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Laser Time – Giant Monster Fighting
July 16, 2013 C.Ant
Pacific Rim sends on a suicidal journey to find the world’s greatest GIANT MONSTERS! Godzilla, King Kong, Gamera, Attack on Titan and so very much more…
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84 thoughts on “Laser Time – Giant Monster Fighting”
510BrotherPanda says:
I was really hoping for more Punch Out!!-style stereotypes, but it was still a nice movie without them. Now if only there was something related to Monster Hunter to watch…
taterboob says:
SPOILER The Kaiju were just looking for a sled named Rosebud. Oh, and they were also ghosts the whole time.
Dang it! I responded to the wrong post. Curse my phone.
BladedFalcon says:
Yay! LaserTime, and Yay Pacific Rim!
That movie was awesome for what it was meant to be… Yet the U.S.A. apparently doesn’t deserve a movie like that, considering it got outsold by a crappy kids movie sequel, and an even shittier adam sandler comedy sequel. At least it seems the rest of the world is making up for their stupidity.
Anyway, can’t wait to give this episode a listen! =3
SlowOctopus says:
Ever since Chris tweeted about it last night, I’ve been waiting for this new episode to post! I’ve been hitting refresh all day! I can’t wait to put this in my holes.
I’ve been waiting for you guys to talk about this forever. Can’t wait to get off work now.
Slider64 says:
Liking this episode so far, looking forward to the part 2 with Bret that will come someday.
(In a perfect world this would get a re-edited with Bret doing commentary yelling at the podcast, constantly correcting things, especially dates)
Wait, Brett’s not in this episode? Curses! He’s obviously the authority on Godzilla, and kaiju in general, so it’s unfortunate that he couldn’t be there. It’s almost like Chris not being there for a Disney discussion. Nonetheless, I’m sure it’s still a great episode.
Also, we get it you don’t like anime Diana, no need to get going on and on about your hate, being so obnoxious about it. No need to brag about disliking things.
What, can’t tolerate that someone doesn’t like something you do? It’s not like she’s announcing it, she just scoffs about it when reacting to something shown or mentioned because well- she finds it stupid.
Not saying she’s right, just that you’re making a big deal about when it clearly wasn’t.
CancerMan says:
No big deal, but her ignorant comments on the subject were cringeworthy.
They weren’t really ignorant so much as they were generalizations. I am aware that there’s a lot of anime that’s worthwhile. But you can’t really claim that her gripes about anime aren’t valid when MOST of mainstream anime is most certainly guilty of them. (DBZ, Bleach, Naruto, One Piece, just to mention a few.)
DarthEnderX says:
All of those shows are awesome though…
Eh, see, that’s where your mileage varies wildly. I admit that as a kid, i got sucker punched by DB, and then DBZ. But even then as a stupid 9 year old, after the Cell Saga, I started to realize the show was kinda just more of the same and kinda stupid, and by the time the Boo Saga had hit, i had moved on.
Then as I started college, and after getting hooked back onto anime thanks to Full Metal Alchemist, I gave Bleach a spin, amongst others. I actually got trough a LOT of bleach, but in hindsight, it really was just more of the same DBZ offered, just with more swords and shameless cleavage than DBZ. All those shows does have a lot of “cool” factor going for them, but when you actually start to analyze them, they are all kinda the same, and they are all kinda stupid.
Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagaan kinda epitomizes that for me. That show is super loud, super baddass, super colorful and always cranked up to 11. It sure is FUN to watch it mindlessly, and that’s fine, but try to even think about it a little, and it all then falls apart. And like all anime, is filled with squeaky voices, ansgty teenage drama, female objectification, and weird for the sake of weird. So all said, while that doesn’t bother me as much as DIANA, i definitely can understand why her and so many hate most anime 😛
Dr. Cakey says:
I found her complaints ignorant but her problems valid, if that makes sense. That is, when she listed her problems with anime, I could accept all of them (except animation quality, I suppose).
Although actually, DBZ, Bleach, Naruto, and One Piece are as far as I can tell not really guilty of ANY of those problems.
@Dr. Cakey: Bleach is filled to the brim with terrible and lazy animation, and so is DBZ. And while not in most episodes, both shows DID have the occasional shrill, squeaky voiced, annoying characters.
And if I remember correctly, another problem she had is that they took forever to get anywhere. If so, then in both cases, this is super fucking true 😛
@BladedFalcon: Yeah, I should’ve elaborated that in terms of animation quality I meant shorter and recent stuff. I actually have difficulty watching a lot of pre-mid-2000’s series because they can be painful for me to watch.
Funny thing is I am not a big anime fan, it was just going on a little too long and was a tad over the top. I have only completed a few series, I am far from a anime fanboy, only watch once in awhile. She was just too eager to loudly attack it, its not for some people sure. She just crossed into annoyance,
Attack it? All she said was “I can’t stand anime” and when pressed by the rest of the crew, she explained why. She wasn’t categorically saying that anime was crap as a rule, just that she didn’t like it. Pretty sure there’s stuff you personally hate or can’t stand, and pretty sure you’d express it just the same if were insisted upon.
It’s more can’t tolerate the fact that she’s only seen, like, 2 anime in her entire life and has decided that it’s all exactly like that.
Saying you can’t stand anime is like saying you can’t stand television. There’s as many different kinds of anime as there are TV shows in general anywhere else.
As someone that has seen at least 20 different anime shows, (I know that’s still not THAT many, but I’m pretty sure it’s more than enough to have gathered a general idea.) I will say that while yes, there is variety. Anime more than other types of television genres or shows, do tend to fall into a LOT of similar tropes.
Generalizing ALL anime as being terrible or the is of course wrong, since there’s many exceptions. But there’s a lot that do tend to have very similar and potentially annoying tropes. Such as the protagonist that is either a badass behaving or masquerading as a klutz/Idiot, or the angry teenager that somehow is super awkward and shy around women. All of which, OF COURSE are super hot and fawn over him, even the usual one which acts like she hates him and don’t needs men but deep inside men is all she craves. Then you have the nemesis that then turns into a rival and then even into a valuable ally.
Again, there are exceptions, but don’t try and deny that most shows, specially the mainstream ones, fall into these very similar and formulaic tropes.
“Anime more than other types of television genres or shows, do tend to fall into a LOT of similar tropes.”
I’ve found it to be almost the exact opposite.
Like I said, for every genre that exists on television, you can find an anime that mimics that genre.
If anime seems more tropey, it’s probably because all the anime your watching is from the same genre. From your descriptions, it sounds like most of what you’ve seen has come from watching Adult Swim’s lineup, what you call “mainstream”. And that all does tend to fall into the same archetypes because that’s what the AS anime audience likes.
But what you’re referring to as “mainstream” doesn’t even make up a majority of anime. So I’ll absolutely deny that most shows all fall into those tropes.
I wouldn’t consider Card Captor Sakura, Kanon, Hellsing, Trigun, Azumanga Daioh or Ruroni Kenshin to all share the same genre… Yet in all instance I do see common tropes still.
I won’t deny that most of the anime I’ve seen is probably not representative of the whole. But you also can’t deny that most of the popular animes that the majority of American audiences would be familiar with DO share enough similarities to make valid generalizations at least concerning what they know so far.
As I said before. Yes, Diana does make a mistake for piling ALL anime together with the few shows she might have seen or have been familiar with. But then again, could you really expect someone that has had such a distasteful experience with what little they’ve seen, to just go ahead and see MORE just to claim she knows more, and probably still dislike it all?
Also, like I’ve said before, anime in general DO have tropes no matter the style, time period or genre. Or are you going to deny that most of them don’t have high pitched voices, outrageously proportionated women, and huge eyes?
Stabby Joe says:
She didn’t go on and on like some people are implying, like a Henry-style Family Guy rant. Personally I think some fans of anime are waaaaaay to defensive, fanboy/girl even.
HOWEVER, Diana, I really enjoy you on the show, especially when it comes to film, for example I’m glad you pointed out The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms (also Mikel and Tyler, I’m a fan of it, so there is at least one lol) came before Godzilla BUT I’m going to have to correct you on obscure film trivia:
Clint Eastwood was in Tarantula, not Them!, although Leonard Nimoy does have an uncredited role.
I will always be a fan of Diane for the “Fox fanfare” knowledge bomb she dropped a while back. That blew my mind, for some weird reason. Almost as much as the end theme for Muppet Babies just being the instrumental version of Little Muppet Monsters.
I also accept that anime will forever be a niche thing that you either love or hate. There’s almost no reaction for telling you watch anime between extreme enthusiasm, and being looked at like you’re a pedophile.
I’d consider myself kinda neutral regarding anime. There are shows I’ve genuinely enjoyed and to this day I don’t regret having watching them, nor do I think they are bad in hindsight. (Like Full Metal Alchemist, Rurouni Kenshin or Trigun.)
But then there’s a lot which even if I did like at the time, I do consider it to be either terrible, or a stupid guilty pleasure at best. (Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagaan, Bleach, and so on.)
MrsWikiparaz says:
Ugh! I know! My friend corrected me on “Them” vs. “Tarantua” the next day and I felt like such a putz!
“Them”‘s still awesome, though.
supergiraffe says:
Sweet, we finally got the Godzilla cast. Now all we need is a film to come out that’ll finally cause the Ernest episode.
I jumped the gun a little. Still want a Brett hosted Godzilla cast.
lex says:
do you guys absolutely NEED diana to still be on the show? :\
jar says:
what’s your problem with her?
Probably another guy that got his panties on a bunch because she said she hated anime. Because you know, yay tolerance and different views!
Anyway, if either Diana or Mikel read these comments, please don’t take those butthurt comments seriously? I actually find Diana very entertaining every time she’s own. Her knowledge of films is broader and gives nice perspective to the more focused view the rest have no movies. And she has a different, but still great sense of humor. I’d be very upset to see her appear less just because a bunch of intolerant whiners took offense of a dissenting opinion.
Dano says:
I second BladedFalcon’s sentiment.
Completely agree with you. Diana is always a fantastic guest.
Boo to you sir. Diana is great.
Robusken says:
Dang it! I was gonna say this is totally a Brett podcast but he isn’t even here, which I have to admit is pretty disappointing. On the other hand, Chris I hope you flaunt the heck out of Attack on Titan cause I’m so close to just watching the whole thing since I see it everywhere.
Attack on Titan is pretty great. I sort of dropped out of the anime scene a few years ago, and the last thing I’ve watched with any regularity was maybe Code Geass. Attack on Titan got me right back into the scene, however. It’s got its fair share of “oh shit, didn’t see that coming” moments, and the premise just grabs you from the outset.
I’m in like the same boat when it comes to anime honestly. At this point I just look for shows that do something different and watch those. I’m so ready to get into attack on titan.
My opinion of Attack on Titan so far was basically:
Episode 1-4: “Meh…”
Episode 5: “…huh.”
Episode 7: “FUUUCK YEAH!”
JJBSterling says:
Any spoiler talk for Pacific Rim? Going to see it later today so I’ll probably just wait on listening until then just to be safe.
Chris hasn’t seen it at the time of recording and they really only talk about the trailers in the beginning so you should be good.
No spoilers in the least, they talk a bit about it in the first 10 minutes, but they don’t give any spoilers. So you’re safe ^^
Clovin64 says:
Brett’s not here for the Godzilla discussion?!
Smars says:
i’m really glad you guys like shingeki so much, it’s really making big waves all over the place. and to have a bunch of guys who don’t normally watch anime talking about it is a testament to how powerful this show is. it is really bleak, but very refreshing.
SagaSaga says:
I’m not even a huge anime fan anymore… but Diana going on, and on, and on, about her hatred of the medium, over, and over, and over, got old fast.
Tone it down a bit next time please, that was just obnoxious.
Squiggleworth says:
I demand Brett for the Pacific Rimcast!
Not having Brett for giant monsters talk, it’s like not having Antista for Disney and pedophilia talk.
how do you not mention MEGAS XLR!?
By growing up in the 80s and not watching current cartoons.
I’m a huge huge fan of that show and I even I forgot about it during this discussion. I do think its a show the cast would love though.
how can you like venture brothers but not megas xlr
sorry misread that
MrCooper says:
Holy shit, anime discussion on laser time that isn’t derisive? It’s about goddamn time.
Thanks a lot, Chris. I’d just gotten over my addiction to Attack on Titan’s opening, now I’m listening to it all over again. And again. And again.
Attack on Titan is a fantastic show, and I’m really glad it’s become so popular. Last year the show that made waves was Sword Art Online, and that was…ugh…so it’s good to see a QUALITY show get popular. And the best news? It’s not even the best show to come out in the last couple years (that would be Madoka Magica GO WATCH MADOKA MAGICA)
A discussion of the animation process is definitely something I’m qualified to do, but Japanese animation does suffer both from lower revenues than American material, plus what seems to be a harrowing production process. That aside, Attack on Titan is atypical in the animation department, both for the AMAZING action and camera, and for its “trust-us-this-will-be-finished-when-you-buy-the-Blu-rays” parts. This was an overly ambitious project that barely holds together at the seams, but I love it for that. Oh, and by the way, you don’t need no Hulu Plus to watch Attack on Titan. You can catch it for free on a one-week delay at Crunchyroll.com (yes, that’s legal).
I have no actual desire to flame Diana, so please replace this sentence with whatever vitriolic comments about her views you wish.
Also, I know no one else wants it, but I would listen to an Evangelioncast. Oh, and speaking of Eva, Evangelion 2.0 is far better than the first movie. It’s actually structured like a movie instead of a bunch of TV episodes mashed together, and the plot begins to diverge from the series.
That should be, “A discussion of the animation process is definitely something I’m NOT qualified to do”.
Typing!
after Chris pushed Attack on Titan on Cape Crisis I got bored and checked it
out. now I’m 7 episodes deep, and the only reason I’m not further is because my gf caught a bit of the first episode and now demands I can’t watch ahead of her.
I don’t know nufin bout teh amines, but this is a show I recommend to all fans of fantasy, horror, sci fi, action or animation. try to watch the first episode and quit. I daaaaare ya
Yes! I love monster movies from vintage Harryhausen to Toho obscurities!
While this episode is loooooooong over due, Brett is essential for the subject matter given his teased passion in past episodes.
hammeroc says:
Chiming in to say that I never had an opinion on anime itself, but reading these comments, I sure as fuck hate anime fans. Get over yourselves.
Anime fans are basically the dregs left over who weren’t smart enough to be comic book fans. Let that sink in.
Yes, I am filled with self-loathing.
Your words sting, but they’re unfortunately true for a lot of anime fans. I went to this year’s AX, and some of the people there had me cringing, at how much they reminded me of myself 10 years ago.
I dont like a lot of anime as well, especially its more endearing qualities but I dont write off the whole art form, Diana is cruel……
How is this not a Brett episode!
By which I mean: Only Brett, talking about Godzilla for an hour.
Kusabi says:
Like anime but I agree with a lot of Diane’s comments on 90% of anime. I drift towards older shows anyways.
Why did I cut off “I” in the first sentence >_>
da'funk? says:
Good call on ‘Attack on Titan,’ Antista. Fucking titans are creepy as hell.
Jermaine Tito says:
The third Transformers movie was really really bad.
When the transformers are presumed dead for a significant chunk of the movie and thus most of the action is Shia le Bouef leading a dumb resistance with his new girlfriend against the decepticons. And it has plotholes out the butt.
Transformers 1 was disappointing but not completely terrible.
This. I went into the third Transformers movie based on some positive things I heard from various geek movie sites. Smash cut to myself 1.75 hours into the movie, resisting the urge to stand up and yell “Hey, Bay…GO F*** YOURSELF.”
The first one is no prize, although I harbored a guilty affection for it for some time, but it remains the ‘best’ of the three. ‘Revenge of the Fallen’ of course, is a key component integral to re-opening the Hellmouth. I refuse to accept that sentient adults worked on bringing that into existence. I always picture a harried ILM animator coming home:
“How’d today go?”
“I…animated Devastator’s…balls…”
“You’ll find out” (takes swig from flask)
I don’t think that newest Godzilla movie is horrible for MOST of it, but it got pretty lame near the end.
Are you talking about Final Wars? That one was awesome. It was the only Godzilla movie I’ve seen, that I didn’t skip past the non-monster scenes.
I REALLY also don’t want to come across as defensive…I’m not a big anime fan…the number of series I’ve seen through to completion can be counted on two hands…and not everyone likes everything. I certainly don’t, so I offer these two suggestions for Diana (not that she hasn’t received hordes of them as is), in the interests of rejecting generalizations:
Ghost In The Shell: Stand Alone Complex – A well thought out, mature cyberpunk, and mostly free of the usual tropes (yeah, there’s some eye candy, but no more so than I any average blockbuster release…and the AI support tanks do have a tinge of the high pitched voice syndrome…fair warning)
Samurai Champloo – From the director of ‘Cowboy Bebop’, set in feudal Japan, with some modern stylistic quirks thrown in. VERY low on the tropes meter, and (for anime) low key humor. It also has a perfectly melancholy tone to it at times, especially the ending.
V22 Dreamcast says:
I would also recommend Texhnolyze and Serial Experiments Lain. They’re the definition of anti-anime anime shows. Especially Texhnolyze, which begins as a bleak series and it just goes down from there.
Also anything created by Satoshi Kon (R.I.P. Kon) : Perfect Blue, Millennium Actress, Paranoia Agent (anime series), Tokyo Godfathers, & Paprika.
I haaaaaaaaaated Ghost in the Shell and SAC *does hipster victory lap*
Diana should watch Free! Iwatobi Swim Club. Based on what I’ve gathered, as a straight female she is contractually obligated to enjoy it.
And with this crew, and the topic of this episode, how was their no mention of King Homer? Grimm would have mentioned it, I bet. This was the Candyapple Island of giant monster fighting episodes; there’s apes, but their not so big.
Or the giant mascots.
Truth. No mention of a rampant Lard Lad? For shame.
Man, if Diane gets bothered by something as tame as a panty shot, she’d absolutely HATE Berserk.
Bones says:
If seen 50+ plus anime, and while I got a little bugged by how insistent Diana was, I still love her being on and didn’t really mind. Even the things that some people might be fine with or not take issue with may put off others like it does for her. Having seen so many anime I do get tired of these things as well but that just leads me to seek out ones that don’t these things. I love a lot of the more mainstream ones, and absolutely love One Piece, but there are also plenty of others that don’t do the common annoying tropes.
The recent trend I’m noticing that actually contradicts a lot of Diana’s complaints, is that studios are doing a lot of shorter run shows that go maybe 20-30 episodes so they don’t end up wasting time with a lot of the bad tropes of trying to waste time. In some I almost wish they’d stay on certain parts a little longer because it feels like they’re almost cramming too much into an episode.
Some that I’d recommend:
UN-GO which is a short run detective show with a supernatural twist, set slightly in the future. It’s got a solid plot, good subplots within the main story, and doesn’t overstay it’s welcome.
Another that I’d highly recommend is Shinsekai Yori or “From the New World” which is a story set in the future yet humanity has regressed to a weird technology minimal society and instead rely on their psychic mental abilities known as Cantus that humanity had evolved to use. It starts out for the first few episodes as a bit mysterious and innocent but soon you start to notice as things are just not quite right. Once the story really starts going it’s very gripping and I found myself unable to get enough. In terms of tone, after the first few episodes it’s actually a lot like Attack on Titan, but there just less action. It draws many parallels to the book “Brave New World” as well, which should give some a better idea of what it’s like. It’s also so different from the norm that it doesn’t even feature an intro song. Only an opening ambient song that gets you into the serious tone of the show. It also jumps forward in the timeline several times, very much like The Last of Us, except sometimes it’s a year or more that has passed.
The last one I’d recommend is Psycho-Pass which is a futuristic crime show where in Japan they have left the complete control of society up to the Sibyl System which reads people’s “psycho-pass” from chemical cues and gives them a color rating which determines their mental stability. This goes so far as to determine what jobs you’re best suited for. When you are determined to be a threat because of your mental state, you are simply incarcerated in a mental facility to undergo treatment, but most are there for life. The people who are not caught early enough by the system are hunted down by the Bureau of Something can’t quite remember and this is comprised of detectives and enforcers, with enforcers being those who are determined to be mentally dangerous but are used as essentially hunting dogs for the gain of limited freedoms. A very intelligent action crime show with the characters being extremely interesting to the point where there discussions are as good as the plot itself.
I’ve seen tons of anime, but I feel like for those who may have put off anime for whatever reason, these are ones that get you back into liking anime a lot.
Apologies for the behemoth post. Spoiler tags for truncating and also an edit option would really come in handy. 😛
all the women who’ve guested on Laser Time have been great additions. glad to hear most of you agree.
as for Diana being opposed to anime, I hear ya. I can’t get into most of it. which is why I was surprised to get so enthralled with AoT. it’s a really well made show. I feel like the odd time they do touch on anime clichés that they’re primarily poking fun at it, and itll usually act as a comedic counterpoint to the abundance of horrific events in the story.
does that theme song remind anyone of the Dr Wily Theme from MM2?
I keep hearing “I don’t think you’re ready for this jelly”, which makes me self-loathing and sad.
RickyB says:
Just for shits and giggles, I think Diane should be sat down and watch a few episodes of the new series FREE- Iwatobi Swim Club on Crunchyroll. I’d love to hear her come back with a follow up on that XD
Tbizz22 says:
Great call on attack on titan! I haven’t watched any anime since Dragonball when I was a kid, but based on Chris’ recommendation, I tried it out, and not only did get hooked, but the wife did too! Awesome show!
Roundline says:
Finally chris checks out Japanese animation, I always found it confusing how a man could love 2d animation so much and ignore/hate? anime. There seems to be a pretty large divide between 90s kids and the previous generation. Diana came across as a little narrow minded with the hate, but she’s free to have her opinion (and it’s pretty common for people of her age I think), I know a majority of that hate emanates from the terrible weaboo fan base and not the actual animation itself. Judging all anime only on its most prevalent series would be like hating all movies because of transformers or all games because of call of duty, 95% of everything is shit, it’s weird someone so heavily invested in nerd culture doesn’t recognise this. 2d animation is 2d animation regardless of its country of origin and it’s a little sad that it’s become cool to hate on (not that it was the case here) anyways blah blah, old people die out opinions change maybe the west will treat 2d with the respect it deserves. Probably not but hey at least Japan does…….sometimes.
I don’t get how people keep saying the character drama in Pacific Rim is secondary to the giant monsters. Maybe it’s secondary to what you’re interested in seeing, but a HUUUUGE chunk of that movie is based on and revolves around the flimsy characters and their tragic, angsty backstories. I keep hearing that it’s *supposed* to be goofy and over-the-top, you’re not supposed to take it seriously, it’s just brainless fun. But Pacific Rim is actually trying really hard to be poignant and dramatic and to get you to care about the characters and their relationships to each other. If it actually embraced it’s goofiness and committed to just being crazy and fun, it would have been a much, much better movie.
I’ve avoided any topic that would have any anime in it on Lasertime, because I know I have nothing useful to say except I just really, really have hated every anime I’ve ever seen. (Miyazaki doesn’t count.) Unfortunately, Chris is super into that Titans thing he’s been watching and dying to talk about it, and I was blindsided, BLINDSIDED I TELL YOU.
I thought we’d talk about awesome giant monsters that are guys in suits or puppets, but noooo…
I know I’m generalizing, but I’ve earnestly given it a try. And I’m sure there are more recent things out there I could tolerate. Some things I’ve watched fine, but had a hard time enjoying. Some make me want to gnaw my own ears off. And when you hate something, it’s easier to see the flaws others forgive and it just gets worse and worse.
But thank (many of) you for saying my opinion is annoying instead of saying it’s wrong. (And that rant was the short version. Poor Mikel’s had to hear the long version, repeatedly, over the last 13 years.)
That being said, now I totally want to do a fundraiser where if you donate you get to pick an anime for me to watch and I livestream my reactions, which will probably make sailors blush and paint peel off walls. Because I know you bastards will pick the dumbest stuff, except for the ones who pick the best stuff to try to change my opinion, which I’ll probably not like either. That’s an endurance test way more difficult than, like a walkathon.
Somebody go organize that.
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Graduate Student Senator Brittany Oleniacz stresses the importance of electing a Graduate Student Vice President during a Full Senate meeting Wednesday, April 3.
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Graduate student body vice president role created by Student Senate
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Graduate students will now have a graduate student body president to represent their interests within the Student Senate chambers, following the approval of the full Senate body on Wednesday, April 3.
The graduate student body vice president will take over the role previously held by the Student Senate graduate affairs director. This change in title mainly serves to clarify the responsibilities of this position, according to the bill.
“We will have that person, basically, at an equal of the student body president, and we’re able to then bring up issue and concerns of graduate students directly to the source,” said Brittney Oleniacz, a graduate student senator who co-authored the bill to create the position.
Many other colleges similar to the University have a comparable position or a separate graduate student government, so the change in title makes it easier to collaborate with other student governments on national issues relevant to graduate students, Oleniacz said.
“It’s basically to let other universities know where we stand, that we also support graduate students, and that our voice is being heard within the University,” said Jessy Ayestas, a graduate student senator who co-authored the bill.
The graduate student body vice president will be appointed by the Graduate Student Advisory Board — unlike the graduate affairs director, who was hired by the student body president. The vice president chosen by GSAB will be subject to approval from the student body president and Student Senate, similar to the process of hiring with other positions.
“The student body president may not know what graduate students need from our champion, from our representative, and having GSAB essentially vote and nominate the person to then be appointed by the president is huge,” Oleniacz said.
Oleniacz said the appointment process by GSAB is temporary. The goal is to move toward a general election among graduate students, but the ongoing changes happening within the Office of Graduate Studies and the University make it easier to appoint a candidate for the time being.
“We’re undergoing a lot of change,” Oleniacz said. “Until the dust settles, the board will be nominating this person.”
Oleniacz and Student Body President Noah Ries both said this change will help bring in better candidates, since GSAB is more familiar with applicants than the undergraduate student body president.
“[GSAB has] really overhauled it this year in a way they’ve never seen before, in a way that’s going to provide continuity and representation across the board,” Ries said. “Really, when I look at this bill, the only change I see is that graduate students are electing their champion.”
Oleniacz said these bills codify the improvements made this year within Senate to better represent graduate students.
“Sometimes, things are mixed up in translation, and graduate students have commonly been forgotten about,” Oleniacz said. “This position ensures that graduate students are still at the forefront of people’s minds.”
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KT, Intel team up to save energy costs
Lee Hee-sung, second from right, country manager of Intel Korea, and Song Jung-hee, to his right, senior executive vice president of KT’s service innovation division, listen to Yun Dong-sik, head of KT’s cloud division, at a high-temperature ambivalence test center jointly built by the two firms in Cheonan, South Chungcheong Province, Tuesday. / Courtesy of KT
By Cho Mu-hyun
CHEONAN, South Chungcheong Province _ Mobile carrier KT and semiconductor maker Intel showcased a new test center Tuesday that can control the temperature of Internet data centers that will save on electricity costs.
Due to the recent scorching heat that has hit the nation, temperature maintenance using air conditioners for overheating data centers has been posing serious problems for a country trying to conserve energy.
The new jointly built high temperature ambience (HTA) test center saves air conditioning costs by allowing data centers to function in temperatures over 30 degrees Celsius. The optimal temperature for data centers is around 22 degrees.
After additional research, and commencing officially with an Internet cloud-based data center in Cheonan in 2013, the two companies plan to apply HTA to all 10 KT owned data centers in the country.
If the HTA system operates as planned, maintenance crew can set internal temperatures higher than 22 degrees without worrying about malfunctions. According to KT and Intel, for every degree that they can raise the temperature, about 7 percent of air conditioning costs are saved.
If the new system is applied to every KT-owned center, it is expected to save 8.6 billion won annually. Implementing the new system to every data center nationwide would save up to 44.8 billion, according to KT.
More and more data centers have been built due to the rising traffic caused by Internet-connected devices. The number has risen 17 percent annually from 2006 globally, according to KT and Intel.
“Intel has provided a futuristic data center model by building the HTA test center,” said Intel Korea country manager Lee Hee-sung at a press conference. “The HTA center built in cooperation with KT will certify Intel-based platforms as the industry standard.”
According to the Korea Information Technology Service Association, the number of data centers in Korea will rise 26 percent and energy consumption by them, 45 percent every year. There are currently around 100 data centers in Korea.
Rising electricity fees are a serious burden for information technology firms. In 2011, charges rose by 4.9 percent in August and 4.5 percent in December. They increased by a further 4.9 percent this month.
Out of the total electricity used in operating a data facility, over 40 percent goes into cooling, which can make an HTA system much-sought after technology by other companies in the industry. In the long term, the two companies plan to sell the new technology.
“The cooperation between KT and Intel is to secure a foundation in building a green-energy data center that can save costs and electricity consumption for the rising numbers of such facilities,” said Song Jung-hee, senior executive vice president of KT’s service innovation division, also at the conference.
“We will secure the know-how in making data centers function in high temperatures, and furthermore, open a consulting business in making such centers for domestic and foreign clients.”
impale@koreatimes.co.kr More articles by this reporter
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“Take It from Me,” Jordan Davis loves having a #1 with his brother
March 4, 2019 Music News
ABC RadioThis week, Jordan Davis’ second single becomes his second number one, as “Take It from Me” rises to the top of the chart. It’s especially significant for the Louisiana native, because he wrote the song with his
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'American Idol' returns: Season premiere brings laughs and tears in first round of auditions
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Luke Combs' latest #1, “Beautiful Crazy,” leads to an awkward moment at a friend's wedding
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Archive | Transportation
Standard Operating Procedures for Crossing Libya/Tunisia Border
By editor2 on November 21, 2018 in Transportation
Ras Ajdir, alternatively named Ras Jdir or Ras Ejder, is the main and most used border crossing between Tunisia (Ben Gardane-Medenine governorate) and Libya (Nuqat al Khams district), and Libya’s most northerly point. The nearest towns are Zarzis, 78 km from the border on the Tunisian side, and Zwarah, 60 km on the Libyan side. […]
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IOM Resumes Humanitarian Return Flights from Sebha
By editor2 on November 15, 2018 in Security, Transportation
Suspended for Two Years, IOM Resumes Voluntary Humanitarian Return Flights from Southern Libya The UN Migration Agency, IOM, resumed its Voluntary Humanitarian Return Programme (VHR) in Libya’s southern city of Sebha last week. VHR provides support to stranded migrants wishing to return to their home countries. In recent months, IOM has been expanding its outreach […]
Tags: Emergency Trust Fund for Africa (EUTF), European Union (EU), featured, International Organization for Migration (IOM), Nigeria, Repatriation, Sabha, Sebha, Voluntary Humanitarian Return Programme (VHR)
Air Partner Transports Equipment for Libyan Firm
By editor2 on October 10, 2018 in Transportation
Air Partner, the UK-based global aviation services group, recently completed a cargo flight to transport airport equipment from the Czech Republic to Libya on behalf of a Libyan logistics company. Air Partner received a request to charter 1100kgs of cargo from Czech airport Brno–Tuřany Airport to Al Abraq International Airport in the eastern part of […]
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Talks to Resume Construction of Sirte-Benghazi Railway
By editor2 on October 2, 2018 in Construction & Engineering, Transportation
By John Lee. A high-level Libyan delegation is reportedly planning to visit Russia soon to discuss resuming construction of the Sirte-Benghazi railway. Nasir Shaglan, Economy and Industry Minister in the Government of National Accord (GNA) told Russia’s Kommersant newspaper that he held “wonderful negotiations” with the Russian Railways (RZhD) company earlier in September. He is quoted as […]
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Mitiga Airport diverts Flights after Rocket Attack
By editor2 on September 12, 2018 in Security, Transportation
By John Lee. Tripoli’s Mitiga International Airport has reportedly diverted flights after a rocket attack on Tuesday night. There were no immediate reports of damage or casualties, according to BBC. The attack forced a Libyan Airlines flight from Alexandria in Egypt to divert to Misrata. (Sources: Reuters, BBC)
Tags: Airports, featured, Mitiga, Tripoli
New Billion-Dollar Port Planned for Libya
By editor2 on August 21, 2018 in Construction & Engineering, Oil & Gas, Transportation
By John Lee. The American-based Guidry Group has reportedly unveiled plans for what it says will be the largest deepwater sea port in North Africa, near the city of Susah in northeastern Libya. Michael Guidry, the founder and CEO of the company, said the “billion-dollar” port design was selected by Libyan leaders in 2015. According […]
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Libya-Tunisia Border Remains Closed
By editor2 on August 1, 2018 in Security, Transportation
By John Lee. The Government of National Accord (GNA) has announced that it will continue the closure from the Libyan side of the main Libyan-Tunisian land border crossing at Ras Ajdir. More here. (Source: Libya Herald)
Tags: Borders, featured, Government of National Accord (GNA), Ras Ajdir, Tunisia
Tunisia to Resume Flights to Libya “Very Soon”
By editor2 on June 12, 2018 in Transportation
By John Lee. Tunisia is to resume flights to Libya “very soon.” According to a report from Xinhua, Tunisia’s Foreign Minister Khamis Al-Jahnawi confirmed on Monday that Tunisair will very soon resume operations in Libya, which had been suspended since 2014 due to security concerns. He made the remarks during a meeting with Tripoli-based Prime […]
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SwitoTwins, Inc.
Switotwins Inc is a private organization created in December 2012 composed of a group of consultants, researchers and training facilitators of digital storytelling and story-based people-centered Architectural design. Switotwins provides companies with corporate social responsibility packages to improve professional, business and organizational development to lift social impact in thecommunity. Switotwins Inc is recognized for its initiatives in the Smart PayItforward, British Council Ideation Camp, Our Better World, Google Business Group Stories, Universities and Councils Network on Innovation for Inclusive Development South East Asia and Great Impact SouthEast-Asia.
To know more, visit their website HERE.
GloryRose Dy
Rose is an architect and the Director of SwitoDesigns. She is a product of University of the Philippines Mindanao – BS Architecture. Soon after she graduated, she started her architectural career as a technical officer for TAO Pilipinas, Inc. where she gained experience working with the urban poor communities in Metro Manila and implemented people-centered Architectural design.
In 2010, Rose gained considerable experience in design and project management of malls and assembly areas, working for SM Engineering and Design Department. Her experience in Architecture is inclusive as she can combine commercial design with community values to bring out building with social impact.
She co-founded Switotwins Inc in 2012 and became one of the emerging women architects who encourages nation building, empowers individuals and promotes building and rebuilding with a heart.
Rose is also an advocate of alternative building construction specifically with the use of the ‘old’ and ‘new’ indigenous materials where she incorporates used bottles and tires with bamboo and lumber, upscale junk in building materials and advocating for green roof systems and rainwater catchment. Apart from her social entrepreneurship, Rose leads GBG Women on the Web to encourage women to become entrepreneurs and follow their passions in life.
GloryPearl Dy
Working for solidarity and advocacy organizations while studying and soon after she finished college, Pearl gained considerable experience with grassroots communities in the Philippines specifically in peacebuilding, land tenure and enterprise development. She served as Information Officer and Media Liason for Initiatives for International Dialogue and Task Force Mapalad, Inc. and worked as Assistant Coordinator for the Grassroots Documentation Reporting Training for MindaNews.
In 2012, she established Switotwins Digital Storytelling and the Swito Architectural Design in 2013 under the social enterprise, Switotwins Inc along with four other co-founders. In 2014, they created Balud Books, the small publishing and printing industry that would initiate their I Am A Changemakers winning idea “Your Story Your Livelihood.” Since then, Switotwins has grown into the premier digital storytelling venue and story-based design in the Philippines.
Pearl has conducted several digital storytelling workshops both for artistic expression and psychosocial recovery for survivors of violence against women, natural calamities and armed conflicts. She has a reputation of empowering people by encouraging them to share their own voice and reach out to more communities within the local and international sphere.
Pearl now takes responsibility as a trainer for Making Businesses Social for Google and continues to speak in Startup MeetUps to encourage entrepreneurship with social and economic goals. She was awarded Most Distinguished Alumnus for Media Innovation and Social Enterprise by the University of the Philippines in Mindanao.
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Manor Farm Holiday Cottages, Norfolk
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Manor Farm is a working family farm with crops and animals – its seven luxury cottages, once traditional farm buildings.
Sensitively converted to preserve their original character and appearance, they provide high-standard accommodation for families large and small.
Manor Farm is set in some of North Norfolk’s most attractive countryside, surrounded by green hills, woods and meadows. East Runton’s glorious beach, with its wide stretch of sand and rock pools, is just 15 minutes’ walk – or a quick drive – away. West Runton beach, right next door, is where a few years ago the fossil of a woolly mammoth was unearthed.
Visitors to East Runton have plenty to do. There are numerous cross-country walks, the beach, two pubs for a quiet pint, a village pond with ducks to feed, a children’s play area, shops and even a Greek restaurant. Nearby, Cromer and Sheringham have every kind of shop, restaurant and attraction imaginable, as well as their own wonderful beaches.
Towns, villages, beaches and attractions across North Norfolk are all within a short drive, with many on the doorstep. The choice for adults and children is enormous, as our North Norfolk page shows.
More about Manor Farm
Work on the 150-acre farm never stops for the family. Crops grown are sugar beet and malting barley, while the rest is down to grazing. Animals include 110 mule ewes, which have been crossed with a Texel ram to produce meaty lambs. Twenty Red Poll breeding cows and their calves. A Simmental bull, Hocus Pocus. Two ponies – Titch and Gerbil, plus donkeys – Jess, Dora and Donald. Pygmy goats – Maizie, Daisy, Lottie, Ludo and Uno!
A little history – from the family
Manor Farm was bought in 1919 by Erskine Byworth, the current owners’ grandfather, after he had endured – and miraculously survived – four years in the trenches on the Western Front.
Originally from London, after the war he found he just wanted a quiet, peaceful life. He had a small dairy herd and did a milk round in the village. In 1930, he introduced the family to tourism, accepting the first campers on a very informal basis. In the early 1960s, Erskine Byworth’s daughter and son-in-law took over running the farm. They phased out the cows and introduced breeding sows and laying hens.
At about this time the farm’s camping business became more ‘serious’ and organised, with the introduction of ‘thunderboxes’ – rather primitive loos! In 1975, after two purpose-built blocks with flushing toilets and showers were built, the campsite really began to expand.
The current generation – Phil, Gill and Fiona – came into the business in the early 1980s. The hens were sold, the pig herd increased and a flock of sheep established. By the late 1990s the pigs had become unprofitable and were sold.
For five years during the early 2000s the pig sheds were used to rear ducks – from day-old chicks to table birds, produced at the rate of 60,000 a year. The latest addition, made in the late 2000s, is a small suckler beef herd.
Manor Farm Holiday Cottages
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New Research from Principal Shows Annuities Improve Retirement Outcomes
DES MOINES, Iowa–(BUSINESS WIRE)–The simulations have been run and the numbers have been crunched: annuities help improve retirement outcomes compared to investments alone.
“Workers show strong interest in guaranteed income1, but one-third of individuals report lower interest in the same guaranteed lifetime income product when it is labeled as an annuity2”
The research looked at how retirees can use guaranteed income annuities to not only improve financial outcomes, but also increase confidence and reduce stress in retirement.
“Workers show strong interest in guaranteed income1, but one-third of individuals report lower interest in the same guaranteed lifetime income product when it is labeled as an annuity2,” said Sri Reddy, senior vice president of retirement and income solutions at Principal®. “It’s time to demystify the value of annuities and acknowledge their role as part of a balanced retirement plan.”
How annuities impact retirement portfolios
Retirees who had guaranteed income through an annuity were more likely to feel confident and accept more market volatility with their other assets.
Annuities are one of the most efficient ways to generate guaranteed income. This is demonstrated through a series of three case studies which looked at combination strategies using both annuities and investments compared to traditional investments-only portfolios. The simulations found:
Adding an income annuity to a retirement portfolio allows a retiree to get the same or higher income with lower risk of outliving savings than an investments-only approach.
Income annuities allow a retiree to spend at a level that investments alone would be unable to match without significant risk of running out of money before age 95.
Using both annuities and investments can enhance the value of assets for heirs over the long term.
Ultimately, the research showed income annuities can help to better meet client goals in retirement than an investments-only approach in most situations.
“Annuities are essentially a pension provided by a private company. If you’re the type of retiree who wishes they had a pension, you can buy one through an income annuity that will provide a regular income as long as you live,” said Finke. “If the reason you saved for retirement was to provide a secure lifestyle, there’s no more efficient way to create lifetime income that through an annuity.”
The role of confidence
In addition to the quantitative findings, the researchers interviewed income annuity owners to provide insight into the emotional impact of guaranteed income. They found that annuity owners have a greater level of confidence, feel the freedom to spend and invest and feel more certain in leaving a legacy.
Using an income annuity supports higher success rates in retirement. Retirement outcomes when the combination approach is used are very attractive when compared to investments-only, both in terms of supporting a spending goal and a greater legacy value of remaining assets.
On an emotional level, retirees are more confident when there’s certainty to their monthly income. The certainty an income annuity provides increases confidence and reduces stress in retirement.
“If the hard numbers and math don’t convince you, then take it right from the source. Retirees who had purchased an annuity are more confident than those without one,” added Reddy. “They worry less about the market, feel more comfortable spending on things they enjoy and feel they have a better life with less worry of outliving their savings. The head and the heart come together here to show that annuities really do help people have enough, save enough and protect enough for their future.”
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In Signum
Outside his home Justin furiously chopped firewood. He spent his anger toward Kegan, Gareth and his father on the diminishing pile of logs. An hour of this yielded a neat pyramid of pieces, perfectly sized for use in the fireplace or outdoor oven, as well as a sizable stack of kindling. Justin looked around at the clean yard, dropped his ax, and slumped down against the back wall of his house, his head leaned back, and his eyes closed. The exertion had calmed him both body and mind, but he was no less troubled than when he had left the field. What were Gareth and his father thinking? Kegan had obviously issued a challenge. He had impeached the honor of the whole family. Almost everyone there had interpreted it so. Gareth had always been so slow to anger. It infuriated Justin to think of his best friend’s father accepting such an insult as if nothing had even happened. And it shamed him that Gareth did not challenge his father on this point. Obeying one’s father when commanded or restraining if forbidden was expected, but Gareth could at least contend with him on this point. The sun slipped away unnoticed by Justin, as he drifted into a troubled sleep, to be awakened later by his own father who urged him to come in and eat just as the stars were starting to appear.
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Erasmus+/Erasmus Mundus scholarships are available to apply for 2019 intake.
:: 6.Jan.2019 – Early application for regular admission and Erasmus+ scholarships
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Information on Erasmus+/Erasmus Mundus scholarships
The European Union granted MediaAC a significant number of scholarships available for incoming students to the Media Arts Cultures Master of Arts program. These scholarships are available to all prospective students, regardless of nationality, and are highly competitive. Only applicants who have submitted all the required documents will be eligible for consideration. The final decision lies with the EU commission on Education and Training based on a ranking submitted by the Media Arts Cultures Admission Board. The following amounts are awarded:
Programme Countries scholarship grantees receive all participation fees paid, 1000 EUR per month stipend for the duration of the 24 month masters program and 1.000 EUR per year for travel costs.
PartnerCountries scholarship grantees receive all participation fees paid, 1000 EUR per month stipend for the duration of the 24 month masters program and between 3000 and 7000 EUR for travel & installment, depending on the distance to residence from the MediaAC coordinating university. (see below).
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The following countries, including the Overseas Countries and Territories of EU Member State countries, can fully take part in all Erasmus+ Actions:
Member states of the European Union (EU): Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovak Republic, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, United Kingdom.
Non-EU programme countries: Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway, Turkey. (currently the status of Switzerland is Partner Country)
Partner Countries are all countries not included in the list of European Partner Coutnries above.
Programme Country travel allowances:
1000 EUR per year for travel costs.
Partner Countries travel allowances:
2.000 EUR per year for travel costs + 1.000 EUR for installation costs for scholarship holder resident of a Partner Country whose location is situated at less than 4.000 km from the MediaAC coordinating university.
3.000 EUR per year for travel costs + 1.000 EUR for installation costs for scholarship holder resident of a Partner Country whose location is situated at 4.000 km or more from the MediaAC coordinating university.
(Selected text from student agreement):
The student participating in MediaAC as an Erasmus+ scholarship holder understands that for months in which the student is absent from the master programme, no matter if the student in advance or subsequently has asked for being granted this absence from the respective Consortium partner, the monthly allowance may not be paid to the student.
All payments will be done by bank transfer to an Austrian bank account. The student will provide the respective data (account number etc.) to the Coordinator at the beginning of studies.
The student understands that possible tax obligations that may result from the scholarship, in Austria or in other countries the student is a resident of, are solely in the student’s own responsibility and that the Coordinator and the other consortium partners of MediaAC cannot be made responsible for fulfilling such obligations.
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Rahul Gandhi Begins Two-day Odisha Visit
Published: 09th February 2014 12:02 PM | Last Updated: 09th February 2014 12:02 PM | A+A A-
Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi Sunday arrived in Odisha on a two-day tour.
Hundreds of Congress workers and leaders greeted him and gave him a rousing welcome when he landed at the Biju Patnaik International Airport here.
Gandhi is scheduled to address a public meeting, interact with party leaders and workers and hold road shows during his tour as he kick-starts his party's campaign in the state for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections.
He is scheduled to travel by road to Bhatapada village on Cuttack's outskirts to address a public meeting later in the day, state Congress chief Jayadev Jena told IANS.
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Will direct farmers' resentment against BJP in 2019 polls: Congress
Congress leaders are also aware that they have to first put their own house in order before facing the BJP in polls.
Published: 12th December 2018 04:50 PM | Last Updated: 12th December 2018 04:50 PM | A+A A-
Image used as reprsentation for farmer loans.
MUMBAI: Against the backdrop of the BJP's defeat in three Hindi heartland states, the Congress in Maharashtra feels that it can channel the "agrarian distress" and "anger" over the lack of jobs against the ruling BJP, in the assembly and Lok Sabha elections due next year.
Maharashtra sends the second largest chunk of MPs (48) to Lok Sabha after Uttar Pradesh (80). At the same time, Congress leaders are also aware that they have to first put their own house in order before facing the BJP in polls.
In 2014 Lok Sabha polls, the Congress had registered its worst performance when it won only two seats.
The Congress, which was in power for three consecutive terms in alliance with the NCP from 1999 until 2014, could win only 42 of 288 seats in the state assembly polls held in October last year.
According to political observers, public unrest over unemployment and "agrarian crises" is more acute in Maharashtra than in Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh and Rajasthan--the Hindi heartland states where the BJP lost power in recent polls.
Meanwhile, disputing the government's claims on promoting budding entrepreneurs, observers claimed that the institutions running the skilled development courses are not being paid by the government until they submit details of employment provided by them.
"Similarly, it is difficult to avail credit from banks under the Mudra scheme", they said.
Unlike Rajasthan, MP and Chhattisgarh, state of Maharashtra is a multi-party polity where regional parties like Shiv Sena and NCP have their own areas of influence.
Besides, small players like Raj Thackeray-led MNS, Maharashtra Swabhiman Party of Narayan Rane, Bahujan Vikas Agadhi, SP, BSP, SSS, CPI, RPI can also influence vote share.
A Maharashtra Congress leader said the party's future strategy will be to defeat all candidates of BJP, which had emerged as the single largest party in 2014 polls by winning 121 seats.
"In case the Congress and the NCP fail to ensure victory for their nominees, the strategy would be to directly or indirectly support influential candidates who can do so," the leader said.
Referring to the BJP win in recent civic polls in Maharashtra, the leader said the ruling party adopted a strategy wherein it had poached the well-networked and established corporators from other parties.
He said the BJP used intimidating tactics on those who refused to defect. "This strategy of the BJP will not work in assembly and Lok Sabha polls", he said.
Senior Congress leader from Mumbai Milind Deora sounds more realistic.
"I am concerned about Mumbai which elects 36 MLAs. If we want to win Maharashtra, we need to do well in Mumbai. As a party, we need to take everybody along", said the former Mumbai South MP.
Deora said the outcome of recent polls will definitely boost the morale of the party workers but a lot of work has to be done in Mumbai.
"We have to reach out to different sections of the society and run an aspirational campaign. We have to take along all leaders in the party. Before bringing other like-minded parties on board, we need to put our own house in order first", Deora noted.
State BJP spokesman Keshav Upadhayay said the party is confident of winning 2019 assembly and LS polls on the strength of its organisational muscle.
"In the just-concluded election to Dhule municipal corporation and previously Sangli municipal corporation, the Congress and NCP contested together but we defeated them convincingly," he said.
Sources in BJP rejected Congress' claims that the BJP was poaching corporators.
"They (corporators) joined the BJP because of the development work carried out by the Devendra Fadnavis government", they said.
About possible political permutations and combinations emerging ahead of elections, an NCP leader said the MNS is keen to tie up with the Sharad Pawar-led party.
"But we are not sure if votes of MNS will be transferred to us in elections", he said.
On a speculation about NCP favouring Narayan Rane, who is currently the BJP Rajya Sabha MP, as an alliance partner in the Congress-led grouping, the leader said, "If Shiv Sena and BJP tie up for the upcoming polls, Rane will quit the NDA".
BJP Congress farmers loan crisis agrarian crises
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HC Vacates Stay in Shukkoor Murder Case
Published: 14th January 2016 05:47 AM | Last Updated: 14th January 2016 05:47 AM | A+A A-
KOCHI: The Kerala High Court on Wednesday vacated the stay imposed on trial of the controversial Shukkoor murder case in which CPM Kannur district secretary P Jayarajan and T V Rajesh MLA are the accused. The court adjourned the hearing of the case for two weeks.
Justice B Kemal Pasha passed the interim order when a petition filed by Jayarajan and Rajesh seeking to quash the final report against them in the case, came up for hearing. The petitioners argued that the trial would cause irreparable loss to them.
Jayarajan and Rajesh had been charged under Section 118 of the IPC (concealing design to commit offence punishable with death or imprisonment for life) in the case. The case is that CPM men were given the direction to‘handle’ Shukkoor, from the hospital where Jayarajan and Rajesh were admitted to after they were attacked by Muslim League activists. The conversation was overheard by the petitioners, but no action was taken to prevent the crime.As part of the trial proceedings, the petitioners appeared before the Sessions Court and they were enlarged on bail. The trial in the case was pending and posted for hearing before framing charges.
Recently, the state government ordered a CBI probe and the agency is yet to take over the case.
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National Highway 49 traffic paralysed as bridge caves in Bengasua Nullah
Published: 11th September 2016 07:15 AM | Last Updated: 11th September 2016 07:15 AM | A+A A-
DEOGARH:Movement of vehicular traffic on busy National Highway 49 connecting Mumbai with Kolkata came to a grinding halt after a bridge over Bengasua Nullah, about five km from here, caved in due to incessant rain in the wee hours of Saturday.
As the authorities closed the bridge for communication, hundreds of vehicles remained stranded on both sides of the bridge.
Executive Engineer, Deogarh NH Division, Chittaranjan Dash said one of the piers on which the bridge stands got damaged due to heavy downpour. As a result, there was a depression on the bridge making movement over it risky. Since reconstruction of the bridge will take some time, they have decided to construct a diversion road to facilitate movement of vehicles on the NH.
Dash said construction work of the diversion road will be taken up immediately but it will take minimum 10 days before being opened for traffic. An alternative route is being worked out for movement of the vehicles during the period.
The bridge was more than five decades old and the police and district administration have been informed about the incident. Steps were being taken to detour the vehicles.
Till the diversion road is restored, the vehicles will be diverted from Sambalpur via Angul to touch the NH at Pallahara.
Informing that the district received 102 mm of rainfall in the last 24 hours, District Emergency Officer of Deogarh, Basant Kumar Dash said Deogarh Municipality area received as high as 195.04 mm of rainfall during the period which led to the collapse of the old bridge.
The heavy rain has damaged 230 houses in Deogarh Municipal limits, 20 houses in Barkote block and sand casting has been reported from over 17.1 hectares of paddy field.
Considered a major road for commercial vehicles, the breach in the bridge would cost the truckers dear.
Thousands of vehicles ply on the highway on a daily basis and the NH Division will have to work hard to restore communication.
Deogarh Additional District Magistrate Bhakta Charan Pradhan, Sub-Collector Bimalendu Mishra and Tehsildar Subrat Nayak rushed to the spot where the bridge had caved in and took stock of the situation.
They also held discussion with Executive Engineer, NH Division to find a way for movement and regulation of the traffic.
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ISA Firewall Client for Vista
Microsoft has unveiled the new ISA Firewall Client that runs on Windows Vista, Microsoft’s latest addition to flagship Windows operating system series.
The new version of the ISA Firewall Client is available for download on the Microsoft Downloads page and it supports the following:
Client operating systems: Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows Server 2003, Windows XP and (of course) Windows Vista.
ISA Server versions: ISA 2000, ISA 2004 (Standard & Enterprise), ISA 2006 (Standard & Enterprise).
[ Download Firewall Client See the Microsoft KB article ]
One Response to ISA Firewall Client for Vista
A problem was found in this release of firewall client. See http://blog.shijaz.com/2007/07/hotfix-for-latest-vista-compatible.html
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Ministry of Health launches National Malnutrition Policy
The Health Ministry has launched the National Nutrition Policy to check rising malnutrition among Ghanaians, especially children under five years.
Health Minister, Alexander Segbefia, says there is a large section of the country’s population who suffer nutrition related diseases such as stunted growth, underweight, obesity, anaemia among others.
Malnourished babies suffer mainly as a result poor breastfeeding, the minister noted.
These notwithstanding, he stated that Ghana has made remarkable progress in solving nutritional problems as cited continually by the Global Nutrition Report 2016.
He said stunting which largely affects human productivity, he says has dropped from about 35% to 19% in recent statistics.
“Great strides have been made in reducing the level of undernutrition across the country” he said
Mr. Segbefia mentioned however that the Ministry recognises that “a significant number of our population for whom progress has not been fast or equal enough.”
Current statistics from the World Health Organization (WHO) also suggest over 150 million children under age five are stunted, with the majority of these children living in sub-Sahara Africa.
For this reason, the Ministry and other stakeholders including the Ghana Health Service have put together the National Nutrition Policy to tackle these problems.
The policy aims at ensuring optimal nutrition of all people living in Ghana throughout their lifecycle.
Some interventions that will be put in place include instituting a six-month materiality leave, scaling up the Community-Led Total Sanitation (CLTS) initiatives and encouraging public-private partnerships for nutrition security.
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A dozen things to do in Doha
PAUL WATERS, For The Montreal Gazette 07.04.2011
Traditional dhows frame Doha's wildly futruristic skyline.Handout photo / Qatar Tourism Authority
The Souq Waqif certainly looks authentic enough, but it's actually a reconstruction built on the site of Doha's original market.Handout photo / Qatar Tourism Authority
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When it comes to excess, the independent statelet of Qatar is no match for its neighbours on the Persian Gulf - or what's known in Qatar as the Arabian Gulf.
The place is rich enough to be extravagant. It probably has enough natural gas to heat Antarctica. But it has nothing to match Dubai's indoor ski hill or Abu Dhabi's Ferrari World theme park. Still, it can manage a few reality-warping scenes - like a woman in full black abaya and face veil gliding down a chlorinated canal in an electric-powered gondola. That's one way to get to the local Gap store.
The emir - Sheik Hamid bin Khalifa Al Thani, to give him his full title - appears to be aiming for something more sedate, more cultured, more restrained. He's also aiming to make his capital, Doha, into a regional travel hub with connections to cities all over Asia and Africa. And that's why Qatar Airlines has started non-stop service to Montreal. So if you could very well end up here for a day or two on your way somewhere else. If you do, here are a dozen things to do in (or near) Doha before you depart.
Get cultured: Don't miss the Museum of Islamic Art. Even if you have no interest in the world's finest collection of Persian rugs, Turkish mosaics and damascene wood carvings, the place is worth a visit just to stroll through the grand halls and courtyards of architect I.M. Pei's cubist take on the Muslim minaret.
Listen to a symphony: The Qatari Philharmonic plays on the waterfront in a tiny perfect concert hall with admirable acoustics, 500 comfy seats and great sight lines (eat your heart out, MSO). It also has just enough gilt and crystal to give it a dash of 19th-century decadence. It's part of the Katara Cultural Village - a half-finished beachside complex that also includes restaurants, galleries, cinemas and a 1,000-seat amphitheatre. This is excess with class.
Visit the unicorn reserve: OK, they're really Arabian Oryx - Mahas in Arabic. And they have two long, tapering horns - not one. But in profile, they might be mistaken for unicorns, and some think that's how the whole myth started. They're Qatar's national symbol, and the country's Al Maha Sanctuary - an hour's drive out of Doha - helped to snatch them from the brink of extinction.
Take a hike: Walking anywhere here is a little like walking on the Ville Marie Expressway - the traffic's that bad and the drivers that uncaring. But the city's corniche is safe and one of the most beautiful in the Middle East. It's seven kilometres long and stretches in a gentle arc around the harbour. In the evening, families picnic on the grass under the date palms and pairs of women in abayas and Adidas take power walks along the promenade.
Sip a coffee in the souq: You can still buy sacks of rice and barrels of olives from tiny shops in the Souq Waqif. You can even buy a canary or a falcon. But it's a bit of a sham. The original souq was demolished a decade ago and replaced with this Disneylike reconstruction. Still, it's a major gathering place for everyone from Qatari nationals and Western expats to Pakistani labourers and Filipina nannies. So grab an outside table at a café on the main drag, order a Turkish coffee medium sweet and a wad of apple-scented tobacco for your shisha and watch the passing parade.
Go the mall: I know, this sounds terrible. But in a country where summer temperatures get painfully close to 50C and the relative humidity hovers around 85 per cent and the water in the pool is too hot to swim in, the airc-onditioned mall plays a special social role. At the Villagio, for example, you can go to a movie, ride a roller coaster, race a go-kart and, of course, glide down a canal in a gondola. That's excess minus the class.
Buy jewelry: The Gold Souq is housed in a collection of shabby 1960s-style buildings clustered around the noisy bus terminal, but what it lacks in charm it makes up in glitter and aggressive merchants. Just try to get out without buying a string of cheap freshwater pearls. If the wonderfully ornate Arabic style gold on display isn't to your taste, worry not. The jewellers boast they can imitate just about any style you want. Just bring a picture from your favourite fashion magazine.
Eat brunch: Friday buffet brunch at a five-star hotel is the social event of the week here for Qatari nationals and Western expats alike. In fact, it's one of the rare occasions when the two mix, or at least share the same social space. Service starts at noon and ends about 4 p.m., and some families stay for the whole thing, eating their way through life-threatening quantities of roast meats, grilled fish, salads, pastas, cheeses, curries, ice cream and Arab sweets, all washed down with copious amounts of wine. Yes wine. This is a Muslim country and liquor is tightly controlled. But the rules appear to vanish for Friday brunch. Reservations are a must.
Get dressed: Their shops don't look anything like the ones on London's Savile Row, but the Indian tailors who toil away in the cramped shops of the Filipino Souq can whip you up a creditable made-tomeasure linen suit for $150 ($130 if you haggle) and an Egyptian cotton shirt for less than $30.
Get outta town: If you're here for a week, you've got to get to the desert. The dunes along the coast are mountainous slabs of sand as much as 200 metres high. Roaring up them in an SUV or on an all-terrain vehicle is the local sport. The more sedately inclined can park by the sea, have a picnic and watch the lunatics in SUVs challenge the sands.
A day at the (camel) races: Watching a pack of half-tonne dromedaries race across the sand at 40 km/h should make you think of Lawrence of Arabia and the Revolt in the Desert. But the jockeys kind of spoil the image. They're 26-kilogram robots that cost about $5,500 -twice what unscrupulous owners used to pay for child-jockeys. Now owners follow their beasts in SUVs and control the robot's "whip hand" by remote control. Still it's exciting. The season runs from October to May.
Have a spa day: Barber shops in strip malls at gas stations in this country offer the "full Gulfie" - haircut, pedicure, manicure, facial and massage all delivered by a multi-racial crew from all over the Third World. Here, it's a manly tradition - like wearing perfume. Of course, if gas stations aren't your thing, you can get the same thing in more luxurious surroundings at most of the major hotels - at suitable luxurious prices, of course.
A word on getting around: Forget walking or cycling. Unfortunately, British expat engineers foisted the roundabout (a traffic system designed to endanger pedestrians and make body-shop owners wealthy) on this kingdom. The Carawa public buses are comfortable and air-conditioned, but the system is primitive. The transit company also operates the city's fleet of aquamarine metered cabs. They're cheap and you can hail them on the street, but if you phone for one, expect to wait four or five hours. Also their neatly uniformed drivers (white shirt, aquamarine tie and epaulettes) often don't know where anything is and in a city without proper addresses that can be a distinct disadvantage. Best to call one of the licensed private companies. They're efficient, dependable and still pretty cheap. A half-hour ride to the edge of the city, for example, will cost you about 50 riyals or $14. Try Niyas (my favourite) at 55-16-38-20.
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Central Maine & Quebec Plans to Resume Unit Oil Trains!
Less than a year following the rail disaster in Lac Mégantic, Quebec, yesterdays headline on the Concord Monitor sends a chilling message, "CEO hopes town where 47 died will okay oil trains."
"John Giles, president and CEO of Central Maine and Quebec Railway, said he hopes to have an agreement with Lac-Mégantic officials within 10 days that would allow the railroad to ship nonhazardous goods, restoring the vital link between the railroad's operations to the east and west of the community.
"The company plans to spend $10 million on rail improvements in Canada over the next two years with a goal of resuming oil shipments in 18 months.
"In the interest of safety, and I think being sensitive toward a social contract with Lac Mégantic, we have chosen not to handle crude oil and dangerous goods through the city until we've got the railroad infrastructure improved, and made more reliable."
And how do the residents of Lac Mégantic react to this stunning revelation?
"People are still in distress, in pain, facing financial problems and we're talking about the train company starting up," the owner of the Musi-Cafe told The Canadian Press on Friday.
Musi-Cafe was adjacent to the explosion, resulting in the deaths of several patrons.
The devastated section of the town still smells of Bakken Crude.
"We're still in survival mode, we have no revenue." Gagne said he and others in continue to struggle to survive. "I find it deplorable that we're surviving with the help of the Red Cross, with small amounts every week."
Gagne also said residents will be very angry when they find out the new railway is already talking about moving tankers through the town again.
Thursday afternoon (May 15) paperwork was completed for the new Central Maine & Québec Railway (CMQ) to take over the U.S. operations of the bankrupt Montréal, Maine & Atlantic.
The new railroad says that it will use two-person crews on all trains. Montreal Maine & Atlantic (MM&A) operated with just an engineer, who conducted switch moves with a remote control package.
A fleet second-hand leased EMD SD40-2s and GP20s will replace MMAs second-hand General Electric power.
Federal Transport Minister Lisa Raitt, who recently signed the death warrant for DOT-111 tank cars, pointed out that her department was not involved in the agreement between Montreal Maine and Atlantic Railway and Lac Mégantic.
"I continue to follow this matter very closely," she wrote in an email. "As this is a matter between a private company and the municipality, it would be inappropriate to comment further."
By the way, has anyone seen Ed Burkhardt around lately?
Today marks the 34th anniversary of the day 1 square mile of BNSF property went up - in ash!
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Norwegian Govt congratulates Kazakhstan’s Presidential Election win
The government and the representatives of community of the Kingdom of Norway congratulate President of Kazakhstan on his election win, Kazinform reports.
“The Royal Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs presents its compliments to the Embassy of the Republic of Kazakhstan and has the honor on behalf of the Government to congratulate President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev on the inauguration,” a note from the Norwegian MFA reads.
Kazakhstan’s President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, (right) and first President Nursultan Nazarbayev.
Knut Vollebæk, former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Norway, former OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities also congratulated Kassym-Jomart Tokayev on his victory in June 9 Election.
“I do wish him well in his new and challenging task. The world goes through a very turbulent time where many of the principles for good and viable societies and predictable and stable international relations are under threat. With the President’s vast experience from Kazakh national politics and his international UN experience it is my hope that he may bring forward these principles both at home and on the international arena,” Mr. Vollebæk noted in his message.
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Editor-in-Chief of Norway News. com highlights that “the recent election in Kazakhstan was considered respectable in the election world.”
“I would like to congratulate the newly elected Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokaev and the First President Nursultan Nazarbayev,” he says.
“It is easy to criticize, but very hard to create a strong country in a short time. Now Kazakhstan possesses great economy strength. At this juncture, I would like to express my appreciation that Kazakhstan has democracy and basic amenities to its people which are not totally available in many countries of the world, where there is no freedom for politics and media. The people should now join hands with the Kazakhstan Government to further build a strong nation with great patriotism,” the message of congratulation reads.
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«End of the Magic Era (Web Novel) - Chapter 193 - Setting Off
Chapter 193: Setting Off
“You’ll have to agree sooner or later,” Fran sneered, before leaning against his chair and closing his eyes to rest.
“Haha…” Lys let out an awkward chuckle, but didn’t leave the fireplace immediately. It was partially because of Fran’s status as a disciple of Artisan Nolan, which made it so that wherever he went, he had to be respected.
Moreover, Lys was also unsure…
Merlin indeed had shown shocking skill when it came to alchemy, to the point that even Lys himself as a Master Alchemist was awed by him.
But Merlin was truly too young… He wasn’t even twenty. Even if he had started studying the intricacies of alchemy at his birth, he could only have accumulated twenty years worth of knowledge. No matter how talented Merlin was, there would inevitably be some shortcomings when it came to his experience.
And cracking an array relied mostly on experience with other arrays.
It was due to this worry that Lys became so indecisive, feeling indignant about Fran’s greed while having no other choice but to keep the snake at hand in case he was needed.
After all, who would dare guarantee that Merlin would definitely break the array? If Fran wasn’t there and Merlin had issues cracking the array, wouldn’t the joint exploration come to a halt?
Thus, Lys could only appease both sides, trying not to offend either.
“Oh right, Fran…” Lys hesitated a bit before saying, “I know of your grudges with the Merlin Family, but I hope that you can take the whole picture into account and not come into conflict with Merlin before the end of the joint exploration…”
“Conflict?” When Fran heard that, he slowly opened his eyes and looked at Lys for some time, before smiling. “No, no, there will naturally be no conflicts….”
“No, Fran, you don’t understand, Merlin is different from other Great Mages…” Lys was a bit anxious, as Fran clearly wasn’t listening to his words.
At this time, Lys very much wanted to tell him that there would naturally be no conflict since Merlin was someone that Star Sage Jouyi himself acknowledged as having the power of a 9th Rank High Mage… A 9th Rank High Mage facing a 5th Rank High Mage… It was like a stone facing an egg, would there be any conflict?
Unfortunately, Fran didn’t pay any mind to his advice and just leaned back in his chair with his eyes closed while waving his hand at Lys. “Well, Lys, I’m a bit tired. I’ll rest for now, wake me up when we have to leave…”
By nightfall, the leaders of the expedition had gathered. Now, the nine most powerful forces of Thousand Sails City were here. When gathered, they could be compared to powerful external forces like the Merlin Family.
At this time, these groups were coming out at full power.
Two of the three big shots of the Sage Tower had appeared along with seven Great Mages, and they promised to bring along about fifty Mages. The Silver Moon Mercenary Group was even fiercer. They brought three Expert Swordsmen, one High Mage, six Great Swordsmen, and two Great Mages, along with the whole elite Edge Rift expedition team.
The Alchemist Guild had an even more luxurious arrangement. They had one Master Alchemist and three Great Alchemists, and if the external help, Fran, was added, the line up was even more dazzling than the Sage Tower’s.
The other forces such as the Viper Nest, the Black Horn Auction House, the Crystal chamber of commerce, and the Monchi Family, brought even more elites, not leaving any room for error.
It was actually the Gilded Rose who only brought two people.
One was Lin Yun, and the other was William.
But no one would dare to say that the lineup of the Gilded Rose was shabby.
The status of the Gilded Rose was too special in Thousand Sails City.
Before it had time to develop, many forces had hoped for it to go bankrupt because that would open up the alchemy market, and they all wanted a part of the profits.
But who would dare think so now?
If the Gilded Rose went bankrupt, the equipment and supplies of every organization would slowly decline over time. Others might not know, but the Silver Moon Mercenaries definitely knew that if it wasn’t for the Gilded Rose supplying them with useful consumables, the casualties in their Edge Rift campaign would have at least doubled!
Even the previously hostile Monchi could only behave and reach out his hand with embarrassment from time to time, seeking some technical support.
Nothing could be done about it, as the best alchemy skills of Thousand Sails City were in the hands of the Gilded Rose. If Monchi didn’t want the Twin Moons Splendor to go bankrupt, he could only reach his hand out for help and bear the humiliation. Even if he was cheated pretty badly by the old butler, it was always better than having to go bankrupt.
It could be said that although the Gilded Rose was only an alchemy store, it was counted as one of the top forces of Thousand Sails City.
And it was getting stronger and stronger…
In the past, these people could exclude the Gilded Rose from their ranks on the basis that it was weak.
But the weakness of the Gilded Rose seemed to have been fixed recently.
Many people discovered that Great Mages had started to appear within the Gilded Rose, and it wasn’t just one or two, but a few dozens!
When this news spread, many leaders felt numb…
With this, along with the rumor of Lin Yun’s shocking strength, most of them didn’t dare to provoke the Gilded Rose.
It could now be said that the Gilded Rose had already become one of the major forces.
“Cousin, take a few Great Mages with you when leaving…” In the end, Lin Yun felt a bit embarrassed and whispered to William.
After the nine major forces learnt of the overall lineups, they continued with their meeting for a whole night.
An exploration of this scale was quite serious, the nine major forces of Thousand Sails City bringing out such power, along with the helper from the Mercury Tower, Fran. With the complicated relationships between everyone and the benefits to be divided up, too many things needed to be determined before setting off.
Such as the allotment of duties, the distribution of profits, and organization of the forces… Even smaller matters such as who would serve as scouts, who would be on watch duty on which nights, and who would serve as the main force depending on which circumstances. These were all decisions that needed to be taken care of before leaving, or else these would end up being timebombs that could explode during the exploration of the Vaughn “Treasury”, sending them all to the afterlife.
When it came to benefits, everyone would talk without caring about others’ feelings.
Even two forces who had a friendly relationship would still argue for a long time to send one more or one less person on watch duty.
Soon, the meeting sank into a slog of endless quarrels.
But fortunately, this had nothing to do with the Gilded Rose. After breaking the arrays, they would have loot priority over magic materials. The duty and the benefits of the Gilded Rose had already been negotiated beforehand. Thus, Lin Yun and William took a nap during the meeting, ignoring the squabbling between the other eight groups.
Lin Yun woke up at dawn of the next day.
“Eh, the ruckus is over?” Lin Yun got up from the bench in the corner and saw the exhausted expressions of all the leaders, their faces pale and their lips dry. Many of them looked quite haggard.
They had pulled an all-nighter and spent all that time arguing, so how could they not be in such state?
“Yes, it’s all over.” The one who answered was Solomon. Although the old man looked rather pale, some happiness could be heard within his voice. He should have gained a good harvest during the night.
“Looks like you were able to secure some decent terms?”
“How about I tell you on the way?”
“Ah?”
Lin Yun found out that every leader was leaving the reception room, one after the other.
As he left with Solomon, Lin Yun got more information. Everyone had to leave before noon to reach Edge Rift before nightfall. They could temporarily use the Silver Moon Mercenary Group’s camp there.
Three hours later, over a dozen carriages took everyone out of Thousand Sails City, leaving a huge cloud of dust behind them as they rushed in the direction of Edge Rift.
Lin Yun sat with William. After getting on, he asked William a few questions, and after ascertaining the extent of his magical abilities, Lin Yun gave him a Meditation Law Set before closing his eyes to continue his unfinished work.
Lin Yun had already lost count of how many attempts he had made…
Failure, failure, never-ending failure… But Lin Yun didn’t give up, continuously transferring all his runes to try simulating the mysterious characters of the Book of Death again and again, never losing focus despite meeting failure repeatedly.
Although the trip was boring, how could it compare to this never-ending chain of failures?
Lin Yun’s mind was fully immersed in this simulation to the point that he didn’t even notice that the sky had already darkened outside the carriage…
Pushing through these countless failures, Lin Yun finally saw the first opportunity for success. Several thousand runes rushed forward, forming a strange distortion as a figure that was 70% to 80% similar to the unlimited character was condensing.
Lin Yun was overjoyed and hurriedly focused on controlling the rune.
But he suddenly heard a loud sound above his head.
And with a rumble, the world seemed to shake.
The 5000-year-old Herb. Dragon
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The Lost Girls > Ideas > Adventure Travel > Lost in Costa Rica: Revving our Adrenaline in Arenal
Lost in Costa Rica: Revving our Adrenaline in Arenal
Adventure Travel, Costa Rica, Family & Kid Travel, Fitness & Workouts, Lost Girls — By Amanda P on September 3, 2009 at 2:00 am
Last month, I traveled to Costa Rica for an extended getaway with my boyfriend Jeff before he left for law school. We decided to combine our adventure with a long-overdue Pressner family vacation-and I recently wrote about that experience for our good friends at Jaunted.com. This week, I’ll be sharing those adventures on Lost Girls World-read on, or visit Jaunted for the full series!
With just four days to spend in the Costa Rica jungle, my family and I wanted to pack in as much pulse pounding excitement as we possibly could-and what better way, we figured, than to set up base camp just down the slope from an active volcano?Arenal (the name of the volcano, a lake and a region in Costa Rica) is one of the country’s popular destinations-and for very good reason. Not only is it possible to see the fiery red lava flow at the top of the cone on a clear night (usually from the comfort of your hotel room) but there’s no shortage of ways to experience the nearby rainforest and cloud forest and the rivers that cut through them. In fact, according to Elaine Knight, owner of the Lost Iguana Resort & Spa, the biggest mistake people when planning their trips to Costa rushing to hit too many different destinations and booking too few nights in Arenal. In an email before the trip, she encouraged our group of six to spend four nights, and four days in the local area. If figured that she might be a tad partial, but in the end, I’m so glad we followed her advice.
It would take a month to experience everything there is to do in Arenal, but here’s how we chose to maximized our adventure-if I could, I’d do it all over again:
Extreme Ziplining
Company: Sky Adventures
Costa Rica may well have as many tour operators offering ways to see the canopy as it does does tropical birds, plants and animals (which is to say, tens of thousands), but we’d venture that Sky Adventures does it better than anyone. After strapping ourselves into serious looking harnesses taking a 20-minute gondola ride to an observation platform, my family and I were given a short briefing on how to make our way across a series of eight ziplines totaling about 3 kilometers in length. This trip is not remotely for the faint of heart-at times, we reached speeds of mach 3 (or at least, it felt that way) as we flew across lines strung 600 meters in the air.
Adventure quotient: 7/10
Class 4 White Water Rapids
Company: Rio Tropicales
July is part of the rainy season in Costa Rica (although thanks to PR efforts its now known as the “green season”) and it poured down in sheets the entire night before our Class 3/4 White Water Rafting Adventure. It’s a good think that the company did an extremely thorough safety demonstration just prior to setting out boats in the water. Within the first 30 seconds of the ride, we hit a massive rapid and my dad, my sister’s boyfriend and I got tossed outside the boat. The guys were pulled back in almost immediately, but I ended up ride downriver on my back (feet up and forward as instructed!) before being rescued several seconds later by one of the two kayaks following behind the boat. It was a scary experience, but I was hugely grateful that the Rio Tropcales team was extremely on the ball when it came to safety. The rest of the ride went off without a hitch-and as we flew over the water quickly forgot about my little unscheduled swim.
Rainforest Night Hike
Company: Lost Iguana Resort
Many of the coolest critters in Costa Rica only come out after dark, so we organized a nocturnal rainforest expedition through the front desk of our hotel. Because the Lost Iguana sits on hundreds of acres of secondary forest that’s been cut through with several trails, we were able to load up on mosquito repellent, slip into some extremely attractive rubber boots, grab out cameras and get moving. Note insect-phobes: Most of the creatures you’ll see on the hike have six, eight or more legs, but for some reason, they don’t seem quite so scary when they’re just chillin’ on leaf or branch. During our two-hour hike, we also spotted kinkajous, morpho butterflies, poison dart frogs and one very sleepy sloth.
Check out these related posts:
Lost in Costa Rica: Getting There
Costa Rica Field Trip: The Ultimate Packing List
Lost in the Mail: The Inca Trail
The Lost Girls Love Adventure Life
Lost Girl of the Week: Lisa Lubin
Tags: arenal, hiking, Lost Iguana Resort, white water rafting, ziplining
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rhonalala says:
How exciting! The zip lining looks crazy fun!
Global Butterfly says:
I looooved my trip to Arenal. I definitely did not spend enough time there, however I also went during the rainy season and thus it was raining constantly. My favorite memory is chilling in the hotel's jacuzzi at midnight with wine and watching the lava flow out of the volcano. Unreal!!!
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Yes Costa Rica is Beautiful.Stay in The Southern Hemisphere and pay us a visit in Queensland Guys.
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Spottings & Jottings
Issue nr. 22 - 5th March 2010
Visit the "OXFORD & CHILTERN BUS PAGE " Current archives from October 2002
The weather has brightened up in the past few days and we have had some warmer weather, at least that is, during the day time. The nights have remained cold and often with a frost. As a result of the better days we have some nice pictures this week and many of us have been out with our cameras enjoying a respite from the snow, cold and dark days.
Your Editor takes lunch in Oxford
I enjoyed a very pleasant lunch on Wednesday with Geoff Cunliffe and his wife Margaret and found out early on how difficult it is to park at Thornhill during the day! The Park &Ride was completely full with several other motorists trying to find a parking slot. I gave up and drove into Headington and parked in the car park behind Waitrose. £1.50 for three hours but I was running short of time. I went through to the bus stop at Headington shops taking a few pictures on my way.
Pictures by M. Crowe.
A now elderly M A N 22934 was on a 7C working and I thought to take some pictures of these buses during the day as many are due to be replaced by new deckers in the summer.
This was followed by one of the new Brookes Scanias of Oxford Bus, nr 206 which looked very smart indeed.
These pictures are also of interest as the road is due to be changed in works starting in April when the London road is to be remodelled and the pedestrian underpass filled in.
This is located just behind the Stagecoach bus in the first picture.
My transport into Oxford turned out to be Oxford's 793, one of the Volvo B10BLEs acquired last year from Go-Ahead operator, Brighton & Hove. Apart from the window type they are almost identical to the dual door versions delivered new to Oxford back in 1999 and 2000. The Brighton batch were some two years earlier. My steed had been 223 with Brighton and was smart and well turned out.
The exterior of these buses are almost identical to the Oxford ones but internally they still have the old style group moquette.
The application of the interior advertising is tasteful and useful to passengers.
Our journey into the city was quite quick and we shared our running time with a Stagecoach M A N on the 7C. We hopped to the front and then ended up behind as we ran into the city, both buses having good loadings. Of course from mid year double deck buses will be introduced and frequencies shared between the two operators on these busy corridors and I am sure good loading will result under the new regime. We did not spend too much time negotiating the roadworks on High Street and I was soon alighting at Carfax to meet Geoff and Margaret.
We stopped for alighting passengers at Queens Lane where I got my first good picture of newly arrived 790 on the 400 service to Thornhill.
It also had a fairly full load of passengers supporting the comments that Oxford is a bus city.
We had a pleasant snack in the Marks & Spencer cafe in Queen Street and I could not help but notice how much quieter it is now that buses no longer pick and set down in this shopping street.
One can see the time by the M & S clock, once unseated by a Park & Ride Trident, that is shortly after 3 p.m. and there are only a few buses down by Bonn Square.
A few hours later we emerged into Queen Street after a reminiscing chat on a wide range of subject. They were to make their way to Debenhams for the 300 service to Peartree, having commented on their earlier delayed journey into the city due to roadworks on the Woodstock Road whilst I wanted to walk down High Street to see the roadworks from a pedestrians angle, I usually see it from the driving seat of an Oxford tube.
First I was able to capture one of Thames Transits M A N s at the classic point of Carfax Corner.
As I approached the two way working section under repair a gaggle of buses was coming through and the lack of space for unloading became apparent when one bus was left blocking eastbound traffic getting through.
They have proceeded quite quickly and one side is already completed, making a very smooth ride for the buses and other traffic using this part of the main road to and from the east.
Stagecoach's 22929 is seen on route 3 heading towards the stop at Carfax whilst Oxford's 865 blocks the road with nowhere to go.
I have often commented about the cyclists in Oxford and my pictures show the great numbers riding through the city centre. As I walked alongside the works one poor fellow turned out of The Turl and found himself confronted by oncoming buses and literally nowhere to go.
The cyclist must have felt very threatened, especially when tackled further down by the man controlling traffic at the eastern end of the two way working.
There had been quite a hold up for traffic in both directions as something was going on which I could not see and I could not work out why nothing moved for a good few minutes? As a result quite a queue built up at both ends and I was able to capture quite a few pictures of the buses and coach in the queue from the east.
The variety of types and colours can be seen in these six pictures within a few minutes of each other.
Whilst I was waiting for something to take me back to Headington I snapped a few more vehicles plying their trade in The High.
The first was this ex London Trident, now resplendent in its City Sightseeing livery, very smartly turned out.
As I waited one of the original low floor Darts of Stagecoach passed by, 33822, still bearing an Oxford registration and working route 12.
I was then faced with a choice of an X90 operated by a Scania/Irizar or a newer 08 plate Volvo on the X80 to Gatwick which I chose. This was 88, not at all well patronised but with welcoming driver who was most helpful to a Danish lady boarding at St. Clements who claimed to be paying less to fly from Gatwick to Copenhagen than she was paying to travel from Oxford to Gatwick!! A sign of the times I guess.
We were soon at Headington where I left the coach, with the ever helpful driver finding out if a lady running from the lights was wanting his service.
I really enjoyed my excursion into Oxford seeing things from a different perspective than normal.
Haddenham Station Forecourt closure
On the following Sundays, Chiltern Railways are running a large Rail Replacement service from Haddenham & Thame Parkway Station forecourt. The last time this occurred it caused problems and delays to service 280. Therefore for the dates below Arriva have decided to not serve the Station forecourt, running direct via Thame Road. Passengers will still be able to board and alight for the station at the stops by the Station Bridge in Thame Road, only a few yards away from the Station.
Dates are:- Sundays 7, 14, 21 March and Sunday 17th April.
I am sure this will present some interesting opportunities to take a variety of buses on rail replacement services.
An idea from John Hammond for an Interest Group in Oxford
“I am interested in trying to establish a group to offer monthly meeting for bus enthusiasts in the Oxford area. A suggestion is that these meetings would be fixed on an evening once a month and would be based on a format of either members or visiting guests offering a monthly slide or photo show on bus related topics each month in subjects or areas that may be of particular interest to them. Such an arrangement has been taking place in Cambridge for many years organised by the Cambridge Omnibus Society.
To gauge interest in such an event taking place in future, I would like to propose an initial meeting for people interested in joining up to form a bus enthusiasts meeting in Oxfordshire. Anybody who is interested is welcomed to contact John Hammond (john_hammond@msn.com) in the first instance. If enough interest is received, an initial meeting will be arranged in the near future and hopefully with regular meetings following in future. A venue close to Oxford City Centre has already been found and can be booked for certain evenings each month for a very low cost.“
I am sure this could be a most interesting project and I remember the enjoyable evening I had and many still have with a similar group organised by The PSV Circle in Manchester. Ed.
Finally and as always, my thanks to all who have contributed to this issue.
Malcolm Crowe - Editor - OCBP - 5th March 2010.
Spottings
Adam Green notes that 4029 is still parked up out of service in Hemel garage as at 26th February.
Andrew Morgan writes to say that Citaro, one of the Green Line versions on the 724 has been repainted and now lacks part of the branding.
On 27th February Green Line Citaro 3905 is seen in Welwyn Garden City Bus Station. Picture by Andrew Morgan.
James Allum writes that on 22nd February Olympian 5152 from Hemel was working routes 4 and 5 and High Wycombe based Dart 3213 was spotted on the route 52.
Two pictures from James Allum show Vario 2373 on route 1 and Dart 3176 on route 5, both in Hemel.
James also notes that on 1st March ex Garston based gas bus DAF 3271 worked on routes 4 and 5 and Dart 3175 was on Tesco shoppers route 101 in place of the more normal Vario in Tesco livery.
Long serving Mercedes/Plaxton Beaver 2133 is seen on Rail Replacement in Luton on 20th February. Picture by Mark Turner.
DAF SB120 4515, based at Garston depot is seen on a Watford local service on 13th February in this picture by Mark Turner.
Heading for Luton Airport, Aylesbury's 5104 is seen in the winter sunshine. Picture by Mark Turner.
These venerable Leyland Olympians are now entering their 21st year in service and maybe some of the last Leylands in service with a major group.
Variety in Luton now forces the use of street loading points following closure of the bus station. Picture by Mark Turner.
Steve Burns was telling me how pleased he is with their recent acquisitions of four West Midlands Metrobuses being used on the recently gained school contracts. He does not intend repainting them into fleet livery but has applied "Carousel Contract Services" titles. They are also delighted with the new M A N s being used mainly on the A40 and 740 services. They are proving most reliable.
One of the M A N s acquired from Birmingham Airport, resplendent in fleet livery - STL9 - seen at the depot. Picture by M Crowe.
The three Renaults also continue to prove useful buses and seem often to work Line 4. Picture by M Crowe.
Above are three pictures of buses in the other parking facility used by Carousel. These show the variety to be seen in this fleet.
The last is a Dart now used as a store. Pictures by M Crowe.
Noel Clark, Operations Manager, Carousel Buses Limited writes "In response to your readers’ observation I can confirm that Metrobuses M1345 and M1356 were withdrawn for disposal and have now been removed by PVS."
Gavin Francis sent another picture of one of the buses acquired with the Trustline operation and now in Centrebus livery.
It is seen on route 7A at Stansted Airport on March 1st.
Andrew Morgan writes "two pictures both of CENTREBUS AE55MVL taken in Welwyn Garden City Bus Station, the first taken on 11th October 2008, shown repainted into ROTALA group colours by TRUSTLINE but I am not sure when in 2008 (bumper corner bits are replacements which are in TRUSTLINE/TRUSTYBUS blue) as it had been sold to them but then the sale fell through and the second as it is now repainted into CENTREBUS colours as in the picture taken on 17th February 2010."
Pictures by Andrew Morgan.
An elderly Scania still in service with Heyfordian and based at the Wycombe depot. Seen in Stokenchurch by Gavin Francis on March 2nd.
Motts only recently acquired this Volvo which started life with Trent Buses. Pictured on March 1st by Gavin Francis.
The history is that Trent Buses purchased this bus as their 55 (M455TCH) - a Volvo B10B with unusual Alexander Q bodywork for the Buxton-Matlock 'Transpeak' service, on which it appears to be operating in this link:-
http://www.busesonscreen.net/screen/screentv500.htm
The National Express reaction to the introduction by First of their Greyhound service to Portsmouth and Southampton was to brand some Levantes
for their competitive service but C062, seen at Stansted on March 1st by Gavin Francis seems somewhat off route!!
For those of you who are looking for more pictures of National Express coaches, you may be interested in the web site mentioned below which includes one of the tri-axle Scanias (SC29) which once operated out of Stansted and is now with Bruce Coaches. My apologies to those who already know of this web site.
http://nationalexpressphotos.fotopic.net/
Gavin spotted 792 on the 300 on 4th March.
Variety on the 400 sees Trident 101 at Frideswide Square on 27th February. Picture by Gavin Francis.
This time Gavin caught up with green Trident 116 at Thornhill on March 1st.
Some more shots of the green Volvo B10BLEs from the camera of Gavin Francis.
They are all of 790, the first two on 27th February and the last on March 1st.
Pictured in the rain, special liveried 816 looks well at St Giles on 27th February. Picture by Gavin Francis.
A late submission by Gavin Francis is of Trident 108 which now sports a new "super rear" for Brookes.
Seen at Thornhill on 5th March 2010.
Red Rose employs a service support van which James Allum pictured in Hemel last month.
R H Buses
Gavin Francis caught this Solo at Thornhill on service 600. Thornhill is a nice location for pictures on a sunny day.
Not much to report in this issue except that I am still waiting for a picture of the Volvo B6 - 31320 - on route 12 or 16.
Two buses at5 the end of their time with Stagecoach Devon awaiting disposal at Wellington on 27th February.
One of interest is the Dart which started life with Thames Transit in Oxford. Picture by Dave Godley.
James Allum writes that on 22nd February he had a short ride on board Tigerline route T2 from Hemel to Apsley and noticed one of the buses still has Stagecoach seat belt stickers. He continues "I was also pleased with the service that Woottens offer along this route, the staff are friendly and approachable and the fares are much more reasonable than Arriva's. By using Tigerline you save a fair amount of money in some cases, I saved about £1 - £1.20.
If you read this, Mr Wootten, I am as a customer very impressed and hope this service goes on well into the future."
Pictures by James Allum.
Arriva bids Keolis au revoir
Talks that could have seen Arriva and French transport giant Keolis merge to form a group rivalling First, have ended without agreement.
In a brief announcement this morning, Arriva says that further to its statement regarding Keolis on 28 January, it “confirms that exploratory preliminary discussions” took place with Société Nationale des Chemins de fer Français (SNCF) regarding the “possible contribution of all or part of” the Keolis transport business into Arriva.
It simply says: “No agreement was reached and all discussions have now ceased.”
Aylesbury Transport Hub by Colin Richardson.
The Hub is now complete, except for a number of small works to be completed.
13 stops in Great Western Street and Bus Station now each have real-time service information at all stops. Additionally, nine stops around the hub have real-time service information too. The travel information office for all district travel needs is also open, but only Monday - Friday 11.30 - 14.30 hrs, A new area timetable is now available at various locations.
Further real-time information should be available at main urban stops with a shelter throughout the county over the coming months.
Comments from Adam Boon
"I have been reading the Oxford Chiltern Bus Page for many years now because I am most interested in coaches. My grandparents used to live in Hillingdon and we would go there by coach taking the Oxford espress from Victoria, getting off at Hillingdon. On returning to Stoke we'd do the same and often we would see an Oxford tube Neoplan at the stop in Hillingdon. We would take the X90 as we changed coaches in Victoria coach Station and so I have never been on the Oxford tube but I hope to get the chance to travel on one of the new Van Hools one day. The Astromegas look massive and I always thought the Neoplan was big.
Anyway, congratulations on all the pages which I will keep reading."
On West Midlands Metrobuses from Peter Hale
I always enjoy reading the Oxford & Chiltern Bus Page. As a West Midlander, I thought I'd better e-mail you again, this time about a subject close to home.
Contrary to the BBC report mentioned in Spottings & Jottings no 20, the West Midlands Metrobus has not yet vanished from normal service. The last six are still in service at Acocks Green Garage. Their primary use is on school and college services, but when not required for those they also see use in normal service in the Birmingham and Solihull areas - particularly on Saturdays.
Remarkably considering the vehicles' age, the college services include two long routes to Stratford-on-Avon, which shows how well they still perform. However, their interior condition is much as would be expected after up to 25 years' hard work. It's not clear how much time the six have left, but withdrawal some time between mid-March and July seems likely.
West Midlands Travel had the back ends of hundreds of Metrobuses rebuilt during the mid-1990s, which must be why they've lasted anywhere near as long as they have. Marshalls did a good job of the rebuilding, and it's quite something that even during this winter some Metrobuses have gone to the likes of Carousel for further service.
I must confess that Metrobuses are not my favourites - I'd have preferred West Midlands Travel to buy Volvo Olympians rather than rebuild them - but I have developed respect for them and I'm pleased when I see one in use up here. I don't think non-enthusiast passengers will be sorry when they finally go, though!
I can recommend this website for following their exploits: http://twmmetro-pics.fotopic.org.uk/.
Dave Godley provides an interesting photo this week. Carrying a G-registration but never been licenced as a PCV, this Leyland Atlantean/Park Royal was new to the RTITB and then passed to Longleat as a Safari bus.
Now parked in a lay-by on the A30 near Henstridge. Picture by Dave Godley.
Another interesting picture from Dave shows an ex Jim Stone's Leyland tiger now with Quantock near Taunton.
Pictureview
Gavin Francis visited Walthamstow earlier this week and caught up with yet another polish bodied Scania working for East London on route 48.
Transdev have also place d a number of these buses in service on route 10 and 148. Picture by Gavin Francis.
Parrys International Van Hool T917 YJ08NTN visited Oxford and is seen in this picture by Gavin Francis at Oxpens.
Parrys driver told Gavin that they are putting in to service five '10 plate' coaches on the 1st. Same model as above but of higher spec.
Two coaches from the Horseman fleet based in Reading visited Oxford and are seen in these pictures by Gavin Francis at Oxpens.
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Refactoring: Not for VB 2005 (for the most part)
The problem with making confident predictions about the future is that time has a way of making a liar out of you despite your best intentions. As Steven posted Friday, VB will not have any refactoring features beyond “rename symbol” in VB 2005. This was an extremely painful cut and one that we tried to move heaven and earth to avoid, but in the end we didn’t feel we could get the features into the product in a high-quality way without causing serious risk to our shipping goals. Balacing the cries for refactoring against the cries for us to ship as soon as possible was difficult, and we really regret the fact that it ain’t going to happen this time (for the most part… it’s not like rename symbol is chopped liver or anything!).
On the other hand, it does mean that we get a while longer to have lots of colorful, humorous arguments about whether we should have a “Refactoring” menu in VB or not. Oh, joy…
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40 thoughts on “Refactoring: Not for VB 2005 (for the most part)”
Daniel Moth November 2, 2004 at 1:48 pm
< ![CDATA[The fact that the C# team made EnC and the VB team couldn't make refactoring is what most will focus on - no doubt. My disbelief is that you prioritised the My feature above refactoring. It doesn’t even come near in usefulness. I hope the bet that VB2005 is making to finally bring the VB6 devs on to .NET pays of. I know that existing .NET (VB) devs are slowly losing faith in the language that tries too hard to please the hobbyist, enthusiast etc (that should only be the Express team’s job).
Phil Wells November 2, 2004 at 1:53 pm
Time to migrate to C#, I guess. Or Java.
DM November 2, 2004 at 3:11 pm
< ![CDATA[Um, here's a silly question: Why isn't the IDE abstracted from the language? It seems like a waste to have two implementations of the same thing.
Karl November 2, 2004 at 3:35 pm
< ![CDATA[I'm sure the decision was indeed a hard one, refactoring is really a great feature. I use reshaper for c# constantly when coding - and its an amazing addition to the IDE. I think VB.Net is in a very difficult place. There was some good discussion a while back about VB.Net being too difficult and I tend to agree. For this reason I think features such as My, while not useful for a lot of us, are the right way for VB.Net to go. My one question though, which I’ve asked myself since .Net was released, is why aren’t we seeing smaller more frequent updates? Why is it that when a feature can’t make it an upcoming version, it has to be postponed for a version 3 years off? Why can’t you guys simply patch VS.Net to support better refactoring 4 months down the line? karl]]>
I second Karl’s suggestion. I wonder if anyone at MS has even heard of the term ‘continuous integration’?
Taiwo November 2, 2004 at 5:07 pm
< ![CDATA[Paul: You mentioned in a recent blog that the work that the VB.NET team did on EnC was useful as a springboard for the C# team to include EnC in C#. As DM pondered in his feedback on this topic, why is the VB.NET team not taking advantage of the work that the C# team has done on Refactoring, especially since there was strong feedback a while back that VB.NET users wanted Refactoring features? In any case, as a couple of people have sugested, it is hoped that you will be able to provide an interim update that includes full Refactoring features after Visual Studio 2005 ships but before the next release. Can you promise this? Thanks. Taiwo]]>
Serge Baranovsky November 2, 2004 at 8:03 pm
< ![CDATA[In response to Phil's comment: No it’s not time to move to C#. There will be 3rd-party refactoring tools for VB.NET and they will not be expensive.]]>
Fan November 2, 2004 at 10:16 pm
< ![CDATA[Very disappointed to hear about it. Anyhow we have to face to the truth. Microsoft could publish a "Visual Basic 2005 Resource Kit" soon to offer a 3rd party refactoring tool.
Is there any other "big" changes in BETA2 (and the final release) except refactoring? C# can get a such complex feature (EnC) so we have reasons te believe that VB will have something more too. If not, VB can hardly attract more developers who have already chosen C#.]]>
Anand November 3, 2004 at 12:19 am
Wow.. More fire to the C# better than VB group. 🙁
Jens November 3, 2004 at 2:11 am
< ![CDATA[I feel the same, EnC in C#, no refactoring in VB.NET. Seems like some languages are more equal than others, despite what MS keeps telling us. As a professional VB developer of large business applications I find this a real problem ... ]]>
Phil Wells November 3, 2004 at 8:12 am
Serge – If MS had left a compiler out of VS.NET but 3rd parties were providing one would you be satisfied with that too? Refactoring support is no different. If VS is supposed to be a fully-functional IDE it needs to have it built in. JetBrains’ ReSharper is a great tool but should we really have to shell out an extra $100 on top of the cost of VS.NET?
< ![CDATA[Of course, I'm aware ReSharper only works with C#. 😉 Perhaps I should have mentioned <a href="http://www.velocitis.com/default.aspx">Velocitis Flywheel</a> instead, for $250.]]>
[ Willy Marroquin ] November 3, 2004 at 5:27 pm
< ![CDATA[I Can't Understand Why this type Of Features are linked to Ide.... ]]>
< ![CDATA[Not Refactoring but yes Clippy.....?
http://notgartner.com/posts/355.aspx
Please !]]>
Karl Peterson November 3, 2004 at 6:42 pm
I suppose next you’ll tell folks Bush won…
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Greg Low November 3, 2004 at 9:22 pm
The irony in all this is that refactoring support would most help with the migration of the VB6 folk’s code, the very people we seem to be stuffing the language up to help.
Sean Hederman November 4, 2004 at 12:50 am
I’ve already switched to C#. For me the kicker was iterators. This just convices me the switch was the right way to go.
Bob November 4, 2004 at 9:31 am
< ![CDATA[My employer has 100+ MSDN Universal licenses and a lot of legacy VB6/ASP code. Some of that code will not be migrated to .NET, but that sill leaves a significant amount of code that will be. The Upgrade Wizard/Utility will help us get a lot of code converted over. Refactoring would have helped clean up the ummm, less than optimal code produced by the Upgrade process. In addition, since we have a lot of developers with little or no .NET experience, we will also have a need to clean up the code produced by these folks until they get through the .NET learning curve. Given that, "It’s the runtime, stupid" and VB.NET will NOT have full refactoring for a while, perhaps we should simply have the people learn C# instead of VB.NET. Cleaning up the inevitable non-optimal code would seem to be easier with C# and refactoring than VB.NET with limited refactoring.
Lan November 5, 2004 at 12:55 am
< ![CDATA[Refactoring is one of important thing for creating literate
code. VB.net must have it… Maybe even instead of EnC, if we have possibility of choice.]]>
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Karl November 8, 2004 at 10:30 pm
< ![CDATA[People who read Paul's/MSDN blogs can likely be categorized as early adopters and/or more "hardcore" programmers. It think its safe to say that we are likely to have a very different VB.Net wishlist than everyone else. It's probably also safe to say that we are an overwhelming minority with an overwhelming voice. Someone in the .Net word needs to start worrying about all those people who call themeselves techno-junkies and build Access and VBA applications or simple VB6 forms, because right now the learning curve is far too big. How can this not be one of VB.Net's key job? VB.Net needs to be a language that lets you whip something out quickly (uncomparable productivity) with as little programming knowledge as possible (uncomparable ease). It also needs to provide more power and capability, but can rest assured that if it fails to provide such flexibility, that .Net provides good alternatives (C# or C++). These languages shouldn't be in competition, they should be positioned to fill a niche with some overlap. Refactoring, iterators and even generics are pretty useless things to a whole lot of programmers, whereas background compilation with superior IDE support, My, verbose syntax, late binding, Microsoft.VisualBasic and a lot more are what really matters. VB.Net doesn't need iterators or refactoring (though it's great if it has it), because another language already provides them, it needs to be innovative and become an absurdly easy language with amazing ROI. If C# jumped off a bridge, should VB.Net too? It isn't us vs them (btw, I'm a them 😉 )...
