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Neal Stephenson in Austin, October 4, 2004
On October 4, 2004 Neal Stephenson was at Book People in Austin, TX, where he read an excerpt from his latest book, "The System of the World" (the third and the last one in The Baroque Cycle), gave a talk and signed books. Here are the questions the audience asked him, and his answers:
Q1. How do you your historical research?
Q2. Can you comment briefly on your perception of status of science and philosophy in the current education system?
Q3. Do you have any plans to write more nonfiction?
Q4. What are you reading now?
Q5. The future of metaweb, and is it a good forum to explore how can we get Enlightenment to start again?
Q6. Now that you've been through this process, do you see yourself engaging in the long, long form again?
Q7. You spend that much time just setting the stage for the final conflict. Your prose, your writing style alone is what keeps people coming back. Is that daunting to your publisher?
Q8. When you were here last October, you talked about how you explored history for Cryptonomicon, and the Baroque Cycle. Do you think you reached the end of that?
Q9. Some people are dissatisfied with endings of Neal Stephenson's books...
Q10. Can you talk about Waterhouse and Shaftoe characters, why they appeal to you and why they showed up in the last 4 books?
Q11. I was just wondering if < some author of historical fiction and/or his book> caught your eye while you were writing this.
Q12. Did you develop a lot of material for "Cryptonomicon" and the Baroque Cycle that's not included in the final versions?
Q13. What are your favorite books of all time?
Q14. Are you still a speed metal fan?
Q15. On Neal Stephenson's view of history and how it informs his understanding of current events; and how come current political realities don't play a significant part in his fiction?
Neal Stephenson in Austin, September 25, 2008
On September 25, 2008 Neal Stephenson gave a reading from his latest novel Anathem, signed books and answered audience's questions. This is Stephenson's third reading and Q/A at Book People over the last 4 years. Some of the questions haven't changed much from year to year. Are his projects getting bigger and bigger? Is he ever going to write something short? Which is the favorite of the novels he has written? Why does he prefer to do his research in books, as opposed to search engines? Hint: serendipity. Are there new technologies he is excited about? Other questions are new. Does he have any ideas on posthumanism? Has he been making something cool in the workshop lately? Why is Anathem set on an imaginary world, not Earth?
Cyberpunk after 9/11: ArmadilloCon 2004 panel
Bruce Sterling
bucky tubes
Synopsis from ArmadilloCon program book: Why have the cyberpunks abandoned the future? Do William Gibson's "Pattern Recognition" and Bruce Sterling's "The Zenith Angle" evidence a trend? (And don't forget the pre-2001 "Cryptonomicon" of Neal Stephenson and "Zeitgeist" of Sterling) Are they science fiction? What makes them different from more mainstream techno-thrillers? What does it mean for the future of SF?
Panelists: Chris Nakashima-Brown (moderator), Lawrence Person, Kurt Baty
John Scalzi's Guest of Honor interview: ArmadilloCon 2008
John Scalzi's interview took a different format than the usual Guest of Honor interview. There was no interviewer; Scalzi paced back and forth, shooting the breeze with the audience. He probably didn't say anything one wouldn't find on his blog. It's how he said those things that made him so entertaining. He acted out various stories from his life as little skits, from a Hugo winner's attitude to getting to know 16-year-old girls. He also commented on Neal Stephenson, openly admitted to stealing from other authors, and talked about why he could not afford to be as polemical in "Old Man's War" as Heinlein was in "Starship Troopers". Finally, he revealed an unexpected fact about himself.
The pictures from ArmadilloCon 2008 can be found in my photo gallery.
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Vietnam, EU conclude last FTA talk round
Sunday, January 25, 2015 12:36
Vietnam and the European Union (EU) concluded the 11th and the last round of free trade agreement negotiations in Brussels, the capital of Belgium, on January 23 after five days of sitting.
(Photo: VNA)
Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade Tran Quoc Khanh and Director at the European Commission’s Directorate General for Trade Patriccione Mauro were chief negotiators.
During the talks which focused on the Market Opening Package, both sides were able to reach common ground on outstanding issues left over from previous talks involving services, investment and public procurement, Director of the Ministry of Industry and Trade’s Multilateral Trade Policy Department Luong Hoang Thai told Vietnam News Agency.
He noted that Vietnam also asked the EU to agree with its proposals regarding potential goods for exports in the coming time.
The chief negotiators agreed to submit reports on the outcomes of talks to their leaders so as to make timely adjustments if necessary.
The talks are on the right track as committed by their leaders and the bilateral FTA is expected to be signed as scheduled, Thai confirmed.
The 28-member EU is the world’s largest economy with a total gross domestic product of US$ 18 trillion, or 22 percent of the global economic worth.
The group’s total trade is estimated at US$ 4 trillion and investment outflows are equivalent to 40 percent of global foreign direct investment.
As of the end of 2013, the EU counted 1,402 valid projects in Vietnam valued at over US$ 18 billion.
The FTA between Vietnam and the EU, once signed, could help expand Vietnam’s GDP by 10-15 percent. Vietnam’s exports to the EU are likely to soar 30-40 percent with the FTA while the country’s imports from the EU are expected to rise by 20-25 percent.
Source:VNA
Agricultural authority warns of massive jackfruit cultivation
Former BIDV Chairman Tran Bac Ha dies in detention
Japanese bank eyes EVN’s energy projects
Petrol prices surge by more than VND700 per liter
Ngoc Linh ginseng threatened by counterfeit tradings
Ministry asked to speed up public investment disbursement
VN-Index revives nearly 10 points
Ca Mau looks to earn US$ 1.2 bln from aquatic exports
Taiwan’s tea chain Ten Ren's exits from Vietnam
Rapid development of solar power plants has led to overloading on the transmission lines and electrical substations from 110kV to 500 kV in Ninh Thuan and Binh Thuan provinces. Meanwhile, overhead power line projects to transmit power generated by solar power plants have faced several difficulties, especially obstacles in site clearance.
Banking-finance
Dollar exchange rate has risen by nearly 1 percent this year
Friday, May 10, 2019 12:56
The State Bank of Vietnam on May 9 increased reference exchange rate by VND5 per dollar to VND23,051 per dollar.
US dollar exchange rate makes record high in Vietnam
SSI: Mobilizing interest rates unlikely to drop
Vietcombank among 30 strongest banks in Asia-Pacific
Cash withdrawal limit in foreign countries set at VND30 million
Vietnam’s goods export to US increases sharply
Monday, March 04, 2019 12:45
According to the General Department of Vietnam Customs, value of goods trade between Vietnam and the United States increased from US$ 18 billion in 2010 to nearly US$ 60.3 billion in 2018.
Hanoi earns US$ 2.24 billion from exports in two months
Vietnam to export 100,000 tons of rice to China
Three more safe farm produce fairs launched in city
Hau Giang grants license to VND 800bln Intermix plant
Vietjet President & CEO in Forbes' World 100 Most Powerful Women list
Forbes announces the World’s 100 most powerful women list with Vietjet’s President & CEO of Vietjet Ms. Nguyen Thi Phuong Thao being the only one representing Vietnam.
Flood-hit families in Khanh Hoa province supported VND 750mln from Hung Thinh Co
Hy Vong Cancer Care Center opened
Vinfast inaugurates eScooter manufacturing plant in Hai Phong
VNPT targets to be leading digital service provider in Vietnam
Stock market in May: more challenges await
Thursday, May 09, 2019 13:40
The Vietnam’s stock market started May with several negative signals, prompting investors to concern that the phenomenon ‘sell in May and go away’ will recur.
VN-Index revives nearly 9 points
VN-Index slides for four straight days due to heavy share dumping
Shares of Vietnam Airlines soar prior to official listing on HOSE
More foreign investors join Vietnam’s securities market
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Viet Nam Strives to Improve Legal Framework to Lure Investment
Thursday, November 16, 2006 18:52
Participants at the APEC Investment Forum 2006 discuss during break time.
Viet Nam spares no efforts to speed up the process of world economic integration and in an active manner to attract foreign investment, said Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung at the opening of the APEC Investment Forum 2006 on Wednesday.
Addressing the forum, PM Dung said the APEC Investment Forum 2006 plays a very important role as it provides all member economies an opportunity to share experience, work out measures to improve the investment environment and quality.
He told around 600 delegates from the 21 APEC member economies at the forum to present recommendations to translate the theme of the 14th APEC of "Towards a dynamic community for sustainable development and prosperity".
The PM said that by hosting this forum, the Vietnamese Government showed its strong determination to boost the cooperation within APEC, aiming at creating new waves of investment among APEC member economies in general and from APEC to Viet Nam in particular. He cited a recent statistic that APEC accounts for 70% of Viet Nam's export and 73% of FDI into Viet Nam.
Vietnamese Minister of Planning and Investment Vo Hong Phuc told the forum that for over several years the country has successfully implemented its commitments and bilateral agreements with members of many international organizations such as ASEAN, ASEM and APEC.
The country has become the 150th member of the World Trade Organization and pledged to comply with agreements signed by Viet Nam and the world largest trading club, Mr. Phuc added.
He also cited the National Assembly’s ratification of some key laws including the Investment Law, the unified Enterprise Law, saying that these laws have been designed to create the most favorable conditions for foreign partner’s to invest in Viet Nam.
Furthermore, Viet Nam is striving to boost the administrative reform, combating against corruption, according to Mr. Phuc, and improving its legal system with the new born of many encouraging policies and laws to give foreign investors the most freedom and fairness when they do business in the country.
“Viet Nam’s successful integration into WTO demonstrates that the country’s legal system is consistent with international rules,” he said.
Attendants at the APEC Investment Forum 2006 were also representatives of the American Chamber of Commerce, international organizations and investment funds, who gave their contributions to the APEC’s investment environment improvement.
Most of them agreed that Viet Nam is an attractive destination thanks to its stable political and social environment, cheap and high-quality labor force.
M. Tosto, an expert in Viet Nam’s investment environment consultancy concluded that the country will be an ideal destination for investment if it improves the legal framework and solve effectively current hot issues like intellectual property and copyrights in accordance with international rules.
By T.N – Translated by Trong Khuong
Traffic police launch vehicle inspections nationwide
Investors, contractors to be held accountable for sluggish power plant projects
HCMC to host mass wedding for 100 worker couples on National Day
Power Corporation builds charitable houses for social policy beneficiaries
Photo competition on climate change launched in Vietnam
Hanoi’s 11th air monitoring station installed at French Embassy
Pollution treatments to To Lich river only surface level
Vietnam pledges support for Singaporean investments: PM
80 percent of State-owned economic groups earn profits
City leader asks to improve residential satisfaction in administrative reform
Secretary of Ho Chi Minh City Party Committee Nguyen Thien Nhan yesterday said that the low level of residential satisfation in the administrative procedure relating to permission for land use, construction and investment in the first half of 2019 prompted relevant sides to analyze the problem in order to improve the rate in the second half.
Thailand to push exports in second half of 2019
Cancer Hospital employs robots, AI in treating cancer
PM urges cancer hospital to improve patients’ satisfaction
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SOFII exists because of partnerships with organisations like Institute of Fundraising.
Find out how you could become a SOFII business partner.
An opportunity grabbed and one wasted
Andrew Papworth says that one of these ads cashes in on the Zeitgeist and the other is a damp squib.
So many fundraising campaigns just seem to trundle on like juggernauts – regardless of what is going on in the world around them. They hit on a formula that seems to work for them and stick to it come hell or high water. Up to a point this is understandable – so long as potential replacements are tested for deployment when, as will inevitably happen, your trusted banker ad wears out. There is a lot to be said for predictability of performance.
The downside is that it can prevent you from connecting with your audience by referring to issues which are high on their agenda at any particular time. It was, therefore, refreshing to see Save the Children run the ad shown below when heavy snow was forecast for much of the UK and people were busy buying snow shovels and sleds and emptying the supermarket shelves of staple foods in preparation for a siege.
This ad ran as children in the UK were looking forward to some fun in the snow. It contrasts that happy anticipation with the fierce winter weather being suffered by refugee children caught in the Syrian power struggle.
It contrasts the anticipation of British kids looking forward to snowmen, snowball fights and sled rides with the fierce winter conditions being experienced by the child refugees from the civil war in Syria. We are used to seeing the likes of Emmaus and St Mungo’s run campaigns highlighting the plight of homeless people in freezing conditions, but it is unusual to find overseas aid charities making such a connection.
This ad deserves to have performed well because it helps to draw attention to those suffering from the fall-out of the Syrian power struggle after the media have rather lost interest and because it tackles the preconception common among Brits that the Middle East is always warm and sunny.
Its only possible weakness is the values of the ask: £30, £41, £100 or “other”. This seems a bit restrictive; there must be many people willing to help for whom a £30 minimum is unaffordable (and the text ask is just £5).
The ‘IF’ campaign against hunger is backed by dozens of international NGOs, including most of the major aid charities, and was launched in January with a reasonably strong but short PR effort and the ad shown below.
This ad begs the question: what do you want me to do?
Their contention that there is enough food in the world to feed everyone is powerful but needs more explanation than we get here. This wouldn’t matter so much if the website to which the ad directs readers was more forthcoming and user-friendly but it is up its own backside with whizzy technology at the expense of involvement and explanation (http://www.enoughfoodif.org). Such an important message needs much clearer and more sustained communication.
A big wasted opportunity.
About the author: Andrew Papworth
After a long career in advertising agencies, Andrew Papworth has been freelancing as an advertising and communications planner for about two decades.
The A to Z of writing fundraising appeals: A to F
Writing a good appeal is a big undertaking and isn’t as easy as some may think. In this handy guide Blue Frog London’s Steve Lynch gives a handy alphabetical guide to the dos and don’ts of writing a fundraising appeal.
From the Mythsmashers: the myth of the ‘rational donor’.
In the first presentation from Mythsmashers, an I Wish I’d Thought of That (IWITOT)-inspired event that takes place every year down under, Alice Anwar of CARE Australia explores the myth of donor rationality and asks ‘Can the head and the heart ever be friends?’
Secrets of direct mail 3: how people read letters
How do potential donors react to direct mail letters? In part three of our series on the legendary Siegfried Vögele, we explain this important aspect of his approach.
SOFII presents: meet the fundraising myth-smashers
Over the coming weeks, SOFII will share the three winning presentations from Myth Smashers, Fundraising Institute Australia’s IWITOT-inspired event. These three young fundraisers each shine a light on dispiriting fundraising myths and show how they can be overcome.
Marie Burnett: she lived, laughed, loved and left a huge hole in our hearts
We are sad to announce the death of Marie Burnett, co-founder of SOFII, trustee, company secretary, honorary treasurer and voluntary editor in chief.
More from Andrew Papworth
There must surely be a better way to make the most of people’s generosity during tragic times?
Spot the elementary mistake in this advertisement
Press ads can still deliver the goods
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Your Sheridan weekly updates
Alexandra KlarerMarch 11, 20192 min readAdd comment
BY ALEXANDRA KLARER
Highlights and Top Stories Everyone Should Know
Welcome to Sheridan’s Weekly Updates! You came to the right place to find the top stories from last week’s news. Get up to date with the latest information and highlights from the week. Maybe you’ll learn something new.
MONDAY – Saying goodbye to Luke Perry
A not-so-great start to the week. We learned that Luke Perry passed away in California at the age of 52. Perry had suffered a massive stroke less than a week before his death. The Beverly Hills, 90210 and Riverdale actor died while surrounded by his close friends and family.
💔 My love to your family. Rest In Peace Luke Perry. pic.twitter.com/VcR4p5Ao8j
— Angela Kinsey (@AngelaKinsey) March 5, 2019
Some famous faces, including Angela Kinsey took the time to share their condolences.
My mom loved #LukePerry We all did. He lived at our house when he got cast in 90210 – He was a real farm kid. He could fix anything. Had a pet mini pig before anyone did. This is a picture of us at Alexis Bday Kareoke Party. He got me on #BuffyTheVampireSlayer Thank you brother pic.twitter.com/aVOcY06gNQ
— David Arquette (@DavidArquette) March 5, 2019
TUESDAY -A cure for HIV
A possible cure? News broke Tuesday, March 5 when an HIV-positive man was reported to be functionally cured of the sickness. The man was treated at University College London and Imperial College London through using a stem cell transplant. The transplant was from a donor who carried a rare genetic mutation. Even though there is a lot of work to be done regarding this research, the future for treating AIDs with science looks promising.
HIV has been eradicated from a patient's body through a bone marrow transplant for the second time ever.
Some are calling this a "cure" for HIV, but the scientists who performed the experiment say it's too soon to tell. https://t.co/Fi70us6F1k
— NPR (@NPR) March 6, 2019
WEDNESDAY – SNC-Lavalin case
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s former principal secretary Gerald Butts in the spotlight last week. Butts told his side of the SNC-Lavlin scandal before the House Justice Committee. He has claimed that “nothing happened” beyond the normal government operations regards to the case.
"I can't recall anything specific."
Green Party Leader Elizabeth May asks Gerald Butts whether there was any evidence jobs were actually at stake, if SNC-Lavalin did not get a deferred prosecution agreement.
Follow LIVE updates here: https://t.co/bvWfNdDT6c#cdnpoli pic.twitter.com/71bysKXL0q
— CTV News (@CTVNews) March 6, 2019
THURSDAY – Autism Protest in Toronto
Hundreds gathered at Queen’s Park over the autism program changes. Families of children with autism made sure their voices were heard when asking for a reverse to recent changes to Ontario’s autism program. The families that attended say that they will face financial ruin to pay for autism therapies for their children. The intensive therapies can cost up to $100,000 a year. It has been said that this has been the largest autism protest in Ontario history.
FRIDAY – Paul Manafort
It looks as though the former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort will be doing some jail time. Due to tax and bank fraud related to his work advising Ukrainian politicians, Manafort will be spending nearly four years in prison. Sentencing guidelines originally called for a 20-year term. This has caused some outrage and controversy. Some describe the sentence as “lenient” and “unfair”. Do you agree with the sentence?
The former acting FBI director was "shocked" at the "lenient" sentence given to Paul Manafort in one of the Mueller team's two cases against him. https://t.co/0PMcLww25D
— HuffPost (@HuffPost) March 11, 2019
Paul Manafort’s short sentence is not unique.
Most white collar criminals receive sentences much shorter than the federal guidelines. In fact, many are never charged at all.
A broken judicial system protects men like Manafort and Trump.
— Nate Lerner (@NathanLerner) March 8, 2019
Alexandra Klarer
Alexandra has a passion for animals, the environment and sushi.
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ZTJ Chapter 172 – [TBD]
April 8, 2016 // 13 Comments // Posted by shiroyukineko
I decided to release this section all in one go because the author went wild here with his rambling, so just read it all in one go. This is before he did a change to the way he approaches fight scenes.
Release 1/7.
I’ve also decided to use a twitter account to post updates/news on the translation that will be used when the release time strays too far from schedule.
Twitter for Updates/News
Chapter 172 – [TBD]
Translated by: bbkgs
Edited by: bbkgs
TLCed by: bbkgs
Three Blades of the Fisherman’s Song doesn’t have a fourth move.
Mo Yu stood by the window silently. A lot of Li Palace clergy had only seen the elegance and power of Gou Han Shi’s three moves, but they couldn’t see what she did; it was precisely due to his previous match against Zhe Xiu draining him too much that prompted him to use his strongest three moves the moment the match had started; what he sought was a quick victory.
Of course, even though Gou Han Shi’s three blades had been propitiously avoided by Chen Chang Sheng, she still didn’t believe that youth to have any probability of winning, this was because a difference in cultivation level wasn’t something that can be completely made up for through tools alone, neither was it related to something as cheap as courage; since that hurdle existed, it couldn’t be surmounted.
That hurdle was called Ethereal Opening.
Gou Han Shi had already completed his Ethereal Opening, while Chen Chang Sheng was still impossibly far away from it, therefore the result of this match was predetermined, no matter how heavily injured or tired Gou Han Shi might become.
What was Ethereal Opening? This was opening heaven and earth through the Ethereal Palace; only by cultivating to this level will the body’s meridian channels be completely connected, with True Essence being able to flow endlessly, also, at this stage, heaven and earth was akin to the cultivator, with just the raising of a hand or foot, it would automatically give rise to a response.
True Essence would also be purer and stronger, if a cultivator at the meditation stage’s True Essence was said to be a stone, then a cultivator at the Ethereal Opening realm would have True Essence akin to a metal drill, being several times stronger.
The further one reaches in cultivation, the harder it becomes and the more dangerous. The hurdle of Ethereal Opening was even more unusual, the death rate is extremely high, therefore, this hurdle would often be referred to as a stage of life and death by young cultivators with feelings of trepidation and yearning.
The reason why the death rate is so high when going through Ethereal Opening is because the Ethereal Palace… is the heart.
The heart is far too fragile, once it sustains an injury, it is very hard to salvage, that’s why Ethereal Opening needs to be sought carefully.
Waiting till one had reached the upper stage of the Meditation Realm and utilising extremely cautious methods of self-observation to control the divine sense, guiding Starlight to lightly knock upon the Ethereal Palace’s door and finally, the heart.
The will being the same as that of heaven and earth, only then, would the Ethereal Palace’s door slowly open. Thus, there is a saying that Ethereal Opening is a cultivation of the heart’s will, something extremely difficult.
This needs at least a hundred nights of Star Brilliance knocking upon that door, with any sort of complication, the cultivator’s Ethereal Palace would be damaged. At best it would lead to heavy injuries and paralysis, but most commonly, it would directly lead to death itself.
Since the Heavenly Tomes descended and humanity started cultivating, countless young cultivators had fallen before this hurdle.
It was unknown as to how many young, talented and intelligent geniuses had tragically died like this. Therefore, the continent had always had the saying: “Only those geniuses that have achieved Ethereal Opening are true geniuses.”
Gou Han Shi has completed his Ethereal Opening before the age of twenty, he naturally was a genius, and more so, a prodigy.
How could Chen Chang Sheng possibly be his match?
Three Blades of the Fisherman’s Song, it seemed temperate upon sight, but in actuality, it utilises a large amount of True Essence, even with Gou Han Shi’s ability, upon expending three moves, he needed to pause for a moment, additionally, he had also developed some doubt over something.
Chen Chang Sheng used Rainfall whip and the Sword of Wen Shui to receive the first two blades, relying mostly upon the two heavenly weapon’s inherent power. But on the moment of contact, Gou Han Shi could clearly feel that Chen Chang Sheng’s True Essence was slightly abnormal, it didn’t seem to be, or more specifically, it shouldn’t be, as strong as what he displayed, but should be a little more average.
“Your meridian channels…” he looked at Chen Chang Sheng with his brows slightly raised, but in the end he didn’t say anything.
Chen Chang Sheng moved closer to the wall, gripping onto his short sword, cautiously staring at him, with his expression especially stern and focused. It wasn’t until he was sure that there won’t be a fourth move that he could relax slightly, using the fastest possible speed to turn his hand over and flick his finger.
He lightly flicked his left hand’s ring finger, that gold wire which was wound upon his fingertip straightened out with a ringing sound, becoming a gold needle, its tip was extremely sharp, glimmering with a cold glare.
He stabbed the needle into his neck with a lightning-quick motion, deeply, with only a small tip showing.
Following this motion, with the needle entering the opening, he continuously shuddered, helping him to quickly stabilise his divine sense once more, at the same time it stimulated the three broken meridian lines in his upper body, causing them to wound up tightly. After a formless scraping, though it naturally couldn’t allow his meridian channels to become linked, it gave the True Essence flow a wider channel.
Luo Luo and Xuan Yuan Po’s bodies were not the same as his, but through his guidance and treatment for them, Chen Chang Sheng’s understanding of meridians channels had become deeper; though he couldn’t treat his own illness, he could at least achieve this amount of alleviation.
Gou Han Shi didn’t know what he was currently doing and instead, thought it was a method for forcing out his own potential. For a canonical school such as Li Shan Sword Sect, this type of method would definitely be considered a corrupt discipline art. He couldn’t stop himself from frowning.
Chen Chang Sheng didn’t know what was currently going through Gou Han Shi’s head, neither could he concern himself with what Gou Han Shi might be thinking. Using his short sword to cut off a scrap of cloth from his upper clothing, he tightly tied his right hand to the short sword’s hilt, pulling it taut with his teeth.
Gou Han Shi’s brows were lightly knotted and his sword grip tightened considerably, this is because he could feel that something was different.
As Gou Han Shi’s grip tightened, Chen Chang Sheng moved; from the Horn Mansion to the Ox Mansion, transitioning from the East to the sky, within but a moment in time, his figure disappeared, and upon reappearing, he had already arrived before Gou Han Shi.
The short sword broke through the air and came down, yet encountered Gou Han Shi’s sword.
Gou Han Shi didn’t know all the complicated and inexplicable positions to Discerning Steps, but knew Discerning Steps itself, otherwise, he wouldn’t have been able to expose Luo Luo’s footwork skill at the Ivy League gathering, neither would he had been able to predict his opponent’s movement and prepare sufficiently to meet the accurate blow from the sword in Chen Chang Sheng’s hand.
For all the angles surrounding his body, there wasn’t a single blind spot.
Two swords crossing, but they had yet to fully clash, there was still a minute distance between them; as the True Essence imbued upon the blades met, the air twisted and turned, then dissipated, being forced apart.
A ringing sound reverberated and Chen Chang Sheng flew backwards.
He had wanted to use the method that allowed him to obtain victory over Zhuang Huan Yu, the very same method Gou Han Shi had advised Liang Ban Hu to use in order to defeat Tang Thirty-Six.
Exchanging sword for sword and wound for wound, relying upon his incredibly tough body to seek victory, yet, who could have expected, without even having the two blades properly clash, Gou Han Shi had easily used a single move to force him back.
The most frightening thing was, even though the swords had already separated, Chen Chang Sheng could still clearly feel a strand of True Essence, following the blade’s length and traversing past his inner channels to directly attack his Ethereal Palace.
With a dull thump, Chen Chang Sheng’s inner mind had been injured by the sword manifestation, blood appear on the edge of his mouth and his footsteps touched upon the floor, unable to stand stably. He retreated once and again until he reached the wall, before finally being able to forcefully stand firmly.
A blade’s edge cut through the air, and he raised his sword horizontally in order to maintain a defensive posture. His face was pallid and blood trickled from his lips, looking rather miserable, but what was even more miserable was his current state of mind.
Gou Han Shi really was very strong, far stronger than Zhuang Huan Yu, he couldn’t exchange wound for wound even if he wanted to.
A shrill and forlorn sound once again resounded within the tower and Gou Han Shi’s sword once again came at him, this time the move used was Thirteen Swords of a Toppling Star; the sword struck out like a star, seemingly constant, yet hard to follow.
*PA* *PA* *PA* *PA*
Tens crisp sounds continuously arose.
Chen Chang Sheng could no longer guard the area under his feet and was forced to turn towards his left, continuously retreating, with his steps chaotic, trudging up the damp sand as he retreated a distance of over 30 metres.
As he finally stood firm, he could no longer suppress the malefic feeling within his chest and a sound escaped from his mouth, alongside a mouthful of blood.
Gou Han Shi held his sword, calmly standing within the arena, the gaze he directed at Chen Chang Sheng did not contain any sort of mockery, scorn or taunting, but rather, it had a faint admiration and respect.
From Three Blades of the Fisherman’s Song to Thirteen Swords of a Toppling Star, he had used the most powerful and familiar moves he knew. Through over ten years of bitter training, these sword manoeuvres were unending and as fast as lightning, with each manoeuvre following the other. No matter what opponent he was to face, under this chaining momentum, they would undoubtedly become flustered, their defeat looming.
Chen Chang Sheng couldn’t block those moves, retreating time and time again in a rather dismal fashion and was wounded by True Essence, continuously coughing up blood, but his steps were still solid and his mind remained calm.
That’s because Chen Chang Sheng’s knew what he had to do to counter those sword manoeuvres.
Due to limitations of time, Chen Chang Sheng’s cultivation on the path of the sword couldn’t reach a pinnacle. Knowing the path but being unable to carry it out, yet, his knowledge on the way of the sword was extremely deep and broad, being especially familiar with the swords arts of Li Shan Sword Sect.
Where others wouldn’t even know how to counter Gou Han Shi’s sword manoeuvres, he could find the most appropriate move for countering, if it wasn’t for the levels between them being too different, he would perhaps be able to receive those moves a lot easier.
It was a pity then, that the difference between levels is something difficult to surmount.
Chen Chang Sheng looked at Gou Han Shi silently, the right hand that was gripping onto his sword lightly trembled.
Having truly experienced the might of the Ethereal Opening realm and feeling that strand of True Essence which was still continuously attacking him within his inner channels, he was certain that if he hadn’t used cloth to bind the sword hilt to his hand, the sword would have probably already left his grasp.
The most evident difference of this gap between levels was in the purity, or perhaps strength of True Essence. He clearly understood that this difference wasn’t something that can be shortened in such a short time, therefore, he could only think of a different method; to try and close in on this difference through sheer quantity.
What I have is silver, what you have is gold. Silver is inferior, whilst gold is precious, then if I wish to overwhelm you in terms of fortune, I can only rely upon having a quantity of silver that engulfs you, that’s right, it’s that simple.
With his mind set, Chen Chang Sheng unhesitatingly began to meditate and self-observe. His divine sense went from without to within, traversing tens of thousands of miles in but an instant and arriving at that pure white snow plain. His divine sense, akin to a gust of wind, alighted upon a snow plain in the Southeast.
At that instant, it seemed as if he could hear some sort of sound, with that sound being akin to dry leaves that had accumulated for some years being set on fire.
As if someone had added fuel to a burning pyre.
A meeting of the strongest liquor and the prettiest girl.
With a rippling sound; a loud whoosh resounded; then, a cheer.
The wind was like an inferno, dropping down. The Southeastern snow plain fragment was immediately set ablaze. The Star Brilliance that had remained undisturbed for many months became a violent blaze, setting alight everything around it.
Chen Chang Sheng’s body instantly became incredibly hot and the very air around him heated up.
A horrifying heat took hold of his body and mind, all water became beads of sweat and quickly dissipated. It was unknown as to if this was the reason, but his muscles lost its water content, giving rise to waves of pain that felt like he was being ripped apart.
The biggest source of pain was a feeling; he subconsciously stuck out his tongue to greedily lick his lips, fighting against the feeling of irresistible thirst that came from them.
He really was very thirsty, really wanting to drink some water and really wanting to be deluged within icy cold rain.
The people observing the match had remained quiet. That was until they saw Chen Chang Sheng hold up his sword horizontally in front of him and the atmosphere within the tower suddenly becoming abnormally warm. With this, they finally realised that something was happening.
“He’s doing initial meditation again?”
“How is this possible?”
“Just how much Star Brilliance does he have inside of him?”
“Where is all that Star Brilliance being stored?”
Up on the second floor, countless sounds of shocked, exclaiming questions could be heard.
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A.Q. says: April 8, 2016 at 2:52 am
Oh my dear, sweet Lord… bbkgs, I bloody love you.
I was having one of worst mornings in recent memory — at least in terms of my own, very trivial personal problems. This has improved it tremendously. I thank you so much.
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mukkaar says: April 8, 2016 at 3:17 am
Omfg, whats wrong with my chrome. These flash adds cause sites lag like hell when there’s some present.
Oak says: April 8, 2016 at 4:21 am
k1nk4 says: April 8, 2016 at 4:55 am
thanks for the chapters!
Moe_Ronn says: April 8, 2016 at 7:45 am
Knocking on Heaven’s Door.
Much thanks.
omarct says: April 8, 2016 at 8:57 am
Mini marathon ftw
Sid Cypher says: April 8, 2016 at 10:16 am
Translating with the quantity of silver and the quality of gold, the true hero, bbkgs!
Zeth says: April 8, 2016 at 11:30 am
Thank you very much bbkgs!
ambi says: April 8, 2016 at 3:10 pm
Thanks for the chapter bbkgs!
lordcattank says: April 21, 2016 at 10:41 pm
christian says: January 19, 2018 at 5:48 pm
Shitty novel
the mc was in Ethereal Opening at chapter 125
now the author says otherwise, what a force plot
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Humphrey Coliseum, Starkville, Mississippi Attendance: 5,953
No. 18 Mississippi State beats Hartford 77-59
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By PAUL JONES
STARKVILLE, Miss. (AP) Quinndary Weatherspoon continued his hot start to the season, scoring a season-high 22 points to lead No. 18 Mississippi State to a 77-59 victory over Hartford on Sunday.
Tyson Carter added 14 points for Mississippi State (2-0), and Aric Holman had 12 points and eight rebounds. Nick Weatherspoon had 10 points.
Jason Dunne led Hartford (0-3) with 17 points, and John Carroll added 16.
"I am glad we got the win," Mississippi State coach Ben Howland said. "Hartford won 19 games a year ago and they are well coached. Dunne shot it well for them and we had a chance to break it open a couple of times but couldn't quite do it. They are tough to defend and it was a good test for us.
"Tyson gave us good minutes again, knocking down his shots. Q (Weatherspoon) had another good game and we did a good job on the glass with Holman and Abdul (Ado)."
The Bulldogs shot 45.5 percent from the field and made 9 of 24 on 3 pointers, led by Carter's 4 of 7 showing beyond the arc. Mississippi State had 12 turnovers and collected 15 steals, including six by Weatherspoon.
Weatherspoon poured in the 22 points two nights after scoring 21 in a season-opening win against Austin Peay.
Mississippi State also held a 36-28 rebounding advantage against Hartford with center Abdul Ado collecting a game-high 10 rebounds.
"We have guys that can handle the ball and shoot it well," Carter said. "We know we can put guys in good position to score and I felt pretty good tonight. Last year we did not shoot well and we took some bad shots. So we have to watch the shots we take and make sure they are good shots."
Hartford shot 44.9 percent for the game and made just 6 of 20 beyond the arc. The Hawks were 9 of 11 at the free throw line and had 21 turnovers. Mississippi State scored 21 points off those Hartford turnovers and outscored the Hawks 20-4 on second-chance points.
The Bulldogs got off to a slow offensive start and missed eight of their first 10 shots. But Weatherspoon sparked the offense midway through the first half, scoring six points in the midst of a 14-3 run. The Bulldogs led by as many as 17 in the first half before settling for a 43-29 halftime advantage.
The Bulldogs made 6 of 13 beyond the arc in the first half and held a 20-11 advantage on the backboards. Hartford shot 45 percent in the first half and had 12 turnovers.
Hartford: The Hawks are coming off the program's most successful season after collecting a program-high 19 wins, but the Hawks have lost their first three after losing to Mississippi State, Utah State and Central Connecticut. In the preseason Hartford was predicted to finish second in the America East Conference.
Mississippi State: The Bulldogs have handled their first two games with ease, winning by an average of 23 points over Austin Peay and Hartford. Mississippi State has been efficient on offense and continues to get contributions from several people.
Hartford remains on the road and will travel to Quinnipiac on Thursday.
Mississippi State returns to action on Friday and will host Long Beach State.
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Trump fans can chant ‘send her back’, but Asia cannot afford such racism - South China Morning Post
Fly me to the moon … before China does
Asia Times | Beijing strengthens its hold on South China Sea
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May 15, 2019 spratlys
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Center and right, Philippine Coast Guard vessels BRP Batangas and BRP Kalanggaman sail with the USCGC Bertholf (left) on Tuesday, May 14, 2019, some 50 nautical miles from Subic Bay. PHILIPPINE COAST GUARD PHOTO ABOARD BRP BATANGAS, West Philippine Sea — With Chinese government ships watching from a distance, one of the US Coast Guard’s biggest and most advanced vessels conducted drills with Philippine counterparts near the Scarborough Shoal in the West Philippine Sea (WPS). BRP Batangas and BRP Kalanggaman joined the USCGC Bertholf on Tuesday for capacity-building exercises 50…
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Xi warns of disaster if one civilisation imposes will on another – South China Morning Post
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Chinese coast guard ships seen monitoring Philippine, US ships in South China Sea
Chinese coast guard ships seen monitoring Philippine, US ships in South China Sea Patricia Lourdes Viray (Philstar.com) – May 15, 2019 – 5:06pm MANILA, Philippines — A Chinese coast guard ships were spotted watching Philippine and United States ships conducting joint search and rescue exercise in the South China Sea or West Philippine Sea. Photos taken by Agence France-Presse on May 14 showed a Chinese coast guard ship monitoring the activity from a distance. According to the report, two Chinese ships were seen in the area. Philippine Coast Guard patrol…
Former Navy Intel Officer: Chinese Navy ‘Very Competent,’ Getting Better
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“Dark storm clouds” threaten South China Sea, Ng Eng Hen urges common rules be adopted by countries in the region
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Apple Announces New iPhone 4S: 8MP Camera, A5 Dual-Core Chip, Siri Intelligent Voice Assistant, Coming October 14
At the “Let’s Talk iPhone” event in Cupertino, Apple officially introduces its iPhone 4S, an upgrade to the iPhone 4 with the “S” mark stands for Speed (Or Super Man, your call). The 4S will run on HSDPA network (dual CDMA / GSM) and will launch on October 14 in the US (Canada, Australia, UK, France, Germany, and Japan), priced at $199 for 16GB, $299 for 32GB and $399 for 64GB, while orders start October 7th.
The new iPhone 4S will sport a rear eight-megapixel camera (capable of 3264-by-2448 pixel resolution) with a backlit sensor, a DSLR lens mount, and last but not least: 1080p HD recording. Besides that, it boasts 1GB RAM (vs. the 512mb on the iphone 4), a powerful dual-core A5 processor, a 7x times faster graphics integration and finally, and maybe a little disappointing, the same concept/design of the good ‘ol iphone 4.
What else inside, you’re asking? Well, it has that same stunning 3.5-inch Retina display up front, paired with the nice and fragile glass cover on the back, a built-in Wifi connectivity, Bluetooth 4.0 +A2DP, a battery that delivers impressive 8 hours of 3G talk time, 6 hours of 3G browsing, 10 hours of video playback and up to 40 hours in music mode.
Software wise, the iPhone 4S will run Apple’s latest and greatest iOS 5 platform which will be released, free of charge, on October 12th, along with other cool features such as AirPlay mirroring, Notifications center, Reminders, the iMessages, a Newsstand app, and the big daddy of them all – iCloude support. The 4S is also the first iDevice to run Siri, your personal intelligent voice assistant that lets you ask any question about weather forecast, directions, technological issues, restaurants recommendations and more – Compatible with English French and German languages in the Beta stage – Or set up calender meetings, voice-to-text messages, alarms, different kind of web searches/activities and many other options on board.
Apple also plans an 8 GB iPhone 4 that will be launched at the same day for $49.99(!), replacing the iPhone 3GS that will be offered for nothing but $0 at the entry level point.
Make sure you checkout the Official iPhone 4S/Siri introduction videos after the break, along with the full PR announcement and a comparison table between the new 4S device and its twin brother – iphone 4.
Update1: Whether it’s the Steve Jobs effect or the iphone 4S attraction, one thing’s for sure – the iphone 4S mobile device is already a hit. According to the latest news, the Cupertino giant has already received over 200,000 AT&T pre-orders in the first 12 hours of online availability (since October 7), which means the entire first iphone 4s U.S online stock is GONE and it would probably take one or two weeks of shipping for those who aim for a second round of orders. That’s crazy! To say the least.
Update2: And to be even more precised, Apple has just issued a new press release announcing even more staggering numbers – Over one million pre-orders for the iPhone 4S in 24 hours. Wow. Almost twice the previous single-day iphone 4 selling record of 600,000. Full PR after the break.
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Apple Launches iPhone 4S, iOS 5 & iCloud
iPhone 4S Features Dual-Core A5 Chip, All New Camera, Full 1080p HD Video Recording & Introduces Siri
CUPERTINO, California-October 4, 2011-Apple® today announced iPhone® 4S, the most amazing iPhone yet, packed with incredible new features including Apple’s dual-core A5 chip for blazing fast performance and stunning graphics; an all new camera with advanced optics; full 1080p HD resolution video recording; and Siri™, an intelligent assistant that helps you get things done just by asking. With the launch of iPhone 4S also comes the launch of iOS 5, the world’s most advanced mobile operating system with over 200 new features; and iCloud®, a breakthrough set of free cloud services that work with your iPhone, iPad®, iPod touch®, Mac® or PC to automatically and wirelessly store your content in iCloud and push it to all your devices.
“iPhone 4S plus iOS 5 plus iCloud is a breakthrough combination that makes the iPhone 4S the best iPhone ever,” said Philip Schiller, Apple’s senior vice president of Worldwide Product Marketing. “While our competitors try to imitate iPhone with a checklist of features, only iPhone can deliver these breakthrough innovations that work seamlessly together.”
iPhone 4S comes with iOS 5, the world’s most advanced mobile operating system, which includes over 200 new features including Notification Center, an innovative way to easily view and manage notifications in one place without interruption and iMessage™, a new messaging service that lets you easily send text messages, photos and videos between all iOS 5 users. iOS 5 will also be available as a free software update for iPhone 4 and iPhone 3GS customers allowing them to experience these amazing new features.*
iPhone 4S also introduces Siri, an intelligent assistant that helps you get things done just by asking. Siri understands context allowing you to speak naturally when you ask it questions, for example, if you ask “Will I need an umbrella this weekend?” it understands you are looking for a weather forecast. Siri is also smart about using the personal information you allow it to access, for example, if you tell Siri “Remind me to call Mom when I get home” it can find “Mom” in your address book, or ask Siri “What’s the traffic like around here?” and it can figure out where “here” is based on your current location. Siri helps you make calls, send text messages or email, schedule meetings and reminders, make notes, search the Internet, find local businesses, get directions and more. You can also get answers, find facts and even perform complex calculations just by asking.
iCloud is a breakthrough set of free cloud services, including iTunes® in the Cloud, Photo Stream and Documents in the Cloud, that work seamlessly with your iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, Mac or PC to automatically and wirelessly store your content in iCloud and push it to all your devices. When content changes on one device, all your other devices are updated automatically and wirelessly.
iPhone 4S includes an all new camera with the most advanced optics of any phone. The 8 megapixel sensor has 60 percent more pixels so you can take amazing high quality photos with more detail than ever. iPhone 4S includes a new custom lens, a larger f/2.4 aperture and an advanced hybrid IR filter that produce sharper, brighter and more accurate images. The Apple-designed image signal processor in the A5 dual-core chip is built for performance, and coupled with the features built into iOS 5, makes the camera one of the fastest on any phone. With iPhone 4S, the Camera app launches much faster and the shot to shot capability is twice as fast, so you’ll never miss another shot.
New features in the Camera and Photos apps give you instant access to the camera right from the lock screen, and you can also use the volume-up button to quickly snap a photo. Optional grid lines help line up your shot and a simple tap locks focus and exposure on one subject; and the new Photos app lets you crop, rotate, enhance and remove red-eye, and organize your photos into albums right on your device to share them on the go. New iOS 5 features include built-in Twitter integration and iMessage, so you can instantly share your photos via Twitter directly from the Photos app and send photos via iMessage to individuals or groups. And with iCloud’s innovative new Photo Stream service, a photo you take on your iPhone is sent to iCloud and automatically pushed to your iPad, iPod touch, Mac or PC. You can even view your Photo Stream album on your Apple TV®.
iPhone 4S can also now record video in full 1080p HD resolution and with the new video image stabilization feature, you can take richer, smoother videos. Other iPhone 4S video camera improvements include increased sensitivity, sharpness and an increased ability to capture video in low light conditions. With the new iMessage service in iOS 5, you can now instantly share videos with family and friends.
iPhone 4S has the same beautifully thin glass and stainless steel design that millions of customers around the world love, while being completely redesigned on the inside. Apple’s dual-core A5 chip delivers up to twice the processing power and up to seven times faster graphics than iPhone 4, all while maintaining incredible battery life-now up to 8 hours of 3G talk time.
Improving on the innovative stainless steel external, dual-antenna design of iPhone 4, iPhone 4S is the first phone to intelligently switch between two antennas to send and receive. iPhone 4S now supports twice the download speed with HSDPA of up to 14.4 Mbps and iPhone 4S is a world phone, so both CDMA and GSM customers can now roam internationally on GSM networks.**
iPhone 4S comes in either black or white and will be available in the US for a suggested retail price of $199 (US) for the 16GB model and $299 (US) for the 32GB model and $399 (US) for the new 64GB model.*** iPhone 4S will be available from the Apple Online Store, Apple’s retail stores and through AT&T, Sprint, Verizon Wireless and select Apple Authorized Resellers. iPhone 4S will be available in the US, Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Japan and the UK on Friday, October 14 and customers can pre-order their iPhone 4S beginning Friday, October 7. iPhone 4 will also be available for just $99 (US) and iPhone 3GS will be available for free with a two year contract. Siri will be available in beta on iPhone 4S in English (localized for US, UK and Australia), French and German. iOS 5 software will be available on October 12 as a free software update via iTunes 10.5 for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch customers.
iPhone 4S will roll out worldwide to 22 more countries by the end of October including Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Mexico, Netherlands, Norway, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden and Switzerland.
*Some features may not be available on all products.
**Carrier roaming policies apply. HSDPA availability and network speeds are dependent on carrier networks.
***Qualified customers only. Requires a new two year rate plan, sold separately.
iPhone 4S Pre-Orders Top One Million in First 24 Hours
CUPERTINO, California—October 10, 2011—Apple® today announced pre-orders of its iPhone® 4S have topped one million in a single day, surpassing the previous single day pre-order record of 600,000 held by iPhone 4. iPhone 4S is the most amazing iPhone yet, packed with incredible new features including Apple’s dual-core A5 chip for blazing fast performance and stunning graphics; an all new camera with advanced optics; full 1080p HD resolution video recording; and Siri™, an intelligent assistant that helps you get things done just by asking.
“We are blown away with the incredible customer response to iPhone 4S,” said Philip Schiller, Apple’s senior vice president of Worldwide Product Marketing. “The first day pre-orders for iPhone 4S have been the most for any new product that Apple has ever launched and we are thrilled that customers love iPhone 4S as much as we do.”
iPhone 4S will be available at all 245 Apple retail stores in the US beginning at 8 a.m. local time on Friday, October 14. Every customer who buys an iPhone 4S at an Apple retail store will be offered free Personal Setup service, helping them customize their iPhone 4S by setting up email, showing them new apps from the App Store™ and more, so they’ll be up and running with their new iPhone before they leave the store.
iPhone 4S includes iOS 5, the world’s most advanced mobile operating system with over 200 new features, and iCloud®, a breakthrough set of free cloud services that work seamlessly with your iPhone, iPad®, iPod touch®, Mac® or PC to automatically and wirelessly store your content in iCloud and push it to all your devices.
iPhone 4S comes in either black or white and will be available in the US for a suggested retail price of $199 (US) for the 16GB model and $299 (US) for the 32GB model and $399 (US) for the new 64GB model.* iPhone 4S will be available from the Apple Online Store, Apple’s retail stores and through AT&T, Sprint, Verizon Wireless, and select Best Buy, Target and Walmart stores and select Apple Authorized Resellers. iPhone 4 is available for just $99 (US) and iPhone 3GS is available for free with a two year contract.
*Qualified customers only. Requires a new two year rate plan, sold separately.
Apple designs Macs, the best personal computers in the world, along with OS X, iLife, iWork and professional software. Apple leads the digital music revolution with its iPods and iTunes online store. Apple has reinvented the mobile phone with its revolutionary iPhone and App Store, and has recently introduced iPad 2 which is defining the future of mobile media and computing devices.
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Previews & Trailers
Director Ari Aster
Genre Drama | Horror | Mystery
Cast Florence Pugh, Will Poulter, William Jackson Harper, Jack Reynor
Rating R
Release Date July 3rd, 2019
A young woman reluctantly joins her boyfriend on a summer trip where things quickly go awry.
Written and directed by Ari Aster, the man who brought us the horror hit Hereditary, Midsommar is a horror drama that tells the story of a young woman who reluctantly joins her boyfriend on a summer trip where things quickly go awry. The film is described as a summer road-trip movie enjoyed by a young woman and her boyfriend until they fall prey to a local pagan cult in Sweden. Check out the official trailer below!!
Ted Takes Fun Facts, Midsommar:
Writer/director Ari Aster describes his new film as “a dark break-up movie that becomes a horror film.
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Book Blitz - Preordained by David L. Wallace
~ Preordained by David L. Wallace ~
In the vein of Seven & The Devil’s Advocate, Art Somers is a detective tracking a serial killer in Murrells Inlet, S.C., a small-town, coastal community with deeply held spiritual and supernatural belief systems. He discovers while chasing down clues to ID the culprit that the killer has always had his family on his target list.
Things begin to unravel and materialize around and within him, calling into question his long held religious and paranormal beliefs. On the verge of apprehending the killer, he learns an irrefutable truth: Abraham, the father of faith, had to choose to either sacrifice his son or disobey a direct order from God; he must now make a choice - sacrifice his soul to save his son.
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Early Reviews
“An expertly plotted and executed mystery, shot through with the supernatural...builds suspense effortlessly, hurtling towards a riveting conclusion.”
- Clarion Review
“Original and engaging…full of plot twists, surprises, and a substantial dash of the supernatural.”
– Publisher’s Weekly BookLife Prize in Fiction
“A gripping detective story with biblical undertones…aptly blends the horror and crime genres.”
– Kirkus Reviews
In the quaint, historic city of Murrell’s Inlet, South Carolina, at the onset of a torrential downpour, thirty-five-year-old detective Art Somers rolled up the driver’s side window of his blue, classic Camaro and turned on his wipers. He took inventory of himself in his rearview mirror: his black mane of shoulder-length hair that offset his olive skin, the shadow of a beard that now graced his face, and more troubling, his bloodshot eyes. He hadn’t slept much lately and it showed. How much longer was it going to take the FBI boys to capture the serial nutcase operating in their midst?
Within a span of twenty-one days, someone had kidnapped and slaughtered multiple twelve-year-old boys in his county and eluded all capture efforts. He gripped his steering wheel tighter. The only good news, if you could call it that, was that the bastard hadn’t struck in Murrell’s Inlet.
He stared at his former neighbor’s sons, who were playing a game of pickup football on the dirt field to his left. One of those boys—or even his own son, Ben—could be the killer’s next target if Murrell’s Inlet became one of his cities of choice. He breathed deep. Not even the fishy fragrance of the nearby Atlantic waters he loved so much, did anything to improve his frame of mind.
A cluster of lightning bolts illuminated the darkened, cloud-filled morning sky, followed immediately by booming thunder that echoed in the distance. Overhead, seagulls darted away as the winds picked up.
Every locale within his county was on edge because the killer only struck within the confines of Georgetown County and always in a different city. For all he knew, his town could be next. He reached over to his front passenger seat and rested his palm on the printout of the FBI serial profiling article. Under captain’s orders, every detective in the station house had spent the past two weeks boning up on the behavior patterns of serial killers.
He flexed the muscles in his arms and looked at his Navy SEAL tattoos. He had no clue what to do if that sick bastard showed up in Murrell’s Inlet. He was too new at being a detective and some were questioning why the captain had promoted him in the first place. Following up on an obscure lead, he’d taken the initiative and pursued and captured a couple of long-sought backwater drug dealers, a feat that catapulted him from the rank and file into the role he now held.
Another contributing factor for his promotion could’ve been that his captain was also a former Navy SEAL. Reading the FBI profiling article hadn’t made him feel any better. He hoped he’d never cross paths with the sick freak.
He wheeled his Camaro into the driveway of his former home, a light green, two-story, southern vernacular. It had a pool in the backyard that he’d put in himself. He sat behind the wheel for a moment under the overhanging branches of the angel hair oak tree his ex-wife had planted long ago in honor of their son Ben’s birth.
He ran his hands through his long, wavy hair and climbed out, wearing worn, faded jeans and a burgundy T-shirt that worked well with his muscular, tanned frame. The rain soaked him as he jogged through the piles of wet leaves that covered the lawn. He stepped onto the covered porch and was about to knock when Judith, his ex-wife, swung the door open.
His son, Ben, with dark hair and piercing, dark eyes just like his, dressed in his white baseball uniform with burgundy letters that read Gamecocks, dashed by him toward the car carrying his cell phone. “Hey, Dad.”
“Whoa. Hey, Sport. If this rain doesn’t break, they may cancel the game.”
“Let’s go,” Ben said and climbed into the front passenger seat.
Judith stood in the doorway in a revealing pink nightie. She was breathing heavily, as though she’d just finished a vigorous workout. She was thirty-four, with shoulder-length blond hair and enough sexual energy to raise the dead. “It’s about time you showed up. Benjamin is being disrespectful to my guest.”
“A killer who’s randomly taking boys our son’s age is kind of a priority, don’t you think?”
“You don’t even know if he’ll come this way,” Judith said.
“A good scout is always prepared.”
“Maybe you should prepare by going to church sometimes and praying about it.”
“I’ll pretend that church means something to you, just as soon as you stop placing hairs of your enemies in those jars of yours.”
A young black man with a shaved head and chiseled body—and more than likely the source of Judith’s workout—joined her at the door. He expanded his chest and stood straight at the sight of Art.
Art shook his head. Yet another boy-toy around his son. “You think Ben’s disrespect has something to do with your choice of guests?” He frowned. “Let him come live with me.”
She stared at him. “I told you, I need the child support—and I’d miss him.”
“Two years of monthly child support checks—even if he’s with me.”
There was a moment of silence as Judith seemed to consider his offer. She glanced at her boy-toy, whose arm now rested across her shoulder. “We’ll be back from vacation soon.”
“Think about my offer.”
She kissed her boy-toy deeply, pursed her lips at Art, and then slammed the door in his face.
“Bitch,” he said under his breath to the closed door. What in hell had he been thinking having unprotected sex with her? He strode back to his car, climbed in, and screeched his tires as he backed out of the driveway. He turned on his windshield wipers and tore off down the wet street. He glanced at his son, who was watching him. He slowed to the posted speed limit.
Ben tossed the FBI serial profiling article in his lap onto the backseat. He pulled his cell phone out of his front pocket and pressed buttons. He rocked his head back and forth to his music selection. “What were you and Mom talking about?”
Art glanced at Ben. “Life, son—things you deal with in life.”
“Mom said call him ‘Dad.’”
Art pressed the brake pedal, coming to a complete stopped in the middle of the street. He stared at his son. “Who?”
“Her new boyfriend, Clarence.”
Art tensed. He pressed the gas and proceeded down the road. “I’m your father.”
“I know, Dad.”
They rode on in silence. His son’s words had cut deep.
Before publishing his debut novel in 2016, he served over 27 years as an information technology professional working initially for the US Navy, and then the Department of the Navy and various fortune companies. He’s a UCLA writing program alumnus who writes mystery thrillers and children stories. He has three wonderful kids who he enjoys immensely. Writing is his passion and his goal with each story is to capture the imagination in the opening pages and keep it engaged to the story’s riveting conclusion.
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Press Release 6/15/2007
Newport Beach, CA (PRWEB) June 15, 2007 -- In an effort to foster the lighter side of an ordinarily serious profession, California Court Reporting Service, Todd Olivas & Associates, has sponsored a video contest. The contestants? Carol Burnett, Candid Camera, and a virtually unknown but hilarious lawyer with a video camera trained on an unwitting employee and court reporter.
We think these court reporting videos are hysterical, says court reporter and CEO, Todd Olivas. There are a lot of funny things that go on in our profession even though most people don't typically equate court reporting with a sense of humor. Thus, we've published three of the world's funniest court reporting videos on our website -- just to prove them all wrong. There is a vote system on there so people can help us choose which one is the winner.
It's my mission to create excitement about court reporting once again and I'm happy to do it through things like this World's Funniest Court Reporting Video Contest.
-Todd Olivas
While few people know much more about court reporters than they can type really fast and they use those funny machines, court reporting service owner, Mr. Olivas, is passionate about the court reporting profession. We spend so much of our time just trying to do a great job representing the field of court reporting, producing great transcripts for depositions that I thought it would be fun to add a little levity by sponsoring this funny court reporting video contest.
So far, Mr. Olivas', efforts have not gone unnoticed. I've been getting letters, emails and phone calls from people all around the country asking about the excitement that we are creating over here about the field of court reporting. There is a buzz about us and I'm just excited that court reporting and court reporting services like ours are finally getting their just due. For too long, this field has been thought of as something plain and boring. No more! It's my mission to create excitement about court reporting once again and I'm happy to do it through things like this World's Funniest Court Reporting Video Contest.
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The Ugly Truth About Truck Drivers #11: You're Locked Into Living Paycheck to Paycheck
Today in America, living paycheck to paycheck is sadly not at all unusual. But truck drivers got into this insanely demanding career believing that they'd earn something better, to provide a more secure life for themselves and their families. Stark reality hits when you realize you're exhausted, depressed, too tired and stressed to drive safely, your family is breaking apart, and yet you and your family are still struggling financially.
The American Economy is Letting Us Down
For the past 12 years, the cost of living has risen faster than growth. Median income has grown 26% since 2003 while medical costs rose 51% and food and beverage costs grew by 37%, according to NerdWallet.com.
76% of Americans are living paycheck to paycheck with little to no emergency savings, and 43% of American families spend more money each year than they earn.
46% of Americans carry credit card debt over monthly with an average credit card debt of $15,355.
Around 70% of car purchases involve an auto loan, and the average auto loan debt is $26,530.
41% of working age citizens are carrying medical debt.
The average mortgage debt is $165,892 and mortgage lenders now have more equity in homes than people do.
Retirement is becoming a forgotten dream. 46% of American adults report being very concerned about saving money for a comfortable retirement, and considering that that same amount of people have less than $10,000 saved for retirement, it seems that appraisal is a vast understatement when retirement experts suggest that you have three times your annual salary saved by the age of 40.
36% of American citizens have nothing saved for retirement and 40% of baby boomers are expecting to work until disabling injury or death.
Truck Drivers Fare No Better
Though truck drivers chose this career believing they'd avoid being one of those statistics, that hasn't turned out to be true.
Glassdoor reports the average truck driver salary at $44,420.
$44,420 is not enough money to:
Live comfortably in most U.S. cities
Support a family
Stay out of debt
Truck drivers have no built-in retirement plan nor do they growing a pension fund. You have no options for career advancement, and you don't have time to work another job to supplement your income. Most truck drivers get into the career at a later age in life, so breaking into yet another career seems unlikely without a college degree or time in your schedule to get one, and you've invested so much time and money that you don't want to give up, particularly if you are one of many independent owner operators.
This situation makes truck drivers feel trapped, powerless, helpless, and completely drained. You can't spend more time at home to find relief or contribute non-monetarily to your family or you lose income, and if you stop driving, your income stops.
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Nr. 788: How it goes with the case against Pastor Jan Aage Torp?
Nr. 788:
How it goes with the case against Pastor Jan Aage Torp?
Are called, and asked otherwise people will know how it goes with the case where Torp has reviewed me first. And I had to reviewing him again. For me it goes incredibly smoothly, although I am somewhat late to understand what I have come up.
Picture of a pig that refers to what people call a person who marries a woman who could be his daughter. This is just an Illustrative image in a relationship where one call someone for being a dirty old man, but this is only an Illustrative image.
It dawned on me that it was not a "normal" man who had reported me, but a psychopath and human power. Therefore, this is "self-defense" to rain. Therefore, it can go to "helter-skelter and" in writing. You do not track everything at once! But it has dawned and passed up to me what I thought and thought this was about. That remarriage is a sin based on God's word, it is the psychopath manipulated away to apply something else, if it affects him. But here I have been able to both view based on the word of God that remarriage is a sin for a believer. And "caught" psychopath!
After what I think and experience, then Torp not "normal" man. But a psychopath, false apostle and man power.
This I wrote in my last reply to Torp in Searchlight, and my last post where ever:
Seek Torp, I never harassed, harass or done anything against you. Only pointed out that you are not "legally" married in God's word!
And the police, I'd never been "positive" to you, and tried to get in the face as an adult, healthy and good man!
Should just rejected you as the psychopath and power of person you are!
You have always approached me, I never you!
(end of quote).
Having reviewed Torp, but also sent an addition to the police. But I think Torp is hopeless "lost".
Was also at Politi Manglerud chamber to report Ansgar Braut, but there was no one with that name in Norway. So here it is obviously one that has a synonymous name. But okay, the big bad "wolf" is not he, but Jan Aage Torp has staged all this !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
But as the psychopath and power of person he is (this is my opinion and many others) so I know how to deal with such people now!
Stay as far away from them as possible after having warned them! To warn them is futile, only thing is to warn ABOUT THEM!
You learn as long as you live, or live as long as you learn!
Here is an excerpt of what I wrote to the police as additional for review:
Cause. no: 13123258
Seeing that my review Torp there are things that are both omitted and want to be included.
1) That it is false review as Jan Aage Torp comes against me.
(False accusation, crimes regulated in the Penal Code §§ 168-170. Whoever the fake review or explanation seeks to get another charged with a criminal offense, punishable by imprisonment for up to 8 years. Has the person accused also had to endure the punishment, the offender is punishable by up to 21 years in prison. Also the one who without reasonable cause to suspect the reviewer someone of a criminal offense where it is not removed charge is punishable, but in a milder penal provision, up to 1 year in prison).
2) Torp is threatening and therefore bring with paragraph 5.8 of threats. Here are a threat:
Hi Jan Kåre!
I filed a police report today by you and made simultaneously an agreement with Oslo Police that I would like to first try to meet you in Mediation under the supervision of skilled brokers. This is a meglingsråd where we meet face to face, and everything happens in confidentiality, and the purpose is that we should be able to sign a mutually binding agreement, so I have to go ahead with the police, with all that it can cause. Theme is naturally limited to politianmeldelsens content, and not all topics and concerns we had to agree or disagree.
It threatens Torp extended the police if I did not obey him.
3) Torp argues in his review of me the following: I have argued Penal Code § 135a ("discrimination or proportionality based on religion and belief"), § 247 ("Defamation"), and § 390 ("Personal Harassment") in my police.
This suit does not at me, but those who have gone out of the sect to Torp says it fits perfectly on him.
