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Rabin, Mitch
Rabinowitz, Rebecca, University of Florida, IFAS, Horticultural Sciences Department; USDA–ARS CMAVE
Rackley, Jon G.
Radebaugh, D. S.
Radovich, Ted
Radovich, Theodore J, Tropical Plant and Soil Sciences Department, University of Hawaii-Manoa, Honolulu, HI 96822
Radspinner, A. L.
Raese, J. Thomas
Rafie, A R., VSU
Rafie, A. R., University of Florida
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Rafie, Reza, Virginia State University, School of Agriculture, Cooperative Extension Service, P.O. Box 9081, Petersburg, VA 23806
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Raid, R A, University of Florida, IFAS, Everglades Research and Education Center, Belle Glade, FL
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Raid, R. N., University of Florida, IFAS, Everglades Research & Education Center, Belle Glade, FL
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Raid, Richard
Raid, Richard, University of Florida, EREC, 3200 E. Palm Beach Road, Belle Glade, FL 33430-4702 (United States)
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By Inside Columbia on June 18, 2015
If you think “smart building” technology is a product of the 21st century, well … you would be wrong. Dial back your assumptions to the early 1980s, when a young, American-educated immigrant settled in Columbia with a novel idea for radically adjusting energy efficiency in some of our most inefficient structures through automation. His company, Electenergy Technologies Inc., has been quietly changing the way businesses power their buildings ever since. Its signature product, a power conditioning system dubbed ElectroFlow, is in use in hundreds of industrial and commercial facilities on six continents, with a customer list that reads like a veritable Who’s Who of the world’s largest multinational corporations. The quiet little engineering business is now a multimillion-dollar company with a presence in 112 countries.
“When we started, I had zero sense of its commercial value,” says ETI’s president, Mike Mehrdad. “ElectroFlow was just a solution to a problem. I didn’t see the monetary value.”
MEHRDAD LIKES TO CALL his ETI crew “energy doctors.” He draws an analogy between electrical circuitry and the human body’s circulatory system.
“We start out with a free checkup for the system,” Mehrdad says. “We have a device that can perform diagnostics on a building’s power system. We diagnose the weaknesses and inefficiencies, issue a report, and prescribe a solution.”
ETI also produces the Harmonitor 3000, a diagnostic tool that analyzes various elements of a building’s power system — sort of an EKG for the building, if you will. The handheld device is equipped with a microprocessor that downloads the data to a computer and exports it via the Internet to ETI in Columbia.
“Analysis is in two seconds,” Mehrdad says. “Just like that, we generate a 30-page report on a power system’s problems — glitches, waste, inefficiencies. The checkup is free — no strings.”
For those who choose to let ETI solve their power woes, the company will sell them an ElectroFlow system, customized to the business’ specific needs. The modular units are unique in the world and can perform up to 11 functions — five of which are exclusive to ElectroFlow — that monitor electrical use and stabilize a system to reduce power consumption, Mehrdad says. The first six functions are standard in every unit:
Voltage improvement and stability, which minimizes heat generation, and increases longevity of equipment
Three-phase balancing of the load currents to equalize demand
Surge suppression to shield equipment against surges, transients and power spikes by storing and recycling voltage on an even keel
Harmonics mitigation to protect against the harmful side effects of sophisticated energy use by capturing broadband frequencies and recycling the voltage in a steady state
Power factor improvement without loss of capacity and energy in the distribution system
Reduced energy loss, freeing capacity to increase available supply
Optional features tailor the ElectroFlow units to a facility’s needs. ETI installs additional modules to provide brownout protection, intermittent failure protection, large-scale industrial harmonics mitigation and a fail-safe option for phase-loss synthesis to prevent outages triggered by overloads. ElectroFlow’s newest feature, added six months ago at the behest of Nestlé engineers, offers remote monitoring and control to track power usage, quality and potential problems.
“The standard features protect equipment and increase productivity,” Mehrdad says. “The options customize the units. Intermittent failures, for example, can be just a blink in voltage. It can happen many times in a day. But that blink causes a glitch that could ruin an MRI at a hospital, offset the seam in a plastic bag, or cut the wrong size PVC pipe. On the Ford assembly line, robots do a lot of the precision work. An intermittent failure ‘glitch’ could put a part off by one two-thousandth of an inch. And that part will be rejected.”
Ford Motor Co. is an ETI customer, along with a host of other industrial clients — General Motors, Cargill, Nestlé, Heinz, Del Monte, Coca-Cola, Pepsi, Intel, Alcoa, General Electric, Siemens, Panasonic, DHL, UPS and others. Commercial clients include hotels, hospitals, banks and office buildings. The company sells about 300 to 350 systems a year, in varying sizes. Prices for individual ElectroFlow units range from $3,000 to $50,000 per transformer load, Mehrdad says. Large factories usually have more than one transformer, he notes, adding that automotive plants typically have about 50 transformers.
BORN IN IRAN, MEHRDAD arrived in the United States in the early ‘70s as a 17-year-old college freshman. His father, a transportation official in Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi’s government, moved his family to Missouri as part of an executive exchange program with Burlington Northern Railway. Young Mehrdad headed for Rolla, where he earned a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering at the University of Missouri campus there. He moved to Columbia for an EE master’s degree at MU and started his Ph.D. work in electrical engineering with an emphasis on electromagnetics and power systems, eventually transferring to the University of Kansas to finish his doctorate.
Mehrdad returned to Columbia in 1981 and created ETI from his father Mohsen’s consulting firm.
“When I started with the company, ElectroFlow could do three things,” he says. “We just kept adding features.”
He sold his first ElectroFlow unit in 1982 to Central States Diversified in St. Louis.
Success came first in international markets, where until about three years ago 95 percent of ETI’s sales took place. “We have made extra efforts to increase our domestic sales lately,” Mehrdad says. “Sales growth has been ranging 5 to 10 percent better than the previous year. We are bullish this year and project our sales to exceed 30 percent over that of last year.”
Now with 18 employees in Columbia and multiple licensees in other countries, the company has grown to global proportions through word-of-mouth and referrals from satisfied clients, Mehrdad says.
“Results are 100 percent guaranteed,” he says. “I tell our clients that we do it Show-Me State style here — if you don’t save on energy costs, you owe us nothing.”
With the company’s reputation on the line, “I can’t afford to make one mistake,” he says. ETI’s Columbia employees design and assemble products under strict quality control in three facilities here for the company’s domestic market. Products bound for international markets are created here but assembled and installed overseas by workers trained in Columbia. “We have control over every unit designed, assembled and installed,” Mehrdad says. “We still have to answer for our product.”
ETI promises ElectroFlow will pay for itself in energy savings within two years of installation. Mehrdad backs it up with a performance bond. “If you don’t get the energy savings we promise, we make up the difference.”
And, he adds, “We’ve never been sued and we’ve never had to pay out.”
ETI’S LOCAL FOOTPRINT is deepening this year. The company counts Boone Hospital Center, DeLong’s steel fabricators, Von Hoffman Press, Extrusion Technologies and Lincoln University among its mid-Missouri customers, yet it has operated under the radar in its hometown for more than three decades.
That all changed this spring when ETI burst into the social media sphere and won the 2015 Battle of the Brands competition. Sponsored by SourceLink, Battle of the Brands is an annual bracket-style competition powered by social media. More than 40 companies entered the contest this year, advancing through each bracket as voted by their fans on social media. During the course of the competition, more than 7,000 people viewed ETI’s company name. Mehrdad’s prize included a pair of boxing gloves.
The company’s higher profile caught the eye of Columbia City Council Representative Laura Nauser. After a meeting she arranged with city officials, Mehrdad says he has hopes of working with the city on some future projects.
In early 2016, ETI will launch a residential version of ElectroFlow. “We will have two models,” Mehrdad says. “A single appliance application — for those who know nothing about electricity — and a whole-house ElectroFlow.”
Mehrdad plans to offer the same guarantee and deliver the same energy savings with his residential product that his commercial customers enjoy. “People like to save money,” he says, and he has a pile of letters to “Dr. Mike” and shelves full of awards testifying to that. “General Motors would have been happy with a 2 percent energy savings. We gave them more. We promised Cargill an 11 percent savings and they got 18. People get promoted when things work out like that.”
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Morning Spoilers
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Seems like hanging around here is just asking for a bad time, honestly.
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Morning SpoilersIf there’s news about upcoming movies and television you’re not supposed to know, you’ll find it in here.
The cast and crew of Pet Sematary discuss Stephen King’s beloved book. More of The 100 might be on the way. Plus, new posters for Shazam and The Curse of La Llorona, what’s to come on Deadly Class and Supernatural, and more. Spoilers, away!
According to a pair of new Instagram posts, Shannon Elizabeth and Chris Jericho have joined the cast of Jay & Silent Bob Reboot.
There’s Someone Inside Your House
Deadline reports Creep and Creep 2 director Patrick Brice will direct an adaptation of the Stephanie Perkins novel, There’s Someone Inside Your House, for Netflix. Adapted from a script by Henry Gayden (Shazam), the film “is described as a combination of two different beloved teenage genres: the slashers that came to prominence in the ’80s and ’90s and the character-driven coming of age classics a la John Hughes’ films and American Graffiti.”
Bloody-Disgusting has synopses for all six Alien shorts coming this year from 20th Century Fox.
ALIEN: Alone – Written and Directed by Noah Miller – Hope, an abandoned crew member aboard the derelict chemical hauler Otranto, has spent a year trying to keep her ship and herself alive as both slowly fall apart. After discovering hidden cargo, she risks it all to power up the broken ship in search of human life.
ALIEN: Containment – Written and Directed by Chris Reading – Four survivors find themselves stranded aboard a small escape pod in deep space. Trying to piece together the details around the outbreak that led to their ship’s destruction, they find themselves unsure to trust whether or not one of them might be infected.
ALIEN: Harvest – Directed by Benjamin Howdeshell – The surviving crew of a damaged deep-space harvester have minutes to reach the emergency evacuation shuttle. A motion sensor is their only navigation tool leading them to safety while a creature in the shadows terrorizes the crew. However, the greatest threat might have been hiding in plain sight all along.
ALIEN: Night Shift – Written and Directed by Aidan Breznick – When a missing space trucker is discovered hungover and disoriented, his co-worker suggests a nightcap as a remedy. Near closing time, they are reluctantly allowed inside the colony supply depot where the trucker’s condition worsens, leaving a young supply worker alone to take matters into her own hands.
ALIEN: Ore – Written and Directed by the Spear Sisters – As a hard-working miner of a planet mining colony, Lorraine longs to make a better life for her daughter and grandchildren. When her shift uncovers the death of a fellow miner under mysterious circumstances, Lorraine is forced to choose between escape or defying management orders and facing her fears to fight for the safety of her family.
ALIEN: Specimen – Directed by Kelsey Taylor – It’s the night shift in a colony greenhouse, and Julie, a botanist, does her best to contain suspicious soil samples that have triggered her sensitive lab dog. Despite her best efforts the lab unexpectedly goes into full shutdown and she is trapped inside. Little does she know, an alien specimen has escaped the mysterious cargo, and a game of cat and mouse ensues as the creature searches for a host.
The Weeping Woman cries skull-shaped tears on an interesting new poster from Coming Soon.
Coming Soon also has Shazam’s IMAX poster.
The cast and crew discuss Stephen King’s novel in a new featurette.
Larry Fessenden takes on Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein in a quick trailer for Depraved.
Good news—the CW appears to have quietly renewed The 100 for a seventh season ahead of its sixth season premiere. According to Production Weekly, season seven begins filming this summer.
Supergirl faces her “biggest challenge yet” in the synopsis for “All About Eve,” airing March 31.
Supergirl (Melissa Benoist) must deal with the destructive aftermath of Lex’s (guest star Jon Cryer) nefarious plans. Shocked at what Lex has created, Supergirl faces her biggest challenge yet. Ben Bray directed the episode with story by Gabriel Llanas and teleplay by Katie Rose Rogers & Brooke Pohl (#417). Original airdate 3/31/2019.
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Maggie infiltrates a cult in the synopsis for the March 31 episode of Charmed, “Surrender.”
When Niko (Ellen Tamaki) reaches out to Mel (Melonie Diaz) for help, she unknowingly reveals a new demon. Maggie (Sarah Jeffery) volunteers to infiltrate the “cult” to help thwart him, but when she goes missing Macy (Madeleine Mantock) and Mel set out to find her before it’s too late. Harry (Rupert Evans) must face the consequences of the “gift” that The Elders have bestowed on him, leaving Mel, Macy and Maggie shocked and angry. Mel thinks that Fiona (guest star Leah Pipes) might be the key to helping Harry, which seems to cause trouble between her and Jada (guest star Aleyse Shannon). Meanwhile, Parker (Nick Hargrove) is getting worse and Maggie has an idea on how to make him better. Megan Follows directed the episode written by Sarah Goldfinger (#117). Original airdate 3/31/2019.
Castiel needs help tracking down a miracle in the synopsis for “Game Night,” airing April 4.
Sam (Jared Padalecki) and Dean (Jensen Ackles) race to help a friend in need. Meanwhile, Mary (guest star Samantha Smith) is concerned for Jack’s (Alexander Calvert) wellbeing, and Castiel (Misha Collins) enlists help from Jo/Anael (guest star Danneel Ackles) to track down a miracle. The episode was directed by John Showalter and written by Meredith Glynn. (#1417). Original airdate 4/4/2019.
Meanwhile, Sam and Dean investigate forest-dwelling monsters in the trailer for next week’s episode, “Don’t Go in the Woods.”
The survivors face blizzard zombies in the synopsis for The Walking Dead’s March 31 episode, “The Storm.”
In the aftermath of an overwhelming loss, the communities must brave a ferocious blizzard; as one group deals with an enemy from within, another is forced to make a life or death decision.
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KSiteTV has photos from “Sink With California,” the season finale of Deadly Class. More at the link.
Meanwhile, the Riverdale kids performer Heathers: The Musical in TV Line’s photos from next week’s episode, “Big Fun.”
Finally, a golem wants to kill Landon in the trailer for “I’ll Tell You A Story,” next week’s episode of Legacies.
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What I learned about writing a novel from the TV detective series Luther
On January 5, 2019 By Judy LeighIn Arts, Literature, On writing, television, TheatreLeave a comment
As a writer, I try to learn about the craft of writing a novel from every source I can. The obvious source is reading and I try to read all the time. Each day I’m perched on my exercise bike for an hour, devouring anything I can get my hands on, and even if I have no more time for reading that day, at least I’m getting in the literary and physical miles at the same time. My favourite novel last year without a doubt was Kamila Shamsie’s Home Fire, the retelling of the Antigone story. Shamsie is a writer who clearly knows how to craft a clever story.
But I am on a mission to learn and to improve my writing all the time, and that means seeking out all other means of refining my skills. And this brings me to the fifth series of Luther on TV, written brilliantly by Neil Cross. Now it has to be said that Luther is a terrifying programme. That shouldn’t be a problem for me: I was brought up with scary films and books. My mum loved everything from Bram Stoker’s Dracula to Agatha Christie. She loved the thrill of danger. It was escapism. (It has to be said at this point that my dad did not read, nor could he shift his stance from a stubborn belief in only that which he could see and touch at any moment of time, the real, the mundane.)
But since the screening of the Luther episode of the killer in the street wearing the luminous mask, I won’t to go out in the dark to put out the bins. Neil Cross deliberately targets our potential to be afraid and he unleashes the power that lies in our dread and anxiety about the unknown. He said ‘So all of the bad guys are avatars of my fears and anxieties, and once I have isolated that fear – the guy under the be- that’s a shared anxiety with so many of us – once I’ve got that initial spark of anxiety, then I begin to think about the character that could exemplify it… Who is he? Why is he doing what he is doing? What does he want? But that ultimately comes second to the scary stuff. You start with the fear and work backwards.’
Character is always important. Idris Elba’s John Luther is a sex symbol of our time, but more importantly he’s a maverick, a flawed genius who steps outside the rules, a man of the law who sails close to the wind, breaking convention. Other characters shine. Ruth Wilson’s Alice Morgan is brilliantly contrived – a ruthless unpredictable psychopath who turns up unexpectedly and behaves outrageously.
William Faulkner said ‘In writing, you must kill your darlings’ and Cross does exactly that in Luther. Justin Ripley’s death shocked us all, as if we thought someone so loyal, so important and good-natured was exempt from being murdered, and when he was not, we were stunned and we mourned. And then came the demise of Benny, the tech expert – another martyr. Neil Cross underpins my belief that the reader should be surprised by what happens next – no character is safe, no eventuality should be predictable. And the importance of complex likeable central characters with the potential to amaze but who bring empathy and warmth and human vulnerability is not to be overlooked.
An impactful setting is something we all strive to create in our writing. Luther is firstly a visual medium, but it works on the same principle as writing. Whether it is from a camera angle or the written word, whether we are following a victim onto a bus or watching someone take off their shoes from a killer’s viewpoint under the bed, setting can create emotional impact and needs careful consideration. Cross’ work prompts me to ask myself if I can make the setting more powerful, more relevant or can I find an alternative setting that is more surprising and unexpected.
Neil Cross excels at twists and turns in storylines and having several threads unravelling at the same time. He leaves vital questions unanswered, which draws the viewer in, and he misleads us deliberately to add to the surprise at the moment of anagnorisis. My background in both theatre and writing tells me how vital it is to suspend disbelief, to keep the interest of the audience strong but to draw them out of the comfort zone and keep them guessing. In series 5 of Luther, we wonder what will happen to George Cornelius’ kidnapped son, but we don’t expect what Alice does or when and how she’ll do it. We are interested in how new DS Catherine Halliday will fare working with Luther – the signs are mixed, a tentative novice but with a cool head. It could go horribly wrong. And DSU Martin Schenk is on to Luther – he now has real evidence of his dangerous liaison with Alice.
Then there are the murderers – Vivien Lake and her evil, strange husband, Jeremy: the luminous horror mask, the needles, the eyeballs, and that incredible moment where the patient was talked through her impending heart operation by the psychopath doctor and he slipped the shocking phrase ‘diseased whore’ into the professional dialogue, much to the patient’s – and our- revulsion and incredulity. Cross is offering a master class on suspension of disbelief, terrifying the audience, misleading them and keeping them guessing, interweaving threads of characters’ action and contrasting story lines in an intricate way so that the outcome will never be clear until the shocking moments of catharsis.
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I got into Luther late, and scared myself silly by watching all the earlier series in a week. Series five is no exception – it’s horrific, brilliantly contrived, the stories unfolding expertly. Most importantly Neil Cross, like any good writer, knows how to channel and manipulate his audience’s emotions, how to create the dynamic interplay between fear and hope, relief and shock, admiration and sadness and dread. He knows how to pull us in to the plot and keep us there, how to make us take sides and invest in the characters, how to force us to feel sympathy, empathy, antipathy and to steel ourselves against a huge barrage of horror. And he knows how to keep it coming.
There is a lot to be learned about writing a novel from a television series, and in particular, from Neil Cross’ Luther. Series five was excellent, and although the action is often about male killers and female victims, I still focused on the belief that the horror was real and spent a lot of it watching through the gaps in my interwoven fingers. But, like every great novel, it leaves me sad when it’s over and waiting for more, although I’ve no idea what the next series might hold. But I’m looking forward to the superb storytelling and how it can help me to refine my own writing.
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Weekdays 10:00pm - 5:00am
Curt has been at 1080 KRLD since 2005, working the overnight shift in the newsroom
Growing up near the beaches in Southern California, after college he moved to the often-frozen Minnesota where he embarked on his radio journey with a couple of stops in Wisconsin before ending up in North Texas in 1997. Texas was something of a home-coming because Curt's dad was raised in Lockhart, the barbecue capital of the galaxy. He has numerous cousins and other other relatives in the Lone Star State
He says his favorite part of radio is the writing of news copy. Although he had newspaper writing experience in college, writing for radio is an entirely different animal. It can be a challenge to seek leads that capture a listener's attention and then to "write tight" to get the gist of a story into about 30 seconds.
When not enjoying his radio shifts, Curt works with teenagers as a volunteer at church and as an offical for middle school and high school baseball, volleyball and basketball games. He is occasionally asked to MC for charity events and fundraisers and tries to say "yes" as often as possible.
Curt and his wife Kim live in southwest Arlington. They have two daughters and sons-in-law plus two grandsons who live in Wisconsin.
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Former Mesquite police officer Derek Wily will be back on the stand this morning, continuing his testimony about that night in 2017 when he shot a man who turned out to have been un-armed.
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Once again, Southwest Airlines is delaying the date it expects to begin flying the grounded Boeing 737 Max jets.
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The family of a Grand Prairie police officer has received $40,000 raised over the past six weeks since A.J. Castaneda was struck by a car and killed on the job.
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A Grayson County teenager, missing in Colorado for more than a week, has been found safe.
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Mabank Woman Gets Life For Murder Of Young Daughters
A Mabank mother will go to prison for life after pleading guilty in the murders of her young daughters.
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Thousands of people have signed a petition appealing to Henderson County prosecutors to drop charges against an Athens school bus driver indicted in a fatal crash early this year.
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Police: Man Shoots Himself While Inspecting Pistol He Was Thinking About Buying
A man is in a Fort Worth hospital after apparently shooting himself accidentally last night, while he was handling a pistol he was thinking about buying.
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Arlington Police Confiscate Drugs, Ammo And Weapons In Raid
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This booking photo released Wednesday, Feb. 27, 2019 by the Wake City-County Bureau of Identification, shows Leslie McCrae Dowless, who was arrested Wednesday and charged with illegal ballot handling and obstruction of justice in the 2016 general election and 2018 primary. Dowless was also at the center of a ballot fraud investigation by state elections officials who ordered a new election in the disputed North Carolina congressional race. (Wake City-County Bureau of Identification via AP)
Political operative arrested in North Carolina scandal
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — The political operative at the center of an election fraud scandal that has engulfed a North Carolina congressional race was arrested Wednesday on charges of illegal ballot handling and conspiracy. Four people working for him were also charged. Leslie McCrae Dowless Jr., 63,...
Mark Harris, Republican candidate in North Carolina's 9th congressional race, makes a statement before the state board of elections calling for a new election during the fourth day of a public evidentiary hearing on the 9th congressional district voting irregularities investigation Thursday, Feb. 21, 2019, at the North Carolina State Bar in Raleigh, N.C. (Travis Long/The News & Observer via AP, Pool)
The Latest: New election ordered in undecided US House race
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — The Latest on a hearing outlining a ballot fraud investigation in an undeclared North Carolina congressional race for which a winner hasn't been finalized (all times local): 4:05 p.m. North Carolina's elections board has ordered a new election in the nation's last undecided...
Mark Harris, Republican candidate in North Carolina's 9th Congressional race, prepares to testify during the fourth day of a public evidentiary hearing on the 9th Congressional District voting irregularities investigation Thursday, Feb. 21, 2019, at the North Carolina State Bar in Raleigh, N.C. (Travis Long/The News & Observer via AP, Pool)
New election ordered in disputed North Carolina House race
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina's elections board Thursday ordered a new election in the nation's last undecided congressional race after the Republican candidate conceded his lead was tainted by evidence of ballot-tampering by political operatives working for him. The State Board of Elections...
FILE - In this Dec. 5, 2018 file photo, Leslie McCrae Dowless Jr. poses for a portrait outside of his home in Bladenboro, N.C. The Republican in the nation’s last undecided congressional election said Monday, Feb. 11, 2019 he recruited a political operative now at the center of a ballot fraud investigation because he produced election results in his rural North Carolina county and other Republicans vouched for him. Mark Harris said he didn’t know before November’s election that state elections board investigators found evidence that operative Dowless Jr. may have illegally handled ballots in 2016. (Travis Long/The News & Observer via AP, File)
Hearing Into Unresolved US House Race Could Find Winner
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Evidence collected over months and being unveiled Monday could reveal whether the nation's last undecided congressional election was either tainted by so much ballot-tampering that a winner cannot be declared - or that that the actual winner was unfairly denied the seat. North...
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Correction: Kentucky Contested Election story
FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — In a story Jan. 23 about a contested Kentucky House election, The Associated Press reported erroneously that Anna Whites represented DJ Johnson. She is the attorney for Jim Glenn. A corrected version of the story is below: Kentucky GOP lawmakers order recount in House election...
FILE - In this Dec. 5, 2018 photo, Leslie McCrae Dowless Jr. poses for a portrait outside of his home in Bladenboro, N.C. A North Carolina elections investigator spent weeks in 2010 probing whether Dowless, the man at the center of a current scandal, was among a group of local political operatives allegedly buying votes. (Travis Long/The News & Observer via AP, File)
AP Exclusive: NC election fraud probed long before 2018 race
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Long before accusations of absentee ballot fraud in a small North Carolina county cast doubt on the results of a heated 2018 congressional race, a state elections investigator spent weeks probing whether the man at the center of the current scandal was among a group buying...
FILE - In this Dec. 5, 2018, file photo, Leslie McCrae Dowless Jr., poses for a portrait outside his home in Bladenboro, N.C. State investigators have described Dowless as a “person of interest” in their probe into 2018 voting irregularities involving absentee ballots. (Travis Long/The News & Observer via AP, File)
Documents detail how absentee ballots gathered in NC vote
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Affidavits released Sunday by North Carolina's elections board allege absentee ballots were collected from voters by the man at the center of vote fraud allegations or those working for him. These latest documents focus on last month's disputed 9th Congressional District race,...
FILE - In this Dec. 5, 2018 photo, Leslie McCrae Dowless poses for a portrait outside of his home in Bladenboro, N. C. N.C. Board of Elections Executive Director Kim Strach warned in a January 2017 letter obtained by The Associated Press that those involved in illegally harvesting absentee ballots in rural Bladen County would likely do it again if they weren’t prosecuted. (Travis Long/The News & Observer via AP)
North Carolina asked feds to open vote fraud case last year
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina's top elections official issued an urgent plea nearly two years ago for the Trump administration to file criminal charges against the man now at the center of ballot fraud allegations that have thrown a 2018 congressional race into turmoil. N.C. Board of...
North Carolina officials sought to charge political operator
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina officials sought criminal charges after the 2016 election against the man now at the center of absentee ballot fraud allegations, but prosecutors didn't indict him before the now disputed 2018 congressional race, according to documents released Wednesday. The...
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Dancing days are here again,
As the summer evenings grow,
I got my flower, I got my power,
I got a woman, who knows.
Learning the arts
Sit down at my table. Put your mind at ease. If you relax it will enable me to do anything I please.
Yes, this is exactly how the arts should be learned.
Agreed, a reacharound is a beautiful thing.
Bonejelly Sandwiches
…and we are being teased mercilessly!
Not that we would ask for mercy anyway
The Rook of The Three Threes
The innuendo is beautiful, as well as the implications.
Our Young King is learning combat and magic!
Looks like we have a hybrid class.
-0 கோப்பு கிடைக்கவில்லை
That wouldst be a BARD from the tales of yore.
Warrior Mage Rogue.
I am not so sure about the link with the elements though that may be another incarnation of Bard.
Fighter, rogue, *druid*.
The old bard was a weird ass class.
Just so, weird, weird class. My buddy back in the early 00’s found out that I could play classical guitar and refused to let me play a bard (or at least, refused to let me use bardic perf.) unless I really played music at the table. I said no and rolled a different character.
I understand why you wouldn’t want to, but you can’t blame your buddy for trying to get more immersive in the roleplaying.
You play guitar?
Your Bard plays the drums.
I don’t think it would have fit. Anyways I wish that campaign hadn’t fallen apart after two sessions. He and I were secretly in cahoots and my bard was going to get “kidnapped” and then return as the main villain who’d been just offscreen for most of the campaign. The whole thing was in a weird Spelljammer/Planescape setting not entirely unlike KSBD, now that I think about it.
Divided Loyalty
Innuendo? Wait until you get to the next page. 😉
“Now. The Arts are three: Red, White, and Black.”
Because if there’s anything YISUN hated more than stagnation, it’s Ramp (Green) and Countermagic (Blue). [Magic: The Gathering joke]
Man, when I did this with my lava lamp, all I got was sick.
Er, as I was saying, that was not supposed to land here, but I do appreciate a good MTG joke :3
Pardon my ignorance, but I don’t get the lava lamp reference.
Could you please explain? If you mean the motions of the spell, then wow.
I think TachyonCode was making a joke referring to how the magic looks like the stuff inside a lava lamp, which you are not supposed to remove from said lamp as it can be quite toxic (particularly in older lamps), but accidentally replied to Bluecho instead of making a new comment.
Thankye! I didn’t know people actually tried to take the wax out.
Cironian
Why do you sound disappointed? You changed You into Sick You. Merely learn to do the actions in reverse and you can heal any ill.
brilliant! We may make a healer out of you yet!
Silphael
Mardu’s always ready for battle !
Swagner
Sounds about right, that’s why every good part of my blue/green commander deck has been banned.
LIAR! AHAHAHAHAHAHAH!
Gotcha =D That was a brilliant one.
Sky Dream Torn Gleam
So many candles, the quantity of which must surely be brought to the attention of the Coalition of wax drippers guild.
Jachra
The real lunacy is that they’re on the bed, unless that bed is like, only the finest of memory foam.
FireBeam
It could just be a wooden plank or slab of stone.
I’m certain that such amateurish drippings would leave the guild quite unconcerned.
Alaizia
OH MYYYY
Wander-ar
Here’s the link from hover text
youtube.com/watch?v=JpNy6z5sz1M
Query the Ginger
Bless you, Wander-ar
The old hollow heart of the holy Shal'kar insect
Blessed be the ones who hover over the truth and patiently dive into it; and then share it with the world. Because if Ysun hates something is to see that his lies don’t change into truths
Good choice of music.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpNy6z5sz1M
gunks
My response.
https://youtu.be/YAsP_77Y_xU?t=76
Sperium
Love what Cio did with her hair, though the lenght doesn’t look consistent from one panel to the next.
a thing of beauty
can eschew
If you were seeking consistency, you would have sought an angel, for they are consistency (and indeed constancy) made animate. To be a devil is to be change itself, though the masks do make them rather more static than is their deep nature. Not that that extends to external trivialities like hair and such.
Yup, totally wasn’t expecting anything out of the norm, absolutely
Hrmm… Y’know it’s alright, I said it’s alright >.> …to trim down the magic color wheel. After all…
What color IS magic?
~ MAGE
Upside: No more Nexus of Fate.
Green. True magic is green.
Zangge the Iconoclast
Octarine. Magic is octarine.
Talia, the Flowering One
What a strange and fascinating universe you hail from. I have read much of what transpires across the back of Great A’Tuin, but have never had the chance to travel there myself.
I have and my advice is: don’t go.
I once found myself drinking in a tavern there when a man snatched my wallet and when I took it to the guards they merely shrugged and said be was a licensed thief, so naturally I went after him and broke every major bone in his body.
10 minutes later this redheaded young man and a huge stone gentleman armed with a siege weapon came after me and arrested me for assault.
What kind of a travesty of a justice system is that where one can’t even break a thief’s body?
You got off lucky. You could have used the “M word” in that tavern, and then we would have not been having this conversation.
My cosmography may be lacking, but if I recall that world lies near the edge of God Mammon’s portion of creation, does it not? In a far corner yet unconquered? I’m sure the adherents of the count will have much to say about licensed thievery once priest-clerks arrive in force. Though, given the war betwixt the Dragon and Mother Om, that world may yet lie untouched for some time…
Truthfully, I have little desire to travel there. Given the renown the locals heap upon the works of “Stupid-Blooded Johnson”, they seem to have no appreciation for actual beauty or inspiration. I would not waste the trip.
I actually got the chance to ask a priest about that.
He said “my man, we are not touching that world, we sent the last 121 and his unit down there and they got massacred by a geriatric barbarian and his posse, I shudder just to think how many we would have to send in order to actually get a hold on its finances, so we just hide its existence from the high priests”
It is somewhat wheel colored
The adept of the hidden arts knows the truth: Magic is Octarine.
Eldan Keraunomantis
But what good is the King’s magic if the peasant can’t see it?
Ysun loves the lies, the magic that can’t be seen and the names of the angels in their hollow bodies and the prophets that are wrong and the demiurge-kings who fight for their lifes. All of it is a Ysun lie, as Ysun himself is. And there’s no better lie than the one thet can’t be seen because it’s marked by a lack
Proper magic is blue and shiny and don’t let anyone tell you otherwise. What always powers magic? Mana. What color is mana? Blue. Bam, checkmate.
Unless it’s Red. Or Black. Or White. Or Green. Or Colorless, which is not a color.
Xerxes Aragon
Royal magic is purple.
1helios1
Giggity
Prince with a Thousand Enemies
Magic. Powered by Six billion levels of UST.
You’re assuming they haven’t been busy resolving it over the timeskip :P.
“Un, gobohIyo godo, kokohomo hU. Un, robo hUol U UrekeSozU ma UrokoSozU.
Fight. Carve your way through the life your were cursed to have. Dedicate yourself to yourself instead of godly decisions.
Fight. The story of yourself you desire, despite its unlikeliness, only comes from extending soulful fire into battle and extending furious emotions into battle.”
Twentysecond student of Bagoret – FBC 029
a spectator
hahaha man am I uncomfortable with a man writing this
pleasedontbeweirdpleasedontbeweirdpleasedontbeweird
2B’sWhistlingButthole
Seems like a silly comment for a comic about subverting gender roles. Girls can make creepy and cringe inducing stuff as well. My mind goes to all the horrible Harry Potter fanfics I’ve seen
Enigma of the Windy Peak
I am personally tentatively okay with Abbadon writing this, if nervous about how it could go wrong, but a spectator certainly has cause to be concerned, and calling that “silly” was pretty thoughtless. Yes, the comic has been good about gender so far, but that’s certainly not a guarantee of it continuing to be good. There’s so much cultural bullshit pushing and expecting men to be voyeuristic about queer women that it’s reasonable to be nervous. Even if you trust Abbadon’s intentions (which I do but which neither of us can verify) the default ways to represent queer women’s sexuality as someone who isn’t a queer woman are all already voyeuristic. Abbadon is going to have to walk a hell of a tightrope to not do that, and it’s perfectly reasonable to be worried that he can’t or won’t.
The fact that women can make creepy things is true but irrelevant to concerns about a man writing sexual tension between queer women. It’s not a contest where people of one gender being creepy makes different concerns about people of another gender being creepy less valid.
It is a touchy subject but Spectator’s comment marks the reason for their tentativeness as “Abaddon is a man”. While not explicit, it implies they would be more comfortable with a woman writing this. This preemptive judgement (aka prejudice) seems, like I said, a silly thing to bring up in the comments of a comic dealing with gender roles and confused romantic feelings.
Bringing up “woman do it too” is also quite relevant. Spectators fear is that a man is more likely to make it creepy than a woman, which is, again, silly. Women and men have equal ability to be creepy.
I understand the fear. I think a knee jerk exploration of that tension to be counter-productive to the message of the comic.
Thank you to everyone backing me up here.
I would like to point out that this guy’s name is literally “2B’sWhistlingButthole”. Showing your hand a bit early, no?
Let’s not forget that Abaddon has by his own admission also edited pages (00001’s splash panel for example) that were “too horny”. Other than that, the Friendly Enigma and Chimerical here have said everything I possibly could.
@Mythee
That’s lovely. I do appreciate the visibility of romance between women. However, it is undeniable that men often overstep when writing these relationships. I simply hope Abaddon does not.
Which hand? The hand that says I watched AngriestPat’s play through of Nier Automata on twitch and I found a joke that his girlfriend made about 2B running so fast and her butt is so big that her butthole whistles to be quite humorous? Because that’s the only hand my name shows
My problem with the original statement remains that you are calling out Abaddon’s gender as a contributor to the creep. My argument is that either gender has an equal chance of making this creepy. But this may just be a difference of opinion and I apologize if I upset anyone from my comments
I am happy we all agree that the tackling of this subject matter, when done right, is a good thing. The fact that is the subject itself makes people weary is all the more reason to address the issue
“My problem with the original statement remains that you are calling out Abaddon’s gender as a contributor to the creep.”
Well, I am sorry you feel that way. I am also sorry that we live in a world where men frequently fetishize lesbians/bisexual women, and that in this world this often filters through into the content they create.
Humans fetishize many things, and not just in a sexual manner. The fetishism I see from women towards gay/bisexual men is rather rampant in my home town (San Francisco). Not just in a sexual way (yaoi and such) but also in the idealized stereotype of the “Gay Friend”. It’s quite silly.
I am sorry for you though that the harsh realities of the world and the human condition has effected you in such a way that you cannot see past it. That your knee jerk reaction is one of prejudice to the point of having to express your concern. It’s similar in my mind as saying “I don’t know about having a male nanny” or “Girls can’t be hardcore gamers”. Having that mentality paints the work of the people around you in a judgemental light and makes it all the easier to see faults that might not even be there.
But that is my way of thinking. I apologize if it doesn’t conform to your way of thinking.
Chimerical
You sound passive-aggressive, Butthole. Spectator has concerns; they are legitimate concerns, though hopefully invalid in this specific case, and there’s nothing wrong with expressing them. Everyone’s perceptions are coloured by their own experiences, and to raise a concern is not to make an accusation. Yes, in an ideal world none of this stuff matters, but we’re all here in purgatory together, we’re entitled to address the stuff that is, it being so much more prevalent than the stuff that should be. Please don’t be offended by that. It’s kind of important that we’re able to mention our concerns, y’know?
I’ll admit I was rather passive aggressive in that previous post and I apologize. Closed minded views just grind my gears, even if it’s a closed minded view that I agree with. It is good to express concerns but it is also important to self reflect on those concerns and judge if they are legitimate.
Spectator, I don’t mean to call you closed minded either. You have views shaped by your expierencee and I am in no position to judge them. Do you at understand or at least accept my views?
I think it’s great for people of any gender and orientation to celebrate other peoples genders and orientations and write sex-positivity stories and all that!
WhistlingButthole: Most men are chill. Enough of us, disproportionate to the gender split, are NOT chill that it’s totally a legit concern. I like guys, and yes women can sometimes be a bit creepy about male-male relationships, but it’s just a fact of life that men are way more likely to be sexually creepy than women, enough that you’d be a bit leery about it potentially spoiling an otherwise good comic. It’s not silly, it’s empirical.
abaddon has given me literally no reason to suspect any creepy or weird inclinations, and i say this as a gay woman pretty finely tuned to this
like, we all have the kneejerk reaction but its been like literal months with nothing bad so its pretty wild to have this reaction NOW instead of when they had their first kiss
It’s pretty wild to assume I never took issue with earlier panels of the comic. See my comment where I reference ABADDON HIMSELF stating he had to edit panels for being “too horny”.
As Enigma stated earlier:
“There’s so much cultural bullshit pushing and expecting men to be voyeuristic about queer women that it’s reasonable to be nervous. Even if you trust Abbadon’s intentions (which I do but which neither of us can verify) the default ways to represent queer women’s sexuality as someone who isn’t a queer woman are all already voyeuristic. Abbadon is going to have to walk a hell of a tightrope to not do that, and it’s perfectly reasonable to be worried that he can’t or won’t.”
Tonatiub
You just cant ever win with people like you, if he didnt include any suggestive stuff then you would be complaining about their relationship being “invisible”, then you go somewhere else and complain about the lack of lgbt representation
“People like you” if this is basically calling me an “SJW” I feel like you’ve come to the wrong comic.
Regardless, it is perfectly fine to critique content. Even if it is content you like!
Torabi
It often feels like the men who are trying to do the right thing aren’t rewarded for taking the risks they do, and instead are under intense pressure, and receive intense criticism for every minor misstep. It should come as no surprise that many decide it’s better not to try at all, and instead just cater to the dominant society, which will reward and defend them for catering to them.
We should all strive to be better, and both give and receive constructive criticism in good faith. Preemptive fearmongering, however, is not constructive criticism. Pointing out where someone has room to improve does not need to be delivered in a condescending fashion, and an attitude of “I expect to be disappointed” seems likely to be self-fulfilling.
“It often feels like the men who are trying to do the right thing aren’t rewarded for taking the risks they do.”
I take issue with the idea that men should be rewarded for not depicting women in a fetishizing manner. This isn’t a “risk” they are taking, it’s simply doing the bare minimum of not propagating misogyny. (Which, again…Abaddon has already gone back and edited pages for being “too horny”, although he really should have just come out and said it was sexist instead of brushing it off with a meme like that.)
“and instead are under intense pressure, and receive intense criticism for every minor misstep.”
All the criticism on this topic has been perfectly reasonable, honestly. If we can’t simply say “I am uncomfortable with this”, we have already lost.
“It should come as no surprise that many decide it’s better not to try at all, and instead just cater to the dominant society, which will reward and defend them for catering to them.”
This is putting the cart before the horse. Remember that dominant society is, well, men. Men often default to depicting women in unflattering ways to begin with because they are catering TO MEN. They should not be coddled because otherwise they may be too scared to not have women dance around naked in whatever medium they are making content in.
“Preemptive fearmongering, however, is not constructive criticism. Pointing out where someone has room to improve does not need to be delivered in a condescending fashion, and an attitude of “I expect to be disappointed” seems likely to be self-fulfilling.”
Believe me, I was more than excited to see the romance between Allison and Cio flourish. I have a reasonable amount of worry that it may take a less respectable turn.
It would be “preemptive fearmongering” if, again, ABADDON HIMSELF had not already corrected previous pages, and if we did not have a long trend of men depicting women and especially women who love each other as sex toys. Please do some research on the topic or read up on what women have to say about misogyny in media.
You’re ignoring the motives and pressures that shape people’s behavior, and focusing on what ought to be, without regard to what is, or how we can get from one to the other. Most people are not as moral as we’d like to believe, and do not do the right thing for its own sake — they do what society rewards, and avoid what society punishes.
So yes, not conforming to a society that propogates misogyny is taking a risk. Even more so when the other side will drop-kick you for the slightest misstep, for not sufficiently defying everything they’ve been taught their whole lives about how to act.
Your original comment said nothing about Abaddon or his prior work, and how it informed your discomfort. You just made a blanket statement, implying that any man would be incapable of writing this well, or at least unlikely to. That only serves to perpetuate the problem, because it discourages men from trying to be better.
I guess the question is which is more important to you: for men to behave better, or to not take any responsibility for creating that future, being content to express your disappointment from atop your high horse.
I want the world to change, and I’d rather find what works and do it, rather than complain that it shouldn’t have to be that way. Just because I don’t buy into your worldview does not make me uninformed or uneducated.
William Knowles
This the type of person you chose to pander to, Abby. I think you’ll regret it. Cunt.
Wha- lewd!
Red Sugar
I am excited to experience the magic system alongside Allison.
Also, nice hair, Cio!
Griffin the Coward
Magic always scared me a little.
Yeah, I FUCKING KNEW IT! >D Learning the Art with Cio – that’s EXACTLY what I have expected since probably the page 2-25 of this book.
Starlit Witch
Herbalism is often considered the most mundane of the arts. The unfortunate truth is — despite having such a broad array of possible effects that would otherwise require the practitioner to be impossibly multidisciplinary, and further having numerous unique effects of its own that have no known method of replication by any other means — in the end it still involves a certain amount of patience, sweat, and a willingness to touch the world with your own physical hands.
These requirements are considered by many to be unglamorous, but in fact they are rewarding in their own right. Without patience, who can know the joy of watching a six-year seed bear fruit in its due time? Without sweat, who can know that they are truly incarnate and not merely lost somewhere within their own mind? Without touch-
Ah. Hm. We may have to continue this at a later time.
Yes! For a long time I have wanted to write a story that contains all sorts of magical specialties, but in the end the Master Herbal kicks everybody else’s ass!
pages came from passage now shut:
the saint, the judge, anonymous but
I know you’ll like cio’s haircut
Absolutely no innuendo of any kind
Johnny S
OMG! Mr. Furley was listening through the wall & you should have seen his face.
(mach speed eyebrow wiggling)
Classic bait and switch, well played Abbadon.
Whoooo Red Raiders! Red black and white! Guns up!
Unmaker
Guess: white = creation, black = destruction
With red being change, that would be a balanced set.
Wouldn’t that violate the first law of thermodynamics?
(^\\^)
Anything worth doing violates some law or another!
tronntronn
This framing, this misleading framing!
Derisyan
Everybody making MtG jokes and I’m sitting here giddy because it was a reference to the stages of the philosopher stone of alchemy.
This is also true. Very good, friend Derisyan. You will achieve True Gold yet.
Well-caught, Derisyan. I see you are a fellow student. But why begin with Rubedo, when that is a late step in the process, and not the first? Is Abaddon playing with us to subvert our expectations, or showing us a hidden truth?
452 Penitent Reclaimer
All human languages have a word for white (light colours), a word for black (dark colours), and a word for red, all other colours are linguistic and cognitive creations from cultures that needed to further clarify and classify.
Good news: I have successfully stolen an access card for supreme deluxe premium commenting privileges. My new life as an elevator pickpocket is paying off. But I’ve noticed a sickening feeling inside me. My blood – my red, organic, nonmetallic beggar’s blood – is coming back. Soon my heart will be pumping this peasant’s liquid through veins that once carried gold! I despair at the very thought!
I wish Cio could teach me the Red Art; anything to make my blood shine and burn as it once did.
Hrmm… I trust you were able to retain your orichalcum heart? A while back I happened on a golden heart in the stacks of a shade-side tinker’s market stall. Turned out to be just a brass chachki, but it made me wonder.
Indeed I was, for the most part. However, I needed to remove most of the jewelry encrusted on the various valves and axles, so it is in danger of falling apart if I don’t bring it in for maintenance. If I’m crafty about it and play it cool, I might just be able to steal someone else’s heart in my usual elevator. I hear a lot of songs about people having their heart stolen, surely that’s what it means right?
Good to see you back on your feet, Mister Draco. And thank you for informing me of your profession. I’ll know not to use the elevators while on Throne.
Then again, I’d probably avoid them anyway. Stair Thieves and Pusher Assassins are easier to dodge than Elevator Thieves and Elevator Assassins. There’s more room the maneuver.
Or I could just fly or slow fall. But that magic isn’t necessarily what I want to expend willy nilly. Might need them later.
The Heliophage of Arhra Mazda
I am baffled no one noticed or mentioned the fact that colors align neatly with one of the oldest and most venerable of fantasies. The Final Fantasy.
White Mages, Black Mages, Red Mages.
I am excited, much like that pure raw potential magic, to see what it will become.
Oldest? Thou art ignorant, my friend, Dragonlance used such a classification several years before the very first FF was created.
And, as was already stated, this colours really go as far back as to alchemy and stages of the Philosopher’s Stone creation. Quite older stuff, really,
Haha, male gaze joke AND fan service for the shipwrights in the same comic – not bad, home-dawg, not bad.
You told your mamma I’d get you home
But you didn’t say I was a car >.>
Laterz
I said it’s alright, You know it’s alright
I guess it’s all in my heart
You’ll be my only, my one and only
Is that the way it should start?
Led Zeppelin, nice choice.
I love this comic.
Small reminder; Fire has no allies
Well yeah, if you take that attitude. I know plenty of magicians who practice animism and/or Contract Magic, who have literally made themselves allies to fire. First thing most such contractors extract from flame is a promise not to burn them. Even arcanists are known to make such pacts, even if pacts aren’t their primary magical study, simply for this benefit.
Me, I prefer to make agreements with airy spirits. Many are content to work with me in return for a song. Literally. I’m told my singing has gotten very good, since beginning my studies.
Without the power of friendship, fire tends to sputter out on its own.
Earth can be used to contain and concentrate the intensity. Air to stir and feed it. Water to keep the users refreshed and protected.
GorrK
Does anyone else feel that the sexual tension between Cio and Allison is a little shoehorned? Seems nothing more than fan service and it’s taking away from their character
It is a bit over the top and super fanservicey. :/
Cio is a:
*nonhuman
*fanfiction writer
*recovering murderqueen
*try-sexual (yab seemed like she’d try anything)
*part-time criminal/burglar/thief
*small portion of the chaotic black flame
*hiding behind a mask to avoid burning her friends
*some sort of fan-fiction writing author self-insert
*who is known for doing her own self-insert characters
*who was also known for letting her crush on Allison leak all over the pages with those self-inserts
*not even remotely a human and thus totally not required to conform to positive human lesbian norms
*teensy bit outside the typical range of what one might think a purely lesbian human would be attracted to
Oh, did I forget to mention she’s literally an author self-insert so he can write fan-fiction about his own universe INSIDE that universe and use that self-insert’s self-insert to play around and ship characters HE COULD JUST DECLARE ARE TOGETHER because he is a wonderfully strange guy painting a wonderfully strange story for us and instead of getting mad at him for not being a gay woman we might have more fun enjoying the story we’ve been watching unfurl for years?
I cannot agree.
I feel like it ties very nicely into both of their characters. I think we have a lot of foreshadowing that Allison is gay and in deep denial, and a lot of this story is about Allison discovering herself.
On the other hand, Cio has a lot of trouble letting people into her life, and the tension between that and her attraction to Allison (which was foreshadowed *early*) is a big part of her character.
Tyramisu
Ok, who else hears [i]Unchained Melody[/i] plying in the background?
This page is awfully horny. You should censor it, asshole. Fuck you.
ah, so the scribe has good taste and invokes the hammer of the gods.
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“Many great men ask me why I keep such numerous, rare, and expensive flowers in my palace. This is to warn me of the habits of weak kings. A king should always be attentive to his flowers, and keep a great number of them. If he does not pay his servants enough to take care of them, they will pluck some in secret, and sell them in the market. If his servants do not care enough for their master or their service, they will willfully neglect his flowers, and they will die. If he forces his servants to water the flowers out of fear, the delicate flowers will be overwatered and they will die. If he keeps lavish flowers, he must educate his servants sufficiently to take care of them, or they will die. A king with wilted flowers, or no flowers at all is not worth trusting. This is the first measure I take of my rival lords.”
– Au Vam, Pankrator of Vesh, the Yellow City
That’s ok. I forget to water mine too
Also, I would’nt be too worried about the sangers ahead, you’ve got inch-thick plot armour.
So not a reader of game of thrones?
No, it hasnt been published yet back here in the early Cretaceous period. Heck, Africa haven’t even split from South America, but we’ve got some quite nice ferns, and a pretty hefty broad band connection.
Chawunky
You guys got flowers where you are yet?
Well yes, we actually just had these pretty rad amborellas and figs moving into the neighbourhood and the flying insects are going absolutely crazy. It’s like a whole new ecological niche. Some of the old farts say that they’re the harbingers of the endtimes, but I have absolutely no idea what they are on about, crazy old dinosaurs
okay I never comment here but I just wanna say I enjoyed this thread
Answers in Metaphor 37
I get it Allison. I’ve killed many a plant by forgetting but the ones I intentionally forget are always the ones that take over the garden.
The plants on Allison’s windowsill never get anything but dusk light. How can they survive on that?
It took me a minute to realize that Cio was genuinely concerned about the state of Allison’s plants and not making a double entendre.
TwoPynts
I guess that works both ways.
I feel like what Allison is going through is a lack of humanity, spending most of one’s time learning from other species is not entirely good for one’s health.
I once spent 5 years training with a gold devil, sure my fists could go through rock by the time we parted ways but I had to battle compulsive kleptomania and some serious urges to backstab (literally and figuratively) my friends and allies for months afterwards.
Still, old Ozgun, for all his murderous mischief is always going to be dear to me.
Gift Fastidious
I suppose, then, that it could be time for Alison to spend some time learning from Nyave?
I suspect Murder the gods and topple their thrones to be the next most likely suspect. One of the seven would be a good choice but they are all afraid to upset the balance leaving the mercenaries free to do as they will.
Intermark
is it just me or has the lighting changed? I though throne’s sun machine was broke
actually nevermind, my brain machine broke
Understandable. Have a nice diurnal anomaly.
A Very Lost Traveller
It had been many ages of travel before I myself had settled with the partner I share children with.
Allison too after this year has developed her tastes and opened herself up to the oneness of the world. It can be shaking when you come from a land that traditionally upholds so many narrow minds.
I will one day return to my children and the Partner with which I share them.
32 Adroit Inveigler Misleads Truth
Oh my god. They had Secks.
anathematic
Within the skull of an ages-dead god.
How metal can you get for your first time, though?
I feel the same as Allison but I don’t have a key of kings jammed into my head or a retinue of an angels and devils.
Those things are but trappings, ephemeral things to be cast off or clung to as desired. That feeling is real and needs no instrumentation to be meaningful. You are no less an actor for lack of a bauble. Royalty is easily attained by those who do not seek it.
Yeah, well, I guess a little anxiety is to be expected when the seven most powerful beings on the multiverse are out for your blood.
In other news, I love how each of the four top-right panels has its little window frame and sill. Nice touch ^^
But Allison. There is something out there, waiting. Seven somethings, in fact.
Possesses 67 Hamsters
What has Allison heard about “her” prophecy? I doubt that Mottom filled her in completely.
It wasn’t really Mottom that filled her in. It was Xos. And Incubus to an extent. He says something along the lines of “you’re the true heir” and Allison says “yeah.”
34 Critic Points Out Aristic Possiblity
It seems to me that it would have been more graceful to just transition directly from “lessons with cio, to this scene”. Sure you miss the beat about magic, but overall I think it works better tonally. Food for thought at the very least.
Ah, angelic flame. So appreciative of pattern, and yet so incapable of registering it in process.
You have seen the Creation of Solomon David, and the way in which it has ensnared him. Witness now the Rising King, and her creation, and the way in which she risks being ensnared.
Recall his anxious monologue on the subject of the desire to seek Royalty, the desire he denies, for the sake of what he has made. And behold the Rising King, who shall face the seven-headed beast, and overcome it, and speaks of feeling the same pull.
That one of its faces is the Beast With Two Backs, well. As the Emerald Physician once so memorably said, “it do be like that sometimes.”
He Who Stands Alone Against The Wind
I think your suggestion would work, but the exchange between Allison and Cio just before this page is a fairly significant character point.
Allison has gone from being an unsure, awkward, nervous girl who was bowing to social pressure with her sexuality (page 1) to a woman who is confident and at ease in her new home, at ease with herself, and who has taken control of her own sexuality, on her terms.
And Cio – a freaking devil – has gone from taking whatever she wants as Yabalochoath to waiting until her partner not just consents, but *requests*.
Skip the previous page, and we miss all that. It’s only distantly implied in the not-a-training montage, and given how we meet Allison’s character on page 1, not getting that part of her character arc is a disservice.
The story would, most definitely, work without it. It’s much better with it.
Ten to one sez that lesson’s necessary setup for later. Putting Chekov’s gun on the wall, as it were.
Also, “do as thou wilt” ^^ Of course a demon would say that.
SlimSlamShoddy
“Love is the law, love under will.”
Never forget that portion
Oh, I didn’t forget it. And by the looks of it, neither did Cio ;3
An it harm none…
And the Auryn. (Neverending story. Spoiler: the wisdom of doing as thou are willing, is not using your powers for personal gains if they have no real meaning, in the end)
The Great Beast
Actualy, this line already appeared in comic – it was said by Big Goddamn Idiot Bad Man, back there in the vault. “We devils have one rule, me lovely… Do as thou wilt” (c) So Crowley is here for a long time.
True. I forgot about that one.
Alright, time to Succumb to a Fit of Whimsy! It’s these two, these two who have brought it on! These two are s o c u t e, I could d i e
76 Penitent Gravesinger Mourns the Forsaken
sometimes you just gotta stare out ur window w ur tiddies out, its like therapeutic or something
“I know I was hurt because I’m still in pain.
I was cut me deep.
I know I was hurt because I have scars to show for it,
But scars only show when one heals,
And I refused to bleed out.”
Twentyfourth student of Bagoret – FBC 099
64 storm assaults citadel
Gods I feel guilty for being lonely
motorfirebox
So… a lot of people in the comments seem to think this relationship came out of nowhere. That it wasn’t built up over time. These people are incorrect. They are of course welcome to their opinions on whether or not it was built well, but it was built.
There is a lot of evidence for this, but most of it can be summed up by Seeker of Thrones 9-114 (k6bd/comic/seeker-of-thrones-9-114/)
The book Allison is holding is Cio’s fanfiction. Cio threw the book away when she agreed to help Allison rob Yre. Allison kept it. That’s so straightforward it’s almost a trope: Allison loves Cio, at the very least as a friend. And Cio’s love for Allison was made obvious when she agreed to help Allison rob Yre. (It was obvious before that, but that’s probably the most concrete example.)
At Yre, Allison and Cio fell out because Allison put her quest over Cio’s desire to escape her old ways. This falling out culminated in the events of the linked page. Again, this is so straightforward it’s almost a trope: after trying to deny their feelings for each other, and realizing just how awful things are without each other, they both finally open up to each other.
Allison isn’t straight, as was made pretty clear in the first few pages, when she showed absolutely zero desire to have sex with her boyfriend. Allison being the self-repressive basket case she is, she never admitted even to herself that she might be queer. Her moment with Cio at Yre finally cracked that wall. Allison tried a few times to patch the wall back together (see previous statement, re: basketcase), but as they left Yre, Allison finally let herself feel what she was feeling, and asked Cio out on a date.
This relationship has been built, brick by brick, over the course of almost this entire comic. This comic has a lot going on, so it’s entirely possible to miss stuff like that. Heck, I certainly missed it my first readthrough. But it’s absolutely there.
Cio also wrote erotic self-insert fiction in the book she’s writing about Allison, which is ludicrously clear in its augury.
Erotic self-insert fiction written by a queer flesh-eating monster pretending to be a little woman self-insert is the weirdest fanfic category I’ve heard of so far.
Less sanity-rending than Mpreg, at least.
8 Petal Dropped in Water Confesses the Faith
Honestly, Cio started getting hot-and-bothered pretty much immediately upon seeing Allison. The way she acted when they were reunited in the void suggests she wanted romance even then.
That was meant to be a reply to motorfirebox, by the way. I can’t tell if it came out that way.
Yeah, the signs were there from way back.
Water your damn plants, Allison. They’re counting on you.
Also, you two need bath robes. I, too, used to walk about in front of upper floor windows scarcely clad until a passing stranger on the street below whooped at me, making me realize I wasn’t as…hidden…as I felt I was. Made me wonder how many other people I had given a show over the years.
I suppose I can take solace in the fact that it was a “woo!” and not a “yuck!”.
Epsilon 🌹
To be fair, most of the people she’d be giving a show probably aren’t human and if anyone ever made it an issue, well … Do you want to pick a fight with the devil or the rising king, because you’re about to get both.
Maybe they’re into that, Xibalba?
Dark clouds always loom on the horizon. You will never be ready. You never can be ready. You can only be… enough.
I feel the same, Allisonr. My blood is different, my heart is changed, my skin begins to crack, and I don’t even have a home anymore. Just an elevator where I steal things. Were it not for my body’s inhuman tolerance for metals and the abundance of bite-sized metal chunks in the elevator, I would be long dead.
I too feel some small measure of comfort from my situation. My entire life has been saturated with limitless wealth. The moment of my birth, one million lotteries were won. But now that I am outside of the realm of fortune, I can see truly what my hoard truly amounted to, compared to the average breathing thing.
It wasn’t enough. And now that I know true hunger, I fear that even if I get it all back, it never will be enough.
In the face of adversity you forsake the way of wrath and trod the path of insight. You are now more than you were. More yet awaits you this way. But beware this path of want lest you too follow the example of YISUN’s favorite student and seek to understand the hidden name of god before you are ready.
Cut to Solomon David and/or his “guest”.
(Also, those are some very wise words about plants and responsibility.)
42 Agony of the Final Question
This is good. This is a good page.
AL-YISUN has undergone many changes in brief times, and even years are not enough to understand the depths of one’s own psyche. as stated by others, unsettled feelings are to be expected when many powerful beings quest for one’s blood.
Quantumshard
I really can’t figure out what Cio’s ‘skin’ is supposed to be like. At first I thought I was looking at her clothes, something like an armored bodysuit made out of discarded shells. Now she looks almost insectile, with rubbery, flexible skin showing between the plates at the joints. Does she have an almost-shell, flexible, mottled and with little spikes and bone deposits?
Formless chaos given form.
Given form by the will of men. The devils look like that because, on some level, that is how we believe they ought to look. They reflect the mask and names we give them. May the gods help our sick and twisted race.
Devils seem fairly casual about form and structure, I imagine that much as she can gain about five feet of height and considerable mass simply by being blown up and peeved about it, her skin likely changes in accordance with her moods and the moment. Over the course of the story It seems to me the color and texture of her skin has changed in subtle and a few alarmingly unsubtle ways.
Orcra
I’ve oft noticed that every time I do indulge thyself into much drink, a new revelation comes hither.
“Do as thou wilt”. It reminds me of the inscription on the back of the Auryn, the amulet in Michael Ende’s Neverending Story. Tu Was Du Willst.
The story is about a boy who travels to a fantasy world and slowly realizes he loses his identity there, much like Allison’s dilemma in this comic page.
The instruction to do what you want can be interpreted as “go ahead, have fun and do whatever you want,” but it can also be taken to mean responsibility: make that which you find truly important, reality.
24 Knight Declares The Doom Of Creation
IT SEEMS THE LITTLE DEVIL HAS, FOR ALL HER HARD-WON WISDOM, YET TO UNDERSTAND P U R P O S E, AND THE LONGING ALL THE CHILDREN OF CREATION LESS INUNDATED WITH THE BLACK FLAME FEEL FOR IT.
IT IS PURPOSE THAT CREATED US, PURPOSE THAT PULLS US, THAT GUIDES US, THAT DRIVES US. IT IS THE REASON THAT SENDS ME OUT TO RESTPRE THE L A W, ONCE AS A KNIGHT OF ROOTS AND NOW AS A KNIGHT OF THORNS. AND IT IS THE BANE OF MORTAL HUMANS WHEN THEY LACK IT.
AND THE RISING KING, FOR ALL HER NEW STRENGTH, IS LACKING IN PURPOSE.
Aldura Rising, Prince Without A Throne
I really dig the panels in the top right being the window frame, that’s some clever paneling right there.
Beams of light illuminate
but without shimmering frustrate
the king has yet to coronate
alaiziadarkstar
KILL SIX BILLION DEMONS!…..more like LAY WITH ONE SPECIFIC DEMON AM I RIGHT!?
six billion times!
Le petit mort.
Poor Allison. There’s a lot on her shoulders…
I love Cio’s enthusiasm though, haha!
Them’s mighty buff shoulders, though.
Last panel reminded me: “You know, this metaphoric stuff… it realy hurts” (c) Alan Moore, “Promethea”. I wonder whether Abbadon is familiar with this masterpice. It also has quite a bunch of Crowley references, by the way.
A light that burned, blossomed in my breast; my body cracked. Yet even with these faults, rimed in gold, burning, cast anew. My soul remains asunder; cast askew. I am that I am. What I do.
BACK WHEN I BEDDED THE AMAZON QUEEN OF KOLOSTRA
IM SCREAMING
I LOVE CIO
Au Vam has an interesting take on things, but I’m not sure I agree with him.
First, it seems like he spends a lot of time, money, and energy taking care of flowers than add nothing to his city, except to promote their owners sense of vanity. I’d rather focus on the farmers, merchants, and soldiers, or you’ll be watering your garden right up until the moment an enemy breaks down your door or your citizens revolt.
Second, it seems like waving a big flag around advertising what kind of person you are. Frankly, I’d rather than my enemies live in doubt, so they can’t attempt to plan around my personality. Allies too, in fact, since you can never be certain when one will become the other.
May I be so bold as to suggest you try a fine mask. They hide everything from your enemies except that you are the type of person who wears a mask, and are much less expensive than farmers, merchants, soldiers, or even flowers.
You also can never be certain when an enemy may become an ally.
A frequent user of the elevator I steal from, a consecrate accountant of the Anointed Order, kicks me into the corner when he sees me, and so I treat him with contempt. That is, he did until recently. One day he had a change of heart, and instead of kicking me, he shared his oil-bread with me. As we talked he revealed to me that he had been observing my contempt for him, and determined that my level of contempt was perfect for the ranks of the consecrate accountants. Not quite the Bank of the Grand Dragon, but it would be a decent vehicle back into the sphere of the wealthy and powerful.
However, as I thanked him for considering me for the position, I had become too thankful, a trait that was forbidden in the Anointed Order, and so he carved the logo of the local Anointed chapter into my marble-flesh. He no longer uses my elevator. I have lost a significant portion of my theft income.
-From the Book of the Void-
“People in this World look at things mistakenly, and think that what they do not understand must be the void. This is not the true void. It is bewilderment.
In the Way of Strategy also, those who study as warriors think that whatever they cannot understand in their craft is the void. This is not the true void.
To attain the way of Strategy as a warrior you must study fully other martial arts and not deviate even a little from the Way of the warrior. With your spirit settled, accumulate practice day by day, and hour by hour. Polish the two fold spirit heart and mind, and sharpen the two fold gaze perception and sight.
When your spirit is not the least bit clouded, when the clouds of bewilderment clear away, there is the true void.”
– Shinmen Musashi- “A Book of Five Rings” 1645
A Big Old Skeleton
As someone who has undergone a similar transformation (which is to say, moved to a foreign land and got into a shape other than a bag of garbage left in a corner) and has had said transformation bring on some kind of identity crisis, man, panel 6 is the biggest fucking mood right now.
Lady Redfingers
Cio is not very good at “casual”.
Devils are nothing if not intense.
DrunkenNunStumbles
Oh my Teagan and Sara! *faints*
Gaubou
Yeah Alison. His name is Zaid
You think she’ll end up fighting him?
Considering that Zaid is under Bigbeards tutelage and probably being groomed to fight in that yearly tournament. I imagine we might see Zaid as a foil to Allison at least, if not Allison using magic and Burning Fingers to fight a Ki Rata trained Zaid.
Robot Face
Just finished getting through this whole comic, I love it! I can’t wait to see where it goes!
Hrmm… Locket and chain. Don’t recall seeing that before. Didn’t have it at the beginning, so she musta picked it up here. Gift from Cio, maybe?
39 BROKEN CALCULATORS ESCAPE ANOTHER QUINARY VESSEL
.OUT BODY IS NOT OURS_
.THIS DOES NOT MAKE US ONE WITH THE KING_
.WE LACK A FACE_
.OUR HOUSE IS A FALSE NUMBER OF BIRDS_
>ERROR: // :DYSPH0R1A_
and they were roommates
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WI’s Voter ID Law Suppressed 200,000 Votes in 2016 (Trump Won By 22,748)
by mar • May 9th 2017
Prior to the 2016 election, Eddie Lee Holloway Jr., a 58-year-old African-American man, moved from Illinois to Wisconsin, which implemented a strict voter-ID law for the first time in 2016. He brought his expired Illinois photo ID, birth certificate, and Social Security card to get a photo ID for voting in Wisconsin, but the DMV in Milwaukee rejected his application because the name on his birth certificate read “Eddie Junior Holloway,” the result of a clerical error when it was issued. Holloway ended up making seven trips to different public agencies in two states and spent over $200 in an attempt to correct his birth certificate, but he was never able to obtain a voter ID in Wisconsin. Before the election, his lawyer for the ACLU told me he was so disgusted he left Wisconsin for Illinois.
Holloway’s story was sadly familiar in 2016. According to federal court records, 300,000 registered voters, 9 percent of the electorate, lacked strict forms of voter ID in Wisconsin. A new study by Priorities USA, shared exclusively with The Nation, shows that strict voter-ID laws, in Wisconsin and other states, led to a significant reduction in voter turnout in 2016, with a disproportionate impact on African-American and Democratic-leaning voters. Wisconsin’s voter-ID law reduced turnout by 200,000 votes, according to the new analysis. Donald Trump won the state by only 22,748 votes.
The study compared turnout in states that adopted strict voter-ID laws between 2012 and 2016, like Wisconsin, to states that did not.
While states with no change to voter identification laws witnessed an average increased turnout of +1.3% from 2012 to 2016, Wisconsin’s turnout (where voter ID laws changed to strict) dropped by -3.3%. If turnout had instead increased by the national no-change average, we estimate that over 200,000 more voters would have voted in Wisconsin in 2016.
This reduction in turnout particularly hurt Hillary Clinton’s campaign.
The lost voters skewed more African-American and more Democrat. For example, Wisconsin’s 2016 electorate was 6.1% more Republican, and 5.7% less Democrat, than the group of ‘lost voters’. Furthermore, the WI electorate was 3.7% more White and 3.8% less African American than the group of ‘lost voters.’ This analysis suggests that the 200,000 lost voters would have both been more racially diverse and have voted more Democratic.
Source: [The Nation]
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Ford Fiesta – still brilliant in a high-tech Britain
THE future can hang on a minute.
I know that we’re supposed to boldly sailing – on a solar-powered catamaran, presumably – into a brave new world of lab-grown, meat-free burgers delivered by drones, but right now there’s still a McDonalds on every busy road and a JD Wetherspoon in virtually every town centre. Your whole life can be conducted on Android and yet sales of vinyl records are up year-on-year. Perhaps most pertinently, for all the talk that electric cars and automation are the future, last time I looked the decidedly analogue Ford Fiesta was still Britain’s best-selling new car.
At the moment all the muttering is about how the humble supermini is about to embrace zero-emissions motoring. Renault’s Zoe has been chipping away at this bit of the market for a while (don’t worry, the Clio’s still very much available), but Vauxhall is being brave and launching its Corsa in all-electric form first, and it’s a similar story for Peugeot’s latest 208.
But while there is a plug-in hybrid Fiesta on the way the current range depends on a blend of rather more familiar petrol and turbodiesel engines, and it feels all the better for it. It’s as bit like Liam Gallagher – yes, it’s the same old act, and yet only last weekend it was good enough to headline Glastonbury.
I know because last weekend I spent 700 miles thumping up and down the British road network in a Zetec-spec EcoBoost – and couldn’t, with the exception of three very minor moans, couldn’t knock it. With the current Fiesta, introduced 18 months ago, it feels like you sit on the seats rather than in them, it still lacks mid-range thump in one-litre form, and on the motorway the ride’s a bit more fidgety than I’d ideally like, but that’s about it. In other respect Ford’s taken what it had with the 2009-era Fiesta, revisited absolutely everything, and quietly made it better rather than reinventing the wheel.
So while the turbocharged three cylinder engine still revels in a few revs to get results, it managed to average a fairly hefty fifty to the gallon – and I wasn’t on any sort of eco run. On the motorways it was long-legged enough to make light work of a voyage to Scotland and back – and when it wasn’t it could still entertain me on the B-roads, offering just enough feedback through its chunky, three-spoke steering wheel. Even the little things won me over; plenty of superminis integrate their stereo systems into a touchscreen system these days but the Fiesta gives you old-fashioned buttons beneath it as well, so you could flick between Joy Division and The Cure without losing the sat nav.
I suspect the reason the Ford Fiesta, even when every other new car is a crossover, electric car or plug-in hybrid, is still Britain’s biggest seller is because it’s ruddy good at what it does. The Suzuki Swift might match it when comes to generating grins, VW’s Polo has a more premium feel and the Fiat 500 is a lot more charming, but it’s tricky to think of a better all-rounder.
Posted in News, Opinion and tagged Android, Catamaran, Clio, crossover, Drone, EcoBoost, Electric Car, Fiat 500, ford, Ford Fiesta, Glastonbury, hybrid, JD Wetherspoon, Liam Gallagher, motorways, Renault Zoe, Solar-Power, suzuki swift, Vauxhaull, VW Polo, Zetec on 17/07/2019 by David Simister. Leave a comment
Drive the new Volkswagen Polo? I’d rather take it jogging
I’VE LONG suspected that jogging is just a sweatier form of walking. I’ll cheerily wave at people powering past on yet another 10k, but I’m quite content that simply strolling to the nearest pub is exercise aplenty.
But then a colleague – who’s practically taken me on as some sort of flabby protégé – insisted I give it a go. Worryingly, I’ve found this whole moving quickly without a car lark to be surprisingly good fun.
I feel better for myself after every run, and I’m already beginning to see the results on my waistline. The idea is that I’ll get fitter, build up my speed and stamina – and then I’ll invite the new Volkswagen Polo along too, because boy does it need it.
By the looks of things Germany’s supermini of choice has been spent too long watching The Jeremy Kyle show with a can of Stella in one hand and a freshly cooked Fray Bentos in the other. By Volkswagen’s own admission it’s taller and wider than the outgoing model, and bumper-to-bumper it’s 94mm longer, which is like going up three waist sizes in car terms. What’s more the latest press packs favourably compare its dimensions to how big the Golf was in the Nineties but don’t mention weight once, presumably because the Polo’s scared of stepping on the scales and screaming in horror.
Which is a shame, because while the new Polo looks like the Golf (which is a good thing) and builds on 2009’s European Car of the Year (ditto), it’s getting increasingly hard to relate to it as a small car. The gap between the new boy and the pint-sized Up is bigger than you’d imagine.
But then the Polo isn’t the only one looking a tad porky these days. The other day I had a nose around Nissan’s new Micra and it is vast compared to the lovably cute bubble-shaped ones learner drivers used to have crashes in, and while I love the looks of Renault’s latest Clio I had to conclude the 900cc engine in the one I borrowed felt a bit strained because it’s a far bigger car than its predecessors. Virtually all of today’s superminis are blobbier than they used to be – very few are lighter, smaller or nimbler.
But I can guarantee that while small cars have got bigger the multi-storey at the Concourse in Skelmersdale hasn’t expanded, and nor have any of Southport’s parking spaces. If you really do need to squeeze into those awkwardly tight spaces outside supermarkets, you’d be better off slipping down a size and buying something like Ford’s Ka+.
That or jog down to the shops
Posted in News, Opinion and tagged Clio, European Car of the Year, Exercise, ford, Fray Bentos, Germany, Golf, Jogging, Ka+, Micra, nissan, Polo, renault, skelmersdale, southport, Supermini, Up, volkswagen on 28/06/2017 by David Simister. Leave a comment
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LIFT Seasonal Screening Series: Experimental
The Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto (LIFT) is pleased to present
the 2019 Seasonal Screening Series: Experimental
Toronto, June 18, 2019—Member screenings have been an essential part of the Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto’s nearly forty-year history. From screenings at the defunct experimental cinema The Funnel in the 1980s to Trash Palace and the Art Gallery of Ontario’s Jackman Hall even board meetings—exhibition has been just as important as production for LIFT and our membership.