# of people that would switch to C# for iterators
is less than
# of people who understand how iterators will help them
# of people who actually understand iterators
# of people who’d like to better understand iterators
all of which is a lot less than
# of people who know and or care what an iterator is
Dan Blake November 9, 2004 at 11:26 pm
I’m having a little trouble with the third-party tool concept for refactoring. Why would a third-party vendor want to spend a large amount time and money developing an extensive product, when Microsoft has said that it will put the functions in VS in the future and eliminate the need for the third-party product? The two products that Microsoft mentions on their website as solutions either are not specific to refactoring (kinda like using a bulldozer when what you need is a good shovel). Or they are difficult to use, incomplete, and buggy.
Shaun November 16, 2004 at 6:31 pm
< ![CDATA[Refactoring is very, very good and very important. Given the choice between Refactoring and EnC, though, I'd have to pick EnC. If I had to pick between EnC, Refactoring, or Multiple Inheritance (or Mixins), though… I’d have to go with MI. I’m on board with more frequest VS updates… VS2003 was a minor update for VS2002. Maybe we need the same type of interum release after every major VS upgrade.
Darrell Scott November 20, 2004 at 1:51 pm
< ![CDATA[Sorry, this is a terrible decision. Refactoring is far and away the most useful feature I was looking forward to seeing in VB.Net Whidbey. Our next big project involves substantially revamping an existing VB.Net codebase, and we were looking to refactoring as a way of facilitating this. Multiple Inheritance is considered bad practice by some in the OO community, and EnC is nice, but an incremental improvement.]]>
Hilton Giesenow November 23, 2004 at 10:34 am
< ![CDATA[When I saw the refactoring abilities in whidbey I was seriously impressed. When I discovered they were not to appear in vb.net is was shocked to an equal degree. By and large the vb.net team has done absolutely brilliant work but I definitely agree with refactoring over EnC. How’s this for a view – EnC is for fixing your own code, Refactoring is for fixing someone else’s ;-). Seriously though, while I probably won’t switch, this would be my first real impetus to move to C#. A major argument for VB is its RAD abilities. Refactoring is in some ways a big part of RAM (rapid application maintenace – did I just coin a term?) – the work we all really love!]]>
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Shaun March 8, 2005 at 1:21 pm
< ![CDATA[There's nothing wrong with Multiple Inheritance. Those in the OO community who oppose it often don't understand it or haven't encountered the specific problems that are easily solved by it. Some say that you don’t need it. Given that logic, you don’t need inheritance at all. You also don’t need event driven programming. You don’t need Windows or a GUI. But all of these are handy. It’s like a CROSS JOIN… you don’t need them very often and all of the books tell you that you’ll never need them. When you do need them, however, they are VERY important.
Jim April 18, 2005 at 4:18 pm
This is so stupid. Refactoring is one of the biggest improvements in VS.NET 2005. I can’t believe MS would drop the ball on this one. Are they trying to get VB developers to quit using the language?
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Dominique Plante April 25, 2005 at 5:22 pm
< ![CDATA[I just head about a VS.NET addin that provides refactoring in VB.NET -
Anyone come across this yet? http://msdn.microsoft.com/vbasic/downloads/2005/tools/refactor/
I haven’t tried it, but it might make a bunch of people’s day here 🙂
dominique dot plante at gmail dot com]]>
Jim May 1, 2005 at 6:16 pm
< ![CDATA[> My disbelief is that you
> prioritised the My feature
> above refactoring. It doesn’t
> even come near in
> usefulness.
Agreed. AFAIK, the My pseudo-namespace doesn’t give us anything we couldn’t already do. Refactoring is much more important to me.
> I know that existing .NET
> (VB) devs are slowly losing
> faith in the language
Count me among the people who’s losing faith. Microsoft needs to make up it’s mind: Is VB.NET a toy language or a tool for professional developers. Which is it going to be?]]>
< ![CDATA[I also agree with Karl. I would rather have smaller, incremental releases rather than major ones. If Microsoft doesn't want to polute the industry with too many versions of .NET, how about an IDE-only update? Imagine how cool it would be if Microsoft had released a VS.NET 2004 based on .NET 1.1 but with an improved IDE with refactoring, better intellisense, discardable projects, etc. I would have bought that in a heart beat!]]>
Doug e. Fresh August 16, 2005 at 12:39 pm
VB is supposed to be the easiest of languages to learn.C# should be used by those doing new projects that have some experience in VB. It will better them as programmers and get them more familiar with the syntax of c++. Programmers should try to learn new things not stick to one language forever. VB is great as a simple and quick language that will always have a useful place.
Sanjay kattimani November 25, 2005 at 1:45 pm
After i had just finished writing a review of refactoring in whidbey at http://sanjaykattimani.blogspot.com/2005/11/whidbey-refactoring-feature.html and then went on to read more on the topic. And was surprised to know that this feature is stripped off. Lets hope microsoft stops making such mistakes.
Mike Meeks March 15, 2006 at 12:05 am
< ![CDATA[It's sickening! Introducing: VB.NET 2002, ahhh 2003, ahhh 2005 – when do we come to point to where we the {Programmers} get a return on our investment. We now have spent thou$ands of dollars on upgrades and for what? Of all of the Money$ that Microsoft has made on these NET-Versions – I think they owe the VB-Net Community more than just Features. Now I hear, that they are already working on the next version VB9 – which will be probably be Visual Basic 2007. A new Net Version! When does it end! How can anyone even think of programming a detail business application – when Microsoft can’t even get the details right or even finished! All Net Sucks – until we have something we can sink our teeth into and come to some point to where we have a stable version that will last at least a few years! ]]>
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Various - Solid Steel 20th Anniversary DVD
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Recipes in Lokopakara
Lokopakara is a treasure trove of ancient recipes. Chavundaraya does not specify exact amounts of ingredients in any of the recipes. While he was particular about the detailed procedures, he has not included obvious ingredients such as salt in every single recipe. Probably he wanted the cooks to exercise their own judgment based on individual tastes and preferences. Ingenious methods of preparing fruit juices, flavored yogurts, and healthy vegetable dishes were all popular in Karnataka even during the eleventh century.
Omission of rice in the recipe for idli, the south Indian breakfast staple, is quite noticeable. This is one of the dishes that evolved over the centuries. According to K.T.Achaya the very first time idli is mentioned in 920 AD in the Vaddaradhane of Sivakotiacharya, a Kannada work. It was considered one of the eighteen dishes a lady should serve her guests. Chavundaraya’s recipe for idli also does not include rice. He also does not mention if it was fried or steam cooked. The earlier idlis were made with urad dal, spices and yogurt water which also lengthened the shelf life of idli. At the Varadharaja Perumal Temple (built in 1053 AD) in Tamil Nadu giant idlis, weighing close to two or three pounds, made with two types of dals and flavored with various spices are prepared as offering. These idlis are said to last several days even without refrigeration. A century later another Sanskrit work describes iddarika made with similar batter as a fried dish.
Since ancient times, maritime trade existed between South Indian kingdoms and Southeast Asia. With the settlement of Indian traders by the sixth century ad, Southeast Asia underwent a gradual period of Indianization. Peacefully and gradually, the Hindu religion spread throughout the archipelago. These Hindu kingdoms had religious, cultural, trade, and diplomatic relations with South India. K.T. Achaya writes that it is believed that from the eighth through the twelfth century ad, some of the Indonesian Hindu kings often visited India in search of suitable brides. A contingent of cooks accompanied them, and they are believed to have introduced new fermentation technique of combining legumes with rice, and steam cooking the batter to south Indian cuisine. By the fifteenth century, it was common to use rice in the preparation of idli and it was steam cooked. Once rice was incorporated in the batter, spicing was eliminated and the batter was steam cooked. In spite of modifications in ingredients and cooking method, idli seems to have retained its name.
Variations and adaptations of several of these recipes are still popular all over south India. An interesting recipe that has evolved over the years is of sikharini; it is very similar to shrikhand. The recipe for sajjappa is another that has remained with minor changes.
The final garnish of spices and curry leaves fried in a little oil or ghee is an ancient technique that has survived over the centuries with minor alteration; mainly the inclusion of red chili pepper to the spice mix came after the sixteenth century. The techniques of using yogurt, salt and jaggery to preserve food have survied and are still used in many parts of India. In Kerala ripe plantains, ripe jackfruit and ripe mangoes are all preserved by cooking them with jaggery and ghee. They remain fresh for months without refrigeration. Similarly unripe mango pieces are dried with a mix of spices, salt and jaggery. Immature tiny mangoes are preserved in brine as well as in a spice mix of mustard seeds, red chili peppers and salt. These methods are also used in preserving vegetables and fruits that arrived in India through trade routes. Green chili peppers are preserved by piercing holes in them and soaking in salted yogurt and drying in the sun.
Rice continues to be the staple food of the people of the south; and the very first recipe in Supa sastra is for cooking rice. He instructs that rice should be washed three times before boiling in excess water and when it is cooked, the excess water was drained. This was the prevalent method of cooking rice in those days. This a method still used by many home cooks in south India. Cooked rice was served with huli (soups or broths), yogurt and various vegetable dishes.
Dishes prepared with dals
Soak and wash split black gram (urad dal). Grind into a thick batter along with the clear liquid that remains at the top of yogurt. Stir in asafetida, cumin seeds, coriander and black pepper. Idli prepared from this batter would be very delicious.
Huli was prepared with mung dal (split and hulled mung beans), urad dal (split and hulled black gram) or chana dal (split and hulled Indian brown chick peas). They are first cooked in water until they reach the consistency of gruel. Cardamom, cumin, coriander, black pepper and mustard seeds are ground into a paste and stirred into the cooked dal. This mixture is later flavored with souring agents such as tamarind and lemon juice and garnished with mustard seeds, cumin seeds, asafetida and curry leaves fried in small quantity of ghee or oil.
Grind cinnamon, cumin, mustard, black pepper, cardamom, and coriander seeds along with water. Boil any type of dal until it reaches the consistency of gruel. Stir in the ground spice mix to the gruel and stir well. Cook and garnish with mustard seeds, cumin seeds, asafetida, and curry leaves fried in small quantity of ghee or oil. It will make a delicious soup.
Vegetable, leaf and fruit Preparations
A wide variety of vegetables and leaves were used in this cuisine. Raw fruits like plantains and jackfruit, tubers and roots such as suran (elephant foot yam), lotus root, bamboo shoots and radishes, flowers of pumpkin and plantain, varieties of leaves and beans were cooked either individually or two or three of them together, along with spices or by seasoning with spices fried in oil or ghee. Instructions for preparing various leaves and shoots as vegetable dishes are as follows.
Leaves of bitter melon, tamarind shoots, castor shoots and flowers of Palasha tree (butea monosperma, commonly called Flame of the Forest) are cooked separately in lime water. Then they are washed in cold water and any vegetable dish may be prepared with them.
Mix the cut pieces of the roots of Sessile joyweed (alternanthera sessilis also called dwarf copperleaf) and lime with the tender core of edible banana plant and cook this mixture properly. Add required spices and it will be a soft and tasty palya (cooked vegetable dish).
Soak the shoots of pipal tree (ficus religiosa) in buttermilk. Add tender leaves of bael fruits (aegle marmelos) and salt. Add water, milk, Indian gooseberry, and mango and cook. The final product will be a soft and savory dish.
Wash the leaves or sprouts of field beans in water mixed with turmeric powder. Cook them along with roots of amaranth. Grind in a stone mortar and add required spices and salt. It will be a delicious chutney.
Grind small cut pieces of leaves of cupped coral-berry tree (breynia retusa) with salt and lime juice. Grind red hibiscus (hibiscus rosa-sinensis) flowers in buttermilk. Mix them together. It will be a light coral colored savory dish.
Soak crushed thorn apple (datura stramonium) in lime water for one day. The next day wash it in water. Boil the washed crushed thorn apple along with leaves of jequirity (abrus precatorius), Indian white oleander and Indian lotus plant and lime water. Roast the boiled thorn apple with ghee. Any recipe made from this would be very delicious.
In addition to the staple rice both barley and wheat were popular grains in this cuisine. To prepare a nutritious dish, barley is soaked in milk and dried in the sun. Dried barley is then dry roasted and made into fine flour using a stone mortar. Spice powder made with saffron, cinnamon, cinnamon leaves, and cardamom is mixed with this flour. It is then mixed with sugar and ghee to make a tasty and nutritious dish.
Another barley recipe calls for soaking cleaned barley in hot milk and grind it into a paste. It is then shaped into small balls and fried in ghee. It is called ghrta pureta.
Wheat flour or all-purpose flour is mixed with water to make a dough and it is used make various dishes.
Soak the dough in a mixture of hot milk and ghee. Powder cardamom, cinnamon, saffron cinnamon leaves and sugar and mix with tender coconut water. Add this spiced water to the dough and knead. Place it in an urn and seal the urn with thick mud coating. Place the closed urn in the middle of hot embers in a wood burning stove. When it is fully cooked, take out. This dish is called Khandaghrta pura in the Kannada language.
Prepare a mix of grated coconut, dates and sugar. Roll out small circles of the wheat dough and place a small ball of this mix in the middle. Close it well and fry in ghee. It is called sajjappa in Kannada and Tamil. This sweet dish made in the same manner even today.
Sweets made with rice flour
Add yogurt culture to boiled milk and allow it to ferment. Add hot ghee to it and stir well. Then stir in hand pounded brown rice flour to it and cook until it has dough like consistency. Using a hand press make fine thin noodles with this dough. Make sugar syrup and stir in milk and the noodles. Shape it into small balls.
Another way of making this sweet dish is to add juice of jujube fruits or tamarind roots to the above dough and make thin fine noodles by pressing the dough through a hand press. Make sugar syrup and stir in milk and the noodles. Shape it into small balls.
Make dough with rice flour, fermented milk, and ghee as in the recipe above. Roll out into thin flat breads and cook them on a griddle. Pound them and make a fine powder. Mix finely chopped dates or grapes or jujube fruit pulp to this powder. Add required quantity of sugar syrup and knead into a dough. Add powder of saffron, cinnamon, cinnamon leaves and edible camphor to this mix and knead again. Shape the dough into small balls. It is called khanda ladduge.
Yogurt, flavored yogurt and Cheese
Smear the inside of an urn with juice of Indian gooseberry (phyllanthus emblica) or pulp of wood apple. Pour boiled milk into the urn and set aside. After fermentation it will become thick yogurt.
Fill the hollow of a bamboo pole with boiled milk and seal it tightly. Bury it in the ground for three days. The yogurt formed in the bamboo pole will be thick and in the shape of a bamboo.
Smear the inside of a clay pot with mango juice. Add hot milk to the pot. When it ferments, the yogurt will have the fragrance of mango.
Smear the inside of a pot with ground paste of the roots of chitraka (plumbago zeylanica) and add boiled milk to it. When the milk is fermented it will have the fragrance of champak flowers (magnolia champaca).
Add Indian lotus powder or saffron to boiled milk and allow it to ferment. The yogurt made this way would be savory with a taste of mango.
Combine powders of black pepper, cumin, dry ginger, and sugar and mix it with citron juice. Add this mixture to yogurt and strain. Add powdered mix of asafetida, clove, cinnamon and ironwood flowers or buds to the strained juice. Mix with jaggery to cleanse. It will be delicious buttermilk.
Combine powders of cinnamon, dry ginger, black pepper, rock salt, sugarcane jaggery, nutmeg, white turmeric (curcuma zedoaria), and ironwood flowers and mix with yogurt. Purify this with honey, sugarcane juice, yellow myrobalan (terminalia chebula). Stir in edible camphor. This is called sikharini.
Smear a hot frying pan with roots of amaranth plant or the leaves of marsh barbel (hygrophila auriculata) and cook buffalo milk in the pan. The soft cheese made this way is called haluvuga.
Reduce buffalo milk to half the quantity by boiling it. Stir in powders of Indian mallow (abutilon indicum) or country mallow (sida cordifolia). Add ghee, sugar, and powders of cinnamon, cinnamon leaves, and cardamom to this hot liquid and mix well. The milk will coagulate. Make balls with coagulated milk.
To extract the juice of jackfruit, combine jackfruit pods, edible camphor, sesame oil and shoots of Jambul (eugenia jambolana) and keep it in sunlight.
To extract juice of rose apple fruits smear them with sugarcane juice and keep it in sunlight.
Grind together tamarind flowers, root of chitraka (plumbago zeylanica) black pepper, tender banana, and tender leaves of Bermuda grass or rose apple leaves. Mix with pulp of ripe bananas and keep it in sunlight.
Samarang rose apple (myrtus samarangense) exudes with juice when kept in sunlight after smearing it with a mixture of borax, edible camphor, thorn apple seeds (datura stramonium) and common jasmine leaves.
Several cold drinks prepared with fruits such as jujube, myrobalan, pomegranate, tamarind and citron are recommended to quench thirst. Firs the juices are extracted and boiled separately. Sugar or jaggery is stirred in and the juices are strained into separate containers. They are purified with white agar (a natural vegetable gelatin) nut grass (cyperus rotundus) and camphor. A spice mix of black pepper, iron wood, cinnamon, nutmeg, and cardamom powders are stirred in before serving.
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Ayangara, Valmiki Sreenivasa (translator) Lokopakara,Agri-History Bulletin 6. Asian Agri-History Foundation 2006 Chattopadhyaya, D.P. (general editor) History of Science, Philosophy and Culture in Indian Civilization Volume V, Part I History of Agriculture in India up to c.1200 A.D. (edited by Lallanji Gopal and V.C. Srivastava) Center for Studies in civilizations, New Delhi 2008
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US President Donald Trump arrives for a campaign rally at Southport High School in Indianapolis. (Reuters)
Former US President Barack Obama warned on Friday against rhetoric he said was meant to sow fear as he campaigned in support of Democratic candidates while President Donald Trump hammered a hardline anti-immigration message to energize Republicans.
In a packed day of campaigning ahead of Tuesday’s congressional midterm elections, Trump continued a blitz of rallies urging voters to keep his Republican Party in control of Congress, while Democrats appeared to notch a win in their efforts to halt the spread of misinformation online.
Twitter Inc said it had deleted more than 10,000 automated accounts posting messages that discouraged people from voting in Tuesday’s elections and wrongly appeared to be from Democrats after the party flagged the misleading tweets to the social media company. The removals took place in late September and early October.
Obama hit on a common theme of Democratic campaigns – defending his signature 2010 healthcare law while urging Americans not to embrace hostility and division in politics.
“We have seen repeated attempts to divide us with rhetoric designed to make us angry and make us fearful,” Obama said in Miami. “But in four days, Florida, you can be a check on that kind of behaviour.”
Obama was flanked by gubernatorial candidate Andrew Gillum, who faces former congressman and strong Trump backer Ron DeSantis, and Senator Bill Nelson, who is being challenged by the outgoing governor, Rick Scott.
Trump’s campaign stops were aimed at bolstering Republicans challenging incumbent Democratic senators in West Virginia and Indiana, states he won in the 2016 presidential election.
Speaking on behalf of Mike Braun, who is trying to replace Joe Donnelly in the Senate, Trump told a rally in Indianapolis: “If you want prosperity for your family, safety for your children and security for your country, vote for Mike Braun.”
Trump was joined on stage by former Indiana University basketball coach Bobby Knight, who led the crowd in a cheer “Go get’em, Donald.”
Opinion polls and non-partisan forecasters generally show Democrats with strong chances of winning 23 additional seats and taking a majority in the House of Representatives, which they could use to launch investigations into Trump’s administration and block his legislative agenda.
Republicans are favoured to retain control of the Senate, whose powers include confirming Trump’s nominations to lifetime seats on the Supreme Court.
Obama’s speech was repeatedly interrupted by hecklers, prompting him to quip: “Why is it that the folks who won the last election are so mad all the time?”
SURGING EARLY VOTING
Interest in the election has been unusually high in a year when Congress but not the White House is at stake, according to early voting tallies. Twenty-seven states plus the District of Columbia have recorded more early votes at this point in the campaign than they did in all of 2014, according to The Election Project at the University of Florida, which tracks turnout.
Texas had already recorded more votes than it did in all of 2014, including Election Day, the group said.
After Miami, Obama was headed to Georgia to campaign for Stacey Abrams, a former state legislator aiming to become the nation’s first black female governor.
That race pitting Abrams against Republican Brian Kemp, the state’s top elections overseer, has become a flashpoint for allegations of voter suppression by Democrats due to the state’s strict voter-identification law. Republicans say the law is necessary to deter voter fraud.
A federal judge on Friday ordered the state to allow some 3,000 recently naturalized citizens to vote after their registrations had been put on hold.
With the race neck and neck, voter turnout will be crucial, said Georgia State University political scientist Lakeyta Bonnette-Bailey. Obama could energize Democratic voters and drive up turnout, she added.
“At this point, it’s going to be turnout,” she said. “How can he mobilize those who are already registered to vote to go out and vote. And to tell their friends and families to vote.”
The final weeks of the campaign have also seen a spate of violence including the massacre of 11 people at a Pennsylvania synagogue and more than a dozen package bombs sent to prominent Trump critics.
The FBI said on Friday it had recovered a suspicious package addressed to California billionaire Tom Steyer, a Democrat known for his ads calling for Trump’s impeachment.
In West Virginia, Trump’s third visit in three months was aimed at shoring up Patrick Morrisey, who is seeking to unseat Democratic Senator Joe Manchin.
Two new polls this week showed Manchin’s once-comfortable lead over Morrisey dwindling to 5 percentage points, which the Democrat’s supporters blame in part on Trump’s repeated visits.
“I know Trump coming so often is making an impact,” said Jim Hoyt, chairman of the Morgan County Democratic Party in northeast West Virginia. Like other Democrats in the state, he still expects Manchin to win.
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SAN DIEGO -- New York Mets broadcaster Keith Hernandez's comment that women "don't belong in the dugout" drew criticism Sunday from San Diego Padres manager Bruce Bochy, who supported the female member of his training staff and said he was surprised her gender even came up.
Hernandez made the remark during the second inning of New York's 8-1 victory in San Diego on Saturday night. Mike Piazza homered for the Padres and exchanged a high-five in the dugout with 33-year-old Kelly Calabrese, the Padres' massage therapist.
"Who is the girl in the dugout, with the long hair?" Hernandez said. "What's going on here? You have got to be kidding me. Only player personnel in the dugout."
Hernandez found out later in the broadcast that Calabrese was with the Padres training staff.
"I won't say that women belong in the kitchen, but they don't belong in the dugout," Hernandez said.
Hernandez, a former Mets first baseman and "Seinfeld" guest star, then laughed and said: "You know I am only teasing. I love you gals out there -- always have."
Bochy said before San Diego's 7-4 win over New York on Sunday that he did not hear what Hernandez said but was told about it -- and was not amused.
"Kelly is a part of this ballclub," Bochy said. "She's a part of the training staff. I don't know the actual comments, I just heard about it, but she's been here for a while and played a major role with this club in getting guys ready to play a ballgame."
Calabrese said she was flabbergasted by Hernandez's comments.
"It amazes me that somebody of that caliber that has obviously played the game before and is in front of an audience of millions of people would say something like that," she said of Hernandez. "It's a little shocking. But you know what -- it happens. He not only discredited me as a person, but he discredited women."
Calabrese then walked down the hallway to the Padres training room and joked, "Should I go in the kitchen now?"
Hernandez had no comment after the game but said during the second inning of the broadcast Sunday that he was sorry if he offended anyone.
Chip R
He's Keith Hernandez. ;)
traderumor
blame it on the magic loogy
"No play for Mr Gray"
"Women don't belong in the dugout."
Isn't that what Hernandez used to say to Gary Carter?
RedsManRick
Reeee-jected!
RedFanAlways1966
33-year-old Kelly Calabrese, the Padres' massage therapist.
Okay... I'll ask: Does she give massages to players IN THE DUGOUT DURING GAMES? Or does she do the massage thing before and after games? I assume that the Pads have a regular trainer on the bench (ala Larry Starr for the older crowd). If the answer to question #1 is no, then she has no reason to be in the dugout IMO (her work is done in the clubhouse).
But, to deflect the PC-crowd (if that is possible!), I do not know. If she does work in the dugout while the game is taking place, then she has every right to be there. If not, then she (like the GM of a team) has no right to be in the dugout during the game.
Sounds like Hernandez' comment was made without knowing the answer to question 1. So that makes him (drum-roll, please)... politically incorrect.
But, to deflect the PC-crowd (if that is possible!)
Why do you HATE women??? ;)
membengal
"Nice game, pretty boy."
Dom Heffner
RFA- It's good to know some things never change. :)
BigDonkey44
I agree, she has no place in the dugout....
Team Clark
I have been on two teams that have had women as Asst. Trainers. Never an issue. She is probably a lot more qualified than what they have let on. I can't think of ANY reason why she would not be allowed on the bench. It's not like she's giving hitting tips and if she is... good for her. I'd love to hear what Katie Feeney or Kim Ng has to say about this.
Rick Stowe does all of his work behind the scenes and you can't watch a game on Fox without seeing him sit on the Reds bench. I personally do not care for Rick but I would not have a problem, nor should anyone else, with him sitting on the bench during a game.
She SHOULD be doing the laundry if she knew was was good for her...
*running away*
max venable
Is it fair to say that Keith Hernandez is now more famous for his appearances on Seinfeld than anything he did on the baseball field?
Roy Tucker
I think Keith Hernandez needs to engage his brain *before* speaking instead of afterwards.
dsmith421
I think the "PC Backlash" people have officially become more obnoxious to me than the "PC People."
Hernandez said a dumb thing and should apologize. Why is this so difficult?
And for the commenter who made the comment about women not belonging in the dugout, apparently Chris Young, Bruce Bochy, and other Padres disagree:
“It was offensive to her and the other women she was watching with and I'm sure to a lot of other viewers,” said Young. “(Calabrese) handles herself in a completely professional manner and all the guys in here handle it with professionalism. She makes each and every one of us better."
“It's 2006. Wake up. We have women fighting on our front lines in Iraq. I think they can be in a baseball clubhouse. My wife is in law school. Imagine that. Women can be lawyers, too.”
"Kelly is a part of this ballclub," said Bochy. "She's a part of the training staff. I don't know the actual comments, I just heard about it, but she's been here for a while and played a major role with this club in getting guys ready to play a ballgame.
"I wish I knew more, if I could have heard what he said," Bochy said. "I don't think [the comments] are appropriate in this day. I didn't think gender was even an issue anymore."
Bochy also noted that comments about her being in the dugout on a day that the Padres were honoring the military was out of line as, "there are a lot of females in the military."
westofyou
No way... in fact my buddy just sent me a Keith Hernandez rookie card from 1975.
He could pick, played on teams that won and was a premier player in an era that I savor more than Seinfeld (which I really like)
Falls City Beer
He's still an overrated midget with a Napoleon complex. Former pro athletes should be seen and not heard, IMO.
Hernandez:
You know I am only teasing. I love you gals out there -- always have."
He said this right after his comment. He was kidding...why do people get so hyper-sensitive?
Amazing how a comment, said jokingly--and then referred to by the person who said it as a joke, ends up getting a thread this long.
So, the woman joked back...doesn't seem like she was all that offended...and oh yeah, Keith did apologize, too
Bochy:
I didn't think gender was even an issue anymore.It's not...that's why I though we could joke a little bit and not get pounded for it.
Perhaps, but I was strictly refering to Seinfeld vs MLB Legacy
Hernandez's apology:
Hernandez: “You know I am only teasing. I love you gals out there. I always have. . . . Only in California. I just can't believe it. You think you've seen everything and, you know, there's always something new.”
Hernandez: “I know I made some strong statements that she didn't belong in the dugout. I stand by those statements. I think it's a man's game.”
Then, after being called on the carpet by SNY officials, including Curt Gowdy Jr.:
"In my discussion I made a couple of inappropriate comments," Hernandez said. "If I have offended anybody I sincerely apologize."
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That's fine with me. But I can certainly understand how some people would be insulted by those statements. I just think Hernandez is a dumb meathead who made a stupid joke that fell flat. I've done it before, I sympathize. It's his pathetic attempts to justify it during the game (citing to non-existent MLB rules, for example) that make this a story.
Now, see, that changes things, IMO.
But, on the other hand, the man is entitled to his opinion...and we're all entitled to think he's a jerk base on that opinion.
And I officially dont care what you think about me and my "PC backlash" attitude.
Highlifeman21
She said this morning on Cold Pizza that she'll rub down pitchers in the dugout after they come off the mound. Apparently she didn't know about the comments until her parents, who were watching and listening to Hernandez, informed her.
She must play a pretty important role for the Padres, since she was wearing her own jersey. I don't recall ever seeing a trainer wearing the actual jersey of the team, but rather some other team apparel and jackets.
I like Chris Speilman's comment about when his pregnant wife was complaining about labor pain...it was something like:
I dont want to hear about the pain, just show me a baby..
Gotta love Chris.
I honestly dont think Chris or Keith Hernandez think women are inferior. I just think more people these days are professional victims or like to label someone as a victim (like this trainer who apparently joked back) based on just standard, crude or obnoxious humor.
I honestly think what Keith said is not an abnormal thought to many though I disagree with him. I just think he is getting crucified for an opinion we are all entitled to have.
If you disagree, fine, but an opinion is only wrong relative to your own.
My thing is: what the hell is it to Hernandez what goes on in the Padres' dugout? Bugger off, schmuck.
I think you could say that for 90% of the media.
columbusbrian
I am actually very impressed with the overall attitude about this incident. K Hernandez is a huge jerk, what he said is stupid.
However, in response to the posters who think this is overblown PC nonsense, I think this falls squarely in the should have known better. Is it okay to be a neanderthal in 2006? yes.
Is it okay to do so in front on a live television audiance. Hell no. You want to joke about a woman's place, go ahead. But if a person is dumb enough to do so on a mass media format, he's going to get smacked down.
I have been making a mental compliation of should have known betters for a while now. Heres one for you. Top on the list is Tim Johnson of the Blue Jays. Lying about being in Vietnam is not wrong in my book. He didn't hurt anyone, no one should care whether or not the man fought for his country with respect to his role in MLB. But he should've know better than to say something that stupid as a public figure. You want to be an idiot, do it at home. If you do it in public, patriotic people (me), or people who think denegrating women in public is wrong (me) are going to get pissed.
Public figures have to abide by a different set of rules in public discourse, they get paid accordingly, and Kieth Hernandez is due a swift kick in the nuts aoubt now.
Lying about being in Vietnam is not wrong in my book.
Which book, exactly, is that? ;)
I'm angered Hernandez didn't refer to women as dames. That would have been more in line with the cartoonish nature of his comments.
KronoRed
Dames is too old school.
DeadRedinCT
Wouldn't "broads" be more appropriate?
(slinks back into cave)
Lying about being in Vietnam is not wrong in my book. He didn't hurt anyone, no one should care whether or not the man fought for his country with respect to his role in MLB.
Lying in general is wrong and it applies to the person's character. Be it about baseball, vietnam or if they ate pop tarts for breakfast.
There are no books like a dame,
And nothin' looks like a dame.
There are no drinks like a dame,
And nothin' thinks like a dame,
Nothin' acts like a dame,
Or attracts like a dame.
There ain't a thing that's wrong with any man here
That can't be cured by pullin' him near
A girly, womanly, female, feminine dame!
Im astonished that point had to be made...but alas...
icehole3
I wish I was pitching for the Padres, I couldve use a rubdown. Those guys dont realize how good theyve got it. She's a hottie.
Better get your ultra asbestos fire proof suit on...
If you don't understand that saying someone's hot is different from what Hernandez said, well....I think it's you that the PC police have got to.
Hottie? Really? Where did you see a pic? Can you shoot me a link?
Never mind. She has a nice interview on ESPN.com She is a hottie.
The Baumer
Girls in the dugout are never a good idea. As a high school athlete who had two attractive women scorekeepers on the bench I can tell you. Anyone associated with baseball can tell you that. Bochy just didn't want to let anyone discredit or possibly belittle anyone on his training staff, so he stuck up for her. The woman in question should have shined it on and not made a the situation a parallel to the women's right movement. I think that's a bit of a stretch. He didn't call her inferior or lame, he just commented on the fact that when men see boobies it takes their attention away.
Girls in the dugout are never a good idea.
Yeah girls are little and their jacks and balls get in the way... women OTOH... they can be in there if they earn the job that puts them there. I'm sure Kim Ng would agree.
Semantics! :D Catch the fever!
Anyway, in a perfect world a woman can enter a room full of men and they won't be distracted, but that's reality. Especially if an attractive woman is giving out massages to your buds at the end of the bench.
Seriously dude... You didnt pick up that I was on his side basically saying what you are to me?
And here I thought you had a sense of humor...
My mistake. I mistook your comment.
Shwew. Nothing would upset me more than someone thinking im an emowuss.
wolfboy
I would think that a joke like that would be acceptable if he knew her personally. In front of a national T.V. audience, directed towards someone you don't even know? Honestly, if Hernandez was peddling a stand up routine on Comedy Central, there's no story.
Look, I joke with my girlfriend about this stuff all the time. I tell her to go make me a sandwich, and she tells me to ask for directions. I wouldn't make those jokes with a complete stranger. I'd have to be an absolute idiot to do it on national television. The main point here is that if Hernandez wants a future in television, he should think these things out.
IslandRed
There are endless distractions at a ballpark, even from the dugout, if you're of a mind to be distracted. Which most ballplayers are; they're hardly laser-focused on the game every second. They can just look up into the stands (and do) to see women. The sensibly-dressed lady at the end of the bench, the one they see every day, is not going to be a big deal.
vaticanplum
This line of thinking puts the responsibility on the girl. It's not her fault she has boobs. It's the men's fault for failing to concentrate on their jobs. If they are distracted, they have the ability to grow up and put it aside for another time.
She has been objectified and her occupation could suffer for something over which she has no control; thus, it does become part of the women's rights movement. It's no different from a statement such as, "Well, one of our trainers is black, and I've got a couple of racist guys on my team so they might be distracted if he is in the dugout." You cannot usually change others' feelings and prejudices just as you can't change the fact that men and women are often attracted to each other; they will think and do as they wish in their private lives. That's why it's important to set a standard of not allowing actions based on these feelings in the workplace.
RedsBaron
What Hernandez said was stupid, but he has always been a jerk.
creek14
I was just going to say "Bite me, Keith." But VP's post is so much better.
No, he doesn't sincerely apologize. A sincere apology doesn't begin with "if I have offended...".
Someone just the other day referred to this as the classic non-apology apology. (I think it was on this board, in fact, but I'm not sure. If anyone remembers and can point me to that post, I'd appreciate it.)
KittyDuran
There are endless distractions at a ballpark, even from the dugout, if you're of a mind to be distracted. Which most ballplayers are; they're hardly laser-focused on the game every second. They can just look up into the stands (and do) to see women. The sensibly-dressed lady at the end of the bench, the one they see every day, is not going to be a big deal.Case in point - Mr. Adam Dunn...[from the cheerleader article]
"I think it's a great idea," left fielder Adam Dunn said. "It gets the fans into (the game) and gives us something to look at."
Elaine Benes: Well Keith. I'd be watching the 3rd base coach if I were you, because he's not waving you in.
Its a non-apology apology probably because he doesnt think he said anything wrong in his mind and prefers to stay true to himself while "massaging" those who have their proverbial panties in a wad.
Girls in the dugout are never a good idea. As a high school athlete who had two attractive women scorekeepers on the bench I can tell you.
Because the impressions of hormone-fueled teenage boys are what should guide the adult universe.
We had female trainers on my HS football team. They were in the locker room and on the sidelines. I don't recall one ever distracting anyone during a game. Had a member of the girls' track team hold my blocks at home meets during my senior year as well. I ran a personal best when she held them early in the season and after that I wasn't messing with the good juju, she was holding my blocks.
The trainers and the track girl were all certifiably hot, but if you can't keep your mind on business during the game it seems to me that you're not a real serious member of the team in the first place.
The more I think about it, the more I disagree with Hernandez, after all, if women were not allowing in the dugout, then who would give massages to all the hard-working men? Who would keep the dugout straightened up? Who would vacuum it? Who would do the laundry?
Women in the dugout? We NEED women in our dugouts!
Women in the dugout = GREAT idea!
Oh, I don't necessarily disagree, smith. But if he doesn't really feel that he was wrong, he should hold his ground and refuse to apologize (or pseudo-apologize or whatever). If he can't stand the heat, he shouldn't have made the comment. I'm not debating whether what he said what right or wrong (although I do have an opinion), I'm just taking exception to the dishonesty that is inherent in insincere apologies. (Wow, I used three consecutive words that begin with "in".)
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Richie DeMaria
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I often guiltily wonder how I can exist sustainably and come short on answers. All I know is I want to be part of a generation that finds a more sustainable way.
People have wiped out 60% of the Earth's animal populations since 1970, and our shared habits and ways continue this trend. Thinking about people like me trampling on flowers has had me examine the other many ways in which my love for the Earth also harms Her. In wilderness or no, my actions have an effect. Even from home, writing this on a computer to the Internet, I'm using up natural resources in all manner of ways, plugging into the world's largest human-built, fossil-fueled physical infrastructure as my PVC yoga mat sits tableside. Every Google search and social media update I make creates CO2 emissions. The more I think about it, the more I wonder what the meaning of nature is. I believe the history of America's relationship to the natural world has always been one of material profit more than reverence. It is difficult to imagine an American relationship to the natural world that is not, in some way, about profit — mine, yours, or someone else's.
A typical post during superbloom backlash.
In 2019, one of America's fiercest debates is over the buying and selling of public lands — particularly, the reduction of public lands to make room for extraction companies. Though big outdoor brands do a great deal of the noble work of preserving what's left of these places, such as Patagonia and REI's campaigns against the Trump administration, the outdoor industry in many ways depends on the fossil fuel industry. While ideologically opposed, they're materially linked (see The Smokey Wire's piece, "The Peculiar Symbiosis of the Outdoor Recreation and Oil and Gas Industries"). Outdoor lovers like me are also part of the problem, traveling to and from these beautiful spots. Tracy Ross, in "The Complete History of the Outdoor Industry (Abridged)", marks the points in history where “the 'outdoors' in the U.S. became linked to preservation, recreation and goods that could be turned into money.” When the preservationist principals of Theodore Roosevelt and others simultaneously beckoned a wealthy demographic of travelers to witness the 'nature' of a decreasingly populated Yosemite, so began our recreational retail.
Now, “wilderness” is a sought-after hashtag. In 2019, wildflowers bloomed across California in a widely publicized superbloom. Major media outlets like the LA Times and the Washington Post told millions of readers where to find these flowers, and people followed. Many of those people Instagrammed about it — and the backlash began. Instagram accounts like @publiclandshateyou and @natureisdisappointedinyou popped up to shame the “influencers,” including me, and urged them to remove the photos. (For the record, I have received no material profit from my photos of me in flowers, and I did it because I was joyful, not because I was selling anything.)
All it needs is a Muir quote. Credit: PBS
Influencers posing in Nature. Credit: Sierra Club
When we step into wild lands, we sometimes forget the American notion of 'wilderness' is a concept founded in part by a history of genocide and displacement. These are not previously-untouched ecosystems where Mother Nature invites only a privileged outdoor-loving few. So many lands we regard as 'wild' were, not long ago, homes for thousands of people who managed to live with hardly a trace compared to our ways of life, for thousands of years. People lived in and worshipped superbloom territories including the Carrizo Plain (Chumash and Yokut societies) and Lake Elsinore (Luiseño societies). Their histories have been largely vandalized or vanquished to make room, in part, for a Western ideal of 'nature' and a Gold Rush-driven pursuit of providence and profit. Even John Muir at times despised the sight of the Ahwahnechee, Miwok, and Mono Paiute of Yosemite and abhorred their presence (although his views evolved). Along with the present-day Yosemite park's protection came the natives' decimation at the hands of American colonists. By 1910, almost all of the people had been killed or removed from their home, where they lived, as people, and their villages incinerated. As recently as 1969, the National Park Service razed their remaining homes in lieu of new, western housing. The Grand Canyon, Zion, the Black Hills — so many of America's wildernesses and unpeopled Instagram photo backdrops, not long ago, were homes to humans whose ancestral roots run hundreds or thousands of years.
Carrizo Plain, September 2013, years before “superbloom” was a media catchphrase. Not exactly untouched, the National Monument is a patchwork of roads, ranches, solar panels, and established campgrounds.
When we visit places like the Carrizo Plain National Monument, we see a landscape where multi-millenia rhythms of life do battle with contemporary upstarts. Recently introduced and invasive non-native plants like foxtails, thistles, oatweeds, and tumbleweed outcompete many of the native flora whose seed banks have sifted through the soil for roughly forever. Grazing cattle that have taken up tenancy from the tule elk and pronghorn are now employed to remove the non-native plants. Thousand-year-old Chumash paintings sit in suspension with rotting ranches in the glint of passing tourist cars and the song of birds. The sacred Painted Rock in Carrizo Plain is terribly defaced with contemporary graffiti and bullet holes. Vernal pool ecosystems like the Carrizo Plain have mostly disappeared since Spanish explorers arrived, mostly due to agriculture. 90% of California's vernal pool ecosystems are gone; from 1995 to 2005, an additional 13% of the remaining grasslands was lost. Over 90% of California's old-growth coastal redwood forests are also gone due to logging. The list goes on.
Power lines in and around the Carrizo Plain.
Ever since its first protective status designation in the 1980s, the Carrizo Plain National Monument has seen a back-and-forth volley of protections and petroleum permits. Despite being commercially unproductive for petroleum and uranium, permits persist in the heated battle between land ownership of the west. Carrizo was nominated to be a UNESCO World Heritage Site — until the petroleum industry intervened, and shot the proposal down. Marlene Braun, the first Monument Manager of the Carrizo Plain, ended her own life in 2005 when she found herself amidst the ongoing dispute over grazing rights and private property rights and the right ways to preserve the landscape. Feeling caught between the Bureau of Land Management's pro-rancher policies, conservationist protections, and fierce workplace bullying, she pulled the trigger. "I can't face what appears to be required to continue to live in my world," she wrote.
The battle between conservation and agriculture and energy goes on largely beneath our feet, with agricultural practices depleting the Central Valley aquifer and thinning oil reserves attracting more prospectors. There's no easy way around this. At present, California holds more than 12% of the U.S. population. Our farming economy feeds and employs hundreds of millions of people, and our petroleum reserves serve the national economy. With oil companies finding new support in the Trump administration, Western lands are once again up for sale for extraction usages.
Petroleum-based products hike up Everest. Don’t these people know there are 7+ billion others they share the planet with? Credit: AP
In the decades since becoming an industry, the outdoor recreation industry has only grown, and so has the carbon footprint. Don’t get me wrong — backpacking and camping are some of my favorite things. But without an oil industry, we can't camp like this. For every backpacker who leaves no trace, their backpacking materials may linger without biodegrading for hundreds of years. Our multi-hundred dollar fleeces shed microfibers to the ocean floor; our tents and backpacks are made of petroleum-based synthetic polyesters; we cook our single-use plastic-packed dehydrated foods with fuel canisters; we ascend the highest peaks decked in polyethylene; we travel by car and plane to see faraway lands. In permitted photographer dreamspots, stones have eroded beneath the feet of an admiring world. I don't think Mother Nature can much distinguish between the supposed virtue of me as a photographer, out of frame, who later sells a wilderness photo print or shares it online, and the supposed vanity of me as a model "living, laughing, loving" in the springtime splendor. Both times I traveled by car and documented my visit with a rare Earth-metal-made smartphone whose daily usage emits fossil fuels from a data center. They're just different aesthetics, different experiences.
Would activist Katie Lee be hated for this pose on social media? Quite possibly. A strong advocate for preserving Glen Canyon, the canyon was later dammed. Credit: National Geographic
And I, personally, feel there is a gender bias towards who are allowed to behave "responsibly" and "irresponsibly" in the outdoors. For a long time, men have been posing in the outdoors, often going off-trail, for the sake of "testing gear" and "finding solitude," but also, increasingly, to sell a product. Never has someone taken on the voice of the "Public Lands" to retroactively condemn pioneers like John Muir or Sir Edmund Hillary for potentially instigating the now Disneyland-length lines atop Half Dome and Mount Everest, nor do they question off-trail travel or outdoor gear generally. Because in the West, men were always framed as the frontier-forgers and the wilderness theirs to conquer. Equally, the land never claimed to have a voice, instead being framed as a "virginal" land to be saved from drills. Only when women modeled amidst flowers on Instagram did Nature seem to take on a tone of "hate" and "disappointment." Perhaps this has something to do with an old fable wherein the archetypal Eve, in her ignorance, dared to learn more, thus disappointing her fatherly god and ruining Nature and mankind for the rest of us, forever. But maybe I'm overanalyzing.
On the bright side, more companies are addressing, and changing, the outdoor industry's material impact. Last year, Primaloft announced plans to release new biodegradable fabric and insulation. Companies like Comp-a-Tent and KarTent have already made compostable tents to counteract the waste of music festivals. 8hz debuted a travel backpack made out of entirely recycled water bottles. Backpacker favorite grocers like Trader Joe's are aiming to eliminate as much of their plastic packaging as possible. Step by step, brands big and small are making major efforts to reshape the resources we use when we recreate. It is worth remembering that people have been backpacking for thousands of years using wooden, external-framed packs. Would it be possible to return to this lifestyle, and abandon the more polluting materials used for lightweight backpacking? I believe it is.
Which is all to say... I know I'm part of the problem, but I want to be a part of the solution, in whatever way I can. A sustainable, lightweight, biodegradable backpacking tent? I'm all ears. An app that measures your phone's CO2 output? Hey, why not? An all-out renunciation of smartphones? A lot of us would be happy with that. At the very least, we can envision a greener way of life, even if we don't yet know how to correct course. If it comes down to jobs and livelihood, the hopeful side of me believes a shared recognition of our mutual inter-dependance, such as between fossil fuel industries and outdoor industries, can someday produce a mutually-beneficial outcome. Til then, I'll be more careful in the flowers.
Blazing Trails with the LPFA
Four Reasons Why You Should Volunteer in the Los Padres
Published in the Santa Barbara Independent June 14, 2018
If you love the Santa Barbara backcountry, consider joining the Los Padres Forest Association on an upcoming working vacation trail project. Throughout the year, the volunteer organization cuts trails, cleans trash, and otherwise assists in the maintenance of our vast Los Padres Forest. I joined in on an April trip along the Sisquoc River with the LPFA, and the trip gave this adventurer ample reasons to return. Here are four reasons to make your next local backpack a working vacation.
You Can Choose Your Own Adventure
Join for two nights, or five — as long as you pitch in, it's up to you. I joined the crew for the better part of four days bookended by solo time along the Sierra Madre Mountains. Meeting the crew along the staggeringly steep Jackson Trail, we shared a sense of freedom and fellowship: any bit of work helped. Some stayed for an entire week or more, while other veteran voyagers volunteered in the midst of longer Sisquoc sojourns. Either way, there's an immediate camaraderie in working alongside these former strangers, sharing already a common love of that mystic wilderness. Amongst us were Condor Trail thru-hikers and Los Padres rangers, ballet dancers and electricians, all of us paid in the dreamy river breeze and rolling hills of green.
Meet Local Legends, Share Local Lore
New volunteers work alongside long-timers who've dedicated their lives to preserving our area's wild lands. There's Bryan Conant, the cartographer-célèbre whose works have aided thousands, a friendly leader whose smiles and quips lightened our workloads. There's backcountry horsemen like Richard Waller and Otis Calef, equine food-ferriers who carry with them mental anthologies of California backcountry history. Then there's Richard Scholl, the dry-humored master chef who can fire up a pork loin and pineapple-upside down cake better than many a front country cook and serve it with a side of campfire stories. His morning “Coffee's ready!” bellow is so loud it seems to hasten on the dawn.
The Trails Need the Help
New trails cost the Forest Service thousands of dollars per mile to construct. In the ever-privatized public lands, existing trails fall to the shortening seasons of limited budgets and personnel. Our intrepid team hacked at hills and knocked down dead trees with pickaxes and McLeod rakes. We piled rocks, heaved logs, stroked saws to and fro, shearing shrubs and rerouting creek crossings under sprawling sycamores and willows. We were re-establishing a former wagon trail, lost to decades of overgrowth. The work reopened the way for wilderness wayfarers that, for years, had to wander aimlessly along the river. It's hard work, but rewarding.
Time Away From Time
No phones, no worries. Miles from the nearest road, we were secured from the outside world. Down there, you can taste timelessness. It blows past the old Montgomery homesteads and through the sycamore leaves, in frog serenades and floodplain debris. LPFA work rewards not only present but also future generations and future hikers, reclaiming routes the past has swallowed. It's a small way of doing something bigger than yourself; the sort of trip that will give not just you, but many others, memories for years.
Reading John Muir in Yosemite, 2018
"Every glacier in the world is smaller than it once was. All the world is growing warmer, or the crop of snow-flowers is diminishing,” John Muir wrote in his 1894 book, The Mountains Of California. Reading Muir's book atop El Capitan on a not especially wintry February day, when temperatures soared into an unseasonably comfortable mid-70s warmth, I wondered if that prophetic mountain man knew just how warm the world would become.
Welcome to today's Yosemite: snow melts sooner, waterfalls run dry, and the Valley is scarred with a growing number of dead trees. Though forever a landmark to Mother Nature's beauty, the iconic park has increasingly become a barometer for her fragility, too.
I visited the world-famous national park in early February with a friend from our home of Santa Barbara as a sort of mental health break from our own winter woes. We needed the escape. Our county had endured California's largest wildfire in the dead of December, and in January, our neighboring Montecito had just been smothered beneath an onslaught of boulders and mud, hurtled down from the freshly scorched hills.
Backpacking on an especially sunny February day to destinations seldom-seen in Muir's time, we reflected on what Muir might think of today's changed Yosemite, and what we might think of Muir.
Perhaps no one is as synonymous with America's great outdoors than John Muir, whose writings and lectures helped preserve Yosemite, Sequoia, and the Sierra Nevada at large. To Muir we owe not just our National Parks, but our very ideas about nature. He recommended to all people the mountains, their forests and passes which could “save you from deadly apathy, set you free,” as an antidote for civilization's poisons.
With his picturesque prose the world continues to describe Yosemite, and with his words we emblazon t-shirts, diaries, and coffee mugs. More and more people yearly heed his call to the mountains. In some ways, he seems an almost unbelievable figure now, sauntering up to 14,000 foot peaks with but a crust of bread and tea, sometimes not even a wool blanket to warm him. Assuredly a slow traveler, he would scoff at the fast pace many take nowadays upon his namesake long-distance trail.
We were struck how telltale some of his descriptions seemed in The Mountains of California, and yet how long-ago they read. The world was growing warmer then; it's even warmer now. As of late, the ever-changing Yosemite has become one of California's best winter backpacking destinations — one of climate change's ambiguous rewards.
Winter came late in 2018, with foot upon foot of snow in March. Gone are the reliable December days of Muir's writings, when “the whole bent firmament” was “obscured in equal structureless gloom” with snow-bearing clouds set to arrive in October. “From December to May, storm succeeds storm, until the snow is about fifteen or twenty feet deep,” he wrote back then; now, ski resorts fail to open. Thwarting many decades of average-snowfall wisdom, you could now plan a winter escape even without snowshoes, as we did, traipsing through the Yosemite back country with only a few embarrassing pratfalls.
In fact, travel was rather idyllic. We enjoyed the dramatically booming Yosemite Falls, some 1,430 feet high, on a usually icy trail, sans snow gear. Passersby hiked in summer wear, some nearly nude, as we lugged our ungainly backpacks in shorts and tank-tops. We walked joyfully through hushed forests past sparkling, scattered sheets of silent snow, hardly a soul around. We enjoyed sunset and coffee atop El Capitan, a feat that seemed undreamt-of in that usually snow-globe perfect Valley, so often pictured frosty, dusted, and cold in the winter months.
“This is winter?” we laughed. The land seemed stuck in some sort of half-season. All below, brittle brown trees besmeared the otherwise evergreen ravine across dry, dull meadows, seeming to wait for the season that never seemed to arrive. This year, the famous Firefall — a February phenomena that flares up when the sun strikes Horsetail Fall — merely trickled down its rocky walls, as if in mockery of 2018's newly enforced viewing regulations, set in place to curtail crowds.
Crowds are frequent in 2018's Yosemite, for better and worse. Every year more people find refuge, inspiration, and joy in the Valley; yet every year, so grows the traffic, the noise, and potentially, the price. The Trump Administration proposed a $70 fee for vehicles in 2017. In coming years, visitors may have to park outside the Valley and enter via shuttle, like Zion National Park in the summer months.
Muir more than any other beckoned us here. His ethics and values, rightfully, endure. But reading his book, I wondered if maybe his ideas of nature, inadvertently, did harm to the places he adored. He writes of Yosemite as if it were a cathedral crafted by snowflakes sent “on errands of divine love,” sculpting “terrestrial manifestations of God” with Nature's “choicest treasures.” In describing these lands as his God's greatest example of natural aesthetics, did he cause us to selectively elevate some places as 'natural,' and not others? To protect some lands, but not all?
Muir felt himself a natural visitor to these realms, but he did not extend the belief to every person; his vision of 'nature' left out the people already living within it. Of the Mono Paiutes, he wrote, "Somehow they seemed to have no right place in the landscape, and I was glad to see them fading out of sight down the pass," and he describes their physique with disgust. Might his beliefs find a contemporary ancestor in the rescinding of Bears Ears' and other tribal lands in the name of 'the people'?
We humans continue to go through our seasons, and our constants change, too. Camping adjacent Yosemite Creek, my friend and I peeled our winter layers as the snow forsook its crystals into tiny rivulets of water, the sun striking down. Around us, the glaciated gully of Yosemite Creek echoed in granite the grander Valley it fed, seeming to repeat, in microcosm, the whole. Seemingly frozen now in wordless grace, Yosemite's granitic walls began as magmic upthrusts that cracked, splintered, fissured, jutted this way and that over millennia. The rocks' current calm belies a near-eternity of geologic turmoil and change. Muir comprehended these forces of the past; our home communities, unwittingly, felt their violent force firsthand, in the present.
“The whole massive uplift of the range is one great picture,” Muir said; but the picture's changing. Cars glint in the Valley below us; jets streak above; cameras, phones, selfie-sticks capture it all. Tellingly, Muir's book ends with a description of “Bee-Pastures” and the great, flower-strewn Central Valley, forewarning how “the time will undoubtedly come when the entire area of this noble valley will be tilled like a garden.” Would he have foreseen all the cows, the smog, the vanishing bees?
This is the whole picture now: we can still walk in a geologic gallery of timelessness, but all the more sensitive to change. As we forge into an unpredictable new century of climate shifts, Yosemite National Park presents us a chance to learn from the past as we prepare for the future.
Hiking Yosemite's Pohono Trail
Originally published July 12, 2017 in the Santa Barbara Independent
For many, summer is synonymous with one place: Yosemite. The legendary valley has raised countless area families and friends in its ancient glacial cradle, inspiring millions of avid adventurers and casual hikers from here and elsewhere to visit year after year. In 2017, the valley enjoyed renewed exposure as a testament to both the power of Mother Nature and humankind alike when Alex Honnold climbed the 3,000-foot face of El Capitan sans rope.
While most of us are likely not quite as ambitious as Honnold, we nonetheless would love to explore the valley sometime this summer, but face permit problems and crowd woes.
Thankfully, there’s the Pohono Trail. With not much luck needed, you can secure an advance or walk-up permit for this extraordinarily beautiful hike along the south rim as an overnight backpack or more leisurely multi-night trip. At 13-16 miles long (conflicting reports), it’s also totally doable as a big and strenuous day hike.
The Pohono Trail is a thru-hike beginning at either Glacier Point or Tunnel View parking lots; having a car at each end will make things easiest. Beginning at Glacier Point is almost entirely downhill, and for that reason, preferable to most, unless you love ascending several thousand feet in a day.
The trail begins with some of the most breathtaking views on the planet and simply doesn’t stop. After leaving behind the bustling Glacier Point viewpoint, you come to your own private peek of Yosemite Falls, just under a mile in, its thundering music playing loudly across the way. What a sound! Not much farther, you come to a Sentinel Dome juncture you absolutely must take. With 360-degree views of the park, views don’t get much better than this.
After Taft Point, where slackliners balance dizzyingly thousands of feet above the valley floor, the number of day hikers plummets. The next two and a half miles go quietly through mossy forests, near-silent but for many beautiful birdsongs. It’s hard to believe you’re still in the same crowded national park. On this quiet stretch, you’ll come to your first camping option at Bridalveil Creek Bridge, a peaceful place along the banks of the water that spills into one of Yosemite’s most iconic falls.
But it’s Dewey Point, just two miles farther, that’s the real stunner. With a few spacious sites situated at one of the most spectacular views in a park full of them, it’s hard not to feel downright undeserving of such a sleep spot. Watch the sunrise, watch the sunset, and watch the headlamps glinting on El Capitan’s face. It’s a place to feel unparalleled joy and magic, a summer memory you’ll never forget.
White Ledge–Hurricane Deck Loop
Originally published April 20, 2017
Spring has certainly sprung in the San Rafael Wilderness. For the adventurous weekend warrior or the more leisurely multi-day traveler, the classic loop traveling from Manzana Narrows to White Ledge back down through Lost Valley is the perfect way to experience arguably some of the most beautiful terrain in all of California at its seasonal height. Clocking in at almost the length of a marathon, it’s not exactly the easiest or shortest of all traverses, but if you can spare the time, you will be immensely rewarded.
The hike begins at Nira Campground. The first seven miles are a well-trodden route along the scenic Manzana River Valley. You will certainly see other people here on a spring weekend; on a late March trip, for example, all available sites were occupied from Fish Camp (2.7 miles) all the way to Manzana (6 miles). If you’re lucky, you will also see many local residents of the wilderness, like Arroyo toads, through whose home the trail bisects. Spring will bring flowers like the western peony, Indian paintbrush, yerba santa, and elegant clarkia. From Manzana, the trail zigzags up and then back down to meet a lush and narrowing portion of the creek. Manzana Narrows, the most spacious, prettiest, and usually most popular camp up to this point, features four sites set aside a small but dramatic set of rocky waterfalls with an inviting, frigid pool, plus a luxurious latrine sometimes occupied by, shall we say, impolite swarms of bees.
Beyond here, the terrain changes noticeably, as the Narrows give way to scenic views of the crest of White Ledge plateau and the mountainous rise of the San Rafaels. Beyond the river, the sun intensifies, and the fragrance of wildflowers, too. After half a mile from the campground, you come to a junction, where you have the option to head up to Big Cone Spruce or even further to McKinley Peak. Stay left and begin the switchbacks up almost 1,000 feet, underneath a sprawling curvature of sandstone.
White Ledge is an amazing place, easily one of the most beautiful on all the Los Padres. A mystical feeling surrounds this miraculous maze of white rocks, ghost pines, and meadows made of Miocene sandstone millions and millions of years in the making. This is the eastern Hurricane Deck, where its sandstone skeleton is exposed in slanting, sloping, striated strips and shelves, surreal and even spooky. Gentle streams runs down the plateau, to the Manzana on one side all the way into the Sisquoc watershed on the other. An abundance of wildlife, quite musical in the night, make this their home. It is a special, sacred place; leave it cleaner than you found it.
There are two camps in White Ledge Canyon. The first, Happy Hunting Ground, at 10.7 miles from the trailhead, is a very nice little site right along the trail near a small bend in the stream, with lovely shelves of rock as your backdrop. Continue downward to White Ledge Camp at 12 miles from the trailhead, a paradisiacal nook near a creekside whirlpool underneath dramatic rock formations. At either camp, you will have ample opportunities to explore the sandstone further or relax by the creek.
On your final day, you will hike back 13.2 miles to Nira Campground, with all but the final few miles almost completely absent of shade. The hike begins at the Hurricane Deck Trail turnoff adjacent White Ledge camp. The first 4.4 miles will likely be the least enjoyable of your journey, and certainly the brushiest. Expect chaparral to swat you in the face, slice you in the legs, and stab you in the thighs. Hurricane Deck is and will always be a challenge to traverse even on this, its easiest segment, and it is crucial and critical you know how to navigate. Fortunately, sweeping views of the Sierra Madre Mountains and hopefully a nice breeze make this leg more bearable.
At the Vulture Spring turnoff, views open up to unparalleled vistas of Hurricane Deck, Sulfur Spring Canyon, and San Rafael Mountains. There is no place quite like this stunning setting and no hike quite like descending through its many sandstone stripes. In spring, golden yarrow, owl’s clover, California prickly phlox, and tiny wooly sunflower illuminate your path. With a decline of just under 1,000 feet, this portion of the trail is often hard on the knees, so be forewarned.
You go down past grassy potreros to see the rocky interior of Lost Valley, which looks dry and foreboding even in spring. Vulture Spring, about three miles from the Hurricane Deck trail turnoff, is the only reliable water after White Ledge, and it is usually more of a drip or trickle than a healthy flow, but it had a tiny pool in late March. Just after it, a precarious rockfall demands you use immense caution in crossing.
Landing at Twin Oaks, the last descent into Lower Lost Valley is always a dreamy one. The pines sway, the hills are an unbelievable green, and on a recent visit, the usually dry Lost Valley creek was remarkably and happily flowing. Your final miles along the Manzana are easy and quiet, mercifully mellow and shady. Back at your car, you can mark off a prime spring experience in an otherworldly, beautiful portion of our backcountry.
Going on a Santa Barbara Soundwalk
Originally published June 22, 2017
When planning our vacations and staycations, we’re usually led by our eyes — here’s a reason we call it sightseeing. But have you ever traveled somewhere to hear how it sounds? Your very own city may be a great place to discover soundwalking, an activity akin to wine tasting wherein you savor the notes that express one terrain. Free to anyone, all it takes is a bit of walking with your ears as well as your eyes open, though closing the latter sometimes helps.
Inspired by Re-sound, a guided walk led by artist Andrea Polli in June 2016 and sponsored by the Museum of Contemporary Art S.B., let us help you springboard your own aural map of S.B., full of human sounds and animal sounds, loud ones and quiet ones, near ones and far.
Goleta Beach
As you leave the parking lot and walk toward the sand, you depart from the chatter of cormorants and ducks and move closer to the bray of seagulls. On the pier, passersby murmur and a fisherman’s daughter laughs, and then enters the booming buzz of the Goleta airport prop planes. Above and below all, the sound of the ocean — one of the most powerful sounds on earth — resonates, crashing and soothing unendingly.
Mission Rose Garden
Nestled between the Mission’s bricks and the home façades of Plaza Rubio on hilly terrain, this grassy knoll enjoys a strong and dreamy reverb quality. The voices of children and their playfully reprimanding parents or caretakers resound, and cars stream sleepily by while the lovely song of finches is aflutter all around.
Franceschi Park
High above S.B., the listener is afforded varying strata of traffic noise — oth the hazy hum of the faraway freeway and the more immediate cars careening on Alameda Padre Serra. A leaf blower and suburban din cut through many frequencies, but a preponderance of birds reminds you of how pleasant everything else is.
Quarantina Street
Not far from the wine-tasting rooms of the Funk Zone, the neighborhood on the opposite side of Garden Street is flush with sounds of hard work: construction workers hammering, truckers trucking. On the corner of the street, the industrial wall of sound from Cemex is punctuated by a rather delightful backup tone from a cement truck, which bubbles up like a Super Nintendo sound effect.
S.B. Public Library
One of the quietest places in S.B., here you almost swear you can hear the sound of thoughts themselves among the soft thumb of turning pages. An insectile, air-conditioning din hangs in the room. All is mostly quiet until a cell ringer goes off, and then a video chat begins to blare in the library lobby. “Sir!” a librarian says, and thankfully the quiet is preserved.
Exploring Golden Canyon in Death Valley National Park
Originally published March 18, 2017 in the Santa Barbara Independent
Of all the seemingly countless trails through canyons and washes in the million-plus acre Death Valley National Park, the Golden Canyon Trail is the one of the most popular, and with good reason. A brightly colored land of chaotic geology that defies the imagination — yet possessing a feeling of openness and ease — it’s both imposing and inviting. What’s more, the trail is doable for all skill levels, ranging from easy hiking to more advanced explorations.
If you have time, the best way to enjoy Golden Canyon is via the Golden Canyon-Gower Gulch Loop. This four-mile hike leads one mile up the aptly named Golden Canyon toward the deceptively tall Manly Beacon, then back down to the gnarled, rocky walls of Gower Gulch. The trail is largely interpretive, and you may make your own way at your own leisure. There are plenty of side canyons, nooks, and crannies to explore; let your spirit guide you.
A set of tall canyon walls greet you at the entrance, their bizarre beauty only fully comprehendible once you can look back at them. These walls soon give way to grand alluvial fans of clay and mud as the canyon widens. Within the first mile, a well-marked spur leads to Red Cathedral, a monument of carnelian cliffs composed partly of oxidized iron, giving them their color. They tower over badlands carved over millennia by the emptying of a prehistoric lake and many flash floods thereafter.
In this landscape, sunken more than ten thousand feet below Death Valley’s highest rim, hikers are quite apparently small, both relative to the rocks surrounding and to the mighty expanse of time that composed them. A strange feeling of resignation followed all the hikers on a recent MLK Day weekend, as if people had accepted their fate to carry up that quiet canyon, in a valley named Death. Because the canyon can be busy, it can be good to post up in the shade and watch people go by, or escape into a side canyon altogether. Out of earshot and eyesight of other trekkers, you feel the barrenness of the land, ancient, timeless, and silent, as it has been for centuries.
At about a mile, the trail rises up the slopes of Manly Beacon, a spire of golden-white rock that looms much larger as you get closer. Named after William J. Manly, who helped save the nearly-doomed party of 49ers (a member of whom famously coined the valley’s present-day name), this roost affords astounding views of all the colorful badlands, with their subtle rainbows of cinnamon and tan-colored striations, plus the salt flats beyond, and the towering Panamint Range. This is where many hikers stop before turning around.
Keep going, and you’ll begin a gradual descent through the no less fascinating Gower Gulch, a stupefying canyon of rocky walls and contorted cliffs, displaying surprising colors like green and purple. “Death Valley is the Grand Canyon put into a juicer and minced,” said geologist, author, and guide Wayne Ranney, and the crazed beauty of this gulch exemplifies his statement. There’s not really a trail here, you just continue down the wash. You may come across an old borax mine opening, perilous to enter and most likely barred off by the National Park Service, but very exciting to witness.
The trail descends through a narrow wash, and you may wonder if you’ve lost the track. Shortly, the walls widen, and you once again can see the valley floor open up before you, with tiny cars crisscrossing its surface. Their dainty presence is a reminder that you haven’t left the planet altogether, but on your hike back to your own car, you may wonder. There’s hardly a place on Earth as spectacularly spacey as this landscape, so seemingly unearthly and yet so very earthly, a graceful expression of nature’s abstract art.
Beyond Manzana School House
Originally published February 8, 2017 in the Santa Barbara Independent
Whether a veteran of the backcountry trails or a newcomer to its enchantments, now is the perfect time to visit or revisit the Lower Manzana Trail in the San Rafael Wilderness. Drenched with rain in recent weeks, the San Rafael Wilderness will be at its most hospitable and beautiful until April and May, and at present it’s a magical land of rushing rivers and greens beyond belief. What’s more, the trail has gotten some recent TLC from Los Padres Forest Association volunteers.
This popular trail travels 8 miles along Manzana Creek to the Manzana Schoolhouse, likely the most traveled-to weekend destination second to the Manzana Narrows on the Upper Manzana Trail. However, this route describes a recent late January trek with a few friends beyond the Manzana Schoolhouse to the fabled and seldom-seen Sisquoc River, returning back over the mighty ridges of the infamous Hurricane Deck — all in a watery, wearying, wonderful weekend.
We set out on Friday night under a new moon, the wilderness as dark as could be. Though our destination, Coldwater Camp, was a mere 2.8 miles from the trailhead, the Manzana crisscrossed our shins three or four times, providing a unique and chilly thrill to the already adventurous activity of night backpacking. The ambient temperatures were near freezing. After a brisk journey into night, we arrived at the wide-open meadows of Coldwater Camp and awoke the next day to a frosty expanse of grass and oaks. Had we been up for a few more foot-soakings, Horseshoe Bend, only another 1.6 miles, would have be another great first-night destination, with its particularly resplendent, shady meadows, and views of the sandstone domes of Castle Rock to wake up to in the morning.
This region of the trail, as it passed from Coldwater and Horseshoe Bend, was Manzana traveling at its most delightful, as namesake bends in the river shimmered blue under Castle Rock’s white crags, towering above us in a scene we could never imagine as belonging to Santa Barbara’s backyard. As the trail moved under the shadow of Zaca Ridge and on the verge of private property, the trail became a wide, beaten dirt road dotted with the occasional “no trespassing” posting. This is a land of many uses, as you’ll see at just over 6 miles from the trailhead, when you come to the cabin of one Charles William Dabney, a wealthy Santa Barbara sportsman who leased the land and built a cabin near his favorite trout fishing spots back in 1914. The cabin has since been used as a Midland School destination for students until the mid-century, when it was designated a historical county landmark.
Between here and Manzana Schoolhouse, about 8 miles from the trailhead, we witnessed just these kinds of varied approaches to this wild land. We beheld in one vista the curving Manzana Creek, a private ranchland, a former pioneer settlement, the mountainous backdrop of a private resort (Zaca Lake, once a holy site for Chumash), and a federally designated wilderness left to unfold naturally, with traces of societies left behind. Where the Manzana and the Sisquoc meet was once part of a series of settlements along the Sisquoc, a land that proved too unreliably nourishing and too unforgivingly hot for many Westerners who sought refuge here.
If you have three full days at your disposal and not just two, the Manzana Schoolhouse would be a great first-day destination. I had hardly ever seen a grass so green and a meadow so peaceful and beautiful as the ones surrounding this site overlooking the emerald green hills of Horse Gulch Canyon and the almost pyramidal white face of Wheat Peak. Many people end their trips here, understandably so.
Far fewer, it seems, go very far beyond, as the trail along the Lower Sisquoc is comparatively brushy and hard to follow. Shorts are inadvisable for this 4-mile stretch to Water Canyon, beautiful though it is, as thorny chaparral will prick your legs for the next mile or so. This is wide-open country draped in beautiful moss and haunting oaks, and the sight of the serene Sisquoc is a welcoming one. A federally designated Wild and Scenic River, the wilderness length of the Sisquoc has been never been filtered through city light pollution and maintains an untouched mystique as it winds lazily between the Sierra Madre and San Rafael ranges. Being so far from paved road access, the trails are less maintained and become harder to follow the further you go.
We met the Sisquoc River at a beautiful crossing with surprisingly dramatic geology. After this, finding the trail here became difficult; it trends toward the right, through an old, dilapidated corral fence. As the sun began its descent to the horizon, we traversed a wide meadow mesa graced with the occasional oaks. Underneath the shadow of Bald Mountain and Hurricane Deck, this portion of the Sisquoc trail was a peaceful slice of heaven with an expansive feeling of open freedom.
The trail descended to a broad meadow, the site of an old homestead. Evidence of decades-old land use, long-forgotten, rusted along the way. A topographic map like Bryan Conant’s San Rafael Wilderness map is critical to navigate your way along the curves of the river, as the trail seems to disappear and reappear at points. We faced navigational difficulties just as the sun left us, and were left to ford through waist-deep crossings by the light of our headlamps, almost more like spelunking than backpacking.
The most reliable way to find Water Canyon Campground was by seeking out the convergence of the Water Canyon tributary with the Sisquoc, appearing on the western bank of the river. The very pleasant camp is across the river underneath a beautiful sentinel oak, complete with a set of watchful deer antlers hanging in the canopy.
Our final day was set to be a daunting one: We would travel back 4 miles to the meeting with the junction with the Hurricane Deck Trail, climb over 2,200 feet across 4.4 miles to meet the Potrero Trail, then descend 1,700 feet down 3.2 miles to our final 1.3 miles back to the car — in all, about 13 miles of journeying.
This route is only for the truly hardy and adventurous, and it will test the spirits of even excellent hikers. It’s not just the physical hardship of the switchbacks that scissor through the oaken shade up the first ascent, or the beating sun which, even on a relatively mild winter afternoon, felt too hot at points, or the fact our legs had already taken us so far and through so many river crossings. It’s the psychology of this trail: the way the trail became worryingly hard to follow on the steepest stretches, and the unrelenting rise and fall of the ridge, which, mirage-like, appears easier than it really is.
Our pace slowed to a mile an hour, and one party member ventured concern about passing out. As the months get warmer, it is extremely important that anyone who attempts this know how to identify signs of dehydration and overheating. Take as much time as you need to travel this trail. But we persevered and were awarded with one of the most stunning sunset vista points anywhere in our county. There were views of the snowy San Rafael Mountains on one horizon, their snows the source of the rivers we had traversed, and the far-off Pacific Ocean on another, where eventually the waters of the Manzana and the Sisquoc end their journey and begin one anew.
Autumn in Paradise Valley
Originally published November 25, 2016 in the Santa Barbara Independent
The best time of year to visit the most popular trail in the epic Kings Canyon National Park might be the fall. In October and November, before the end of the road closes down for the winter, the vast canyon is quiet and hushed with the sound of whispering aspens and the low-flowing but still mighty Kings River. While visitors are still guaranteed on a weekend, you will be among the few wanderers in that rock cathedral as the darkening season slowly shuts its doors.
Besides its quietude, there is no need to reserve a permit in advance at that time of year, unlike during the busier summer months when you will be in stiff competition with many other travelers. And with good reason: with a manageable mileage and largely level trail, the unspeakably beautiful way up to the alpine meadow of Paradise Valley along Woods Creek is perfect for beginners and seasoned adventurers alike. Named by none other than John Muir, Paradise Valley is a place of profound peace, even at its most crowded. Many use the trail as the first leg of longer journeys into Kings Canyon’s immense and rugged wild lands, where majestic and at times menacing massifs tower over you in all directions, particularly the popular Rae Lakes Loop, which intersects with the John Muir Trail and PCT. So while you may likely see a soul along this stroll, not a thousand could make you feel any less small beneath the high walls surrounding.
The trail begins at the Woods and Bubbs Creek Trailheads in the shadow of the Grand Sentinel, a prominent rock wall topping out at 8518 feet – over 3,000 feet above you. For the first two miles, the trail is as easygoing as it gets, with a wide, sandy path maintaining levelly just above the banks of the Kings River. You walk here through a canyon floor meadow dense with ponderosas and incense cedars, illuminated by the orange leaves of black oaks and cottonwoods.
At two miles, the trail reaches the junction of Woods and Bubbs Creek. A bridge leads you further east to Sphinx Creek on the Bubbs Creek Trail; instead, head left up the hill, towards Mist Falls. It’s here that the trail begins to increase in elevation and in difficulty. You rise 600 feet in elevation as you head towards Mist Falls, which is still thundering even in autumn but without the wall of water preventing close access earlier in the year. It’s a quick climb over a mile, making the misty rainbow-spray of Mist Falls a lovely resting spot. In fact, this is where many people stop, then turn around.
Keep climbing up switchbacks. The going is slightly tough, but the views behind you are incredible. The behemoth rock formation known as the Sphinx lords over the piney valley between its fellow gigantic glaciated granite walls, while strands of autumnal trees streak across the valley in vibrant color.
The trail ascends another 400 feet or so for two miles, until you reach Lower Paradise Valley Campground at about 6 miles in and 6,575 feet in elevation. The roar of the river is gone, replaced with a languid, lazy calm as Woods Creek ambles gently through Paradise Valley. The water here is a tranquil turquoise color. Many journeys end here, but if the campsite is full, go forward another easy mile. The trail is relatively level from here on out, with the hardest part below and behind you. Continue onwards for another mile to Middle Paradise Valley, which is nestled along a beautiful bend in the creek.
Upper Paradise Valley, at just over 10 miles from the trailhead, is the last sleeping spot in this serene valley, and a destination too far for many for one day. But let not the mileage dissuade you; remaining relatively level with only some slight and gradual gain, the final three miles from Middle Paradise are not a whole lot more to endure. In Upper Paradise, you are very close against dramatic granitic spires, and the adventurous may climb upon a small rocky fortress just beyond camp. Up here, you can see the entirety of Paradise Valley in all its grandeur – like having your own private Yosemite, it is a vista providing joys untold.
No matter how far up Paradise Valley you travel, you will be treated to one of the finest places viewable in a day within one of the most glorious and grand stretches of earth on this planet.
Lost & Found in Lost Valley
Originally published June 30, 2015 in the Santa Barbara Independent
The first thing to greet me on my way to Lost Valley in the San Rafael Wilderness was a furry deer hoof still attached to skinless leg bones. The rest of the animal was not to be found. It was either a clue of life circling, or a foreboding omen. The air was humid and the skies stormy, the last clouds clinging to a day that followed a night of rains. I left town on account of feeling particularly lost in that moment of life, tethered to a balloon bouquet of stressful commitments and confusions, each rapidly inflating with quickening changes, their strings and paths entangling, my sense of direction and faith faltering.
I went to Lost Valley, a place I had been once before after a steep descent from the East Hurricane Deck Trail. The miles of sandstone belting the valley, and the many boulders and rock caverns hidden within, left an impression on me. Close to 100 years ago now, they once planned to build a road through the valley that would connect Nira campground to the Sierra Madre Mountains on the opposite end of the wilderness. That plan vanished, like the homesteaders who vanished along the Manzana and Sisquoc, leaving hints of existence behind.
Others have lived in the Lost Valley, that being the longtime residents and roamers who first claimed this region — or at least they left their mark there. A heavy feeling of what once was sweeps through the San Rafael Wilderness. It radiates in the paintings of departed ancients, it travels in the wind through scorched manzanita and burnt oaks, and it lingers in the dry silence of rocks unmet by water in months, or years. But there is also a powerful feeling of what remains for eons, in the towering architecture of the sandstone rocks and the mighty Deck, the whisper of the grass and digger pines, and in the repeating songs of owls along the creek bed and of crickets under stars.
It’s a good place to contemplate stillness, sit back, and watch the cycles of thought. They come and go like the roads people planned to plow. They leave as easily as leaves in fire. Nothing much moves in Lost Valley, except the occasional lonesome crow, or the bats flitting out of caves. The caves conceal many little brittle bones, skulls of rats or bats. I explored them with a boundless sense of discovery, and left my stress to die there.
I climbed to the top of one of the rocks in the valley, and watched as the storm passed. The sun sank and softened the barren intensity of the land. The bands of rock became aflame in pink. A slow and fiery meteorite, paralleling the sun, broke into a smaller piece, and then a smaller, and then dotted out. Up on the rock, for a short while, I was happily no one. I was a human animal amidst a looming landscape, one bigger and more long-lasting than I.
I laid down in the grass and watched the stars come out. The stresses that had so strangled me loosened and left one by one. I was able to think a little more deeply, about who I was beneath it all, about who and what endured below the endless rush. I thought of others, I came to terms, I forgave. And lying down, my mind went deeper still, to lie in sync with the stillness of this lost and lonesome place, and to smile at the stars above, thinking: The universe is beautiful.
Fall Foothills Hiking in the West Sierra
Originally published October 4, 2016 in the Santa Barbara Independent
Many Santa Barbarans love the high country of the Sierra Nevada mountains, with its world-famous glacial valleys and otherworldly tall peaks, but far fewer have enjoyed the trail riches nestled in the slightly closer foothills. There, great backpacking opportunities open up just as the high country is closing down.
Two of the best trails in the Sierra foothills can be found less than four hours’ drive from Santa Barbara, along two major river corridors: the Wishon Trail along the Tule River in Sequoia National Forest, and the Ladybug Trail along the South Fork Kaweah River in Sequoia National Park. Both offer relatively easy, relatively under-the-radar hiking to rushing rivers, paradisiacal waterfalls, and towering sequoia redwood trees. What’s more, with thousands of dead trees now browning the landscape, the two watersheds also offer an unnerving but eye-opening education into the environmental stresses pressing upon our wildernesses, and the ambiguity of our role within them.
The Wishon Trail begins a quarter mile after a closed gate on Wishon Road east of Springville, just past Camp Wishon. Many flock to the natural water slides coursing down the river’s lower reaches, and access points can be found along this road. Thanks to these destinations, the Wishon Trail itself sits overlooked, with day-trippers venturing no further and other backpackers heading to the higher Summit and Maggie lakes trails on opposite sides of the Tule watershed. First traveled by the Tule river natives, the trail is a historical mining trail, used by prospectors in the mid-1800s to mine copper, galena, and limestone.
The hike begins from the pavement, switchbacking easily over some cabins below and entering pine forest. At 1.5 miles, the trail reaches a junction to Doyle Springs; continue toward the left, uphill. The trail proceeds with minor dips and gains in elevation but remains mostly level for its duration; the trail is hardly a climb. The path offers views into the Golden Trout Wilderness, where granite-topped peaks look down upon a vast forest of sequoia, ponderosa, sugar pine, and incense cedar, and below you, the last hints of the chaparral ecosystem transitions into a more coniferous one. The forest will be a mix of green and brown, living and dead, and the Wishon’s wide expanses offer sobering glimpses of a changing landscape.
At around 2.5 miles, you reach Rose’s Grave, the first campsite and supposed burial site of William Rose, who died at his gold claim in 1879, according to historian Claud “Sonny” Rouch. Though his sons tried to transport him back home for a proper burial on the backs of burros, by day three his body had begun to decompose, and they selected this site, where a lovely swimming hole sits at a decently sized flat. However, hikers would do better to hike one more mile, where a pair of better sits overlook a sheltered nook along the river just south of an incredibly beautiful waterfall that spills out from jagged, multicolored cliffs. One can continue on for several more miles, entering the sequoia-stacked Mountain Home State Forest, and ever further up the Tule River; but for the purposes of our short trip, this waterfall location cannot be beat.
The Ladybug Trail in Sequoia National Park is similar to the Wishon Trail in that it is another relatively easy and short trip that moves from chaparral and blue oak woodland into pine-peaked waterfall worlds, but it’s slightly more difficult, and slightly more remote. Use caution on the rocky dirt road leading to the trailhead, which can be traversed by a two-wheel-drive sedan but not without some trepidation. Fourteen campsites make up the grounds of the South Fork Campground, and as far as trailhead camps go, this one is very nice, with easy access to the Kaweah River.
Beginning at 3,640 feet in elevation, you quickly cross a footbridge to neighboring nearby Clough Cave, which has been closed to prevent vandalism. You climb steadily and reach Bone Hill, a mountain not unlike the golden-grassed peaks of our own San Rafael Wilderness, and you may notice the landscape transitioning. Homer’s Nose, a massive rock dome perched above the South Fork Kaweah, shows itself for the first time at just over half a mile. In the summer and fall months, this can be an aggressively hot stretch, making Ladybug Camp’s arrival at 1.7 miles a very welcome site. Ladybug Camp sits next to a most gorgeous waterfall, where marbled metamorphic rock enshrines an emerald green pool. Most people end their journey here.
If you would like to continue on to a more secluded site, continue to either of the next two sites, Cedar Creek at 3.1 miles, or Whiskeylog Camp at 4. Following the Ladybug waterfall, you embark on one of the steeper climbs in the trip, first with a series of switchbacks and then a more gradual incline across grassy meadows. The mighty Kaweah River thunders below, and the views here are expansive, where in one vista you can see Homer’s Nose protruding gently skyward to the south, the marvelous Dennison Ridge bedecked with incoming autumnal colors, sequoia-strewn Garfield Creek merging with the Kaweah, and the vast river canyon leading eastward toward some of the Sierra’s highest peaks, just out of view. Once again, you get a sense of tree mortality, and the impermanence of the wilderness — before you lies an ecosystem undergoing dramatic shifts.
At 3.1 miles and 750 feet higher than Ladybug, you reach Cedar Creek, an idyllic and shady spot protected by the presence of massive sequoias with a lovely trickling stream. Depending on the season, this is also where you may get your first glimpse of the thousands of ladybugs that give the trail its name.
The last stretch of trail has a few ups and downs, descending just after Cedar Creek and regaining the elevation not long after — Cedar Creek and Whiskeylog are at more or less the same elevations. The extra effort feels a little annoying, but at just under a mile between the two camps, the last bit of push is not too much to bear. Soon, waterfalls and polished granite boulders come into view, and you arrive at the beautiful Whiskeylog Camp, where a stunning series of small waterfalls tumble like an unstrung jewel necklace underneath the girth of huge trees.
With only weeks left until the higher Sierra becomes impassable, these foothill and mid-elevation trails offer excellent escapes not too far from home, with abundant water and very few crowds. Though also a stark reminder of our planet’s fragile health, may they inspire you to pursue stewardship and preservation after you have soaked in waterfall solitude.
Sequoia National Park’s Lake Trail to Emerald Lake
For simply one of the best day hikes in our Golden State, consider tackling Sequoia National Park’s Lake Trail. Often done as an overnight backpack and very popular on some summer weekends, the spectacular climb is deservedly a famed route and has the foot traffic to show for it. But the views are so epically sprawling and the lakes so soul-soothingly pristine that even big crowds are dwarfed in the majestic expanse of one of the West Sierra’s best escapes.
The hike is a relatively moderate one by some Sierra standards and is doable as a day hike, but it’s a bit of a huff if you do the whole thing. You likely should not attempt it if you are not in at least decent hiking shape — the altitude gain, rising 2,000 feet to almost above the tree line, will be felt all the more given the elevation, not to mention the eight-ten miles of round-trip traveling. Pace yourself and bring plenty of water, or a filter if you have one.
The trailhead begins at 7,280 feet, off Wolverton Road. The first mile moves gently through a green world of dense pine forests and, if you’re lucky, blooms of leopard lily, stands of monkey flower, and carpets of mustang clover will add colorful flair to the forest splendor. Sunlight is reduced to mere beams in parts of this stretch, and it splays out into meadow-wide expanses in others. Through the trees you are afforded glimpses of dramatically glaciated Tokopah Valley, over which you soon will look.
At 1.8 miles from the trailhead, you come to a junction; stay left, as going right would lead you to the Alta Peak and Mehrten Meadow trail. From here, the trail begins to climb noticeably, but it does not stop being lovely, with abundant worlds of fern and surprising streams and little waterfalls occasionally tumbling across your path. At mile 2.1, you come to another junction, offering you the choice between the Watchtower Trail or the Hump Trail. By all accounts, the former is more scenic and easier on the legs, and the latter steeper, shadier, and somehow more upsetting. Some sign scrawlings on a recent hike showed an arrow pointing left to “brains” for those taking the Watchtower, and to the right, “fuckn steep” for The Hump. For the purposes of this trip, we will use our brains and not go so steeply.
Continue on for about another mile, and here the trail really becomes something awe-inspiring. At mile 3.3, after two switchbacks, you mount the Watchtower overlook, and all the massive beauty of Tokopah Valley unfolds before you. With a view to rival similar valley overlooks in Yosemite, you can see in one vista the coursing white jet of the Marble Fork Kaweah River and its thundering falls, huge meadows sloping down the domes above, and the grand crest of the Kings-Kaweah Divide. Smooth white-gray granite graces the entire vista. Those with easily-induced vertigo or a fear of heights may not like this or the remainder of trail, as for the next leg you will walk on an exposed and unprotected path with sheer, 2,000-foot slopes to your side. The Watchtower is a great stopping point if the first climb was too taxing, so soak in the views before turning around — but the remaining stretch is relatively level.
Level — and heavenly. From here, you are soaring above the valley, enroute to a string of lakes, with clusters of pink pussy paws accompany you on your promenade. The first, Heather Lake, at 4.1 miles, is a beautifully calm and placid place, with a wide wall of granite framing its grassy and smoothly bouldered shores. The water is a deep jade color, and red firs rim its round perimeter. Heather Lake makes for an ideal lunch spot, and an equally ideal place to linger for hours, being a calm and lesser-visited lake compared to the camping destination lakes further up. No camping is allowed here.
Continue on into the divine higher realms of the final mile, where streams tumble down into the glacial canyon, and deer picturesquely munch on flowers on your rocky route. Mighty, snow-capped Alta Peak towers above all at 11,204 feet, reminding you of your tiny size and short life span in the scope of geologic time. There is a very modest amount of elevation gain from Heather to Aster and Emerald Lakes, which you will subsequently lose and regain on the way back — Emerald Lake, though higher up on the trail, is technically 50 feet lower in elevation than the trail’s first lake.
As you descend to Emerald Lake, you have the option to visit nearby Aster Lake, which is prettily poised in its own cirque near the edge of a sheer drop-off. For now, choose to stay right, where you will pass a conspicuously out of place but nonetheless happily convenient NPS toilet at mile 5.1, and step toward Emerald Lake. Hidden by trees and dipped beneath granite cliffs, the lake itself is never quite visible until its shore, so don’t be mistaken into thinking the milky-blue-gray pond sitting just before it is the lake, as some visitors have done.
Pass by or settle at one of the nearby eight campsites until you make your way to the shore, guarded by granite slabs. Under gigantic, cathedral-like towers of jagged rock and a serene waterfall spilling down from higher lakes, you finally see Emerald Lake, one of the grand beauties of the Sierra. It is an understandably popular destination, so pure solitude may not be yours here, but shielded within such a dramatic bowl of rocky spires and snow, the lake nonetheless imparts the solitude of being a small, happy speck on the shore.
When you are ready to leave, turn around, or continue another mile, as many do, to Pear Lake, considered by many the most beautiful of the main lakes on the trail; or even hike further up, to legendary Moose Lake, the grandest and least often-seen. No matter whether you stop at the Watchtower or any of the lakes, you will be treated to some of the best and most easily-accessed lakes of the West Sierra. One forewarning: after beauty this grand, it’s difficult to return.
Alone in the Badlands
Originally published Thursday, January 22, 2015 in the Santa Barbara Independent
There’s a place resting midway between the sea and the summit of sky-scraping Mt. Pinos, a sprawling maze of twisted earth not quite like anywhere else in the Los Padres: the Cuyama Badlands. I had spotted these mysterious lands first from atop Ojai’s Pine Mountain and wondered ever since what was concealed amid the alluvial folds. Coming down from a joyous MLK weekend snow-camping trip spent with friends atop Mt. Pinos, I needed one last escape before my regular life. I decided to finally visit the beguiling badlands — alone.
On the mountain and below it, I traveled through sacred lands. The Chumash of old regarded the looming Mt. Pinos as the center of the universe. To them, it was a land held in balance. Whether stargazing on its peak or viewed from afar, it’s easy to understand why: The gently sloping, rounded mound watches over the surrounding lands like a mother, cradling a peaceful landscape of quiet magnificence. The Badlands form the base of this cosmic centerpiece, becoming gradually more forested as they climb in elevation. Hiking through them, one can’t help but see the rocks as reverent, the strange red rock spires and cathedrals ascending upward to the snowy slopes and stars above.
The Cuyama Badlands are an enclosed world of their own, bordered by piney mountains on all sides and seldom visited. Eroded over many years by waters descending from the surrounding peaks and fractured by fault activity, the gnarled landscape defies easy navigation or settlement. Some have built ranches or vineyards upon the mineral rich soils, but most who visit seem to pass through on off-road vehicles. Three rugged dirt roads provide the main outdoor access to this region: Quatal Canyon, Apache Canyon, and Dry Canyon. I traveled down Dry Canyon.
Leaving from Dome Springs Campground, a spacious free camp hidden between piñon and juniper, I walked into the main Dry Canyon wash. A few rowdier campers have unfortunately littered the region with broken bottles and bullet casings — be careful where you tread. The first segment of the wash is a four-wheel-drive route, and you may share the road with jeeps or motorcycles, as I did. After some slow travel through the sand, the tire tracks thin and the trash fades, and the river bed leads to the Chumash Wilderness.
My journey took me to the end of Dry Canyon, where the hills rise in a jagged choir of red, pink, and white. The formations are incredible, reminiscent of the spectacular geology of the Mojave or what I imagine parts of Utah to be like. I came across hoodoos, arches, and mud caves, rocks of unbelievable color and shape. Dwarfed in the canyon corridors, enveloped in silence, I felt an ancientness and timelessness, myself a small blip in the Badlands’ millions of years of quiet witness. Archaeologists have discovered abundant fossils in these hills, and traveling among them, you are reminded of your own tiny role in the giant course of shifting geologic time. Here, you are very small.
Whether traveling for mystical or merely recreational reasons, the Badlands’ Dry Canyon area invites all kinds of adventure. There aren’t really trails out here, only washes and sparsely treed hills, making for excellent cross-country travel. Hikers would do well to stick to the washes, as hiking along the many rising hills often leads to a steep drop or impassable sharp ridge. The deeper you travel, the closer you get to the mystifying rock formations. You could spend an entire day here, or more. Each spur in the wash leads to its own canyon, each concealing its own surprises and secrets. Just be aware of where you have gone and for how long — the labyrinth of washes and ridges can be very disorienting, especially after a long, hot hike. Do not attempt it if your navigation skills are poor. Water does run through these dry lands after storms, so plan your own trip accordingly.
I rambled through the lands for several hours, exploring several tributaries. After a while, it became clear I would need another day, or many, to explore every aspect, and even then, the essence of the Badlands would still elude me. Silent and strange, it cannot be aptly summed up by any assemblage of words. Nor can I quite recommend a specific route, other than to just go along the major wash and explore for yourself. You will likely come out, as I did, awed, humbled, and centered. A land held in balance, indeed.
Salmon Creek Trail
Salmon Creek is the southernmost wilderness trailhead in the Big Sur region, and being so, it has a slightly different character than the canyons and river worlds farther north. There are no redwoods; instead, a lush blend of bay, maple, alder, and sugar pines are kneaded in the folds of yucca-dotted chaparral. The creek tumbles for miles from its Santa Lucia highlands heights before plummeting down the 100-plus-foot Salmon Creek Falls, which, at a quarter of a mile from the Highway 1, are a favorite stopover for day-hikers visiting from across the world. Those willing to venture beyond the falls will be rewarded with stunning views and some of the most joyous boulder-hopping creek exploration this side of the Ventana Wilderness.
The trailhead begins immediately off Highway 1, not long after the Ragged Point Inn. Take a moment to visit Salmon Creek Falls, a powerful set of two-tiered towers of white water. The open ground of bay-shaded boulders would make a nice resting spot or last minute-preparation area, and the long pool at the falls’ base is as inviting a swimming pool as any. Linger here for as long as you like, but rest assured that more waterfalls await ahead.
Return to the sign, marked S.C. Trail, and follow it up the zigzagging path. From the Salmon Creek Falls starting point at 230 feet, the trail rises sharply to 760 feet in less than a mile — i.e., very steeply, very quickly. Strenuous though it may be, the views of the road and coast below are soothing to the soul and have a way of lightening loads. In the summer, as in a recent late-spring hike, the coast may be heavily fogged in. Given the elevation gain, this isn’t necessarily a bad thing but in fact a mercifully cooling one. It’s also nature’s surrealistic way of marking the end of the road, and the beginning of wilderness. You will pass poppies, monkey flowers, and foothill yucca as you weave between grassy stretches and oak-enclosed patches. Trail poles would not be a bad idea, especially for the return trip.
Like all the glorious trails tracing river canyons up north, the Salmon Creek Trail allows visitors to transition from the lush lands close to the sea to the drier, grassier higher reaches and appreciate the entire ecosystem contained between. Salmon Creek differs noticeably in its flora, and being one ridge too south to contain a true strand of redwoods, it’s a unique little in-between zone of its own, the most southerly region of the northern Los Padres. This becomes most apparent as you gain elevation, seeing pines below from your oaky rock perch.
After a tough initial climb, the trail levels out, and the remaining trail to the intersection with Dutra Flat at two miles is easy sailing. If you enjoy the sound of a large and peaceful meadow in a pine and chaparral foothill expanse, then Dutra Flat would be a worthy side trip or destination on its own, as many make it to be. If you prefer the creek, instead, head left a short ways until the trail descends to Spruce Creek Camp. This boulder-sheltered expanse has three sites with fire rings, including one with a bench.
The trail continues another mile to Estrella Camp, a meadow-situated site with side trails down to the creek. While the last mile offers some great views of Salmon Creek’s more hidden waterfalls, an alternative for the truly adventurous would be instead to base camp at Spruce Creek and forgo the trail in favor of hiking up the creek itself. While this is only recommended for the hardy and the environmentally sensitive, creek-hopping and river exploration are some of the greatest joys offered in the Silver Peak and Ventana Wilderness areas, with their abundantly bouldered waterways. A seldom-seen, many mile–stretch of tranquil grottos, peaceful private ponds, tiers of small waterfalls, mossy overhangs raining streams of water, and fern-gartered boulders all await those who are willing to hike up the creek and able to do so with due stewardship to the landscape — it is especially important to leave no trace in this watershed, where trout and many insects live.
Regardless of how far up you go, the Salmon Creek Trail is an excellent option for those looking for a moderately challenging and massively rewarding visit to the Big Sur region not too far from home. Though it lacks the classic redwooded look of other trailheads, it has all the same magic that makes Big Sur so special and a unique character all its own.
East Camino Cielo to Auga Caliente Canyon
East Camino Cielo to Upper Caliente Canyon
Originally published April 11, 2016 in the Santa Barbara Independent
NOTE: This route is for serious and practiced adventurers only. Barring any major rain events this spring, the following route from East Camino Cielo to Upper Agua Caliente Canyon will likely only be doable for another month or two until next winter or spring. Water sources are intermittent and increasingly unreliable as the summer nears. Due to a barely discernible trail, only those with navigational skills and outdoor experience should visit Upper Caliente, even if arriving to the trailhead by car.
The Big Caliente Hot Springs are one of the most popular destinations in our backcountry, but hardly anyone ventures past to see the canyon from which their neighboring creek flows. Those few who do will witness an almost untrammeled land, one vibrant with massive meadowlands and chaotic red rock. Though technically not even wilderness — the canyon is wedged between, but never enters, the Dick Smith and Matilija Wilderness areas — there are few places in Santa Barbara County accessible within a day that feel this wild, remote, or special.
Though one can drive to the trailhead, the road is often closed or rugged due to weather. A much more adventurous option is there for those willing to put in the miles and willing to risk a lack of water. Leaving from East Camino Cielo, this route descends from the top of the Santa Ynez Mountains into the vast expanses of Blue Canyon and the Mid-Santa Ynez area before traveling up into the wide and rugged drainage known as Agua Caliente. The route is about 10 miles from East Camino Cielo to Upper Caliente Camp (9.9 by map measurements), including almost 2,000 feet of descent in the first 2.6 miles (1,876 feet to be exact), which will be regained on the way out.
The trek begins at Cold Springs Saddle, where one heads downward first to Forbush Flats (1.7 miles in). From up here, one can already see the red hues of Agua Caliente perking up between the purplish folds of foothills fanning out in front of you. Continue ever-downward through whispering oaks until you arrive at the big meadows of Cottam Camp (2.6 miles in). If you can make it a two-night trek, this a great place to stay for the first leg of your journey. Flowing water is more abundant here than anywhere else up ahead.
