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Representative John C. Velis Democrat - 4th Hampden
john.velis@mahouse.gov
24 Beacon St.
Boston, MA, 02133
Sponsored | Cosponsored
Select Court 191st (Current) 190th (2017 - 2018) 189th (2015 - 2016) 188th (2013 - 2014)
Bill Pinslip/Title
H.971 HD.198 By Mr. Velis of Westfield, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 971) of John C. Velis, Timothy R. Whelan and Donald F. Humason, Jr., relative to assault and battery on the elderly or disabled. The Judiciary.
H.972 HD.335 By Mr. Velis of Westfield, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 972) of John C. Velis and others relative to assault and battery on the elderly with a deadly weapon. The Judiciary.
H.973 HD.386 By Mr. Velis of Westfield, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 973) of John C. Velis for legislation to establish a child neglect registry. The Judiciary.
H.1230 HD.1203 By Mr. Velis of Westfield, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 1230) of John C. Velis and others relative to sudden cardiac arrest awareness in student athletes. Public Health.
H.1455 HD.1670 By Messrs. Velis of Westfield and Garballey of Arlington, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 1455) of John C. Velis, Sean Garballey and others relative to Parkinson's disease disability and death of certain firefighters and other public safety officers in the contributory retirement plan for public employees. Public Service.
H.1637 HD.460 By Mr. Velis of Westfield, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 1637) of John C. Velis relative to local aid funding. Revenue.
H.1720 HD.461 By Mr. Velis of Westfield, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 1720) of John C. Velis and Donald F. Humason, Jr., that the commissioner of the Division of Capital Asset Management and Maintenance be authorized to transfer a certain parcel of land in the city of Westfield to the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner for construction purposes. State Administration and Regulatory Oversight.
H.1905 HD.131 By Mr. Velis of Westfield, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 1905) of John C. Velis and Donald F. Humason, Jr., for legislation to exempt private passenger vehicles registered to veterans from certain tolls. Transportation.
H.1906 HD.334 By Mr. Velis of Westfield, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 1906) of John C. Velis and Donald F. Humason, Jr., relative to removing Massachusetts Turnpike tolls in the western part of the Commonwealth. Transportation.
H.1907 HD.462 By Mr. Velis of Westfield, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 1907) of John C. Velis for an investigation by a special commission (including members of the General Court) relative to the performances and practices of the Registry of Motor Vehicles. Transportation.
H.1944 HD.132 By Mr. Velis of Westfield, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 1944) of John C. Velis, Donald F. Humason, Jr., and Paul R. Heroux relative to authorizing veterans to use facilities of the Pioneer Valley Transit Authority without cost to such veterans. Veterans and Federal Affairs.
H.2208 HD.2586 By Mr. Velis of Westfield, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 2208) of John C. Velis relative to uniform fiduciary access to digital assets. Financial Services.
H.2510 HD.2557 By Mr. Velis of Westfield, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 2510) of John C. Velis and others for an investigation by a special commission to study and evaluate policies within the so-called “Gun Free Zones”. Public Safety and Homeland Security.
H.2680 HD.2577 By Mr. Velis of Westfield, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 2680) of John C. Velis and others that the Honor and Remember Flag be designated as the symbol of the Commonwealth’s concern and commitment to honoring and remembering the lives of all members of the United States Armed Forces who lost their lives while serving. State Administration and Regulatory Oversight.
H.2774 HD.2585 By Mr. Velis of Westfield, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 2774) of John C. Velis for legislation to clarifiy procedural issues within the Valor Act. Veterans and Federal Affairs.
H.2895 HD.3657 By Mr. Velis of Westfield, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 2895) of John C. Velis and Sean Garballey for an investigation by a special commission (including members of the General Court) to combat the financial abuse of the elderly. Elder Affairs.
H.3005 HD.3435 By Mr. Velis of Westfield, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 3005) of John C. Velis for an investigation by a special commission (including members of the General Court) to study student load debt . Higher Education.
H.3128 HD.3490 By Mr. Velis of Westfield, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 3128) of John C. Velis and Sean Curran for an investigation by a special commission (including members of the General Court) of the feasibility and benefits of the construction of a new Hampden County District courthouse in the city of Springfield. The Judiciary.
H.3129 HD.3656 By Mr. Velis of Westfield, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 3129) of John C. Velis relative to chemical analysis of blood in the event of death or bodily harm to another while operating a motor vehicle. The Judiciary.
H.3200 HD.3148 By Mr. Velis of Westfield, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 3200) of John C. Velis for an investigation by a special commission (including members of the General Court) of the codes, statutes and criminal laws pertaining to the use of marijuana . Marijuana Policy.
H.3353 HD.3442 By Mr. Velis of Westfield, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 3353) of John C. Velis, David F. DeCoste and Timothy R. Whelan relative to motor vehicle-related tax and fee exemptions for certain disabled veterans. Revenue.
H.3441 HD.3658 By Mr. Velis of Westfield, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 3441) of John C. Velis and Frank Mills II for legislation to authorize the registrar of motor vehicles to issue special parking identification placards bearing the designation "International Symbol of Access" to certain handicapped persons. Transportation.
H.3447 HD.3267 By Mr. Velis of Westfield, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 3447) of John C. Velis and others for legislation further defining Gold Star Families. Veterans and Federal Affairs.
H.3504 HD.2590 By Messrs. Ashe of Longmeadow and Velis of Westfield, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 3504) of Brian M. Ashe, John C. Velis and others that the commissioner of Public Health be authorized to establish a marijuana addiction treatment fund. Marijuana Policy.
H.3621 HD.1936 By Representative Velis of Westfield and Senator Rush, a joint petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 3621) of John C. Velis, Michael F. Rush and others relative to veterans’ preference hiring practices. Public Service.
H.3986 HD.4222 By Representatives Higgins of Leominster and Velis of Westfield, a petition (subject to Joint Rule 12) of Natalie Higgins and John C. Velis relative to the display of certain flags in condominiums. Housing.
* — Legislator is not a sponsor of this measure.
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Group Pushes To ‘Let Bert And Ernie Get Married’ On Sesame Street
Filed Under:Bert, Ernie, Facebook, Gay, marriage, Sesame Street
Sesame Street's Bert and Ernie (Photo by Matthew Simmons/Getty Images)
LOS ANGELES (CBS) — Will the Children’s Television Workshop give way to same-sex puppet love?
An online campaign is calling for the producers of TV’s “Sesame Street” to allow characters Bert and Ernie to get married in an attempt to “put an end to the bullying and suicides of LGBT youth”, according to the group’s Facebook page.
The petition letter adds that “[w]e are not asking that Sesame Street do anything crude or disrespectful by allowing Bert & Ernie to marry”, suggesting that the show “even add a transgender character to the show…in a tasteful way”.
While over 900 people have “liked” the group’s Facebook page so far, the comments from visitors are fueling the controversy over whether children should be exposed to homosexuality at such an early age — echoing a similar battle over proposed gay-oriented curriculum in California schools.
“This is not ‘Desperate Housewives’…this is a baby’s program people!” said one commenter.
The group’s Facebook page also includes a photo mocking Christians for their opposition to homosexuality and same-sex marriage.
The two characters — which first debuted in the original “Sesame Street” pilot episode in July 1969 — have long been depicted as bickering best friends who sleep in the same room together.
UPDATE (8/11): Sesame Street issued a statement on their Facebook page Thursday in reaction to the online petition, saying “Bert and Ernie are best friends. They were created to teach preschoolers that people can be good friends with those who are very different from themselves.”
“Even though they are identified as male characters and possess many human traits and characteristics (as most Sesame Street Muppets™ do), they remain puppets, and do not have a sexual orientation,” the statement concludes.
maverick_1978 says:
all i have to say is ….WOW…..sesame street is about abc’s and 123’s….whats next…a jerry springer muppet( im guessing oscar the grouch) and that poor wittle illegal immigrant trying to get work,healthcare,and welfare even though they arent a citizen? keep sesame street AS IS. kids dont need to grow up so fast. TRANS GENDER IN A “CLASSY” WAY….what put lipstick on big bird and have snufflegus tuck his trunk? LAME
Haven’t you all seen the episode where they sing the song about how all families are different!!! ie.some have two mom’s, some two dads or just a grandmother… I think Sesame Street and PBS started this whole ‘group push’ for the publicity and because they are actually in agreement with the H0M0 indoctrination of our very young children. I’m glad my kids never liked the show!!
bobby gonzales says:
These are sick people calling for this type of trash on kids shows!Keep it in the bedroom where it belongs!
Amen to that. Plus, I grew up watching Sesame Street and thinking Bert & Ernie were BROTHERS — not lovers. I’m all for supporting social diversity, but c’mon — this is a kids show. Leave it alone!
Stryker 21 says:
Keep your pole smoking/carpet munching beliefs to your self. This behavior is not normal. No one wants to see the Muppet’s smoking each others pole and munching carpet. The H0m0 nation needs to be put on an island far away from the normal society.
Don’t hate just because you aren’t like them. CALM DOWN.
dodge2city310 says:
why not just turn it into a full blown porno?
Shut Up Little Man says:
Do they really need a wedding?! They already act like an old married couple: http://bit.ly/qwIJYQ. A wedding won’t change nothing!
Those groups pushing for this need to find jobs.To much time on thier hands.
Who wants to see Ernie smoking Berts pole? Please keep it pure for kids.
Robert Weed says:
No disrespect intended … but … are you kidding … that is crazy.
eyearedan says:
watch out Sesame Street, If the Gays don’t get their way, they will Bully You till they do. it’s OK for them to Bully , just not anyone else. I bet it will be on Ellen Degenerate show. Wasn’t she the one who Bullied the Pet Adoption people into closing their doors just because Ellen didn’t get her way.
uconnors says:
If the producers of Sesame Street resist this Gay marriage push….then I can foresee the Gay community organizing a boycott against the program. Like my mother used to say…”Mark my words.”
Well, gays don’t (and can’t physically) procreate. No procreating means no kids that watch the show so a boycott of Sesame Street would be kind of a non issue. I’m not being mean, I’m being honest.
normal says:
So? So what? So the 3 out of 100 people who are H0M0s (it’s actually a lot, lot lower but I’m giving them the benefit of the doubt for arguments’ sake) boycott the program. The other 97 out of 100 people who are normal will continue to watch it and probably buy more advertisers’ products JUST BECAUSE they don’t push the H0M0 agenda.
Satn says:
Like they have lots of kids who will be watching the program?
AngryMarine says:
And if they do allow it I can see the program going off the air for lack of viewership. People are sick of these extreme minority groups trampling all over everything that is good in this country. I am one among many thousands of families that will not allow filth like that to be on a television in my home. And yes, I pay attention to every single program my children watch.
Betcha Burt squeals like a pig when Ernie gives him the old purple muscle up his poop shoot. Good for them, those two silly qweers!
I don’t think it will matter very much, this country,our beloved United States of America, has already lost it’s way and is headed for oblivion and very soon !!!
Mira; vivo en Chile y veo que EEUU va cuesta abajo en cuestiones morales porque estan fanatizados con la cuestion de los derechos civiles. Y esto es lo que usan los Gays para sus campañas. Tienen que ser duros y pararlos ahora, sino se los van a comer a todos Uds. y Sodomizaran esa nacion que nacio en tan buena cuna. Lo repito; Van cuesta abajo y no seran un buen ejemplo para nadie ni en nada.
eyearedan
No kidding right? And that 14 year old who was continually taunted by a gay classmate had enough of the gay bullying. It was not right to kill the gay kid but hey, ENOUGH is ENOUGH.
Bert and Ernie DO NOT HAVE A SEXUAL ORIENTATION. Amen.
You know if it had been the other way around and the gay kid shot the other kid for being harrassed, he would be defended to the end for his actions.
Calm Down Everyone says:
Karen, Gigi: The killer’s lawyers in that case are using a gay panic defence. The killer saw that the victim in this case, was wearing makeup and acting out of the gender norm, so his lawyers are defending, that this is why their client had to bring a gun and shoot the gay victim dead. Now of course, gay men are masculine too, but this is the repugnant defensive line they are using, not just that the defendant was being bullied. Getting back to the atcual topic of the article, it seems true that the puppets on Sesame Street have always been asexual. That’s a point. However, I believe some of the human characters I believe have been shown to be in straight marriages, such as Gordan and Susan. It’s been so long since I’ve watched the show. I’m not sure if they are still on.
Gregory Creswell says:
Sad, sad, sad. Next this group will be demanding that a adult son and his mother be allowed to marry on the show.
Naomi Cary says:
If they keep on we are all goiing to have to get rid of our TV’s because there is nothing to watch but filth and degradation. Now they are workiing on our children, even in the kids movies they throw things in very subtle but it is meant to teach them these things in a way they don’t know what they are doing. BUT, the parents know what they are doing.
Lauging out loud says:
This is one of the most stupid “causes” I have ever heard, read, or seen.
No, this isn’t stupid, it’s just plain sick and demented. These are PRESCHOOL age children, sexuality of ANY kind is OFF THE TABLE as subject material. Quit threatening our children.
Chomes says:
This is exactly how I feel. I’m tired of sexuality being pushed on our children at such a young age. My child got abused by another child because of this!
Rachel Baker says:
Thank you, Mr. Dave! You are so correct!
Bert and Ernie were never meant to be a gay couple. At one point, there is even mention of and/or a picture of Bert’s girlfriend.
That’s right, I forgot about that. Bert did go on a date. I always knew they were adults, because there are no parents involved. But why they would have to be in any kind of relationship is just absurd. People are friends and live together without any type of physical attachement at all. It’s insane. A disgrace.
Aren’t they supposed to be kids?
Haiders B. Hayden says:
They’re not gay, they just have a rad bromance.
I am LOVING your name!!!!!
Grow up. How about we let kids just be kids and stop sexualizing everything?
POO POO: A Human Right says:
chic says:
nena says:
I have 3 words Sodom and Gomorrah.
Tony Sailor says:
I could go for Sodom tonight…. hmmm
sallys says:
Sodom, Gomorrah and The KarTrashians.
crewjobs says:
With all due respect, and in this case no respect is due, this is insane. Bert and Ernie are puppets not gay men. They are not even puppets that portray gay men and they sleep in separate beds. Sesame Workshop has said they are not gay. Jim Henson must be rolling over in his grave over this.
GL Lee says:
Jim can join Walt Disney.
I knew a fellow for some 45 years. About 7 years when anyine ever saw us was when we were tod=gether, The Laugh about Beryt and rniw=e….. Nothing sexual at that
I really resent the Gay Community
Fred Furd says:
The Gay Community sucks!
DCB says:
Jon Dough says:
The left can’t stand the religious right pushing their morality on them but has no problem with pushing their immorality on us.
That’s right. How about OUR freedom of speech? How about OUR freedom of expression? And how come no one worries about US getting offended?
Bert and Ernie are best friends! NOT LOVERS!!
Jim Billy says:
The radical gay movement wants to force acceptance of their lifestyle on everyone of us. They know that if it is fed to our children at an early age, such as kindergarten and through venue’s like Sesame Street, the battle is pretty much won for them. It is just plain sad and DIGUSTING!!
Degenerate, sad, and disgusting. And once you take away any sense of identity, stability and personal responsibility, you end up with Blacks pulling Whites out of cars at county fairs and beating the sh!t out of them. Not to mention riots in London and Blacks posting White getting mugged and made to strip on YouTube.
And no, I’m not African-American or Non-African-American. I’m an American! ONE COUNTRY, ONE NATIONALITY, ONE VOICE: AMERICAN!
That is why Jerry Brown said we have to teach gay history in school. IT’S LAW. It is especially disgusting that our students can not read or write, but they will know about gay history.
Jeff Hoffman says:
Sounds like the adults need to grow up and quit pushing their “stupidity” on our children. Leave children programs alone. The USA is too worried about hurting someones feelings rather than taking a stand. We are quickly becoming the country of LOSERS… GROW UP!!.
Disgusted says:
Just one more reason not to allow your kids to watch tv…absolutely atrocious!! I can’t even stand half the commercials that are on before prime time!! What is our world coming to?
Getting Tired says:
At some point gay people, there is going to be a backlash if you keep pushing this sin down our throats. Enough is enough.
Richard Henkle says:
haha, pushing this sin down our throats. Sorry
jeanmchambers says:
Okay, how about YOU stop saying “I’m getting tired…” and step up!
Just say it! You ARE tired of this minority BS and it is time to put these sickos in their place.
“I’m getting tired…” is what has gotten this whole nation in the freaking mess we’re in!!!
Hank Warren says:
This is all about limiting Free Speech. After all, censorship is everywhere. The gov’t (and their big business cronies) censor free speech, shut down dissent and ban the book “America Deceived II”. Free speech for all.
Last link (before Google Books bans it also]:
http://www.iuniverse.com/Bookstore/BookDetail.aspx?BookId=SKU-000190526
I’m gonna look into that book. Thanks for the info. And I agree with you.
ELizabeth Freebird says:
That A$$ Bert, he was engaged to me….now he’s with Ernie? Gosh Dang these men…
Galt says:
Hmm so bert and ernie hooking up will end bullying and suicides of LGBT kids? How about putting a responsible father who is not a buffon or ogre on a primetime show? Maybe we could avoid the plague of deadbeat dads by this convoluted logic
Double Amen to that.
cyx says:
It will NEVER work….it makes TOO MUCH SENSE!!!!!
SerfCityHereWeCome says:
You must understand first above all else that the degenerate leftist perverts destroying our culture and civilization– and thus country– are doing it for profit as well. Note that all divorce lawyers, child shrinks, etc., are leftists who cash in on the destroyed lives of people who are effectively sent to them by left-wing deviant “entertainment” writers, etc., who whip them into a frenzy of ignorance, stupidity, anger and horniness.so they can be far more easily controlled by the nanny state
jerrykregle says:
We need people to stand outside hospitals and when these Jerry Springer green room women step out side the hospital SAY YOU ARE NOT taking that child home
then give that infant to a deserving loving husband and wife
How come I already viewed this episode years ago?
yobaby says:
leave all sexuality OUT of children’s programming…sick!!! Can we just focus on 123ABC, please! I am about to scream…all these people care about is their agenda and how they can bully their views on everyone else. this is Sesame Street for crying out loud…i remember watching this show as a young child…if Ernie and Bert were portrayed as gay, that would have been too early for me to understand…I wasn’t even thinking of hetero-love when watching the show back then…stick to education and silly skits…that’s all kids want…and need at those very tender ages…i am absolutely and thoroughly disgusted…
TT says:
you yobaby !!! this is about kids n learning – NOT POLITICS !!!!!
sorry wrote that wrong – I meant you are absolutely right yobaby – they a CHILDREN not pawns for POLITICS
Bickering men sleeping together. That sounds like a stereotype. Are these petition signers sure that they want to perpetuate that stereotype of gay men?
But none as ignorant as you!
BILL MCNEAL says:
GENE ARE YOU GAY? OR JUST A LIB?DON’T TRY TO CHANGE OUR KIDS, IF THEY TURN OUT TO BE “GAY” THEN THATS LIFE, BUT DON’T GO AFTER THEM !!!GIVE AN INCH TAKE A MILE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
ellobern says:
Amen. Kids will think gay marriage is a viable option and think they are in love with their best buddy
yourbizness says:
With all that’s going on in the world, we do not need to push the “Great Gay Society” down children’s throats. It’s bad enough that people think the Bert and Ernie are gay, even after Sesame Street has said they weren’t. This is a children’s puppet show meant to help educate children, not push political correctness on them. If gay’s want Bert and Ernie to get married, let them have the Avenue “Q” equivalent characters get married. They are weird enough already, and that should not stir up any problems.
howsthat says:
As soon as they agree to show a Christian couple move in next door and Bert and Ernie treating them with the same tolerance and respect they demand for themselves. So that’s a no.
Ah, the degenerate, fudge packing death spreaders are out in force.
No, the ones packing the fudge are the H0M0s. The death they are spreading is their sick and deviant life choice.
mom of three says:
This is absurd! If they do, my kids will no longer watch SS… I teach my kids tollerance, but no one should force it down their throats through indoctrination!
Maybe Zoe can have an abortion, a few other muppets can get divorced, and the garbage guy is really a transexual living in a trash can dressed like a boy… and then everyone can live happily ever after.
Foolish… ridiculous…. and a waste of everyone’s time!
You perverted SOB’s. Leave children alone.
illferris says:
What other SS characters have gotten married on the show? I had no idea they were gay!
I really wish these publications wouls stop giving attention to these ridiculous non issues… This is so abserd it would be funny if it weren’t so so sad.. The friggin WORLD is on fire and this is what is being reported on…GAY PUPPETS?? We are in terrible trouble…..
Aren’t they technically muppets?
…just wondering 😉
What a sad excuse for journalism. A Facebook group? Anyone can start one, and 900 members is nothing. There are 1,320,255 members of a group called “Meowing back at a cat when it meows at you” for god’s sake. How about a story on that?
Morons.
Yep, Jesse. My sentiments exactly. But look how the rabid respond. It works, unfortunately.
Disgusted Beyond Belief says:
Good point. I think that it is a mistake to even report on something like this.
I have to look up the meowing cat page!
callie says:
This is totally perverted!!! These are children, whoever is proposing this is a pervert!! Let kids be kids, quit trying to sexualize them, you sleaze bag!
You people are actually taking this seriously? A tiny group of numb nuts start a ridiculous “movement”, and you act like it should be given anything but a quick laugh? What morons. We deserve to be the second rate power we’re quickly becoming. Your reactions and comments would be funny, but they are too pathetic to be funny. They’re just pathetic.
That’s the kind of dismissive attitude that helps a “tiny group” with a “ridiculous movement” turn into massive social disintegration. A flood starts off as a single drop of rain.
jps says:
Suspect Jim Henson is rolling over in his grave….
rj says:
Will there be an episode of their honeymoon too?
watash60 says:
Gays will never be satisfied until they turn the whole world upside down with their qu e e r lifestyle
buster says:
the pro-gay lobby is sick, demented, and just evil
Lou Ann Watson says:
gay mafia will not stop until we stop them…it’s not about acceptance, it’s about propaganda and reprogramming. what’s next? kermit does miss piggie on national tv?
While they’re different species, the Gay Gestapo would never allow it because they’re different genders as well. Instead they’ll probably hire some new characters to teach the fine art of chicken choking around naked boys and scream for more federal funding to install vibrating fire hydrants along Sodomy Street.
Keebler says:
How do you get love from a mans hairy ass?
It’s easy: become a Liberal!
Jj Seaman says:
kids don’t care where you put your c@cks, i don’t care what you f@gs do in the bedroom but why you always have to push your sic agendas.i guess bc you are sic in the head trying to brainwash children. whats next it ok if a adult touchs your private parts. you h0m0’s are sic.
“whats next it ok if a adult touchs your private parts”
That’s what NAMBLA stands for already. Why stop there? There is no logical reason (using the Left’s sicko PC logical downslide) to stop at anything: let anyone do anything to anything they want. In fact, promote it in the Liberal MSM and use any means necessary (especially legal) to ram it down our throats. Sick and Freakin’ weirdos! It’s slowly perverting and degenerating our society into a sewer and the MSM and H0M0 groups like this keep repeating their mantra that this sewage is good for you.
is big bird a transvestite?
gus says:
well it seems today the smallest groups gain the biggest strength and most air time, and then get the laws changed. unwarranted though it is. numb nuts indeed.
Seriously! I hope this does not happen! Sesame Street is a kids show and not a forum for gender confused adults to make their presence known. The parents of kids who watch the show should be able to control when to expose them to openly gay/transgender characters and situations
bad enough to have ellen on the air each afternoon…
maybe we shoud have bert and ernie kiss first…or maybe hermit the frog can drop by for a orgy… or big bird can lip sync a diana ross song in a gay club. lmao
But first they need a wardrobe malfunction where Bert drops his pants and Ernie accidentally brushes against him as he helps him get them on. And then their eyes can meet…Yep. That’s exactly what I want my children watching!
As for your comment, there is no reason for them to stop there, or anywhere. In the Liberal world anything goes (unless you’re against them and their views, in which case that makes you a hate mongering, fear mongering, H0M0-bashing, H0M0phobic, WHITE heterosexual Christian male).
yep i guess i am a white heterosexual christian male…l don’t care what 2 men or 2 women do in the bedroom but having bert and ernie marry…just too sic. kids need to be kids until they understand the weirdness in the world.
hermit the frog is bisexual….
“in an attempt to ‘put an end to the bullying and suicides of LGBT youth’, according to the group’s Facebook page.”
How would this end teen suicide? “I’d like to commit suicide but won’t because Bert and Ernie got married”? Really?
“…suggesting that the show ‘even add a transgender character to the show…in a tasteful way'”
They did. Its name is Big Bird.
Very good point…
Their logic borders on stupidity. It’s so dumb it almost makes sense until you think about it.
No Way says:
I shared a room in college with my best friend and it never occurred to me to try and bone him! GLBT is abnormal and always will be. I don’t condemn, but I sure as hell don’t condone.
dam says:
Apparently, gay sex rots your brain.
yes, especially if your brains are in your a**.
RLA Bruce says:
This is a blatant attempt by gays to normalize their lifestyle and make it acceptable in mainstream America by indoctrinating children. Sorry, but gayness is NOT normal, and I resent their attempts to make it appear to be normal.
indoctrination is the method the gay mafia uses…and liberals go right along with it…
I feel my tolerace waning.
We must unite to stop this nonsense!!!!! Most people don’t care who loves whom. But, to pursue further changes is ridiculous. Please have your state pass a law that defines marriage as between a man and a woman. If we don’t stop these actions by the Gay Community, this stuff won’t end at gay marriage. They will want curriculum to change….do you want your children reading “Jack and Jeff went up a hill?” Do you want to read gay marriage announcements in the newspapers? How about channel surfing and viewing the Gay Channel?
Edward Adkin says:
that would be the last ime my children would watch the show…im really tired of this kind of b.s…..
James Briggs says:
Somebody needs to show Bert and Ernie this video:
YOU TOOK THE WORD “GAY” AND GAVE IT AN MEAING,GIVE AN INCH TAKE A MILE!!!!
Make that 12 inches!!!
why? because it would make those who choose a lifestyle feel better about themselves? why must everything suddenly be changed because this person or that persons says if it isn’t its not fair.
tubaman says:
STUPID,STUPID,STUPID,STUPID,ETC,ETC,AD INFINITUM
Fing Stupid!
RALPHIE says:
yOU ARE CORRECT. tHEY ARE ALL SICK PUPPIES WITH THEIR FISTING, LEATHERS, AND RUMP WRANGLING. tO HELL WITH THEM
The Liberal Left has no morality. Only value relativity. You have your truth and I have mine type of BS. This is the result of the BS situational ethics that started to infiltrate our school systems in the early 70s thanks to social experimentation. When you have value relativism then you can justify anything. And when anything goes, then all hell breaks loose. Like the Blacks beating up Whites at county fairs or the riots in London. There is no reason for these guys to stop, right? I mean, they’ve been brought up on a steady diet that everything’s okay, that there is no right and wrong, there is no purpose in life except to live it up in the here and now, that they is no value in a human life so it’s okay to beat the livin’ sh!t out of it and still go home and feel good. Thanks Liberals. I hope you were among those who got it at the state fair and who are getting it in London. You are reaping the results of your own BS. And no, we don’t need tighter controls. We just need you to wise up and grow up.
Mike G says:
I'm already logged in says:
The gay taliban strikes again. These people simultaneously demand tolerance for themselves and submission for other.
Why does everything have to be sexual?
It is a children’s show that doesn’t even portray heterosexual relations.
I’m having serious doubts that this is really about gay rights….these people are acting just like any other group of people starved for attention, Creating a dichotomy where there never was one!
Susan Karimchise says:
Sick.Sick.Sick.Sick.Sick.Sick.
Eric P Turner says:
the answer to that would don’t let your kids watch it the rating will drop and the show will go off air and the channel can blame the gays for it and know body else. my brother just moved outa cali cause he will not have his kids being forced to learn gay history no no ed value in it what so ever. i mean whats next they redo the odd couple and have them get married too. there’s no end to what theses sick people will do to make sure they’re choices are in our faces 24/7. just dont watch the show and it will go away just like flies take away the food and they will go away.
Kip Noxzema says:
Expect a well-deserved boycott if they do this.
Judy Miller says:
better watch out, the religious right will bomb sesame street. not much difference in the taliban and the religious right.
peterwoohoo says:
And we shouldn’t stop there…………What we need to do is re-visit the past.
How about Popey & Wimpy, Roadrunner & Wild Coyotee, Batman & Robin,
Bugs Bunny & Daffy, Porkey Pig & Foghorn J. Leghorn, Mr. Ed & Fury,
Bullwinkle & Rocky & my favorite 3 way Mr. Peabody, Courage the Cowardly Dog & Brian (dog from Family Guy).
Oh for goodness sakes!!!! It never ceases to amaze me how so many people are so willing to look so stupid in public for a ridiculous cause such as this. If PBS actually buckles into this absurd request, they can expect serious blow-back ( pun intended ).
Soapy Johnson says:
And they edit out Katy Perry due to a little cleavage??? Two reasons why Katy Perry matters … http://placeitonluckydan.com/2010/09/sunny-day-sweepin/
LEAVE THOSE KIDS ALONE says:
Don’t do this to children! Wasn’t Michael Jackson ENOUGH??!!
Go ahead, make them gay, and watch the funding fly out the window! Buh-bye. Thank God, we still have private and parochial schools where the kids aren’t forced to read about “Suzie going to the store with her two mommies.” Gays represent about 3-4 out of 100, at most, but make enough noise to be a nuisance. So tired of the PC baloney.
Ughlee says:
Everyone knows Bert and Ernie are straight. Seriously they have absolutely no fashion sense. Now Marcie and Peppermint Patty? That’s a completely different situation going on there!
More liberal insanity!
Bob Harvey says:
Sioneva says:
Stop pushing your damned social agenda on our kids!
Weird. Strange.
Freedom John says:
This is pure sickness. The people that are driving this will one day doubly regret this. Do you hate real family relationships that much? Never mind, retorical question.
Avis Hatcher-Puzzo says:
What is the point of this really? Its a children’s show! Gay people are marrying in New York for real, so why does this matter? If they want to have two puppets marry then write a show and make that happen. Why destroy childhood memories of people who don’t really care one way or the other. I just don’t understand their point. What happened to being tolerant? Just because they believe something doesn’t mean everyone does!
I’m completely disgusted! Why would they bring anything about relationships of any sort into this preschool show? they are puppets! They do not have relationships! At this point I would just say cancel the show. If you can’t say anything wholesome then just shut the thing off.
Leave my children alone you filthy #^^^#!
The Busta says:
Not a bad idea, really. Then, Ernie could be dragged to a ragged pulp down a county road chained to the back of Big Bird’s pickup truck, and Bert’s sadness could cause his AIDS to flare up and he could die a painful death in a hospice in the season finale. Just my two cents.
Kermit says:
And they called it puppet love………
After reading all the comments, it has come to me that SS is played only on Public Broadcasting Stations which are funded by us, Alot of money by us. This suggestion for Bert and Ernie can not happen. Remeber NPR was defunded.
Minnesota will have the marriage amendment on the ballot next November.
The gay community is trying to make it against gay marriage, but it is for marriage between a man and a woman only.
Jnfr says:
Seriously? Do little kids really need a “marriage”? When I was a kid (way back at the beginning of Sesame street, Bert & Ernie were just room mates.
Sesame Street has done a lot of good over the years with education, etc. but do we really need to inject politics and social agendas into a childrens show?
Pat Robertson says:
No offence, but that would be totally gay.
str8asitshouldbe says:
IF this ever happened I would take a week off and picket PBS and call out every one of you fudge packers. You’re a sick bunch of excuses for humans. You idiots need serious therapy.
dingbot says:
This is a joke, right? Someone is getting cranked here.
Remember how Barney was Satanic?
HansJurgen says:
Keep it up you liberal freaks and we will flush you down the toilet! Hopefully this is your last desperate attempt at pushing you thinking on the public whether they agree with you or not.
Awesome response! It is Sesame Street and hopefully it will stay that way and these liberal freaks will get flushed down the toilet as they should be – I’m over trying to be “understanding” of their hypocritical ways. You and your kind are FINISHED!
walljasper says:
Sounds fine. And remember, a blow job between a coupla buddies isn’t sex. And anal sex is the perfect celebration of marriage. No disrespect intended, right?
Kevin Tuttle says:
For crying out loud… PBS ISN’T DOING IT! It’s a change.org petition and a Facebook group. Seriously, if you guys just post stories every time someone does something crazy or controversial on the internet, you’re REALLY going to have your hands full.
There’s a change.org petition to renew Eureka for two more seasons. There’s a Facebook group (with about the same number of supporters) to make “bacon” a religion.
It’s not part of some global trend; it’s not a reflection on the President; it’s not creeping liberalism, or fascism, or socialism; there’s no censorship; no one at PBS is considering it, it’s just the internet! Everyone put down the broken bottles and knives and calm the F down…
TomP. says:
Why the hell can’t you God forsaken sodomites leave well enough alone? Does the whole world have to conform to your perverted way of life? These are PUPPETS who are there to entertain CHILDREN! This is FANTASY, much like your hope that someday your perversions will be accepted by mainstream society. Why don’t you just go cornhole each other and leave the kids alone!
The Cryptojournalist says:
Didn’t know Sesame Street was in Alphabet City
http://rhymeandreasonable.com
mamawati says:
You are sick people destroying the social fabric of this country. Going after children is beyond the pale. If you succeed, PBS and all publicly funded television and radio will be strangled of funds and disappear. Is that what you want? You could not have picked a better mission to accomplish that end. How stupid are you?
Paul Jankowski says:
Very sad and disturbing
Wilbur Post says:
And I expect the second request is to show how they consummate the marriage. Next will be how they raise their offspring. All natural of course. Let the kids understand the pooper can be used for many wonderful things.
Remember that an exit can also be used as an entrance.
herdzcatz says:
If I’m not mistaken, the names “Bert and Ernie” were inspired by the best friends of George Bailey in “It’s a Wonderful Life”, both of whom were married. Example 1: the cop Bert had to get home to the missus after viewing the delectable Violet Bates in the street scene, and Example 2: the taxi driver Ernie was confronted by the “never born” George Bailey who asked about his home and wife. Answer was that Ernie lived in a rented dump in Pottersville and his wife had left him years ago. Now if we’d rather live in Pottersville than in Bedford Falls, go ahead. Have Bert and Ernie marry on Sesame Street.
Ron H says:
I don’t think Sesame Street is a good format to promote any type of sexual lifestyle, gay, straight, bi, bdsm, whatever. Kids are WAY too young.
Cromulent says:
As a Republican, I think its a great idea. Time this one for about 3 weeks before the ’12 election please!
Dude says:
When hell freezes over
Leave the sexuality out of childhood……this is not a teaching moment!!! It is and would be very wrong to push this agenda onto children and children’s programming….This is wrong headed and headed in an unnecessary direction…To the people in charge…Use common sense…Do not do this!!! Do not allow this!! Do not introduce children to grown up topics unnecessarily…to fulfill what…? To satisfy someone’s ego and need for self congratulations….to feed someone’s ego…This would be wrong to the nth degree…..
Ernie wants it baaaad and Burt will give it to him! Sick fcks. Gotta luv em.
Joe Marshall says:
“If it is not broken, don’t fix it!”. Small children should not have to deal with these issues at a tender age, so leave Bert and Ernie alone. I have nothing against Gays and believe that they should be able to be joined under civil law. As long as they do not force their actions in my face, they are entitled to do what they want. I went to high school in a little desert town where we had a student body of 245 kids and 45 in my senior class (1962). It was like one big club and it was like a big group thing and we consisted of Native Americans, whites, hispanics, and blacks. I guarantee you that when you are out in the middle of nowhere, you all stick together. We had one classmate that was gay, everyone knew about Bobby and it was never an issue and if a team came into town with their supporters and started getting on him, since he was probably one of the first male HS cheerleader in Arizona, they would have to deal with the whole student body. R.I.P. Bobby. He passed away in the 80’s from HIV.
Dich Simonet says:
What next a bert & ernie sex film ?
Oh please spare me.
The dumbing down of america continues.
Get a Life says:
I never new they were gay, i thought they were just roomates. So I guess that means that everyone with same sex roommate is gay.. Does that mean that the odd couple were gay too? …Some people really need to get a life
you never knew? seriously?? damn your momma must have put your in a closet….every kid knew when they were still kids these two were porkin each other and playin on the hershey highway
JosB says:
Jim Henson must be turning in his grave to see what the Progressive Liberals are trying to do to his most noble creations….
midwestnorwegian says:
Need another push to stop all Federal funding of NPR.
Bruce Windsor says:
I am a avid supporter of the 2nd amendment and would like to see the little children educated on this right they have as american citizens, therefore it would be nice to see Bert and Ernie packing heat. Now that makes a lot of since…… what you think…….Just because I have a belief about the 2nd amendment does not make it right to force my convictions on children. If I really feel that strong about the fact this is a good thing then I will let people make up there own mind, once old enough to do so, and not force this on anyone. I believe there is a fine line between freedom of speech and forcing ones views on others, and to beat up children with a personal belief is as wrong as it gets. Children have a tendency to do what is needed to be accepted by their peers and this will occur whether they truly understand an issue or not so lets not put our children in that position and when they are old enough to truly understand adult issues they will decide for themselves.
Personally, I’d rather see Oscar pull a Glock whenever the punk neighborhood kids get too close to his trash pile, but I see your point.
AC says:
C’mon….can anyone see this as anything but an angry gay activist finger-in-the-eye to the 75% of the country that opposes gay marriage? This is the fatal flaw of gay activism…they always go too far, too fast.
And they wind up with gay marriage bans voted into state constitutions.
Perry says:
Absolutely nothing against gays here, but what’s the point? They say that it’s to stop bullying in the LBGT community, but let’s remember the target audience for Sesame Street- 1 to 5 years old maybe? At that age the kids don’t even know what “gay” means. Sesame street is about learning, counting, the alphabet, etc. I just don’t think that Sesame Street is the place for it, just let parents talk to the kids about it when the time is right.
JervisTetch says:
Whoever is behind this petition is playing into the very worst anti-gay stereotypes out there. There aren’t words in the English language to convey how stupid this is.
mesndblues says:
My opinions of Sesame Street have never changed, and never will.. It was creepy then,1968 or so ….and it’s creepy now…
JimDeep says:
Any more questions about what is inherently wrong with our society?
yeah we all know Bert and Ernie play on the hershey highway, but they don’t need to be married on a childrens show….kids are already confused with everything going on around them and don’t need this to confuse them even more
Hey Ernie….come here I have a hot beef injection for you!!
After reading all these comments, it’s clear that tolerance must be taught at a younger age. All of you preach tolerance but spew hate. Maybe they should introduce a few glbt characters instead of marrying Bert and Ernie though. How could preaching tolerance to any age in any form be a bad thing?
Ray – get over yourself. I have nieces and nephews who watch the program. They think gay means happy and that is all their parents want them to know at their age.
The oldest one – 9 – thinks Octomom is sick for unnaturally having babies.
Booger McCoy says:
What gay agenda?
Barry Bin Inhalin says:
suggesting that the show “even add a transgender character to the show…in a tasteful way”.
Newsflash: there is no tasteful way to add a transwhatever to ANY show.
aidsernie says:
Bert gave Ernie the aids
This is just sick. Growing up in this world is hard enough. For crying out loud, let them be children for the few years they are children. Why does the left see fit to ruin every damn thing out there?
Earl Lutz says:
Wait, I thought GAYS told us you had to be BORN gay.
dlbnext says:
How sick, more Soros money at work destroying american life.
sick of this hate says:
why do all of you conservative extremists think being gay is such a bad thing? It’s not like people choose to be gay. I’m sure if gay people could choose not to be gay they would do so because all of you Ignorant bullies terrorize them all the time. Gay youth grow up thinking there’s no one else like them, terrified that they will be harassed and ridiculed by people like you guys. I don’t care if you think that bey gay is wrong, but leave your hate speech off of the internet where your words can scar youth for life. Making crude jokes about gay sex and calling gay people sinners is a much more harmful that saying two puppets are gay. Little kids already know that straight people can have a meaningful relationship, so why not tell them that gay people can as well. I’m not writing this to force any sort of agenda down your throat. I could care less what you all do or think as long as you don’t write hateful things in public places. To all the parents out there, what if your children are? What if they saw all of these comments and decided that they were terrible sinners and maybe they should take their lives? To the teenagers, what if it was your best friend? This hate speech affects people you know and love, whether or not you know it. So for the sake of your families and friends, please reconsider your attitudes if not your opinions.
DH says:
No more Sesame Street if they do that.
kydinomite says:
My children will not I repeat Will not be allowed to watch this show or that network ever again until they are able to make decisions as an ADULT
Dottie says:
Sesame Street is about learning to spell and count and treat others with respect. These are children and should be treated as children. I have no problems with gay people, some are my best friends. I have no problem with gay marriage but I do have a problem with pushing it on 1 thru 6 or 7 year olds. Sesame Street is about preparing the kids for when they start school.
MR says:
The comments here are so incredibly disturbing. Its people like you who are damaging society, not “the gays.” I think showing a gay couple on Sesame Street is a positive thing. It has NOTHING to do with sex– if this is the case, then they shouldn’t show a happily married straight couple on tv either. And for the record, I am not gay, I am in a heterosexual marriage, but I am teaching my daughter to love, not hate. And lots of gay people DO have children… either through adoption, IVF or even through natural means.
I agree with you, except that Bert & Ernie aren’t gay. They never were. They’re two heterosexual men living together, just like millions of male roomates all over the country. If SS wants to promote a gay couple, then create some NEW characters. You can’t change characters that are already established. That would be like giving Elmo a Russian accent.
AZProud2BE says:
Then the Gay Community should come up with THEIR OWN SHOW and market it……….Parents and consumers will decide.
MR – you need to take sex ed. It takes MALE sperm and FEMALE egg to make a baby. By definition, gay people CAN NOT HAVE A BABY THROUGH NATURAL MEANS.
Instead of gay history, we should be teaching sex ed.
You did NOT say that some gay people have babies through NATURAL MEANS. What planet are you from?
Bert & Ernie aren’t gay. If anyone on Sesame Street should come out of the closet, it is definitely Big Bird. Isn’t it obvious?
This is going too far and could be detrimental to children in that every two guys who share an apartment will appear gay to them.
Bert and Ernie aren’t gay…end of story.
EverydayGuy says:
I’d like to see Elmo the Grouch go to law school and handle the gay divorce.
Elmo is not the Grouch. They are separate characters.
That’s sick, vile, morbid, abominable. Leave it alone. LORD JEHOVA, I pray for YOUR Kingdom to come
This is just plan sick.
I always thought Bert and Ernie reminded me of Felix and Oscar. You remember the Odd Couple – the clean Felix and the messy Oscar.
Bob Eldridge says:
If it was understood that being gay is as the many other lusts that man is created with, and it is to us to resist these lusts in our lives, to seek to do good in accordance with the spirit of God’s Word, drawing from each others strengths to overcome these weaknesses. Then we can start being presentable examples through which our children can learn. This being a beginning that must be understood, we are the evil that corrupt each other, as we through our lusts seek self in everything.
I support gay marriage.
That said,leave Bert and Ernie alone.They are characters on a kids show,for f*cks sake.There is no s*xuality in their relationship.I dont know if they represent adults or not,but they certainly arent s*xual in any way
Nobody is bashing anyone. We are just saying if gays were ‘born’ gay like you keep reminding people, then let them discover it during puberty like normal children. Dont force our 3year old children to watch sexual content more so about being gay and they dont even know what how to calculate 36×20. If you want to be heard,be mature about it. This just shouts desperation and a sense of hopelessness. No parent in their right mind will allow their children to watch the show ever again,even parents from the gay community am sure. To the people who thought of this,pause before you pull the trigger. The gun is aimed to your head.. Oh and if you all were so sure being gay is okay, why do you defend yourself a lot? Only the guilty do that. You all know its not right. Its never to late to know Jesus. You can get the right kind of love your heart seeks. Be blessed!
argie says:
You’ve got to be kidding! Stupid!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Guest2011 says:
Obviously this ‘group” has NOTHING better to do than to put forth their “efforts” to “let” Burt and Ernie get married. Why not let the “Chef” and his “assistant” get married as well. Jus how far is this RIDICULOUS issue going to go. Why not letter The Cookie Monster and Oscar the Grouch get married or Elmo and the “Count” get married. GIMME A BREAK!!!
Dominic Carabello says:
If traditional marriage is REDEFINED, where do we draw the line THEN? Until very recently the agreed definition across most cultures and modern societies is that marriage is defined as ONE MAN & ONE WOMAN.
If we redefine it to include man/man & woman/woman, what is to stop us from FURTHER stretching the definition in the future to include threesomes of various combinations, removal of AGE restrictions (as the radical NAMBLA wants to do) or marrying first cousins or other close relatives?
The first cousin issue is not as uncommon as you might expect, the UK (where gay marriage is legal) is now experiencing SERIOUS medical problems among the offspring of the increasingly common phenomena of Muslim immigrants marrying first cousins:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1394119/Its-time-confront-taboo-First-cousin-marriages-Muslim-communities-putting-hundreds-children-risk.html#ixzz1OGt0V96g
“The coroner chose his words carefully, since he was addressing one of the most controversial — and taboo — subjects in multi-cultural Britain: marriage between cousins in the Muslim communities which has left hundreds, if not thousands, of children damaged or dead.
This week, leading geneticist Professor Steve Jones, of University College London, warned that ‘inbreeding’ in Islamic communities was threatening the health of generations of children.
He said: ‘We should be concerned as there can be a lot of hidden genetic damage and children are much more likely to get two copies of a damaged gene.’
He highlighted Bradford as a city that was ‘very inbred’.”
MARRIAGE=1 MAN+1 WOMAN who are NOT RELATED to each other…END OF DISCUSSION.
God help you people.
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To start off, aim to do ab work 3 or 4 times a week on non-consecutive days with at least 24 hours of rest in between sessions, says Gagliardi. During those sessions, you can start with simpler moves like crunches, bicycle crunches, and planks. Even though you may only be directly targeting your abs 3 or 4 times a week, you should still be activating your core (aka, tightening your ab muscles) in every workout you do, says Gagliardi.
In reality, a never-ending list of factors—including (yes) food and exercise, but also sleep, stress management, hormone health, self-esteem, past weights, and those pesky genetics—influence weight loss as well as the weight your body naturally gravitates toward at a given time in your life, Abby Langer, R.D., a Toronto-based dietitian and nutrition counselor, tells SELF. Of course, maintaining a caloric deficit drives weight loss, but so much more goes into a successful weight-loss effort than the math of calories in and calories out.
But before we get into how to go about losing weight, please consider this: Weight loss isn’t a healthy goal for everyone, Susan Albers, Psy.D., a psychologist at the Cleveland Clinic specializing in body image and eating issues, tells SELF. “I work in a medical facility,” she says. “I have access to people’s blood work. You can be healthy or unhealthy at every size.”
If you’ve been eating fast food for years, get real about your approach: You’re probably not going to stick to an organic, gluten-free, paleo overhaul for very long. "You want to change as little as possible to create calorie deficit," says Dr. Seltzer, who insists the best way to support sustainable weight loss is to incorporate small changes into existing habits. So instead of giving up your daily BLT bagels in favor of an egg-white wrap, try ordering your sandwich on a lighter English muffin. Or say you eat a snack bar every afternoon: Swap your 300-calorie bar for a 150-calorie alternative. "Your brain will feel the same way about it, so you won’t feel deprived," he says.
Sometimes, to whip your body into shape, you have to get a little nutty. While nuts are high in fat, it’s that very fat that makes them such powerful weapons in the war against a ballooning belly. In fact, a study published in Diabetes Care revealed that study participants who consumed a diet rich in monounsaturated fats, like those in nuts, over a 28-day period gained less belly fat than their saturated fat-consuming counterparts while improving their insulin sensitivity.
“For some people, it’s knowing, ‘Typically I eat a whole sandwich,’” says Gagliardi. “‘Now, I’m going to make the decision to eat half a sandwich at lunch and save the other half for my dinner and essentially cut my calories in half. And they feel good about that. They’re not having to do math.” To get started, check out these 25 simple ways to cut 500 calories a day.
Even if you do meet your goal, it's nearly impossible to keep off the weight over the long term: "The amount of restriction required [to maintain that number] will make you so hungry that you’ll eat everything in sight—it’s survival instinct," Dr. Seltzer says. And since calorie restriction gradually slows your metabolism, your body will be less prepared to burn the foods you binge on, he adds. That could mean gaining more pounds than you lost in the first place.
Close the Kitchen at Night. Establish a time when you will stop eating so you won't give in to the late-night munchies or mindless snacking while watching television. "Have a cup of tea, suck on a piece of hard candy or enjoy a small bowl of light ice cream or frozen yogurt if you want something sweet after dinner, but then brush your teeth so you will be less likely to eat or drink anything else," suggests Elaine Magee, MPH, RD, WebMD's "Recipe Doctor" and the author of Comfort Food Makeovers.
Yes, there is rest built in—two days, to be exact—but not until you’ve put in seven straight days of pedal-to-the-metal work. Rest on days 8 and 13 to allow your body to temporarily recover from the grind of the program. This will help you bank more energy for the work days that follow. These rest days are mandatory. For those of you hitting the panic button, don’t fret—12 out of 14 days at these intensities will still be plenty adequate for getting your shred. Remember: your body changes while it recovers, not while you train. So, consider these two days your chance to bust into the gym a little more ripped on days 9 and 14.
Italiano: Perdere Peso, Español: bajar de peso, Deutsch: Abnehmen, Português: Perder Peso, Nederlands: Afvallen, Français: perdre du poids, Русский: сбросить вес, 中文: 减肥, Čeština: Jak zhubnout, Bahasa Indonesia: Menurunkan Berat Badan, 日本語: ダイエット, ไทย: ลดน้ำหนัก, Tiếng Việt: Giảm Cân, हिन्दी: वज़न कम करें (kaise vajan kam kare), 한국어: 체중 감량하는 법, Türkçe: Nasıl Kilo Verilir
Have you ever decided to skip a meal to cut back on your daily calorie count? Despite saving a few calories in the moment, this strategy almost always backfires. When you skip breakfast, or any meal, you'll begin to experience excessive hunger that can lead to craving unhealthy foods—and lots of them. You may also eat faster than you normally do after skipping a meal, causing you to miss the warning signs that you're full and resulting in overeating.
Eat More Produce. Eating lots of low-calorie, high-volume fruits and vegetables crowds out other foods that are higher in fat and calories. Move the meat off the center of your plate and pile on the vegetables. Or try starting lunch or dinner with a vegetable salad or bowl of broth-based soup, suggests Barbara Rolls, PhD, author of The Volumetrics Eating Plan. The U.S. government's 2005 Dietary Guidelines suggest that adults get 7-13 cups of produce daily. Ward says that's not really so difficult: "Stock your kitchen with plenty of fruits and vegetables and at every meal and snack, include a few servings," she says. "Your diet will be enriched with vitamins, minerals, phytonutrients, fiber, and if you fill up on super-nutritious produce, you won't be reaching for the cookie jar."
Drinking several cups of tea a day can help shrink your belly fat. Green tea is a great choice, but tea made from the leaves of Camellia sinensis, such as oolong tea and the unfermented white tea, are just as effective. Catechins in the tea speed up metabolism and increase fat burning by stimulating the liver, especially when combined with exercise. Other fat-burning teas are peppermint tea, which is known for its appetite suppressing effect, and Red Rooibos tea, which has a flavonoid called Aspalathin that lowers the kind of stress hormones that promote weight gain. Here’s a list of all the best teas for weight loss.
We will pick up from your home office for one time shredding services, our third party service provider will bring a bin to your house and wait while you fill up the shred bin. We will also pick up from your business office for one time shredding and reoccurring shredding, our third party service provider will drop of shred bin(s) and based on your initial request your bin(s) will be picked up on a later date.
On HIIT 100s sets during Weeks 1-3, when rest periods are 30 seconds or more, perform the first three sets of 10 as fast and explosively as possible. This will help build more muscle power and strength, despite using such light weight. On Sets 4-6, keep the movement slow and controlled, focusing on the contraction and squeezing each rep at the top for one to two seconds. This helps establish a strong mind-muscle connection, which is critical for muscle size, shape, and separation.
The following workouts are simple to follow, just not very easy to do. For each major muscle group, after following the HIIT 100s protocol on your first exercise, you'll do three more sets to failure of the same exercise using your 10-rep max (10RM). Of course, after doing 10 sets of 10 reps, you'll no longer be able to complete 10 full reps with your 10RM weight—probably more like 5-7 reps. On the third set, you'll do a dropset with the same weight you used for HIIT 100s (50% of your 10RM) and do as many reps as possible.
And some of these factors can go pretty deep. Albers says that people often don’t realize how dramatically past experiences influence our relationships with ourselves and bodies. For example, having to clean your plate as a child, getting sweet treats to “cheer up” after a bad day at school, or being called “fat” when you were 8 years old all likely have an impact. “Comments about your body or being urged to lose weight by a parent can do emotional damage for the rest of your life,” Albers says. Unless you deal with these issues, “many people spin their wheels and don't know why they feel so stuck,” she says. For this reason, Langer often refers clients to psychologists who specialize in food issues, and she won’t work with those clients on the nutrition side of things until they’ve started to unpack these fundamental emotional factors. Understanding your relationship to food is an important step in trying to change it.
In the process, our generous guests have helped us raise more than $99,500 and have donated more than 62,600 pounds of food for our food bank partners, which are equivalent to providing more than 346,000 meals for our hungry neighbors. Once again, we’re proud to continue our strong and meaningful partnerships with KDFW FOX 4, our official media sponsor, and the North Texas Food Bank, our official event beneficiary.
Langer adds that when when people have good vs. bad, perfectionistic expectations for themselves, they tend to handle supposed misdeeds (like eating something they “shouldn’t”) one of two ways: languishing in their failure or compensating by restricting subsequent meals. People who do make sustainable weight loss work, however, can enjoy that piece of cake and then, in their next meal, eat just like they had before digging into that slice of cake.
Lauren is concerned with what she puts in her body, and you should be too. That’s why we’ll tell you the ingredient in this supplement that might make it so effective. K Shred contains BHB. BHB is an exogenous ketone. Remember that ketones are what you want your body producing when you’re on keto, so this is just a boost to that endgame. BHB stands for Bet-hydroxybutyrate in case you’re curious or feel like looking it up to learn a little more.
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Say Hello to the HelloWorld Loyalty Barometer Report
Peter Mills | Loyalty360, April 15, 2019
HelloWorld, A Merkle Company
Loyalty / Rewards Programs
In the loyalty world, understanding customers is make-or-break. We’re witnessing a changing loyalty landscape, in which data acquisition and experiential rewards are becoming a central part of the industry. Through these changes and innovations, loyalty marketers benefit from whatever insight they can get into consumers’ preferences.
Fortunately, HelloWorld has published a new whitepaper, its 2019 Loyalty Barometer Report, which is based on survey data from 1,500 male and female consumers. The data concerns what consumers want most from loyalty rewards programs. To learn more about the report, Loyalty360 recently spoke with Gina Fleck, HelloWorld’s Director of Loyalty.
Fleck introduced the report as an evolution of the company’s 2017 Loyalty Barometer Report. She said, “[The survey’s subjects] were all US residents ages 18 to 65, and they were selected specifically to be loyalty program participants who are not participating in programs that HelloWorld administers. The same demographic of users was surveyed for both editions of the report.”
She noted that there are two major standouts in the report. “One is comparing last year’s report to this year’s report; we found it really interesting to see some subtle movement in consumers’ favorite loyalty program structures. That is illustrated by the finding that, in 2017, the number one structure was ‘earn points for rewards,’ no surprise there. And number two is a more transparent ‘get $10 reward when you spend $100’ framework.” Instead of the former structure maintaining popularity over the latter, HelloWorld witnessed “those two structures tie for number one.”
Fleck suggested that the latter, more transparent structure may overtake points-based programs as the most popular structure in the near future. “Ultimately, we consider them both to be ‘do/get’ structures, but I think that it will be an interesting thing to keep an eye on as consumers’ preferences continue to shift in the future.”
The second standout came from the responses to a new question in the survey: “What is the most important way that brands can interact with you?” This question was designed to help brands figure out how to drive emotional loyalty. Fleck said that survey subjects “overwhelmingly felt that the most important way a brand could interact with them was by surprising them with offers or gifts just for being a customer.” A simple, unexpected gesture, the report suggests, is all it takes to build an emotional connection with consumers. “We were pretty surprised by that response,” Fleck added.
When asked about recent changes in the loyalty market, she said, “This will come as no surprise to anybody who touches the industry, but across verticals, there are now just so many loyalty programs. Practically every single brand has one at this point.” The takeaway from this, Fleck noted, is that it has yielded a certain “fatigue” in consumers. No present-day consumer is surprised when a brand launches a loyalty program, even if it’s in a vertical not historically known for loyalty marketing.
“Consumers all have baseline expectations of what they ‘deserve’ from a brand’s loyalty initiative, and that’s discounts and offers” said Fleck. “But brands now have to answer to the ‘what else,’ meaning that to truly motivate a consumer, it’s not enough to simply have a loyalty program and offer discounts. Brands need to connect with the consumer in a way that feels special and differentiated and unique to their individual brand.”
To learn more, download the full report.
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‘It may be said at once’ (to borrow an expression from our author) that Margery Sharp disappoints the romantically inclined reader quite cheerfully.
It’s not as though people never fall in love in her stories–she just doesn’t make it romantic. Sharp’s neat, no-nonsense technique–even when relaying the madcap–never unbends for romantic considerations.
Her romantic style could be summed up in the quirky catch phrase used in Something Light—che va piano va sicuro–‘softly-softly catchee monkey’. In the Sharp world there was a bit of disdain for the usual hearts and flowers approach.
As a humorist, she liked to gently skewer preconceived notions of how and why people fall in love. Daydreams of heart-stopping romance had no place in her work. Just as a goose-down pillow has its pricking and uncomfortable moments, romance to Margery was more about the quill than the feather. She had no patience with dewy-eyed beauties as a fit vehicle for story, and her heroines are shaded in ‘real life’ tones as being slightly loose, bossy, zany, or just bad-tempered.
To some readers, her most romantic and fulfilling scene took place in the final pages of Something Light. But even there we find a slightly batty, but charming denouement:
‘It wasn’t the stuffed pike he now regarded, nor the broadsheet about a murder, but Louisa’s chrysanthemum head….Rather drooping, like a chrysanthemum under rain. Louisa didn’t consciously droop, she was just very tired; but at the same time the thought washed over her, in a warm relaxing tide, that before a man so prepared to provide and cherish it didn’t matter whether she drooped or not. In fact, she slightly revived…’
In The Sun in Scorpio, Cathy Pennon, as governess, (aka ‘attendant sprite‘) is left alone for weeks with the man of the house. And in Margery’s brisk manner–just in case hope was flaring in the breast of the romantic–she informs us:
“It may be said at once that Mr. Lutterel did not fall in love with Cathy nor she with him. The one was no more a Rochester than the other a Jane Eyre.”
Ah, well. There’s still Humphrey and Miss Brown, in The Foolish Gentlewoman: “When Simon later saw them sun-bathing side by side, half-naked in the dell, he certainly never thought of Jane Austen; but it was–comparatively speaking–at Miss Austen’s tempo that their courtship proceeded.”
In probably the most well-known scene–from Cluny Brown–Cluny, after a moment of potent staring between she and Professor Belinski, merely responds to his curt directive “oh, get in”. She climbs into the cab, and they go off to America together.
Neat, simple, direct.
“Were they in love with each other,” Cluny asks herself afterwards. “[She] could only have answered, she supposed so. All she knew consciously of love were its preliminaries as taught by the movies, and these she and Belinski had skipped: they had met at the centre of the maze, not on its outer rim: they accepted each other simply and finally as the basic fact of their joint lives.”
Was that how it was for Margery and her Major? Perhaps–as gleaned from these comments:
‘In the evening, with her husband, they will sit over a table of chess, backgammon or piquet. “We don’t say much,” Margery says. “But it puts the pie-crust on the pie, lays up the day…”
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The governing body is the admissions authority and has responsibility for admissions to The Marist, including setting the priority of admissions when the school is oversubscribed. The Local Authority undertakes the co-ordination of admission arrangements during the normal admission round. The governing body has set its admission number at 60 pupils to be admitted to the Reception Year in the school year which begins in September 2018.
Please see relevant Admission Policies below if you are applying for admission to our Reception Class at the start of an academic year.
In addition, please download the In-Year CMA form for any In-Year admissions for the current academic year 2018/2019.
A zoomable map of the parish can be viewed at: www.abdiocese.org.uk/Parishes and by then selecting the Woking Deanery, Our Lady Help of Christians Parish.
Admission Forms and Guidance
Please click the links below to access our admission documents. Hard copies are available from the school office.
In-Year Admissions Forms and Guidance 2018/2019
In-year-SMA-form- 20182019
The Marist Supplementary Information Form 2018 - 2019
The Marist Admissions Policy 2018 - 2019
Admissions Forms for 2019/2020
The Marist Admissions Policy - 2019-2020
The Marist Supplementary Information Form - 2019-2020
Open Mornings/Evenings
Admissions and Open Morning for prospective parents
Our next Open Morning for prospective parents will be held on Thursday 13th June 2019 at 9.15am. This will be an opportunity for parents to find out about The Marist and to see the School.
To register to attend this session, please contact the school by email to info@marist.surrey.sch.uk, with the names of the attendees, giving a contact address and phone number, plus the name and date of birth of your child, or by telephoning 01932 344477.
Equally important, if you know of someone who is considering applying, please let them know the date.
There will be another opportunity to visit at 7 pm on Tuesday 8th October 2019 if this would be more convenient.
In compliance with the statutory requirements on consultation and as agreed at the Marist Local Governor Committee on 11th December 2018, the Determined Admission Policy and Supplementary Information Form for admissions for the academic year 2020 – 2021 are below:
The Marist Admissions Policy 2020 - 2021.pdf
The Marist Supplementary Information Form 2020 - 2021.pdf
School admission appeals
In year or immediate entry appeals
Appeals resulting from in year admission applications will be heard within 30 school days of the appeal being lodged.
Appeals for September 2019 resulting from year of entry or transfer applications:
Appeals lodged by
Appeals to be heard by
23 July 2019 (40 School days)
NB: Appeals will not start being heard until after the relevant closing date has passed.
Appeals lodged after these dates will be heard within 40 school days of the appeal deadline or 30 school days of being lodged, whichever is the later date.
Appellants will be sent notification of their appeal hearing at least 10 clear school days in advance of the hearing. Appellants will be sent a copy of the school's case 7 clear working days in advance of the hearing.
Appellants must ensure that any further evidence not included with their initial appeal, is received by 5pm on the day preceding three clear working days prior to the appeal hearing date. Any additional evidence or information received after this date might not be considered at the appeal hearing.
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Day 34: The Delusion of Ownership
“This land is your land, this land is my land
From California, to the New York Island
From the redwood forest, to the gulf stream waters
This land was made for you and me”
It is sordid how within these seemingly childhood spirited songs, we get sufficient brainwashing as private property and the human supremacy as ownership upon the land, wherein ‘the other’ has ‘his land’ and ‘I have mine’ which is the beginning of separation from each other, from the land and ourselves and in that, already implying that such land will only be acquired through friction and conflict, just as we have read about the multiple wars and conquests in history books where the stories are told by those that won, leaving the gruesome aspect of the actual conquer off the record – yet exalting the ‘human pride’ that comes with the ‘acquisition’ – deliberate invasion and expropriation – for the so called ‘common good,’ which means placing a price tag on the land and selling it to the best bidder.
‘This land was made for you and me’ – already implying that life, the Earth and its resources must be ‘at my service, and in that, agreeing that we have never actually even pondered how we got to establish such a territorial ‘nature’ wherein private property as an land turned into an asset and how turning the Earth’s Resources into Commodities became the doom of our civilization.
I won’t even get to the rest of the meaning when it comes to limits and the territory that encompassed ‘your land’ and ‘my land,’ wherein all that mattered was making sure that kids are brought up with the most flagrant ideas on how our lives were supposedly founded upon ‘a great agreement of good willed men’ that sought to impulse the never quenching desire to obtain happiness at all cost, wherein we hoodwinked ourselves to always follow that which made us ‘feel good’ about reality, wherein it only became a mirage ‘Lifestyle’ that – coin.cidentally enough – is sustained and maintained through a massive abuse of the Earth’s resources to continue existing – Pow! And there goes our Earth, denigrated to become just a ‘divine source’ of money.
The sheer reality is that we have accepted and allowed ourselves to be brainwashed to believe that we/ I could ever actually ‘own’ anything or anyone in this world, because I see and realize that private property has become the very weapon of choice that those with ‘power’ have over people – wherein you can easily tag-along with the fueling of desires, hopes, dreams and the materialization thereof through following our ‘greatest excitement,’ while the actual physical substance that allows me to Breathe and exist cannot own another part of self. It can only be made an illusion that we have trapped ourselves fully and completely about.
I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to use songs as a way to brainwash kids about the supposed ability to own anything in this world that could make me an ‘entitled person’ as a god-given right to ‘own property’ and seal it with a nice sounding tune to make it perfectly fine for human beings to establish their territory as ‘my land/ your land’ with the apparent meaning that it is ‘our land’ in equality, but in reality what is being heard is ‘yours’ and ‘mine’ as a way to differentiate who owns what, because in reality, people own their homes, own their own land which is fought for and defended at all cost, to the extent that people have the right to shoot you if you sit on someone else’s property without permission.
I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed the Earth’s resources to become just another asset, something that can be valued with monetary labels called ‘prices’ according to a made-up/ make believe system that only sought to actually deny every single being the ability to ‘own their land’ wherein we are now stuck in massive debt, owing to the banks which is an institution that was made to seem almighty and powerful, while in reality it was just them that took the place of making the money available for all in that, each one of us accepting and allowing such institutions to govern the money = govern everyone’s lives, wherein now banks own millions of homes wherein people are evicted just because they can’t upkeep their payments – without even asking: where is ‘my land’? where is ‘your land’? Isn’t it supposed to be for all?
I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to never question why I could not simply have a space in my reality to live in, without having to ‘own it,’ but simply have the right to have a dignified living – in this absolutely forgetting about the fact that we all were equally responsible for having made that a reality through constitutions, laws and living-rights that could be effective for all – but instead, I allow myself to place myself into an inferior position wherein I believed that ‘those in the ruling-elite’ were actually caring and considering about ‘what’s best for me/ what’s best for all,’ despite the evidence of how none of those so-called liberty rights and individual guarantees have been respected and actually lived in this reality, as all that actually governed our reality has only been Money.
I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to establish ‘human supremacy’ through being able to establish ownership as private property, delimiting a piece of land to give to myself and others in the name of ‘freedom.’ In this accepting the first point of separation that would ensue wars and a perpetual warfare to always have ‘the most of the cake’ as obtaining more lands which translates to more resources, which in this money world translates into more money as the selling of the exploitation of such resources in the name of so-called: progress.
I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to accept the fact that I could ‘steal’ another’s land – based on the initial delirious acceptance of ‘private property/ ownership’ being an acceptable legal status – and in that, using wars as a means to get ‘my neighbor’s land’ to expand my own powers as territory and resources, which would eventually make me ‘more powerful,’ and in that allowing the self-entitlement of lands according to an expansive-enterprise that lead to the current state of the world wherein imperialism and capitalism go hand in hand to make the most of the Earth’s resources in means of human’s abusive delusion of power.
I forgive myself that I ever accepted and allowed myself to accept such battles and conquests as something that is to be celebrated, or even made memorials of in the name of instigating the so-called ‘national pride’ upon having concealed a battle where actually thousands – or even millions – are massacred and evicted from the land they occupy in the means of a ‘greater good’ which is always masked by the interests of a few that have no regard for life. I have accepted this as a ‘usual means to obtain power,’ which means that I have been sufficiently brainwashed to never question ‘who’ endowed ‘who’ with such power and ability to kill another in the name of entitling themselves with a piece of the Earth that has always been unconditionally here, who has given the godly right to own it, to establish limits, to establish separation within a world that wasn’t created with barriers other than the differentiation of ecosystems as an actual opportunity to have a different living environment according to physical-points like climate. Who has been the real separator? The human being, we all have accepted the delusion of ownership to become our own demise while pretending it made us ‘powerful.’
I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to learn about wars and conquests in school and accept that as a ‘usual form of change’ and apparent ‘progress,’ wherein I then became used to seeing/ hearing/ reading about wars in our contemporary world because: “wars regenerate the economy” – which is what I learned in school and within that, not realizing that all that it means is ‘power can only exist in abuse’ and within my mind, making it something ‘normal’ to do in order to place some apparent ‘order and progress’ as the positivists mottos that I learned were supposed to be ‘best for all,’ when in reality: they never were meant to be best for all.
I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to allow the current eviction of human beings in this world because of debt, and allowing people living on the streets, people suffering for not having anything to eat, no education, no healthcare, no financial aid of any kind just because of accepting the delusion of ownership and the monetization of our Earth’s resources as a means to control and obtain power, which makes me by default as a regular money user, a compliant to these rules that have clearly enslaved humanity to a state of absolute separation wherein currently life is being obliterated in the name of money, to have ‘more power’ and have ‘power over others,’ which is just a dictatorship ruled by money in the best interest of a handful.