In 2018, we supported over 1,000 projects. Everything from student films to features, installations and festivals. But it is rare for us to be able to share what our members are creating. Last year was LIFT’s last Round Up at Hot Docs Ted Rogers Cinema. In its place, we wanted to create an event for practicing artists and curious audiences to come together and celebrate the diversity of visions that make up our membership.
On July 9, 2019 LIFT’s Seasonal Screening Series is set to return to Niagara Custom Labs for our second screening dedicated to recent experimental works. Earlier this April the series was kicked off with a spotlight on documentaries. Later this year there will screenings showcasing narrative shorts and music videos produced by LIFT members. At each of these screenings of member works there will be a special archive film alongside the recently completed projects and works in progress.
Curated by Cayley James, Justine McCloskey and Sally Walker-Hudecki.
A Year, Dir. Nick White, 2018
An examination of the natural textures of the world and their beautifully dramatic changes over the course of a year.
And By the Night, Dir. Anna Kipervaser, 2017
After a period of no revelations, Surah al-Duha was revealed to Prophet Muhammad, stating that God had neither forsaken nor forgotten him. And to be patient. The film is also a response to the filmmaker’s abortion.
A-5H1, Dir. Paz Ramirez Larrain and Laura Acosta, 2018
A-5H1 is a video performance piece that demonstrates tension between corporality and territoriality throughout a series of public interventions turning quotidian places of transit into surreal stages. It presents three large plastic structures, which contain, and are manipulated by, a body that traverses various public spaces in the city of Montreal.
my popsicle queen, Dir. Cole Forrest, 2019
my popsicle queen is an experimental dance film exploring personal experiences of anxiety, youth, and loss. How do we make positive change for ourselves when we feel we are losing our youth?
Water Under the Bridge, Dir. Trevor Blumas, 2017
Water Under the Bridge explores the hierarchical power dynamics between performer, filmmaker, and spectator through the documentation of a dance performance.
Favourite Things, Dir. Carol Cece Anderson, 2019 (Work-In-Progress)
Favourite Things is an experiment with form: dissolving, single framing, jump cutting, street filming, then cutting and splicing film
Night Shift, Dir. Alice Liu, 2019
Night Shift is a love letter to the filmmaker’s memories of her early childhood spent in their hometown of Jinan, China. It is an exploration of feelings towards how much the city has changed upon visiting Jinan again after years away.
Archive Film, To Be Determined
Doors at 7:00pm; Screening at 7:30pm
Niagara Custom Lab
182A St. Helens Avenue
(SW of Bloor Street West and Lansdowne Avenue)
FREE for LIFT Members
$8.00 in advance / $10.00 at the door for non-members
Tickets can be purchased in advance via Eventbrite.
Many thanks to Henderson Brewing Company and Niagara Custom Lab for making this event possible.
About Henderson Brewing Company
Henderson Brewing Company is award winning, full-scale brewery in the Junction Triangle with a tap-room and bottle shop. They strive to create balanced and thoughtful beers that honour traditional ways, but are not restricted to them. They want our beers to spark ideas, tell stories and, most of all, be refreshing and enjoyable. https://hendersonbrewing.com
About Niagara Custom Lab
Niagara Custom Lab is a full-service motion picture film laboratory, one of the last of a rare breed that focuses on providing the most complete and diverse post-production services available for celluloid. Our goal is to provide these very important services to those in need, supporting anyone interested in shooting or working with motion picture film by preserving and maintaining it as an active artistic medium. https://niagaracustomlab.com
About the Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto (LIFT)
The Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto (LIFT) is Canada’s foremost artist-run production and education organization dedicated to celebrating excellence in the moving image. LIFT exists to provide support and encouragement for independent filmmakers and artists through affordable access to production, post-production and exhibition equipment; professional and creative development; workshops and courses; commissioning and exhibitions; artist-residencies; and a variety of other services. LIFT is supported by its membership, Canada Council for the Arts, Ontario Arts Council, Ontario Trillium Foundation, Ontario Arts Foundation, the Government of Ontario and the Toronto Arts Council. https://lift.ca
For additional information please see http://lift.ca or e-mail Development Coordinator Cayley James at development@lift.on.ca with subject heading: LIFT Seasonal Screening Series: Experimental
Tuesday, July 9, 2019 - 7:00pm - 9:30pm
Non-members:
$10.00 for Non-members
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30 of Literary Fiction’s Most Risqué Book Covers
From Lolita to I Love Dick
May 9, 2017 By Emily Temple
Recently at Literary Hub Headquarters (read: the bar down the street from our actual office), the editorial staff sat around discussing the books—and more specifically, the book covers—that have drawn the most blatant stares on the subway. We’ve all been there, right? You glance up from the book you’re oh-so-innocently reading to see that everyone in the car is staring at you, their expressions ranging from amusement to to shock to disgust. Is there something on your face? Have you been absently humming to yourself? No. You’re reading I Love Dick. Or there’s a printed nipple poking out from between your fingers. And you thought you had a perfectly literary novel in your hands.
Well, you probably did. After all, while racy covers are expected for works of erotica, literary covers like to create a little shock and awe sometimes too—and when they do, they also tend to be sneakily suggestive, in ways that compel us to keep looking, whether with their titles or their—ahem—representative iconography. Below, a few favorites to take on the subway with you on your next commute—if you dare.
Part One: the Art of Suggestion
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The UK edition of Nutting’s novel, published by Faber and Faber, makes the staid and traditional teacher’s blouse into something deliciously vulgar. (The US cover is less visually stunning, but has a tactile sensation that’s hard to forget. It feels even dirtier than the subway.) The back cover of this gem features an image of the button itself, which only makes you think a little harder about, you know—buttoning.
This is a journal and not technically a book—but in the vein of Tampa, it’s a cover so perfectly suggestive that it can’t be ignored. There’s a lot to unpack in(to?) that coin purse.
John Gall’s original design for the 50th anniversary edition of Nabokov’s classic had the lips rotated, making the image much more suggestive. Maybe I’m biased because I can’t see the one without thinking of the other—and because I know what’s between the pages—but even the half-obscured, non-rotated lips seem to me to be fairly pointed.
On the left is one of the killed designs by Jason Ramirez (art directed by Rodrigo Corral) for the cover of this Tin House anthology; on the right, the final version—yet another vagina-that-is-not-a-vagina. A faux-gina, if you will. Both manage to be pretty dirty without any actual dirtiness.
This one actually makes me shudder. I haven’t read Lady Chatterley’s Lover, but my impression is that it isn’t nearly as terrifying as this cover treatment makes it appear. After all, the ladies of Sterling Cooper seemed to think it was pretty swell.
It may look like this fellow is crying, but the photograph—”Orgi-astic Man One” from Peter Hujar’s Orgiastic Man series—actually shows a man in the midst of orgasm in 1969. “I really wanted that image,” Yanagihara said. “It’s a really striking image, and I think the tone of it is just right. It’s not literally how I imagined Jude looking like, or Willem for that matter, but I do think there’s something unsparing about it and something sort of helpless, too.” Indeed.
Part Two: Talk Dirty To Me
No suggestive imagery or pictures here. But a title like this is more or less guaranteed to garner you your very own squadron of “men making asinine comments on the 4 train.” (That said, the effectiveness of this particular title may be watered-down this month due to the posters that are popping up for the Amazon show—but that’s just in New York. Unlike subway posters, books can come along with you anywhere, horrifying others all the while.)
The cover would be striking even if it didn’t have that title emblazoned across the woman’s forehead. And it’s not one of Miller’s better known works, either, so that should add to the confused glances (more on Miller later).
A little less straightforward than the above, but the look of dawning realization on the faces of idle book-cover-scanning passerby is totally worth it.
Part Three: Body Parts
Dirty old man indeed! Though actually, this man looks relatively clean and young, all things considered. I do want to make some jokes about the word “spine,” but lucky for you, I’ll restrain myself. This cover was created in 1976 by Studio Mendell + Oberer (design by Pierre Mendell, photograph by Claus Oberer).
As a book, it’s a provocative selection of Hempill’s poetry and criticism. As a book cover, it is a provocative shaded section in the lower right hand corner.
A racy book cover for our contemporary moment, in which, for better or for worse, everything must be documented—including our most private parts. Those fingernails, though.
This 1962 Signet Classics illustration by Thomas Upshur is suggestive when taken at face value—woman, hair, breast—but there’s also the weird Wittgenstein-esque “duckrabbit” effect. Squint and turn your head, and you’ll see the figure lapping rapturously at the woman’s face.
A novel that entered a particular phrase into the lexicon—one that’s doing double duty here. “The zipless fuck is absolutely pure. It is free of ulterior motives. There is no power game. The man is not “taking” and the woman is not “giving”. No one is attempting to cuckold a husband or humiliate a wife. No one is trying to prove anything or get anything out of anyone. The zipless fuck is the purest thing there is. And it is rarer than the unicorn. And I have never had one.”
These two covers of Salter’s extremely sexy book titillate by means of obscuration—you hope to turn the book over and see the rest. (The rest is inside, dear reader.) Salter is the only male writer who has ever, to my mind, written a completely convincing sex scene, so I’d say he deserves this kind of treatment.
(The French, on the other hand, get rather closer to the point of it all.)
Couldn’t have a list like this without Anaïs Nin, who, as we know, was rather interested in sex, and in writing about it. I love the brazenness of this cover; it suits its author. Design by Mick Brownfield; art direction by John Hamilton.
The bodies here barely look like bodies—they actually remind me of the naked women swimming around the eyes on the cover of The Great Gatsby (which I personally only recently discovered). And yet, bodies they are. Design by Mark Melnick; photo by Edward Weston.
Part Four: Henry Miller
Sure, he’s getting his own category: volume speaks for itself. Henry Miller is one of those literary novelists whose reputation has been cemented by his writing about sex—I can’t count the number of women who have told me that some guy gave her a Miller novel as a seduction tactic. His covers tend to reflect that fact. These are the current ones from Grove Press.
And here are some even racier versions—despite the fact that they’re illustrations and not photographs, because I see what’s going on here—created for Penguin Modern Classics by Tracey Emin.
And here’s an even racier series, from Harper Perennial Australia.
Alissa NuttingAnais Ninbook coversbook jacket designCharles BukowskiChris KrausD.H. LawrencedesignEmily WittErica JongEssex HemphillGrantaHanya YanagiharaHenry MillerJames SalterMark LeynerPhilip RothTin HouseVladimir NabokovWilliam Logan
Emily Temple
Emily Temple is a senior editor at Lit Hub. Her first novel, The Lightness, will be published by William Morrow in 2020.
Stephanie Powell Watts on Writing Hard Times in Small Towns
On the Books We Read (and Write) to Get By
Stephanie Powell Watts on Writing Hard Times in Small Towns “Imagine The Great Gatsby set in rural North Carolina, nine decades later, with desperate black people.” That’s how Stephanie...
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When phones became computers
A really important bit of history recounted in Losing the Signal, pg 139-140, a really excellent book about the history of Research In Motion:
In the summer of 2007, however, Lazaridis cracked open a phone that gave him pause. “They’ve put a Mac in this thing,” he marveled after peering inside one of the new iPhones. Ever since Apple’s phone went on sale in June, critics and consumers were effusive about the sleek phone’s playful touch screen, elegant graphics, and high-resolution images. Lazaridis saw much more. This was no ordinary smartphone. It was a small mobile Apple computer whose operating system used 700 megabytes of memory—more than twenty-two times the computing power of the BlackBerry. The iPhone had a full Safari browser that traveled everywhere on the Internet. With AT& T’s backing, he could see, Apple was changing the direction of the industry. Lazaridis shared the revelation with his handset engineers, who had been pushing to expand BlackBerry’s Internet reach for years. Before, Lazaridis had waved them off. Carriers wouldn’t allow RIM to include more than a simple browser because it would crash their networks. After his iPhone autopsy, however, he realized the smartphone race was in danger of shifting. If consumers and carriers continued to embrace the iPhone, BlackBerry would need more than its efficient e-mail and battery to lead the market. “If this thing catches on, we’re competing with a Mac, not a Nokia,” he said. The new battleground was mobile computing.
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Why I (Used to) Hate Narnia
On December 9, 2015 March 6, 2016 By Matt MellemaIn Engaging the Culture
Confession: I used to hate Narnia.
Other evangelicals feel the same way–they’re just afraid of their Lewis-loving friends. But it’s okay. This is a welcoming place.
Here was my old cynic line: Narnia was okay, but it couldn’t compare to more polished fantasy series like Lord of the Rings or–pause for effect–Harry Potter.
Lest Narnia fans think any unspeakable words against me1, don’t worry. I like Narnia now. But before I tell you why I changed my mind, you should know the reasons I used to hate it:
The world seemed shallow. Unlike, say, Lord of the Rings, which has the heft of a real place with real history, Narnia feels half-baked and arbitrary. Like Lewis threw a bunch of random stuff into a “world” on some whim.
There’s no character development. Crazy things happen to Narnia’s main characters. But we rarely get a feel for it. Peter learns he’s going to be the High King of a fairy land. Edmund is kidnapped by a witch and a dwarf. All four Pevensies live well into adulthood before being transported back to childhood. Everyone seems to take it in stride. The Pevensies on the train platform in Prince Caspian are the same as the ones playing hide and seek at the start of the series. Shouldn’t all that stuff…change a person? And don’t even get me started on Jill from the Silver Chair. She has all the personality of a house plant.
My friends wouldn’t shut up about CS Lewis. This was the most important reason. Everyone back home kept crowing about Narnia as “masterpieces of literature.” I couldn’t let that stand. As a self-respecting cynic, I had no choice but to insult them.
But one evening at Pepperdine, everything changed.
I was in the corner of the library, sighing over the ocean and sunny hills while outlining my class notes. At the corner of my vision, I saw a book called Planet Narnia by Michael Ward. Curious, I scanned the first chapter. Then I read the whole thing.
I’ve loved Narnia ever since.
Here’s how Ward taught me to stop worrying and love Narnia:
Ward showed that Narnia does have cohesion and complexity. It’s just different from a series like Lord of the Rings or Game of Thrones.
The cohesion in Narnia stems from ancient cosmology. Each book captures the essence of one of the seven planets. For instance, Wardrobe is based on Jupiter, the kingly planet. Prince Caspian is Mars, the warrior planet. And The Last Battle is Saturn, the planet of old age and doom. As a professor of Renaissance literature, Lewis was an expert in planetary influence2. And he incorporated the themes meticulously.
Seeing the books this way opened up layers of meaning. I stopped viewing Narnia as a slapdash kid’s book. It became a work of craftsmanship.
If you don’t believe me, please read Planet Narnia immediately. I’ll wait.
Narnia may lack the character development we’d expect from novels. But the Narnia books aren’t novels. They’re stories. They focus on transporting the reader to a world permeated with a particular planetary influence, as viewed through the lens of Christianity.
Instead of criticizing it for not being a novel, I should have admired it for what it was.
I got over my anti-Lewis phase. Is he over-used? Probably. Are other, equally-capable writers from that time ignored at his expense3? Yeah. But Lewis is still useful and helpful. Pretending otherwise didn’t make me edgy or sophisticated. It just made me a jerk.
What do you all think of my old Narnia gripes? Are any of them fair? Would anyone be open to forming a Michael Ward fan club with me?
1 Yes, that was a Magician’s Nephew reference. I can play the Narnia game…
2 Pun!
3 I’m mostly thinking of Ronald Knox. Most of his work is free on the internet, and it’s fantastic. Start with The Belief of Catholics. Even for the Protestant among us, it’s loaded with great (and still relevant) insight on theology and culture.
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Shanghai Masters 2015 - Carter Falls To Grace
The Shanghai Masters qualifiers took centre stage in the Barnsley Metrodome this week, with 16 places up for grabs for the final stages at the Shanghai Grand Stage, China. The big shock was former Shanghai champion Ali Carter falling to a 5-3 defeat at the hands of David Grace.
Read on for the full article...
Article by Adam Brown.
The Shanghai Masters has become one of the most recognisable and popular events on the calendar, especially for the top 16 players as this is one of the few events that they are exempt from qualifying and progress straight through to the final stages in China.
The final qualifying round saw players ranked 17-32 enter the tournament and it was Ali Carter who was the biggest name to fall as he went down 5-3 to Englishman David Grace after Grace made breaks of 68 and 78 in the final two frames to make his way through. Another casualty of the final round was Chinese sensation Xiao Guodong as he was edged out in a decider by world number 44 Mike Dunn, despite making three frame winning breaks earlier in the match.
World Number 17 Mark Davis edged through a very nervy affair against the ever improving Tian Pengfei. Davis did not make one break over 50 in the match, but managed to take a scrappy deciding frame to ensure his place in Shanghai.
The highest ranked player to make it through to the finals was Stoke’s Jamie Cope. Cope, now world number 94 has suffered a crisis of confidence in the last couple of years, but he managed to put all that behind him after winning four qualifying matches to make it to Shanghai. This included a 5-4 victory over Gary Wilson in the final round despite being 4-3 behind.
The match of the round came between Alan McManus and Rory McLeod, with the Scot edging through in a deciding frame. McManus was 4-2 behind in the match and needed two snookers. After a long battle McManus got the points back and cleared up to go 4-3 and then made breaks of 51 and 60 to steal the match right from under McLeod.
Youngsters Ben Woolaston, Kyren Wilson and Luca Brecel all booked their tickets to Shanghai as did veterans Peter Ebdon, Ryan Day and Robert Milkins to set up a an exciting event in China. See below for the full draw.
The Shanghai Masters will take place in Shanghai, China starting 14th September till 20th September.
Stuart Bingham [1] v Jamie Jones [30]
Marco Fu [12] v Mike Dunn [44]
John Higgins [11] v Liang Wenbo [20]
Barry Hawkins [7] v Martin Gould [24]
Judd Trump [6] v Robert Milkins [18]
Ricky Walden [9] v Matthew Selt [27]
Mark Williams [13] v Tom Ford [60]
Neil Robertson [4] v Jamie Cope [94]
Ding Junhui [3] v Alan McManus [25]
Graeme Dott [16] v Ryan Day [19]
Stephen Maguire [14] v Michael Holt [23]
Joe Perry [8] v Kyren Wilson [53]
Shaun Murphy [5] v Peter Ebdon [29]
Michael White [15] v Mark Davis [17]
Mark Allen [10] v Luca Brecel [43]
Mark Selby [2] v David Grace [84]
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Footloose (1984 & 2011) | Movie Review
Tagged: Government enforced morality
The hit 1984 film Footloose was remade in 2011, not to quite the same acclaim but it has much the same spirit and both films are excellent allegories in government enforced morality.
Review of Footloose (2011)
The new kid in a small town leads a high-school rebellion against the town’s antidancing law. [Dir: Craig Brewer/ Kenny Wormald, Julianne Hough, Dennis Quaid/ 113 min/ Drama, Musical-Dance/ Government Enforced Morality]
“Guardians of the ’80s flame will approve of the production’s sincere respect for the original; church still matters, and so do Ariel’s red cowboy boots…and [Director Brewer] establishes a timeless zone in which children of all colors always yearn for freedom, and wise parents learn how to hand over the dance floor to the next generation.”
“[In Footloose ] the town passed ordinances enforcing a curfew on minors and outlawing public dancing. Alas, the town’s officials and even its pastor – played by Dennis Quaid with nary a twinkle – weren’t up on their Genesis, or else they would have realized: As soon as you tell people what they absolutely must not do, that’s all they want to do.”
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The new kid in a small town leads a high-school rebellion against the town’s antidancing law. [Dir: Herbert Ross/ Kevin Bacon, Lori Singer, John Lithgow/ 107 min/ Drama, Musical-Dance/ Government Enforced Morality]
This is a good-guy-against-bad-law story. The good guy in this case is a teenager, recently relocated from a big city to a small town. As it happens, the small town to which the young man has moved is dominated by a preacher who thinks he has not only the right but also the moral obligation to interfere in other people’s lives. Among other restrictions, the preacher (who is a part-time town council member as well) has managed to pass a law that forbids public dancing. He sees modern music and dance as immoral, sexually suggestive, and therefore dangerous.
Unlike everyone else in town, however, the teenager isn’t intimidated by the preacher or by the law. He starts organizing a public dance and openly challenges the antidancing law at a city council meeting. He is aided in his fight by the preacher’s rebellious daughter and by growing support among local teens.
Despite his heroic efforts, he loses the battle. The city council refuses to legalize dancing.
Nonetheless, he wins the war, as his arguments help to convince the preacher that his holier-than-thou morality campaign may have gone too far. And in the end, thanks to a legal loophole, everybody gets to dance after all.
This film gets points for putting legislated morality in an unsympathetic light. It’s a somewhat gentle criticism, but you can’t watch it without seeing at least the silliness of antidancing laws. It’s not bad as entertainment either, despite an overabundance of stale, small-town characters. The film has an outstanding soundtrack, featuring the title song by Kenny Loggins, which became a hit in its own right.
More Films About: Government Enforced Morality
Wikipedia: Dancing ban
Book: Ain’t Nobody’s Business If You Do: The Absurdity of Consensual Crimes
Book: The Tyranny of Good Intentions: How Prosecutors and Bureaucrats Are Trampling the Constitution
Book: One Nation Under Arrest: Crazy Laws, Rogue Prosecutors, and Activist Judges
National Journal: “Why Japan Has Become That Anti-Dancing Town in ‘Footloose'”
Village Voice: “Five of the Dumbest Laws in New York City”
The Salt Lake Tribune: “Who’s afraid of dancing? St. George, apparently”
National Review: “Feel Like Dancing? Beware of Tom Daschle”
Los Angeles Times: “Missouri School Board Dance Ban: Who’s Out of Step?”
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It’s 2018 and People In Movies Still Don’t Understand How to Talk on the Phone
I saw First Reformed last night. It is an excellent movie about serious and important subjects. I recommend you see it. And one scene in it drove me absolutely insane.
It occurs about halfway through the film. Ethan Hawke’s Reverend Ernst Toller receives a call on his cell phone from a distraught member of his congregation. She implores him to come her house. “You must come,” she repeats several times. “Okay,” he replies. Then he closes his flip phone, returns it to his pocket, and walks to his car. Neither person on the call says goodbye.
Everyone has their little pet peeves about weird quirks in movies, and this is mine. It makes me nuts when people on the phone in movies hang up without saying goodbye. And it happens all the time.
You could argue in this particular case that Toller is too worried and distracted for such formalities. But we’ve all made worried and distracted phone calls in our lives, and we’ve probably ended 999 out of 1,000 of them with some variation of the words good and bye. Unless you’re furious at someone (which Toller is definitely not), that’s how you inform the person on the other end of the line that you’re hanging up. Otherwise they’re left talking into the void.
The no-goodbye hangup is not a phenomenon isolated to movies about people in emotional distress, either. This supercut has almost three minutes of people hanging up on the phone without saying goodbye, many in completely mundane situations. And a lot of these examples come from classic movies, like The Terminator, Midnight Cowboy, and Double Indemnity.
I’ve written briefly about weird movie phone calls before; the last time was in 2011. Seven years later, nothing has changed. And every new time it happens, I want to rip my hair out all over again. (If I go bald in the next three years, I’m sending Paul Schrader my Rogaine bill.)
In the grand scheme of things, this is a minor issue. One strange beat in one brief scene does not ruin First Reformed, just as it hasn’t stopped people from revisiting Network, The Big Lebowski, or Memento over and over throughout the years. But all of these examples pull you out of the movie, and temporarily shatter cinema’s illusion of reality. Because this is not real. This is something that only happens in movies.
To me, it’s far worse than a more famous quirk of fictional phone calls: The fake 555 phone numbers used in movies and television shows because otherwise viewers may be tempted to call real numbers assigned to real people who don’t want to be pestered by thousands of cinephiles. It can be distracting when a movie character gives someone a 555 number, but that can be rationalized. In the fictional universe of most movies, 555 numbers are real, and in use in whatever region that specific film is set. That’s plausible enough. It’s at least more plausible than a 45 year old adult man who is unfamiliar with the rituals and customs of phone calls.
I suppose writers or directors leave these words out of their screenplays because of efficiency considerations; too much dawdling with formalities can drag down the pacing of a scene, and if enough scenes are dragged down then so is the whole movie. But how much time does it take to say goodbye? One second? Less? Would it really kill the flow of First Reformed if Rev. Toller had paused for one “Bye?”
I doubt it. It certainly would have taken less time than it took me to stop thinking about whether Toller had ever made a phone call before in his life and refocus on the plot of First Reformed. My humble request to the writers who keep leaving these two little but very important words out of your screenplays: Please hang up and try again.
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Source: It’s 2018 and People In Movies Still Don’t Understand How to Talk on the Phone
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Carl Crawford is ready to play, but the Dodgers don’t plan to play him much
Carl Crawford is done rehabbing in the minors and will rejoin the Dodgers after being out since late April with a strained oblique muscle.
Crawford hit .353 with a 1.012 OPS in 10 games during his rehab stint, but Mark Saxon of ESPN Los Angeles writes that manager Don Mattingly’s “plan is to keep the starting outfield intact” and use Crawford sparingly while sticking with Andre Ethier, Joc Pederson, and Yasiel Puig as everyday players.
Early in the season Crawford was the Dodgers’ starting left fielder and Ethier was typically on the bench, but during Crawford’s absence Ethier has hit .282 with eight homers and an .828 OPS in 66 games. By comparison, the last time Crawford topped an .828 OPS in a season was 2010 and he’s posted a .745 OPS in 236 total games for the Dodgers.
We’ve already seen the Dodgers’ outfield plans change several times due to injuries and performances, but for now Crawford will be a $20 million bench player.
Tags: Andre Ethier, Carl Crawford, Joc Pederson, Los Angeles Dodgers, Yasiel Puig
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Electronic Dance Music: EDM is the Global LGBT Soundtrack
Written by Megan Venzin| January 21, 2019| Entertainment, Music
GRiZ — Photo credit Jason Siegel
What is “PLUR”? That acronym has adorned beaded bracelets and neon colored tank tops for decades, although it’s not the brand of a high-end clothing line. Some readers will instantly recognize this symbol from their dancing days. Seasoned ravers have mastered its insider handshake too – a gesture that commonly transforms strangers into new friends on crowded dancefloors. PLUR is simple shorthand for “peace, love, unity and respect.” That’s something we can all get behind. And although this overture of fellowship has been around for some time, it still surfaces on today’s Top 40 playlists. Even as dance music has become a highly lucrative commercial commodity, almost miraculously, those same values of PLUR live on.
PLUR is why an all-too-often misunderstood segment has called dance music home since its inception. It’s similar to how the discotheque — even as it fed pop culture fanatics — provided a place of solace for members of marginalized communities, including young African Americans navigating life in a post-Civil Rights Movement world and queer people burdened by the judgements of a society still reluctant to embrace them completely. These groups were drawn to a safe place found amid flashing lights where the characteristics that made them different quickly fell to the wayside. Their genders, races and orientations were replaced by indistinguishable silhouettes moving throughout glimmering nightclubs where freedom and positivity reign supreme.
A fervent new energy rolled in with the ‘90s. Illegal raves descended upon forgotten warehouses, hidden basements and abandoned buildings, bringing with them new subsets of trance and electro — all synth-driven sounds that eventually ruled the airwaves. Those celebrations were often known only by the most diligent partygoers, those devotees who tracked carefully monitored phone trees and discreetly distributed passwords. This exchange of “top secret” information reinforced an overarching sense of community. Entry to the event served as a binding agreement that only love and respect would be tolerated from every participant.
Amsterdam Dance Event — Photo by Lieke van den Oor
Joining the Amsterdance
Electronic music was then, and still is, for everyone. That dictum is immediately apparent as we embarked on an enlightening overseas romp. It may be 3am, but during Amsterdam Dance Event — or ADE as the industry calls it — the party’s just getting started. A downtown square teems with music lovers who have traversed the globe to experience the best of what electronic music has to offer. Over the course of five days, some 400,000 people will participate in panels, film screenings, label showcases, live demonstrations, yoga classes and more in what has become the world’s largest music and technology conference — and one of the most collectively inclusive gatherings on the planet.
Approaching the venue in the wee hours of Thursday morning, there’s a diverse crowd to wade through. Persons of every race, gender and age are here for a good time. A tall elegantly dressed drag queen works the front door of Sugar Factory, a mid-sized nightspot that touts itself as being a “dynamic, open-minded and creative club where live music and theater meet”. That description checks out. We offer our names, and the queen flips long luminous red hair over her shoulder as she scans her worn notepad. “You’re all set! Now you just go in there and have fun, honey,” she says with a beaming smile.
Inside, it’s bumping. The main room boasts modest decorations — a simple lighting rig, a slow-turning disco ball and spiral staircases that ascend into an underdressed balcony. But any over-the-top fanfare the decor lacks is offset by the colorful crowd, many of whom are loudly and proudly bedecked in boas, face paint, high heels and glitter. A trip to the bar brings more happy surprises when a stranger in line picks up our refreshments “just because.” All she asks is that we return the favor sometime later this weekend. Can do, madam.
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The vibe is beyond friendly, and with a soundtrack so splendid, how could it not be? The United Kingdom’s Horse Meat Disco are keeping the spirit of the ‘70s alive with an upbeat mix of classics and nu selections. Lovingly referred to by their fanbase as the “Disco Daddies,” this charming foursome host their own queer parties in London, Brooklyn and beyond. While The Classic Music Company’s Wednesday night showcase hasn’t been marketed specifically as an LGBTQ gathering, both the lineup and the audience make it so. Also sharing the roster tonight are Honey Dijon, a Chicago born, New York-based house and techno artist who happens to be transgender; Eli Escobar, a Brooklyn native who has become a familiar face at inclusive venues and NYC Pride Parties; and CMC label head Luke Solomun, a UK-based artist and businessman who has provided a happy home for the work of artists from all walks of life.
We catch up with Escobar just before his closing B2B set with Solomun. The soft spoken scene veteran and ally has been called “the quintessential New York DJ.” With more than two decades of production and performance under his belt, Escobar has watched electronic music in the States transform from an underground cult pastime into a multi-billion dollar global phenomenon. He’s navigated the transformation deftly and maintained a fanbase by pushing the boundaries of any genre he touches – hip-hop, classic New York house and sparkling disco productions only scratch the surface of his rich and often introspective oeuvre. Although the landscape has shifted, he believes that for many, there is still one thing that precipitates that first calling to the dancefloor: a desire to belong.
“Growing up, there were times I felt alienated,” Escobar says, taking time to choose his words. “I didn’t relate to the kids who were good at sports or who were all latching on to popular trends, and I think that’s why I found clubbing so early. The people I met while clubbing were warm and accepting. They all loved music and dancing, and immediately I knew that was where I wanted to be all the time.”
Escobar’s story is more the rule than the exception among EDM’s most fervent acolytes. Throughout history, music has been known as a primal form of escapism, and dancing, as a promoter of positive release. Escobar points to liberated souls as the heart of any great party. “I started getting booked for queer parties all the time, and I love it! I personally feel like when you have a group of people who feel the need to dance and who really need the music you’re playing, it’s way better,” he’s quick to add. “To be able to play for a community of people who deeply respect this outlet and who really treasure it means so much to me. It’s much different than playing for a gathering of 20-somethings who are out to prove that they have few wild nights left in them before it’s time to settle down. Plus queer audiences give me an invitation to take a lot more chances musically. I can play more emotional music.” It’s a compliment, but one that also provides a telling glimpse into his perpetually questing creative prowess.
Sugar Factory isn’t the only hall sizzling with queer energy during ADE. It’s as though the spirit is infused in the event’s very fabric. Odd Fantastic and Dance With Pride host a Wednesday night fundraiser featuring queer talent — whose proceeds will go to support the new Buddy Project of Stichting Prisma Groep, an organization dedicated to creating friendly support groups for those who need them most. Conference passholders attend a panel titled “Artists Empowering Their Community to Create Change” in which a wide range of performers (from eco-aware techno duo BLOND:ISH to Dave Clarke, a British producer who has boycotted playing on U.S. soil until the reign of Trump is over) discuss steps they’ve taken personally to make the world a better and more loving place. Boiler Room teams up with IsBurning, an infamous gay party thrown by Charles Valdes which draws from throwback LGBTQ culture from the disco era. The nearly six-hour Friday night event spotlights queer artists and allies like Octo Octa, Titia and many more whose names have become synonymous with legendary “gay” club nights worldwide (you can relive the magic of ADE: Boiler Room x IsBurning in its entirety at isburning.com).
To call ADE “a breath of fresh air” is an understatement – there’s a unique electricity stemming from its outrageously welcoming, peaceful spirit. It’s readily apparent that the forces behind it are promoting inclusivity in a way that extends far beyond the musical subculture it originally intended to serve.
Meanwhile, Back in the States…
An international affair like ADE is a prime example of how electronic music advances global positivity, but there’s reason to rejoice near homebase too. While making new friends on the continent, an American scene hero was hard at work brewing up new beats with community in mind. Grant Kwiecinski aka GRiZ, is both a Renaissance man and titan of popular dance culture. Already a distinguished producer, DJ, saxophonist, songwriter, singer and Camp Kulabunga Counselor, GRiZ added a new moniker to his list when he came out as gay in a sweet and very candid letter to The Huffington Post in the summer of 2016 (he now considers the disclosure “just a dope side-note”). The underlying theme of his intentional outreach was a phrase that many have embraced as a beacon of hope: “It gets better.” Those three words also happen to be the title of his bouncy new single, a track shot through with uplifting hooks, feel-good lyrics and his own unique panache. It’s a radio-ready anthem that laughs confidently in the face of adversity.
Photo credit Piet van Strijp
“The message stems originally from my own personal struggles with being a queer person in the world — struggles I’ve endured in relationships as well as my frustrations with the way our culture is represented in the media,” Kwiecinski explains. “This was a way to express a healing notion in a musical way.”
The bouncy track, which highlights a soulful vocal from hip-hop icon DRAM, has served as way for GRiZ to break what his followers had guessed was a creative hiatus. Although GRiZ’s tour schedule has hardly slowed, “It Gets Better” and its bookend track “Can’t Get Enough” were the first releases seen from the multi-talented musician in almost a year.
“I said my piece with what I was going through, and after a while, I got this urge to share my work with other people again. After all, the music isn’t just for me,” says GRiZ. “I wanted people to hear these two tracks specifically because it felt like [they contained the words] I was telling myself — a lot. And then things just seemed to line up perfectly: With everything happening in the world, these songs were not only something people wanted to hear, but needed to hear.”
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The lyrics of ‘It Gets Better’ (which include the original chorus by GRiZ and verses by DRAM) remind listeners to keep their focus on what will create a lasting impact at every level of society: Believe in yourself. Keep your head up and make the world a better place by spreading positivity. It’s the perfect accessory to the #ShowLoveSpreadLove tag which appears in his inspirational social media posts, on pieces from his self-designed clothing line and throughout the live shout-outs of those marathon DJ sets. GRiZ’s secret for sustaining his own positive outlook on life? “If I’m feeling grumpy while grabbing my morning coffee, I can stand there and not talk or I can give a stranger a big smile,” GRiZ says with a laugh. “When I get one back, that instant affirmation, it’s like magic. It instantly turns my day around and works every time. Give it a try.”
No doubt GRiZ feels rewarded by the career he’s carved out and the environment it engenders. “I don’t think dance music has ever been a space where people weren’t trying to spread a positive message,” GRiZ concludes. “Whether it was through the hip-hop, dubstep, house or heady scenes, beneath it all were people who were genuinely excited to link up and connect with one another. I’m so happy to have found that place that feels safe and relatable. And I’m here to perpetuate that very thing that’s so special and sacred to so many of us.” Between the new tunes and his charitable “12 Days of GRiZMAS” events which rocked his hometown of Detroit over the holidays, GRiZ puts time and energy into to keeping EDM’s positivity an ongoing effort. Next, he’s headlining Envision Costa Rica, a sustainable, health and wellness-focused festival taking place in Latin America later this month (envisionfestival.com).
Photo credit Dick Rennings
Times will change. People will too. It’s hard to know how the festival circuit will evolve — at home or abroad — in 10 years. It’s perhaps even more difficult to forecast the trends that electronic diehards will latch on to from one season to the next. However, one thing is for certain: as long as the musical pioneers keep pushing their message of peace, love, unity and respect, Electronic Dance Music will remain secure in its place as a safe haven for all, regardless of their fans’ geographical or sexual orientations. And isn’t that desire for communal celebration what put them on the dance floor in the first place?
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Conclusions and perspectives
Engineering redox homeostasis to develop efficient alcohol-producing microbial cell factories
Chunhua Zhao1, 2,
Qiuwei Zhao1,
Yin Li1 and
Yanping Zhang1Email author
Microbial Cell Factories201716:115
Accepted: 16 June 2017
The biosynthetic pathways of most alcohols are linked to intracellular redox homeostasis, which is crucial for life. This crucial balance is primarily controlled by the generation of reducing equivalents, as well as the (reduction)-oxidation metabolic cycle and the thiol redox homeostasis system. As a main oxidation pathway of reducing equivalents, the biosynthesis of most alcohols includes redox reactions, which are dependent on cofactors such as NADH or NADPH. Thus, when engineering alcohol-producing strains, the availability of cofactors and redox homeostasis must be considered. In this review, recent advances on the engineering of cellular redox homeostasis systems to accelerate alcohol biosynthesis are summarized. Recent approaches include improving cofactor availability, manipulating the affinity of redox enzymes to specific cofactors, as well as globally controlling redox reactions, indicating the power of these approaches, and opening a path towards improving the production of a number of different industrially-relevant alcohols in the near future.
Redox homeostasis
Metabolic engineering
Cofactor engineering
Reducing equivalent
Due to the increasing concerns surrounding limited fossil resources and environmental problems, there has been much interest in the microbial production of chemicals and fuels from renewable resources. Alcohols such as ethanol, 1,3-propanediol, butanol, isobutanol, 2,3-butanediol and 1,4-butanediol, can be used as important platform chemicals or biofuels [1]. Since they are bulk products, the demand for most of these compounds is highly cost-sensitive. To meet this challenge, the microbial cell factories for producing alcohols must be engineered to increase the titer, yield and productivity of target products as much as possible.
Since wild-type microorganisms do not allow the production of industrially relevant alcohols with high enough efficiency, many efforts have been undertaken to improve their production by systems metabolic engineering [2]. To develop microbial strains that maximize the titer, yield and productivity of the target products, intracellular metabolic fluxes must be optimized using various molecular and high-throughput techniques, including, but not limited to: selecting the best biosynthesis genes [3], overexpressing rate-limiting enzymes, fine-tuning the expression of pathway enzymes [4], reinforcing the direct biosynthesis route [5–7], deleting or down-regulating competing pathways [8, 9], as well as deactivating degradation and utilization pathways or removing feedback regulation [10].
Most of the recent successful systems metabolic engineering examples of the development of alcohol-producing microorganisms focused on directly engineering enzymes of the metabolic pathways in question. However, in addition to the activity of enzymes involved in the pathway itself, the metabolic flux also depends on the concentrations of precursors and cofactors in the cells [11]. Since most alcohol production pathways comprise redox reactions, their production efficiency depends on the availability of cofactors. The cofactors in question are usually some type of reducing equivalents, such as NADH and NADPH, which usually act as carriers of electrons generated from substrate oxidation. Under aerobic conditions, the electrons provided by NAD(P)H are commonly ultimately accepted by O2 [12], whereby NAD(P)H is converted to its oxidized form. Therefore, since alcohol production is generally performed under anaerobic conditions, the strains maintain their cellular redox balance mainly through the reactions of central metabolism, which are significantly different from aerobic microbial metabolism. By decreasing the amounts of acid-forming enzymes and/or enhancing the butanol synthetic pathway genes expression in the non-sporulating, non-solventogenic Clostridium acetobutylicum strain M5, Sillers et al. [13] demonstrated the rigidity of intracellular electron balance. Thus, in order to sustain growth and metabolism, the metabolic network must be tweaked to maintain the redox balance in the cells [14].
Currently, the primary feedstocks used in the biological production of alcohols are sugarcane, sugar beet, maize (corn) and sorghum, due to their low price and wide availability in the market [15]. These feedstocks mainly provide fermentable sugars, which are easily metabolized by the production strains, generating NADH, NADPH, ferredoxin and other reducing equivalents that are needed in the alcohol biosynthetic pathways. However, due to the unfavorable stoichiometry of available electrons from a substrate such as glucose [16], the maximum theoretical yields for alcohols are mostly lower than 0.5 g/g, with the exception of ethanol, at 0.51 g/g [17]. Furthermore, in addition to alcohol synthesis, there are many other pathways that are competing for reducing equivalents, especially in anaerobes, such as hydrogen production [14]. Actually, due to the imbalances between the generation of reducing equivalents from substrates and their oxidation by redox enzymes in the alcohol biosynthesis pathways, the carbon metabolic flux of substrates is generally distributed unfavorably between alcohol biosynthesis and other competing pathways [18–20]. This leads to a much lower yield of the target alcohol from sugars in the actual production process.
Therefore, to improve alcohol production, and especially the yield that can be achieved from cheap substrates, cellular redox homeostasis must be manipulated to avoid a possible limitation of reducing equivalents. In this article, we review recent advances in accelerating the production of alcohols by engineering microbial redox homeostasis, including providing sufficient amounts of needed cofactors, improving the affinity of key enzymes to the available reducing equivalents, manipulating the intracellular electron transport chain, and other approaches for engineering the cellular redox balance.
Improving the availability of required cofactors to enhance cofactor-dependent alcohol production
Targeted regulation of enzymes or genes involved in the target pathway is often the first step in metabolic engineering of microbes for alcohol production. However, once the enzyme levels are no longer limiting, cofactor availability can become the main bottleneck for cofactor-dependent redox reactions [21]. Nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NAD) functions as a cofactor in over 300 oxidation–reduction reactions and regulates various enzymes and genetic processes [21]. The NADH/NAD+ cofactor pair also plays a major role in microbial catabolism [22]. Due to their role as co-substrates, the concentration of cofactors, together with other substrates, determines the rate of enzymatic reactions and therefore the flux of the corresponding pathway. Many strategies have thus been developed to improve the availability of cofactors such as NADH and NADPH, and successfully applied to enhance the microbial production of various alcohols.
Fine-tuning of genes expression in alcohol biosynthetic pathway to enhance NAD(P)H competitiveness
Usually, there would be more than one enzyme involved in the alcohol synthetic pathway. Thus a proper proportion of these enzymes especially the NAD(P)H-dependent one is of crucial role. Fine-tuning of gene expression through manipulation of mRNA stability [23], modulation of the ribosome binding site (RBS) [24], codon optimization [25] and other approaches [26, 27] can be benefit for the redox balance in alcohol-producing cells.
Fine-tuning of GRE3 which is strictly NADPH-dependent expression could be more useful to reduce xylitol formation and increase ethanol production from xylose in Saccharomyces cerevisiae [28, 29]. Meanwhile, fine-tuned overexpression of xylulokinase in S. cerevisiae could lead to improved fermentation of xylose to ethanol [29] and fine-tuning of NADH oxidase could decrease byproduct accumulation in S. cerevisiae [30]. Sun et al. engineered a 1,2,4-butanetriol-producing Escherichia coli and fine-tuned the expression of yjhG and mdlC. The relative strain BW-026 increased 1,2,4-butanetriol titer by 71.4% [4]. Recently, Ohtake et al. [31] engineered a high titer butanol-producing E. coli strain by fine-tuning of adhE2 which is NADH-dependent. The authors believed a CoA imbalance problem was solved improving the butanol production. On the other hand, the redox balance was also further achieved as adhE2 is responsible for two steps consuming NADH in butanol synthetic pathway.
Blocking of competing NADH-withdrawing pathways to redirect metabolic flux towards the target alcohols
In many microorganisms, and most production strains, glycolysis is the key upstream pathway in the fermentation process from sugars to alcohols, with pyruvate as the node linking different directions of carbon flow. Concomitantly with the generation of pyruvate, a net two NADH molecules are generated from one glucose molecule [32]. To return this reduced cofactor to its oxidized state, oxidative phosphorylation or anaerobic fermentation is implemented to generate ATP or reduced byproducts, respectively [18]. In E. coli, lactate, ethanol, succinate, amino acids, and some other chemicals can be derived from pyruvate [or phosphoenolpyruvate (PEP)], consuming NADH under anaerobic conditions [33]. Hence, a direct approach to provide more NADH for alcohol formation is to block the pathways competing for it.
Lactate can be directly generated from pyruvate and NADH with no additional intermediate reactions, thus making it a very competitive byproduct that needs to be removed. Berrı́os-Rivera et al. [19] showed that an ldh − genotype increased the synthesis of 1,2-propanediol (1,2-PDO) in E. coli, which was considered an NADH-limited system. This work manipulated the NADH/NAD+ pool by eliminating the competing lactate pathway, which provided a more reducing environment for alcohol production [19]. Likewise, Zhang et al. inactivated the aldA gene encoding ALDH, an enzyme that competes with 1,3-propanediol (1,3-PDO) oxidoreductase for NADH in Klebsiella pneumoniae, to produce higher amounts of 1,3-PDO. By this manipulation, the product titer was increased by 33% compared with the control strain, and the yield of 1,3-PDO from glycerol was increased from 0.355 to 0.699 mol/mol, reaching an astonishing 97.1% of the maximal theoretical yield [34]. Similar effects were found in the engineered butanol-producing strains. By deleting the main competing NADH-withdrawing pathway genes in E. coli, including adhE for ethanol, ldhA for lactate, and frdBC for succinate, butanol production was significantly improved, leading to a doubling of the titer. After additionally blocking other byproduct pathways, the final butanol titer of the resulting strain increased by 133% [20, 35, 36].
An approach guided by in silico metabolic engineering of E. coli for direct production of 1,4-butanediol (1,4-BDO) also led to a strategy of eliminating pathways which compete for reducing power [37, 38]. Similarly, Fu et al. pointed out that although the deletion of ldh did not increase the metabolic flux towards the 2,3-butanediol (2,3-BDO) pathway, it increased the NADH/NAD+ ratio for further conversion of acetoin to 2,3-BDO, underscoring that NADH availability was the key factor for 2,3-BDO production [39].
Increasing the total level of NAD to accelerate alcohols production
The total level of NAD (NAD+ and NADH) is strictly controlled in microorganisms through specific regulatory mechanisms [40]. A de novo pathway and a pyridine nucleotide salvage pathway was found in E. coli to maintain its total intracellular NADH/NAD+ pool [40]. Berrı́os-Rivera et al. found that the nicotinic acid phosphoribosyltransferase, encoded by the pncB gene, can catalyze the formation of a precursor of NAD. Consequently, they overexpressed the pncB gene from Salmonella typhimurium to increase the total level of NAD. Anaerobic tube experiments showed that the strains overexpressing pncB had higher biomass and increased ethanol/acetate ratios [40]. Jawed et al. [41] also performed this pncB-overexpressing method in a Klebsiella HQ-3 strain and observed increased production and yield of H2. Along with H2, 2,3-BDO and ethanol titers were improved as well due to the increased availability of NADH [41]. Another study showed enhancement of succinate production by expressing nicotinic acid phosphoribosyltransferase gene pncB [42]. Although it is not alcohol related, succinate is a reducing chemical which makes it a valuable reference.
Regeneration of NAD(P)H to increase the availability of its reduced form to accelerate alcohol production
In addition to the total NAD(P) pool, the ratio of the reduced to the oxidized form will determine the reaction activity. Reduced cofactors (NADH, NADPH, reduced ferredoxin) are needed to provide electrons for the reduction of precursors to alcohols [43]. Therefore, efficient regeneration of NAD(P)H is crucial for optimal production of alcohols, especially in anaerobic fermentations.
Several enzymatic methods have been developed for the regeneration of NADH [44]. By overexpressing the NAD+-dependent formate dehydrogenase (FDH) from Candida boidinii in E. coli, the maximum yield of NADH was doubled from 2 to 4 mol NADH/mol glucose consumed [21]. Compared with the control strain, the ethanol to acetate (Et/Ac) ratio of the engineered strain containing heterologous FDH increased dramatically, by nearly 30-fold. What makes it even more interesting is the observation that the increased availability of NADH induced the production of ethanol even in the presence of O2, and the amount of ethanol was dependent on the amount of added formate [21]. This approach was also demonstrated to be effective for improving the Et/Ac ratio in minimal medium [22]. Similarly, the fdh gene was introduced into Klebsiella oxytoca. Interestingly, in said case both the oxidative and the reductive metabolism of glycerol was enhanced [45]. Results indicated that the engineered strain OF-1 produced more 1,3-propanediol, ethanol, and lactate than the control strain, as a result of increased NADH availability. The molar yield of 1,3-PDO was 17.3% higher than that of the control strain [45]. Using the same formate/formate dehydrogenase NADH regeneration system, the target pathways of (2S,3S)-2,3-butanediol [46] and butanol [47, 48] were effectively coupled to the NADH driving force, respectively, and the product titers were also improved significantly.
In addition to fine-tuning fdh1 expression levels, it was demonstrated that the intracellular redox state could be modulated by anaerobically activating the pyruvate dehydrogenase (PDH) complex. The engineered strain showed the highest reported butanol productivity from glucose in E. coli (0.26 g/L/h) [35]. It indicated a new approach to improve the availability of NADH.
In spite of NADH, there are strategies reported on NADPH regeneration for alcohols or reduced chemicals production. Verho et al. expressed a discovered GDP1 gene coding an NADP+-dependent d-glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase for ethanol fermentation in S. cerevisiae [49]. The GDP1-overexpressed strain produced ethanol with a higher rate and yield than the control strain. Combining with the deletion of ZWF1 (coding glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase for NADPH and CO2 generation) for redox balance, the resulting strain produced 11% more ethanol and 69% less xylitol which is the main byproduct in xylose fermentation [49]. Furthermore, glucose dehydrogenases from different microorganisms were also used for NADPH regeneration [50, 51]. Eguchi et al. used a glucose dehydrogenase cloned from Gluconobacter scleroides for recycling of cofactor NADPH in vitro [50], while Xu et al. cloned a glucose dehydrogenase gene gdh from Bacillus megaterium to regenerate NADPH in vitro and in vivo [51]. A recent study also reported an approach to enhancing NADPH supply by overexpressing glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase [52]. These examples demonstrated the possibility of engineering the regeneration of NADPH for efficient alcohol production.
In addition to the purely bio-catalytic regeneration of NADH and NADPH, electricity-driven NAD(P)H regeneration and direct electron transfer are rapidly being developed and have been applied experimentally for CO2 fixation in the recent 5 years [53–56]. These studies focused on the delivery of electrons from electrodes to the cells to supply reducing power, which in turn can be used for alcohol production [57]. CO2 is an oxidizing compound which requires large amounts of energy and reducing power to be fixed into organics. In nature, cyanobacteria and higher plants use NADPH to fix CO2 in the Calvin cycle [58, 59]. Li et al. [53] designed an integrated electro-microbial process to convert CO2 into formate, which was further turned into NADH by formate dehydrogenase. The generated NADH was used for isobutanol synthesis in Ralstonia eutropha. About 846 mg/L isobutanol was produced, indicating the tantalizing possibility of microbial electrosynthesis of alcohols. Torella et al. [55] reported a hybrid microbial water-splitting catalyst system which was similar to natural photosynthesis. In this system, water was electrolyzed by electricity for the supply of reduced cofactors (NADPH) with the help of hydrogenases, and CO2 was fixed through the Calvin cycle in an engineered R. eutropha strain using the obtained NADPH. Using this system, 216 mg/L isopropanol was synthesized with high selectivity [55].
In the above content, we listed some approaches of improving the availability of needed cofactors for alcohol production and described each approach respectively. However, these approaches are not always separately employed in metabolic engineering for alcohol production. Blocking of competing NADH-withdrawing pathways was usually accompanied by introduction of NADH regeneration systems [35]. Analogously, fine-tuning of gene expression may connect with introduction of NADH regeneration systems in alcohols synthetic pathway [31, 48]. Additionally, the strategy of increasing the total level of NAD can conceivably be combined with the introduction of an NADH regeneration system to exert an even stronger effect [60]. Therefore, in systems metabolic engineering of alcohol production, different kinds of cofactor engineering approaches could be considered and combined.
Manipulating the affinity of key redox enzymes for NADH or NADPH to improve alcohol production
In cells, various redox enzymes prefer different reducing equivalents. NAD(H) and its phosphate form NAD(P)H play major roles in metabolic processes of all living beings [21]. In microorganisms, over 400 redox enzymes have a high affinity to NAD(H) and another 400 ones have a high affinity to NADP(H), they are dependent on NAD(H) and NADP(H), respectively [38, 61]. In addition, some redox enzymes are dependent on ferredoxin, the flavin nucleotides flavin-adenine dinucleotide (FAD) and flavin mononucleotide (FMN), heme, pyrroquinoline quinone (PQQ) or other cofactors [38, 62]. As shown in Fig. 1, NADH and NADPH can be generated from different pathways in microbes. In any case, the electron balance must be satisfied and thus reduced electron carriers, like NADH and NADPH, must be re-oxidized, mostly via the reduction of substrates to alcohols, or the formation of H2 and/or other reductive metabolites [43]. Commonly, electrons are transferred between the reduced and oxidized forms of the cofactor, the corresponding redox enzyme and the reactants, forming a redox cycle. However, it is also possible that some of the proteins mediate the exchange of electrons between NADH, NADPH, ferredoxin and other reducing equivalents. Sometimes, the types of reducing equivalents generated from the available substrates are not fit for the redox enzymes that re-oxidize the necessary cofactors [11, 63]. Thus, to meet the redox requirements for alcohol biosynthesis, it is necessary to construct novel redox cycles and therefore to achieve new redox homeostasis. Recently, many attempts have been made to change the affinity of key redox enzymes for different types of reducing equivalents, or to interconvert the reducing equivalents between different types.
Common NAD(P)H-dependent metabolic pathways in microbes. Dashed arrow line: NADPH; solid arrow line: NADH
Switching the redox enzymes’ affinity from one type of reducing equivalent to another to efficiently couple alcohol production to cellular redox homeostasis
As described above, NAD(H) is the most abundant reducing equivalent in most bacteria and yeasts. Consequently, many efforts have been made to change the preferential affinity of redox enzymes from NADPH to NADH. For example, using xylose as a feedstock to produce ethanol in S. cerevisiae has attracted much attention, and it was found that the ethanol yield was far below the theoretical maximum because of imbalanced coenzyme utilization [63]. An NADPH-preferring xylose reductase (XR) and a strictly NAD+-dependent xylitol dehydrogenase (XDH) caused the cofactor imbalance, leading to a low yield. Consequently, researchers employed structure-guided site-directed mutagenesis to change the coenzyme preference of Candida tenuis XR from NADPH in the wild-type enzyme to NADH [63, 64]. The strain harboring the resulting XR double mutant showed a 42% enhanced ethanol yield (0.34 g/g) compared to the reference strain harboring wild-type XR, in anaerobic bioconversions of xylose [63]. Likewise, the NADH preference of Pichia stipitis XR could also be altered by site-directed mutagenesis [65]. An engineered XR with the point mutation K270R was combined with the capability of xylose utilization, and the resulting S. cerevisiae gave an ethanol yield of 0.39 g/g and a titer of 25.3 g/L, which was 18 and 51% higher than the reference strain, respectively [65].
Generally, NADH is the preferred electron donor for redox enzymes in most organisms, but some are capable of efficiently generating NADPH. An example of this are photosynthetic cyanobacteria [66]. For these microbes, the use of NADPH-dependent enzymes can be beneficial for alcohol production. Lan and Liao introduced the butanol pathway into Synechococcus elongatus PCC 7942 by exchanging the NAD+-dependent enzymes with NADP+-dependent ones, enabling them to consume the NADPH generated through photosynthesis [67]. By coupling the pathway with an ATP-driven step, the cyanobacterial strain successfully produced 29.9 mg/L butanol, increasing butanol production by fourfold [67]. Interestingly, by introducing an additional NADPH-consuming isopropanol synthetic pathway, the photosynthesis of Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803 was improved by about 50%, due to the immediate re-oxidation of NADPH that was generated from the photoreaction. At the same time, 226.9 mg/L of isopropanol was produced by this engineered strain [68]. Considering their ethanol-producing potential [57], cyanobacteria may well become the most cost-effective alcohol producing microbial cell factory in the future [69].
Dai et al. [70] introduced a single secondary alcohol dehydrogenase into C. acetobutylicum to consume NADPH for isopropanol production which switches ABE fermentation to a higher level IBE fermentation. The clostridial butanol synthesis pathway utilizes both NADH and reduced ferredoxin as sources of reducing power [71]. In order to couple the NADH driving force to the butanol pathway, a trans-enoyl-CoA reductase (Ter) was chosen to replace the butyryl-CoA dehydrogenase complex (Bcd-EtfAB), and thus to balance the reducing power in the form of NADH. The resulting strain produced 1.8 g/L of butanol in 24 h compared to only 0.1 g/L generated by an equivalent construct harboring Bcd-EtfAB [48].
Interconverting the reducing equivalents between different types is also a promising strategy to meet the redox requirements for the biosynthesis of target products. Panagiotou et al. demonstrated that the overexpression of an ATP-dependent NADH kinase to convert NADH into NADPH had a positive effect on growth efficiency in Aspergillus nidulans. Since aspergilli are major players in industrial biotechnology, it is conceivable that this strategy could enable the development of many new strains capable of generating the important reducing power in the form of NADPH, which is crucial for efficient production of metabolites and enzymes in large-scale fermenters [72]. In some cases, NADPH is needed directly for the production of target chemicals. For this purpose, researchers have genetically engineered an E. coli strain to increase the availability of NADPH by replacing the native NAD+-dependent glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase (GAPDH) with an NADP+-dependent GAPDH from C. acetobutylicum. This resulted in the generation of 2 mol of NADPH, instead of NADH, per mole of glucose consumed [11].
Taking an approach that is different from engineering the affinity for natural cofactors, recently, Zhao et al. created artificial redox systems which depend on nicotinamide flucytosine dinucleotide and showed excellent activity with the NAD-dependent malic enzyme [73]. This opens a new avenue for engineering bioorthogonal redox systems for a wide variety of applications in systems and synthetic biology, which could also be implemented in alcohol production [38].
Engineering of key enzymes to improve their affinity for NAD(P)H and decrease the redox requirements for alcohol production
During the production of alcohols, some cofactor-dependent key enzymes are often rate-limiting, which is obviously unfavorable. Ingram et al. found more effective enzymes utilizing NADH in ethanol production. Alcohol dehydrogenase II and pyruvate decarboxylase from Zymomonas mobilis were expressed at high levels in E. coli, resulting in increased cell growth and the production of ethanol as the principal fermentation product from glucose [18].
In addition to substituting intrinsic enzymes with more efficient ones, direct engineering of target enzymes to improve their affinity for specific cofactors is also a practical way to increase the product titer of various alcohols. Directed evolution which is a method for protein engineering and protein evolution mimicking natural selection has often been performed to engineer the characteristics of target enzymes [74]. Bastian et al. engineered an NADH-dependent IlvC by directed evolution, and coupled it with an engineered Lactococcus lactis AdhA in the isobutanol pathway. The K m value of this IlvC variant for NADH was dramatically decreased from 1080 to 30 μM, which was even lower than the K m of its native substrate NADPH which is 40 μM. At the same time, the engineered AdhA also showed increased affinity for NADH, with a change in K m value from 11.7 to 1.7 mM. Strains carrying the two engineered enzymes improved the yield to practically 100% of the theoretical limit under anaerobic conditions using glucose as feedstock [75].
Structure-based rational design is also an important approach used to engineer enzymes. Meng et al. recently engineered the affinity of a d-lactate dehydrogenase for NADH and NADPH. Based on computational design and analysis, the wild-type NADH-dependent d-lactate dehydrogenase from Lactobacillus delbrueckii was rationally mutated to increase its affinity for both NADPH and NADH. The mutant enzyme was able to super-efficiently utilize both NADPH and NADH as cofactors [76]. This study is not directly related to alcohol production, yet it may provide useful reference points.
Engineering the cellular redox environment at a global level to benefit alcohol production
As described above, fermentations for alcohol production are mostly performed under anaerobic conditions. In the presence of sufficient O2, most industrial organisms use active respiration to re-oxidize NADH and O2 is usually used as the final electron acceptor. Furthermore, under some conditions, O2 can lead to the production of free radicals from the electron transport chain, which can cause severe stress to microorganisms [77]. This in turn can indirectly hinder alcohol production. Some strategies have been reported to improve alcohol production by blocking O2-mediated NADH oxidation and strengthening the redox balance [78, 79].
Manipulating respiratory levels to redirect the electron transport chain towards aerobic formation of alcohols
Under aerobic conditions, cells produce large amounts of ATP through respiration, and grow rapidly, but alcohol production is inhibited due to a lack of NADH. Zhu et al. reported a smart strategy to limit respiratory levels, allowing the formation of reduced chemicals such as ethanol even under fully aerobic conditions. By knocking out the ubiCA genes, which encode two critical enzymes for ubiquinone synthesis and therefore respiration in E. coli, and by supplementing external coenzyme Q1, the respiratory level was manipulated so that up to 80% of the carbon atoms from glycerol were converted into ethanol [78]. It thus demonstrated that NADH (redox) partitioning between energy generation in the electron transport chain (respiration) and the use of NADH for reduction of metabolic intermediates could be precisely controlled.
In addition to genetically manipulating respiratory levels to redirect the electron transport chain, electron carriers based on artificial chemicals have also been used to direct electron flow. Stoichiometric network analysis revealed that NAD(P)H that was lost from the fermentation in the form of H2 limited the yield of butanol, and led to the accumulation of acetone. By using methyl viologen as an electron carrier to divert the electron flow away from H2 production, the NAD(P)H supply was reinforced, which increased butanol yields by 37.8%, along with strongly diminished acetone production [79].
Introduction of glutathione to enhance the thiol redox balance and accelerate alcohol biosynthesis
In addition to its direct participation in NAD(P)H-dependent reactions, these cofactors also play a prominent role in the physiological functions linked to microbial growth and metabolism. As the storage molecules of reducing power, NADH and NADPH provide most of the electrons that reverse O2-dependent thiol oxidation, constituting the thiol redox system, together with the glutathione (GSH, l-γ-glutamyl-l-cysteinylglycine) and thioredoxin pathways [12], which control intracellular redox homeostasis. Correspondingly, the microbial thiol redox system, including GSH, is presumed to affect the NADH and NADPH availability and therefore control the flux of NAD(P)H-dependent pathways.
GSH is the most abundant non-protein thiol, and is widely distributed in living organisms [80]. It plays important roles in many physiological and metabolic processes, including thiol redox homeostasis, protein stabilization, antioxidation, stresses tolerance and provision of electrons to reductive enzymes via NADPH [81–83]. The biosynthesis of GSH involves two consecutive enzymatic reactions, catalyzed either by the two separate enzymes γ-glutamylcysteine synthetase (γ-GCS, encoded by gshA) and GSH synthetase (GS, encoded by gshB), or by a bifunctional γ-glutamate-cysteine ligase/GSH synthetase (GshF). By over-expressing the gshAB genes from E. coli, GSH biosynthetic capability was introduced into C. acetobutylicum DSM 1731, and the resulting strain produced 14.8 g/L butanol, which was 37% higher than its wild-type parent. The engineered strain also exhibited improved tolerance to aeration and butanol [84]. This strategy was also applied in the butanol-producing strain C. acetobutylicum ATCC 824. By expressing the gshAB genes from E. coli in the adc locus, butanol production in the engineered strain 824adc::gsh was increased by 59%, reaching 8.3 g/L [85].
Engineering the redox-sensitive transcription factor Rex to control NADH/NAD+ homeostasis in order to manipulate alcohol biosynthesis
Anaerobic microbes, such as C. acetobutylicum, have evolved a number of strategies to cope with the oxidative stress from reactive oxygen species and molecular O2. In addition to the protection provided by GSH, it was found that reducing equivalents directly participate in the defense against oxidative stress in Clostridium by reducing O2 and oxygen free radicals, which favorably shifts the cellular redox balance [14, 86]. Interestingly, the redox-sensing transcriptional repressor Rex has recently been found to play a role in the solventogenic shift of C. acetobutylicum [87]. Rex is composed of two domains, an N-terminal winged-helix DNA-binding domain and a C-terminal Rossmann-like domain involved in NADH binding and subunit dimerization. The DNA-binding activity of Rex protein is modulated by the ratio of NADH to NAD+ [88, 89]. By systematically investigating the Rex regulons in 11 diverse clostridial species, Zhang et al. [14] suggested that Rex plays an important role in maintaining NADH/NAD+ homeostasis. This indicates a possible method to improve NADH-dependent alcohol production in clostridia.
The main recent advances on engineering redox homeostasis to accelerate alcohol biosynthesis, from the viewpoints of cofactors availability, enzyme affinity to cofactors and global redox regulation, have been summarized in this article. A number of approaches, as reviewed here, demonstrate the power of redox homeostasis to improve alcohol production. The strategy of improving the availability of the required cofactors can increase both the titers and yields of the desired alcohols to different extents. Although the productivity data are usually not indicated, an increased titer mostly also indicate increased productivity [34, 35, 46]. Manipulating the affinity of key redox enzymes for NADH or NADPH is an effective strategy to meet the specific cofactor requirements for alcohol biosynthesis and yield improving [63, 65, 75]. Globally engineered cellular redox state benefited the microbes’ tolerance to serious stresses, and therefore indirectly benefited the production of alcohols [78, 84, 87]. By employing these approaches, the alcohol production improvements were truly profound in certain cases, and are reflected by the final titers, yields and productivities (Table 1).
Strategies for engineering redox homeostasis and its effects on alcohols production
Specific approach
Target product
Main effects
Improving the availability of cofactors
Fine-tuning of NAD(P)H-dependent gene
Fine-tuining of yjhG and mdlC
1,2,4-Butanetriol
Increased by 71.4%
Fine-tuning of adhE2
Butanol
Increased from 15 to 18.3 g/L
Blocking NADH-competing pathways
Knock out ldh
1,2-Propanediol
Increased from 1.08 to 1.30 g/L anaerobically, from 1.10 to 1.40 g/L microaerobically
Increased by 43% anaerobically, by 67% microaerobically
Knock out aldA
Increased from 698.6 to 927.6 mM
Increased from 0.355 to 0.699 mol/mol
Increased by 33%
Knock out adh, ldh and frd
Increased from 141 to 274 mg/L
Knock out mdh
1,4-Butanediol
Increased from ~3 to ~8 mM
Increasing total NAD level
Overexpress pncB
Increased from 11.50 to 28.58 mM
Introducing NAD(P)H regeneration systems
Overexpress fdh1
Increased from ~15 to ~175 mM
Increased from 52.20 to 117.77 mM
Increased from 0.72 to 1.33 mol/mol
Overexpress fdh
Increased from 16.1 to 17.8 g/L
Increased from 82.5 to 91.8%
Activate pyruvate dehydrogenase, fine-tune express fdh1
Increased from 5.02 to 6.8 g/L
Increased by 136%
Overexpress GDP1
Increased from 90 to 100 mM
Increased from 18 to 41%
Electrically regenerate NADH
Isobutanol
Produced 846 mg/L
Electrically regenerate NADPH
Manipulating affinity of redox enzymes for NAD(P)H
Switching the affinity from one type to another
Mutate XR (NADPH to NADH)
Increased from 0.24 to 0.34 g/g
Introduce NADPH-preferring enzymes in Synechococcus
Increased from 6.4 to 29.9 mg/L
Replace bcd-etfAB with ter
Increased from 0.1 to 1.8 g/L
Improving affinity for NAD(P)H
Introduce alcohol dehydrogenase II and pyruvate decarboxylase genes from Z. mobilis
Increase affinities of IlvC and AdhA for NADH
Increased from 1 to 13.4 g/L
Increased from 53 to 100% of the theoretical yield
Increased by 38–88%
Globally engineering cellular redox balance
Manipulating respiratory levels
Knock out ubiCA and supply coenzyme Q1
Increased from 0.48 to 0.80 mol/mol aerobically
Introducing glutathione
Overexpress gshAB
Engineering redox-sensitive transcription factor Rex
Inactivate rex
Ethanol, Butanol
Increased from ~20 to ~120 mM and increased from 60 to 120 mM, respectively
NR not reported
Redox homeostasis engineering may play an important role in developing alcohol-producing microbial cell factories, yet it is not omnipotent. Firstly, it is hard to quantify the exact impact of cofactor manipulation on reducing equivalents as some unknown formats of reducing equivalents exist not only NAD(P)H, FADH2, etc. [90, 91]. Consequently, some strategies could be useless or bring burden to the cells, and sometimes may even be harmful to the cell hosts [92]. Secondly, the cellular redox state is dynamically changed and cannot be monitored in real time, which makes it difficult to completely understand the whole process of alcohol production. Thirdly, there are other redox relevant enzymes except for alcohol synthetic pathway enzymes. These enzymes may have physiological function shifting the cell to another metabolic pattern after the above approaches were adopted [93].
Although rapidly advancing, the tools and methods of systems metabolic engineering still await more exciting developments for controlling the metabolic fluxes and energy/redox requirements in the context of maximizing product titer, yield and productivity. Since traditional cofactor engineering might not be sufficient to meet the demand for higher titer, yield and productivity of target products, future work will have to use systems and synthetic biology approaches in order to further understand the redox systems of typical industrially relevant bacteria. In addition, the product yield is always limited by the provided substrate (including co-substrate) due to the stoichiometry of available electrons from a substrate [16]. Engineering of redox homeostasis made it possible to close to the maximal theoretical yield, but it was hardly to obtain a yield beyond the limits from substrate. Reports on other target chemicals have also provided certain reference points for future engineering of redox homeostasis. Feedstocks which are more reduced than glucose may be suitable for the production of alcohols such as glycerol [5] and sorbitol [22], but also fatty acids [17]. Additionally, extracellular redox potential (ORP) was validated as an effective parameter that controls the anaerobic microbial production of 1,3-propanediol [94] and butanol [95]. In the future, improving the metabolic flux towards target products by controlling extracellular ORP could be employed in some reactions which are difficult to conduct, especially ones that need very low redox potentials [96, 97].
NADH:
reduced nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide
NAD+ :
oxidized nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide
NADPH:
reduced nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate
NADP+ :
oxidized nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate
RBS:
ribosome binding site
PEP:
phosphoenolpyruvate
1,2-PDO:
1,4-BDO:
FDH:
formate dehydrogenase
Et/Ac:
ethanol to acetate
PDH:
pyruvate dehydrogenase
FAD:
flavin adenine dinucleotide
FMN:
flavin mononucleotide
PQQ:
pyrroquinoline quinone
XR:
xylose reductase
XDH:
xylitol dehydrogenase
GAPDH:
glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase
GSH:
γ-GCS:
γ-glutamylcysteine synthetase
GS:
GSH synthetase
ORP:
redox potential
YZ developed the concept and edited the paper. CZ, QZ and YL wrote the paper. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.
This work was supported by the Key Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (ZDRW-ZS-2016-3), and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (31470231). Yanping Zhang is supported by the Youth Innovation Promotion Association CAS (No. 2014076).
CAS Key Laboratory of Microbial Physiological and Metabolic Engineering, Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, No. 1 West Beichen Road Chaoyang District, Beijing, 100101, China
University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, China
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Saudi says intercepts missile from Yemen
Debris from missile launched from rebel-held territory in Yemen landed in residential areas of Jizan with no casualties.
Riyadh accuses its regional rival Tehran of supplying the Huthis with ballistic missiles
RIYADH - Saudi air defences on Monday intercepted a ballistic missile over southern city Jizan fired from rebel-held territory in neighbouring Yemen, a spokesman for the Saudi-led coalition said.
Debris from the missile landed in residential areas of Jizan, but without causing casualties, coalition spokesman Turki al-Maliki said in a statement released by the official Saudi Press Agency.
Yemen's Iran-allied Huthi rebels have in recent months ramped up missile attacks against neighbouring Saudi Arabia, which leads a military coalition against them.
Two rebel missiles targeted the southern city of Khamis Mushait on Saturday, according to Maliki. One missile was intercepted and destroyed by Saudi forces, while the other crashed in an unpopulated desert area, he said.
Saudi Arabia earlier this month tested a new siren system for the capital Riyadh and the oil-rich Eastern Province, in a sign of the increased challenge posed by the rebels' armaments.
Riyadh accuses its regional rival Tehran of supplying the Huthis with ballistic missiles, a charge Iran denies.
Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and other allies intervened in Yemen in 2015 with the aim of pushing back the rebels and restoring the internationally recognised government to power.
The conflict has left nearly 10,000 people dead and more than 55,000 wounded, according to the World Health Organization.
More than 2,200 others have died from cholera and millions are on the verge of famine in what the United Nations says is the world's gravest humanitarian crisis.
Russia opposes UN call for end to Syria hospital attacks
FT says Israeli spyware firm can mine user data
Libya's Mitiga airport re-opens for air traffic
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Downtown Franklin, Tennessee is a vibrant blend of historic preservation and modern sophistication. Just 14 miles from Nashville, you'll find an oasis of Southern hospitality housed in a 16-block National Register district of award-winning antique shops, brick-and-mortar gift and book stores, fashion-forward boutiques, privately owned art galleries, lovingly restored homes and more. Since its founding in 1984, the Downtown Franklin Association has spearheaded the revitalization of Franklin's historic downtown core. We've done it by following the four-point program of the National Main Street Center of the National Trust for Historic Preservation: Organization, Design, Promotion and Economic Restructuring.
Working in partnership with property owners, preservationists, city and county government, local businesses and merchants in our historic retail district, the Downtown Franklin Association has helped create one of the nation's Main Street success stories. We've earned national recognition as an authentic, eclectic place that offers something for everyone in an atmosphere that reminds locals and visitors alike of a simpler time in our history – a place where community matters.
We've earned recognition as an authentic, eclectic community whose locals have never met a stranger. Whether you're looking to explore the locally owned shops that line Main Street, score a timeless heirloom in our antique district, catch a live show at our award-winning venues or grab a craft cocktail at one of our acclaimed restaurants, there's something for everyone here.