From here, the trail crosses into the flatlands that merge Blue Canyon with the wider river valley of the Santa Ynez. The path meanders across wide rock-strewn banks, where a colorful scattering of serpentine and schist spread out underneath you. The trail itself can be slightly easy to lose, but not the way — just keep heading north. You pass the Santa Ynez River, or rather riverbed, which was even by end of March completely dry in large patches. Around here, the forests are quiet, grassy, and undisturbed, resting in a seldom-visited slice in between areas with more frequent recreation.
You arrive next at Romero-Camuesa Road, where the occasional jeep rolls by. Here, the road is dusty, dry, and slightly disheartening, being away from any water source and with infrequent shade. The bodies of toads lay squashed and sun-dried along the way, a bit of natural selection via 4WD. A good rest stop or another first-night sleeping option would be one of two drive-in campgrounds, P-Bar Flat at 4.8 miles in, or Middle Santa Ynez at 5.9.
The next reliably flowing water after Cottam Camp and the stretch of creek thereafter could be found at dripping Pendola Debris Dam. Constructed to prevent runoff from silting Gibraltar Reservoir, this and Agua Caliente Dam a couple further miles up now stand as both sad and funny relics to more watery times. Traveling here by foot instead of car allows you ample time to appreciate the surprisingly beautiful geology of the canyon’s wide mouth as cars kick up dust nearby. Continue two miles up the road until you reach the Big Caliente Hot Springs, a more-than-welcome relaxation point and where most journeys to this area end.
If you can wrest yourself from the loving arms of Big Caliente, then you will be treated in the next two miles with the beautiful rarity of seldom-seen Upper Caliente. Agua Caliente Debris Dam guards this relatively untouched section of riparian land, a pathetic pool kneeling at its dry walls. Beyond, the trail disappears into a forest rich with grassy undergrowth and sprawling sycamores and oaks. Though level, I hesitate to describe it as “easy” in the usual sense — this is not a place for those who need a trail to travel.
Passing this grassy forest, the route opens up to reveal the sprawling meadowlands that characterize Upper Caliente. The gateway to this wonderland is an idyllic rock-bound swimming pool known as The Oasis, just over a mile from the trailhead. Though once deeper, the pool is true to its name in otherwise thirsty Agua Caliente Canyon, through which an alternatingly trickling and terminating creek lightly travels. Bear and mountain lion footprints — not humans’ — are the only footsteps to mark the land.
Upper Caliente Camp itself is mounted on a meadow-topped island in the divide between Agua Caliente Creek and a minor tributary. It’s surprisingly hard to find, but it’s there. From here, the canyon continues up, with another two miles available for further exploration. Each new bend in the canyon hides a new meadow, and each meadow bound by towering rock walls and side canyons leading into the unknown. Those who appreciate the beauty of our local geology will find in Agua Caliente a treasure trove of scenic cliffs and crags. In spring, Agua Caliente Canyon is the quintessence of the season, exploding with vibrant colors and alive with wildlife. Here, arroyo toads bounce fat and happy, not smashed and dead. When night falls on Agua Caliente, it is like being in a stadium with wildlife in the seats and you at the center — all around you ring the almost deafening din of nighttime songs.
Exit the way you came. The final 2.6 miles are all uphill, almost 2,000 feet of ascent. It’s a push, particularly since you have already traveled many miles to get here. Pace yourself, and plan your water accordingly. When you finally peak out at East Camino Cielo again, with the city down below you and the canyon beyond you, you are awarded the unique sensation of having earned a deeper understanding of not just the backcountry, but the mid- and fore-countries leading to it. Even though anyone can see the land from East Camino Cielo, you will now be one of the very few to appreciate the secrets of Upper Caliente and the lands between and beyond.
Night Hiking Dry Lakes Ridge
Originally published January 1, 2016 in the Santa Barbara Independent
Botanists and backpackers alike know Ojai’s Dry Lakes Ridge to be a lovely and unique destination for finding flora or sweeping views a short, steep climb away from Highway 33. Less considered is the ridge’s worth as a night hike destination. Perched high between the Matilija and Sespe drainages, the Dry Lakes Ridge affords nocturnal adventurers solitude and an owl’s eye view of the world from Pine Mountain to Santa Cruz and Anacapa islands, with enough slight navigational challenges to make it more than a mere midnight stroll.
At any time of day, Dry Lakes Ridge is a special place. Sitting atop the zigzagging State Route 33, the mountain ridge hides a noteworthy home for rare plants amidst its otherwise unassuming chaparral flanks. In 1986’s “A Flora of Dry Lakes Ridge,” UCSB botanist David Magney thoroughly researched the ridge’s restricted bands of ponderosa and costal sagebrush plant communities, declaring Dry Lakes a distinctive region for its disjunctive uniqueness and seemingly unaltered population of natives and endemics.
The hike begins at 3,720 feet of elevation with an immediate climb of just under 700 feet in less than half a mile — i.e., very steep. The challenge begins even before the ascent, however, with a little bit of route finding. The Forest Service does not regularly maintain this trail, and it is infrequently used. Travelers have stamped out not one but three or four potential pathways up the hill, of which only one forms an actual trail. Should you continue up the ridge, you will find this to be something of a theme, with one supposed trail misleading you into a scraping fence of chaparral until you find another.
There is no way to go but up, and the shadeless trail would be a brutal one in the full heat of a summer day. At sunset, however, the heart-pumping incline at least counters the plummeting temperatures and the sun’s rapid setting. Watch as headlights thread up the mountainside and the darkening gradients of slopes and sea open up to the far-off islands.
Finally, the trail meets the cresting ridge at 4,400, and the views open up even more. One can see far into the purple Sespe river valley, glimpsing the sloping rocks around Willett Hot Springs and the far-off San Rafael Peak. Pine Mountain, with its ever-spectacular Reyes and Haddock peaks, looms opposite Dry Lakes Ridge. Down below, Lake Casitas sheds its last light as Ventura illuminates nearby, and the Santa Monica Mountains stand high and hazily at the east end of the horizon. This is a great place to watch the sunset and moonrise.
The trail peaks out at 4,800 feet before it begins its descent into the basins of Dry Lake Ridge. The basins are shallow depressions that are thick with thriving plant communities, formed by accelerated erosion on the ridge due to fault activity. Under a full moon, these cradles of calm seem otherworldly, almost alien, and are somewhat eerily open in the night air.
However, even during the day, the meadows are slightly difficult to navigate due to the encroaching chaparral. The trail isn’t so much one trail as it is a variety of footpaths paralleling an old firebreak, at points converging into a track but seeming to diverge into the brush in others. There are distinctive cuts in the vegetation, but you have to train your eyes. At night, this becomes even more of a task, making a headlamp and/or flashlight essential even under the brightest of moons. Given the sensitive, slow-growing quality of these plant habitats, one ought to be as delicate and dexterous as possible when finding the trail.
The first two Dry Lakes are small seas of sage. The second, punctuated by pines, is particularly scenic, with the Pine Mountain ridgeline rimming the northern views. But it’s the third — located 2.5 miles from the trailhead a couple hundred feet down a slightly steep grade from the first two basins — that makes for the most reasonable place to stop to camp or, if not sleeping, to pause and rest. The almost perfectly round meadow is composed of grass, not sage, and is dotted around its perimeter with ponderosas. An old ice can stove flanks the west side, and a tire swing sways from a tree on its northern side. Here, hiding in a quiet botanic bowl, there is no indication you are near a road.
Until spring, your night hike is bound to be cold; this author’s recent late-November solo overnight dipped to the low 20s. But if you can stand the chill, then all the better, for you will likely be one of the few. The cities buzz thousands of feet below, but up here, it’s just you and the plants, sharing the peaceful light of the moon.
Walking Below Zero
The freezing sensation in your nostrils as soon as you step outdoors; your just-showered hair forming its own polar icecap upon your head; your fingers and feet, thickly gloved and socked, beginning to scream in pain. A walk below zero makes your thoughts shelter ever-further inward, cozying up against the hearth of your heart; yet even thinking feels exhausting. A moment drags to a minute, a minute to 20 in the slowing temperament of snow and soft light.
There I was in the forests of Finland, early in January. For weeks, daily temperatures barely rose above the 0°F mark — if at all. On some nights, it got as cold as minus-22°F, and that’s before windchill. The days between barely qualified as such, instead transitioning from sunrise to sunset over five-six hours without a middle point, the light seeming to fall below the horizon almost as soon as it had ascended. Your own inner light and inner energy weaken too, outweighed by the heavy reality of oncoming and ongoing darkness.
Being an outdoors-lover, experiencing the frigid Finnish lands and atmospheres was a unique and unforgettable experience. The Arteles artist residency that brought me there was themed “silence, awareness, existence” — apt thoughts to carry with you into the quiet surrounding forests. Unlike Americans — for whom wilderness is a regulated freedom contained within discreet segments, cordoned by property lines, and protected by rangers and volunteers — the forests of Finland, covering over 70 percent of the land, belong to the Finns as a people. The Finns believe in jokamiehenoikeus, or Everyman’s Right: the freedom to roam and enjoy the forests recreationally and to use its resources, so long as it does not damage the forest or a person’s property. To them, the forests are a fact and fabric of the people, part of their culture and soul.
For those weeks, it became part of mine as well. The majority of my walks were short ambles through the nearest forest. At subzero temperatures, a short walk is a difficult and draining experience — 30 minutes was the maximum I could endure on one minus-17°F morning. One fellow resident went on a longer walk at similar temperatures and had to be rescued from fatigue; his beard had grown icicles.
Even in these relatively short strolls, both the physical and metaphysical intensity of walking intensifies. You become distinctly and even painfully aware of your fingers, toes, ears, extremities that in milder climates convey mere background information. All sensations and thoughts take on an intense physicality. Your focus narrows to the crystalline structures cracking across frozen creek beds, or the way the highest, pale white canopies illuminate like pink torches against the sunset, lest you be overwhelmed by the infinity of patterning splayed out in repeating trees.
You also get to witness what Southern California never sees, at least not at most elevations: the deep slumber of a winter forest. The forest itself seemed motionless, still, as if time stopped. Besides a few chirping great tits, there were no animals to see, though deer and moose prints covered the forest floor. If you are accustomed to hunt for animal trails in our own grassy backcountry, then the telltale nature of snow here may lend to your understanding of animal routes, as you can trace what trails the four-legged have trampled. Hibernating bears live there, but unseen. Cross-country travel opportunities abounded in the forest. The snow cover was so thick and steady that I could simply walk on top of bushes, and traveling on their backs gives a kind of weightlessness and floating ease.
The forest runs into roads and houses at its rims, and on one long and aimless walk, only the low orange glow of homes saved me from uncertain doom in the quickly darkening forest. Walking upon pavement is also an experience transformed at subzero temperatures. You account for every step with the understanding that the further you go, the longer you will be in the cold. Your body prepares to endure for as long as it can but is quick to shut down. You are keenly aware of your weirdness walking in the winter, and equally your insignificance, as cars barrel down the road. But within this you find renewed faith and feeling in the very activity of motion. You become aware of how every step matters, how every one is an effort. You renew your love for the breathing that keeps you alive and warm in your chest. You slow your speed and appreciate the distances you once thought were short and easily overcome. Farmland vistas stretch on as expansively and eloquently as painters’ dreams, sparse white vacancies to the dense and dark forest borders.
Walking at such low temperatures is a humbling experience. Awareness tapers to the most immediate of sensations: the air, the ground, the sounds surrounding and rebounding. You slow to the speed of silence and the soft fall of snow as you meditate on moss peeking through the thaw. You feel the outdoors in ways you’ve never felt it.
On one of my last days in Finland, I passed through the forest to a frozen lake, and I walked out on the ice, testing for weak parts. Finding a safe firmness, I lay down and felt enrapt: below me a bed of frozen water, above me a sky, frozen gray. A lake that could drown me at other times held me, and I felt cradled in the cold. But rare sensations like these come commonly below zero. In the dead of winter, I found a new appreciation for what it means to be alive.
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Barong & Kris Dance of Good vs. Evil
September 28, 2015 /0 Comments/in Article, Asia, Culture, Indonesia, Photo /by May Suen
The Barong & Kris Dance is a traditional Balinese dance drama portraying the eternal battle between good vs. evil from characters in Bali mythology. Barong, is a lion-like creature, is the king of all good spirits and Rangda, is a widowed witch and the queen of all evil spirits. Both are equally revered and worshipped amongst the Balinese Hindus as one cannot exist without the other. The backstory of Barong and Rangda is explained below.
“The story goes that Rangda, the mother of Erlangga, the King of Bali in the tenth century, was condemned by Erlangga’s father because she practiced black magic. After she became a widow, she summoned all the evil spirits [demons and witches] in the jungle, to come after Erlangga. A fight occurs, but she and her black magic troops were too strong that Erlangga had to ask for the help of Barong. Barong came with Erlangga’s soldiers and fight ensued. Rangda cast a spell that made Erlangga soldiers all wanted to kill themselves, pointing their poisoned keris (swords) into their own stomachs and chests. Barong then cast a spell that turned their body resistant to the sharp keris. At the end, Barong won and Rangda ran away.” —Indo.com
The drama we watched is depicted in five acts in Indonesian and features a Balinese gamelan orchestra, Balinese dancers, actors in full traditional costume, and sword-wielding Kris dancers. For those who do not understand Indonesian, there is an English translation that explains what is happening during each act which I have re-written and included below. The original translation was hard to follow and to fully understand the drama, the storyline needs to be understood before watching. The dance show can be viewed daily from 9:30-10:30am in Ubud in the Gianyar area for IDR 100,000 and comes highly recommended to watch to enjoy Balinese culture.
Barong – King of Good Spirits
Barong is the king of good spirits and is portrayed as a fun-loving, lion-like creature with a red head, covered in thick white fur, wearing gilded jewelry adorned with pieces of mirrors. The term barong is derived from local term bahruang which today corresponds to Indonesian word, beruang which means bear. The origins of the Barong are quite uncertain as its origins could be from animist worship before Hinduism appeared when villagers still believed in the supernatural protective power of animals.
Rangda – Queen of Evil Spirits
Rangda, is the mother queen of all the evil spirits with an army of demons and evil witches who practice black magic at her disposal. She is depicted as an old woman, with long and unkempt hair, pendulous breasts and claws, and her face is traditionally portrayed with fanged teeth and a long, protruding tongue.The name Rangda in old Javanese and Balinese language means widow. Rangda’s origin was linked to the legend of Calon Arang, the legendary witch who wrecked havoc in ancient Java during the reign of Airlangga in late 10th century. She is also linked to the legend of divorced and exiled Javanese queen Mahendradatta.
The Barong Drama
Indonesian dancers in traditional outfits with Barong, the king of good spirits.
The dance starts with music by the Balinese Gamelan Orchestra
The monkey and tiger, both friends enter the forest. Three men are seen making and drinking palm wine in the forest and are also servants to Dewi Kunti. They spot a tiger and see it killing a child and the men respond by attacking the tiger to fend it off, but the monkey assists the tiger in the fight. The nose of one of the three men was bitten off and the tiger and monkey escape the scene.
Act 1: Two female dancers who represent the servants of the Rangda search for the servants of Dewi Kunti who are on their way to meet their Patih (Prime Minister).
One of two dancers, also one of Rangda’s servants shows off her intricate hand movements called mudras, or symbolic ritual gestures similar to classical Indian dance.
Act 2: Rangda transforms one of her female servants into a witch (who also looks like Rangda) and starts to fight the servants of Dewi Kunti. Dewi Kunti’s servants manage to escape the Rangda and encounter the mischievous monkey again on the trail. This time they defeated the monkey and they make it safely with Patih to later meet up with Dewi Kunti.
Barong dance is injected with some humor. The servants of Dewi Kunti (right) and Patih (left) kill the monkey who tries to attack them earlier.
Act 3: Dewi Kunti has promised the Rangda to sacrifice Sadewa, her son. A witch appears and ends up possessing Dewi Kunti and she becomes angry and orders the Patih to bring Sadewa into the forest. The Patih is later also possessed by a witch so he does not have pity on Sadewa and continues to take Sadewa into the forest and ties him up to a tree.
Rangda here with Sadewa tied up to the tree
Act 4: Unknown by Rangda, Siwa, a Hindu God appears and grants Sadewa immortality. The Rangda appears ready to kill Sadewa to eat him up, but Sadewa is still alive. Rangda then surrenders and asks Sadewa for redemption and Sadewa agrees and kills the Rangda. The Rangda goes to heaven.
Left: Rangda witch with Sadewa, Right: One of the servants of Dewi Kunti
Act 5: One of the servants of the Rangda called Kalika comes up before Sadewa and asks him to redeem herself too, Sadewa refuses. Kalika gets angry and transforms herself into a boar to fight Sadewa. The boar is defeated. She then transforms herself into a bird but is defeated again. At last she changes herself into a Rangda. Sadewa meditates and then he changes himself into a Barong. Still the Rangda seems to be too powerful for Barong to defeat Rangda and the fight doesn’t seem to end. Followers of the Barong, Kris-wielding dancers appear and help Barong fight Rangda. Rangda puts a spell on the followers to turn their swords to kill themselves, but Barong casts another spell to make them immortal. Ultimately the fight ends and Rangda is scared away.
Kris Dancers stabbing themselves with the keris sword.
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Cost: 100,000 IDR
Other Traditional Balinese Dances
Another equally enchanting traditional Balinese dance to watch is the Kecak dance where hundreds of half-clothed men chant the word kecak to a melody they create with their own voices while the Hindu Balinese epic of Ramayana is portrayed by beautiful Balinese dancers. One show in Central Ubud even had a man who kicked fire under a trance.
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SILVER SPRING, Md.—The Security Industry Association (SIA) has announced the keynote speakers for its annual executive conference, Securing New Ground (SNG), where more than 250 senior-level industry leaders and financial partners will gather at the Edison Ballroom in New York City, Oct. 25-26.
Jerome Pickett, senior vice president and chief security officer at the National Basketball Association (NBA), and Valerie Thomas, executive information security consultant for Securicon, will give remarks at the event, which brings together industry leaders and key players for two days of information sharing, networking and business analysis.
Thomas, also an ethical hacker and author, will speak at 11:15 a.m. on day 1 of the conference about securing the future of physical security, and Pickett’s remarks at 4:00 p.m. that afternoon will share global lessons from the NBA’s security program, how he’s handling disruptive technologies and using intelligent security solutions to prepare for threats and more.
“Each year, SNG attendees get to dive deep into the security trends that matter to them, and this conference helps them clarify business strategies and drive their business forward,” Don Erickson, SIA’s CEO, said in the announcement. “We are excited to welcome Jerome Pickett and Valerie Thomas to SNG 2018, where attendees will gain top insights from these distinguished security leaders.”
In addition to the keynote addresses, SNG 2018 will feature many engaging discussions and events, including:
• The View from the Top: Challenges for Today’s Security Industry Leaders
• Harnessing Cyber-Physical Security Technologies
• Securing the Future Generation of Security
• The Smart City of the Future Will Be Conscious
• Investment Insights: Perspectives from Wall Street and Private Equity
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SSN features leaders
Leadership is a big topic around the Security Systems News office right now.
We have our Leadership Talks series. Through this series, we get the chance to talk with notable professionals throughout the industry about their distinct leadership approaches and styles.
This series inspired our currently News Poll, which you can find by clicking here. We’d like to hear from all of our readers about the styles of leadership you respond best to, as well as what best suits your company. Feel free to weigh in and we always appreciate extra comments.
On top of those two items, we have chosen (but are not yet announcing) the 2018 class of winners for Security Systems News’ annual “20 under 40” awards. Through this annual recognition, we get to speak to a whole group of promising young professionals that stand as the current and next generations of leaders for the physical security industry—both in the dealer, integrator and monitoring side, as well as the end user side.
We are now in the beginning phases of reaching out to and congratulating this year’s honorees. In the process, we are hearing about how they lead teams, groups, or entire companies, and the leaders that mentored these “20 under 40” winners when they first started in the industry.
Keep an eye out in future months for the whole collection of feature articles on this year’s “20 under 40” class. Be sure to also take note of the leaders you see in your company and, if eligible, nominate them for next year’s awards.
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Security at the 2018 Little League Baseball World Series
Five manufacturers of security technologies have teamed up to provide safety and security at the 72nd Annual Little League Baseball World Series (LLBWS) for the players, coaches and fans. For the first time, BriefCam and Ruckus Networks, an ARRIS Company are joining Axis Communications, Lenel and Milestone Systems to provide video surveillance systems, access control and network connectivity for the 10-day tournament.
These five technology providers have come together to develop a comprehensive security strategy for the 16 Little League Baseball teams and worldwide fans participating in the World Series from Aug. 16 to 26, 2018, held in South Williamsport, Pa.
“Each year, hundreds of thousands of people come out to Williamsport to enjoy their time at the Little League Baseball World Series,” Jim Ferguson, Little League assistant director of risk management and safety, said in a prepared statement. “Along with the safety of all of 16 participating teams, our top priority during the Little League Baseball World Series is to provide a safe and secure facility for visitors from all over the world to enjoy. Thanks to these providers, we can continue to offer all of our fans, players, and volunteers a fun and safe location to create lifelong memories and exciting experiences during their visit.”
BriefCam, one of the newest contributors, is providing the company’s latest video content analytics platform to this year’s Little League Baseball World Series security solution. BriefCam’s groundbreaking video content analytics platform detects, tracks, extracts and identifies people, objects, their attributes and behavior from raw video feeds. By presenting objects that have appeared at different times within the video simultaneously, BriefCam enables security operators to review hours of video in minutes.
For the LLBWS, this means if children and parents are accidentally separated during the event, the security team will be well equipped to potentially locate and reunite related parties more quickly, the announcement noted. Additionally, BriefCam’s solution can be used to optimize operations such as attendee and vehicle traffic flows to ensure a safe and positive guest experience. The company’s video content analytics platform aligns with Axis IP-based digital video surveillance cameras and Milestone’s XProtect video management software for a comprehensive video surveillance, management and analytics solution.
“As this global event draws families from far and wide, it is important to further enable comprehensive safety, security and operational efficiencies,” Stephanie Weagle, CMO for BriefCam, said in a prepared statement. “Our technology will be on-hand to support the Little League in their endeavor to extract actionable intelligence from their video surveillance in the event that parents or family members need assistance in finding each other or streamlining operations to ensure that all involved have a great experience.”
Ruckus Networks, the second newest technology contributor, is providing a wireless mesh backhaul to deliver connectivity to both the scoreboards and surveillance cameras. Ruckus is deploying its T300 access points (APs), along with its SmartZone™ 100 management controller, to help ensure seamless connectivity for the outdoor environment. The T300s—the Ruckus flagship outdoor APs—allow high-definition video over Wi-Fi, enabling every video stream to be captured. For the LLBWS, this capability allows all the video cameras in the stadium to be constantly streaming, helping to ensure maximum safety and security at all times.
“In a digitally connected world, safety and security are critical elements that need to be part of every network,” Bart Giordano, vice president, worldwide business development and cloud for Ruckus Networks, an ARRIS company, said in the announcement. “We are teaming with other companies to bring the most innovative security capabilities to the games so that every family can feel safer onsite. Our robust wireless technologies ensure every video stream is captured from all cameras, at all times, helping make this annual event fun and secure.”
Axis Communications has provided technology for the Little League for nine years and is providing AXIS Q6128-E PTZ Network Camera, a compact, outdoor-ready PTZ dome, offering 4K resolution at 30 frames per second, 12x optical zoom and autofocus. The 4K resolution provides four times as much detail as the standard HDTV 1080p resolution, improving the video quality significantly. Both of these cameras will be integrated into the scoreboard in Lamade Stadium.
"Each year we look forward to evolving the security system by leveraging the newest technology in the industry," Robert Muehlbauer, senior manager, business development partner ecosystem at Axis Communications, said in a prepared statement. "The total solution provides a comprehensive system to help keep players and fans safe so they can enjoy America’s favorite pastime, baseball. We are proud to collaborate with all of the companies involved and to continue our work with Little League Baseball.”
For the 20th consecutive year, Lenel, a leading provider in advanced security systems, will provide its OnGuard access control platform. Players, coaches, officials, staff and vendors are all enrolled in the system and receive a photo identification badge providing access to predetermined areas. The system is integrated with the Axis surveillance cameras so when someone presents a badge at one of the access card readers, live video and the cardholder’s photo are displayed on a nearby monitor, allowing a guard to authenticate the identification.
Milestone is providing its XProtect Corporate video management software, which is installed along with a Milestone Husky™ M500A NVR as one of the recording servers. The XProtect Smart Client interface includes advancements in system performance by leveraging the processing power of NVIDIA GPU cards for measurable hardware acceleration, enabling more concurrent High Definition or Ultra HD video streams on high-resolution monitors. The LLBWS is also using the XProtect® Smart Wall for viewing and sending pertinent video to monitors around the facilities, including a mobile command center. BriefCam is embedded in the XProtect Smart Client with a dedicated screen tab for easy access to search hours of video in just minutes.
“It’s truly inspiring to see the open platform community of partners coming together for this great international family event, ensuring safety through ongoing technology innovations,” Jeremy Scott, strategic alliances manager, Americas for Milestone Systems, said in the announcement. “Every year brings new winners — on the field, in the stands and behind the scenes.”
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Yale and Comcast team up
Yale Locks & Hardware announced that smart locks from its Assure Lock line can now be connected to Comcast’s Xfinity Home service, its home security and home automation solution, when purchased with a Yale Zigbee Network Module.
“We’re delighted to partner with Xfinity Home and have our Assure Lock line play a critical role securing front doors across the country,” Jason Williams, president, ASSA ABLOY U.S. Residential Group, which includes Yale Residential, said in the announcement. “Xfinity Home customers can now connect an Assure Lock that’s right for them and control access and secure their homes from the Xfinity Home mobile app.”
The Yale Assure Lock line is an extensive series of smart locks that offers homeowners the choice of key-free or keyed locks in both touchscreen and pushbutton versions, all in a choice of three finishes. Four compatible Assure Locks with a Zigbee Network Module (available for purchase separately or with the lock) can be added to the Xfinity Home mobile app. Xfinity Home customers who already own a compatible Assure Lock can purchase a Yale Zigbee Network Module separately and easily add the device onto the Xfinity platform.
When Yale’s smart lock is integrated into an Xfinity Home system, the door locks can be controlled and monitored from anywhere using the Xfinity Home mobile app (iOS or Android). Users can remotely lock and unlock doors, check lock status, and create rules such as receive a notification if the door is unlocked after 8:30 p.m. Additionally, Xfinity Home customers with the X1 voice remote can say, “Lock the front door” to lock their compatible Yale Assure Lock.
“Smart door locks can be a meaningful home security addition, especially when combined with other IoT devices like cameras,” Patti Loyack, vice president, IP services, and home automation, for Comcast Cable, said in a prepared statement. “Xfinity’s platform gives consumers the ability to manage and control all of their smart devices in one unified experience and we’re excited to give our customers even more choice by integrating the Assure Lock line from Yale.”
Yale Assure Lock line with Zigbee is now available to Xfinity Home’s more than 1.2 million subscribers through the Works with Xfinity program.
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NMC hires Grant Graham as VP of dealer relations
LAKE FOREST, Calif.—National Monitoring Center, part of the Netwatch Group, recently welcomed Grant Graham back to the team as its vice president of dealer relations. Graham will be responsible for the leadership of dealers and dedicated to their success.
Graham previously served as NMC’s operations manager from 2001 to 2016. As operations manager, he skillfully and successfully oversaw all daily aspects of NMC’s multifaceted, nationwide operation.
Most recently, Graham served as Brinks Home security’s senior director of monitoring operations where he oversaw many elements of the company's operations, was responsible for reducing costs, and increased service level for alarm response by over 10 percent and inbound calls by 24 percent, NMC noted in its announcement.
“NMC has a long history of dedication to ahead-of-industry technological solutions and valuable partnerships which lead to the formation of Netwatch Group, and we apply that same dedication in our efforts to build a powerful, synergistic team at NMC. This is why we are thrilled to have Grant Graham on the team. Grant has a proven record of building long-term business relationships and has been instrumental in facilitating growth on numerous levels. His knowledge, drive, and winning attitude are assets that will complement and enhance NMC’s ability to meet the needs of our dealers as we continue to provide more attractive services,” Woodie Andrawos, NMC President, said in a prepared statement.
Graham’s combined experience and understanding of NMC culture and mission make him an excellent fit for this role, NMC said.
“I am excited to be taking on this new role as VP of dealer relations at NMC. It is wonderful to partner with a company focused on organizational growth and constant improvement. I look forward to having an impact on dealer success and helping them successfully navigate the market, acquire new agreements, deliver new products offerings, and leverage the wealth of dealer support available at NMC,” Graham said in the announcement.
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ACaaS and mobile access adoption growing
Access-control-as-a-service (ACaaS) market revenues will increase to $950 million by 2022, and global mobile credential downloads are forecast to increase at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) exceeding 100 percent from 2017 to 2022, according to recent findings from IHS Markit.
The London-based research firm found that small and medium-sized businesses are the leading adopters of ACaaS solutions, accounting for 21 percent of market revenues in 2017, with around 20 percent of the current installed base of access control readers will be mobile capable by 2022.
“Demand for ACaaS has grown rapidly over the past five years, and this growth is expected to continue,” Jim Dearing, senior analyst, security and building technology, IHS Markit, said in the announcement of the findings. “While there have been relatively few attempts to combine ACaaS solutions with mobile access, despite their apparent synergies, this type of integration will become more common over the next five years.”
Dearing pointed to following key benefits of integrating ACaaS and mobile access:
• A significant segment of ACaaS end users opt for fully managed solutions. Providers of managed solutions would benefit from the ability to issue and decommission credentials remotely, allowing them to lower management costs.
• Both mobile access and ACaaS are typically sold via subscription, or using recurring fee-based pricing models. Adding mobile credentials to an ACaaS contract would not be an issue for an integrator, and as mobile access becomes more popular in the traditional access control market, end users and installers are likely to become more familiar with the recurring-fee pricing model, which should generate additional interest in ACaaS.
• Like ACaaS solutions, the majority of access control solutions are cloud-based. As both become more popular, end users are likely to become more comfortable deploying cloud-based security solutions.
• ACaaS is increasing the penetration of access control systems in buildings, and many end users are owners of small and medium-sized businesses who have never owned an access control system before. This situation poses an excellent opportunity for mobile access, as providers can ensure that mobile-capable readers are installed from the outset.
In terms of overall adoption, Dearing said that, so far, early adopters of each solution are based in different industries. “Mobile access has seen its strongest adoption in the education and hospitality sectors, while ACaaS is gaining traction with small and medium-sized businesses and the property management segment,” he explained. “Due to the large number of smaller projects, a significant portion of ACaaS end users value affordability over advanced feature sets and functionality. ACaaS providers may struggle to convince end users to install readers that are mobile-capable but also more expensive.”
Despite both solutions typically being billed on a monthly or annual basis, the pricing models vary slightly, Dearing said. “ACaaS solutions are priced according to the number of doors, while mobile access is priced according to the number of credentials or users,” he noted. “Creating an intuitive but optimal pricing model for the combined solution could prove tricky for suppliers. If both original metrics are kept, suppliers are likely to encounter difficulty as end users scale their solutions.”
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FIBARO starts North American training initiative
FIBARO, a manufacturer of wireless intelligent home automation and control devices which was recently acquired by Nice, today announced that it is growing its installer base in the US and has built a new training program for security professionals, such as residential and commercial AV installers, electricians and practitioners within the construction industry.
“The certified Fibaro system installer training can be completed in one day and has been designed to provide attendees with practical knowledge of the design, configuration and implementation of the Fibaro smart home system,” the announcement read. “The program begins with a 101 training and evolves into hands-on training provided directly from Fibaro or by a specialized Fibaro Distributor.”
“Fibaro’s installer training provided the perfect mix of product training and a detailed introduction to the smart home, as well as the Z-Wave platform,” Justin Lee, a recently certified Fibaro Installer from Ergo Structures Inc. located in Toronto, Canada, said in a prepared statement.
Participants who complete the training earn an individualized certificate verifying that they are a Fibaro system expert. Certified Fibaro installers can also access the Fibaro Academy portal, which includes training and video materials as well as sales and technical support during the installation and design of the newly certified installer’s first customers. “Successful completion of the certified installation training is also the first step to becoming a Fibaro dealer and the ability to buy directly from one of Fibaro’s certified distributors,” the company said.
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New guide on securing intelligent buildings available
SILVER SPRING, Md.—The Security Industry Association (SIA), in partnership with the ASIS Foundation and the Building Owners and Managers Association (BOMA) International, jointly released guidance for practitioners in the security and building management fields. Intelligent Building Management Systems: Guidance for Protecting Organizations provides a framework to help decision makers assign a risk-based criticality or impact to their building and asks relevant security questions to develop appropriate mitigation strategies. It also serves to establish a common language between the many intelligent building stakeholders.
The guidance is based on original research, Building Automation & Control Systems: An Investigation into Vulnerabilities, Current Practice and Security Management Best Practice, by David J. Brooks, Michael Coole and Paul Haskell-Dowland of Edith Cowan University in Perth, Australia. The research provides an exhaustive overview of identified intelligent building critical vulnerabilities and mitigation strategies.
“The ASIS Foundation is delighted to work with our partners BOMA and SIA to support such critical research in a rapidly developing but insufficiently understood field,” Sandra Cowie, CPP, director, global security and business continuity, principal, and 2018 ASIS Foundation president, said in the joint announcement. “Building automation invokes cutting-edge issues and technology such as the Internet of Things and advanced video analytics, as well as traditional concerns such as physical access control and proper procedures. The integrated whole undoubtedly poses challenges that are still emerging. This research is indispensable to helping our members get a handle on both the challenges and the opportunities of this fast-growing market.”
According to the report, the intelligent building market is growing 31 percent per year and is expected to exceed $59 billion by 2023. These systems are increasingly embedded into the contemporary built environment due to the demand for reduced operating costs, government regulation, and greater monitoring, control and operability. However, this growth comes with a substantial set of security vulnerabilities that many security and facility professionals have not accounted for. Importantly, the research finds a significant disconnect between security and facility professionals’ perceived understanding of intelligent building threats and risks versus actual dangers. In addition, the report revealed that a lack of common terminology and practices can result in misunderstandings and siloed views of associated security risks.
The report findings emphasize the need to:
• Take a multidisciplinary proactive management approach to intelligent building vulnerability mitigation
• Fuse multidisciplinary participants into an intelligent building security team
Additional findings include the recognition of intelligent building integrators and cybersecurity experts as partners who can help organizations better understand threats and risks and more effectively achieve intelligent building security.
“The research developed by the ASIS Foundation provides insights that should be leveraged by our members and the industry to better understand and identify vulnerabilities within intelligent building systems," Don Erickson, chief executive officer, SIA, said in a prepared statement. "An essential outcome from this project is the recommended guidance and checklist that will help security practitioners and security technology solutions providers work together to implement strategies to mitigate against potential risks.”
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Remaining Dead go back on tour
ROANOKE, Va. -- The remaining members of the Grateful Dead are going back on tour, with the first stop scheduled for the Roanoke Civic Center on Nov. 14.
The band, renamed The Other Ones after leader Jerry Garcia died in 1995, announced the 14-city tour on its Web site.
Surviving band members include Mickey Hart, Billy Kreutzmann, Phil Lesh and Bob Weir. They'll play in cities including Washington, New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Cleveland and Chicago.
The last time the Dead played in Roanoke was July 7-8, 1987, when 21,000 people converged on the civic center and more than 50 people were arrested, mostly for drug-related offenses. The number of complaints about drugs, noise and garbage made city officials question whether they'd allow the band to play in Roanoke again.
Civic center marketing director Robyn Schon expected no trouble this time.
"It seems like most of the problems are in the past," Schon said. "Most Grateful Dead fans are laid-back people. We don't anticipate any problems."
'Highway' is tribute to Hank Williams
CLEVELAND -- The lost highway that was Hank Williams' troubled, brilliant life runs smack dab through Cleveland these days, where the country music star has been the subject of a play, exhibit and academic conference.
It was en route to a concert in northeast Ohio that Williams, his gaunt, 29-year-old body laced with alcohol and painkillers, died on New Year's Day 1953 in the back seat of a chauffeured car in Oak Hill, W. Va.
Now through Oct. 20, The Cleveland Play House is showing "Lost Highway: The Music and Legend of Hank Williams," a musical tribute to the writer of "So Lonesome I Could Cry" and "Hey, Good Lookin'."
"Lost Highway," whose title is borrowed from a vaguely autobiographical Williams' song, was scheduled to coincide with an exhibit at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. The play runs through Oct. 20, and the exhibit closes in January.
Music professor Mary Davis, who organized the Sept. 28 conference at Case Western Reserve University, called Williams' music the roots of country music.
"He was able to bring together genres of music, the blues and gospel and hillbilly music, into a new style, an idiosyncratic style -- there hasn't been anybody like Hank Williams," she said.
-- From wire reports
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Tập 1: Angel Attack
Tập 2: Beast
Tập 3: Một Transfer
Tập 4: Hedgehog's Dilemma
Tập 5: Vua tôi
Tập 6: King II
Tập 7: Một công nhân
Tập 8: Asuka đình công
Tập 9: Cả hai của bạn, nhảy như bạn muốn giành chiến thắng
Tập 10: Magma Diver
Tập 11: Các Tokyo ngày-3 Đứng Tuy
Tập 12: Bà cho biết, "Đừng làm cho người khác đau khổ vì hận thù cá nhân của bạn."
Tập 13: Lilliputian Hitcher
Tập 14: Dệt một Story
Tập 15: Những mong muốn cho các liên lạc của đôi môi của phụ nữ khác, và do đó những nụ hôn của mình mời
Tập 16: Chia tách vú của
Tập 17: Trẻ em thứ tư
Tập 18: Mâu thuẫn
Tập 19: Introjection
Tập 20: Dệt một Story 2 - Giai đoạn miệng
Tập 21: Ông đã nhận thức được rằng ông vẫn còn là một đứa trẻ
Tập 22: Đừng
Tập 23: King III
Tập 24: Khi mới bắt đầu và Kết thúc
Tập 25: Anh có yêu em?
Tập 26: Finale - Hãy chăm sóc bản thân
Chết và Tái Sinh
Sự kết thúc của Evangelion
Sách | Tham khảo
Tử vong & Tái sinh: Giới thiệu
Tử vong & Tái sinh: Nhân vật
Tử vong & Tái sinh: Thuật ngữ
Tử vong & Tái sinh: Ghi chú
Tử vong & Tái sinh: Không được cho Soul
Tử vong & Tái sinh: Series Timeline
Tử vong & Tái sinh: Seiyuu Comments
Tử vong & Rebirth SE: Ghi chú sản xuất
Tử vong & Rebirth SE: Thuật ngữ
Tử vong & Rebirth SE: Ghi chú
Tử vong & Rebirth SE: TIMELINE
Tử vong & Rebirth SE: Trẻ em đi lạc
Tử vong & Rebirth SE: BÌNH LUẬN
Èœ - Sản xuất
Èœ - Thuật ngữ
Èœ - Ghi chú
Èœ - Bình luận
Èœ - Seiyuu Hồi tưởng
Èœ - Một STORY NHỮNG: Các phỏng vấn Kazuya Tsurumaki
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Evangelion: Tử vong
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Neon Genesis Evangelion bổ sung
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Hạn chế của Evangelion
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Ngày của Tác động thứ hai
Studio Albums - Hạn chế, các bài hát Were Lấy cảm hứng từ Evangelion
Studio Albums - Neon Genesis Evangelion Khối lượng cổ điển 1 - Beethoven
Studio Albums - Neon Genesis Evangelion Khối lượng cổ điển 2 - Verdi
Studio Albums - Neon Genesis Evangelion Khối lượng cổ điển 3 - Thương mại
Studio Albums - Neon Genesis Evangelion Khối lượng cổ điển 4 - JS. Bạch
Kịch Evangelion Track - Shuukyoku không Tsudzuki
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Anime (アニメ, an abbreviated pronunciation in Japanese of "animation", pronounced [anime] ở Nhật Bản, but typically /ˈænɨmeɪ/ or /ˈænɨmə/ in English.) is commonly defined as animation originating in Japan. The definition sometimes changes depending on the context. In English-speaking countries, anime is also referred to as "Japanese animation".
While the earliest known Japanese animation dates to 1917, and many original Japanese cartoons were produced in the ensuing decades, the characteristic anime style developed in the 1960s—notably with the work of Osamu Tezuka—and became known outside Japan in the 1980s. Anime, like manga, has a large audience in Japan and recognition throughout the world. Distributors can release anime via television broadcasts, directly to video, or theatrically, as well as online.
Both hand-drawn and computer-animated anime exist. It is used in television series, films, video, video games, commercials, and internet-based releases, and represents most, if not all, genres of fiction. Anime gained early popularity in East and Southeast Asia and has garnered more-recent popularity in the Western World.
Anime began at the start of the 20th century, when Japanese filmmakers experimented with the animation techniques also pioneered in France, Germany, the United States, and Russia. The oldest known anime in existence first screened in 1917 – a two-minute clip of a samurai trying to test a new sword on his target, only to suffer defeat. Early pioneers included Shimokawa Oten, Jun’ichi Kouchi, and Seitarō Kitayama.
By the 1930s animation became an alternative format of storytelling to the live-action industry in Japan. But it suffered competition from foreign producers and many animators, such as Noburō Ōfuji and Yasuji Murata still worked in cheaper cutout not cel animation, although with masterful results. Other creators, such as Kenzō Masaoka and Mitsuyo Seo, nonetheless made great strides in animation technique, especially with increasing help from a government using animation in education and propaganda. The first talkie anime was Chikara to Onna no Yo no Naka, produced by Masaoka in 1933. The first feature length animated film was Momotaro’s Divine Sea Warriors directed by Seo in 1945 with sponsorship by the Imperial Japanese Navy.
The success of The Walt Disney Company’s 1937 feature film Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs influenced Japanese animators. In the 1960s, manga artist and animator Osamu Tezuka adapted and simplified many Disney animation-techniques to reduce costs and to limit the number of frames in productions. He intended this as a temporary measure to allow him to produce material on a tight schedule with inexperienced animation-staff.
The 1970s saw a surge of growth in the popularity of manga – many of them later animated. The work of Osamu Tezuka drew particular attention: he has been called a "legend" and the "god of manga". His work – and that of other pioneers in the field – inspired characteristics and genres that remain fundamental elements of anime today. The giant robot genre (known as "Mecha" outside Japan), for instance, took shape under Tezuka, developed into the Super Robot genre under Go Nagai and others, and was revolutionized at the end of the decade by Yoshiyuki Tomino who developed the Real Robot genre. Robot anime like the Gundam và The Super Dimension Fortress Macross series became instant classics in the 1980s, and the robot genre of anime is still one of the most common in Japan and worldwide today. In the 1980s, anime became more accepted in the mainstream in Japan (although less than manga), and experienced a boom in production. Following a few successful adaptations of anime in overseas markets in the 1980s, anime gained increased acceptance in those markets in the 1990s and even more at the turn of the 21st century.
Thuật ngữ
Japanese write the English term "animation" in katakana as アニメーション (animēshon, pronounced [animeːɕoɴ]), and the term アニメ (anime, pronounced [anime] ở Nhật Bản) emerged in the 1970s as an abbreviation. Others claim that the word derives from the French phrase dessin animé.[4] Japanese-speakers use both the original and abbreviated forms interchangeably, but the shorter form occurs more commonly.
The pronunciation of anime ở Nhật Bản, [anime], differs significantly from the Standard English /ˈænɪmeɪ/, which has different vowels and stress. (In Japanese each mora carries equal stress.) As with a few other Japanese words such as saké, Pokémon, và Kobo Abé, English-language texts sometimes spell anime as animé (as in French), with an acute accent over the final e, to cue the reader to pronounce the letter, not to leave it silent as English orthography might suggest.
Word usage
In Japan, the term anime does not specify an animation’s nation of origin or style; instead, it serves as a blanket term to refer to all forms of animation from around the world. English-language dictionaries define anime as "a Japanese style of motion-picture animation" or as "a style of animation developed in Japan".
Non-Japanese works that borrow stylization from anime are commonly referred to as "anime-influenced animation" but it is not unusual for a viewer who does not know the country of origin of such material to refer to it as simply "anime". Some works result from co-productions with non-Japanese companies, such as most of the traditionally animated Rankin/Bass works, the Cartoon Network and Production I.G series IGPX hoặc là Ōban Star-Racers; different viewers may or may not consider these anime.
In the UK, many video shops will classify all adult-oriented animated videos in the "Anime" section for convenience, regardless of whether they show any stylistic similarities to Japanese animation. No evidence suggests that this has led to any change in the use of the word.[citation needed]
In English, anime, when used as a common noun, normally functions as a mass noun (for example: "Do you watch anime?", "How much anime have you collected?"). Tuy nhiên, in casual usage the word also appears as a count noun. Anime can also be used as a suppletive adjective or classifier noun ("The anime Guyver is different from the movie Guyver").
English-speakers occasionally refer to anime as "Japanimation", but this term has fallen into disuse. "Japanimation" saw the most usage during the 1970s and 1980s, but the term "anime" supplanted it in the mid-1990s as the material became more widely known in English-speaking countries. In general, the term now only appears in nostalgic contexts. Since "anime" does not identify the country of origin in Japanese usage, "Japanimation" is used to distinguish Japanese work from that of the rest of the world.
In Japan, "manga" can refer to both animation and comics. Among English speakers, "manga" has the stricter meaning of "Japanese comics", in parallel to the usage of "anime" in and outside of Japan. The term "ani-manga" is used to describe comics produced from animation cels.
Visual characteristics
Many commentators refer to anime as an art form. As a visual medium, it can emphasize visual styles. The styles can vary from artist to artist or from studio to studio. Some titles make extensive use of common stylization: FLCL, for example, has a reputation for wild, exaggerated stylization. Other titles use different methods: Only Yesterday hoặc là Jin-Roh take much more realistic approaches, featuring few stylistic exaggerations; Pokémon uses drawings which specifically do not distinguish the nationality of characters.
While different titles and different artists have their own artistic styles, many stylistic elements have become so common that people describe them as definitive of anime in general. Tuy nhiên, this does not mean that all modern anime share one strict, common art-style. Many anime have a very different art style from what would commonly be called "anime style", yet fans still use the word "anime" to refer to these titles. Generally, the most common form of anime drawings include "exaggerated physical features such as large eyes, big hair and elongated limbs… and dramatically shaped speech bubbles, speed lines and onomatopoeic, exclamatory typography."
The influences of Japanese calligraphy and Japanese painting also characterize linear qualities of the anime style. The round ink brush traditionally used for writing kanji and for painting, produces a stroke of widely varying thickness.
Anime also tends to borrow many elements from manga, including text in the background and panel layouts. Ví dụ, an opening may employ manga panels to tell the story, or to dramatize a point for humorous effect. See for example the anime Kare Kano.
Body proportions emulated in anime come from proportions of the human body. The height of the head is considered by the artist as the base unit of proportion. Head heights can vary as long as the remainder of the body remains proportional. Most anime characters are about seven to eight heads tall, and extreme heights are set around nine heads tall.
Variations to proportion can be modded by the artist. Super-deformed characters feature a non-proportionally small body compared to the head. Sometimes specific body parts, like legs, are shortened or elongated for added emphasis. Most super deformed characters are two to four heads tall. Some anime works like Crayon Shin-chan completely disregard these proportions, such that they resemble Western cartoons. For exaggeration, certain body features are increased in proportion.
Eye styles
Many anime and manga characters feature large eyes. Osamu Tezuka, who is believed to have been the first to use this technique, was inspired by the exaggerated features of American cartoon characters such as Betty Boop, Mickey Mouse, and Disney’s Bambi. Tezuka found that large eyes style allowed his characters to show emotions distinctly. When Tezuka began drawing Ribbon no Kishi, the first manga specifically targeted at young girls, Tezuka further exaggerated the size of the characters’ eyes. Indeed, through Ribbon no Kishi, Tezuka set a stylistic template that later shōjo artists tended to follow.
Coloring is added to give eyes, particularly to the cornea, some depth. The depth is accomplished by applying variable color shading. Generally, a mixture of a light shade, the tone color, and a dark shade is used. Cultural anthropologist Matt Thorn argues that Japanese animators and audiences do not perceive such stylized eyes as inherently more or less foreign.
Tuy nhiên, not all anime have large eyes. Ví dụ, some of the work of Hayao Miyazaki and Toshiro Kawamoto are known for having realistically proportioned eyes, as well as realistic hair colors on their characters. In addition many other productions also have been known to use smaller eyes. This design tends to have more resemblance to traditional Japanese art. Some characters have even smaller eyes, where simple black dots are used. Tuy nhiên, many western audiences associate anime with large detailed eyes.
Anime characters may employ a variety of predetermined facial expressions to denote moods and thoughts. These techniques are often different in form than their counterparts in western animation, and they include a fixed iconography that’s used as shorthand for certain emotions and moods.
There are a number of other stylistic elements that are common to conventional anime as well but more often used in comedies. Characters that are shocked or surprised will perform a "face fault", in which they display an extremely exaggerated expression. Angry characters may exhibit a "vein" or "stress mark" effect, where lines representing bulging veins will appear on their forehead. Angry women will sometimes summon a mallet from nowhere and strike another character with it, mainly for the sake of slapstick comedy. Male characters will develop a bloody nose around their female love interests (typically to indicate arousal, which is a play on an old wives’ tale).[35] Embarrassed or stressed characters either produce a massive sweat-drop (which has become one of the most widely recognized motifs of conventional anime) or produce a visibly red blush or set of parallel (sometimes squiggly) lines beneath the eyes, especially as a manifestation of repressed romantic feelings. Characters who want to childishly taunt someone may pull an akanbe face (by pulling an eyelid down with a finger to expose the red underside). Characters may also have large "X" eyes to show a knockout, or in some cases, even illness. This is typically used for comedic purposes.
Animation technique
Like all animation, the production processes of storyboarding, voice acting, character design, cel production and so on still apply. With improvements in computer technology, computer animation increased the efficiency of the whole production process.
Anime is often considered a form of limited animation. That means that stylistically, even in bigger productions the conventions of limited animation are used to fool the eye into thinking there is more movement than there is. Many of the techniques used are comprised with cost-cutting measures while working under a set budget.
Anime scenes place emphasis on achieving three-dimensional views. Backgrounds depict the scenes’ atmosphere. Ví dụ, anime often puts emphasis on changing seasons, as can be seen in numerous anime, such as Tenchi Muyo!. Sometimes actual settings have been duplicated into an anime. The backgrounds for the Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya are based on various locations within the suburb of Nishinomiya, Hyogo, Japan.
Camera angles, camera movement, and lighting play an important role in scenes. Directors often have the discretion of determining viewing angles for scenes, particularly regarding backgrounds. In addition, camera angles show perspective. Directors can also choose camera effects within cinematography, such as panning, zooming, facial closeup, and panoramic.
The large majority of anime uses traditional animation, which better allows for division of labor, pose to pose approach and checking of drawings before they are shot – practices favoured by the anime industry. Other mediums are mostly limited to independently made short films, examples of which are the silhouette and other cutout animation of Noburō Ōfuji, the stop motion puppet animation of Tadahito Mochinaga, Kihachirō Kawamoto and Tomoyasu Murata and the computer animation of Satoshi Tomioka (most famously Usavich).
While anime had entered markets beyond Japan in the 1960s, it grew as a major cultural export during its market expansion during the 1980s and 1990s. The anime market for the United States alone is "worth approximately $4.35 billion, according to the Japan External Trade Organization". Anime has also had commercial success in Asia, Europe and Latin America, where anime has become more mainstream than in the United States. Ví dụ, the Saint Seiya video game was released in Europe due to the popularity of the show even years after the series has been off-air.
Anime distribution companies handled the licensing and distribution of anime outside Japan. Licensed anime is modified by distributors through dubbing into the language of the country and adding language subtitles to the Japanese language track. Using a similar global distribution pattern as Hollywood, the world is divided into five regions.
Some editing of cultural references may occur to better follow the references of the non-Japanese culture. Certain companies may remove any objectionable content, complying with domestic law. This editing process was far more prevalent in the past (e.g. Voltron), but its use has declined because of the demand for anime in its original form. This "light touch" approach to localization has favored viewers formerly unfamiliar with anime. The use of such methods is evident by the success of Naruto and Cartoon Network’s Adult Swim programming block, both of which employ minor edits. Robotech và Star Blazers were the earliest attempts to present anime (albeit still modified) to North American television audiences without harsh censoring for violence and mature themes.
With the advent of DVD, it became possible to include multiple language tracks into a simple product. This was not the case with VHS cassette, in which separate VHS media were used and with each VHS cassette priced the same as a single DVD. The "light touch" approach also applies to DVD releases as they often include both the dubbed audio and the original Japanese audio with subtitles, typically unedited. Anime edited for television is usually released on DVD "uncut", with all scenes intact.
Some fans add subtitles to anime on their own and distribute the episodes. These are known as fansubs. Often, people will collect these fansubs and upload them to websites which they also put advertisements on so as to earn money, which violates copyright laws in many countries. The ethical implications of distributing or watching fansubs are topics of much controversy even when fansub groups do not profit from their activities. Once the series has been licensed outside of Japan, fansub groups often cease distribution of their work. In one case, Media Factory Incorporated requested that no fansubs of their material be made, which was respected by the fansub community. In another instance, Bandai specifically thanked fansubbers for their role in helping to make The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya popular in the English speaking world.
The Internet has played a significant role in the exposure of anime beyond Japan. Prior to the 1990s, anime had limited exposure beyond Japan’s borders. Coincidentally, as the popularity of the Internet grew, so did interest in anime. Much of the fandom of anime grew through the Internet. The combination of internet communities and increasing amounts of anime material, from video to images, helped spur the growth of fandom. As the Internet gained more widespread use, Internet advertising revenues grew from 1.6 billion yen to over 180 billion yen between 1995 và 2005.
TV networks regularly broadcast anime programming. In Japan, major national TV networks, such as TV Tokyo broadcast anime regularly. Smaller regional stations broadcast anime under the UHF. In the United States, cable TV channels such as Cartoon Network, Disney, Syfy, and others dedicate some of their timeslots to anime. Some, such as the Anime Network and the FUNimation Channel, specifically show anime. Sony-based Animax and Disney’s Jetix channel broadcast anime within many countries in the world. AnimeCentral solely broadcasts anime in the UK.
Influence on world culture
Anime has become commercially profitable in western countries, as early commercially successful western adaptations of anime, such as Astro Boy, have revealed. The phenomenal success of Nintendo’s multi-billion dollar Pokémon franchise was helped greatly by the spin-off anime series that, first broadcast in the late 1990s, is still running worldwide to this day. In doing so, anime has made significant impacts upon Western culture. Since the 19th century, many Westerners have expressed a particular interest towards Japan. Anime dramatically exposed more Westerners to the culture of Japan. Aside from anime, other facets of Japanese culture increased in popularity. Worldwide, the number of people studying Japanese increased. Trong 1984, the Japanese Language Proficiency Test was devised to meet increasing demand. Anime-influenced animation refers to non-Japanese works of animation that emulate the visual style of anime. Most of these works are created by studios in the United States, Europe, and non-Japanese Asia; and they generally incorporate stylizations, methods, and gags described in anime physics, as in the case of Avatar: The Last Airbender. Often, production crews either are fans of anime or are required to view anime. Some creators cite anime as a source of inspiration with their own series. hơn nữa, a French production team for Ōban Star-Racers moved to Tokyo to collaborate with a Japanese production team from Hal Film Maker. Critics and the general anime fanbase do not consider them as anime.
Some American animated television-series have singled out anime styling with satirical intent, for example South Park (with "Chinpokomon" and with "Good Times with Weapons"). South Park has a notable drawing style, itself parodied in "Brittle Bullet", the fifth episode of the anime FLCL, released several months after "Chinpokomon" aired. This intent on satirizing anime is the springboard for the basic premise of Kappa Mikey, a Nicktoons Network original cartoon. Even clichés normally found in anime are parodied in some series, such as Perfect Hair Forever. Anime conventions began to appear in the early 1990s, during the Anime boom, starting with Anime Expo, Animethon, Otakon, and JACON. Currently anime conventions are held annually in various cities across the Americas, Asia, and Europe. Many attendees participate in cosplay, where they dress up as anime characters. Ngoài ra, guests from Japan ranging from artists, directors, and music groups are invited. In addition to anime conventions, anime clubs have become prevalent in colleges, high schools, and community centers as a way to publicly exhibit anime as well as broadening Japanese cultural understanding.
Anime and American audiences
The Japanese term otaku is used in America as a term for anime fans, more particularly the obsessive ones. The negative connotations associated with the word in Japan have disappeared in its American context, where it instead connotes the pride of the fans. Only in the recent decade or so has there been a more casual viewership outside the devoted otaku fan base, which can be attributed highly to technological advances. Ngoài ra, shows like Pokémon và Dragon Ball Z provided a pivotal introduction of anime’s conventions, animation methods, and Shinto influences to many American children.
Ancient Japanese myths – often deriving from the animistic nature worship of Shinto – have influenced anime greatly, but most American audiences not accustomed to anime know very little of these foreign texts and customs. Ví dụ, an average American viewing the live-action TV show Hercules will be no stranger to the Greek myths and legends it is based on, while the same person watching the show Tenchi Muyo! might not understand that the pleated ropes wrapped around the "space trees" are influenced by the ancient legend of Amaterasu and Susano.
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Regarding financial Up-gradations under MACP as per hierarchy to Subordinate Employees of MoD – Request for withdrawal of SLP filed by UOI in Hon’ble Supreme Court
MACP ON PROMOTIONAL HIERARCHY
CONFEDERATION OF DEFENCE RECOGNISED ASSOCIATIONS REQUESTS THE HON’BLE PRIME MINISTER TO WITHDRAW THE SLP FROM HON’BLE SUPREME COURT.
National Head Quarters
Confederation of
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Recognised by Govt of India
Ref No. HQ/CDRA/298
Dated:- 12th Apr 2016
Shri, Narender Modi Ji,
Hon’ble Prime Minister of India
South Block, New Delhi
1. With
profound regards we on behalf of more than 50 recognized associations functioning in various directorates of MoD request your honour for redressal of our genuine and justified grievances with regard to the injustice about the financial up-gradation under MACP Scheme inflicted upon the weaker section of the subordinate employees by the Govt of India during 2009 quite wrongly and against all the canon of justice. During the regime of NDA Govt. heated by the then Hon’ble Prime Minister Shri Atal Bihar Vajpayee Ji an ACP Scheme to the employees of group B. C & D was granted in the form of two financial up-gradations in the promotional hierarchy after completion of 12 & 24 years service as a ‘safety net’ to deal with the problem of genuine stagnation due to inadequate promotional avenues. Alas! The above just and genuine scheme was ruthlessly distorted and destroyed during 2009 by the then UPA Govt by converting it into the MACP Scheme on Grade pay basis instead of the promotional hierarchy as it was in ACPS, resulting into the great detriment and huge financial and terminal benefit loss to the employees.
2. It is submitted with respect that the said scheme of MACPs was switched over from existing ACPS without having any consideration of anomalous consequences and awful repercussions in the matter of financial discriminations. With a view to further clarify the anomaly of this scheme it would be imperative to quote an example here that a Junior Engineer in MES who complete his 24 years service on 31-08-2008 shall be granted the 2rd up-gradation in pay scale of Executive Engineers i.e. in the PB-3 (15600-39100) + Grade Pay 6600/- in the erstwhile ACPs, where as the another Junior Engineers having completed the 30 years on 01-09-2008 is eligible for 3rd up-gradation in PB-2 (9300-34800) + Grade Pay 5400/- under the modified ACPs resulting in huge loss at least Rs. 20,000/- per month even after putting 6 years extra period of his services. Subsequently these anomalous and unjust projections were consequently brought into the notice of the authorities and persuaded vigorously but all in vain despite their admission about the said anomalies.
3. Finding no way out, the employees from different departments of Central Govt including MoD sought for the legal intervention by filing the petitions in the Hon’ble CAT Chandigarh, New Delhi, Guwahati, Calcutta and Ernakulum etc. Wherein all the judgments were in favour of the employees directing the respondents to grants the MACPs in promotional hierarchy. In the appeals filed by the Govt. in the Hon’ble High Courts the orders of the various CAT stands upheld Unfortunately, the Govt. further preferred to file the SLPs in the Hon’ble Supreme Court against the orders of the Hon’ble High Courts admittedly, the Hon’ble Supreme Court would take a considerable time to deliver its judgment on the said SLPs. Such delay to deliver the justice shall adversely affect a large chunk of the poor employees who are not in position to contest the case in Supreme Court owing to their financial constraints. In this context it is pertinent to mention here that the Hon’ble Supreme Court opined that in case of service matters where the High Courts and benches of CAT delivered the judgements in favour of the employees, no appeal in the Supreme Court by the Govt. is desirable.
4. We would also like to draw your kind attention to the fact that earlier the status of CAT remained equal to High Court and an employee had to contest his case at two stages only i.e. in CAT and then in Hon’ble Supreme Court but later on the channel contesting the case became CAT then High Court and then further Hon’ble Supreme Court. Therefore the opinion of Hon’ble Supreme Court that way is quite genuine.
5. In view of the above mentioned circumstances we pray before your esteemed authority to kindly be graciously pleased to direct the concerned department of Govt, of India for withdrawal of SLPs from the Hon’ble Supreme Court in order to provide the relief to the weaker sections of the society and to meet the ends of justice as a special case. We do hope that your kind action in the matter will certainly bring the good days for the subordinate employees of the Central Govt.
(SK. MANN)
http://aiamshq.blogspot.in/2016/05/macp-on-promotional-hierarchy-joint.html
Court Order Hierarchy MACP
Ranvir Nagi September 21, 2016 at 8:22 PM
HBL MEENA vs UOI MACP.. Judgement of CHANDIGARH HIGH COURT in favour of petitioner.
Mathew Abraham September 22, 2016 at 2:12 PM
SIR CAN YOU FORWARD ME A ORDER COPY... I AM ALSO THE VICTIM OF SIMILAR CASE...
K P Singh January 10, 2017 at 8:37 AM
Please take follow up action in respect of the letter written to Honble Prime Minister to withdraw the MACP from Honble Supreme court. Reminder letter may be written in this regard. Thanks Kpsingh Dehradun.
Central Government Employee News and Tools: MACP on Promotional Hierarchy: Withdrawal of SLP from Supreme Court urged to PM
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Patricide and Choicetopia
March 24, 2015 Mike Lee Uncategorized
In one characteristically gruesome Greek myth, the enchantress Medea tricks King Pelias’ daughters into killing, dismembering, and boiling him, on a promise that she will add a spell to the stew that will return the aged ruler to his youth.
Unfortunately, their actions lead to nothing but a bloody mess and a dead parent whose condition would make Jack the Ripper sick to his stomach.
It is a tale of good intentions that result in patricide, and it serves as a graphic reminder of the power of trickery on those who are both desperate and motivated.
Today, I have to wonder if the pinpricks, paper-cuts, gashes, and unabashed goring being endured by the public education model in America isn’t reminiscent of poor Pelias’ fate. We are being attacked by the products of our own system – by our offspring. Are we so easily vulnerable to fallacious arguments and wishful thinking because we failed to educate on critical inquiry, examination of evidence, and did not teach how to ask questions instead of memorizing talking points?
Perhaps our system has been so busy teaching children to answer questions, that those same children became adults who never learned how to ask them - the types of questions that seem obvious when the very concept of public education is being assaulted using unsound reason, ideology that trumps reality, and poorly reasoned research and analysis. Questions such as:
School choice sounds wonderful, so more school choice must be even better. But, what evidence is there to support this belief? What’s happening in areas where unfettered school choice is already the norm?
What are the potential pitfalls of dismantling traditional public education? If we break it, what do we own?
Just who are the people behind charters and private schools? What are their motivations? Is it likely that they are all well-intentioned or all not well-intentioned? Competent or not competent? How do we decide?
Which policy makers actually have experience in the classroom, or in educational leadership roles? Who is driving the policy agendas at state capitols around the country? What is their interest?
How can we actually make meaning of the achievement data from the highest performing public, private, and charter schools? What do they have in common?
Does correlation equal causality? Is the fact that a high performing charter school does well a result of its “charterness,” or could there be other variables at play?
How can a politician who implies large portions of the public are lazy, unmotivated, and dependent on government, suggest that we now provide those same people with a debit card for their children’s education? Is this a contradiction in position, or can it be explained? Can we know without asking?
What variables exist in a charter school that might influence, for better or worse, academic performance?
If a portion of the students whose parents are most invested in learning flee a neighborhood public school, what remains? Or, more importantly, who remains? What is the plan for those students? For that school?
And, most importantly…
Controlling for variables such as socio-economics, family education, parent involvement and neighborhood context, is there clear and consistent evidence that charter schools inherently outperform their public peers?
Why isn’t the public asking questions such as these? Why does it accept the attack on the traditional model without demanding more information? I believe a portion of the answer is because we designed an education system that taught students to regurgitate states and capitals, practice their cursive, and memorize the periodic table of elements. This prepared them well to recall and regurgitate talking points, instead of asking questions and critically analyzing responses.
Ask them the capital of Arizona and they might answer “Phoenix,” as well as capitalize and spell it correctly. But, they likely won’t be able to explain why they should or shouldn’t support policies being advanced in that same city.
I have no interest in demonizing the intentions of any faction engaged in the conversation around our education models. I believe there is a place at the table for all of these viewpoints, and that they should be held up to scrutiny, vetted, and presented to the public, proverbial warts and all. And yes, they all have warts, including the public model.
I might also add that I am not anti-charter, anti-choice, nor anti-private. However, I am vehemently opposed to the dismantling of public education to create a kind of fantastical “Choicetopia, ” that somehow solves the puzzles of poverty and language gaps, and stops just short of ending world hunger and toppling ISIS. Although it’s a safe and trendy answer on the tongues of politicians from both sides of the aisle, there simply is not clear evidence to suggest this is the holy grail. And, all the talking points in the world should not divert our attention from the fact this evidence does not exist. There are wonderful experiments in learning environments happening in public, private, and charter environments – but a unifying model has not surfaced as the consistent and reliable solution.
Whatever emerges from such a debate should provide us the confidence that results from a significant vetting process. We should know that we didn’t flail for a solution to our deepest challenges, but that our response and investment was based on the best evidence we had available.
In short, that we did due diligence.
Public education’s future rests in the hands of its own offspring. And, I’m not sure I’m feeling comfortable with the parallel to Pelia, Medea, and his unwitting daughters.
Daughters who ended up with blood on their hands and regret in their hearts.
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I heard a few months ago; I don’t remember if you were there, but a district official said something like, “People choose their children’s school while standing in line at the grocery store.” She was referring to conversations people have, with strangers and friends alike, that weigh far heavier in their decisions that performance data and controlling for demographics and the like. What I never see, in books like Berliner’s, or anywhere else where controlling for demographics is discussed in comparing students is anything about these one on one conversations. Here’s an example, we had some remodeling done recently in our house. We talked a little with the contractor about our families and he mentioned his kid goes a local charter school. I asked how he liked it, and he said, they were very happy with it, that his kid has a condition that results in what will be a lifetime challenge and that it’s always been “endearing” how close his teachers are to his boy and how much contact they keep with the family. Boom! If I were new to Tucson, looking for a school for my kids, how much influence would test scores and the like mean compared to a testimonial like that that? I would definitely look at the school’s web page, take a tour, and so forth, but “endearing” trumps “controlled for social-economic status our school performs equally with any charter.” You know I teach at a public school and I’m fortunate that we always have a high enrollment, and that’s in spite of average (at best) scores. The reason is our reputation and word of mouth. You know of my teacher leader work and that I need no convincing when it comes to the need for more teachers making policy. But along with all the questions you list, one that’s missing, is, “What personal story can you tell about your school that most illustrates its heart?”
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Importance of going back to the basics in order to prepare for the new Clean and/or Renewable Energy Age in the coming century
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Rachel Maddow’s Comment on the “Where The Sun Don’t Shine”
This weekend, some of our friends have been sending me clip of a Rachel Maddow’s piece on “Where The Sun Don’t Shine”, commenting on Florida state legislators’ measures. Below (italics) is part of the transcript of Rachel Maddow’s piece on “Where The Sun Don’t Shine” that I would like to address:
Florida, is, technically speaking, the Sunshine State. That is their official state nickname and they do not mean it as a metaphor. They meant it as a founding principle, a main attraction of what Florida is. The Florida Department of Citrus has a new branded Avengers Character called Captain Citrus. Captain Citrus runs on Solar Power. The circle on his hands are solar pods. Maybe it’s my solar pods but you’re going down. Florida is so much the Sunshine State that the whole ad campaign for the city of Ft. Lauderdale is called “Find Your Sunny” and you can find Ft. Lauderdale at sunny.org Explore your sunny side in Sunshine State. So now naturally because it’s Florida that Florida has declared war on the Sun, even if it still wants to be known as the Sunshine State. This past week, very quietly, just before Thanksgiving, Florida, incredibly, decided to try to kill solar power in the state of Florida, they voted to kill entirely the solar rebate program in the state for installing solar panels. At the same time they told the state power companies that they can basically stop their efforts to conserve energy. Maddow then proceeded to show the decrease in Florida’s goal for energy conservation, below (between 2009 and 2014)
Rachel Maddow’s chart on FL conservation goal between 2009 and 2014
and they killed the program for solar power in the Sunshine State.
Power companies, the utilities, make money by selling power. The more power you use, the more power they can sell you, and therefore the more money they make. If you make the power yourself from the Sun, the solar panels on your roof, or if you/they/any one uses less power, then they (utility companies) will sell less power and make less money. So, right now, at the request of the utility companies, right before Thanksgiving, very quietly, Florida just decided to stop conserving energy as a state policy. They’re no longer going to try to even do that…and they’ve decided to completely unplug from the sun in the Sunshine State. It’s amazing….I don’t know what Captain Citrus is going to do, but I think Captain Citrus is not going to be happy about this…when this quiet news will be coming out…..
Essentially there are two issues that are being addressed:
I. Cutting the Solar Rebate program: In reality, the Florida Solar Rebate program had not been funded for quite a few years already. Having an empty promise in solar rebate program hurts the solar policy or solar installations more than not having it at all (for many Floridians have chosen to wait to install solar in the future, when the solar rebate program will be funded, instead of installing now). So having it (empty or not-funded solar rebate program) off the books actually is a service for the Floridians. What we do need is better solar/renewable energy policy and goal, as I’ve been trying to gather interest (supplemented with petition and interviews of various energy experts) in: http://www.sunisthefuture.net/2014/09/24/let-the-sunshine-in-the-sunshine-state/
II.Cutting the Energy Efficiency goal: As Ms. Maddow succinctly puts it, “power companies make money by selling power”, and therefore is not naturally incentivized to ask its customers to conserve energy use. Expecting the power companies to voluntarily offer energy efficiency program is like asking some one else to do what I think is ethically correct while asking that some one else to pay for it and I am not. If energy efficiency program is to be carried out, it should not be involving the power companies . We would also need to be prepared for rate hikes as what’s been happening in all of the states that have been very successful with their energy efficiency programs (i.e. CA, MA, RI, VT, OR, http://www.eia.gov/electricity/monthly/epm_table_grapher.cfm?t=epmt_5_6_a)
Finally, I think the most efficient route is what’s being implemented in India, using carbon tax to fund clean, renewable energy (more details will be found in our next post). Right now, India has doubled its coal tax to 100 rupees per ton and will use the money generated for projects that would boost the country’s (India’s) solar power capacity to 100 gigawatts by 2020. So, if Floridians do not want to spend more on energy efficiency or solar rebate programs, then simply tax the carbon producers and use the yield to fund clean energy such as Solar and Wind or energy efficiency program. Then we may rightfully maintain our nickname as the SunShine State without having to tighten our belts. I think Captain Citrus will then approve.
~have a bright and sunny day~
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Hurray For Kaua’i & KIUC-Part II
Below is an interview with Jim Kelly, the Communication Manager of KIUC (Kaua’i Island Utility Cooperative), who worked tirelessly in preparing for the Koloa Solar Dedication ceremony of the 12 MW (the largest solar farm in the state of Hawaii). More details of the Koloa Solar Dedication ceremony may be found at Sun Is The Future at www.sunisthefuture.net/2014/12/04.
For better understanding of KIUC, it is worth mentioning that in the 1970s, Kauaʻi burned sugar cane waste to supply most of their electricity. Today, the majority of the Kauaʻi’s energy is produced by importing liquid petroleum. As of 2008, KIUC’s fuel mix was 91.9% fossil fuels, 7.6% hydroelectric, 0.2% biomass, and 0.2% solar. KIUC offers $1,000 rebates to residential customers who have solar water heating systems installed on their homes by Energy Wise Participating Contractors.
With about 30,000-31,000 customers on the island of Kaua’i in Hawaii, KIUC is the only electric cooperative in the state of Hawaii. This 12 MW solar installation of Koloa Solar will enable Kaua’i to stop burning about 1.7 million gallons of fuel oil and reducing 36,000 tons of carbon emission per year. It is with a conscious decision to reduce their dependence on fossil fuel and to make the transition toward the clean and renewable energy future that the island residents invested in this project of $40 million (comparable to building a conventional power plant). With this investment, they will not only be able to lead the way in renewable energy use on the planet earth now, but it will also benefit future generations of Kaua’i in sustaining the most clean environment for many decades to come.
Some background information about KIUC from Wikipedia below:
Kauaʻi Electric was incorporated in 1905 as a subsidiary of McBryde Sugar in order to construct a 2.4 MW hydroelectric plant on the Wainiha River. Kauaʻi Electric merged with Lihue Plantation’s Waiahi Electric Company early in the 1950s. Kauaʻi Electric became a division of Citizens Utilities Company in 1969. In the late 1990s, Citizens Utilities announced its intentions to divest from the electric utility business and a group of business leaders from Kauaʻi joined to found the Kauaʻi Island Utility Cooperative. KIUC purchased Kauaʻi Electric Company on 1 November 2002 for $215 million.
In December 2009, KIUC participated in hearings regarding its plan to minimize the effects its operations have on three endangered Hawaiian birds, the ʻUaʻu, the ʻaʻo, and the Band-rumped Storm-Petrel
Yes, Kaua’i is definitely blessed with island residents who aim to live in harmony and spirit of conservation with Mother Nature. We will look forward to hearing/reading more about Kaua’i experience in the pursuit of a Clean and Renewable Energy Future!
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3. Kauai Leading The Way For Solar In Hawaii
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Hurray For Kaua’i & KIUC-part I
KIUC (Kaua'i Island Utility Cooperative)'s 12 MW solar panels on the day of the dedication, Sep. 25, 2014
It is with tremendous awe and admiration that Sun Is The Future team took the trip and video recorded the Koloa Solar Dedication ceremony at Kauai, HI, on September 25, 2014. We found out that by Jan. of 2015, 80% of the peak daytime power demand at Kaua’i will be met by solar energy and 22% of the daily average will be met by renewable energy. KIUC (Kaua’i Island Utility Cooperative) is definitely leading the way on planet earth in our transition toward Renewable Energy Age! This is especially impressive given the fact that Hawaii is the most fossil fuel dependent state in USA. Realizing that 50% of its total economy comes from tourism and military and the finite nature of fossil fuel, Hawaii actively tries to relieve its dependence from oil so to be less vulnerable to the fluctuation in oil prices and availability. This is mainly accomplished through various goals and roadmaps set by Hawaii Clean Energy Initiative.
KIUC Team, beaming with pride, of their 12 MW installations
KIUC Communication Manager Jim Kelly (L) & Kumu Sabra Kauka (R) for dedication & blessing
Founder/Editor of Sun Is The Future, Susan Sun Nunamaker, signing solar panel at the KIUC dedication
KIUC Power Supply Manager Brad Rockwell (R) & Sun Is The Future Technical Analyst Michael Nunamaker (L) at the dedication ceremony
During the dedication ceremony, Allan A. Smith (Chairman of the Board of KIUC) welcomed every one. Then remarks were made by:David Bissell (President and CEO of KIUC), Tulsi Gabbard (U.S. House of Representatives), Bernard Carvalho Jr. (Mayor of County of Kaua’i), Hermina Morita (Chair of Hawai’i Public Utility Commission), Sheldon Petersen (CEO of National Rural Utilities Cooperative Finance Corporation), Peter Rive (Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer of SolarCity), Mike Gabbard (Hawai’i State Senate), Wanda Kau-Shibata (Kaua’i Representative), and Gov. Neil Abercrombie. Dedication and blessing was made by Kuma Sabra Kauka. It is easy to see the love, respect, care, and reverence the people of Kaua’l have for their land, resources, and energy.
This 12 MW, $40 million solar array project is the largest solar array in HI. Contractor is Solar City and Landowner is Grove Farm. It contains 45,360 panels and started in Nov., 2013. The project will displace 1.7 million gallons of oil annually, eliminate 35,000 tons of emissions annually, and will generate enough energy to power 4,000 homes. It is a key part of KIUC’s strategy to use renewable resources to generate at least 50% of the island’s energy by 2023. KIUC is also making sure that there is a diverse portfolio of renewable energy, utilizing not just the solar power, but also wind- , biomass, and hydro- power.
It is wonderful to see Senator Mike Gabbard’s of Hawaii (Chairman of the U.S. Senate Energy & Environment Committee for the past six years)’s excitement for this solar installation. It is understandable how Kaua’i and state of HI are able to arrive at the Solar Heaven ahead of all other states, surpassing its Hawaii Clean Energy Initiative of 2008 (goal of achieving 70% clean energy by 2030 with 30% from efficiency measures and 40% coming from locally generated renewable sources). But currently HI is at 18% renewable energy state-wide (the first bench mark for 2015 had a goal of 15% renewable energy). Of the 18% renewable energy: on the Big Island, 48.1% from renewables; on Maui, 29.1%; Kaua’i, 18.8%; Ouaha, 11.7%.
Yes, HI is going strong with solar and other renewable energies not only because Hawaiians or residents of Kaua’i are blessed with sunshine but because of their utility such as KIUC is continually looking for ways to collaborate and encourage their state legislators to move toward Renewable Energy. Most importantly, Kaua’i is blessed with island residents who aim to live in harmony and spirit of conservation with Mother Nature. Thumb up for KIUC! Hip! Hip! Hurray for Kaua’i and KIUC! We hope all other states in USA will look toward KIUC for their shining example during our earthly transition toward a Renewable and Clean Energy Future.
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DIRTY KANZA 200
Recapping a Remarkable Race
I'm starting this post with a celebratory shot: me wearing my brand-spanking new Dirty Kanza 200 jersey that I purchased the day after finishing the race. Such a sweet reward!
Editor’s Note: This blog post details my trip to the 2014 edition of Dirty Kanza 200 and the race itself. If you’re interested in the gear I used, my training plan and my race fuel, read Dirty Kanza 200: The Gear, Training and Fuel That Got Me Through 203 Miles.
Two years ago, I had no idea what a gravel grinder was. My riding was limited to smooth roads and mountain bike trails. Cyclocross was on my radar, but I’d never lined up for a CX race. But racing on gravel roads? No one had told me it existed let alone why someone would choose to ride low- to no-maintenance dirt and gravel roads in far-flung, nowhere-near-civilization dots on a map that require riders to be self-sufficient.
My foray into the scene is just this simple: I stumbled into gravel grinding when I sought endurance races to train for the 2013 edition of 24 Hours in the Canyon. It all started with the Texas Chainring Massacre. Several races later, I might even prefer gravel grinding to any other form of cycling. Seriously. It’s a blissful ride. I enjoy the sound of tires rolling across the gravel. The skills required for riding these routes are equal parts MTB and road; to ride gravel well you need to pick good lines, avoid rough spots, ride smart, “burn your matches” wisely, share the effort with fellow racers, alternate drafting and pulling. And, often, the scenery is beyond compare. These races are typically no-frills and camaraderie runs high.
Never content with doing the same races over and over again, I turned my sights toward finding the biggest, baddest gravel grinders in the country. There are two, clear top dogs — Trans Iowa and Dirty Kanza 200. The former covers 310-340 miles, and the latter is 200 miles. DK 200 seemed like the most reasonable next goal. So I signed up. And then I trained hard and assembled the necessary gear (reminder: you can read all about that here).
GETTING TO EMPORIA, KANSAS
First things first: I must thank TPG for serving as a fantastic driver, cook, motivator, crew and all-purpose, kick-ass girlfriend. The trip and the race would have been a lot harder without her.
I’m going to be entirely honest here: driving to Dirty Kanza 200 might be the least enjoyable aspect of the entire experience. It’s about a 7-hour drive on Interstate 35 from Dallas. There is very little to see or do en route to the northeast corner of Kansas. The stretch through Oklahoma is the most mind-numbing.
But there is one decent spot worth visiting: POPS’ Soda Ranch in Arcadia, Okla. Every good road trip needs a side-trip detour, and this was our best option. Neither TPG or I picked up a soda, but it’s not for a lack of options — more than 600 sodas. That’s probably too many options, really. There’s also a diner and gas station. We spent our afternoon at POPS making our lunch at a picnic table and making pictures.
At night, this 66-foot soda sculpture is a multicolored, LED tribute to fizzy drinks.
If you’re interested in racing Dirty Kanza 200 (or the 100-mile Half Pint), you’ve got to be quick: registration fills up in a matter of days. Hotel rooms fill up even quicker. I searched high and low, and only the sketchiest hotels still had vacancies. I considered reserving a camping space at a nearby state park and searched for spots near Emporia. Neither option was ideal, mainly because they weren’t convenient to the race site.
Enter Emporia State University! For the second year in a row, the home of the Hornets opened its dorms for Dirty Kanza riders. Our dorm room in the North Tower was a steal. A three-night stay (we actually arrived Friday) included a Friday brunch, Saturday breakfast and plenty of space for all the stuff we brought. It cost $245. Best of all, the campus is within easy walking distance of downtown Emporia, which is filled with nice shops, good food and drink (ate some dynamite pizza at Wheat State Pizza with TPG and Dat — maybe the best pizza we’ve ever had) and charm aplenty.
PACKET PICKUP
Speaking of charm, there’s nothing more impressive in Emporia (save the verdant fields) than the Granada Theatre, the site of packet pickup and the Dirty Kanza start/finish line. The theater was dedicated in 1929 by Emporia’s most famous native son, journalist/author William Allen White (his name is all over the city). Fast-forward a half-century or so, and the movie palace had fallen into disrepair. The good people of Emporia saved the theater from the wrecking ball and restored it into a pure gem.
Emporia is a charmer. The city’s downtown was lined with about a dozen decorated pianos to promote Symphony in the Flint Hills.
In a perfect world, every rejuvenated downtown would have a bluegrass band playing outside its landmark theater. And get a load of that upright bass. It’s aluminum, something I had never seen before; so I chatted with the bassist, who told me he found the Pfretschner. Apparently, that brand and Alcoa are the most common aluminum uprights. I love learning new things!
RACE DAY: START LINE
Race day started early — 4:15 a.m., plenty of time to eat a proper breakfast (coffee and oatmeal with peanut butter), check my gear and get focused before the race began at 6 a.m.
TPG and I walked to the start/finish; again, another benefit of staying in the dorm.
Racers get to choose their chutes based on how long they think it will take them to finish the race — 12, 14, 16 or 18 hours. Entering the race, I had a good feeling I could finish in less than 16 hours. I also thought it was very possible I could Race the Sun — finish the race in 14 hours and 41 minutes, before sunset at 8:42 p.m. I also knew that the race would be nuts for the first dozen or so miles — crashes and flat tires happen when hundreds of people jockey for position, take bad lines and make bad decisions to get an advantage early in a long-ass race. I wanted none of that. In fact, I wanted to start slowly. So I chose the 16-hour chute, opting to hang back and thinking I’d pass my fair share of racers throughout the day (this was a good idea).
A 16-hour race would be a very good showing, especially if I encountered a mechanical problem or a few flats.
MILES 1-50ish
Racing 200 miles isn’t impossible; the trick is fooling yourself into believing that you’re only racing 50 miles. So I started the race with the goal of finishing just a 50-mile race strong. Then I would finish just another 50-mile race strong. And then I would race another 50-mile race before racing a fourth 50-mile race. Breaking it up into four races makes 200 miles totally digestible and possible.
The 2014 edition of Dirty Kanza 200 began on a few paved roads, but we were on dirt within minutes. The beginning of the race wasn’t incredibly frantic, and the first sections of gravel weren’t entirely treacherous. That being said, there were plenty of frustrated riders repairing flat tires in the first 10 miles. Many of these riders were making their repairs shortly after turns on the course; my best guess is that they took the turns too quickly and/or sharply, pinch flatting tubes or worse, slashing their tires’ sidewalls.
As the morning sun continued to rise, the plains were shrouded by a mix of fog and dust (peep this Adventure Monkey photo). It was eerie and difficult to determine where the fog ended and the dust began. Prerace, TPG wisely advised me to wear a bandanna over my mouth and nose to filter the amount of dust I would inhale. On the course, I looked like a Western movie-style bank-robbing bandit. But I was able to breathe OK.
The first 50 miles went by quickly. I chatted with a couple of riders, kept a good cadence and did my best to not race too hard, too fast.
Highlight of the first 50: The low-water crossing was just as awesome as I expected (another Adventure Monkey shot worth perusing). The water was deep, and the stream was moving at a decent pace. Some riders rode through it, but I did not. My main reasons: I didn’t know what was at the bottom of the calf-high water and the hill coming out of the water was a slick, muddy mess. So I walked for a few hundred feet. It was the right call.
I reached the first checkpoint — Madison — in 3 hours 27 minutes and 10 seconds (14.7 mph). I promptly found TPG, talked with her about what I needed for the next leg of the race (more water, alligatorade, bananas, bars, gels, Endurolytes, etc.) and got off the bike to hit the restroom in a convenience store. I must thank the young woman who insisted I cut in front of her in the five-person deep line for the unisex toilet; she said, “You’re in more of a hurry than I am.” Yes, yes I was.
As planned, I spent 15 minutes at the first checkpoint. I told TPG I’d see her at the next checkpoint soon and confirmed that I’d want to follow the plan we discussed earlier — I would want lunch and a longer break, probably 30 minutes.
MILES 50-100ish
The second 50-mile segment started with an incredibly rude hill — Sandpipe Hill. It looks much steeper in this picture. I felt good. I knew I’d have no trouble keeping my pace. I stayed on top of my hydration and food.
The large packs of riders were starting to thin out, and there were fewer times where I had to maneuver to pass riders as we climbed up the rolling hills. About those beautiful, green hills — I didn’t spend much time at all taking them in during the race. My eyes were focused on the road 90 percent of the time, evaluating the conditions, selecting good lines. Success at Dirty Kanza requires a rider to ride smart; if you stop thinking, you’re opening yourself up to something bad happening — rolling over a sharp rock, dropping into a pothole, falling into a cattle guard with a tire-wide gap. The amount of mental energy needed to ride this course isn’t as great as a twisty, technical MTB trail. But you can’t just pedal carefree.
On the second leg, I saw one unlucky racer — bloody face and scraped to hell, he was being tended to by his crew who had come to rescue him. This scene on the side of the road was a reminder that riding gravel wasn’t a piece of cake, walk in the park or whichever cliché you prefer. The “roads” were capable of inflicting major damage. Respect them.
Miles 50-100ish were uneventful for me. I rode smart and strong, working in pacelines to conserve energy on flats and breaking away on most ascents. The descents were long, fast rewards. I pedaled down a few, but I mostly dipped into my drops and got as low as possible so I could coast at 25-30 mph. Not every hill afforded me this luxury. Some were pockmarked with potholes and large, sharp sections of rock. I took my times on those descents. On several occasions I saw a racer changing a flat at the bottom of these hills; that was my sign to take it slow. It makes no sense to bomb a sketchy hill if it’ll cost you 10 minutes when you have to fix a flat.
I reached Cassoday, the second checkpoint, in 3 hours 32 minutes and 48 seconds (14.22 mph). The parking lot situation was … well, not a parking lot. It was an overgrown field. TPG flagged me down at the checkpoint and led me to our piece of this haphazard plot of land. Several teams, who probably have done this race before, had large flags (countries, sports teams, bike company logos) flying high in the air at their sites, which made their spots easy to find. That’s a smart move that I highly recommend for anyone who plans to race Kanza.
Again, TPG was a champ. Her crewing skills are elite. She knew where everything was and got everything I needed as soon as I asked. At each checkpoint, she had the Comfiest Camping Chair in the World set for me to sit. I, however, didn’t use it. I was wary of getting too comfortable. Just getting off the saddle, standing and stretching my legs was good enough for me.
At this checkpoint, I ate more, drank iced coffee, visited the Porta-Potty and re-upped on chamois cream (critical to do this at every checkpoint). All told, I spent almost 30 minutes here.
MILES 100-150ish
The third leg of Dirty Kanza 200 would be a milestone for me — the longest distance I’ve ridden on my Salsa Vaya. I wasn’t sure what 150 miles would feel like; my previous maximum distance — 133 miles of the Red River Riot route — felt tough. I started feeling very fatigued in the final 10 miles of that training ride. But the big difference then was that I was riding solo. At Kanza, I had hundreds of riders joining me, albeit even farther spread out at this juncture.
The first few miles of this section of the race was paved — a blessing (smooth!) and a curse (it was heating up!). Within this first few miles, I realized my bike’s front derailleur was misfiring; I couldn’t shift to the large chainring. I tried twice and dropped the chain. Not good because, for better or worse, I ride hard — always trying to mash the largest gear I can.
With 10 fewer gears, I knew this leg would be a challenge. To stay on pace, I had to spin at a higher cadence — an unnatural motion that led to slight pain in my right knee. To make matters worse, I was starting to cramp up — my right quad and hamstring taking turns griping about the effort. I never had to get off the bike to work out the muscles or give them a break. Instead, I growled through the pain, making inhuman noises that diminished the pain and made me feel stronger (and probably made nearby riders assume I had gone rabid).
Despite these setbacks, I kept riding as strong as I could. I continued to press forward, working in pacelines for a bit before zooming forward to the next rider or group of riders on the horizon.
I can’t recall if this was the section of the race where free-range cattle were in-play. Regardless, you’ve never lived until you’ve ridden past unimpressed bovine that are a) not impressed with your kit or bike and b) at a moment's notice could stampede your ass into the dirt.
My slowest stage, I reached Cottonwood Falls, the third checkpoint, in 4 hours 4 minutes and 4 seconds (13.68 mph). I have to give it up for this town — the locals were super friendly and accommodating. TPG said that a town councilwoman used her power to keep the county courthouse open for riders after it was briefly closed. I greatly appreciated being able to wash up in the clean, spacious bathroom — a huge improvement over a convenience store john or a Porta-Potty.
During this checkpoint, I worked on my chain and derailleur as TPG refilled all of my stuff — more of everything! She was so encouraging, which I really needed. I was starting to have less fun, and doubt was seeping into my brain. I was pretty sure I could finish; but she was posi-friggin-lutely certain I would finish the race. Her enthusiasm was just what I needed. She reminded me that what I was doing was a major accomplishment and that there were just 50 miles remaining. I ride 50 miles all the time. No sweat.
After logging my slowest stage, I was fairly certain I couldn’t finish the race before sunset. Fatigue was increasing — my legs were tired and my lower back was sore — and the wind was picking up, making every mile just that much more difficult. Also, there were fewer racers in front of me, so there were fewer opportunities to draft.
Corky the Hornet
As I pedaled, there were signs that I was returning toward civilization. There were highway crossings and houses, glorious houses with families outside cheering on racers and offering cold water and “fat” Coke (none of that Diet Coke crap). I saluted each as I passed, declined offers of beverages and mustered a couple of howdys as my throat constricted — I was getting emotional.
The sun dropped lower and lower and 8:42 p.m. was getting closer. I managed to pull two other racers for a few miles at a 16 mph clip, when it was their turn to pull, I was exhausted. I couldn’t keep pace and stay behind their wheels. I lost my final opportunity to draft.
And just like that, the sun had set and I flicked on my front and rear lights. I wasn’t disappointed. It would have been nice to finish before sunset. But I was still very much thrilled that with every passing second I was approaching my goal — finishing the race. I could have a dozen flats and need to walk the bike for the remaining 6 miles. It wouldn’t matter; I had plenty of time to finish.
Twenty-eight hours after this photo was snapped, I
rolled past this sign toward the finish line.
The final couple of miles were paved. I pedaled up a city street and turned onto a familiar road leading back to the Emporia State campus. I passed the dorm (and briefly daydreamed how sweet it would be to shower soon), rolled over the words of encouragement that students wrote on the sidewalks with chalk and passed clapping Emporia State staff and faculty as I approached the intersection leading to downtown.
The light turned green just as I approached the intersection. Volunteers on the other side cheered and yelled “just four blocks to go!”
I slammed my gear shifter to my biggest gear, stood on my pedals and mashed them as hard as I possibly could. I was flying inside and out. This long damn day — a fun one, to be sure — was almost over. On each side of the road, there were cars loaded up with bikes, cyclists and their crew hanging out, some cheering.
Three more blocks.
I blasted past familiar storefronts that line Commercial Street and avoided drivers that were haphazardly searching for parking spaces.
Two more blocks.
I could hear the cowbells. I could see the finishing chute. I could taste the sweet satisfaction of accomplishment bubbling up inside me. I could feel tears that were threatening to escape. I gave them permission to roll from my eyes as I rolled toward the finish.
One more block.
I entered the finisher’s chute. The crowd clanged their cowbells and I threw my hands into the air, yelling “Yeah! … Yeah! … Yeah! …” It was an incredible feeling.
“Aaaaand … from Dallas, Texas … Rrrrroberrrrt Traaaaay-seeee!” the announcer said as I made it to the finish line. It. Was. Sweet.
I reached the finish line in Emporia in 3 hours 44 minutes and 8 seconds (13.54 mph). Total time for my first Dirty Kanza 200: I covered 203 miles in 14 hours 58 minutes and 54 seconds (13.54 mph), good for 210th of 469 finishers (31st of 66 in men ages 35-39).
Jim Cummins, executive director of Dirty Kanza, hands me the coveted Dirty Kanza 200 finisher’s pint glass and details how to procure a free beer. I shook his hand, thanked him for one helluva race and smiled for the first time as a Dirty Kanza finisher.
TPG was quick to find me in the mess of bikes and bodies filling downtown Emporia. It was great to be off the bike but even better to hold her and kiss her. I could not have asked for a better partner in this adventure. Her support made it possible for me to finish. There’s no doubt in my mind.
We soaked up the scene unfolding downtown. It was a party, but I was most enjoying the opportunity to sit down and relax. I wanted nothing to do with that free beer (TPG would tell you that’s the first thing I told her when I saw her after finishing).
It was tempting to spend more time downtown, but I really wanted to be clean. I was gross, totally filthy — dirty, sweaty and stinky. Just like my bike.
That’s a hardworking machine right there. I couldn’t be happier with how my Salsa performed. It’s going to be very difficult for me to choose another bike brand for the remainder of my years as a cyclist.
Proud of my feat and thrilled to be off that dirty bike, we drove back to the dorm, got clean and recapped our Dirty Kanza experiences before passing out from exhaustion.
We woke up in time to walk to the awards ceremony at White Auditorium. It was packed and the ceremony was great, even if the gushingly apologetic Kiwanis ran out of biscuits they served for breakfast. It was wonderful seeing all of the top riders accept their awards. The top riders shattered the course records; former pro racer Brian Jensen smashed the men’s record (just under 12 hours) by finishing in 10 hours and 42 minutes. Remarkable!
Kansans’ support for the race is INCREDIBLE. They realize they have something special; the Dirty Kanza is a premier cycling event that more and more cyclists add to their bucket lists each year. Emporia and the Flint Hills region are on the map. And these locals are proud, as well they should be. Thank you, volunteers, organizers, Emporia State University, local business owners and residents of the Emporia region. You made quite an impression. You have a charming city and a challenging race. I wouldn’t hesitate to make the trip again to race Dirty Kanza again. And, for anyone on the fence about racing Kanza: Do it! You won’t regret it.
Posted by Robert Tracy at 9:43 PM
Labels: bicycling, cycling, dirty kanza, DK 200, emporia, fuel, gear, gravel, gravel grinder, kansas, salsa, vaya
That Pink Girl said...
You're damn right, that *is* a hardworking machine and it ain't the Salsa.
Miles upon miles, hours upon hours and countless Cliff bars later, you are a champion. You should be so proud of yourself!
It is a privilege to crew for an athlete who demonstrates such grace and humility. I'll crew for you always.
Congratulations on a HUGE accomplishment! I can't wait to see what you do next...
Kate Geisen said...
Congratulations! Great race, and great report.
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Forest Tattoos
Inked Magazine
Category: Froggy Foibles
Region: United States
Robert Frost once wrote of “the woods are lovely, dark and deep” but at the time he did not know that eventually the woods would also make for some pretty impressive tattoos. Ranging from forest creatures to beautiful landscapes, here are some of the best forest tattoos we’ve come across.
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Land rulings a clear message to Ottawa, provinces: It’s time to govern
Thomas Isaac is leader of the Aboriginal Law Group at Osler, Hoskin and Harcourt
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Engineered Plastic Systems cited for recycled content wording
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Ontario Team in Command on British Columbia fire from The Net News Ledger
A ‘Plane’ View about Wildland Firefighters and a New Disney Movie
This week’s opening of Disney’s animated movie, Planes: Fire & Rescue is especially exciting for the U.S. Forest Service because the agency played an important role in the production of the film. Actually, no Forest Service employees appear in the new comedy-adventure, which features a dynamic crew of elite firefighting aircraft devoted to protecting the mythical Piston Peak National Park from wildfire. The agency’s role was an advisory one, giving access to firefighting facilities for Disney animators so that even as a cartoon, the movie has a degree of authenticity. Teachable moments are important for both children and adults and the Forest Service is pleased that Planes is expected to provide many educational moments.
Idaho environmental group challenges 2008 Forest Service permits for Wyoming elk feedgrounds
JACKSON, Wyoming — An Idaho environmental group is challenging a 2008 U.S. Forest Service decision that permitted five elk feedgrounds in the Jackson Hole area of northwest Wyoming. The Western Watersheds Project has filed a lawsuit that argues Bridger-Teton National Forest officials violated their own forest plan, the National Environmental Policy Act and the Wyoming Wilderness Act in approving the feedgrounds. Travis Bruner, of Western Watersheds Project, tells the Jackson Hole News & Guide that the group contends the Forest Service didn’t sufficiently analyze the consequences of the feedgrounds, such as the spread of disease.
Wildfire legislation would fully fund suppression and boost proactive forest management
White Mountain Independent
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Three U.S. senators have introduced legislation that would allow for the full funding of wildland fire-fighting budgets for the U.S. Forest Service and U.S. Department of the Interior as well dramatically increase resources for forest restoration programs. John McCain (R-Ariz.), John Barrasso (R-Wyo.) and Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.) introduced the bill known as S. 2593, the FLAME Act Amendments of 2014. “Congress must fully fund our fire suppression needs, but to reduce wildfire costs over time we must also thin our fire-prone forests,” McCain said.
Endangered Species Listing For Wolverine Looking Doubtful
Northwest News Network
A federal threatened species listing for the wolverine is looking increasingly unlikely. Protected status was put on the table in anticipation of harm due to global warming. At present, the fierce and rare carnivore is making a slow comeback in the Northwest and Northern Rockies. Last year, federal biologists proposed listing the wolverine as a threatened species in the Lower 48 states. The main reason: because climate change is likely to shrink the snowpack the furry carnivores depend on, including for their dens.