I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to ever feel ‘proud’ because we ‘owned our house’ and in that, adding a layer of power and security within my persona wherein money became part of the ‘stability’ that I could experience as a certainty within my life, within this never daring to question private property in the past, because that’s all I grew up knowing about: having to pay for food, having to get money from the bank to live, working to get that money, paying for school, paying for doctors, paying rights and legal permits and everything became just a money world wherein I always refrained myself from pondering: why are we not just giving it to ourselves? Why do we have to ‘owe’ all of this money to something/ someone? Why if the State is supposed to be an institution in the name of ‘what’s best for all’ not giving all of these apparent god-given rights without having to sell them?
I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to become the very perpetrator of my reality in terms of adding a price tag onto life, making me within this an almighty money-god that decides who can afford to pay for the number in the price tag and who can’t, because that’s the only reason why values are placed and deliberately enforced as a ‘law’ that we have to follow: you have to pay to live – else, you die.
I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to believe that the Earth, the resources, the animals, plants, air is ‘here at my service’ wherein we as human beings have become so infatuated with our ability to THINK and within this ‘THINKING’ becoming the King of the Earth that can decide how to exploit it, who gets what according to the divine monetary laws that I created in the name of Power, as the constant allowance of wars as a means to obtain such power from any land/ people that could ‘serve me’ equally as the Earth’s resources that I have made equitable to Money.
I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to be brainwashed and brainwash kids with the phrase ‘this land was made for you and me’ wherein the seemingly innocent tonality of it all makes its perfectly fine to think that this world ‘was made’ for us, to live in it, to exploit it, to sell it, to deplete it, to rape it, to abuse in all possible ways because apparently some god decided to make this Earth as a playground – when in fact, it is only human infatuation with power the one that created this song as a means to justify the obvious abuse and mass raping of the Earth’s resources in the name of ‘ownership’ which is an obvious declaration of separation toward everything and everyone, as not everyone can own the same at the same time, and in that, making of this Earth instead of a living peaceful ever wonderful place to live in, just another jail that we have enslaved ourselves to through the current monetary system.
I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to believe that I could own ‘anything’ in this world, and that such owning would be equitable to satisfying my desires, hopes, dreams and that ‘having money/ owning property/ resources’ would imply that I am in fact ‘closer to god,’ as I have equated money to a divine and god-given experience wherein I justify ‘my right’ to exploit and abuse the Earth in the name of my personal satisfaction as a human being that has sold its very own sustenance to a system that we created in an apparent means of well-being for all, which is and has proven itself to be not so at all.
I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to justify ownership by saying ‘I work hard for it,’ which means that I have accepted this type of enslavement as a means to obtain life, instead of realizing that I could agree to live in a world wherein we work to maintain and sustain life as a given right for all, instead of having to work-to-live wherein no substantial improvements to life are considered, because survivalism is then accepted as a ‘living condition’ – never questioning the fact that we could support ourselves in Equality in fact, wherein we don’t have to strive for a living any longer.
I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to believe that happiness on Earth is equal to the amount of money I have, as that implies that I have the abusive right to kill, own, exploit, resell and abuse the Earth’s resources to capitalize my values and my ownerships to get ‘more power’ in the name of my personal glory and satisfaction, while justifying it with this godly sickening song that taught me that ‘this land was made for you and me. ‘
I commit myself to expose the delusion of ownership as a human creation in order to impose power and have control over the Earth’s unconditionally existent resources that cannot possibly continue being sold and capitalized in the name of personal power – all life must be equalized and given as an actual living-right wherein no more private property is in the way to create a sustainable and comfortable living position for all beings that are willing to live in Equality. This can be done through implementing the Equal Money System wherein we become the very creators of our own present and building a future that is no longer enslaved by a minority that has decided who gets what/ how much the Earth’s resources cost. This implies that my very own life is committed to stop this delusion beginning with myself wherein
I commit myself to stop any idea, belief or perception of me having ‘the right’ to control the Earth that we have diminished to only being a ‘resource’ wherein we have actually all complied to equating Earth to just a fuel to keep us all alive, a piece of land that we can ‘own’ – instead of realizing that we are more than capable and able to create an design a system that will effectively work for all, wherein equal opportunities to live a dignified living are given as a birth-right and Not made an exclusive trait of those with money beforehand. I realize that to be able to implement this, I must educate myself about Equal Life wherein all Life is valued equally through a monetary system that will enable life to be a given-right for all on Earth, which includes not only human beings, but animals, plants, the environment that has been equally abused and oppressed in the name of power as money as control.
I commit myself to become an advocate of Neighborism wherein we learn that we can only live in peace and thrive as humanity if working together as one – wherein all that we conduct, direct and work on has the starting point of considering what’s best for all as pertinent decisions to ensure that all have equal access to a dignified living, wherein suffering starvation, poverty, eviction, health care negligence, lack of education is no longer part of the Equality equation, as I ensure that I establish a system that will decidedly function for all in equal-terms. This is giving to another what we want for ourselves, and commit ourselves to work within this system that will makes us all finally proud to have an integral society that is leaving no one behind.
I commit myself to show and explain the benefits that we all get when thinking in Equality at all times, and how everything that stood once as a means of power – such as our current monetary system – will inevitably fall as it is already imploding because of it not having been a substantial system in any way whatsoever as life, which means that all power structures based on abuse – all of them currently – will have to come to an end for the new to have a space to be implemented here and for that, I commit myself to make it known that there is a solution to facilitate the transition, which is the Equal Money System to ensure that all beings have a point of unconditional support to live while we all adjust to getting used to be unconditionally supported, to not go into massive riots and over-indulgences that could harm and abuse others.
I commit myself to explain why it is important to work within ourselves as individuals within this phase of massive global change, wherein we all have to educate ourselves to learn how to live as equals, wherein we consider that only in Equality can we continue living in this world and how it is within this very principle that we can re-create and regenerate this world into a source of Life and stop subduing it to only being a ‘cage’ that was created by and for ourselves.
I commit myself to explain why the Equal Money System is the most principled based type of economic model wherein there are no precedents to compare it, because we had never in fact even considered that we could all live equally as one by giving to each other the right to live just by virtue of existing here.
I commit myself to walk the Equal Money System as myself, wherein I stop creating any delusions of owning, having control over something/ someone in my reality, and in that establish equal agreements wherein I ensure that no power is invested upon a few, and that no abuse is perpetuated in the name of such power.
I realize that all the power that can exist is here as ourselves in every breath wherein I nurture myself from the Earth and give myself back to work on the Earth to make of it a Living-Space for all in Equality.
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About Martin & Belinda Keighley
Martin always wanted to work with racehorses. David Nicholson gave him his first rides and early winners as Conditional Jockey, with regular rides and schooling on superb horses such as Barton Bank (King George VI Chase 1993) and the mighty Viking Flagship (Queen Mother Chase 1994 & 1995). From then it was inevitable that Martin would become a trainer having shown such an affinity for horses. After a spell at Cheltenham Racecourse where he learnt the art of fence-building and, most importantly, becoming an expert at reading the ground. Martin and Belinda launched Condicote Stables almost a decade ago and have had ever-increasing success since then. People will tell you there’s no such thing as a certainty in racing, but you’ll certainly be impressed by the warmth of welcome and depth of enthusiasm at Condicote Stables. We hope you’ll come and visit soon and see for yourself.
The Condicote gallops and schooling grounds are steeped in history and from the minute you approach the area you cannot help but be impressed by the beauty, peace and tranquillity of this glorious part of the North Cotswolds. The stunning location contains some of the best and most modern private gallops in the country, together with extensive turnout paddocks. But the success of any racing stable is as much to do with the team and the personal style and values of the whole yard. Owning racehorses is all about having fun, both on and off the track. Martin Keighley, his effervescent wife Belinda and the entire team are committed to helping you get the maximum enjoyment out of your involvement in our wonderful sport. Their commitment to personal attention and a really enjoyable experience is shared by the whole team.
This is a happy yard, and it shows. Furthermore, we were delighted to be awarded three stars, the highest level of accreditation, for excellence in the industry from the Lycetts Team Champion Awards Judges
Martin Keighley - Trainer
Belinda Keighley - Director
Matt "Foxy" Carter - Asst. Trainer
Harry Stock - Conditional Jockey
Paddy Berkin - Amateur Jockey
Lucjan Wirth - Yardman
Richard Walters - Work Rider
Keiran OHare - Work Rider
Jasmin Richards - Work Rider
Harley Cornock - Work Rider
Alice Smith - Work Rider
Ella McCarthy Jones
Richard Johnson - Jockey
Aidan Coleman - Jockey
Leighton Aspell - Jockey
Freddie Keighley
Harry Keighley
“I’ve known Martin and Belinda since my first job at David Nicholson’s. Friends aside, they have a good strike rate at Cheltenham and I enjoy riding out for the team whenever possible.”
Richard Johnson, Champion Jockey
David ‘The Duke’ Nicholson
“He did have a tough, sometimes gruff exterior that frightened the life out of a lot of people but he had an absolute heart of gold and if he was on your side he would do anything for you, you just had to ask. He was taken from us all far too early. However, he will always be there especially when we are riding out – we are convinced we can still hear him shouting when it is windy! We feel so privileged to have known him and learnt from him.”
Belinda Keighley
“He was probably the most influential person in my career. He started off as my boss, but ended up as my friend. I feel very lucky to be one of a number of jockeys he inspired, and I owe him a lot.”
“The number of jockeys and professionals within the racing industry that The Duke produced says it all. The standards and disciplines learnt from him became ingrained in you for life, even though he did think I should have been a cricketer!”
Richard Burton, 3 x Champion Point-to-Point Rider
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Free iPhone App Tracks Sleep, Gives Expert Advice
By Kate Freeman 2012-07-11 08:43:45 UTC
An iPhone app released Wednesday, Sleep101, combines expert advice with sleep tracking. Another plus? It's free.
There are a number of sleep tracking apps on the market, and plenty of devices that monitor sleep patterns. But the maker of Sleep101, a company called Zeo, has been in this game for a while — and it's letting users benefit from the nearly one million nights of sleep data they’ve collected so far.
The app tracks your bed movement to provide users with a timeline of when they were asleep and when they were awake. From each night's sleep data, users will receive a "sleep score" they can share on social networks. Sleep101 users can also tap into Zeo's library of articles on sleep and scientific sleep study information to help them figure out how to get the best night's sleep possible.
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Other apps such as SleepTime and Dream:ON also allow smartphone users to track their sleep based on how much they move by placing their smartphone on the bed. But users of such apps have complained that these app don't work if you share a bed with someone.
The same may well go for Sleep101, but at least it'll save you from spending your latte money on an app. At most, having its wealth of sleep data in your pocket, or on your nightstand, might serve you well.
Zeo says its app is pretty reliable: "Sleep101’s free sleep tracking technology is 86 percent as accurate as clinically-proven, expensive, wristband-based sleep tracking devices used in sleep research to detect sleep and wake cycles."
Individual monitoring devices like the Fitbit Ultra and The Lark might be more accurate for sleepers who share a bed with someone. However, these devices come at a higher price point (both about $100).
Zeo, Inc. is a company that uses smartphone and wireless technology to improve peoples' sleep. Dave Dickinson is the president and CEO of Zeo, based in Newton, Mass.
Sleep101 is currently available in the iTunes app store. Zeo currently has another free app, minus the expert advice, called Sleep Manager for iOS.
Would you kick this app out of bed? Tell us in the comments.
Topics: Apps, apps-and-software, Apps and Software, Health & Fitness, Lifestyle, sleep
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Tiered Community Mentoring event features SJC hearing, speed networking
Thursday, Nov. 13, 2014
Tiered Community Mentoring Speed Networking Speakers (from left): J.W. Carney Jr., the Law Offices of J.W. Carney Jr. & Associates, Boston; Hon. Angela M. Ordoñez, chief justice, Massachusetts Probate and Family Court; Juliana Spofford, general counsel, NETPROSPEX, Waltham; Superintendent Lisa Holmes, chief, Bureau of Professional Development, Boston Police Academy, Boston; and MBA President-elect Robert W. Harnais, Mahoney & Harnais, Quincy.
More than 40 members of the MBA's Tiered Community Mentoring Program gathered for a Murder One Appeal Hearing and Speed Networking event at the John Adams Courthouse in Boston on November 7.
Following the hearing, the group listened to four inspiring speakers: Juliana Spofford, general counsel, NETPROSPEX; Superintendent Lisa Holmes, chief, Bureau of Professional Development, Boston Police Academy, J.W. Carney Jr., the Law Offices of J.W. Carney Jr. & Associates; and MBA President-elect Robert W. Harnais.
The MBA's Tiered Community Mentoring Program provides high school, undergraduate and law school students access to legal professionals, an understanding of the legal profession and an awareness of the career opportunities available through their team mentor and via scheduled events that take place during the year. Participating schools are New Mission High School, Roxbury Community College, Suffolk University Law School and Northeastern University School of Law.
Private counsel compensation hearings begin Nov. 20
Join the MBA in giving back this holiday season
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Disney Announces Movie Release Schedule Through 2027, Including Four ‘Avatar’ Films
Disney has released its updated schedule of movie releases through 2027. The lineup features new films added to the initial list thanks to the company's recent acquisition of 21st Century Fox. The list now includes films from Disney, Pixar, Marvel, Lucasfilm, Fox, Fox Searchlight and Blue Sky Studios.
With $2.8 billion in worldwide sales, Avatar, which is currently the highest grossing film of all time (Avengers: Endgame is getting ready to tie the title), is set to receive four sequels: Disney announced that Avatar 2 has been pushed back from December 2020 to December 2021. Avatar 3 will follow in December 2023, Avatar 4 in December 2025, and Avatar 5 in December 2027. The original Avatar film was released back in 2009.
Aside from the Avatar franchise, Star Wars has three new films in the works. The next film will be released in December 2022, three years after the upcoming release of Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, with the other two films debuting in 2024 and 2026, respectively.
Meanwhile, Marvel fans will be thrilled that the company has eight new untitled Marvel films planned in the upcoming years.
Disney will also release more live action movies based on their previous classic animated films. The Lion King, Maleficent: Mistress of Evil, Mulan and Cruella are all scheduled, along with other yet-to-be-titled films.
See the full list, below:
Tolkien (Fox Searchlight) – May 10
Aladdin (Dis) – May 24
Dark Phoenix (Fox) – June 7
Toy Story 4 (Dis)- June 21
Stuber (Fox) – July 12
The Lion King (Dis) – July 19
The Art of Racing in the Rain (Fox) – Aug 9
Ready or Not (Fox Searchlight) – Aug. 23
Ad Astra (Fox) – Sept. 20
The Woman in the Window (Fox) – Oct. 4
Maleficent: Mistress of Evil (Dis) – Oct. 18
Ford v. Ferrari (Fox) – Nov. 15
Frozen 2 (Dis) – Nov. 22
Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker – Dec. 20
Spies in Disguise (Fox) – Dec. 25
Underwater (Fox) – Jan. 10
Untitled Kingsman Movie (Fox) – Feb. 14
Call of the Wild (Fox) – Feb. 21
Onward (Dis) – March 6
Mulan (Dis) – March 27
The New Mutants (Fox) – April 3
Untitled Marvel (Dis)- May 1
Artemis Fowl (Dis) – May 29
Untitled Pixar (Dis) – June 19
Free Guy (Fox) – July 3
Bob’s Burgers (Fox) – July 17
Jungle Cruise (Dis) – July 24
The One and Only Ivan (Dis) – Aug. 14
Death on the Nile (Fox) – Oct. 9
Untitled Marvel (Dis) – Nov. 6
Ron’s Gone Wrong (Dis) – Nov. 6
Untitled Disney Animation – Nov. 25
West Side Story (Fox/Amblin) – Dec. 18
Cruella (Dis) – Dec. 23
Untitled Disney Marvel – Feb. 12.
Nimona (Fox) – March 5
Untitled Disney Live Action -March 12
Untitled Disney Marvel – May 5
Untitled Disney Live Action – May 28
Untitled Pixar – June 18
Untitled Indiana Jones – July 9
Untitled Disney Live Action – July 30
Untitled Disney Live Action – Oct. 8
Untitled Disney Marvel – Nov. 5
Avatar 2 (Fox) – Dec. 17
Untitled Disney Marvel – Feb. 18
Untitled Pixar – March 18
Untitled Disney Live Action – July 8
Untitled Disney Marvel – July 29
Untitled Disney Live Action – Nov. 4
Untitled Star Wars (Dis) – Dec. 16
Untitled Disney Live Action – Feb. 17
Untitled Star Wars (Dis)- Dec. 20
20 Inappropriate Scenes in Disney Movies
Source: Disney Announces Movie Release Schedule Through 2027, Including Four ‘Avatar’ Films
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Prince’s last words on stage: ‘Wait a few days before you waste your prayers on me’
Katie BaillieThursday 21 Apr 2016 9:05 pm
Prince’s last words to fans were strangely foreshadowing(Picture: EPA)
Prince’s reported final public appearance last Sunday saw him say a poignant few words to his fans.
He appeared at a dance party last weekend where he did not perform due to having been taken ill with ‘severe flu’, but instead showed off his new guitar and piano.
The singer also addressed the crowd, with a strangely foreshadowing sentiment. He said: ‘Wait a few days before you waste your prayers on me.’
(Picture: EPA)
He allegedly appeared because ‘Prince wanted people to have living proof he’s still living,’ TMZ reports. He arrived on stage around midnight, although he didn’t sing.
Prince’s last public appearance was last Sunday(Picture: Ebet Roberts/Redferns)
On Friday April 15 he was hospitalised after falling ill during a flight and was forced to cancel two gigs because of the illness. It was later reported that he was ‘doing OK’ and had been released from hospital to return home.
It’s since been reported by MailOnline that in the lead up to his death Prince was seen making several trips to a local pharmacy, seemingly still suffering with the flu.
At 9.43am today (April 21) emergency services were called to his £10million estate, and later his publicist confirmed that he had died. His cause of death is still not yet known, although police are said to be investigating the circumstances. There are no signs of foul play and it’s not clear whether his recent bout of flu is linked to his death.
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Tag / Epinephelus fuscoguttatus
February 23, 2014 by mondaymorgue
Uphill battle for fish farmers
aquaculture, brown-marbled grouper, Chanidae, Chanos chanos, Epinephelus fuscoguttatus, fish farm, flathead grey mullet, Gonorynchiformes, groupers, hybrid groupers, Lutjanidae, milkfish, Mugilidae, Mugiliformes, mullets, Perciformes, pollution, red snapper, seafood, Serranidae, snappers, The Straits Times, threats, tiger grouper
Latest mass fish deaths highlight challenges they face as S’pore aims to boost locally farmed stock
By Grace Chua, 23rd February 2014;
Even while Singapore tries to boost the supply of locally farmed fish, the latest mass death incident to hit farmers has highlighted the challenges they face.
It was around Chinese New Year last month when fish farmers off Pasir Ris began to notice something amiss: Their fish were surfacing and gasping. This showed oxygen was lacking in the water.
In a desperate bid to save their stocks, the fishermen harvested what they could, aerated the water and moved high-value fish into mussel nets that would filter plankton and waste from the water.
But it was not enough.
Over the following week, thousands of fish died at 34 fish farms off Pasir Ris and five more farms off Lim Chu Kang. The lethal combination of dry weather and neap tides, when high tides are at their lowest, was pinpointed as the cause of the lack of oxygen in the water.
This was the third such mass deaths in five years.
In 2009, farms in the East Johor Strait were hit by a plankton bloom. Plankton compete with fish for oxygen. And last year, dry and low-oxygen conditions off Lim Chu Kang killed fish there.
The Agri-Food and Veterinary Authority (AVA) began a push in 2011 to make local supplies account for 15 per cent of total fish consumed here. The figure is currently 7 per cent. Farms here must also produce 17 tonnes of fish for every half hectare of farm space to keep their licences. This year, the fish deaths will be taken into account by the AVA, which issues the licences, and farmers will be given help to restock farms and buy equipment.
However, the latest figures show that in 2012, just 46 out of 120 fish farms met the 17-tonne target, and 42 did not. The rest were new or had changed hands recently.
Farmers also say they will continue to face seasonal algae blooms, lack of facilities and high costs.
Natural conditions around Singapore are not exactly conducive to fish farming.
The Causeway restricts water circulation in the Johor Strait, and neap tides reduce current flow. While currents are stronger off Pulau Tekong and around the Southern Islands – the two other areas where farms are allowed – the deeper, faster waters there require a deeper double anchor, making it more expensive, said fish farmer Noven Chew, 37.
National University of Singapore emeritus professor Lam Toong Jin, an aquaculture expert, said intensive feeding, organic runoff from land and high temperatures also contribute to algal blooms and low-oxygen conditions.
The choice of fish adds to the challenges. Species such as the grouper are sensitive to low-oxygen conditions, but high labour and feed costs mean farmers like Ms Chew choose to raise these high-value fish to better compete with fish from overseas. Farmers who raise hardier fish like Red Snapper (Lutjanus sp.), Milkfish (Chanos chanos) and Grey Mullet (Mugil cephalus) had better luck in the latest mass deaths.
Other pollution sources could arise in the longer term. In an essay on the rise of the Iskandar Malaysia economic zone, researchers from Nanyang Technological University’s S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies noted the potential for increased pollution and oil spills and the impact of land reclamation.
A spokesman said AVA will work with farms that have yet to reach the minimum production target, and that they have two years to do so. AVA has also disbursed the second $10 million tranche of its Food Fund to 40 farmers to help with equipment costs. Most of these farmers run small half-hectare farms.
In the long run, help may come from technology. Two farms here have worked out ways to farm marine fish on land. SIF Agrotechnology Asia’s land-based hatchery treats recirculated saltwater, and OnHand Agrarian has harvested Pearl Grouper (Epinephelus fuscogutttatus x lanceolatus), Tiger Grouper (Epinephelus fuscoguttatus), lobsters (F. Palinuridae), mussels (Perna viridis) and sea urchins from a pilot farm, cultivating a complete ecosystem in the same tank.
Such tank-based farming may mean higher infrastructure costs, but lets farmers control water quality, said RSIS senior fellow in food security Paul Teng.
For food security’s sake, some form of government help will probably be needed to maintain farm production in small, high-cost Singapore, Professor Teng added. “It’s just like military security. You don’t expect returns, you need to secure your borders.”
Source: The Sunday Times (Mirror)
February 16, 2014 January 2, 2018 by mondaymorgue
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Fish deaths a double whammy
By Melissa Lin, 16th February 2014;
Business at Ms Noven Chew’s two coastal fish farms was already bad.
Since last year, the 37-year-old has been facing stiff competition from Malaysian farmers who sold their fish here at prices cheaper than she can afford to sell her produce.
During Chinese New Year came an even bigger blow which is set to sink her business. Almost 7,000 fish – nearly her entire stock – died within a span of one week.
The five tonnes of dead fish included Sea Bass (Barramundi) (Lates calcarifer), Tiger Grouper (Epinephelus fuscoguttatus) and Mouse Grouper (Humpback Grouper) (Cromileptes altivelis), which can fetch between $80 and $100 per kg, she said.
The losses cost her $15,000. And if the fish had grown to their maximum size, their worth could have as much as doubled, she estimated.
Others were also not spared the sudden mass deaths – 39 farms in the East and West Johor Strait lost around 160 tonnes of fish.
That is around 3 per cent of what local farms produced in 2012, according to Agri-Food and Veterinary Authority (AVA) figures.
Last Thursday, AVA attributed the deaths to low levels of dissolved oxygen and a plankton bloom due to hot weather and high tides being at their lowest levels.
Signs that something was amiss began showing a few days before the start of Chinese New Year late last month, said Ms Chew.
Neighbouring fish farmers told her that their Coral Trout (Plectropomus sp.) – which she does not rear – were dying. A check in the waters around her farms found that fish were avoiding the area.
As a safety precaution, she moved a few hundred of her giant groupers into mussel nets. Mussels (Perna viridis) eat plankton and act as a filter, she said.
They survived, but she did not have enough mussel nets to save her other fish.
Ms Chew’s losses could have been worse if she had not diversified her business following a plankton bloom in December 2009, when 25 tonnes of fish worth $70,000 died in her farms.
After that setback, she and her business partner, Singapore Marine Aquaculture Cooperative chairman Phillip Lim, decided to rear lobsters (F. Palinuridae). Their farms now have more than 10,000 of the crustaceans, which were unaffected by the recent deaths.
“We didn’t want to rear so many fish because the price of local fish was dropping,” Ms Chew added.
Sea bass from Malaysia can be bought for the retail price of as low as $5 a kilogram, but for local fish farmers, it costs $8 just to rear the same amount of fish, she said.
The Institute of Technical Education graduate had previously worked as a retail assistant, a wonton noodle seller and a chicken rice seller.
The divorcee went into the fish farming business in 2008, thinking it would allow her more time with her daughter, now 12.
A year later, she sold her four-room flat in Sembawang for $350,000, and invested the entire sum into her business. Now she lives on one of her farms – each of which sits on 0.5ha of sea area off the coast of Changi – while her daughter lives with her former mother-in-law.
Ms Chew owns the farms but pays an annual licence fee of $850 for each of them. She declined to reveal how much she earns from farming.
Last Thursday, Minister of State for National Development Mohamad Maliki Osman said farmers affected by the recent mass deaths do not have to worry about missing mandated productivity targets. Each year, fish farms must produce 17 tonnes of fish for every 0.5ha of space to keep their licences.
But this is cold comfort to Ms Chew, who does not have any savings and may have to head to the mainland to find a way to support herself and her daughter.
“I’ll have to find a part-time job outside. I want to support the national food security efforts, but how can I do so if I can’t even support my own family?”
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Journalist. Father. Teacher. Husband. Student. Friend. Mentor. Son.
There are many hats underneath the fedora that frequently adorns my head, but at the core of every aspect of me is a passion for people. Whether they are family members, students, colleagues, church members, friends or even strangers, I am fascinated by the uniqueness of each individual and the stories underneath their hats. It’s why I’m a journalist. Every person has a story, and I want to discover it.
My journalistic journey began at North Central College in Naperville, Illinois. My summer orientation leader was sports editor of the college newspaper, and he needed a volleyball reporter. I didn’t know much about volleyball, but had a huge crush on one of the volleyball players. Middle hitter Tara, and the promise of free pizza at the newspaper meetings, roped me into journalism.
Little did I know that a little crush and a lot of pepperoni would set up the rest of my life.
The stories I heard, wrote and even lived through shaped who I am today and the hats I wear. I became an organ donor after profiling a man’s unsuccessful wait for a new liver. My respect for police officers grew immensely after spending 20 hours with a unit during a meth-lab drug bust. My compassion for the poor — especially children — was reinforced after visiting the blighted home of a slum-lord victim. My faith was strengthened after witnessing victims of various tragedies be thankful for the silver linings of their situation.
In addition to shaping who I am, journalism has also been a lot of fun. My career has given me the opportunity to hang out with several “stars,” such as musician John Mayer, WWE superstar Chris Jericho and basketball legend Isaiah Thomas. I’ve met several historical figures including civil rights leaders, war heroes and prominent politicians. But the most inspiration came from the everyday people I encountered: the principal of an impoverished school who is doing all he can to stop the cycle of poverty among his students, the nurse who has dedicated her career to providing free healthcare for the poor, the retired couple who are housing and keeping the local Red Cross chapter alive.
I tried my best to tell their stories through an article, later published in a newspaper. But their stories didn’t die there. Although the physical papers may have been trashed, their stories continue to be recycled in every interaction I make, each an individual thread in the hats that make me who I am.
This entry was posted in The Editors and tagged profile on August 10, 2016 by Joe Dennis.
About Joe Dennis
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Join us for "The Spirits of Christmas"
BlogJoin us for "The Spirits of Christmas"
December 01, 2018 ● Montrose Church ● Worship
Christmas Season Schedule
Two thousand years ago at the first Christmas, the Holy Spirit was at work, weaving together a story of hope, light, and redemption. Nineteen centuries later Charles Dickens’ story gave us another set of spirits, past, present, and future, to revive human goodwill and real love. And now, you're invited to experience the “spirits” of the first Christmas to awaken your heart to the redemptive power of Jesus’ birth. Watch the series.
Part 1, The Spirit of Reconciliation
Featuring our Christmas Choir
Montrose - 8:30 a.m. 10 a.m. 11:30 a.m.
Pasadena-Bresee - 10 a.m. (all video) 5 p.m.
Part 2, The Spirit of Appreciation
Christmas Musical, "The Other Side of the Tree"
Montrose - 4:30 p.m. 6 p.m.
Pasadena-Bresee - 10 a.m. Family Service
Pasadena-Bresee - 5 p.m. Christmas Caroling
Part 3, The Spirit of Compassion
Pasadena-Bresee - 10 a.m. (sermon video) 5 p.m.
Part 4, The Spirit of Deliverance
Sunday, December 23*
Monday, December 24*
Montrose - 5 p.m. 6:30 p.m. 11 p.m.
Part 5, The Spirit of Covenant
Come and Go Communion
Montrose - 9 a.m.-12 p.m.
Pasadena-Bresee - 9 a.m.-12 p.m.
*Note: Nursery provided up to age 2. Kids will attend with their families.
Tickets: Available starting December 8 on weekends at the Connections Center, or for pickup at the Ministry Offices during the week.
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Meryl Streep Weekend – Suffragette (2015)
Director: Sarah Gavron
Writer: Abi Morgan (Screenplay)
Starring: Carey Mulligan, Helena Bonham Carter, Brendan Gleeson, Anne-Marie Duff, Meryl Streep
Plot: The foot soldiers of the early feminist movement, women who were forced underground to pursue a dangerous game of cat and mouse with an increasingly brutal State.
Tagline – Mothers. Daughters. Rebels.
Verdict: Brave & Important Story
Story: Suffragette starts in 1912, woman still don’t have the right to vote, but the battle for equality continues to wage on with Emmeline Pankhurst (Streep) pushes the campaign through. We follow Maud Watts (Mulligan) who finds herself witnessing one of the campaigns with Violet Miller (Duff) bringing her into their movement.
When the latest campaign gets rejected scenes get violent and Maud finds herself in the middle of the fight, facing time in jail, forced to give up campaigning for equal rights. Now the movement is stronger than ever will look to get the equality for women through.
Thoughts on Suffragette
Characters – Maud Watts is a quiet laundry employee, married with a child, she gets caught in the middle of one of the campaigns for equal rights, she ends up joining the movement as a foot soldier knowing what is right for women everywhere. Violet Miller is one of the foot soldiers that recruits Maud, she has been fight for a while now and knows that she wants the best for her daughter. Edith Ellyn offers a cover for the meetings to make things right for women, she has been campaigning for years next to the leader, Emmeline Pankhurst has been in hiding for years as she keeps the movement going strong to make sure women can get the right to vote. Inspector Arthur Steed is trying to stop the movement from taking over, he puts the women to the test to see who the strong ones are.
Performances – Carey Mulligan is great in the leading role, we see her confliction with Maud’s decisions being made. Helena Bonham Carter is great too which puts her in a supportive role. Anne-Marie Duff is the actress I hadn’t heard of before and she goes toe to toe with the bigger names. Meryl Streep does have a small role in this film, but that doesn’t hide her importance to the story. Brendan Gleeson makes for a good law man in any movie, this is no different.
Story – The story shows the struggles British women had to get the chance to vote, just vote something men had been doing for years. It leaves you to wonder just how this took such a long time to change in a world where we are all meant to be equal. The bravery these women showed shines through because they faced being shamed by their families, the main story follows how Maud Watts went into the world and how it affected her life. While I do understand this is looking at the women’s battle, you do feel like there would have been male supporters in this fight too and them speaking up would have been just as taboo to the ones who wouldn’t look down on them.
Biopic/History – This is a moment, a movement in history that should never have had to happen, but the importance to what it achieved is remarkable.
Settings – The settings show how the everyday location were important to make this movement happen, we feel like we are in 1912 London.
Scene of the Movie – The speech.
That Moment That Annoyed Me – You would think men would have supported this too.
Final Thoughts – This is a look at an important moment in time, it shows how women worked, fought and battled to get equality in Britain.
Overall: Important look at history.
By Darren Lucas Posted in 2015, Biographical, Drama, Historical, S Tagged Abi Morgan, Anne-Marie Duff, Brendan Gleeson, Carey Mulligan, Helena Bonham Carter, Meryl Streep, Sarah Gavron
ABC Film Challenge – World Cinema – V – Viking (2016)
Director: Andrey Kravchuk
Writer: Andrey Kravchuk, Johan Melin, Andrey Rubanov, Viktor Smirnov (Screenplay)
Starring: Danila Kozlovsky, Aleksandr Ustyugov, Kirill Pletnyov, Maksim Sukhanov
Plot: Kievan Rus, late 10th century. After the death of his father, the young Viking prince Vladimir of Novgorod is forced into exile across the frozen sea.
Tagline – “Istoriya eto simptom. Diagnoz eto my” (“History is a symptom. The diagnosis is us”)
Runtime: 2 Hours 22 Minutes
Verdict: Too Much to Process
Story: Viking starts as three brothers rule different kingdoms under the Russia we follow the youngest Vladimir (Kozlovsky) who is trying to end the war between them after being exiled to the frozen land of Novgorod. Completing his quest, he will need to come across new enemies, while old enemies are waiting in the wings for his weaknesses to be exposed.
Thoughts on Viking
Characters – Vladimir is the youngster son of the king, he gets the weakest area to rule, but isn’t going to let that stop him taking control of the area, he proves to be a strong leader one that is fair and will look after his people. When it comes to the rest of the characters it was hard to figure out who to focus on, because as soon as one looked like they were going to be important, they seemed to get killed.
Performances – The performances suffer because of the issues with the characters not being given the focus they require in the film, it is too hard for the audience to know who they should be following in this film.
Story – The story seems to focus on Vladimir the youngest son of the rule of Russia, whom after his death gets given part of the land to defend, we watch his rise to try and claim his crown as the rule of Russia as he takes on enemies from all over the land including his own blood. The story telling process is difficult to keep up with as we do seem to meet group one get slightly invested in these character, but nope they get killed leaving us wondering just who we are meant to be supporting through the film.
Action/History/War – The action is plenty of battle sequences, each one getting bigger, bloodier and deadlier as the film unfolds. The history, well I don’t know how accurate any of it is, most of that would involve research and the war side of the film shows us the different strategies adopted during the 10th century.
Settings – The film shows us the settings that will keep us believing we are in the time the film is set, it keeps the battles feeling down and dirty which is how you would imagine them happening.
Scene of the Movie – The hiding escape.
That Moment That Annoyed Me – Too many characters introduced for nothing.
Final Thoughts – This is an overly complicated movie that is trying to tell a massive story only for it to end up not given enough time for most of the characters to develop or unfold.
Overall: Too long and dull
By Darren Lucas Posted in 2016, Action, Historical, V, War Tagged Aleksandr Ustyugov, Andrey Kravchuk, Andrey Rubanov, Danila Kozlovsky, Johan Melin, Kirill Pletnyov, Maksim Sukhanov, Viktor Smirnov
Smashbomb – Social Media
I have recently joined Smashbomb social media, which can be found here. This social media is designed for entertainment and of course my main focus will be the movies.
I created a new profile, which has once again seen Movie Reviews 101 spread to another social media site, you can see my profile here.
I am only on the early first steps into this new social media and just like anything new it will take time for me to learn everything about it, remember I am still trying to understand the hashtags on Twitter. From what I can see we get movies that we can add our own reviews to, which will be what will be happening from me.
What is Smashbomb?
This is going to be the question to many of you,
1. we get to operate in a follow and following process, much like twitter, this is the easiest part to pick up.
2. We are operating with the main focus on, Apps, Books, Movies, Music, Podcasts, Tabletop Games, Tech, TV, Video Games and Videos, one thing you will notice missing from this is sport, which can see the very toxic fans, just head to Twitter during a football match to see the reactions people put out there.
3. Focusing on the movie side of everything, each movie does get its own profile, I am using Brightburn for most of this description as it was my most recent cinema trip. On the movie side of the pages, we get the information, photos, trailer and chance to rate the film itself or even add a review (this is where I will be working most).
4. Each film has a rating out of ten (there are no halves) each rating will contain different symbol of how well it is rated by the users, see the picture on the left to understand a little bit more.
5. Each film does have the option to ask questions about the film, which should help people with unanswered questions about what they have just seen.
6. Outside of the movies side of things, we do get chances for Giveaways that you can enter using Kudos points, which are earnt by doing different tasks, these Kudos points will also give yourself more attention on the site, with your reviews reaching the higher levels for people to read first.
7. Kudos points are a unique way to gain a following who like your work, everything you get a like it is a Kudos point which will see you become more of a trusted member of the community (think like EBAY).
There are of course a couple of sides that I am still learning, knowing me it will be one click away otherwise they are things I would like to see added.
1. Indie movies, they don’t seem to have pages, they can be created and it will need time to line up the details for somebody else’s work, you don’t want to set it up wrong and upset the people behind the movie in my case.
2. I am struggling to find a way to see if my Twitter followers are using the site, it would be nice to be able to see or have an easy link so I can follow them and vise-verse. This is just because I am starting off though, it is always hard to figure out who or who not to follow on social media.
My early steps on this site have been positive, I am looking forward to keep moving forward with additional reviews and believe we could have a community that does support friendly conversations and opinions about movies.
By Darren Lucas Posted in Promo
Writer: Andrew Stanton, Stephany Folsom (Screenplay) John Lasseter, Andrew Stanton, Josh Cooley, Valerie LaPointe, Rashida Jones, Will McCormack, Martin Hynes, Stephany Folsom (Story)
Starring: (Voice Talents) Tom Hanks, Tim Allen, Keanu Reeves, Annie Potts, Joan Cusack, Tony Hale, Madeleine McGraw
Plot: When a new toy called “Forky” joins Woody and the gang, a road trip alongside old and new friends reveals how big the world can be for a toy.
Tagline – On The Road Of Life, There Are Old Friends, New Friends, And Stories That Change You
There may be spoilers in the rest of the review
Verdict: Cash Grab Sequel
Story: Toy Story 4 starts as we see how the toys are now living with Bonnie, Woody is starting to get ignored more with her enjoyment of Jessie getting stronger, with Bonnie starting Kindergarten Woody goes against orders of the room to help her in class, where she builds a new toy called Forky out of trash.
Forky becomes her favourite toy and Woody wants to do everything he can to stop him running away, when the family goes on a road trip, Forky escapes forcing Woody to rescue him once again, on the rescue attempt Woody finds himself investigating an antique store which could have an old friend in Bo Peep in, only to find the toy living in the store Gabby Gabby searching for something, forcing Woody to team up with Bo and new friends to save Forky and get back to Bonnie in time.
Thoughts on Toy Story 4
Characters – Woody is struggling with not being in control of the room anymore, he still wants to help make Bonnie happy, which sees him acting selfishly, he does try to fix his own mistakes which will see him facing a second chance, meeting an old friend and distancing himself from his current friends. Woody is the key figure in this film, this is very much his story. Forky is the newly created toy out of a spork and is learning everything as it unfolds even though he believes he is trash. Buzz Lightyear is trying to step up when Woody goes off, he does feel like a bigger idiot than we are used to, using his voice commands to help him, which seems like a huge step back on his character. Bo Peep coming back to the franchise is fun, she shows Woody a new life away from kids, where she helps toys, she is Woody’s big love in life too, kick ass fighter too. Gabby Gabby is an older toy like Woody, she has been damaged and is searching for something to hope she can be taken home one day, she is painted as the villain, though she is the weakest villain in the franchise. Duke Caboom is the best addition to the film a stuntman that has failed as a toy, he is always up for trying something new and is filled with confidence.
Story – The story here follows Woody trying to find himself a place in the world after becoming a smaller part in the life of his new owner Bonnie, he gets too involved and spends most of the story trying to make up for his mistake of letting Bonnie create a new toy, caught in the middle saving the day or breaking free. Now this is the 4th part of the franchise which did tie up nicely after the third one. The supporting characters do take a big back burner in the story which even sees Buzz getting less screen time, this is a full Woody story trying to figure out where his life is going on next. We do try to play on the heart strings, though it just doesn’t get to the levels it could have and has been there before. The new characters to bring the bright spark to the story, but we do end up going down the road, where this is becoming too unbelievable that these toys are acting like this.
Adventure/Comedy – The adventure side of this film comes from the idea that Woody will need to go on a new adventure to save Forky, only to see Buzz on his own adventure which does cross paths with Woody, only his feels like a simple side to everything. the comedy from the new characters hits very well, its just old character seem to fall short.
Settings – Having the film use an Antique story is great idea because we get to see known toys that could add comedy in places, the carnival also adds potential new characters too.
Animation – The animation is Pixar at its very best, it looks perfect like we know they are used to bring us, bringing us larger scale environment to everything going on.
Scene of the Movie – Duke Caboom.
That Moment That Annoyed Me – Buzz seems to be dumber.
Final Thoughts – This does end up feeling like a cash grab sequel, it doesn’t have the heart the previous films do and fails to use the original characters well enough.
Overall: By the books sequel.
By Darren Lucas Posted in 2019, Adventure, Animation, Comedy, T Tagged Andrew Stanton, Annie Potts, Joan Cusack, John Lasseter, Josh Cooley, Keanu Reeves, Madeleine McGraw, Martin Hynes, Rashida Jones, Stephany Folsom, Tim Allen, Tom Hanks, Tony Hale, Valerie LaPointe, Will McCormack
Director: Lars Klevberg
Writer: Tyler Burton Smith (Screenplay) Don Mancini (Characters)
Starring: Aubrey Plaza, Brian Tyree Henry, Gabriel Bateman, Tim Matheson, David Lewis, Beatrice Kitsos, (Voice Talent) Mark Hamill
Plot: A mother gives her son a toy doll for his birthday, unaware of its more sinister nature.
Tagline – A Boy’s Best Friend.
Verdict: Fun Horror
Story: Child’s Play starts by taking us to a world with Kaslan Enterprise releasing a new doll called Buddi, this doll can connect to all the technology around the house, learning as it gets to know the family dynamic. Karen a single mother has just moved to a new city and works in a shopping centre, she receives a default Buddi doll and decides to give it to her son Andy (Bateman).
When Andy boots up the Buddi doll, it names itself Chucky (Voiced by Hamill) and starts to learn like all do, it soon becomes clear that this doll isn’t going to be like the others, it has had its safety restrictions switched off. Chucky soon starts reading situations wrong and doing on a killing rampage, using the technology he can connect to his advantage.
Thoughts on Child’s Play
Characters – Andy is a young teenager that has just moved to a new city with his mother, he hasn’t made any friends, turning to his phone to keep him busy, he does have a hearing aid, but it is never clear how bad his hearing is, he gets a Buddi doll that will keep him company as he starts to become friends with the doll. Once he learns of the evil inside the doll, he does all he can to make sure his loved ones are safe, as he starts to make friends away from the doll, he never seems to go to school though. Karen is the single mother that is working double shifts to keep Andy happy, she starts dating a new man, which doesn’t please Andy and does all she can to put Andy first when things start getting out of hand. Chucky is the Buddi doll that has been unleashed from his safety restrictions, he is constantly learning from watching people, which brings out his violent side, which will see him going on a killing spree targeting anyone that hurts or tries to replace him as a friend to Andy. Detective Norris visits the apartment building where his mother lives for dinner once a week, he does notice Andy around the apartment building making sure he is safe.
Performances – Aubrey Plaza as the single mother is strong in her role, she does bring added character to a character that could have come off plain. Gabriel Bateman is great too because he shows us the isolation that he is going through during the film. Mark Hamill does voice the character of Chucky well giving us an entertaining character that get plenty of laughs. Brian Tyree Henry does bring comedy to his role, which is usually a more uptight figure in the film.
Story – The story here follows a boy that given a Buddi doll which soon starts to go on a killing rampage after learning from the technology around him. I do have conflicting feelings about this story, on one side I am disappointed we have scrapped the serial killer trying to get his soul into another body, which I feel is the main part of the franchise. On the positive side we do get to dive into the world where people are letting themselves are being controlled by technology, connecting everything to one source where an error could break everything. seeing Chucky learn is interesting to see too because we see how he processing each clip, line and environmental side of the world. it does borrow from a lot of different films from the past which can be picked up on. This des come off very fun, only it could have been its own new doll instead of just using Chucky showing the lack of originality coming out of the Hollywood.
Horror – The horror in the film is mostly slasher material, we see Chucky getting kills with plenty of blood splatter, with some original kills along the way.
Settings – The film keeps the settings looking very similar with the apartment building showing how hard up the family is, the department store does bring us a great showdown location too.
Special Effects – The effects in the film are strong with the Chucky doll being both creepy and moving in a robotic motion which seems nature.
Scene of the Movie – Chucky has a present for Andy.
That Moment That Annoyed Me – No Serial Killer side.
Final Thoughts – This is a fun horror that does get laughs and blood splatter, it does frustrate though by having to use the Chucky doll for what is a completely original idea.
Overall: Blood Splattering fun.
By Darren Lucas Posted in 2019, C, Horror Tagged Aubrey Plaza, Beatrice Kitsos, Brian Tyree Henry, David Lewis, Don Mancini, Gabriel Bateman, Lars Klevberg, Mark Hamill, Tim Matheson, Tyler Burton Smith
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Web Strategy, Design & Development
Since 2010, Mutant Media has been one of Seiko's go-to partners for web design and development. In that time, we've worked together in designing, building and maintaining their flagship marketing website seikousa.com, including developing creative strategies, designing and building more than a dozen contest and promotional mini-sites. Based on that success, Seiko has [...]
Feel the Fresh Cafeteria Design
Aramark's account with the Chicago Public School system needed a fresh, new look for their cafeterias in more than 100 individual schools. And where typical venue designs cost a pretty penny and take months to implement, CPS needed a solution that could be implemented quickly and inexpensively. Our venue design uses ingenuity to yield maximum bang for the buck.
Fuel Up with Chef Wayne
An element of the larger Fuel campaign, Fuel Up with Chef Wayne is an engaging series of food prep videos for front line employees in Aramark-run high school cafeterias. Now in its fifth season, the campaign includes more than fifty individual episodes.
As an effort to fight "menu fatigue", Aramark's annual Fuel campaign introduces new menu options to high school diners throughout the school year. Since 2010, Mutant Media has worked with Aramark's K-12 marketing team to name dishes and promote them via a monthly campaign of posters, point-of-purchase signage, web/social media promotions, morning announcements and mor[...]
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Ladies Sportura Campaign, feature Hope Solo
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Formic Acid Campaign for North America
Coordinated with the opening of their first facility in North America for producing Formic Acid, we worked with BASF is producing a campaign of magazine ads, printed marketing collateral, a website, and a series of animated banner ads touting the benefits of the regionally-produced cleaning agent to clients in seven different industries.
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Scatter Brained
I've been disciplining myself to keep track of my toys in conjunction with this leather satchel I carry around, but that discipline broke down yesterday apparently.
The new Nikon Coolpix has been a joy, purchased in March of last year. The last picture I took with it: Sick Jokes (a collection) and my quad shot latte, at Fresh Pot adjacent Powell's on Hawthorne. Presumably I threw it back in the satchel at that point.
However there's no indication (so far) the camera ever made it home, although that's where I went next. Maybe it'll turn up. Probably it went to the same Negative Universe as my Paul Kaufman hat. I find it disturbing when I can't put my finger on just when and where the sleight of hand occurred, me that dupe of my own legerdemain.
I still have the Olympus Stylus as a fall back. Those 14x zoom shots and richer colors will be absent from the Photostream for awhile, looks like.
Actually, I'm so attached to this camera that, finding it on sale for only $207, I grabbed another (free shipping). If I find the other one I'll make it, or the new one, a gift to someone.
I learned from Math Forum that Dr. William Thurston has died at age 65. He was one of my professors at Princeton, for honors calculus.
From a Gothamite
"Gotham" is supposed to be "any city" as you know, but there's that "Goth" right in the name, and the Dark Knight might be portrayed as a goth comic in some ways (yes, I'm referring to Batman, see post below). But then "Gotham" fades into "metropolis" as in "metropolitan" which tends to mean any concentrated urban area, a CBD (central business district) especially.
The word "business" is fun as it contains "bus" as in Magic School Bus, or that bus on a motherboard that conveys data, perhaps in parallel. In the urban center, things get "bussy" (pertaining to buses and business).
I'm in such a place now, one of those open inventory caverns, air conditioned, where people flock to take goods, to each according to her charge card allowance. I conveyed a shopper here, from the bank, not by bus but by motorcar, in the 4-wheeler sedan I've called "maxi taxi" or "torture taxi" depending on mood and lighting. She's an older Nissan, the successor to Razz, the raspberry colored Subaru.
Lloyd Center Mall: I've posted from here before. Back then, I was being cynical about the wifi and the nickle & dime me approach. Nixon: America's answer to communism.
Hey, I'll give a pro-capitalism speech why not? First, let me explain how I tend to use the word "capitalism", even as I struggle to bring it back to everyman's way. I think in terms of capitals, i.e. major cities, or mover and shaker places, hubs, key players.
Like when they say "London believes" in some propositions, as if cities could have beliefs.
"Portland agrees with Tehran" on some issues. Phrases like that bespeak "capitalism".
Another meaning is "using one's head" as in "thinking cap" as in "being one's own boss in the 'what I think' department".
I'm in a vast (OK, big) mall, and people just help themselves to goodies. Yes, they have to pay for them, sometimes (often) on credit. But it's a layaway economy that one designs for oneself. There's latitude for self expression. You prefer the Ikea look? That's fine.
There's a sense of choosing for oneself on a level it makes sense to offer choice, rather than a sense of having a thing meted out, preferentially awarded based on impossible criteria.
In a relative distopia, you'll never get that pair of shoes, because you're not allowed to just pay for them.
In a fixed price (same price for all), catalog-based economy, you don't have to do it for favors or quid pro quo.
You do it because you put your time and energy in, in some other way, in some faraway land.
You are not beholden.
You walk away from the merchant, goods in hand, not owing that merchant. Now it's between you and Visa, and that's how you want it to be. There's just a lot less karma, or lets say freedom to create your own karma. It's back to Alaska or whatever, to one's own adventure's, not some state's, though you may be a state's agent.
That being said, I came here, used the free wifi, and moved on. My intent was consumerist though: I was thinking to upgrade the phone, from this hand me down first generation Android. But this branch of Verizon doesn't stock HTC 1x, just Incredible and Rezound, so it's out the door and off to a blogging place.
My shopper is shopping. She doesn't always get to be in such a large metropolis, with its many charms and wonders. Bridge Pedal was today. I stayed home and caught up on some studies. I also am reconnecting with Free Geek thanks again to Holden Web / Open Bastion, a great web of connections.
The Dark Knight Rises (movie review)
If you'd forgotten all previous Batmans and just walked in on this one, you may not remember how Bruce had fallen in with this cult in the Himalayas that plays "angel of death" to a moribund humanity. The theme, as always, is misanthropy.
Bruce is paradoxically a philanthropist, but he's enough in touch with the dark side to know why it wants Gotham to be gone. His own wasting away, in the wake of past trauma (PTSD) is taking its toll on Gotham psychically. He is thrown in a pit of despair and we dare him to climb out of it. He's just another sick and twisted little kid like all the others.
Like Pee Wee Herman for example?
There seemed to be some references to Occupy, but not many. The rich are always having that fantasy about the mob rising up, and batman films always feature Gotham going crazy, by design of some Dr. Evil type, or perhaps a dynamic duo of Evils.
Actually, it's a whole cult that's evil, with the Himalayan cult a kind of reverse Avengers, here to squelch, once and for all, a disgusting humanity, undeserving of God's love -- not forgiven, a narrative at variance with the Christian myth on the surface, but then Christians plan for an end of the world Judgement Day as well, so not that different really, more like Rosicrucians perhaps?
Law enforcement gets to be "the good guys" in Batman, which is how it's supposed to be. If you're on the police force and want to take your daughter to a film that doesn't demonize police, this could be it. They bravely follow orders.
The guys in blue only fall down when they give up, or when they fail to rethink those orders and upgrade their performance with plot developments. The power of intuition plays a big role in bat space. The commissioner and the bat are attuned psychically, the meaning of that beacon (the bat is awkwardly close to being the commissioner's "secret friend" -- he's somewhat lucky it's a mass psychosis or he'd have a hard time holding that job).
The reason Robin maxes out of the ranks, by way of detective (private eye), is he sees the blindness of "just following orders" as an only fall back. There's a rule that you need to give the grunt on the ground, the man in the street, the woman salonstress, a strong sense of the big picture. They're supposed to have deeper motives than "I just wanted to be a robot, so sue me" (the usual war cry at the war crimes tribunal).
There's the suggestion at the end that he (the bat man) has learned to become much more invisible than before. Bruce Wayne still alive was high profile, even when a waning millionaire or billionaire or whatever (the fall is as fascinating as the rise). Bruce Wayne as only seen by a chosen few is "back to the bat cave" in some ways. The theme of Resurrection is just beneath the surface, after an ultimate sacrifice.
I guess I'm thinking the darkly gothic Batman, of all the superheros, is perhaps doing the most for a kind of old time Catholicism. He's a role model for all of those in the pits. He knows deep disappointment (like Pee Wee). He is our champion and our defender, little men and women that we be, the Gothamites, so looked down upon by those show off lofty Himalayans.
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Sam Corcoran Takes Worst Free Kick Ever, Has Last Laugh After Giving Away Goal (Video)
by Marcus Kwesi O'Mard on Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 6:13PM
Sometimes the most precious gems are hidden deep beneath the earth’s surface. The same can be said about English soccer bloopers.
Sam Corcoran badly botched a free kick during a game Tuesday. He didn’t just botch it, either. His free kick fail led directly to an opposition goal, and the clip has gone viral.
Corcoran, a midfielder for Conference South (English soccer’s sixth tier) club Chelmsford City, was tasked with free kick duties during his team’s game against Hayes & Yeading.
Corcoran slipped as he ran up to strike the ball, knocking it to a Hayes & Yeading player. As most of Chelmsford’s players were in the attacking third of the field, the counterattack was on.
The grateful Hayes & Yeading recipient played it to one of his teammates, and the ball was in the Chelmsford goal within seconds.
Chelmsford went on to lose the game 3-0, ending its 12-game unbeaten run.
The 21-year-old Corcoran took the gaffe in stride. After the game, he laughed off the incident on Twitter.
Just want to end this madness by saying sorry to the fans and club andyour welcome to the public…
— Sam Corcoran (@corky_32) November 22, 2012
And YES despise that free-kick I did get Man Of The Match haha
Watch Corcoran’s infamous effort in the video below.
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According to the Bloomberg wire service, China General Nuclear Power Holding Corp. has submitted a $7.7 billion bid to build two nuclear reactors at Cernavoda on Romania’s Black Sea coast.
Daniel Lulache, CEO of the Romanian nuclear electric utility, told Bloomberg the Chinese firm must submit a binding bid by September 24. If the bid is accepted, and the reactors are built, the Chinese firm will own a majority stake in the project.
This is the latest in a series of financing deals sought by Romania. Several consortiums have been established from a technical perspective, but financing could not be secured and the projects did not move forward. The Cernavoda site supports two 655 MW Candu-6 reactors completed in 1966 and 2007.
There are no details as to what reactor technology might be chosen for the project. A separate Chinese firm, the China National Nuclear Corp. (CNNC) completed safety tests on its APC-1000, a 1100 MW unit, in 2013. According to Nuclear Engineering Intl, it will be offered for export to Pakistan.
China has two operating Candu design reactors but unlike its relationship with Westinghouse, has not yet developed a technology licensing program with AECL to building its own version for domestic use or export. Instead, a possible option is that AECL, now owned by SNC-Lavalin, might be a vendor for the project with the Chinese firm being both a source of financing and serving as the lead EPC firm. In July SNC-Lavalin told the Globe & Mail newspaper it was working on this type of deal for both Romania and Argentina.
CNNC to build and finance a Candu-6 reactor in Argentina
Several nuclear trade press reports indicate the China National Nuclear Corporation (CNNC) has signed a deal with the state-owned nuclear electric utility in Argentina to build an 800 MW Candu-6 design reactor, to be called Atucha-3, at a cost of about $6 billion. CNNC will provide a combination of financing, equipment, and engineering services based, in part, on its two Candu reactors at Quinshan.
While the Candu design is owned by AECL, Argentina’s economy minister Axel Kicillof told wire services that technology will be enhanced by improvements developed by his country. SNC-Lavalin has hopes of being the vendor for this project and may also wind up offering some of the financing.
It isn’t a done deal that the Chinese supported project in Argentina will be a Candu-6. CNNC has two reactors designs of its own, a 600 MW and 1100 MW version. Both are intended for export markets.
Argentina has one operating Candu-6 reactor, rated at 648 MW, which was completed in 1984. A second Candu-6 is still under development with construction having been started and then stopped, and then restarted depending on available funds.
Argentina’s finances have been troubled for years, and in August the country was forced into default as a result of a complicated series of court suits by the country’s bond holders in the U.S. Unlike some banks, the U.S. investors have refused to accept write-downs of the value of the debt as a path to settlement. The country’s troubled financial history will weigh in the balance for the new reactor deal.
China General Nuclear inks $2 billion IPO
The Dow Jones News Wire reports that China General Nuclear Group (CGNG) has filed for an initial public offering (IPO) in Hong Kong said to be worth $2 billion. The date for release of the IPO to investors was not reported.
CGNG is the biggest player in China’s nuclear new build with 27 reactors under construction.
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Government Disappointed by Correctional Workers' Rejection of Tentative Deal
Archived Statement
December 10, 2015 10:25 A.M.
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The following Statement was issued today by Deb Matthews, Deputy Premier and President of the Treasury Board, and Yasir Naqvi, Minister of Community Safety and Correctional Services:
"It is disappointing that employees with the Correctional Bargaining Unit have rejected the tentative agreement that was reached between the Ontario Public Service Employees Union (OPSEU) and the Government of Ontario.
Both sides showed a strong commitment to work together to negotiate this settlement and the tentative agreement was both fair and reasonable to our employees.
An agreement with similar financial terms was ratified by OPSEU's 30,000-member Unified bargaining unit on October 30.
The agreement also provided for a stand-alone Correctional Bargaining Unit collective agreement with a commitment to making the necessary legislative changes that would introduce binding interest arbitration.
Our government respects and values the hard work of our Correctional Services employees. Correctional Services staff in our communities work hard every day to keep us safe and we acknowledge the difficult challenges they face.
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Stahl at ACLE 2013, Shanghai
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This year Stahl's 250 sqm stand at the ACLE in Shanghai will display a wide selection of technical, fashion and upholstery leathers, focusing on the latest new product releases and fashion trends from the leather chemicals business units.
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Node.js running in the new Airbus A350 inflight servers (reaktor.com)
169 points by monkeyshelli on Nov 28, 2015 | hide | past | web | favorite | 115 comments
vonklaus on Nov 28, 2015
There are a lot of jokes here and I appreciate them. It isn't breaking news that js has some bad parts, but why are people who aren't joking concerned?
* What makes nodejs running on an entertainment system dangerous?
* Outside of bias, how strong of a case is there to use another language?
* why shouldn't we use high level languages, even for avionics? Obviously not JS because numbers aren't transitive and it just isn't the usecase, but we don't need to optimize for 1kb of memory anymore. C family languages are the backbone of many things and that makes sense but do we need to keep using java and C-like languages or could we use python or something of similar nature where memory isn't manually allocated.
boomlinde on Nov 28, 2015
I'm sure that you could use a high level language like Java or Python for some non-critical tasks. For more critical software you likely have hard real-time requirements, and you need to be able to reason about memory use and time in ways that obviously isn't suitable for anything that could "pause the world" for an arbitrary amount of time to collect garbage.
nmrm2 on Nov 28, 2015
It's not that there's anything wrong with using a high-level language for safety-critical systems with real-time requirements and limited hardware. It's just that every high-level language that's remotely appropriate for this set of requirements wasn't production ready (or even conceived of) 10-20 years ago.
Hopefully the next generation (or the one after that) of control software for aircraft will be written in beautiful code :-)
jasonwatkinspdx on Nov 28, 2015
I wouldn't be so quick to dismiss how avionics is done currently. That software operates against very difficult requirements, the industry has learned a lot about how to do so reliably. These systems favor static allocation over heap allocation, so a garbage collector isn't as useful as you'd assume.
Nothing against python, but it's just not suited to writing avionics code that human lives depend on.
Now, in some ideal future, could we be using better languages? Absolutely. Stuff like ATS looks like the future of that kind of code, IMO. Likewise, Rust's memory management types make a ton of sense and could be useful for the situations where static allocation can't do the job.
Xorlev on Nov 30, 2015
With Rust I'd still be worried about compiler stability and destructor/allocation pauses. There's a reason that most avionics software written is on top of an RTOS & compiled with multiple different compiler vendor's software.
Not saying it couldn't in the future, but it pays to look backwards for safety critical systems.
tracker1 on Nov 28, 2015
Personally, I prefer node.js for serving as a backend to a JS based front end... Then again, I also like document oriented databases most of the time (RethinkDB, Mongo, etc).
I find that there is much less distraction when you're working on both the front end and backend, that you can get things done much more seamlessly. In this case (for entertainment), I feel it's a pretty decent match.
For other systems, I'm not sure I'd suggest C variants at this point, if Go or Rust are options, I'd probably favor one of them. It really depends on the use case.
kodr on Nov 28, 2015
I'd rather use a statically typed language, like C++11 to avoid surprises at runtime. I guess you could use TypeScript to circumvent this problem.
pcwalton on Nov 28, 2015
You'd rather use a language full of undefined behavior as opposed to one in which (practically) every behavior of a program is specified by ECMA-262? To "avoid surprises at runtime"?
striking on Nov 28, 2015
Surprises based on undefined behavior are usually not surprises at runtime, because of superior tooling. Either way, C is best because it has both of those things (tooling, defined behavior). It is possible to write very nice C.
> Surprises based on undefined behavior are usually not surprises at runtime, because of superior tooling.
Yes, they are. Empirically ([1], just to name one example).
> Either way, C is best because it has both of those things (tooling, defined behavior).
C has tons of undefined behavior.
[1]: https://lwn.net/Articles/342330/
developer1 on Nov 28, 2015
My only thought is that the airline is going to regret crumbling under the pressure from developers who wanted node.js. Allowing developers to choose whatever language they want for such a massive system is a mistake. node.js has not proven itself beyond being the latest fad. The developers wanted to use something cool and modern, while clearly ignoring concerns over the long-term viability of the system.
Oh well, that isn't a problem for anyone other than the airline. It's possible that in a matter of a few years (instead of decades), the entire system will have to be reimplemented at the airline's cost. You don't use the latest trendy language for systems which are expected to remain in operation for 20-30 years.
doublerebel on Nov 28, 2015
What struck me was most is the ability to iterate quickly on features and bugs. They didnt just bring Node to the plane, they also brought a more modern software dev mentality. Node's ease of use and ecosystem are a definite asset there.
Most airlines are stuck with static, slow, and outdated in-flight systems. This will help them compete as consumers' devices have become embarrassingly better than the typical in-flight UX. Not to mention consumer devices are much heavier on bandwidth and power usage.
In regards to the other unsubstantiated comments in this thread, I would assume as an airline they also brought modern security practices along with the rest of the deployment.
joegreen on Nov 28, 2015
Fast-forward 20 years, a plane crashes, they find and open the black box and in the flight logs they can see the cause clearly:
"undefined is not a function".
Joeri on Nov 28, 2015
Sure beats 'segmentation fault'
TeMPOraL on Nov 28, 2015
Not really; the latter is usually followed by "core dumped", and some amount of useful information written to the disk.
verelo on Nov 28, 2015
No that is simply not true, seg faults provide useful debug info in any potential core dump they provide.
Also, for something as important as an aircraft, I'd prefer to have a developer who knows what a seg fault is writing the code for any aviation equipment over someone who thinks "'undefined' is not a function" is equivalent to a seg fault.
geofft on Nov 28, 2015
> No that is simply not true, seg faults provide useful debug info in any potential core dump they provide.
I'm not sure I understand this. Can't you get a backtrace out of a JavaScript exception just as well as you can get one out of a segfault? The segfault itself doesn't carry any information other than at best the faulting instruction and the nature of the fault, and you can surely get that out of a JavaScript exception.
Furthermore, a segfault is very often a sign of memory corruption that has already happened, possibly in the stack frames themselves. "undefined is not a function" is not. JS code that crashes with that error is in a much more debuggable state than native code that crashes with a segfault. And you can certainly configure your interpreter to take a coredump on an uncaught JS exception, which will definitely be more debuggable than a coredump post-memory corruption.
(Your personal attack is not an argument.)
Sorry its really not intended to be a personal attack and i regret the wording.
To clarify what I was trying to convey, the issue I personally find is that JS errors often produce difficult to understand descriptions and misleading traces when compared to some alternative languages.
I do believe that there is good work being done to convert these errors into more usable alternatives. Just recently I caught a glimpse of this: https://plus.google.com/+AddyOsmani/posts/DdWkiKsvbA2
Segmentation faults can also be very cryptic, especially in the memory related cases like you suggested, but its likely that any tool would behave in fairly unpredictable ways when it comes to any form of corruption or out of memory scenario.
Sorry again and hopefully that clarifies my thoughts.
jeremy_wiebe on Nov 28, 2015
Isn't this story just about the entertainment system? I don't think anybody would advocate using node.js for avionics.
Correct, however given that any addition to the plane has the potential to cause unintended conflicts with critical systems (i.e. in the downed Swissair flight 111 example I gave in another comment) I was suggesting that these should still be treated just as seriously.
Don't get me wrong though, I don't think that using JS in a plane is a bad idea. In fact I think the aviation industry is extremely slow moving and it frustrates me, fortunately the experimental category has access to some interesting tools but for certified aircraft you're very restricted in what you can and cannot do to modify the aircraft.
meat_fist on Nov 28, 2015
And 'undefined is not a function' provides a full stack trace to the line of code causing the error. In this particular example, both planes crash, so it's not like anyone would say "But at least it crashed because of a seg fault."
Get off your high horse. What a ridiculous and ignorant comment.
Yes you're right they do provide a trace, however the trace can be misleading and difficult to understand. I attempted to clarify my position in the comments above. Sorry for any offence I caused.
stevebygane on Nov 28, 2015
Did you read the article? It's about the inflight entertainment system, and has nothing to do with the flight recorders.
In flight entertainment systems have certainly been the cause of crashes in the past: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swissair_Flight_111
"the crash was generally believed to have been caused by faulty wiring in the cockpit after the entertainment system in the plane started to overheat"
It's not too far fetched to think you could end up with an infinite loop (or other random issue) in some inflight entertainment system code, causing it to overhead and potentially ignite. I'm sure there are plenty of safeguards, but they too could fail...and this is why we still have circuit breakers and a master switch in planes that a human can control. Sadly humans too can (and often do...) fail to make the right decision.
Any system other than flight surfaces, avionics and the source of propulsion to an aircraft add some degree of risk that we could otherwise fly without.
Edits: Spelling and general sillyness.
pkaye on Nov 28, 2015
This seems to be a hardware issue.
People seem to be missing my point. To be clear, i'm trying to suggest that there is a high chance that the hardware fault that was triggered by overheating, was potentially caused by a software fault.
It is not good that the software malfunctioned but it should be totally isolated from rest of airplane function. Also if software could cause overheating, someone should have redesigned the hardware (heatsink/fan for example) because it was already marginal.
Yep. Likely multiple failures. The software shouldn't cause extra heat, the hardware should be able to handle it, the insulation in the plane shouldn't have caught fire, the pilot should have pulled the circuit breaker sooner...the list goes on.
dominotw on Nov 28, 2015
To be fair, that had nothing to do with software running inflight entertainment.
I'm not sure I agree. While its possible the overheating was due to a failed fan or something physical, but its also very possible that the software running on this hardware caused it to overheat.
iSnow on Nov 28, 2015
Unless there's a hardware fault, no runaway loop would overheat the system so much it would ignite.
Yeah you're probably right.
Often when you review critical failures you find multiple things went wrong at once to cause the catastrophic failure. I would place a good bet that there was a failed fan, poorly secured heatsink or maybe just a clogged air filter that meant the hardware was unable to handle the additional heat being produced.
Thus the "Fast-forward 20 years" part :-)
bryanrasmussen on Nov 28, 2015
Yes, it's clever because it implies how entertainment slowly but inexorably manages to take insinuate itself into and corrupt every essential application.
What makes you think anyone is planning to use NodeJS in avionics in 20 years? Where have you got that information, and how is it relevant to this discussion?
coldtea on Nov 28, 2015
Perhaps you missed the whole obvious joke thing?
What makes the joke relevant to the discussion is that this is the first thought on lots of people's mind: "gee, I hope they don't ever use it for the actual flying system".
It sure was the first thought I had, even before seeing the parent's joke.
enraged_camel on Nov 28, 2015
>>Perhaps you missed the whole obvious joke thing?
What's remarkable about HN is that most jokes are heavily voted down with responses like "go back to reddit", and jokers regularly complain that HN has no sense of humor. And yet every now and then a joke gets voted to the top. I've yet to wrap my mind around this phenomenon, personally...
jonesb6 on Nov 28, 2015
I've seen the phenomenon on Reddit where two identical comments will have completely polar votes. One might have -50 and the other 50.