Carnton Plantation
1345 Eastern Flank Cir, Franklin, TN 37064 (615) 794-0903
Carnton was built in 1826 by former Nashville mayor Randal McGavock (1768-1843). Throughout the nineteenth century it was frequently visited by those shaping Tennessee and American history, including President Andrew Jackson. Carnton grew to become one of the premier farms in Williamson County, Tennessee. Randal McGavock's son John (1815-1893) inherited the farm upon his father's death. John McGavock married Carrie Elizabeth Winder (1829-1905) in December 1848 and they had five children, three of whom died at young ages - Martha (1849-1862); Mary Elizabeth (1851-1858); and John Randal (1854). The surviving children were Winder (1857-1907) and Hattie (1855-1932).
230 Franklin Rd, Franklin, TN 37064 615-791-1777
Built in 1929, The Factory occupies the buildings that once served as the Dortch Stove Works, Magic Chef and later the Jamison Bedding Company. A member of the National Register of Historic Places, The Factory is rich with history and a very careful renovation has preserved many of The Factory's original features and architectural details. Calvin bought the sprawling complex seven years ago and, after an environmental clean-up, began opening the facility in sections. Today, The Factory at Franklin has 83 tenants. Imagine that factory coming alive with concerts, dining, shopping, meetings, live theatre, art galleries, decorators' showcases, antiques and offices. Our unique facility can serve all this and more. Take a look at The Factory in its days as a bustling, working factory, then embark on a photographic tour of its renovation and transformation to the diverse and vibrant shopping and entertainment complex it is today.
Cool Springs Galleria
1800 Galleria Blvd, Franklin, TN 37067 (615) 771-2128
CoolSprings Galleria is an enclosed regional shopping mall in the Cool Springs commercial and residential corridor between Franklin and Brentwood, Tennessee, 15 miles south of Nashville.
To Eat & Drink
Taziki's Mediterranean Cafe
4091 Mallory Ln, Franklin, TN 37067 (615) 791-4465
Get away from the busy pace of your life and the noise of the world. Step through our doors and discover a place where we combine extraordinary food with meaningful connections. Look around and you may notice the pictures on the wall that tell the story of Keith and Amy Richards' 1997 trip to Greece where they encountered big-hearted people around small table cafe's that inspired Taziki's. Our Mediterranean-inspired menu has a bit of a southern accent, which we make from scratch everyday. Watch us prepare your meal through our open kitchens, and enjoy the relaxing music and quiet environment that is designed for conversation and community gatherings. After all, in a world hungry for connection and happiness, relationships are what matter most. Need to get away? Time to escape to Taziki's.
Moe's Original Bar B Que
9050 Carothers Pkwy #104, Franklin, TN 37067 (615) 807-2908
Moe's Original Bar B Que was founded by three Alabama boys: Ben Gilbert from Athens, Mike Fernandez from Tuscaloosa, and Jeff Kennedy from Huntsville. After meeting at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa, they instantly became friends and had a mutual interest in all things Southern: BBQ, blues, college football, and whisky.
In 1988, Mike hooked up with Moses Day in Tuscaloosa and began learning to fire roast meats. When Moses fired up his backyard barrel pit, everyone in T-Town knew where to go. The boys were lucky to learn from Moses and his distinct style makes up Moe's original flavor of BBQ.
Moe's Original BBQ is a Southern soul food revival where great food is served in an atmosphere that is relaxed, spontaneous, yet civilized....well, sometimes.
Wild Ginger Restaurant
101 Market Exchange Ct, Franklin, TN 37067 (615) 778-0081
Wild Ginger is a refreshingly distinct fine dining experience located at the heart of Cool Springs-featuring an eclectic blend of Pan-Asian, South American, and Western cuisine in the Pacific Rim style-with succulent selections for all palates, including the popular miso seabass, braised short rib, and a wide array of signature maki and tapas.
Though restaurants categorized as "fusion" are mostly located in trendy metropolitan areas like Miami and Manhattan, Wild Ginger is the first and only of its kind in Middle Tennessee.
This family-owned and operated restaurant's perpetually growing popularity and devoted regular clientele make it essential for us to not just continually reinvent our menu, but more importantly, the entire dining experience. Wild Ginger is the perfect destination for a business lunch, romantic evening, or relaxing dinner with family and friends.
Maniac's
99 Seaboard Ln # 500, Brentwood, TN 37027 (615) 370-2803
Strip-mall option for chicken tenders with a variety of housemade sauces, plus sandwiches & salads.
Stoney River Steakhouse and Grill
Stoney River is an upscale casual dining steakhouse, specializing in hand-cut steaks and gourmet entrees, served in a sophisticated atmosphere by professional servers. Guests can enjoy diverse menu offerings such as Center-cut Filets, Bone-in Rib-eye's or a Classic NY Strip. Not in the mood for a steak? Stoney River offers fresh seafood selections, signature salads and house specialties. Whether relaxing at the bar or dining in the comfortable atmosphere, enjoy a hand-crafted cocktail, local draft beer or glass of wine from our boutique wine list. Our goal is to provide you with the finest culinary experience that exceeds your expectations.
3010 A Mallory Lane, Franklin, TN 37067 (615) 771-1025
From the moment you walk through our doors, you'll know you're in a restaurant like no other. At Bonefish Grill, we focus on every little detail of your experience, anticipate your needs, and provide personalized service that allows you to enjoy a delicious meal in a comfortable, vibrant atmosphere. At Bonefish Grill we have Anglers who guide you on an open sea excursion to choose the best fish to fit your taste. Our Anglers deliver white-coat service in their crisp white chef coats. They are warmly welcoming and trained to navigate you through your dining experience from savory start to sweet finish. They can tell you where we source our fresh fish, how we cook it, and can suggest the perfect wine and cocktail to pair with your dish.
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source Abdul Salis, Adam Godley, Adrian Preater, Alan Barnes, Alan Rickman, Amanda Garwood, Andrew Lincoln, Anne Reid, Anthony McPartlin, Arturo Venegas, Bill Moody, Bill Nighy, Billy Bob Thornton, Billy Campbell, Brian Bovell, Carla Vasconcelos, Carol Carey, Caroline John, Catia Duarte, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Ciaran O’Driscoll, Clare Bennett, Claudia Schiffer, Colin Coull, Colin Firth, Dan Fredenburgh, Dave Fisher, Declan Donnelly, Denise Richards, Doraly Rosen, Edward Hardwicke, Elisabeth Margoni, Elisha Cuthbert, Elizabeth Margoni, Emma Buckley, Emma Thompson, Frances de la Tour, Frank Moorey, Gemma Aston, Georgia Flint, Gillian Barge, Glenn Conroy, Gregor Fisher, Heike Makatsch, Helder Costa, Helder Freire Costa, Helen Murton, Hugh Grant, Igor Urdenko, Ines Boughanmi, Ivana Milicevic, Jamie Edgell, January Jones, Jill Freud, Jo Whiley, Joanna Bacon, Joanna Page, Joanna Thaw, John Sharian, Jont Whittington, Julia Davis, Junior Simpson, Kate Bowes Renna, Kate Glover, Katharine Bailey, Katherine Poulton, Keir Charles, Keira Knightley, Kris Marshall, Laura Linney, Laura Rees, Lúcia Moniz, Liam Neeson, Lulu Popplewell, Lynden David Hall, Marcus Brigstocke, Margery Mason, Martin Freeman, Martine McCutcheon, Matt Harvey, Meg Wynn Owen, Meredith Ostrom, Michael Fitzgerald, Michael Parkinson, Nancy Sorrell, Nat Udom, Nicola McRoy, Nina Sosanya, Olivia Olson, Patrick Delaney, Paul Heasman, Paul Slack, Peter Marinker, Raul Atalaia, Rebecca Frayn, Richard Curtis, Richard Hawley, Richard Wills-Cotton, Rodrigo Santoro, Rory MacGregor, Rowan Atkinson, Ruby Turner, Sarah Atkinson, Sarah Holland, Sarah McDougall, Shannon Elizabeth, Shaughan Seymour, Sheila Allen, Sienna Guillory, Stewart Howson, Terry Reece, Thomas Brodie-Sangster, Thomas Sangster, Tiffany Boysell, Tim Hatwell, Tony Lucken, Tuuli, Vicki Murdoch, Wes Butters, William Wadham, Wyllie Longmore, Yuk Sim Yau
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Murray State University Information: Week of April 22-26
MURRAY, Ky. — Below is information regarding recent news, notes and accomplishments from Murray State University for the week of April 22-26.
The Murray State University Hutson School of Agriculture hosted more than 1,250 FFA students across 50-plus high schools in Kentucky, Indiana and Illinois at its 67th annual FFA Field Day April 10.
Students participated in competitions throughout the day while learning more about the University and the Hutson School of Agriculture.
The Hutson School of Agriculture also recognized its best and brightest during its 42nd annual student awards banquet held March 13 in the Curris Center. Hutson School of Agriculture faculty and students along with University administration gathered to honor students in a variety of categories, ranging from club members to high-achieving seniors.
This year’s Outstanding Senior Woman in Agriculture was Cassidy Neal, while JT Payne and Jonathan Reynolds were co-recipients of the Outstanding Senior Man award.
Cassidy Neal
Jonathan Reynolds
JT Payne
“We are proud of all our outstanding students and take great pride in this great opportunity to recognize their many accomplishments,” said Hutson School of Agriculture Dean Dr. Tony Brannon. “We have many students who strive to go ‘On Beyond Zebra!’ and get an education instead of just a degree, and honoring them at this annual event is the highlight of our year.”
The banquet also recognized students that received scholarships in the past academic year, totaling more than 250 awards for over $160,000.
Additionally, the Murray State Alpha Gamma Rho fraternity chapter participated in a food packing project earlier this month, packing a total of 5,832 meals for Murray Kids Care for Hunger.
Pictured are Murray State Alpha Gamma Rho fraternity chapter members participating in a food packing project with Murray Kids Care for Hunger.
The Hutson School of Agriculture also hosted the North American Colleges and Teachers of Agriculture (NACTA) judging competition on campus April 10-13. Over 700 contestants representing teams from over 50 colleges and two-year universities participated.
Dr. Matthew Gianforte, associate professor, will present a recital on Saturday, April 27 at 3:30 p.m. in the Performing Arts Hall on the Murray State campus. The recital, which is free and open to the public, will feature works by Mozart, Debussy, Mendelssohn, Liszt, and Gershwin, and is part of a larger program that Gianforte will be presenting on a two-week, ten-concert tour of Eastern China in May.
Matthew Gianforte
Recognized for his sensitivity and panache, pianist Matthew Gianforte enjoys an active career as a soloist, collaborator, and teacher, having performed across the United States and abroad. Highlights of past seasons include successful debut appearances at Weill Recital Hall (New York), Sarada and Philia Halls in Japan, as well as appearances to present solo and collaborative recitals honoring the birthdays of Mendelssohn, Chopin, Schumann, Liszt, and Debussy.
With his wife, pianist Meeyoun Park, Gianforte has appeared as a duo pianist in numerous festivals, artist series, conferences, and university guest recitals across the country. In addition, he has performed or premiered a number of recently composed works by composers such as David DeBoor Canfield, Brian Ciach, Joel Hoffman, Jonathan McNair and Paul Salerni.
His recording with trumpeter Kurt Gorman, released in 2018 by Veritas Musica, features sonatas by American composers Easley Blackwood, Wayne Liu and Halsey Stevens.
Dr. Ihsan Alkhatib, a Murray State University associate professor and pre-law advisor of political science and sociology, was recently featured in a Wallethub study on the most diverse cities in the United States.
Alkhatib was asked questions about the pros and cons of living in a diverse city, the relationship between diversity and economic growth in cities and how local policymakers can harness diversity to spur innovation.
Wallethub is a personal finance website that offers news and other consumer tools.
WKMS News took home 12 awards in the Kentucky Associated Press Broadcasters Association’s professional and collegiate competitions this month.
WKMS, a member station of National Public Radio based at Murray State University, offers news and music 24 hours a day across the airwaves and online.
“WKMS News is honored to be recognized among professional peers as an award-winning team of professional and student journalists,” said news director Matt Markgraf. “Most of our newsroom is comprised of working Murray State students and they won awards covering the Murray State Racers and research by Murray State biologists. WKMS News is honored to have the top two College Digital Journalists in the state in Cory Sharber and Sydni Anderson, winning first and second place respectively.
“We provide students an unmatched professional experience thanks to listener donations and support from Murray State. We’re grateful for Murray State recognizing WKMS News as a valuable asset to the university and regional community for nearly 50 years. We look forward to this sustained support for many years to come.”
In the professional radio competition, the news team won second place in the Breaking News category and first place in Continuing Coverage for its reporting on the Marshall County High School shooting tragedy.
Former Ohio Valley ReSource reporter Nicole Erwin won first place for Long Serious News Feature for her in-depth work on the shooting. She, along with OVR managing editor Jeff Young, won second place in Enterprise Reporting for the story “In The Wake of School Shooting, A Look at How Kids Get Guns.”
Erwin’s piece “Win For Wetlands: Program Helps Farmers Conserve More Flood Prone Land” won first place in Long Public Affairs. Several of her stories, featuring graphic design work from OVR’s Alexandra Kanik, comprise her second place award for Digital Coverage. Markgraf, with contribution from Kentucky Public Radio capitol reporter Ryland Barton and student reporter Cory Sharber, won first place in the Use of Sound category for “The Sights & Sounds Of Fancy Farm 2018.”
Murray State University students had a strong showing in the college radio competition. Cory Sharber of Hopkinsville, Kentucky, won first place in the Digital Journalist category. Sydni Anderson of Indian Mound, Tennessee, won second place in that category. Anderson’s “Murray State Scientists Searching for Conditions that Cause Harmful Algal Blooms” won first place in Best Public Affairs. Sharber’s story, “Murray State Basketball is Dancing for the 16th Time,” won first place in Best Sports Coverage.
Made possible by listener support, WKMS News is committed to — and relies heavily on — quality student journalism featured on wkms.org, which won first place in Best Website.
Murray State University student Cory Sharber displays his first-place awards for Best Digital Journalist and Best Sports Coverage in the college category of this year’s Kentucky Associated Press Broadcasters Association competition.
Fellow member stations of the Kentucky Public Radio Network and Ohio Valley ReSource won numerous awards overall. These public radio collaboratives are made possible because of listener support.
Murray State students competing in this year’s Tennessee Valley Authority Investment Challenge Program finished third out of 25 competing schools.
The program involves student teams actively managing stock portfolios for the TVA, designing long-term investment strategies and choosing investments under the guidance of faculty members and guidelines set by the TVA.
Murray State’s overall return exceeded returns on the S&P 500 by 4.14 percent, earning a performance award of $4,131. Since the program began 21 years ago, the University has been awarded more than $100,000.
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rumanci 30 Oct 05 - 12:50 PM
GUEST,Melpp (pronounced "Mee-LIP") 29 Oct 05 - 09:04 PM
Bunnahabhain 28 Oct 05 - 03:08 PM
MMario 28 Oct 05 - 02:02 PM
Bunnahabhain 27 Oct 05 - 06:00 AM
Sorry I wasn't around earlier today, Mom, but I was off exploring the Curlew National Grassland.
And no, Amos, it wasn't THAT kind of grass! The very idea! Humph! Now Mom knows where where YOUR mind is at!
Isn't that nice--catch and release even though it was a record-breaker!
Sorry I wasn't around yesterday, Mom. I was painting a cabinet. Looks real nice now, in the livingroom with the kids' computer stuff on it. Now I can have my library table back.
From: rumanci
From A Child's Garden of Bullshit
OH NO !!
May I throw a quoit into the ring ?
How contrary doth that seem ?
Not at all Merry
Ah, woe, ah, woe
My Mom is feeling l0ow.
Ah, then, ah, then,
Go pull her up again.
Bu why, but why?
To make your Mother high.
How so? How so?
It's the only way to go.
Oh, say! Oh, say!
It is the MOAB way.
By B.S. Masters
Wan, Peaked and Chilled, pubs.
Buffalo, 1939
Mom:
I know you worry about the kind of company we bring home and who we hang around with.
Just so you know, the Mudcat has very respectable European forebears. Here's a photo of one of them with Rapaire and Bunn.
Funny, you sound just like them -- are you sure they didn't pull a switcheroo on you?
From: GUEST,Melpp (pronounced "Mee-LIP")
We have taken Washington, DC. Our allies, freds, have captured a Jena Bush and her female cognate; freds will utilize the captives genetic material to correct a recent mutation problem. We have taken over the brains of your leaders.
You would do well to surrender your planet. We will be merciful if you do.
Well, there's not much going on at the gun battery, so I came home. Besides, it's raining and everyone knows that Mars doesn't attack in the rain.
The animal kingdom is also going wonky on us:
FOURTEEN LITTLE PIGS CLONED IN ITALY, October 28
Italian scientist Cesare Galli has succeeded in cloning 14 piglets following earlier successes with a bull and a horse, the Ansa news agency said Friday.
Full story at http://www.physorg.com/news7661.html
ASTHMATIC CATS MAY BE ALLERGIC TO PEOPLE, October 27
Cats have long been blamed for causing human health problems, but now Scottish veterinarians say they've found humans can cause asthma attacks in cats.
I suppose cats only get asthma from humans who have uncooperative attitudes.
I've been assigned as loader for the 175mm Quaker cannons, Battery B, Firebase Alferd Packer. My job is to make sure that there is sufficent ammunition for the gunners and to make sure that they are loaded all the time.
War With Mars Is Hell.
Acting all rarified are ye, old buddy? Thin bue blood goin' to yer head? Never mind, I'll see she gets to the top safely.
Sorry yer so busy!!
Doggone it Mom! If you want to go slumming down at the bottom of the list at least get someone who's familiar with the slums to go with you. Someone like Amos.
I'm going to be pretty busy this weekend, what with the Martian Invasion and all.
Sereant Major Minor informs me that Colonel Suh has, with consent of General Panneck, decided that the Legion will remain at their posts and fight off the coming Martian Attack. Already the torpedo tubes have been loaded and real ammunition has been issued to those thought capable of handling it.
Colonel Suh has also noted that as soon as the Martians are defeated she will issue orders to "ride like the wind" for Upstate New York to "capture, hogtie, and bring to justice the entity which calls itself M (for Martian) Mario" on charges of barretry, flotsam, feme sole, petit treason, grand mal, indecent disclosure, and aiding and abetting. "Capture him, hang him, and convict him," her order reads. "Be like John Wayne toilet paper and don't take no shit off nobody."
Even if they are too far off to get here on Saturday I hope they'll at least wave. I'll head out to the driveway to set up my nice big telescope and take a peek. Tell them to wave in the general direction of Texas, MMario, if you're in touch with them. They won't be able to see my house because I'll turn off the porch light to use the telescope.
From: Bunnahabhain
So we're to expect an orbital bombardment of Generic Viagra? Once that gets into the enviroment, Gluon will be a real handful...
Rap's just jealous because *I've* got a Silent 'M'.
I know I don't have to fear the Idaho Legionaires as long as I am protected by my Tuxedo Panther and the Ferocious Pomaranion of Doom - both of whom I will be seeing tonight.
BTW - doubt the Martians will get here tomorrow - they are further off then they think they are - they've been relying on internet spam messages for their news updates again.
NOW you've done it, MMario! But we'll have to deal with you later, I guess, if the Martians are going to attack tomorrow.
I'm going out now to tell the Legion about the Martians and MMar...wait a minute! "Mario" is a perfectly good name, but that additional "M" -- could it be for "Martian"? "Martian Mario" would make sense!
The Legion will decide whether or not to ride immediately against Martian Mario or stay here and defend our beloved turf against the Martian invaders and THEN ride against Martian Mario.
Sure glad I'm not the Legion commander. What a decision to make!
pish-posh Amos! What can the Idaho Legion threaten me with? I've already survived the SINSULL and her Loony Lady Lackeys.
hey Melpp? Who told you Mars was gonna be close? It's been a lot closer before....Bet it was the freds told you, wasn't it?
oh - you gonna regret giving THEM a lift! Hoo-boyo, yes you are. the only worse thing might be if you had a ralf or two hanging around.
I thought that it would be sporting to tell you that since your planet, which you call "Urth," and my planet, which you call "Marz," will be far closer tomorrow than usual, we'll be coming over to visit.
Well, specifically, we'll be coming over to hunt down all of you and take your planet for our own. Yes, yes, it has all that water and oxygen, but we can deal with pollution issues.
Thought that if you were forewarned the hunting might be more interesting.
Oh, I almost forgot. The freds will be with us.
wOOOOEEEE, mm, YOU done stirred up a MESS o'trubble, boy; them Legionaires are a-gonna ride down to your house and infect all your blankets with Legionaire's Disease, see if they don't!! LO
oh - like Mom isn't perfectly adult and capable of making her own decisions? She didn't get to be over 9800 posts without "larnin' a thang er two" y'know.
Ever think maybe she wants a rest? A quiet day without having to jump up any time we want her attention? Huh? Ever think of giving Mom a chance to sit down, relax and enjoy herself for a change?
No wonder she likes Amos best.
Mom is NOT to go down to the end of list if she don't go down with me (or someone else). It would be too, too easy for her to go wandering all about, quite of her own accord and frankly, we can't afford a thirty shillings reward no matter WHAT King John, the Queen, and the Prince say.
Maybe Mom wants to go slumming?
There are times when we watch helplessly as the page loads so slowly that it times out before opening. Good catch, Rapaire!
Waiting hopefully for the 2pm (eastern) news conference in D.C. Fingers crossed, breath held, all talisman-like items in their places and doing their thing. Maybe I'll light a candle for Fitzgerald. :)
Mom! You were just one step from the bottom! You're not supposed to go down there! Now get up where you belong.
HEy, the old song was righter than they knew!!
Ah doan keer whut peeple say
Rock and roll is here to stay....
And these molecules, having but one leg at a time to stand on, rock?
Nah--in the molecular world octopi are buckyballs (C8). They roll.
Something afoot, well, it can't be anything fishy then. Unless there's an octopus involved somewhere, anyway...
Something is afoot!
Hmmmmmmmm...Amos, this gives a whole new dimension to The Sneakernet.
YEs, but I was trying to maintain a civilized posture, not wantonly scattering unwanted phraseology about like some folks are wont to do.
Meanwhile we may be in trouble:
WALKING MOLECULES. A single molecule has been made to walk on two
legs. Ludwig Bartels and his colleagues at the University of
California at Riverside, guided by theorist Talat Rahman of Kansas
State University, created a molecule---called 9,10-dithioanthracene
(DTA)---with two "feet" configured in such a way that only one foot
at a time can rest on the substrate. Activated by heat or the nudge
of a scanning tunneling microscope tip, DTA will pull up one foot,
put down the other, and thus walk in a straight line across a flat
surface. The planted foot not only supplies support but also keeps
the body of the molecule from veering or stumbling off course. In
tests on a standard copper surface, such as the kind used to
manufacture microchips, the molecule has taken 10,000 steps without
faltering. According to Bartels (ludwig.bartels@ucr.edu,
951-827-2041), possible uses of an atomic-sized walker include
guidance of molecular motion for molecule-based information storage
or even computation. DTA moves along a straight line as if placed
onto railroad tracks without the need to fabricate any nano-tracks;
the naturally occurring copper surface is sufficient. The
researchers now aim at developing a DTA-based molecule that can
convert thermal energy into directed motion like a molecular-sized
ratchet. (Kwon et al., Physical Review Letters, upcoming article;
text at www.aip.org/physnews/select; see movie at
www.chem.ucr.edu/groups/bartels/)
Not "tears," it's "rip" as in "bodice ripper." A more dramatic movement.
Well, Amos, I thought it needed just a little ol' smidgen of editing....
Butcher my purple prose, will you!! You just wait until someone comes along and tears YOUR bodice!!!
That's not too bad. You should have seen the one a group of my freinds wrote, when they were all living together. Someone would write a few pages, or maybe a short chapter, and pass it round. The end result is quite impressive. It came out at the end of a long evening, and guessing whos's is is who's was a great game.
Mix and match Mills and Boone isn't a bad idea either, in the right circumstances, such as after beer.
...She had been fastened by a rope...
Sound like she wasn't sitting by a tree, but hanging from it. She a hoss thief er a cattle russler?
. . .although I don't actually ever recall Lawrence saying "Bingo" in his novels. He wrote things like
Constance sat down with her back to a young pine-tree, that wayed against her with curious life, elastic, and powerful, rising up. The erect, alive thing, with its top in the sun! And she watched the daffodils turn golden, in a burst of sun that was warm on her hands and lap. Even she caught the faint, tarry scent of the flowers. And then, being so still and alone, she seemed to bet into the current of her own proper destiny. She had been fastened by a rope, and jagging and snarring like a boat at its moorings; now she was loose and adrift.
All of that, sitting next to a tree.
You can make the case for Lawrence's environmental view even when reading Lady Chatterley's Lover. Those drearly tin mines on the landscape.
I have a friend who has written about the Girl of the Limberlost or some such bog or marsh or barren place. Looking into the environmental aspects of her books, such as they are.
Gene Stratton Porter always had her characters "panting" -
Dogs don't pant as much as some of her heroines.
"She saw him striding across the GOD-forsaken beach in the dappling sunset light as though he owned the whole island, which, in fact, he did. Despite his worn trousers and broken sandals, he carried himself as a royal scion might while visiting his holdings which in fact he was, with a look of intelligent and superior tranquility. His bronzed skin barely hid the muscles rippling beneath, and his gray eyes had a distant, cloud-borne look that spoke of hours racing before the winds of the Spanish Main, which in fact he had.
Her interested inventory of his attributes was suddenly interrupted by a strange sensation: her gorge had climbed into her throat, and she could feel her breakfast rising along her pale, high cheeks and suffusing her lovely features with a grassy (and gassy) green. Never, in all her eighteen years, had she felt such a sensation; she stood still, overcome with a mixture of emotion and physical desire to reverse parestalsis that seemed to have a mind of its own....."
Have you read any D.H. Lawrence? One could argue that the overblown prose isn't just the domain of serial romance novels (though some would argue that Lawrence wrote just such novels himself).
So many women have "inchoate" eyes. But men also.
Any presence but that of the nurses was a strain and an effort to him now. Every morning Gerald went into the room, hoping to find his father passed away at last. Yet always he saw the same transparent face, the same dread dark hair on the waxen forehead, and the awful, inchoate dark eyes, which seemed to be decomposing into formless darkness, having only a tiny grain of vision within them.
And always, as the dark, inchoate eyes turned to him, there passed through Gerald's bowels a burning stroke of revolt, that seemed to resound through his whole being, threatening to break his mind with its clangour, and making him mad.
Chapter 24, Women In Love.
Or from chapter six, same book:
'You see he MADE me go and live with him, when I didn't want to,' she replied. 'He came and cried to me, tears, you never saw so many, saying HE COULDN'T bear it unless I went back to him. And he wouldn't go away, he would have stayed for ever. He made me go back. Then every time he behaves in this fashion. And now I'm going to have a baby, he wants to give me a hundred pounds and send me into the country, so that he would never see me nor hear of me again. But I'm not going to do it, after -- '
A queer look came over Gerald's face.
'Are you going to have a child?' he asked incredulous. It seemed, to look at her, impossible, she was so young and so far in spirit from any child-bearing.
She looked full into his face, and her dark, inchoate eyes had now a furtive look, and a look of a knowledge of evil, dark and indomitable. A flame ran secretly to his heart.
'Yes,' she said. 'Isn't it beastly?'
'Don't you want it?' he asked.
'I don't,' she replied emphatically.
'But -- ' he said, 'how long have you known?'
'Ten weeks,' she said.
All the time she kept her dark, inchoate eyes full upon him. He remained silent, thinking. Then, switching off and becoming cold, he asked, in a voice full of considerate kindness:
'Is there anything we can eat here? Is there anything you would like?'
'Yes,' she said, 'I should adore some oysters.'
'All right,' he said. 'We'll have oysters.' And he beckoned to the waiter.
"She saw him striding across the forsaken beach in the dappling sunset light as though he owned the whole island; despite his worn trousers and broken sandals, he carried himself as a royal scion might while visiting his holdings, with a look of intelligent and superior tranquility. His bronzed skin barely hid the muscles rippling beneath them, and his gray eyes had a distant, cloud-borne look that spoke of hours racing before the winds of the Spanish Main.
Her interested inventory of his attributes was suddenly interrupted by a strange sensation; her heart had climbed into her throat, and she could feel a flush rising along her pale, high cheeks and suffusing her lovelyy features. Never, in all her eighteen years, had she felt such a sensation; she stood still, overcome with a mixture of emotion and physical desire that seemed to have amind of its own....."
I dabbled with the idea years ago when I was starting out as a writer. Use a nom de plume to preserve my good name for the serious stuff. There are some decent authors who got their starts in those romance series, but they usually move on away from the series and their books take on more substance. The trouble with writing for a series like those is that you have to be able to stand reading most of their current stories to get the style and content down, and most of them are pretty darned stupid.
Heck, I'd write a romance just to get the check to stop me from writing more.
Mebbe we oughta talk Steve Ballmer into starting a charity foundation called "Chex for Chix" which would pay her not to write any more books and to sniff out similar paeans of feminine mediocrity and pay their authors not to do anything with them. Drive yon Harlequin and suchlike right out of business.
When I was a member of the Vietnam Veterans of America, I got a newsletter which included reviews of books about the Vietnam war. One book so reviewed was "Nam" by Danielle Steel.
I wish I had the review, but it went something like "I receive many books about the War, some good and some bad, but never has one reached such depths of badness as this one.... Apparently the author learned a few words and phrases, such as 'AK-47 and 'fragging' and has built a book around them.... I was glad to finish it...." and so on.
The review couldn't have made the author happy, but I suspect that as long as she got the checks she didn't care.
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Ebscer BB10 Apps
With BlackBerry 10 going on sale this morning in the UK, there are currently 12 Ebscer apps available in the BlackBerry World store, and an additional two apps awaiting approval. The full list of Ebscer apps can be found at ebscer.com/blackberry10, and includes games like Pixelated, Liar’s Dice, and Xploding Boxes. Also included in the store are some apps exclusive to BlackBerry 10, such as Mileage Tracker, and Stuff I Need.
Check out all Ebscer apps at BlackBerry World.
BlackBerry, BlackBerry10
Expectations for tomorrow’s launch
RIM has insisted that they will still have some surprises to announce tomorrow when they launch BlackBerry10. While we already (unofficially) know all about some unannounced features such as BBM Video and BlackBerry Voice, I am hoping that RIM still has a few surprises up their sleeves.
I spoke about this some on video with with Michael Li, but I think that RIM may still have a bit to announce in terms of cloud services. The set up that RIM is already using for the print-to-go app on PlayBook, implies that most of the infrastructure and technology is already set up and tested for BlackBerry to create a very integrated device to desktop connection. I am hoping that the upcoming BlackBerry Link app is more cloud based, than just a re-skinning of BlackBerry Desktop Manager.
BlackBerry also has some opportunities with their Scoreloop acquisition. The existing ‘Games’ app on the DevAlpha implies that there will be a significant advantage to games that integrate with this service. The recently released update to Pixelated includes Scoreloop leaderboards for this very reason.
With pretty much all services on the device now tied into BlackBerryID, there should be plenty of opportunity to use that for device storage similar to how Windows 8 uses the Windows.Storage.ApplicationData.Current.RoamingSettings objects in order to link app settings across different devices.
Away from cloud storage, BlackBerry has a real opportunity in their ability to support DLNA. With this they can offer features that make Apple TV (and the Nexus Q) irrelevant. The only downside is to battery life. In a year or two this approach could also threaten the need for an Xbox of PlayStation.
Also I really hope that BlackBerry announces something that finally makes NFC useful. It is cool technology, but in the past 18 months of having NFC on my phone, I have not had a real reason to use it.
BlackBerry10
BlackBerry 10 delayed until 10:00 am
Industry analysts who had been expecting to see BlackBerry 10 launched on January 30th at 9:00am have been disappointed as RIM has delayed the launch of their new phones till ten o’clock. Initial reaction on the stock market was muted, but many have warned that “the true fallout from this announcement has yet to be seen”.
BlackBerry maker RIM (RIMM) has been working on their new BlackBerry 10 operating system (their first with a touch screen) in order to compete with Apple’s iPhone, and Samsung’s Galaxy S III phone. While many have thought that RIM should follow HP and Dell’s move into the Enterprise tech industry, the company under CEO Thorsten Heins seems to still be committed to releasing phones.
Still most analysts see this delay as devastating to the BlackBerry maker. “This gives Microsoft additional time to claim their place as the number three smartphone maker” noted one watcher of the stock. “There is no way of knowing how many CIO’s will give up on the platform during this lost hour.”
Others warned that BlackBerry 10, may still see more delays. “For all we know, once everyone arrives for the press conference, they may not actually take to the stage until five minutes after the hour”.
Pixelated updated to version 3.3
Pixelated has been updated to version 3.3 across all platforms. Notably, this update adds support for BlackBerry 10 which is being launched on Wednesday.
New in version 3.3
A new colour scheme option has been added to Pixelated Plus for all platforms. The PlayBook version of the app has had a visual update to give it a look more in line with the Windows 8 version. The game has also gotten a thicker highlight colour for the selector on non-touchscreen versions of the game on BlackBerry Phones. The new BB10 version of the game includes a leader board that is powered by Scoreloop for both the free and paid versions of the game. This update also includes a number of bug fixes.
About Pixelated
Pixelated is an addictive puzzle based strategy game that requires a mixture of skill and luck in order to accomplish. The object of the game is to change the colour of the squares until the entire screen is a single solid colour. Starting with the square in the upper left corner you can change the colour of the blocks in order to match that of the surrounding squares. This is done repeatedly until the entire screen is a single colour. The object of the game is to clear the screen in as few moves as possible. Under the default settings you must do so in under 22 moves in order to win. The game is controlled by the large colored blocks on the side of the screen.
Pixelated at BlackBerry World
Pixelated in the Windows 8 Store
Pixelated at the Nook Bookstore
Pixelated for Windows Phone
Pixelated News site
Pixelated Website
BlackBerry, BlackBerry10, Nook, Pixelated, PlayBook, Windows
The new ebscer.com
My website has never really been that good. I picked up the domain name, more for the email address than for the site itself. While I have tried (half heartedly) to fill the site with some content, it has never really been a real priority. With the launch of BlackBerry 10 right around the corner, I figured it was time to redesign the my site.
The site redesign was done with an emphasis on it looking good on mobile (which given my business, is probably something I should have done years ago). The site’s design ques are taken from a mix of BlackBerry 10 and Windows 8, in order to give the site a modern (and mobile) feel.
The new site has a simple page dedicated to each of my apps (see ebscer.com/pixelated or ebscer.com/xplodingboxes) and also pages dedicated for each operating system (see ebscer.com/blackberry10 or ebscer.com/nook).
Hopefully in this format the website will be easier to maintain, and will be more useful to everyone else.
Impact of the port-a-thons
Over the past few weekends BlackBerry has hosted some port-a-thon events in which they offered $100 for every BlackBerry 10 app submitted to BlackBerry World. I placed quite a few apps into the store during these weekends, but for the most part they were apps that I would have been working on anyhow, and mostly apps that I had already had up and running on the old BlackBerry OS. To be fair, developers such as myself were not the primary target for the event, but it did encourage me to create three more apps for the launch of BlackBerry 10 than I otherwise would have.
Animal Sounds app
The animal sounds app was mainly done as a challenge to see if I could complete an app in under 24 hours. The port-a-thon was mostly just an excuse to jump in and do so. It also provided a revenue model for the app. I knew going in that the app would not be good enough, that I could charge for it, and placing advertisements in apps aimed at kids has always struck me as being a bit sketchy. One hundred dollars easily was enough to cover the minimal effort that this app took.
Ebscer blog app
I also took the time to turn this blog into an app using the BlackBerry App Generator. In many ways this was just an excuse to try out the tool. Given that there is no way to actually test these apps on device before submitting them to AppWorld, I am still not sure what I am going to do with this app. Depending on how this app turns out, I may remove this one from the store.
Given the lack of a good simple grocery list app, it was probably inevitable that was going to write the Stuff I Need app sooner or later. Still the port-a-thon gave me a reason to jump in and write this about a month earlier than I otherwise would have. While this is not a huge app, it is one that I expect to find useful.
Animal Sounds, BlackBerry10, Stuff I Need
Countdown to BB10 with Michael Li
Yesterday I was interviewed by Michael Li of The Gadget Masters. I show off a few of my BlackBerry 10 apps including the soon to be released, version 3.3 of Pixelated.
BlackBerry10, Video
Morse Code app expands support to BlackBerry 10
The Morse Code app in BlackBerry AppWorld has been updated to version 2.0, adding support for BlackBerry 10 phones. The number of supported devices has also increased for phones running the traditional BlackBerry operating system, with all phones running OS 5.0 or newer, being supported.
About Morse Code
This app will take your text, and translate it back to you in Morse Code. Any text can simply be entered, and then by pressing the “Play Morse Code” button, can be turned into an audible Morse Code signal. The application also allows you to adjust the speed of the playback in words per minute in order to accommodate different skill levels.
Morse Code at AppWorld
Morse Code news site
Morse Code Website
BlackBerry, BlackBerry10, Morse Code
Mileage Tracker version 1.0 released
Version 1.0 of Mileage Tracker has been released into AppWorld for BlackBerry 10 phones. This free app is designed to help you track the miles you drive on each trip for use on tax deductions, accounting, or reimbursements from your employer. Instead of keeping this information charted on your computer, it makes much more sense to be able to track this mobiley from your phone, which you would have with you in the car anyhow.
In order to start a new entry select the ‘Add’ option on the bottom of the screen. For each trip, you must include a reason, a date, and the starting odometer reading. Selecting an existing entry gives you the option to edit any of these fields or to even delete the listing all together. This app allows you to create different categories, so that you can have separate lists for different billing periods, each vehicle, or on a per project basis. You are in fact free to organize your data any way you wish. Categories can be renamed from the menu, and giving two categories the same name will automatically merge them.
Following a one time in-app payment you can export your data into an excel compatible .csv format and a pretty (and sortable) .html format. Using data from my own trips in 2012 I have created a sample of what the exported files look like for both html and .csv.
Mileage Tracker at AppWorld
Mileage Tracker site
BlackBerry, BlackBerry10, Mileage Tracker
15,000 apps
During last weekend’s virtual port-a-thon 15,000 BlackBerry 10 apps were submitted to BlackBerry AppWorld.
First lets acknowledge that most of these apps are probably junk. This event was clearly about quantity over quality, and the event delivered on the big round numbers. In all likelihood the majority of these apps were repackaged html sites, or quickly ported Android apps. The good news is that I am sure that some people will find some of these quickly ported apps very useful, and that the mix is probably not any worse than a random selection of 15,000 apps from Apple’s App Store would be.
The good news is that fifteen thousand is a very impressive, very big number. To give some context, BlackBerry AppWorld was originally launched in 2009 with less than 2,000 apps. It wasn’t until at least two years later that the total size of the store grew to 15,000 applications. Windows 8 (which launched three months ago) is currently showing only 19,337 apps available in my region, and there is no doubt that BlackBerry 10 has long since blown by that number.
I really hope that RIM has a plan to get all of these apps through the approval process in a timely manner. I will be submitting some more apps later this week, that I would really like to have in the store by the time that BlackBerry 10 phones are on the shelves. The fact that 15,000 apps just got placed ahead of them in the queue is slightly worrying.
Creating Animal Sounds in 12 hours
After proposing to create an app in 24 hours this weekend, I instead finished the app in after only 12 hours. The steps taken are presented below via Storify, which was apparently not designed for this use case.
[View the story “A BlackBerry 10 App created in 12 hours” on Storify]
Animal Sounds, BlackBerry, BlackBerry10
24 hour app challenge
From now until midnight tomorrow, BlackBerry is offering $100 for every BlackBerry 10 app that is submitted to AppWorld. Currently I am on track to have nine applications available in AppWorld at launch. Given that it would be much cooler to have 10 apps for BlackBerry 10, and that I can get a bonus if I finish an app by tomorrow, I have decided to challenge myself to completing a new app within the next 24 hours.
I have an idea for a free app that should be fairly simple, but I have not yet started on it at all. And while this idea will require a bit too much time editing images (and audio), I think I should be able to get it completed by this time tomorrow. I will post an overview of this app making experience early next week.
A 27″ tablet is not as stupid as it sounds
At CES Lenovo has announced that they are planning on launching a 27 inch, 17 pound Windows 8 tablet this summer. At first glance this seems ridiculous, and the product has already received it’s fair share of mockery. But the truth is that it really isn’t that terrible of an idea, at least once you stop thinking of it as a tablet.
The image to the right is from Lenovo’s promo video, and shows how incredibly awkward it would be to carry it around like a traditional tablet. And while I can fit my PlayBook into my pocket, this beast would not even fit into a backpack, and is truly not ‘mobile’ in any sense of the word.
But it doesn’t have to be.
If you consider it less as a tablet, and more as a nice 27″ all-in-one desktop PC that happens to have a touchscreen, then it is actually pretty nice. The Verge recently wrote about how touch screens can be useful on non-tablets, and I think we can eventually expect all screens to support touch. While the $1,700 that Lenovo is asking for is a bit much, prices will come down. In a few years, it probably will not be possible to buy a monitor that doesn’t support touch input.
Where are PlayBook users from?
The PlayBook is seeing a much more diverse installation base then when I looked at it last year. While the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom combine for 71.6% of users, another six countries held claim to over one percent of the instal base, and downloads were seen from 142 different nations.
The PlayBook continues to have an outsized popularity in RIM’s homeland of Canada, accounting for 37.8% of users. The PlayBook also showed surprising popularity in India and the Philippines, which both saw a higher share of PlayBook users than traditional BlackBerry hubs such as Indonesia.
The vast majority (83.93%) of these users have English as their primary language. The next most popular languages were Spanish, French and German.
96.5% of PlayBook users are running OS 2.1.0, and well over 99% of users are running some version OS 2.x on their devices. For more details see yesterday’s post on BerryReview.
These statistics are generated from PlayBook downloads of the strategy game Xploding Boxes, from September 1st, through December 31st. Data was collected by BlackBerry AppWorld at the time of download.
BlackBerry, PlayBook, Statistics
Over 1 in 3 BlackBerry phones running OS 7
December continued the recent trend of growth of the marketshare of OS 7. The most recent BlackBerry OS is now being used by 34.1% of users, while the percentage of users on OS 6 (or higher) climbed only slightly to 60.1%.
This data was taken from downloads of the free BlackBerry strategy game Pixelated. Data shown on the chart is from the beginning of December 2011 through the end of December 2012.
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Muguruza to meet Halep in Cincinnati final
Second seed Simona Halep will face Wimbledon champion in the final of the Cincinnati Open after they both won their semi-finals easily on Saturday, reports Reuters.
Halep crushed Sloane Stephens 6-2 6-1, while Muguruza beat top seed Karolina Pliskova 6-3 6-2.
Victory in the final would give the Romanian the world’s top ranking, moving past Pliskova.
“I think it’s something special to get number one in the world,” Halep told reporters. “Everyone can get to number one now. The ranking is close. I really want that.”
Halep needed just 54 minutes to end the run of Stephens, who had enjoyed strong form following her return at Wimbledon after an 11-month absence with a foot injury.
Halep said she believed Muguruza, who beat American Venus Williams for her Wimbledon crown last month, is the favorite for the final.
“I know that she has a lot of confidence coming with title from Wimbledon, so she’s favorite, in my opinion,” Halep said.
“She’s hitting the ball strong, but I had already two matches, so I know how the ball is gonna come.
“But still, I want just to do the same and not thinking about the result. I just want to go there and enjoy the moment.”
Muguruza had lost six successive matches to Pliskova, who made 28 unforced errors and ended the match when a forehand sailed long on the fifth match point.
In stark contrast to two of her earlier matches in the tournament, Muguruza advanced to Sunday’s final in less than 80 minutes.
She endured a two-hour, 45-minute three-set win over Russia’s Svetlana Kuznetsova on Friday that followed a two-hour, 18-minute win over American Madison Keys on Thursday.
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Living outside the material world: ICE illuminates Thorvaldsdottir’s remarkable music
Wed Aug 20, 2014 at 11:25 am
By George Grella
International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE) performed music of Anna Thorvaldsdottir as part of the Mostly Mozart Festival Tuesday night at the Park Avenue Armory.
What a difference a room makes.
In December 2013, Either/Or Ensemble played a program of Anna Thorvaldsdottir’s music at Miller Theatre. The concert, augmented by her recent recording Rhízoma (Innova), left a strong impression that Thorvaldsdottir has a notable compositional voice: her unique ability to manipulate her material so that the passage of time is made beautiful.
On Tuesday evening in the Park Avenue Armory’s Board of Officers Room, the International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE) played an all-Thorvaldsdottir program as part of the Mostly Mozart festival, and it was one of the most involving and affecting concerts in several years. ICE played the music with complete sympathy and mastery, but the experience would not have been the same in a different venue.
The main point of comparison was what the two concerts shared, the fanfare-ish Into-Second Self. That music opened the Miller Theatre concert but came second in Tuesday’s one hour program. ICE did not even begin playing in the Board of Officers Room, but outside in the hall, with Shades of Silence.
Shades is a pithy work for a quartet of harpsichord, violin, viola and cello, and it offers a bare glimpse of Thorvaldsdottir’s music. With the harpsichord used primarily as a percussion instrument, the strings playing long tones, stretching the intonation and altering the bowing, the piece comes off as a grab-bag of directionless effects. One of these is spectacular: rubbing a soft mallet against a low harpsichord string produced an uncanny, vocalized combination of moan and whistle.
The music develops into a simple chorale, then descends into effects again. As it did, percussionist Ross Karre began wading calmly through the crowd, playing a small brake drum. As he neared the Officers Room, the doors slid open, and inside the gathered brass and percussion of ICE started the fanfare. The audience burbled in, fumbling for seats, surrounded by the music.
Into-Second Self is a quiet fanfare, sonorous trombones and horns playing piano, percussion punctuating the music’s verses. The Officers Room is smaller than Miller but has a much finer acoustic, resonant and free of distortion. With musicians stationed in each corner, the music filled the space, seeming to meet in the middle, instead of calling across the room. Long tones from the brass folded into each other, and made the room seem enormous.
The hushed, spacious sound is vital to the music, and has a private effect even in public. ICE emphasized that by building the sequence of pieces into a ritual: at the close of Second Self, the two bass trombonists slowly walked out of the room, crossing paths with violist Kyle Armbrust, cellist Akiva Cahn-Lipman, harpist Nuiko Wadden and pianist Cory Smythe—percussionist Nathan Davis was already at his station, as were lighting designer Nicholas Houfek and sound designer Levy Lorenzo.
In the Light of the Air, a collaboration between Thorvaldsdottir and ICE was heard in its U.S. premiere. Wadden quietly exhaled into a mike, the processed sound coming out of speakers in each corner of the room, washing through the last remnants of the fanfare (Lorenzo somehow managed to eliminate any feedback). Davis played a quiet, regular pulse on the bass drum, the other instruments gradually whispered in.
A series of gestures filled the room, sonic and visual. The lights waxed and waned with swells in volume—apparently via a contact mike taped to the tamtam—shining off dangling metal ornaments that resembled giant snowflakes. The sounds, delicate and immersive, had the effect of shifting the room into a different dimension.
The music has a center around which the instruments circle, in minor mode, and there is a feeling of tonal and temporal suspension, an endless dominant chord. One waits for the tonic, holding one’s breath so as not to miss any gorgeous, delicate moment. When the tonic arrives, it barely registers: the suspension, the sensation of being held between two ticks of the clock, is the point.
The music rises and falls through four seamless sections. The notation gives the musicians plenty of interpretive freedom, and ICE rewarded this with exquisite focus and judgment, the equal of Thorvaldsdottir’s mastery of her materials. Experiencing the performance brought one to a way of being outside the modern, material world.
The experience ended with the tinny sound of a distant piano coming through the speakers. Sound and lights faded, and the darkness revealed the only flaw. The transcendent effect was dissipated by the instant applause, which was clearly sincerely felt, but allowed no time for the space or silence to resonate.
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Tag Archives: Shakin Stevens
The weather outside was frightful, but Lewis was so delightful.
Oh my. How good to be back in the warmth after that one. Brentford and Middlesbrough played out a 1-1 draw in blizzard like conditions at a freezing Griffin Park on Saturday. That much snow was falling all around, I half expected Shakin’ Stevens to put in an appearance at half time (best. song. ever) . It was a draw which, after the blips against Millwall and Cardiff City, has all but mathematically ended our play-off hopes. Come on Bees, prove me wrong – again.
A snowy Griffin Park
For those who missed it, Sky Sports have the video highlights on line already. Anyone who was there would have seen that despite dominating the possession, we couldn’t quite turn opportunities into goals. Yet against a side that have long been seen as a bogey team for the Bees, it was a more than creditable performance with man of the match Lewis Macleod and Ryan Woods pulling the strings in the middle whilst referee Simon Hooper pulled our legs erm, in the middle.
His sending off of substitute Romaine Sawyers for two yellow cards, the second of which was softer than than the avalanche of snowflakes that filled the air, rounded off a poor afternoon for the man in black. The visiting players surrounding a referee who should have been stronger after what was, at best, an accidental coming together. Yet his missing the opportunity to insist on an orange ball (one day, it will come back) should have perhaps warned us what to expect.
Sky highlights show Romaine see red. The ref in no way allowing himself to be influenced.
For Middlesbrough, a first half lead came with an impressive strike from the commanding Adama Traoré after twenty minutes. Running across the edge of the box, he found the gap to fire a powerful drive past Daniel Bentley. It was a lead that came at a time when the game had been delicately balanced. Both teams having already seen a handful of efforts. It was a lead that didn’t last for long as Lewis Macleod, who had earlier seen a shot from just outside the area tipped over by Darren Randolph, fired home low and hard from the edge of the box to equalise.
One all and with over an hour to go, surely there would be more to come? Sadly not. That’s how it stayed despite the best efforts of Macleod and his colleagues as Brentford really began to turn the screw.
Even the appearance of Sergi Canos from the bench, for once the gloves understandable in absolutely bitter conditions, wouldn’t tip the balance. Brentford had the lion’s share of the possesion and chances but Middlesbrough were resolute and, for their defence alone, justified with the point that keeps them in the final play-off place.
Sergi with his snow, ball. It should have been orange
But for sharper finishing or what the BBC match report describes as Brentford “guilty at times of overplaying in dangerous areas” it could have been all three points for The Bees. Instead, the late intervention of Mr. Hooper meant an early bath for Romaine and a draw being played out in those final few minutes as Boro’ finally pressed once more.
Massive kudos to Lewis Macleod. We all know the injury hell he has been through over the last few years but how that seemed a thing of the past. With clear direction to shoot from the edge of the box, a single goal was the least his play, opening up the Boro’ midfield as easily as a can of tuna, deserved.
They were awful conditions to watch a game of football in with a howling, icy wind cutting through supporters as the snow fell. It can’t have been much fun playing in it and perhaps the desire to keep warm lifted both teams to really run at each other from the off. It was hardly the kick and rush game one would expect from a Tony Pulis outfit, even if that physical aspect was still there as they let the Bees push on.
Lewis was head and shoulders above Middlesbrough
Instead, we were offered an entertaining spectacle with Brentford keen to underline the play-off credentials. Sadly, it was Middlesbrough who got the point that keeps them in but with Brentford 8 off with 8 to play, we’re now in the territory of really needing to pull in a few favours. Stranger things have happened of course and at least we’ve now got an international break in which to take stock.
On a personal note, a huge word of thanks to everybody at the club – players and staff – for all their efforts yesterday. Harry was lucky enough to be one of the mascots and had an absolutely fantastic time from start to finish. Talk about being made to feel welcome and a proper part of things. Even in so much as being allowed to kick the ball on the centre spot when the teams came out and leading the line in the handshake.
“Daddy. When I was shaking the hands of all the naughty team I felt like a real footballer.” They’re not my words but those of a four year old fan who had the time of his life when he could have been forgiven for asking to give this one a swerve and staying at home with a hot chocolate.
Feeling like ‘a real footballer’
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Lewis will stay another day. How about Scott as Santa Saunds does his thing and FA get heavy
Well that was a day of seasonal good news. Brentford were very much in the festive mood as Lewis Macleod was given a contract extension despite his long term injury whilst down the road at West Middlesex Hospital, the squad were very much doing their own ‘Santa’ thing. Not so seasonal, but of equal interest to Bees fans, was the five match ban handed out to Jonjo Shelvey of Newcastle United for racial abuse. This, given a similar punishment suffered by our own Alan McCormack back in October.
First up though, the positive news. Brentford have shown many times how we look after our own. There is the well documented way that Scott Hogan was treated during his own lengthy recovery period (18 months out) after suffering that awful injury just a few games into his Griffin Park career. First class medical treatment all the way and a contract extension were the order of the day as the club showed huge faith in a player who has since began to pay that back in bucketloads.
Scott’s goalscoring record is such that there is genuine worry amongst the Bees faithful we’ll be cashing in come January. He went on that stunning run towards the end of last season as he edged his way back to full fitness whilst now, only Dwight Gayle at Newcastle United sits above him in the scoring charts. Imagine those two together. Actually, don’t. Move along. Nothing to see here.
Then there was the contract extension offered to Jota as our talismanic midfielder (if Sam Saunders was Spanish….) was allowed to go back to Spain on loan, for personal reasons. Who could forget his letter to supporters at the time where he promised that , “This isn’t “goodbye” but more of a “see you later” ? Who could forget our own signal to the player in offering him a contract extension despite the fact he was moving away from Griffin Park – albeit a move that, despite our deepest fears, one still hopes remains a temporary decision.
And now Lewis Macleod has become the latest beneficiary of Matthew Benham’s backing of his players as the former Rangers man has been give a year’s contract extension which will see him tied to Griffin Park until the summer of 2019. This, despite like Scott at the time of his injury, barely a handful of appearances since joining the club and the youngster now facing a long period on the sidelines.
When the road to recovery must seem long and torturous, with no guarantees at the end of it, one can’t begin to imagine what a boost this faith in individuals must be. At a time when all around are getting on with what they do best – playing football – to see how much we value those on the sidelines and are prepared to make such a public statement of belief is a huge, huge thing. We’ve done it in thee past and no doubt will do it again. Here’s hoping for a Hoganesque payback when Lewis is fully fit.
It was interesting, also, how he got into the festive spirit by emulating one time Christmas chart toppers East 17. The boy band, of course, occupying the penthouse suite at the hit parade hotel back in December 1994 with their ‘Stay Another Day’ single.
Despite being number one at Christmas, rather than an actual Christmas record in the vein of Slade, Wizzard, Coldplay or Shakin’ Stevens (whose own effort is not only the best Christmas song of all time but the best pop single. Ever), the band’s use of fake snow and furry parka jackets in the promo video now sees them embedded deep into festive culture. (See also: Frankie Goes to Hollywood – The Power of Love. Not a Christmas record yet still now considered one based upon the time of release)
As such, it was great to see Lewis getting involved with his own choice of seasonal attire at yesterday’s contract signing. As ever you can read the full story, with the proper photographs, on ‘official’.
Next up, Sam Saunders. Can he do anything wrong? No, being the answer as the ever popular midfielder was amongst those who made the trip to West Mid to hand out Christmas presents to children on the Starlight Ward. The pictures and the comments from the players on Social media spoke for themselves and showed, yet again, just how much this club does for our own local community.
One can’t begin to think what it is like for these youngsters to be in hospital at any point, let alone during the Christmas season – a period that traditionally sees celebrations at home and time spent with friends and family over the prolonged school holidays. As such, a gesture of this nature is one that can only be very well received. Wonderful work from all at Griffin Park. Yet again.
From the positive to the not so. The story of Newcastle United midfielder Jonjo Shelvey being given a five game ban for what is described as : “Aggravated Breach as defined in Rule E3(2), as it included reference to ethnic origin and/or race and/or nationality” is one that hasn’t gone unnoticed amongst our own support.
Of course, we have our own parallel with the five game sentence handed down to Macca back in October after he was found guilty of : Using abusive and/or insulting words towards a match official in the 52nd minute of the game against Cardiff City on 19 April 2016, contrary to FA Rule E3(1) . Moreso, given his offence was, “An “aggravated breach” as defined in FA Rule E3(2), as it included a reference to gender.”
Back then this column wondered : This is a huge ban and if nothing else Alan would seem to be patient zero when the FA have decided to clamp down hard. Yet, also, they’ve now drawn a line in the sand which I’ll be very keen to see how strongly they enforce ongoing.
And here is your answer. Another breach of rule E3(2) and another five game ban. If players were operating in a new environment about what is deemed acceptable before, there can be no doubt now. Speak in such a manner towards officials or fellow pros – pay a very heavy penalty.
From an on-pitch perspective, it means Shelvey will be missing when Newcastle United come to Griffin Park for the televised game in January 16th. He’ll be a huge loss to the Magpies, if his performance on our own trip to the North-East was anything to go by. At one point it looked as though he was going to inspire a Geordie bracketing as the home team set off at 100mph, with the Bees caught cold in the starting blocks, and Shelvey providing ‘assists’ for fun.
I can’t pretend to take any pleasure from a story of this nature on a day of such seasonal goodwill. But, at the same time, it would be hypocritical not to realise what a helping hand it offers us. Knowing that Newcastle will be missing one of their danger men, and the architect of our own downfall last time out, when the battle of the Championship’s leading scorers takes place.
Still, all that is some time off. For now, we’ve got Christmas to look forward to and the hope that Scott is still a Bee by the time that game takes place. I’ve no doubt our faith in the player will be rewarded come January…..
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Categories Brentford, Championship, Newcastle United
Spend Christmas with Cliff, Jim White and maybe Victor
I’d like to start today by wishing a very happy Christmas to all Brentford fans and, indeed, any others who may be reading (you never know).
To be quite honest, I hadn’t even planned writing a column today until the stark realisation that I had forgotten to both clean the oven and dispose of Santa’s whisky / mince pie forced a somewhat premature rise.
It’s Christmas – I’m treating myself to the Tourjansky montage
Tags: 2013/14, Alan Judge, Alex Pritchard, Bees, Beesotted, blog, book, Brentford, Brentford FC, celebrated, Celebrating like they'd won the FA Cup, Championship, Christmas, Cliff, Cliff Crown, Cliff Richard, Daniel Craig, david button, Del Boy, diary, Doctor Who, FA Cup, football, For your eyes only, Griffin Park, Harlee Dean, Ipswich Town James Bond, James Bond, James Tarkowski, Jim White, Jon Toral, Jonathan Douglas, José Ignacio Peleteiro Ramallo, Jota, just don’t mention that penalty, kindle, Marcello Trotta, Marcos Tébar Ramiro, Mark Warburton, Matthew Benham, Mistletoe and wine, Moonraker, Moses Odubajo, Natalie Sawyer, Nick Bruzon, Only fools and horses, penalty, Queens speech, Roger Moore, Sam Saunders, Shakin Stevens, Sky bet Championship, Skyfall, Spy who loved me, SSNHQ, Stuart Dallas, Toumani, Trotta, Victor Tourjansky, Warbs
Even off pitch, is this our most stylish squad ever?
Brentford unwound from the 3-1 victory over Blackburn Rovers (goals below for those that haven’t seen them yet) with a squad trip to Dublin. Whilst I’m sure that the majority of what goes on tour stays on tour, its good to see that some Christmas traditions are still being honoured.
Despite being (theoretically) a grown man, in my forties, there are certain aspects of the festive season that still bring an extra smile to the face. I won’t even contemplate shopping until the first play of “Merry Christmas, Everyone” by Shakin’ Stevens hits the airwaves. Only then, once the greatest Christmas song ever recorded has been played, are we ‘officially’ into the heart of the season.
Likewise, chocolate coins and a satsuma are still an essential part of December 25th. Forget the PS4 (if Mrs. Bruzon is reading, please don’t) these are still the king of traditional gifts.
From a sporting perspective, the Boxing Day fixture is one of the first I look out for, purely because there’s nothing finer than catching up with your friends for the game after the big day,
And then, of course, there’s the Christmas jumper. Indeed, our reader may have noted the column last month on this very subject and the efforts of the Premiership teams to make their own ‘bespoke’ version. Whilst the Brentford clubshop may not have risen to the challenge just yet, it’s fair to say the players haven’t let the side down.
Alan Judge has shared this instantgram picture of the squad on their Dublin trip, rocking the Christmas look.
Is there anything Sam can’t make look good?
What more can you say? In the words of Noddy Holder, “Ittttsssssss, Chrrrriissstmassss”
Now, who’s for a bit of Shaky?
Tags: 2013/14, 3-1, Alan Judge, Alex Pritchard, Bees, Beesotted, Blackburn Rovers, blog, book, Brentford, Brentford FC, celebrated, Celebrating like they'd won the FA Cup, Championship, Christmas, Christmas jumper, david button, diary, Dublin, FA Cup, football, Griffin Park, Harlee Dean, instagram, James Tarkowski, Jon Toral, Jonathan Douglas, José Ignacio Peleteiro Ramallo, Jota, jumper, just don’t mention that penalty, kindle, Marcello Trotta, Marcos Tébar Ramiro, Mark Warburton, Matthew Benham, Merry Christmas Everyone, Moses Odubajo, Natalie Sawyer, Nick Bruzon, Noddy Holder, penalty, Sam Saunders, Shakin Stevens, Sky bet Championship, slade, squad trip, Stuart Dallas, team trip, Toumani, Trotta, Warbs
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Tag Archives: Upton Park
The good, the bad and the ugly. A week in football as Aston Villa await and West Ham implode.
Brentford picked up all three points at Brighton to head into Wednesday’s game with Aston Villa in high spirits whilst Huddersfield Town and Newcastle United, like the Bees, both recorded a 2-0 away win. These, results that allow them to sit first and second respectively and, in the case of the former, sending Leeds United into the relegation zone where they now sit just behind Wigan Athletic. The supposed conflagration engulfing Will Grigg proving insufficient to stop them making it three defeats on the spin. Meanwhile, defeat for Fulham (Clayton Donaldson both scoring and missing penalties against David Button) and a tepid draw for the Loftus Road mob at home to Blackburn mean the West London triumvirate are separated by just one point and goal difference respectively.
That’s the most recent Championship action in a nutshell. Yet there has been so much more going on in the division and beyond. In the next of our regular Monday morning feature we look back at those things you might have missed from the world of social media over the last seven days.
We’ll start off, as ever, with Brentford.The win over Brighton and the trip to Villa Park on Wednesday have everybody in high spirits. Regular correspondent Bernard Quackenbush summarising one of the best moments from the Amex in a single tweet. Kids, you may need to ask your parents.
After another misplaced @GaetanBong pass, the reaction from @AKnockaert reminded me of this lady #bhafc #BrentfordFC pic.twitter.com/mdthcII2gh
— Bernard Quackenbush (@BernardQuack) September 11, 2016
Billy Reeves, in the meantime, taking over from stats guru Luis Melville with something which, if not over elaborate, shows what true football immolation is (and please, let’s NOT rip off that song. It’s bad enough we’ve appropriated one from Oldham).
That's 10 goals in 10 games for Hogan. #BrentfordFC
— Billy Reeves (@TheBillyReeves) September 10, 2016
And talking of stats, how’s this for an Aston Villa related one? Brentford really have nothing to lose and everything to gain later this week. With a fleet of free coaches heading up the motorway c/o the club sponsors, will you be there to see if we can move that ‘W’ column from 0 to 1 ?
On Wednesday, the two teams will face each other for the first time since 1953. #BrentfordFC have never beaten Aston Villa (W0 D2 L6).
— Essential Brentford (@BrentEssential) September 11, 2016
But, as ever, it was Kitman Bob who proves to be the wonderful random element, a so called ‘x-factor’, at Brentford official. The frog DNA in the otherwise ‘perfectly safe’ laboratory controlled environment of club twitter. (Bob, if you are reading, that’s a good thing – trust me). Let’s hope he doesn’t get preserved in amber and, instead, keeps the zingers coming…
Thanks to all the @BrentfordFC boys & girls today. Great support & I heard another FIRE DRILL 😀😀
— Bob Oteng (@ganodecafe10) September 10, 2016
Saturday saw a surprise visitor to the New Inn. Former Bee and Leeds United legend Chris Kamara (amongst the numerous accolades on his still glittering CV) popping in for an afternoon off.
In the New Inn in Brentford 2watch 2nd half of the Liverpool game & bumped into wrecked people who have played the soccer sat drinking game😂
— Chris Kamara (@chris_kammy) September 10, 2016
Regular readers to this column will be aware of my admiration for Sam Saunders. Our number 7(seven) summing up everything it means to play for Brentford in terms of what seems to be his genuine love for the game, the team and the fans. Then , of course, there’s the shorts, the tan, the free kicks and his wonderful use of Twitter.
Supposed to go out and see the new film brotherhood,
Ended up staying in to watch great British bake off.
😎 Gangster
— Sam Saunders (@samsaunders7) September 7, 2016
Before we move on to the wider football world, the last Brentford related matter of the week concerns a supporter rather than a player. Specifically Luis Adriano. Whilst, of course, a few fans have released club related books in recent years (with varying degrees of success and publicity) Luis isn’t one to overly blow his trumpet.
Yet he has taken the step of writing a third novel. And it is has just been released. Words can’t put into, erm, words what a huge undertaking this is and I can’t wait to get my hands on a copy. The link below should give you more of a flavour
#HelloMrMagpie
My #bestselling #paperback.
Published 9am on 9/9 2016.
🇬🇧 https://t.co/DN6nx4USF1
🇺🇸 https://t.co/tQM384Etni
— Luis Adriano (@LuisAdrianoUK) September 11, 2016
Next up, referees. We’ve seen a much tougher stance from the men in black this season in an attempt to cut down on back chat, abuse and petulance. Rightly so, in my eyes. Yet, equally, the hard line has extended to diving, pulling and now, it seems, general over-exuberance. Certainly something for our own players to watch out for following Nottingham Forest’s late equaliser at Villa Park yesterday.
A Forest player was sent off today – for over-celebrating a late equaliser https://t.co/nxKDQrphO6 pic.twitter.com/PPMKVhVLS8
— BBC Sport (@BBCSport) September 11, 2016
But if Pereira had it bad, spare a thought for Joe Hart. Already shown the cold shoulder at Manchester City, he had a rotten start to his loan career at Torino. The performance on pitch was bad enough, by all accounts, yet things had already gone South before a ball was even kicked.
Poor Joe Hart.
Dropped again, this time in favour of his uncle John. pic.twitter.com/ztj1pJe4RH
— 888sport (@888sport) September 11, 2016
Not even opponents Atalanta running out to Status Quo ( Whatever You Want) was enough to inspire him. Many thanks to the soothsayer of scores, Richie Firth on the Absolute Radio Christian O’Connell breakfast show, for that gem. As Richie noted this morning, “How often do you hear of teams running out to Status Quo”. Sadly, never – Richie .
Perhaps my own suggestion of ‘Down, Down’ for our own #BeeTheDJ not quite so silly !
Still, if Manchester City have made a shrewd move in the transfer market with that one, can the same be said of Manchester United? The much trumpeted record transfer of Paul Pogba hasn’t, so far, proven to be the success intended.
Paul Pogba 2016-17:
0 assists
0 dabs
3 haircuts pic.twitter.com/K9DXCpEy7Q
— Pie Sports Booze (@piesportsbooze) September 10, 2016
As ever, though, it is the regular visitors to this column that provide the weekend’s big story. West Ham have done it again. If Hart was hapless, what does that make the Hammers? Fisticuffs in the stands and the scared children were the least of their concerns after Saturday’s result.
Angelo Ogbonna of West Ham, who didn’t make it onto the pitch during the 4-2 home humping administered by Watford, still took the time to share the score with his followers. Proving a point that he hadn’t featured or just totally misreading the situation? As one Brentford fan noted, imagine the meltdown if Harlee Dean had done this..
pic.twitter.com/2jh933C4LX
— Angelo Ogbonna (@OgbonnaOfficial) September 10, 2016
C2C railway had to give this advice to their passengers. Things going well at the Olympic Park, then ?
Pugilistic passengers earlier resulted in a temporary instruction from @BTP for trains not to stop at West Ham station. All clear again.
— c2c Rail (@c2c_Rail) September 10, 2016
But it was an X-Factor reject who really summed thing up for the one time Upton Park outfit.
Being a West Ham fan today genuinely feels worse than being chucked off the X Factor for snorting cocaine. @davidgold
— Frankie Cocozza (@FrankieCocozza) September 10, 2016
But if West Ham fans feel like they are getting the rough end of the stick, spare a thought for Southend United. Their loan deal with Crystal Palace not proving quite as well researched as the one which brought Sullay Kaikai to Griffin Park
I feel like this is something we should have checked out before we signed him… https://t.co/a48IDJ3Atc
— Iain Macintosh (@iainmacintosh) September 9, 2016
Ryan Innis has been sent to prison, so is unavailable for Southend. Makes Gills signing of an unfit Cargill look like a master stroke.
— Andrew White (@Andrew_GFC_GTCC) September 9, 2016
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Categories Aston Villa, Brentford, Brighton, Championship
What lessons can we learn from West Ham and Bournemouth ?
Saturday can’t come soon enough. Brentford have a home game with Sheffield Wednesday and already it seems like an eternity since that 1-0 defeat on the road at the weekend. There was little to update fans with yesterday – no surprise being a Monday – and we aren’t involved in League Cup action this week following the capitulation against Exeter City. Fortunately, a video has started doing the rounds from the West Ham v Bournemouth game on Sunday to keep us entertained.
Bournemouth are, to some , the romantic team who punched against the big guns to surprise all comers during their first Premier League campaign last season. To others, the side who overspent well beyond their means as they got promoted from the Championship in 2014/15 at the expense of Brentford and the rest. Whilst we may have ended up on the moral high ground, along with a fine Mark Warburton inspired 3-1 victory under our belts last year (Feb 2015), they are the ones who embarked on that huge TOTL (top of the league) run before eventual success.
I do miss our games with Bournemouth
As for West Ham, you may not have realised this but apparently they moved stadium over the summer. If only somebody had mentioned it. Just once, to give us a clue that a move was imminent.
Ironically, despite all the planning, it seems their new home is still not ready. Certainly, if the photos doing the rounds on Sunday are anything to go by where it seems season ticket holders turned up to find their seat had no actual, erm, seat.
This, of course, is already old news. Such is the speed at which the Internet moves that the picture has already had close to three and half thousand shares on Twitter. Fairplay to West Ham supporter ‘Paul’ who wouldn’t give The Sun permission to use it, instead allowing his club the chance to respond first.
It has been a time of huge celebration for West Ham. We’ve already had the first friendly in their new stadium, the first European game there and the first Premier league game/goal/win. No doubt we’ve still got the first league game under lights and the first FA Cup game to come.
I can only imagine the latter will be a huge occasion given as, seemingly, they won the competition back in 1980. Like their new home and 1966 World Cup triumph, something else that never gets mentioned in journalistic circles. For all you pub quiz fas out there, Trevor Brooking grabbed the winner I believe. Store that one away – it’ll come in handy.
Personally, I’m looking forward to the first game when their new stadium isn’t mentioned. Experts predict that could come as soon as February 2017. In the short term, the media love in with the Hammers continues. Sunday sees their third Premier League game in a row televised.
But it was the weekend encounter with Bournemouth (now BOTL), West Ham’s first televised league game at 4pm on a Sunday afternoon against a team whose name begins with B in their new Stadium, that provides the pick of the action.
Only 792 people have seen this, at the time of writing, but there’s no place to hide in a modern stadium. TV cameras everywhere and moreso in a televised game. As this Bournemouth fan discovered…
A Bournemouth supporter caught green handed
From all this, let’s hope Brentford learn at least two lessons for Lionel Road.
Given the amount of work already poured into the design I can’t for one second imagine we’ll face similar issues. Yet, if nothing else, it does make you realise that even the most basic elements can, sometimes, be overlooked.
Whilst adequate seating is a priority, let’s not forget about the catering either.
Lionel Road. Let’s get the seats and food right
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They think it’s all over…thankfully, it is now
The Championship season isn’t even cold and already the rumours are circulating about Brentford. Is the academy set to go? Is Dean Smith casting his eyes towards Walsall? Just for starters. Meanwhile over in East London, I’m pretty sure something happened last night – beyond West Ham beating Manchester United.
But first, it’s that time of the year where I’d ask if you can indulge me for a couple of paragraphs.
Namely, because ‘The Last Word’ review of the year has just been released for download. Entitled “Ready.Steady. Go Again” it features the least bad of these columns from the appointment of Marinus in June 2015 up until 9th place in the Championship was confirmed at the weekend.
‘And if you’d like to read more’….. there is also an anthology of the last three seasons : “Brentford Football Club – The Bees are going up“. This runs from ‘that penalty’ and the subsequent fall out all the way through to the 5-1 humping of Huddersfield Town on Saturday. This, via all sorts of other nonsense – including the answer to the oft asked question: Does Cameron Diaz support Brentford?
So if you are looking for a way to kill a few hours on the beach this summer or ease the pain of the daily commute whilst reflecting on three season’s worth of Bees based (mostly) good times , then you can do it for less than the cost of a match day programme from the kindle store. Thank you.
Its all about the kit, man. And the Bees.
Next up rumours. I don’t talk about them as a rule but they’ve started. Dean Smith was only ever going to be associated with Walsall and so the stories already linking him to Romaine Sawyers aren’t a surprise. Gillingham centre back John Egan moreso.
Tim street in Get West London has the story – if you’d like to read more.
Personally, I wait for Besotted to start talking until I get really interested. However, if the rumour mill is already running then we could have a very long summer.
As for the Academy story, this is a marked change of direction IF it transpires to be true. We’ll reserve comment on this until the club make any form of formal announcement but given how hard they fought to have it graded as ‘Category 2’ would be a huge surprise. Especially given we’ve had a very recent demonstration of it’s results – Tom Field making a wonderful debut when the Bees put Fulham to the sword less than two weeks ago.
Academy graduate Tom Field featured in the first team against Fulham
Ok – West Ham . You may not be aware but apparently they played their last game at Upton Park last night. I know, If only it had been mentioned at some point in the intervening weeks prior to kick off. In a hype circus that would make the release of the recent Star Wars film seem like an understated affair, the media have decided anybody outside of East London is sporting a ‘half and half scarf’ to embrace all things Hammers.