Klamath County leads Eastern Oregon timber harvests
Herald and News
Klamath County led Eastern Oregon in the state’s fourth consecutive year of gains in timber harvest, according to a 2013 timber report. According to an Oregon Department of Forestry (ODF) 2013 Timber Harvest Report, 81 million board feet were harvested in Klamath County last year, up from 61 million in 2010. …Ray Driscoll Jr., president of Wood River Timber logging, said the industry in Klamath County has experienced a steady uptick over the last couple of years, but the lack of lumber mills in Klamath County and shipping costs has limited harvests and production in the Basin.
Northwest Wildfires: More than 940,000 acres burn in Oregon and Washington
Wildfires have torched more than 940,000 acres in Oregon and Washington, but no major changes in the blazes were seen between Saturday evening and Sunday morning. “There may be a few acres here and a few acres there,” Carol Connolly, spokeswoman for the Northwest Interagency Coordination Center, said Sunday morning. Fourteen large fires are burning in Oregon, where more than 555,000 acres remain ablaze, Connolly said. Washington has seven large fires, she said, and slightly more than 385,000 acres burning.
Oregon Wildfires and Forest Fire Update from The Oregonian
Keeping forest pests in place
COEUR D’ALENE, Idaho — The Idaho Department of Lands’ annual gypsy moth detection trapping effort is underway, and walkers and bicyclists may notice the occasional small beige-colored triangular boxes hanging in selected trees around the area. North Idaho currently has no gypsy moth problem and state experts want to keep it that way. Coeur d’Alene is a Category 1 risk area, according to the 2013 Gypsy Moth Program Report by the IDL. …”I think the reason we don’t have a problem is because we’re doing the right thing in monitoring,” said entomologist Gina Davis, who manages the Forest Health and Stewardship Program at the Idaho Department of Lands.
Logging will do more harm than good in watershed
Helena Independent Record
The proposal to log the Ten Mile drainage to decrease the likelihood of sedimentation from wildfire in Helena’s water supply is largely based flawed assumptions concerning wildfire as well as the value of thinning. The first mistake is the idea that fuels drive large fires. It is extreme fire weather that controls large blazes. Under extreme fire weather conditions of low humidity, high temperatures and, most importantly, high winds, you cannot stop blazes. Indeed thinning/logging the forest may increase fire spread for the simple reason that logging opens up the forest to greater sun and hence drying. Plus logging opens a forest to greater wind penetration. Both factors enhance fire spread.
Camera systems have become eyes in the sky for fire watchers
Lewiston Tribune
Fire officials on the Powell District of the Nez Perce-Clearwater National Forest in Idaho are testing a new system that allows them to remotely monitor wildfires. The district, in partnership with the University of Montana, has cameras mounted on two fire lookout towers and a third mobile camera that can be deployed as needed. The cameras can be controlled by an operator at the Powell Ranger District who can use them for panoramic viewing as well as to zoom in and out. They are proving to be a valuable asset, said Matt Young, the fire management officer for the district.
Whiskey Complex fires burning in dry conditions more typical of August
Fire behavior specialists at the Whiskey Complex fires east of Garden Valley say very dry vegetation more typical of late August than mid-July are making fire suppression efforts more difficult. As of Friday morning, the two Whiskey Complex fires — the Wash Fire and the Grimes Fire — were covering 5,740 acres and were just 5 percent contained. Additional resources, including 10 engines, three hand crews, and four helicopters, arrived at the complex Thursday evening. A public meeting is at 6 p.m.
Daines signs letter that urges blocking state-specific logging bills
HELENA – U.S. Rep. Steve Daines, R-Mont., has signed a letter asking House Republican leadership to block any bills attempting to encourage more logging in specific states – such as Democratic Sen. Jon Tester’s proposal for Montana. Daines, however, insisted Friday the letter is not aimed at Tester’s wilderness and logging bill, and said through a spokeswoman he hasn’t taken a position opposing the measure, which is supported by many timber industry figures and conservation groups in Montana.
Conservation Efforts Help Protect Longleaf Forests for Future Generations
USDA Blog
I have a few decorative items on my desk at work, and some of those are longleaf pine cones. Even though I only learned of the rare longleaf pine forest – and the large pine cones that fall in them each year – a few years ago, it was love at first sight. Longleaf pine forests once covered the coastal landscape of the Southeast, and they’re home to nearly 600 plant and animal species. But over the past two centuries, development, timbering and fire suppression reduced the longleaf’s range by almost 97 percent.
This invasive plant is swallowing the U.S. at the rate of 50,000 baseball fields per year
Choking ecosystems, releasing carbon from the soil…
In the dictionary next to the definition of “invasive species”, they could show a photo of kudzu. Nothing seems to stop it: Above you can see it growing over trees in Atlanta, Georgia. Since it was first introduced to the U.S. at the Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia in 1876, it has been swallowing the country from an epicenter in the South-East at the rate of about 50,000 baseball fields per year, occupying an estimated 3,000,000 hectares today. Kudzu can grow up to 60 feet per season, or about one foot per day. Kudzu is extremely bad for the ecosystems that it invades because it smothers other plants and trees under a blanket of leaves, hogging all the sunlight and keeping other species in its shade.
Canberra’s urban tree coverage top in the nation
The Canberra Times
Canberrans benefit every day from living in the most tree-covered city in Australia, experiencing less stress and sickness and benefiting from reduced household energy costs. The city’s status as the bush capital has been confirmed by a study by the Institute for Sustainable Futures at UTS Sydney, which found Canberra has the greatest proportion of metropolitan tree coverage, as high as 50 per cent in North Canberra. Forestry professor Cris Brack of the Fenner School of Environment and Society at the ANU said the high coverage of urban trees throughout the ACT played a beneficial role for households and the community as a whole.
Colo. State Forest Service wins wood-energy grant
Boulder Country Business Report
Category: Carbon, Climate & Bioenergy
FORT COLLINS – The Colorado State Forest Service (CSFS) received a three-year, $250,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture to develop wood-to-energy projects. The grant will be used to establish wood-energy facilities that obtain and utilize woody biomass from national forests and adjacent lands and communities, improving forest health and reducing wild fire risk. Specific goals include strategically identifying and engaging new wood-energy candidate communities and facilities, providing technical workshops, and developing a new e-book application to help facilities become biomass-ready.
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As we know, the concept of Here Lies grows out of Kieran’s recognition of the aesthetic potential of leftover furnace waste, liberated from the crematorium he worked in as a teenager in the late 1970s. As a stand-in for something universal, these materials have inspired the most original and distinctive paintings of a generation: a series whose very title heralds our present, and whose content is overwhelmingly focused on surviving beyond it.
Kieran is hugely sensitive to the general question of memorialisation, and to the perfectly natural desire for remembrance and celebration of those who have passed. He is also keenly aware that his is not an everyday request, and accordingly has been on the lookout for a way of properly acknowledging peoples’ contribution to his work.
Of course, every contributor’s name will be permanently written into the relevant project documentation - and, if practicable, into the physical being of the work itself. But as a very personal mark of his gratitude to contributors, Kieran wants to create a small individual memento, made specifically out of a proportion of the individual’s remains before the rest of them are added into the collective.
Kieran’s grateful acknowledgment will take the form of a unique, artist-finished print, based on the extraordinary new Here Lies canvas ‘Spirit In The Mass’. The print itself shows an angled close-up of the painting’s remarkable surface, and will be mounted on canvas stretched over a wooden frame. Kieran’s finishing will incorporate some of the contributor’s ashes, applied and sealed by the artist in a textured layer which echoes his signature painting technique.
No two prints will be exactly alike, and the basic print design will be strictly limited to the purpose of recognising individual contributors: in other words, it will never appear in any other form, printed or otherwise. A signed letter on the print’s reverse will record Kieran’s personal thanks for the contributor’s generosity and courage, and confirm the print’s very special provenance.
In the case of persons who are still living and who wish to contribute to Here Lies once they have passed, the offer is the same. Obviously Kieran will not be able to produce a fully finished print at this stage, and so he proposes that the contributor be presented with their print in a part-finished state, on the understanding it will be returned along with their ashes for proper completion at a later date. The whole will be governed by a contract note which will be published in due course.
Kieran Crowder Here Lies Project launches end of the month
Kieran Crowder - Exciting New Exhibition Coming Very Soon!
L. S. Lowry Signed Limited Edition Print for Sale by Private Collector
The Birmingham Comics Festival
Turner Fine Arts to Launch Amazing New Commissions
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Slate is basically clay or volcanic ash that had previously formed on ocean floors and was subject to unimaginable heat and overwhelming pressure approximately 360 to 544 million years ago when the earth was still incredibly volcanic. This process caused the molecular structure to realign and form a fine-grained homogenous metamorphic rock (slate) that is characterized by its ability to split into thin sheets. Slate is chemically resistant, waterproof and non-combustible, making it an excellent roofing tile or artistic medium for slate sculptures.
Slate was an incredibly important resource during the Industrial Revolution, and in the 1870’s Welsh Slate accounted for 80% of all slate used in the UK. It is mined out of veins of shale using specialist equipment. It is an incredibly wasteful process however, as for every ton of slate produced, 9 tons of waste slate is also produced.
Stephen Kettle has trialled several different types of slate from different areas for use in his slate sculptures, and has settled on using Welsh Slate. His standard choice of slate originates from Caernaefonshire, which has purple and green colourings and is produced in open quarries. For select projects, he sometimes uses fine quality slate from the Llechwedd quarry in Blaenau Ffestiniog, a blue grey slate that splits extremely well and has very few impurities. In order to make his contribution to recycling, Stephen only uses waste slate. This is comprised of oddly shaped or broken slats of slate, which are ideal for his varied creations.
Welsh rocks, of which slate is the foremost, are incredibly important historically as there are few places on the planet with such a rich geological heritage. Many classic works were written about Welsh rocks and Welsh place names such as Llandovery and Llandvirn are commonplace in many well respected geological papers. Charles Darwin accompanied Adam Sedgwick, Professor of Geology at Cambridge, on a tour of North Wales in 1832. This journey arguably contributed to his analysis of the fossil record, which relied significantly upon fossils found in Wales. As a sculptural medium, slate sculptures cannot be matched by any other substance on earth in terms of beauty. It is smooth when dry and glistens when wet. It is incredibly durable and incises cleanly, meaning even slate buildings, gravestones and slate sculptures built hundreds of years ago look as good as new today.
Private Commissions undertaken by brilliant new artist Shaun Gagg
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An Update on How Selena Gomez Is Doing
Around one year ago la cantante reveló that she has lupus and was taking a break from social media and public appearances. Some side effects of lupus can include anxiety, panic attacks and depression.
La cantante is slowly returning to the spotlight but don’t expect her to get back on stage any time soon as she is taking more time off to tend to her physical and emotional health. She went on to say, “I want to be proactive and focus on maintaining my health and happiness and have decided that the best way forward is to take some time off. Thank you to all my fans for your support.”
Her brave decision to speak openly about mental health and her illness has brought her praise from celebrities and health professionals. Esperemos que muy pronto se mejore y pueda continuar con su carrera.
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The Simpsons Season 13 Episode 11
The Bart Wants What It Wants
Aired Sunday 8:00 PM Feb 17, 2002 on FOX
Episode Fan Reviews (9)
By futuramarama, Aug 21, 2011
what i liked- "hey butler, stop butlering yourself" "would that if i could, sir", greta was a nice character, bart trying to win her back after he discovers she is interested in milhouse now, etc.
it was OK. it is a bart's girlfriend episode but it of course has elements none of the others had, and it had some nice moments i liked. greta as a whole was a decent character and it is kind of a shame she has not been in a speaking appearance since. B or so as my final grade, i think is fair
Bart gets another girlfriend
By fenway98, Nov 16, 2010
The Simpsons go to a fair at a private school, and Bart meets Rainer Wolfcastle's daughter, Greta. They become friends, but Greta is in love with bart, and he is too oblivious to notice. When she wants to go out one night, Bart skips the date to watch Principal Skinner do stand up comedy. Great now goes out with Milhouse, and Bart is extremely jealous.
This was a decent episode. There were some funny parts: Homer stealing the torch, Nelson bullying the butler, Moe's impersanatinon and Skinner doing comedy. But other than those scenes, this episode was kind of boring.
Overall Grade: 80%/B
Bart likes Rainer Wolfcastles's daughter.
By Hornets3, Aug 14, 2009
This episode had a very overused plot as we saw in previous seasons with Bart liking Jessica Lovejoy and the Power's girl ( cant recall her name right now). However, this episode still remained to be fresh as Bart and Milhouse fight for Greta's love. It was both funny and sad to see two friends torn between a girl that they care about. Lastly, the Canada culture parody really saved this episode from being a downer, and I have to say that I was very very pleasently surprised with this episode, and im sure that you will be too. B+
This episode takes the cake!!! It had some of the best one line jokes in the history of TV
By Iverson82094, Jan 18, 2008
Greta Wolfcastle (Reese Witherspoon) gets a crush on Bart, and the whole family begins enjoying the royal treatment her father, Rainier, provides them. After getting used to the lifestyle of the rich and famous, the Simpsons' privileges are revoked once Bart bores of Greta and breaks up with her. Trying to lure Bart back, Greta pretends to have a crush on Milhouse to provoke Bart's jealousy. Her plan works, but when Greta takes Milhouse to Canada with her for a movie her father is in, Bart loses it and lures his whole family to come to Canada as well. While on the set, Bart confronts Milhouse and they get into a fight, crashing into sets and ruining props. Greta's plan, clearly worked, but Bart's attempts are unrequited as she loses interest in both of them.
Crazy Little thing Called Love!
By GeorgeJobson, Jan 23, 2007
Bart falls for a girl who is a daughter of a famous movie star. But doesn't have any real feeling for her until, he breaks up withy her. When Milhouse shows, up all bets are off. It's not a grest episode, not among the top 10. Bart and Milhouse fought over him in the finale, but in the end, both boys loss. I like the voiceover by Reese Witherspoon. She adds class to her character. the opening moments when Homer has stolen the touch is first class. they should have made an episode out of that scene. Smell Ya Later!
One of the funniest episodes!
By Chasenbuds, Aug 28, 2006
This episode is so funny! I like the end were Bart and Milhouse get on the basketball team. That part was such a funny joke! Anyways I know and I love this episode! I hop Matt will keep up the good work! The newer episodes are funnier then the older episodes!
A decent episode worth watching.
By JohnnySeidz, Jul 17, 2006
Not a bad episode, but not a really funny episode either. Like most episodes nowadays, it starts off good, but drops off towards the end.
The first act was probably the best. Homer stealing the Olympic Torch was a great moment: "They've pre-empted my favorite shows for the last time!" Marge's moan: "Every four years..."
Next, Homer spots a fair. This may be self-reference to the increasing number of episodes which start or are based around a fair/special event in Springfield (first noted by yours truly). Anyway, this fair (a private school open day) was good. The monkeys point/monkeys cry line was good, as well as Lisa's efforts to stay at the school.
The next act is also good. Rainier Wolfcastle's truck and the thumb wars game were good moments. The best moment of this episode had to be the Itchy & Scratchy DVD - Itchy kills Scratchy on the audio commentary! Hilarious!
Pretty soon, Bart messes it up, and Greta starts dating Milhouse. Then she goes to Toronto, and so the Simpsons follow her there (yet another holiday). Anyway, after Bart & Milhouse fight, Greta decides to dump both of them and the story wraps up nicely, although a tad predictable.
ranier wolfcastle has a daughter
By jimbo_001, Jan 15, 2006
the start of this episode is terrific with homer stealing the olymmpic torch because the olympics constantly interrupt primetime. the private school scene was great too with homer assuring lisa when she accuses him of saying there weren't any private schools in springfield, "but if i told you, you'd want to go". skinner's lame comedy scenes were so stupid that they were funny. the main plot of bart and greta lived up to the rest of the episode especially ranier wolfcastle (better known as his movie character, mcbain) lines like "talking time is over" and "i see your daughter is one of thosewhale-kissing, Dukakis-hugging moon maidens".
Some great one-liners
By ozziefan, Nov 23, 2005
I saw this episode last night for the 2nd or 3rd time and I was really impressed. The plot was OK, but there are lots of great one-liners.
Rainer Wolfcastle was great
"Remember when I said I'd eat you last. I LIED!"
"Laughing time is Over!"
"In my movies this is where I'd go BERSERK!"
The Canada jokes were hilarious too!
"Wow American Currency....When would you like your breakfast sir?"
"You'll win her back aye....and B were closing soon.
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HomeArts & EntertainmentOde to the Puppy Bowl
Ode to the Puppy Bowl
February 5, 2013 Jamie Primeau Arts & Entertainment 0
It began with “The Star-Spangled Banner.”
From there, the players eagerly took the field and the refs were in full force. The audience anxiously awaited this annual test of athleticism.
In case you’re mistaken, I’m not talking about Super Bowl XLVII. Instead, Sunday’s must-see TV was Animal Planet’s ninth Puppy Bowl.
Complete with hedgehog cheerleaders, a kitten halftime show and MVPs (Most Valuable Pups), it was well worth watching.
There was even a hometown hero to root for: Fitz, a 10-week-old Catahoula mix from New Jersey. According to his bio, he “prefers Bon Jovi to the Boss.” But most importantly, he was the cutest pup participating — which really says a lot.
Puppy contenders from all over the U.S. play their hearts out in Animal Planet’s ninth Puppy Bowl. Highlights include hedgehog cheerleaders and a kitten halftime show. (AP Photo)
It’s hard to pinpoint the highlight of the Puppy Bowl. From the Bowl Cam (showing the view anytime a pup took a water break) to the puppy pool (where players could cool down), there was just so much adorableness. Seriously, there were penalties for “excessive cuteness.”
Another plus? There was no half-hour power outage. The action of the Puppy Bowl was non-stop. Personally I’d much rather watch adorable animals chase each other around than see grown adults fight over a football.
In all fairness, the Puppy Bowl was missing one thing … Beyoncé!
I’ll admit I only watched the actual Super Bowl very briefly, and that was solely to see B’s performance. She did not disappoint, shutting down the stadium — literally and figuratively. From the crazy light show to a Destiny’s Child reunion, Beyoncé was the night’s true winner.
Speaking of winners, I suppose the Ravens do deserve a shout out. But in my opinion, another animal stole their thunder on Sunday — the puppies.
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HomeArts & EntertainmentTCNJ Musical Theatre hosts cabaret-themed performance
TCNJ Musical Theatre hosts cabaret-themed performance
February 21, 2017 Signal Contributor Arts & Entertainment 0
By Alyssa Apuzzio
The Library Auditorium was in full swing the night of Friday, Feb. 17, with TCNJ Musical Theatre’s Cabaret Night, an event dedicated to students’ passion for music and vocals.
“Everyone auditioned two weeks prior to the show and practices on their own time,” said Sarah Reynolds, vice president of TMT and a junior English and secondary education dual major.
Reynolds, who performed in the show, said the theme is always put to a vote, and TMT elected a cabaret-themed night complete with songs from film, television and Broadway.
The opening number was “Friends On The Other Side,” from Disney’s “The Princess and The Frog.” Beau Aranosian, a senior interactive multimedia major, performed the vocals with the help of two volunteers.
Aranosian portrays a villain from ‘The Princess and the Frog.’ (Natalie La Spisa / Staff Photographer)
Aranosian sang to the audience as well as to the two men onstage, sharing looks with exaggerated facial expressions with them. Aranosian perfectly matched his voice to project deeply and ominously, emitting a sinister charm and even maniacally laughing at the song’s completion.
In the next number, “Cheek to Cheek” from the 1935 classic American comedy “Top Hat,” senior English major Henry Albright channeled his inner Fred Astaire.
Albright’s voice was cheerful and pleasing, while his performance was lighthearted and sweet. About halfway through his performance, Albright walked over to the front row and pulled a girl from her seat to dance with him. The audience laughed and cheered while the two waltzed around the stage and when Albright twirled the girl around multiple times.
Loriana Attanasio, a junior health and exercise science major, has attended TMT’s Cabaret Night in the past and had nothing but rave reviews of the show in the past and present.
“This is my third year seeing the show, and it gets better each year,” Attanasio said. “It incorporates a little bit of everything, and everyone involved is very talented.”
A few numbers later, Brooke Buonauro, a senior communication studies major, and Jonathan Edmondson, president of TMT, a former member of The Signal staff and a senior journalism major, joined forces to sing “You Are The Music In Me” from “High School Musical 2.”
Buonauro took over at the piano during the performance, while Edmondson leaned over the piano as they sang to each other sweetly. With a smile on everyone’s face, it is safe to say the performance transported the audience back to their middle school days.
Albright serenades a volunteer from the audience. (Natalie La Spisa / Staff Photographer)
Kathleen Fox, a senior interactive multimedia major, sang “I’m A Good Person” from “Crazy Ex-Girlfriend.” It was a hilarious change of pace, as she interacted with the audience, pointing at them while maintaining an amusing expression on her face. The song was explicit and generated roars of laughter from the audience. Fox succeeded in making the audience sing along with her during the chorus.
Similar to Fox’s cheeky and hysterical performance, Jenna Burke, a senior English and secondary education dual major, did a rendition of “You Stupid Bitch” later in the show, also from “Crazy Ex-Girlfriend,” which caused an uproar of laughter from the audience. Both of the comedic numbers were likely stuck in the audience’s heads long after the show.
Right before intermission, Alec Skwara, a sophomore history and secondary education dual major, and Sam Chang, a junior philosophy major, sang a duet to “Lava” from the Pixar short “Lava.”
Released with Disney and Pixar’s “Inside Out” in 2015, Lava is the musical story of a lonely volcano in the middle of the ocean that yearns for love.
In addition to Skwara and Chang’s soft and sweet vocals, Rachel Zook played the ukulele onstage. Zook, a freshman interactive multimedia major, said she has only been playing the ukulele for a little over a year.
“I come from a family that loves music – my Dad played guitar,” Zook said. “I didn’t pick up the guitar, but I picked up the ukulele.”
Returning from intermission, “High School Musical’s” “Bop To The Top” was performed by Eric Schreiber, a junior chemistry major, and Reynolds, who wore a bright blue dress with ruffles and flair, channeling her character Sharpay’s style and whimsical personality.
Schreiber and Reynolds traipsed around the stage, stepping on the stool onstage and dancing with one another. The number was fun, cheesy and lively, pleasantly mirroring the scene in “High School Musical.”
During the second half of Cabaret Night, two songs were sung from Disney’s latest hit “Moana.” junior nursing major Chelsea Korn performed “How Far I’ll Go,” which was nominated for a Golden Globe and Academy Award and about pushing one’s limit and potential.
Members of TMT perform together. (Natalie La Spisa / Staff Photographer)
Korn’s number was soft yet empowering, while the next “Moana” number, titled “You’re Welcome,” was eccentric and full of entertainment.
Performed by the conceded demigod Maui in the film, Kyle Elphick, web editor for The Signal and a sophomore journalism major, perfectly matched Maui’s confident and arrogant presence, singing with an egotistic tone, exaggerating his hand gestures and making pompous faces.
When the tempo accelerated toward the end, Elphick jumped around the stage and amped up the energy in the room, finishing an unforgettable performance.
Angelica Vanderbilt, a junior English and elementary education double major, truly enjoyed all of the performances.
“A lot of my friends major in music, but there isn’t musical theater or acting major at TCNJ, so nights like this are a cool change,” Vanderbilt said.
Vanderbilt finds the talents of the performers “kind of crazy” and very impressive.
“Shows like this are amazing because we get to see hidden talents that we normally don’t know exist among students in all different majors,” she said.
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by AHSDad on 07/07/19, 07:36 am
DALLAS (CBSDFW.COM) — FC Dallas announced that they will host the biggest World Cup watch party in North Texas Sunday at the National Soccer Hall of Fame at Toyota Stadium.
The U.S. women’s soccer team will compete against the Netherlands in France July 7 for the FIFA Women’s World Cup 2019 title
Doors will open at 9 a.m. and the game will start at 10 a.m.
Attendees will be offered free tours of the National Soccer Hall of Fame during the party and will be able to take photos with the 1999 Women’s World Cup trophy.
This event is free and open to the public. Free parking is available in the Sienna South Blue lot.
AHSDad
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Re: But parking for King TuT will still cost you $5 per day...
by MurderWasTheCase on 07/07/19, 10:54 am
Isnt it a shame that fc dallas cant build community involvement unless they offer free admissions?
MurderWasTheCase
by Big Ern on 10/07/19, 09:54 pm
AHSDad wrote: DALLAS (CBSDFW.COM) — FC Dallas announced that they will host the biggest World Cup watch party in North Texas Sunday at the National Soccer Hall of Fame at Toyota Stadium.
^ quintessential rube.
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New Nonfiction Texts and Nonfiction & Fiction Chapter Books from Animal Planet Nibbles: The Dinosaur Guide by Emma Yarlett
Star Stuff: Carl Sagan and the Mysteries of the Cosmos by Stephanie Roth Sisson
By Ricki On July 27, 2017 · 1 Comment · In Asking Questions, Author's Purpose/Perspective/Bias, Background Knowledge, Characterization, Classroom Library Buy, Figurative Language, Imagery/Descriptive Language, Inquiry, Making Connections, Mood, Narrative Nonfiction, Picture Book, Prediction, Read Aloud, Reflection, Sequence, Setting, Tone, Visualizing, Vocabulary/Vocabulary Development
Star Stuff: Carl Sagan and the Mysteries of the Cosmos
Author: Stephanie Roth Sisson
Published: October 14, 2014 by Roaring Brook Press
A Guest Review by Brittany Brown
Summary: A curious boy living in a small city apartment finds the world astonishing. He wants to know about light bulbs, inch worms, and rocket ships. Carl sets out on a journey to find answers, but finds bigger, even more powerful questions. Through his research and studies, Carl eventually earns the title of Dr. Carl Sagan and spends his life seeking knowledge and understanding about the universe. This young
boy’s contributions to science and education have inspired many children everywhere to question the world around them. His story will resonate every child who has ever wondered “how” or “why” or spent an evening looking up at the night sky.
Review: I am constantly looking for books which will inspire my students and get them excited about learning. This book, which is brought to life with beautiful illustrations and the great mysteries of the universe, did that for myself as an adult, too. After reading it, everyday life is once again imbued with the magic and novelty it had in childhood. In Sagan’s eyes, there is no phenomenon too mundane to investigate. The curiosity which most adults leave behind drove Sagan to be the lifelong learner that all teachers hope to foster in their students. Reading this book shows that science is all around us, that we all belong here in the universe, and that in everyone there is a scientist. I absolutely loved reading this book, and as a new teacher building my classroom library, this is the first one which I will be purchasing multiple copies of to share with my students.
Teachers’ Tools for Navigation: This story would pair well with any science or biography unit. It would also serve as a great example of narrative nonfiction.
The most obvious use for this story is in a science unit. I would love to use this book to open up a discussion at the beginning of a unit on the solar system. Not only would it generate excitement, it would also begin to build some vocabulary and background knowledge. It would make the information in the unit more personal and relevant to kids, and would be a great launching point to encourage students to come up with their own questions about how the world works.
This book is also a wonderful book to use for mini lessons in writing. Using this book as an example, a teacher could lead a discussion on how to choose which life events to include in a biography, how to sequence and organize it, and how to incorporate quotes from a historical figure into a writing piece. It also shows how to include facts and achievements in an engaging way, and how to demonstrate a person’s impact on history.
Finally, this book would also be a superb example of narrative nonfiction. Despite containing lots of scientific facts, it reads like a storybook and the illustrations do much of the talking. Students will be captivated with the descriptive narration, and discussions could explore their experiences as readers or how they may be able to attempt this style in their writing.
Discussion Questions: What are your big mystery questions? Where would you go to try to find answers to them? What character traits helped Carl on his journey? What impact did he have on the world? Who does he remind you of?
Read This If You Loved: What Do You Do with an Idea? By Kobi Yamada, I Wonder by Annaka Harris, You Are Stardust by Elin Kelsey, On a Beam of Light: A Story of Albert Einstein by Jennifer Berne, The Boy Who Loved Math: The Improbable Life of Paul Edros by Deborah Heiligman, Look Up!: Henrietta Leavitt, a Pioneering Woman Astronomer by Robert Burleigh
Thank you, Brittany!
Tagged with: Aliens • Animals • Art • College • Creativity • Education • Family • History • Identity/Coming of Age • Illustrations • Nature • Professional Development • Psychics • Research • School • Science
One Response to Star Stuff: Carl Sagan and the Mysteries of the Cosmos by Stephanie Roth Sisson
Jane @ Raincity Librarian says:
This is absolutely fantastic!! How wonderful that we are getting picture book biographies like this to share with and inspire young readers!
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A little more Catch! Touch! Yoshi! (DS) love
Did you think I was done talking about Catch! Touch! Yoshi! (aka Yoshi Touch & Go) with yesterday's post? I hope not, because I'm going to chat about it again today.
Well, kind of. Instead of discussing this early DS game's gameplay, I thought I'd talk about its packaging.
The centerpiece of this game's packaging, of course, is its cover art, which can be seen in the photos above and below.
This game's cover imagery is among my favorites for the system, and the illustrations produced for its manual and cart label--both of which are shown in the snapshot above--are pretty sweet (and I mean that literally and figuratively), too, if you ask me.
By the way, getting back to the box art for a second, I really like how it features a DS stylus that's apparently responsible for the squiggly pink lines that careen around its ample acreage.
Anyway, the back of the manual features a really nice image, too. Sadly, the interior of this pamphlet isn't quite as fabulous as its exterior, although I wouldn't go so far as to call it a stinker, either.
Still, it's always nice to see a bunch of colorful Yoshis stumbling around as they are in the manual page above.
Have any of you played Catch! Touch! Yoshi!--or Yoshi Touch & Go, or whatever it may be called in your neck of the woods? If so, what do you think about it?
Or, what do you think of the art showcased in the photos shared throughout this post? Share your thoughts in the comments section below.
Labels: acquisitions, box art, Catch Touch Yoshi, cover art, ds, imports, instruction manuals, Japanese games, manuals, nintendo, packaging, photos, Yoshi, Yoshi Touch and Go
I LOVE that image on the back of the manual. So cute!
Chief said...
I have this game but after noticing Baby Mario I put it back on the shelf? Is the game good?
Solid packaging design though, I just hate Baby Mario after YI & hearing his crying. >_>
Yeah, it is pretty adorable, isn't it, Justin? I really like the work done on this game's packaging overall. So cute and also so classy, in a way.
I read it ;) You weren't very firm on either opinion, fun or recommendation.
It is open so, I should at least give it the old college try.
Oh! Hmm, I thought I was pretty firm about liking it quite a bit (in the end), but also thinking some folks would have a hard time liking it due to the fact that they'll have to track down an actual copy of it and also that it doesn't offer up a whole lot of content, when it comes right down to it.
Anyway, if you're still unclear: I didn't like it at first, but grew to like it quite a bit over time. That said, it's very much like a game you'd buy for $2 and play on your smartphone or tablet. In other words, it doesn't offer a whole lot of content.
As such, it's possible you won't keep it in your DS/3DS for long, which is likely to minimize your "interest" in it over time, if that makes sense.
If you already have the game then you should definitely try it. ;)
My thoughts exactly! Worst-case scenario: you hate it, rip the cart from your DS or 3DS and either never play it again or sell it.
Man, those colors really pop! As expected from a Yoshi game--the colors/art direction for those games are incredible. Really dig the bright pink on the cartridge! It's rare to have a cartridge with such a bright color, I feel like they typically settle for white/black backdrops behind the game's title.
Oh, yes, I agree, Zach--with everything you've said here. I also really like the cart-label art. Sadly, I think the NA and even EU labels are far less daring. Oh, well!
You guys are right, I've got nothing to lose.
Great! Do try to give it a bit of time to sink in. If you're anything like me, the first few plays will be kind of underwhelming. Also, let us know what you think of it, if you can!
You should track down a copy and give it a go, Adam! No matter which version you go for--EU, JP, NA--copies should be pretty cheap to come by these days.
Also, I'm kind of surprised to hear you say the back of the case if your favorite part, although of course I agree with you if that's because of the adorable image of Yoshi diving to save the falling Baby Mario.
Adam Lee said...
I've had a copy for years. ^^; Never got around to playing, but that'll change today!
Yoshi diving to save Baby Mario and those little cloud doodles are why I love the back of the box. :)
Same here! I played a bit and it's a slow start but fun. The game made me want to play soul bubbles again ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
You, too, Adam? Well, I'm glad this post has spurred you to finally give it a go. Hopefully you enjoy it!
Also, yes, Yoshi diving to save Baby Mario is pretty darn adorable, if you ask me :)
Yes, it's definitely a slow start, Chief. And I wouldn't even say it ramps up to anything amazingly enjoyable, or anything like that, but it is good, clean fun in the end, I think.
Also, it's funny you should bring up Soul Bubbles here, because just yesterday I was trying to figure out when I would play the Japanese version of that game (Awatama) for my #ADecadeofDS series!
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Behind the Project: Hennessy 'The Piccards'
The Mill recently joined forces with award winning director Daniel Wolfe of Somesuch and Droga5 to bring the epic story of father-son duo Auguste and Jacques Piccard to life for Hennessy 'The Piccards'.
The Gold Cannes Lion award winning spot for VFX, documents the Swiss inventor’s feat in becoming the first man to reach the stratosphere, before his son continued this pioneering spirit 30 years later in reaching the deepest point in the ocean.
We caught up with Creative Directors Gavin Wellsman and Jasper Kidd, to discuss how this project came together.
THE BRIEF:
Gavin: Hennessy have a fantastic track record of creating commercials with unique stunning visuals, so we knew we had to create something memorable that would continue to push the boundaries for Hennessy and its audience.
What stood out from the brief was how important it was for the whole spot to feel like one continuous journey. Which meant that the submarine would travel up into the depths of the ocean. We did this by coupling visually stunning elements created by Chris Parks with transitions that took the viewer from space to sea.
Jasper: From the moment I saw Daniel Wolfe's mind blowing treatment for this spot I knew it was going to be incredible, every last detail was thought of. Arriving on set to witness the stunning production design, miniature motion control work and underwater tank took the commitment to perfection to another level.
The creative twist in the story is that it’s one upward journey, which developed into the idea of an ocean in space as the bridge between two narratives. An incredible amount of work went into shot design to try and get the audience to understand that the balloon continues into space and becomes the submarine that keeps rising.
THE EXECUTION:
Gavin: The most important thing on a large project like this was to make sure we had a diverse group of artists to match the wide range of disciplines required for a spot of this scale.
Gavin: There was a great amount of research that went into creating this spot. Our aim was to get as close as possible to the look and feel of the original story from the beginning of the project. We researched images, blueprints, documentaries, stock footage, various kinds of clouds and what heights they are formed at.
As we got further into the project, we started to realize that what was factually correct wasn’t always the most visually pleasing; one example was the shape of the balloon. The balloon was designed to expand almost 4 times the size by the time it reached the stratosphere, which is factually correct. However it made the balloon became completely spherical which wasn't the right look and mood for the spot. We then opted to keep the shape more sleek and stretched.
We combined digital camera footage with 35mm, this along with our fully CG shots. It was then printed back to film to blend all these formats into one cohesive piece of imagery.
Jasper: The CG world was all built to scale in Maya, so the height of cloud types and size of the mountains on the ground would all have the correct scale and parallax. Landscape and cloud references were gathered from Auguste Piccard’s first flight in Augsberg, Germany, which was extremely informative for all the matte painting work.
One of the biggest CG elements was the balloon, for which we used Marvelous Designer to simulated the shape of its cloth folds and Mari to texture the 32k pixels worth of high resolution fabric. The cloud work for the opening sequence was a massive undertaking and was generated in Houdini. We also created a CG gondola and submarine to augment the miniatures on set which were modeled in Maya, textured in Mari and rendered in Arnold. Nuke also helped created the 2D projections of the underwater cave and the cloud breakthrough shots.
THE FINAL PRODUCT:
Gavin: The biggest take away was how much time people were willing to commit to the project because they knew this was an incredible story to be told and it had the potential of being a memorable spot.
We had bi-weekly meetings with the creative team from Droga5 was amazing and really helped us make great progress from week to week.
This coupled with the DP, Colourist and Editor staying involved throughout the process was a real bonus; it gave us a different perspective covering all bases of the diverse disciplines for a project of this magnitude.
Daniel Wolfe was such an important part of the job throughout, his creative vision for the piece was incredible and he really helped us stay true to the original brief. The result speaks for itself!
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ISIS Use of Chemical Weapons to Increase
TOPICS:Chemical WeaponsDaeshIraqisisMustard GasSyria
Posted By: Hamish De Bretton Gordon 15th August 2015
By Hamish De Bretton Gordon
ISIS Step Up Psychological Campaign with Mustard Agent Attack on Peshmerga
This week the German Government confirmed what I have been saying for over 12 months – that ISIL are using chemical weapons against Coalition Forces – in this case the Peshmerga of the Kurdistan Region of Iraq. Pentagon sources overnight have confirmed that this is most likely the deadly Mustard Agent.
Julie Bishop, the Australian Foreign Minister, expressed her view that ISIS is capable of building chemical weapons in a speech last month to an anti-chemical weapons group. She said, ‘Apart from some crude and small scale endeavors, the conventional wisdom has been that the terrorist intention to acquire and weaponise chemical agents has been aspirational. The use of chlorine by Daesh (ISIS), and its recruitment of highly technically trained professionals, including from the west, have revealed far more serious efforts in chemical weapons development.’
Minister Bishop is the first senior politician in a major western power to express so clearly and unequivocally the concern that ISIS now have the desire to develop chemical weapons for use on the battlefields of Iraq, and Syria, and perhaps beyond…it is most likely that this is an extension of the highly successful ISIS Psychological Warfare campaign against Coalition forces and the International Community.
ISIS have seen how effective chemical weapons have been in Syria. They have pretty much kept Assad in power since his near ‘fall’ in August 2013, and ISIS have been on the receiving end of chlorine barrel bombs in Deir Ezzor in December 2014 which led to their local tactical defeat. It is the ultimate terror weapon, and not unsurprising that they crave it; as they have imbued the people of Iraq with so much terror that in some places, hitherto, they face little resistance, but not the Peshmerga, who have been steadfast in their resistance.
However, even given this so called expertise, they will not any time soon be able to produce deadly nerve agents like Sarin or VX, or fashion their much vaunted Uranium in Mosul into any kind of viable nuclear device. They will, however, continue to terrorize their attackers in Iraq and Syria with the very much less toxic, but highly effective, improvised chemical weapons such as chlorine and no doubt Mustard Agent as I expect they have more of it.
The real significance to draw from the German and US Governments’ comments is that ISIS do have a chemical weapons programme, albeit primitive, they are training many Jihadists to make and plant improvised chemical bombs, and some of these people will find their way back to their home countries where they may continue the ISIS fight; as we’ve seen with the Lee Rigby murder in London, the Charlie Hebdo killings in Paris and many more.
What and where next? ISIS aim to create terror and inertia globally in order to further their efforts to establish their Caliphate and very evidently nothing is off limits…But vigilance and effective mitigation strategies, put in place now, can provide resilience to these threats to the capital cities of the world, and stiffen the resolve of those who oppose this terror.
Hamish de Bretton Gordon is a former commanding officer of the UK’s CBRN Regiment and now works in a security related industry.
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2 Comments on "ISIS Use of Chemical Weapons to Increase"
Mahatmacoatmabag | 16th August 2015 at 1:36 pm | Reply
” The use of chlorine by Daesh (ISIS), and its recruitment of highly technically trained professionals, including from the west, have revealed far more serious efforts in chemical weapons development.”
As you sow so shall you reap’ is a proverb which means that actions or deeds of a person repay him/her in kind. Origin of the proverb is traced to the Bible, Galations VI
For decades Western Universities & scientific research institutes have been making vast amounts of money in fees for training Arab, Iranian, Pakistani & other Muslim scientists in advanced Nuclear, Biological & Chemical techniques. Due to their greed & deliberately ignoring the danger posed by training 3rd world students & graduates the world now has to deal with the danger of vast numbers of UK, US & European trained Nuclear, Biological & Chemical scientists , engineers and technicians being available for the terrorists to recruit either for money or ideological reasons.
Brenda Elizabeth Cowley-Waters | 16th August 2015 at 4:32 pm | Reply
Nothing these evil people do would surprise me anymore – but what does is why they cannot be stopped? when their tactics shock not just Western Society but also the Middle East?
The world lacks and badly needs a strong leader??????
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Phnom Krom
Listed under Temples in Siem Reap, Cambodia.
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Southwest of the Angkor temple hub of Siem Reap, this Hindu shrine devoted to Shiva, Vishnu and Brahma was built at the end of the ninth century. The temple’s three main towers are dedicated to one god each and set on platforms reached by seven sandstone stairs. The whole temple has been built of the same sandstone which is why, unfortunately, a lot of the detail of the decorative carving has been lost.
The towers, which have started to collapse downwards, are the main focus of this ruin but there’s also an interesting crematorium complex. But though it’s more ruined than some of the other Angkor temples it’s set on a hill which offers a beautiful view over the valley and Tonle Sap lake.
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Home Page Press 1st Metropolitan International: Adams to Play
1st Metropolitan International: Adams to Play
By Ankit Gupta
GM Michael Adams, Photo Tara MacGowran
For one of the first times ever, super-Grandmaster Michael Adams (ENG) -- World # 24 -- is coming to the West Coast of the United States to play in a tournament that will have the opportunity at GM/IM norms.
In August 2011, GM Mickey Adams will participate in the 1st Metropolitan International to be hosted by Metropolitan Chess in downtown Los Angeles in the heart of the fashion district.
The 1st Metropolitan International will run from August 17th to August 21, 2011 in Los Angeles, California, USA. Already several GMs are committed, including the likes of GM Mickey Adams (ENG), GM Loek van Wely (NED), GM Ilya Smirin (ISR) and many more.
The tournament already has 18 registered foreign players, and should shortly hit 20 foreign players, making norm requirements lax. Swiss System tournaments in which the competitors include at least 20 FIDE Rated players, not from the host federation, do not require individual foreign player requirements for norms.
Combined with a rating floor required for the tournament of 2200 FIDE (players lower rated than 2200 FIDE must contact and be approved by the organizers), and a minimum % of Grandmasters, the tournament has been created with intent on the absolute maximum norm possibilities.
From the elaborate opening ceremony sponsored by Fashion Business, Inc, to the hand selected venue, to the one board per table promise, and the super-Grandmasters invited, every effort is being made to enhance the quality of the event to bring the players a chess event unlike any other "Open" in the States -- not an event to miss, especially if you are seeking norms.
More information about the tournament, including our pre-registered player list, is available at the official website.
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Treatment and Control of the Zone
December 30, 2015 · Filed Under Mariners · 12 Comments
Jay did a great job summarizing the M’s PR video on a new, org-wide emphasis on the strike zone, but I had a few additional thoughts I wanted to throw out there. Essentially, my reaction to this exceedingly well-presented organizational philosophy has three components. One: we have seen an org-wide philosophy implemented, with bells and whistles we all thought sounded revolutionary at the time, and things…did not improve. Second, the philosophy espoused does not exactly match up with many of the M’s recent acquisitions. So third, the optimistic view is that the process by which this philosophy is disseminated is at least as important – probably more – than the philosophy itself. This is a player development challenge, and as Dipoto said, development doesn’t stop once a player’s promoted to the bigs.
Back in early 2010, the Mariners hired a director of sports science and performance, a man named Dr. Marcus Elliott. Elliott had worked with elite athletes on three continents, as well as NFL and NBA teams, but the M’s were his first foray into baseball (as far as I know). Elliott told Geoff Baker that baseball was “monolithic” and resistant to change, and that his focus on “rotational mechanics” could help unlock power as well as flexibility to help avoid injury. This was an early spring puff piece about a change in training, but given the timing – right after the successful 2009 season, the M’s looking interesting – most of us were very excited. The club’s mantra at the time was that “talent wins” and they identified what they saw as a market inefficiency in turning “talent” into runs and wins on the baseball field. The story made sense, and I’m not trying to slam Dr. Elliott at all – there are still articles written about his work in the NBA, and the M’s actually HAVE suffered fewer injuries than other teams in recent years. But let’s just say that big league results from this or any other facet of the organizational focus on talent and the unlocking of talent are lacking.
Were expectations perhaps a bit high? Yeah, definitely. In less sober moments, I imagined busloads of M’s minor leaguers venturing throughout the midwest, striking fear into their opponents by hitting home runs one-handed, or rotating their necks like owls. But almost immediately, the M’s overall talent level seemed to start slipping behind their competitors. The Tacoma Rainiers won the PCL in 2010, and have been around .500 since. That’s better than what’s happened lower down, where teams like Clinton and High Desert/Bakersfield have struggled mightily while the Astros affiliates dominate virtually every league they participate in. Some teams are able to generate system-wide improvements in performance, but the M’s haven’t been one of them.
But who’s to blame for that? JY’s absolutely right that there must have been some sort of disconnect in the previous regime, and I think it was clearest in regard to power hitters. The team quickly acquired the likes of Johermyn Chavez and Mike Carp, and worked hard to develop guys like Carlos Peguero, Greg Halman, Matt Mangini, Alex Liddi, etc. In recent years, they went overslot to grab guys like Austin Wilson and Gareth Morgan in the hopes that one day they wouldn’t need to continually shop for Mike Morse/Corey Hart/Jack Cust. Scouts fed the machine lots of powerful raw material, but virtually none of that raw material made an impact in the big leagues. Statistically, that could be slightly bad luck, or it could be that there was a gap between what the development staff was tasked with and what they were *good at*. It’s not like the group had NO notable successes in the past several years (covering two different directors), but their results were bad in precisely the area that the front office seemed to prize. At the very least, it’s clear now what everyone is supposed to prioritize, and you figure the M’s will be better about ensuring new coaches have some experience in and aptitude for teaching the strike zone.
So: if the strike zone is everything, why did the M’s trade for Wade Miley (below average BB%) and Nate Karns (below average BB%) and pick up Justin De Fratus (below average BB%), Cody Martin (yep)? They traded for Steve Clevenger, whose walk rate just plummeted, too. To be sure, they added plenty of guys with very *good* plate discipline numbers, from Evan Scribner to Adam Lind to Boog Powell, but you don’t see the kind of monomania described in the video in the M’s transaction logs. Not a bad thing, perhaps, but an odd one. If the M’s are to become a team that really controls the zone, not only is the player development team going to have to do some work, but the big league coaching staff needs to help the likes of Miley and Karns improve.
This is why I mentally underlined the same quote in the video as JY – the idea that development *must* continue at the big league level. The big, if tacit, idea in the video is not that the strike zone is important, it’s that it is teachable. That goes against some traditional baseball wisdom, or at least the experience of many fans, that says that you can make a low-walk player into a better version of a low-walk player, but you’re probably not going to make them into Kevin Youkilis. Part of the utility of a common vocabulary and emphasis throughout the org is that additional work could actually happen in the majors, though obviously it’s going to take more than a list of terms to ensure that this is successful.
And that’s why Andy McKay’s role is so critical. He’s the one ultimately in charge of making this happen, perhaps more so than the people actually acquiring baseball players. Soon we’ll see if it becomes a point of emphasis for the amateur scouting department, but it’s evidently not the *sole* focus of pro scouts. The M’s – and every other team – have organizational philosophies, and other teams like consistent messaging. But teams vary widely in putting those things into practice. If you’re cynical, you’d note that the Angels’ minor league system wasn’t much better than the M’s in terms of BB%, K-BB%, or, you know, wins and losses. Optimists might retort that the entire reason for Dipoto’s departure from Anaheim was that he was not capable of or allowed to implement his vision organization-wide,* and that getting everyone on the same page might help. Ultimately, the M’s are banking on the idea that proper coaching can transform plate discipline for pitchers as well as hitters, and that it can do so relatively quickly. It’ll be interesting to see if they’re right.
As lofty a goal as it is, I don’t think it’s impossible. The Astros’ led the classification (not just the league!) in run differential at A ball, high-A, AA, AAA** and they led baseball in minor league winning percentage as a result. How? Well, they led baseball in system-wide BB% for hitters, as well as walk-strikeout ratio, HRs, and runs. Sure, they had a great system, headlined by Carlos Correa, but these sorts of uberprospects are few and far between and often (like Correa) extremely young for their league. To get *system-wide* results like these, you need a heck of a lot more than solid years from your top 5 prospects. To get results like these up and down the ladder, and with a shifting mix of players thanks to trades and promotions, you need to be doing something different. We’ll see if it continues, but 2015 in the Astros system seems like a demonstration of how successful player development can be.
* This is somewhat undercut by the fact that the farm system coordinator was trusted ally Scott Servais. Dipoto couldn’t get through to his big league manager, but he and Servais were clearly on the same page. Maybe the difficulty in connecting with managers afflicted the farm system too, or maybe they didn’t quite have the right people in place to carry off something like what they’re attempting in Seattle.
** I can’t overstate how incredible that is. Everything about amateur player acquisition is geared at fighting this – the existence of a draft, the bonus pools, restrictions on international signings, all of it. It’d be one thing if the Astros just loaded each level of older MiLB free agents, but no, the Astros’ affiliates were *younger*, on average, than their competitors. Yes, yes, years of awful results gave them some high draft picks, but Carlos Correa was 20, and played in all of 53 minor league games.
Mariners Send Passive-Aggressive Message to Their Exes
December 29, 2015 · Filed Under Mariners · 7 Comments
Post-Winter Meetings and pre-Spring Training represents a news lull where the only thing you might otherwise have to hope for are prospect lists and the ever-thrilling arbitration negotiations in which a player may or not be shit-talked about by his co-workers and superiors. Being a time of planning, recuperation, and internal inventories, you can occasionally get the landmark release of boilerplate organizational philosophy or possible rebranding as the most loyal of the base eagerly open the next door on their Fanfest advent calendar. As such, the Mariners announced a new campaign to Control the Zone as part of the new regime’s restructuring.
For anyone who has been interested in analytics, since, I don’t know, the last time the Mariners made the playoffs, the information wasn’t revelatory. Throw good strikes. Force other pitchers to throw good strikes. Profit, as success on both fronts would serve to maximize winning potential. I’m not going to pretend like this is anything new to any of the regular readers of this here blog, but going so far as to publically articulate a vision isn’t something that we should undersell. It’s a pretty big paradigm shift, even if the packaging is a lot of blue, quick cuts between people smiling and shaking hands as baseball stuff occurs, and run-of-the-mill uplifting, inspirational music.
Parsing it out a bit into discrete categories, you can see a contrast developing between the previous administration and the current one which bring to light. Immediately, there’s an emphasis on getting pitchers to be able to throw quality secondary offerings for strikes even when behind in the count. Having likewise articulated a concern about mental preparation and frame of mind, one might imagine that the new group might be less inclined to piss on Erasmo Ramirez merely for not being their platonic ideal of a pitcher. There are additional goodies from there, such as Servais talking about how the batting average on 2-1 is almost double what it is on 1-2, with a clever little B-R citation, but the major shots fired were in the realm of crafting an organizational identity.
Claiming, as DiPoto did, that “development should not stop once you’ve reached the major league level” is as cold and accurate a take as you’re going to get on the results achieved by the previous group, particularly with regard to hitting. Talking about how important it is to have a consistent terminology and communication flow from one level to the next, how playing one minor league affiliate should be representative of playing the whole organization, this all signals how divergent the communication must have been in the previous coaching and how players were getting mixed signals and messages, sometimes encountering something that worked well for them and sometimes not. It doesn’t completely serve to explain what was a complete institutional collapse last season, but filtering things through multiple personnel with some oversight in offensive and defensive coordinators as we are now should serve to achieve greater consistency in message.
One should bear in mind that change rarely comes to industries that believe that they are doing just fine on their own. Rather, it’s entirely logical to infer that the old boys network of baseball past had functioned okay while it was ubiquitous, providing little incentive to shake things up. This type of thinking never permeated the sport because there was never a need for it as long as everyone was exercising the same biases and mistakes in thinking. Changes have been occurring throughout baseball for the last decade plus. In this instance, we just get to belatedly participate in it, as opposed to self-destructively fantasizing about whether or not it would actually be worse to have Amaro as our GM as we have been. If you want some added schadenfreude, you might also consider what DiPoto is executing now as an indictment of the kind of thinking that has been guiding the Angels organization in recent years.
The reflexive response to this sort of material would be to respond to the array of clichés offered with one more: Talk is cheap. Yet, if the talk is at least attempting to guide the team into a more progressive direction, we can hope that it will eventually find its way to a proper execution. I’m still more than a little irked about trading Patrick Kivlehan to the Rangers as a PTBNL, having long anticipated crafting a sign that read “KIVVLES AND HITS” and staking out some place in the bleachers. But for all the wheeling and dealing that was done over the offseason, we’ve retained a lot of the major prospects like Alex Jackson and D.J. Peterson and Tyler O’Neill, all of whom could benefit from some on-base related instruction. Relatively little of what was dealt was near-term in contribution, or major in its prospect status. A more coherent system of instruction could go a long way in reclaiming some of the earlier value that some of these pieces formerly had. We’re in it for a bit of a haul and we’re not going to rebuild the minor league depth overnight, but we at least know that we’re now moving in a direction that cannot be simplified into “Dingers are The Truth. Hit Dingers. Never give them up. Zduriencik 2014″.
Welcome Back, Kuma
I suppose it’s a good reminder: most deals are contingent on a physical. We all expect that to be a formality, but they’re not, and when you’re talking about an older pitcher with a fairly extensive injury history, it’s even less of one. Yesterday, word came down that Hisashi Iwakuma, who’d just agreed to a three-year deal with the Dodgers, had failed his physical. Evidently, it didn’t take Iwakuma and the M’s long to come to an alternative arrangement, as Jerry Dipoto sprung this surprise at the M’s holiday party:
Jerry Dipoto delivers a special gift to the front office at the #Mariners holiday party: Kuma is back. pic.twitter.com/8Bo8Y93ub2
— Seattle Mariners (@Mariners) December 18, 2015
A few weeks after M’s fans were learning to accept a Kuma-less rotation, he was back – this time on a one year deal with two vesting options. That is, Iwakuma’s minimum guaranteed money drops from the $45m the Dodgers offered (and then rescinded after seeing some X-rays), to $12m for 2016. However, the total dollar value could exceed $45m if Kuma’s healthy. This is about as close to a win-win as you could imagine – the M’s were wary of committing tens of millions if Iwakuma suddenly imploded, and now they don’t have to. On the other hand, the story isn’t just that Iwakuma stood to make $45m, and now can’t. There’s no doubt that Iwakuma and his agent would prefer the Dodger contract, but whatever medical issues spooked the Dodgers are presumably real and have an impact on his market value, or at least on the share of the risk teams are willing to shoulder. Still, he can get to that total compensation level if he’s healthy, which would be great for him and a bargain for the M’s.
1: The low initial outlay – the $12m guarantee- probably made this possible, but here’s to ownership for stepping up and actually making room in the budget when a ridiculous bargain fell into their laps. It’s easy to say, “of COURSE they expanded their budget – they already said they would pay MORE in 2016 before Kuma agreed with LA.” But of course, the M’s have made other decisions since then, and you can imagine a scenario where owners aren’t willing to exceed a budget cap they helped set. You and I might agree that such a hard-and-fast rule is foolish, and needlessly restrictive, but I bet there are some teams that wouldn’t or couldn’t.
2: Ah, but what about the MRI that enabled this? Isn’t it scary? A team had a deal sewn up, took a look at some medical records, tried to renegotiate the deal for what must’ve been 15-30 solid minutes, and then walked away. What was on the MRI? A stapler, a couple of ball bearings and a small WD-40 reservoir? Look: I take it for granted that Iwakuma’s shoulder looks awful the closer doctors look at it. Not just, “there’s fraying here and here,” but, “I assume this X-ray belongs to an 80-year old with serious mobility issues.” There has to be something there that caused Iwakuma to miss time in Japan, and it has to be something so bad that the OAKLAND A’S walked away from the opportunity to negotiate a below-market deal with him in 2011. The M’s signed him in January 2012 because he cost the princely sum of $1.5m. The risk had to be so minimal that arm-spiders or the complete absence of a labrum no longer fazed them.
The risk THIS time is of course much higher, but the M’s are operating with a hell of a lot more information. They have the benefit of comparing medical records from 2012 to those from each year, and yes, while Iwakuma’s given them a REASON to keep assessing his arm’s overall health, his shoulder and arm have generally held up. The M’s know much more than the A’s in 2011 or the Dodgers in 2015 how Iwakuma’s shoulder’s changed over time, and they’ve seen what his arm is capable of, irrespective of how it looks in x-rays. That’s a big, and very real, advantage. Also: it will never not be funny that the Athletics couldn’t sign him and the M’s got him for $1.5m. Never. After all of the health problems this organization’s pitchers suffered, we get to have one, small thing we can blow out of proportion and laugh about.
3: This would seem to put the M’s out on the remaining free agent pitchers, from Scott Kazmir to another big Japanese star, Kenta Maeda. We haven’t talked as much about Maeda, who likely was never in the M’s plans – not only would the posting fee cost money the M’s say they don’t want to spend (yes, yes, “separate budgets” or whatever, but that’s never made a ton of sense), but the M’s and Dipoto have shied away from the international market in recent years. The M’s don’t appear to have been in on Masahiro Tanaka, and didn’t make a big push for some of the recent Cuban signings. The Angels under Dipoto were much the same – after years as big players in the DR, they backed away from the international market around the same time the M’s did, amid scandals and recriminations (just like the M’s). Dipoto made one fairly large Cuban signing, but Roberto Baldoquin had an absolutely awful year in the Cal League, which isn’t the kind of experience that leads you to do a big re-think on the value of the international free agent market.
Maeda, 27, has been posted by his club, the Hiroshima Carp. Any MLB club that wants to negotiate with Maeda must agree to a $20m posting fee – multiple teams will qualify, and then one will ultimately sign a deal and thus pay the posting fee to the Carp. In recent years, Maeda’s put up a lovely ERA, but he’s clearly a few steps behind the dominant stars Yu Darvish and Tanaka. His ERA was better than Kuma’s, but then Kuma’s last few years in Japan were marred by injury, and you get into the changing baseball itself around that time – scoring in Japan varied wildly in those years.* Maeda’s fastball’s a tick above Kuma’s at 90-91, and he’s got a sweeping slider at 80-81, and a slow curve at 70-71. Kuma has those three pitches, but if that was all he had, he’d never have made the M’s roster. Kuma’s splitter is a legitimate plus pitch in the big leagues, and it’s the key to his success. Maeda doesn’t throw one, but he does have a change-up with good, almost splitter-like drop. Indeed, by pitch fx, Maeda’s change and Kuma’s split are fairly close in release point and movement. That’s a good sign for Maeda, but my guess is that he won’t make the kind of splash Iwakuma has.
For one, his change is delivered slower, and that’s an issue. As Harry Pavlidis found, the closer in speed a change is to the fastball, the more grounders it gets. That’s part of what makes Kuma so special, as I talked about before. The pitch is tough to lay off of, and produces bad results when hitters swing. Maeda has thrown his change less, and it’s slower. That’s not the kiss of death or anything, and the movement similarities to Kuma’s split are really encouraging, but not only will Maeda need to adjust to the new league and new usage pattern (every 5 days instead of every week), he may need to tweak his change and slider. Maybe he can! But at this point, the aging Kuma with his scary medical history feels like not only a cheaper option, but one with equivalent risk AND a higher potential reward.
4: A lot of the (happy) discussion about this surprising deal has turned on the M’s newfound rotation depth. They’ve got Felix/Kuma/Miley/Walker locked in as 1-4 starters, and then Nate Karns, James Paxton, Mike Montgomery would fight for the 5th spot (and Vidal Nuno and Anthony Bass have big league starting experience, too). That’s important, no doubt, but it also doesn’t change things TOO much. This doesn’t mean you try harder to move James Paxton, as there are questions in the rotation that depth is going to be critical. But it makes Mike Montgomery something of the odd man out: before, you might stash him in the bullpen. After the Cishek deal and with another bullpen spot likely going to the loser of the Karns/Paxton 5th-starter competition, Montgomery gets harder and harder to keep on the 25 man roster. As he’s out of options, they can’t send him down, and his utility as a LOOGY is minimal, considering he’s got strong reverse platoon splits thanks to his big change-up. Let’s be clear: the decision to pick up Kuma is a great one, and if it “costs” them Montgomery, so be it. But it’s odd the way the M’s staff looks now that Montgomery may be in exactly the position Erasmo Ramirez was last spring: pitching for a job somewhere else.
The projections at Fangraphs love the M’s rotation: the positional depth charts show the M’s rotation tied for 3rd best in the AL, behind Cleveland and New York’s (and tied with Boston’s). That’s critical, because the M’s still have some holes. Their position players may beat their WAR projections (looking at you, Nelson Cruz), but they’re still a ways back of their rivals: their group ranks 13th in baseball in 6th in the AL, and rank behind Houston and Anaheim in the AL West. The bullpen is projected to be the real problem, tied with Detroit’s as the AL’s worst unit at 1.8 WAR. Obviously, Dipoto’s “buy low” approach disagrees with the projections’ methodology, but I think most M’s fans are a bit nervous of the new, Carson Smith-less bullpen. That’s why it’s so critical that the M’s starters perform. Not only does the rotation become a strength that counters other clubs’ positional advantages, but a great rotation can consume more innings, leaving less for the marginal arms in the pen. The fewer 5th and 6th innings the M’s pen needs to work, the better, and with adequate depth, it’s easier to enable that to happen, even with guys like Paxton and Karns who don’t have 200 IP seasons in their history.
* In 2010, Central League teams scored 4.3 runs per game. That collapsed to 3.15 a year later. It was 4.2 in 2014, but 3.4 in 2015. The scoring was in part due to a change in the baseball itself, and the circumstances surrounding the “juiced ball”‘s release cost the commissioner his job.
Steve Cishek and the Framing Effect
Righty reliever Darren O’Day recently inked a four-year deal to remain with Baltimore which will earn him $31 million over four years. O’Day throws side-arm and often struggles to push his fastball past 86, but he’s undeniably one of the toughest relievers to hit in MLB right now. O’Day combines high strikeout rates with moderate walks, but as you’d expect from a soft-tossing righty, his success depends in part on his ability to generate weak contact. O’Day isn’t a ground-ball pitcher, but his funky arm angle and ability to back-door his slider to left-handed bats not only allows him to produce fly balls without too many HRs, it allows him to avoid the platoon splits that you’d figure given his pitches and how he throws them. Even a few years ago, giving a 4-year deal to anyone but an absolute no-doubt, lock-down closer would’ve been frowned upon (“they’re too volatile!” “You can just grow your own!”), and after Rafael Soriano and, to a lesser extent, Jonathan Papelbon’s deals went south, you’d be forgiven if you thought we wouldn’t see more such deals for anyone below the Chapman/Kimbrel/Jansen class, or lower AAV deals buying out free agency years for the likes of Ken Giles and Dellin Betances.
Obviously, the deal O’Day just signed – and the supportive reaction it’s received – is in part a sign of baseball’s financial health and the recognition not only that a shut-down bullpen can be critical to team success, but that some relievers really do seem to have the ability to “beat” their fielding-independent stats. That is, O’Day’s appearances come in highly leveraged situations, and he seems to have the ability to strand runners both due to his K rate and the whole infield-pops and opposite-field-texas-leaguers thing. Some may still quibble with this; giving $31m to a 33 year old seems risky, and if all relievers are volatile, the ones in their mid-30s who throw 85-88 might seem to be especially prone to it. Still, there’s no question that the market is more and more comfortable giving longer contracts to relievers. Relievers are getting more guaranteed money, over longer contracts – call it the Royals effect, after Kansas City’s bullpen-fueled run to consecutive AL Pennants and a WS Title, or chalk it up to the rising tide of MLBAM revenues or whatever, but it’s real, and it’s going to continue.
Carson Smith, as I’m sure you’ll recall, was the centerpiece in a trade for a young, cost-controlled *starting* pitcher this offseason, but you can *still* make the case he was undervalued. Smith’s 2.1 fWAR ranked 5th in baseball in 2015, the product of a great K rate and another kind of contact management: a freakish GB rate. His platoon splits, like O’Day’s, should be a problem despite the fact he throws 93, not 86: he’s a sinker/slider guy, two pitches that are generally the worst offenders in platoon split problems. Smith doesn’t backdoor his slider to lefties, he throws it in the same spot he throws it to righties, but the break and his deceptive delivery mean lefties just roll it over. Sure, sure, righties roll it over too, but lefties do so even more, and the *idea* of it – of defending against a weird slider you’re having trouble picking up out of Smith’s hand – makes his sinker more effective. Smith does it in a very different way to O’Day, but Smith too is able to pitch effectively against lefties: no lefty has homered off of Smith yet.
The Astros recently completed a trade with Philadelphia that sent young fireballing reliever Ken Giles to Houston. The Astros gave up young, hard throwing SP Vincent Velasquez (who K’d 25% of the batters he faced in the majors, and *35%* in AA last year), recently-drafted control artist Thomas Eshelman, and fly-balling back-of-the-rotation workhorse Brett Oberholtzer. Late last week, we learned that Philadelphia would *also* receive former #1 overall draft pick Mark Appel from Houston. The Phillies got quite a haul for Ken Giles, is what I’m saying. I think Wade Miley is a perfectly good #3-#4, and given his contract, that’s not a bad return, but the Giles package is categorically different. I think it’s possible that Giles may have drawn more interest from teams given his velocity, but again: Smith’s K rate was *better* despite pitching in the AL. You can hate fWAR for relievers all you want – Smith’s *FDP-WAR* was great too. Better than noted contact-manager Joaquin Benoit’s the last two years, better than Giles’, and on par with Andrew Miller’s – the guy who signed a 4-year, $36m deal last year. Smith is clearly in that Miller/O’Day class, but he makes the league minimum and, whether he wants to be or not, under the control of the Red Sox for 4+ years.
Ok, that’s a long-winded introduction to a post that’s supposed to be about Steve Cishek. The point here should be clear, but I’ll spell it out: how you feel about the M’s signing ex-Marlins closer Steve Cishek to a 2-year, $10m deal probably has a lot to do with your frame of reference for the move. On the one hand, Cishek looks an awfully lot like Darren O’Day, from the funky side-winding delivery to the domination of left-handed bats to the elevated strikeout rate. And hey, due to what may have been due to BABIP-luck and a weird but ultimately meaningless tired arm early in the year, he’ll have to take a *fraction* of what O’Day’s getting from the Orioles. The M’s bought low, and get a high-quality reliever’s bounce-back years for very little. From the other point of view, O’Day deal is completely irrelevant. The M’s needed a reliever to replace Carson Smith, and they got one, only older and with some serious red flags (Cishek’s velocity dropped by between 1-2 MPH last year), and signed him to a contract that’ll pay him roughly *10 times* what Smith would earn.
Advocates for seeing this as a great buy-low move might point out that given reliever volatility, shopping for relievers coming off of down years should be a clear arbitrage opportunity, and a way to add impact talent to the 2016 roster instead of waiting around for the overhauled system to produce another pre-arb-but-great reliever. The Smith fans would say that you can’t argue that reliever salaries are skyrocketing, or that relievers are increasingly seen as critical to team success, to justify the Cishek signing *AND* accepting “just” Miley and Aro in the Smith deal. The M’s would say that they used Smith to get something the team needed – starting pitching that would help the club in 2016 – and then replaced the bullpen hole by dumpster diving for an undervaled Cishek. Others counter that you can’t get a ton of credit for filling a hole that you’d just made after not accurately assessing how the league currently values relief pitchers.
That’s a lot of hypothetical arguing, and as is my wont, I’m not really interested in weighing in on one side or the other. If you read this blog at all over the past few years, you know I’m perhaps irrationally exuberant about Carson Smith, so I’ll say it was not a great imaginative leap for me to write from that side. But there’s definitely a case to be made that given salary inflation in general, a cheap starter and a cheap-but-great bullpen arm is worth more than a really cheap Carson Smith, some implied cash savings, and shopping for starters on the open market.*
Thus far, we’ve talked a lot about value and markets and not much about Steve Cishek, new Seattle Mariner. Let’s rectify that. Cishek has a very low arm angle, like O’Day’s, and has a similar pitch-mix: he throws 50-55% fastballs (overwhelmingly sinkers) and 45-50% sliders, with a handful of change-ups (a splitter, in Cishek’s case) mixed in. Like O’Day, Cishek throws his slider to lefties a lot, and like O’Day, he likes to keep his slider *away* from lefties. This has a couple of ramifications. For one, it allows him to grab some strikes-looking, and for another, it gets lefties to hit soft fly balls. Why? Because fly balls are more likely than GBs to be hit to the opposite field. The development of this backdoor slider resulted in both better K rates AND better results overall against lefties. Combined with a slight change in his approach with his fastball, and Cishek’s GB rate plunged in 2014 while his K rate rose.
This is essentially Darren O’Day’s approach. Despite the low arm-angle and the flurry of sinkers, O’Day is a *flyball* pitcher. Like Cishek, lefties hit fewer grounders against him than righties, but neither hits that many. O’Day shows the sinker early, then gets whiffs with his (slow) four-seamer by throwing it later in the count after batters, especially lefties, have seen his slider and sinker. Cishek *used* to do this, but hasn’t thrown his four-seamer much at all in recent years. Brooks has his throwing zero in 2015, but that’s likely a classification error – but that only highlights that Cishek wasn’t able to make his pitches distinct last year. O’Day’s command allows him to post walk rates that are much better than league average, but even so, he’s careful with lefties – he doesn’t pound the zone against them as much as he invites them to swing at pitcher’s pitches, only some of which are strikes. That was Cishek’s plan in 2014, but it fell apart in 2015. Last year, he walked/plunked 18 lefties, while striking out…18. Coupled with the somewhat alarming velocity loss, there are very good reasons why Cishek was first traded for a minor prospect midway through the year and then available cheaply in December.
Still, Cishek had a four-year track record in Florida that compares well with plenty of good relievers. The year after that run wasn’t great, but even with the lower velo and control problems, Cishek missed some bats and kept the ball in the park. After moving to St. Louis, the BABIP pendulum swung all the way back. While BABIP luck isn’t how you make your case for a new signing, it at least suggests that his ability to avoid barrels wasn’t entirely lost. It’s not so much that his BABIP was low in St. Louis as that the absurdly high rates in Miami weren’t indicative of his true talent.
Another player who has a similar approach and is even signed to a similar deal is the Astros’ Pat Neshek. Neshek has a funky arm angle, but, like Carson Smith, ends up delivering the ball higher than O’Day/Cishek. Neshek is something of an extreme fly-ball guy, and again, lefties hit more flies than righties do thanks in part to his delivery hiding the ball. He throws 90-91, or in between O’Day and Cishek, and his command is probably the best of the three. Late last year, Neshek started losing some velocity and he ended up scuffling badly down the stretch, though of course his Astros teammates were all playing poorly. Still, Neshek’s an example of someone with the same basic repertoire who’s able to succeed (mostly) at 90-91.
If he isn’t hurt, Cishek should add some value to the M’s pen, though exactly how much is hard to say. Steamer isn’t bullish, with a FIP/ERA in the David Rollins range. If he’s all the way back to his 2013-14 peak, he could add 1.5-2 FDP-WAR over the course of the deal. At this point, the M’s are handing him the closer’s job, so if he *is* effective, the innings he pitches figure to be pretty important ones.
* Yes, I realize the omission here is any discussion of Roenis Elias. If you think he’s got some value (and some of the projection systems do), then the M’s POV is harder to understand. If you don’t, and there are likewise many who’d agree with you, he’s simply not good enough to change the shopping list very much.
** This is just a random aside, and I thank you for reading all of this just to get some random thoughts that don’t quite fit the rest of the post, but here goes: the wisdom of the “buy low” FA signing seems well-studied and supported and all of that, but how often do RELIEVERS lose it for a year or two and then bounce back? I mean, we say relievers are volatile, but are we really saying that a successful reliever has only one way to go? Look at a list of great relievers from 2012-2014, and sure, many of them fared poorly in 2015, though injuries had a lot to do with that. Who are the guys who were great, then struggled, then turned good again? I hate to bring it up, but does Fernando Rodney count? I think Joaquin Benoit probably does, as does Joe Nathan. Mark Melancon’s 2011-2012-2013 looks purely, violently volatile, but while Glen Perkins’ 2015 was better than his 2014, but it wasn’t anything like his 2012-13. Anyone know of any studies on this?
More Small Moves: Adam Lind Acquired, Jabari Blash Taken in Rule 5 Draft
Seriously can’t keep up with Jerry Dipoto this month, so I took a couple of days off of kvetching about minor M’s roster moves. Back at it, then. The biggest move of the past few days is the acquisition of 1B Adam Lind in a trade with Milwaukee. The M’s add a righty-killing bat at the very reasonable cost of three A-ball and below pitchers. Yesterday, the M’s lost OF Jabari Blash in the Rule 5 draft, with the A’s taking the slugging righty and then shipping him to San Diego. Here’s a not-so-brief run-down on these moves:
1: Adam Lind is a career .274/.332/.466 hitter in over 4,000 plate appearances for Toronto and Milwaukee. Sure, he’s a 1B/DH, but that’s not bad – it adds up to a 112 wRC+, solidly above average. Why was he acquired for a package of pitchers *headlined* by a a small righty who’s tossed 6 games above rookie league ball and then had Tommy John surgery? Chances are, if you know anything at all about Lind, you know he’s got some of the widest, most persistent platoon splits of any player in baseball. In a great post about the Lind and Scribner pick-ups at Fangraphs, Jeff Sullivan finds that Lind’s platoon splits are the largest in the game since 2002, easily eclipsing Seth Smith’s, Shin-Soo Choo’s, and Garrett Jones’.
You’ve got to keep that in mind, but the M’s seem aware, as Scott Servais has talked about the need for a platoon partner. RHB Jesus Montero would seem the likely candidate for the job, but the M’s could make another minor deal for a righty-hitting 1B, or they could move Nelson Cruz to 1B if a righty-hitting OF becomes available. I don’t mind platoons; I think getting the platoon advantage is a small, easy way of putting your team in the best position to succeed. There are obvious downsides, from squeezing the roster to a potential lack of flexibility and effectiveness in critical late-game situations. That said, I think platoons can help overall production and allow for an effective bench with hitters beyond the standard backup C and random UTIL/pinch runner.
However, with this move in particular, there’s another factor to keep in mind. Even at 32 (Lind will turn 33 in July), Lind destroys righties, but how much he plays – how many plate appearances he gets – is often a function of how many left-handed pitchers he faces. When he came up, the Blue Jays played Lind every day, and he typically saw around 72-75% right-handed pitchers, give or take. As the magnitude of his platoon issue became apparent, the Blue Jays got more intentional about how to deploy him, and that percentage rose above 80%, approaching 90% in 2014. That and recurring back problems limited him in many seasons with the Jays: he got just 318 PAs in 2014 and 353 in 2012. Last year, with the Brewers, Lind played a full season and *still* managed to face righties in 80.4% of his PAs. The question is: will that sort of usage be possible in Seattle?
Here is an admittedly rough look at platoon splits by league/division. In the table, you’ll see the total number of PAs vs. LHP by division for 2014 and 2015. To do this properly, you’d probably use a percentage of total PAs or something, but I haven’t done that – this is just adding up the raw PAs by year and team (and then rolling it up to the division level):
PA vs. LHP, 2014
AL West 8,868 9,701
AL Central 8,864 8,805
AL East 8,402 8,663
NL West 8,277 7,684
NL Central 7,203 7,490
NL East 7,617 7,224
In 2014, no team faced a left-handed pitcher more than the Seattle Mariners. In 2015, the Rangers led baseball, and the M’s were 5th, one spot below the Astros. In 2015, the Brewers ranked 21st in PAs vs. lefties, with the Cubs and Pirates down at 25-26. In 2014, the Brewers ranked 26th with Pirates last in baseball. This is something I’ve found fascinating since reading this article back before the 2014 season: the NL Central just doesn’t really have many lefties, and may not focus as much as others on bullpen match-ups. They’re not alone, as the NL East shows similar tendencies. The other thing that jumps off the page is just how many more PAs vs. lefties you see in the AL. Apparently, one way for pitchers to deal with the DH is to specialize, but the effect (the AL West faced lefties 30% more than the NL central last year, and 23% the year before!) is so big, it can’t be all about interminable LOOGY/ROOGY appearances.
Look at the likely starters in the AL West next year. The Angels may have 3 lefty starters (CJ Wilson, Hector Santiago, Andrew Heaney), and the Rangers could have 3 as well (Derek Holland, Cole Hamels, Martin Perez). The A’s have 2 in Sean Nolin and Rich Hill, and while Houston has only 1, he’s pretty good and faces a lot of hitters (Dallas Keuchel). Whoever Lind’s caddy is will get plenty of action, and that means Lind won’t see as much action in 2016 even if he’s 100% healthy all year. This is a factor, but let’s be clear: Lind’s price was very low – both in terms of salary and the talent needed to acquire him. Lind’s platoon splits make him affordable, and even if the M’s may not be able to squeeze as much value out of him as the Brewers did, there’s still a valuable skill-set in there.
For their part, the Brewers are doing the same sort of thing. In Daniel Missaki, Carlos Herrera and Freddy Peralta, the Brewers picked up three righties with very good K:BB ratios whose physical size make them unlikely candidates for top prospect lists. Missaki, whom the M’s signed out of Brazil, tossed 7 IP of a combined no-hitter for Clinton (maybe the only good thing that happened to that team in 2015), but then tore his UCL soon thereafter. Missaki has a career K:BB ratio of 111:26, and was even better in his abbreviated 2015 (34:5), but is listed at 6′, 170, and if you could discount questions about his durability based solely on his size, his TJ surgery will be harder to explain away. Freddy Peralta repeated the Arizona league this year, putting up a 67:8 K:BB ratio, but he’s actually smaller than Missaki, listed at 5’11” 175. Herrera was in the Dominican League where he posted a 73:15 K:BB ratio, and is listed as 6’2″ (a comparative giant!) and 150lbs. These are three lottery tickets, and they all have the same statistical/physical profile.
2: Jabari Blash was one of the most entertaining members of the workmanlike 2015 Tacoma Rainiers. The giant 6’5″, 220lb LF/RF knocked 32 HRs between AA and AAA, hitting one of the longer HRs I saw in 2015, and slugging .640 for Tacoma in 228 PAs. PCL or no, that’s going to attract attention. If we think we know what Jerry Dipoto likes in relief pitchers, and if we think we know what the Brewers see as undervalued assets in the low-minors, we also know what the new M’s front office sees as big red flags. Jabari Blash has contact problems, and there may not be a more damning statistic than that, at least as far as the M’s GM is concerned. Blash’s K rate last year was 25.8%, and 27.6% in AAA. That was actually an improvement on his 30%+ mark in almost 200 PAs for Tacoma in 2014, when his season was cut short for a PED suspension.
It’s somewhat telling that Blash couldn’t quite crack the big league roster despite having the RH-power that Jack Zduriencik craved, and despite a very good minor league walk rate. By some statistical models, Blash was an intriguing, if old-for-his-level prospect. Tweaking the assumptions slightly produces a much less auspicious set of comparisons. Ex-Fangraphs scouting guy/current Atlanta Braves scouting guy Kiley McDaniel wasn’t high on Blash heading into 2015, but it’s worth noting that he showed some real improvements throughout the year, hence the insane slash line in Tacoma. That said, I have my doubts, given how high his hands were before his swing and how far his (really long) arms had to move to get the bat into the zone. Like, say, Carlos Peguero, Blash has good batspeed, but it takes a long time for the bat to get to that top speed. As I said last September, this is the kind of guy some team will stash on their bench, using him sparingly as a bench bat and really working with him on his hitting. I was kind of interested to see what Edgar Martinez would do with him, but he’s Mark Kotsay’s uh, Alan Zinter’s project in San Diego for now. Defensively, he has a plus arm, but wasn’t a great route-runner.
Okay, no discussion of Blash is complete without mention of his glorious name. Jabari Blash and Jabari Henry are the only two Jabaris I can find in pro baseball history, which makes the fact that they were in the same organization – *and in the same OF for part of 2015* – all the more remarkable. It’s easy to forget that, coming into 2015, it was Jabari HENRY that everyone was interested in. Henry hit 30 bombs in the Cal League in 2014, while Blash whiffed 30% and then got suspended in AAA. Henry hit .170/.284/.347 for Jackson, so to say that Blash is the Jabari of choice these days is quite an understatement. That said, it’s nice to have a spare Jabari with Blash off to San Diego. Henry is much smaller than Blash, but both are RHB OFs with some power and a lot of patience at the plate.
As nice as it is to have two Jabaris on one team, the M’s weren’t the first club to consider the possibility that Jabaris were a potential market inefficiency. In 2009, the Texas Rangers drafted Blash in the 9th round (#274) and then drafted Henry in the 39th round out of HS (#1174 overall). Neither player signed, leaving Blash on the board for the M’s to draft in 2010, and allowing Henry to play 3 years of college ball before drafting him in 2012. Take THAT, Rangers. Interestingly (maybe? not really?), the Rangers not only failed to sign a single Jabari, but they couldn’t ink their first-rounder, Texas HS hurler Matt Purke. Purke went to TCU before blowing out his arm and slipping to the 3rd round in 2011.
M’s Continue to Remake Bullpen, Acquire Evan Scribner
December 9, 2015 · Filed Under Mariners · 17 Comments
In my last post, I mentioned that recently-acquired bullpen arm Jonathan Aro looks a lot like Evan Scribner, then of the A’s, in terms of movement and approach. Pretty clearly, Jerry Dipoto doesn’t mind a pitcher who pitches up in the zone and gives up a lot of elevated contact, even if that’s caused HR issues in the past. Not content with grabbing a guy who could, if things break right, become a Scribner-like arm, Dipoto has gone and traded for the genuine article.
The price is reliever Trey Cochran-Gill, a right-hander with a good sinker/slider. Cochran-Gill was a 17th rounder out of Auburn, but thanks to a great, if abbreviated, 2014, found his way to #20 on the pre-season M’s top 30 prospect list put together by MLB.com. He pitched fairly well in the Spring for the M’s, and then started off the season with great numbers for Bakersfield. He then settled in at AA Jackson, and his control left him – he ended up with more walks than Ks in the Southern League, and was remarkably hittable.
Evan Scribner is coming off two sub-replacement level campaigns for Oakland. On the face of it, this looks like a minor swap: a struggling minor league sinkerballer for an out-of-options big leaguer with serious home run issues. But as we talked about yesterday, Scribner does have a remarkable K:BB ratio and a track record of missing bats at the highest level. HR rate is much, much more volatile than strikeout rate or walk rate, so simple regression to the mean *might* take care of some of the problem.
On twitter, many people pointed out that a fly-ball guy with a HR pitcher should do fine in Safeco field, thanks to its HR-killing mariner layer. The problem with this is that, by essentially any measure, Oakland is now a more *difficult* park to homer in than Safeco. Fangraphs’ park factors (for 2014, admittedly) show Oakland’s HR factor as 92, while Safeco’s is 98. By Statcorner, Oakland’s LHB/RHB HR factors are 81 and 80, respectively, while Seattle’s are 104 and 92. Just counting up the long balls shows that Oakland pitchers gave up 79 dingers at home, compared to 93 on the road. The M’s gave up 90 at home and 91 on the road.* As if to prove the point, Scribner threw 4 1/3 IP in Safeco last year, giving up 7 runs on two HRs (let this Gutierrez bomb to CF just wash over you).
So while the park helps in a general and limited sense, Safeco and the M’s outfield defense aren’t going to solve this on their own. I’d love to think the M’s have figured something out either in Scribner’s delivery or approach that can limit elevated contact. Scribner has struggled most against righties, which may make sense given the shape of his fastball and the fact that his primary breaking ball is a big overhand curve ball – both pitches tend to have small platoon splits. So: could a bit of deception in his delivery help? Maybe. Scribner’s also given up several home runs on outside pitches. These should be harder for batters to drive, but they’re obviously not having much trouble doing so; Scribner might do better keeping his fastball low on the outside corner, and elevate it when pitching inside. Of Scribner’s 24 HRs, *11* have come in 0-1 or 1-2 counts, which could indicate some predictable pitch sequencing.
Beyond the specific players involved, the trade for Scribner (and grabbing Aro in the Miley deal) seems to indicate a preference not just for fly-ball relievers, but for generalists. Scribner has essentially no platoon splits, and Justin De Fratus has reverse splits for his career. They’re replacing the sidewinding Carson Smith who, with his arsenal and arm angle *really should* have platoon splits, but didn’t. Gone is Tom Wilhelmsen, who struggled mightily against lefties last year, and has “normal” platoon splits for his career. And, when Dipoto wanted Scribner, he used another sinkerballer with a low arm-angle in Trey Cochran-Gill who could not get AA lefties out (K:BB ratio of 13:20). There’s an interesting argument embedded here that baseball’s hyper-specialization has gone too far, and that a team with Scribners may be harder to pinch-hit against. Taking it further, you could envision a team with generalists running a 6-man pen, handing the bats another position to use against the opponents’ LOOGYs and ROOGYs. At the same time, I think the advantage of a Carson Smith (or someone worse, say, Roy Corcoran or Sean Green) wasn’t just the platoon advantage – it was that they could generate a specific type of contact. We haven’t seen the final, opening-day M’s bullpen, but I hope that’s still a consideration.
Last season, the A’s bullpen had the 2nd slowest average fastball in the game, just ahead of Houston. Their bullpen imploded, and while it’s absolutely not the case that you can’t succeed without velo (look at Houston or San Francisco), Billy Beane and co. have remade their bullpen this off-season and clearly prioritized velocity. Gone is Scribner with his below-average (92mph) FB, and in is Ryan Madson and his 95mph heater. As August Fagerstrom wrote at Fangraphs, they’ve ditched many of their worst performers from last year, many of whom were comparative soft-tossers: Edward Mujica, Eric O’Flaherty, Dan Otero.
The M’s, who ranked in the middle of the pack last year, are again moving in the opposite direction. The A’s swapped out Scribner’s 92 for Madson’s 95, while the M’s shipped out Wilhelmsen’s 95 for Scribner’s 92. Justin De Fratus is around 92 as well, Bass and Aro are around 93-94, while Cody Martin’s more like 89-90. The M’s hardest thrower is now Tony Zych, the guy acquired for cash considerations last spring. Again, that’s not necessarily bad, but it DOES look different. Some of the big off-season stories involve teams trying to create something akin to Kansas City’s death-dealing bullpen – Boston’s traded for Craig Kimbrel and Carson Smith and have, on paper at least, a shut-down pen. Oakland’s is at least no longer a clear weakness. The Dodgers looked to be acquiring Aroldis Chapman *despite already having a dominant closer*, before Chapman’s ugly, ugly domestic violence arrest put his future in question. Even with the pick-up of trusted-closer ™ Joaquin Benoit, the M’s are moving in a different direction. Bucking the consensus is a great way to innovate or reap big returns, and it’s also a way to fail. Here’s hoping the M’s – and their pitching coaches – can help the M’s build an effective ‘pen out of not just undervalued but unwanted parts.
* To be clear: Safeco is still a pitcher’s park, though less so than before the remodel. It’s just that Safeco aids pitchers by suppressing hits – it’s really hard to hit doubles there, for example, which may have something to do with its small total outfield area.
Carson Smith and Roenis Elias Swapped for Wade Miley and Jonathan Aro
In my post about Hisashi Iwakuma’s departure in free agency, I said that some would say that the move (or non-move, rather) can only be seen in context, and to properly judge it, we’d need to see Jerry Dipoto’s Plan B. As I was pressing ‘post’ on that one, Dipoto was unveiling that plan B by finalizing a trade with Boston, headlined by lefty starter Wade Miley. So there you go, context-hounds. We now have more information, and can say that it’s not just Iwakuma for payroll flexibility and a comp. pick. It’s Hisashi Iwakuma, Carson Smith and Roenis Elias for Wade Miley, Jonathan Aro and a comp. pick. There, doesn’t that…no? That doesn’t make you feel any better?
To be fair: Dipoto doesn’t consider this plan B. Take it away, Jerry:
Dipoto on Miley: "It was Plan 1-A. When Kuma opted to head for the Dodgers, this was the preferred route."
— Bob Dutton (@TNT_Mariners) December 7, 2015
It’s not Plan B, it’s Plan 1-A once Iwakuma left. “That’s just re-defining what ‘Plan B’ means!” you shout, correctly. So it is, but it’s nice to hear some confidence about exactly how the M’s wanted to respond: “This was the preferred route.” So who is Wade Miley, and why is this route so attractive? Miley’s a left-handed starter who’s been remarkably durable, tossing at least 193 IP in each of the last four years. He throws a fastball in the 91-92mph range, has a change-up and then a slider and curve. Coming up, he leaned more on the curve, but has increasingly shifted to the slider as his primary breaking ball. As you’d expect, he faces quite a few right-handers, so he’s thrown the change-up more than either of his breakers in recent years.
In an ironic inversion of Iwakuma’s FIP-mastery, Miley’s “undervalued” in part because of his *inability* to pitch to his FIP. After sticking close to his FIP in 2012 and 2013, Miley’s ERA was significantly worse in 2014 and, especially, 2015. In part, that’s BABIP related, as he’s allowed BABIPs north of .300 in both years, and his career mark is now above league average. His K rate is below average as well, at around 17-18%. He managed to get it as high as 21% in his final year with the Diamondbacks, but it fell, as you’d expect, with the move to the American League. He’s below average by o-Swing (swings at pitches out of the zone), and thus his contact rate’s a bit worse than average as well. Thanks mostly to his change and slider, Miley gets his fair share of ground balls, which helps him keep the ball in the park – he gave up only 17 HRs last year despite being a lefty in Boston.
Still, there’s a reason he’s a “buy-low” candidate. He had a 4.80 ERA in the first half last year, and his seasonal mark was 4.46. Given the park, that’s not awful, but it’s still 6% above league average, slightly better than the 14% below average mark he turned in for Arizona in 2014. In his “good” second half with Boston, his BABIP stayed about where it was, despite the Sox giving Hanley Ramirez less time in LF. His K:BB ratio got better, but he still gave up plenty of runs. And that brings us to another reason he isn’t Iwakuma: with men on, Miley’s pitched worse. For his career, batters are putting up a .310 wOBA with no one on, and .336 with men on base. In 2015, those figures are .310 and .340, respectively. Again, for reference, in Iwakuma’s career, batters hit .292 with the bases empty and .278 with men on. No..it’s just…something in my eye. :sniff:
It’s easy, and, considering the context of the past 12-24 hours, tempting to overemphasize Miley’s weaknesses. He put up 4.1 fWAR in 2012 for Arizona. He’s 29 this season, and he’s signed to an extremely team-friendly deal that’ll pay him just shy of $15m for 2016 and 2017 combined. The M’s also get his $12m team option for 2018. That’s great for a guy projected for just under league average for 2016, and if you squint, there’s some room for optimism there given his new park and the defense behind him. His history of underperforming his FIP is less conclusive than Iwakuma’s history of OUTperforming it, so maybe DIPS will help us out. Given the contract, it’s harder to even call this a buy-low situation – it’s more like taking advantage of loss-aversion, where Boston’s sense of Miley’s value may be influenced by a bad year, while Seattle is looking at the larger picture of expected contribution versus guaranteed outlay.
The problem is not that I think Miley’s bad. I saw him in AAA in what had been a disappointing year for him (this was 2011) and thought he’d be good. The durability is a clear plus, and it’s the one area where he’s head and shoulders above Iwakuma. The problem here is what it cost the M’s. The M’s sent lefty Roenis Elias east, and while many on Twitter believe Elias is straight-up better than Miley, I’m not among them. I would note that there are “team friendly contracts” and then there are pre-arb contracts like Elias’ that pay around the league minimum. That’s gotta be attractive to the team that just committed hundreds of millions to David Price.
And then there’s the fact that Elias – whose production is just slightly behind Miley’s on a rate basis in their Steamer projections – isn’t even the centerpiece of the deal for Boston. That’s not my read of it, that’s Dipoto’s. The M’s didn’t just send a cost-controlled starter, they sent their cost-controlled bullpen ace, Carson Smith. As an early Smith fan and president-for-life of the Carson Smith fanclub, I want to acknowledge that I may be biased here. I know the M’s got a righty bullpen arm in return, and that Jonathan Aro has pleasant minor league K rates and the like. But a bullpen isn’t – or shouldn’t – be an assemblage of K rates. A great bullpen should have a balanced set of skills, so that there’s an arm that can excel in any number of situations. Carson Smith is an elite – unquestionably elite – arm against right-handers, and he’s elite if the situation calls for a ground ball. The M’s bullpen clearly don’t have anyone as good against righties at the moment, and there’s no one in the same zip code as Smith if you’re up 1 in the 8th with the bases loaded and 1 out.*
I understand completely that Smith bombed out as closer, and that his results went south right when his velocity dipped in July. But the idea that Smith is or will be damaged goods isn’t air-tight. First, by Fangraphs’ velocity numbers, Smith’s velo drop looks especially dire. In July, Fangraphs had Smith’s FB velo down about 2 MPH from his April through June average. This coincided with some awful appearances, so it was definitely a concern. Still, there are two problems. First, Smith started throwing a change-up more in the second half to attempt to deal with the increasing numbers of lefties he was facing. MLBAM didn’t know he was throwing a change, and by movement, you can see why: it just wasn’t that different from his sinker. As a result, Fangraphs shows him throwing a lot more “sinkers” and a lot fewer “change-ups” than Brooks Baseball, and the reason is MLBAM miscoded a couple dozen cambios. Second, by Brooks, his velo mostly bounced back in September. I don’t want to oversell this: Smith had a velo drop in July, and his velo was inconsistent from game to game thereafter. But the idea that Smith’s velo just tanked in the second half is wrong.
So, can Jonathan Aro be another Carson Smith? No, just..no. I know we’re supposed to say that there are no stupid questions, but that…that is not a good question. Aro throws from a somewhat similar low 3/4 arm slot, though it’s not quite as sidearm. Instead of Smith’s sinking, buckets-of-armside-run fastball, Aro uses a four-seamer that gets above-average *vertical* movement. He’s got a change, but his outpitch was supposed to be a slider. He only threw 22 of them in the bigs, so we can’t say much, but this pitch generated zero whiffs and had 5+” of vertical movement. The different arm action makes a straight comparison pointless, but Smith’s slider dives well below 0 in vertical movement, and it’s a big reason why he runs GB% in the 65% range. Aro’s GB% – in 10 innings, of course – was 16.2%. Even in the minors, Aro is an extreme fly-ball pitcher. You can see what Dipoto’s thinking, given the ballpark and the OF defense he’s assembling, and you may think fly-balls-in-Safeco is the new market inefficiency, but they didn’t get a Carson Smith replacement, they got the opposite of Carson Smith.
Okay, we know who Aro *isn’t* and *won’t* be, but who does he remind you of? Vertical movement of 5″ on a slider is actually pretty rare, so we can narrow things down quickly. There’s one pitcher who throws a fastball with very similar movement and a slider that’s almost a dead ringer to Aro’s. Meet Athletics bullpen stalwart Evan Scribner. Scribner does some things very well: Scribner’s K-BB% is elite – fractionally ahead of Carson Smith’s – not only because he strikes out more than a batter per inning, but because he never, ever walks anyone. Seriously, Scribner goes months between walks, and has 4 BBs in the last 72 IP covering two seasons. Aro didn’t have THAT kind of control in the minors, but his BB rates were very low in AAA and in low-A. The problem Scribner has, and one that Aro shows signs of as well, is the long ball. Scribner gave up more HRs than any reliever in baseball last year, and while Aro didn’t show any HR-issues in the minors, he did in his cup of coffee. Aro and Scribner trade whiffs for fly balls by throwing up in the zone and having a slider that’s easier to elevate. You can do some great things with that, but HRs will be a perennial worry. Scribner’s essentially replacement level DESPITE an utterly bonkers K:BB ratio because of this. Jonathan Aro is not doomed to repeat Scribner’s mistakes, but he’ll have to figure something out.
The M’s seemed to give up an awful lot when you consider the pre-arb contracts Smith and Elias were on. Miley has the most experience and is better than he showed for Boston last year, but this deal stings. Dipoto told Bob Dutton that he preferred Miley to grabbing a free agent pitcher and sacrificing their first-round pick, but the past 24 hours makes you think more and more that Dipoto didn’t really HAVE that option. A few posts back, I mentioned that the M’s needed to fill out their roster and make a push given their average age. Dipoto’s first few moves were for mid-career guys, not youngsters, and dealing Smith/Elias pushes them more and more in that direction. Given the amount committed to Felix, Seager, Cano and Cruz, though, that was going to be tough. Either the M’s would need to open their pocketbook a bit more, or the M’s would need to trade to fill in their missing pieces. Letting Iwakuma walk because you couldn’t extend him a third year and then giving up a solid return for Miley suggests that the M’s simply didn’t have enough to sign mid-tier guys, and the flurry of trades kind of corroborates that. I don’t know the constraints Dipoto is operating under, so it feels uncharitable to castigate the man about this deal, but it’s been a bad day to be an M’s fan.
* The M’s apparently extended a NRI invite to Donn Roach, so there’s your extreme ground ball guy. I’ve liked Roach for years, and it’s a good move, but Roach is no Carson Smith.
This One Hurts
It’s only in hindsight that this feels inevitable. No one can say that the Dodgers signing a free agent is shocking, or that it came out of nowhere, but I expected the M’s to resign Hisashi Iwakuma, and they did not. Ownership weighed in at the trade deadline that Iwakuma would stay, giving the M’s not only one of the most unlikely great pitchers in the game toss a no-hitter at home, but a window to work something out. Taking Iwakuma OFF the trading block certainly *seemed* to indicate a willingness to extend him another few years, and because we want to see patterns or some semblance of a plan where we want to, I kind of assumed-wished that maybe everyone had a handshake deal back in July.
Last night, we learned that the Dodgers signed Iwakuma to a three-year deal for about $45 million. For true connoisseurs of Mariners-pain, the first reaction was probably something like, “Soooo, a bit less than Carlos Silva got from Seattle?” It’s not just that the Dodgers swooped in to offer a contract, it’s that they didn’t even look tacky and nouveau-riche about it. They didn’t take a page out of the new Zack Greinke deal, the old Zack Greinke deal, the Jon Lester deal, or whatever Edwin Jackson got years ago. Instead, it felt like working up from Bronson Arroyo’s last deal. Or maybe starting with Mark Buehrle’s four-year deal and working backwards. This was a deal that literally any team in baseball could afford, so you can’t even fire off a shrug-emoji tweet about the Dodgers being the Dodgers. The Dodgers are still easy to hate, but they’re still innovating new ways to make you hate them.
Hisashi Iwakuma will be 35 next season. He throws 89, and has made it to 30 starts once in his four years in Seattle. By a certain set of numbers, the gnashing of teeth in M’s-land feels out of place. Let the Dodgers pay for his decline! Iwakuma was sweet, sweet $$/WAR gold – don’t mess that up high-AAV+advanced-age nonsense! Anyone who actually watched him for a while in Seattle knows why this hurts, and more than most, another set of numbers illuminates why. Hisashi Iwakuma took just about every piece of Defense-Independent Pitching statistics and upended them. He took a core component of sabermetric orthodoxy (especially around 2012), gave that little ‘Kuma smile, and left it looking as reductive and absurd as any of the slugging DHs he struck out swinging on a pitch in the dirt.
