sleep your children need, at every age.
Getting enough sleep may be even more important for kids than it is for adults. Like adults, kids need to get enough sleep to promote healthy brain function, physical health and day-to-day performance (play or work). In addition, kids need sleep for proper growth and mental development.
If you are worried that your kids aren't getting enough sleep, or if they're having trouble sleeping, talk to your pediatrician. It can also help to make sure their sleeping environment is set up in a way that encourages sleep. Make sure their room is as dark as possible. If your kids are afraid of the dark, a nightlight is acceptable but it shouldn't be too bright. Make sure their bed is set up to maximize their comfort. Try to keep them from looking at a source of light, like a computer or TV screen for an hour before they go to bed.


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WHAT A JOY TO SEE GOD'S POWER…..
Forty years on from the beginning of this life, I don't think I'll ever tire or cease to be amazed at just how much God loves us, and how much it is his desire to bless us with healing. I'd love to be able to answer the question 'Why doesn't he heal everyone?' and even add 'Immediately' to the end of that question, but I can't (as has been my own personal experience), and I don't think I know anyone who can answer it categorically. There are all sorts of reasons why…. but he seems to be doing it more and more in this country (United Kingdom!) and it's SUCH a privilege to be on the end of God's 'extension lead' when he chooses to move in healing, miracles, and power, through his grace, mercy, and promises.
I arrived at this year wondering if, following 10 months pretty much out of circulation, I'd have been forgotten by people who used to invite me to their meetings, churches, countries…. I'm grateful to have a number of invitations in the diary, and look forward to more, not because I have a need to preach, but because I love people and want to pray for them to see them released from sickness and disease. So it's been a joy to get back in harness and see God do just that. Last weekend I had the privilege of being in Hunstanton, Norfolk, with long-time friends Dennis and Cathy Acott, who themselves have a wonderful healing and impartation ministry (www.eagles4031.org.uk) at their lovely church, The Way. It was a privilege to have the opportunity to go there (thank you Chris, Gordon, and Jill!) and, with a couple of friends from Eastgate, my new home church, see God touch some people very powerfully, with deaf ears opening, osteoarthritis healed, sacro-ileac back issues begin to begin to be healed, muscular shoulder pain go, and lots more besides. I am still in awe after all these years that God spoke so many years ago about me seeing the sick healed all over the world, and he's doing it in the good old UK, too! I love being back in action after last year, but very conscious, after prophetic words about an increase in what God's going to do this year, that the enemy would 'assault' – and for 36 hours, I felt like I'd been hit by a bus. But I want to say that I wouldn't swap what I do for all the tea in whatever countries a lot of tea comes from! It's probably politically incorrect to use the old phrase with the country beginning with C in it!!
I'm learning (it's taken a long time!) to try and manage my body better, especially the knees/legs: for me, the temptation is to do more when they feel a little easier (they're not at the moment ever pain-free, but sometimes it's less than others), so I had an early night as they always improve with being horizontal, and have resisted the urge today to continue to get the flat/apartment in better order. It frustrates me that it's taking so long, but the knees have slowed me down, I know without doubt that moving is high on the 'stress' scale, and that lifting/carrying/moving things involves knees in ways I never realised until mine hurt a lot!
My own testimony, as many of you know, is that for 10 months last year, I mostly couldn't walk, even from my living to the kitchen, which really wasn't far at all. Occasionally, with help, I could stagger out to have a coffee, but pay for it later with a lot of pain and even less mobility, until a lovely man, Robert Miller, who didn't know me, came a long distance to pray for me one afternoon, and the next morning I could walk – not without pain, but my legs moved and carried me. I never 'voiced' or wrote this last year, but I was 'warned' by medics that, due to the damage done to my right knee by a consultant, I might not walk again without major reconstruction of my leg. I never mentioned it because I wasn't going to give the enemy the 'privilege' of voicing what could have become a major fear for me if I'd 'come into agreement' with it, and chose to believe that I would – and I can! Sometimes, now, without a walking stick, though as my knees have changed the shape of my legs, they've also flattened my feet, so the stick is good for balance. I never realised the value of arches until the past few years!
So invitations are coming in: I'd love to come to your church – or country if God gives the green light – and be involved in seeing the Kingdom of God come in power and heal people, save people, and set people free from whatever 'prison' they are trapped in. Email me – paul@paulbennison.com – or phone me (a private message or email will have the phone number winging its way to you). I long to see God's Kingdom come on earth as it is in heaven, having prayed that prayer for more than half a century!
I'd value your prayers for accelerated healing, and also that God will increase the support I receive – having lived in England for a few months again after 12 years or more away, it really is much more expensive than I ever imagined, even being aware that it would be more expensive than Northern Ireland, As you know, God told me 40 years ago I was never to charge for ministry engagements – 'freely you have received, freely give' seems to me to be immovable – and offerings are greatly appreciated when I do preach, as is the regular support of people who follow and appreciate what I do. If you can be one of those (if you're not already) then let me know, and I'll tell you how!


Utah Mysteries: What's with the giant lollipop sculpture by the Salt Flats?
Editor's note: This article is part of a series reviewing Utah and national history for KSL.com's Historic section.
SALT LAKE CITY — Anyone who has driven through the Bonneville Salt Flats on I-80 has seen it: A massive trunk shooting out of the remote Utah desert with what, to a child's eye, resemble giant lollipops sticking out of the top.
It becomes a sort of calling card for home on long drives, the colorful spheres looming on the horizon signifying that your journey is nearing its end. Some of us grew up giving it nicknames like the "lollipops" or the "tennis ball statue," and as we moved into adulthood even fewer of us ever bothered to figure out its meaning or purpose.
The sculpture has an interesting history in Utah, though. Called "Metaphor: The Tree of Utah," it's more casually referred to as the "Tree of Life." Ask for directions to the sculpture, about two hours west of Salt Lake City, and even Google Maps favors the "Tree of Life" designation.
Swedish artist Karl Momen created the Tree of Utah between 1982 and 1986, donating it to the state in 1996 and returning to his home country. The tree is 87 feet tall and made of 225 tons of cement and five tons of welding rod. Nearly 2,000 ceramic tiles were also used, along with 100 tons of crushed natural rock and minerals native to Utah.
Momen said upon its completion that he spent $1 million of his own funds on the work of art, which he claimed could be seen for up to 17 miles on a clear day.
Momen saw the surrounding area as stark and flat, and it's said he wanted to bring a burst of color and beauty to an otherwise colorless landscape. This was more of a simple observation than an insult; Momen loved the Utah desert and meant his sculpture to be a tribute to it, a symbol of life in an inhospitable world.
"August 1981, and I didn't know anything about the desert," he said. "A walk, the crunch of the salt and I was so taken with the desert and then it didn't take me many minutes to think something must be done here."
At the time, Momen was pitching an interpretive center for the sculpture, a peaceful desert haven where visitors could retreat from the outside world, if for only a moment.
For now, the tree remains surrounded by a fence to protect both the work and the people admiring it. It has long been reported that the words to "Ode to Joy" by Friedrich Schiller can be read on the plaque at its base, but it's hard to find any evidence of the ode being present at the sculpture. The only quote on the sculpture was attributed to Momen in a 1986 United Press International article, but many people mistakenly attribute that quote to Schiller.
Herman du Toit, author of Vision in the Desert, a book about the sculpture, explained what happened with the plaque. Du Toit said both "Ode to Joy" and the Momen quote were originally on the sculpture, but he believed the bronze plaque containing the ode was stolen around 20 years ago.
Regardless, Du Toit said the sculpture stands for something incredible, regardless, and he hopes more Utahns will take the time to learn about a public art fixture most people take for granted.
"If you open your mind to it, you've got the flattest terrain in the world and this man comes along and builds this enormous perpendicular monument to the universe," he said. "It's a singular thing ... This thing should be celebrated."
Du Toit is still working on helping Momen to realize his original vision for the area. He said funding for the interpretive center has been secured; they just need to secure the $2 million for UDOT to create a safe place for vehicles to pull off.
Until then, visitors will keep flying past the massive, glimmering orbs at freeway speeds. Those who do stop are left with Momen's own quoted words, which are an ode unto themselves: "A hymn to our universe, whose glory and dimension is beyond all myth and imagination."