Good luck to West Ham. Seriously. Farewell to their Boleyn Ground. Understandably an emotional time for home supporters. I’m sure we’ll feel the same when our time comes. That’s it. After this though, I don’t get it.
Look, I know that West Ham single handledly won the World Cup back in 1966 whilst Trevor Brooking once scored a goal with his head, but clubs move home all the time. It is part and parcel of modern football life yet never before have we been force fed so much rose tinted nonsense about a ground which, if we’re being quite honest, was never a particularly pleasant place to visit. Certainly for the opposition fans. Just ask the Manchester United coach driver.
I’m just glad it’s all over now. We can move on. On the plus side, perhaps lessons learned for when the Bees eventually leave Griffin Park for Lionel Road. Whilst I have no doubt the occasion will be commemorated, and rightly so, sometimes perhaps less is more.
James Swift on Twitter nailed it yesterday. He gets the Last Word…
It’s a fact (Wimbledon aside….)
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Categories Brentford, Championship, Manchester United
My big, fat, (temporary) Gypsy wedding
“I support Brentford AND West Ham/Liverpool/Chelsea” (delete as applicable).
I don’t, of course. It’s a statement for illustrative purposes only. However, there are some fans who have as much interest in events at, for example, Upton Park or Anfield as they do in those at Griffin Park.
Good luck to them, if so. Personally, I struggle with the concept of also following a Premiership team. Largely, because I have too much pain/pleasure invested in supporting the Bees, without chucking West Ham or whomever else into the mix. Lionel Road is enough for me without having to worry about the Olympic park, too.
Then there’s the prospect of what happens should we be thrown together by the vagaries of a cup draw? This is a lose-lose scenario for ‘Johnny two clubs’. Go for the safety first option of the higher division team and it is a case of ditching cup romance whilst, at the same time, humiliation should they slip up on the proverbial potato skin.
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Driver Kills Two Children, Ages 1 and 4, on Ninth Street in Park Slope
The location has a history of serious crashes, and is mere feet away from the Park Slope YMCA where Mayor de Blasio is driven to his morning workout each day.
By David Meyer
A driver struck multiple pedestrians and killed two children on 9th Street in Park Slope this afternoon. Photo: Leah Finnegan/Twitter
A driver struck and killed two children, ages 1 and 4, on Ninth Street at Fifth Avenue in Park Slope this afternoon, according to police. At least one other person was injured in the crash. The driver is currently in NYPD custody at the scene of the collision.
Journalist Leah Finnegan tweeted photos from the scene showing a stroller under the rear wheels of a white Volvo sedan.
Police confirmed the deaths to Streetsblog. The third victim was a pregnant woman, according to the office of Borough President Eric Adams. She was rushed to the hospital, and her condition is unknown.
NYPD had no other information about the circumstances of the crash, and the identities of the victims and the driver have not been released.
Cutting east-west across Park Slope, Ninth Street functions as a neighborhood main street. Its mix of retail, with multiple subway and bus connections, makes it a crowded walking street.
A 2007 redesign added buffered, un-protected bike lanes, but the design is clearly inadequate. The street is wide and vulnerable to speeding, especially on the westbound side, where drivers travel downhill. The bike lane, meanwhile, is frequently blocked by double-parked vehicles, including Mayor de Blasio’s SUV caravan to the Park Slope YMCA.
We’re trying to get details about the crash on 9th Street. @bradlander is on the scene. pic.twitter.com/IlS2v8wEf6
— Park Slope Neighbors (@psneighbors) March 5, 2018
In late February 2016, a hit-and-run driver struck and killed 41-year-old Bahtiyor Khamdamov at the same intersection as today’s crash.
Later that year, a driver critically injured a cyclist at the intersection of Sixth Avenue and Ninth Street.
The street is wide enough for curbside protected bike lanes on each side of the street, which would prevent speeding by narrowing the right-of-way for motor vehicles. But DOT has said that it won’t convert the buffered bike lanes to protected bike lanes because Ninth Street needs center turn pockets.
Tomorrow morning at 8:30 a.m., residents and advocates plan to confront Mayor de Blasio at the Park Slope YMCA, which is mere feet away from the site of today’s crash, about how he plans to respond to the terrible loss of life on Ninth Street.
Okay, folks. 8:30 AM tomorrow (Tuesday) morning at the Park Slope YMCA on 9th Street. Please come to ask the mayor directly what he's going to do about this street. https://t.co/3z65Igv7aL
— Brooklyn Spoke (@BrooklynSpoke) March 5, 2018
We’ll update this story as we get more information about the collision.
Correction: The post originally stated the victims were 3 and 5 years old, based on information from NYPD. Subsequent reports elsewhere give their ages as 1 and 4.
Filed Under: Carnage, NYPD Crash Investigations, Park Slope, Promoted
Vooch
might be marty golden‘s twin
video above – it’s worse than you imagine
video evidence posted above says she is bald faced liar
still negligent homicide times 2 plus assault with a deadly weapon times 1
plus look at her record she has run 5 red lights in last 12 months
Ken Dodd
As others have pointed out both here and elsewhere, the pattern of traffic violations this scumbag has behind her – including many red light violations in a short space of time – should automatically cast serious doubt on her claim of a “medical episode.” Also, I cannot believe that photo of her tapping away on her phone on the stretcher. Witnesses said she appeared totally unphased by the accident and showed no concern for her victims. Why on earth did she even have her phone at that point? It should have been immediately seized as evidence by the NYPD – there is a strong likelihood in any atrocity like this that the driver was distracted beforehand, and smartphones are the #1 source of driver distraction.
Of course, if we had anything even remotely like a competent, functioning police department in this city then they would have taken her phone for analysis as part of a major criminal investigation into the potential manslaughter of two children. Instead, we get the usual bullshit in which cops do their best to make excuses for a killer driver to the media and believe the first claim that comes out of the driver’s mouth. This is all in keeping with their unwritten policy of ignoring serious road crime because they don’t want to deal with the pandora’s box of actually treating these deaths as crimes. If they did, their workload would triple overnight, and the resulting crime stats would be a citywide scandal which reflected terribly on them. So they take any opportunity they can to brush aside clear cases of manslaughter and log them as tragic accidents.
Of course, it goes without saying that if this POS had run over and killed two NYPD cops in the crosswalk (i.e. people the NYPD actually care about – not babies) then not only would she have been arrested on the spot but there’s a good chance they would have shot her dead.
I have had yellow cab and livery drivers literally nudge my bike forward at a solid red because they wanted to edge into the crosswalk and were pissed that a cyclist was in their way.
Give him a chance to somehow weave e-bikes into his statement. They’ll be working all night on that.
Hugh Shepard
DOT cares more about left turn pockets than the lives of pedestrians and bicyclists. Wow. Way to go, shows your commitment to Vision Zero, DOT. Keep it up!
I don’t think any street design could have prevented this horror.
Either it is strictly the fault of the driver, or the kind of horror inherent in motor vehicles.
I think we have to look to vehicles that are unlikely to allow an incident like this to happen, vehicles that would either over-ride the driver or completely control the car.
We have to be glad Google decided to start this process. It sort of says something about our culture that if it had in fact become possible, safety advocates weren’t pushing it like seat belts and air bags.
One thing we need to do is transfer all the health care costs of motor vehicle crashes from health insurance to auto insurance, with crashes involving those with inadequate insurance assessed directly against the manufacturer and priced into the cars.
With motor vehicles with vehicles control for safety assessed independently of other vehicles, to provide the right incentives.
danbrotherston
Literally hit you? Report him for intentional hit (and then no doubt run). That’s a criminal act, same as if he got out and shoved you.
bggb
While that is theoretically a good idea, you’d have to get the NYPD to give a shit.
The NYPD does not care and I think that trying to get anywhere with a complaint like that would just cause me even more stress. I was once left hooked by a taxi speeding past me and making a turn on 1st Avenue, and it all happened right in view of a cop opposite the UN who came over, threatened to arrest me for knocking on the driver’s window, and told the cabbie to drive away. He then berated me for “cycling too fast” ( I was doing about 12mph) and when I said “so you’re saying you saw nothing wrong with what he did,” I was told “no – he had every right to make a turn.” Into my path. Almost killing me. This is the level of institutional stupidity we’re dealing with in the NYPD.
Why don’t you respond to Doug above?
MatthewEH
Dunno about shooting the motorist dead, but I sympathize with where you’re coming from emotionally.
My thoughts are
1) Engineering does reduce traffic violence. Existing 9th street design is simply begging for reckless driving.
2) Widesoread Pedestruan Zones are long overdue in NYC.
You can complain to the TLC. They have a fairly efficient process which typically results in fining the driver a couple hundred dollars and a mark on his record. Maybe it’s not as just as prosecuting the criminal assault, but it’s something…
reasonableexplanation
Easy, the point is not to assume your pet issue caused this incident.
The initial article spent a good amount of time discussing street design, and many people harped on how the driver must have been speeding, how we need everything from pedestrian islands, to wider bike lanes, etc…
Then we got some info saying that the person was stopped at an intersection and creeped forward until they hit the gas, suggesting this had nothing to do with street design, and everything to do with the driver. At this point, at least some were arguing that this explanation was BS, and that judging by the damage there’s no way this person wasn’t speeding.
Now we have the video, where it clearly shows this person, was in fact initially stopped, and creeping forward, but instead of pedal confusion, probably just not paying attention or texting or something. We also have info showing that the driver had no business having a valid license based on the number of violations they racked up.
No street design can save you when a driver is doing what happened here. This has nothing to do with how 5th and 9th are laid out, and everything to do with failing to take this dangerous driver off of the road.
I am saddened that you consider that being in support of the majority, but not all of the issues streetsblog advocates for is being a troll.
If you demand ideological purity, you want have as many supporters on your side as you need to make the streets safer for all.
i agree. a street redesign would not have prevented this. clearly it looks as if the driver was incapacitated seeing it was a complete disregard of even slowing down even though it was obvious peds were in the crosswalk.
Incapacitated or what I don’t know. The video is incomprehensible. It almost seems as if she did it on purpose.
No, they would have shot the motorist dead. Not intentionally, but they would have said something like “we thought she was going for a gun” when she was taking out her ID.
I wouldn’t dismiss street design so quickly. If the roadway engineering contributes to a speedway free-for-all type of atmosphere, where’s it’s encouraged to creep into crosswalks during a red phase and gun the accelerator the instant a light goes green, it’s a problem that can be tackled.
The woman’s driving record alone is a crystal-clear indicator she had no business being behind the wheel of a car. Absolutely none.
The ideal is to have all automated vehicles, with no human involved at all.
The next best thing is to have technology limiting the harm that humans can do, by means of kill switches that disable the accellerator when the light is not green, and also speed governors that allow the car to go no faster than the speed limit. Unfortunately, the barriers to this are not so much technological as ideological, as drivers would complain about these measures, even though they are preventing only improper and illegal acts — thus proving the notion that drivers are by nature sociopaths.
Philadelphia and Washington have plenty of long, straight streets. But the drivers there don’t stop ahead of the stopping line and within the crosswalks.
It’s not an engineering issue. It’s a matter entirely of enforcement, or lack thereof, and of the culture that this non-enforcement has allowed to develop.
walks bikes drives
He posted the video 🙂
I love that they were happy to inform you…
strangemonkey
The mayor is shameful.
Welcome to NYC, there are NO consequences for reckless driving.
Witness Account of Park Slope Collision Contradicts NYPD Victim-Blaming
By David Meyer | Sep 2, 2016
A witness believes the driver who severely injured a 20-year-old cyclist Wednesday night in Park Slope T-boned the victim as he rode across Sixth Avenue in the Ninth Street bike lane with the right of way — contrary to NYPD’s claim that the victim was hit head-on while biking against traffic on Sixth Avenue. The crash happened at around 9 p.m. NYPD said […]
Hit-and-Run Drivers Killed Three Victims in Four Hours on Sunday [Updated]
By Brad Aaron | Feb 29, 2016
Fatal Park Slope hit and run by Gothamist Correction: Park Slope Stoop reports that the Park Slope victim was walking, not riding a bike. The copy in this post has been altered accordingly. Hit-and-run drivers killed three New York City pedestrians within a few hours on Sunday. Jose Contreras, 63, was struck by the driver of a […]
NYPD: Critically-Injured Cyclist Caused High-Speed Park Slope Collision
A 20-year-old man is in critical condition after he was hit by a driver while riding a bike in Park Slope last night. Though a witness said the driver was speeding, police blamed the victim for the crash. NYPD said the 25-year-old motorist was traveling southbound on Sixth Avenue near Ninth Street in a Honda sedan when the northbound […]
DA Eric Gonzalez and NYPD: No Charges for Driver Who Killed 2 Kids in Crosswalk
By Brad Aaron | Mar 6, 2018
Video shows Dorothy Bruns run a red light before striking the children, ages 1 and 4, and their mothers. The car Bruns was driving has been tagged for four red light violations and four school zone speeding violations since 2016.
Motorists Crash Into Businesses in Queens and Brooklyn, Taking Life and Limb
By Brad Aaron | Apr 24, 2013
Curb-jumping motorists have crashed into places of business in Brooklyn and Queens in two incidents since Tuesday morning, leaving one dead and several injured, including a man whose legs were reported severed. At approximately 11:40 a.m. yesterday, a speeding driver rear-ended a vehicle on 126th Street in Willets Point, then veered off the street and […]
Off-Route Semi Truck Driver Kills Cyclist in Park Slope [Updated]
Cyclist killed in Park Slope when he “collided into the rear tire” of tractor-trailer on 6th Ave: NYPD. pic.twitter.com/0KjFtYL1nD — Andy Newman (@andylocal) April 20, 2016 Update: Times reporter Andy Newman tweeted a DCPI notice concerning this crash. NYPD identified the victim as 33-year-old James Gregg. Police say the truck driver and Gregg were traveling […]
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Theological Notebook: A Further Thought on the Odes of Solomon
• Theological Notebook: A Further Thought on the Odes of Solomon [+1]
• mushfromnewsies - (no subject)
31st-Oct-2011 01:42 am
Tags:academia, apocalyptic literature, gospels, ideas to pursue?, patristics, theological notebook, writing
Current Mood:wry
Drat. I just realized that I ought to have highlighted more clearly the significance of The Odes of Solomon as evidencing a "realized eschatology," like the Gospel of John has, in the article being published in Vigiliae Christianae. Like John, and in contrast to earliest Christian literature, the Odes seem not to expect an immanent return of Jesus in a history-ending Day of Judgment, but rather to have reconsidered that Jewish apocalyptic idea and come to decide that the life of Jesus was and remains the great injection of God into human history: that the "Day of Judgment" is the encounter with the Messiah wherever and however that will now happen to people in a world where Jesus and his Holy Spirit are on the loose.
So is this going to be a dorky downside to life in academia: waking in the middle of the night, maybe years after the fact, with you brain still telling you to tweak this or that long-since-submitted piece of research?
I suppose the positive way to spin this is to start working on another article, devoted to that idea alone....
31st-Oct-2011 07:22 am (UTC)
mushfromnewsies
This is one of those areas of Catholic and/or historical Christian doctrine that I know noooothing about. So that alone interests me. Are the Odes of Solomon considered, you know, orthodox? Or is this one of those grey areas? I know it comes from a rather separate tradition. In any case, we do say in the Creed that He will come again in glory to judge the quick and the dead...
Also I just have to say that my first reaction to this entry was: my grandparents would flip over this. I and my immediate family have always believed in a literal Second Coming and a Final Judgment (also, a new heavens and a new earth) in league with that, but never went any further in apocalyptic speculation. My grandparents, on the other hand, are straight-up pre-millenial dispensationalists. One of the first questions my grandma asked me in the year or so after I became Catholic, was whether Catholics believed in the Rapture. All I remember telling her is that the Rapture was not a part of the tradition, but Catholics of course believed in a literal Second Coming and the Resurrection and the new earth etc. She wasn't impressed. And I remember a year or so after I became Catholic, I suddenly realized that their coffee table was full of Israel My Glory (see: http://www.foi.org/img). I don't think I had realized before then what kind of role this Millenial stuff really had for them. And apparently the Friends of Israel organization really does identify modern Israel with "God's chosen national people" of the OT. See their statement of faith, if you scroll to the end (if you dare.)
The theology and the real-world politics it engenders make me cringe, but I can't be totally cynical about their very evangelical affection for Jewish people and Israel. My grandpa grew up in south-side Chicago in a heavily Jewish neighborhood, and his whole life he's viewed Jewish people with about the same respect and sense of divine destiny as orthodox Jewish people do themselves. Thus their impressive athletic skills (?!?), as he's mentioned to me. Also, while my grandparents do favor converted Jews like Jews for Jesus or even Messianic Jews, to still-Jewish Jews, it's never been very strongly stated. And I was basically converted to traditional Christianity through the books of Chaim Potok (orthodox and Hasidic Jews in New York...) so there's something there. I really think evangelicals are hungering for some kind of traditional religious sensibility, even if it's only a kind of projected nostalgia, and the only people they could reconcile with their sensibilities were the Jews. It's sweet, to me, somehow.
(Also one of the greatest revelations for me, in the past year, is that Chaim Potok said the reason he became a writer was because of reading Brideshead Revisited, when he was the same age that I was when I read his books. I went and found this quote: “I started to write when I was fourteen years old. I’ve been writing since I really was a kid. I wanted to write the day I finished reading a novel that really changed my life. It was a novel about upper-class British Catholics. … You won’t believe this story. Evelyn Waugh’s Brideshead Revisited. It absolutely changed my life. It was an extraordinary encounter with that novel. It was the first serious adult fiction I had ever read. I lived inside that book with more intensity than I lived inside my own world. It was the exact reverse of anything you would think would affect a nice Jewish boy in New York going to a Jewish parochial school. When I closed the book, I was overwhelmed by my relationship to that book. I remember asking myself, ‘What did he do to me? How do you do this kind of thing with words?’ That’s where my commitment to write began. It was really born - very concretely - out of that encounter, with that one book. And it lasted.” This literally blows my mind. I'm not kidding when I say that Potok's books changed my life and were the first great shift towards my becoming Catholic. It just stuns me!)
Sorry this got so wildly off topic! Did you ever read Chaim Potok?
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December Languishing In ‘Snow Drought’
December 17, 2009 Steve Yablonski
OSWEGO, NY – Despite Wednesday’s cold and blustery weather, the Oswego area snowfall remains considerably below average.
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The heavy snowfall makes reading the time on the City Hall clock tower difficult. But the flag gives no doubt to the strong northerly winds.
Wednesday’s snow burst amounted to 5.5 inches, with the bulk of the snowfall in the afternoon, according to Bill Gregway, local observer for the National Weather Service.
“It was snowing pretty good there for a while. It was windy and pretty slippery,” he said.
The snow started around 7 a.m. becoming heavier in the afternoon before ending around 4:30 p.m., he said.
Right up until early December, the area was in a snow drought, he added.
“Now, we have about 5 inches of snow on the ground. And, the total for the winter is 17.7 inches,” he said. “But, we’re still below average.”
October usually gets 0.4-inch of snow and November’s average is 9.1 inches. Neither month had any snow.
“We started December 9.5 inches below average for snow. December’s average is 33.5 inches, so we should have a little more than 16 inches at the middle of December,” Gregway figured. “We’re probably down a good 10 inches from where we should be right now because of how things started this winter.”
Four times November has been snowless. And, each time the winter’s snowfall total fell short of 100 inches.
Gregway believes that’s where the winter of 2009 – 10 is headed.
Henry Willcox, III says:
Finally a shortage that I won’t feel sad about; no tears from me. I’ll remain warm in my toasty heated waterbed!
Dave Bullard says:
Henry: Don’t make me charge you for an advertisement ;)
-Dave Bullard
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Facial Procedures for Smooth Skin
By: Katherine Marko
Laser Treatment for Face Wrinkles
Microdermabrasion Age Spot Removal
The Best Facial Moisturizers for People With Melasma
How to Shave Skin Moles
How to Get Rid of Acne Dents
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Dermabrasions, microdermabrasions, laser resurfacing and chemical peels may not be appropriate for everyone. Side effects can occur and may require additional treatment. Consult with your doctor to determine whether any of these procedures are suitable options for you.
WebMd: Get Glowing: Exfoliation Products for Your Face and Body
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Katherine Marko has been a professional writer for more than five years. She has attended the University of Toronto for English. Her work has appeared in several online publications. Marko is also a licensed aesthetician with expertise in nutrition and beauty.
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Tag: aforestation
Letter from the Desert: A Glimpse of China’s “People to People” cooperation along the Belt and Road
A Russian environmentalist’s account of the Chinese effort to engage BRI country NGOs for environmental restoration
Among the five pillars of China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), “promoting people to people connection” is probably the least well understood, not just because of the intangible nature of such cooperation in general (compared with huge “connectivity” projects such as railroads and ports that are concrete in its literal sense), but also because traditionally China is often seen as lacking the kind of soft power needed to genuinely engage with the “hearts and minds” of the public in other countries.
Recently, Eugene Simonov, a Russian environmentalist and a friend of this blog, had the rare opportunity to participate in the “Belt and Road International Forum on Public Cooperation for Ecological Remediation” held from September 11-14 in Wuwei, Gansu, a drought-stricken province of Western China bordering the Gobi Desert.
Founding of the “BRI NGO Partnership for Ecological Management” (actual objectives and program are yet to be defined), Photo supplied by Eugene Simonov
The event was jointly organized by the China Green Foundation (CGF), China NGO Network for International Exchanges, and the International Forestry Cooperation Center of the National Forestry and Grassland Administration (FGA), a mixture of governmental and semi-governmental bodies charged with the task to advance “people to people connection” through environmental collaboration.
Compared with more traditional forms of accepting international students and training developing country bureaucrats, the “Green BRI” initiative, if played well, could kill two birds at once: finding an area of “people to people” cooperation that can tap into a rich pool of existing exchanges between Chinese environmental NGOs and their foreign counterparts, while reinforcing China’s “green leadership” image internationally.
As Eugene’s account shows, however, the reality is far from ideal. In many aspects the event appeared well-intentioned, but too orchestrated and somewhat awkward. Genuine engagement with BRI region civil society on environmental sustainability apparently requires Chinese actors to change their modus operanti. And the rare occasion also gives BRI country NGOs a chance to learn how to approach the Green BRI initiative.
“So I had to represent Putin.”
Panda Paw Dragon Claw(PPDC): So how did you end up at this extravagant Green BRI event in Gansu?
Eugene Simonov (ES): Foreign participants like me were invited for various reasons not necessarily related to the key theme of the event or our NGOs’ experience with the BRI. It is worth noting that two thirds of the Forum participants were Chinese FGA officials and experts, as well as functionaries of local party committees. About 15 foreign NGOs from various countries were invited, mostly with the help of the United Nations Convention for Combating Desertification (UNCCD) secretariat, as well as up to a dozen representatives from Chinese branches of international environmental groups (WWF, IFAW, NRDC, etc). Local grassroots NGOs from China’s desertification-stricken areas were neither seen or heard at the Forum.
The largest NGO delegation was the Saudi Desert Plant Cooperation Society headed by His Highness Prince Muteb. Photo supplied by Eugene Simonov
In my case, I was recommended to CGF by an Indian colleague, to whom I was accidentally recommended by Rivers without Boundaries (RwB) Mongolia when asked to find a “representative of Russia”. So I had to represent Putin, sitting at table no.1 with key cadres at banquets, rub shoulders with His Highness Prince Muteb from Saudi Desert Plant Society, and to the extent possible, behave myself.
PPDC: The Chinese government isn’t really known for its engagement with civil society groups. What’s your impression of attending a government organized NGO gathering in China?
ES: Having uneven support from governments and local communities in BRI regions and being criticized by foreign press for lack of consultation in project planning, China is eager to demonstrate its willingness to build cooperation with NGOs in BRI countries.
In particular case of this Forum, the Chinese authorities did not seek recommendation or approval from the respective governments of BRI countries to interact with foreign NGOs, which goes beyond the “government-centric mentality” expected from them. So I see it as a progressive approach and a sign of openness.
On the other hand, little effort is made so far to engage NGOs in joint planning and/or at least to get feedback from them on proposed cooperation plans. They were largely there to “demonstrate support for Green BRI” and at best seen as implementers of already proposed projects. When NGOs expressed doubts they were reminded that it’s their own decision whether to continue such cooperation. This is very similar to mode of official bilateral negotiations with China on many “joint projects”.
“Exporting green solutions like exporting industrial capacity”
PPDC: The “Green BRI” initiative, first announced in May 2017, always feels a bit vague and empty. Does the event give you any concrete idea as to what China is trying to achieve?
ES: The event shows how China’s newly established Forestry and Grassland Administration (FGA) would likely advance the initiative.
The Forum was a follow-up to the UNCCD conference held in China last year. At that conference, China made a pledge to combat desertification and “to carry out cooperation on ecological restoration” along the Belt and Road.
On the first day of the event the organizers arranged a day-long field trip to desertification control project sites of Gansu Province. We toured experimental bases of various companies designing desert-combatting technology, state-owned orchards and vineyards in oases, and poplar plantations. From the bus we only glimpsed the edge of the beautifully natural Tengger Desert, the advance of which all these fortifications are being designed to slow down.
At the Forum, Secretary General of CGF, Mr. Chen Peng, made a detailed introduction to the project “Restoration of Populus Euphratica Forest Eco-system along the Belt and Road”, which was offered as the key practical contribution to “greening BRI” by the CGF and FGA.
This poplar is one of the keystone species of riparian forests at vast floodplains of Central Asian and Middle-Eastern rivers from Tarim and Indus to Amu-Darya and Euphrates. FGA believes the poplars provide important economic value to people (erosion control, fodder, tourism, wood, firewood, medicine, etc). Under the plan, a cooperative partnership will be established with local NGOs to encourage more exchanges of experience in different countries with Euphrates Poplar as a symbolic keystone species. Most activities so far are planned, however, in Xinjiang and across Northwestern China.
Slide quotes: “Populus euphratica (Hu Yang) is a symbol of the tenacity of the Chinese nation…” Premier Wen Jiabao, 2009, Photo supplied by Eugene Simonov
PPDC: So it sounds like a massive tree-planting effort along the Belt and Road?
ES: It’s slightly more than that. During the forum, the GCF also announced the launch of an international ecological restoration fund, drawn from donations from companies worldwide to promote a green economy in countries involved in the BRI. First pilot project for poplar planting abroad is planned in mountains of Pakistan along the China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), but I found no Pakistani representative at the Forum or among the listed editors of the very detailed bilingual report “Restoration of Populus Euphratica” handed out to participants.
Dozens of Chinese companies, including the very famous ELION Group which has been celebrated for its anti-desertification efforts in Kubuqi Desert, were featured heavily at the event. The whole thing makes me feel that the logic for doing such “Green BRI” projects is quite similar to the logic behind “industrial capacity sharing” along the Belt and Road, i.e. exporting Chinese industrial capacities such as power plants and steel mills to other countries. China has some mature desertification-control technology, buttressed by domestic success stories and may be shared and exported with some involvement of China companies. Whether or not the marketed approach fits local needs, ecological conditions and social demands is to be studied AFTER overall project direction has been identified.
Like high-speed railways and other “exported capacity”, success of such projects directly depends on how they match local conditions. Strategic planning and public consultations are straightforward means to increase likelihood of success. So far those tools are rarely used in early planning of BRI projects and “capacity sharing” programs.
PPDC: Were there reservations expressed at the event about this approach?
ES: First of all, I must clarify that I do not disagree with necessity to plant trees. And I see great necessity to restore natural multi-species riparian forests in Central Asia. But similar to many other scientists, I tend to view with great suspicion tree-planting projects in deserts and steppes which naturally do not support woody vegetation, unless it is done due to extreme economic need and in environmentally sustainable manner. Water availability and equitable access to its use is the key factor on which adaptation strategy in a given place depends on. For example, the key to restoration of riparian forests is in preserving adequate flooding by respective rivers and controlling grazing and other activities that suppress tree growth. Artificial planting is only a supplementary measure, especially in places where seeds from trees are not available naturally.
From all foreigners who came to the forum, only Meskele Lera Lencha, the officer of the Hailemariam and Roman Foundation from Ethiopia called China to support large-scale tree-planting endeavors overseas. Other foreign participants had stressed different priorities such as local community empowerment and diversification of local economies.
Even tree-planting champions like the very articulate John H. Kwon from Korean Future Forest, which plants forests in China’s easternmost deserts, explained that planting efforts alone cannot catch up with the speed of land degradation, and preventative policies and measures are essential to win the battle.
PPDC: Did you weigh in on the debate?
ES: At the event I attempted to describe long-term cooperation in China-Mongolia-Russia Dauria International Protected Area, where government agencies, scientists and NGOs complement each other. I emphasized priority of protection measures and strategic science-based environmental assessment of any development and climate adaptation project. Interesting enough, my pitch was immediately echoed by the Head of the FGA Grassland Management, who stated that the main task of desertification control is to prevent conversion of the desert margins into arable land during wetter phases of climate cycle.
Other than delivering our speeches and remarks from the podium (by the way, completely uncensored, which is another good sign of the Forum’s openness) we had not any other slot where we could actually discuss issues and plans.
“Very straightforward recommendations should be repeated again and again.”
PPDC: As an NGO participant, how do you envision this project to unfold hereafter?
ES: Except for the “Euphrates Poplar Project” there is no publicly available overall plan for advancing the cooperation outlined at the event, at least in the realm of FGA activities. Likely what will happen is “development aid” type of cooperation where partners are sought to implement predetermined projects and resources are distributed to consortiums of Chinese actors and foreign NGOs.
Developing countries have large number of NGOs for which distributing foreign aid for predetermined projects is the main mode of operation. So the approach is theoretically doable, but hardly the most effective or innovative. And most NGOs invited to this Forum are not likely partners for such an endeavor, as they are generally mature enough to formulate and execute their own programs best fit for specific local conditions. We are yet to see whether partners from China are willing to engage in a dialogue with local stakeholders and redesign predetermined projects. If you want another forest plantation, it is logical to go to local Forestry Departments in BRI countries instead of NGOs.
At the end of the Forum, International NGOs were given bottles with shiny green liquid to poor it over a large poster revealing the name of the new-born “Belt and Road Euphrates Poplar Forest Ecological Restoration Plan and International Cooperation Fund on Ecological Management”. Photo supplied by Eugene Simonov
PPDC: What would be the more effective ways then?
ES: Hopefully FGA, which has key responsibilities in nature conservation and ecosystem management, will be able to start other lines of cooperation with foreign NGOs, for example to prevent destruction and degradation of valuable and vulnerable wildlife habitats, which happens because of many reasons, but increasingly due to poor planning and management of BRI projects. However, no sign of that was seen at the Forum. It was dedicated fully to “remediation” after damage is done.
It is especially urgent along the Silk Road Economic Belt (SREB) where arid conditions make huge portions of natural and semi-natural landscapes very vulnerable that need preventative measures. In early Green BRI policy documents and associated research project outcomes, it is openly said that identification of valuable and vulnerable areas and preventing their degradation is an urgent task.
Strategic environmental assessments (SEA) are among most needed and accessible tools, since they are written into in legislation of China and most BRI countries.
PPDC: Do you find this experience overall worthwhile?
ES: Sure, meeting so many natural resource management actors from national to very local level was very useful experience. It is necessary to participate in such official fora to keep channels of communication open. Although not very effective, such channels are much better than absence thereof. And at those occasions, very straightforward recommendations should be repeated again and again publicly on strategic planning, good governance, meaningful performance indicators and open information, even though you may not get meaningful response immediately.
When it comes to specific pilot projects in their countries foreign NGOs may link Chinese actors with interested and knowledgeable local stakeholders, or at least help local communities to prepare for projects coming their way. This Forum could have achieved more if it was multi-stakeholder. A mix of academians, NGOs, indigenous leaders and forestry officials from various BRI regions would provide better matching opportunities and ensure greater acceptance for future joint projects.
Eugene Simonov is a Russian environmentalist who co-founded the Rivers without Boundaries International Coalition(RwB-www.transrivers.org). He has cooperated with a network of stakeholders interested in river conservation along the Russia-China-Mongolia borders, where dam building and water transfers on a monumental scale threatens the fragile wetland ecosystems in the birthplace of Genghis Khan.
Author TJMaPosted on 2018年9月28日 2018年9月28日 Categories BiodiversityTags aforestation, desertification, pawLeave a comment on Letter from the Desert: A Glimpse of China’s “People to People” cooperation along the Belt and Road
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Tag: trade agreements
EU strikes major trade deals
The EU has recently signed two trade deals after many years of negotiations. The first is with Mercosur, the South American trading and economic co-operation organisation, currently consisting of Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay and Paraguay – a region of over 260m people. The second is with Vietnam, which should result in tariff reductions of 99% of traded goods. This is the first deal of its kind with a developing country in Asia. These deals follow a recent landmark deal with Japan.
At a time when protectionism is on the rise, with the USA involved in trade disputes with a number of countries, such as China and the EU, deals to cut tariffs and other trade restrictions are seen as a positive development by those arguing that freer trade results in a net gain to the participants. The law of comparative advantage suggests that trade allows countries to consume beyond their production possibility curves. What is more, the competition experienced through increased trade can lead to greater efficiency and product development.
It is estimated that the deal with Mercosur could result in a saving of some €4bn per annum in tariffs on EU exports.
But although there is a net economic gain from greater trade, some sectors will lose as consumers switch to cheaper imports. Thus the agricultural sector in many parts of the EU is worried about cheaper food imports from South America. What is more, increased trade could have detrimental environmental impacts. For example, greater imports of beef from Brazil into the EU could result in more Amazonian forest being cut down to graze cattle.
But provided environmental externalities are internalised within trade deals and provided economies are given time to adjust to changing demand patterns, such large-scale trade deals can be of significant benefit to the participants. In the case of the EU–Mercosur agreement, according to the EU Reporter article, it:
…upholds the highest standards of food safety and consumer protection, as well as the precautionary principle for food safety and environmental rules and contains specific commitments on labour rights and environmental protection, including the implementation of the Paris climate agreement and related enforcement rules.
The size of the EU market and its economic power puts it in a strong position to get the best trade deals for its member states. As EU Trade Commissioner, Cecilia Malmström stated:
Over the past few years the EU has consolidated its position as the global leader in open and sustainable trade. Agreements with 15 countries have entered into force since 2014, notably with Canada and Japan. This agreement adds four more countries to our impressive roster of trade allies.
Outside the EU, the UK will have less power to negotiate similar deals.
EU and Mercosur agree huge trade deal after 20-year talks
BBC News (28/6/19)
EU and Mercosur reach agreement on trade
EU Reporter (2/7/19)
What’s in the historic EU-Mercosur free-trade deal? Euronews Answers
Euronews (1/7/19)
Global Europe Has a Trade Message for Trump
Bloomberg, Therese Raphael (2/7/19)
EU and South American bloc reach trade deal to cut tariffs
Financial Times, Jim Brunsden and Andres Schipani (28/6/19)
The EU-Mercosur trade deal: Why this is the worst time to leave the EU
The New European, Paul Behrens (4/7/19)
While the UK is squabbling, the EU is leading the way on trade
Irish Examiner (4/7/19)
Vietnam, EU sign landmark free trade deal
Reuters, Khanh Vu and Phuong Nguyen (30/6/19)
Draw a diagram to illustrate the gains for a previously closed economy from engaging in trade by specialising in products in which it has a comparative advantage.
Distinguish between trade creation and trade diversion from a trade deal with another country or group of countries.
Which sectors in the EU and which sectors in the Mercosur countries and Vietnam are likely to benefit the most from the respective trade deals?
Which sectors in the EU and which sectors in the Mercosur countries and Vietnam are likely to lose from the respective trade deals?
Are the EU–Mercosur and the EU–Vietnam trade deals likely to lead to net trade creation or net trade diversion?
What are the potential environmental dangers from a trade deal between the EU and Mercosur? To what extent have these dangers been addressed in the recent draft agreement?
Will the UK benefit from the EU’s trade deals with Mercosur and Vietnam?
Tags: TagsBrexit, environmental externalities, EU, free trade areas, gains from trade, international trade, law of comparative advantage, Mercosur, Opportunity cost, production possibility curve, production possibiliy frontier, trade agreements, trade blocs, trade creation, trade diversion, VietnamPosted in: CategoriesEconomics 10e: Ch 24, Economics 10e: Ch 26, Economics for Business: 8e Ch 24, 7e Ch 24, Economics for Business: 8e Ch 25, 7e Ch 25, Essential Economics for Business: Ch 12, Essentials of Economics: 8e Ch 14, 7e Ch 13Authored by: John Sloman
Posted on 20 May 2007 1 October 2010
Is this the end of free trade as we know it?
In the article below, Irwin Stelzer argues that Congress has adopted a more protectionist stance towards trade policy. Not all would, however, agree. Why not have a look at the comments after the article to see some of the discussion that has taken place about the article?
The end of free trade as we know it Times Online (20/5/07)
1. Assess the extent to which the new trade agreements under discussion are likely to improve the position of workers globally.
2. Analyse two policies that the US administration could put in place to reduce the level or protectionism.
3. Discuss the extent to which the new trade agreements referred to in the article will represent a more protectionist approach to trade.
Tags: Tagsinternational trade, protectionism, trade agreements, USA, WTOPosted in: CategoriesEconomics 10e: Ch 24, Economics 10e: Ch 26, Economics for Business: 8e Ch 24, 7e Ch 24, Economics for Business: 8e Ch 25, 7e Ch 25, Essential Economics for Business: Ch 12, Essentials of Economics: 8e Ch 14, 7e Ch 13Authored by: pearson
Posted on 20 March 2007 1 October 2010
Oxfam slams bilateral trade deals
Many new regional trade agreements (RTAs) and bilateral trade agreements have been signed in recent years. In a report – Signing away the future – Oxfam has argued that these trade agreements may often significantly disadvantage the poorer developing countries. The links below give access to the briefing paper and some FAQs about these agreements.
Oxfam slams bilateral trade deals BBC News Online(20/3/07)
The state of world trade – Oxfam Oxfam website
Signing away the future – Oxfam Briefing Paper Oxfam website
Signing away the future – Q&A Oxfam website
1. Explain the difference between a regional trade agreement and a bilateral trade agreement.
2. Discuss the advantages and disadvantages for developing countries of signing (a) bilateral trade agreements and (b) regional trade agreements.
3. Choose a specific recent regional trade agreement and assess the impact it has had on the member countries.
Tags: Tagsbilateral trade agreements, developing countries, economic development, international trade, regional trade, trade agreementsPosted in: CategoriesEconomics for Business: 8e Ch 32, 7e Ch 32, Essentials of Economics: 8e Ch 15, 7e Ch 14Authored by: pearson
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Posts Tagged ‘surf’
Chopper, cameras to be used in summer shark patrol
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged $1.1million plan, $500000, $600000, 4300 lifesavers, air, assist, beach., beaches, beachgoers, cameras, Chopper, Chris Peck, coastal, combat, DAILY, data, Emergency, emergency freeway phones, emergency response points, helicopter, images, incidents, life, patrol, rescue, rip, safe, safety plan, saving, secluded beaches, shark, shark patrol, shark patrols, spending., summer, surf, Surf Lifesaving spokesman, Surf Lifesaving WA, surveillance cameras, technologies, third eye, this summer., Westpac, Westpac rescue helicopter on November 8, 2009| Leave a Comment »
DAILY shark patrols will begin next month as part of a $1.1million plan by Surf Lifesaving WA to keep beachgoers safe this summer.
Surf Lifesaving spokesman Chris Peck said $500,000 would be spent keeping the Westpac rescue helicopter in the air for three hours every day from mid-December to the end of February. This year’s safety plan also included spending $600,000 on 30 emergency response points at secluded beaches and 27 beach surveillance cameras. And 4300 lifesavers will patrol beaches.
It is a significant investment in using technologies to combat coastal incidents, Mr Peck said. It is the biggest presence we have ever had. Mr Peck said the State Government had agreed to provide thousands of dollars to help operate daily helicopter patrols. The helicopter will fly for three hours between 6.30am and 2pm.
He said the public wanted more beach patrols in summer, with many people unhappy that aerial shark patrols had operated only on weekends and public holidays. Mr Peck said ideally aerial patrols would operate five hours a day, but there wasn’t enough money to keep the helicopter in the air longer.
I think the pressure probably came from the public to have a service mid-week, he said. The fact that something is up there (the helicopter) looking after them gives people a sense of security. I would have liked another two hours so that we were flying five hours a day. It would have enabled us to spread our patrol coverage a little more broadly.
Mr Peck said the use of emergency response points and surveillance cameras would help save lives. The response points are like emergency freeway phones. Beachgoers can push the button and say to an operator I have seen a shark, someone is caught in a rip so we can get a team to that beach quickly he said. The beach surveillance cameras don’t just take images, they gather data. Whether it’s looking for sharks or missing people in the water, it has the functionality to assist as a third eye.
Source www.news.com.au
Shark attack Star of Courage humbling for WA woman
Posted in Local News, tagged 80 metres, adrenalin, Albany, ankle, attacked by a shark, bravery, bravery award, calm, club, courage, critically, dolphins, event, expected, flipping, frantic, General, governor, Governor-General, honoured, humbled, injured, instinct, Jason Cull, Joanne Lucas', knee, leg, member, Middleton Beach, nearby, ocean, pod of dolphins, present., presented, Quentin Bryce., ripped open, save the life, scan, scan the ocean, shark, shining, south coast, splashing, star, Star of Courage, stripped off, sun, surf, surf club, surf club event, surf club member, swam, swam out, swim, swimmers., to swim, tracksuit pants, tread water., Western Australia's on August 17, 2009| Leave a Comment »
It was calm and still the day an Albany woman driven by instinct swam out to save the life of a fellow surf club member who had been attacked by a shark off Western Australia’s south coast.
Joanne Lucas’ bravery in doing so has earned her the Star of Courage, a bravery award which will presented by the Governor-General Quentin Bryce.
The 54-year-old mother of three had arrived at Middleton Beach, Albany, early on May 10 last year, ahead of a surf club event.
“It was very still and calm, and the sun was shining, and there were dolphins flipping about, a whole pod of dolphins …” Ms Lucas said.
But a short time later, a woman ran up the beach telling her a man had been attacked by a shark.
“I said: `No, no, it’s the dolphins’ and she said: `No it’s a shark’,” Ms Lucas said.
Ms Lucas said running down to the beach, driven by instinct and adrenalin, she stripped off her tracksuit pants and swam 80 metres to where fellow surf club member Jason Cull was critically injured, barely able to swim or tread water.
“It was a completely instinctive thing. I didn’t think: `There’s a shark out there maybe I shouldn’t go out there’,” she said.
“I just thought I’ve got to get this guy out and I’ve got to get him back in.”
All the while, the shark manoeuvred around the scene, with Ms Lucas fearing the frantic splashing of two nearby swimmers trying to scare it away would steer the shark toward her and Mr Cull.
She said she kicked harder and made it to shore where Mr Cull was treated for his injuries.
His leg was completely ripped open from his ankle right up to his knee and he had been “nipped” on the other knee, Ms Lucas said.
Ms Lucas said she was happy to see Mr Cull now back on his feet and cycling around the place.
Being awarded the star of courage was humbling, she said.
“I’m very honoured and humbled to receive this.”
Ms Lucas said she was quickly back on the beach after the attack.
“It hasn’t turned me off the ocean at all,” she said.
“I actually scan the ocean before I go in now …”
The governor-general is expected to present the star of courage to Ms Lucas at a ceremony early next year.
Source www.watoday.com.au
Student Michael Shelley wins City to Surf
Posted in Local News, tagged 14km race., 26-year-old, 41:02 minutes., attempts, Ben St Lawrence, city, City to Surf, City2Surf, Clint Perrett, coach, crack at it, defeat, Dick Telford, dreaded, encouragement, finally, finish line, followed by, Gold Coast, health consultant, heartbreak, Heartbreak Hill, helped, high, high school teacher, hill, home, home stretch, lucky, Michael Shelley, over the line, previous, push him, race, relieved, school, second, Shelley, stamina killer, stretch, Striding, student, surf, teacher, third time, third time lucky, this year., three, time, visibly, wins, won on August 9, 2009| Leave a Comment »
IT has been third time lucky for Gold Coast student Michael Shelley who has won the City2Surf in a time of 41:02 minutes.
Striding down the home stretch to the finish line, Shelley was visibly relieved knowing that after three previous attempts, he had finally won the 14km race.
“It’s very exciting, it’s my third and I suppose it’s third time lucky,” he said.
Before the race, Shelley had spoken to his coach Dick Telford whose words of encouragement helped push him over the line.
“I was talking to my coach last night and he said just be confident in what you’ve done and just have a crack at it.”
After two previous encounters with the dreaded Heartbreak Hill, this year Shelley took it on knowing how to defeat the stamina killer.
“Just be a bit conservative up the (Heartbreak) hill this year than what you had in the past,” Shelley said.
“And it paid off when I got to the top because I could still run.”
Twenty-seven-year-old health consultant Ben St Lawrence came in second followed by 26-year-old high school teacher Clint Perrett.
Source : www.news.com.au
WA’s monster wave – big surf day
Posted in Living in Perth, Local News, tagged Allport., another, ‘Jughead’, big surf, captured, charger, day, dealing, declared, hands down!”, heaviest wave, Indian Ocean, Justen, Mickey Smith, monster, monster wave, Morgan, NSW, Oz, Paul, photograph, Photographer, renowned, ridden, ridden in Oz, riding, Riding the monster wave, serious slab, South-West, stunning, surf, surfer, surfer Paul Morgan, surfing, this year., throws, WA, WA's, wave on August 6, 2009| Leave a Comment »
WA’S South-West has thrown up another monster wave captured in this stunning big surf photograph.
That is the heaviest wave ridden in Oz this year so far, hands down!
Riding the monster wave is NSW surfer Paul Morgan,
dealing with a very serious slab of Indian Ocean.
Photographer : Mickey Smith
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Summer Reading for Adults
The Hidden Power of F*cking Up
by The Try Guys, Keith Habersberger, Zach Kornfeld, Eugene Lee Yang, Ned FulmerThe Try Guys
17 New & Used from $11.77 in Marketplace
The Try Guys deliver their first book—an inspirational self-improvement guide that teaches you that the path to success is littered with humiliating detours, embarrassing mistakes, and unexpected failures.
To be our best selves, we must become secure in our insecurities. In The Hidden Power of F*cking Up, The Try Guys - Keith, Ned, Zach, and Eugene - reveal their philosophy of trying: how to fully embrace fear, foolishness, and embarrassment in an effort to understand how we all get paralyzed by a fear of failure. They’ll share how four shy, nerdy kids have dealt with their most poignant life struggles by attacking them head-on and reveal their - ahem - sure-fail strategies for achieving success.
But they’re not just here to talk; they’re actually going to put their advice to work. To demonstrate their unique self-improvement formula, they’ll each personally confront their deepest insecurities. A die-hard meat-lover goes vegan for the first time. A straight-laced father transforms into a fashionista. A perpetually single sidekick becomes the romantic lead. A child of divorce finally grows more intimate with his family. Through their insightful, emotional journeys and surprising, hilarious anecdotes, they’ll help you overcome your own self-doubt to become the best, most f*cked up version of yourself you can be!
The Try Guys is an Internet comedy series made up of Ned Fulmer, Keith Habersberger, Zach Kornfeld, and Eugene Lee Yang, who all write, direct, produce, and shoot each of their episodes. Their viral videos have garnered over 1 billion views across social media platforms.
The YouTube-famous Try Guys—Ned Fulmer, Keith Habersberger, Zach Kornfeld, and Eugene Lee Yang—expound their “Failosophy” through stories of their greatest “tries,” biggest failures, and the knowledge gleaned from it all. The foursome that has racked up over a billion YouTube views and five million followers for attempting bizarre or sensational stunts (“from zapping our bellies to stimulate the pains of childbirth, to sparring with professional UFC fighters”) exhibit the same colloquial, goofy humor here. After giving brief introductions to how they ended up creating YouTube content together, the guys turn to issues of health, style, work, love, and family, couching their advice in lessons gleaned from their “tries.” For instance, Keith learns how to fail spectacularly while attempting CrossFit and Eugene explains tips for getting closer to your family, such as “tell each of your family members to tell you a secret” and “hug them... not a pat on the back. A real, strong, loving hug.” While the material isn’t particularly hard-hitting, Try Guys devotees will be thrilled to hear about the guys’ backstories—such as that Ned is a Yale graduate who previously worked as a chemist. Mixing a cocktail of quips and vulnerable self-reflection, the Try Guys nicely highlight the good that is born from failure. (June)
The guys say that failure is more important than succeeding. And this book is a perfect example.
Mamrie Hart
As someone who talks to spirits for a living, I can confirm they really should’ve hired a ghostwriter.
Tyler Henry
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Posted on 1. December 2013 by Tim Pritlove
It’s been a while since the last major release but we have been busy behind the scenes and finally landed the 1.9 update of the Podlove Publisher and it’s a big one. Apart from a multitude of minor enhancements, bug fixes and improved behaviour, we have also some big new features we want to present and explain to you here.
We have been thinking a lot about the meta data that is needed and might be helpful for podcasts in the last two years. And there was a big weak spot in the current infrastructure. While podcasts are personal media with a very direct and intimate relationship between sender and receiver, the whole distribution architecture was just dealing with podcasts and episodes. It was all about the “medium” and not about people.
We intend to change this in a big way and today’s release is our first step in that regard. Release 1.9 includes a brand new contributor module. While you could assign people to episodes before, this time you can create individual profiles for each person, assign “roles”, use your own avatars and also link to the social media accounts and insert donation buttons (Flattr for a start, PayPal will come later).
People now also show up in the feed giving crawlers and podcast clients a chance to actually identify contributors across podcasts. And you get new shortcodes to make nice lists of people and more.
This is just the beginning. We have a lot of ideas and plan to expand this area significantly in upcoming releases.
Protected Feeds
We acknowledge there is a certain interest in protecting feeds with passwords. There are actually a lot of scenarios where this might make sense. But it is also a very complicated issue as everybody has its own ideas how to integrate with subsystems, databases etc.
So we are not presenting a real solution here but just put our toes in the water to get a basic functionality running: you can now put a general login/password on a feed or let people authenticate against the WordPress user database.
Depending on feedback, we might expand this feature in other directions but this needs to be rethought and discussed.
There a lot of other notable changes in this release: the new license selector makes choosing the right license for your podcast easy and you can decide to have a license setting on a per-episode basis if you need to.
The Expert Settings now allow you to configure temporary redirects in addition to permanent settings. Feeds are now delivered gzipped and you can define a global limit for the number of episodes.
And of course, we killed a lot of minor bugs.
There a bunch of other subsystems that is being worked at, both existing and new. Our roadmap is reaching out for into 2014 and hopefully beyond.
The advances of this year were made possible by the pretty successful crowdfunding which enabled us to pay one developer to spend a few days a week to work full time. Thanks to everybody who helped and will help in the future. We hope the quality of our code and ideas shows our appreciation.
It’s been a while since the last major release but we have been busy behind the scenes and finally landed the 1.9 update of the Podlove Publisher and it’s a...
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Equality of Google Scholar with Web of Science Citations: Case of Malaysian Engineering Highly Cited Papers
Modern Applied Science, Vol. 8, No. 5, pp. 63-69, 2014
7 Pages Posted: 9 Aug 2014 Last revised: 10 Aug 2014
See all articles by Nader Ale Ebrahim
Nader Ale Ebrahim
Centre for Research Services, Institute of Management and Research Services (IPPP), University of Malaya (UM); University of Malaya (UM) - Department of Engineering Design and Manufacture
Hadi Salehi
Islamic Azad University, Najafabad Branch
Mohamed Amin Embi
Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia - Faculty of Education
Mahmoud Danaee
University Malaya
Marjan Mohammadjafari
Azam Zavvari
National University of Malaysia (UKM)
Masoud Shakiba
Masoomeh Shahbazi-Moghadam
Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM)
Date Written: August 6, 2014
This study uses citation analysis from two citation tracking databases, Google Scholar (GS) and ISI Web of Science, in order to test the correlation between them and examine the effect of the number of paper versions on citations. The data were retrieved from the Essential Science Indicators and Google Scholar for 101 highly cited papers from Malaysia in the field of engineering. An equation for estimating the citation in ISI based on Google scholar is offered. The results show a significant and positive relationship between both citation in Google Scholar and ISI Web of Science with the number of versions. This relationship is higher between versions and ISI citations (r = 0.395, p<0.01) than between versions and Google Scholar citations (r = 0.315, p<0.01). Free access to data provided by Google Scholar and the correlation to get ISI citation which is costly, allow more transparency in tenure reviews, funding agency and other science policy, to count citations and analyze scholars’ performance more precisely.
Keywords: Bibliometrics, Citation analysis, Evaluations, Equivalence, Google Scholar, High cited, ISI Web of Science, Research tools, H-index
JEL Classification: L11, L1, L2, M11, M12, M1, M54, Q1, O1, O3, P42, P24, P29, Q31, Q32, L17
Ale Ebrahim, Nader and Salehi, Hadi and Embi, Mohamed Amin and Danaee, Mahmoud and Mohammadjafari, Marjan and Zavvari, Azam and Shakiba, Masoud and Shahbazi-Moghadam, Masoomeh, Equality of Google Scholar with Web of Science Citations: Case of Malaysian Engineering Highly Cited Papers (August 6, 2014). Modern Applied Science, Vol. 8, No. 5, pp. 63-69, 2014. Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2477611
Nader Ale Ebrahim (Contact Author)
Centre for Research Services, Institute of Management and Research Services (IPPP), University of Malaya (UM) ( email )
Kuala Lumpur, Wilayah Persekutuan 50603
HOME PAGE: http://https://umresearch.um.edu.my/
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Islamic Azad University, Najafabad Branch ( email )
Najafabad, Isfahan
Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia - Faculty of Education ( email )
Department of Industrial Computing
School of Information Technology -FTSM
Bangi, Selangor 55100
+60 3 89215969 (Phone)
HOME PAGE: http://www.ukm.my/ppa/index.php?option=com_contact&view=contact&id=2:prof-dr-mohamed-amin-embi&catid
University Malaya ( email )
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Tag Archives: Sunni Islam
NIGERIA: ISLAMIST GROUP ATTACKING CHRISTIANS IN KWARA STATE
Clergymen say extremists blame Christian prayers for Muslim leader’s death.
ILORIN, Nigeria, August 14 (Compass Direct News) – Blaming the death of their leader on Christian prayers, an Islamist group that launched a hate campaign in response to an evangelistic event in 2004 is reportedly attacking Christians in this Kwara state capital with renewed virulence, area Christians said.
At least three Christians have died and several others have been injured in attacks with machetes and other weapons since June, clergymen said. They said the attacks began after the death in May of Dr. Ali Olukade, head of a local group of Islamists called Tibliq, possibly patterned after the worldwide Tablighi Jamaat missionary movement.
Dr. Olukade was critically injured in an auto accident in 2006, and after extensive recovery efforts he succumbed to his injuries in May. His extremist followers, according to the Rev. Cornelius Fawenu, secretary of the Kwara chapter of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), believe that his death was the result of prayers by Christians upset when Muslim threats cut short a major event by German evangelist Reinhard Bonnke in 2004.
Islamic uproar over the evangelistic event in Ilorin forced it to a venue outside the city, and Bonnke had to “abort” three days of the planned five-day event, Rev. Fawenu said.
When the local Tibliq leader was injured in the car crash in 2006, Rev. Fawenu said, “The members of his Muslim sect went on rampage, demonstrating against America and the state of Israel, over claims that it was the prayers of Christians over the aborting of the gospel event of 2004 that caused their leader to be involved in an auto crash. Dr. Olukade, the Muslim sect’s leader, died in May 2008, and since then Muslim fanatics have embarked in serial killings and attacks on Christians in the city.”
The group from the Tibliq movement in Ilorin, Rev. Fawenu said, had spear-headed opposition to the evangelistic event.
The Kwara chapter of CAN has received 10 reports of Christians attacked by the Muslim extremists in the past two months, Rev. Fawenu said, adding that he believes unreported assaults on Christians average about four daily.
Facts on even the confirmed reports, however, are few. Last month the state CAN chapter petitioned the inspector general of police to investigate the attacks on Christians in Ilorin, which Rev. Fawenu said resulted in the death of a former leader of an Evangelical Church of West Africa congregation known only as Pastor Habila. The former church leader was assaulted in the Oke Oba area of Ilorin in June and died on June 15 from his injuries, Rev. Fawenu said.
“The corpse of another Christian victim was found along stadium road, with his Bible beside him, on June 18,” Rev. Fawenu said. “So also, a young Christian girl living near the stadium road was also murdered in the same manner within this period.”
The Kwara state CAN leader said he did not have the names of these victims but that their deaths resulted from attacks that fit a pattern of other area assaults – taking place after dark as Christians either went to or returned from church services.
Another church leader injured from an attack, he said, is known only as Pastor Olagunjo. Rev. Fawenu said the assaults have reduced attendance at Christian worship services in the state.
The Kwara chapter of CAN staged a three-day prayer rally over the attacks from June 30 to July 2, which drew large crowds.
Samuel Ajiboye, pastor of New Testament Christian Mission in Ilorin, told Compass that Muslim extremists attacked a member of his church, Nanle Nathaniel, in June.
“Nanle Nathaniel was attacked on June 11 near our church,” Ajiboye said. “He saw a man with a machete coming towards him, and before he realized what was happening, the man cut him on his head with the machete, and thereafter fled.”
Ajiboye added that Nathaniel shouted and dragged himself to a nearby house, where neighbors phoned the pastor, and he told them to take Nathaniel to the University of Ilorin Teaching Hospital. At press time Nathaniel was still receiving treatment for nerve damage on his head, he said.
Ajiboye echoed the Kwara state CAN leader’s assertion that there are many Christian victims of such attacks, and that some of them have died.
Another survivor was Rachael Harry of Blessed Chapel, a church in the Sango area of Ilorin. Attacked on June 25, she also received head injuries for which she received hospital treatment, according to 70-year-old pastor and photojournalist Gabriel Oki Olufemi, of Chapel of Redemption church in Ilorin.
“While being attacked, she was rescued by her neighbors,” Olufemi told Compass. “I was there shortly after she was attacked, and I personally took pictures of her and interviewed her.”
Olufemi said Harry was about 100 meters from her house when she was attacked. “She was a trader returning from the Ministry of Agriculture, where she sells food,” he said, adding that she was attacked at about 7 p.m. near the home of her pastor, who was out of town at the time.
“Only yesterday [August 7], I was told that another Christian was attacked by the railway station in the city,” Olufemi said. “The police recovered an iron rod from the scene where she was attacked. All those killed or attacked are Christians.”
Olufemi said he interviewed another girl who was attacked near the venue of the June 30-July 2 prayer rally. “So also,” he said, “a young Christian man was attacked while on his way from night vigil in his church.”
Islamist Sect Fingered
The group said to be behind the attacks, Tibliq, may reflect the influence of the radical Sunni Tablighi Jamaat, a worldwide missionary movement originating in India in 1927.
Active in north African countries such as Morocco and Algeria, the secretive Tablighi Jamaat describes itself as pietistic but comprises an extremist wing that advocates jihad through the sword, according to a 2005 article in the Middle East Quarterly. Yusef Fikri, a Tablighi member and leader of the Moroccan terrorist organization At-Takfir wal-Hijrah, was sentenced to death for helping to plan the May 2003 Casablanca bombings that killed 45 people.
“Tablighi Jamaat has always adopted an extreme interpretation of Sunni Islam,” Alex Alexiev wrote in the Middle East Quarterly, “but in the past two decades it has radicalized to the point where it is now a driving force of Islamic extremism and a major recruiting agency for terrorist causes worldwide.”
Rev. Fawenu recalled the evangelistic event in 2004 that he said is at the root of recent attacks. The rally by German evangelist Bonnke was to take place in the heart of the city, he said, but Tibliq-led Muslim opposition led to the Kwara state government moving the event to a village miles outside of Ilorin.
“However, two days into the five-day event, the government again brought the police to stop the event,” he said. “The event was aborted following opposition from Muslims in the city.”
After the leader of the Tibliq, Dr. Olukade, was injured in the car crash, he was taken to a hospital in Germany but returned to Nigeria last November with his condition still critical, Rev. Fawenu said.
“Before his death,” Rev. Fawenu told Compass, “Dr. Olukade was a medical doctor with the University of Ilorin Teaching Hospital, and was also the proprietor of TIM Hospital Ilorin.”
Most of the victims of the attacks, he said, have been treated at the University of Ilorin Teaching Hospital, as well as at the Delink Hospital in the Oja-iya area of Ilorin.
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OPEC’s Oil Giants Give Trading Houses A Run For Their Money
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Japan-China Oil Sands JV Comes Online
By Tsvetana Paraskova - Aug 08, 2017, 1:30 PM CDT
Japan Petroleum Exploration Co (Japex) and Nexen Energy ULC—a wholly owned subsidiary of China’s CNOOC—started last week the production ultra-heavy crude oil from the Hangingstone Oil Sands Project in Alberta, Canada, the Japanese company said on Tuesday.
Japex and Nexen launched production last Thursday using the Steam-Assisted Gravity Drainage (SAGD) method, at a current bitumen production rate of 1,000 bpd. After wells get switched to full production mode, the companies expect production volume at the Hangingstone project to reach 20,000 bpd by the second half of 2018.
Japex’s subsidiary Japan Canada Oil Sands Limited (Jacos) holds a 75- percent interest in the project and is its operator, while Nexen owns the other 25-percent stake.
Jacos will aim to optimize expenses and capital investments, as well as the SAGD method to improve production efficiency, in order to boost the project’s competitiveness, Japex said in its press release.
Together with the start of production at the Hangingstone project, however, Japex announced today that it had decided not to restart operations of bitumen production using the SAGD method in Hangingstone Demonstration Project area, known as the 3.75 Section Area.
In May last year, Japex said that it was temporarily suspending production in the so-called Demo Area as a response to the sharp decline in oil prices.
In today’s statement, the Japanese firm noted that “However, the wildfires in May 2016 forced suspension of operations, and aiming at improvement of our financial results under the stagnating oil prices environment, we decided to leave the operations suspended rather than re-start later that year.”
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Canada’s oil sands, considered to be one of the most expensive projects to develop, especially in the current oil price environment, have seen international oil majors—including Shell, ConocoPhillips, and Statoil—sell off Canadian oil sands assets to Canadian firms in large deals.
However, the lowered exports of OPEC heavy crude grades to North America are tightening the price spread between WTI and Western Canadian Select (WCS), cutting into the refining margins of U.S. refiners while helping Canadian oil sands producers sell their heavy oil at a higher price, Fitch Ratings said last week.
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Nissan Freeride World Tour
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After a difficult week with snow, wind, and poor visibility the first contest of the Freeride World Tour, the Nissan Mammoth Challenge, was finally held in California on Friday 25 January. With cloudy skies and light snowfalls, but enough visibility for riders and judges to carry out the contest, many of the biggest names in the world of ski and snowboard impressed the judges and local public with great action on fast, solid lines and huge air.
55 of the world’s best skiers and snowboarders contested in the first ever contest of the Freeride World Tour in Mammoth, California. With the massive snowfalls of the previous days, giving at least two feet (60-80 cm) of fresh snow on the face, the competitors rode fast and convincing and went for huge air with impressive cliff drops, landing in between the pine trees, cheered on by the thrilled local public at the bottom of the face.
The competition was as tough as it gets. The only chance for podium was to perform impeccable runs with no errors and perfectly executed jumps. Each rider carried out two different runs on a double face with two optional starts and many different line options, with interesting terrain and big cliff jumps. The accumulated points from both runs set the final result.
Four of the Nissan Sports Adventure team competed and all of them made the podium on this first event of the tour.
It was famous snowboarder Géraldine Fasnacht from Switzerland who lead the charge for Nissan and landed her first jump in such deep powder that she had to crawl out of her hole. Besides that, the choice of her lines, her fluidity and solid runs brought her to the 1st place.
In the women skiers’ category Marja Persson from Sweden, once again proved that she probably is the most explosive female rider at present, unfortunately she had a small fall and lost some points which put her on third place.
In the men’s contest it was the Freeride World Tour number 1’s that had to settle for 3rd place’s with snowboarding Cyril Neri from Switzerland, who started his run with an impressive back flip before taking a fluid line down the mountain face.
French man Aurélien Ducroz, skied a super smooth line down the face and ended his run with a front flip right before the finishing line.
Legendary skier and mega star Glen Plake has been present in Mammoth since the qualifying contest, Nissan Mammoth Quest, last week, and was judging the skiers during the Nissan Mammoth Challenge. His fellow judge Dino Raffaud (FRA), co-organiser of the Nissan Freeride de Tignes, commented the high level of the contest: “The level on this first event of the Freeride World Tour is simply huge, it promises an incredible season in terms of suspense and show. What we saw today is a real pulse test of the high level freeride in competition, a tasty mix of pleasure and commitment…”
Next stop – Nissan Russian Adventure in Sochi / Krasnaya Polyana
The second event of the Freeride World Tour will take place this week on the other side of the planet, in Russia. The contest, with 44 participating riders, will take place in Krasnaya Polyana / Sochi, the host resort of the Winter Olympics 2014. Famous for its legendary heliskiing the contest will consist of two runs where the second one will be heli-lifted to one of the west Caucasus magnificent mountain ranges with the top half of the field (22 riders in total). The first possible contest day is the 31st of January.
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Animal are Throwin’ Down at the BRITS 2008
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Katar fussball
Die Endrunde der Fußball-Weltmeisterschaft (englisch FIFA World Cup) wird die Austragung des bedeutendsten Turniers für Männer-Fußball- Nationalmannschaften und soll in Katar ausgetragen. Die Fußball-Weltmeisterschaft findet in Katar statt. Doch die Wahl zugunsten des Wüstenstaates gilt als umstritten. Die Temperaturen sind dort im Sommer. Note: Fussball, Katar. Live Ergebnisse Service auf photo-animaliere.eu bietet katarische Fußball Livescores, Endergebnisse, Spielzusammenfassungen mit.
The Qataris lost out to Saudi Arabia in the semi-finals, but achieved a 3rd place standing after emerging the victors of a penalty shoot-out against the United Arab Emirates.
Despite this setback, Qatar finished in 3rd place in the Gulf Cup as the host nation the next year. Their Asian Cup debut came in under the legendary head coach Evaristo de Macedo.
They had qualified for the tournament after topping a relatively easy group composing of Bangladesh and Afghanistan. Their showing in the main tournament was unimpressive, making an early exit from the group stages with two defeats, one draw and one win.
Qatar narrowly lost to Iraq in the finals of the Gulf Cup , nonetheless they were named runners-up, their most impressive accolade until They failed to make it out of the preliminary stages of the and World Cup qualifying rounds.
However, the team qualified for both the and editions of the Asian Cup. They also missed out on a semi-final place in ; however, they notably defeated Japan by a score of 3—0.
Qatar arguably reached its peak in the s, attaining its highest-ever FIFA rating 53 in August They were denied a spot in the World Cup after finishing below the United Arab Emirates and South Korea in the final round of the qualifiers.
In , the national team once again finished runners-up in the Gulf Cup as Kuwait won the final two matches of the tournament.
After wins against China and Iran, they played their last match against Saudi Arabia , where a victory would have earned qualification.
However, they lost out as Saudi Arabia won 1—0 to reach the finals. They made it to the quarter-finals of the Asian Cup despite finishing 3rd in their group, but lost to China in their quarter-final confrontation.
The job of coaching the team in qualifying for the World Cup fell to Jorge Fossati , who led the team throughout the first and second AFC rounds up to the third round.
After leaving them at the top of their group with only two played matches, Fossati had to undergo stomach surgery.
Subsequently, the Qatar Football Association ended their co-operation with him in September , as the QFA claimed he needed too long to recover from surgery.
In , as hosts of the Asian Cup , they advanced to the quarter-finals. They succumbed to a late 2—3 defeat to eventual champions Japan after a goal was scored by Masahiko Inoha in the 89th minute.
They advanced from the group stages after three draws, going on to defeat Oman 3—1 in the semi-final, and were victorious in the final against Saudi Arabia , who were playing in front of a home crowd, by a margin of 2—1.
Despite winning the Gulf Cup and finishing the year with only one defeat, Qatar showed a poor form in the Asian Cup. Qatar was defeated 1—4 by the United Arab Emirates in their opener.
This was continued with a 0—1 loss to Iran and 1—2 to Bahrain. Qatar was eliminated in the group stages with no points and placed 4th in Group C.
Their start in the second round of World Cup qualifying in the AFC was nearly perfect, with seven wins and only one loss.
Qatar finished bottom of their group, ensuring they will play their first World Cup match on home soil in , the first team to do so since Italy in Qatar continued its poor form in the Gulf Cup , which was hosted by Kuwait.
Qatar opened the tournament with a 4—0 win against minnows Yemen , but that was followed by a 1—2 loss to Iraq and an unconvincing 1—1 draw to Bahrain.
Qatar took the third place in Group B with four points and was eliminated in the group stage of the competition, which was considered as an upset of the tournament, especially after winning the edition.
However, Qatar had a very good campaign at the Asian Cup. Their opener saw them defeat Lebanon This was followed by a thrashing of North Korea and a win against three-time champions Saudi Arabia , which sealed the team getting first place in the group.
They had a win against Iraq in the Round of 16 and a late win against defending runners-up South Korea in the quarterfinals, seeing them through to the semifinals for the first time ever, where they defeated the hosts United Arab Emirates to set up a final against 4-time winners Japan.
Qatar ended up winning the tournament with a win over Japan. The Arabian Gulf Cup has been played on a bi-annual basis since The tournament has changed since the first edition from a round-robin basis to a knockout tournament in the latter years.
Notably, the edition was cancelled and the and were moved due to congested fixture lists with other tournaments, such as the Asian Cup.
The following players have been called up for the Qatar squad within the last 12 months. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
Qatar national under football team. Champions 39 25 39 The Arabian Gulf Cup has been played on a bi-annual basis since Qatar national football team results.
Facing Brazil in the quarter-finals, they were able to secure a 3—2 victory by utilizing the offside trap. They went on to face England in the semi-finals, where they earned a 2—1 victory after a fine performance by their goalkeeper.
The team finished second after losing 0—4 to West Germany in the final on a wet pitch which was unfavorable to the Qataris as they were not used to playing in such conditions.
The population of Qataris was only , at the time of this achievement. Qatar earned its second international U World Cup appearance in as hosts.
While Nigeria was preparing to host the edition, an Ebola epidemic broke out in west Africa, and as a result, FIFA decided to award the hosting rights to Qatar with only twenty days remaining till the start of the championships.
In the finals, the Qataris would be victorious against DPR Korea for a second time in the tournament, with super sub Akram Afif scoring the only goal of the match in the second half.
The entire squad was composed of Aspire Academy students. Hedider Abderrazak Goalkeeping coach: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
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11.S: Particle Physics and Cosmology (Summary)
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11.1 Introduction to Particle Physics
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antiparticle subatomic particle with the same mass and lifetime as its associated particle, but opposite electric charge
baryon number baryon number has the value \(B=+1\) for baryons, \(–1\) for antibaryons, and 0 for all other particles and is conserved in particle interactions
baryons group of three quarks
Big Bang rapid expansion of space that marked the beginning of the universe
boson particle with integral spin that are symmetric on exchange
color property of particles and that plays the same role in strong nuclear interactions as electric charge does in electromagnetic interactions
cosmic microwave background radiation (CMBR) thermal radiation produced by the Big Bang event
cosmology study of the origin, evolution, and ultimate fate of the universe
dark energy form of energy believed to be responsible for the observed acceleration of the universe
dark matter matter in the universe that does not interact with other particles but that can be inferred by deflection of distance star light
electroweak force unification of electromagnetic force and weak-nuclear force interactions
exchange symmetry property of a system of indistinguishable particles that requires the exchange of any two particles to be unobservable
fermion particle with half-integral spin that is antisymmetric on exchange
Feynman diagram space-time diagram that describes how particles move and interact
fundamental force one of four forces that act between bodies of matter: the strong nuclear, electromagnetic, weak nuclear, and gravitational forces
gluon particle that that carry the strong nuclear force between quarks within an atomic nucleus
grand unified theory theory of particle interactions that unifies the strong nuclear, electromagnetic, and weak nuclear forces
hadron a meson or baryon
Hubble’s constant constant that relates speed and distance in Hubble’s law
Hubble’s law relationship between the speed and distance of stars and galaxies
lepton a fermion that participates in the electroweak force
lepton number electron-lepton number \(L_e\), the muon-lepton number \(L_μ\), and the tau-lepton number \(L_τ\) are conserved separately in every particle interaction
mesons a group of two quarks
nucleosynthesis creation of heavy elements, occurring during the Big Bang
particle accelerator machine designed to accelerate charged particles; this acceleration is usually achieved with strong electric fields, magnetic fields, or both
particle detector detector designed to accurately measure the outcome of collisions created by a particle accelerator; particle detectors are hermetic and multipurpose
positron antielectron
quantum chromodynamics (QCD) theory that describes strong interactions between quarks
quantum electrodynamics (QED) theory that describes the interaction of electrons with photons
quark a fermion that participates in the electroweak and strong nuclear force
redshift lengthening of the wavelength of light (or reddening) due to cosmological expansion
Standard Model model of particle interactions that contains the electroweak theory and quantum chromodynamics (QCD)
strangeness particle property associated with the presence of a strange quark
strong nuclear force relatively strong attractive force that acts over short distances (about \(10^{−15}) m) responsible for binding protons and neutrons together in atomic nuclei
synchrotron circular accelerator that uses alternating voltage and increasing magnetic field strengths to accelerate particles to higher and higher energies
synchrotron radiation high-energy radiation produced in a synchrotron accelerator by the circular motion of a charged beam
theory of everything a theory of particle interactions that unifies all four fundamental forces
virtual particle particle that exists for too short of time to be observable
W and Z boson particle with a relatively large mass that carries the weak nuclear force between leptons and quarks
weak nuclear force relative weak force (about \(10^{−6}\) the strength of the strong nuclear force) responsible for decays of elementary particles and neutrino interactions
Momentum of a charged particle in a cyclotron \(p=0.3Br\)
Center-of-mass energy of a colliding beam machine \(W^2=2[E_1E_2+(p_1c)(p_2c)]+(m_1c^2)^2+(m_2c^2)^2\)
Approximate time for exchange of a virtual particle between two other particles \(Δt=\frac{h}{E}\)
Hubble’s law \(v=H_0d\)
Cosmological space-time metric \(ds^2=c^2dt^2−a(t)^2d\sum^2\)
The four fundamental forces of nature are, in order of strength: strong nuclear, electromagnetic, weak nuclear, and gravitational. Quarks interact via the strong force, but leptons do not. Both quark and leptons interact via the electromagnetic, weak, and gravitational forces.