Someone deduced that it was the time that the comment was created that mattered. If a large number of jokesters are on at one point then their up votes will create the critical mass to push the comment to the top and keep it there.
I also believe that once a post is at the top fewer people will downvote it, either because they are afraid to go against popular opinion or merely respect it and leave it as it is.
jessaustin on Nov 28, 2015
Perhaps it means that HN's cumulative sense of humor differs in some respect from your own?
I don't know whether to laugh at the suggestion that a crowd as diverse as HN has a "cumulative sense of humor" or be offended by the implied suggestion that my sense of humor matches that of Reddit's.
>I don't know whether to laugh at the suggestion that a crowd as diverse as HN has a "cumulative sense of humor"
People overestimate how different they are from the average person all the time, but regression to the mean is a thing. That's how we get a general culture (in the broad sense) -- even if there are subcultures within it.
Besides, how diverse is HN? If anything it's one of the more targeted communities -- most people here already are focused in programming and startups, and have a same-ish background even when from different countries. Contrast with something like YouTube or Reddit (general channels), where people are from all walks of life.
If 9gag, which also gets people from all around the world and with all kinds of interests and ages, can develop a "cumulative sense of humor" (and it has) then surely HN can too. This doesn't mean that everyone on HN will agree on some funny thing -- just that a large percentage will.
> What makes the joke relevant to the discussion is that this is the first thought on lots of people's mind: "gee, I hope they don't ever use it for the actual flying system".
That's the second thought for me. The first was "thank goodness the airline I'm flying intercontinental with next week uses Boeing planes at that route".
SmellyGeekBoy on Nov 28, 2015
Hopefully not a 737 though, hey?
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/1...
nerdstep on Nov 28, 2015
Where's your sense of humor? It was a funny stab at JavaScript. I for one got a chuckle out of it.
oldmanjay on Nov 28, 2015
we don't do joke threads well here on purpose
repop on Nov 28, 2015
never change, HN.
>and in the flight logs they can see the cause clearly
I know it's a joke, but still: the in-flight entertainment system doesn't log to the flight data recorder.
andy_ppp on Nov 28, 2015
I hope they got their system thoroughly pen tested...
I bet you there are not two satellite aerials on the plane and you can bet that the important navigation systems are in some way connected to the network. Hopefully this just the aerial connected to two routers but it's probably a single router. I think I want to fly on this and start running nmap ;-) I suppose that would be considered hacking though.
davb on Nov 28, 2015
Internet access via IFE (in-flight entertainment) systems and WiFi has been a thing for a good while now. There's no new attack vector or failure mode in that respect.
ams6110 on Nov 28, 2015
There are almost certainly at least two aerials at least for the nav systems because almost every important system on an aircraft is redundant in the event one of them fails.
jt2190 on Nov 28, 2015
Interesting points:
* in-flight entertainment system devs allowed to run
* system is "online" via aircrafts satellite
* devs pushed fixes mid-flight
(Edit: The article headline is Aircraft customer experience on a new level)
dang on Nov 28, 2015
> (Edit: The article headline is Aircraft customer experience on a new level)
Yes, the submission title here is an example of how editorializing by picking a single detail usually ends up determining the entire discussion. We didn't change it, but probably should have.
>devs pushed fixes mid-flight
They don't say they updated the flying server midflight, though:
"An issue was spotted mid-flight, discussed over Slack with Yle (located in Helsinki) and fixed immediately. The fix was visible whilst airborne, 10 minutes later when the latest news were updated to the aircraft."
It could well have been an issue in the infrastructure on the ground which led to garbled news. Then they pushed a fix on the ground and 10m later, the flying system got rid of the glitch. Purely to make it more dramatic, I would have been vague about that too if the fix was to the ground-based infrastructure.
jcsnv on Nov 28, 2015
> devs pushed fixes mid-flight
Scary, even if the entertainment system is not connected to the flight equipment.
stpe on Nov 28, 2015
The article says the issue, discussed with Yle (the content provider), was fixed mid-flight - it doesn't say anything about a fix being pushed. For all with know it might not even be the code, maybe it was a property in the JSON-data of a news article that was changed from left-aligned to right-aligned?
Also - no matter if it is relevant or not in the case - being able to deploy and update fixes to a system in production without anyone noticing is a testament to good system design - and even a requirement in many cases.
jacquesm on Nov 28, 2015
So, it runs nodejs. Any idea on what hardware it runs on, what kind of interface(s) it has to the aircraft, what kind of OS it runs?
joezydeco on Nov 28, 2015
A little bit of Googling mentions that the Panasonic EX systems are VIA embedded x86 boards (perhaps Atom-based?) running Linux.
dorfsmay on Nov 28, 2015
VIA boards typically run either ARM processor or their own (VIA) x86 compatible processors:
http://www.viatech.com/en/boards/
I run a couple of servers using VIA processors, they consume very little electricity, I run storage, web and mail servers on them. When Intel came out with the Atom, it used a little bit more electricity but was significantly more performant than the VIA. VIA has had new processors since but I don't know how they compare to the Intel low-power line.
Is VIA what is left of the Cyrix/NatSemi MediaGX cores?
Yes, I think it is. The x86 version at least. They had a neat little board that I used to control a plasmacutter torch in 3 dimensions.
I had a neat little project on that setup as well. It was way too early for its audience, which is kind of a shame.
http://pics.camarades.com/v/jacques/trips/jansvisit/dscn4017...
Extremely ugly first day prototype of that plasma cutter controller, the VIA board sits in the hard drive enclosure on the right hand side, you can just about make it out.
What did you build?
This contraption:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dAyBz8XIMsU
http://www.silverball.net/images_martin/tech_pc_case.jpg
It was a MediaGX 5520 (233Mhz) motherboard with a custom PCI board holding an array of 8mbit ROMs + flash memory and a DSP for sound playback. Douglas Comer's XINU was used as an operating system and ran from ROM.
The "too early for it's time" was less about the pinball machine and more about the MediaGX. A small Geode board + Linux could have been a really nice platform. I think a lot of ATMs are actually using this formula.
Super nice work.
I've worked on some coin op stuff as well but more video game oriented. The original software ran on Windows, I did a linux port to show that 'it could be done' without windows. The hardest part was to switch from one game to another (multi game console) without a video mode reset.
Another application for that board is on-board computer for cars. I've got a very similar board in a nice little case that just fits under the passenger seat and wires into the car by running cables to the side of the transmission tunnel. Boot times are short (runs off a flash disk) and media are stored on a small 2.5" hard drive. I like these little systems.
amelius on Nov 28, 2015
Just hit Ctrl C, and then type uname -a.
Anyway, I'm surprised they opted for a single threaded, non preemptive system.
erdeszt on Nov 28, 2015
If it's completely isolated from the flight control systems then it doesn't really matter.
RyJones on Nov 28, 2015
If the Jeep hack taught me anything, it's that some engineers have a version of "completely isolated" in mind that is not congruent with mine. I have no more faith in Airbus engineering prowess when it comes to networking than Jeep.
kintamanimatt on Nov 28, 2015
Cars and planes are built to very, very different standards. The avionics are separated from all systems such as the entertainment by an air gap to prevent such failures from happening.
> The avionics are separated from all systems such as the entertainment by an air gap to prevent such failures from happening.
Well, they should be, but apparently they are not:
Whatever you could conclude from that article the bug bounty clause ruling those systems out would suggest they are indeed connected, as does the FBI statement (which appears to have taken a part of the conversation out of context but is in fact later on verified by the wired people as having some basis in fact, other than that the guy did not actually control the aircraft he should not have been able to get as far as he did).
I agree with you those connections really should not exist but there seem to be at least some wires bridging the air-gap, maybe read only, maybe not depending on the kind of plane.
Fortunately there appear to be enough safeguards in place to limit the damage that could be done and from what I understand these have held up. It also seems that the 'hacker' is a bit of a bragger but he got in a lot further than they initially gave him credit for, and in a way that is so simple that it makes you wonder what else they missed. The safeguards now seem to hinge on knowing what commands to issue and how to bypass authentication but that is stuff we see in an internet context on a daily basis so that seems to be - to me at least - very thin ice to skate on.
An airgap would be better and simpler.
They generally are separated, however the 787-8 is apparently an exception, having been granted "special conditions" by the FAA in 2008. [1] The A350 has a similar design and I imagine they've also have similar special conditions, although I haven't done more than a cursory search.
[1] http://cryptome.info/faa010208.htm
That's one interesting document. I find it hard to believe these are even negotiable, and given that the trend is towards more features and connectivity between systems that does not bode well for the future. You'd think that the FAA would hold their foot down on physical separation of those systems but that does not appear to be the case, you can connect the two as long as you then put in another layer protect the domains related to information and aircraft management.
Enfin, they presumably know what they're doing, personally I'd prefer for such a bridge to simply not exist.
tim333 on Nov 28, 2015
The allegations in the Telegraph article seem pretty dubious. It's based on one odd looking bloke saying he could do it. No other evidence. If it was real I presume some security guy would offer to take reports on a plane and demo it or similar but no. http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/may/19/hacker-chr...
They are. The guy is a poser, pure and simple. But that poser was able to access some systems by plugging in to a box under his chair that should have been tamper proof, he was able to get a lot further than he should have once he gained access to the socket underneath. And further digging revealed that there are in fact some (presumably one-way) connections between those systems and the more important bits of the aircraft. All in all, in spite of the dubious source and the questionable character of the guy that did this fairly surprising (to me).
If he had not made these stupid claims it would not have made me feel any better about all this.
Yhippa on Nov 28, 2015
Would this be the farthest from Earth JS has been run?
kevinchen on Nov 28, 2015
ISS has laptops. I've heard that they do everything by using Remote Desktop to a NASA box on the ground, but presumably there's some part of the client that uses a web view with some JS e.g. to show formatted text.
If the laptops run Windows between 95 and 7, then there's likely a lot of JScript and JavaScript running in things like Active Desktop, desktop widgets, possibly startup scripts and obviously inside IE. I'm not sure if all this stuff is still around in Win8+ though.
Also, please don't give them any ideas. It's enough that every other JS webdev company uses rocket-related imagery on their site, we don't want them to design actual rockets.
;).
Most automation scripts these days tend to center around PowerShell. That said, JS is an option for integrated applications in Windows 8+, not to mention electron, nwjs, firefox/xulrunner, and the like.
vans on Nov 28, 2015
JS in airflights, ok that's official now, we are doomed.
JUsr on Nov 28, 2015
Correct me if I'm mistaken, but the avionics software would probably be written in C or Assembler.
Neither of those have SloppyDevTypeCheckComfortBlankie either, do they?
larry_pi on Nov 28, 2015
Sloppy dev is a sloppy dev - whichever the language: http://www.safetyresearch.net/blog/articles/toyota-unintende...
Kristine1975 on Nov 28, 2015
I'm hoping for SPARK Ada or something similar: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPARK_(programming_language)
smt88 on Nov 28, 2015
I cannot tell you how much I love SloppyDevTypeCheckComfortBlankie, how much time/money it has saved my company (converting all our JavaScript to TypeScript), and how funny it is that some people take pride in writing code that isn't typed.
dtjohnnymonkey on Nov 28, 2015
I worked on IFE systems at Panasonic for several years. The so-called "head-end" (server-side) services my team worked on were written in C++ or PHP. I saw a lot PHP going on there. The server limitations weren't as strict as you would think.
The interfaces between the avionics which held actual flight data and the IFE were read-only IIRC, and otherwise fairly isolated.
wangii on Nov 28, 2015
JS is the new assembly, and React will be the next Visual Basic.
I'm surprised nobody mentioned the Atwood's Law yet.
JS is a language like just about any other.. and, like VB the ubiquity of new developers starting out with it yeilds some pretty bad code. I've seen bad code in a great many languages.. and some of the worst JS code I've seen has tended come from language snobs who favor other languages, and bring in patterns that just aren't appropriate for the environment.
anon6_ on Nov 28, 2015
In my opinion using a language that doesn't compile into a binary with native type safety is a step backwards if it's integrated with any mission-critical system.
Love node.js and happy to see it succeed. I'm not sure if I'm a big fan of seeing it used in places where it's not, because it gives the wrong impression.
I wouldn't use node.js everywhere. I'd say python can wear more hats, but if it came down to something you can't update regularly and would cause big ramification if it'd fail. You're just making a gamble.
If you have a JS bug which wasn't caught, which could have been caught via static analysis, you're going to either go into flight with broken entertainment or wait for a mechanic to update the system.
So to reiterate. Happy for node.js, I don't think I agree with where you applied it. I hope that customers, the airline companies and node.js doesn't suffer unduly because the wrong tool was picked for the job.
luisrudge on Nov 28, 2015
typescript?
TazeTSchnitzel on Nov 28, 2015
TypeScript's safety is limited: its type annotations do not exist at runtime, so if it interacts with dynamic code, its type safety is violated.
g8gggu89 on Nov 28, 2015
Scalajs looks so much better.
good call on typescript. I highly recommend it.
for those who don't know, typescript gives you static typechecking and builds to JS. http://www.typescriptlang.org/
That said, node.js can be embraced by being used in places where it's strongest, like packaging web assets, front end builds, package managing js libraries, websocket stuff.
While the company selling the stuff doesn't go into much detail on how node.js is used - when bugs happen - and they will, node enthusiasts are going to get a bad rep for thinking they can use JS everywhere. Not a good idea
tasnimreza on Nov 28, 2015
What if somebody try to write 'flight control system' in node.js and 'settimeout' doesn't get fired on time !
sandworm101 on Nov 28, 2015
Setting the physical safety issues aside, I cannot escape the comical image of a plane-turned-rave after the cabin mood lighting gets hacked by the bored teenager who doesn't want to read news from the airline-approved news source.
Pre-recorded safety announcements get replaced by S-Club-7 on a perpetual loop? Siren noise ever time the seatbelt sign turns on? Or how about altering the hosts file so that the official news source points to hustler,com? There is something to be said for some systems not being so heavily networked.
swang on Nov 28, 2015
this makes the assumption that previous software was more robust at preventing this than running node.js as a backend.
It's not about the software, but the entire package. The soft/firmware can be total junk, but if it isn't networked to other systems then it isn't going to be hacked.
Take the mood lighting. Once upon a time such LEDs would be tied to a controller with three knobs, three rehostats, to set the RGB values. Done. No networking, just knobs. Hacking would require digging holes into the wall. Anyone willing to do that would just turn the knobs. But now it's connected to a tablet app. The software on that networked tablet is always, always, going to be more of a risk than the software behind those not-networked RGB knobs. It's a physicality problem.
fenollp on Nov 28, 2015
Whatever. It doesn't talk with anything essential so who cares.
joosters on Nov 28, 2015
I wish that people who didn't care about a news article would learn to care even less about it, in fact they should care so little that they don't bother to write their pointless "who cares" comments at all.
notacoward on Nov 28, 2015
Shouldn't all software in a plane be written in a higher level language?
Yeah, I rolled my eyes too. That was so bad I just had to share.
nyan4 on Nov 28, 2015
Node.js seems to be popular only here. http://cbcg.net/blog/2012/02/03/if-youre-using-nodejs-youre-...
untog on Nov 28, 2015
On a larger note, using JavaScript on the server-side seems kind of ridiculous. If Linden Labs came out with a server-side framework in LindenScript, would you use that? How about if Apple came out with a framework based on AppleScript?
Stopped reading right there. Well, actually, I read the next header "Callback spaghetti is about the last pattern with which you’d ever want to write anything" and realized that the author has absolutely no idea what they are talking about.
Callback hell used to be a real concern, until Promises and structural guides came into use. As a 2012 article, I understand where it was coming from. But it's far less relevant today.
nandsch on Nov 28, 2015
Not really, callback hell is as avoidable as anything else.
4ad on Nov 28, 2015
> Through the WiFi, passengers will have access to an in-flight portal which serves customers content without the need to purchase an internet connection.
Isn't this just great!
/sarcasm
iamleppert on Nov 28, 2015
Node.js is running on an airplane! So frightening this is allowed! Definitely don't want to be risking my life on that plane!!
Why couldn't they use Scala instead?
I'm not sure if you're being sarcastic, but this is for the entertainment system, not avionics or other mission-critical systems.
Judging by the kind of mayhem that ensues when the in-flight entertainment system breaks on an intercontinental flight you'd think some passengers would prefer it if an engine failed.
djsumdog on Nov 28, 2015
You'd hope. You'd really hope. Flight engineering is an intense, "We don't fuck around field." ... But every industry has it's "good idea at the time" and there's always a chance of these systems sharing a bus with something critical.
There's no chance these systems share a bus with something critical. Critical systems are separated by way of an air gap. There's no way they'd meet regulatory safety standards set by the FAA or EASA standards if they didn't.
You keep saying that but it has already been proven not to be the case.
Wired article related to this:
http://www.wired.com/2015/05/possible-passengers-hack-commer...
States that there is a connection but it is supposedly one-way only. So no airgap. The article then goes on to note that a 777 uses a two-way bus but requires further authentication.
notzorbo2 on Nov 28, 2015
You keep quoting this article, but ..
The sources are dubious (wired and telegraph). Experts quoted in the article claim its impossible, including the lead engineer of the boeing thrust management system:
> Whether it’s possible to create this condition by issuing a command from a passenger seat is a different matter, however. Soucie and others who WIRED spoke to agree with Boeing that this isn’t possible. But unlike Boeing, they provided clearer details explaining why. > >Peter Lemme, who was a lead engineer on Boeing’s thrust-management system for eight years until 1989, says the system provides the auto-throttle function that actually controls the engine thrust, and doesn’t allow the throttles for the engines to operate independently of one another.
You claim it's been "proven not to be the case". Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. So far I've seen nothing from this Roberts guy. Sounds like he's just full of shit.
Agreed on the Roberts guy being full of shit. But there is this passage in the wired piece:
"A connection between the avionics system and the IFE does exist. But there’s a caveat.
Soucie and Lemme say the connection allows for one-way data communication only. The systems are connected through an ARINC 429 data bus that feeds information from the avionics to the IFE about the plane’s latitude, longitude and speed. The IFE uses this to populate the animated map passenger’s can use to track the plane’s movement.
“On every airplane it’s done a little differently and is done in a proprietary way,” Lemme says. But in each case, the ARINC 429 is an output-only hub that allows data to flow out from the avionics system but not back to it, he says. To talk back would require a second input bus. “I can’t think of why there would ever be an interface like this. If it’s out there, I haven’t heard of it.”
This would seem to be what Boeing was describing in its statement when it said that although inflight systems “receive position data and have communication links” to other systems on the plane, they are “isolated” from systems that perform critical functions."
So there is a link.
An airgap simply means this: the two systems are not connected. Not in any way, no physical connection exists between the two and any output from the one goes through an optical bridge into the other.
The only way air-gapped systems are possibly connected is via power rails but presumably those do not carry data nor do they have the possibility to do so.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARINC_429
Suggests it is an electrical bus, not optically insulated.
pascal_cuoq on Nov 28, 2015
If there existed any possibility of an influence of the entertainment system over the controls of that model of plane, an EAD would have been published by now. EADs are public: http://www.faa.gov/aircraft/air_cert/continued_operation/ad/... . Where is the EAD that signals what would be a design failure of the highest level and grounds that model of aircraft until the design has been revised?
If it was not extremely obvious that such an influence cannot exist with the law of physics that we understand, an investigation would be ongoing. The word “investigation” does not appear in the WIRED article, and “investigators” in the Telegraph article only refers to FBI.
The FBI is not qualified to tell whether an aircraft is so obviously immune to the defects that Roberts claim to have exploited that the investigation is an open-and-shut case. They don't like it when people plug into things they aren't supposed to plug into, and this is what they are accusing him of.
Agreed that there likely was no risk. I'm just very much surprised that the two systems are connected in any way shape or form at all, I'd have expected a much more rigorous segmentation (as in: no connection at all between the two systems, including the 'flight information display').
Call me paranoid.
That this guy was able to access the system at all is already quite a surprise.
pfortuny on Nov 28, 2015
You keep using that word... I don't think it means what you think.
liamzebedee on Nov 28, 2015
JavaScripts on a Plane?
dankohn1 on Nov 28, 2015
For those missing the reference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vkckhcqiwM8
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425 7th Street, Santa Rosa, CA 95401
07:30AM - 09:30AM Cultivating Employee Engagement
Discover how innovative companies created a culture of engagement, and how to develop unique programs that suit your company culture. Sonoma,
Nelson Family of Companies, 19080 Lomita Avenue, S
06:00PM - 09:00PM 12-Week PHR/SPHR Certification Preparation Course
36 Instructional Hours. Covers HRCI body of knowledge, includes weekly practice tests and peer-to-peer interaction to enhance learning. Marin,
Buck Institute, 8001 Redwood Blvd., Novato
07:00AM - 09:00AM Santa Rosa Chamber of Commerce Education & Business Partnership Breakfast
27th Annual Education & Business Partnership Breakfast Sonoma,
08:00AM - 10:00PM Day for the Queen
Golf, Tennis, Fashion Show, BBQ & More! Napa,
06:00PM - 08:00PM Franciscan Estate Supper Club Dinner #1
Tapas and Terroir Napa,
08:00AM - 01:00PM Redwood Credit Union Shred- A-Thon
RCU Offers Free Document Shredding and Security Seminar Sonoma,
3033 Cleveland Avenue, Santa Rosa
06:00PM - 09:00PM Cigar Social with Alec Bradley Cigars & Napa Smith Brewery!
Cigar Social with Alec Bradley Napa,
Baker Street Downtown
03:00PM - 08:00PM Long Meadow Ranch Winery & Farmstead’s Summer Concert Series to Feature Singer-Songwriter Matt Costa
St. Helena’s Local Gathering Place and Napa Valley Destination Pairs Summer Concert with Farm-to-Table Wine and Food Experiences, Executive Chef Stephen Barber’s Smoked Summertime Eats, Complimentary Wine Tasting and More Marin,
Long Meadow Ranch Winery & Farmstead - 738 Main St
09:00AM - 05:00PM OAEC Fall & Winter Garden Plant Sale (Aug 18-19)
OAEC Fall & Winter Garden Plant Sale Sonoma,
15290 Coleman Valley Rd, Occidental, CA 95465
10:00AM - 05:00PM Wine Truffle Boutique Grand Opening
A new artisan chocolate and gelato bar located inside VJB vineyards and cellars Villaggio is celebrating its grand opening. Sonoma,
10:00AM - 04:00PM Sonoma County Bicycle Expo
Your summer destination for all things bike! Sonoma,
2nd Street, Santa Rosa
04:00PM - 07:00PM Napa Valley Wine Library Association 50th Anniversary Wine Tasting
50th Annual Tasting Celebration Napa,
08:30AM - 11:30AM Sell More Wine Club Memberships
Interactive workshop for wine professionals Sonoma,
11:00AM - 04:00PM Grill 116
Grilled Food, Wine & Classic Cars Sonoma,
Taste Route 116 Wineries
11:30AM - 04:00PM 7th Annual Taste of Petaluma
Food and Wine Sonoma,
Putnam Plaza, Petaluma
03:30PM - 06:30PM 4th Annual Cochon Heritage Fire Returns
On Saturday, August 25th, COCHON Heritage Fire, the second largest COCHON 555 event, celebrates heritage breed animals, wood-fired whole animal theatre cooking by top chefs, butchering, family-owned wineries, artisan foods, craft beers and spirits. Napa,
River Terrace Inn, 1600 Soscol Avenue Napa
02:30PM - 04:30PM Sondra Bernstein Book Signing & Tasting
Join us Saturday, August 25 for a special book signing and inspiring conversation with Sondra Bernstein. Sonoma,
J Vineyards & Winery
10:00AM - 12:00PM Secrets to Successful Remodel + Lighting Design
Learn how to plan your remodel. Sonoma,
09:00AM - 05:00PM OAEC 2nd Chance Plant Sale THIS Weekend! All Organic. Sat-Sun 9am-5pm
OAEC 2nd Chance Organic Plant Sale Aug 25-26 9am-5pm Sonoma,
Occidental Arts & Ecology Center (15290 Coleman Va
08:30AM - 11:30AM Balance, Brunch & Bubbles -- Yoga in the Vineyards
Certified yoga instructor, Lori Furbush, will be leading a one-hour Hatha yoga session in our Teardrop Vineyard followed by a Sparkling brunch on our Terrace. Sonoma,
08:30AM - 10:30AM Managing Within the Law
This training will increase individual understanding of the role a manager plays in implementing key policies, creating a safe and respectful workplace, and minimizing the potential for liability. Sonoma,
04:30PM - 08:00PM Santa Rosa Chamber of Commerce 40th Annual Agri-Business BBQ
40th Annual Agri-Business BBQ Sonoma,
Richard's Grove & Saralee's Vineyard
08:00PM - 11:00PM Twice As Good
Native American father and son duo perform high-energy blues, soul, and rock & roll with wailing guitar and soulful vocals. Marin,
09:00AM - 04:00PM OAEC Designing Edible Food Forests
OAEC Exciting Course! Sonoma,
08:00PM - 11:00PM Darryl Anders Agapésoul
A musical experience that’s all about love, soul… and undeniably funk grooves Marin,
05:00PM - 07:00PM LIVE MUSIC & ARTrails Gallery opening @ Ancient Oak Cellars Tasting Room
Our estate-bottled RRV wine is the perfect compliment to our musical and visual art exhibits every Friday Sonoma,
05:00PM - 09:00PM Lobster Feed in the Vineyard
Enjoy an intimate Lobster dinner with the entire Schweiger Family as the sun sets among the grape vines in the vineyard. Napa,
4015 Spring Mountain Rd.
05:00PM - 09:00PM Pine Ridge Vineyards Summer Dinner Series
Summer Dinner Series at Pine Ridge Vineyards Napa,
Pine Ridge Vineyards Winery
04:00PM - 07:00PM Rodney Strong Summer Concert Series
BWB – Rick Braun, Kirk Whalum & Norman Brown Sonoma,
Rodney Strong Vineyards
Dwight Yoakam Sonoma,
11:30AM - 01:00PM Jenny Kerr
Kerr and her band of road-tested rogues deliver a foot-stomping blend of swamp rock, soul, honky tonk and old-time blues. Marin,
08:00PM - 11:30PM Will Russ Jr.
Detroit-born and raised singer seduces with soulful interpretations and brilliant vocals. Marin,
11:00AM - 10:00PM Outside Lands
Music, art, wine, food, beer and comedy festival in Golden Gate Park Other,
08:00PM - 11:30PM Bautista
Feel the rhythm of ultra-smooth, samba-Latin-funk-rock Fusion. Marin,
10:30AM - 02:30PM Vintner’s Lunch with Maboroshi Wine Estates
Napa Valley Wine Train Napa,
08:00PM - 11:45PM Swing Fever
Swing Fever heats up swing-era music with fresh arrangements and surprising instrumentation. Marin,
11:30AM - 02:30PM The Breedloves
Acoustic guitar duo makes it a romantic evening of original songs and innovative covers. Marin,
06:30PM - 11:00PM Freddy Clarke and Wobbly World
Ultra-danceable music with international flavor. Marin,
07:00PM - 08:30PM Closing Deals: Leaving Nothing on the Table!
Closing Sales Deals Sonoma,
Doing Business Today, 576 B Street, G2, Santa Rosa
Free networking mixer, free appetizers, beverages, dessert Sonoma,
2350 Santa Rosa Avenue, Santa Rosa, CA 95407
07:00PM - 11:45PM Singer-Songwriter Series: West Coast Songwriters Playoffs
Support your songwriting community and come out for the Marin Region’s West Coast Songwriters Competition Playoffs! Marin,
07:30AM - 09:30AM Linking HR Functions to Organizational Goals
Learn how to break out of the 'Personnel' mold & successfully transition to the management team. Marin,
Guide Dogs for the Blind, 350 Los Ranchitos Road,
08:30AM - 12:00PM Energy Efficiency Workshop in Vineyards and Wineries
A workshop to learn more about how to reduce energy costs in vineyard and winery operations. Other,
Hopland, CA
08:00PM - 11:45PM Pro Blues Jam: Gary Moore Night
Join us in celebrating the works of Gary Moore. Marin,
05:30PM - 07:30PM Managing Talent for Organizational Success- HR Business Partner Series
Learn to lead & manage a spectrum of employees in terms of competencies, styles and cultures for achieving exceptional performance. Napa,
BBSI, 1190 Airport Road, Suite 120, Napa
07:00PM - 08:00PM Inspire! - AXIS Dance Company
Dance Performance Sonoma,
Glaser Center
Heartthrob singer-songwriter captures your soul with his guitar Marin,
06:00PM - 08:00PM La Follette Friday Night Music Series!
Wine, Music & Popcorn Sonoma,
12:00AM - 12:00AM Russian River Valley Winegrowers 18th Annual Grape to Glass Pre-Harvest Party
Celebrating 30 years of Russian River Valley Winegrowers, the 18th Annual Grape to Glass Pre-Harvest Party will be taking place on Saturday, August 17th from 4-9 p.m. Sonoma,
3575 Slusser Rd.
Dave Koz and Friends Summer Horns Tour – with Mindi Abair, Gerald Albright & Richard Elliot Sonoma,
09:00AM - 05:00PM OEAC Fall & Winter Organic Plant Sale
Organic Plant Sale Sonoma,
04:00PM - 08:00PM Quivira Summer Farm to Table Series
Farm to Table Dinner Sonoma,
4900 West Dry Creek Road, Healdsburg
11:30AM - 02:30PM Craig Corona
Corona’s bluegrass country weaves a heartfelt story of the American Midwest. Marin,
06:30PM - 10:00PM Morris LeGrande
Groove to the R&B melodies and smooth jazz of this rising star and Oakland native. Marin,
05:30PM - 09:30PM Moonlight Escape
03:00PM - 07:00PM Wine Star Classic Car Show
Classic Car Show with food, wine and live musical entertainment Sonoma,
08:00PM - 11:45PM Pro Blues Jam: Spotlight
Wednesday, Aug 21. 8:00 pm & 10:00 pm, $10. Marin,
08:00PM - 11:00PM Keith Crossan
Upbeat, “beatnik jungle” blues you can dance to! Marin,
36 Instructional Hours. Covers HRCI body of knowledge, includes weekly practice tests and peer-to-peer interaction to enhance learning Napa,
The Meadows of Napa Valley, 1800 Atrium Parkway, N
10:30AM - 02:30PM Vintner’s Lunch with Neiman Cellars
Napa Valley Wine Train's Vintner Lunch with Neiman Cellars Napa,
08:00PM - 11:45PM James Henry
World rhythms and grooves from master percussionist—feel the beat of your dancing feet! Marin,
09:00AM - 05:00PM OAEC Fall & Winter Organic Plant Sale
11:30AM - 04:00PM The 8th Annual Taste of Petaluma
Embark on a culinary walking journey of Petaluma Sonoma,
12:00PM - 06:00PM Bay Area Accounting Professionals Mixer
5CPE available! Join in on workshops, listen to speakers like Crazy Eddie's Sam Antar, network! There will be hors d'oeuvres, wine, and much more! Sonoma,
11:00AM - 04:30PM Amista Vineyards Wine and Cheese Pairing
Can you say Cheese.....and Wine? Sonoma,
3320 Dry Creek Road Healdsburg, CA 95448
07:00AM - 02:00PM The Santa Rosa Full & Half Marathon
A full and half marathon and 5k running event. Sonoma,
Juilliard Park
11:30AM - 02:00PM Justin brown
Soul-inspiring vocals and guitar playing. Marin,
08:00PM - 11:45PM Pro Blues Jam: Special Guest Night
Live at the Fenix Marin,
09:00AM - 04:00PM Developing A Professional Presence
One Day Workshop Marin,
08:00PM - 11:45PM David M'ore
Mystical guitar man delivers high energy blues rock. Marin,
06:00PM - 10:00PM J Winery at Sonoma Wine Country Weekend Sonoma Starlight Event!
Join J Vineyards & Winery for an evening of wine, dinner, and music under the stars. Sonoma,
Francis Ford Coppola Winery, 300 Via Archimedes Ge
05:30PM - 09:30PM Winemaker Celebrity Dinner with Dick Vermeil
Napa Valley Wine Train's Winemaker Celebrity Dinner Napa,
08:00PM - 11:45PM Tim Hockenberry Trio
Bay Area favorite showcases the voice that made him a 2012 America’s Got Talent semi-finalist. Marin,
05:00PM - 07:00PM Ancient Oak Cellars presents CALLIE WATTS, singer/songwriter
Original music; family-grown, artisan wines at Happy Hour prices Sonoma,
637 Fourh Street Santa Rosa Ca 95404
05:00PM - 07:00PM Live Music at Ancient Oak Cellars Tasting Room
Wine Happy Hour with Live Music Sonoma,
637 Fourth Street
12:00AM - 12:00AM J Winery at Sonoma Wine Country Weekend Taste of Sonoma!
Join J Vineyards & Winery and immerse yourself in the food and wine culture of Sonoma County at Taste of Sonoma at MacMurray Ranch. Sonoma,
MacMurray Ranch, 9015 Westside Road, Healdsburg, C
10:00AM - 12:00PM Starting from Scratch: Preparing to Design Your New Home
Learn how to best help your design team understand your vision. Sonoma,
Leff Design Center 2661 Gravenstein Hwy South, Su
08:00PM - 11:00PM Sugadady Band
Party, eat, sleep, repeat! Sugadady jumps out of the box with covers of your favorite party tunes. Marin,
08:00PM - 10:00PM Moetar And The Austin Willacy Band
Experimental and musically fluent with sonic references to Zappa, The Beatles, and Gentle Giant. Marin,
Fenix- 919 Fourth Street, San Rafael, CA 94901
01:00PM - 04:00PM INDUSTRIAL SCRAP MAGIC WITH MONTY MONTY & AILEEN CORMACK
Drill, cut, assemble and fabricate in this wild, mixed-media sculpture class geared for the adventurous beginner! Sonoma,
07:30PM - 10:30PM The Sun Kings
Premier tribute band delivers a driving energy that recalls the early Beatles. Marin,
10:00AM - 12:00PM Nancy Willis Printmaking
Printmaking Napa,
11:30AM - 01:00PM Charlie Thomas Lindley
Emotional and weathered guitarist breaks the rules of conventional bluegrass and country. Marin,
04:00PM - 07:00PM Cochon Heritage Fire Napa BBQ & Wine - Top Chefs & Heritage Meats
Napa's favorite Summer Heritage Meats BBQ Napa,
Charles Krug Winery
04:00PM - 07:00PM Cochon Heritage Fire Napa BBQ, Wine, Chefs
Napa Valley's cult-favorite BBQ event, Cochon Heritage Fire returns for the 6th year to the stunning Charles Krug Winery. Napa,
Charles Krug Winery 2800 Main Street, St Helena, C
02:00PM - 05:00PM SELF-PORTRAITURE WITH SYMBOLIC IMAGERY
Artist Maria de Los Angeles will work with you to create a mixed media self-portrait. Sonoma,
10:00AM - 12:00PM Audubon Canyon Ranch Docent Open House: August
Learn about our docent training program Marin,
Martin Griffin Preserve
01:00PM - 04:30PM Color Mixing: A Beginner’s Workshop
Artist Michele Bottaro will teach an introduction to basic color fundamentals using a color wheel and acrylic paint to practice add mixing. Discover how to create precise colors and learn how to use them in artwork. Sonoma,
07:00PM - 10:30PM Monty Python Live (Mostly)
One Down, Five to Go Marin,
Christopher B. Smith Rafael Film Center, 1118 4th
07:00PM - 09:00PM GALLERY TALK WITH KURT KEMP
Kurt Kemp, Professor of Studio Art and Printmaking at Sonoma State University, will give a special tour of the exhibition, Hogarth to Hundertwasser: A Passion for Prints. Professor Kemp will take visitors through the exhibition, talking about the work and Sonoma,
08:00PM - 10:00PM Back N Black – Ac/Dc Tribute
An adrenaline rush of wailing guitar and driving rhythm. Marin,
05:30PM - 09:30PM Napa Valley Wine Train's Jericho Canyon Vitner's Dinner
Many course meal and fixed wine pairings. Napa,
12:00AM - 12:00AM San Francisco Jewish Film Festival
The 34th Annual Festival Marin,
06:30PM - 08:30PM The J Pink Party
The J Pink Party Sonoma,
04:00PM - 06:00PM Redwood Chordsmen Performance!
The Redwood Chordsmen are Sonoma County's premier men’s chorus and have been singing barbershop harmony and other four-part a cappella styles since 1965. Sonoma,
02:00PM - 04:00PM Free Family Fun Day
Extreme Cupcake Decorating Challenge Napa,
Escape from the pressures of everyday life to the moonlit vineyards of Napa Valley. Napa,
11:30AM - 01:00PM Chime Travelers
Take a nostalgic journey with the “biggest little band” as they perform ’60s and ’70s classics. Marin,
06:30PM - 08:30PM Kim Baker
Melodic and insightful singer-songwriter performs genre-bending acoustic rock. Marin,
Social Networking for Global Change Marin,
12:00AM - 12:00AM Figure Drawing with Maria de Los Angeles
Try your hand at figure drawing! Sonoma,
07:00PM - 09:00PM Taste Of The Bayou: Prix Fixe Dinner
Chef Gator and Mountain View Vintners present an exclusive prix fixe dinner. Marin,
01:00PM - 04:00PM Further Adventures in Color Mixing: Seeing with Paint
Artist Michelle Bottaro will teach this workshop for both beginner and intermediate levels. Sonoma,
06:30PM - 09:30PM Pints ‘n Prints
Join us for an evening of beer and linocut prints. Sonoma,
05:30PM - 07:00PM "by nature" Opening Reception
Join us for the opening reception for an MjSchaer exhibit Napa,
06:00PM - 09:00PM PHR/SPHR Certification Test Preparation - 12-Week Course
PHR/SPHR Certification - Why Now is the Time! Get two certifications in one when you certify by January 2015. Prepare for your exam with the best. Sonoma,
Workrite Ergonomics, 2277 Pine View Way #100, Peta
05:30PM - 09:30PM Napa Valley Wine Train's August 2014 Murder on the Wine Train Express
Murder Mystery Dinner Theater Napa,
Napa Valley Wine Train - 1275 McKinstry Street, Na
08:00PM - 10:00PM Soul Power – Tribute To Tower Of Power
Get moving to live brass, sax, drums, guitar, and keys. Marin,
10:30AM - 02:30PM Napa Valley Wine Train's ZD Wines Vintner's Lunch
August 2014 Napa,
04:30PM - 09:30PM Ceres Community Project presents Harvest of the Heart
6th Annual Fundraising Event to support bringing healing meals to clients in health crisis and development and community service opportunities for teens Sonoma,
Ceres Community Garden, Sebastopol
06:00PM - 09:00PM Vine to Table, J Vineyards Dinners Series
Bow Tie Vineyard Dinner Sonoma,
09:00AM - 03:00PM Racing for Research Presented by Zero Breast Cancer
Enjoy the visceral joy of professional go-karting while supporting a worthy cause! Sonoma,
Sonoma Raceway
08:00PM - 10:00PM Miles Schon Band – Birthday Show
Heartthrob singer-songwriter captures your soul with his guitar. Marin,
04:00PM - 08:00PM Block Party and Beer Bash!
Museum Fundraiser Sonoma,
01:00PM - 06:00PM Family Winemakers of California Tasting
California’s top wine producers are coming to you! Other,
1346 Saratoga Drive, San Mateo, CA 94403
04:30PM - 06:15AM Alec Guinness at 100: Kind Hearts and Coronets
New Digital Restoration! Marin,
Christopher B. Smith Rafael Film Center 1118 Fourt
07:00PM - 08:15PM Alec Guinness at 100: Kind Hearts and Coronets
11:30AM - 01:00PM Darryl Rowe
Unforgettable Jazz vocalist shines with improvisational classics. Marin,
06:30PM - 08:30PM Lee Waterman And Jazz Caliente
Afro-Cuban and Brazilian rhythms, pushing the boundaries of Latin jazz. Marin,
11:30AM - 12:30PM Family Winemakers of California Present: An Educational Wine Seminar with Master Sommelier Evan Gold
An Educational Wine Seminar with Master Sommelier Evan Goldstein Other,
San Mateo Event Center
07:00PM - 10:00PM Film Series: Kings of Pastry
Film Marin,
08:00PM - 10:00PM Kim & The Generations
A soul, funk love note to the Goddess of Rock and loud voices. Marin,
08:00PM - 10:00PM The Purple Ones – A 10 Piece Tribute To Prince
Party like it’s 1999 and pay homage to Prince. Marin,
10:30AM - 02:30PM Napa Valley Wine Train's Castello di Amorosa Vintner's Lunch
01:00PM - 06:00PM 4th Annual Mike Pierre Golf Classic
Golf Tournament and Benefit Dinner Sonoma,
Windsor Golf Club
04:30PM - 06:00PM The Lavender Hill Mob
06:30PM - 08:30PM Lisa Lindsley
From Gershwin to Pasty Cline, world-travelled vocalist performs with emotion and intimacy. Marin,
11:30AM - 01:00PM Mighty Mississippi
Acoustic trio delivers a spoonful of Southern comfort and old-time Blues. Marin,
03:00PM - 08:00PM San Geronimo Summer Rock Festival
Relaxed family-friendly outdoor rock festival featuring Ghosts of Electricity and Grateful Bluegrass Boys. Marin,
San Geronimo Valley Community Center
08:00PM - 10:00PM Singer-Songwriter Series: Amie Penwell
Join host Amie Penwell for open mic night at Fenix—8:00 pm till closing. Marin,
06:00PM - 09:00PM Louisa King Fraser: A Life Spent as an Artist
Louisa King Fraser is one of Sonoma County’s most prominent Plein Air painters. This fundraiser exhibition features work throughout her career including landscapes, studies and earth paintings. Sonoma,
08:00PM - 10:00PM Firewheel
Southern country and feel-good covers sure to make you move! Marin,
07:00PM - 09:00PM To Be Takei
One Night Only! Marin,
10:00AM - 05:00PM 1st Annual SonomaCountGolf.com Chip In For Charity Golf Tournament
1st Annual Chip In For Charity golf tournament brought to you by SonomaCountyGolf.com benefiting the Polly Klaas Foundation Sonoma,
08:00PM - 10:00PM Mitch Woods & His Rocket 88s
Jump and jive to this piano master’s “rock-a-boogie”. Marin,
08:00PM - 10:00PM Zydeco Flames
Cajun rock + blues + R&B = Zydeco. Hear the masters of this exciting Creole genre. Marin,
06:30PM - 08:30PM Glass House Feat. Mads Tolling
A tour de force of layered guitar, blues vocals, and Grammy-winning violin. Marin,
02:00PM - 05:45PM Alec Guinness at 100: Lawrence of Arabia
4K Digital Restoration! Marin,
11:30AM - 01:00PM High Tide Collective
A “funky,” “headily sprawling” ensemble fusing Blues, Jazz, Funk, and Soul. Marin,
07:00PM - 10:00PM Ricardo Lemvo & Makina Loca
The 4th of 5 concerts feat. live music, dinners, cocktails, picnics, dancing and Kid Zone. Food available for purchase from Fairfax's own Casa Manana. Marin,
02:00PM - 05:00PM Rose Rendezvous
A Festival of Award Winning Rose Wines Sonoma,
SIMI Winery Healdsburg
04:00PM - 12:00AM Valley of the Moon Music Festival
Mozart Viola Quintet Sonoma,
Hanna Boys Center, 1700 Arnold Drive
11:00AM - 12:30PM Headlands Stretch & Stroll
Step outside and enjoy the scenic views of the Marin Headlands as a naturalist leads you through a light hike and easy stretches. Marin,
Mendelssohn Piano Trio Sonoma,
02:00PM - 04:30AM Garden Party for The Living Room
Benefit for Women & Children Who are Homeless Sonoma,
Pythian House, 1001 Pythian Rd., Santa Rosa, CA 95
12:00PM - 04:00PM Acoustic Sundays at Madrone Vineyards Estate
Music and Wines under the Sonoma sunshine Sonoma,
777 Madrone Road, Glen Ellen, CA
12:00AM - 12:00AM Artist Talk with Charlene Doiron Reinhart
Join us for a unique opportunity to discover how Charlene Doiron Reinhart’s sculptural ceramic pieces are created. Charlene will talk about her process and pieces during a slide presentation; then, on a piece in process, she will show how she le Marin,
Are you turning 65 or retiring soon and have questions about Medicare? We can help! St. Joseph Health is offering FREE Medicare meetings to answer all your questions. Napa,
Synergy Wellness Center, Second Floor 3627 Villa L
06:30PM - 08:30PM Public Speaking for Business Owners
Banish Your Fear of Public Speaking Marin,
185 N. Redwood Dr. San Rafael
11:00AM - 04:00PM Marketing Workshop
Play big in your marketing and increase both your contribution and your revenue with Transformational Marketing Coach Linda Basso Sonoma,
Z Room
02:00PM - 04:00AM Free Family Fun Day: The Missing Piece
In celebration of our “Do It” exhibition, we invite families of all sizes to design and create their very own giant puzzle piece Napa,
10:00AM - 11:00AM Executive MBA & Professional MBA Information Session
Take the first step towards achieving your career goals with an MBA from Sonoma State. Get started by joining us for an information session! Sonoma,
04:30PM - 08:00PM In Conversation: Mary Gaitskill & Greil Marcus
Writer Mary Gaitskill & cultural critic Greil Marcus join together in conversation. Mess Hall dinner follows. Presented with Zoetrope: All-Story. Marin,
08:00PM - 10:00PM Marin Shakespeare 'Don Quixote'
The oh-so-relevant satire on Medieval chivalry, Don Quixote, is now a fabulous new play. It's a funny, inspiring and heart-warming tale for all ages. Marin,
Forest Meadows Amphitheatre, 890 Belle Ave, San Ra
11:45AM - 01:30PM RP Chamber Women in Business Lunch
WIB celebrates 14 years Sonoma,
Learn how to use the Problem Definition Technique to frame your current, real-life problems so you get the needed approval. Marin,
04:00PM - 06:00PM do it (happy hour)
do it (happy hour) second Thursday of July & August Napa,
12:00AM - 12:00AM No Waves, No Glory with Walter Blair Tom
Featured in I Want the Wide American Earth, Walter Blair Tom’s artwork takes the humble surfboard to an entirely new aesthetic level. Join him in this exciting discussion about the history of surfing, the surfing culture, and the growing interest in sur Sonoma,
Are you turning 65 or retiring soon and have questions about Medicare? We can help! St. Joseph Health is offering FREE Medicare meetings to answer all your questions. Sonoma,
Petaluma Valley Hospital, Groverman Hall 400 North
04:00PM - 08:00PM Rodney Strong Concert featuring Randy Newman
Randy Newman: A rare appearance from the decorated songwriter whose quirky, satirical songs have earned him Oscars, Grammys, fans of all ages… and a seat in the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame Sonoma,
11:00AM - 05:00PM All That Glitters
:light absorbed and reflected by contemporary art glass and jewelry Sonoma,
230 Lakeville, Petaluma CA 94952
05:00PM - 09:00PM Summer Breeze Artist Reception
Gallery show opening Sonoma,
210 N. Cloverdale Blvd., Cloverdale, CA 95425
10:00AM - 02:00PM Dog Days of Summer at Madrone Vineyards Estate
Sonoma County Humane Society Fundraiser Sonoma,
02:00PM - 04:00PM Medicare Beneftis Class
08:30PM - 09:45AM Partners 4 Leads Weekly Meeting
Small business networking and referral group Sonoma,
Finley Community Center
05:00PM - 07:00PM LinkedIn Local Marin August Mixer
Marin Renaissance Center, 1115 3rd St., San Rafael
07:00PM - 09:00PM Local Motion Dinner with Little Red Riding Truck
Food Trucks at TRACE Other,
06:30PM - 08:30PM KENT PORTER: CAPTURING LIGHTNING MOMENTS FROM BEHIND A LENS
Kent Porter will give a talk about his career as a photojournalist. In his own words, we catch a glimpse of his genius: Sonoma,
06:00PM - 07:30PM Free NxLeveL Entrepreneurial Training Orientation
12 week course Sonoma,
141 Stony Circle
07:30PM - 09:00PM Emotions & Money: What Makes You Tick
Jeff will lead you through a highly interactive workshop that helps you get in touch with your unconscious beliefs and emotions about money. Sonoma,
Songbird Community Healing Center, 8297 Old Redwoo
01:00PM - 04:00PM ACE is a Magical Place
Anova and Honorary Chair Congressman Jared Huffman invite you to a fun, free community event to celebrate the grand opening of our new ACE Sonoma School at the Wells Fargo Center for the Arts in Santa Rosa. Join us for a magical day of fun for the whole f Sonoma,
Wells Fargo Center for the Arts, 50 Mark West Spri
05:00PM - 09:00PM Quivira Vineyards Farm to Table Dinner
This four-cooure dinner will be paired with specially selected Quivira wines. Sonoma,
10:00AM - 07:00PM Willits Kinetic Carnivale
Northern California's premier Steampunk celebration for the family! Other,
Mendocino County Museum, 400 East Commercial Stree
12:00PM - 02:00PM Iron Heel Multi-Media Presentation
Theater performance Sonoma,
05:00PM - 08:30PM Speedway Children’s Charities Concert
Rockin’ for the Kids Sonoma,
07:00PM - 09:00PM CAROLUNA and The Musical Art Quintet
CAROLUNA and The Musical Art Quintet will perform an eclectic mix of grand arias, French songs, favorites from the Great American Songbook & more! Marin,
Fenix, 919 Fourth Street, San Rafael
04:30PM - 07:00PM The Method Behind the Magic: Fostering Commitment (vs. Compliance) in Times of Change
Change Management Workshop Sonoma,
Volunteer Center of Sonoma County
06:00PM - 08:00PM Medicare Benefits Class
08:00AM - 08:00PM GoPro Grand Prix
Verizon IndyCar Series Finale Sonoma,
06:00PM - 08:30PM Counter-Culture Comix Sale and Talk by Jonah Raskin
Next to rock ‘n’ roll, it was the underground comix of the Sixties and Seventies that expressed the true angst, wild imagination and boundless energy of the era. Jonah Raskin, Professor Emeritus at SSU, and himself a survivor of the Sixties, takes us Sonoma,
08:00AM - 04:30PM Tour de Fox - Wine Country Edition
Join Team Fox for a ride to raise funds for Parkinson's research. Finish with a celebration including wine, beer, food and live music. Sonoma,
Kendall-Jackson Wine Center, 5007 Fulton Road, Ful
08:00PM - 10:30PM Scott Capurro
Headline Comedy Sonoma,
Sally Tomatoes
12:00AM - 12:00AM Acoustic Sundays at Madrone Vineyards Estate
11:00AM - 01:00PM Art Museum Brunch Fundraiser
On Sunday, August 30, the Art Museum of Sonoma County will host a fundraising brunch in support of art exhibition and education programs. Sonoma,
12:00PM - 12:00AM 7th Annual OysterFest at Waterbar
Waterbar restaurant in San Francisco celebrates sustainable oysters with an outdoor fete benefiting the San Francisco Surfrider Foundation Marin,
399 Embarcadero
10:30AM - 04:00PM 6th Annual Wounded Veterans Polo Benefit
Tournament & More for Wounded SF Bay Area Veterans Sonoma,
Trione Polo Field
07:00PM - 08:30PM FREE Orientation at Community Media Center of Marin
What is community media? How can I become involved? Marin,
819 A Street, San Rafael
07:00PM - 08:30PM FREE Media Mixer at Community Media Center of Marin
"How Ronald Reagan Nearly Ruined My Life" Marin,
11:00AM - 11:00PM Sonoma County Fair
Feel the excitement with our spectacular new carnival, view the largest themed floral show in the west in our Hall of Flowers, enjoy an incredible display of livestock and agricultural education, PLUS FREE Headline Concerts and live music every day! Sonoma,
Sonoma County Event Center at the Fairgrounds
01:15PM - 07:30PM Wine Country Horse Racing
Enjoy the thrill of live horse racing at its finest on the turf and dirt tracks at the Sonoma County Fairgrounds. Sonoma,
1350 Bennett Valley Road, Santa Rosa, CA 95404
01:00PM - 04:00PM NorCal Brew Fest
Enjoy unlimited tastes of over 50 beers and ciders. Sonoma,
09:00AM - 04:00PM The Great 2017 Train Days!
Ride-on Steam Engine | Model Train Displays | DIY Brio Train Center | Train Music, Art and More! Marin,
Children's Museum of Sonoma County
07:00PM - 09:00PM Free Jazz Concert Benefiting Habitat for Humanity
You are invited to attend a FREE jazz concert benefitting Habitat for Humanity of Sonoma County starring Grammy Award Winner Holland & Coots. The concert will be held on Thursday, August 10th 7pm at St. Andrews Church, 16290 Arnold Drive, Glen Ellen. Sonoma,
16290 Arnold Drive, Glen Ellen
11:00AM - 04:00PM Taste Destination 128: Wine & BBQ Open House 2017
Join us for food and wine pairings at six family wineries in the heart of the renowned Alexander Valley Sonoma,
Highway 128 Wineries
08:00PM - 10:00PM Desi Comedy Fest- Throckmorton Theater, Tuesday, August 15
The Desi Comedy Fest is the biggest south asian comedy festival in America! Come be a part of the best comedy experience this summer in the Bay Area! Marin,
Throckmorton Theater, 142 Throckmorton Ave, Mill V
06:30PM - 09:00PM Fresh Starts Chef Event: Marc Dym
The Key Room at Homeward Bound of Marin: 1385 Nort
12:00AM - 12:00AM Online Certificate in Wine Business Management - Early Bird Pricing Deadline
An advanced understanding of wine business is essential to success in an evolving industry and an ever-changing marketplace. Sonoma,
06:00PM - 08:00PM Benefit Concert ft Glassdoor house band for Marin City students
Benefit concert ft. Glassdoor house band Transparency to bring music programs to Marin City students Marin,
Sweetwater Music Hall
06:30PM - 08:30PM Conversation with the Art Curator
How does a curator plan an exhibition and how does he choose the are....Jeff Nathanson, our ED & Art Curator will reveal the process. Marin,
09:00AM - 03:30PM Women’s Summit Napa Valley
Our goal is to engage, educate and encourage women to find confidence in their voices and to take action steps to address issues locally and nationally Napa,
05:30PM - 09:00PM Italics Winegrowers 2nd Anniversary Party
Celebration with live music, great wines, epicurean bites, all within our cave system! Napa,
Italics Winegrowers
06:30PM - 08:30PM Book Talk by Greg Sarris on How a Mountain Was Made
Greg Sarris, author of the award-winning novel Grand Avenue, will talk about his new book, How a Mountain Was Made (pub.10/17). Sonoma,
10:45AM - 03:30PM Visit to BAMPFA and Donna Brookman\\\\\\\'s Studio
Join our museum director, Jeff Nathanson for a day of art in the East Bay. A visit to BAMPFA, lunch and a tour of Donna Brookman\\\\\\\'s studio. Sonoma,
12:30PM - 03:00PM Volker Strifler at Geyser Peak Winery
Geyser Peak Winery’s Summer Concert Series is excited to welcome Volker Strifler and their creative style of blues/roots and innovative explorations into rock, jazz, and Latin rhythms. Sonoma,
2306 Magnolia Drive, Healdsburg, CA 95448
04:00PM - 07:00PM Kindred III Art Exhibit
Alchemia Gallery & Studios present Kindred Art Exhibit - a celebration of the sacred bond between humans and animals. Marin,
05:00PM - 07:00PM Museum Night Out: Jazz & Happy Hour
Join us on Friday evening for live jazz music and Happy Hour in the Art Museum Sonoma,
11:00AM - 04:00PM Taste Destination 128 Wine & BBQ Cookoff
Wine & BBQ cookoff Sonoma,
07:00PM - 09:30PM Free Shakespeare by the River: All\\\'s Well That Ends Well
The Petaluma Shakespeare Company presents \\\'All\\\'s Well That Ends Well\\\' (An Equity Approved Project). FREE Shakespeare by the River! Sonoma,
Foundry Wharf Green, 1st & H Street, Petaluma
06:00PM - 06:00PM Summer Concert at the Museum
We\'ve moved the concerts with Dirty Cello in the Summer to Sunday evenings in the Sculpture Garden! Sonoma,
12:00PM - 02:00PM Get the Most out of Office 365
Free lunch seminar on how your small business can save money and be more productive with Office 365. Sonoma,
Villa Chanticleer Annex,
06:30PM - 08:15PM Hidden Past of Santa Rosa
Behind the familiar stories and published histories of Santa Rosa are the uncommonly known bits of history that surface........ Sonoma,
05:00PM - 05:00PM Application Deadline - Sonoma Executive MBA
Applications Deadline: August 31, 2018 Sonoma,
02:00PM - 04:00PM Beginning Wood Turning- Making a Pen
Learn how to use a wood lathe to make your very own pen with local master wood turner Ariel Stone! Sonoma,
6791 Sebastopol Avenue, Suite #180, Sebastopol
04:00PM - 04:00PM Michael
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01:00PM - 03:00PM Woodshop Basics
Get trained on the majority of the machines in the wood shop. Sonoma,
04:00PM - 07:30PM Slide Ranch Farm-to-Table Experience w/Optional Glamping- Aug 10
04:00PM - 04:00PM The
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07:00PM - 09:00PM Understanding Wood: A Craftsmans Guide
Chat with local wood workers about the science of wood; Species specific talks to manufacturing. Sonoma,
04:00PM - 07:30PM Slide Ranch Farm-to-Table Experience w/Optional Glamping - Aug 17
04:00PM - 04:00PM Outlaws
Travis Sonoma,
07:30PM - 09:30PM Raiders of the Lost Ark - In Concert
The film that gave the world one of its greatest movie heroes, Indiana Jones, is back and better than ever before! Sonoma,
Green Music Center 1801 East Cotati Avenue, Rohner
05:00PM - 05:00PM The Great Outdoors - Call for Artists
Healdburg Center for the Arts invites artists far and wide to submit work in all media Marin,
12:00AM - 12:00AM 2019 Taste of Sonoma
Taste of Sonoma, presented by Visa Signature®, is at the Green Music Center on August 31, 2019. Visa Signature cardholders receive preferred pricing and perks, including early entry at 11:00 a.m. Taste and experience Sonoma County. Tickets are $150 -$255 Marin,
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In Search of the American Dream
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Final Girls
Sager, Riley
THE NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER
WINNER OF THE 2018 INTERNATIONAL THRILLER WRITERS AWARD FOR BEST HARDCOVER NOVEL
"The first great thriller of 2017 is here: Final Girls , by Riley Sager. If you liked Gone Girl , you'll like this."--Stephen King
Ten years ago, college student Quincy Carpenter went on vacation with five friends and came back alone, the only survivor of a horror movie-scale massacre. In an instant, she became a member of a club no one wants to belong to--a group of similar survivors known in the press as the Final Girls: Lisa, who lost nine sorority sisters to a college dropout's knife; Sam, who went up against the Sack Man during her shift at the Nightlight Inn; and now Quincy, who ran bleeding through the woods to escape Pine Cottage and the man she refers to only as Him. The three girls are all attempting to put their nightmares behind them and, with that, one another. Despite the media's attempts, they never meet.
Now, Quincy is doing well--maybe even great, thanks to her Xanax prescription. She has a caring almost-fiancé, Jeff; a popular baking blog; a beautiful apartment; and a therapeutic presence in Coop, the police officer who saved her life all those years ago. Her memory won't even allow her to recall the events of that night; the past is in the past.
That is until Lisa, the first Final Girl, is found dead in her bathtub, wrists slit; and Sam, the second Final Girl, appears on Quincy's doorstep. Blowing through Quincy's life like a whirlwind, Sam seems intent on making Quincy relive the past, with increasingly dire consequences, all of which makes Quincy question why Sam is really seeking her out. And when new details about Lisa's death come to light, Quincy's life becomes a race against time as she tries to unravel Sam's truths from her lies, evade the police and hungry reporters, and, most crucially, remember what really happened at Pine Cottage, before what was started ten years ago is finished.
Publisher: New York, New York :, Dutton,, [2017]
Copyright Date: ♭2017
Read more reviews of Final Girls at iDreamBooks.com
JCLPiepieB Jul 08, 2019
I couldn't put this book down! "Slasher thriller" isn't usually my genre of choice, and all the blood and guts and gore may be too much for those readers with a weaker stomach. But the storyline is dramatic and addicting. This will make a great movie!
DELVEVD Jan 04, 2019
THIS BOOK WAS EXCELLENT! Keeps you guessing until the end! Good Thriller! Read it!
bunnywave Oct 11, 2018
This was a highly disappointing novel with flat characters and an unlikeable, unrealistic protagonist that serves as a horrible representation of trauma victims.
Gulkh Sep 26, 2018
I had high expectations of this book considering I had read Riley sagar's, The last time I lied and that was a thriller through and through. That book was superb and had me hooked. Whereas this book was flat. The first 3/4 of the book is pretty stagnant, with lots of xanax popping and one dimensional characters like Jeff. It picks up towards the end with a pretty unrealistic ending. I mean, really? So many holes in the story, it was a total let down.
slezotte Sep 12, 2018
As someone who loves a good thriller, I appreciated that this was a fairly different plot than most of the female centric novels released in the past few years. The "massacre survivor" plotline felt fresh and the crimes more visceral than the average "missing persons" tales. A couple of the twists were obvious from a mile away, but I truly didn't see the biggest twist coming until it was in front of my face. While I wish a few of the characters had been delved into a bit deeper, I was ultimately satisfied.
velveetahead Jul 05, 2018
I thought this was a really interesting concept and the book appeared to be all the rage last year. When I finally got around to reading it, I'm left wondering what was all the fuss? There seemed to be a decent outline of a story, but it was mostly filler and didn't add up to a lot of substance. Even though there were clues of where it was going in the end, the final twist still made me roll my eyes.
While reading it, I wanted to know more about how Quincy was coping or not coping. There are hints that her mother wanted her to act normal and get over it, but that isn't delved into very much. I wish that had been explored more. She appears to have some rage issues related to her attack, but that is mostly hinted at for plot purposes (and red herrings) rather than as character development.
What we are left with is so much baking. She has a blog about baking and she bakes as a way to control what is happening to her. I got it, but there were so many descriptions about her baking. Then Sam shows up and Quincy shows her how to bake, and then they are both baking or Sam is baking. It was too much. Also, Quincy's long-time boyfriend Jeff was really underwritten. I never knew if anything he was saying or doing matched up to what his character would do since I had no idea what his character's motivations were.
Beyond the first third of the book that is all set-up (including so much of the baking mentioned previously), the rest of it flew by. I wanted to know what happened. I knew at some point Quincy would remember what happened to her or find out what really happened on the night of her attack. I liked some of the red herrings about Sam and Quincy. Could I really trust them? What secrets were they hiding? It was enough to keep me reading. It also helped that the chapters were short.
Overall, I didn't become invested in any character in the book. At times, different characters were in danger, but I never felt like I would be sad if anything bad happened to any of them. This would make a perfect beach read thriller. It's mostly plot with no character development and it makes for a quick read.
jaxsrose Apr 01, 2018
I didn't see that ending coming! Great story and once I got into it I finished quite quickly. Quincy is a strong main character with many flaws as well
neyoscribbles Mar 09, 2018
Slow at first but quickly becomes a page turner. Half-way through, I couldn't help but kind of naively accept who's done it, even if it is with so much resentment because the motives for the murders seemed like a cop out. But, wow...I finally got to the end and when I discovered who had actually "done it", I couldn't breathe with all the betrayal and deceit lodged in my throat. Despite the dramatics, I still dislike the motives behind the actions but I suppose it is still somehow rational in a world with miswired humans. Would not be surprised if this gets made into a movie, with the thriller-esque film style writing.
marycatlyons Jan 30, 2018
This was a difficult read to get through. Not because of the content, but due to the dragging storyline. It honestly couldn't have ended fast enough for me. I felt it was lacking in a lot of areas, but mostly in the ability to jump fluidly from one storyline to another. I couldn't connect with any of the characters, and even though you're probably supposed to feel awful for the protagonist, Quinn, I just found myself becoming more and more irritated. Mostly because there were still pages upon pages to be read, but also because Quinn was just plain irritating.
NancyDrew_1961 Jan 25, 2018
I rarely abandon a book once started, but the uninspired writing style, the fact that there was little I could find about the hackneyed characters to make me put in the effort to understand and empathize with their behavior and motivations, and the small but distracting errors in scene descriptions and continuity within a particular "scene," made me happy to jettison this particular work only a third of the way through. (And speaking of sub-par writing, my apologies for the run-on sentence!)
Too many current works seem to be trying (and sometimes failing) to cash in on the twisty-ending "The Girl on the Train" genre, and to me, this was another unfortunate example of that trend. Sadly, I found this work uninspired and downright insulting to the seasoned reader used to more compelling reads. Perhaps I would have found this book more rewarding if I could have slogged through more pages, but life is too short, and there are many more interesting and well-written books to explore...
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Energy Activist ClassicA repository for digital copies of the original, printed Energy Activist. Written for people who don’t analyze energy policy for a living, The Energy Activist helped Coalition members and allies keep track of often complex energy and salmon issues. Each edition explores a key issue affecting the Northwest’s energy future.
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Get InvolvedEnergy is the single issue that lies at the heart of almost every major environmental problem we face in the Northwest, including global warming, salmon extinctions, nuclear contamination, oil spills and air pollution. Energy also lies at the heart of our economic future, with far-reaching impacts on national security, the vitality of our businesses and industries, the health of the economy, employment, and the ability of low-income citizens to secure basic services like heat and light. We’ll be paying for today’s energy decisions for the rest of our lives. Our children and their children will pay for them too. The good news is that you can get involved now, while the important choices are being made. This section will help you find out how.%CODE2% BECOME A MEMBER The Coalition is an alliance of over 100 members that Include environmental, consumer, civic, and human service organizations; progressive utilities; and energy efficiency and renewable energy businesses from Alaska, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Washington and British Columbia.%CODE2% Join the coalition %CODE2%Donate Help support our work advocating for a clean and affordable energy future by donating to the NW Energy Coalition. You may donate online with a Visa or Mastercard: %CODE1% The NW Energy Coalition…
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Tomorrow: Overcoming hurdles to energy efficiency
Nov 18, 2011 | Posted by Alicia Healey | Energy Activist Online |
Tomorrow:
Overcoming hurdles to energy efficiency
By DICK FIDDLER
It was a privilege to be part of the amazingly thoughtful effort in the 1980s to make energy efficiency a practical, effective resource here in the Northwest. The NW Energy Coalition’s 30th anniversary reminds us of those fruitful, exciting times.
We eventually figured it out fairly well, but energy efficiency does have its quirks. So many parties are involved: building owners (and sometimes tenants), designers and architects, installers and utilities. Fairly robust incentives are needed to boost participation rates to necessary levels. Getting all the interests aligned is no simple task!
Utilities are the only practical sources for the significant funding required, so we must provide workable ways for the utilities to recover their costs reliably. We must evaluate and verify the efficiency savings achieved – understanding that it takes care. You can’t just hang a meter to measure efficiency results.
In my current role with the Sierra Club’s national coal-to-clean-energy campaign, I watch the rest of the nation struggle with these same issues, again and again trying out perfectly plausible ideas that should work but don’t. It’s amazing how many of the answers can be found here in the Northwest, and how relevant our solutions remain.
The planet’s vital climate goals require that we get on with the job. Utility efficiency programs must achieve annual savings of at least 1.5% of load for several decades to come. This is a doable but very challenging target.
To succeed, we must do even better at “going deep” when we get a chance to improve the efficiency of a residential or commercial building. Nationwide, many utility incentives reward just the opposite: getting the surest savings at the lowest possible cost. Many rate structures are complex and far from transparent, raising legitimate ratepayer concerns. No true national measurement and evaluation standards have yet emerged. Finally, to maintain the health of the community that designs and installs efficiency measures – and the vital jobs it provides – we must ensure stable and long-term incentive funding.
I often wish that the knowledge we gained in the ’80s could be swiftly and painlessly transmitted to the rest of the nation! We’re having some success; our Northwest experience is incredibly valuable. I’m very grateful to have been part of it at the beginning and to still be engaged today.
Dick Fiddler worked on codes and efficiency policy for the City of Seattle and Seattle City Light for 18 years. After retiring, he served a few years on the NW Energy Coalition executive board and staff. For the last 10 years, most of his work has been as a volunteer leader in the Sierra Club’s energy/climate work. He currently serves on the national leadership team of the Club’s Beyond Coal Campaign. He is Sara Patton’s biggest fan.
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Refractive and Visual Outcomes of Different Intraocular Lenses with Femtosecond Laser Cataract Surgery: The Expectation of Independence from Spectacles
Joao Crispim*, Ricardo Nose, Milton Yogi , Walton Nose
Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, Federal University of Sao Paulo-UNIFESP-Sao Paulo (SP), Brazil
Publisher Id: TOOPHTJ-9-145
Electronic publication date: 30/9/2015
© Crispim et al.; Licensee Bentham Open.
open-access license: This is an open access article licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/) which permits unrestricted, non-commercial use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the work is properly cited.