This is a personal photographic journey of places that I visit in Florida. The mission of this adventure is to not only educate myself about nature and wildlife but those that are also nature photographers.
Each post will be about one particular species I photograph in their natural habitat and to start this off will be many from one of my favorite wildlife management areas only 10 minutes away. Chassahowitzka WMA.
I hope you will follow me throughout my adventure.


No matter your pursuit, there's something to be gained from The Athlete.
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The Athlete runs 45-60 minutes and is taught by a variety of instructors, including Paul, Cheya, and Knowlton. Each instructor injects their personal style into The Athlete—try them all to find out which suits you best.
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Deployed 06/26/2001. Consists of 512 tons of concrete culverts and pipes donated by Sikes Concrete Company of Panama City Fl. Reef was paid for by a grant from the State of Florida Artificial Reef Program. Named after Dr. Garfield Wilson who served as MBARA president from 1999 to 2001. (Photos by Carol Cox) This reef's position has been verified by MBARA divers Bob & Carol Cox on 17 Jun 2010.


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The 2014–15 Football League Trophy, was the 31st season in the history of the competition. It is a knock-out tournament for English football clubs in League One and League Two, the third and fourth tiers of the English football.

In all, 48 clubs entered the competition. It was split into two sections, Northern and Southern, with the winners of each section contesting the final at Wembley Stadium. Peterborough United were the defending champions, but were eliminated in the first round by Leyton Orient.

Bristol City of League One won the competition for a record third time, defeating rival League One side Walsall by 2–0 in the final at Wembley.

First round
The draw for the first round took place on 16 August 2014. Sixteen clubs were awarded a bye into the second round, and the remaining 32 clubs, including the holders, were divided into four geographical regions. All ties were played during the week commencing 1 September 2014.

Northern section

Byes
Bury, Port Vale, Tranmere Rovers, Walsall, Burton Albion, Doncaster Rovers, Hartlepool United, Sheffield United

Southern section

Byes
Bristol City, Exeter City, Northampton Town, Plymouth Argyle, Colchester United, Dagenham & Redbridge, Luton Town, Milton Keynes Dons.

Second round
The draw for the second round took place on 6 September 2014 on Sky Sports show Soccer AM. The sixteen clubs that received a bye joined the 16 winners from the first round and were divided into two geographical regions. All ties were played during the week commencing 6 October 2014.

Northern section

Southern section

Area quarter-finals
The draw for the area quarter-finals took place on 11 October 2014, on Soccer AM. The 16 winners from the second round and were divided into two geographical regions. All ties were played during the week commencing 10 November 2014.

Northern section

Southern section

Area semi-finals
The draw for the area semi-finals took place on 15 November 2014, on Soccer AM.

Northern section

Southern section

Area finals
The draw for the area finals took place on 11 December 2014. The first legs of the area finals were played during the week commencing 5 January 2015. The second legs of the area finals were played during the week commencing 2 February 2015.

Northern section

Southern section

Final

References

External links

EFL Trophy
Trophy
Trophy
Football League Trophy

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Kuhn poker is an extremely simplified form of poker developed by Harold W. Kuhn as a simple model zero-sum two-player imperfect-information game, amenable to a complete game-theoretic analysis. In Kuhn poker, the deck includes only three playing cards, for example a King, Queen, and Jack. One card is dealt to each player, which may place bets similarly to a standard poker. If both players bet or both players pass, the player with the higher card wins, otherwise, the betting player wins.

Game description
In conventional poker terms, a game of Kuhn poker proceeds as follows:
Each player antes 1.
Each player is dealt one of the three cards, and the third is put aside unseen.
Player one can check or bet 1.
If player one checks then player two can check or bet 1.
If player two checks there is a showdown for the pot of 2 (i.e. the higher card wins 1 from the other player).
If player two bets then player one can fold or call.
If player one folds then player two takes the pot of 3 (i.e. winning 1 from player 1).
If player one calls there is a showdown for the pot of 4 (i.e. the higher card wins 2 from the other player).
If player one bets then player two can fold or call.
If player two folds then player one takes the pot of 3 (i.e. winning 1 from player 2).
If player two calls there is a showdown for the pot of 4 (i.e. the higher card wins 2 from the other player).

Optimal strategy
The game has a mixed-strategy Nash equilibrium; when both players play equilibrium strategies, the first player should expect to lose at a rate of −1/18 per hand (as the game is zero-sum, the second player should expect to win at a rate of +1/18). There is no pure-strategy equilibrium.

Kuhn demonstrated there are infinitely many equilibrium strategies for the first player, forming a continuum governed by a single parameter. In one possible formulation, player one freely chooses the probability  with which he will bet when having a Jack (otherwise he checks; if the other player bets, he should always fold). When having a King, he should bet with the probability of  (otherwise he checks; if the other player bets, he should always call). He should always check when having a Queen, and if the other player bets after this check, he should call with the probability of .

The second player has a single equilibrium strategy: Always betting or calling when having a King; when having a Queen, checking if possible, otherwise calling with the probability of 1/3; when having a Jack, never calling and betting with the probability of 1/3.

Generalized versions
In addition to the basic version invented by Kuhn, other versions appeared adding bigger deck, more players, betting rounds, etc., increasing the complexity of the game.

3-player Kuhn Poker
A variant for three players was introduced in 2010 by Nick Abou Risk and Duane Szafron. In this version, the deck includes four cards (adding a ten card), from which three are dealt to the players; otherwise, the basic structure is the same: while there is no outstanding bet, a player can check or bet, with an outstanding bet, a player can call or fold. If all players checked or at least one player called, the game proceeds to showdown, otherwise, the betting player wins.