4) I do not know what one should call for Torp. But to me he appears as a psychopath who is responsible for all this that after my concepts are no police case. But all covered by Religious and freedom of speech that I have written.
5) It's in the police management that this is the network's performance, it's there for barely. But that has not happened in Krosktiveien 2 c, but in Torp confused head all together this madness here I would say. Have the feeling that it is the psychopath January Aage Torp is behind all this.
6) Do not want to imprisonment for Torp, only a single penalty as a warning not to do such a thing again! Looks to me a fine of 5.000, - kr.
7) Since everything revolves around what is published on the celestial blog, I have written an article on this subject: http://blog.janchristensen.net/2014/10/nr-903-pastor-jan-aage- torpedo-har.html
This is what I am reviewing Torp for which the Prosecutor:
False accusation, crimes regulated in the Penal Code §§ 168-170. Whoever the fake review or explanation seeks to get another charged with a criminal offense, punishable by imprisonment for up to 8 years. Have the person accused also had to endure the penalty, the offender shall be punished by up to 21 years in prison. Also the one who without reasonable cause to suspect reviewer someone for a crime which is not taken out charge, punishable, but in a milder penal provision, for up to one year in prison.
But I hope not for imprisonment for Torp, either treatment when there is certainly a traumatic childhood or other things that are the basis for his actions?
This I wrote the Spotlight:
Roberto we have Freedom of Speech and Freedom of religion in Norway.
Everything I have made is covered here with very good margin.
All we are left with then is bogus police review Torp.
It survives enough Torp as it only then becomes a fine to Torp in 5000!
The rest are dropped on evidence position as it is called.
This is what I think.
I also believe that Torp is a false apostle, psychopath and living in sin.
The latter is the crux.
Police and prosecutors are human.
But God and the word of God is above all!
Wants to write two papers to which the focus will include be that it is basically not in accordance with scripture reviewing each other as believers.
And an article in which I will highlight Torp's theology, which is not something classical Pentecostal theology, is an American understanding of scripture far right!
But I look at what I've done as a "self-defense" against a person who is a sick man power and acts as a ruthless psychopath! But being reckless is also running a game in which he sometimes acts as the most innocent people one who Torp both live in sin, preaching unbiblical teachings and fit perfectly in the power of man's ward LinkedIn Løvås describes in his book!
Related Links: http://the-heavenly-blog.janchristensen.net/2014/10/no-787-pastor-jan-aage-torp-has-staged.html
http://the-heavenly-blog.janchristensen.net/2014/10/no-786-have-jan-aage-torp-their.html
http://the-heavenly-blog.janchristensen.net/2014/10/no-784-jan-aage-torp-hope-i-finish.html
http://the-heavenly-blog.janchristensen.net/2014/10/nr-781-pastor-torp-disclose-personal.html
http://storage.cloversites.com/norsklutherskmisjonssamband/documents/Vanskelige%20medarbeidere.pdf
http://the-heavenly-blog.janchristensen.net/2014/10/no-777-pastor-torp-has-now-become-front.html
http://the-heavenly-blog.janchristensen.net/2014/10/no-776-jan-aage-torp-hate-speech.html
http://the-heavenly-blog.janchristensen.net/2014/10/no-775-what-conflict-with-torp-really.html
http://the-heavenly-blog.janchristensen.net/2012/02/nr-239-jan-aage-torp-jan-hanvold-harald.html
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This account is to explain how the world got into the situation it has, with nuclear overkill, clash of the cultures, rape of the planet, climate change tipping points, a mass extinction of the diversity of life and impeding threats to our own long-term survival; and how we can decode the Rosetta stone, transforming it into a sustainable future.
The real question about this situation of uncontrolled human impact amid signs of tumult and destruction, which deeply alarm us all, is whether we (humanity) are to blame - are we a bad, doomed species - or is it a partly inevitable situation that is dangerous, which we have to solve as a puzzle of existence before it has the chance to destroy us and our offspring to come. I'm going to tell this to you as a story, as the fables and creation myths were told around the camp fire. This way we may take it to heart and gain the courage to do something about it before its too late.
The first thing is how it all began, and by that I mean the universe and conscious life within it. To all intents and purposes, we now understand that the universe came into being through an interaction between the great above and the great below. By this I mean the forces shaping the large scale cosmological structure of the universe and those determining the small-scale structure of fundamental wave-particles and force fields that make up matter and radiation. The way these two interact appears to have resulted, both in the strange twisted forces of nature that make atoms, molecules and biological life possible; and conversely into in the expanding universe we see, full of galaxies stars and planets, some of which are conducive to life.
These forces are non-linear, so when they combine to form matter they are predestined to be able to form the complex fractal molecular structures we find in cells, tissues and organisms. All it takes is one molecule able to replicate and the fractal laws of nature will do the rest. That molecule is RNA and it is probably the one on a cosmological footing, giving life a universal foundation. From there, given a Goldilocks planet around a long-lived sun-like star with a rich array of elements from previous stellar nuclear explosions, it is only a matter of a few aeons before life takes off and evolution of simpler and more complex and eventually conscious sentient organisms ensues.
There is no question about this. Those people who think God created the universe in six days, or that life cannot emerge without the intervention of an intelligent designer are sadly mistaken.
Evolution is real and sexuality has become its most elegant expression and it is through the steamy slime of sex and its warp and weft of genetic recombination that we, and all complex conscious life, emerged, so we owe it the deepest debt of gratitude. Sex is also the fairest arbiter of our destiny, for it forces us to go half way to altruism with the other, contributing only half our genes, rather than aspiring to immortal parthenogenetic life, in generating new and different mortal beings to come into existence in the passage of the generations.
Was the universe created, or did it just come into being of its own accord? Some ideas see the universe as an endlessly expanding growth budding of baby universes, others see it reincarnating itself in a big crunch. Others are different again. The idea of the big bang does suggest a beginning, but we have no evidence of an external agent and since time and space may come together at the beginning, a little like the lines of latitude come together at north pole of our planet, it may not be a beginning at all. At this point we need to keep an open mind, and certainly can't afford to cast lots on the garments of the universe before we save the planet and its living fertility for the future generations.
Mbutu pygmy family (daryl@nevadasurveyor.com) and SNP (single nucleotide polymorphism)
and haplotype evolutionary trees showing Mbuti pygmy and San Bushmen
close to the root of Out of Africa divergence (Li J et al. 2008 doi: 10.1126/science.1153717).
The Mbuti pygmies have a good attitude, which can help us to see here what really matters. An old man explained how all pygmies have different names for their god, but they all know that it is really the same one. Just what it is, of course, they don't know, and that is why the name really does not matter very much. 'How can we know?' he asked. 'We can't see him, perhaps only when we die will we know and then we can't tell anyone. So how can we say what he is like or what his name is? But he must be good to give us so many things. He must be of the forest. So when we sing, we sing to the forest.' This is what we need to do now. We need to end the Fall from Eden, reflower the Tree of Life and sing to the biosphere the song of renewal, using all the knowledge our scientific progress has brought to us, and our technological prowess, to save the day.
To understand how we humans got into this situation we need to go back to how it all began for us and that means understanding ourselves as animals. All animals use sexually-polarized sperm-ovum fertilization, because this provides a global cytoplasmic beginning for the differentiating organism and avoids the cytoplasmic genetic warfare that costs isogametes ninety percent of their vitality, but this means that, since the first multicelled animals graced the Earth, the reproductive investment of the two sexes has been very different because of the larger investment of the females in their eggs.
Humans are mammals. One of the great victories of mammals is that they have evolved to give birth to live young and they lactate, so they can provide all the needs for an emerging warm-blooded offspring, without having to lay massive numbers of eggs and sperm into the ocean as many fish do, bury their eggs where they might be eaten as Turtles do, or sit on them to keep them warm and leave the nest to feed tiny babies as most birds do. This gives mammals a high degree of security of successful reproduction. It has resulted in mammals becoming the great land animals of today, dubiously crowned by the primates and humanity.
Symmetry breaking in humans at both the cellular and organismic levels
But being a mammal has certain trade offs. It is a great cost to the female, because, instead of laying a clutch of eggs, she gets pregnant, and she alone has to breast feed her infants. Consequently, in mammals, females have a massive reproductive parenting investment and males largely a sexual fertilizing investment. Although humans pride themselves in being cultural and intellectual beings and despise the notion that we are animals, humans stand at an absolute extreme of mammalian sexual polarization. Women get massively pregnant, incur significant risks in childbirth and have to care for and breast feed their infants for up to four years, during which time they are vulnerable and dependent on others, family, partners or fellow females to sustain them through successful motherhood.
By contrast men are engrossed in sexual fertilization, seek young nubile women they can either partner, hit and run, or even impregnate 10,000 virgins behind flaming walls, as Tamerlaine did. At the same time men are endlessly fearful that a child they are helping support may not be their own, so they fear paternity uncertainty and try to monopolize the sexual choice of any female they cohabit with. Because of the polarization in reproductive strategies, only three percent of mammals are socially monogamous and even socially monogamous mammals are not generally sexually monogamous, as is the case even in nominally monogamous human societies, themselves a minority of historical and ethnic cultures, where clandestine affairs and differential divorce and remarriage result in effective polygyny.
This is a very old story that goes back to the first great apes, virtually all of which are female exogamous - the females move to live with a closely-related male troop, or in a harem with a protective alpha male, because given the males' greater size and paternal jealousy this is the best way to avoid any males around killing off one's babies. Infanticide is not just a prerogative of apes. Extreme human warrior societies such as the Yanomamo have been known to attack other Yanomamo villages, abduct the women and kill off any children not sired by themselves. One Brazilian woman who was abducted for twenty years at the age of twelve and reabducted by another raiding party watched in horror as such an infanticide took place. The one real exception is the bonobo, where the dominant female oversees the troop and sex at the sight of food, prominently including female-female 'coitus' both relieves tension and acts to keep the males in line. The only socially monogamous apes are the sparsely distributed gibbons, where monogamy is a function of reproductive scarcity.
It needs also to be understood that, despite these female-exogamous patterns and the risks of male infanticide, female reproductive choice has remained paramount as a genetic selection mechanism, for the very reason that a male can fertilize any female, but females have to endure the investment of siring any males seed that fertilizes them. Hence females are generally choosy and have evolved many clandestine ways of maintaining their capacity for choice. For example a chimp female may discretely sneak off 'on safari' with a subordinate male of her choice, just as a woman may occasionally look for a young stud for a secret one night stand.
Indeed the emergence of super-intelligence in humans appears to be an evolutionary race of sexual selection between astute females picking smart resourceful sexual partners and males displaying prowess in accruing resources, telling stories and jokes, being good hunters and playing good music. Although humans have a strong tradition of mutual mate choice and form long term parenting bonds, female reproductive choice is essential and combines with the XY sex chromosome inheritance to produce X-pure males, and females who are somatically X-chimeric, enabling the many brain genes on the X to enter a peacock's tail Red Queen race, where their effects are uniquely expressed only in males, resulting in a wider variance in natural intelligence in males enabling astute females to pick the smartest genes while expressing the same genes themselves in mixed form in astute social choices. The upshot is that human intelligence is the result of neither sex having complete control over the other's choices and each having to run while standing still.
Human evolution adopted a rather beautiful reproductive strategy in which an overt estrus was replaced by covert ovulation and a declared menstrual period, loosely coupled to the lunar cycle, combined with almost perpetual sexual receptivity, ecstatic orgasm in the female and the loss of the penis bone, requiring males to display genuine fitness in the eyes of a female in a much more prolonged intimate sexual act. The tendency for women living together to enter menstrual synchrony led to a good degree of female reproductive choice in which women gatherers provided the overwhelming majority of the diet while the meat of the hunt was a vehicle for sexual favors and social sharing.
Human societies adopted two patterns of reproductive continuity. In the matrilineal form, the extended family of a woman cared for the offspring, with her brothers playing a major role in allo-parenting as uncles, while nuclear partnership had a subsidiary and more ephemeral role in 'walking marriage' liaisons. However the dominant pattern became patrilineal inheritance. This serves to compensate for paternity uncertainty by having a woman live with their husband and his family and naming offspring after the father and coincides with the female exogamous patterns of most great apes. It also reinforces the nuclear family and recognizes partnership between a man and a woman as the primary vehicle of sexual reproduction. It also leads to the institution of marriage and issues of adultery, directed at the possibility of a woman becoming pregnant to another man, resulting in an increasing tendency for men to attempt to repress female reproductive choice in favor of their own. It also leads to polygyny on the part of males who have sufficient resources to support more than one wife.
Left and centre: Eland bull dance rite of menarche depicted in Fulton's Cave in the Drakensberg Mountains
and in a living ceremony showing the girl emerging from her seclusion
(van der Post, L & Taylor, J Testament to the Bushmen Penguin Books, UK.).
Right: Deep trench of mitochondrial DNA evolution shows founding nature of Bushman (Khoisan)
culture and people extending back to 200,000 years ago (Behar D et al., doi:10.1016/j.ajhg.2008.04.002).
In founding gatherer-hunting societies, such as the Bushmen and Pygmies, there is a patrilineal pattern, but the underlying respect for female reproduction and needs has continued. The menarche is celebrated as a powerful and sacred transition of great importance to the group. Rather than treating the young woman as unclean, she is regarded as in a state of such power that hunters fear to set eyes on her. A couple were expected to reside with the wife's family in the first instance and only to move in with the husband's family after the birth of the first child. During this time the husband would hunt for the wife's family expressing bride wealth acknowledging the value of the female. There was mutual mate choice in forming sexual relationships. Divorce by either sex was accepted if the relationship was uncomfortable. Extra-marital sex was not condoned but was gender equitable in its treatment.
In a beautiful ceremony - phek'umo - linking fertility with the moon, the Sandawe, relatives of the Bushmen in Tanzania still re-enact the role of the moon in the basic creation myth, according to which the moon entices the sun into the sky for the first celestial copulation. As the moon comes to fullness, the women carry their arms high in a stance which is said to represent the horns of the moon, and at the same time also the horns of game animals and cattle. The women select their partners from among the opposing row of men by dancing in front of them with suggestive motions. As the dance warms up, the movements become more and more erotic; some of the women turn round and gather up their garments to expose their buttocks to the men. Finally the men embrace the women while emitting hoarse grunts which sound like those of animals on heat. The men and women lift one another up in turn, embracing tightly and mimicking the act of fertilization; those who are not dancing shout encouragements at them. The whole rite is held under the aegis of the moon, and has the explicit purpose of 'making the country fertile'.
Sandawe people (Andreas Roksvaag, internet images)
However in such societies, of scattered bands, we can already see the males attempting to define culture through the social edicts of their elders and the religious viewpoint is already in several ways recognizably a forerunner to the major patriarchal world cultures and religions. There is a deep reason underlying this, which we need to understand fully to be able to follow how things came about. We humans live in a kind of mythological dream time of conscious existence. We have dreams, memories and reflections, as well as our experiences of the everyday world. Our experience of reality doesn't come directly from our biological brains but from our subjective consciousness.
Human cultures have thus, from the outset, tried to explain their existential condition as a conscious continuum first and foremost, in turn externalizing conscious experience into a realm which transcends physical existence and extends beyond our physical demise, in the form of souls, spirits and supernatural deities. This is clearly not just a product of patriarchal thinking alone, although men are naturally more troubled by their mortality than women, who experience the physical continuity of life more personally in childbirth and consequently men tend more to seek the eternal sky rather than the earth as a source of transcendence.
This is exposing a deeper question about the cosmological status of consciousness of all sentient beings, which runs all the way through to the Upanishads and Buddhist thinking thousands of years later, which asserts that subjective consciousness and the material universe are complementary phenomena, reminiscent of the wave and particle aspects of quantum reality, represented in the Tantric cosmic origin in the dance of Shiva and Shakti from intimate coitus into the diverse phenomena of existence.
The gods of the Bushmen are twain - a benign creator god going by a multitude of names, who made the world and the animals and plants and then ascended into the sky, and a lesser god of misfortune and chaos. These gods also have female consorts who are referred to by the same names in the feminine. For example Hishedi rather than Hishe, Huwedi rather than Huwe, N!adisa rather than N!adiba, just as humans are male and female in the likeness of the Elohim in the sabbatical creation of Genesis and as Allah and Allat and El and Ella were in the Near East. Before they ascended into the sky these Bushman deities were supernatural human beings renowned for their magical powers and jokingly for their lewd bumbling sexual encounters. The god of misfortune, //Gauwa, who is sometimes seen as a subordinate of Hishe is also identified with the spirits of the dead who are regarded as being troublesome causes of misfortune in the world, although their souls end up in the sky along with Hishe. There are also magical trickster heros who can transform from animal to human, such as Mantis or /Kaggen, again with a consort Coti and various offspring, and there is a beautiful supernatural heroine !Xo//kamdima who plays out mythical stories of revenge and retribution, returning from the dead when murdered at the water hole and later escaping her pursuers by dropping thorns, clouds and hail in their path, leaving them naked and disarmed.
≠Gao!na, the !Kung Great God, using one of his seven divine names, created himself: "I am Hishe. I am unknown, a stranger.
No one can command me." Then he created a Lesser God who lives in the western sky where the sun sets; and after this two wives for himself and for the Lesser God. ≠Gao!na, tallest of the Bushmen, was in his earthly existence a great magician and trickster with supernatural powers, capable of assuming the form of an animal, a stone or anything else he wished, and who changed people into animals and brought the dead back to life. But as the Great God who lives beside a huge tree in the eastern sky, he is the source and custodian of all things. He created the earth with holes in it where water could collect and water, the sky and rain both the gentle 'female' rain and the fierce 'male' rain thunder and lightning, the sun, moon, stars and wind. He created all the plants that grow on the earth. He created the animals and painted their individual colours and markings, and gave them all names. Then came human beings, and he put life into them; and gave to them all the weapons and implements they now have, and he implanted in them the knowledge of how to take all these things for themselves. Thus their hunting and gathering way of life was ordained from the very beginning and ≠Gao!na ordained that when they died they should become spirits, //Gerais, who would live in the sky with him and serve him. He set the pattern of life for all things, each in accordance with its own rules.
The !Kung pray to ≠Gao!na not as a remote being, but as intimately involved with their lives, sometimes calling him father. They pray for rain, for success in hunting, for healing both of physical and social ills. Only a really great medicine man might see ≠Gao!na face to face, but this is said to be very rare; much more frequently ≠Gao!na may appear to anyone in a dream to encourage or advise. ≠Gao!na does not reveal himself to ordinary humans, for so great is his power that, were he to come too close, he would destroy them unintentionally. But he nevertheless retains an interest in them. He is in no way concerned with their misdeeds, but is aware of them, and if their behaviour offends him he will deal with them appropriately. But he is not truly a god of vengeance. When he deals harshly with someone, it is not an act of retribution but a demonstration of his power. This is the power of the unknown, the 'stranger', which explains why lightning strikes one man dead, and not the other standing beside him. The dead man, it is reasoned, must have offended ≠Gao!na by referring to him by one of his divine names, or perhaps he abused food. But he is not continually on the look-out for offenders. It is only when they happen to come to his attention that he demonstrates his power, and so sometimes people do offensive things and get away with it. Chiefly he acts for the benefit of mankind, for he supplies rain, food, children and poison for the arrows.
We thus see a deep parallel here with the Judeo-Christian-Islamic godhead and with the pantheons of Hindu and other polytheistic religions. Critically the deities are abstract, not iconic, so the notion that abstract deities are an historical advance on 'pagan' idolatrous ones is a fallacy. There is likewise a duality between a creator god and a slightly satanic fallen angel of misfortune. There is even a miraculous hero reminiscent of Yeshua's miraculous notoriety. And finally we have the same notion of the souls of the dead going to a heaven in the sky. There are many parallels of these cosmological constructs in diverse cultures, from the Nuer of Sudan through the Ainu of Hokkaido to the Yanomamo of the Amazon, so it suggests a universal character to human religious experience as a product of our dimensions of conscious awareness.
Here however, the parallels with Judeo-Christian deities end. The gods of the Bushmen are not moral deities who command the people, or accuse them of original sins, nor are they jealous gods who curse the people if they worship in any other way, nor does belief in them have any meaningful role, for they are simply parts of the existential universe, whose deeds in many ways reflect the emotional and moral dilemmas of the wandering bands. To the Bushmen, issues of morality concerning such 'sins' as adultery and theft are purely social issues. There are no expressed social laws and killing for retribution remains a viable option, although exercised rarely to avoid cycles of violence. Bushmen both have to be extremely self-reliant and also are completely dependent on membership of their familial band to survive as an individual or as a nuclear family so the moral censure of those in the immediate band, rather than god, is more than sufficient to maintain social harmony. Peoples from the Nuer to the Bushmen point out no serious contender for a cosmological creator deity should be jealous over their worship nor require any form of affirmative belief for the very reason that they are a natural cosmological fact, not a conditional figment of belief. Moreover the Bushmen, like many shamanistic cultures have retained a direct access to the transcendental in the form of trance states in the medicine dance so spiritual experience is direct, rather than being mediated indirectly through a priesthood.
Neither threats of moral punishment, nor requirement to believe in a God, nor an apocalypse involving a
Day of Judgment are integral to human religious experience (Bellegambe; The Last Judgment Wikimedia commons).
This shows us that the complex of attributes of the jealous moral deity, from punishment for sins, the assumption of human fallibility, commandments to obey god's laws and social invocations, such as stoning for adultery, and the threat of the apocalyptic Day of Judgment are not integral to the human religious consciousness at all, but are social and cultural fabrications designed by established religions of larger societies to assert a utopian religious order capable of social control on a large scale. It is clear from the history of Judaism, Christianity and Islam that these aspects are precisely designed to instill a morality of obedience and inhibition of intra-social strife within the religious or social community, so that societies can grow ever larger and more dominant. Their integration with laws controlling female reproductive choice and social freedoms through dire penalties are likewise evidence of a completely unholy agenda of patriarchal control of women for men's purposes. One can see the social effectiveness of an unseen unverifiable entity that nevertheless is construed to be able to see us and be aware of each of our clandestine transgressions. Its effect is chilling to any defection against the following of fellow believers even if it permits violence and exploitation of others. These manifestations of organized religions also generally come with a disconnection in which an hierarchical priesthood act as the intermediaries between a god and his followers, dislocating the direct experience of religious spirituality from its source.
Notably morality and belief are attributes not shared by the Early Christian Gnostics, who saw morality as one of the manifestations of human illness - the obsession of the human psyche with the importance of the material world and of the abstract intellectual and moral world is healed by spiritual freedom which brings flexibility, and existential courage of life. Likewise the Hindu deities show us that God can be moral or immoral in appearance despite an inner unity. Conversely, the moral realm is not absolute: an act that is immoral in one instance may be moral in another. Indeed the overriding morality is the law of karma, which critically involves escape from ignorance into enlightenment, not moral conformity to a set of social commands.
Religion and its creator deities are no more immune from evolution than human organisms are. As we proceeded from the paleolithic to the neolithic, major events such as the discovery of agriculture by women and animal husbandry by men enabled the formation of much larger societies, resulting in the transformation of deities into sometimes bloodthirsty forms. Agriculture, invented by women as an extension of gathering, resulted in a resurgence of feminine based religion in the form of the ancient Goddess, who had much earlier been associated with menstruation and the phases of the moon, for example in the Venus of Laussell, and at Catal Huyuk. This leads in turn to the great civilizations of the Near East. Sumeria represents a gateway example of the interaction between the shepherd king and the planter goddess resulting in a great civilization which became the forerunner of many subsequent powerful, although often less enlightened societies. As these societies evolved, ancient Goddess figures, from Tiamat to Ereskigal, were assigned to the nether regions, to be replaced by more tractable figures like coquettish but lethal Inana and Ishtar, only in the end to be supplanted by exclusively male An, Enlil and Enki masturbating into the waters of creation and later civic gods of national prosperity, as Marduk was for Babylon.
Clockwise: Venus of Laussane, who holds a bull horn with thirteen notches
representing a year of lunar-menstrual cycles making the same connection
between bull and moon as the Sandawe phek'umo rite. Catal Huyuk shrine
with hieros gamos and pregnant goddess giving birth over bull's horns.
Akkadian 'temptation seal' illustrating central motifs of the Eden story -
the serpent, the tree, with a man and a woman seated around it giving
an offering. The right-hand figure also has horns (Br. Museum).
The overthrow of respect for the feminine is searingly enshrined in the Fall from Eden, where woman is cursed for betraying Adam for eating the forbidden fruit of knowledge which also somehow became carnal knowledge, so that God threw Adam and Eve out of Eden with a flaming sword to struggle amid thorns and thistles to subdue nature by the sweat of man's brow, while woman, now the devil's gateway, was cursed with pain in childbirth, to be ruled over by her husband, just as God would rule over them both as flawed beings.
We also find Jacob flouting the bridewealth of Rachel and Leah's family, stealing their household gods under Rachel's menstrual skirts hinting at a transition from residual matriliny to the patriliny of the Hebrews, still qualified by decent through a Jewish mother to this day.
These stories of overthrow of female power are repeated in diverse cultures, from the Tukano origins of Ayahuasca in the Amazon to the stealing of the Molimo trumpets by the men in Mbuti folklore. Kali alone remains, caught up in the Vedic pantheon, another ancient planter goddess running back to Mohenjodaro, along with her consort Pashupatinath - Shiva as Lord of the Animals, despite the ascendence of Vishnu as the central high god sustainer and arbiter of perfect Hindu morality. Some cultures have gone even further. The Dogon justify female circumcision because God tried to fertilize the Earth only to be obstructed by the anthill of the clitoris, which had to be removed by God so fertilization could take place. The onus is on the female in Hebrew law to be guilty of losing the tokens of virginity if she is raped and doesn't cry out loudly enough for a Jewish male to hear her.
The development of civic gods of large urban societies led to the iconization of deities from their original abstract forms into formal worship through enshrined images, (just as statues stand in Catholic churches today), only to be decried as false idols and replaced by the abstract deities of 'monotheism', again more reminiscent of the old gods of the Bushmen. However these gods acting in history have become contaminated by utopian moral codes having more to do with social control and they breed a newer false idolatry in the form of worship of the sacred books as the literal word of god and adherance to fundamentalistic commandments, rather than the immanent and emergent power of the transcendent universe.
Ensuing cultures, from Babylon and Assyria, through Persia and Rome to the Feudal Lords of Europe and the Muslim Caliphates, as well as Confucian China and Vedic India have all been patriarchal in basis. They have enforced social institutions based on male reproductive imperatives, founded on male military coalitions. They have resulted in inter-societal war, rampant population growth leading to genocidal conflicts, over-exploitation of resources leading to famine and epidemic and the colonial exploitation of other peoples and their natural environments. In India and several Asian countries, this has resulted in flagrant favoritism for boy children and female foeticide and infanticide, seriously skewing their populations because the excess of boys cannot find partners. In addition cultural attitudes, from bride burning over dowries, enforced veiling and stoning for adultery in Muslim countries, female genital mutilation to inhibit female reproductive choice in some Muslim and several African countries, through to treating women as possessions like domestic animals, to the ill-treatment of widows, attests to the inhuman and counterproductive manifestations of dominant patriarchy.
Even our most cherished institutions, such as democracy were invented by aristocratic male coalitions to mediate a single focus of power and have evolved in two party, first past the post form, into a re-enaction of male combat for sexual favors, as two stags do when fighting over a doe. Western society, despite viewing itself as a benchmark of emancipation, is riddled with deleterious patriarchal institutions, both formal and implicit. Venture capitalism and winner take all intellectual property rights, even over other people's genetic identities and other culture's native species represent the male prerogative of making one's fortune - something which makes reproductive sense only in the context of demonstrating to a potential female partner the resources to support a family. The glaring inverse cubic relationship between population and personal wealth has no meaning in a natural ecosystem and bears resemblance only to spermatogenic reproductive investment, as a bull elephant seal does to his harem and potential progeny. No chipmunk, male or female, gathers a million times as many nuts as are necessary to survive out the winter, yet humans accept this is natural, if somehow unjust.
Mortal combat between the Bear and Bull stock market overlaid by the triple witching hour instability 2011.
Both venture capital investment and adversarial democracy are short-term patriarchal investment strategies
tragically prone to unstable tipping points and boom and bust (Getty).
The end result of human society adopting an unrealizable spermatogenetic reproductive strategy in its social fabric is an unsustainable human culture based on unstable short-term investment. It appears not only in boom and bust financial economics, lacking any of the counterbalancing long-term investment of the female parental reproductive strategy integrated over her offspring and grandchildren, the unbridled conflict of competing societies, political blocs and religious agendas, to the point of mutually assured nuclear, chemical, or biological destruction, but unmitigated population explosion, the devastation of the great forests, exploitation of all the Earth's non-renewable resources with no heed for future generations, potentially irreversible climate change that may make the Earth uninhabitable for our own species over time, and a mass extinction of life's diversity accrued over hundreds of millions of years, a dearth likely to last another fifty million years to come.
This is what we call apocalypse. It is a process recognized by many cultures over millennia, as cultures entered into accelerating future shock. It was first pronounced by Zoroaster in the final conflict between the clear light of Ahura Mazda and the clouding ignorance of Angra Mainyu consigned like //Gauwa to be the agent of misfortune, along with all the ancient Persian devas, just as the Bushman spirits of the dead were. It was taken up again by the Jews shortly before the time of Jesus and became a motif motivating the Essenes, John the Baptist's followers, Jesus, and several Jewish messiahs, such as bar Kochbah. Indeed the siege of Jerusalem became a literal human cultural and religious genocidal apocalypse a few years after the death of Jesus, along with Armageddon in their fall to the Roman forces. The same vision then became enshrined in the extravagant poetry of the Book of Revelation and has been replicated by later generations of Jewish messianic followers and Muslims who see a final victory amid the struggles of Jihad, in which for Shi'ites, the Mahdi will figure in much the same way as Jesus does for apocalyptic Christians.
What we are seeing here is an end game of cultural tumult which began with the Fall from Eden - the departure from the gatherer-hunter way, of which the Bushmen said that tilling the soil was a corruption of the divine order, into increasingly patriarchal military urban societies, and empires at war with one another carrying all the features of Daniel's great statue with feet of clay and the beasts of Revelation. This is a cultural allegory of our own free-fall into existential crisis as we realize in the stream of consciousness that we are coming into a great falling out in tumult and triage.
But apocalypse means 'unveiling' and this would naturally be the unveiling of the bride in a sacred reunion, not a final conflict. So here are four cardinal points which can help lead the way to a soft landing and a sustainable biodiverse future for the generations of humanity.
Heaven and Hell: Habitat destruction in the rain forest with satellite image
Habitat destruction is a principal cause of mass extinction of life (internet).
1. Sex, Gender, Economics and Politics: We need to recognize that our world cultures have been distorted from evolutionary sustainability by patriarchal dominion and take action to correct the imbalance. This is not just a matter of giving equal opportunity to women, which is necessary, but of eliminating all practices, from female genital mutilation, through enforced religious sequestering and punishments such as stoning for adultery, to female foeticide and abortion worldwide, without any prevarication or justification from religious authorities, or national governments. It involves reexamining our socioeconomic, legal and cultural institutions and our forms of politics and investment, so that long-term stability replaces short-term boom and bust dynamics prone to irreversible tipping points which compromise our human planetary future. We need to re-examine the competitive nature of adversarial democracy and seek forms of democracy which respect diversity and avoid tyranny of the majority. We need to revise our commercial laws and commodities markets to make them more attuned to sustainable investment rather than simply short term venture capital exploitation. This requires incorporating genetic and evolutionary principles onto human culture and law.
2. Science and Nature: We know how the unveiling covers have been thrown off reality and it is through the age of enlightenment and the scientific revolution that has bought us to a new view of the natural universe, more confounding and counterintuitive than any of our simplistic ideals, however delightful, from the sabbatical creation in Genesis as quaint as the Bushman creation story, to the breathing of life into Adam by Yahweh in Eden. Science can be used for good or bad ends, like nuclear weapons. We need to use it for the best possible outcome. Science is the study of the natural world and it is the natural world which is under threat from human impact. Science shows us both our physical and biological nature and it shows us predictively where our impacts are reaching tipping points. While it is about how rather than why or what to do, it clearly can show us the consequences of our impacts in having a biodiverse planet or, a desertified world, difficult to survive in. We thus need to respect science and utilize its powers dispassionately to regenerate and protect the planet.
3. Mind, Religion and the Visionary Sacraments: While our scientific understanding of the physical universe has exploded, we are still no further ahead of the Bushmen in understanding the ramifications of subjective conscious experience and spirituality. Scientific consciousness research is still only beginning to scratch the surface of how the brain generates conscious experiences and society still depends on archaic religious notions of the afterlife, spirits and deities pretty much exactly as 'primitive' as our most ancient cultures. We have even made things worse by asserting prescriptive religious doctrines and dislocating the shamanic communication with esoteric consciousness, which was often also a bridge to a closer more symbiotic relationship with nature, replacing it with an orthodox priesthood and banning under dire penalties of incarceration, or even death, the use of sacramental visionary agents respected by diverse cultures, providing a portal to mystical realms, just as the Inquisition tabooed and murdered the gnostics, the Free Spirit movement and medieval mystics. We need to set aside all prescriptive religious beliefs, liberate the visionary sacraments from their insane cultural taboos and allow the human population to explore its conscious mind space in the same way that science has revolutionized our understanding of the natural world.
4. Evolutionary Sustainability: The paradigm of sustainability of the passage of the generations of our offspring and their descendants is the paradigm of the evolutionary tree of life. It is our evolutionary nature that has brought us, generation by generation, stably to this point, because evolution integrates sustainable life processes across generations and ensures a sustainable biosphere in the process, despite individual population fluctuation, species extinctions and divergences over long epochs. We need to completely discard the creationist myth and integrate the evolutionary paradigm into our social and spiritual culture, so that the future of society will retain evolutionary stability, rather than trigger its own demise through cultural religious and economic apocalypse. The evolutionary paradigm is also the paradigm of the greening of human culture and the healing of the sexual divide. Ultimately it also holds the secret of the emergence of the conscious mind, so in it all currents lead to their ultimate source.
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Urban Rape: The Final Desecration - A Shrine to Jyoti Singh Pandey
Jyoti Singh Pandey
An in depth investigation of the woman, her family, the perpetrators, the corrupt society and the tragedy of a young life lost to patriarchal misogyny.
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Walk It Home
A Lebanese woman looks at the ruins of her neighborhood in the Beirut suburb of Haret Hreik after the UN-brokered ceasefire between the belligerents made it possible to return home…or the rubble that was left of it. This image can be seen in the RedBull.tv film Walk It Home at 07:53. ©2006 Derek Henry Flood
New York- A couple of photos of mine from the ‘Summer War’ in 2006-era Lebanon are featured in a new documentary film on The Wanton Bishops, a Lebanese blues band that subsequently tours the heartland of the blues in the southern United States.
The film, titled Walk It Home, also explores the Beirut music scene where to be a full time musician is neither easily done nor conceived of as normal is mainstream Lebanese society. Pursuing one’s rock dreams is difficult anywhere under the best of circumstances but to have accomplished such from the Beiruti milieu is a far greater task. I’m happy to have made a small contribution to this film.
A frame grab of an image I shot during the war between Israel and Lebanon in summer 2006 after a residential building was smashed in a massive Israeli bombardment of the Haret Hreik neighborhood. ©2006 Derek Henry Flood
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Tagged with 2006, Beirut, blues, Lebanon, The Wanton Bishops, War
Looking Back at Lebanon
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New York- I have a photo of the Israeli destruction of Haret Hreik, Lebanon from the UN-mediated ceasefire in August, 2006 in the new issue of Research Horizons magazine published by the University of Cambridge. Haret Hreik, a souher suburb of the Lebanese capital, has been called Hezbollah’s “strategic quarter.”
My image accompanies an article that explores the history of thelong defunct tawheed (“oneness” or “monotheism”) movement in Tripoli in the early 1980s and how it compares deleterious Islamic State organization that is festering in Iraq and Syria at present. Some researchers have been looking back at Lebanon for possibly useful parallels to Syria today.
Lebanon today is once again in a precarious historical position. What has shifted is instead of being the locus of instability, it is at risk from its inevitable spillover since the once tightly controlled Ba’athist Syria began disintegrating in 2012. Lebanon’s polity has been greatly affected by the unabated chaos next door with the influx of refugees coupled with the outflux of fighters into Syria.
I’ve been doing some personal writing of late on my dreadful experience in Lebanon that summer. In doing so, I’ve been revisiting some of these images for that purpose. In the spring I will have similar images in a documentary on Lebanese blues band The Wanton Bishops. Never know when people will want to hit up my vast archives from the post 9/11 decade. I always welcome it.
The scale of the destruction in and around Beirut in the summer of 2006 was nothing short of astounding. ©2006 Derek Henry Flood
Tagged with Cambridge, Lebanon, Tripoli
Ten Years On, Militant Salafism and Millenarian Shi’ism Conflating Iraq and Syria Wars
On the road outside Nasiriyah following an American Humvee, May 2003. The gulf in understanding between Iraqis and their newly arrived American interlopers was visibly evident in the differences in driving styles and bizarre hand gestures made toward locals by the U.S. soldiers. From the very beginning, the Office of Special Plans ambitious Iraq project appeared doomed, at least in my personal observations. ©2003 Derek Henry Flood
New York- I have a new article out on how the ongoing war in Syria is helping stoke sectarian tensions in Iraq that are manifesting themselves in the form of daily suicide bombings, shootings, and dual massive AQ jailbreaks. My article examines how the unrelenting carnage in Syria has not only taken the place of Iraq in the global media spotlight, but is also directly fueling renewed conflict in Iraq itself. The Islamic State of Iraq (ISI), sometimes referred to as al-Qaeda in Iraq (AQI) has now added “ash-Sham” (“the Levant”-i.e. Syria and perhaps they’re including Lebanon as well). So the ISI is now the ISIS. Sunni Salafism has only expanded in Syria as the fractious umbrella of the Free Syrian Army is simply a much less efficient fighting force than their jihadi counterparts.
At the same time, Hezbollah from Lebanon and Shia groups from Iraq are officially sending in fighters to both the front line in places like al-Qusayr and to protect Shia holy places like the shrine of Sayyida Zaynab on the outskirts of Damascus and When the Sayyida Zainab site is perceived as threatened, it makes for a an easily rallying call for Shia on either side of Syria to mobilize to protect and defend not only the religious pilgrimage site, but also the Assad regime that controls the territory such a site rests on.
Both Salafi-jihadis and more Qom-oriented activist Shia have been working to unite Syria and Iraq as a single battleground. Though there are important schisms within the Shia perspective such as Najaf vs. Qom and creating a Sunni Islamic state within borders of a finite post-colonial nation-state vs. an idealized borderless caliphate, it cannot be denied or played down that the wars in Syria and Iraq are now inextricably linked. And Lebanon has been drawn in in full view in terms of sub-state or non-state groups protecting what the believe are their interests in Syria.
Najaf Iraq 2003 from Derek Flood on Vimeo.
This is not at all to suggest there aren’t very local contexts underlying the individual decisions of specific militant movements on when to act and how to pursue their goals. Within the two respective wars there has been for some time been speculation about whether the more dominant phenomena is competition between groups or cooperation between them based on clearly drawn ideological lines. But when one goes to the trouble (or risk) of taking an on the ground look, the old adage tends to ring true that the situations are neither black nor white.
A pre-World War II atlas map of Iraq from my personnal collection. ©2013 Derek Henry Flood
Many Western analysts believe in taking stands based on what stands for empirical data in what are quite confusing battle fronts in reality and then sticking by said positions, perhaps engaging in a passive-agressive tête-à-tête via social media rather than admit they made need to adjust their stance in the face of a new ground reality. Iraq and Syria are deeply complex places plagued by schism upon schism whether in the realms of theology or politics. These dynamics are fluid and will remain so with even the most nimble global shuttle diplomat having neither the knowledge nor the resources to quell them. The United States may have pulled nearly all of its troops out of Iraq in December 2011 but the war is far from over.
Outside the shrine of Imam Ali in Najaf, a young Shia hoists a poster of Imam Hussein cradling his infant son on a white horse during the battle of Karbala in 680 A.D. ©2003 Derek Henry Flood
Groups from all over Iraq (and Iran) came to celebrate Mawlid un-Nabi (the Prophet’s birthday). Each one seemed to have a megaphone rocking chant leader urging his followers to pious elation. ©2003 Derek Henry Flood
iraqi boys play atop a destroyed Soviet BTR armored personnel carrier on the road between Nasiriyah and Najaf. I sometimes reflect back and wonder what became of the people I photographed a decade ago. I fear to think what may have happened to some of them. ©2003 Derek Henry Flood
July 23rd, 2013 at 2:50 pm
Posted in Hezbollah,Iran,Iraq,Kurdistan,Lebanon,Middle East,Non-state warfare,Turkey
Tagged with Asia Times, Iraq, ISIS, Lebanon, Levant, Syria
How Syria Has Changed
New York- I have an article out this week in Asia Times Online based on my very different experiences in Syria from 2002-2012. Throughout the decade after 9/11, Syria–though absolutely central to the history and culture of the Arab realm–was viewed as a quiet backwater for both the West and it jihadi opponents. Syria’s mukhabarat intelligence services either facilitated or turned a blind eye to the transit of salafi fighters from North Africa and the Arabian Peninsula into a besieged Iraq.
In the other direction, it acted as a very willing conduit for Iranian arms and treasure into tiny Lebanon on whom it holds in a geographical bear hug. But one of my key points is that Syrian intelligence officers made Syria itself one of the safest places in the world–unless one was a terrorism suspect extraordinarily rendered there or a member of the Brotherhood languishing in one of the country’s awful prisons. But what was remarkable at the time was that as hot wars raged on either side of it, Syria remained completely quiet internally until its revolution commenced in March 2011.
After Hama in 1982, Syrians were well aware of the regime’s potential for wrath. If jihadis had made attacks inside Syria, its borders would have been shut down overnight thus sealing off the vital jihadi pipeline to western Iraq.
Even though jihadis viewed the Assad regime as perhaps a caricature of apostasy on earth, they never directed their ire toward the near enemy. Instead they sought to attack the occupying forces of the far enemy stationed inside Iraq in the aorta of the ummah along with non-Sunni and non-Arab Iraqis (and Sunni Arabs who cooperated with the occupation forces).
While even Jordan suffered the horror of massive, coordinated suicide bombings in Amman in November 2005, Syria suffered no similar consequences during the core of the Iraq conflict. It seemed that the Assad regime–steeped in its own post-colonial Arab nationalism and an historic enmity toward rival Iraqi Ba’athists–had found common cause with or at the very least sought to accommodate those traveling in the salafi-jihadi caravan.
Whatever we want to read in, Syria, which had done far more to crush Sunni Islamism in the past than Jordan’s famed GID, was not made a kinetic target of jihadis throughout the decade after 9/11. It certainly may have been an ideological target by Sunni exiles in London and elsewhere but the country did not suffer a suicide bombing until it was consumed by the current civil war.
Damascus simply didn’t withstand blowback as Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Spain, England and others had. Now Syria itself is the magnet for those who want to carve out a Sunni state in the heart of the Levant or any other piece of territory they believe they can hold and build.
Posted in Iraq,Lebanon,Middle East,Syria
Tagged with Asia Times, Assad, Derek Henry Flood, Iraq, Lebanon, Syria
A Decade of War and Peace
Barcelona- Partly out of boredom and partly out of the itch to simply create something new out of old, I threw together this photo montage over the weekend. In this era of digital photography where one shoots thousands of frames rather than analog hundreds, I was reflecting on how almost all of the images I make will never see the light of day in this regard. I put this video together in a largely random fashion with images that have been just sitting in my laptop for years. I put the photos in the order they came to me as I grabbed them one by one from various folders containing my view of many of the biggest news events of the last 10 years.
Interspersed with them are much more sublime moments of everyday life around the world. An elephant in Thailand, an aged priest in Ethiopia, a glitzy office tower in Manhattan. This has been my reality and is our collective reality. Globalization and social networking simultaneously accelerate worldwide travel and technological integration while hyper compartmentalizing our lives. We speak more so to only those who we want to and listen to those with whom we already agree.
Dr. Abdullah Abdullah preparing to depart for Ghazni province with the Afghan airforce to campaign in remote ethnic Hazara villages. Abdullah was the leading opposition candidate challenging President Hamid Karzai in the August 2009 elections. On the right stands a Shi’ite Seyyid accompanying him to Shia population centers for campaign credibility. ©2009 Derek Henry Flood
No one knows just where any of this is going. Billionaire fraudsters suddenly imprisoned, social revolutions springing up from seemingly nowhere (though not quite), calcified dictatorships counted on for decades in the interests of “stability” suddenly crumbling to pieces, it seems as if the entire world order is in question.
No grand conspiracy here, just plain, old awful war. On August 15, 2006, a Lebanese ambulance lay destroyed by what appeared to be an Israeli missile strike (quite possibly a drone strike or SPIKE anti-tank missile) outside of Sidon in southern Lebanon, an irrefutable violation of the Geneva Conventions on war crimes. Pro-Likud right-wing bloggers would dare say scenes like these were part of elaborate false flag operations by Hezbollah or photoshop masterpieces by left-wing or pro-Hezbollah journalists meant to demonize the Israel Defense Forces. This ambulance was not part of the so-called “ambulance controversy” nor am I aware that this particular wreckage appeared anywhere in the international media at the time. ©2006 Derek Henry Flood
August 20th, 2012 at 7:15 am
Posted in 9/11,Afghanistan,Africa,America,Bahrain,Bangladesh,Barack Hussein Obama,Benazir Bhutto,Burma,Central Asia,Democracy,Egypt,Environment,Ethiopia,Europe,Globalization,Hezbollah,Iran,Iraq,Kashmir,Kurdistan,Kyrgyzstan,Lebanon,Libya,Malaysia,Mali,Middle East,New York,Non-state warfare,North Africa,North America,Obama,Pakistan,Sahel,South Asia,Southeast Asia,Syria,Tajikistan,Thailand,Turkey
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This Week's Guest Is Frank Trigg!!
On this week's episode I welcomed UFC Hall of Famer Mr. Frank 'Twinkle Toes' Trigg into the virtual studio. Frank is a former mixed martial arts fighter, Actor and Stunt performer for TV and Film, colour commentator, television personality, radio host, and MMA spokesman. He has been involved in the combat sports industry, in some capacity, for more than 15 years. As a fighter, Frank Trigg has fought for some of the most prestigious fight promotions in the world, including Ultimate Fighting Championship, PRIDE Fighting Championships, Rumble on the Rock, Icon Sport and World Fighting Alliance.
Trigg began his fight career in 1996 fighting for various upstart promotions and got his big break in 1999 when he signed on to fight for PRIDE Fighting Championships. Trigg made his debut for the promotion at Pride 8, where he clinched an impressive TKO victory over Fabiano Iha. The Olympic trials wrestling finalist and second degree Judo Black Belt went on to claim numerous titles, including the World Fighting Alliance Welterweight World title and the Icon Middleweight Championship title.
Trigg Stopped fighting in 2011 to pursue acting and stunt work full-time. Frank Trigg is revered as much for his accolades in the cage as he is for his unpredictable humour, first-hand knowledge of the sport, and expert commentating. He is recognized worldwide as a colour commentator, popular radio and television personality, and MMA spokesperson. It is safe to say that the success of this American mixed martial artist extends well beyond the cage. As an Interviewer Trigg can be seen giving one of a kind interviews on MmaOddsBreaker.com with fighters from different promotions.
As a radio personality, Trigg is the former co-host of the MMAWeekly.com radio show and TAGG radio. On television, Trigg has appeared on the VH1 reality show ‘Kept” where he tried to win the affections of former supermodel Jerry Hall, and was also featured on an episode of the popular sitcom ‘King of Queens, Hawaii Five-0, Murder in the first, Houdini, The Bridge and NCIS LA just to name a few. A few of the films he has been in are Red Belt, Frank and Lola, Awakening, Street and is currently filming Any Which Way They Come.
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This week's guest is Hands Of Stone actor Robb Skyler
This week I sat down with the very talented and knowledgeable actor and former comedian Mr Robb Skyler who talked about the honour of portraying sports commentary legend Howard Cosell in the Robert De Niro, Edgar Ramirez starrer Hands Of Stone.
Robb also spoke about his start in comedy, just how improvised Curb Your Enthusiasm really is and of course working with two of the greatest actors on the planet. This is not an interview to miss so make sure you are subscribed to the show on iTunes, Stitcher or whatever podcaster app you utilise and remember if you love the show or hate the show send some of that love or hate my way by reviewing the show. Cheers.
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Along Came Polly 2004
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This Week's Guest Is Professor Donald D. Hoffman
On this week's episode I sit down to chat with Professor Donald D. Hoffman who is the Professor of Cognitive Science at the University of California. The good Professor first came to my attention with his incredible TED talk "Do We See Reality?" I watched it twice in one sitting partly due to being so fascinated and partly due to not fully being able to recant what I had just listened to when trying to describe it to my wife in a text.
Afterwards I decided very quickly thee best way to learn from this man, other than enrolling at said University, would be to bring him on the show and talk to him in the virtual studio about this and his various other papers.
This chat is both very intellectual (Hoffman) and very not (Me) but Donald managed to break it all down into understandable chunks even I could follow. So sit back and listen to some of the weirdest and coolest scientific thinkings and research you will hear this side of Halley's Comet.
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This Week's Guest Is Nurse Jackie Star Stephen Wallem!!!
On this week's show we welcomed the very talented Stephen Wallem into the virtual studio for a chat about his career, diabetes and other off topic subjects haha. This is one episode you don't want to miss and the kind of interview I would like to do far more often.
Stephen is a stage and television actor. He is best known for portraying the role of Thor Lundgren in the Showtime series Nurse Jackie from 2009 to 2015 and for his one man musical revue, "Off the Wallem", as well as numerous theatre productions. Wallem is also a playwright, composer, and director.
Wallem was born and raised in Rockford, Illinois, and worked as a stage actor and After Dark Award-winning cabaret singer in Chicago before moving to New York to make his television debut on Nurse Jackie. National tours include Forever Plaid, Into the Woods and Scrooge with Richard Chamberlain. He accrued nearly 2,500 performances as both 'Jinx' and 'Sparky' in various companies of Forever Plaid, including Chicago, Las Vegas, Denver and the first national tour. Wallem portrayed 'Judas'/'Padre' in the Court Theatre's acclaimed production of Man Of La Mancha (After Dark Award for 'Outstanding Performance', Joseph Jefferson Award for 'Best Ensemble') and reprised his performance at the Long Wharf Theatre in New Haven. For the Ravinia Festival, he appeared with Tony-winners Patti LuPone, Audra McDonald, Michael Cerveris and George Hearn in A Little Night Music, Passion, Sunday In The Park With George and Doll with David Hyde Pierce (all directed by Lonny Price). Wallem also originated the role of 'Arvid' in the Broadway workshop of Kristina från Duvemåla, written by Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus of ABBA.
After wrapping up season 3 of Nurse Jackie, Wallem teamed up with costar Edie Falco for a cabaret show entitled The Other Steve and Edie. The production, conceived by Wallem and Falco with musical direction by three-time After Dark Award winner Beckie Menzie and direction by Tony Humrichouser, ran for a 3-night limited engagement at The Laurie Beechman Theatre. The show received numerous critical accolades, with one reviewer stating “There was a well thought out balance between serious ballads and more humorous pieces, the obvious forte of Wallem, who delighted the crowd with two parodies, one a spoof of “wordy lyrics,” another a takeoff on Wicked’s “Defying Gravity,” changed to “Defying Parody"
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District Race by AIA Vitality is now in Malaysia
District Race, the world’s greatest urban exploration race, presented by AIA Vitality made its Malaysian debut in Kuala Lumpur today.
First launched in Singapore in 2018, District is a ground-breaking technology platform that encourages people to lead active, healthy lifestyles by providing an engaging and fun urban exploration experience through the District Race app.
Ben Pember, Chief Executive Officer of District Technologies said:
“Having conducted successful District Races in Hong Kong and Singapore, we are excited to finally introduce District Race to Malaysia. By offering Malaysians a brand new urban exploration experience, we hope to enable active living and allow everyone to develop a greater appreciation of their cities.”
“District Race is designed for anyone and everyone, and we believe that District Race is a great starting point to motivate people to get out and rediscover what their cities have to offer.”
The World’s Greatest Exploration App
District Race app is an experiential technology platform that is redefining running and urban exploration through gamification. By combining cutting-edge augmented reality and location-based technology, the District Race app brings cities to life in an immersive urban exploration race.
Explorers can use the District Race app to navigate their way through the city, collecting as many points as possible by clearing virtual checkpoints and challenges. With no set route and set distance, explorers can create their own strategy and choose how they explore their cities.
From young urbanites looking to rediscover the city to elite runners who want to conquer a brand-new challenge or even families looking for a fun, healthy and educational experience together, District Race is designed to be an unforgettable experience for all.
Pre-event engagement to hype up the main race
The main race day will be held on 3rd November 2019 in Dataran Merdeka, Kuala Lumpur with ticket prices ranging from RM60 to RM130, including Early Bird and Regular ticket prices.
Before the finale in Kuala Lumpur, the race will go live in stages across Kuala Lumpur, Penang, Melaka and Johor Bahru. Virtual checkpoints called ‘grids’ will be set up across these locations, allowing everyone to explore for free and have an amazing opportunity to experience the District Race before the finale. These grids will go live between 21 June and 20 October and give explorers the chance to win exciting prizes as they go out, explore and rediscover their cities.
A series of community events known as #ExploreEvents will also be held at these four cities, and will feature themed virtual districts. Each district offers different challenges that highlight landmarks, as well as the culture and heritage of each city.
Start exploring with the District Race app and be rewarded
District Race will be launching the Ultimate Explorer Challenge in Malaysia to encourage people to get out, explore, and level up their fitness. The person who scores the most points by completing District grids in Malaysia from 17th June to 2nd November 2019 will be rewarded with a round the world trip for them to try out our District Grids in more than 15 cities around the world. This aligns with the mission of enabling everyone to go further, do more, and explore. The winner of this challenge will be announced at the main race day on 3rd November.
In addition, Explorers who download the app and complete at least five grids between 17th June and 31st July will also receive a free ticket to District Race Kuala Lumpur on 3rd November.
The world’s greatest urban exploration race
Explorers can opt to join either of the two categories – Discovery and Open – on the main race day, as individuals or in teams of four. Both categories vary in terms of difficulty and the number of checkpoints.
The Open category is a classic category which has been created for those wanting to explore new places around their city and compete in new challenges – it comes with over 100 checkpoints and challenges to complete in two hours.
The Discovery category on the other hand, is a family-friendly grid that is recommended for beginners. This grid introduces Explorers to District Race with a smaller grid and a shorter one-hour mission, with over 50 checkpoints and challenges located around the Base location.
Each category includes three types of challenges that have to be completed, namely the Scan Challenge, Discovery Challenge, and Time Trial Challenge. Each challenge will test the explorers’ skills such as speed, knowledge of the city, dexterity and problem-solving. To complete these challenges, explorers will have to strategise and plan their own routes, choosing the checkpoints that will maximise their points.
Explorers can track their progress on the live leaderboards hosted on the District Race app, creating a sense of friendly competition and a desire to push for that last checkpoint.
Tickets for District Race Kuala Lumpur are now available for sale. Click Here.
The District Race app is now available for download via the App Store and Google Play. Visit District Race Malaysia’s website for more information and follow District Race Malaysia on Facebook and Instagram for the latest updates.
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Hum Aapke Hian Koun Full Hindi Movie
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Bee Movie 2007
Barry B. Benson, a bee who has just graduated from college, is disillusioned at his lone career choice: making honey. On a special trip outside the hive, Barry's life is saved by Vanessa, a florist in New York City. As their relationship blossoms, he discovers humans actually eat honey, and subsequently decides to sue us.
Family | Animation | Adventure | Comedy
Scary Movie 2000
Following on the heels of popular teen-scream horror movies, with uproarious comedy and biting satire. Marlon and Shawn Wayans, Shannon Elizabeth and Carmen Electra pitch in to skewer some of Hollywood's biggest blockbusters, including Scream, I Know What You Did Last Summer, The Matrix, American Pie and The Blair Witch Project.
Buffed Up 2016
From the creators that brought you the movie ‘2Eleven’, Mula Films presents to you another classic Detroit blockbuster. In the soon to be released film, “Buffed Up”, the plot consist of a group of three college students on a mission to attain one thing… a pair of Cartier frames. With little knowledge on how to get their hands on the glasses, the group of college students are eventually forced to steal, hustle up the money, and even snatch the costly eyewear which leads them into a world of trouble. The directors of this “hood comedy” have collectively recruited a handful of stars and Detroit legends alike, such as IceWear Vezzo, KC Clark, DJ BJ, Kash Doll and more to headline this film.
Action | Crime
Movie 43 2013
A series of interconnected short films follows a washed-up producer as he pitches insane story lines featuring some of the biggest stars in Hollywood.
The Lego Ninjago Movie 2017
Six young ninjas are tasked with defending their island home of Ninjago. By night, they’re gifted warriors using their skill and awesome fleet of vehicles to fight villains and monsters. By day, they’re ordinary teens struggling against their greatest enemy....high school.
Action | Animation | Adventure | Family
Superhero Movie 2008
The team behind Scary Movie takes on the comic book genre in this tale of Rick Riker, a nerdy teen imbued with superpowers by a radioactive dragonfly. And because every hero needs a nemesis, enter Lou Landers, aka the villainously goofy Hourglass.
Action | Comedy | Science Fiction
Disaster Movie 2008
The filmmaking team behind the hits "Scary Movie," "Date Movie," "Epic Movie" and "Meet The Spartans" this time puts its unique, inimitable stamp on one of the biggest and most bloated movie genres of all time -- the disaster film.
Action | Comedy
The Emoji Movie 2017
Gene, a multi-expressional emoji, sets out on a journey to become a normal emoji.
Animation | Family | Comedy
Epic Movie 2007
When Edward, Peter, Lucy and Susan each follow their own path, they end up finding themselves at Willy's Chocolate factory. Walking through a wardrobe, they discover the world of Gnarnia, which is ruled by the White Bitch. Meeting up with characters such as Harry Potter and Captain Jack Swallows, the newly reunited family must team up with Aslo, a wise-but-horny lion to stop the white bitch's army
The Lego Batman Movie 2017
In the irreverent spirit of fun that made "The Lego Movie" a worldwide phenomenon, the self-described leading man of that ensemble—Lego Batman—stars in his own big-screen adventure. But there are big changes brewing in Gotham, and if he wants to save the city from The Joker’s hostile takeover, Batman may have to drop the lone vigilante thing, try to work with others and maybe, just maybe, learn to lighten up.
Action | Animation | Comedy | Family | Fantasy
Deadwood: The Movie 2019
Follow the 10-year reunion of the Deadwood camp to celebrate South Dakota's statehood. Former rivalries are reignited, alliances are tested and old wounds are reopened, as all are left to navigate the inevitable changes that modernity and time have wrought.
Western | TV Movie
Silent Movie 1976
Aspiring filmmakers Mel Funn, Marty Eggs and Dom Bell go to a financially troubled studio with an idea for a silent movie. In an effort to make the movie more marketable, they attempt to recruit a number of big name stars to appear, while the studio's creditors attempt to thwart them. The film contains only one word of dialogue, spoken by an unlikely source.
Sexy Movie 2003
A guy wanting a Hollywood career decides to make a porn film in the meantime.
The Lego Movie 2014
An ordinary Lego mini-figure, mistakenly thought to be the extraordinary MasterBuilder, is recruited to join a quest to stop an evil Lego tyrant from gluing the universe together.
Adventure | Animation | Comedy | Family | Fantasy
American Movie 1999
American Movie is the story of filmmaker Mark Borchardt, his mission, and his dream. Spanning over two years of intense struggle with his film, his family, financial decline, and spiritual crisis, American Movie is a portrayal of ambition, obsession, excess, and one man's quest for the American Dream.
The Angry Birds Movie 2016
An island populated entirely by happy, flightless birds or almost entirely. In this paradise, Red, a bird with a temper problem, speedy Chuck, and the volatile Bomb have always been outsiders. But when the island is visited by mysterious green piggies, it’s up to these unlikely outcasts to figure out what the pigs are up to.
Date Movie 2006
Spoof of romantic comedies which focuses on a man (Campbell), his crush (Hannigan), his parents (Coolidge, Willard), and her father (Griffin).
Shaun the Sheep Movie 2015
When Shaun decides to take the day off and have some fun, he gets a little more action than he bargained for. A mix up with the Farmer, a caravan and a very steep hill lead them all to the Big City and it's up to Shaun and the flock to return everyone safely to the green grass of home.
Family | Animation | Comedy | Adventure
Scary Movie 2 2001
While the original parodied slasher flicks like Scream, Keenen Ivory Wayans's sequel to Scary Movie takes comedic aim at haunted house movies. A group of students visit a mansion called "Hell House," and murderous high jinks ensue.
The Simpsons Movie 2007
After Homer accidentally pollutes the town's water supply, Springfield is encased in a gigantic dome by the EPA and the Simpsons are declared fugitives.
MTV Movie & TV Awards 1992
The annual film & TV awards show presented by MTV. The nominees are decided by producers and executives at MTV with winners decided online by the general public.
Movie Surfers 1998
Movie Surfers is a Disney Channel mini-show, that appears in commercial-like form, where teenagers go behind the scenes of Walt Disney-related films. It started out as a TV special that would air when a new Disney movie came out. It was about teenagers communicating with each other via webcams and getting info about the movies. Now, it also appears as 5-minute segments after a Disney Channel movie or series ends. In 1997 when the show began, Mischa, Lindsay, Alexis, and Marcus used the computer to surf the internet to go behind the scenes of upcoming movies. Starting in 2002, they began sitting in a screening room and talking to various actors and actresses of the movie and what inspired the movie. Since early 2005, there's been a brand new cast: Rose, who left early 2006 and was replaced by Stevanna, Josh, Jeryn, and Tessa. They still sit in a screening room but have branched out to do more interactive segments in which they might get to actually get in on some of the filming process themselves. In 2009, Disney XD started airing Movie Surfers. sometimes during commercial breaks.