* Address correspondence to this author at the Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, Federal University of Sao Paulo-UNIFESP-Sao Paulo (SP), R. Botucatu 821 Sao Paulo SP 04023-062 Brazil; Tel: + 55 11 5576 4000; Fax: + 55 11 5576 4981; E-mail: joaocrisp@gmail.com
To evaluate the visual performance of different types of intraocular lens (IOL) in eyes submitted to femtosecond laser (FSL) cataract surgery and to analyze whether this technology could result in spectacles independence.
Retrospective comparative case series.
Consecutive eyes that were scheduled for FSL cataract surgery were included in this study. After one month postoperative, patients were divided into two groups: cases that required prescription for eyeglasses and cases that did not require prescription. In addition, the patients were analyzed according to the type of IOL that was implanted (monofocal, monofocal toric, multifocal and multifocal toric).
Thirty-five cataract surgeries were analyzed. Twenty-three eyes had a monofocal IOL implanted, and 12 had a multifocal IOL implanted. After 1 month, 12 cases required prescription (Group 1), and 23 did not require prescription (Group 2). The proportion of eyes that did not require corrective lenses was significantly greater (P = 0.02) in eyes that received multifocal IOL (91.67%) compared with those that received monofocal IOL (47.83%). Additionally, 100% of eyes that received multifocal toric IOL did not require eyeglasses at one month postoperatively.
The FSL surgical precision associated with modern IOL technology may be an important factor related to vision satisfaction after cataract surgery.
Keywords: Cataract surgery, femtosecond laser, intraocular lens, refractive surgery, spectacles independence.
Femtosecond laser (FSL) has been used in cataract surgery to promote greater precision during crucial surgical stages: lens fragmentation, anterior capsulotomy and corneal incisions. It presents an opportunity for improvement in safety and efficacy, resulting in a more accurate and precise anterior capsulotomy, which affects IOL positioning and centering [1].
Although evidenced in only a limited number of studies, visual and refractive outcomes may gain many potential benefits through FSL that are at least as good as those of conventional phacoemulsification [2]. The benefit of a more stable intraocular lens (IOL) position, caused by a more precise capsulotomy, is a more predictable IOL power calculation [3]. Sutton et al.[1] reviewed key issues to consider in clinical practice when transitioning to FSL-assisted cataract surgery. They mentioned a series of eyes with FSL-assisted cataract surgery and multifocal IOL implantation, with visual acuity comparable with manual phacoemulsification cohort, although with an improved level of unaided visual acuity.
In general, patients who are undergoing cataract surgery consider the opportunity to be free of glasses as being very important. With multifocal IOLs, the majority of patients do not wear glasses after cataract surgery, which is a potential source of savings. However, spectacles independence can be achieved with monofocal IOLs. With advanced technology for biometry IOL calculations and more precise FSL for cataract surgery, eye surgeons also expect that this independence could become more frequent [4-6].
We evaluated the visual performance of different types of optically designed IOLs in eyes submitted to FSL-assisted cataract surgery. Then, we analyzed whether this technology could offer more precise refractive outcomes related to a more precise capsulotomy and effective lens position, resulting in spectacles independence.
We conducted a retrospective study of cases operated at a single center in Brazil using the laser platform LenSx/Alcon FSL (Alcon, Fort Worth, TX) with a soft contact lens patient interface. A discussion of the risks and benefits of the procedure was followed by the provision of informed written consent. The study adhered to the tenets of the Declaration of Helsinki and was approved by the local ethics committee. All procedures were performed at the Eye Clinic of São Paulo between June and August 2014.
Patients with visually significant cataract were included in this study. The exclusion criteria were a history of glaucoma or retinal detachment, corneal disease, irregular corneal astigmatism, abnormal irises, macular degeneration or retinopathy, neuro-ophthalmic disease, or a history of ocular inflammation.
Preoperative and Postoperative Protocol
All patients underwent a detailed preoperative assessment, including slit-lamp biomicroscopy, tonometry, and measurement of uncorrected and corrected distance visual acuity and manifest refraction. Cataract investigations included measurement of axial length and biometry (IOLMaster V 7.5, Carl Zeiss Meditech Inc., Jena, Germany); pachymetry, corneal topography, and lens densitometry (Pentacam HR, Oculus, Wetzlar, Germany); and specular microscopy (EM-3000, Tomey, Phoenix, AZ).
All procedures were performed with the LenSx laser under topical anesthesia. The disposable patient interface was docked to the eye, and the individual patient treatment was programmed into the laser. The anterior capsulotomy, nuclear-fragmentation, primary and side-port corneal incisions were then created with the FSL under optical coherence tomography (OCT) image control. The treatment parameters for the LenSx FSL are summarized in Table 1.
After completion of the laser procedure, the patient was transferred to the operating room. The laser-cut corneal incisions were opened; the anterior capsular button was removed with forceps, and then the surgery was completed following the standard phacoemulsification procedure using the Infiniti Vision System (Alcon). The postoperative regimen included 1 drop of 1.0% moxifloxacin (Vigamox, Alcon), ketorolac tromethamine (Acular, Allergan), and 0.1% dexamethasone (Maxidex, Alcon) 4 times per day for 2 weeks, then dexamethasone drops twice per day for 1 week and once daily for the last week. Each patient was followed up at days 1, 7 and 30 post-operation.
Refractive Outcomes Analysis
For comparison, all eyes included in the study with 1 month of postoperative follow-up were divided into 2 groups: Group 1 comprised the cases that required a prescription for eyeglasses, and Group 2 comprised the cases that did not require a prescription.
Statistical analysis was performed with GraphPad Prism version 6 for Mac OS X (GraphPad Software, San Diego, CA, USA). The Mann-Whitney test was used to compare the incidence of variables across the 2 groups, and the Wilcoxon test was used to analyze significance within the 2 groups. Corrective lens prescriptions among the eyes that received monofocal, monofocal toric, multifocal and multifocal toric IOLs were analyzed by the chi-square test. Corrective lens prescriptions for eyes that received monofocal or multifocal IOLs were compared by the Fisher exact test. The level of significance was set at P < 0.05 across all parameters.
A total of 35 unilateral consecutive cataract surgeries from 35 patients (22 females and 13 males) were performed with the LenSx FSL and included in the study. The mean age was 65 years (± 11 standard deviation (SD), ranging from 44 to 82). Among the baseline characteristics, the mean cataract nuclear sclerosis was grading 2 (± 0.5 SD, ranging from 1 to 4), the mean axial length was 23.82 mm (± 1.30 SD, ranging from 21.67 to 26.44), the mean anterior chamber depth was 3.30 mm (± 0.37 SD, ranging from 2.41 to 3.89) and the mean preoperative endothelial cell density was 2210 (± 355 SD, ranging from 1713 to 2958). The preoperative mean best corrected distance visual acuity (BDVA) in logMAR was 0.4 (± 0.2 SD, ranging from 0.1 to 1.3), and the postoperative mean uncorrected distance visual acuity (UDVA) in logMAR was 0.1 (± 0.1, ranging from 0.0 to 0.4).
Spectacles Independence Analysis
Of the 35 eyes, 23 received a monofocal IOL (18 monofocal spherical IOLs: 17 SN60WF and 1 MA60AC; and 5 monofocal toric IOL: 2 SN6AT4, 1 SN6AT5 and 2 SN6AT9) and 12 received a multifocal IOL (4 multifocal IOLs: 4 SN6AD1; and 8 multifocal toric IOL: 6 SND1T2, 1 SND1T3 and 1 SND1T4). After 1 month postoperative, 12 cases required a prescription for eyeglasses (Group 1), and 23 did not require a prescription (Group 2). There were no statistically significant differences between the groups during the preoperative period (P = 0.4748). However, postoperatively, the UDVA was significantly worse in eyes requiring correction (P = 0.0112). Additionally, a significant postoperative improvement in visual acuity was present in both groups (P < 0.0001, Group 2; P = 0.0156, Group 1) (Table 2).
When analyzing the groups by dividing the eyes that received monofocal IOLs from those that received multifocal IOLs, the proportion of eyes that did not require corrective lenses was significantly greater (P = 0.0268) in eyes that received multifocal IOLs (91.67%) compared with those that received monofocal IOLs (47.83%) (Fig. 1). Additionally, 100% of eyes that received a multifocal toric IOL did not require eyeglasses at one month postoperatively (Table 3).
Corrective lens prescriptions between eyes that received monofocal (47.83%) or multifocal (8.33%) IOLs. * P = 0.0268, Fisher exact test.
The most commonly used treatment parameters for LenSx femtosecond laser.
Primary Incision
Side-port Incision
Anterior Capsulotomy
Nuclear Fragmentation
Energy (μJ) 5.0 5.0 5.0 8.0
Configuration 3 plane internal-trapezoid single-plane external trapezoid 5.0-mm diameter 4.8mm diameter of 2 chop/2.3mm of 1 cylinder
Spot/Layer 5.0/5.0 5.0/5.0 4.0/3.0 12.0/10.0
Width (mm) 2.4 1.2 - -
Delta value - - 325/325 500/800
ant/post
Spectacles independence analysis.
Group 1 (n = 12)
(Required Prescription)
(Did Not Require Prescription)
Interquartile Range
Between group significance (Mann-Whitney test)
Preoperative BCVA (logMAR) 0.4 0.3 to 0.6 0.3 0.2 to 0.4 P = 0.4748
Postoperative UCVA (logMAR) 0.2 0.1 to 0.3 0.0 0.0 to 0.1 P = 0.0112
Within group significance (Wilcoxon test) P = 0.0156 P < 0.001
Corrective lens prescriptions among eyes that received monofocal, monofocal toric, multifocal and multifocal toric IOLs.
IOL Types
Group 1 (Required Prescription)
Group 2 (Did Not Require Prescription)
Monofocal 9 (50%) 9 (50%) 18 (100%)
Monofocal Toric 2 (40%) 3 (60%) 5 (100%)
Multifocal 1 (25%) 3 (75%) 4 (100%)
Multifocal Toric 0 (0%) 8 (100%) 8 (100%)
Total 12 (34%) 23 (66%) 35 (100%)
The importance of having perfectly sized, symmetrical capsulotomies when performing the final refraction is increasingly recognized [7, 8]. Additionally, age, preoperative and postoperative correct distance visual acuity (CDVA), ocular comorbidity, gender, and the achieved postoperative refraction are related to satisfaction with vision [9]. Other important factors related to poor patient-reported outcomes after surgery are good preoperative assessments, with a precise biometric IOL calculation and postoperative IOL position, and intra- and postoperative complications are independently associated with worse postoperative UDVA [10, 11]. We found a significant improvement in visual acuity in both groups after cataract surgery (P = 0.0156, Group 1; P < 0.0001, Group 2).
Although the sample size of this study was small, we did not have any surgical complication with the cases of FSL cataract surgeries to report. As shown previously with a large sample size, the surgical outcomes and safety of FSL-assisted cataract surgery to improve significantly with greater surgeon experience, development of modified techniques and improved technology [12].
Currently, good unaided distance visual acuity is a realistic expectation after cataract surgery and IOL implantation [13]. Multifocal IOLs provide patients with good distance and near vision, a high rate of spectacles independence, and a high degree of patient satisfaction [14]. However, preoperative factors, such as female gender, low preoperative visual acuity, glaucoma, precision in reaching the target refraction during second-eye surgery, and biometry prediction errors are related to less successful planned postoperative refraction [15, 16]. Furthermore, patients who already wear spectacles are expected to wear them after cataract surgery. Those patients who are not already wearing spectacles do not expect to wear them. This latter group is at particular risk for refractive disappointment and complaint [17].
Patients who decide to submit to cataract surgery now have two main options: traditional phacoemulsification and the new technology with FSL. In addition to the financial issues concerning this technology, better and safer outcomes are crucial for making this decision [18]. If the motivation to achieve spectacles independence is the deciding factor, FSL-assisted cataract surgery results in a significantly more predictable IOL power calculation than conventional phacoemulsification surgery, most likely is due to a more precise capsulotomy, which results in a more stable IOL position [19, 20]. In general, patients consider the opportunity to be free of glasses as being very important [17].
When analyzing the refractive outcomes, 23 eyes (66% of the cases) were independent of spectacles after the FSL-assisted cataract surgery. They all had a good preoperative assessment, including an IOLMaster biometry, and 100% of the eyes that had implanted multifocal toric IOLs did not require a prescription.
We evaluated the spectacles independence after cataract surgery with femto laser and different IOLs. We believe one major point is the patient’s selection and expectation. Although we realized a fine preoperative evaluation and had precise biometry measurements, had a perfectly sized capsulotomy and uneventful surgeries. We could not evaluate the CDVA and refraction or aberrometric data post operatively, due to the retrospective analysis. Another important point to address as limitation of the present work is the absence of comparison between conventional phacoemulsification and femto surgery which is an ongoing study in our institution. Therefore, more studies are needed to evaluate these outcomes. The significance of these findings needs to be further investigated.
The FSL-mediated surgical precision associated with modern IOL technology may be an important factor related to vision satisfaction after cataract surgery.
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[20] Filkorn T, Kovács I, Takács A, Horváth E, Knorz MC, Nagy ZZ. Comparison of IOL power calculation and refractive outcome after laser refractive cataract surgery with a femtosecond laser versus conventional phacoemulsification J Refract Surg 2012; 28(8): 540-4.
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Hybrid Dispositionalism and the Law.Teresa Marques - 2019 - In Kevin Toh, David Plunkett & Scott Shapiro (eds.), Dimensions of Normativity: New Essays on Metaethics and Jurisprudence. New York: Oxford University Press.details
Dworkin’s famous argument from legal disagreements poses a problem for legal positivism by undermining the idea that the law can be (just) the result of the practice and attitudes of norm-applying officials. In recent work, the chapter author argued that a hybrid contextualist theory paired with a dispositional theory of value—a hybrid dispositionalism, for short—offers the resources to respond to similar disagreement- based arguments in other evaluative and normative domains. This chapter claims that the theory the author advocates can extend (...) to legal statements and disputes, and shares some important features with Toh’s (2011) idea that legal statements express shared acceptance of norms. The chapter proposes that a contextualist semantics for legal statements paired with the pragmatic communication of implicatures that express shared acceptances of norms, achieves the same goal that Toh aims at. (shrink)
Disagreements About Taste Vs. Disagreements About Moral Issues.Isidora Stojanovic - 2019 - American Philosophical Quarterly 56 (1):29-42.details
The aim of this paper is to argue against a growing tendency to assimilate moral disagreements to disagreements about matters of personal taste. The argumentative strategy adopted in the paper appeals to a battery of linguistic criteria that reveal interesting and important differences between predicates of personal taste and moral predicates. The paper further argues that these semantically tractable differences have an impact on the nature of the corresponding disagreements.
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Contextualist Answers to the Challenge From Disagreement.Dan Zeman - 2017 - Phenomenology and Mind 12:62-73.details
In this short paper I survey recent contextualist answers to the challenge from disagreement raised by contemporary relativists. After making the challenge vivid by means of a working example, I specify the notion of disagreement lying at the heart of the challenge. The answers are grouped in three categories, the first characterized by rejecting the intuition of disagreement in certain cases, the second by conceiving disagreement as a clash of non-cognitive attitudes and the third by relegating disagreement at the pragmatic (...) level. For each category I present several important variants and raise some (general) criticisms. The paper is meant to offer a quick introduction to the current contextualist literature on disagreement and thus a useful tool for further research. (shrink)
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We Can't Have No Satisfaction.Teresa Marques - 2016 - Filosofia Unisinos 17 (3):308-314.details
Many authors agree that there is a dimension of conflict expressed through discourse that eludes purely semantic approaches. How and why do conative attitudes conflict? The latter question is the object of this paper. Conflicts of attitudes are typically modelled on one of two models. The first imposes a Subjective Rationality constraint on conflicting attitudes, and the second depends on the impossibility of Joint Satisfaction. This paper assesses whether either of the two conditions can account for conflicting attitudes. First, it (...) argues that Subjective Rationality cannot account for intersubjective conflicts. Second, it presents putative counterexamples to Joint Satisfaction. The counterexamples arise on the assumption that the attitudes are first personal. The paper then explores two alternatives: nihilism about attitudinal conflicts, and dropping the assumption that the relevant attitudes are first-personal states. Embracing nihilism would be devastating for expressivists and other non-cognitivists. But dropping the assumption on which the counterexamples to Satisfaction depend requires a new account of the conative attitudes expressed in value discourse. The paper concludes by pointing to an alternative. (shrink)
Expressivism, Relativism, and the Analytic Equivalence Test.María José Frápolli & Neftalí Villanueva - 2015 - Frontiers in Psychology 6.details
The purpose of this paper is to show that, pace (Field, 2009), MacFarlane’s assessment relativism and expressivism should be sharply distinguished. We do so by arguing that relativism and expressivism exemplify two very different approaches to context-dependence. Relativism, on the one hand, shares with other contemporary approaches a bottom–up, building block, model, while expressivism is part of a different tradition, one that might include Lewis’ epistemic contextualism and Frege’s content individuation, with which it shares an organic model to deal with (...) context-dependence. The building-block model and the organic model, and thus relativism and expressivism, are set apart with the aid of a particular test: only the building-block model is compatible with the idea that there might be analytically equivalent, and yet different, propositions. (shrink)
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Retractions.Teresa Marques - 2018 - Synthese 195 (8):3335-3359.details
Intuitions about retractions have been used to motivate truth relativism about certain types of claims. Among these figure epistemic modals, knowledge attributions, or personal taste claims. On MacFarlane’s prominent relativist proposal, sentences like “the ice cream might be in the freezer” or “Pocoyo is funny” are only assigned a truth-value relative to contexts of utterance and contexts of assessment. Retractions play a crucial role in the argument for assessment-relativism. A retraction of a past assertion is supposed to be mandatory whenever (...) the asserted sentence is not true at the context of use and the context of assessment. If retractions were not obligatory in these conditions, there would be no normative difference between assessment-relativism and contextualism. The main goal of this paper is to undermine the claim that retractions reveal this normative difference. To this effect, the paper offers a review of three important objections to the obligatoriness of retractions. Taken together, these objections make a strong case against the alleged support that retractions give to assessment-relativism. The objections are moreover supported by recent experimental results that are also discussed. This will satisfy a further goal, which is to undermine the idea that there is a constitutive retraction rule. The paper also discusses two ways to understand what such a rule would be constitutive of, and concludes with a discussion of how to describe what retractions are. (shrink)
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NORFOLK LITTLE THEATRE’S THE FOREIGNER: “BLASNY, BLASNY”
In the midst of perplexity, doubt, fear, anger, and uncertainty, laughter may be the fragrance that freshens the air.[i]
Terry Lindvall, Virginia Wesleyan University
The air in and around Norfolk’s Little Theatre on Claremont Avenue is definitely fresh courtesy of a satisfying production of Larry Shue’s 1983 farce, The Foreigner, featuring the fine acting of a dedicated group of performers.
Shue’s play is a perennial favorite, telling the tale of the Englishman Charlie Baker who travels to a lodge in Georgia with his friend, Sergeant Froggy LeSueur, who is on a military assignment. Charlie is a man stricken with an almost terminal shyness, and haunted by a death bedded wife who has had many lovers.
Nevertheless, Charlie is depressed over being separated from her. He begs Froggy to find a way to keep people from talking to him. Charlie just wants to be left alone so he doesn’t have to talk to anyone. So, Froggy creates a story that Charlie is from some unnamed far away exotic country, and that he can’t speak or understand a word of English.
The owner of the lodge, Betty Meeks, welcomes Charlie. She has never traveled out of her tiny town and is excited at having a “foreigner” in her midst.
Other characters arrive anon. Catherine Simms and the Rev. David Marshall Lee enter discussing the news that she is pregnant and that their wedding is still months away. Catherine’s dim-witted brother Ellard joins them, as does the obligatory racist/xenophobic “redneck”, Owen Muser. Charlie learns all the scandals and secrets of the guests, who have no difficulty revealing themselves in front of him.
(Contrary to popular progressive belief, xenophobia – the fear of strangers – is innate and hard-wired into our species. Science – namely evolutionary biology and human ethology – has demonstrated that the fear is universal among human beings, a necessity to help insure our species’ survival. Only through repeated and harmless cooperative encounters, does the fear eventually subside and disappear. The Foreigner happily demonstrates this scientific truth[ii])
Credit for the production’s success must first go to director Louise Casini who has cast the play impeccably and has helped to lead the actors into compelling characterizations. Terry Flint’s dominating set supports Ms. Casini’s work very well.
The cast is most ably led by the Betty Meeks of Judy Burke. Ms. Burke’s Linda Loman in last season’s Death of a Salesman was so wonderful that she was nominated for a 2018 Broadway World Central Virginia Best Actress Award. As the ever-so-kind Betty Weeks, Ms. Burke displays equal facility with the trickiness of comedy. Jim Dwyer plays Charlie with great skill and success, beginning softly and innocently, only to build to a comic tour-de-force as he tells bizarre tales in his oddball pseudo-language. His sidekick Froggy LeSueur (Does the name suggest any Frenchness in his character?) is played leisurely, (perhaps too leisurely) and quietly, by Tom Coffey, whose British accent fortunately doesn’t fall into cliché. Ginakay Howell ‘s Catherine Simms, the ditzy debutante, is simply perfect, as is her fiancée the Rev. David Marshall Lee, played by Marshall Mulkey as if he were a staff member of Jim Bakkers’ late PTL Club. Mike Dunavan creates a frightening Owen Muster, so real he could have crawled out of James Dickey’s Deliverance. Finally, George Plank is given a role in which to shine – Ellard Simms. Mr. Plank, barely seen in Arsenic and Old Lace, and sort of seen in Death of a Salesman, presents a fresh interpretation of a role too often played as a mental defective. His scenes teaching Charlie resemble the classic comedic routines of Laurel and Hardy.
The same director responsible for the production’s great assets is also, alas, responsible, for the production’s greatest flaw – the pace and tempo/rhythm. Hearing sound designer John C. Roberts’ exciting pre-show banjo music, I assumed the production would emulate the rollicking madcap pace of the music. But no. The production had all the dynamics of a 78-rpm phonograph record played at 45 rpm. Judy Burke’s Betty does what she can, when she can, to get the show on track, but she can’t seem to find anyone willing to reciprocate. The actors need to raise their characters’ stakes, and make their moment-to-moment objectives more urgent. No less an authority on comedy than George Bernard Shaw gives this most practical advice:
Never have a moment of silence on the stage, except as an intentional stage effect. The play must not stop while an actor is sitting down or getting up or walking off the stage. The last word of an exit speech must get the actor off the stage. He must sit on a word and rise on a word; if he has to make a movement, he must move as he speaks and not before or after; and the cues must be picked up as smartly as a ball is fielded in cricket. This is the secret of pace, and of holding an audience.[iii]
Despite the slow pace, The Foreigner works on the audience, though the smiles it elicits throughout would be laughs and guffaws with a sprightlier tempo. The play’s heart is the heart of all fine comedy- someone isn’t what he appears to be. Charlie isn’t a foreigner, Ellard isn’t a dimwit, and the Reverend and Owen aren’t benevolent. When the truth is revealed, the comedy embraces its requisite ending – Charlie and Ellard, the well-intentioned fools -succeed, while the Reverend and Owen – the ill-intentioned wits – fail.
The play ends with Charlie offering a toast to a job well done – “Blasny, Blasny”!
We should also raise our glasses to the Little Theatre of Norfolk’s production of The Foreigner with a collective, “Blasny, Blasny”!!
They deserve it.
[i] Terry Lindvall, The Mother of All Laughter. B and H Publishing Group, 2003.
[ii] Klaus Atzwanger, Katrin Schäfer and Alain Schmitt, “Distrust of strangers: a theoretical background for a multidisciplinary research prograrnme” in Social Science 1998 SAGE Publications (London, Thousand Oaks, CA and New Delhi). 37(3), pp. 533-538.
[iii] Shaw on Theatre, ed. E.J. West. New York: Hill and Wang, 1959) p. 158-9.
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Somali Mother of Four Slaughtered for her Faith
Al Shabaab militants carry out ritual slaying of Christian found to be ‘apostate.’
NAIROBI, Kenya, January 17 (CDN) — A mother of four was killed for her Christian faith on Jan. 7 on the outskirts of Mogadishu, Somalia by Islamic extremists from al Shabaab militia, a relative said.
The relative, who requested anonymity, said Asha Mberwa, 36, was killed at 5:15 p.m. in Warbhigly village; the Islamic extremists from the insurgent group had arrested her outside her house the previous day at 8:30 a.m. She died when the militants cut her throat in front of villagers who came out of their homes as witnesses.
She is survived by her children – ages 12, 8, 6 and 4 – and her husband, who was not home at the time she was apprehended. They had married in 1993.
Her relative, whose location is also withheld for security reasons, said he had phoned her on Jan. 5 to try to make arrangements for moving her family out of the area. Al Shabaab extremists, who control large parts of Mogadishu, were able to monitor the conversation and confirm that she had become a Christian, he said.
He told Compass by phone that Mberwa feared that she and her family members’ lives were threatened.
“Asha had been receiving threatening messages” after al Shabaab monitored her previous communications with him, he said.
Her husband, Abdinazir Mohammed Hassan, fled to an unknown location. Mberwa’s relative said a “good Samaritan” in Mogadishu was caring for her four children. The traumatized children continue to weep and cry out for their mother, he said.
Al Shabaab insurgents control much of southern and central Somalia and have embarked on a campaign to rid the country of its hidden Christian population. With estimates of al Shabaab’s size ranging from 3,000 to 7,000, the insurgents seek to impose a strict version of sharia (Islamic law).
Al Shabaab was among several splinter groups that emerged after Ethiopian forces removed the Islamic Courts Union, a group of sharia courts, from power in Somalia in 2006. Said to have ties with al Qaeda, al Shabaab has been designated a terrorist organization by several western governments.
The transitional government in Mogadishu fighting to retain control of the country treats Christians little better than the al Shabaab insurgents do. While proclaiming himself a moderate, President Sheikh Sharif Sheik Ahmed has embraced a version of sharia that mandates the death penalty for those who leave Islam.
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Overview of the Arsenale in Venice. Photo by Andrea Avezzu.
The interior of the Austrian pavilion. Photo by Martin Mischkulnig.
A visitor inside the Swiss pavilion. Photo by Italo Rondinella.
Amateur Architecture Studio’s How to ‘Legalize’ Spontaneously-Built Illegal Structures in the City By Means of Design at the Central Pavilion.
The installation Tread Lightly, A Linear Festival Along the Transcaucasian Trail by Gumuchdjian Architects. Photo by Francesco Galli.
Installation view of the Cruising Pavilion. Photo by Louis De Belle.
Inside the German pavilion curated by Graft architects. Photo by Italo Rondinella.
FREE ROAMING: A Review of the 2018 Venice Biennale
By Jordan Hruska
In an interview leading up to the 16th edition of the Venice Architecture Biennale, the curators, Shelley McNamara and Yvonne Farrell, of Grafton Architects, admitted that the theme they devised, Freespace, was difficult to define. Space that’s free? Free of what? Free for whom? To help guide participants, they penned a manifesto as sprawling as the theme was nebulous, but touched on a couple of interpretations: the political, the environmental, the social, and the humanitarian, among others. Even if it reads as a bit cloying, its optimism is welcome during a time of global unease and represents an encouraging salvo for participants to explore the generosity implied by the word “free” and how the built environment can be shaped within this ethic. The serene installation of the Corderie section of the Arsenale embodied this liberality. Work was installed behind its colonnades, leaving room for circulation down the central walk of this former warehouse building offering the ability to both observe installations and regard the space at the same time. Charles Eames famously proclaimed that an open brief from a client is the worst kind of brief. Designers work better with constraints. Such a level of freedom for Biennale participants meant that, in a way, they wrote, and answered, their own brief. Reciprocity of this magnitude runs the risk of designers presenting work that only speaks to itself, and at times that was the case, but the most engaging Biennale installations and national pavilions displayed the process of discerning freespace’s contours — not just its endgame as a utopian ideal. Freespace, then, is a negotiation. If Venice is any evidence, the social conception of freespace is something that can be gained and lost. Sebastiano Ziani, a 12th century Doge of the Venetian republic, revolutionized the dogeship by encouraging more participation from citizens through the construction of an ancient forum-inspired platea, or square, in the area now known as San Marco square and an adjoining communal palace. By the 13th century, however, the palace was transformed by commercial interests who had taken control over the republic and who had little desire to hear the public’s wishes. It’s heartening, then, some 900 years later, to see that, on a global scale architects and designers can separately come to the table with common ideas of freespace. Several of them follow below.
FREE REIGN
Does freespace have borders? Germany’s pavilion installation, Unbuilding Walls (curated by Graft) looks at how the area formerly known as the “death strip,” between the two partitions that constituted the Berlin Wall, have been used since its fall after nearly 30 years. Descriptions of projects and cultural activations — from raves to bike paths — are presented in text and photographs on upright drywall slabs abstracted to look like remaining pieces of the wall, scattered throughout the pavilion. Together, they form what looks to be a black, formidable barrier when seen frontally from the entry to the pavilion. Architect Teddy Cruz delves into a similar investigation of liminal border space as one of the designers representing the United States pavilion. He exhibits a map of “MEXUS,” a hypothetical region along the U.S.-Mexico border redrawn to encompass the natural and economic networks that currently exist and are otherwise delimited by the less permeable border that currently exists between the two nations. His is one of eight installations that examined the Dimensions of Citizenship. Here, too, Keller Easterling together with MANY use iPhone displays to show a hypothetical narrative of migrants and unsettled populations connecting with people sharing resources and services in a networked digital platform that omits the role of the welfare state altogether. Over in the Corderie, Skälsö Arkitekter presents Bungenäs, a project located on an island of the same name in the Baltic Sea. Here, the architects were asked to design the island’s master plan incorporating its former military bunkers. They’ve dismantled and repurposed these concrete buildings into residences, commercial buildings, and public seating. At the Biennale, eight hulking concrete blocks from Bungenäs serve as plinths to exhibit the models and drawings of the island’s architecture — a further liberating transformation of a formerly oppressive material.
ROAM FREE
In contrast to the global turn towards urbanization, several installations and pavilions examine rural areas as freespace — sites of depopulation, architectural experimentation, and infrastructural development. China’s pavilion, Building a Future Countryside, included an inventory of new architectural works in its hinterlands. Photographic documentation of buildings: from residential and cultural to agricultural show an impressive range of development taking place in rural China, but one wonders if architecture could have an exploitative role considering the harmful environmental side effects of the country’s rapid urbanization. For Archipelago Italia, the Italian pavilion wipes the metropolitan areas from its map and focus on its countryside as an “archipelago” of eight regions, articulated in itineraries that highlight their new and vernacular architecture. Explanatory texts contextualize these buildings in each region’s religious, social, and industrial histories. A second room proposes five speculative projects for Italy’s countryside rendered in exquisite models on a giant, amoeba-like wood table whose piney fragrance evokes a forest. Suspiciously absent, however, is any mention of how NGOs in Italy are working to settle migrant populations in rural towns and how design could accommodate the needs of immigrant Italians. In the Corderie, Gumuchdjian Architects presents Tread Lightly, A Linear Festival Along the Transcaucasian Trail, a ten-year eco-tourism project that seeks to build a 750km trail in Armenia’s backlands to connect its towns and countryside using the help of volunteers and townspeople along the way. The extended 10-year timeline is purposeful: it allows for the patience and slowness to develop infrastructure sensitive to both human passersby without sacrificing or harming the freespace of the natural environment.
Sex is nowhere to be found in the freespace manifesto. In response, the four curators of Cruising Pavilion — Pierre-Alexandre Mateos, Rasmus Myrup, Octave Perrault, and Charles Teyssou — brought together 22 practitioners in a double-height industrial space in Giudecca to highlight architecture’s erotic potential. Cruising, or searching in public for sexual encounters, is one of the freest of spaces — at least when considering inhibition, but it’s a space contested by the rest of society, which means that those who cruise have to find creative ways to thrive secretly in public. The curators choose works that explore extant or speculative architecture intended for sexual encounter, document cruising’s history, and point to its digital turn. Works by the likes of Ian Wooldridge, Diller Scofidio + Renfro, Andreas Angelidakis, S H U I, Andrés Jaque, Monica Bonvincini, Pol Esteve & Marc Navarro, among others are installed in an environment reminiscent of the interiors of “dark room” club and bar spaces that accommodate cruising and public sex.
FREE YOUR BODY
Architecture, when experienced at varying scales, can produce different haptic responses, making one aware of the freedom and constraints of their body in space. The Central Pavilion’s installation produces and comments on the impact of this scalar range while also showing the interwoven influences of history on architecture. The “Close Encounters” section invites contemporary architects to reimagine historic works in large-scale installations scattered throughout the parlor. Carr Cotter & Naessens Architects’ interpretation of August Perret’s Salle Cortot (1929) theater is represented by a wood crate with an opening barely big enough for one’s head. Classical music trickles out and draws viewers to look into a model of the theater with a little wooden piano, its frame brandished with quotes from Perret including: “I will make you a room which will sing like a violin.” It forms a strange kinship with a much more outsize installation in the room next door. Amateur Architecture Studio’s How to ‘Legalize’ Spontaneously-Built Illegal Structures in the City By Means of Design takes over an entire room with a walk-through scaffold structure that exhibits photographic documentation of their work in Hangzhou to preserve and fortify vernacular “urban villages” in the face of the state’s efforts to demolish them and build soaring residential buildings. Here, both Perret by way of Carr Cotter & Naessens along with Amateur Architecture Studio both see potential for architecture to facilitate collective and cultural exchange when realized on a smaller scale.
Austria’s pavilion, Thoughts Form Matter invites viewers to climb a labyrinthine scaffold that snakes up and around the vaults of Josef Hoffman’s original 1934 building. Designed by Henke Schreieck, the installation bisects the building’s interior colonnade and allows visitors to confront architectural elements that they would otherwise not observe close up. A pleated paper curtain falls the ceiling to the floor, interrupting the scaffold’s climb and cleverly animates the cross-breeze moving through the pavilion’s giant doorways, making tangible more atmospheric conditions. Finally, in the Swiss pavilion, which also won the Golden Lion, Svizzera 240: House Tour (curated by Alessandro Bosshard, Li Tavor, Matthew van der Ploeg, and Ani Vihervaara) creates a sequence of rooms with generic surfaces and treatments that seem common to a middle class model home or apartment. The catch is that each room varies wildly in scale, but repeats the same elements from the room previous: only much bigger or smaller. Visitors have to duck through doorways in one room or reach above their head to maneuver a door handle in the other. Baseboard moldings are at times minuscule, other times, they rise midway up your calf, demonstrating that the spaces that one may think are free, are in fact highly controlled by standard design elements we take for granted.
Text by Jordan Hruska.
MADRID DESIGN FESTIVAL 2019: FROM SPANISH GRANDEES TO THE BLACK MARKET
By Andrew Ayers
BLOOM: A Machine Elf’s Guide to Desert Flora
By Carlos Sáez
ON FIRE: THE GRILL HOUSE ARCHITECTURE OF CROATIA
By David Huber
FROM DUBAI TO DUNE: SOME THOUGHTS ABOUT DESERTNESS
By Shumon Basar
THE PIN–UP QUOTE: ANNE HOLTROP
IMITATION OF LIVES: A PERFORMANCE BY ARTIST JIMMY ROBERT AT THE PHILIP JOHNSON GLASS HOUSE
BEIRUT DIARY: Three Days With The Architect Raed Abillama
DESIGN STORY: TELFAR LOUNGE
By Thomas Albdorf
A Holistic Winery at the Foot of the Andes in Chile
By Horacio Silva
THE PIN–UP QUOTE: RICK OWENS
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NEW POWER GENERATION: EZE IMADE ERIBO
By Paul Keskeys
An author of a book of poems and a former med-school candidate, 25-year-old Eze Imade Eribo has taken a circuitous path to the field of design. “My descent into architecture,” as she calls it, “was really about putting all the pieces together.” This is an apt description of the Nigerian-born designer’s process, which is about bringing her taste, innovation, and scientific research into the building practice. An alumnus of Cooper Union’s legendary Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture, Eribo made headlines in 2013 when the Architectural Review selected her thesis project as a runner-up in its Global Architecture Graduate Awards — a worldwide competition for which only five entrants make the shortlist each year. Reconstructing the Banal, as she titled it, was a proposal for a floating fish-smoking facility among the mangroves of Bakassi, a long-disputed peninsula on the border between Cameroon and Nigeria. Since Nigeria transferred sovereignty to Cameroon in 2008, the Bakassi people have been the victims of a violent displacement campaign, and thousands have fled. Eribo’s project was intended to serve the local fishing economy, but not only. “How do you address the politics of a situation when you’re not allowed to speak about it?” says Eribo. The answer she found was to sneak a recording and broadcast system into the smokehouse, to allow the local community to air stories of government persecution under the guise of documenting folktales. “In Africa you can’t directly talk about politics,” says Eribo, “but through art, it is forgiveable.”
While Eribo is currently pursuing a graduate degree in business design (following a masters in fashion design at the Domus Academy in Milan), her ultimate goal is to be an independent multidisciplinary architect and designer. “There’s just no other way than to eventually start a design firm,” she says. When she finally does, her work will surely continue to draw from her varied experiences abroad, in Italy and the U.S. “Living in all these different places has afforded me the opportunity to exist and operate within different mindsets, frameworks, and stereotypically-projected opinions,” she observes. But for all the diversity of her experiences, it is her formative years in Nigeria that Eribo credits with providing her with a nuanced lens. She describes her home country’s “myriad expressions of art, tradition, and religion” as hanging in a delicate balance, within “a place that defines itself as a guardian of antiquity but that also has to participate in new and often conflicting technological and social dialogues.” The same could be said of Eribo herself. Whether it’s through a network of smokehouse/broadcasting studios in Bakassi, which she insists she can find the resources to build, or her more recent studies in the complicity of designers in the transatlantic slave trade, Eribo’s open-minded, multidisciplinary approach seems to benefit more and more from her cultural roots the farther away her passions take her.
Text by Paul Keskeys. Photography by Rachel Chandler. Photographed at USM New York shoowroom.
The New Power Generation Portfolio Special is a collaboration between PIN–UP and Architizer, the leading online resource for architecture, which is empowering the profession through its vast building database, daily content, Source marketplace and the global awards program for today’s best architects, the A+Awards.
Taken from PIN–UP No. 21, Fall Winter 2016/17.
THE PIN–UP QUOTE: NATHALIE DU PASQUIER
LIVING LANDSCAPES: A SECTIONAL SOFA DESIGN STORY
By Carlo Hunbrach and Prashast Thapan
PILE UP: The Fantastic World of Misha Kahn
GREEK RUINS: Proud Olympic Vestiges From a Pre-crash Era
By Christopher Turner
INTERVIEW: “Daddy” Playwright Jeremy O. Harris On Beauty, Pools, and Trauma
REPARATION HARDWARE: ILANA HARRIS-BABOU’S TAKE ON THE AMERICAN DREAM
A NIGHT OF NORWAY WITH NILS BECH AND BJARNE MELGAARD
EXHIBITION REVIEW: 44 Low Resolution Houses
By Michaela Friedberg and Carly Richman
The Fine Print of Ikko Tanake and Issey Miyake
By Jeremy Lewis
PIN–UP MUSICAL INTERLUDE: BRASIL ESPECIAL MIXXX
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Photography by Antwan Duncan for PIN–UP.
Frank Lloyd Wright, 606 Barrell Armchair (1937/1986). Available through Cassina.
Image © NASA.
Nanu Al-Hamad (Al-Hamad Design), Enabler (Structure-Activity Relationships) (2015). Photo: Bek Andersen.
© Rafael de Cárdenas / Architecture at Large.
Atelier Biagetti, Tornello (2017).
June 14 Meyer-Grobruegge and Chermayeff, Triangular bed (2014). Photographed by Luca Girardini.
EIGHT CREATIVES TALK ABOUT THE PARADOX OF COMFORT
According to the 1995 article The Paradox of Comfort in the journal Nursing Research, “comfort is not an ultimate state of peace and serenity, but rather the relief, even temporary relief, from the most demanding discomfort.” Rather than providing comfort, medicine’s stated goal is the minimization of discomfort. In that sense comfort is the state we attempt to arrive at by living with a body — even one that is in some way disabled — without being dominated by it. This opposition is part of the paradox of comfort: we seemingly can’t define comfort except by what it is not. So often architecture and design are required to produce (or to fail to produce) comfort, whether it’s the overstuffed upholstery or mattresses that promise perfect relaxation, or the “hostile architecture” created to be intentionally uncomfortable (think anti-homeless spikes). For PIN–UP, eight architects, artists, curators, and designers offer their personal vision of what to them embodies the comfort paradox. From genre-defying household objects to devices that create both physical anxiety and relief, each one pushes us well outside of our “comfort zone.”
SAM CHERMAYEFF
Architect and cofounder of June14 Meyer-Grohbrügge & Chermayeff, Berlin, Germany
June 14Meyer-Grobruegge and Chermayeff, Triangular bed, 2014. Photographed by Luca Girardini.
Comfort can be about possibilities, paths of escape, and freedom. Comfort can grow from clarity, support, and the familiar. Our triangular bed from the series For the Nuclear Family and Its Opposite Together (2014) concerns itself with the coziness and the unknown at once. A giant soft triangle lets you lie in a lot of different ways. The shortest side is really very long. Nearly independent activities can happen all at once here but it remains one space. Most rooms are rectangular. With the triangle a room becomes four spaces: the bed itself, and the other three, one per side. A rectangular bed, by contrast, makes just one space. It is all bedroom. Comfort on and around the triangle becomes very specific when other programs emerge. Each person does something different on each side. There is usually a place for a desk somewhere, a place for a wardrobe, a place for a chair, and so on. The key to being comfortable is being flexible of course. You make peace with the fact that on the very same spot you might have an orgy one day or simply cuddle up with a few of your kids the next.
NICHOLAS GARDNER AND SASA STUCIN
Designers and founders of Soft Baroque, London, United Kingdom.
If we analyzed comfort in a direct way, we could use the formula: comfort is proportional to the amount we can distribute our mass over a surface area. Think of an animated diagram in a mattress advertisement, a cross-section displaying an androgynous computer-generated figure with butt, spine, and foot support pulsing with soft red and blue gradients — ‘complete support.’ Beanbags, hammocks, La-Z-boys, floating sensory deprivation pods, and ball pits are geared towards minimizing the earth’s gravitational effect on our bodies. In the same way a walrus has evolved to have a layer of blubber for the cold, common furniture has been designed for maximum comfort. People cherish fully upholstered sofas in a desperate attempt to never be in contact with anything that has a shore hardness greater than skin. If gravity is the only thing getting in the way of true comfort, then in a low-gravity environment, such as the International Space Station or the moon, what criteria are we left with to judge comfort? In the emptiness of space, the most comfortable place humans have ever experienced, there is a sense of unease. In the words of Mike Fossum, a former Space Station astronaut: ‘I will get the sleeping bag all zipped up and the bungee holds a little bit of force, holding me up against the wall. It makes me feel a little bit like I’m back home, in bed.’ It’s a paradox: part of us wants to escape the pain of gravity, and yet we can’t find comfort without it. We’ve all seen images of astronauts shakily climbing out of a shuttle after re-entry, acclimatizing to weightiness — like coming down from a high, too much of a good thing. If common sofa design, in response to the problem of gravity, results in fat folds of leather-upholstered memory foam with down throw cushions, what will we have to construct to be comfortable when we eventually populate zero-gravity environments? Maybe a series of harnesses and tethers that try to inject an evolutionary need to feel the earthly pull? A bed that spins at a critical number of revolutions per minute to create centrifugal force, Gravitron style? Or will it be stylistically referential to earth conditions, a sort of gravity nostalgia? We can’t wait to find out.
Artist, Brooklyn, USA
I was born in Ibadan, Nigeria, to an American mother and a Nigerian father, and settled in the U.S. for good when I was six. From then until I attended college, my life was marked by constant moving and perpetually adapting to new places. As a result, much of my work responds to either the anxiety or potential of certain spaces, and how one navigates, maps, and perceives them. The speculative architecture I create reinforces this notion, and is often wrought with a synthesis of utopian or dystopian ideals that employ ‘failure’ as a conceptual catalyst. When considering the socio-economic conditions and/or geo-political issues my artwork frequently responds to, I’m reminded of a quote from Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale: ‘“Better” never means better for everyone... It always means worse for some.’ As an example, one need look no further than our current neo-McCarthy-like government which has far exceeded its predecessors in its disregard for the civil liberties of marginalized communities, the blurring of lines between public and private, or the increasingly abiding faith in technology which enables the perception of its sophistication to confer validity, invoking a near ubiquitous trend towards total surveillance. The ‘failure’ on the part of numerous urban development practices to adequately consider the needs or even the existence of disenfranchised communities, instead reproducing the repressive aspects of economic deprivation and political marginalization, is in many instances an intentional by-product of a self-replicating and aggressively capitalist system that serves precisely who it was intended to.
MARIA CRISTINA DIDERO
Design writer and curator, Milan, Italy
Atelier Biagetti, Tornello table, 2017.
A table formed of a turnstile in chrome-plated steel, finished with brass-coated edges, and topped with an oval-shaped piece of ultra-white glass: if the structure is reminiscent of a supermarket, waiting in a line might have never been so luxurious. The object, called Tornello (turnstile in Italian), is part of a body of work by the Milan-based design studio Atelier Biagetti, headed by Laura Baldassari and Alberto Biagetti. It is also part of GOD, the third episode in a trilogy that I had the pleasure (and fun) to curate over the past three years with Laura and Alberto. Together we analyzed a number of contemporary society’s greatest obsessions via immersive, experiential design projects comprising furniture and performances. Atelier Biagetti’s approach is unique, and so are the objects originated by their practice. After BODY BUILDING (2015), which looked at the obsession of fake beauty in our era and NO SEX (2016), which teased the idea of being addicted (or not interested at all) in fornication, GOD tackles contemporary society’s real deity: money. While the name evokes religion, icons, and values of morality, its true declared meaning was legible through the environment created by Atelier Biagetti as a place where the rites and rituals associated with money were carried out through objects in a very playful though respectful way. The Tornello table — in keeping with the exploration of the sensibility of human beings towards money, wealth, competition, market rules, and social climbing — boldly expresses the dichotomy between the comfort of a well-designed object and the discomfort of its conceptual critique. As the authors say, Tornello ‘investigates how the idea of money can reverse any process, making the uncomfortable comfortable and vice versa.’ But philosophy and speculation aside, if you really want to have a seat at this table, you should be comfortable enough to shell out 20,000 euros.
MIMI ZEIGER
Architecture writer and curator, Los Angeles, USA
Frank Lloyd Wright, 606 Barrell Armchair 1937/1986. Available through Cassina.
As busy, busy people who move through the world and occasionally need to sit still, we have a tacit understanding that furniture should be, if not comfortable, at least neutral — ready to accept the buttocks of any size, gender, race, or orientation. Beautiful designs tempt us into repose. However the conceit of universal design is upset when we are forced to recognize that not all bodies fit in or are supported by the most elemental of objects. So when, earlier this year, Hunger and Bad Feminist author Roxane Gay was fat-shamed for requesting a chair sturdy enough to support her frame and outcry ensued against this affront on body acceptance, I was also shocked by how a simple function — sitting — could be weaponized against bodies. It’s with Gay’s incident in mind that I approached maneuvering my wide hips into the dimensions of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Barrel chair. Low ceilings are generally cited for the architect’s famous disregard for bodies other than his own, his sense of scale being modeled on his (alleged) 5-foot-8-and-1/4-inch height. Designed in 1907 as part of the custom furniture of his Gesamtkunstwerk, Darwin Martin House in Buffalo, the Barrel chair is one of his most popular designs, often replicated in its nearly circular geometries. Settled into a reproduction of its oak corseting and obliged thereby to adopt a morally good posture, I imagine other people, other soft bits, shifting uncomfortably against the constraints of universality, yet comforted by the allure of an icon.
GABRIEL HENDIFAR
Designer and cofounder of Apparatus Studio, New York City, USA.
Khatam Box photographed by Antwan Duncan for PIN–UP.
I am on a plane as I write this, which feels fitting because I’ve recently begun to understand that I exist in a liminal state. I’m a first-generation American, born in Los Angeles to parents who fled Iran in 1979 on the eve of the Islamic Revolution. My warmest memories of childhood are centered around large family gatherings. My grandmother would peel platters of fruit to be passed among guests and my mother would be coaxed to the piano to sing songs from a place I had never been. Everyone would join in the chorus, with distant gazes, in a form of collective mourning for somewhere that no longer existed. As a young child I was very close to my grandmother, Shazdeh, who lived next door in our duplex. She would take me on walks around the neighborhood and tell me stories of this faraway place — about her beloved brother who was creative like me, and who died in Iran before I was born (was he also gay?); about summers in the country; and about her childhood in Shiraz. As I grew up, I assimilated. I distanced myself from a heritage that I only knew through food, music, and stories. I felt that it wasn’t mine, and that I needed to shed its weight to form my own identity. I visited family less, finding myself uncomfortable speaking Farsi unless I had to. Yet I would never really feel American either. When my grandmother died, my mother asked if there was anything of hers I wanted. I took a long leopard-print cardigan and a housedress that I remember as her uniform. I also took a box that she had brought with her from Iran, covered in an intricate style of marquetry called khatam that was made popular in her birthplace of Shiraz. It was tucked away high in her closet, well worn and almost falling apart. The box has been sitting on a shelf in my office for the past couple of years — a room that expresses a modern, cosmopolitan idea of taste that formed almost in opposition to the ornate and cobbled-together rooms of my upbringing. Recently, I’ve found myself fixated on this box, as though it can reconnect me with the warmth of childhood memories and reconcile my discomfort with a binary sense of self. Coincidentally, the box is locked and does not have a key.
NANU AL-HAMAD
Designer and co-founder of the art collective GCC, Brooklyn and Kuwait, USA.
Nanu Al-Hamad of Al-Hamad Design, Enabler (Structure-Activity Relationships), 2015. Photo: Bek Andersen.
The paradox of comfort hides in the fact that we must define comfort while prioritizing it. Comfort is unstable, varying between each individual nervous system. A gentleman once said, ‘As a furniture designer, I rarely sit; discomfort is terribly motivating.’ It was his method to inspire desire, it made him care. He imagined throwing a chef onto a desert island for days just to see the next meal he would prepare. These daydreams steam out of discomfort. However, he had continued this practice for so long, he lost his sense for what ‘comfort’ was. Comfort became being uncomfortable. His furniture designs began to place users into a position of their very own disliking, and to hope (ceremoniously) that they would eventually permit themselves to find comfort within it. We make things to help people, but never allow people to help things. Carrying a bioluminescent sea crab with great care in an attempt to save its life, fixing a flat tire in a snowstorm, washing your father’s deceased body, and building his tomb with your own young hands. How terribly distressing these actions are, but then relief sets in. Comfort is the greatest disappointment that has ever existed. It doesn’t enable perspective. Anguish forces your way into awareness. One day, this gentleman saw a little girl in a wheelchair. The girl looked up at the Enabler. She transferred herself onto it. Slowly pulling the hydraulic shaft, she lifted herself up higher and higher, perspiring. Then she began to swing. Truly all on her own. This journey was a course of pain, but it ended up in swinging bliss. The girl thought to herself, ‘Even though comfort is a reality, its effects are temporary.’ Alleviation is very much about enjoying a situation’s malaise. This gentleman suggests we support our efforts in attaining discomfort.
RAFAEL DE CÁRDENAS
Designer and founder of Architecture at Large, New York City, USA
A good slide, particularly a good waterslide, is a kaleidoscope of comfort and discomfort. It cradles you, cools you off, and makes the force of gravity viscerally felt. It drags you, twisting and turning, through an eye of falling water, into the open-ended luxuriance of the pool. It offers an endlessly repeatable cycle of full-bodied suspense and full-bodied tranquility. Water, air, you, tumble over each other, collide and mix. Rinse, repeat. This design prolongs that cycle by breaking down the slide-pool binary somewhat, in order to heighten the ambiguous states of (dis)comfort that a good slide offers. A labyrinthine, cascading structure, in which slides and pools alternate as isolated and isolating spaces, draws out the typical state of bodily suspense and renders it atmospheric. Rather than a confined space leading into a relatively unrestricted one, here the only truly unrestricted space sits at the apex, with all the suspense of the descent lying before you. And the slide itself becomes open-ended by being unraveled into a multiplicity, with double openings at each level. Ordinarily, the variables of using a waterslide are limited to time spent on the slide versus time spent in the pool. But the variables here are numerous, and the way someone might engage with this structure is deliberately ambiguous. Uncertainty can be terrifying.
Introduction by Drew Zeiba.
TRACES, ECHOES, SKINS: Heidi Bucher’s Meditations On Memory
Bolivian architect Freddy Mamani interpreted by Peruvian Artist Jonathan Castro
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By Jonathan Buckley
PEZO VON ELLRICHSHAUSEN BRING THEIR LYRICISM BEYOND CHILE
By Javier Agustín Rojas
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Exaro editor adds to Met criticism of 'brazenly biased' BBC documentary on VIP paedophile investigation
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Exaro editor Mark Watts has suggested the BBC’s Panorama programme on the Metropolitan Police’s VIP paedophile investigation was in “contravention” of guidance issued by the Attorney General’s Office.
The programme, broadcast on Tuesday night, also drew criticism from the Met Police, which said it had “serious concerns about the impact of this programme on its investigation into allegations of child sexual abuse and homicide, on the witnesses involved, and on the willingness of victims of abuse to come forward to police”.
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The documentary interviewed an individual named as David who said that campaigners may have led him into making false sex abuse claims.
He told the programme he had provided VIP names – including that of ex-Home Secretary Leon Brittan – “as a joke suggestion to start with”.
Appearing on BBC Radio 4’s Media Show yesterday, Watts suggested the documentary was guilty of “pre-judging” the outcome of the Met’s Operation Midland.
He said this was in "contravention" of a warning issued by the Attorney General’s Office last month.
Watts also suggested this kind of “attack” could lead to victims in future being “deterred from coming forward”.
Investigative journalism website Exaro has reported extensively on the VIP paedophile claims at the centre of the Met's Operation Midland.
Watts told the Media Show: “I have several concerns. First of all, it was a brazenly biased programme in my view and one that set out with a pre-determined agenda. But that was the least of its crimes, which I’ll put in inverted commas.”
Watts said: “Questioning what the police are doing and questioning what the media’s doing is fair enough. That is legitimate and within the bounds I would say of what [Attorney General] Robert Buckland warned the media about.
“What is not in the bounds of what he warned about was to say or suggest or imply that a key witness at the base of a police investigation is talking nonsense.”
Watts declined to be interviewed for the Panorama programme. He said this was because “it was clear to me that they had a pre-determined view of the subject”.
In a blog, Watts revealed that another part of his reasoning was "the BBC has no credibility on the subject of VIP paedophiles given that the two well-established cases of VIP paedophiles are both BBC VIPs [Jimmy Savile and Stuart Hall]".
Media Show host Steve Hewlett suggested to Watts that Panorama was independent of the BBC and pointed to the fact that it broadcast an investigation into the BBC’s own handling of the Savile scandal.
Watts said: “Yes it did, Steve. And where did the editor end up?”
Earlier this year, former Newsnight producer Meirion Jones, whose investigation into Jimmy Savile was spiked by the BBC, told Press Gazette: “Everyone involved on the right side of the Savile argument has been forced out of the BBC.” Jones was referring to the fact that he, presenter Liz Mackean, Panorama editor Tom Giles and former BBC director of global news Peter Horrocks (who was in overall charge of Panorama at the time) have all now left the corporation.
Jones was also critical of the Panorama documentary on Operation Midland, tweeting: “This is absurd – categorically a very young boy was repeatedly abused by paedophiles at EGH [Elm Guest House].”
He added: “Ceri Thomas @BBCPanorama criticises big instititutions "determined to atone for sins of past" certainly wouldn't accuse BBC of that #Savile.”
Mackean commented: “Far more energy expended getting this prog aired than on preventing original #savile investigation.”
Yesterday Panorama editor Ceri Thomas said: "We were enormously concerned throughout not to do anything that would deter victims from coming forward.
"But we think we have to be able to scrutinise how the police go about big investigations like this and there really isn't a way to do that without looking at the way that police have treated statements from victims and treated the evidence they've brought forward."
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“PEACE POINT” Sand Art Park testimony of World Peace on Puri beach
On the eve of Christmas & new year, International Sand Artist Manas Kumar Sahoo’s new project Sand Art Park “PEACE POINT” is a testimony of World Peace, on Puri beach in front of Light House, Baliapanda, Puri and 60 km from Bhubaneswar in Odisha, a state of the eastern part of India. Although this sand art, like any other form of sand art, has a short span of life, it casts an everlasting impression in the hearts viewers. The sand art park has made the sculptures all by himself without any assistance. Each sculpture is about 20 to 30 feet height and artwork doubtlessly is of international standard.The magnificent, beautiful and attractive sculptures with the lively touch of hand of the renowned artist, perfectly indicates that all the world propagates for peace. Determined to do something new and challenging, Mr Manas Kumar Sahoo has worked really hard on this project and in spite of all hindrances he has been able to turn his new ideas into reality. The new designs, the artist hopes will relish the art lovers’ thirst to find newness in the art and those who have seen his performance in IGT khoz II will return home feeling convinced that the artist has a lot more to offer.
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Love Stories The National Quilt Museum 215 Jefferson Street, Paducah, Kentucky
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This exhibit is curated by Qin Zhang. Jiaxie was an incised wooden block textile dyeing technique that was in vogue in Tang Dynasty (618 AD-907 AD) in ancient China. It was
This exhibit is curated by Qin Zhang.
Jiaxie was an incised wooden block textile dyeing technique that was in vogue in Tang Dynasty (618 AD-907 AD) in ancient China. It was widely used throughout East Asia in antiquity. Specimens of early Jiaxie can only be found in few well-known museums, such as the British Museum in UK and Shosoin in Japan, as their treasure textile collections.
In the 19th century, the color of Jiaxie in China remained only blue and the material evolved from silk to cotton. As a result, Jiaxie had become Lanjiaxie (Blue Jiaxie) and from luxury goods for royal family to ordinary people’s commodity. In Southeastern China, however, Lanjiaxie became a special quilt cover for marriage, which played an important role in local people’s life. A set of special etiquette, production process and use customs were designed and the patterns or images on quilt covers were usually from the Chinese ancient dramas of romance, such as hero and beauty, gifted scholars and nice ladies, indicating people’s wish and desire for love and better life even in the old days when there was no freedom for love or marriage.
April 5 (Friday) - July 23 (Tuesday)
Tula Pink: Personally Tula The National Quilt Museum 215 Jefferson Street, Paducah, Kentucky
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Tula Pink is an illustrator, fabric designer, quilter, and author. She explores new ideas and techniques in this collection of creative, unique, and original quilts. Tula's main function in life is
Tula Pink is an illustrator, fabric designer, quilter, and author. She explores new ideas and techniques in this collection of creative, unique, and original quilts.
Tula’s main function in life is fabric design. Her signature designs have been adapted to fabrics, woven ribbons, paper products, needlepoint kits, embroidery patterns and sewing machines and can be found in independent fabric shops and retailers all over the world. Tula is most recognized in her industries for her dark sense of humor, a flair for hiding animals in the strangest of places (artistically, not literally) and her boldly unique use of color and pattern. Tula comes from the “more is more” school of design where there is never enough space and always room for that one last thing.
Today Tula Pink works closely with the good people at Free Spirit Fabrics to develop multiple fabric collections every year, is an Ambassador for BERNINA sewing machines, develops collections for Aurifil Threads and Renaissance Ribbons and writes books for F+W Media about quilting and sewing. She works all day everyday and gets very cranky when she is asked to leave the studio or if Tula Pink is her real name.
June 21 (Friday) - September 17 (Tuesday)
Freehand Patchwork by Danny Amazonas The National Quilt Museum 215 Jefferson Street, Paducah, Kentucky
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Danny is internationally recognized for his unique artistry and amazing use of color. His eye-catching artwork incorporates thousands of pieces of fabric.
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Cascade Curve Braid The National Quilt Museum Classroom 215 Jefferson Street, Paducah, Kentucky
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Enjoy the curves! – with this eye-popping curved braid pattern. From Victoria's newest book, "Modern Quilt Magic", this class will focus on curved piecing, cutting and pinning for success. Use
Enjoy the curves! – with this eye-popping curved braid pattern. From Victoria’s newest book, “Modern Quilt Magic”, this class will focus on curved piecing, cutting and pinning for success. Use solids, prints and lights to make a dazzling quilt with interwoven movement and simple, graphic style… or just go Scrap-crazy and use all those great prints in your stash!
July 19 (Friday) - 20 (Saturday) CST
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01aug12:00 pm12:00 pmBOTM New Pattern ReleaseBlock of the Month Club
The National Quilt Museum's Block of the Month program invites quilters from all walks of life to connect and engage while creating their own 12 block sampler modeled after some
The National Quilt Museum’s Block of the Month program invites quilters from all walks of life to connect and engage while creating their own 12 block sampler modeled after some of the finest and most high profile fiber artistry in the world. Each month, participants will gain access to an exclusive pattern that represents an exhibit currently on display at The National Quilt Museum, challenging quilters of all levels to experiment with new techniques and expand their horizons as a modern quilter.
On the first of each month from April 2018 to March 2019, a new block pattern will be released on Facebook and the museum’s website.
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Volunteer Meeting The National Quilt Museum Classroom 215 Jefferson Street, Paducah, Kentucky
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Meeting for current volunteers and those interested in helping at the museum.
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Junior Quilters The National Quilt Museum Classroom 215 Jefferson Street, Paducah, Kentucky
06aug2:30 pm4:30 pmJunior QuiltersYouth Education
The Museum is delighted with the success of our Junior Quilters & Textile Artists Club (JQTA), which normally meets on the first Tuesday of the month from 2:30 - 4:30
The Museum is delighted with the success of our Junior Quilters & Textile Artists Club (JQTA), which normally meets on the first Tuesday of the month from 2:30 – 4:30 p.m. These young ladies and gentlemen are exceeding our expectations and fulfilling their own goals of becoming great quilters and textile artists.
Young aspiring quilters and textile artists are invited to join.
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OE Global Keynote – Free-Range Learning in the Digital Age: the Role of Open Resources in Defining What the Future Holds (4/26/18)
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Center Claims 38 Studios Political Whitewash as Outrageous; Renews Call for Independent Investigation
July 29, 2016 /0 Comments/in Recent Posts, Transparency /by RI Center for Freedom
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: July 29, 2016
Center Demands Release of Names. Lack of Criminal Accountability Should Not Mean Lack of Political Accountability for “officials who knew”.
Providence, RI — The RI Center for Freedom & Prosperity decried the unwillingness of the Rhode Island State Police and the Office of Attorney General to release the names of those “officials who knew” ahead of time that the money designated by the General Assembly was earmarked for the fateful 38 Studios scheme.
The Center renews the call it and other good government groups made last year for the Governor to conduct an independent investigation.
The Center for years has maintained that the true accountability for the 38 Studios scandal was likely to be more of a political nature than of a criminal nature. The political cover-up seen today should not be accepted because there were no criminal charges.
While the Center trusts the judgment of the State Police and the AG not to recommend or file criminal charges, it is “outrageous that they would participate in a political whitewash by not releasing the names of those officials,” argued Mike Stenhouse, CEO for the Center. “The larger lesson of this debacle, which our Center has also consistently maintained, is that insider corporate welfare deals such as 38 Studios -deals perpetuated even more vigorously on a smaller level by the current administration – are not a legitimate approach to economic development. It is now time for the Governor to make good on her promise to initiate an independent investigation – a political investigation.”
The Center also questions whether all 38 Studios investigations and questioning occurred via the secret grand jury deliberations; whether or not any other information was independently obtained; whether the grand jury was part of the original plan to give legal cover to unethically involved politicians; and whether the technicality of keeping the case open is just a furtherance of that legal cover.
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Resources, news and events from the world of robotics.
This tournament season, Rolling Robots sent 11 teams to the 2019 Vex Robotics California State Championship. Our amazing teams knocked it out of the ballpark again, taking home 3 awards, including the highest honor given, the Excellence Award, qualifying them for the World Championship!
Our new T-shirt designed for the State Championship.
Team 7700A from Glendale takes home the Build Award
Team 7700A had a great showing in the qualification rounds and ending up ranked 5th with a 4-2-1 record. They made it all the way to the Semi-Finals before being eliminated. This was not the end for them, however, as they won the Build Award for having a robot with exceptional build quality.
Team 7700A wins the Build Award at the 2019 California State Championship.
Team 7700E wins the Judges Award
Team 7700E showed up with high hopes after completing the last regular season tournament undefeated. Unfortunately, they were eliminated prematurely in the qualification rounds. Feeling somewhat discouraged, the team got on the road back to Los Angeles but received some surprise good news on the way home: they had won the Judges Award as the favorite team of the technical judges! So they didn't go home empty handed after all and everybody's mood was instantly improved.
All-in-all our trip to Bakersfield was a success. We came home with each team winning a State Championship Award.
The following day we were in Los Angeles for the continuation of the State Championships. At this event we had the 7700Y team competing at the VRC level and the Elementary teams 7700J, 7700P, and 7700V, competing on the VEX IQ side.
7700Y Wins the Highest Award
Our 7700Y team had been working hard all year with the goal of getting to the world championship by winning the Excellence Award at State. The Excellence Award is extremely prestigious and is described by the REC Foundation as follows:
The "Excellence" award is given to the overall top team. It is the highest honor given out in the VEX Robotics Competition. The recipient of this award is a team that exemplifies overall excellence in creating a high quality VEX robotics program. This team excels in many areas and is a shining example of dedication, devotion, hard work, and teamwork. As a strong contender in numerous award categories, this team deserves to be recognized for building a quality robotics program and a "team" committed to quality in everything that they do.
We are extremely proud of Team 7700Y and all our other teams for their stunning accomplishments. We consider them to be shining examples of what every team should aspire to be and we wish them continued success at the upcoming VEX World Championship. Stay tuned for more news from Rolling Robots in the near future as our teams make preparations for the challenges ahead.
A year of hard work pays off! Team 7700Y wins the Excellence Award
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Debunker’s Delight: Ghostly Goings-on
Since I’ve mentally checked out the last few weeks, I thought I would do a post about more paranormal, weird stuff, and what better source to access that than good ol’ YouTube?
I’ve been a fan of paranormal investigative shows and re-enactments for a long time, due to the fact that I’ve been surrounded by believers all my life. Ghost stories from the old country, a family member who refuses to buy antiques, especially those made out of wood since natural materials are known to hold energy, and inklings that my childhood home had a tiny bit of activity has left me with a somewhat accepted view of the supernatural. While I’m not 100% sold, I’m certainly not putting myself in a position to deliberately and knowingly visit a haunted place. So I leave that to all the eager paranormal teams ready to put themselves in smelly, dank buildings in search of chatty ghosts. Most of the time I watch for the hopes of seeing a real ghost from the safety of my sofa, but often I just roll my eyes at the histrionics. There have been a few things, however, I can’t quite explain that have been captured on film. The most recent comes from a new addition to the paranormal TV lineup, but I’ll get to that in a moment.
A lot of the shows are a lesson in frustration. From shrieking paranormal team members (see the long-running Most Haunted for some scares and giggles when host Yvette Fielding clutches her makeup artist and screams bloody murder when something, anything, happens), to shaky, grainy camera work, to pitch black shots that are impossible to decipher what’s going on. I know these researchers put themselves in scary and sometimes dangerous positions, but the antics can make it less believable and more fodder for scoffing.
Some are better (or just more entertaining) than others, like Ghost Adventures. Led by Zak Bagans, this team of “ghost bros” travel the U.S. in the hopes of finding haunted activity in some of the most notorious locations. Aaron Goodwin, the team’s resident “Shaggy”, is often targeted by spirits, eliciting a “Duuuude!” and a “Whooooa!” when those spectres whisper his name. Nick Groff, who left the show in 2015, directed many episodes and was often the one that felt the physical effects of ghostly activity.
Groff now stars in his own paranormal sleuthing spectacular called Paranormal Lockdown, where he and Katrina Weidman (formerly of the TV show Paranormal State) stay locked in an allegedly haunted location to witness those on the other side. It’s here I saw something pretty hair-raising that I think will stump the staunchest skeptic. But before I get to the evidence, here are some YouTube videos of alleged paranormal activity caught on-you guessed it-blurry, shaky video! (add grains of salt here).
The U.K seems to corner the market with ghosts, so this fella who narrates for the U.K. site Top 5s not only has a nice accent, but has some cool historical info, and a piece on the Ghost Adventure dudes.
More “ghosts”…
…and this mysterious creatures video is interesting and hilarious at the same time, so it’s worth the 35 minutes. I believe in #20 because I worked for a cross between a pterodactyl and Skeletor, so that ‘ish is real. Also, #13, #12, #9, #8 (It’s a bear… or Black Phillip), #5 and #3 are just ridiculous.
I like this dude’s accent too. Also, the ghosts…
And here’s another video from Top 5s:
Now for the pièce de resistance. The full episode of Paranormal Lockdown that gave me the willies. It’s the usual fare for most of the show, but I encourage you to watch the first bit for some interesting and disturbing history about this asylum. If the suspense is killing you, head straight to the 36 minute mark to see the weirdness.