A family of Nash equilibria for 3-player Kuhn poker is known analytically, which makes it the largest game with more than two players with analytic solution. The family is parameterized using 4–6 parameters (depending on the chosen equilibrium). In all equilibria, player 1 has a fixed strategy, and he always checks as the first action; player 2's utility is constant, equal to –1/48 per hand. The discovered equilibrium profiles show an interesting feature: by adjusting a strategy parameter  (between 0 and 1), player 2 can freely shift utility between the other two players while still remaining in equilibrium; player 1's utility is equal to  (which is always worse than player 2's utility), player 3's utility is .

It is not known if this equilibrium family covers all Nash equilibria for the game.

References

External links
Effective Short-Term Opponent Exploitation in Simplified Poker

Non-cooperative games
Poker variants
20th-century card games
Games and sports introduced in 1950


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Saturday Morning Cartoons: In Which I Begrudgingly Watched "Rick and Morty" and Ended up Liking it
saturdaymornincartoons / November 26, 2016
Saturday Morning Cartoons is a column that I generally update bi-weekly on Saturday mornings. This schedule, which I've held for the year and a half that I've been on this review site, was derailed about a month ago when a major leak in my apartment caused me to have to move and subsequently lose internet (and thus the ability to upload and post articles online) until I was able to settle down and get internet installed in my new apartment. Luckily, I now have a non-leaky apartment that finally has internet and I am able to continue my column. I generally use the internet in order to watch the shows and movies that I normally write about (thank you, Japan, for having Netflix with a much better selection than American Netflix). So in the three weeks in which I did not have internet, I had to turn to my own collection of shows that had been lying around un-watched, and unwritten about. One of these shows was one that was given to me, but one I had put off watching for a while because I initially never wanted to watch it. This show was Rick and Morty.
Justin Roiland's Solo Vanity Card Productions
Looking at the sci-fi, comedy series Rick and Morty at face value, its dark and crude humor never seemed to be my cup of tea. For a majority of its existence as a series, I generally avoided it, thinking that it looked like it belonged in the same category of shows as South Park, American Dad, Family Guy, and the like – all of which I don't necessarily hate, nor am I calling them bad – but all of which I, in general, don't enjoy watching. But then several friends, all of which who have different tastes in TV, recommended Rick and Morty to me. I was also informed that one of the co-creators of the series was Dan Harmon, who was the creator of one my favorite comedy shows, Community. I would soon find that Rick and Morty has a similar kind of humanistic comedy that Community had.
If you have not seen Rick and Morty, then it's a kind of hard show to describe without sounding nonsensical. In a nutshell, its about a genius scientist named Rick who goes on inter-galactic, and inter-dimensional adventures with his hapless grandson, Morty. Such adventures often involve a lot of violence, sex, ridiculous rivalries and childish arguments devolving into the destruction of worlds, ball fondlers, money-making schemes, crazy alien monsters, and pretty much any sci-fi concept you can think of. The humor, is definitely crude, but also involves lots of reference humor, with a smattering of breaking the fourth wall thrown in, seemingly haphazardly. In its dichotomy of both randomness and connectedness of themes throughout the show, it certainly manages to be a refreshingly unique take on a style of humor and genre that I had thought had been done to death.
One of my main issues with American cartoons for adults is that there isn't that much variation. They are usually primarily comedic, mostly episodic, usually crude, and have very little overarching story. To me, a lot of the wacky tactlessness of these shows seems like an adult variation of childish fart humor, turning the cartoons into mostly mindless, heartless comedies. And I'm not trying to say that cartoons for adults are completely mindless and heartless – there's a lot of heart in many Simpsons episodes, and South Park provides some exceedingly intelligent, though also very obvious, social commentary. My main problem with these shows though, is that I usually don't care about the characters and I'm usually unable to feel any emotion outside of levity or shock.
Rick and Morty on the other hand, seems to have a side to it, that allows for a greater range of emotions to be felt while watching the show. Much of the comedy, has a darker, sadder side to it, and though you laugh at it, there's always a kind of depressing undertone to it. For example, Rick's drinking habit, complete with burps, drool, and endless drunken tirades, is played for laughs. However, it also often brings up the fact that his substance abuse is primarily a way for him to escape his internal turmoil and generally depressing mode of existence. Other shows like The Simpsons and Family Guy, whose main characters often appear drunk, portray their drunkenness primarily for humor's sake, with perhaps the exception of some "very special episodes". Rick and Morty on the other hand will continue with their themes throughout the series, and always makes sure to reference past episodes or past philosophical conversations. The show could be watched episodically, with each episode taken as its own story, but the humor and the emotions are compounded when watched as a series. This goes beyond your usual running gag, or thematic lesson learned at the end of every episode, becoming a larger chronicle as the series goes on.
But that's the thing about Rick and Morty, it is both really in your face and really subtle all at the same time. It throws at you so many weird and insane moments and concepts, but when it gets down to it, there are a lot of truly human moments in the show. The series' main emotional focus is on Rick's relationship with Morty and the rest of his family, and his attempts to be back in their lives, despite being a total asshole while doing so. The show constantly plays with various philosophical concepts of morality and personal existence, while both covering it up with and at the same time intensifying such concepts with science fiction and comedy. In the end, you really do feel for the characters and many of the episodes end on either bittersweet, or downright depressing notes. It's very effective on playing with the viewers' emotions, but never in a cheap way. The brilliance of the show is that it may seem stupid and overly simple on the surface, but a lot of it is actually quite smart and complicated. None of the characters in Rick and Morty are perfect – far from it – they are deeply flawed people, but at the same time you feel empathy for them. The show displays a perfect mix of cynicism and pathos in both its characters and morals. In the end, I am really happy that I did go back and force myself to watch the show, because it surprised me in many ways. Rick and Morty has recently finished its second season, and I restlessly await its third.
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Saturday Morning Cartoons: 'Cats Don't Dance' (1997) Tells us that Cats Most Certainly Do
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2 thoughts on "Saturday Morning Cartoons: In Which I Begrudgingly Watched "Rick and Morty" and Ended up Liking it"
Great review, I feel you've captured the show perfectly! I thought I'd hate this show, but I love it (though couldn't stand the pilot episode!).
saturdaymornincartoons says:
Yeah, the pilot episode is terrible! I'm glad you think I did well with describing the show. Thanks!

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View Full Version : So waht do you guys do while waitign for new update?
As for me i just watched RWBY vol. 4 ep 10.
I went ahead and backed with the new backer system. I didn't want to miss out on anything before Steam. Now to think of an absurd name for an item.
I watched a new BBC show called Taboo.
I just finished rewatching Green Wing and the IT Crowd and now i'm onto rewatching Black Books.
I missed that this patch was happening at all. I think I was playing a single player game while everyone else was waiting. I only found out about it because I saw this thread.
Seriously I don't want you tag me as a useless poster. I'm not good at writing but a brilliant reader. Most people probably are like me.
Before I join the forum I was a reader of this forum months back and I enjoy reading this forum and every posts of it.