Movie Stars 1999
Movie Stars is an American sitcom that aired on The WB from 1999 to 2000. It stars Harry Hamlin and Jennifer Grant as famous Hollywood actors trying to raise their children.
Critics' Choice Movie Awards 1996
The Critics' Choice Movie Awards are bestowed annually by the Broadcast Film Critics Association to honor the finest in cinematic achievement.
Follow the Money 2016
'Follow the Money' is a crime drama that explores what happens to people are corrupted by greed and ambition. The series shows viewers the complex world of economic crime that takes place in banks, the stock exchange, and in boardrooms.
Crime | Drama
Movie Connections 2007
Documentary series looking at the stories behind the production of popular English films, showing how they tie in with the production of other movies through the actors or actresses.
30 Even Scarier Movie Moments 2007
30 Even Scarier Movie Moments was a two-part miniseries on Bravo which counted down 30 more of the most frightening scenes in horror cinema, or any other genre. This is also a two-part sequel to 100 Scariest Movie Moments. The list mostly consists of movies that didn't quite make the first list, or popular movies that had come out since.
Movie Life: House of Wax 2005
Ever wonder what it's really like to be in a movie? Go behind the scenes of House of Wax with Chad, Elisha, Paris and Jared.
100 Scariest Movie Moments 2004
Featuring interviews, film clips, and production stills, this miniseries explores what went into the making of most bone-chilling moments in cinematic history and searches beyond the conventions of the genre to uncover the number one scary movie moment of all time.
Comedy | Documentary
Moguls and Movie Stars 2010
Each installment focus on a different era of American movie history, from the invention of the first moving pictures to the revolutionary, cutting-edge films of the 1960s.
Show Me The Movie! 2018
Hosted by Australia’s triple TV Week Gold Logie award-winning presenter and movie tragic, Rove McManus, Show Me The Movie! features two competing teams captained by acclaimed actor Jane Harber and comedy star Joel Creasey. Each week, Rove, Jane and Joel will be joined by a stellar cast of different actors, comedians and visiting international stars, who will do battle in a series of funny, irreverent and always entertaining rounds. From big-budget Hollywood blockbusters to sci-fi, animation and chick flicks, Show Me The Movie! will celebrate the good, the bad and the ugly of the big screen. The stars, A-list gossip, iconic movie dialogue and classic cinematic moments all get a comedy make-over.
The Movie Game 1988
The Movie Game was a United Kingdom children's game show that ran from 8 June 1988 to late 1996. The format was three teams of two players answering questions about films, the team with the least points at the end of the first round were eliminated. The other two teams moved on to a board game-style end game. The winning team could, depending on the points they earned, move on to the series final and the winner of that would win a film related prize such as meeting Steven Spielberg. Each show featured a celebrity guest.
Movie Lounge 2006
Movie Lounge was a movie and DVD review television show, presented by newspaper columnist and food critic Giles Coren. It was shown on the British terrestrial channel Five.
Movie 4 was a television program that aired at various times, but predominantly weekday afternoons, on WNBC-TV in New York City from 1956 to 1974. The program aired top-rank first-run movies and other future classics from Hollywood, as well as foreign films. As with other movie shows of 90-minute length, films that ran longer were often divided into two parts. Though it achieved a degree of success, for most of its run the show usually ran in the shadow of rival WCBS-TV's The Early Show on weekdays and The Late Show on weekends. Despite its being a major player among the local movie shows for nearly 18 years, the program today is largely forgotten in relation to WABC-TV's better-known The 4:30 Movie. The Movie 4 title was also used at varying times until the 1970s by NBC's two other owned-and-operated stations on channel 4, WRC-TV in Washington, D.C. and KNBC in Los Angeles. The network's Chicago outlet, WMAQ-TV, used the title Movie 5 for its movie shows from the late 1950s up to the 1980s; and during NBC's ownership of Philadelphia station WRCV-TV, their movie umbrella was known as Movie 3.
Movie Underground
We decided to give our resident goof-ball and so-called security guard a show. He’s known simply as the Night WatchMan (we don’t know his real name because HR won’t release his employee file) … so if dissecting movies and gawking at his hottie sidekick sounds like fun… you don’t wanna miss the Movie Underground.
Movie Magazine 1987
Movie Magazine is a now defunct Saturday afternoon showbiz-oriented talk show produced by LOCA-LOBO Productions and aired over GMA Network. It was originally hosted by Cristy Fermin and Nap Gutierrez and later Jun Nardo, Eugene Asis and Dolly Anne Carvajal with Mario Hernando as a Film Reviewer.
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Sly and Robbie meet Dubmatix ‘Overdubbed’ (Echo Beach) 4/5
31st January 2018 ukvibe
OK here is an album that basically sounds just like it says on the tin.. Overdubbed. The latest installment from Canadian underground dub musician, remixer and producer, Dubmatix, collaborating this time with vintage Jamaican riddim section Sly Dunbar and Robbie Shakespear, aka Sly and Robbie, whom we are told gave a bunch of master riddims previously unreleased / new to Dubmatix to remix and overdub in carte blanche style and passion to which he has.
Dubmatix has a big following within the arena with nearly 300,000 followers on FB and over 2 million on Soundcloud, his catalogue runs into the hundreds with dub releases, remixes, collaborations, EPs and stand alone albums. It was 2004 when he debuted his first release, ‘Champion Soundclash’, since then he has collaborated with dozens of prolific players in the industry providing remixes and providing his own compositions showcasing numerous singers and MCs. He’s a hands-on touring producer and over the years has gained much respect from many big names within the world of reggae and dub. There are not many underground reggae and dub radio shows that don’t feature a Dubmatix workout in their playlistings and can be considered without a doubt a bonefide veteran of the second wave underground digital dub arena, one of the pioneers to brake away from the ‘dub by numbers’ sentiment that peppered the first wave of underground digital dub.
Sly and Robbie were most prominent during the whole of the 1980s and into the 90s, the riddim section supreme, the bass and drum inna dub ‘n spesh for one’s musical vest. Undisputed Jamaican champions. Diffiult to count exactly how many bodies of work Sly and Robbie have appeared on during the past four decades but it safe to say it probably runs into the thousands, and not only within the Jamaican reggae world of vintage dub and collaboration, but also the mainstream pop and rock world with their work with Grace Jones, The Stones, Herbie and dozens more. Most probably by now, weighing it all up, the most respected riddim section from Jamaica ever.
But that’s not all.. We have a full brass section appearing throughout the album and additional percussion plus appearances by some top drawer MCs that you may have heard of… Dubmatix pulling out all the stops by guesting on Trombone; Chris Butcher, on Trumpet; John Pittman, on Sax; Paul Metcalfe with conga duties provided by the one Pato Irie. Guest MC duties come courtesy of the mighty Prince Allah, Screechy Dan, Jay Spaker, Megative and Treson.
The album’s opener, ‘Dictionary’, comes in at full distorted throttle, with a punk attitude that is heavily embraced by the underground dub scene, and then mid way the lazer lights in a field moment arrives, just as I was expecting, but what I wasn’t expecting was the wall of sound brass section that comes in the mix to finish off the last few bars, a spaghetti western themed ‘Atom Heart Mother’ moment, this is what makes today’s underground eclectic dub movement so interesting.
Prince Allah and Screechy Dan make their appearance on the second piece entitled ‘Smoothie’ which it is, a nice rolling 90’s mid tempo traveling style roots and pleasure track, I predict this tune will be a big drop at any sound system special.
Now a piece called ‘Riding East’, and it is with this third track that the pure underground digi dub is in evidence, on the download album this piece gets the pleasure of having two bonus mixes, one called ‘Riding East’ alt. version and the other bonus ‘Riding East’ Orig Western Version and it’s this version that again harks back to the original second wave ‘comming at ya’ attitude with its movie samples and on the edge of distortion mixdown, big speaker special, no candyfloss situation as does the piece entitled ‘Shabby Attack’ which has a Jahno (French Dub Artist) mix vibe with the difference being the lazer lights in a field moments that arrive with extra attitude and I’m diggin it.
A piece called ‘Communication Breakdown’, featuring Jay Spaker on vocals, is very uncannily like the Congos from the Black Ark Studio days, both in Jay’s vocal delivery and harmonies and in the mixdown. Then there’s a piece called ‘Ruff House’, which takes one way back to early 80s minimalist dancehall dub, the days just before the Jamaican digital era arrived. The backing riddim track on this piece does sound deliberately dated with its tape hiss and lo fi splendor and it’s just perfect and somehow recognisable. There are plenty more tracks to discover on this album… Tune in and discover them.
This album is not untra hi-fi pristine sound Abbey Road affair, it is Jamaican dub riddim fully embraced by Dubmatix outa Canada.
The CD release has 13 tracks, the digital release has 16 and includes alternate mixes. So what happens when you put these singers and players together? One gets the best of both worlds. Dubmatix is having great fun with this album, passionate fun with a serious mixdown delivery, why only 4 out of 5 then..? Well I’ve kinda gushed enough with the descriptive above haven’t I so it loses a point for my gushing. Good work, I love it. I wish it was on tape cassette also. Dubmatix is everywhere on the dub internet but do check out his Bandcamp page for an easy to follow and concise musical adventure.
Jorge Drexler ‘Salvavidas de Hielo’ (Warner) 4/5
30th January 2018 ukvibe
Uruguayan singer-songwriter, now resident in Spain, returns for another distinctive and, at times, idiosyncratic, travel through Latin Americana, with a stronger nod to Brazilian rhythms, notably the samba (though other world roots are discernible), and sounding at times as though a disciple of Caetano Veloso. This is illustrated on the lyrical samba-influenced ‘Abracadabra’, with guest vocals from Julieta Venegas and a melodic electric guitar solo from the leader as well on the mid-tempo groove of, ‘Pongamos que hablo de Martínez’. A Cuban-style instrumental, ‘Estalactitas’, then goes into something altogether rockier, and the different phases and tempi make this song a most interesting one. In contrast, the reposing ‘Asilo’, is pared down to just guitar and the guest vocals of Mexican singer Mon Laferte. The duets create beautiful harmonies and are deserving of a whole album at some stage. Spanish flamenco influences are hinted at, with the possible use of the cajón on ‘Telefonía’. In general, the simple rhythms created linger long in the memory, and the melodic and sparing use of instrumentation, as on, ‘Mandato’, with collective harmonies and hand clapping, work a treat. This recording builds up on a well received 2014 release, ‘Bailar En La Cueva’, and produced by Carles Campi Campón. Handwritten notes on the inner and outer sleeve notes and the creative art design gives the package as a whole a highly individual and even a 1970’s inspired rustic folk feel.
Till Brönner / Dieter Ilg ‘Nightfall’ (OKeh) 4/5
An intriguing pairing of bass and trumpet/flugelhorn might not at first seem appealing, but this is a duet that works and is at once a moody and intimate evocation recording. A melancholic feel permeates the album, speaking of interminably long winter evenings.
Both musicians have gained useful experience collectively and separately on the enterprising ACT label, but have now moved on to major label OKeh where they now nestle comfortably alongside the likes of Bill Frisell. Divided up between contemporary and classic covers on the one hand, and originals on the other, there is much to admire here and a genuine warmth to the rapport between the two instrumentalists. On the opener, ‘A Thousand Kisses Deep’, the vulnerability of the trumpet sound is showcased, with fine bass line work that brings the two together. For Lennon and McCartney’s ‘Eleanor Rigby’, the modal bass intro and muted Harmon operate wonderfully in tandem and this is a most inventive take on a well-worn classic. Western classical music forms part of the interpretations with J.S. Bach’s ‘Air’, a perennial favourite of jazz musicians. Here, the flugelhorn takes the lead, with bass following, and this is a very different interpretation from other jazz readings. An adventurous version of Ornette Coleman’s, ‘The fifth of Beethoven’, opens up the space, as piano and bass might, and indicates what an unusual combination the trumpet and bass are operating together. More reflective tones are adopted on the ballad, ‘Body and Soul’, with a Chet Baker-esque solo from Brönner and sensitive bass accompaniment. While this is their debut album for OKeh, it is far from their first recording together and this is an accomplished set that bodes well for future collaborations.
Calibro 35 ‘Decade’ (Record Kicks) 5/5
Celebrating their tenth year with this their 6th long player, Italian 5 piece band, Calibro 35, present ‘Decade’ a no expense spared across all formats 11 tracker running at a classic 48 minutes in what can only be described as an all out assault melange of cosmic freakout jazz, progressive and alternative hip hop grooves and outer space prog synth funk jamming, a pure instrumental album with a wall of sound production.
The first four tracks are a ‘set in stone’ romp through 70s style action TV series background music, the kind of TV that was American produced yet became staple watching for millions during afternoons and early evenings throughout the western world, for example all those wonderful background mini scores playing throughout episodes of Streets Of San Fransico, The Persuaders, Hart To Hart (er, OK), those kind of gritty, funky, organ and wah-wah guitar led pieces of musical art and these first four tracks, although very enjoyable to listen to, a nostalgic trip back in time -and it has to be said superbly played and executed ultra professionally without a doubt- are in danger perhaps of tempting one into believing that the remaining 8 tracks will be of same stock, well, sort of but it’s track 4 and onwards that to this listener’s ear the album finds its own identity and conceptual originality and thus begins a more experimental journey, a fuller cinematic approach with on occasion parts of the remaining tracks nodding back a glimpse to the three track opener.
Keyboards play a crucial role throughout these scores, you will hear a multitude of big brand synths and organs such as the Roland Juno, The Minibrute, The Prophet5, The Wurlitzer organ, my gosh I am within my own musical sweet shop hearing all these key’s, other instruments are provided by an array of guest musicians such as Vibrophones and Glocks, the Viola, Flutes, Trombones, Saxes, Cello, the Clarinet, all real and played with absolute passion, and of course the backbone; the drums and bass keeping it all together in an all out riddim assault.
My highlight tracks? Well let’s begin then with track 4 with its laid back and funky drumming featuring the very cool sounding ride cymbal of Fabio Rondanini and rolling bass of Luca Cavina on the piece entitled ‘Pragma’, with its lovely surrealist guitar work by Massimo Martellotta and early 70s style Floydian organ workout complete with full brass ensemble, then a piece called ‘Modular’ with its low slung groove, dystopian synths and wubba wubba bass splendor underpinned by a very infectious foreboding flute, deep piano and ghostly guitar effects, a sort of trip hop dystopian dub but not dub with slight echo’s of the guitar style one hears in certain pieces from ‘The Wall’ album, then there is the sub psychedelic piece ‘Polymeri’ although disappointingly short running at just over 2 minutes it’s a real experimental wonder, I wonder where the band could have taken this piece with another 4 minutes added to it..? Possibly past the moon. Then there is the magnificent 7 minute ‘Modo’, a one stop shop of creativity and playing, a funky jazz workout with dark synth chords, piano and again with full brass and wind ensemble. The final track on the album is a nice wind down and laid back Airesque sounding piece entitled ‘Travelers’ as we drift off into a voyage of our own before the next episode of something 1970s. An album excellently delivered, very interesting and passionately played.
Formats: The single from the album ‘Super Studio’ b/w ‘Gomma’ is available as limited edition 7″ black vinyl, the album itself is available as a limited edition Gatefold cover clear vinyl and on black vinyl, plus a limited edition Cassette tape and digipack CD and of course as download. For your own journey into a musical sweet shop of format bundles, player and studio credits check out their Bandcamp page.
Søren Nissen ‘Departures’ (Private Press) 4/5
Bassist Søren Nissen has spent some time travelling in India and teaching at the Global Music Institute in New Delhi. His experiences seem to have informed the music on this seven track release even to the extent of including snatches from speeches given by the philosopher, speaker and writer Jiddu Krishnamurti focussing on the importance of spiritual discovery.
The eastern influences are taken further with the inclusion of a table in the instrumentation. Motifs from Indian classical music are also employed throughout the album, sometimes in an ambient vein and sometimes more energetically. Notwithstanding this, the jazz sensibility shines through. Synthesiser is also employed, thus seeming to bring the musical worlds of both the east and the west together in harmony.
This is certainly an assured debut recording. Nissen is clearly an accomplished musician playing not only acoustic bass but synthesiser and Fender Rhodes piano, James Hill plays piano, Fender Rhodes and Juno (a Roland synthesiser), Jeff LaRochelle is on tenor saxophone, Agneya Chikte plays tabla and percussion on some tracks and Ian Wright is behind the drums.
Nissen is still a young man in a short space of time has established himself as a premier bass player on the Toronto jazz scene. He describes his journey through India as a life changing experience. Not only was it a physical departure from home but also a psychological one too. The memories from the trip live on both in Søren’s memory and in these songs.
I particularly enjoyed the more considered pieces, such as ‘Mantra’ which has a relaxed feel. ‘Himalayan Constellation’ also has a wonderful feel. The saxophonist’s full bodied tone is best exhibited here. ‘Universal Exchanges’ is another fine piece, beginning delicately but soon building up a head of steam. ‘Alternatives’ is thoughtful and shows off the ethnic percussion to fine effect. For a true example of east meets west, ‘Eyes of Riya’ can’t be bettered. This is a lengthy, almost ambient piece which builds very slowly and includes a fabulous table and synthesiser section at about the half way mark. The leader’s bass gets ample space throughout the album and is really the beating heart of the album.
This is clearly a well-considered labour of love from Nissen and with such an auspicious debut album one is left wondering what is next to come in his discography. Let’s all hope that we don’t have to wait too long for the next thrilling instalment.
Paier Valcic Quartet ‘Cinema Scenes’ (ACT) 4/5
Combining accordeon/bandoneon and cello is not an obvious contender for a jazz recording, and this evocative and extremely creative project straddles classical and jazz and even world roots, with a strong nod to film music for which this album is ideally suited. Interestingly, nine of the twelve piece are originals, with just three covers required. The duo of accordeon/bandoneon player Klaus Paier and cellist Asja Valcic from the fulcrum of this quartet and between them have composed the majority of the pieces. On the first number, ‘Synchronization’, which begins with a melody that is quite bleak in tone, the intimacy suddenly leads into a Spanish motif that recalls Chick Corea’s early 1970’s ECM opus, ‘La Fiesta’, and the strong melody is retained throughout this atmospheric piece. A flowing cover of the music, ‘Griet’s theme’, accompanying the film, ‘Girl with the golden earring’, serves as the pretext for Paier to solo on accordeon. At the heart of the album is a four piece medley, ‘Cinema scenes’, with gentle soloing by Paier on the Lennie Niehaus/Clint Eastwood film tune, ‘Doe eyes’, forming part one, leading into a jazzy bass-led part two, ‘Moving pictures’, with bass and accordion working well in tandem. Part four pays homage to the work of Astor Piazzolla, with a staccato-like groove in, ‘Exciting moment’, with an actual cover of a Piazzolla composition, ‘Inspired tale’, following directly afterwards and being the final cover interpretation on the album. This is the fourth project that Paier and Valcic have recorded on ACT, and the combination of reflective duo and faster-paced quartet work makes for a varied and well balanced recording. They deserve to be heard by a wider audience, and, as with the contemplative, ‘Le jardin’, the quartet ought to be snapped up for an entire film’s worth of music soundtrack.
Laila Biali ‘Laila Biali’ (ACT) 3/5
Canadian singer Laila Biali has already received plaudits from the prestigious jazz magazine Downbeat in 2013 in the album of the year category, but this debut recording for ACT is in fact her sixth album in total, after gaining useful experience touring with some major jazz and pop names ranging from Diana Krall and Dave Brubeck to Suzanne Vega. Furthermore, there is an equally impressive cast list of musicians to accompany her and these include guest spots by trumpeter Ambrose Akinmusire on two numbers, singer Lisa Fischer (a regular background singer on Rolling Stones tours) as well as Hammond organist, Sam Yahel, who performs throughout. The music veers between jazz and pop idioms, with singer-songwriter territory the most obvious terrain for Biali to occupy and flourish in. The singer interprets a convincing pared down bass-led version of David Bowie’s, ‘Let’s dance’, with piano and organ operating together, while there is a gentle reading of Randy Newman’s ‘I think it’s gonna rain today’. On a reflective piano plus vocal take on Coldplay’s ‘Yellow’, Biali creates intimacy in the vocals with a piano that has surely been influenced by Brad Mehldau. However, in parts, the album hints at a wider and infinitely more explorative interest in world roots music, as illustrated on a reading of Iranian/Persian poet Rumi’s, ‘Wind’. As for Biali’s own songwriting ability, this writer enjoyed the mid-tempo reflection of ‘Satellite’, and there is a pop-jazz sensibility to several of her other compositions. While her voice does not have the range of a Rachelle Ferrell, there is a good deal of promise, and even on the overtly pop-rock offering, ‘Refugee’, there is evidence of an awareness of what is happening in the world and a desire to provide social commentary on occasion.
Maynard Ferguson ‘M.F. Horns 4&5: Live At Jimmy’s’ CD (BGO) 3/5
Trumpeter and big band leader Maynard Ferguson came to prominence during the 1970’s and 1980’s and this 1973 live recording produced by Teo Macero has not seen the light of day on CD in the UK save for a brief re-issue that was rapidly deleted thereafter and this re-mastered set is a favourite of many a big band fan who purchased the original vinyl edition and as such will be required listening. While not on a par with the innovative work of the Thad Jones and Mel Lewis band and the instrumentalists here are lesser known names though perfectly competent, Maynard Ferguson is nonetheless a respected bandleader in the mainstream tradition who has continued to thrive and perform at festivals, including the Wigan International Jazz Festival, in recent years. He adapted popular tunes to the jazz idiom including here a reworking of Jimmy Webb’s, ‘Mac Arthur Park’ (later a disco hit for Donna Summer), while in a slightly Latin vein is, ‘Teonova’, that pays homage to the sound engineer and producer of the album, and of which the title takes a leaf out of the Miles Davis composition, ‘Neo (also in a different version named ‘Teo’) from the early 1960’s, Live at the Nighthawk’ album. A quality ballad is, ‘I’m gettin’ sentimental over you’, while a blues-inflected groove is evident on both, ‘Two for Otis’, and, ‘Blue Birdland’. Previous double pairings of Ferguson’s work in the ‘1, 2, 3’ series, and all available on BGO, are probably the first place to search for his big band outings. This latest re-issue completes the series and is recommended to long-time fans of the Ferguson sound.
Boz Scaggs ‘Middle Man’ / ‘Other Roads’ 2CD (BGO) 4/5
Best known in the UK for his mid-1970’s opus, ‘Silk degrees’, that remains a stylistic and commercial high point, Boz Scaggs struggled to free himself from the shackles of that successful album, one of a host that Scaggs recorded from the underrated Johnny Bristol produced 1974 recording, ‘Slow dance’, onwards. This pairing of albums showcases both his ‘blue eyed’ soul side and the rockier edges. The latter was always there from the start when he recorded back in 1969 a self-titled debut steeped in the blues and with Duane Allman on guitar. Released in 1980, ‘Middle man’, starts off in a similar vein to ‘Silk degrees’ with a single in, ‘Jojo’, that could easily have featured on the 1976 album and is perfect fodder for the West coast ‘too slow to disco’ idiom of recent years. Another deeply melodic number is, ‘Simone’, which has arguably the strongest hook of any of the songs on offer. More rocked-tinged influences emerge elsewhere with, ‘Angel you’, and Carlos Santana guests on guitar on, ‘You can have me any time’. The second album, ‘Other roads’, dates from 1988 and the who’s who of studio musicians are on board including jazz bassist Marcus Miller (then an integral part of the Miles Davis band), several members of the Toto band, and with background vocalists of the calibre of Bobby Caldwell and James Ingram. Produced this time round by Stewart Levine (who had on his roster at various times Joe Cocker, the late Hugh Masekela and even Simply Red), the hit single, ‘Heart of mine’, typifies a new genre, adult contemporary for later evening listening. While it is the earlier to mid-1970’s period that is Scaggs’ most creative, this pairing will appeal to fans of the singer who wish to find the next place on from ‘Silk degrees’.
Various ‘Mr M’s Wigan Casino Northern Soul Oldies Room 1974-1981’ 3CD (Soul Time) 4/5
The phenomenon that is northern soul has been fertile terrain for re-issues in the last decade or more, but where this latest compilation scores highly is in the personalised chronicling of the scene by DJ Dave Evison, who was one of the most active and influential of soul DJ’s and it is worth acquiring for his testimony alone. That is to be found firstly in the third CD which amounts to a radio-style interview on how the adjacent Mr M’s room at Wigan Casino started, and the different sounds that originated from the evenings there. Secondly, the lavish and extensive inner sleeve leaves no stone unturned with individual notes on each of the 45’s, with labels, photos of the punters on the dancefloor and even badges all represented in their glory.
From a purely musical perspective, northern soul sometimes sprung surprise tracks that one might not immediately associate with the scene. For example, a later jazz dance favourite in Mel Tormé’s, ‘Comin’ home’, or a Herbie Mann instrumental, ‘Philly Dog’, became hits at Mr M’s, as did the swamp soul of Tony Joe White’s immortal, ‘Polk salad Annie’. On the other hand, some of the all-time great soul vocalists are showcased and these include the Chicago sound of Gene Chandler and a fine, ‘There was a time’, a 1970’s comeback for Don Covay on, ‘It’s better to have (and don’t need)’, or even the seriously under-estimated singer-songwriter talents of Phillip Mitchell on , ‘Free for all (winner takes all)’. More pleasant, if equally unexpected surprises, come from a Little Richard contribution, ‘Poor dog (who can;t wag his own tail)’, while UK mod soul is represented by the unlikely named, Wynder K. Frog and, ‘Green door’. Among other contributors, feature the recently deceased Bunny Sigler, instrumentalist Boots Randolph, and the blue-eyed soul of Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons with the anthemic, ‘The night’. Long-time devotees may have the majority of these songs, but still require the conversation on the third CD. For the rest, this is a useful social history of the northern soul era at its zenith.
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MAP holds torch parade, Supports BBL
By Tu Alid Alfonso
COTABATO City (April 29, 2015)—The participants of the ‘torch for peace parade’ organized by the Mindanao Alliance for Peace (MAP) have traversed streets of Sinsuat Avenue from Cotabato City State Polytechnic College (CCSPC) to Cotabato City Plaza and vice versa on the evening of Monday, 6:30pm-7:30pm, April 27, 2015.
MAP Spokesperson Prof. Raby Angkal said the activity was a culmination of the series of mobilizations for peace that was started last April 23 through ‘Bangsamoro Run For Just and Dignified Peace’ participated by thousands of runners and followed by a Caravan For Peace on April 25.
Angkal added that they wish to enlighten and reach the hearts of legislatures – both lower and upper houses – through these peace activities that are aimed at supporting the passage of the Bangsamoro Basic Law (BBL) without delay.
UNYPAD Secretary-General Yusoph Lumambas told 99.0 Voice FM Cotabato in an interview that since the result of study of Peace Council that was tasked by the President to scrutinize the proposed BBL is ‘constitutional,’ there is no more reason not to pass it.
“This is now the truth, the experts were done with their study and it was said that BBL is overwhelmingly constitutional as pronounced by former Chief Justice Hilario Davide,” Lumambas said.
He said the Moros have always been looking for better and peaceful options for the sake of peace in Mindanao.
“We don’t want to see Bangsamoro people in the future that those who joined the torch parade will be holding weapons in the future, instead of torch, as means of articulating their frustrations on the result of the peace talks,” he pointed out.
Meanwhile, the League of Bangsamoro Organizations (LBO) in collaboration with Yes to Bangsamoro Government Movement (YBGM) conducted a signature campaign in support to the BBL. The same organizations had initiated activity inviting Bangsamoro for registration, which was set up at Jamiat Cotabato, Bubong road in Barangay Balarabaran, Cotabato City on Tuesday, April 28, 2015. It was reported that numerous people from different areas of Cotabato positively responded to.
BDA Central Mindanao Regional Manager Hashim Manticayan led the campaign in Central Mindanao.
“This program was launched previously in western Mindanao and other parts of the region. We are aiming to have 1 million signatures and we will submit this to Congress before the passage of the law,” he said.
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Review: Once it finds its groove, ‘One Bedroom’ shows off some fresh moves
When it finally calms down and takes a more serious look at the nitty-gritty of romantic relationships, writer-director-star Darien Sills-Evans’ micro-budget comedy “One Bedroom” offers some authentic insight into what brings people together, keeps them united and splits them apart.
This amusing, if talky tale of the breakup between Nate (Sills-Evans), a club DJ and barber, and schoolteacher Melissa (Devin Nelson) is set largely in a brownstone apartment in the filmmaker’s hometown of Brooklyn, N.Y. That is, when we’re not in the local barbershop with Nate and his broadly bantering hair-cutting buddies (Jon Laster, Chester Sims II, Freddy Sheffield) as Nate recounts what led Melissa to move out.
The film evokes a kind of African American “Annie Hall” as it flashes back, at times in nonlinear fashion, on the good, the bad and the ugly of the Nate-Melissa pairing. Unfortunately, it overdoes — and overplays — the strident litany of he said-she said recriminations and reprisals until the lovers get to some key truths and unexpected reactions.
Not unlike the story, Sills-Evans and Nelson become more engaging as they go, allowing us to better understand their characters’ strengths and foibles — and regrets. This welcome shift allows the film to make a few fresh, final moves that feel credible and earned. Amber Reauchean Williams also hits some nice notes as Nelson’s protective BFF, Cora.
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Sobyanin said that the start time of the resettlement of residents of the five-story building
April 19, 2017 September 3, 2018 admin 474 Views 0 Comments
Moscow mayor Sergei Sobyanin (center) on one of the city buildings
Photo: Mikhail Japaridze/TASS
In the first wave of resettlement will get about 1 million residents. About 70-80% of displaced persons will receive housing in their neighborhoods, promised the mayor
The first apartments for the relocation of the buildings, the Muscovites will start to fall 2017. The mayor of Moscow Sergei Sobyanin said live on TV channel “TV Center” reports mos.ru.
“I hope that in the autumn, in September-October, we will begin the first of the apartments to provide new homes,” said the mayor.
To implement the program is planned wave method, when a new house relocated residents from several nearby buildings, and instead the house is being built for other participants, the publication reads mos.ru.
According to Sergei Sobyanin, the list of demolished five-storey buildings of the first wave will form in June. “In my opinion, in the first wave of this program will enter the house, where nearly 1 million people. This is a huge amount, the software, unequaled in the world today is not” — said the mayor.
However, according to the mayor, you first need to obtain a law that would allow Moscow to deal with the renovation. In addition, the authorities need to decide on a list of houses under demolition and to consider opinion of inhabitants.
To the apartment Muscovites will be in your or nearby areas. “I think that 70-80 percent of the residents do not remain just in the area, and even in the quarter in which they live,” said the mayor.
Sergei Sobyanin in an interview to “TV Center” also spoke about new homes for settlers. According to the mayor, the houses will be modern. “This housing will stand not 10 or 20 years — at least a century, and with good care much longer,” — said Sobyanin. The apartment will provide you with a full finish comfort class. “This is somewhat unusual for social housing, but we believe that it is important to make good, high quality finish,” said the mayor.
The total area of new apartments will exceed the size of the old property due to the spacious kitchens, bathrooms, corridors and balconies, says the publication mos.ru. Families who are in the queue for housing improvement, will get apartments according to social norms. For the rest of the housing area will not be increased. However, everyone will be able to purchase from the city the additional square footage.
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“Beverly Carrick Paintings Start-to-Finish, Part Thirty-Nine: Chef JT shares his Thoughts, Ideas, and Feelings about the Greatest American Artist in History and how she would be angrier than Hell about the Current Crop of Liberal Dimwits” by Chef James “JT” Tobiason
The next album by a member of the Moody Blues to come out was by the band’s keyboardist, Mike Pinder. The album, entitled, “The Promise,” came out in 1976 and features the keyboardist working with numerous musicians who all contributed to the overall sound. Although this CD did not chart higher than #133 on the Billboard Music Charts in 1976, it is a damned fine CD, one everyone who loves the Moodies loves as well. We hope that you will use the link we provide you here to take advantage of the offer by going to Amazon.com. You can get the CD for about $30.00. The other CD we have for you is the first one by drummer, Graeme Edge, “Kick off your Muddy Boots” (1975) with Adrian Gurvitz (from UK band, The Gun) (guitars, vocals) aboard with him in a group called “The Graeme Edge Band.” Mr. Edge is an integral part of the Moodies and besides the drums also does backup vocals and vocals. There are other musicians aboard on this solo effort including Cream drummer Ginger Baker. The CD rocks from start to finish and features a wide range of musical styles, always with a Moodies feel somewhere within it. Please take our link so you can go to Amazon.com and pick BOTH of these top-rated CDs there—you will be glad you did.
WEDNESDAY, JUNE THIRD, TWO-THOUSAND-AND-FIFTEEN
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THE AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF CULINARY POLITICS-ELEMENTAL NEWS OF THE DAY COMMENTARY-OPINION-SPORTS-FOODSERVICE FOR WEDNESDAY, JUNE 03, 2015 BY CHEF JAMES “JT” TOBIASON
BEVERLY CARRICK ARTWORKS FROM START TO FINISH, PART FORTY
DAY NUMBER SIX-HUNDRED-AND-SEVEN UNDER OBAMACARE
Chef JT arrives to do his Stint at the AICP-END Blog!
Bakersfield, CA, 06-03-2015 Wednesday: I have to say that as with everyone else, I am excited that I have an opportunity to come in and share thoughts and feelings about Beverly Carrick artworks. I knew Beverly in the last 12 years or so of her life and way before, when both her sons were kids, growing up in Bakersfield, California. If ever anyone had the ‘touch,’ then that would be Beverly, she could view an image and then days, weeks, or months later, she could transfer that memory onto canvass and there, the entire world could behold it.
What would Beverly say about New York libs wanting to give Chimps equal rights but not for the unborn?
If there is one thing I know about Beverly is that her opinions were amazingly powerful and were she alive today and saw what we witnessed a week ago today in New York State, the fact that the government there is considering giving ‘human rights’ to chimpanzees, she would have exploded in anger. Do not get me wrong, she loves animals but to give full rights to a flipping primate, when they will not bestow those rights upon innocent children in the womb of a struggling mother, is astounding and she would have flipped out over it.
If we knew one thing for certain, Beverly hated Liberal Nut-Jobs…
Now, I do not approve of mistreating animals, especially higher ones such as the great apes, but to say that a chimpanzee has more rights than a quivering baby in its mother’s womb in the eyes of the God-damned Democrats and liberals would have sent her over the edge. Beverly hated the liberal Democrats and profaned them until the day she allowed her soul to slip out of her body and send it to Heaven. She said Barack Obama was the absolute worst president she ever had seen in her lifetime having been alive in the era of Calvin Coolidge. She weathered through many a Democrat and through some crumb-ass Republicans but she cursed Obama on a daily basis and we credited HIM with causing her to give up her life and die.
Over the course of her lifetime, she saw a whole lot of Democrats…
We realize that sounds silly but let us face it: she knew Governor Mitt Romney was going to win the 2012 Election but sadly, that was not the case, for some inexplicable reason, that man lost to the worst president since Jimmy Carter gave up half the nation. Beverly went to the polling place in her motorized scooter with her son, there she cast her vote and said, and “GOOD RIDDANCE TO THE WORST PIECE OF FECULENCE THE AMERICAN PEOPLE HAVE EVER SEEN.” However, later that night for some unknown reason, he managed to hold onto the reins of power and so she collapsed a couple of week’s later and allowed cancer to claim her for the final time it tried. Please, enjoy today’s Beverly Carrick artworks, we know you will love each of them as much as do we and always be sure to seek out both her paintings and our albums of the day by using the links we provide you here with which, to do so. Here we go:
BEVERLY CARRICK ORIGINAL ARTWORKS #’S 0441-0455
#0441 20” x 24” “A Lilac, Lavender Evening”
#0442 20” x 24” “Evening’s Song”
#0443 24” x 36” “Saguaros and Poppies”
#0444 20” x 24” “Yucca Wash”
#0445 18” x 24” “Keanae Coast”
#0446 20” x 24” “Hala Trees and Palms of Maui”
#0447 30” x 40” “Maui Magic”
#0448 18” x 24” “Rainbow’s End”
#0449 24” x 36” “Near Hana”
#0450 20” x 24” “The Buttes”
#0451 24” x 36” “Moon Dreams”
#0452 18” x 24” “Desert Wash”
#0453 18” x 24” “Evening Approaches”
#0454 20” x 24” “Starting a Cattle Empire”
#0455 30” x 40” “Evening Haze”
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I hope you have enjoyed my turn at doing our secondary blog; it is something we take seriously because we have the SOLE rights to the presentation of her body of work. We know that wherever Beverly’s soul may have ended up, that she continues doing what she loved best, interpreting the world in the way she had the God-given way of doing so. As for the chimpanzees, I am sure she sees President Obama and his liberal leftwing whack-a-doo’s as meeting a far different fate, one that involves visiting Hell and remaining there a while. They obviously deserve some form of Almighty God-given punishment for the destruction of the world’s greatest modern nation, one that has liberated more people than any other, given the peoples of the world far more respect than any other, and one that we hope will rise from the ashes of Obamaism—thank you for joining me today and for joining me today, tomorrow, and the rest of the week at the American Institute of Culinary Politics-Elemental News of the Day.
James “JT” Tobiason
Professional Baker, American Baker’s Association, Certified Working Chef, ACF, CWC
This is me back in the 1980's when I was an Executive Sous Chef at a hotel in Monterey, California. I originally came from Salinas, California, spent time in Fresno and Bakersfield, and currently am working at a fine-dining restaurant in Visalia, California. I began cooking in 1967 when I apprenticed under a top chef working in the Napa Valley.
Chef James “JT” Tobiason writes from Visalia, California.
Chef James “JT” Tobiason is a member of the CONSTITUTION PARTY OF THE UNITED STATES.
You can contact Chef Tobiason at Chefjt3295MM@hotmail.com
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The END Commentary for Wednesday, June 03, 2015 by Chef James “JT” Tobiason
The one-and-only Chef James “JT” Tobiason wrote this original essay.
Article concept and/or recipe created by Chef James “JT” Tobiason on May 28, 2015 in Visalia, California.
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This is #0454 20” x 24" original oil painting by Beverly Carrick entitled, and “Starting a Cattle Empire.” It is among her more beautiful works and is available for sale. You can see much more of her work at her Website, located at or at Brian Carrick's Facebook page. At her Website, you will see not only more original oil paintings but also lithographs, giclees, prints, miniatures, photographs, and even her award-winning instructional video entitled, "Painting the Southwest with Beverly Carrick.” Beverly has been painting for more than 60 years and known around the world for both the beauty and timelessness of her artworks. Hanging in private and public galleries and followed by many fans encircling the globe—her works instill awe because of her artistic brilliance and personal beauty. We urge you to go to her Website NOW and view her work. It is possible that you will find something you like and will want to buy it for yourself, a friend, a loved one, or a neighbor! You will not be disappointed so please: do yourself a favor and go there IMMEDIATELY! Thank you, the American Institute of Culinary Politics-Elemental News of the Day!
James Tobiason, The Moody Blues, Mike Pinder, Graeme Edge Band, Beverly Carrick, Fine Art, Life and Times of Beverly Carrick, Chimpanzees as Equals, Beverly’s Views on Democrats and Obama,
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TODAY IN HISTORY—JUNE 03, 2015:
President Jimmy Carter:
1083: Henry IV of Germany storms Rome on this date capturing St. Peter’s Cathedral.
1098: During the First Crusade, the Crusaders storm Antioch, Syria, after a five-month siege.
1509: England’s King Henry VIII weds his first wife, Catherine of Aragon.
1539: Hernando De Soto claims Florida for Spain.
1540: Hernando De Soto and his Conquistadors cross the Appalachian Mountains, the first Europeans to do so.
1808: Confederate President Jefferson Davis was born in Christian County, Kentucky.
1864: Confederate General Robert E. Lee wins his final battle, the Battle of Cold Harbor.
1871: Jesse James and his gang rob the Orocock Bank at Corydon, Iowa, of $15,000.
1888: The poem, “Casey at the Bat,” by Ernest Lawrence Thayer, was first published in the San Francisco Daily Examiner.
1937: Edward, the Duke of Windsor, who had abdicated the British throne, married Wallis Warfield Simpson in a private ceremony in Monts, France.
1939: Ian Hunter, future founding member of the British band, Mott the Hoople as its vocalist and rhythm guitarist, is born on this date.
1940: The last British-French-and-Belgium troops leave the beaches at Dunkirk.
1942: The Battle of Midway Island begins.
1943: Los Angeles saw the beginning of its “zoot suit riots” as white service members clashed with young Latinos wearing distinctive-looking zoot suits; the violence finally ended when military officials declared the city off limits to enlisted personnel.
1944: German troops begin evacuation of their personnel from Rome to head north.
1946: The Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) rules that race segregation on buses is unconstitutional. Meanwhile, in Tokyo, the war crimes tribunal opens with the aim to try 28 Japanese war criminals. Meanwhile, future drummer with the Los Angeles bands, the Byrds, the Flying Burrito Brothers, and Firefall, Michael Clarke, is born.
1948: The 200-inch reflecting Hale Telescope at the Palomar Mountain Observatory in California was dedicated.
1963: Pope John XXIII died at age 81, ending a relatively brief but highly influential 4.5-year papacy; Pope Paul VI succeeded him.
1964: South Korean President Park Chung-hee declared martial law in the face of student protests.
1965: Astronaut Edward White became the first American to “walk” in space during the flight of Gemini 4.
1970: Ray Davies of the Kinks travels round-trip from London-to-New York to change one word in the song, “Lola,” (“Coca-Cola” to “cherry cola”) because the BBC did not want to mention a product.
1972: Sally J. Priesand was ordained as America’s first female rabbi at the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in Cincinnati, Ohio.
1977: The United States and Cuba discuss diplomatic relations.
1979: Idi Amin, ex-president of Uganda, flees to Libya for asylum.
1980: President Jimmy Carter wins enough delegates to win re-nomination.
1981: Pope John Paul II is released from the hospital following an attempted assassination attempt.
1983: Gordon Kahl, a militant tax protester wanted in the slayings of two U.S. Marshals in North Dakota, was killed in a gun battle with law enforcement officials near Smithville, Arkansas.
1989: Iran’s spiritual leader, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, died. Elsewhere in the world, Chinese army troops began their sweep of Beijing to crush student-led pro-democracy demonstrators.
2006: The Royal Canadian Mounted Police arrest 17 Islamists suspected of planning bombings in Toronto, Canada.
2011: Former North Carolina senator and Democratic presidential candidate, John Edwards, is indicted on charges of conspiracy and of violating campaign finance laws.
2013: Former U.S. President Bill Clinton earns $500,000 for a speech given to honor Israel’s President Shimon Peres.
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THE BLOG POSTS OF CHEF JAMES “JT” TOBIASON 2011-2015
1. 04-01-2011 F: ““Educational Writings-Discourse Index, Part V: Chef James takes the Readership down a Different Path today as he displays his Educational Background by presenting a Substantial Piece on Axis of Evil Member, Syria” by Chef James “JT” Tobiason.
2. 05-16-2011 M: “The Sergeant-Major of the Professional Kitchen—the Pantry Chef, Part XX” by JT.
3. 05-17-2011 T: “Kitchen Nobility—the Saucier, Part I” by JT.
4. 06-11-2011 S: “Classic Bakery Desserts, Part XX: Coconut Cream Pie” by JT.
5. 06-22-2011 W: “Central Asian Specialties, Part I: Lamb Curry—Curried Lamb is both a Treat and a guaranteed Money-maker for any Kitchen” by JT.
6. 07-12-2011 T: “Hawaiian and Polynesian Recipes, Part VIII: Pineapple Chicken and Vegetables—easily made at Home” by JT.
7. 08-29-2011 M: “Classic Quickbreads and Muffins, Part XXIV: Peach-Pecan Muffins—Delicious Muffins with a Southern Flair” by JT.
8. 08-30-2011 T: “Classic Quickbreads and Muffins, Part XXV: Pineapple-Almond Muffins—tasty beyond Description” by JT.
9. 08-31-2011 W: “Classic Quickbreads and Muffins, Part XXVI: Banana Muffins—the Darker the Banana—the Better the Flavor!” by JT.
10. 09-01-2011 Th: “Classic Quickbreads and Muffins, Part XXVII: Lemon Muffins—tricky to make unless one has access to a Bakery Supply Company but it can be done” by JT.
11. 09-02-2011 F: “Classic Quickbreads and Muffins, Part XXVIII: Quick Applesauce Bread—quick and easy like Chef JT promised!” by JT.
12. 09-03-2011 S: “Classic Quickbreads and Muffins, Part XXIX: Quick Pineapple Bread—one of the All-Time Great Favorite Breads” by JT.
13. 09-04-2011 Su: “Classic Quickbreads and Muffins, Part XXX: Three Flavored-Butters—the Perfect Accompaniments for your Quickbreads and Muffins” by JT.
14. 02-06-2012 M: “Special Menus, Part XXIX: ‘Valentine’s Day 2012 Menu, Part I—Soup Seminar featuring Two Classic Soups: Corn Chowder and Cream of Onion” by JT.
15. 02-07-2012 T: “Special Menus, Part XXX: ‘Valentine’s Day 2012 Menu, Part II—the Salad Chef Speaks: JT’s Fresh Fruit Plate and Newport Salad with Newport Dressing” by JT.
16. 02-08-2012 W: “Special Menus, Part XXXI: ‘Valentine’s Day 2012 Menu, Part III—Famous Restaurant Recipes: Stuffed Cornish Game Hens with Sauce Supreme and Roasted Leg of Lamb with Mint Demi-glace” by JT.
17. 02-09-2012 Th: “Special Menus, Part XXXII: ‘Valentine’s Day 2012 Menu, Part IV—Side Dish Seminar: Pommes Amandine, Rice and Fruit Dressing, and Buttered, Parslied Egg Noodles—perfect Accompaniments for your Valentine’s Day Spectacular” by JT.
18. 02-10-2012 F: “Special Menus, Part XXXIII: ‘Valentine’s Day 2012 Menu, Part V—Side Dish Seminar: Spaghetti Squash Timbales and Classic Broccoli Normande—more perfect Accompaniments for your Valentine’s Day Spectacular” by JT.
19. 02-11-2012 S: “Special Menus, Part XXXIV: ‘Valentine’s Day 2012 Menu, Part VI—Bread Seminar: Rice Flour Bread and Apricot Muffins—delicious Accompaniments for your Special Dinner” by JT.
20. 02-12-2012 Su: “Special Menus, Part XXXV: ‘Valentine’s Day 2012 Menu, Part VII—Fabulous Bakery Desserts: Boysenberry Mousse and Strawberry Parfaits—two Excellent Desserts to finish off your Holiday Feast” by JT.
21. 07-16-2012 M: “Central Asian Favorites, Part XIII: Baked Fresh Yelloweye Rockfish in an Asian Black Bean Butter Sauce—Central Asian Favorites is Back, New, and Excitingly Different!” by JT.
22. 07-17-2012 T: “Central Asian Favorites, Part XIV: Classic Cantonese Beef with Oyster Sauce—one of the Most-Beloved Chinese Dishes” by JT.
23. 07-18-2012 W: “Central Asian Favorites, Part XV: Cantonese-style Chicken and Cucumbers is not only Beautiful to Behold, it is a Joy to Eat!” by JT.
24. 07-19-2012 Th: “Central Asian Favorites, Part XVI: The Best Chinese Sweet-and-Sour Meatballs ever made!” by JT.
25. 07-20-2012 F: “Central Asian Favorites, Part XVII: More Exciting Chinese Culinary Delights—Szechuan Jumbo Shrimp and Green Peas—Simple yet Good!” by JT.
26. 07-21-2012 S: “Central Asian Favorites, Part XVIII: Chinese Steamed Fish served atop a Bed of Napa Cabbage—a Great Dish for your Saturday Evening Meal!” by JT.
27. 07-22-2012 Su: “Central Asian Favorites, Part XIX: JT’s Birthday Celebration saved the Best for Last: Chinese-style Deep-fried Shrimp with Homemade Plum Sauce!” by JT.
28. 03-04-2013 M: “Mis-en-Place Index, Part XXXIII: Look who’s back: Chef JT and today, we begin a Weeklong Seminar on Pantry Sauces of all Sizes—today—it’s Tartar Sauce I!” by JT.
29. 03-05-2013 T: “Mis-en-Place Index, Part XXXIV: While it may be Boring for Some, for Most, it is Not: French Vinegar and Oil Dressing I—Zesty Foundation for many other Sauces!” by JT.
30. 03-06-2013 W: “Mis-en-Place Index, Part XXXV: Chef JT reworks Yesterday’s French Vinegar and Oil Dressing by transforming it into Sauce Ravigote—even Spicier!” by JT.
31. 03-07-2013 Th: “Mis-en-Place Index, Part XXXVI: you won’t Believe where we’re going today: down Memory Lane learning how to make Mayonnaise—yes, Mayonnaise—from Scratch!” by JT.
32. 03-08-2013 F: “Mis-en-Place Index, Part XXXVII: Yesterday, we made Mayonnaise while today, we are making Basic Salad Dressing—you know, the Difference between Best Foods’ Mayonnaise and Kraft’s Miracle Whip!” by JT.
33. 03-09-2013 S: “Mis-en-Place Index, Part XXXVIII: Today, Chef JT transforms the Basic Mayonnaise from Thursday into the French Classic—Mayonnaise aux Fines Herbs, perfect for everything from Fresh Seafood to Egg Dishes!!” by JT.
34. 03-10-2013 Su: “Mis-en-Place Index, Part XXXIX: To Conclude his Week in a Zesty, Flavorful Style, Chef Tobiason presents Cocktail Sauce #4—perfect for ALL Seafood Dishes no Matter the Type!” by JT.
35. 09-30-2013 M: “Coffee Shop Favorites, Part XXIV: Chef JT discusses the U.S. Constitution, the Bill of Rights, how the Democrats circumvent it and then picks up with the Coffee Shop Favorites Category featuring Grilled Pork Chops with Red Onion Sauce—WOW!” by Chef James “JT” Tobiason.
36. 10-01-2013 T: “Coffee Shop Favorites, Part XXV: JT covers the Third and Fourth Amendments to the Constitution, the Liberals, Obamacare, and then teaches the Readership how to make Mexican Tostadas!” by Chef James “JT” Tobiason.
37. 10-02-2013 W: “Coffee Shop Favorites, Part XXVI: Discussion of the Constitution continues today with the Fifth and Sixth Amendments and then JT shows the blogosphere how to make Turkey Tetrazzini, a Tried-and-True Classic!” by Chef James “JT” Tobiason.
38. 10-03-2013 Th: “Coffee Shop Favorites, Part XXVII: after discussing the Final Four Amendments of the Bill of Rights, Chef Tobiason teaches the Readership how to make the Cash Registers Ring all day long—Baked Ham Dinners!” by Chef James “JT” Tobiason.
39. 10-04-2013 F: “Coffee Shop Favorites, Part XXVIII: The Topic of the Day is the Eleventh and Twelfth Amendments to the U.S. Constitution, skirting Obamacare, and then the Crème de la Crème of the Coffee Shop: Braised Short Ribs!” by Chef James “JT” Tobiason.
40. 10-05-2013 S: “Coffee Shop Favorites, Part XXIX: JT discusses Two of the Most Misunderstood Amendments to the U.S. Constitution, the 13th and 14th Amendments and then shows us how to make Classic Egg-Dipped Halibut, Coffee Shop Style!” by Chef James “JT” Tobiason.
41. 10-06-2013 Su: “Coffee Shop Favorites, Part XXX: The Week winds down with a Discussion of Bakersfield’s Bars, Obamacare, and more Constitutional Amendments and then—Salsa Chicken!” by Chef James “JT” Tobiason.
42. 10-07-2013 M: “Educational Writings-Discourse Index, Part LXXXVII: Chef Tobiason finishes his Series on Discussing the Amendments to the Constitution but first, presents the Entire Thing!” by Chef James “JT” Tobiason (Extra Post).
43. 06-02-2014 M: “Political Topics and Essays, Part One Hundred-and-Forty-One: the Gun-Grabbers are at again thanks to the Murdering Bastard, Christopher Martinez and his Father, Peter; why is it that EVERY TIME Tragedy occurs, the Lunatic Left comes out and tries to take our Guns instead of helping those in Need of Help?” by Chef James “JT” Tobiason.
44. 06-03-2014 T: “Political Topics and Essays, Part One Hundred-and-Forty-Two: Chef JT keeps his Promise to Chef Olaf by showing the Readership some Cartoons lampooning the Democrats, noting there is ALWAYS a Kernel of Truth in every Humorous Cartoon!” by Chef James “JT” Tobiason.
45. 06-04-2014 W: “Political Topics and Essays, Part One Hundred-and-Forty-Three: Chef JT discusses the Greatness of the United States, HOW the Educational System teaches Otherwise, then continues on with more Political Cartoons making Fun of the Democrats, this Day after the Primary Elections of Numerous States!” by Chef James “JT” Tobiason.
46. 06-05-2014 Th: “Political Topics and Essays, Part One Hundred-and-Forty-Four: Chef JT treads on Dangerous Ground by comparing the Current Administration to Nazi Germany’s, then going after the Gay Mafia and tells them, let’s find Common Ground to keep the United States the Greatest Nation on Earth—not some Perverted Hell-Hole!” by Chef James “JT” Tobiason.
47. 06-06-2014 F: “Political Topics and Essays, Part One Hundred-and-Forty-Five: like Others, Chef Tobiason fears Michelle Obama will be the Democrat Party’s Presidential Candidate for 2016 if we do not do something and do it soon—let us fight to reclaim the GOP and to turn it into a Conservative Battering Ram!” by Chef James “JT” Tobiason.
48. 06-07-2014 S: “Political Topics and Essays, Part One Hundred-and-Forty-Six: Chef Tobiason presents his Ideas for how Employers can teach their Employees which way to Vote in the Upcoming Elections—if they want to do the Right Thing for their Families and They, they need to learn WHAT—exactly—the Stakes are” by Chef James “JT” Tobiason.
49. 06-08-2014 Su: “Political Topics and Essays, Part One Hundred-and-Forty-Seven: Chef JT concludes the Week by looking at the Disaster of the Obama Administration, at the Harm it’s done to the American People by allowing Hordes of Illegal Aliens to pour into the Country—WE NEED TO STOP HIM AND THEM!” by Chef James “JT” Tobiason.
Posted by Chef James Tobiason CWC-ACF at 7:30 AM
Labels: Beverly Carrick, Beverly’s Views on Democrats and Obama, Chimpanzees as Equals, Fine Art, Graeme Edge Band, James Tobiason, Life and Times of Beverly Carrick, Mike Pinder, The Moody Blues
Location: Visalia, CA, USA
Elmer Hootenstein June 3, 2015 at 10:35 AM
Chef JT shares his thoughts on Beverly Carrick, one of the all-time great American artists of the previous century. Beverly was an opinionated woman and could not remain silent when she saw dimwit politicians bumbling about. One has to wonder what the artist would have said had she heard that New York State would like to give chimpanzees equal rights with humans. Nothing wrong with that, you might think, but the same self-serving liberals could care less about an innocent babe crying in the belly of his mother. What the Hell is wrong with the liberals when they could care less about a living, viable breathing infant, if but given the chance to experience birth, when they care more for illegal aliens, dunces, and crackpot enviro-nut jobs? Anyhow, please, join us today, share your thoughts and we will engage with you in a dialogue.
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Tag Archives: electric sports cars
February 26, 2019 Eric J. Leech
By the year 2023 it is predicted that most big automotive manufacturers will have around 20 All-electric models in their lineup. That is just five years away. And while one of the motives behind the change will be to meet stricter government standards – the other side of this change is the awesome torque happiness that allows a true sports EV to really put a smile on your face.
Within an electric motor comes the possibility for massive torque, instantaneous throttle response, and a controlled drivetrain that takes all the guesswork out of being a good driver. And while we still have a couple of years until the sport electric car is everything it can be – these next two years promise a couple of pretty close examples.
2019 Porsche Taycan
Imagine one of the hugest charging systems an EV has carried (800 volts), combined with a max range of 300 miles per charge. And this Super EV should be in production towards the end of the year, and you can expect to pay less than $100,000 for the privaledge of ownership.
2019 Electric Mini Cooper
The Mini Electric is a looker in concept shoes. But may not be much of a performer if you go by the rumors that BMW’s 5th generation technology will be bypassing Mini and heading straight to the iX3. What a shame.
2020 Tesla Roadster
10 years ago an EV Roadster was released that rocked the world. It was new, funky, sleek, sexy… and more fun to drive than most people would have thought possible. Technology has advanced a lot since the original Tesla Roadster, but the revamped concept is still just as sexy as ever. However, this time they are gunning to make this the fastest production car ever made… period. We like that kind of gumption.
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BMW i8, 0-60 MPH in Less Than 5 seconds
August 9, 2011 Eric J. Leech
Tesla motors has thus far been skipping along with minimal competition in the electric luxury/sports car bracket, but the BMW i3 and i8 are looking pretty competitive. The i3 will feature a 125 kW electric, rear-wheel drive motor, which in laymen terms, means it will be worth about 170 horsepower and 184 lb-ft of instantaneous torque. Considering its bantam weight of just 1,250 kilograms (2,750 lbs), the i3 should cruise through its single gear from zero to sixty in a little less than 8-seconds. It’s expected range is somewhere around 100 miles per charge cycle. However, keep in mind, this is the practical version of the BMW i-series. Continue reading BMW i8, 0-60 MPH in Less Than 5 seconds →
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Two Upcoming Exhibitions
Anthony Holdsworth March 15, 2018
1. Paintings of Nicaragua and Mexico
Alley Cat Gallery, 3036 24th Street
April 2 - April 29, Reception: April 6, 7 - 9 PM
The Festival of Diriamba, Nicaragua, 1984 Un Rincon de la Plaza Grande, Patzcuaro, Mexico
Paintings created over many years based on travels in Nicaragua and Mexico. Some have never been exhibited before.
Special guests at the reception: Nina Serrano and Francisco Herrera. I will also be screening a short video at 8 PM entitled "Mexico en mi Corazon" Join us: www.alleycatbookshop.com
2. San Francisco in Transition:
Anthony Holdsworth and Beryl Landau
Luna Rienne Gallery, 3318 22nd St
April 28 - May 28, Reception: April 28 7 - 9 PM
Paintings by Anthony Holdsworth
We have both been painting San Francisco for decades. This is only the second time that we have shown exclusively together. Join us: www.lunarienne.com
Paintings by Beryl Landau
Tags cityscapes of San Francisco, paintings of the Mission District, urban landscapes, beryl landau, Anthony Holdsworth, exhibitions, alley cat gallery, luna rienne
The Mission District Series at Alley Cat Books: April 4 - 28, 2014
Alley Cat Books
Alley Cat Books has a large, well lit, art gallery at the back of the store. I will be showing my Mission District Series here from April 4th - 28th, 2014. To accommodate all the paintings in this Series, the exhibition comprises two shows. There will be two receptions:
1st Reception: Fri, April 4, 6-8 pm. At 7 pm singer, songwriter organizer Francisco Herrera will sing.
2nd Reception: Fri, April 18, 6-8 pm. At 7 pm Alejandro Murguia, poet laureate of San Francisco, will read excerpts from a work in progress titled 'Mission Noir'
This show is dedicated to the memory of my friend and neighbor, the late, great, underground cartoonist, Spain Rodriguez. / Ten percent of proceeds from sales will be donated to Accion Latina.
MISSION DISTRICT PART 4
It was during the memorial for my friend and neighbor, Spain Rodriguez, at the Brava Theater that I decided to start this Mission District Series. So he was on my mind as I set up to paint this picture of the Brava Theater.
As if on cue, a fight between women erupted inside "Pops" bar next to where I was painting. As the fight reached a crescendo, I saw three Amazons running down York Street towards the bar, long, dark hair streaming behind them. They charged inside. Things got even louder. Then there was an uneasy silence, followed by, "You won't try that again, bitch!"
They were out the door, running back up York when I heard one of them shout, "I hope they don't say nothing about Samoans!" The police arrived a few minutes later. No one seemed to know who these women were.
The whole event was pure Spain Rodriguez.
The homeless hang out on York. It's near their encampment under the freeway. Three of them found their way into this first painting.
The Brava Theater
There's a lot of history on this corner. The Brava used to be the York Theater, many locals still call it that. The St Francis Cafe (founded 1918) attracts a large crowd of young adults. It is where "the Morabito brothers who owned a lumberyard nearby often lunched ... and, as legend goes, hatched the idea there in the late 1940s to buy the franchise forthe Forty-Niners." (Courtesy of Mission Local)
Pops which offers bacon in its Bloody Marys is a popular hipster dive. Improbably, right next door is the excellent and attractive Mexicana Bakery
"Pops"
I did three paintings at this intersection as one short, rainless, winter day followed another. I could have done more. But I decided it was time to move back up 24th.
I returned to La Palma. In this second painting I decided to focus more on the small truck painted with the eagle bearing a Mexican Flag. It parks on this corner every weekend. The owner sets up a long table crowded with used tools and other items. He approved of my painting. "You have painted my truck with a big smile!" he observed.
Sunday at La Palma
In the mornings before working on La Palma, I passed by Rene Yañas' house. Rene, who is a important cultural figure in the Mission (see Mission District Series #3, below), has lived in this house on rent control for 35 years. He is facing eviction under the Ellis Act. The house is set back behind a screen of vegetation. " I used to enjoy caring for this garden." Rene told me, "But since the eviction order I've really lost interest."
He posed for me so I could put him in the painting.
Rene Yañas Leaving his Home
I noticed Mike Ruiz's installation of a skeleton and crosses commemorating the demise of Latino institutions in the Mission, some time ago. I decided to capture this scene before it was removed, especially since Accion Latina is a major force in the Mission. Home to the bilingual newspaper El Tecolote, it also promotes youth and cultural programs including the Encuentro del Canto Popular which takes place early December every year at the Brava Theater.