BABIP tends to hover around league average, or .293-.295 or so. Iwakuma’s has never been that high, and would be below .270 for his career absent a horrible stretch in 2014 (when his season BABIP was *still* below average). OK, OK, *some* pitchers have a true-talent BABIP that’s lower than league average: really high velocity is one way to do it, as is being left-handed or a knuckleballer. Iwakuma, of course, is none of these things. Iwakuma blazed his own trail to BABIP-success: forcing batters to hit “bad” pitches. In practice, this means ignoring other little tidbits of received wisdom, either old-school pitching coach stuff or further sabermetric wisdom. Iwakuma throws his four-seam fastball up in the zone, and got a lot of the plate with it. Sure, he tried to keep it away to righties – kind of – but he still threw plenty of well-below average velocity pitches straight down the middle. Against lefties, the zone he threw the MOST four-seam fastballs in his *career* was right down the middle. That’s kind of insane, and it wasn’t *always* successful – he’s given up a lot of home runs, remember. But the fastball was a means to an end, not an end in itself.
He threw so many strikes with his fastball that he made it all but impossible to NOT swing at his splitter. Batters swung at an Iwakuma splitter over 60% of the time. Remember that the swing rate in baseball – for all pitches – is in the 46-47% range. And they swung over 60% of the time despite the fact that Iwakuma threw his splitter here:
They simply couldn’t hold up, and that meant Iwakuma had no need to throw strikes with it. As a result, Iwakuma got plenty of whiffs on the pitch, but either in spite or because of his lack of a top-flight fastball, even THAT isn’t why the pitch was so remarkable. It’s because when batters did put it in play, they hit it on the ground. Masahiro Tanaka or even Matt Shoemaker get more whiffs on their splitters, but no one whose thrown it a lot got a higher percentage of ground balls.
It’s that, I think, that helped him overcome another bit of received wisdom: that pitchers don’t really have a lot of control over their sequencing. Or, you can run a high strand rate by striking out everybody, but if you don’t have a superhuman fastball, there’s no way to outpitch BaseRuns. Again, though, Iwakuma has yet to record a single season with a league average LOB%. With runners on base, the league average pitcher is a bit worse than he is with the bases empty. It makes sense: 1B-2B hole’s a bit bigger. The pitcher may get more of the plate to avoid walking a runner into scoring position. Maybe it’s nerves. Iwakuma had the option, thanks to his splitter, of becoming a very different pitcher. The splitter allowed him to dial in his GB%, and that’s pretty much what we see: his GB% is lowest with no one on, and it rises with men on, and rises some more with men in scoring position. Because grounders tend to be pulled and because the M’s knew the pattern, Iwakuma’s BABIP *on grounders* was also below league average, allowing him to pitch better than you’d expect with men on base. The splitter allowed Iwakuma to post a better than average BABIP, and it allowed him to post better-than-average strand rates by throwing it more often.
So, great – man bites FIP. THIS is why he was a fan favorite? I can’t speak for other fans, but there is something about his trajectory from afterthought to unlikely ace that made his M’s tenure particularly fun. Remember that Iwakuma was never supposed to be a Mariner. In 2011, the Athletics won the right to negotiate with Iwakuma, but couldn’t get a deal done. Iwakuma returned to the Rakuten Golden Eagles…and got hurt, tossing 119 IP a year after topping 200, and so the M’s signed him to a one-year, $1.5m base salary deal in 2012. We got to see Iwakuma pitch in the spring, and he was unremarkable but fine. The M’s opened the season in Japan that year, and they played a few exhibition game against NPB teams before facing off with Oakland a few days later. Iwakuma got the chance to start one exhibition game against the Yomiuri Giants and was summarily destroyed, leaving the M’s worried about his arm.
Iwakuma opened 2012 as the long-man in the bullpen, the 7th of 7th bullpen arms. He didn’t get to pitch much, but when he did he was awful. Through July 1, 2012, Iwakuma was 1-1 with an ERA of 4.75 thanks to a terrible HR rate (1.8/9IP) and a nearly-as-bad walk rate (4.45/9IP). Batters were slugging .459 against him, and his average leverage index, measuring the importance of the situations he appeared in, was 0.48, lowest on the team. The M’s had a Rule 5 pick in the bullpen that year, Lucas Luetge, whose average LI through June was 0.83, so…yeah. So far, so Mariners: the M’s lucked out when an intriguing buy-low candidate fell into their laps, but he was broken, so nothing good came of it. But in an extremely Mariners twist, the rotation was in shambles. The M’s started the year with Hector Noesi, Kevin Millwood AND Blake Beavan in their rotation, so the bar was set fairly low for a bullpen arm to pitch their way into starting. The M’s decided that Iwakuma had “built up enough arm strength” to do that, and so, when Kevin Millwood got hurt, Iwakuma got the chance to start in early July. Expectations were, shall we say, low around much of the M’s blogosphere. After a series of mediocre-to-good-ish starts, Iwakuma faced the Toronto Blue Jays in late July at Safeco. Toronto’s first batter, Rajai Davis, worked a full count, then blasted an Iwakuma four-seamer for a home run. He settled in after that, though, and started to show signs that he wasn’t a typical 5th starter. When it was over, Iwakuma tossed 8 IP, giving up only the one run, walking three, giving up 4 hits, and striking out *13*. From 7/30 through the end of the year, Iwakuma was a revelation – a 3.6:1 K:BB ratio, a very low ERA, an OBP-against of .288.
Iwakuma’s arm-strength, as measured by pure velocity, never ticked up. He threw slower in the rotation than out of the pen, because that’s what everyone does. His dominant 2013 wasn’t the result of honing his slider – a pitch he started off throwing more than his splitter in 2012 – and which was mentioned as his outpitch in 2012. Instead, it felt like Iwakuma had to go through his struggles to learn a new and better repertoire. With his normal frame and below-average velo, it felt like Iwakuma had either stumbled onto a cheat-code or, through hard work and struggle, discovered an algorithm that befuddled opposing line-ups. Here was the anti-LeBron, the antithesis of Justin Verlander or David Price. Even after the M’s gave away bear hats in his honor, you would never think of Iwakuma when people in Seattle kept talking about “Beast Mode.” It’s probably unfair to both pitchers to compare him to Jamie Moyer. Iwakuma’s stuff is much better, Moyer is a singularity, etc., but there’s something compelling about excelling in sports without pure physical gifts. *Compared to MLB pitchers in 2012-2015* Iwakuma lacks pure physical ability, but you watch him day in and day out for years, and you almost start to forget. He’s not a pure pitch to contact guy; the whiffs pile up, and he looks like a strikeout guy. But he never walks anyone and seems to be able to summon double-play balls at will.
It seemed that the only thing that kept him from dominating the way he did in 2013 was succession of small health concenrs. He caught his finger in a screen before spring training in 2014. He pulled a lat muscle last year. If you want, you can include the dead arm from early 2012. The shoulder problem that knocked him out for months back in Japan in 2011 never returned, thankfully, but the injuries kept Iwakuma from becoming a more well-known pitcher nationally. Again, he felt human-sized, unique, and ours. Scouts presumably thought he was a trick-pitch guy who’d get found out thanks to his fastball’s location and speed. Saber writers could toss off “likely ERA regression candidates” posts featuring Hisashi each year. Even M’s fans worried as he moved towards his mid-30s and it took him longer and longer to return from injuries. But he kept returning, and he kept reminding us why he was among the most fun Mariners to watch ever. Not even an interminable time between pitches could stop it – it started to feel comical, like Johnny Cueto’s weird pauses and hitches *mid*-delivery.
It’s easy to see why the new GM wouldn’t resign Iwakuma for what he got from LA: Can’t go to 3 years. Lots of alternatives out there, maybe in the trade market. Gotta think long-term. 35-year pitcher, injury history. It’s just as easy to assert that no one coming into the organization NOW and assessing Iwakuma on a page would miss what made him special. And hey,the M’s get a sandwich-round draft pick out of this (a consolation prize that feels roughly equivalent to MLB.tv televising a number of games featuring Vin Scully calling Iwakuma starts, which is to say, not too shabby). Maybe we need to see what Plan B is. Whatever the case, this one hurts.
The M’s Have Been Rather Busy of Late
Baseball’s GMs, analysts and assorted job-seekers meet next week for the Winter Meetings in Nashville, but Jerry Dipoto decided to take care of some business before heading out to meet with his counterparts. In recent days, the M’s traded their recently acquired 1B for a backup catcher, signed a RF, signed a RP, and went dumpster-diving for a waiver-wire 1B. Coupled with the recent trades of Brad Miller and Tom Wilhelmsen, and the M’s have made substantial changes to their roster. Let’s take a look at some of the recent moves and what they say (and don’t say) about the M’s plan for 2016 and beyond.
1: Look, Mark Trumbo was not going to play here. Dipoto traded him from Anaheim as Angels GM, and he’s traded him again with Seattle. As someone who’s publicly talked about the need to both “get more athletic” and reduce strikeouts, Dipoto pretty clearly doesn’t see Mark Trumbo as his type of player. What’s changed in the two years between Trumbo trades is what the rest of the league thinks of him. After 2013, Dipoto netted pitchers Tyler Skaggs and Hector Santiago. Skaggs was highly-thought of, and Santiago’s been a reasonably effective back-of-the-rotation starter for four years now, turning in 300 IP with a solid RA (and a terrible FIP, though his career ERA is a full run lower than his career FIP).
This time, the return for Trumbo was…substantially less. In exchange for Trumbo + a reliever, the Baltimore Orioles will send backup catcher Steve Clevenger, a long-time minor league backstop who was drafted as a 2B and switched to catching in the low minors. Given that background, it’s probably not a shock that Clevenger’s defense is not his calling-card. In his career, he’s thrown out 11 of 80 basestealers, a success rate under 14%. Given that he’s only caught less than 700 big league innings at catcher, or less than half a year’s worth, there’s not a lot to say about his pitch framing. However, what CAN be said is that it doesn’t look disastrous; in his career, Clevenger’s saved a handful of runs through framing, most of them coming back in 2012 with the Cubs. It’s not a lot to go on, but he certainly wouldn’t be the first catcher to excel at framing while rating poorly at controlling the running game or blocking pitches.*
Offensively, Clevenger has been terrible, but he’s been terrible in very different ways than the incumbents in the C spot for the M’s. Unlike Mike Zunino, who really can spend some time in AAA now, Clevenger’s a contact hitter. In the minors, he paired a solid walk rate with well-below-average K rates, and that made up for a near total lack of power. In the big leagues, Clevenger’s patience wasn’t necessarily a virtue, as his low swing rates put him in bad counts and his lack of pop meant he saw too many strikes to walk enough to be passable. In Baltimore, though, he seems to have made an adjustment, as his swing rate climbed from below average to well-above average. Normally, this would be a bad thing, but Clevenger seems to have been convinced that the old strategy wasn’t working. His walk rate’s fallen, but so has his K rate. He doesn’t swing and miss, so taking away a bunch of called-strikes seems like it’s worth a try. As Clevenger still isn’t 30 (despite being drafted back in 2006), it’s not crazy to see him using this new approach to good effect in a park where his lack of power isn’t a huge problem. Let’s be clear: Clevenger is an out-of-options career backup who might not be able to throw out Mark Trumbo stealing, even in a pitch out. He may very well fail and become waiver-wire fodder in several months, but if he does fail, he’ll fail *differently* than his predecessors here. The fact that he bats lefty makes it easier to platoon him and put him in a good position to succeed as well.
The first reaction to this trade on the part of many M’s fans was horror that a starting 1B and a guy the M’s had given up some serious talent for months earlier was a no-hit catcher. That’s understandable, given Trumbo’s power and his status as an ex-All Star, like ex-All Star Kevin Correia or ex-All Star Roger Pavlik. Trumbo himself isn’t yet 30 either, and is in his final year of arbitration, so this isn’t a case of a player stuck with an anchor of a contract. Ultimately, Dipoto wasn’t able to convince teams that Trumbo’s solid final month meant a whole lot, and that’s understandable: Trumbo’s inconsistency is a big reason why he was in danger of getting non-tendered at today’s deadline. A player who might very well be non-tendered, and thus a free agent, is not a player who can command a lot in the trade market. That the estimate of Trumbo’s arb award was under $10m underscores his value. Trumbo at 1 year/~$9m wasn’t enough of an enticement to net Steve Clevenger straight up – the M’s actually had to sweeten the pot (they sent reliever CJ Riefenhauser to Baltimore as well). Why?
Part of it is that Trumbo’s OF defense has pretty much officially closed the door on playing anything other than 1B or DH. That severely restricts the teams who could figure out how to play him. The M’s actually DO have an opening at 1B, but Trumbo’s platoon splits make him hard to start against right-handers, and given the M’s obligations to their stars, $9m for a platoon DH/1B just doesn’t sound like a great way to spend money. But deciding that is one thing – the M’s actually needed a plan to utilize that payroll savings for something they actually needed…
2: …enter Nori Aoki, the M’s new RF. Aoki will be 34 next year, and will cost somewhere in the $3-$5m range. The deal isn’t official (Aoki still needs to pass a physical, and after suffering some bad post-concussion symptoms after being beaned by Jake Arrieta, the physical is probably pretty important), but it sounds like it’s for one year with an option for 2017. Aoki is an elite contact hitter, with K rates under 10% in every year he’s played in MLB – almost unheard of in today’s whiff-prone game. His walk rate isn’t elite, probably because he has very little power, but his pure hit tool allows him to post very good on-base-percentage numbers. With a batting average that’s bounced around between .285 and .288 (!) in his four years, his OBP has reliably settled in around .350 every year as well. Considering Mark Trumbo will make more, can’t play OF, and is projected to get on base at a .309 clip, the M’s seem to have done well here.
Aoki’s defense is something of a divisive topic. We’ve seen him take…non-traditional routes to balls in the OF, and while he’s speedy, he doesn’t have, say, Ichiro’s instincts and first step. All of that said, UZR’s seen him as a solid defender in each of the past three years. DRS doesn’t agree, however, as it sees a steep drop off from 2013 to 2014 and 2015, with a solid arm making up for very poor range. The M’s cannot expect to have a gold glover in RF if that’s where Aoki starts, but even if you take the DRS trend line an extend it down (due to age-related decline), Aoki will be worlds better defensively than last year’s combo of Nelson Cruz and Mark Trumbo.
3: With the other chunk of savings from the Trumbo trade, the M’s acquired reliever Justin de Fratus from Philadelphia. De Fratus was awful last year, posting a 5.51 ERA and a still-bad 4.28 FIP for the rebuilding Phillies, but in 2014, he was effective in 50+ games, with a 4.08 K:BB ratio and a sparkly ERA to match. De Fratus isn’t overpowering, with a fastball in the 92-94 range and a solid slider at 82, but he’s not a ROOGY: he’s been better against *lefties* in his career, and when he’s been bad, right-handers have been his undoing. Why? De Fratus has a change up that he’ll throw lefties, but lefties have been flummoxed by his slider to a surprising degree. They’ve slugged .237 on it in De Fratus (admittedly short) career, while righties are slugging .346.
De Fratus throws a four-seamer and a sinker, and he’s shifted which one he favors a few times. In 2014, he was a sinker/slider guy. Last year, he threw a lot more four-seamers and cut his rate of sinkers by two thirds. I’m not saying that this alone is the reason he struggled, but righties have always hit his four-seamer fairly well. More than a change in his pitch mix, the M’s might want to look at his delivery; De Fratus is far, far more hittable than he should be, and there may be something he could do to get a bit more deception. The M’s DFA’d Edgar Olmos today, so there’s a bit of room in the bullpen, and De Fratus is a good low-risk bet: his one-year deal will set the M’s back all of $750,000.
4: Among the minor moves of the day, the M’s lost prospect Pat Kivlehan to Texas, as he was the PTBNL in the Leonys Martin/Tom Wilhelmsen deal. Also leaving the org is catcher John Hicks, who was signed by Minnesota. Hicks had been DFA’d in November when the M’s signed Chris Iannetta. With a spot on the 40-man open (after Olmos was DFA’d), the M’s signed minor league 1B Andy Wilkins as well. Wilkins got a cup of coffee with the White Sox, the club that drafted him in 2010, but bounced between the Jays and Dodger orgs last year. Wilkins doesn’t strike out a ton, but doesn’t have enough power to play 1B. In the PCL last year, Wilkins slugged .479 for Oklahoma City. He was great in the International League in 2014, but last year’s regression made that look more like an outlier than a sign of development and growth. Wilkins hits lefty, which is nice considering the only other 1B on the 40-man is righty Jesus Montero. Wilkins is not a solution to 1B, and has less of a chance than Montero, which is saying something. But the M’s are clearly weak at the position, so if you’re going to pick through freely-available players, you may as well prioritize 1Bs.
None of these moves radically remake the team, but Dipoto’s style is pretty apparent. In Aoki and Clevenger, the M’s are showing a clear preference for contact skills, and the pick-ups of De Fratus and Martin highlight that Dipoto prefers to buy low with guys with poor recent stats. But beyond that stylistic change, one thing’s pretty apparent: the M’s are categorically not rebuilding. This was never really in doubt, not with Robbie Cano and Felix around, and not with Nelson Cruz coming off the year he had. But the M’s have NOT shown a preference for getting younger, even in these minor moves. Aoki will be 34, Clevenger 30. Leonys Martin is older than Brad Miller and Logan Morrison, who’s more or less the same age as Andy Wilkins. This isn’t good or bad on its own – the M’s seem to want a specific set of skills rather than a specific development path, and that’s fine. Given the age of Cano/Cruz/Felix, this is understandable, even laudable. It does, however, put a premium on fixing the remaining roster holes.
And that’s going to be tough unless the M’s allow the payroll to rise, probably above last year’s $120-123m mark. The M’s haven’t done what we all sort of expected and signed Hisashi Iwakuma, but he’ll cost more than the $7m he made last season. Given the contracts pitchers are getting this off-season – JA Happ’s $12m per year to David Price’s $31m per, it’s easy to see Iwakuma doubling or tripling his annual salary. The M’s have already committed $94-97m to just 9 players (depending on what Aoki gets), and they’ve extended contracts to their arb-eligible players, too. They don’t have a whole lot of room to go shopping, but they’re not sold on just turning the 1B job over to Montero or counting on full years from James Paxton/Nate Karns/Vidal Nuno in the rotation. The M’s have clearly been willing to part with Paxton, and that might help shore up 1B, but then it’s even more critical that the M’s reduce the uncertainty in the rotation.
* Intuitively, this is odd, but when you think about it more, it makes sense. Your body position to frame a low strike is probably different than your body position would be if you wanted to ensure there was no way the ball would get past you. Jose Molina, the godfather of pitch framing, had poor rates of passed balls/wild pitches. Wellington Castillo was not letting the ball by, but he was an awful, awful pitch framer. This isn’t a hard and fast rule or anything; Jonathan Lucroy was great at both, as is Yadier Molina. And some of this may just be selection; Sal Perez doesn’t need to impress teams with his framing – they’re still agog at his 80-grade arm. Francisco Cervelli can’t do that, so he adds value through framing.
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West Suburban Living / March 2018 / The Mobile Houdini of Western Springs
The Mobile Houdini of Western Springs
Cruise ship captain takes a detour . . . and steers right into a new career
Joni Hirsch Blackman
Creative people often dream of exiting their everyday jobs, but Western Springs’ Jason Garvett embraced escape as a career move.
The architecture cruise captain and former acting/directing major wasn’t exactly sure how he’d scratch the old creative itch that had resurfaced. Then he went to an escape room for his birthday. He ended up in a room with several 15-year-olds.
“I thought it would be the worst birthday ever, trapped with them,” Garvett says with a laugh. “But the puzzle-solving, working with people I didn’t know. The generational thing was great — they figured out the combination for the lock but they didn’t know how to open it — the adults had to show them how locks worked. We all had to put down our phones! It was a fun setting.”
The adrenaline rush reminded Garvett of performing. Escape rooms intrigued him. But he knew from his years as charter manager for Chicago’s First Lady cruises how hard it can be to get lots of people to one place. The answer? Mobile Room Escape.
Incorporated in October 2015 and opened in March 2016, it was one of the country’s first mobile escape rooms.
Garvett first thought “mobile” could mean puzzles set up in customers’ houses — a “pop-up” room. He then realized people might not want strangers rummaging around their homes.
That’s how Garvett ended up in Morris, Illinois, ordering a customizable 32-foot trailer.
“The number of sleepless nights was ridiculous,” he recalls. “I was going from a secure job driving the boats to starting my own venture. It was one of the scariest times of my life.”
A week before opening, at a trade show in Schaumburg where he hoped to drum up a kids’ birthday party booking, Garvett met a business owner whose arcades and video games traveled in a trailer.
“I was thinking he was going to say I was copying him, but instead he told me he had worked for Ford for 30 years and designs trailers for various businesses. ‘Next time you design a trailer,’ he said, ‘call me.’”
The journey had a few dead ends. Selling tickets to sparse crowds in Gurnee Mills’ parking lot was somewhat fruitless. Garvett wasn’t sure he’d make enough to pay the gas and other bills. He worried he’d be closed within a week.
Fairs worked better. Patrons of fall harvests and various suburban festivals flocked to try out the trailer’s 15-minute experiences. But hour-long, family-friendly private parties in the themed trailer drew the most rave reviews — first, a mad scientist’s laboratory and then a submarine (World War II buff Garvett figured everyone loves a good periscope.)
His own creative puzzle was finally solved. “I get my fix acting, directing, writing. As a father of two, working and running another business, it would be hard to fit in rehearsals,” Garvett says.
The trailers have hosted parties for people aged from five to 80 and older in Naperville, Hinsdale, Elmhurst, Clarendon Hills and way beyond — to 14 other states, including Iowa for a post-prom event, and South Carolina for corporate team building. In Chicago, one room hosted Star Jones’ son’s birthday party.
Many escape rooms discourage children. Not Garvett.
“Any time you rule out a class of people — age, class, religion, orientation — it’s not a good decision. Unlike a lot of rooms, our game master is with participants the whole time — I hire actors and want them to engage the audience and be part of the scenario,” says Garvett, who still also captains the First Lady cruises.
Mobile Room Escape also builds trailers for other owners — yes, Garvett called the guy from Ford. The two have sent more than a dozen trailers to Miami, Seattle, Nashville, Branson and Atlanta.
“People kept asking about the mobile aspect. I thought, if I’m going to do that, I need an expert. We went to the first Escape Room trade show in the country and sold three. Now we build them.”
Coming soon: a trailer featuring super heroes and four original super villains drawn by a local cartoonist. “We try to appeal to all ages and types of people and keep it interesting for us too,” says Garvett. “If you’re not interested in what you’re doing, it’s not going to come out well.”
That’s whole point of an escape room — getting out, and having fun doing so.
This article appears in the March 2018 issue of West Suburban Living
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Resurrection man.
"Nick Nuyens kan de Ronde van Vlaanderen winnen?
Nick Nuyens kan de droom gemaakt? Nick Nuyens wint de Ronde van Vlaanderen! Nick Nuyens wint de Ronde van Vlaanderen!"
(Photo AP)
In sports broadcasting, sometimes a simple event repeated to a crescendo by an excited voice makes a lasting impression on the public. Sometimes it births a line that resonates for generations.
"The Giants win the Pennant!"
"Havlicek stole the ball!"
Yesterday, from the streets of Meerbeke, the airways of the Flemish speaking world echoed to the jubilant words of the vlaamse Phil Liggett - Sporza's Michel Wuyts - who put the appropriate exclamation point on what was arguably the most exciting Tour of Flanders any of us can remember.
"Nick Nuyens wint de Ronde van Vlaanderen!"
Yea wielersupporters. Dreams can really come true, provided you never give up.
Underdogs everywhere, rejoice. This was one to savor. You wouldn't have given two cents for Nick Nuyens' chances of ever winning the Ronde when he abandoned last year, destroyed and dejected. A series of moves from Quick Step to Cofidis to Rabobank had woven a trail of unfulfilled delusion, and spiraling confidence. A last chance with Saxo Bank, and suddenly... Badaboom! A dream spring season, marked by the resurrection of one of Flanders most likeable, charismatic riders.
What changed? The Riis factor.
"Take my riders? I'll still beat you
Black Leopard"
Yesterdays victory must have been oh so sweet for Bjarne Riis, the man who should personally get much of the credit for Nuyens' Lazarus act. Bjarne is a true svengali when it comes to bringing back the written-off, and the passed-over. Bobby Julich, Carlos Sastre, Jens Voigt, Tyler Hamilton. Many had their best years in restarts under his guidance.
Yesterday's finish was a poignant nose-thumbing to Team Leopard, reminding one of that old Monty Python Holy Grail scene with the Black Knight...
"Cut off my arm? Just a fleshwound. I can still fight you!"
Pezzi's '67 Salvarani armada included Gimondi, Zilioli...
even Giancarlo Ferretti - later Bianchi and Fassa Bortolo DS
Riis seems to be following in the footsteps of Luciano Pezzi, as a master of resurrection. Pezzi, who passed away in 1998, was a gregario of Fausto Coppi who later went on to become director of several Italian pro teams in the sixtes, seventies, eighties and nineties. He directed Felice Gimondi to his Tour, Giro and Paris Roubaix wins with Salvarani, and also did stints as D.S. with Dreher, Fiorella-Citroen, Magniflex-Famcucine, Morella, Gis, and Inoxpran. He directed champions like Adorni, Motta, Altig, Zilioli, Battaglin, Moser and Baronchelli. His final project was as president of the Mercatone Uno team, an armada built around Marco Pantani. Pezzi passed just before his beloved Pirata did his Giro-Tour double. Some say if Pezzi has lived, Marco might still be alive, such was his influence.
Luciano Pezzi.
As unlikely as that might seem, it was not without a foundation as concrete as the average casa wall in his native Emilia-Romagna. Pezzi earned a reputation for taking 'destroyed' riders, and bringing them back to glory. His methods brought Giovanni Battaglin back to win the Vuelta - Giro double in 1981. And before that in the seventies, it was Italo Zilioli.
Pezzi's secret? No secret really, it's there in his book, Il Corridore Professionista in a chapter entitled: "How to recoup a racer who's practially 'finito'.
"First of all, a scrupulous medical examination, followed by major psychological reinforcement." In the book, Pezzi talks about how it's easier to bring back the physical state than the mental state, and how to work to ensure the latter. In short, it's a testament to the power of constant, positive reinforcement, communication, and patience. Elements so simple, yet at the same time ever more increasingly difficult to achieve in a warp speed digital, frantic, high pressure modern life.
From my admittedly distant vantage point (video, tv, and encounters well documented in the film Overcoming) it seems that Riis has a similar, calming effect on his charges. His influence certainly worked with Nuyens. From change of winter training venues (getting out of Flanders to the Mediterranean sun) to holding back a bit (not entering Het Volk opening weekend), Riis magic touch has done it again. Those Leopard guys say that Riis wasn't engaged anymore? Sorry, don't buy it. Chapeau, Bjarne. Wish you could work on me...
The video celebration of Riis below, and the contrast with Wilfried Peeters of Saxo Bank says more than words can.
I'd posted after Dwars Door Vlaanderen that Nuyens reminds me a little of Erik Leman. A compact, smart, punchy and quick rider who comes into his best on Ronde Sunday, where he punches well above his weight. Eric Leman won his Rondes by taking the best scalps in small group sprints, just like Nuyens did yesterday.
In 1970 riding for Flandria, Leman outsprinted Walter Godefroot and Eddy Merckx. In 1972, he took a royal sprint from Frans Verbeeck, Andre Dierickx, Willy DeGeest, Roger Rogiers, Roger Swerts and Eddy Merckx. One year later he did it again, this time over neo pro phenom Freddy Maertens, Merckx and DeGeest. Three sprints. Three times the Cannibal goes down to the Flahute.
Resurrection stories are great. Chavanel deserved to win yesterday one could argue, and Cancellara too. But one senses Nuyens needed to win this one.
Proficiat Nick. Hope you win a few more.
Rouleur April 4, 2011 at 11:54 AM
You are so right. What a beautiful race. It doesn't get any better. Chavannel, Nuyens, Cancellara, they all deserved the win.
Larry and Heather April 6, 2011 at 1:09 PM
I'm anything but a Riis fan but I think your take on his managerial and motivational skills is dead-on. It would seem that the guys he helps to stardom soon forget his influence and start to believe it was all THEM alone. How often have we seen this in the past? You have to wonder about all the guys who bailed out of Riis' program -- only time will tell if it was them or Bjarne.
John April 7, 2011 at 2:53 PM
Very decent 10th from Geraint Thomas too,
Temps du flahute...
Team Flandria rides again!
What's two minutes of pain?...
Roubaix for dark horses
Staf Scheirlinckx. Domestique no more.
Ronde ready?
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Watch Chris Lane Propose to Lauren Bushnell in Sweet ‘Big, Big Plans’ Video
Chris Lane and Lauren Bushnell are getting married! And lucky for fans, the country star (Lane) and Bachelor alum (Bushnell) had the cameras rolling while Lane popped the question.
The intimate footage became the centerpiece of Lane's new music video for "Big, Big Plans," which is full of home video of the couple, including the proposal, which took place in the backyard of Bushnell's family's Oregon home.
“I knew she wouldn’t want some elaborate crazy proposal,” Lane says in an interview with People. “So, I decided to keep it pretty casual. I asked her parents for different places in Portland I could potentially take her to, but after a lot of thought I decided doing it at the family cookout would be the most laid-back setting and that she’d appreciate the simplicity of me proposing to her in her parents’ backyard.”
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The video shows moments of the couple playing baseball, eating ice cream, laying in bed; normal everyday things that happen when a smartphone is the only camera in the room. The video carries on for over two minutes before the lyrics "Right now, we're back in her hometown and I'm down on one knee / i guess she finally figured out I'm gonna ask her to marry me" ring out, to which Lane pops the question right after. Of course, she said, yes.
“Even though I felt pretty confident I was going to get the ‘yes,’ I’ve never been that nervous,” Lane tells People. “When I got to the third verse of the song and knew it was time, I pretty much blacked out. The next thing I knew, she said ‘yes’ and the nerves just lifted. It’s an explosion of excitement, pure joy, and love.”
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Miranda Lambert’s Donation Helps Massachusetts Shelter Animals Find Forever Homes
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Miranda Lambert stepped up for an animal shelter in Massachusetts, and her generosity is helping them place a number of deserving animals in their forever homes.
The Scituate Animal Shelter in Plymouth County, Mass., turned to Facebook on Wednesday (July 10) to announce that it will be waiving adoption fees until July 19, courtesy of a generous donation from the country superstar.
"And it couldn't have come at a better time," the shelter posted. "Summer is the slowest time for adoptions and we have a shelter that is absolutely full. Our pets are hoping against hope that you will come and take them home! Please come meet your new best friend today."
Subsequent posts reveal that the story caught the attention of local radio and TV, and Scituate Animal Shelter Board of Directors President Lisey Good tells the Boston Globe that as a result, the shelter had a line of people out the door waiting to adopt when they opened in the morning.
“I can’t remember another time when we had a line of people waiting,” Good says.
Lambert's MuttNation Foundation, which she co-founded with her mother Bev Lambert in 2009, has a program called Mutts Across America that makes a donation to one shelter in each state every year.
“It was thrilling that we were chosen," Good shares.
Executive Director Maryann Regan tells TMZ that she learned of the donation in March, when she received an email of a certificate from MuttNation Foundation that Lambert had signed, deeming Scituate Animal Shelter as a top shelter in the U.S.A. The shelter normally places two animals in homes per day, and she says they have been tripling that rate recently because of Lambert's help.
For more information about the animals available for adoption at the Scituate Animal Shelter, visit the shelter's official website.
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11/20/13 By: Joe Rossi behind the scenes / design / illustration / logo / making of / rebranding
Rebranding the Bruin
This summer, the 427 Design team was tasked with giving the Padua Franciscan High School mascot a fierce facelift. When designing the new athletic logo, a lot had to be taken into account. He needed to be representative of the staff and student body of Padua Franciscan; positive, strong and respectable. The new Bruin would require balance, should be stern and intimidating, yet not vicious or violent.
Oftentimes when a high school logo is developed, inspiration is drawn from college and/or professional team logos. But we feel that athletic teams at the high school level also deserve a strong and original logo. So we set out to deliver a great product without borrowing from an existing design. Padua Franciscan High School already stands out in so many ways, so the goal was to create a rebirth of the Bruin that would stand out in a sea of generic team logos. This logo would need to embody all that Padua stood for on and off the field or court.
Putting Pencil to Paper
In these initial sketches the bear was just starting to take shape. What started as a minor update to the existing logo (bottom right), quickly developed into a complete overhaul. While nearly four dozen different concepts were developed through this process, this small grouping shows the progression and various secondary logo ideas; essentially depicting the Bruin in every angle and mood imaginable. The top two are the genesis of what would become the final logo.
Once we settled on the front facing Bruin as the main logo, work began trying to find the right style. The challenge with a front facing bear is the angle of the face, it could easily look too much like a lion or wolf depending on the brow and muzzle placement. We started with an open roaring mouth concept, but it proved to be far too aggressive.
As you can see below, subtle changes through the various revisions make for significant changes overall.
The Life Cycle of the Bruin Rebranding
A straight vector version of the initial top left sketch.
A secondary concept featuring an open “roaring” mouth that was agreed to be a little too aggressive.
A variation of the use of half-light/half-shadow approach.
A variation of 3 but with a center light source, showing that when compared to the next version, how dropping the muzzle slightly can change his personality entirely
Another variation in muzzle placement, as well as color usage.
This was stage in which the look started to click with the whole team as a final concept.
Narrowing of the face and facial features to give him a lean and mean presence. Aiming for a rounder appearance rather than a heart shaped one previously depicted.
A minor adjustment to his “beard” and enlarging his facial features and Viola!
From one logo concept comes three variations of the Padua Athletics brand. It is important to have a tight design where the various elements can stand alone, and be just as recognizable as they are when they are presented all together. This gives the new Padua Franciscan High School athletic logo the versatility and originality that sets it apart from other athletic logos. The Bruin head can stand alone, as can the Padua Franciscan Bruins word mark. And then, the shield marries the imagery and the name together for a complete logo.
In the end, we are really proud of the final product. The new logo strikes a great balance of meeting all the goals and objectives of the project. More to come on the next phase of the Bruin logo, as we develop additional angles and positioning.
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New Ferrari hybrid tech to spread to other plug-in models News 29 May, 2019 The first plug-in hybrid Ferrari is the SP90 Stradale, a V8 supercar, but electrification will work its way across Ferrari's range...
Plug-in hybrid sales drop by half in June Car registrations in June fell by 3.4% with demand for plug-in hybrids hardest hit Demand for plug-in hybrid cars fell by half in June, the biggest fall yet seen in this sector of the market, according to figures from The Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders. Plug-in hybrid sales decreased by ...
Konami announces plug-and-play TurboGrafx-16 Mini Konami may well have earned the "most surprising announcement of E3" trophy with Tuesday night's unexpected reveal of the TurboGrafx-16 Mini (known as the PC Engine Mini in Japan and the PC Engine Core Grafx Mini in Europe). Price and release date were not announced, but Konami did reveal six games ...
Audi launches Q5 TFSI e plug-in hybrid with 362bhp Audi Q5 55 TFSI e Quattro Electrified variant of SUV to go on sale in June with 26-mile electric-only range and prices starting from around £55,000 The new plug-in hybrid version of the Audi Q5 SUV will go on sale in the UK at the start of June, priced from around £55,000. Audi says the model, wh...
Ferrari's first production plug-in hybrid is its fastest supercar yet You can throw out notions that Ferrari is completely averse to electric cars. The Italian supercar maker has unveiled its first production plug-in hybrid, the SF90 Stradale, and it's a clear attempt to bridge the gap between the gas-powered traditio......
Hyundai Ioniq plug-in hybrid 2019 review Smarter looks inside and out, plus upgraded infotainment for great-value plug-in hatch, but it still lacks dynamic sparkle Essentially, this is a mildly facelifted version of Hyundai’s Toyota Prius-rivalling family hatchback, which is available as a standard hybrid or in plug-in hybrid form, as te...
Exclusive: Government won't reinstate plug-in hybrid grants UK transport minister tells Autocar fully electric vehicles are the focus of future government incentives The UK government will not reinstate a grant for the purchase of new plug-in hybrid vehicles, Jesse Norman, minister of state for the Department for Transport, has told Autocar. The grant was m...
Trump uses NBC debate glitch to plug his re-election campaign President Trump turned a technical glitch that temporarily disrupted NBC’s coverage of the first Democratic presidential candidates debate into an ad for his own re-election campaign. ”Thank you @MSNBC, real professionals! @chucktodd @maddow,” the president wrote in the tweet e...
UK mobile users can now switch networks with a text It's about to get a whole lot easier for mobile phone users in the UK to change networks or contracts as new switching rules come into force today.The new Text to Switch rules from Ofcom look to simplify what has until now often been a lengthy and convoluted process, allowing mobile customers t...
An AI Pioneer Explains the Evolution of Neural Networks Google's Geoff Hinton was a pioneer in researching the neural networks that now underlie much of artificial intelligence. He persevered when few others agreed....
Huawei is helping all the UK's top carriers build their 5G networks British carriers apparently aren't put off by US pressure to ditch Huawei for their 5G network deployments. The Guardian's sources understand that all four of the UK's largest wireless providers (EE, O2, Three and Vodafone) are all using Huawei to b......
5G handsets and networks: Everything you need to know about roll-outs and roadmaps for the UK Early 5G adopters can make their way to the starting blocks, but most businesses and mainstream users will be content to watch from the sidelines for some time yet....
US networks improved in early 2019 with help from 5G upgrades Did you have fewer gripes about your cellphone service earlier this year? You're not alone. JD Power's latest US wireless network quality study indicates that the ratio of complaints about call and data performance dropped for every major carrier i......
BMW Group Plans To Launch 25 Plug-In's, 12 All Electric Cars By 2025 In 2019, Plant Oxford will join this list with the start of production of the fully-electric MINI. The BMW i4 is just one of the 25 electrified models that the BMW Group intends to bring to market by......
Mercedes-Benz to launch A250e plug-in hybrid hatchback Hybrid model, based on existing A250, will boast 37 miles of electric-only range Petrol-electric A-Class will gain 101bhp electric motor; performance expected to mirror that of existing A250 Mercedes-Benz is preparing to launch a new petrol-electric variant of the new fourth-generation A-class bo...
New car sales 2019: market down 4.9% as plug-in hybrid registrations plummet News 4 Jul, 2019 Alternatively fuelled vehicle sales fell for the first time in 26 months, with sales of PHEVs dropping by 50.4 per cent...
2019 Skoda Superb revealed with plug-in hybrid option Skoda Superb iV Czech firm kicks off electrification programme with hybrid version of revamped flagship model Skoda has revealed the revised version of its flagship Superb saloon and estate, which will be offered with a plug-in hybrid powertrain for the first time. The hybrid will be launched as ...
New Renault Megane facelift: plug-in hybrid variant spotted Renault will launch a petrol-electric Megane as part of an extensive facelift of the Ford Focus rival, expected to be revealed in September Renault will unveil an updated Megane later this year, with a plug-in hybrid variant, due as part of the firm's rapid electrification expansion, spotted for th...
2020 Skoda Superb Unveiled; Now Available In A Plug-In Hybrid Version On the features front, the Superb now gets the optional Virtual Cockpit and a choice of three different infotainment systems, two of which also offer a navigation function. The Bolero radio and the......
Ferrari SF90 Stradale Unveiled; The Company's First Plug-in Hybrid With 986 bhp For maximum performance in terms of overall weight, rigidity and centre of gravity, the chassis and bodyshell of the SF90 Stradale is all new, built using multi-material technology, including carbon......
Cuba legalizes private Wi-Fi networks, router imports Thousands of Cubans who built their own data networks at home can now apply for a license, but control over the internet itself stays under state control. Cuba has been one of the least-connected places on the planet....
House bill targets illicit use of Pentagon networks Bipartisan legislation introduced Tuesday in the House seeks to stop the use of Department of Defense computer networks for sharing child pornography....
Japanese firms prefer to use 5G networks of domestic carriers An overwhelming majority of Japanese firms have no plans to use 5G mobile networks by China's Huawei or other foreign firms, preferring instead to rely on domestic telecom carriers due to security concerns, a Reuters poll showed....
Wood wide web: Trees' social networks are mapped Research has shown that beneath every forest and wood there is a complex underground web of roots and fungi, connecting trees and plants to one another....
Senators ask FTC to investigate how social networks curate content Republican politicians are taking their allegations of tech industry bias to regulators. Senators Ted Cruz and Josh Hawley have sent a letter to the FTC asking it to investigate how companies like Facebook, Google and Twitter curate content. These......
Nvidia’s STEAL AI gives neural networks better computer vision Researchers from Nvidia created STEAL, a framework that improves inference for existing computer vision models and labeling future data sets.Read More...
Palo Alto Networks to acquire Twistlock, PureSec Palo Alto plans to add Twistlock's container security capabilities and PureSec's serverless security capabilities to its new cloud security suite, Prisma....
Cuba legalizes private Wi-Fi networks in bid to boost connectivity Cuba announced on Wednesday it would legalize private Wi-Fi networks to access the internet and connect computers, as well as allow imports of equipment like routers in another step toward expanding connectivity on the Communist-run island....
U.S. might spend up to $1 billion to make U.S. networks 100% Huawei-free FCC Commissioner Geoffrey Starks, a Democrat, was confirmed by the Senate in January to that position joining fellow lefty Jessica Rosenworcel to make up the 2-3 minority on the regulatory agency. In an interview with CNET, Starks says that not only should the U.S. continue to prevent Huawei network...
Report: All Four Major Mobile Networks in the UK Are Using Huawei 5G Gear UK telecoms aren’t taking warnings from U.S. intelligence agencies that telecommunications gear produced by Chinese tech giant Huawei could pose a security risk incredibly seriously, at least according to a report from the Observer, which reported on Saturday that all four major carriers in the coun...
New 2019 Skoda Superb facelift revealed with plug-in hybrid option News 23 May, 2019 A revised version of the range-topping Skoda Superb saloon and estate has been revealed, and it's now available as a plug-in hybrid...
Seems Like the Harriet Tubman Bill Was Pretty Far Along Before Steven Mnuchin Pulled the Plug Last month, U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin told Congress that the much-anticipated $20 bill featuring Harriet Tubman would be delayed by six years for technical reasons, and might not even feature the abolitionist whatsoever. However, a New York Times report reveals that the note was actuall...
Mercedes traces Stroll's Canada F1 engine failure to spark plug Mercedes has revealed that Lance Stroll's spectacular Formula 1 engine blow-up in Montreal practice was the result of a spark plug failure, and taken steps to prevent a repeat...
New Ferrari SF90 Stradale: 986bhp plug-in hybrid power for new flagship News 30 May, 2019 The Ferrari SF90 Stradale is the brand’s first ever plug-in hybrid, combining Ferrari’s most powerful V8 ever with three electric motors...
Make a living keeping networks safe from attack with this $39 bundle You can be the answer to a hiring manager’s prayers (and get paid like a godsend as well) with the instruction in The A to Z Cyber Security and IT Certification Training Bundle. The package is available now at a huge savings off the regular price, only $39 from TNW Deals....
How Amazon is helping cops build local surveillance networks Amazon’s Ring doorbells are helping cops build surveillance networks in neighborhoods across the country. More than 50 local police departments have partnered with Ring over the last two years and promoted the products to citizens — essentially building neighborhoods with security cameras on e...
Police need intercept tools as mobile networks develop: Europol European law enforcement agencies set to lose the ability to tap criminals' mobile devices with the launch of 5G technology must be brought into discussions earlier when communications networks are modernised, the new head of Europol told Reuters....
China is reportedly behind huge hack of global cell networks Security research firm Cybereason reports today (via TechCrunch) that over the last seven years, hackers have been able to break into more than 10 cellular networks worldwide to gather information on calls made by at least 20 targeted individuals. The data obtained from this operation included the d...
Adam Goodes film The Final Quarter to be screened by TV networks Ten and Win The film documents the final three years of Goodes’s football career in the context of Australia’s attitude to raceThe Final Quarter, a documentary about the last three years of Indigenous leader Adam Goodes’s football career, will be screened by networks Ten and Win.The dual Brownlow medallist and ...
Here's how the US carrier networks perform among the crowds of Coachella or Times Square There are 5G network speeds under the few lampposts in Chicago where they are available and with you as the sole network user, and then there are Verizon, T-Mobile, AT&T or Sprint network performances at crowded places like Times Square.The research firm Global Wireless Solutions (GWS) got up and te...
The Kardashian of Presidents Is Beefing With the Jordyn Woods of News Networks President Donald Trump believes all news is fake news except the state-sponsored Russia Times Fox News, which the president considers a friend. The president and news anchors share lawyers and buzzard souffle recipes, so it was strange to see the Kardashian of presidents beefing with the Jordyn Wood...
Pakistan police seek to unravel networks trafficking women With waves of arrests, Pakistani investigators are trying to unravel trafficking networks that convince impoverished Pakistanis to marry off their daughters to Chinese men for cash, and they say evidence is growing that many of the women and girls are sold into prostitution once in China....
Trump's Spiritual Adviser Prays For His Safety From "Demonic Networks" Paula White started out by giving thanks. White, President Donald Trump's evangelical spiritual adviser, took center stage Tuesday night to give the opening prayer before the president announced his......
The most popular social media networks each year, gloriously animated Considering social media’s global impact (hello Trump and Brexit), it’s strange to think just how young the medium is. Hell, before the early 2000s, if you wanted to reconnect with a long-lost friend, you’d have to go full detective to find their contact details. But nowadays? You just need to whack...
Police seek smart doorbell networks to solve crimes Police departments across the U.S. are asking residents to register their security cameras so they can quickly request footage if an incident occurs nearby. ...
Germany's Opel town shows struggle for Europe to plug in electric cars Carmakers and policymakers in Europe are staking their futures on a race to electric vehicles. But the vast charging network needed to sustain their vision is patchy, and it's not clear who'll pay for it....
Cybersecurity veteran Imperva acquires Distil Networks to help thwart bot attacks Imperva has announced plans to acquire Distil Networks, a cybersecurity startup that specializes in blocking bot attacks on websites, mobile apps, and APIs.Read More...
TV networks protest Dems' decision to give MSNBC exclusive convention access C-SPAN, Fox News, CBS News, CNN and ABC News have joined forces to formally protest the South Carolina Democratic Party’s decision to give MSNBC exclusive access to air live coverage on Saturday of its 2019 convention that will feature at least 21 of the party’s 2020 presidential hopefuls....
Americans lack trust in social networks’ judgment to remove offensive posts, Pew finds How should companies decide which objectionable content should stay online or get the ax? Answering that question has presented a tremendous challenge in recent years for companies such as Facebook, YouTube and Twitter....
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Trump issues executive order to protect US networks amid China spying concerns President Trump on Wednesday declared a national emergency, signing an executive order that bans U.S. companies from using foreign telecom services that could pose a national security threat....
Palo Alto Networks forecasts current-quarter profit below estimates, shares fall Cybersecurity company Palo Alto Networks Inc forecast current-quarter profit below analysts' estimates on Wednesday, largely due to expenses related to its recent acquisitions and a hit from tariffs, sending its shares down 5%....
The Tiny WeMo Mini Smart Plug Has a Tiny Price Tag to Match Today WeMo smart switches are basically the atomic unit of home automation, and you can pick one up for just $20 today, the best price we’ve seen outside of Black Friday....
Recall for over 5,000 Kia Niro hybrid and plug-in hybrid models News 31 May, 2019 Kia has recalled 5,020 hybrid and plug-in hybrid examples of the Niro in the UK due to an overheating issue in an electrical relay...
Salesforce Blockchain enables code-free blockchain networks, workflows, and apps Salesforce today unveiled Salesforce Blockchain, a no-code platform that allows customers to easily create blockchain networks, workflows, and apps.Read More...
Racer pulls rival's brake at 130 mph Moto2 rider Romano Fenati has been dropped from the Marinelli Snipers Team after the dangerous incident where he pulled a rival's brake lever mid-race....
US Pulls Tax Exemption From Pakistani Diplomats The United States said Friday that it had suspended tax exemption privileges enjoyed by Pakistani diplomats in Washington due to parallel disputes with Islamabad in the latest dust-up between the......
Adorable Soccer Lad Pulls Out Loose Tooth The Only Way He Knows How The time in a kid’s life where a tooth becomes loose at seemingly a biweekly rate can be quite intimidating, but it can also lead to some wonderful ingenuity. Case in point, we have this young Rangers supporter named Luke, who figured that instead of just reaching into his mouth and yanking out some...
No sweat for Nadal and Federer, Bertens pulls out Defending champion Rafael Nadal continued to chomp his way through the French Open draw on Wednesday and Roger Federer also maintained his smooth progress into the third round....
Ewan pulls out of Giro d'Italia following second stage win "Caleb Ewan will press ahead with his preparations for the Tour de France after announcing his withdrawal from the Giro d\u0027Italia following his second stage win of the three-week grand tour."...
‘It’s getting like Disneyland’: Bruges pulls up drawbridge on tourists The picture-perfect Flemish city is just the latest to announce a crackdown on visitor numbers. But not everyone is happyThere is a distinctly military pace to the ant-like line of tourists that streams out every morning from Bruges’s sprawling art-deco railway station and the nearby coach park.Clut...
McCarron pulls away in Japan for 3rd victory of season Scott McCarron had three birdies on the back nine to pull away for a 5-under 67 and a three-shot victory in the MasterCard Japan Championship ...
Serena pulls out of Rome with knee injury "Serena Williams pulled out of the Italian Open on Tuesday due to a persistent knee injury which casts doubt on her participation in the French Open which begins this month."...
Toyota pulls forward electrification plan Toyota is ramping up electric vehicle deployment plans, pulling forward its goal of selling 5.5 million electrified vehicles by five years and aiming to develop a solid-state battery by next summer....
Nevada trooper pulls over hearse in HOV lane Nevada Highway Patrol says passengers must be alive in order to be counted as occupants in cars using the high occupancy vehicle lane. A hearse driver transporting a body in the HOV lane in Las Vegas was given a warning on Monday. (July 3) ...
Uber driver pulls out sex toy on cops who feared it was a gun A Connecticut Uber driver was tackled to the ground by police who believed he was reaching for a gun — only for him to whip out a sex toy, authorities said. Eliot Buenano-Andrade, 48, was allegedly caught masturbating in his white BMW sedan, which was pulled over with foggy windows in Monroe on Tues...
ATP roundup: Querrey pulls off second upset in two days After upsetting fourth-seeded Dusan Lajovic of Serbia a day earlier, American Sam Querrey defeated fifth-seeded Fernando Verdasco of Spain 7-6 (4), 6-2 on Thursday in the quarterfinals of the Nature Valley International in Eastbourne, England, to advance to Friday's semifinals....
U.A.E. Pulls Most Forces From Yemen in Blow to Saudi War Effort The major reduction in troops by the Emiratis, the military linchpin of the Saudi-led war in Yemen, is a belated recognition that the war is no longer winnable....
Reports: Nike pulls shoe after Kaepernick's criticism Nike has scuttled its plans for a Fourth of July-themed sneaker that was to bear a Revolutionary War-era flag, a design that NFL player-turned-activist Colin Kaepernick disliked, multiple news outlets reported Tuesday....
Opelka pulls off another upset at Wimbledon, beats Wawrinka In a Wimbledon tournament filled with early upsets, Reilly Opelka pulled off another one in the second round ...
Fiat Chrysler pulls its proposal to merge with Renault Fiat Chrysler has withdrawn its proposal to merge with French automaker Renault — a deal that would have reshaped the global auto industry and helped the carmakers compete in the race for electric and self-driving vehicles....
Siena guard Jalen Pickett pulls out of NBA draft LOUDONVILLE, N.Y. (AP) — Siena point guard Jalen Pickett has withdrawn his name from consideration for the NBA draft and will return to school for his sophomore year. Pickett officially declared as an early entrant for the draft in April. He participated in the inaugural NBA G League Elite Camp last...
Apple Pulls Watch App After Finding Eavesdropping Glitch Apple has disabled the Walkie-Talkie app on Apple Watches after finding a glitch that could allow a person to listen in on someone else’s iPhone call, the second eavesdropping flaw Apple has addressed in recent months....
Google pulls stalking apps from the Play Store It's one thing to voluntarily share your phone activities with friends and family, but some app developers have been encouraging far more sinister uses. Google has pulled multiple people-tracking Android apps from the Play Store after Avast discovere......
'No More Heroes III' pulls Travis into the garden of madness next year No More Heroes III is heading to Nintendo Switch in 2020, starring charismatic, homicidal nerd Travis Touchdown and, most likely, a lot of hacking and slashing. The first look at the game featured Travis cutting his way through enemies in slick, flyi......
Dennis pulls out of Tour de France in unclear circumstances Time trial world champion Rohan Dennis has abandoned the Tour de France during the first Pyrenean stage amid reports he clashed with his team's officials ...
Huawei Pulls Laptop Launch as U.S. Restrictions Sting China’s Huawei Technologies canceled the launch of a new laptop and paused production at its personal-computer business due to restrictions on buying American components....
Update sent to improve the cameras on the Huawei P30 Pro; B&H pulls the P30 line The Huawei P30 Pro features a quad-camera setup in the back. This consists of a 40MP primary camera (f/1.6 aperture), an 8MP telephoto camera with 5x optical zoom, a 20MP Ultra-wide camera, and a Time-of-Flight (ToF) depth sensor. And don't forget the 32MP front-facing selfie snapper. What brings th...
Ferrari's new SF90 Stradale: A powerful, 'forward-looking' plug-in hybrid Ferrari is headed toward an electrified future with its plug-in hybrid, the 2020 Ferrari SF90 Stradale. Unveiled last week, it's a xxx-horsepower car, according to Ferrari. ...
Nicki Minaj pulls out of Saudi Arabia concert after backlash The singer has cancelled an appearance at Jeddah World Fest citing her support for women and the LGBT communityNicki Minaj is pulling out of a concert in Saudi Arabia because she says she wants to show support for women’s rights, gay rights and freedom of expression.“After careful reflection I have ...
Encouraging Chinese data pulls Asian shares higher Asian shares advanced on Monday as investors breathed a sigh of relief after encouraging Chinese data suggested the world's second-biggest economy may be starting to stabilize thanks to ramped-up stimulus from Beijing....
United Arab Emirates pulls out of Saudi-led coalition in Yemen Military forces of the United Arab Emirates have started a withdrawal from Yemen, Emirati officials said, leaving Saudi Arabia to fight Houthi rebels....
Mayor Apologises After Police Officer Pulls Gun On Parents Of 4-Year-Old The mayor of Phoenix apologized and called a community meeting for this week amid public anger over a viral video showing police pointing a gun at the parents of a 4-year-old child over allegations......
How ‘Baskets’ star Zach Galifianakis pulls off playing twins The surreal world of “Baskets” extends to its cast, with Zach Galifianakis playing bearded, identical-twin brothers Chip and Dale Baskets and Louie Anderson as family matriarch Christine Baskets — a role for which he won a 2016 Emmy Award. The challenges in making Chip and Dale appear (slightly) dif...
Le Mans 24 Hours: Conway pulls clear in polesitting Toyota Mike Conway earned the polesitting #7 Toyota TS050 HYBRID breathing space at the front of the field during the first hour of the 2019 Le Mans 24 Hours...
Amazon pulls novel written by suspect in Mackenzie Lueck murder A self-published novel written by the suspect in the killing of Utah college student Mackenzie Lueck was pulled from Amazon on Monday. The book by Ayoola Ajayi, titled “Forge Identity,” was pulled from the online retailer after he was arrested and charged with murder. His former wife als...
Serena Williams Pulls Out of the Italian Open With a Knee Injury It was the third straight tournament that Williams, 37, had withdrawn from because of physical problems. The French Open starts in less than two weeks....
AP Exclusive: Nicki Minaj pulls out of Saudi Arabia concert AP Exclusive: Nicki Minaj is pulling out of a concert in Saudi Arabia because she says she wants to show support for women’s rights, gay rights and freedom of expression...
'Elite Squad' pulls together a Tom Clancy dream team on mobile Ghost Recon: Breakpoint wasn't the only Tom Clancy-related game Ubisoft showcased at its E3 event. It revealed the trailer for Tom Clancy's Elite Squad, a mobile RPG that pulls together characters from Rainbow Six, Ghost Recon, The Division and Splin......
GM's Maven, citing strategy shift, pulls out of Chicago, New York Maven, the mobility brand operated by GM, said its car-sharing service will remain in operation in Detroit and Los Angeles while it discontinues operations in other major U.S. cities....
American Gibbs pulls out of French Open after cancer diagnosis "American Nicole Gibbs has revealed she will miss the rest of the clay court season including this month\u0027s French Open after being diagnosed with a rare form of cancer."...
Total takes on Toshiba's U.S. LNG business after Chinese buyer pulls out Total will take over Toshiba's U.S. liquefied natural gas business and get $800 million cash from the Japanese group as part of the deal, the companies said on Saturday, weeks after attempts to sell it to a Chinese buyer fell through....
AB InBev pulls Budweiser listing, canceling year's largest IPO Anheuser-Busch InBev said on Friday it will not proceed with the planned listing in Hong Kong of its Asia Pacific unit, Budweiser Brewing Company APAC Ltd , in what would have been the world's biggest initial public offering (IPO) of 2019....
Shanahan pulls out of Pentagon job as reports emerge of family violence Acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan abandoned his quest for the top Pentagon job on Tuesday as reports emerged of domestic violence in his family, plunging the leadership of the U.S. military into new uncertainty just as tensions with Iran are rising....
Tennis: Australian Kyrgios pulls out of French Open - organisers Australian maverick Nick Kyrgios withdrew from the French Open on Friday, according to tournament officials, robbing the Grand Slam event of some guaranteed fireworks....
UPDATE 1-Toshiba says Total to take its U.S. LNG business after Chinese buyer pulls out French energy group Total will buy Toshiba's U.S. liquefied natural gas business for $15 million, the Japanese industrial conglomerate said on Saturday, weeks after a previous deal with a Chinese energy firm collapsed....
Southwest Airlines pulls Boeing 737 Max off flight schedule until October Southwest Airlines announced it was pushing back the reintroduction of the Boeing 737 Max until October after the FAA said it had found a new problem with the plane....
Boris Johnson pulls ahead in Tory leadership race Ex-foreign secretary Boris Johnson has surged ahead of his rivals in the second poll of Tory leadership race. Moderate Rory Stewart survived against the odds....
Chilean salmon farmer pulls out of national park in Patagonia Chile salmon farmer Nova Austral plans to pull the pens it uses to raise salmon from the ocean waters off a national park near the southern tip of Chilean Patagonia, its chief executive said on Thursday....
Nintendo pulls two mobile games in Belgium due to loot box laws Nintendo is pulling two of its popular mobile games in Belgium due to the nation's anti-gambling laws aimed at loot boxes. Fire Emblem Heroes and Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp will be removed from app stores on August 27th, according to an announcemen......
Streaming TV is about to get very expensive – here's why With Disney, Apple and others about to launch their own services, a lot of your favourite shows are likely to vanish behind paywalls. The golden age of streaming is overThe most watched show on US Netflix, by a huge margin, is the US version of The Office. Even though the platform pumps out an absur...
WRC Rally Portugal: Ott Tanak pulls clear of Jari-Matti Latvala Ott Tanak continues to lead the World Rally Championship's Rally Portugal ahead of his Toyota team-mates Jari-Matti Latvala and Kris Meeke, as Teemu Suninen's podium challenge for M-Sport faded...
Italian Airline Pulls Video With Actor in Blackface as Barack Obama Alitalia initially defended the video by saying the actor was not Caucasian and that “makeup was applied to highlight features.” It later apologized....
Rapper Nicki Minaj pulls out of controversial Saudi Arabia concert U.S. rapper Nicki Minaj said on Tuesday that she was pulling out of a planned concert in Saudi Arabia next week, citing her support for the rights of women and the LGBTQ community....
#PicnickingWhileBlack: Pistol-Packing White Woman Pulls Gun on Black Couple A black couple who planned to spend their Memorial Day enjoying the beauty of nature found themselves at the wrong end of a gun barrel when a pistol-wielding white woman confronted them at a Mississippi campground....
White House pulls proposal to eliminate drug rebates: Politico The Trump administration has withdrawn its proposal to eliminate rebates from government drug plans, the Politico reported on Thursday, citing a White House spokesperson....
Nike pulls sneaker after Kaepernick objection, prompting Republican fury ‘Betsy Ross Flag’ features 13 stars in a circle is embraced by white nationalists – Republicans criticize move, calling it ‘anti-American’Nike has withdrawn a pair of shoes featuring an early version of the American flag that has been embraced by white nationalists, after former NFL quarterback Coli...
Army pulls out of violent Cape Town suburbs after show of force South African soldiers pulled out of gang-ridden suburbs of Cape Town on Friday after a brief show of force, leaving residents uncertain about what to expect next....
Nasdaq pulls out of Oslo Bors battle, handing Euronext victory Nasdaq withdrew its offer for Oslo Bors on Monday, giving pan-European exchange Euronext free rein to pursue its bid for the Norwegian stock market operator after a five-month battle....
The Game of Thrones Honest Trailer Pulls No Punches With This Epic Takedown The third honest trailer for Game of Thrones is here and it’s clear that the team over at Screen Junkies pulled no punches in their final takedown of the uber-popular HBO drama. Covering seasons 6-8, the third installment in the Game of Thrones honest trailer series questions how the show mana...
YouTube pulls ads from right-wing pundit after journalist alleges anti-gay harassment Amid backlash and policy updates, YouTube announced yesterday that it will demonetize videos published by right-wing commentator Steven Crowder. ...
Harris pulls into virtual tie with Biden in home-state California: poll Native Californian Sen. Kamala Harris has pulled into a virtual tie with Democratic nomination front-runner Joe Biden in the Golden State, according to a new poll....
Amazon TV series The Power pulls out of filming in Georgia over Alabama abortion law Reed Morano's upcoming Amazon series The Power has pulled out of filming in Georgia after a controversial bill was passed in Alabama which effects a near-total ban on abortion in the state....
U.S. dream pulls African migrants in record numbers across Latin America Marilyne Tatang, 23, crossed nine borders in two months to reach Mexico from the West African nation of Cameroon, fleeing political violence after police torched her house, she said....
Cyndi Lauper steps on bee at Los Angeles concert, pulls out stinger while singing Cyndi Lauper showed her “True Colors” at a Los Angeles concert over the weekend when the performer continued singing as she pulled out the stinger of a bee she had stepped on....
Streets Of Rage 2 Champ Pulls Off Nigh Impossible No Death Mania Run Speedrunner Anthopants is one of the best Streets of Rage players in the world, but even he couldn’t complete Streets of Rage 2 on Mania difficulty as the character Max without dying...until this weekend, that is, when he downed the final boss with a mere sliver of health left. His reaction upon bec...
Google Pulls Scam Samsung Updates App That Was Downloaded 10 Million Times Google has suspended a fraudulent mobile app on the Google Play Store called 'Updates for Samsung' for violating its policies that claimed to offer system-level Android updates to smartphones....
Airbus pulls anniversary book over fraud probe concerns: sources Airbus has halted sales of a new book that the planemaker had commissioned for its 50th anniversary to avoid hampering the manufacturer's attempts to win a settlement in a bribery probe, two people familiar with the matter said....
Health minister pulls out of race to be next UK PM as rival taunts Boris Johnson Boris Johnson, the frontrunner to replace Theresa May as Britain's prime minister, came under pressure on Friday to face the media over his Brexit plans as another of his rivals dropped out of the leadership battle....
Microsoft Quietly Pulls Its Database of 100,000 Faces Used By Chinese Surveillance Companies Back in 2016, Microsoft built a database of more than 10 million images featuring roughly 100,000 people. Today, the Financial Times has reported Microsoft quietly deleted this database, dubbed MS Celeb, from the internet.Read more......
'Doom' will be streaming on iOS later this year Earlier today at E3, Bethesda announced its new game streaming technology, Orion. The company promises Orion will be able to work with any game and any platform, and later this year iOS users will be able to test that promise out with Doom. The 2016......
AT&T's streaming bundle with HBO could start at $16 AT&T's streaming video service, which will bundle HBO, Cinemax, and a wide selection of Warner Bro. films and television, is shaping up to be a surprisingly good deal. AT&T will be pricing the bundle at between $16 and $17 a month, reports th......
PlayStation boss: “We believe the streaming era is upon us.” Enlarge / PlayStation Now currently offers 780 streaming games, and Sony promises to expand that catalog significantly going forward. In a wide-ranging investor presentation that focused on Sony's future gaming plans, Sony Interactive Entertainment President and CEO Jim Ryan echoed comments from ...
Mack Horton backed to regain form as Sun Yang showdown pulls into view Olympic champion underwhelmed in trialsAustralian on course to meet Chinese rival in GwangjuThe signs are good that Olympic champion Mack Horton will overcome underwhelming trials form and regain his mojo at this week’s world swimming titles in South Korea. Australian head coach Jacco Verhaeren is c...
Non-Profit Pulls Out Of Strip Club-Sponsored Golf Event At Trump Resort President Donald Trump's company has canceled a golf tournament that a Miami-area strip club planned to hold at his Doral, Florida, resort this weekend....
Rich Energy Pulls Logo From Haas F1 Cars After Loss in Copyright Case Rich Energy, the mysterious energy-drink sponsor of the Haas Formula One Team that seems to perpetually create more questions than answers for onlookers, has, after being taken to court on copyright allegations and losing, pulled its now-infamous stag logo from the team’s cars for this weekend’s Can...
Minnesota State Fair pulls offbeat menu item: doughnuts with syringes The Minnesota State Fair is dropping a new food item -- doughnut bits with a side of syringes -- a snack apparently too extreme even for an industry perpetually pushing culinary boundaries....
Tony Romo pulls away to defend title at American Century Championship in Tahoe Tony Romo defended his title at the American Century Championship celebrity golf tournament at Edgewood Tahoe. ...
Toronto strip club pulls free lap dance offer to Kawhi Leonard Kawhi Leonard’s decision to join the Clippers in free agency has had at least one repercussion. Zanzibar, a gentleman’s club in Toronto, which had promised free lapdances for life for the NBA champion Raptors, no longer offers the perk to Leonard. “No more lapdances for Kawhi,̶...
GameDev.World pulls off a historic global online game conference in 8 languages GameDev.World demystified the art of game development just a little bit in the past three days, with 24 hours of talks from a diverse group of experts.Read More...
Donald Trump pulls F-35 sale from Turkey after Russian missile defense purchase President Donald Trump on Tuesday said the United States will not sell Turkey any F-35 jets after the Middle Eastern country purchased a Russian missile defense system....
Arizona governor yanks Nike incentives after it pulls flag-themed sneaker Arizona will yank financial incentives for Nike’s manufacturing plant in the state after the company shelved a sneaker that featured an old version of the American flag, GOP Governor Doug Ducey said Tuesday. Nike decided to recall the shoe after ex-NFL quarterback and Nike endorser Colin Kaepernick ...
Nevada trooper pulls over hearse carrying corpse in carpool lane: police A mortuary driver who was driving in a Las Vegas carpool lane Monday, asked the Highway Patrol trooper who had pulled him over if the corpse he had in back of his van counted as a passenger, police said....
Trump pulls back from launch of military strikes on Iran after initial approval: NYT U.S. President Donald Trump approved military strikes on Friday against Iran in retaliation for the downing of an unmanned $130-million surveillance drone, but pulled back from launching the attacks, the New York Times said....
Trump reportedly approves military strikes on Iran — then abruptly pulls back Military planes and ships were getting ready to attack Iranian targets when the strike was called off on Thursday night, The New York Times reported....
Trump administration pulls $929 million in funding for California high-speed rail The Federal Railroad Administration announced Thursday that it terminated a 2010 agreement with the California High-Speed Rail Authority and will pull a nearly $929 million federal grant....
Nicki Minaj Pulls Out of Saudi Arabia Concert After Criticism From Human Rights Group (NEW YORK) — Nicki Minaj is pulling out of a concert in Saudi Arabia because she says she wants to show support for women’s rights, gay rights and freedom of expression. “After careful reflection I have decided to no longer move forward with my scheduled concert at Jeddah World Fes...
Hard Rock's Dominican Republic resort, where two US tourists died, pulls minibars from all rooms The Hard Rock resort in the Dominican Republic, where two U.S. tourists died in the past year, says it is removing minibars from all its guest rooms....
Nicki Minaj pulls out; Janet Jackson, Chris Brown, 50 Cent in for Saudi festival Janet Jackson, Chris Brown, 50 Cent, Future and Tyga have been added to the Jeddah World Fest lineup after Nicki Minaj pulled out of it. ...
Nike Pulls Betsy Ross Flag Sneakers After Reported Input From Colin Kaepernick Nike has pulled a pair of sneakers intended to commemorate the Fourth of July after reported insight from Colin Kaepernick about the shoe’s design. According to a report from the Wall Street Journal, the Air Max 1 sneakers featured the early American flag that many attribute to Betsy Ross. In ...
GQ magazine pulls photo of Silicon Valley execs featuring 2 women Photoshopped in: reports Not enough women tech executives in Silicon Valley? They can always be Photoshopped in. GQ magazine recently removed a photo from its website after learning that the two women appearing with 15 male tech executives had been digitally added....
CNBC-shilled cryptocurrency exchange Bitsane pulls exit scam on 246K users Irish cryptocurrency exchange Bitsane has reportedly pulled an exit scam and disappeared with hundreds of thousands of dollars in cryptocurrency belonging to its users, reports Forbes. Bitsane’s website, which reportedly boasted 246,000 registered users, has been offline since (at least) June 17, wh...
Baltimore Ravens coach reportedly pulls Michael Pierce from practice after showing up out of shape Baltimore Ravens head coach John Harbaugh booted Michael Pierce from the team’s first official practice this week after the defensive tackle showed up out of shape....
Nike pulls sneakers with 'Betsy Ross' American flag after Colin Kaepernick complains Nike pulled sneakers that featured an early American flag after former NFL football player Colin Kaepernick told the company it shouldn't sell a shoe with a symbol that he and others consider offensive, the Wall Street Journal reported....
Nebraska school that declared candy canes ‘too religious’ pulls yearbook with Christian symbol Fifth graders at an Omaha, Nebraska middle school voted to put inspirational words shaped like a cross on the front cover of their yearbook. The cross-shaped design featured words like love, imagine, dream, and faith....
The 5 best TV shows and movies streaming in June From "Designated Survivor" to "A Star is Born" to "District 9," here are the best movies and TV shows new to Netflix, Hulu, Amazon and HBO in June. ...
The Great Race to Rule Streaming TV In their rush to match Netflix, competitors like HBO, Hulu and Amazon are ordering a slew of content — ushering out the age of “prestige TV” and ushering in an age of anything goes....
Microsoft ‘still considering’ a $60 xCloud streaming console Although not much has been said about it publicly, Microsoft is still considering a cheap new micro-console that could stream games from its xCloud service, according to a new set of rumors from people who are familiar with Microsoft's plans. The console would be an alternative to the much...
Streaming: Scorsese's freewheeling Dylan doc Martin Scorsese is in playful mode with Rolling Thunder Revue, an intimate portrait of a 1970s Bob Dylan tourIn a year that has seen Steven Spielberg become the poster boy for anti-Netflix scepticism, his old peer Martin Scorsese is fully embracing the possibilities. In the autumn, his much-hyped, b...
Classical music for the streaming generation Classical music fans often struggle to find what they want on Spotify and Apple, so a Berlin streaming startup is plugging the gap. The Idagio app is also seizing on the popularity of the genre in Asia....
Roku continues to dominate TV streaming in the US It's no secret that Roku has many devotees, but how big is its lead in the TV streaming world, really? Quite large, according to Strategy Analytics -- and importantly, growing. The analyst firm's latest sales research indicates that Roku is expandi......
Not Even Apple Can Clean Up the Mess of Streaming TV Apple has built a hub for all your content, no matter where it comes from or which app you use to watch it. It’s a very good idea, but the execution only serves to show how confusing and broken the TV landscape is....
Bear cam in Alaska now streaming live A livestream of bears in Alaska is catching a lot of viewer’s attention. CLICK HERE TO LIVESTREAM. The National Park Service and Explore.org have partnered to livestream the bears. The camera is positioned at Brooks Falls in Alaska’s Katmai National Park and Preserve. The Brown Bears co...
Running Scared: Network TV in the Streaming Age Viewers are fleeing for Netflix. The ones who stay are older than the group prized by advertisers. Here’s a look back at the troubled 2018-19 season....
HBO Max will be the exclusive streaming home of 'Friends' AT&T's WarnerMedia finally has a name for its streaming service -- and some unfortunate news for people hoping it would share some classic shows. The new platform will be named HBO Max, and will unsurprisingly use HBO's material as its base on t......
Air Force veteran touts new shoe to honor law enforcement as Nike pulls patriotic flag sneaker Amid the controversy surrounding Nike scrapping plans for an American flag-themed sneaker, a U.S. Air Force veteran announced a new shoe he designed to benefit law enforcement officers....
After high arsenic reports, Keurig Dr Pepper pulls bottled water sold at Target, Walmart All bottles of unflavored Peñafiel mineral spring water are part of a voluntary withdrawal, Keurig Dr Pepper said in a statement Friday. ...
Anti-Defamation League weighs in on Betsy Ross flag debate after Nike pulls shoe The Anti-Defamation League on Tuesday weighed into the Betsy Ross flag debate after Colin Kaepernick reportedly raised concerns to Nike officials about putting the flag on a sneaker....
After Colin Kaepernick complaint, Nike reportedly pulls shoe with ‘Betsy Ross flag’ design The former NFL quarterback, according to sources cited by the Wall Street Journal, objected to what he saw as the association the 13-star flag has with an era marked by slavery....
Charity benefiting from strip club golf tournament at Trump's Doral pulls out of event After learning a strip club was involved in a charity golf tournament at Trump's National Doral, a Miami-based nonprofit pulls out of event. ...
Arizona Governor to yank Nike financial incentives after company pulls American flag sneakers The Republican governor said Nike's decision "is a shameful retreat for the company. American businesses should be proud of our country's history, not abandoning it."...
REFILE-UPDATE 1-Hexagon's weak outlook pulls down European shares ahead of U.S. jobs data European shares snapped its six-day winning streak on Friday as industrial stocks slid after Sweden's Hexagon gave a downbeat outlook blaming the U.S.-China trade war and investors stayed cautious ahead of a crucial U.S. jobs data....
Microsoft may still have a streaming-only console on the drawing board Microsoft’s new baby, the console codenamed Project Scarlett, is currently getting the lion’s share of attention. Despite not having a working model to show, Microsoft lavished the next-gen device with showtime during E3, including the world’s vaguest sizzle reel ever. But that might not be the only...
Fire TV vs Roku: Which streaming video platform is better? Streaming video players have come a long way in just 10 years. Back in 2009, almost no one owned a Roku - and Amazon? Prime Video had just come out in 2006, so at that point it was still just a blip on the radar. But 10 years later and Amazon and Roku are two of the biggest names in streaming video ...
Streaming online pornography produces as much CO2 as Belgium Streaming online videos generates 300 million tonnes of CO2 a year – nearly 1 per cent of global emissions – with pornography alone generating 80 million tonnes...
In Streaming Age, Classical Music Gets Lost in the Metadata Has music streaming ignored aficionados of Mozart and Beethoven? Two new services, Idagio and Primephonic, address the needs of the genre’s discerning listeners....
ProSieben streaming JV to go live, partners with Facebook German broadcaster ProSiebenSat.1 Media will launch its streaming joint venture with Discovery Inc, on June 18, with a premium version planned to go live in the coming winter, CEO Max Conze said on Wednesday....
Streaming 'Dune' TV series will accompany the new movie Dune fans have more to look forward to than a new movie and games. WarnerMedia has ordered a Dune: The Sisterhood series for its upcoming streaming service that will cover the mysterious Bene Gesserit order and its elaborate "superbeing" breeding pr......
Cramer ranks his top 7 video streaming services "With so many media companies launching their own subscription streaming services, we need to start thinking about winners and losers here," the "Mad Money" host says....
What do subscription services and streaming mean for the future of gaming? The future of gaming is streaming. If that wasn’t painfully obvious to you a week ago, it certainly ought to be now. Google got ahead of E3 late last week by finally shedding light on Stadia, a streaming service that promises a hardware agnostic gaming future. It’s still very early days, of course....
Oculus blocks SteamVR streaming on Quest The developer of an Oculus Quest app called Virtual Desktop introduced an experimental feature that allowed users to stream SteamVR games to their Oculus headset. He's now being forced by Oculus to remove the feature. Guy Godin took to Reddit yesterd......
The battle between streaming platforms is getting nasty — here’s how much it’ll cost you If you haven’t heard, Netflix is leaking content: Friends is leaving Netflix for HBO Max, The Office is leaving Netflix for NBCUniversal’s upcoming streaming service, and all Marvel and Star Wars content is leaving Netflix for Disney+. And this is just the tip of the iceberg… The streaming wars are ...
The best streaming services for kids (that aren't YouTube) Among the various choices, Cartoon Network is solid option for kid-friendly streaming. While you may need a cable subscription for complete access, there are some full episodes of nostalgia-inducing classics like Powerpuff Girls available as well as......
Chernobyl Emerges From Oblivion For The Streaming Generation Olha Kyselova wasn't born when the Chernobyl power plant exploded in 1986, yet the disaster has always been in her life. Her parents were "liquidators," sent in to brave the radiation and help clear......
‘Stranger Things 3’ is streaming now, and word is it’s the best season yet 21 months after Stranger Things 2 debuted on Netflix, the thrilling series has returned for a third season of nostalgia-driven horror. Stranger Things 3 once again takes place in Hawkins, Indiana, but it’s now the summer of 1985, and a new mall has just opened in the small town. As in previous...
Microsoft to Test New Videogame-Streaming Project The tech giant said on Sunday it will begin publicly testing its new videogame-streaming initiative in October, just ahead of when Google’s competing service is slated to launch....
2019 NBA Finals: Tip-off time, TV, streaming and everything else to know about Game 3 With the NBA Finals shifting to Oakland and the series tied 1-1 between the Raptors and Warriors, here's all the info you need to watch Game 3. ...
How 5G and foldable phones will benefit streaming companies 5G and foldable phones: have there been any technology trends in the news as much as these two? 5G promises massive capacity and low latency beyond what 4G can deliver. It brings greater speed (the ability to move more data faster), lower latency (everything’s more responsive), and will ...
Disney just released the first trailer for ‘Frozen 2’ We saw the first teaser earlier this year, and now we finally have a full-length Frozen 2 trailer for you. It’s been six long years for Frozen fans who wanted a sequel, and Disney is finally ready to deliver. We’ve got the same stellar characters, Anna and Elsa joined by Kristoff and Ola...
The 30 greatest Disney songs – ranked! Yes, of course Let It Go is in there somewhere … but where does it rank among Disney’s other big-screen belters?It is not clear if Little April Shower is supposed to sound as sinister and hallucinatory as it does – the middle section of the song, with its wordless, seasick vocal chorus and surging o...
Disney has 60 movies in the works for the next decade — here they all are Lucasfilm Walt Disney Studios has released a list of scheduled movies through 2027. In addition to "Star Wars" movies and Marvel projects, Disney now has films from Fox. Disney acquired Fox film studios (20th Century Fox, Fox Searchlight Pictures, and Blue Sky Studios) in 2019. Walt Disney Stud...
Spotify has the Disney section you’ve always wanted Disney classics like The Lion King or Mulan are known for their iconic soundtracks, and now it's easier than ever to find them in one place. Spotify and Disney have teamed up today to launch a hub exclusively for all things Disney. Users can stream p......
Where Are Your Favorite Disney Channel Stars Now? Every once in a while, a ghost of Disney Channel past will pop up to offer an update on their life post-Mouse House, sending a certain segment of the internet (read: Millennials) into an absolute......
Indiana college softball team pulls off stunning hidden-ball trick to advance to World Series Indiana college softball players used teamwork and a bit of subterfuge to pull off a hidden-ball trick Saturday that secured their spot in the Women’s College World Series....
The real cost of cutting the cord: What streaming companies don't want you to know Most of us have a love-hate relationship with cable. We like television. We love a handful of stations. But we don't need hundreds of useless channels, many of them boring, some of them in languages we don't understand. Month after month, we pay our cable bills, yet we use only a small fraction of w...
What channel is the 2019 NBA draft on? Here's TV and streaming info, plus everything else you need to know The next class of NBA talent will selected Thursday night in New York. Here's all the info you need to watch and follow the 2019 NBA draft. ...
ISRO Chandrayaan 2 Mission: When And Where To Watch Live Streaming Chandrayaan-2's orbiter, lander and rover have been designed and made in India, and it will use its most powerful rocket launcher, GSLV Mk III, to carry the 2.4 tonne orbiter....
How China's streaming app beat Spotify and Apple in Africa When Chinese music streaming company Transsnet wanted to break into the lucrative African market, they partnered with parent company, Transsion holdings, the makers of popular phone brands such as Infinix and TECNO to pre-install their Boomplay app on their handsets....
AirTV Mini delivers streaming and local TV in a dongle A couple years ago Dish revealed AirTV, an Android TV-powered set-top box. The company has been relatively quiet since then, but today, it launched the AirTV Mini. The new device is a 4K HDR-compatible streaming stick that brings users Sling TV, Netf......
U.S. video streaming app YouNow files cryptocurrency offering with SEC U.S. live video streaming company YouNow on Wednesday filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission a public offering circular to distribute its own digital currency called Props....
Sylvester Stallone wants to reboot Cobra as a streaming series When last we heard from Sylvester Stallone, the multi-hyphenate was back to daydreaming of his long-gestating Edgar Allen Poe biopic. The opium-addled writer, though, isn’t the only antihero populating Stallone’s head—Marion Cobretti still lingers as well. Better known as Cobra, the character’s 1986...
Recommended Reading: The music streaming payday won't go to artists The record industry expects a windfall. Where will the money go? Marc Hogan, Pitchfork It's no secret the music industry is booming on the back of streaming services. However, it seems like not much will change in terms of where all the money goes......
Cable TV customer satisfaction falls even further behind streaming video Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | amesy) Netflix and other online video services have expanded their customer-satisfaction lead over cable and satellite TV, the American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI) found in its annual telecommunications report released today. Streaming-video services averaged...
Facebook Restricts Live Streaming After New Zealand Shooting When 51 people were killed in New Zealand, the suspect broadcast it live on Facebook. The massacre led to a global call to combat the spread of violent content....
Too much streaming content is causing viewer ‘paralysis’: Nielsen Stuck between The Rock and “A Quiet Place”? You’re not alone. Nielsen’s new Total Audience Report found that the average TV viewer takes seven minutes just to pick what to watch. Chalk it up to too much choice. The proliferation of streaming services such as Netflix and Hulu and video-on...
Don’t trust advice from streaming ‘health’ films, experts say Pass the popcorn — and a tinfoil hat. So-called health documentaries promoting sketchy science, snake-oil remedies and dangerous conspiracies are finding a home on popular streaming services — and alarming public-health experts. “The propagation of pseudoscience undermines valid science,” says Dr. D...
Hulu launches new live TV guide and reintroduces 4K streaming Hulu has launched a new Live Guide showing which live TV shows are available to watch on the streaming service right now and also what's coming up in the next two weeks....
Cable, streaming or sports bar? How much it costs to watch the NBA finals Even as more and more Canadians are cutting cable, more of us are watching the NBA Finals — whether that’s on streaming services or out at a sports bar....
YouTube's exclusive MLB coverage begins streaming today Earlier this year YouTube announced an exclusive 13-game streaming deal with Major League Baseball -- and it's starting today. If you're in the USA, Canada or Puerto Rico you'll be able to watch a live MLB game of the week, every week of the regular......
NHL draft: Time, TV, streaming info, first-round order and everything you need to know American Jack Hughes is expected to go first and Finland's Kaapo Kakko is expected to be taken second during Friday's first round of the NHL draft. ...
Disney (DIS): How to Catch and Ride Price Breakouts Disney (NYSE: DIS) has likely finished a contracting triangle Elliott wave pattern recently -- and prices should break out, higher or lower (subscribers know which it is). In this free 12-minute video, our long-time Trader's Classroom editor, Jeffrey Kennedy, examines the chart of Disney's stock, te...
Disney drops new, not-so-frigid Frozen 2 trailer In Frozen, Elsa’s powers were a threat to both her and her kingdom. In the sequel, they could be the key to humanity’s survival. So hints the below trailer for the Disney franchise’s next outing, which is said to provide an origin story of sorts for her ice-spewing prowess....
Some Interesting Updates on Disney's Ms. Marvel Plans Paul Feig is still hoping for a sequel to Ghostbusters: Answer the Call. The crew behind the beloved X-Men: The Animated Series want to pitch a continuation to Disney. Michael Rooker could be joining the Dark Tower TV show. Plus, new looks at Midsommar and what’s to come on Krypton’s return. Spoiler...
Disney's 2020 summer cruises In summer 2020, Disney Cruise Line will embark on itineraries around the world, including Greece and five first-time ports of call in Europe. ...
Disney recalling ‘Toy Story 4’ toy over choking hazard Stick a fork in “Forky.” Disney yanked thousands the plush toy “Forky” — featured as a sidekick in “Toy Story 4” — from the shelves because they pose a choking hazard, officials said Tuesday. The company recalled 80,000 of the stuffed characters over their detachable “googly” plast...
Hulu will belong to Disney. Here's what that means Disney's acquisition of 21st Century Fox means it took Fox's share of Hulu in that deal, adding to its own and giving it majority control of Hulu. ...
Jon Favreau is already writing season 2 of ‘The Mandalorian’ for Disney+ At this point, it’s hard to figure out when Jon Favreau sleeps anymore, with the jack-of-all-trades writer, director, and actor just coming off roles in Avengers: Endgame as well as Spider-Man: Far From Home and preparing to debut his CGI-heavy remake of Disney’s The Lion King in theater...
Disney's 'The Lion King', strikingly realistic 25 years after the premiere of the Walt Disney cartoon classic, "The Lion King," the story hits the movie theaters again — this time with photorealistic animation. The result is a glimpse of the digital future....
The First Reactions to Disney's The Lion King Remake Are Here It sounds like The Lion King just can’t wait to be king of the box office. The first reactions to the CGI remake of Disney’s The Lion King are here, with critics praising the film’s visual effects and dynamic cast...although having photorealistic animals sing does seem to come with some caveats.Read...
Strikingly realistic: Disney's The Lion King Twenty-five years after the premiere of the Walt Disney cartoon classic, "The Lion King," the story hits the movie theaters again — this time with photorealistic animation. The result is a glimpse of the digital future....
Disney heiress slams park for low wages Disney heiress Abigail Disney slammed the Walt Disney Company for low wages after an undercover visit to Disneyland theme park in California. ...
'Toy Story 4' Continues Disney's Box-Office Streak Walt Disney once again did something that has eluded other Hollywood studios this summer: It opened a sequel to impressive returns at the box office....
17 ways to save money on your Disney vacation Don't want to give Mickey Mouse all your money? We've got 17 money-saving tips for your family's trip to Disney World and Disneyland. ...
Netflix and Disney speak out against Georgia’s new abortion law Georgia is one of the latest states to pass legislation that will make it harder for women to get abortions, but Georgia also happens to be one of the countries where several movie studios shoot some of their pictures, including Netflix and Disney. Both studios spoke out against Georgia’s &ldq...
Disney: 17 money-saving hacks to try on your next trip Among Look at value days to score cheaper tickets and buy souvenirs, sunscreen and even strollers outside the park. ...
Disney uses apps, ‘MagicBands’ to spy on guests: report The “Happiest Place on Earth” is also one of the most surveilled — with Disney honchos using the park’s wearable “MagicBands” and smartphone apps to reportedly spy on guests and collect data on not just their buying habits, but also what rides their kids like and ...
Disney Would Consider Boycotting Georgia if Abortion Ban Goes Into Effect Georgia’s entertainment industry may take a major hit thanks to the state’s regressive politics. Several Hollywood producers have already said they won’t film in the state thanks to an abortion ban passed earlier this month. Now, Disney CEO Bob Iger says that if the ban goes into effect it would be ...
Star Wars Gives Force to Disney Parks Disney’s Star Wars attractions opening at Disneyland in Anaheim, Calif., and Walt Disney World in Orlando, Fla., represent the single-largest expansion in either park’s history....
Report: Microsoft still planning a low-cost, streaming-focused Xbox At this year's E3, Microsoft had a lot to say about its high-end Xbox One successor (code-named "Project Scarlett") and about its previously announced (and newly demoed) Project Xcloud streaming gaming service. But the company was less forthcoming about long-standing reports of low-cost, streaming-f...
Bethesda wants you to test its game streaming tech with DOOM on iOS this year At its E3 briefing yesterday, Bethesda Softworks, the publisher behind the popular Elder Scrolls and Fallout game franchises, announced that it’s also hopping on the game streaming bandwagon – but not in the way you might think. The company’s Orion tech is a framework that optimizes cloud gaming per...
Budget 2019: When And Where To Watch Live Streaming Of Economic Survey Mr Subramanian was appointed as the Chief Economic Adviser in December last year, nearly six months after Arvind Subramanian stepped down from the post at the end of his term....
Xbox reveals its game-streaming and remote-play strategy After testing out streaming with Project XCloud -- and now facing down Google Stadia -- Microsoft is ready to start streaming games beyond the Xbox.Read More...
More than 200 classics of South Korean cinema are streaming for free on YouTube Last month, South Korean director Bong Joon-ho (Snowpiercer, Okja) was awarded the Palme D’Or at the Cannes Film Festival for his new film Parasite, once again bringing international attention to the ever-growing South Korean film industry. If you’re intrigued with the country’s rich history of cine...
Hulu finally brings back 4K streaming after killing it last year There are pros and cons to all of the myriad streaming services currently available, but of all the missing features of the most popular services, none are more baffling than the lack of 4K streaming on Hulu. It is hard to imagine one of Netflix’s most successful rivals failing to have such ba...
NASA is streaming today’s total solar eclipse, and you can watch it here Being able to fully enjoy a total solar eclipse means being in the right place at the right time. Unfortunately for most skywatchers, today’s total solar eclipse will only grace a tiny section of Earth’s surface with its glorious eye candy. Not to worry, because NASA has us covered. The ...
British Open 2019: Round 2 tee times, pairings, TV, streaming The first round of the 2019 British Open wasn't pretty, but there's still much golf to be played. Here's the info you need for TV and streaming ...
Is Netflix bad for the environment? How streaming video contributes to climate change Driving an electric car, choosing train travel or using less plastic — we know there are many things we can do to be less of a burden on the world's environment. But would you be willing to give up on streaming video?...
Morrison sells Australia's terrorism video streaming plan to the G20 Scott Morrison gets G20 backing to persuade online platforms to block the streaming or uploading of terrorism content, and releases an action plan for how it can be done....
Just about every Final Fantasy soundtrack is now streaming on Spotify and Apple Music So far, 2019 has been a pretty good year for fans of the Final Fantasy franchise. First, we were finally given a real look at the long-anticipated Final Fantasy VII remake, which sounds like it may actually come out sometime in the near future. Now, thanks to some benevolent copyright holders at Squ...
Ubisoft UPlay Plus is the streaming home for The Division, Watch Dogs and more There's a new game streaming service in town, and this time it's from Ubisoft. UPlay Plus will offer more than 100 of the publisher's games as part of a subscription service, the company announced during its E3 2019 keynote.The games will be served over the web – no download re...
TikTok’s owner is reportedly launching a music streaming app in July Yesterday, Chinese company ByteDance – which owns TikTok, Helo, and Vigo Video – launched a chat app called Flipchat. Now, a new report from Bloomberg suggests its reportedly launching a music streaming app this year. The report notes that the company has already secured rights from two of India’s b...
Id Software built a framework to make streaming video games better Bethesda is jumping on the cloud-gaming train with Orion, a software collection that optimizes game engines for streaming. Essentially, Orion is designed to make games run better on platforms like Google's Stadia or Microsoft's xCloud. It works with......
2019 U.S. Open: Round 2 tee times, TV channels, streaming info Round 2 of the 2019 US Open gets underway Friday morning. Here's everything you need to catch who makes the cut at Pebble Beach Golf Links. ...
Newbies Pay $15 Million for TV Episode to Stand Out in Packed Streaming Market As Walt Disney, AT&T’s WarnerMedia and Apple prepare to enter the crowded streaming-entertainment market, they are racing to stand out with eye-catching shows that cost as much for a season as a big-budget movie....
Home Run Derby 2019: Time, TV, bracket, streaming info Some of baseball's top sluggers face off Monday in Cleveland, looking to claim the title of Home Run Derby champion. ...
What Microsoft and Sony’s streaming partnership means for gaming’s future Enlarge (credit: Aurich Lawson / Getty / Hanna-Barbera) In a rare move, console rivals Microsoft and Sony announced a major collaboration on Thursday to join forces on a potentially huge new gaming sector: the cloud. The companies announced today that they have entered into a "memorandum of unders...
The real cost of cutting the cord: What streaming companies don’t want you to know Do it wrong, and cord-cutters might end up paying more than traditional cable, which is exactly what streaming companies don’t want you to realize. ...
MLB All-Star Game 2019: Time, TV, lineups, streaming info The Major League Baseball All-Star Game returns to Cleveland for the sixth time and for the first since 1997. Here's how to watch. ...
Midboss’ Summer of Pride is a game-streaming celebration of inclusivity MidBoss, the company behind 2064: Read Only Memories, is kicking off its Summer of Pride gaming celebration to coincide with Pride Month. The event features a myriad of gaming personalities from the LGBTQIA+ community streaming queer-friendly games on Twitch all month long. Participation is simple. ...
2019 U.S. Open: Round 3 tee times, TV channels, streaming info Round 2 of the 2019 US Open gets underway Saturday morning. Here's everything you need to follow moving day at Pebble Beach Golf Links. ...
2019 US Open: Round 1 tee times, TV channels, streaming info With the 2019 U.S. Open teeing off Thursday, here's all the info you need to watch Brooks Koepka, Tiger Woods, Phil Mickelson and more ...
Pak Minister Accidentally Shown With Cat Ears On Facebook Live Streaming In a comedy of errors, a person streaming live on Facebook a conference by a Pakistani minister accidentally activated the cat filter, according to a media report said today....
Anna Kendrick will star in 'Love Life' for WarnerMedia streaming WarnerMedia is slowly developing its own content for its upcoming streaming service, as Pitch Perfect's Anna Kendrick will star in and produce a half-hour romantic comedy series called Love Life, according to Deadline. Each season, the series will f......
Disney Channel Star Cameron Boyce Dead at 20 Hollywood has lost a rapidly rising star in Cameron Boyce. The actor, known for his roles on Disney Channel projects including Descendants and Jessie, has died at the age of......
CEO Bob Iger doesn't think Disney is too reliant on 'Star Wars' Disney's CEO Bob Iger is confident the company's $1 billion investment in its new "Star Wars" theme parks will be a boon not only for its park division, but the beloved sci-fi franchise, too....
Disney dwarfing rivals as 'Toy Story 4' storms box office When it comes to Disney and summer box-office hits, it really is a small world after all, as the studio -- having bulked up on marquee properties -- continues to dwarf the competition....
Four women allege discrimination in major Disney pay gap case The claims widen a previous class-action case alleging gender bias and extend to the company’s music label and theme parksFour women joined a major pay gap case against the Walt Disney Company, accusing the entertainment giant of gender discrimination at its Hollywood Records music label, its world-...
Review: Disney’s New The Lion King Is Beautiful But Soulless Unless you’re 99, and maybe even then, your first big-screen moviegoing experience was likely a Disney movie. Disney productions—whether we’re talking about Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937), The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes (1969) or that juggernaut of tiny-tot empowerment, the...
Disney Channel star Cameron Boyce dies at 20 Rising star Cameron Boyce, known for his roles on the Disney Channel, has died at the age of 20, his family confirmed Sunday. “It is with a profoundly heavy heart that we report that this morning we lost Cameron,” his family said in a statement to E! News. The actor was known for his rol...
Disney denies dad’s request to put Spider-Man on 4-year-old son’s grave Disney reportedly refused to allow a grieving father in England to place an etching of Spider-Man on the grave of his 4-year-old son — because, the media giant said, it wants to preserve the “innocence” and “magic” of the company’s characters. Ollie Jones, whose family ...
Netflix creates UK production hub at Disney's preferred studios Netflix is setting up another big production hub, and this one is steeped in cinematic history. The streaming giant is establishing a 14-stage UK operation at Shepperton Studios in Surrey, a location that has been used to shoot more than a few class......
Disney, Netflix React to Georgia’s Anti-Abortion Ban As the country’s top producer of pecans, peanuts, and trap music, the state of Georgia is a bit of a paradox—case in point, it’s the birthplace of both the civil rights movement and the televised antics of Stevie J. and Karlie Redd....
Disney's New *Lion King* Is the VR-Fueled Future of Cinema Director Jon Favreau shot the remake of the animated classic inside virtual reality. He doesn't know what to call the result, but it looks like a real movie....
Here's how Disney World turns its characters into works of chocolate art Early last month, we spoke with chef chocolatier Amanda Lauder of The Ganachery at Walt Disney World Resort in Orlando about taking iconic Disney characters and turning them into works of chocolate art....
Cops warn animals at Disney World may have rabies It’s not just the parkgoers you have to worry about. Disney — which is currently dealing with the fallout from its Toontown throw-down in California — may have an even bigger problem on their hands in the Sunshine State, where a 60-day rabies alert was issued for an area near it...
17 money-saving Disney World and Disneyland hacks to try You don't have to give Mickey all your money. Save by Checking the calendar for the cheapest ticket dates and buying these items outside the park. ...
Disney Channel Star Cameron Boyce Dies at Age 20 Cameron Boyce, an actor who starred in the Disney Channel series Jessie and the Descendants TV movie franchise, has died at 20 years old. A spokesperson for Boyce’s family told ABC News on Saturday that the actor had died in his sleep. The news was confirmed by Disney CEO Bob Iger in a tweet o...
Disney’s Freeform responds to Little Mermaid casting critics NBC NEWS – Disney’s Freeform issued a scathing response to critics of its casting of Halle Bailey as Ariel in the upcoming adaptation of “The Little Mermaid.” Halle Bailey/ Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, File When Disney announced Bailey, half of the sister duo Chloe x H...
Thousands of employees do yoga in front of Disney castles ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Pluto wasn’t doing a downward dog, but thousands of Disney workers unrolled their yoga mats in front of castles at the company’s theme parks in Florida, California, France, Hong Kong and Shanghai. The mass yoga events around the world on Friday marked the fourth year...
‘The Lion King’ review: Disney’s new CGI animation is astonishing As metaphors for Hollywood in 2019 go, it’s hard to beat “Circle of Life.” A thing is born, it lives (hopefully turning a nice profit for share holders) and then it dies, but is never really gone. Instead, its carcass decomposes, to be plundered and ultimately serve as fuel for future generations. A...
Here's the many ways Disney's Tower Of Terror ensures riders don't die Tower Of Terror is one of the best rides at Walt Disney World (and Disneyland, before it was redone into Guardians Of The Galaxy theme). The noir Hollywood glamour of the storyline combined with ghosts, The Twilight Zone, and, of course, stomach-dropping thrills made it a favorite for guests. But wi...