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Thursday will delight the European Cup confrontation between the Rangers and Spartak. And this couple did not overlap before that, of course, will add interest to the meeting.
"Bears" in the current game year look quite powerful, because Gerrard quickly picked up the keys to his players. At home, the team won all 8 fights, and scoring statistics with 25: 4. In the framework of the LE, the team won the first place - 2: 2 with "Villarreal" and 3: 1 beat "Rapid".
The Red-and-Whites also started off well, but they had a difficult period. In the framework of the current tournament, things are not going the best way, since it turned out to be only 1 point - 3: 3 with "Villarreal" and 2: 0 jumped away from "Rapid". It is important to note that the Russians too often miss.
The forecast for the match "Rangers" - "Spartak", TB1 from the first team. The hosts are attacking powerfully, so they simply must score at least 1 goal, and we will bet on it.
In the Scottish Rangers Championship, Steven Gerrard is still in fifth place, but the start of the team in the Europa League exceeds expectations. Jers played a draw away from Villarreal, and then beat the Rapid in Vienna at home. The Scots have already scored five goals, and in both meetings with their participation four goals in total were scored.
Spartak affairs this season are worse. In the Europa League, the Moscow team scored only a point in two starting matches, and its failures as a whole have already led to the dismissal of coach Massimo Carrera a few days ago. Temporary position is held by the former assistant Carrera - the Spaniard Raul Riancho.
Sometimes a change of coach leads to a quick and positive reaction from the players, but this may not be enough for Spartak. The Rangers have not lost in the last ten matches of the tournament, and their start in the Europa League gives a very serious attitude. Give advantage to this meeting is the team Gerrard, but the main bet is better to make the option "both score." We start from the drama with which the Rangers usually play, and from the desire of Spartak players to express themselves after a change of coach.
The Scottish Grand, who once rattled all over football Europe, is full of a desire to return to glorious times. The Rangers, for the time being, are not in a position to impose competition on Celtic in the domestic arena, but in the Europa League the team is quite capable of holding a strong tournament, declaring itself in European cups. Steven Gerrard, the new head coach of the Rangers, is an interesting and promising choice from the club management. In the Europa League, the Scots started with a draw in the match against Villarreal (2: 2), after which they beat the Austrian Rapid (3: 1). As a result, Gerrard's wards are now in the first place in the standings, but the whole struggle for the playoffs is still ahead.
In the summer, under Gerrard, the team has seriously changed in terms of personnel, which should make the Rangers a more competitive club. Of the interesting transfers of Scots it is worth noting Airfield, Sadiq, Lafferty, Gresda, Murphy, Vorrall (for rent), Goldson, Barishich and MacGregor. Gerrard puts his attacker attacking style of play, which is radically different from the more defensive Celtic that dominates the domestic arena.
Before this match, Spartak had a change of head coach, which was the Spaniard Raul Riancho. The reason for this was the defeat of Spartak in the RPL from Arsenal from Tula (2: 3), after which Carrera was dismissed from his post. The Spaniard differs from the Italian propagandized manner of the game, and under his leadership, Spartak should go to a short pass, start to possess more of the ball and get the necessary efficiency in the attack. Riancho also has to solve the problem of reaching the playoffs of the Europa League, because now Spartak takes the last place in the standings, giving up Rapid (0: 2) and writing the world against Villarreal (3: 3).
It is unlikely that we will see any cardinal decisions from the Spanish coach in the first matches at the helm of Spartak, because Riancho needs time to get acquainted with the team and assess the capabilities of its new players.
Bookmakers called the match a favorite of the Scottish club, assessing the victory of the Rangers for 2.26. But the success of Spartak in this match is estimated by bookmakers for 3.26, and a draw outcome of the match for 3.64. The advantage of the Rangers looks solid, judging by the quotes from bookmakers. Popular betting on the performance of the game is estimated by bookmakers with the following coefficients: "total over 2.5" for 1.91, "total less than 2.5" for 1.99.
Quotes from bookmakers are understandable to many, because the game Spartak is not impressive in the current season. But, the famous factor of the change of coach can not be swept aside in this case, because Riancho can quickly shake up the team psychologically. Plus, we all know that the strength of the composition of Spartak is clearly not weaker than the human resources of the Scottish club.
Bet: Spartak win or draw (X2) – 1.73.
At the end of the summer, the Rangers fought Ufa for the right to play in the group round and were stronger. Will the hosts be able to play well with Spartak as well? The answer is in our forecast.
The Rangers had a very difficult path before being in the group stage of the Europa League, and his last opponent on the way to the goal was the Russian club Ufa. Then for the "Jersey" everything ended well, despite the difficulties in the away match. In the group, the team of Steven Gerrard takes the first place after a 3: 1 victory over Rapid and a 2: 2 heroic draw in Spain with Villarreal.
Before the game with Spartak, the English press singled out Roman Zobnin as a key player, with which Gerrard himself agreed, but he expressed confidence that he could be successfully neutralized on the field. Questionable participation in the duel of the key central midfielder "Jersey" Jordan Rossiter, so the concerns of "Stevie Gee" certainly have.
"Spartak" missed a chance to play in the Champions League, but as time has shown, even in the Europa League, the "red-whites" have great difficulties. In the first round, Rapid presented a serious lesson to Spartak, beating him 2-0 in his field. In the second round, the team of Massimo Carrera was close to getting three points in a duel with Villarreal, but earned a penalty in the last seconds and finished the game with a draw.
In the final round of the Russian Premier League, "Spartak" was defeated by the Tula "Arsenal", for which Massimo Carrera paid for his position. While the name of the new mentor is unknown, the team will be led by Italian assistant Raul Riancho, who will lead the team to the field of Ayboroks. It was expected that after the dismissal of Carrera, Denis Glushakov and Andrey Eshchenko would return to the line-up, but the players remained in Moscow and in this fight Spartak would play without their help.
"Spartak" in the final round looked absolutely stupid, especially the Red-and-Whites played defensively in defense, for which Carrera was fired. However, it is unlikely that the dismissal of the mentor solved all the problems of "Spartacus", which now reminds a team in the truest sense of the word. The Rangers, in turn, are in great shape and deadly in their own Ibrox, winning nine out of ten games this season. Given this fact and the completely different form of teams, we can safely assume that the host series has every chance to continue.
Former Spartak midfielder and the Ukrainian team, and now VseProSport.ru website expert Maxim Kalinichenko shares his prediction for the Rangers vs. Spartak Europa League match.
"Rangers" and "Spartak" meet in the Europa League at the "Airbox" stadium. Not so long ago, both teams were considered quite formidable and noticeable, but now struggling for the playoffs with difficulty.
"Teddy bears" approached the tournament in the rank of an outsider, but they definitely do not justify their nickname, since they already managed to score four points. The main star of Lafferty snatched a draw away from Villarreal (2: 2), and at home the Scots were able to answer the Rapid goal (3: 1) three times and score a bright-willed Victoria. In the domestic championship, Hamilton (4: 1) was defeated, which only confirmed the absence of problems now, although there were many at the start.
"Red-and-whites" under the leadership of Massimo Carrera suffered an offensive defeat from the Viennese guests with a score of 0: 2, and then pulled out a deserved point from the clutches of the Spanish counterparts, and the opponent had to compare the score in the 96th minute of the meeting. The defeat in the RPL from Tula "Arsenal" (2: 3) was fatal, because the Italian mentor was fired, and his place is still vacant. There are also rumors about Glushakov's disagreements with the leadership.
The club from Glasgow again in the Europa League shows sparkling football. Departure for Muscovites promises to be incredibly difficult. I believe in the "red-and-whites" who can get together and win at the right moment. I am also waiting for goals from the home team, since they will not serve the number on the field.
My prediction is that both will score + total more (2.5) in BC 1xBetting for 2.10.
Free prediction for the match Rangers - Spartak Moscow: "Individual total Rangers over 1". At this outcome, the bookmaker Pari-Match offers a coefficient of 1.47.