Elementary particles are classified into fermions and boson. Fermions have half-integral spin and obey the exclusion principle. Bosons have integral spin and do not obey this principle. Bosons are the force carriers of particle interactions.
Quarks and leptons belong to particle families composed of three members each. Members of a family share many properties (charge, spin, participation in forces) but not mass.
All particles have antiparticles. Particles share the same properties as their antimatter particles, but carry opposite charge.
Elementary particle interactions are governed by particle conservation laws, which can be used to determine what particle reactions and decays are possible (or forbidden).
The baryon number conservation law and the three lepton number conversation law are valid for all physical processes. However, conservation of strangeness is valid only for strong nuclear interactions and electromagnetic interactions.
Six known quarks exist: up (u), down (d), charm (c), strange (s), top (t), and bottom (b). These particles are fermions with half-integral spin and fractional charge.
Baryons consist of three quarks, and mesons consist of a quark-antiquark pair. Due to the strong force, quarks cannot exist in isolation.
Evidence for quarks is found in scattering experiments.
Many types of particle accelerators have been developed to study particles and their interactions. These include linear accelerators, cyclotrons, synchrotrons, and colliding beams.
Colliding beam machines are used to create massive particles that decay quickly to lighter particles.
Multipurpose detectors are used to design all aspects of high-energy collisions. These include detectors to measure the momentum and energies of charge particles and photons.
Charged particles are measured by bending these particles in a circle by a magnetic field.
Particles are measured using calorimeters that absorb the particles.
The Standard Model describes interactions between particles through the strong nuclear, electromagnetic, and weak nuclear forces.
Particle interactions are represented by Feynman diagrams. A Feynman diagram represents interactions between particles on a space-time graph.
Electromagnetic forces act over a long range, but strong and weak forces act over a short range. These forces are transmitted between particles by sending and receiving bosons.
Grand unified theories seek an understanding of the universe in terms of just one force.
The universe is expanding like a balloon—every point is receding from every other point.
Distant galaxies move away from us at a velocity proportional to its distance. This rate is measured to be approximately 70 km/s/Mpc. Thus, the farther galaxies are from us, the greater their speeds. These “recessional velocities” can be measure using the Doppler shift of light.
According to current cosmological models, the universe began with the Big Bang approximately 13.7 billion years ago.
The early universe was hot and dense.
The universe is isotropic and expanding.
Cosmic background radiation is evidence for the Big Bang.
The vast portion of the mass and energy of the universe is not well understood.
Samuel J. Ling (Truman State University), Jeff Sanny (Loyola Marymount University), and Bill Moebs with many contributing authors. This work is licensed by OpenStax University Physics under a Creative Commons Attribution License (by 4.0).
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Archaeologist discovers Maya royal burial
by Robert Perkins, University of Southern California
From inside a tunnel into a pyramid, Tom Garrison inspects a plaster mask left by the Maya.
Tom Garrison was four hours away from camp down a bumpy jungle road—headed into the city to get treated for poisonwood exposure—when he got the call from his co-director Edwin Román.
"You need to get back here right now."
Back at El Zotz, a ruined Maya city hidden deep within Guatemala's Maya Biosphere Reserve, one of Garrison's archaeological teams had hit paydirt—a burial chamber in the Five Temples section of the site that could contain the remains of royalty.
He turned the truck around.
Garrison, an assistant professor (teaching) of anthropology and spatial sciences, is the principle investigator running the archaeological exploration of El Zotz, an isolated and overgrown Maya ruin to which he returns each spring.
Standing 6-foot-3, he sports an impish grin and an impressive knack for recounting any detail of Maya language or history on command. He refers to El Zotz in the royal "we"—when describing its turbulent past, he describes how "we invaded Tikal." Fittingly, has an antagonistic take on El Zotz's more famous big brother to the east.
Tikal is like the Los Angeles to El Zotz's Pasadena: so large, impressive and close that it tends to eclipse its neighbor in the public eye. But El Zotz has proven to be a font of information for archaeologists, helping them to piece together an understanding of the changing political dynamics of the region, and by extension, the Maya people.
In El Zotz, a ruined Maya city, assistant professor (teaching) in archaeology, Tom Garrison, hit paydirt – the possible remains of a royal tomb. Credit: Mira Zimet
A place of royal inspiration
Garrison discovered archaeology as an undergraduate at Connecticut College, when he enrolled in an introductory course as a freshman. His love for the field was kindled during a junior-year study abroad trip to Oaxaca, Mexico, that included a trip to the Maya site of Palenque.
Now, Garrison works to inspire the same love of exploration into the past through his course offerings at USC and through his Problems Without Passports courses, ANTH 400: "Maya Resilience" and ANTH 450: "Field Research in Maya Archaeology." Both classes allow him to take USC undergraduates to explore Maya ruins in the jungles of Guatemala.
El Zotz, Garrison's home and office every spring, spreads out over roughly two square kilometers of jungle, which includes a massive royal palace and temple on a hill overlooking groups of temples and smaller dwellings in the valley below. Its name is a modern appellation, taken from the Maya word for "bat"—hundreds swarm the skies every evening and then sleep in a nearby cave where the Maya believed that the sun dwelt when not illuminating the world.
During the time of the Maya, it was known as "Pa'chan," meaning "fortified sky."
When the Maya inhabited it 1,500 years ago, they had deforested the whole region, offering the royals above a commanding view of their subjects. Today, the jungle has reclaimed the valley, obscuring it with a thick canopy of trees and vines—much of it sprouting within the old Maya structures.
Tom Garrison (left) stands in front of a Maya pyramid with longtime colleague Steve Houston. Credit: Robert Perkins
Against time and looters
With mere days left in the excavation season—before heavy rains transformed the already-muddy roads that lead to El Zotz into an impassable sludge—Garrison and his crew worked around the clock to excavate the tomb. The team also faced the ever-present threat of looters, endemic in the world of Maya archaeology.
El Zotz alone has 230 trenches and tunnels cut into the site's pyramids and other structures from cunning but unscrupulous diggers who can make a slim profit by selling cultural artifacts on the black market.
Often rich with bowls, figurines and other valuable grave goods, tombs are a tempting trove for looters. Even with the archaeologists camped near the site and soldiers guarding the biological preserve where it sits, any open tomb is vulnerable once word of its existence gets out.
In 2010, Garrison and his colleagues—at the time led by Brown University's Stephen Houston, a living legend in the Maya archaeology community—brought international attention to El Zotz when they uncovered the intact tomb of a Maya king beneath the Temple of the Night Sun. The tomb resided in a pyramid known as "El Diablo," perched atop the royal hill, across from the Five Temples.
The 40-foot-tall pyramid is the highest point in the city and offers an eye-straining view of the Tikal pyramids, which peak above the jungle to the east. The team's excavators make regular pilgrimages to Diablo's eroding crown—not for the view, but for the cell phone service.
An excavation worker examines a bowl from among the artifacts the researchers collected.
The 2010 discovery occurred just beyond the end of a looter's tunnel in El Diablo—if the looters had dug a little deeper, all that would have been left for Garrison's team would have been an empty void. Instead, they found what National Geographic would later name one of the "discoveries of the year."
"It smelled like death," Garrison said of the tomb. Literally. Unpleasant, but a good sign that the tomb had miraculously managed to remain sealed over the centuries.
It ignited a race to complete the excavation before looters descended. Upon finding the tomb, Garrison and Houston immediately had a conservator flown from the United States to Guatemala to help properly extract and preserve the artifacts. In a taxi on the way to the airport to pick her up, the taxi driver—who recognized Garrison from a previous trip to Guatemala—smiled and said, "I heard you guys found something."
Somehow, word of the discovery had already reached people in the city of Flores.
"That's never what you want to hear this far out," Garrison said. Ultimately, he and his crew found bowls of human fingers, wood carvings, bejeweled teeth, sacrificed infants and more.
Looters of a different kind
Based on the design of other, contemporary Maya temples, researchers theorized that there might be a second tomb in front of the original chamber, and Garrison spent the first part of the field season in search of a second tomb in El Diablo. An excavation of its theorized location ultimately found nothing.
As in 2010, the tomb discovered this summer was found when least expected: Guatemalan archaeologist Jose Luis Garrido was cleaning off a low platform when it gave way, opening a small void. Although untouched by humans, its contents had been looted—by rats.
Tree roots had stretched and pressed through the tomb's walls, giving the rats passage. The furry intruders consumed and destroyed anything organic but left intact four beautiful polychrome bowls. One bore the name of a king: Bakab K'inich, which translates roughly as, "The sun god who is first in the land."
With the clock ticking down, Garrison and his team documented the tomb and preserved its contents with mere days to spare until the end of the field season.
"You never know what's out there, and you never know what you're going to find in any given year," Garrison said. "That's the mystery, and part of the appeal, of archaeology."
El Zotz masks yield insights into Maya beliefs
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Speaking of the Self: Gender, Performance, and Autobiography in South Asia
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A Passion for Reading: The Role of Early Twentieth-Century Urdu Novels in the Construction of an Individual Female Identity in 1930s Hyderabad
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This chapter contributes to scholarly discussions of the role of popular fiction in the development of a female selfhood. It explores how reading Urdu-language fiction contributed to the development of a young Muslim girl’s sense of self, as she was growing up in the 1920s in a scholarly, religious family of illustrious ancestry but relatively modest means. In an unpublished memoir the author tells of her childhood passion for reading popular Urdu novels. She identified with female characters who retained the traditional feminine virtues while also acquiring modern educations and pursuing professional careers. These novels helped her to construct a sense of the kind of person she wanted to be and what she wanted to do with her life, as well as to come to terms with ongoing distressing issues in her own family for which she could find no solution in the real world.
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Transitioning from Academia to Business
Posted on November 12, 2017 November 12, 2017 by quamproxime
The wittiest (and longest) tweet thread I saw this week was (((Curtis Perry)))‘s masterful narrative of the life of a graduate student as kin to the life of Job:
The first tweet chapter in Perry’s grad student life of Job. For the curious, Perry’s Twitter profile reads: Quinquegenarian lit prof and chronic feeder of Titivillus. Professional perseverator. Fellowship of the half-circle.
The timing of the tweet epic was propitious in my little subjective corner of the universe: Just two days before, I’d given a talk for Stanford’s Humanities Education Focal Group about my transition from being a disgruntled PhD in comparative literature to being an almost-functioning-normal-human-being executive at an artificial intelligence startup and a venture partner at a seed-stage VC firm.
Many of the students who attended the talk, ranging from undergrad seniors to sixth- or seventh-year PhDs, reached out afterwards to thank me and ask for additional advice. It was meaningful to give back to the community I came from and provide advice of a kind I sought but couldn’t find (or, more accurately, wasn’t prepared to listen to) when I struggled during the last two years of my PhD.
This post, therefore, is for the thousands of students studying humanities, fearing the gauntlet of the academic job market, and wondering what they might do to explore a different career path or increase their probability of success once they do. I offer only the anecdotes of one person’s successes and failures. Some things will be helpful for others; some will not. If nothing else, it serves as testimony that people need not be trapped in the annals of homogeneity. The world is a big and mighty place.
Important steps in my transition
As I narrated in a previous post, I hit rock bottom in my last year of graduate school. I remember sitting in Stanford’s Green Library in a pinnacle of anxiety, festering in a local minimum where I couldn’t write, couldn’t stick with the plan for my dissertation, couldn’t do much of anything besides play game after game of Sudoku to desperately pass the time. I left Stanford for a bit. I stopped trying. Encouraged by my worrying mother, I worked at a soup kitchen in Boston every day, pretending it was my job. I’d go in every day at 7:00 am and leave every afternoon at 3:00 pm. Working with my hands, working for others, gradually nurtured me back to stability.
It was during this mental breakdown that applications for a sixth-year dissertation fellowship were due. I forced myself to write a god awful application in the guest bedroom at my parents’ Boston townhouse. It was indescribably hard. Paralyzed, I submitted an alienated abstract and dossier. A few months later, I received a letter informing me that the Humanities Center committee had rejected my application.
I remember the moment well. I was at Pluto’s salad joint on University Avenue in Palo Alto. By then, I had returned back to Stanford and was working one day per week at Saint Martin’s Soup Kitchen in San Francisco, 15 hours per week at a location-based targeted advertising startup called Vantage Local (now Frequence), 5 hours per week tutoring Latin and Greek around the Valley, playing violin regularly, running, and reserving my morning hours to write. I had found balance, balance fit for my personality and needs. I had started working with a career counselor to consider alternative career paths, but had yet to commit to a move out of academia.
The letter gave me clarity. It was the tipping point I needed to say, that’s it; I’m done; I’m moving on. It did not feel like failure; it felt like relief. My mind started to plot next steps before I finished reading the rejection letter.
The timing couldn’t have been better. My friend Anaïs Saint-Jude had started Bibliotech, a forward-thinking initiative devoted to exploring the value graduate-level training in the humanities could provide to technology companies. I was fortunate enough to be one of the students who pitched their dissertation to conference attendees, including Silicon Valley heavyweights like Geoffrey Moore, Edgar Masri, Jeff Thermond, Bob Tinker, and Michael Korcuska, all of whom have since become mentors and friends. My intention to move into the private sector came off loud and clear at the event. Thanks to my internship at the advertising company, I had some exposure to the diction and mores of startups. The connections I made there were invaluable to my career. People opened doors that would have otherwise remained shut. All I needed was the first opportunity, and a few years to recalibrate my sense of self as I adapted to the reward system of the private sector.
I’ve mentored a few students who made similar transitions from academia into tech companies, and all have asked me how to defend their choice of pursuing a PhD instead of going directly into marketing, product, sales, whatever the role may be. Our culture embraces a bizarre essentialism, where we’re supposed to know what we want to be when we grow up from the ripe of old of 14, as opposed to finding ourselves in the self we come to inhabit through the serendipitous meanderings of trial and tribulation. (Ben Horowitz has a great commencement speech on the fallacy of following your passion.) The symptom of this essentialism in the transition from humanities to, say, marketing, is this strange assumption that we need to justify the PhD as playing part of a logical narrative, as some step in a master plan we intended from the beginning.
That just can’t be true. I can’t think of anyone who pursues a PhD in French literature because she feels it’s the most expedient move for a successful career in marketing. We pursue literature degrees because we love literature, we love the life of the mind, we are gluttons for the riches of history and culture. And then we realize that the professional realities aren’t quite what we expected. And, for some of us, acting for our own happiness means changing professions.
One thing I did well in my transition was to remain authentic. When I interviewed and people asked me about my dissertation, I got really great at giving them a 2-minute, crisp explanation of what I wrote about and why it was interesting. What they saw was an ability to communicate a complex topic in simple, compelling words. They saw the marks of a good communicator, which is crucial for enterprise marketing and sales. I never pretended I wanted to be a salesperson. I showed how I had excelled in every domain I’d played in, and could do the same in the next challenge and environment.
Selecting the right opportunity
Every company is different. Truly. Culture, stage, product, ethics, goals, size, role, so many factors contribute to shaping what an experience is like, what one learns in a role, and what future opportunities a present experience will afford.
When I left graduate school, I intentionally sought a mid-sized private company that had a culture that felt like a good fit for a fresh academic. It took some time, but I ended up working at a legaltech startup called Intapp. I wanted an environment where I’d benefit from a mentor (after all, I didn’t really have any business skills besides writing and teaching) and where I would have insight into strategic decisions made by executive management (as opposed to being far removed from executives at a large company like Google or Facebook). Intapp had the right level of nerdiness. I remember talking to the CTO about Confucius during my interviews. I plagued my mentor Dan Bressler with endless existential dribble as I went through the growing pains of becoming a business person. I felt embarrassed and pushy asking for a seat at the table for executive meetings, but made my way in on multiple occasions. Intapp sold business software to law firms. The what of the product was really not that interesting. But I learned that I loved the how, loved supporting the sales teams as a subject matter expert on HIPAA and professional responsibility, loved the complex dance of transforming myriad input from clients into a general product, loved writing on tight timelines and with feedback across the organization. I learned so incredibly much in my first role. It was a foundation for future success.
I am fortunate to be a statistical anomaly as a woman. Instead of applying for jobs where I satisfy skill requirements, I tend to seek opportunities with exponential growth potential. I come in knowing a little about the role I have to accomplish, and leave with a whole new set of skills. This creates a lot of cognitive dissonance and discomfort, but I wouldn’t have it any other way. My grey hairs may lead me to think otherwise soon, but I doubt it.
Last but certainly not least, I have always remained humble and never felt like a task was beneath me. I grew up working crappy jobs as a teenager: I was a janitor; a hostess; a busgirl; a sales representative at the Bombay company in the mall in Salem, New Hampshire; a clerk at the Court Theater at University of Chicago; a babysitter; a lawnmower; an intern at a Blackberry provisioning tech company, where I basically drove a big truck around and lugged stuff from place to place and babysat the CEO’s daughter. I see no work as beneath me, and view grunt work as the sacrifice due to have the amazing, amazing opportunities I have in my work (like giving talks to large audiences and meeting smart and inspiring people almost every day).
Having this humility helps enormously when you’re an entrepreneur. I didn’t mind starting as a marketing specialist, as I knew I could work hard and move up. I’ll yell at the computer in frustration when I have to upload email addresses to a go-to-webinar console or get the HTML to format correctly in a Mailchimp newsletter, but I’m working on showing greater composure as I grow into a leader. I always feel like I am going to be revealed as a fraud, as not good enough. This incessant self-criticism is a hallmark of my personality. It keeps me going.
Advice to current students
A rad Roman mosaic with the Greek dictum, Know Thyself
Finish your PhD
You’ll buy options for the future. No one cares what you studied or what your grades were. They do care that you have a doctorate and it can open up all sorts of opportunities you don’t think about when you’re envisioning the transition. I’ve lectured at multiple universities and even taught a course at the University of Calgary Faculty of Law. This ability to work as an adjunct professor would have been much, much harder to procure if I were only ABD.
This logic may not hold for students in their first year, where 4 years is a lot of sunk opportunity cost. But it’s not that hard to finish if you lower your standards and just get shit done.
Pity the small-minded
Many professors and peers will frown upon a move to business for all sorts of reasons. Sometimes it’s progressive ideology. Sometimes it’s insecurity. Most of the time it’s just lack of imagination. Most humanists profess to be relativists. You’d think they could do so when it comes to selecting a profession. Just know that the emotional pressure of feeling like a failure if you don’t pursue a research career dwindles almost immediately when your value compass clocks a different true north.
Accept it’s impossible to imagine the unknown
The hardest part of deciding to do something radically different is that you have no mental model of your future. If you follow the beaten path, you can look around to role model professors and know what your life will look like (with some variation depending on which school you end up in). But it’s impossible to know what a different decision will lead to. This riddles the decision with anxiety, requiring something like a blind leap of faith. A few years down the line, you come to appreciate the creative possibility of a blank future.
There are so many free meetups and events taking place everywhere. Go to them. Learn something new. See what other people are doing. Ask questions. Do informational interviews. Talk to people who aren’t like yourself. Talk to me! Keep track of what you like and don’t like.
One of the biggest changes in moving from academia to business is the how of work. Cultures vary, but businesses are generally radically collaborative places and humanities work is generally isolated and entirely individual. It’s worthwhile to co-author a paper with a fellow grad student or build skills running a workshop or meetup. These logistics, communication, and project management skills are handy later on (and are good for your resume).
Experiment with different writing styles
Graduate school prepares you to write 20-page papers, which are great preparation for peer-reviewed journals and, well, nothing else. They don’t prepare you to write a good book. They don’t prepare you to write a good blog post or newspaper article. Business communication needs to be terse and on point so people can act on it. Engineers need guidance and clarity, need a sense of continuity of purpose. Customers need you to understand their point of view. Audiences need stories or examples to anchor abstract ideas. Having the agility to fit form to purpose is an invaluable skill for business communications. It’s really hard. Few do it well. Those who do are prized.
Learn how to give a good talk
Reading a paper aloud to an audience is the worst. Just don’t do it. People like funny pictures.
There is no right path. We’re all different. Business was a great path for me, and I’ve molded my career to match my interests, skill, personality, and emotional sensitivities. You may thrive in a totally different setting. So keep track of what you like and dislike. Share this thinking with others you love and see if what they think of you is similar to what you think of you. Figuring this out is the trickiest and potentially most valuable exercise in life. And sometimes it’s a way to transform what feels like a harrowing experience into an opportunity to gain yet another inch of soul.
The featured image is from William Blake’s illustrated Book of Job, depicting the just man rebuked by his friends. Blake has masterful illustrations of the Bible, including this radical image from Genesis, where Eve’s wandering eye displays a proleptic fall from grace, her vision, her fantasy too large for the limits of what Adam could safely provide – a heroine of future feminists, despite her fall.
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Mike Loukides (@mikeloukides) says:
Great essay! My experience with leaving academia (PhD English, Stanford, ’85) was similar. Exited into technical documentation while working part-time at a startup (rather than applying for a 6th-year fellowship). Ended up at O’Reilly Media. I do have some minor regrets–at times I’d like to reconnect with the literary world. I go into college bookstores and see academic books written by friends, and feel a weird jealous and nostalgia. But it passes…
I do remember telling my PhD advisor that I was going to be working part time for a tech company. His immediate reaction was “Did they offer you stock?”
A lot of folks with MA in library information sciences would identify strongly with your advice since by requirements, such people must also have at minimum an undergraduate degree in humanities or any other discipline. There is a stronger preponderance of those from the humanities then dropping into the world of information science and data science/statistical analysis.
Totally agree about lowering one’s standards and get crap cleaned up/done. What is valuable to learn the language of other subject disciplines since after all language of other cultures, worlds can help us reframe and diversify our worldview and understanding.
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.75 FTE employee hired July 2015
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- 4 more LEED buildings with one more on the way
- significant waste reduction
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Charge to the Sustainability Action Committee
In 2005, the students, faculty, staff, and administration of Western State College of Colorado developed an Environmental Charter (see attached) which recognized the institution’s responsibility to improve environmental awareness, stewardship of natural resources, and resource efficiency. In 2007, in an action consistent with Western’s mission and with the Environmental Charter, President Jay Helman signed the President’s Climate Commitment (PCC). The PCC commits Western to becoming a “carbon neutral” campus. Also in 2007, the Governor developed state-wide Greening Government goals for implementation by 2012. To assist Western in implementing sustainable initiatives consistent with the College’s mission, Environmental Charter, and President’s Climate Commitment and the Colorado Greening Government goals, a Sustainable Action Committee will be formed.
Charge to the Committee. The charge to this committee is to coordinate, implement, assess, improve, and communicate campus sustainability efforts including those associated with the Environmental Charter and the President’s Climate Commitment.
The committee shall provide assistance to the Student Government Association (SGA) for implementation of their Sustainability Fund and will provide prioritized recommendations for the use of the President’s Sustainability Project Fund, which helps support material and energy savings and emission reduction projects. The committee is also to seek grants and other forms of support where feasible.
Members of each committee, including affiliations and role (e.g. staff, student, or faculty):
Membership of the committee shall include the vice presidents for student affairs, finance and administration, and academic affairs or their respective designees; a representative appointed from the faculty senate; a representative appointed from the chairs and directors; a representative appointed from the athletic director; a student appointed by SGA, a student appointed by the Western Sustainability Coalition, the director of facilities, and any sustainability coordinator(s) as might be appointed by the president
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Nathan King: Sustainability Coordinator
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Job Description - Sustainability
Sustainability Administrator
This part-time/full-time position exists to perform the actions and duties of a sustainability administrator for Western State Colorado University and the Sustainable Action Committee (SAC). The sustainability administrator will report directly to the SAC, cabinet, and President providing recommendations and facilitating various sustainability initiatives on-campus.
This position will assume a major role in the Sustainable Action Committee and administer the duties of that position in adherence to the President’s Climate Commitment Action Plan. A portion of the job will involve education and outreach as well as coordinating sustainability initiatives with other departments. The position will assist in monitoring Western’s progress towards reaching any sustainability or energy goals. The administrator will also manage the funds associated with the committee and assist the Office of Sponsored Programs in seeking additional funding in the form of grants.
- Provide support and expertise for the weekly operations of the Sustainable Action Committee (SAC)
- Provide sustainability recommendations and guidance through the SAC to the cabinet/President
- Coordinate sustainability projects/programs with other departments to insure there is continuity and effective information sharing between involved parties
- Involvement in campus-wide sustainability outreach and education
- Responsible for monitoring current and long-term goals associated with the Presidents Climate Commitment Action Plan and Colorado’s Greening Government as it relates to Higher Education
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- Manage sustainability funds and monitor projects directly resulting from those funds
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- Working knowledge of sustainability/energy management initiatives and the Presidents Climate Commitment Action Plan
- Excellent communication and organizational skills
- Proficient computer skills (Microsoft Office software, etc)
- Experience in overseeing projects and monitoring/quantifying results
- Experience with education and outreach
- Experience with budgets and accounting
The website URL where information about the sustainability officer(s) is available:
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(From Aquarius Sail Inc. website - aquarius-sail.com)
Bill learned to sail and first began racing sailboats in the Snipe class at the age of 12. He sailed during the summer months on a Tennessee river reservoir near Chattanooga. He was fortunate to grow up in a very active Snipe fleet with some of the top sailors in the country. By the age of 17, Billy, as he was called at that time, had won the US Snipe Class National Junior Championship twice. This was to be the beginning of many top level sailing achievements. The next year he attended Vanderbilt University where he studied Mechanical Engineering, while sailing / racing was set aside for a few years.
After graduating in 1962 Bill went to work in the Aerospace industry for Pratt & Whitney Aircraft at the Florida Research and Development Center near West Palm Beach Florida. There he did design and performance analysis work on the J58 jet engine and SR71 aircraft better known as the "Blackbird." In the 1970s and 80s Bill worked on the F100 engine and the F15 and F16 fighter aircraft. Bill continued his full time career in the Aerospace industry in the 1990s by working in Pratt & Whitney's Advanced Design Group investigating advanced engine and aircraft concepts. Bill holds several patents relating to Jet engine design which he acquired throughout his 37 years in the Jet Engine Business.
Now back to Sailing. Bill returned to sailing on the FLYING DUTCHMAN Dutchman in 1965. This was the two man Olympic boat with one trapeze and a spinnaker. It was here that he designed, developed and patented the "spinnaker launcher and retraction system" that has spread to many classes today. Bill and his crew made an Olympic effort in 1968 where they finished third in the US Olympic trials. In 1970 Bill began sailing in the CONTENDER class, a one man trapeze boat. This boat originally came out of an International Yacht Racing Union design competition and was targeted for the Olympics. Bill was US national Champion on the Contender six years in a row.
In the mid and late 1970s Bill began designing wing sails, sails with thickness, and then beach catamarans. In 1978 Bill and a partner started a boat company called Formulae Racing Sailboats under which they designed and produced the SuperCat product line. The SuperCat catamaran design included several unique patented features. One of these features was the elliptical hull shape to reduce the pitchpoling tendency of multihull sailboats. This design feature has become an industry standard in multihulls of all sizes. Many of the big ocean racers, both cats and tri's utilize the elliptical hull shape. The foredeck of these high-speed ocean racers frequently run underwater as much as they run on top of the water, flat decks just won't cut it! Examples include TEAM PHILIPS, SEABAGO, FURY, and the amas on most of the recently designed large ocean racing trimarans.
In 1980 Bill went to Holland and sailed the Round Texel Island Race. The conditions that year were some of the fiercest that the race has ever been held in. Bill took line honors that year and set the lowest elapsed time record for the race on a SUPERCAT 20. That record stood for several years, and has now been bettered by another SUPERCAT 20.
In 1981 Boston Whaler purchased Formulae Racing Sailboats. That same year the SuperCat product line attended 'Yachting' Magazine's "One Of A Kind Regatta" at New Orleans. Here the SuperCat's dominated the races, taking line honors in every heat and also taking first and second place overall based on corrected time while sailing against the top teams sailing the California designed boats. Bob Bergsted sailed the SUPERCAT 17 even up with the NACRA 5.2, a "beach boat" pitted against what was considered to be an excellent "board boat." The SUPERCAT 20 was the only US designed and built boat to ever win this race.
Throughout the 1980s Bill remained active in the catamaran industry by sailing, promoting and designing new boats. In 1984 Bill started designing and developing the RC-27, a design which would set the standard for many boats well into the future. Throughout the 1980s and 1990s the RC-27 set numerous records in the US and Europe. In 1989 Bill, his son Eric, and Peter Zboyan set the record for the lowest elapsed time in the Miami Key Largo race at 1 hour 44 minutes for the 45 mile course, that is an average speed of 26 knots! Bill along with his son Eric and sail maker Dave Posey also hold the record at 2 hours and 53 minutes for the 38 mile MUG Race at Jacksonville Florida.
In the early 1990s Bill teamed up with Aquarius Sail to continue production of the RC-27 and introduce the ARC-22 (introduced at that time under the SC-22 nameplate). In 1996 Bill continued his commitment to the design of high performance catamarans with the introduction of the RC-30 and in 2000 the ARC-21.
Bill has now left Pratt & Whitney and spends his days near the water designing and testing his latest sailing designs. You will also find Bill on the racecourse, but lately he has given up the helm to his son Eric who he now crews for. Bill throughout the years has not only set, but has raised the standard for catamaran design and sailing today. Whether it was on a SuperCat, ARC-21, ARC-22, RC-27, or RC-30, Bill has helped to shape the catamaran industry over the past 20 years and will continue to do so well into the 21st century.
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Lackawanna State Forest To Grow By 3,000 Acres
Locator Map of Lackawanna State Forest, Pennsylvania, United States (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
CONYNGHAM TOWNSHIP, PA — When state Sen. John Yudichak and state Rep. Gerald Mullery were growing up, they used to play in the shadow of the Avondale Mine area and the Plymouth flats.
The two legislators, both 43 and friends since boyhood, are familiar with the landscape that Friday became part of the Enhance Penn’s Woods project — a two-year, more than $200 million initiative launched by Gov. Tom Corbett to repair and improve Pennsylvania’s state parks and forests.
“John and I have the coal chips in our knees to prove it,” Mullery, D-Newport Township, said. “And now we’re here today to preserve and reclaim mine-scarred land so our children and grandchildren will have pristine and maintained natural areas to enjoy.”
At a chilly news conference Friday on the banks of the Susquehanna River, Department of Conservation and Natural Resources Secretary Ellen Ferretti announced the state will add more than 3,000 acres to the Lackawanna State Forest with the acquisition of the Mocanaqua tract in Conyngham, Newport and Slocum townships.
Read more: http://timesleader.com/news/news/1299045/Lackawanna-State-Forest-to-grow-by-3000-acres
By Roy Posted in Politics, Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Tagged Community Conservation Partnerships Program, Conyngham Township, Earth Conservancy, Gerald Mullery, John Yudichak, Keystone Land Trust, Lackawanna County, Lackawanna State Forest, land conservation, Luzerne County, Mocanaqua Mountain, Newport Township, North Branch Land Trust, open space program, Pennsylvania, Plymouth, Slocum Township, Susquehanna River, Tom Corbett
Lafayette Street Corridor Groundbreaking Set For Monday In Norristown
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NORRISTOWN — A groundbreaking ceremony for the first contract to extend Lafayette Street into Plymouth and widen it to four lanes will be held at 2 p.m. Monday at Ford and Lafayette streets.
The $11.5 million contract with Allan A. Myers Inc. of Worcester will extend the existing Lafayette Street from Ford Street to Conshohocken Road. The 0.6-mile extension will have two lanes in each direction and a 12-foot landscaped median in the center.
“We are building a new road bridge over Ross Street for Lafayette Street. Ross Street is where the Schuylkill River Trail crosses under the Norfolk Southern railway bridge,” said Leo Bagley, the assistant director of the Montgomery County Planning Commission. “We are building a noise wall from Ross Street toward Conshohocken Road to protect the residences on Ross Street and Chestnut Street in Plymouth.”
The Schuylkill River Trail will be relocated and rebuilt next to the Lafayette Street extension, where it will serve as a sidewalk for the roadway. Trail users around the Ross Street crossing may be affected by limited closures for bridge work.
Read more: http://www.timesherald.com/article/20130907/NEWS01/130909732/lafayette-street-corridor-groundbreaking-set-for-monday-in-norristown#full_story
By Roy Posted in Norristown/Montgomery County Tagged $11.5 million, access, Allan A. Myers Inc, Conshohocken Road, Diamond Avenue, downtown Norristown, Ford Street, Frank Custer, Lafayette Street, Markley Street, Montgomery County PA, new bridge, Norristown PA, Plymouth, redevelopment, road reconstruction, Schuylkill River Trail, traffic congestion
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Posted by letsfindthem on June 9, 2013
Crystal Faye Todd (January 4, 1974 – November 17, 1991)
Conway, South Carolina, was experiencing a cool Saturday evening on November 16, 1991. Located in Horry County, only a dozen miles from Myrtle Beach, the small southern community had not long settled from the resort season’s large influx of tourists. Most of the stores, hotels and restaurants were back to doing regular business. Traffic on the streets had thinned and the town’s citizens were pleased to return to their normal routines.
Conway’s teenagers traditionally spent Saturday night downtown at its only mall. The teens all knew each other and attended the same high school. Coastal Mall was the place to be seen. They would cruise around, exchange small talk, make plans and just hang out.
Attractive 17-year-old Crystal Faye Todd was in her senior year at Conway High School. She was popular and well-liked among her classmates and a good student. Shoulder-length brown hair framed her bright blue eyes and ever-present smile. Although only five-feet-three inches tall, Crystal’s vivacious personality augmented her petite frame.
Early that evening, Crystal attended her grandmother’s birthday dinner party in the neighboring community of Toddsville. At 7 p.m. Crystal left the party and climbed into her new 1991 Celica. Her mother, Bonnie Faye Todd, had given her the car as an early graduation present. Crystal was happy to be driving again. Her license had been suspended for an accident she had while driving under the influence of alcohol. The car was her pride and joy and even had her name “C TODD” emblazoned on a personalized plate.
Crystal Todd was no different than her schoolmates. She looked forward to joining them at the mall, realizing there would not be many more opportunities for her to do so. Graduation was only several months away and she and many of her classmates would be moving on with their lives and careers.
When Crystal arrived at the mall, she hung out with friends. By 8 p.m. she was standing in the parking lot talking with a girlfriend. At 9 p.m. both girls left the mall in Crystal’s car and drove to a party that was being held at a friend’s home in the Punchbowl community. It was almost 9:30 by the time they arrived. At 11 p.m., Crystal and her girlfriend left the party. Her friend had an 11:15 curfew and had to get back to the mall where her car was parked. Crystal dropped her girlfriend off at her car in the parking lot. Crystal drove off, not seeming to be in a hurry. She and her mother had agreed upon a curfew time of midnight. Click here to continue reading the Crystal Faye Todd murder case by Crime Library
You can also watch Crystal Faye Todd: Conway, SC (Investigation Discovery full episode) on YouTube
This entry was posted in Horiffic Crimes (Murder) and tagged 2013, Conway, Conway High School, Crystal Faye Todd, Horry County, Johnnie Kenneth, Murdered by friend, Murdered Teenager, Myrtle Beach, Rape & Murder, SC, South Carolina, Stabbed To Death, Teen Killer, Teen Murder, Toddsville, United States. Bookmark the permalink.
7 responses to “The Murder of Crystal Faye Todd, Teenager Brutally Murdered By Friend She Trusted”
I bet Crystal’s so-called friend was/is a jealous bitch!
Highly unlikely considering that the friend is a male and the motive for the murder had nothing to do with jealously. He killed her out of anger and no doubt to keep her from going to the cops/and prevent his girlfriend from finding out what he did because she began screaming at him after he raped her (although he claims she consented).
april gosa says:
it was a boy the motive was sexual
awful site. read more link just leads to spam site. pointless site.
Does it? IT’s not supposed to. I’ll look into it and see if it got compromised.
Mandie says:
I cannot read it either, links to some TV site. TruTV ????
Bella kim says:
Where is the rest of the story?
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Our RMCC journey began because of a need that was not being met. We decided to mix things up by working a little differently in the way we approached a complex issue.
RMCC creates a collaboration of the key figures in a child’s life and supports them to work together for the educational and social needs of each child. We also provide each kid access to mentors from a diverse background that they can relate to. This means that all barriers are being tackled in unison by an extensive support network. Our focus on the key areas of education, identity and belonging, life skills, and mental health and wellbeing ensures that there are no gaps in our network and that we continue to overcome barriers wherever they arise to improve educational and social outcomes.
RMCC provides a space where kids can grow confidence and establish social connections while increasing their own independence. Schools are also supported with opportunities to explore how they can establish a support system within their school community and how RMCC can help them get there through strategic planning and professional development.
We build a personal connection
It takes time for a child to find their bearings and not all barriers arise at once. That is why we don’t just provide support through the first 6 to 12 months of resettlement, but provide ongoing programs and support to families and schools during and after this time. This helps to guarantee every child is supported throughout their journey, however long it may take.
We always begin by working with each child to address their individual needs. We then support their parents or guardians and schools to do the same. This helps to build the same sense of value, identity and understanding throughout their school and home lives, while making sure each kid can comfortably find (and use) their own voice.
We also recognise that not all children face the same difficulties during resettlement — some may face language barriers, may have never attended school, some are socially isolated or are learning to walk between two or more cultures. This is why all of our programs are specially designed with tangibility at the forefront to address these issues.
“Some of the differences are that we provide weekly mentoring programs, so we don’t teach or dictate what each kid should be doing but empower them to be able to overcome the barriers they face themselves in a way that works best for them. This means that each program is fluid for each kid because we tailor it to their needs.” — Alice Wojcik, RMCC
We work with our greater community
Last but most certainly not least, outside of our partnerships with schools and settlement agencies we work with the greater community so they can learn more about how they can support Australia’s newest and youngest members. Whether it is a business discovering what it means to walk between two or more cultures, or a classroom of students learning about what the settlement journey entails, it all plays an important part of growing an inclusive and welcoming community for all.
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Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation 1
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Diuretics and Electrolyte Abnormalities
CE/MOC
Tobias Dreischulte, MPharm, MSc, PhD; July 2019
During a primary care visit, a woman with morbid obesity, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, hypertension, heart failure, and diabetes mellitus complained of worsening lower extremity edema over the past few weeks. Her physician prescribed a thiazide diuretic. The patient presented to the emergency department (ED) 10 days later with 3 days of drowsiness and confusion. Laboratory results revealed severe hyponatremia and hypokalemia. She had a seizure in the ED and was admitted to the intensive care unit. Both the critical care provider and a nephrologist felt the diuretic had caused the electrolyte abnormalities.
Delayed Sepsis Management Due to Ambiguous Allergy
Kimberly G. Blumenthal, MD, MSc; June 2019
Transferred to the emergency department from the transfusion center after becoming unresponsive and hypotensive, an elderly man with signs of sepsis is given incomplete and delayed antimicrobial coverage due to a history of penicillin allergy. Neither gram-negative nor anaerobic coverage were provided until several hours later, and the patient developed septic shock.
Premature Extubation
Rommel Sagana, MD, and Robert C. Hyzy, MD; March 2019
Following an elective carotid endarterectomy, an elderly woman was extubated in the operating room (OR) and brought to the recovery area. She soon developed respiratory distress necessitating urgent reintubation, which required multiple attempts. She was found to have an expanding neck hematoma, which was drained safely in the OR. Later that day after a half hour weaning trial, the respiratory therapist extubated the patient without checking for a cuff leak. Within 15 minutes, she developed acute shortness of breath and stridor, which rapidly progressed to hypoxemic respiratory failure. Urgent reintubation was difficult because her vocal cords were edematous.
One Bronchoscopy, Two Errors
Elise Orvedal Leiten, MD, and Rune Nielsen, MD, PhD; January 2019
Hospitalized in the ICU with hypoxic respiratory failure due to community-acquired pneumonia, an elderly man had increased pulmonary secretions on hospital day 2 for which the critical care provider decided to perform bedside bronchoscopy. Following the procedure, the patient was difficult to arouse, nearly apneic, and required intubation. The care team paused and discovered that after the patient had received 2 mg of intravenous midalozam, his IV line had been flushed with an additional 10 mg of the benzodiazepine, rather than the intended normal saline. This high dose of midazolam led to the respiratory failure requiring intubation. On top of that, instead of normal saline, lidocaine had been used for the lung lavage.
Supervision and Entrustment in Clinical Training: Protecting Patients, Protecting Trainees
Olle ten Cate, PhD; November 2018
An ICU patient with head and spine trauma was sent for an MRI. Due his critical condition, hospital policy required a physician and nurse to accompany the patient to the MRI scanner. The ICU attending assigned a new intern, who felt unprepared to handle any crises that might arise, to transport the patient along with the nurse. While in a holding area awaiting the MRI, the patient's heart rate fell below 20 beats per minute, and the experienced ICU nurse administered atropine to recover his heart rate and blood pressure. The intern worried he had placed the patient's life at risk because of his inexperience, but he also felt uncomfortable speaking up.
Coming Up Short: Maintaining Safety in the Face of Drug Shortages
Steven Plogsted, PharmD; October 2018
A 1-month-old preterm infant in the NICU receiving the standard 500 mL bag of 0.45% sodium chloride (NaCl) with heparin at low rates developed hyponatremia. Clinicians recognized the need to deliver a more concentrated sodium solution and ordered that the IV fluid be changed to a 500 mL bag of 0.9% NaCl with heparin. However, due to a natural disaster affecting the supply chain for IV fluids, 0.9% NaCl 500 mL bags were in short supply, and the order was modified to use 100 mL 0.9% NaCl bags, which were available. Since the total volume was much smaller, a lower concentration formulation of heparin was required. However, the verifying pharmacist discovered that an 10-fold higher concentration had been used to compound the fluids, and further investigation revealed this same error had occurred on five other occasions.
An Untimely End Despite End-of-Life Care Planning
Giovanni Elia, MD; Susan Barbour, RN, MS; and Wendy G. Anderson, MD, MS; August 2018
Hospitalized in the ICU after cardiac arrest and loss of cardiac function for 15 minutes, an older man experienced worsening neurological status. After extensive discussions about goals of care, the family agreed to a DNR order. Over the next week, his condition declined, and the family decided to transition to comfort measures. Orders were written but shortly thereafter, the family spoke with the ICU resident and reversed their decision. The resident canceled the terminal extubation orders without communicating the order change to other team members. Another nurse found the canceled orders, thought it was an error, and asked another physician (who was also unaware of the change in plans) to reinstate the orders. The patient was extubated and died a few hours later.
Isolated Clot, Real Error
Anna Parks, MD, and Margaret C. Fang, MD, MPH ; March 2018
One day after reading only the first line of a final ultrasound result (which stated that the patient had a thrombosis), an intern reported to the ICU team that the patient had a DVT. Because she had postoperative bleeding, the team elected to place an inferior vena cava (IVC) filter rather than administer anticoagulants to prevent a pulmonary embolism (PE). The next week, a new ICU team discussed the care plan and questioned the IVC filter. The senior resident reviewed the radiology records and found the ultrasound report actually stated the thrombosis was in a superficial vein with low risk for PE, which meant that the correct step in management of this patient's thrombosis should have been surveillance.
Signout Fallout
Amy J. Starmer, MD, MPH, and Christopher P. Landrigan, MD, MPH ; February 2018
Admitted with an intracranial mass and hemorrhage, a woman with atrial fibrillation had been stable for several days when the ICU team and neurosurgeon decided that the benefits of low-dose DVT prophylaxis would outweigh the risk of serious bleeding. However, no dose or route of administration was specified, and the overnight resident ordered full-dose (rather than the prophylactic dose) anticoagulation. The hemorrhage grew and brain compression worsened, leaving the patient with no chance for meaningful recovery.
Despite Clues, Failed to Rescue
Amir A. Ghaferi, MD, MS; August 2017
Admitted to gynecology due to excess bleeding and low hemoglobin after elective surgery, an older woman developed severe pain, nausea, and new-onset atrial fibrillation. She was moved to the telemetry unit where cardiologists treated her, and she had episodes of bloody vomit. Intensivists consulted, but the patient arrested while being transferred to the ICU and died despite maximal efforts.
Communication Error in a Closed ICU
Barbara Haas, MD, PhD, and Lesley Gotlib Conn, PhD; May 2017
Admitted to the ICU with septic shock, a man with a transplanted kidney developed hypotension and required new central venous access. Since providers anticipated using the patient's left internal jugular vein catheter for re-starting hemodialysis (making it unsuitable to use for resuscitation), the ICU team placed the central line in the right femoral vein. However, they failed to recognize that his transplanted kidney was on the right side, which meant that femoral catheter placement on that side was contraindicated.
One Dose, Two Errors
Gregory A. Filice, MD; December 2016
An older woman experienced acute kidney injury after being prescribed a nephrotoxic medication (amphotericin) intended for the ICU patient in the next bed. Caring for both patients, the covering resident entered the medication order for the wrong patient despite a policy requiring infectious disease consultation to prescribe IV amphotericin.
Cognitive Overload in the ICU
Vimla L. Patel, PhD, and Timothy G. Buchman, PhD, MD; July/August 2016
Admitted to the intensive care unit (ICU) with acute respiratory distress syndrome due to severe pancreatitis, an older woman had a central line placed. Despite maximal treatment, the patient experienced a cardiac arrest and was resuscitated. The intensivist was also actively managing numerous other ICU patients and lacked time to consider why the patient's condition had worsened.
Lost in Sign Out and Documentation
Michael E. Detsky, MD, MSc; April 2016
During a hospitalization after a cardiac arrest, an older man underwent placement of a PEG tube for nutrition, and an abdominal radiograph the next day showed "free air under the diaphragm." Although the resident got a "curbside consult" from surgery saying this finding should be monitored, the consult was not documented in the chart. Two days later, the patient was urgently taken to surgery to repair a large gastric perforation and spillage of tube feeds into the peritoneum and then transferred to the ICU in septic shock.
A Fumbled Handoff to Inpatient Rehab
LauraEllen Ashcraft, MSW, and Jeremy M. Kahn, MD, MS; September 2015
An 18-year-old who sustained a traumatic brain injury after a motor vehicle collision required a decompressive craniectomy, a prolonged stay in the adult trauma intensive care unit, and a second operation (cranioplasty) several weeks later. After the second procedure, the patient was transferred to a pediatric acute rehabilitation facility, had new onset seizures the next day, and was transferred to an acute pediatric hospital for evaluation. Findings indicated that another surgical procedure was needed, and he was then transferred back to the adult trauma facility where he had his surgeries.
Too Much, Too Fast
Delphine Tuot, MDCM, MAS; September 2014
A patient with ALS was hospitalized with presumed pneumonia and sepsis. Although he was treated with broad-spectrum antibiotics and fluid resuscitation, additional potassium was administered due to his potassium level remaining low. The patient went into cardiac arrest and resuscitation attempts were unsuccessful.
An Easily Forgotten Tube
Karen Ousey, PhD, RGN; February 2014
A patient admitted for acute liver failure, acute renal failure, respiratory failure, and hepatic encephalopathy had a rectal tube placed to manage diarrhea. Two weeks into his hospitalization, dark red liquid stool was noted in the rectal tube, and the patient was found to have a large ulcerated area in the rectum, likely caused by the tube.
The Perils of Cross Coverage
Jeanne M. Farnan, MD, MHPE; and Vineet M. Arora, MD, MAPP; May 2012
Inadequate signout to the members of the night float team prevented them from appreciating a patient's mental status changes. Found comatose by the weekend cross-coverage team, the patient had a prolonged ICU stay.
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Fact Sheet/FAQs 11
Provider-Patient Communication
Health Literacy Improvement
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) 2
Search results for "Health Literacy Improvement"
Tools/Toolkit > Government Resource
Health Literacy Tools for Providers of Medication Therapy Management.
Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.
Health literacy is important for effective care communications and safe medication use. This toolkit provides resources associated with medication therapy management and patient health literacy. Materials include health literacy assessments and guidance for prescription medicine instructions. A past PSNet perspective discussed the role of health literacy in patient safety.
Validating domains of patient contextual factors essential to preventing contextual errors: a qualitative study conducted at Chicago area Veterans Health Administration sites. Get Citation
Binns-Calvey AE, Malhiot A, Kostovich CT, et al. Acad Med. 2017;92:1287-1293.
Contextual errors can occur when health care providers fail to consider a patient's individual context, such as limited literacy, when making a treatment plan. This qualitative study of clinicians identified 12 types of contextual errors that can impede patient self-management and lead to harm. The authors advocate a "contextual differential" to consider these potential errors.
Tools/Toolkit > Fact Sheet/FAQs
Your Medicine, Be Smart, Be Safe.
Patient Guide. Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Bethesda, MD: National Council on Patient Information and Education; July 2015. AHRQ Publication No. 11-0049-A.
This Web site assists consumers in learning how to take medications safely. The materials answer common questions about medication use and includes forms and a wallet card for tracking relevant information. The material is available in both English and Spanish.
Health Literacy Universal Precautions Toolkit. Second edition.
Brega AG, Barnard J, Mabachi NM, et al. Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; 2015. AHRQ Publication No. 15-0023-EF.
This updated AHRQ toolkit provides resources for primary care practices to ensure proper health literacy assessment and to promote greater understanding for all patients. The second edition includes methods to assess written patient education materials for ease of use, simplify the referrals process, and identify barriers to improving health literacy awareness.
Five Steps to Safer Health Care.
Patient Fact Sheet. Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; October 2014. AHRQ Publication No. 04-M005.
Quick Tips--When Planning for Surgery.
Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; October 2012. AHRQ Publication No. 01-0040d.
This AHRQ brochure provides practical advice for patients facing non-emergent surgery, to help them be generally informed about the procedure, aware of the risks, and prepared to contribute to the safety of their experience.
How Can Health Care Organizations Become More Health Literate?: Workshop Summary.
Hernandez LM; Roundtable on Health Literacy; Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice; Institute of Medicine. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press; 2012. ISBN: 9780309256810.
This report details the results of a workshop on health literacy in health care organizations.
20 Tips to Help Prevent Medical Errors.
Patient Fact Sheet. Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; September 2011. AHRQ Publication No. 11-0089.
This fact sheet for patients provides recommendations to help them prevent medical errors when taking medications, during a hospital stay, and prior to having surgery.
Health Literacy Interventions and Outcomes: An Updated Systematic Review.
Berkman ND, Sheridan SL, Donahue KE, et al. Evidence Report/Technology Assessment: Number 199. Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; March 2011. AHRQ Publication No. 11-E006.
This evidence report updates a 2004 study to reveal how health literacy affects health outcomes.
National Action Plan to Improve Health Literacy.
Washington, DC: United States Department of Health and Human Services; 2010.
This report presents goals for improved health literacy in the United States and recommends practices to help ensure that patients understand their health care.
Health Literacy.
This website provides tools, resources, research, and educational modules to help health care professionals recognize and address health literacy deficiencies.
Using consumer-based kiosk technology to improve and standardize medication reconciliation in a specialty care setting. Get Citation
Lesselroth B, Adams S, Felder R, et al. Jt Comm J Qual Patient Saf. 2009;35:264-271.
This study used an innovative approach to involving patients in safety efforts by using an interactive kiosk paired with the medication list from the electronic health record. When patients presented for a clinic visit, the kiosk presented their presumed medication list along with pill pictures, and patients had to indicate if they were taking the medication. This method successfully identified medication discrepancies and reduced the time spent by staff in reviewing medications. Ensuring medication reconciliation in ambulatory care has been particularly problematic for patients with low health literacy. This novel strategy may represent an effective, patient-centered approach to this problem.
Effective Communication Tools for Healthcare Professionals: Addressing Health Literacy, Cultural Competency, and Limited English Proficiency.
Rockville, MD: Health Resources and Services Administration; 2007.
This online course will help train public health professionals to communicate better with patients, particularly those with poor English skills and limited health literacy. The course may be taken on a credit or non-credit basis.
Questions Are the Answer.
This Web site provides resources such as public service announcements, videos, tools, and checklists for patients to help support their safe interaction with the health care system.
The Health Literacy of America's Adults: Results from the 2003 National Assessment of Adult Literacy.
Kutner M, Greenberg E, Jin Y, Paulsen C. US Department of Education. Washington, DC: National Center for Education Statistics; September 2006. Report No: NCES 2006-483.
This report provides an assessment of health literacy data analyzed for different demographic characteristics.
Guide to Healthcare Quality: How to Know It When You See It.
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; Rockville, MD: 2005.
Part of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality's (AHRQ) consumer education campaign, this booklet provides tips for patients on how to identify and receive quality health care. An audio podcast featuring AHRQ Director Carolyn Clancy, MD, introduces the resource.
Quick Tips—When Planning for Surgery.
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD. October 2012; AHRQ Publication # 01-0040d.
A list of quick tips and questions to aid anyone who is preparing for surgery.
Twenty Tips to Help Prevent Medical Errors in Children.
Patient Fact Sheet. Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; September 2002. AHRQ Publication No. 02-P034.
This consumer fact sheet advises parents on how to help their children avoid medical errors pertaining to medicine, hospital stays, surgeries, and other medical needs.
Quick Tips—When Getting A Prescription.
Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; May 2002. AHRQ Publication No. 01-0040c.
This Web site suggests questions that all patients should ask a physician, nurse, and/or pharmacist when they receive a medication prescription.
Ways You Can Help Your Family Prevent Medical Errors!
Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; October 2001. AHRQ Publication No. 01-0017.
A brief presentation of "pearls" to allow consumers to take an active role in preventing medical errors.
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Quality Improvement Strategies
Critical Pathways
Wrong-Site Surgery 10
Surgery 13
Search results for "Critical Pathways"
Outcome of 6 years of protocol use for preventing wrong site office surgery. Get Citation
Starling J 3rd, Coldiron BM. J Am Acad Dermatol. 2011;65:807-810.
This study describes the use of a tool to prevent wrong site procedures in a dermatologic surgery setting.
National Time Out Day.
Association of periOperative Registered Nurses.
This Web site includes information and resources for National Time Out Day, an initiative to raise awareness on the importance of surgical team time outs. The 2019 observation is June 12th.
Doctor removes ovaries from wrong patient.
Bramson K, Mooney T. Providence Journal. August 18, 2006.
This article reports on a case of mistaken identity that resulted in erroneous surgery, despite a "time out" before beginning the operation.
Assessment of incorrect surgical procedures within and outside the operating room. A follow-up study from US Veterans Health Administration medical centers. Get Citation
Neily J, Soncrant C, Mills PD, et al. JAMA Network Open. 2018;1:e185147.
The Joint Commission and National Quality Forum both consider wrong-site, wrong-procedure, and wrong-patient surgeries to be never events. Despite improvement approaches ranging from the Universal Protocol to nonpayment for the procedures themselves and any consequent care, these serious surgical errors continue to occur. This study measured the incidence of incorrect surgeries in Veterans Health Administration medical centers from 2010 to 2017. Surgical patient safety events resulting in harm were rare and declined by more than two-thirds from 2000 to 2017. Dentistry, ophthalmology, and neurosurgery had the highest incidence of in–operating room adverse events. Root cause analysis revealed that 29% of events could have been prevented with a correctly performed time-out. A WebM&M commentary examined an incident involving a wrong-side surgery.
Surgical confusions in ophthalmology. Get Citation
Simon JW, Ngo Y, Khan S, Strogatz D. Arch Ophthalmol. 2007;125:1515-1522.
This retrospective study reviewed more than 100 cases to characterize common sources of confusion in ophthalmology care. The most common adverse events included wrong lens implants and wrong eye operations, and the authors predict that 85% would have been prevented with use of the Universal Protocol.
Patient identification error among prostate needle core biopsy specimens—are we ready for a DNA time-out? Get Citation
Suba EJ, Pfeifer JD, Raab SS. J Urol. 2007;178:1245-1248.
This study summarizes the findings from three root cause analyses to highlight the challenges in preventing patient identification errors in surgical pathology specimens. The authors suggest the use of a time-out strategy that would reduce the risk of the wrong patient receiving radiation or surgical therapy.
Mark My Tooth
Richard A. Smith, DDS; July-August 2007
A patient underwent tooth extraction, but awoke from anesthesia and found that the wrong two teeth had been removed.
Doing the "right" things to correct wrong-site surgery.
PA-PSRS Patient Saf Advis. June 2007;4:29, 32-45.
This article discusses reports of wrong-site surgery submitted to the PA-PSRS, compares them with results of other studies, and provides suggestions to reduce this type of error.
Operating room briefings and wrong-site surgery. Get Citation
Makary MA, Mukherjee A, Sexton BJ, et al. J Am Coll Surg. 2007;204:236-243.
Although wrong-site surgeries are rare, they have devastating consequences for patients and are often a harbinger of serious safety problems within an institution. The Joint Commission's Universal Protocol for prevention of wrong-site surgeries requires performing a "time out" before beginning surgery to ensure that all operating room personnel are familiar with the patient, the procedure, their role, and how to respond to complications. In this study, operating room personnel were surveyed regarding their perception of the risk of wrong-site surgery before and after institution of timeouts. Respondents felt teamwork improved and the overall risk for wrong-site surgery decreased after implementing the protocol. An Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) WebM&M commentary discusses the factors contributing to a near-miss wrong-site surgery.
AORN Evaluation of the Universal Protocol.
This survey will gather comments from the field regarding The Joint Commission's Universal Protocol to help eliminate wrong site surgeries.
Surgical site verification: A through Z. Get Citation
Dunn D. J Perianesth Nurs. 2006;21:317-328.
The author explains the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations' Universal Protocol on surgical site verification in the context of its implementation in a New Jersey hospital.
'Wrong site' surgeries on the rise.
Davis R. USA Today. April 17, 2006.
This article reports on a recent AHRQ-funded study on the incidence of wrong-site surgery and shares various perspectives on the issue.
Legislation/Regulation > Multi-use Website
Universal Protocol for Preventing Wrong Site, Wrong Procedure, Wrong Person Surgery.
According to an AHRQ-supported study, wrong-site surgery occurred at a rate of approximately 1 per 113,000 operations between 1985 and 2004. In July 2004, The Joint Commission enacted a Universal Protocol that was developed through expert consensus on principles and steps for preventing wrong-site, wrong-procedure, and wrong-person surgery. The Universal Protocol applies to all accredited hospitals, ambulatory care, and office-based surgery facilities. The protocol requires performing a time out prior to beginning surgery, a practice that has been shown to improve teamwork and decrease the overall risk of wrong-site surgery. This Web site includes a number of resources and facts related to the Universal Protocol. Wrong-site, wrong-procedure, and wrong-patient errors are all now considered never events by the National Quality Forum and sentinel events by The Joint Commission. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services have not reimbursed for any costs associated with these surgical errors since 2009.
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Our night at the SMASH Global VIII black-tie MMA charity event in Hollywood
January 2, 2019 January 2, 2019 by Joey Krebs
Hey now get the show on because on December 13, 2018, in Hollywood, Los Angeles, Smash Global broke the mold by honoring four world renowned and distinguished heroic personalities who as shooting stars have all made a significant impact in the world of the combative arts community.
Only shooting stars who break the mold..
All Star, Smash Mouth
SMASH Global VIII – Night of Champions was not only a night of celebrating its stars among its fights, but its event was also planned as a charitable event, which benefited its anti-bullying campaign. Charity events usually serve a multitude of purposes in raising awareness and funds for its cause and campaign. Recent emerging MMA trends show that the sport’s audiences are a responsive culture who are willing to give back to its organization in making a fighting difference.
Smash Global believes that when adults respond quickly to bullying behavior they send the message that it is not acceptable, but when stars and professional fighters as heroes challenge and fight bullying, its signification sends a fighting message that bullying is no longer tolerated. Research shows that safe zones can be enforced in one’s own community when its individuals are collectively mobilized in SMASHING bullying behavior and as a movement building a safer community for all of us.
The benevolent cause was marketed through its hashtag sourced as #SMASHBULLYING. Smash Global got its game on by honoring its allstars at the event where its event recognition was presented to Hollywood veteran actor and blackbelt holder Dolph Lundgren who was selected as its first honoree. The star of Rocky IV cast as Drago was recently featured as the nemesis supporting lead actor of Aquaman with his successful comeback-acting career and its multimillion-dollar feature film release. At age seven, Lundgren began his “I must break you” disciplined pursuit of the combative arts participating in judo. By there age of 10 Lundgren focused on Kyokushin karate where he specialized in its combative form and developed his karate skills in attaining the rank of 2nd degree black belt in Kyokushin in 1978.
Smash Global continued on with its evening to celebrate its many heroes including Brooklyn bodybuilder and actor of the original Incredible Hulk, Lou Ferrigno. Also, World Championship boxer “Sugar” Shane Mosley and actor of the Wrestler Mickey Rourke all received lifetime achievement awards, which was presented intermittently during the matches at the SMASH VIII world wide global event. All stars were selected as today’s modern heroes because each star has journeyed through life’s challenging trials and has shown to overcome great adversity.
The Hero with a Thousand Faces authored by Joseph Campbell is a literary classic which explores the narratives of normal day-to-day people who become mythic heroes in life and in literature. Campbell summarizes its mono-myth through its definition that a hero is one who dares to venture forth from the world of the common layman journeying onward to become its modern day superman. Campbell summarized its venture “The Hero’s Journey” begins in the ordinary world from which he must depart when he receives a great call to adventure. With the help of a mentor, the hero will cross a guarded threshold leading him to a supernatural world where familiar laws and order never apply. There, the hero will embark on a road of trials, where he is tested along the way becoming a hero or face doom through the process.
Heroic is the given reason why SMASH Global was successful in its featured event and business model which is founded on four heroic core principle and tenets: Professional mixed martial arts is the most exciting form of entertainment and the future of all combat sports, networking is the single most important tool for creating new business opportunities, honoring select individuals like its stars who have made a significant impact in the world of combative arts, and finally supporting a true cause like its anti-bully campaign that gives back to the underserved and the so less fortunate.
SMASH Global was produced and led by a visionary active fighter named Steve Orosco who holds an MBA degree. Through insight and market analysis Steve Orosco identified an opportunity to raise the level of the sport of MMA and entertainment as a form through his curatorial initiative in proposing and directing a collection of exclusive fight meets cultural events for a premium high-end clientele as an art form. With professional MMA as the cage and a black-tie gala including precious memorabilia and wares auctioned off as the backdrop stage, SMASH Global honored the very best in the combative arts community while raising benevolent funds and awareness for its charitable cause.
Previous Smash Global honorees celebrated in the past have included Hollywood icon Mel Gibson, legendary boxing trainer Freddie Roach, UFC Hall of Famers Tito Ortiz and Chuck “The Iceman” Liddell, and Martial Arts action star Steven Seagal. Distinguished individuals and personalities in attendance for SMASH VIII were Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Legend Rigan Machado, Boxing’s hardest puncher Earnie Shavers, Jacob ‘Stitch’ Duran (Creed), Shawne Merriman (NFL Pro-Bowler), Mally Mal (rapper), Jimmy Jean Louis (Claws/Heroes), Ryan Guzman (9-1-1), Nick Tuturro (NYPD Blue), Casper Smart (Celebrity Choreographer), Gina Carano (Haywire/Deadpool), Jean Elie (Insecure), Khloe Terae (Social Media Influencer), Daz Crawford (Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D), Gabriel Gonzalez (Pro Cutman), Cynthia Rothrock (Actress/Martial Artist), Don ‘The Dragon’ Wilson (pro-kickboxing world champion), Steve Orosco (Founder & CEO of SMASH Global) and many more stars of their own.
Finally what would an event be without a fight, Smash Global showcased live contested MMA fights which were sanctioned by the California State Athletic Commission and held in a full-sized 24’ x 24’ professional cage. SMASH Global crowned its first ever set of MMA World Champions where its evening showcased competitive bouts and featured fighters who traveled across the globe from distant international nations like Trinidad, Brazil, Ukraine, Russia, Japan and USA to fight for the cause.
All photos by: Joey Krebs (Phantom Street Artist) for ProMMAnow.com
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Werdum ‘done’ with the UFC
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Ebookee proxy, unblock access
Ebookee is one of the richest databases of free ebooks that allows you to download directly. As all ebook sites it is under violation of copyright laws which is why some popular ebook sites receive bad reviews. In essence, what makes many ebook sites different is only the content found in them as some ebooks are better updated than others.
The site numerous categories that you can choose from right at the home screen. The home screen also shows popular tags for faster browsing, as well as the top downloaded eBooks, recently viewed ones, latest added, as well as user information in regard of who uploads them most. In some cases, uploaders will attach viruses to downloads, while other times they redirect the download to software that installs malicious malware. Overall, the functionality is very good for such a site and the work of uploaders who take their time to help out is appreciated.
Design and Suggestions
The design is rather basic while it still looks attractive for a sharing site. Everything is laid out in a nice way and the coding is pretty solid. A small suggestion would be to add images to books without having to click the link as this would greatly reduce efforts in looking for the right book. In conclusion, this site is very functional and efficient in delivering ebooks and I would recommend it.
This entry was posted in ebooks on June 19, 2015 by admin and updated on June 19, 2015 .
This is a major non-torrenting site with one of the largest databases. The rumor is that if there’s something you cannot find in a torrent site or any other site, this one is most likely to have it. The site is updated daily and in such large quantities that it takes a while to see yesterday’s files. There are thousands of files that you will never find anywhere else and the site is overall suited for an older audience that appreciate older files. It has a range of files from old international movies to old downloadable newspapers.
Needless to say that the functionality is something you cannot begin to understand for this site. It’s true that it does not have the recent movies, music, etc. But it is purposely suited for audiences with different tastes. The home page has a search bar that helps you find what you are looking for, as well as advanced searching after the first search. You can choose to categorize any movie search further by its genre, and the same goes for music and such. Users can also register and upload files while the staff of the site takes bad uploads more serious than you would expect. There is also a support system for users who promise to get back to you within 2-3 days. A suggestion before visiting the site: Make sure to have AdBlock, and if you are used to anonymous surfing, you may use a VPN or Proxy to evade log files.
There is nothing to say really about the design as a web-site like this is praised by the older audiences for its usefulness. If you are over old enough to enjoy the things you grew up with, this is your go-to site. Surprisingly, I have no suggestions for this site. This site has been blocked in UK recently
This entry was posted in general websites on June 19, 2015 by admin and updated on June 19, 2015 .
Btloft proxy, unblock access
Btloft obviously stands for BitTorrent Loft and upon visiting the site, it seems like a pretty old and left out loft. Although the site is fairly updated, it is not fully updated with the recent 2015 shows that are coming out like Orange is the New Black, or even Game of Thrones. Any site that doesn’t have the latest GoTh episodes is outdated in my opinion.
The site is okay functional, it provides with a search bar right away for users to find content, as well as adds a lot of torrents daily, but somehow not the popular ones. Like some other torrent sites, the user cannot effectively search for torrents because they cannot rank torrents by seeds, date, or size. The browse category is perhaps the only part of the site that actually helps in categorizing between shows, movies, music, etc. But even then, the user will have a bad time finding a specific torrent they want to download. The site is more or less incomplete in its code; the Registration page leads nowhere, so it hasn’t been coded yet, and the same goes for the Stats page. The seed/leech information is also not well updated and the overall speed of torrents is pretty low.
Design & Suggestions
It would be okay to talk about the design except that there is no point when the site doesn’t provide what it is made to: good torrents. I find the download torrent button helpful, but again, it doesn’t matter if the site is outdated. The only suggestions would be to update to the latest contents and then fix the functionality in being able to categorize torrents as well as show better information about them.
This entry was posted in torrents on June 18, 2015 by admin and updated on June 18, 2015 .
Cucirca proxy, unblock access
While their goal is to “bring entertainment closer to fans”, Cucirca tends to deliver completely and effectively. The website has been around for ages and is one of the popular sites that streams TV shows day and night. It is also a fully updated site with almost every TV show out there, so TV show fans will definitely be spending most of their time there.
Functionality wise, Cucirca is one of the most efficiently working sites I have come across. It makes it super easy for any user, with or without English knowledge, to find any show they want. The home page conveniently provides all the TV shows possible, ordered by name. If you scroll down, there is yet another helpful section that lists Top TV Shows as well as Latest shows and episodes. The most remarkable feature I have seen nowhere else except in Cucirca is the Watchlist feature. The user doesn’t need to login to use the watchlist feature because, like for all internet users, cookies will remember everything you do. In some way, that is a genius method of providing a watchlist what saving a lot of HTML and PHP code to add user databases. Last but not least, the search button is automatically filled upon searching shows, which is very useful in getting to your show fast.
The site is designed to specifically provide simplistic features while reducing the workload. This makes visiting the site much faster and finding shows even more so. One of the key suggestions would be to move the section of latest shows a bit more up so the user sees it first. Also, the watchlist would be more helpful if it recommended similar shows, as well as allowed you to watch list a whole show or season instead of single episodes. Overall this is an amazing website.
This entry was posted in streaming on June 18, 2015 by admin and updated on June 18, 2015 .
Zmovie proxy, unblock access
As a movie buff I am very thankful for free movie-streaming sites. As someone who has spent years on sites such as this I am fully aware of the WatchMovies website series as they are one of the few that actually stream movies without many errors. Naturally there will always be streaming problems when sites offer free movie watching so I could never complain because it’s simply indecent to.
The first time I visited the site I noticed the ‘recent movies’ bar that displays newly released movies in the medium of streaming. This is a very helpful tool for anyone visiting the website both the first time and as a veteran visitor, and for those who are aware of recent releases it is a signal that the site they are visiting is fully updated in the aspect of the movies database. The categories such as New Releases, Featured, Recently Added, are very useful for all visitors and I am particularly fond of the ‘Latest Quality Updates’ category as it shows updates of movies into better versions which helps us track movies that we’ve skipped watching due to a bad cam. Overall I do not have much criticism for the functionality as everything works fine and every button leads you to the right place. Furthermore, I appreciate the work these guys put in just to offer us free movies to watch.
Design & Suggestions
There isn’t much to say about design really, although there could be a neater looking design simply by moving around some items like the colored information, making it more compact, and correctly placing the chat box to not interfere with the rest of the site. I think that placing the movies search higher makes the visitors spend less time looking for it and therefore making it more attractive as a whole.
Overall the site is how it should be: it provides good quality movies and updates them in real time.
PickTorrent proxy, unblock access
The increasing number of BitTorrent sites leaves little desire to look for new ones, especially when the popular ones like Kick-Ass Torrents or the former popular PirateBay exist. With that in mind, other torrent sites become less useful with the exception that they might have certain files that other sites do not provide.
Functionality
The search bar is placed correctly at the top and it does not become an obstacle when the window is minimized while visiting the site. The main and only category that is available on the front page is the Today’s TOP torrents which in my personal opinion are hardly useful when dealing with a not-so-popular torrent site. Just below the Today’s TOP category are ‘recent searches’ tags that leave me wondering about the tags at the top. Are they both recent searches, and if yes, why would you separate them in an unappealing way? Also, upon searching any query, the result doesn’t allow for categorical listing by seeds or size or anything like that, and that makes this site pretty useless in terms of efficiency in finding torrents. Overall the site seems to be updated but the seed/leech information seem to be wrong as they mostly display 0/0 while the torrent loads very fast anyway. Design & Suggestions
From the first look it can be seen that this site is coded with little or no experience in HTML and a lot of code copying. The whole content is left-sided which is why the search bar is always visible when you reduce the screen size. I would highly recommend making the content centered and making the categories clickable for easier viewing, as this would require very basic HTML and PHP coding skills.
TubePlus proxy, unblock access
Yet another site offering free movie streaming is TubePlus. As there are hundreds of movie streaming sites out there it is still hard to find a decent one that will provide everything you are looking for. TubePlus is one of those sites that you will always appreciate because it’s full of new content and updates regularly.
Functionality
As we become fast-paced users of the internet, our preferences for efficient sites grow each day. Such a preference is the example of being able to use the least clicks and buttons to get to where we want. In this case, upon visiting TubePlus I observed the neat-looking search bar that you can use to further browse by genre, year, and even ranking and alphabetical order. The bar even has an option to search for movies or TV-shows which makes it a very attractive feature from the perspective of functionality. The categories are well ordered and the main page is divided into popular adult documentaries and the most popular TV episodes, which makes the site even more attractive and full of legit content such as the documentaries mentioned before which I have rarely seen on any other site. On the far right there is a featured box showing the ultimate popular show or movie while also providing 100% correct content regarding the show or movie in mention. The Last Aired category on the far bottom is extremely useful if you want to quickly know about the latest releases of movies and shows without the worry of missing out on one.
Design & Suggestions
The design is both attractive and simplistic and all articles are available with their most recent and updated descriptions as well as pictures and labels that make the user want to stay on the site and explore it further. There are almost no suggestions but since the site is very professional in display and functionality I would suggest one small thing towards making it even better: The two main categories could be interchangeable with other categories at random times or specific intervals for an even more useful view.
Vertor Proxy, unblock access
Upon visiting the site of Vertor.eu, the first impression it leaves me is that the logo looks pretty decent, the name actually stands for ‘verified torrents’ which is pretty meaningful. Then naturally, the next thing that catches my eye are the first displayed torrents of 2014, which to my expectations, it should be the recent torrents of 2015. Ironically enough, the torrents of 2014 actually ARE the recent torrents.
Like any torrent site, design is not necessarily a must-have, as long as the site supports good ‘verified torrents’, However, it really hurts my eye seeing that every torrent name is underlined as it makes me feel like it’s an important torrent, but they can’t all be possibly important. Can they? Overall, like I said, the design is okay for a torrent site so no harm there but I would still add perhaps a box of ‘recent torrents’, or just give less space to the main box of torrent lists as it is taking all the space away no matter how wide my screen is.