First glimpse of Disney+'s Loki series teases a '70s setting In April, Disney held an “Investor Day” event where it could brag about all of the new and exciting ways it was planning to make money, like live-action remakes of animated films and a move we like to call “put a Star Wars on it,” but one specific tease that attendees were privy to was a glimpse of ...
Disney Looks to Extend Box-Office Reign With 'Lion King' Analysts and box-office tracking services expect the new “Lion King” to open with a domestic debut north of $170 million, among the best this year. But industry executives are also expecting the movie to keep selling tickets for longer than usual, sensing a blockbuster with broad appeal that is like...
'The Lion King' roars into Disney realm of animals just like us The new "The Lion King" hews closely to the original, standing apart with its visual realism, using computer animation to approximate the look of a nature documentary. Yet amid a golden age of that genre, as the Disney blockbuster heads toward a big opening weekend, it also reminds us how talking an...
Disney heiress says employees unhappy with working conditions A Disney heiress claims that she went undercover at Disneyland, and says she wasn’t happy with what she saw. In a recent interview for Yahoo’s “Through Her Eyes,” Abigail Disney described meeting with Disneyland employees to better understand their grievances about their work. What she saw, she clai...
Why did ex-Disney Mouseketeer Dennis Day die? If police know, they aren't saying The ex-Disney Mouseketeer who enchanted as a child is dead in Oregon under still-mysterious circumstances. Why did it take 11 months to learn his fate? ...
Sports streaming firm DAZN to show Eurosport in four European countries Sports streaming service DAZN said on Thursday its subscribers would be able to receive Eurosport in Germany and three other European countries after a deal with the channel's owner Discovery....
Monster gets 120 years in prison for live streaming sexual abuse of his daughter A depraved Iowa man was sentenced to 120 years behind bars for repeatedly sexually abusing his daughter — from infancy to 6 years old — and even raping her live on the Internet, according to authorities and new reports. Steven Douglas Crook, Jr., 29, of Bloomfield, pleaded guilty to four...
Tencent-backed live-streaming firm DouYu prices US IPO at low end of range DouYu sold American depository shares at $11.5 each, compared with a previously stated target of $11.50 to $14.00, the firm said. That makes the deal the largest Chinese IPO in the U.S. so far in 2019....
Tencent launches video streaming in Thailand, eyes SE Asia expansion Chinese tech giant Tencent Holdings Ltd launched its first overseas video streaming service in Thailand on Friday, as it ramps up its presence outside China....
Stanley Cup Final: Time, TV, streaming info and everything you need for Game 7 of Bruins-Blues The Boston Bruins and St. Louis Blues will play a winner-take-all Game 7 for the right to lift the Stanley Cup. ...
Nathan's Famous Hot Dog Eating Contest: Time, TV, streaming info and everything else you need to know The annual Nathan's Famous Hot Dog Eating Contest enters its 103rd contest on July 4. Here's everything you need to know. ...
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Review: Samson’s G-Track Pro is the ultimate microphone for podcasts and game streaming Samson’s G-Track Pro is a gumbo-esque mashup of microphone, audio interface, and onboard mixer. It’s a bit of an oddity, but if you’re looking for a dead-simple hardware solution to take your podcast or gaming stream out of the audio gutter and into the realm of professional broadcasting it just mig...
The pointless Amazon and Google streaming feud officially ends today It was announced a few months ago, but today actually makes things official: Amazon and Google streaming apps are finally available on each others’ platforms again starting today, putting to rest a spat between them that did little more than disadvantage customers after an escalating series of...
Stanley Cup Finals: Time, TV, streaming info and everything you need about Game 6 of Bruins-Blues The St. Louis Blues, up 3-2 in the Stanley Cup Finals against the Boston Bruins, can capture the first championship in franchise's 52-year history. ...
Tencent-backed live-streaming firm DouYu prices U.S. IPO at low end of range DouYu International Holdings Ltd , China's largest live-streaming platform, on Tuesday said it sold $775 million in stock at a $3.73 billion valuation after pricing its U.S. initial public offering (IPO) at the bottom of an indicative range....
Read This: Streaming might have inadvertently killed the randomly aired film for cable You’ll find no shortage of season Hollywood types equipped with their torches and pitchforks, all too prepared to blame Netflix for the woes of the film industry. It’s unfair, really: Streaming has provided a viable platform for films that would likely have a harder time getting greenlit by major st...
Netflix shares fall 10% as streaming giant misses growth targets Netflix added barely half the expected 5 million new subscribersQuarterly figures blamed on content slate not competitionNetflix missed its growth targets by a huge margin in the last three months, the company announced on Wednesday, triggering a 10% drop in its share price.Announcing its latest qua...
With Disney in charge, Hulu plans original content push Now that Disney is in charge of Hulu, the streaming service is going to get more original content. Hulu CEO Randy Freer told CNBC that Hulu's "investment in original programming will increase significantly." Freer credits the change to "the capacity......
Disney goes high-tech to draw fans to a new 'Lion King' Walt Disney Co has taken a high-tech route to remake animated classic "The Lion King" with the look of a nature documentary, an update it hopes will lure audiences to a new version of a film considered a masterpiece the first time....
Disney’s live-action Mulan looks more like a period drama in first teaser Yifeu Lu stars in the title role of Mulan, Disney's live action remake of its 1998 animated film. Disney has dropped a teaser for its forthcoming film, Mulan, giving us our first real look at the studio's live action remake of the classic 1998 animated film. (Mild spoilers for the 1998 Disney anim...
#NotMyAriel: White Twitter Is Big Mad About Disney Casting a Black Little Mermaid As the nation celebrated the national holiday that symbolizes all men being created equal, a small minority of mistreated Americans cranked up the Caucasian outrage machine to address an egregious injustice that threatened the happiness and well-being of people everywhere. But this time, the righteo...
Mulan: first trailer for Disney live action reboot released The film, starring Liu Yifei as the eponymous fighter, will be released in March 2020The first footage of Disney’s live-action remake of its animated warrior saga Mulan has been released.Starring Chinese-American actor Liu Yifei as the eponymous fighter who takes her father’s place in the emperor’s ...
Disney chief: abortion law would make it difficult to keep filming in Georgia Bob Iger says many Disney employees would not want to work there if law that bans abortion as early as six weeks takes effectThe chief executive of the Walt Disney Company said Georgia’s new strict abortion law would make it “very difficult” for the media company to keep filming in the state.Walt Di...
Disney slams claims by family heiress about working conditions The Walt Disney Co. has called scathing claims by a family heiress about worker conditions at Disneyland “a gross and unfair exaggeration of the facts.” In a recent interview for Yahoo’s “Through Her Eyes,” Abigail Disney, 59, described going undercover at the park in Anaheim, California, last year ...
DOE’s Carranza hires Disney exec as ‘chief experience officer’ Maybe he’ll turn New York’s schools into a Magic Kingdom. Schools chancellor Richard Carranza has hired a longtime Walt Disney World executive as the Dept. of Education’s first-ever “chief experience officer,” the Post has learned. “It is a new role based on the need to improve DOE customer service,...
Watch Disney's First Mulan Live-Action Movie Trailer Our little baby is all grown up and saving China again! The first trailer for Disney's live-action reboot of its 1998 film Mulan was released on Sunday online and on FOX, during the......
Disney Goes High-Tech to Draw Fans to a New Lion King Walt Disney has taken a high-tech route to remake animated classic The Lion King with the look of a nature documentary, an update it hopes will lure audiences to a new version of a film considered a......
Disney's Freeform Claps Back at Critics of The Little Mermaid Casting When it was announced last week that Chloe x Halle singer Halle Bailey, a black woman, will play Ariel in Disney's upcoming The Little Mermaid live-action reboot, debates were sparked and many......
Samsung teamed up with Disney for a series of brilliant Galaxy S10 wallpapers When Samsung first showcased the Infinity-O display, with its signature hole-punch design, the discussion revolved around whether or not Samsung’s idea was preferable to the iPhone X-style notch. In the end, it’s really just a matter of personal preference. But when it comes to creative ...
R.I.P. Cameron Boyce, Disney Channel star from Jessie and Descendants According to CNN, Cameron Boyce—best known for a series of roles on Disney Channel shows—has died. TMZ adds that his family says he had an “ongoing medical condition” and died in his sleep as the result of a seizure. A statement from the Disney Channel referred to Boyce as an “incredibly talented pe...
Disney Overshadows Rival Studios as Reboots and Sequels Sputter So far this summer, studios not named Walt Disney Co. are failing to capture moviegoers’ attention in a significant way. Attempting to capitalize on the weekends in which Disney isn’t releasing one of its blockbusters, rivals have tried to stand out with sequels and remakes of their own once-success...
Disney CEO says it will be 'difficult' to film in Georgia if abortion law takes effect Walt Disney Co Chief Executive Bob Iger told Reuters on Wednesday it would be "very difficult" for the media company to keep filming in Georgia if a new abortion law takes effect because many people will not want to work in the U.S. state....
Disney takes full control of Hulu as Comcast steps aside Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | NurPhoto ) Today, Disney takes the reins at Hulu. Disney and Comcast announced a deal saying that Disney will assume full operational control of Hulu, effective immediately. In turn, Disney and Comcast have entered a "put/call" agreement, which means that as early a...
Disney gets a rare downgrade with analyst noting a 'record' valuation In a rare downgrade for the stock, Imperial Capital lowered its rating for Disney to in-line from outperform and maintained its target price of $147....
Lion King Is a Visual Upgrade That's Devoid of the Disney Magic The new Lion King movie is a - photorealistic, computer-animated not live-action - remake of the 1994 animated original, featuring the voice talents of Donald Glover, Beyoncé, and James Earl......
For the sake of cinema, Disney’s box-office stranglehold must be broken | Guy Lodge The studio has been consuming its rivals – and creating a film industry devoid of the innovation championed by its founderIt’s the kind of commercial supremacy about which Walt Disney and his brother Roy probably fantasised when they founded the Disney Brothers Cartoon Studio in 1923: just past the ...
Rush Limbaugh unloads on Disney, says it's hypocritical about Georgia abortion law The Disney company and CEO Bob Iger are being hypocritical when it comes to possibly boycotting Georgia over their controversial abortion law, this according to conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh....
You can build your own Lightsaber and Droid at Disney’s new Star Wars attractions Disney’s finally lifting the veil on its Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge attraction set to debut at Disneyland on May 31. And while we were all expecting a glut of rides and properly attired characters roaming about, its the souvenirs that have us most excited. Who goes to Disneyland just to buy overpriced...
Disney CEO: ‘I rather doubt we will’ film in Georgia if new abortion law takes effect Bob Iger on Georgia's new abortion law: "I think many people who work for us will not want to work there, and we will have to heed their wishes in that regard."...
Disney CEO Bob Iger Says Georgia’s Abortion Ban Will Make It ‘Very Difficult’ to Work There Walt Disney’s CEO Bob Iger said the company would find it difficult to continue filming in Georgia if the state’s controversial abortion ban takes effect, Reuters reports. “I rather doubt we will,” Iger said when asked if Disney would maintain their production there. “I...
Inside Star Wars Land: First Look at Disney’s Galaxy’s Edge Disney is traveling to a galaxy far, far away. The famed theme park giant’s much-anticipated 14-acre Star Wars Land: Galaxy’s Edge attractions premiere May 31 and Aug. 29 at Disneyland in Anaheim, Calif., and DisneyWorld in Lake Buena Vista, Fla., respectively. With Disneyland set to lift the ...
Sony Gives Literary Film Division, Axed by Disney, a Second Life Elizabeth Gabler, the executive behind hit movies like “The Devil Wears Prada,” will run a venture financed by Sony Pictures and HarperCollins Publishers....
Sanders, Warren blast Sinclair’s purchase of Disney RSNs A trio of Democratic presidential hopefuls are urging close scrutiny of Disney’s $10.6 billion sale of its 21 regional sports networks to Sinclair Broadcast Group, a conservative-leaning TV station owner. In a letter this week, US Sens. Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren and Cory Booker asked the Depa...
‘The Lion King’ is blowing away all other Disney remakes in ticket presales Disney’s live-action remake of The Lion King doesn’t open until July 19, but this new version of the beloved animated classic is already breaking records. Fandango announced Tuesday that the film is the new record-holder for the best first-day presales for a traditional Disney release &m...
The lifeless Disney remake Aladdin can’t muster the original’s magic The forced march of listless live-action Disney remakes continues with Guy Ritchie’s Aladdin, the worst of a batch that has already gifted us forgettable, over-designed reimaginings of Cinderella and Beauty And The Beast. Of course, Disney’s beloved 1992 animated musical about a young thief and the...
Indian streaming giant broke Safari support to deal with security hole Websites tend to drop support for a particular browser due to obsolescence or just a lack of functionality, but India's biggest streaming service apparently had another reason: a piracy-friendly security hole. TechCrunch sources understand that Disne......
Netflix vs Stan, Foxtel Now and Amazon Prime: Australian streaming services compared UPDATE: Stan has raised the price of its Premium package, which will now set you back $17 a month – that's a $2 increase from the tier's original $15 monthly fee. Updated article below.Now that streaming media has become a mainstay in Australian homes, Aussies have plenty of options...
Thursday's Best Deals: AirPods, Logitech Gold Box, Roku Streaming Stick+, BAGGU, and More An exclusive deal on Japanese chef’s knives, a Roav dash cam, Amazon activewear, and a Kindle Oasis discount lead off a Thursday’s best deals....
Oculus forces Virtual Desktop to stop streaming SteamVR apps to Quest Oculus is forcing the developer of a popular Windows streaming app for Quest to remove support for SteamVR app and game streaming to the wireless headset.Read More...
Feds bust Disney World worker for trying to lure young girl for sex A Disney World employee was nabbed for trying to lure an 8-year-old girl for sex — after bringing a child-size pink dress and condoms to the “encounter” that was actually set up by an undercover federal agent, authorities said. Frederick Pohl, 40, of Clermont, Fla., believed he had been chatting onl...
Aladdin, Avengers: Endgame Help Disney Dominate Global Weekend Box Office Aladdin led the worldwide box office, delivering a $207 million opening weekend, while Avengers: Endgame brought in $32.1 million to take its global total to $2.677 billion....
Toy Story 2 casting couch 'blooper' deleted by Disney after #MeToo movement Now removed scene features Stinky Pete behaving in an inappropriate way with Barbie dollsA fake blooper scene from Toy Story 2 featuring a “casting couch” scenario has been quietly deleted by Disney from the latest home releases of the animated film.A running gag in Pixar’s films are the faux outtak...
Chewbacca, Ford and Hamill launch Disney's 'Star Wars' land Chewbacca climbed into the cockpit of the Millennium Falcon and fireworks flew overhead as Walt Disney Co dedicated its new "Star Wars" section at California's Disneyland Resort on Wednesday....
Disney deleted sexual misconduct scene from latest ‘Toy Story 2’ release Disney removed a faux outtake showing a doll leering at Barbies, offering them roles in a future film, in the June re-release of the 'Toy Story' franchise....
Samsung teams with Disney and Pixar to hide the punch-hole on the Galaxy S10 Many smartphone users prefer having a punch-hole on the display rather than a notch. And with cleverly designed wallpaper, the punch-hole can be practically hidden or disguised. With that in mind, Samsung recently announced special wallpaper based on Disney and Pixar characters from The Incredibles,...
Exclusive: Disney CEO says it will be 'difficult' to film in Georgia if abortion law takes effect Walt Disney Co Chief Executive Bob Iger told Reuters on Wednesday it would be "very difficult" for the media company to keep filming in Georgia if a new abortion law takes effect because many people will not want to work in the U.S. state....
Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge – Disney's new theme park in pictures Disneyland has offered a first glimpse of its newest attraction, the Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge theme park. Visitors can build their own droids and lightsabers, interact with aliens and step into the cockpit of an exact copy of the Millennium Falcon. The interactive experience allows a team of six peo...
'Merch by Amazon' t-shirt business increasing orders from Disney to Dr. Seuss The holy grail for apparel brands facing rising uncertainty and cost in their global supply chains is to make their merchandise closer to the point of the sale....
Disney announces new Ariel for live-action ‘Little Mermaid’: Halle Bailey By Alyssa Newcomb, TODAY Disney’s live-action version of “The Little Mermaid” has found its Ariel. Halle Bailey, one-half of the R&B sister duo Chloe x Halle, will go “under the sea” to play the title character in the remake of “The Little Mermaid.” “A...
Disney aims to thrill 'Star Wars' fans of all kinds at U.S. parks At a new "Star Wars" land at Disneyland Resort in California, Walt Disney Co will let visitors fly the Millennium Falcon and drink blue milk as it aims to satisfy a wide range of the space saga's fans with its most ambitious expansion ever....
Disney CEO says filming in Georgia would be ‘difficult’ if abortion bill takes effect Disney CEO Bob Iger on Wednesday said that filming in Georgia would be “very difficult” if the state’s controversial abortion bill goes into effect next year....
WarnerMedia joins Disney, Netflix in reconsidering Georgia business over abortion law WarnerMedia on Thursday became the third major U.S. media company to say it would reconsider working in Georgia if a new law banning abortions after a fetal heartbeat can be detected takes effect, following Walt Disney Co and Netflix....
Full moon patents: Disney’s immersive VR and Microsoft’s next-gen virtual assistant Ugh, the Gregorian calendar is so boring. That’s why we’re disrupting monthly series with a lunar cycle-based series about the best patents of the last synodic month, picked by the PatentYogi team. Get ready when that moon gets gibbous, y’all. This June-ish roundup lands on the tasty Strawberry Moon...
Disney Is Moving Forward With Construction on Its Marvel Theme Park Expansion With Galaxy’s Edge a success, it’s time for Disney to move forward on its next franchise-incorporating theme park project: a Marvel park....
Disney heiress slams Disneyland park over low wages after undercover visit Disney heiress Abigail Disney slammed the Walt Disney Company for low wages after an undercover visit to Disneyland theme park in California. ...
Disney scores permit to launch Marvel-inspired theme park (CNBC) – With Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge officially open in California and the sister land in Florida gearing up for debut in August, Disney has already started working on its next big theme-park project — a Marvel-themed land. Last year, CEO Bob Iger teased the expansion to the company’s Califo...
'Jasmine Can Just Go by Herself': 4-Year-Old Calls Out Disney's Aladdin for Sticking to Tired Tropes Disney’s Aladdin remake flew away with $113 million on its magic carpet this Memorial Day weekend, according to the Hollywood Reporter. But despite a new, more progressive Princess Jasmine—she even has a new power anthem, titled “Speechless”(h/t Refinery29), for one 4-year-old, the plot still has a...
How Disney Is Turning Your Nostalgia Into Billions One Live-Action Remake at a Time An abused elephant with oversized ears joyously takes flight. A kitchen comes to life, each piece of hardware and furniture bursting into song. A street urchin and a princess......
'The Lion King' hits familiar notes in adapting Disney classic Anticipating a bountiful box-office feast, "The Lion King" deviates sparingly from the beloved 1994 original, for better and worse. The result is a polished and satisfying film, yet one that conspicuously feels even more like a consumer product than most Disney revivals of its animated classics....
Be prepared for the photorealistic cruddiness of Disney’s pointless Lion King remake The Lion King, Disney’s latest attempt to make a new hit from the blueprint of one of its old ones, begins the exact same way as the 1994 animated smash on which it’s based: with a blood-red sun peaking over the horizon of the African Serengeti, a single chanting voice rising with it. What follows i...
Disney’s 'Star Wars: Rise of the Resistance' ride opens December 5th Disney's new Star Wars-theme park, Galaxy's Edge, will get its second ride before the year is up. Today, Disney Parks announced that "Star Wars: Rise of the Resistance" will arrive in Florida at Walt Disney World Resort on December 5th -- Walt Disney......
Early reactions make ‘The Lion King’ sound like the best Disney remake yet Disney is currently in the process of remaking many of its classic animated films with modern visual effects and live-action casts. Some have been more successful than others, but few, if any, have been as highly anticipated as The Lion King. How could it possibly live up to the original, which many...
Cameron Boyce, Disney Channel Star and Descendants Actor, Passes Away at Age 20 Cameron Boyce, a young actor who starred in the Disney Channel series Jessie and played a major role in the Descendants series of Disney crossover movies, has died. Read more......
The first trailer for Disney's 'Mulan' live-action remake premieres Sunday Here's one more reason to tune into the Women's World Cup final on Sunday: the first trailer for Disney's "Mulan" live-action remake is premiering during the game....
Disney taps Kari Skogland to direct ‘The Falcon and the Winter Soldier’ Disney has reportedly pegged Kari Skogland — of "The Handmaid's Tale" — to direct its much-anticipated Marvel mini-series, "The Falcon and the Winter Soldier."...
The Lion King Turns 25: Everything You Need to Know About Disney's Original Trip to Pride Rock It's almost time to return to Pride Rock. We're just a little over a month away from Disney's photo-realistic "live-action" adaptation of The Lion King roars its way......
Melissa McCarthy might grow some tentacles for Disney's live-action The Little Mermaid It’s been a minute since we heard about Disney’s inevitable “live-action” take on The Little Mermaid, which will try to justify its existence with new songs from Disney veteran Alan Menken and Hamilton scribe/star Lin-Manuel Miranda. Now, Variety reports that the casting process is underway, and tha...
Kid donates Disney trip funds to search for missing mom Jennifer Dulos A 7-year-old Connecticut boy has donated all the money he saved up for a Disney trip to help the search for missing mom Jennifer Dulos. Riley Daigle, of Wethersfield, was “so sickened and upset” that the New Canaan mom’s five kids were forced to be away from her that he wanted to d...
Disney custodian thinks watching child porn is his constitutional right: cops A custodian at Florida’s Walt Disney World has been charged with possessing child pornography — and believes it’s his constitutional right to look at graphic photos and videos of kids online, authorities said. Paul G. Curley, 66, was arrested Wednesday on six counts of possession of child porn...
Tennis star Ash Barty sneaking Disney lyrics into press conferences Ashleigh Barty's Wimbledon singles adventure may have ended at the hands of America's Alison Riske Monday, but she's clearly been having some fun off the court....
Remembering Cameron Boyce: Look Back at the Disney Star's Life in Pictures Cameron Boyce was one of the most beloved and prolific Disney TV stars. The 20-year-old actor died unexpectedly at age 20 in his sleep on Saturday at his Los Angeles home after suffering......
Watch: White Security Guard Pulls Gun on Black Cop in Full Uniform Because the Black Cop Had a Gun An Ohio police officer in full uniform, you know, the uniform that clearly identifies him as a police officer and as such gives him reason to have a radio, taser, and gun, faced some scary and tense moments when a security guard pulled a gun on him and tried to arrest the POLICE OFFICER for carrying...
Biracial rapper pulls out of festival after learning white people charged $10 more than people of color A biracial rapper pulled out of a Michigan music festival after she learned that white people would be charged twice the amount to attend than "people of color."...
Samsung Galaxy Buds update improves music streaming, phone call quality The Galaxy Buds were part of Samsung's freebie package that would be offered to those buying one of its Galaxy S10 flagships, but they soon became quite rare due to the company running out of stock. These days you can buy a pair with ease if you're willing to pay the full price. In the US, Samsung s...
Chance The Rapper adds all his mixtapes to streaming platforms ahead of his first actual album release It’s somewhat shocking to think about the fact that Chance The Rapper—KitKat spokesperson, Grammy winner, and education reform maverick—has never released an actual album. Rather, the Chicago native’s (well-earned) reputation as a musician rests on a trio of amazing mixtapes (10 Day, Acid Rap, and C...
'Big Bang Theory' actress Kaley Cuoco to star in new streaming drama 'The Flight Attendant' In a huge deal wtih Warner Bros. Television Group, the actress recently signed on to star in the upcoming drama "The Flight Attendant," which will be available exclusively on WarnerMedia's upcoming streaming service....
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Bruins Take Game One At Tampa Bay
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Patrice Bergeron and Rick Nash scored two goals apiece, leading the Bruins to a 6-2 win and a 1-0 lead in their second-round playoff series with the Tampa Bay Lighting.
David Pastrnak added a career-high 4 assists as the Bruins went into Amalie Arena on Saturday and took the opening game of the series with a convincing win.
Rick Nash scored a power-play goal by tipping a shot from Pastrnak past Lightning goalie Andrei Vasilevskiy, giving the Bruins a 1-0 lead at 17:11 of the first period.
The Bruins jumped out to a 2-0 lead just 42 seconds in the second, when Bergeron scored from the circle off a feed from Pastrnak.
Nash took a drop pass from David Krejci and fired a wrister past Vasilevskiy at 12:33 of the middle period, giving the Bruins a 3-1 lead.
Brad Marchand tipped a Charlie McAvoy slap shot past Vasilevskiy at 3:32 into the third, putting the Bruins ahead 4-2.
A feed from Marchand set up Bergeron for a one-timer at 10:11 of the final period.
DeBrusk tacked on an empty-net goal with 6:19 remaining.
The Bruins and Lightning will meet for game two Monday night in Tampa Bay.
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Besides being a wagering innovator (his team built the first Internet Betting site in the world; he consulted to Betfair's founder; he's been awarded multiple wagering patents), he has also been dealing with many of Australia's major punters for decades and betting most days as well.
Being in the industry, he was well aware of the multitude of "tipping sites" and knew many of the people behind them. Besides a few, most of these tipsters didn't even back the selections themselves and often inflated their results with back-fitted scenarios and relied on a continuous churn of new punters to keep themselves viable.
He also saw everyone adopt an approach that did nothing to educate punters about what they were doing wrong and increase their betting knowledge.
Being RewardBet's inventor - he's also acutely aware of what a vital role, indeed - the most important role - that staking has in determining if a punter is a winner or loser.
These selections have been available to a group of over 140 people who signed up to them via RewardBet's website in early 2018.
That group allowed him to fine-tune his analysis and publishing methods (it's a lot different betting for yourself a few minutes before a race compared to providing winning selections hours before a race knowing that many people are relying on you to deliver for them).
They are now available to a limited number of people on a subscription basis with an opportunity also for a free month if you're a RewardBet Premium subscriber.
1. What horse races do you cover?
We are quite selective and we eliminate many races based on risk, lack of form depth, track condition, and other 'dodgy things' that only come with a lot of experience - so there's generally between one and a few races covered a day (with our multiple picks using RewardBet) plus a number of single value selections which seek value.
But overall we will consider most meetings in the country as a starting point, and then eliminate races from there to come up with our selections.
2. What days is the service available?
The minimum subscription is "monthly" and that is designed to provide selections at least on 20 days a month. However, we do tip most days but as we don't bet on very wet tracks (heavy 8 or worse tracks) generally unless we find horses very suited to the race conditions.
3. What makes this service different to the hundreds of other tipsters out there?
We understand that many punters bet for involvement and excitement as well as trying to make a little extra.
Some tipsters tip favourite after favourite and that can become a little dull especially when the inevitable run-of-outs occurs.
We provide a range of selections that provide the high strike rate returns (our BBs or best bets) plus many, many selections at $5 and higher, often well into the double digits.
Additionally, we take advantage of RewardBet at times to extract extra value about selections via exotics. Look through our Hall Of Fame for some good examples there.
Furthermore, we utilise the secret methods of "Mr Pretium" who has been finding value winners for years without ever reading a form-guide! Often we'll be on runners whom no-one else has tipped, which can provide a much more exciting experience!
Finally, we attempt to educate you as well. We review our day, explain what worked and didn't and try to provide the 30 years of insights that only working in the wagering industry can provide to you.
It's easy to pick a winner - anyone can do that ... but you also have to stake and weigh-up risk and returns and exploit the best opportunities.
Read our methodology for more insights.
4. I'm a small $10 punter, is this service for me?
You should be realistic about your profit expectations. The best punters win 10% or a little more on turnover, so a $10 punter isn't betting necessarily to make a living.
What you do enjoy though is the excitement of racing, the thrills and challenges of horse racing and any extra return at the end of a day is a real bonus. We don't shy away from exotics and a $10 punter has a great chance of snagging exotics using our suggestions.
However, as you can see in our Hall Of Fame, we have had many days of big profits which is what it's all about.
5. Do You Provide A Profit Guarantee?
Better than that! ALL subscribers to the Active Punter Plan receive our Bad Day Guarantee (BDG). If we have a losing day, you have our Bad Day Guarantee backing you up.
This entitles you to early access to our professional overlays (value selections) for the next day's racing.
This information is like gold! It gives you a chance to get ahead of the professionals and take a march on the best prices - you can then lock in that value or trade it off on an exchange for a guaranteed profit.
Here is an example of our overlays.
6. Is Membership Limited?
It certainly is! We expect to close membership in the coming weeks to protect the interests of our current customers.
You'll Learn Invaluable Advice
We will not just throw tips at you and leave you to work out how to stake them. That's what brings most punters undone!
We will carefully illustrate the way that we will be betting them (yes, we actually BET our selections - sounds crazy, but most tipsters don't because their selections lose!).
And after the day, we'll also highlight the lessons that we learnt and that will stand with you to dramatically improve your punting.
Some of the things our subscribers are already learning in the first month:
Importance of being aware of Weather and impact on later races,
How to use the market to help you save your bet in case it loses,
Why the mounting yard is so important,
Which bookies are worth following and how to use them as a guide,
How important it is to get the best price about a selection (we consistently hit the best price on our selections) - which means that in the long run you have to win,
How to ensure that you're not over-betting on a race,
How to lock-in profits on a runner without having to lay on an exchange,
How punters tend to remember winners and forget the lessons from the losers,
How horses breath and why gear changes such as tongue-ties can make a dramatic difference,
How using Exotics we can get a better return than the equivalent bet for the WIN - in a like for like - comparison.
And over a longer period, there's bound to be many more lessons that are invaluable to help you become a better punter.
Thanks for that Scone tip (which won subscribers over $800) and in addition thanks for the advice about standouts!!
You would think after punting for so long (i’m 65) I would have realised but it’s taken till I’ve retired and reading your advice that its finally sunk in!!
— Steve - via email 9 Apr 18
I just want to say that I am very appreciative of your making available daily the RB VIP info.
I am impressed with the selections & look forward to continuing to receive them.
Congrats on your initiative & for looking after the interests of your members.
— PA, via email, 28 Mar 18
Our Personal Custom Levels Revealed
One of the most popular and powerful features of RewardBet is the personal Custom Levels that you can setup yourself.
We show you the ones that we use and how and when they are appropriate to use them against our selections.
Best Of Both - RewardBet Premium + SSSS Tips
Our Results Recording Methodology
All our selections are available to view on the archive pages.
One thing you'll note is how often we have significant overlays to the starting price - if you continue to get better than starting price, then you have to win in the long run. If you can average > 20% better than SP you'll end up a long term winner. Quite often we are at 100% or more.
Record Results based on daily email
Since mid August 2018, we now record the results based on the price in the daily email. Good shoppers should be able to achieve much better.
Join RewardBet Premium - FREE MONTH SSSS Tips
We have promotions and prizes that we all regularly provide, including additional subscription months and bonus information, especially on our Premium Facebook page.
If you join RewardBet Premium, you also receive a free month access to these selections which is excellent value.
Learn More About RewardBet Premium
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The AdExchanger Awards recognize the strongest achievements in the past year by leaders in the marketing and media industries. AdExchanger’s community of marketers, publishers, technology platforms, service providers and others are at the forefront of setting what’s next for the industry, and we aim to celebrate their accomplishments by recognizing excellence among all of those constituents.
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Beneath Each Category Description Below
Our categories serve all key constituencies in the marketing and ad tech industry. Don't let a label stop you from entering any award your team or client or colleague is qualified to win. Maybe the best DSP wasn't developed by a Tech Provider...
All Categories Tech Provider Publisher Agency / Consulting Marketer Campaigns Other / Individual
Best Demand-Side Technology
Category: Tech Provider
Agencies and tech companies that represent advertisers in online exchanges face a complicated auction environment on one side and sophisticated clients demanding more data-driven results on the other. This award recognizes outstanding demand-side technology companies that consistently meet the highest standards.
Beeswax – Beeswax’s Bidder-as-a-Service Technology
Cognitiv – Cognitiv’s NeuralMind™ platform
Jelli – Jelli SpotPlan
Rubicon Project – Rubicon Project’s New Estimated Market Rate Feature
Best Publisher-Side Technology
Publishers need technology companies that drive their direct revenue and turn visitors into loyal or more valuable audiences. This category recognizes vendors that excel in helping publishers build stronger and more sustainable businesses.
AdsWizz – AdsWizz Monetization Platform: Fueling the Growth of Audio
InMobi – InMobi Publisher Platform
SendtoNews – SendtoNews’ Video Distribution Platform and AI-Powered Smart Match Video Player
Sourcepoint – Sourcepoint’s Consent Management Platform (CMP)
TRUSTX – Building the Sustainable Future for Trusted Advertising
Best Data-Enabling Technology
From industry stalwarts like DMPs to new data management and activation technologies such as customer data platforms, customer identity companies and data consortiums, this award recognizes the leading companies that bring data to bear in programmatic media.
Zeotap – Fuel For Growth
Civis Analytics – Civis Customer Science: Empowering Data-Driven Organizations
Integrate – Clean Data Enables Marketers to Drive Pipeline and Orchestrate Demand
Numberly – Leveraging CDP Data to Prioritize Call Center Targets In Real Time
Tealium – Tealium’s Universal Data Hub
Best Measurement Or Analytics Capability
Multitouch attribution or media-mix modeling? Mobile- or web-focused? Offline and cross-channel? This award recognizes the best in campaign measurement and analytics that cut through the noise and deliver meaningful insights.
Datorama – Datorama, a Salesforce Company, Brings Key Data Insights to Marketers
Kochava – Eliminating Unwanted, Fraudulent Traffic Before Attribution
Merkle – Customer-Value-Driven Full-Funnel Paid Search Automated Bidding
Nativo – Nativo Helps Brands Unlock Their Return-on-Content with ContentQ
Nielsen Auto Cloud – J.D. Power and Nielsen Launch Auto Cloud to Transform Automotive Advertising
Best Account Support By A Technology Company
The human touch still matters, especially as technological complexity increases. The top platforms in this category help their customers resolve issues and succeed with outstanding personalized service.
MediaMath – Tech & Talent: How MediaMath Helps Brands Maximize Their Technology Investments to Drive Outcomes
GumGum – Behind Every Great AI, There are Great Humans
Mediaocean – Anchors Aweigh! Charting a course to Customer Success in the Mediaocean
MoPub (a division of Twitter, Inc.) – MoPub: Bringing the Personal Touch to Programmatic
Productsup – A Feed Management Platform with Support that Kicks SaaS
Smartly.io – When It Comes to Customer Service, Everyone at Smartly.io Offers Time and Expertise
Best Early-Stage Technology Company
Ad tech is consolidating, but it’s also expanding. This award recognizes the best and most innovative of the new wave of technology firms. Applicants should have been founded less than three years ago.
boostr – The Future of Revenue Management for Media Companies
Ad Lightning – The Industry’s Most Comprehensive Ad Quality Solution
Amino Payments – Transparency & SPO for Digital Advertising
ID5 – A Universal ID Solution to Empower Independent Ad Tech Platforms and Premium Publishers
Most Innovative Publisher
Category: Publisher
Whether through thoughtful strategic or “test-and-learn” execution, the industry’s most innovative publishers have set a high bar for their use of technology, data, platforms, internal organization and partnerships to position themselves for success. This category recognizes publishers who have found new and creative ways to reach and monetize their audiences.
Edmunds – The Big Switch: Edmunds Becomes First Car Shopping Site to Provide Action-Based Pricing To Clients
Vox Media – Concert by Vox Media – The Industry’s Only Publisher-Led Ad Marketplace
WebMD – Medscape’s Programmatic Marketplace
Best Use Of Technology By A Publisher
Whether it’s a new integration or going deeper with an existing technology, leading publishers have found ways to make the tech work for them to boost results. This category recognizes publishers who have built, partnered or bought technology that is driving notable business success or audience growth.
WeatherBug – WeatherBug Ups Revenue by Moving to a Unified Auction
Axel Springer / Media Impact – Axel Springer Media Impact Ad Stack (ASMIAS) Platform
Meredith – Meredith’s In-Image Shopping Technology
National Review – National Review Innovates With CDP to Design, Build, and Implement Significant Revenue Driving Product and Initiatives
Megaphone – Megaphone Targeted Marketplace Brings Efficient Targeting at Scale to Podcast Advertising
Best Use Of Data By A Publisher
Data drives digital results. Publishers in this category used first-, second- and/or third-party data to skillfully generate insights, target campaigns or measure results and optimize in ways that increased effectiveness for their clients.
USA TODAY NETWORK/GANNETT – Building the Perfect Creative: How the USA TODAY NETWORK Hones Ad Performance with Data
Bloomberg Media – BloombergAiQ, an AI-Powered Proprietary Audience and Content Platform
Dow Jones – WSJ | Barron’s Group Contextual Targeting Breakthrough
NCC Media – Comcast/Charter/Cox – NCC’s Media Lab & Incremental Reach Strategy
The New York Times – Feeling It: How NYT Targets Emotional Context
Best Programmatic Capabilities By An Agency
Category: Agency / Consulting
This award recognizes agencies who have mastered programmatic buying – and not just by pulling levers on platforms. The best agencies have demonstrated programmatic excellence through a deep understanding of the vendor landscape. These agencies also take bespoke approaches to planning, optimizing and measuring programmatic campaigns to move the needle on clients’ businesses.
Hearts & Science – Programmatic Capabilities
Cadreon – Orchestrating the Future of Ad Tech and Accelerating Performance
DSPolitical – The Best Data and Technology to Reach the Exact Right Voter, On Every Device, Everywhere
Essence – Mastering Programmatic in the World’s Most Challenging Markets
Goodway Group – Goodway Group Generates “Cord-Keepers” for the Cable Industry by Promoting SmartMove
Mindshare – Driving Growth for Tyson by Running Towards Disruption within the Programmatic Ecosystem
Best Use Of Data By An Agency
Data has always been the lifeblood of media investments, but with the rise of digital, there’s more data today than marketers know what to do with. Agencies nominated for this award show a deft ability to not only leverage data to improve clients’ media investments, but to know which pieces of data can make media dollars work harder.
360i – Roto Rooter’s Creative Use of Data
Havas Media – Titleist, Havas Media
Mindshare – Tyson Programmatic: Where Data is Only as Good as the Imaginations that Use It
The Shipyard – Weleda. Reverse Declining Sales for a Mature Brand
Best Use Of Technology By An Agency
As the ad tech landscape continues to explode, agencies must have a deep understanding of platforms and how to best leverage them for their clients’ specific needs. Agencies nominated for this award have either demonstrated exceptional understanding and ability to work with top platforms in the space or built technology in-house to plug gaps in vendor solutions.
Essence – Automating Advertising with Self Driving Campaigns
Nebo Agency – Bringing A Human-Centered Approach to Tech Stack Development
Numberly – Numberly Leverages AppNexus Programmable Bidder to Increase Incremental Customer Value
Operam – Combining Relationships with In-House Technology to Drive Data-Driven Decision Making in Programmatic
Best Programmatic Consulting Or Advisory Firm
Programmatic is confusing. This award recognizes firms that guide clients deftly through a complex landscape and help them determine how to best apply programmatic to achieve their business goals by, for example, better leveraging agency partnerships or taking programmatic in-house.
Prohaska Consulting – The Most-Experienced Global Programmatic Consulting Firm
Jounce Media
MightyHive – Providing the Transparency, Tech Expertise, and Strategic Guidance Marketers Have Been Missing
Best In-House Media Operation
Category: Marketer
Call it “in-housing” or “hands on.” This award category recognizes advertisers who have built media-buying and advertising capabilities in-house. Winning entries will excel in one or more of these areas: data strategy, technology integration, supply relationships, creativity, measurement and continuous improvement.
Uber – The Uber Bidder Project: Our Three Month Journey To Incremental Rider Marketing
Adobe – Adobe’s In-House Performance Operation
Bayer Consumer Health – Bayer In-housing Strategy
The New York Times – How The Times Revolutionized its Media Strategy and Measurement
Wayfair – Wayfair’s Homegrown Media Operation
Best Use Of Programmatic Technology By A Marketer
Among marketers’ most important jobs is evaluating the merit of marketing technologies and deploying solutions to maximum benefit. It’s easier said than done. This award recognizes those advertisers that have succeeded, whether it be with scaled platforms or custom setups.
Target – Target’s Guest-led Approach to Programmatic Buying Delivers Wins for Brand Marketing and Their Partners
Cisco Systems Inc. – Overcoming the Odds: How Cisco Amplified the Use of Programmatic Technology in B2B
Sprint – Sprint Increases Online Conversions from Programmatic Display by 99% Through New Transparent, Data-Driven Operating Model
Kellogg’s – Kellogg’s Best Use of Programmatic Technology
Uber – Uber Rider Programmatic Creative Project
Best Programmatic Or Addressable TV Campaign
Category: Campaigns
This category recognizes nominees that have identified, targeted and purchased an audience on linear TV or over-the-top. They have also successfully measured the effectiveness of their buy.
Volvo, Modi Media & Innovid – Volvo, Modi Media & Innovid Drive Engagement through Volvo S90 CTV Campaign
Dataxu – Reaching Cord-cutters with Controlled Reach and Frequency
Net Conversion and Nassau Paradise Island – 2018 Geo-Targeted Addressable TV Advertising for Nassau Paradise Island
Best Omnichannel Video Campaign
Advertisers are increasingly executing and measuring video campaigns across multiple channels. This award showcases the most noteworthy video campaigns executed across channels such as linear TV, video on demand and over-the-top.
true[X] – true[X] for Amazon Echo
Yoyi Digital – Yoyi Digital’s Corona Lime Ritual OTV Campaign
Best Overall Use Of Programmatic In A Marketing Campaign
As programmatic has matured, marketers have been able to creatively apply the methodology. This category recognizes campaigns that applied programmatic concepts and techniques in unique ways, from their planning to execution, optimization and measurement.
Essence and Google – Essence and Google use Machine Learning to Drive Incremental and Higher Value Google Store Conversions
AdsWizz and Mercedes-Benz – Mercedes-Benz and SkySection Use AdsWizz AudioMatic To Drive Traffic into Pop up Store
Clinch and BJ’s Restaurants – BJ’s Restaurants Runs First Personalized Digital Campaign Using IBM Weather Data
Cramer-Krasselt and Kings Island Amusement Park – How Kings Island Amusement Park Used Data to Make Personal Connections
Mindshare and Dyson – Mindshare Programmatic: Planning for Agility in Dyson’s Black Friday / Cyber Monday Drive Period
Best Educational Tool Or Program
Demand for digital skills is outpacing the supply of available talent. This category recognizes the solutions or processes that cultivate mastery of data-driven marketing, with proven results.
MediaMath – MediaMath’s New Marketing Institute Meets the Learner Where They Are
Adobe – Adobe Helps Over 1500 Marketers Close the Advertising Skills Gap
Google – Google’s Ads.txt-only Inventory Control – Educating an Industry Through the Power of Research
Jounce Media – The Little Black Book Series
Publicis – Publicis Media Precision Pioneer & Voyager Training Programs
The AdExchanger Award: Overall Excellence In Programmatic Media (All entries qualify)
Category: Other / Individual
This category draws from all award entries submitted and recognizes excellence in its service and contribution to stakeholders, such as marketers or consumers, and the industry at large. Entries will be judged on how clearly they align a product, service or campaign with proven results, innovation and creativity.
Rising Star (leadership under 40)
This category recognizes emerging leaders in digital advertising and marketing, with a focus on mid-level professionals under 40 years of age who already have demonstrated a track record of achievement, exceptional growth and huge potential to disrupt the industry.
Pooja Kapoor – Head of Global Strategic Alliances & Corporate Strategy, Google
Randy Cotta – Director of Data Science, Drawbridge
Mark Jablonowski – Managing Partner & CTO, DSPolitical
Maurice Powers – Director of Digital Ad Operations, AMSI/AAG
Michael Provenzano – CEO & Co-Founder, Vistar Media
Leadership In Advertising
This category recognizes digital advertising and marketing professionals who typify visionary leadership by effectively guiding their organization or business unit to meet business goals while advancing innovation and inspiring their teams.
Brian Lesser – CEO, Xandr: Making Advertising Matter
Michael Barrett – CEO, Rubicon Project: Illuminating the Programmatic Market Through Leadership
Alex Block – Managing Director, Global Platform Investment, GroupM: Platforms Solutions Superhero
Sissie Hsiao – VP of Product, Mobile App Advertising, Google: Gamer Extraordinaire & Defender of the Apps Universe
Scott Rosenberg – SVP, GM Platform Business, Roku
To judge the awards, we have assembled a panel of dozens of experts who hail from all corners of the digital advertising and marketing ecosystem, including marketers, publishers, agencies, technologists and consultants. All judges were handpicked by AdExchanger’s editorial team for their unique perspective, substantial industry experience and technical acumen.
The highest-scoring entries in each category will be selected as finalists. Each category will be scored in three areas: measurable results, industry impact and innovation.
- Vice President of Ad Product Strategy -
Adam Cahill
- Founder -
Alessandro De Zanche
ADZ Strategies Limited
- Founder and Director -
Emily Del Greco
MightyHive
- President of the Americas -
Eric Franchi
MathCapital
- Operating Partner -
Jay Friedman
Partner and President
- Goodway Group -
Keith Gooberman
Programmatic Mechanics
- CEO & Co-Founder -
Oscar Garza
- Global Head of Media Activation -
- Co-Founder and Principal -
Peter Hamilton
- CEO -
Adam Heimlich
GALE Partners
- SVP Media -
Danny Khatib
Granite Media
- Co-founder and CEO -
Martin Kihn
- SVP Product Strategy -
Stephanie Layser
- VP of Advertising Technology & Operations -
Ramsey McGrory
- CRO -
Jana Meron
Insider Inc.
- SVP of Programmatic & Data Strategy -
Maja Milicevic
Sparrow Advisers
- Co-founder and Principal, Management Consultancy -
Liane Nadeau
Digitas
- Head of Programmatic, NA -
Nico Neumann
- Assistant Professor and Fellow, Centre for Business Analytics -
Bryan Noguchi
Caffelli
- Media Director -
Tom Quinn
Refined Path
- Principal -
Joshua Palau
Bayer Consumer US
- VP of Digital Strategy and Platforms -
Nicolle Pangis
NCC Media
Rachel Parkin
CafeMedia
- SVP, Strategy and Sales -
Brienna Pinnow
Blinc Digital Group
- Co-Founder, Principal Consultant -
Matt Prohaska
Prohaska Consulting
- CEO and Principal -
Paolo Provinciali
- Head of US Media -
Manny Puentes
Rebel AI
- CEO & Founder -
Erik Requidan
Intermarkets
- Vice President of Sales and Programmatic Strategy -
Sarah Rose
- Vice President of Digital Ad Operations -
Bennett Rosenblatt
- Programmatic Display Lead -
Chip Schenck
- SVP of Data & Programmatic Solutions -
Tracey Scheppach
Matter Moore, LLC
- CEO + Co-Founder -
Madhura Sengupta
- Program Manager, Machine Learning -
- Global Director, Media Activation -
Jackie Stewart
- Sr. Director of Strategic Services -
Ratko Vidakovic
AdProfs
Ming B. Wu
Learfield IMGC
- CEO, Mogo Interactive; EVP Marketing & Data Solutions, Learfield IMGC -
Sacha Xavier
- Managing Director -
Your entry is important and valuable to you and to the industry. We’ve selected a panel of judges that is worthy of assessing your submissions. You confidentiality is guaranteed and we assure no competitors will be viewing or judging your entires.
Judges will assess your entries on the following criteria using a convenient technology platform and proven review practices.
Judging criteria mixes quantitative and qualitative attributes.
Quantifiable KPIs/Business performance – what measurable criteria of your own were impacted by the entry?
Impact to market served – how did your entry improve or alter your target market? Or how did the person or business impact their industry or category?
Innovation/Excellence – what unique, inventive or imaginative attributes did your entry have OR how did your entry adhere to best practices/industry standards, and how did it exceed them creatively?
Judging Requirements
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Maximum of 5 categories judged
Cannot rate competitors or own company
Entry & Judging Timeline
Entries may be submitted until January 31, 2019
Entries judged from January 1 – March 1, 2019
Finalists announced early March
Winners revealed at Awards Gala Dinner on April 29, 2019
The Gala
The future of marketing and advertising technology will be recognized in bright lights and with proper fan fare at the exclusive Awards Gala Dinner. Celebrate winners and industry peers along with the AdExchanger Team and a few surprise guests. Finalists are encouraged to bring your team, or clients and partners.
Formal dress not required. Celebrate in comfort. Cocktail Attire, Conference Wear or Dressy Casual are appropriate.
Date, Time, Location: April 29, 2019 from 7 - 10 at the Marriott Marquis San Francisco
Cost: Individual tickets are $395 (or $250 for PROGRAMMATIC I/O Attendees), with group reservations for 10+ available.
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Ignite - Vice President of Ad Product Strategy
Larry Allen is vice president of ad product strategy for Turner Ignite, overseeing a team working on product strategies, including product prioritization and framework as well as process management. His work is focused on development of next generation ad capabilities, notably around audience targeting and advanced TV solutions.
Allen has extensive experience in digital media, marketing and business strategy across a variety of disciplines. Previously senior vice president of business development for Xaxis, he oversaw media investment in North America and the Xaxis Marketplace globally. Prior to joining 24/7 Media, which merged with Xaxis in 2014, he held several senior management positions at cutting-edge digital media companies such as AOL, Viewpoint, Unicast, Yieldex, Real Media and TACODA.
Allen also ran his own consulting business, where he advised many major media companies such as The New York Times, Meredith, 33Across and Business Insider. He is a frequent contributor to a number of trade publications, blogs and industry conferences.
A graduate of Clarion University of Pennsylvania with a degree in Business Management, Allen resides in New York City.
Anagram - Founder
Adam Cahill is the founder of Anagram, a programmatic media agency/consultancy that was launched in 2015. He also serves as Executive Chairman of Digilant, which acquired Anagram in 2017. In previous roles he has served as the Chief Digital Officer at Hill Holliday, EVP & Co-Media Director at Hill Holliday, and SVP, General Manager of Carat. He has been named a Media All Star by Adweek, a Media Maven by the Ad Club and has lead teams that have twice been named Media Agency of the Year.
ADZ Strategies Limited - Founder and Director
Alessandro is an independent consultant who spent most of his career focusing on audience, data and monetization strategies and products across complementary areas of digital: ad tech, media, mobile, research and agency for companies like Sizmek, Yahoo!, News Corp, Telefónica, GfK.
He is very passionate about user experience as the foundation of effective and successful advertising and marketing strategies and believes in the need for stronger media brands for a sustainable ecosystem based on true value exchange.
MightyHive - President of the Americas
Emily Del Greco is a leader in the programmatic industry with a 16-year history of innovation in professional services and is President of the Americas at MightyHive, the authority on programmatic transformation and a leading media consultancy.
Prior, Emily founded Del Greco Solutions Inc, to provide independent advisory for marketers, media owners and investors and acted as Senior Advisor to McKinsey & Company’s Consumer Tech and Media practice.
Emily’s consulting approach is based upon her experience as an operator: as VP Sales & Operations at demand side platform Adelphic and nearly 8 years at Google in sales and strategy roles across YouTube, Invite Media and DoubleClick.
MathCapital - Operating Partner
Eric Franchi is an entrepreneur and investor. He currently serves as Operating Partner at MathCapital, a venture capital firm focused on the digital transformation of media and marketing. Previously, Eric was the cofounder of the digital advertising company Undertone, which was acquired by a public company in 2015 for $180 million. He has been featured and quoted in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, CNBC and many others.
Partner and President - Goodway Group
Jay is a partner and President of Goodway Group.
In 2006, he joined Goodway Group to add a digital media component to the company’s offerings, beyond the existing print and promotional side of the business. It was a staggering success. So much so, in 2010, Goodway served its last print customer to purely focus on programmatic digital media, an area where it was quickly becoming an expert.
Since launching the digital practice, Jay has helped lead Goodway to 10x growth, now making it the largest independent programmatic media company on the planet.
Jay works hard to share his expertise with others in the industry. A nationally recognized and accomplished digital media expert, speaker and writer, he regularly speaks at top industry conferences, writes for leading industry websites such as adexchanger.com and imediaconnection.com, and co-authors Goodway’s digital media how-to books, like 30 Days to Paid Digital Media Expertise, now in its 8th edition.
Before joining Goodway, Jay led major accounts at Young & Rubicam. And in a prior role, he directed marketing for an eight-location luxury automotive dealership group.
He and his wife, Sarah, both graduated from the University of Wisconsin and live in Plano, Texas, with their two children.
Programmatic Mechanics - CEO & Co-Founder
Keith Gooberman is the CEO and co-founder of Programmatic Mechanics, an independent and fully agnostic trading desk. Originally trained as a mechanical engineer at Union College, Keith made his way through the advertising industry via Conde Nast (publisher), Glam Media (fashion ad network), Varick Media Management (buy-side trading desk), into starting ProgMechs in 2014. Angry about high margins and dishonest players, Gooberman simply wanted to create a firm which aligned with clients. For the past five years he has been promoting how to allow all who participate in the advertising chain to be compensated based on a campaign’s true success. The firm is now 35 full time employees mostly based at the NYC Headquarters.
Essence - Global Head of Media Activation
Oscar is the Global Head of Media Activation for Essence, a global data and measurement-driven agency that is part of GroupM. In this role, he is responsible for the overseeing all buying and optimization of the agency's media, which includes biddable, programmatic and reservation. He was formerly the agency's Global Director of Programmatic.
Unbound - Co-Founder and Principal
As co-founder and principal of Unbound, Quentin is considered one of the pioneers of programmatic media. Unbound is the first and most experienced unbiased advisor focused on data and programmatic media trading.
Previously, Quentin served as the chief digital and innovation officer at IPG/Mediabrands, where he was responsible overseeing $2 billion in digital media spend across global media networks as well as specialist digital agencies for Fortune 500 brands.
In 2008, Quentin led the team that architected and built the industry’s first-ever stand-alone programmatic media-buying agency, Cadreon, driven by a manifest destiny to unite the talents of Silicon Valley and Madison Avenue to serve the greater good.
One of the most tenured leaders in the digital arena, Quentin has held senior leadership roles at digital agencies ranging from Razorfish to Organic. In 1994, Quentin co-founded one of the earliest digital agencies, Electric Ocean, which won the first Clio awarded for digital work.
Wine is one of Quentin’s lifelong passions. At George Family Winery, he currently produces 100 cases of Cabernet Sauvignon from Coombsville, Napa’s newest appellation.
TUNE - CEO
A digital marketer by background, Peter is CEO of TUNE, the enterprise platform for partner marketing. In 2018, he sold TUNE's mobile measurement product to Branch, unifying measurement and user experience. Today, he leads TUNE's efforts to bring better management technology and automation to marketing partnerships, across affiliates, influencers, networks, and business development relationships. He raised $36.4M through two rounds of funding from Accel Partners and Icon Ventures, made three acquisitions in the martech category, and has scaled teams to over 350 people across 9 offices worldwide. TUNE is recognized as an industry leader and innovator in performance marketing, working with companies like Expedia, Starbucks, SuperCell, Uber, Ebay, EA, Amazon and many more.
GALE Partners - SVP Media
Adam Heimlich works at Horizon Media leading HX, the agency’s programmatic buying department. Previously, Adam spent seven years at Razorfish and its predecessor, Avenue A. Adam joined Avenue A as a search marketer and headed the department for three years. Designed to make the programmatic opportunity accessible to any advertiser, HX is 100% cost-transparent and tech-agnostic, pursuing no interests other than client success.
Granite Media - Co-founder and CEO
Danny Khatib is the co-founder and CEO of Granite Media, a digital media publisher founded in 2017. Prior to Granite, he was the co-founder and COO of Livingly Media, a women’s lifestyle publisher that was started in 2005 and acquired by Aufeminin and Axel Springer in 2015. Prior to Livingly, which seems like a lifetime ago, he held various positions with Time Warner, Yahoo!, Skype, and UBS. He received an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business and a BSE from Wharton. He grew up in Michigan, and is trying to learn piano with his kids.
Salesforce Marketing Cloud - SVP Product Strategy
Martin Kihn is SVP of Salesforce Marketing Cloud, helping to build a vision and roadmap for Salesforce's marketing and ad tech products. Formerly Research VP at Gartner, he led the data-driven marketing practice, focusing on marketing clouds, ad tech, identity and analytics. Before that he was VP and director of strategy and analytics at various Publicis Groupe agencies, specializing in website and digital marketing strategy and the optimization of display and social campaigns. After earning his MBA from Columbia Business School, he worked for a time as a management consultant – an experience described in his book House of Lies, which was the basis for a Showtime series of the same name that premiered in January 2012.
News Corp - VP of Advertising Technology & Operations
Stephanie Layser is the VP of Advertising Technology & Operations at News Corp. Prior to News Corp, Layser founded a digital media consulting business to help publishers understand and utilize programmatic advertising effectively. She managed a variety of projects including full stack analysis, yield optimization best practices, proper reporting and analytics, go-to-market sales strategy and programmatic trainings. Prior to that, she worked for Ashton Kutcher's media start up, A Plus, where she ran programmatic strategy and became an early adopter in developing a complex header bidding solution using prebid.js. In her eight years in publisher-side advertising, Layser oversaw programmatic at Dailymail.com and New York Post.
Mediaocean - CRO
As CRO of Mediaocean, Ramsey is responsible for all external functions globally – business development, sales, partner management, support, training, marketing and communications. Ramsey has 20+ years of business, product and sales expertise in technology and data driven markets and thrives in chaotic environments across media, publishing, data and technology.
Ramsey started at DoubleClick in the late 90’s selling media and technology. Ramsey led Sales at Right Media from 2004-2007. In this role, he launched and scaled the first successful programmatic exchange. In July 2007, Yahoo! acquired Right Media for $850mm. From 2007-2011, Ramsey was deeply involved in developing the programmatic market, including the first ever Agency Trading Desks partnerships with GroupM, Publicis and Havas, and eventually leading Yahoo! ad platforms and US data partnerships. Ramsey was most recently President at Scout, a leading men’s sports publisher. Prior to Scout, Ramsey was CEO at AddThis, a social tools and data company that sold to Oracle in January 2016.
Ramsey served in the US Army in Germany and the Persian Gulf. Ramsey has a BA, Economics from the University of the South, and a Master’s in Management from Georgia Tech. He is married, has 3 children and is based in New York.
Insider Inc. - SVP of Programmatic & Data Strategy
Jana Meron is SVP of Programmatic & Data Strategy for Insider Inc. She played a pivotal role helping transform Insider Inc. into an industry pioneer that was early to embrace programmatic across its organization, and she oversees a sophisticated and singular private exchange. Previously, Jana worked at CBS Local Digital, where she was responsible for a majority of their indirect revenue, and an early employee at Google, working with publishers. Regarded as a programmatic thought-leader, Jana is a frequent speaker at industry events.
Sparrow Advisers - Co-founder and Principal, Management Consultancy
As co-founder and principal of management consultancy Sparrow Advisers, Maja helps clients tackle complex go-to-market, positioning and field enablement challenges. Her deep first-hand experience with publishers, marketers, agencies, trading desks and technology providers enables her to be uniquely effective in structuring the right type of commercial arrangement that ensures consistent revenue growth. Prior to starting Sparrow, Maja has led sales, account management, and marketing teams for venture-backed, high-growth, and public companies in the US and Europe including Federated Media/sovrn, AppNexus, Adobe and Demdex. Maja can often be found speaking on topics of marketing data, programmatic advertising, structuring and hiring client facing teams, cross-border business development, effective market entry strategies and ad tech industry trends.
Digitas - Head of Programmatic, NA
Liane is VP/ Director of Programmatic at DigitasLBi, where she leads the Boston office in programmatic planning and execution. She has worked across multiple verticals including financial services, retail, education, and hospitality. Liane is an outspoken advocate for programmatic transparency initiatives such as supply path optimization, ad.txt, and blockchain, and has had articles published in Digiday and AdExchanger. Prior to Digitas, Liane spent many years at Hill Holliday, where she began her career in TV and radio planning, eventually expanding into digital and platform based media buying. Liane was recently named a 2017 Rising Star by Cynopsis Media, and is a part of the MITX Future Leaders group.
Melbourne Business School - Assistant Professor and Fellow, Centre for Business Analytics
Nico Neumann is Asst. Professor and Fellow for the Centre for Business Analytics at Melbourne Business School. His expertise is in electronic marketplaces, data monetization and marketing analytics. Nico is a regular contributor to AdExchanger as well as other trade press columns and a member of the advisory board of the New Marketing Institute of MediaMath. Before joining the academic world, Nico worked for Accenture Management Consulting and IPG Mediabrands Australia, where he was the Lead Statistician for Product Development.
Caffelli - Media Director
Bryan Noguchi is a long-time media professional who currently serves as the Media Director at Caffelli, a full-service independent advertising agency in Portland, OR. He has overseen media programs for a variety of clients in the consumer and B2B space, and his teams have handled everything from traditional broadcast, print and out-of-home, to digital display, podcasts and paid social. The work his teams have done over the years have garnered national attention including an Effie Award, and a Mediapost Media Plan of the Year category award. He has written and spoken extensively on the subject of media and measurement.
Refined Path - Principal
Tom Quinn has a deep set of experiences in the MarTech, Digital Media and Analytics industries. During his 20+ years career he served as CEO of Real Time Content, a video personalization platform that was acquired by Pitney Bowes. He was General Manager of YieldexDirect, an automated media buying platform that was acquired by AppNexus. Previously Tom held leadership positions at digital agencies Razorfish and Blast Radius. His career got started in data analytics at IRI where he was Senior Vice President.
Tom is currently Principal at Refined Path, an independent, advisory firm specializing in helping organizations integrate data for 360° insights and cross-channel, activation strategies. In 2018, Refined Path was recognized by Marketing Tech Outlook as a Top 10 Customer Data Platform Solution provider. He received his BS from Mercy College and MBA from Notre Dame.
Bayer Consumer US - VP of Digital Strategy and Platforms
Joshua is VP of Digital Strategy and Platforms for Bayer Consumer US. His team leads the end-to-end strategy, and execution of the brands objectives and providing subject matter expertise in Programmatic, Search and Analytics. In addition to this, his team is building in-house platforms that will inform plans and quantify impact across platforms, channels and campaigns to drive optimization.
NCC Media - CEO
As NCC Media’s CEO, Nicolle Pangis and her team are working to build a smarter, more effective television ecosystem by partnering with and empowering brands to seamlessly connect with audiences wherever and whenever they watch content.
Nicolle previously served as Global Chief Operating Officer at GroupM’s [m]PLATFORM where she was responsible for global product management, strategic partnerships and technology development across the largest media investment management organization in the world.
Prior to [m]PLATFORM, Nicolle was a central figure in the success of programmatic pioneer Xaxis, serving first as Global Chief Revenue Officer, followed by Global Chief Operating Office. During her tenure as CRO, Xaxis grew revenue to over one billion dollars. Earlier she was President of 24/7 Real Media where she led the company’s business in North America and Europe.
A recognized leader in the media industry, Nicolle is a member of the Ad Council Board of Directors and has been named to the Adweek 50 list, AdAge’s 40 Under 40 and Business Insider’s 30 Most Powerful Women in Mobile. She has been honored as a Working Mother of the Year by both Working Mother Media and Advertising Women of New York.
CafeMedia - SVP, Strategy and Sales
Rachel oversees CafeMedia’s programmatic media and audience targeting efforts, connecting brands with our audience at scale through private marketplaces offering access to our highly viewable inventory as well as our unparalleled capabilities to target women and moms. She draws on data covering every aspect of a woman's lifestyle to help brands develop the best strategy for reaching the right audience with the right message.
Blinc Digital Group - Co-Founder, Principal Consultant
With over 14 years of experience in marketing, digital sales, ad ops, solution architecture and product management, Brienna Pinnow has worked with some of the world's largest companies, including retail, financial services, automotive, CPG, & insurance brands and advertising agencies to implement effective cross-channel strategies that harness the power of audience data, addressable advertising, and analytics.
Prohaska Consulting - CEO and Principal
As head of Prohaska Consulting, Matt, with a leadership team of 10 executives and a network of more than 100 senior executives in 25 cities across the globe, works with CEOs, CROs, COOs, CFOs, and CTOs to drive revenue and/or reduce costs on a strategic and/or tactical level by improving sales, marketing, operations, product, and/or tech. In less than three years, more than 150 clients – including top organizations such as Univision, Under Armour, Toyota and IAB – have chosen Prohaska Consulting for a variety of services, including strategic guidance, project leadership, training, and/or to supply operating street teams.
Anheuser Busch - Head of US Media
Paolo is the Head of US Media at Anheuser Busch. He oversees the media planning, buying, and optimization of the brewer's iconic brands campaigns, as well as the relationship with its agency and partners. Previous to this role, he led the Global eCommerce Marketing organization at ZX Ventures (Anheuser Busch InBev growth and innovation group). Before ABI, Paolo was at Google for nearly ten years, focusing on the development of digital and programmatic best practices for the promotion of Google's B2B and B2C products around the world.
Rebel AI - CEO & Founder
Manny Puentes is an experienced executive leader in the digital advertising and software industries. With more than 20 years of experience in digital advertising, Manny has led engineering and product teams to build a number of enterprise-scaled platforms for digital media trading by leveraging specialties in real-time bidding, data pipeline architecture, natural language processing, and machine learning. He also earned 11 issued patents in collaborative communications. He is the CEO and founder of Rebel AI, a Colorado-based startup focused on bringing security to digital advertising with blockchain and cryptographic verification.
Intermarkets - Vice President of Sales and Programmatic Strategy
Erik is the Vice President of Sales and Programmatic Strategy, responsible for partner development, programmatic strategy, and revenue at Intermarkets. Erik works directly with brands, agencies, trade desks, dsps, and exchanges. He is widely regarded as one of the top programmatic experts in the country. He’s a frequent contributor to publications like Beet.TV, The Drum, AdAge, AdExchanger and Digiday, and collaborates with industry groups and associations like the IAB MIXX, AAF DC and AdExchanger Programmatic IO workshops. Erik is affiliated with and active on many exchange advisory councils. He also serves as a strategic adviser to several top ad tech companies helping them to improve their tech for both buyers and publishers.
IPG Mediabrands - Vice President of Digital Ad Operations
Sarah Rose is the Vice President of Digital Ad Operations for IPG Mediabrands covering digital delivery and execution for Universal McCann, Initiative and Cadreon. She leads IPG's West Coast division of Digital Ad Operations experts out of Los Angeles, and San Francisco. Across multiple global accounts which include Sony, Hulu, Amazon, FitBit, GoPro, Zillow, Ubisoft and Charles Schwab she has standardized global process and lead onboarding initiatives across multiple verticals. She has 15 years in the Advertising Technology space with an expertise in emergent technologies in mobile, cross-screen attribution, audience development, DMPs, and also has experience in programmatic execution, strategy, planning on both the supply side and buy side. Prior company roles include, Opera Mediaworks as their SVP of Global Ad Operations, and Vice President of Client Services for Rakuten. Sarah started her career leading and managing Ad Operations experts on the publisher side for Time Inc, and IDG. She has worked in entrepreneurial start-up environments in New York and San Francisco and has been part of multiple executive teams that moved early stage start-ups to acquisition, including managing M&A transitions for Mobile Theory, Deep Forest Media, XGraph and Tumri. Her passion is new emerging technologies, responsible artificial intelligence, particle physics, and the arts. In her spare time she enjoys international travel, reading, hiking, wine tasting, the culinary arts, and art museums.
Uber - Programmatic Display Lead
Bennett is the Programmatic Display Lead for Uber’s Rider business. The first programmatic hire at Uber, Bennett drives strategic initiatives across campaign execution, creative vendor partnerships, and Uber’s ad-tech stack. Under his leadership, programmatic has become one of the largest and most strategic channels at Uber.
Prior to joining Uber, Bennett worked at MediaMath and Triggit, where he managed campaigns for Vistaprint, Rakuten, The Home Depot, Coach, Hotels.com, Gap, Uber, and many more.
Meredith Corporation - SVP of Data & Programmatic Solutions
Chip Schenck is the SVP of Data and Programmatic Solutions at Meredith Corporation and responsible for leveraging
data, insights and ad technology to build successful client solutions across Meredith’s National Media Group, which
reaches 175 million unduplicated American consumers every month, including over 80 percent of U.S. millennial
women. In this position, Schenck has access to two of the largest and most powerful first-party data repositories about the
American female consumer, which enable Meredith to create and drive long term data-driven client partnerships.
Schenck joined Meredith Digital from Pubmatic where he served as VP/Publisher Development and was responsible for
overseeing sales and services for Platform clients for the company’s publisher-focused Strategic Sales Platform (SSP). His
background also includes serving as GM/Strategic Publisher Accounts for Krux Digital, a global leader in publisher
focused data management platform products and services.
In addition, Schenck has held senior leadership positions with a diverse range of media companies including serving as
VP/Integrated Sales & DevelopmeSnt for American Express Publishing; Associate Publisher for In Touch Weekly; and
Managing Director of Sales and Marketing for Hearst-Stratosfera, the largest lifestyle publisher in Central Europe.
Schenck holds a B.A. from Skidmore College, and resides with his family in Stamford, Conn. He is based in Meredith’s
New York City offices on Liberty Street.
Matter Moore, LLC - CEO + Co-Founder
Highlights: New media entrepreneur and solution architect helping build marketplaces of the future. Former executive at Publicis Groupe; leading several new media innovations, tech start-up experience, brand management experience and finance experience. A passionate fundraiser for pediatric cancer research.
Professional Experience: Tracey has been a key architect in building media’s future for more than 15 years pursuing her industry-leading expertise in areas such as advanced TV, programmatic TV, online video, cross platform video, second-by- second set-top box data, and SmarTV/ACR measurement.
She played a pioneering role in bringing advertising innovation to life for some of the largest brands in the world, executing more than 250 campaigns for 50 leading clients including P&G, General Motors, Coke, Bank of America, Samsung and Kraft. As Co-founder and global director of Publici’s The Pool, Scheppach and her team gained insights into emerging forms of media and helped create industry standards for new advertising models across six global markets.
Scheppach is a frequent speaker and has been recognized by the Advertising Research Foundation (ARF) with a Great Mind Award, Mediaweek’s 50, and Woman to Watch by Advertising Age and was inducted into AAF’s Ad Hall of Achievement.
Facebook - Program Manager, Machine Learning
Madhura Sengupta is the Machine Learning Program Manager on the Facebook Advertising team, specifically within Delivery and Ranking. In this role, she is directly responsible for leading the human-in-the-loop machine learning that powers Facebook’s overarching advertising knowledge graph. These signals help match user intent with advertisers to create a better consumer experience and meaningful marketing value. Before joining Facebook, Madhura was Director of Advertising Product Technology at Edmunds, where she led the development of cutting-edge digital media and spearheaded the growth of audience extension as a new revenue channel. Previous to Edmunds, Madhura led the Revenue Operations department at a technology start-up that was acquired by Amazon Alexa. She has extensive experience in programmatic and native advertising, performance optimization, audience data strategy, and a strong penchant for analytics-driven execution. She is also a frequent writer and speaker at ad tech industry events.
EA - Global Director, Media Activation
Belinda J. Smith is the Global Director, Global Media Activation for EA, leading in-house media buying for EA’s HD titles globally. Previously Smith was the Director of Programmatic Strategy at 360i. There she oversaw strategy across all 360i North American programmatic accounts and client teams. Prior to 360i, Smith was the Director of Industry Initiatives at the IAB and led product management and marketing for several entities at AT&T.
614 Group - Sr. Director of Strategic Services
As Sr. Director of Strategic Services at the 614 Group, Jaclyn lends her expertise in operations and project management with a focus on business planning and support infrastructure. Jaclyn architects workflow, processes and business planning as it relates to systems and operations for publishers, agencies and technology services. While at the 614 Group, Jaclyn has lead engagements on workflow architecture, new technology implementations, and Master Data management and best practices for clients such as Univision, IBM, AFAR, and Conde Nast.
Jaclyn most recently served as the Director of Campaign Management at Condé Nast Media Group where she managed post-sale processes across the Conde Nast portfolio of premium brands as well as advised on special projects such as product implementation, systems migrations, and brand safety efforts. Prior to her role at Condé Nast, Jaclyn established a proven track record of building sales support infrastructure at start-up companies Shazam Entertainment, LTD and StyleCaster.
AdProfs - Founder
Ratko Vidakovic is the founder of AdProfs, a consultancy focused on programmatic advertising technology. He started his digital media career as a publisher, growing ToyotaNation into the web’s largest Toyota enthusiast community before selling it. After a few years as a performance media buyer, Ratko joined SiteScout as part of the founding team, where he built the inbound marketing machine that grew the self-serve DSP business to over 60,000 users, 8-figure revenue, and ultimately acquisition by Centro. Ratko has also written extensively about programmatic advertising as a columnist at Marketing Land. These days he shares his industry analysis and insights in a weekly newsletter – This Week In Ad Tech – read by over 7,000 professionals across the industry.
Learfield IMGC - CEO, Mogo Interactive; EVP Marketing & Data Solutions, Learfield IMGC
Ming is responsible for the data-driven digital media and creative businesses at Learfield IMG College, connecting national and local brands with over 150MM college sports fans through custom creative executions, exclusive content sites, programmatic, social, and search.
Most recently, he was CRO at MightyHive, where he doubled revenue and signed landmark engagements at Sprint, Nationwide Insurance, The Home Depot, Mondelez, and Visa, leading to the company's acquisition by S4 Capital. He served as EVP of Marketing at SolarCity prior to its acquisition by Tesla. Ming was formerly President of Accuen, Omnicom's programmatic media agency, which grew seven-fold during his tenure. At Yahoo, he oversaw the company's $1B Brand Advertising business, and managed the monetization organization across $1.7B in display advertising globally. While part of a venture incubator, he pioneered the specialized use of data and programmatic technology to help sell 2% of cars in the U.S market.
Ming holds a Bachelor of Science degree from Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a Master of Business Administration degree from Stanford Graduate School of Business. He resides in Marin County, California with his wife and son and is a competitive snowboarder and hobby carpenter.
OMD - Managing Director
Sacha recently joined as Managing Director at OMD in San Francisco. A pioneer in digital media, Sacha is an award winning marketing executive with 20 years of experience at top ad agencies and ad tech startups. Sacha is an empathetic leader, having built and managed high-performing teams spanning time-zones and languages. She is a champion of innovation and diversity, having founded and led Neo@Ogilvy's Innovation team and Ogilvy Culture as well as trained teams across LatAm on Social and Mobile Innovation and the importance of quality digital content.
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{"files"=>["https://ndownloader.figshare.com/files/636840"], "description"=>"<p>Summary of telomere loss adjusted for age (Δtel) in telomerase heterozygous individuals considered as a group (<i>Tel</i>), considered as <i>TERT</i> or <i>TERC</i> heterozygous individuals separately, and unaffected relatives of telomerase heterozygous individuals considered as a group (<i>Tel</i>), or separating parents or siblings.</p>§<p>Difference between the median telomere length and the regression estimate of the telomere length distribution in healthy individuals of the same age (Δtel).</p><p><i>Tel</i>: <i>hTERC</i> or <i>hTERT</i> gene.</p>", "links"=>[], "tags"=>["corrected", "telomerase", "heterozygous", "individuals", "unaffected"], "article_id"=>307328, "categories"=>["Genetics", "Hematology"], "users"=>["Geraldine Aubert", "Gabriela M. Baerlocher", "Irma Vulto", "Steven S. Poon", "Peter M. Lansdorp"], "doi"=>"https://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1002696.t002", "stats"=>{"downloads"=>1, "page_views"=>5, "likes"=>0}, "figshare_url"=>"https://figshare.com/articles/_Telomere_loss_corrected_for_age_916_tel_in_telomerase_heterozygous_individuals_and_unaffected_relatives_/307328", "title"=>"Telomere loss corrected for age (Δtel) in telomerase heterozygous individuals and unaffected relatives.", "pos_in_sequence"=>0, "defined_type"=>3, "published_date"=>"2012-05-17 02:02:08"}
{"files"=>["https://ndownloader.figshare.com/files/636628"], "description"=>"<p>A. Telomere length measurements in leukocyte subsets from female (pink) versus male (blue) healthy newborns (n = 58; females n = 29, males n = 29). The following white blood cell subsets were tested lymphocytes, granulocytes, “naïve” T lymphocytes (CD45RA+CD20−), memory T lymphocytes (CD45RA−CD20−) and B lymphocytes (CD20+). Each dot represents an individual sample, mean (horizontal bar) and standard deviation (vertical bar) for each cell type are shown. All subsets display a trend for longer average telomere lengths in females; however this trend does not reach statistical significance (Student's t test, data not shown). B. Piece-wise linear regression analysis representing the calculated telomere length per age for females (pink) versus males (blue) “naïve” T lymphocytes (CD45RA+CD20−). Breakpoints were at 1 year of age and at 18 years. Analysis of variance for females versus males (statistical model in R) showed significance (F(4,825) = 9.05; P = 3.7×10<sup>−7</sup>, ANOVA test result comparing regression fits). For data on other subsets and details of statistical analysis, see <a href=\"http://www.plosgenetics.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pgen.1002696#pgen.1002696.s003\" target=\"_blank\">Figure S3</a> and <a href=\"http://www.plosgenetics.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pgen.1002696#pgen.1002696.s009\" target=\"_blank\">Table S5</a>.</p>", "links"=>[], "tags"=>["differences", "leukocyte", "telomere"], "article_id"=>307124, "categories"=>["Genetics", "Hematology"], "users"=>["Geraldine Aubert", "Gabriela M. Baerlocher", "Irma Vulto", "Steven S. Poon", "Peter M. Lansdorp"], "doi"=>"https://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1002696.g003", "stats"=>{"downloads"=>0, "page_views"=>2, "likes"=>0}, "figshare_url"=>"https://figshare.com/articles/_Gender_differences_in_leukocyte_telomere_length_/307124", "title"=>"Gender differences in leukocyte telomere length.", "pos_in_sequence"=>0, "defined_type"=>1, "published_date"=>"2012-05-17 01:58:44"}
{"files"=>["https://ndownloader.figshare.com/files/329984", "https://ndownloader.figshare.com/files/330039", "https://ndownloader.figshare.com/files/330082", "https://ndownloader.figshare.com/files/330129", "https://ndownloader.figshare.com/files/330182", "https://ndownloader.figshare.com/files/330201", "https://ndownloader.figshare.com/files/330238", "https://ndownloader.figshare.com/files/330287", "https://ndownloader.figshare.com/files/330326"], "description"=>"<div><p>Telomerase activity is readily detectable in extracts from human hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells, but appears unable to maintain telomere length with proliferation <em>in vitro</em> and with age <em>in vivo</em>. We performed a detailed study of the telomere length by flow FISH analysis in leukocytes from 835 healthy individuals and 60 individuals with reduced telomerase activity. Healthy individuals showed a broad range in average telomere length in granulocytes and lymphocytes at any given age. The average telomere length declined with age at a rate that differed between age-specific breakpoints and between cell types. Gender differences between leukocyte telomere lengths were observed for all cell subsets studied; interestingly, this trend could already be detected at birth. Heterozygous carriers for mutations in either the telomerase reverse transcriptase (<em>hTERT</em>) or the telomerase RNA template (<em>hTERC</em>) gene displayed striking and comparable telomere length deficits. Further, non-carrier relatives of such heterozygous individuals had somewhat shorter leukocyte telomere lengths than expected; this difference was most profound for granulocytes. Failure to maintain telomere homeostasis as a result of partial telomerase deficiency is thought to trigger cell senescence or cell death, eventually causing tissue failure syndromes. Our data are consistent with these statements and suggest that the likelihood of similar processes occurring in normal individuals increases with age. Our work highlights the essential role of telomerase in the hematopoietic system and supports the notion that telomerase levels in hematopoietic cells, while limiting and unable to prevent overall telomere shortening, are nevertheless crucial to maintain telomere homeostasis with age.</p> </div>", "links"=>[], "tags"=>["telomere", "homeostasis", "hematopoietic", "cells", "caused", "heterozygous", "mutations", "telomerase", "genes"], "article_id"=>125154, "categories"=>["Genetics", "Hematology"], "users"=>["Geraldine Aubert", "Gabriela M. Baerlocher", "Irma Vulto", "Steven S. Poon", "Peter M. Lansdorp"], "doi"=>["https://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1002696.s001", "https://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1002696.s002", "https://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1002696.s003", "https://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1002696.s004", "https://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1002696.s005", "https://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1002696.s006", "https://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1002696.s007", "https://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1002696.s008", "https://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1002696.s009"], "stats"=>{"downloads"=>29, "page_views"=>22, "likes"=>0}, "figshare_url"=>"https://figshare.com/articles/Collapse_of_Telomere_Homeostasis_in_Hematopoietic_Cells_Caused_by_Heterozygous_Mutations_in_Telomerase_Genes/125154", "title"=>"Collapse of Telomere Homeostasis in Hematopoietic Cells Caused by Heterozygous Mutations in Telomerase Genes", "pos_in_sequence"=>0, "defined_type"=>4, "published_date"=>"2012-05-17 01:25:54"}
{"files"=>["https://ndownloader.figshare.com/files/636459"], "description"=>"<p>The median telomere length in nucleated blood cells from 835 healthy individuals ranging from birth (umbilical cord blood) to 102 years of age were measured by flow FISH. The results were used to calculate the telomere attrition over time using linear regression in three age segments. A. Median telomere length in lymphocytes (black dots). B. Median telomere length in granulocytes (grey dots). Breakpoints in the piece-wise linear regression lines are marked by rectangles and the three age groups are marked by dotted vertical grey lines at 1 and 18 years. On average 8 individuals were tested per age-year. C. At any given age, a wide range of telomere length was observed and the decline in telomere length with age in lymphocytes was more pronounced than in granulocytes. The shaded area represents the estimated length of subtelomeric DNA. Note that in older individuals, on average only 1–2 kb of telomere repeats were present in lymphocytes.</p>", "links"=>[], "tags"=>["telomere", "differs", "lymphocytes"], "article_id"=>306954, "categories"=>["Genetics", "Hematology"], "users"=>["Geraldine Aubert", "Gabriela M. Baerlocher", "Irma Vulto", "Steven S. Poon", "Peter M. Lansdorp"], "doi"=>"https://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1002696.g001", "stats"=>{"downloads"=>1, "page_views"=>4, "likes"=>0}, "figshare_url"=>"https://figshare.com/articles/_Decline_in_telomere_length_with_age_differs_between_lymphocytes_and_granulocytes_/306954", "title"=>"Decline in telomere length with age differs between lymphocytes and granulocytes.", "pos_in_sequence"=>0, "defined_type"=>1, "published_date"=>"2012-05-17 01:55:54"}
{"files"=>["https://ndownloader.figshare.com/files/636698"], "description"=>"<p>The telomere length distribution in healthy individuals (<a href=\"http://www.plosgenetics.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pgen.1002696#pgen-1002696-g002\" target=\"_blank\">Figure 2</a>) was used to plot the median telomere length values of leukocyte subsets obtained with: A. leukocytes from 60 telomerase deficient patients (red) and 37 non-carrier relatives (black). B. leukocytes from 37 <i>hTERT</i> mutation heterozygous individuals (red) and 23 <i>hTERC</i> mutation heterozygous carriers (black).</p>", "links"=>[], "tags"=>["telomere"], "article_id"=>307191, "categories"=>["Genetics", "Hematology"], "users"=>["Geraldine Aubert", "Gabriela M. Baerlocher", "Irma Vulto", "Steven S. Poon", "Peter M. Lansdorp"], "doi"=>"https://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1002696.g004", "stats"=>{"downloads"=>0, "page_views"=>5, "likes"=>0}, "figshare_url"=>"https://figshare.com/articles/_Telomerase_is_essential_to_maintain_telomere_length_in_leukocytes_/307191", "title"=>"Telomerase is essential to maintain telomere length in leukocytes.", "pos_in_sequence"=>0, "defined_type"=>1, "published_date"=>"2012-05-17 01:59:51"}
{"files"=>["https://ndownloader.figshare.com/files/636545"], "description"=>"<p>A. Cross-sectional median telomere length in nucleated cell types determined by flow FISH in 835 healthy individuals over the age range from birth to 102 years of age. The following nucleated blood cell subtypes were analyzed : lymphocytes, granulocytes, CD45RA positive CD20 positive B lymphocytes (CD20+), CD45RA positive CD20 negative lymphocytes (CD45RA+pos CD20−) “naïve” T cells, CD45RA negative CD20 negative lymphocytes (CD45RA−) memory T cells and CD45RA positive CD57 positive mature NK/T cells (CD57+). Data were analyzed using a piece-wise linear regression model in the age categories 0, 1 yr; 18 yrs and 102 years and for calculation and representation of the telomere length distribution range at any given age (expressed as a percentile): 99<sup>th</sup> (red), 90<sup>th</sup> (dashed green top), 50<sup>th</sup> (green), 10<sup>th</sup> (dashed green bottom) and 1<sup>st</sup> (blue). Some of the healthy subjects (n = 835) did not have sufficient cells for analysis of one or more of the cell subsets. B. Piece-wise linear regression analysis overlay representing the modeled estimate of telomere length per age for: B lymphocytes (grey), granulocytes (black dashed), “naïve” T lymphocytes (black), memory T lymphocytes (black interrupted dashed) and mature NK/T lymphocytes (grey dashed). Regression breakpoints were set at age 1 and age 18 years. C. Paired comparison of telomere length in granulocytes and memory T lymphocytes from the same individuals. Age groups were as follows: cord blood samples and below age 1 (n = 60, red), age 1 to 18 (n = 171, black), 19 and above 19 (n = 604, green).</p>", "links"=>[], "tags"=>["differences", "attrition", "leukocyte", "telomere"], "article_id"=>307032, "categories"=>["Genetics", "Hematology"], "users"=>["Geraldine Aubert", "Gabriela M. Baerlocher", "Irma Vulto", "Steven S. Poon", "Peter M. Lansdorp"], "doi"=>"https://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1002696.g002", "stats"=>{"downloads"=>0, "page_views"=>5, "likes"=>0}, "figshare_url"=>"https://figshare.com/articles/_Cell_type_8211_specific_differences_in_the_range_and_attrition_rate_of_leukocyte_telomere_length_/307032", "title"=>"Cell type–specific differences in the range and attrition rate of leukocyte telomere length.", "pos_in_sequence"=>0, "defined_type"=>1, "published_date"=>"2012-05-17 01:57:12"}
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How Consumers and Policymakers Can Use Systematic Reviews for Decision Making
Lisa A. Bero, PhD; Alejandro R. Jadad, MD, DPhil
Lisa A. Bero, PhD
Alejandro R. Jadad, MD, DPhil
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Systematic reviews can be a very useful decision-making tool because they objectively summarize large amounts of information, identify gaps in medical research, and identify beneficial or harmful interventions. Consumers can use systematic reviews to help them make health care decisions. Policymakers can use systematic reviews to help them make decisions about what types of health care to provide. Despite the potential value of systematic reviews, little evidence of their direct impact on the decisions made by consumers and policymakers is available. We discuss strategies for optimizing the use of systematic reviews by increasing the awareness and identification of reviews, learning to critically evaluate the findings of reviews, and overcoming barriers to the incorporation of reviews into the decision-making process. In addition, the participation of consumers and policymakers in the design, conduct, and reporting of systematic reviews can help to produce reviews that are relevant and understandable to target audiences. Because decisions that involve health care policies and issues are complex processes in which information (such as that provided by systematic reviews) plays only a part, strategies for increasing the use of systematic reviews should be evaluated for their usefulness in the decision-making process.
Bero LA, Jadad AR. How Consumers and Policymakers Can Use Systematic Reviews for Decision Making. Ann Intern Med. 1997;127:37–42. doi: 10.7326/0003-4819-127-1-199707010-00007
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Gun Safety vs. Gun Control
Dear Mr. Government;
Please roll me up in bubble-wrap, and put me in a big box full of non-toxic packing-foam peanuts, so that nothing – not even a bad word – can hurt me.
Recently, some Idiot (a woman, as it turns out – just to disprove female claims that all Idiots are male.), managed to get herself shot to death in an American Wal-Mart, when her 2-year-old son reached into her purse, beside him in the shopping cart.
She was described in local papers as “an atomic scientist.” She was a chemical technician who worked at a power plant. This is not Big Bang Theory! She was an ‘atomic scientist’ in the same way a homeless panhandler is a “Charitable Donations Canvasser.” Still….
In an outpouring of telling others how to run their country and their lives, a Toronto area man sent the following letter to the Toronto Sun, titled More Gun Control:
I just read about the tragic death of a 29-year-old mother in a U.S. Walmart. She was shot by her two-year-old after the youngster pulled a gun out of his mom’s purse.
I can’t think of any reason why it would be necessary to bring a loaded gun to go shopping. What a waste of life, not to mention the emotional scars this child is going to have to deal with the rest of his life.
The NRA and its lobbyists need to be muzzled and better gun controls in the U.S. are long overdue. There’s been too many of these senseless events for far too long.
I agree that it was a sad and preventable occurrence, but this writer leads a far too protected life, and uses way too many hysterical mistakes and lies to justify it. Even the term “loaded gun” is a loaded term. Can he think of a reason to bring an ‘unloaded gun’ shopping? The title is another flag to show his bias. He doesn’t advocate ‘Greater Gun Safety’. He demands ‘More Gun Control.’
Through lack of forethought and research, I recently spent a weekend in a dangerous part of Detroit. This was near Eight Mile, where the white rapper Eminem got street cred by growing up in a tough Negro area.
My motel had an armed security guard patrolling after dark. My place was quiet, but the downscale motel directly across the street was well known for gunshots and police and ambulance calls. The pizza shop on Eight Mile had floor-to-ceiling, half-inch thick, bullet-resistant Plexiglas.
The ‘Trade Center’ (more like a cheap flea market) that we went to on Sunday, had signs on the doors which read, “All hoods must be removed on entering”, and “We will provide a security escort to your vehicle, but we will not carry merchandise.”
As an unarmed Canadian tourist, I was very careful where I went, and when. I can understand and sympathise with local residents who feel the need to carry firearms to protect themselves from gangbangers and drug dealers.
If even the Trade Center management feels the need to provide protective escorts, there must be a good chance that there might actually be someone in the parking lot to protect from. I might not need a handgun while I’m shopping, but if there’s someone out there who wants to rob/rape/kill me before I get to my car, then I might need the gun when I leave the store.
Just what further “gun control” does this conservative Canadian feel Americans need? The woman in question underwent a background check, and endured the 10-day waiting period. She paid for, and enrolled in, a concealed weapon carry permit training session. She was psychologically stable, and the weapon was duly registered.
Sadly, stupidity still carries the death penalty, and she’s posthumously (there’s no other way) enrolled in the Darwin Award hall of shame. While she might have been intelligent enough to work at a nuclear generating plant, neither training nor legislation can instill common sense.
To have a loaded gun is one thing. To have a loaded gun with several children around, including a busy, curious two-year-old, is something else entirely. The story does not say if the purse was open, but even if it was closed, she was not paying sufficient attention to the child and the gun, sitting side by side. The gun was not merely loaded, but almost surely must have been cocked, and the safety off. Little two-year-old hands can’t do these things.
Just what ‘senseless events’ is he referring to, the accidental shooting death of a mother by a young child? I don’t ever remember hearing of another! Perhaps he could worry less about the NRA’s somewhat overzealous desire to preserve the legal right to possess firearms, and vent his indignation on gangs and druggies and other criminals who make carrying them seem like a good idea.
And that’s a view on Gun Control vs. Gun Safety from a grumpy, old, unarmed Canadian, north of the border.
Tagged Big Bang Theory, Canadian, charity, common sense, firearms, government, gun control, handguns, power plant, safety, tourists, Trade Center, trivia, Wal-Mart
February 21, 2014 by Archon's Den
Winter Vacation – Finale
When we checked into the motel on the Friday, one of the first things the son did, was try to open the top dresser drawer. Perhaps he had a sudden urge to read the Gideons’ Bible. The front of the drawer just came right off in his hand.
With sleep schedules now totally confounded, the son was asleep shortly after 11 PM Saturday night, while I was still lurking around outside, reading newspapers and doing crossword puzzles in the vending room, and gabbing with the security guard.
Son was up at 7:30, and went over to the office to get yet another tea, while I “slept in” till 8 AM. Just as he quietly eased the door open at 7:45, the maintenance man fired up the snow blower, right outside the unit.
The son’s OCD shows differently from mine. Now that we were both awake (Speak for yourself, son and heir.), things should “be done”, we should pack immediately and vacate the premises. I made toast juice and pills, washing dishes and final packing, last till almost 9. We visited the office, finalized all paperwork, and offered many thanks to Connie, to be spread among all the nice desk clerks.
The car is loaded; we’re ready to go, and it’s just 9:10. Finally, the son asks the question he should have thought about before. What time is this County-Line Trade Center open? I had hoped that it was at 9 AM, like the Gibraltar Trade Center. The reason we stayed up here, was to try something new. I had used the Google Maps overhead view to find that it was an ell-shaped building, about half as big as Gibraltar.
We drove a mile in five minutes and pulled into the parking lot. There was one snowed-in car, and a half-ton with a plow blade clearing the lot. One wing of the ell is a furniture resale store and a dental office. The Trade Center is only half as big as I’d hoped and imagined. The sign on the door says opening is at 10. We drove back down to last night’s McDonalds, and parked at the back, trying not to get plowed in by the guy clearing their lot.
Finally we drove back up, and the plow jockey unlocked the door, and let a couple of vendors enter. With no booths open, I got into a conversation with one, about socialized medicine, Obamacare, and a second international bridge, while the son prowled this tiny little microcosm. One unopen booth shows Saturday hours of noon to 5, and Sunday from 1 till five. On a Superbowl Sunday, after a significant snowfall, this is not going to get much better.
The Gibraltar center is full of kitsch, “As seen on TV.” This County-Line place also has lots of stuff seen on TV – if you used to watch Sanford and Son. The food service area looks like where Sly Stallone got rat burgers in Demolition Man. There are signs on the doors which say, “All hoods must be removed before entering.” and, “We will provide security escort to your vehicle, but we will not carry merchandise.”
Eleven o’clock – we can’t go home yet. What do we do?? The son’s paying for the gas; let’s drive 25 miles and go to Gibraltar. We stopped at a nearby Meijer’s gas bar to fill up. “Let’s go into the store.” The son found and bought two big bags of Chili-Cheese potato chips the Meijer’s on the other side of town didn’t carry, and I located and bought two large bottles of McIllhenny’s Chipotle Tabasco Sauce the other store also didn’t have, for the daughter.
Right across the street was a small health food store. Between it and its larger parent two miles down the road, I found most of the items the big GNC stores didn’t carry, for the niece. Touchdown, Yay!
The kid and I spent several hours touring Gibraltar, its yummy food court and the gun and knife show they had on the display side. While I got to caress a Beretta 92 pistol, similar to Rants’ military version, the son found that he likes shotguns.
I got rid of another small pocketful of change to an old veteran, collecting to support other vets, down on their luck. I saw at least two “girly” guns, one a little .22 caliber varmint plinker for a 12 to 18 year old, the other, a more serious, semi-military style .308, shoot-a-moose, or a trespasser, rifle. Both were done in camouflage finish – if you were hiding behind Sailor Moon, the darlingest pink and black daubs and lines.
About 3, we decided to head home. Plows and volume of traffic finally had the roads down to bare and damp. Since we’d driven south, we decided to cross back, over the bridge. The same factors which kept people out of the Trade Center, kept them off the bridge. I again was able to get into a Customs line with only one car ahead of me.
When I was allowed to roll forward, the window of the booth slid open, and I was greeted by a female customs officer. Not unheard of, but not common on the Canadian side of the Windsor/Detroit crossings. She smiled at me and said, “Hello/Bonjour.” “Bonjour,” I replied, “now I know I’m truly back in Canada.”
“Pardon me; could you please pass me a serviette? I appear to have spilled my poutine.” Every Canadian knows exactly what that sentence means, but I may have to translate it for my American readers.
A couple of questions for me, and a couple for the son, and we were soon on our way home. I coulda brought that beautiful Beretta back, and no-one but me would have been any the wiser. The son called the wife, now that Canadian cell phone towers would carry my Canadian cell phone plan. We told her we were on our way, and three hours later, we were ordering pizza, after covering 870 Km./555 Mi. over a very enjoyable three-day weekend. Thanx for reading along with us. 😀
Posted in Road Trips, That's Life
Tagged Beretta, customs, French, guns, knives, motel, OCD, poutine, snowplow, Trade Center, translation, trivia
Winter Vacation – Part II
We each got a couple of hours nap Friday afternoon, but both our sleep schedules were F..ouled up. Son wants to hit the hay at 11 PM – I still want to read a newspaper and do a crossword. Can’t do that in the room, so I take my stuff and go over to sit in the lobby, only to find it locked. I eventually located a second vending machine room with only an ice machine…and a nice little bench, ta-da!
Afternoon clerk Stephanie was white. Now I get to meet and speak with Miss Annie, an impressive, older Negro lady. Even older than me, she’s 72. The clerk at the Taylor motel has been there 27 years. Miss Annie has been here over 30, and finally plans to retire near the end of this year. Nice lady, but she don’t take no shit. I also met and talked with Mark, the armed Negro security guard. Tough neighborhood, remember?
While we were conversating, a young man walked in, and said, “I want a room for the night.” I’m sorry sir, we’re all full. But I have a reservation. What’s your name sir? Xxx Yyy! I’m sorry sir; I can’t find a reservation in that name. He pulled out a tiny scrap of paper, and said, “Here’s my confirmation number.” Well, ya coulda led off with that, and your name, instead of just asking for a room.
I print the entire page and present it to the clerks, because it gives every last iota of needed information. I’m sorry sir; I can’t find a reservation here under that number; are you sure it’s correct? I’m very sure; check again. She tapped away for a few seconds, and finally told him, Yes sir, you do have a reservation – at the Plymouth Red Roof, 25 miles from here. And he was sober – maybe just a brain freeze.
I spent a few dollars extra to get a room with a microwave and fridge. After boring myself sleepy, I returned to the room – and bed, only to find that the fridge has a loud annoying buzz when it runs. Woke us up two or three times during the night. The second night I unplugged it, and we both slept much better.
Up at 8, we both had toast and juice, and I made myself a hot chocolate to take with me in a thermos, to the show. I went over to the office to add some of their coffee, to make a mocha, and met Aletha, another young Negro gal. Never met a stranger. The only clerk we missed was Brian, because he doesn’t work weekends.
I-696 to the show venue ran right behind the motel. Getting on was almost as easy as falling out of the parking lot. I remembered to take the camera. Signs on the front doors insisted, “No outside food or drink!” I slipped the hot chocolate into my inside jacket pocket, and didn’t sip till I was way back at the back, where no officials could see.
I was irked by the fact that every second vendor had a Dunkin Donuts coffee, or Starbucks, or hotel coffee in a thermos. I saw one guy making a roast beef and cheese sandwich, but I can’t bring in food or drink? The WTF factor is going up.
Last year I could access my blog from computers in the entryway, but this year they were locked out, to access only the Center’s site. After paying, and entering the display hall, I was faced with a sign that said, “No cameras allowed without the permission of the show manager.” I left mine in my shirt pocket.
Halfway around, I met a woman waving her cell phone camera. Some of the dealers threw a little impromptu birthday party for a compatriot, and everybody got a picture taken. I just got the sign….and rising blood pressure again.