Accion Latina
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In Blog Tags Accion Latina, Alejandro Murguia, Alleycat Books, Anthony Holdsworth, Encuentro del Camnto popular, Exhibition of the Mission District Series, Francisco Herrera, La Mexicana Bakery, Mike Ruiz, painting San Francisco, Painting the Mission District, Pops Bar, Rene Yañas, Spain Rodriguez, Spain Rodriquez, St Francis Cafe, St Francis Fountain
Anthony Holdsworth August 25, 2013
As I turn onto Balmy Alley from 24th Street the dulcet tones of Violeta Para singing "Gracias a la vida" drift from a backyard. Her voice transports me back more than thirty years to a time of great solidarity between the artists of the San Francisco Bay Area and Latin America. In those years, the Nicaraguan Cultural Center was located in a low building at this entrance to the alley (Deep blue wall on left). I stop on my way down the alley to talk with Andrés. Sculptor, painter, bicycle and car repair man extraordinaire, he is always so busy in front of his garage that I chose to paint him twice into this first picture.
Balmy Alley #1
Further along, I stop in front of the first of twenty-three murals that were painted in 1984 to protest US intervention in Latin America, and to welcome the refugees from these conflicts who were pouring into the Mission. This mural by Miranda Bergman and O'Brien Thiele illustrates the conflict in El Salvador and the the triumph of the Sandinista Revolution in Nicaragua. It is the only one of those twenty-three murals that has survived into the present.
Balmy Alley # 3: Miranda Bergman and O'Brien Thiele restore their mural.
Miranda and Brian are restoring it. I've spent several enjoyable afternoons painting across from them as they begin by stabilizing the old wooden surface. We lament the fact that, even though the national solidarity movement in the eighties did succeed in blunting US aggression in Central America, our foreign policy today is even worse. Indeed, some of the same people who instituted the death squads in El Salvador were enlisted to establish "the Salvador option" in Iraq.
Miranda and O'Brien are seeking funding for this major restoration. I recommend that you go to indiegogo and make a contribution, no matter how small, to this extremely worthwhile project.
Balmy Alley # 4
Perhaps one of the reasons this mural survived all the others from that period is that it is painted on two massive sliding doors of a hundred year old stable. In the days when horses were the principal form of transportation, Balmy Alley was lined with stables. It is said that the alley was named after a race horse called Balmy. The alley opens out onto Garfield Park where they used to hold the races.
Further along, on the right hand side, is a recent mural that deals directly with the current issue of gentrification. Its gritty, darkly humorous style is reminiscent of underground comics.
I find it ironic that this mural is almost directly across from a nine unit apartment building that is evicting its approximately sixty tenants under the Ellis Act. A foreign investor has the bought the building and plans to convert it to condominiums. The tenants, many three generation families who have lived under rent control in this building for thirty years, were given three months notice.
Balmy Alley # 2: Three months notice for around sixty tenants.
Three bright youngsters lament the fact that they will have to forgo scholarships to private schools in the city if their family has to move to the East Bay to find affordable housing. Another gentleman tells me that his wife and daughter cry each night at the thought of leaving their apartment and their jobs in the Mission.
In Blog Tags Anthony Holdsworth, Balmy Alley, Ellis Act, Gentrification, Miranda Bergman, Mission District San Francisco, Murals on Balmy Alley, O'Brien Thiele, paintings of Balmy Alley, Salvador Option
Painting the Mission District
Anthony Holdsworth July 12, 2013
I was inspired to start a series of paintings of the Mission District during the memorial for Spain Rodriquez at the Brava Theater, when his wife, Susan Stern, showed her film of his work which included many cartoons set in the Mission.I don't know why it took this event to get me started. We live only 5 blocks from 24th St and, over the years, our family has participated in many cultural events in the Mission. I exhibited paintings created on two trips to Nicaragua at the Casa de Cultura Nicaraguense in 1986. The cultural center was on the corner of 24th and Balmy Alley. After my exhibition, I painted several pictures of the alley, and one or two nearby, but I never explored the Mission extensively. This time, I sketched around the Mission District for several days before I settled on 24th and Alabama as my starting point for a an major series.
Lft: La Victoria Bakery and St Peter's Church, Rt. Dominquez Bakery
Looking south down Alabama the tower of St Peter's rises against the slopes of Bernal Hill. Three of the four corners of the intersection are anchored by businesses with a long history in the Mission. I ate my first Mexican meal in San Francisco at La Victoria Bakery in 1965. Across Alabama Street is the Dominquez Bakery.
As I write this, I've just finished a group portrait which includes a fifth generation member of the Dominquez Bakery family: four year old ' Little Consüelo' with his parents. They live above Taqueria El Farolito which occupies the third corner.
All three businesses reflect a taste for bright colors. The Dominquez family commissioned a lovely series of murals that cover the walls of both their bakery and El Farolito across the street. Spain Rodriguez is credited with creating the first mural in the Mission in 1971. He sure started something!
Taqueria El Farolito
I planned to paint a couple of pictures at this intersection but I kept discovering new vantage points. To date I've finished nine paintings. Despite gentrification which is displacing many of the Latino residents, this intersection retains a strong Latin American flavor. There is a welcoming and tolerant spirit on the street, it reminds me of painting in Mexico and Nicaragua. Some of the locals have posed for small street portraits. I'll use these portraits to paint them into a large, studio painting (around 40" X 120") of this intersection. I am giving the little portraits to my models as a 'thank you' for posing.
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I've had some great conversations here. Perhaps the most extraordinary was a chance encounter with Richard Montoya ( "Culture Clash" , "American Night" and "The River").
Richard enjoyed my paintings so much that he included me in a scene of a movie he's making in the Mission titled "The Other Barrio". I'm keeping my fingers crossed that my 10 seconds of fame doesn't end up on the cutting-room floor!
El Chico Produce Market # 4
Gentrification: Should Money Trump Community? Neighborhoods change, in the fifties and early sixties the Mission was a largely Irish and Italian neighborhood. As these residents moved elsewhere, Mexicans replaced them. They were followed in the Seventies by refugees from America's interventionist policies in Latin America. Argentinians, Chileans, Nicaraguans and Salvadorans came in especially large numbers until the Mission became a hub of Latin American culture and activism. Centers like Galeria de la Raza, and the Mission Cultural Center blossomed. Low riders cruised Mission Street while Carnaval and Day of the Dead became two of San Francisco's most vibrant celebrations.
Beginning in the mid Nineties a new wave entered the Mission. This was not immigrants fleeing poverty and war, but affluent dot-comers lured by the neighborhood's good weather and proximity to Highway 101. Their wealth began to drive up property values and rents. Today only 37% of the Mission is Latino. Much of this remaining population purchased their homes years ago or have rent control.
Many Latinos I met on the street said they were raised here and that they return regularly to visit friends and relatives and to hang out. "I'd like to live here, but I can't afford the high rents." was a common refrain.
Musician, and band leader Camilo Landau who works at Acción Latina, next door to El Farolito observes," People talk about stopping gentrification, but we should have started ten years ago. It's already happened. I was raised around here but I live in Oakland, because I can't afford to live here anymore." He adds that the Merchants Association and the 24th Street Cultural Corridor Committee are organizing to protect the community that remains.
I am posting all these paintings, as I finish them, to my Gallery under the title 'In the Mission'.
In Uncategorized Tags 24th & Alabama, Anthony Holdsworth, brava theater, Camilo Landau, Culture Clash, Dominguez Bakery, El Chico Produce # 4, El Farolito, gentrification in the Mission District, La Victoria Bakery, painting in the mission, paintings of the mission, Richard Montoya, Spain Rodriguez, Susan Stern, the Mission District San Francisco, The Other Barrio, trashman
East Bay Open Studios 2012: View my Golden Gate Series and Other Recent Works.
Saturday and Sunday June 2 - 3 11 am to 6 pm
351 Lewis St, West Oakland 94607
Six Golden Gate Series paintings will be featured along with other recent works.
This is an opportunity to have a lively conversation with me and other guests. I will be serving bread, cheese, wine and cappuccinos. Go to 'Visit Studio' on this website for directions to my studio.
Postcards and Archival Prints:
Postcards of Oakland and Occupy derived from some of my favorite paintings will be available, as well as archival prints of many of my works.
The Golden Gate Bridge from Kirby Cove, oil/canvas, 20" X 36". 2012
"The Golden Gate Bridge from Kirby Cove' (above) will be among those on view at my Open Studio.
George Krevsky Gallery The painting below, titled 'The Golden Gate Bridge from the Marin Headlands' is on exhibition at the George Krevsky Gallery. 77 Kearny St., San Francisco until June 9th. It is also included in the gallery's gorgeous catalogue for the exhibition 'Artistic Visions of the Golden Gate Bridge' available through ePressBooks,Inc.
SFMOMA Artists' Gallery, Fort Mason
Four other paintings from my 'Golden Gate Series' will be on exhibition at the SFMOMA Artists' Gallery from May 26 - June 28th. Including this panorama :
Golden Gate Bridge from Below the Palace of the Legion of Honor
About the Golden Gate Series:
When I started these works, I thought “Painting this bridge is akin to painting the Eiffel Tower. It's been 'done' so many times!” However, I soon discovered that this particular marriage of high technology and landscape is archetypal. What began as a few paintings became a series.
From an outlook below the Palace of the Legion of Honor (See above) the bridge appears improbably delicate. A fine web of steel spanning two headlands. It is an expression of pure physics. As beautiful as a spider's web and almost as minimal.
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Up close - from the waterfront approaching Fort Point - the bridge overwhelms with it's scale and with the muscular grace of it's art deco details. The swells rounding Fort Point roll past the orange towers that rise from the ocean to conduct a steady flow of pedestrians and vehicles effortlessly across the watery chasm.
Where I stand painting this engineering marvel the waves crash up against the waterfront, splashing me and my painting and, on one occasion, drenching my truck.
The bridge embodies in its design the conviction of the nineteenth and early twentieth century that technology could overcome nature, extract great benefits from it, but exist in harmony with it. It took the horrors of modern warfare, the nuclear age, environmental degradation and climate change to tarnish this conviction. From a visual point of view the bridge expresses this antiquated aspiration perfectly.
But from the point of view of function the bridge is a conduit for an enormous amount of internal combustion traffic-hooked on fossil fuels. The Golden Gate Bridge Commission could help break this addiction by offering owners of electric cars three, toll free years. This would be a great incentive to go electric.
The bridge also embodies the optimism of the Roosevelt period. Amadeo Giannini, the founder of the Bank of America, in the midst of the Great Depression purchased all the bonds for the construction of the bridge so as to provide employment for workers in San Francisco. It is impossible today to imagine a banker with such a sense of social obligation!
View this video of me painting at Fort Point courtesy of Diane Harrigan "Postcards from SF"
In California, san francisco Tags 75 anniversary exhibitions Golden Gate Bridge, amadeo gianni, Anthony Holdsworth, archival prints, bank of america, Diane Harrigan, East Bay Open Studios 2012, Fort Point, George Krevsky Gallery, Golden Gate Bridge paintings, Kirby Cove, Marin Headlands, oil paintings of the golden gate bridge, plein air paintings of the golden gate bridge, Postcards from SF, Postcards of Oakland, Postcards of Occupy Oakland and Occupy San Francisco, SFMOMA Artists Gallery
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Songs that mean a lot to you?
By omitef, April 14, 2016 in Off Topic
omitef
Resident Evil Pun Dad
Gender: Maleflux
Pronouns: He/him Xe/xim
Romanticism: Greyromantic
Sexuality: Demisexual
I have a special connection to the song "Deep Inside of You" by Third Eye Blind. It's held a lot of different meanings for me over time. When I first heard it, it made me think about all my past relationships with people, both platonic and romantic.
I have a lot of mental health issues so I tend to isolate myself, but people mistake this as "an air of mystery" and end up thinking I'm some sort of super special guy with all sorts of deep dark secrets to reveal. And because I feel lonely, I'll play the "mystery man" act up to keep them interested in me, to the point where every interaction with them becomes a performance--which makes me feel lonelier, because I end up with a whole bunch of friends who aren't actually friends with the real me, and then I end up hating both them and myself, for making me become an actor in the first place.
But over the past few years, I met some people who didn't want to pretend, for the sake of anybody. People who were brave enough to be themselves, to be open about their issues, who encouraged me to cut down my acting, and be more honest with myself and others. Hearing this song always reminds me that people can always make a difference in your life, if you let them in, and that sometimes, we need to learn to live without a safety net in order to grow in character.
What are some songs that mean a lot to you?
46odnetnin
not a spy
Gender: Agender (AMAB)
Pronouns: any
Sexuality: Sex-Favourable Asexual
I'm still living life on the stage, and also have a bunch of fun mental illnesses. This song was one of the ones that kept me going, I've listened to it countless times I know every word off by heart
30 minutes ago, 46odnetnin said:
I really like the metaphors in this song, especially the one about the ring on her finger being a gift to the gutters. I've seen friendships and relationships get torn apart by mental illness and "My Manic and I" does a great job of capturing that wistfulness, without really putting a blame on anybody (which a lot of songs do).
DannyFenton123
:yespapo:
Arocracy
This is (and a couple other Mumford & Sons) a meaningful song to me. I listen to it a lot when I'm upset about something
OptimisticPessimist
CAPSLOCKIA TOUR GUIDE.
Romanticism: Gray Panromantic
Last Hope- Paramore
Not Alone- Mcfly
Famous Last Words- My Chemical Romance
When things get tough they keep me going.
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Pronouns: he
Sexuality: gay
Oh man, there so many...
Life Left To Go - Safetysuit
Lullabye - Fall Out Boy
Truce - twenty one pilots
Self Conclusion - The Spill Canvas
Second Chances - Paper Route
There's easily more but I'll just post these ones... For now...
Louis Hypo
Atom Collection
Traveller's Chant by Rizzle Kicks.
This really brings me nostalgia and has always been there to listen to in darker times because we are all travelling and... Words can't describe the feeling from listening to this and just remembering the most trivial stuff from 3-5 years ago
Tal Shi'ar
:piratepapo:
Romanticism: gyne grey ro
Sexuality: gyne grey ace
I don't normally have songs that mean much to me, its generally whatever I'm in the mood for. However, this song can do things sometimes:
PhysicsOwl
Romanticism: aro (?)
Wait for It from Hamilton
My favorite line is "I am the one thing in life I can control. I am inimitable, I am an original". I don't listen to a lot of music, but I like this song a lot.
Gender: girl (cis)
Sexuality: lesbian
I'm going to second the person who said After the Storm by Mumford & Sons. That's one of my personal favorites, too.
Other songs that mean a lot to me-
Boats and Birds by Gregory and the Hawk
In Fact by Gregory and the Hawk
Fear & Loathing by Marina and the Diamonds
Safe & Sound by Taylor Swift
Flying Away from Fun Home
@DannyFenton123 I can definitely see why "After the Storm" would be a good song to listen to when you're upset. It makes me feel calm, and towards the end of the song, I feel a little more resolved to try and put things back together.
@OptimisticPessimist
I really like the part in "Last Hope" that goes:
And the blood in these veins isn't pumping any less than it ever has
And that's the hope I have, the only thing I know that's keeping me alive
It reminds me of another line from the song "Be Calm" by FUN, that goes, "you hate your pulse because it still thinks you're alive," which is kinda the opposite of the lines in "Last Hope," even though both songs are about getting through hard times.
"Not Alone" sort of reminds me of a song you'd hear at the end of a movie with a happy ending. For some reason, the lyrics of "Famous Last Words" reminds me of "Semi-Charmed Life" by Third Eye Blind.
@Simowl
Okay, I almost cried when I was listening to "Life Left to Go." It hit really hard for me, because both me and lot of my friends have felt like suicidal. I'm sorry.
Fall Out Boy is my go-to artist when I feel pissed or moody. I like more of their faster music, but their slow tracks can be really powerful too, like "Save Rock and Roll." I really loved the style of "Truce," and how it managed to convey the feeling of sadness and hope at the same time. "Self Conclusion" is amazing in a different way--it's almost as if the singer is earnestly begging you not to go. And I like the way "Paper Route" builds into a heavier beat towards the middle of the song.
I'm still gonna get back to the rest of y'all I just got homework right now
49 minutes ago, omitef said:
Perhaps the only annoying thing about it is the lyrics 'and love will not break your heart, but dismiss your fears'. I prefer to sing it with 'nor dismiss your fears' but that's just a nitpick
LunarSeas
Romanticism: frayromantic
Be Brave, by My Brightest Diamond
Bright Lights by Placebo
Lateralus, by Tool
Down Towards The Healing, by Lovedrug
I could go on forever, haha, I love music so much, and I'm still mourning David Bowie, so let's not even get started there.
Oh OH. And this.
Pronouns: she
Sexuality: a
Stand in the Rain by Superchick has probably been my jam for the longest time.
Fun - Carry On is another one that means a lot to me. To me it's about moving on and accepting the past
Dareyth
Pronouns: Him/He
I love both this song, and its name.
Namakemono
Pronouns: they/them
Romanticism: Aroflux
Sexuality: Questioning Pan
I'm gonna focus on the good vibe songs that I've connected with rather than the more angsty-feelsey ones.
Gold by Owl City
Shooting Star by Owl City
Gosh Adam Young in general...I've liked his music for a long while now. It's been with me through middle school, when Fireflies first gained popularity. His usual upbeat, catchy, and whimsical lyrics parted those metaphorical clouds that darkened my skies during rougher patches of my life. These two songs specifically speak to my creative and artsy side. It's basically him singing "don't let your muse die out! Keep creating!" which means a lot coming from an artist that actually gets the struggles of motivation.
Gym Leader's Final Stand from Pokemon Black/White/Black2/White2
I have been a pokemon for approx. 17 years. This is my favorite game franchise by miles. I've never had a "too cool for Pokemon phase" and I see no future where I'm living without it. Its practically in my blood at this point. I very clearly remember the hype behind Black and White's release. And it didn't disappoint. I was engrossed in my White version. The headphones never came out during my first playthrough. This game was amazing because of how innovative it was, both in and out of battles. One of these new additions happened during battles with gym leaders, who are a big deal in the games. They test your skill, smarts, and power as a trainer. If you can't beat them, you can't move on. When their final Pokemon comes out, your heart stops, knowing that this is it. This is the last obstacles between you and victory. You have to make the most of it. One slip up could call the curtains for your team . And boy-oh-boy could a song ever embody all those feelings at once. All the joy, apprehension, exhilaration, and tension of the last minutes of a battle all wrapped up in this amazing yet short song. You've trained so hard and made it this far. There's no way you can stop now. I can't forget how my breath caught in my throat, my eyes widened, and this huge grin appeared on my face when I heard this song for the very first time. That was the moment that I knew for certain that Black/White were going to be good games. (and hey, they remain my favorite Pokemon games to this day!)
(Hmmm...can you tell I love pokemon? I'm not sure I made that clear enough...heh heh)
Kojote
Pronouns: whatever, really
Sexuality: gray-gynosexual
These are songs I like to listen to specifically because they make me feel like they talk about aromanticism (which they probably don't, but I've decided not to care). The first one helped me through a though time, were people I cared about deeply told me that they loved me. I felt like the villain back than, because I wasn't able to reciprocate their feelings and this song helped.
Specifically the lyrics "I think it's best, if we both forget, before we dwell on it"
Life for rent is really more of a recent song, that became relevant to me. Since I've moved a lot/will move a lot in my life and can't make romantic connections, I sometime's feel like nothing is really mine. Which is why I currently connect to this.
Lyric: "I apologize but once again I'm not in love, but it's not as if I mind that your heart ain't exactly breaking"
Love, Love, Love - Of Monsters and Men
Life for Rent - Dido
Songs I like for non-aro reasons
No Son of Mine - Genesis
Times are a changin' - Bob Dylan (Watchmen Version)
Ghost Rider in the Sky - Johnny Cash Cover
Last Unicorn - America (also Walking Man's road)
Fine on the Outside - Priscilla Ahn
Every Rebecca Sugar song ever, but especially this one
Yes I realize I've got the music taste of my parent's and grandparents generation. Why are you asking?
I have found a thirty year old song which contains the lyrics "I'll give you love baby not romance".
Better known version from 1988 check around 1:17
Fun is just generally awesome, but this is my favourite. It has great lines like 'May your past be the sound, of your feet upon the ground'
Ugh...
Gender: doesn't matter
Pronouns: whatevs
When you wish upon a star (a.k.a. the song in Pinocchio that plays at the beginning of many Disney movies when you see the big castle)
I'v always had the head in the clouds and always loved staring at the stars...
Also, I had made an arrangement of it with my piano teacher back when I was preparing my audition for college. We really had a great time working on it and the juges really loved it! Entering this college is the best thing that ever happened to me, and because of that, every time I hear this song, I have noting but good memories and a feeling of accomplishment.
Saaaro
Gender: Cis Male
Pronouns: He/His/Him
I have so many songs with meaning to me. Pretty much every big moment in my life has a song that goes with it. But since we're on an aro forum:
Awake My Soul by Mumford and Sons is one of my favourite songs at the moment. Totally plays with my emotions with the build up at the end (and is a really good song to end a workout session/run on). Plus it has the rather fitting lyric "Lend me your hand and we'll conquer them all, but lend me your heart and I'll just let you fall"
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Gender: Gender neutral
Pronouns: she/they
Sexuality: Pansexual
Guernica by Brand New will always mean a lot to me. My dad passed away from cancer 2 years ago after over a year of fighting it and no song encapsulates better what it feels like to live with someone who's fighting a disease, and feeling like you're completely powerless in front of their suffering. "If I could I would shrink myself and sink through your skin to your blood cells and remove whatever makes you hurt, but I am too weak to be your cure" is probably the one phrase I would use to describe this feeling.
I've started actively listening to Mumford & Sons these past few weeks and I really love their music. It's so calming and relaxing... The only downside to them is that they have a lot of breakup songs and I really don't like those, but eh, noone's perfect.
I found out about After the Storm a few years ago though and it's really weird how the meaning of that song changed for me. I discovered this song back in a period when I was very lonely and it used to make me almost cry because of how sad I found it, because I would think "no, that time the song is talking about will never come". But listening to it now makes me smile because actually yeah, that time came, they were right, and this songs reminds me of all the fighting it took to get here and all the things I've been through but survived.
Awake my Soul is definitely one of the best songs they made too tbh, I love it, but I can't say it has a special meaning to me.
Romanticism: aromantic (bi-alterous)
Sexuality: demi-heterosexual
There are many songs that mean a lot to me since I can relate to them, but my favourite song of all times is "Underneath" by Tarja Turunen as its lyrics represent me 100%.
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Great lakes waterfowl die-offs: Finding the source
...WASHINGTON D.C. Nov. 24 2013 -- A deadly menace stalks the loons gul...To understand die-off origin and distribution ocean engineers from th...Monitoring the drift of waterbird carcasses associated with marine oil...The team performed towing tank experiments on submerging bird carcasse...
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WASHINGTON D.C. Nov. 24, 2013 -- A deadly menace stalks the loons, gulls and other water birds of the Great Lakes region: Type E botulism, a neuromuscular disease caused when birds eat fish infected with toxin-producing bacteria. Cases of the disease are on the rise, killing approximately 10,000 more waterfowl in 2007 than when it was first reported in 1963.
To understand die-off origin and distribution, ocean engineers from the Florida Atlantic University (FAU) Institute for Ocean Systems Engineering in Dania Beach, Florida are using their expertise in experimental hydrodynamics. They have teamed with the U.S. Geological Survey to help develop a novel way of tracking waterfowl carcasses to determine the source of lethal outbreaks that infect fish eaten by waterbirds.
Monitoring the drift of waterbird carcasses associated with marine oil spills is another potential application. At the annual meeting of the American Physical Society's Division of Fluid Dynamics, held Nov. 24 26 in Pittsburgh, Pa., the team will present experimental measurements conducted to support the development of tracking software that will better determine the origin of waterbird die-offs.
The team performed towing tank experiments on submerging bird carcasses to determine the relevant drag coefficients. Together with wind and current data, these coefficients can be used in probabilistic source tracking simulations to calculate waterbird drift velocity and direction in order to reconstruct the likely routes that bird bodies may have traveled after a die-off.
Ultimately, this information will be compared to waterbird distribution and abundance revealed through aerial surveys to identify locations where waterbirds are likely exposed to botulinum toxin, explained Karl von Ellenrieder of FAU.
"Using the submerged frontal area of an ellipse, together with the frontal area of any submerged portions of the bird's head and neck gives good similarity across the range of speeds and submergence levels tested," von Ellenrieder said. "This is the first effort we are aware of to obtain estimates of force parameters operating on drifting waterbirds for incorporation into a current and waved-based tracking model."
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It’s safe to assume, says Dawkins, that if we ever have contact with extraterrestrial life from outside our solar system, it will be intelligent. That’s because of the huge distances between Earth and other planets. But beyond that, this may be the only thing we have in common with aliens. Life on our planet is carbon-based, but as Dawkins argues, it’s not totally out of the question to have life based on silicon – robotic, in other words.
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The new Muslims of post-conquest Iran
Savant, Sarah Bowen. 2013. The new Muslims of post-conquest Iran: tradition, memory and conversion (Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
How do converts to a religion come to feel an attachment to it? The New Muslims of Post-Conquest Iran answers this important question for Iran by focusing on the role of memory and its revision and erasure in the ninth to eleventh centuries. During this period, the descendants of the Persian imperial, religious and historiographical traditions not only wrote themselves into starkly different early Arabic and Islamic accounts of the past but also systematically suppressed much knowledge about pre-Islamic history. The result was both a new ‘Persian’ ethnic identity and the pairing of Islam with other loyalties and affiliations, including family, locale and sect. This pioneering study examines revisions to memory in a wide range of cases, from Iran’s imperial and administrative heritage to the Prophet Muhammad’s stalwart Persian companion, Salman al-Farisi, and to memory of Iranian scholars, soldiers and rulers in the mid-seventh century.
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FAMILIES OF RUSSIAN DIPLOMATS, SPECIALISTS LEAVING IRAQ
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About 50 family members of Russian diplomats in Iraq, personnel of foreign representations, and specialists working in the country will shortly leave on a charter flight, a Russian Embassy official told Interfax on Wednesday. \"On the Foreign Ministry\'s recommendation, family members of the embassy and trade mission personnel and Russian specialists working in Iraq under contracts are being taken home in an organized manner for security reasons,\" the diplomat said. Last week, about 30 Russians left Iraq on a charter flight, and this process will continue, he said.
About 50 family members of Russian diplomats in Iraq, personnel of foreign representations, and specialists working in the country will shortly leave on a charter flight, a Russian Embassy official told Interfax on Wednesday. \"On the Foreign Ministry\'s recommendation, family members of the embassy and trade mission personnel and Russian specialists working in Iraq under contracts are being taken home in an organized manner for security reasons,\" the diplomat said. Last week, about 30 Russians left Iraq on a charter flight, and this process will continue, he said. The diplomat recalled that the Russian Embassy in Baghdad, as well as other Russian diplomatic missions abroad, have an evacuation plan for extreme circumstances. At the same time, he refrained from saying whether the evacuation of Russians from Iraq is proceeding as part of such a plan. \"The evacuation plan is multifaceted and includes many aspects,\" he said. Asked about the emotions of Russians in Iraq, the diplomat replied, \"There is no panic.\" He said about 700 to 800 Russian citizens are currently in Iraq. (Interfax)
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We are situated to the west of Paris, 20 km from central Paris, 40 minutes by car and 35 minutes by train to Saint-Germain-en-Laye.
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take the A13 motorway west towards Rouen/Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines/Versailles for approx. 10.5 kms. Take junction/exit 6 to merge onto Route de Versailles/N186 toward Saint-Germain-en-Laye/Marly-le-Roi. Keep left to stay on Route de Versailles/N186. At Rond-Point de la Grille Royale, take the 2nd exit and stay on Route de Versailles/N186 towards Saint-Germain-en-Laye for approx. 4 kms. Keep left and join the N13 towards Saint-Germain-en-Laye. Continue on the N13 and take the exit towards A13 motorwary Poissy / Mantes / Cergy-Pontoise (watch out for the speed camera before the tunnel!). Continue on the N13 and keep left towards A13 motorway Mantes /Rouen via the mini-tunnel. On exiting the tunnel, turn left into Rue de la Croix de Fer (Fontana restaurant on your right). Continue on Rue de la Croix de Fer for 550 m, then turn left onto Rue du Fer à Cheval for approx. 230 m. Roadside parking available on Rue du Fer à Cheval, Rue du Bas Huet and Rue de la Vieille Butte.
take the A14 motorway (tolls) west towards Rouen for approx. 17 kms to exit 6a Chambourcy. Take exit 6a toward N13 Saint-Germain-en-Laye / Chambourcy. At the roundabout, take the 2nd ;exit onto N13 / Rue du Président Roosevelt towards Saint-Germain-en-Laye via the mini-tunnel. Turn right at the traffic lights onto Rue du Fer à Cheval (signposted Lycées) and continue for 300 m up the hill. Turn left and then right to stay on Rue du Fer à Cheval for 230 m, the entrance to the Lycée International is on your right. Roadside parking available on Rue du Fer à Cheval, Rue du Bas Huet and Rue de la Vieille Butte.
take the A13 east towards Paris. Take exit 7 towards Poissy / Saint-Germain-en-Laye. At the roundabout, take the 3rd exit towards N13 Saint-Germain-en-Laye and keep left at the fork following signs for N13 / A14 / Saint Germain en Laye/Poissy-la Maladrerie/Chambourcy and merge onto Route de Quarante Sous/D113. Continue on the D113 towards Saint-Germain-en-Laye for approx. 5 kms through Aigremont and Chambourcy. Turn right at the traffic lights onto Rue du Fer à Cheval towards Fourqueux / Saint Germain Bel Air and Lycées and continue for 300 m up the hill. Turn left and then right to stay on Rue du Fer à Cheval for 230 m, the entrance to the Lycée International is on your right. Roadside parking available on Rue du Fer à Cheval, Rue du Bas Huet and Rue de la Vieille Butte.
From Paris take RER A line (red line, direction Saint-Germain-en-Laye) from Paris to Saint-Germain-en-Laye for approx. 35 mins. Taxis and buses (see below) are available at street level to continue your journey.
From the bus station at Saint-Germain-en-Laye RER you can take the following bus lines:
R2-Sud bus (Résalys, direction Gare de Saint-Germain-en-Laye) to the Village d'Hennemont stop (13 stops, approx. 17 mins)
R2-Nord bus (Résalys, direction Gare de Saint-Germain-en-Laye) to the Village d'Hennemont stop or Péreire stop (8 stops, approx. 14 mins)
R4 bus (Résalys, direction Collège André Derain) to the Péreire stop (7 stops, approx. 8 mins)
From the Village d'Hennemont bus stop turn right to stay on Rue du Fer à Cheval (black railings on your right) and follow the road down the hill for approx. 200 m to the entrance to the Lycée International (on your right).
From the Péreire bus stop head west on Rue Péreire towards the Rue Franklin Roosevelt (N13). At the roundabout cross over Rue Franklin Roosevelt and turn right towards Rue du Fer à Cheval. Turn left onto Rue du Fer à Cheval and walk 300 m up the road towards the Château d'Hennemont (on your right). Turn left and then right to stay on Rue du Fer à Cheval (black railings on your right) and follow the road down the hill for approx. 200 m to the entrance to the Lycée International (on your right).
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Establishing a new development framework in an area of east London, the project quickly gained planning permission. By working closely with the Tower Hamlet planning team we helped determine a new datum in mass & amenity for a rapidly changing area. The apartments follow GLA housing design guidelines and achieve a 50% carbon reduction.
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This central Edinburgh gap site is surrounded by Victorian tenements and measures 55m². It is asymmetric and was underused as a storage yard.
City Architecture Office has found a solution to create a townhouse over five levels. The building ties with the grain of the adjacent tenements. 3D modelling studies demonstrate that the living spaces would receive generous amounts of natural light without overshadowing and compromising privacy. Ample private amenity space is provided on a sun-filled loggia roof terrace with skyline views.
The concept development achieves a spacious family house in a location where there is a need for, but a lack of such homes. The internal layout includes 4 bedrooms and space for a garage. Alternatively, the ground floor and first floor could be used as open office space.
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The proposal is for a low energy office to set the standard for the third phase of Edinburgh Park - one of the UK’s premier office business parks. This 5 storey office on site G4 comprises three main elements: floorplate, service core and screen. They are arranged to maximise usable area and energy efficiency. The composition brings striking visual form to a speculative office.
The top floor Marketing Suite commands stunning views of the Forth Valley, Pentlands, Edinburgh Castle and the Park phase 3 site. These natural points of reference are beneficial in providing context to the activity of the modern workplace. Occupants can relax with each other on a roof garden regardless of which floor they work. The proposal promotes sustainable commuting with generous cycle storage and staff showers provided on every level; in contrast to the sea of car parking that surrounds existing offices.
Natural cross ventilation is achieved by perforating the downstand steelwork cross members. There are occupant operable windows for local control in addition to the stack effect of the atrium. The thermal mass of the exposed concrete coffer absorbs any heat build up during the day, which purges at night-time, cooling the building. Hot water is provided via solar panels on the roof. Electrical energy is supplied via photovoltaic cells on the south elevation. Rainwater from the roof is stored at high level to flush all WCs and irrigate the roof garden. The design minimises operational energy, embodied energy, running costs, transport energy & waste.
The brief was to create a glamorous Italian restaurant environment, increase the number of covers by 50% and create a new façade. Other technical aspects were to accommodate two bespoke log fired pizza ovens, associated flues and meet DDA requirements.
We maximised the front of house activities at the ground floor by making efficient use of the considerable basement for ancillary functions previously sited at ground floor level. By doing this the desired increase in available space for covers (around 144) was achieved. The main kitchen, bar and reception areas were configured to emphasise the pizza ovens as the focal feature - allowing diners to ‘see & be seen’ and engage in the theatre of the pizza chef as they watch their meal being prepared.
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PURGATORY'S ANGEL
Dark Angel Series, Book 1
Everyone has a dark side where their inner demons roam. When the devils of our nightmares murder in their sleep, only one can stop them.
Jaime Connor was once one of the mightiest archangels in heaven. Sent to earth to stop demons from claiming another victim in their sleep, she has battled far too long. Tired of all the killing, she awaits the demon who will overpower her and send her back to heaven.
Yet her life lingers on and a dream she can’t remember plagues her thoughts. Only remnants of her memory remain in the image of a gorgeous demon who circled her before the kill—the scent of Ireland on his breathe, a brogue on his tongue, and the sea in his penetrating eyes.
The demon must have died. She never would have woken if he hadn’t. That’s how it works. How it’s always worked. So why did he appear in her world the next day? And why is he trying to seduce her? Will he be the fated one to finally steal the life of the strongest dark angel the world has ever known? If she’s lucky, that will be all he steals.
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NBA free-agent guard Rashad McCants is in serious talks with an unnamed Chinese team, his agent, Bernie Lee, confirmed Thursday afternoon. The two sides could reach an agreement within the next 24 hours, a source close to the talks said. McCants averaged 10 points per game and shot 36.8 percent from the three-point line in... Read more »
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The NBA owners and players union started an important round of negotiations Tuesday in Manhattan, with hopes of salvaging the entire 2011-12 NBA season, scheduled to begin Nov. 1, hanging in the balance. Although a deal wasn’t reached during the two-hour bargaining session, both sides said it was best to spend time discussing among themselves... Read more »
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Following a five-week training camp with Italy’s Benetton Treviso, Bulls free-agent forward Brian Scalabrine has inked a deal with the club for the upcoming season, according to the team’s website. His deal reportedly does not include an opt-out clause that would allow him to return to the NBA if the league-imposed lockout ends. “My expectations... Read more »
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Bulls Notes: Joakim Noah, France lose to Spain in EuroBasket title game
Bulls center Joakim Noah ended his first international competition in defeat as his French national team lost on Sunday, 98-85, to Spain in the EuroBasket 2011 gold medal game. Both teams had already qualified for the 2012 London Olympics by advancing to the tournament’s title game. Noah, who fouled out late in the contest, posted... Read more »
Joakim Noah, France clinch Olympic berth
The French advanced to the EuroBasket 2011 championship game and punched their ticket into the 2012 London Olympics after a 79-71 victory over Russia in the semifinals on Friday. By defeating Macedonia 82-70 earlier in the day, Spain also qualifed for the tournament’s title game and the Olympics. Coming off a 1-for-8 shooting performance Thursday... Read more »
Joakim Noah struggles as France advances to EuroBasket semifinals
Joakim Noah’s French team advanced to the EuroBasket 2011 semifinals following a 64-56 victory over Greece on Thursday. In 27 minutes of action, he recorded five points and eight rebounds. Once again, San Antonio Spurs guard Tony Parker led France with 18 points. Although Noah — who missed France’s last game due to a calf... Read more »
Omer Asik, Turkey fail to qualify for 2012 Olympics
Following a second place (to Team USA) finish in the 2010 FIBA World Championships, the Turkish national team had lofty expectations coming into EuroBasket 2011, the qualifying tournament for the 2012 London Olympics. Their high hopes were shattered Sunday in a 68-67 loss to Serbia. Turkey, which fell to 1-4 in second-round action, needed a... Read more »
Exceptions to CBA ruling possible
Denver Nuggets swingman Wilson Chandler made a risky decision last week, becoming the second NBA free-agent, joining Orlando’s Earl Clark, to sign with Zhejiang Guangsha of the Chinese Basketball Association (CBA). Yahoo!’s Adrian Wojnarowski reported Thursday that Nuggets free-agent guard J.R. Smith is nearing an agreement on the richest contract in CBA history. While the... Read more »
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Bulls wrap-up preliminary round of EuroBasket
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CSS Group is mentioned in a recent Gulf News Article for their sponsorship contribution to the game of Cricket in the United Arab Emirates
Gulf News Archives Staying positive Falaknaz says the DCC is trying hard to find a way around its funds crunch
Dubai: The now-homeless Dubai Cricket Council (DCC) used to stage some of the most competitive tournaments in UAE domestic cricket, with nearly 70 per cent of the cricketers that represent the national team are products of these events.
The Al Rawabi inter-school competition, contested by 40 UAE schools every year, stood out as the best among all junior tournaments, with scholarships being offered to the top performers.
Farrukh Siddiqui, convenor of the DCC’s grounds and umpires committee and the former face of the organisation as he used to be present every day at the Al Jaddaf grounds, told Gulf News: “Cricketers unable to play in Dubai now to travel to far off places like Umm Al Quwain and Ajman to play in tournaments. We used to charge just Dh3,000 for the use of our grounds for a full tournament, but today one has to play Dh15,000, which is unaffordable.
“I feel now is the right time to approach the sports authorities to grant space for a ground. We have qualified for three World Cups and cricket has brought glory for the UAE, so hopefully our request will be considered.”
The DCC used to have 1,700 registered cricketers and 180 clubs playing under its umbrella. Eight top teams regularly played in its A division events and, on average, 82 clubs played in B division tournaments.
“More than 2,000 cricketers used to use the facilities,” Siddiqui said. “All the grounds used to be fully booked. A minimum of 25 tournaments and 900 matches used to be played through the season.”
The DCC had no shortage of sponsorship support from companies, with Emirates airline, Consolidated Shipping Services and Mobil regularly getting involved. All the leading companies in the UAE also played in DCC events, with inter-corporate tournaments contested by 32 teams.
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Aussie Lee seizes LPGA lead in Michigan
Los Angeles, USA: Australian Minjee Lee fired a bogey-free four-under par 68 on Saturday to put herself in position to give herself the LPGA Volvik Championship title for her birthday.
Lee, who turns 22 on Sunday, held a two-stroke heading into the final round at Ann Arbor, Michigan.
She's been knocking on the door all season, with her five top-10 LPGA finishes including a playoff loss to Lydia Ko in San Francisco in April.
Lee nabbed her fourth birdie of the day at Travis Pointe's par-five 18th to build a 12-under par total of 204.
American Stacy Lewis, expecting her first child later this year, fired a 67 to join a group sharing second on 206. She was joined by South Korea's Kim In-kyung, who also posted a 67, and by England's Jodi Ewart Shadoff and American Lindy Duncan, who both signed for 69s.
"I had a pretty solid day today, made no bogeys," said Lee, who is seeking a fourth LPGA title and her first since 2016. She finished second in this event by a stroke last year.
Although play was halted for more than two hours by rain, Lee said the greens firmed up by the time she finished her round.
"I think just keeping it in play was pretty important today," she said.
Lewis, seeking her first win since the Portland Classic last August, said she didn't hit the ball well, but made some solid up-and-downs to get on a "nice little run."
"This golf course, you can shoot a number," said Lewis, who birdied four of her last five holes. "You can shoot six- or seven-under, but you can also play pretty good and shoot even par.
"So you've just got to get runs like I did there at the end of the day and just keep hanging around and post a number and see what happens."
Lewis admitted she was tired after the stop-and-start day, but said she didn't think her pregnancy prevented her from being competitive.
"The little one was telling me it's dinner time right now, but other than that I feel pretty good," she said. "Excited to be in the hunt."
Japanese 19-year-old Nasa Hataoka, who held a one-stroke overnight lead over Lee, made a promising start with a birdie at the second, then had five bogeys before back-to-back birdies at 14 and 15 to post a two-over 74.
That left her tied for 15th, five shots off the pace.
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What is Pupil Premium?
The pupil premium is a grant allocated to local authorities and schools with pupils on roll in January 2012 that are known to have been eligible for free school meals (FSM) at any time in the last six years. Each of these pupils attract a specific amount of funding each year which must be spent on them to improve their education. Schools will have the freedom to spend the premium in a way they think will best support the raising of attainment for those pupils who are eligible.
Do any of the following apply to you? If so, you are eligible to claim Free School Meals and your child will receive the Pupil Premium Funding to help with their individual needs in school.
You receive Child Tax Credits (but not Working Tax Credit) and your gross annual family income is less than £16,190.
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What Exactly is DevOps?
By Neil Garnichaud, December 24, 2012
The latest trend in software development is the culture of DevOps, in which developers partner with operations staff to assure that software runs with a minimum of problems.
Many organizations find themselves in a challenging situation with the rise of cloud-based Web applications that allow for quick releases in response to issues or requests coming in from the user community. Responsiveness to their user base is the goal of every software development shop, but it can put a strain on the functional teams within the organization. This strain often results in more defects and consequent disruption to the team. DevOps attempts to solve this problem by developing a partnership between Development and Operations (hence, the name). In this structure, the development team supports operational requirements such as deploy scripts, diagnostics, and load and performance testing from the beginning of the cycle; and the operations team provides knowledgeable support and feedback before, during, and after deployment.
DevOps is the direction in which many software development teams are going. They have to, given the pressures organizations are under to produce higher-quality code faster with less time available for QA. This is a new environment and many developers will need to adjust if they want to prosper. With timelines compressed, the walls separating development, QA, and production are barriers to agility. DevOps attempts to break through those walls. Now, team-playing skills are as important as technical skills. So, too, is a singular focus on the end-user experience and how that is affecting the business. Rather than a new set of tools or organization, DevOps is a new culture and process. It's development, QA, and operations working together to expedite development and problem resolution.
Why Developers Should Want DevOps
DevOps is good for developers. There are three principal reasons a developer would want to work in a DevOps-oriented organization:
A better quality of life. Developers working in DevOps-mode receive fewer calls in the middle of the night to resolve production issues. That's because they see issues before they become catastrophic problems due to an orientation of proactive monitoring rather than reactive alerts.
Pride of ownership. In a traditional software process, once software is developed, it's "thrown over the wall" to QA, which later throws it over another wall to production so what the end-user ultimately sees might be quite different from what the developer wrote. But under the DevOps model, what you write goes live because you continue to have visibility and access to the code even after it goes to QA and production. In other words, developers own the delivery of the code from creation to implementation.
More relevant work. Developers, like most human beings, get greater satisfaction from work that has relevance in the real world. Because developers in a traditional organization are isolated, they often work on simulated problems in made-up user scenarios and they only find out that these approximations were wrong when something breaks. In a DevOps model, scenarios are real. Environments are load tested, for example before they're put into production to see if they work correctly. Another example is that test scripts are, themselves, tested for realism by being deployed in the production environment, not just test labs. Sharing these test results with developers gives them the opportunity to see how their code performs under real-life conditions.
What "DevOps-Ready" Means
Perhaps your organization has already adopted the DevOps model. Three questions can help clarify where you stand on the DevOps curve:
Do you, as a developer, have access to troubleshooting information in real time?
Does your production environment use tests and other tools from the development team to validate that the production environment is working?
As a developer, do you view the networking team as your partner?
If the answers are "no," you're not there yet. Here are some things that can be done to improve the situation. Let's start with your tools. While DevOps is more about culture and process than organization, tools can help enforce best practices specifically, the sharing of troubleshooting information across silos. That requires adding more instrumentation in your software to see how your software is performing in QA and production, not just in development. This is code that traps errors, checks system parameters, reports function timeouts, and returns other values during program execution, which it then writes to log files.
In a siloed environment, developers often won't see these log files again once the code is released into production. In a DevOps world, developers have visibility to the files regardless of where the software is run in development, QA, or in production. Not only do defects get fixed faster, but the same defects are less likely to reappear in future releases making development, itself, faster and more responsive to the business. That brings agile quality to agile development.
Break Old Habits
DevOps is also about breaking old habits like the natural tendency to focus on software bug counts as a measure of quality. Fixing a single bug will not provide much leverage for creating bug-free software faster. A better measure is process bug counts. In other words, where is the process broken that led to the bug in the first place? For example, is the code that developers are building on their local machines somehow different from the code that gets deployed to QA or to production? Or is the code behaving differently in one environment because there is something present there that is not present in the other environments?
Unless code versions are tightly synched across environments, and unless the environments themselves are tightly synched, it is hard to tell whether an issue is a logic problem, a data problem, an environment problem, or something else. This is another case where tools can enforce consistency as in automated deploy to push the same code to multiple environments all at once.
Partners or Finger Pointers?
Probably the most important adjustment developers will need to make is in their day-to-day interaction with other team members. Do developers address software issues proactively (such as by monitoring operations logs daily) or do they wait for problems to come to them through support? And when there is a problem, how is it resolved? Are team members partners or finger pointers?
A lot depends on leadership whether management is preaching the DevOps vision, leading by example, providing the necessary training and support, and rewarding developers for team contributions, not just technical prowess. DevOps requires an orchestra leader. If that job isn't filled yet where you work, maybe you should apply. Selling a DevOps environment is about understanding what's important to management: Is it moving faster? Is it moving higher quality? Is it about developers being more accountable for their code? All these things come about by way of a DevOps environment.
Neil Garnichaud is the Host Solutions Business Manager at SmartBear, responsible for product development and software development.
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Part 17 - The past dictates the future (SPOILERS)
Re: Part 17 - The past dictates the future (SPOILERS)
Postby Terence » Mon Sep 04, 2017 6:35 pm
Why was there not just one thread made for part 17 & part 18?
Seeeing as this one is not being made use of.
Basically people will talk about part 17 in the 18 thread bacause of it being the 2 part finale last night.
Postby ThumbsUp » Mon Sep 04, 2017 6:39 pm
Oh, another thing I noticed. The Laura and James discussion suddenly felt S3 Roadhouse vignette to me. Mentioning Bobby killing a guy and Donna felt random and like they were talking about strangers.
Laura and Coop meeting in the woods was masterfully done, technically and creatively. The entire mythology of Twin Peaks has led up to Laura Palmer and Dale Cooper meeting in real life.
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Postby Framed_Angel » Mon Sep 04, 2017 7:28 pm
ThumbsUp wrote: Did the jail drunk peel off a wound in the same place Rodney Mitchum did?
That's a really good observation. And that is one character (among many), merely called "The Drunk" in credits, right? whose purpose will gall me not knowing what it was. He appeared several times. Some here speculated it was motor oil oozing into the puddle beneath him. The only person who reacted to him discernibly was Chad. Whereas Naido was speechless except for monkey-like chirping: the Drunk was reduced to only mimicking what voices/ words he heard. A moniker like "The Drunk" seems insufficient except as a trope or the categorical repeat-offender who ends up in the slammer all the time (think "Otis" in Andy Griffith show)...
So all that aside -- how this character would tie in with the Mitchums is beyond me, but I agree that resembled the same place on his cheek.
alreadygoneplaces
Postby alreadygoneplaces » Mon Sep 04, 2017 7:38 pm
ThumbsUp wrote: Oh, another thing I noticed. The Laura and James discussion suddenly felt S3 Roadhouse vignette to me. Mentioning Bobby killing a guy and Donna felt random and like they were talking about strangers.
The problem with that scene is why did Laura see Cooper in the woods in FWWM? If my memory serves me correctly, she went on to the cabin and got murdered in that film.
Postby alreadygoneplaces » Mon Sep 04, 2017 10:34 pm
So, the brief return of the Jumping Man in episode 17 also saw the return of the curious "That's the way it is, Michael" hidden audio.
I slowed it down and processed to try and bring the voice out more clearly (see link below)- it's the same sample as last time, only cut up differently and repeated at several slightly different speeds. The reversed part of it is just the same sample again, backwards.
https://vocaroo.com/i/s0uWeVHYOlXp
And below, is the audio hidden in episode 15 in case it was missed:
https://vocaroo.com/i/s0k19Rmqslwo
If the reason for its inclusion has significance to the story itself, I couldn't begin to speculate what it's all about, but it appearing again definitely reinforces its association with the Jumping Man.
It could also be an in-joke of some kind, of course...
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Postby Saturn's child » Mon Sep 04, 2017 10:50 pm
alreadygoneplaces wrote: So, the brief return of the Jumping Man in episode 17 also saw the return of the curious "That's the way it is, Michael" hidden audio.
I slowed it down and processed to try and bring the voice out more clearly...
This is very interesting, thank you for posting this! Just shooting at the breeze now, but could he be talking to Phillip Michael Gerard, aka MIKE? Not sure what this would mean exactly.
(Alternatively, maybe it's Mike Nelson's boss laying him off... "That's the way it is Michael." )
TPDpz
Postby TPDpz » Mon Sep 04, 2017 11:51 pm
I did not like the fight with Bob. I do not think it was necessary in any way. They could've avoided the necessity for Mr. green glove right there and just leave Mr.C lie on ground after being shot with the woodsmen being there. Somehow get rid of the woodsmen and be able to put the ring to his finger.
I kinda respected how they had Silva appear on it, but it just definately was not required. Could've erased two cheesy things from the show.
But then again we did get a verification that it was all a dream and in dreams silly things do happen. Like Mr. Green glove.
Everything else was all right, a bit rushed sensation, but it was just fine.
However I absolutely loved part 18, it's so deep, but will leave comments on that to the next thread.
Postby Novalis » Tue Sep 05, 2017 3:51 am
Thanks for the hard work and posting this. I find it deeply fascinating.
I wonder if this is taken from an old conversation with Michael J Anderson.
In any case I fully expect Lynch to have very good reasons for selecting this particular audio, and I fully expect him never, ever, to expound on it.
As a matter of fact, 'Chalfont' was the name of the people that rented this space before. Two Chalfonts. Weird, huh?
claaa7
Postby claaa7 » Tue Sep 05, 2017 12:37 pm
Terence wrote: Why was there not just one thread made for part 17 & part 18?
right now it's certainly easier but if the same system is still used a year from now it will be easier to use separate threads
Novalis wrote:
many thanks for this.. crazy how that is used for both scenes.
that scene in 17 gave me the CHILLS big time
Esselgee
Postby Esselgee » Tue Sep 05, 2017 2:15 pm
The only thing missing from the Bob takedown scene was Nadine. She could have shown up with her golden shovel and used her super strength to bash the Bob ball with. Maybe she and Freddie could have kept hitting Bob back and forward between each other until he was destroyed.
Postby ScarFace32 » Tue Sep 05, 2017 4:42 pm
It is kind of fucked up that we have to sit through an entire Eddie Vedder song and Julee Cruise is only a few seconds. The FB comments make it seem like there is a lot going on behind the scenes. I feel like maybe some of the wrong people have Lynch's ear? I mean Eddie Vedder? Why the fuck is Eddie Vedder on Twin Peaks. And all those shitty trendy bands
Julee says "He did it to slap me in my face". Does anyone have any insight as to what the story is here?
It seems that Eddie Vedder is good friends with Laura Dern which is what brought him in.
Esselgee wrote: It seems that Eddie Vedder is good friends with Laura Dern which is what brought him in.
Oh ok don't you think that illustrates Julee's point pretty well?
Postby Mr. Reindeer » Tue Sep 05, 2017 8:12 pm
Novalis wrote: I wonder if this is taken from an old conversation with Michael J Anderson.
It's a recording of the last conversation they ever had, when DKL was explaining that all the actors besides Kyle are getting scale.
claaa7 wrote:
True, but Parts 3 & 4 share a thread simply because they aired back-to-back, just like the finale. The mods here do a great job, but this feels like a weird inconsistency.
ScarFace32 wrote: It is kind of fucked up that we have to sit through an entire Eddie Vedder song and Julee Cruise is only a few seconds. The FB comments make it seem like there is a lot going on behind the scenes. I feel like maybe some of the wrong people have Lynch's ear? I mean Eddie Vedder? Why the fuck is Eddie Vedder on Twin Peaks. And all those shitty trendy bands
She had a big falling-out with DKL and Badalamenti because she felt she didn't have enough say-so on the albums -- to put it in MJA's terms, she felt like she was their meat puppet. It seems like she's never quite gotten over this, despite TP making whatever career she has. Look, none of us was there, so it's tough to speak authoritatively. But she's an adult woman capable of making her own career choices. It seems sorta weird for her to say she changed her number to hide from DKL as if he were a creepy ex-boyfriend (despite her highly emotional Gold Box DVD interview talking about making amends with DKL tearfully over the phone in the early 2000s). Ok, so DKL/Sabrina tracked her down. She clearly agreed to do the show, and got paid to show up -- of her own volition, presumably free of coercion -- and lip sync to an old track. Pretty easy day's work. She confessed in the recent interview that was published that she hasn't bothered to watch TR, so her evaluation of how her contribution was used is based on a cold viewing of JUST this Part, with no context.
Sure, I wish we'd gotten a new Lynch/Badalamenti/Cruise song. But we didn't, and she knew that going into it -- and was apparently fine with that (and super proud of her participation lip-syncing to an ancient cut) until she learned that the "performance" was trimmed? That's a little weird.
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Difference Between Emo and Punk
• Categorized under Culture,Miscellaneous | Difference Between Emo and Punk
Emo vs. Punk
Music lovers alike often hear of the terms emo and punk, yet only a few really know about the true meaning of each musical genre. Although both terms are considered to be subgenres of the more broad rock music, many have attached additional meanings to the two terms that make them even more confusing. Some connote emo to general moods, while others identify both with a certain type of fashion sense.
However, as a music genre, emo is the shortcut for ’emotional’. It’s not that all songs that are sad and gloomy are emo, it’s more about songs that are discussing pressing personal problems and relationship issues. Emo is emotionally charged punk music. With this genre, you’ll see individuals who are depressed and upset due to some personal problems other than those social in nature. You can also see emo songs depicting people who are not content with life.
Punk, on the contrary, is leaning more about social issues, and even political themes. No wonder you often hear the concepts of peace or unity being tackled in punk music. Bands playing punk are seen as anarchists who believe that no religion is above any other. They also like to impart the concept of equality to the point of almost always disagreeing with what the government has to say.
Some popular bands that are playing emo songs are the following: Fall Out Boy, Brand New, The Used, and many others. For punk, the bands include: The Sex Pistols, Discharge, The Offspring, and Minor Threat, among others.
In terms of musical quality, emo sounds more expressive and melodic. Its roots can be traced back as far as the middle portion of the 1980’s, wherein it started from hardcore punk and later blended with indie rock and pop punk. Some of the most common instruments used by emo bands are the guitar, drum set, and bass guitar.
Lastly, punk rock history is more profound. It sprouted earlier, in 1974. Its stylistic origins include protopunk and garage rock, among others. This music genre is faster in pace, and is harder, or edgy in nature. With its recent blending with some other related musical genres, like hardcore, punk sounds more aggressive.
Overall, even if emo and punk have been applied to fashion and characterization of human behavior, the differences between the two as separate music subgenres are the following:
1. Emo is more emotional in nature, and dwells more on personal and relationship matters; whereas punk concentrates more on social and political issues.
2. Punk was developed earlier compared to emo.
3. Emo is more melodic and expressive compared to the faster and more aggressive nature of punk rock music.
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Great! I’m a music lover but I don’t know if I’m a emo and punks. Do you know such thing called emo punk? It is a combination of this two.
Emo hates punk and punk hate emo. Why they are bothered they differences? They should realize that music is music and music is created by the emotions.
Emos are just really gay, posers. The style is hideous and really ridiculous. Their music is crap, punk on the other hand is amazing. That’s real music. Emos are just a lame excuse for goth.
*Emo*
February 23, 2013 • 11:45 pm
Whatever Jean Punks suck! Were not even reladed to goth only a little bit were not all black/makeup/evil. Were not even mad or angry were happy you just can’t see it!
We arnt just like Goth we don’t neccisarily wear black for one and we aren’t really sad we just think into what’s happening in life you could say with the right people we are very carefree trust me
Punkchick
I personly have loved metal and anything that’s ”hard rock”ever cents I was a featis but we must remeber that its art and some like it hard some like it harder,edger,louder,faster and yes with more distorshion than others but let’s all be honest its about the messege not the name of the style -…peace my dear art lovers
Listen, emo and goth both evolved from hardcore punk. Emo has more indie influence than goth. Goth has more electronica influence than emo. They both came from punk in the late eighties and, while similar in many respects, they are two distinct music genres and refer to two distinct groups of people. Many Goths, punks and emos do partake in pagan rituals, but no more so than anybody else from any other group. They are grouped together too often and even when a distinction is recognized are viewed as the trash of societies. The truth is that they aren’t really any different from other people aside from their styles. They shouldn’t be grouped together because, truth be told, most emos, Goths, and punks that I know seem to hate each other and all claim that they’re ripping off each other’s style.
Emmoie
Punk rocks bitches Punk lover for life Yo get what I’m sayin ✌️
A genre mashup
December 10, 2017 • 7:23 pm
God damn the autism is strong with this one. Gotta say I’m musically more in to Emo but love punk and goth metal so I’mma be just chilling. I prefer the punk look but in the end I would be just called poser because of what I listen to (heavy, metalcore, rock, hard rock, goth metal (A.K.A Soprano metal), Nu Metal and power metal.
Lex Sherrill
Idk what’s with all the hostility. Punk, Emo, and Goth are all different branches of Alt. Rock music. I personally like all of the above. There’s no point in being so agressive about music when you could just listen to it instead. Let’s name some bands. Black veil brides, asking Alexandria, my chemical romance, green day, Linkin Park, imagine dragons, fallout boy, Evanescence, Pierce the veil, 50 seconds to Mars, ghost town, porcelain and the tramps, the pretty reckless, moonspell, bring me the horizon, five finger death punch, avenged sevenfold, system of a down. How about some older ones? Like Guns n roses, and acdc? It’s all good, man. Most people describe me as emo or punk by my everyday fashion, but when I dress up a little more it’s goth. It’s all really similar, but the differences make it interesting. Good stuff all around. I love Alt culture.
May 22, 2018 • 11:05 am
Fall out boy identify their band as pop punk, and I myself agree that they’re music definitely classifies as emo. Especially their post-hiatus music.
Written by : Julita. and updated on July 28, 2011
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Meryl Streep wants to fool the other actors
Designers aged her with
prosthetics and makeup.
Although actress Meryl Streep is known for immersing herself in the characters she plays, there’s one place she doesn’t want to hide, and that’s behind makeup or prosthetics that cover her too extensively. She knows that covering up too much of herself shuts her off from the other actors, and then she isn’t able to deceive the audience into believing in her character:
To play Thatcher over the course of four decades, Streep also had to wear prosthetics to age her face and neck. She worked with prosthetics designer Mark Coulier and master hair and makeup artist Roy Helland, who bleached her hair in Sophie’s Choice, gave her a brown mullet for Silkwood and shaped her asymmetrical bob in The Devil Wears Prada.
Too much of a mask would
degrade her performance.
Coulier is "interested, in the way I am, in changing the outside to get at something inside," Streep says. "I flew to London [for] three different tests, and it was all about taking away, taking away, taking away. Mark would carve a sculpture of me and then he’d add on, with clay, age. And then they’d cast it in a silicon thing, and I would wear it and I would say, inevitably, ‘Less, less.’ So it’s kind of remarkable how little I’m wearing."
She says she wanted minimal makeup in part so that her face could remain expressive and in part so the other actors on set would see her as Thatcher.
"It’s not about the audience," she says. "It’s all about fooling the other actors into believing who you say you are. That’s hard, when you walk on set, when it’s a big makeup job. And I take my entire performance from them, so if they don’t look at me and hate me appropriately or love me the way they’re supposed to … then I’m lost, I don’t have anything to go on."
– Meryl Streep: The Fresh Air Interview, NPR>>
– Behind the scenes photos of the make-up in ‘The Iron lady’. Makeup Artist Magazine>>
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If I just saw the first photo I wouldn’t know it was her.
It makes sense that Streep AND her makeup artists won Academy Awards.
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Napoleon Hill (Author), Arthur Morey (Reader)
A scheduled three-hour interview between a young Napoleon Hill and Andrew Carnegie strung out to three days. During that time, Carnegie revealed his secrets of success and then offered young Hill the task of organizing and systematizing the world's first philosophy of individual achievement based on the principles. From that moment on, Napoleon Hill dedicated his life to spreading the philosophy of achievement and the principles of success worldwide for the benefit of all people.
The Principles of Self-Mastery represents an in-depth discussion of Napoleon Hill's first four principles of personal achievement-the foundation upon which personal success is built.