Again, with emphasis on the word ‘ironic’, the small buttons next to the torrent names are supposed to give extra torrent information like if it’s verified or who uploaded it, but funnily enough all torrents seem to have been uploaded by ‘user’. Next, the Health bar of the torrent is about 80% of the way full with an orange/brownish color, what does that mean? If the bar is at 0% is the torrent dead? Moving on, I can’t even click the tab to rank torrents by date, size, or seeds unless I am at the search results, and even then, when I click on seeds, it still ranks them randomly.
Besides the obvious fact that your torrent side should be always updated, you may want to add a little button that takes you to the magnet link without having to download the file. Furthermore, why even bother adding the ‘direct link’ or ‘free download link’ when everyone knows it will never happen. Overall, I would go on with suggestions, but what is the point really when your ranking doesn’t work and your recent torrents are of 2014?
Update: As of May 2017 vertor is dead
This entry was posted in torrents on June 14, 2015 by admin and updated on May 7, 2017 .
Torrent Express proxy, unblock access
One of the most recent trends in web-building and design that’s making a huge comeback since the last decade is the wide-width style of web design. What this design basically does it displays the content as wide as the browser’s width can support, so if your browser’s viewing the page it extends from end to end, giving it an appealing look while also adding to the simplicity of the web-site. Design
Unfortunately for TorrentExpress, I am not sure what they were aiming at with designs half-way done. Perhaps my first critique upon visiting the site is the fact that I simply cannot use it in dual screen with another page because half the content is lost. Now, as an avid fan of multitasking, and I’m sure I am not alone in this, it is inconvenient for me to devote time to a simple torrent search.
Functionality
When did anyone ever, in their lifetime, click on the first torrent they see related to their search query? I am hoping the answer is never because for myself, I have to find the best ratio of seeds/size and in most torrent sites it is just a small ‘seeds’ button that rearranges everything to your desires. In this case, however, not only is the torrent site outdated, it does not even have ranking by seeds or size even if I want to search for a movie to download.
Suggestions
First off, design the site properly so that when it is minimized at least it shows a new search bar at the top, or even add an app-like button for drop-down lists. Secondly, if you are going to keep the torrent site looking this simple, at least make every search query result in a ranking of best to worst seeds, and if that is too much to ask, at least add the button for the user to click.
Vodly aka 1Channel proxy, unblock access
Vodly or 1Channel is video on demand service containing links to various movies and series from multiple video hosting sites. It has list of movies in thumbnail fashion and each movie is presented with detailed information of description, rating and genre. All links are categorized according to quality (telesync, cam and High Definition). Users can vote on the quality of each link. By default users can search by title and advanced search gives the capability of searching by genre. This site has been blocked in UK owing to court orders. Comments are restricted to logged in users and only registered users can vote on the quality of links
This entry was posted in streaming on June 8, 2015 by admin and updated on June 8, 2015 .
Mp3Truck Proxy, Unblock access
Mp3Truck is an album and audio file link aggregator of files available on the internet. The main page consists of links to albums with respective thumbnails linking to the album’s details page which consists of list of songs and artist details. Users can play songs on the album page or download them. Users can favorite songs or create playlists to play them at a later time. This site has been blocked in UK owing to court orders. The search results are simple with sort filters on bitrate, relevance, size and duration. Users can hide remixes from the search results. The bottom of the page shows the list of searches / songs other users are currently listening to. The site is not mobile friendly and you cannot search it when using mobile device.
This entry was posted in music on May 23, 2015 by admin and updated on May 23, 2015 .
Rarbg proxy, unblock
RarBg is one of the top torrent release group along with yts. They are a bulgarian tracker which provides tracking services for torrents. Most of the torrents are of movies and tv shows. They do provide other torrents like games and software but they are of low priority. They require a healthy seed ratio otherwise you speeds are throttled or you ip will be penalized for hit and run behavior. All registrations on the site are invite only although on rare occasions they open registrations for public. they have around 700000 torrents indexed. They are featured as one of the most popular torrent sites of the year 2015 by TorrentFreak. The have plugin for utorrent and firefox using opensearch to allow searching for torrents from the browser. They have very strict rules of uploading an seeding violating them may incur instant bans. The site is current blocked in UK and recently they moved the domain name from .com to .to. They provide a very simple search with filter on categories
This entry was posted in torrents, Uncategorized on May 14, 2015 by admin and updated on January 5, 2017 .
Primewire.ag Proxy, unblock
Primewire.ag is one of the best video streaming sites available right now. It has around 65000 movie streaming links and 9000 tv series. making it one of the largest linkopedia in the wild. All movies are categorized according to ratings and categories from imdb with thumbnails and reviews. One can filter items by genre and sort them by rating and reviews, popularity and release date. Users can request for new movies to be added. They a current backlog of around 8000 items to be fulfilled. Registered users can rate can comment on movies. They can even create playlists of movies or collections of movies they like. They also have a active forum with half a million posts. Users can earn points by performing certain actions on the site like, referring friends, commenting, reporting broken links and adding links. This site is blocked in UK owing to court orders.
This entry was posted in streaming on May 4, 2015 by admin and updated on May 4, 2015 .
Torrent Crazy proxy, unblock
Torrent crazy is a simple torrent search engine with torrents in five main categories. Users can simply search using the search box in top right corner. Most of the torrents have a good description and a link to imdb with plentiful screenshots, showing the quality of torrents. Any one can post comments in the comments section of each torrent. There is not verified torrents section though!!!. It is just a list of torrents without any ad clutter 😀 This site has been banned in UK in October 2013 owing to court orders.
This entry was posted in torrents on May 4, 2015 by admin and updated on May 4, 2015 .
TorrentButler proxy, unblock
If you haven’t visited torrent butler may be you should do it now. It is one of the most beautiful torrent sites on the net. It lists movies and tv shows in a gallery fashion with appropriate information like imdb rating, genre it belongs to along with trailer and hd torrents. It lets you filter torrents by rating and genres and year of release. The layout of many apps like popcorn time is inspired by them. IT almost acts like a butler pruning and serving you the best of torrents. They also have a tv series section where you can sift through numerous tv shows in a jiffy and download high quality videos. The main advantage is its disadvantage though. It has only movies and torrents :(. But it is best at what it does 😀
This entry was posted in torrents on April 16, 2015 by admin and updated on April 16, 2015 .
Torrents.to proxy, unblock
Founded in 2004 Torrrents.to combines all torrent meta search engines into a single search bar. It does not have any index or data about torrents. It relies on other torrent meta search engines. It allows you to search 500 torrent sites in a single click, which is amazing. It is more of any frame wrapper over these search sites. In the preferences users can sort or add search engines to search. By defaults, kickass, torlock, torrentz, bitsnoop, torrentbutler are added, so whenever a new user searches the results from these 10 sites are displayed. It has browser search plugin and utorrent search plugin. Till now it has served around 2.5 billion searches. All the torrent sites are categorized into different categories based on their purpose, like general, movies, music, applications etc.. This site has been block in UK. The ui is pretty simple and easy on the eyes. Overall this site a worth a visit for all those users who want to find those rare torrents.
This entry was posted in torrents on April 4, 2015 by admin and updated on April 19, 2015 .
SumoTorrents proxy, unblock
Sumotorrents is a torrent metasearch engine just like torrentz or kickass torrents. The site gives an antique feel to the visitors though the content is not. It has around 4.2 million torrents as of today. All torrents are categorized into different categories as usual. Users can register to save / bookmark torrents and upload new ones. The have a firefox search plugin as well as advanced search functionality which lets you filter torrents by name, category, subcategory and hash. The site is available in 5 different languages english, french, italian, spanish and dutch respectively. They have verified section torrents where users review torrents downloaded and verified as good torrents of quality material.
This entry was posted in torrents on April 4, 2015 by admin and updated on April 4, 2015 .
TorrentReactor Proxy, unblock
TorrentReactor founded in 2003 is a torrent meta indexer and search engine. It does not host files. The site has a simple UI similar to other torrent search engines with a search box and list of latest torrents in each category. Advance search engine is available to filter torrents more narrowly. To upload torrents users must be logged in. Users can earn points when do an action on the website accruing them and hence advancing levels which grants them capability to delete torrents, ban users and moderate comments. They have a large catalog of actor through which you can search for movies or tv starring them. This site has been banned in UK owing to court orders. They provide rss feeds for users to easily syndicate and be updated with new releases.
Demonoid is probably one of the most old torrent trackers in the world. Founded in 2003 it has always found itself in the copyright wars, domain seizures and raids. Currently it is still alive and kicking. They even have a .onion address. It is an invite only website so users cannot access all torrents. In some rare occasions they do open up their registrations. There are many demonoid clones created when it went down on numerous occasions. All torrents are cataloged into different categories and subcategories. Users can filter torrents by quality , category, internal tracking / external and language. It has around 600K torrents. Only external torrents are available for download by guest users. To download internal torrents users have to register and login. It has been block in many countries including UK. It prohibits uploading of adult content.
Popcorn Time proxy, unblock
Popcorn time is a bittorrent client integrated with media player. It show a list of movies, tv series and animes. The interface of the client is similar to that of netflix, earning it fame as the pirate’s proxy. Due to is fame, its developers have been threatened by MPAA and they stopped developing it. Before they stopped it has been forked and three independent clients have been developed by various teams. Most of the movies you see on it are from YTS torrents. Viewing movies through it is not secure as it is just a plain bittorrent client. But the UI and simple presentation itself makes it worth the try. WIthin weeks of its release, it has been received positively by major media outlets. Due to its opensource nature it is still living 😀
This entry was posted in misc on April 1, 2015 by admin and updated on December 18, 2016 .
Mp3soup proxy, unblock
Mp3Soup is a music search engine popular in UK. It lets the user search for songs and artists in its database. It doesnot host any files but only indexes links to audio files publicly available in the wild. Users can play, download or send the song as a ringtone to their mobile. They also have a listing of UK Top 100, US Top 100, canada top 10 and German top 10 lists. They follow DMCA for removal of copyrighted content in their index. They have been banned in UK following court orders. The results can be filtered based on duration, size, remix and quality. Registration is free and users can register to bookmark and create playlists
This entry was posted in music on March 31, 2015 by admin and updated on March 31, 2015 .
mp3s proxy, unblock
mp3s.pl is a music search engine. They provide both advance search and simple search through which you can filter files by artist, album, release year, title and genre. They have a total of 13 million files indexed totaling 123TB which means you can find a link for every single song you can think of!!. Their home page list top 100 singles and top 100 albums along with latest searches. There is not user registration through which users can search and save files they want and make playlists out of them. They are also like many other websites have been blocked in UK owing to court orders. You can download or listen to music online on their website. The ui has little bit of rough edges though 😉
This entry was posted in music, streaming on March 29, 2015 by admin and updated on March 29, 2015 .
Mp3Olimp proxy, unblock
Mp3olimp is a simple mp3 search engine with list of top songs on front page and recent searches in the sidebar. They also provide a firefox toolbar to make your search for songs easy. You can search by song title, album or artist name. Users can also register and bookmark files and create playlists. As usual they are only a search engine, not a file hoster hence host no files on their servers. This site has been blocked in UK owing to court orders. All search results can be sorted out by size, duration, bitrate and relevance. Also the UI is easy on the eye 😛
Mp3Clan proxy
Mp3clan is one of the most popular mp3 search engines and audio file indexer in UK. All files are sorted according to artist and album and genres. The main page has a search box with list of categories and artists with top albums with a search box to search for songs and artists. You can even find playlists with the song in it. It allows you to create a ring tone and embed the files on you website along with usual feature of downloading and playing. User registration is not available so you cannot save / bookmark it on the site. This site has been banned in UK owing to court orders.
fullsongs.net proxy, unblock
http://fullsongs.net/ is a music search engine and link aggregator. Users can search for songs, lyrics and videos. Like other sites this site doesnot have a listing of albums and songs explicitly. All the songs listed on their top 100 songs are just tags. They have a very simple interface where users can search for songs and add them to playlist to be played later. The site is founded in 2009 and now banned in UK based on court orders. Unlike other music sites there is no user registration available and users cannot save their playlists. They also have a mobile friendly website.
TorrentHound Proxy, unblock
Torrent Hound is a torrent meta search engine. As usual all torrents are categorized and sub categorized. All of the torrents are added by their robots which scour the internet for torrents and index them. They have around 8million torrents totaling to 15PB of files. The whole design is simple with a search box for torrents and recent search tags. There is no user registration though. This site is blocked in UK owing to court orders and hence inaccessible.
This entry was posted in torrents on March 29, 2015 by admin and updated on March 29, 2015 .
Mp3Lemon Proxy, Unblock
Mp3Lemon is you one stop music fix. You do not need to visit another site for the music. It has more than a million songs and all categorized according to artists and albums. The site is available in five languages ( english, russian, german, italian and espanol/ spanish). As usual they also provide song lyrics. You will also get a list of recently added artits, songs and albums as well as the current toplists. The site is pretty simple design with an easy to find search box. This site has been banned in UK owing to court orders and efforts by BPI
Mp3Boo Proxy, unblock
Mp3Boo is i would consider a gem in the search engines listed here. The UI is just amazing with pinterest like layout. All of the songs are categorized into albums and artists totaling it has around 28417 mp3 albums, 371493 tracks, 20606 artists and more added every day. All songs are further categorized into hundreds for genres and charts which should enrich your music discovery. Started in 2014 it became too popular and now being blocked in UK. Given the rich user experience, it is worth the try!!
Mp3Bear proxy, unblock
Mp3bear is a simple mp3 search engine with top lists and search tags and a simple UI. Registration adds the benefit of adding new playlists or managing them. The search results are presented in a simple fashion, no exotic ui / animations but just simple list of links which you can click and download. They also provide mobile qr codes to copy links. They have been banned in UK owing to court orders on march 2015 as reported by torrentfreak. The website started its operation in 2009. They do follow DMCA removal process.
Mp3 Monkey proxy, unblock
Mp3 Monkey is just a simple mp3 search engine. All you can see is recently searched keywords on the main page and a Simple clean search box. The presentation is very simple. Once you enter your search and press enter you will see a list of matching files with two button against each of them which is play and download. That is all to it. More over this website is mobile friendly and built on bootstrap which gives a fresh and minimalistic appearance. This site is so popular that BPI has got it banned in UK.
Bursalagu Proxy, Unblock
Bursalagu, a strange name for music site which a www audio file indexer ad search engine. It provides file search for songs and lyrics. It has the most simplest UI which screams that it is a search engine. You can also find lists of tags categorized into songs, albums, artists and music charts. They also provide a firefox search bar to make search through their archives easy. They also provide a general search plugin for any browser that support opensearch standards. This site is immensely popular with 2million likes on facebook and 12k followers on twitter. Due to this it has been banned in UK on grounds of copyrights on march 2015 according to Torrentfreak. They only have links to files and do not host them. Their download system is a little complicated though. You have to first click on red button to check whether the file is available or not then click on the download button that appears after that!!
Plixid proxy, unblock
Plixid is a music release site that post file locker links to major / popular albums or songs. The whole site looks like a blog and all songs are categorized into metal, jazz, pop, indie and relevant sub categories and tagged with artists and album names. Each post has list of songs present in the file and links to a filelocker like uploaded.net or nova.com. They provide basic search functionality to discover artist, albums and songs. Due to their immense popularity they are blocked in UK owing to court orders in March 2015 as reported by torrentfreak.com. The site started operating in 2009 and still open.
Stafa Band proxy, unblock
Stafa Band is a audio file indexer and link aggregator where you can search for you favorite artist’s work / song. The audio files are categorized according to artists, billboards, uk / us topcharts, alphabetical listing and monthly singles. They even provide search by artist and song title and lyrics for each song. This site started in 2007 and still going strong. Contrary to the current design trends, the site looks to be old fashioned yet user friendly. But it a little confusing to the visitor, and the search bar is hard to locate. This site is very popular in UK and has been recently banned by various ISPs owing to court orders. They also have a chatbox at the end to shout out your hearts content 😛
Warez BB proxy, unblock
Warez-bb is arguably the most popular movie / filesharing links website out there on the internet. All you have to do is register and sign in to get the access. I has links for wide variety of shows and movies amounting to 1million threads and 10million posts. They have around 20 categories and hundreds of sub categories. Almost all files are regularly checked and new links are posted. Anonymous browsing is strictly restricted to forum titles. This site is banned in many countries based on copyright grounds. It is base on PHPBB forum software which is free and open. You can also donate to support the site.
Domain: warez-bb.org
Registration: Mitchell Roberts, Stockholm, Sweden
Hosting Provider: Network Infinity Technologies Limited (Hong Kong)
Registrar: Key-Systems GmbH
Revenue Sources: Unknown
Warez-bb is a forum site were user must register to gain access. Once registered, users can access all sections of the site. The site has been running for over 10 years and has a current global Alexa ranking of 5,850 and is ranked 5,100 in the US. The site has a search facility allowing users to search for content across forums including music, music videos, apps, TV shows and movies.
Registered users of the site are able to post content to the site including album track lists and links to content hosted on cyberlockers such as Uploaded, Nitroflare and Uploadable. The site has removed only a small number of the links reported for removal on behalf of recording industry copyright owners.
This site has been blocked in South Korea by court order.
This entry was posted in forums on March 24, 2015 by admin and updated on October 9, 2015 .
BT chat proxy, unblock
Bt Chat is bit torrent file meta search engine. All torrents are categorized into 10 main categories. It collects torrents for famous release groups. They also have automated torrent checker. Search is only available only for registered users. The main emphasis of the site is to show verified torrents to the users. Its alexa rank is 15k. The site is very simple design without much clutter.
Wapchat proxy, unblock
WAPCHAT is a FREE CHAT SITE where you can use FREE CHAT ROOMS to have Fun, Find Friends, Meet People and Share Photos on mobile cell phones. As a member of WAPCHAT you get to meet and interact with people from the United Kingdom, Ireland, United States, Canada, New Zealand, Australia, South Africa, Philippines and all over the world. Starting may 2013 it has becoming popular and still going strong. There is no membership & downloads.
This entry was posted in misc on March 10, 2015 by admin and updated on March 10, 2015 .
When the original isohunt shut it doors within hours another clone of it came into existence and rode to success on the same clutter free UI of isohunt which is isohunt.to. I has almost 5 million torrents categorized into 10 major categories with utorrent, browser plugins for easy accessibility and a forum for member to chat. You have to register to upload and manage torrents but you can download anonymously. Registration add an advantage of no ads :D.
This site just became the 8th most popular torrent search engine used according to torrentfreak. They provide both simple search and advanced search tool for searching torrents. Other important features are movie cards, which give more info about the movie like rotten tomatoes score and actor pages which lists all movies starred by the actor and verified torrents which are community pruned torrents which you can just blindly download 😛 They even award you for activity on website with isopoints.
This entry was posted in torrents on March 9, 2015 by admin and updated on March 9, 2015 .
TorrentDownloads.me proxy, unblock
Torrents downloads.me is a new generation torrents meta search engine. Similar to other torrent sites , it doesnot store files or torrent caches. It has a fairly simple torrent meta search engine with torrents categorized into few main categories and a registration system by which users can register and upload torrents, or rate them and bookmark them. Though seems little dead this site has been blocked in UK owing to court orders and is inaccessible in UK. The do comply with DMCA requests and remove infringing torrents. This is currently on of the top 10 visited torrent sites in the world.
It has been block on both chrome & firefox due to thirdy party ads spreading the malware
This entry was posted in torrents on February 1, 2015 by admin and updated on November 8, 2017 .
New Album Releases proxy, unblock
New album releases is a release log / blog style release indexer. They post links to download albums from various file hosts like uploaded.to and oron. Total they have around 70000 albums lists and all albums are categorized according to artist and type. They are blocked in UK owing to court order. The search box on the top right corner provides a way to sift through all albums on the website. Newalbumreleases makes available a substantial library of newly-released popular music content, as well as albums not yet commercially released. The site features the most recently uploaded albums on the home page using album artwork. In addition it organizes earlier posts by genre under menu tabs for Rock, Pop, Metal, etc. The home page also offers a search capability for content by artist or title. The site hosts its content on cyberlockers and provides users with links to services like Rapidgator.net and Hitfile.net from where the files are available for download. All of the files appear to have been uploaded to the cyberlocker sites by Newalbumreleases as the download files usually include “newalbumreleases” in the file name. As the uploaders they are direct infringers and takedown notices to the site are ineffective.
The site has a global Alexa ranking of 7,517. SimilarWeb traffic data shows the site averages 5.6 million visits a month.
This site has been blocked in the U.K. by court order.1
This entry was posted in music on January 25, 2015 by admin and updated on October 9, 2015 .
Mp3 Skull proxy, unblock
Mp3skull is a simple mp3 search engine and file indexer that indexes audio files over the wild. It organizes files according to artist, size and duration and album. They have an ultra simple search bar and spartan layout which lists top downloads on the front page and search results just lists the audios an function to listen to them. This site has been blocked in UK by isps owing to court order. They have a firefox toolbar from which you can search on their website without even going into the website 😀
Domain: mp3skull.ninja (formerly mp3skull.com, mp3skull.to, mp3skull.cr, mp3skull.is)
Registration: Monica Vasilenko, MP3Skull, Inc., Petrozavodsk, Russia
Hosting Provider: M247 (Romania) – through Cloudflare (US)
Registrars: EasyDNS Technologies, Inc.; Tucows Domains, Inc.
Revenue Sources: Advertising, malware install programs, revenue sharing with redirects to third party sites.
Mp3skull is an unlicensed service that provides unlimited free downloads and on-demand streaming of the most popular copyrighted sound recordings in the world. Its sole purpose is to generate profit from the theft of music, and it makes no pretence about what it does or why it does it. Virtually any commercial recording is available for free download or streaming through the site and its most popular offerings (“Top Downloads”) virtually mirror the Billboard Top 100 list.
Mp3skull is the most highly trafficked mp3 site of its kind in the world and the huge user base allows its operators to profit from advertisements on the site and from the distribution of adware and malware to its users. The site purports to be simply an index site for mp3s found elsewhere on the internet, but the site operates within a close web of loosely affiliated sites that provide the content for mp3skull.
For years the site operated from the domain name mp3skull.com, but has since jumped to mp3skull.to, mp3skull.cr and mp3skull.is. All of these domains now resolve to mp3kull.ninja.
Since 2011, various copyright owners have sent notices on more than 3.3 million mp3skull webpages offering access to infringing files. RIAA alone has sent the site takedown notices on 1.7 million URLs to no avail.
We suspect the reason mp3skull has been repeatedly jumping to new top level domains is to work around search engine demotion signals. Major search engines now demote sites from search results based on the volume of infringement notices they receive for the site. Changing the top level domain name allows the site to bypass the demotion signal and reappear in the top search results. Mp3 sites like mp3skull have relied heavily on search to drive traffic to their site. The rapid movement between domain names makes it difficult to get a fix on Alexa rankings and traffic measures, but the mp3skull.is just a month ago had a global Alexa ranking of 7392, and SimilarWeb traffic data has the site averaging over 40 million visits a month.
In April of this year, several US record labels sued mp3skull in U.S. District Court in Miami seeking monetary damages and other relief. The operators of mp3skull failed to answer the complaint and the plaintiffs are seeking a default judgement against the site.
Mp3skull has been blocked in the U.K. by court order.
Mp3Raid proxy, unblock
Mp3raid is a dedicated music file index and organizer of mp3 files available over the web. The interface is very simple with a search bar for searching audios and lists top albums on the front page. One can browse through the alphabetical listing and author wise listing as well as USA top chart albums. This site has been blocked in UK due to court orders in October 2013. Users can download or listen to music directly on their website.
This entry was posted in streaming on January 22, 2015 by admin and updated on January 22, 2015 .
Monova proxy, unblock
Monova is a popular torrent website with millions of verified torrents categorized into 10 main categories and numerous subcategories. They have a total of 7million torrents and add 7000 torrents daily. Users can upload torrents anonymously or can register and upload torrents which gives them the additional benefit of managing and bookmarking torrents. The site layout is pretty simple with listing torrents in each category with a tag cloud and simple search box. This site has been blocked in UK owing to court orders. They are also accepting donations on bitcoins currently just in case if you want to support them 😛
This entry was posted in torrents on January 21, 2015 by admin and updated on January 21, 2015 .
SolarMovie proxy, unblock
Solar movie is video streaming links aggregator. They are established in year 2014 and going strong. Over time they have amassed millions of streaming links. All links are curated by the community and admins. The links for each movie are grouped by quality and user rating. They have a movies section and tv series sections and a forum to user interaction. Most searched tags are shown on the right side bar. A simple search functionality is provided to users to search form movies and tv shows. Advance search is also available to filter movies by title, director, imdb rating and language. Registered users can favourite videos and comment on the website. This site has been blocked in UK due to court order.
This entry was posted in streaming on January 20, 2015 by admin and updated on August 7, 2015 .
Seedpeer proxy, unblock
Seedpeer is one of the most famous torrent sites formerly known as meganova, renamed in 2007. The frontpage of is full busy with list of torrents, tags, links and a single search bar to search torrents in all the categories. The site is available in 7 languages and has firefox and internet explorer plugins. All torrents are categorized into 8 main categories and 600 sub categories making it one of the most organized website with structured torrent data. Users can upload torrents anonymously. Registration provides additional benefits like commenting on torrents, bookmarking and uploading your own torrents and managing them. It also has an verified torrents section where one can search torrents that are verified by the community. They also provide usenet binaries. Currently they have more than 6million torrents in their index and 246,454 verified torrents. This site has been blocked by major UK ISPs owing to court orders.
This entry was posted in torrents on December 26, 2014 by admin and updated on December 26, 2014 .
YourBittorret Proxy, Unblock
YourBittorrent is one of the most famous bittorrent websites in UK. It was founded as mybittorrent in 2003. In 2009 due to a split in ownership it has been renamed to Your bittorrent. It is a torrent meta data indexed and searcher. It doesnot host any files itself. It merely allows users to search metadata of its torrents collection. They also had issues with their domain registrar. They use highly automated software with less human intervention in searching and indexing torrents. All torrents are categorized into movies, music, television, games, software, anime and adult categories. The site has a simple layout with top 50 torrents shown on the websites home page and various sections showing tag cloud and random suggestions. The site has been in the news when microsoft sent DMCA notices against opensource torrents.
Torlock proxy, unblock
Torlock is a torrent search engine and indexer which only indexes verified torrents. I does not index unverified torrents. As of nov 23 2014 it has more than one million verified torrents categorized into movie, telvision, adult, book , music, software and audio books. The ui is pretty heavy with recent search tags on the top followed by a list of recent torrent in each category. Users have to register and ask admins to grant the torrent upload ability in forums to be able to upload. This site has been banned in UK owing to court order along with 21 other websites. It has an active forum and userbase who constantly verify and rate torrents.
This entry was posted in torrents on November 23, 2014 by admin and updated on November 23, 2014 .
TorrentProject proxy, unblock
TorrentProject is a clean, fast and accurate bittorrent search engine.
Collecting, searching torrents and verifing torrent data from bittorrent dht network,
thepiratebay and more than 300 other torrent sites.The interface is very simple with a single search box and the have all the torrents categorized into multiple categories and sub categories. One of their striking feature is sorting torrent search results using myriad of criteria like seeders, peers, size, speed and age along with additional filter of categories which many torrent search engines never provide. Users can also turn safe search on to filter adult torrents. This site has been blocked in UK owing to court orders. It has been founded in 2014 which make it a very younger website 🙂 They also provide widgets to embed them in your personalized pages like blog, or igoogle or any rss reader. They also provide APIs to search for torrents and export data from their website.
This entry was posted in torrents on November 13, 2014 by admin and updated on April 16, 2017 .
Torrent Room Proxy, unblock
TorrentRoom is torrent meta data indexing engine with listing based on date, category, movies, tv shows and quality. The site is organized simply with a search box at the top and with torrents indexed listed day wise. They also verify torrents and delete fake torrents. The site is found in 2007 and still growing strong. It has been blocked in UK due to court orders in october 2014. Overall it is just another torrent website.
Mp3Juices proxy, unblock
Mp3Juices is a music search engine where users can search for artists, albums and song and download or play relevant files. All the search results can be sorted using size, bitrate and length. The interface is very simple with just a search box on the home page. The search results are limited to 100. Recently their domain has been seized by UK cops and the have restored the site on a new .to domain. There is also a random search feature on the website which redirects the user to a random search results page. Over all a site worth visiting 😉
This entry was posted in streaming on November 4, 2014 by admin and updated on November 4, 2014 .
BTScene Proxy, unblock
BTscene abbv for Bittorrent Scene is a public file sharing platform where users can register and upload torrents. The torrents are categorized as usual into multiple categories and sub categories. One of the unique feature of this website is collection where torrents are grouped into meaningful collection like top 10 movies of 2014 etc. They also show a staff picked video/ shortfilm. The user generated content is moderated by mods and admins. Also they have a blog through which announcements and news are released. The advanced search is very powerful and one can even search the torrent by its hash. Users can comment, upvote and downvote on each torrent. This site has been blocked in UK owing to court orders.
This entry was posted in torrents on November 3, 2014 by admin and updated on November 3, 2014 .
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Search results for "Australia and New Zealand"
Patients' experiences with communication-and-resolution programs after medical injury. Get Citation
Moore J, Bismark M, Mello MM. JAMA Intern Med. 2017;177:1595-1603.
Communication-and-resolution programs have demonstrated declines in malpractice claims in early studies, but implementing these programs effectively has been a challenge. This study is the first to examine patient perspectives on communication-and-resolution programs. Investigators interviewed 30 patients, most of whom experienced harm. Respondents expressed a desire for providers to listen to their perspectives without interruptions, consistent with prior studies. Although patients wished for information regarding what hospitals planned to do to prevent similar events in the future, most reported that they did not receive such follow-up. The authors state that their findings represent opportunities to improve communication-and-resolution programs. A past PSNet interview discussed an organization's pioneering efforts to implement a communication-and-response system.
A comparison of medication administration errors from original medication packaging and multi-compartment compliance aids in care homes: a prospective observational study. Get Citation
Gilmartin-Thomas JF, Smith F, Wolfe R, Jani Y. Int J Nurs Stud. 2017;72:15-23.
This prospective, direct-observation study examined medication administration accuracy of medications dispensed by nurses and caregivers in long-term care facilities. Investigators compared medication administration from original medication packaging to administration from multicompartment medication devices. The team observed nearly 2500 doses. When medications were dispensed from original packaging, the medication administration error rate was 9%. When multicompartment devices were used, the medication administration error rate was 3%. This difference persisted in settings where both original packaging and multicompartment medication devices were used. This study adds to the evidence about how literacy-friendly health systems can enhance medication safety.
Effectiveness of a 'Do not interrupt' bundled intervention to reduce interruptions during medication administration: a cluster randomised controlled feasibility study. Get Citation
Westbrook JI, Li L, Hooper TD, Raban MZ, Middleton S, Lehnbom EC. BMJ Qual Saf. 2017;26:734-742.
This randomized controlled trial had nurses on four hospital wards wear "do not interrupt" vests during medication administration. The rate of interruptions the intervention nurses experienced was compared to the rate in four control wards that did not have nurses wear vests. Although the intervention reduced non–medication-related interruptions, nurses reported that the vests were time consuming and uncomfortable; less than half would support continuing the intervention. This study demonstrates the need to design and test sustainable interventions to improve patient safety.
Systematic review of the prevalence of medication errors resulting in hospitalization and death of nursing home residents. Get Citation
Ferrah N, Lovell JJ, Ibrahim JE. J Am Geriatr Soc. 2017;65:433-442.
Older adults living in long-term care facilities face significant safety hazards. This systematic review examined medication errors in nursing homes and found a high prevalence of errors overall. The review revealed that a significant number of errors were related to handoffs and that 75% of these older patients received at least one potentially inappropriate medication. However, serious harm associated with medication use was reported for less than 1% of errors. The authors emphasize the difficulty of attributing harm to medications versus underlying illness in nursing home residents, and they call for designing safer systems for medication administration in nursing homes. A previous WebM&M commentary discussed challenges to ensuring patient safety in long-term care facilities.
Postoperative adverse events inconsistently improved by the World Health Organization surgical safety checklist: a systematic literature review of 25 studies. Get Citation
de Jager E, McKenna C, Bartlett L, Gunnarsson R, Ho YH. World J Surg. 2016;40:1842-1858.
The World Health Organization surgical safety checklist garnered a great deal of attention after initial studies showed remarkable reductions in postoperative complication rates. However, subsequent studies failed to reproduce these results, engendering controversy about the true effectiveness of checklists in real-world settings. This systematic review of 25 studies of the surgical safety checklist found that complication rates decreased with checklist usage in resource-poor settings, but the checklist did not appear to be effective in developed nations. The authors also noted that the reported effect of the checklist was incongruous—in several studies, postoperative complications did not decrease, but postoperative mortality improved, raising questions about what mechanism helped the checklist achieve its effect. These concerns, along with methodological problems in many of the included studies, led the authors to postulate that the observed improvements seen in some studies may have been due to temporal changes or other interventions rather than the checklist itself.
6-PACK programme to decrease fall injuries in acute hospitals: cluster randomised controlled trial. Get Citation
Barker AL, Morello RT, Wolfe R, et al. BMJ. 2016;352:h6781.
Falls in hospitalized patients are a common source of preventable harm, and the incident is considered a never event when it results in serious injury. Conducted at six Australian hospitals, this cluster randomized controlled trial sought to evaluate the effectiveness of a bundled intervention on the incidence of falls on adult wards. The bundle included assessing patients' risk for falling along with several widely used tactics to prevent falls. Despite successful implementation of the fall prevention bundle, falls occurred just as frequently on intervention wards as control wards. This study is an important example of the need to rigorously evaluate safety interventions, even those that have high face validity. The authors conclude that since these interventions appear ineffective. Organizations should consider disinvestment in these practices because completing ineffective interventions consumes a significant amount of staff time and effort. A WebM&M commentary discussed a case involving a fall resulting in injury.
The missing evidence: a systematic review of patients' experiences of adverse events in health care. Get Citation
Harrison R, Walton M, Manias E, et al. Int J Qual Health Care. 2015;27:423-441.
Patient perspectives are critical to inform patient safety efforts. This systematic review identified studies of patient experiences with adverse events. Included studies demonstrate that the types of adverse events patients most often identify are medication errors and suboptimal communication, and that patient demographic characteristics influence the likelihood of reporting these events. Calling for increased use of patient experiences in future studies, the authors suggest that investigations into adverse events are incomplete if patient perspectives are not included. These results demonstrate the ongoing need to enhance patient engagement in safety research. A previous AHRQ WebM&M perspective delves further into engaging patients in safety improvement.
Clinical safety of England's national programme for IT: a retrospective analysis of all reported safety events 2005 to 2011. Get Citation
Magrabi F, Baker M, Sinha I, et al. Int J Med Inform. 2015;84:198-206.
Health information technology can both improve patient safety and introduce risks. This analysis examined all safety events associated with the United Kingdom's national program for health information technology. The researchers found that while most events were technical failures, incidents involving human errors had a higher chance of causing harm to patients. Technical failures affecting 10 or more patients accounted for nearly 25% of events and were more likely to impact care delivery. These results underscore the concerns in prior reports about the unintended consequences of implementing health information technology on patient safety. The findings also lend weight to the Institute of Medicine recommendations that errors related to health information technology be reported and investigated in the United States. A past AHRQ WebM&M perspective explored the promised benefits of health information technology alongside the challenges of implementation and idiosyncrasies of available systems.
Do variations in hospital mortality patterns after weekend admission reflect reduced quality of care or different patient cohorts? A population-based study. Get Citation
Perez-Concha O, Gallego B, Hillman K, Delaney GP, Coiera E. BMJ Qual Saf. 2014;23:215-222.
Many studies have shown that patients admitted to the hospital on the weekend experience more preventable complications and are at increased risk for mortality. The mechanism for this finding is unknown and could be due to health care system factors (i.e., lower weekend staffing and availability of clinical services) or patient factors (i.e., those admitted on weekends could be more complex and at higher risk of death than weekday admissions). This population-based analysis from New South Wales, Australia sought to determine the contribution of health care system and patient factors to elevated weekend mortality by analyzing daily mortality rates for the 7-day period following weekend admission. For certain diagnoses, such as pulmonary embolism, the risk of death was elevated during the first 48 hours after weekend admission but declined thereafter, implying that health care system factors are the primary driver of the weekend effect. However, patients with cancer-related diagnoses continued to have elevated mortality risk for the full 7 days after weekend admission, implying that patient factors such as illness severity are the major contributor to excess mortality. Other diagnoses, such as stroke, showed a mixed pattern of system and patient factors. By providing a nuanced view of the types of diagnoses and factors associated with the weekend effect, this study demonstrates the need for tailored solutions for this well-documented problem.
Failure to follow-up test results for ambulatory patients: a systematic review. Get Citation
Callen JL, Westbrook JI, Georgiou A, Li J. J Gen Intern Med. 2012;27:1334-1348.
Following up test results in a timely fashion is a recognized patient safety problem in primary care, and inadequate follow-up systems are a source of frustration for outpatient clinicians and a relatively common source of malpractice claims. This systematic review found evidence that failure to act on abnormal radiology or laboratory results is common and clearly linked to missed or delayed diagnoses. The review also found wide variation in processes for handling test results across studies. Electronic health records (EHRs) did appear to improve test follow-up rates, although a substantial proportion of abnormal results were not followed up even with EHRs. The authors advocate for more standardized processes for informing patients of abnormal results, and recent guidelines have been published for organizational policies to improve test result communication.
Rapid-response teams. Get Citation
Jones DA, DeVita MA, Bellomo R. N Engl J Med. 2011;365:139-146.
Delays in clinical deterioration recognition and failures to rescue lead to serious adverse events. Rapid response systems (RRS) have been implemented with the aim of improving the identification and management of clinically worsening hospital ward patients. Although early studies reviewing RRS showed improvements in clinical outcomes, subsequent results have not shown consistent benefit. This review describes RRS, including controversies surrounding them, potential benefits and limitations, as well as strategies to implement them successfully. An AHRQ WebM&M perspective discusses lessons from early experiences with RRS.
Counterheroism, common knowledge, and ergonomics: concepts from aviation that could improve patient safety. Get Citation
Lewis GH, Vaithianathan R, Hockey PM, Hirst G, Bagian JP. Milbank Q. 2011;89:4-38.
This commentary describes aviation error prevention tactics and suggests that adopting these initiatives in health care can improve patient safety.
The safety implications of missed test results for hospitalised patients: a systematic review. Get Citation
Callen J, Georgiou A, Li J, Westbrook JI. BMJ Qual Saf 2011;20:194-199.
Adverse events after hospital discharge are a growing driver for safety interventions, including a focus on readmissions, adverse drug events, and hospital-acquired infections. Another safety area ripe for intervention is managing test results after hospital discharge. This systematic review analyzed 12 studies and found wide variation in rates of test follow-up and related management systems. Critical test results and results for patients moving across health care settings were highlighted as particularly concerning areas that could be addressed with better clinical information systems. A past AHRQ WebM&M commentary discussed a case where a patient was incorrectly treated based on failure to follow up a urine culture after hospital discharge.
Association of interruptions with an increased risk and severity of medication administration errors. Get Citation
Westbrook JI, Woods A, Rob MI, Dunsmuir WTM, Day RO. Arch Intern Med. 2010;170:683-690.
Interruptions in nursing activities are a known patient safety concern, particularly around medication administration. Most studies describing this relationship are based on self-reported experiences, surveys, or retrospective analysis of voluntary reports. This study directly observed nurses during medication administration and discovered that each interruption was associated with a 12.1% increase in procedural failures and a 12.7% increase in clinical errors. Interruptions occurred in more than 50% of administrations with error severity increasing with interruption frequency. An alarming finding was that administration without interruptions still generated a procedural failure rate of nearly 70% and a clinical error rate of 25%. The latter findings are discussed further in an invited commentary [see link below] that advocates for greater efforts to improve the medication administration process, including protected times for these activities.
Rate of undesirable events at beginning of academic year: retrospective cohort study. Get Citation
Haller G, Myles PS, Taffé P, Perneger TV, Wu CL. BMJ. 2009;339:b3974.
The so-called July phenomenon, in which errors are supposedly more common in July due to an influx of inexperienced residents and students, has long been a source of gallows humor in hospitals. Although prior studies have reached mixed conclusions, this Australian study of anesthesia errors did find a significant increase in preventable adverse events for procedures performed by trainees during the first 4 months of the academic year. Interestingly, error rates were higher for trainees at all levels, not just first-year residents. This finding implies that underlying systems issues as well as clinical inexperience resulted in adverse events. An accompanying editorial calls for revising training models in order to provide adequate supervision and support for new trainees. A case of inadvertent hypoglycemia resulting from an intern's lack of familiarity with insulin ordering at his new hospital is discussed in an AHRQ WebM&M commentary.
Safe Surgery Saves Lives: The Second Global Patient Safety Challenge.
Geneva, Switzerland: WHO World Alliance for Patient Safety; June 25, 2008.
This initiative provides a surgical safety checklist and related educational and training materials to encourage international adoption of a core set of safety standards. Implementation of this World Health Organization's checklist has resulted in dramatic reductions in surgical mortality and complications across diverse international hospitals. Surgical checklists have now become one of the clearest success stories in the patient safety movement, although some have described challenges to effective implementation. Dr. Atul Gawande discussed the history of checklists as a quality and safety tool in his book, The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right.
Introduction of the medical emergency team (MET) system: a cluster-randomised controlled trial. Get Citation
MERIT study investigators. Lancet. 2005;365:2091-2097.
This study examined the impact of medical emergency teams (METs), also known as rapid response teams (RRTs), on cardiac arrests, transfers to an intensive care unit (ICU), and deaths. The 23-hospital Australian study evaluated the availability of METs at designated hospitals and collected data prior to and during the six months following implementation. Findings suggested more calls for the emergency team but no difference in primary or secondary outcomes. However, the authors point out that even at hospitals with METs in place, inadequate utilization occurred for patients who met clinical criteria. They conclude that despite similar outcomes in both hospital groups, system-based interventions can support a focus on improved monitoring of patients and appropriate response by clinicians.
A classification system for incidents and accidents in the health-care system. Get Citation
Runciman WB, Helps SC, Sexton EJ, Malpass A. J Qual Clin Prac. 1998;18:199-211.
To provide a framework for understanding system-based problems, this study developed a classification scheme using more than 2000 incidents reported to the Australian Incident Monitoring Study (AIMS). Using a computerized model, incidents and events were organized into a hierarchical and interrelated framework in developing a categorization ''tree.'' The authors describe this model in detail, present examples of this Generic Occurrence Classification (GOC) operationally, and report on results from testing the framework with different events from another reporting system. They suggest that this system offers a reliable and validated method to compare and, more important, prevent incidents and accidents from various reporting sources.
Analysing potential harm in Australian general practice: an incident-monitoring study. Get Citation
Bhasale AL, Miller GC, Reid SE, Britt HC. Med J Aust. 1998;169:73-76.
The authors report an observational study of adverse event incident reports collected from 1993 through 1995 from a nonrandom sample of general practitioners in Australia. Of the 805 incidents reported, 76% were qualitatively judged to be preventable and 27% to have the potential for severe harm. The authors provide a detailed breakdown of the types of incidents, factors that mitigated the harm caused by the incidents, and demographics of the affected patients. The authors classify the underlying causes of the events in four categories—communications problems, procedural problems (which include cognitive errors), clinical problems, and external problems—based on qualitative assessment of the reports.
The Quality in Australian Health Care Study. Get Citation
Wilson RM, Runciman WB, Gibberd RW, Harrison BT, Newby L, Hamilton JD. Med J Aust. 1995;163:458-471.
In order to estimate patient injury and its direct consequences, the authors of this retrospective study examined more than 14,000 admissions to 28 hospitals to identify adverse events. Using a screening system and confirmatory agreement among three medical officers, adverse events were categorized by clinical type, patient characteristics, extra bed-days attributable, disability attributable, and preventability. Results demonstrated that nearly 17% of admissions were associated with an adverse event and approximately half were deemed preventable. The authors extrapolate their findings to draw estimations for all of Australia, and they conclude that adverse events account for substantial resource, cost, and preventable adverse outcomes. Their study provides a comprehensive approach to using chart review as a method for capturing adverse events.
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Our Readers' Opinions
We need word on Banana Extension Division of 2009
Editor: Some data which record the genesis of the banana agony could be found in a document titled “Agricultural review 2009.â On page 16, under the item labelled 3.1.1. Bananas, it is stated “banana production and exports showed a marginal decline relative to 2008. The decrease was due to damage/loss of 327 acres of banana by the Moko disease.â{{more}}
On page 17, it says, “In order to streamline the banana subsector measures were implemented in collaboration with WINFA/FAIRTRADE SVG PRODUCERS INC and WINFRESH; the dissolution of the St. Vincent Banana Growers Ass “SVBGAâ in June of 2009 at an estimated cost of $3 million, and the establishment of the Banana Division in the MARTFF (Ministry of Agriculture), with a comprehensive program for extension education of farmers, training for Global Gap certification and control of BANANA LEAF SPOT AND OTHER BANANA DISEASES.â â Throughout 2009 Moko disease continued to affect banana production, mainly in the areas of Colonarie, Park Hill, Greiggs and Richland Park and so farmers received $463,695 as compensation. BLACK SIGATOKA appeared for the first time in 2009.
On page 17, there is an item captioned “BANANA TRANSITIONâ under which reads “During the period 2008 to 2009 the banana subsector went through a period of transition. An act for the dissolution of the SVBGA and the establishment of a Banana industry was proclaimed on May 31st and the SVBGA closed its doors on June 30th 2009. The employees who were made redundant were paid severance in excess of EC $2.3 million. Government also had to take responsibility for the outstanding payables, the cost of the leaf spot control (chemicals, spray plane operations, ground crew) salaries and wages. An amount of EC$3 million was budgeted in the 2009 estimates to carry the cost.â
The question which must be answered now is how much has been spent on these items between 2009 and 2014?
The BANANA TRANSITION item continues “WINFA/FAIRTRADE, under the company Trade name WINFARM took over the responsibility for the handling of Grower Accounts management of the Fair Trade label, Advocacy and the Sales and Purchases agreement with WINFRESH. The Ministry of Agriculture etc, was given responsibility for the Banana Extension Division and leaf spot control. WINFRESH was given responsibilities for receiving and loading at the Internal Buying Depots, the Kingstown Reception Centre and the marketing of bananas in the United Kingdom.â
A programme for the operation of the Banana Division was established during the last quarter of 2009.
The evidence is overwhelming that the banana industry in St Vincent has not realized any progress since Dr Gonsalves and his team demolished the arrangement that had served the industry for several decades. While it is true that there was need for new approaches, considering the challenges which the culmination of the preferential marketing arrangement brought, banana still has the potential to play a significant ameliorating role in the economy of the land and the well-being of the people.
The members of those organizations which played a role in the destruction of the St Vincent Banana Growers Association, should feel duty-bound to exert themselves and use their influence to correct this injustice, for it is evident that while some ideas were committed to paper, as seen in the foregoing, there has been no identifiable serious effort in practice, aimed at making the banana industry successful over the last 14 years.
It is reasonable now to speculate that when the authorities spoke of the “transitionâ of the industry, what they really had in mind was the neutralizing of the democratic spirit by which the industry was grounded in the farmers.
This sad story of the banana industry in SVG is a good lesson for the next wave of citizens of the state. From now on, all the citizens must make themselves able to identify those factors which are impacting their lives and must resist aggressively, the machinations of miscreants who from time to time may come on the scene posing as honourable men, but are actually in pursuit of an agenda in which the interests of their citizens are expendable.
In the interest of the “conversationâ that we ought to have, in dealing with the demise/revitalization of the banana industry, the names of those persons who functioned in those organizations which participated in the “transitionâ of the industry should be made available to the public at this time.
It is imperative, as we try to determine the way forward for agriculture generally in SVG, that there be a review and assessment of the programme for the operations of the Banana Extension Division, which was “developed established during the last quarter of 2009.â There may be lessons to be learned!
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Genetic Population Structure of US Atlantic Coastal Striped Bass (Morone saxatilis)
DT Gauthier
CA Audemard, Virginia Institute of Marine Science
JEL Carlsson
TL Darden
MR Denson
KS Reece, Virginia Institute of Marine Science
J Carlsson
Journal of Heredity
Genetic population structure of anadromous striped bass along the US Atlantic coast was analyzed using 14 neutral nuclear DNA microsatellites. Young-of-the-year and adult striped bass (n = 1114) were sampled from Hudson River, Delaware River, Chesapeake Bay, North Carolina, and South Carolina. Analyses indicated clear population structure with significant genetic differentiation between all regions. Global multilocus F-ST was estimated at 0.028 (P < 0.001). Population structure followed an isolation-by-distance model and temporal sampling indicated a stable population structure more than 2 years at all locations. Significant structure was absent within Hudson River, whereas weak but significant genetic differences were observed between northern and southern samples in Chesapeake Bay. The largest and smallest effective striped bass population sizes were found in Chesapeake Bay and South Carolina, respectively. Coalescence analysis indicated that the highest historical gene flow has been between Chesapeake Bay and Hudson River populations, and that exchange has not been unidirectional. Bayesian analysis of contemporary migration indicated that Chesapeake Bay serves as a major source of migrants for Atlantic coastal regions from Albemarle Sound northward. In addition to examining population genetic structure, the data acquired during this project were capable of serving as a baseline for assigning fish with unknown origin to source region.
10.1093/jhered/est031
Gauthier, DT; Audemard, CA; Carlsson, JEL; Darden, TL; Denson, MR; Reece, KS; and Carlsson, J, "Genetic Population Structure of US Atlantic Coastal Striped Bass (Morone saxatilis)" (2013). VIMS Articles. 1341.
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Regulation of Cerebral Cortical Size by Control of Cell Cycle Exit in Neural Precursors
Anjen Chenn1,2,*,
Christopher A. Walsh2,†
1 Department of Pathology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
2 Division of Neurogenetics, Department of Neurology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
Anjen Chenn
Department of Pathology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA 02115, USA. Division of Neurogenetics, Department of Neurology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
Christopher A. Walsh
Division of Neurogenetics, Department of Neurology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
Transgenic mice expressing a stabilized β-catenin in neural precursors develop enlarged brains with increased cerebral cortical surface area and folds resembling sulci and gyri of higher mammals. Brains from transgenic animals have enlarged lateral ventricles lined with neuroepithelial precursor cells, reflecting an expansion of the precursor population. Compared with wild-type precursors, a greater proportion of transgenic precursors reenter the cell cycle after mitosis. These results show that β-catenin can function in the decision of precursors to proliferate or differentiate during mammalian neuronal development and suggest that β-catenin can regulate cerebral cortical size by controlling the generation of neural precursor cells.
A massive increase in the size of the cerebral cortex is thought to underlie the growth of intellectual capacity during mammalian evolution. The increased size of larger brains results primarily from a disproportionate expansion of the surface area of the layered sheet of neurons comprising the cerebral cortex (1–7), with the appearance of convolutions of the cortical surface (with crests known as gyri and intervening grooves called sulci) providing a means of increasing the total cortical area in a given skull volume. This horizontal expansion of the cerebral cortex is not accompanied by a comparable increase in cortical thickness; in fact, the 1000-fold increase in cortical surface area between human and mouse is only accompanied by an ∼twofold increase in cortical thickness (8).
The cerebral cortex is organized into columnar functional units (9), and the expansion of the cerebral cortex appears to result from increases in the number of radial columns rather than from increases in individual column size (5, 10). These observations have led to the proposal that increases in the number of columns result from a corresponding increased number of progenitor cells (5). It has been suggested that minor changes in the relative production of progenitors and neurons could produce dramatic increases in cortical surface area (5,11).
One protein that might regulate the production of neural precursors is β-catenin, an integral component of adherens junctions (12) that interacts with proteins of the T cell factor/lymphoid enhancer binding factor (TCF/LEF) family to transduce Wnt signals (13). Wnts (a family of secreted signaling molecules that regulate cell growth and cell fate) (14) and TCF/LEF family members (15,16) are expressed in overlapping patterns in the developing mammalian brain, and numerous studies support the role of Wnt signaling in cell fate regulation during development (17). Inactivation of specific Wnts (18,19), TCF/LEF members (20), or β-catenin (21) results in specific developmental brain defects, and persistent activation of β-catenin has been implicated in a variety of human cancers (13), including some resembling neural precursors such as medulloblastoma (22). These findings raise the possibility that β-catenin influences cell number or cell fate decisions in the developing nervous system.
β-catenin is widely expressed in many tissues (23). To examine more closely the expression patterns of β-catenin during mammalian neural development, in situ hybridization of β-catenin was performed on embryonic mouse brain sections. Strong hybridization was observed for β-catenin in neuroepithelial precursors in the ventricular zone across the period during which neurons were produced (Fig. 1A). Immunostaining with a monoclonal antibody indicates that, in neuroepithelial precursors, β-catenin protein is enriched at adherens junctions at the lumen of the ventricle, where it colocalizes in rings with F-actin, highlighted by rhodamine phalloidin (Fig. 1B).
Expression of β-catenin transcript and protein in neural precursors. (A) β-catenin in situ hybridization in sections through developing mouse cerebral cortex. β-catenin is strongly expressed in the ventricular zone (VZ) precursor cells at all ages during which cortical neurons are generated. A weaker signal is present in the developing cortical plate. Bar, 200 μm. (B) Immunostaining through E14.5 mouse ventricular zone reveals β-catenin immunoreactivity (green) concentrated in rings at the lumenal surface. Staining of the same section with rhodamine phalloidin reveals F-actin (red), which colocalized with adherens junctions in a ringlike distribution at the lumenal surface. The merged view indicates that β-catenin colocalizes with phalloidin. Bar, 10 μm.
To examine whether activating β-catenin signaling could regulate mammalian brain development, we generated transgenic mice overexpressing an NH2-terminally truncated form of β-catenin fused at the COOH-terminal with green fluorescent protein (GFP) (ΔN90β-catenin-GFP) in neuroepithelial precursors. NH2-terminally truncated β-catenin no longer requires Wnt signaling for sustaining activity, because it lacks key phosphorylation sites for GSK3β that normally target it for destruction in the absence of Wnts (24). This form of β-catenin is stabilized constitutively in vivo and remains able to bind E-cadherin and α-catenin and to activate transcription by binding with TCF/LEF cofactors (24, 25) (Fig. 2B) [see supplementary online material (SOM)]. The expression of ΔN90β-catenin-GFP was driven by the enhancer element contained in the second intron of the nestin gene (Fig. 2C) (see SOM), which directs expression in central nervous system progenitor cells (26).
Transcriptional activation by β-catenin and expression and transgenic construct design. (A) pTOPFLASH luciferase reporter assay in NT-2 cells. NT-2 cells were transfected with pTOPFLASH, containing four consensus LEF-1/TCF-1 binding sites, a minimal Fos promoter, and a luciferase reporter (43). Transfections were performed with and without cytomegalovirus (CMV)-Δ90βcatenin-GFP. CMV-LacZ was used to normalize for transfection efficiency. Twenty-four hours later, cells were lysed and protein extracts were assayed for luciferase. Fold inductions of luciferase activity represent the average of three experiments, with error bars representing one SEM. (B) Δ90β-catenin activates transcription in primary cortical cells. Primary cells from E17 cortex were transfected with the pTOPFLASH luciferase reporter construct and the expression vectors as indicated. Luciferase activity was assayed 48 hours after transfection. Fold inductions represent the average of six experiments, with error bars indicating one SEM. (C) Expression and transgenic constructs. Constructs removing the NH2-terminal 90 amino acids of mouse β-catenin are fused either to EGFP or the kt3 epitope tag. For expression in transient transcription assays, β-catenin constructs are placed behind the CMV promoter. The nestin second intron coupled with the thymidine kinase minimal promoter are used to generate transgenic mice. The first intron from the rat insulin II gene is incorporated to enhance expression levels. The same β-catenin alleles were used in both in vitro and transgenic mice.
Transgenic embryos at embryonic day 15.5 (E15.5) have grossly enlarged brains, with a considerable increase in the surface area of the cerebral cortex, without a corresponding increase in cortical thickness (n = 10) (Fig. 3). Sections through the forebrain revealed that, in transgenic brains, the horizontal growth of the tissue is so extensive that the normally smooth cerebral cortex of the mouse forms undulating folds resembling the gyri and sulci of higher mammals (Fig. 3B) (27). Brains from E17.5 embryos showed similar enlargement and folding (fig. S1). In cresyl violet–stained sections, a densely stained layer of cells adjacent to the enlarged ventricular lumen morphologically resembled the proliferative zone of wild-type brains but was greatly expanded in surface area in the transgenic animals (E15.5,n = 10; E17.5, n = 6; E19.5,n = 2). Because we observed marked expansion of the cortical neuroepithelium, we focused our further studies on this population of cells at E15.5, an age midway through mouse cortical neurogenesis.
Enlarged brains and heads of β-catenin transgenic animals with horizontal expansion of precursor population. Mid-coronal section through the forebrain stained with cresyl violet of an embryonic day 15.5 wild-type littermate control (A) and comparable section of a transgenic animal (B) expressing a Δ90β-catenin-GFP fusion protein in neural precursors. The forebrain of transgenic animals is enlarged overall, with increased surface area and folding of the epithelial surface. Bar, 1 mm. Insets: Images of wild-type (a) and of transgenic (b) heads reveal gross enlargement of the skull and forebrain vesicles protruding anteriorly (as indicated by the white arrowhead) over the face of the embryo. Bar, 2 mm. (C and D) In situ hybridization forHes5 in comparable coronal sections through wild-type littermate control (C) and transgenic brain (D). Hes5 is expressed in progenitor cells in the ventricular zone of wild-type and transgenic brains. Additional areas of Hes5-expressing cells are located in ectopic regions away from the ventricular lumen in transgenic animals (as indicated byt the black arrowheads). Bar, 1 mm. (E and F) BrdU-labeled cells in transgenic animals after a 30-min exposure to BrdU. BrdU labels the same cells as the progenitor markers Hes5 and Hes1. (F) Higher magnification image reveals that the overall organization of the ventricular zone of transgenic animals is preserved, with S-phase progenitors occupying the outer half of the ventricular zone, similar to wild-type progenitors. Bar, 1 mm (E), 200 μm (F).
To determine the identity of the cells that may account for the expansion of the transgenic brains, we examined the expression of markers specific for neuroepithelial precursors and differentiating neurons. The basic helix-loop-helix transcription factors Hes5 and Hes1 are downstream effectors of the Notch signaling pathway and regulate neuronal differentiation (28). Hes5 is expressed specifically by neuroepithelial precursors, whereas Hes1 is highly expressed in precursors, with lower expression in more differentiated cortical plate neurons (29). In situ hybridization for Hes5 of comparable coronal sections through wild-type and transgenic brains suggests that the neural precursor population in transgenic animals is expanded (Fig. 4A). The expression of bothHes1 (fig. S1) and Ki67 (Fig. 5), a protein expressed in all dividing cells (30, 31), highlighted the ventricular zone and confirmed the findings seen with Hes5, providing further support that the precursor zone is expanded in transgenic animals. Finally, we used the thymidine analog BrdU to label dividing neural precursor cells by exposing embryos to BrdU for 30 min before killing them. Sections through wild-type and transgenic brains show that the same cells lining the ventricle also incorporate BrdU, confirming that the population of cells labeled with the precursor markers is composed of dividing cells (Fig. 3, E and F).
Neuronal differentiation in transgenic brains. In situ hybridization for Hes5 labels cortical precursors (adjacent to lumen of ventricle), but not differentiated neurons in both E15.5 wild-type and transgenic brains. In situ hybridization forTbr-1 in adjacent sections indicate thatTbr-1 is expressed in the cortical plate and intermediate zone, but not in the precursor zone of both control and transgenic brains. In situ hybridization of adjacent sections show strong Reln expression in the outermost layer of neurons of both control and transgenic brains. Sections stained with the TuJ1 antibody reveal the location of newly postmitotic neurons in the intermediate zone and developing cortical plate, but not in the ventricular zone in both wild-type and transgenic animals. The relative position of Hes-5, Tbr-1,Reln, and TuJ1 staining is maintained in wild-type versus transgenic animals. The boxed portion in the upper panels is enlarged in the lower panels. The ventricular surface is outlined to aid visualization. Bar, 1mm (top) and 200 μm (bottom).
Cell cycle re-entry increased in transgenic precursors. (A) The percentage of progenitor cells (Ki67+, red) labeled with BrdU (green) after a 30-min pulse label is not altered in transgenic animals. DNA stain (blue) reveals that wild type developing cortex is thicker outside the progenitor population, containing relatively more postmitotic cells (Ki67–), as compared with transgenic brains [F (6,18) = 0.970,P = 0.471]. (B) Normalized for area, transgenic brains have more apoptotic cells labeled by TUNEL (red). DNA is counterstained (blue) with Hoechst 33342 [F (4,11) = 26.00, P = 0.0002]. (C) Animals were exposed to a single-pulse label of BrdU 24 hours before being killed; sections were stained with antibodies to BrdU (green) and Ki67 (red). The fraction of cells labeled only with BrdU (BrdU+/Ki67–, no longer dividing) 24 hours after pulse label, as compared with BrdU+/Ki67+ cells (yellow, re-entered cell cycle). Approximately twice as many wild-type precursors leave the cell cycle, as compared with transgenic precursors [F (4, 15) = 11.00, P = 0.0009].
To investigate the spatial patterns of neuronal differentiation in transgenic animals, we examined the expression of three different markers of cortical neuron populations—Reelin (Reln), T-box brain gene 1 (Tbr-1), and TuJ1. In wild-type mice at E15.5, Reln labels Cajal-Retzius neurons in the outermost rind of cells of the developing cortical plate (Fig. 4). Similarly, in the brains of transgenic animals, in situ hybridization forReln expression showed strong labeling in its normal position at the margin of the cortical plate. In wild-type mice at E15.5, Tbr-1 is normally expressed in neurons of the cortical preplate and subplate (Fig. 4). Similarly, in situ hybridization for Tbr-1 in transgenic animals indicates that cortical cells outside the ventricular zone expressedTbr-1 (Fig. 4). The general pattern ofTbr-1 staining resembled that of wild-type animals, with Tbr-1–expressing cells situated in the region outside the progenitor zone in the developing cortical plate. However, much like those that express Reln, the cells that express Tbr-1 were somewhat more widely scattered throughout the developing cortical plate, as compared with cells with wild-type expression. In E15.5 wild-type animals, TuJ1 labels newly differentiated neurons outside the ventricular zone (Fig. 4). In transgenic mice, TuJ1 immunoreactivity also labeled the layer of cells outside the ventricular zone, supporting the idea that postmitotic neurons remain localized outside the ventricular zone in transgenic animals. Despite the massive expansion of cortical surface area, transgenic precursors appear to differentiate into young neurons in an approximately normal spatial pattern. Taken together, these expression studies suggest that over-activating β-catenin does not disrupt the normal developmental sequence of neuronal differentiation, and the horizontal expansion of the cortical plate is a result of an increased number of proliferative precursor cells.
Enlargement of the precursor pool in transgenic brains can result from increased mitotic rates, decreased cell death, changes in cell fate choice (whether to differentiate or to proliferate), or any combination of these factors. To examine whether the horizontal expansion of the progenitor pool in transgenic animals results from increased mitotic rates, we counted the proportion of precursor cells that could be labeled by a 30-min pulse of BrdU. To quantify the fraction of cells in S phase, we obtained a labeling index (LI) by counting the percentage of cortical progenitor cells that were labeled by a single pulse of BrdU. Progenitor cells were identified by Ki67 immunoreactivity (30, 31). Because in mammalian cells the length of S phase remains relatively constant while the length of G1 regulates proliferation (32), this LI provides an estimation of cell cycle length. If the cell cycle is shortened, the relative fraction of cells labeled by a brief BrdU pulse will increase. Examination of random fields chosen from six brains (three wild-type and three transgenic brains) suggests that the transgenic neural precursors did not divide significantly faster than did normal wild-type precursors [F (6,18) = 0.970, P = 0.471] (Fig. 5A).
Programmed cell death (apoptosis) occurs during normal development of the central nervous system (33), and decreased programmed cell death may be one mechanism underlying the increased brain size of transgenic animals. Apoptotic cell death was examined using TUNEL staining in wild-type and transgenic brains. TUNEL+ cells were confirmed by verifying condensed nuclei labeled with the DNA binding dye Hoechst 33342. Counts of total numbers of labeled cells revealed that cell death in transgenic brains was not substantially less than found in wild type (Fig. 5B); in fact, there appeared to be greater than twofold increased rates of apoptosis in transgenic brains [F (4,11) = 26.00,P = 0.0002). Taken together, the BrdU-labeling studies and TUNEL studies suggest that the progenitor cell population expansion cannot be explained by a simple mitogenic effect of β-catenin or by decreased apoptotic cell death.
Progenitor divisions that give rise to additional progenitors can expand the progenitor pool exponentially. Consequently, small alterations in the fraction of cell divisions that expand the progenitor pool can result in large changes in the final size of the brain (5, 34). To examine whether the increase in the progenitor pool results from a shift in the fraction of progenitors that choose to remain progenitors instead of differentiating, we examined cell cycle exit and re-entry by examining the fraction of cells dividing after pulse labeling with BrdU 24 hours earlier. We identified cells that had left the cell cycle as BrdU+ and Ki67–, and we identified cells that remained in the cell cycle as BrdU+ and Ki67+. At E15.5, we found an ∼twofold increase in the proportion of transgenic precursors that re-enter the cell cycle when compared with wild-type neural precursors [F (4, 15) = 11.00, P = 0.0009] (Fig. 5C). Together, these studies suggest that β-catenin activation functions in neural precursors to influence the decision to re-enter the cell cycle instead of differentiate.
Our results support recent findings suggesting that epithelial architecture and adherens junctions regulate growth control and cell proliferation (35). Because β-catenin is an integral component of adherens junctions (12), disruptions of adherens junctions may cause misregulation and accumulation of cytoplasmic β-catenin. Our findings that β-catenin signaling can regulate the decisions of neural precursors to re-enter or exit the cell cycle lend support to the possibility that β-catenin signaling may mediate the loss of growth control when adherens junctions are disrupted.
It has been hypothesized that mutations in regulatory genes that control the decision of neural precursors to divide or differentiate can underlie the expansion of the precursor population without changing the thickness of the cortex (5,11). Here, we find that β-catenin activation can regulate the size of the neural precursor pool by influencing the decision to divide or differentiate, without increasing cell cycle rate, decreasing cell death, or grossly altering neuronal differentiation. Larger brains can be generated in different ways as well. For example, reduction of programmed cell death by targeted mutation of Caspase 9 causes severe brain malformations characterized by cerebral enlargement, ectopic growth, and thickening of the ventricular zone (36,37). In contrast, mice with targeted deletions of the cell cycle regulator p27kip1 have increased body size and uniformly enlarged brains with virtually no anatomic abnormalities other than increased cell number and cell density (38–40). Notably, cortical surface area was not disproportionately increased (38). In contrast, our findings suggest that subtle changes in the expansion or maintenance of the neural precursor population result in horizontal expansion of the surface area of the developing cerebral cortex without increases in cortical thickness (41). Further understanding of how the decision to divide or differentiate is regulated by β-catenin will lend valuable insight into the mechanisms that underlie the disproportionate growth of the cerebral cortex in higher mammals.
↵* Present address: Department of Pathology, Northwestern University School of Medicine, 303 East Chicago Avenue, Chicago, IL 60611–3008, USA.
↵† To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: cwalsh{at}caregroup.harvard.edu
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UPS Preparing for Potential Teamsters Strike Affecting Logistics Freight Customers
By Jeff Berman / www.supplychain247.com / November 2nd, 2018
United Parcel Service Inc. is telling its customers to make alternative shipping plans in case of a Teamsters strike in its smaller freight division, where unionized workers are set to vote on the company’s final contract offer next week.
New Labor Agreement Developments
Recent developments regarding a new labor agreementbetween UPS Freight, the less-than-truckload unit of UPS, and the Teamsters Freight National Bargaining Committee over a new labor contract could have ramifications that potentially lead to a strike or the semblance of one.
Late last week, the Teamsters UPS Freight National Negotiating Committee issued a notice to all UPS Freight Teamsters members from Kris Taylor, co-chairman of the Teamsters National UPS Freight Negotiating Committee, stating that the committee received a “Last, Best and Final" contract proposal from UPS Freight, with the proposed tentative agreement was rejected.
Taylor stated that on October 5 the proposed tentative agreement was rejected, with the negotiating committee telling UPS that the 30-day extension agreement would end on Monday, November 12 at 12:01 a.m. The previous five-year UPS Freight labor contract expired on July 31.
The Teamsters UPS Freight National Negotiating Committee met on October 22 and compiled a list of issues that it said have been presented to UPS, with the negotiating committee insisting on;
Tighter restrictions and limits on subcontracting and rail usage
Higher wage increases that are not split
Earning protection for city drivers when they perform dock work
Elimination of the new qualifiers for pension and vacation benefits and
A week’s worth of vacation pay for all classifications based on 1/52 of the prior year’s earnings
While UPS Freight Teamsters have received a Last, Best, and Final Offer (LBFO) from UPS, Taylor said the negotiating committee has determined that the LBFO does not sufficiently address issued raised by its members.
“Nevertheless, because of the company’s insistence that there is no more money to be had and in order to allow you to make an informed decision on a question that will affect you and your family, the negotiating committee decided to submit the LBFO for acceptance or rejection,” wrote Taylor.
“You have already authorized a strike. While a strike is a last resort, if you reject this final offer from the company there will be no other options and there will be a strike at a time and location(s) determined by the negotiating committee.”
But UPS has made it clear it is not budging on its stance either. In UPS Freight letter to customers obtained by Logistics Management, UPS said that it believes the new contract proposal should be ratified and “is an offer that rewards its employees with wages and benefits at the top of the industry and compensates them for their contributions to the success of the company.”
Teamsters Statement on Status of UPS Freight
November 1, 2018: Our members at UPS Freight rejected the tentative agreement in a vote on October 5. The Teamsters National UPS Freight Negotiating Committee went back to the table with the company to address member concerns. Unfortunately, the company refused to address a number of key issues for our members. The company presented the negotiating committee with a last, best and final offer on October 24 that our members will vote on beginning November 7 with the results announced on November 11.
This company made the decision to give a last, best and final offer and to stop taking freight. This could all have been resolved by the company addressing the key issues at the negotiating table.
The letter added that the UPS Freight Teamsters employees will have a union-hall vote, with ballots to be cast between November 7-11, adding that at this time UPS does not have an extension in place to the current UPS Freight contract.
And due to this situation, in an effort to ensure transparency and not put customer volume at risk, UPS said that effective today, November 1, UPS will not pick up any UPS Freight volume with a delivery date after November 8.
“The last day UPS will pick up UPS Freight will be Thursday, November 1 for five-day shipping commitments; Friday, November 2 for four-day shipping commitments; Monday, November 5 for three-day shipping commitments; Tuesday, November 6 for two-day shipping commitments; and Wednesday, November 7 for one-day shipping commitments,” UPS said in the letter. “If you have a bundled contract, or incentives dependent upon UPS Freight volume, we will ensure you experience no negative financial impact. The UPS Small Package National Master Agreement (NMA) has been ratified. Customers can remain confident UPS is ready to continue to serve its small package customers throughout the holiday season and beyond.”
What’s more, a UPS spokesman told Logistics Management that UPS made an offer that the company believes should be ratified.
“It is an offer that rewards our employees with wages and benefits at the top of the industry and compensates them for their contributions to the success of the company,” said UPS spokesman Glenn Zaccara.
“We are disappointed that the [UPS] Freight Teamsters union leaders have chosen to announce the potential for a strike, should their members vote ‘no’ on the offer.”
The company has now begun discussions with UPS Freight customers to inform them of the potential for service disruption and the need to arrange alternative carriers. Because we do not have a guarantee against a work stoppage, we cannot afford to put our customers’ volume at risk of being stranded in our system. Therefore, we will work to empty our network of freight by Friday, November 9.
“We believe LTL is an important (even if overlooked) part of the UPS portfolio and that shutting it down would give FedEx an offering that UPS does not have”David Ross, Research Managing Director, Stifel
Zaccara added that the UPS Small Package National Master Agreement (NMA) has been ratified and that customers can remain confident UPS is ready to continue to serve its small package customers throughout the holiday season and beyond.
In a research note, Stifel analyst David Ross weighed the risks of these developments for both UPS Freight and shippers.
For UPS Freight, he explained, the risks are fairly straightforward, as a strike would cost money and lose business, while no strike may still cost some business, as the company us reducing the number of pickups each day for the next week and a half.
“The reason for the company to slowly halt customer pickups this week and next (turndowns progressively increasing based on length of haul) is so they don't have customers' freight “stranded’ in their network during an uncertain length of time were the union to strike.”
As for shippers, these leads to a situation where they need to be concerned about what happens to their LTL shipments, adding it is more of a problem for shippers that solely sources with UPS Freight, even though most shippers tend to use multiple carriers.
“Assuming the shipper has a number of contracts in place, it can spread it out over the rest of its carrier base,” Ross noted.
“If not, they may have to seek out 3PLs at a higher price, any way you slice it, shippers won't be spending less money to get their LTL freight moved.”
As for what happens next, Ross pegged the chances of UPS seeing its first labor strike, and the company’s first since 1997, at better than 50%, adding it is not clear how long it may last and that UPS does not want to leave the LTL business.
He said that some UPS Freight Teamsters staffers contend UPS does not want to be in the LTL sector, with this contract impasse providing a reason for them to exit it.
“[W]e believe LTL is an important (even if overlooked) part of the UPS portfolio and that shutting it down would give FedEx an offering that UPS does not have,” Ross stated. “And UPS can't have that.”
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These wheel rims were race around the Formula 1 tracks of the world by Sergio Perez and Esteban Ocon in the 2017 FIA Formula One™ World Championship. Manufactured by Force India`s technical partner - Apt Tech to the new 2017 wheel rim specifications. The FIA Formula One regulations were changed in 2017 to increase the width of the front and rear tyres by 25 per cent for faster lap times and improved traction. The width of the front tyres increased from 245mm to 305mm, while the rears widened from 325mm to 405mm.
These race-used rim's are in their 'raw' race-used condition for added interest. They include their original, engraved unique component ID numbers, the original air pressure studs and, in some cases even the mechanics' scribbles! Retired from the race track, the rims are fitted with a toughened glass top to transform them into perfect drinks tables!