One of the knife dealers explained that the anti-gun nuts come to shows and take photos of the plethora of firearms and publish them as “proof” that we’re all going to die in a gigantic shoot-out. If I had asked the show manager, I would probably have been allowed to take pics, although some gun vendors have table signs which insist, “No Photos!”
There were even fewer hand-made knives, and more “rusty jackknives.” I took photos of all the interesting knife collections last year, so I didn’t use the camera. I think we’ve had it with this show. Unless we can find a show in Zanesville or Cincinnati, I think the wife and I will wait for good weather and just go to Detroit for shopping and a getaway.
It snowed on the way to the venue, and while we were there. As we were leaving, it was changing to freezing rain. I’m maybe a bit better at driving in that shit, but the 25 mile trip back was interesting. One guy just fell off the road and tangled with an overpass support, ripping off his rear bumper, and throwing the back wheel across the freeway.
Since we didn’t want any of the over-priced, captive-audience, crap food at the venue, we stopped at a McDonald’s on the way home. My bill ended in 43 cents – and I still had that 42 cents left from yesterday. I picked a penny up off the counter that the previous customer didn’t take, and my pocket was now completely empty.
And then I leaned down and picked a penny off the floor – and went back to the motel and sat on the bed, and picked up a penny beside the other bed. Later that night, when I went for another walk, I was telling Mark, in the vending room, about keeping my eyes open, and picked a dime off the floor.
The next day, at a Meijer’s store I found a quarter and a penny on a self-checkout bagging platform, and later used my knife to pry a nickel out of a 25 cent gumball machine. The reason it was there may have been because it was Canadian, but the pocket’s getting heavy again. Somewhere I picked up a brass game token. I wonder if the son remembers where. I don’t.
After another nap, we decided to go out for supper. While we didn’t want to eat there, the wife had requested a blooming onion from Outback, so we started there. I had researched online maps, and driving instructions, including Google Street-view. Son fed the address into Miss GPS and got, “Accessing satellites….accessing satellites…. cannot access satellites.” Oh, yeah. Snow/rain storm. We found it the old-fashioned way, by looking.
Tomorrow we’re going to, not one, but two, Trade Centers. Anybody want to come along? I’ll buy a hot pretzel, with mustard.
Tagged Canadian, Cincinnati, coins, firearms, GPS, guns, knives, Meijers, NRA, Red Roof, satellites, security guard, Trade Center, trivia
9/11 Redux
I read BrainRants’ once-a-week, daily post two days ago, and realized that 9/11 had sneaked by me, not because it wasn’t important, but because time seems to slip past me so quickly now. When I was a kid, the summer vacation seemed to last a whole year. Now that I’m retired, a whole year seems to slip past in a week.
When I worked, I could measure the passage of time by the disappearance of cans of Pepsi. I took one to the plant every day I worked. A case of 24 got me through just over a month, and I had the feeling of accomplishing something. Nowadays I mark time by the disappearance of anti-histamine pills from a blister pack, and helping the wife and I stay healthy is about as productive as it gets.
My memory is poor, but who could forget 9/11? We got the news on the line at work from supervisors and QC managers. I went straight home after work and was watching TV when the towers collapsed. Suddenly, the embassy bombing, the attack on the Cole, and the previous internal attempt to blow the Trade Center all meshed. I knew that everything was about to change.
It changed for us about a month and a half later. We had planned to drive a second time to Charleston, SC, for a week’s vacation. The previous year we had crossed the border at Detroit. A couple of perfunctory questions, and we were waved through. This time, we crossed over at Buffalo. There were twice the number of border guards, some of them wearing pistols, some of them leading dogs, some of them with articulated poles with mirrors on the ends.
The questions were hard and tight. Who were we? Where were we from? Why did we want to get into the US? Where were we going? How long would we be there? All the while, the guy with the dog circled the car in one direction, and the guy with the mirror inspected my exhaust and oil pan from the other.
I was driving a station-wagon at that time, and I knew that they would want a look inside, so I pushed the hatch unlock button. Unlike vans, the hatch did not rise on its own; it had to be raised by hand. The wife told me to stay with the car, and she would open it when they asked. Soon the command came, and it was a command, not a request, to open the back. Two things happened almost simultaneously. We almost had two guns pointed at us. When the hatch didn’t immediately pop open, the officer on my side of the car must have thought I was ignoring him, and shouted the command again, adding the word, now!
On the wife’s side of the car, she was getting out to raise the lid, and the guard on her side suddenly jumped back and grabbed for his side-arm. I explained to my guy that someone had to raise the hatch, and, since he wasn’t doing it, my wife would. Things calmed down, a little. They started pawing through our stuff, which had been clearly visible through the windows. We had taken our Koolatron portable refrigerator, but were using it just as a box to hold various items. The power rectifier/cord was in a small wicker basket with some other things, so that it wouldn’t get lost. When they came upon that, all Hell broke loose!
What was this infernal electric/electronic device? Was it a controller for a bomb? Could we bring down airplanes with it? Even after we explained its use, they still wanted to know why it wasn’t with/in the Koolatron. That’s full! You just looked in it!
The entire feel of the country was different from previous trips. When we got to Charleston, we found that there had been rules enacted to prevent anyone from fishing within twenty yards of any bridge abutment, despite the fact that, some of the best fishing is in the shadow of the bridges.
America had lost her virginity. Not that the 3000+ lives lost in the twin-towers holocaust weren’t important, but three thousand out of three hundred million is a mere pinprick. It was the pinprick, however, which let the air out of the USA’s carefree isolation. The Japanese were stopped at Pearl Harbor. These rats had got right into the pantry.
People questioned our going down to the States, “Where they’re having all that trouble.” But the day before we left, there had been a bomb report phoned in at the company the wife worked for. There ultimately was no bomb, but the prank caller got his money’s worth. He emptied out the head-office building, and three local branch office buildings. A couple of weeks previously, I noticed a church deacon wandering around the balcony where we were seated, during the sermon. The service was cut short and we were asked to vacate the building because someone had called in a bomb threat….to a church! A week after we got back, an aerosol recycling plant almost no-one knew existed, had an explosion, significant enough to close a section of the city. We just think we’re safe.
Eleven years later, things are still changing. Some restrictions are relaxing; others are still tightening up. In just over a week, we will be taking a weekend trip to metro Detroit. This will be our first border crossing in three years, and the first time we will need to provide passports. You’re not allowed to smile for passport photos. Dealing with bureaucracy is not conducive to smiling anyway.
I once read a book called The Wasp, where an agent created havoc in an enemy country through minor actions. Forty years later, the wasps have arrived, and ruined our innocence. I remember and mourn those who needlessly died that unforgettable day, and I salute and respect those like BrainRants, who strive to give back what freedom and peace of mind we can hold.
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Amazon’s former Fire TV director gets poached by Apple
New hire brings years of experience at Amazon, Roku, Netflix, and more.
Andrew Cunningham - Feb 8, 2017 6:00 am UTC
Enlarge / The fourth-gen Apple TV.
Andrew Cunningham
If you've been thinking that the Apple TV's hardware has needed a shot in the arm lately, it looks like you're not alone. Bloomberg reports that Apple has hired Timothy Twerdahl, an executive who has spent most of the last four years serving as Director and General Manager of Amazon's Fire TV team. Twerdahl's extensive resume includes years of experience with hardware and TV projects, including three years at Palm, two at pre-Google Motorola, half a year at Netflix, almost two years at Roku, and three years as VP of Products at WIMM Labs, a wearable device maker acquired by Google back in 2013.
Pete Distad, a former Hulu executive who had been managing the Apple TV team, isn't being let go. Rather, Twerdahl's hiring will free him up to focus on "content deals," possibly for Apple's nascent scripted TV and movie projects.
Disney Infinity and the problem with Apple TV’s gaming ambitions [Updated]
The fourth-generation Apple TV represented a major overhaul of Apple's longtime "hobby" project when it was released in October of 2015. It got a brand-new and dramatically faster CPU and GPU thanks to the Apple A8, it threw out the old iOS-lite Apple TV operating system for a new one with a revamped interface and more iOS APIs, and it picked up its own App Store and SDK. Yet despite CEO Tim Cook's belief that "the future of TV is apps," the platform seems to have stalled since then. You can find apps for most streaming video services (Amazon is the lone major holdout and its promised Apple TV app never materialized), but Apple's gaming ambitions have sputtered. Even the new TV app, one of tvOS' most visible additions in the last 16 months and another effort to fix streaming boxes' "where the hell can I watch this" problem, is hobbled by its lack of support for Netflix.
The hardware has likewise stagnated. It has received no updates in 16 months and still starts at $149, significantly higher than competing boxes from Roku and from Amazon. Newer and higher-end models from competitors also support 4K content and HDR, while the Apple TV is stuck at 1080p. Apple doesn't break out sales of the Apple TV from the Apple Watch, the iPod, Beats headphones, and the rest of its "other products" category, so we can't say for sure how any of these factors have affected sales.
New leadership, particularly from someone with Twerdahl's hardware expertise, could at least help Apple stay abreast of its competitors. At Amazon, Twerdahl oversaw the release of the original Fire TV and its expansion into lower-cost streaming sticks. And if Apple used the "gaming edition" of the Fire TV and its gamepad as a template, it could find renewed success in that market too; Apple's developer community is considerably larger and more active than Amazon's.
Andrew Cunningham Andrew wrote and edited tech news and reviews at Ars Technica from 2012 to 2017, where he still occasionally freelances; he is currently a lead editor at Wirecutter. He also records a weekly book podcast called Overdue.
Twitter @AndrewWrites
jeffp3456 Smack-Fu Master, in training
I wish him well, he certainly has his work cut out for him.
I was not impressed with the Gen 3 Apple TV (previously owned the Gen 1) and figured Gen 4 couldn't be any worse (after all the remote finally wouldn't slide off the table every 5 minutes).
I'm man enough to admit that I was wrong, the Gen 4 TV is a sh*t show. Did anyone at Apple make any attempt to figure out who the customer was and what would work for them? I don't think so. Awful junk.
CaptBojank Ars Centurion
jeffp3456 wrote:
The remote kinda sucks but overall I like the Apple TV gen 4. It has all the streaming apps I need and I can mirror my iPhone and MacBook. I like it better than my gen 3 and the Roku 3 I had before that.
I have a bluetooth gamepad for it too, but have only used it once since I bought it (about 6 months ago). Gaming on it is pretty bad, though Ducktales Remastered is fun.
Apple has a huge 'unable to do two things at the same time' problem. They do the iPhone, it's their bread and butter. But everything else stagnates.
NEDM64 Account Banned
Reading the article makes it seem that Apple is doing so badly in the cord cutter business.
Now, what happened to Android TV? Google doesn't even try anymore (after a failure called Google TV), the big TV OEMs are simply ignoring it and pursuing with their own horrid Smart TV platforms, and the box OEM scene is just horrid, tried to find a good box for development at our work and I don't think Xiaomi will make a good box for us developers (with a non adulterated OS), also can't find them in EU legally, can't find the discontinued Nexus player (with no replacement), and the Nvidia ones are expensive for the users and too powerful for the developers (not a question of price, but we don't get to really see the limitations most of the people will experience in CPU power, RAM and SSD access)
Don't say "Chromecast is their idea", because it isn't. It's their plan C if plan B (Android TV) fails after plan A (Google TV), the one they have least control, and most people use that as a cheap way to put their torrents in their TV, while Android TV was meant to put PlayStore-bought content in the TV.
The article portrays the lack of Netflix on Apple's App as a problem of Apple, as their fault, while it's simply because Netflix doesn't want to, Netflix wants people to go to their App ONLY.
Last edited by NEDM64 on Wed Feb 08, 2017 2:09 pm
truthyboy15 Ars Scholae Palatinae
NEDM64 wrote:
google wants you to use their chromecast product.
redtomato Ars Tribunus Militum
Bought a ChromeCast and a Amazon Fire Stick on Black Friday last year. The ChromeCast sits in a drawer unused, but the Fire Stick is used every day by my kids and family.
Strange, I thought it'd be the other way around, but that's the familiar story of nerds vs normies.
Arty50 Ars Scholae Palatinae et Subscriptor
My original PS3 just shit the bed, and so I've been using my Roku 2 in the meantime. It's a little slow, but it works well overall and has a ton of channels. I'd much prefer to have an AppleTV, but it's way behind on the channel front, especially since it doesn't have an Amazon app. That's a deal breaker for me. Plus the Roku pricing kills the AppleTV. Honestly, there's no reason I'd buy an AppleTV over the top end Roku right now. It's a terrible value.
citpeks Ars Scholae Palatinae
It's not about the hardware, and it will never will be. It's about content and programming.
Those who create it, and have it, will always hold the upper hand.
The established media companies are happy to maintain the status quo, and keep the money train going through the MSOs that service the majority of TV households with either video service, or internet service, if not both.
The MSOs occasionally have to pretend to put up a fight, before they capitulate and then pass the ever increasing programming costs onto their users. If they're big enough to afford it, they grab a media company of their own to hedge their bets, and better their own hand in negotiations, like Comcast did with NBCUni, and AT&T is with Time Warner.
Relative newcomers like Netflix and Amazon got their start relying on content from the traditional media companies, but soon realized that to control their own destiny, they would have to become creators, not merely licensees, and have done very well in their own right in that respect.
Netflix sets itself apart by being ubiquitous and platform agnostic. Amazon has chosen to be selective in how it distributes. I'm not sure if Fire hardware makes much money for them (I doubt it does), but it allows them to retain control over the whole widget, and serve as one facet of a home network that channels entertainment and household purchases directly to them.
Apple was able to exploit a weak, and directionless music industry, and gain control over music distribution and consumption, much to the industry's later chagrin. But even it didn't foresee consumers' shift in preference toward variety and accessibility via streaming rentals, not ownership. Apple Music was a reactive, not proactive endeavor, and they're still catching up with the likes of Spotify.
The TV and movie industries have done just fine without Apple and have not needed a savior. Without the same bargaining power it had with the music industry, Apple has been asked to accept the same terms as everyone else, and they have punted. Not having Steve Jobs to call upon as your closer in negotiations probably has not been a positive either.
Missing one of the major killer video apps (Prime), and without any original content of its own, the Apple TV platform is at best just another member of the pack, and has suffered for it, not because the hardware is old, can't do 4k, and expensive. Apps that play well on handheld devices don't necessarily translate well to large displays, and any gaming initiatives were severely crippled by Apple's overly optimistic and restrictive rules for game developers.
There's nothing that the Apple TV can do that another streaming media box cannot, except better integrate into the Apple ecosystem, and that hasn't proven to be enough of a selling point.
Unless Apple becomes willing to loosen the purse strings enough to create its own content, or license others' on their terms, Apple TV will remain just another "hobby."
Last edited by citpeks on Wed Feb 08, 2017 6:31 am
GreyAreaUk Ars Praefectus
P W wrote:
apple tv lost the market momentum it had the moment apple took away the ability to jailbreak the device.
Apple take away the ability to jailbreak: Wah! I can't do what I want with *my* device!
Apple don't take away the ability: "Massive vulnerabilities remain in AppleTV devices!"
Damned if they do, damned if they don't.
BikkelZ Ars Centurion
There's still a huge market for "at least not as crappy as the OS that comes with the TV". If the next generation supports better resolutions, at least 4k then I would definitely purchase one.
Red Herring Ars Scholae Palatinae
Apple over-estimated the appeal of mobile games on a TV, turns out vast majority have no interest and only want premium games on TV something AppleTV doesn't do.
Secondly Apple's long term plans for 4K video went down the drain when HEVC imploded as a unified IP pool, the tech industry formed the Alliance for Open Media settling on VP9 as the interim 4K codec until their next gen AV1 codec is ready (of course Apple isn't a member).
Because Apple refuses to support VP9 they have no 4K solution and Google/Youtube will never support HEVC which is already on it's way out with Netflix/Amazon phasing it out too.
So AppleTV needs new hardware for 4K and if Apple is serious about games then it needs to ship with a proper game controller and better hardware to accommodate at least some ports of popular console/PC titles.
Goofball_Jones Ars Tribunus Militum
Meh. I'm ready to move on from Apple TV. Thought when they pushed through the app-store on their latest one would really make it great...but it hasn't. And I'm constantly having to reboot it because the little touch-pad remote thing starts acting up. Also, that thing is a pain sometimes. Sometimes I like it, other times it's infuriating.
I'm moving on. Looking to get one of the new Nvidia Shields. It has all the services I want AND Amazon Prime video. Netflix, Hulu, Youtube, Amazon, HBO, Plex...even Kodi. I've been a cord-cutter for over 10 years now, and Apple TV helped that (along with the Roku 3 for a while and Google's Chromecast...or Googlecast or whatever they're calling it now).
I know the Amazon Fire TV could run the things I want too, but I've been trying to move away from centralized services, where everything is tied up with one company...such as Apple or Amazon.
SPCagigas wrote:
You say that like the iPhone hasn't been stagnating for years...
Yeah, like that total flop of a phone the iPhone 7. What were they thinking?
https://www.wsj.com/articles/iphone-sal ... 1485898217
There is no Netflix on the TV app because they don't want to share their customer data. Wish Apple could make some sort of firewall within the app so that they could promise not to track content in the app.
We might see Netflix then. Amazon Prime isn't coming to the TV because Amazon doesn't want it to.
Games aren't on the TV because of the bonehead move at launch where they had to support the remote to play.
Hope all this changes. It's a good product otherwise.
antimagic Smack-Fu Master, in training
citpeks wrote:
OK, this I don't understand. I watch Prime on my AppleTV - it's a best of breed experience. This is done by streaming from the iOS app to the AppleTV. The iOS device becomes the companion screen that shows X-Ray information in realtime as the show progresses. It is a *genius* user experience (and I say this as a professional STB software developer). I can't think of a single good reason for Amazon to go to the effort of creating a standalone AppleTV app when they have this fantastic experience already available on the platform, and the number of AppleTV owners that don't have an iOS device must be tiny.
solomonrex Ars Legatus Legionis et Subscriptor
tayhimself wrote:
So except for games and video content, it's a good TV box?
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Thomas Harte Ars Scholae Palatinae
I don't have an AppleTV because I don't need one. Between the Roku that Sling.TV gave us for paying for the months up front, an Amazon Fire Stick that I bought on impulse when they first launched and were offered at $18 to existing customers, the software built into the televisions and the free apps for every tablet, there's no screen currently left uncovered. I even still have a first generation iPad that's so slow that Netflix, Hulu, etc streaming is the only thing we use it for.
Drum Ars Praetorian et Subscriptor
Goofball_Jones wrote:
To be fair (not that I agree that it is stagnating anyways), good sales aren't necessarily an indicator of a non-stagnant product.
TomWestrick Ars Scholae Palatinae et Subscriptor
Sharp and Sony (I think there are others, but can't remember them off the top of my head) use Android TV as their operating system. Vizio uses a built in Chromecast and an Android tablet (or your own device) as the remote. NVIDIA just refreshed their SHIELD TV box and they're still supporting the first generation. Xiaomi just released an Android TV box as well, and Chromecasts are still selling very well.
Chromecast and Android TV are a classic example of Google having two solutions to the same problem, but they tackle that problem in different ways and they both work really well for their intended uses.
P W Ars Centurion
GreyAreaUk wrote:
not at all. they can do what they want. and since most of us don't live in north korea, we're free to choose what device we want to use. the configurability of amazon fire is a wonderful thing for anyone that has even limited tech savy. if you need a walled eco-system to protect you from your own lack of knowledge or fear of learning, apple tv will welcome you with open arms.
Well, I bought a 7, to replace a 5S-- and I can tell you the 7 is a major improvement. Now, the battery on the 5S had swollen and its front panel was partly detached, so buying a new phone was not exactly a voluntary upgrade for me. But I'm quite happy with the 7.
lonewolfe2015 Ars Praetorian
I have tried every streaming device on the market and they all have their own perks. But my Apple TV gets probably the most use because it has the widest variety of stable applications and simplest experience. The new TV app is nice as well, though still struggling to get it to present the right episodes for tracking.
It's strange that given the money in this industry area we still have no amazing solution. Everyone (MS, Amazon, Apple, Roku, Sony, etc) produce great pieces of the puzzle and then stop.
tutis Wise, Aged Ars Veteran
I read in the comments here that many Arsians are ready to move away from Apple TV - and for all the right reasons too. I too use an Apple TV (Gen 3) and I think it sucks --- but I also have accumulated quite a few many films on iTMS.
So my question is - is there anything else than an Apple TV I can use to watch my existing movie collection from iTMS? Hooking up a laptop to the tv doesn't count - I am thinking about something more like a Roku or any set topbox.
TheWhiteFalcon Ars Centurion
TomWestrick wrote:
At least until GoogleADD strikes and they axe both of them for a fork that captures OTA signals.
kinisonkhan Ars Centurion
I never understood the pricing model for the latest AppleTV. $150 for 32gb storage and $200 for the 64gb version. I suspect alot of fools bought the more expensive model thinking it was a better deal (its got more geebee's!!), but really they should be charging $200 for an AppleTV with 4gb RAM, not 64gb storage.
solomonrex wrote:
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I mean the Netflix app not integrated in the TV app isn't huge. The quality of the hardware and software is really good. The price and lack of 4K in 2017 isn't the best.
ewelch Ars Tribunus Angusticlavius et Subscriptor
It hasn't. But that doesn't mean people don't think so.
Drum wrote:
Correct. It means it's still better than the competition.
sedirex Ars Centurion
redtomato wrote:
I much prefer the Chromecast because it lets me use my phone as the remote. Dedicated remotes are cheap and plastic-y, they pile up and have old-fashioned batteries that eventually need to be replaced. In my perfect world I'd be able to control everything from one single device - and my phone is the best candidate.
taswyn Ars Praefectus
sedirex wrote:
You do realize that so does the Fire Stick? (personally I think that the app methods of controlling the Chromecast work better [than the Firestick app] and are more seamless, but they also involve some different control paradigms)
Actually one of the things I do really like about the Fire Stick is that it just simply works with CEC: I usually just use the TV remote with it rather than the dedicated one or the app. The one thing that's nice about the voice remote is that it's a quick Alexa interface (versus unlocking a phone, starting an app, digging through menus, etc), if you use Alexa for things like home automation. On the other hand, it requires finding the remote and pushing the voice button, rather than being voice activated like a dot, so we don't use it for that as much as we thought we would.
Last edited by taswyn on Wed Feb 08, 2017 11:34 am
xme Ars Scholae Palatinae
Anecdotal, but Apple seriously needs help on this front in my opinion. I got a Roku to hook up to my mostly unused second TV. Once the girlfriend tried the Roku she made me swap them out. Other than AirPlay, she just flat out likes the Roku better. Especially the remote. Now the AppleTV only gets used when someone gives her an iTunes gift card and she curses at it every time.
eric123 Ars Scholae Palatinae
don't jump to the conclusion they don't test but rather you might not be the target.
jrhoffa Seniorius Lurkius
the big TV OEMs are simply ignoring it and pursuing with their own horrid Smart TV platforms
Amazon's Fire OS is coming to smart TVs in the near future.
Last edited by jrhoffa on Wed Feb 08, 2017 11:43 am
truthyboy15 wrote:
Or the new Xiaomi box that runs Android TV...
I much prefer the Chromecast because it lets me use my phone as the remote.
Which you can do with the Fire TV as well ...
taswyn wrote:
Same with Nexus player and Chromecast. Just saying this for others, not to correct you.
haar Ars Tribunus Militum et Subscriptor
xme wrote:
not to mention that the previous appletv needs to be rebooted every 4 hours of watching Netflix... ( or at least it does at my sisters house)
Truly annoying, that I have to unplug the cable from the Apple TV and let it reboot, for it to respond again after watching Netflix...
Or after a week of idling...
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Arthritis Research & Therapy
Significant findings
Paper Report
BLys expression and function in Lupus
Sylvie Fournel1
Arthritis Research & Therapy20013:68241
https://doi.org/10.1186/ar-2001-68241
© Biomed Central Ltd 2001
Received: 8 March 2001
B cell
BLyS
B lymphocyte stimulator (BLyS), also called BAFF, TALL-1 and zTNF4, is a newly identified member in the tumor necrosis factor (TNF) family that exhibits a strong costimulatory function for B cell activation in vitro. BLyS-transgenic mice develop severe B cell hyperplasia and autoimmune lupus-like disease. Moreover, in two murine models of human systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), MRL/Mp-lpr/lpr and NZB/W F1 mice, increased serum levels of BLyS seem to correlate with autoimmune kidney damage. Knowing that treatment with the soluble BLyS receptor significantly improves the survival of lupus mice, the authors examined the serum level and function of BLyS in the patients with SLE.
BLyS was increased in sera and plasma of 150 patients of SLE in comparison with 38 normal control patients. Interestingly, BLyS levels in the sera of 44 patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and the synovial fluids of 57 RA patients were also significantly higher than levels in normal sera. In SLE patients, BLyS exerted a costimulatory effect when B cells were activated by anti-IgM antibodies. Finally, the increased level of BLyS in SLE patients was associated with an increased production of anti-dsDNA antibody, which may participate in disease pathogenesis, but was not associated with production of other antinuclear protein antibodies.
These results confirm results obtained in lupus-prone mice and provide new clues as to how B cells may contribute to the development of systemic autoimmune disease. Indeed, the high level of BLyS may explain the low activation threshold of B cells in lupus. Moreover, the identification of specific cell subsets (eg monocytes, macrophages and dendritic cells) which express BLyS in SLE provide further insight into the pathogenesis of SLE.
ELISA, immunoprecipitation, cell proliferation
CNRS, Strasbourg, France
Zang J, Roeschke V, Baker KP, Wang Z, Alarcon GS, Fessler BJ, Bastian H, Kimberly RP, Zhou T: Cutting edge: a role for B lymphocyte stimulator in systemic lupus erythematosus. J Immunol. 2001, 166: 6-10.View ArticleGoogle Scholar
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Germany Is Unveiling A Highway Exclusively For Electric Trucks
This could change the future of goods transportation.
Germany is unveiling a new highway system that has overhead cables powering the Mack truck you're accustomed to seeing on major interstates.
The system, which Germany began testing on its famous autobahn highway this week, is aimed at reducing the carbon emissions and gas guzzling caused by large trucks. Germany's government spent $77 million developing trucks that can use the system and estimate a truck owner would save $22,370 on fuel over 62,000 miles of driving, according to CNN.
"Electrified trucks are particularly efficient solution on the road to carbon-neutral transportation," Rita Schwarzelühr-Sutter, state secretary at the German Federal Ministry for the Environment, told CNN.
Siemens, an automation company, developed the roads and says they allow big rigs to connect to the lines — much like a subway or troller — and can travel nearly 60 miles per hour. Right now, 6.2 miles of the autobahn have been converted for use by electric big rigs. The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development says road transportation is going to account for 15 percent of the increase in global CO2 emissions by 2050, CNN reported. With innovative roads like this one, environmentalists are hoping they can reduce that number significantly.
Tags: electric truck highway, autobahn, germany autobahn, germany, german electric trucks
Chobani Yogurt Company Pays Off Outstanding Lunch Debt For Kids
"Every child should have access to natural, nutritious & delicious food."
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Panthers Star Tight End Donates $2.5 Million To Pediatric Cardiac Center
Olsen is considered one of the most generous players in the NFL.
The Earth Is Greener Today Than 20 Years Ago, According To NASA
We know humans are helping.
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Kunsthalle Basel
Danai Anesiadou
25 Sep - 13 Nov 2011
© Danai Anesiadou, Mandagloire, 2010, Video
The Other Tradition, WIELS Contemporary Art Centre, Brussels
Courtesy the artist and Elisa Patteau & Cie Galerie, Brussels
Photo: Diana Duta
Damnesia Vu
25 September–13 November 2011
Under the title Damnesia Vu, Kunsthalle Basel presents the first solo exhibition in Switzerland of the crossover-genre work of the artist Danai Anesiadou. Following her participation in the 5th Berlin Biennale in 2008 she has increasingly gained recognition in the visual arts scene as an independent performance artist, and subsequently appeared in several group shows in Europe.
Anesiadou’s practice attests strongly to biographical reminiscences. A German-born Greek, raised in Belgium and resident in Brussels and New York, the artist regards her present situation as temporary permanence, constantly renegotiated between the past and the future, and immediately palpable only in those magical moments when both these dimensions appear to coincide. For Damnesia Vu at Kunsthalle Basel, the artist creates a surreal environment incorporating iconography related to her Greek background as well as to B-movies and Nouvelle Vague films: scenery in which the reality of cinema and the fiction of everyday life appear to mingle. With Damnesia Vu – a play on Anesiadou’s last name and the words déjà vu, amnesia, and damnation – the artist moves beyond the crux of a personal quest for identity and love to address the auspicious, ironic game of life itself, a game that ultimately leaves one guessing as to who one really is.
In winter 1867, the architect Johann Jakob Stehlin-Burckhardt submitted his competition design for a Kunsthalle in Basel. As a motto he chose the opening lines of Goethe’s poem Künstlers Morgenlied (Artist’s Morning Song, 1773): ‘Der Tempel ist euch aufgebaut / Ihr hohen Musen all’ (The temple is built for you / All you high Muses). This quotation in support of Stehlin-Burckhardt’s neo-classical project reveals what the Kunsthalle was meant to become: the permanent home of the Muses, in line with the Enlightenment idea of the museum as temple of the arts and the artist as divine creator. The “neo-Doric” columns arranged by Anesiadou in the temple-like Oberlichtsaal (skylight hall) of the Kunsthalle are in fact no more than plastic film props. In contrast to the decorations found commonly in supposedly typical Greek restaurants beyond the borders of Greece, – which are often only cheap imitations of the “tavernas” in the home country, yet seek to suffuse holidaymakers with “the feel of Greece” and native Greeks with national pride – the patently fake columns rather underscore than hide the artificiality of the setting. Anesiadou, who – as she says – has difficulty recognizing her adult female self against this backdrop – stages the quest for personal identity as a permanent balancing act between delving into the past and projecting potential futures. The temporality in her works is hence characterized by shifting perspectives, incongruence of narrative, breaks and cross-fades, similar to that of avant-garde cinema. Anesiadou’s inquiry is not meant to expose a conflict between different cultures but it is a tool in construction of trans-cultural fiction, a deeply relished transformative trip into the twilight zone of vague presentiments and superstition, in which losing oneself is a viable prospect. In analogy to Plato’s allegory of the cave, according to which things that the prisoners of the cave perceive as real are in fact mere shadows of the truth, Anesiadou demonstrates the role cultural heritage plays in the construction of the self, overwriting the subjectivity as part of a scripted fiction.
The reference to cinema runs through the entire exhibition. Nine large collages are installed in the main space, based on film posters and presenting each a different, hybrid “idol” – ranging from anonymous soft-porn stars to Catherine Deneuve and Jeanne Moreau. These works can be read as perverted effigies of the 9 Muses that once ruled over arts and sciences. In the same gallery visitors encounter the Rohmer’s desk, an imitation of the desk of gallery owner Gontrand, a character in Eric Rohmer’s film Quatre Aventures de Reinette et Mirabelle, (1987). The desk appears in the scene in which Reinette, a young, impoverished painter, sets out to sell a painting to Gontrand. Convinced as she is that art needs no further agency beyond itself – given not only that it speaks for itself but is also the medium by which a personal rapport is established in unspoken mutual understanding, between its creator and its observer – she decides to negotiate the sale in silence; the outcome is a monologue by Gontrand, who is impassioned by his own critique of the painting and buys it from her. If the exhibition is structured as a journey of anamnesis – a series of guiding images and recollections that illustrate the search for the self – the Rohmer’s desk stands for an altar piece, the site where the artist’s “true self” is sacrificed by the art world’s priests. Anesiadou’s criticism is never directed exclusively at the exhibition strategies and forms of agency commonly pursued in the art world, for she is equally prepared to poke fun at herself as a part of the very system she ridicules.
In the second room of the show, in stark contrast to the profusion of images that fill the other rooms, Anesiadou shows just one enlarged photograph from her family archive, showing the moment of her being baptized by an Orthodox priest and thus made part of one of the world’s symbolic orders without having been given a choice.
The last room of the exhibition is modelled on a film scene from Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s In A Year With 13 Moons, (1978). Here, in a mirror-tiled toilet of a hotel bar, Elvira – a transsexual who used to be Erwin but cast off her male persona out of love for a heterosexual man – recounts in the company of a prostitute friend the recent break-up of her relationship, her sad childhood, and the painful step of transition. The exhibition space – which is tiled with mirrors, resembling the décor of the toilet in the film – thus figures as a psychic abyss in which all illusions about life have already gone down the drain, and the creative and transformative power of love appears to have changed vector and turned into self-destruction. Fassbinder’s film is prefixed by a reminder – namely that every seventh year is a moon year, in which those who are governed primarily by emotions are particularly prone to suffer even more self-doubt than usual. The same occurs in years with thirteen moons. If a moon year and a year with thirteen moons coincide, personal catastrophes will inevitably occur.
‘What is this place and where am I? I don’t remember my name.’ These are the first words in Damnesia Vu, the episode of the American computer-animated TV series Xavier – The Renegade Angel shown in the “Fassbinder room”. In order to find answers to his questions, the protagonist Xavier is doomed to fathom his soul seven times, and so – in the psychedelic, absurd, grotesque and discontinuous narrative style of the series – he embarks on seven imaginary trips into the past, thereby symbolically passing each time through a door. Yet neither the reason why Xavier has completely lost his memory nor the nature of the pernicious power that drives him to descend to the depths of his soul is ever revealed. In the hope of solving these riddles, he opens all seven doors simultaneously. A disembodied voice emanating from a slot machine announces: ‘Congratulations. You may now begin to play the game of life’.
The exhibition’s subtitle Zum Besten der Griechen (To the best of the Greeks) is a line printed on the cover of an 1826 exhibition catalogue published by Basler Künstlergesellschaft (Basle Artists Society), an organization, which in 1864 merged with Basler Kunstverein (Basle Art Association) in order to build Kunsthalle Basel. A part of the proceedings from sales of exhibited works was donated to support the Greek struggle for independence from the Ottoman rule (1821-29). Quoted today, Anesiadou’s Zum Besten der Griechen can be read almost as a heartening toast made in the face of an imminent catastrophe that threatens to put the familiar world out of joint, to rock it beyond recognition, or to call forth fantastical creatures of the netherworld who will suddenly populate the earth and herald pure chaos: an exhibition scenario whose relevance – given the current economic and political impasse all-too-easily attributed to Greek rather than to global crisis – extends far beyond the bounds of the show at Kunsthalle Basel.
The exhibition has been generously supported by Herzog & de Meuron.
Danai Anesiadou (born 1973 in Pirmasens/D) lives and works in Brussels. Anesiadou studied Fine Arts at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Gent and also graduated from the Postgraduate Programme of Advanced Research in Theatre and Dance Studies at DasArts in Amsterdam. Previously she worked in the field of costume design and scenography for theater plays, dance performances and short films. She participated in the residency programmes of Banff Center, Banff (CA) in 2010 and of the International Studio and Curatorial Program (I.S.C.P.) in New York in 2011. Solo exhibitions (selection): Galerie Elisa Platteau, Brussels (2011); Isomosis, Isofix, Isomopolis, Etablissement d’en Face Projects, Brussels (2009); I Kiss Your Ectoplasm Like I Would a Shark, Kiosk, Ghent (2009). Group exhibitions (selection): The Other Tradition, Wiels Contemporary Art Center, Brussels (2011); Melancotopia, Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam (2011); Curated by, Christine König Galerie, Vienna (2010), Jahresgaben, Neuer Aachner Kunstverein, Aachen (2010), Morality. Let Us Compare Mythologies, Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam (2010); Projections, Panorama-Festival, Athens (2009), Rooms Kappatos 2009, Athens (2009); x, y & m, Galerie Elisa Platteau, Brussels (2008). Performances (selection): Erst kommt das Fressen, dann kommt die Moral, Lecture Performance with Marco Bruzonne, Public School, Brussels (2010), Paralipomena: Portrait of a Woman, Morality. Of Facts and Fables, Witte de With, Rotterdam (2010), Mandagloire, The Prompt, Kunstverein New York/Performa Festival NY, Bolzano (2010), Mandagloire, Banff Center, Banff/CA (2010); One Measures a Circle, Beginning Anywhere, Unscene, Wiels Contemporary Art Center, Brussels (2009), Chuck Norris Doesn’t’ Sleep, He Waits, by Anesiadou, Bryssinck & Peeters, Beursschouwburg, Brussels (2009), Feelings, There is No(w) Romanticism, Galerie Les Filles du Calvaire, Brussels (2009); A Night of Psicomagia, 5. Berlin Biennale, Berlin (2008), Chuck Norris Doesn’t’ Sleep, He Waits, by Anesiadou, Bryssinck & Peeters, Something Raw Festival, Brakke Grond, Amsterdam (2008); Chuck Norris Doesn’t’ Sleep, He Waits, De Donderdagen, Singel, Antwerp (2007); Same Difference: Murder Mysteries, Emotion Pictures, MUHKA, Museum for Hedendaagse Kunst, Antwerp (2005); Same Difference: Murder Mysteries, with Alexandra Bachzetsis, Etablissement d’En Face Projects, Brussels (2004).
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Japan-Update
At Casio, a generational split opens path back to prominence
President preparing electronics maker to function minus his charismatic dad
YUMA IKESHITA, Nikkei staff writer January 15, 2018 13:00 JST
Casio Computer President Kazuhiro Kashio
TOKYO -- Behind silver-frame glasses and beneath a mop of wavy, graying hair, soft-spoken Casio Computer President Kazuhiro Kashio cuts a far more subdued figure than his charismatic, take-charge father, Chairman Kazuo Kashio.
But the intellectual engineer's relatively hands-off approach could be just what the electronics company needs after a decade of struggling to regain its former stature by force of will.
Casio is at a turning point, Kazuhiro revealed in a recent interview with The Nikkei. While calculators and wristwatches carried the company to prominence starting in the 1970s, earnings have faltered of late. If nothing changes, "we won't be here in a decade," the 51-year-old president said. More than two years into the job, Kazuhiro is ready to do what it takes to turn things around -- whether or not that means clashing with his father.
Fixed ideas
Kazuo Kashio, the chairman, has an unparalleled track record as an energetic innovator and salesman. Along with his three brothers, he helped bring desk calculators to market in Japan and in the early 1970s unveiled a compact calculator less than a third the price of its predecessors. The device sold a million units in 10 months, helping make Casio a global household name. The quartet's other inventions, ranging from more advanced calculators to musical instruments and watches, helped the company diversify into a true electronics giant.
Now, at 88, Kazuo says he is "still on the front lines on development."
The Kashio brothers: Yukio, Kazuo, Tadao and Toshio.
"I'm not just popping in for a taste" of development work -- "I'm actually working," he explained. The chairman remains the driving force behind Casio's watch division and is spearheading development of new watch modules geared toward emerging markets.
But Kazuhiro takes a darker view of the company's development efforts, acknowledging that what he has to say may run counter to his father's point of view. "Casio is losing its founding spirit," the ability to dream up innovative products from nothing, the president argued. "Our own management systems are part of the problem."
"As a company, we've become less appreciative of young engineers working freely and experimenting as they please," he said.
Casio's electronic musical instruments business is emblematic of the problem. The business is hardly a minor one. Casio and rival Yamaha control more than 80% of the market for electronic keyboards, and instruments overall brought in a healthy share of the company's 321.2 billion yen ($2.86 billion) in sales for the year ended March 2017. But innovation there has withered.
Several years ago, after years of the musical instruments business bleeding red ink, the head of keyboard development planning identified cost as the greatest strength of the department's upcoming offerings. Designers set about ensuring this was the case, making keyboards smaller, even at the expense of functionality, to cut down on pricey shipping materials.
The focus on price-competitiveness "is not wrong in and of itself," Kazuhiro said. But, he explained, engineers would likely prefer to put their talents toward innovating and dreaming up new offerings than to simply cutting costs.
A tight grip
The strong will that made Kazuo a standout salesman also made him an intense top-down manager when he became president in 1988. Yuichi Masuda, a senior executive managing officer who once oversaw the hit G-Shock line as chief of watch operations, recalls how, as one of the four Kashio brothers, Kazuo seemed untouchable to most employees.
Casio Computer Chairman Kazuo Kashio
This served the company well through fiscal 2006, when robust cellphone and digital camera sales handed Casio its largest operating profit ever and more than 600 billion yen in sales. That year, the company set its sights even higher, targeting 1 trillion yen in sales and 100 billion yen in operating profit in fiscal 2009.
That was not to be. Instead, Casio logged a massive loss in fiscal 2009 amid a slump in cellphones and liquid crystal displays, and sales fell to half their former level.
The fall has certainly not stopped Casio from dreaming big. The company's earnings targets are often shockingly ambitious, even to employees. But Casio frequently fails to deliver on those bold plans.
Such was the case in May 2015 when, at the same event where he announced that Kazuhiro would take over as president, Kazuo declared that Casio would double operating profit to 75 billion yen in a few years. Were he to remain president, the company could more than meet that target, the now-chairman said, challenging his son to rise to the occasion.
More shocking than the headline figure was that 10 billion yen of the 75 billion yen was to come from new businesses, including a series of video lectures where Kazuo and others would pass on the secrets of their managerial successes to a paying audience. But with profit having plunged in fiscal 2016, such customers could prove difficult to find. The time frame for realizing the target was pushed back by a year.
Kazuhiro endured a barrage of questions from foreign investors during a meeting at the end of November. They wanted to know what progress Casio had made toward its postponed profit goal, as well as detailed breakdowns of each business operation, according to the president.
"In the past, investor relations were not that active," said Kazuhiro.
But the shareholders were hungry for results, putting the company in a bind. If achieving the profit target is a must, the company would be forced to boost sales this fiscal year at the expense of next fiscal year's result, said the younger Kashio.
"In that context, we couldn't load up on new ammo heading into the future, even if we wanted to," he added.
The days when the elder Kashio inspired the staff with ambitious goals seem nostalgic in comparison. Now that shareholders are essentially auditing those lofty ambitions, staff morale has taken a hit, throwing Casio into a negative spiral.
The reluctant heir
Kazuhiro succeeded his father as company president at the age of 49. Some expressed doubts about the future of the company given his young age, in addition to his more demure attitude.
Upon graduating from college, he entered the family business, working in advertising operations. He was even assigned to a U.S. office.
Kazuhiro was finally promoted to a position overseeing management strategy in 2007. That signaled his grooming as the eventual president of Casio, though his father outwardly kept his options open.
"The next president will be chosen on merit," Kazuo was keen on saying. "The successor may even come from outside the Kashio clan."
In the end, the leadership was kept in the family, but not without reservations from the inheritor himself. "At one point, Kazuhiro-san seemed to be hesitant to the idea of becoming president," a company insider said. Each of Kazuhiro's three uncles had successors as well. "Kazuhiro-san seemed to think they were more capable," said the source.
Whoever succeeds a strong leader is expected to live up to that reputation. However, Kazuhiro's words and actions appear to go against that thinking.
"It took a genius to give birth to an electronic calculator," he said, adding that even absent a genius at the helm, the company's methods allow it to create just the same. The era of Casio taking on challenges armed with the instincts of geniuses and gamblers was over.
Putting out the China fire
The report for the quarter ended in December 2016 contained an odd note about "a production delay due to quality issues" in the segment for electronic musical instruments.
Casio "completely outsourced production of keyboard products to a down-market Chinese electronics manufacturing service company, which resulted in a large number of products that did not meet shipment quality," said a person familiar with the situation.
Even the calm and collected Kazuhiro had little choice but to act to deal with this situation caused by taking cost-cutting to the extreme. Previously, production of almost all of Casio's keyboards had been outsourced. But as of last July, the company had reassigned production of its entire lineup to a plant it owns in Shandong Province in eastern China.
Casio also took the opportunity to implement on-site reforms at factories, an issue that had more or less been treated lightly in the past.
Meanwhile, Kazuhiro continues to battle against the side effects of what was once a one-man regime. "Earnings will improve from last fiscal year's floor," said the son.
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Open Discussion (SPOILERS)
The Game of Thrones TV Adaptation FAQ
By Werthead, December 19, 2009 in Open Discussion (SPOILERS)
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Location:Colchester, Essex, United Kingdom
CURRENT STATUS: Filming of Season 1 completed. HBO will begin transmission of the series on 17 April 2011.
Game of Thrones is a television adaptation of the Song of Ice and Fire novels by George R.R. Martin, being developed by the American cable network HBO. The current plan is to adapt each novel as one television season, with A Game of Thrones being adapted as the first season, A Clash of Kings as the second and so on. Game of Thrones is currently being adopted as the overall title for the series.
Filming on Season 1 has been completed. If renewed, filming of Season 2 is expected to begin in the Spring.
So far the following roles have been cast:
Sean Bean as Lord Eddard Stark, Lord of Winterfell.
Michelle Fairley as Lady Catelyn Stark, originally of House Tully, Lady of Winterfell.
Richard Madden as Robb Stark.
Sophie Turner as Sansa Stark.
Maisie Williams as Arya Stark.
Isaac Hempstead-Wright as Bran Stark.
Art Parkinson as Rickon Stark.
Joseph Mawle as Benjen Stark, First Ranger of the Night's Watch.
Kit Harington as Jon Snow, Lord Eddard's bastard son.
Jennifer Ehle was cast as Catelyn Stark in the pilot episode but has since had to leave the series. She has been replaced with Michelle Fairley, who will reshoot the Catelyn scenes from the pilot during principal photography of the rest of the series.
Wards and Retainers of Winterfell
Alfie Owen-Allen as Theon Greyjoy, heir to the Iron Islands, ward of Lord Eddard Stark.
Ron Donachie as Ser Rodrik Cassel, master-of-arms at Winterfell.
Jamie Sives as Jory Cassel, the captain of Eddard's household guards.
Donald Sumpter as Maester Luwin, a maester of the Citadel.
Kristian Nairn as Hodor, a simple stableboy at Winterfell.
Megan Jones as Old Nan, an elderly retainer who tells stories to Lord Eddard's children.
Susan Brown as Septa Mordane, responsible for the children's religious education and the daughters' comportment.
Clive Mantle as Lord Greatjon Umber, the head of House Umber, a loyal vassal of the Starks.
David Bradley as Lord Walder Frey, the head of House Frey, a vassal of the Tullys, Catelyn Stark's family.
Rhodri Hawkings as Mycah, a butcher's son who befriends Arya Stark on their journey south.
Lalor Roddy as an assassin.
House Lannister
Charles Dance as Lord Tywin Lannister, the head of the house, Lord of Casterly Rock.
Lena Headey as Queen Cersei Lannister, Queen of the Seven Kingdoms.
Nikolaj Coster-Waldau as Ser Jaime Lannister, a knight of the Kingsguard.
Peter Dinklage as Tyrion Lannister, the Imp.
Eugene Simon as Lancel Lannister, Tyrion, Jaime and Cersei's cousin and King Rober's squire.
Ian Gelder as Kevan Lannister, Tywin's younger brother, Lancel's father.
House Baratheon & Sworn Swords
Mark Addy as King Robert Baratheon, King of the Seven Kingdoms.
Jack Gleeson as Prince Joffrey Baratheon, heir to the Iron Throne.
Aimee Richardson as Princess Myrcella Baratheon, Robert's daughter.
Callum Wharry as Prince Tommen Baratheon, Robert's youngest son.
Rory McCann as Sandor Clegane, Prince Joffrey's sworn sword.
Gethin Anthony as Renly Baratheon, King Robert's brother, Lord of Storm's End and Master of Laws on the King's small council.
House Arryn, Retainers and Sworn Swords
Sir John Standing as Lord Jon Arryn, the deceased Hand of the King (flashback only).
Kate Dickie as Lady Lysa Arryn, Catelyn Stark's sister and de facto ruler of the Vale of Arryn in her son's name.
Lino Facioli as Lord Robin Arryn, Lysa's young son and titular Lord of the Vale. Renamed from 'Robert Arryn' in the books.
Ciaran Birmingham as Mord, the chief jailor at the Eyrie.
Brendan McCormack as Ser Vardis Egen, the captain of the household guards at the Eyrie.
Jefferson Hall as Ser Hugh of the Vale, Lord Jon's former squire, now knighted for his leal service.
At the Crossroads Inn and nearby
Jerome Flynn as Bronn, a sellsword of dubious loyalty
Emun Elliott as Marillion, a minstrel and singer.
Susie Kelley as Masha Heddle, the innkeeper of the Crossroads Inn.
Sibel Kekilli as Shae, a camp-follower.
Mark Lewis Jones as Shagga, a leader of the mountain clans.
In the Free City of Pentos and in Vaes Dothrak
Emilia Clarke as Princess Daenerys Targaryen, the Stormborn.
Harry Lloyd as Prince Viserys Targaryen, the exiled 'beggar king' of the Seven Kingdoms.
Iain Glen as Ser Jorah Mormont, an exiled knight of the Seven Kingdoms.
Ian McNeice as Illyrio Mopatis, Magister of Pentos.
Jason Momoa as Khal Drogo, a Dothraki warlord.
Dar Salim as Qotho, one of Drogo's bloodriders.
Elyes Gabel as Jhogo, a Dothraki warrior and Daenerys's bodyguard.
Roxanne McKee as Doreah, a Lyseni slave.
Amrita Acharia as Irri, a Dothraki slave.
Mia Soteriou as Mirri Maz Duur, a healer and wise woman.
Simon Lowe as a wineseller in Vaes Dothrak.
Tamzin Merchant was cast as Daenerys in the pilot, but has since left the project and been replaced with Emilia Clarke.
At the Royal Court in King's Landing and in the City
Aidan Gillen as Lord Petyr 'Littlefinger' Baelish, the King's Master of Coin and a member of the small council.
Conleth Hill as Varys, the King's Master of Whispers and a member of the small council.
Julian Glover as Grand Maester Pycelle, a member of the King's small council and a trusted advisor.
Ian McElhinney as Ser Barristan Selmy, the Lord Commander of the Kinsguard and a member of the small council.
Finn Jones as Ser Loras Tyrell, the Knight of Flowers, a famous tourney knight and warrior, beloved by the commons.
Conan Stevens as Ser Gregor Clegane, the Mountain That Rides, the most feared knight and largest man in all of Westeros.
Wilko Johnson as Ser Ilyn Payne, the king's headsman.
David Michael Scott as Lord Beric Dondarrion, a young lord and popular tourney knight.
Dominic Carter as Janos Slynt, Commander of the King's Landing City Guard, the goldcloaks.
Miltos Yerelomou as Syrio Forel, the former First Sword of Braavos, living in King's Landing as a swordmaster and teacher.
Andrew Wilde as Tobho Mott, a master blacksmith.
Joe Dempsie as Gendry, Mott's apprentice.
Eros Vlahos as Lommy Greenhands, a dyer's apprentice.
Ben Hawkey as Hot Pie, a baker's apprentice.
Antonia Christophers as Mhaegen, the mother of one of King Robert's bastards.
Esme Bianco as Ros, a lady of negotiable affection known to Tyrion Lannister.
Sahara Knite as Armeca, a prostitute in King's Landing working for Littlefinger.
Roy Dotrice was originally cast in the role of Grand Maester Pycelle but had to withdraw from the production shortly before filming began due to illness. He has been replaced by Julian Glover.
Members of the Night's Watch and Wildlings
James Cosmo as Lord Commander Jeor Mormont, the 'Old Bear', commander of the Night's Watch and father to the disgraced Ser Jorah Mormont.
Peter Vaughan as Maester Aemon, Lord Mormont's closest advisor and maester at Castle Black.
Owen Teale as Ser Alliser Thorne, in charge of training new recruits.
Brian Fortune as Bowen Marsh, the First Steward of the Watch.
Francis Magee as Yoren, a recruiter for the Watch.
John Bradley-West as Samwell Tarly, a fresh recruit for the Watch, of House Tarly of the Reach..
Josef Altin as Pyp, a fresh recruit for the Watch, a former mummer.
Mark Stanley as Grenn, a fresh recruit for the Watch.
Luke McEwan as Rast, a fresh recruit for the Watch, a rapist.
Rob Ostlere as Ser Waymar Royce, a newcomer to the Watch, a knight and warrior.
Dermot Keaney as Gared, a veteran of the Watch.
Bronson Webb as Will, an experienced scout of the Watch.
Stephen Don as Stiv, a wildling.
Natalia Tena as Osha, a wildling warrior-woman.
Derek Halligan was originally cast as Alliser Thorne but withdrew from the production shortly before filming of Season 1. He was replaced by Owen Teale.
This website has an excellent collection of photos of the actors.
Additional characters such as Stannis Baratheon, Davos Seaworth, Melisandre of Asshai and Brienne of Tarth will not be cast until/unless a second season is commissioned, following the structure of the books. In a change to the structure, the characters of Brynden 'Blackfish' Tully, Edmure Tully and Lord Hoster Tully have been moved back to Season 2 for budgetary reasons.
Credits & Production
The series is being executive-produced and developed for the screen by David Benioff (the scriptwriter of The 25th Hour, Troy and The Kite Runner and the author of the novels The 25th Hour and City of Thieves) and Dan Weiss (author of the novel Lucky Wonder Boy and a scriptwriter on the aborted Halo and Ender's Game movies). They are also the showrunners and will be writing episodes 1-3, 5, 7 and 9-10.
George R.R. Martin is serving as a consulting producer and plans to script one episode per season, but he said he will mostly take a hands-off role to focus on completing the final two novels in the Song of Ice and Fire series. Martin has also filmed a small cameo appearance for the pilot episode and has already completed his script for the series, which will air as Episode 8.
Bryan Cogman worked on the pilot as a script assistant and will be writing Episode 4 of Season 1.
Jane Espenson, a genre fan-favourite writer for her work on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, Battlestar Galactica and Firefly, will be scripting Episode 6 of Season 1.
The pilot episode has been directed by Thomas McCarthy, the award-winning director of small, independent movies such as The Station Agent and The Visitor and an experienced actor (appearing in the movies The Lovely Bones and 2012 and several TV series, including a recurring role as Scott Templeton in the final season of The Wire). Brian Kirk, Tim Van Patten, Alan Taylor and Daniel Minahan are the directors of the series itself, including reshoots on the pilot.
Music for the series will be composed by Stephen Warbeck, an Oscar Award-winning composer best known for his work on Shakespeare in Love. The German band Corvus Corax played a troupe of musicians who played at the Winterfell feast scene and two of their songs will apparently be used in this sequence.
Modern VideoFilm is handling post-production requirements. The amount of effects and CGI requirements for the pilot are known to include a CGI wheelhouse (for Cersei's travelling party), digital extensions to the real castle locations, scenes and panoramas outside of set windows and possible crowd extension work. It is assumed that CGI will also be used to depict the Others in the prologue sequence. Effects personnel known to be working on the pilot include Julia Frey, who has worked on projects including Alien 3 and John Adams, and Robert Stromberg, who came to the project fresh from his work on the movies Avatar and Alice in Wonderland. Frey has confirmed that she will not be working on the series itself.
Filming of the pilot episode was divided into two shoots, with the scenes in King's Landing, Winterfell and beyond the Wall being filmed in Scotland and Northern Ireland. Doune Castle in Scotland and Castle Ward in County Down, Northern Ireland stood in in for Winterfell, with Tollymore Forest Park in County Antrim serving for the scenes in the haunted forest. Cairncastle in Antrim was also used for the execution scene and where the Stark children find the direwolves in the snow. For the series itself filming mostly took place in Northern Ireland with no return to Scotland. The Paint Hall Studios in Belfast were used for several interior sequences.
Scenes set in Pentos were filmed in Morocco, near the city of Ouarzazate. Sets for the movie Kingdom of Heaven were re-used for some scenes set in and around Ilyrio's manse, including Daenerys and Drogo's wedding. For the series itself, this material was reshot in Malta and Northern Ireland. Severel Maltese towns and cities, most notably Mdina, also doubled for the exteriors and (CGI-enhanced) aerial shots of King's Landing.
What material does the first episode cover?
The first episode starts with the book's prologue and features all of the material up to "The things I do for love,". The second Daenerys scene, involving her marriage, has been brought forwards to the first episode as well, and there is some new dialogue between Eddard and Jaime during the Winterfell feast. There is also a brief new scene in King's Landing where Jaime goes looking for Tyrion to tell him they are going to Winterfell.
Do any the producers/actors post on this message board? Can we make casting suggestions to them?
Producers David Benioff and Dan Weiss very occasionally post on the board and have asked for ongoing casting suggestions in this subforum. None of the actors post on the board as yet, but several do read it, and have expressed admiration for the Photoshopping thread. As mentioned elsewhere, George R.R. Martin does not read the boards, but his partner Parris does, and occasionally posts.
Note that because castmembers do visit the boards, we ask contributors to be polite in their descriptions or assessments of particular actors and their suitability for their roles, particularly remembering that no-one has seen a finished episode as yet.
Do any of the boardmembers have a role in the production?
Several boardmembers served in the pilot episode as extras, and one as a weapons advisor. Please note that those boardmembers who have done so will have signed a Non-Disclosure Agreement with HBO which will significantly limit what they can discuss here, and we ask other boardmembers to be respectful of those limitations.
Several more boardmembers attended the joint GRRM/cast signing event and party in Belfast in early November 2009 and their reports can be read here. My own report on the event, with pictures, can be read here, here and here.
What other websites are covering the production?
Westeros.org has its dedicated TV news/article section here.
The blog Winter is Coming has been following the production here.
Wikipedia's article on the TV series is here.
Chicago Tribune TV critic Maureen Ryan has been covering the series here.
George R.R. Martin occasionally covers the production in his Not-a-Blog here.
HBO's official Facebook page is here.
An unofficial Facebook page for the TV series is here.
My own blog is covering developments here.
A Game of Thrones TV-specific Wiki can be found here.
How are HBO addressing the young ages of some of the characters with regards to sex and violence?
Almost all of the characters, children or adult, are being aged up by at least a few years. Robb and Jon are 17 rather than 14, Daenerys is 15 rather than 13 and so on (the actors are older). Sean Bean, who plays Ned Stark, is fifteen years older than Ned in the books, whilst Mark Addy is ten years older than Robert Baratheon as described in the books. Nikolaj Coster-Waldau and Lena Headey are around 7 years older than in the books. These age increases are partly down to legal requirements for the amount of time the younger actors can spend on set and their involvement in sexually explicit scenes, and also down to storytelling considerations: George R.R. Martin has also said that in retrospect he should have made the characters a few years older at the start of the books, and may have advised the TV producers to do so for the series.
How are HBO handling the direwolves?
The dead direwolf mother is a physical prop. The direwolf pups are real-life wolf pups. The young direwolves are also real animals. For the adult direwolves, HBO will use a combination of CGI and real animals.
How is the show handling the books' POV structure?
As far as is known at the moment, the series will not be using any special means to reproduce the POV structure from the books (each chapter being from a specific POV only). This frees them to move around and show different characters and different reactions in a given scene. The POVs will still be important, however, because the POV characters are also, mostly, the main protagonists of the series.
How is the show handling the languages?
Westerosi is being depicted as English, possibly with different (British) accents to differentiate different areas. An actual linguistics expert was hired to work out a viable Dothraki grammar for scenes involving Khal Drogo and his followers. Whether this will continue in the series for other languages (the bastard Valyrian of the Free Cities or Slaver's Bay, the languages of Qarth and so forth) remains to be seen.
How are the supernatural elements being handled?
The Others are still in the prologue scene and the dragon eggs and the dragons themselves are still in the story. A notable change from the books is that the Others' ability to raise the dead to fight for them as wights is not revealed in the prologue. Whether this has been removed from the series altogether, or if it is being held back to generate greater surprise later on, or if this was an idea in the early draft of the script which has since been changed, is not known.
How is HBO handling the geography of Westeros?
The planned title sequence for the series involves a crow flying across a map of the continent, from the Wall to King's Landing, passing over points of importance in the first season (Winterfell, the Twins, the Eyrie and Riverrun) along the way. It is possible that this will be adjusted in later seasons to incorporate other locations (maybe Dragonstone, Pyke and Storm's End in the second season, for example). We may also see in-situ maps during strategy and planning sequences, for example. It is unknown if there will be maps depicting the location of Pentos and Daenerys' journey in relation to Westeros (but note that there aren't any in the books either).
Scenery and establishing shots will likely be a combination of real-world photography and CGI where necessary.
How will HBO depict the battles on their budget?
This isn't a huge issue for A Game of Thrones, as the Battle of the Whispering Wood is heard more than seen and the Battle of the Camps is given as a report in Tywin's tent rather than depicted. This only leaves the Lannister assault on Roose Bolton's forces, where only part of the battle detached from the main action is depicted from Tyrion's POV, and this is easily depictable on HBO's budget (which is considerably larger than many other series depicting battles, such as say the BBC's Merlin or various historical documentaries).
How the much vaster Battle of the Blackwater in the second season and the Battle of the Wall in the third are handled remain to be seen.
How are HBO handling the significantly greater length of Book 3?
Again, this is a situation that will be addressed down the road. Solutions for dealing with the much greater bulk of Book 3 may include trying to solicit more episodes for this particular season (something done by The Wire and The Sopranos in the past), filming the story over a greater number of episodes than usual and then splitting it in two to form two shorter seasons (an approach favoured by the new Battlestar Galactica) or simply selectively editing the source material to fit into 12 episodes. However, comments by George R.R. Martin suggest that HBO are currently looking at splitting the book into two seasons, using the Red Wedding as the S1finale. This would expand the TV series to eight seasons.
How are HBO handling the splitting of characters in the fourth and fifth books?
Neither HBO nor GRRM have commented on this directly, but the casting sides indicated that characters who are not in A Feast for Crows but are in A Dance with Dragons will be required for 'Season 4'. This suggests that the timelines and events of the two books will be combined by chronological order and then allowed to unfold across two seasons. This arrangement is not confirmed, however.
How faithful is the series to the books?
According to the pilot script, very faithful. A fair amount of the dialogue is identical, character and location descriptions seem to being followed and where changes are being made, they are being made with the knowledge of George RR Martin. On at least one occasion the TV producers were thinking about moving away from the books (by giving the Lannisters notably different weapons to differentiate them from the Starks), but chose to stay close to the books instead after receiving advice from fans. They have also employed some of the people involved in A Song of Ice and Fire merchandising, such as the makers of the replica Valyrian Steel swords, in matching the look and feel of the books using their experience.
How faithful later episodes are remains to be seen. However, given that the pilot covers about 12% of the book and it's a 10-episode first season, it is more likely that the biggest deviations from the books will involve the addition of new material rather than the removal of anything already there.
What happens if HBO catch up with the production of the books?
HBO are aware of the writing/publication time of the books and the issues involved, and have so far indicated no concern over this being a problem. Given that HBO are known for taking much longer (sometimes 18-24 month) breaks between TV seasons, it is possible that that GRRM will be able to remain ahead of the TV production even if the sixth and seventh books in the series take four to five years each to produce. However, since to get to a sixth, let alone a seventh, season Game of Thrones would have to be one of the most successful shows on HBO at the time, it is a problem they would love to have. In addition (speculation), the very fact the books are not finished and people can't go out and read the last page of the last book to immediately find out how the story ends may also be attractive to HBO.
Can HBO afford this in the long run? They did cancel ROME, CARNIVALE and DEADWOOD, after all.
HBO have taken production decisions to minimize the budget of Game of Thrones without compromising quality. Rome's huge budget was a result of filming in Rome, the most expensive shooting location in the world. Game of Thrones is being filmed in the UK and Morocco with impressive tax breaks and free use of the Paint Hall facility. The cancellation of Carnivale and Deadwood were also partially down to problems beyond the budget. In addition, at the times that all of these shows were cancelled HBO did not take into consideration DVD/Blu-Ray sales, iTunes or other legal download sales. They later indicated that they could have kept Rome on the air due to its impressive DVD sales and stronger-than-expected ratings for the second season (aired after they'd decided to cancel it). As a result, they have acknowledged that the cancellation of Rome was premature and they will try not to make the same mistake again.
Is GRRM waiting for news from HBO before announcing A Dance with Dragons is finished?
NO. In GRRM's own words, as soon as ADWD is finished he will tell Parris, his publishers and then us via his website and blog. HBO's decision has nothing to do with the book publishing side of things.
Edited January 19, 2011 by Werthead
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Ninepenny
Nice FAQ. Some questions I think might be helpful for newcomers: "How will they handle people speaking Dothraki?" and "How faithful will it be to the books?".
Edited December 21, 2009 by Ninepenny
NoSpeakEnglish
Great summary of the current status of the GOT series.
RitariKnight
Location:Finland
There are a couple of typos in Illyrio's name. First of all, it's supposed to be written with two l's like I've done here. For some reason the one-l variety gets around quite a bit as I've seen it that way on many sites, but one would expect that this would not be the case on fan-made forums/sites. His last name is also, most probably by accident, misspelled as two letters have switched places, should be Mopatis not Moptais.
Accidental post.
Edited December 26, 2009 by Werthead
The Mad Shidder
"George R.R. Martin is serving as a consulting producer and plans to script one episode per season, but he said he will mostly take a hands-off role to focus on completing the final TWO novels in the Song of Ice and Fire series."
do you know something that I (we) don't? does he only have 2 left to complete? A friend of mine has a theory that he's waiting for HBO before he publishes aDwD.
Based on current information (but not secret inside information, as I don't have any), I suspect ADWD will be completed (or all but) before filming resumes, maybe even before we get news on the pick-up. With the overwhelming majority of A Dance with Dragons complete right now, it's more the writing of The Winds of Winter and A Dream of Spring that might be affected (positively or negatively) by the HBO series.
I think we need to come down pretty hard on this rumour, which is getting ridiculous. GRRM isn't waiting for HBO's news before announcing completion of ADWD. Maybe if he finished it a day before HBO were due to let him know, he might hold off to deliver a double-whammy of good news, but otherwise no. If the word from HBO is no, the series will continue in book form anyway, so there is no reason to tie the two together like that.
GRRM has promised that as soon as the book is definitely finished and off to his publishers, he will let Parris, his publishers and then the Internet (via his blog and website) know about it.
Only characters appearing in the pilot episode have been cast to date. Additional major characters to be cast in Season 1 will include the likes of Ser Barristan Selmy, Tywin Lannister, Renly Baratheon, Gregor Clegane, Loras Tyrell, Varys, Roose Bolton, Greatjon Umber, Samwell Tarly, Jeor Mormont, Aemon Targaryen, Janos Slynt, Alliser Thorne, Yoren, Grand Maester Pycelle, Lysa Arryn, Brynden Tully, Edmure Tully and Littlefinger. These roles will not be cast until/unless the series is picked up and pre-production on the remaining episodes begins.
Eeeeeeeeer NO Bronn ?! :tantrum: :thumbsdown:
Yes, Bronn as well I imagine. There is no news about the character being cut, certainly. I didn't list every character in the series for reasons of space ;)
Chataya de Fleury
Wert - I noticed that you stated, above, that some board members had roles as extras. How does one get a role as an extra, say, in a crowd scene?
King o' the Board
Extras NI would be the people to contact. They're the agency that are handling extras for the show.
Damn, it looks like you have to be a citizen. They require a "National Insurance Number", whatever that is.
*sulks*
(Oh, well - any of you across the pond who are lucky enough to sign up...I am jealous!!! :) )
Maltaran
Campanological Mastermind
Location:Birmingham
The equivalent to your Social Security number.
They require a "National Insurance Number", whatever that is.
I'm not strictly sure this is true. It's something you could contact them about to see. I distinctly recall that there was an Aussie who was an extra. Now, maybe he's a resident in Ireland, and thus has the number, but my memory says he wasn't. Could be wrong, though.
Nice FAQ :)
Are we allowed to ask questions in this thread..? I'm just curious if anyone knows if the TV adaption will keep the gold/silver Targaryen hair and purple eyes?
If questions aren't allowed just ignore me lol
We do not know, I believe. However, it's been noted that a "contact lens specialist" is among the crew for the pilot. This could be for the Lannister green eyes, but it seems just as likely that it's for Daenerys and Viserys.
oneeye
Arya Fan
Location:Rockville, MD
Awesome summary, thanks Wert!
I saw Corvus Corax live in Kaltenberg when I was in Germany, they were cool.
Location:Los Angeles, CA
Maybe if we get lucky, one of the later books will have some scenes filmed in the US, and we can try to bribe our way into an extra position!
Chewybunny
They got an A list cast on some of them!
I mean Sean Bean!? Totaly can see him as Eddard Stark! He may look a lot like Boromir, which I guess can suit the look of Eddard Stark...plus Alec Travelyan!!!! Epic 007 villain.
Peter Dinklage as Tyrion? Yeah you couldn't find a better actor than him to play that role!
Lot's of new comers too - gonna have to see how they do!
ambryi
Location:Melbourne
A while back grrm had a post up regarding availability in countries outside the USA. I believe HBO were going to sell it to other networks, ala Dexter etc. I was wondering if this has happened yet, and if so will it be available in Australia?
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2016 will be the “make or break” year for Sony’s Xperia smartphone business
Sony CEO Kaz Hirai told reporters this week that the company hasn’t eliminated “consideration of alternative options” for its Xperia smartphone business, should it fail to break even or turn a profit in 2016.
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Reports citing poor sales – which translate into poor financial performance – go back a while now. While the company’s Xperia smartphones are quite well-regarded – especially amongst the Ausdroid crew – they’re yet to capture significant market share (17.5% in the company’s home territory of Japan, and 1% in the US, where the phones aren’t usually widely distributed).
Could the end of the line be nearing for Xperia? Not if the division can break even for 2016. “We will continue with the business as long as we are on track with the scenario of breaking even next year onwards”, Hirai added.
Sony exited the PC market for similar reasons a couple of years ago after a prolonged period of losses. For its part though, Sony says it’s on track to turn the Xperia division around and become profitable in the next fiscal year. A Sony spokesman later added that the company currently has no plans to withdraw from the mobile business.
Sony’s new Xperia Z5 series packs the biggest punch yet for the manufacturer, with a brand new camera allowing it to take the fight to with LG’s G4 and Samsung’s Galaxy S6 and an industry-first 4K mobile screen on the new Xperia Z5 Premium.
Sony has in the past has been known for its 6 month iteration cycle on its phones. Rather than bringing their phones to market early in the year in line with LG and Samsung though, Sony’s launched at the opposite end of the year two years running in Australia. That’s changed – slightly – this year, with the Xperia Z3+ and Z4 not seeing a general release here earlier in 2015.
It’s been a year since Sony’s flagship smartphone series saw a local launch, and that’s changing tonight with the Australian launch of the Xperia Z5 in. We’ll be seeing a lot more of the Xperia Z5 series as it approaches its Australian release, and we’re sure you’ll want to keep an eye on this one.
Will the Xperia Z5 be your next smartphone? Tell us in the comments!
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wooo says:
I really hope they start becoming profitable soon. They are the only company making a device less than 5 inches that has reasonable specifications.
Benjamin Dobell says:
Mostly agreed. If the compact was 1080P then I'd much prefer it over the Z5 (regular), but for that reason alone I'm going for the latter - even though the size is not ideal.
homebrandcola says:
I plan to buy an Xperia Z5. I've never owned a Sony before, so am looking forward to the device. However, despite not owning the device, I'm already having reservations about my decision. Their communication sucks, and that's regarding something they want to *sell*. I can only imagine how painful they'll be to deal with if I need to make a warranty claim.
We were told by Sony Mobile Australia that the Xperia Z5 was slated for a global launch in October. Firstly there's been basically zero hype leading up to this, the only reason I even know about the phone is because of DxOMark. Secondly, the phone launched already elsewhere in the world, and Sony have been coy and have not interacted with anyone seeking information via social media. Not even responding is just outright rude, even if the most they could have said was, "The launch event is planned for this week" etc.
antzpantz says:
Ugh!!! Just got an email from Sony Australia about the Z5... just a video, with release announcement to come later. :(
Ammad says:
Every time I went to Sony's site, they had all these new confusing range of phones X, C, M, E, etc etc... If they cut down on their range, and make it really simple to understand which phone is for what, that'll help them going forward. Samsung was going good before they added the word 'Galaxy' in front of everything, and now its hard to understand where their devices stand. HTC was all over the shop once but are getting better now. I like the simplicity of Nexus, Moto, LG phone ranges in making my decision.
vijay alapati says:
they can only survive when they know the meaning of marketing
Phill Edwards says:
I have a Z3 Tablet Compact which I love, and am now looking for my next phone, but I've read mixed reviews of the Z5. I hope it's fantastic, but reports are that it's expensive and doesn't quite deliver on that. I'm tossing up between Nexus 5X, Sony Xperia Z5 or LG G4.
Max Luong says:
They seem quite popular here in Australia, a lot of people I know have them. I have the Z3 Compact myself.
A bit too early to upgrade for me, I was looking at upgrading in a year's time (which probably means Z7 Compact).
I would be very sad to see them go because I'm a big fan of their phones.
toast says:
Sony makes a really nice phone. The Z3 is the best looking Android phone out there.
Waiting for all the shoes to drop. The Nexii, the Z5's, other retailers for the Motos.
I would be very happy with a Z5. I'll say that.
Their headache is simply breaking into the USA. I see Xperias all over the place in Australia. They appear to sell fine here.
It almost certainly will be my next phone.
My only concern with the camera is the same as what Geoff mentioned, their software. Which makes no sense. They have expertise in that area, why are they struggling to write great camera software?
Comparing my work iPhone with my Z3C it always seems to come down to the software, given that Sony produce the sensor for both. Apple nailed that software, Sony are just a little behind.
I have high hopes for the Z5, I just hope it can live up to them.
(The new Moto range is looking pretty nice ....)
jdt1986 says:
Come on Sony, sort yourselves out and give us a Nexus!
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American Idiot Director Michael Mayer Goes from Green Day Super Fan to Rock Opera Collaborator
January 23rd, 2012 | By Broadway.com Staff
Tony Award-winning director Michael Mayer helms the national tour of Green Day’s American Idiot, which opens at the Boston Opera House January 24 and runs through January 29. But before he partnered with band members Billie Joe Armstrong, Tre Cool and Mike Dirnt to adapt their Grammy-winning album for Broadway and beyond, Mayer was simply a die-hard Green Day fan.
“I listened to American Idiot over and over because I loved it so much,” Mayer told the Boston Globe. “I started imagining what it would be like [on stage]. I started kicking around in my head ideas about how to open it up and make it a story of more people. It was the success of Spring Awakening that gave me the courage to pursue it,” Mayer said of the award-winning musical, for which he won a Tony in 2007 for his direction.
Armstrong gave Mayer the green light to expand the story of American Idiot into a Broadway musical, even adding songs from their follow-up album 21st Century Breakdown into the mix. Then Mayer did what any Green Day mega fan would do—incorporate the band’s most iconic song, “Good Riddance,” at the show’s conclusion. “I just thought, ‘How fun would it be to take Green Day’s big classic goodbye song and have everyone play guitar,’” Mayer said. “When the curtain comes up again, suddenly you’ve got 17 guitarists onstage. They play that song, and it’s a nice way to end.” Sounds like a Green Day dream.
American Idiot stars Van Hughes as Johnny, Jake Epstein as Will, Scott J. Campbell as Tunny, Joshua Kobak as St. Jimmy, Gabrielle McClinton as Whatsername and Nicci Claspell as the Extraordinary Girl.
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Today’s Big Surprise!!!
Posted: August 17, 2018 in World On The Edge
My SCREENPLAY for ” A HUNGER IN THE HEART” has been selected as a DRAMA TV PILOT to be included in the Oaxaca Film Festival!!
https://www.oaxacafilmfest.com/global-script-challenge?t=tv-pilot
The United States Judge is Larry Laboe (Producers Guild of America) and President of Production at SXM where he has produced for Disney, NBC, VEVO, Dailymotion, MTV, Break Media (now DEFY Media), Amazon Studios (Twitch), Comedy Central, and Complex Media. These projects have been directed by talent such as James Franco and Joseph Gordon Levitt. In addition to his work at SXM, Larry also serves as Co-Founder and Executive Director of NewFilmmakers Los Angeles (NFMLA), and is a Visiting Faculty Member in the film department at the San Francisco Art Institute (SFAI).
Prayers please!! 🙂
myrgv says:
Great news, Kaye!
Thank you! It really is!
Walt Henley says:
This is so exciting! All my best wishes!
Thank you so much, Walt!
Fantastic news!
Thank you, Mike!
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Gline slipping
It might not be easy to wrest incumbent Gline Clarke of the Opposition Barbados Labour Party (BLP) from his perch in St George North.
However, as the last in the series of the Barbados TODAY random surveys of the Pulse of the People revealed today, his days of utter dominance may be over.
Clarke is used to crushing his opponents with effortless ease, taking between 60 per cent and 80 per cent of the votes against candidates too battered to try a second time.
There has been a procession of victims since his first victory in 1994, the year he got more votes than Antoinette Thompson of the Democratic Labour Party (DLP) and Richard Byer of the National Democratic Party (NDP) combined, despite strong showing by both opponents. It was also the year he recorded his closest victory with 56.24 per cent of the votes.
The DLP’s Patrick Carter came and went, so too, Desmond Browne, popular calypsonian Colin Spencer and Jepter Ince, who was able to reduce the hometown boy’s share of the votes to 59.47 per cent in the 2013 election by polling 2,391 votes to 3,508 by Clarke.
Ince will run again next time round, and the incumbent will also have to face Grenville Phillips II of Solutions Barbados and Everton Holligan of the United Progressive Party, both fledgling political parties hoping to create a ripple.
However, in order to secure a sixth straight term the incumbent will also have to grapple with increasing apathy and uncertainty, and troublingly, former backers such as disenchanted 51-year-old Superlative fish boner Sandra Elliott and her family, who threaten to withdraw their support.
“I don’t think I voting anymore. I think I done wid that. We always used to vote for Gline Clarke. I bold to tell you dat. And he loss all the votes in this house too now,” Elliott declared, adding that her daughter may be the only one in the household voting for Clarke, whose only defeat came at his first attempt in 1991 when he lost to the DLP’s Cyril Walker in a race in which the NDP’s Granville Cox competed as well.
Ince will have a lot of ground to cover if he is to topple Clarke. However, he too, seemed to be losing support, while those planning to turn their backs on the incumbent have expressed no desire to run to Ince.
“I got six children in my house and nobody can’t help each one . . . . It don’t make sense,” said Juan Gittens, a 57-year-old St Jude’s mother-of-six who has supported both parties in the past.
Juan Gittens
“I got mixed feelings about a lot of things and that is the reason why I does be so confused, right? Personally I know Mr Clarke because he taught me at Grantley Adams [Memorial] School. But from politics-wise, looking at it from that angle, I don’t know who is the best person to pick to run the constituency,” added 43-year-old police constable John Holder, also of St Jude’s, whose neighbour Latoya Holder, a 24-year-old unemployed woman, felt there was no difference between the candidates.
“At the end of the day they [politicians] would still do the same thing. They are no different,” Holder said, adding that she would wait until Election Day to decide.
It was different for 59-year-old retired Sanitation Service Authority truck driver Michael Read of the same district, who declared without hesitation that it was “still Gline Clarke” because not only was the BLP legislator his friend and a relative of his wife, but he had done a lot for the community.
Michael Read
Like Read, 42-year-old accounts clerk Sandra Thomas said she too would throw her support behind Clarke, while Errol Wood, a 68-year-old who worked at the Barbados Water Authority’s sewerage treatment plant in The City said she intended to support the DLP.
Errol Wood
So too Sherlock Grant, a 55-year-old carpenter and joiner of Cottage Retreat.
“I love Jepter . . . I would go for Jepter,” Grant said.
In addition to the mountain that Ince has to climb – he lost by 1,117 votes – the unpopularity of the DLP administration also appeared to be weighing him down.
Therefore, even though a 35-year-old engineer, who wanted to be referred to simply as Mark, would not say who he planned to support, the Superlative resident made it clear he wanted a change.
“Jepter ain’t got a chance . . . . I want change,” Mark told Barbados TODAY.
But his friend, a 47-year-old painter, who wanted to be referred to as Fluff, had no qualms expressing his support for Clarke.
Despite being a Government senator and the parliamentary secretary in the Ministry of Finance, there were those, like a 36-year-old clerical officer named Angela, who were simple unfamiliar with Ince and threw their support behind the incumbent as a result.
There were those, too, such as Angela’s neighbour Sonia Applewhaite, a supporter of the BLP, who Ince can target because she was uncertain who would get her vote next time around.
Sonia Applewhaite
“I will consider that when the time comes,” Applewhaite, a 40-year-old day care assistant said.
In the quiet community of Cottage Retreat, 50-year-old chef and Ince voter Antoinette Lewis reflected the views of several constituents, among them 72-year-old maid Ernesta Harewood and 89-year-old Edwin Haynes, both long-time Clarke supporters, who simply did not care who won or lost.
“None of the two parties never do anything for me. They help their own . . . [and they] don’t care for the poor man. I voted Jepter . . . I am not voting anybody [next election],” Lewis said.
However, it was 89-year-old Ivy Bascombe who best reflected the mood among the residents of the quiet community.
Bascombe said she has voted for Clarke in the past. However, today, a general election was the last thing on her mind.
“That is a funny question you asking me, cause I ain’t thinking about no voting now,” Bascombe told Barbados TODAY, before adding: “I did vote for Clarke.”
emmanueljoseph@barbadostoday.bb
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Jepter haha, mind you not a great choice between these 2!
Native Bajan
One of the grassroots men who would have been a people’s person has diverted his attention to St.Lucy. Presently that person has been living outside the island! Barbados has been lagging politically for some time now, because of brain drain!
Even if Glyne slip he wont fall..but i see this survey will only strengthen his base. Jepter is an embarrassment.
BIGSKY
This man Gline Clarke has done alot for St.George,when I was living in his constituency,he did lots of roads,caused the Flat Rock bus to be rerouted through Applewhaites to facilitates residents,knocked down dangerous corners which posed a threat to motorist.Please remember residents his hands would have been tied for the last 10 years since his party the BLP is not “in power”.
Gline Clarke not the works minister again
Help me and I will help you
Ossie Moore
You mean cart before the horse my dear humble servant of God?
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Home / World / LEBANON – PM Hariri resigns, saying he fears assassination plot
LEBANON – PM Hariri resigns, saying he fears assassination plot
Lebanese Prime Minister Saad al-Hariri has resigned, saying in a televised broadcast from Saudi Arabia that he feared for his life, while also fiercely criticising Iran.
He accused Iran of sowing “fear and destruction” in several countries, including Lebanon.
Hariri’s father, former prime minister Rafik al-Hariri, was assassinated in 2005.
The Hariri family is close to Saudi Arabia, Iran’s regional competitor.
Hariri has been prime minister since December 2016, after previously holding the position between 2009 and 2011.
“We are living in a climate similar to the atmosphere that prevailed before the assassination of martyr Rafik al-Hariri,” he said in the broadcast from the Saudi capital Riyadh.
“I have sensed what is being plotted covertly to target my life.”
Hariri also attacked the Iran-backed Shia movement Hezbollah, which wields considerable power in Lebanon.
Addressing “Iran and its followers” he said Lebanon would “cut off the hands that wickedly extend into it”.
Iran said the resignation would create regional tensions and rejected Hariri’s accusations as “unfounded”.
Hariri has made several visits in the past few days to Saudi Arabia, whose leadership is strongly opposed to Iran.
Taking up the prime minister’s office last year, Hariri promised a “new era for Lebanon” after two years of political deadlock.
The coalition government he led brought together almost all of the main political parties in Lebanon, including Hezbollah.
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THE WORLD · Michael Poliza
Michael Poliza is more than a seasoned globetrotter who has traveled through almost 170 countries. He is also a collector of the world, always on the lookout for breathtaking landscapes, remote regions, and intact nature reserves. With his camera ever on hand, Poliza does not only want to experience the beauty of the planet, but also to make it accessible to all.
In his two great books, Africa and Eyes over Africa, as well as his single volumes on South Africa, Kenya, and Namibia, Poliza opened our eyes to the diversity of the African continent. In AntArctic, the WWF ambassador created a sensitive double portrait of the polar regions. And in his characteristic aerial photographs, he even opened up new perspectives on well-known places like Mallorca.
In this new limited edition, The World, Poliza opens his digital treasure chest to reveal previously unpublished images from all seven continents. Like a true photographic world tour, we travel with him to Australia and New Zealand, to Vietnam and Myanmar, to the west of the USA and north to Canada, to the Galapagos Islands and Bolivia, across the Antarctic and the many lands of Africa. No matter how different the regions he explores, the photographer always captures extraordinary images, instilling both the beauty of our planet and an urgent need to protect the natural world.
Life has always shown Michael Poliza new paths: from actor to entrepreneur, from professional photographer to travel designer. After a career in the IT industry, Poliza launched a three-year multimedia expedition on a ship around the world. In 2002, he settled in Cape Town, traveled across Africa, and quickly became a world-renowned nature and landscape photographer. When he is not out and about, he lives in Hamburg, from where he organizes adventure trips with Michael Poliza Private Travel. The World is the WWF ambassador’s tenth book with teNeues.
Sophy Roberts is an award-winning writer based in West Dorset, England. She holds two degrees from Oxford University, and an MSc in Journalism from Columbia University.
• Limited and numbered XXL photo book in a large format
• With previously unpublished images from the acclaimed nature and landscape photographer
• With texts by the renowned travel journalist Sophy Roberts
• Available as two special editions and two collector’s editions
Special Edition (1001–3000)
ISBN 978-3-96171-212-0 | € 250 $ 300 £ 225
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Photos © 2019 Michael Poliza. All rights reserved.
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Aretha Franklin Reportedly ‘Gravely Ill’ At 76 Surrounded By Friends And Family
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Aretha Franklin, legendary singer, is being described as “gravely ill”. The queen of soul is 76 and has been battling severe health problems for a few years now forcing her to cancel shows.
However, things have gotten worse and it’s now being reported that her family is gathering at her bedside in Detroit. The family is asking for privacy and prayers.
Throughout her Career, Aretha has won 20 Grammys as well as 3 lifetime achievement awards. Aretha was also the first ever woman inducted into the Rock And Roll Hall of Fame. Her career has not only shaped music history but American history as well.
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Netflix releases final trailer for final season of Marvel’s The Punisher
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Marvel’s The Punisher‘s first season easily rated our favorite superhero series of 2017, with Ben Barnes‘ Billy Russo as our favorite villain, and Jon Bernthal in the title role as our pick for the second best actor on TV that year. Netflix‘s superhero universe was a refreshing surprise after the networks tried to create a TV tie-in plan with the Marvel Cinematic Universe. We still rate The Punisher as second only to Marvel’s Luke Cage of the Netflix comic book adaptations. With Netflix and Marvel winding down this TV universe and an unknown future ahead for these actors and creators in their current roles, we’ve only two series left to see this year, The Punisher and Jessica Jones.
Netflix released the final trailer for the final season of The Punisher, and the big surprise is the return of Ben Barnes back as the season’s villain, the 1970s Amazing Spider-Man villain and later The Punisher comics hitman, Jigsaw. The big risk of bringing back the same villain in a sophomore season is staleness. But we’re thinking the dense action stuffed into the trailer is really what you’re tuning in for if you’re streaming this series. The second season finds Bernthal’s Frank Castle in a three-episode story arc protecting a 21-year-old woman played by Giorgia Whigham (The Orville), and a surprise–The Man in the High Castle’s Alexa Davalos appears as a new love interest for Castle.
Amber Rose Revah (Emerald City) returns as Dinah with Jason R. Moore as Curtis and new characters played by Corbin Bernsen (Psych, Magnum PI), Floriana Lima (Supergirl, Psych, In Plain Sight, House), and Joe Holt (Supernatural, Monk, Law & Order).
Take a look at the one and only trailer, the final for the final season of The Punisher:
You don’t have much of a wait left, The Punisher’s entire second season arrives early morning Friday, January 18, 2019.
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Facebook, MTV Stream Ad Council’s IGTV Series on Women in Science
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Facebook, MTV and the Ad Council partnered on a social media video series to promote female education in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM). Each episode of #wcwSTEM, which gets its name from the “woman crush Wednesday” trend on social media, profiles a female role model in the tech world, according to an announcement. The series appears on MTV’s channel on IGTV as part of a Facebook Anthology partnership, which pairs brands with publishers.
Facebook and MTV’s series aims to reach girls ages 11 to 15 to encourage them to pursue an education in technical fields. As younger audiences consume more content through mobile devices and social media than older generations do, the Ad Council is adapting its strategy to reach these teenage audiences by broadcasting the series on IGTV. Eighty-five percent of teens report using Instagram at least once a month, according to a recent Piper Jaffray report, signaling that the series may see greater reach to target audiences through the Instagram video platform.
Instagram has made a push into original branded content since debuting IGTV in June. AB InBev this week launched a new campaign on the platform, following IGTV tests by Chipotle, Nike, Netflix, Warby Parker, Trader Joe’s, Everlane and Gucci. Advertising on Instagram Stories and IGTV will likely grow increasingly important to parent company Facebook as its revenue growth has stalled.
For the Ad Council, the IGTV push allows the nonprofit to expand its She Can STEM campaign. The campaign is timely, considering the greater awareness of sexual harassment in the workplace, particularly in male-dominated industries like tech. Silicon Valley hasn’t been immune to public outrage since the #Metoo movement first gained momentum at media and entertainment companies. Last week, Google employees staged a mass walkout to protest the company’s handling of past incidents of sexual harassment after a report revealed that the search giant allegedly had paid millions of dollars in severance to male executives accused of misconduct, while keeping quiet about the incidents, per The New York Times.
Other mobile tech companies are making efforts to elevate women and minorities. Twitter last week hired God-is Rivera, former director of inclusion and cultural resonance at ad agency VMLY&R, in a newly created role as global director of culture and community. Rivera will help brands connect through the social network with communities like Feminist Twitter, Asian American Twitter, Black Twitter and NBA Twitter.
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What’s on MPR News – 11/7/18
Bob Collins November 7, 2018, 6:00 AM Nov 7, 2018
The original news studio for MPR News is no longer used for any live news programming. It is now a production facility. Here, longtime audio engineer Mike Osborne is on post-production duty for an episode of Performance Today.
Wednesday November 3, 2018
(Subject to change as events dictate)
9 a.m. – MPR News with Kerri Miller
Two political science professors will chat with host Kerri Miller about the makeup of the House and Senate after the midterm elections.
Guests: Niambi Carter, assistant professor of Political Science at Howard University; Melissa Michelson, professor of political science at Menlo College.
10 a.m.- 1A with Joshua Johnson
Both parties brought out their biggest stars to boost turnout and early voting. How did it all go down? Were President Trump’s spate of rallies around the country enough? We’re reviewing the upsets, the sure bets and more.
Guests: Ron Elving, senior editor and correspondent, Washington Desk, NPR; Rachel Bovard, senior director of policy, Conservative Partnership: Tom Bonier, CEO TargetSmart.
Note: This hour will include live coverage of President Trump’s news conference.
11 a.m. – MPR News at 11
Movies that unite us. The election season has been long and divisive. We’re continuing our conversations on the power of community and culture.
Guests: Liliana Percy – senior producer for OnBeing & Host of This Movie Changed Me; Ansa Akyea, a stage, radio and television actor who won the 2011 McKnight Award for acting from the Minnesota Playwright Center.
12 p.m. – MPR News Presents
Arthur Brooks, who spoke at the 2018 Aspen Ideas Festival about happiness. Trained as a classical musician, Brooks went on to become a social scientist. He’s a behavioral economist, a columnist for the New York Times, a best-selling author, and the president of the American Enterprise Institute, a nonpartisan think tank in Washington. Brooks told the Aspen Ideas Festival crowd he has a formula for finding happiness and success in every stage of your life. His ideas come from a combination of neuroscience, behavioral economics, art, music and poetry.
1 p.m. – The Takeaway
On the day after Election Day 2018, we’re reporting on the new makeup of the House and the Senate, ballot measures, voter suppression and turnout. It’s a full hour of results, and most importantly, what those results mean for the future of this country.
2 p.m. – BBC NewsHour
The results are in. Congress is divided, the nation is divided. We’ll map those divisions and ask who has the power to push their agenda now.
3 p.m. – All Things Considered
Election policy fallout; what motivated voters; the dust settles in Florida; the DFL takes control in Minnesota.
6:00 p.m. – Marketplace
The CEO of Kaiser Permanente. The company is one of America’s largest health insurance groups, and it’s caught in the middle of an ongoing political debate over healthcare in our country.
6:30 p.m. – The Daily
The results are in: Democrats gained control of the House, even as Republicans strengthened their hold in the Senate. What does this mean for the next two years?
Guests: Alexander Burns, who covers national politics for The New York Times.
7 p.m. – The World
Women candidates win. Women voters speak. Reporter Allison Herrera walks us through the contests where women ran, and a feminist scholar and activist in Quebec, Pascale Navarro tells what the politicization of US women looks like from the outside.
Also President Trump made the election about immigration. We check in on contests in the border states to hear how that played out politically.
Trade: we hear what a soybean farmer in Illinois is saying today about trade deals that have put crop sales in jeopardy.
And with the House under new leadership, Susan Glasser of the New Yorker tells what that means for stalled investigations into Russian meddling, and frequently foiled efforts to reign in presidential powers from arms deals to waging wars.
8 p.m. – Fresh Air
Journalist Janet Reitman is a contributing writer at the New York Times Magazine. She writes about the rise of white supremacist groups in the U.S. in the Nov 3rd issue of the magazine: U.S. Law Enforcement Failed to See the Threat of White Nationalism. Now They Don’t Know How to Stop It. In part, officials were focused on Islamic extremists, not realizing the growing danger of right-wing extremism.
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.Schools To Conduct Countywide Boundary Study
Schools To Conduct Countywide Boundary Study
Study proposed to address overcrowding, ‘heavily segregated’ schools
By Caitlynn Peetz Follow @CaitlynnPeetz14
Pressured by increasing enrollment and evolving demographics, the Montgomery County school board will hire an outside consultant to examine boundary changes for schools.
Several students spoke at a Tuesday meeting where a resolution calling for the study – believed to be the first comprehensive look at the makeup of the school district’s roughly 20 clusters — was passed.
Springbrook High School junior Michael Solomon and John F. Kennedy High School junior Nate Tinbite urged the school board to act swiftly to address schools “heavily segregated by socioeconomic class.”
“We as a county need to do more to help students of marginalized backgrounds reach their fullest potential,” Tinbite said. “While de jure segregation has ended, de facto segregation has been alive and well.”
The resolution for an outside review was introduced by student board member Ananya Tadikonda, who said a study to address overcrowding and increase diversity among schools was overdue.
This year, the school system used a new consulting firm to create enrollment projections across the district which differed significantly from past projections. The 2018-19 school year has been called a “transition year” to determine the accuracy of enrollment predictions.
Tadikonda’s resolution sets a spring 2020 deadline for the consultant’s report. She had originally lobbied for a June report, but received extensive feedback from the community and fellow school board members asking for an extended deadline.
“When we’re doing something this big, we want to make sure we do it right,” Tadikonda said. “I think it would be beneficial to wait for some other data we’re collecting that impacts enrollment projections … and we have 206 schools in our system, which is a lot for anybody to study, so I reconsidered.”
The consultant will not recommend specific boundary changes that would require students to shift to different schools, but recommend general areas of potential changes. The school board will not be required to take any action based on the consultant’s findings.
Montgomery County’s 163,000-student school system is among the most diverse in the state and the number of poorer students and those who speak a language other than English has been growing as the county’s demographics shift.
The county school system is made up of geographically defined attendance areas, known as clusters, that include elementary and middle schools that feed into specific high schools.
The lone vote opposing the boundary study came from District 2 board member Rebecca Smondrowski, who said she supported the concept but reiterated concerns about the timing and wanted to add language to clarify the scope of the study to include implications on special programs. Her motion to add clarifying language did not pass.
“The issue for me isn’t whether or not we should do a boundary study, I think we should. I think we’re rushing it,” Smondrowski said. “I’m concerned about there being confusion about what the overall purpose of this is.”
The school board will conduct community engagement opportunities through the summer and put the project out for bid sometime between May and June, according to Superintendent Jack Smith. The bid will be awarded in the fall and the consultant’s final report will be due back to the board no later than June 2020.
“I’m confident they’ll see stuff none of us have ever seen,” Smith said. “They have a dispassionate set of eyes with … no special interests, they’ll just be looking at demographics and opportunities.”
Caitlynn Peetz can be reached at caitlynn.peetz@bethesdamagazine.com
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The Best Live Music Venues on Oahu
Last updated on October 7, 2017 By Sam Butterworth Leave a Comment
Opportunities to catch live music performances in Hawaii are either plentiful or a bit of a scarcity, depending on what it is you’re looking for. If you’re after some traditional, cosy Hawaiian recitals to create a bit of beachside ambience while you sip cocktails at sunset, then you’re in luck – you’ll find that at almost every turn.
However, alternatives can be a little trickier to track down. Other than an obvious penchant for reggae performances and a smattering of bar-room jazz vibes, the hotels on Hawaii’s main drags don’t tend to stray very far from tried and tested, tourist-friendly formulae.
Other types of live performance can be found in Hawaii, though, especially if you’re willing to leave the hotel complexes and head out to the local bars and concert venues. Oahu, and particularly the areas around downtown Waikiki, tends to offer a few more alternative options than most other locales.
In this list, we’ve pulled together a few of our favorite traditional hotel-based live music options, as well as several suggestions for those of you happy to check out some other slightly off-piste venues.
Best Live Music Hotel Venues on Oahu
House Without a Key (Halekulani Waikiki)
A highly regarded restaurant in a gorgeous beachfront indoor/outdoor setting, House Without A Key is always a tremendously popular option for evening drinks and mingling. It offers nightly traditional Hawaiian music and dance from around 5.30pm.
RumFire (Sheraton Waikiki)
A hotel bar and nightclub well-known for its live music menu as well as its lavish cocktail list, all of which are served up alongside spectacular oceanside views. Music styles really depend on the night you visit; there’s often a traditional Hawaiian focus, but you’re just as likely to encounter a club DJ or a pop crooner, so call ahead if you’re in a specific mood!
Kani Ka Pila Grille (Outrigger Waikiki)
Live music is often a focal point for the overall ambience at this popular poolside restaurant and bar, which often features performances by well-known local singers and musicians. Again, the focus is very much on Hawaiian fare, both traditional and slightly more contemporary, often with a bit of a pop slant.
Banyan Court (Moana Surfrider Waikiki)
An open-air bar wafted by gentle ocean breezes, Banyan Court offers great sunset views over Diamond Head. The nightly live music offering focuses on guitar, piano and traditional hula dancing.
Lewers Lounge (Halekuani Waikiki)
A classy jazz bar with a plush yet intimate atmosphere, Lewers offers a nice line in smooth, laid-back performances aimed at generating a sophisticated, somewhat upscale but always welcoming environment.
Duke’s Waikiki (Outrigger Waikiki)
Another perennially popular choice for food and drinks on the beach with a live music backing, Duke’s opts for a fun tiki vibe helped along by local bands and artists like Henry Kapono and Maunalua. Most typically serve up a mixture of traditional island music, reggae and pop covers.
Other Popular Live Music Venues on Oahu
The Republik (Ala Moana)
A dedicated concert venue and bar complex, The Republik is many people’s go-to option on Oahu for catching ticketed shows by bigger touring acts. It offers a wide range of over-21 and all ages shows, and tickets are available from various venues depending on who’s promoting an artist, so check you’ve got all the relevant info in advance if there’s a gig you’re especially keen to see.
Surfer, The Bar (Kamehameha Highway, Kahuku)
Located up on the North Shore’s Turtle Bay resort, this part restaurant, part nightclub venue is a busy spot for live performances and local beers. You can catch everything from karaoke jams to storytelling evenings here, as well as regular performances from a mix of pop, reggae, ska, blues and acoustic bands and soloists.