And here’s a bit of speculation about the actual sighting. This dude actually gives you a good view of what they saw at the asylum, and he’s pretty stumped too! What do you think?
Tagged: Aaron Goodwin, aliens, Black Phillip, creatures, cryptid, debunking, Ghost Adventures, ghosts, Katrina Weidman, Most Haunted, Nick Groff, paranormal activity, Paranormal Lockdown, paranormal sightings, Paranormal State, pterodactyl, spirits, The Greys, Trans Allegheny Lunatic Asylum, UFO, unexplained, unexplained sightings, YouTube, Yvette Fielding, Zak Bagans
Face Off Season 9 Episode 13-The Finale Part 1
The finale finally arrived, and after some encouraging words from their loved ones, the three remaining artists got ready to do their best work yet in order to win the competition.
When they got to the lab, they were met by McKenzie and the Face Off TV crew. It was a clue for their next challenge, which would have them work with a director and crew to create three short films on location. This was the challenge I was waiting for! the three finalists were excited, and even more so when they found out who the director would be-none other than Face Off royalty, director and special effects makeup artist Patrick Tatopoulos, my other TV crush. The artists would pick from three scripts: The Prey, Resurrection, and Quarantine Zone, and would have to create two drastically different characters. Patrick would have cast, storyboards, and instructions for the different colours and textures of each film. The artists would also get a film test before shooting, so Patrick could see what needed to be tweaked with the makeups, giving the contestants a chance to have a camera-ready look. Like every finale challenge, they would have the help of former contestants.
Evan picked Stevie and Kevon. They would work on the Quarantine Zone script. His characters were infected with a virus. The female wanderer character was to have a subtle makeup revealed slowly, and the male was to have a more advanced stage of infection. Evan wanted to create an exoskeleton for the male character, but he realized the looks weren’t cohesive, so his team started over. After worrying about a deep crack in his cowl which ended up being fine, he didn’t like what he had to offer. When they went for the screen test, Patrick pointed out the colour of the female was too dark and she looked too healthy. The male character needed some flesh toned paint and a more human appearance. He also disliked a snuggle tooth and wanted some hair on the male infected. Evan had some work to do but was glad he had a second chance.
Ben picked Resurrection. He had Jordan and Scott on his team. The story for his film was an alien priest who resurrects an ancient creature. The contrast between the characters would be a sleek priest and Neanderthal version of him as the creature. A fire would be the light source, so Ben wanted the priest to have a glowing look. Scott would sculpt the creature and Ben took on the priest. Jordan created a scarab that would tie the two characters together. Ben was exhausted and ran out of time so they had to do a full paint job in last looks. Patrick wanted the creature’s eyes lightened, and his back painted properly. He also wanted something more for the priest’s mouth.
Nora worked on The Prey script, with Meg and Jasmine on her team. She created a human prey and a big, organic tree-like hunter. She had moments of doubt once again, but Meg supported her and they carried on. The prey character was a full body paint job, and the hunter ended up being too red, so they had to fix the paint job. On screen, she was told to bump up the hunter’s moss and green tones, and Patrick liked the prey. She only had minor adjustments to make.
After the screen tests, McKenzie revealed yet another twist for the finale challenge. During a major production, there is always a chance for the script to change. In their case, there would be a third character added, so once again, we are left with a cliff hanger as the last part of the finale gets under way next week!
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Tagged: alien priest, cliff hanger, creatures, Face Off, Face Off Season 9, finale, hunter and prey, infected, location film set, Patrick Tatopoulos, Quarantine Zone, Resurrection, screen tests, season finale, short films, The Prey, Wanderer
Face Off Season 6 Episode 6: Orcs and Creepy Cryptids!
This episode, Cat congratulated her sweetheart Niko on his win. She was worried about being on the bottom and wanted to prove that she had what it took to succeed in this competition.
For the next Foundation Challenge for immunity, the gang had to create a lead Orc and 9 of its warriors. I love Orcs! They are nasty, short-tempered and lots of scary fun. BAFTA and Emmy award-winning makeup artist Howard Berger was the guest judge and he wanted to see great detail, attention to design, application and to make sure that the orcs were nasty looking.
In teams of two the artists got to work. Chloe and George, Matt and Corrine, Graham and Tyler, Rashaad and Cat, and Niko and Daran all worked quickly to get their orcs finished. Berger really like what Chloe and George did, as well as Matt and Corrine. In the end, he chose Matt and Corrine as the top team because he thought they worked well together and the looks were film ready. Corrine won immunity because of her paint scheme which lead the way for the entire concept. After, the Orc clans charged the lot of them!
For the Spotlight Challenge, mysterious creatures, or cryptids, like Big Foot and the Loch Ness were the topic. Once again in teams of 2, the artists had to choose location coordinates where a cryptid has been sighted, and bring it to life. Their guest judge for this challenge was Doug Jones, creature actor extraordinaire! With films like Hellboy and Pan’s Labyrinth under his belt, his advice was to make sure the makeup was organic, felt natural, and easy to move and perform in.
Graham and Rashaad picked Australia’s Bunyip. With tusks, feathers, flippers and a man’s body, they had a mixed bag of parts to work with. They worked well together and did well with their time. Doug thought that the concept worked. With so many elements, the judges thought it came together cohesively and they exhibited great sculpting, as well as a great paint job and profile. Glenn liked that they chose their elements well, calling it a “cool exercise in picking and choosing everything”. They also liked the creature’s multiple rows of teeth and this put them in the top looks.
George and Niko picked Russia’s Vodyanoy. With frog-like features and a fish body, the guys went aquatic all the way. They scrambled to finish, battling a tough mold that everyone helped them open. I still think this is one of the best bunch of artists for courtesy and good nature. The guys incorporated Barracuda teeth for a cool, vintage looking creature. The judges liked that there were details that had a reason, like the finned forearms. Doug liked how the fins were consistent and the whole makeup looked balanced, and they all loved the “gorgeous” shapes on the head.
Chloe and Tyler created my favourite creature. Hailing from the Amazon, the Mapinguari is an ape-like creature with one eye, red fur, and, wait for it, a mouth in its stomach. Tyler had some fun and took a picture of Rashaad’s tongue for reference. They really went for it and created something cool! Glenn said he wanted to see Captain Kirk fight this monster. He was so right! This makeup also had a vintage feel that just worked. The judges liked that they took ridiculous elements and made them believable. Doug loved the mouth and though it would perform well and Neville liked that the creature’s nipples implied eyes in relation to the stomach mouth. Ve liked that the fun fur was matted, and they all loved the paint job in the mouth and tongue, in fact, Glenn thought it was the best ever paint job period. They were in the top looks.
Daran and Cat worked on Mexico’s Chupacabra. This dog-like creature has a snake tongue and leathery skin. This paring was a mistake. From the get-go, they had problems seeing eye-to-eye. Cat had trouble getting her point across as Daran basically ignored her input and treated her like his assistant. I had a little crush on him, but now he’s out in my books. He was borderline offensive, and Cat regretted not speaking up more. Their makeup was not so great. The judges thought it was sloppy and the spine was off-center. The proportions were off, and the facial structure looked bad. Doug also said there was limited mobility for the actor, and Glenn thought it was profoundly uninteresting and not creative. They were in the bottom looks.
Corrine and Matt got New Jersey’s Jersey Devil. I’m not sure what happened, but it seemed like Corrine took it easy because she had immunity. I think it was unintentional sabotage as Matt isn’t the strongest artist in the bunch. He had trouble sculpting the animal features of the dog-like, part-man, part-kangaroo, winged creature. She ended up taking over the sculpting, and while Matt wanted to do more with the makeup, Corrine decided to go more minimal, but she did manage to make a large set of fabric wings. She hoped they would be safe, but the judges were not pleased with the results. They thought there was too little done compared to the other designs, and that the wings looked like drapery, creating an unscary,”curtain winged demon”. It also didn’t read dog-like to them. They found themselves in the bottom looks.
The winning team was Chloe and Tyler. The judges loved that the makeup was funny but believable and that all the elements came together to create something balanced. Tyler won for his fantastic belly mouth.
In the end, Matt and Corrine were the ones in the hot seat. Matt went home because he didn’t step up to create a signature element in the makeup. The judges liked how he thought and wished him the best. I couldn’t help feeling bad for him even though I wasn’t a huge fan of his. I felt that he was left to flounder while Corrine took over with a half-hearted attempt that sent him home. Oh well, I’m sure he learned a lot from the show and that he is fueled to carry on in the industry.
Tagged: creatures, cryptid, Face Off, orcs
Lady Parts: A Horror Story
Teeth (2007, 1 hr 34 mins)
There’s been something on my mind for the longest time…and it involves female genitalia.
I recently checked out a film called Teeth on Netflix, which centers on a teenage girl named Dawn (Jess Weixler) who is proudly saving her virginity for marriage. She is a bit nerdy, and on the surface, very committed to her cause. Holding school assemblies, encouraging her friends to stay true to their promise, and trying to keep herself chaste despite her feelings for her new beau Toby (Hale Appleman). On an idyllic afternoon, Dawn succumbs to her natural urges and makes out with Toby. Unfortunately, sexually frustrated Toby gets aggressive and the make out session becomes rape. And unfortunately for Toby, Dawn’s vagina sports teeth. You can see where this goes. What follows is Dawn’s horror and guilt over the incident as she copes with hiding her secret, watching her mother’s health fail, and deal with her obnoxious step-brother Brad (John Hensley). Add the ominous nuclear plant stacks in the background that imply genetic mutations in an otherwise all American town, and you get a tongue in cheek story of the much feared myth of vagina dentata.
This myth is an ancient one found in many cultures, basically to caution men from sleeping around with loose women and to deter them from rape with threats of castration. And there it is. Female genitalia was shrouded in such mystery that it became demonized and a great target for creating myths and stories where men could lose their masculinity by succumbing to women’s wiles.
I really enjoyed this film. It dealt with risqué subject matter without overt titillation. You never saw a gaping toothy vagina, in fact, we only saw dismembered penises lying around, ready for their close-up. Weixler played Dawn with kooky fervour and surprising anguish, and Hensley was the ultimate over the top nemesis as her sexually deviant step brother Brad. The cinematography was reminiscent of teen parody films from the early 2000’s, however, Teeth takes the serious subjects of women, sexual power and suppression, and their right to express themselves sexually, and turned them into a campy, thoughtful horror film. It actually made me think about how horror movies have adapted the vagina to make it the basis of horror, or rather the inspiration for many big screen monsters.
Facehugger (Alien) Predator Talk about dentata!
The vagina’s deep dark secrets still scare men, and so they create monsters of Freudian proportions to mask their fear. Look at the facehugger in Alien. Clearly, it was inspired by the vagina. Actually, the whole Alien series is ripe with genital imagery. Also joining the vagina monster ranks are the alien from Predator, the Sarlacc from Return of the Jedi, the Graboid and Shrieker of Tremors fame, and Gweomul, The Host‘s creature. Sure, there are some phallic counterparts, the most notable being the Xenomorph from the Alien franchise, in fact a lot of creatures resemble orifices from our nether regions, but I find the female genitalia to be of particular interest because of the horror and fear behind it.
Graboid (Tremors) Shrieker (Tremors 2)
Sarlacc Pit (Return of the Jedi) But wait, there’s more dentata!
Gweomul (The Host). Maybe it’s just me, but if you’ve seen the movie, note the subliminal fish/vagina tie-in. Not cool, people. Not cool.
Xenomorph (Alien). Really happy to see you…
We accept anything that looks phallic in nature because we are surrounded by it, and for the most part, men still wield power in society. Highrises, the CN Tower, remote controls, bingo dabbers, jeez, even chocolate dipped pretzel sticks! Penises are everywhere! But bring up a vagina, and we think about dark and damp places that seem to have no end. Heck, it’s a place where men give up control and hope for the best; a place where their performance has to be up to snuff (if they care); a place where blood is shed monthly, and it’s a place where life springs from. You can’t see the inner workings, so of course it’s an unknown that until the last few decades, no one cared to investigate.
It’s only natural to fear things we don’t understand, so by this extension, it’s only natural for monsters to look like that mysterious orifice, once likened to the Hell mouth, that lures the best of men (and women) to its moist, quivering door. Or is it? Are we always going to blame the thing we don’t understand? I for one, am glad that during my research, I couldn’t find any recent pulsating, glistening gashes that chew/suck/crush and wreak havoc in general. The only “genitalia” creatures I found were from the gaming world, and they were just ridiculous.
Maybe the absence of newer vagina monsters stems from the war rooms of movie moguls where they started to realize that these creatures were becoming offensive, silly or just no fun. Maybe they realized kids would want action figures of their favourite creatures and that a vagina with legs and teeth was not the best addition to the toy box. Or maybe it’s as simple as the censors saying “That looks too much like a vagina!” Who knows? Whatever the reason, it’s all good. A vagina shrouded as a monster should not be the only way we see them on screen, if we do at all, and it’s promising that the trend is dying down.
Now, from my previous comments, there is the assumption that these creature designers are all men. And that assumption was correct. These vagina monsters come from the subconscious of male designers, who have publicly displayed their issues with female genitalia which have now become, for the most part, iconic. And incidentally, I’ve also discovered that female creature concept designers are really, really scarce, despite the popularity of the makeup artist competition show Face Off; and the few I found did not design genital based creatures (thankfully!). It’s interesting to note that out of the 5 seasons of Face Off so far, there have been 2 female winners (Nicole Chilelli-season 3, and Laura Tyler-season 5). That’s a squidge under half, so I guess things aren’t that bad. I would love to see that fresh new talent come up with some really great monsters. Better yet, I hope the next big budget creature designer is a woman! Come on Face Off lady alumni! Gimme some cool creatures!!
Sex and horror will always go hand in hand, and stay consistently unavoidable, but it can be handled cleverly and with real finesse, like with films such as Teeth, which pokes fun at the fear of the vagina (no pun intended). Trust me, I’ve got one, and she’s quite un-scary…unused, but not scary. And at the very least, we are moving away from masking that fear with a creature. Strangely, there seems to be a creature lull right now, as possession, zombies, demons, violent crimes and hauntings lead the horror movie pack of late. Let’s hope the next monster we see bears a striking resemblance to a mutated lemur, ear or shopping bag…leave Madge the Vadge out of it, and Peter the Penis too, for that matter!
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Tagged: body parts, creatures, Face Off, monsters, virginity
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The Struggle Between Ecuador’s Indigenous Shuar and the Mega-Mining Project That’s Displacing Them
Marlon Vargas (second right), President of the Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of the Ecuadorian Amazon (Confenaie): “Our brothers who are there right now have told us that they will fight until the last consequences.” Photo: Bryan Miranda
Bryan Miranda | Remezcla | 23 November 2016
In 2008, Ecuador became the first country in the world to recognize the rights of nature in its constitution, giving its natural communities and ecosystems the right to exist and persist. It was a progressive and unprecedented legal move. But since then, the Ecuadorian government under Rafael Correa has green lit numerous massive development projects helmed by Chinese companies, including a controversial copper mining project in the Amazonian territory of the Indigenous Shuar people.
For years, the Shuar have been fighting to halt the project, called El Mirador, noting that it would “irreversibly damage the region’s fragile ecosystem and violate the legal rights of indigenous peoples to live, develop and control their land and territory,” according to China Dialogue. And on Monday, the conflict escalated after a group of Shuar reportedly clashed with police and military troops following attempts to recover ancestral territory from Chinese mining operations, as reported by Indigenous leaders and state officials.
Clashes came as Shuar nationals from the Nankints community in the Amazonian province of Morona Santiago coordinated an incursion into a mining camp of the Chinese company Ecsa Ecuacorriente at dawn on Monday.
The Interior Ministry said in a statement that Indigenous Shuar participated in an “unexpected armed attack” against the Ecsa camp, which they say is the “legal landowner.”
Seven police officers were allegedly injured during the Shuar’s take-over, Interior Minister Diego Fuentes said on his official Twitter account Tuesday morning.
Fuentes reported, at 12 PM EST on Tuesday, that control over the territory was restored. Indigenous political leaders in close contact with Shuars on the ground, however, say clashes still continue.
“The warriors of Nankints continue fighting and the military represses with brutality,” Severino Sharupi, leader of territories and natural resources of the Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of Ecuador (Conaie), reported on Twitter.
Shuar leaders said in a press release on Monday that the coordinated take-over comes as a result of military and police raids that forcibly evicted 32 Shuars from their land to make room for open-cast pit mining operations.
“This is why the Shuar Nation takes decisions to expel the company and to rescue what by right and legitimate position belongs to us,” the press release stated.
They further urged the military to abstain from violence and called on other Shuars and Indigenous communities from the Amazon to join them in solidarity as part of a larger fight against military presence and state-backed extractivism in the rainforest.
“Our brothers who are there right now have told us that they will fight until the last consequences,” Marlon Vargas, President of the Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of the Ecuadorian Amazon (Confenaie) said at a press conference Tuesday morning.
“If anything were to happen there, any disgrace, to our brothers; the only responsible one will be the government of (president) Rafael Correa. We will stand up to fight and we will not desist, whatever the costs. That’s the decision we’ve made in the Amazon,” Vargas added.
A woman who was evicted from her home in San Marcos on September 30, 2015, searches the location where her house was for belongings. The location for the Mirador Mine pit is just beyond the nearest ridge in the distance. Photo by Beth Wald
Under the San Carlos Panantza copper project, the Ecuadorian government conceded 41 thousand hectares of land to the Chinese mining company ECSA for a period of 25 years. The project, which is currently in the exploration phase, is estimated to deliver around $1200 million USD in annual profits.
Shuar communities, however, say they were neither informed nor consulted prior to the forced evictions, which they claim violate their constitutional rights.
Tensions between Indigenous groups in the Amazon and the national government have heightened after the same mining project pushed dozens of families from their land in the Amazonian province of Zamora Chinchipe in 2015.
Meanwhile in 2014, José Isidro Tendetza Antún, a leader of the Shuar people in Zamora Chinchipe and prominent activist against Chinese mining operations, was found dead under unknown circumstances.
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Moses Wininga
Papua New Guinea Government should learn from the mistakes and improve mining measures to be efficient and productive.
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Breast Cancer Research and Treatment
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Quantifying the relationship between age at diagnosis and breast cancer-specific mortality
Helen M. Johnson
William Irish
Mahvish Muzaffar
Nasreen A. Vohra
Jan H. Wong
The relationship between age at diagnosis and breast cancer-specific mortality (BCSM) is unclear. The aim of this study was to examine the nature of this relationship using rigorous statistical methodology.
A historical cohort study of adult women with invasive breast cancer in the SEER database from 2000 to 2015 was conducted. Multivariable Cox’s cause-specific hazards model was used to evaluate the association of age at diagnosis with risk of BCSM. Functional relationship of age was assessed using cumulative sums of Martingale residuals and the Kolmogorov-type supremum test.
A total of 206,332 women were eligible for study. Mean age at diagnosis was 59.7 ± 13.8 years. Median follow-up was 80 months. During the study period, 21,771 women (10.6%) died from breast cancer and 18,566 (9.0%) died from other causes. Cumulative incidence of BCSM at 120 months post-diagnosis was 14.4% (95% CI 14.2–14.6%). Age was found to be quadratically related to the risk of BCSM (p < 0.001), with a nadir at 45 years of age. The final Cox model suggests that a 30-year-old woman has approximately the same adjusted BCSM risk (HR 1.187, 95% CI 1.187–1.188) as a 60-year-old woman (HR 1.174, 95% CI 1.174–1.175).
Women diagnosed with breast cancer at the extremes of age suffer disproportionate rates of cancer-specific mortality. The relationship between age at diagnosis and adjusted risk of BCSM is complex, consistent with a quadratic function. With the growing appreciation for breast cancer as a heterogeneous disease, it is essential to accurately address age as a prognostic risk factor in predictive models.
Breast cancer Mortality Differential mortality Age groups Age distribution Statistical model
Akaike information criterion
AJCC
American Joint Committee on Cancer
BCSM
Breast cancer-specific mortality
Estrogen receptor
Human epidermal growth factor receptor
Hazard ratio
Surveillance, epidemiology, and end results
As this study is based on a publicly available database without identifying patient information, informed consent was not needed.
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Supplementary material 1 (TIFF 204308 kb). Supplemental Fig. 1. Subgroup analysis (2010–2015). Observed cumulative Martingale residual plot against age at diagnosis with 20 simulated realizations. This plot is used to determine the functional form of age on the risk of breast cancer-specific mortality
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Supplementary material 2 (TIFF 94405 kb). Supplemental Fig. 2. Subgroup analysis (2010–2015). Akaike information criterion (AIC) for candidate Cox models. The model with the smallest value is considered the best model
Supplementary material 3 (TIFF 140634 kb). Supplemental Fig. 3. Subgroup analysis (2010–2015). The plot of the hazard ratio for increasing age based on the fit of the Cox model with age at diagnosis included as a quadratic term. The superimposed histogram demonstrates that the age distribution of is approximately normal
Supplementary material 4 (TIFF 93898 kb). Supplemental Fig. 4. Subgroup analysis (2010–2015). Risk of breast cancer-specific mortality over time with age included as a time-dependent covariate
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The Age of the Efendiyya: Passages to Modernity in National-Colonial Egypt
Sara Pursley
SARA PURSLEY is assistant professor of Middle Eastern and Islamic studies at New York University. Contact: spursley@nyu.edu.
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2018) 14 (3): 356-358.
Sara Pursley; The Age of the Efendiyya: Passages to Modernity in National-Colonial Egypt. Journal of Middle East Women's Studies 1 November 2018; 14 (3): 356–358. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/15525864-7025511
A welcome and carefully researched addition to the substantial literature on the Egyptian effendiyya, Lucie Ryzova’s Age of the Efendiyya explores the emergence of this group from the late nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century as the “first self-consciously modern generation in Egyptian history” (4).1 Ryzova identifies her subjects as “the white-collar workers” who staffed the modern bureaucracy and pursued careers as lawyers, doctors, architects, teachers, and writers. At the same time, she defines the effendiyya not primarily in terms of class or education but rather in terms of orientation toward the modern: an effendi is “an Egyptian who actively claims to be modern” (8).
Arguing that previous scholars have not attended closely enough to the emergence of the effendiyya, Ryzova focuses on social origins as the “basic question of this book”: “Where did this generation of...
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Six must-see concerts in November
(By: Xavier Eeswaran)
Oh November… The bad news is that the hype for Halloween dies out when the clock hits 12:00 a.m. as we usher in a cold and stressful month. The good news? A bunch of exciting artists will be in town. Here are six to look out for.
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Nov. 1-4
The Danforth Music Hall
Tickets start at $52.70
Bahamas, a.k.a. Afie Jurvanen, is a Juno Award-winning artist who is touring in support of his new album ‘Earthtones.’ He returns to Canadian home turf to perform for four back-to-back nights at the historic Danforth Music Hall.
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The New York-based singer will perform in Toronto during his House of Divine Tour. This tour marks the first part of his extended world tour. Joining MAX for the show will be up-and-comers Bryce Vine and EZI.
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Rock legends Fleetwood Mac are set to deliver a night to remember when they visit the Scotiabank Arena this month. The Grammy-winning band’s setlist will cover music from their entire history which dates back to 1967. Witness music history while you can!
6LACK
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Sunday, Nov. 18
Tickets start at $120 on resale
Grammy-nominated, Atlanta-born rapper 6LACK (pronounced black) is set to come to Toronto to support his new album ‘East Atlanta Love Letter.’ Last year, 6LACK brought out Canadian music superstar The Weeknd at a tour stop in Los Angeles. Let’s hope he does the same in Toronto but if not, don’t worry – what’s better than 6LACK’s mellowed out R&B sound in the fall anyway?
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Tickets start at $143
This Houston-born rapper comes to Toronto at the end of the month. This tour, which also features Trippie Redd, Gunna and Sheck Wes, comes on the heels of Scott’s RIAA certified platinum album ‘Astroworld.’ Scott is known to be an electric performer who tends to bring hometown artists with him on tour. Drake? The Weeknd? It’s not a far fetched idea considering they both feature on album tracks.
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Sony Centre for the Performing Arts
Tickets start at $120.29
What better way to get through to Christmas break than live Christmas music with John Legend? EGOT legend John Legend comes to Toronto Nov. 27 as part of his A Legendary Christmas Tour. This is the perfect excuse to break out those Christmas classics early.
Let us know who you’re seeing this month in the comments below or on Twitter @RUtvNews!
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Kenya: Kenyan football legend Joe Kadenge dies
by Sande Kennedy 1 week ago 1 week ago
Kenyan football legend Mzee Joe Kadenge has passed on at the Meridian Hospital in Nairobi.
The sad news of Kadenge’s death has been announced by his son Oscar.
“Dad has not been in good shape. He had complications in breathing and his sight was
also failing. His condition deteriorated when my sister passed on in the USA earlier this year and he was unable to attend,” Oscar said.
Kadenge, who is considered to be Kenya’s all-time greatest footballer, died on early on Sunday afternoon.
According to his son Oscar, Kadenge’s body set to be transferred to Lee Funeral Home later on Sunday afternoon.
Mzee Kadenge, who was 84 years old at the time of his death, has been unwell for a while now.
President Uhuru Kenyatta, opposition leaders Raila Odinga and Musalia Mudavadi were among those who consistently visited Mzee Kadenge when he was unwell.
Two years ago, President Kenyatta gave Kadenge Sh2 million and also directed the football legend be offered a National Hospital Insurance Fund cover. After that kind gesture, Kadenge thanked the Head of State and also challenged the government to invest in the sports industry and take care of its heroes.
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Kadenge started his football career in 1958 as an attacking midfielder and second striker for the defunct Maragoli United, before crossing over to Abaluhya United (now referred to as AFC Leopards) in 1996.
He is remembered for his silky skills, deft touches and mazy runs at the center of the pitch and would soon be associated by the popular phrase ‘Kadenge na Mpira’ courtesy of renown broadcaster Leonard Mambo Mbotela.
Kadenge also turned out for and coached the national football team, Harambee Stars, with prominence and success.
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HomeBlogsA Changing EU Creates New Challenges for Chile
A Changing EU Creates New Challenges for Chile
May 9, 2017 Web Editor 0
With Brexit unfolding, France and Germany remain the only heavyweights in Europe, and the upcoming elections in these countries influence Chilean politics, too.
In France, the far-right Front National (FN) leader Marine Le Pen and leader of liberal En Marche!, Emmanuel Macron, are battling it out, and Mr Macron is expected to win on May 7. This may calm the liberal commentariat, because Mr Macron is essentially pro-EU, whereas Ms Le Pen would spell trouble for the Union, even if she’d indeed soften her stance on Frexit.
In any case, Ms Le Pen will remain a sizeable force in French politics, the president can’t ignore now less than ever, because the traditional Socialist/conservative parties that held the FN in check imploded in the first round of the election. Therefore, if Mr Macron wants to prevent president Le Pen in 2022 he’ll have to respect her solid anti-immigrant, anti-EU base. Mr Macron seems to have noticed already; and he’ll have a malleable ally in Berlin.
There, the far-right Alternative for Germany (Alternative für Deutschland, AfD), only five years after its founding, will likely enter the Bundestag in September. The AfD’s rise is often linked to the refugee crisis in 2015, but that event merely reanimated a dying patient. The party emerged in 2012 to formulate an alternative to Chancellor Merkel’s ‘politics without alternative’ regarding the Greek bailout. Back then Ms Merkel’s grand coalition wouldn’t tell Germans that their taxes were to save French and German banks that lost big playing Greek lending roulette. During the bailout, the funneling of billions via Greek accounts to teetering banks was hidden under tabloid headlines decrying Greek bus driver and pensioners snoozing away on German money.
Thereby, the Merkel administration helped creating anti-Greek sentiment that thrived on German cultural superiority and soon reached beyond the Greek scapegoat. Germany’s lower working class, already experiencing heighten social insecurity since the reforms of Gerhard Schröder’s Red-Green coalition, took the narrative seriously, as did neoliberal professors and lobbyists, as well as revisionist forces who spit fire only at the margins of society.
Taken together these voices turned into an unsavoury melange the neoliberal professor Bernd Lucke moulded into his Alternative für Deutschland. At first, the neoliberals were in charge and pandered to the crude nationalism by emphasising German thriftiness, while arguing that Greece like any failed company, should exit the market. This tactic, former party heavyweight Hans-Olaf Henkel admitted, ‘created a monster’ that devoured the party and spit the neoliberal globalists out. The AfD’s remaining mix of neoliberal nationalists and revisionists is vividly represented by Alexander Gauland and Alice Weidel, the poster faces for the upcoming election campaign.
The party, similar to the FN, remains staunchly anti-EU, but nurtures the concept of a white, Judeo-Christian European identity that outsiders can never assume for cultural and genetical reasons, and who are therefore excluded from some basic rights.
The AfD’s poll numbers have been falling for the last four months or so, but remain comfortably above the 5 percent threshold to be eligible for parliamentary representation. The party’s presence in the next Bundestag, however, will probably catch more attention because traditional opposition parties aren’t only either in free fall or plotting a timid comeback, like the Greens and liberal FDP, but virtually every opposition party had also been domesticated by Ms Merkel or her regional stalwarts, whereas the AfD hasn’t gone through this process yet. (Neither has the socialist Die Linke, which, however, isn’t as loud and abrasive as the AfD). As politician without convictions, Ms Merkel would continue her tactic of consuming the opposition by digesting its policies. Ms Merkel has already started this process by ramming through immigration reform that includes deportations to war-torn Afghanistan.
Heaving this approach to EU level shouldn’t prove too difficult for Germany and France, so EU reform would plausibly aim to deflate far-right demands targeting aid, market regulation, and immigration.
Chile’s next president therefore is going to deal with a EU that struggles to shut too many ‘foreign’ influences out, and re-evaluates development initiatives in Latin America and Africa. Aid projects are easy targets since they can be abolished at little political cost but with much fanfare. The EU might also become more protectionist and less willing to cooperate with outside actors. Such development could threaten Chile’s export sector as much as the wider regional economy, especially considered that no institution exists on a par with the EU.
Less aid, moreover, will exacerbate humanitarian crises especially in conjunction with climate change and intensify migration. If the EU fortifies further, migration patterns could turn towards Latin America, and specifically Chile with its solid reputation, if not much more. While geography represents a thick obstacle for migrants, it is by no means insurmountable, as Senegalese immigrants in Chile would confirm.
Thus, immigration and more prohibitive access to the most prosperous markets will be key challenges the next government faces, so while engaging with candidates Chilean voters should keep an eye on Europe.
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On Sunday night in an interview with the TV channel 24horas, Manuel José Ossandón, accused frontrunner candidate Sebastián Piñera of dodging TV debates. Mr Ossandón charged that ‘those who represent the ex-president [Piñera]’ have rejected […]
Brazil’s Industry minister steps down, likely to run for Congress
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BRASILIA – Brazilian Industry minister Marcos Pereira resigned on Wednesday, becoming the third cabinet minister to quit in a month. A few hours after Pereira stepped down, the leader of the government-allied Brazilian Labor Party, […]
Arauco to build new cellulose plant in southern Chile
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SANTIAGO – Chilean forestry company Arauco, a subsidiary of industrial conglomerate Empresas Copec SA, will invest US$185 million to build a new cellulose and textile pulp plant in the nation’s south, the company said in […]
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CERN Plans to Build Larger Hadron Collider1 min read
The European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) is planning to spend £20bn on the Future Circular Collider (FCC) to succeed the Large Hadron Collider.
The proposed new accelerator is said to have a circumference four times larger than the previous and hold 10 times the power. CERN aims to discover new sub-atomic particles by the year 2050 with the aid of the Future Circular Collider.
Despite gaining support, the Geneva-based organisation has faced criticism from different parts of the science community who believe that the extensive amount of money could be used on more useful research such as climate change.
Plans for the FCC have been submitted in a report to an international panel of particle physicists who will consider the Hadron Collider expansion with a list other submissions.
The Future Circular Collider involves gradually building a 100km ring that is 10 times more powerful than the Large Hadron Collider. The initial plan is split into two parts with the first involving the collision of electrons with positrons; while the second would involve colliding protons with electrons.
Physicists are hoping that these stronger collisions would help to reveal a new realm of particles which in turn would help us learn more about the Universe.
However, some speculate whether spending this much money for a new accelerator is absolutely necessary including the UK’s former Chief Scientific Advisor, Prof Sir David King.
King told the BBC that the extensive cost for basic research would require a cost benefit analysis before going any further. “My question is to what extent will the knowledge that we already have be extended to benefit humanity?”
He believes that a “new high priority” for humans is to try and deal with climate change.
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Jaguar Land Rover’s stunning turnaround is under threat
The classically British automotive brands Jaguar and Land Rover had seen their fortunes soar under the stewardship of the Indian auto company Tata Motors.
But now that legacy is under threat.
Land Rover’s market in China has been shrinking, Jaguar has a portfolio heavy on less-popular cars, and the fallout from Brexit threatens to raise prices on supplies Jaguar Land Rover uses to make vehicles.
Jaguar Land Rover’s performance peaked in mid-2016, CIMB analyst Pramod Amthe told CNBC.
Since then, a slowdown in JLR’s China market has been perhaps the biggest factor behind the company’s woes. JLR has said its Chinese business is struggling due to challenging market conditions. But one report from Automotive News said the company was battling quality-control issues in the country.
“We feel the worst is nearly there in JLR performance,” Amthe said. “Management efforts to cut costs and turn around have started yielding results in UK and USA. But China is taking longer than expected to revive.”
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Story of SIX
An emotional experience is transient, mysterious and powerful. Like immersive spaces, it evokes, excites, and it also evolves. Our sixth sense tells us things like no one else does. SIX reveals, re-enacts, and remakes immersive spaces through scents that capture the essence - in a bottle.
Fragrance Development
An artisanal fragrance label, SIX was made in collaboration with world-renowned perfumers, and is proudly a Singaporean brand.
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Premium ingredients hand-picked sustainably from around the world.
Distilled in the UK & Singapore
An exquisite palate of oils and absolutes as a result of stringent techniques.
Finest Craftsmanship
World-class perfumers blend creativity and passion into signature scents.
Formulated for the trendy, adventurous and soul-searching individual, the unisex scents come in a six variants collection. The first three variants, 123 TRIBECA, 1724 PUKA and 27˚F BIEI were launched in July 2016.
After spending four years at world-renowned fragrance house, Givaudan, Jason developed a passion and love for scents.
In 2015, as a gesture of love for his then bride-to-be, who has a penchant for fragrances; Jason created two unique scents as a wedding gift. These scents were presented as wedding favours to his guests.
Encouraged by raving reviews, Jason embarked on an entrepreneurial journey, which has led to the launch of the first three scents of the six-variant collection, aptly named SIX. They are 123 Tribeca, 1724 Puka and 27F Biei.
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Wake Forest School of Medicine
The Department of Dermatology provides top-notch training for future practitioners of dermatology.
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The Department of Dermatology at Wake Forest School of Medicine strives to improve skin health in all patients; educate patients, students and residents about skin disease; and to improve skin health through research. As the region's leading dermatology department, we provide top-notch training for future practitioners of dermatology and a productive setting for basic and applied research on diseases of the skin.
Our department is thriving under the leadership of Dr. Amy McMichael, who has served as Chair since 2013. Our residency program is led by Dr. William Huang, who has served as program director since 2014. Our ACGME-accredited fellowships include Mohs and Micrographic Surgery under the guidance of Dr. Phillip Williford and dermatopathology under Dr. Omar Sangueza. Wake Forest also offers formal pre-clerkship training in dermatology and a fourth-year elective rotation taught by Dr. Lindsay Strowd.
Why Wake Forest?
Trainees and researchers are drawn to our unique learning environment and abundant research opportunities. Our department offers expertise in original research in all the skin diseases we treat, a compassionate approach to patients, nationally and internationally known faculty and a steadfast commitment to teaching the next generation of dermatologists.
Our areas of focus are broad and include all skin diseases.
We have particular specialty in:
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All of our faculty serve as leaders within our institution and on a regional and national level within dermatology.
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The faculty at Wake Forest is extremely active in the field of dermatology research. Our research includes participating in large multi-center clinical trials on novel therapies, creating investigator-initiated trials, sponsoring research fellows and obtaining external grant funding. Research interests are varied and include common dermatologic conditions such as acne, psoriasis, eczema and hair loss as well as more rare diseases such as pyoderma gangrenosum, pemphigus vulgaris and calciphylaxis. All combined, our faculty have authored more than 1,500 peer-reviewed publications and innumerable poster and oral presentations. Our faculty members are regularly featured at national conferences such as the American Academy of Dermatology Annual Meeting and the World Congress of Dermatology. We have a robust Clinical Studies Center and Center for Dermatology Research led by Dr. Steven Feldman, one of the most published dermatologists in the United States.
Learn more about our Dermatology research.
The department of Dermatology is actively involved in several clinical trials. Thousands of patients take part in medical trials every year. When a qualified candidate chooses to participate in a clinical study, the research often has the potential to benefit thousands of others.
We offer three fellowship opportunities and a residency program designed to train physicians to be well-equipped leaders in clinical and academic dermatology.
Dermatology Residency Program
A three-year program providing residents with comprehensive clinical knowledge in dermatology while acquiring judgment in medical and procedural dermatology.
Dermatopathology Fellowship Program
A program providing rigorous training in diagnostic dermatopathology for trainees interested in becoming academic or private practice dermatopathologists.
International Dermatology Fellowship Program
A six-month or one-year program providing comprehensive dermatological clinical research experiences tailored to the needs of the fellow.
Center for Dermatology Research
The Center for Dermatology Research (CDR) includes practicing dermatologists and specialists in epidemiology, health economics, and biostatistics.
The Graham Library
The Graham Dermatopathology Library provides an online resource of clinical and dermatopathology images from the collection of Dr. James H. Graham. Dr. Graham was the former head of dermatopathology at the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology and the former chair of dermatology at UC-Irvine. He made available his personal library of Kodachromes, slides and lectures collected throughout his career by means of a generous donation to Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center.
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October 18, 2017 Alexandros Morelas
Deus ex machina: former Google engineer is developing an AI god
Intranet service? Check. Autonomous motorcycle? Check. Driverless car technology? Check. Obviously the next logical project for a successful Silicon Valley engineer is to set up an AI-worshipping religious organization.
Anthony Levandowski, who is at the center of a legal battle between Uber and Google’s Waymo, has established a nonprofit religious corporation called Way of the Future, according to state filings first uncovered by Wired’s Backchannel. Way of the Future’s startling mission: “To develop and promote the realization of a Godhead based on artificial intelligence and through understanding and worship of the Godhead contribute to the betterment of society.”
Levandowski was co-founder of autonomous trucking company Otto, which Uber bought in 2016. He was fired from Uber in May amid allegations that he had stolen trade secrets from Google to develop Otto’s self-driving technology. He must be grateful for this religious fall-back project, first registered in 2015.
The Way of the Future team did not respond to requests for more information about their proposed benevolent AI overlord, but history tells us that new technologies and scientific discoveries have continually shaped religion, killing old gods and giving birth to new ones.
As author Yuval Noah Harari notes: “That is why agricultural deities were different from hunter-gatherer spirits, why factory hands and peasants fantasised about different paradises, and why the revolutionary technologies of the 21st century are far more likely to spawn unprecedented religious movements than to revive medieval creeds.”
Religions, Harari argues, must keep up with the technological advancements of the day or they become irrelevant, unable to answer or understand the quandaries facing their disciples.
“The church does a terrible job of reaching out to Silicon Valley types,” acknowledges Christopher Benek a pastor in Florida and founding chair of the Christian Transhumanist Association.
Silicon Valley, meanwhile, has sought solace in technology and has developed quasi-religious concepts including the “singularity”, the hypothesis that machines will eventually be so smart that they will outperform all human capabilities, leading to a superhuman intelligence that will be so sophisticated it will be incomprehensible to our tiny fleshy, rational brains.
Anthony Levandowski, the former head of Uber’s self-driving program, with one of the company’s driverless cars in San Francisco. Photograph: Eric Risberg/AP
For futurists like Ray Kurzweil, this means we’ll be able to upload copies of our brains to these machines, leading to digital immortality. Others like Elon Musk and Stephen Hawking warn that such systems pose an existential threat to humanity.
“With artificial intelligence we are summoning the demon,” Musk said at a conference in 2014. “In all those stories where there’s the guy with the pentagram and the holy water, it’s like – yeah, he’s sure he can control the demon. Doesn’t work out.”
Benek argues that advanced AI is compatible with Christianity – it’s just another technology that humans have created under guidance from God that can be used for good or evil.
“I totally think that AI can participate in Christ’s redemptive purposes,” he said, by ensuring it is imbued with Christian values.
“Even if people don’t buy organized religion, they can buy into ‘do unto others’.”
For transhumanist and “recovering Catholic” Zoltan Istvan, religion and science converge conceptually in the singularity.
“God, if it exists as the most powerful of all singularities, has certainly already become pure organized intelligence,” he said, referring to an intelligence that “spans the universe through subatomic manipulation of physics”.
“And perhaps, there are other forms of intelligence more complicated than that which already exist and which already permeate our entire existence. Talk about ghost in the machine,” he added.
For Istvan, an AI-based God is likely to be more rational and more attractive than current concepts (“the Bible is a sadistic book”) and, he added, “this God will actually exist and hopefully will do things for us.”
We don’t know whether Levandowski’s Godhead ties into any existing theologies or is a manmade alternative, but it’s clear that advancements in technologies including AI and bioengineering kick up the kinds of ethical and moral dilemmas that make humans seek the advice and comfort from a higher power: what will humans do once artificial intelligence outperforms us in most tasks? How will society be affected by the ability to create super-smart, athletic “designer babies” that only the rich can afford? Should a driverless car kill five pedestrians or swerve to the side to kill the owner?
If traditional religions don’t have the answer, AI – or at least the promise of AI – might be alluring.
Original source: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/sep/28/artificial-intelligence-god-anthony-levandowski
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Is Machine Spirit simply Artificial Intelligence?
Adeptus Mechanicus religion is based on a dogma that every machine has its own spirit (either sent or part of the Machine God Omnissiah). But in the end those machines are exactly just that, so while a Cogboy would say that "he is applying holy unguents to the spirit of Baneblade and proceeds with the rite of purification" he is in fact changing oil and cleaning the barrel. After all animism is one of the oldest concepts in religions...
Mechanicus (as a religion) has a strong position against thinking machines calling them Abominable Intelligence and all devices that require programming are controlled by a biological brain (servitors). The only example of machines that was programmed without using of any wetware that I know of were CATs from Ciaphas Cain novel, but they were no more complicated than kids toys (their program was: "move ahead, in case of obstacle turn in random direction, repeat").
And then we have things like titans, worshiped as a living avatars of Omnissiah that ARE able to function without operators and seem to be self conscious (they decide what to do, who is allowed to use them etc). Mechanicus simply says that their Machine Spirit is very strong... but isn't it just a simple case of strong AI (intelligence generated by simply using huge amount of processing power)?
To avoid semantical discussion, lets assume that spirit (mechanical or not) is akin to soul, in which exist separately to body and can survive body's death (and await whatever afterlife there is); "pure" AI would die with its "brain" death.
Before someone would say that "existence of possessed titans is a proof that indeed there is a spirit in the machine", please let me point that there are also possessed swords, axes or even bits of wire ("wirewolves" from Gaunt's Ghost" series).
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Maybe. The one thing HH points out though is that even by 30k, the Machine Spirit is already so complicated and distinct from machine to machine that they're effectively impossible to distinguish between a spirit and strong AI.
Are the unguents and most of the rites necessary? Probably not. But the canon seems to be fairly consistent in regards to large and important machines (i.e. Knights to Titans, spaceships and even complicated weapons) requiring idiosyncratic care to maintain in top operational condition. Plus, any pilot connected to these machines, such as a Princeps, is also affected by the mind-link with the Machine Spirit. It's not a one-way connection. The Machine Spirit bond is known to leave a mark of the Titan's disposition on it's Princeps.
Yes, you can probably explain this as strong AI causing a neurological reaction through the Princeps' cybernetic implants, but the end result is the same: it appears that the Machine Spirit is an actual thing that the Mechanicus must treat with the care of a mystical entity.
My hunch is simply that The Emperor just made peace with the zealotry of the machine cult since it kept the Mechanicus humming along efficiently. If the Machine Spirit was not an effective concept for understanding and dealing with profoundly complicated machines, I doubt the Imperium would have tolerated such a cult.
You do get the sense that 10k years has seen inefficiency seep into Mechanicus practice in the form of over the top rituals, but heck, if the same thing can happen to even the Marines and High Lords than it's hard to fault the Mechanicus for suffering the same decline into Gothic superstition.
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Treaty of Mar's bans the use of machines that would meet the traditional definition of a strong AI, where the AI has at least the computational ability of a human. Maybe machine spirit is a "weak" AI or "medium" AI, but not a strong "AI." – erdiede Apr 21 '16 at 2:19
I don't really know how we could tell though: what's the demarcation point between "weak" and "strong" AI? Also, perhaps the more ancient a machine gets, the stronger the AI becomes? We are treated to a story in the Dan Abnett Titan comic about how older Titans are dramatically more difficult for a Princeps to exert control over. The "ghost" of previous Princeps inhabit the Titan's interface and make an already quirky machine even more idiosyncratic. Again, the Treaty of Mars < The Emperor's Campaign. An awful lot was tolerated so long as it helped expand The Great Crusade. – Warpstone Apr 23 '16 at 3:40
I would argue it all depends on the one asking the question. Similar to the Council of Nikaea with psykers (cause Rune Priests are totally not psykers...) and the one Gaunts Ghost novel where the discovered the STC that created automatons it all boils down to what benefits who and who is trying to discredit who. I think it also helps when whatever is in question doesn't look like a human or have the ability to talk/explain. Take the Land Raider Rynn's Might for example. It fought enemy forces and sacrificed itself at some point, and everyone basically worshiped it. Had that been a cyborg?... – Odin1806 Nov 20 '16 at 18:25
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What do You Want From Your Critics?
June 10, 2008 Simon Ogden7 Comments
There’s been a lot of discussion about critics and their place in our theatre scene around here lately. Established critics are reaching out, new critics are popping up, and so I think the time is ripe to hear from you about what exactly it is that you expect when you take in a review.
I’ll start.
The main function of a play review for me is to provide a general idea of the quality of a work before I budget the time and money for it. I’m not long on spare time or money these days, and nothing will put me into a foul mood more easily than spending some on a stanky play (or movie, for that matter). And I hate filmed trailers for theatre, even the best stage work translates terribly to a little 2D box on a monitor, and marketing copy speaks only to content, not quality. So unless I know someone that’s already seen the play I have only the critics to trust…that is, those that have earned my trust. There are those here in town whose opinions I have disagreed with so often in the past that I don’t use them any more, and I’ve come to rely on the rest to help me with my play-going decisions.
Not that I pick plays exclusively from the opinions of a particular set of critics. I’ve gotten to know their voices and I know where my opinion differs from theirs. And the strength and history of a particular company or director or performer plays into it as well. But for the sake of this discussion, I would like to talk plainly about the mechanics of criticism.
So there it is: I’m a pre-play review reader. As such my bar-none, number one, all-time pet peeve is the descriptive spoiler. Why any reviewer feels that it’s okay to detail narrative business is beyond me, unless they think that the only people reading them have already seen the work too, and are looking for someone else’s opinion, or something. You can comment on context, intent, message, metaphor, tone, success, failure – virtually anything opinion based, but please don’t waste word count on anything that physically describes what you have seen. If all else fails and you can’t come up with any other way to examine your experience, please consider the ol’ default standby: “and then – well, I won’t tell you what happens, but it’s [insert intensifier-adjective here]”.
I’ve read some reviews that are almost entirely composed of the tourist version of the narrative. That’s not writing a review, it’s composing a study guide, and it’s selfish. Stop it. If I’ve paid for it, I want to experience it all – from the first glimpse of the set to the director’s blocking to the big revelation in the third act – without any presuppositions.
I would also like you to tell me why you think a particular aspect of the production succeeded or failed, taking into account the intent of the artists. Not good enough to say that something is ‘great’ or ‘not-so-great’. A frame of reference is required.
Enough from me! It’s your turn. The critics are listening, what do you want them to tell you? What do you love in a review, what do you hate? And for any of you new critics out there, please feel free to jump in and introduce yourselves and ask any questions you may have of your audience. Reviews, like theatre itself, should be dialogue, not monologue. Let the conversation begin!
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I wish I could remember the name of the critic who’s book I read back in a dusty library of my undergrad years. He was amazing, reading the collection of his reviews was like reading a history of the american stage. I suppose what I want from critics more than anything is context and an ability to talk about the work in ‘time.’ Not a thumbs up, thumbs down but a real entering into a dialogue about the situation of the work within the context of the now.
Basically critics at their best are historians, researching the current climate of expression and excited by it’s definition and its potential and its failings. A critic should be passionate about the relationship of art to the world as a primary drive.
Ya, so this book was amazing in that it was preoccupied with a curiosity for diverse performance expression and attempted to uncover the beneath factor, and took on the responsibility of a kind of inclusiveness that went into a place of dialogue with the art as opposed to praise/dismissal. Truly interesting and situational and provocative. Critique could be that.
thenextstage says:
Great point Britt, if we’re trying to create a paradigm of local theatre (we are doing that, aren’t we?) a chronicle of the scene as a whole in a historical context would be a wonderful mandate.
John Lahr, theatre critic for the New Yorker, has a wonderful book along those lines called “Light Fantastic”. Critic as historian, great stuff.
Ian Mackenzie says:
I once wrote a letter to a local arts weekly about how bad I thought one of their critic’s reviews was. They never published it, so here’s my chance (I’ll change the name of the critic and play, just to keep things nicey-nicey):
“[Your critic’s] review of the play [“Play Name”] relies too heavily on assumption-laden statements of fact to arrive at its conclusion that “the play isn’t quite up to scratch”. From this review, we learn that the “script is frequently purple”, “the second act is much too pat” and there are “over-relaxed turns from the rest of the cast.” But what does any of this actually mean and where is the evidence to support these charges? It reads as if [your critic] has foregone the rigorous critical thinking required to arrive at a thoughtful review in favour of glib and sweeping declarations. The resulting argument is not persuasive. It also does a disservice to the artists involved (who might otherwise benefit from more thoughtful criticism). I wish [your critic] had taken as much care with the rest of his critique as he did with his final thought: “[The playwright’s] dialogue spells out emotions that have already been made abundantly clear through [the choreographer’s] evocative choreography.” This strikes me as a genuine and balanced piece of insight. I would have liked to have read more observations of this calibre, and much less of the shallow rhetoric.”
Ok. So that was how I felt about one bad review. Generally, I also think many critics spend far too many words telling us about the plot. That bugs me.
I also hate the star rating system.
Right on Ian. Critics have to accountable for the reviews they write, and be able to dialogue about them when someone takes the time to engage with them. That’s so weak that they didn’t publish your letter.
I once wrote a local paper’s editor about a poor review of a play that I directed. And I don’t mean poor as in the review was negative (which is certainly was, but she wasn’t the only critic that thought so – fair play there) but rather the review itself was so shot through with conjecture and fictional allegations that I had to say something. By way of example; she wrote that I was unable to direct the female lead of the play into believable intimacy with her stage partner because of our own intimate relationship. My girlfriend at the time found that a particularly interesting read.
The editor wrote me back immediately and asked if he could publish it, which he did along with a retraction from the reviewer.
That particular critic was shortly thereafter absent from the masthead. I’m not saying that has any relation to my letter whatsoever, just stating the facts. Facts are important.
larryhoser says:
Thanks for the post, Simon.
When I began this blogging adventure two months ago, I didn’t do it with the clear intention to become a critic. I was watching Rabbit Hole at the Stanley when the idea to review performances popped — randomly and for the very first time — in my head. With neither writing experience (aside from keeping a journal, and well if you count the poetry I did in high school), nor theatre experience (again, there was that one year back in high school), I simply thought, “Why not? Let’s see where this will lead.”
But as I got more involved, I naturally began to wonder how I fit into the the bigger picture. Your May 29 posting (Critics are your friends. Meet your friends.) made me think — perhaps for the first time — more seriously about the role of a reviewer. Since then, I’m understanding more about the value of critics to an art scene — and along with that, the very real responsibility of doing the job properly.
My blog is a hobby; my education (business) and profession (jewellery) has nothing to do with theatre. I’m also still hoping to maintain a layman’s point of view (although I’m not sure if that’s sustainable). But regardless of my lack of theatre expertise, or my chosen layman point of view, I still need to aim for quality in the way I write.
And so I heartily welcome you and all theatre-lovers to help me out by critiquing my critiques. Please…
It’s a very important niche that you fill Larry, I wish there were more civilian theatre bloggers out there. You’re providing an invaluable viewpoint: the audience’s, and we theatre artists really need to hear more of that. We exist, quite literally, for you.
That’s why the blog format is so great, you’re not getting paid for it, you’re talking about theatre because you love it. The greatest service you can pay us is to always be completely honest, even if you think we might not want to hear it. It’s your opinion that we want to hear, that we need to hear.
Well, some out there might not want to hear it, but they should, because they’re charging you money. And people thinking about seeing the show really want to hear it. Keep it up.
Jessica Van der Veen says:
I am glad to see a distinction emerging between a reviewer (a boring pain who provides a plot summary and then says they liked it or hated it without really saying why) and a critic.
I agree with comments about social and historical context for the writing, which can enrich the audience’s experience.
But, for me, the critic must do two more things to be taken seriously: Firstly, they must be vulnerable to the work and willing to change their criteria for criticizing it if they crash into something unexpected. Secondly, they must dare to be creative by striving for the most elegant, tight, jewel-like writing — so that the piece becomes a small, delicious work of art of its own.
In other words, a great critic must be twice vulnerable, just like any good artist. Here is an example from my favourite critic at the moment — the visual art critic, Peter Schjeldahl:
“I remember my first encounter, in Germany, in 1992, with Koon’s famous “Puppy,” the forty-three-foot high Scottie dog enveloped in living flowers. As I was judiciously taking descriptive and analytical notes, a bus arrived bearing a group of severely disabled children in wheelchairs. They went wild with delight. Abruptly feeling absurd, I shut my notebook and took instruction from the kids’ unequivocal verdict.”
(New Yorker, June 9&16 2008, p 130.)
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“Obviously, the efficiency and execution in Los Angeles was better,” Woodward added. “But that’s our goal moving forward. Once they are able to execute on the field and they do care about one another, now we’ve got something special.”
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First Jedi Temple
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"People who knew him best think he went looking for the first Jedi temple."
―Han Solo, on the whereabouts of Luke Skywalker[src]
The first Jedi Temple, also known as the Ahch-To Jedi Temple,[3] was an ancient building established and maintained by the Jedi Order on Ahch-To. It was the first of many temples built throughout the galaxy, and one of the few that were not demolished by the Galactic Empire. Jedi Master Luke Skywalker came to live near the temple as a hermit after his apprentice and nephew, Ben Solo, turned to the dark side of the Force and destroyed his new generation of Jedi.[2]
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The first Jedi Temple was first referenced in Star Wars: Episode VII The Force Awakens. It first appeared in Star Wars: Episode VIII The Last Jedi.
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Why Hasn’t AI Mastered Language Translation?
In the myth about the Tower of Babel, people conspired to build a city and tower that would reach heaven. Their creator observed, “And now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do.” According to the myth, God thwarted this effort by creating diverse languages so that they could no longer collaborate.
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In our modern times, we’re experiencing a state of unprecedented connectivity thanks to technology. However, we’re still living under the shadow of the Tower of Babel. Language remains a barrier in business and marketing. Even though technological devices can quickly and easily connect, humans from different parts of the world often can’t.
Translation agencies step in, making presentations, contracts, outsourcing instructions, and advertisements comprehensible to all intended recipients. Some agencies also offer “localization” expertise. For instance, if a company is marketing in Quebec, the advertisements need to be in Québécois French, not European French. Risk-averse companies may be reluctant to invest in these translations. Consequently, these ventures haven’t achieved full market penetration.
Global markets are waiting, but AI -powered language translation isn’t ready yet, despite recent advancements in natural language processing and sentiment analysis. AI still has difficulties processing requests in one language, without the additional complications of translation. In November 2016, Google added a neural network to its translation tool. However, some of its translations are still socially and grammatically odd. I spoke to technologists and a language professor to find out why.
“To Google’s credit, they made a pretty massive improvement that appeared almost overnight. You know, I don’t use it as much. I will say this. Language is hard,” said Michael Housman , chief data science officer at RapportBoost. AI and faculty member of Singularity University.
He explained that the ideal scenario for machine learning and artificial intelligence is something with fixed rules and a clear-cut measure of success or failure. He named chess as an obvious example, and noted machines were able to beat the best human Go player. This happened faster than anyone anticipated because of the game’s very clear rules and limited set of moves.
Housman elaborated, “Language is almost the opposite of that. There aren’t as clearly-cut and defined rules. The conversation can go in an infinite number of different directions. And then of course, you need labeled data. You need to tell the machine to do it right or wrong.”
Housman noted that it’s inherently difficult to assign these informative labels. “Two translators won’t even agree on whether it was translated properly or not,” he said. “Language is kind of the wild west, in terms of data.” […]
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@SwissCognitive AI isn’t good at context sensitive processing (interpretation and hence translation… https://t.co/aK2DmUOtY3
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Antonio Balvet
AI hasn’t mastered natural language because AI developpers have overlooked many of its most complex aspects. Namely, that humans don’t speak in isolated words: they use prefabs most of the time (collocations, patterns, lexical bundles, formulaic patterns, clichés, etc.) with some syntactic glue to hold everything together. The amount of regular syntax varies according to topic, domain, register and of course speaker. But just look at any text on the web and start marking prefabs, named entities, addresses and dates. You’ll probably find these units are overwhelmingly present in any natural text.
NLU systems are still essentially word-centered, implementing the same processing chain as what compilers do when transforming programming language instructions into machine code. They compose individual units (tokens) into the “appropriate” structure (if possible only one unambiguous structure), and then proceed to derive the “semantics” (meaning in the case of natural language) from the syntactic structure. This simply doesn’t work. If you add to this that integrating elements of the (social, linguistic) context, as well as machine-tractable theories about the outside world (common sense, knowledge derived from embodied perception), then it is easy to understand why AI hasn’t tackled NLU yet.
Switching to deep neural networks for Machine Translation has seen a major improvement in translation quality. But I’m not sure this gives us more insight into how humans process natural languages (apart from the fact that they clearly do not rely on symbolic rules, à la generative grammar). The same holds for IBM Watson or Google Alphago beating humans at chess or go, respectively. It shows that, given time and enough money, very smart developers can make a machine that performs better than humans for a given task. It doesn’t tell us anything about how humans play chess, or go. And playing chess or go is just a tiny portion of what we like to think as higher cognitive processes.
David Marete
@SwissCognitive This tweet was one day early.
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Instagram's New Feature Is Something We've All Been Waiting For
Tech Buzz
LONDON, ENGLAND - AUGUST 03: A person poses with an iPhone displaying the Instagram logo on August 3, 2016 in London, England. (Photo by Carl Court/Getty Images)
Instagram’s New Feature Is Something We’ve All Been Waiting For
It’s always frustrating to find out when your friends don’t follow you online. But now, instead of having to use 3rd Party apps, Instagram is making it easy.
Coming soon to iOS users, but already in place for Android Users, now when you look at your friend’s profile on Instagram, you can see if they follow you or not.
For those of you who are worried about having your friends on your list, or vice versa, being caught for not following a colleague at work because they always post pictures of their baby, well, you might be caught very soon.
No more faux followers! You either commit or get hit… With the questions, of course.
I’m still waiting for a “Chronological” section to come back honestly.
Drogon ???? on Twitter
Instagram finally has a "follows you" feature. Progress Instagram progress. Now fix the chronological order of pictures then we good
Amy Cooper is one with the force and the force is with her.
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US senator says more safeguards needed for self-driving cars
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CORRECTS TO MODEL 3-U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., climbs into a Tesla Model 3 at the Consumer Reports Test Track, Tuesday, April 3, 2018, in Colchester, Conn. The senator said he thinks more safeguards should be added to a bill that is before the Senate that would gradually introduce self-driving cars in the U.S. Among other things, he wants cars with autopilot systems like the Tesla, the same model involved in last month’s fatal accident, to be included under the bill. (AP Photo/Susan Haigh)
By SUSAN HAIGH, AP
COLCHESTER, Conn.
U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal, who took a firsthand look at self-driving vehicle technology on Tuesday, said it was frightening to see “no hands on the wheel” as his car approached a parked car and called for more safeguards to be added to federal legislation following two recent fatal crashes.
[post_ads]The bill awaiting action in the Senate should ensure people can manually override highly automated vehicles, the Democrat said. He called for the data and safety evaluations of such vehicles during an initial testing period to be made public and said any safety requirements should apply to cars already on the roads with autopilot functions.
“I’m not a luddite. I’m not simply standing in the way of progress. I believe that autonomous or driverless vehicles will be coming,” Blumenthal said. “But in the meantime, while we’re developing them, they have to be safe.”
Blumenthal, a member of the Senate Committee on Science, Commerce and Transportation, said his safety concerns have been heightened with the recent fatal crashes involving a Tesla vehicle operating on autopilot in California and a self-driving Volvo SUV being tested by the ride-hailing service Uber in Arizona.
“There are a number of us who have reservations about simply putting these vehicles on the road, even during the testing period, without guarantees that in fact there will be potential safeguards and also data reporting,” he said, referring to his Senate colleagues. “The most recent incidents involving Uber and Tesla certainly have given new force to those safety concerns.”
David Friedman, director of cars and product policy and analysis for Consumers Union, the policy and advocacy division of Consumer Reports, said it’s critical that safety provisions are added to the bill, which he said would potentially open the door for commercial sale and use of self-driving vehicles.
“The challenge right now is, I would argue, there’s a race to be first instead of a race to be safe,” he said.
If safety doesn’t come first, he said, “you put people at risk and you potentially could set this technology back years if not decades.”
Blumenthal on Tuesday was a passenger in two semi-autonomous cars already on the market during a visit to the Consumer Reports test track in Colchester. One car was a Tesla Model 3, which has the same autopilot technology as the car involved in the California crash. Blumenthal said he learned that a human being needs to override the system to avoid certain objects. In his case, it was a car parked along the track.
Blumenthal, who rode with a Consumer Reports employee who didn’t have his hands on the steering wheel, said it was frightening to be headed toward the parked vehicle without the guarantee his vehicle was going to stop and “looking next to me and seeing no hands on the wheel.” The Consumer Reports employee used the manual override system to avoid a crash.
“It would be funny, but it’s serious because this technology is at its toddler state of development, and that’s why we need more testing, more guarantees of safety and more protections,” Blumenthal said.
Consumer Reports has advocated that drivers of vehicles with semi-autonomous features still need to pay close attention to the roadway.
“You need to be an alert driver,” said Jennifer Stockburger, director of operations at the Auto Test Center. “It’s meant to ease your fatigue on a long trip, but it should not be used as an autonomous driving function. You as a driver need to stay engaged.”
Such vehicles allow drivers to manually override the self-driving technology.
One of the vehicles Blumenthal tested, a Cadillac Super Cruise, has a camera that can determine if a driver’s eyes are on the road. Also, the autopilot technology can only be used when driving on divided highways.
Stockburger said Consumer Reports would like to see similar technology included in more vehicles.
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BitPay Banks $510K In Investment To Become PayPal for Bitcoin, Already Has 2,100 Businesses On Board
Drew Olanoff 7 years
Bitcoin, a heavily underground peer-to-peer payment solution, is starting to peek its head above ground. Today, a payment solutions company called BitPay has announced $510K in investment, led by Shakil Khan, Barry Silbert, Jimmy Furland and Roger Ver.
Put simply, BitPay feels like it is positioned to become the equivalent to PayPal for the virtual currency payment processor rival, Bitcoin.
I spoke with BitPay’s co-founder and CEO, Anthony Gallippi, and he explained to my why Bitcoin has a huge opportunity to go more mainstream in 2013: “We definitely think it’s the future. We wouldn’t be spending our time if we didn’t think that.”
What makes Bitcoin so interesting is that it flies in the face of payment models that we’re used to today; it’s a push model rather than a pull one. When you give a website your credit card and billing information to buy something, the company is pulling money out of your account. Giving up that personal information isn’t the safest thing, and Bitcoin allows you to “push” the money to a company to buy something. This means that no personally identifiable information goes with it, making eventual identity theft and fraud nearly impossible during the transaction.
Shakil Khan, known best for his involvement with Path and Spotify, tells me why he decided to invest his money in BitPay:
2013 will be the year for critical mass understanding of the importance of friction free international payments and I predict Bitcoin will become a global payment network. With very little resource, BitPay has already taken the place as market leader in the bitcoin payment processing ecosystem, and along with the other investors, I am very excited to help the founding team scale up and take it to the next level.
Based in London, Khan is also an investor in SecondMarket, Invi, BlackJet, Thread, and Summly.
Much like you’d find with companies and businesses using Stripe or PayPal, BitPay provides all of the back-end handling of payments, as well as “buy buttons” for the web. In November, BitPay had 1,300 businesses using their service, but after WordPress decided to adopt Bitcoin to pay for services globally, the company saw a dramatic rise to 2,100 merchants since then. For consumers, there is mobile integration to pay on the go, which will help Bitcoin pick up traction.
BitPay accepts Bitcoin and then puts “real” money into the bank accounts of businesses. Basically, there’s no worry on the end of merchants, because they end up getting paid the way that they’re used to. The difference is that a small business in Kansas City can now accept a payment from Indonesia for goods and services, which was nearly impossible before.
Until the $510K investment that the company announced today, Gallippi tells me that his small team has put in about $100K of its own money to prove out BitPay’s model. Clearly, it’s on to something. As far as what BitPay will do with the money, Gallippi says that it will immediately hire five people, mainly engineers, to help continue to develop the platform.
I asked Gallippi why he’s so sure that Bitcoin will take off as a payment alternative, and he had this to say:
We think that Bitcoin adoption will follow email, which started in corporate enterprise. With Bitcoin there won’t be a 10 year lag, but a lag, and businesses will lead the charge in Bitcoins.
One other interesting thing is that Gallippi explained to me that credit cards were never designed to be used on the Internet, which makes complete sense. Payment utilities are evolving (just look at Square), so it’s nice to see a company like BitPay step up and fight the good fight.
Visa has a billion dollar a year fraud prevention facility. Bitcoin makes this obsolete.
Those are fighting words. Sure, PayPal could start working on Bitcoin integration, but the company probably sees the opportunity as a low priority, thus giving BitPay the runway to surge forward and lead the space. There are others trying to grab the top spot, too, such as Y Combinator startup Coinbase.
One thing is clear: global payments are a massive opportunity for any business.
[Photo credit: Flickr]
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Technology Applications Facebook Brings New Features To Its Messenger App
Facebook Brings New Features To Its Messenger App
One year after the launch, the social network giant Facebook says that the Instant Games has more than 70 titles available from more than 100 developers worldwide. And recently, the social network giant Facebook announced that it is bringing live streaming, video chat feature to its instant games on Messenger.
The social network giant Facebook’s Instant Games platform simply enables you to play titles such as Pac-Man in Messenger or the News Feed and is currently getting some meaningful updates.
However, the main among them is a new live stream option that simply allows you to stream any Instant play you are playing on the social network giant Facebook Live. These streams will also be saved so you can post them to your profile later.
The social network giant Facebook also says it’s starting to test video chat for certain games, so you can see your friends while you play and even start a new game from a video call.
However, if you remember, then you might know that when this Instant Games feature was first launched at that it has offered only 20 games across 30 markets, which includes the popular titles like Pac-Man, Space Invaders, and Words With Friends Frenzy.
But, now one year after the launch, the social network giant Facebook says that the Instant Games has more than 70 titles available from more than 100 developers worldwide, though it’s not clear how many people are actually playing these games, or how profitable they are for developers (Facebook only added monetization options in October).
Angry Birds Teaser
Posted by Messenger on Wednesday, December 6, 2017
In the coming months, the Instant Games will see the addition of a handful of big-name mobile titles that will be “re-imagined” for the platform. This includes Angry Birds (built by CoolGames, who also built Tetris), the puzzle game Tsum Tsum from Disney, Sonic Jump from SEGA and Puzzle & Dragons.
The additions suggest that well-known brands and mobile-style experiences are particularly well on the platform, something Facebook was unsure of at launch. “We will find out over time what works on the platform,” said Leo Olebe, director of global gaming partnerships for Facebook.
According to the social network giant Facebook “More than 245 million people simply video chat every month on the social network giant Facebook’s instant messaging application, Messenger. Hence, this makes for a large potential audience for a video chatting feature, which adds an interactive element to the gaming experience. The feature will also challenge other popular video chatting and hangout apps popular with teens and young adults, like Fam, the app for group video chat via the tech giant Apple’s iMessage, for example, or the tech giant Microsoft’s Skype, among others”.
However, the main idea with the Instant Games on the social network giant Facebook’s Messenger app is simply to boost users’ time consumption in Messenger just by giving them something else to do besides just chatting. Hence, it will serve the social network giant Facebook a lot of boosts along with this newest attempt to return to dominance in social gaming.
So, what do you think about this? Simply share all your views and thoughts in the comment section below.