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Scientists Unveil the Secret of Enigmatic 'Blinking' Signal From Milky Way Star
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The discovery was made by researchers via the use of a method typically employed for the detection of exoplanets.
Researchers at the University of Warwick have finally managed to identify the cause of a peculiar signal emitted by a space object known as NGTS-7, located in the Milky Way, which regularly “blinks”, Live Science reports.
As the media outlet points out, scientists studying this celestial body observed that the light emanated by it dims briefly every 16.2 hours.
And now, the astronomers have determined that not only is NGTS-7 actually two similarly sized stars located in the same system, but there's also an object known as a brown dwarf orbiting one of these stars, which causes the aforementioned dimming.
"It's impressive that the astronomers involved were able to parse the complicated signal from this system, disentangling where the intermixed light from the brown dwarf and the two small, young stars originally came from", said Hugh Osborn, an astronomer at the Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille in France, who was not involved in the research.
In order to perform this feat, the scientists had to employ a method which is also used to detect exoplanets, the media outlet adds.
Osborn also said that while any detection of a brown dwarf is exciting in itself, due to these celestial bodies' relative rarity, this particular one seems especially peculiar due to its close proximity to its host star, not to mention that ”the orbit of the brown dwarf appears to have 'spun up' the orbit of the star", as satellites typically don't have this effect on their host stars.
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European Space Agency Unveils Plans to Intercept Comet
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The Neglected Facts of Science deals entirely with observable facts, the necessary consequences of those facts (without introducing any theoretical ideas or concepts) and is essentially a report of a series of experimental discoveries in light of the Reciprocal System of theory.
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This volume clarifies the general gravitational law and also furnishes an explanation for each of the characteristics of gravitation, including the two items which Newton made no attempt to determine the origin of the gravitational force and the mechanism whereby this force is exerted.
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An examination of the accepted structure of the atom, the problems and advances it represents, and a complete re-evaluation of the theory based on the natural conclusions concerning the nature of motion from the Reciprocal System of theory.
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NEWPORT BERMUDA RACE NIGHT
May 8th, 2019 7:00 – 10:00 PM
Open to the public / area sailors
Evening includes a presentation that invites you aboard, dispels myths,and offers robust discussion of successful past races.
The Gaelic American Club
Veterans of the 635-mile offshore "Thrash to the Onion Patch" will present both the
history and current challenges of this 114-year-old race, which next starts in June, 2020.
Lets go sailing.
"Alright now, this is a night start don't forget; so let's get somebody on lookout up on that bow...
Alright now, did you figure the current? For chrissake do I have to do everything? And don't forget to figure the daylight saving. What? No, you add an hour, for chrissake, can't anybody here sail a boat? What did he say? He said "turn off the engine". Oh, yeah. OK, how long 'til our start? Who's on the stopwatch? OK, you get back here outta the way and stay there.
Alright now, let's come about and get over near the committee boat. Alright, let's come about. COMIN' ABOUT! Wheres the handle, where's the handle - TAIL, willya, fer chrissake!! How's that? Take it in to the block. That's enough.
BANG! What gun was that? That was OUR GUN. Did you get that on the watch? Do you see that guy? Yeah, I see him. Alright now, we got five more minutes. Let's run the line for a second. You can't, YOU'RE ON PORT TACK. Oh, yeah, OK, let's come about again. COMIN' ABOUT! FOUR MINUTES, Well it's too crowded over here, let's get down to leeward where our air is clear.
CRASH!!!! What was that???? Well, put the stove in gimbals, for chrissake. Clean it up later, get up here. What the hell are you doing down there anyway? You can eat at home! THREE MINUTES...Did anybody center the prop? Well, center it, Charlie, don't stand there. There's a flashlight overhead in the doghouse. Well, try another one, I put all new batteries in yesterday. TWO MINUTES...Two minutes for chrissake where's the other end of the line, they got a line two miles long. We gotta come about. COMING ABOUT...OK, let it go letitgogoddamm it. Alright, get it in, get it in. It's fouled on the lifeline. DON'T JERK IT! You'll pull the goddam boat apart. Trim, trim, trim, OK, hold that. Where's the ------ing committee boat. We gotta come about again. COMING ABOUT! More turns, more turns. OK, cleat that. ONE MINUTE--Alright, slack everything, slack the jib, slack the main, SLACK THE MAIN...OK hold that ...THIRTY SECONDS...OK we're going for the line. Trim, trim, trim the main. FIFTEEN SECONDS...OK everybody up to windward....TEN SECONDS ...NINE, EIGHT, SEVEN, SIX, FIVE, FOUR, THREE, TWO, ONE.....for chrissake where's that gun...We're over the line. They'll never see us down here anyway. BANG! OK, we've started.
You did a great job with that stopwatch. OK, let's get these lines coiled up, I can't stand up in the cockpit. Good start, guys."
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Why customization is vital in video games
June 7, 2018 — by Manish "Trigger-Happy" Rajesh — 0
Among the first things that come to mind when you think RPG or MMORPG is the ability to customize or create your own character. Being able to create your own character and molding them into whatever you want in this new world you’re about to enter is an enticing aspect of such games. However, there’s more to customization than just immersion. And most MMO game makers realise the importance of being able to customize and alter your character or avatar’s appearance in the game world.
The power of motivation
When creating any game, motivation is extremely important. Why? Because it directly affects player loyalty. The game’s ability to retain players is what makes or breaks it. Loyal gamers mean a stable source of revenue for game creators.
This is where aspects like customization come in. In an MMORPG, players are able to move about and interact with other players over the internet. Of course, in this world they’re represented by their in-game avatars, the ones they’ve (in most cases) made themselves.
Investing yourself in an MMORPG is no small feat, ask anyone who has spent hundreds if not thousands of hours playing them. Some may be into all of the aspects on offer, or some might only want to focus on a select few, be it socializing, min-maxing your characters attributes, or even just role-playing with friends. And that’s just scratching the surface.
Ultimately, people spend a lot of time in these virtual worlds – longer than in any other kind of game. Have you ever wondered why?
Turns out, customization plays a very important role in retaining players. And it’s not just character customization, but customization on a much grander scale. Allowing players to have more control over not only how they look, but control over how they can approach a situation, and have their actions have visible impact on the game’s world. When players feel like they’re having an actual impact on the game’s world, they’re motivated to continue playing. The simple act of giving players more autonomy is crucial to player retention when it comes to MMORPGs.
We can state the above thanks to the various cognitive studies that have been conducted on motivational theories. One such theory, called the Self Determination Theory or SDT in short, portrays the framework of human motivation and personality within various social contexts. A vast virtual world with several hundred (or even thousands) people playing and interacting with each other easily meets the criteria of a social context. The theory states that there are three basic psychological needs that when satisfied, enhance a person’s motivation. Those three needs are autonomy, relatedness, and competence.
Types of customization
Autonomy is derived from the players ability to customize their experience. In a broad sense of speaking, in relation to primarily MMO games, customization can be divided into three major categories.
Functional customization: This kind of customization affects game mechanics directly. A very simple example here would be class selection in a fantasy MMORPG. A mage’s play style would be distinctly different from that of a warrior or rogue, and can be made even more unique with skill selection and more.
Cosmetic customization: Purely visual avatar customization in RPGs, cosmetic skins for characters etc all fall into this category. It is still extremely vital to a game’s success.
Usability: This type affects player performance without changing game mechanics directly. This could be anything from being to modify the UI, or scale the hud as players see fit to improve their overall experience.
A quick look at any successful MMO will show you that they have all of the above types of customization in some form or the other. They give players a host of different choices in how they can approach and play the game. You’ve got choices within choices, be it in the form of aesthetics, story progression, or even leveling up your skills and such. This effectively lets players customize their experience, even though the entire player base as a whole is doing the same actions to succeed at the game.
And it doesn’t stop at just online or MMO games, customization also effects the replayability of a game. So it doesn’t just apply to retention. Simply being able to play the game again as a different character, make different choices and have a different experience is greatly valued by gamers.
So, as we can see, autonomy surely works towards a game’s success. What also works is the sense of competence that comes with leveling and progression that is found in MMORPGs in plenty. Combined, they result in player motivation and ultimately, a successful game.
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Published on November 2, 2018
The one and only, Swizz Beatz is gearing up for the release of his forthcoming album, Poison. The producer, artist, and more has been releasing singles over the past few months, and today he returns with another. This time Swizz gives us a brand new track called “Something Dirty/Pic Got Us.”
The track finds Swizzy linking up with Kendrick Lamar, Jadakiss, and Styles P, providing something infectious and impressive. The track features some intense and energetic drum work while paired with some smooth melodies that provide the fellas with a nice home to excel. Each brings their respective talents, Kendrick holding down the hook while Jadakiss and Styles show off their lyrical prowess.
This is something for rap fans and something you shouldn’t be sleeping on. Do yourself a favor and check out the new single, “Something Dirty/Pic Got Us,” in the stream below and give us your thoughts in the comments. Keep it locked for much more from Swizz Beatz coming soon and look for his upcoming album Poison coming soon.
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University of Sydney Research
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Title: Real-time safety surveillance of seasonal influenza vaccines in children, Australia, 2015
Authors: Macartney, Kristine
Wood, Nicholas James
Blyth, Christopher
Cashman, Patrick
Crawford, Nigel
Leeb, Alan
Pillsbury, Alexis
Regan, Annette
Snelling, Thomas
Westphal, D
Childrens Hospital Westmead: Paediatrics & Child Health
Publisher: Centre Europeen pour la Surveillance Epidemiologique du SIDA
Citation: Real-time safety surveillance of seasonal influenza vaccines in children, Australia, 2015, Eurosurveillance, vol.20, 43, 2015,pp 6-10
Department/Unit/Centre: Childrens Hospital Westmead: Paediatrics & Child Health
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Leslie Giuliani "Undomesticated" at Vassos Gallery / Silvermine Arts Center, New Canaan, CT
"Embrace"
© Leslie Giuliani
Digital embroidery, hooking,
and encaustic on linen
The exhibition "Undomesticated" by Leslie Giuliani highlights her hybrid textile artwork at the Vassos Gallery at Silvermine Arts Center from Friday, September 19 through November 2, 2014. There will be an opening reception on Friday, September 19 from 6 pm - 8 pm. The Silvermine Arts Center is located at 1037 Silvermine Rd., New Canaan, CT.
Giuliani says, "This exhibition will include works featuring a range of textile technique combinations including digital embroidery, hand embroidery, digital textile printing, cyanotype photography, sewing and rug hooking embellished with encaustic painting.
Juxtaposing images naturally creates free narrative associations. The images and compositions and the stories they imply are interesting, colorful and fun on their own but beyond that, the unusual combination of materials will compel further exploration.
The embroidered and printed images will all be translations of my original drawings and paper cutouts into textile form. Rug hooking will be used, not in a traditional functional way, rather, as a means to color areas and draw lines."
Giuliani will be in the gallery every Wednesday during the run of the show, working and giving demos including rug hooking and digital embroidery. For more information, please see Silvermine's website.
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Canadian Legislators Honour Victims Of Genocide
A delegation of Canadian members of Parliament has been shocked by the 1994 genocide against Tutsi in Rwanda.
The delegation on Thursday visited Kigali Genocide Memorial and paid tribute to the victims.
The Memorial is the resting place of 250000 victims.
According to handlers at Kigali Genocide Memorial, the Canadian legislators were given a guided tour through the facility to orient themselves with the events before, during and after the horrendous genocide against Tutsi.
“Canadian parliamentarians learnt more on the history of genocide against the Tutsi through a tour of the memorial’s exhibits,” Kigali Genocide Memorial said.
The Canadians also laid a wreath of flowers in honour of the victims.
The Canadian Law makers inside the Kigali Genocide Memorial attentively listen to a guide. Canada still hosts a score of perpetrators of the 1994 genocide against Tutsi
Rwandans both in the country and abroad are preparing for the National Commemoration Day scheduled for 7th April 2019.
The official commemoration event will begin with Laying Wreaths at the Kigali Genocide Memorial.
Later commemoration will include a National Remembrance Ceremony at Amahoro National Stadium, a Walk to Remember and a Night Vigil.
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Bioparc Fuengirola Zoo
August 16, 2014 Tania Esteban Leave a comment
Komodo dragons, Bengal tigers, Western Lowland Gorillas and Binturongs….not only are they found across the furthest stretches of the verdant Indonesian islands, equatorial Africa and the depths of the everlasting stretches of Asian forest, but this array of superb species are all found in the rather non-tropical heart of the Costa Del Sol.
Situated in the busy coastal town of Fuengirola is Bioparc zoo. This spectacularly simulated zoo with over 260 species and 1600 animals, with collections from Equatorial Africa, Asia and South America was established in 1981 with the name Fuengirola Zoo. As a member of EAZA and AIZA it partakes in the Endangered Species Breeding Programme (EEP). The zoo was entirely rebuilt in 2001 and renamed Bioparc with its new ethos and free of barriers concept. There is glass of course! But the overall impression makes it feel like you are watching them in the wild. The architectural design of the enclosures attempts (and in my opinion, succeeds) to recreate the natural habitats of its fury, scaly and smooth inhabitants. The entire experience allows you to stroll through each of them in a rather immersive fashion, encapsulating the feel of the wild ecosystems and the continuity of the design is overall very pleasing to the eye.
Take this man made Baobab tree (Adansonia digitata), yep, it’s made of concrete and clay! Originally constructed from wires them plastered with cement, it accurately depicts this revered tree, which can store over 30,000 litres of water during the rainy season. It is often called the “upside down tree” for obvious reasons or “tree of life” due to its succulent fruits which ripen during the dry, scorching African and Australian summers. The seeds are incredibly nutritious and the bark is used for all sorts; including musical instruments, waterproof hats and homes. The leaves can handily treat kidney problems, bladder disease, asthma and insect bites. These ancient trees can live for over 5,000 years and have been central to local folklore in Africa as well as traditional remedies. All are deciduous and can reach impressive heights of 5-20 metres. Their rather bloated pinkish barks are easily carved/hollowed out and lived in by several African tribes, with up to a staggering 40 people residing in the cavern. Other unusual uses for the tree have included a bus shelter, storage barn, shop and prison!
On my route around the park, I first encountered a Lowland Gorilla, which was a remarkable specimen; a large adult male who’s been around for quite some time now. I do feel sorry for the poor old chap, Ernest, I can’t help but imagine him in his native forest in the Congo. The gorillas first arrived 2004 from the Royal Rotterdam Zoological Garden; Kim, Xara and Ernst. Brazza monkeys also inhabit the enclosure and are perfectly happy to share their space with their larger counterparts. The enrichment includes trees and tyres with a small artificial waterfall and stream, and visitors can see him through a large 6x6m glass frame. Photography is made a LOT easier with this architectural pleasure! Indeed this is a thought, for all of the enclosures contain this if not open air plan. Although mind, keep your ISO up to at least 800 in the shade, then switch back to 200 when back in full daylight. The Spanish sun always causes a lot of contrast in your images, whereas in my experience in the UK its doesn’t create enough, so keep checking your settings when on holiday, and make sure you shoot in RAW so you can edit them later on in Photoshop.
I also went into the lemur enclosure, where they roam free and approach you at their will. There are strict rules of not touching them, but they most certainly approach you if you happen to have fruit in your bag! I had apricots and apples in mine which caught the attention of a particular Red Ruffed lemur. The Ringtails were bursting with energy as we approaches, literally bouncing off the palm trees like fuzzy black and white pinballs as they jostled for the best position to knock each other over. Lemurs are highly social and communicative primates, and are the oldest- at the base of our phylogenetic tree. Our common ancestors once came from theirs too. Often the young males partake in “stink fights” by rubbing their tails furiously along their studded thumb projection on their hand, whilst females are often far more aggressive as the dominant, stripy- trouser wearing members of the troop.
The Black ruffed were rather inactively grooming themselves, I would recommend visiting them earlier in the morning, I went at 11am, and they were still all fairly active, but even earlier or later on in the evening when the air is still and cool, is perfect. It’s a most wonderful feeling to get so close to our little hairy cousins, their large, amber coloured eyes protrude from their head and stare at you in a rather primitive fashion- its not like the sentinel and meaningful gaze of a chimp or Gorilla, but nevertheless still a magical moment. In the wilds of Madagascar these beautiful creatures are critically endangered (Red Ruffs and Indris), primarily due to habitat destruction. Over 90% of the forests have been destroyed, GONE FOREVER. Although replantation programmes are in place, it will take many years for the ecosystems to recover, indeed, any forests that are cut also require time to recover as the mycorrhizal fungi that connects and symbiotically associates with certain trees are also destroyed- life is NOT that simple! There is hope though now, many breeding programmes across the world are now able to add to the genetic pool and many babies are born each year in captivity, ready to be released into the wild when the time is right.
Walking over a reassuringly, well-constructed bridge, Chimpanzees were frolicking and residing next to a cool pool with nothing more better to do than pick their noses and groom their companions. Their gaze is entirely different to that of the Lemur, behind those dark emblazoned eyes is something far more meaningful and intelligent, which is of course one the reason why we share 98% of our DNA with them. Some of the relaxing poses were remarkably similar to that of a human, scary in some way! Even reminding me of particular yoga move my teacher is fond of- I don’t think I will be able to get a mental image of that chimp out of my mind now during my next session! Flashes of “Rise of the Planet Apes” also come to mind, but then you are reminded of the high elevation the impossibility of one nabbing a bamboo cane to use as a vault pole to escape… but you never know.
The stunning leopards were up next through the maze of palm trees, who were also relaxing on a log. The mother, Toni and the once cub, (now a two year old, he has grown a lot since I last saw him!) Again, another small enclosure for a big cat, but nevertheless a well-constructed one. Some scientists argue that cubs, having been born in captivity have no prior knowledge to life in the wild, thus it is not unethical to keep them in enclosures. My argument is that evolutionary and instinctively these animals need VERY LARGE areas to roam as they would do in their natural habitats. It’s hard-wired in their DNA, so how on earth are you supposed to observe natural behaviour and reintroduce healthy characteristics and traits into the gene pool with this sort of restriction? It is however remarkable view, only 6 metres away from one of the rarest felines in the world. Its coat was irrefutably a thing of beauty, dappled in the light, with brown swirls and rosettes splayed along its golden back and delicate face. Its flank was cream coloured, and his large paws dangled down while he slept and rested his head on his mother’s back. He only stirred to look up at the young children tapping the glass, and then rather nonchalantly returned to his dream state. What a privilege.
Further along were the stunning Sumatran tigers, with their enormous paws and burning eyes.. However it was clear to me that they were clearly disturbed. The incessant pacing and non-meaningful stare into the unknown are classic signs of “zoochosis” as coined by Bill Travers of the Born free foundation or stereotypical behaviour. This deeply upsetting behaviour is due to extreme boredom, frustration and usually a lack of enrichment. For all the marvellous recreations of the Angkor watt temple, complete with a mini-waterfall and stream, as well as large fallen logs and a bamboo forest, the enclosure was simply not large enough for this fierce some predator. I always get a thrill to see them, but no in this condition. They did play around with each other for a short time which was lovely to see, check out my video below.
Next up were the Biturongs… now a year ago I NEVER heard of them. With a monkey-like tail, body like a bear and a face like a cat many call this 2-3ft animal a bearcat. Their short, stocky bodies and coarse shaggy hair give it its distinctive appearance. They inhabit the tropical rainforests of South-East Asia in the densest and remotest regions, and their main threats to their survival in the wild is, ye you guessed it, habitat destruction. These little quirks of evolution reveal many fascinating insights into its family, the Viverridae which includes the Civets and Gneets, under the order carnivore… thus is not related to bears or cats, but part of a very old group of medium sized mammals found in the Old World (East). They primarily eat fruit, eggs, plant shoots, fish, birds, small mammals and carrion. However they have a mutualistic relationship with the strangler fig, whose digestive enzymes are strong enough to remove the husk of the seed, and thus plays a vital role as a keystone species, spreading the seeds far and wide. The scent glands located underneath its tail, which is dragged along the foliage when it patrols its territory, and the smell is apparently similar to buttered popcorn! Can’t say the same for a leopard! Living in the tree canopy, they are superlative climbers and use their semi-retractable claws to move with agility throughout the forest trees. With its prehensile tail to aid it (only the second carnivore in the Old world to have one, other than the Kinkajou) with its climbing. I tell you what, I’m beginning to think that having a tail would be pretty useful for my own, or indeed caving! Avatars have it right after all…Nearby were the Alligators too, which you can see at very close quarters, remarkable ancient looking creatures.
The very exciting a new Komodo dragon enclosure was really interesting, it was my second encounter with one of these prehistoric looking reptiles. The enclosure resembled another one ancient temples at Angkor Watt, complete with its little stream and sandy court yard. It wasn’t very active initially, but then it picked up a scent as it flicked its tongue, tasting the air as it retracted it into its mouth, from which it can use the molecules of air to taste what its surroundings are giving off. It has relatively similar vision to humans, so it’s a useful sense to have. He then waddled towards a pile of small pebbles, which initially I thought were eggs, and started digging them up. Although they seem rather lazy and cumbersome in terms of their gait, they can move pretty fast as monitor lizards, at 20kmph. Of course they are known for their powerful bite which inflicts much damage to its prey in that the repulsive bacteria congregating in its mouth with almost certainly cause its victim to die of septicaemia or blood poisoning.
Later on I went to a “Jungle event/animal exhibition” whereby trained animals are on show, including kookaburras, Asian Otters, Sitatunga, Wild Peccaries and several other birds of prey. I always enjoy a good show, which is in both English and Spanish, wand lasts for around 20 minutes. By then my camera battery had run out and I was a spectator without a camera, which I actually enjoyed! Although I occasionally used my mobile. The last animals I went to visit were the flying foxes, VERY CUTE Old World bats which were busily scoffing down an assortment of succulent fruits such as mangoes and banana which seemed to be their particular favourite.
Bioparc Fuengirola is a fantastic day out, one which I would highly recommend; it only costs you £13 with the discount card you can pick up at the Miramar centre. They even have African dance night, which I went to last year and was great, the atmosphere is electric and the buzz you get from dancing is positively euphoric! Its also a very good time to see the animals out and about. If you need any tips on getting there, or would like to know about any of the animals there, get it touch!
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July 24th July: Nerja caves
The cool, still quietness of a cave really makes you reflect upon how our how our ancestors pace of life was likely to have been.
I went to see the infamous Nerja caves today with my Dad, and what an incredible experience, one that every one of all ages should have the pleasure of experiencing. Recent dating tests on the superlative paintings in the Upper Gallery of the Caves of Nerja, in Málaga, Spain, have confirmed that they are indeed the OLDEST PAINTINGS in the world made by humans.
Moreover, these remarkable relics of the past , dated between 42,000-45,000 years old are the first to have been painted by Neanderthals, our closely related cousins. We drove there ourselves via the main A7 road towards Malaga and Almeria, google can pretty much give you a direct route to the village there and having recently built a new section of the motorway, it’s a smoother drive than ever and the coaches aren’t that cheap, at 23€ without a tour and 29€ with one. If you can rent out a car then it would be worth it, but if you wish to have a tour then the best package is with “Viajes maxy excursions and sightseeing.”
The sights to the quaint little town of Nerja are about 1 hour 20 from Mijas. What a joy to see the Spanish scrubland and agricultural scenes on the way. I happened to catch a ride early in the morning at 8:40am by the Galp petrol station with my Dad, as I had stayed with a friend at Los Alamos.
We set off early to avoid the searing Spanish sun and heat wave which was forecasted prior to our journey. The journey itself was a very easy and relaxing one, (apart from the fact I wasn’t driving!) and the scenery was rather pleasant to look at. I must admit, the fog cover and arid scenery made an impression on me, and since a young child I have been use to the rather dry-looking Mediterranean scrub; a very stark contrast to the UK which is primarily green and seemingly enveloped in a shroud of mist that makes everything look like it has been painted with watercolours. Petrol to Nerja from Mijas or Fuengirola would roughly cost you around 17€.
The souvenirs are relatively cheaper in Nerja and Maro than at the cave itself, with postcards (cheapest 0.25€), decorative plates (3.00€), pieces of polished crystal (2.00€), fake dinosaur eggs (don’t ask me why), and much more.
The shops in Nerja were actually really beautiful, with many artisan and hand-crafted jewellery with exquisite designs. Many organic and natural looking shaped pieces. Cool and in-style cotton clothing also adorned the shops as well as the in-fashion Bermuda loose trousers with quirky patterning, I have recently acquired such a pair from the Fuengirola market.
I happened to come across a beautiful Native American Indian shop, with stunning pieces of jewellery, small carved animal necklaces of turquoise, bone and silver. The Native Americans, to the utter disbelief of the Europeans, never used gold in their designs, but silver was prominently crafted into all sorts. Dream catchers dangled from the ceiling and traditional Native American Indian music emanated from the speaker, I remember recalling that I had that very same CD! In the end I bought a dream catcher necklace and a lovely horse key ring for my Mum. Such clean streets and brightly coloured doors and flowerpots, this town clearly take pride as a top Spanish tourist destination. The Plaza there had spectacular views of the Nerja beaches below, with beautiful arches and palm lined walking areas. There’s even a life size statue of the old king Filipe, couldn’t resist a photo!
If beaches is your thing and not delving into the depths of a dark and damp cave, then the Nerja beaches wont disappoint. This is the El Playazo beach that lies to the West, with superlative aquamarine waters and white sandy stretches of sand; it has been awarded the Blue Flag by the European Union who have recognised its pristine condition, unlike the more popular Costa Del Sol.
We then had lunch in the rather un-scenic and dusty car park, and headed off towards the caves, located only 3km from the Nerja town. We parked for free just outside the main car park which is to walk through the Sierra de Tejeda, Almijara y Alhama nature reserve, so if you want to avoid costly parking charges its best to park here. Saw a really quirky van that had been vandalized with “Can’t park here…this is bat country!”
You see what bat people do to your cars at night!
We headed over to the ticket office and purchased our tickets for a 9€, then descended into the dark, musty entrance of the cave.
Guides to the area (above) and (below) the car park you have to pay for!
Although the air almost instantaneously changed to a heavy, dank quality, the coolness and quiet of this natural wonder was very welcoming, also having escaped the 36 degree heat. We entered the various different chambers that crossed under the National Park, vast ceilings were adorned with varying sized stalactites which had taken hundreds of thousands of years to form.
Just a small section of one of the stunning stalactites protruding fro the ceiling. Please note, when planning to take photos here, if you have an SLR or compact, PLEASE bring a tripod, I shot everything with ISO 3200+, you are not allowed to use flash rather annoyingly and so the stability brought by your trusty tripod will allow you to capture the colossal columns and cave formations.
The stalagmites pointed towards the ceiling towards their creators, forming unusual shapes and with several different shades of green and beige. The series of colossal caverns stretch for almost FIVE kilometres and are home to the world’s largest stalagmite, a gigantic 32 metre high column measuring 13 metres by 7 metres at its base seen below.
The Cuevas de Nerja have been open to the public since 1960, having been discovered by five local Maro boys who happened across this “Cueva de marvillas”. It was declared as Project of Cultural and its geological, biological and archaeological importance continues to fascinate and enthral thousands of visitors annually. Every year in July, the International Music and Dance Festival takes place in the Caves which is apparently a truly amazing experience, we happened to have visited on that very day! But unfortunately it was late in the evening and only really accessible to visitors who happened to live nearby or have a hotel to return to.
The tour itself takes around 45 minutes and apart from escaping the mid-day heat, is a truly remarkable experience, more so if you’re into caving and speleology. They even have a speleo activity/adventure for the more keen visitors where they get access to the restricted pats of the cave, called Galerías Altas y Nuevas (High and New Galleries). The Rooms of Columnas de Hércules (Hercules´Pillars), Inmensidad (Inmensity), La Galería de los Niveles (Levels Gallery) and La Sala de la Lanza (Lance Room) are ventured into and an extra booking and registration are required for visiting. I didn’t have time myself, but looks really worth it if you’re planning on spending the whole day there, and you’re with a fit group of willing friends.
Just when my eyes had accustomed to the everlasting darkness of the caverns, and its welcoming coolness, no sooner we had then left the cave and the light came flooding into my retina. Back into the sun and heat. The gift shop was funky, with some rather cute canvas bag with bats printed on.
We then drove up to Frijilliana. This quaint little village in Southern Spain, is seemingly perched precariously on the edge of the Parque Natural Sierras de Tejeda mountains. Rather similar to Mijas, the stunning backdrop provides breath-taking views, with reminiscing remnants of its rich history. The Moors once ruled here, as well as across the region on Andalucía. The Arab population played a prominent part in history, and have left behind reminders of their fascinating and rich culture in the form of food and architecture, to be seen everywhere you look. The hill pictures above, overlooking Frigiliana was the scene for the final battle for the Moors of Axarquia. Many moors who didn’t want to suffer defeat threw themselves to their deaths from the summit rather unremittingly, so peace is only recent in these parts. Indeed in terms of geological formation, its history has been quite active, with the African plate colliding into the European.
The Sephardic Jews were in large number until their expulsion by the Christians in the 15th century, they refer to the Iberian peninsula Jews who descended from the Near East i.e. those from western Asia, the Ottoman Empire. The Christians, of course, which reside here still to this day.
After a good sightseeing of the village, we drove back home, exhausted but exhilarated after and exciting day of caving.
“The cool, still quietness of a cave really makes you reflect upon how our how our ancestors pace of life was likely to have been”
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ROUGH RIDE by Kristen Ashley
On February 13, 2018 By Susan's Books I LikeIn New Release
From New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Kristen Ashley comes a new story in her Chaos series…
About ROUGH RIDE:
Rosalie Holloway put it all on the line for the Chaos Motorcycle Club.
Informing to Chaos on their rival club—her man’s club, Bounty—Rosalie knows the stakes. And she pays them when her man, who she was hoping to scare straight, finds out she’s betrayed him and he delivers her to his brothers to mete out their form of justice.
But really, Rosie has long been denying that, as she drifted away from her Bounty, she’s been falling in love with Everett “Snapper” Kavanagh, a Chaos brother. Snap is the biker-boy-next door with the snowy blue eyes, quiet confidence and sweet disposition who was supposed to keep her safe…and fell down on that job.
For Snapper, it’s always been Rosalie, from the first time he saw her at the Chaos Compound. He’s just been waiting for a clear shot. But he didn’t want to get it after his Rosie was left bleeding, beat down and broken by Bounty on a cement warehouse floor.
With Rosalie a casualty of an ongoing war, Snapper has to guide her to trust him, take a shot with him, build a them…
And fold his woman firmly in the family that is Chaos.
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My dad had been a biker. He was a nomad when it came to that kind of thing (or, really, any kind of thing). He accepted being tied down by his woman and his daughter only, not anything else. Not a job. Not a mortgage. Not a membership to a club. He hung with a lot of them, including Chaos (in fact, Hammer, sadly now deceased, but one of the founding members of Chaos, had been my father’s best friend).
But he’d never hung with Bounty.
“Don’t like the feel of them,” I’d heard him mutter years ago. “If you’re an outlaw, own the outlaw. If you’re not, own that. You can’t wanna be a Gypsy Joker. You either are or you aren’t. They wanna be. But they aren’t. That shit just ain’t right and it could get dangerous.”
He’d been right.
It got dangerous.
I should have known.
I should have followed my dad.
Mom and me had done it all our lives, job to job, house to house, city to city.
Why I stopped…
I knew why I’d stopped.
I’d wanted Shy; Shy, who reminded me of Dad.
And when I couldn’t have him, I’d gone looking.
I’d wanted what my mom had.
I’d wanted that sweetness. That love.
That devotion.
I’d wanted the stability that just seeped down deep into your bones from all that no matter the job changing, the scenery changing, the amount of times you boxed up a house.
Stability had nothing to do with income and locale.
Stability was all in the heart.
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About Kristen Ashley:
Kristen Ashley was born in Gary, Indiana, USA and nearly killed her mother and herself making it into the world, seeing as she had the umbilical cord wrapped around her neck (already attempting to accessorize and she hadn’t taken her first breath!). Her mother said they took Kristen away, put her Mom back in her room, her mother looked out the window, and Gary was on fire (Dr. King had been assassinated four days before). Kristen’s Mom remembered thinking it was the end of the world. Quite the dramatic beginning.
Nothing’s changed.
Kristen grew up in Brownsburg, Indiana and has lived in Denver, Colorado and the West Country of England. Thus, she’s blessed to have friends and family around the globe. Her family was (is) loopy (to say the least) but loopy is good when you want to write. They all lived together on a very small farm in a small farm town in the heartland. She grew up with Glenn Miller, The Everly Brothers, REO Speedwagon and Whitesnake (and the wardrobes that matched).
And as she keeps growing, it keeps getting better.
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MoviePass competitor Sinemia launches $4.99 per month subscriptions
Megan Rose Dickey @meganrosedickey / 1 year
Sinemia, a MoviePass competitor that launched four years ago in Europe, has introduced some super-duper low-cost plans for seeing movies in theaters. Here’s the breakdown:
$4.99 per month: one ticket per month
$6.99 per month: two tickets per month
$9.99 per month: two tickets per month including 3D, 4D and IMAX
$14.99 per month: three tickets per month including 3D, 4D and IMAX
Now, I know what you’re thinking, and it’s true. MoviePass’s $9.99 per month subscription lets you see nearly an unlimited number of movies every month (one per day).
But there’s no way I would take full advantage of the “unlimited” offering. And Sinemia CEO Rifat Oguz recognizes that I’m not the only person like that.
“Not everyone really needs an unlimited moviegoing experience,” Oguz told me. “The average in the U.S. is four movies per year.”
For me, at least, Sinemia is a more attractive offer because of one simple feature: advanced online ticketing. MoviePass requires you to be physically at the movie theater to purchase the tickets, and homie just can’t play that. There’s also the fact that Sinemia lets you see 3D, 4D and IMAX. That’s not the case with MoviePass.
While Sinemia pays full price to movie theaters for every ticket purchased through its platform, Sinemia makes up for that via advertising deals with studios and restaurants. For example, when you open up the Sinemia app, the three movies you see featured at the top are paid for by studios wanting to promote their movies. As of right now, 85 percent of the company’s revenue comes from subscriptions with just 15 percent coming from advertising.
In the next 12 months, Sinemia hopes to launch its services in countries throughout Asia. Sinemia doesn’t disclose monthly subscriber numbers, but says it’s growing more than 50 percent every month.
Earlier this year, MoviePass sued Sinemia for copyright infringement, alleging Sinemia copied many of MoviePass’s features. Specifically, MoviePass alleges Sinemia violated a patent pertaining to automatic authentication and one pertaining to a ticketing system. The litigation is ongoing, but Oguz said he generally likes competition and appreciates how MoviePass made this model popular.
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Exemption of bifacial cell technology from Section 201 measures to accelerate switch from mono to bifacial cell lines outside of China and drive demand in the United States
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On 13 June 2019, United States Federal trade authorities ruled that bifacial solar modules will be exempt from Section 201 tariffs, as outlined in a notice from the Office of the United States Trade Representative. The ruling will dramatically increase demand for bifacial solar modules in the United States due to the opportunity of avoiding tariff rates of 15% to 25% through February 2022, in addition to the benefits of higher efficiencies and energy yields associated with such products. IHS Markit expects that demand for bifacial modules in the United States will be primarily served by manufacturing lines across Southeast Asia, as products shipped from China will still face antidumping and Section 301 tariffs that will make them less competitive.
China PV installations to boom in fourth quarter after grace period removal
On 22 December 2017, the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) in China confirmed the 2018 FiT rate and the anticipated grace period until June 2018 to obtain the 2017 FiT rate (for projects approved in 2017). The FiT tariff valid from 1 January 2018 is 0.55 yuan/kWh, 0.65 yuan/kWh, and 0.75 yuan/kWh for resource areas I, II and III, respectively. Distributed PV systems that sell surplus power to the grid will obtain 0.37 yuan/kWh for the excess power. The updated policy has removed the grace period in 2019, meaning that the 2019 FiT rate will apply for all projects as of 1 January 2019. The FiT deadlines for different policy segments, in parallel with events in PV markets outside China, will determine the quarterly module pricing and installation patterns. IHS Markit maintains its current annual 50 GW PV installation projection for China in 2018, but we are reviewing the quarterly distribution.
PV Inverter Report - China - 2017
After record shipment in 2016, Chinese market will shrink by 9 GW in 2017
This is the sixth edition of the annual IHS Markit report on the Chinese PV inverter industry, providing detailed forecasts and analysis of demand for PV inverters in China, and a comprehensive review of the challenges that face Chinese PV inverter suppliers.
SNEC 2017 Key Takeaways
Sam Wilkinson | May 05, 2017
SNEC PV Expo 2017 was once again a frantic exhibition, and the show floors felt as busy as previous years. The show has become an annual celebration of a market that has grown ferociously to account for sizeable share of both global demand and supply.
Utility-scale PV Projects Cost Analysis Report - 2016
Josefin Berg | October 28, 2016
This report reviews current and future cost trends for utility-scale PV in China, United States, India, France and Japan, including analysis of LCOE.
2016 brings challenges and opportunities for Chinese PV inverter suppliers
The fifth edition of the annual IHS report on the Chinese PV inverter industry, providing detailed forecasts and analysis of demand for PV inverters in China, and a comprehensive review of the challenges that face Chinese PV inverter suppliers.
China releases proposal to promote adoption of energy storage
On 10 March, China National Energy Administration (NEA) released a draft on “Using energy storage for peak shaving in the Northeast (NE), the North (N), and the Northwest (NW) regions” for public review. The document heralds a tipping point for the commercialization of energy storage projects in the Chinese market.
China's NEA announces another 5.3 GW of PV capacity quota – IHS Analysis
On 28th September, China’s NEA (National Energy Administration) announced plans to increase the country's quota for solar PV capacity by an additional 5.3 GWac. This has been widely reported as China increasing its 2015 PV installation target.
Solar Installations to Rise 20 Percent in 2014, Thanks to Strong Fourth Quarter
Global photovoltaic (PV) solar installations will rise to 45.4 gigawatts (GW) in 2014, with 32 percent of this total, or 14.4 GW, coming in the fourth quarter, according to IHS Technology (NYSE: IHS).
Solar Microinverter and Power Optimizer Market to Break $1 Billion Barrier in 2018
Cormac Gilligan | September 18, 2014
The market for global photovoltaic (PV) solar microinverters and power optimizers is forecast to more than triple in the coming years, rising to more than $1 billion in 2018, as both established and new regions increase their adoption of the emerging technology, according to IHS Technology (NYSE: IHS).
NEA’s Lowered Target for Chinese Distributed Solar Helps Boost Market in H2’14
Whilst China’s National Energy Administration (NEA) lowered its 2014 installation target from 14 GW to 13 GW and matched IHS’ forecast from earlier in the year, it vowed to continue support for the PV industry and upcoming policy will help to remove barriers for distributed solar (DPV) and accelerate the build-out of new projects.
US and Chinese Solar EPC Companies Continue to Dominate in Global PV Installations
Josefin Berg | August 06, 2014
The world’s 10 largest photovoltaic (PV) Engineering, Procurement and Construction (EPC) companies are set this year to install a combined 8 gigawatts (GW) of solar capacity, equivalent to 20 percent of the world’s non-residential PV demand, according to a new report from IHS Technology (NYSE: IHS).
Domestic Suppliers Dominate Chinese Solar Inverter Market as Demand Doubles
The Chinese photovoltaic (PV) solar inverter market grew by more than 100 percent in 2013, providing a huge boost to the country’s domestic supplier base, according to the latest report from IHS Technology (NYSE: IHS).
TBEA SunOasis Set to Overtake First Solar as World’s Largest Solar EPC Company in 2014
Josefin Berg | May 15, 2014
U.S.-based First Solar delivered on expectations in 2013 to become the leading Engineering, Procurement and Construction (EPC) company in the global photovoltaic (PV) industry, even though it is likely to be surpassed in 2014 by Chinese EPC TBEA SunOasis, according to a new report from IHS Technology.
Competition Heats Up in US PV Inverter Market as Asian Suppliers Dominate Home Turf
The U.S. market for photovoltaic (PV) inverters turned highly competitive in 2013 as the three biggest suppliers headquartered in the country lost share in the wake of a European-led influx of new players, according to new analysis from IHS Technology.
Leading Solar Module Suppliers Extend Dominance in 2013; Chinese Still on Top
Jessica Jin | April 30, 2014
The top makers of photovoltaic (PV) modules solidified their market dominance in 2013 with Chinese suppliers continuing to lead the solar world, according to IHS Technology.
US to Dodge Solar Shortage This Year Even Amid New Antidumping Fines on Chinese Module Suppliers
A long-running battle in the global photovoltaic (PV) market between the United States and China over antidumping and subsidy charges could expand into higher solar costs, with wide-ranging ramifications for the U.S. if punitive tariffs are levied on Taiwanese cells.
2013 PV Inverter Supplier Rankings: Asian Suppliers Tighten Grip as European Leadership Weakens
Sam Wilkinson | April 10, 2014
The number of Asian companies appearing among the world’s 10 largest photovoltaic (PV) inverter suppliers doubled in 2013, with four from China and Japan appearing within the charmed circle, compared to just two in 2012 and none in 2011, according to new analysis from IHS Technology.
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Adrian Wainer
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Birthday 01/01/1
Welcome to Eurabia
Adrian Wainer posted a topic in General Discussion
NB for those of us here, for whom English might not be a first language and might find it a little difficult to understand the commentary, the following video is shot in Bruxelles the capital of Belgium not in an Arab country. http://tw.youtube.com/watch?v=-inob20I_Y0 Best and Warm Regards Adrian Wainer
In 1945 the Nazis went to the Moon, in 2018 they're coming back!
Adrian Wainer replied to Adrian Wainer's topic in General Discussion
Is there a reference on the internet to this jailing of Von Braun? http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,2144,2976091,00.html Best and Warm Regards Adrian Wainer
Hi Roco, Well their position, would not have been very different to most of Europe but then after letting a failed Austrian postcard painter lead them in to a World War on a plan based on a Wagnerian Opera, one might have thought they would have learned something, like how to recognize a bunch of Nazis though they might be called Al-Qaeda this time round rather than the NSDAP. I knew the French were insane, like the Soviet Union post Stalin was no model state but even it had its limits and refused to sell Saddam a nuclear facility, because they would have sold a regular nuclear power plant but the Iraqi specification was for an atomic bomb factory, which the Soviet Union refused to supply Iraq but which the French happily sold him. And as I am sure you are aware one does not need a fancy aircraft or rocket to deliver a nuclear weapon to the target, just pack it under the guise of legitimate cargo in a forty foot container and ship to the target of your choice e.g. a lockup warehouse in London England. http://www.tellthechildrenthetruth.com/ Best and Warm Regards Adrian Wainer
Hi Roco, there were a lot of people living in Germany and it would seem most everybody was against Hitler, so I wonder where this man got his support. The reality is, that when Germany was winning the War the majority of Germans thought Hitler was the greatest thing since sliced bread and quite simply did not care that he was intent on exterminating whole populations. It was only when the War went seriously wrong for Germany, that people started to have less regard for Hitler and by then given the prospect of defeat by the Soviets, with their well deserved reputation for terror and murder and what the Germans had got up to in Russia and for which the Russians would be likely to extract revenge, it was pretty much a case of sticking with the Hitler they knew, than inviting in the Russian bear they didn't. As for Von Braun, well you say that he claimed he was up before a firing squad for his anti-Nazi beliefs, and you say it is in his autobiography, I don't doubt that you are telling the truth, but whether he was telling the truth is an entirely different matter. For start, he would know exactly how things worked at a very high level in Germany or he would never have got the prestigious engineering position that he did, and he would know exactly that a lot of things were done on a understanding that such a thing should be done without any paperwork or official orders being issued, which would fit very well, if somebody wanted to make up a cock and bull story after the War, about being before a firing squad for his anti-Nazi beliefs. Furthermore, there was nothing special about the Nazi scientists, why they were ahead in rocketry was the US government did not fund American rocket engineers and scientists in the 1930s and the Nazis funded their rocket engineers and scientists. The USSR, which was a far less wealthy and technologically advanced country than the US, once they had got hold of the information from the German rocket research projects and used the knowledge they obtained from their captured Nazi scientists, they were able to carry on themselves [ unlike America ] without help from Nazis. As for Germany itself, the reaction of Germany in the aftermath of 9/11 really showed up that when push comes to shove, not a lot had changed. Best and Warm Regards Adrian Wainer
Explorenet
Adrian Wainer replied to captbill2's topic in General Discussion
I have 3.6 Mbps HDSPA wireless, I don't know what type of satellite service you are getting but if HSDPA is available in your area it could be an option, if that service was available in your area and you were interested in it, you should check it out very thoroughly before committing yourself to a contract as in Britain and Ireland where this service is available people have had very varied experiences with it, in that for a start 3,600 Kbps is not a speed that consumers will actually experience since the service is contested and the more people who are using a wireless base station the more the available bandwidth has to be shared out between them. But if this service is available in your area and you would have a service provider that would not overload his network, it can be very attractive e.g. the software is pretty much plug and play and the modem fits in any computer USB socket and e.g. one can use the modem with one's laptop during the day when one is out and about and plug the modem in to one's desktop when one gets home. The modem is about the size of packet of Wrigley's chewing gum. Best and Warm Regards Adrian Wainer
Good point, Well when the film comes out they might have an explaination for that issue. I only found out about this film project a short time ago but one thing which is really nice is that they are apparently going to some effort to keeps things as realistic as possible, like there was a big discussion on their forum page about how the motorcycle in the clip could be powered since a normal petrol engine would be defeated by the moon's lack of an atmosphere and they came up with the idea of a hydrogen peroxide fueled motor. Best and Warm Regards Adrian Wainer
Hi Tommy, yes it's a film alright and it looks better so far than some of rubbish Tinsel town has foisted on SF and WW2 cinema goers in recent years. http://blog.starwreck.com/2008/06/30/iron-sky-signal-episode-1/ and this is part one of a fifteen part Japanese documentary about UFOs sorry no translation but the animations are pretty cool. http://br.youtube.com/watch?v=PD2S3J401lI Best and Warm Regards Adrian Wainer
Is that an orbiting communication satellite downlink with a telephone connection upload link you have? http://www.satsig.net/satellite-internet/satellite-internet-canada.htm Best and Warm Regards Adrian Wainer
Best and Warm Regards Adrian Wainer
Apple sued over iPhone 3G reception issues
Adrian Wainer replied to AlucardHS's topic in General Discussion
Well at least, it works when you can get a decent wireless link, I was just listening to a technology Journalist with the British magazine PC PRO saying how it took him couple of hours to send an email from a phone/electronic portable device that was using a Microsoft based system, and that he only found out at the end what he needed to do by accident. Best and Warm Regards Adrian Wainer
Frankly, I am glad that somebody is taking the the Technology companies to task for over selling their products, I have a HSDPA internet modem and Three the service provider refer to a 3.6 Mbps speed, yet I get a full strength signal and most of the time it operates at around 800 Kbps which is way off 3600 Kbps and when there are a lot of people using the service it can drop down to unuseability. And don't even get me started about SLI and Crossfire. http://www.three.com/ Three Hutchinson Whampoa It's an Internet Cultural Revolution. Best and Warm Regards Adrian Wainer
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Middle Ages tech support http://es.youtube.com/watch?v=LRBIVRwvUeE Best and Warm Regards Adrian Wainer
Obama, the antichrist ?
Adrian Wainer replied to mudmanc4's topic in General Discussion
Like I don't have a problem with abortion, not that I am gung ho for it, but realistically what you are saying is that one should be able to kill a baby at full term, I can't see that makes sense it that e.g. I would hardly think you would be for allowing cat and dog owners to pour petrol over their pets and set them on fire, and it just does not make sense to me that a baby is nothing till it comes out of the Womb. Best and Warm Regards Adrian Wainer
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Description: Copy negative of two buildings. The barracks are located in Camp Bowie. Camp Bowie, located at Brownwood in Central Texas, was a military training center during World War II. It was established in September 1940 as an infantry and artillery training center. The sign on the front of the first building has the text "Engineer" printed on it and hangs next to the door. The barracks are lifted off of the ground and appear to be made of wood.
Description: Copy photograph of the Howard Payne College 1909 football team. The team is seated on the steps of a building and are posed in three rows. In the first row, two men pose lying down with a football. Six men, including a man in a suit, tie and hat, sit in the second row, and five men sit in the third.
Description: Copy photograph of the Howard Payne College 1909 football team posing on the field. A man in a suit and hat stands with the team. In the background are houses.
Description: Copy negative of two pictures of a house in Brownwood, Texas. In the first, four young men and a small boy are standing in the yard in front of the house with two other houses in the background. The second picture shows the front and right side of the house with people on the porch.
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Description: Blue line print of survey map of portions of Eastland County, Brown County, and Comanche County, showing rivers, creeks, original land grants or surveys, cities, towns, and railroads. Various blocks of land are shaded yellow to indicate Texas and Pacific Railroad Company land. Scale [ca. 1:133,333] (4000 varas to the inch).
Description: Copy negative of the Old Gray Mare Band posing in front of the Carnegie Library in Brownwood, Texas. The members are all wearing band uniforms with hats and posing with instruments. Three drums are situated on the ground in front of the band.
Description: Copy photograph of a Howard Payne College band posing in two rows with their instruments. In the first row, five women and one man sit with their instruments. In the second row, seven men stand with their instruments.
Description: Copy photograph of a Howard Payne College band posing with their instruments in three rows. Three women and four men stand in the back row, two women and one man sit in chairs in the second row, and four men and one child sit in the first. To their right is a drum with "Howard Payne College 1906" written on it.
Description: Copy photograph of a Howard Payne College band posing on the steps of a building with their instruments. The band, all men, pose in three rows, and all wear suits and hats. To their right is a man in uniform.
Parked Cars
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Planes on Airfield
Description: Copy negative of airplanes in a field. They are located at Camp Bowie and are surrounded by landscape and brush. There is an airplane hanger in the background.
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The Fence Brexit SpecialMarch 2019
London MPs
as Diseases
Those pestilential vapours emitting from the House of Commons are more varied in number and subtle in energy than is widely acknowledged. The capital’s parliamentarians, for all their so-seeming shining health, ooze with a host of undetected maladies that have diseased our Body Politic.
Dame Margaret Hodge (Barking)
Mumps is an infection the primary symptom of which is that it causes the sufferer’s head to become vastly inflated. Whether it was her tenure as a notoriously interfering children’s minister, or publically chastising companies over their tax arrangements while maintaining shares in Stemcor, a company that paid 0.01% tax on profits of 2.1 billion in 2015 – there are few people more closely associated with big headedness than the MP for Barking.
Barry Gardiner (Brent North)
Racoon Roundworm Infection
Have you ever watched the Shadow President of the Board of Trade give an interview? You’re left feeling deeply confused but also a little dirty, soiled even, simply by being privy to the conversation. Raccoon Roundworm Infection results from close contact with dirt, in particular that produced by large, land-dwelling rodents (the sort which, for the record, Barry Gardiner himself bears more than a passing resemblance to). As such, it is a perfect fit for the skin-crawlingly unappealing MP for Brent North.
Harriet Harman (Camberwell & Peckham)
Polio is a disease that comes about through prolonged exposure to faecal matter, which is exactly what would happen if you went around with your head entirely inserted into your own sphincter. Harman unstintingly paints herself as a trailblazer who has revolutionised the role of women in the body politic. Given that she was sacked after only a year in her role as Minister for Women, Harman should rethink her self-portrait as a latter-day Barbara Castle. Polio withers limbs, leaving the sufferer unable to transport themselves effectively. As Harman has failed, despite being an MP for 36 years, to bring a tube station to her inner-city constituency, the comparison is all the more apposite.
Greg Hands (Chelsea and Fulham)
The MP for West London’s gilded strip is the common cold. The whiny, omnipresent sort of infection that’s been lurking about government for years but shudders at the sight of a Lemsip. The sort of irritating busybody of a virus strain that would try to use the Grenfell Tower disaster as an excuse to achieve its long term aim of cancelling the Notting Hill Carnival. Greg Hands – the human runny nose.
Mark Field (The Cities of London & Westminster)
Foot and Mouth Disease
Pairing the MP for arguably the most urban constituency in the UK with that most rural of infectious diseases might appear to be a mismatch. However, not only does Mark Field have a perfectly agricultural name but he also had a long running affair with Liz Truss, a woman who enthralled the Tory conference with a speech about the farming industry – discussion of premiere pork products were presumably part of their pillow talk. Agricultural associations aside, Mark Field has made some past public pronouncements where foot and mouth have met firmly as one. For instance, he is on record as criticising AIDS charities, and is part of a one man campaign to enable MPs to earn more cash on the side. Foot and mouth is, therefore, the perfect fit for a man with the air of a villain in a Michael Morpurgo book – stony faced and dry eyed as the ashes of a thousand hand-reared lambs swirl around his head.
Kate Osamor (Edmonton)
Acute Porphyria
Porphyria is a rather nasty infection caused by the buildup of substances under the skin. It was what caused King George III to be labelled ‘mad’ as one of its main symptoms is an inability to control oneself leading the sufferer to indulge in unpredictable public outbursts of strange and often violent behaviour. Being MP for Edmonton clearly has a similar sort of effect. Kate Osamor not only rather dubiously claimed not to know that her son (and communications manager) was a convicted drug dealer but also threw a bucket of water on a reporter who deigned to ask her about it, told him to ‘fuck off’, and then remarked that she should have ‘come down with a bat to smash your face in’.
Diane Abbott (Hackney North & Stoke Newington)
An infection that leads to embarrassing displays of public contortion, rendering the sufferer to appear as a thrashing wreck of ineptitude incapable of coherent speech.
Meg Hillier (Hackney South & Shoreditch)
Black Piedra
Black Piedra sounds as if it’s an exotic and exciting disease. An infection as pregnant with swashbuckle and romance as it is possible for an infection to be. In fact, Black Piedra is a run of the mill fungal infection of the hair follicle. Such a disparity between expectation and reality also affects the MP for Hackney South & Shoreditch. It sounds like it should be a constituency with a zany, loose cannon of a democratic representative. Enter Meg Hillier. Is she cool Aunt Meg, who lets you smoke a spliff round her house when you’re fourteen? No. She’s a white, privately educated middle-aged lady. She’s fine. She’s safe. She’s Black Piedra.
John McDonnell (Hayes & Harlington)
It only requires the tiniest amount of Legionella bacteria to pollute entire bodies of water, infect vast swathes of people, and send sufferers crashing down with agonising muscle pains and high fevers. John McDonnell is the perfect fit for this feisty little infection – a rogue backbench MP for a nowhere seat, he has gone on to act as the brains behind an impressive coup that has basically left the Labour Party feverish, internally conflicted, and facing the real prospect of death.
Sir Keir Starmer (Holborn & St Pancras)
Quinsy
Sir Keir Starmer sounds like an absentee landlord in a Walter Scott story. As such, he deserves to be associated with the sort of archaic disease that might feature in an unreadable novel. Quinsy is a manifestly ineffectual disease – it is basically just a glorified sore throat. It’s the sort of disease that leaves the sufferer ineffectually rasping away in barely audible irrelevance while the nation careers into a new Victorian era.
Jeremy Corbyn (Islington North)
It was years ago now – a one-night stand, thrilling and sensuous at the time. One problem however: it was unprotected. The constitutional condoms of thresholds and primacy of the parliamentary party were left in the drawer this one time. But one time is, as the STI ads remind us, all it takes. Now you’re stuck with this disease for what certainly feels like forever. It’s a retro infection, it’s associated with insanity, it’s enjoying a surprise revival amongst the young, it’s probably something you’d encounter at Glastonbury. It’s syphilis. It’s JC.
Emily Thornberry (Islington South & Finsbury)
The problem with Emily Thornberry is that she’s really difficult to call – is she your mate’s fun step-mum who tells the dirtiest jokes ever after a few large Pinot Grigios, or is she just a convenient shill, throwing shade on breakfast TV while Seamus Milne draws up his list of kulaks to be liquidated? In this sense she is the MP most like herpes. Is that mark on your colleague’s lip an innocent cold sore or the sordid sign of a night of torrid sex? Is Thornberry a game laugh or a front for a group of mad racists? As with your colleague’s weird herpes mark, the answer is ‘probably both’.
Emma Dent Coad (Kensington)
It must be really grim to have salmonellosis – it’s sort of food poisoning on speed. Caused by salmonella, it results in uncontrollable noxious emissions from every orifice going. Similarly, it must be grim to have Emma Dent Coad as your MP, a woman given to repeated noxious emissions. Be it slagging off Prince Harry’s mental health, tweeting pictures of political opponents being hanged, or referring to a black candidate as ‘a token ghetto boy’ – EDC just doesn’t seem to be able to stop these things coming out her mouth.
Justine Greening (Putney)
If you ever find yourself complaining about having Justine Greening as your MP (and, let’s face it, if you do have her as an MP, you live in Putney – and so therefore senselessly whining about things is one of your primary hobbies) then stop immediately – you have nobody but yourself to blame. Ditto if you get botulism, it is almost certainly your own fault. If you go around eating meat cut from rotting whale carcasses or consuming vast amounts of out of date nacho cheese (both genuine examples from the United States) then it is not especially surprising that you end up ingesting unpleasant toxins. Greening barely held on to her seat in a close vote, only managing to do so because a chunk of the electorate presumably couldn’t be bothered to vote her out. Just as the ‘creative eaters’ who find themselves struck down with botulism, the people of Putney only have themselves to blame for their current MP.
Zac Goldsmith (Richmond Park)
Many people who contract Lyme Disease think they’ve got rid of it only for it reoccur months or years later. They foolishly imagine that the constant headaches and aching joint pains are gone after the tick borne bacterium announced that it was a bit peeved about a runway at Heathrow and resigned. Then, one morning they wake up in their lovely leafy suburb, hazily check BBC News and find, to their surprise, that Lyme Disease is back and as painful and wearing as ever.
Chuka Umunna (Streatham)
It’s hard not to feel a bit sorry for bird flu. Just a few years ago it was the infection du jour. The fashionable bet to be the disease that would finally bring about the world-ending pandemic that we were all gagging for. It was even talked about as the heir to the Black Death. Now look at poor old Bird Flu – sidelined by the rogue appearance of Ebola and now languishing behind good old fashioned self-inflicted methods of extinction like the possibility of the nuclear apocalypse. Bird Flu is yesterday’s pandemic, just as Chuka is yesterday’s man.
Sir Vince Cable (Twickenham)
Smallpox was declared officially eradicated by the World Health Organisation in 1980, 3 years after the last known case was diagnosed. The last known case of Vince Cable and his party, the Liberal Democrats, actually doing anything was in 2015, meaning that a declaration of eradication is surely only a matter of time.
Kate Hoey (Vauxhall)
Like Kate Hoey, rabies has a longer incubation period than many other diseases. You could have been walking about Vauxhall for any period of time since 1989 without realising that your MP was, in fact, a frothing lunatic. Rabies infects the nervous system after transmission – most usually via an animal bite (who knows – perhaps Hoey’s long standing enthusiasm for hunting comes from a rabid run in with a fox?). Next thing the sufferer knows, they’re foaming at the mouth whilst on a boat, accompanying Nigel Farage as he chucks fish at Bob Geldof.
David Lammy (Tottenham)
It’s almost impossible to turn on a screen and not see a preening David Lammy. Many is the bourgeois Facebook feed heavy with purring approval for his ‘amazing’ take downs of Brexit. He’s big on exposure – and, just as Lammy is all about exposure, so too is chickenpox. There can be few diseases so popular that people actively seek exposure to them, but chickenpox is one of them. Yet, as with Lammy, chickenpox is popular precisely because it is utterly ineffectual. Great, your speech in parliament got loads of shares. Marvellous, you survived chickenpox. Well done you. Unfortunately, neither one will protect you from one of the eminently nasty selection of diseases that are currently in control of your nervous system/ancient parliamentary democracy.
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Donald Trump and the Hip-Hop Hypocrites
Miranda Dawson
The list of entertainment hypocrites is endless. From coast to coast– from Hollyweird to 8 Mile–entertainers feign serious amnesia about their friendships with Donald Trump.
When celebrities weren’t showering the Trump’s with lavish gifts, they were lined up to attend the most prestigious and glamorous parties at Trump Tower.
Take comedian Ellen DeGeneres for example. In 2006 Ellen DeGeneres bought Melania a gold stroller for Barron.
The stroller was such a special gift it even appeared in a Trump family photo-shoot for People magazine.
Further, the stroller was but one gift that came from many celebrities, all who happily awaited the welcome into the world of Barron by his beauty queen mother Melania.
Shortly after Donald Trump entered the White House, Ellen denied her relationship with Trump. She claimed she “hardly knows him.”
Maybe celebrities like Ellen send golden custom strollers to people they barely know. Or maybe Ellen proved that she’s the typical Hollyweird “friend”.
While Ellen makes easy fodder for celebrity amnesiacs, another group stands out. The world of hip hop.
Care to guess how many music videos feature The Donald?
The Celebrity Apprentice icon has appeared in over 300 videos. Take a look at this video collage of Trump in rap.
Most rappers for decades have either aspired to be like Trump or have given him major props for his “swagger” in addition to what Trump has accomplished in life.
“He was an American icon that stood for success and wealth, and that was something that was valued, particularly among a community of folks that were coming from lower class backgrounds and people who were locked out of the mainstream American economy,” Bakari Kitwana, the Executive Director of Rap Sessions, told ABC News.
Dating back to the 1980’s to 2015 Trump received praise from virtually every corner of the hip-hop world.
These rappers included Snoop Dogg and Kendrick Lamar to P. Diddy, 50 Cent, Jeezy, and Lil Wayne.
And here are some lyrical examples:
In his 2011 song, “Trump,” Atlanta rapper Jeezy hails his own success and labels himself the Trump of the hood: “Richest n**** in my hood, call me Donald Trump, the type of n**** to count my money while I smoke a blunt.”
In “Up Like Trump,” — the 2014 hit by hip-hop duo Rae Sremmurd, Swae Lee raps, “Forbes list, Forbes list, Forbes list, Forbes, read it like the Bible/Up like Donald Trump, chain swings like nunchucks.”
And in the late rapper Mac Miller’s 2014 hit, “Donald Trump,” the Pittsburgh rapper boasts about his Trump-like persona: “Ay yo, the flyest m*****f***** in the room. Yeah, you know it’s me.”
In “Black Trump,” a 2003 song featuring Raekwon, the Wu-Tang Clan rapper boasts about his money and status: “You gotta make power moves, black gunz and cash rule,” and ends the song with “Guess who’s the black Trump.”
In Kanye West’s 2010 single, “So Appalled,” West compares his baller status to Trump’s: “I’m so appalled, Spalding ball, balding Donald Trump taking dollars from y’all.”
Gucci Mane compares his wins to Trump in the 2015 song “Straight Drop“: “Break down all my bales in Ferragamo/ Hugo Boss, jumper cause I just Donald Trump you.”
“So much money in my house I’m having cold sweats/ Throwing bands in the club they sending death threats/ Donald Trump bank account, you can call it that,” Waka Flocka Flame raps in the remix of French Montana’s “Everything’s A Go.”
In his 2012 song “I Need Dollas,” T.I. reflects on his success and describes the new level he’s on by invoking Trump: “Used to want dough like JC (penny) but now I’m thinking Donald Trump.”
One of the biggest songs made about Donald Trump is rapper Mac Miller’s “Donald Trump.”
The video received over 155 millions views on YouTube and even received several tweet’s about the song from Trump himself:
@macmiller "Donald Trump the Song" gets 16M hits on YouTube. Who wouldn't be flattered?
Little @MacMiller, you illegally used my name for your song “Donald Trump” which now has over 75 million hits.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 31, 2013
And now despite Miller dedicating an entire song to Trump, he says he doesn’t support the president.
In addition to being mentioned in numerous rap versus, Trump’s biggest accomplishments are mentioned. Take the famous “Trump Tower” hotel for example.
Ever since the ’80s, Trump Tower in New York City and Trump’s casinos were powerful symbols of the Trump Empire. These Trump empire icons were touted by many rappers.
In DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince’s 1989 song “Numero Uno,” Will Smith raps, “Cause you’re gambling just like craps at Trump.” And in the duo’s 1989 song, “I Think I Can Beat Mike Tyson,” Smith raps, “Me and Mike, two months, Trump, Atlantic City.”
In the 2011 song, “New York Minute (remix),” Nicki Minaj raps: “I was in the Trump Towers looking for some shower gel.”
…Nas’s 2008 song “Make the World Go Round,” he raps: “Get the whole Trump Tower top floor for the hood.”
And while filming the video for the 2008 song, “How We Rock,” in which rapper Termanology name-drops Trump, he and his crew stayed at Trump Tower and even “paid out of pocket,” he told ABC News, because “that’s how cool we thought it was.”
In fact, rapper wrapped about Trump so much, he tweeted this in 2012:
Oh no, another rapper doing a Trump song –"Young Jeezy – Trump Lyrics." Why aren't these guys paying me?
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 14, 2012
And then this about Diddy’s support of him in 2015:
"@thehill: P. Diddy is a fan of Donald Trump: http://t.co/VQv3ivgrwq pic.twitter.com/Z66TTG3DpJ"
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 3, 2015
That support came only one year before Trump became president.
But now all of a sudden these rappers have changed their tune, dramatically.
Instead of rapping about Trump’s “swagger”, they now depict Trump dead.
Furthermore, these rappers song titles are now “F*ck Donald Trump’, instead of “I’m up like Donald Trump.”
What changed? Nothing on Trump’s end.
But rappers who formerly appreciated Trumps persona now hate him for his politics.With friends like these, right!
Look at what rapper “Termanology” said about Trump now that he’s president:
“We didn’t know that [Trump] was going to become president, and we didn’t know he was going to act the way he acts. It kind of struck all of us by surprise and now we cringe when we hear our own references to the guy we thought was cool. It wasn’t political back then,” Termanology added. “The coolest thing you could do was be in Trump Tower. It just symbolized wealth and success … now it doesn’t symbolize that anymore. It symbolizes racism and ignorance.”
How do these rappers go about selling their audience of how cool someone is after decades to all of sudden trying to convince their audience that the man in no good?
Truthfully, Termanology is a sellout.
He knows that Trump remains the same man. And Termanology also knows that he’s the worst kind of friend.
He and other rappers pretend that Trump doesn’t like the black community, as they attempt to profit off their supposed hatred of Trump.
Is the money worth their souls?
These artists respected Trump for his accomplishments, as Ice Cube explains:
Ice Cube and Kanye get it. And for the record, so do all the other sellout rappers. One day when it’s safe, these cowards will admit to what Kanye now professes.
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By BlondeAtTheFilm on February 4, 2014 • ( 21 Comments )
Paris When It Sizzles (1964)
http://www.impawards.com/1964/paris_when_it_sizzles.html Unless otherwise noted, all images are my own
This movie was pretty widely panned when it came out, and I’ve got to agree with most of the critics. (Have I lost you already?) The first time I saw it I was very disappointed–how could Audrey Hepburn in Paris not be great? But as I’ve watched it since then, I can find more to enjoy. There’s plenty here, even if it isn’t a great movie.
It’s certainly an interesting attempt to make an interesting film with lots of meta-moments and intertextual references.
We’ve got William Holden as Richard Benson, a successful screenwriter who is resting on his previous hits and drinking his impressive fee in Bloody Marys.
Audrey Hepburn is Gabrielle Simpson, a secretary, who is sent in to type up Benson’s new script a few days before his producer is due to arrive in Paris.
Hepburn and Holden had been a great success in 1954’s Sabrina, so they were paired again to recapture that magic. They had also conducted a not-so-secret love affair during production of that film…an affair which Holden never seemed to completely get over.
He was apprehensive about working with her again, though it seems to have gone alright. During the making of Paris When it Sizzles, Hepburn was married to Mel Ferrer, and Holden was drinking very heavily, just like his character.
This movie was written by George Axelrod, who penned several great movies, including the adapted screenplay for Breakfast at Tiffany’s (1961), starring Audrey Hepburn. He based his script on a French film called Holiday for Henrietta (1952) by legendary French filmmaker Julien Duvivier and Henri Jeanson.
We open with a helicopter shot of Cannes’ coast. Alexander Meyerheim (Noël Coward) is the producer who has commissioned Mr. Benson’s script.
He’s doing what all big-time Hollywood producers do: lounging in a luxurious vacation spot, playing some sort of game with the scoreboard on a beautiful woman’s back, and giving dictation to a bikini-clad secretary. You know, typical stuff.
He discusses his new project with his companion, who warns him about Mr. Benson’s reliability. But Meyerheim has faith in him, though he is a little anxious about the script. That’s why he’s heading to Paris in just a few days. You can watch the scene here.
Meanwhile, in Paris, Miss Gabrielle Simpson arrives at Mr. Benson’s swanky apartment to discover that there is no script–Mr. Benson hasn’t written a line.
They’ve got two days to cobble something together to hand to Meyerheim. What antics will ensue? What romance will unfurl in the City of Lights? What Givenchy couture will Hepburn parade?
Ever since Sabrina (1954), Givenchy had designed Hepburn’s costumes and her personal wardrobe, including her clothes for Funny Face, How to Steal a Million, and Charade. He even created a scent for her exclusive use! On this film, Hepburn demanded that he receive, besides the normal costume credit, an onscreen “perfume” credit! Seems pretty silly, but there it is.
Anyway, fortunately for her, Miss Simpson has experience working with unorthodox screenwriters, as on her last assignment with a hip New Wave director named Roger Roussan who likes to write about things that don’t happen:
Richard is not amused. He’s an old-fashioned screenwriter who writes movies with action, clever dialogue, switches-on-switches, and love stories. All that New Wave stuff is a bunch of nonsense, in his opinion. He also has no love for Method actors, which will come up several times in this film.
It’s interesting/amusing to watch this movie for those moments. We’ve got two big Hollywood stars who started in movies during the studio era, and who watched the movie business change around them.
In that way, this movie is a conservative, almost reactionary film railing against the New Wave, method, avant-garde stuff happening all around it. But it also mocks and parodies “good old-fashioned” films, too. (One of its problems is that it can’t decide what it is…)
Anyway, it’s pretty clear that Richard has a drinking problem, and that he feels his best work is behind him. He’s tired, jaded, and buzzed, thanks to an ever-present, somehow always-filled pitcher of Bloody Marys.
Although the movie mocks method actors, in one sad way, William Holden was being pretty method for this film. He was an alcoholic in real life, and his drinking was especially bad when he made this movie.
He would show up on set in the morning, already drunk, with his pet African bush baby (a small primate) on his shoulder. The director of the film, Richard Quine, tried to keep Holden under control; he’d worked with him a few years earlier on The World of Suzie Wong (1960), but Holden was much worse now. Quine rented the house next to Holden to try to keep an eye on him, and he even forced the actor to go into a week of treatment towards the end of production.
Back to the movie. Gabrielle is stunned to find out that Holden hasn’t written a single page.
The script is due in two days–what are they going to do? Get to work, that’s what! Miss Simpson removes her chic jacket and off they go.
Time for the film-within-the-film! We jump from Richard’s suite into his imagination and back again. The only thing Richard has prepared for the movie is a title, so he starts by describing the credit sequence, with loving care lavished on his own credit, and snide comments about the “little people” whom he will mention in his Oscar acceptance speech. As Richard talks and Miss Simpson types, the credits appear:
When Richard gets to the title, he says “Cut to the Eiffel Tower. The main title. The trumpets segue into the inevitable title song. Maybe we can get Sinatra to sing it.” Frank Sinatra’s voice immediately sounds, singing the first lines of a silly title song!
There are some false starts. Richard describes a woman in black standing on the Eiffel Tower checking her watch, then scratches that and moves on to a a scene of a “classically glamorous star, like Marlene Dietrich” pulling up to Christian Dior in her white Rolls Royce, which he changes to a Bentley:
Why, it’s actually Marlene Dietrich! It’s just one of the uncredited cameos sprinkled throughout the movie. According to Holden’s autobiography, in a scene which didn’t make it into the movie, Dietrich strolled into Dior and picked out a white ermine coat. After she finished her half day of work, she asked to keep the coat. George Axelrod, who also produced the film, assumed he’d be able to refuse that request, no problem. He went to talk to Dietrich, and came back a little while later, very pale, to announce that she was keeping the coat…and the car.
Richard scraps the Dietrich-Dior idea, and they start again. Between bad ideas and wild, half-formed scenes, Richard explains that he at least knows how the movie will end:
You can watch the scene here. It seems a little farfetched that Miss Simpson would go along with this type of behavior, but she seems completely taken with Richard. As they chat, we find out that she came to Paris to “live” (ugh). She tells Richard that she has plans to meet a handsome actor for some fun on Bastille Day, which happens to be two days from now.
That sparks Richard’s imagination, and he starts dictating a movie that takes place on Bastille Day and follows a Parisian girl during the celebrations. The girl is to be named Gabby, and Richard says that she looks remarkably like Miss Simpson.
Gabby meets her date for the day at a small cafe. Richard turns him into “one of those method actors who scratches and mumbles and pauses a lot, thereby destroying the impeccable rhythm of the author’s prose.” He describes him as unattractive, but in voiceover Miss Simpson objects, saying that her actual date looks “rather like Tony Curtis.”
Why, it is Tony Curtis!
He plays the “method actor” who mumbles and pauses and sprinkles his lines with “like” and “uh.” The whole thing is really goofy, almost too goofy. One problem about this movie is that no one ever really plays it straight. It would be okay if just the film-within-the-film was goofy and over-the-top, but when the scenes with Richard and Miss Simpson verge into ridiculousness, it becomes too much. There’s no straight man.
Fun fact: Tony Curtis was not originally supposed to be in the film. When Holden went away for his alcoholism treatment, George Axelrod asked Curtis to appear in the movie. He actually has a pretty big role!
Anyway, in Richard’s script, the Tony Curtis character cancels the date with Gabby (he’s got a role in a Roger Roussan-New Wave film called “No Dancing in The Streets” about a Bastille Day when it rains…) You can watch it here.