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Guru Jaya Man's 100 Arangetrams
By S. V. Krishnaswamy, Baltimore, MD
e-mail: krish15146@yahoo.com
Editor's Note: S. V. Krishnsawamy lived in Monroeville for very many years before moving to Maryland. He interviewed Jaya Mani for the Patrika in 2003. He talked to Jaya recently on her 100th Arangetram on various subjects seemingly disjointed, but all related to, arangetrams.
Seeing one hundred students through their arangetrams is an achievement for any dance teacher anywhere. More so in the Pittsburgh metro area with barely 15,000 Indians. In June, Jaya's 100th student had her arangetram. Thirty-five years ago, in 1971 with help from Rajashri Rajgopal (who lives in Northern Virginia now), Jaya started teaching Bharatanatyam with six students. Now, with over six dance teachers here, Jaya continues with over 100 students, taking three to four students to arangetram every year. It has been a long and exhilarating journey for Jaya. That her students trace their heritage to almost every part of India is a testimony to Jaya Mani as a teacher.
Jaya Mani teaching at Sri Venkateswara Temple now.
Seamlessly Integrating Technologies: These days Jaya encourages her students getting ready for arangetram to do their own web searches to get the details of the ragam, talam, composer and other information about the songs. Then she explains the meaning of the lyrics, their background and context. This allows them to be better prepared than before the advent of the web resources.
Jaya Mani's class in the 1970s at the S. V. Temple.
Grooming Future Teachers: When asked if she is grooming any of her students to become a teacher, Jaya says, "Some students after arangetrams continue with advanced lessons from me. If they have the commitment and the rigor to teach, I encourage them. One of my students, Shobita Ravi, is teaching in Wexford."
Before coming to the US, Jaya taught her niece Bharatanatyam in Chennai. After arangetram, her niece studied nattuvangam (the Tamil technical term for choreography) in the Iyal Isai Nataka Manram in Chennai. She is teaching Bharatanatyam in Melbourne, Australia, where her first student's arangetram is coming soon. Jaya will be presiding over her first grand-student's arangetram there. Another milestone for Jaya.
Preserving the Dance Repertoire: Jaya tries to preserve the arangetram music and actual performance by converting old audio & video cassettes into DVDs, MP3, I-tunes etc. She was disappointed that several old tapes were spoiled in storage. Asked if she is planning to make her collection of music available for young teachers, Jaya says she is willing to make them available for her students if they are is serious about using them in any performance.
Jaya became emotional recalling that her father, who supported her throughout her dancing career, saw several of her students' arangetrams in person in Pittsburgh.
Jaya Mani's first Arangetram students Jyothirmayi and Madhavi Nunna, 1975.
Challenges in Using Live Music: "I have accomplished most of what I set out for myself when I started teaching three decades ago," She says, "My only disappointment is that I am not able to routinely incorporate live orchestra in arangetrams." This is because of the logistical constraints and the winter weather. She lives in Slippery Rock, more than an hour's drive from Pittsburgh. However, she is happy that she supports musicians in Chennai using their recorded music in arangetrams.
With so many arangetrams completed, her students have a number of dance dresses and jewelry. When asked what they do with these when they no longer need them, Jaya admits, "It is the parents' decision. Some want to keep them as souvenirs, and some lend them for other children." Some parents and Jaya herself, have lent the dresses to students going through arangetrams.
On the General Baharatanatyam Scene Today: Isai velalar nattuvanars (choreographers in Tamil), have composed superb varnams, padams and tillanas for dance. Nattuvanars were all men—the term is masculine in Tamil. Till the mid-20th century, nattuvanars held a pre-eminent place in arangetrams. However, with the mostly English-educated upper class women taking over choreography, we witness the decline of nattuvanars. They are replaced by those who do only the Sollu-kattu, and yet are said to do nattuvangam! Now he/she is one in the music ensemble instead of being at the center of the dance program.
However, veterans like Adyar Lakshmanan, C V Chandrasekhar, the Dhananjayans, Narasimhacharis, and K J Sarasa carry on the old-time nattuvangam. Similarly, even though dancers like Balasaraswathy, Rukmini Devi, and Padma Subramaniam have composed Varnams and Padams, they are rare. Today's mostly English-educated choreographers do not have the skills — Indian languages, grasp of history and mythologies, epics, philosophy, and literary skills and poetical talent — required to compose lyrics. So, I asked Jaya, "What is the contribution of today's choreographers for the dance repertoire?"
While recognizing the lack of compositions by dance teachers/choreographers themselves, Jaya is confident the young composers will fill the gap. She gave an example of her interaction years ago with a young violinist who composed music for her using the works from Tamil Bhakti literature and from contemporary poets. He is B V Raghavendra Rao, a leading violinist now. Jaya feels modern-day choreographers need to identify such talents and work with them.
"Why is that today's dance teachers are reluctant to use the excellent classically tuned film songs by poets like Udumalai Narayana Kavi, Pattukkottai Kalyanasundaram, Kannadasan, and others in recitals?"
Jaya: "If the music and lyrics suit the dance theme, then surely one can use their songs." She gave examples of lyrics of film songs she helped her students to use for fundraising events.
Taking Bharatanatyam to Universities Here: Jaya is now teaching Bharatanatyam at the Slippery Rock University one semester a year. Â In her class typically over thirty American students register.
Jaya Mani's students at Slippery Rock University, near Butler, PA
"What can anyone can learn in one semester?" I asked.
Jaya unhesitatingly says, "These are dedicated dance majors. They quickly grasp the basic adavus, jatis and learn alarippu, kolattam and few basic dance pieces in one semester." Continuing, she said, "These students go to Chennai during the summer to get immersed in the Indian dance scene there under the guidance of Revathy Ramachandran.â"
On Saturday, June 15, Jaya'S students celebrated her contributions to our community in a function held at the S.V. Temple.
We congratulate Jaya for implanting the nuances of Indian performing arts in the minds of our youngsters born and raised here, not an easy task by any means. We also thank her for nurturing in our youngsters the culture, and the very core of our faith that is woven into the dance repertoire. We wish her well for many more arangetrams.
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Tag archive: IDAG
Evaluating the ILC detector concepts
Perrine Royole-Degieux | 14 May 2009 Since the end of March, when the detector concept groups delivered their Letters of Intent, the International Detector Advisory Group (IDAG) has been experiencing an intense period. At TILC09 in Japan, the panel worked and interviewed the detector concept groups for three days. All sessions were closed to other participants, but ILC NewsLine wanted to know more about what happened there and understand details about the whole process of detector evaluation. Category: Feature | Tagged: IDAG, letter of intent, LOI
Writing the LOI is like 'creating a painting'
Barbara Warmbein | 14 May 2009 Some 400 pages of calculations, simulations, detector descriptions, estimates, some 1000 signatories from all round the world, hours spent on the phone or clustered around conference tables – a lot of hard work and careful thinking went into the Letters of Intent (LOI). Each of the three submitted letters – for ILD, for SiD and for the 4th concept or 4th for short – managed to meet the deadline, and even though they didn't manage to stick to the recommended page limit of 100, they were all accepted and are being scrutinised by the international detector advisory group IDAG (see this week's other feature). This is a story about how an LOI is written, as told by the authors and editors. Category: Feature | Tagged: IDAG, letter of intent, LOI
Letters of Intent were submitted
Sakue Yamada | 16 April 2009 The three ILC detector concept groups, ILD, SiD and 4th, submitted their Letters of Intent (LOIs) by the due date, 31 March. Category: Research Director's Report | Tagged: IDAG, letter of intent, LOI
Perrine Royole-Degieux | 4 December 2008 The International Detector Advisory Group (IDAG) met for the second time during the LCWS08 meeting which took place in Chicago two weeks ago. In a few days, they succeeded to converge on the strategy they will use to evaluate the ILC detectors concepts. At the end of March 2009, they will receive the Letters of Intent (LOIs) for the detector concepts and start reviewing them. Category: Feature | Tagged: detector concepts, IDAG, LCWS08, letter of intent
The first IDAG meeting in Warsaw and common task groups
Sakue Yamada | 17 July 2008 The first meeting of International Detector Advisory Group (IDAG) for the ILC detectors was held in Warsaw during the ECFA Linear Collider workshop on 9 and 10 June. There were both open and closed sessions. The closed meeting became a good chance for the IDAG members to meet with each other, the Letter-of-Intent (LOI) representatives and research directorate members in order to share their views as to what their tasks are and how the validation process can be made. Category: Research Director's Report | Tagged: common task groups, IDAG
The first meeting of the International Detector Advisory Group to be held in Warsaw
Sakue Yamada | 15 May 2008 During the ECFA workshop for the International Linear Collider in Warsaw from 9 to 12 June, the International Detector Advisory Group (IDAG) will meet for the first time. The three concept groups of the ILC detector which expressed their interest to prepare letters of intent (LOI) will meet IDAG. Category: Research Director's Report | Tagged: ECFA, IDAG, Poland, Warsaw University
We call for Expressions of Interest
Sakue Yamada | 20 March 2008 ... I would like to ask those groups which intend to submit Letters of Intent (LOIs) to send me an email with the names of currently participating institutions and up to two names of contact persons. There are many issues to discuss and to do together with the LOI groups before the LOIs can be submitted. Category: Research Director's Report | Tagged: IDAG, letter of intent, push-pull
Michel Davier chairs the International Detector Advisory Group
Perrine Royole-Degieux | 13 March 2008 Michel Davier, senior French physicist at LAL and Professor at University Paris-Sud 11, will chair the International Detector Advisory Group (IDAG) of the ILC project. "It is an honour for me to serve the ILC project, especially in this particularly interesting stage when the experimental landscape is being established," says Davier. He has worked on electron-positron colliders for more than 30 years and he was LAL director for ten years in the eighties. Playing a leading role in particle physics in France, especially within the CELLO (DESY), ALEPH (CERN) and BaBar (SLAC) experiment collaborations, he is also a member of the French Academy of Sciences. In another aspect of his scientific career, he has been one of the leaders of the French-Italian Virgo project aiming at the detection of gravitational waves with a giant interferometer, thus sharing common scientific background with Global Design Effort Director Barry Barish, former director of the LIGO project in the US. Category: Feature | Tagged: IDAG
Meet Kazuko Toyomura
Rika Takahashi | 28 February 2008 Kazuko Toyomura has been assisting KEK's ILC activity for four years, and since Sakue Yamada was appointed as a Research Director last October, her involvement has become even deeper. "She is not 'officially' assigned as secretary for the International Detector Advisory Group (IDAG), but she has been taking care of my activities," says Yamada. Toyomura is a secretary for the Institute of Particle and Nuclear Studies at KEK. Other than her new role in ILC detector community, Toyomura is managing the day-to-day activities for KEK's ILC detector and ZEUS experimental groups, including travel arrangements, guests and visitors support, and helping post-doc students. Category: Around the World | Tagged: IDAG, KEK