The Principles of Self-Mastery is the first of four volumes in this updated and revised edition of The Laws of Success, which was originally published as an eight-volume set.
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Napoleon Hill was born in 1883 in a one-room cabin on the Pound River in Wise County, Virginia. From these humble roots he rose to distinction as the author of the motivational classics The Laws of Success and Think and Grow Rich. Hill passed away in November 1970 after a long and successful career writing, teaching, and lecturing about the principles of success. His lifework continues under the direction of the Napoleon Hill Foundation, whose goal and mission is to assist people throughout the world to reach their highest level of personal achievement and self-fulfillment.
The Law of Success, Volume I: Principles of Self-Mastery [Audiobook, CD, Unabridged][Audio CD] Napoleon Hill (Author), Arthur Morey (Reader) Book Description A scheduled three-hour interview between a young Napoleon Hill and Andrew Carnegie strung out to three days. During that time, Carnegie revealed his secrets of success and then offered young Hill the task of organizing and systematizing the world's first philosophy of individual achievement based on the principles. From that moment on, Napoleon Hill dedicated his life to spreading the philosophy of achievement and the principles of success worldwide for the benefit of all people. The Principles of Self-Mastery represents an in-depth discussion of Napoleon Hill's first four principles of personal achievement-the foundation upon which personal success is built. The Principles of Self-Mastery is the first of four volumes in this updated and revised edition of The Laws of Success, which was originally published as an eight-volume set. Show More Show Less Product Details · Audio CD · Publisher: High Roads Media; Unabridged edition · Language: English · ISBN-10: 1932429069 · ISBN-13: 978-1932429060 · Product Dimensions: 14 x 13 x 5 cms · Shipping Weight: 340 gms About the Author Napoleon Hill was born in 1883 in a one-room cabin on the Pound River in Wise County, Virginia. From these humble roots he rose to distinction as the author of the motivational classics The Laws of Success and Think and Grow Rich. Hill passed away in November 1970 after a long and successful career writing, teaching, and lecturing about the principles of success. His lifework continues under the direction of the Napoleon Hill Foundation, whose goal and mission is to assist people throughout the world to reach their highest level of personal achievement and self-fulfillment.
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Agreement sees Moubray House safeguarded for the future
A unique agreement has been reached to bring one of Edinburgh’s oldest houses into Historic Scotland’s care.
With its origins in the 15th century, Moubray House on the city’s Royal Mile is an important part of Scotland’s story and it tells us much about how buildings on this historic thoroughfare developed through the centuries.
The A-listed building reflects the fashions of interior design from its Scottish Renaissance board-and-beam painted ceiling to its later plaster ceiling moulded with exotic fruits and flowers. Debra Stonecipher who owns the house has recently carried out painstaking restoration work to reveal and conserve many of its period features and was keen to see the property pass to Historic Scotland.
This unique agreement was negotiated and overseen by the agency’s outgoing Chief Executive Ruth Parsons.
Once the house is in the agency’s care, it will be operated as a new visitor facility on the Royal Mile, offering specialist pre-booked tours with detailed interpretation of its origins, history and development over the centuries.
Debra Stonecipher, the owner of Moubray House, said: “It has been a privilege and joy to be able to live in, and to restore, a house that captures over 500 years of Edinburgh’s history and culture here on the Royal Mile. I am thrilled to have come home to my Scottish roots, and now to give, in my grandmother’s name, this very special and cherished house back to the people of Scotland for all time.”
Cabinet Secretary for Culture and External Affairs, Fiona Hyslop, said: “We are extremely grateful for Debra’s gift of Moubray House to the people of Scotland. The house is a significant part of the Royal Mile’s history and provides us with important information about the city’s vibrant and colourful past. I would like to thank Debra for her painstaking efforts in restoring the house and for her philanthropy in putting it into care as a legacy for the country.”
Elizabeth McCrone, Historic Scotland’s Head of Listing and Designed Landscapes, added: “We are thrilled that Debra has taken this step and to see this exceptional property pass into our care. Moubray House will be a fantastic addition to the agency’s estate.
“This house provides us with a snapshot of how properties in Edinburgh’s Old Town were built and evolved over the centuries. The agency looks forward to welcoming the house into the estate and offering a new visitor experience in the city.”
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Townend Schubert is crowned the Virbac 3D Worming Show Pony Personality of the Year 2016
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At what is now generally recognised as the ‘Oscars’ of the world of showing, the glittering Show Personality of the Year Awards welcomed over 500 guests to walk down the red carpet to enjoy a superb dinner and watch the winners of the 2016 Show Personality of the Year Awards presented in the impressive atrium at the East of England Showground on 22th October.
Rebecca Penny, owner of Townend Schubert, recieves her award from Virbacs Davina Godwin
This year it was one of the top native ponies that was voted the winner of the prestigious Virbac 3D Worming Show Pony Personality of the Year, the handsome Fell Stallion Townend Schubert, owned and ridden by Rebecca Penny.
Townend Schubert has certainly had a season to remember, achieving a hat trick of top titles, winning his class at the Royal International Horse Show and Horse of the Year Show this Year, he is also reigning Olympia Champion, having won his class there and then sweeping all before him to take the overall title.
‘What can I say’ said Becki ‘he really is a pony of a lifetime and one in a million. It’s not just what he has achieved results wise but he is the most delightful pony to have around, he’s the perfect gentleman. One of my proudest moments was watching him carry Kinvara Gardener around the packed arena in the display at Royal Windsor this year. You only need to see that to see what an amazing boy he is’.
Purchased by Becki as a ‘gangly wild 3yr old’ Becki describes him as ‘ the best pony I have ever bought. Every time I walked in the stable I thought WOW, and I still do 4 years on. I had a time when I was bed bound at home, all the ponies went except him and my non-horsey mum would bring him to the window to see me, it actually kept me going’. Becki is also keen to mention the input into Schubert’s education of Amy Devane. ‘Amy has produced him and did so much with him for me, she is a massive part of everything that he has achieved’
The runner up award went to Purple Ronnie, a 20 yr old pony who has been ridden by two sisters, Nicole and Olivia Bowen. Having won the HOYS 13cm Working Hunter Pony Class last year, he now enjoys his retirement at the family farm.
Virbac’s Davina Godwin presented the Virbac 3D Worming Show Pony Personality of the Year with their fabulous optical crystal trophies and unique velvet sash. Having enjoyed a sumptuous 3 course meal, winners and finalists danced the night away at the fabulous end of season awards party.
From thousands of nominations the six finalists for the Virbac 3D Worming Show Personality are picked by a panel of judges, these finalists go forward to a public vote that decides the winner.
‘There was a fantastic line up of top classes ponies line up in the Virbac 3D Worming Show Pony Personality of the Year said Davina ‘ the whole event was amazing and we are delighted to support the show pony category of the awards’.
The Virbac 3D Worming Show Pony Personality of the Year is open to all ponies that compete in ridden classes, including lead rein and first ridden, working pony, flat ridden and in-hand, covering all types of animals.
Correct worming procedures are a vital part of keeping horses in good health and top condition, that’s why leading equestrian competitors and breeders including Show Producer Katie Jerram and The Billy Stud run by William Funnell and Donal Barnwell trust Virbac, who are widely recognised as experts in the field on worming, to offer sound advice through the 3D Worming approach to care for their horses. To find out more about 3D Worming visit www.3dworming.co.uk
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T.A.R.D.I.S. Stands for Time and Relative Dimention in Space.
The may be 10 Parallel Earths, that can be visited by a Quantum Phase Shift Effect.
The Universe is widely believed by Science to be created out of a Singularity which created matter out of Nothing!
They may also be 10 further Singularities seeded by the first one that can create new matter like bricks, tarmac, concrete, plaster etc... at a price. The current market price in fact. :-(
There is now believed by some to be a Grand Unification Theory of Nuclear forces, Electro-Magnetism, and Gravity called Quantum Gravity.
It joins Einsteins General Theory of Relativity (which said nothing could move faster than the speed of light) with Quantum Mechanics. What's the Cube-Root of 0?
The Astro-Physist Stephen Hawkings claims their are 10 Dimentions of Space, and that time will go backwards at the end of the Time! In his book 'A Brief History of Time'.
The first five doctors were:
William Harnell (1963-66)
Patrick troughton (1966-69)
Jon Pertwee (1970-74)
Tom Baker (1974-81)
Peter Davison (1981-84)
Colin Baker (1984-86)
Sylvester McCoy (1987-96)
Paul McGann (1996)
Was SAVED?????? with one wasted incarnation by a Doctor who lasted only one session, out lasted by his assistant: Billy Piper ('Honey to the Bee' CD: 'Why because I want to'). He only has 12 incarnations!!!! And 'Trigger' out of 'Only fools and horses' VHS/DVD as chief Cyberman ;-)
Genesis of the Darleks, Tom Baker was a popular Doctor, and his Hat and Scarf. The fourth Doctor (1974-81), and his assistant Sarah Jane Smith. He acted in 'Genesis of the Darleks', 'The Ark in Space', 'Pyramids of Mars', 'The Brain of Morbius', and 'Destiny of the Darleks'. And many other Episodes.
All .z5 (Z-code) games Runnable using WindowsFrotz2002.zip (664Kbytes) - to run WinFrotz click on it and goto File/Open new story...
IF Inform Interpreters for other operating systems/computers. Also try: Z-Machine interpreters and Interpreters. Except mars.zip which requires DOS-Box available from moonbase.htm.
There are only three Doctor Who Interactive Fiction Text adventure games I know of so far:
karn.z5 (87 Kbytes) WinZip File - based on "The Brain of Morbius" by Patrick Wigfull. A Tom Baker Episode.
Run and Type BACKGROUND...
Summary: "Morbius was once the leader of the High Council of the Timelords. He promised eternal life to his millions of fanatical followers, and came to the planet Karn to seize the Elixir of Life from the Sisterhood... Morbius was seemingly destroyed in a dispersal chamber but his brain had been kept alive and was put in another body..."
mars.zip - 'The Pyramids of Mars'. (124 Kbytes) WinZip File - based on "Pyramids of Mars" A Tom Baker Episode.
7doctors.z5 (70Kbytes) WinZip File - six of your previous incarnations have been imprisoned on different worlds, you must rescue them in your Tardis. Battle Daleks, Cybermen and many other foes. This version is a bit buggy but still quite interesting. By David Burke ; E-mail: david.burke@btinternet.com.
Type 'HELP' for list of commands.
Plus: spacestation.z5 Version 2.4 Run Code (79Kbytes) WinZip File - 22nd August 2010, fixes find key problem - based in Infocom Steve Meretsky's Third Galactic Union Science Fiction Planetfall / Stationfall Universe. You land on a deserted Spacestation, have to free a friendly sidekick Fussbudget, and flee in your Spacescooter when you mission is complete. E-mail Author/Webmaster: David Ledgard.
Free Text Adventures based on sample transcripts from Infocom games and Planetfall and Stationfall maps. Based in the Third Galactic Union Science Fiction Universe. Email: Author/Webmaster: David Ledgard.
By Terry Nation a Doctor Who Sceenwriter. He has had a remarkable lot of ideas. Perhaps he is Empowered, like some other Authors and Script Writers.
Below, in the Kaled Bunker: Davros - Chief Scientist, In Black: Nyder - Chief of Security in the Military Elite, In White: Members of the Scientific Elite, and of course a Mark 3 Travel Machine a.k.a. a Dalek (an anagram). I got a cheap copy of this Video off eBay.
Some extracts from my favourite Doctor Who series Genesis of the Daleks. Staring Tom Baker, (who actually used to be a Monk) as Doctor number four.
Sevrin: 'Why must we always destroy beauty? Why kill another creature because it is not in our image?'
Davros: 'Today, the Kaled race is ended, consumed in a fire of war. But, from its ashes will rise a new race. The supreme creature. The ultimate conqueror of the universe. The Dalek!'
The Doctor: 'Davros, if you had created a virus in your laboratory. Something contagious and infectious that killed on contact. A virus that would destroy all other forms of life... would you allow its use?'
Davros: 'It is an interesting conjecture.'
The Doctor: 'Would you do it?'
Davros: 'The only living thing...the microscopic organism... reigning supreme... A fascinating idea.'
The Doctor: 'But would you do it?'
Davros: 'Yes. Yes. To hold in my hand, a capsule that contained such power. To know that life and death on such a scale was my choice. To know that the tiny pressure on my thumb, enough to break the glass, would end everything. Yes. I would do it. That power would set me up above the gods. And through the Daleks I shall have that power!'
The Doctor: If someone who knew the future, pointed out a child to you and told you that child would grow up totally evil, to be a ruthless dictator who would destroy millions of lives... could you then kill that child?'
Sarah ne Smith: 'We're talking about the Daleks. The most evil creatures ever invented. You must destroy them. You must complete your mission for the Time Lords!'
The Doctor: 'Do I have the right? Simply touch one wire against the other and that's it. The Daleks cease to exist. Hundreds of millions of people, thousands of generations can live without fear... in peace, and never even know the word "Dalek".'
Sarah ne Smith: 'Then why wait? If it was a disease or some sort of bacteria you were destroying, you wouldn't hesitate.'
The Doctor: 'But if I kill. Wipe out a whole intelligent life form, then I become like them. I'd be no better than the Daleks.'
The Doctor: 'I know that although the Daleks will create havoc and destruction for millions of years. I know also, that out of their evil, must come something good.'
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Home Judicial Performance Evaluations 2008 Full List Judge Archuleta
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Recommendation: Do Not Retain
The First Judicial District Commission on Judicial Performance recommends that Judge Judy Archuleta NOT BE RETAINED, with one Commissioner recused.
Background: Judge Archuleta was appointed to the Jefferson County Court in November, 2000. Before her appointment to the Court, Judge Archuleta served as a Deputy District Attorney for the First Judicial District. She has not participated in any service to the legal profession and the public.
Strengths: Judge Archuleta is well versed in the law, intelligent, controls her courtroom and says she enjoys her job.
Weaknesses: Unfortunately, her weaknesses far outweigh her strengths and we believe are damaging to the public’s trust in the judicial system as a whole. Over 50 responses to surveys, including both attorneys and non-attorneys were extremely critical. Words similar to poor people skills, bad demeanor, impatient, not friendly, rude, unsympathetic, belittling and harsh were used more than once in describing her. Multiple responders, including both attorneys and non-attorneys, stated that she had no strengths. There were concerns expressed regarding Judge Archuleta’s interactions with victims, particularly domestic violence victims, and her perceived impatience with them. The attorney and non-attorney survey results showed that Judge Archuleta was graded overall and in all categories significantly below the average for all judges in the state. She was rated especially low in demeanor categories.
Judge Archuleta seemed unaware in her interview of the seriousness of the complaints against her. Only 44% of attorneys and 64% of non-attorneys who responded recommended her retention, which percentages were 40% and 20% below the average for judges in Colorado. (Judge Archuleta’s different retention percentage below for non-attorneys does not include those who had no opinion about her retention.) Her overall ratings have not significantly improved since her review four years ago when she had similar issues. While Judge Archuleta argues that defense attorneys were “openly hostile” to her, only one-third of the attorneys who responded were defense attorneys. Twice as many defense attorneys answered her survey in her 2004 evaluation. Members of law enforcement answered in greater numbers in 2008.
The Commission wants to make clear that it did not consider information, obviously from unhappy defense attorneys, about her sentencing. Her sentencing is within guidelines set by the legislature. Judge Archuleta’s statement below concerning the positive comments from non-attorneys ignores that fact that a number of attorneys and non-attorneys had both positive and negative things to say about her. As the survey results point out, a judge can be seen by a single respondent as in control of her courtroom and knowledgeable of the law but also rude, biased and lacking compassion; be organized and fair but condescending; be diligent but treat a jury badly; be patient but lose her composure. To “cherry-pick” only the good things, as Judge Archuleta does below, is to ignore substantial evidence before the Commission. It was by weighing all the factors, including those positive to Judge Archuleta, that the Commission came to its decision.
Recommendation: Unfortunately, we strongly recommend that Judge Archuleta NOT BE RETAINED. She has six years experience and her performance on the bench has not significantly improved.
Judge Judy L. Archuleta’s Response: I am rated highly for my judicial skills, knowledge of the law, efficient case management. I am known as a judge that imposes jail for individuals convicted of repeat drunk driving offenses. These offenders and the attorneys that defend them purposefully rate my service poorly. This small group is not unbiased and would like me not retained solely because of my sentencing philosophy. The commission opinion reflects the minority. The majority of all others appearing before me, litigants, jurors, victims rated my strengths as “fair”, “polite”, “compassionate”, “patient”, an “excellent judge”. This MAJORITY (78%), RECOMMENDS THAT I BE RETAINED.
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As an LSU student-athlete, you are entitled to four (4) complimentary admissions for each home contest in your sport. Away-from-home contest complimentary admission availability varies by sport and event. These complimentary admissions, which may be provided only through a pass list, may be assigned to your family members, relatives and friends.
You may not receive payment from any source for your complimentary admissions nor can you exchange your tickets for any item of value. Doing so will result in a violation of NCAA legislation.
To assign your complimentary admissions, click here.
Disability & Loss of Value Insurance
In the past few years it has become less uncommon to hear of a student-athlete seeking insurance to cover any injury/illness they may incur that would prohibit them from playing at the professional level and/or suffer an injury that severely affects their professional draft status.
Types of Coverage:
Permanent Total Disability Insurance- This coverage may pay benefits when an athlete suffers total disability during the policy term and he/she will NOT be able to participate ever again in his/her sport.
Loss of Value Insurance- This coverage may pay benefits when an athlete suffers an injury or illness that affects a drop in his/her actual professional draft position.
The NCAA and numerous independent insurance brokers/agents have policies available for student-athletes to obtain insurance coverage. If this is something you would like to explore further, please do not hesitate to contact Matt in the Compliance Office at mjakoubek@lsu.edu or 225-578-4100.
See below for a short Question & Answer on the application of total disability and loss of value insurances.
Question: What is permanent total disability coverage?
Answer: Permanent total disability (PTD) coverage protects an athlete who suffers an injury or illness during the designated coverage period which prevents them from ever competing as a professional athlete (i.e., must be a career-ending injury or illness). The benefit amount of PTD and pricing is determined by insurance underwriters based on the sport, projected draft position and injury history. The medical underwriting process includes an application and physical exam, and exclusion for specific pre-existing injuries and illnesses may apply. The waiting period is 12 consecutive months from the date permanent total disability is determined before benefits are payable.
Question: Who is eligible for PTD?
Answer: Athletes with remaining eligibility and who are projected to be selected in the designated rounds of the following professional sports drafts are eligible for the NCAA Exceptional Student-Athlete Disability Program: football in the first three rounds; men’s basketball, baseball and women’s basketball in the first round. Independent insurance providers may have different criteria to determine an athlete’s eligibility to receive PTD.
Question: What is loss of value coverage?
Answer: Loss of value (LOV) coverage protects the athlete’s future contract value from decreasing below a predetermined threshold amount from a significant injury or illness suffered during the designated coverage period. The insurance industry mandates that LOV coverage must be purchased in conjunction with permanent total disability (PTD) coverage and is typically purchased for the year prior to the student-athlete becoming draft-eligible.
Question: How does LOV coverage work?
Step 1- Determine Eligibility
The insurance underwriters will determine eligibility for LOV coverage based on the athlete’s projected draft position. If the athlete is projected to be selected early enough in the professional draft to be eligible, the insurance underwriters may offer a LOV coverage limit, typically between $1 million and $10 million based on the athlete’s projected draft position.
Step 2- Set Threshold
The insurance underwriters will set a LOV threshold, which is typically 50 to 60 percent of the athlete’s projected rookie contract. Some insurance underwriters will break down the threshold into an average amount per year to determine the LOV benefit when the maximum contract offered is a different length from the projected rookie contract. This could result in different claim payment amounts depending on the carrier and underwriter.
Example: An athlete’s projected rookie contract is four years, $10 million total
Projected rookie contract X 60 percent = LOV threshold
$10 million x 60 percent = $6 million LOV threshold
$6 million/ four years = $1.5 million annual LOV threshold
Step 3- Determine Benefit
If the maximum contract offer the athlete receives is less than the threshold amount solely and directly as a result of a significant injury or illness, the athlete could be eligible for a LOV benefit based on the difference up to the coverage limit.
Athlete’s projected rookie contract is four years, $10 million total
Athlete’s LOV threshold is four years, $6 million total
Athlete is offered a rookie contract of four years, $5 million total
LOV Threshold: $6 million Contract Offer: -$5 million LOV Benefit: = $1 million
However, if the maximum contract offer amount exceeds the threshold amount, the athlete is not eligible for a LOV benefit.
Athlete’s offered a rookie contract of four years, $7 million total
LOV Threshold: $6 million Contract Offer: -$7 million LOV Benefit: = No LOV benefit
Louisiana State University (LSU) is not endorsing any entity or individual, and is not responsible for, and disclaims, any liability for the acts or omission of any insurance coverage purchased on behalf of a student-athlete. The information provided above is strictly for educational purposes only.
In general terms, an extra benefit is defined as : Any special arrangement by an individual to provide "any item or service of value" not expressly authorized by NCAA legislation to any of the following:
Prospect or current student-athlete
Prospect or current student-athlete's family member (s)
Prospect or current student-athlete's friend (s)
If a "benefit" is generally available to:
Any other student at a collegiate institution; or
The general public
Then it would NOT be considered an "extra benefit" and would not be a violation of NCAA legislation.
Examples of what may constitute an extra benefit:
Free or reduced meals
Free or reduced transportation
Use of an automobile
Free or reduced lodging
Discounts at stores
Accepting an extra benefit may jeopardize a student-athlete's athletics eligibility.
Kaplan Testing Agency
LSU Athletics is pleased to offer the opportunity for Kaplan Preparatory Courses for our student-athletes who plan to pursue a Master’s Degree. Funding is limited and not guaranteed. For questions about the program, please contact Miriam Segar, Sr. Associate Athletic Director, msegar@lsu.edu.
Criteria for qualifying for Kaplan Test Prep funding:
Student-athlete must be in good standing with the University and LSU Athletics.
Student-athlete must be a currently enrolled student and within 45 hours of earning undergraduate degree.
Student-athlete must have minimum 3.00 cumulative GPA.
You are permitted to apply for Kaplan preparatory testing at anytime (there are no enrollment windows).
To register, please click on the link below. Applications will be reviewed on the 15th of each month. If you have questions regarding specific testing dates, services and availability, please email Jennifer Shockley (Jennifer.Shockley@kaplan.com). After completing the application, you will receive notification of acceptance.
Click Here to Access Kaplan Course Request Form
In accordance with NCAA legislation, LSU may provide nutritional supplements to a student-athlete for the purpose of additional calories and electrolytes. Permissible nutritional supplements are identified according to the following classes: carbohydrate/electrolyte drinks, energy bars, carbohydrate boosters and vitamins and minerals. Supplements may not include any NCAA banned substances.
To view a list of Compliance-Office-approved nutritional supplements, CLICK HERE.
Occasional Meals
NCAA regulations permit an LSU coach or staff member to provide you (or your team) with an occasional meal (and transportation to attend the meal) at any location in the Baton Rouge area (e.g., home, campus, restaurant).
An LSU booster (or representative of athletics interests) may also provide you with a meal on infrequent and special occasions, but these meals must take place at the individual's home, on campus or at a facility that is regularly used for home competition. Boosters may provide transportation to the meal only if it takes place at their home.
SEC regulations limit occasional meals to once per month per student-athlete, and all occasional meals must be preapproved by the Compliance Office through the team's head coach.
Outside Consultants/trainers
As a student-athlete, NCAA regulations allow you to receive assistance from an individual outside the institution (e.g., consultant, professional instructor) without the individual being counted in the coaching limitations, provided:
An LSU staff member is not involved in any way in arranging for such activity.
LSU coaches (including strength and conditioning staff) do not observe such activity.
The activity does not occur at any LSU facility (either during voluntary workouts or during regular practice sessions).
All fess (at the going rate) associated with the activity (documentation of payment required) must be made only by the student-athlete directly or his/her parents/legal guardians.
Receiving preferential compensation (e.g., discount rate, deferred payments) that is not available to the general public is strictly prohibited.
Outside trainer/consultant may not view the student-athlete engage in countable or voluntary activities on campus individually or with his/her team.
The following are examples of an outside consultant (not an exhausted list):
Swing coach (golf, tennis, baseball)
Strength trainer
Personal trainer/ coach
If you plan to use an outside consultant/trainer at any time, please click here to fill out the appropriate form and return it to the Compliance Office.
As a student-athlete, there are many instances where you may be presented an award for your hard work on or off-the-field. The NCAA has set limits on the types of awards a student-athlete may receive and the overall value amount. Here are a few examples of awards that may be presented to a student-athlete:
Participation Awards- an award that is given to a student-athlete for their participation in college athletics.
Senior Scholar-Athlete Award- an award that may be given to two senior student-athletes who have excelled in the classroom and completed the requirements to graduate.
Special Event Participation Award- an award that is given to a student-athlete based on their level of achivement for participating in a special event.
Awards for Winning Conference and National Championships- an award given to an individual or entire team for winning a conference or national championship.
Special Achievement Award- an award provided each year to individual student-athletes and teams to recognize special achievements, honors and distinctions.
Local Civic Organization- an award given to student-athlete by a local civic organization (e.g., Rotary Club, Touchdown Club) for a specific honor.
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Worse than I could've imagined.
And I imagined some pretty awful stuff.This however? Insane.
If President Trump values loyalty so much, why hasn’t he been able to stop the constant flow of leaks from inside his White House? The latest dispatch from the New York Times’ Glenn Thrush and Maggie Haberman suggest the Trump administration has far bigger problems on its hands:
Aides confer in the dark because they cannot figure out how to operate the light switches in the cabinet room. Visitors conclude their meetings and then wander around, testing doorknobs until finding one that leads to an exit. In a darkened, mostly empty West Wing, Mr. Trump’s provocative chief strategist, Stephen K. Bannon, finishes another 16-hour day planning new lines of attack.
The piece is chock-full of tidbits that bolster previous reports that aides treat the president like a moody teenager who watches too much TV. Highlights include:
• Trump is still struggling to work in his requisite amount of TV time. He’s upgraded the TV in his private dining room so he can watch the news with lunch, and he almost always makes time to watch White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer’s daily briefing, which can last as long as 50 minutes. Trump summons Spicer to critique his performance, and the two regularly go through news clips, with the president marking unfavorable coverage with a black Sharpie.
• Trump heads up to the residence around 6:30 p.m., and “When Mr. Trump is not watching television in his bathrobe or on his phone reaching out to old campaign hands and advisers, he will sometimes set off to explore the unfamiliar surroundings of his new home.”
There is more gleaned just from that article, it's an amazing read.
From the NYT article:
Cloistered in the White House, he now has little access to his fans and supporters — an important source of feedback and validation — and feels increasingly pinched by the pressures of the job and the constant presence of protests, one of the reasons he was forced to scrap a planned trip to Milwaukee last week. For a sense of what is happening outside, he watches cable, both at night and during the day — too much in the eyes of some aides — often offering a bitter play-by-play of critics like CNN’s Don Lemon.
By then, the president, for whom chains of command and policy minutiae rarely meant much, was demanding that Mr. Priebus begin to put in effect a much more conventional White House protocol that had been taken for granted in previous administrations: From now on, Mr. Trump would be looped in on the drafting of executive orders much earlier in the process.
Before he was ousted in November as transition chief, Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey, the Trump adviser with the most government experience, helped prepare a detailed staffing and implementation plan in line with the kickoff strategies of previous Republican presidents.
It was discarded — a senior Trump aide made a show of tossing it into a garbage can — for a strategy that prioritized the daily release of dramatic executive orders to put opponents on the defensive.
This is insane. It is not, however, as insane as this headline: Kremlin says it wants apology from Fox News over Putin comments
The Kremlin said on Monday it wanted an apology from Fox News over what it said were "unacceptable" comments one of the channel's presenters made about Russian President Vladimir Putin in an interview with U.S. counterpart Donald Trump.
Fox News host Bill O'Reilly described Putin as "a killer" in the interview with Trump as he tried to press the U.S. president to explain more fully why he respected his Russian counterpart. O'Reilly did not say who he thought Putin had killed.
"We consider such words from the Fox TV company to be unacceptable and insulting, and honestly speaking, we would prefer to get an apology from such a respected TV company," Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters on a conference call.
Let's see how they respond. Trump has emboldened a dictator to the point that he feels it is ok to threaten the press. And for all its MANY many flaws, Fox News is not State Run television, yet.
Week 3, #Resist
37 comments (Latest Comment: 02/07/2017 01:13:43 by shelaghc)
We knew it was going to be bad, but holy cow!>
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Materials & Tuning Components
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Film capacitor series keeps its cool even at 150°C
High-temp film capacitor, stays cool up to 150°C.
The Exxelia Dearborn 880P series of metalised Polyphenylene Sulfide (PPS) Film Capacitors is designed to keep cool when things get hot. With an operating temperature range of -55 to +150°C, they experience no derating for DC operations and none in AC operations up to +125°C.
This enables them to function at full capacity in extreme heat applications. The ability to operate at such high temperatures can eliminate the need for a cooling system within the design, thus reducing overall design time, weight and space.
PPS is a high-temperature, low-loss dielectric film used in the 880P series of wrap-and-fill capacitors. This allows them to feature superior electrical characteristics over an extremely wide temperature range and maintain excellent capacitance stability in one rugged, lightweight package. It performs consistently well in commercial applications such as in power supplies and in more demanding applications, such as in avionics, on a congested control or instrumentation panel.
The series features a capacitance range of 0.0047 to 10.0µF and voltage ratings from 50 to 400VDC with precision tolerances as low as ±¼% through ±10% yielding greater accuracy of capacitance. It is also a customisable unit with voltage maximums of 700 – 800VDC at 125°C maximum (higher voltages are available at reduced capacitance).
Made in the USA, the units are highly durable and capable of withstanding a five-pound pull force on lead axis. They are non-polar and demonstrate low loss factor, good voltage breakdown strength and high insulation resistance (low leak current) – and are completely stable over normal temperatures, voltages and frequency ranges. These characteristics allow the 880P series capacitors to deliver high performance in a variety of applications such as DC timing circuits, low- to high-frequency AC applications, and pulse or energy discharge uses.
Additionally, the package has axial leads with moisture-resistant, flame-retardant epoxy end seals and an outer tape covering for maximum performance.
Published on 04 Sep 2017 by Marion Van de Graaf
Exxelia at IMS
Ultra low ESR, high RF power and high self-resonant frequency The NHB series is a complete range of MLCC based on NPO dielectric material providing a very high Self Resonant Frequency and limiting the parasite Parallel Resonant Frequencies. The series is available in 1111 size with capacitance ranging from 0. 3pF to 100pF. NHB series offers excellent performance for RF power applications at high temperature up to 175°C and at 500 VDC. The lowest ESR is obtained by combining highly conductive metal electrodes and proprietary of new NPO low loss rugged dielectrics. NHB series particularly fits for high power and high frequency applications such as: cellular base station equipment, broadband wireless service, point to point / multipoint radios and broadcasting equipment. Typical circuit applications: impedance matching, bypass, feedback, tuning, coupling and DC blocking. 100% invar tuning screws with self-locking system Invar-36 is a unique Iron-Nickel alloy (64 % Fe / 36 % Ni) sought-after for its very low coefficient of thermal expansion. With 1.1 ppm. K–1 between 0°C and 100°C, Invar-36 is about 17 times more stable than Brass which is the most traditional and common alloy Tuning Elements are made of. The working temperature range in Space is so wide that this property becomes essential for a reliable and stable cavity filter tuning. Self-locking system is a technology commonly used on Tuning Element made of Brass or other soft “easy-to-machine” alloys but is innovative and pretty advanced when applied to hard and tough Invar 36. The design consists of two threaded segments separated by two parallel slots. After cutting both parallel slots, the rotor is compressed in its length in order to create a plastic deformation. Thus, an offset is induced between the two threaded segments which generates a constant tensile stress in the rotor from the moment threaded segments are screwed. High Q Factor Dielectric Resonators in large batches Dielectric resonators are designed to replace resonant cavities in microwave functions such as filters and oscillators. Exxelia with the support of ESA and CNES developed the E7000 series that provides a narrow bandwidth with smaller size. E7000 is Ba-Mg-Ta materials based that combines an ultra-high Q-factor and the possibility to get all the temperature coefficients upon request. E7000 features the high-performance requested for space use in the frequency range from 5 to 32 GHz, and guarantees up to Qxf > 250 000 at 10GHZ. Being one of the few manufacturers producing its own raw materials, Exxelia perfectly masters the production of dielectric resonators. Induced by the success of this new range, the company is now able to provide larger batches (up to 20kg of powder) of its E7000 series while keeping the exact same product properties, resulting in opportunities for cost-effective volume fabrication.
QPL CERTIFICATION FOR PM907S & PM948S SERIES OF FILM CAPACITORS
Series PM907S and PM948S of Film capacitors obtained the QPL certification from the European Space Components Coordination (ESCC). According to the ESCC Detail Specification No. 3006/025 and 3006/026 QPL certified products ensure superior performances, quality and reliability intended for use by the European Space Agency (ESA) and in Space in general. PM907S and PM948S are full series of Polyester Film Capacitors. PM907S products are suitable for voltages from 50V up to 1250V and offer capacitance values from 82nF up to 180μF. PM948S can be used with a voltages from 50V up to 630V with capacitance values from 22nF up to 47μF. Both series can support extreme conditions with temperatures from -55°C to +125°C, and offer high energy density, low ESR & ESL and high RMS current. Products are typically being used in SMPS (Switch Mode Power Suppliers) and BUS filtering. These two certified series complete the list of Exxelia Group’s QPL certified film capacitors, that now includes: – PM90S – PM907S – PM96S (T) – PM94S – PM948S – MKT5 – KM111S – KM94S
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37. Marjorie and the Birds
By Emma Straub
After her husband died, Marjorie took up hobbies, lots of them, just to see what stuck. She went on a cruise for widows and widowers, which was awful for everyone except the people who hadn’t really loved their spouses to begin with. She took up knitting, which made her fingers hurt, and modern dance for seniors, which made the rest of her body hurt, too. Most of all, Marjorie enjoyed birding, which didn’t seem like a hobby at all, but like agreeing to be more observant. She’d always been good at paying attention.
She signed up for an introductory course at the Museum of Natural History, sending her check in the mail with a slip of paper wrapped around it. It was the sort of thing that her children made fun of her for, but Marjorie had her ways. The class met twice a week at seven in the morning, always gathering on the Naturalist’s Bridge just past the entrance to the park at 77th Street. Marjorie liked that, the consistency. Even on days when she was late—all year, it had only happened twice, and she’d been mortified both times—Marjorie knew just where to find the group, as they always wound around the park on the same path, moving at a snail’s pace, a birder’s pace, their eyes up in the trees and their hands loosely holding onto the binoculars around their necks.
Dr. Lawrence was in charge. He was a small man, smaller than Marjorie, who stood five foot seven in her walking shoes. His hair was thin but not gone, pale but not white. To Marjorie, he seemed a youthful spirit, though he must have been in his late fifties. Dr. Lawrence had another job at the museum, unrelated to birds. Marjorie could never remember exactly what it was. He arranged bones, or pinned butterfly wings, or dusted off the dinosaurs with a toothbrush. She was too embarrassed to keep asking. But the birds were his real love, that was clear. . . . Read More.
36. Dependents
By Sean Ennis
Janet had had the baby six weeks earlier, and we felt ourselves getting a bit evaporated in Mommy-and-Daddyness. So when Memorial Day came around, we accepted an invitation to party. Truth be told, I had disappeared many months before, like a small moon eclipsed by the majestic planet of Janet’s pregnant belly. I peaked occasionally from around that human globe, but, really, I was gone. Even when people talked to me directly—pregnant-Janet miles away—I was still nobody. I was at best, a checklist: ticking down facts, purchases, and clichéd fears.
She had her moments of majestic beauty and great monstrosity during her pregnancy. She is back to beauty now, more and more each day. And I saw some stuff. The brutality of pitocin, and the nirvana of stadol. A bloody little head where one had not been before. The glistening rainbow of the umbilical cord. When it was over, and he was breathing and screaming and pinking up, Janet said to me, “I’ve never done anything like that before.”
But we were getting bored with our vibrating baby chair, and our swinging baby chair. Our Technicolor rattles. Our Diaper Genie had no more wishes for us. Our son, too, was bored. Even breastfeeding had lost its thrill; the experience was painful and unsatisfying for both him and Janet. He stared at us over his bottle of powdered formula like, Is this why you brought me here? It was settled: we would leave the house. . . . Read More.
35. Zorion
By Alex Henderson
From the moment the boy entered the room, he wouldn’t take his hand out of his pocket.
He was going to be a new student, my teacher told the class, but he spoke no English. The rest of us were already in our chairs. He wore a dark blue jacket with the word FUTBOL stitched across the shoulders in fuzzy mustard-colored letters. Mrs. Dernell took his slim wrist in her fingers and led him to an empty seat near her chipped pale desk. His left elbow triangled out as she pulled him, but his hand wouldn’t budge. She smiled real big at him when he sat down. The rest of us just gaped.
He was tiny, darker skinned than any of us, with jet-black eyebrows, ears that poked out, hair that tufted up in the back, and blue eyes like twin hailstones. He’d just moved to Boise from Bilbao, Spain, which is in Europe we learned, and he was going to join our fifth grade class for the rest of the year. He sat straight-backed in his chair and stared at the overhead projector, not looking at anyone else. His half-zipped jacket flared out at the top to reveal a collared T-shirt at least two sizes too big for him. It was striped bright yellow and green, like layers of ripe and unripe bananas.
The whole day, even during lunch, he kept his left hand in his little jacket pocket. When he sneezed in the cafeteria, he reflexively pulled the jacket over his head trying to cover his mouth, which just got snot all over the sleeve. No one tried to make friends with him. Who would want to be friends with such a weird kid? . . . Read More.
34. The Collected Notes of Gary, 3C, to the Unnamed Tenants of 4C (June 9-Oct 6, 2003)
By Jonny Diamond
Dear 4C,
Hi! Welcome to the building. This is Gary from 3C, right below you (I can hear every move you make . . . Ha ha, joking). So, we have a great little building here and I’m sure you guys will make it even better—just don’t try to sneak any cats in (ha ha, joking, I’m sure you won’t). Anyway, look forward to meeting you in the hall . . . Or just come say hi!
Gary, 3C
Hey, guys, I guess we still haven’t run into each other. You know you can always come down and say hello! Anyway, I hope the building’s treating you right. Me and Mrs. Katchoulourian from 2A are playing whist tomorrow night on the roof, and you’re welcome to join! See you there?
Dear Emily and Joe,
I intercepted the mailman to get a peek at the names of the mysterious inhabitants of 4C, just so I didn’t have to keep addressing you by your apartment number (my cousin tells me I’m a bit of an amateur Jessica Fletcher!). Anyway, look, I hope everything’s okay up there . . . What was that last night? It sounded like you guys were dragging around a freezer full of ribeyes! I know stuff happens, but if you could keep things a little quieter after 11pm, I’d appreciate it. Gary needs his beauty sleep!
. . . Read More.
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Entries in B737-800 Flight Simulator (45)
This post examines the flaps lever on the refurbished B737 throttle and how it was converted to flight simulator use..
Flaps are used to slow the aircraft by creating drag, and to apply positive lift during takeoff. The flaps lever is located on the First Officer’s side of the throttle quadrant.
Subsequent movement of the flaps lever is indicated by illumination of the Le Flaps Transit and Le Flaps EXT lights located on the Main Instrument Panel (MIP), movement of a needle in the flaps gauge, a change of indication in the Primary Flight Display (PFD) and illumination of the Leading Edge Device (LED) panel located on the aft overhead panel.
There are other “less obvious” indicators, but this is not the direction of his post.
The flaps lever is an integral part of the throttle unit. Ensuring it operates correctly and with accuracy is important.
Newcomers to an OEM throttle quadrant are often surprised at how difficult it is to manipulate the flaps lever; it isn't a simple pull or push of a lever - there is a reason for this.
When flaps are extended, especially at slow air speeds the flight dynamics of the aircraft are altered. To protect against accidental flap extension, Boeing has designed the flaps lever so that a flight crew has to physically lift the lever before moving the lever to the required flap setting.
LEFT: Two flap gates are observed - Flaps 1 and 15 (click for larger view).
Further safety has been designed into the system by having flaps 1 and flaps 15 guarded by a flaps gate. The gate prevents straight-through movement of the flaps lever beyond flaps 1 and 15. The pilot must actually lift, push and drag the lever through the gate to the next setting.
It takes a short time to become accustomed to how to move the lever for smooth operation.
Traditional Approach used in Flaps Conversion
In most throttle conversions, a single potentiometer is used and the flaps are calibrated directly through FSUPIC. A linear rod is attached to the potentiometer and then to the lower end of the flaps lever. When the flaps lever is moved, the rod is moved forward or aft causing the potentiometer to turn to a defined and pre-calibrated position. The analogue movement of the rod is converted to a digital signal that can be read by Flight Simulator.
In such a conversion, it’s important to ensure that the physical position of the flaps lever matches the flaps position used in Flight Simulator and in the flaps gauge. It’s also vital that flaps are calibrated to ensure accurate operation.
The benefits of using this traditional method are that it’s “tried and true”, inexpensive and relatively easy to implement. Calibration is the major key; however, using FSUPIC can be troublesome and time consuming, although once calibrated everything should operate reasonably well.
Potentiometers - Accuracy and Longevity
Potentiometers came in a variety of sizes with differing throw values. A throw is the length of movement that a potentiometer will allow a linear rod to move. The larger the potentiometer the more throw allowed. The potentiometer for the flaps must fit within the throttle unit beneath the flaps mechanism in a relatively small space. Unfortunately, with Boeing 737 late model throttle’s there is minimal room to allow a larger than 60mm potentiometer to be installed. Using a 60 mm potentiometer means that the device has a minimal throw.
This throw, if lucky, can be stretched to cater from flaps 0 to flaps 40, but only after facetiously calibrating with FSUPIC. More often than not, the throw will only reach flaps 1 or flaps 30. Often this lack of throw goes unnoticed and many virtual pilots select flaps 40 believing they actually have flaps 40, but in reality it is flaps 30.
Longevity is another more minor issue when using potentiometers. Most potentiometers have a +- tolerance during manufacture, are made cheaply and depending upon the type selected are open to contamination from dust and debris. Dust on a potentimeter can affect the accurancy of the unit. At the very least, maintenance is required if the potentiometer is located in a dusty area.
Several Ways to Skin a Cat.....
To solve these potential problems two methods were assessed. The first was using two micro- buttons at each end of the linear rod that connects the flaps lever with the potentiometer. These buttons can be assigned directly with FSUPIC to flaps UP and flaps 40. This theoretically would solve the shortness of throw experienced with traditional conversion and calibration. Flaps UP and 40 are controlled by micro-buttons and everything in-between is calibrated within FSUPIC.
Micro-buttons
The second method is to replace the potentiometer with micro-buttons; thereby, rectifying the issue of minimal throw. Replacement will also alleviate the chance of a potentiometer being inaccurate, remove any chance of contamination, and also remove the tedious task of calibrating flaps in FSUPIC.
LEFT: Working through an issue with the Flaps 5 micro button, custom VGA cable and PoKeys card (see below) - it's not all fun. Chasing problems can be frustrating and very time consuming.
The use of micro-buttons to control flaps movement is relatively novel, but the potential benefits of implementing this into the throttle unit could not be overlooked; therefore, it was decided to use this method.
Problems with Micro-buttons - Design of Lower Flaps Arc Plate (LFAP)
The first initial problem encountered is that micro-buttons are small, delicate and can be easily damaged if mounted directly onto the metal flaps arc. Manipulating the flaps lever requires considerable pressure to pull, drag and drop the lever into the correct flaps detent position. Clearly, mounting the buttons on top of the metal flaps arc for direct contact with the flaps lever was not feasible.
After much thought, it was decided to fabricate from aluminum, a plate that replicated the arc that the flaps lever moves over. This plate has been called the Lower Flaps Arc Plate (LFAP). The micro-buttons were then strategically mounted to the plate, each buttons’ position corresponding to a flap position. The LFAP with the mounted buttons was then mounted directly beneath the existing flap arc plate.
Before implementing a new design, considerable thought must be taken to potential problems that may arise from the design. In the case of using micro-buttons the issue was connectivity and the possibility of a damaged or faulty button. The LFAP can be accessed relatively easily by removing the First Officer's side panel which allows access to the plate from behind the trim wheel.
Half-moon Provides Accuracy, Reliability and Repeatability
To enable the micro-buttons to be triggered by the flaps lever, a half-moon piece of aluminum was fabricated using the same dimensions of the lower portion of the flaps lever. One end of the "half-moon" was curve-shaped pointing downwards. The "half-moon" was then screwed to the lower section of the flaps lever handle
LEFT: Rough initial sketch of half-moon showing relationship to flaps arc and micro-buttons.
When the flaps lever is dropped into a flaps detent position, the curved side touches and depresses the micro-button mounted on the lower flaps arc plate. When the flaps lever is moved to another flaps setting, the lever is first lifted breaking contact with the button, moved to the next setting and dropped into the detent position triggering the next button and so forth.
Interface Card
A standard PoKeys 55 interface card was used to connect the outputs from the buttons to the avionics suite software. ProSim737 software allows easy interfacing by allowing direct connection of a button to a specific flap position. If ProSim737 is not used and the choosen avionics suite does not support direct connection, FSUPIC can be used to assign individual buttons to flap positions. The PoKeys card is installed in the Interface Master Module (IMM).
Advantages of Micro-buttons - It's Worth The Effort...
The benefits of using micro-buttons cannot be underestimated.
100 % accuracy of flap movement from flaps UP to flaps 40 at all times.
No calibration required using FSUPIC.
Non-reliance on FSUPIC software as the installation is mechanical.
Very easy configuration of flaps UP through flaps 40 using ProSim737 software configuration.
Removal of the potentiometer and possible inaccuracy caused by +- variation.
No concern regarding possible contamination of the potentiometers.
Enhanced reliability of operation with no maintenance required.
Easy removal of the Lower Flaps Arc Plate to facilitate button replacement.
Back-up Potentiometer System
Although the use of micro-buttons is successful, I still have a potentiometer installed that can be used to operate the flaps. The reason for installing the potentiometer was in case the micro-buttons did not work correctly; it would save time installing a replacement system. To change from buttons to the potentiometer is as easy as disconnecting one quick release connector and reconnecting it to another.
Quick Access Mounting Plate (QAMP)
The potentiometer is mounted directly onto a custom-made aluminum plate that is attached to the inside of the throttle unit by solid thumb screws.
The reason for the plate and screws was easy access should the potentiometer need to be cleaned or be replaced.
To access the potentiometer requires the side inspection plate of the throttle be removed (a few screws) and then removal of the thumb screws on the access plate that allows the potentiometer to be dropped from its bracket.
Unfortunately, I failed to photograph the flaps QRMP before installation; however, its design is similar to all quick release plates used within the throttle unit. The plates are made from aluminium and are attached to the throttle unit by thumb screws rather than nuts and bolts. This allows for easier and faster "change out" if necessary. The above image shows the QRMP for the throttle levers - the flaps QRMP is far smaller and thinner.
During testing a problem was observed with the micro-button for flaps 5. For an unknown reason flaps 5 would not register correctly on the PoKeys 55 card. After several hours troubleshooting the buttons and wiring, it was determined that the PoKeys card must have a damaged circuit or connection where they flaps 5 wire was installed to the card.
The problem turned out not to be the PoKeys card, but the Belkin USB hub installed to the Interface Master Module (IMM). I had replaced the first hub (which I damaged) with another hub that had a lower voltage. For some reason this lower voltage was not enough to allow operation of all the functions running from the hub.
After replacing the hub with a higher voltage device, the issue with the flaps was immediately rectified. Of course, this was after I spent literally hours troubleshooting flaps 5! As stated earlier, teething issues on a new design can be frustratingly time consuming...
Flaps Arc – A curved piece of aluminum positioned directly beneath the flaps lever and corresponds to the curvature of the light plate.
Lower Flaps Arc Plate (LFAP) - A curved piece of aluminium that is the same size as the flaps arc and is mounted directly beneath the flaps arc.
Half-Moon Pencil – a custom fabricated piece of aluminum with a curved edge at one end. Used to depress micro-buttons on flaps arc as flaps lever is moved..
OEM - Original Equipment Manufacturer.
Quick Access Mounting Plate QAMP – Quick Access Mounting Plate for the potentiometer that is a redundancy system for flaps movement.
Avionics Suite - Software that interacts with Flight Simulator to control avionics, gauges, etc - ProSim737, Sim Avionics, Project Magenta, etc.
Update on January 13, 2014 at 17:58 by FLAPS 2 APPROACH
I decided to make a short video that explains the button set-up a little better. In the video you can clearly see the flaps arc, half-moon pencil and the micro-buttons. The video is not the best quality as it was hand held in dim light after I removed the F/O side inpection plate of the throttle quadrant. It's difficult if not impossible to seup a tripod in the flight deck once the TQ is bolted to the platform.
Several individuals have contacted me asking for a picture of the"half moon" roughly sketched in the diagram in the main post. During a recent upgrade, the side panel and trim wheel were removed so I took the opportunity to take a photograph of the "half moon".
The "half moon" is secured to the lower section of the flaps lever by a screw with the lower curved side facing downwards towards where the micro-buttons are positioned. The "half moon" moves in unison with the flaps lever (when moved) causing the smooth curved surface to works its way over the micro-buttons. The micro-buttons are positioned at the correct position that relates to a specific flap detent.
Update on April 11, 2018 at 10:21 by FLAPS 2 APPROACH
FLAPS OVERHAUL (2018)
The mechanism to convert the flaps on the throttle quadrant has been overhauled and replaced.
The method described in the above article worked well, however, a number of problems developed.
Three micro-buttons were damaged when the internal chain, responsible for the movement of the trim wheels, moved laterally. When the micro-buttons were damaged, the flaps detente for that position didn't work. Although it's possible to fabricate a protective sleeve to minimise the lateral movement of the chain, this was though overly complicated.
Instead, the micro-buttons and half moon (described in the above article) were removed from the throttle unit.
The new design replaced the The linear potentiometer (that registered the movement of the flap lever) with a reliable military specification string potentiometer. The string potentiometer provides more than enough straight-pull movement to register the movement of the flaps lever from UP to flaps 40.
The string potentiometer is mounted to the First Officer side of the throttle quadrant. Use of a string potentiometer overshadowed the usefulness of the quick access mounting plate (QAMP), which was removed.
LEFT: String potentiometer mounted to First Officer side of throttle quadrant (click to enlarge).
An advantage of not using the micro-buttons has been the elimination of a PoKeys 55 interface card (the micro-buttons connected with the PoKeys card). In the earlier conversion, the reliability of the PoKeys card was questionable, as disconnects occurred from time to time. The new design does not use a PoKeys card.
Further information on this conversion can be found here: Throttle Quadrant Rebuild - Flaps Lever Controlled By String Potentiometer
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One of the recent upgrades to the simulator has been the installation of an Aural Warning Module (AWM). This module resides on the first officer side of the flight deck and is attached to the forward bulkhead of the Main Instrument Panel directly beside the throttle quadrant. The module replaces four of the computer-synthesised warnings with the OEM counterparts.
LEFT: Front of the AWM.
The purpose of the module is straightforward; to provide a fail-safe mechanical device that delivers loud, clear and concise tones and bells to indicate to the flight crew that major problem or configuration issue exists. The aural alarms activate in unison with warning lights that are located on the forward overhead panel, fire suppression panel and on the glare shield of the Main Instrument Panel (six pack annunciators and master fire warning (bell cutout) and master caution buttons).
What's in the Grey Box
The aural warning box contains three mechanical devices capable of delivering four aural warnings:
(i) The fire bell;
(ii) The clacker; and,
(iii) The horn (double purpose that activates either in a continuous or intermittent tone).
The fire bell rings when any number of events relating to a fire on the aircraft occurs. The fire bell can be silenced by either pushing the master fire warning button located on the glare shield or bellcutout switch located on the fire suppression panel. I will be discussing at length the fire suppression panel in a future post; therefore, will not discuss the various scenarios that the fire bell operates.
The overspeeed clacker sounds when the aircraft exceeds the maximum allowable airspeed (Vmo /Mno). The warning clacker can only be silenced by reducing your airspeed below Vmo/Mno.
The intermittent horn is an aural cue for the takeoff configuration alert. The horn will sound when a configuration problem exists with the aircraft. For example, advancing the throttles with the parking break set or the flaps not set.
When the horn is activated a takeoff config warning light (in red) illuminates on the left forward overhead panel. Deactivation of the alarm is by retarding the throttle levers to idle and then configuring the aircraft correctly.
The continuous horn is activated when specific flight conditions are met. The following are the main scenarios that activate this alarm.
The aircraft is below 800 feet radio altitude with flaps set from UP to flaps 10 with either throttle thrust lever set between idle and 20 degrees forward of idle.
The aircraft descends below 200 feet radio altitude (any configuration)
The aircraft has flaps set 15 through 25 with either throttle thrust lever set between idle and 20 degrees forward of idle.
Flaps 15 is selected without the landing gear being in the down position.
The aircraft has flaps set greater than flaps 25.
The aircraft’s landing gear is not extended.
Silencing the Continuous Tone Horn
The horn can be silenced by depressing the horn cutout switch located on the throttle quadrant; however, if the aircraft descends below 200 feet radio altitude, or the flaps are extended greater than Flaps 15 (without landing gear extended), the horn cutout switch will not silence the horn.
Lowering the landing gear or ascending to higher altitude will silence and reset the horn.
The grey box is not an OEM part; however, is similar to the module used in the 800 series with the exception of a toggle switch located on the upper part of the unit (the toggle switch is used by maintenance). The box was replicated (using vacuform technology) to the identical measurements of the OEM counterpart. The replica box will be replaced when and if I find a 800 series OEM part.
LEFT: Inside the AWM from left to right: horn, clacker and bell. The small box houses basic circuitry.
The mechanical tones and bell have been acquired from a Boeing 737-200 series aircraft and retrofitted into the module.
In time as OEM NG AWM will be procured.
Difference Between Classic Series and NG Aural Warning Modules
The AWM for the classic series (300, 400, 500) and NG are different. The 500 is closest to the NG, however, was a transition product.
Earlier AWM were analogue and used circuits to generate (synthesize various sounds), such as chimes, navigation tunes, etc). These AWM used mechanical devices to generate the mechanical sounds such as the horn and fire bell.
The NG AWM is 100% digital and has no physical mechanical devices to generate sound. This said, apparently some earlier NG AWM still include the mechanical fire bell.
The 500 series AWM was transitional between analogue and digital.
The NG AWM has a maintenance toggle at the upper part of the unit. This can be used by maintenance to check the unit and to alter the volume. However, it’s not possible to alter the volume of an individual sound – adjust one sound’s volume and they all either increase or decrease in volume relative to each other (this is what the engineer told me). It’s not possible for pilot’s, using the toggle, to alter the volume or to select what sounds they hear.
Table 1: Excerpt from Boeing maintenance manual explaining conditions necessary for operation.
The aural tones are mechanical and not software generated. To interface the warnings with ProSim737 a Phidget 0/0/4 card has been used. This card is located within the SIM interface module (SIM) and is connected to the aural warning module by a custom wired VGA cable. The relays on the Phidget card are triggered when a specific condition, based on the offsets set within the avionics software, are met.
Authenticity and Volume
Although FSX, ProSim737, Sim Avionics and many other avionics suites include aural warnings within their package, the clarity and volume in sound produced by a mechanical device surpasses that of a computer generated sound.
"A word of warning". The horns and bell are loud – very loud… They are loud for a reason – to annoy a flight crew so that will not ignore the "urgency" of the alarm. The first time the fire bell sounded during testing made me jump out of my skin! It also activated the “yell” button on my girlfriend…
The devices do not have a volume control. To quieten the aural warnings for “inside” simulation use, I’ve installed foam around the mechanical devices and bell. This has been successful in lowering the volume by around 60%.
Below is a short video showing the Aural Warning Module and its various sounds (turn volume up).
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The speedbrake serves three purposes: to slow the aircraft in flight (by incurring drag), to slow the aircraft immediately upon landing, and to assist in the stopping of the aircraft during a Rejected Takeoff (RTO).
There are four speedbrake settings: Down (detent), Armed, Flight Detent and Up.
In addition, there are three speedbrake condition annunciators (lights), located on the Main Instrument Panel (MIP), that annunciate speedbrake protocol. They are: Speedbrake Armed, Speedbrakes Do Not Arm and Speedbrakes Extended. These annunciators (lights) illuminate when certain operating conditions are triggered.
This post is rather long as I've attempted to cover quite a bit of ground. The first part of the post relates to technical aspects while the second portion deals with conversion. Hopefully, the video at the end of this post will help to clarify what I have written.
Speedbrakes consist of flight spoilers and ground spoilers. The speedbrake lever controls a 'spoiler mixer', which positions the flight spoiler power control unit (PCU) and a ground spoiler control valve. The surfaces are actuated by hydraulic power supplied to the power control units or to actuators on each surface.
Ground spoilers operate only on the ground, due to a ground spoiler shutoff valve which remains closed until the main gear strut compresses on touchdown (this is activated by the squat switch).
In Flight Operation
Actuation of the speedbrake lever causes all flight spoiler panels to rise symmetrically to act as speedbrakes. The lever can be raised partly or fully to the UP position. This causes the extension of the flight spoilers to the equivelent full up (ground spoiler) position.
Ground Operation
All flight and ground spoilers automatically rise to full extension on landing, if the speedbrake lever is in the ARMED position and both throttle thrust levers are in IDLE. When spin-up occurs on any two main wheels, the speedbrake lever moves to the UP position, and the spoilers extend.
When the right main landing gear shock strut is compressed, a mechanical linkage opens a hydraulic valve to extend the ground spoilers. If a wheel spin-up signal is not detected, the speed brake lever moves to the UP position, and all spoiler panels deploy automatically after the ground safety sensor engages in the ground mode.
After touchdown, all spoiler panels retract automatically if either throttle thrust lever is advanced. The speedbrake lever will move to the DOWN detent.
All spoiler panels will extend automatically if take-off is rejected (RTO) and either reverse thrust lever is positioned for reverse thrust. Wheel speed must be above 80 knots in order for the automatic extension of the spoilers to take place.
A failure in the automatic functions of the speedbrakes is indicated by the illumination of the SPEEDBRAKE DO NOT ARM Light. In the event the automatic system is inoperative, the speed brake lever must be selected manually placed in the UP position after landing by the pilot not flying.
Speedbrake Lever Movement
The logic relating to the position of the speedbrake lever is:
DOWN (detent)
All flight and ground spoiler panels are in the closed position.
Automatic speedbrake system armed.
Upon touchdown and activation of the squat switch, the speedbrake lever moves to the UP position and all flight and ground spoilers are deployed.
FLIGHT DETENT
All flight spoilers are extended to their maximum position for inflight use.
All flight and ground spoilers are extended to their maximum position for ground use.
Illumination of Speedbrake Condition Annunciators (lights)
The logic relating to the illumination of the annunciator condition lights is:
Speedbrake Armed Annunciator
The light will not illuminate when the speedbrake lever is in the DOWN position.
The light illuminates green when the speedbrake is armed with valid automatic system inputs.
Speedbrake Do Not Arm Annunciator
The light indicates AMBER if there is a problem (abnormal condition).
The light will illuminate during the landing roll following through 64 KIAS provided the speedbrake lever has not been stowed. The light will extinguish when the aircraft stops or when the speedbrake lever is stowed.
Speedbrakes Extended Light
The annunciator illuminates AMBER pursuant to the following conditions.
Amber light illuminates if speedbrake lever is positioned beyond the ARMED position, and
TE flaps are extended more than flaps 10, or
Aircraft has a radio altitude (RA) of less than 800 feet .
Amber light if the speedbrake is in the DOWN (detent) position.
Amber light if the ground spoilers are not stowed.
It is important to remember that the speedbrakes extended annunciator will not illuminate when the hydraulic systems A pressure is less than 750 psi.
Simulator Operation - What Works
Note that the following has since been replaced with more reliable system.
Throttle Quadrant Rebuild - Speedbrake Motor and Clutch Assembly Replacement.
Rejected Take Off (RTO) after 80 knots called - Activation of either reverse thrust lever and throttle to idle will extend spoilers (if RTO armed). Lever moves to UP position on throttle quadrant.
Spoilers extend on landing when squat switch activated, throttles are at idle and lever is in armed position (3 requirements). Lever moves to UP position on throttle quadrant automatically
Spoilers extend automatically when reverse thrust is applied (if not previously armed - see above)
Engaging thrust after landing automatically closes spoilers. Lever moves to DOWN position on throttle quadrant.
Speedbrakes extend incrementally in air dependent upon lever position (flight detent).
Speedbrake Logic - Alpha Quadrant Card and Closed System
The logic for the speedbrake, which is identical to the real B737 aircraft, is “hardwired” into the Alpha Quadrant card which is located in the Interface Master Module (IMM) and connected to the throttle quadrant by a custom wired VGA cable. Programming the Alpha Quadrant card is by stand-alone software.
The speedbrake system is a closed system, meaning it does not require any interaction with the avionics suite software (ProSim737); however, the illumination of the condition lights does require configuration within the avionics suite as they are not part of the closed system (a future update will include all annunciators within the system).
A common method to convert the speedbrake is to use a potentiometer and then calibrate using FSUIPC ( Flight Simulator Universal Inter-Process Communication). Whilst this method is valid, it relies very much on FSUIPC to determine the accuracy of the visual position of the speedbrake lever. The longevity of the system also very much depends upon the potentiometer used, its +- variance at time of manufacture and its cleanliness. I wanted to move away from potentiometers and FSUIPC and develop a more reliable and robust system.