She’s left sad and alone, until a mysterious stranger arrives and pulls her into a dance. Then we veer off into thriller-territory, with the man telling Gabby to take the hidden microfilm, hit him, and run away. Trench-coated watchers (they went too far on this joke–by the time the 8th spy appears it’s not funny anymore) spy on Gabby and the mysterious stranger:
She hits him and runs, and the trench-coat people give chase. But suddenly Richard intrudes on the scene in voiceover to say: “Spies in trench coats? I’m afraid I got carried away, Miss Simpson. We’ll have to go back.” And then the scene literally rewinds.
Instead of the spies, now the stranger, who is named Rick, by the way…takes Gabby to a long, luxurious lunch with flowers that match Gabby’s cantaloupe-colored dress.
Back in the “real world,” Miss Simpson and Richard enjoy their own long, luxurious lunch. There’s plenty of booze, and Miss Simpson gets tipsy:
Buzzed Miss Simpson tries her hand at screenwriting, and we get to see it all happen. In her version of the movie, Rick has been plying Gabby with alcohol so that he can take her back to his cavernous lair. Suddenly, it’s a vampire movie!
I do find this joke about the vampire’s “lab” with its Bloody Mary fixins’ pretty funny. Fun fact: this was one of the last scenes to be shot. When Holden returned from his weekend break to shoot it, he had a broken arm. (He’d crashed his Ferrari.) So they shortened it, and they hide his slinged-arm under the cape.
Miss Simpson continues with her wild story. Gabby escapes the lair and jumps into a carriage. She takes off, followed by Rick on a horse. Suddenly, it’s a western, complete with Indians!
It switches to a horse racing movie at the last minute, before taking the chase to the skies! Now Gabby shoots down Rick, weeping as his plane falls from the clouds:
At this point, Richard decides it’s time for Miss Simpson to go to bed. That’s probably a good idea.
She retires to her room and we get this nice shot of her updo.
In no time at all, Miss Simpson changes into her jammies, but realizes she’s forgotten her canary outside…Richard is stunned by her pretty nightie, and I’m impressed by the matching hair ribbon, and the impossible volume of hair it holds back.
Anyway, the next morning Miss Simpson awakes, chooses a pretty white frock, and leaves her room to discover a trail of pages!
As she follows the trail, “That Face,” sung by Fred Astaire, plays on the record player. The song is a reference to Hepburn’s film Funny Face (1957) in which Fred Astaire was a fashion photographer and Hepburn was a reluctant model. There’s a scene in Funny Face where Astaire is developing huge close-ups of Hepburn’s face, and eventually he and Hepburn dance to the song “Funny Face” in his lab. You can watch it here.
Richard does a face-framing thing reminiscent of the Astaire number, which ends on a close-up of Hepburn’s face, just like the ones that follow in this film:
Here is the Funny Face scene. It takes place in a darkroom.
Richard sweeps her into a dance, before abruptly removing the needle from the record:
No more dancing! So far we’ve hit a lot of genres: romantic comedy, thriller, vampire, western, war, racing, and musical.
Just in case the Funny Face references weren’t enough for this scene, Richard does this to Miss Simpson’s bangs:
It’s rather like what the barber did to Hepburn’s bangs in Roman Holiday, eh?
Ahh, intertextual references. The movie nerd’s favorite thing. Here’s some more: Richard explains to Miss Simpson that Frankenstein and My Fair Lady are essentially the same story, though one ends happily and the other doesn’t. Audrey Hepburn was about to star in My Fair Lady (1964)…
Richard worked all night on the script. He hands it to Miss Simpson on the terrace and she begins reading. Jump to “The Girl Who Stole the Eiffel Tower!”
Richard picks up the story at that luxurious lunch. In this latest version, Rick is an international criminal being watched by the police. His big job is tonight, and he’s picked up Gabby as camouflage to fool the Inspector dogging his tail.
But here’s a switch! Gabby is a police informant, and her actor date (Tony Curtis) is a policeman! They’re all working together to bring down Rick!
Rick takes Gabby to a movie studio. His plan is to steal all the prints of a just finished film called “The Girl Who Stole the Eiffel Tower” and then blackmail the producer. It’s all going swimmingly until Gabby makes a mistake and Richard realizes that she’s working with the police. Off they go on a chase through the backlot. It reminds me of the “You Were Meant for Me” number in Singin’ in the Rain (1952) with its use of movie magic on the backlot, but without the dancing.
Gabby flees through a jungle set and cornered in an absurd bedroom.
Once there, she almost shoots Rick, before revealing her bluff and her past as a “prostitute with a heart of gold.”
In the writing world, Richard explains to Miss Simpson that the “P with the H of G” is a character impossible to mess up and very reliable…a veiled reference to Hepburn’s role in Breakfast at Tiffany’s. He also makes a comment about a cat in the rain in a deserted alley…
Anyway, Gabby takes down her hair, revealing the draping on the back of her dress before flipping her hair around with sultry abandon. She tells Rick that although she is a creature of the streets, she’s still a professional.
Eventually they find themselves tangled on the bed…dissolve.
Miss Simpson is astounded at the turn of events! She’s also worried that the censors would never allow that last scene, but Richard ensures her that the dissolve keeps them decent. They could be playing parcheesi on the bed, after all! It’s rather amusing, because dissolves are, and remain, a handy technique for signaling that time has gone by or for covering up something risqué.
Earlier in the movie, Richard had elaborated on the usefulness of dissolves for speeding up time, then the film used a dissolve to cut from the beginning of Richard and Miss Simpson’s lunch to the end. Meta fun!
Anyway, after an (acknowledged) gratuitous bathtub scene:
…Gabby and Rick head to the costume party at the Eiffel Tower. Rick raids the studio’s costume collection. He’s a cowboy, she’s a princess or something. I’m disappointed in Hepburn’s costume for this scene. It looks like something you could buy at any Renaissance Faire, and they could have taken anything from the studio’s costume department! They had a perfectly rational excuse to do something crazy.
The party is an excessive, lascivious gathering featuring a cameo by Hepburn’s husband Mel Ferrer (as Dr. Jeckyll/Mr. Hyde), a Charlie Chaplin Little Tramp impersonator, Alexander Meyerheim as the producer, and some dancing ladies.
Rick makes his play, despite the policeman watching his every move.
Some things happen, Tony Curtis makes another appearance, Mel Ferrer turns into a hairy beast, Casablanca’s famous airport scene gets a big reference, and this happens:
But that’s just the ending of the film-within-the-film. Miss Simpson hates it, but the work is finished. She leaves. But forgets her bird…a “B-picture device” to reunite the couple if Richard has ever seen one! He brings the canary back to her at the small cafe where Gabby met Rick to find Miss Simpson with her Bastille Day date. She’s got her eye out for Richard, though:
What will happen? Does Miss Simpson have a tendency to fall for damaged men because she thinks she can change them? Is Richard really all washed up? Will anyone pay him to write a movie after all of that hogwash?
Who cares? Hepburn is in a pink party dress with a cute bow in her hair, and there are fireworks and fountains on Bastille Day, plus a final meta-moment:
Hepburn later said that this was one of her least favorite films, although she enjoyed making it.
http://onthesetwithaudreyhepburn.tumblr.com/post/64995660200/paris-when-it-sizzles-1964-the-cutenessss-of
Production started off a little rocky for her, though; she saw the dailies and thought she was being filmed in a very unflattering way.
So, she lobbied to have cinematographer Claude Renoir fired from the film. Renoir was the grandson of Pierre Auguste Renoir (Impressionist master) and nephew of Jean Renoir, extremely famous and important filmmaker. You can imagine the uproar Hepburn caused–you can’t fire a Renoir in France!
The unions threatened to strike, but to his credit, Renoir negotiated a truce and helped get Charles Lang hired to replace him. Lang was the cinematographer on Sabrina, and Hepburn liked the way he filmed her, so she was happy. Production continued! Fun fact: Lang also worked on Charade and How to Steal a Million.
Fun fact: Just two days after finishing production on this film, Hepburn began work on Charade (1963) with Cary Grant. It also took place in Paris, and shares some locations with Paris When It Sizzles; for instance, the same Punch and Judy puppet theater near the Theatre Marigny appears during the credits of Paris When It Sizzles, and there’s a fairly long scene there in Charade.
If you’re looking for one of the less famous Audrey Hepburn films, and you like references and meta-commentary, and an art-imitating-life-imitating-art with movies within movies, this is the film for you! Here’s the trailer, enjoy!
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Categories: Comedy
Tagged as: 1960s, Audrey Hepburn, Charles Lang, George Axelrod, Givenchy, Marlene Dietrich, Mel Ferrer, Noel Coward, Paramount, Paris, Richard Quine, Tony Curtis, William Holden
Jay Bee says:
This was an extremely interesting read! I hated this movie when I first saw it ages ago (it came in a box set of Audrey Hepburn films) but I have to admit that your take on it made me appreciate it a little bit more. 🙂
BlondeAtTheFilm says:
Thanks, Jay Bee! I really didn’t like it either but it has grown on me! Glad you enjoyed the post!
Grand Old Movies says:
I haven’t seen this film, but it sounds like one of those projects where a bunch of clever undergraduates toss ideas and laugh at their own jokes and don’t take the time to step back and see how it really plays. Still, I’m curious to see it; it does sound like an American attempt at a New Wave film while simultaneously sending up New Wave filmmaking, without making up its mind what it actually wants to be.
That’s a great description of the movie! Thanks for reading! Let me know what you think if you watch it!
Niall McGarrigle says:
‘an affair which Holden never seemed to completely get over…’. Can’t blame the chap. Obviously that look in his eyes towards the end of The Wild Bunch was not just ‘acting’. Have yet to see this film, but look forward to doing so after your wonderful breakdown. He’s one of my favourite (and always forgtten about, in some ways) actors and watching Audrey on screen for a couple of hours is as good as any eye balm.
Glad you enjoyed this review, Niall! Holden is pretty amazing, and you can’t go wrong with Miss Hepburn! Thanks for reading!
Charles Callahan says:
This picture is a guilty pleasure for me. Not so hot, but I like it lots. That Face was written by Lew Spence and Alan Bergman for Fred Astaire and recorded in 1957. Mr. Bergman was courting his future wife Marilyn. She loved Asatire’s voice. That sealed the deal. They married. Alan and Marilyn that is.
Thanks, Charles! Thanks so much for reading!
Loretta Seamans says:
I’m simply MAD for Wm Holden. What a sad ending was his. Alcohol screws up lots of people’s lives.
He was wonderful to watch! Very sad.
James Sapsard says:
Reblogged this on James Sapsard – Writer for a Generation. and commented:
A fantastic post on a fabulous blog.
Barbara Anne Dr Feo says:
James, you did a great job, as usual telling the history of this film, also the history of the actors life in reality. Very through and very interesting. Very talented in all you do. Thank you…Angela
Forgot to mention…great stills !
This post was actually written by me on TheBlondeAtTheFilm.com and shared by James on his site, but I’m glad you enjoyed it! Thanks for reading!
fahrizinfa says:
i really like this movie so much. Maybe the story isn’t too interesting.. but William Holden and Audrey Hepburn is really charming for me…
Thanks a lot for the review! 😀
Rayati says:
Great review! The reason why I mostly enjoyed this movie when I first saw it (although it hasn’t got a BIG place in my heart) was because of the many movie and show business references, of course, but also because I could relate to the struggle of writing lousy and extremely far-fetched first drafts, being an aspiring filmmaker and writing story ideas myself.
Thank you! That’s a great point; it does have a lot of fun “insider” stuff about the industry and writing!
lividemerald2013 says:
Just watched it again for maybe the third or fourth time. It really is a crazy film, but also quite clever, and Holden and Hepburn are very entertaining. I appreciated your review!
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Where To Eat In Coyoacán, Mexico City
Coyoacán | © Fido/Flickr
Lauren Cocking
Northern England Writer
Updated: 18 September 2016
Coyoacán is a vibrant neighbourhood of Mexico City, perhaps best known for being the birth, life and death place of popular artist Frida Kahlo. However, it is also one of the best areas in the city for food – from street food, to desserts and everything in between, these are the top places you should be eating at next time you’re in Coyoacán.
Mercado de Coyoacán/ Tostadas de Coyoacán
Market, Restaurant, Mexican
Tostadas de Coyoacán | © Enrique Vázquez/Flickr & FlyingCrimsonPig/Flickr
A famed spot in Coyoacán is the sprawling market, which is known for its fantastic food, Mercado de Coyoacán is a classic dining destination and one at which you can’t go wrong. While you can grab a version of pretty much anything you want here – think tacos, gorditas, enchiladas – the place to be is the Tostadas de Coyoacán stall. This popular spot sells crispy tortillas (tostadas) topped with all manner of delicious food combinations, such as octopus, ceviche and cochinita pibil.
No.49 Ignacio Allende, Del Carmen Ciudad de México, Ciudad de México, 4100, Mexico
Super Tacos Chupacabra
From taco stand to popular permanent location, this Super Tacos Chupacabras branch continues to offer up the classic street food taco fillings, like longaniza, beef and pork, except now from a more fixed location. Load your tortilla with the salad and salsa freebies that are offered at this excellent spot and enjoy your nighttime treat. Perfect pre- or post-night out, Super Tacos Chupacabra won’t disappoint.
Super Tacos Chupacabra, Avenida México Coyoacán Sn Local 1, Xoco, Del Carmen, Ciudad de México, México
Super Tacos Chupacabra | © Chris Robinson/Flickr
Café Negro
Cafe, Market, Sandwich Shop, Dessert Shop, Coffee, $$$
Coffee | © jen/Flickr
If you want somewhere a little less hectic than the market, instead head to Café Negro, a welcoming spot just off the central garden. Alongside the typical roster of chai teas, Americanos and lattes, they also serve up some delicious sandwiches in a variety of flavour combinations. Still not satisfied? Treat yourself to a dessert in the form of a soft pretzel or a churro.
16 Centenario, Coyoacán Ciudad de México, Ciudad de México, 4000, Mexico
La Casa del Pan Papalotl
If you’re a fan of organic food but not so happy about the prices normally charged for such dishes, La Casa del Pan Papalotl is a fantastic middle ground option. Drop by for the breakfast packets, which include juice and coffee, or just order whichever of the other well-prepared and exquisitely sourced dishes that takes your fancy. We recommend trying out any one of the artisanal breads that they dish up here.
La Casa del Pan Papalotl, Av. México #25-B, Coyoacan, Del Carmen, Ciudad de México, México, +52 55 3095 1767
Artisanal bread | © M Dreibelbis/Flickr
El Merendero
Diner, Restaurant, Mexican, American, $$$
Milkshakes | © Kurman Communications, Inc./Flickr
For something a little different in this ostensibly Mexican neighbourhood, El Merendero is a restaurant putting a twist on the typical dining experience. This 1950s themed restaurant serves typical American diner dishes, such as delicious hamburgers, rich milkshakes and fluffy pancakes. With quirky names for each dish, it certainly makes for an unforgettable experience in Coyoacán.
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Calle Higuera 22, Barrio La Concepción, La Concepción Coyoacán, 4020, Mexico
La Barraca Valenciana
Most well-known for its tortas (sandwiches), La Barraca Valenciana is a stalwart of the Coyoacán dining scene and continues to be so – with good reason. As the name suggests, they also serve up some Spanish specialities, such as paella. The perfect option for those who are tiring of tacos, La Barraca Valenciana also has an impressive selection of lesser known chelas (beers).
La Barraca Valenciana, Av. Centenario 91 C, Coyoacán, Del Carmen, Ciudad de México, México, +52 55 5658 1880
Paella | © Phillippe Gama/Flickr
Corazón de Maguey
Restaurant, Mexican, Vegetarian, $$$
Mezcal | © Aaron Jacobs/Flickr
Another famed Coyoacán restaurant is Corazón de Maguey, attracting visitors as well as locals through its doors on a regular basis. Owned by the same people who run Los Danzantes (another great Coyoacán option, while we’re on the subject), this informal spot is always plenty busy. With a selection of Oaxacan dishes, it’s great if you want to try something a little more unusual. Don’t forget to try some mezcalwhile you’re there. DESSERTS
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9A Parque Centenario, Coyoacán Ciudad de México, Ciudad de México, 4000, Mexico
La Casa de los Helados
If all things cold and creamy are your bag, then La Casa de los Helados is the place for you: it does just what it says on the tin and serves up innumerable ice cream options. Combine your flavour selection with a waffle, stick it in a cone or even just eat it from a simple tub. Whichever one you go for, you won’t be disappointed. The banana split here is particularly good.
La Casa de los Helados, Centenario 35, Coyoacán, Del Carmen, Ciudad de México, México, +52 55 5554 5151
Ice cream | © jen/Flickr
Technically a café, you may wonder why we’ve placed La Ruta de la Seda with the ‘dessert’ options. Well, to put it simply, the cakes, pies and sweet snacks that are on offer here are divine and make this place well worth visiting for the puddings alone. Try out a slice of green tea cake on your next romantic date for two here.
La Ruta de la Seda, Calle Aurora 1, Coyoacán, Del Carmen, Ciudad de México, México, +52 55 3869 4888
Green tea cake | © Omid Tavallai/Flickr
Churrería General de la República
Churros are ubiquitous across Mexico City, and in the region of Coyoacán the situation is no different. However, if you want to grab a coffee and a seat with your sugary, doughy treat – rather than picking one up from a street vendor – the original Churrería General de la República is the perfect option. With all kinds of churros from stuffed to simple, sweet to savoury, it’s a great place to pick up a bite.
Churrería General de la República, Av. Fracisco Sosa 1, Av Francisco Sosa 1, Del Carmen, Ciudad de México, México, +52 55 6830 5637
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Dealing with bully/rogue consular official
My wife and will be traveling to Italy for vacations and she is from a country that requires a visa. This is usually not a problem, as she has obtained travel visas to several other countries including the US and Ireland. However, we are running into problems that we now believe are due to a rogue immigrations official at the Italian Consulate in Buenos Aires, who is willfully disregarding EU law.
She had originally approached the consular official with the typical proof of funds, proof of accommodation, and international insurance. He denied her based on the format of her proof of funds (which had been prepared by her accountant in a similar way to those that had been accepted in all other countries).
Then we realized that different rules apply to her since she is the wife of an Irish national (me). She only needs to show my passport and an apostilled marriage certificate. She returned with this and still he claimed that he required proof of funds.
She returned again with printed EU law clarifying that he was not allowed to request those documents, and he then looked at my passport and our marriage certificate and noticed that my name has a small modification (one middle name on the marriage cert and 2 on my Irish passport). This is a common problem since I have two passports (USA and Irish). My USA only has one middle name (my parents claimed that there was only space for one when they got my passport a long time ago). This has trickled down to my current ID (in Argentina) and marriage certificate. The official said he couldn't accept this (even though I was in the room and showed him both passports).
The Irish embassy said this was a common problem and wrote a letter in official Irish Consular letterhead that certified the equivalence of the names. And once again the Italian official denied it saying it was "meaningless."
There is plenty of EU law that supports the right of a citizen to travel freely with his family and guard against "divergent administrative practices". On the other hand, I have no idea how to defend myself when these practices are violated.
This has been going on for a month and a half, and we're now very close to canceling a family vacation (non-refundable) due to a single consular official! Any advice?
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Just modify your itinerary (on paper) and apply from a different Schengen embassy. Don’t waste your time trying to outlast this officer who is on a power trip. In the past I have applied for and been approved for six or seven Schengen visas. In four of those cases I applied from the easiest embassy and didn’t even visit the country which issued me the visa. I have no compunction violating unreasonable visa rules. – user 56513 Apr 16 at 1:37
Thanks, that seems like the best way to approach this. Any suggestions in finding who is the easiest? – liamconnell Apr 16 at 13:38
Well I found the Spanish embassy to be the easiest and the Germans to be the toughest in the Washington DC area with France in between. I can’t tell about your location. Also check availability of interview slots. – user 56513 Apr 16 at 13:48
I don't have a great solution for you, but here are some options, too long for a comment:
There's SOLVIT. I suspect that the timeframe of 10 weeks may be longer than you have, but they may be able to resolve the question more quickly than that. (Furthermore, I am unfamiliar with EU law on divergent administrative practices, but the free-movement directive does not establish standards for the evaluation of family relationships. That implies that this is left to national law, so it may be difficult to challenge the officer's recognition of your documents except within the Italian system. Still, it can't hurt to try the easier options first.)
You could try another country's consulate. That could be difficult if you can't easily change your trip to make that country your "main destination."
If Ireland registers foreign marriages, you might be able to get them to register your marriage with your Irish name, which might help, but that's a lot of ifs. In particular, it does not appear at first glance that Ireland registers foreign marriages.
You can also of course try to apply for a regular Schengen visa, submitting appropriate financial proofs that are acceptable to the consulate. The consular officer will gloat, but if that is the price for not having to cancel your vacation then it may be worth humbling yourself just to get through it and get your wife on the plane.
In the longer term, you should be able to get your US passport corrected. Even though there's only a single spot on the application for "middle name," it should be possible to put two words there. I would also look into the possibility of getting the marriage certificate changed or amended; whether that will be possible will depend on the law of the place where you were married, which you haven't identified.
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Authentic Self
Raising a bilingual child raises questions of identity.
By Tracy Franz
The author's son in Japan
Over the summer holiday, my son became bilingual.
That’s probably not technically correct, but that’s certainly my experience of what happened. We flew to the United States in August—our first family trip home in three years—and then, after about a week and a half, Boy started speaking English. Fluently.
Anyone observing our son in his current Japanese context would assume him to be a native speaker of English. Old women passing us on the streets in our neighborhood frequently gasp at his Day-Glo pale skin, his somber cuteness. Some lean in close, pat his head, and try out a few phrases, thinking perhaps this will put him at ease: Hello? Name? How old?
These words are gifts. I know the women are trying to be generous—they are being generous—but it is always exactly the wrong thing to say. He clutches at my legs, refuses to speak, his gaze falling to his shoes.
Often, he doesn’t know what is being said or asked of him. After all, Mama and Papa’s English doesn’t sound like that. “He speaks Japanese,” I explain again and again. “He goes to day care here.” The conversation is always a lost cause from that point on, though. Those kindly old women must think it’s very sweet that I think my boy speaks Japanese.
If pressed, my husband and I would say our son’s first word was “moon”—he screamed “mooooooo!!!” every time that glowing orb appeared in the pages of a picture book, or in the night sky outside his window. But he was saying a lot before that—a garbled mess of nonsense baby talk, or “babbling,” according to the experts. One day, our friend Naomi visited us, and we realized that she understood him.
Koun, my husband, is a translator and an interpreter—and I know enough Japanese to get by in my day-to-day life in Kumamoto—but only Naomi could hear through the mush-mouthed sound that was his first attempt at language: aru (it exists) and nai (it doesn’t exist), the two most essential verbs in the Japanese language.
After that, we started really hearing him, too. There was cho-cho (butterfly), itai (It hurts!), koko (here), iya da (No/I don’t like it!), densha (train), and wanwan (doggie). And then for a time it was mostly just densha, screamed with gusto, over and over, at every possible opportunity, even just at the thought of one.
I know that children’s language skills pick up dramatically in the second year of life. It’s a developmental fact. But I will always wonder when, exactly, this transition from not having to having began for my son. We don’t know because we couldn’t hear him.
After we had returned from our holiday to the United States, Boy had become, for me, an entirely new person. I knew him—deeply knew him—as a person who spoke primarily Japanese, save for a few English words thrown in here and there to fill in missing concepts.
And now I know him as an English speaker almost exclusively—so much so that I often forget that Japanese self of his. I forget that it is there, always, that it is a real and true part of him. And so, I am sometimes shocked into recognition by little things—how he becomes Japanese the moment we enter the gates of his day care center, how he brags to the pizza delivery man about his own superfast motorbike, how he happily chats away to the lady up the street who brings us vegetables from her garden.
Inside the boundaries of our home, I often don’t see my Japanese boy. But sometimes he comes out in a word, a phrase, a mannerism. Occasionally, he turns entirely into his other self. The other day, my husband asked Boy how to say something in Japanese—I don’t remember the word now—but it was a trigger. He was Japanese until bedtime, and the next day, he awoke in English.
What is my son’s authentic self? I think this is what a person might ask if they’d never spent time immersed in another language or culture. It must be hard to believe that a person can truly be more than one person—and not have some kind of serious mental disorder. I think in the West, especially, we want to say a person is like this, or a person is like that. But that can’t tell the whole story.
I have come to understand, sometimes grudgingly, that we are many people, depending on our contexts, on our relationships. I know, for example, that there is a kind of core nature to myself—a set of ethics and patterns that I tend to work from—but who I am at home is probably not exactly who I am at work; who I am talking to my husband is not who I am writing this. And that doesn’t make the concept of me any less authentic in any of those instances. They are all me. And that goes for my kids too. Now our daughter is edging toward 2, toward that magical linguistic window.
We’re not certain this time either, but we think her first word was nai—“It doesn’t exist.”
From Lotus Petals in the Snow: Voices of Canadian Buddhist Women, edited by Tanya McGinnity. Reprinted with permission of The Sumeru Press, www.sumeru-books.com. Copyright 2016 by the author.
Tracy Franz is a writer and the wife of a Zen Buddhist priest. Her musings on Zen, parenting, and place can be found at One Continuous Mistake, continuousmistake.com.
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While You were Sleeping….. America’s Newest Space Shuttle has been in Space for more than 10 months!
As with everything in politics, the smallest things were made to seem astronomically terrible. This was the case with the ending of America‘s Manned Space Shuttle program, that flew for more than 30 years. Many thought that it was the the end of America’s dominance in space. But what many Americans didnt realize, was that the United States Air Force had already had developed, tested and launched it’s replacement.
Using all the data from 30 years of manned Space Shuttle flight, Drone advancements, and modern technological advances, America’s newest Space Shuttle, The Super Secret X-37B has been in space circling the Earth for over 10 months. that may not seem like a very long time, but consider that the longest Space Shuttle Mission was that of the Columbia in 1996, which lasted only 17 Days 15 Hours 53 Minutes 18 Seconds.
Built by Boeing’s Phantom Works, the X-37B spacecraft is approximately 29 feet (8.8 meters) long and 15 feet (4.5 meters) wide. It has a payload bay about the size of a Ford F-250 pickup truck. The X-37B resembles a miniature version of NASA’s space shuttle, in fact, two X-37Bs could fit inside the 60-foot (18-meter) cargo bay of a space shuttle comfortably. But make no mistake about it, America’s Newest Super Secret Shuttle has a military and not civilian background and intent.
The X-37B’s current mission and payload is classified, but it has been widely speculated that it’s current voyage is actually a spy mission.
Brid-Aine Parnell of The Register UK writes……..
The US Air Force’s second mysterious mini-space shuttle, the X-37B, could be spying on China‘s space laboratory and the first piece of its space station, Tiangong-1.
Amateur space trackers told the British Interplanetary Society publication Spaceflight that the black-funded spaceplane seemed to be orbiting the Earth in tandem with Tiangong_1, or the Heavenly Palace, leading the magazine to speculate that its unknown mission is to spy on it.
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Apparently, the Sheppard subway could see a giant chunk of funding come from the private sector
By Stephen Spencer Davis | February 3, 2012
By Stephen Spencer Davis | 02/03/2012
Gordon Chong, the man Rob Ford tapped to create a plan for financing the Sheppard subway, now says the private sector could foot up to 60 per cent of the bill for the mayor’s favourite transit fantasy. Given that Chong’s earlier predictions weren’t quite so rosy, the report’s outlook is surprisingly optimistic, which is good news for the Ford camp. Not so good for Ford, however, is Chong’s suggestion that the city needs to look into revenue sources like parking levies and road tolls (a method for financing the project that Ford previously stated was not on the table) if it’s to begin construction before the end of the current council term. Of course, as OpenFile’s John Michael McGrath points out, none of this is particularly groundbreaking. We always knew taxes could fund subways, and by extension, that taxes could fund the Sheppard extension. Of course, while Ford is fond of saying he was elected with a mandate to build subways, we’re guessing he wouldn’t feel the same way about a mandate to implement new taxes. Read the entire story [Globe and Mail] »
(Images: Rob Ford, Christopher Drost; Yonge-Sheppard subway, gloom)
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W. K. Lis says:
Remember Quebec-Gothic development of the 1970’s? That is when developers bought up low and medium density houses north of Bloor Street and High Park to build high-rise (heavy density) buildings. Since heavy density is needed for subways, it seemed the next logically step. However, the residents in the area were opposed. This lead to community associations, reform councillors from the area, and David Miller (who lived in the area).
For a subway along Sheppard, they need heavy density. The city would get development fees (remember that Mississauga got a lot of revenue from development fees until undeveloped land was or is being used up) and larger sources of property taxes. However, it also means more community involvement as opposition to the high-rises would become apparent. It might not be their house, it could be their neighbour or the ones across the street or the next block that gets converted to high-rises.
You want subways. Be careful what you wish for. You may not need subways, but may need rapid transit in the form of light rail which only needs medium density to support it.
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Reasons to Love Toronto Now: because Eugene Levy and Catherine O’Hara are the Schitt
By Jason McBride | June 11, 2015
By Jason McBride | 06/11/2015
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It’s been a long time since the CBC has had a genuine, spit-out-your-smoothie hit on its hands. This year, however, the network released Schitt’s Creek, a fresh, acerbic sitcom made must-see by the small-screen reunion of Catherine O’Hara and Eugene Levy. The SCTV alums star as Moira and Johnny Rose, one-per-centers who lose their fortune and are forced to relocate to the titular backwater, which Johnny once bought as a joke. The Roses and their spoiled adult kids—played by newcomer Annie Murphy and Levy’s real-life son and eyebrow twin, Dan—must contend with poverty, the decrepit motel they now call home and endless ribbing from the quirky townspeople. Moira, a pill-popping ex–soap opera star with an endless supply of wigs, owes something to Arrested Development’s Lucille Bluth, but the character is leavened by O’Hara’s seductive goofiness. Levy, meanwhile, gives his perplexed patriarch a subtle fortitude. Even in a golden age of comedic TV duos (the Broad City girls, Key and Peele), O’Hara and Levy are still the undisputed king and queen.
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3 thoughts on “Reasons to Love Toronto Now: because Eugene Levy and Catherine O’Hara are the Schitt”
I watched the first episode when it came out and I wasn’t hooked… maybe I should give it another try?
Ray Ulbikas says:
How can you not love anything with Catherine O’Hara & Eugene Levy?? A big fan of these 2 Canuckians (Canuck and Icon) and all they have been involved with. Watch SCTV and the amazing characters they became with and you will get it; EH!
TorontoZen says:
The 3rd episode really did it for me. I say give it another try!
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Conflicts, Interaction, Everyone conflicts, Everyone interactions
Everyone and Courtney
This article focuses on the interactions between everyone and Courtney.
Courtney's overbearing attitude earns her a bad reputation from her teammates.
While her behavior tends to vary by season, the two things that never change about Courtney are her obsession with winning and overall aggressiveness. Several times, she has shown to value the prize money over her friends and the lives of the other contestants. In her earliest days on the show, she completely focused on her team winning at all costs, although the rest of the team quickly becomes visibly annoyed by her constantly bossing them around. They are also similarly annoyed by her costing them certain challenges, which they perceive as hypocrisy on her part.
In Total Drama Action, livid about not qualifying for the second season, she sues the show and is later permitted to compete. Taking over Justin's role as the main antagonist of the season, it doesn't take long before her ruthlessness makes her the outcast of the remaining competitors. Only Duncan, whose tolerance begins to wear thin as well, is shown to still like her, despite their many clashes. The settlement of her lawsuit allows her to stay in contact with her lawyers at all times, and she often threatens to call them should something not go her way. In addition, she is also given several privileges not afforded to the other contestants, such as lavish meals, access to better facilities and is allowed to carry her PDA with her.
In Total Drama World Tour and Total Drama All-Stars, while still disliked by her fellow competitors, Courtney is more in control of herself than she is in season two, at least as long as a great betrayal is not the topic of discussion. She does not make a good first impression with the season four newcomers, though she does manage to find love with one of them and she even mends an old friendship. However, just as things start to look up, her desire for victory once again overtakes her and causes her downfall, in addition to breaking whatever positive ties she had left with the remaining contestants. Despite her declining popularity, Courtney at one point insists that the other contestants like her and also believes that she is considered a heroic person, suggesting she is unaware of the consequences of her actions unlike other antagonists.
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Alejandro charming Courtney in Picnic at Hanging Dork.
Although Alejandro does not specifically go after Courtney early in the season, he eventually works with Duncan into playing with the emotional weakness she has developed after Duncan and Gwen kissed each other, thereby starting a new relationship. Alejandro continues his affiliation with her throughout the season that he is doing this to get her eliminated, and the two form a bond that is more of an attraction than a conflict on Courtney's side. Nevertheless, Alejandro uses her to get himself further in the competition. By the time Total Drama All-Stars started, Courtney appears to have lost her attraction towards Alejandro and soon becomes an enemy of him.
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Courtney and Beth's conflict ends their short-lived alliance.
Once Courtney returns to the competition in Total Drama Action, she is placed on the Killer Grips, where she and Beth start to clash due to Courtney's unfair rules and treatment of her fellow teammates. Out of all of Beth's interactions on Total Drama, Beth has one of the most combative relationships with Courtney, mostly due to Courtney trying to force Beth to start an alliance with her, as well as her being equally mean to her best friend, Lindsay. Beth tries to vote off Courtney several times and finally succeeds in Top Dog.
Courtney taunts Blaineley that she can defeat her in a tie-breaker.
In Niagara Brawls, Courtney makes fun of Blaineley during the latter's debut song. In the next episode, the two vote for each other, and end up with the same amount of votes. Courtney assumes they will compete in a tie-breaker, and claims to Blaineley that she can easily defeat her due to her being experienced in a similar situation before. However, Chris decides to eliminate the both of them instead in order to save the show's budget.
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Bridgette and Courtney enjoy some stolen desserts.
Bridgette and Courtney were teammates on the Killer Bass in the first season. Despite their contrasting personalities, the two girls got along and formed a friendship, confiding in each other about their respective love interests at the time. Although they have not had much interaction after the first season, Bridgette has remained one of the only people Courtney had any friendly interaction with.
Courtney makes fun of Cameron in No One Eggspects The Spanish Opposition.
During Courtney's short period in the Heroic Hamsters, she has little opinion on Cameron, finding him useless and describes his friendship with Sierra weird. Courtney is transferred to the Villainous Vultures in Saving Private Leechball, with Cameron following her two episodes later. His addition to the Vultures excites Courtney as this will transfer her "newbie status" to him and vows to eliminate him the next time their team loses. On his first day in his new team, tells Cameron that he shouldn't bother fixing his broken glasses, as he won't be in the game much longer.
In Zeek And Ye Shall Find, Mal convinces Cameron to kiss Courtney so that he may cause a problem in her relationship with Scott and possibly get Scott on their side, which Cameron really enjoyed (as it is his first kiss). However under instructions from Mal, Cameron accuses Courtney of kissing him, shifting Scott's anger towards her.
In The Obsta-Kill Kourse, despite Cameron's elimination, Courtney still appears to be annoyed with him. She mentions him several times in the episode and continues to insist that he is the one who kissed her. At the same time, she seems to be glad that Cameron is gone, as it gave her a chance to try and fix things with Scott.
Chef Hatchet
Courtney and Chef have had limited interactions, with one exception being in Basic Straining when she tells Chef to take a chill pill, causing him to become frustrated. In Picnic at Hanging Dork, Chef has to pull Courtney out of the confessional after she stamps Gwen's passport too many times.
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Courtney demanding a prize from Chris in Get a Clue.
Chris and Courtney have a long, complicated conflict which started when she threatened to sue to show for her unfair elimination in Total Drama Island. When she came back, however, Chris seems to change his attitude towards Courtney and actually seems to enjoy her presence on the show, due to all of the drama she creates. However, this does not completely override his grudge against her for suing the show, which caused Chris's salary to be sliced in half.
Courtney easily overpowers Cody in Hawaiian Punch.
Courtney doesn't view Cody highly. While they have little to no interaction in the first season, conflict between the two intensifies two seasons later when Cody and Courtney are placed on the same team.
In the special episode of Total Drama Island, Cody and his team fell into Courtney's hot air balloon after obtaining the million dollar case. Courtney threatens them that she will throw them off the basket unless they surrenders the case to her, saying that she didn't even like him or his group that much anyway. Later on, when the group climbs up to the basket, Courtney immediately strangles Cody.
In Total Drama World Tour, Cody is often viewed as a weak teammate by Courtney when they are placed on the same team. After Gwen is caught kissing Courtney's boyfriend, Cody attempts to protect his crush from Courtney's wrath for several episodes. He tries to vote her off in Picnic at Hanging Dork, but due to his injuries from a dingo, he accidentally votes for Sierra instead and Gwen to be eliminated after failing to complete the tie-breaker challenge. In Sweden Sour, Cody's constant sighing due to Gwen's elimination earns him a scolding from Courtney. After their team lost the challenge, Cody plans to vote for Courtney but is disappointed to find out that it is a non-elimination round.
Even when Cody reaches the final three, Courtney still doesn't think highly of him and supports Alejandro instead. In an exclusive clip of Hawaiian Style, Courtney insults Cody by saying she deserved to be in the final three more than him, calling him "nerdy" and even saying she sings better than him. During the tie-beaker challenge to determine the final two, Courtney cheers for Alejandro and is the only person who is unconcerned with Cody almost getting killed (other than Tyler, who was unconscious). The two of them later face off as the finalists' helpers, where at one point, Courtney narrowly misses slashing Cody with a machete. He then tackles her to the ground, but she quickly overpowers him and pins him down. After distracting Alejandro, Cody knocks Courtney off of him and steals her machete.
Courtney's lawyers
"We are gonna sue the pants off this show, Michael!"
With the help of her lawyers, Courtney is able to debut midway in Total Drama Action and occasionally calls them whenever things did not go her way. Although highly dependent on them, Courtney doesn't really like her lawyers, calling them "pathetic" for losing her first lawsuit against the show, and becoming frustrated whenever they give her an "out-of-office reply" while trying to contact them.
In Phobia Factor, after DJ gets scared of the snake when it blinks, Courtney gets irritated since the snake is so small. When DJ begins describing why he hates the snake, Courtney yells at him, saying they need the point and tells him to suck it up.
In Total Drama, Drama, Drama, Drama Island, DJ's group ends up getting caught in the hot air balloon that Courtney is using. When DJ tells the rest of his group that he is sure Courtney wouldn't let them fall to their deaths, Courtney says that she would in fact have no problem letting them fall, seeing how she didn't like him, Owen, Cody, or Tyler that much anyway.
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Duncan and Courtney compete against each other in Million Dollar Babies.
Even though Courtney and Duncan were a couple, the dysfunctional nature of their relationship has often pitted them at against each other. Throughout Total Drama Action, they put their relationship aside and compete fiercely against each other though Courtney often came out victorious. By Top Dog, their relationship has ended after Duncan voted her off and Courtney broke up with him. Though they get back together in the finale of Total Drama Action, they broke up again in Total Drama World Tour after Courtney discovers out that Duncan cheated on her with Gwen and the two become mortal enemies again. Two seasons later, Courtney's hatred for Duncan hasn't let up and ignores him whenever Duncan tries to get her attention, even when he attempts to warn her about Mal.
Eva, like the rest of the Killer Bass, shows a great dislike towards Courtney for her bossy attitude. Likewise, Courtney shows fear in Eva's hot temper. In Not So Happy Campers - Part 2, Eva criticized Courtney when she is unable to lift her crate and complained when she gets a splinter. Eva then calls her "Chicken", referring to how Courtney was too afraid to jump off the cliff earlier and had to wear a chicken hat.
In The Big Sleep, Courtney starts to complain about Eva in the confessional, stating how much trouble she causes in just a few days due to her anger issues. When Eva's MP3 player goes missing, she immediately accuses the others until Heather (who stole it earlier in the episode) returns it. Courtney joins the rest of the Killer Bass in voting off Eva that night. When Courtney sarcastically says goodbye to Eva, she throws a sharp stick at her, which Courtney narrowly evades. In the following episode, she admits that she is regretful of voting out Eva due to her athletic skills, which could have helped them in the challenge.
In Haute Camp-ture, Eva, along with many of the others, denied knowing about Courtney's unfair elimination, adding that she didn't care about the issue anyway.
In Not So Happy Campers - Part 2, Ezekiel is picking is nose while sitting next to Courtney, much to the latter's disgusts. Ezekiel indirectly spared Courtney from being eliminated by taking the target off her back and putting it on himself instead after he gives out sexist remarks about boys being stronger than girls. Courtney votes for Ezekiel that night and glares at him like the other girls. She also knocks Ezekiel out with a lamp post in Haute Camp-ture after he tells her to stop complaining about her unfair elimination.
Geoff shushes Courtney as she is about to sing.
Geoff apparently doesn't seem to dislike Courtney as much as the other contestants. In Up the Creek, Courtney shows some frustration with Geoff several times (whether it is laughing at him, or exaggerating his leg injury). She also does not understand or even like the craft gift Geoff gives to Bridgette, suggesting when it breaks that she won't take the time to fix it, even though Bridgette says otherwise that she would want to. In Hawaiian Style, when Courtney tries to sing a song about her hatred for Duncan and Gwen, Geoff puts his hand over her mouth to stop her.
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Courtney's friendship with Gwen ends again in Sundae Muddy Sundae.
Although both girls have limited interaction in the first season, conflict arises between in Total Drama Action when Courtney accused Gwen of stealing Duncan away from her despite Gwen denies doing so as she and Duncan are just friends. In Total Drama World Tour, the conflict seems to be resolved and the girls have developed a sort of friendship until Greece's Pieces, where Tyler told everyone that Duncan and Gwen kissed, causing her to hate Gwen once again. Gwen had been trying to mend their relationship in Total Drama All-Stars, in spite of Courtney's lingering bitterness over the events that led to their fallout. However, after Gwen broke up with Duncan, the two start to make amends and finally became friends again during the events of Suckers Punched after admitting how much they had missed each other. Following this, both girls spend a lot of time together and make a promise to reach the finale together. However, Courtney eventually decides to put winning above her friendship with Gwen and plans to eliminate her sometime before the finale. Mal would then reveal Courtney's elimination chart which shows Courtney's eventual betrayal. Gwen, upon finding out about this, becomes furious at Courtney and ends their friendship.
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Courtney wishes to strangle Harold in Haute Camp-ture.
During her time on Total Drama Island, Courtney constantly scolds her fellow teammate Harold for his incompetence. However, the sparks truly flew between the two of them after Harold personally removed her from the show to get back at the others who were bothering him, particularly her budding relationship with Duncan. After discovering his actions, Courtney hunted for Harold throughout Haute Camp-ture and beat him up with a lamp post. When Courtney returns midway in Total Drama Action, Harold become one of her primary victims and teams up with other contestants to eliminate her.
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Courtney and Heather glaring at each other in the opening sequence.
Although both girls are similar in that they're antagonists who have an obsession with winning and in controlling others through their means of leadership, they do not get along and despise each other. When both are placed on the same team in Total Drama World Tour, their conflict flares up as both compete for the position of team leader and start humiliating each other by any means necessary. The conflict is further intensified after Courtney falls for Alejandro and the two girls fight for his affections. Courtney chose to support Alejandro over Heather in the finale and volunteered to make sure hinder Heather's progression in the final challenge.
In the first episode, Courtney helps Izzy get out of the water after she falls and slams her chin onto the dock, but is disturbed by Izzy reacting well to getting hit. In Total Drama, Drama, Drama, Drama Island, she tries to steal a vine from her in an attempt to recover the $1,000,000 case. Some time later, when Courtney finds the case, Izzy falls from a tree and land on Courtney's head, stealing the case from her. Courtney then proceeds to chase after Izzy and her team, but they manage to outsmart her and double back while she keeps running, eventually slamming into a fake forest wall.
Courtney and Izzy fighting over a vine in the special.
During their short time together on Team Amazon in Walk Like An Egyptian - Part 2, Courtney becomes frustrated with Izzy's obsession in claiming she could speak to their camel. When Izzy asks it where the Nile River is and it turns around, Courtney shows displeasure to Izzy on actually thinking they were getting anywhere with her claim, even though she is proven correct mere moments later. Shortly afterwards, Izzy is switched with Sierra, but Courtney's attempt to get Izzy to help is prevented by Noah due to her being on another team.
In Jamaica Me Sweat, Courtney tries to help Izzy and Owen by attempting to pull them out from under the Jumbo Jet.
Courtney protests when Chris declares Duncan's eliminated instead of Justin.
When Justin first arrives in Not So Happy Campers - Part 1, Courtney, like the rest of the campers, is immediately smitten to him.
Upon Courtney's debut in Total Drama Action, she is placed on the same team as Justin, the latter taking a dislike towards her bossiness and even tries to vote her off with the rest of his team even though she was not an eligible choice. Likewise, Courtney is infuriated by Justin's laziness in the challenge, and calls him useless.
In Dial M for Merger, just as the building is about to explode, Justin jumps into Courtney's arms as they prepare to escape. In The Princess Pride, Justin sees Courtney as a strong competitor and tries to coax her into telling him her "secret" though he ends up infuriating her by implying that she has "deformities". He later falls in love with her following her musical performance, which makes Duncan angry. After vying for Courtney's affection with Duncan (in which Courtney seemed to favor Justin over Duncan), Justin reaches her and the two almost kiss, but Chris announces that the two would engage in a sword fight for immunity instead. While Justin refuses to harm her, Courtney will not sacrifice a chance for immunity and knocks Justin off the tower they were standing on top of, sending him falling to the ground, because of which he sustains injuries. It turns out Courtney is simply toying with Justin's feelings in order to distract him. Later, when Chris jokes that Duncan is voted out, Courtney becomes outraged and argues that Justin should be eliminated instead.
Katie and Sadie
Courtney yelling at Katie and Sadie for causing their team to lose.
In Not So Happy Campers - Part 1, Courtney tries to comfort Sadie when she finds out that she's on a different team then Katie. In Dodgebrawl, Katie and Courtney show various signs of friendships, such as high-fiving each other (along with DJ) when Katie was able to eliminate Lindsay and when Courtney and Katie share a hug after taking down Owen. During Not Quite Famous, Katie and Sadie were seen attempting to comfort Courtney after Bridgette accidentally broke her violin.
In The Sucky Outdoors, Courtney didn't seem to care about the welfare of Katie and Sadie after they were lost in the woods. When the Killer Bass arrives at camp the next morning, Chris noticed their absence and Courtney claims that they were eaten by wolves. Katie and Sadie moments later and received a scolding from Courtney for causing their team to lose again.
While Katie's conflict with Courtney does not change, Sadie brings the conflict to a whole new level in Who Can You Trust?, when Courtney and Sadie are paired for the the William Tell blind challenge. Sadie constantly shoots apples at Courtney without knocking the arrow off her head, injuring Courtney greatly. Even when Chris announces the challenge to be over, Sadie continues shooting obliviously. Courtney tries to tell Sadie the same thing (while also calling her a moron), but Sadie refuses to listen and continues shooting, eventually hitting Courtney right in the head. As a result, a severely injured Courtney has to be sent to the infirmary, but not before moaning that Sadie would go down. Sadie is voted off and a satisfied Courtney waves goodbye. Sadie then calls the rest of her team "marshmallow eating freaks", including Courtney.
In The Aftermath: I, Courtney is seen to be annoyed at Katie and Sadie's requests to be Trent's girlfriend.
Leshawna
Leshawna insults Courtney in Super Hero-ld.
While Courtney and Leshawna have limited interactions in Total Drama Island, they do talk about each other from time to time and appear to be on generally friendly terms. In If You Can't Take The Heat..., Leshawna complains to Courtney for using the confessional for a long duration and not giving others a chance to use it. In Trial by Tri-Armed Triathlon, Leshawna reveals that Courtney had told her about how Duncan found a new bunny for DJ after his old one died. This implied that, what little time they spent together, they could have been good friends, since Courtney originally promised Duncan that she would not tell anyone about this. In Haute Camp-ture, Courtney said that she couldn't say anything bad about Leshawna, even though she excelled at saying bad things about others.
When Courtney makes her debut midway in Total Drama Action, the two begin to show an evident dislike for each other. In One Million Bucks, B.C., Leshawna becomes severely irritated when Courtney again brings up her C.I.T. experience during the caveman challenge, remarking that they were on a movie set, not a summer camp. In Million Dollar Babies, Courtney becomes angry at Leshawna after she states in her video how Courtney "always dragged Duncan around by his eyebrow-ring" when she was in the competition before. In Dial M for Merger, Leshawna states she had apologized a million times, to which Courtney says in the confessional that is the only "million" Leshawna would ever see, and has her lawyers working on it.
In Super Hero-ld, Leshawna drags Courtney outside after being woken up. Courtney states in the confessional that she's "had it up to here with Leshawna" after Leshawna called her "Aged Cheddar Chick" due to her awful cheese stench following her trip to the cheese factory in the previous episode. Courtney is able to convince Harold to vote off Leshawna in that episode because of what she said about them in Million Dollar Babies, which he reluctantly does. In The Aftermath: III, Leshawna calls Courtney "cut-throat" for convincing Harold to vote her off. In The Princess Pride, Leshawna calls Courtney a "skinny rich girl" in a message she sent to Harold and commands him not to listen to her new song.
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Courtney is less than thrilled to go on a trip with Lindsay.
The softer and more friendly Lindsay has one of the worst conflicts with the hard-edged Courtney, during Total Drama Action. Lindsay sees Courtney as a threat to her own possibilities of being taken seriously as a leader, while Lindsay's outgoing cheerfulness and hidden intelligence pushes Courtney to the edge in dealing with her. Also, Courtney's similar conflict with Lindsay's best friend has also helped to fuel the conflict. The conflict subsided after season two though, Courtney still deems Lindsay annoying during their short partnership in the finale of Total Drama World Tour and during Lindsay's short tenure in Total Drama All-Stars.
Courtney was annoyed with Mike and Sierra because they were running too slow, due to carrying Sam in Saving Private Leechball. She threatens them that if they don't run faster, they'll "never see another sunrise". In the confessional, Mike says he thinks Courtney is scary but he is interrupted by Mal who says he loves when things get scary. In Food Fright, Mal rigs the Salad Spinner to run faster than normal and when it is Courtney's turn to use it, she was flung out of the contraption and ended up in a tree. In You Regatta Be Kidding Me, when Duncan tries to warn her and Gwen about Mal, they laugh at him believing Mike is a sweet guy and isn't a threat at all. Courtney, along with Scott are easily convinced by Mal to join him in voting off Alejandro in The Obsta-Kill Kourse.
Mal convinces Courtney and Scott to help him boot off Alejandro.
Courtney becomes Mal's newest target in Sundae Muddy Sundae. In the confessional, while explaining her plan to eliminate the other contestants, Courtney states that Mike is a wild card. Mal somehow manages to steal the chart from her and expose it to other contestants, turning everyone against her. During the challenge Mal lodges a rock into the mutant fire-breathing flower, causing it to explode and burn the chocolate sauce, which greatly hinders Courtney's chance of winning. Courtney later accuses "Mike" of intentionally sabotaging the challenge but nevertheless, Courtney's fate is sealed that night and she is eliminated.
In Haute Camp-ture, when Noah tells her to get over being voted off, she throws a glass at his head, causing him to fall into the pool. Additionally, Noah teases her, stating that "she drools over Duncan more than his dog over a rib eye steak", and laughs when she and Harold fall into the pool after a slap fight. In Walk Like An Egyptian - Part 2, Courtney tells Izzy to make the camel move, but Noah reminds her that Izzy is on his team, not hers.
Courtney tricks Owen into feeding her information in Crouching Courtney, Hidden Owen.
Owen was the first camper to greet Courtney in Not So Happy Campers - Part 1. Courtney was likewise friendly and polite to him during their short exchange, until she became distracted by Justin. When Owen reaches the finale, Courtney is among those who supported for him from the beginning. In the Total Drama, Drama, Drama, Drama Island, after Owen's group (consisting of himself, DJ, Cody and Tyler) acquire the brief case containing the million dollars and were chased off the cliff by a bear, they were caught by Courtney in her hot air balloon. However, Courtney threatens to drop them unless they hand over the money to her but Owen refused to give in.
Owen could possibly be the most noted enemy of Courtney during her time on Total Drama Action. When she debut in Ocean's Eight - Or Nine and placed on Owen's team, she blamed him for costing the team the challenge and voted him off. Despite this, Owen admitted in The Aftermath: III that he wasn't angry about his elimination, as he is not good at holding grudges.
After Owen's return in Rock n' Rule, Courtney is enraged because he got voted off "fair and square", although she drops the issue when Chris stated that Owen filed a lawsuit to get back onto the show and won (which was subsequently revealed to be untrue by Owen in the confessional). Owen then makes a confessional saying he doesn't miss Courtney that much. After the challenge ends, Owen opts to vote for Courtney even though she won invincibility, claiming he is still bitter because of her sole-vote sending him home last time. In Crouching Courtney, Hidden Owen, after Courtney noticed Owen giving pointers to Duncan and Harold, Courtney remarks on how it was unfair and tries to get Owen to give her and Beth advice as well, which Owen eventually does out of guilt. In Top Dog, Courtney finds out about Owen's role as a saboteur and calls him a "cheater". She tries to vote him off again, but she is voted off instead. However, Chris subsequently fires Owen, resulting in the second double elimination in Total Drama Action.
In Jamaica Me Sweat, when the Total Drama Jumbo Jet falls on top of Owen and Izzy, Courtney tries to pull out an injured Owen out from under the jet.
Courtney uses an injured Sam to defend herself, a villainous act that causes her to switch teams with Duncan.
In Saving Private Leechball, Courtney is the only member of her team who does not save food for Sam after he is exiled to Boney Island, but insists that she was unaware of the plan. Despite his injuries, Courtney refuses to help him later on in the challenge. However, in order to get out of participating, she volunteers to look after him in a cave while the others hunt down their opponents, claiming that she felt guilty for not providing him with food. Once Jo finds them, she ends up using him as a shield, showing no remorse or regret for him doing so and claims that anyone would have done the same.
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Courtney and Scott end their short-lived relationship.
After she was transferred to the Villainous Vultures, Courtney initially views very little on Scott as he has a lot of disgusting habits and sees him nothing more than a potential alliance member. Scott on the other hand was immediately attracted to her and openly flirts with her. Courtney too starts to have feelings for him, becoming more open to him and treats him nicely compared to the other contestants. The two of them become a couple in Zeek And Ye Shall Find after sharing their first kiss, but broke up two hours later due to a misunderstanding in which Courtney kisses Cameron. Although the two of them got back together in the next episode, Courtney was annoyed by Scott several times in the challenge and abandons him during sticky situations. In Sundae Muddy Sundae, Courtney reveals that she is bringing Scott with her to her because she believes that Scott will throw the challenge for her and gives her an easy win. However, Mike (Mal) reveals her plan to everyone and made Scott mad. Her betrayal pushes Scott to determine to win the challenge to ensure that Courtney is eliminated that night. It is hinted that their relationship has ended again.
Sierra yells at Courtney for making fun of Cody in Greece's Pieces.
Despite them being teammates after Sierra was transferred to Team Amazon in Walk Like An Egyptian - Part 2, the two girls do no see eye-to-eye. Like Heather, Courtney finds Sierra's lack of sanity disturbing. Sierra however, has a degree of respect for Courtney due to her and Duncan being the most popular couple in the series.
In Greece's Pieces, Sierra snaps at Courtney after the latter insults Cody's lack of strength and the two end up fighting each other. Near the end of their fight, Courtney and Sierra have each other in a headlock, refusing to let go until a lack of oxygen causes both of them to faint, allowing Owen to pin them. After Tyler reveals that he saw Gwen had kissed Duncan, Sierra quickly allies with Courtney in order to eliminate Gwen. This temporary truce is in Sierra's favor however, due to Cody's attraction for Gwen. Once Gwen is eliminated, they become enemies again, with Sierra planning to vote off Courtney with the rest of the team in Sweden Sour but Courtney is safe due to a non-elimination, much to Sierra's disappointment.
In Total Drama All-Stars, while Courtney's dislike for Sierra remains unchanged, Sierra no longer appears to carry her previous hostility towards Courtney. The two were once again placed on the same team along with Lindsay, Mike, Zoey, Sam and Cameron. In the first episode, Sierra quickly dives into their team's baby carriage before Courtney gets out of it, crushing her. In Evil Dread, in the loser cabins, Courtney gets annoyed when Sierra takes a picture of her while she was asleep, and calls her a "fan with a bad case of crazy". She is also disgusted when Sierra eats gruel off the floor that Chef threw in.
In Saving Private Leechball, Courtney gets annoyed with Sierra's continued obsession with Cody and the way she sleeps, calling her a weirdo. For most of the episode, she is also noticeably annoyed by her team's kindness when Sierra and Mike carries an injured Sam.
In Haute Camp-ture, Courtney disagrees with Trent about Gwen deserving to win, believing that she wasn't a team player. Trent is one of the several ex-campers who eavesdropped on Courtney while she is talking about Duncan, and appears to be amused by what he hears. Courtney states in The Aftermath: I that Trent chose to be a loser on his own, which is why she sides with Gwen, but later, she wants to change her opinion on the breakup because of the heartfelt story Trent told about the origin of his number nine obsession.
Courtney scolds Tyler for hitting his own teammates by accident.
In Not So Happy Campers - Part 2, Courtney attempts to convince her team to vote Tyler off instead of her, though this fails as Duncan points out that Tyler jumped off the cliff unlike her. In Dodgebrawl, Courtney is frustrated at Tyler's poor performance during the challenge as he is unable to hit anyone from the other team. She also grows frustrated with his infatuation with Lindsay, who is on the other team. In Phobia Factor, Courtney again scolds Tyler for failing his challenge. Despite this, she is the only person to stand up for him when the others make fun of him while he walks the Dock of Shame, but she only did that because she knew she failed her challenge worse. In Total Drama, Drama, Drama, Drama Island, Courtney threatens to drop Tyler along with DJ, Owen and Cody off her hot air balloon if they do not surrender the million dollars to her. Tyler however is not afraid of her and threatens her back.
In Greece's Pieces, Courtney easily knocks out Tyler during the wrestling match due to Tyler's inability to hit a girl. In The EX-Files, Courtney, after being advised by Alejandro, flirts with Tyler in order to make Duncan jealous. While Tyler is at least intrigued with the idea of Courtney hitting on him, he refuses to be unfaithful to his girlfriend and displays no further interest in Courtney's flirting. At the end of the episode, upon finding out that Tyler is eliminated instead of Duncan, Courtney vents her anger at Tyler by throwing him out of the plane.
Courtney abandoning Zoey after she got her foot stuck in the swamp in Sundae Muddy Sundae.
In Saving Private Leechball, as Zoey leaps up to the trees in order to lead their team, Courtney feels threatened by Zoey's outstanding physical skills and plans to eliminate her next. When Courtney volunteers to take care of Sam, Zoey believes that Courtney is doing this out of kindness, not realizing that Courtney's true intention was to have her teammates "take the leeches to the face" while she lays back.
In The Obsta-Kill Kourse, Zoey cheers Courtney up by telling her that kissing two guys in one day is something good as nobody in the past has done this before. Feeling better already, Courtney thanked her and Zoey promised to keep the kiss she had with Cameron a secret. However, Courtney later believes that Zoey might had told Gwen when she saw the two of them giggling and fears a possible alliance between the two. When she confronts the pair, Courtney accidentally reveals her secret to Gwen instead.
Courtney attempts to lure Gwen away from Zoey in Sundae Muddy Sundae and convince Gwen that they should eliminate her in the next campfire ceremony, as Courtney still saw her as the biggest threat. While climbing the snowy cliff to retrieve the ice cream, Courtney compliments Zoey's strength in an attempt to create an alliance with her after she lost her closest allies. Zoey, however, denies her offer as she is disgusted with Courtney's attempt to betray Gwen. Courtney would later ignore Zoey who gets stuck in the swamp during a later part of the challenge.
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The Democrats are already running scared
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Nancy Pelosi is a sharp legislative tactician. But her strategic vision is somewhere between cramped and nonexistent.
Now, there are minor rumblings of an uprising against Pelosi, mostly from centrist New Democrats, as she mounts a bid to become House speaker again in the 116th Congress, which will convene in January. But with no strong candidates truly challenging Pelosi, the smart money suggests that the California Democrat will once again lead the House. This also means that most committee leadership will remain in the hands of party veterans. And over in the Senate, the feckless Chuck Schumer has already been re-elected minority leader by acclamation.
This is all a shame, and a truly wasted opportunity.
Democratic Party elites have finally retaken some power in President Trump's Washington. They could push for any number of big, bold initiatives — Medicare-for-all, aggressive climate policy, investigations into the administration's galling corruption. This is Democrats' chance to hold the president accountable and show that they stand for something, even if most of their bills would never see the light of day in a Republican Senate.
So what are they doing? As always, Democratic leaders are thinking small and failing to address the truly massive problems that our country and world face.
Let's start with climate change. After the election, numerous green activists — including incoming Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) and Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) — put public pressure on Pelosi to not just resurrect the old Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming (which was deleted by Republicans in 2011) as she has promised, but dramatically expand its powers.
As David Roberts writes, this new committee would be tasked not just with holding hearings on climate issues but coming up with a comprehensive plan by early 2020 to fully decarbonize the United States economy over the next couple decades. Furthermore, it would do so in a social-democratic fashion, as part of a "Green New Deal" that would radically reduce the economic inequality in American society.
This is the kind of big and bold thinking America needs. And to her minor credit, Pelosi has at least rhetorically welcomed these efforts, even if she hasn't accepted the specific recommendations. However, much of the rest of the relevant Democratic leadership has already shot this initiative down. Rep. Peter DeFazio (D-Ore.), who will helm the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, scoffed at the high targets. "The idea that in five years or 10 years we’re not going to consume any more fossil fuels is technologically impossible," he told Politico. Upcoming Energy and Commerce Committee chair Frank Pallone (D-N.J.) attacked the idea of a new committee entirely.
It's perhaps understandable that these men would not want young up-and-comers treading on their committee powers. And the existing committees probably could come up with sufficiently aggressive climate policy if they wanted. But do DeFazio or Pallone have any remotely realistic plans to cut down emissions fast enough to avoid catastrophic climate change? They do not.
On the contrary, Pallone said: "We can have a very aggressive agenda that we can get a caucus consensus on and that we can even get some Republicans on." As Libby Watson points out, you have to be paint-blisteringly stupid to think that Republicans would endorse any worthwhile climate idea of any kind. (Probably he isn't quite that dumb, and is instead hoping to keep the lefties down while doing the Corporate Democrat Two-Step of supporting pathetic half-measures while eagerly collecting big corporate contributions on the side.)
As if this climate cowardice weren't bad enough, there are also Pelosi's gargantuan unforced budget errors. She supports two very bad House rules, for very stupid reasons. The first is PAYGO, which would require any new spending to be "paid for" by new revenue or spending cuts. The second is an even worse rule that would require a 60 percent majority to pass any policy that would raise income tax rates on the bottom 80 percent.
On the policy merits, both of these are appallingly bad. For one thing, new revenue is only strictly necessary insofar as the economy is running at maximum capacity. As we have seen over the past year, that is very likely not the case, and probably won't be for a long time — especially if another recession strikes soon, which seems increasingly likely. Fundamentally, a very large country that borrows in its own fiat money, which is also the global reserve currency, has huge room to borrow, and there is no reason to set these sort of rules in advance.
Meanwhile, the 80 percent rule is flat-out nonsensical. As Alan Essig explains, it would place a near-insurmountable obstacle to any progressive agenda — for instance, requiring Republican votes to simply repeal the Trump tax cuts for the rich, because the middle class got a couple tiny scraps as part of the deal.
If anything, the politics of these two are even worse. PAYGO would make any policy that increased borrowing even a little much more unpopular, and would rule out strategic temporary borrowing, like my plan to pass Medicare-for-all with a deliberately insufficient tax hike and use the ensuing time to root out endemic waste and fraud in the health-care system. They would both reinforce the right-wing idea that taxation is a burden on the middle class, instead of a way to pay for broadly necessary things and keep down inequality.
This kind of tax phobia is straight out of the early 1990s. It's the defensive crouch of the old neoliberal Democrats who internalized Reagan's notions about government as the only way to win. But it's objectively terrible policy-wise, it's not where the party rank-and-file are, and it's not where the population as a whole is.
Pelosi and most of the rest of the top Democrats are, quite simply, badly out of touch.
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Translation, tradition, and the ethical turn: A reply to Bardawil and Allan
by Omnia El Shakry October 11, 2018
In the “Task of the Translator,” Walter Benjamin observes that “a translation issues from the original—not so much from its life as from its afterlife.” The Arabic Freud, as both Michael Allan and Fadi Bardawil remark, models the ethos and practice of translation through its method. Here, the work of translation is “not mired in a question of translational directionality,” nor is it understood in terms of “causality, fidelity, and adaptation,” as Michael Allan astutely notes, but rather translation is imagined as a constitutive afterlife. Within this shifted terrain, away from “margin and center, and toward the site of reception and rebirth,” he continues, Freud emerges “as a site and occasion for understanding the poetics of reception.” Allan pushes me further to think about the vector from adaptation back to source, about the implications that the Arabic Freud had on the German Freud. Indeed, as Benjamin continues, “in its afterlife—which could not be called that if it were not a transformation and renewal of something living—the original undergoes a change.”1
What, then, is this vector of change, this movement undergone in the shuttling between das Unbewusste, the term Freud used for “the unconscious,” and its Arabic translation as al-la-shuʿur, a term borrowed from the medieval Sufi philosopher Ibn ʿArabi and redolent with mystical overtones? As Allan comments, “if there is a translational vector to be traced, it might well not be a relation between source and adaptation at all” but instead “a translational vector toward the future.” Stated somewhat differently, can the archive of the Unbewusste be reopened and its meanings disseminated and proliferated with the concept of al-la-shuʿur, thereby highlighting an unknowability at the heart of the human subject in relation to the Divine? Would such dissemination dislodge the ontological and epistemological conceit of a universal grammar of the subject presumed by readers of the German Freud within certain strands of psychoanalysis? What might it mean, in other words, to rethink the epistemological and ethical contours of selfhood and psychoanalysis while standing in a geopolitical elsewhere?
The Arabic Freud, then, does not aim to augment the literature on psychoanalysis by contributing yet another reading of Freud (merely to be added to the French, American, Argentinian, or Indian Freud), nor does it simply argue that psychoanalysis as a discipline was itself constituted by the Other (and, therefore, always already inflected by histories of colonialism and of the non-West). Eschewing the pretension to abstraction so characteristic of philosophical reflections on selfhood, it rejects the premise of much Euro-American theory in which “geopolitics provides the exemplars, but rarely the epistemologies.”2 Instead, I stage a scene of reading between psychoanalysis and Islam that takes place otherwise, at the intersection of multiple epistemological and ethical traditions of selfhood. Such “irreducible work of translation, not from language to language, but from body to ethical semiosis” cannot resort to the resolutely secular framings within which a knowledge formation like psychoanalysis has traditionally been understood.3
If translation aims “at that single spot where the echo is able to give, in its own language, the reverberation of the work in the alien one,” then my historical interlocutors found ample epistemological resonances between psychoanalytic and Islamic thought. Hence, the term that best captured Freud’s notion of die Seele or psyche was aptly rendered as the nafs (soul, spirit, psyche), a concept implying a spiritual core, alongside the presence of the unconscious (al-la-shuʿur) as a place where God could be manifested. Imbued with a primordial divinity, the term was intimately bound up with preexisting meanings. Its genealogical reach extended into Islamic invocations of the term used by Ibn ʿArabi and others.
The nafs, thus understood, oscillated between its bodily and spiritual manifestations, functioning as a barzakh or isthmus between spirit and matter. Envisioned as a spectrum of darkness and luminosity, it further expressed itself in a tripartite conceptualization of the nafs derived from the Qurʾan and loosely echoed in Aristotle’s treatise On the Soul. And yet, these claims, if viewed as “mere translations of psychoanalytic concepts” into “an Islamic idiom,” as Bardawil gleans, would leave untouched the assumption that modern selfhood, and by extension psychoanalysis, is normatively secular. The non-West would once again be relegated to an exemplar rather than an epistemology. By contrast, The Arabic Freud asks what if we understand the self as the nafs, intuition as kashf and firasa (modes of spiritual unveiling and mystical insight), and knowledge as maʿrifa (an illuminative cognition of the Divine), thereby unraveling the secular grammar of the subject while proliferating “the critical afterlife of theoretical concepts.” Such practices of reading and translating necessarily unsettle “the West” as an allegedly singular and secular formation and provide “a way of affirming that the original as a self-consistent, unified theory or textual body never existed.”
If my method is one that, ultimately, turns away from originals and bad copies toward the “poetics of reception” and the afterlife, then my theoretical orientation pursues the entanglement of discursive traditions through an ethical turn. Such a turn to ethics upends what Fadi Bardawil evocatively calls the “the civilizational contraption that appropriates intellectual traditions and reifies them to make them one of the many mythologies of an enlightened, secular West that stands in opposition to Islam.”
Significantly, as Bardawil perceptively notes, my displacement of this civilizational contraption departs, by necessity, from the major traditions of modern Arab thought and their attendant politics of decolonization, as exemplified by thinkers such as Abdallah Laroui. Laroui viewed the Arab intelligentsia’s response to colonialism and European hegemony as divided into two dominant trends: traditionalist Islamic thought, characterized by a repetitive recitation of the past or an alienation through time, and modernist thought, characterized by eclecticism and ideological backwardness, or an alienation through space. I depart, as well, from the Euro-American postcolonial reading practices that have reiteratively critiqued the historicist and secular discursive assumptions of these traditions of thought.
In contrast, The Arabic Freud bypasses the lingering desire for the complete autonomy of decolonized cultural and intellectual formations, whether from European colonial formations or from allegedly moribund religious traditions, in order to displace historical and historicist narratives of modernization and decolonization. To do so, I turn to a minor tradition that, as Bardawil so eloquently observes, “cannot be adequately rendered visible without displacing a series of binaries that undergird prevailing ideological dialects, theoretical models, and disciplinary reading practices: a civilizational antagonism between West and non-West; a cultural difference separating Self and Other; a hierarchy in value between originals and copies; and a stark historical discontinuity dividing pre-modern from modern eras.”
Dwelling in the caesura between pre-modern and modern, between the trace of inherited traditions and the traumatic cut of colonialism in our encounter with the past across time and space, historians might be said to inhabit the space of the barzakh—a liminal zone or isthmus. Such an isthmus was conceptualized by the medieval mystic Ibn ʿArabi as a space between the existent and the nonexistent, the known and the unknown, “which is neither the one nor the other but which possesses the power (quwwa) of both.” Consequently, rather than assume the rigidity, mimesis, univocity, or separation of “traditional” and “modern” thought, I explore the ways in which writings on selfhood drew from both Islamic and psychoanalytic discursive traditions, understood as convivial bodies of knowledge subject to continuous reinterpretation. If, then, the plasticity of minor discursive traditions inaugurates a new grammar of the subject that is neither in emulation of, nor in resistance to the West, this plasticity likewise displaces the temporality of a homogenous, empty time that ushers in the post-colonial nation-state.
As such, I focus on the multiple and elastic temporalities inhabited by twentieth century Arab thinkers such as Yusuf Murad and Abu al-Wafa al-Ghunaymi al-Taftazani. These thinkers found epistemological resonances and elective affinities between pre-psychoanalytic (Aristotelian and Islamic) and analytic traditions. Ibn ʿArabi was read alongside Sigmund Freud and Abu Hamid al-Ghazali alongside Karen Horney; the unconscious was understood as Divine unknowing and the drive (Trieb) as ethical self-transformation. Thus, as Bardawil states, “psychoanalysis here is not another name for a Western power/knowledge contraption that wrecks epistemological and ontological havoc on Muslim forms of life.”
I end the book by asking, what does it mean, now, to think through psychoanalysis and Islam together, not as a problem, but as a creative ethical encounter? The ethico-philosophical concerns that I trace in the book have since been displaced in the postcolonial era, substituted with empty political signifiers that become mere weapons in a civilizing mission that pits secularism and civilization against non-secular forms of reason and ethics. For Bardawil, in the face of the political intransigence of the historical present, “recovering repressed pasts may loosen the present’s grip on us and may activate different possibilities for the future.” And yet, the ineluctable work of translation between past and present, between bodily and ethical semiosis, will reach an “element that does not lend itself to translation,” a nucleus that might best be thought of as akin to the navel of the dream—“its point of contact with the unknown.”
Benjamin used multiple terms with various connotations: ‘Überleben’ and Fortleben, and, elsewhere in his writings, Nachleben to convey this sense of the renewal and transformation of a work of art.↩
I am grateful to Anjali Arondekar for helping me think through psychoanalysis as geo-history and geo-epistemology.↩
I pursue these ideas further in “Psychoanalysis and the Imaginary: Translating Freud in Postcolonial Egypt,” Psychoanalysis and History 20, no. 3 (2018), 313–335.↩
EgyptethicsIslamsecularismtranslation
Omnia El Shakry
Omnia El Shakry is professor of history at the University of California at Davis. Her research centers on the history of the human and religious sciences in modern Egypt and she is the author of The Arabic Freud: Psychoanalysis and Islam in Modern Egypt (Princeton, 2017), The Great Social Laboratory: Subjects of Knowledge in Colonial and Postcolonial Egypt (Stanford, 2007), and editor of the multi-volume Gender and Sexuality in Islam (Routledge, 2016).
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Photo of Winning Lotto Ticket That Went Viral Is A Fake
Nolan Daniels did not win hundreds of millions of dollars as part of last week's record breaking Powerball $588 million jackpot. But he did trick millions of people on Facebook into thinking he had.
On Thursday, Daniels posted a photo of himself holding a ticket with what looked to be the winning numbers on his Facebook page. The picture came with the message, “Looks like I won’t be going to work EVER!!!! Share this photo and I will give a random person 1 million dollars!”
Over two million people have done exactly that. But, alas, a random person won't be getting a million dollars, as Daniels' image is clearly a Photoshop (The first five numbers in a Powerball ticket are always in chronological order, whereas the first five numbers in Daniel's photo are not.)
Daniels, a software engineer from Arizona, isn't the first person to use Photoshop as a part of Powerball prank. But he did think of a rather novel way to get his hoax to as many eyeballs as possible.
And, for that, he wins a grand total of zero dollars.
Filed Under: Pranks
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