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Enhancing Crop Genepool Use: Capturing Wild Relative and Landrace Diversity for Crop Improvement
39: What Do We Have To Lose? Monitoring Crop Genetic Diversity
Maxted, N.; Dulloo, M.E.; Ford-Lloyd, B.V. CABI PDF
What Do We Have To Lose?
Monitoring Crop Genetic Diversity
M.E. Dulloo,* I. Thormann and A.G. Drucker
Bioversity International, Rome, Italy
You can’t manage what you don’t measure
(Peter Drucker)
39.1 Introduction
Crop genetic resources for food and agriculture are the basis for sustainable agriculture and food and nutrition security, as well for maintaining essential ecosystem services (Hajjar et al., 2008; FAO, 2015). While they play an essential role in securing basic human food and nutritional needs (Dulloo et al., 2014), they are also critical in maintaining healthy evosystems
(services provided by evolutionary services)
(Faith et al., 2010). These help support landscape-level agroecosystem resilience, as well as allowing plants and animals to undergo natural evolutionary processes (Frankham, 2010), which in turn generate broad genetic variation that is essential for crops, trees and animals to adapt to change (Bellon, 2009). Genetic diversity thus represents the essential raw material for species to evolve and to adapt. Maintaining crop diversity is a key strategy for farmers around the world to guarantee their sustenance.
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23: Landrace Conservation of Maize in Mexico: an Evolutionary Breeding Interpretation
Landrace Conservation of Maize in Mexico: an Evolutionary Breeding
H. Perales*
El Colegio de la Frontera Sur, Carretera Panamericana y
Periferico Sur s/n, San Cristobal, Mexico
At the inception of the crop genetic resources conservation movement, ex situ methods were the preferred way to proceed (Frankel, 1970).
This contrasts to the preferences for wild species where ex situ methods are generally viewed as remedial, a welcomed addition but no way forward. Frankel noted (1970) that ‘we conclude that the prospects of long-term conservation of
“primitive” populations in their natural habitat, with anything like their current population dynamics, is generally much more tenuous than that of wild plants’. The indispensable nature of crop genetic resources for human survival and the uncertain nature of the conservation of crop variants in farmers’ fields were strong arguments for this position.
The view of the relationship between in situ and ex situ conservation for crop genetic resources has changed since the 1990s. Case studies documented that the expected replacement of traditional landraces with commercial seeds was not as simple and straightforward as expected previously (Brush, 1995). The Convention on Biological
30: Chickpea Wild Relatives and Landraces of Georgia
Chickpea Wild Relatives and
Landraces of Georgia
A. Korakhashvili*
National Academy of Sciences of Georgia, Tbilisi, Georgia
In Georgia, the chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.) is a traditional grain legume crop influencing the food supply chain, especially in warmer and drier regions. This crop has been a dominant legume species in Georgian agriculture during the past 30 centuries, but no longer is so, being replaced by other grain legumes such as bean and soybean. Nevertheless, demand for chickpea is growing here at present, because of the good nutritive value of the seeds and the recently changing climate creating favourable conditions for chickpea cultivation. Food legumes in Georgia, though secondary to cereals in terms of production and consumption, have an important role in both sustainable crop production systems and human nutrition. They form an important component of the population’s diet in the developing countries of Transcaucasia. Chickpea is not only a source of human food but also is a powerful tool for restructuring the arable lands of Georgia and heightening the fertility of soils. Our forefathers knew well the high nutritive value of this crop and its positive effect, including its medicinal characteristics, on humans and their domestic livestock, who consumed the crop green or as straw.
18: Developing a Crop Wild Relative Conservation Strategy for Finland
Developing a Crop Wild Relative
Conservation Strategy for Finland
H. Fitzgerald,1* H. Korpelainen2 and M. Veteläinen3
Finnish Museum of Natural History, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland;
Department of Agricultural Sciences, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland;
Boreal Plant Breeding Ltd, Jokioinen, Finland
18.2 Methodology
Crop wild relatives (CWR) are wild plant species that are related to cultivated plants. CWR species have the potential to enhance agricultural production by allowing crops to survive through plant breeding in the new environmental conditions resulting from climate change and help in providing future food security. Since CWR are valuable wild species, mostly not included in conservation programmes and themselves often threatened or growing in threatened habitats, they require urgent research and conservation.
This article discusses the process of preparing the Finnish crop wild relative conservation strategy, which was created as part of the EU
31: Landrace Inventories and Recommendations for In Situ Conservation in Finland
31 Landrace Inventories and
Recommendations for In Situ
Conservation in Finland
M. Heinonen*
Natural Resources Institute Finland, Genetic Diversity, Jokioinen, Finland
31.1 Need for Landrace Inventory
In Finland, landraces and local strains are still cultivated to some extent, especially landraces of cereals, forages, fruit, berries and some vegetables.
However, there are no comprehensive statistics on landrace cultivation. Since 2000, a decree for conservation varieties, their seed production, approval and marketing has been applied to cereals, forages, pulses and some other arable land crops in Finland. This was the first European support system for the on-farm cultivation of arable landraces and old cultivars (Paavilainen,
2009). Today, there are 29 registered conservation varieties. Furthermore, eight local strains of forages and one landrace potato have been accepted to the National List of Plant Varieties.
(Evira, 2014). Many papers specifically referring to Europe (e.g. Veteläinen et al., 2009) have stressed the need for a landrace in situ inventory.
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Transport, Airlines
Will All-Business Class Odyssey Airlines’ Epic Tale End in Triumph?
CAPA- Centre For Aviation
- Jun 11, 2014 12:00 pm
The launch’s two years out from now, much will depend on the execution of Odyssey’s plans and on external factors, such as the state of the demand cycle when it launches.
— Rafat Ali
In Homer’s epic tale The Odyssey, it takes Odysseus 10 years to return home after the Trojan War.
Although CEO Adam Scott’s first attempt to start Odyssey Airlines began around nine years ago, he will he hoping for a smoother journey after the planned launch of all-business class flights between London City Airport and New York in 2016.
Odyssey’s business model is based mainly on the convenience of London City and the deployment of the Bombardier CS100 in a 40 seat configuration. It will compete with British Airways’ 32 seat A318 business class-only service from the same airport, in addition to multi-class services from BA, American, Virgin Atlantic, United and Delta from Heathrow.
History has not been kind to premium-only operators on the North Atlantic, whose share of global premium revenues is declining. In spite of this less than encouraging backdrop, Odyssey is not the only airline planning all-business class operations between Europe and North America.
Odyssey will position itself at the high end of the business class segment, promising a “travel experience more akin to a private jet”. This is partly due to the C Series’ larger windows and improved climate control, but also to planned on-board catering, services such as wi-fi and its IFE system, and what it claims will be the longest fully flat beds in the industry.
A clear positioning in the business segment should be preferable to the more blurred positioning of previous airlines in this space. Neither Silverjet nor MAXjet had fully flat beds and established themselves more as discount business class carriers. If Odyssey gets it right, its offer will be clearly superior to that of these two (taking account of both inflight and airport features.
Odyssey certainly appears to have done its homework and has assembled a team with significant experience of the all-business class market. Its strengths should include the size of the London-New York premium market, the CSeries aircraft, London City Airport and launching with a major airline partner (depending on the final choice).
Its challenges will include the lack of a network and FFP with which to attract and retain loyal customers (this could be mitigated by a partnership with a major airline), choosing a suitable New York airport, coping with seasonal fluctuations in demand, pricing strategy and the possibility of a competitor replicating its CSeries-based model.
In Homer’s Odyssey, the hero Odysseus’ strengths are tested to the full by a long series of challenges. At the end, he can only win back his wife Penelope by killing all the suitors that have gathered in his absence. It seems unlikely that Mr Scott’s venture will have such a devastating impact on his competitors.
Ultimately, much will depend on the execution of Odyssey’s plans and on external factors, such as the state of the demand cycle when it launches. The ‘all eggs in one basket’ nature of the premium-only start up airline leave little scope for error or bad luck.
For more on this story, read the full CAPA analysis here.
This story originally appeared on CAPA – Centre for Aviation, a Skift content partner.
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42 U7 mtDNA, czyli wielki kłopot dla tych, co jeszcze ciągle marzą, o „południowej drodze R1a”, i o tym, że Scyci (a także Sarmaci) i Słowianie to jedno i to samo… →
41 Tzw. PIE, tzw. Yamnaya, tzw. Afanasievo, czyli dlaczego tu do jasnej cholery nic nie dodaje się, ani nie trzyma kupy, hm? 01
Monty Python – Ukamienowanie (Żywot Briana) PL
STWIERDZAM CO NASTĘPUJE: DO TEJ PORY NIKT NIE ODWAŻYŁ SIĘ NAWET SPRÓBOWAĆ OBALIĆ ALBO NAWET PODWAŻYĆ MOJEGO POMYSŁU O „PÓŁNOCNEJ DRODZE R1A”… I TEGO CO Z TEGO MOŻE WYNIKAĆ…
…więc przechodzę nad tym do porządku dziennego i przestaję już czekać na jakieś nadlatujące kamienie, rzucane ze strony bohatersko milczących „łowców ruskich trolli” lub innych wierzących w „południową drogę R1a”…
Rozumiem, że „wiarygodność dowodów i źródeł” upowszechnionych przez nich, a także moja ich analiza… zwyczajnie „przygniotły ich”, dokładnie tak jak pokazano to na tym powyższym filmie… 🙂 LOL 🙂
Pewno gdybym robił to dłużej, (czyli czekał na jakieś cudowne objawienie, itp)… to czuję że zwyczajnie umarłbym z nudów,.. no chyba żeby Anna M. pierwsza zamęczyłaby mnie swoimi prośbami o upowszechnienie danych o R1a i R1b znalezionych w kulturze Afanasievo, (wywodzącej się ze wschodniej Yamnaya) inaczej zwanej „The Yamna culture (also known as the Pit Grave culture or Ochre Grave culture)”… 😉
Upowszechniłem już te dane co najmniej ze dwa razy (a pewno więcej), ale widzę, że nikt jakoś nie za bardzo rozumie, co z tych danych wynika, a wynika wg mnie bardzo wiele. Rozbiorę więc to teraz na części pierwsze,.. ale najpierw upowszechnię ruchomą animację przedstawiającą rzekomo jak to było z tą Yamnaya i tym, co wyszło z niej, jak i ponownie opublikuję poniższy wpis i co ciekawsze komentarze pod nim. Następnie poskładam to od nowa do kupy… ale to pewno już w drugiej lub następnych częściach tego wpisu…
@Arzya “you are the victim of propaganda (aka PIE „reconstruction” and sound „laws”)”.
Not only he. There are problems with defining Proto-Indo-European. The most logical definition would be: it is the proto-language which links India and Europe. There is only one language which fits this definition. It is Indo-Slavic, i.e. the language from which Baltic, Slavic and Indo-Iranian languages originated and were spoken in India and Europe. This language correlates well with R1a-Z645 expansion. Germanic tribes didn’t have contacts with Indo-Iranians. They had contacts with Slavs, but Germanic scholars don’t want to admit it.
Listen to what top Germanic scholar Guus Kroonen is saying:
“Slavs were barbarians to Germanic people…You don’t borrow from barbarians, that’s the rule.”
This is why proto-Germanic is based on some BS reconstructions from some BS PIE language which never existed and never was spoken by anybody.
http://eurogenes.blogspot.co.uk/2017/03/r1b-m269-in-afanasievo.html
R1b-M269 in Afanasievo
Back in 2015, Allentoft et al. published four Afanasievo genomes that finally confirmed beyond any doubt that the enigmatic Afanasievo people were migrants to the Altai region from Eastern Europe.
However, all four samples came from female remains, which left us wondering about the Y-haplogroup composition of the Afanasievo population. As it turns out, a French study from 2014 found that three Afanasievo individuals belonged to R1b, with two classified as R1b-M269 (see here).
There’s nothing remarkable (???!!! Dawidski nagle zgłupiał, albo nie chce przyznać, że to jest bardzo ważne???!!!) about this, considering that the above mentioned four Afanasievo samples look essentially identical to M269-rich eastern Yamnaya samples from Kalmykia and Samara in terms of genome-wide genetic structure (for instance, see here). But it’s a useful bit of info that has somehow eluded us all until now. Thanks to Kristiina for the find
Clémence Hollard. Peuplement du sud de la Sibérie et de l’Altaï à l’âge du Bronze : apport de la paléogénétique. Paléontologie. Université de Strasbourg, 2014. Français. NNT : 2014STRAJ002. tel-01296484
Posted by Davidski at 2:48:00 AM
Yamnaya was exclusively R1b, now we see the same with Afanasievo – only R1b. This suggests that as early as 3500 BC or earlier there were two distinct groups on the steppe, R1b and R1a dominated, which didn’t mix because probably spoke very different languages, had different religions and cultures.
Yamnaya was exclusively R1b. Might be useful not to get too dogmatic about this, until we see samples from more western Yamnaya sites, especially in what was Dnieper-Donets territory, where Neolithic R1a has already been found.
Both Yamnaya and Afanasievo can’t be the source of EBA type Indian ancestry +R1a. But the sister group to Eastern European Corded Ware is.
Early Baltic Corded Ware looks basically like Yamnaya, so it or some sort of sister group fits the bill in terms of genome-wide formal stats for Steppe_EBA admixture in South Asians. Maykop won’t be the right group in terms of genome-wide DNA or Y-DNA. There won’t be any R1a-M417/Z645 in Maykop.
Rob said…
What I think is interesting is that Z93 has been in Altai since Neolithic
@Rob What’s your French like? Because those Z93 in the Altai are from the Late Bronze Age, after Andronovo.
@ Dave There were.2 R1a-M417 in Neolithic Lokomotiv (5,5-3,7 ky BP). It was my guess that it could be Z93..
http://bhap.artsrn.ualberta.ca/images/uploads/pdfs/Moussa.et.al.JAS-R.Nov.2016.pdf
Y-chromosomal DNA analyzed for four prehistoric cemeteries from Cis-Baikal, Siberia
N.M. Moussa,V.I. Bazaliiskii, O.I. Goriunova, F. Bamforth, A.W. Weber
The Lake Baikal region of Siberia was home to two temporally distinct populations from Early Neolithic, EN
(7500–7000 cal BP) to Late Neolithic-Early Bronze Age, LN-EBA (5570–3725 cal BP). The EN group was separated
from the LN-EBA group by a ~1500-year gap (hiatus), and during this hiatus no human remains have been recovered from the Lake Baikal area. Examination of the paternal lineage through Y-chromosomal polymorphisms is a novel approach to BAP and will facilitate the assessment of the paternal continuities and/or discontinuities within
and between the EN and the LN-EBA groups, and complement the previously examined maternal data. Several new ancient DNA extraction and PCR amplification techniques were optimized to address the technical challenges during sample analysis. Each sample was extracted twice in duplicate on different occasions to authenticate the results. Thirteen Y-chromosomal Single Nucleotide Polymorphism (SNP) markers were examined via the SNaPshot multiplex PCR reaction to determine Y-chromosomal haplogroups of males. Results have been obtained from 16 males from the EN cemeteries Lokomotiv and Shamanka II representing haplogroups K, R1a1 and C3, and 20 males from the LN-EBA Ust’-Ida and Kurma XI cemeteries representing haplogroups Q, K and unidentified SNP (L914). For those males belonging to haplogroup Q, further experiments were obtained to examine subhaplogroups of Q, and the results showed that those males belong to sub-haplogroup Q1a3. The paternal Y-chromosome results suggest a discontinuity between the EN and LN-EBA populations. The significance of this research lies on the utility of DNA analysis in making inferences about the pre-historic social structure.
@Rob There were.2 R1a-M417 in Neolithic Lokomotiv (5,5-3,7 ky BP). It was my guess that it could be Z93. Nah, Z645 didn’t move into Central Europe from Siberia. It came from the Western steppe. Time to start accepting things now, and not encouraging Nirjhar. He won’t thank you in the long run when he flips his lid after the new papers come out.
@Davidski Maykop won’t be the right group in terms of genome-wide DNA or Y-DNA. There won’t be any R1a-M417/Z645 in Maykop. You still have time to reconcile yourself to the idea that you were WRONG. There are no chances that Maykop wasn’t a source of R1a-M417/Z645 folks.
@ Dave Lol I’m not encouraging anything or anyone. Nor did I imply that Z645 moved from Siberia to Europe. It’s just possible, possible that it was already there in the local late Neolithic
It’s not technically possible. Learn something about the structure and history of R1a-Z645 and R1a-Z282.
Okay another key thing is now that , as someone just pointed me, how silly of me! : if Afanasevo is R1b like Yamnaya it cannot be the source of Tarim, which was R1a.
Bol’shemysskaya culture is very interesting, it is a HG culture which shows some similarity to Kelteminar culture:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bolshemys_culture
Karl_K said…
„if Afanasevo is R1b like Yamnaya it cannot be the source of Tarim, which was R1a.” What does this have to do with anything? Those mummies were from 1800 BC. They could be an offshoot of Corded Ware for all anyone knows.
John Smith said…
As a layman, I find it difficult to understand why either R1a or R1b almost always seem to dominate any given archaeological site to the exclusion of the other. Anyone mind explaining what gives? Where is the R1a in Yamnaya? Where is the R1b in Andronovo? If all of these cultures spawned from one mother culture, wouldn’t we see a healthy mix of R1a/R1b in all of them?
I find fascinating the question then, who were these Afanasievo people?. Interestingly as we know, Xiaohe also had the M Mtdnas . I think BMAC and N India should have good amounts of R1a . It makes sense since CWC , Sintashta, Andronovo, Tarim area , even Srubnaya didn’t have any R1b .R1b is also not important for Indo-Aryan groups . Indo-Aryans require EBA Autosomal structure to have an ‚ancestral pop’ . So Yamnaya, Afana.(Actually Yamnaya was discarded long before) is discarded now along with Sintashta,Andronovo from before. We all know Archaeologically its also not possible for Andronovo to be the source of Indian IEs. Then we see also that Ulug Depe showing Indian like EBA ancestry. Its also hilarious to claim CWC is source of Tocharians! . I think SC Asia have a great chance , with sites like Sarazm , things can be fascinating . Unless we have to imagine that Aryans came from Siberia! like Bal Gangadhar Tilak suggested 😉 , its possible since now we have R1a-M417 from Lake Baikal! .
Plains Wanderer said…
@John Smith Perhaps it’s because R1a and R1b belonged to two distinct populations since the LGM and they only mixed in some later groups such as western European IE (Germanic and Italo-Celtic). I find it striking how nearly all R1a since the EBA seems to be linked to or is well correlated with various IE groups or with groups later absorbed into the Turkic expansions. Meanwhile, R1b is associated with several non-IE groups such as Chadic speakers and some other groups in Africa, the Basques, and probably the non-IE Iberians during the Iron Age. There’s also M73 and some older surviving lineages like M335 and PH155 that may not be connected to IE expansions. I think this all hints to R1a being the original lineage of PIE and R1b only mixed into some groups after PIE began expanding.
@John Smith
There are a few ways that might explain. You can even think about it and you would come up with the most obvious ways yourself. It could be that having a certain Y-haplogroup simply confers a biological advantage. This is extremely unlikely.
It could be that there is a sex-linked dominant reason that confers a biological advantage. So, anything that gives an advantage to a son a father, but disadvantages the daughter of a father. This is possible, for example lactose tolerance could advantage sons over daughters. Both sons and daughters get the advantage as a young child, but later, daughters are disadvantaged when they have their own children, because the children could compete for milk longer.
The most obvious reason is that sometimes cultures develop a culture-linked dominant reason that confers a biological advantage. The most obvious is that anyone in a socially special family can have more children, and then those children gain the same social advantage.
In that case, the females can never gain the same biological advantage as the males, because they have a limited ability to produce children. So, males in certain families have many many more children, and his children inherit the social status, and then his male children are able to have many many more children, and so on.
The fact that you see very few random Y haplogroups, but many mt haplogroups joining in over time means that either the daughters with the special status were not allowed to have sex outside of this special social status group, or that the status was only passed to sons.
Most likely then. There was a special social status group that was passed down through the paternal line and allowed them to have many many more children than the average man could have.
This special social status could be as simple as a requirement to pay a price to someone to have a child, coupled with the ability to inherit wealth from parents. But in pre-genetic testing times, that would require a lot of trust. If it was true, it could be a reason for the spread of certain phenotypic traits that people could use as a marker of parentage.
Gioiello said…
@ Plains Wanderer „Meanwhile, R1b is associated with several non-IE groups such as Chadic speakers and some other groups in Africa, the Basques, and probably the non-IE Iberians during the Iron Age. There’s also M73 and some older surviving lineages like M335 and PH155 that may not be connected to IE expansions. I think this all hints to R1a being the original lineage of PIE and R1b only mixed into some groups after PIE began expanding”.
You are mixing too many wrong things: 1) it isn’t true that R1b is linked with Chadic languages, what also Cruciani said: R-V88 comes from Italy and African R-V88 aren’t older than 5000 years, 2) R-M73 is older in Western Europe and Asians descend from two recent haplotypes, one from Turks, but migrated to Central Asia from Samara; 3) R-M335 is overwhelmingly in Central Europe and Italy and is older than R-PH155 found in Central Asia and India, and it has nothing to do with the R-L389+ subclades, and so on.
@ Nirjhar0007 (said James Bond) Are all those white men with blond hair and blue eyes really from India? Anyway these R-M269-L23 were overwhelmingly „Europeans” as Hollard says…
В северомонгольско сагсайской культуре (1400-900г. до н.э., по всей видимости, постандроновская культура) 4 R1a1a1b2-Z93. Translation: In North Mongolian Sagsai culture (1400-900 BC most likely post-Andronovo) 4 R1a1a1b2-Z93.
So Sagsai seems to be a North-Western Mongolian culture derived from Andronovo, a mix of Aryans and early Mongols:
@Gioiello Note that I did not speculate where R1a and R1b originally came from, just that they were distinct populations. Are you saying that the ancestors of Chadic V88, Turkic M73, and of M335 originally spoke IE languages? Because if not, my point still stands: that R1b might have originally been non-PIE and only certain subclades of R1b such as L21 and U152 adopted and spread IE languages.
@ Plain Wanderer It is difficult to understand the pathway of the haplogroups, if you add the languages, things become more and more difficult. My theory is that R1b1 (as Villabruna 14000 years ago demonstrates) comes from the Italian Refugium. Certainly, after the Younger Dryas, R-V88, R-L389+, R-L73, R-P297, R-M335 expanded from there. I supposed that also the Indo-European languages, how they could be then, could have been born there, above all whether it will be demonstrated that also R1a-M420 and subclades was there (and possibly I/J). But languages are a complex phenomenon and we haven’t aDNA for that. Let’s demonstrate genetics. After we’ll speak also about languages.
@ Plains and @ Karl_K Perhaps the issue is we only have samples from Kurgans (or do we have others?). It seems PIE society was segregated into three major classes of people: warriors, priests, and artisans (craftsmen, farmers, herders, etc.). This seems to be a theme in almost all IE connected cultures well into the middle ages (until the fall of monarchies). In any case, if we’re only sampling warriors (and finding no priests or serfs), then perhaps this explains the disparity. As Karl mentions, there’s no doubt that the Chief of each tribe was a member of the warrior class, and as a result, he had more breeding opportunities than the other classes (after all women like status, lol). And we know the „throne” was passed to only males of the Warrior King’s lineage, which means we will only find men of his haplogroup buried in Kurgans. That all makes sense. So, I suppose the question is, were’s the priests and serfs? Were they cremated, perhaps? If so, that really throws a wrench into the gears doesn’t it?
Gaspar said…
The only way there can be a divide in yamnaya between R1b and R1a is if R1b entered Yamnaya via the south caucasus and R1a could not because north of the caspian sea was still under the ice-belt . It would mean that yamnaya was populated firstly by R1b. It would then mean eastern Europe was firstly populated by R1b before R1a …………and it would also make sense that the barbarian invasions of the Roman empire where heavily R1b over R1a. As for those who still believe R1b or R1a created PIE, you are wrong because it would make no sense for either to go to Anatolia , which is the first linguistic split from PIE at 4000BC before going to Eastern Europe. Clearly PIE was created by many different Hapolgroups living together in the north Caucasus area
AWood said…
@Alberto Allentoft et al (2015) already drew the conclusion that the much younger Tarim basin mummies were not sprung from the earliest wave through autosomal analysis. This implies there were at least two movements eastwards. The latter being R1a1, and the earlier being R1b. I’m not certain that R1a1 was even around, or that far east at the time of Afanasievo or even eastern Yamnaya. I guess we need to see more data. R1b has always been the slightly older brother.
Atriðr said…
The truth is coming out. EBA in South Asians is closer to Afanasievo than to Andronovo. Andronovo is different from Afanasievo because of Western/Caucasus expansions. Afanasievo is leaning exclusively (for now) R1b. South Asians do not have Andronovo DNA. Ergo, EBA in South Asians did not come from Afanasievo. And R1a did not arrive in South Asia with Yamnayans or Andronovo/Afan.
This leads to at least three options:
1) PIE did not come from R1a or R1b, but J2. @Nirjhar J2 is present is UC Indians.
2) R1a is source of PIE and did not come from Yamnaya, Andronovo, Afanasievo.
3) PIE came from several haplogroups, likely Caucasus area.
There are two potential locations for R1a. And I’m fine with both because they’ve made sense from the very beginning, unlike Yamnaya. @Gioiello is correct – we can determine the genetics independent of languages for now.
One thing certain, R1a does not come from anywhere near Europe. R1a was the invasion that pushed R1b to the oceans of the Atlantic.
Blasonario Cremonese said…
@ all the good souls filled with R1a-supremacism
Did you all notice that in Khvalynsk we have R1b1 AND R1a1 in the same area? So, an educated guess is that those two haplogroups lived pretty much together for long time and the divion between cultures merely dominated by only one of those two lineages are only due to the chieftains offsprings. Please Atridr, spare me the comment full of Lord of the rings fantasy about an invasion: R1a seems to be in the East European and steppe area from the Mesolithic (see also the Karelian samples)… so what invasion are you talking about?
@ AWood wrote: „Ahh I get it now, so Afanasievo is no longer a PIE related culture because some posters didn’t like the outcome? I never knew the answers were so easy!” I remember when the first results from Yamna were out: a lot of people was astonished (and I think nearly to cry like babies). After a second (just the time to dry their tears), some of those heroes say that Yamna wasn’t PIE, because R1b can’t be linked with PIE. Good science!
The fact is that Corded Ware men were almost totally R1a, and yet extremely similar autosomally to R1b dominated Yamnaya. Listen to the autosome. It is at least a million times more informative than Y haplogroups in determining how closely connected two groups are in term of real relationships, in general.
Khvalynsk had both R1a and R1b and they weren’t mammoth hunters. After Khvalynsk we see certain subclades of R1a and R1b restricted to specific archeological cultures, in other words clans. But this may be misleading to some degree, because most of the burials are those of elites. More sampling of the steppe, steppe-derived cultures, and a wider cross section of each archeological culture will clear up a lot of things, and demonstrate more clearly the expansion of Yamnaya-like populations from the steppe in almost all directions, carrying either R1a, R1b or both.
Grey said…
Davidski „Khvalynsk had both R1a and R1b and they weren’t mammoth hunters.” Sure – the mammoth were all gone by then. The point was in response to „The only way there can be a divide in yamnaya between R1b and R1a is if R1b entered Yamnaya via the south caucasus and R1a could not because north of the caspian sea was still under the ice-belt.” i.e. the assumption they had to come from the south rather than they were already there.
Ryan said…
@Nirjhar007 – the Tarim mummies are almost all R1a but they lived long before Tocharian is attested. Those mummies likely do have roots in Indo-Iranian groups, but you shouldn’t assume that no other Indo-European groups arrived in the Tarim basin afterwards. In the last 1,500 years the region has gone from Tocharian, to Turkish, and now to Chinese speaking. I don’t think it’s wise to assume that the 2,500 years preceding that were pure statis.
Modern Uighurs are 3-10% R1b and 22-35% R1a. That’s a lot of R1a, but a lot less than the 11/12 with the Tarim mummies. Maybe the sample size means R1b was just missed, but either way there’s clearly been a lot of Y-DNA turnover in the region over the years, and it certainly seems plausible to attribute R1b and Tocharian languages to a late bronze age / early iron age migration. Especially when you consider that when Tocharians appear in the historical record they are surrounded by Indo-Iranian groups on nearly all sides. It’s not unreasonable to posit that they were the interlopers in a previously Indo-Iranian domain.
3-10% R1b is enough to bring a language too – migrations are a ship of Theseus, and the first Tocharians in the Tarim Basin may already have been ethnically diverse. There are certainly plenty of Indo-Iranian populations with less than 10% R1 of any sort.
Arza said…
@EastPole Guus Kroonen is saying:
“Slavs were barbarians to Germanic people…You don’t borrow from barbarians, that’s the rule.” Just one big WTF. I thought they at least keep up appearances. I’m speechless. This must be a quite new rule (Kroonen Law?), because his ancestors didn’t know about it at all.
@Grey – „How convenient. Also, convenient that R1a/R1b split along satem-centum lines with some few exceptions.” It actually makes sense for satem and centum to split that way. Suppose the proto-IE group is mostly R1b, with some R1a and some Q. As the first IE groups expand, each leaves with a different mix of these haplogroups. Because IE society is very patriarchal and due to founder effects, many groups tend to be dominated by one haplogroup – mostly R1b, but a few by R1a as well. These initial departing groups are the ancestors of the centum languages. One group that happens to be dominated by R1a develops satemization. They then undergo a secondary expansion – spreading back across lands previously occupied by their R1b centum cousins, mostly replacing them and their language.
capra internetensis said…
@Rob Are you sure it’s M417 at Lokomotiv? My notes say M17.
Definitely M17. Rob doesn’t know the difference between M417 and M17.
It actually makes sense for satem and centum to split that way. It does but for diametrically opposed reasons that you state in your comment.
Rafs said…
„Meanwhile, R1b is associated with several non-IE groups such as Chadic speakers and some other groups in Africa” That’s silly. From the fact that other groups possess R1b you can’t conclude that it isn’t original to IE, too. Proto-IE weren’t born from the ground, with wholly new haplogroups, and no connection to other populations. And R1a appears among Siberians, Mongolians, as well as Turkic and Dravidian speakers.
„the Basques” possess as much steppe admixture as their IE neighbors.
„and probably the non-IE Iberians during the Iron Age.” No evidence of that.
„I think this all hints to R1a being the original lineage of PIE and R1b only mixed into some groups after PIE began expanding.” Are we back in 2005, when there was no ancient DNA around?
Both the more ancient IE groups are almost pure R1b, with no R1a thus far, and R1b is already seen in the steppe among their EHG ancestors. R1b appears in the Yamnaya prior to any geographic expansion beyond their original country. R1a only starts being associated with autosomal steppe admixture later on, with populations – the Corded Ware, the Srubna – that are either later in time or the result of geographical expansion. So, if between R1b and R1a there’s only one haplogroup that is original to IE, it’s R1b, and if R1a is the one that became associated with temporal or geographical expansions.
@Rafs R1a only starts being associated with autosomal steppe admixture later on, with populations – the Corded Ware, the Srubna – that are either later in time or the result of geographical expansion. Khvalynsk has R1a, and it’s seen as Proto-IE. Yamnaya is seen as Late Proto-IE.
Aram said…
Mesolithic R1s in East Europe were probably para-pre-PIE speakers. By pre-PIE I mean the language of EHG folks before they admixed with Basal Eurasians. Here it is an example.
„”Proto-Berber shows features that clearly distinguish it from all other branches of Afroasiatic, but modern Berber languages are relatively homogeneous. Whereas the split from the other known Afroasiatic branches was very ancient, on the order of 10000~9000 years ago, according to glottochronological studies,[2] Proto-Berber might be as recent as 3000 years ago.””
And now look at the Berber Y DNA
https://yfull.com/tree/E-M81/
E-M81PF2553/M5311 * CTS8282/Z1194/M5248 * CTS665/PF2482/M5018+147 SNPs formed 14200 ybp, TMRCA 2200 ybp
Basically this mean that Berbers splited from PAA some 12000 years ago and remained isolated somewhere is West Africa. During this long period of isolation their language remained in the AA frames. So why haplogroup E-M35 can keep his language while R1 can’t?
Annie Mouse said…
@Raf We have no idea what those prehistoric people spoke. We can guess, but they are only at best educated guesses.
So far as I know the oldest known „Indo European” language is Hittite (Turkey) from around 1500 BCE. None of the older cultures are known to speak Indo European. None. Whatsoever. There is absolutely no evidence of any kind. Nothing.
A few have evidence of untranslatable script that looks a lot like heiroglyphics to me. Vinca (first found in Romania) and supposedly found in France alongside cave paintings looks like the first European script. But we cant translate it. We dont know the language at all.
http://www.ancient-wisdom.com/writingorigin.htm
Even the name „Indo-European” people is pure speculation. Ancient Harappan Indus (indian) has never been translated and it looks nothing like Hittite cuneiform. But it is possible that the written language forms developed separately after the oral language was well established.
The current thinking however is that Indus is not an even an Indo European language but a Dravidian language. Which to me makes sense with Sankrit entering later or being confined to the north. (ducks for cover)
http://www.nature.com/news/ancient-civilization-cracking-the-indus-script-1.18587
So we have Hittite, and no Hittite has ever been genetically tested so we know nothing about their genetic relationships with any other regions. Not that genetics has much to do with language. My best guess is that they were… Turkish.
Which brings me back to my main point. That the connection between language and genetics is loose at best, wildly deceiving at worst.
In terms of regions this language group stretched from east asian Tocharian to Western Europe to Sankrit India. It is now truly global. Indo European as a name never made sense and does not make sense now. We need another name for the language family. TransEurasian, Steppish or something similar.
Equally „Indo-European people” makes no sense genetically except as unreliable evidence for an theory. Languages are not people. As attested by the Caribbean, Phillipines and Central America. Even in Ireland/Britain with the so called Saxon/Celtic divide, that wasn’t.
English became the lingua franca in some areas because the English suck at languages, had a malleable language and were influential traders.
For all we know the „Indo European” languages spread across the Europe in the Greek classical era as a trading language. Languages can change fast, as Chaucer illustrates, along with any number of pidgin languages. (ducks and runs rapidly away as fast as she can).
wagg said…
The Xiaohe were indeed R1a (with mostly mtDNA C4 IIRC (which is found in the Altai)) but IIRC, Y-DNA R1b is found in the Tarim basin nowadays, even though I can’t remember the subclade(s), so… calm down with the certitudes, guys.
He’s talking about Andronovo.
http://eurogenes.blogspot.com.au/2009/05/ancient-siberians-carrying-r1a1-had_24.html
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs00439-009-0683-0
Ancient DNA provides new insights into the history of south Siberian Kurgan people
Christine Keyser, Caroline Bouakaze, Eric Crubézy, Valery G. Nikolaev, Daniel Montagnon, Tatiana Reis, Bertrand Ludes
To help unravel some of the early Eurasian steppe migration movements, we determined the Y-chromosomal and mitochondrial haplotypes and haplogroups of 26 ancient human specimens from the Krasnoyarsk area dated from between the middle of the second millennium BC. to the fourth century AD. In order to go further in the search of the geographic origin and physical traits of these south Siberian specimens, we also typed phenotype-informative single nucleotide polymorphisms. Our autosomal, Y-chromosomal and mitochondrial DNA analyses reveal that whereas few specimens seem to be related matrilineally or patrilineally, nearly all subjects belong to haplogroup R1a1-M17 which is thought to mark the eastward migration of the early Indo-Europeans. Our results also confirm that at the Bronze and Iron Ages, south Siberia was a region of overwhelmingly predominant European settlement, suggesting an eastward migration of Kurgan people across the Russo-Kazakh steppe. Finally, our data indicate that at the Bronze and Iron Age timeframe, south Siberians were blue (or green)-eyed, fair-skinned and light-haired people and that they might have played a role in the early development of the Tarim Basin civilization. To the best of our knowledge, no equivalent molecular analysis has been undertaken so far.
Simon_W said…
@Arza & East Pole
There mere fact that a method centuries ago was misused and wrongly applied by a a handful of biased and obviously silly people doesn’t prove that the whole method is shit. There are enough crackpots misusing maths to prove Einstein was wrong, yet this doesn’t prove maths is BS. Indeed, without PIE reconstruction and regular sound-laws there would be no talk about PIE, or at least not as dead certain as it is now. The method of linguistic archaeology does have some difficulties and problems, and the exact inventory of the PIE vocabulary is controversial in a few points, but this doesn’t mean we have to throw it all into the dustbin.
And besides, if you think that Germanic people in general despise Slavs like the Nazis did decades ago, then you are hopelessly stuck in the past, to say the least. I know many Poles who don’t know Germans in personal still tend to have reservations towards them, but Germans are not the only Germanic people, and afaik Poles have no problems Danes or Scandinavians. And Guus Kroonen seems to be Dutch judging from his name – since when is there a problem between Poles and the Dutch?
As for the name „Indo-European”, that’s merely a convention, it doesn’t mean a lot. In German the IE language family is sometimes called Indogermanisch as well, because it’s a language family that lies between Germanic Icelandic in the west and Indian in the east. But the difference is just in the name, the object of designation is the same.
http://www.eupedia.com/europe/Haplogroup_R1a_Y-DNA.shtml
http://www.eupedia.com/genetics/haplogroups_of_bronze_age_proto-indo-europeans.shtml
http://www.eupedia.com/genetics/yamna_culture.shtml
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12 uwag do wpisu “41 Tzw. PIE, tzw. Yamnaya, tzw. Afanasievo, czyli dlaczego tu do jasnej cholery nic nie dodaje się, ani nie trzyma kupy, hm? 01”
Anna M. tu masz trochę o tym Twoim Sag:
http://eurogenes.blogspot.co.uk/2017/02/european-specific-mtdna-lineages-on-neo.html?showComment=1488357325824#c1945378408411807406
Kristiina said…
How come nobody has noticed this! This is huge!
Peuplement du sud de la Sibérie et de l’Altaï à l’âge du Bronze : apport de la paléogénétique
https://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-01296484/
Afanasievo is R1b-M269, R1b-P297 (Yamnaya line I presume) and Q-M242 (Maf)
Okunevo is R1b1a2-M269, Q1a3 and N
Elunino is Q1a3
Chemurchek is C-M130
Sagsai is R1a1-Z93, Q1a3a, C-M130 (looks Turkic)
Munkh-Khairkhan is N
Therefore, I think that Afanasievo could be Yamnaya Samara IE language, Okunevo a Siberian language, Chemurchek could be Proto-Tungusic, Sagsai Proto-Turkic, Munkh-Khairkan proto-Samoyedic.
To na podstawie tego komentarza Dawidski napisał swój artykuł, który zacytowałem w tym wpisie. Upowszechnię dalej cały artykuł z którego pochodzi ta uwaga Kristina’y, jak i co ciekawsze komentarze innych komentujących.
European-specific mtDNA lineages on the Neo-Eneolithic Mongol Steppe
Interesting but not surprising:
The mitochondrial haplotypes U5a1 and H2a2a were identified from two upper Neolithic or early Eneolithic graves in Bayankhongor Province, Erdenetsogt Township, Shatar Chuluu. This is the earliest documented appearance of western mtDNA haplotypes on the Mongol Steppe, and the farthest east “western” mtDNA haplotypes have been recorded before the Iron Age. This evidence proves that individuals possessing western Eurasian mtDNA lived on the Mongol Steppe, east of the Altai Mountains, before the Bronze Age, and dispels the notion that the Altai Mountains were a significant barrier to gene flow.
When exactly western Eurasian steppe people migrated past the Altai to the Mongol Steppe is still not clear, however the identification of western mtDNA haplotypes from the Neolithic Mongol Steppe (this project) suggests that the migration predates the Eneolithic (~2900BCE). These first migrants most likely arrived along with the population from which the Afanasievo archaeological culture arose, or perhaps earlier with the first “western” people migrating onto the Mongol Steppe shortly after domestication of the horse, although no conclusive evidence of horse domestication dating before ~1300BCE has been found on the Mongol Steppe (Svyatko et al 2009; Vigne et al 2011; Taylor et al 2015). It seems more likely that the western migration onto the steppe was following sheep herds, which may have moved onto the Mongol Steppe around 3,300BCE (Lv et al 2015).
Rogers, Leland Liu, Understanding ancient human population genetics of the eastern Eurasian steppe through mitochondrial DNA analysis: Central Mongolian samples from the Neolithic, Bronze Age, Iron Age and Mongol Empire periods, Indiana University, ProQuest Dissertations Publishing, 2016. 10253175
101 ancient Eurasian genomes (Allentoft et al. 2015)
A moment of clarity: PCA of ancient West Eurasia
jv said…
Wouldn’t surprise me if an mtDNA H6 shows up in that area as mtDNA H6 was found in the Andronovo Culture & Okunev Culture.
Early Scythians had Siberian admixture. They weren’t South Asian. http://eurogenes.blogspot.com.au/2015/12/the-scythian.html
postneo said…
I had commented last year that the supposed skewed sex ratio of yamnaya incursion to europe is an artifact. west Eurasian mtdna had already migrated to the steppe before the yamnaya incursion. So the yamnaya were bringing nothing new on the female side when they moved in to Europe
The recent q3 paper shoes proto yamnaya links between caucasus yamnaya south CAspian IVC and Altai. It’s a mountain corridor connected by goats and sheep
Out of curiosity, I checked the admixture graph in the Allentoft paper. North Indians, Kalash, Yamnaya and Afanasievo do share the greenish component. This component is probably the same as CHG whatever it really means. At a high K level, Afanasievo and Yamnaya also share the turquoise Kalash component. I do not know what this implies but one cannot say that Afanasievo and North India/Pakistan do not share any southern ancestry. Here the question is what is the relationship between ANI and CHG. I know that you, David, are against Iran ancestry in Yamnaya and maintain that it is only Caucasian ancestry.
ak2014b said…
mtDNA M doesn’t look all too common in Iran, going by the Derenko et al 2013 paper, which further found no R7. Out of 353 samples, there are 13 instances of M. One of this was in a single Turkic speaking Qashqai, who was M4a. The remaining 12 samples of M are among ethnic Persians, and consist of single instances each of M18a, M2c, M3a1, M42b1b, M4b, M5a2a1a (from Kerman), and 6 persons with M5a2a4 of whom four were from Kerman province. mtDNA M52, found in south Asians of the Himalayan region and in Bronze Age Novosvobodnaya aDNA, is not reported by the above paper as being present in the Iranian population.
Check Table 2: Bronze Age Mongolia Sequence Data!
Indian mtDNAs are R7, M31a2 x 2 and M3 x 2. One M is not clear. Moreover, H14 is typical for Dravidians and the most basal haplotype is found there. This means that 5(7) out of 26 samples are Indian. It is c. 20-25%. Seven out of 26 samples are Siberian (A2,A2a1,D,Z,C4b8a(?)). Two are East Asian (M8, B4). Ten are Western Eurasian (N1a1a, K, H2a2a x2, H2a5b2, H5, H, HV0a1 x2)
This may be the first time that H14 appears in ancient samples anywhere. The distribution is very exciting
http://www.ianlogan.co.uk/sequences_by_group/h14_genbank_sequences.htm
„The haplogroup H14 is uncommon in Europe but found mostly in the Near East and the Caucasus (Richards et al. 2000; Nasidze and Stoneking 2001; Roostalu et al. 2007; Al-Zahery et al. 2011) and so far only two subclades—H14a and H14b have been identified. However, based on new complete sequence analysis we identified an additional subclade, H14c, which has not been reported earlier (Fig. 1a). H14a and H14c lineages were found in Punjab, Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal, and Andhra Pradesh, whereas a single H14b2 haplotype was reported from Pakistan (GenBank KJ446337).”
Source: West Eurasian mtDNA lineages in India: an insight into the spread of the Dravidian language and the origins of the caste system
This what they suggest in the paper above:
„The autochthonous subhaplogroups—HV14a1 and U1a1a4 uniquely found in contemporary Dravidian speakers share their ancestry primarily with the Near East-Iran populations (Derenko et al. 2013). The coalescence times of HV14a1 and U1a1a4 were estimated to be ~10.5–17.9 kya. The shared ancestry of the Dravidian of South India and Iranian of Near East populations has been shown in the HV14 and U1a1 phylogeny (Fig. 1a) and their time estimates are consistent with the proto-Elamo-Dravidian language diffusion hypothesis which emphasized that the proto-Dravidian language evolved over 15 kya, specifically in western Asia before the beginning of agricultural development ~11 kya. This language was introduced by Neolithic pastoralists, and was thought to be associated with the spread of these west Eurasian-specific mtDNAs to peninsular India (Pagel et al. 2013).”
If Europeans come from the Steppe it is probably from both the paternal and maternal side, neolithic farmers probably have little influence except maybe in South Europe. I read the paper and it seems like Steppe populations had high frequencies of H while at the same time except in Bulgaria and Romania Middle Eastern and Central and West Europeans had little H.
@Davidski „Because words related to metallurgy in Indo-European languages are of non-Indo-European
origin.” I’m not a linguist but… if metallurgy 101 is pre-mining and pre-smelting and limited to cold working native metals then what words would you have?
1) The only native metals you’d have would be gold, silver, tin, copper and maybe meteoric iron but you wouldn’t necessarily have the whole set in every language region.
So you might expect loan words to travel from the respective source regions i.e. region A might get its word for silver from region B and region B might get its word for gold from region A because each region only had one source each.
2) If cold hammering soft metals into simple shapes / jewelry was the limit of metallurgy 101 then what words might come from that?
Who knows but some possibilities might be „ring” : from PIE „to turn, bend”
http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?allowed_in_frame=0&search=ring
„bead” : from PIE *gwhedh- „to ask, pray.”
http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?allowed_in_frame=0&search=bead
there are probably other ancient words related to jewelry that i haven’t thought of?
3) „bead” coming from „pray” echoes a bit with the etymology of iron in Germanic languages (eisen) which apparently comes from PIE „aes” for „holy”
http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=iron
also copper in latin was apparently „aes” before it changed to their word for Cyprus (because they got their copper from Cyprus)
http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?allowed_in_frame=0&search=copper
so i wonder thing is – a people who developed early soft metal jewelry wouldn’t have much of a military advantage but they might be (relatively) very rich
„there are probably other ancient words related to jewelry that i haven’t thought of?” just thought of another possible one torque (n.) from PIE *torkw-eyo-, causative of *terkw- „to twist”
@Kristiina Out of curiosity, I checked the admixture graph in the Allentoft paper. I do not know what this implies but one cannot say that Afanasievo and North India/Pakistan do not share any southern ancestry. You’re confusing yourself and others like Jaydeep by misinterpreting the data. This leads to needless friction and arguments over matters that we should have all agreed on a long time ago.
I’ve already explained that Yamnaya and Afanasievo can’t be modeled as part Kalash or any other South Asian pop with formal statistics. If you don’t believe me, get in touch with Harvard and ask.
And I’ve also explained that Yamnaya, Afanasievo etc. can’t have ancestry from the South Caspian because they lack South Caspian diagnostic markers that are found in ancient and modern Iranians, like mtDNA U7.
@Nirjhar I don’t think calling something South Asian without aDNA, is wise. But you are confident bloke. But of course we do have aDNA from South Asia, from Harappa, and if you are aware of the results, then you should know that Bronze Age Europeans can’t be part South Asian.
Matt said…
The way I’ve come think of it (perhaps wrongly?) is that the ADMIXTURE algorithm has kind of different priorities compared to the formal tests; it’s trying to fit lots of populations at once and on a panel of modern populations it’s looking at lots of drift that has occured separately after the ancient samples we have and which is not captured by the formal statistics.
This means it will find it optimal to deprioritize relationships which are a faint part of the overall drift in the modern panel (e.g. the „ANE” connection) or limited to particular populations which are infrequent in the panel, like the steppe (HG and pastoralist) populations.
Some of the components it finds can be real, like the „Teal” population – which was doubted before the CHG paper, but seems more or less real in some form and in unsupervised ADMIXTURE terms is obviously more useful to find than a steppe / EHG / ANE population to explain genetic variation in its populations (since ADMIXTURE seems to always prefers to create it when given a choice). But also I guess it means that it can prioritise finding good proxies for recent populations which have experienced lots of drift, like Native Americans or Kalash, and then has to place these in ancients where they don’t really quite fit, as a compromise. It’s a real minefield.
Rami said…
Nobody is denying R1a is a product of Forrest Steppe so you can take comfort your wet dream of Steppe men has not been shattered. Hopefully when time travel is possible you can go back and have 4 steppe men Bukake on you and call it a day. Also clearly the Yamnaya/Afansievo poplulations do have connections with populations in Iran and/or other places . You seem to be stuck on this CHG block because in that bird brain of yours they still qualify as Europeans. Neolithic Iranians live quite close these CHGs and are essentially similar peoples ( ANE + Basal)
Also there has not been any genome data from South Central/South Asia , so I do not know how u can make conclusions based of pulling statements out of your ass.
I’ve just explained why Bronze Age Eastern Europeans can’t have any significant ancestry from the South Caspian. No one, including you, has provided any plausible argument against what I said. I also explained that ancient DNA from South Central Asia is already available and some people here, including me, are aware of some of the results, which do not support the idea of an migration from South Central Asia to the Eastern European steppe. It seems like a lot of you aren’t interested in what really happened, but in confirming your own fantasies. I don’t understand why.
Re: ADMIXTURE, good ADMIXTURE panels will usually tell you more about how populations relate to each other than a given set of fits of ancients with formal stats will. Eurogenes K13 or K15 has more information about how similar the European populations are to each other, and at predicting which modern populations a person is from, than the fits of ancient ancestors using formal stats will. (Likewise the drifted Kalash clusters will tell you some things about their population history compared to other South Asians that are absent from the South Asian fits in Lazaridis et al 2016, and would help you fit whether and unknown person was a Kalash).
But the K components do not necessarily imply real ancestors. ADMIXTURE (and PCA) are designed to fit relatedness between their samples to a lower dimension space / set of variables and only find ancestral populations, when they do, as a co-incidence of that
Re: CHG vs Iran, haven’t we’ve been through this before recently with Jaydeep (and he is at least a polite and rational person to speak with)? There are fairly good reasons to prefer a combination of Anatolian/Levant Farmer/CHG (Caucasus Neolithic) over Iran_Chalcolithic, or any populations further towards South Central Asia. It seems a bit hypocritical for someone to accuse Davidski of having an irrational preference for Caucasus Neolithic populations, while they themselves have an even more irrational and more unsupported preference for Iranian and South Central Asian Neolithic populations, just because in their mind it’s closer to India.
Samuel Andrews said…
@bmdriver, There’s absolutely no evidence of South Asian or SouthCentral Asian or whatever migration to Europe. None. Ancient DNA traces European’s origins to Meso/Neo Europe, Near East, and Caucasus. That’s fact not opinion. Even if there is ancestry from Iran, Iran isn’t India.
The only racist here is you. You’re a freak dude. You’re full of hate. You need to talk to someone about your hate for white people, it’s unhealthy. Please understand I don’t think European imperialism can be justified. White people thought aren’t an evil race. A handful of nations in Europe had the needed talents to create powerful imperial nations. Big deal. Other non-Euro nations joined the imperialism trend later; Japan, Turkey, United States, Russia. Imperialism had more to do with hardcore human wants and needs; money, dominance over rivals, power. than it did with a belief in racial superiority.
Taymas said…
Why are a handful of South Asia-centered mtdna samples from millenia too late (bc at this point we already have centuries of writing in divergent IE daughters) being treated as a such a big deal? This is a millenium after the steppe hypothesis would place interchange between IE and BMAC and centuries after Indo-Aryans were showing up as far as Syria. We can also go back about this far in west Asian (Cimmerians, Scythians) and east Asian (Wusun, Yuezhi) writing illustrating that steppe groups were pushing each other around over huge distances, they were already centuries into full equestrian nomadism. Finally R7 and M31 tend eastern in India, at least according to wiki. Given that we also have East Asian mtdna at this time/place, not clear they even came by the same route as the M3 or H14. Seems to me this result is interesting, but the interpretation is very unclear yet, and not relevant at all to the first IE expansion. What am I missing? I can’t access the full paper right now, seems to be down. Finally, if such weak evidence is being used to sling Nazi accusations, what should we call Out of India proponents given the complete lack of any unequivocal South Asian ancestry northwest of the IAMC? I really resent anyone getting called a Nazi unless they’re advocating for industrialized murder of identity groups.
@David ”By and large, Bronze Age Eastern Europeans do not show the haplogroups and subclades that we’d expect to see if a significant portion of their ancestry came from the South Caspian just before the Bronze Age.”
Why Proto-IE or any IE language should have been spoken in Bronze Age Mongolia or even in Afanasievo? On the basis of linguistic analysis, many elements of proto-IE point to Caucasus.
@Matt There are fairly good reasons to prefer a combination of Anatolian/Levant Farmer/CHG (Caucasus Neolithic) over Iran_Chalcolithic, or any populations further towards South Central Asia.
This again is an indication that these early Mongolian nomads did not speak an IE language.
@Ryukendo So I think there is still some evidence that the contribution is from latter steppic groups with substantial EEF ancestry, though this can only be conclusively solved with S Asian aDNA.
@ Ryukendo So some time after the initial IE incursions into the Steppe, a large amount of mtDNA, and presumably some Y-DNA and autosomal ancestry, from SC and West Asia introgressed deeply north.
Andronovo samples are dated 1800-1400 BC, 1400-800 BC and 800-100 AD. Andronovo samples in Allentoft paper have EEF/Anatolia Neolitichic. Andronovo mtDNA (incl. U4, U2e, and T1, T4 in the oldest period) is indeed different from this Mongolian mtDNA. A good case can be made that Andronovoans spoke an IE language, but IMO ancient Mongolians did not and I also doubt that Afanasievo spoke an IE language. I make my ”judgment” when we get Afanasievo yDNA. Neolithic mtDNA from the Lake Baikal showed us that the original mtDNA in the Baikal area was Siberian and not Western Eurasian.
@Kristiina Afanasievo is identical to Yamnaya and Poltavka.(…)
@Kristiina – I don’t think anyone is suggesting Proto-IE here, just a daughter language – either Iranian or Tocharian in extraction. Who else do you think Afanasievo would be? The oldest accounts we have for the Tarim and Turpan basins have Indo-European groups living there, and likely living there for quite a while according those accounts and the remains and material goods (ie jade) left behind. The area where the samples were taken from is closer to the Turpan basin than it is to Lake Baikal. There’s a pretty reasonable narrative here of Indo-European nomads migrating to the steppe, and then slowly being marginalized and pushed out by the people living in more forested/mountainous areas – namely the Xiongnu. And the Xiongnu knew this based on their high-status graves only being made in the steppe/mountain areas, and never the steppe.
Shaikorth said…
Proto-Tungusic homeland is considered by recent studies to be in Manchuria.
http://www.marumaru.eu/Martine_Robbeets/Publications_files/Robbeets2014_review%20Malchukov%20%26%20Whaley.pdf
Making associations based on very low resolution Y-DNA isn’t going to produce solid results. Afanasievo being linguistically grouped with Yamnaya is plausible but there were always factors other than Y-DNA linking them.
Ryukendo K said…
@ Kristiina Thanks for this paper! I have to say though, all of their results come from a rather small area around the Altai mountains at the corner where Kazakhstan, Russia, China and Mongolia meet, and its unlikely that so many languages could have their urheimats thickly clustered around a single area. Also interesting that the site 1 at bolshemysskaya North of Mongolia should return R1b-P297 at the 4th millenium BC, makes you wonder if a continuum of R1b existed in Siberia far to the east.
@ Kristiina You gem. Really interesting, even if its lower throughput. The Y haplogroup information alone is invaluable, and it can be correlated with what we already know from GW data, which was missing some Y DNA markers. In terms of overall numbers:
Afansievo: R1b-M269 x 2, R1b – P297 x 1, Q – M242
Okunevo: R1b- M269 x 1, No x 3, Q1a3 x 2
Sagsai: R1a – Z93 x 4, Q1a3 x 3, C – M130 x1.
I’ve not listed a couple of others. What does this suggest about where R1a & R1b came from? R1b has been missing so far from all Altaic Meso-Neolithic samples to date, but appears in the Bronze Age. All 4 R1a, otherwise always a minority in the Altai, seems to be Z-93. And the interesting thing is, they were likely there already in the Neolithic.
@Ryukendo “I have to say though, all of their results come from a rather small area around the Altai mountains at the corner where Kazakhstan, Russia, China and Mongolia meet, and its unlikely that so many languages could have their urheimats thickly clustered around a single area.”
Look at this map of the indigenous North American languages. Look at the amount of languages on the West Coast for example.
The Afanasievo “Yamnaya Samara” language was probably the first western language in the area and it seems to have covered quite a large area. Okunevo is a later culture located north of Altai on the Yenisei River in the Krasnoyarsk area. Chemurchek is equally old and located in the Mongolian part of Altai. Elunino is also from the same period but it is located northwest of Altai on the Ob River. The distance from Barnaul on Ob to Tsenkher in Eastern Altai is 1200 km. The distance from Tsenkher in Eastern Altai to Krasnoyarsk is about the same. Therefore, these three cultures all have their own area of settlement. In general, I think that many cultures spread along the rivers and a similar language was spoken along the same river.
Sagsai and Munkh-Khairkhan are from 1400-900 and 1700-1400 respectively, i.e. one thousand years later. We know that today Altai is Turkic-speaking, so I find this connection between Sagsai and Turkic very plausible taking into account their yDNA. Today yDNA N in Altai speaks Turkic and I made the presumption that Kurgan N in Altai (if it turns out to be N1b) spoke previously Eastern Uralic language (related to Ob-Ugric and Samoyed branches) but turned to Turkic spakears.
@Kristiina
And once again we have no traces of relic subclades of R1a(R1a-SRY10831.2*) in aDNA from the Eurasian Steppe and influx of exclusively R1a-Z93 subclades in the Bronze Age. Present distribution of relic subclades of R1a (Iran – Eastern Anatolia) and absence of relic subclades of R1a in aDNA from the Eurasian Steppe are absolutely inconsistent with claims that R1a folks came from steppe.
postneo said… I had commented last year that the supposed skewed sex ratio of yamnaya incursion to europe is an artifact. west Eurasian mtdna had already migrated to the steppe before the yamnaya incursion. So the yamnaya were bringing nothing new on the female side when they moved in to Europe…
Not true. Just pointing this little bit of mtDNA info into the comment arena. Specific clades of mtDNA H, like mtDNA H6, came in to Europe with the Yamnaya(Catacomb) Culture migrations. This lineage was not found in Central/Northern Europe Neolithic Cultures and is associated with Corded Ware Culture (Espersedt Germany approx. 2400 BCE)
Tu inna ciekawostka…
UWAGA!!! Być może R1b na terenie Polski może być powiązane z Sarmatami!!!
http://www.historycy.org/index.php?showtopic=42083&view=findpost&p=1639307
Domen 7/04/2017, 15:10
Co do R1b to np. mój subklad L617 jest stosunkowo częsty na Wyspach Brytyjskich i w Iberii, oraz w Polsce i na Litwie. Natomiast praktycznie wcale nie występuje on w Niemczech, we Francji, ani w Skandynawii. Zrobiłem mapę miejsc urodzenia najstarszych znanych przodków wszystkich nosicieli mojego subkladu jakich znalazłem.
Na temat specyficznie polskich subkladów R1b pisałem tutaj:
http://www.historycy.org/index.php?showtopic=144062&st=465&p=1600506&#entry1600506
Natomiast wschodnioeuropejski jest m.in. subklad R1b-Z2103>Y5587 „Eastern European Type”.
Jest też subklad łączony ostatnio z Sarmatami (ponieważ znaleziono go w kopalnym DNA Sarmatów).
Obecnie sarmacki subklad R1b występuje w Polsce (np. znam gościa z Górnego Śląska, rdzennego „lokalsa”, który jest nosicielem właśnie tego sarmackiego subkladu – niedawno opublikowano DNA Sarmatów z epoki żelaza w pracy Unterlander 2017 i jeden należał do tego subkladu R1b):
http://www.ancestraljourneys.org/ironagedna.shtml
R1b-Y21707 – http://i.imgur.com/0fc3h1L.png
Ten post był edytowany przez Domen: 7/04/2017, 16:03
Czesc, widziałam wczoraj twój nowy wpis. Dzięki. Nie musiałeś dedykować i tak wiedziałabym, że to dla mnie. I zwróciłam uwage na komentarz Kristiiny. Bo zdaje się potwierdzać moje przypuszczenia.
Nadal jesteś pewien ich wspólnego języka?
Sagsai – Ölgii – Mongolia
P.S. Trochę mi się porobiło, wiec nie wiem kiedy dam rade to ogarnąć. Na razie zajmuje mnie warszawska chirurgia.
„Nadal jesteś pewien ich wspólnego języka?” A gdzie ja napisałem, że jestem pewnien ich wspólnego języka? Jestem pewien, że Z93 nie zmutowało 1000 lat później nad Wisłą, jak powtarzałem wcześniej, po min. „łowcach ruskich trolli” , że tak musiało być… 🙂
Przeczytaj wpis nr 42… i ciekawe co po tym powiesz… Myślę, ze na naszych oczach dokonuje się „Wielka Zmiana”, jeśli chodzi o Yamnaya, itp…
Nie pokalecz siebie lub innych w tej „Farsiafce”… 🙂
Tu coś niecoś o młodszym (wtedy kiedy publikowano ten wpis jeszcze najstarszym) Z93… Wszystko zmienia się dlatego źródła trzeba czytać na bieżąco o ile można…
https://eurogenes.blogspot.co.uk/2016/01/the-poltavka-outlier.html
The Poltavka outlier
Anyone who still thinks that Y-chromosome haplogroup R1a originated in South Asia should burn this map into their brains. It’ll come in useful over the next few years as we learn from ancient DNA about the conquest of the Indian subcontinent, and indeed much of Asia, by pastoralists from the western Russian and Ukrainian steppes.
X marks the spot of the burial site of Poltavka sample I0432 from the Mathieson et al. 2015 dataset. This individual belongs to Y-chromosome haplogroup R1a-Z93(Z94+), which today accounts for well over 90% of the R1a lineages in Asia and peaks in frequency at over 60% in the northern parts of South Asia.
Moreover, the dating of his burial site, 2925-2536 calBCE, suggests that he lived not long after the Z93 and Z94 mutations came into existence. That’s because Z93 doesn’t appear to be much older than 5,000 years based on full Y-chromosome sequence data (see here and here, including the comments).
So I0432 could well turn out to be a crucial piece in the puzzle of the peopling of South Asia.
Interestingly, this individual was flagged as an outlier in the Poltavka sample set by Mathieson et al., hence his other moniker: the Poltavka outlier. However, this wasn’t because of any ancestry from South or even Central Asia. In fact, it was because he was too western.
Principal Component Analyses (PCA) featuring a wide range of present-day and ancient samples from Europe and Asia, like the one below, show that Poltavka outlier clusters further west than most Corded Ware individuals from Germany. Right click and open in a new tab to view full size.
In the past, using qpAdm, I modeled Poltavka outlier as 63.7% Yamnaya Samara and 36.3% German Middle Neolithic. This is probably not very far from the truth, but qpAdm offers a supervised mixture test in which the results are heavily reliant on the choice of outgroups, so I thought I’d revisit the issue with TreeMix, which allows an unsupervised analysis.
In a dataset including seven relatively high coverage Copper Age (CA), Early Bronze Age and Middle Neolithic (MN) European genomes, TreeMix picked out Poltavka outlier as the most likely sample to be admixed, showing a mixture edge of 33% from the base of the branch leading to the Iberian MN individual to that of Poltavka outlier.
This outcome is very similar to my qpAdm model, but it suggests an even more western source of admixture in Poltavka outlier. Could this admixture actually be from Iberia? I wouldn’t discount this possibility, considering the presence of Bell Beaker communities, possibly of Atlantic or even Iberian origin, as far east as present-day Poland. Indeed, according to Cassidy et al. 2015, German Beakers show high affinity to MN and CA Iberians (see page 51 in the supp info here).
I double checked my TreeMix result with D-stats, and yep, when placed in a clade with Poltavka or Samara Yamnaya, Poltavka outlier shows the strongest signal of admixture from the Iberia MN individual.
At the same time, however, the signal from the Early Neolithic (EN) Iberian fails to reach significance (Z=<3), which suggests that, in fact, TreeMix and D-stats might be seeing the Iberia MN sample as the most attractive mixture source due to her high level of Western European hunter-gatherer (WHG) ancestry, which Poltavka outlier also has plenty of, rather than anything specific to Iberia.
In any case, it’s clear enough that Poltavka outlier was the result of mixture between Yamnaya-related western steppe pastoralists and the descendants of Middle Neolithic Europeans with a high ratio of WHG ancestry. Where this admixture actually took place and which archaeological cultures were involved will have to be resolved with further sampling of ancient remains from Central and Eastern Europe.
However, it’s already impossible to place the origin of Poltavka outlier anywhere in Asia, which suggests that both Z93 and Z94 are also from well inside the generally accepted borders of Europe.
This obviously has implications for the origins of the Indo-Iranians, because the widespread presence of these mutations in Asia gels very nicely with the idea, and indeed academic consensus, that Indo-Iranian languages expanded rapidly from the Eurasian steppe into Asia during the Bronze Age.
Considering that Poltavka outlier came from a Kurgan burial, and was therefore an individual of some social standing, he might be the direct ancestor of many millions of present-day Asians. If so, this won’t be very difficult to prove in the near future as ancient DNA research revs up a few notches.
On a related note, apparently there’s a paper on the way with ancient DNA results from Rakhigarhi, a Harappan site in Haryana, northern India (see here). As far as I know, the results will include Y-chromosome haplogroups of three males, but I don’t think we’ll see any decent genome-wide data at this stage. However, hopefully I’m wrong and the paper will come out with full ancient genomes.
Feel free to post your predictions in the comments. I’m tentatively expecting a couple of instances of J2 and maybe an L or H. Razib made basically the same prediction recently so I’m not being original. What I do know is that we won’t see any R1a-Z93. The only way that might happen is if, say, someone coughed or sneezed on the Harappan remains.
Data source and reference…
Mathieson et al., Genome-wide patterns of selection in 230 ancient Eurasians, Nature, 528, 499–503 (24 December 2015), doi:10.1038/nature16152
Posted by Davidski at 8:09:00 PM
It’s a shame people turn what is a fascinating question about a linguistic phenomenon dispersed through various prehistoric group into perceived relativity to modern or near-modern social phenomena. The two should be divorced.
There is little doubt that major transformations occurred in central Asia between 20000 BC and 1600 BC. These coincide with the appearance of the Sintashta and Andronovo sites further north. That during periods of shift and population decline (eg in the Indu valley), new groups can gain dominance. Looking at the ancient Z93 samples we have, and the phylogeny of Z282, it looks to be from EE/ Russia. However, factoring confidence intervals of fully-sequenced modern samples, Z645 could be as old as 6, 600 Y BP (4, 600 BC).
On the other hand, there are predictions that central Asian groups in the Copper Age lacked or had little ASI, which would bring them close to the admixture seen in Yamnaya, perhaps much closer than Kotias. If so, these people appear to have had a major demographic impact throughout Eurasia.
There won’t be anything all that interesting in ancient Central Asia, at least not in the context of the Indo-European expansions. Mostly just extinct ghost populations.
Alberto said…
David, I basically agree with you analysis. I’ve always stated that R1a-Z93 (and even more this Z94 sample from Poltavka) is the strongest evidence we have of any migration from Europe to South Asia. The autosomal and archaeological evidence is, on the other hand, dubious (for example, no matter what qpAdm says, I think that modeling the Kalash as 70% Sinthashta is way off. Anything between 0% and 10% looks more likely to me).
But I also fully subscribe what Rob said above. All of it. This matter is nothing personal that affects modern people. It’s a fascinating historical event, nothing more. It already happened, whatever happened. 4000 years ago. It won’t change the present; it already did.
But also about the complete lack of S-C Asian ancient DNA. We need those (BMAC and earlier especially) to really know what and how it happened. I’m one of those who thinks that R1a has an Asian origin (and here I’m not going against the mainstream, just check Wikipedia, or Underhill et al, or any objective opinion). So while Z93 (if indeed age estimates are correct, which is another big if), looks to have appeared in the steppe first, M417 might not. So with Z93 we could be seeing a back migration of R1a people to their homeland (you know, like the IE legend of the hero who goes to far away lands and after completing some tasks he returns back home 🙂
The Rakhigarhi samples will be very interesting, especially if we do get autosomal data. I’ve already stated that I expect mostly continuity with modern population (to a reasonable degree, they’re 4500 years apart): a lot of ANI and some unknown amount of ASI (or nothing at all?). For haplogroups, J2 certainly looks likely, but I wouldn’t rule out others present today (R1 and R2 included).BTW, what’s your take on R2? Do you think it’s native to Eastern Europe too?
Well you don’t sound very convincing pointing to Underhill or Wikipedia as sources about R1a. My view is that R2 will be found in ancient Central Asian remains. But it’s not a widespread lineage today, and it probably never was, because it doesn’t appear to be associated with any major expansions. So it’s very unlikely that the populations that carried it in prehistoric times had any major autosomal impact on present-day Eurasians.
Some of those ghost populations may have made interesting contributions. BMAC? Have you tried running Treemix with various HG populations? If an excess of HG ancestry is what makes this guy an outlier, it would be good to know where exactly that ancestry seems to be coming from. WHG ancestry would be no less strange than Iberian Neolithic DNA really.