Micro-buttons Replace Potentimeter - Goodbye FSUIPC
A series of micro buttons are attached to a half-moon shaped arc made from aluminum. The arc is installed directly beneath the speedbrake lever’s range of movement. There are six micro buttons installed and each button corresponds with the exact point that a function will be activated when the speedbrake lever moves over the button. A further two buttons are used forward of the throttle bulkhead and are associated with arming of the speedbrake.
The benefit of using buttons rather than a potentiometer is accuracy and reliability. A button is on or off and there is little variance. A potentiometer on the other hand has considerable variance in both accuracy and reliability.
Relay Card
The micro buttons are connected to a Phidget 0/0/8 relay card (4 relays) that, depending upon the position of the speedbrake lever, turn on or off the programmed speedbrake logic. The Phidget 0/0/8 relay card is located in the Interface Master Module (IMM).
Basically, the system is a mechanical circuit controlled by micro switches that reads logic programmed into the Alpha Quadrant cards. Because it’s a closed system, the logic from the avionics suite (ProSim737) software is not required. Nor, is calibration by FSUPIC.
Arming the Speedbrake - The Detail
To arm the speedbrake, two micro-buttons, located forward of the throttle bulkhead and attached to a solid piece of metal are used. Connecting the lower end of the speedbrake lever to the clutch assembly is a green coloured rod. The rod is the linkage that moves the speedbrake lever. Adjacent to this rod is a cylinder made from aluminum used to open or close the arming circuit.
As the speedbrake lever is brought into the arm position, the cylinder is moved until it touches either of the arming on/off button-switches.
The cylinder will stay in the armed position until voltage is provided to the motor to move the speedbrake lever, which in turn moves the rod and cylinder.
Power is sent to the motor in only two circumstances: when the aircraft lands and the squat switch is activated, or during a Rejected Takeoff (RTO).
LEFT & BELOW LEFT: Detail of the speedbrake mechanism (click picture for larger view).
The motor powering the movement of the lever is the angled motor. The two arming button switches can be seen, one is red the other black, while the rod, clutch assembly and cylinder can easily be identified.
Most enthusiasts use a servo motor to control the movement of the speedbrake lever. I used a servo motor on my first TQ and was never satisfied at the speed the lever moved; it was always VERY slow and seemed to lack consistent power.
In this conversion a DC electric motor, previously used to automobile power electric windows was used. The advantage in using a motor of this type is its small size, strong build quality and high torque output. This translates to more than enough power to mobilize the speedbrake lever. The motor is mounted to the front of the throttle bulkhead.
The purpose of the clutch is to enable the movement of the motor’s internal shaft to be transferred to the rod which moves the speedbrake lever. The clutch is fitted with a synthetic washer and a torque nut either loosens or tightens the clutch to either increase or decrease the drag pressure on the speedbrake lever (see photograph).
Speedbrake Lever Movement - Variable Voltage to Control Speed
The speedbrake lever in the real B737 moves rather slowly when the lever is powered. Traditionally, this slow movement has been cumbersome to replicate, the movement of the lever either being too slow or too fast.
Below is a short video showing the speed that the speedbrake lever moves on a real Boeing 737-800 (courtesy & copyright to 737maint U-Tube). Apologies for the adverts which I can not remove from the embed code.
Altering the Speed of Lever Movement
You will note that the lever movement is speed-controlled in both directions (forward and aft). Whilst controlling the speed of the lever during landing is relatively easy, controlling the speed of the lever as it is stowed (down) is more difficult. At this time I have not attempted to control the later speed.
Variable Voltage - 12 Volts
If you provide 12 volts directly to the motor, the lever will move very fast in a movement I have coined the 'biscuit cutter'. However, if you lower the voltage that is provided to the motor, the speed of the lever will slow. The crux of the issue is if you provide a voltage that is too low the lever will not move and if the voltage is too high you have a 'biscuit cutter'. There has to be enough voltage for the motor to provide power to start the movement of the lever and rod. Further, the power must be strong enough to be able to push the cylinder past the on/off switch when the speedbrake is armed and deployed (down), or is being closed (up) when throttles are advanced (after touchdown).
Two Methods & Troubleshooting Potemtial Problems
I examined two methods to reduce the speed of the lever movement.
The first method uses a commercially manufactured reducer to lower the voltage, to a level that allows the lever to move more slowly than if full voltage was supplied to the motor. This is the more expensive, but probably the better method to use, as you know exactly what voltage the motor is receiving after the reducer is connected. Reducers can be purchased that reduce voltage by a known amount.
The second method takes advantage of voltage-reducing diodes and resisters to minimize the voltage coming directly from the relay card (the power connects directly to the relay card). Although simplistic and less expensive than a reducer, it can be troublesome to determine the correct voltage reduction after the diodes or resisters are installed.
As stated above, 'too little voltage and the lever will not move or move at a snail’s pace; too fast and your cutting biscuits… '
Although diodes and resisters were used, I believe using a reducer is probably more effective. Using the former method involves educated "guesswork" to how much voltage is needed to start the movement of the lever. I believe a reducer may provide a more measurable approach.
The speed that the lever moves is not "perfect", but is adequate in comparison to the speed that the lever moves in the real aircraft. I'd like to implement the correct noise that can be heard when the speedbrake is moving. The noise (heard in the above video) emanates from the hydraulic actuator that pushes the lever mechanism.
Illumination of Speedbrake Condition Annunciators on MIP
As outlined earlier, there are specific operational conditions that dictate the illumination of annunciators on the MIP
It’s not difficult to connect the condition lights on the MIP, to the actual position that the speedbrake lever is in. To do so requires re-routing the wiring from the lights so that they illuminate at the correct setting as determined by the on/off micro buttons. Connecting the condition lights completes the speedbrake circuit (movement and illumination) in a closed system separate to the avionics suite.
I have chosen not to do this; therefore, whilst the movement of the lever is a closed system the illumination of condition lights is dictated by the flight avionics. This said, if the micro buttons have been positioned correctly, synchronization between illumination of the condition lights and the speedbrake lever position will not be problematic.
Upgrading Condtion Annunciators to Closed System
Sometime in the future, I’ll probably opt to attach the condition lights to the speedbrake closed system. The advantage of this being, that if the developers of the avionics suite alter their speedbrake logic, it will not interfere with the closed system logic I am using.
The speedbrake motor is powered by a Meanwell S150 12 Volt 12.5 amp power supply.
Below is a video showing the movement and speed of the speedbrake lever. The video also shows how the mechanism operates. Please ignore the lack of lower display panel and GoFlight panel. The later is for testing purposes until I have installed a fully functional overhead panel.
Update on May 28, 2015 at 19:21 by FLAPS 2 APPROACH
In June 2015 the speedbrake mechanism was changed to a mechanical system that is more reliable and provides a consistent output (works every time). The changes and improvements to the system can be read on this post: Throttle Quadrant Rebuild - Speedbrake Mottor and Clutch Assembly Replacement.
Throttle Quadrant Rebuild - Speedbrake Mechanism Replacement and Improvement.
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This is the second throttle unit I’ve owned and based on experience, there are many changes that have been implemented that are different to the earlier unit.
The throttle quadrant is a relatively complicated piece of kit. To do it justice, rather than write about everything in one very long post, I’ve decided to divide the posts into sections.
This is the first post that will deal with the general attributes of the throttle unit, interface cards used and touch on the automation and motorization of the unit. Further detailed posts will address individual functionality, conversion and troubleshooting.
Historical Perspective and Conversion
The TQ and center pedestal were removed from an Alaskan Air Boeing 737-500 airframe. I purchased the unit directly from the teardown yard in Arizona (via a finder).
The conversion to full automation and motorization was not done by myself, but by a good friend of mine who is well versed in the intricacies of the B737 and in the various methods used to install automation to a throttle unit. I am very fortunate to be friends with this individual as in addition to being an excellent craftsman with a though understanding of electronics; he is also a retired Boeing 737 Training Captain.
The new throttle unit has been converted to Flight Simulator use based on a new design. The interface cards, rather than being mounted on the forward bulkhead have been mounted within the Interface Master Module (IMM) which is separate to the actual throttle unit. The DC motors required for throttle and speed brake motorization are mounted forward of the throttle unit (in the traditional location).
Connection from the throttle to the IMM is via specially-adapted VGA cables and D-Sub plugs. This keeps the unit clean of unsightly wiring and interface cards. it also keeps loose cables and wires to a bare minimum on the outside of, and inside the unit; automation and motorization means that there are now moving parts and it’s important to separate delicate cards and wiring away from mechanically moving parts
This is in stark contrast to my first throttle that had the interface cards mounted directly on the forward bulkhead and within the unit.
To read about the Interface Master Module (IMM) navigate to the main tabs at the top of the website.
In addition, micro buttons have been used in some circumstances to counter the traditional method of using potentiometers to control calibration of the speed brake, flaps and throttles.
Center Pedestal - Cabling and Wiring
The three-bay center pedestal, mounted directly behind the throttle unit, has a number of cables and connections required for individual panel operation. Rather than have these cables weave through the mechanism of the throttle (remember this is an automated throttle and there is considerable movement inside the unit), I’ve opened a hole into the platform directly under the pedestal.
Any wiring or cabling is routed through this hole into a piece of round flexible conduit tubing (it’s actually the hose from a disused washing machine). The cables, after making their way to the front of the platform, then connect either to the computer or the Interface Master Module.
The use of flexible tubing is not to be underestimated as any cabling must be protected to avoid the chance of snagging on the under-floor yoke and rudder mechanisms which are continually moving.
Conversion of any OEM part to operate within Flight Simulator requires interface cards. The following cards are used to convert analogue outputs to digital inputs for the throttle unit. The cards also provide functionality for the fire panel, landing gear, yaw dampener, flaps and brake pressure gauges on the Main Instrument Panel (MIP). All cards are mounted on the separate Interface Master Module (IMM).
Alpha Quadrant Motor Controller card A - TQ automation & logic CMD A channel
Alpha Quadrant Motor Controller card B - TQ automation & logic CMD B channel
Phidget High Current AC Motor Controller card – Provides two channels for trim wheel speeds and trim wheel movement
Phidget Motor Controller Advanced Servo card – Provides the interface or bridging between the Alpha Quadrant cards and flight avionics and CMD A
Phidget Motor Controller Advanced Servo card - Provides the interface or bridging between the Alpha Quadrant cards and flight avionics and CMD B
Phidget Motor Controller Advanced Servo card – Movement of flaps gauge
Phidget Motor Controller Advanced Servo card – Movement of trim indicator tabs
Leo Bodnar BUO 836 A Joystick Contoller card – Controls all switches & buttons on TQ
PoKeys 55 card - Flaps (buttons)
Phidget 0/0/8 relay card – Speed brake, auto throttle relays CMD B, fire panels, trim wheel revolution speed on CMD B
Belkin 7 input USB 6.5 amp powered mini hub (2) – TQ
Phidget Cards
Phidgets cards provide the necessary interface between the throttle and flight simulator. I believe that Phidget cards are probably one of the more reliable cards on the market that can be used to directly interface OEM parts to flight simulator.
In addition to the two Alpha Quadrant cards mentioned above, a Phidget High Current AC Controller card acts as a "bridge" to allow communication between the Alpha Quadrant cards and the avionics suite (in this case ProSim737). This card also provides the connectivity to allow the trim wheels to spin when CMD A or B is selected on the Main Control Panel (MCP).
Trim Tab Indicators and Throttle Buttons
To control the movement of the two trim tab indicators, a Phidget Motor Controller Advanced Servo card is used to control the output to two, two-stage DC motors. These motors, which are normally used to power water pumps, control the variable speed of the trim indicators and the revolution of the trim wheels. The speed which the indicator moves is reliant on the user setting within the “trim section” in the configuration page of the flight avionics software.
A Leo Bodnar 386X Joystick Controller card is used to control all switches and buttons on the throttle unit, while a Phidget 0/0/8 relay card is used to turn logic on and off that controls the actions of the speed brake.
Essentially, automation is the use of CMD A or CMD B (auto pilot) to control the N1 outputs of the throttle, and motorization is the moving of the throttle levers in unison with N1 output.
Automation is achieved by the use of two main motor controller cards (Alpha Quadrant cards); one for CMD A and another card for CMD B. Each card operates separately to each other and is dependent upon whether you have CMD A or CMD B selected on the Main Control Panel (MCP).
The Alpha Quadrant cards provide the logic from which the automation of the throttle unit operates.
Being able to program each card allows replication of real aircraft logic and systems. Whenever possible, these systems and their logic have been faithfully reproduced..
Main Controller Cards (thanks NASA)
The controller card I have used is not a Phidget card but a specialist card often used in robotics (Alpha Quadrant card). The software to program the card has been independently developed by a software engineer and does not utilize Phidgets.
The technology used in the controller card is very similar to that utilized by NASA to control their robotic landers used in the space industry. The technology is also used to control robots used in the car industry and in other mass production streams. One of the benefits of the card is that it utilizes a software chip that can be easily replaced, upgraded or changed.
CMD A/B Auto Pilot - Two Independent Systems
Most throttle units only use one motor controller card which controls either CMD A or CMD B; whichever auto pilot you select is controlled by the same card.
In the real aircraft to provide for redundancy, each auto pilot system is separate. This redundancy has been duplicated by using two Alpha Quadrant controller cards, rather than a single card. Each controller card has been independently programmed and wired to operate on a separate system. Therefore, although only one CMD is operational at any one time, a completely separate second system is available if CMD is selected.
Synchronized or Independent Motorization
Synchronization refers to whether the two throttle thrust levers, based upon separate engine N1 outputs, move in unison with each other (together) or move independently.
In the real aircraft, on earlier airframes, the levers were synchronized; however, the NG has a computer-operated fuel control system which can minutely adjust the N1 of each engine. This fuel management can be observed in a real aircraft whereby each throttle lever creeps forward or aft independent of the other lever.
Programming flight simulator to read separate N1 outputs for each engine and then extrapolating the data to allow two motors to move the throttle levers independently is possible; however, the outputs are often inaccurate. This inaccuracy can be seen on reproduction throttle units that show huge gap between lever one and lever two when automating N1 outputs.
I decided to maintain the older system and have both levers synchronized. If at some stage in the future I wish to change this, then it’s a matter of adding another motor to the front of the throttle bulkhead to power the second thrust lever.
Although the TQ is automated, manual override (moving the thrust levers by hand) is possible at any time as long as the override is within the constraints of the real aircraft logic and that provided by the flight avionics (ProSim737).
Four motors are used in the throttle unit.
Two electric motors are mounted forward of the bulkhead. These motors power the movement of the throttle levers and speed brake. Two DC “pump” motors are installed directly within the throttle unit and power the movement of the trim wheels and trim tab indicators.
A clutch system is also mounted to a solidly mounted frame on the forward bulkhead. The clutch system is used by the speed brake. The method of locomotion between clutch and thrust levers is a standard automobile style fan belt.
To allow both thrust levers to move in unison, a bar linking the lever which is motorized to the non-motorized lever was fabricated and attached to the main shaft of the motor.
The motors chosen were automobile electric window motors. These motors are powerful, provide excellent torque and were selected due to their reliability and ease of use.
Trim Wheel Spinning
The trim wheels can spin at two different speeds dependent upon whether the auto pilot is engaged or whether automation is turned off (manual flying). A Phidget High Current AC Controller card is used to interface the spinning of the trim wheels. The Phidget card has two channels and each channel can be programmed to a different revolution speed. The speed of the revolutions is controlled directly within the Phidget Advanced menu within the ProSim737 software.
The system was duplicated using a second Phidget card to ensure that both CMD A and CMD B operated identically.
In the real aircraft there are four different revolution speeds dependent upon the level of automation and the radio altitude above the ground. Although it is possible to program this logic into the Alpha Quadrant cards and bypass ProSim737 software, it was decided not to as the difference in two of the four speeds is marginal and probably unnoticeable. Further, the level of complexity increases somewhat programming four speeds.
Trim Wheel Braking
In the real aircraft, the trim wheels have an effective braking mechanism that stops the trim wheels from spinning down; basically it’s a brake. Testing of a military specification motor with brakes to stop wheel movement was done; however, the motors were too powerful and whilst the trim wheels did stop spinning, the noise and jolt of the brake activating was not acceptable.
Functionality and Configuration
The TQ has been converted to allow full functionality, meaning all functions operate as they do in the real Boeing aircraft. Speed brake, flaps, parking break, reverser levers, thrust levers, trim stabilizer runaway toggles, trim tab indications, TOGA and A/T buttons, horn cut out, fuel levers and two speed trim wheel spinning have been implemented.
These functions and the process of conversion and calibration (potentiometers and micro buttons) will be addressed in separate posts.
Configuration, if not directly to the Alpha Quadrant cards via an external software program is either directly through the avionics suite (ProSim737) and the Phidgets card software or through FSUPIC. Where possible, direct calibration and assignments via FSX have not been used.
The throttle unit's light plates, with the exception of the parking brake which is illuminated by a 28 Volt bulb, are back lit by 5 Volt aircraft bulbs. A dedciated S150 5 Volt 30 amp power supply is used to supply power to the bulbs.
Stab Trim T-Locker Toggles
The only function which is different from the real aircraft is the stab trim switch. The left hand toggle operates correctly for runaway trim; however, the right hand toggle has been configured that, if toggled to the down position, the trim wheels will stop spinning. The toggle is a basic on/off circuit and stops current going to the motors that move the trim wheels.
The reason for doing this is that I often fly at night and spinning trim wheels can be quite loud and annoying to non-flyers… The toggle provides a simple and easy way to turn them on or off at the flick of a switch.
Finding T-Lockers
Finding T-Locker toggles that are used in the NG series airframes is not easy. Reproduction units are available but they appear cheesy and rarely operate effectively as an OEM toggle. Earlier airframes used metal paddles (my earlier 300 series throttle used these type of trim switches) while the 400 series uses a different style again. Trim switches are usually removed and reinstalled into an aircraft; therefore, I was fortunate that the throttle unit I secured had the later model T-Lockers.
The switches are called T-Lockers as you must manually pull down the cover from each switch before pulling the toggle downwards. This is a safety feature to ensure that the toggles are not inadvertently pushed by the flight crew.
More Pictures (less words...)
To see further pictures, navigate to the Image Gallery (tabs on main menu at top of page).
In this post we have discussed a general overview of the throttle quadrant and examined the automation and motorization. We also have looked at the interface cards used and studied the stab trim T-Lockers in more detail. In future posts we will examine the different parts of the throttle unit and learn how they were converted and calibrated to operate with Flight Simulator.
Click any mage to make it larger.
tagged B737 NG Throttle, B737-800 Flight Simulator, Boeing B737 Flight Simulator, OEM Aircraft Parts, Real Aviation Parts, Stab Trim T Lockers, Throttle Conversion in B737 Throttle Quadrant, Flight Controls, OEM Conversion, Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) / Genuine 737 Parts, Throttle Quadrant Refurbishment
August 31, 2013 at 9:35
It's been three weeks since my oversized box arrived from the United States and the time has not been spent idle.
LEFT: Revealed after removing the lid of the crate - an OEM NG style throttle unit. The three bay center pedestal was packed to the gunnels with OEM parts!
The first morning was spent attempting to drag, carry and push a rather large and heavy (110 kilos) crate from the side garden, up five sets of cement stairs, through the door and then into the flight simulator room.
The only way one person could move the crate was to unpack whatever was possible into the garden, then construct a pulley system to drag the crate and its remaining contents up the stairs. The crate then had to be pushed along the carpet, using cardboard as a slide (to protect the carpet). It was a relief to note that the crate had a few centimeters clearance between the sides of the crate and the door edges!
This worked out well, although it took most of the morning, as unpacking the throttle unit outside the simulator room and moving it to the room would have been problematic.
Fork Lift Damage
My concerns about fork lifts and delicate cargo came to fruition. A fork lift had rammed one side of the crate leaving the tell-tale evidence - a fork shaped hole! Fortunately, most of the delicate items were not damaged and for the most part the fork only pushed air. A book that was included in the crate received much of the brunt and saved the fork from travelling further. But, so much for my book which now has a hole in it....
Construction Mode
I've been in construction mode attempting to get as much done before I return to my job. The days have been long and the wire clippers are becoming blunt from endless use! Many hours have been spent thinking how to do things and then implementing decisions - some successful and others requiring a re-think. The telephone has been "running hot" as I discuss options with my friend (who also has a B737 simulator) on the best methods to use.
There has been challenges both in construction and in software development; however, after almost three solid weeks, the light can now be seen at the end of the tunnel. Hopefully, I'll have some time spare soon to collate some photographs with words and make a few detailed posts.
I have uploaded several photographs to the Image Gallery (Interface Master Module, Throttle Unit & Conversion of Real B737 Parts). You will also note a new tab in the main menu called Interface Master Module.
tagged B737 Flight Simulator, B737-800 Flight Simulator, Construction, OEM Aviation Parts, Update in Update August 2013
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Hamlin Lake Points of Interest...
Hamlin Lake Info
Village of Hamlin
Hamlin Lake Home
Featured Hamlin Lake Businesses
Hamlin Lake Business Map
Local Weather Links
Special Interest Websites
Traveling West Michigan
Hamlin Lake Home & Garden Living
Lakeshore Weddings & Celebrations
History of the Village of Hamlin Near Ludington, Michigan
Aerial Photo of Hamlin Lake by ToddAndBradReed.com
Little is known about the lost village of Hamlin, which was in existence for just over 50 years and was located where the Ludington State Park now stands.
In 1852, Charles Mears purchased land along the Big Sable River, in search of a mill location. The mouth of "Big Sable Lake," with its narrow stream to Lake Michigan seemed the ideal location. Mears built the first wooden dam and established a sawmill in 1856. This dam was located a few hundred feet downstream from the present-day dam, and raised the lake 12-15 feet. A smaller, wooden dam in the lower Sable held back water to create a large holding pond for logs...thus the creation of Hamlin Lake.
In 1860, Mears renamed his Little Sable settlement Lincoln and the Big Sable settlement and lake Hamlin, in honor of Mears' choice for president and vice president, Abraham Lincoln and Hannibal Hamlin.
Mears owned rights to more than 200 million feet of standing timber in Mason and Lake counties. Logs were cut in winter, stacked on the ice, and moved down into Hamlin Lake each spring. The Mud Hen was built in 1865 to move the logs about Hamlin Lake, and was the first steam-powered boat in the region, operating for over 50 years.
Near the dam, the water-powered shingle mill cut about 15 million shingles a year and employed 60 men. Mules pulled carts loaded with shingles along a narrow-gauge railway from the mill, along the river to the docks. Other logs floated downriver to the holding pond. The logs were then cut at the steam-powered mills near the Lake Michigan docks.
Hamlin was a bustling village in the 1870s, consisting of mills, boarding houses, sheds, stores, and a schoolhouse. Then in 1888, the wooden dam collapsed. A huge wall of water moved houses, buildings, and debris into Lake Michigan. A second dam was built, but in 1912, that one too, broke...and washed away all remnants of the village of Hamlin. A few dwellings remained until the 1930s, but they were removed by the Civilian Conservation Corps in preparation for construction of the new state park.
Since the demise of the lumber industry, there was no need to build a functional dam. But along the Hamlin Lake shoreline (the former holding pond), businesses, homes, and resorts had begun to spring up, establishing what is now known as a beautiful vacation getaway, the Hamlin Lake area.
A new, concrete dam was completed in 1914, about 100 yards upstream from the original dam, within the Ludington State Park. And underneath Hamlin Lake lies a bit of Mason County history...a 50-year-old village that played an important part in the development of this region.
A piece of Hamlin history can be toured at Ludington's Historic White Pine Village, as well. The relocation of a log cabin known as "Hamlin Lake Cottage" from Indian Pete Bayou to White Pine Village was completed in 2015. Thousands of man hours went into disassembling the cabin and reassembling it on a concrete slab within the village.
More History in the Ludington Area...
History of Ludington
Take a Self-Guided Tour of the Mason County Cultural Trails
Ludington, Michigan History - James Ludington, City Founder
Port of Ludington Maritime Museum
The Mason County Sculpture Trail
History Comes Alive at Historic White Pine Village
The Colorful Murals of Ludington
Local Museums...Learn About History and More!
Follow the Agricultural Trail Through Mason & Oceana Counties
History of the Lake Michigan Carferry, the S.S. Badger
Discover the Mason County Barn Quilt Trail
Check out the Pentwater Historical Society Museum!
Mason County Lumber Heritage Trail
The Vogue Theatre: An Integral Piece of Manistee's Rich History
Hamlin Lake Cottage at the Historic White Pine Village
History Prize to take place in 2017 from St. Joseph to Frankfort
Barns & Byways Tour
More Hamlin Lake Information...
Hamlin Lake Fishing Map
Fishing on Hamlin Lake - What a Catch!
Featured Hamlin Lake Area Businesses
Explore the Sand Dunes of Hamlin Lake
Hamlin Lake Map with Business Locations...Visit Hamlin Lake, just Four Miles North of Ludington, Michigan
Hamlin Lake--A Lake for All Seasons
Hamlin Township Waste Reduction
Your Pet is Welcome in the Ludington Area!
"Hooked on Hamlin" Sculpture at Waterfront Park
Enjoy the Hamlin Lake Canoe Trail, a Beautiful Waterway!
Canoeing & Kayaking Ludington State Park
Hamlin Lake Travel Information
Explore Hamlin Lake with a Boat Rental
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Hamlin Lake Weather Conditions
History of the Wrens Roost on Hamlin Lake
Hamlin Township's Sesquicentennial
Hamlin Lake Water Levels Now Being Lowered
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March 4, 2015 by henrydampier 18 Comments
The Ludic Fallacy
Nassim Taleb introduced the term ‘ludic fallacy’ in Black Swan. You may think that you know the contents of the book from the press coverage even if you haven’t read it, but my suggestion would be to read it even if you think you know what it’s about — the coverage tends to be misleading.
If you have the book, you can flip to chapter nine and review it before you read the rest of this post.
The ludic fallacy is mistaking a model, especially a model of human behavior, for the real world. It’s partly intended as a caution against using game theory, economic theories resting on faulty assumptions of humanity (‘homo economicus’), and other artificial environments.
Taleb contrasts two characters: Fat Tony and Dr. John.
Basically, Fat Tony always looks for an angle and never expects fair competition. Dr. John expects the world to conform to the models that he has picked up through his studies, and anticipates that the world is fair, much like a game of chess in which both sides start out with almost perfect symmetry.
Dr. John thinks that his plan will work. Tony expects to be punched in the face and instead trusts more in his ad hoc assessments and empirical experience.
Taleb writes “A nerd is simply someone who thinks exceedingly inside the box.” America elevates these nerds into high positions because America is a place that produces boxes upon boxes upon boxes upon standardized boxes, and does its best to mold its territory into a series of rationalized, predictable boxes. Yet nature dislikes being confined to such boxes and strains against them, despite the nerd’s attempts to eliminate unpredictability.
Even in highly managed environments, like the casino Taleb uses in this chapter, can be struck by difficult-to-predict catastrophes — the largest loss incurred by the casino in question, of $100 million, happened when Roy of ‘Siegfried & Roy’ was mauled by his white tiger, despite decades of placid behavior by the great cat. The casino was robust against card-counters and cheaters, but vulnerable against a shock from an unforeseen angle.
The desire to make the world predictable can blind people to reality:
It is why we Platonify, liking known schemas and well-organized knowledge — to the point of blindness to reality. It is why we fall for the problem of induction, why we confirm. It is why those who “study” and fare well in school have a tendency to be suckers for the ludic fallacy.
Taleb suggests that you denarrate — disconnect from media, including blogs, in part to train yourself to spot “the difference between the sensational and the empirical.”
He expands on the concept in Antifragile, particularly in Chapter 16, when he compares the ‘ecological and the ludic.’ Football is a game. War is not a game. But people often try to draw lessons from football to apply to domains like war and business. Similarly, business is governed by laws, but war usually operates under an entirely different set of laws which may or may not be enforceable.
From p. 241:
It is not well advertised that there is no evidence that abilities in chess lead to better reasoning off the chessboard— even those who play blind chess games with an entire cohort can’t remember things outside the board better than a regular person.
Provided we have the right type of rigor, we need randomness, mess, adventures, uncertainty, self-discovery, near-traumatic episodes, all these things that make life worth living, compared to the structured, fake, and ineffective life of an empty-suit CEO with a preset schedule and an alarm clock.
The way to gain an advantage over nerds is to just take advantage of their predictability.
If you know the model that they’re operating under, you can generally predict how they will blunder, and then position yourself to gain an advantage as they stumble. They can’t handle volatility because it breaks their mental models, which makes them panic. A sucker punch sends them scrambling to try to make their world predictable, solid, and box-like again.
The progressive project primarily works by conflating their models for the underlying world. Their priests believe that by changing the models, they can change the underlying reality. Because so many of the people who most fervently believe in the writ of progress live almost entirely in a model world rather than the real one (hence the Starbucks full of people staring into screens), they tend to be oblivious to changes in the natural world.
So, the focus ought to be on what can be done to de-Platonify life, rather than launching endless new counter-models against the ones who insist that everything can be rationalized.
Filed Under: Economics Tagged With: taleb
Bob Wallace says
It’s old fallacy – “The map is not the terrain.”
Changing the map doesn’t move the mountain.
Those who think the map is the territory and won’t change their minds suffer from a sort of insanity. They won’t change their minds no matter how much havoc the wreak. I think of Paul Krugman – hubris personified. “Dammit, move, mountain!”
mojo says
Unless it’s a 1:1 scale map.
Toddy Cat says
“But people often try to draw lessons from football to apply to domains like war and business.”
There’s an entire article that could be written concerning football metaphors, and how they have damaged American military and foreign policy, especially on the right side of the political spectrum. These metaphors came into vogue in the late 1960’s – yeah, about the time the U.S. military stopped winning wars, and as near as I can tell were first introduced into public discourse by Nixon, that archetype of a successful president. From foreign policy to military operations to business to racial policy, football and its metaphors have had a detrimental influence on American life for the last fifty years.
Don’t get me wrong, I still will watch a game every once in a while, but its status as a surrogate religion for a lot of Red State Americans and their political representatives is downright absurd.
Aristotle says that hunting is good preparation for war. Often times, war is even less fair than a man shooting a deer.
I’m not sure that the game of football is as much of a problem as is the way that people tend to think about it.
Yeah, the metaphors a lot more damaging than the game itself, although the site “Stuff Black People Don’t like” has some pretty scathing things to say about football, integration, and race relations in America. See also the movie “Big Fan”…
Before pro football, it was more of a genteel collegiate sport. Still very serious, but not anywhere close to the sort of spectacle that it is today.
Peter Blood says
It’s a sign of the excessive scale and very high complexity of our society. People instinctively are trying to simplify (what models do) just to make some minimal sense of life day-to-day.
B says
The question is always the form of the sucker punch best suited to break the connection between the enemy’s map and the terrain, and the follow ups designed to keep him from reestablishing that connection. This is, as I understand it, Boyd’s OODA loop thing.
I have to study the primary source before I get into detail, but through my reading of John Robb and some others, it’s not always about disrupting their decision cycle — you can just have a more rapid cycle to come out on top.
It’s also inherently disruptive if you can act multiple times before they can come to a decision (they send their guys to a position you’ve already moved past, forcing them to start the cycle again).
Dystopia Max says
To be even-handed, the anti-anti-fragile philosophy may be more thoroughly explained in GK Chesterton’s Orthodoxy:
“Remember, however, that to be breakable is not the same as
to be perishable. Strike a glass, and it will not endure an instant;
simply do not strike it, and it will endure a thousand years.
Such, it seemed, was the joy of man, either in elfland or on earth;
the happiness depended on NOT DOING SOMETHING which you could at any moment do and which, very often, it was not obvious why you should not do. Now, the point here is that to ME this did not
seem unjust. If the miller’s third son said to the fairy,
“Explain why I must not stand on my head in the fairy palace,”
the other might fairly reply, “Well, if it comes to that,
explain the fairy palace.””
I reference this mainly because I’m not always confident that those who can easily find vulnerabilities can always build afterward.
Kate Minter says
“Tout est pour le mieux dans le meilleur des mondes!” 😉
SanguineEmpiricist says
From my understanding this is pretty much what “Explaining Postermodernism” is about. Leftists gave up the truth as opposed to giving up the left.
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A House Of Women
Shakespeare Trilogy
Eric Malpass
Now retired from the London theatre, Shakespeare returns to Stratford to live with his wife and children. But coming home to a house of women where routines have long been established is no easy task: his daughters merely find their famous father an unwanted intrusion. This moving story of Shakespeares latter years in Stratford centres on the adjustments the family has to make, and explores Wills relationship with his two daughters and the men they decide to marry. This concluding novel in Eric Malpass masterful trilogy on Shakespeares life is as memorable as Sweet Will and The Cleopatra Boy.
Eric Malpass worked in a bank after leaving school, but his firm ambition was to become a novelist and he wrote in his spare time for many years.
His first book, Mornings at Seven, was published to wide acclaim. With an intuitive eye for the quirkiness of family life, his novels are full of wry comments and perceptive observations. This exquisite sense of detail has led to the filming of three of his books. His most engaging character is Gaylord Pentecost a charming seven-year-old who observes the strange adult world with utter incredulity.
Eric Malpass also wrote biographical novels, carefully researched and highly evocative of the period. Amongst these is Of Human Frailty, the moving story of Thomas Cramner.
With his amusing and lovingly drawn details of life in rural England, Malpass books typify a certain whimsical Englishness a fact which undoubtedly contributes to his popularity in Europe.
Married with a family, Eric Malpass lived in Long Eaton, near Nottingham, until his death in 1996.
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Eric Malpass worked in a bank after leaving school, but his firm ambition was to become a novelist and he wrote in his spare time for many years. His first book, Mornings at Seven, was published to wide acclaim. With an intuitive eye for the quirkiness of family life, his novels are full of wry comments and perceptive observations. This exquisite sense of detail has led to the filming of three of his books. His most engaging character is Gaylord Pentecost a charming seven-year-old who observes the strange adult world with utter incredulity. Eric Malpass also wrote biographical novels, carefully researched and highly evocative of the period. Amongst these is Of Human Frailty, the moving story of Thomas Cramner. With his amusing and lovingly drawn details of life in rural England, Malpass books typify a certain whimsical Englishness a fact which undoubtedly contributes to his popularity in Europe. Married with a family, Eric Malpass lived in Long Eaton, near Nottingham, until his death in 1996.
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Arrow Review – “Suicidal Tendencies” S3E17
Scott McCauliffeon March 28, 2015 /0 comments
Diggle Wedding: Everyone loves a wedding and when you need him Ray Parker is there in a jiff.
ATOM turns against the Arrow publicly: Ray came out to publicly denounce the Arrow, believing he’s back to his old killing ways. This of course causes a little bit of turmoil in the Arrow lair. We knew this was going to happen eventually though, no real surprises here.
Ray is much smarter than everyone gave him credit for: Ray puts it all together – it’s about time Ray. Using his super suit, and some software developed by our very own Felicity Yawn, Ray figures out who the Arrow is and who his pals are. And he’s none too happy with Felicity.
Diggle being badass is so much fun: I always enjoy a good scene of Diggle kicking some serious butt. I just wish he could have stayed with Oliver to do it. I like the idea of the Suicide Squad; it just doesn’t really grab me yet.
Deadshot backstory, suicide squad: I love it when shows, or comics for that matter, give me a reason to like a villain. At first I was hesitant about the inclusion of Deadshot’s background story of being a solider with PTSD that went off the handle. But as it unfolded, combined with what was going on in the current time, it actually fit well. I enjoyed seeing Deadshot being approached for the first time to take down Diggle’s brother – it came full circle. This is appropriate with how it ended.
Death of a Mayor: The whole A.T.O.M vs The Arrow thing lasted about 10 minutes. Now everyone is back on board with Oliver, except Quentin Lance. He just can’t get over that “everyone lied to me about my daughter being dead” thing. Laurel, Ray and Felicity meet with the Mayor to try and save Arrow’s good name. And then, of course, an arrow flies through her chest. The interesting part is the arrow came from Maseo, and now there is one pointed at Felicity.
Return of Deadshot and Cupid: I feel like the one-shot villains, though fun, aren’t big driving points for the show. I was surprised to see Deadshot and Cupid again, but I didn’t find myself really caring, at least not at first. I like Deadshot. He has a strong tie to Diggle and the rest of the crew, but I don’t think I ever needed to see Cupid again. She’s still nuts by the way, but now she’s nuts for Deadshot.
Freudian Slips: Felicity lets it slip that she still has feeling for Oliver. SHOCK! Not really.
Strange evil senator story: I want a side story to at least intrigue or affect the larger story in some small way. The evil senator whom just want to be president was kind of meh. Poor Diggle just wants to go on his honeymoon.
Ray vs Oliver: I waited all season for a fight between Oliver and Ray, and it went nowhere really fast. Two things about this so called “fight” that happened. First off, Oliver can seemingly find the weakness in anything, even a super suit he doesn’t know the specs of. Secondly, it turns out Ray Parker is just like Iron Man, take the suit away and he’s basically useless. Also if you’re entire suit is armored why is there an easily punctured weak spot easily visible?
Easter Eggs & Predictions:
H.I.V.E.: We see in another Deadshot flashback that he mentions the group H.I.V.E. Season 4 Villains maybe?
Brand Routh and X-ray Vision: The writers wanted to remind everyone of Routh’s connection to x-ray vision. He uses x-rays in this episode to uncover Arrow’s identity. We can all recall Routh has played a hero with a similar special ability.
Deadshot…dead?: If I’ve come to learn anything from TV and movies is that if you don’t actually see them die, there is a chance they aren’t actually dead. Deadshot clearly isn’t happy with his current set up so why not make everyone think he died in that explosion?
Hush comics gives Suicidal Tendencies a B+. It looks like the Arrow crew has a new member in the A.T.O.M. Diggle still can’t be convinced to leave the group, which is best for the show. A suicidal mission for the Suicide Squad was a nice inclusion, and sometimes it is nice to see old characters. The happenings in Starling City are really starting to unfold.
All images belong to The CW and DC Entertainment. They are credited to Cate Cameron & Katie Yu.
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Working with Objects
By Rogers Cadenhead and Laura Lemay
Accessing and Setting Class and Instance Variables
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In addition to casting, there are three other common tasks you will often perform that involve objects:
Comparing objects
Finding out the class of any given object
Testing to see whether an object is an instance of a given class
Yesterday you learned about operators for comparing valuesequal, not equal, less than, and so on. Most of these operators work only on primitive types, not on objects. If you try to use other values as operands, the Java compiler produces errors.
The exceptions to this rule are the operators for equality: == (equal) and != (not equal). When applied to objects, these operators don't do what you might first expect. Instead of checking whether one object has the same value as the other object, they determine whether both sides of the operator refer to the same object.
To compare instances of a class and have meaningful results, you must implement special methods in your class and call those methods.
A good example of this is the String class. It is possible to have two different String objects that contain the same values. If you were to employ the == operator to compare these objects, however, they would be considered unequal. Although their contents match, they are not the same object.
To see whether two String objects have matching values, a method of the class called equals() is used. The method tests each character in the string and returns true if the two strings have the same values. Listing 3.5 illustrates this.
LISTING 3.5 The Full Text of EqualsTest.java
1: class EqualsTest {
2: public static void main(String[] arguments) {
3: String str1, str2;
4: str1 = "Free the bound periodicals.";
5: str2 = str1;
7: System.out.println("String1: " + str1);
9: System.out.println("Same object? " + (str1 == str2));
11: str2 = new String(str1);
13: System.out.println("String1: " + str1);
15: System.out.println("Same object? " + (str1 == str2));
16: System.out.println("Same value? " + str1.equals(str2));
17: }
18: }
This program's output is as follows:
String1: Free the bound periodicals.
Same object? true
Same object? false
Same value? true
The first part of this program (lines 35) declares two variables (str1 and str2), assigns the literal Free the bound periodicals. to str1, and then assigns that value to str2. As you learned earlier, str1 and str2 now point to the same object, and the equality test at line 9 proves that.
In the second part of this program, you create a new String object with the same value as str1 and assign str2 to that new String object. Now you have two different string objects in str1 and str2, both with the same value. Testing them to see whether they're the same object by using the == operator (line 15) returns the expected answer: falsethey are not the same object in memory. Testing them using the equals() method in line 16 also returns the expected answer: truethey have the same values.
Why can't you just use another literal when you change str2, rather than using new? String literals are optimized in Java; if you create a string using a literal and then use another literal with the same characters, Java knows enough to give you the first String object back. Both strings are the same objects; you have to go out of your way to create two separate objects.
Determining the Class of an Object
Want to find out what an object's class is? Here's the way to do it for an object assigned to the variable key:
String name = key.getClass().getName();
What does this do? The getClass() method is defined in the Object class and is therefore available for all objects. The result of that method is a Class object (where Class is itself a class) that has a method called getName(). In turn, getName() returns a string representing the name of the class.
Another test that might be useful is the instanceof operator. instanceof has two operands: a reference to an object on the left and a class name on the right. The expression returns true or false based on whether the object is an instance of the named class or any of that class's subclasses:
"Texas" instanceof String // true
Point pt = new Point(10, 10);
pt instanceof String // false
The instanceof operator can also be used for interfaces. If an object implements an interface, the instanceof operator with that interface name on the right side returns true.
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Cutting-edge, robotic assisted technology brings unprecedented
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Thanks to a longer-living population that’s more active than ever, advances in surgical techniques for joint replacement and improvements to implant technology, demand for knee and hip replacements has risen dramatically over the past decade and will continue to see explosive growth. The American Joint Replacement Registry predicts that some 3 million to 4 million knee replacements and more than 600,000 hip replacements will be performed annually by 2030. The evolution of joint replacement procedures over time has delivered patients the benefits of shorter recovery periods, less post-operative pain, improved mobility and better outcomes overall.
Recently, investment in a Mako Robotic Assisted Surgery System at Inspira Medical Center Woodbury has added yet another tool for the orthopedic surgeons’ arsenal. Offering an innovative treatment option, the new robotic technology, acquired in March 2018, now enables surgeons to have an even more predictable surgical experience with increased accuracy when performing hip and knee (total and partial) replacement procedures.
Bringing Unparalleled Precision
While current manual approaches to joint replacement surgery (which rely on the human hand and eye and are supported by the use of traditional X-rays) continue to yield outstanding results and represent the gold standard in the field of orthopedics, “Robotic-arm assisted technology delivers an unparalleled precision to the process,” said Inspira orthopedic surgeon Eddie Wu, D.O., one of several fellowship-trained Inspira surgeons who have undergone extensive training in the use of robotic technology. “By allowing surgeons the ability to make intra-operative adjustments and decrease component malposition outliers, robotic technology enables joint replacement surgery to be conducted in the most seamless and efficient manner possible,” he said.
Fellow Inspira orthopedic surgeon Steven Frey, M.D., agreed. “The ability to pre-plan surgery and access objective data in the operating room is so helpful. The Mako precisely sizes implants to a patient’s unique anatomy prior to surgery and then applies fine-tuning throughout the procedure to optimally place them. Thanks to its strength in balancing and aligning implants, “Robotic technology can help surgeons better visualize and position implants, which can potentially reduce the stress on them and theoretically help them last longer, ultimately enhancing mobility for patients,” Frey said.
Wu explained that the robotic arm of the unit, which is fully controlled by the surgeon, slides in and out of surgery as needed, can be outfitted with the appropriate cutting or shaping tool, and utilizes 3D modeling, which provides specific angles for cuts and guides surgeons into the exact plane required. “We’re able to take CT images of the joint in multiple planes to generate the 3D model and plan out the surgery before the patient even gets to the hospital,” Wu said. “Everything is personalized to the patient’s anatomy and can be confirmed and adjusted as needed during surgery, with the robotic-arm assisted technology delivering precision down to single degrees and even fractions of a millimeter.”
Within the field of joint replacement surgery, “the use of robotic-arm assisted technology continues to gain popularity and is especially useful in more complex procedures based on all of the additional information the technology can provide,” Frey said. “While other products are available in the marketplace, Inspira Woodbury’s comprehensive Mako Robotic-Arm Assisted Technology offers features that other competing models don’t have and represents the only technology of its kind in Cumberland, Gloucester and Salem counties,” he said. “It’s a significant investment which Inspira made to benefit its local community and delivers patients a cutting-edge option right in the convenience of their own area.”
“Orthopedics is very technology-driven and it’s an exciting time to be in the field, both for surgeons and patients,” Wu said. “Inspira’s recently acquired new robotic-arm assisted technology adds an unprecedented degree of precision to the process of knee and hip replacement surgery and is a great tool that builds on an already outstanding and proven technique to further improve patient outcomes.”
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Muslims are facing increasing challenges in building successful families and keeping them together. Some of these challenges are external in nature and are a result of the rise of extreme liberalism and materialism around us.Other challenges arise from our own internal problems such as complacency with regards to marriage and families and a poor understanding of Islam The purpose of this book is, first, to raise awareness among Muslims about the importance of marriage, how and when it should be done Islamically and other related issues, such as material breakdown, divorce procedures, forced marriage and polygamy. Secondly, it highlights the features and purposes of Muslims families, the rights and responsibilities of family members, and important issues related to the family, such as extended families, domestic violence and fostering. The modern threat to the family and family values, the basic ingredients needed to make a blessed family, the ethos and principles of Muslim families, and the impediments that can cause family disharmony - all these have also tackled briefly in a holistic way from an Islamic perspective.
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Year : 2011 | Volume : 77 | Issue : 5 | Page : 629
Skin diseases ("Dermatology") in India - History and Evolution: Amiya Kumar Mukhopadhyay
Devinder M Thappa
Editor-in-Chief, Indian Journal of Dermatology, Venereology and Leprology, Professor and Head, Dermatology and STD Department, JIPMER, Pondicherry - 605 006, India
Date of Web Publication 20-Aug-2011
Editor-in-Chief, Indian Journal of Dermatology, Venereology and Leprology, Professor and Head, Dermatology and STD Department, JIPMER, Pondicherry - 605 006
Thappa DM. Skin diseases ("Dermatology") in India - History and Evolution: Amiya Kumar Mukhopadhyay. Indian J Dermatol Venereol Leprol 2011;77:629
Thappa DM. Skin diseases ("Dermatology") in India - History and Evolution: Amiya Kumar Mukhopadhyay. Indian J Dermatol Venereol Leprol [serial online] 2011 [cited 2019 Jul 19];77:629. Available from: http://www.ijdvl.com/text.asp?2011/77/5/629/84090
Publisher: Allied Book Agency, Kolkata, 1 st edition
Pages: 184; Price: INR 500
The systematic study of the history of medicine will enrich our present knowledge with much new information gathered by our ancestors with much care and great difficulties. This whole story holds true for any and every branch of medicine including dermatology.
"Nothing is as sacred as knowledge in this universe" is the quotation with which this book starts, followed by a foreword by Dr. Nitin S. Vora and preface by Professor (Dr.) Karl Holubar. In the "Introduction," he gives the overview of the book and mentions the people who helped him in the realization of this project. Basically, he has divided his book into sections A-K. Section A (Few preliminary words) has three chapters: Preamble, a few words about modern day dermatology, and Dermatology, history and history of dermatology: really we need to know about them? Section B (Skin diseases in ancient India - Prehistoric period - c. 800 AD) has eight chapters: Prehistoric period and medicine: Indian scenario; Protohistoric period - the "Dark Millennium" of Indian history (c. 2500 BC- 1500 BC); Skin and its diseases in Vedic period (1500 BC-800 BC); The later Vedic period: The period of Brahmanas and Upanisadas (c. 800 BC-600 BC); Buddhism and Jainism: The new age religions - Their influence on medicine; Skin diseases in post Vedic period; Bower's manuscript and skin diseases; and Siddha medicine - An indigenous system of medicine. Section C (Skin diseases in medieval India - 800 AD-1700 AD) has three chapters: Introduction; Skin diseases in major Ayurvedic works; and Unani system of medicine and skin diseases. Section D (Dermatology in modern India - 1700 AD-till date) has eight chapters: Introduction; Skin diseases and Ayurveda - Revival and dermatology; Unani system of medicine and dermatology; Effect of western medicine in India: Allopathy and dermatology; Effect of western medicine in India: Homeopathy and dermatology; Other alternative systems of medicine and dermatology; Tribal medicine and folk medicine: A brief overview; and Quackery and dermatology. Then there are Sections E (Epilogue), F (Landmarks in the history of Indian dermatology and related subjects), G (Medicinal plants with botanical names), H (books that were regularly consulted and extensively quoted), I (some important books for further reading), J (illustrations), and K (index). In short, this book is a short compendium on the history and evolution of skin diseases (dermatology) in India written with an objective of attracting the attention of the readers and scholars for further research on the subject.
The author in this book wants to emphasize and spread the message that the ancient Indian medical system was quite advanced in India. Though the present day medicinal system of the West expresses its debt to the Greeks only, yet it was the outcome of a mutual effect of the interaction between ancient Indian Medicine and the Greeks. The discovery of Bower's manuscript at a place far away from the country (in ruins of Mingai, Kucha of Chinese Turkistan) showed that the concept and practice of Indian Medicine had spread far and wide. This Greco-Arabic medicine is the ground on which the edifice of modern Western Medicine has been built, so there must be some direct or indirect influence of ancient Indian Medicine and Ayurveda upon the Western Medicine.
He has listed and illustrated many Indian medicinal herbs used in treatment of skin diseases, but has not given the names of the diseases where they would be useful either in the table or figure legends. Illustrations of some rare books, stone carvings, moulages, etc., add an interesting facet to this book.
The occasional spelling mistake (whether Caraka or Charaka) and references repeated many times in the same chapter (e.g., Sehgal VN. Indian dermatology, Int J Dermatol 1993;32:838-44 repeated four times in the reference list) are mistakes probably inadvertently made. Many of these references are incomplete.
In spite of these minor mistakes, the amount of labor the author has put and the time devoted to compile a book of 184 pages is really commendable. The historian would love to collect a copy of this. Since this book will supplement the "History of the IADVL (1973-2009)" compiled by the IADVL History book team, edited by Dr. Uday Khopkar and Dr. DM Thappa (myself), the present day dermatologists and postgraduate students may find this book another source of tracing roots of Indian dermatology.
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NTGTFOI (Need-To-Get-The-F**K-On-It) The Game - Go on an adventure and get drunk!
Ah the days of my teenage years, going out to nightclubs and getting drunk. But there came a time when I just grew out of it and just said to myself it doesn't interest me any more. Yet that's not the case when it comes to Matt Hartley! He may be getting old, but that doesn't stop him from going out for a night on the town in TibSoft's latest adventure game NTGTFOI (Need-To-Get-The-F**K-On-It).
In this latest release programmed by Nick Barnard to commemorate the 30th birthday of his buddy Matt Hartley, NTGTFOI is created in the classic style of point and click adventures such as The Secret of Monkey Island but in a far more modern setting. Rather than being a full out gaming experience, in this drinking man's escapade of an interactive birthday card, you are tasked with going out to town, spending your hard earned dosh and getting drunk!
Yet for what's its worth NTGTFOI isn't a bad effort at all considering it only took the developer 7 weeks to create, but what the game does do is really bring home the feeling of spending money just to get blattered. It's just missing the fights, police turning up and you ending up naked in a bush!
NTGTFOI is available to download for free from Gamejolt and is only 50meg in size.
Labels: Adventure, FREE GAME, Free Games, GAMEJOLT, GAMING, Matt Hartley, NTGTFOI, PC, RETRO INSPIRED, TibSoft
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How 9 Nigerian 'Yahoo Boys' Were Arrested In America Over $3.5 Million Wire Fraud
As many as nine Nigerian 'yahoo boys' have been nabbed in the USA over their involvement in wire fraud.
Nine Nigerians have been arrested in the United States for defrauding individuals and businesses of more than $3.5 million.
Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States attorney for the southern district of New York, and James C. Spero, special agent in charge of the Tampa, Florida, field office of U.S. immigration and customs enforcement’s Homeland security investigations (“HSI”), disclosed this in a statement on Thursday.
The suspects are Oluwaseun Adelekan, Olalekan Daramola, Solomon Aburekhanlen, Gbenga Oyeneyin, Abiola Olajumoke, Temitope Omotayo, Bryan Eadie, Albert Lucas and Ademola Adebogun.
The US officials said the suspects committed the fraud through business email compromises, a Russian oil scam, and a romance scam.
“As alleged, these defendants deployed three different email schemes to defraud their victims. The common denominator in all three schemes was the defendants’ alleged fleecing of their victims through fictitious online identities,” said Berman.
“The schemes allegedly earned the defendants $3.5 million – and also arrests on federal felony charges.”
The defendants are accused of participating in a scheme to defraud businesses and individuals through several categories of false and misleading representations.
“Sending victims email messages that appeared to be, but were not, from legitimate business counterparties that included instructions to the victims to wire payment to those seemingly legitimate business counterparties into bank accounts that were actually under the control of, and/or maintained by, Adelekan, Daramola, Aburekhanlen, Oyeneyin, Olajumoke, Omotayo, Eadie, Lucas, and Adebogun (the “Business Email Compromise Scam”),” read the statement.
“Sending email messages and text messages to at least one victim offering an opportunity to invest in oil stored in Russian oil tank farms conditioned on that victim wiring upfront payments into bank accounts purportedly affiliated with the purported oil investment but actually opened by and under the control of Aburekhanlen, Olajumoke, and Oyeneyin (the “Russian Oil Scam”).
“Sending email messages and text messages to at least one victim from an individual (or individuals) purporting to be a female with romantic intentions toward the victim requesting, further to establishing a romantic relationship, the wiring of payment into a bank account under the control of Omotayo (the “Romance Scam”).”
They are each charged in the indictment with one count of conspiring to commit wire fraud and each defendant faces a maximum potential sentence of 20 years in prison.
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The Olympic Cauldron of the Youth Olympic Games Lausanne 2020 to Be Powered By Eco-Responsible Fuel
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CITV Share a Story - Holey MOLEY
This year we've been lucky enough to work on CITV's Share a Story. The series has won a BAFTA for the last three years, so we are very proud to be invited in. The story was devised by Samuel Cousins, about a mole who makes an unwelcome appearance in the Queen's garden.
Client: CITV
Character Design: Emma Reynolds
Background Design: Kristian Duffy
2D Animation: Sam Jones, Jonathan Redmond, Duncan Gist, Daphnee Cas
3D Animation: Jon Salter, Joe Ackerley
Composite: Paul Campbell
Music: Heather Fenoughty
Sound Design: Andy Thomson
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The Night The Army Band Played In Kiskeam Church
Storm Desmond raged outside but that didn't stop people coming to Kiskeam Church for one of the biggest and most colourful events of the year. In fact, it's fair to say that those who attended the concert were blown away by the music on the night!
This website is here to share all the local news, photos and the history of the Kiskeam Area. So far it has been a great success and everyone is talking about it.
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Preview: Ansan Greeners Vs Daejeon Citizen
Paul Neat July 20, 2017 read ( words)
Two of the league's struggling teams go head-to-head on Saturday when Daejeon Citizen head to the Wa~ Stadium to take on Ansan Greeners. Citizen remain rooted to the foot of the table having picked up just three wins all season and keeping one cleansheet. The Greeners are just two places above the Purples and have four victories to their name in what is their debut season. However, two of those victories came against Daejeon. A win for the Purples could see them finally move off the bottom of the table. Ansan, meanwhile will want to narrow the gap between themselves and FC Anyang in 7th.
Image courtesy of dcfc.co.kr
Graphic from Soccerway.com
Daejeon Citizen earned themselves a very respectable 1-1 draw at home to playoff hopefuls Asan Mugunghwa last Saturday. The Purples took the lead inside the first 15 minutes when Citizen's latest Brazilian import, Bruno Cantanhede (pictured above), scored his second goal in three games since joining earlier this month.
Citizen were awarded as free-kick on the left flank which, taken by Lee Hoseok in his right foot was nodded home by Bruno, who's superior height enabled him to leap above everyone in the box. The 23-year-old sent a glancing header over his left shoulder to find the far corner, using the pace of the ball to beat a helpless Park Hyungsoon in the Asan goal.
Asan did hit back in the second period, however to see the game end all square. In the 77th minute, Nam Junjae found the back of that net, connecting with a half-volley from a Kim Junyeop cross deep in the Daejeon half. Although Nam made decent contact with the ball, the shot made it's way into the back of the net via Daejeon goalkeeper Jeon Suhyun's legs who was nutmegged, seemingly flummoxed back the bounce.
Ansan Greeners picked a point of their own last weekend, drawing 1-1 away to Seongnam FC. Raul Tarragona put the home side in front on 15 minutes only for former Daejeon Citizen striker, and 2016 K League Challenge MVP, Kim Dongchan to level from the penalty spot on 82 minutes.
K League Challenge table heading into R22. Graphic from Soccerway.com
In both the previous meetings this term, Ansan Greeners have run out 2-1 winners. The first of these victories came on opening weekend of the season when Daejeon Citizen last made the trip north to the Ansan Wa~ Stadium on 4th March.
In what was Asan Greeners' first ever competitive match, Citizen fell to a late, late winner from Han Geunyong in the 92nd minute. First, though, it was the Uzbek forward Bakhodir Nasimov who put Ansan ahead with Greeners' first ever goal, the 30-year-old converted from a tight angle just before the interval to give his new side a 1-0 lead.
After the restart Citizen pegged the home side back with a Lee Hoseok strike from long range. A goal on his debut for the former Gyeongnam winger looked to be enough to earn the Purples a point for their endeavours. However, in time added on, Han Geunyong broke Citizen hearts with his first ever K League goal.
More recently, in mid-June, the Greeners made the trip to Purple Arena and picked up a valuable away win. On a hot and humid evening in Daejeon, Ansan ran out 2-1 winners in a game that saw the Purple Arena faithful endure another lifeless performance from their team.
This time it was Daejeon's turn to score in time added on, only it wasn't a late winner but a mere scant consolation. Uruguayan forward Raul Tarragona, who was a thorn in Daejeon's side all evening, put the visitors ahead on 68 minutes before captain Park Hansoo made it two 11 minutes later.
A late rally from Citizen saw Lee Youngik's men half the deficit thanks to another sumptuous Levan Shengelia effort, his fourth of the season, but it proved to be too little too late.
Daejeon Citizen captain Kim Jinkyu is expected to be out having recently travelled up to Seoul to recieve treatment on a knee injury. The former FC Seoul central defender has endured a tough time at Purple Area having been in and out of the side due to injury and due to the axe-wielding Lee Youngik who is yet to decide what his best back line is.
Hwang Inbeom and Park Jaewoo are currently with the Republic of Korea U23 squad in Vietnam for AFC U23 Championship qualifying matches and so won't be available for selection for Citizen.
Kim Taeeun will also miss out having picked up his 6th yellow card of the season during Citizen's 1-1 draw with Asan Mugunghwa.
For Ansan Greeners, Park Junhee will miss the visit of Daejeon through suspension after receiving his 3rd yellow of the campaign against Seongnam last week.
Ansan Greeners have endured a tough debut season in the K League, having been founded in the wake of Ansan Mugunghwa becoming Asan Mugunghwa. Most of Ansan's squad has been made up of former National League side Ulsan Mipo Dockyard Dolphins. Although, there are some players within that squad that have K League experience, such as Yoo Yeonseung (formely Yoo Seungki) who played for Daejeon Citizen, as well as his former teammate Kim Byungseok who recently arrived from Seoul E-Land.
Ansan Greeners' lineup last time out. Graphic from Lineup11
For Ansan to not be propping up the table, ironically quite how Daejeon are, would perhaps be seen as a decent first season. But, perhaps the Greeners' is progress is being hampered by a manager who cannot seem to decide on a suitable formation for his side. In the last five games, Lee Heungsil has used just as many formations. Last time out against Seongnam he opted for a 3-4-3 with Raul on the wing, whereas the week before away to Asan Mugunghwa the Greeners took to the field in a 5-4-1 formation. Prior to that, Lee has used 4-2-3-1 (Busan at home), 4-1-4-1 (Daejeon Citizen away), and a 3-5-2 (Gyeongnam at home). Given that Lee Heungsil's side were victorious when these two sides last met, the POSCO Atoms midfielder might opt for a similar set up to that he did for the 2-1 victory at Purple Arena (4-1-4-1).
Who To Watch
Raul Tarragona caused Daejeon Citizen all kinds of problems when these two sides last met just under a month ago, scoring the first goal in a 2-1 win. The Uruguayan forward has seven goals to his name this term, and as columnist Ryan Walters mentioned during our latest live broadcast, as a result he is in the golden boot race. Signed from Uruguyan 2nd Division side Rentistas, Raul has made it into the K League Best XI on now fewer than six occasions.
Image via Ansan Greeners Facebook
Although relegation is not something that either team need to worry about, both teams are playing for pride at this point in the season. And whilst neither side head into this match in blistering form, but both have players in Cristian Danalache and Raul Tarragona who can be match winners on their day.
The game could well come down to which of two asserts himself better. Raul terrorized the Daejeon back line when these two sides faced off against each other in mid-June but since then Citizen have bolstered their defense. A draw looks like the most likely outcome for this one.
Daejeon Citizen 1-1 Ansan Greeners
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A Forage on the Foreshore in Rotherhithe then a walk around Surrey Quays along the Thames Path to Greenwich
On Sunday 23rd August I met up with a group of friends for a Forage on The Foreshore. This time we met late morning outside The Angel pub at Rotherhithe with a plan to walk east towards.
The weather forecast had not been favourable and so we were not surprised that soon after we hit the foreshore the clouds broke. We managed to stay beachside for just over an hour before the rain set in and retired to The Mayflower for lunch where we assessed our finds including the usual bits of pottery, clay pipe, glass and metal fragments, plus an old leathermakers awl.
The sky cleared so we continued eastwards along the Thames Path to Greenwich...