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Assam govt to subsidise air travel between Guwahati and Silchar
The state cabinet chaired by Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma approved a MoU signed between the state government and FlyBig, which operates in northeast under the UDAN scheme, to operate between Guwahati and Silchar with a fixed airfare of INR 3000 for 10 days from Friday. He said that tickets can be purchased online as well as from office of Cachar deputy commissioner and the Assam Tourism Development Corporation office in Guwahati.
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May 19, 2022, 12:09 IST
About 119 passengers have been airlifted by the Indian Air Force to Silchar, the Railway said in a statement. (TNN photo)
Assam government on Wednesday has stepped in with subsidies to help people fly between Guwahati and Silchar after air fare shot up by more than two folds since Monday between the two places which were cut off from train and road communication by flood and landslides.
The state cabinet chaired by chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma approved a MoU signed between the state government and FlyBig, which operates in northeast under the UDAN scheme, to operate between Guwahati and Silchar with a fixed airfare of INR 3000 for 10 days from Friday.
Travel time between Bengaluru city and Kempegowda International Airport to reduce with helicopter ride from July
BLADE India aims to start a morning and evening shuttle between the heliport at Kempegowda International Airport (KIA) to Electronics City and the old HAL Airport.
"There are many people who had gone to Silchar and had come to from Barak Valley and are stranded due to the cut in communication. We have signed an MoU with FlyBig. The cabinet has fixed the airfare at INR 3000 and whatever additional cost is there the state government will provide the subsidy," Sarma said.
He said that tickets can be purchased online as well as from office of Cachar deputy commissioner and the Assam Tourism Development Corporation office Guwahati.
For a one-hour direct flight between Guwahati and Silchar, the online travel companies on Tuesday evening were charging INR 11,739 per ticket, more than twice the normal price between INR 3,500 and INR 4,000. On Friday, there was no change in the price but on Saturday there was a marginal drop to INR 10,639.
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1. Household Income for Stay-at-Home Partners. One of the unintended consequences of the CARD act was that it became harder for stay-at-home partners to apply for credit cards and claim their partner's income as "Household Income" on credit card applications.
But there was a workaround. Folks living in a community property state, where each spouse is assumed to have a half share of the debt and income acquired during marriage, could include household income on the card application.
And some banks let you include income from other sources (a spouse etc.) in the "other" field provided that income can be used to pay back credit card debt incurred.
But it is nice to know that stay-at-home partners (unmarried and married) will soon be able to include household income on credit card applications. View From the Wing links to a New York Times article which explains that the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has made it easier for spouses OR unmarried partners above 21 years who don't work outside the home to apply for credit cards.
Credit card companies have 6 months to implement this, but I suspect it will be implemented much sooner because banks are eager to approve more folks for credit cards.
2. American Express Mercedes-Benz Platinum. Scott from MileValue emailed me that the minimum spending on the Mercedes-Benz Platinum has increased from $1,000 within 3 months to $3,000 within 3 months.
The sign-up bonus is still 50,000 points and is a better choice than the regular Platinum card which earns only 25,000 points (but which pays me a commission). The card has a hefty $475 annual fee, but also gets you lounge access to US Air, American Airlines and Delta lounges in addition to reimbursing you the $100 fee for Global Entry and $200 per calendar year in airline fees (which some use to buy airline gift cards directly from the airlines).
3. Southwest 50,000 Points Targeted Offers. The Southwest 50,000 point offer after spending $2,000 within 3 months is available to some via targeted emails, but there isn't a public link which I know about.
But targeted emails with the 50,000 point offer usually mean that it is only a matter of time before the public 25,000 point offer becomes a public 50,000 point version!
1. Are you sure that this version of the care offers the $200 airline statement credit? I know the personal and business ones do as it is clearly stated in their T&Cs but I looked at the T&Cs for the Benz card and couldn't find this provision (instead it seems to be replaced with some sort of companion ticket offer). Could you please confirm.
2. If I have had a Personal Platinum card in the past 90 days am I eligible to apply for the Benz or the Business Platinum card or can I only apply for the Gold version?
Which agency do both of you work for?
9:41 amMay 2, 2013 James K.
Wait so when I apply for a credit card, I can list the household income (which is twice as much because my wife and I have the same job) rather than just my own? Have I been a sucker for the last year or so?
This is an interesting post,one I was discussing with my sister this week,as she had been denied a cc based one her p/t income alone… This is the reverse of my experience, we don't live in one of those states,I have been at home for 20 years with the kids,and cc companies seem to LOVE me…..technically my income is $0 yearly,yet I have no problem getting credit cards. ( I also have a good credit history,but still) thanks for the info,love the blog posts!
@JM – Thanks for reading!
@James K. – It depends on what the application field says. Some banks just say "income" and some specify your income. You can sometimes include her income in the "other" field if you can use it to pay back the credit card debt as well.