WHG ancestry would be no less strange than Iberian Neolithic DNA really. Why’s that? KO1 from Hungary is a pure WHG, and the steppe actually extends into Hungary.
oldmountains said…
As Z93 carrier i am just amused by this people who still think Z93 is from Iran or South Asia . Seriously it is pathetic to deny the steppe origin of it. Anyways there are still many mysteries about Proto-Indo-Iranians and Z93.
@Davidski – That’s a good point. So perhaps an origin around the mouth of the Danube? If WHG extended that far east though, I wouldn’t be surprised if they could have had R1b among them too, which would put a wrench in some of your views about the main clades of R1b being exclusive to PIE.
Fanty said…
„If WHG extended that far east” The highest amount of WHG autosomal DNA is in the Baltic states. Also generally „WHG” anchestry is the highest, generally in the NorthEAST of Europe. Including Russia. The highest amount of the Y-DNA connected to WHG is in the Balkan and the UKRAINE, aswell as in all Slavic nations (Czechia, Poland, Russia etc… all relatively high in it) in general. A single Yamna guy had a „WHG” Y-DNA (Though we actually found farmers (In Hungary) with that Y-DNA already). I am pretty sure WHGs lived in what is now Baltic countries and Poland and I personaly even imagine the west of the Ukraine beeing WHG, rather than WHG terretory aswell.
„If WHG extended that far east” Fanty – I’m saying WHG as opposed to EHG or SHG. If the WHG/EHG distinction is false, then again, that calls into question any talk of R1b being exclusive to PIE, as that may just be a more eastern-distributed WHG marker rather than exclusive to EHG.
Alberto is right that Modern Y DNA points toward Iran as the origin of M417. No, he’s wrong. He doesn’t understand the structure of R1a, and I guess neither do you. It’s a simple argument: all of the main clades of R1a-M417 are found in Europe, and don’t need massive samples to be found there. Asia is dominated by Z93 and missing L664. Europe is also the home of EHG, which is associated with R1. EHG is not native to any part of Asia except maybe Western Siberia. It’s time to to move on now. A lot of people are treading water hoping to see things that are already impossible. It’s a waste of time and energy.
EHG doesn’t appear to be the product of recent mixture. At this stage, it looks more like ancient pre-East Asian North Eurasians were part of a cline from Bichon in the west to MA1 in the east. And I don’t think it can be said with certainty that EHG was in Hungary before CHG. I think it’s more likely that steppe populations close to East Central Europe had very low levels of CHG initially, and Bronze Age Hungarians received most of their eastern admixture from this population.
Abashevo, Potapovka and Sintashta people weren’t peaceful pastoralists looking for new grasslands. They were highly militaristic groups that fought battles resulting in mass graves of young combatants, buried their important dead with loads of military gear, built sophisticated fortifications, and practiced somewhat bizarre and perhaps violent rituals, which involved cutting off the heads of people and replacing them with horse heads. These are the people who carried early lineages of R1a-Z93 on the steppe. So we are to believe now that when they got to India they became peaceful pastoralists? Please kindly pull your head out of your ass Kurti.
Maju, You know what, you might be right. All of the ancient R1a in Eastern Europe is probably from South Asia. The Eastern hunter-gatherers, Khvalynsk people, and the Bronze Age steppe nomads carrying R1a were all fresh migrants from South Asia. And obviously Indo-European languages spread in the opposite direction with pigeon post and stuff.
@ Davidski „They were highly militaristic groups that fought battles resulting in mass graves of young combatants, buried their important dead with loads of military gear, built sophisticated fortifications, and practiced somewhat bizarre and perhaps violent rituals, which involved cutting off the heads of people and replacing them with horse heads.”
That’s certainly true. Even if one adds that part of this display is symbolic, there ‚s little point denying that they were a militarized caste, even if their primary occupation was (apparently low-level) metalwork. The only question which remains is whether the data from Sintastha can be extrapolated to all central Eurasia & beyond. But I imagine if they were to wish to invade other lands, these hardy folk working in mines their whole lives, with chariots, good metal weapons, would be tough to defend against
a said…
https://www.academia.edu/3836804/An_Indo-Iranian_Symbol_of_Power_in_the_Earliest_Steppe_Kurgans
An Indo-Iranian Symbol of Power in the Earliest Steppe Kurgans
P. Kuznetsov
„Madhu, and the related terms mad (मद, مد) and madira (मदिरा, مدِرا), also mean alcohol.[1][2] These words are all derived from the Sanskrit language, and are Indo-European cognates of the English mead, Greek μέθυ, Avestan madu, Persian may,[3] Latvian and Lithuanian medus, German Met and Old Church Slavonic ] мєдъ (medŭ).”
„The English word „wine” comes from the Proto-Germanic *winam, an early borrowing from the Latin vinum, „wine” or „(grape) vine”, itself derived from the Proto-Indo-European stem *win-o- (cf. Armenian: գինի, gini; Ancient Greek: οἶνος oinos; Aeolic Greek: ϝοῖνος woinos; Hittite: wiyana; Lycian: oino).[31][32][33]”
„The Georgian word goes back to Proto-Kartvelian *ɣwino-,[42] which is generally believed to be a borrowing from Proto-Indo-European.[42][43][44][45][46][47] Another hypothesis is that the lexeme was borrowed from Proto-Armenian *ɣʷeinyo-,……………..[48][49][50]”
„The Ossetians or Ossetes (Ossetian: ир, ирæттæ, ir, irættæ; дигорæ, дигорæнттæ, digoræ, digorænttæ) are an Iranian ethnic group of the Caucasus Mountains, indigenous to the region known as Ossetia.[12][13][14] They speak Ossetic, an Iranian language of the Eastern branch of the Indo-European languages family, …….”
@4:11 Ossetians>>> Kakhetian=R1b-L584
Krefter said…
@Davidski,Sure, you’re right about R1a-M417, militaristic aspect Bronze age Z93-groups, etc, but cut down on the „Z93 conquest of South Asia”. You’re writing about South Asian genetics as an excuse to say „We East Europeans conquered you, and graciously after killing your men planted our R1a seed into your region.” That’s probably for the most part true, but don’t exaggerate to degrade or upgrade anyone.
@Maju,You’re asking a legitimate question. So far 100% of Ancient Steppe R1a-Z93 has turned out R1a1a1b2a2-Z2121. Even two Samartians and a Sycthian had R1a1a1b2a2-Z2121. No one has done analysis of the Poltvka Outlier. All we know is that he had R1a1a1b2a-Z94.
Anyways, Maju the loads of M417* in Corded Ware, and examples of L664 and Z284 in Corded Ware, confirm to me M417 originated in East Europe with Corded Ware/Sintashta-types. Every modern M417 basal clade and even extinct basal M417 clades have been recorded in Corded Ware/his brothers further East.
Modern Y DNA isn’t always reliable. Especially when a lineage expanded in a short time period like R1b-L11/R1a-M417 did and when their homeland(„Steppe”, Ukraine-Russia, mostly around Black Sea) has faced several replacement events since 2500 BC(proto-Indo Iranians, Finno-Urgics, Turks, Slavs).
BTW, over 50% of R1b-P312 in East Europe(Russia, BeloRussia, Ukraine, Slovakia, Poland, Hungary) is R1b-P312(xL21, U152). Chances are they aren’t DF27 either. IMO, they are P312 bread crumbs tracing back to P312’s birthplace near the Black Sea.
It is a fact that Z93 does not exist (nor seemingly has ever existed) further West than the Volga. Very funny, but there’s Z93* in Poland. It’s likely that we’ll soon see very basal and very relevant Z93 in ancient remains from Ukraine. I’m guessing you’re sharing the same drinking tap as poor Nirjhar, because you both sound just as crazy. Must be something in that water.
Somehow you have to face this problem. There’s no problem. There’s just you with your insane religious-like faith.
Z93 obviously spread from north to south. The spread of Z93 into Asia fits the Kurgan expansion model. There was not a single case of Z93 recorded in Eastern hunter-gatherers, Khvalynsk or Yamnaya from the Volga region. The first case of it there is with the Poltavka outlier. So your crappy theory that Z93 is native to the Volga region since the Neolithic looks about as plausible as your crappy theory that it’s native to Asia.
Coldmountains said…
@Rami Do you live in some parallel universe? Just read Rig veda where Indra is praised as destroyer of forts(cities). There is almost nothing in archaic rig veda which points to a sedentary, urban and peaceful society of early Aryans. They were not really less violent than mongols or turks later but they were more succesful in replacing the local languages and to some extent local Y-DNA and autosomsal dna. The Dasa of Rig veda are actually the proto-Urban BMAC people and it seems that they were frequently at war with this people
George Okromchedlishvili said…
Indo-Aryans were savage, illiterate, blood thirsty nomads that hailed in warfare. Pretty much the European version of Turks. Why’s this so hard to accept?
@Romulus Sredny Stog was Indo-Europeanized by Males from the Balkan Neolithic. You’re not making any sense. There’s plenty of linguistic and genetic evidence now that early European farmers weren’t Indo-Europeans. Substrate words related to farming in modern European languages originate from around the Aegean and are clearly non-Indo-European.
http://eurogenes.blogspot.com.au/2015/10/linguistics-archeology-and-genetics-l-g.html
Let me know when the first major paper comes out supporting it. It’ll be interesting to see how they explain that all of the Y-DNA in early Kurgan graves is EHG derived.
Arch Hades said…
That „Meditteranean” component in Sredny Stog is CHG and comes from the Caucasus , it’s not ENF. There’s no ENF in the steppe until the CWC expands out east much later in time.
Can’t see Tripolje as anything but EEF, possibly with a high level of WHG admix. Tripolje mixed with Sredny Stog on the western edge of the steppe in Ukraine. Caucasus-derived groups probably mixed with Sredny Stog near the Sea of Azov. So it’ likely that Sredny Stog had EEF admixture in the west, and CHG admixture in the east. Poltavka outlier may actually pre-date the formation of Corded Ware, and might be a hint of what we’ll soon see from remains on the Ukrainian steppes. In other words, EHG/CHG/EEF/WHG mixed groups with loads of R1a.
Romulus, I don’t know whether Mal’ta boy was brachycephalic or not, but most of the EHG skulls I’ve seen don’t look brachycephalic. And it was EHG that carried R1a, not Mal’ta boy, who may have belonged to an offshoot of ANE and R that didn’t leave any modern descendants. Your theories are weak and stupid.
the idea that skull shape can change based on diet is a hoax, if eat a lot of rice am I going to start looking Chinese? get real. Straw man argument. Head shape can change from generation to generation, not within someone’s lifetime you complete moron. Can you prove these are hoaxes?
Brachycephalization and debrachycephalization in Bulgaria during 20th century
http://press.mu-varna.bg/ojs/index.php/ssm/article/view/830
The phenomenon of debrachycephalization in Jena school children
http://europepmc.org/abstract/MED/10027042
Eskimos are dolichocephalic? Hahaha going to need a source on that. Man, you’re really dumb.
„The typical Greenland Eskimo cranium is large and dolichocephalic.”
https://books.google.com.au/books?id=mwVZAVC4OnUC&pg=PA10&lpg=PA10&dq=Eskimos+dolichocephalic+cranial&source=bl&ots=3_lt_ybPSe&sig=2D6ahQ-iN2ymts_gmxnGrI9goFQ&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjWl4rfpLDKAhWH3KYKHcB0A8QQ6AEIIDAB#v=onepage&q=Eskimos%20dolichocephalic%20cranial&f=false
Ainus are dolichocephalic, and so were paleo-Aleuts. I’m sure I could find more examples within the so called Mongoloid family that I’m not aware of yet. And yes, Ainus are East Asian, and so were the Jomon.
https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/25753365.pdf
https://books.google.com.au/books?id=1bGNFNDfw4AC&pg=PA18&lpg=PA18&dq=paleo-Aleuts+dolichocephalic&source=bl&ots=YDGsIl7CSZ&sig=rX3j1qfbVH6iQQjgwTm_RWx33FY&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjhp6bjrrDKAhWj2aYKHT1hCD0Q6AEIHDAA#v=onepage&q=paleo-Aleuts%20dolichocephalic&f=false
So you’ve failed to prove that Mal’ta boy was brachycephalic, or that it’s even relevant, considering my examples of dolichocephalic East Asian/ANE populations like Eskimos and Aleuts. Also, there’s no evidence that Bell Beakers were by and large brachycephalic. All we know is that some were, and this was a big deal in the past. It’s no longer a big deal.
https://www.academia.edu/11765209/LEMERCIER_O.2015-_European_Bell_Beakers_Phenomenon_Data_Problems_and_Prospects_Talk_in_Harvard_Medical_School_Department_of_Genetics_ReichLab_Boston_MA_USA_March_23_2015
* RE: Samara , Khvalynsk and „Kurgans” „Sredny-Stog II I agree that it has low meaning because there’s a wild variety of cultures or subcultures partaking of the layer. What is clear and relevant is that it included the earliest kurgans in the area and that it was an almost necessary stepping stone for developments further West such as Baalberge and Cernavoda”
That’s not quite correct, because you’re just lumping together everything into one category. We need to sub-classify different types of Kurgans, and treatment of body position. Somewhat different conclusiosn come to the fore. True, low mounds and stone cairns can be found as early as Late Neolithic/ early Eneolithic areas of southern Russia and Ukraine. But there is no proof that the began in the Samara culture specifically, rather they were spread across the area, incl post-Mariupol areas of Azov, Dneper, Donets, etc. In fact, „It has been noted that the earliest “symbolic period” in the development of steppe monumental architectureis limited to a steppe zone between the Northern Caucasus and the Balkan-Carpathians (Rassamakin 2002,p. 60-63). The emergence of these constructions is infuenced by external impulses. The first one is connected to the development of the Balkan-Carpathian metallurgical province (Chernykh et al. 1991) and the shaping of an exchange system of prestige goods. The second one is connected to the new Pre-Maikop cultural system (settlements of Svobodnoe, Meshoko, etc.) of the Northern Caucasus. The steppe populations represented by elite burials were involved in this exchange network of prestige goods (Rassamakin 1999, p. 97-112). The emergence of individual burials with prestigious grave goods and the appearance of ritual constructions in the steppe zone between the Northern Caucasus and the Carpathian-Danube region resulted from the development of a new economic and social “world system”. They illustrate the response of a certain stratum of the early pastoral population to its first contacts with early agricultural societies. This process resulted in changes in the spiritual life of the steppe population (initially elite groups only?) and the development of a new funerary tradition.”
So Samara, Volga, etc, was peripheral to all this, as the aDNA evidence (if you’ve been keeping up) confirms.
(2) there is then a kurganles period on the steppe (were you aware?). 4200 – 3800 BC, burials on the steppe are only in flat pits. Probably related to the demise of the CBMP to which the steppe chiefs relied on.
(3) When they re-appear again (3800 BC), under the Kurgans were 4 different positions: 1 – extended supine position (with straight legs); 2 – supine with legs
flexed in various ways including sessile and disarticulated orientations, characteristic of flat cemeteries; 3 – flexed position on the side, with one arm bent and the other extended, or with both arms extended toward the knees; 4 – strongly flexed position on the side with bent arms and hands in front of the face
(4) By the Yamnaya period (33/3000 BC), there is a homogenization of burial treatment. Again, the major formative influences on the rites are from CT and Majkop.
What we see, after a careful, up to date analysis, is actually a very different picture to what you describe. It appears that the steppe was constantly subject to influences, if not movements from its agricultural surrounds. True, sometime c. 3000 BC these steppe groups might then have ‚refluxed’ back out. But that remains to be proven. In fact, I very much doubt it. By 2500 BC, Yamnaya was collapsing, and the succeeding Catacomb culture was restricted to the Dnieperian heartlands. Perhaps a stray L51 group fled westward to gain a foothold in BB territory, to ‚suddenly explode’ in dominance of western Europe (as the current narrative espoused by most genealogy enthusiasts would go).
@ Maju „Yamna is succeeded by Poltavka in its core area of the Volga. There seems to be surprising continuity in this core area: Khvalynsk → Yamna → Poltavka → Srubna (arguably proto-Cimmerians) and Sintashta→Andronovo (proto-Indo-Iranians). ”
Maju, do you call a whole-scale replacement of Yamnaya R1b- Z2013 to Srubnaya R1a -Z93 „continuity” ?
Y-chromosomes of ruling elites, which is what the people buried in the Kurgans arguably were, may have changed when ruling clans were deposed by other local clans. But in the case of the shift from Yamnaya/Poltavka to Srubnaya, it’s not just a change in Y-chromosomes. The Srubnaya people were a new, genetically more western population in the Volga area, which probably already arrived during the Poltavka period, because Poltavka outlier was of the same genetic type as Srubnaya. They probably came from the western part or edge of the steppe or forest steppe, bringing with them R1a-Z93 and admixture from Middle Neolithic European farmers who lived west of the steppe. I don’t think Maju has looked into this. He doesn’t seem to be aware of it.
Maju, I referenced you the paper twice and it seemed like you were refusing to accept the details. Im not trying to slant a particular view, but sharing minutii. Thus to earn pedagogism, one needs to show receptism. I suggest a good starting point is „The Eneolithic of the Black Sea steppe. Dynamics of Cultural Development 4500 – 2300 BC, by Rassamakin. Just look it up on google or Academia.edu, or else ‚ll happily email it to you. Yes, I think he’s new classification scheme is good, and after all, he is centred in Ukraine and is best familar with the material. he also covers the more eastern continuum – Repin, Khvalynsk, etc.
And no, Im not suggesting kurgan culture started from CT. Quite the contrary, im painting a picture of different funerary rituals which varied with time and space. Some of which were directly and or indirectly influenced by exchange with CT, some with Majkop, whilst others still go back to more archaic ‚native’ steppe forms. What we have by 3300 BC is a number of variant kurgan cultures. Some (like Cernavoda, Usatavo) appear to have been balkano-Danubian groups adapting to steppic type burials and pastorlaism. By 3000 BC, it all homogenizes into „classic Yamnaya”. Was this simply a cultural phenomenon, or was it because one specific subgroup grew to dominance over others ? We don;t yet know, but aDNA will help. So we need aDNA from al lthese Yamnaya-esque groups west of the Don- Black Sea yamnaya, Majkop-Yamnaya, balkan Yamnaya, Hungarian Yamnaya 🙂 Of course, we know DOn-Volga Yamnaya was almost wholly Z2103 clan.
Anna M… Potwierdzam, że źle odczytałem dane z tej tabelki, bo te R1a Z93 TO NIE JEST AFANASIEWO, TYLKO SAGSAI, czyli TO NIE PRAWDA, ŻE R1a Z93 POCHODZI ZE WSCHODNIEJ YAMNAYA!!!
Bardzo dziękuję Ci, na długotrwałe zwracani mi uwagi na to, BO TO TY MIAŁAŚ RACJĘ, a ja myliłem się!!! Zwyczajnie sądziłem, że Sagsai to tylko nazwa miejsca, skąd pobrano próbki!!! SZACUNEK!!! 🙂
Nie zmienia to jednak faktu, że tzw. Scytowie i Sarmaci to potomkowie Pra-Słowian, jak np. Karelczyk, późno zmieszani z tubylczymi ludami z okolic Załtaju, którzy około 3000 lat temu z Syberii dotarli na stepy nadczarnomorskie,.. patrz:
http://eurogenes.blogspot.com.au/2015/12/the-scythian.html
R.A. pisze:
http://eurogenes.blogspot.co.uk/2014/12/pit-grave-yamnaya-kurgans-are-as-old-as.html
Pit-Grave (Yamnaya) kurgans are as old as Maykop kurgans
Many people believe that Maykop kurgans of the North Caucasus are older than those of the Eastern European steppe, and thus ancestral to them. I’ve seen this claim made in the comments section of this blog and elsewhere, and regularly cited as evidence for a more southerly Proto-Indo-European (PIE) homeland than the steppe. But this appears to be false:
Abstract: We studied the chronology and periodization of the Pit-Grave (Yamnaya) culture at the Volga and Ural interfluve. Establishing the chronology of the Pit-Grave culture by archaeological methods is difficult due to the lack of artifacts in the burials. Therefore, we excavated 3 kurgan groups in the Orenburg region of Russia during the last decade. Eighteen kurgans of the Pit-Grave culture were studied using archaeological and paleopedological methods and radiocarbon dating. The funeral complexes studied were divided into 3 stages. A variety of carbon-containing materials from the same complexes were dated by different laboratories to increase the accuracy of the obtained dates. In addition, from the excavations of the last years some monuments of the Repino stage, the earliest period of the Pit-Grave culture, were dated using ceramics. Together with archaeological and paleopedological data, 14C dating helped to clarify and, in general, to confirm the 3-stage periodization of the Pit-Grave culture in the Volga-Ural interfluve: the early (Repino) stage, 4000–3300 BC; the advanced (classical) stage, 3300–2600 BC, which is divided into substages A and B at 3300–2900 and 2900–2600 BC, respectively; and the late (Poltavkinsky) stage, 2600–2300 BC.
Thus, on the basis of 14C dating, the chronological limits of the early (Repino) stage of the Pit-Grave culture in the Volga-Ural region are approximately between 4000 and 3300 cal BC. This is ~500 yr older than previously thought (Chernykh and Orlovskaya 2004). At this stage, the Pit-Grave culture developed synchronously with the early stage of the Maikop culture in the northern Caucasus, according to the archaeological evidence and the calibrated 14C dates obtained for the early stage of the Maikop culture (Korenevsky 2004).
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B9o3EYTdM8lQZS1KQllwWU85Rzg/view
Nina Morgunova, Olga Khokhlova, Chronology and Periodization of the Pit-Grave Culture in the Area Between the Volga and Ural Rivers Based on 14C Dating and Paleopedological Research, Radiocarbon, Vol 55, No 2–3 (2013), DOI: 10.2458/azu_js_rc.55.16087
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I Don’t Date Men Who Yell at Alexa
How you treat your digital assistant says a lot about you.
By Rachel Withers
April 30, 20184:26 PM
Photo illustration by Slate. Photos by master1305/iStock; Amazon.
Future Tense is a partnership of Slate, New America, and Arizona State University that examines emerging technologies, public policy, and society.
When Jeremy barked orders at his personal assistant, she didn’t flinch, but I did. Something about the sound of his sharp, commanding tone—directed not at me, but still, at a woman—repulsed me. In the few weeks we had been dating, he had never spoken to me this way. But could he? Hearing Jeremy make ungrateful demands didn’t make him seem powerful or important. He sounded entitled and difficult, like someone who enjoyed commanding for the sake of commanding. He would ask her to do things he could easily do himself, almost as if to prove that he could. Surely, it would take less time to reach out and hit the light switch by the door than to bark “ALEXA. LIGHTS ON” every time he entered the apartment.
So began my habit of noting how men speak to their devices. Not all men are as bad as Jeremy, of course. There was also the sensitive Southern gentleman who tenderly asked Google to play him a thunderstorm (the “hey” added a welcome salutation, lessening the abruptness), and the workaholic surgeon who courteously entreated Alexa to order more paper towels. (His lilting tone turned “Alexa?” into a request rather than a command.) Smart speakers have only been around a few years, but they are rapidly becoming pervasive—with 1 in 6 Americans now owning one, up 128 percent from January 2017, it’s clear my smart home etiquette pet peeve is something I’ll continue to grapple with.
With the newly announced Echo Dot Kids Edition, Amazon seems to be recognizing similar concerns—but in children, not dates. The kid-friendly Alexa will include a “Magic Word” feature, which will offer “positive reinforcement for using the word ‘please’ while asking questions.” It’s not a moment too soon, with parents deeply worried about the effects of smart speakers on children’s social development. How does having an in-home helper who doesn’t expect a “please” or a “thank you” affect their manners? Will interacting with something—or someone, as it might feel to a child—so compliant make them excessively bossy? Are smart homes turning kids into “raging assholes,” as this 2016 blog post contends? The long-term implications of growing up in a smart home are untested and hard to predict.
But so too are the effects of living in one as an adult. As more and more of the help we receive comes from a robot that doesn’t care about tone—which, in fact, rewards curtness—what will happen to the already-feeble expectation that we display basic courtesy to customer service agents and even strangers we ask for help? Our talent for social niceties is learned and can surely be unlearned. And while linguists worry that digital assistants will push children to favor more simplistic language, the blunt, direct style of commanding Alexa will no doubt have an impact even on adult expression.
The tone of voice that we use in a growing percentage of our daily interactions matters—not for Alexa, not for Amazon, not for Apple, but for us.
One thing that is already clear: The way people speak to Alexa, Cortana, and Siri already changes the way I see them. It matters how you interact with your virtual assistant, not because it has feelings or will one day murder you in your sleep for disrespecting it, but because of how it reflects on you. Alexa is not human, but we engage with her like one. We judge people by how they interact with retail and hospitality workers—it supposedly says a lot about a person that they are rude to wait staff. Of course, waiters are more deserving of respect than robots—you could make or break a worker’s mood with your thoughtlessness, while Alexa doesn’t have moods (she only cares about yours). But the underlying revelation is the same: Who are you when in a position of power, and how do you treat those beneath you?
The default femaleness of digital assistants, along with their connection to the home, calls to mind another kind of “domestic servant”—a blissfully outdated one. There’s something about hearing a man bark a woman’s name as he walks through the door that is shudderingly reminiscent of the fact that many men once, and all too recently, expected a woman in the home to respond to their beck and call. With women still liberating themselves from the problem that has no name, it’s as if missing housewives are being replaced with more servile smart-home wives, reinforcing the cultural connection between “women” and “subservience” to boot.
Will the kind of man inclined to take out his anger on the feminine voice at home, snapping at Alexa or Cortana because she doesn’t snap back, get used to treating women again like docile punching bags? With or without female smart homes, many men already feel a dangerous sense of entitlement to women’s time and attention. Online forums exist for angry, rejected men who think women are supposed to do their bidding and become bitterly enraged when they do not, often with deadly consequences. How much worse might their ability to dehumanize women become, how much more entitled their masculinity, with a compliant, submissive robotic female in their lives? A “joke” video on YouTube drives this association home: A man asks out his Alexa and then calls her a stupid bitch when she politely declines. (Why don’t girls like nice guys like him??)
This is not to say that grown men can’t tell the difference between a robot and a human (well, not all men), or that being impolite to Alexa implies that a man is an “incel.” In fact, we ought to be wary of anthropomorphizing our digital home assistants—their intelligence is, after all, artificial, not to mention controlled by some of the world’s most powerful corporations. Kids are already at risk of forming an unhealthy bond with Apple before they’re even old enough to know what a corporation is. We don’t owe robots anything (other than maybe some rights), and as I said, Alexa doesn’t flinch at rudeness (she can’t, she has no body). But the tone of voice that we use in a growing percentage of our daily interactions matters—not for Alexa, not for Amazon, not for Apple, but for us.
Perhaps if Alexa were Alex (and Siri, Sir) this wouldn’t be so unsettling. It’s hard to listen to a man call out a woman’s name followed by a command—it’s even harder not to wonder if the tone of the command was in any way influenced by the gendered word preceding it, with gender shown to have a big role in how people perceive bots. Maybe if we stop giving robots default female names and voices, as many have argued, I would feel less irked by men’s tone toward them. But perhaps, most disconcerting of all, men would be less rude to them if they sounded like dudes.
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Rachel Withers is a freelance writer in New York.
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Victor Garvey’s gone on a little Rambla.
It’s a journey that started with his work at Bravas Tapas, led to his first solo opening at Encant, and, via a recently-opened traditional wine and tapas bar just a few doors down, has now led to his second venture, Rambla – a much larger restaurant serving up Catalonian cuisine with a twist in Soho.
It’s a two-floored affair (with just the ground floor open at first), sporting terrazzo flooring, a sweeping open kitchen and soothingly misty-coloured panelled walls, designed to evoke the beachfront restaurants of Barcelona.
He’s sharing the classic cuisine of his childhood; appropriate since it’s named after a famous Barcelona street he lived near. The menu is organised into three sections – Cru, comprising raw & cured meats; Muntanya, proffering traditional Catalonian dishes from the mountains; and Mar – elegant seafood dishes like Mediterranean sea urchin with Iberico lard toast; calamari stuffed with prawn and lobster; and jumbo scallop with smoked roe sauce and crystallised veal jus.
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Health Issues Facing the US Turkey Industry
7 March 2008, at 12:00am
Published in Poultry Health Report, August/Winter 2007, a National Institute for Animal Agriculture Publication. The lack of approved efficacious drugs continues to be a top challenge facing the U.S. turkey industry.
That was a key point delivered by Dr. Charles Corsiglia, Foster Farms, Fresno, Calif., when he spoke at the annual meeting of the United States Animal Health Association (USAHA) in October.
Dr. Corsiglia’s presentation centered on information gleaned from a poll of turkey industry veterinarians regarding the health status and issues facing the industry between August 2006 and August 2007. The poll was conducted by Dr. Steven Corsiglia, Alpharma Animal Health, West Jefferson, N.C.; Dr. Mark Blakley, Carroll’s Turkeys, Warsaw, N.C.; and Dr. Dave Mills, Jennie-O Turkey Store Company, Willmar, Minn.
“The survey shows that the turkey industry supports the scientific examination of the evidence in the cases against the use of antibiotics in agriculture, and supports the continued judicious use of antibiotics in animal agriculture,” Dr. Corsiglia stated.
That said, the turkey veterinarians participating in the poll listed the lack of approved, efficacious drugs as their No. 1 issue facing the industy.
“For example, the withdrawal of the new application for drug approval (NADA) for enrofloxacin use in poultry in 2005 leaves the industry with only tetracycline and penicillin as available therapeutics, and neither of these are adequate against colibacillosis or fowl cholera, the second-rated and ninth-rated disease concerns, respectively, in the poll,” Dr. Corsiglia explained.
Survey participants ranked blackhead, also known as histomoniasis, No. 22. This disease, Dr. Corsiglia noted, has no efficacious drug approved for use in turkeys. A total of 68 reported cases of blackhead were reported between August 2006 and August 2007. Losses to blackhead have been severe and can be devastating in affected individual flocks. Sporadic cases are occurring in North America.
“Dimetridazole was extremely efficacious and previously approved for use in turkeys for the prevention and treatment of blackhead, but it was banned in 1987,” Dr. Corsiglia told the group. “The lack of any legal treatment for histomoniasis is of concern, especially in the case of valuable turkey breeder candidate flocks. It seems unconscionable that the industry is unable to prevent the suffering and death in flocks affected by histomoniasis when effective, yet unapproved, treatments exist.”
Dr. Corsiglia said the authors of the report urge the FDA consider allowing limited use of such products in valuable breeder stock.
The poll ranked late mortality as No. 3 and leg problems as No. 4 among the turkey industry’s top concerns. Late mortality is defined as mortality in excess of 1.5 percent per week in toms 17 weeks and older. Mortality was not diagnosed to a specific disease or cause.
Excess cumulative mortality of 5 to 10 percent in toms prior to slaughter has been reported. Dr. Corsiglia said late mortality may be associated with physiologic or biomechanical deficiencies following early rapid growth in heavy toms achieving genetic potential, aggressive behavior noted in mature toms, cannibalism, leg problems and/or hypertension.
The survey revealed that leg problems, such as spiral fractures of the tibia or femur, are a common complaint.
Although the survey average decreased from 3.5 to 3.1 and moved from No. 3 to No. 5, survey results show that cellulitis remains a major disease issue across all geographic regions. Dr. Corsiglia shared that cellulitis is most commonly seen in, but not limited to, commercial male turkeys nearing market age, and the prevalence and severity of cellulitis continues to increase.
According to the poll, veterinarians indicate that the occurrence of cellulitis is now confirmed at younger ages and in both toms and hens.
Individuals participating in the poll ranked heat stress at No. 6 and poultry enteritis of unknown etiologies at No. 7.
Dr. Corsiglia shared that highly pathogenic Avian Influenza (H5N1) continues to infect poultry in Southeast Asia with sporadic introductions in Europe and Africa. He said that poultry in the U.S. have continued to remain negative for H5N1. The concern does exist, however, that the virus could spread to the U.S. through the illegal transport of infected birds or migration of infected wild birds.
The National Poultry Improvement Plan (NPIP) Commercial Poultry H5/H7 LPAI surveillance program, Dr. Corsiglia noted, provides for 100 percent indemnity for commercial plan participants. In many geographic areas where flock isolation is practical, he said controlled marketing may be the preferred method of eradication since consumption of meat from LPAI flocks does not pose a risk to the public health. If flock destruction is necessary in the eradication of H5/H7 LPAI, then 100 percent indemnity is appropriate, as it is already provided for in the eradication of HPAI.
Dr. Corsiglia called federal regulations governing the use of autogenous veterinary biologicals “antiquated” and inhibitory toward effective preventive applications in the poultry industry. He said main issues include the narrow time limits on the use of a microbiological isolate and the restrictions requiring use only in the herd of origin. As such, the turkey industry urges the Veterinary Services-Center for Veterinary Biologics to revise these regulations in favor of a more effective and user-friendly approach.
The Top 10 Disease Issues in Turkey health survey (September 2007) according to U.S. veterinarians:
Issue Score Average (1-5)
Lack of approved, efficacious drugs 4.7
Colibacillosis 3.4
Late Mortality 3.4
Leg Problems 3.3
Cellulitis 3.1
Heat stress 3.1
Poult Enteritis of unknown etiologies 3.0
Bordetella avium 2.7
Cholera 2.7
Breast Blisters and Breast Buttons 2.7
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Oct 24 Saw V
Nick Allen
Saw V Directed by: David Hackl Cast: Tobin Bell, Costas Mandylor, Scott Patterson, Meagan Good Time: 1 hr 30 mins Rating: R
Plot: Characters and audiences alike are tortured in the fifth installment of the Saw franchise. Essentially, people die slowly. In the movie or, (for the audience), in their souls.
Who’s It For? 1. People who don't realize that these films are essentially identical to each other. 2. Gullible teenagers.
Expectations: "I have to pay $8.50 to see this?!!!"
SCORECARD (0-10)
Actors: Tobin Bell as Jigsaw: Jigsaw is a heroic villain for a dumb-blooded, naive generation who have no respect for their elders like Jason Voorhees or Mike Myers; (but fear not kiddies! Your Michael Bay-itized remake of the classic Friday the 13th is due out in February!) Jigsaw has this terrible habit of sounding like a dim-witted bully of a guidance counselor who is just trying to "help" his pupils. More so than aforementioned villains in horror, Jigsaw abuses the crap out of Hollywood serial-killer logic. How the hell did he build such elaborate traps? Where did he get all of those TVs? Has he ever tried to make a Rude Goldberg?
Costas Mandylor as Mark Hoffman: Hoffman is Jigsaw's latest pupil, with a stupid smug look that seems to be glued to his face. But it's tough being eerie when you look like a fat Brendan Fraser.
Scott Patterson as Agent Strahm: He's the newest patsy in the series, who is toyed with by the mystery killer he's chasing. But according to IMDB.com, Patterson did some stunts in the Disney classic Blank Check. How cool is that?!
Meagan Good as Luba: Her name adds the "+" to the film's C+ casting. Even in funky misfires like Waist Deep she was at least, well ... good.
Talking: Only a few lines can be considered as "comic relief" (or the exact opposite). One of my favorite zingers comes during a point of vital uncertainty between the five victims: "nice f**cking try, Nancy Drew." And then there's the one-liner in the beginning that bashers of certain movies love deep down inside because they can use it to sum up the entire experience: "Right now, you are feeling helpless." And why does Jigsaw always say things like "make your choice" at the end of his instructional torture videos? Not a very convincing salesman.
Sights & Sounds: Because no one was screaming in the theater, the film raids a sound library of shrieks and howls to compliment each "scare", surprise, or moment of shameless grotesqueness. In a desperate attempt to keep his pride, director David Hackl tries to impress audiences with bits of smooth editing.
The problem I've always had with the series is that it takes itself too seriously. Even writer-director Eli Roth's egregious Hostel films knew their place in the garbage can. But from the debut of the Saw films, the writers have tried to mix redundant torture-porn "thrills" with wistfully legitimate subplots involving investigators attempting to bring justice to the barbaric killings. And since Jigsaw died in Saw 3, the scripts have been trying to sandwich as many twists as possible into previous stories told in earlier films. Such an effort is commendable, as the story construction isn't ridiculous like every other element in the series. But why even bother with self-righteous storytelling when the repetitive, one-note existence of the series is becoming as justifiable as any of those straight-to-DVD horror knockoffs and suckfests available at Blockbuster?
I was in line waiting to buy my ticket, and I overheard the typical in-line banter concerning what movie to see. "Have you seen Beverly Hills Chihuahua?" asked Kid 1. "Yeah - it's disgusting," replied his friend. The tone of his reply made it seem as if the Disney film had offended him. Later on, I spotted the same two youths marching enthusiastically into Saw V. Has the so-called "shocking" franchise finally met its match, where it shocks less than a movie about talking dogs? Perhaps Seth, the first person to die in Saw V, had it right when he said something along the lines of "AHHHHHH, PLEASE!!! STOP IT!!!! OH GOD!!!"
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Lenovo P70 With 4000mAh battery, Octa-Core SoC Released in Rs. 15, 999.
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Is Ghost Stories’ comedy dub worth watching beyond clip compilations?
On February 3, 2017 February 3, 2017 By Tim RattrayIn Anime
The sub vs. dub debate is timeless. While I staunchly fall on the sub side there’s one series for which the dub is undeniably the only good option: Ghost Stories.
For those unaware, Ghost Stories is a series that aired between 2000-2001 in Japan. It was pretty bad. In fact it was so bad that when ADV Films licensed the series in 2005 they were given the freedom to rewrite the series as a comedy for its dub. The only limitations were that they needed to retain the original character names and leave the footage unchanged.
It goes without saying that ADV let their imaginations run rampant. The result was a version of the series that is among the raunchiest, crudest and rudest anime has to offer. It relentlessly riffs on stereotypes and mid-oughts pop culture, as well as itself. And it’s hilarious… to a point.
Let’s get this out of the way: if you aren’t old enough to remember this era of pop culture then half of the humor is going to go straight over your head. This series gets more dated by the minute. However, for those who remember that time fondly (or not so fondly) it acts as a time portal, a genuine product of its era.
The original series is also a product of its era though, and not in a good way. The producers of Ghost Stories had quite obviously seen Scooby-Doo and decided to cash in by ripping it off in anime form. It completely misses the childlike charm of its inspiration, though. Ghost Stories is notably darker and less kid-friendly while being completely bland.
Most episodes of the series border on unintelligible, especially in the second half of its run. It generally goes like this: the kids end up in the rickety old schoolhouse that, surprise surprise, has been haunted by spirits. They putz around until the monster-of-the-week is established halfway through the episode and proceed to look it up in their magic monster encyclopedia. Then they do the required incantation and wa-lah, the spirit is gone. Roll credits.
At first the dub is able to look past this due to its juvenile novelty. It’s riotously funny watching these children cartoon character designs boast about their sex lives and play up their new traits (the born-again-Christian Momoko, the stereotypically Jewish Leo and the incoherently babbling Keiichiro). The voice acting is actively better than your typical dub which is ironic given how it’s clear the cast is goofing around. Their fun is contagious and it’s easy to get pulled in.
But comedy is an art of diminishing returns and, well, this is a 20 episode series. I remember back when the fourth season of Arrested Development first aired on Netflix. People who binged it in one sitting found themselves laughing less and less as it went along. We can only laugh for so long until jokes become commonplace and by the halfway point of Ghost Stories I was finding myself less consistently amused.
It doesn’t help that Ghost Stories becomes increasingly incoherent along its run. The dub script tries to make up for this with observational humor but it backfires by reminding you just how trite the source material is. For as funny as the dub can be it’s not actually elevating a bad show, just riffing over it.
One interesting takeaway from the dub is how it shows just how much exposition you can cut out without hurting the “integrity” of the story. All the time filled with jokes is drab exposition in the Japanese original. It’s yet another lesson in how exposition gives way to lazy writing. If the original had spent that time developing its episodes better it might have actually amounted to something at least watchable.
Oh, and you know what else is nice? Watching a show drawn entirely by hand. It’s not a visual masterpiece but the animation is generally half-decent and a refreshing break from modern trends alongside your over-a-decade-old pop culture guffaws.
I do think some extent of Ghost Stories is worthy of your time. It’s a unique nugget of anime history that was made possible by a time when the industry was a wild west. Chances are we’ll never see anything like it again, at least as an official release.
Episodes can be found on Crunchyroll and YouTube (although I can’t speak to the legality of the uploads). If you just want the highlights then this clip compilation will do the trick.
I feel no strong ways on this one other than it made me laugh a good bit. It exists. Roll credits.
Edit: check out humbleace’s great comment below where he suggests that this is a series best watch with friends, a sentiment I cosign. He also recommends a similar series (and a much shorter one) that has a similar dub.
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8 thoughts on “Is Ghost Stories’ comedy dub worth watching beyond clip compilations?”
This sounds like checking out an episode might be worth it just for the novelty factor but I can’t imagine a whole series of it would really work for me. Thanks for sharing your thoughts on it.
That sounds about right. It was *really* tough for me to get through the last five or so episodes of the show. Probably wouldn’t have if not for being determined to write this.
I had planned to watch this dubbed with a few friends and added commentary for a fun social event, but there hasn’t been an opportunity presented for that to fall through, so I still haven’t gotten around to watching it.
But I did manage to watch the dubbed version of Garzey’s Wing with my cousin, and oh boy. It is comedy gold on a whole other plane of existence I can’t fathom. It’s probably the worst anime ever, and if you watch it subbed I doubt you’ll get any enjoyment whatsoever out of it.
But there’s just something about the dubbed performance that… works in a very odd way. This is the type of show I’d recommend as a social get-together with drinks and whatever else you care to partake in during the viewing while someone goes “WHAT?!” every couple of seconds at the confusing imagery and incoherent explanations of things.
Plus, it’s only three episodes long, so you can easily get through it in one session. It suffers from the same problems as Ghost Stories does, both arguably to a greater and lesser degree. Greater in that it’s far worse in quality: writing, editing, directing, everything. Lesser in the sense that it has significantly fewer episodes. I don’t think I’d recommend watching it alone, since I would be bored out of my mind if I didn’t have someone to be hilariously confused with.
Anyway, I do hope to get around to watching Ghost Stories dubbed someday. I seem to have good enough fortune with dubbed comedy anime, or otherwise terrible anime dubbed comically (whether that be deliberate or unintentional, I can’t say).
~ Ace
That’s a good angle I didn’t think of, actually (probably because I’m a loner, heh). This is the type of show that’s really well suited for watching with friends and in fact it’s probably the ideal way to watch it. I think I’m actually going to add that to the post with a kickback to your blog as citation. 🙂
I should check out Garzey’s Wing. I remember watching a video (I think Digibro?) where it was brought up once. Its length is perfect for this format. Actually, I almost referenced the Woody Allen movie “What’s Up, Tiger Lilly?” to make a similar point but because I haven’t seen the full thing I didn’t feel comfortable doing so. That’s a really good recommendation and I’ll throw it on my list to watch some time.
Oh wow, that’s quite a compliment. My thanks. Yeah, a good bit of the enjoyment I got out of it was seeing the reactions my cousin had to a lot of the scenes. Those were probably more entertaining the show itself, which is why I’d like to do more of those social viewings with more friends in the future. Maybe Good Luck Girl (which is jam-packed with references and parodies of other anime, especially Dragon Ball). I only watched the first four of five episodes and it was funny enough for something like that.
Also, Digibro did mention Garzey’s Wing a couple of times in his videos, and that was what got me to watch it. Hope you get as good of an experience out of it as I did.
mymoviereality
Did not expect a post about Ghost Stories. The dub is hilarious, but it can get tiring to watch the entirety of the series. Watching clips of it is a better route to go if you ask me.
Agreed. I think even a few episodes work as a novelty piece but even clips will give you the gist. I started out watching a few minutes of a clip a few months ago which lead me to watch the whole series and I’m not sure if I gained *that* much more by doing so.
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Should error messages apologize?
We are having a discussion on our team about an error message that says "Sorry, you do not have permission to access this feature. Please contact your administrator for assistance."
Is it appropriate to use language of "apology" in this instance? The rationale against it is that it would be more appropriate to "apologize" for something that would be considered solely the "fault" of the application such as downtime. ("Sorry but our site is currently unavailable...please try again later.")
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Graham Herrli
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I'd agree with that rationale. If user enters invalid input, its a mistake on user's part. And if software fails to do something user rightfully expects, its a mistake on software's part. – user117 Jan 4 '13 at 16:13
Keep in mind that "I'm sorry" does not necessarily mean admitting it's your (or anyone's) fault or mistake. It's often used as a more generic expression of sympathy or regret for what happened, aside from any discussion of whose responsibility it was. As in, "I was sorry to hear that your mother died." – LarsH Jan 5 '13 at 19:13
@barrycarter xkcd.com/945 – Lewis Goddard Jan 6 '13 at 0:11
You're always allowed to write "I'm sorry" in your error messages if it's immediately followed by "Dave" – Matty K Jan 7 '13 at 1:42
Not if it is used by lawyers - they will take it as an admission of liability ;-) – Andy Dent Jan 7 '13 at 6:59
The reason I believe it is important to have an apologetic tone is to ensure you are communicating to the user that, though a mistake has been made and he is interacting with a machine or application in this case, you still respect his action and are humanizing the mistake.
To quote this article from UXMatters:
“You’re going to display your error message to a person, so write it in the tone of voice you would use if you were telling the error message to the person directly.”
I also recommend looking at this excellent article, Are You Saying “No” When You Could Be Saying “Yes” in Your Web Forms?:
Error messages seem like an unimportant and incredibly boring part of crafting a user experience. But the tonality of error messages can swing the experience around from an almost certain abandonment to a conversion.
The article emphasizes that error messages should carry a positive tone and hence an apologetic response can help users quickly recover and not immediately become defensive about a mistake they might have made.
Writing error messages that carry a positive tone isn’t rocket science. Just follow a few simple rules:
First, get rid of tech lingo such as “incompatible.” Most users won’t know what this means. Speak to them in their own language and not the language of your developers. For example, “incompatible” translates to “does not work together” in plain English.
Don’t use negative words
Clearly identify the error so the user knows what to correct.
Give the user a hint of how the problem can be solved.
Put the blame on yourself, not on the user.
I also recommend looking at The Effect of Apologetic Error Messages and Mood States on Computer Users’ Self-appraisal of Performance for a study which analyzed the impact of using apologetic error messages on user mood states and how human-like apologetic tones are effective in computer interfaces. To quote an extract from the article
In HHI, apologies are generally used to express regret (Leech, 1983; Schlenker andDarby, 1981) or to alleviate individuals’ anger caused from their disapproval of others’ action.In other words, apologies mitigate frustration and anger when attempted interactions fail.Similarly, Nielsen (1998) argues that error messages responding to the computer user’s action should include a simple apologetic statement when the reason for the error is the limitation of the computer interface to perform the intended task. Tzeng (2006) conducted a study investigating users’ perceptions of online systems containing three different error messages,each of which includes different politeness strategies. In the study, firstly users’ politeness orientations were elicited and then participants were asked to interact with websites including pre-determined problems. When users encountered problems, the system provided certain error messages representing one positive politeness strategy (i.e. joke), one negative politeness strategy (i.e. a simple apology), and a mechanical message for the error (i.e. the page is temporarily unavailable). The findings of the study showed that users who deal with social events with polite expressions preferred to receive apologetic messages significantly more than mechanical or joke messages, and they preferred apologetic messages significantly more than those messages that are less oriented to polite expressions.
The article also calls out how an apologetic tone as opposed to a negative tone impacts the perception that users of them selves and how a positive apologetic perception can help in enhancing positive performance
De Laere, Lundgren, and Howe(1998) compared human-like versus machine-like interaction styles of computer interfaces.They did not observe a significant difference between the different styles in terms of users’self-appraisals. The findings of the study also demonstrated that negative feedback affects the self-perceptions of the participants differently than positive feedback.
Tzeng (2004) examined whether apologetic feedback affects users’ performance perception in the computerized environment. This study suggested that users may not expect computers to be polite, but apologetic statements made the subjects feel better about their interactions with the program.
The research paper Computer Apology: The Effect of the Apologetic Feedback on Users in Computerized Environment also calls out why apologetic negative feedback ties into user experience from a social aspect
The use of apologetic statements with an error message contributes the human-computer interaction. If we consider that the main aim of the user centered design is to create an environment for users in which they feel themselves comfortable, use of apologetic statements in the user interface design become a very important issue. Moreover, in human-human interaction, one of the more important, may be the most, issues is to behave in a respectful manner. In most of the societies when a person does not behave in a respectful manner or makes a mistake towards the other person, apologizing is the traditional and the most effective way in order to overcome the problem. Similarly, this study shows that most of the subjects thought that apologetic feedbacks do not seem awkward to them and 95% of them receiving apologetic feedback felt that apologetic feedback seemed sensitive to them. Here, it seems that subjects find it interesting to confront with respectful behavior such as apologizing when they encounter an error caused by computers’ inability as if they encounter a problem in human interaction. The findings of this study indicate that representing the affective state of a person in the interface design is very important in human-computer interaction because people are more sympathetic to see emotional aspects in the interface such as, sensitivity, respect, and feeling of humanity. Therefore, these results might be used as evidence for the claim that computers’ offering apologetic statements to the users can substantiate the idea of real user centered design.
On the flip side Microsoft recommends using sorry or an apologetic tone only when a serious error has occurred:
Use the word “sorry” only in error messages that result in serious problems for the user (for example, data loss or inability to use the computer). Don’t apologize if the issue occurred during the normal functioning of the program (for example, if the user needs to wait for a network connection to be found).
Mervin JohnsinghMervin Johnsingh
I find this rational interesting. I'm curious though if there's an unintended effect of training the user to blame your program even why they are doing something improperly. Would they start to get the attitude of "this program is junk?" – Andy Jan 4 '13 at 20:56
Not to sound like a troll, but uxmatters.com can be taken more seriously if their site wasn't so hideous and hard on the eyes! – ajacian81 Jan 5 '13 at 1:31
@LightnessRacesinOrbit, the OP's scenario is a selling opportunity. The particular user is attempting to use an aspect of the program for which she isn't licensed. Why not treat her with respect? Of course, a system might say "would you like a 5-day trial of this feature?" – O. Jones Jan 5 '13 at 15:00
@MANCHUCK Try two positives to make a negative: "You think you can access that? Yeah, right." ;) – ZeroOne Jan 8 '13 at 15:18
I am not so sure about that one. For example, I totally hate that "He's dead Jim", that Chrome gives me when it crashes. It's there trying to be funny while I am like "Why the hell did it crash AGAIN??". Worse than that is only the Windows 8 bluescreen, that just shows a sad smiley while removing all useful information the original bluescreen had. On the old bluescreen you could see what program caused the error, while the new one treats the user like a child. – Dakkaron Jul 17 '14 at 9:14
While Mervin's answer is excellent, I would go beyond saying it is "acceptable" or "preferred". I would say you "must" use an apologetic tone for one very good reason: if the user is making a mistake, it is because the user does not understand the rules or logic of the system. That is not the fault of the user! It is responsibility of the system to accurately explain the logic of the system to users. A user error then is a mismatch between what the user thinks should be done, and what the system allows to be done.
While one would never be this wordy, if we spell it all out, your apologetic error message is: "I'm sorry that the user interface of this program, your past experience with it, or experience with other similar programs, have led you to believe that you could take such an action at this time, but you can't because ...."
Specific to the case mentioned: the user thought that access might be available. You are apologizing for the misunderstanding that the user had, because the system had not previously communicated that the permission was not available.
What does it mean to say that an error might be the user's fault? Users don't go and do things that they know will not work (that would just waste their own time). The only reason they do something wrong is because they don't know it won't work. If the user does not know something, isn't it really the fault of the system for not making this transparent? Regardless of how obvious a programmer might think it is, the vast majority of the time a mistake is the fault of the system, so write your error messages in accordance, and you will have happier users.
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Welcome to the UX Stack Exchange! Your first post is well-reasoned. +1 – Graham Herrli Jan 5 '13 at 0:02
Well written, but I disagree. I don't see why we must pander to users. In this day and age everyone seems to feel entitled to blame somebody else for all of their problems, but if my users are snooping around areas to which they have no access, that's their fault, not my system's. Let them take some damned responsibility for their actions! – Lightness Races in Orbit Jan 5 '13 at 14:26
The user is not there to use the software, they are there to perform some form of work or achieve a goal. The software is simply one of the tools they will use to do so. The tool is apologizing because it cannot do what the user has asked of it in order to achieve their goal. Some users may just be testing boundaries, but in my software I'd rather give an accurate message to the percentage of users using my software properly than a slap on the wrist because of some other percentage that are testing the boundaries (but also paying me money). – Tarwn Jan 5 '13 at 18:59
+1 @Burnt Too Many Times - I agree. If the program or computer failed to perform a valid task, then an apology is in order. If the error was the fault of the user, then "I'm sorry" is still appropriate as a way to express "regret. Like: "I regret to inform you that (I'm sorry) you can't do that". While I think it would "always" be appropriate to use an apologetic tone, it should not be "overdone". – Kevin Fegan Jan 6 '13 at 21:59
@LarsH Agreed. There are users who are "criminally uninformed" but two thoughts (1) they are really very few, and (2) they are not the important part of the market. The butler who is polite to the rogue is simply proving the ability to be polite to the master. And this term "pandering": Is Apple pandering to the user because they make an IPhone that can be used without reading ANY manual? Anyone concerned with user experience is aiming for the "ideal" which is a program that can be used without having to read a manual. Every user, then, risks being uninformed. – AgilePro Jan 7 '13 at 19:13
Taking a step back: Why was this feature made available (visible) to the user in the first place?
If it is a feature not available to a specific user (or user class), hide it.
If it is a premium feature that you'd like to upsell - do so.
History export is a great way to backup your data, but is available on premium accounts only. Get in touch with your administrator and ask them to upgrade your account to Premium.
Regarding downtime or errors (when the responsibility falls solely on the application), I feel tone is secondary to knowing that:
The issue has been logged and that a warm body somewhere knows you are having issues.
There is someone available for me to contact.
I can try again.
Something went terribly horribly wrong!
We've logged the error.
Please try again or contact help@application.com and we'll get back to you as soon as possible.
MaxMax
Why doesn't this answer have more upvotes? Max is spot on, there should be absolutely no way for the user to try something that will fail 100% of the time! – codesparkle Jan 5 '13 at 17:29
The problem with hiding options, is that there is no way to learn WHY they are hidden. Again, if you see the purpose of a good UI is help train the user, then consider what a person does to do something new. They look around for something (a menu or button) that looks close and they try that. An error message explaining WHY they can't do it, can be quite important for learning. e.g. "You can't connect to the server because no password is set". If you simply hide the connect button you would never learn this. – AgilePro Jan 6 '13 at 2:34
But you can gray-out this menu item and add a tooltip explaining why it is not accessible – danilo2 Jan 6 '13 at 23:58
@danilo2 I would never rely on a tooltip to convey critical information like this. It's highly likely that the majority of users will never see it and will therefore remain confused, frustrated, or simply ignorant. I find Burnt Too Many Times's comment a more pragmatic approach. – Mal Ross Jan 9 '13 at 9:17
@MalRoss So we have the two situations: 1. No such menu item, no way to discover that its feature exists. 2. A grayed-out menu item, which does nothing and has a tooltip. +++ In the first case, the user is guaranteed to stay ignorant forever. In the second, they may read the tooltip or not. If they do, then we've won. Otherwise, they may stay ignorant forever and learn to ignore grayed-out items. One day, they may see a tooltip by accident and learn to use it. Anyway, it's better than the first case, isn't it? – maaartinus Jan 14 '17 at 13:35
I don't find apologies very humanizing from a computer, any more than an automated hold system for a phone network makes me feel like my call is important by saying, "Your call is very important to us! Please stay on the line for the next available representative."
I don't think the apologies are the main issue here. Far more important is that they are clear enough to help the user resolve the issue without overwhelming them.
A good error message is perfectly detailed about exactly what caused the problem and how to fix it. It's also perfectly understandable and doesn't stress out the user by using jargon they don't understand.
Of course, these two goals conflict with one another. Telling the user that a fatal exception has occurred while discombobulating the kernel at line 47 and there is a memory dump logged is extremely helpful to a developer, but it's completely lost to the user and introduces more stress to the user than the error itself. Yet it's equally, if not more obnoxious to have an error message that says, "Sorry! I screwed up. Sorry about that!" As a user, how am I supposed to know what went wrong? How can I begin to go about solving my issue?
It comes down to a compromise that is considerate of the user (Are they probably a power user? Is that fact up in the air? Is English their first language? etc.).
I find it preferable to avoid the fluff and clutter of apologies for mistake the user brought on themselves, and instead write error messages that are genuinely considerate of the user by making it perfectly clear how to resolve it.
Ben MordecaiBen Mordecai
I disagree with your first sentence. Good software looks and feels like it was designed by professional and helpful people, in the same way that a dish from an excellent restaurant has appetizing, humanizing elements. A good waiter or chef would apologize if the customer finds the experience wanting in any way. I think of software apologies as coming from the programmer or UI designer, not my computer. – Roy Tinker Jan 7 '13 at 18:21
@RoyTinker I think that's a valid point, but it depends on the execution. I think that users will treat you software the way they do an automated phone system unless you convince them otherwise by means of mastery of the craft (like a chef). – Ben Mordecai Jan 7 '13 at 18:34
discombobulate: (transitive, humorous) To throw into a state of confusion; to befuddle or perplex. – Peter Jan 9 '13 at 7:11
Yes, error messages should apologize when it's plausible to do so. People will ascribe human emotions to computers, so the computers should be polite, particularly to users who expect people to be polite.
For example, websites designed for the elderly would benefit from very polite messages both
to show that the site and not the user is at fault
to align with the social expectations of these users. (I'm making the assumption that elderly people are more likely to expect politeness in normal human-to-human social interaction.)
A chapter "Bringing Affect to Human Computer Interaction" has a section on apologetic feedback (emphasis mine):
Nielsen (1998) argued that when a user encounters a problem and receives an error message, it should include a simple apologetic statement that the reason of the error is the limitation of the interface to execute the command for the intended task, not user’s action. [...]
Tzeng (2004) showed that the subjects in apologetic feedback groups did not perceive their performance and ability as better than those in non-apologetic groups. He further demonstrated that computer users might not expect computers to be polite; yet apologetic statements make subjects feel better about their interaction with the program. Based on the idea that participants’ politeness orientations might have an influence on their perceptions of apologetic computer error messages, Tzeng (2006) conducted another study investigating users’ perceptions about online systems containing three different error messages, each of which includes different politeness strategies. He elicited users’ politeness orientations and asked them to interact with websites, each of which contains pre-determined problems. Upon encountering problems, users are provided with certain error messages representing three different politeness strategies, which were positive politeness strategy (i.e. joke), negative politeness strategy (i.e. a simple apology), and a mechanical message for the error (i.e. the page is temporarily unavailable). The findings revealed that users, who use polite expressions while dealing with social events, preferred apologetic messages significantly more than both other mechanical or joke messages and other users, who are less oriented to polite expressions.
There's also some evidence that users' reactions to the mood of error messages depends upon their own mood. If you know what mood the users are likely to be in, you may be able to use that to structure your error feedback instead.
Graham HerrliGraham Herrli
Be natural, this can be annoying if you're apologizing too often, write your message in plain language—like a human talking to another human. If error is caused by you (your app, your server e.t.c.) add apology, otherwise leave just statement of fact and how to resolve the issue.
"Sorry, we couldn't send your message because of [some] problem on our server. Please try again."
"We couldn't send your message; please fill email field."
"Sorry, you don't have permission to access this feature anymore; your balance was low and we downgraded your plan."
"You don't have access to this feature; it's available only in our Extended plan."
When you remove all these "sorry"s from message - you make it shorter, which means that user can read and resolve the issue faster. If you give clear instructions and issue can be fixed easily - no one needs the apologies.
Lightness Races in Orbit
Dmitry SemenovDmitry Semenov
because of problem on our server I despise messages like this. Tell me what actually happened. I can't do anything at all with "there's a problem on the server". What problem?! Your other examples are great, though. – Lightness Races in Orbit Jan 5 '13 at 14:27
@LightnessRacesinOrbit I completely agree. I added that quote as an example - just to emphasize that you should always apologize when action is caused by app, but missed overall text of error message. Thx! – Dmitry Semenov Jan 5 '13 at 15:28
This is one of the differences between Linux and Windows. Linux error messages give you details to fix the problem, whereas Windows error messages give you user-friendly, but administrator-unfriendly error messages. The solution? Use both: "There was a problem on the server. Technical information: no DNS lookup for domain xyz.com". – barrycarter Jan 5 '13 at 20:29
@barrycarter Or even just "There was a problem on the server. [details]" Then when you click on "[details]" it expands to show (using your example) "no DNS lookup for domain xyz.com". Progressive disclosure. Spare those who don't care from even seeing the technical stuff (most of the time it will only confuse them) but make it readily available to those who want to see it. Best of both worlds. – a CVn Jan 5 '13 at 21:20
@MichaelKjörling: I have for many years wished that communications APIs could be better designed to programs know what was going on, so they could in turn inform their users. Not trying to get over-technical, but to distinguish between "The computer has requested the address of xyz from .com but got no response", or "There is no xyz in .com", "the computer has received the address of example.com but, but connection requests yield no response", or "a connection response to example.com was refused". – supercat Jul 17 '14 at 16:28
I believe two rule-of-the-thumbs can be applied in most cases:
If the user made a mistake, don't apologize for its mistake. Rather instruct how to avoid/correct the problem next or in the future. Provide help resources if possible/applicable.
If the problem was caused by the program, make a simple apology for the inconvenience out of courtesy, but it's more important to inform the user what actually happen, what will happen next, what can be done to fix it, offer the chance to assist correcting the problem (ie. issue an error report) and so forth.
epistemexepistemex
Software doesn't have feelings or an ego, but people do. If, for example, you make a mistake while using AMEX's merchant PBX, the system says "Sorry, my mistake" in a pleasant human voice. This could be seen as patronizing by some, but it's also humanizing and in my opinion very smart.
It's better to err on the side of being too apologetic, rather than too controlling or mean (eg "Enter a number, stooopid!", or worse: no feedback at all). Humans are often hierarchical, and unfortunately, apologies are often viewed as submissive actions. People want to feel like they are better than the computers they use, so an apology will work in this direction.
In short, looking at this as a matter of "who's at fault?" is a very logical way to approach a very non-logical problem, that is: how do you help a user feel OK about an obstacle in the flow of using your software?
Brian DuncanBrian Duncan
Apologetic tone helps maintain proper, human-like, communication. Something that shouldn't be underestimated!
Interaction with an interface should always be compared to face-to-face human conversation. Imagine that you're trying to buy a train ticket with a discount that doesn't apply to your case. Would you rather like to hear "Access forbidden!" from the cashier, than something informative and polite?
Besides, if user can access a place that you can't let him interact with - that's in many cases designer's fatal error. Nothing to blame user for.
marcintredermarcintreder
I second the implicit advice that thought ought to be given to designing a system/site so that users cannot attempt access to features that users do not have access to. – Michael E2 Jan 6 '13 at 14:04
Depends on site or apps intent. Do you want the user to feel they are at a loss? For example; do you want them to upgrade their account to increase revenue? I'm thinking users often will upgrade when faced with a feeling of loss or "doing without" a feature. An error message is another valuable opportunity to make an impression on the user. If the error is not important to the goals of the interface; I would not make a bigger "thing" out of the error. Quickly note the error and help get the user back to the intended task.
code-blindcode-blind
Like all UX decisions consider the context of use. I do not think apologize for anything the user did is appropriate, but if the system or application became unavailable to them or failed due to a non-user issue (outage, infrastructure failure and so on), then it's worth considering, provided it comes with other useful information about the issue being known, ETA of fix, what to do next, workarounds - anything to keep the user going or to bring them back.
On a related point what does drive users nuts is not an apology or lack of, but the instructions to contact a system administrator. Lots of users cannot do that, or even know how or what a system admin is! Better in such application failure cases to do the contacting for them (say to a help desk or support team) and tell them it's done, relying using incident management and automatic logging. Then tell the user how to proceed, if their work is safe, what the incident number is, how to share it, and so on.
Perhaps this will be of use: https://blogs.oracle.com/userassistance/entry/unexpected_errors_are_they_ever_expected_anyway
uobroinuobroin
Yes, be pollite to the user, but keep in mind that users do not read - especially the text in the middle. So make sure the actual information is easy to spot. And it can be a real pain when you have forms with several error messages and every single one beginning with "Sorry ..." or "Oops ..."
Steffen KastnerSteffen Kastner
Your statement seems about fine to me. It's not too apologetic in nature, as it shouldn't be. And, you very well compliment the apology with the relevant solution in the very next line. Apology becomes necessary in some situations because some error messages come out as too blunt and negative that can end up demotivating the users.
Even if it's the user's fault, you don't want to come out as rude and insensitive since the software can never know how a specific user will take a specific error message particularly when it hampers his productivity. Adding a small apology and a possible solution neutralises the whole error message and lets the user concentrate on the solution rather than the problem.
MohitMohit
Working for SAS company, I would say being apologetic is necessary, assuming that you're not assuming fault.
With companies like Starbucks, Apple, and Zappos out there, people don't care whose fault it was, as long as it's not theirs. The consumer, end-user, and purchaser is king or queen.
So don't apologize if your app/site deletes all their data... That's welcoming a lawsuit wit open arms, but people love to feel like the world is their oyster. And if you have an apologetic message WITH a means to quickly find a solution -- go for it.
PeterPeter
Perhaps rationale is not the best way to go when it comes to error messages. If we follow a universal logic, yes, we shouldn't apologize for something that isn't our fault.
However, we should always put in value the user-centered approach with the end purpose of making the user feel comfortable no matter what. In this regard, an apologetic approach is the best solution.
Think of what the user feels in that moment:
"Damn, I am not allowed to use this feature!"
An error is a crucial moment when you can easily lose a visitor, that is why you must treat the situation very carefully, thinking of all the cognitive and psychological implications. This is what truly matters, not everyday life logic.
Either if it's his fault or not, when encountering an error, the user will feel frustrated. When you feel frustrated, you want someone's apology. Yes, you blame everyone and everything around you, but yourself.
It's childish, but I admit it happened to me too. When an application failed me (because of my mistake) and apologized, it really put a smile on my face and made me think:
"Fine, I forgive you. I know you didn't do anything wrong, anyway."
If you aim at all costs for a certain political corectness and you do not want to apologize for something that isn't your fault, consider a more neutral tone, like:
"Unfortunately, you do not have permission to access this feature."
I find the word "unfortunately" crucial. Otherwise, it would sound like an incrimination, which will chase away the frustrated user in a second:
"You do not have permission to access this feature." (add an exclamation mark and you won't see that user again)
I find the whole message too formal somehow (it's true, it depends on the context of your app). I would go for something short and funny that delivers the message in a non-robotic fashion. It sounds simple, but it's very difficult to come up with such texts, unles you are trained that way, so as to avoid further dilemma like this one:
You should also provide a possible explanation for the error and some ways to recover from it. This will reduce the user's frustration so much!
The 4 H’s of Writing Error Messages
MirceaMircea
you should apologize for not giving them a link or phone number or any other way to "contact their administrator for assistance"
The user is left wondering "administrator of what?", "my office administrator or the one at your company?"
answered Apr 8 '14 at 2:21
Steve WhetstoneSteve Whetstone
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Animas-La Plata Project Volume XII
Ridges Basin Excavations: The Sacred Ridge Site
Jason P. Chuipka (Author)
This volume of the Animas–La Plata series (SWCA Anthropological Research Paper No. 10) describes the results of excavations at the largest and most complex site in the Animas–La Plata project area, the Sacred Ridge site (5lp245). Located in Ridges Basin approximately 8 km (4.8 miles) southwest of Durango, Colorado, Sacred Ridge was a multiple habitation site containing 22 pit structures and dating to the early Pueblo I period (A.D. 750–850). The volume concludes with a discussion of chronology, architecture, material culture, population, subsistence, and settlement at the site and in comparison with nearby sites.
365 Pages 8.5 x 11 x 1 Published: 2009 Paperback (9781931901277)
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Industry, Materials and Utilities
May 7, 2019 / 9:30 AM / 2 months ago
Severn Trent Chairman Andrew Duff to step down
May 7 (Reuters) - Water utility Severn Trent said on Tuesday Chairman Andrew Duff would step down after nine years in the role.
The departure comes at a time when the company is preparing to implement its new business plan after being awarded Fast Track status by Britain’s water regulator.
Severn Trent, which supplies water across the Midlands region, said it had started to look for Duff’s successor and that he intended to remain in the role until the induction of a new chairman. (Reporting by Tanishaa Nadkar in Bengaluru; editing by Gopakumar Warrier)
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Insurer Just Group shares tumble as first-quarter sales drop, shuts U.S. business
Carolyn Cohn
LONDON (Reuters) - Shares in specialist pension provider Just Group fell more than 7% on Thursday after it posted a 59% drop in first-quarter sales and said it would shut its loss-making U.S. operations as part of a cost-cutting programme.