Start point outside The Angel / lunch at The Mayflower / Old Salt Quay / Malcolm and Graham admiring the view
A short stop at The Blacksmith's Arms for excellent coffee. It's a lovely old wood-panelled pub with multi-hinged hooks for coats and bags on the walls and under the bar (take note modern pub designers!) and a restaurant at the rear. I enjoyed chatting to Stuart/Stewart, one of the locals, at the bar. I also spotted a great old photograph of how the Surrey Quays area used to look in its docklands heyday – compare that with how it looks today.
We then popped in to Surrey Docks Farm; I will post about that separately sometime soon.
Continuing along the Thames Path – there are a few bits of unlabelled metal chain and what look like discarded anchors here and there but nothing to explain them. A prime example is an old crane near Custom Reach House. Note the strange net curtaining in the cabin window! I could see no information about this one piece of preserved history and wonder if people actually know why it is there or what it used to be used for. It's the same on The Isle of Dogs.
Click here for info about the history of London's docks.
A few minutes along the path is Helsinki Gardens with its expensive modern riverside apartments. A pretty friendly cat was keen to enhance William Pye's Curlicue. But we had no idea why it was there or what its relevance was so thanks to Tom for doing the research.
There are many different types of dockers' mistresses along the path and you can clearly see why they are so affectionately called by by looking at some of the ones along this stretch! Others though, like the ones at South Dock Marina, look more like Wellington boots.
This is the only area along the route where signage is used to explain about the historical features left behind as hints of the past; the hydraulic lifting gear, the swing bridge (not shown here), the lock keeper's cottage,etc. I also noticed a couple of lovely old Victorian lamp posts.
Further along the signage stops. A Pair of gateposts just stand there with no explanation, ditto a badly repaired obelisk. These must, I am sure be remnants of long-ago dismantled wharves. And I often wonder if anyone else knows what those freestanding crumbling manmade constructions in the river were used for. Read on...
More unlabelled things as we advanced on Deptford.
A gridded orb sits on one of the stuctures. A wooden board is all that remains to explain it; the plaque that used to be screwed to it having been been removed. I photographed it years ago and can here tell you that it's called Circumsphere by Chris Marshall and Stephen Lewis and was erected in September 1998. The plaque read: "The [red] discs [on its surface] show the route of Sir Francis Drake's circum-navigational voyage around the earth which was completed at this waterfront in 1581." It went on to explain that it is mounted on a 'dolphin' which is the name given to many small mooring structures that sit by the River Thames and provided low tide moorings for ships, barges, tugs and liners. So there you go.
Faded, scratched, unkempt boards show an attempt at generic historical information near the old Royal [Navy] Dockyards buildings (now the Pepys Research Centre) and Convoys Wharf (at the time of writing, a huge empty fenced-off wasteland awaiting redevelopment).
We also spotted a signpost with six pointers on it each none of which have anything written on them. Who knows, perhaps this is also art. It's hard to tell. Ditto the set of raised stairs that Malcolm climbed "just cos they were there".
And so to Paynes Wharf which in the past five years has been transformed into apartments and exhibition space. All that's been retained of the old wharf buildings are some of the boundary walls including the arched river frontage though I can't understand why 'they' decided to paint white the landward-facing side of the building opposite Twinkle Park (what a lovely name!). The charming cobbled street that leads down to Watergate Steps is still intact.
These are older pics. The first two pics are mine taken in 2009. The archive pic (sorry, I can't now recall where I got this from) shows how the name along the top is not the same as it appears today.
Left, the shell of the Princess of Wales pub in a back street.
The Dowell's Coals depot at Deptford Creek is now long along with this sign which used to sit on the gate at the junction of Creek Road and Norway Street. When I was there in 2009 the mouth of the creek was more visible from the Thames and there was a lot of mud and remnants of old piers and landings to be seen. I now wich I had photographed that. Now we've got 'swanky', 'luxury' apartments wrapped around keep fit centres, restaurants and supermarkets.
The last two pics show me on the throne (thanks to Meike). I can't recall who that fella with the small head is but he's holding a clay pipe.
And finally... Greenwich.
What a great day out. Thanks to all who came along!
Please note that finding specific info on the area for the above has proved difficult and I have as good as given up. Googling the streets and squares tends to results in lists from estate agents. Wikipedia gives a rough outline of the general area here.
Labels: clay pipes, deptford, forage, foreshore, greenwich, river, Rotherhithe, thames path
Rosemary Creeser 8 September 2015 at 21:36
Hi Jane, The man with the small head is Peter the Great. According to a Russian speaking friend Peter was a peculiar looking figure (over 2 metres high) but with a particularly small head, hands and feet for such a height. Peter visited London in cognito between January and April 1698 - under the name of Peter Mikhailov . The sculpture that we saw at Deptford Creek marks his notorious stay in Deptford when he and his entourage wantonly vandalised the house and garden they were staying in. They were every landlord's nightmare - apparently no part of the house escaped damage and the furniture was broken up to stoke fires!
Jane 9 September 2015 at 11:34
Ah thanks Rose – I love it when people do the research for me ;-)
Perhaps these days he'd have a rock band!
Coincidentally, I went to Kensington Palace yesterday and saw a painting of him there.
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Tuberculosis is protean
Ibrahim Aliyu
Department of Pediatrics, Aminu Kano Teaching Hospital, Bayero University, Kano, Nigeria
Department of Pediatrics, Aminu Kano Teaching Hospital, Bayero University, Kano, PMB 3452
Aliyu I. Tuberculosis is protean. J Family Med Prim Care 2014;3:169-70
Aliyu I. Tuberculosis is protean. J Family Med Prim Care [serial online] 2014 [cited 2019 Jul 19];3:169-70. Available from: http://www.jfmpc.com/text.asp?2014/3/2/169/137670
I read through the recent publication on pulmonary tuberculosis and paraplegia [1] in the July-September 2013 edition of your journal, and I was excited because I had similar experience of atypical presentations of tuberculosis. Tuberculosis is protean and mimics several other diseases, hence the watch words remain 'a high index of suspicion else it may be missed.' Two cases of tuberculosis; the first was a 7-year-old girl who presented with complaint of fever, cough, diarrhea, difficulty with breathing, and headache for 4-weeks. She had several medications on out-patient without improvement. She was tachypneic, dyspneic with bilateral crepitations; the cardiovascular examination revealed tachycardia, elevated jugular venous pressure displaced cardiac apex-beat; with first, second and third heart sounds and a loud second heart sound. She also had multiple cranial nerve palsies (right oculomotor, abducen nerves); abdominal examination revealed tender hepatomegaly with splenomegaly. She was diagnosed with infective endocarditis with intracranial embolism. Full blood count showed neutrophilia with normocytic normochromic anemia, but blood cultures were negative on three occasions; retroviral screen was also non-reactive. Both Mantoux test and sputum AFB were negative; chest X-ray revealed cardiomegaly with perihaliar opacities while electrocardiogram (ECG) revealed sinus tachycardiac, biventricular hypertrophy, echocardiogram was negative for any vegetation [Figure 1]. She was commenced on genticin and ceftriaxone for 2-weeks but rather deteriorated. She had lumbar puncture; the cerebrospinal fluid analysis revealed elevated protein and normal glucose; cerebrospinal fluid gram stain and AFB were not remarkable while culture was negative; therefore, an aseptic meningitis was entertained, and the thought of disseminated tuberculosis was entertained. She was commenced on anti-tuberculosis, and she became afebrile by the 3 rd -week of treatment with progressive resolution symptoms and was discharged to the directly observed treatment (DOTs) clinic for continuation of supervised treatment.
While the second case was a 14-year-old girl with Potts disease; she presented with back pain, progressive difficulty with walking with subsequent inability to walk within 3-weeks with bladder and fecal incontinence; in her case, there were no preceding complaints of cough or difficulty with breathing. She was paraplegic with kyphosis [Figure 2]. Mantoux test was 12 mm; chest x-ray was normal. She was commenced on anti-tuberculosis therapy.
Figure 1: Showing (a) chest-x-ray with cardiomegaly; (b) ECG with biventricular hypertrophy; (c) normal Echocardiography
Figure 2: Showing (a) kyphosis; (b) paraplegic limbs
Tuberculosis still remains a huge health burden in children in developing countries despite presence of effective vaccine; this is further worsened by the ravaging effect of human immunodeficiency virus/acquired immune deficiency syndrome. Diagnosing tuberculosis in children in a resource-limited setting is often difficult; therefore, it is mostly based on high index of suspicion.
Tuberculosis is protean and may mimic several disease entities; however, the clinical features and laboratory results of the first case were typical of a bacterial infection; the diarrhea, weakness initially observed can occur in early stages of tuberculous meningitis, which is easily confused with gastroenteritis, and the heart failure with multiple cranial nerve palsies mimicked a cardiac defect with stroke. Anemia and neutrophilia has been associated with tuberculosis though mostly in adults; [2],[3] however, the exact mechanism of tuberculosis-associated anemia is not completely understood, though like in any chronic infection/inflammation, a normocytic normochromic anemia (due to impaired erythropoisis) or microcytic hypochromic anemia may occur, [4] but TB causes more of leukocytosis with lymphocytosis. The observed neutrophilia in the index case could be attributable to the influence of chronic bone marrow stimulation with outpouring of leukocytes including neutrophils, and in extreme cases, left shift with release of immature neutrophils may occur.
As in the case in your publication, my second case had no preceding complaint suggestive of pulmonary disease; therefore, Potts disease may occur without associated chest symptoms.[5]
1. Pande A. Pulmonary tuberculosis presenting acutely as paraplegia: An unusual presentation. J Fam Med Primary Care 2013;2:294-5.
2. Wessels G, Schaaf HS, Beyers N, Gie RP, Nel E, Donald PR. Haematological abnormalities in children with tuberculosis. J Trop Pediatr 1999;45:307-10.
3. Lee SW, Kang YA, Yoon YS, Um S, Lee SM, Yoo CG, et al. The prevalence and evolution of anemia associated with tuberculosis. J Korean Med Sci 2006;21:1028-32.
4. Weiss G. Pathogenesis and treatment of anaemia of chronic disease. Blood Rev 2002;16:87-96.
5. Morris CD, Bird AR, Nell H. The haematological and biochemical changes in severe pulmonary tuberculosis. Q J Med 1989;73:1151-9.
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byLDS Living Staff | Jul. 27, 2017
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An opinion writer for the Sacramento Bee recently shared how the California housing crisis is spreading throughout the West, including Utah. And he even jokingly suggested that Mormonism becoming more widespread in California could help with the housing shortage.
"I witnessed the California epidemic’s spread recently in Utah, where the housing shortage is considered historic. For the first time since the 1970s, Utah, growing via births and the arrival of job seekers, is adding more households than housing units. So homeownership rates are falling, homelessness is rising, and the Salt Lake City Council has declared an affordable housing emergency," Joe Matthews writes.
While Utah is only 1/13 the size of California as far as population is concerned, Matthews noted that both states share many similarities. In fact, when all the states are ranked by the number of housing units per person, California is ranked 49 and Utah is ranked 50.
So why don't we hear more about Utah's housing crisis? Matthew show it's because Utah doesn't have as much of a shortage, and Mormonism has something to do with it:
"One answer is obvious: Utah doesn’t need as many housing units because it has the country’s largest families. That suggests one wildly impractical solution to the housing crisis – California embracing Mormonism as its state religion. But it’s no more farfetched than the 50-plus bills in our state Legislature that offer minor or counterproductive changes to California’s housing markets," Matthews writes.
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Cavalera Cavalcade
The Cavalera brothers are back!
Max and Iggor Cavalera, who created some of the most influential metal records in music history with SEPULTURA and inspiring the heavy and extreme music scene over decades, are currently hard at work in the studio in Phoenix, Arizona, to record the fourth album of CAVALERA CONSPIRACY!
Set to be released in the Fall of 2017 on Napalm Records, Max and Iggor have now left a message to their fans and the worldwide metal community with a first teaser and greetings from the studio.
Produced by longtime friend Arthur Rizk, the recordings of CAVALERA CONSPIRACY’s upcoming album will be documented by Horns Up Rocks, titled ‘The Conspiracy Diaries’. These exciting studio episodes will be released over the next months and will share an in-depth view behind the scene’s of CAVALERA CONSPIRACY’s work in the studio.
The brothers Max and Iggor Cavalera formed the legendarily trailblazing heavy metal band SEPULTURA as teenagers together in 1984. Across six studio albums the Brazilian punishers perfected the art of darkness and extreme music with thrash classics such as Beneath the Remains, Arise and Chaos AD, while exploring the underbelly of third world political issues and broadening the genre’s horizons with an exploration of indigenous culture, culminating with the landmark Roots album in 1996. A decade after Max left SEPULTURA and meanwhile released seven successfull records with SOULFLY, the two brothers got back together in 2006 to form CAVALERA CONSPIRACY: A bold testament to the talent and power these two possess together. An invigorating mixture of speed and aggression, finest thrash power and the fiercest riffage.
Get ready for one of the most heaviest and hotly anticipated metal records of 2017, as the CAVALERA CONSPIRACY will strike back this Fall!
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Category Archives: Radha
1. Vaisnava Deities, d. Saktism, Other Goddesses, Radha, Sakta Deities (Hindu Goddesses)
India is a patriarchal society in which men are considered more important than women; wives are often ranked based on their husband’s social status. However, goddesses are an exception and challenge this notion, as they hold power (Sakti) over all humans and often hold presidency over male gods in the Hindu religion (Vaudeville 1). Radha is an inspirational goddess in the Hindu religion, due to her everlasting love and unbreakable devotion (Bhakti) for the god Krsna, who is one of the eight incarnations of Visnu (Mukhhopadhyay 4). Unfortunately there is no record of Radha’s individual identity before she met Krsna; therefore, they are often considered one entity with the name Radha-Krsna (Miller 13). Radha’s story is unique because it reinforces love between human and the divine (Dimock and Levertov 9). Together, their story constitutes the attainment of the highest level of connection, passion, and love that two beings can share, which is known as Rasa.
The Gitagovinda describes the love relationship of Radha and Krsna through poetry and song, and was written in the 12th Century by Jayadeva (Miller 14). Jayadeva reveals that Radha and Krsna first encountered one another in the country Braj. This was Radha’s birth town where she was well known and often called Lali, which means darling (Vaudeville 11). Krsna was married to sixteen thousand wives, and had sixteen thousand Gopis, which are cow-herding women. Krsna’s flute had the power to make women drop whatever they were doing and join him in listening to beautiful melodies, thus attracting Radha (Dimock and Levertov 8).
Krsna and Radha knew and longed for each other before they had any first encounters, leading to the notion that they are not, and never were, separate entities at all. Rather, Radha is Krsna’s characteristic of power and strength (Sakti), and everything that he wants out of a partner; she is said to be his reason for coming into the world (Wulff 111). Radha evolved from Krsna to bring nature (Prakrti), Maya (mysterious power), and Sakti (energy) into existence (Brown 62). This alludes to the idea that Krsna needs Radha because she is the energy and power that he transmits to all of the other Gopis when he loves them. When Radha and Krsna are apart he longs to feel the stability he encounters in her presence.
One crucial concept of importance when surveying Radha and Krsnas love is the importance of memory. It is highly recognized that both Radha and Krsna remembered each others’ encounters and the way they made each other feel, most of their relationship was spent lovingly devoting themselves to each other through their connection of memories, and the hope that they would one day reunite after huge bouts of separation. Krsna is absent for long periods of time as he goes away to the Mahabharata war, in hopes of finding his lost identity (Miller and Goswami 14, 89). Radha becomes so obsessed with the idea of Krsna that she sees him everywhere she goes, even in the trees, almost as a hallucination (Wulff 31). Radha remembers miniscule details about Krsna, and fantasizes about making love to him. Through this, Krsna can sense her love and they share a connection through wanting each other; this desire is known as Kama (Miller 20). The foundation of their relationship is that they love each other so deeply that they will do anything to stay devoted, even after great amounts of time pass without contact. Their love is eternal and they both never feel the strength of that bond with any of their other significant partners.
Radha is often perceived as Krsna’s mistress because Krsna never married her but always admired her. Radha and Krsna never marry because they desire a love without constraints and one of spontaneity (Wulff 41). Radha’s biggest insecurity is that she is forced to overcome the jealousy she experiences when she imagines Krsna participating in sexual acts with other Gopis (Dimock and Levertov 7). Radha feels intensely conflicted in her own mind, as she is aware that Krsna is attracted and involved with other women, but this does not stop her from giving Krsna all she has (even though she is also married). She is aware that she appears mad to everyone else around her, but she does not care because her feelings of love are so deep that no object, or human could change the way she feels (Wulff 38).
Radha’s love is Krsna’s Sakti; without it he would be incomplete and lost. She energizes Krsna providing him with the means to carry on as a friend, master, child, or lover (Brown 69). Because Radha is Krsna’s favourite, she becomes one with him; alone she is just a normal cow herding Gopi, but in combination with him she is considered to be a powerful mother figure who Krsna needs and desires. Sometimes she is even regarded as more important than he in the Hindu religion. The image in which Radha forces Krsna to let her put her feet on top of his head, demonstrates the power that she had over him (Miller and Brown 23,71). The two complement and complete each other; something is taken away from one being without the presence of the other.
Radha submits her complete self to Krsna in a variety of ways. First, she listens and sings with Krsna, which proves that they are emotionally surrendered to each other. Radha and Krsna can mediate and be on the same level with one another, through this they achieve Samarana, which means spontaneity, in which all expectations are lost and they are able to love each other freely without restraints of other people (Goswami 80). Radha and Krsna are trying to achieve Rasa, which is the highest level of love, in which they will no longer feel like separate entities; rather, their love will be so powerful that it joins two individuals into one being (Goswami 80).
Today Radha and Krsna are still very important deities in Hindu worship; the Hindu calendar allows them both to be praised on separate days. Radha Ashtami is celebrated in August or September, and it is to commemorate the day of her birth. On this day people fast from food and worship her (Bellenir 1). All goddesses are seen in the Hindu calendar to have both a dark (Kali) and a bright (Durga) side, to represent the waxing and waning of the moon. The light side is said to take on human form, which carries weapons, and the dark represents a cosmic mother figure (Vaudeville 3). One also finds renounced paintings of Radha and Krsna; these represent their deep love and bond. Most original paintings show Krsna alone playing his flute, although later on Radha is also shown playing. This represents that Radha is most definitely Krsna’s favourite, and therefore receives special privileges over the other Gopis (Goswami 87).
Radha and Krsna’s relationship illustrates that not only humans can attain extreme love connections for one another, but the love between a human and God is also possible. The Radha-Krsna relationship proves that the highest Bhakti, Rasa, is possible for these two as they remember every characteristic and devote their entire being to another; even when jealousy and anger take over, their devotion for one another prevails (Dimock and Levertov 13). Krsna proves his love by making Radha his favourite out of all of the women he has encountered, and Radha devotes every action to loving Krsna and being his power to continue loving her and all of his wives and Gopis (Brown 63).
Bellenir, K (2004) Religious Holidays & Calendars. Detroit: Omnigraphics, Inc.
Brown, Mackenzie. (1982) “The Theology of Radha in the Puranas.” In John Stratton Hawley and Donna Marie Wulff, eds. The Divine Consort Radha And The Goddesses Of india, p.57-72. Berkeley: University of California Press.
Dimock, Edward and Levertov, Denise (1967) In praise of Krishna: songs from the Bengali. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Goswami, Shrivatsa. (1982) “The Play and Perfection of Rasa” In John Stratton Hawley and Donna Marie Wulff, eds. The Divine Consort Radha And The Goddesses Of india, p.72-89. Berkeley: University of California Press.
Miller, Barbara. (1982) “The Divine Duality of Radha and Krishna” In John Stratton Hawley and Donna Marie Wulff, eds. The Divine Consort Radha And The Goddesses Of india, p.13-27. Berkeley: University of California Press.
Mukhoradhyay, Durgadas (1990) In Praise of Krishna. Delhi: Br Publishing Corporation.
Vaudeville, Charlotte. (1982) “Krishna Gopala, Radha, and The Great Goddess.” In John Stratton Hawley and Donna Marie Wulff, eds. The Divine Consort Radha And The Goddesses Of India, p.1-13. Berkeley: University of California Press.
Wulff, Donna. (1996) “Radha: Consort and Conquerer of Krishna” In John Stratton Hawley and Donna Marie Wulff, eds. Devi: Goddesses of India, P. 109-112. Berkeley: University of California Press.
Wulff, Donna. (1982) “A Sanskrit Portrait: Radha in the plays of Rupa Gosvami” In John Stratton Hawley and Donna Marie Wulff, eds. The Divine Consort Radha And The Goddesses Of india, p.27-42. Berkeley: University of California Press.
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Radha has been recognized in direct association with the Hindu god Krsna. Known as one of the Gopi cow-herd milkmaids of Vraja, Radha’s strong and passionate love for Krsna is the main story of this goddess. Radha becomes a primary example of love for the lord that followers to relate to. For many devotees, the strength and unconditional love that Radha has for Krsna is one to be imitated. “The love affair of Radha and Krsna in the devotional context becomes a metaphor for the divine/human relationship”(Kinsley 82).
The character of Radha is not fully developed until relatively quite late in the Hindu tradition. Before Jayadeva’s Gitogovinda, Radha is only referred to briefly. Although the references are short, they are unquestionably clear in the fact that they are referring to Radha. The Padma-, Brahma-vaivarta and Devi-bhagavata-puranas give in-depth descriptions of Radha and Krsna’s relationship (Kinsley 82). Although the adulterous aspect of Radha is not addressed in any of the earlier references, the theme of love in separation is a central one in all of the references. For example in the Venisamhara of Bhatta Narayana (date to around 800 CE), Radha is described as becoming angered while making love to Krsna and choking on her tears as she leaves him. In the Dhvanyalokalo-cana (early 10th century), Radha is saddened because Krsna must leave Vraja to go to the village of Mathura to begin his adult life, and is described as weeping pitifully. She is also mentioned in Ksemendra’s Dasavataracarita (1066 CE) as barely able to speak as Krsna is leaving for Mathura (Kinsley 82). Another notable characteristic that is uniform in all of the early references to Radha, is that they are always in direct connection with Krsna. The passages do not refer to her strictly individually and it is only her love for Krsna or his love for her that is talked about. Because Radha is known as the young girl who is passionately in love with Krsna, and mainly their love is described in separation, there is room for speculation that their affair was an illicit one. There is evidence that she belonged to another, was already married, and went against societal norms and risked being judged by the community by entering this illicit relationship.
Before any mention of Radha, Krsna is described as being the subject of irresistible beauty and charm to the village women of Vraja. They are described as married women who have household duties, but when they hear the flute of Krsna calling them to the woods, they cannot resist.They run to Krsna in such frenzy, that they abandon their household duties and their husbands to rush to his side. The woods of Vraja, where the women run to, to meet Krsna, are described as beautiful, forever spring and considered to be heaven residing on earth. It is important to understand the relationship between these women and Krsna before seeing how his relationship with Radha develops. It is clear that the message portrayed in these passages is that his love is not exclusive, in that he loves all of the women, and encourages them all to love him in return.The correlation from this theme to religious devotees is that those who are truly devoted to the lord are encouraged to act like the Gopis. When they hear his call, they should abandon all their duties to be with him and let nothing come in between their relationship. An aspect of Radha’s relationship with Krsna that is discussed, is the jealousy that escalates when Radha is aware of Krsna spreading his love with others.
Jayadeva’s Gitagovinda
It is in this twelfth century text that Radha is first presented as a central character. She is singled out as Krsna’s favorite, but the text mainly deals with Radha searching for Krsna and the emotions of longing, jealousy and sorrow she feels. Where previous texts about Krsna have a more joyous, playful tone, the Gitagovinda is written in a sad and distressed voice, with Radha expressing the pain caused from her separation from Krsna, painting images of obsessive love. The following is a translated excerpt from Jayadeva’s Gitagovinda, exemplifying Radha’s distress and sorrow that comes hand in hand with her devotional love for Krsna:
My heart values his vulgar ways,
Refuses to admit my rage,
Feels strangely elated,
And keeps denying his guilt.
When he steals away without me
To indulge his craving
For more young women,
My perverse heart
Only wants Krisna back.
What can I do? (Olson 255)
Although it is not clearly stated, it is hinted that Radha is married to another man. When the two lovers meet, their meeting is in surrounded by secrecy, in dark woods, and with an implied eye of disapproval by society. It is, however, very clear that Krsna is not married to Radha, as she speaks in jealousy of the love he gives to all the other women. Despite her jealousy, she risks the chance that she may be socially ostracized from the community and the “dangers of the night, the woods and public censure” (Kinsley 86) to be with Krsna.
Even though Radha’s affair with Krsna seems improper, the love she has for Krsna is appropriate as a “devotional metaphor” (Kinsley 89). Some theologians argue that illicit love is given freely, without a sense of obligation. In comparison, being married to someone has a sense of legal obligation and those in a marriage are constrained within the parameters of a marriage. The common view is that married love can be mundane or dull and in contrast, illicit love is filled with excitement and ecstasy. Therefore the relationship between Radha and Krsna serves as comparable to the human-divine relationship. The obstacles that are faced by Radha, so that she can love Krsna, prove to strengthen and increase her love for him. She gives him the selfless love that he desires. For devotees, love for Lord Krsna is held to be irresistible, extraordinarily beautiful and overpowering.
The earliest evidence of worship for Radha can be found sometime between 1486 to 1533 (Wulff 196). Her earliest images can be found in temples in Bengal and Vrndavana, but are not restricted to these areas. Images of Radha usually include her as being paired with Krsna. It is considered that when a devotee is worshipping Krsna, he is also worshipping Radha at the same time. “Devotees can share in the blissful experience of Radha and Krishna in sexual union by playing the role of friends of the divine couple” (Olson 232). The high degree of Radha’s importance can be verified in Vrndavana, where the use of the vocative form of her name is used as a standard greeting (Wulff 196). Radha’s love “symbolizes the religious ideal of selfless, unswerving devotion to God” (Wulff 196). Today she is worshipped through images, her name, and performances that tell the love story of Radha and Krsna.
Wulff, Donna Marie (1986) “Radha.” The Encyclopedia of Religion V.12. New York: Edited by Eliade, Mircea.
Kinsley, David (1986) Hindu Goddesses. Los Angeles: University of California Press.
Olson, Carl (2007) Hindu Primary Sources: A Sectarian Reader. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press.
Gopis of Vraja
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radha
http://www.iloveindia.com/spirituality/goddesses/radha/index.html
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Will luxury yachting go green
Driven by electric propulsion and a radical aesthetic, the EAU concept electric luxury yacht by Tjep, reimagines a cleaner future for the luxury yacht industry…
The impact of leisure boating on marine environments is a well-documented problem. Even as regulations seek to alleviate the issue, engine emissions and the incorrect disposal of waste by yachts contribute to marine pollution. Dutch designer Frank Tjepkema proposes to veto this with the introduction of the EAU concept electric luxury yacht.
Considering the growing projection of the automobile industry towards electrically-operated vehicles, Frank anticipates the same influence in the yacht building industry. He prophesies that although the pace of progress is extremely low, developments in areas such as electric cargos, hydrogen trucks and electric cars (TESLA) will find their way to the luxury yacht industry ultimately, by increasing the availability of large volume on-board electricity storage and charging points in ports. In such a scenario, questions Frank, “Would it not be nice if the leisure category, where there’s an abundance of capital, would lead the way? Why should enjoyment be combined with heavy pollution?”
Taking a step in the desired direction, Frank has conceptualised EAU to precision – at a length of 63 m, width of 13.5 m and beam of 18 m. Designed to have 100% electric propulsion with a speed of 25 knots, the yacht will host 12 cabins, a swimming pool and a helipad, its hull and superstructure crafted from aluminium. The future for a green yacht industry looks bright since Tjep. has been shortlisted for Yacht Concept over 40 Metres Award in The International Yacht & Aviation Awards 2018.
But, the EAU yacht isn’t just at the technological frontier of this industry; it also floats aesthetic qualities that represent the ultimate in cleanliness. Pushing simplicity and refinement to its limit, the design is inspired by the qualities of water. The design’s most striking element is a water droplet-shaped wheelhouse that floats like an abstract sculpture above the deck. The yacht also uses familiar elements from traditional yacht craftsmanship, such as the way in which wooden planks form the layered lines along the hull of wooden ships.
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High and dry: tinknockers help Special Dreams Farm
By Marty Mulcahy, Editor
ST. CLAIR - Silos have traditionally been landmarks on American farms. Tall, practical, necessary structures that stored animal feed, wheat, corn or other agricultural products, they were also wayfinders and landmarks for locals and travelers.
The 30-foot-tall silo at Special Dreams Farm is also a beacon along Fred Moore Highway, marking the entrance to the 31-acre Special Dreams Farm, a destination for developmentally disabled adults founded by a retired pipe fitter.
Now, thanks to the staff and apprentices at the Sheet Metal Workers Local 80 Training Center, the Special Dreams Farm's silo has a roof - creating a new weatherproof space adjacent to the farm's barn for two miniature goats to move around in. Over the course of their fall semester, apprentices from Local 80, under the eye of instructor Sam Velez and Apprenticeship Coordinator Matt O'Rourke, built a 10-foot-diameter, conical-shaped roof for the concrete silo. The completed 300-lb. roof cap with a "galvalum" surface was lifted into place atop the silo with the help of a donated DTE Energy crane on Dec. 13.
"It's awesome, it's beautiful, it's so much more than I expected," said Larry Collette, the president and founder of Special Dreams Farm.
A retired 45-year Local 636 pipe fitter, Collette founded Special Dreams Farm in 2004 as a place for his autistic son Greg, and other developmentally disabled adults. Typically served are adults with autism, Down Syndrome, cerebral palsy, closed head injuries and other cognitive impairments. Formal state educational programs for Greg and people like him end at age 26, and their parents and guardians are often left at a loss in finding a fulfilling, daily purposeful destination for them.
Special Dreams Farm, open 51 weeks per year, welcomes up to 20 "farmers" at a time, five days a week from 9:30 a.m. to 1 p.m., tailoring the teaching of practical life skills to their individual capabilities. The former dairy farm has buildings more than a century old. Farmers learn skills like sewing, cooking, laundering, picnic table making, woodworking and collecting and selling firewood. They also get to socialize, tend a greenhouse and garden, ride horses, and take care of rabbits, chickens, and soon, miniature goats.
"Everyone here has a jobs coach, but so much of this is about social interaction, giving the farmers a place to go every day, giving them a purpose," Collette said.
The nonprofit farm runs entirely on grants, donations, and fundraisers, and building trades union members and their contractors have stepped up to help tremendously over the years, Collette said. Operating engineers, laborers and their contractors graded and built an asphalt driveway from the barn onto nearby Fred Moore Highway, as well as the facility's parking lot. Pipe trades, carpenters, electricians, and sheet metal workers and their contractors donated time, material and talent to make repairs of the aging buildings and improve mechanical systems.
Collette said the Dana Engineered Plastics components plant in nearby St. Clair responded to a grant request with an offer of $5,000. The majority was spent converting a section of the barn to prepare for the acquisition of the goats, and the roof for the silo. He placed a call to Local 80 Business Manager Tim Mulligan to see what kind of skills could be donated by the sheet metal workers to make the roof. Materials were donated by Allied Ventilation and Cass Sheet Metal.
Velez said the school's apprentices worked on the roof part-time since the first week of school last August, designing the structure, cutting the pieces and finally assembling it. It was trucked to Special Dreams Farm, and the apprentices were on hand to make sure their handiwork was safely and successfully lifted and secured into place.
The silo, built in the mid-1950s, is made of concrete sections, held together by steel bands. "It's very sound structurally," Collette said. "But having a roof on it will be great."
"Obviously this is a project that the apprentices aren't going to see all the time," Velez said just before the lid was lifted into place on the silo, "but it's a project that offered all kinds of skill lessons. Problem solving, layout, welding. Making everything fit together." Doing some of the leg-work to coordinate the project were Local 80 Business Agents Jason Grunenwald and Bryan McConnell and Organizer Alex Brzuszek
Surprisingly for a structure that typically stores agricultural products, many silos have traditionally been constructed without roofs, allowing the feed or other product inside to be exposed to the elements. That moisture incursion at the top of the silo is not much of a problem, according to a Michigan Farm Bureau spokesman, who said the wet compaction of the silage at the top keeps the lower contents sufficiently dry.
At Special Dreams Farm, the two miniature goats will no doubt be grateful for the roof over the empty silo. "Our class worked on it from start to finish," said Local 80 probationary apprentice Edward Dobek. "There is a big learning curve with all the different angles that are involved. It's been a different project, for sure, but we've enjoyed doing it."
(Special Dreams Farm is a 501(c) 3 organization founded in 2004. Tax deductible contributions can be sent to P.O. Box 741, New Baltimore, MI 48047. (810) 326-0127. Visit www.specialdreamsfarm.org).
GATHERING ‘ROUND the metal roof they built for the silo at Special Dreams Farm in St. Clair are a group of Sheet Metal Workers Local 80 apprentices. Among those pictured are (l-r) Special Dreams Farm founder and Pipe Fitters 636 retiree Larry Collette, Local 80 apprentice instructor Sam Velez, and Local 80 apprentices Edward Dobek, Tyler Lindsay, James Woodruff, Benjamin Engelhardt, Vince Mandarino, Garrett Mitchell, Steve Mead, Owen Vannatter and Justin Qualkenbush. Not in the photo are Brad Darnell and Dante Valente.
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From tiny acorns, mighty oaks do grow - by Rich Beadnall
First there was void – then Rory said “Let There Be Ning” and there was Ning. MTBG was created from nothing in 2009 as nothing more than a place where like-minded folks could share banter, rides, photos, videos and blogs with other MTB loons without falling into some of the cliquey crap that had blighted other local websites prior to MTBG’s creation.
Members came on board quickly and the core of the MTBG Team (Rory, Ghostrider/Nice Hat/And & Mark) formed to help create a friendly local site for friendly local riders. Social rides abounded and all was well with the world. Friendships were forged amongst the suffering of the Cook’s Nemesis Climb, the exhilaration of a night-time ride down The Abyss and countless crashes on The Chute.
As time went by, the site grew to such an extent that two new members were recruited for the MTBG Team – Rich B and Nick. With their input and the hard work of the existing three members, the Ning site went from strength to strength and this got us all thinking …. we wanted to put something back ….. but how?
The foggy memories of my old age prevent me from fully remembering how it all started, but talk turned to an off-shoot of the Ning site; a ‘proper’ MTBG Club that would have a constitution, a committee and *gasp* responsibility. Initially set up to help to promote MTBing in and around the Guisborough area, the Club also wanted to develop trailbuilding at Guisborough in conjunction with the Forestry Commission and SingletrAction so as to help put something back into the official trails at Guisborough.
The Club is now into its second year and, similarly to the Ning site, has flourished under the careful eyes of the Committee members. As an official British Cycling-affiliated club, it was necessary to have an AGM for election of Committee members, discuss the successes of the past year and quaff ale in a local hostelry. So it was written; so it was done.
The function room of the Ship Inn, Guisborough played host to the first annual MTBG Club AGM on 11th November 2012 – due respects paid earlier in the morning to all those who fell defending our liberties and freedoms that we all so often take for granted, erstwhile members of the Club gathered to listen to great tales of trailbuilding exploits, race team successes and other such MTB-related shenanigans. New Committee members were elected, other posts filled and future plans outlined to the euphoric acclaim of all present (well, sort of …).
All of which is a rather long-winded way of saying that some poor sod got roped into taking the minutes of the meeting (only because he’s the only one of the MTBG Team that can write without crayons) and those minutes are available for Club member perusal somewhere below this blather.
Read and enjoy. Join up. Get involved. It’s only the involvement of people like you (yes you!) that will keep the Club fresh and on the cutting edge of all things MTB in Guisborough. 2013 promises to be a very exciting year for the Club with a whole host of developments in the pipeline that could make a significant change to the MTB landscape in the local area. We can’t do it without you. Be part of it.
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Carrick focus 13th Nov
Published on Wednesday, November 20th, 2013 at 12:05 pm
Public Meeting on Crime Awareness
Following a very successful public meeting held in the Nano Nagle Community Resource Centre last month, a committee named ‘Crime Awareness in Carrick-on-Suir’ has been set up to address the very serious matters happening in the town recently.
A follow up public meeting is being held in the Carraig Hotel next Monday night at 8pm and all are invited to attend. Anyone who is concerned about this urgent matter will have an opportunity to voice their concerns.
It is planned to have in attendance Superintendent John Courtney and Sergeant Ian Barrett and the meeting will be addressed by concerned people including Cllr Sylvia Cooney Sheehan. Now is the time to stand up and be counted, let your voice be heard and help to take back control.
Flower Arranging Demonstration
Glasha Flower and Garden Society is holding a Flower Arranging Demonstration in the Carraig Hotel on Wednesday, December 4th at 8pm. The Demonstrator is Christopher White from Dublin and all proceeds will go to St. Bridget’s Hospital and the World Association of Flower Arranging.
Remembering those we have lost through suicide
A Mass of Remembrance, Consolation and Hope will be offered at Glencomeragh House to remember all those who have died through suicide on Wednesday evening, November 13th at 8pm and to offer consolation and hope to their families and friends. All are welcome and refreshments will be served afterwards.
Final Walk of 2013 in Marlfield
A brisk walk daily is ideal for adults and children as part of the recommended one hour of daily physical activity. The last of the ‘Go Walking Tipperary 2013′ series takes place next Sunday 17th November in Marlfield. It is the Dun Ui Faolain Loop (Rock Walk) and it starts at 2pm.
Resource Centre taking names for Courses
Anyone interested in joining a particular course in the near future should contact the Nano Nagle Community Resource Centre at 051 642418 as the Centre is currently taking names for Manual Handling ( 1 day or half day), Irish course (six sessions), Sign Language (six sessions) and Flower Arranging (three sessions)..
The Citizen Information Service provides a Drop in Service every Tuesday from 11.00am to 1.00pm.
The Money Advice and Budgeting Service, Cuan Saor and the Rape Crisis Service also attend at the Nano Nagle Community Resource Centre every week. To get any further details or to book a course please, call into the Centre or telephone the above number.
Brewery Lane Theatre hosts ‘Endgame’
Waterford based theatre group Crataegia is staging Samuel Beckett’s play ‘Endgame’ in the Brewery Lane Theatre on Friday, Saturday and Sunday 22nd, 23rd and 24th November. The cast includes former Brewery Lane players David Grant and Enda O’Driscoll. The remaining cast members are Pat Quinn Bolger and Paul Dillon. David Grant directs the play in addition to being a cast member.
The plot revolves around a tyrant confined to an armchair whose parents live in a couple of dustbins. The play is in turn cruel, funny and compassionate. Admission is €10 and the play commences at 8.15pm. Tickets may be booked in advance at the Heritage Centre, Main Street – telephone 051 640200 – or at the theatre door.
Bridge Results
Tuesday Club – 1st Angela and Frank Brown, 2nd Irene and Frank Purcell, 3rd Vera O’Donnell and Breda Feeney.
Thursday Club – 1st Teesie Blanchfield and Mary Arrigan, 2nd Honora Murphy and Eithne O’Sullivan, 3rd Biddy Skelly and TillyO’Donnell.
Meetings re EriGrid’s Proposal to Erect Pylons
South Tipperary Independent TD Mattie McGrath is holding Advice Clinics in Trap’s Bar, Grangemockler this Thursday, November 14th at 6.15pm and in Fleming’s Bar, Faugheen at 7.15pm to offer members of the public an opportunity to submit objections against Erigrid’s proposal to erect pylons and overhead powerlines throughout South Tipperary. A meeting on the same matter will be held in Carrick on Suir Town Hall on Friday afternoon at 3.30pm.
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Facing Down the Dealers
Let it Snow Let it Snow
Carrick-On-Suir Musical Society’s “Robinson Crusoe”
Scoil Mhuire presents its end of year awards
Comeragh College mark their special day minus the Education Minister
Advancing Technology at Comeragh College
Information & Communication Technology at Comeragh College
Transition Year at Comeragh College
Tinvane Park unit sells for €970,000
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Location: Békéscsaba city – Csabagyöngye Cultural Center
Concert performance in three acts, in Italian, with Hungarian surtitles
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Angelotti, the former Consul of the Republic of Rome, has escaped from the state prison at the Castle St. Angelo and sought refuge in the church of St. Andrea della Valle, where his sister, the Countess Attavanti, has deposited the key to a hidingplace. Angelotti conceals himself when the Sacristan arrives. The latter, outraged, finds that the painter Cavaradossi has given the altar painting on which he is working - a figure of Mary Magdalena - the features of a beautiful unknown woman who has often been observed at prayer in the church recently. While Cavaradossi admits that the stranger has, unknowingly, served as a model for him, his heart belongs only to bis beloved, the singer Floria Tosca, who closely resembles her. When the verger leaves, Angelotti comes out from his hidingplace, believing that he is now alone. He recognizes his friend Cavaradossi, who is prepared to assist him. So that no one shall find him with the fugitive, the painter locks the chapel door.
Then Tosca appears and the locked door arouses her jealousy but Cavaradossi pacifies her and they arrange to meet that evening. However, Tosca's jealousy is reawakened when she recognizes in Cavaradossi's picture the Countess Attavanti. Once more the painter succeeds in convincing her of his faithfulness. She has hardly left the church when a cannon is fired, showing that Angelotti's escape has been discovered. Speed is now essential and Cavaradossi decides to hide the fugitive in a well in the garden of his house. When the Sacristan enters the church with the news that the Italian and Austrian forces have defeated Napoleon, Cavaradossi has disappeared. Exulting over the victory, the Sacristan prepares the choirboys for the Te Deum.
The joyous confusion is brought to a sudden halt by the arrival of Scarpia, the much-feared Chief of police, who, with his benchmen, is in pursuit of Angelotti. A fan of countess Attavanti found in the chapel, shows him that he is on the right track. Scarpia also discovers Attavantis features in Cavaradossi's painting and when Tosca now returns to tell the painter that she has to sing at the victory celebration being staged by the Queen, Scarpia inflames her jealousy in order to discover what she knows and urges Spoletta and his men to follow her.
It is evening and Scarpia is awaiting the arrival of Tosca, while on the floor below the Queen's celebrations are beginning. Spoletta appears, but without the fugitive Angelotti. Instead he has arrested Cavaradossi, but Scarpia is unable to wring a confession from him. When Tosca enters the room the painter warns her not to betray anything. Scarpia orders that the painter be tortured in an adjoining room. Anguished by the cries of her lover, Tosca betrays Angelotti's hidingplace. The torture ceases. But when Cavaradossi hears that Napoleon, and not the Italian and Austrian forces, has won the day he passionately avows bis political ideals. Scarpia has him taken away and explains to Tosca, whom he holds back, that this confession has finally sealed Cavaradossi's fate. Tosca begs for her lover's life and, in the end, Scarpia promises that he will only pretend to have Cavaradossi shot if she gives herself to him. In utter despair, Tosca agrees. But as Scarpia writes out the pass that will give her and Cavaradossi their freedom she takes a knife from the table and kills him.
At dawn preparations are being made at the Castle St. Angelo for Cavaradossi's execution. The painter succeeds in obtaining pencil and paper from a guard in order to write Tosca a farewell note. Memories overwhelm him. Then Tosca herself appears before him and relates what has happened. She tells him that the execution will be a pretence. The execution squad appears. They fire and Cavaradossi falls dead. Tosca, in hopeless despair, realizes that Scarpia has tricked her and hurls herself from the battlements.
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Liverpool forward Sadio Mane won the award for the top flight, while in-form Bristol City striker Tammy Abraham won the vote in the Championship.
Bolton midfielder Jay Spearing and Grimsby's Omar Bogle were the winners in League One and League Two respectively.
And now four fans - who are resident in the UK or Ireland - can win the chance (subject to terms and conditions) to meet and present the award to the PFA Fans' Player of the Month in each division.
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The London Geography Alliance was established in 2014 with support from the London Schools Excellence Fund. This fund aims to support the development of teacher’s subject knowledge and pedagogy with a view to enhancing the teaching of subjects in London schools.
The Alliance consists of UCL Institute of Education, UCL Department of Geography, King’s College Department of Geography, Queen Mary University London School of Geography and participating London primary and secondary schools.
The London Geography Alliance aims to:
Engage teachers in an on-going relationship with the discipline such that they deepen and build their geographical knowledge about how the world is changing.
Bridge the divide between schools and universities so that new knowledge and ideas are made available for teachers to use and lecturers have a better understanding of geography teaching in schools.
Provide a network of subject-based support for primary and secondary teachers to share ideas and resources.
Develop new schemes of work and resources geared towards meeting the demands of the new national curriculum, GCSEs and A Level.
The LGA organises workshops and fieldtrips focused on particular areas of the geography curriculum, identified by teachers as areas in which they would like support. Led by university lecturers, education specialists and teachers, workshops/fieldtrips aim to engage teachers in discussion about new ideas and ways of approaching aspect of geography. This is done through a combination of lectures, discussion and practical activities in which teachers play an active role in identifying curricular priorities and what is possible in the classroom context.
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If your department would like support with a particular area of the geography curriculum or you have an idea for a workshop feel free to contact the LGA with your request.
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Recrystallizing Cream of Tartar for Better Piezoelectric Crystals...
Rochelle salt crystals have been a popular crystal to make at home as they exhibit piezoelectric properties and are relatively easy to synthesize. Piezoelectric crystals generate a voltage when mechanically deformed, and conversely, deform when a voltage is applied. At one time they were used as a transducer in phonographs to generate the signal from a record and subsequently amplified to produce sound. They fell out of favor as newer technologies were developed and they also suffered from being deliquescent, and picked up water from any damp environment. There are many sites where the making and testing of these crystals can be found. Simply search for “Rochelle salt piezocrystals” and multiple entries will show up. For a really excellent site for not only Rochelle salt but other crystal growing, see Andrew Dominic Fortes' page here.
I have been making these crystals since before there was an internet and recently began seeing a number of people having trouble with the process. Crystals were either not being produced or the color was very yellow among other concerns. I recognized the difficulty and I am posting this discussion to clear up some of the issues
The reactants necessary to synthesize Rochelle salt, (potassium sodium tartrate), which is a double salt, involves the use of potassium bitartrate, also sold as “cream of tartar” in markets in the spice aisle, and sodium carbonate, also sold in the market in the detergent aisle as Borax washing soda. Baking soda, (sodium bicarbonate), can be used in place of the washing soda but involves heating to drive off water and CO2. It is much easier to just use the borax washing soda.
The problem as I have seen it that the cream of tartar has a variable composition and may contain other chemicals to stop clumping, or other modifiers to make the product less expensive. This leads to at least two problems: The first is that the reaction is changed to produce unwanted byproducts, and the second is that the final crystals have inclusions which lead to poor crystal quality. The easy solution to the problem is to simply recrystallize the crude cream of tartar and then harvest the clean product for the synthesis of the Rochelle salt.
Fortunately, cream of tartar is easy to recrystallize as it is much more soluble in hot water than cold, which is the perfect condition for clean crystals. See the lead photos. At 100 degrees centigrade, 100 ml of water will hold about 6.2 grams of cream of tartar. At 10 degrees, it will hold only about 0.6 grams. So here is the process to do the recrystallization:
Place about 6 grams of the cream of tartar into a suitable container such as a Pyrex measuring cup. In a saucepan, bring a water bath up to just boiling and place the cream of tartar container in and immediately add about 100 ml's of distilled water. When the solution reaches just about boiling, stir to dissolve. Let as much dissolve as seems reasonable and filter through a coffee filter or filter paper. Let the clean solution cool to room temperature. The crystals will be forming at this point. Place in a refrigerator and let cool completely. Then, filter and collect the crystals and dry. That is really all that is necessary to now proceed to the synthesis of the Rochelle salt. Losses will vary but you can use the following formula to calculate recovery if desired:
% Recovery = amount recovered divided by initial quantity X 100. Good luck!
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I think that instead of re-crystallizing poorly soluble cream of tartar, it is much easier to re-crystallize the highly soluble Rochelle salt itself.
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Mercedes-AMG C 43 Coupe Road Test Review
Car India 2019-07-09 15:32:56
What’s red, has two doors, a three-pointed star, four-wheel drive, “C” badging, and a sweet V6? The new AMG C-Class Coupe has finally touched Indian shores and in its potent AMG C 43 guise no less. How does it fare in our road test? Read on.
Story: Jim Gorde
Photography: Sanjay Raikar
Two doors equal sports car. That holds true for many. If it’s red in colour, it furthers that cause. Add four tail-pipes and a sonorous soundtrack and it ticks all the boxes. The Mercedes C-Class was always a four-door luxury saloon of choice. Its playful side, however, was something we’d only heard of and experienced in the AMG 43 and the madder 63 S guise. Now, however, with a hard-top sloping roof and no rear doors, the C 43 Coupe ups the excitement and brings in more power than the erstwhile C 43 saloon; a car I adored, personally, as a proper everyday all-rounder.
The Mercedes-AMG C 43 4MATIC Coupe, then, is the new kid on the block, both in the market and in Merc’s ever-increasing line-up. The MultiBeam LED headlights, sleek styling, and tapered rear end (already seen on the C 300 Cabriolet) all seem familiar. What’s not so is the experience.
The 3.0-litre, biturbo V6 petrol engine under the bonnet now makes 390 PS ― up 23 PS on the older car ― and an unchanged, but still hefty, 520 Nm of peak torque. Not a decade ago, Mercedes had the SL 500 ― a two-door, then-rocket ship sports car with a big 5.0 V8 making 306 PS and 460 Nm. My, how times have changed. Furthermore, the biturbo V6 is paired to a nine-speed automatic driving a 4MATIC all-wheel-drive system with a pronounced rear bias. That should make for some serious fun and impeccable control. Right, then.
How times have really changed, though, manifests also in a vast number of people, many of whom are road-users ― an aspect that was not so much of a concern for the SL 500. That meant that I would have to be very careful indeed about how far my right foot travelled and, considering the responses on tap, it was a significant piece of the pie for my grey matter to come to terms with.
In the city, crawl speeds are not the ideal situation. Neither is the quality of road surfaces, mind you. The AMG C 43 felt rather out of place, the low front apron and overall low ground clearance were tested far more than they would have liked ― and not in the dynamic or aero department too. The drive modes on the Dynamic Select include the new Slippery mode (for wet, slippery, and low-traction surfaces), Comfort, Sport, Sport+, and Individual. Cosseted as I was in the lovely AMG alcantara and leather sports seats, my foot was in a different situation. The V6 has it torque peaking from 2,500 rpm ― high up today even for a turbo-petrol ― and while pottering around the city behind a slow-moving scooterist, who simply refuses to move from the fast lane at a mute 12 km/h, there is a pronounced leap forward when foot meets throttle. That’s when Comfort made way for Slippery. The dulled down throttle response was perfect for the crawl.
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BJP ex-MP, 6 others get life term for RTI activist’s murder
The Tribune 2019-07-12 06:50:00
A special CBI court today sentenced former BJP MP from Gujarat Dinu Bogha Solanki and six others to life imprisonment for the murder of RTI activist Amit Jethwa in July 2010.
Jethwa was shot dead from point blank range outside the Gujarat High Court in 2010 after he tried to expose illegal mining activities in the Gir forest region allegedly involving the former MP.
The court had pronounced them guilty on July 6 and reserved the order on the quantum of punishment. The other convicts are MP’s nephew Shiva Solanki, Sanjay Chauhan, sharp shooter Shailesh Pandya, Pachan Desai, Udaji Thakore and constable Bahadursinh Vader.
They were charged under Sections 302 of the IPC for murder, 201 for disappearance of evidence of offence, 120-B for criminal conspiracy and Section 25(1) of the Arms Act for illegal possession of arms.
Jethwa’s murder had created a countrywide furor because he was among several RTI activists who had to give their lives for exposing corruption in high offices.
In a stinging verdict, the CBI court also ordered legal proceedings to be initiated against 105 of the 195 witnesses, who had turned hostile.
Special CBI Court Judge KM Dave imposed a penalty of over Rs 59 lakh on all seven convicts, including Rs 15 lakh each from Solanki and his nephew Shiva.
Judge Dave directed that Rs 11 lakh from this amount would be given to Jethwa’s family which would include fixed deposits in a national bank worth Rs 5 lakh for his widow and Rs 3 lakh each for the slain RTI activist’s two minor sons.
The Ahmedabad’s Detection of Crime Branch, investigating the case earlier, had not included Solanki, who was then a Lok Sabha member from Junagadh, in any of the two chargesheets filed against the accused.
Bhikabhai Jethwa, father of the deceased, had moved the Gujarat High Court seeking a re-trial.
RTI activist Amit Jethwa was shot dead outside the Gujarat High Court in 2010 after he tried to expose illegal mining activities in the Gir forest region allegedly involving the former MP
The court also ordered legal proceedings to be initiated against 105 of the 195 witnesses, who had turned hostile.
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I’m the best dressed pastor in town -Biodun Fatoyinbo
Biodun Fatoyinbo, founder of the Commonwealth of Zion Assembly (COZA), says he is the best dressed pastor in town.
Fatoyinbo, who is facing a public backlash for allegedly raping Busola Dakolo, said this on Sunday while thanking members of the church who are standing by him.
Protesters had stormed the church headquarters in Abuja and its Lagos branch, asking the pastor to step aside and be made to face justice.
“I am the best dressed pastor in town,” he said to a round of applause from the congregation.
“But having you, I am the most blessed pastor,” he added, asking his congregation not to be provoked as they make their way out through the people protesting at the church gate.
Known to be stylish, Fatoyinbo had recently rocked labels like Angelo Galasso, Billionaire Couture, Givenchy, Balenciaga, Prada, Gucci, and Christian Louboutin.
During the service that ended abruptly, the pastor also announced the suspension of a seven-day programme of the church, saying the “Holy Spirit” directed him to do so.
He said he had been relating with his mentors and in the coming days, he will be giving some instructions.
Fatoyinbo had since denied the allegation, and while also speaking on Sunday, Modele, his wife, said her husband is not a rapist.
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Current and future Gordon Lee High School alumni look at a proposal to build a replacement for the school’s 85-year-old main buildings. (Messenger photo/Mike O’Neal)
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Chickamauga’s Gordon Lee High School due extreme makeover
Mike O'Neal, assistant editor
Chickamauga, a town that revels in tradition and its historic past, now faces a situation that could forever change its appearance.
Gordon Lee High School, which school superintendent Melody Day accurately describes as “the heart of the town,” requires renovations that go beyond a cosmetic facelift. Or not.
Less than a month after gathering in the school’s gymnasium to share in celebration of Gordon Lee High’s annual academic honors ceremony, current and former students returned to hear what fate might befall their school.
“No decision has been made,” Day told a crowd of well over 100, but she described how age has caught up with the beloved main academic building.
The 85-year-old building is well-maintained — its floors gleam and at sunrise its brick facade still glows — but its infrastructure fails to meet 21st-century standards.
Plumbing, or the lack of plumbing, has been a prime issue for years, restrooms are too few and far between, and upgrading for technologies unthought-of of when the when the Main Building, Olive Lee Building and Tom Lee Building were constructed in 1930 has been difficult.
The school’s faculty and staff in early April were advised that major structural changes were possible at GLHS. That, combined with preparations being made to install a new roof on the adjacent Chickamauga Elementary School, had led to rumors about the high school facing the wrecking ball.
The public meeting Tuesday night, June 2, was to dispel rumors and offer an overview of what the school board faces regarding the campus’ core.
“We’re not making a decision tonight,” school board chairman Corky Jewell said to open the meeting.
Jewell said some of the information shared at the meeting was being made public for the first time. That is not because it was a secret but because data is just now being collected as no architectural or engineering testing was permitted during the final months of the academic year.
Graduation for the Class of 2015 was held Friday, May 29.
Day said that every five years all schools in Georgia undergo a facilities review.
Except for the state fire code, GLHS fails to meet current building codes, which is something it would be required to do if major modernization was undertaken on the existing structure.
The superintendent said the school board has three options regarding the building: do nothing, undertake a major renovation, or build a new school. Of those, doing nothing is not acceptable, she said.
That means that either the current building is gutted and rebuilt inside its red brick shell or a totally new structure is erected in its stead. Either way, the “new” school would be required to meet all current building codes.
Day said there are pros and cons for each approach.
Rough estimates are that a renovation would cost about $9 million to make the building useable for another 40 years, a required time frame if state money is used for the project. Construction of a totally new building would be about $10 million for a modern, energy-efficient and code-compliant building.
A total building rehab would maintain the exterior appeal. That and that alone would seem to be its major advantage.
The lack of handicap access to the second story would make installation of elevators a necessity should renovation be chosen. But no steel girders were used when the building was constructed in 1930 so the second floor of an otherwise totally renovated building would not be considered structurally sound for classroom use.
With renovation there is also the possibility of dealing with unknowns, something Day illustrated by recounting redoing the art room’s floors several years ago. What was to have cost about $600 turned into a $6,000 project due to discovery of rotten sub-floors and framing.
Also, remodeling would further reduce square footage available for classrooms, as new restrooms for girls and for boys would be required on each level of each building.
From a financial point of view, the best option is to tear down and rebuild.
The Chickamauga school system is graded as the eighth poorest in Georgia and would qualify for favorable “low wealth” state funding if the current building is replaced, the superintendent said.
The district would use its $2.8 million in annual ESPLOST (educational special-purpose local-option sales tax) revenue for items not covered by Department of Education programs. The state would pay for construction by providing interest-free financing from the amounts usually earmarked for low wealth districts.
The greatest drawback to having a new building is just that: it would be new.
But Day said she had verbal assurances that the exterior facade could be — and would be — exactly replicated.
1953 GLHS graduate Claudette Morrison, a founding member of the school’s alumni association and who served five principals as the school’s secretary, asked only one thing.
“I understand that we have serious problems with our building,” she said. “ I only ask that the board seeks help from an architect familiar with historic preservation.”
Others, many with four generations who had attended Gordon Lee High, expressed similar sentiments regarding their school and this downtown Chickamauga landmark,.
“We do not intend to build a glass-and-steel monstrosity to take the place of our current school,” Jewell said.
The head of the school board said it is possible that the high school could be made better while making it look the same.
No decision has been reached, but the system is following the necessary procedure to qualify for the state funding that would make new construction possible.
The building will be studied through the summer. On Aug. 14 a proposal for state funding must be prepared. The school board in November or December will decide on a detailed plan of action for presentation to state officials. On Feb. 14, 2016, the state Department of Education will either approve or deny funding the Gordon Lee High School project.
It a new school is built, it will be constructed in front of the current three main buildings. Such a plan would permit use of the old structure until the new one is ready for occupancy.
The preliminary proposal would cause the loss of some parking on the “horseshoe” entrance driveway but those spaces would be regained at the stadium’s parking lot when the current building is demolished.
Because modern codes require each building having its own dedicated restrooms, having one new building rather than connecting three separate buildings would increase total square footage for class and office space.
“We’d gain about 10,000 square feet by consolidating the three into one,” Day said.
The design process is ongoing. Another public meeting will be held to allow the public to ask questions about the proposed changes to the school.
"I think Gordon Lee High School is the most beautiful high school I have ever seen," Day said. “No one wants to tear down the old school.”
No one likes to hear about a tax increase, but the superintendent delivered that bit of unwelcome news during the meeting.
Day said Chickamauga’s schools now receive about $750,000 annually in what is termed equalization funding, money that helps less well-heeled districts provide services available in larger tax-supported school system.
But it is necessary to have an effective millage rate of 14 mils to qualify for those equalization funds, something Chickamauga schools were prepared for — just not now.
“Our rate is at 12 mils and without an increase the system loses that money,” Day said. “I bet you’re even more depressed than when you first came in.”
Mike O'Neal is assistant editor for the Walker County Messenger in LaFayette, Ga.
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The impact the Northwest Ohio Piping Industry has had on the communities throughout the region is evident by the many commercial, industrial, bio-tech, governmental, educational, sports and leisure facilities that adorn the cityscapes of Northwest Ohio.
We built this community and we are working hard to make it even better through our current renovation and construction projects.
Over the years, the highly-skilled members of the Piping Industry have tackled thousands of projects of all sizes – from a single home renovation to a multi-million dollar manufacturing plant overhaul. Our members, and the wide array of contractors we work with, are ready to take on every challenge.
Here are just a few highlighted projects that show the variety of work we do.
ProMedica Downtown Toledo Headquarters
Piping Industry members helped with the historic renovation of two riverfront buildings, including the historic Steam Plant, to create a state-of-the art headquarters for ProMedica.
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The largest turnaround in 40 years at the BP Husky refinery in Oregon utilized more than 1,000 members of the Piping Industry. Safely, quickly and efficiently, our members completed maintenance, safety and upgrade projects.
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Piping Industry members are currently working on several buildings near Fifth Third Stadium, home of the Toledo Mudhens, in a new entertainment district called Hensville.
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The historic Toledo Zoo Aquarium underwent its first major renovation in the building's 74-year history, and the Piping Industry worked hard to ensure the local landmark reopened looking better than ever.
Davis-Besse Nuclear Power Station
More than 300 members of the Piping Industry are part of the workforce responsible for a $600 million project at the Davis-Besse Nuclear Power Station in Oak Harbor that has far-reaching impact on the economy in Ottawa County and the entire State of Ohio.
The Piping Industry has been part of new and upgrade construction of countless facilities on the campus of Bowling Green State University.
The Piping Industry has been part of new and upgrade construction of countless facilities on the campus of the University of Toledo.
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The Piping Industry helped make Pro-Tec Coating Co.’s dreams of rolling out a new line of high-strength steel a reality this year by constructing an expansion for the company’s Leipsic facility.
The Jeep plant in Toledo used to be the oldest continually operating manufacturing plant in Toledo before closing up in 2006. Thanks in part to the Piping Industry, the formerly vacant site will now be home to northwest Ohio's premier industrial park.
The passage of a $1.25 million levy in 2008 paid for the building and remodeling of fire stations across Sylvania Township. The Piping Industry contributed to the construction of the last levy-funded project at the new No. 1 fire station in downtown Sylvania.
The new Kroger store in Maumee marks a $20 million company investment in the Toledo area. The Piping Industry completed construction on the 90,921-square-foot store which opened its doors for the first time to customers on October 25.