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BRC Art, Global Art
Sonic Runway Warps to San José for Playa to Paseo, Opens November 3
October 9, 2017 By Jon Mitchell
It's time for Phase 3 in the evolution of Sonic Runway. Surely you rode your bike through this thing on playa at least 11 times in 2016. After that, Rob Jensen and Warren Trezevant got a whole new version of Sonic Runway fabricated and installed in Chengdu, China. Now it's coming to downtown San José, California as part of the city's three-year-long Playa to Paseo arts initiative. The grand opening party will be held November 3.
What: Sonic Runway Artwork Launch
Where: San José City Hall, 200 Santa Clara Avenue, San José, CA
When: November 3, 2017, 6 – 8 pm
Featuring Mutant Vehicles, DJs, fire artists and a few more surprises — a night of celebration!
Sonic Runway, as you may recall, is a tunnel of extremely blinky arches that converts audio signals into a pattern of lights that shoots down the tunnel at the speed of sound (1225 kph / 761 mph). From one end of the Runway, you can see the music racing away from you. On the other, you can see it coming at you and hear it reach you in sync with the patterns. The effect is pretty nuts. In San José, the Sonic Runway will be 432 feet long and stretch across two city blocks.
Burning Man Project will offer a grant workshop in San José this October to share how to apply for Black Rock City Honoraria, which fund art going to the annual event in Nevada, or for Global Art Grant funding, which supports participatory art projects around the world. The artists will also host workshops covering topics including how to create art using the science of sound, working with steel, LED programming, and more. The City is also working with the South Bay Burners Regional Group and local artists, musicians, fashion designers, and performance companies to crank up the audible and visible volume in San José.
Here's the full press release:
"Playa to Paseo" Opening at San José City Hall November 3, in Partnership With Burning Man Project
Downtown San José to feature other Burning Man-inspired art pieces
The City of San José and Burning Man Project announce the selection of the first artwork for the Playa to Paseo initiative, and an opening celebration scheduled for November 3. Playa to Paseo, designed as a three-year instigation of art for downtown San José, is also an invitation to play, engage, and participate in art-making city-wide.
"Each artwork is chosen because we see the possibilities for learning, celebration, and participation for our local artists and residents," Director of Cultural Affairs, Kerry Adams-Hapner said.
The initial artwork is Sonic Runway by Robert Jensen and Warren Trezevant, and will be installed along Santa Clara Avenue in front of the iconic San José City Hall building designed by architect Richard Meier.
"We see this location for the first artwork as a symbol of how inclusive we anticipate this project will become; it's an invitation for all our citizens to feel welcomed to play, connect, and celebrate," stated Kim Walesh, City of San José's Deputy City Manager and Economic Development Director.
Sonic Runway is a light-art installation that converts audio signals into a pattern of lights that shoot down a corridor of arches at the speed of sound, (1225kph / 761mph). The Runway's arches are each lined with 277 addressable LEDs. Live audio input is analyzed and converted into intricate patterns that shoot down the corridor with sound and lights in sync. Standing at the front of the Runway, you can see the beats of the music rippling away from you, and looking back from the far end, you can see the sound coming at you and hear the music just as the patterns reach you. In San José, the Sonic Runway installation will be 432 feet long and stretch across two city blocks.
The artwork will launch publicly on November 3 at 6 p.m., and all are invited to join the celebration. Kim Cook, Burning Man's Director, Art & Civic Engagement, shared these thoughts: "When we bring artists who've created work for Black Rock City into other contexts, we want to do so thoughtfully. We are not so much interested in transferring objects as we are in sharing the process behind co-created, collaborative artworks. Thus each artwork includes elements that can be shared and developed in San José."
Burning Man Project will be a offering grant workshop in San José this October to share how to apply for funding from Burning Man to create work for the annual event in Nevada or for Global Art Grant funding which supports participatory art projects around the world. Additional workshops with the artists will include how to understand create using the science of sound, working with steel, LED programming, and more.
"It is exciting to see a Burning Man piece as dynamic as Sonic Runway being installed in an urban environment," Burning Man Project CEO, Marian Goodell said. "Our partnership with the City of San José is a major step forward in exploring the possibilities of large-scale art outside of the Black Rock Desert, and we hope this serves as an invitation for artists to engage in the South Bay and beyond."
The City is also working with the Regional South Bay Burners and local artists to provide even more activation with musicians, fashion designers, and performance companies to illuminate all the possibilities of the Sonic Runway.
Rob Jensen
Lead artist, Rob Jensen conceived the Sonic Runway while observing the effects of sound at Burning Man in 2002. As a visual artist, engineer and musician, Rob has always been drawn to the intersection of science and art.
Rob's day job also combines art and technology, where he alternates between animating and engineering at Pixar Animation Studios.
Warren Trezevant
Warren enjoys creating experiences of wonder, from bringing characters to life on the movie screen, as a former animator at Pixar Animation Studios, to bringing them to life in the real world, as with the stroboscopic Toy Story Zoetrope. Warren's also contributed his animation skills to Burning Man projects like Peter Hudson's large-scale stroboscopic zoetropes, Charon and Eternal Return, as well as the breathing for Marco Cochrane's sculpture, R-Evolution.
Warren's been a co-collaborator and producer of the Sonic Runway since its inception.
About Playa to Paseo
The partnership with the City of San José is intended to call forth to the San José artist community and invite participation in imagining the way that temporary art can invigorate public spaces across San José's 180-square-mile landscape. This project will be part of a larger initiative to develop art from within the San José art community that can both go to Black Rock City and be situated in San José, thus completing the circle from Playa to Paseo to Playa.
About Burning Man Project
Burning Man Project, a nonprofit organization, produces the annual Burning Man event in Black Rock City, and works year-round to extend and facilitate the culture that has grown from the event into the larger world. Burning Man Project provides inspiration, connection, education, and grants to a creative ecosystem of builders, makers, artists, and community leaders. Its work spans six interconnected program areas: Art, Education, Civic Involvement, Culture, Philosophical Center, and Social Enterprise. An ever-growing global network supports and furthers these efforts in 44 U.S. states and 37 countries around the world.