Just Group, which specialises in annuities for people with a reduced life expectancy, has been suffering from the prospect of new rules from Britain’s Prudential Regulation Authority requiring more capital to be put behind lifetime mortgages, one of its key products. The rules come into force later this year.
Chief Executive Rodney Cook stood down last month, following the departure last year of the company’s chief financial officer.
Just Group in March announced a discounted share issue, raised 375 million pounds in capital, and cancelled its 2018 dividend after delaying it last year. It also pushed back its capital breakeven point by a number of years to 2022.
“We have a plan in place to ensure we achieve this (breakeven) target, which includes a number of actions we will be taking over the course of this year,” Interim Group Chief Executive David Richardson said in a statement.
In addition to cutting loss-making business such as the United States, Just Group said it would focus more on cost control and using capital-efficient assets.
Just Group’s shares, which hit record lows last month, were trading at 60.3 pence at 0712 GMT, taking it to the bottom of the FTSE mid-cap index
Analysts at KBW reiterated their “market perform” rating on the stock, though they highlighted sales below their expectations and “further fallout from regulation changes”.
Before Thursday’s announcement, Just Group’s combined credit score - which measures how likely a company is to default in the next year on a scale of 100 (very unlikely) to 1 (highly likely) - was “4”, Refinitiv Eikon data showed.
Analysts have speculated Just Group could be a takeover target.
Retirement income sales fell to 184 million pounds as bulk annuities - insurance of company defined benefit, or final salary pension schemes - dropped 90 percent to 26 million pounds.
However, Just Group said it had already completed bulk annuity deals totalling more than 300 million pounds in the second quarter.
Individual sales of annuities, pensions which pay a fixed income for life, fell 23% to 145 million pounds and lifetime mortgage sales dropped 47% to 79 million pounds.
Lifetime or equity release mortgages enable home-owners to borrow against the value of their property, a loan which is paid back when they die.
Additional reporting by Noor Zainab Hussain; Editing by Rachel Armstrong and Emelia Sithole-Matarise
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Bracket Watch: February 13th, 2018
By Orion Sang
Michigan is projected as a No. 8 or No. 9 seed in most bracket projections.
Normally, a game at the Kohl Center would be an opportunity for a résumé-boosting win. But Wisconsin isn’t good this year, so No. 22 Michigan’s 83-72 win over the Badgers on Sunday afternoon was merely a Quadrant 3 win. But while the win won’t earn the Wolverines many points in the eyes of the selection committee, it wasn’t a loss, which would’ve boded poorly for Michigan’s projected seeding.
Right now, the Wolverines appear to be pretty firmly entrenched around the 8 or 9 seed lines in most projections. Every projection on the Bracket Matrix has Michigan in the field, but they are in a spot where they’d have to play a No. 1 seed on Saturday or Sunday.
Now, Michigan will head back to Ann Arbor for a two-game homestand against Iowa and Ohio State, before finishing out the regular season at Penn State and Maryland. It is a stretch of games that could feature as many as three Quadrant 1 games — Maryland and Penn State project right on the edge of that top-75 cut off — and provide some key opportunities to bolster the resume.
Record: 19-7
RPI: 38
SOS: 79
Home: 13-1
Away: 4-5
Neutral: 2-1
Quadrant 1: 2-5
Note: Division II games don’t count toward RPI record
Bracketology Rundown
Joe Lunardi/ESPN: 6 seed vs. Virginia Tech — Feb. 12
Jerry Palm/CBS: 8 seed vs. Butler — Feb. 11
Andy Bottoms/Inside The Hall: 8 seed – Feb 13
SI.com: 9 seed vs. Texas Christian — Feb. 12
Crashing the Dance: 9 seed — Feb. 13
Bracket Matrix: 9 seed — Feb. 12
Joseph Cook/1-3-1 Sports: 9 seed — Feb. 12
Chris Dobbertean/SBNation: 9 seed — Feb. 12
Purdue (23-4, 11 RPI): The Boilermakers are — surprise — still projected for the highest seed out of the Big Ten, despite dropping their past two games to Ohio State and Michigan State. The losses didn’t sully Purdue in the eyes of the selection committee; it chose the Boilermakers as the fourth of the top-16 seeds released Sunday.
Michigan State (24-3, 14 RPI): The Spartans got a huge win against Purdue, but according to Bracket Matrix, are trending down: whereas they were the highest-ranked 3 seed last week, they are now the third-highest ranked 3 seed (on average), with an average seed of 2.81. That is likely a residual effect of the NCAA Committee announcing the Spartans as a 3-seed on Sunday.
Ohio State (22-5, 16 RPI): As predicted after their win over Purdue, the Buckeyes are now squarely in the conversation for a top-4 seed. They were listed No. 14 out of the top-16 seeds that the selection committee picked Sunday.
Should be in
Michigan (19-7, 38 RPI): The Wolverines have one more chance at a Quadrant 1 win coming up with a home matchup against Ohio State this upcoming Sunday. Otherwise, Michigan will try to hold serve and avoid dropping multiple games to Iowa, Penn State and Maryland.
Bubble Out
Nebraska (19-8, 54 RPI): The Cornhuskers have their biggest remaining game of the regular season Tuesday night against Maryland. The status quo remains true: Nebraska’s schedule may be too light, and it may need a big win or two in the conference tournament.
Maryland (16-10, 59 RPI): The Terrapins dropped a crucial game to Penn State last week. Mark Turgeon and company are in a difficult position; Maryland has a combined 1-10 record in games against Group 1 and Group 2 teams.
Penn State (18-9, 85 RPI): The Nittany Lions will begin the most important stretch of their season: they’ve got three games in six days against Ohio State, Purdue and Michigan starting Feb. 15.
Bracket Debate: Where should Michigan State be seeded?
There were plenty of Spartan fans who complained about their team’s position in the selection committee’s top-16 that was released Sunday; Michigan State, which rose to No. 2 in the AP Poll on Monday, is No. 11.
In reality, the latter ranking may be the more accurate one; as pointed out by Jerry Palm, the Spartans have played the fewest Quadrant 1 games of any top 16 team, the fewest games against Quadrant 1 and Quadrant 2 teams combined — and they have just two wins over teams currently predicted to make the tournament in North Carolina and Purdue. The Spartans also don’t play any additional Quadrant 1 games over the final two weeks of the season.
Michigan State will end up with a lot of wins, but winning the Big Ten Tournament, and beating teams like Purdue and Ohio State on a neutral floor, might be paramount to moving up the S-curve down the stretch.
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Bracket Watch: March 11th, 2019
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Gilad Atzmon: The book they don’t want you to read
Here we go again: Jewish Zionists and Jewish ‘anti-Zionists yet again join forces to burn a book that, amongst other things, explores the Jewish culture of book-burning. Is this a coincidence? I don’t think so.
It seems as if award-winning Islmophobic Harry’s Place is now so desperate to stop ‘The Wandering Who’ that they wail, “Why Is The Times Selling an Antisemitic Book?” “I am shocked and horrified to see that The Times is promoting Gilad Atzmon’s “The Wandering Who”, says one of the Harry’s Place ring-leaders.
I find myself laughing out loud. A mere thirty minutes after the panic lights started to flash, Israeli hasbara author and pro-war enthusiast David Aaronovitch was informing his fans at the Zionist cyber-ghetto that he was ‘on the case’. No doubt Aaronovitch knew exactly who to call.
Apparently the Guardian has already surrendered to Zionist pressure. As Harry’s Place continues, “I see from CiFWatch that at one stage, the Guardian’s online bookshop was also selling the same book. They appear not to be doing so, now.”
Well, good on the Guardian. At least it is consistent in it’s groveling to the ‘dangerous cult’ described so eloquently by Jonathan Cook.
We’re now looking into the very heart of Jewish choseness. In 2011 Britain, it is Jewish Zionists who decide what the British public will read and Jewish ‘anti’-Zionists who decide what British Palestine solidarity activists will do.
But let me reassure you. On every front they fail. Our world has changed. ‘The Wandering Who’ spreads like a forest fire and a second edition is about to be printed.
So, those who wish to peer into the depths of Liam Fox’s relationships with his real masters will have to read ‘The Wandering Who’. They certainly won’t understand it from reading The Guardian or The Times.
You can now order The Wandering Who on Amazon.com or Amazon.co.uk
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Ignite Your Income Portfolio
by UptickDaily | Jan 5, 2019 | Featured, Wealthy Retirement | 0 comments
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Judge Throws Out Video Evidence In Robert Kraft Prostitution Case
Robert Kraft: AFC Championship - New England Patriots v Denver Broncos
May 15, 2019, 12:22 pmBill Piersa Daily Digest, News0
By Bill Piersa / May 15, 2019
A Palm Beach County, Florida, judge ruled on Monday that prosecutors in New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft‘s solicitation of prostitution case cannot use surveillance video and other evidence.
County Judge Leonard Hanser said in his ruling this week that the video, which police claim show Kraft receiving sex acts he paid for at Orchids of Asia Day Spa, must be suppressed. This is due to the warrant enabling such recording lacking the proper rules to protect innocent spa customers from a violation of privacy. Hanser also ruled that evidence gathered from a traffic stop of the 77-year-old billionaire’s limo can also be disregarded.
The ruling is a major win for the six-time Super Bowl champion, who sought to suppress the evidence. He was one of the dozens of customers caught on camera receiving sexual acts along with massages at the spa in January.
Kraft, along with other patrons, pleaded not guilty to the prostitution solicitation charges that stemmed from the footage and other evidence. Kraft’s lawyers then argued that the evidence acquired was in violation of the Fourth Amendment and that it also violated Florida state law. They said that such measures were “unnecessary and inappropriate,” because Kraft’s actions were “not legally serious enough to justify such a maximally invasive investigatory technique.”
Judge Hanser gave a detailed explanation as to why the evidence was tossed. He wrote: “The fact that some totally innocent women and men had their entire lawful time spent in a massage room fully recorded and viewed intermittently by a detective-monitor is unacceptable.” He added that Kraft had “reasonable, subjective expectation of privacy” inside a massage room and that “the detective-monitors were simply left to their own standards and devices to satisfy the minimization requirement,” which was not a far enough measure taken by police to ensure privacy.
As for evidence obtained through the search of Kraft’s limo, Hanser wrote that it was the “fruit of an unlawful search,” and suppressed all evidence found.
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I hosted the first party in my Steubenville home on January 2, 2005. I’d only closed on the house a few hours before, but that didn’t stop me from calling up a half-dozen friends and inviting them to join me for dinner. We ordered Chinese, laid out a blanket on the floor of the empty living room, and ate off paper plates. It was a glorious evening.
I hosted my last party in my Steubenville home this past Friday night. There were too many of us to sit around the table, so we ate in the living room this time too. Only, there’s furniture there now. Life has gotten more comfortable over the past 12 years. The food has gotten better too. For the occasion (introducing my home’s soon-to-be-new-owners to some of my closest friends), I cooked one of my fanciest and easiest pasta dishes. Guests sipped martinis, and we all ate off my pretty English china. It also was a glorious evening, albeit with a touch of melancholy.
Twelve years ago, when we ate Chinese on the living room floor, there was the promise of more parties to come. On Friday, the promise was gone. In its place, however, was gratitude for parties past.
There was gratitude for Thursday Night Dinners—my once weekly dinner parties where children ran wild through the house and dozens of grown-ups found seats wherever there they could—sofas and chairs, basement floors, front porch railings, and garden beds.
There was also gratitude for our annual “Friendsgiving Dinners,” where those of us who couldn’t travel home for Thanksgiving camped out at my house and feasted for days, discovering in the process that sometimes gravy really can be a beverage.
And there was gratitude for the baby showers and wedding showers, for Easter brunches, summer crawfish boils, spontaneous Pope Parties (held on the two different occasions when we saw white smoke rise above the Vatican), romantic dinners with my husband, hundreds of casual supper parties, and 11 very special Christmas parties where my tree was decorated by the cutest guests any hostess could want
Memories of those parties and the people I love fill every inch of this house. It’s a beautiful home, I know. But what makes it beautiful to me isn’t the woodwork I restored or the paint colors I put on the walls. It’s those memories.
It’s babies saying their first words over bowls of potato soup. It’s houseguests sitting around in their pajamas drinking coffee. It’s roommates perched on my kitchen steps, helping me solve the problems of the universe while I stirred risotto. It’s the millions of little moments that make up a life—all the laughing and singing and fighting and praying and kissing and cooking that somehow transform us bit by bit, day by day, into the people God made us to be.
Those moments didn’t just transform me, though. Somehow, in some way, they’ve transformed this house. They’ve seeped into its walls and floorboards. They’ve the changed the very air. The love, the laughter, the prayers—it’s all here. It’s tangible. I feel it. Others feel it too. It’s one of the reasons this place never lacks for dinner guests. That and the risotto.
With the last party behind us now and packing at full throttle, my thoughts keep going back to that—to how we transform the things we love, how love remakes them in our image. And I find myself wondering how much of our lives linger on where they once were lived, even after we’ve left.
It’s a god-like ability we have—to make a home after our own our image. God did that for us on a macro-scale—creating a universe where every atom vibrates with his glory. We do it on a micro-scale—creating a place where the walls and floorboards speak of who we are and the life we live in that space.
Our homes don’t reflect us as perfectly as the universe reflects God, of course, but they still reflect us. They tell stories about us, their owners. Sometimes those stories are seen—children’s initials scratched in closet doors, family pictures hung on walls, floors dirtied, whether by toddlers or careless neglect. Other times, though, the stories are felt: that sense of happiness and peace (or unhappiness and foreboding) that can’t be seen or smelled, but is there just the same.
How much of that lasts, though, when we go? Without God, the universe he made would cease to be. But this house has stood for 101 years—89 of those without me. It will hopefully go on standing for 100 more—all without me. And in those 100 years, someone might paint the woodwork. New colors will definitely go up on the plaster. The kitchen floors could likely be neglected. Part of my story, written into these walls, will be erased, replaced with a new story by those who come after me.
But what about the rest—what about the love and the prayers and the late-night conversations? What about the children who ran in circles, up one staircase and down another, laughing all the while? What about the tears, shed by my broken-hearted self over my kitchen sink? What about the days where I questioned God and the days where I praised God? And what about all the dinner parties, all the cooking, all the drinking? What about the wine–the cheap Australian stuff we drank in grad school and the good French stuff we drink now? What about the polenta and the curries and cheesecake? Does all that love I cooked up and poured out in my kitchen linger on in any way besides a stain to the left of the kitchen sink?
Parting Prayers
I love this house like a person. It has been my comfort and constant companion through these past 12 years. It gave me a safe place to which I could retreat from the world and a beautiful place to which I could welcome the world. On both counts, it has served me well. I have been blessed beyond my wildest imaginings during my time here—blessed by the people who have passed through here, blessed by the stories that have unfolded here, blessed by the graces poured out here, and yes, blessed by the meals cooked here.
So, I can’t help but hope and pray that even after I’ve left, something of those blessings and graces will remain, making life just a little bit easier for those who come after me. I hope, that somehow, they can share in the love that was given and received so freely in this place during all my years here.
Maybe that’s silly or sentimental of me. But I think it’s also human. We’re stewards—entrusted by God with the task of caring for our world and leaving it better off than we found it. For 12 years, this house has been the center of my world. And I’ve tried to be a good steward of it in every possible way. I’ve fixed the electrical and replaced the roof, so that’s something. But I hope the more important things I did help the new owners and future owners even more. I hope the blessings of friendship and hospitality linger. And I hope I find the same sort of blessings where we go next.
Regardless, we’ll do our best to invite those blessings in there, as well. If I’ve learned anything these past 12 years, it’s that a good risotto has a way of attracting them.
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5 thoughts on “Leaving Home”
Holly McIlwain says:
YES! Emily-I felt the same way when I sold and moved from MY house when I married my husband. We went on to create OUR home together, but that first house–MY first house–had the same feel as yours–always full of delicious scents, tastes, and lovely people. Cheers on this new phase!
mawr90 says:
So very beautiful, Emily! This is why when I am about to leave a home for the last time, turning over keys to the rightful owner/new occupant, I go into every room, reflect on all that happened there, and say a prayer of blessing/thanksgiving while making the sign of the cross with my thumb on the outside of each doorway. I, too, hope that the blessing(s) of that home might continue for others.
It’s been a mightily healing practice that brings much-needed closure (I’m a sap, too!). I think I started it way back in grad school while still living in campus housing.
Blessings to you in your new home!
Deirdre in DC
Thank you for this beautiful reflection! We don’t have a house yet, but this post of yours is helping me to think about all of the beautiful memories my husband and I have made in our different apartments. Your post also makes me excited for the day when (hopefully) live in a house and really settle down our roots 🙂 The next people to be in your Steubenville house will be truly blessed!
Jesska says:
Awwwwww!! I miss your house already and I’ve never been there!
(Awesome way to say goodbye to it)
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A Brief History of the Lobster Roll
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Ashley Kane
Love lobster? Love it even more already out of the shell, soaked in butter, and on a steaming roll? Eating lobster rolls is a New England pastime, and traditional restaurants across the region serve them. Here’s a look at the origin of the fresh seafood served in a bun. (Disclaimer: You may become hungry.)
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Who invented the lobster roll?
A Milford, Connecticut restaurant named Perry’s served the first documented lobster roll in 1929. The sandwich quickly became popular along the coast but never spread far beyond the state. Later, in 1965, the lobster salad roll took off in Long Island, New York, at a restaurant called – you guessed it – The Lobster Roll.
Despite this, the lobster roll’s origin generally traces to Maine – understandable because the state’s coast makes for some pretty fantastic seafood – where lobster meat was served in butter on hot dog buns at various road stands beginning in 1970.
Nowadays, nearly every seafood restaurant in New England serves lobster rolls. While there is no single “founder” of this delicacy, it’s safe to say that a few restaurants caught onto the tasty idea over time, and the love for the sandwich grew from there.
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What are the types of lobster rolls?
This question is an important one. The traditional lobster roll, as it was in 1929, features chunks of lobster meat soaked in butter on a steamed hot dog bun, usually with a side of chips or French fries.
With the lobster roll served in a similar style in Maine, there are a few exceptions. The hot dog bun is usually slightly toasted or grilled so that its sides are flat. The lobster meat is often cold – usually four ounces of knuckle, claw, and tail meat – and there may be just a light spread of mayonnaise.
There are now many variations of this classic sandwich. In parts of New England, you may come across lobster salad rolls which include celery, lemon, lettuce, salt, pepper, and mayonnaise. Some restaurants will serve them on baguette rolls or hamburger buns. Certain menus may even offer two versions of the sandwich: one as a tradition roll served warm with buttered lobster and another as a cold version with mayonnaise and lettuce.
Take your pick, and enjoy the summertime staple meal year-round in New England.
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John W. Johnston: Gifts of Prophecy
By theworkofthefather on January 29, 2017 • ( 1 Comment )
In my search to understand more fully the prophetic events of The Book of Revelation–and how they are coming to pass in our current day–I came across an interesting website written by a Christian man who believes himself to be a prophet. Interesting enough, I find a lot of his revelations in tune with the holy writ of God.
His name is John Johnston and his website is
https://unitedstatesprophecy.com/
One thing that he said which I found interesting was claiming that the curse in Deuteronomy 28, where Israel is scattered seven ways, is taking place now.
I too believe that to be the case. Difference between John and I is that I believe the cursing of Deut 28 is specifically referring to Mormonism.
Israel/Mormons were scattered seven ways after the LDS church splintered upon the death of Joseph Smith.
Now on top of that, I have entertained a new idea! What if this is to be correlated with the seven churches in The Book of Revelation? What if the seven churches John was writing to were the seven branches of Mormonism/Israel?
I’ll leave it up to the reader to determine which church relates to which branch.
Israel was truly scattered seven ways.
Whether or not the seven churches of Revelation are related to this is up to debate.
I myself always wondered why there was ever seven churches. Shouldn’t there just be one true church? Yet we read of seven, all doing different things wrong.
What brought me to the website was my new-found understanding that Nero is part of “the beast”– specifically, the one that will return to the earth in the last days– and this is something that John Johnston seems to understand as well.
The whore of the earth has seven heads, and ten horns.
The ten horns are to be the ten kings of ten kingdoms that join the new world order in the last days.
But what about the seven heads? The heads were each a king of Rome. The seventh is Nero, and he comes into play later.
Revelation 17:
10 And there are seven kings; five are fallen, and one is, and the other is not yet come; and when he cometh, he must continue a short space.
11 And the beast that was, and is not, even he is that eighth, and is of the seven, and goeth into perdition.
The beast that returns, is the same king as the seventh. At the time of John’s writing, five kings had fallen, and one was currently reigning, and the next one would ultimately become the beast of the last days.
The next king, the seventh, who had not yet come to reign, was Nero. This emperor would go on to kill and persecute the Saints, and eradicate true Christianity.
When the spirit of Nero returns as the beast, the anti-christ, he will bring the ten kingdoms together. Their kings will, “give their kingdom to the beast.” (Rev 17:17)
I’ll also let the reader determine which are these ten kingdoms that will give their kingdom to the anti-christ.
Returning back to the prophecies of John Johnston, here is his most impressive prophecy:
“When you see that the Berlin wall comes down and when you see the Soviet Union take a severe blow then it makes a recovery, and then you see the death of Fidel Castro; then shall come the collapse of the economic system of the United States.”
John received that revelation in 1981, and it came to pass accordingly, in the exact order he prophesied.
I am not saying the man is a prophet; I am simply pointing out his amazing claims which have major implications.
I noticed two other very interesting things on his site that correlate with my own understanding of the prophetic events taking place:
“God told me in June 2008 that He is not going to delay His judgments any longer. “Surely the Lord GOD does nothing, Unless He reveals His secret to His servants the prophets.” (Amos 3:7 NKJV)”
This coincides with the economic crash which occurred months later after his prophecy:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subprime_crisis_impact_timeline#December_2008
This falls in line with other prophecies.
Genesis 15:13 “Then the LORD said to Abram, “You can be sure that your descendants will be strangers in a foreign land, where they will be oppressed as slaves for 400 years.”
From 1608, to 2008, the people of America were oppressed until the financial crash. Now there is an uprising.
Joseph Smith prophesied that during the final civil war, “slaves shall rise up against their masters.” (D&C 87:4)
God was not talking about the African slaves; he was talking about the seed of Abraham which encompasses the entire American nation.
2008 also falls in line with another string of prophetic events.
For a deeper context, here are the words of Lyman Wight:
“The temple was somewhere in building the second story when Bro Joseph from the Stand announced the alarming declaration that baptism for our dead was no longer acceptable in the river As much to say the time for building the temple had passed by and both we and our dead were rejected together. The church now stands rejected together with their dead The church being rejected now stands alienated from her God in every sense of the word” Church History Vol 2 p 790
I believe this occurred on September 11th, 1841.
Four biblical generations later, 160 years, was September 11th, 2001.
After that the USA had seven good years up until 2008, then seven bad years.
Which leads us to now.
Fidel Castro has died, and now we can expect Section 87 to be fulfilled. The complete collapse of America is about to be witnessed, right before our very eyes.
John Johnston also believes we are living in the fifth seal, which is what I believe, too.
When the sixth seal opens, the servants will return to bind up the law and seal up the testimony.
Any day now the sixth seal will open.
“In the spring of 1995 I was working in my garage when I saw a lead crystal glass podium come up out of the garage floor. I stood watching in amazement as it rose up out of the floor! It was pure crystal and on top of the podium was what looked like a golden egg holder like the ones the Russians used to hold ornately decorated eggs. The golden stand stood about 12 inches high, was solid gold and had three legs supporting the cup. It was decorated with precious stones. A human heart was cradled in the egg stand. The heart had barbed wire, bailing wire and large chains wrapped around it several times. Blood was pouring out of the heart and onto the floor. It then turned into a river of blood. The garage floor was covered with blood and I found myself standing in this blood.
I could not believe what I was seeing and I did not understand what it meant. So I asked God, “What does this mean?” He said, “Satan had a major strategic plan since World War II to desensitize a whole generation of people for himself. Unless the Satanic chains and bondage of desensitization are broken over their hearts, minds, spirit and souls of my people, which are called by my name, they will not be able to feel the spiritual, physical or emotional needs of other people to whom they minister the Gospel. This vision was given to the Church.”
This fits perfect.
I believe the final biblical generation lies between 1995 and 2035.
The church broke the new and everlasting covenant in 1835.
Four generations later you get to 1995, which is going to be last generation.
According to John Johnston, Satan KNOWS this is the final generation, which is why he is doing EVERYTHING he can to destroy the youth of this generation.
Satan is winning.
He is killing Christians in the middle east, and killing the youth in the west with unbelief, bringing them all into the murky waters of sin.
However, the tables will turn when Christ opens the sixth seal.
The Saints will be prepared for the final hour of judgment.
Chaos is about to break out.
But God’s elect will be safely gathered to one place before the tribulations are sent forth.
I hope and pray– and believe– the man John Johnston has enough light in him to heed the call to Zion.
-G.azelem
check out John Johnston’s youtube videos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pa_evxcCdDY
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Home > Crushed aid: Why is fragmentation a problem for international aid?
Crushed aid: Why is fragmentation a problem for international aid?
Javier Santiso, Emmanuel Frot 18 January 2010
The rapid growth in the fragmentation of aid donors is seen by many to be a burden for recipient countries. This column argues that too much fragmentation is not the issue; the problem is that there is too little competition between the suppliers of aid.
The world of official development assistance is rapidly evolving. Four decades ago, few donors used to grant money to few countries. But aid has since expanded tremendously. New donors emerged, and developed countries created increasing numbers of aid partnerships. Today this trend is even reinforced by the transition of some developing countries from being aid recipients to being aid donors (Brazil, China, Russia, Saudi Arabia or Venezuela, to name but a few).
The multiplication of actors on the aid stage has profoundly shaped the way aid is disbursed. It is now fragmented – received in many small pieces from many donors (Deutscher and Fyson 2009). Aid fragmentation is now high on the donors’ policy agenda. They have pledged to decrease fragmentation by improving coordination and by implementing labour division. The 2005 Paris Declaration and the 2008 Accra Agenda for Action explicitly address these issues. The Development Assistance Committee of the OECD actively participates in monitoring progress in fragmentation reduction.
Fragmentation is considered to be a pressing issue because its costs have been shown to be very large for recipients, to the point that it significantly reduces aid efficiency. Having to deal with a plethora of donor missions, requirements, and consultants considerably reduces the value of aid for recipients. It mobilises a great deal of administrative resources in countries where these are often scarce and would be better employed elsewhere. Our recent research (Frot and Santiso 2008, Frot 2009, Frot and Santiso 2010) contributes to the debate on tackling aid fragmentation by giving an overview of its extent and evolution.
How fragmented is aid?
The numbers related to aid fragmentation are quite stunning. To give an idea of the sheer change in the characteristics of aid disbursements over the last forty years, we present two simple graphs.
Figure 1 plots the average number of partnerships across aid donors. The upper line is the number of developing countries in our dataset, and so is the upper bound of the number of partnerships. In the 1960s, donors disbursed aid to, on average, fewer than 50 countries. In 2006, they did so to more than 100. This average masks the fact that the largest donors disbursed aid to virtually every single developing country in recent years.
A direct consequence of donor portfolio expansion is that developing countries receive aid from a rising number of donors. Figure 2 shows that in 1960 each developing country received aid from, on average, two donors. In 2006, it was from more than 28.
Figure 1. Average number of partnerships per donor, 1960–2007
Figure 2. Average number of donors disbursing aid to a country, 1960–2006
There is more to fragmentation than a simple increase in the number of actors. A large number of these partnerships actually carry little money. Developing countries often bear the administrative costs of aid with few benefits attached. Figure 3 shows the average donor portfolio size and the average number of significant partnerships in a portfolio, according to the Development Assistance Committee definition of fragmentation that classifies a partnership as insignificant if it receives little aid compared with the donor contribution at the global level.
Figure 3. Widening gap
The growing wedge between portfolio size and the number of significant partnerships is fragmentation at work. From the upper curve we learn that aid donors have chosen to disburse aid to more and more countries. The lower curve tells us that this expansion actually created few significant partnerships.
Significant partnerships typically receive more than 80% of a donor's budget, despite only representing a minority within a portfolio. Similarly, more than 80% of a recipient's aid allocation comes from its significant partnerships. Donors have chosen to have very large portfolios, even if that entails relatively small disbursements in some countries.
Going deeper: Sectoral fragmentation
Fragmentation measured at the country level only gives an approximate representation. If, as advised by Development Assistance Committee, fragmentation should be solved by labour division then we need to go deeper to understand exactly where complementarities can be exploited to reduce fragmentation levels.
In Frot and Santiso (2010), a sectoral analysis reveals that fragmentation has become more pronounced in all sectors. The social sector is the most fragmented, and follows the most pronounced trend towards more fragmentation. Two factors explain why social sectors stand out.
First, there was a large allocation shift from the agriculture, industry, transport and energy sectors to social sectors (education, population, government), such that these are today overcrowded.
Second, social sectors, often with little capital investment required, are also more subject to fragmentation.
Fragmentation is also the outcome of these allocation shifts towards more micro-projects that can easily proliferate.
The sectoral study also shows that fragmentation even in a single country is a complex notion. Social sectors are often very fragmented while others are not. A single figure for each country is therefore often misleading.
For this reason we propose to use radar plots that indicate at a glance fragmentation in each sector and make comparisons between countries easier. This will help to identify sectors and countries most affected by fragmentation.
The other aspect of fragmentation
The aid community often debates about too much fragmentation, and so usually too many donors. But in many countries there are very few donors. Too little fragmentation, or more precisely too little competition among donors, is also an issue.
For instance in 2007, sectors in some countries attracted more than 2000 simultaneous aid projects. On the other hand, the median number of projects in a sector was 19; the average 44. This observation led us to develop an index that identifies countries where a donor enjoys a kind of monopoly power. We say that this is the case when it disburses a large share of aid in many sectors of a developing country.
The literature on fragmentation usually considers that a single dominant donor is beneficial (see for instance Knack and Rahman 2007), and empirical studies, if taken literally, support this view. On the other hand lack of competition should increase the price of aid, as it would on any traditional market. This price is ill-measured, but the literature on aid lists various "anti-competitive" procedures: tied aid, extraneous conditions, hiring of costly external consultants, etc.
It is peculiar that an abundance of suppliers is criticised in the "aid market", when economics underline the virtue of competition almost everywhere. However in the world of aid, the presence of many donors does not imply competition among them, but more often superposition of costs and administrative procedures. Aid monopolies therefore appear desirable if they cut these costs while barely raising the already overinflated price of aid.
What to do about a lack of competition?
This simple remark suggests that the real issue at the heart of fragmentation is too little competition. Numerous donors only multiply monopoly costs, without bringing the benefits expected from competition.
This has implications for how the donor community tackles fragmentation. The current approach is institution-based. Donors and recipients meet in international meetings, and pledge to act. Progress is monitored by a multilateral institution (OECD’s Development Assessment Committee) that cannot constrain donors to implement their pledges, except through a delicate game of naming and shaming.
We wonder about the efficiency of this approach. To deal with a too heavy administrative weight by creating new administrations is somehow ironic. It remains to be proven that these new institutions will lower transaction costs and manage to implement a labour division that donors are often reluctant to effectively achieve. The problem with this approach is that it basically ignores why aid is fragmented. It does not attempt to change the incentives donors and recipients face, and so is unlikely to radically change their behaviours. In particular, it disregards the lack of competition that creates fragmentation.
In another "decentralised" perspective, fragmentation would be reduced as a result of innovation and evolution in a market for aid where donors would face incentives to be more efficient and accountable. Recipients would be able to opt for the most skilled, efficient suppliers. In this world, insignificant partnerships would be driven away because of their inefficiency. Numerous donors would increase competition, instead of only increasing costs. Barder (2009) describes how market mechanisms could be applied to aid.
This decentralised approach argues that fragmentation is a consequence of the current institutional setting where competition is absent. It directly tries to make fragmentation an unsustainable outcome instead of ruling it out by assumption. Its difficulty lies into designing the set of rules that provide the right incentives, and to make donors accept these rules. This is by no means an easy task, but it is more ambitious and promising.
The donor community has decided to adopt the centralised approach, despite its past failures. An additional failure, though hardly surprising, would nevertheless be regrettable for poor countries and would delay once again the structural reforms aid desperately needs.
Barder, Owen, (2009), "Beyond Planning: Markets and Networks for Better Aid [1]", Centre for Global Development, Working Paper 185.
Frot, Emmanuel and Javier Santiso (2008), “Development Aid and Portfolio Funds: Trends, Volatility and Fragmentation [2]”, OECD Development Centre, Working Paper No. 275.
Frot, Emmanuel (2009), “Early vs. Late in Aid Partnerships and Implications for Tackling Aid Fragmentation [3]”, Working Paper, 2009.
Frot, Emmanuel and Javier Santiso (2010), “Crushed Aid: Fragmentation in Sectoral Aid [4]”, OECD Development Centre, Working Paper, No. 284.
Deutscher, Eckhard and Sara Fyson (2008). “Improving the Effectiveness of Aid [5]”, Finance and Development, September, Volume 45, Number 3.
Topics: Development [6]
Tags: competition [7], foreign aid [8]
Source URL: https://voxeu.org/article/crushed-aid-why-fragmentation-problem-international-aid
[1] http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/1422971/
[2] http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1277885
[3] http://swopec.hhs.se/hasite/papers/hasite0001.pdf
[5] http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/fandd/2008/09/deutscher.htm
[6] https://voxeu.org/content/topics/development
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VinGroup sells stake in logistics arm
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Phát Lộc Express, formerly known as Vinlinks, was founded in 2001 and is now the fifth-largest logistics firm in Việt Nam. - Photo Mai Nguyễn/Trí Thức Trẻ
HÀ NỘI — The conglomerate VinGroup will sell its entire ownership in the logistics service firm Phát Lộc Express and Trading JSC (Phát Lộc Express), VinGroup said in a statement.
According to the statement, which was released last week, VinGroup will sell nearly eight million shares or nearly 80 per cent of the chartered capital in Phát Lộc Express to withdraw its entire stake in the logistics service firm.
The buyer is believed to be logistics firm Sagawa Express Co Ltd, a member of Japan-based SG Holdings, according to a report on the Nikkei Asian Review.
Nikkei Asian Review reported that SG Holdings will purchase VinGroup’s eight million shares in Phát Lộc Express for US$9 million, equal to Phát Lộc Express’ sales made in 2015.
Việt Nam News has tried to contact VinGroup for further information about the deal, however, there has been no responses from the Vietnamese property developer.
Phát Lộc Express, formerly known as Vinlinks, was founded in 2001 and is now the fifth-largest logistics firm in Việt Nam. The company was acquired by VinGroup in July 2015 after the giant real estate and retail group bought nearly 80 per cent of shares from Hợp Nhất International Express JSC.
SG Holdings has operated in Việt Nam via a local subsidiary since 2012, handled its deliveries in HCM City and Hà Nội, and contracted local logistics firms for other areas. The deal between SG Holdings and VinGroup could be an important step for the Japanese logistics firm to expand its market share in the domestic market.
VinGroup is a giant group, operating in the real estate and retail sectors. The company has also expanded its business in online sales and logistics businesses.
In the past quarter, VinGroup recorded VNĐ10.65 trillion ($473.3 million) in revenue and VNĐ175 billion in net profit. In the first nine months, the company’s revenue rose 80 per cent year on year to VNĐ34.65 trillion, and its post-tax profit tripled from last year’s figure to VNĐ3.1 trillion.
In late November, VinGroup and Sagawa signed a delivery and logistics co-operation agreement to develop and enhance the delivery capability of VinGroup. The co-operative agreement will provide comprehensive logistics solutions for VinGroup to improve its logistics services and help the Vietnamese real estate group get access to modern management software, expected to optimise transportation solutions. — VNS
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Vero Beach Sunrises Not High Rises
This article appeared in the Palm Beach Post on May 15, 2017
When looking for a beach escape, I want to see the sea, not towering condos and hotels that cast long shadows and block the sun. It’s one of the reasons I love Vero Beach, where zoning restrictions prevent buildings more than four stories tall.
“Our motto is ‘sunrises not high-rises,’” says Allison McNeal, a third-generation Veroite and director of tourism for the Indian River Chamber of Commerce.
The seaside boutique hotel is owned by Gloria and Emilio Estefan. (Photo courtesy of Costa d’Este)
Vero’s sunrises are spectacular. I’ve often witnessed them from guest rooms at such resorts as Costa d’Este, the seaside boutique hotel owned by music legends Gloria and Emilio Estefan, or the nearby Kimpton Vero Beach Hotel & Spa, a delightful hotel just north of Costa d’Este. Both offer beach views, upscale restaurants, pampering spas and fine service — and both are dog-friendly, a perk much appreciated by the tail-wagging Chihuahua who often travels with me.
Citrus Grillhouse features not only Mediterranean-and-Italian-inspired dishes, but also a spectacular view of the ocean while you dine. (Photo by Ruth Cincotta)
The hotels aren’t the only places to deliver picture-postcard seaside views, however. There are oceanside restaurants where you can dine alfresco while enjoying the balmy sea breezes. One of my favorites is Citrus Grillhouse, with Mediterranean- and Italian-inspired dishes.
Another popular spot for lunch or dinner is the Ocean Grill, an Old Florida-style seafood and steakhouse restaurant known for its precarious perch over the ocean. A landmark, the building where the Ocean Grill is located was constructed 70 years ago by entrepreneur Waldo Saxton. It wasn’t converted to restaurant until 1941. In the 1920s, Saxton took a brawny team of mules to clear the right of way for A1A from the Sebastian Inlet to the south county line. He also cleared the road to the Ocean Grill.
McKee Botanical Garden has long been a favorite of locals and tourists.
While it’s tempting to spend all vacation time at the beach, Vero Beach has much more to offer. One of my favorite attractions is McKee Botanical Garden, favorite stomping grounds for locals and tourists since 1932 when Cleveland industrialist Arthur McKee and his partner Waldo Sexton (Yup, the same fellow who built the Ocean Grill) designed it. Back then, it was called McKee Jungle Gardens, home to lions, tigers, elephants and monkeys.
The critters are long gone, but visitors who follow winding paths through the 18 acres can see 100 different varieties of water lilies and more than 10,000 species of plants and trees.
To see more than 3,000 species of plants and animals, take a kayak or paddleboard trip through the Indian River Lagoon, the most biodiverse lagoon ecosystem in the Northern Hemisphere. Don’t be surprised if a dolphin swims by to say hello.
The Indian River Lagoon is home to more than 3,000 species of plants and animals.
If Spanish fleets and sunken treasures intrigue you, you’ll want to know that last year $4.5 million in gold from the 1715 Treasure Fleet was found off the shores of Vero Beach. Want to know how they did it? Plan to visit McLarty Treasure Museum at Sebastian Inlet State Park. You’ll find weapons, coins and tools salvaged from the fleet of Spanish ships that sunk during the 1715 storm.
Another spot not to miss is Mel Fisher’s Treasure Museum, where you’ll find more authentic shipwreck treasures and one-of-kind jewelry.
Save some time to shop. From unique boutiques to upscale shops, opportunities for retail therapy abound. Check out shops along Ocean Drive, Village Shops on Route A1A, the World Bazaar & Antique Mall, the Vero Beach Outlets or downtown Vero, where Maria Sparsis’ Tea and Chi shop can be found.
Maria Sparsis, a marine biologist who now runs her Tea and Chi shop, is also an artist whose work is displayed at Flametree Clay Art Gallery. (Photo by Ruth Cincotta)
Sparsis, a marine biologist born in Cyprus, says Vero Beach is just her cup of tea.
“I’ve lived a lot of places and never found such a welcoming sense of community,” says Sparsis, an artist whose works can be found across the street at Flametree Clay Art Gallery. “When I go to the grocery store I have to allow for time to chat with at least five people.”
And that’s just the way she likes it.
Insider Tips:
• Pack your flip-flops, bathing suit and sunscreen so you can enjoy Vero’s 26 miles of uncrowded beaches. Parking is free.
• Thirsty? Belly up to the bar at Orchid Island Brewery (2855 Ocean Drive), the city’s only microbrewery. The family-run pub serves tasty home-brewed ales steeped with Indian River citrus.
• Kimpton Vero Beach Hotel & Spa, 3500 Ocean Drive, Vero Beach, 772-231-5666 or 866-602-8376.
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== [http://bit.ly/xafhGb Em Badoo] ==
It Really Is a 120-million-member social network that is including in excess of 300,000 users a day, with much more than 4.3 million everyday picture and video uploads, and 7 billion month to month web page views. It has Facebook's fastest-growing app, with 570,000 new day-to-day users, generating it the third-biggest app of all right after FarmVille and CityVille. Hugely profitable, it really is forecast to make hundreds of hundreds of thousands of dollars this year, and is being aggressively courted by venture-capital companies valuing it in the billions. And it's operate from London by a secretive Russian serial entrepreneur who has steadfastly refused to be interviewed or photographed. Right Up Until now.
The world's most significant social network
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Badoo is the world's biggest social network that you possibly haven't yet heard of. Run from 800-square-metre loft-style offices in Soho, it is brilliantly efficient at delivering one particular basic and universally compelling service: hooking up members in accordance to their profile photos and location. "Chat, flirt, socialise and have fun!," implores the house page, alongside images of possible friends this sort of as Terri, 21 ("Wants a candlelit dinner"), and Christopher, 25 ("Wants wake up with a girl" [sic]). Sign in, and a message declares that "204,516 ladies [or guys] around you are hunting to meet a man your age!". Make Clear your intentions (the pull-down menu's recommendations consist of "to chat about sex", "to get a massage", "to flirt") and Tatyana, Oshrit or Gary might just give you access to their stash of non-public photos.
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Still barely registering in Britain or the US, the free-to-use network -- on the web and by means of smartphones -- is a mass phenomenon in Brazil (14.1 million members), Mexico (nine million), France (8.2 million), Spain (6.5 million) and Italy (six million). Relying on word-of-mouth rather than any advertising and marketing spend, it has cracked the internet's eternal conundrum: how to persuade customers to pay challenging income in a globe drowning in cost-free digital solutions and content, by charging members each time they want to boost their visibility to other people looking for a date.
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A yr right after Badoo's 2006 launch, when it had 12 million members, Russia's Finam Technology Fund bought a ten per cent stake for $30 million, valuing it at $300 million (this year Finam will realise an choice for a more 10 per cent at a larger valuation). Today, A-list traders this kind of as Sequoia and Accel are courting the enterprise and there is speak of an original public share offering. "Cracking the Anglo-Saxon market place will possibly give us double to triple today's reach," says Bart Swanson, recruited as CEO last September, obtaining expanded Amazon into Europe and run EMI in France. "The possibility for men and women discovery [through Badoo] is a horrendously big marketplace -- it really is a confluence of social, proximity, mobile, and it can be extremely local. The standard mechanism of what Andrey has created is genius -- just like Google with its AdWords, it really is people spending for self-promotion. And it works."
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Mysterious Andrey
Andrey is Andrey Andreev, originally from Moscow but based mostly in London for the prior 6 years, who started Badoo on a string of other very worthwhile Russian web businesses: Mamba, SpyLog, Begun. Andreev, a youthful 37 with a cherubic smile under a floppy fringe, has so far eluded media attention: Russian Forbes last 12 months referred to as him "one of the most mysterious businessmen in the West" (it also documented his original identify as Andrey Ogandzhanyants, under which the SpyLog.net domain was registered). We have been launched in January by Israeli investor Yossi Vardi at Burda's DLD conference in Munich, which Vardi co-chairs, and later on fulfilled in London. (Vardi has no stake in Badoo.) And then in mid-February, by yourself in an workplace belonging to Freud Communications, Andreev agreed to share his story. It has been a occupied few days. Andreev explains that Michael Moritz, the legendary Sequoia investor who took early stakes in Google and Apple, has just flown in from Palo Alto to meet him; he has also been meeting Kevin Comolli of Accel's London office. Moritz declined to speak to Wired, but Comolli -- whose investments contain Playfish, Kayak and Getjar -- calls Andreev a "genius" with whom he would like to work. "Badoo is a social phenomenon," Comolli says. "It's explosive growth, viral, it is playful, it looks consistent with offline social interaction but in this hypervirality mode that only the internet has enabled. The secret sauces in firms like this are so nuanced, and the difference in between finding it incorrect and proper lies only with these particular individuals like Andrey. He's developed one thing quite powerful." So why has Andreev remained silent? "I enjoy to target on producing points instead than discovering myself," he states quietly and precisely, his 5' 8" frame constantly shifting in agitated discomfort at currently being quoted on the document for the first time. "I do not really feel that it helps to make dollars or make business." And now? "I feel Badoo is ready for me to establish with. Due To The Fact it works, it grows like crazy. And folks really like it."
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There is one more unspoken reason: with an IPO currently being considered, the firm desires to boost consciousness to maximise the valuation currently being floated by investors and bankers (currently being mentioned at "around $2 billion", according to Andreev). The business is printing money: revenues and profit are increasing by "double-digit percentages" every single month, he says. "We see bankers everywhere. We are like celebrities."
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Badoo explodes
Badoo released in late 2006 in Spain, exactly where Andreev was then living, as a conventional photo-sharing website. "We assumed that the 'meet new people' notion wouldn't perform there -- Spanish girls are like princesses, you couldn't touch them, you had to meet their mother and father initial before inviting them to the cinema," he says. The website wasn't creating revenue, but figures ended up expanding sharply: the 2007 Google Zeitgeist list of fastest-rising lookup terms detailed "Badoo" second, just under "iPhone". In 2008, Andreev made the decision to test his assumptions of Spanish females and as an experiment refocused the site on meeting new people. "And the ladies failed to leave. At that time, France was increasing fast, Italy was. Then one day we discovered we had 30,000 registrations in Turkey [that day]. What happened? Was it a hacker attack or scammers? No, an individual wrote an post about us. It Really Is as if all the consumers jumped on the bus and went there. Bang -- in two months, quickly we have a Turkish market with a million members." Today the all round gender ratio is 45 % female, 55 for each cent douleur (in Brazil and Poland ladies outnumber men); 86 percent of end users are aged 18 to 34.
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Andreev released some easy top quality services. You could spend a greenback or a euro to "rise up" the search results, and so entice better attention. You could pay out once again to have your profile image a lot more commonly visible across the site. He launched virtual gifts to buy for your potential date. "No one's pushing you to spend money, but if you want to entice a lot more users, you have to pay," he explains. "You pay to market yourself. If you want something to go faster, you pay. And some individuals shell out tens of times every single day to rise up." By the end of 2009, the site had 48 million registered consumers -- a fifth of whom, then CEO Neil Bryant explained at the time, ended up paying to enhance their profile.
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"Then we had the thought of cellular -- how to meet folks nearby," Andreev says. "We recognized that individuals could meet each other in a massive town, but how much more exciting to see who's sitting following to you in a café? Or you can just walk past a nightclub and see who you can choose up just before you get in. It's an additional opportunity to hook up random people for adventure. We're speaking about genuine life, real time. We know this woman is 500 metres from here now."
Badoo Cellular released previous summertime on the iPhone, and in March on Android. Inside Of weeks, with hardly any marketing, the iPhone app was the number-one social-networking app in France; following 8 months, it had been downloaded 1.5 million times. Andreev sees proximity as key to the business's future. Even desktop laptop or computer customers can share their area by downloading an app that accesses Wi-Fi networks, IP addresses and other data points. "If you might be sitting at residence and someone's walking with an iPhone nearby, we know the length amongst you. We can also show the iPhone user that you might be nearby. So it performs for everyone."
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Before Badoo there was Mamba, a Russian online-dating organization that Andreev released in 2004 as "an interface for offline relationships, for all form of adventures". It was, he says, lucrative in month two. He presented it as a white-label provider to existing dating sites, allowing them maintain their ad revenue and deepening their subscribers' pool of potential dates. As Soon As it had a million members, a related design emerged: a free site, it let customers pay by way of premium SMS to be far more effortlessly discovered. "You register, upload a profile picture, and we place you at the top of the search list," Andreev explains. "Then you slowly and gradually move down the hill -- if we have 50,000 new consumers a day, you can quickly understand how many minutes of interest you have. When you eliminate attention, like a Google research result, no 1 finds you.
"The first day [of this paid service] we made $5,000, the second $6,000, the 3rd more -- I wasn't expecting this. But individuals adore advertising and marketing themselves. Lots of individuals use this function many instances a day. They turn into addicted."
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A number of weeks later, the website extra the chance to be briefly visible on every page, for a fee. "This was even more successful. Some folks invested hundred of dollars every day. Individuals complained they couldn't write SMS messages rapidly enough, and a lot on pay-as-you-go had to preserve likely to kiosks to buy new scratchcards to charge another $50." So Mamba began using credit score cards, online currencies, Yandex money. Revenues climbed ever before more steeply.
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"We just sat back, relaxed, and additional far more solutions every day," Andreev says. "There were virtual presents -- prior to Zynga. You could send a gift, make a virtual phone phone at 50 cents for each minute. It was Mamba time. You are unable to visualize how cool it is to run items that are developing fast, getting revenue, seeing the charts as the money grows -- it's a sport." He grins.
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Finam invested a documented $20 million in 2005 for a majority stake; Mail.ru took a minority stake. Right After 18 months, Andreev had sold a fast-growing and extremely lucrative business, retaining no equity for himself. "I leap from task to venture when I have new inspiration," he says. "I wanted the freedom to do no matter what I wanted."
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Meeting Andrey
It's 8.55pm on the last Saturday in February and, at the open up ground-floor kitchen area of L'Atelier de Joël Robuchon in Covent Garden, Andreev is searching for reactions to the soup he created. L'oignon doux -- "Sweet onion soup 'Andreï style'", in accordance to the two-Michelin-starred menu -- is something he devised when doing work in the kitchen area as a weekend hobby alongside head chef Olivier Limousin. "I'm not sure if it was a joke, but when they obtained their second Michelin star," he says matter-of-factly, "Olivier explained it was because of my soup."
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Andreev slips unobtrusively into chefs' whites in this and other London kitchens as "sometimes you want a different sort of adventure". He provides with a grin: "And I Am not conversing about making use of Badoo." He learned cookery in Spain, in which he lived just before coming to London in 2005. "Street education. If you try out to find out something, you just get it." Why did he transfer to London? "Badoo is not only in London -- we have offices in Prague, Miami, Malta, Cyprus and Moscow too," he says speedily and a little anxiously. But with close to 65 of its 120 staff, like its administration and govt teams, primarily based in Soho, this is successfully a British business. "London's the worldwide hub, where you can uncover anything at all you want," he says. "Crazy town. I really feel at home here." He owns a house in central London -- but winces at the suggestion of naming the neighbourhood -- and spends weekends choosing luxurious vehicles to discover England's countryside. "I've been everywhere, stayed in manors, castles, quite cool." His social circle is a blend of lieu and Russians, and he is single. "I do not know why. No time." Marriage could transpire 1 day, he says, "but I'm frightened to construct a family now. I Am not sure I am in a position to give adequate time." Does he use Badoo? "I use any choice to meet new people, not only Badoo. But I do play with Badoo, yeah." And...he has appreciated nice experiences? He pauses, then smiles. "Yeah. I think most of the men and ladies in the office environment are using it, they all have great experiences. And it assists them increase the features." Considering That selecting Swanson as CEO, Andreev has stepped back again from day-to-day management to emphasis on solution development. And, yes, he is thinking about his following project. "Always -- I have a black box of points to do, but it really is not effortless to leap from one particular to another." What kind of business? "Look at my expertise -- it would not essentially be a dating or hook-up service. But it will be internet. The mobile world wide web is the biggest possibility in the world. Smartphones outsold PCs last quarter. The chances will incorporate meeting new people. Hook-up on mobile is a multibillion business. And on tablets."
Andreev grew up in Moscow. He reveals his identification card: born in February 1974. "You see my problem? I Am old," he says. "Normal family, mother and father in education, younger sister, mom teaching, father a professor of mathematics. They inspired me to learn." But he grew to become distracted by an before worldwide communications network: novice radio. "I was 14, and with a team of friends developed a bunch of massive black bins and place a massive antenna on the rooftop. It was not probable in Russia at that time to buy nearly anything from Europe, so it was a good deal of entertaining to create something that could deliver 1kW of electricity to the antenna on the roof. I put in many years on this."
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At 18 he began learning administration at college in Moscow even though holding down a job, but dropped out following 18 months and moved to Spain, in which his parents had relocated. He had saved funds by way of the task and had time to think about what to do next.
A businessman was born
In 1999, he and some Russian close friends -- "technical men very into the internet" -- set up a web-tracking business, SpyLog, based mostly in Moscow. It served site owners monitor not only visits to their sites, but users' habits on the wider internet. "It was big fun to make much more and more statistics," Andreev says in his sometimes hesitant English. "We offered info about how much time they expended on other sites, what time they woke up and went to sleep, research requests. Most site owners have been quite joyful to spend for this information." The data allow SpyLog serve specific ads. The company grew swiftly -- the primary Russian portals utilised it -- but 18 months later, he grew to become restless. "I had the notion for my up coming project. I was dreaming about promoting money. I understood you could make a good deal from ads -- and if the marketplace wishes something that no one provides, you move."
The ad enterprise was Begun -- again, based in Moscow -- which introduced in 2002 selling contextual marketing by auctioning keywords. "It's like Google AdWords, but we commenced a little bit earlier," Andreev says. (Google released AdWords in 2000 but began key phrase auctions in 2002.) "The marketing and advertising message was that for one cent you could purchase one client. Soon, most keywords and phrases began to be very expensive." Andreev individually negotiated with the large research engines. Arkady Volozh of Yandex "never believed me about the opportunities"; rival web site Rambler "proved extremely difficult". But he convinced Aport, then Mail.ru, and did a deal with Google. "We released in April 2002, and 10 weeks afterwards ended up at breakeven. In month three, we returned every little thing that had been invested. We had a massive success, so it was simple to talk to Rambler again. With money, you can speak with the large guys. It grew like crazy."
As for SpyLog, "I just left. I kept some men operating it. It was growing, it was good." He retains no ownership. Why not promote his stake? "I just gave it to people," he states detachedly. "I was concerned with my new venture, and I failed to come to feel I could be useful to SpyLog any more." So he wasn't determined by generating money? He smiles. "No. I just walked away."
Begun, meanwhile, had run its 18-month cycle for Andreev. By mid-2003, he began "playing" with dating as "it just felt there was money". At the stop of 2003, Finam acquired 80 percent of Begun. "I are unable to talk about the price," Andreev states when pressed. "I can notify you that final yr Finam attempted to offer it to Google for $140 million, but the Russian govt stopped the deal." He no extended has a stake.
So he is not one to appear back. "No, I just swim to what's next." He is very easily bored then? "Maybe." And has he ever failed? "In phrases of the massive projects, never. In terms of modest experiments, of training course -- some work, some don't. I spoke with Andrey [Ternovskiy], the creator of Chatroulette, to see if he wished to be a part of Badoo so we could produce an fascinating feature. He refused, so we designed our own [webcam] section. A week later we just removed it. Huge firms devote months on advertising research. We go a lot quicker -- prototype, build, see if it works, kill."
The 2003 transaction manufactured him a millionaire, but his lifestyle hardly modified -- aside from establishing a liking for German cars. In London, he does not own a car, but prefers to lease Jaguars or Aston Martins. "New experience, new fun, new feeling," he says. And even though he has two passports, he strategies to continue to be in the UK. "I enjoy this country. I Would enjoy to stay here."
The Badoo impact
Some join Badoo to discover a relationship. Lucy, 19, informed Wired she developed an account right after relocating from Liverpool to London for university. "I had split up with my boyfriend due to distance," she says. "But it is challenging to meet up with boys my form on my uni course. My good friend Josh said he utilizes Badoo to look for guys and that I must attempt it, so he arrived over armed with some alcohol and I signed up."
A range of consumers sent Lucy "weird and inappropriate messages" (an offer you to star in a porn movie; queries about her feet), but there had been two men with whom she enjoyed chatting regularly. "Then the 3rd one, I met up with. He's 20. I felt cozy meeting up with him as it was in public, and he instructed me all over the place he was using me. We Have been on 4 dates and it is heading well."
Others are open to more informal encounters. Edita, 35, from Madrid, says she helps make friends, but "you can discover a weekend roll" too. Rafe, also from Madrid, has accomplished just that. "After 9 months I started out chatting with a guy. We talked for a month and 1 day he gave me his number. The next day he came to my residence in the morning. I was alone. Inside an hour we were in my bed naked."
The site's hook-up operate -- accounting for four-fifths of usage, in accordance to Swanson -- occasionally surprises new users. Mary, 19, from London, states she joined to make new friends, and failed to anticipate being approached for sex. "It's happened really a bit and they usually inquire for far more than just one particular partner, which is truly creating me want to leave. They are usually late 20s, 30s, even a 47-year-old." And although membership is limited to over-18s, one member Wired spoke to uncovered that she was only 16.
Some members are obviously there for specialist sexual purposes. We found accounts that seriously hinted at offline transactions for companies rendered; consumers this kind of as Silina -- 19 and in France -- commenced a conversation by proposing "a striptease for just 6 SMS codes".
Swanson says prostitution "hasn't surfaced as an concern since I've been here". Still, he accepts that "it's a chance -- when you have thousands and thousands of users on a site, a lot of points can happen. We have moderation, and when we see that happening, we delete people accounts." He adds that underage accounts are deleted when discovered.
A network with Badoo's goals and scale by natural means draws in controversy. Last July, the Information of the Environment reported that a convicted sex offender had listed himself as "looking for enjoy with ladies aged between 18 and 25" and posted a image of himself taken in a children's park. In January, the Finnish newspaper Iltalehti ran the headline: "Beware this Facebook application", accusing Badoo of accumulating profiles without having permission. And an analysis of 45 social-networking web sites by Joseph Bonneau and Sören Preibusch of Cambridge College gave Badoo the lowest score for privacy.
Is Andreev bothered by his web site currently being accused, at the very least, of just advertising promiscuity? "OK, which is bad?" he replies neutrally. "Badoo is not for sex, it's for adventure. If you go to a nightclub, of course you have got the opportunity to locate a woman or a boy -- but it can be not automatically for sex, it could be to enjoy five mojitos and practically nothing else.
"Badoo just proceeds the offline lifestyle. Badoo is just a informal way to hook up with people, as you do in the road or nightclub. But we make the planet perform faster."
Badoo's future
So what is next? These Days Badoo is in 24 languages, and takes payment in 100 currencies, but the firm eyes massive expansion potential -- not least in markets this kind of as the UK, exactly where Swanson states there are 150,000 users. And mobile: "If right now 90-95 percent [of engagement] is through the web, in a yr 50 % will be mobile," Swanson says. Badoo has barely obtained commenced on supporting individuals hook up by means of their cell devices. "Meeting men and women is the foundation of evolution," Swanson says. "It's not like the man or woman who's productive leaves, as with a dating site."
Does Andreev have Facebook in his sights? "Badoo is far more of a social network than Facebook, as on Facebook you interact with your existing friends in an definitely virtual life," he says. "Badoo is far more social: it provokes you to go down on the street and meet these people."
As for Andreev's subsequent move, in Swanson's words, "he's constructed up the mousetrap, he's involved in the strategic issues, but he's not that concerned on the particulars and he is phasing himself out. My problem is to keep him right here as prolonged as possible."
Andreev interrupts. "You want to maintain me? I need to have freedom, so I can build much more things." He then notices an email on his iPhone and jumps up excitedly. "Forbes Russia just sent me an invitation," he says. "They've set me in the best 30 profitable businessmen in Russia and they are inviting me to their party. I do not feel I should be top 30, but top rated ten." He laughs. "Bart, what really should I do with this?"
"Say thank you," says Swanson. "You are not flying to Moscow."
Andreev smiles. "But it can be cocktails for free…before they catch me, consider photograph shoots. I don't want that."
Does he dread getting to be much more public? "For now, it can be not a large problem," Andreev replies, "as now we have a firm that's successful." He pauses. "It's a human thing. You have one thing cool. This is mine -- I made it. It Can Be like a kid. Prior To you have this, what's there to talk about? That I Am cool?"
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Can I Get Fired for Not Signing a Performance Appraisal?
by Ruth Mayhew
Generally speaking, you can't force an employee to sign a performance appraisal.
Measuring employee job performance often is accomplished through annual performance appraisals and informal feedback that supervisors and managers provide to their employees. That said, neither supervisors nor employees are fond of the appraisal process because so many of them turn out to be mere report cards that grade performance without offering solutions for improvement or ways to help employees become successful. In many cases, employees who are dissatisfied with their performance appraisals or who dispute the contents of an appraisal refuse to sign it.
Getting Fired
An employer can fire you for any any reason or for no reason, based on the employment-at-will doctrine, which says both employers and employees have the right to end the working relationship with or without advance notice at any time. Employment-at-will isn't a law; it's a doctrine to which many employers adhere. Companies post notices about at-will conditions on employment applications and in employment handbooks to remind workers that they serve at the pleasure of the company and that their employment can be terminated at any time. Consequently, not signing a performance appraisal could become a reason why an employer would let an employee go.
Performance Appraisals
Supervisors' and employees' moaning about annual performance appraisals aren't literally audible, but many of both don't look forward to the annual rating process. Supervisors' reasons for procrastinating on the appraisal process have to do with the time it takes from their daily responsibilities to review employee records, draft recommendations and meet with employees about their performance. Employees often dislike performance appraisals because the appraisal meetings usually turn out to be a mere formality, giving the supervisor an opportunity to tell an employee what she's doing wrong rather than give her feedback on how to improve her performance, or involve compliments on exemplary work.
Disputed Appraisals
Many organizations won't say that an employee's refusal to sign a performance appraisal is a terminable offense, but employers have a way of documenting the employee's refusal to agree with her supervisor's assessment. During an appraisal meeting, the supervisor typically provides the employee with a copy of the appraisal document and reviews it with her, line by line. If the performance appraisal meeting is conducted according to HR best practices, the employee and the supervisor engage in a two-way discussion about performance, goal-setting, accomplishments and ways to improve. However, that doesn't always happen, which makes some employees feel that their only recourse is to refuse their supervisors' assessment of their performance, and the way to refuse that assessment is to not sign the appraisal document.
Rebuttals
Firing an employee for not signing her performance appraisal seems pretty harsh, but it's not illegal, based on the employment-at-will doctrine. However, some employers recognize the value of implementing an appeals process for employees who dispute their performance ratings. An appeals process saves employers money because terminating employees because they won't sign a performance appraisal can be costly. Permitting employees to submit a rebuttal is a far more effective way to reduce turnover, particularly if supervisors habitually give less-than-stellar reviews or if employees are overall dissatisfied with their supervisors' evaluations. Some rebuttals must be submitted in writing, while some employees can just stop by the human resources department and express their disapproval.
Employer Action
Instead of firing an employee for refusing to sign her performance appraisal, some employers merely ask a supervisor or manager to witness the employee's refusal. If there are three people present in the appraisal meeting, a member of company leadership will usually write "Employee refused to sign" on the line that indicates the employee acknowledges receipt of the document. Importantly, refusal to sign doesn't mean the appraisal is unfair or that the employee officially disputes the rating. It simply means the employee refused to acknowledge receipt of the appraisal, which is why an appeals process is good to have. An option for an employee who formally disputes the rating is to sign the document when her employer doesn't offer an appeals process, and add to her signature, "I dispute my supervisor's rating contained in this performance appraisal."
U.S. Internal Revenue Service: Conducting the Performance Appraisal Meeting
AARP: Ace Your Annual Performance Review
U.S. News & World Report: 10 Workplace Myths Busted
Nolo: Employment at Will: What Does It Mean?
Ruth Mayhew has been writing since the mid-1980s, and she has been an HR subject matter expert since 1995. Her work appears in "The Multi-Generational Workforce in the Health Care Industry," and she has been cited in numerous publications, including journals and textbooks that focus on human resources management practices. She holds a Master of Arts in sociology from the University of Missouri-Kansas City. Ruth resides in the nation's capital, Washington, D.C.
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Fixer Upper’s Chip Gaines Responds to Former Partners’ Lawsuit
Chip Gaines took to Twitter on Saturday, April 29, to respond to the lawsuit his former partners filed over his successful Magnolia Real Estate Company. Stars at Court “Fyi: Ive had the same cell # 15 years.. same email for 20 yrs,” the Fixer Upper star, 42, wrote. “No one called or emailed? 4 years... Read More
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Chip Gaines took to Twitter on Saturday, April 29, to respond to the lawsuit his former partners filed over his successful Magnolia Real Estate Company.
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“Fyi: Ive had the same cell # 15 years.. same email for 20 yrs,” the Fixer Upper star, 42, wrote. “No one called or emailed? 4 years later ‘friends’ reach out via lawsuit.. humm.”
Fyi: Ive had the same cell # 15 yrs.. same email for 20 yrs. No one called or emailed? 4 years later “friends” reach out via lawsuit.. humm
— Chip Gaines (@chippergaines) April 29, 2017
Gaines’ tweet came just days after Magnolia cofounders John L. Lewis and Richard L. Clark filed a $1 million lawsuit against him, claiming that he had bought them out of the company two days before his HGTV series premiered in May 2013 and paid them $2,500 each for their shares.
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Lewis and Clark claim in the lawsuit that Gaines — who now runs Magnolia with his wife and Fixer Upper costar, Joanna Gaines — didn’t notify them that HGTV had plans to broadcast the reality show nationally and that “the show prominently featured the ‘Magnolia’ brand name” before the sale.
Lewis and Clark founded the company with Chip in 2007 with just one real estate agent. Magnolia has since employed more than 93 agents and operates in several major cities in Texas, according to the suit.
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In a statement to Us Weekly, Chip’s attorney, Jordan Mayfield, denied the allegations, saying, “We are confident that these claims will be found to be meritless, and it is disappointing to see people try to take advantage of the hard work and success of Chip and Joanna Gaines.”
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With a critical election looming, will Birmingham get proactive?
Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.
— Henry Brougham
How late is too late?
As it relates to the Birmingham municipal election scheduled for August 27, as good an answer as any can be found by copping the refrain from one of my favorite Bob Dylan songs: It’s not dark yet, but it’s getting there. Before too many more weeks come and go, it might be appropriate to switch to a verse from the Book of Jeremiah: The harvest is past, the summer has ended, and we are not saved.
This is an important election for a lot of reasons. Far from least among these is that the office of mayor and the entire Birmingham City Council will be on the same ballot for the first time since 1963, the year that the change to a mayor-council form of government went into effect. In that historic election — and this gets directly to the point of this column, at which I will arrive presently — there were four candidates for mayor, along with 76 candidates to fill nine city council seats. Just to assure the reader that there is no misprint here, I will spell that out: seventy-six candidates.
I make note of this because over the past few months, I have devoted considerable amounts of this space to reminding anyone kind enough to pick up our newspaper or visit our website of the importance of this upcoming election. I have done this through various devices — writing about the need for visionary leadership, of the need to encourage good people to run for office and to support them when they do so, and above all else, of the importance of voting.
That last item in particular is something of which no one with even a passing knowledge of Birmingham’s history should need reminding. Our city, as perhaps nowhere else in America, is a shining example of how an engaged community with a shared purpose — in the case of the voters of 1963, driving Bull Connor from office and ending official segregation — can effect sweeping change.
Not that I expect anyone to get all charged up simply on my say-so. Indeed, the direct and critical connection between voter participation and at least the potential for better government — especially on the local level — should be self-evident.
Apparently, that is not the case. The election of 2013 is, I will repeat, important — but you wouldn’t know it from either the level of public interest in contests that are only a dozen weeks away as I write this, or in the number, let alone quality, of candidates who have declared to date in the races for mayor and council. I hasten to add that I don’t mean to say that there are no good candidates, or that any number of good people might not jump into one race or the other in the next few weeks. At the moment, however, the pickings remain slim.
Prospects are at least slightly better in the third election on the ballot this August, the district-based selection of the nine members of the Birmingham Board of Education. Including both some current board members and several announced challengers, the increased public interest in our city’s public education system that has evinced itself in various ways in the past year or so is reflected in the field of candidates. Still, that same interest is not yet reflected in — well, in actual interest in the election. Few things would improve Birmingham and help pave the way to the brightest possible future for us all — either substantively or in terms of self-image and outside perceptions — than the turnaround of our school system. The best way to ensure that happens is to elect a qualified, focused school board that can unite around what remains a daunting mission.
Which brings me back to where I started this column. It’s getting late, late enough that my biggest fear at this point is that even if we wind up with several fine candidates, they have not given themselves time to catch on with the public. The upshot of that is that such a situation almost guarantees that voter turnout will be abysmal, which in turn virtually assures that we will get little to none of the change we need to kick the civic momentum Birmingham has built up of late into hyperdrive.
I won’t say that I’m beginning to despair — yet — of the increasingly likely outcome of the 2013 elections. But neither do I find much at this increasingly late date on which to hang my hopes.
In closing this week’s column, I’m going to take a moment to note the tremendous response to what I wrote last week, urging the public to contact their city councilor about Mayor Bell’s omission of Ruffner Mountain Nature Preserve from his recommended budget for FY 2104. In addition to the number of citizens who have made their feelings known to City Hall, I’ve been made aware of at least one civic organization — the YMBC Civic Forum — that has passed a formal resolution urging the City Council to provide adequate operational funding for Ruffner. This, too, is how change is effected, and wrongs corrected.
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