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There are a ton of modern apartment complexes around campus with a ton of restaurants and stores around them. Venture farther south of campus and you'll be close to Plaza South Shopping Center. Settle even farther south and you'll get to stroll by Todds Lake every day, though it will be a bit more of a commute to school. If watching planes makes your heart sour, look for housing to the north, near Mursfreesboro Muni Airport. On campus, ride by Raider Express. Or hop on the green dragon known as the < a Rover, which runs Monday through Friday from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. Also, many of the nearby apartment complexes offer shuttles to campus. Join the bicycle revolution and get your own steel steed. Test it out on the paved Greenway path. Any way you want to ride, Musfreesboro is an easy city to zip around in.
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Home Unlabelled Blessing Agbomhere Vows To Sue Fed Govt After Mysteriously Surviving A Ghastly Auto Crash That Claimed 3 Lives
Blessing Agbomhere Vows To Sue Fed Govt After Mysteriously Surviving A Ghastly Auto Crash That Claimed 3 Lives
The news of Dr. Blessing Agbomhere's involvement in an auto crash along Lokoja/Abuja express way on Thursday, came to many as shock, particularly the people of Etsako, in Edo State, many of whom had wished him safe journey a few hours before the unfortunate accident that claimed three souls.
The only part of the news which consoled family members, friends, supporters, members of the Edo State chapter of the PDP and Etsako people was that he survived the crash mysteriously and many who saw the amount of damage done to the Land Cruiser SUV wondered how he was able to make it out alive of the car and unhurt.
While speaking to OLIKA REPORTERS in Abuja, the 2019 Etsako Federal House of Representatives hopeful, asserted that his survival was actually mysterious to him.
According to Dr Agbomhere, "I was on holiday to my hometown to celebrate Salah with my people, while returning back to Abuja, this happened".
He said; "I must confess that only God could have saved my life from that particular accident and I give all the glory to the Almighty God, without Whom, I may not have been alive today".
"I also thank the good people of Etsako for their love, prayers and thanksgiving to God on my behalf".
The 3 occupants of this were burnt beyond recognition
Narrating how it happened, Dr. Agbomhere told OLIKA REPORTERS that he left Auchi that faithful day hoping to get to Abuja on time, but had the car crash around 1: 25 pm between Lokoja and Magajiya Village in Kogi State when the SUV stepped on the ridges and construction defects on the express way.
Agbomhere went further to blame the dilapidated state of the road as the cause of the accident and vowed to sue the Federal Government for their failure to fix roads where hundreds of Nigerians lose their lives daily and queried why would someone who is an ardent tax payer be made to experience terrible situation as this.
He said; "My escape from death as a result of bad roads has further inspired me to continue the crusade against corruption in Nigeria. If the roads were properly constructed and in good condition, the accident wouldn't have occurred".
"Rather than complain, this accident has challenged me again to fight Nigeria's systematic corruption that has kept us in this condition where bad roads and poor construction in Nigeria is claiming several thousands of lives, lives that would have transformed our nation for greatness".
"I am consulting my lawyers, as I may sue the Federal Government for the bad roads that caused the car crash".
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Technology: Best Contact Centre Solution Judges Award goes to Eckoh's CallGuard
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Best Contact Centre Solution Judges Award goes to Eckoh's CallGuard
Pressbox (Press Release) - Eckoh (AIM: ECK), the global provider of secure payment products and customer contact solutions, has won the Judges Award for the Best Contact Centre Solution at the annual Card Not Present (‘CNP’) Awards 2019.
The CNP Awards are the only awards honouring the companies, programs and solutions that have distinguished themselves in the Card-Not-Present space throughout the year. The CNP Awards took place on Thursday, 23 May, during the CNP Expo in San Francisco.
Eckoh’s entry for the Best Contact Centre Solution focused on Eckoh’s unique and patented CallGuard solution that significantly reduces the risk of fraud or the impact of a data breach. What makes it different is that it can completely de-scope a contact centre from the scope of a PCI DSS audit without changing any of the existing processes or providers the customer uses. This makes it quick to deploy and with almost no resource required from the customer’s IT team. What's more, the agents stay in contact with the caller throughout the process, even during the payment, and in our experience, this enhances customer satisfaction and reduces the handling time of the payment. This is why Eckoh’s customers love the solution.
What made Eckoh's entry the winning one was the unique elements of CallGuard and the calibre and size of customers with which the solution has been successfully deployed. Eckoh has more live US customers in the Fortune 500 than all of our competitors combined.
Ed Johnson, Chief Operating Officer, UK Division at Eckoh commented: “It's an excellent achievement for Eckoh to be recognised through this award. With CNP crime set to hit £680 million in the UK by 2020 it’s a timely reminder for businesses with Contact Centres of the growing risk of fraud. We know it's the best solution on the market because our customers tell us so. As the leading provider of Secure Payment solutions for contact centres in the UK, CallGuard can truly deliver not only PCI DSS compliance but a secure contact centre to reduce risk and enhance payment security."
For more information contact MediaResponseUK@eckoh.com or visit www.eckoh.com
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Member Profile: Visualizing a New Way to Connect with Customers
Lauren McDaniel on Tuesday, October 11, 2016
By Lauren McDaniel, projectY
projectY cowork Los Alamos community member Mark Ortega is a local entrepreneur changing how companies connect with customers. As Chief Technology Officer with AttendMe, he’s helping launch a new product that allows businesses to instantly connect with customers face-to-face by leveraging real-time video chat.
Today, many companies have made their online experience about facts, figures and clicks. Although convenient at times, it’s an impersonal way to communicate about products and services. AttendMe’s technology switches up the traditional model of website communications, highlighting that businesses are not only about the color, size and price of a product they sell, but also about the people who sell it, who make it, who deliver it and who support it. AttendMe aims to personalize online customer connections by enabling companies to greet their customers online with a smile, and from both mobile and desktop devices.
“With AttendMe video chat available on a company’s website, in an employee’s email signature or on social media, customers feel empowered to reach a business from the channel they prefer,” says Mark. “No software installation or advance registration means customers have easy, one-click access to see and talk with a real person at the organization. Employees can then leverage their smartphone or tablet camera to show remote customers their store, products, services, or people behind the business.”
According to Mark, these features aim to help companies and organizations increase online conversions and the average order size, as well as improve customer loyalty. According to eMarketer, with a personalized, guided online experience, businesses average 25% more sales. Likewise, a similar eMarketer study determined that 63% of respondents who chatted live with an agent said they were more likely to return to the site, and 62% reported being more likely to purchase again.
Want to try AttendMe for free? Check out the widget on the projectY cowork Los Alamos website at www.projectYlosalamos.com, the hyperlink in my email signature, or visit http://www.attendme.io/ to sign up!
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From next March 4, 2017 and until July 16, il Complesso del Vittoriano - Ala Brasini hosts the he exhibition Giovanni Boldini: A retrospective that aims to expose, consider and compare part of the great production pictorial artist Ferrara.
Through an exhibition of about one hundred and sixty works from Dai major museums and private collections around the world.
The exhibition Giovanni Boldini, from 4 March to 16 July at the Complesso del Vittoriano - Ala Brasini, in Rome, is one of the most comprehensive and spectacular retrospectives to be held in recent years. It features the most representative oils and pastels in Boldini's oeuvre and works by other artists who were his contemporaries, as well as a small selection of drawings on paper and engravings.
The show reconstructs step by step the outstanding career of this great Italo-French artist, who was not only one of the protagonists of that exceptional period and the brilliant anticipator of 20th-century modernity, but superbly conveyed and exalted female beauty in his works, revealing the innermost mysterious soul of the noble ladies of the period, whom he regarded as "fragile icons".
The exhibition comprises about of approximately 160 works ? some of which have been rarely seen in public before such as The Red Curtain (1904), Lady Reading (1875), Portrait of a Lady in White with Gloves and Fan (1889), Dark-Haired Lady in an Evening Gown (c. 1892), Portrait of Madame G. Blumenthal (1896) ? from major private collections and museums throughout the world, including the Mus�e d'Orsay in Paris, the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin - Nationalgalerie in Berlin, the Mus�e des Beaux-Arts in Marseille, the Uffizi in Florence and last but not least the Museo Giovanni Boldini in Ferrara, which has the most important public collection of the master's works.
The large canvas depicting Portrait of Donna Franca Florio (1901?1924) the masterpiece that has become the symbol of the Belle �poque and the happy Palermo of the day is also on display.
Under the aegis of the Istituto per la Storia del Risorgimento Italiano, with the patronage of the Ministero dei beni e delle attivit� culturali e del turismo and the Regione Lazio, this major retrospective is organized and produced by Gruppo Arthemisia, in collaboration with the Assessorato alla Crescita culturale - Sovrintendenza Capitolina ai Beni Culturali di Roma Capitale and AIAC (Associazione Italiana Arte e Cultura), and is curated by Tiziano Panconi and Sergio Gaddi.
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New Pro-Life Religious Order
Fr. Frank Pavone, of Priests for Life, has founded a new religious order, the Missionaries of the Gospel of Life. The new order can found seminaries, do ordinations, and send priests and brothers where needed. This will be an active order, based in the Diocese of Amarillo.
May this order raise up many holy priests.
May this order help move our culture back to a respect for human life.
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Opponents of the growing trend of traditional Christianity and morality, primarily so-called progressives, will often use unflattering terms to describe these traditionalists. The most common I've seen are Jansenists, Pharisees, and hypocrites.
Jansenists
In Catholic circles, they sometimes call us Jansenists, after the followers of a posthumous book written by Cornelius Jansen (1585-1638), Bishop of Ypres. Although he was otherwise orthodox, this particular book gained a great heretical following in France. The thinking in it was condemned by both secular and religious authority. The Jesuits at this time were promoting daily communion, and the Jansenists were opposed to this, for the reason that many communicants were not worthy to receive. Tradition-minded Catholics question the contemporary practice of universal reception (also for reasons of worthiness), so that is perhaps a reason why the label "Jansenist" is applied to them. The Jansenists also claimed loyalty to Rome.
The Jansenists had this reasoning: a sinner would go to Confession on Saturday, receive Communion on Sunday, and then go off for the rest of the week committing the same sins earlier confessed, only to repeat the process the following week. That doesn't seem right at all. One would hope that this sinner would have a conversion of heart, and not repeat those sins week after week. The Jansenists thought that they were not really worthy to receive, and instead would abstain from communion, sometimes for years. That is a problem, Easter Duty notwithstanding; did they deny the effectiveness of Confession?
It seems that the Jansenists were opposed to someone like me! I go to confession, receive the Lord, and then go back to my old vices, and am confessing the same sins over and over and over again. Most traditional Catholics I've met take confession quite seriously, and more than a few of them came into Catholicism with a deep spirit of repentance for a life badly lived. But not a single one claims to be perfect. But it seems that modern folks who throw around the name Jansenist see little need for confession, and instead just encourage frequent reception. Contemporary traditional Catholics also encourage frequent reception...but also frequent confession, unlike the Jansenists.
The Jansenists were known for extreme asceticism and very high moral code. Contemporary traditional Catholics also enjoy the ascetic life and promote the traditional moral standards. But we differ in one aspect: Jansenists were almost Calvinist in their theology. They thought that only the very few were elect, and they denied free will. As a result, many people taught by Jansenists felt completely worthless and instead took up a very immoral lifestyle, thinking that they had no choice in the matter. This is quite unlike current Catholic associations known for severity: Opus Dei is very positive about the possibility of salvation for all, even though it is somewhat strict by contemporary standards. It is amusing to suggest that the critics of traditional Catholics are actually Jansenist in this way; since I would guess that most folks promoting "rechurching" are Modernist in denying free will. Contemporary philosophy is materialist, and denies objective morality and free will, since it thinks that behavior is caused by genetics and the environment. They tend to be a type of secular Calvinist. The US has a Calvinist public philosophy, so I would expect many secularist American Catholics having this attitude.
Remember the parable about the Pharisee and the tax collector in the Temple? The Pharisee was very proud of his observance, his tithing, his fasting, and thought himself superior to the tax collector, who felt miserable and worthless. Jesus condemned the Pharisee, who asked for no forgiveness, and got none. The tax collector only asked for forgiveness, and was justified.
The antitradition group likes the analogy. We think of the Pharisees as being self-righteous and arrogant, and feeling superior to sinners. So the critics call us Pharisees. But "church people" of all denominations and ideologies tend to think that way. They love their little powers and influences, and are very proud of being a lector, an extraordinary minister of the Eucharist, or of being the person who chooses the color of the banners displayed in the church. Or maybe they like their church's social justice charism or their prosperity-oriented 'health and wealth' philosophy, and feel superior for that fact. Fr. Benedict Groeschel makes the distinction between "church people" and disciples: the former already have their reward, while the latter have their reward in Heaven: a very humbling thought. The distinction does comes from humility. The Pharisee was proud, the tax collector was humble.
Historically, the Pharisees were known for their interpretation of the Law that applied it to the lives of everyday people, in normal circumstance anywhere. Their spirituality was not just about a sacrificial cult in a single temple, but a way of life for everyone, and they emphasized the idea of a priestly people of God. They built the synagogues and promoted education and literacy. It is not surprising, that when everything was in chaos among the Jews, the Pharisees kept society together and were the human instruments for keeping God's Chosen People intact. Otherwise, Hellenizing influences and foreign powers would have eliminated these people from the world. The Pharisees had as their main principles, "Be holy, as the Lord your God is holy" and "Love thy neighbor as thyself"', and indeed were the one group that was most similar to the teaching of Jesus. The Pharisees embraced the same ideas of personal holiness in, but not of, the world as proclaimed by Christ. The major difference in teaching was on ritual purity, which Christ rejects.
The Pharisees were responsible for keeping their religion intact; they did not have too narrow a view of religion, as being only for the Temple priests, which was also the practice of the Pagans, but applied it universally. They were the upright everyday men who kept the community together, taught their children in the Ways of God, and indeed even saved Judaism from near certain destruction by the wrath of Empire. Modern Jews are descended from the Pharisees. The other groups are lost forever. However, even an ancient Jewish source said that there were seven types of Pharisee; five that were foolish or hypocritical, one type who feared God like Job, and the God-loving Pharisee, like Abraham. Jesus apparently had many Pharisee friends, having dinner with them and teaching them. I would even suspect that many of his followers, those who are described as upright and holy, were Pharisees; for if they weren't of that group, they were usually described otherwise. The Pharisees fought the good fight and practiced spiritual warfare in their homes and communities, loving both King and People, Temple and Synagogue, and Ritual and Learning. Yes, some were bad, but many were heroic and exemplary.
Other groups during that time included the Sadducees, who were mainly concerned with the Temple rituals and matters of royalty and didn't care much about the holiness of the people; the Zealots, who fought a bloody and pointless revolution that ended up destroying the Temple and their country; and the Essenes who escaped the world of men and went to live in the desert. Another group were the Hellenized Jews, who embraced Greek culture and rejected the ways of the Jews. They were traitors to their people, and the tax collectors were a part of this despised group. The tax collectors were wealthy, oppressive to the taxpayers, and supported the immoral pagan Roman Empire.
This is the key to the Parable of the Pharisee and Tax Collector. The Pharisee should have known better, but showed a lack of humility. The tax collector had an immoral lifestyle, so nothing good would have been expected of him, but he begged for forgiveness. The people would have expected holiness from a Pharisee, and sacrilege from a tax collector, but Jesus teaches us that a contrite heart is what really matters.
So being called a Pharisee may actually be complimentary, unless you really are self-satisfied and have an attitude of superiority, given to appearances. Who are the tax collectors of our current age? Are they contrite? But ultimately, humility and repentance is required for all of us. And those who sin the worse and repent will be forgiven the most.
If you don't practice what you preach, you are called a hypocrite. Christ often called the Scribes and Pharasees hypocrites, for loving to show external piety while being corrupt inside. When antitradition critics see a traditional Christian failing to live up to Christ's high moral standards, they love to call him a hypocrite.
The word hypocrite means 'actor' in ancient Greek.
The only people who are hypocrites are that minority who aspire to or promote high moral standards but fail to live up to it.
The only people who cannot be called hypocrites are the very tiny minority of Saints in the world (and we know that only Jesus and Mary were sinless) and the many who do not bother living to any moral standards. So some would say that hypocrisy can only be applied to the better people. "Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue."
Sometimes, hypocrisy is levied against those who believe in a kind of double standard, although this is incorrect.
The word hypocrite was often used by the ancient Greek Sophists, who were teachers paid to train boys in the art of Rhetoric. They did not provide a liberal education, but just the skills needed to win lawsuits and argue politics with the people of Athens. The Sophists, promising victory in legal arguments, didn't have much or any regard for the truth, for actual facts could get in the way of winning. Their form of argument, using appeals to emotion, logical fallacies, and the occasional bribe, were appalling to Socrates and his followers, who called themselves Philosophers, or lovers of wisdom. As you can imagine, based on their teachings, the Sophists were known to be greatly immoral, for indeed they did not believe in morality, but instead were mainly atheistic and cynical. They would attack their moralistic enemies, calling them hypocrites, if they showed any moral failings.
Contemporary Sophists are everywhere in our culture, and they have nothing but contempt for tradition and religion, and especially for those that preach a strong moral code. In this day, as in ancient days, the charge of hypocrisy comes usually from those who do not follow a moral code, but who instead do what they will. What they do not understand is the basic message of Christ: repent. Now, I'm sure that people who are self-satisfied would see no reason to repent, and the more intellectual among them would claim that there is no universal standard against which to repent. Consider, however, the addiction model of vice: an addiction is something objectively harmful that one does habitually, but cannot stop doing. Even a good Sophist or atheist may gain an addiction that WILL cause their self-destruction, if they do not turn back, or repent. Everyone can have these same addictions, without regard to philosophy or ideology, since human nature is so constant.
Some Christians are just church people, as we said, only interested in gaining some respectability or influence; they may very well be actors or hypocrites. But many others are disciples, who are very, very sorry for their addictions, and who do want to turn back, or repent, from their otherwise certain self-destruction. But turning back is very, very hard, and sometimes small or large failures can occur, and sometimes even the loss of the desire to turn back towards life. Helping others to turn back is the best way to turn back yourself, and experience proves this. So to call someone a hypocrite, when they are preaching against the very things that they are seriously struggling against, is cruel and heartless.
I would think that many who are drawn to traditional Christianity and moral principals do so out of very hard experience. However, we may very well be hypocrites from time to time, so let this be a lesson to us, when we become lazy or backslide. We cannot be entirely sinless, but we must constantly try.
Posted by Mark S. Abeln at 3/21/2005 09:54:00 PM 0 comments Links to this post
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Injustice to an Innocent
Terri Schiavo's feeding tube was removed today. If no one intervenes, she will die a painful death from starvation and dehydration. She is innocent and is loved and wanted by her parents. She also reportedly has some congnition and awareness, so this will be a painful and horrible death for her.
That this unjust government-ordered torture and prelude to the death of an innocent takes place on a Friday in Lent, is far too symbolic for Christians, for that is the day and time when Our Lord was on the Cross, being unjustly tortured and executed.
In Jesus' case, both the accusing Sanhedrin and the presiding Pilate knew that He was innocent, but His life was inconvenient for them both, so they had him killed for practical reasons.
Next week is Holy Week, where we commemorate this unjust death. Again, consider the symbolism of this present injustice, which is taking place during Holy Week. The week ends, however, with triumph. May we also have victory for the life of this innocent this week.
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What Are the Instruments of Good Works?
From the Rule of Saint Benedict, Chapter 4:
1. In the first place, to love the Lord God with the whole heart, the whole soul, the whole strength.
2. Then, one's neighbor as oneself.
3. Then not to murder.
4. Not to commit adultery.
5. Not to steal.
6. Not to covet.
7. Not to bear false witness.
8. To respect all men.
9. And not to do to another what one would not have done to oneself.
10. To deny oneself in order to follow Christ.
11. To chastise the body.
12. Not to love pleasure.
13. To love fasting.
14. To comfort the poor.
15. To clothe the naked.
16. To visit the sick.
17. To bury the dead.
18. To help those in trouble.
19. To comfort the sorrowing.
20. To become a stranger to the world's ways.
21. To prefer nothing to the love of Christ.
22. Not to give way to anger.
23. Not to nurse a grudge.
24. Not to entertain deceit in one's heart.
25. Not to give a false peace.
26. Not to forsake charity.
27. Not to swear, for fear of perjuring oneself.
28. To utter truth from heart and mouth.
29. Not to return evil for evil.
30. To do no wrong to anyone, and to bear patiently wrongs done to oneself.
31. To love one's enemies.
32. Not to curse those who curse us, but rather to bless them.
33. To bear persecution for justice's sake.
34. Not to be proud.
35. Not addicted to wine.
36. Not a great eater.
37. Not drowsy.
38. Not lazy.
39. Not a grumbler.
40. Not a detractor.
41. To put one's hope in God.
42. To attribute to God, and not to self, whatever good one sees in oneself.
43. But to recognize always that the evil is one's own doing, and to impute it to oneself.44. To fear the Day of Judgment.
45. To be in dread of hell.
46. To desire eternal life with all the passion of the spirit.
47. To keep death daily before one's eyes.
48. To keep constant guard over the actions of one's life.
49. To know for certain that God sees one everywhere.
50. When evil thoughts come into one's heart, to dash them against Christ immediately.
51. And to manifest them to one's spiritual advisor.
52. To guard one's tongue against evil and depraved speech.
53. Not to love much talking.
54. Not to speak useless words or words that move to laughter.
55. Not to love much or boisterous laughter.
56. To listen willingly to holy reading.
57. To devote oneself frequently to prayer.
58. Daily in one's prayers, with tears and sighs, to confess one's past sins to God, and to amend them for the future.
59. Not to fulfil the desires of the flesh; to hate one's own will.
60. To obey in all things the commands of the Abbot, even though he himself (which God forbid) should act otherwise, mindful of the Lord's precept, "Do what they say, but not what they do."
61. Not to wish to be called holy before one is holy; but first to be holy, that one may be truly so called.
62. To fulfill God's commandments daily in one's deeds.
63. To love chastity.
64. To hate no one.
65. Not to be jealous, not to harbor envy.
66. To hate strife.
67. To beware of haughtiness.
68. And to respect the seniors.
69. To love the juniors.
70. To pray for one's enemies in the love of Christ.
71. To make peace with one's adversary before the sun sets.
72. And never to despair of God's mercy.
These, then, are the tools of the spiritual craft. If we employ them unceasingly day and night, and return them on the Day of Judgment, our compensation from the Lord will be that wage He has promised: "Eye has not seen, nor ear heard, what God has prepared for those who love Him" (1 Cor. 2:9). But the workshop in which we must diligently execute all these tasks is the seclusion of the monastery and our stability in the community.
Parish Closings
Here are links to the Archdiocesan websites for the parishes in the South City Deanery in Saint Louis that are slated to close this year:
Immaculate Conception/Saint Henry
Resurrection of Our Lord
Saint Aloysius Gonzaga
Saint Boniface
Saint Hedwig
These churches will become chapels, available for Masses and devotions on special occasions:
Saint John Nepomuk
Saint Mary of Victories
Saints Mary and Joseph
These churches will no longer be territorial parishes, but will have specific ministries:
Saint Francis de Sales, an oratory offering the Tridentine Latin Mass
Saint Cecilia, Hispanic personal parish
Saint Wenceslaus, ministry of the Missionaries of the Holy Family
Saint Agatha, personal parish for Polish language and ancestory
Please note that the Archdiocese will need extra funding to support Saint Francis de Sales and Saint Cecila. The former church needs a great amount of repair, while the latter church needs funding for the Hispanic ministry.
Saint Anthony and Saint Mary Magdalene schools will close.
Some of the parish bulletins for the above parishes are online; there is both great sadness but also acceptance of the closings.
Pain With No Gain
Athletics and sports have some positive influences, in my opinion: physical exercise is a strong motivation. Teaching teamwork, obedience to superiors, and learning to follow the rules are even better influences. Teaching good sportsmanship is perhaps the best influence of them all. Sports is also a fun way of tiring energetic boys, who otherwise would not have the attention span to spend hours a day on academic study.
Modern athletics negate or contradict the above good influences.
Under the above Catholic model of athletics, winning the contest is not the end of the athletic competing, but is just a minor motivational factor. We can describe a "virtuous pagan" type of athletics, which encourages good sportsmanship and teamwork, but also glorifies victory and the victor but within an amateur ideal; this type of athletics inspired the Masonic founders of the modern Olympic movement back in the late 19th century. Our contemporary view of athletics is quite postmodern and is akin to the Gladiatorial view of athletics during the Roman Empire: victory at all costs; riches and power to the victor; and athletics as a tool of Empire. This fits in well with our contemporary notions of efficiency, utility, radical individualism, and Darwinian survival of the fittest. Sports in the Empire consisted of pure carnage.
Most team sports are dangerous --they are not healthy activities for boys. I can't think of a major sport that does not almost guarantee broken bones and bloodshed, not to mention internal organ damage. And the same sports played many years ago are becoming more dangerous due to changes in rules, equipment, and aggressive attitudes. And now that girls are encouraged heavy-handedly to play sports, and even recruited -- thanks to the federal Title IX interpretations that claim that both boys and girls must be active in college sports in equal numbers -- injury rates for girls are also increasing. And girls are more prone to certain types of injuries, some of these due to the females' relatively wide pelvis bone and also due to less strength, and often because they are playing sports that were designed for boys and their particular physique.
"Serious" high school and college sports programs also push students far beyond their endurance; there has been an increase in heatstroke and death from hyperthermia due to training programs starting earlier in the summertime. These students are not just tired out, they are exhausted from their sports. At least these kids aren't on antihyperactivity medicines like their nonathletic peers.
And since high-paid athletes take steroids, and other endurance-enhancing and strengthening drugs to improve their income, young athletes are encouraged to take the same drugs, with severe and often unknown side-effects. Sometimes coaches or other staff will facilitate this drug use, but most often it is fellow athletes who recommend and sell them. Steroids in particular can misshape the athlete into a monstrosity. And a short-lived monstrosity, with a painful, early death.
Teamwork is in decline; football used to be a sport where massed formations would rule the gridiron; now plays are designed around the specific talents of star players who act independently. Basketball and hockey are doing the same. Only our most traditional sport, baseball, still has a requirement for strong teamwork, although only during defense. The move away from team sports started during the cultural chaos of the early 1970s, and individual sports like running and bicycling gained tremendous popularity, and self-centered goals such as body-sculpting and "personal bests" ruled the day instead of having a pleasant afternoon playing a game with good friends.
Also disturbing is the tendency to avoid playing by the rules. Especially in high-stakes contests like the Olympics, athletes are playing the judges and the rules as well as playing the game. Who won the gold medal? Who knows? It may change in the future, when some appeal to the judges or a blood test result changes what we thought was the settled outcome. The old rule was that the decision of the judges, made on the spot, was final and without appeal; the new rule nuances this and adds an uncomfortable flexibility. The spirit of obedience to the rules is being lost, unfortunately. The player who graciously accepts loss and congratulates his winning opponent is being replaced by the whining loser who blames everyone except himself. Perhaps this year's Super Bowl winner will be overturned by a Federal court ruling five years from now.
Knowing -- and accepting -- that you have lost a contest, even though the referees made an error, used to be a part of good sportsmanship. And good sportsmanship is a part of the virtue of Charity, the love for God and your fellow man. But charity is a Christian virtue, and only the most virtuous of pagans would understand the value of good sportsmanship. An athlete with a Gladiatorial mindset cannot accept good sportsmanship: to a gladiator, loss equals death, and even an ignoble or illegal victory is a good victory. With our highly-paid athletes, loss may not equal death, but it can equal bankruptcy.
The old virtuous pagan model of athletics celebrated the amateur, the man who ran just for the glory and the love of running. The Catholic model of athletics has people teaming together for joy and friendship. Contemporary athletes are not having fun, nor do they enjoy the company of their teammates.
Professional team sports has a wide influence beyond their own sphere of the game day. How many young men have dreams of becoming a professional player, live their lives according to that nearly unattainable dream, and end up with only disappointment, injury, and lack of job skills? Even college sports encourage the same mindset: male scholarship athletes, who attend a school purely because of their ability to play a major sport well, usually end up without either an athletic career or an education. And thanks to Title IX, equal numbers of girls are forced into sexually predatory and oppressive women's' sports programs just so that they can get and keep their scholarships; they may get an education, but it is with scars of both the physical and emotional kinds.
Sadly, many contemporary parents push their children to excel at sports for financial gain, instead of encouraging sports as a means of building character. Is this love or greed?
Some would say that we Saint Louisians are blessed with having 2-1/2 professional sports teams, but I think that this is like the "bread and circuses" that another Empire used to placate the restless masses. This is apparent when the government feels that it is its duty to pay for the stadiums where the teams play. Vast hours of media time and pages of periodicals are used to fuel interest in these sports. Perhaps being a fan is a harmless advocation. But following sports and attending games is now a great sink of both time and money. Many readers here are sports fans and would hate to see some Puritanical religionist ban these sports on moral grounds! But old-time fans agree that back in the days, when game tickets were cheap, and players were poor, sports were a pure joy, and not joylessly corrupt with money and arrogance.
The football film "Any Given Sunday" (rated by the USCCB as A-IV - Adults, with reservations) shows the difference between a virtuous model of athletics and the postmodern, Gladiatorial version. The team's star quarterback plays by the book, and encourages teamwork and friendship among the players. He has a joy for the sport and a love for his teammates. After he is removed due to injury, the replacement quarterback is arrogant, rude, hated by the other players, and motivated by greed. The film ends, however, by an acceptance of the style of the new player, and shows him and his coach progressing to the future with a new team that celebrates his radically independent personality. It is a story of the survival of the fittest, and of a man who follows no rule but the rule of personal victory.
Sports are getting uglier and more dangerous. The popularity of so-called extreme sports, which entail very real risks to the participants is increasing. Such sports as rock climbing, whitewater kicking, base jumping, and backcountry downhill skiing are highly dangerous and offer none of the advantages of the Catholic model of athletics, while offering a good chance of death or dismemberment. Some of these sports are more dangerous than being a soldier in combat. This is certainly another sign of what the Pope calls the "Culture of Death"; some folks will always do dangerous things, but only an immoral media would promote such dangerous sports. Prediction: within ten years a major nation will proclaim the legality of gladiatorial-type games. I hope that I'm wrong.
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S&P is having its best quarter since 2009, and history points to another surge
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The S&P 500 is on track for its best quarter in a decade, up roughly 12 percent. And if history is any indication, the index could be set for more gains for the rest of the year.
In nine of the 10 previous times since 1950 that the S&P returned more than 10 percent in the first quarter, it went on to post double-digit gains for the year, according to LPL Financial’s Ryan Detrick. The one exception was 1987, when the market crashed on Black Monday.
Despite the track record, S&P Global’s Erin Gibbs and Instinet’s Frank Cappelleri believe the S&P still has a number of hurdles to surpass before it can move meaningfully higher.
Gibbs points out that this quarter’s strong surge is different from prior examples: Rather than being an extension of fourth-quarter strength, this time stocks limped into the new year after sliding at the end of 2018. So the index is just recovering lost ground, she said.
“We still haven’t even recovered from the carnage that we just went through in the fourth quarter, so I think this is still really reclassified as more of a rebound rather than a continuation of an uptrend that we saw in all those other years,” Gibbs said Tuesday on CNBC’s “Trading Nation.”
“So I’m really hesitant in forecasting being up another 20 percent or 25 percent when you combine that with the high valuations as well as less than 3 percent profit growth expected for this year,” she added.
After looking at the charts, Cappelleri argues that the S&P has been stuck in a range. He doesn’t forecast new highs until the index can materially break — and hold — above the key 2,800 level, which has provided resistance in the past.
“Before we can talk about extension for the rest of the year, we need to get through 2,800 first,” he said in the segment. “By my count it’s encountered this level or this area near 2,800 now 12 times since the begging of 2018, and I know back then it marked a key breakdown point twice in January, and again in October. … It’s in rebound form now. And so we still need to get through that point.”
Putting the S&P’s struggle to move higher in historical context, Cappelleri argues that this is the fourth failed major topping pattern since 2009. The charts exhibited similar patterns in 2010, 2011 and 2016, when the S&P broke below a key support line, before ultimately surging to new highs.
So while Cappelleri thinks that ultimately the chart’s pattern shows a rally could be ahead, he says the index won’t make new highs until it can hold that key 2,800 level.
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NASA 2011 OPTIMUS PRIME Spinoff Video Contest
Status Report From: NASA Education Office
NASA has opened registration for the 2011 OPTIMUS PRIME Spinoff Video Contest. Featuring OPTIMUS PRIME, the leader from the popular TRANSFORMERS brand, the contest highlights spinoffs from NASA technologies that are used on Earth. The goal is to help students understand the benefits of NASA technology to their daily lives. Last year's contest was open to students in grades 3-8 and resulted in 76 video submissions from over 190 students in 31 states.
For 2011, the OPTIMUS PRIME Spinoff Video Contest has been expanded to include students in grades 3-12. Each student, or group of students, will submit a three- to five-minute video on a selected NASA spinoff technology listed in NASA's 2010 "Spinoff" publication. Videos must demonstrate an understanding of the NASA spinoff technology and the associated NASA mission, as well as the commercial application and public benefit associated with the spinoff technology.
Participants must register for the contest by Jan. 3, 2012. Video entries are due Jan. 17, 2012.
Video entries will be posted on the NASA YouTube channel, and the public will be responsible for the first round of judging. The top five submissions from each of the three grade groups (Elementary [3rd-5th], Middle [6th-8th] and High School [9th-12th]) will advance for final judging. A NASA panel will select a winning entry from each group. Among other prizes, a crystal OPTIMUS PRIME Spinoff Award Trophy will be given to winners at a special awards ceremony being held in Florida in April 2012. The innovators associated with the NASA technology highlighted in the winning videos also will receive trophies, as will their commercial partners.
TRANSFORMERS and OPTIMUS PRIME are trademarks of Hasbro and are used with permission. (c) 2011 Hasbro. All Rights Reserved.
For more information, visit the OPTIMUS PRIME Spinoff Contest website at http://ipp.gsfc.nasa.gov/optimus.
Questions about this contest should be directed to Darryl Mitchell at Darryl.R.Mitchell@nasa.gov.
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Grandmother on family outing found man hanging in town centre park
in Courts, News 21/03/2019
A 29-year-old man died five days after being found hanging in a Long Sutton park by a grandmother there with her family, an inquest has heard
Boston Coroner’s Court today (Thursday) heard passers by were able to help Robert Lochnicki down still alive but he died from his injuries in hospital on June 12 last year.
The 29-year-old, of Anfield Road, Long Sutton, was found by a woman in the park in West Street, which she was visiting with her daughter and grandchildren.
The woman phoned 999 and, with the help of passers-by, managed to bring down Mr Lochnicki. He was taken to Queen Elizabeth Hospital in King’s Lynn and his partner Alexandra Grseyszczyk was rushed there by police.
The hearing was told that Mr Lochnicki had separated from his partner that morning and, he claimed, had subsequently lost £2,000 in a bookmaker’s.
In a statement to the inquest, Ms Grseyszczyk – the mother of his two children – said the couple had separated twice before. Mr Lochnicki had been troubled about the death of his father in Poland in 2013 and she knew he gambled at the bookie’s and online. He was also bothered about a demotion from his managerial position at work due to his drinking and felt workmates were making fun of him.
On June 6 he returned home from a nightshift at 7am and later went out. When he returned at 3pm
Ms Grseyszczyk could tell he’d been drinking and asked him why when he was due back at work at 7pm.
She said: “He said he was drinking because he was stressed and was going to call in sick and not go to work.
We argued and he said he was leaving.” Mr Lochnicki left the following morning at 9am with a backpack. Ms Grseyszczyk later saw him in Long Sutton town centre and he told her he wanted to come home but she refused.
At lunchtime he returned to the house and was denied entry, before giving his mobile phone to Ms Grseyszczyk and leaving.
At 2pm, friend and former neighbour Allan Hamilton-Goya went to the house after Mr Lochnicki had given him a letter to give to Mr Lochnicki’s mother and had stated that he wanted to kill himself.
A short while later police arrived at Ms Grseyszczyk’s with the news that Mr Lochnicki had been found in the park.
The letter did not mention wanting to kill himself but area coroner Paul Smith said he was satisfied that it was Mr Lochnicki’s intention and returned a conclusion of suicide.
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Audio data compression
Title: Audio data compression
Subject: List of algorithms, Ogg, Speech coding, Shorten (file format), Advanced Audio Coding, Digital Compact Cassette, Timeline of audio formats, Videophone, Hi-MD, Digital Speech Standard
"Source coding" redirects here. For the term in computer programming, see Source code.
In computer science and information theory, data compression, source coding,[1] or bit-rate reduction involves encoding information using fewer bits than the original representation.[2] Compression can be either lossy or lossless. Lossless compression reduces bits by identifying and eliminating statistical redundancy. No information is lost in lossless compression. Lossy compression reduces bits by identifying unnecessary information and removing it.[3] The process of reducing the size of a data file is popularly referred to as data compression, although its formal name is source coding (coding done at the source of the data before it is stored or transmitted).[4]
Compression is useful because it helps reduce resources usage, such as data storage space or transmission capacity. Because compressed data must be decompressed to use, this extra processing imposes computational or other costs through decompression; this situation is far from being a free lunch. Data compression is subject to a space-time complexity trade-off. For instance, a compression scheme for video may require expensive hardware for the video to be decompressed fast enough to be viewed as it is being decompressed, and the option to decompress the video in full before watching it may be inconvenient or require additional storage. The design of data compression schemes involves trade-offs among various factors, including the degree of compression, the amount of distortion introduced (e.g., when using lossy data compression), and the computational resources required to compress and uncompress the data.[5]
New alternatives to traditional systems (which sample at full resolution, then compress) provide efficient resource usage based on principles of compressed sensing. Compressed sensing techniques circumvent the need for data compression by sampling off on a cleverly selected basis.
1 Lossless
2 Lossy
3 Theory
3.1 Machine learning
3.2 Data differencing
4 Outlook and currently unused potential
5.1.1 Lossy audio compression
5.1.1.1 Coding methods
5.1.1.2 Speech encoding
5.2.1 Encoding theory
5.2.2 Timeline
5.3 Genetics
Lossless data compression algorithms usually exploit statistical redundancy to represent data more concisely without losing information. Lossless compression is possible because most real-world data has statistical redundancy. For example, an image may have areas of colour that do not change over several pixels; instead of coding "red pixel, red pixel, ..." the data may be encoded as "279 red pixels". This is a basic example of run-length encoding; there are many schemes to reduce file size by eliminating redundancy.
The Lempel–Ziv (LZ) compression methods are among the most popular algorithms for lossless storage.[6] DEFLATE is a variation on LZ optimized for decompression speed and compression ratio, but compression can be slow. DEFLATE is used in PKZIP, Gzip and PNG. LZW (Lempel–Ziv–Welch) is used in GIF images. Also noteworthy is the LZR (Lempel-Ziv–Renau) algorithm, which serves as the basis for the Zip method. LZ methods use a table-based compression model where table entries are substituted for repeated strings of data. For most LZ methods, this table is generated dynamically from earlier data in the input. The table itself is often Huffman encoded (e.g. SHRI, LZX). A current LZ-based coding scheme that performs well is LZX, used in Microsoft's CAB format.
The best modern lossless compressors use probabilistic models, such as prediction by partial matching. The Burrows–Wheeler transform can also be viewed as an indirect form of statistical modelling.[7]
The class of grammar-based codes are gaining popularity because they can extremely compress highly repetitive text, for instance, biological data collection of same or related species, huge versioned document collection, internet archives, etc. The basic task of grammar-based codes is constructing a context-free grammar deriving a single string. Sequitur and Re-Pair are practical grammar compression algorithms for which public codes are available.
In a further refinement of these techniques, statistical predictions can be coupled to an algorithm called arithmetic coding. Arithmetic coding, invented by Jorma Rissanen, and turned into a practical method by Witten, Neal, and Cleary, achieves superior compression to the better-known Huffman algorithm and lends itself especially well to adaptive data compression tasks where the predictions are strongly context-dependent. Arithmetic coding is used in the bi-level image compression standard JBIG, and the document compression standard DjVu. The text entry system Dasher is an inverse arithmetic coder.[8]
Lossy data compression is the converse of lossless data compression. In these schemes, some loss of information is acceptable. Dropping nonessential detail from the data source can save storage space. Lossy data compression schemes are informed by research on how people perceive the data in question. For example, the human eye is more sensitive to subtle variations in luminance than it is to variations in color. JPEG image compression works in part by rounding off nonessential bits of information.[9] There is a corresponding trade-off between preserving information and reducing size. A number of popular compression formats exploit these perceptual differences, including those used in music files, images, and video.
Lossy image compression can be used in digital cameras, to increase storage capacities with minimal degradation of picture quality. Similarly, DVDs use the lossy MPEG-2 Video codec for video compression.
In lossy audio compression, methods of psychoacoustics are used to remove non-audible (or less audible) components of the signal. Compression of human speech is often performed with even more specialized techniques; speech coding, or voice coding, is sometimes distinguished as a separate discipline from audio compression. Different audio and speech compression standards are listed under audio codecs. Voice compression is used in Internet telephony, for example audio compression is used for CD ripping and is decoded by audio players.[10]
The theoretical background of compression is provided by information theory (which is closely related to algorithmic information theory) for lossless compression and rate–distortion theory for lossy compression. These areas of study were essentially forged by Claude Shannon, who published fundamental papers on the topic in the late 1940s and early 1950s. Coding theory is also related. The idea of data compression is deeply connected with statistical inference.[11]
There is a close connection between machine learning and compression: a system that predicts the posterior probabilities of a sequence given its entire history can be used for optimal data compression (by using arithmetic coding on the output distribution) while an optimal compressor can be used for prediction (by finding the symbol that compresses best, given the previous history). This equivalence has been used as justification for data compression as a benchmark for "general intelligence."[12]
Data differencing
Main article: Data differencing
Data compression can be viewed as a special case of data differencing:[13][14] Data differencing consists of producing a difference given a source and a target, with patching producing a target given a source and a difference, while data compression consists of producing a compressed file given a target, and decompression consists of producing a target given only a compressed file. Thus, one can consider data compression as data differencing with empty source data, the compressed file corresponding to a "difference from nothing." This is the same as considering absolute entropy (corresponding to data compression) as a special case of relative entropy (corresponding to data differencing) with no initial data.
When one wishes to emphasize the connection, one may use the term differential compression to refer to data differencing.
Outlook and currently unused potential
It is estimated that the total amount of the data that are stored on the world's storage devices could be further compressed with existing compression algorithms by a remaining average factor of 4.5:1. It is estimated that the combined technological capacity of the world to store information provides 1,300 exabytes of hardware digits in 2007, but when the corresponding content is optimally compressed, this only represents 295 exabytes of Shannon information.[15]
Audio data compression, as distinguished from dynamic range compression, has the potential to reduce the transmission bandwidth and storage requirements of audio data. Audio compression algorithms are implemented in software as audio codecs. Lossy audio compression algorithms provide higher compression at the cost of fidelity and are used in numerous audio applications. These algorithms almost all rely on psychoacoustics to eliminate less audible or meaningful sounds, thereby reducing the space required to store or transmit them.[16]
In both lossy and lossless compression, information redundancy is reduced, using methods such as coding, pattern recognition, and linear prediction to reduce the amount of information used to represent the uncompressed data.
The acceptable trade-off between loss of audio quality and transmission or storage size depends upon the application. For example, one 640MB compact disc (CD) holds approximately one hour of uncompressed high fidelity music, less than 2 hours of music compressed losslessly, or 7 hours of music compressed in the MP3 format at a medium bit rate. A digital sound recorder can typically store around 200 hours of clearly intelligible speech in 640MB.[17]
Lossless audio compression produces a representation of digital data that decompress to an exact digital duplicate of the original audio stream, unlike playback from lossy compression techniques such as Vorbis and MP3. Compression ratios are around 50–60% of original size,[18] which is similar to those for generic lossless data compression. Lossless compression is unable to attain high compression ratios due to the complexity of waveforms and the rapid changes in sound forms. Codecs like FLAC, Shorten and TTA use linear prediction to estimate the spectrum of the signal. Many of these algorithms use convolution with the filter [-1 1] to slightly whiten or flatten the spectrum, thereby allowing traditional lossless compression to work more efficiently. The process is reversed upon decompression.
When audio files are to be processed, either by further compression or for editing, it is desirable to work from an unchanged original (uncompressed or losslessly compressed). Processing of a lossily compressed file for some purpose usually produces a final result inferior to the creation of the same compressed file from an uncompressed original. In addition to sound editing or mixing, lossless audio compression is often used for archival storage, or as master copies.
A number of lossless audio compression formats exist. Shorten was an early lossless format. Newer ones include Free Lossless Audio Codec (FLAC), Apple's Apple Lossless (ALAC), MPEG-4 ALS, Microsoft's Windows Media Audio 9 Lossless (WMA Lossless), Monkey's Audio, TTA, and WavPack. See list of lossless codecs for a complete listing.
Some audio formats feature a combination of a lossy format and a lossless correction; this allows stripping the correction to easily obtain a lossy file. Such formats include MPEG-4 SLS (Scalable to Lossless), WavPack, and OptimFROG DualStream.
Other formats are associated with a distinct system, such as:
Direct Stream Transfer, used in Super Audio CD
Meridian Lossless Packing, used in DVD-Audio, Dolby TrueHD, Blu-ray and HD DVD
Lossy audio compression
Lossy audio compression is used in a wide range of applications. In addition to the direct applications (mp3 players or computers), digitally compressed audio streams are used in most video DVDs, digital television, streaming media on the internet, satellite and cable radio, and increasingly in terrestrial radio broadcasts. Lossy compression typically achieves far greater compression than lossless compression (data of 5 percent to 20 percent of the original stream, rather than 50 percent to 60 percent), by discarding less-critical data.[19]
The innovation of lossy audio compression was to use psychoacoustics to recognize that not all data in an audio stream can be perceived by the human auditory system. Most lossy compression reduces perceptual redundancy by first identifying perceptually irrelevant sounds, that is, sounds that are very hard to hear. Typical examples include high frequencies or sounds that occur at the same time as louder sounds. Those sounds are coded with decreased accuracy or not at all.
Due to the nature of lossy algorithms, audio quality suffers when a file is decompressed and recompressed (digital generation loss). This makes lossy compression unsuitable for storing the intermediate results in professional audio engineering applications, such as sound editing and multitrack recording. However, they are very popular with end users (particularly MP3) as a megabyte can store about a minute's worth of music at adequate quality.
Coding methods
To determine what information in an audio signal is perceptually irrelevant, most lossy compression algorithms use transforms such as the modified discrete cosine transform (MDCT) to convert time domain sampled waveforms into a transform domain. Once transformed, typically into the frequency domain, component frequencies can be allocated bits according to how audible they are. Audibility of spectral components is determined by first calculating a masking threshold below which it is estimated that sounds will be beyond the limits of human perception.[20]
The masking threshold is calculated using the absolute threshold of hearing and the principles of simultaneous masking—the phenomenon wherein a signal is masked by another signal separated by frequency—and, in some cases, temporal masking—where a signal is masked by another signal separated by time. Equal-loudness contours may also be used to weight the perceptual importance of different components. Models of the human ear-brain combination incorporating such effects are often called psychoacoustic models.[21]
Other types of lossy compressors, such as the linear predictive coding (LPC) used with speech, are source-based coders. These coders use a model of the sound's generator (such as the human vocal tract with LPC) to whiten the audio signal (i.e., flatten its spectrum) prior to quantization. LPC may also be thought of as a basic perceptual coding technique; reconstruction of an audio signal using a linear predictor shapes the coder's quantization noise into the spectrum of the target signal, partially masking it.[22]
Lossy formats are often used for the distribution of streaming audio, or interactive applications (such as the coding of speech for digital transmission in cell phone networks). In such applications, the data must be decompressed as the data flows, rather than after the entire data stream has been transmitted. Not all audio codecs can be used for streaming applications, and for such applications a codec designed to stream data effectively will usually be chosen.[23]
Latency results from the methods used to encode and decode the data. Some codecs will analyze a longer segment of the data to optimize efficiency, and then code it in a manner that requires a larger segment of data at one time to decode. (Often codecs create segments called a "frame" to create discrete data segments for encoding and decoding.) The inherent latency of the coding algorithm can be critical; for example, when there is a two-way transmission of data, such as with a telephone conversation, significant delays may seriously degrade the perceived quality.
In contrast to the speed of compression, which is proportional to the number of operations required by the algorithm, here latency refers to the number of samples that must be analysed before a block of audio is processed. In the minimum case, latency is 0 zero samples (e.g., if the coder/decoder simply reduces the number of bits used to quantize the signal). Time domain algorithms such as LPC also often have low latencies, hence their popularity in speech coding for telephony. In algorithms such as MP3, however, a large number of samples have to be analyzed to implement a psychoacoustic model in the frequency domain, and latency is on the order of 23 ms (46 ms for two-way communication)).
Speech encoding
Speech encoding is an important category of audio data compression. The perceptual models used to estimate what a human ear can hear are generally somewhat different from those used for music. The range of frequencies needed to convey the sounds of a human voice are normally far narrower than that needed for music, and the sound is normally less complex. As a result, speech can be encoded at high quality using a relatively low bit rate. If the data to be compressed is analog (such as a voltage that varies with time), quantization is employed to digitize it into numbers (normally integers). This is referred to as analog-to-digital (A/D) conversion. If the integers generated by quantization are 8 bits each, then the entire range of the analog signal is divided into 256 intervals and all the signal values within an interval are quantized to the same number. If 16-bit integers are generated, then the range of the analog signal is divided into 65,536 intervals. This relation illustrates the compromise between high resolution (a large number of analog intervals) and high compression (small integers generated). This application of quantization is used by several speech compression methods. This is accomplished, in general, by some combination of two approaches:
Only encoding sounds that could be made by a single human voice.
Throwing away more of the data in the signal—keeping just enough to reconstruct an "intelligible" voice rather than the full frequency range of human hearing.
Perhaps the earliest algorithms used in speech encoding (and audio data compression in general) were the A-law algorithm and the µ-law algorithm.
A literature compendium for a large variety of audio coding systems was published in the IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (JSAC), February 1988. While there were some papers from before that time, this collection documented an entire variety of finished, working audio coders, nearly all of them using perceptual (i.e. masking) techniques and some kind of frequency analysis and back-end noiseless coding.[24] Several of these papers remarked on the difficulty of obtaining good, clean digital audio for research purposes. Most, if not all, of the authors in the JSAC edition were also active in the MPEG-1 Audio committee.
The world's first commercial broadcast automation audio compression system was developed by Oscar Bonello, an Engineering professor at the University of Buenos Aires.[25] In 1983, using the psychoacoustic principle of the masking of critical bands first published in 1967,[26] he started developing a practical application based on the recently developed IBM PC computer, and the broadcast automation system was launched in 1987 under the name Audicom. Twenty years later, almost all the radio stations in the world were using similar technology manufactured by a number of companies.
Video compression uses modern coding techniques to reduce redundancy in video data. Most video compression algorithms and codecs combine spatial image compression and temporal motion compensation. Video compression is a practical implementation of source coding in information theory. In practice, most video codecs also use audio compression techniques in parallel to compress the separate, but combined data streams as one package.[27]
The majority of video compression algorithms use lossy compression. Uncompressed video requires a very high data rate. Although lossless video compression codecs perform an average compression of over factor 3, a typical MPEG-4 lossy compression video has a compression factor between 20 and 200.[28] As in all lossy compression, there is a trade-off between video quality, cost of processing the compression and decompression, and system requirements. Highly compressed video may present visible or distracting artifacts.
Some video compression schemes typically operates on square-shaped groups of neighboring pixels, often called macroblocks. These pixel groups or blocks of pixels are compared from one frame to the next, and the video compression codec sends only the differences within those blocks. In areas of video with more motion, the compression must encode more data to keep up with the larger number of pixels that are changing. Commonly during explosions, flames, flocks of animals, and in some panning shots, the high-frequency detail leads to quality decreases or to increases in the variable bitrate.
Encoding theory
Video data may be represented as a series of still image frames. The sequence of frames contains spatial and temporal redundancy that video compression algorithms attempt to eliminate or code in a smaller size. Similarities can be encoded by only storing differences between frames, or by using perceptual features of human vision. For example, small differences in color are more difficult to perceive than are changes in brightness. Compression algorithms can average a color across these similar areas to reduce space, in a manner similar to those used in JPEG image compression.[29] Some of these methods are inherently lossy while others may preserve all relevant information from the original, uncompressed video.
One of the most powerful techniques for compressing video is interframe compression. Interframe compression uses one or more earlier or later frames in a sequence to compress the current frame, while intraframe compression uses only the current frame, effectively being image compression.[30]
The most powerful used method works by comparing each frame in the video with the previous one. If the frame contains areas where nothing has moved, the system simply issues a short command that copies that part of the previous frame, bit-for-bit, into the next one. If sections of the frame move in a simple manner, the compressor emits a (slightly longer) command that tells the decompressor to shift, rotate, lighten, or darken the copy. This longer command still remains much shorter than intraframe compression. Interframe compression works well for programs that will simply be played back by the viewer, but can cause problems if the video sequence needs to be edited.[31]
Because interframe compression copies data from one frame to another, if the original frame is simply cut out (or lost in transmission), the following frames cannot be reconstructed properly. Some video formats, such as DV, compress each frame independently using intraframe compression. Making 'cuts' in intraframe-compressed video is almost as easy as editing uncompressed video: one finds the beginning and ending of each frame, and simply copies bit-for-bit each frame that one wants to keep, and discards the frames one doesn't want. Another difference between intraframe and interframe compression is that, with intraframe systems, each frame uses a similar amount of data. In most interframe systems, certain frames (such as "I frames" in MPEG-2) aren't allowed to copy data from other frames, so they require much more data than other frames nearby.[32]
It is possible to build a computer-based video editor that spots problems caused when I frames are edited out while other frames need them. This has allowed newer formats like HDV to be used for editing. However, this process demands a lot more computing power than editing intraframe compressed video with the same picture quality.
Today, nearly all commonly used video compression methods (e.g., those in standards approved by the ITU-T or ISO) apply a discrete cosine transform (DCT) for spatial redundancy reduction. The DCT that is widely used in this regard was introduced by N. Ahmed, T. Natarajan and K. R. Rao in 1974.[33] Other methods, such as fractal compression, matching pursuit and the use of a discrete wavelet transform (DWT) have been the subject of some research, but are typically not used in practical products (except for the use of wavelet coding as still-image coders without motion compensation). Interest in fractal compression seems to be waning, due to recent theoretical analysis showing a comparative lack of effectiveness of such methods.[34]
The following table is a partial history of international video compression standards.
History of Video Compression Standards
Popular Implementations
1984 H.120 ITU-T
1988 H.261 ITU-T Videoconferencing, Videotelephony
1993 MPEG-1 Part 2 ISO, IEC Video-CD
1995 H.262/MPEG-2 Part 2 ISO, IEC, ITU-T DVD Video, Blu-ray, Digital Video Broadcasting, SVCD
1996 H.263 ITU-T Videoconferencing, Videotelephony, Video on Mobile Phones (3GP)
1999 MPEG-4 Part 2 ISO, IEC Video on Internet (DivX, Xvid ...)
2003 H.264/MPEG-4 AVC Sony, Panasonic, Samsung, ISO, IEC, ITU-T Blu-ray, HD DVD Digital Video Broadcasting, iPod Video, Apple TV,
2009 VC-2 (Dirac) SMPTE Video on Internet, HDTV broadcast, UHDTV
2013 H.265 ISO-under development
Genetics compression algorithms are the latest generation of lossless algorithms that compress data (typically sequences of nucleotides) using both conventional compression algorithms and genetic algorithms adapted to the specific datatype. In 2012, a team of scientists from Johns Hopkins University, published a genetic compression algorithm that does not use a reference genome for compression. HAPZIPPER was tailored for HapMap data and achieves over 20-fold compression (95% reduction in file size), providing 2- to 4-fold better compression and in much faster time than the leading general-purpose compression utilities. For this, Chanda, Elhaik, and Bader introduced MAF based encoding (MAFE), which reduces the heterogeneity of the dataset by sorting SNPs by their minor allele frequency, thus homogenizing the dataset.[35] Other algorithms in 2009 and 2013 (DNAZip and GenomeZip) have compression ratios of up to 1200-fold—allowing 6 billion basepair diploid human genomes to be stored in 2.5 megabytes (relative to a reference genome or averaged over many genomes).[36][37]
Algorithmic complexity theory
Auditory masking
Calgary Corpus
Canterbury Corpus
Comparison of audio codecs
Comparison of file archivers
Context mixing
Data compression symmetry
Dictionary coder
Distributed source coding
Dyadic distribution
Dynamic Markov Compression
Elias gamma coding
Entropy encoding
Fibonacci coding
Fractal transform
Golomb coding
Huffman coding
Information entropy
Magic compression algorithm
Minimum description length
Modulo-N code
Range encoding
Self-extracting archive
Subband encoding
Uncompressed data
Universal code (data compression)
Vector quantization
Video compression picture types
Wavelet compression
Data Compression Basics (Video)
Video compression 4:2:2 10-bit and its benefits
Why does 10-bit save bandwidth (even when content is 8-bit)?
Which compression technology should be used
Wiley - Introduction to Compression Theory
EBU subjective listening tests on low-bitrate audio codecs
Audio Archiving Guide: Music Formats (Guide for helping a user pick out the right codec)
MPEG 1&2 video compression intro (pdf format)
hydrogenaudio.org wiki comparison
HD Greetings - 1080p Uncompressed source material for compression testing and research
Explanation of lossless signal compression method used by most codecs
Interactive blind listening tests of audio codecs over the internet
TestVid - 2,000+ HD and other uncompressed source video clips for compression testing
Videsignline - Intro to Video Compression
Data Footprint Reduction Technology
Data compression methods
Kolmogorov complexity
Rate–distortion theory
Timeline of information theory
Golomb
Shannon–Fano
Shannon–Fano–Elias
Exp-Golomb
Levenshtein
Byte pair encoding
Lempel–Ziv
LZ77 and LZ78
LZJB
LZO
LZRW
LZSS
LZT
LZW
LZWL
LZX
ROLZ
Statistical Lempel Ziv
Companding
Nyquist–Shannon theorem
Audio codec parts
A-law
μ-law
ACELP
ADPCM
CELP
DPCM
MDCT
Psychoacoustic model
WLPC
Speech coding
Sub-band coding
Compression artifact
EZW
SPIHT
PSNR quality measure
Video characteristics
Video codec parts
Deblocking filter
Motion compensation
Lossless compressed
Video codecs
See Compression formats for formats and Compression software for codecs
Multimedia compression and container formats
Motion JPEG 2000
Part 2/ASP
Part 10/AVC
MPEG-H
Part 2/HEVC
ITU-T
Bink
CineForm
Cinepak
Dirac
FFV1
Huffyuv
Indeo
Microsoft Video 1
MSU Lossless
Lagarith
OMS Video
Pixlet
ProRes 422
ProRes 4444
RealVideo
RTVideo
SheerVideo
Smacker
Sorenson Video, Spark
Theora
XEB
YULS
MPEG-1 Layer III (MP3)
MPEG-1 Layer II
MPEG-1 Layer I
HE-AAC
MPEG Surround
MPEG-4 ALS
MPEG-4 SLS
MPEG-4 DST
MPEG-4 HVXC
MPEG-4 CELP
G.711
G.722.1
AC-3
AMR-WB+
Asao
ATRAC
EVRC
EVRC-B
GSM-HR
GSM-FR
GSM-EFR
iLBC
Monkey's Audio
True Audio
µ-law
Musepack
OptimFROG
OSQ
QCELP
RCELP
RealAudio
SVOPC
TwinVQ
VMR-WB
Vorbis
VSELP
IEC, ISO,
JPEG 2000
JPEG XR
Lossless JPEG
JBIG
JBIG2
TIFF/EP
TIFF/IT
APNG
EXR
ILBM
PGF
QTVR
MPEG-PS
MPEG-TS
ISO base media file format
MPEG-4 Part 14
MPEG-21 Part 9
MPEG media transport
H.222.0
3GP and 3G2
DivX Media Format
GXF
M2TS
QuickTime File Format
RatDVD
RealMedia
REDCODE
MOD and TOD
VOB, IFO and BUP
See Compression methods for methods and Compression software for codecs
Data compression software
Archivers with
(comparison)
File Roller
FreeArc
Info-ZIP
KGB Archiver
PAQ
PeaZip
The Unarchiver (decompression only)
UPX
Xarchiver
Zipeg
Filzip
IZArc
StuffIt Expander (decompression only)
TUGZip
ZipGenius
ALZip
ALZip for Mac
Archive Utility
MacBinary
PKZIP/SecureZIP
StuffIt
Lossless data
compression*
XZ Utils
Freeware Advanced Audio Coder (FAAC)
Helix DNA Producer
l3enc
TooLAME
libavcodec
libcelt
libopus
libspeex
Windows Media Encoder
mp4als
TTA (True Audio)
MPEG-4 ASP
3ivx
Nero Digital
H.264 /
MPEG-4 AVC
CoreAVC
Blu-code
High Efficiency Video Coding
DNxHD
Schrödinger (Dirac)
Sorenson
^* Non-archiving
See also: compression methods and compression formats
List of algorithms
Linear programming, Pi, Context-free grammar, Matrix multiplication, Calculus
Christian music, Ogg (surname), Nanny Ogg, Ogg, Ogg Vorbis
Data compression, Free software, Psychoacoustics, Timbre, Speech synthesis
Shorten (file format)
International Electrotechnical Commission, Silk, Compact Disc, Monkey's Audio, TTA (codec)
Advanced Audio Coding
Microsoft Windows, Apple Inc., Mp3, International Electrotechnical Commission, Mpeg-2
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