About the San José Office of Cultural Affairs
The City of San José recognizes that the arts and culture are essential elements in the character and quality of life in a vibrant community and seeks to ensure that San José is an effective hub of a wide array of arts and cultural opportunities throughout Silicon Valley. The Office of Cultural Affairs, a division of Economic Development in the City Manager's Office, is the lead City of San José agency for stewarding a vibrant arts sector. It achieves this mission through public art and placemaking, arts funding, special event coordination, creative entrepreneur work-force development, cultural facility stewardship, and, among other items, cultural policy. Visit www.sanjoseculture.org.
About the City of San José
San José, Capital of Silicon Valley, is the largest city in Northern California and the 10th largest city in the nation, with an ethnically diverse population of more than one million. San José was founded in 1777, once served as the state capital of California, and encompasses 180 square miles. The City's website is sanjoseca.gov.
Top photo by Rob Jensen
About the author: Jon Mitchell
Jon Mitchell, a.k.a. Argus, was publisher of the Burning Man Journal, the Jackrabbit Speaks newsletter, and the Burning Man website from 2016 to 2019. He joined the Comm Team as a volunteer in 2010 and as year-round staff in 2014. He co-wrote a big story about spending 24 hours at the Temple of Juno in 2012. His first Burn was in 2008.
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5 Comments on "Sonic Runway Warps to San José for Playa to Paseo, Opens November 3"
Andre Doepel says:
do i have to sign up in advance to fire dance? if so, how?
PeaceLove says:
Will they try to control the ambient light around the Runway? The Playa in general is pretty dark so the Runway was quite a striking light portal. I hope it "reads" as well in downtown San Jose.
BoyScout says:
I asked that same question to the city representative and she responded that they cannot control the street lights. So – no the ambient lighting will not be controlled.
On the other side – we've doubled the LEDs. They were visible in the late afternoon daylight.
How long wil Sonic Runway be available to experience?
Source: http://www.sanjoseculture.org/index.aspx?NID=5734
"The artwork is 432 feet long and stretch across a city block between 4th and 5th streets in front of San José City Hall, 200 E. Santa Clara Street, San Jose, CA 95113. The artwork can be be viewed nightly from 5:00 p.m. to 12:00 a.m. [Nov. 3, 2017] through January 2018."
http://www.mercurynews.com/2017/11/01/sonic-runway-to-light-up-downtown-san-jose/
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Food in Canada - Food law column: Recent research on third-party audits
This article originally appeared in Food in Canada and is republished with the permission of the publisher.
Until recently there has been little serious research on the most significant food safety advance in the last decade, a development that has been entirely outside the realm of public law — the extraordinary growth of third-party supplier audits. There are now over 500 food safety audit firms, many of which have global operations.
The Food Safety Service Providers, an industry association representing nine leading private food safety audit firms, asserts that its members alone conduct more than 200,000 audits and inspections in more than 100 countries each year. It has been estimated that in the U.S. the scale of private food law auditing activity is now 10 times larger than that of the federal government, more than all federal and state efforts combined. Two recently published academic studies provide interesting insights into several aspects of this important new area of food law.
Audits and Inspections Are Never Enough: A Critique to Enhance Food Safety (Food Control, vol. 30, issue 2) by Douglas Powell et al. identifies the many limitations of third-party audits and documents several cases of major foodborne illness outbreaks linked to food processors that have passed third-party audits. Audits need to be supplemented by other measures such as microbial testing, and companies must have in-house capacity to meaningfully assess the audit results. Third-party audits are part of "a shift in food safety governance away from government regulation and inspection towards the development of private food safety standards." This study represents a cogent caution to the audit industry that they must improve their systems, and a warning to the food industry that audits are never enough.
In the latest Wisconsin Law Review American law professors Timothy D. Lytton and Lesley K. McAllister (Oversight in Private Food Safety Auditing: Addressing Auditor Conflict of Interest, 2014) provide the first comprehensive analysis of one of the most serious problems with private food safety auditing — auditor conflict of interest. Auditors are paid by the company being audited. Suppliers have an interest in finding the cheapest and least intrusive audit that will provide a certificate, and auditors have a financial incentive to reduce the cost and rigour of audits to get business in a very competitive environment. This study analyzes several oversight mechanisms that have been developed to mitigate the conflict problem, but concludes that at this time there are still too few financial incentives to assure more rigorous auditing.
Considering how few inspections are actually carried out by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) relative to the number of businesses it is responsible for, it is ironic that the U.S. has been so reluctant to embrace more fully the advantages that third-party audits represent. Perhaps this is because President Obama is so beholden to consumer activist groups that do not trust the industry, believe that only FDA inspectors can stop big bad food companies from poisoning consumers, and who refuse to recognize that it is private audits that are increasingly the drivers of enhanced food safety. Obama has declared that it is the state that has the primary responsibility for food safety, and the former FDA commissioner dismissed audit schemes as being merely "a business strategy, not a public health strategy."
In Canada we have always recognized that while it is a shared effort, practically and legally it is food producers that have the primary responsibility for food safety. Industry recognized some years ago that they couldn't meet this responsibility adequately just by complying with government regulations — that they could protect their brand from recalls, minimize foodborne illness law suits, source ingredients widely and trade internationally only if, among other things, they insisted on warranty agreements from suppliers and that these were backed up by independent third-party audits. There are many legal and other problems with these relatively new instruments at this still early stage in their development, but they've come a long way in the last 10 years.
Finding ways to better integrate public law-based food safety regulations with private law-based certification systems may prove to be one of our more interesting challenges in the decade ahead.
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