Mai Tai Bar (Ala Moana)
With a focus on contemporary Hawaiian, reggae and roots performers, The Mai Tai Bar at the Ala Moana Center is very popular with local crowds for a wide range of cocktails – especially during its award-winning happy hour!
Jazz Minds Art & Café (Kapiolani Boulevard, Moiliili)
Voted Hawaii’s best jazz venue for five consecutive years, Jazz Minds Art & Café does exactly what it says on the tin: you’ll find anything from from traditional to avant-garde and free jazz here, as well as occasional forays into funk, soul and contemporary fusion, performed live multiple nights a week.
The Atherton Studio (Ala Moana)
An intimate recital space with theare-style seating facing a simple wooden stage and grand piano, the Atherton is a bit of a hidden gem on Oahu: a serious-looking performing arts venue with a small capacity, it really gets you up close to the acts. Blues, Hawaiian and classical music shows are all regular staples. The best way to see what’s coming up is to check the season listings at the Hawaii Public Radio website.
Hawaiian Brian’s (Ala Moana)
An often joyously rowdy bar and billiards complex with multiple performance stages, Hawaiian Brian’s stages everything from touring rock and metal bands to acoustic open mic sets, stand-up comedy, and late-night house DJs.
The Korner Room (Kaneohe)
An East-side watering hole with a casual ‘dive bar’ atmosphere, Korner Room features plenty of raucous live shows from both local bands and overseas acts passing through. Gets pleasingly rowdy on weekends.
Irish pubs (various)
Oahu’s handful of Irish pubs – including Anna O’Brien’s (Moiliili), O’Toole’s (Downtown), the Irish Rose Saloonand Kelly O’Neil’s (Waikiki) – often serve up lively music nights. There’s usually a traditional Irish focus, as you’d probably expect, but rock and blues shows are fairly common occurrences too.
The Dragon Upstairs (Downtown)
A cool neighborhood jazz spot with a rotating roster of local performers, this cosy venue above Hank’s Café hosts everything from funk-rock to gypsy jazz, bebop to DJ sets. Resident outfit The Chris Yeh Quartet oversee proceedings on Friday nights.
Neal S. Blaisdell Center & Waikiki Shell (Kaka’Ako)
Oahu’s long-established arena, concert and exhibition hall complex is a multipurpose performance space that often features international touring musicians among its regular roster of expos, trade shows and performing arts events. The venue is also responsible for live concerts at the Waikiki Shell, a tropical outdoor amphitheater hosting regular shows and recitals in nearby Kapiolani Park.
Arts at Marks Garage (Downtown)
A collaboratively run not-for-profit gallery, performance and office space, the Arts at Marks can often be found featuring live music shows across its diverse event calendar. What you’ll get on the night depends entirely on what’s booked for that week – you’re just as likely to see poetry slams or late-night film screenings as local bands, so check the listings in advance.
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1. The turmoil in global financial markets has created a charged atmosphere at the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos this year. Is this just another financial crisis or does it portend something deeper? Sovereign Wealth Funds has become a hot topic with some speakers suggesting that the recent multi-billion dollar investments are an indication of a leakage of power from the West to the East. "Decoupling" and "recoupling" are words much used. Bernanke and the US Fed came in for some criticism but if they had not taken decisive action, we might be in a much worse state now.
2. Davos is an interesting phenomenon. For so many important people to travel all the way to this winter ski resort every year, braving snow and ice, suffering poor accomodation, tight security and slow road traffic,
says something about the remarkable achievement of Dr Klaus Schwab, the founder of WEF. It only took off after the fall of the Berlin Wall when the annual meeting provided a ready forum for leaders to network and make sense of a new world. In recent years, the representation from East Asia has improved. At the hotel where we are staying this year, the Chinese delegation brought its own chefs and set up its own Chinese kitchen. Pity Singaporeans don't have dining rights.
3. Some months ago, the ASEAN Foreign Ministers agreed that we should make a joint presentation at Davos this year to celebrate our 40th Anniversary and talk about the recently-signed ASEAN Charter. In addition to PM Lee, we have PM Abdullah Badawi from Malaysia and President Gloria Arroyo Macapagal from the Philippines. The other countries are represented by DPMs and ministers except Myanmar. The Myanmar minister was denied a visa by the Swiss Goverment. Apparently, they have the same blacklist against Myanmar leaders as the EU. We didn't know. As ASEAN Chairman, we protested but there was little we could do as WEF is not a government meeting.
4. This is my 4th WEF. On Thursday afternoon, I took part in a session on 'orchestrating a new concert of powers' and had the honour of sitting next to Dr Henry Kissinger. Other participants included President Shimon Peres of Israel, DPM Kudrin from Russia, French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner and Lloyd Blankfein, Chmn and CEO of Goldman Sachs. The session was chaired by Richard Smith, Chmn and Editor-in-chief of Newsweek. I talked about the far-reaching consequences of the re-emergence of Asia in this century and the importance of accomodating China and India in the global framework. It was a lively session.
Minister Yeo's meeting with Dr Jacques Attali, Chairman of the Presidential Committee on Economic Reforms, France
Minister's meeting with Mr Pascal Lamy, Director-General of the World Trade Organisation (WTO)
Minister Yeo having a chat with Indonesian Foreign Minister Hassan Wirajuda
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Musee Quay Branley
1. Former French President Chirac accompanied PM Lee on his visit to the Musee Quay Branley on Wednesday. It is a fascinating museum of folk art from all over the world, except Europe. Why the European exception? Because there are already so many museums on Europe folk art, it was thought unnecessary to include them in this new museum.
2. Without President Chirac's vision and passion, this musuem would not have been established. His predecessor, President Mitterand, had many major projects to his name like I M Pei's pyramid at the Louvre. Musee Quay Branley will be Chirac's legacy. It is said that French Presidents are monarchs and monarchs leave behind monuments. Well, American Presidents get to build libraries in their names too.
3. At a more profound level, the museum is an expression of the way the French see themselves. Their intellectual interest has no limit. This I find most inspiring. When they had their revolution, it was not just to change France, it was to change the world. Although the relative economic weight of France in the world has declined, it continues to play a major role in the field of ideas.
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1. Paris is a magnificent city with an air of grandeur. The main buildings and monuments are in good repair. Statues have been freshly re-gilt. At night, the city sparkles. The French have mastered the art and science of lighting up facades to accentuate their character and beauty. The Eiffel Tower is lit up whimsically like a Christmas tree. Nowadays, cities are dressed up for special occasions. This is something we should do for Singapore too.
2. PM's official visit to France has been a series of meetings and working meals. President Sarkozy had not been to Singapore before and responded positively to PM's invitation to visit us. He has a strong mandate with which he intends to reform the French economy. We had an interesting meeting with Jacques Attali on Tuesday morning. He heads a committee to recommend how the full potential of France can be unleashed. The report comes out on Wednesday which one senior official said he anticipated with trepidation. Reform is never easy. There are many rigidities holding back economic development. During PM's meeting with Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner, the situation in Myanmar was discussed.
3. Despite economic difficulties, France is a world power. In the Chinese TV series on the 'Rise of World Powers', the intellectual contribution of France to world history was acknowledged. This is a country with a keen sense of civilization and one keenly aware of the rise of China and India. In all PM's meetings, both China and India were invariably discussed.
4. Singapore's relations with France are excellent. With over 700 French companies based in Singapore and a resident community of some thousands, we are an important outpost of France in Asia. With growing opportunities in Asia, the French presence in Singapore will grow along all dimensions including art and culture.
PM Lee with President Sarkozy
PM Lee and Minister Yeo with President Sarkozy
Greek Masterpieces
1. It is a pity that many Singaporeans are not familiar with Greek
mythology. There is much we can learn from the ancient Greeks who had a
profound understanding of human nature. Despite advances in technology and
civilization, human nature has not changed.
2. The exhibition now going on in the Singapore History Museum, "Greek
Masterpieces from the Louvre" is a godsend. Because some of the galleries
in the Louvre are being renovated, the musuem decided to exhibit some of
its precious hellenistic artefacts overseas. We were asked if we could be
one of the three destinations, in addition to Beijing and Macao.
3. Some 130 pieces of sculptures, figurines, reliefs, vases, jewellery
and implents give us an insight into one of the greatest civilizations
whose influence on the world today is deep and everywhere. The
presentation is excellent. I especially liked the quotations on the wall
and the stunning lighting of the marble statues. In one room, the
juxtaposition of Ares and Aphrodite, who were lovers, was theatre.
4. There were a number of young men and women doing sketches. One whom
I asked told me that he was from an animation school. The musuem provided
comfortable chairs for them to sit on which I thought reflected wonderfully
the new attitude of our musuems.
5. I hope many Singaporeans will visit this exhibition and appreciate an
important source of western civilization.
Kaalachakra
1. Our National Library has an exhibition on the early links between
Southern India and Southeast Asia across the Bay of Bengal. Kaalachakra
means the wheel of time. In a new age of globalisation, that wheel is
being turned again, reviving old connections in maritime Asia. There is a
thick layer of India in Southeast Asia which we are not always conscious
2. I was at the exhibition yesterday. It is well-curated. National
Library's CEO Varaprasad (former Principal of Temasek Poly) had invited me
to visit the exhibition a few weeks ago because he knew of my interest in
the subject. More than that, I always enjoy going back to the National
Library with its fine airy spaces. Like the old National Library at
Stamford Road, this new library has become a major hub, and not only for
younger Singporens. I also see many foreigners. When I was MITA minister,
URA CEO Liu Thai Ker offered me the present site in exchange for another
smaller site where Raffles Girls Primary School once stood at the junction
of Stamford Road and Queens Street. It was the right decision. The entire
area around Bugis Junction is now abuzz with activities day and night.
3. Singapore's cultural and intellectual life is developing nicely.
When I was a student, it was to London and New York that we looked for
bookshops, museums and plays. Now we have some of them here. While we
have still a long way to go, we are on track and the excitement is in the
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The Politics of Change
1. The launch of N K Singh's book "The Politics of Change" yesterday was well-attended. I would like to think that it was because I was the guest-of-honour. But the real reason was because of the participation of Mukhesh Ambani of Reliance. This was the first time he spoke at a public event in Singapore. The Chairman of the South Asia Institute Ambassador Gopinath Pillai said, however, that this was only a trailer. Mukhesh had accepted his invitation to come back and address the Institute. Reliance is BIG and an important part of the new India story. Other celebrities at the book launch was up-and-coming Indian politician Jyotiraditya Scindia, Shekhar Gupta of Indian Express, Prof Tommy Koh and Dean of the LKY School Kishore Mahbubani.
2. NK Singh's book is a collection of the weekly columns he wrote for the Indian Express. It is worth reading. Pithy and incisive, they cover different aspects of India's reform process which went through twists and turns in the last 16 years. But the general direction was positive. From a leisurely 'Hindu growth rate' of 3-4% per year, India is now cantering along at 8-9% and can break into a double-digit gallop once critical nodes in the economy are de-bottlenecked.
3. The book is modestly sub-titled 'views from the ringside'. In fact, NK was a participant who played significant roles under different political administrations. When we were negotiating the free trade agreement with India (called CECA or the Comprehensive Economic Cooperation Agreement), I found him to be a problem-solver. The Indian bureaucracy is blamed for many things, not always unfairly. But there are, within the system, extremely able individuals like NK who worked to change it. Politics is the art of the possible. NK had a very realistic sense of what was possible at a given time. Always reasonable and unfailingly gracious, he would find practical solutions to difficult problems. In the last two years, I have had the pleasure of working with him on the Nalanda project.
He is now head of planning back in his own state of Bihar.
4. Singapore's links with India are now multi-dimensional and voluminous. We are restoring an old relationship which will flourish again this century. After all, Singapore was founded by Raffles as a daughter city of Calcutta and, under the Raj, we were part of the same British system. With the flow of east-west trade gathering strength, this is a tide which will take us far.
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IN PRAISE OF HARMONY
While waiting at the KL airport, I bought the book "Audacity of Hope" by Barack
Obama, the leading democratic candidate. I read the prologue and finally understood
why he managed to beat Clinton at Iowa. The simplicity and nobility of his ideas
sound real even after running through the cynical filter. Is America ready for a
black president? I don't know. Is America ready for a refreshing change after
the disastrous experimentation with right wing's views running a
superpower? The answer is yes.
I sat down and thought about the geopolitical faultlines and realize this
surprisingly simple truth. China's leaders may have become more cosmopolitan than America's.
The US' debates are about abortion, gene and cloning research, health insurance
scheme, education programmes and the Sept 11 misguided modern crusade against
terrorism, most of which are isolationistic, partisan in nature and tainted by religious beliefs. In
contrast, China is about long-term strategic interests, merchant princes and trade
tariffs, balancing between inner cities' stability versus coastal cities' phenomenal
growth, geopolitical positioning, global leadership and the usual scheming and
plotting that come with the mandarin intellectual class.
Think for a moment. The wrong stand on abortion issues can remove you as a potential candidate in the coming US election. The wrong implementation of economic policy will sideline you in China's top power echelon. In other words, the chinese understood and exercise real statecraft while the american leadership have to play the religion card and resort to sound bites to get elected and then excercise global statecraft. It will be interesting how both superpowers play out.
Another trait about the chinese is their strong belief in the harmony with the universe. Lin Yu-Tang, the chinese philosopher, scholar and author, who wrote the classic "The Importance of Living" espouses this belief in his writing. There is no need to create a storm (or a shock and awe) when one can ride the waves efficiently and quietly.
When Admiral Zheng He (Cheng Ho) set sail to South East Asia (Malacca) during the expansionistic phase of the Ming Dynasty, he came as a Muslim diplomat and naval admiral. . On board, he respects the customs of the chinese Sea Goddess (similar to patron saint to sailors) and on land, he observes the rituals of a Muslim. His conversion is both strategic and harmonious. Here is a one navy guy who wins friends and influences people by respecting the customs, honoring foreign religions and yet, carries a big gun. One wonders, in an alternate history, what would Admiral Shock and Awe do if he lands on the shoreline of the Malaccan Straits?
History has proven that the fate of nations seldom depend on religious views and insular thinking. The smart and quiet guys, who think long term and believe in harmony with the universe and exploiting its opportunities (the alignment of heaven's will, timing, location, resources and people) and yet willing to renew and change, usually win.
Even applying in the field of commerce, harmony rocks! Think Apple's iPod phenomenon- the world's most successful electronic product. The old perfectionist Steve Jobs would have insisted that the ipod only sync with the proprietary Mac computers. The new insanely great Steve Jobs gives customers what they really really want- an ipod that can sync with Macs and Windows PCs. Now, he has extended the same feature to Mac laptops and computers - you can run both Windows and Leopard OS X on them. It is no secret why Mac's market share has increased recently - consumers have run out of excuses NOT to purchase a Mac. When the new "Nano" Mac subnotebook launches in Jan 2008, the Apple supremacy will be complete. Businesses that are in harmony with customers' needs will always succeed. Entrepreneurs, take note.
Therefore, to prosper, a nation, a company, a product or an individual must be in harmony (or in the modern context, in sync) with its neighbors, customers and friends & partners. Bulldozing and stand-alone closed box thinking seldom work. Alignment is everything.
Whoever figures this out will rule in the 21st Century.
(Oh, and perhaps that is exactly why Obama found such resonance among the younger voters and may become the next President of the United States.)
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Joanna Gaines Puts Assumptions to Rest
The star of the reality show “Fixer Upper,” Joanna Gaines, has been having a lot of problems in regards to her show and personal life. The rumors about her leaving her husband and fellow co-host of the show have been circling around the net for quite some time. But there is a more important and elaborate story going on at the same time as well. Many people have said that Joanna was leaving the show in favor of staring her own facial cream business.
Recently Joanna took to Facebook to announce officially that she is not leaving the show and that they are in the midst of making season 5, while also stating that the skin care business is a scam.
I wanted to take a minute to let y’all know that it’s simply not true. This is a SCAM! We have nothing to do with it and have been trying to stop it for some time
Joanna wrote on her Facebook page. This is another statement which Joanna had to give as she has been saying to her fans not to buy the cream and to avoid these rumors as she is in no way linked to the products which have been mentioned so far.
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In recent news, various attacks on white millennial women have been reported, with the incident in Brooklyn regarding Kat Timpf being the recent one. Eboni Williams and her talks who co-host discussed this matter on the show. Williams was the one who protected Kat and took her side in the matter, while Curtis took it as far as saying that Kat was “a cry baby” and even applauded the attacker. He said “If anyone knows who this guy is who dumped a liter and a half of water on her head … I wanna know who they are because I wanna publicly applaud him because I hate Kat.”
Although it is okay to have your own opinion in the matter, Curtis’ character on the show might have taken things too far this time. There are always two sides of the coming and William’s’ defense was expected being that both her and Kat are co-hosts on the Specialists, Curtis was the one who public attack her and justified the behavior of this person. Some people even state that it could lead to further attacks happening soon.
There are various emerging news about Miley Cyrus marrying her boyfriend Liam Hemsworth. And with all the particulars being confirmed already, there are still some debits that people are forgetting to ask, Is Baxter invited. Maybe people are too busy estimating that Miley is pregnant and talking about her belly getting bigger when all she did was to have a bigger lunch, there is the pressing matter of her mother’s firs husband Baxter Neal Helson. Baxter is not the biological father of Miley but he is to her sister Brandi and brother Trace.
Baxter was married to Trish Cyrus before she got together with Billy Ray and got Miley. Being that Trish and Baxter did not leave things on a good note, it is interesting to know if he is invited or not. Miley has been recently seen with her mother and sister arranging some things about the wedding but nobody seems to talk whether they should invite Baxter along.
Baxter Neal Helson and Trish Cyrus
David Duchovny and his ex-wife Tea Leoni were recently spotted having a coffee together in Malibu. Although it is not uncommon to see them together, you rarely see them exchanging pleasantries and being friendly towards each other. Tea and David had a tumults run together when they split two times during their marriage. They first split in 2008 after which David sought sex-addiction treatment so they eventually got back together, but it was short-lived as they separated again only months after joining back.
The divorce was settled in 2011 and it was a ruling affair for both of them during that period. But seeing them happy and chitchatting together again does seem nice and it appears that the former coupe has put all the bad things to rest and has managed to work things out eventually. But this time they only remain good friends. In an interview, Tea talked about her and David’s divorce for the first time where she said “Listen, David gave me the two greatest gifts on the planet; I don’t know how I could ever hate him. We’ve always loved each other, and we adore these kids.” Tea and David have two kids together, 18-year-old Madeline West and 15-year-old Kyd Miller.
Kurt Russell and his former wife Goldie Hawn were recently seen waving to the camera man with their son Wyatt and his wife. It seems that Kurt and Goldie decided to go for a family get other, but only decided to invite the only son that they share together. Kurt and Goldie’s dating record is off the hook as both he and she have had various relationships and children with other people. One of them is Boston Russel, whom Kurt had with his previous wife Season Hubley. But you rarely seen Boston Russell in any of the family get-togethers. It sometimes seems as if Kurt is hiding Boston somewhere.
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Ex ‘Bad Girls Club’ Star Shannade Clermont Pleads Guilty To Fraud
NEW YORK (AP) — A former cast member of the television reality series “Bad Girls Club” has pleaded guilty in New York to wire fraud.
Shannade Clermont entered the plea Thursday in Manhattan federal court.
Prosecutors say the 24-year-old Clermont stole debit card information from a man who died shortly after a “prostitution date” with her.
Clermont told U.S. District Judge Naomi Reice Buchwald that she knew she was breaking the law when she used stolen debit cards to buy things on the internet.
Spectators to the plea included seven family members of the man she visited in January 2017. He was found dead of a drug overdose in his Manhattan apartment the next morning.
Sentencing was scheduled for Feb. 6. A plea deal calls for her to spend up to 18 months in prison.
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ONLY IF THE MESSED WITH YOU., THAT WOULD BE PLAYING IN THE GUTTER. LOL. IDIOT.
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Cyber Round Up: North Korea implicated in Federal Reserve cyberheist; Gorsuch Knows His Cyber; Cybersecurity Bill of Rights
Mar 25th, 2017 Ryan White cybersecurity, gorsuch, hackers, Sony Pictures
U.S. Preparing Cases Linking North Korea in Theft at N.Y. Fed (WSJ): Federal prosecutors are preparing a case that would charge Chinese middlemen for orchestrating a major bank robbery for North Korea. An article this week from the Wall Street Journal said that the $81 million robbery from the Federal Reserve was conducted entirely online. The cyber thieves used access codes from Bangladesh’s central bank to transfer the money from the Federal Reserve accounts to four different banks in the Philippines. The article also said that these same cyber actors have connections to the 2014 Sony hacks. The article quoted an NSA official who stressed the significance of a nation state robbing banks, if the allegations against North Korea were true. The full article can be read here.
Gorsuch on Cyber-Related Issues: Part One (Lawfare): Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch is well versed in cyber related issues. Commentary earlier this week explained how Gorsuch, when the issues are appropriately before him, is able to understand and engage with the technology at issue. The article stressed that with a Supreme Court that is technologically challenged, Gorsuch could be a useful addition. This post in particular is the first in a series of three examining Gorsuch’s cyber decisions, this one focusing on U.S. v. Ackerman. The full explanation of the decision can be found here.
It’s time for a Cybersecurity Bill of Rights (The Hill): An opinion piece this week stressed the need for a cyber Bill of Rights. The post listed an example of all the devices that record or track our lives, and said our privacy is more in jeopardy than ever before. The U.S. Constitution does not specifically address privacy, and the author believes a series of amendments to define privacy protections in the modern era is necessary. The article explains why privacy is more than just data security, and proposes three rights that should be established. Those rights are the right to privacy, the freedom to code, and the freedom to socially interact on the internet. The full post can be read here.
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Symbolically, crossing a door means crossing the border between one world and another or accessing a different time. The door is often associated with complex and symbolic meanings: one of the most widespread is linked to the idea of “passage”, a concept rich in meaning, charm and mystery.
Trabaldo Togna's Autumn/Winter 2020 collection evolves interpreting the trends of the moment. Together with Estrato classical worsted suits in pure wool, they present new articles thought for upper casual clothes and luxury sportswear.
The Fall/Winter 2019 collection serves as a meta take on Berluti itself: patina, the signature colouration of the maison’s classic leather shoes is illuminated in new light. Captivated by the old marble tables at which craftsmen hand-dye the patina of shoes in Berluti's manifattura in Ferrara, Kris Van Assche paints his collection in the multi-hued stains of their surfaces. A wealth of reds, yellows, blues and greens saturates garments in rich colour, no two the same. The dye-splattered marble is further interpreted in print on silk shirts and nylon bags structured in exotic leather.
It's a journey into the future that draws strength from its heritage, finds its guiding light in innovation, makes comfort its vocation and colour and pattern its distinguishing marks. This is the mood of the 2020-2021 Fall-Winter fabric collection by Tollegno 1900 that focuses on materials that give life to garments in which sustainability, confirmed by a line of products made using cashmere fibre regenerated up to 100 percents, is combined with more casual and performing features of which 3D WOOL is the main feature.
Christian Louboutin Fall-Winter 2019/2020 shoes collection
Whether terrestrial or phantasmagorical, no destination seems beyond the reach of Christian Louboutin’s imagination. Embark on inspirational journeys, from sunny Portugal to the snow-kissed beauty of the Himalayan steppes, with a collection of whimsical pieces for Fall-Winter 2019/20 that showcase the Maison’s trademark savoir-faire and creativity.
Dior Homme Pre-Fall 2019 - futurism as the main theme
The country forms a fitting showcase for the sophomore show of Dior men’s creative director Kim Jones for Pre-Fall 2019: the House debuts a menswear collection in the metropolis of Tokyo for the first time.
Franklin Eugene Men's Fall/Winter 2019/2020 collection
FRANKLIN EUGENE ICON is a men’s Fall/Winter 2019/2020 clothing array inspired by the parts of the human spirit that turn ordinary people in to icons leading to iconic moments.
Y/PROJECT is the Menswear Guest Designer at Pitti Immagine Uomo 95
Y/Project will be the Menswear Guest Designer at Pitti Uomo 95. Belgian designer Glenn Martens, creative director of the brand based in Paris, and last year’s winner of the prestigious Andam Fashion Award, who is considered one of the most original voices on the contemporary fashion scene, will present the new Y/Project FW 2019/2020 collection in Florence with a special event.
Tom Ford Fall/Winter 2018-2019 collection
The designer Tom Ford took to the iconic Park Avenue Armory to kick off New York Fashion Week: Men’s with his Fall/Winter 2018 collection. In addition to showing off his latest designs, the Texas-born designer-turned-director also used his runway to debut a new undergarment and timepiece line.
Canali Fall/Winter 2018-2019 collection
The first light of dawn gently illuminates the city, still silent and tucked under a cover of morning mist. A man’s gaze unfolds, undisturbed, over an urban landscape: avenues come to life as the dark of night abdicates to colors, shapes and details. It is a moment of awakening – a pageant of chiaroscuro that replays in cities across the globe as they reveal their true appearances.
ISAIA Fall/Winter 2018-2019 collection - The great sartorial tradition of Casalnuovo
It is a tribute to artisan workmanship that is unique in the world. Constructed yet soft silhouettes of suits and jackets with a sporty yet elegant touch combined with an all-Neapolitan “sprezzatura” (i.e. nonchalance). A slight fifties and sixties retro mood can be seen in the proportions and fit of the garments. Not by chance, the little of Isaia’s proposal for next winter is: Casalnuovo Collection.
Luxury Jersey Fall/Winter 2019/2020 collection awarded by 303 Tuscans Ethical Fashion
Luxury Jersey has developed for their Fall/Winter 2019/2020 collection a line of fabrics dedicated to the male universe - the "MEN’S ZONE": from raw materials appreciated by men, such as cotton, cotton-cashmere, wool-cotton and melange silk.
Tagliatore Fall/Winter 2018-2019 collection
Pino Lerario, Tagliatore’s creative director, picks up the London’s vibe to create a new concept of masculine elegance. The Fall Winter 2018-2019 collection is based on outerwear proposals with a clear British flavor. Also the rock touch, an important part of Tagliatore’s DNA, seems to regain the history of Savile Row, when in January 1969 the Beatles performed for the last time from that unforgettable rooftop.
John Varvatos Fall/Winter 2018-2019 collection
Exploring the notion of looking back to move forward, the Fall/Winter 2018 collection picks up the John Varvatos ethos - and take it to the streets. Injected with the vitality of downtown New York, the line up reveals an emotive concept with effortlessly cool execution. Juxtaposing the strength of a well-built foundation with an unrestricted movements of an on-the-pulse underground, the 2.0 man underscores his subversive virtues with a laidback confidence.
Dolce and Gabbana Fall/Winter 2018-2019 collection
The Dolce & Gabbana menswear show 2018-19 was entitled King’s Angels, but King’s Millennials would have been a more appropriate title. Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana presented another millennials fashion show in which sons of famous actors, families, and some who have made their own fame, walked the Metropole runway in Milan, many of them wearing crowns. Christian Combs, Austin Mahone, and Cameron Dallas hit the catwalk in a series of gold-brocaded tailcoats over slim pin-striped pants.
Salvatore Ferragamo Fall/Winter 2018-2019 collection
Menswear is an elevated take on the utilitarian: authentic pieces have been restudied and revised with innovative construction. Shirting in silk twill, wool, leather and shearling - featuring hand-stitched finishing by master tailors - forms the anchor of the collection, echoing the womenswear pieces.
TINTEX introduced Naturally Clean
TINTEX Textiles revealed a wonderful range of innovative fabrics that redefine fashion, inspire creativity, spark emotion and optimize responsible solutions. Award winning TINTEX Textiles, being an ingenious leader in textile and research innovation for over twenty years, transforms a new generation of cotton and other natural based materials. Established in the Porto region as authorities in superior dyeing and finishing techniques making TINTEX Textiles the perfect choice for fashion.
Isabel Marant Fall/Winter 2018-2019 collection
Isabel works her unique combos in a style that’s wraps up the raw and the retro, the wild and the free. For men.
Valentino Fall/Winter 2018-2019 collection
Giving shape to the freedom of being oneself, without labels and without belongings. Grace as a way of being and as a mean of expression.
Gabriele Passini Fall/Winter 2018-2019 collection
Whizz kid (or old master?) of the highest and most noble Italian tailoring traditions, Gabriele Pasini is already thinking about the “next generation” for his Autumn-Winter 2018/2019 Collection. He relentlessly seeks out directional pathways and new forms of expression for tomorrow’s “dress code”. What are the main coordinates on the roadmap? How does he intend to get there? Without doubt, using colours. Without doubt, bringing into play hi-tech materials. Without doubt, reworking/refreshing cuts, shapes and references, updating all the various items in the wardrobe with unusual choices.
Cesare Attolini Fall/Winter 2018-2019 collection
Cesare Attolini presented its Fall/Winter 2018-2019 collection. Again, a timeless collection full of patterns, materials and style.
Angelico Autumn-Winter 2019-2020 collection
The canons of style are undergoing a period of upheaval, and this is also reflected in fabrics for men’s fashion. Fabrics today are required to be innovative, to redefine tradition without distorting it, to present products that are dynamic and wearable, for the active man who is utterly contemporary.
Antonio Marras Fall/Winter 2018-2019 collection
Marras imagined a British-Sardinian gentleman, fond of hunting with hounds in the wild countryside, but driven by nostalgia and a sense of home. “His style is a mash-up of memories.” A feel of rustic elegance was threaded through the collection, which was focused on outerwear. Peacoats and parkas were patchworked from an array of tweeds, jacquards, corduroy velvets, tartans, and felted wools. Worn inside-out exposing soigne linings, they had oversize, protective proportions; and though they looked sporty and functional, they conveyed the typical Marras flair for eccentric practicality. The British-Sardinian nobleman in question was obviously fond of a dapper touch of tailoring. Indulging in thick, knitted robe de chambre and parading sumptuous brocade tuxedo jackets.
Swarovski launched fall/winter 2019/2020 innovations at Munich Fabric Start
I visited Munich Fabric Start from 4th to 6th September and passed by the booth of Swarovski, sparkling again with its amazing crystals. Swarovski presented its innovations for Fall/Winter 2019/2020 there in help of all fashion designers and brands, who care for shining details.
Etro Fall/Winter 2018 collection
Etro for the presentation of its 50th anniversary men’s collection — presented at the cavernous Palazzo del Ghiaccio, the ice-skating rink in Milan — recruited the help of local auction houses to re-create the home of a dandy without the walls, with all of the items up for sale.
Dashing's Autumn/Winter 2018 Cloth Collection
For the upcoming Autumn/Winter 2018 season, Dashing’s focus was all about bringing character and charm to the collection. The original sounds of sixties bands such as The Beatles, Rolling Stones, Queen and The Kinks infused all corners of the world, leading the way for evermore experimental psychedelic acts. Dashing’s latest collection is highly influenced by these stars, appropriating the names for their newly designed fabrics.
Remus Uomo Fall/Winter 2018-2019 collection
The deepening, immersive relationship between man and nature is a cultural and creative trend which has served as their inspiration for Autumn/Winter 2018. The latest collection balances the rugged textures and colours of the natural world with the clean lines of modern design to create a unique and well considered collection for the new season.
TINTEX Textiles at Munich Fabric Start
See, touch and experience the latest collection from TINTEX Textiles as they reveal a wonderful range of innovative fabrics that redefine fashion, inspire creativity, spark emotion and optimize responsible solutions. Award winning TINTEX Textiles, being an ingenious leader in textile and research innovation for over twenty years, transforms a new generation of cotton and other natural based materials. Established in the Porto region as authorities in superior dyeing and finishing techniques making TINTEX Textiles the perfect choice for fashion.
Thom Browne Fall/Winter 2018-2019 collection
American designer Thom Browne presented his Fall/Winter 2018 collection at Paris Fashion Week Men’s. Always one for theatrics, Browne transformed the catwalk into a winter wonderland complete with mounds of fake snow and birch trees.
Ravazollo Fall/Winter 2018 collection
Elective affinities are expressed in various ways: Ravazzolo - excellence in the world of suits and coats - meets Nardini - excellence in the production of distilled spirits.
Jack Victor Fall/Winter 2018 collection
Featuring a distinctive European feel, their Fall 2018 collections offer outstanding value in the finest Italian fabrics.
Scabal Fall/Winter 2018 collection
Embracing the colder months as an excuse to layer up and re-discover luxurious warm fabrics like cashmere and merino wool. It’s a chance to pair complimentary colours and contrasting textures; to balance rugged, weighty pieces with sleek tailoring.
Paul Smith Autumn/Winter 2018-2019 collection
Looking to a bright future, Paul Smith’s autumn/winter’ 18 collection escapes to a more peaceful and positive place with dreamlike colours and motifs, fantastical embroidery and a softening of traditional sartorial codes.
Alexander McQueen Fall/Winter 2018-2019 collection
The collection takes as its starting point the elegant modernism of the British male, with references as diverse as the tailors of Savile Row to the styles favoured by the pony kids of Ireland. The look is restrained, balanced, committed, authentic; utilitarian but seductive nonetheless: sober tailoring, tidy ties, shrug-on trench coats, cable knits and fuss-free lace-up boots or trainers.
Billionaire Fall/Winter 2018-2019 collection
From St Moritz and Aspen to Kitzbuhel and Courchevel, this season the Billionaire man and his band of jet-set brothers are to be found high up in the mountains. As the sun sets over snowy peaks, they gather in an exclusive men’s club for an evening of apres ski entertainment. Some fly in from a business meeting on their private helicopter and others come straight from a day on the slopes, but they all arrive dressed to stand out in the crowd.
Tiger of Sweden Fall/Winter 2018 collection
Stockholm’s Filmhuset forms the backdrop for the Tiger of Sweden Fall/ Winter 2018 collection. Alongside the rolling fields of Gardet just next to it, the building stands out against the sky with its radical architecture. Some would call it brutalist, we would rather describe it as humanist. However it is what goes on inside this building that truly matters. It was built as a haven for the art of film-making, filled with cinemas, production companies, costume rooms, a library, set-designs, studios and more.
Trabaldo Togna Fall/Winter 2019-2020 collection
There are two things that lead to unique discoveries: research and passion. Neither can exist without the other. Research means exploring a world in so much detail that you are able to make it evolve or even revolutionise it. Passion means having the deepest possible love of what you do, each and every day.
Marzotto Fall-Winter 2019/2020 collection
The inspiration of Marzotto Fall-Winter 2019/2020 collection is born from a careful observation of contemporary men and women, who found, again, the pleasure in using hands in everyday life activities. In this sense, there is a rediscovery of old, craftsmanship works, that today are more and more experienced like passions.
Patuna Fall/Winter 2018-2019 collection during Haute Couture Paris Fashion Week
She’s preparing herself, enhancing her hair, raising the drape of her black gown for putting her stilettos on… then she’s going to the casino, sitting at a poker table and playing like a man. Being an elegant woman is always a trump in the game of the American and Georgian designer Patuna.
Azulant Akora Fall/Winter 2018/2019 collection during Paris Haute Couture Fashion Week
African Australian designer Azulant Akora embraces unconventional angles and unexpected forms, bold colors and regal silhouettes. Emerging onto the Australian fashion scene in 2013 where she was awarded the Australian Wool Fashion Award, Azulant is a designer on the move.
Brioni Fall/Winter 2018 collection
The Brioni Fall/Winter 2018 wardrobe explores sartorial archetypes for the discerning man of the 21st century. It relies on the assumption that design in our mobile, highly challenging world should be about the search for relevant clothes. To this end, Brioni concentrated on the core pieces of a man’s needs, in an approach that is more evolutionary than season oriented. Revisions may appear subtle. Closer inspection will reveal the guiding principle: to rethink everyday icons in the interest of the uttermost quality and luxurious comfort.
Milan Fashion Week presented men's suit trends Fall/Winter 2018-2019
As a home of craftsmanship, in Milan classic tailoring brands like Canali, Giorgio Armani and Ermenegildo Zegna, Prada, Fendi and Dolce & Gabbana, Billionaire, Phillip Plein and MSGM presented their Fall/Winter 2018-2019 collections. We, spotted some trends that will make the men look really stylish during the next cold seasons. See what we define from the designers' models:
Automobili Lamborghini presents the Collezione Fall-Winter 2018-2019 during Milan Men's Fashion Week
The new collection was presented at a reception in the exposition spaces of Via Tortona: a must-visit venue during the Milanese Fashion week.
Franklin Eugene Fall/Winter 2018-2019 collection
Mr. Eugene used Tartan plaid and Houndstooth prints along with a few other bold choices and stayed true to the clean lines and clean affect that are hallmarks of the brand.
Featuring a distinctive European feel, Jack Victor's Fall 2017 collections offer outstanding value in the finest Italian fabrics.
Hickey Freeman Fall/Winter 2017 collection
Designed for the modern gentlemen with a global lifestyle and impeccable taste, Traveler boasts an innovative mix of superfine 130s wools developed by Hickey Freeman working with the finest Italian mills. Tech-infused, these high performance fabrics have been especially developed to breathe, move the body, resist creasing, repel water, as well as allow for the very latest trends to fit. The perfect blend of style and function, this collection takes today's man wherever he wants to go.
Tollegno 1900 presented Sixtywool at Performance Days – Functional Fabric Fair
For the second consecutive year, the Biellese company participates in “Performance Days – Functional Fabric Fair” with its Fall/Winter 2018/19 collection and the upcoming Spring/Summer 19 preview. Among their super tech yarn, Wooltech Total Easy Care, which has been chosen for the Venetian gondolier uniform, and Harmony Idro which boasts water and oil repellent properties.
Brett Johnson Fall/Winter 2017-2018 collection
For Fall/Winter 2017-2018, Brett Johnson journeys to Virginia’s majestic Blue Ridge Mountains, the seat of his family home.
Luciano Barbera Fall/Winter 2017 collection
The Luciano Barbera Fall/Winter 2017 Collection came to life amongst the Italian Mountains. Blending Italian allure and rugged, cool-weather style, the luxurious pieces amongst the collection complemented the awe-inspiring mountain range.
Luigi Bianchi Mantova Fall/Winter 2017-2018 collection
Luigi Bianchi Mantova Sartoria presents their new Autumn-Winter 2017/2018 collection characterized by a sophisticated taste, that represents the highest expression of tailoring quality and Made in Italy.
The travel suit for Autumn/Winter 2017
The latest trend in men’s suits: the Slim-fit Travel range. The perfect option for the modern man who is looking for a comfortable two-piece suit for a business trip. Its slim-fit cut enhances the male silhouette. Its wool fabric is stretchy and water and crease resistant, making it possible to maintain your suit impeccable throughout the day.
Cesare Attolini Fall-Winter 2017/2018 collection
The style narrative that Cesare Attolini is presenting for Fall-Winter 2017/2018 gives full expression to all the meaningful, distinctive values that have always been essential elements of the brand’s cultural matrix. The savoir faire passed down from generation to generation, from the creation of the first unstructured jacket by Vincenzo Attolini in 1930 that came to be known over the decades as the “Neapolitan style”, has been nourished by an invaluable heritage of artisan skills thanks to the creative genius of Cesare Attolini and an idea of timeless elegance, revived season after season by Massimiliano and Giuseppe Attolini.
Sartoria Latorre Fall/Winter 2017 collection
The production processes of the Sartoria Latorre are numerous, coming from the ancient tradition of a tailoring of times gone by. Needle, thread and thimble: they are the soul of their work, the heart of a meticulous and overwhelming work
Kiton Fall/Winter 2017-2018 collection
As the symbol of timeless elegance and style, Kiton is the icon of high quality tailoring that combines and exalts innate good taste and a love of beauty. This vocation has become an obsession with quality to which another distinctive ingredient should be added: the renowned motto of the brand: "Plus One".
Dunhill Fall/Winter 2017-2018 collection
With understated revisions of classic menswear pieces that every man should own. Redefining contemporary British style.
ZARA suits collection for Fall/Winter 2017
Zara is one of the largest international fashion companies. It belongs to Inditex, one of the world’s largest distribution groups. The customer is at the heart of their unique business model, which includes design, production, distribution and sales through their extensive retail network.
Corneliani Fall/Winter 2017-2018 collection
"An emotional way of life", going beyond the whims of the season so you can create your own wardrobe with consistency and imagination. Staying true to yourself and your own style. The modern contamination of tailored garment and sportswear is the keyword for the Autumn/Winter 2017 collection, an answer to the most contemporary requirements with full respect for the classic rules through a continuous game of tones and nuances, as original as they are sophisticated.
Cantarelli Fall/Winter 2017-2018 collection
Elegance, functionality, comfort, making for a single concept – lifestyle. For Cantarelli this means identification with the need to maintain the considerable prestige enjoyed by the very best and most exclusive producers of Italian tailored products, renowned and appreciated worldwide. To present to best advantage the style of each man, Cantarelli adopts precise codes, and goes for technical perfection. However, this does not mean Cantarelli is incapable of adapting itself to the varieties of personal traits and, indeed, we hope to provide all with possibilities to set themselves apart with class.
Manuel Ritz Fall/Winter 2017 collection
The upcoming cold winter season comes with amazing and masculine designs, including double-breasted blazers, turtlenecks, tweed suits made of high quality fabrics, elegant coats in fitted styles as well as in oversized designs and many other interesting essentials.
Christian Louboutin's newest men's bag - Cabado
Master multi-taskers have met their match with Christian Louboutin’s newest men’s bag, Cabado. A FW17 introduction, Cabado is a shape-shifting tote with a twist, converting easily to be worn as a backback with a simple glide downward of the straps.
Ravazzolo Fall/Winter 2017-2018 collection
The Ravazzolo Fall/Winter 2017 collection is built on a tourbillon of sharp lines, the utmost expression of style details and ton-sur-ton micro patterns.
Christian Pellizzari Fall/Winter 2017-2018 collection
Christain Pellizzari’s Fall/Winter 2017 collection exhibited a discordant lack of flow. This is not to say that the selection of garments as a collective was not cohesive. The dissonance concerned the emotive spirit of clothing that most established designers tap into it. Whether the overall theme is grunge or sartorial elitism each look, or groups of looks within the collection will be different.
Sir Anthony Hopkins stars in Autumn/Winter 2017 campaign of Brioni
The conversation between Brioni and the world’s legendary men opens a new chapter by revealing the Fall/Winter 2017 advertising campaign featuring the iconic Sir Anthony Hopkins.
Sci-fi-inspired Autumn/Winter 2017 campaign of GUCCI
GUCCI made fashion headlines this week with its sci-fi-inspired autumn/winter 2017 campaign. Shot by Glen Luchford, with art direction by Christopher Simmonds, models pose in Star Trek-influenced scenarios, fend off dinosaurs and fall prey to extra-terrestrial creatures that emerge from deep, dark lakes.
Cerruti Fall/Winter 2017-2018 collection
Fall/Winter 2017-2018 collection marked the 50th anniversary of Cerruti and its relaunch. We know that Nino Cerruti, is one of the best dressed men in fashion so his brand is well known in using luxury fabrics and clear silhouettes in the collections. When he launched the brand back in 1967, he chose to name it after his grandfather’s textile mill, founded in Biella, Italy, in 1881 - Lanificio Fratelli Cerriti - which he still oversees.
Larusmiani Tessuti Fall/Winter 2018-2019 fabrics collection
Larusmiani Tessuti presented their Fall/Winter 2018-2019 fabrics collection at Milano Unica earler this month. The upcoming Autumn / Winter 2018-2019 season it’s a ample collection that respects nature and ethical working conditions through low impact productions and careful attention to the origin of fabrics. Larusmiani does not support countries and exporters where there’s no transparency on working conditions or where it is tolerated the exploitation of child labor for example by not importing Uzbek cotton.
Lanificio Zignone Fall/Winter 2018-2019 collection - 100% Made in Italy fabric inspired by dynamic business travellers
Lanificio Zignone, the dynamic, historical, family-run textile company in Strona (Biella), presented Fall/Winter 2018-2019 fabrics collection at the 25th edition of Milano Unica (from 11 to 13 July at the Fiera Milano - Rho). The highlights in the collection are the original stretch fabrics, characterised by contemporary elegance united with excellent performance for the business traveller.
Belvest Fall/Winter 2017-2018 collection
Dressing with style is a combination of creativity, intelligence, technique and feeling. For Belvest it is an inexhaustible passion for quality and perfection of craftsmanship, conceptual research models and excellence in fabric, selected to give personality and character to every garment.
Berluti presented its Fall/Winter 2017-2018 collection during Paris Fashion Week. This is the first collection of Haider Ackermann for the brand after he become a creative director when Alessandro Sartori leaving the house for Zegna.
ISAIA Fall/Winter 2017-2018 collection
ISAIA "San Leucio" collection for Fall/Winter 2017-2018 presents and re-elaborates different images and moods. The leitmotif pays tribute the silk saga and the legendary Bourbon silk textile workshop of San Leucio, nestled in the bills not far from the magnificent Reggia di Caserta and the pride of the kingdom of Napoli between the 18th and 19th centuries.
Milano Unica defined the trends for Fall-Winter 2018/2019
We are going to show the trends for Fall/Winter 2018-2018 in menswear. The materials, textures, colours and prints. Milano Unica one of the largest fairs defines the trends every season. So it is time to show the newest ones.
Boglioli Fall/Winter 2017-2018 collection
Boglioli looks to the Italian fashion capital of Milan for the inspiration behind its fall-winter 2017 men's collection. The brand’s creative director, Davide Marello romanticizes the streets of the enchanting city with sights of Palazzo Marino and Pinacoteca di Brera.
Evan Simonitsch - menswear stylist
Born and raised in Los Angeles, Evan Simonitsch has developed an eye for both the clean, sophisticated fashions of the red carpet as well as the casual looks of LA street style. Throughout his experience in the fashion world, he has worked on countless projects across multiple mediums including television and editorial content, but his true passion lies in menswear styling.
Dsquared2 Pre Fall 2017 collection
Dean and Dan Caten, twin brothers from Willowdale in Toronto, started their path in fashion at the Parson’s School of Design in New York City in 1984. Eight years later, the Canadian duo moved to Italy with their sights set on creating their brand. After collaborating with some of Italy’s most celebrated fashion houses, in 1995 the designers presented their first men’s collection under the label Dsquared2. The presentation marked the debut of Dsquared2’s runway show extravaganzas, which captured the attention of journalists and buyers from around the world.
With his first collection for the Italian house Meilland sent out classy, easy pieces that will make heads turn on a city street.
Pal Zileri Fall/Winter 2017-2018 collection
Pal Zileri presented its Fall/Winter 2017-2018 collection during Milano Fashion Week Mens. This is the first collection of chief executive officer Giovanni Mannucci.
Neil Barrett Fall/Winter 2017 collection
Neil Barrett's interest in fashion began at an early age: born in Devon, South West England, both his grandfather and great-grandfather were master tailors, a talent that runs in the blood for this designer obsessed with the cut and finish of his immaculately-made apparel.
Fashion in the industry
Ten Style Tips for the Young Male Professional
If you’ve recently earned your degree or have started a new career, you need a wardrobe to match. Andy Kozinn, president of Kozinn + Sons, a master tailor and bespoke suit shop in New York City, knows what men need in their closet to look their best. Use these tips to create a professional, mature style for work and play.
Missoni Fall 2017 - express your style with a cardigan
Cashmere, cashmere-silk blends, lightweight wools and shetland wools have been knitted into plaited, honeycomb and quilted stitches of d?grad? stripes, multicolored intarsia patterns, speckled m?langes and patchworks to create graphic textures of visual and tactile juxtapositions that mimic the multifaceted environments that surround us. Colors are intensely vivid and their combinations handsomely restrained for an almost chiaroscuro effect, creating a discerning balance between light and dark.
Gandhum Autumn/Winter 2017-2018 collection
In 2014, Jas Gandhum formed his eponymous label, GANDHUM. The label originated from a desire to build a contemporary and sustainable menswear house with a rich heritage to London, the home of menswear.
David Hart Fall/Winter 2017-2018 collection
The fact that this collection wasn’t exactly consistent might not matter—Hart was illustrating what he can do, from the classic to the conspicuous. And he’s smart to recognize that the red carpet is, indeed, increasingly a territory where men are sartorially experimenting.
Joshua Kane Autumn/Winter 2017-2018 collection
"Journey" - this is the name of Joshua Kane Autumn/Winter 2017-2018 collection. It was held at the London Palladium. The designer once again impressed with sharp and crisp models.
Agi & Sam presented Fall/Winter 2017 collection during London Fashion Week Men's
In partnership with The Woolmark Company, British label Agi & Sam presented a Merino wool-rich collection for the fall/winter 2017 season.
Richard James Autumn/Winter 2017 collection - Camofleur
Richard James Autumn/Winter 2017 Camofleur collection starts its surreptitious journey just a short step from Savile Row in a covert corner of the neighbouring Royal Academy of Arts, where it squints, scratches its head and stands in awe before the astonishing, jarringly geometric work of camofleur Norman Wilkinson’s top-secret Dazzle Section.
Trussardi Fall/Winter 2017-2018 collection
For the new Men’s collection for Fall/Winter 2017-18, Trussardi presents a series of iconic garments from the maison’s great tradition. Tarot cards are the theme chosen to give this collection light and depth: unconscious and universal figures, they symbolize a current desire for tradition and history as well as a thirst for answers to present day questions.
This season, Canali undertake a journey towards the origin of elegance, of everything that is made well and Made in Italy - a journey that begins at the end and ends at the beginning. The new collection reveals once more what lies behind the curtain of Canali craftsmanship - exquisite construction, exceptional quality and distinctive details.
Battistoni presented at Pitti Immagine Uomo 91 the new Fall/Winter 2017 Collection
Battistoni, since ever a synonymous with elegance, refinement and attention to details, presents at the 91st edition of Pitti Immagine Uomo the new and innovative Winter Collection.
The wit, wisdom and beauty of Oscar Wilde as he journeys from tite street in London to Paris saint Germain inform Alexander McQueen’s menswear collection this season. The writer wears tailoring typical of the London gent, cut in classic British fabrics to begin with – jackets and coats in wool serge with velvet appliqu?s, a 3-piece flannel suit in charcoal and exaggerated overcoats in or trimmed with shearling.
Tommy Hilfiger presents Fall 2017 Hilfiger Edition collection
Tommy Hilfiger hosted an exclusive presentation during Pitti Immagine Uomo to showcase the Fall 2017 Hilfiger Edition collection on January 10, 2017. Tommy and Dee Hilfiger were joined by guests including Lucky Blue Smith, Rafferty Law, Gabriel Kane Lewis, Presley Gerber, Julian Ocleppo, Johannes Huebl and Jim Chapman at the historic Palazzo Corsini in the heart of Florence.
CND dazzles down the runway at the Blonds Fall/Winter 2017
CND, the pioneers of nail artistry at Fashion Week, reunited with treasured designer partners, The Blonds, to create 26 precious nail styles for their Fall/Winter 2017 runway. Crafted with diamond-like precision, the nails featured moonlit colors and hypnotic effects representative of a woman’s talisman.
Caruso Fall/Winter 2017-2018 collection
The brand Caruso presented its Fall/Winter 2017-2018 collection in details. Every outfit is described so you can choose your favourite suit.
Life on Mars - Nick Graham Fall/Winter 2017-2018 collection
Nick Graham launched his newest collection entitled "Life on Mars: Fall/Winter 2035" at New York Fashion Week/Men's. The latest collection from Nick Graham is based on Buzz Aldrin’s projection to land people on Mars by 2035. To add to the scientific importance of the event, Bill Nye, CEO of The Planetary Society and one of the leading science educators in the world, narrated the visual journey to Mars.
Subtle disruption. Gentle distortion. Defining a man through what he wears and how he wears it. Gentleman. Or rather: gentle, man.
Emphasized in texture and character, the Fall/Winter 2017 collection gives the idea of nonchalant cool with an uncompromising devotion to elegance and boldness. A personality driven by free- thinking sensibilities and a refusal to become content with the norm.
Philipp Plein Fall/Winter 2017-2018 collection
Opening with a performance from Brooklyn-born star Nas, and staged in the landmark New York Public Library, the show is a personal love letter to the neighborhoods of New York. In a city where everyone is a stranger, where everyone is from somewhere else, neighborhoods are what make New York home. From the Bronx and Chelsea to Queens and the Upper East Side, neighborhoods help shape characters and create an identity.
Fendi Fall/Winter 2017-2018 collection
Optimistic colour combinations are infused with energy while athletic styles are easily wearable everyday. A fresh vocabulary empowers a profoundly personal statement of one's all sense of self.
Etro Fall/Winter 2017-2018 collection - full of colours
Motifs of mountain flora and fauna like the antlers of a deer, described by Kean as "the king of the forest with his thorny crown," rise up from the bottom of a wool overcoat. The white face of a wolf peers out from a backpack. "The idea of going up a mountain, what you see and what you feel, the encounters; the idea of finding as a human being an inner balance. The story is biographical—a story about the way we try to be better. We ascend this mountain and we find a new perspective. A celebration of nature, mountains, animals—we have to find a new point of view."
Desigual presented Fall/Winter 2017-2018 collection
Desigual has returned for a show at New York Fashion Week presenting its Fall/Winter 2017-2018 collection, which has been given the name EXTRAORDINARY.
Giorgio Armani Fall/Winter 2017-2018 collection
This season, Giorgio Armani is working on classics, evolving codes to define an idea of elegance tuned-in to the present, but rich with heritage. Texture and silhouette are the key elements of Giorgio Armani’s research: the body, with its individual, unique beauty, is enhanced by the clothes of the new collection.
Versace Fall/Winter 2017-2018 collection
Pride in identity, the coming together of clans, and the sense of belonging from new archetypes for a male wardrobe.
Prada Fall/Winter 2017-2018 collection at Milano Moda Uomo
The brand Prada presented their Fall/Winter 2017-2018 show at Milano Moda Uomo. The fashion show was womens and mens - the models walked together on the stage.
Dolce and Gabbana Autumn/Winter 2017-2018 collection
Dolce & Gabbana isn't quitting its courtship of millennial influencers anytime soon. On Saturday, A-list offspring, social media celebs and the 20-something It crowd flocked to Milan to fill the front row and storm the catwalk at the Italian fashion house's Fall 2017 men's show.
Franklin Eugene Fearless Finesse - Fall/Winter 2017-2018 collection
Franklin Eugene FEARLESS FINESSE, a Menswear Salute to Velvet, made its world debut during Milano Moda Uomo Fall/Winter 2017/2018. This Milan Fashion Week presentation was bursting with colorful, comfortable clothing that pushes menswear forward while holding true to the strong masculine cuts and clean lines that symbolize the Franklin Eugene Brand for fans around the world.
Russian Fashion Council sets the dates for the new season of Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Russia
Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Russia will take place from March 12 to March 16, 2017, the second edition of Fashion Futurum International Conference is scheduled for March 16-17, 2017. Over 100 young and established designers, Live Streaming Video, Virtual and Augmented Reality, Art Heritage Exhibition, vibrant street style - for one week all local and some international fashionistas are to be detected nearby Moscow Man?ge, the central venue of #MBFWRussia, next to Red Square. The Manege will host the Fall/Winter 2017 collections by fashion designers from Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Kazakhstan and other countries.
Children's Suits
The key players in kids' fashion meet at the leading German trade show
The Supreme Group kicks off the order season 2017 – and the year of its tenth anniversary – with the 9th edition of Supreme Kids on January 27th through 29th at MTC World of fashion, House 1 in Munich.
Cifonelli Fall/Winter 2016 collection
The classical splendor that is the Royal Palace of Madrid in the Eighteenth Century continues to inspire us today. The restrained opulence of the Berniniesque exterior housing centuries of Spanish art and ancient culture. The luxury and resplendence of princely elegance on display reverberates within us today as design handed down for generations lives again in the collection from Cifonelli for Fall/Winter 2016.
Other secrets for Pitti Immagine Uomo January 2017 edition are revealed
“DUE O TRE COSE CHE SO DI CIRO [TWO OR THREE THINGS I KNOW ABOUT CIRO]”, is the title of the event that Pitti Immagine has decided to devote to Ciro Paone, founder of Kiton and leading entrepreneur in Italian fashion. It will be a dive into the taste, passion and unrelenting devotion that rally in support of beauty, while also passing through the life and career of Ciro Paone: a history that starts in Naples, and from here, goes on to conquer the world. An exhibition project that will be presented under the artistic direction of Angelo Flaccavento.
Hickey Freeman is a manufacturer of suits for men and boys, based in Rochester, New York, US, founded in 1899. The Hartmarx Corporation bought the company in 1964. In August 2009 India's leading textile and apparel company, SKNL, bought Hartmarx in bankruptcy proceedings. In 2012, Authentic Brands Group, LLC (ABG) finalized, its acquisition of the HMX Group, which includes the Hickey Freeman brand. In 2013, Grano Retail Investments Inc. acquired the Hickey Freeman assets including the factory in Rochester, NY.
Brett Johnson Fall/Winter 2016 collection
This season, American designer Brett Johnson, founder and creative director of his eponymous brand, BRETT JOHNSON, explores the off-duty sartorial preferences of the world’s most iconic men in design and business. Professionally, these men are internationally renowned fixtures on the global, economic stage. Privately, these are modest individuals who prefer the seclusion of an isolated hideaway often lost in the wilds of the American West and always far away from the cacophony of their professional lives.
Tommy Hilfiger introduces fall 2016 tailored campaign with global brand ambassador Rafael Nadal
Tommy Hilfiger announces that internationally renowned tennis star and Tommy Hilfiger global brand ambassador, Rafael Nadal, will appear in the Tommy Hilfiger Tailored campaign for Fall 2016. The campaign shows Nadal wearing Tommy Hilfiger Tailored THFLEX for three different occasions, demonstrating the designs’ versatility, comfort and movability. The Tommy Hilfiger Tailored and THFLEX Rafael Nadal Edition collections are available at Tommy Hilfiger stores globally, through select wholesale partners, and online at tommy.com.
Zachary Prell Fall/Winter 2016 collection
ZACHARY PRELL launched at wholesale in Spring 2009, amidst the most daunting economic climate in decades. Unfazed, Zachary traveled extensively across the U.S. for the past two years, working alongside sales teams at partner stores to train, motivate and share knowledge. In what has become a tradition, shirt styles were named in honor of family, friends, advisors and colleagues to thank them for their show of support. Zachary loved personalizing the collection and the surprise that came along with celebrating these recipients. The IRVING, named after Zachary's grandfather, was the brand's very first shirt and sold out during the inaugural season.
Pringle of Scotland Autumn/Winter 2016-2017 collection
Pringle of Scotland is the iconic brand founded in 1815 at the birthplace of the Scottish knitwear industry. From the beginning, technical innovation has led to the creation of knitwear as outerwear and it became one of the first luxury knitwear manufacturers in the world, having expanded throughout Europe, the US and Asia during the 19th and 20th centuries.
David Naman Autumn/Winter 2016 collection
David Naman is the result of a tailoring background developed over time combined with innovation, research and dynamism. If you are a true lover of style, class and Italian designer, David Naman is the one to wear. Since 1996, David Naman is the answer to a cosmopolitan man with an international style but with an Italian taste.
Gieves & Hawkes Autumn/Winter 2016 collection
Autumn/Winter 2016 heralds a change in pace from last Fall’s urban, dark and slick mood; but it is not about settling down, rather more settling in to the modern British gentleman’s lifestyle – presenting more casual clothes made for Country house parties and for exploring the streets of a foreign city, requiring the same level of refinement and luxury but in a cosy, comfortable and considered manner.
Andrea Pompilio Fall/Winter 2016-2017 collection
Born in Pesaro in 1973, Andrea Pompilio grows up in a highly creative environment, his father being an architect, his mother a passionate painter and hailing from a family traditionally involved in the clothing industry.
Versace Fall/Winter 2016-2017 - the pastel collection
It’s written in the stars – this is the universe of Versace. Astronomy, astrology, man in space: a wardrobe from the heavens for the Versace man today.
BORSALINO by Nick Fouquet cocktail launch
Exclusive cocktail Thursday September 22, 2016 at the Borsalino showroom in Via Sant’Andrea 5 in Milan for the presentation of the Borsalino Spring / Summer 2017 capsule collection by Nick Fouquet. Borsalino and Californian designer Nick Fouquet welcomed international buyers, influencers, socialite and celebrities for a “meet & greet” with cocktail and live jazz accompaniment.
Cortigiani Fall/Winter 2016-2017 collection - passion and research
Style means knowledge, careful choice of materials and exclusive, sometimes unrepeatable techniques. Style means passion. It means the thrill of choosing a fabric and thinking that one day it will be worn by a man who knows how to combine elegance and spontaneity with innovation and perfection. A man and his life, his dreams, his emotions. A fabric that will become part of a unique story.
Berluti Fall/Winter 2016 collection - a minimalistic, casual collection
When Alessandro Sartori returned from a trip to Marfa, that incredible open-air museum in the Texan desert, he brought with him the inspiration for a minimalistic, casual collection. Wide, roomy cuts, flowing jerseys, colours scorched by the blazing sun. A winter collection that proves there are no seasons.
British actor Daniel Craig - as stylish as his character James Bond
His British aristocracy, blue eyes and perfectly fitting ensembles help Daniel looking always impeccable on the Red carpet - as stylish as James Bond himself!
MANGO launches the new Autumn/Winter 2016 campaign
MANGO MAN presents its new campaign for the Autumn/Winter 2016 season, featuring the models Vinnie Woolston, George Barnett, Matthew Bell and David Agbodji, who have all previously worked with prestigious international brands. The photo shoot took place in the district of Harlem, New York, and was shot by Gregory Harris.
Dsquared2 Autumn/Winter 2016 Classic Collection
Dsquared2 label has a special line where the gentlemen can find the classic outfits suitable for every formal event. The suits are just incredible.
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KITON Fall/Winter 2016 collection - the three piece suits
Faithful to the codes of an innate vocation for bespoke apparel, Kiton Fall/Winter 2016-17 menswear collection stems from research capitalizing on customer demands by offering excellent attire in every category of menswear: sartorial, thermal, denim, sportswear and accessories.
Stefano Ricci Junior Fall/Winter 2016-2017 collection
True to his innovative vision, Stefano Ricci foresees the future with the presentation of the SR Junior Fall/Winter 2016-17 line, which completes the Men’s authentic lifestyle range. This collection is a meaningful correlative of the designer’s attention for the new generations: dressing our children in safe, hand-tailored, exclusive garments is his pleasure and ambition.
Joshua Kane Autumn/Winter 2016 collection
Joshua Kane’s bespoke suits, and indeed the ready-to-wear line and accessories are all proudly designed, tailored, woven, and manufactured in England. Harnessing the rich history of traditional makers such as Joseph H. Clissold for fabric development, Laird & Co for the signature Gostick hat, and Victorian stalwarts James Smith & Sons for their first umbrella collaboration, Joshua has created a label that fuses the elegance of fine luxury tailoring with intelligently considered design details that resonates with the modern, style conscious client.
Brent Wilson Fall/Winter 2016 collection - the Australian suit
Brent Wilson’s place has been secured in the Australian fashion industry since the launch of his self-titled menswear range in 2006 at age 26. The designer hasn’t looked back since with many occasions to mark his successful career.
Cesare Attolini Autumn/Winter 2016 collection
Attolini is synonymous with Neapolitan tailoring, and their grandfather and father wrote some important chapters in the history of this prestigious school of Italian expert craftsmanship. They represent the third generation of the family and we know that this is a legacy to be cherished, a heritage of skills that they cannot lose, but that, on the contrary, they must continue ceaselessly to enhance.
Z Zegna Fall/Winter 2016-2017 collection
The new Z. Zegna collection for Fall Winter 2016/17. It is the perfect way to liven up dreary, cold days.
Richard James Autumn/Winter 2016
Autumn/Winter 2016 Chains + Cranes collection sounds its horn hard, hoists the red ensign and puts its enticingly exotic cargo and correspondingly cosmopolitan crew in under a silver-grey sky at London’s docks in the midwinter of 1935.
Philipp Plein Autumn/Winter 2016-2017 collection men's suits and coats
A signature black palette glimmers with touches of red, gold and silver while heads are topped with cool wide brim hats. Leather jackets are often air-sprayed byhand like graffiti murals and blazers are covered with shining superhero crystal pins.
Fendi Autumn/Winter 2016-2017 collection
Since its foundation, the house of Fendi has always been synonym of supreme tradition, experimentation and exclusivity, which continue to represent the brand’s raison d’être.
Les Hommes Autumn/Winter 2016
Under the LES HOMMES and LES HOMMES URBAN brand names, the company markets and distributes collections of men’s apparel, jeanswear, accessories and shoes.
Christian Louboutin at London Collections Men Fall/Winter 2016
For London Collections Men Autumn/Winter 2016, Christian Louboutin joined forces with two of our favourite menswear brands: E. Tautz and James Long.
DAKS Fall/Winter 2016 - the elegant sentiment of English eveningwear
DAKS menswear collection took Milan Fashion Week once again as its main stage, for the Fall Winter 2016 season Creative Director Filippo Scuffi honored the label’s London heritage.
Casely-Hayford Fall/Winter 2016-2017 - blend of exquisitely tailored garments mixed with streetwear
ShoShown at London Collections: Men, the Casely-Hayford's lineup takes heavy cues from military uniforms.wn at London Collections: Men, the lineup takes heavy cues from military uniforms
Canali Fall/Winter 2016 collection - a variety of fabrics and colours
For Fall/Winter 2016, Canali presents a collection that is an exercise in equilibrium, one in which contrasts take center stage. Luxurious and studied elements come together for a seemingly minimalist look as shapes, materials and colors are combined in unique and purposeful ways.
Antonio Marras Fall/Winter 2016-2017 collection - find out the colours
Reinterpreting timeless western styles, Marras placed it in a playful and fashion-friendly realm. A hodgepodge of prints and patterns referenced a southwestern motif. Old western symbols such as the apron or overalls were brought forth in trendy plaids. Denim and leather juxtaposed with fur decorated jackets as well as oversize knitwear. The outlaw was also allowed his opportunity to shine with modern rifts on the leather biker jacket and dangerously sharp suiting.
Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Russia: new season
Moscow, annually in the list of planet's most fashion oriented cities, is hosting Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Russia on 11-16 March 2016. Come and see collections from over 50 designers from Russia, Georgia, Ukraine and other countries.
State of nature - Etro Fall/Winter 2016-2017 collection
Like the 24-hour cycle of a day, the collection opened and closed with darkness. The opener was a high-hemmed jacket and wide straight pants in rugged, almost-black blue cotton above a black knit accented by another knit—this one raspberry—both hemmed with irregular castellations of moth eaten-ness. At collection’s end, a cluster of black looks were elevated both in fabrication and decoration—they included an all-black Hendrix-flavored hussar’s jacket—but they were still black.
Dior Homme Fall/Winter 2017 - exaggeration of volumes and shapes
“The idea of ‘the hybrid’ is intrinsic to the collection,” says Kris Van Assche. “Today, people don’t just fit into one box, they fit into many and all at once. There might be an idea of the New Wave or Skate that somebody has grown up with, but it is what those things and people have grown into now that matters. Traces of memory and tradition can still exist, but these happen without nostalgia: this is the hybridisation of now.”
Oriental Breeze by Fee Dan
Fee Dan has combined everything women need in their daily lives in one collection. Fee Dan, who is not afraid of colours although her graceful character, caters her her collection for women who exhibit their sophisticated site with a fun side. Fee Dan harmonizes oriental breezes with clear lines and forms a modern touch with her new collection.
All about Bibi Bachtadze
What, or rather, who is BIBI BACHTADZE? How does one pronounce it? Where does it come from? Why such a complicated name? All these are questions everyone asks when trying to say the label’s name for the first time.
Skincare for Men - Michael Bastian Fall/Winter 2016 New York Fashion Week
High-quality construction. Modern and luxurious. New York. Tailored. Handsome. Just a few synonyms of the looks Michael Bastian showcased for Fall/Winter 2016 during New York Fashion Week: Men's. Together with LAB SERIES Skincare for Men, they kicked off their partnership by shooting the look book campaign offering fashion and grooming looks for the urban man.
Valentino Autumn/Winter 2016 menswear collection
Adventure as a self examination. An on the road journey to discover and to share. Maria Grazia Chiuri and Pierpaolo Piccioli undertake an aesthetic exploration of empirical authenticity for the new Valentino Men’s Collection. Protagonists are individuals on a quest of self-discovery, that use books as a guide and stimulus to abandon dogmas and beliefs, combined in an eclectic nucleus, filled with nuance.
London Collections Men Autumn/Winter 2016: Tiger of Sweden
Tiger of Sweden shows contemporary tailoring at its very best with inspiration of old Sweden craftsmanship and the moody winters of Dalarna, a region in northern Sweden. All to the sound of a crooner voice of old romantic melancholy.
Cerruti Fall/Winter 2016-2017 - the original codes of masculine elegance
The Cerruti man is sophisticated, a man of the times who appreciates style over trends: a complete men’s wardrobe in evolution. “Cerruti has always been a symbol of sophisticated male elegance. Both relaxed and self-confident, the House’s signature tailoring focuses on cut, fabrics and textures. The thrust of the new collection is discreet, yet effortless chic – an antidote to current fashion trends”, says Jason Basmajian, Cerruti 1881’s new creative director.
World Premiere of Spectre Will Be a Royal British Affair
It's quite possible that Daniel Craig's fourth turn as 007 will be his best and his last turn to play the secret agent who's more like a superhero. Craig, who gives some incredibly candid replies when being interviewed, said he'd rather slit his wrist than play James Bond again, and if he did, it would be only for the money. His co-star, Naomie Harris, who played Eve Moneypenny opposite Craig's secret agent in Skyfall and will be reprising her role in the upcoming Spectre, told BBC News that Craig was "just being sarcastic." She said that his sense of humor doesn't translate well to print and that Craig is definitely immersed in being Bond and will do another Bond flick.
American Fashion: Perry Ellis
A funny thing’s happening in the land of opportunity. Fixed is fluid. Solid is shifting. And suddenly the future belongs to the guys that stay in the moment. Loose, flexible, and able to find the levity.
Italian Fashion: Les Hommes
Very charismatic designers with a strong personality, their menswear is sculpted, slender and sharp; a vision of fashion that brought LES HOMMES to be one of the most celebrated modern menswear brands.
Japan Fashion: MIHARAYASUHIRO
MIHARAYASUHIRO started as a shoe brand in 1997. Mihara’s design extracting everyone’s focus by his unique and surprising ideas. He always thinks out of box to bring people enjoy the playful theme of each garments in every collection.
Noah Mills for David Yurman Fall Winter 2015 campaign
The male top model Noah Mills is the star in the David Yurman Fall Winter 2015 campaign.
Thom Browne and The Woolmark Company will be partners
he Woolmark Company is pleased to announce a two-season partnership with leading American fashion designer Thom Browne, becoming the first US designer to use Cool Wool-certified garments in a commercially available collection.
John Foster weaving quality fabrics
John Foster is, historically and culturally, much more significant than just being the story of a company renowned for weaving quality worsted and worsted/mohair fabrics for almost 200 years. It is the story of a textile entrepreneur and his family business that built an entire community around its famous Black Dyke Mills in Queensbury, near Bradford. The company built houses, the village hall and leisure facilities to ensure the well-being of its highly skilled workforce. Always an innovator, John Foster took first prize for alpaca and mohair fabrics and the gold medal for yarns at the Great Exhibition in 1851.
Italian fashion: Antonio Marras
Antonio Marras was born in Alghero, on Sardinia. The island has always deeply influenced his aesthetic.
Belgian fashion: Tim Coppens
Born and raised in Belgium, Tim Coppens graduated from the internationally acclaimed Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp in 1998. He has worked with various luxury and sports-performance brands as Adidas and Ralph Lauren before founding his own label.
Belgian fashion: Kris Van Assche
Kris Van Assche was born in Belgium in 1976. After graduating from the Antwerp Royal Academy of Fine Arts, he moved to Paris in 1998. Having worked for Yves Saint Laurent then Dior Homme, he started his own label KRISVANASSCHE in January 2005. He has also been the Artistic Director for Dior Homme since April 2007.
Belgian fashion: Walter Van Beirendonck
Walter Van Beirendonck studied at Fashion at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp. His first breakthrough was at British Designer Show in London in 1987 as part of ‘The Antwerp Six’.
Kiton Fall/Winter 2015 collection
While remaining faithful to the traditions of Neapolitan haute couture, the forms and proportions of the Kiton suit have undergone a makeover.
Canali Fall/Winter 2015 collection
The Fall/Winter 2015 collection begins in 1950s Milan, creating an imaginary bridge between tradition and modernity along which craftsmanship and premium materials are interpreted in new forms and proportions. Silhouettes bring life to a well-defined and extremely contemporary elegance with particular attention to leisure: coats and jackets in pure cashmere are made with an exclusive “double” technique that results in an extraordinary lightness and luxury. Lines are prevalent throughout the collection, creating diverse motifs and prints: delicate chalk stripes, shaded varieties for a mélange effect or crisscrossed in checks of all different sizes.
Top 4 Fall/Winter 2015 womenswear trends by Bershka
Fall Winter 2015 at Bershka features a young, casual collection with an urban feel, where the richness of the fabrics and details on the finishes of the clothes will be the common thread of the season. The use of materials is reinvented, enriching them with new finishes such as the worn leather effect or stamped suede, as well as the return of more rustic materials such as velvet and woollen fabrics.
Zinedine Zidane for MANGO MAN Fall/Winter 2015 campaign
Style neither creates nor destroys, it renews. Consequently, following the success of Spring/Summer collection, Zinedine Zidane returns to present the most urban line in the MANGO Man Autumn/Winter collection. The French sports star proposes the must-haves for a winter in which Chesterfield coats combined with quilted jackets, knitted sweaters combines with parkas and warm fabrics blend with technological materials, producing a contemporary, casual all-purpose look.
The green in the menswear - a key trend for Fall/Winter 2015-2016
This season, the dark green made its long waiting return. We can see the colour among the creations of Alexander McQueen, Burberry, Gucci.
Axel's new collection Autumn/Winter 2015
Awash with nostalgia and timeless glamour, Axel’s AW/15 collection is a modern classic with stylish palette of soft pales and natural hues, deepened with rich chilli reds, sweet pumpkin hues, dreamy pastels and fresh moss greens. Inspired by a combination of elegant, boho and androgynous styles, Axel creates a backward glance in femininity.
Fall/Winter 2015-2016 fashion trends: Arctic fur
Eskimo-style is the best what you can buy for the winter. The prints are rich and the materials are soft.
Fall/Winter 2015-2016 fashion trends: Punk style
Season Fall/Winter 2015-2016 brought us a wide variety of colours, styles, silhouettes and prints. Today, we are going to present the Punk style as a trend for the upcoming season.
Fall/Winter 2015-2016 fashion trends: Sequins
We continue to show you the Fall/Winter 2015-2016 fashion trends and we pay attention especially on the formal wear. Today, we present you one kind of second part of the shiny outfits - the garments make of sequins - shiny and elegant for every occasion.
YUME - Children's collection fall-winter 2015/2016
Fantastic Transformation - From tomboy to lady from cutie to fairy-tale hero. YUME transforms children!
Fall/Winter 2015-2016 fashion trends: Shiny outfit
It's time to take attention to Fall/Winter 2015-2016 trends for formal wear. Now is the moment to look for our Christmas or New Year evening outfit.
Fall/Winter 2015-2016 fashion trends: Marshmallow colours
Let's look at the Fall/Winter fashion trends in different angle. We are looking for the most trendy colours for the winter season. We know, that there are colours that are typical for fall and winter - grey, black, brown with their shades, but this year is different - a whole new world in marshmallow colours.
Fall/Winter 2015-2016 trends: Jersey dress
It's time to think about our winter everyday outfit. You can bet on the jersey dress. And you think that it is no trendy, believe it is one of the key trends for Fall/Winter 2015-2016.
Fall/Winter 2015-2016 trends: Second skin
The Fall/Winter 2015-2016 fashion trendsserved us a wide variety of outerwear. Today, we present a remember of the 80's - the fur jacket.
Farrell Autumn/Winter 2015 collection by Primark
Robbie Williams created the Farrell line as a tribute to his Grandfather, Jack Farrell - a notable dresser on the Stoke-on–Trent scene. The latest collection of Farrell takes inspiration from the past while remaining firmly rooted in the present, offering clean modern cuts in classic shapes.
OKINAWA presents its new collection for Fall/Winter 2016-2017
Okinawa is based near Padova, Italy, and founded 30 years ago by Michele Ruffin. It has been renowned for its quality and creativity from the start, having always paid close attention to technological processes and materials for clothing, furnishing and accessories, focusing especially on the leather market.
Miroglio Textile at Premiere Vision
“Water saving is crucial for the preservation of the planet and on this objective Miroglio Textile has being focused for many years", said Giuseppe Miroglio, Chairmain of the company.
Fall/Winter 2015-2016 trends: Black and white graphic
Immortals colors - black and white are back with a full force in Autumn/Winter 2015-2016. The combination is known for a long time and it is always a classic, but for the upcoming winter season it is up to date, too.
Happy Birthday Re.Verso
Re.Verso™ is the first and only platform for re-engineering wool and cashmere materials for fashion. It was created and developed in Italy by a group of companies who lead the way in this field, who now, after only one year can boast some great achievements in the short time since its launch, at Première Vision last year where the inaugural Re.Verso™ collection of fashion fabrics was presented by A. Stelloni by Mapel.
Womenswear: 20 key trends for Fall/Winter 2015-2016
The winter season is going to be very interesting - colorful, lively and unconventional. Trends are diverse and everyone can find something for himself. Colors, fabrics and patterns are combined to show you what will be modern during the coming season.
GruppoCinque presents its new collections for the Fall/Winter 2016/17 season during Premiere Vision Paris
The new GruppoCinque collection for the fall/winter 2016/2017 season offers creations with a strong emotional impact, confirming the DNA of an innovative reality and projecting the company into a new level of being contemporary.
H&M Studio Autumn/Winter 2015 Collection
Sportswear, function and a generous splash of retro-futuristic shimmer come together for a high-fashion extravaganza in H&M Studio AW15. Taking cues from the late 60s futurism this collection blends sporty skiwear with rich colours and embellishment.
MagRuss Autumn/Winter 2015-2016 collection
Between the evenings and everyday life, there are a lot of interpretations, but the perfect choice for Autumn/Winter 2015-2016 season are the colors with metallic sheen and seductive wine shades.
Herve Leger Fall 2015 collection
For Fall 2015, Herve Leger by Max Azria draws its inspiration from the magnificent basilica de la sagrada famlia by Antoni Gaudi. One of the most outstanding figures of the Catalan culture, Gaudi developed a highly expressive language of his own and a body work that speaks directly to the senses. The collection journeys through the symbolism captured in three of the Basilica's facades and its outstanding stained glass windows: nativity, passion and glory, which signify the concepts of birth, sacrifice and toil in human nature.
Topman Design presented the Autumn-Winter 2015 trends
Drawing references from military and the great outdoors, the utility trend fuses a masculine aesthetic with genuinely useful design detailing. This couldn’t be further from past interpretations of military – there are no silver buttons or embroidered epaulets – instead, look out for bomber jackets, overshirts with pocket detailing and workwear-style trousers.
Ralph&Russo Haute Couture Autumn/Winter 2015
A renewed interpretation of Ralph & Russo's romantic sensibility is unleashed for Autumn/Winter 2015-2016, manifesting in sensual femininity and sexy sophistication. The collection is spectacle of love-laden wonders; a tour de force of elaborate design and labour-intensive artistry.
Topshop Autumn/Winter 2015 campaign starring Gigi Hadid
New season, whole new sartorial mood. To prepare you for the trends ahead, we’ve compiled the ultimate Autumn/Winter lookbook. Styled by Topshop's Creative Director Kate Phelan and modelled by girl-of-the-moment Gigi Hadid, it's full of outfits you didn't even know you needed yet.
Donna Karan Autumn/Winter 2015 collection
New York is the essence of glamour. Strong and seductive, powerful and artistic. Our Fall collection is like the skyline after dark – all geometric planes and glistening lights. Each piece stands alone – and together to take you day into night.
forever 21 Pre-Fall 2015 collection
Forever 21 launches Pre-Fall styles featuring women's and men's fashion.
Mulberry Autumn/Winter 2015-2016
'Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful.' - William Morris
Lindex Autumn 2015 collection
The autumn collection from Lindex presents a mix of loose and long layers, artistic prints and a strong focus on colour, trousers and skirts.
Autumn/Winter 2015-2016 Fashion Trends: Jewelry
We can not skip the current winter season jewelry, presented during the Fashion Weeks in London, Paris, New York and Milan. Designers' spectacular and extraordinary jewelry - earrings, neck ornaments and bracelets. We have selected for you the most interesting proposals of the runway shows.
Autumn/Winter 2015-2016 Fashion Trends: Handbags
Most of the famous designers already presented their Autumn/Winter 2015-2016 collections. So we can define the fashion trends of the handbags. We selected some of the most outstanding models presented during the Fashion Week in New York, London, Milan and Paris.
Violeta by Mango trends Autumn/Winter 2015
Femininity, quality and fashion are synonymous with the characteristic design of Violeta by MANGO in its forthcoming Autumn/Winter 2015 collection.
MANGO Kids changes direction in the Autumn/Winter 2015 season
The elegance of Parisian urban chic comes to the MANGO Kids collection for girls. The 60s look appears in perfect jackets, trench coats and reversible sleeveless jackets, combined with graphic t-shirts, striped sweaters and high-rise jeans.
Mango Fall/Winter 2015 collection highlights the trends
Boho style has not abandoned the autumnal season. This macro-trend has been reinventing itself in the last few seasons and is once again making its mark with long maxi dresses.
Tony Ward Fall/Winter 2015-2016 collection
The Tony Ward Fall Winter 2015/16 Ready To Wear collection is an invitation to explore the connection between Nature’s elements and the female figure, inspired by abstract Art grand masters approach.
The MANGO Man Autumn/Winter 2015-16 collection brings the latest trends in men's fashion
Starting with must-have season tones such as blue, beige, camel, toasted and khaki tones, the range extends with touches of colour in ochre, terracotta and even reds. From the above, the MANGO menswear collection has chosen grey tones with indigo blue to blend the different styles proposed by the brand.
Womenswear: Burberry Prorsum Autumn/Winter 2015 collection
English fringed suede, Durham quilts and sheer printed English lace. Patchwork prints, mirror textiles and whipstitched suede. Pigment colours of indigo, red, burgundy, teal and ochre.
adidas Originals by Pharrell Williams – Supershell – Artwork Collection
After captivating the world with the ground breaking Supercolor release in April, Pharrell Williams is back for FW15 with Supershell. The Supershell project sees Pharrell hand-pick friends and creatives from around the world to completely reinvent the shoe's Shelltoe for the very first time, evolving the Superstar into a canvas for creation.
Silver Moon by Fendi Autumn/Winter 2015-2016 Haute Couture collection
Fendi debuts at Paris Haute Couture Fashion Week with Silver Moon, its first Haute Fourrure Collection, presenting incredible luxurious furs, the ultimate expression of the Maison’s highest creativity and craftsmanship in fur since 1925.
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Back at the Staircase
Directed by Drew Britton
Sun Feb 24, 2019 – 5:00 pm | La Casa Grande
USA | 77min | 2017
Barbara had arranged a pre-party dinner for her two daughters and two nephews: Tomorrow was to be the big celebration for her youngest daughter’s arson charges being dropped on a technicality.
But after too many drinks, Barbara fell down the stairs, cracked her head open, and is now in a coma.
Unaware of how long they’ll be trapped together waiting for the doctor’s call, the estranged individuals’ true selves slowly begin to surface.
Drew Britton
Britton is a former graduate student from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, where he obtained his MFA in film.
After making his first feature “When the King Tilts”, the film played a number of festivals, picking up four awards along the way. Britton then went on to complete his follow-up feature “Back at the Staircase”, which showcases a cast of established actors from a number of breakout hits in both television and film.
Titles include: Tangerine, Big Little Lies, The Mend, The Midnight Swim, Manson Family Vacation, Lamb, Starlet, Billions, Homeland, Togetherness, The Freebie and many more.
Filmmaker Introduction
Directors: Drew Britton
Runtime: 77 min.
Producer: Jessica Farrell, Drew Britton
Writer:Drew Britton
Cinematography: Quinn Hester
Music: Brian Packham
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The Guts
A Barrytown Novel
"Jimmy Rabbitte of The Commitments returns in the triumphant new novel from the Booker Prize-winning author The distinct wit and lively, authentic dialogue that are the hallmarks of Roddy Doyle's fiction are on a full display as he reintroduces Jimmy Rabbitte in this follow-up to his beloved debut novel The Commitments. In the 1980s Jimmy Rabbitte formed the Commitments, a ragtag, blue-collar collective of Irish youths determined to bring the soul music stylings of James Brown and Percy Sledge to Dublin. Time proves a great equalizer for Jimmy as he's now approaching fifty with a loving wife, four kids, and a recent cancer diagnosis that leaves him feeling shattered and frightened. Jimmy still loves his music, and he still loves to hustle-his new thing is finding old bands and then finding the people who loved them enough to pay for their resurrected albums. As he battles his illness on his path through Dublin, Jimmy manages to reconnect with his own past, most notably Commitments guitarist Liam "Outspan" Foster and the still beautiful backup vocalist Imelda Quirk. Jimmy also learns the trumpet, reunites with his long-lost brother, and rediscovers the joys of fatherhood. An immensely funny and poignant novel, The Guts captures friendship, family, the power of music, the specter of death, and the zeal for life"-- Provided by publisher
Publisher: New York : Viking, 2013
Branch Call Number: FIC Doyl
Read more reviews of The Guts at iDreamBooks.com
gomez7 May 01, 2018
In this book author Roddy Doyle has eclipsed all his other work and firmly established his place among the great writers of Ireland - and anywhere else for that matter.
I like stories that are about people, and I prefer uplifting stories with a happy ending. So I was predisposed to like this book. But Mr. Doyle does so much more than I could ever have imagined. His characters all live. Their experiences are real. By the final third or fourth of the book I truly felt that I was right by the protagonist's guy's side, living the story with him!
In this book, Roddy Doyle's storytelling abilities are nothing short of astounding.
Don't miss this story.
P.S. After reading this book I coincidentally vacationed in Ireland, and I book this book while there, to add to my collection of titles that I periodically re-read, and thrill over again and again.
blustocking Oct 22, 2016
i just read the guts again and i still love it. i loved the commitments too, the book and the movie. there are never enough novels about music and musicians but roddy doyle, like nick hornby, really delivers. the chauvinism of the characters (they discussed women as if talking about pieces of meat) was annoying to say the least, but you can't blame doyle for writing true--music is a sexist business.
gvenkatesh Jun 06, 2014
It takes a bit of determination to stay with the book after the first few pages. If the profanities in every other sentence don't get you, the rapid play-like dialogue without much of the syntactic adornments will. But like wading into cold ocean water or going into a very hot sauna, one gets acclimatized after the initial aversion to discover a gem of a novel. One with wit and charm in the story of a family coping with the protagonist's cancer diagnosis and treatment in the aftermath of the financial crisis that hit Ireland hard. No cheap tricks like self-destructive characters or dysfunctional families that plague American authors to create drama. Not a Hallmark card family either. Real, warm and refreshing. The sparse formatting for the dialogue actually helps in better absorbing the staccato exchanges between characters that forms the majority of the content of the book. While the ending may seem uplifting, one is disappointed with the author reverting back to the formulaic appeal of music bands being appreciated as the finale like in his earlier book - The Commitments. Along with the overly long lead-up to it, it detracts from the earlier portrayal of the characters and their interactions in a witty and warm manner that makes the book worth reading. Recommended if gratuitous profanities throughout the book don't bother you.
diggie Feb 28, 2014
the funniest book about colon cancer you're likely to read.
Cdnbookworm Nov 09, 2013
This novel continues the story begun with his book The Commitments and continued in The Snapper and The Van which all featured the Rabbitte family. These books are commonly referred to as The Barrytown Trilogy. So now there are four. Jimmy Rabbitte was a main character in the first book and he is the focus of this novel. Now 47, Jimmy and his wife created a music company focused on older music, and then sold a large chunk of it to a partner Noeleen. As the book begins, Jimmy is meeting his dad, also Jimmy, in a pub for a drink, a common occurrence, except that this time Jimmy is breaking the news to his dad that he has bowel cancer. His dad is the first person Jimmy has told this news to.
This novel takes us through Jimmy's cancer journey, through his surgery and chemotherapy, but also through his relationships along the way. From his reconnection with two members of The Commitments, Outspan and Imelda, to his reconnection with his long-lost brother Les, we see Jimmy reach back to his past. We also see his interactions with his wife and kids, and his business partner. Music is a focus here too, with Jimmy's love of music, music the focus of his business, and a large outdoor multi-day music concert the venue for the final part of the story bringing everything together in an amazing way.
This book has a lot of humour as one expects from Doyle but also a wonderfully human story about a man dealing with the situation of facing his own vulnerability.
I've read a few books by Doyle, but not the entire Barrytown series, so must add those to my list now too.
Middle Age — Fiction
Cancer — Patients — Fiction
Music Fans — Fiction
Families — Fiction
Friendship — Fiction
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The president is missing : a novel
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"The White House is the home of the President of the United States, the most guarded, monitored, closely watched person in the world. So how could a U.S. President vanish without a trace? And why would he choose to do so? An unprecedented collaboration between President Bill Clinton and the world's bestselling novelist, James Patterson, The President Is Missing is a breathtaking story from the pinnacle of power. Full of what it truly feels like to be the person in the Oval Office -- the mind-boggling pressure, the heartbreaking decisions, the exhilarating opportunities, the soul-wrenching power -- this is the thriller of the decade, confronting the darkest threats that face the world today, with the highest stakes conceivable." -- From publisher's description.
The people vs. Alex Cross
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"The charges: explosive. Alex Cross has never been on the wrong side of the law -- until now. Charged with gunning down followers of his nemesis Gary Soneji in cold blood, Cross is being turned into the poster child for trigger-happy cops who think they're above the law. Cross knows it was self-defense. But will a jury see it that way? The evidence: shocking. As Cross fights for his professional life and his freedom, his former partner John Sampson brings him a gruesome, titillating video tied to the mysterious disappearances of several young girls. Despite his suspension from the department, Cross can't say no to Sampson. The illicit investigation leads them to the darkest corners of the Internet, where murder is just another form of entertainment. The People vs. Alex Cross: the trial of the century. As the prosecution presents its case, and the nation watches, even those closest to Cross begin to doubt his innocence. If he can't convince his own family that he didn't pull the trigger with intent to kill, how can he hope to persuade a jury? But even with everything on the line, Cross will do whatever it takes to stop a dangerous criminal... even if he can't save himself." -- From Amazon.com.
Cross justice
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When his cousin is accused of a heinous crime, Alex Cross returns to his North Carolina hometown, where he discovers evidence of widespread corruption and a shattering family secret.
Private India : city on fire
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When Santosh Wagh isn't struggling out of a bottle of whisky he's head of Private India, the Mumbai branch of the world's finest PI agency. In a city of over thirteen million he has his work cut out at the best of times. But now someone is killing women - seemingly unconnected women murdered in a chilling ritual, with strange objects placed carefully at their death scenes. As Santosh and his team race to find the killer, an even greater danger faces Private India - a danger that could threaten the lives of thousands of innocent Mumbai citizens.
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"Detective Alex Cross is being stalked by a psychotic genius, forced to play the deadliest game of his career. Cross's family--his loving wife Bree, the wise and lively Nana Mama, and his precious children--have been ripped away. Terrified and desperate, Cross must give this mad man what he wants if he has any chance of saving the most important people in his life"--Provided by publisher.
"At last, Detective Michael Bennett and his family are coming home to New York City. Thanks to Bennett, the ruthless crime lord whose vengeful mission forced the Bennett family into hiding has been brought down for good. Back in the city that never sleeps, Bennett takes over a chaotic Outreach Squad in Harlem, where he receives an unusual call: a man claims to have seen a group of well-dressed men holding a bizarre party in a condemned building. With no clear crime or evidence, Bennett dismisses the report. But when a charred body is found in that very same building, he is forced to take the demented caller seriously--and is drawn into an underground criminal world of terrifying depravity" -- from publisher's web site.
Unlucky 13
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San Francisco Detective Lindsay Boxer is loving her life as a new mother. With an attentive husband, a job she loves, plus best friends who can talk about anything from sex to murder, things couldn't be better. Then the FBI sends Lindsay a photo of a killer from her past, and her happy world is shattered. The picture captures a beautiful woman at a stoplight. But all Lindsay sees is the psychopath behind those seductive eyes: Mackie Morales, the most deranged and dangerous mind the Women's Murder Club has ever encountered. In this pulse racing, emotionally charged novel by James Patterson, the Women's Murder Club must find a killer, before she finds them first --from publishers web site.
Private L.A.
"Thom and Jennifer Harlow are the perfect couple, with three perfect children. They maybe two of the biggest mega movie stars in the world, but they're also great parents, philanthropists and just all-around good people. When they disappear without a word from their ranch, facts are hard to find. They live behind such a high wall of security and image control that even world-renowned Private Investigator Jack Morgan can't get to the truth. But as Jack keeps probing, secrets sprout thick and fast--and the world's golden couple may emerge as hiding behind a world of desperation and deception that the wildest reality show couldn't begin to unveil. Murder is only the opening scene"-- Provided by publisher.
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Everyone thinks Emmy Dockery is crazy. Obsessed with finding the link between hundreds of unsolved cases, Emmy has taken leave from her job as an FBI researcher. Now all she has are the newspaper clippings that wallpaper her bedroom, and her recurring nightmares of an all-consuming fire. Not even Emmy's ex-boyfriend, field agent Harrison "Books" Bookman, will believe her that hundreds of kidnappings, rapes, and murders are all connected. That is, until Emmy finds a piece of evidence he can't afford to ignore. More murders are reported by the day -- and they're all inexplicable. No motives, no murder weapons, no suspects. Could one person really be responsible for these unthinkable crimes?
7 of 16 copies available at Missouri Evergreen.
When the body of Diana Hotchkiss is found outside of her apartment building, Ben, the man who pined for her, is conviced that it wasn't suicide and when he investigates further, he uncovers Diana's secret double life and illicit affairs.
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POSTED ON OCT 5, 2015 TO Open Source
Improving the Linux kernel with upstream contributions
Blake Matheny
Chris Mason
The Linux kernel is constantly changing, growing roughly 1.4 million lines of code in the last year alone. The kernel community is constantly adding new features, supporting new hardware, refining interfaces, and fixing bugs. In order to take advantage of these changes, production Linux deployments need to take on the difficult task of validating new kernels across all their workloads.
Scaling over hundreds of thousands of machines makes Facebook unique in many ways, and over the years, our kernel team has developed specialized functionality to help support the fleet. When moving to new kernels, we often need to choose between slowing the rate of change to reduce the testing required and increasing the rate of change to pull in the code we need to support our constantly evolving data centers.
We believe the best way to make sure new kernels work well for our services is to actively participate in the kernel community. Upstream participation ensures that our changes are part of the core kernel that is validated with each release, and contributing our patches upstream results in reviews that help improve code quality and maintainability. By focusing on upstream before deploying code in production, we are able to reduce internal churn, create fewer regressions, and improve the Linux kernel for everyone. We refer to this as our “upstream-first” philosophy.
The Linux kernel is a community effort, both inside and outside of Facebook. The work the team does is made possible through the efforts of thousands of developers around the world. We’d like to update the community on our contributions in the last few months.
As v3.10 of the Linux kernel went into maintenance mode earlier this year, our internal development of this older kernel predictably slowed and we turned our focus to v4.0. Our v3.10-fb branch saw 80 commits from 10 internal contributors. Our v4.0-fb branch saw 101 commits from 12 internal contributors. Interestingly, the upstream (mainline) Linux branch saw 238 commits from nine internal contributors. This is our upstream-first philosophy at work. We upstream our development efforts for community vetting in most cases before the code hits production. This is particularly useful for making sure that complex changes get an appropriate number of eyes on them from within the community.
Blk-mq
If you’re not familiar with blk-mq, it stands for “block multi-queue” and is a newish framework for block layer queuing in the kernel. Historically, the block layer design employed a single request queue, which was an obvious bottleneck for storage performance. Blk-mq introduces two types of queues: per-CPU core software queues and hardware queues, which map to the underlying hardware driver submission queue. This design shows reduced system utilization, lower latency, and higher performance.
Blk-mq has performed so well that it is now enabled in production for several solid state storage systems inside of Facebook. We’re continuing to develop new features on top of the core blk-mq functionality to support the latest in high-speed storage and make it more useful across different types of hardware.
Btrfs
We have been working toward deploying Btrfs slowly throughout the fleet, and we have been using large gluster storage clusters to help stabilize Btrfs. The gluster workloads are extremely demanding, and this half we gained a lot more confidence running Btrfs in production. More than 50 changes went into the stabilization effort, and Btrfs was able to protect production data from hardware bugs other filesystems would have missed.
New Vegas congestion control
NV is a modern congestion-control algorithm, part of a series of planned data center–focused improvements to TCP. You can read more about this work below:
TCP-NV document and experiments
tcp: add NV congestion control
Writeback support for cgroups
We use cgroups around Facebook for resource limiting in systems across our fleet. Cgroups can limit resources like CPU and memory, but until recently it has been missing useful support for IO limiting. With the changes described below, we’ll be able to provide resource limits for most of the major subsystems — block, net, memory, and CPU. This fine-grained resource control will eventually let us do things like smartly collocate container jobs, ensuring that they can’t starve each other of resources.
Writeback and control groups
writeback: cgroup writeback support
Network virtualization and reliability
We’ve continued work on GUE, IPv6 flow label support, and ILA. These are all related to how we might be able to provide a pure virtualized network environment, which would allow us to do things like have uniquely addressable containers. IPv6 flow labels also provide a mechanism for rewiring network routes on demand. When the IPv6 flow label changes, the network hardware can rehash the flow and take an alternate path.
net: Identifier Locator Addressing
Identifier Locator Addressing
Generic UDP Encapsulation
IPv6 performance improvements
Facebook has been actively migrating our internal and external traffic to IPv6 for some time, and this migration has found a number of bottlenecks in the kernel IPv6 support. We sent our IPv6 performance improvements upstream, and our patches to scale the routing tree have allowed us to remove a number of Facebook-specific hacks from production kernels.
Linux IPv6 improvement: Routing cache on demand
RAID 5/6 caching
We implemented a caching layer for MD RAID 5/6. This series of patches solves two problems: plugging the RAID 5/6 write hole to keep parity consistent after power failures and greatly improving performance for synchronous workloads. This change set is currently being reviewed upstream, and we are continuing to adapt it based on the feedback we are receiving.
MD: a caching layer for raid5/6
We have been making steady progress to ensure that we are able to quickly deploy new kernels internally. The 4.0 kernel is now deployed on a significant percentage of our fleet, and the ability to quickly canary new changes in production shortens the development cycle dramatically.
Our broad goal as a kernel team is to maintain a rapid pace of integration between the upstream kernel and our own production environments. We’re focused on improving the Linux storage, networking, and container stacks. We’re quickly taking advantage of the newest technology in Linux and pushing the lessons we learn back into the community.
Keep an eye out for more case studies and patch submissions as we make progress.
TAGS: Infra Open Source Performance
Facebook open-sources new suite of Linux kernel components and tools
Open-sourcing Katran, a scalable network load balancer
Open-sourcing oomd, a new approach to handling OOMs
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